diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/.gitignore b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1f96c57e --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +env/ +.env +.DS_Store +*/.ipynb_checkpoints/ +.python-version +small_books_embedded.json +books_embedded.json \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/README.md b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..75128aac --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ + + +## Elastic Book Search +This is a companion codebase for the article *Navigating an Elastic Vector Database* found [Navigating an Elastic Vector Database](). This contains all of the necessary instructions to create and operate a vector database with Elasticsearch. + +Folder contents: + +### `example.env` +Update and rename this file to only `.env`. Provide your own credentials for the Elasticsearch Endpoint and Elastic API Key. The default index name for this repository is set to `books` + +### `src/` + +#### `src/elastic_client.py`: connector to Elasticsearch. Draws credentials from the above `.env` file. + +#### `src/upload_books_local_embed.py`: scripts to upload books to Elasticsearch with local embedding. + This file will run an embedding model locally to create vectors for each book object. The new books list with vectors will then be indexed into Elasticsearch. + + - **Functions**: + - `embed_descriptions()`: Converts the `book_description` field into a vector. + - `create_index()`: Creates the Elasticsearch index `books-local` for storing book documents. + - `bulk_upload()`: Uploads multiple book documents to the Elasticsearch index in bulk. + - `upload_single_book()`: Uploads a single book document to the Elasticsearch index. + + - **How to run**: + 1. Ensure Elasticsearch is running locally. + 2. Navigate to the `src/` directory. + 3. Run the script using Python: + ```sh + python upload_books_local_embed.py + ``` + 4. By default the script will run a small batch of books (25) for faster performance. Embedding and indexing the full `books.json` will take longer, but the search results will be more relevant. + +#### `src/upload_books_with_pipeline.py`: scripts to upload books to Elasticsearch with ingestion pipeline functionality. + This file will create an inference ingestion pipeline to instruct Elasticsearch to create a vector embedding of all `book_description` fields that are indexed. This moves the embedding computation from the local machine to the Elasticsearch instance. + + Note: you will need to upload and deploy the embedding model to Elasticsearch via the execution of a Docker image. Full instructions are available [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/machine-learning/current/ml-nlp-text-emb-vector-search-example.html). + +- **Functions**: + - `create_ingest_pipeline()`: Creates an inference ingestion pipeline to embed vectors when documents are indexed. + - `create_index()`: Creates the Elasticsearch index `books-pipeline` for storing book documents. + - `bulk_upload()`: Uploads multiple book documents to the Elasticsearch index in bulk. + - `upload_single_book()`: Uploads a single book document to the Elasticsearch index. + +- **How to run**: +1. Ensure Elasticsearch is running locally. +2. Navigate to the `src/` directory. +3. Run the script using Python: + ```sh + python upload_books_with_pipeline.py + ``` +4. By default the script will run all books (10,908) as all embedding occurs on the Elasticsearch instance. + + +#### `src/query_examples.py`: scripts to demonstrate various query examples for searching books in Elasticsearch. + This file contains three different types of search examples: traditional (bm25), vector, and hybrid search. Hybrid utilizes both search types then combines the results in a normalized ranking order. + + - **Functions**: + - `vector_search()`: performs a vector search with a given query string. + - `search()`: performs a traditional search. + - `hybrid_search(q)`: performs a hybrid search. + + + - **How to run**: + 1. Ensure Elasticsearch is running locally. + 2. Navigate to the `src/` directory. + 3. Run the script using Python: + ```sh + python query_examples.py + ``` + 4. Modify the query parameters within the script to test different search criteria and observe the results. + +### `notebooks/` +Python notebooks have been provided of the above python scripts for more interactivity. diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/data/books.json b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/data/books.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dfa22cdd --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/data/books.json @@ -0,0 +1,10910 @@ +[ +{"book_title": "Lucky 7", "author_name": "Rae D. Magdon", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 206, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Elena Nevares is on the run. She\u2019s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She\u2019s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations. Together, they must find the rest of Sasha\u2019s crew: Cherry, the engineer and explosives expert; Rami, the master of disguise; Doc, the wunderkind Medical Officer; and Rock, the mechanically modified muscle. But Axys Generations has bigger plans than taking down Sasha\u2019s crew. Elena, Sasha, and the rest of the Lucky 7 must go on their most dangerous mission yet\u2014not for credits or tech, but to save the world.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Romance", "Action", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38390922-lucky-7"}, +{"book_title": "Salvation Lost", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 5131, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "The comparative utopia of twenty-third century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingly benign alien race is abruptly revealed to be one of the worst threats humanity has ever faced. Driven by an intense religious extremism, the Olyix are determined to bring everyone to their version of god as they see it. But they may have met their match in humanity, who are not about to go gently into that good night or spend the rest of their days cowering in hiding. As human ingenuity and determination rises to the challenge, collective humanity has only one goal--to wipe this apparently undefeatable enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means playing a ridiculously long game indeed.But in a chaotic universe, it is hard to plan for every eventuality, and it is always darkest before the dawn.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44020966-salvation-lost"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Warrior's Mate", "author_name": "Vi Voxley", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 492, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "He's damn impossible and he won't stop at anything to claim her... Deliya is one of the best of the best. An elite warrior, few things have ever phased her. She works hard and plays hard, all for the day when fates decide it's time for her to meet her fated mate. But what if there's one man in this blasted universe who just won't stop getting under her skin? What if she can't help but lust after him? Fates be damned, isn't that what's important? Driven to always succeed, Darien is one of the commander's chosen few. Above all his fellow warriors, he serves at the leisure of his general. But lately, someone else has been commanding his time... Mad with need to claim her sexy body as his own, Darien will not stop at anything in his quest to keep Deliya safe. And more importantly, as his own. Fates be damned, he will have that woman. When death lurks behind every stone and in the hands of every enemy they encounter, can Darien and Deliya find their love, or will death claim them first? Alien Warrior's Mate is a standalone book with a happy ever after ending and no cliffhanger. There's plenty of steam in this book and unless you love pantymeltingly hot sex, you might want to steer clear... Or at least brace yourself for a hell of a ride!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27411139-alien-warrior-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "On the Steel Breeze", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 5909, "review_number": 353, "book_description": "It is a thousand years in the future. Mankind is making its way out into the universe on massive generation ships.On the Steel Breeze is the follow-up to Blue Remembered Earth. It is both a sequel and a standalone novel, which just happens to be set in the same universe and revolves around members of the Akinya family.The central character, Chiku, is totally new, although she is closely related to characters in the first book. The action involves a 220-year expedition to an extrasolar planet aboard a caravan of huge iceteroid 'holoships', the tension between human and artificial intelligence... and, of course, elephants.Lots of elephants.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15999018-on-the-steel-breeze"}, +{"book_title": "Salvage Marines", "author_name": "Sean-Michael Argo", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 316, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "To protect his young family from merciless corporate tyranny, Samuel Hyst signs up for the hazardous life of a salvage marine, the foot soldiers of a militarized deep space operation. Hazard pay is high for a reason, and Samuel must endure grueling tours of duty in the abandoned scrapyard quadrants of a war-torn universe. Endless wars rage across every galaxy, leaving damaged starships, rusted factories, and broken planets in their wake, all ripe for plunder by the desperate and the daring. Samuel must seize his destiny in frenzied combat against murderous scavengers, horrific monsters, and the elite mercenaries of rival corporations. Left with no choice but to fight, he must win freedom with a combat rifle and his blowtorch. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29952204-salvage-marines"}, +{"book_title": "Trade Secret", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1285, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "The Liaden Universe \u00ae Saga Continues! Star-spanning galactic trader Jethri Gobelyn adventures are the focus in book 17 by master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Sequel to Trade Pact.In a universe full of interstellar intrigue and burgeoning commerce novice Terran trader Jethri Gobelyn, adopted by a Liaden clan after an ill-directed bow of honor insulted the scion of a major Liaden house, is alive and whole to tell the tale. Convinced that the adoption has saved his life and made his future he settles into a comfortable and even elite routine, a Trader's Ring his goal.Even as Jethri's initiation into the mysteries and joys of Liaden Festival bring him to manhood he's forced to face Necessity and the facts of life: his adoption has also invigorated a net of unfinished Balance far more complex and potentially deadly than a simple Terran blood feud. He must embrace his Terran birthright as well as his Liaden connections while leaving behind the safety of the great Liaden trade ship Elthoria to defend his honor and that of shipmates past and present. Forced to sit Second Board as a back-up pilot on a Liaden Scout ship, Jethri's convinced he's already at wit's end\u2014when several familiar faces threaten all that he knows of himself, and all that he wishes to do.Celebrating 25 Years of the Liaden Universe\u00ae", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13544081-trade-secret"}, +{"book_title": "There Will Be Time", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1058, "review_number": 79, "book_description": " Time travel is impossible! There is no machine that can take you into time, past or future. But what if you are born a time traveler? Jack Havig did not know how he could cross the centuries merely by willing himself to. But the fact remained, he could. And, thought Jack, if I can travel through time, there must be others!So Jack Havig, human being extraordinaire, set out to see the world--the world of ancient Rome, of the Byzantine empire, of the American Indian tribes & ultimately the world of the future.Seeing the future, Jack found meaning in his life and a reason for his gift. He must seek out others like himself throughout the centuries and together they must try to affect the future of humankind. For that future threatened the extinction of humanity's entire civilization...", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/602758.There_Will_Be_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Only in Death", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 2109, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "As the crusade to liberate the Sabbat Worlds continues, Colonel-Commissar Gaunt leads the Tanith First-and-Only into an unforgiving new warzone - the fortress world of Jago.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1052306.Only_in_Death"}, +{"book_title": "His To Claim", "author_name": "Taylor Vaughn", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2201, "review_number": 335, "book_description": "\n\n\nMy alien overlord is huge, all-powerful, and determined to claim me!\n\n\nEvery human girl growing up on New Terrhan knows one thing\u2026 that she will be taken by one or several Xalthurian males when she turns twenty-one. The Xalthurians are rough, domineering, and huge all over. But, this is the deal our leaders struck, so that they would provide our human colony with desperately needed supplies...\nIf the baby born from our taking is a girl, we will be allowed to keep it. If the baby is a boy, it will be taken away, never to be seen again. That is the way it has always been, on our small planet and that is the way it will always be...\nI should accept my fate, but I can\u2019t! When they come for my sister\u2019s baby boy, I dare to defy the alien, they call \u201cTel\u201d. As it turns out, \u201cTel\u201d means prince. But rather than killing me for my insolence, the future overlord vows to return to the planet. When I am twenty-one...\n\n\nHe\u2019s huge, all-powerful, and determined to claim me!\n\n\n\n\nCan I stop him?\n\n\n\n\nAnd how will I answer when the question becomes, do I want to?\n\n\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Interracial Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44645149-his-to-claim"}, +{"book_title": "Savage Drift", "author_name": "Emmy Laybourne", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 6226, "review_number": 710, "book_description": "The stunningly fierce conclusion to Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 trilogy.The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp. Dean and Alex are cautiously starting to hope that a happy ending might be possible.But for Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, things have gone from bad to worse. Traumatized by her experiences, she has given up all hope of rescue or safety.Meanwhile, scared by the government's unusual interest in her pregnancy, Astrid (with her two protectors, Dean and Jake in tow) joins Niko on his desperate quest to be reunited with his lost love Josie.Author Emmy Laybourne reaches new heights of tension and romance in this action-packed conclusion to the Monument 14 trilogy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18215086-savage-drift"}, +{"book_title": "Light of the Jedi", "author_name": "Charles Soule", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3127, "review_number": 597, "book_description": "Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face a frightening threat to themselves, the galaxy, and the Force itself....From Book Sleeve:It is a golden age. Intrepid hyperspace scouts expand the reach of the Republic to the farthest stars, worlds flourish under the benevolent leadership of the Senate, and peace reigns, enforced by the wisdom and strength of the renowned order of Force users known as the Jedi. With the Jedi at the height of their power, the free citizens of the galaxy are confident in their ability to weather any storm. But even the brightest light can cast a shadow, and some storms defy any preparation.When a shocking catastrophe in hyperspace tears a ship to pieces, the flurry of shrapnel emerging from the disaster threatens an entire system. No sooner does the call for help go out than the Jedi race to the scene. The scope of the emergence, however, is enough to push even Jedi to their limit. As the sky breaks open and destruction rains down upon the peaceful alliance they helped to build, the Jedi must trust in the Force to see them through a day in which a single mistake could cost billions of lives.Even as the Jedi battle valiantly against calamity, something truly deadly grows beyond the boundary of the Republic. The hyperspace disaster is far more sinister than the Jedi could ever suspect. A threat hides in the darkness, far from the light of the age, and harbors a secret that could strike fear into even a Jedi's heart.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Space", "Canon", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51637946-light-of-the-jedi"}, +{"book_title": "Mega Robo Bros", "author_name": "Neill Cameron", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 140, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "London! The Future! Alex and Freddy are just like any other brothers. They squabble. They drive their parents crazy. There's only one difference...they're the most powerful robots on earth! But Alex and Freddy will soon discover that they're not the only super-powered robots around. An evil robotic mind is making sinister plans. And their lives won't stay peaceful for much longer...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30181785-mega-robo-bros"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 41612, "review_number": 1125, "book_description": "After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 23rd Century surroundings. Combining black humor, life-threatening situations, and moral ambiguity, this book is the first look into the mind of an outlaw journalist and the world he seeks to destroy.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22416.Transmetropolitan_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen of Traitors", "author_name": "Laura Thalassa", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 9247, "review_number": 614, "book_description": "They say I am a queen.They say I married a monster. That I did so willingly.They say he cannot die, that he does not age. That together, we rule a ravaged world.They say I used to be one of them, but now I am a traitor. They say many things, all which I cannot remember, but \u2026 I fear what they say is true.Then there is what they don\u2019t say, what I see in their eyes\u2014The king terrifies them. He cannot be stopped. And, most worrisome of all \u2026He is coming for me.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["New Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Dark", "War", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23867347-the-queen-of-traitors"}, +{"book_title": "The Island of Doctor Moreau", "author_name": "H.G. Wells", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 99517, "review_number": 4423, "book_description": "Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells\u2019s prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing \u201csmarter\u201d human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick\u2019s adventures on Dr. Moreau\u2019s island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read.", "year_published": 1896, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (19th Century)", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29981.The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau"}, +{"book_title": "Human Nature", "author_name": "Jonathan Green", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo. Welcome to Magna Britannia, a steam driven world full of fantastical creations and shady villains. Here dashing dandies and mustachioed villains battle for supremacy while below the city strange things stir in the flooded tunnels of the old London Underground. The Whitby Mermaid has been stolen from Cruickshank's Cabinet of Curiosities and consulting detective Gabriel Wraith is on the case. And he's not the only one, for wherever there is a mystery to be solved, Ulysses Quicksilver is never far away. What does the theft of the mermaid have to do with the mysterious House of Monkeys? And what of the enigmatic criminal known as the Magpie? Ulysses embarks upon an adventure that takes him to Whitby where the mermaid was supposedly caught. But there are worse things awaiting him there than mermaids. The moors of Ghestdale are haunted by the savage Barghest beast, while in the abandoned mines beneath the Umbridge estate, abominations lurk in the darkness. And Ulysses Quicksilver is about to discover that the worst horrors are those spawned by Man's own selfish nature.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6072232-human-nature"}, +{"book_title": "Legion", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 7023, "review_number": 299, "book_description": "A Great War is coming, and it will engulf the Imperium of Man. The Space Marines of the Alpha Legion, the last and most secretive of all the Astartes brotherhoods, arrive on a heathen world to support the Imperial Army in a pacification campaign against strange and uncanny forces. But what drives the Alpha Legion? Can they be trusted, and what side will they choose when the Great War begins? Loyalties are put to the test, and the cunning schemes of an alien intelligence revealed in this latest instalment of the ground-breaking SF series by Dan Abnett, as the fate of mankind hangs in the balance.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1678745.Legion"}, +{"book_title": "Wolfsbane", "author_name": "Guy Haley", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "The time has come. Leman Russ, primarch of the Space Wolves, withdraws his Legion from Terra and makes all haste for Horus\u2019s position, to try and end the traitor once and for all.The time has come for Leman Russ, primarch of the Space Wolves, to fulfil his vow and attempt to stop Warmaster Horus before he breaks through to the Segmentum Solar.\u00a0\u00a0In the face of opposition from three of his brother primarchs, Russ withdraws the Space Wolves legion from Terra and makes all haste for Horus\u2019s position. Reports from Malcador the Sigillite\u2019s agents suggest that Horus is utterly changed, and infused with a diabolical power so great that no man can stand against him. A warrior of Fenris would never willingly abandon his oaths, but with Horus beyond the touch of mortal blades, the Lord of Winter and War may have doomed himself for the sake of honour\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Action", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38747895-wolfsbane"}, +{"book_title": "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal", "author_name": "Christopher Moore", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 155779, "review_number": 11979, "book_description": "The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years\u2014except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work \"reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams\" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more\u2014except maybe \"Maggie,\" Mary of Magdala\u2014and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Humor", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Religion", "Humor (Comedy)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28881.Lamb"}, +{"book_title": "Our Pet", "author_name": "S.M. Matthews", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 719, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Abducted by aliens? Yes. Mistakenly bought as a family pet? Yep. Actually, unexpectedly starting to enjoy the ride? I just might be. I've been abducted, sold, and then sold again, all before I even knew what was going on. Luckily for me, I might just have been bought by the three nicest....guys....in the universe. Maisy has to adapt to her new life traveling through space, lucky for her she has a set of three alien brothers to help her along...big, furry and very affectionate, these brothers only come as a set. *Contains themes of a very adult nature, meant for mature readers only. Warning - alien biology.* ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51127899-our-pet"}, +{"book_title": "The Aylesford Skull", "author_name": "James P. Blaylock", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 366, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives - brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer - is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay; the crew murdered and pitched overboard. In Aylesford itself a grave is opened and possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of Langdon St. Ives.\u00a0When Dr. Narbondo returns to kidnap his four-year-old son Eddie and then vanishes into the night, St. Ives and his factotum Hasbro race to London in pursuit...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Aircraft (Airships)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13531598-the-aylesford-skull"}, +{"book_title": "Ghosts of War", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 391, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Ghosts of War picks up the story a month after the end of Ghosts of Manhattan. New York City is being plagued by a pack of ferocious brass raptors \u2013 strange, skeleton-like creations with bat-like wings that swoop out of the sky, attacking people and carrying them away into the night. The Ghost has been tracking these bizarre machines, and is close to finding their origin: a deranged military scientist who is slowly rebuilding himself as a machine. However, this scientist is not working alone, and his scheme involves more than a handful of abductions. He is part of a plot to escalate the cold war with Britain into a full-blown conflict, and he is building a weapon \u2013 a weapon that will fracture dimensional space and allow the monstrous creatures that live on the other side to spill through. He and his co-conspirators \u2013 a cabal of senators and businessmen who seek to benefit from the war \u2013 intend to harness these creatures and use them as a means to crush the British. But the Ghost knows only too well how dangerous these creatures can be, and the threat they represent not just to Britain, but the world. The Ghost\u2019s efforts to put an end to the conspiracy bring him into an uneasy alliance with a male British spy, who is loose in Manhattan, protecting the interests of his country. He also has the unlikely assistance of Ginny, a drunken ex-lover and sharpshooter, who walks back into his life, having disappeared six years earlier in mysterious circumstances. Suffering from increasingly lucid flashbacks to WWI and subjected to rooftop chases, a battle with a mechanized madman, and the constant threat of airborne predators, and with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, can the Ghost derail the conspiracy and prevent the war with the British from escalating beyond control?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Detective)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9727683-ghosts-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Time", "author_name": "Guillaume Pr\u00e9vost", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2127, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "Scholastic introduces the next name in YA adventure: Guillaume Prevost, whose Book of Time trilogy is one part DA VINCI CODE, one part DRACULA, one part THE TIME-TRAVELER'S WIFE, and all thrilling.A statue; a coin; an old book. They look as dusty as everything else in the Faulkner Antiquarian Bookstore, where 14-year-old Sam Faulkner seeks his father, who's been missing for days. But when Sam slips the coin into the statue, he's swept back in time -- to Scotland in 800 A.D. -- where he must find both the statue and another coin in order to return to the present. It's the first step in an adventure that will take him to ancient Egypt, World War I, even Dracula's castle -- and a mystery that will end only when Sam saves his father, or loses him in time . . .", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1383797.The_Book_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Because It Is My Blood", "author_name": "Gabrielle Zevin", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4611, "review_number": 524, "book_description": "\u201cEvery time I think I\u2019m out, they pull me back in.\u201d- Michael Corleone, The GodfatherFreed from jail, Anya hopes that things will get back to normal. But life on the outside is even more dangerous than life behind bars. Some of her gangland family want revenge for the crime for which she has done time: the shooting of her uncle. Forced to flee the country, Anya hides out in a cacao plantation in Mexico. There she learns the secrets of the chocolate trade, a trade that is illegal and deadly in her native New York. There too she discovers that seemingly random acts of violence carried out across the world have a single target: her family. As innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire Anya must act fast and decisively to stop it, no matter what the danger to herself.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13163011-because-it-is-my-blood"}, +{"book_title": "The Annals of the Heechee", "author_name": "Frederik Pohl", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3928, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life reappears after eons of silence, and threatens the lives of all heechee and humans. Even Robin, virtually immortal and with unlimited access to millennia of accumulated data, cannot discover how to stop these aliens. It began to seem that only a face to face meeting could determine the future of the entire universe....", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77463.The_Annals_of_the_Heechee"}, +{"book_title": "These Broken Stars", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 64603, "review_number": 8478, "book_description": "It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they\u2019re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other\u2019s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder\u2014would they be better off staying here forever?Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won\u2019t be the same people who landed on it.The Starbound Trilogy: Three worlds. Three love stories. One enemy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13138635-these-broken-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Hope", "author_name": "David Feintuch", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 690, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The seventh novel in the Seafort Saga continues the story of a man bound to his duty. Captain Nicholas Seafort survived alien wars, planetary rebellions, and ecological chaos on Earth, but now something much more ordinary might finally cost him his life: vengeance.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/979181.Children_of_Hope"}, +{"book_title": "The Psychology of Time Travel", "author_name": "Kate Mascarenhas", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 8210, "review_number": 1416, "book_description": "In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world\u2019s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project\u2014and future of time travel\u2014in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team\u2014erasing her contributions from history.Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother, Granny Bee, was one of the pioneers, though no one will tell her more. But when Bee receives a mysterious newspaper clipping from the future reporting the murder of an unidentified woman, Ruby becomes obsessed: could it be Bee? Who would want her dead? And most importantly of all: can her murder be stopped?Traversing the decades and told from alternating perspectives, The Psychology of Time Travel introduces a fabulous new voice in fiction and a new must-read for fans of speculative fiction and women\u2019s fiction alike.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41035725-the-psychology-of-time-travel"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 9243, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "TALES OF HUMAN WASTE completes the TRANSMETROPOLITAN library, collecting the two Prestige-format one-shots TRANSMETROPOLITAN: I HATE IT HERE and TRANSMETROPOLITAN: FILTH OF THE CITY, as well as the 8-page Christmas story from VERTIGO: WINTER'S EDGE 2. Written by Warren Ellis, this collection features a host of one and two-page pieces from comics' finest artists illustrating excerpts from the Word columns of crazed outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22419.Transmetropolitan_Vol_0"}, +{"book_title": "Paradox Lost", "author_name": "Libby Drew", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 425, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Time-travel tour guide Reegan McNamara's job\u2014taking eager tourists to whenever they want to go\u2014is usually a breeze. A trip back to 2020 to watch a world-changing speech seems no different, until a woman runs away from his tour group before the jump home. Now her tycoon husband is demanding her safe return\u2014or Reegan will lose more than just his job.P.I. Saul Kildare's business is running on borrowed time. Due to a messy break with the police, he can't get a referral to save his life. When an enigmatic stranger bangs on his door one night and promises a windfall for a missing-person case, it seems too good to be true. But the two men have an immediate connection, and Saul can't pass up the chance to spend more time with Reegan, even if he's clearly hiding something.Saul knows he shouldn't trust Reegan, and Reegan knows he can't get involved with Saul. But as their attraction evolves into feelings neither can deny, will they have the strength to take a leap of faith\u2014together?84,000 words", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Futuristic", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18760474-paradox-lost"}, +{"book_title": "Redemption", "author_name": "Debra Driza", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 897, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "Mila has been running for her life for so long. But there might be nowhere left for her to go. Especially now that she\u2019s an incredible danger to herself and anyone who dares get close to her.That\u2019s why Mila has gone into hiding with friend and tech expert Lucas. She can\u2019t take the risk of hurting people worse than the way she hurt Hunter: the boy she\u2019ll always love, the boy who might never forgive her for what she\u2019s done.But then Mila discovers that General Holland\u2014her ultimate enemy\u2014has plans that are an even bigger threat to humanity than she is. His quest to reclaim Mila is only part of a larger mysterious endgame that will put people\u2019s lives at stake. Mila must make a choice: either push aside her fears and fight him with everything she\u2019s got\u2026or turn her back on the world forever.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10222388-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "Ink and Bone", "author_name": "Rachel Caine", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 23385, "review_number": 4263, "book_description": "Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly\u2014but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden. Jess Brightwell believes in the value of the Library, but the majority of his knowledge comes from illegal books obtained by his family, who are involved in the thriving black market. Jess has been sent to be his family\u2019s spy, but his loyalties are tested in the final months of his training to enter the Library\u2019s service. When his friend inadvertently commits heresy by creating a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Great Library believe that knowledge is more valuable than any human life\u2014and soon both heretics and books will burn\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20643052-ink-and-bone"}, +{"book_title": "Chosen By A Beast", "author_name": "Miranda Bridges", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1991, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "I\u2019ve been abducted. Twice.And now my situation with this new group of aliens has gone from bad to worse. I was with a bunch of elf-like aliens who had unparalleled technology, but now I\u2019m in the midst of a group of primitive gargoyle aliens running around in loincloths.Which doesn\u2019t hide much, let me tell you. There\u2019s one gargoyle in particular who watches my every move, but what\u2019s under his loincloth scares me more than his beastly appearance.To be sure we\u2019re worthy to breed with, the savages have us each perform a rite of passage.And by that I mean a test of survival. Navigate the terrain, scavenge for food, defend myself against wildlife\u2014basically all the things that could cause bodily harm or death. So that\u2019s fun.And as much as I\u2019d like to be rescued by the alien who\u2019s stalking me, it looks like I\u2019m on my own. Maybe I shouldn\u2019t have flipped him off, but how was I supposed to know I\u2019d need his help?Now, I\u2019m going to have to tap into my survival skills or I\u2019ll be dead by morning. May the odds and the aliens be ever in my favor. Or something.*This is spin off from the House of Kaimar series. If you want to know Makayla's tiny backstory, please read those books first. *It's highly recommended that this series be read in order.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48761584-chosen-by-a-beast"}, +{"book_title": "The Parasol Protectorate: Soulless, Blameless, and Changeless", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 1419, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Book 1: SOULLESSAlexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.Book 2: CHANGELESSAlexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can.She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.Book 3: BLAMELESSQuitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11348897-the-parasol-protectorate"}, +{"book_title": "King of Thorns", "author_name": "Mark Lawrence", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 56509, "review_number": 2761, "book_description": "The boy who would be King has gained the throne\u2026Prince Honorious Jorg Ancrath vowed when he was nine to avenge his slaughtered mother and brother\u2014and punish his father for not doing so. When he was fifteen, he began to fulfill that vow. Now he is eighteen\u2014and he must hold on by strength of arms to what he took by torture and treachery.King Jorg is a man haunted: by the ghost of a young boy, by a mysterious copper box, by his desire for the woman who rides with his enemy. Plagued by nightmares of the atrocities he committed, and of the atrocities committed against him when he was a child, he is filled with rage. And even as his need for revenge continues to consume him, twenty thousand men march toward the gates of his castle. His enemy is far stronger than him. Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight.But he has found, in a chamber hidden beneath the castle, ancient and long-lost artifacts. Some might call them magic. Jorg is not certain\u2014all he knows is that the secrets they hold can be put to terrible use in the coming battle\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Dark", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12891107-king-of-thorns"}, +{"book_title": "Hitler's War", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 1621, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country and pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared.Now, in this thrilling, provocative, and fascinating alternate history by Harry Turtledove, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? What if Hitler had acted rashly, before his army was ready-would such impatience have helped him or doomed him faster? Here is an action-packed, blow-by-blow chronicle of the war that might have been-and the repercussions that might have echoed through history-had Hitler reached too far, too soon, and too fast.Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell this story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China to members of a Jewish German family with a proud history of war service to their nation, from ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory-and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast.A novel that reveals the human face of war while simultaneously riding the twists and turns that make up the great acts of history, Hitler's War is the beginning of an exciting new alternate history saga. Here is a tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, of spies, soldiers, and traitors, of the shifting alliances that draw some together while tearing others apart. At once authoritative, brilliantly imaginative, and hugely entertaining, Hitler's War captures the beginning of a very different World War II-with a very different fate for our world today.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War", "Fantasy", "Historical", "War (Military Fiction)", "War (World War II)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6310817-hitler-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "Legacy", "author_name": "Ken Lozito", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2875, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Hold the line. After narrowly defeating the invading enemy fleet, there is evidence that the attack isn\u2019t over. Thousands have died and all that stands between human extinction and the invaders are the remnants of the colonial military. Connor must find a way to rally the colony using every scrap of ingenuity to stop the invaders. But will he succeed when he finds himself pitted against mankind\u2019s ultimate enemy? This could be mankind\u2019s final hour . . . or its greatest victory.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36477939-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "Velocity Weapon", "author_name": "Megan E. O'Keefe", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2311, "review_number": 402, "book_description": "Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in Velocity Weapon, the first book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe.Sanda and Biran Greeve were siblings destined for greatness. A high-flying sergeant, Sanda has the skills to take down any enemy combatant. Biran is a savvy politician who aims to use his new political position to prevent conflict from escalating to total destruction.However, on a routine maneuver, Sanda loses consciousness when her gunship is blown out of the sky. Instead of finding herself in friendly hands, she awakens 230 years later on a deserted enemy warship controlled by an AI who calls himself Bero. The war is lost. The star system is dead. Ada Prime and its rival Icarion have wiped each other from the universe.Now, separated by time and space, Sanda and Biran must fight to put things right.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Mystery", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41085049-velocity-weapon"}, +{"book_title": "The Living", "author_name": "Matt de la Pena", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 4674, "review_number": 1081, "book_description": "Shy took the summer job to make some money. In a few months on a luxury cruise liner, he'll rake in the tips and be able to help his mom and sister out with the bills. And how bad can it be? Bikinis, free food, maybe even a girl or two\u2014every cruise has different passengers, after all.But everything changes when the Big One hits. Shy's only weeks out at sea when an earthquake more massive than ever before recorded hits California, and his life is forever changed.The earthquake is only the first disaster. Suddenly it's a fight to survive for those left living.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13515320-the-living"}, +{"book_title": "Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike", "author_name": "Kelly Sue DeConnick", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 12260, "review_number": 1331, "book_description": "Kelly Sue DeConnick (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) and Emma Rios (Dr. Strange, Osborn) present the collected opening arc of their surprise-hit series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse made of smoke and her face bears the skull marks of her father. Her origin story is a tale of retribution as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage. \"It's a perfect match for the gorgeous, dizzying artwork in a sumptuous palette-overlaid panels add intricate choreography to fight scenes, and detailed, whirling splash pages beg for long-lingering looks. Couple that, along with a handful of Eisner nominations, with a multicultural cast of tough-as-nails women who all fight for their own honor, and this is a series to watch out for.\" - Booklist\"It's ambitious and challenging (two qualities that are not often valued, but that probably should be), under a fa\u00e7ade of violence and sacrifice. Rio's art is lush and detailed, and is more than capable of keeping up with the far-reaching story.\" - PW", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Westerns", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Horror", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20638291-pretty-deadly-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Deus Ex: Fallen Angel", "author_name": "James Swallow", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 66, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Written by James Swallow, Fallen Angel ties in with the events that unfold in the \"Shanghai Justice\" side-quest in Human Revolution. It provides details on Malik's past, her connections in Hengsha, and how she ended up working for Sarif Industries.Deus Ex: Fallen Angel was originally available as a pre-order bonus for Deus Ex: Human Revolution \u2013 Director\u2019s Cut. Enjoy the read!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Video Games)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25630472-deus-ex"}, +{"book_title": "Requiem", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 131874, "review_number": 13215, "book_description": "Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion that was underway in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight. After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven. Pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels.As Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain of the Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fianc\u00e9e of the young mayor.Requiem is told from the perspectives of both Lena and her friend Hana. They live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9593913-requiem"}, +{"book_title": "Agenda 21", "author_name": "Glenn Beck", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 7088, "review_number": 997, "book_description": "\u201cI was just a baby when we were relocated and I don\u2019t remember much. Everybody has that black hole at the beginning of their life. That time you can\u2019t remember. Your first step. Your first taste of table food. My real memories begin in our assigned living area in Compound 14.\u201dJust a generation ago, this place was called America. Now, after the worldwide implementation of a UN-led program called Agenda 21, it\u2019s simply known as \u201cthe Republic.\u201d There is no president. No Congress. No Supreme Court. No freedom.There are only the Authorities.Citizens have two primary goals in the new Republic: to create clean energy and to create new human life. Those who cannot do either are of no use to society. This bleak and barren existence is all that eighteen-year-old Emmeline has ever known. She dutifully walks her energy board daily and accepts all male pairings assigned to her by the Authorities. Like most citizens, she keeps her head down and her eyes closed.Until the day they come for her mother.\u201cYou save what you think you\u2019re going to lose.\u201dWoken up to the harsh reality of her life and her family\u2019s future inside the Republic, Emmeline begins to search for the truth. Why are all citizens confined to ubiquitous concrete living spaces? Why are Compounds guarded by Gatekeepers who track all movements? Why are food, water and energy rationed so strictly? And, most important, why are babies taken from their mothers at birth? As Emmeline begins to understand the true objectives of Agenda 21 she realizes that she is up against far more than she ever thought. With the Authorities closing in, and nowhere to run, Emmeline embarks on an audacious plan to save her family and expose the Republic\u2014but is she already too late?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Politics", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15826004-agenda-21"}, +{"book_title": "Sigil", "author_name": "Addison Cain", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2381, "review_number": 303, "book_description": "An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Thumb brushing her lips like a kiss, he promised, \u201cIn time, you will learn you need not fear me.\u201d Setting her free, Sovereign\u2019s enigmatic expression grew dark. \u201cYou will love me. It is inevitable.\u201dThe farthest corners of the universe can hide her. Not from him.Sovereign, ruler of every conquered and converted human world is coming to claim his consort.Yet Sigil refuses. Loathes the empire, hates Sovereign, his Brotherhood, and the needs they inspire which she cannot control.The need to destroy.A craving that can only be crushed in unspeakable, sensual, and terrifying ways.Sigil: Irdesi Empire Book 1 is a Space Opera Dark Romance laced with complete power exchange.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Dark", "Science Fiction", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53652667-sigil"}, +{"book_title": "The Reluctant Swordsman", "author_name": "Dave Duncan", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4021, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "Wallie figured it was fever when he awoke, not in his hospital, but in the body of a brawny barbarian. A swordsman of the seventh rank, Wallie was now the master of a beautiful slave girl and a cunning blade. His mission: to serve a Goddess--even though he had never fought before! Original.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Epic", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Heroic Fantasy (Sword and Sorcery)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53546.The_Reluctant_Swordsman"}, +{"book_title": "Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World", "author_name": "Marco Iansiti", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 311, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "\n\"AI is the 'runtime' that is going to shape all of what we do.\" -- Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft\nAI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, Microsoft to Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful opportunities for learning--to drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions.When traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game, one whose rules and likely outcomes this book will make clear. Iansiti and Lakhani: \n Present a framework for rethinking business and operating models \n Explain how \"collisions\" between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog firms are reshaping competition, altering the structure of our economy, and forcing traditional companies to rearchitect their operating models \n Explain the opportunities and risks created by digital firms \n Describe the new challenges and responsibilities for the leaders of both digital and traditional firms \n Packed with examples--including many from the most powerful and innovative global, AI-driven competitors--and based on research in hundreds of firms across many sectors, this is your essential guide for rethinking how your firm competes and operates in the era of AI.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Business", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science (Technology)", "Nonfiction", "Business (Management)", "Futurism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43907405-competing-in-the-age-of-ai"}, +{"book_title": "Bionicle, Vol. 2: Challenge of the Rahkshi", "author_name": "Greg Farshtey", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 80, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "The Toa Nuva suffer a mysterious loss of their powers which threatens their very existence. It's the work of the Bohrok-Kal, a special squad of mutated Bohrok who seek to free the swarm queens and unleash the Bohrok again. With the help of the legendary Mask of Time, the Toa Nuva are able to defeat the Kal.Meanwhile, a Matoran village named Takua has stumbled upon the long-hidden Mask of Light. He and his best friend, Jaller, are sent by the village elders, the Turaga, to find the Toa to whom the mask is destined to belong. But Makuta unleashes twisted creatures called Rahkshi against the island in an effort to stop the Toa of Light from coming into being. After many defeats, the Toa Nuva unite to stop the Rahkshi with the help of Takua, who dons the Mask of Light to become Takanuva, Toa of Light. Takanuva challenges Makuta in battle, a fight which leads to the discovery of a huge underground island city \u2013 Metru Nui.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2545304.Bionicle_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "Saved by Venom", "author_name": "Lolita Lopez", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2761, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "To escape her father's debt to a loan shark, Dizzy seeks refuge in the upcoming Grab. She\u2019d rather belong to one of those terrifying sky warriors from the battleship Valiant than to the sleazy criminal who wants her as his plaything.The years of constant war haven\u2019t been kind to highly decorated sniper Venom. Only the promise of earning a wife kept him going through deadly battles. Catching and collaring Dizzy fills him with incredible hope. Finally he has a woman of his own, a mate to love\u2014and bind and adorn with his ropes.After a brazen Splinter attack, the Shadow Force uncovers secrets about Dizzy\u2019s late mother that entangle her in a web of deceit. To save Venom, her father and an operative named Terror, Dizzy digs deep and risks it all.Venom refuses to stand idly by while Dizzy\u2019s haunted past threatens the future they\u2019re trying to build. He finally has a reason for living\u2014and he\u2019s not giving her up.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18626777-saved-by-venom"}, +{"book_title": "The Subtle Knife", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 380684, "review_number": 10386, "book_description": "She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy?The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld \u2013 Citt\u00e0gazze, where soul-eating Spectres stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky.But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm.On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power.And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat \u2013 and the shattering truth of their own destiny.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41637836-the-subtle-knife"}, +{"book_title": "The Pesthouse", "author_name": "Jim Crace", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 2435, "review_number": 341, "book_description": "Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love.\n\nOnce the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless, scantly populated wasteland. The machines have stopped. The government has collapsed. Farmlands lie fallow and the soil is contaminated by toxins. Across the country, families have packed up their belongings to travel eastward toward the one hope left: passage on a ship to Europe.Franklin Lopez and his brother, Jackson, are only days away from the ocean when Franklin, nearly crippled by an inflamed knee, is forced to stop. In the woods near his temporary refuge, Franklin comes upon an isolated stone building. Inside he finds Margaret, a woman with a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse to sweat out her fever. Tentatively, the two join forces and make their way through the ruins of old America. Confronted by bandits rounding up men for slavery, finding refuge in the Ark, a religious community that makes bizarre demands on those they shelter, Franklin and Margaret find their wariness of each other replaced by deep trust and an intimacy neither one has ever experienced before.The Pesthouse is Jim Crace\u2019s most compelling novel to date. Rich in its understanding of America\u2019s history and ethos, it is a paean to the human spirit.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Literature", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92555.The_Pesthouse"}, +{"book_title": "The Unintentional Time Traveler", "author_name": "Everett Maroon", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 193, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Fifteen-year-old Jack Bishop has mad skills with cars and engines, but knows he\u2019ll never get a driver\u2019s license because of his epilepsy. Agreeing to participate in an experimental clinical trial to find new treatments for his disease, he finds himself in a completely different body\u2014that of a girl his age, Jacqueline, who defies the expectations of her era. Since his seizures usually give him spazzed out visions, Jack presumes this is a hallucination. Feeling fearless, he steals a horse, expecting that at any moment he\u2019ll wake back up in the clinical trial lab. When that doesn't happen, Jacqueline falls unexpectedly in love, even as the town in the past becomes swallowed in a fight for its survival. Jack/Jacqueline is caught between two lives and epochs, and must find a way to save everyone around him as well as himself. And all the while, he is losing time, even if he is getting out of algebra class.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT (Transgender)", "Historical", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20500053-the-unintentional-time-traveler"}, +{"book_title": "Dark World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 2289, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Two expanding interstellar powers are about to meet in battle. After the collapse of the Cephalopod Kingdom, Humanity claimed the three hundred rebellious worlds they left behind. But many light years away on the far side of disputed region, a rival power has begun to move. They're stealing our planets, one at a time. Earth Command decides to invade the center of the frontier to set up an advanced base. The mission to DARK WORLD is highly classified and deadly. Legion Varus spearhead\u2019s the effort, and James McGill journeys to the stars again. How many ships do they have? How advanced is their tech? No one knows, but the campaign takes an unexpected turn immediately. What was supposed to be a snatch-and-grab turns into a bloodbath. McGill dies over and over again, but some battles must be won, even if it means perma-death. DARK WORLD is the ninth book in the Undying Mercenaries Series.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39195757-dark-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Wrath of the Great Guilds", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1485, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "The Great Guilds, fearing the loss of their control of the world of Dematr, have gathered their power and joined it with the relentless legions of the Empire. The full might of that host will fall upon the fortress city of Dorcastle. If Dorcastle falls, the revolt led by Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain will fail, and their world will soon descend into chaos.Only Mari, believed to be the daughter of an ancient prophecy, can inspire the people and lead the defense of Dorcastle. The prophecy says she has a chance to win, but it doesn't say she will survive. Alain will stand by her, both willing to die for the other, but neither one knows if their sacrifices will mean victory.As they battle the Imperial legions and see friends fall, Mari and Alain face their greatest challenges. And if they somehow win in the face of impossible odds, neither one can be certain what sort of world that victory will produce.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28179865-the-wrath-of-the-great-guilds"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Riley 1", "author_name": "Mark Tufo", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1611, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "When the zombie apocalypse strikes without warning one dog will hold the fate of her pack in her paws. This is the story of Riley, an American bulldog. Follow along as she tries to keep her pack safe from a zombie apocalypse. Traveling with her are Ben-Ben the high strung Yorkie, her favorite two-legger Jessie, Jessie's younger brother Zachary, and Riley's arch enemy Patches the cat. They are a rag-tag group of survivors, who, when pushed to the limit, realize that they are all each other has.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Animals", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Animals (Dogs)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17214357-the-book-of-riley-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Atlantis Plague", "author_name": "A.G. Riddle", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 32176, "review_number": 1230, "book_description": "A pandemic 70,000 years in the making...will change humanity...forever.The race to stop the Atlantis Plague has begun.Buy now and continue the worldwide bestselling series that began with The Atlantis Gene (note: Kindle Unlimited subscribers can also read for free).Selected Praise For A.G. Riddle\"This is apocalyptic sci-fi at its best.\"\u2014Daily Mail on The Solar War\u201c...reads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton.\u201d\u2014The Guardian on Pandemic\u201cI finished the book fast because I just couldn\u2019t wait...\u201d\u2014WIRED GeekDad on Departure\u201cRiddle... keep(s) the focus on his characters... rather than the technological marvels\u201d\u2014Publisher\u2019s Weekly on Departure\u201cWell-constructed and tightly-wound as a fine Swiss watch\u2014DEPARTURE has non-stop action, an engaging plot and, of course, wheels within wheels.\u201d\u2014Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of OutlanderAn Extended Look at The Atlantis PlagueIn Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead\u2014and those that the Atlantis Plague does not kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve.As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they mass produce and distribute to refugee camps around the world. But Orchid is merely a way to buy time. It treats the symptoms of the plague but never cures the disease.Immari International offers a different approach: do nothing. Let the plague run its course. The Immari envision a world populated by the genetically superior survivors\u2014a new human race, ready to fulfill its destiny.With control of the world population hanging in the balance, the Orchid Alliance and the Immari descend into open warfare. Now the last hope for humanity is to find a cure. Kate alone holds the key to unraveling the mystery surrounding the Atlantis Plague. The answer may lie in understanding pivotal events in human history\u2014events when the human genome mysteriously changed. Her journey takes her across the barren wastelands of Europe and northern Africa, but it is her research into the past that takes her where she never expected to go. She soon discovers that the history of human evolution is not what it seems\u2014and setting it right may require a sacrifice she never imagined.About The AuthorA.G. Riddle\u2019s debut novel, The Atlantis Gene, became a global phenomenon, topping best seller charts in the US and abroad. Every year, Amazon compiles a list of the top 100 bestselling Kindle eBooks of the year (by total sales volume). The Atlantis Gene has made Amazon\u2019s annual Kindle bestseller list an unprecedented five years in a row\u2014every year since the book\u2019s release (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017). Since then, Riddle has released eight more novels, selling millions of copies in two dozen languages. His books feature a unique mix of science, history, and suspense that has delighted fans of Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, and James Rollins and continues to sell year after year. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25843439-the-atlantis-plague"}, +{"book_title": "Saving Hamlet", "author_name": "Molly Horton Booth", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 818, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "I wanted sophomore year to be different, but this was a little much.Emma Allen couldn\u2019t be more excited to start her sophomore year. Not only is she the assistant stage manager for the drama club\u2019s production of Hamlet, but her crush Brandon is directing, and she\u2019s rocking a new haircut that's sure to get his attention. But soon after school starts, everything goes haywire. Emma\u2019s suddenly promoted to stage manager, her best friend, Lulu, stops talking to her, and Josh\u2014the sweet soccer player who\u2019s been cast as the lead\u2014turns out to be a disaster. It\u2019s up to Emma to fix it all, but she has no clue where to start.One night after rehearsal, Emma stays behind to think through her life\u2019s latest crises and distractedly falls through the stage\u2019s trap door\u2026landing in the basement of the Globe Theater.It\u2019s London, 1601, and with her awesome new pixie cut, everyone thinks Emma\u2019s a boy\u2014even Will Shakespeare himself. Dropped into the middle of the original production of Hamlet, Emma gamely plays her role as backstage assistant, jumping at the chance to experience theatre history and rub shoulders with legends. But the Globe\u2019s Hamlet has its own problems, and once Emma starts traveling back and forth through time, things get really confusing. In which reality does she belong? And can she possibly save two epically tragic productions of Hamlet before time runs out?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25226144-saving-hamlet"}, +{"book_title": "A Perfect Vacuum", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1176, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature--works that, in many cases, could not possibly be written. Embracing postmodernism's \"games for games' sake\" ethos, Lem joins the contest with hilarious and grotesque results, lampooning the movement's self-indulgence and exploiting its mannerisms.Beginning with a review of his own book, Lem moves on to tackles (or create pastiches of) the French new novel, James Joyce, pornography, authorless writing, and Dostoevsky, while at the same time ranging across scientific topics, from cosmology to the pervasiveness of computers. The result is a metafictional tour de force by one of the world's most popular writers.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Literature", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Novels", "Philosophy", "Cultural (Poland)", "Speculative Fiction", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28767.A_Perfect_Vacuum"}, +{"book_title": "Star Hunt", "author_name": "David Gerrold", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 337, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "In the prequel to Voyage of the Star Wolf, first officer Jonathan Korie drives his captain and the crew of their obsolete starship on a fanatical, possibly disastrous search for an enemy that may be a phantom.Originally published as Yesterday's Children", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111869.Star_Hunt"}, +{"book_title": "Taken By Her Mates", "author_name": "Grace Goodwin", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1434, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "After being set up and found guilty of a crime she didn\u2019t commit, Jessica volunteers for the Interstellar Bride Program to avoid a lengthy prison sentence. She is assigned to a prince, the heir to the throne of the powerful planet Prillon, but her future is left in doubt when the match is rejected by Prillon\u2019s current ruler. When his own father seeks to banish him and deny him his right to a mate, Prince Nial takes matters into his own hands. Accompanied by a battle-tested warrior who volunteers as his second, he sets out for Earth to take what is his, but upon his arrival he quickly discovers that the same horrifying enemies who once took him captive now hunt his mate as well. Though believing she has been rejected by a mate she never even met stings more deeply than she would like to admit, Jessica does her best to focus on the dangerous task of bringing down the people who framed her. But before long, her world is turned upside down all over again when two huge, handsome aliens save her life and then inform her that she is their matched mate and they have come to Earth to claim her. Jessica is far from ready to meekly submit, but she soon learns that her new mates expect to be obeyed and defiance will result in a painful, embarrassing spanking on her bare bottom. Despite her fury at such treatment, however, she cannot hide her arousal as she is stripped bare and thoroughly mastered by the fierce, dominant warriors. But when Prince Nial is forced to defend his birthright, will Jessica do what must be done to aid him, even if that means allowing his entire world to bear witness as she is taken by her mates? Publisher\u2019s Note: Taken by Her Mates is a stand-alone book set in the same world as Assigned a Mate, Mated to the Warriors, and Claimed by Her Mates. It is an erotic romance novel that includes spankings, sexual scenes, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material offends you, please don\u2019t buy this book.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30745522-taken-by-her-mates"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Ditch", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 923, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Commissar Cain returns to an icy planet to crush a new wave of ork attacks, but inadvertently disturbs a far greater threat which has lain frozen and dormant for centuries in a new hardcover edition.Imperial commissar Ciaphas Cain returns to Nusquam Fundumentibus to crush the ork attacks which have been plaguing the frozen planet. But when his ship crashes into the wastelands outside the capital it disturbs a far greater enemy, one which has lain dormant under the permafrost since long before the Imperium came to this world, and could now threaten the whole sector. Faced with ongoing greenskin raids and keeping an over-enthusiastic novice commissar under control, Cain must rally his men and confront whatever emerges from beneath the rapidly melting ice...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Pulp", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12035989-the-last-ditch"}, +{"book_title": "Freeing Luka", "author_name": "Victoria Aveline", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1284, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Luka has spent his life researching fertility in the hopes of discovering a cure for the Clecanians\u2019 low birth rates. After years of working tirelessly with little progress, he becomes enraged when he uncovers a sinister plot to abduct compatible species from their home planets. But before he can tell anyone what he\u2019s discovered, he\u2019s captured, drugged, and thrown in a cell.It\u2019s just Alice\u2019s luck that when she finally begins to get her life on track, she\u2019s kidnapped by reptilian creatures and forced into a cell with a fierce incoherent alien for some kind of breeding experiment.Even though they aren\u2019t able to communicate, Alice and Luka find solace in each other\u2019s company. As the days drag on, it becomes harder to keep her heart locked away, until she can\u2019t help but wonder what a life with Luka might look like outside their dark prison. When an opportunity to free herself, Luka, and the other human prisoners presents itself, Alice takes it.Once free, can Alice and Luka\u2019s tenuous relationship survive on this planet? Will the evil men that held them prisoner ever see justice? And can they play a part in the rescue of the other women being held captive around this strange new world? Alice knows only one thing for certain\u2014her life will never be the same again.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Space", "Fiction", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54217084-freeing-luka"}, +{"book_title": "Fire Study", "author_name": "Maria V. Snyder", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 59510, "review_number": 3901, "book_description": "The apprenticeship is over\u2014now the real test has begun.When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder\u2014able to capture and release souls\u2014spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before...Honor sets Yelena on a path that will test the limits of her skills, and the hope of reuniting with her beloved spurs her onward. Her journey is fraught with allies, enemies, lovers and would-be assassins, each of questionable loyalty. Yelena will have but one chance to prove herself\u2014and save the land she holds dear.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1966969.Fire_Study"}, +{"book_title": "Pump Six and Other Stories", "author_name": "Paolo Bacigalupi", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 7859, "review_number": 884, "book_description": "Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience.The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best Paolo's work, including the Hugo nominee \"Yellow Card Man,\" the nebula and Hugo nominated story \"The People of Sand and Slag,\" and the Sturgeon Award-winning story \"The Calorie Man.\"", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2819368-pump-six-and-other-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Kruistocht in spijkerbroek", "author_name": "Thea Beckman", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 10182, "review_number": 366, "book_description": "De zestienjarige Dolf uit Amstelveen geeft zich op als proefkonijn: hij zal door een materie-transmitter teruggeflitst worden naar de Middeleeuwen om daar \u00e9\u00e9n middag een kijkje te nemen. Maar door een foute berekening komt hij in het jaar 1212 terecht in een Kinderkruistocht die net uit Keulen is vertrokken en niet op het riddertoernooi in Montgivray in Midden-Frankrijk dat hij zo graag wilde bijwonen.Verbijsterd ziet hij duizenden gelovige \u2013 en vooral goedgelovige \u2013 kinderen, aan wie wonderen zijn beloofd, zingend aan hem voorbijtrekken. Zij zijn van plan met hun blote handen het Heilige Land van de Saracenen te bevrijden.Om vijf uur diezelfde middag moet Dolf weer op de afgesproken plek staan om teruggeflitst te worden naar de twintigste eeuw \u2013 tenminste, als er niets fout gaat\u2026Lengte: 11 uur 26 minuten", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "European Literature (Dutch Literature)", "Classics", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3114666-kruistocht-in-spijkerbroek"}, +{"book_title": "Lord Foul's Bane", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 47373, "review_number": 1709, "book_description": "He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself.Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero--Berek Halfhand--armed with the mystic power of White Gold. That power alone could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of Despiser, Lord Foul. Only...Covenant had no idea of how the power could be used!Thus begins one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written...", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219205.Lord_Foul_s_Bane"}, +{"book_title": "The Storm", "author_name": "Clive Cussler", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 5898, "review_number": 382, "book_description": "In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them. But it is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard, while the ship itself goes up in flames.A few hours later, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean. What they will find there on the smoldering hulk of the ship will eventually lead them to the discovery of the most audacious scheme they have ever known: a plan to permanently alter the weather on a global scale. It will kill millions . . . and it has already begun.Filled with the boundless invention unique to Clive Cussler, this is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Adventure", "Thriller", "Action", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13092965-the-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Prey", "author_name": "Andrea Speed", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1931, "review_number": 323, "book_description": "In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds.The murder of a former cop draws Roan into an odd case where an unidentifiable species of cat appears to be showing an unusual level of intelligence. He juggles that with trying to find a missing teenage boy, who, unbeknownst to his parents, was \"cat\" obsessed. And when someone is brutally murdering infecteds, Eli Winters, leader of the Church of the Divine Transformation, hires Roan to find the killer before he closes in on Eli.Working the crimes will lead Roan through a maze of hate, personal grudges, and mortal danger. With help from his tiger-strain infected partner, Paris Lehane, he does his best to survive in a world that hates and fears their kind... and occasionally worships them.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23420502-prey"}, +{"book_title": "The Colonel", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1276, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Colonel Keaton is in trouble. His wife has retreated into a virtual heaven and his son remains missing after joining an extrasolar mission to track down an alien race. He is presently tasked by his superiors with the threat assessment of hived human intelligences, one of which successfully attacks a compound under his watch. Now, one of the strongest hive minds in the world approaches Keaton with an offer that could completely change his world.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Horror", "War (Military Fiction)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22572511-the-colonel"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Ships", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 5301, "review_number": 314, "book_description": "There is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the \"present\" in which we live.A century after the publication of H. G. Wells' immortal The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter, today's most acclaimed new \"hard SF\" author, and the acknowledged Clarke, returns to the distant conflict between the Eloi and the Morlocks in a story that is at once an exciting expansion, and a radical departure based on the astonishing new understandings of quantum physics.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62992.The_Time_Ships"}, +{"book_title": "Deus Ex: Icarus Effect", "author_name": "James Swallow", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1355, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "IT\u2019S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. BUT YOU CAN SEE IT FROM HERE. \u00a0 In the near future, with physical augmentation gaining ground and nano-cybernetics only years away, the dawn of limitless human evolution is just beyond the horizon, and a secret corporate cabal of ruthless men intends to make sure that humankind stays under its control. But two people on opposite sides of the world are starting to ask questions that could get them killed. Secret Service agent Anna Kelso has been suspended for investigating the shooting that claimed her partner\u2019s life. Anna suspects that the head of a bio-augmentation firm was the real target, and against orders she\u2019s turned up a few leads concerning a covert paramilitary force and a cadre of underground hackers. But the cover-up runs deep, and now there\u2019s a target on her back. Meanwhile, Ben Saxon, former SAS officer turned mercenary, joins a shadowy special ops outfit. They say they\u2019re a force for good, but Saxon quickly learns that the truth is not so clear-cut. So begins a dangerous quest to uncover a deadly secret that will take him from Moscow to London, D.C. to Geneva, and to the dark truth\u2014if he lives that long.The year is 2027; in a world consumed by chaos and conspiracy, two people are set on a collision course with the most powerful and dangerous organization in history\u2014and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Video Games)", "Fiction", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9476967-deus-ex"}, +{"book_title": "The Maze Runner Files", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 11273, "review_number": 840, "book_description": "The Maze Runner Files is a 50+ page collection of classified records and concealed information from the world of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. Lost emails between WICKED employees, memos meant to be destroyed after reading, and a selection of the Gladers suppressed memories make up this e-original short. These documents offer a unique glimpse of the world of The Maze Runner and are a must for any fan of The Maze Runner.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18111770-the-maze-runner-files"}, +{"book_title": "Plan for the Worst", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 2289, "review_number": 249, "book_description": "You know what they say. Hope for the best. But plan for the worst.Catch up with the tea-soaked disaster magnets in their latest madcap adventure as they hurtle their way around History.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adventure", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50029747-plan-for-the-worst"}, +{"book_title": "Reprobation", "author_name": "Catherine Fearns", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 193, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Are you one of the elect? Dr. Helen Hope is a lecturer in eschatology \u2013 the study of death, judgement, and the destiny of humankind. She is also a Calvinist nun, her life devoted to atoning for a secret crime. When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, she forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity. Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who they believe holds the key \u2013 not just to the murder, but to something much darker. Also on the trail is cynical Scouse detective Darren Swift. In his first murder case, he must confront his own lack of faith as a series of horrific crimes drag the city of two cathedrals to the gates of hell. Science meets religious belief in this gripping murder mystery.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40938606-reprobation"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 12: Life Among Them", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 19097, "review_number": 572, "book_description": "At long last, the survivors of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's acclaimed post-apocalyptic survival adventure find the hope they've longed look for. Can a town not yet ravaged by the horrors unleashed on Earth possibly be all it's hoped for? Is there a far more sinister secret behind their newfound safe haven?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7469664-the-walking-dead-vol-12"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Shame", "author_name": "Kit Rocha", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 12196, "review_number": 1563, "book_description": "All Noelle Cunningham has ever wanted is a life beyond\u2013beyond the walls of Eden, where only the righteous are allowed to remain, and beyond her stiflingly restrictive existence as a councilman\u2019s daughter. But only ruins lie outside the City, remnants of a society destroyed by solar storms decades earlier.The sectors surrounding Eden house the corrupt, the criminal\u2013men like Jasper McCray, bootlegger and cage fighter. Jas clawed his way up from nothing to stand at the right hand of Sector Four\u2019s ruthless leader, and he\u2019ll defend the O\u2019Kane gang with his life. But no fight ever prepared him for the exiled City girl who falls at his feet.Her innocence is undeniable, but so is their intense sexual attraction, and soon they\u2019re crossing every boundary Noelle barely knew she had. But if she wants to belong to Jas, first she\u2019ll have to open herself to the gang, to a dangerous world of sex, lust and violence. A world where passion is power, and freedom is found in submission.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult", "Dark", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15830843-beyond-shame"}, +{"book_title": "Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Whenever Admiral Yobo summoned Jeff and Norby, it usually meant they were in trouble. This time, the Martian office has a mission for them: a wild-safari photo shoot...in Earth's distant past.Thanks to Norby's hyperspace skills, the journey is a success. But it's a jungle out there\u2014the elephants are stampeding, the natives are restless...and Norby's lost the trail that can take them back home!", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/638387.Norby_and_Yobo_s_Great_Adventure"}, +{"book_title": "In the End", "author_name": "Demitria Lunetta", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 4598, "review_number": 616, "book_description": "She thought it was the end of the world... But it was only the beginning of the end.It's been three months since Amy escaped New Hope. Since she's seen Baby, or Kay, or Rice. And she's been surviving on her own, like she did before she was \"rescued\" and taken to what she thought was a safe haven. Then, in the midst of foraging for supplies, her former fellow Guardian's voice rings out in her earpiece. And in a desperate tone, Kay utters the four words Any had hoped she would never hear:Dr. Reynolds has Baby.Now it's a race against time, for Baby is in imminent danger, her life threatened by the malevolent doctor who had helped start the end of the world. In order to save Baby, Amy will have to make her way to Fort Black, a former prison-turned-survivor colony. There she will need to find Ken\u2014Kay's brother\u2014for he holds the key to Baby's survival.But before she can do any of this, she'll have to endure the darkest places\u2014and people\u2014of the prison. And one small slip-up could not only cost Baby and Amy their lives, but threaten the survival of he people in the After.Demitria Lunetta has created an utterly compelling conclusion to the story she set forth in In the After.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18140842-in-the-end"}, +{"book_title": "Wild Country", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 8580, "review_number": 1096, "book_description": "In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side...without destroying one another.There are ghost towns in the world\u2014places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others.One of those places is Bennett, a town at the northern end of the Elder Hills\u2014a town surrounded by the wild country. Now efforts are being made to resettle Bennett as a community where humans and Others live and work together. A young female police officer has been hired as the deputy to a Wolfgard sheriff. A deadly type of Other wants to run a human-style saloon. And a couple with four foster children\u2014one of whom is a blood prophet\u2014hope to find acceptance.\u00a0But as they reopen the stores and the professional offices and start to make lives for themselves, the town of Bennett attracts the attention of other humans looking for profit. And the arrival of the Blackstone Clan, outlaws and gamblers all, will uncover secrets\u2026or bury them.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40508188-wild-country"}, +{"book_title": "Eastern Standard Tribe", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 3607, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swappingArt is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world.Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe.Instant wireless communication puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by a common time zone, less than family and more than nations. Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted-not happiness, not money, and most certainly not love.Which might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the roof of an insane asylum outside Boston, debating whether to push a pencil into his brain....", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589.Eastern_Standard_Tribe"}, +{"book_title": "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 6825, "review_number": 423, "book_description": "He awoke\u2014and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like himself? Not likely.Novellete-length, this story is the inspiration behind the popular Total Recall movies from 1990 and 2012.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6561374-we-can-remember-it-for-you-wholesale"}, +{"book_title": "A Nomad of the Time Streams", "author_name": "Michael Moorcock", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 964, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "The Multiverse - universe upon universe of alternate Time and Space in which Law and Chaos wage a continuous struggle to change the fundamental rules of existence.The Eternal Champion - doomed to live forever in a thousand incarnations. A key player in the Game of Time, Captain Oswald Bastable is forced to question his most cherished ideas as he becomes a nomad of the time streams, eternally travelling the wayward currents and nameless branches of a chaotic multiverse.This fourth volume in Michael Moorcock's classic sequence, rewritten, expanded and revised for its first U.S. appearance, introduces Oswald Bastable, former Captain of the 53rd Royal Lancers and Special Air Police, now guided through a multitude of alternate futures only by the Red Republican chrononaut, Una Person.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60156.A_Nomad_of_the_Time_Streams"}, +{"book_title": "A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume I", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 600, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "First collection in one volume. Seventeen short tales of the Liaden Universe\u00ae brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans. Thirty-three shorter tales of the Liaden Universe\u00ae brought together for the first time in two mega-volumes. The nationally best-selling Liaden Universe\u00ae novels are treasured by space opera aficionados for their wit, world-building, strong characterizations, tender romance, and edge-of-the-chair action.Since 1995, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller also created shorter tales, illuminating additional facets of the Liaden experience. Here is a vast tapestry of tales of the scouts, artists, traders, priestesses, sleight of hand magicians, andpilots who fill the Liaden Universe\u00ae with the excitement, action, and romance that readers of the hit series have come to adore.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130373-a-liaden-universe-constellation"}, +{"book_title": "Gurple and Preen: A Broken Crayon Cosmic Adventure", "author_name": "Linda Sue Park", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 154, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "This wildly imaginative, crayon-inspired picture book shows that with a bit of teamwork and a universe of creativity, anything is possible!Buzz! Zap! CRASH! Gurple and Preen are in a big mess! When they crash-land onto an unfamiliar planet with nothing but boxes of crayons, they must work together to get the mission back on course. From Newbery Award\u2013winning author Linda Sue Park and illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi comes a story about all the best things that can come out of a box of crayons.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Art", "Space", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43272166-gurple-and-preen"}, +{"book_title": "Ahsoka", "author_name": "E.K. Johnston", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 20717, "review_number": 2480, "book_description": "Fans have long wondered what happened to Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order near the end of the Clone Wars, and before she re-appeared as the mysterious Rebel operative Fulcrum in Rebels. Finally, her story will begin to be told. Following her experiences with the Jedi and the devastation of Order 66, Ahsoka is unsure she can be part of a larger whole ever again. But her desire to fight the evils of the Empire and protect those who need it will lead her right to Bail Organa, and the Rebel Alliance\u2026.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29749107-ahsoka"}, +{"book_title": "Sand", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 24204, "review_number": 1844, "book_description": "The new novel from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy.The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost.Palmer has never been the same since his father walked out twelve years ago. His elder sister, Vic, is trying to run away from the past; his younger brothers, Connor and Rob, are risking their lives to embrace it. His mother, left with nothing but anger, is just trying to forget.Palmer wants to prove his worth, not only to his family, but to himself. And in the barren, dune-covered landscape of his home, there is only one way to earn respect: sand-diving. Plunging deep below the desert floor in search of relics and scraps of the old world. He is about to embark on the most dangerous dive of his young life, aiming to become the first to discover the rumoured city below.Deep within the sand lies the key to bringing his family together \u2013 and tearing their world apart.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20662430-sand"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Ship", "author_name": "K.M. McKinley", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 390, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "An incredible epic fantasy begins!The order of the world is in turmoil. An age of industry is beginning, an age of machines fuelled by magic. Sprawling cities rise, strange devices stalk the land. New money brings new power. The balance between the Hundred Kingdoms is upset. For the first time in generations the threat of war looms.In these turbulent days, fortunes can be won. Magic runs strong in the Kressind family. Six siblings strive \u2013 one to triumph in a world of men, one to survive murderous intrigue, one to master forbidden sorcery, one to wash away his sins, one to contain the terrible energies of his soul.And one will do the impossible, by marrying the might of magic and iron in the heart of a great ship, to cross an ocean that cannot be crossed.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Epic", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492427-the-iron-ship"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun", "author_name": "FanPro", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 487, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "The Shadows Have Evolved The year is 2070. The world is not only Awakened -- it's wired. Cyber and bioware implants make your meat body better-than-flesh, while the wireless Matrix enhances your perceptions with hyper-real senses. Deals are made in steel and lead more often than gold or nuyen; success and failure live only a razor's edge apart. Creatures of myth and legend walk the streets, while the arcane skills of spellslingers are in high demand. Above it all, monolithic megacorps bleed the world dry, sabotaging each other in covert cutthroat competition as they go to war over the bottom line You're a shadowrunner, a street operative, scratching out a living on the mean sprawl streets. You may be human, elf, dwarf, ork or troll. From lethal street samurai to well-connected info brokers, spell-slinging mages or code-cracking hackers. No matter what, you're a -- professional corporate pawn or \"deniable asset,\" -- you get the job done. Shadowrun, Fourth Edition offers a completely new rules system that is simple, integrated and accessible. The state-of-the-art has also been advanced, introducing a new level of augmented reality, new gear, new magical discoveries, and more. This hardcover rulebook contains all the rules gamemasters and players need to create characters and ongoing adventures set in the popular Shadowrun universe. Note that the Shadowrun, Fourth Edition will replace the Shadowrun, Third Edition rules set. Source material from previous editions will still be compatible.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Reference"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351340.Shadowrun"}, +{"book_title": "Arkadian Skies", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 2740, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "With the man who kidnapped her daughter imprisoned aboard her ship, Captain Alisa Marchenko is closer than ever to reuniting her family. But her new guest has been in a coma for weeks, with the secret to her daughter's location locked away in his mind. She must find a way to sneak him into a state-of-the-art hospital on Arkadius, a planet in the heart of Alliance territory. Not an easy task when she and the cyborg Leonidas, her most trusted ally, are wanted by the Alliance army. As if that mission weren\u2019t daunting enough, the Staff of Lore has appeared on the planet. As has the man who stole it: Alisa\u2019s father.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31824625-arkadian-skies"}, +{"book_title": "In Dark Service", "author_name": "Stephen Hunt", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 278, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Jacob Carnehan has settled down. He's living a comfortable, quiet life, obeying the law and minding his own business while raising his son Carter ...on those occasions when he isn't having to bail him out of one scrape or another. His days of adventure are - thankfully - long behind him. Carter Carnehan is going out of his mind with boredom. He's bored by his humdrum life, frustrated that his father won't live a little, and longs for the bright lights and excitement of anywhere-but-here. He's longing for an opportunity to escape, and test himself against whatever the world has to offer. Carter is going to get his opportunity. He's caught up in a village fight, kidnapped by slavers and, before he knows it, is swept to another land. A lowly slave, surrounded by technology he doesn't understand, his wish has come true: it's him vs. the world. He can try to escape, he can try to lead his fellow slaves, or he can accept the inevitable and try to make the most of the short, brutal existence remaining to him...unless Jacob gets to him first and, no matter the odds, he intends to. No one kidnaps his son and gets away with it - and if it come to it, he'll force Kings to help him on his way, he'll fight, steal, blackmail and betray his friends in the name of bringing Carter home. Wars will be started. Empires will fall. And the Carnehan family will be reunited, one way or another...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20752758-in-dark-service"}, +{"book_title": "All Kidding Aside", "author_name": "Macy Blake", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 1022, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Building houses for a pack of orphans might lead one griffin to find his heart\u2019s home.Victor Eastaughffe knows three things for a fact:-He does not have a mate.-He does not like children.-His duty is to his griffin clan. When Victor meets Orsen Riggs, a scruffy bear shifter, and little Gus, an orphaned red panda cub, his orderly, structured world becomes messy and chaotic. All the things he once held true suddenly don\u2019t make sense. Asked to help the Smith pack navigate the difficult world of shifter politics, Victor realizes he might not know himself as well as he thought. Magic is in the air, and it\u2019s making him long for things he never wanted before. But duty comes before all else, even at a price Victor no longer wants to pay.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Family", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54622491-all-kidding-aside"}, +{"book_title": "Orders of Battle", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 1419, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "The battle against the Lankies has been won. Earth seems safe. Peacetime military? Not on your life.It\u2019s been four years since Earth threw its full military prowess against the Lanky incursion. Humanity has been yanked back from the abyss of extinction. The solar system is at peace. For now.The future for Major Andrew Grayson of the Commonwealth Defense Corps and his wife, Halley? Flying desk duty on the front. No more nightmares of monstrous things. No more traumas to the mind and body. But when an offer comes down from above, Andrew has to make a choice: continue pushing papers into retirement, or jump right back into the fight? What\u2019s a podhead to do?The remaining Lankies may have retreated in fear, but the threat isn\u2019t over. They need to be wiped out for good before they strike again. That\u2019ll take a new offensive deployment. Aboard an Avenger warship, Andrew and the special tactics team under his command embark on the ultimate search-and-destroy mission. This time, it\u2019ll be on Lanky turf.No big heroics. No unnecessary risks. Just a swift hit-and-run raid in the hostile Capella system. Blow the alien seed ships into oblivion and get the hell back to Earth. At least, that\u2019s the objective. But when does anything in war go according to plan?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53528390-orders-of-battle"}, +{"book_title": "Odysseus Ascendant", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 3382, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "\nA mysterious entity may be the key to a starship\u2019s survival\u2014or a terrifying new threat\u2014as the Odyssey One series continues\u2026\nThe Empire has set its sights on its next target: human Terrans. As effective allies of the Priminae, the denizens of Earth have proven themselves enemies to the Empire, and now the Imperial forces know more about the Terran home world than ever before. The battle for the planet\u2019s survival will see the Odysseus first into the breach. But more perils loom for Commodore Eric Weston and his comrades. They\u2019re at odds with the political conflicts dividing Earth\u2019s government and challenged by the mysterious presence haunting their vessel\u2014its intentions unclear, and the extent of its powers unknown. As the Empire brings the battle home, the crew of the Odysseus will need to determine whether this entity will support them in their fight for survival, or prove to be another dangerous foe. There\u2019s no turning back\u2026and the only way forward may be a pathway to doom.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36662775-odysseus-ascendant"}, +{"book_title": "Bonds of Justice", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 21205, "review_number": 1097, "book_description": "Max Shannon is a good cop, one of the best in New York Enforcement. Born with a natural shield that protects him against Psy mental invasions, he knows he has little chance of advancement within the Psy-dominated power structure. The last case he expects to be assigned is that of a murderer targeting a Psy Councilor\u2019s closest advisors. And the last woman he expects to compel him in the most sensual of ways is a Psy on the verge of a catastrophic mental fracture\u2026Sophia Russo is a Justice-Psy, cursed with the ability to retrieve memories from men and women so twisted even veteran cops keep their distance. Appointed as Max\u2019s liaison with the Psy, she finds herself fascinated by this human, her frozen heart threatening to thaw with forbidden emotion. But, her mind filled with other people\u2019s nightmares, other people\u2019s evil, she\u2019s standing on the border between sanity and a silken darkness that urges her to take justice into her own hands, to become judge, jury\u2026and executioner\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7044445-bonds-of-justice"}, +{"book_title": "Ella Enchanted", "author_name": "Gail Carson Levine", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 395029, "review_number": 10399, "book_description": "At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the \"gift\" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: \"Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally.\" When her beloved mother dies, leaving her in the care of a mostly absent and avaricious father, and later, a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters, Ella's life and well-being seem to be in grave peril. But her intelligence and saucy nature keep her in good stead as she sets out on a quest for freedom and self-discovery as she tries to track down Lucinda to undo the curse, fending off ogres, befriending elves, and falling in love with a prince along the way. Yes, there is a pumpkin coach, a glass slipper, and a happily ever after, but this is the most remarkable, delightful, and profound version of Cinderella you'll ever read.Gail Carson Levine's examination of traditional female roles in fairy tales takes some satisfying twists and deviations from the original. Ella is bound by obedience against her will, and takes matters in her own hands with ambition and verve. Her relationship with the prince is balanced and based on humor and mutual respect; in fact, it is she who ultimately rescues him. Ella Enchanted has won many well-deserved awards, including a Newbery Honor.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Romance", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24337.Ella_Enchanted"}, +{"book_title": "Storm Front", "author_name": "Jim Butcher", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 304547, "review_number": 16729, "book_description": "HARRY DRESDEN \u2014 WIZARDLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the \"everyday\" world is actually full of strange and magical things\u2014and most don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a\u2014well, whatever. There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks.So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get interesting.Magic - it can get a guy killed.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47212.Storm_Front"}, +{"book_title": "The Path of Duty", "author_name": "Eric Thomson", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 549, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Duty, honour, loyalty. What meaning did those words still hold in the midst of a stalemated interstellar war where the difference between the enemy and one\u2019s own leadership was sometimes paper thin? Unfairly relegated to punishment duty far from the battle lines and still pursued by her past, Siobhan Dunmoore was ordered to sail her ship deep into pirate-infested space on a quest to restore the Navy\u2019s reputation after she failed to stop an attack that destroyed a civilian freighter. There, she hoped to find clues that might absolve the crew of the Stingray from blame but instead, she was sucked into a vortex of intrigue and treachery that threatened not only all of their lives, but the future of the embattled Commonwealth. In the midst of competing schemes for supremacy, fending off marauders, mercenaries and spies, Dunmoore had to find a way to get her people home safe and beyond the reach of powerful cabals that had burrowed their way deep into the heart of the Admiralty. If her ship was to survive, she had to find the path of duty, no matter the personal cost, even if the price she had to pay was her own existence. The Path of Duty is the thrilling sequel to No Honor in Death and brings back the men and women serving aboard the Commonwealth Navy frigate Stingray. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31929664-the-path-of-duty"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Lady", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 3772, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "You'd think a tall woman would fit in on a planet of seven-foot-tall aliens, but even on the ice planet, I'm still a weirdo and an oddity. I'm everything all the other cute, dainty human women aren't. One guy in particular - the alien Harrec - is determined to embarrass me by pretending he's interested. He's a jokester that flirts like mad and hits on me constantly just to make me feel foolish. He gets under my skin. He makes me so frustrated I want to scream. When a side-trip to a glacier turns into a nightmare and the two of us are forced to survive alone, I see another side to the enticing blue alien. Even with no one else around, his compliments keep coming and I start wondering if the attraction between us... is real.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34490323-barbarian-s-lady"}, +{"book_title": "Retief: Diplomat at Arms", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 231, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Note: Retief: Diplomat at Arms is essentially a reprint of Galactic Diplomat plus the story Truce or Consequences from Retief: Ambassador to Space. Only the story The Secret is new to the Retief series and is also available in the book The Return of Retief.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627082.Retief"}, +{"book_title": "Gather the Daughters", "author_name": "Jennie Melamed", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 7733, "review_number": 1255, "book_description": "Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers--chosen male descendants of the original ten--are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires.The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly--they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others.Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing.Gather The Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Feminism", "Religion (Cults)", "Adult Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31933102-gather-the-daughters"}, +{"book_title": "Scoundrels", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 5844, "review_number": 734, "book_description": "To make his biggest score, Han\u2019s ready to take even bigger risks.But even he can\u2019t do this job solo. Han Solo should be basking in his moment of glory. After all, the cocky smuggler and captain of the Millennium Falcon just played a key role in the daring raid that destroyed the Death Star and landed the first serious blow to the Empire in its war against the Rebel Alliance. But after losing the reward his heroics earned him, Han\u2019s got nothing to celebrate. Especially since he\u2019s deep in debt to the ruthless crime lord Jabba the Hutt. There\u2019s a bounty on Han\u2019s head--and if he can\u2019t cough up the credits, he\u2019ll surely pay with his hide. The only thing that can save him is a king\u2019s ransom. Or maybe a gangster\u2019s fortune? That\u2019s what a mysterious stranger is offering in exchange for Han\u2019s less-than-legal help with a riskier-than-usual caper. The payoff will be more than enough for Han to settle up with Jabba--and ensure he never has to haggle with the Hutts again. All he has to do is infiltrate the ultra-fortified stronghold of a Black Sun crime syndicate underboss and crack the galaxy\u2019s most notoriously impregnable safe. It sounds like a job for miracle workers...or madmen. So Han assembles a gallery of rogues who are a little of both--including his indispensable sidekick Chewbacca and the cunning Lando Calrissian. If anyone can dodge, deceive, and defeat heavily armed thugs, killer droids, and Imperial agents alike--and pull off the heist of the century--it\u2019s Solo\u2019s scoundrels. But will their crime really pay, or will it cost them the ultimate price?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13573427-scoundrels"}, +{"book_title": "Rome Burning", "author_name": "Sophia McDougall", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 235, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Rome Burning is the second book of Sophia McDougall's projected trilogy, following her debut novel, Romanitas, set in a world where the Roman Empire has survived to contemporary times.Three years after the events of Romanitas, the Empire is on the brink of war with Nionia (Japan), and plagued by a sequence of mysterious wildfires. Marcus Novius, the young heir to the Roman throne is forced to take charge as Regent when the Emperor Faustus falls suddenly ill. Marcus attempts to recruit Varius as his advisor, but Varius, who is still haunted by the events of the first book (in which he lost his wife and was framed for murder and treason), refuses. While Marcus works to avoid a world war, his lover Una is intent on discovering the truth about his ambitious cousin Drusus's involvement in a conspiracy that almost claimed Marcus's life.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1075611.Rome_Burning"}, +{"book_title": "Pursued", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 4621, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "Elise is fractured inside, stained by a past she refuses to remember.Merrick is scarred both inside and out, a half-breed with a brutal background, at home nowhere in the universe.Now they are tied together by an unstable bond which could kill them both.Their journey will take them to the lawless planet of Rageron\u2014the wildest of all the Kindred worlds. There, in the deep blue jungles of an alien world, Elise must bare her soul and relive the horror that nearly killed her. Can she and Merrick make each other whole or will Elise run from her pain?If she does, Merrick cannot help but chase her\u2026Elise is being Pursued.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14744463-pursued"}, +{"book_title": "Canto Bight", "author_name": "Saladin Ahmed", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 2514, "review_number": 391, "book_description": "This collection of four short stories will focus on creatures from the glamorous casino world of Canto Bight, described as the galactic version of Monaco.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35798468-canto-bight"}, +{"book_title": "The Shattered Gates", "author_name": "Ginn Hale", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2257, "review_number": 309, "book_description": "When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he shares with Kyle\u2014to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10428720-the-shattered-gates"}, +{"book_title": "Half Magic", "author_name": "Edward Eager", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 36045, "review_number": 1616, "book_description": "Four children wish on a Half Magic coin that gets their mother Alison half-way home, rescued by Mr Smith. Mark's wish zaps them to a desert without island, where half-talking cat Carrie gabbles to a camel. Romantic Katherine battles Launcelot. Eldest Jane rejects siblings for another family. Stubborn youngest, Martha, causes a riot downtown.", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Classics", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225038.Half_Magic"}, +{"book_title": "Close Obsession", "author_name": "Anna Zaires", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 4750, "review_number": 277, "book_description": "The highly anticipated sequel to Close Liaisons\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.In Lenkarda \u2013 the main Krinar colony on Earth \u2013 Mia is completely at Korum's mercy. With no way to leave and no idea how to operate even the most basic Krinar technology, she has no choice but to trust the K who brought her there \u2013 the lover whom she had betrayed.Will he keep his promise to bring her home, or is she destined to be his prisoner forever? Can a human become a part of Krinar society? Does Korum love her, or does he only wish to possess her?Read on to find out\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.WARNING: This book contains strong sexual content and explicit language and is not suitable for readers under 18.Word Count: 88,000", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29869407-close-obsession"}, +{"book_title": "Off Armageddon Reef", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 10679, "review_number": 676, "book_description": "Humanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures: with mind control and hidden high technology, they've built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, a religion designed to keep Safehold society medieval forever.800 years pass. In a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android from the far human past awakens. This \"rebirth\" was set in motion centuries before, by a faction that opposed shackling humanity with a concocted religion. Via automated recordings, \"Nimue\" - or, rather, the android with the memories of Lieutenant Commander Nimue Alban - is told her fate: she will emerge into Safeholdian society, suitably disguised, and begin the process of provoking the technological progress which the Church of God Awaiting has worked for centuries to prevent.Nothing about this will be easy. To better deal with a medieval society, \"Nimue\" takes a new gender and a new name, \"Merlin.\" His formidable powers and access to caches of hidden high technology will need to be carefully concealed. And he'll need to find a base of operations, a Safeholdian country that's just a little more freewheeling, a little less orthodox, a little more open to the new.And thus Merlin comes to Charis, a mid-sized kingdom with a talent for naval warfare. He plans to make the acquaintance of King Haarahld and Crown Prince Cayleb, and maybe, just maybe, kick off a new era of invention. Which is bound to draw the attention of the Church...and, inevitably, lead to war.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72199.Off_Armageddon_Reef"}, +{"book_title": "Innocence and Carnality", "author_name": "J. Alan Veerkamp", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 151, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Innocence is his only currency.The gilded cage of propriety where Nathan grew up as a member of the Deilian aristocracy became a true prison when, at fifteen, his homosexuality came to light and created a terrible scandal. His parents see only one way to preserve their reputation amongst the other noble families: fit Nathan with a chastity belt to increase his value to a potential partner and marry him off as soon as possible.The recipient of that prize is Lord Rother Marsh Delaga III. After a hasty wedding, Rother whisks Nathan away to the strange and seductive land of Marisol, where Nathan will begin a new life, free to explore the pleasures of the marriage bed, though his life is still not his own.But Rother\u2019s Delaga House is a place of secrets, dangers, and depravity Nathan can scarcely comprehend. Where friends are few and peril waits around every corner, Nathan must employ all the manipulation he learned from high society, along with his talent for clockwork. Most of all, Nathan must adapt, compromise to survive, and cast off the preconceptions of his homeland.Because only he can orchestrate his freedom, and it\u2019ll come at a cost.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Romance", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44004082-innocence-and-carnality"}, +{"book_title": "Lord of the Highlands", "author_name": "Veronica Wolff", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 404, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "An online dating service may have pronounced Felicity \"unmatchable\" but she's determined-and destined-to find her perfect mate. All it takes is a mystical deck of Tarot cards and suddenly she's in 17th-century Scotland, smitten by a warrior who must make a daring choice: send Felicity back to her own time, or endanger both their lives.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6920532-lord-of-the-highlands"}, +{"book_title": "The Domination", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 564, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "In this \"tour de force\" of alternate history and military science fiction, Stirling imagines a world where only the United States stands between the Draka and their dream of an enslaved humanity.Compilation of Stirling's four Draka novels.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297859.The_Domination"}, +{"book_title": "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 159, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Based on the upcoming film from Paramount Pictures starring Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, set for release on July 25. In 1939 New York City, Joe Sullivan, leader of the heroic Flying Legion, must save the day when gigantic mechanical robots are unleashed upon the world. Original.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Action", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Pulp", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/791894.Sky_Captain_and_the_World_of_Tomorrow"}, +{"book_title": "Doom Patrol, Vol. 2: The Painting That Ate Paris", "author_name": "Grant Morrison", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 3349, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "The long-awaited second collection of superstar writer Grant Morrison's groundbreaking run on DOOM PATROL, this volume reprints issues #26-34. This collection includes the rise of the legendary Brotherhood of Dada - the only team of super-foes ever strange enough to rival the Doom Patrol itself - as well as the menace of the Decreator and the return of Monsieur Mallah and the Brain from the original Brotherhood of Evil. In addition, THE PAINTING THAT ATE PARIS features a new cover by Brian Bolland.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60112.Doom_Patrol_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "All the Birds in the Sky", "author_name": "Charlie Jane Anders", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 39171, "review_number": 6241, "book_description": "Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco, where Laurence is an engineering genius and Patricia works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world\u2019s ever growing ailments. But something is determined to bring them back together\u2014to either save the world, or end it.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25372801-all-the-birds-in-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue Squadron", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 14556, "review_number": 444, "book_description": "They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who pilot them risk both their lives and their machines. Their mission: to defend the Rebel Alliance against a still-powerful and battle-hardened Imperial foe in a last-ditch effort to control the stars!Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts. So when Rebel hero Wedge Antilles rebuilds the legendary Rogue Squadron, he seeks out only the best -- the most skilled, the most daring X-wing pilots. Through arduous training and dangerous missions, he weeds out the weak from the strong, assembling a group of hard-bitten warriors willing to fight, ready to die. Antilles knows the grim truth: that even with the best X-wing jockeys in the galaxy, many will not survive their near-suicidal missions. But when Rogue Squadron is ordered to assist in the assault on the heavily fortified Imperial stronghold of Black Moon, even the bravest must wonder if any at all will survive. . . .\u00a0", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513176.Rogue_Squadron"}, +{"book_title": "Europe in Winter", "author_name": "Dave Hutchinson", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 800, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Rudi, the former chef-turned-spy, returns on a mission to uncover the truth\u2014in a fractured Europe utterly changed by the public unveiling of the Community.Union has been forged and the Community is now the largest nation in Europe; trains run there from as far afield as London and Prague. It is an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. So what is the reason for a huge terrorist outrage? Why do the Community and Europe meet in secret, exchanging hostages? And who are Les Coureurs des Bois? Along with a motley crew of strays and mafiosi and sleeper agents, Rudi sets out to answer these questions\u2014only to discover that the truth lies both closer to home and farther away than anyone could imagine.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31277243-europe-in-winter"}, +{"book_title": "Freedom", "author_name": "Daniel Suarez", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 25428, "review_number": 1472, "book_description": "The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon, the \"Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period.\"**William O'Brien, former director of cybersecurity and communications systems policy at the White House2009 saw one of the most inventive techno-thriller debuts in decades as Daniel Suarez introduced his terrifying and tantalizing vision of a new world order. Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a national bestseller, garnered attention from futurists, literary critics, and the halls of government-leaving readers clamoring for the conclusion to Suarez's epic story.In the opening chapters of Freedom\u2122, the Daemon is well on its way toward firm control of the modern world, using an expanded network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear apart civilization and rebuild it anew. Civil war breaks out in the American Midwest, with the mainstream media stoking public fear in the face of this \"Corn Rebellion.\" Former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemon's most famous and most reluctant operative, must lead a small band of enlightened humans in a populist movement designed to protect the new world order.But the private armies of global business are preparing to crush the Daemon once and for all. In a world of conflicted loyalties, rapidly diminishing government control, and a new choice between free will and the continuing comforts of ignorance, the stakes could not be higher: hanging in the balance is nothing less than democracy's last hope to survive the technology revolution.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Science (Technology)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8488830-freedom"}, +{"book_title": "Hunger", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 77052, "review_number": 3565, "book_description": "It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.Three months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers. Tension rises and chaos is descending upon the town. It's the normal kids against the mutants. Each kid is out for himself, and even the good ones turn murderous.But a larger problem looms. The Darkness, a sinister creature that has lived buried deep in the hills, begins calling to some of the teens in the FAYZ. Calling to them, guiding them, manipulating them.The Darkness has awakened. And it is hungry.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5047880-hunger"}, +{"book_title": "Time and Again: Time Was / Times Change", "author_name": "Nora Roberts", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 8363, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "Time And AgainTime WasStranded in the present, time traveler Caleb Hornblower's biggest problem isn't returning to the twenty-third century\u2014but falling head over heels for the beguiling Liberty Stone, who shows him a love more powerful than time itself. Though Caleb knows he belongs in the future, how can he leave the past, and Liberty, behind?Times ChangeCynical Jacob Hornblower has followed his brother, Caleb, back in time, hoping to convince him to return home. His mission is soon forgotten, however, when he finds himself captivated by Liberty's spitfire sister, Sunny. But can a man who is down on love truly understand the unbounded strength of the human heart?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40530.Time_and_Again"}, +{"book_title": "The Bar Code Rebellion", "author_name": "Suzanne Weyn", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 4388, "review_number": 335, "book_description": "Kayla has resisted getting the bar code tattoo, even though it's meant forfeiting a \"normal\" life. Without the tattoo, she's an exile. But she can't stay an exile for long. . . . For reasons she doesn't completely understand - but will soon discover - Kayla is at the center of a lethal conspiracy that will soon threaten the very notion of freedom. Kayla can either give in to the bar code, or she can join the resistance and fight it. The choice, to her, is clear:It's time to fight.They want your identity.They want your freedom.They can't have them.The bar code rebellion.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/704609.The_Bar_Code_Rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "Web", "author_name": "John Wyndham", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 1176, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "A millionaire English lord dreams of founding a Utopian community on a remote Pacific island. Among the forty-odd men and women selected for the project are a pestologist named Camilla and the narrator. Within hours of the group's arrival on the sunny isle their radio has been destroyed. Within days several members of the group are dead. Dream turns to nightmare as they discover the island is overrun by a species programmed to resist and dominate any invader.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163915.Web"}, +{"book_title": "Red Inferno: 1945", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1355, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "In April 1945, the Allies are charging toward Berlin from the west, the Russians from the east. For Hitler, the situation is hopeless. But at this turning point in history, another war is about to explode.To win World War II, the Allies dealt with the devil. Joseph Stalin helped FDR, Churchill, and Truman crush Hitler. But what if \u201cUncle Joe\u201d had given in to his desire to possess Germany and all of Europe? In this stunning novel, Robert Conroy picks up the history of the war just as American troops cross the Elbe into Germany. Then Stalin slams them with the brute force of his enormous Soviet army.From American soldiers and German civilians trapped in the ruins of Potsdam to U.S. military men fighting behind enemy lines, from a scholarly Russia expert who becomes a secret player in a new war to Stalin\u2019s cult of killers in Moscow, this saga captures the human face of international conflict. With the Soviets vastly outnumbering the Americans\u2014but undercut by chronic fuel shortages and mistrust\u2014Eisenhower employs a brilliant strategy of retreat to buy critical time for air superiority. Soon, Truman makes a series of controversial decisions, enlisting German help and planning to devastate the massive Red Army by using America\u2019s ultimate and most secret weapon.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Cultural (Russia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6641914-red-inferno"}, +{"book_title": "The End of All Things", "author_name": "Lissa Bryan", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 659, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "After a terrible virus ravages the planet, Carly Daniels, one of the few survivors, hides in her apartment in Juneau trying to survive the best she can with only occasional forays to gather food. With her is Sam, a wolf puppy she found starving on the streets. He becomes her companion and a reason to continue when giving up sometimes seems like the more attractive option. Still dazed with shock and grief, she hopes for the world to go back to normal soon.She is discovered by Justin, an ex-soldier who is intent on making his way to Florida before the winter sets in. Justin coaxes her out of her hiding place and convinces her to join him on his journey, because a warmer climate will be their best chance against the extremes of Mother Nature.Together, they begin a perilous journey through a nation laid to waste by the disaster. Challenges abound along the way. The weather, injury, and shortage of supplies all help to slow them down. In time, they discover that they aren\u2019t the only survivors. Some are friendly but some have had their minds destroyed by the high fever. Then there are those who simply take what they want, leaving Carly and Justin with no choice but to defend what is theirs.But their journey is not without joy and love. Together, they face every struggle, including an unplanned pregnancy. Despite the perils of bringing a child into a world of chaos, their baby is a new beginning for themselves and a symbol of hope for the other survivors they find along the way.This is the story of their journey to find a place to begin a new life, and a home in each other.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36337205-the-end-of-all-things"}, +{"book_title": "Farside", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.17, "rating_votes": 1433, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "Six-time Hugo-Award winner Ben Bova presents Farside.Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planet circling a star some thirty light-years away. Now the race is on to get pictures of that distant world, photographs and spectra that will show whether or not the planet is truly like Earth, and if it bears life.Farside will include the largest optical telescope in the solar system as well as a vast array of radio antennas, the most sensitive radio telescope possible, insulated from the interference of Earth's radio chatter by a thousand kilometers of the Moon's solid body.Building the Farside observatory is a complex, often dangerous task. On the airless surface of the Moon, under constant bombardment of hard radiation and infalling micrometeoroids, builders must work in cumbersome spacesuits and use robotic machines as much as possible. Breakdowns\u2014mechanical and emotional\u2014are commonplace. Accidents happen, some of them fatal.What they find stuns everyone, and the human race will never be the same.\"Bova's latest novel is one of his best, and a classic use of the old sf theme of humanity reaching out for immortality among the stars.\"\u2014Booklist (starred review) on Farside", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Mystery", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793049-farside"}, +{"book_title": "Remanence", "author_name": "Jennifer Foehner Wells", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 3835, "review_number": 258, "book_description": "In defiance of NASA, Jane Holloway, the linguist of the Providence expedition, commandeers the alien ship that crew explored. She sets off to return that ship\u2019s marooned navigator to his home world, determined to discover who was behind the genocide that destroyed his original crew. But when she gets there, she finds his world devastated by the same plague. The remaining members of his race, uniquely gifted at navigating the stars, are stranded across the galaxy. And someone, it seems, doesn\u2019t want those lost navigators to be found. As Jane unravels the mystery of the plague and works to ensure the survival of Ei\u2019Brai\u2019s race, she discovers that the life of every sentient being in the galaxy may be in jeopardy\u2026and the clock is ticking.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29488335-remanence"}, +{"book_title": "Leviathan", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 88312, "review_number": 7052, "book_description": "Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way\u2026taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6050678-leviathan"}, +{"book_title": "The Midnight Front", "author_name": "David Mack", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 557, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "On the eve of World War Two, Nazi sorcerers come gunning for Cade but kill his family instead. His one path of vengeance is to become an apprentice of The Midnight Front\u2014the Allies\u2019 top-secret magickal warfare program\u2014and become a sorcerer himself.Unsure who will kill him first\u2014his allies, his enemies, or the demons he has to use to wield magick\u2014Cade fights his way through occupied Europe and enemy lines. But he learns too late the true price of revenge will be more terrible than just the loss of his soul\u2014and there\u2019s no task harder than doing good with a power born of ultimate evil.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34928724-the-midnight-front"}, +{"book_title": "The City & the City", "author_name": "China Mi\u00e9ville", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 57342, "review_number": 5906, "book_description": "When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borl\u00fa of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.Borl\u00fa must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel\u2019s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borl\u00fa is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman\u2019s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city"}, +{"book_title": "Astonishing X-Men, Volume 3: Torn", "author_name": "Joss Whedon", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 9346, "review_number": 268, "book_description": "Emma Frost's erratic behaviour has the X-Men spinning in a non-stop downward spiral. Will an unlikely union be the final straw? After secretly lying in wait for months, the new Hellfire Club makes its move!", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Marvel (X Men)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31981.Astonishing_X_Men_Volume_3"}, +{"book_title": "The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer", "author_name": "Michelle Hodkin", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 157234, "review_number": 16113, "book_description": "Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.It can.She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is.She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Horror", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11408650-the-unbecoming-of-mara-dyer"}, +{"book_title": "Hell's Gate", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2407, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "The Union of Arcana has expanded through the portals linking parallel universes for over a century and a half. In that time, its soldiers and sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another, all of them Earth, and in the process, the Union has become the most powerful, most wealthy civilization in all of human history. But all of that is about to come to a screeching halt, for the Union's scouts have just discovered a new portal, and on its far side lies a shattering revelation. Arcana is not alone, after all. There is another human society, Sharona, which has also been exploring the Multiverse, and the first contact between them did not go well. Arcana is horrified by the alien weapons of its sudden opponents, weapons its sorcerers cannot explain or duplicate. Weapons based upon something called . . . science. But Sharona is equally horrified by Arcana's \"magical\" weapons. Neither side expected the confrontation. Both sides think the other fired first, and no one on either side understands the \"technology\" of the other. But as the initial disastrous contact snowballs into all-out warfare, both sides can agree on one thing. The portal which brought them together is Hell's Gate itself!", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "War", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260985.Hell_s_Gate"}, +{"book_title": "Attack on Titan, Vol. 5", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 12690, "review_number": 382, "book_description": "CAN YOU GO HOME AGAIN?Thanks to Eren, humanity has taken the town of Trost back from the Titans. Exhausted, Eren falls into a coma for three days \u2013 and wakes in shackles, staring at Erwin Smith, leader of the Survey Corps. Certain that Eren's father's research holds the key to the mystery of the Titans\u2019 rise, Smith wants an expedition to retrieve it from the house where Eren grew up. But that\u2019s deep in Titan territory, and to get there Eren will need to master a power he still doesn\u2019t fully understandChapters list :Side Story: Ilse's Notebook19. Still Can't See20. Special Operations Squad21. Opening the Gate22. Long-Distance Enemy Scouting Formation", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071864-attack-on-titan-vol-5"}, +{"book_title": "Monkey Robot", "author_name": "Peter Catalanotto", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 166, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Meet best pals Monkey & Robot. This snappy collection of stories includes their first four adventures!Monkey and Robot are friends\u2014the best kind. They simply belong together, and it never matters that silly Monkey is furry, or that kind Robot can rust. What matters is their sharing: movies and popcorn, games of hide-and-seek, a fish tank for\u2026a hippopotamus?Joining the ranks of such noteworthy pairs as Bert and Ernie, Frog and Toad, and Henry and Mudge, Monkey and Robot celebrate their friendship in this chapter book of four charming tales that are ideal for young readers.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Childrens", "Humor", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Short Stories", "Childrens (2nd Grade)", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13544904-monkey-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Honor's Knight", "author_name": "Rachel Bach", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 8545, "review_number": 788, "book_description": "The rollicking sequel to Fortune's Pawn -- an action packed science fiction novel. Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either. After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life. But even though Devi's not actually looking for it -- trouble keeps finding her. She sees things no one else can, the black stain on her hands is growing, and she is entangled with the cook she's supposed to hate. But when a deadly crisis exposes far more of the truth than she bargained for, Devi discovers there's worse fates than being shot, and sometimes the only people you can trust are the ones who want you dead.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131473-honor-s-knight"}, +{"book_title": "The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare", "author_name": "M.G. Buehrlen", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1312, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "For as long as 17-year-old Alex Wayfare can remember, she has had visions of the past. Visions that make her feel like she\u2019s really on a ship bound for America, living in Jamestown during the Starving Time, or riding the original Ferris wheel at the World\u2019s Fair.But these brushes with history pull her from her daily life without warning, sometimes leaving her with strange lasting effects and wounds she can\u2019t explain. Trying to excuse away the aftereffects has booked her more time in the principal\u2019s office than in any of her classes and a permanent place at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Alex is desperate to find out what her visions mean and get rid of them.It isn\u2019t until she meets Porter, a stranger who knows more than should be possible about her, that she learns the truth: Her visions aren\u2019t really visions. Alex is a Descender \u2013 capable of traveling back in time by accessing Limbo, the space between Life and Afterlife. Alex is one soul with fifty-six past lives, fifty-six histories.Fifty-six lifetimes to explore: the prospect is irresistible to Alex, especially when the same mysterious boy with soulful blue eyes keeps showing up in each of them. But the more she descends, the more it becomes apparent that someone doesn\u2019t want Alex to travel again. Ever.And will stop at nothing to make this life her last.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17878473-the-57-lives-of-alex-wayfare"}, +{"book_title": "Master of the Highlands", "author_name": "Veronica Wolff", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1271, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Travel back to seventeenth century Scotland with the first romance in the Highlands series, as a modern woman finds true love across the ocean--and across time. Lily Hamlin has finally realized that her life isn't as perfect as she once thought. Making a pilgrimage to Scotland, a land she's only heard about in lullabies, Lily hopes that she can find her place again. But while exploring the Highlands, she discovers an overgrown maze and a strange stone map--and lands in the Lochaber of 1654.Ewen, Chief of the Clan Cameron, is a busy man who must figure out how to save his people from the brutal redcoats and has time for little else. Having sired an heir, the widowed Ewen has no need--or room--for another romance. Then into his life drops a saucy lass with a peculiar accent and no regard for his title. Drawn to each other despite their differences, they both realize that they don't want Lily to go back to her own time. But with battles brewing between the Camerons, the redcoats, and a rival clan, staying could mean putting both their lives in danger...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2581193-master-of-the-highlands"}, +{"book_title": "Champion", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 173301, "review_number": 15604, "book_description": "He is a Legend.She is a Prodigy.Who will be Champion? June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic\u2014and each other\u2014and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government\u2019s elite circles as Princeps-Elect, while Day has been assigned a high-level military position. But neither could have predicted the circumstances that will reunite them: just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic\u2019s border cities. This new strain of plague is deadlier than ever, and June is the only one who knows the key to her country\u2019s defense. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything. With heart-pounding action and suspense, Marie Lu\u2019s bestselling trilogy draws to a stunning conclusion.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Action", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14290364-champion"}, +{"book_title": "Angels' Judgment", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 3172, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "Warrior angels, vampire hunters, and angels gone bad heat up this altogether sizzling paranormal alternate universe, from the bestselling author Nalini Singh.Angels' Judgement is the compelling story of passion, love and danger in the Guild Hunter world. Sara and Deacon are Guild Hunters, their life's work is catching and capturing - or killing - rogue angels. It's dangerous work and sometimes life or death decisions must be made in a moment. And when a judgement has to be made, should love be allowed to get in the way . . . ?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19030885-angels-judgment"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire II: Dalek War - Chapter Two", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 125, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "The Dalek Supreme's forces have attained their first objective. But will Alby, Mirana and Morli be able to escape?Meanwhile, Kalendorf's forces seem to be defeating the Daleks in Earth's Solar System. However, the mysterious Mentor's suspicions are growing...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2041322.Dalek_Empire_II"}, +{"book_title": "Darkness Beyond", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 1526, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "A newly-founded human colony world burned from orbit A warship squadron of the galaxy\u2019s oldest race ambushed and destroyed An ancient enemy reborn in the darkness beyond the known stars The A!Tol Imperium and their new human subjects have had fifteen years of relative peace. New colonies have been founded, new worlds explored, new ships built. Formal and informal alliances have been built with the ancient powers of the Core, leaving humanity and the Imperium seemingly on the brink of a new dawn. The devastation of one of the newly-founded human colonies sends ripples of shock through the Imperium, and a battle fleet under Fleet Lord Harriet Tanaka is dispatched to the edge of the Imperium to find the culprits and bring them to justice. Meanwhile, the destruction of a Mesharom Frontier Fleet squadron calls the Duchy of Terra\u2019s newest warship, Bellerophon, into action and combat with a strange new power that bears all the signs of the Imperium\u2019s age-old enemy, the Kanzi. Aboard Bellerophon is Annette Bond\u2019s stepdaughter, Morgan Casimir. The recently promoted junior officer will be thrust into the crucible of war and challenged to rise to her mother\u2019s example in the face of this both new and ancient enemy\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42347875-darkness-beyond"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Heart", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 13683, "review_number": 1128, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into a dangerous and exhilarating world where a deadly, beautiful archangel and his once-mortal consort are caught in a fury of twisted darkness\u2026One of the most vicious archangels in the world has disappeared. No one knows if Lijuan is dead or has chosen to Sleep the long sleep of an immortal. But with her lands falling into chaos under a rising tide of vampiric bloodlust, a mysterious and ancient order of angels known as the Luminata calls the entire Cadre together to discuss the fate of her territory.Accompanying her archangelic lover Raphael to the Luminata compound, guild hunter-turned-angel Elena senses that all is not as it seems. Secrets echo from within the stone walls of the compound, and the deeper Elena goes, the uglier the darkness. But neither Raphael nor Elena is ready for the brutal truths hidden within\u2014truths that will change everything Elena thinks she knows about who she is\u2026Nothing will ever be the same again.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26218178-archangel-s-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Burns", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 75428, "review_number": 3727, "book_description": "Down in Atlanta, tempers \u2013 and temperatures \u2013 are about to flare\u2026As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow across Atlanta like a tide. But once every seven years, a flare comes, a time when magic runs rampant. Now Kate\u2019s going to have to deal with problems on a much bigger scale: a divine one.When Kate sets out to retrieve a set of stolen maps for the Pack, Atlanta\u2019s paramilitary clan of shapeshifters, she quickly realizes much more at stake. During a flare, gods and goddesses can manifest \u2013 and battle for power. The stolen maps are only the opening gambit in an epic tug-of-war between two gods hoping for rebirth. And if Kate can\u2019t stop the cataclysmic showdown, the city may not survive\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1811543.Magic_Burns"}, +{"book_title": "Page", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 48753, "review_number": 858, "book_description": "As the only female page in history to last beyond the first year of formal training to become a knight, 11-year-old Keladry of Mindelan has an uphill battle to fight. In addition to proving herself worthy of being a page, Kel spends her time defending first-year pages from bullies, staying on top of homework, conquering her paralyzing fear of heights, and keeping up with Lord Wyldon's grueling physical training schedule. Kel's detractors do everything in their power to thwart her progress, from tormenting her friends to sabotaging the Midwinter Festivities to kidnapping her maid and dog on the day of final examinations. The tide of resistance begins to turn slightly during the summer between Kel's second and third years, when she leads a team of pages in defensive maneuvers against renegade bandits--coincidentally on the same day that she gets her first period.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153785.Page"}, +{"book_title": "Britannia's Fist: From Civil War to World War: An Alternate History", "author_name": "Peter G. Tsouras", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 127, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Once too often in the War Between the States, Great Britain s support for the Confederacy takes it to the brink of war with the Union. The escape of a British-built Confederate ironclad finally ignites the heap of combustible animosities and national interests. When the U.S. Navy seizes it in British waters, the ensuing battle spirals into all-out war. Napoleon III eagerly joins the British and declares war on the United States. Meanwhile, treason uncoils in the North as the anti-war Democrats, known as Copperheads, plot to overthrow the U.S. government and take the Midwest into the Confederacy.Britannia s fist strikes quickly and hard. Along with the Canadians, the British invade New York and Maine, and the Royal Navy strikes at the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. The clash at Charleston is history s first great naval battle between ironclads. Meanwhile, a French army marches into Texas from Mexico, and the French Navy attacks the Gulf coast. In the Midwest, the Copperheads rise in revolt to liberate Confederate POWs and arm them with stockpiled weapons. Never has the Republic been in such peril.\"Britannia s Fist\" brilliantly describes not just a war of stroke and counterstroke but one in which new technologies repeating weapons, observation balloons, advances in naval ordnance and armament become vital factors in the struggle of the young country against the Old World s empires. For one of the great missed stories of the Civil War was not the advance of military technology but its impediment by incompetence, disorganization, and in some serious cases outright refusal to contemplate anything innovative. This is also a war in which the Union finds a combat multiplier when it organizes history s first national-level intelligence effort. \"Britannia s Fist\" is the compelling story of powerful historical personalities who come together as the Union goes into total war mobilization in the fight for its life.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2785829-britannia-s-fist"}, +{"book_title": "Crystal Dragon", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1605, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "You can't go home again... What do you do when home is a conspiracy that's been discovered and destroyed? When home is a planet in a star system that's gone missing? When home means working for the destroyers of galaxies? When home is a spaceship that's calling out to the enemy? Cantra 'yos Phelium isn't a quitter, but she has more than a little problem: the Enemy has accelerated its attacks and how do you fight an Enemy whose major form of attack is the de-crystallization of everything around itself? A smuggler with a rogue soldier for a co-pilot, and a tree with an attitude for crew, Cantra's the only one who can get close to the man who holds equations that might, that just might - thwart the Enemy. All she has to do is help a young pilot from a missing world, juggle a slippery promise she never quite made to a pair of wizards, and then forget who she is along with everything, and everyone, she's ever known.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288758.Crystal_Dragon"}, +{"book_title": "The Family Trade", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 5528, "review_number": 422, "book_description": "A bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction!Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She's a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, making good money doing what she loves. When her researcher brings her iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she's found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she has uncovered.Before the day is over, she's received a locket left by the mother she never knew-the mother who was murdered when she was an infant. Within is a knotwork pattern, which has a hypnotic effect on her. Before she knows it, she's transported herself to a parallel Earth, a world where knights on horseback chase their prey with automatic weapons, and where world-skipping assassins lurk just on the other side of reality - a world where her true family runs things.The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between the worlds makes them rich in both. Braids of family loyalty and intermarriage provide a fragile guarantee of peace, but a recently-ended civil war has left the families shaken and suspicious.Taken in by her mother's people, she becomes the star of the story of the century-as Cinderella without a fairy godmother. As her mother's heir, Miriam is hailed as the prodigal countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, and feted and feasted. Caught up in schemes and plots centuries in the making, Miriam is surrounded by unlikely allies, forbidden loves, lethal contraband, and, most dangerous of all, her family. Her unexpected return will supercede the claims of other clan members to her mother's fortune and power, and whoever killed her mother will be happy to see her dead, too.Behind all this lie deeper secrets still, which threaten everyone and everything she has ever known. Patterns of deception and interlocking lies, as intricate as the knotwork between the universes. But Miriam is no one's pawn, and is determined to conquer her new home on her own terms.Blending the creativity and humor of Roger Zelazny, the adventure of H. Beam Piper and Philip Jose Farmer, and the rigor and scope of a science-fiction writer on the grandest scale, Charles Stross has set a new standard for fantasy epics.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17861.The_Family_Trade"}, +{"book_title": "Majesty", "author_name": "Katharine McGee", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 24023, "review_number": 2875, "book_description": "Is America ready for its first queen?Power is intoxicating. Like first love, it can leave you breathless. Princess Beatrice was born with it. Princess Samantha was born with less. Some, like Nina Gonzalez, are pulled into it. And a few will claw their way in. Ahem, we're looking at you Daphne Deighton.As America adjusts to the idea of a queen on the throne, Beatrice grapples with everything she lost when she gained the ultimate crown. Samantha is busy living up to her \"party princess\" persona...and maybe adding a party prince by her side. Nina is trying to avoid the palace--and Prince Jefferson--at all costs. And a dangerous secret threatens to undo all of Daphne's carefully laid \"marry Prince Jefferson\" plans.A new reign has begun....", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51518972-majesty"}, +{"book_title": "First Activation", "author_name": "D.A. Wearmouth", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 2235, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "Harry and his brother Jack are on an airline flight, headed for a wild weekend\u2013a ritual they have enjoyed every May since leaving the army. The trip takes a terrifying turn when they land in New York\u2014this year\u2019s destination\u2014to find that JFK airport is almost deserted and that the few ground crew they can spot have all been brutally slaughtered. Is it a terrorist attack? Or something even more menacing? When a security guard appears and offers to help the passengers, but promptly shoots the first person off the plane and then kills himself, Harry realises that there is something very, very wrong in New York City.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18301075-first-activation"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Man", "author_name": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 3968, "review_number": 542, "book_description": "A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.", "year_published": 1826, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (19th Century)", "Gothic", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/966835.The_Last_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Beneath the Sugar Sky", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 25286, "review_number": 4657, "book_description": "Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the \"real\" world. When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can\u2019t let Reality get in the way of her quest \u2013 not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.) If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. And in a world without magic, she doesn\u2019t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests... A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do. Warning: May contain nuts.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novella", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27366528-beneath-the-sugar-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Apocalypse", "author_name": "Kyle West", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2508, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "No one said survival is easy.Set in the year 2060, Apocalypse follows sixteen-year-old Alex Keener and his quest to survive a post-apocalyptic America.In 2030, the meteor Ragnarok impacted Earth. What is left of the United States operates underground in Bunkers - and the Bunkers do not let anyone in or out. On the surface are the Wastelanders, who live in a perpetual state of anarchy.In the Ragnarok Crater scarring Nebraska and Wyoming, the mysterious xenovirus evolves, twisting plants, animals, and men into monstrosities with one purpose: to spread their lethal disease.When Alex is forced from his underground home, he must survive the brutal Wasteland. Meeting friend and foe along the way, Alex discovers his fate is tied to the xenovirus - and that he might be the only one who can stop it.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17238806-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Stark's War", "author_name": "John G. Hemry", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 2272, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "In a brutal battle for control of Earth's satellite, Sergeant Ethan Stark must train his squadron to fight in an airless atmosphere against a desperate enemy. But ensuring survival means choosing which orders to obey-and which to ignore.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1673452.Stark_s_War"}, +{"book_title": "Cybernetic Jungle", "author_name": "S.N. Lewitt", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 20, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "His family destroyed and his dreams crushed by the corporation that controls his Brazilian home through technology and drugs, Paulo seeks revenge, aided by Zaide, a woman with a computer implant in her brain that provides access to government data.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1090283.Cybernetic_Jungle"}, +{"book_title": "Frank Einstein and the EvoBlaster Belt", "author_name": "Jon Scieszka", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 150, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "More clever science experiments, funny jokes, and robot hijinks await readers in book four of the New York Times bestselling Frank Einstein chapter book series from the mad scientist team of Jon Scieszka and Brian Biggs. The perfect combination to engage and entertain readers, the series features real science facts with adventure and humor, making these books ideal for STEM education. This latest installment examines the quest to unlock the power behind the science of \u201call connected life.\u201d \u00a0 Kid-genius and inventor Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. In the series opener, an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm, and a flash of electricity bring Frank\u2019s inventions\u2014the robots Klink and Klank\u2014to life! Not exactly the ideal lab partners, the wisecracking Klink and the overly expressive Klank nonetheless help Frank attempt to perfect his inventions. In the fourth book in the series, Frank\u2014along with his best friend, Watson, and Klink and Klank\u2014once again finds himself in competition with his classmate and archrival T. Edison and his sign-language-speaking sidekick, Mr. Chimp, over Frank\u2019s newest invention: the EvoBlaster Belt, which allows the user to evolve and devolve into other forms of life, blasting from one species to another. \u00a0 Integrating real science facts with wacky humor, a silly cast of characters, and science fiction, this uniquely engaging series is an irresistible chemical reaction for middle-grade readers. With easy-to-read language and graphic illustrations on almost every page, this chapter book series is a must for reluctant readers. The Frank Einstein series encourages middle-grade readers to question the way things work and to discover how they, too, can experiment with science. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews raves, \u201cThis buoyant, tongue-in-cheek celebration of the impulse to \u2018keep asking questions and finding your own answers\u2019 fires on all cylinders,\u201d while Publishers Weekly says that the series \u201cproves that science can be as fun as it is important and useful.\u201d \u00a0 Read all the books in the New York Times bestselling Frank Einstein series: Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (Book 1), Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger (Book 2), Frank Einstein and the BrainTurbo (Book 3), and Frank Einstein and the EvoBlaster Belt (Book 4). Visit frankeinsteinbooks.com for more information.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Biology (Evolution)", "Environment (Nature)", "Childrens", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28818361-frank-einstein-and-the-evoblaster-belt"}, +{"book_title": "Visions of the Future", "author_name": "J. Daniel Batt", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 73, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Visions of the Future is a collection of stories and essays including Nebula and Hugo award-winning works. In this anthology, you'll find stories and essays about artificial intelligence, androids, faster-than-light travel, and the extension of human life. You'll read about the future of human institutions and culture. But these literary works are more than just a reprisal of the classical elements of science fiction and futurism. At their core, each of these pieces has one consistent, repeated theme: us.Contents:Introduction (Visions of the Future (2015)) \u2022 essay by J. Daniel BattThe Shoulders of Giants (2000) / shortstory by Robert J. SawyerGift of a Useless Man (1979) / shortstory by Alan Dean FosterLight and Shadow [Skolian Short Fiction \u2022 6] (1994) / novelette by Catherine AsaroLungfish [Existence] (1986) / novelette by David BrinThe Birth of the Dawn (2015) / shortfiction by Nicole Sallak AndersonThe Weathermakers (1966) / novelette by Ben BovaLast Day of Work (2015) / shortfiction by Douglas RushkoffI'm a What? (2015) / shortfiction by Frank WhiteThe Listeners [The Listeners] (1968) / novelette by James E. GunnThe Emperor of Mars [Near Space] (2010) / novelette by Allen SteeleLunar One (2015) / shortfiction by Jasper T. ScottMy Father's Singularity (2010) / shortstory by Brenda CooperA Delicate Balance (2012) / shortstory by Kevin J. AndersonMore Than the Sum of His Parts (1985) / shortstory by Joe Haldeman Lazarus Rising (1982) / shortstory by Gregory BenfordUnit 574 (2015) / shortfiction by Clayton R. RawlingsPersistence (2015) / shortfiction by Keith WileyThe Boy Who Gave Us the Star (2015)s / shortfiction by J. Daniel BattThe Etiology of Infomania (2015) / shortfiction by Chris Hables GrayWater (2013) / shortstory by Ramez NaamLooking Forward: Dialogs with the Artilects (2015) / shortfiction by Frank W. SudiaTeleporter (2015) /shortfiction by Jim TankersleyThe Spa (2015) / shortfiction by Donald MacleanThe Automated Ones (2015) / shortfiction by Hugh HoweyAfterword (Visions of the Future (2015) \u2022 essay by David Brin .", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28188773-visions-of-the-future"}, +{"book_title": "A Darker Shade of Magic", "author_name": "V.E. Schwab", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 217080, "review_number": 27707, "book_description": "Kell is one of the last Antari\u2014magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black.Kell was raised in Arnes\u2014Red London\u2014and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see.Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure.Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22055262-a-darker-shade-of-magic"}, +{"book_title": "The Diamond of Darkhold", "author_name": "Jeanne DuPrau", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 24814, "review_number": 1827, "book_description": "It\u2019s been several months since Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and, along with the rest of their people, joined the town of Sparks. Now, struggling through the harsh winter aboveground, they find an unusual book. Torn up and missing most of its pages, it alludes to a mysterious device from before the Disaster, which they believe is still in Ember. Together, Lina and Doon must go back underground to retrieve what was lost and bring light to a dark world.In the fourth Book of Ember, bestselling author Jeanne DuPrau juxtaposes yet another action-packed adventure with powerful themes about hope, learning, and the search for truth.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2493973.The_Diamond_of_Darkhold"}, +{"book_title": "Virology", "author_name": "Ren Warom", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 56, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Core is dark and Slip is everywhere, vital to everything that happens in the world and outside of anyone s control. Avis float the skies and their arrival will trigger a tide of rebellion against the system in Foon Gung. The key is Shock Pao, within him lies the means to control Slip. Control Slip, control the world. Shock was a Haunt once, impossible to find, but he isn t anymore, and he s running out of places to hide. Shock finds himself on the run from, well, everyone. This time though, he s not alone. But as the sickness infecting the Patient Zeros gets worse and begins to spread, he and his rag-tag group of friends must begin a desperate search for a cure. If they don t find out what s causing this, who s causing this and find a way to put a stop to it, everything they ve fought for, the brief freedom they ve managed to achieve, will come undone. But with everyone after Shock, it s going to take every skill they possess both legal and illegal to hunt down the source of the sickness, whilst making sure no one gets the means to take control of Slip. The search will take them to the hubs: to the breathless heights of New York, the deadly streets of London, the insane underworld of Shanghai and into the rot eating away at the heart of Hong Kong, toward an evil that makes Hive Queens look like common garden insects.\"", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32303194-virology"}, +{"book_title": "The Stone Prince", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 5065, "review_number": 277, "book_description": "A love as bright as the stars and enduring as stone...Katie James is unlucky in love\u2014so unlucky she's been reduced to kissing the marble statue in her own garden. But her luck changes when the statue warms to life in her arms\u2014and turns out to be a hunk straight out of any woman's fantasy! Well, almost...Jorlan en Sarr hails from a distant planet, and, like all the other men Katie's known, he comes with a lot of baggage.A cursed warrior with a lover's magic touch...Entombed in his stony skin for centuries, Jorlan has been waiting for a maiden fair to break the spell. Yet this statuesque beauty with the will of an Amazon and kisses like flame is a far cry from the obedient damsels of Imperia. And though Jorlan is tempted to abandon all for the sake of Katie, unless he can convince her to give him her heart in two weeks' time, he'll be turned back to stone. And she'll be lost to him forever.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/461978.The_Stone_Prince"}, +{"book_title": "Hourglass", "author_name": "Myra McEntire", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 18896, "review_number": 2443, "book_description": "One hour to rewrite the past\u2026For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may also change her past.Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should've happened?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9182478-hourglass"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 5", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 14060, "review_number": 278, "book_description": "Ed, Alphonse and their mechanic Winry go south in search of Izumi Curtis, the master alchemist who taught the brothers how to use alchemy. But in the boomtown of Rush Valley, an encounter with a pickpocket turns them down a different path in search of an auto-mail blacksmith whose handiwork is the best that Winry has ever seen. Then the action flashes back to the past to show how Ed and Alphonse first learned alchemy...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Manga (Shonen)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9326.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_5"}, +{"book_title": "Silver Linings", "author_name": "Pip Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 264, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Wellington Books and Eliza D. Braun arrive in Cairo, Egypt, sent from Ministry headquarters on an archival audit. What Wellington hopes will be a stay in the cradle of civilization and a break from the bitter winter of England instead looks to be a brief visit on account of Eliza\u2019s poor attitude and the disdain of the area field director, Marcus Donahue. The plans for an uneventful collection of case documents and artefacts are soon shattered by a massacre that that can only be described by the visiting archivists as peculiar. Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Novella", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22029508-silver-linings"}, +{"book_title": "Footfall", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 15523, "review_number": 419, "book_description": "They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star.The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods. Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding servile surrender--or death for all humans.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116356.Footfall"}, +{"book_title": "PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 007", "author_name": "Naoki Urasawa", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 2224, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Who Killed Astro Boy? No Robots; Human vs. humanoid!Pluto has destroyed six out of the seven great robots of the world, and the pacifist robot Epsilon is the only one that remains. Will Epsilon, who refused to participate in the 39th Central Asian War, leave behind his war-orphaned charges to step onto the battlefield? It just might be that kindly Epsilon, who wields the power of photon energy, will be Pluto's greatest opponent of all!Contains Chapters 48 to 55.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6671875-pluto"}, +{"book_title": "Lord Conrad's Lady", "author_name": "Leo Frankowski", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 839, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Essef - Vacation in peaceful medieval Poland. See the ancient city of Cracow burn! Wallow in the frightful murder of noblewomen and children at the invincible castle of East Gate! Enjoy the attack of the crazy old ladies at Sir Miesko's manor! Watch the regretful demise of the remaining Mongols as they drown in the cesspool at Three Walls! Consider various offers made to Conrad Stargard by eager blondes of just-barely-marriageable age! Notice his wife, the formidable Lady Francine, getting annoyed!", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1487053.Lord_Conrad_s_Lady"}, +{"book_title": "Stars Above", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 67831, "review_number": 8449, "book_description": "The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories\u2014and secrets\u2014that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies? With nine stories\u2014five of which have never before been published\u2014and an excerpt from Marissa Meyer\u2019s novel, Heartless, about the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Stars Above is essential for fans of the bestselling and beloved Lunar Chronicles. CONTENTSThe Keeper: A prequel to the Lunar Chronicles, showing a young Scarlet and how Princess Selene came into the care of Michelle Benoit. Glitches: In this prequel to Cinder, we see the results of the plague play out, and the emotional toll it takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitch\u2026. The Queen\u2019s Army: In this prequel to Scarlet, we\u2019re introduced to the army Queen Levana is building, and one soldier in particular who will do anything to keep from becoming the monster they want him to be. Carswell\u2019s Guide to Being Lucky: Thirteen-year-old Carswell Thorne has big plans involving a Rampion spaceship and a no-return trip out of Los Angeles. After Sunshine Passes By: In this prequel to Cress, we see how a nine-year-old Cress ended up alone on a satellite, spying on Earth for Luna. The Princess and the Guard: In this prequel to Winter, we see a young Winter and Jacin playing a game called the Princess and the Guard\u2026 The Little Android: A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s \u201cThe Little Mermaid,\u201d set in the world of The Lunar Chronicles. The Mechanic: In this prequel to Cinder, we see Kai and Cinder\u2019s first meeting from Kai\u2019s perspective. Something Old, Something New: In this epilogue to Winter, friends gather for the wedding of the century\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Retellings", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25689074-stars-above"}, +{"book_title": "Sungrazer", "author_name": "Jay Posey", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 405, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "In a new Cold War between Earth and the colonies on Mars, when devastating weapons go missing, there's only one team you can call - the Outriders. A crack force of highly specialised super-soldiers, their clone bodies are near-immortal.When a fully-autonomous vessel with orbital strike capabilities goes missing, it's up to the Outriders to track the untrackable. But when the trail leads them to the influential Martian People's Collective Republic, the operation gets a lot more complicated...File Under: Science Fiction", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Action", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32672958-sungrazer"}, +{"book_title": "Blue Remembered Earth", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 10138, "review_number": 741, "book_description": "BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history...out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society.One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey's grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked - well, blackmailed, really - to go up there and make sure the family's name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise - or anyone else in the family, for that matter - what he's about to unravel.Eunice's ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything.Or shatter this near-utopia into shards...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Cultural (Africa)", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9424053-blue-remembered-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Titans", "author_name": "Victoria Scott", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 704, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Ever since the Titans first appeared in her Detroit neighborhood, Astrid Sullivan\u2019s world has revolved around the mechanical horses. She and her best friend have spent countless hours watching them and their jockeys practice on the track. It\u2019s not just the thrill of the race. It\u2019s the engineering of the horses and the way they\u2019re programmed to seem so lifelike. The Titans are everything that fascinates Astrid, and nothing she\u2019ll ever touch.She hates them a little, too. Her dad lost everything betting on the Titans. And the races are a reminder of the gap between the rich jockeys who can afford the expensive machines to ride, and the working class friends and neighbors of Astrid\u2019s who wager on them.But when Astrid\u2019s offered a chance to enter an early model Titan in this year\u2019s derby, well, she decides to risk it all. Because for a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, it\u2019s more than a chance at fame or money. Betting on herself is the only way she can see to hang on to everyone in the world she cares about.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Animals (Horses)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Animals", "Action", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25582556-titans"}, +{"book_title": "Koban", "author_name": "Stephen W. Bennett", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2058, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Quantum gravity theory revealed hidden dimensions that concealed gravity\u2019s strong link to Tachyon Space. Nearly unlimited cheap energy from tachyons led to the creation of Jump Hole technology and faster than light travel to the stars. In two hundred years, humanity had colonized over seven hundred planets in a volume five hundred light years in radius. Humankind enjoyed the benefits of the end of wars and disbanded its standing armies. Life was idyllic for three hundred years. Then the Krall came.The Krall, a warrior race with lightning-fast reflexes has used combat for 25,000 years to select the genes of the strongest and fastest warriors. This breeding program created a species fit to dominate the galaxy. Dominate everywhere but on Koban, an uninhabited planet with high gravity, teal colored flora and impossibly fast and savage animals that employ organic superconducting nerves.The Krall captured humans at the fringes of their expansion for testing on Koban. Humanity was useful only if they were adequate fighters. If not, the Krall intended to destroy the species because they already had slave races, and humans were poor tasting meat animals. If humans proved worthy opponents, the Krall would fight with the same weapons humans used, in order to continue their quest for physical perfection.Growing weary of the humans\u2019 incapacity to fight well, the Krall were close to a decision to eliminate the race when they captured their last cargo of humans for testing \u2013 a ship containing bio-scientists. The choice was simple: Put up a good fight or condemn humanity to extinction. The Krall will discover more than one species knows how to bypass natural selection.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16165838-koban"}, +{"book_title": "The Man from Primrose Lane", "author_name": "James Renner", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2013, "review_number": 449, "book_description": "\nA mind-bending, genre-twisting debut novel\n\u00a0In West Akron, there lived a reclusive elderly man who always wore mittens, even in July. He had no friends and no family; all over town, he was known only as the Man from Primrose Lane. And on a summer day in 2008, someone murdered him.Four years later, David Neff is a broken man. The bestselling author of a true-crime book about an Ohio serial killer, Neff went into exile after his wife\u2019s inexplicable suicide. That is, until an unexpected visit from an old friend introduces him to the strange mystery of \u201cthe man with a thousand mittens.\u201d Soon Neff finds himself drawn back into a world he thought he had left behind forever. But the closer he gets to uncovering the true identity of the Man from Primrose Lane, the more he begins to understand the dangerous power of his own obsessions and how they may be connected to the deaths of both his beloved wife and the old hermit.With a deft and singular blend of suspense, literature, and horror, The Man from Primrose Lane boasts as many twists and turns as a roller coaster. It\u2019s a spellbinding journey of redemption and a reflection on the roles of fate, destiny, and obsession when it comes to matters of the heart.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Horror", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12476620-the-man-from-primrose-lane"}, +{"book_title": "Caged: Love and Treachery on the High Seas", "author_name": "Bey Deckard", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1058, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "Sheltered and lonely, Jon's life changes drastically when a strange ship sails into the harbour of his small port town one day. Trapped between the possessive pirate captain and his murderous first mate, he must learn to adapt or he will lose himself completely. An epic tale of love, treachery and revelation, this first instalment of the Baal's Heart series brings you into the lives of three men so bound together by jealousy and lies that they must sail to the very ends of the earth to find forgiveness.Themes: Erotica, Historical Fantasy, M\u00e9nage, Enemies to Lovers, Polyamory", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Historical", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Menage (M M M)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896437-caged"}, +{"book_title": "Ice Breaker", "author_name": "Lian Tanner", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 818, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "'Petrel leaned on the rail, watching the ice cave and stamping her feet for warmth. The berg came closer. That's when she saw him. Laid out on the ice like a dead fish, with a scattering of snow covering his face. A boy, where there should have been nothing but the memory of winter. A frozen boy.'Twelve-year-old Petrel is an outcast, the lowest of the low on the Oyster, an ancient icebreaker that has been following the same course for three hundred years. In that time, the ship's crew has forgotten its original purpose and broken into three warring tribes. Everyone has a tribe except Petrel, whose parents committed such a terrible crime that they were thrown overboard, and their daughter ostracised.But Petrel is a survivor. She lives in the dark corners of the ship, speaking to no one except two large grey rats, Mister Smoke and Missus Slink. Then a boy is discovered, frozen on an iceberg, and Petrel saves him, hoping he'll be her friend. What she doesn't know is that for the last three hundred years, the Oyster has been guarding a secret. A secret that could change the world. A secret that the boy has been sent to destroy, along with the ship and everyone on it...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22718726-ice-breaker"}, +{"book_title": "Seveneves", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 98444, "review_number": 10468, "book_description": "What would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .Five thousand years later, their progeny\u2014seven distinct races now three billion strong\u2014embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22816087-seveneves"}, +{"book_title": "Clandestine", "author_name": "Nichole Van", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1076, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Fate will draw two people together, traveling centuries if necessary. But even so, predestined lovers still have the choice to walk away . . .In 2014, Marc Wilde--martial artist and actor--finds his life a mess. His latest film, Croc-nami, is being trashed on social media, sending his acting career into a tailspin (crocodile pun . . . nice). His dating history isn't much better. Romantic love? Not so much. And then there is the tiny matter of blackmail. Someone knows about the time portal in the cellar of Duir Cottage and is threatening to tell the world unless Marc pays up. So yeah . . . life not going so well.In 1814, Kit Ashton has problems of her own. Her brother has disappeared (again), leaving Kit penniless and forcing her to take up employment as a lady's companion (sigh). Worse, there are French spies in the area, and Kit finds herself pulled into the conspiracy. Add in the sudden appearance of a wind-swept, silver-tongued rogue who makes Kit want to flirt, flirt, flirt . . . it all leaves her one misstep from disaster. Kit is determined to find her brother and return home, all while guarding her heart and (most importantly) keeping her secrets . . . well . . . secret.This hilarious, quick-paced installment in the Amazon bestselling House of Oak series can easily be read as a stand-alone book.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25609790-clandestine"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Horde", "author_name": "Chris Kennedy", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 590, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "The slaughter is on! Across the galaxy, Human mercenaries are being ambushed, and an ever-increasing number of companies aren\u2019t returning from their contracts. Someone even appears to be plotting the demise of the premier Four Horsemen companies, and disaster for the other three companies has only been averted by the narrowest of margins. Sansar Enkh, the president of The Golden Horde, knows her company is likely to be next, but has no idea who is behind the attacks, or when they will strike her beloved Horde. Acting on a prophesy from her dying mother, she knows her only chance is to take the company off-world to draw out the phantom enemy. The Horde is being scouted and an attack is imminent. As the Revelations Cycle draws to a close, will Sansar be able to figure out who is behind the attacks in time to save Earth\u2019s mercenary companies from the horrific fate waiting from them? The fourth horseman is in play, and time is running out to save the Earth and everyone on it!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35900275-the-golden-horde"}, +{"book_title": "Celestial Matters", "author_name": "Richard Garfinkle", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 328, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "In the world of Celestial Matters, Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian physics are valid scientific models of the surrounding world and cosmos. The Earth lies at the center of the universe, surrounded by crystal spheres which hold each of the planets, the sun and the moon, all enclosed in the sphere of the fixed stars. Earthly matter, composed of the classical four elements of earth, air, fire, and water, naturally moves in straight lines. Heavenly matter naturally rises and moves in circles. This is the universe as understood by the ancient Greeks.The science of the ancient Chinese also applies, but as the novel is told from the perspective of the Greeks, it is less well understood. Xi, the Chinese notion of spirit and flow, can be manipulated to move objects and energy. The Chinese five elements of earth, metal, water, wood, and fire are transmuted one into the other. Part of the central theme of the book is the two system's mutual misunderstanding and bafflement of each other.In this world, the Delian League (Greeks) and Middle Kingdom (Chinese) have been fighting a war for nearly a thousand years, ever since the time of Alexander the Great when the warrior-culture of Sparta and the Athenian Akademe were fused into a half-world conquering force. Their technologies are locked together, however, and neither empire can gain the upper hand. Each side secretly despairs of its chances and has come to consider desperate measures.The story is narrated by Aias of Tyre, a scientist of the Delian League, who is preparing to embark on Project Sunthief as scientific commander. This project is an audacious and desperate mission to sail a spaceship carved out of a piece of the moon herself out through the spheres, to catch a piece of the sun and bring it back to earth to annihilate the Middler capital city. This, the league hopes, will finally end the war and give it victory.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1233406.Celestial_Matters"}, +{"book_title": "Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation", "author_name": "Joseph L. Jones", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 29, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Revised and updated, the second edition includes several new chapters with projects and applications. The authors keep pace with the ever-growing and rapidly expanding field of robotics. The new edition reflects technological developments and includes programs and activities for robot enthusiasts. Using photographs, illustrations, and informative text, Mobile Robots guides the reader through the step-by-step process of constructing two different and inexpensive yet fully functional robots.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/848330.Mobile_Robots"}, +{"book_title": "Freedom", "author_name": "Jay Kirkpatrick", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 355, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "In a future Earth, Patrick Harvey, newly promoted Class One Empath, dreams of the independence his position brings and the apartment he\u2019s saving for. His first solo assignment is treating John Doe 439, a man found outside the city, battered, traumatized, and apparently mute.Despite a strong taboo against Empaths forging romantic relationships, Patrick realizes he feels a strong attraction to his patient. Soon he learns the man is a high-level Psychic Talent named Jac. Then Jac reveals that there are abusive people hunting him for his gifts, and Patrick\u2019s uncomplicated world explodes.Jac needs to meet up with his companions and flee the city before anyone else can find him\u2014but it may be too late. Word of Jac\u2019s talents has leaked to Central Government in Chicago. If Jac wants to retain his freedom, he needs to run\u2014now. And if Patrick wants to explore a relationship his society tells him he can\u2019t have, he\u2019ll have to exchange the safe fetters of his job for the uncertainty of liberty.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Disability", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17370712-freedom"}, +{"book_title": "West and East", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1075, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "In 1938, two men held history in their hands. One was Adolf Hitler. The other was British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who, determined to avoid war at any cost, came to be known as \u201cthe great appeaser.\u201d But Harry Turtledove, the unrivaled master of alternate history, has launched a gripping saga that springboards from a different fateful act: What if Chamberlain had stood up to Hitler? What would the Nazis\u2019 next move have been? And how would the war\u2014which Hitler had always regretted waiting eleven months to start\u2014have unfolded and changed our world?Here, Turtledove takes us across a panorama of conflict fueled by ideology and demagoguery. Nations are pitted against nations, alliances are forged between old enemies, ordinary men and women are hurled into extraordinary life-and-death situations. In Japanese-controlled Singapore, an American marine falls in love with a Russian dance hall hostess, while around him are heard the first explosions of Chinese guerilla resistance. On the frontlines of war-ravaged rural France, a weary soldier perfects the art of using an enormous anti-tank gun as a sniper\u2019s tool\u2014while from Germany a killer is sent to hunt him down. And in the icy North Atlantic, a U-boat bearing an experimental device wreaks havoc on British shipping, setting the stage for a Nazi ground invasion of Denmark.From an American woman trapped in Germany who receives safe passage from Hitler himself to a Jewish family steeped in German culture and facing the hatred rising around them, from Japanese soldiers on the remote edge of Siberia to American volunteers in Spain, West and East is the story of a world held hostage by tyrants\u2014Stalin, Hitler, Sanjuro\u2014each holding on to power through lies and terror even in the face of treacherous plots from within.As armies clash, and as the brave, foolish, and true believers choose sides, new weapons are added to already deadly arsenals and new strategies are plotted to break a growing stalemate. But one question looms over the conflict from West to East: What will it take to bring America into this war?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "War (World War II)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7491734-west-and-east"}, +{"book_title": "Embittered", "author_name": "K.M. Shea", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 1231, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Peace rules in Camelot, and Britt is satisfied with her life as the stand in for King Arthur. Or she was, until Lancelot shows up. Britt is forced by Merlin to welcome the young knight into her courts, and life goes downhill from there. King Leodegrance ,a close ally who also happens to have the Round Table, which Britt dearly wants, is attacked by the foul Duke Maleagent. Unwilling to abandon her ally and let the Round Table slip through her fingers, Britt rides with a party of knights to Leodegrance's lands in hopes of providing help. Unfortunately the Round Table proves to be less than impressive, King Leodegrance is not the man Britt thought him to be, and, worst of all, Guinevere has set her romantic ambitions on Britt's King Arthur persona. Leodegrance needs a champion to fight Maleagant or he will be ruined, but does Britt really need to do battle on behalf of a greedy man and his daughter whom Britt knows will bring ruin to Arthur and Camelot?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20739331-embittered"}, +{"book_title": "Altered Starscape", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 681, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "\n\nGalaxies collide in a thrilling new series from bestselling author Ian Douglas, as the last humans in the universe face off against a new threat\n\n2162. Thirty-eight years after first contact, Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair leads the\u00a0Tellus Ad Astra\u00a0on an unprecedented expedition to the Galactic Core, carrying more than a million scientists, diplomats, soldiers, and AIs. Despite his reservations about their alien hosts, St. Clair is deeply committed to his people\u2014especially after they're sucked into a black hole and spat out four billion years in the future.Civilizations have risen and fallen. The Andromeda Galaxy is drifting into the Milky Way. And Earth is most certainly a distant memory. All that matters now is survival. But as the ship's Marines search for allies amid ancient ruins and strange new planetary structures, St. Clair must wrap his mind around an enemy capable of harnessing a weapon of incomprehensible power: space itself.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26001236-altered-starscape"}, +{"book_title": "When the Sleeper Wakes", "author_name": "H.G. Wells", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 3938, "review_number": 336, "book_description": "Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, he instantly falls into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. Upon waking in the twenty-second century to a strange and nightmarish place, he slowly discovers he is master of the world, revered by an adoring populace who consider him their leader. Terrified, he escapes from his chamber seeking solace\u2014only to realize that not everyone adores him, some even wish to harm him.", "year_published": 1899, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literature (19th Century)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80939.When_the_Sleeper_Wakes"}, +{"book_title": "Diplomatic Immunity", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 14383, "review_number": 502, "book_description": "A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar's Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor's youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer.Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms.The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back . . .", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61901.Diplomatic_Immunity"}, +{"book_title": "Overseas", "author_name": "Beatriz Williams", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 6810, "review_number": 1076, "book_description": "A passionate, sweeping novel of a love that transcends time.\n\nWhen twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a business meeting, no one\u2019s more surprised than she is. Julian\u2019s relentless energy and his extraordinary intellect electrify her, but she\u2019s baffled by his sudden interest. Why would this handsome British billionaire \"Manhattan\u2019s most eligible bachelor\u201d pursue a pretty but bookish young banker who hasn\u2019t had a boyfriend since college?\n\nThe answer is beyond imagining . . . at least at first. Kate and Julian\u2019s story may have begun not in the moneyed world of twenty-first-century Manhattan but in France during World War I, when a mysterious American woman emerged from the shadows of the Western Front to save the life of Captain Julian Laurence Ashford, a celebrated war poet and infantry officer.Now, in modern-day New York, Kate and Julian must protect themselves from the secrets of the past, and trust in a true love that transcends time and space.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13059477-overseas"}, +{"book_title": "Ice Planet Barbarians Part 1: Stolen", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 990, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women - including me - on an ice planet.And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25080613-ice-planet-barbarians-part-1"}, +{"book_title": "172 Hours on the Moon", "author_name": "Johan Harstad", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 11481, "review_number": 2715, "book_description": "Three teenagers are going on the trip of a lifetime. Only one is coming back. It's been more than forty years since NASA sent the first men to the moon, and to grab some much-needed funding and attention, they decide to launch an historic international lottery in which three lucky teenagers can win a week-long trip to moon base DARLAH 2.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Space", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12810834-172-hours-on-the-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Distant Desires: Part One", "author_name": "Cambria Hebert", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 365, "review_number": 52, "book_description": " Part One of the Distant Desires serial seriesAn erotic tale from beyond the starsSophie Perez has never believed the stuff she reads online about possible life in space. Aliens are for the movies, for the weirdoes, and they most definitely are not real.One night on the way home from a late shift at work, her car breaks down. Stranded on the side of a country road, with a dead cell phone, doesn't seem like that big of a deal.Until strange neon lights appear in the sky. She thinks it is her imagination.When an inexplicable circular ship appears overhead, she can't deny what's clearly right in front of her. Especially when moments later, she's taken onto the ship, a human hostage among those who are most definitely not human.About to become a human guinea pig, possibly worse, the last thing she ever expects is to like the things these otherworldly beings subject her to. In fact, it is unlike anything she's ever experienced.Will Sophie find her way back to her planet, or will she beg to stay where her pleasure is literally out of this world?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22466834-distant-desires"}, +{"book_title": "Dune", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 815463, "review_number": 26256, "book_description": "Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the \u201cspice\u201d melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul\u2019s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad\u2019Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind\u2019s most ancient and unattainable dream.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44767458-dune"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 722, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Experience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part VI The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls Reunited, Ariq and Zenobia must journey over the red wall and make a desperate appeal to the one woman with enough power to halt the marauders\u2019 plans\u2014the Empress of Nippon. But even the Kraken King cannot demand the attentions of an empress. Masked and quarantined, Ariq and Zenobia are forced to bide their time. Despite the fact that they are as physically close as two people can be, Zenobia is trying to keep the man she can\u2019t help but love at a distance, terrified she\u2019ll be hurt again. And all the while, the mysteries of the Living City grow around them\u2026 Includes a bonus excerpt of Meljean Brook\u2019s Riveted. More to come\u2026Don\u2019t miss The Kraken King, Part VII", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20733430-the-kraken-king-and-the-crumbling-walls"}, +{"book_title": "Far from Broken", "author_name": "J.K. Coi", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 41, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Soldier. Spymaster. Husband.Colonel Jasper Carlisle was defined by his work until he met his wife. When the prima ballerina swept into his life with her affection, bright laughter and graceful movements, he knew that she was the reason for his existence, and that their love would be forever.But their world is shattered when Callie is kidnapped and brutally tortured by the foes Jasper has been hunting. Mechanical parts have replaced her legs, her hand, her eye...and possibly her heart. Though she survived, her anger at Jasper consumes her, while Jasper's guilt drives him from the woman he loves. He longs for the chance to show her their love can withstand anything...including her new clockwork parts.As the holiday season approaches, Jasper realizes he must fight not just for his wife's love and forgiveness...but also her life, as his enemy once again attempts to tear them apart.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Steampunk Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12967894-far-from-broken"}, +{"book_title": "Germline", "author_name": "T.C. McCarthy", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1059, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Germline (n.) the genetic material contained in a cellular lineage which can be passed to the next generation. Also: secret military program to develop genetically engineered super-soldiers (slang).War is Oscar Wendell's ticket to greatness. A reporter for The Stars and Stripes, he has the only one way pass to the front lines of a brutal war over natural resources buried underneath the icy, mineral rich mountains of Kazakhstan.But war is nothing like he expected. Heavily armored soldiers battle genetically engineered troops hundreds of meters below the surface. The genetics-the germline soldiers-are the key to winning this war, but some inventions can't be un-done. Some technologies can't be put back in the box.Kaz will change everything, not least Oscar himself. Hooked on a dangerous cocktail of adrenaline and drugs, Oscar doesn't find the war, the war finds him.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10432883-germline"}, +{"book_title": "The Chimes", "author_name": "Anna Smaill", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 2750, "review_number": 585, "book_description": "The Chimes is set in a reimagined London, in a world where people cannot form new memories, and the written word has been forbidden and destroyed.In the absence of both memory and writing is music.In a world where the past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is blasphemy, all appears lost. But Simon Wythern, a young man who arrives in London seeking the truth about what really happened to his parents, discovers he has a gift that could change all of this forever.A stunning literary debut by poet and violinist Anna Smaill, The Chimes is a startlingly original work that combines beautiful, inventive prose with incredible imagination.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Music", "LGBT", "Adult", "Young Adult", "Literary Fiction", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23523012-the-chimes"}, +{"book_title": "Wishes", "author_name": "J.C. Owens", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 776, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Sex slave to an alien culture...Lt. Auri finds his job aboard the diplomatic cruiser both frustrating and exhausting, but he's determined to prove himself to his new captain. Despite the diplomatic importance of their mission, Auri is wary of the catlike Felinians, who have a reputation for enjoying human company, willing or not. But when he's ordered to witness the signing of the trade papers with the Felininans, Auri never imagines that he's about to be betrayed.Sold into an alien culture, Auri finds himself the newest man in the Felinian leader's erotic harem. Kanar claims him as his \"mate,\" but Auri longs for freedom. Though his feelings for Kanar begin to grow, Auri stubbornly refuses the Felininan and the other men of his harem, leading to loneliness and grief. But how can he open himself up to his captor, and to the love of more than one partner?Reader Discretion: Dubious consent", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13616795-wishes"}, +{"book_title": "The Consuming Fire", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 21360, "review_number": 1898, "book_description": "The Consuming Fire\u2015the sequel to the 2018 Hugo Award Best Novel finalist and 2018 Locus Award-winning The Collapsing Empire\u2015an epic space-opera novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from New York Times bestselling author John ScalziThe Interdependency\u2015humanity\u2019s interstellar empire\u2015is on the verge of collapse. The extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible is disappearing, leaving entire systems and human civilizations stranded.Emperox Grayland II of the Interdependency is ready to take desperate measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth\u2015or at the very least an opportunity to an ascension to power.While Grayland prepares for disaster, others are preparing for a civil war. A war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as it will between spaceships and battlefields.The Emperox and her allies are smart and resourceful, as are her enemies. Nothing about this will be easy... and all of humanity will be caught in its consuming fire.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34942741-the-consuming-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Sacr\u00e9 Bleu", "author_name": "Christopher Moore", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 30621, "review_number": 3631, "book_description": "\u201cChristopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.\u201d\u2014Carl Hiassen\u201c[Moore\u2019s novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture.\u201d\u2014Washington Post\u201cIf there\u2019s a funnier writer out there, step forward.\u201d\u2014PlayboyAbsolutely nothing is sacred to Christopher Moore. The phenomenally popular, New York Times bestselling satirist whom the Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls, \u201cStephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination\u201d has already lampooned Shakespeare, San Francisco vampires, marine biologists, Death\u2026even Jesus Christ and Santa Claus! Now, in his latest masterpiece, Sacr\u00e9 Bleu, the immortal Moore takes on the Great French Masters. A magnificent \u201cComedy d\u2019Art\u201d from the author of Lamb, Fool, and Bite Me, Moore\u2019s Sacr\u00e9 Bleu is part mystery, part history (sort of), part love story, and wholly hilarious as it follows a young baker-painter as he joins the dapper Henri Toulouse-Lautrec on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the supposed \u201csuicide\u201d of Vincent van Gogh.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Humor", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Art", "Humor (Comedy)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Cultural (France)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40409748-sacr-bleu"}, +{"book_title": "Solitary", "author_name": "Alexander Gordon Smith", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 7777, "review_number": 807, "book_description": "Furnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we\u2019d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock\u2019s ticking. Because if we don\u2019t escape soon they will turn us into freaks - like them. For ever.In the darkness of the hole your worst nightmares come to life.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6633007-solitary"}, +{"book_title": "Some Will Not Die", "author_name": "Algis Budrys", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 229, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "The plague struck, and ninety percent of Earth's population died. Those who survived tried to maintain some sort of civilization...which meant more killing, as it turned out. But bit by bit, generation by generation, people began to succeed. With occasional setbacks.", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195753.Some_Will_Not_Die"}, +{"book_title": "1634 The Baltic War", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3722, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "The Baltic War which began in the novel 1633 is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville - the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century by a mysterious cosmic accident - are caught in the middle of it.Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden and Emperor of the United States of Europe, prepares a counter-attack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark - former enemies which have allied in the League of Ostend to destroy the threat to their power that the Americans represent - which are besieging the German city of Luebeck.Elsewhere in war-torn Europe, several American plans are approaching fruition. Admiral Simpson of Grantville frantically races against time to finish the USE Navy's ironclad ships - desperately needed to break the Ostender blockade of the Baltic ports. A commando unit sent by Mike Stearns to England prepares to rescue Americans being held in the Tower of London.In Amsterdam, Rebecca Stearns continues three-way negotiations with the Prince of Orange and the Spanish Cardinal-Infante who has conquered most of the Netherlands. And, in Copenhagen, the captured young USE naval officer Eddie Cantrell tries to persuade the King of Denmark to break with the Ostender alliance, all while pursuing a dangerous romantic involvement with one of the Danish princesses.\u00a92007 Eric Flint and David Weber (P)2013 Recorded Books", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57256.1634_The_Baltic_War"}, +{"book_title": "Ghosts by Gaslight", "author_name": "Jack Dann", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 696, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear!Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10575798-ghosts-by-gaslight"}, +{"book_title": "The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 885, "review_number": 192, "book_description": "Trapped in the mists of time by a terrible research experiment gone wrong, John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between the centuries, searching for a way home. In the ocean of the modern day, John rescues a shipwrecked young girl his own age, Serena, and promises to help.But returning Serena to her own time means traveling to the one place where the ship is in most danger of destruction. The all-powerful Dahlberg Corporation has an ambitious leader with plans far greater and more terrible than anyone has realized, and he is hot on their trail. For only John, Serena, and the crew know Dahlberg's true intentions, and only they have the power to stop him from bending the world to his will.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31177599-the-adventures-of-john-blake"}, +{"book_title": "One Last Stop", "author_name": "Casey McQuiston", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 647, "review_number": 465, "book_description": "From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston! - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and\n Party for Two\n\nFor cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can't imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there's certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.But then, there's this gorgeous girl on the train.Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August's day when she needed it most. August's subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there's one big problem: Jane doesn't just look like an old school punk rocker. She's literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it's time to start believing in some things, after all.Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.A dazzling romance, filled with plenty of humor and heart. - Time Magazine, The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2021", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Romance", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Adult", "New Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54860443-one-last-stop"}, +{"book_title": "Finder", "author_name": "Suzanne Palmer", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1801, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "From Hugo Award-winning debut author Suzanne Palmer comes an action-packed sci-fi caper starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo man and professional finder.Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder.His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He'll slip in, decode the ship's compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand.Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a gas-giant-harvesting colony called Cernee. But Fergus' arrival at the colony is anything but simple. A cable car explosion launches Cernee into civil war, and Fergus must ally with Gilger's enemies to navigate a field of space mines and a small army of hostile mercenaries. What was supposed to be a routine job evolves into negotiating a power struggle between factions. Even worse, Fergus has become increasingly--and inconveniently--invested in the lives of the locals.It doesn't help that a dangerous alien species thought mythical prove unsettlingly real, and their ominous triangle ships keep following Fergus around.Foolhardy. Eccentric. Reckless. Whatever he's called, Fergus will need all the help he can get to take back the Sword and maybe save Cernee from destruction in the process.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40796392-finder"}, +{"book_title": "Old Magic", "author_name": "Marianne Curley", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 10355, "review_number": 793, "book_description": "Jarrod Thornton is mesmerizing, but Kate Warren doesn't know why.The moment the new guy walks into the room, Kate senses something strange and intense about him. Something supernatural. Her instincts are proven correct a few minutes later when, bullied by his classmates, Jarrod unknowingly conjures up a freak thunderstorm \"inside\" their classroom.Jarrod doesn't believe in the paranormal. When Kate tries to convince him that he has extraordinary powers that need to be harnessed, he only puts up with her \"hocus pocus\" notions because he finds her captivating. However, the dangerous, uncontrolled strengthening of his gift finally convinces Jarrod that he must take Kate's theories seriously. Together, they embark on a remarkable journey -- one which will unravel the mystery that has haunted Jarrod's family for generations and pit the teens against immense forces in a battle to undo the past and reshape the future.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/565595.Old_Magic"}, +{"book_title": "The Dorsai Companion", "author_name": "Gordon R. Dickson", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 153, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Presents the shorter works of the series in one volume.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263159.The_Dorsai_Companion"}, +{"book_title": "The Princess Bride", "author_name": "William Goldman", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 797114, "review_number": 20737, "book_description": "What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the \"good parts\" reached his ears.Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the \"Good Parts Version\" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.In short, it's about everything.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Classics", "Romance", "Humor", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21787.The_Princess_Bride"}, +{"book_title": "The Present", "author_name": "Kenneth Thomas", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 4342, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "The Present is the second book in the VanWest series. To defeat the Universal Council, VanWest is made to confront his dark past. Uncovering Mars\u2019s many secrets and the coming together of Earth\u2019s main opposition groups could prove pivotal in defeating the Council\u2019s mighty Space Army. However, success is not what it appears, for there\u2019s a twist that he could not foresee.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Action", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54775299-the-present"}, +{"book_title": "Song of Scarabaeus", "author_name": "Sara Creasy", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 2828, "review_number": 335, "book_description": "Trained since childhood in advanced biocyph seed technology by the all-powerful Crib empire, Edie's mission is to terraform alien worlds while her masters bleed the outlawed Fringe populations dry. When renegade mercenaries kidnap Edie, she's not entirely sure it's a bad thing . . . until they leash her to a bodyguard, Finn\u2014a former freedom fighter-turned-slave, beaten down but never broken. If Edie strays from Finn's side, he dies. If she doesn't cooperate, the pirates will kill them both.But Edie's abilities far surpass anything her enemies imagine. And now, with Finn as her only ally as the merciless Crib closes in, she'll have to prove it or die on the site of her only failure . . . a world called Scarabaeus.Cover art by Christian McGrath.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Adventure", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7077917-song-of-scarabaeus"}, +{"book_title": "Breakers", "author_name": "Edward W. Robertson", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 5108, "review_number": 480, "book_description": "In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa. In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter.When Vanessa dies of the flu, Walt is devastated. But she isn't the last. The virus quickly kills billions, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. As Raymond and Mia hole up in an abandoned mansion, where they learn to function without electricity, running water, or neighbors, Walt begins an existential walk to LA, where Vanessa had planned to move when she left him. He expects to die along the way.Months later, a massive vessel appears above Santa Monica Bay. Walt is attacked by a crablike monstrosity in a mountain stream. The virus that ended humanity wasn't created by humans. It was inflicted from outside. The colonists who sent it are ready to finish the job--and Earth's survivors may be too few and too weak to resist.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13485992-breakers"}, +{"book_title": "Promise", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 78, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Urban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist ***seventh episode of the nine-part serial*** What\u2019s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more \u201cworthy\u201d\u2026 all while paying the price with black marks on their souls.Promise is approximately 15,000 words or 60 pages, and is the seventh of nine episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial.Lirium tries to keep his promise to Madam A to do transfers for her kids, but he is afraid Kolek will go after his mom.Contains mature content and themes.OPTIONED FOR VIRTUAL REALITY BY IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT 2014 Semi-Finalist in Science Fiction in the Kindle Book AwardsIt is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series. There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together. READING ORDERSeason One \u2013 Lirium - COMPLETEEpisodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, PassionSeason Two \u2013 Wraith **available for pre-order** releases 12.15.14Episodes 10-18: Wraith, Specter, Menace, Temptation, Shattered, Penance, Judgment, Corruption, Atonement", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17925521-promise"}, +{"book_title": "Nil", "author_name": "Lynne Matson", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 5919, "review_number": 870, "book_description": "On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape, or you die.Seventeen-year-old Charley doesn\u2019t know the rules. She doesn\u2019t even know where she is. The last thing she remembers is blacking out, and when she wakes up, she\u2019s lying naked in an empty rock field.Lost and alone, Charley finds no sign of other people until she meets Thad, the gorgeous leader of a clan of teenage refugees. Soon Charley learns that leaving the island is harder than she thought . . . and so is falling in love. With Thad\u2019s time running out, Charley realizes that to save their future, Charley must first save him. And on an island rife with dangers, their greatest threat is time.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17225463-nil"}, +{"book_title": "Gummy Bears & Grenades", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 2004, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "THIRDS agent Dexter J. Daley can\u2019t wait to marry his fianc\u00e9, Team Leader Sloane Brodie, but first he\u2019s looking forward to celebrating his bachelor party\u2014which he intends to be a shenanigans-free evening of getting his groove on with family and friends. Of course events don\u2019t work out as planned, but for Dex that\u2019s nothing new. One thing is for sure, dodging drug dealers and hired thugs amid booze, dancing\u2014and even a bear costume\u2014will guarantee it\u2019s a night Dex will never forget. Now he just needs to survive all the fun. These events occur between Darkest Hour Before Dawn and Tried & True in the series timeline. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Novella", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51211517-gummy-bears-grenades"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Astronaut", "author_name": "David Wellington", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2370, "review_number": 401, "book_description": "Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth\u2019s last astronaut\u2013and last hope\u2013in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.Sally Jansen was NASA\u2019s leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity, convinced her days in space are over.She\u2019s wrong.A large alien object has entered the solar system on a straight course toward Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate and is ignoring all incoming transmissions.Out of time and out of options, NASA turns to Jansen. For all the dangers of the mission, it\u2019s the shot at redemption she always longed for.But as the object slowly begins to reveal its secrets, one thing becomes horribly clear: the future of humanity lies in Jansen\u2019s hands.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40881567-the-last-astronaut"}, +{"book_title": "Leviathans of Jupiter", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 881, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet's depths. However one of Jupiter's native creatures--a city-sized leviathan--saved the doomed ship. This creature's act convinced Grant that the huge creatures were intelligent, but he lacked scientific proof. Now, several years later, Grant prepares a new expedition to prove once and for all that the huge creatures are intelligent. The new team faces dangers from both the hostile environment and from humans who will do anything to make sure the mission is a failure, even if it means murdering the entire crew. One of \"Library Journal\"'s Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2011", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8730311-leviathans-of-jupiter"}, +{"book_title": "Armor World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 1654, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "In a twist of fate that rocks the Galactic Empire, James McGill finds himself negotiating the future of a thousand inhabited worlds. An artificial object made of compressed stardust is barreling toward Earth. Is it an invasion ship? A doomsday weapon? Perhaps it\u2019s the final response of Squanto, the Warlord of Rigel who McGill has repeatedly humiliated. Or could it be from the Mogwa, sent to avenge McGill\u2019s assassination of Earth\u2019s Imperial Governor? No one knows the truth of its origins, but the object is huge and unstoppable. Whoever hurled this rock at us isn\u2019t answering our calls. Every weapon bounces off, and the people of Earth begin to go mad as they realize their destruction is only hours away. ARMOR WORLD is the eleventh book of the Undying Mercenaries Series. With over three million copies sold, author B. V. Larson is the king of modern military science fiction.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44794559-armor-world"}, +{"book_title": "There and Now", "author_name": "Linda Lael Miller", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1237, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Seeking refuge, Elisabeth McCartney returns to her centuries-old family home--never dreaming escape would lie over a threshold, taking her 100 years back into the past. When she found herself unexpectedly in the bedroom of Dr. Jonathan Fortner, the handsome Victorian demanded an explanation from this t-shirt-clad stranger who had no believable one to offer.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699188.There_and_Now"}, +{"book_title": "Enticed By The Corsair", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2614, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "No one likes a rebellious captive. I learned that the hard way. I\u2019ve been abducted from earth and cruelly tormented for my fighting spirit until I learned that the only thing that would keep me safe is to be sweet and calm and agreeable. It\u2019s what keeps me alive. When I\u2019m rescued by space pirates, they tell me I\u2019m safe. I\u2019m told I can be myself again, get as angry as I want, laugh and cry and scream all I need. I don\u2019t believe them, of course. I certainly don\u2019t believe Alyvos, the \u2018muscle\u2019 of the pirate ship. Everyone says that he likes nothing more than a good fight, but to me, he\u2019s kind and protective. How can I fear someone who holds me tenderly through the night and has fuzzy skin? But my pirate wants more from me than I\u2019m ready to give. He wants my fiery spirit\u2026and I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s there anymore.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39868949-enticed-by-the-corsair"}, +{"book_title": "Yellow Blue Tibia", "author_name": "Adam Roberts", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1558, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "Russia, 1946. With the Nazis recently defeated, Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away\u2014and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive external threat to hold it together\u2014Stalin orders the writers to compose a massively detailed and highly believable story about an alien race poised to invade the earth. The little group of writers gets down to the task and spends months working until new orders come from Moscow to immediately halt the project. The scientists obey and live their lives until, in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the survivors gather again, because something strange has happened: the story they invented in 1946 is starting to come true.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6056346-yellow-blue-tibia"}, +{"book_title": "Codex Born", "author_name": "Jim C. Hines", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 5382, "review_number": 507, "book_description": "Isaac Vainio\u2019s life was almost perfect. He should have known it couldn\u2019t last.Living and working as a part-time librarian in Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula, Isaac had finally earned the magical research position he dreamed of with Die Zwelf Porten\u00e6re, better known as the Porters. He was seeing a smart, fun, gorgeous dryad named Lena Greenwood. He had been cleared by Johannes Gutenberg to do libriomancy once again, to reach into books and create whatever he chose from their pages. Best of all, it had been more than two months since anything tried to kill him.And then Isaac, Lena, and Porter psychiatrist Nidhi Shah are called to the small mining town of Tamarack, Michigan, where a pair of septuagenarian werewolves have discovered the brutally murdered body of a wendigo.What begins as a simple monster-slaying leads to deeper mysteries and the discovery of an organization thought to have been wiped out more than five centuries ago by Gutenberg himself. Their magic rips through Isaac\u2019s with ease, and their next target is Lena Greenwood.They know Lena\u2019s history, her strengths and her weaknesses. Born decades ago from the pages of a pulp fantasy novel, she was created to be the ultimate fantasy woman, shaped by the needs and desires of her companions. Her powers are unique, and Gutenberg\u2019s enemies mean to use her to destroy everything he and the Porters have built. But their plan could unleash a far darker power, an army of entropy and chaos, bent on devouring all it touches.The Upper Peninsula is about to become ground zero in a magical war like nothing the world has seen in more than five hundred years. But the more Isaac learns about Gutenberg and the Porters, the more he questions whether he\u2019s fighting for the right cause.One way or another, Isaac must find a way to stop a power he doesn\u2019t fully understand. And even if he succeeds, the outcome will forever change him, the Porters, and the whole world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15824178-codex-born"}, +{"book_title": "The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack", "author_name": "Mark Hodder", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 6856, "review_number": 911, "book_description": "London, 1861.Sir Richard Francis Burton\u2014explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead.Algernon Charles Swinburne\u2014unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade; for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin!They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor; Libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity; while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behavior to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End.Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7293120-the-strange-affair-of-spring-heeled-jack"}, +{"book_title": "World Departed", "author_name": "Sarah Lyons Fleming", "rating_score": 4.69, "rating_votes": 682, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "\nIn the zombie apocalypse, your worst enemy may be yourself.\n\nFrom the Until the End of the World and City Series universe comes the story of the virus on the West Coast. Where the end of the world is only the beginning\u2026\nRose Winter has enough problems. With a marriage going down the tubes and a dreaded anniversary party on the horizon, the last thing she needs is the zombie apocalypse. She wanted to get drunk and sing karaoke, not murder her undead neighbors. It\u2019s clear the party\u2019s over, however, and now Rose has more problems\u2014a missing husband, an overbearing houseguest, and keeping her family alive.Tom Jensen has inflexible rules. Rule number one? Don\u2019t deviate from the plan. But when his life is overturned in the space of minutes, his plans die along with everything else. The world is finished, the future is uncertain, and survival means living in the last place he\u2019d planned to be. Maybe his rules weren\u2019t meant to be broken, but if he can\u2019t change his tune, he risks losing the one thing he has left\u2014his daughter.Craig Matthews has a mission: get to Oregon. Doable, maybe, if he could bring himself to leave his apartment. With his food and water near gone and death closer than ever, a chance encounter may lead to finding his friends\u2014if he can first find his courage.Unfortunately, the new world doesn\u2019t always mean leaving old problems behind, and as the West Coast succumbs to the virus, the survivors face more than the undead\u2014they face themselves. But in an existence where fences offer dubious safety and zombies certain danger, people may save you in more ways than one.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52622380-world-departed"}, +{"book_title": "Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon", "author_name": "David Barnett", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 291, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire, a teeming metropolis where steam-power is king and airships ply the skies, and where Queen Victoria presides over three quarters of the known world\u2014including the east coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775.Young Gideon Smith has seen things that no green lad of Her Majesty\u2019s dominion should ever experience. Through a series of incredible events Gideon has become the newest Hero of the Empire. But Gideon is a man with a mission, for the dreaded Texas pirate Louis Cockayne has stolen the mechanical clockwork girl, Maria, along with a most fantastical weapon\u2014a great brass dragon that was unearthed beneath ancient Egyptian soil. Maria is the only one who can pilot the beast, so Cockayne has taken girl and dragon off to points east.Gideon and his intrepid band take to the skies and travel to the American colonies hot on Cockayne\u2019s trail. Not only does Gideon want the machine back, he has fallen in love with Maria. Their journey will take them to the wilds of the lawless lands south of the American colonies\u2014to free Texas, where the mad King of Steamtown rules with an iron fist (literally), where life is cheap and honor even cheaper.Does Gideon have what it takes to not only save the day but win the girl?David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana/steampunk mash-up!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20519006-gideon-smith-and-the-brass-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "All the Little Children", "author_name": "Jo Furniss", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 12340, "review_number": 958, "book_description": "When a family camping trip takes a dark turn, how far will one mother go to keep her family safe?Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her three young children\u2014until they see fires in the distance, columns of smoke distorting the sweeping view. Overnight, all communication with the outside world is lost.Knowing something terrible has happened, Marlene suspects that the isolation of the remote campsite is all that\u2019s protecting her family. But the arrival of a lost boy reveals they are not alone in the woods, and as the unfolding disaster ravages the land, more youngsters seek refuge under her wing. The lives of her own children aren\u2019t the only ones at stake.When their sanctuary is threatened, Marlene faces the mother of all dilemmas: Should she save her own kids or try to save them all?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36969181-all-the-little-children"}, +{"book_title": "Repo Virtual", "author_name": "Corey J. White", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 345, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Corey J. White's debut novel Repo Virtual blurs the lines between the real and virtual in an action-packed cyberpunk heist story.An Amazon and Kobo Best Book of April!The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities -- augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He's been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he's stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Genderqueer (Genderfluid)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45046624-repo-virtual"}, +{"book_title": "Opening Moves", "author_name": "Colin Gee", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 241, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "The first of a series of books that cover World War Three, from July 1945 through to its close in September 1947.From the cold waters of the Baltic to a coffee shop in Turkey, a Chateau in Alsace to paddy fields in China, a foxhole in Northern Germany to the Kremlins private offices, the Red Gambit series will carry you through the events that lead up to and continue through what became known as World War Three.Told from the point of view of the soldiers in the frontline, aircraft pilots, submarine and tank commanders and on to the Supreme Commanders on either side of the divide.Ride with Colonel of Tanks Arkady Yarishlov of the Red Army, fight alongside Major John Ramsey VC of the Black Watch, learn about leadership and honour from ex-SS Standartenfuher Ernst-August Knocke and follow Major Marion J Crisp to glory with the 101st US Airborne Division.Soldiers who had been fighting for years could look up at the summer sky and know that death would not visit them that day.It was the pause but they didn't know it.March 2013 revisions attend to spelling, grammar and punctuation errors in sixth edition, plus coloured maps and some new graphics.[The \u2018Red Gambit Series\u2019 novels are works of fiction, and deal with fictional events. Most of the characters therein are a figment of the author\u2019s imagination. Without exception, those characters that are historical figures of fact or based upon historical figures of fact are used fictitiously, and their actions, demeanour, conversations, and characters are similarly all figments of the author\u2019s imagination.]", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18883243-opening-moves"}, +{"book_title": "Ice", "author_name": "Anna Kavan", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 4282, "review_number": 729, "book_description": "In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusive girl in a frozen, seemingly post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has been invaded and is being governed by a secret organization. There is destruction everywhere; great walls of ice overrun the world. Together with the narrator, the reader is swept into a hallucinatory quest for this strange and fragile creature with albino hair. Acclaimed upon its 1967\u00a0publication\u00a0as the best science fiction book of the year, this extraordinary and innovative novel has subsequently been recognized as a major work of literature in its own right.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/636223.Ice"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Blood and Bone", "author_name": "Tomi Adeyemi", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 168327, "review_number": 24586, "book_description": "They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us.Now we rise.Z\u00e9lie Adebola remembers when the soil of Or\u00efsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Z\u00e9lie\u2019s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Z\u00e9lie without a mother and her people without hope.Now Z\u00e9lie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Z\u00e9lie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.Danger lurks in Or\u00efsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Z\u00e9lie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Cultural (Africa)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34728667-children-of-blood-and-bone"}, +{"book_title": "The Looking Glass Wars", "author_name": "Frank Beddor", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 42074, "review_number": 3873, "book_description": "Alyss of Wonderland?When Alyss Heart, newly orphaned heir to the Wonderland throne, flees through the Pool of Tears to escape her murderous Aunt Redd, she finds herself lost and alone in Victorian London. Befriended by an aspiring author named Lewis Carrol, Alyss tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Alyss trusts this author to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere will find her and bring her home. But he gets the story all wrong. He even spells her name incorrectly!Fortunately, Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan knows all too well the awful truth of Alyss' story - and he's searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland, to battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions of mad tea parties, grinning Cheshire cats, and a curious little blond girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44170.The_Looking_Glass_Wars"}, +{"book_title": "Senlin Ascends", "author_name": "Josiah Bancroft", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 16685, "review_number": 2494, "book_description": "The first book in the stunning and strange debut fantasy series that's receiving major praise from some of fantasy's biggest authors such as Mark Lawrence and Django Wexler.The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of airships and steam engines, of unusual animals and mysterious machines.Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, the mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists, residents, and miscreants.Senlin is determined to find Marya, but to do so he'll have to navigate madhouses, ballrooms, and burlesque theaters. He must survive betrayal, assassins, and the long guns of a flying fortress. But if he hopes to find his wife, he will have to do more than just endure.This quiet man of letters must become a man of action.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35271523-senlin-ascends"}, +{"book_title": "Elemental", "author_name": "Antony John", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 2507, "review_number": 322, "book_description": "A lost colony is reborn in this heart-pounding fantasy adventure set in the near future . . . Sixteen-year-old Thomas has always been an outsider. The first child born without the power of an Element\u2014earth, water, wind or fire\u2014he has little to offer his tiny, remote Outer Banks colony. Or so the Guardians would have him believe. In the wake of an unforeseen storm, desperate pirates kidnap the Guardians, intent on claiming the island as their own. Caught between the plague-ridden mainland and the advancing pirates, Thomas and his friends fight for survival in the battered remains of a mysterious abandoned settlement. But the secrets they unearth will turn Thomas\u2019 world upside-down, and bring to light not only a treacherous past but also a future more dangerous than he can possibly imagine.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9409362-elemental"}, +{"book_title": "Confessions d'un automate mangeur d'opium", "author_name": "Fabrice Colin", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 178, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Paris, 1899... L'industrie, port\u00e9e par la force de l'\u00c9ther, a r\u00e9volutionn\u00e9 le monde. Le ciel bourdonne de machines volantes, les automates sont partout qui agissent au service des hommes, hommes qui communiquent entre eux par t\u00e9l\u00e9chromos d'un continent \u00e0 un autre. Dans cette ville moderne o\u00f9 s'ouvre une \u00e9blouissante Exposition Universelle, une jeune com\u00e9dienne, Margo, aid\u00e9e de son fr\u00e8re psychiatre, enqu\u00eate sur la mort myst\u00e9rieuse de son ex-ma\u00eetresse et d'un singulier personnage cr\u00e9ateur de robots... \u00c9crites \u00e0 deux mains par deux jeunes auteurs incroyablement dou\u00e9s, ces Confessions d'un automate mangeur d'opium sont un bonheur d'imagination et de virtuosit\u00e9 litt\u00e9raire, \u00e0 d\u00e9couvrir au plus vite.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (France)", "Science Fiction", "European Literature (French Literature)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1641933.Confessions_d_un_automate_mangeur_d_opium"}, +{"book_title": "A Time Travel Fantasy Bundle: Footsteps in Time/Prince of Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 604, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "This Time Travel Fantasy Bundle includes Footsteps in Time and Prince of Time, books one and two in the After Cilmeri Series. It tells the story of David and Anna, two teenagers catapulted back in time to alter history and save the medieval kingdom of Wales.Footsteps in Time: In December of 1282, English soldiers ambushed and murdered Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales. His death marked the end of Wales as an independent nation and the beginning of over seven hundred years of English oppression.Footsteps in Time is the story of what might have happened had Llywelyn lived.And what happens to the two teenagers who save him._____________Prince of Time: Prince of Time, the second book in the After Cilmeri series, continues the story of David and Anna, two teenagers catapulted back in time to alter history and save the medieval kingdom of Wales. David and his man-at-arms, Ieuan, find themselves alone and on the run from a company of English soldiers who\u2019ve sworn vengeance for the recent death of their king. Meanwhile, Llywelyn lays on his deathbed from a traitor\u2019s arrow. And once again, it is David and Anna, and all they represent, that holds the key to the survival of Wales.Daughter of Time, a stand-alone novel within the world of the After Cilmeri Series, is available separately.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11391526-a-time-travel-fantasy-bundle"}, +{"book_title": "Pandemic", "author_name": "Scott Sigler", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 4754, "review_number": 446, "book_description": "The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious.The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload-a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race. That harmless-looking canister has languished under thousands of feet of water for years, undisturbed and impotent...until now.Days after the new disease is unleashed, a quarter of the human race is infected. Entire countries have fallen. And our planet's fate now rests on a small group of unlikely heroes, racing to find a cure before the enemies surrounding them can close in.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Horror (Zombies)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8087710-pandemic"}, +{"book_title": "I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein", "author_name": "Michael A. Burstein", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The award-nominated stories in this collection will bring memories of the future flooding back. Two new stories and all-new afterwords enliven the past with a touch of the present and that which is yet to come. You don't need a collection of antique spaceships or a carefully calibrated time machine to share the memories of the final Holocaust survivor. You don't have to jump through the gate between universes in search of a lost friend. All you have to do is open your eyes. You'll remember the future. The future remembers you.Contents:Absent Friends (1998)Broken Symmetry (1997)Cosmic Corkscrew (1998)Decisions (2004)Empty Spaces (2008)I Remember the Future (2008)Kaddish for the Last Survivor (2000)Paying It Forward (2003)Reality Check (1999)Sanctuary (2005)Seventy-five Years (2005)Spaceships (2001)TeleAbsence (1995)TelePresence (2005)Time Ablaze (2004)", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4701030-i-remember-the-future"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Is Rising", "author_name": "Susan Cooper", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 51885, "review_number": 2492, "book_description": "\"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track; wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone; five will return, and one go alone.\u201dWith these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker, last of the immortal Old Ones, destined to battle the powers of evil that trouble the land. His task is monumental: he must find and guard the six great Signs of the Light, which, when joined, will create a force strong enough to match and perhaps overcome that of the Dark. Embarking on this endeavor is dangerous as well as deeply rewarding; Will must work within a continuum of time and space much broader than he ever imagined.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Classics", "Mythology (Arthurian)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210329.The_Dark_Is_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "Redshirts", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 88754, "review_number": 10148, "book_description": "Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It\u2019s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship\u2019s Xenobiology laboratory.Life couldn\u2019t be better\u2026until Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that: (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces (2) the ship\u2019s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.Not surprisingly, a great deal of energy below decks is expended on avoiding, at all costs, being assigned to an Away Mission. Then Andrew stumbles on information that completely transforms his and his colleagues\u2019 understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is\u2026and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13055592-redshirts"}, +{"book_title": "Pasquale's Angel", "author_name": "Paul J. McAuley", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 266, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "The Renaissance has both blessed and cursed the great Florentine Republic - ushering in a glorious new age of artistic and scientific achievement...while drowning the powerful Mediterranean city/state in polluted rain and the filthy, tainted air that spews from its foundries and manufactories. This is the world Pasquale must diligently explore in search of an angelic vision that will enable him to create his masterpiece - a world far more frightening than he ever imagined. An assassin has struck down an assistant of Florence's most renowned personage, the immortal Raphael, on the eve of a much-anticipated visit by the Medici Pope Leo. Recognizing a golden opportunity to earn a florin or two, Pasquale offers his services as an illustrator to a local broadsheet - accompanying the brilliant, alcoholic investigative reporter Niccolo Machiavegli into the deepest shadows of their gray, steam-driven city. But there are fouler deaths to follow - and grave conspiracies breeding like rats beyond the roar of great engines and the hiss of acetylene street lamps. Intrigues of witchcraft, war, photography and flight are waiting to entrap the world-weary journalist and his unwitting aide. And it is in the high, solitary tower of the enigmatic hermit known as the Great Engineer where Pasquale must seek his destiny - to soar heavenward with the angels...or descend into Hell.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480568.Pasquale_s_Angel"}, +{"book_title": "Switch", "author_name": "Janelle Stalder", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 944, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "All\u2019s fair in love and war. Two thirds of the world's population has been wiped out, devastated by the worst war earth has ever seen. Still standing amongst the ruins is a mind reader who finds herself on the wrong side of the war. Everyone does what they must to survive. When the rebels bent on bringing down the New World leader start to rise up, it is her job to make sure they stay down where they belong. That is, until one rebel sneaks past her defences and into her heart. Love will blossom from the ashes, but will it be enough to save them, or will it mean the end of them both?*This book is for mature audiences due to sexual situations, violence and strong language. NA", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "New Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17840598-switch"}, +{"book_title": "Mountain Man", "author_name": "Keith C. Blackmore", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 3801, "review_number": 307, "book_description": "Boomstick.Samurai bat.Motorcycle leather.And the will to live amongst the unliving.Augustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when \"they\" will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress. Living on the outskirts of a city and scavenging for whatever supplies remain after civilization died two years ago, Gus knows that every time he goes down into undead suburbia could be his last.A novel of the zombie apocalypse. *First book of a completed 4-book series.* Contains graphic language and scenes of violence. Complete series order:Book 1: Mountain ManBook 2: SafariBook 3: HellifaxBook 4: Well FedAlso :The Hospital (a single short story, also part of the collection \"CauldronGristle.\" This story happens six months before the events of \"MountainMan.\" )", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13254665-mountain-man"}, +{"book_title": "Recce II", "author_name": "Phillip Richards", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 131, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Morale is low in Recce Platoon, lower than it's ever been. The Platoon Commander and his men are missing in action, Yulia is a prisoner of the Presidential Guard, and a bloodthirsty horde of Militia threatens to overwhelm the scattered remnants of the FEA at any moment. Andy Moralee and his men have failed their mission- spectacularly- but just when it seems that nothing could get any worse, the conflict in the Bosque reaches a new low. As Union and Alliance warships threaten to unleash their bombs at any moment, and unseen enemies lurk within the shadows, a new weapon is brought to bear- the civilian population itself. Taunted by the faintest glimmer of hope and tormented by the nightmares that plague his sleep, Andy Moralee must do what he can to hold his battered section together, and have his revenge. War is looming\u2026 Published by The Electronic Book Company. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32027829-recce-ii"}, +{"book_title": "His Human Nanny", "author_name": "Michele Mills", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1638, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "My indentured servitude is almost over and freedom is a heartbeat away! Until some alien guy buys me because he needs a nanny, quick. What the actual f@ck? I\u2019m not even good with kids. I\u2019ve never changed a diaper in my life. But the beings at the employment agency won\u2019t listen. \u201cHew-mans are hot right now. Everyone wants a hew-man nanny.\u201d Great. And since there isn\u2019t another human available\u2026 I\u2019m hired on the spot.Yay, me.And on day one of my new job I\u2019m having a panic attack because I finally meet my new boss and he looks like Satan himself. No lie. Black horns, red eyes and glinting silver-tipped claws. He even has a barbed tail, a forked tongue, and he breathes fire. This guy is terrifying, and his children look exactly like him.*heart palpitations* *hyperventilating*And yet, as I\u2019m caring for these strangely adorable infants and gazing longingly at my crazy-rich boss as he cradles his twin babies in his huge, muscular arms\u2026 my traitorous heart goes pitter-patter and my body heats up like lava.Oh no. And I begin to wonder \u2014 have I sold my soul to the devil?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53339735-his-human-nanny"}, +{"book_title": "I Shall Wear Midnight", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 51307, "review_number": 2315, "book_description": "It starts with whispers.Then someone picks up a stone.Finally, the fires begin.When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . . Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own. As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that aren't sparkly, aren't fun, don't involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy.But someone or something is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its root before it takes her life. Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls with her.Chilling drama combines with laugh-out-loud humor and searing insight as beloved and bestselling author Terry Pratchett tells the high-stakes story of a young witch who stands in the gap between good and evil.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7576115-i-shall-wear-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Ice Planet Honeymoon: Raahosh & Liz", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1249, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "Newly-mated (and grudge-holding) Liz wants nothing more than to be away from the tribe that\u2019s exiled her man. Raahosh wants to prove to Liz that he can be a good mate, even if he\u2019s ugly. On a honeymoon, they can get to know each other better. Perfect, right? This story is an extended epilogue for book 2 of Ice Planet Barbarians \u2013 Barbarian Alien \u2013 and is for readers who want a little more of their favorite couple. Don\u2019t start here! Start with book 1, Ice Planet Barbarians.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49452335-ice-planet-honeymoon"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Dagger", "author_name": "Beth Cato", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1795, "review_number": 349, "book_description": "Full of magic, mystery, and romance, an enchanting steampunk fantasy debut in the bestselling vein of Trudi Canavan and Gail Carriger.Orphaned as a child, Octavia Leander was doomed to grow up on the streets until Miss Percival saved her and taught her to become a medician. Gifted with incredible powers, the young healer is about to embark on her first mission, visiting suffering cities in the far reaches of the war-scarred realm. But the airship on which she is traveling is plagued by a series of strange and disturbing occurrences, including murder, and Octavia herself is threatened.Suddenly, she is caught up in a flurry of intrigue: the dashingly attractive steward may be one of the infamous Clockwork Daggers\u2014the Queen\u2019s spies and assassins\u2014and her cabin-mate harbors disturbing secrets. But the danger is only beginning, for Octavia discovers that the deadly conspiracy aboard the airship may reach the crown itself.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20359709-the-clockwork-dagger"}, +{"book_title": "Spear of the Emperor", "author_name": "Aaron Dembski-Bowden", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 494, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "The Emperor's Spears are a Chapter on the edge of destruction, last watchmen over the Elara's Veil nebula. Now, the decisions of one man, Amadeus Kaias Incarius of the Mentor Legion, will determine the Chapter's fate\u2026 READ IT BECAUSE Aaron Dembski-Bowden has turned his attention to creating (and maybe destroying) a Space Marine Chapter in detail, and this lavishly luxurious limited edition \u2013 available six months before the standard hardback \u2013 contains a host of extras that will deepen your understanding of the Emperor's Spears and allow eager hobbyists to recreate them on the tabletop! THE STORY The scattered worlds of the Elara's Veil nebula were once protected by the oath of unity sworn by three mighty Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. The Star Scorpions were undone by flaws in their genetic coding. The Celestial Lions were ravaged by the Inquisition for sins they did not commit. Now, after hundreds of years, only the Emperor's Spears still keep their vigil. They are barbarian watchmen against the Outer Dark; bloodied but unbroken in their long duty. Amadeus Kaias Incarius, a brother of the Mentor Legion, is commanded to cross the Great Rift and assess the Spears' war-readiness, only to be drawn into the chaotic plight of a depleted crusade on the Imperium's benighted frontier. The decisions he makes, far from the God-Emperor's light, will decide the fate of the war-torn Chapter. Written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden ABOUT THIS EDITION This limited edition contains a plethora of fantastic collectables that will help immerse you in the world of the Emperor's Spears and bring them to the battlefield in your games of Warhammer 40,000: - Magnetic presentation box - 352-page hardback novel - Includes a preface, additional short story 'The First Primaris' and afterword - 16-page background book with lore about the Emperor's Spears - Transfer sheet with icons for the Chapter to use on your Citadel miniatures - Chapter Trait rules card to use in your games - Metal coin to use as an objective marker - Coloured enamel pin badge - Bookmark designed to look like a purity seal - Three A5 art prints With just 1,500 copies available, this is an incredible artefact from the 41st Millennium for all readers and Warhammer 40,000 hobbyists.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42959061-spear-of-the-emperor"}, +{"book_title": "The Skin Map", "author_name": "Stephen R. Lawhead", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 4459, "review_number": 589, "book_description": "It is the ultimate quest for the ultimate treasure. Chasing a map tattooed on human skin. Across an omniverse of intersecting realities. To unravel the future of the future.Kit Livingstone's great-grandfather appears to him in a deserted alley during a tumultuous storm. He reveals an unbelievable story: that the ley lines throughout Britain are not merely the stuff of legend or the weekend hobby of deluded cranks, but pathways to other worlds. To those who know how to use them, they grant the ability to travel the multi-layered universe of which we ordinarily inhabit only a tiny part.One explorer knew more than most. Braving every danger, he toured both time and space on voyages of heroic discovery. Ever on his guard and fearful of becoming lost in the cosmos, he developed an intricate code--a roadmap of symbols--that he tattooed onto his own body. This Skin Map has since been lost in time. Now the race is on to recover all the pieces and discover its secrets.But the Skin Map itself is not the ultimate goal. It is merely the beginning of a vast and marvelous quest for a prize beyond imagining.The Bright Empires series--from acclaimed author Stephen R. Lawhead--is a unique blend of epic treasure hunt, ancient history, alternate realities, cutting-edge physics, philosophy, and mystery. The result is a page-turning, adventure like no other.\"Anything but ordinary . . . Dynamic settings are mixed with unpredictable adventures [and] parallel worlds.\" --\"BookPage\"", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7776444-the-skin-map"}, +{"book_title": "Sea of Stars", "author_name": "Amy A. Bartol", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 12037, "review_number": 876, "book_description": "Eighteen-year-old Kricket Hollowell was looking for her place in the world when she discovered that the universe was bigger\u2014and more dangerous\u2014than she had ever dreamed. Now, whisked across space to the planet Ethar, Kricket learns that her genetic ability to see the future makes her a sought-after commodity\u2026and the catalyst for war between her star-crossed parents\u2019 clans. According to Alameedan prophecy, one house will rise to power and the other will be completely wiped out, and Kricket\u2019s precognition is believed to be the weapon that will tip the scales.A target of both the Rafe and the Alameeda houses, Kricket finds protection\u2014and a home\u2014in the arms of Trey, her Etharian bodyguard-turned-boyfriend. But her visions of what\u2019s to come disturb her deeply, especially since she must discover whether the gift of foresight will allow her to rewrite the future, or if her fate is as immovable as the stars.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20977124-sea-of-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Eternity", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 6928, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "A visitor from the end of time comes to take a handful of strangers into space, where they must destroy the ultimate marvel of science in this powerful sf classic.\"Modern mainstream SF of the highest order...Bear rockets the story ever onward and upward\". -- Chicago Tribune", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116121.Eternity"}, +{"book_title": "The Show", "author_name": "John A. Heldt", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 650, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Seattle, 1941. Grace Vandenberg, 21, is having a bad day. Minutes after Pearl Harbor is attacked, she learns that her boyfriend is a time traveler from 2000 who has abandoned her for a future he insists they cannot share. Determined to save their love, she follows him into the new century. But just when happiness is within her grasp, she accidentally enters a second time portal and exits in 1918. Distraught and heartbroken, Grace starts a new life in the age of Woodrow Wilson, silent movies, and the Spanish flu. She meets her parents as young, single adults and befriends a handsome, wounded Army captain just back from the war. In THE SHOW, the sequel to THE MINE, Grace finds love and friendship in the ashes of tragedy as she endures the trial of her life.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27858685-the-show"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Fagin (Free Story from Steampunk", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 603, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Imagine an alternate universe where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. In Steampunk!, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre's established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings as diverse as Appalachia, Ancient Rome, future Australia, Canada's Muddy York Toronto, and alternate California. Get a preview of the anthology by sampling one of these inventive tales for free - Cory Doctorow's \"Clockwork Fagin,\" in which orphans use the puppet of a dead man to take control of their lives.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12558482-clockwork-fagin"}, +{"book_title": "Broken Earth", "author_name": "S.J. Sanders", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1276, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "Veral\u2019monushava\u2019skahalur is an oddity among his species, a lone Argurma cyborg divorced from his own kind by choice and to escape termination as a malfunctioning unit. Wandering the fringes of space as a salvager, he comes across a planet beyond the boundaries of the federation, rich in metals remnant of a dead civilization. Or so he thought. Confronted by cannibalistic mutations of the indigenous species, his salvage has suddenly become a lot more complicated. Even more so when he encounters a female surviving on her own. She is strong and fearless, begrudgingly earning his admiration. Terri is hardened by a life of hunger and watchfulness, and yet is moved by a compassion that he\u2019s never possessed. When his admiration turns into the first signs of a forming mate-bond, he knows his fate is sealed. Unlicensed mating is forbidden\u2014if his malfunctioning wasn\u2019t already a death sentencing, taking her for her mate would be. Yet, he finds that letting her go is no longer an option. Please be advised that this book has graphic sex and violence that may not be appropriate for all audiences. ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52231217-broken-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Suicide Club", "author_name": "Rachel Heng", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 3427, "review_number": 669, "book_description": "In this debut set in near future NYC\u2014where lives last 300 years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming\u2014Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever.Lea Kirino is a \u201cLifer,\u201d which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever\u2014if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She\u2019s a successful trader on the New York exchange\u2014where instead of stocks, human organs are now bought and sold\u2014she has a beautiful apartment, and a fianc\u00e9 who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTech\u2122, rigorous juicing, and low-impact exercise, she might never die. But Lea\u2019s perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. His return marks the beginning of her downfall as she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club, a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society\u2019s pursuit of immortality, and instead chose to live\u2014and die\u2014on their own terms. In this future world, death is not only taboo; it\u2019s also highly illegal. Soon Lea is forced to choose between a sanitized immortal existence and a short, bittersweet time with a man she has never really known, but who is the only family she has left in the world.Advance Praise for Suicide ClubBustle: 15 New Books You Need To KnowBitch Media: 11 Books Feminists Should ReadBook Riot: 10 July New Releases to Put on Hold at the Library Right NowNylon: Great Books To Read This SummerThe Rumpus: What to Read When You've Made it Halfway Through 2018Gizmodo: New Scifi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your Reading List in JulyThe Millions: Most Anticipated\"Fans of modern speculative fiction and readers who love stories that warn us to be careful what we wish for will be enthralled by Heng's highly imaginative debut, which deftly asks 'What does it really mean to be alive?'\" - Library Journal (starred)\"Refreshingly original\" - Book Riot\"Heng expertly threads a ribbon of dread through her glittering vistas and gleaming characters...[This is] a complicated and promising debut that spoofs the current health culture craze even as it anticipates its appalling culmination.\" - Kirkus\"Audacious... beautifully paced... How can such a young writer know all these things? Rachel Heng\u2019s first novel is as keen as a sharpened blade. Suicide Club is on the money about where our current obsessions are leading us and yet she makes us care about her characters in deep and old-fashioned ways. It reminded me again and again of Orwell and Huxley. I have the feeling that this is the beginning of a long and illustrious career.\" - James Magnuson, author of Famous Writers I Have Known\"\u201cIn exquisitely crafted prose, Rachel Heng gives us a startling look at a version of the world that seems simultaneously wild and plausible. Heng is a bold new talent and a writer to watch.\u201d - Liz Moore, author of Heft and The Unseen World", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult Fiction", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36434556-suicide-club"}, +{"book_title": "Ministry of Space", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1509, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "From creative giants Warren Ellis (Transmetroplitan) and Chris Weston (The Filth) comes an alternative history painted in red, white and blue! In the death throes of the Second World War, the British capture the cream of Nazi rocket science and create a new British Empire where it seems the sun never sets. Instead the sky is lit by the rockets' red glare from a fleet of spaceships bound for the moon and beyond. But who funds this epic endeavour? The truth is the road to space is paved with a secret dark enough to bring the empire to its knees! This searing, satirical and beautifully drawn look at empire building exposes the horrors that have sometimes been carried out in the name of King & Country!", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43731.Ministry_of_Space"}, +{"book_title": "Little Robot Alone", "author_name": "Patricia MacLachlan", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 245, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "In this charming picture book by Newbery winner Patricia MacLachlan, Little Robot is lonely\u2014until he has an inventive and creative solution. Little Robot\u2019s life is peaceful\u2014yet maybe it\u2019s a little too peaceful. But wait! He has an idea. With a little hard work, perseverance, and resourceful thinking, can Little Robot build his way to the perfect cure for loneliness?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Animals (Dogs)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35721256-little-robot-alone"}, +{"book_title": "How to Ditch Your Fairy", "author_name": "Justine Larbalestier", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 4333, "review_number": 724, "book_description": "Welcome to New Avalon, where everyone has a personal fairy. Though invisible to the naked eye, a personal fairy - like a specialized good luck charm - is vital to a person's success. It might determine whether you make a sports team, pass a class, or find that perfect outfit. But for fourteen-year-old Charlie, having a parking fairy is worse than having nothing at all - especially when the school bully carts her around like his private parking pass.Enter: The Plan. At first, teaming up with her archenemy, Fiorenze (who has an all-the-boys-like-you fairy), seems like a great idea. But when Charlie unexpectedly gets her heart\u2019s desire, it isn\u2019t at all how she thought it would be, and she\u2019ll have resort to extraordinary measures to set things right.From the author of the award-winning Magic or Madness trilogy, How to Ditch Your Fairy is a delightful story of friendship, fairies, and figuring out how to make your own magic.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2927126-how-to-ditch-your-fairy"}, +{"book_title": "The Complete Roderick", "author_name": "John Sladek", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 456, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Roderick is a robot and this is his autobiography. Educated by watching television, he is adopted by an elderly couple in Kansas and tries to adjust to American society. Sladek conveys, with great sensitivity and insight, the innocence of an artificial intelligence and asks profound questions about mankind's right to manipulate others. It also portrays how a numerological mind might structure a narrative.Inventive, funny, yet melancholy, this is one of SF's greatest creative geniuses writing at his thought-provoking best. Omnibus edition includes Roderick and Roderick at Random.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Humor", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968863.The_Complete_Roderick"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Copper", "author_name": "Devon Monk", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 649, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle to claim the same scrap of earth and sky. In this madness, one man struggles to keep his humanity, his honor, and his hell-bent mission intact... Bounty hunter and lycanthrope Cedar Hunt vowed to track down all seven pieces of the Holder\u2014a strange device capable of deadly destruction. And, accompanied by witch Mae Lindson and the capricious Madder brothers, he sets out to do just that. But the crew is forced to take refuge in the frontier town of Des Moines, Iowa, when a glacial storm stops them in their tracks. The town, under mayor Killian Vosbrough, is ruled with an iron fist\u2014and plagued by the steely Strange, creatures that pour through the streets like the unshuttered wind. But Cedar soon learns that Vosbrough is mining cold copper for the cataclysmic generators he\u2019s manufacturing deep beneath Des Moines, bringing the search for the Holder to a halt. Chipping through ice, snow, and bone-chilling bewitchment to expose a dangerous plot, Cedar must stop Vosbrough and his scheme to rule the land and sky...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15814899-cold-copper"}, +{"book_title": "Protector", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 9534, "review_number": 249, "book_description": "Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before...Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days -- Brennan figured to meet that ship first...He was never seen again -- at least not by those alive at the time.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100344.Protector"}, +{"book_title": "Hand of Mars", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 4316, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "ROGUE MAGE TURNED INTERPLANETARY ENVOYThree years ago, as Ship\u2019s Mage of the starship Blue Jay, Damien Montgomery was pursued to the edge of human space by both the agents and enemies of the Mage-King of Mars \u2014 before being brought in from the cold.Now, trained in new skills by the Mage-King himself, Damien has been sent to the planet Ardennes alongside Alaura Stealey, Hand of the King. A rebel movement there has destroyed cities fighting a Governor seemingly lost to corruption.But not all on Ardennes is as it seems. As allies becomes enemies and an entire world comes apart in chaos around him, Damien will find both his skills and integrity tested to the utter limit.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26816562-hand-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Tilting the Balance", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 4533, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "NO ONE COULD STOP THEM--NOT STALIN, NOT TOGO, NOT CHURCHILL, NOT ROOSEVELT . . . The invaders had cut the United States virtually in half at the Mississippi, vaporized Washington, D.C., devastated much of Europe, and held large parts of the Soviet Union under their thumb.But humanity would not give up so easily. The new world allies were ruthless at finding their foe's weaknesses and exploiting them.Whether delivering supplies in tiny biplanes to partisans across the vast steppes of Russia, working furiously to understand the enemy's captured radar in England, or battling house to house on the streets of Chicago, humankind would never give up.Yet no one could say when the hellish inferno of death would stop being a war of conquest and turn into a war of survival--the very survival of the planet . . .", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101570.Tilting_the_Balance"}, +{"book_title": "Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory", "author_name": "Newt Gingrich", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1120, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "\nNew York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great \u201cwhat if\u201d of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won?\nAfter his great victories at Gettysburg and Union Mills, General Robert E. Lee\u2019s attempt to bring the war to a final conclusion by attacking Washington, D.C., fails. However, in securing Washington, the remnants of the valiant Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of the impetuous General Dan Sickles, is trapped and destroyed. For Lincoln there is only one hope left: that General Ulysses S. Grant can save the Union cause.It is now August 22, 1863. Lincoln and Grant are facing a collapse of political will to continue the fight to preserve the Union. Lee, desperately short of manpower, must conserve his remaining strength while maneuvering for the killing blow that will take Grant\u2019s army out of the fight and, at last, bring a final and complete victory for the South.Pursuing the remnants of the defeated Army of the Potomac up to the banks of the Susquehanna, Lee is caught off balance when news arrives that General Ulysses S. Grant, in command of more than seventy thousand men, has crossed that same river, a hundred miles to the northwest at Harrisburg. As General Grant brings his Army of the Susquehanna into Maryland, Robert E. Lee\u2019s Army of Northern Virginia maneuvers for position. Grant first sends General George Armstrong Custer on a mad dash to block Lee\u2019s path toward Frederick and with it control of the crucial B&O railroad, which moves troops and supplies. The two armies finally collide in Central Maryland, and a bloody week-long battle ensues along the banks of Monocacy Creek. This must be the \u201cfinal\u201d battle for both sides.In Never Call Retreat, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen bring all of their critically acclaimed talents to bear in what is destined to become an immediate classic.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Military History (Civil War)", "War", "American History (American Civil War)", "American History", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223585.Never_Call_Retreat"}, +{"book_title": "Exit Strategy", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 32112, "review_number": 3208, "book_description": "Murderbot wasn\u2019t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah\u2014its former owner (protector? friend?)\u2014submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.But who\u2019s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?And what will become of it when it\u2019s caught?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35519109-exit-strategy"}, +{"book_title": "Idlewild", "author_name": "Nick Sagan", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2676, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "It is a not-too-distant future in our all-too-recognizable world. It is the late twenty-first century and a deadly virus has seeped into human kind's genetic make-up. In only a few generations this plague will have wiped us off the face of the planet, but we're not going down without a fight. Teams of scientists, geneticists and programmers race to find a cure, but time is not on our side and our only hope lies in one last, desperate gamble...Eighteen years later and ten individuals are about to come of age. One of them, a young man, is suddenly startled awake. He has no memory. His surroundings mean nothing to him. All he knows for certain is that someone is trying to kill him. Unsure who he can trust, he is reacquainted with his companions, all of whom are being trained at a special establishment run by the elusive Maestro. As he tries to uncover the identity of his would-be killer, it becomes clear that more - so much more - than just his life is at stake...Smart, stylish, terrifying and thrilling in equal measure, Idlewild fuses the fierce imagination of The Matrix with the chilling social vision of Minority Report, and introduces a singular new literary voice.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216351.Idlewild"}, +{"book_title": "Hell's Rejects", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1568, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "The most powerful starships ever constructed are gone. Thousands are dead. A fleet is in ruins. The attackers are unknown. The orders are clear: Recover the ships. Bury the bastards who stole them. Lieutenant Abigail Cage never expected to find herself in Hell. As a Highly Specialized Operational Combatant, she was one of the most respected soldiers in the military. Now she's doing hard labor on the most miserable planet in the universe. Not for long. The Earth Republic is looking for the most dangerous individuals it can control. The best of the worst, and Abbey happens to be one of them. The deal is simple: Bring back the starships, earn your freedom. Try to run, you die. It's a suicide mission, but she has nothing to lose. The only problem? There's a new threat in the galaxy. One with a power unlike anything anyone has ever seen. One that's been waiting for this moment for a very, very, long time. And they want Abbey, too. Be careful what you wish for. They say Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. They have no idea.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Angels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34215290-hell-s-rejects"}, +{"book_title": "Freedom's Fate", "author_name": "Bobby Adair", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 282, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "\nWar in the Heavens for Freedom on Earth\n In this finale of the Freedom's Fire series, the Free Army tries to salvage victory from what looks like a total loss. They've found a weakness in the Gray-Trog alliance they think they can exploit. But they'll need to ally themselves with the hated MSS, and put their trust in people they've sworn to overthrow. \nThe Freedom's Fire Series\n Prequel - Freedom's Siege book 1 - Freedom's Fire book 2 - Freedom's Fury book 3 - Freedom's Fate book 4 - Freedom's Fist book 5 - Freedom's Fall book 6 - Freedom's Fate", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39310447-freedom-s-fate"}, +{"book_title": "Shades of Midnight", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 25701, "review_number": 816, "book_description": "In a frozen wilderness steeped in darkness, the lines between good and evil, lover and enemy, are never black or white but drawn in Shades of Midnight.Something inhuman is stalking the frigid Alaskan wilds, leaving unspeakable carnage in its wake. For bush pilot Alexandra Maguire, the killings stir memories of a horrific event she witnessed as a child and evoke in her the inexplicable sense of otherness she has long felt within herself but never fully understood . . . until a darkly seductive stranger with secrets of his own enters her world.Sent from Boston on a mission to investigate the savage attacks and stop the slaughter, vampire warrior Kade has his own reasons for returning to the frigid, forbidding place of his birth. Haunted by a secret shame, Kade soon realizes the stunning truth of the threat he faces\u2013a threat that will jeopardize the fragile bond he has formed with the courageous, determined young woman who arouses his deepest passions and most primal hungers. But in bringing Alex into his world of blood and darkness, Kade must confront both his own personal demons and the even greater evil that could destroy all he holds dear.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6481245-shades-of-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Happily Ever After", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 39366, "review_number": 3198, "book_description": "The contents of Happily Ever After are as follows:-The Prince (with the two bonus chapters), Maxon\u2019s novella-The Guard, Aspen\u2019s novella-The Queen, Amberly\u2019s novella-The Favorite, Marlee\u2019s novella-Three scenes from Celeste\u2019s POV-Lucy\u2019s scene (bonus scene from The One)-The bonus epilogue-Where are they now?-A map-Various illustrations", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24465724-happily-ever-after"}, +{"book_title": "Neverness", "author_name": "David Zindell", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1386, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "The universe of Neverness is and filled with extraordinary beings, such as the neanderthal-like Alaloi and the Order of Pilots. Against this backdrop stands Mallory Ringer, who penetrates the Solid State Entity. There he makes a discovery. One that could unlock the secret of immortality.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Novels", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968997.Neverness"}, +{"book_title": "All For You", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1458, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "FALLING THROUGH TIME IS DANGEROUS\u2026 Peaches Alexander is thrilled to receive an unexpected invitation to a weekend party given by the handsome, eligible Duke of Kenneworth. The only problem: Stephen de Piaget, a stuffy medieval studies scholar who seems determined to get in the way. Peaches has absolutely no desire to get involved with Stephen, until a quirk of Fate sends her hurtling through time\u2026 UNLESS THERE\u2019S SOMEONE TO CATCH YOU. Stephen de Piaget has been leading a double life: respectable professor by day, knight-in-training during holidays and summer terms. When Peaches goes missing, Stephen knows he\u2019s the only one who can rescue her from medieval peril. Little do they know that the greatest danger they\u2019ll face won\u2019t be the business end of a sword, but their own unruly hearts\u2026.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12379901-all-for-you"}, +{"book_title": "Romulus Buckle & the Engines of War", "author_name": "Richard Ellis Preston Jr.", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 585, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "The frozen wasteland of Snow World\u2014known as Southern California before an alien invasion decimated civilization\u2014is home to warring steampunk clans. Crankshafts, Imperials, Tinskins, Brineboilers, and many more all battle one another for precious supplies, against ravenous mutant beasts for basic survival, and with the mysterious Founders for their very freedom.Through this ruined world soars the Pneumatic Zeppelin, captained by the daring Romulus Buckle. In the wake of a nearly suicidal assault on the Founders\u2019 prison city to rescue key military leaders, both the steam-powered airship and its crew are bruised and battered. Yet there\u2019s little time for rest or repairs: Founders raids threaten to shatter the fragile alliance Buckle has risked everything to forge among the clans.Even as he musters what seems a futile defense in the face of inevitable war, Buckle learns that the most mysterious clan of all is holding his long-lost sister in a secret base\u2014and that she holds the ultimate key to victory over the Founders. But rescuing her means abandoning his allies and praying they survive long enough for there to be an alliance to return to.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18100373-romulus-buckle-the-engines-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "Voyager", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 264253, "review_number": 11067, "book_description": "From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite or forever doom her timeless love.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10987.Voyager"}, +{"book_title": "The Apocalypse Codex", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 9922, "review_number": 519, "book_description": "For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers the company (unofficially) employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may embarrass Queen and Country. So when Ray Schiller\u2014an American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously heal the ill\u2014becomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, External Assets dispatches the brilliant, beautiful, and entirely unpredictable Persephone Hazard to infiltrate the Golden Promise Ministries and discover why the preacher is so interested in British politics. And it\u2019s Bob\u2019s job to make sure Persephone doesn\u2019t cause an international incident. But it\u2019s a supernatural incident that Bob needs to worry about\u2014a global threat even the Laundry may be unable to clean up\u2026 ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Thriller", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12393566-the-apocalypse-codex"}, +{"book_title": "Destroyer", "author_name": "Bobby Adair", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 2153, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Destroyer finds Zed saying goodbye to one friend and pressing forward with two new ones to whom we are introduced in Book 2 \u2013 Infected. Mandi, whom Zed and Murphy rescued from the bunker, is immune to the virus. Russell, whose home the others plundered in search of food and other supplies, is also a slow burn, but lower-functioning, childlike and docile. After seeing the carnage at the dormitory, a raging, vengeful Zed wants only to kill Mark, his nemesis and the former leader of the ROTC squad. Since Mark has disappeared, Zed unleashes his fury on untold numbers of infected in his path as he makes his way back to the hospital, in an attempt to rescue Steph, a nurse whom he befriended while seeking help for the feverish Murphy shortly after the prison riot. But the brave medical staff, holed up on the tenth floor of the hospital, and running out of provisions, has decided to take matters in hand by exposing themselves to the virus, and shooting those who \u201cturn.\u201d Zed is determined not to face another loss, but once again, time is running out\u2026 ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20406088-destroyer"}, +{"book_title": "Empire", "author_name": "Michael R. Hicks", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 4969, "review_number": 339, "book_description": "EMPIRE is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their god-like Empress. Captured and enslaved, Reza must live like his enemies in a grand experiment to see if humans have souls, and if one may be the key to unlocking an ages old curse upon the Kreelan race. Enduring the brutal conditions of Kreelan life, Reza and a young warrior named Esah-Zhurah find themselves bound together by fate and a prophecy foretold millennia before they were born.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6544226-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Apocalypse Array", "author_name": "Lyda Morehouse", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 163, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Amariah McMannus isn't your normal, everyday, trouble-making teenager. Her mother's a legend in the cybernetic and law-enforcement communities. Her father is the Archangel Michael. The Antichrist is about to get married to Satan-and Amariah herself just may be the next messiah...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71421.Apocalypse_Array"}, +{"book_title": "The Machine", "author_name": "E.C. Jarvis", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 114, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Larissa Markus is a humble clerk in a clothing shop with a hidden past when she is swept off her feet by the charismatic Professor. Their whirlwind romance explodes in her face and leads her down a tumultuous path of adventure, intrigue, love and violence. Airships, pirates, corsets, torture, murder, and more await in the first novel of the Blood and Destiny Series from E.C. Jarvis. The Machine is an adult steampunk fantasy book. Possible triggers are present within the book including but not limited to sex, murder, torture, and violence.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28768119-the-machine"}, +{"book_title": "The Lady Astronaut of Mars", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 4889, "review_number": 671, "book_description": "Thirty years ago, Elma York led the expedition that paved the way to life on Mars. For years she's been longing to go back up there, to once more explore the stars. But there are few opportunities for an aging astronaut, even the famous Lady Astronaut of Mars. When her chance finally comes, it may be too late. Elma must decide whether to stay with her sickening husband in what will surely be the final years of his life, or to have her final adventure and plunge deeper into the well of space.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Novella", "Space", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22154436-the-lady-astronaut-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 19", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.63, "rating_votes": 6355, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Ed's clever plan to take out an enemy leaves him severely injured... Can he cheat death? One of our friends discovers the ironic secret behind Scar's brother's transmutation notes. And Major General Armstrong meets with evil homunculus President Bradley. Whose side is she on again...?Plus, the disturbing origin of Ed and Al's immortal father finally revealed!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065429-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-19"}, +{"book_title": "Crimson Death", "author_name": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 10203, "review_number": 1298, "book_description": "In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns that evil is in the eye of the beholder... Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. The rising sun doesn\u2019t usher in the peaceful death that he desperately needs. Instead, he\u2019s being bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats. And now, with Damian at his most vulnerable, Anita needs him the most. The vampire who created him, who subjected him to centuries of torture, might be losing control, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their kind\u2019s few strict taboos. Some say love is a great motivator, but hatred gets the job done, too. And when Anita joins forces with her friend Edward to stop the carnage, Damian will be at their side, even if it means traveling back to the land where all his nightmares spring from...a place that couldn\u2019t be less welcoming to a vampire, an assassin, and a necromancer. Ireland.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27836564-crimson-death"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior Prince", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2037, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Paranormal Dragonshifting Romance Revised Expanded Anniversary Edition The Survivor... Though no one could ever command her, this warrior would try to conquer her heart... Physically scarred in childhood in an act of betrayal, Pia has never been considered an attractive woman. One horrible mistake and she is on the run. Desperate to hide her identity, she makes a deal with Galaxy Brides\u2014in exchange for a new face, she\u2019ll marry anyone they put in front of her. Never did she realize her future husband would be the most handsome warrior of the Draig. The Warrior... Though no man could thwart the brave Draig leader, a woman would be his undoing... Zoran of Draig is a man who knows what he wants. He has to. Being a Prince and the Captain of the Draig Guard, he has to make swift decisions, be ready to battle at a moment\u2019s notice, and most of all, he always has to be in control. When his wife, the one person who should obey him refuses to, Zoran discovers the battle for his heart\u2019s desire is fiercer than any he has ever waged before. Could the conqueror become the conquered?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22067412-warrior-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Monstress #1", "author_name": "Marjorie M. Liu", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 2824, "review_number": 461, "book_description": "Steampunk meets Kaiju in this original fantasy epic for mature readers, as young Maika risks everything to control her psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, placing her in the center of a devastating war between human and otherworldly forces.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Horror", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24426209-monstress-1"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Star", "author_name": "Janet Edwards", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1988, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Sequel to Earth Girl.18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military\u2019s highest honours for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself \u2013 and her Ape status \u2013 in the spotlight. Jarra is one of the unlucky few born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Derided as an \u2018ape\u2019 \u2013 a \u2018throwback\u2019 \u2013 by the rest of the universe, Jarra is on a mission to prove that Earth Girls are just as good as anyone else.Except now the planet she loves is under threat by what could be humanity\u2019s first ever alien contact. Jarra\u2019s bravery \u2013 and specialist knowledge \u2013 will once again be at the centre of the maelstrom, but will the rest of the universe consider Earth worth fighting for?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Futuristic", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16069783-earth-star"}, +{"book_title": "Men of War", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 535, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "In the aftermath of Gettysburg, the 35th Regiment of the Union Army were pulled through a time warp, leaving them stranded in a strange alien word. Now it's time for exploration -- and to discover a way to survive...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/362137.Men_of_War"}, +{"book_title": "A Song for Arbonne", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 12824, "review_number": 647, "book_description": "Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates an alternate version of the medieval world.The matriarchal, cultured land of Arbonne is rent by a feud between its two most powerful dukes, the noble troubador Bertran de Talair and Urte de Miraval, over long-dead Aelis, lover of one, wife of the other and once heir to the country's throne.To the north lies militaristic Gorhaut, whose inhabitants worship the militant god Corannos and are ruled by corrupt, womanizing King Ademar. His chief advisor, the high priest of Corannos, is determined to eradicate the worship of a female deity, whose followers live to the south.Into this cauldron of brewing disaster comes the mysterious Gorhaut mercenary Blaise, who takes service with Bertran and averts an attempt on his life. The revelation of Blaise's lineage and a claim for sanctuary by his sister-in-law sets the stage for a brutal clash between the two cultures. Intertwined is the tale of a young woman troubadour whose role suggests the sweep of the drama to come.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104085.A_Song_for_Arbonne"}, +{"book_title": "The Hostile Hospital", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 99862, "review_number": 2634, "book_description": "There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on...The Hostile Hospital - There are many pleasant things to read about, but this book contains none of them. Within its pages are such burdensome details as a suspicious shopkeeper, unnecessary surgery, heartshaped balloons, and some very starling news about a fire. Clearly you do not want to read about such things.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65118.The_Hostile_Hospital"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun Fifth Edition", "author_name": "Catalyst Game Labs", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 367, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "The newest version of one of the most popular and successful role-playing worlds of all time- a fusion of man, magic and machine in a dystopian near-future. With rules for characters creation , magic combat, Matrix hacking, rigging and more. You have everything you need to face the challenges of the Sixth World", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Reference", "Science Fiction", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18729435-shadowrun-fifth-edition"}, +{"book_title": "Necropolis", "author_name": "Michael Dempsey", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 331, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "In a future where death is a thing of the past, how far would you go to solve your own murder?Paul Donner is a NYPD detective struggling with a drinking problem and a marriage on the rocks. Then he and his wife get dead--shot to death in a \"random\" crime. Fifty years later, Donner is back--revived courtesy of the Shift, a process whereby inanimate DNA is re-activated. This new \"reborn\" underclass is not only alive again, they're growing younger, destined for a second childhood. The freakish side-effect of a retroviral attack on New York, the Shift has turned the world upside down. Beneath the protective geodesic Blister, clocks run backwards, technology is hidden behind a noir facade, and you can see Elvis at Radio City Music Hall ever night. In this unfamiliar retro-futurist world of maglev Studebakers and plasma tommy guns, Donner must search for those responsible for the destruction of his life. His quest for retribution, aided by Maggie, his holographic Girl Friday, leads him to the heart of the mystery surrounding the Shift's origin and up against those who would use it to control a terrified nation.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515955-necropolis"}, +{"book_title": "Here and Now and Then", "author_name": "Mike Chen", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 6046, "review_number": 1231, "book_description": "To save his daughter, he\u2019ll go anywhere\u2014and any-when\u2026Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career\u2026as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142.Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler\u2019s brain. Until one afternoon, his \u201crescue\u201d team arrives\u2014eighteen years too late.Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he\u2019s only been gone weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can\u2019t remember.Torn between two lives, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself, his daughter\u2019s very existence is at risk. It\u2019ll take one final trip across time to save Miranda\u2014even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.A uniquely emotional genre-bending debut, Here and Now and Then captures the perfect balance of heart, playfulness, and imagination, offering an intimate glimpse into the crevices of a father\u2019s heart and its capacity to stretch across both space and time to protect the people that mean the most.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Family", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39217756-here-and-now-and-then"}, +{"book_title": "Oona Out of Order", "author_name": "Margarita Montimore", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 30550, "review_number": 5032, "book_description": "A remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those moments are out of order.It\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she\u2019s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order...Hopping through decades, pop culture fads, and much-needed stock tips, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she\u2019s never met? Surprising, magical, and heart-wrenching, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the power of family.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Magical Realism", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Adult", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45046893-oona-out-of-order"}, +{"book_title": "The Three", "author_name": "Sarah Lotz", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 12914, "review_number": 1936, "book_description": "Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right?The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn't appear to be a correlation between the crashes, except that in three of the four air disasters a child survivor is found in the wreckage. Dubbed 'The Three' by the international press, the children all exhibit disturbing behavioural problems, presumably caused by the horror they lived through and the unrelenting press attention. This attention becomes more than just intrusive when a rapture cult led by a charismatic evangelical minister insists that the survivors are three of the four harbingers of the apocalypse. The Three are forced to go into hiding, but as the children's behaviour becomes increasingly disturbing, even their guardians begin to question their miraculous survival.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Suspense", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18453110-the-three"}, +{"book_title": "Escaping Exodus", "author_name": "Nicky Drayden", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 693, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "Escaping Exodus is a story of a young woman named Seske Kaleigh, heir to the command of a biological, city-size starship carved up from the insides of a spacefaring beast. Her clan has just now culled their latest ship and the workers are busy stripping down the bonework for building materials, rerouting the circulatory system for mass transit, and preparing the cavernous creature for the onslaught of the general populous still in stasis. It\u2019s all a part of the cycle her clan had instituted centuries ago\u2014excavate the new beast, expand into its barely-living carcass, extinguish its resources over the course of a decade, then escape in a highly coordinated exodus back into stasis until they cull the next beast from the diminishing herd.And of course there wouldn\u2019t be much of a story if things didn\u2019t go terribly, terribly wrong.Escaping Exodus is scheduled to be in readers\u2019 orbit Summer 2019.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38914991-escaping-exodus"}, +{"book_title": "Timekeeper", "author_name": "Tara Sim", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 5027, "review_number": 1139, "book_description": "I was in an accident. I got out. I\u2019m safe now.An alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, where a damaged clock can fracture time\u2014and a destroyed one can stop it completely.A prodigy mechanic who can repair not only clockwork but time itself, determined to rescue his father from a Stopped town.A series of mysterious bombings that could jeopardize all of England.A boy who would give anything to relive his past, and one who would give anything to live at all.A romance that will shake the very foundations of time.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25760792-timekeeper"}, +{"book_title": "Comet", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1578, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "\"Comet!\" is the fifth in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has rendered her a genius and an athletic phenomenon. In \u201cComet!\u201d she and her team begin exploring outer space using the wormholes she produced in \"Rocket.\" Unfortunately Comet Hearth-Daster is on a trajectory to strike the Earth. Though it is smaller than the object that wiped out the dinosaurs, it still weighs 300 million metric tons and if it hits it will wipe out civilization and may render the human race extinct.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Thriller", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20951407-comet"}, +{"book_title": "The Twelve", "author_name": "Justin Cronin", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 89287, "review_number": 7757, "book_description": "In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward with The Twelve. In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child\u2019s arrival even as society dissolves around her. Kittridge, known to the world as \u201cLast Stand in Denver,\u201d has been forced to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware that a tank of gas will get him only so far. April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a landscape of death and ruin. These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned\u2014and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights. One hundred years in the future, Amy and the others fight on for humankind\u2019s salvation...unaware that the rules have changed. The enemy has evolved, and a dark new order has arisen with a vision of the future infinitely more horrifying than man\u2019s extinction. If the Twelve are to fall, one of those united to vanquish them will have to pay the ultimate price.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13281368-the-twelve"}, +{"book_title": "Saga, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 80515, "review_number": 5291, "book_description": "From the Hugo Award-winning duo of Brian K. Vaughan (The Private Eye, Y: The Last Man) and Fiona Staples (North 40, Red Sonja), Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. Searching for their literary hero, new parents Marko and Alana travel to a cosmic lighthouse on the planet Quietus, while the couple's multiple pursuers finally close in on their targets.Collecting: Saga 13-18.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19358975-saga-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Planet Falling", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 2697, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "alternate cover edition of ASIN B01ECOIDHQThe PrincePrince Xalikian Kazharan has a dilemma on his hands. Now that the Kordolians have landed on Earth, he somehow has to convince an entire planet of Humans that his people mean them no harm. It's easier said than done, especially when one's race has a reputation for brutally conquering the Nine Galaxies. Perhaps this stubborn female journalist called Sera Aquinas, who thinks she can just walk up to his front door and ask for an interview, might be able to help him.But first, he has to gain her trust, and that's not so easy when her presence drives him to distraction.The JournalistSera Aquinas doesn't trust the charming amber-eyed Prince when he says he doesn't want to take over her planet. As a hardened journalist, she's seen her share of duplicity and corruption. So when Xal tells her the Kordolians are looking for Human females, she thinks he's messing with her. Seriously? Who would believe that lame excuse?She has to admit however, that Xal is one fine looking alien, and a part of her is curious.It's absolutely far fetched, but what if he's telling the truth?What if Humans and Kordolians are compatible?And when it comes to Xal, why does her body keep betraying her when her head is telling her to get the hell out of there?Warning: this book contains swearing, violence, sensual sex scenes, silver aliens with fangs and a little dose of insta-lust. If you're sensitive to any of these things, you may want to think twice before reading it. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over.Dark Planet Falling is Book Two in the Dark Planet Warriors Series. It will probably make more sense if you've read the other three books first, although that's probably not absolutely essential.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Space", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29927354-dark-planet-falling"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 36381, "review_number": 1002, "book_description": "WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDS As Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, begins to make his way across the country to California, he and his companions are forced to make an unscheduled stop in Marrisville, Ohio\u2014a small town with a big secret.Collects Y: The Last Man issues #6-10", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332631.Y"}, +{"book_title": "Perdido Street Station", "author_name": "China Mi\u00e9ville", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 64028, "review_number": 4890, "book_description": "Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one--not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before encountered. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. Soon an eerie metamorphosis will occur that will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon--and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it evokes.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Horror", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68494.Perdido_Street_Station"}, +{"book_title": "Timeswept Bride", "author_name": "Eugenia Riley", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 245, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "A #1 Kindle Bestseller in Time Travel and Victorian Romance!MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE In 1880\u2019s Galveston, dairy farmer Jake Blarney is left devastated when his wife betrays and leaves him, drowning in the seas, leaving Jake with twin baby daughters to raise. Angry and forlorn, Jake pens a message in a bottle beseeching the Fates to bring him a new bride, and hurls the bottle into the sea. But never does he dream that Destiny will summon him a new bride from across the vast gulf of time! BRIDE ACROSS TIME In modern-day Galveston, college professor Priscilla Pemberton is a forsaken bride, hurt and furious after her prominent fianc\u00e9 betrayed then dumped her. She is wandering the beach aimlessly, thinking of hurling herself into the tide, when an ancient-looking bottle washes up at her feet. No sooner does Priscilla retrieve the bottle and read the strange message it contains, then a huge wave crashes over her, sweeping her back in time to meet the groom who has summoned her! As soon as Jake Blarney lays eyes upon the miracle the seas have swept to his doorstep, he is ready to hitch up the buggy and fetch his new bride to the priest! Priscilla is left reeling and disoriented. Where is she? And who is this strange though sexy Irishman who keeps insisting that she is his bride from the seas? Even as Priscilla struggles to become acclimated to her fantastical voyage through time, Jake and his adorable baby daughters go to work stealing her heart, and she is left feeling terribly torn. Beaten down by a horrible childhood, Priscilla has struggled all her life to regain her self-esteem and prestige. Is she really meant to become the bride of a brash Irish dairy farmer in 1880\u2019s Galveston, even if her sexier than sin host fires her blood in more ways than one? Or are the Fates having a really good laugh at her expense?TIMESWEPT BRIDE is another all time winner from Eugenia Riley, a full-length, fun, sexy and touching romance of two unforgettable lovers bridging the vast chasm of time. Author Eugenia Riley is the renowned, bestselling author of dozens of historical, contemporary and time-travel romances, including the classics A TRYST IN TIME and BUSHWHACKED BRIDE. She has numerous romances available in Kindle.EDITORIAL REVIEWS:Five gold stars!! \"A beautifully drawn romance . . . Ms. Riley at her finest!\" --Heartland Critiques\"Delightful, witty, enchanting and fun . . . a wonderful tale.\" --Romantic Times Magazine.\"An imaginative plot with lots of action and delicious love scenes.\" --Rendezvous.\"Riley keeps the reader in hold-your-breath suspense . . . Don't miss it!\" --I'll Take Romance.\u201cPassionate, funny, charming! Once again, Eugenia Riley proves how remarkably talented she is! Timeless romance and endearing characters are what you will find in Timeswept Bride!\u201d --The Literary Times.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12394394-timeswept-bride"}, +{"book_title": "Under the Never Sky", "author_name": "Veronica Rossi", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 111301, "review_number": 8929, "book_description": "WORLDS KEPT THEM APART.DESTINY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER.Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire world confined to its spaces, she's never thought to dream of what lies beyond its doors. So when her mother goes missing, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland long enough to find her are slim.Then Aria meets an outsider named Perry. He's searching for someone too. He's also wild - a savage - but might be her best hope at staying alive.If they can survive, they are each other's best hope for finding answers.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11594257-under-the-never-sky"}, +{"book_title": "A Storm of Swords", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 679450, "review_number": 22369, "book_description": "An .Here is the third volume in George R.R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Together, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others\u2014a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Audiobook", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62291.A_Storm_of_Swords"}, +{"book_title": "Skate Trick", "author_name": "Anastasia Suen", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 32, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Roll! Jump! Flip! Rico has learned a lot of new skateboard tricks. Robot wants to learn too. Can Rico teach Robot, or will his skateboarding dreams disappear?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6749858-skate-trick"}, +{"book_title": "Degrees of Freedom", "author_name": "Simon Morden", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1179, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award The Six Degrees of PetrovitchMichael is an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower. Petrovitch will free him one day, he just has to trust Michael will still be sane by the time he does.Maddy and Petrovitch have trust issues. She's left him, but Petrovitch is pretty sure she still loves him.Sonja Oshicora loves Petrovitch too. But she's playing a complicated game and it's not clear that she means to save him from what's coming.The CIA wants to save the world. Well, just America, but they'll call it what they like.The New Machine Jihad is calling. But Petrovitch killed it. Didn't he?And the Armageddonists tried to kill pretty much everyone by blowing the world up. Now, they want to do it again.Once again, all roads lead back to Petrovitch. Everyone wants something from him, but all he wants is to be free...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10511586-degrees-of-freedom"}, +{"book_title": "A Perfect Blood", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 34602, "review_number": 1967, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the Hollows with the electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed Pale Demon!A Perfect BloodRitually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the I.S. and FIB, former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth: a human hate group is trying to create its own demons to destroy all Inderlanders, and to do so, it needs her blood.She's faced vampires, witches, werewolves, demons, and more, but humanity itself might be her toughest challenge yet.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10599805-a-perfect-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Crash", "author_name": "Guy Haley", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 136, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "The Market rules all, plotting the rise and fall of fortunes without human intervention. Mankind, trapped by a rigid hierarchy of wealth, bends to its every whim. To function, the Market must expand without end. The Earth is finite, and cannot hold it, and so a bold venture to the stars is begun, offering a rare chance at freedom to a select few people. But when the colony fleet is sabotaged, a small group finds itself marooned upon the tidally locked world of Nychthemeron, a world where one hemisphere is bathed in perpetual daylight, the other hidden by eternal night. Isolated and beset, the stricken colony members must fight for survival on the hostile planet, while secrets about both the nature of their shipwreck and Nychthemeron itself threaten to tear their fragile society apart.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130341-crash"}, +{"book_title": "The New Prometheus", "author_name": "Andrew Dobell", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 401, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Shot and left for dead, you wake up in a new entirely cybernetic body, and now the Corporations want you dead. What would you do???In a world ruled by faceless, uncaring mega corporations, Frankie, a young woman who has resisted cybernetics, becomes the victim of a lethal \u201cJacker Gang\u201d attack.Shot, and left to die in the slums of Neo-London, she is found by a genius cybernetic doctor who is on the run from a powerful Corporation. Seeing an opportunity to finish his latest cybernetic masterpiece, he transplants Frankie\u2019s brain into a powerful prosthetic body.Frankie has barely woken up when the Corporation\u2019s forces attack and kidnap the doctor, forcing Frankie to go on the run in her new cybernetic body. Pursued by corporation Special Forces, cybernetic agents and hulking Mechs, Frankie must fight to survive and choose what to do with her new body and its incredible abilities.Frankie must overcome the shock of her new body, survive ruthless attacks and figure out who to trust if she is to save the doctor's life and strike her first real blow against the tyrannical Corporations.This new Cyberpunk action thriller is a must read for fans of Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, Appleseed, Akira, The Matrix, Robocop and Total Recall.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34138675-the-new-prometheus"}, +{"book_title": "\u7d04\u675f\u306e\u30cd\u30d0\u30fc\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9 1 [Yakusoku no Neverland 1", "author_name": "Kaiu Shirai", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 23180, "review_number": 1264, "book_description": "\u6bcd\u3068\u6155\u3046\u5f7c\u5973\u306f\u89aa\u3067\u306f\u306a\u3044\u3002\u5171\u306b\u66ae\u3089\u3059\u5f7c\u3089\u306f\u5144\u5f1f\u3067\u306f\u306a\u3044\u3002\u30a8\u30de\u30fb\u30ce\u30fc\u30de\u30f3\u30fb\u30ec\u30a4\u306e\u4e09\u4eba\u306f\u3053\u306e\u5c0f\u3055\u306a\u5b64\u5150\u9662\u3067\u5e78\u305b\u306a\u6bce\u65e5\u3092\u9001\u3063\u3066\u3044\u305f\u3002\u3057\u304b\u3057\u3001\u5f7c\u3089\u306e\u65e5\u5e38\u306f\u3042\u308b\u65e5\u7a81\u7136\u7d42\u308f\u308a\u3092\u544a\u3052\u305f\u3002\u771f\u5b9f\u3092\u77e5\u3063\u305f\u5f7c\u3089\u3092\u5f85\u3064\u904b\u547d\u3068\u306f\u2026!?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34106559-1-yakusoku-no-neverland-1"}, +{"book_title": "Chainbreaker", "author_name": "Tara Sim", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1495, "review_number": 307, "book_description": "Clock mechanic Danny Hart knows he's being watched. But by whom, or what, remains a mystery. To make matters worse, clock towers have begun falling in India, though time hasn't Stopped yet. He'd hoped after reuniting with his father and exploring his relationship with Colton, he'd have some time to settle into his new life. Instead, he's asked to investigate the attacks.After inspecting some of the fallen Indian towers, he realizes the British occupation may be sparking more than just attacks. And as Danny and Colton unravel more secrets about their past, they find themselves on a dark and dangerous path--one from which they may never return.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34138282-chainbreaker"}, +{"book_title": "The Vela", "author_name": "Yoon Ha Lee", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 349, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "In the fading light of a dying star, a soldier for hire searches for a missing refugee ship and uncovers a universe-shattering secret.Asala Sikou is used to looking after number one while crisis reigns in her dying planetary system. But when she's hired to find a missing refugee ship, she discovers that this is no ordinary rescue mission, and she must play a role in deciding the fate of the whole universe.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "GLBT (Lesbian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43445108-the-vela"}, +{"book_title": "Ark Royal", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 6808, "review_number": 352, "book_description": "If you wish for peace, prepare for war. -Royal Navy Motto Seventy years ago, the interstellar supercarrier Ark Royal was the pride of the Royal Navy. But now, her weapons are outdated and her solid-state armour nothing more than a burden on her colossal hull. She floats in permanent orbit near Earth, a dumping ground for the officers and crew the Royal Navy wishes to keep out of the public eye. But when a deadly alien threat appears, the modern starships built by humanity are no match for the powerful alien weapons. Ark Royal and her mismatched crew must go on the offensive, buying time with their lives. And yet, with a drunkard for a Captain, an over-ambitious first officer and a crew composed of reservists and the dregs of the service, do they have even the faintest hope of surviving......and returning to an Earth which may no longer be there?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20556791-ark-royal"}, +{"book_title": "Illuminae", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 121176, "review_number": 25649, "book_description": "This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she\u2019d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that\u2019s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra \u2014 who are barely even talking to each other\u2014are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit.But their problems are just getting started. A plague has broken out and is mutating with terrifying results; the fleet\u2019s AI may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what\u2019s really going on. As Kady hacks into a web of data to find the truth, it\u2019s clear the only person who can help her is the ex-boyfriend she swore she\u2019d never speak to again.Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents \u2014 including emails, maps, files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more \u2014 Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23395680-illuminae"}, +{"book_title": "Hell Hath No Fury", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1652, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "It began with two men. They came from very different worlds\u2014entirely different universes, in fact\u2014one using sorcery and the other using mental powers and steam-age technology. They met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither side knows who shot first, but each blames the other, and it doesn't really matter, now, because war has begun. War between the universes is the last thing responsible leaders on either side want. But the fury of their respective populations, xenophobic fear of the unknown, and\u00a0cries for \"justice\" (or vengeance), are all driving both sides towards the brink. And unscrupulous, power-hungry men\u2014and Arcana and Sharona alike\u2014have agendas of their own. The fuse has been lit, and a war stretching across the universes, fought between dragons, spells, and crossbows and repeating rifles, machine guns, and artillery is erupting in white-hot rage and fury. Where it will end\u2014and how\u2014no one knows.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145134.Hell_Hath_No_Fury"}, +{"book_title": "Down to Earth", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2451, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "In 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga, an alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the invaders claimed half the planet before an uneasy peace could be achieved.A spectacular tale of tyranny and freedom, destruction and hope, Colonization takes us into the tumultuous 1960s, as the reptilian Race ponders its uneasy future. But now a new, even deadlier war threatens. Though the clamoring tribes of Earth play dangerous games of diplomacy, the ultimate power broker will be the Race itself. For the colonists have one option no human can ignore. With a vast, ancient empire already in place, the Race has the power to annihilate every living being on planet Earth . . .", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101525.Down_to_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Ashes of Victory", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 13210, "review_number": 254, "book_description": "The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough. After all, they knew she was already dead. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Now Honor has escaped from the prison planet called Hell and returned to the Manticoran Alliance with a few friends. Almost half a million of them, to be precise including some who know what really happened when the Committee of Public Safety seized power in the PRH. Honor's return from the dead comes at a critical time, providing a huge, much-needed lift for the Allies' morale, for the war is rapidly entering a decisive phase. Both sides believe that victory lies within their grasp at last, but dangers no one could foresee await them both. New weapons, new strategies, new tactics, spies, diplomacy, and assassination all are coming into deadly focus, and Honor Harrington, the woman the newsies call \"the Salamander,\" once more finds herself at the heart of them all. But this time, the furnace may be too furious for even a salamander to survive.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77742.Ashes_of_Victory"}, +{"book_title": "Climb The Wind", "author_name": "Pamela Sargent", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Something is wrong out West. The Buffalo Soldiers sent to subdue the Cheyenne are deserting and going over to the other side. The Sioux are leaving their barren reservations in hordes. Armed bands of Apaches have been seen \"east\" of the Mississippi!Lemuel Rowland, formerly \"Poyeshao, \" has spent his life learning the white man's ways. Now he must choose between his career as a Washington bureaucrat and the ancient dreams of his people. An obscure Lakota chief called Touch-the-Clouds, armed by a Russian spy and inspired by a woman with the gift of prophecy, is uniting the \"horse tribes\" into an awesome horde that will thunder eastward and reclaim the entire continent for its original owners.It should be Lemuel Rowland's job to stop them--but he wants them to succeed!Combining the startling insights of Philip K. Dick's \"The Man in the High Castle\" with the elegiac lyricism of Dee Brown's bestseller, \"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, \" Pamela Sargent's brilliant new alternate history epic asks--and answers--the most heartbreaking and troubling question in American history:What if the warlike Indian nations of the high plains had combined under a strong leader? What if they had struck eastward at a weakened America, still reeling from the devastation of the Civil War?What if they had won?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1056082.Climb_The_Wind"}, +{"book_title": "Paper Girls, Vol. 6", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 6465, "review_number": 863, "book_description": "THE END IS HERE!After surviving adventures in their past, present and future, the Paper Girls of 1988 embark on one last journey, a five-part epic that includes the emotional double-sized series finale. Featuring a new wraparound cover from Eisner Award-winning co-creator CLIFF CHIANG, which can be combined with the covers of all five previous volumes to form one complete mega-image!Collects PAPER GIRLS #26-30", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44426058-paper-girls-vol-6"}, +{"book_title": "The Departure", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3345, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Cassie's had it. After the last mission, she realizes she's getting tired of missions. Tired of battles. Tired of being an Animorph. She decides that she just can't do it anymore. So she quits.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363394.The_Departure"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Mine", "author_name": "Marie Dry", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1085, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "In a bleak future where government systems are breaking down and lawless bands of men terrorize the country, botanist Natalie Hanson fears for her life and hides in a cave in the Rocky Mountains. When she is captured by human raiders, a fierce alien appears and slays her attackers. Natalie is now held captive in her own cave by the sexy and striking alien commander, Zacar, who informs her that she will be his breeder. Natalie soon realizes that these aliens worship strength. So what will happen when Zacar finds out she has severe asthma?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22517525-alien-mine"}, +{"book_title": "Roadside Picnic", "author_name": "Arkady Strugatsky", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 44565, "review_number": 2951, "book_description": "Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a \u201cfull empty,\u201d something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he\u2019ll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Classics", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331256.Roadside_Picnic"}, +{"book_title": "The Scary Night", "author_name": "Anastasia Suen", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 43, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "A crackling fire. Weird shadows. Strange noises. And a scary story. Are Robot and Rico ready for their first campout?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)", "European Literature (Spanish Literature)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6749861-the-scary-night"}, +{"book_title": "At Any Price", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 973, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Col. Alois Hammer's indomitable Slammers are called in to support human colonists against a native uprising in this novel-length adventure. But even though the natives' off-world weapons are no match for the Slammers, their ability to teleport gives them a frightening advantage! Reissue.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Action", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1025515.At_Any_Price"}, +{"book_title": "Abducted", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 2858, "review_number": 367, "book_description": "Abducted is Book 1 in my Alien Mate Index series. It is a plus-sized novel--140,000 words long My name is Zoe McKinley. I have a boring life, an awful job, and a boss that throws staplers at my head. What could be worse? How about being abducted by Aliens? Being dragged through a mirror, naked and screaming, onto an extraterrestrial ship was bad. Finding out I had been sold to a huge alien male who looks like the Devil was worse. But learning he wanted to trade me to an intergalactic petting zoo was the worst of all! Now I'm whizzing through the galaxy with a robot butler, a trio of nib-nibs (they're like tiny green monkeys) and one huge, muscular, and very grumpy alien. The clothing they gave me shows all my lady-bits, the food-sim makes banana cream pie that tastes like sauerkraut, and Sarden, my captor, is too hot to stay mad at, even if he is a jerk. In fact, I think I might be falling for him. What's a girl to do? It's all in a day's work when you've been... Abducted. The Alien Mate Index--Learn more From the pen of Evangeline Anderson, the writer who brought you Brides of the Kindred, comes a new race of Alien warriors\u2026 twelve races, to be exact. Everyone thinks that life just evolved on Earth \u2014 Wrong. Our planet, and twelve others, all capable of supporting Terran life, was seeded by the Ancient Ones. Then Earth was locked away, kept safe in the cocoon of our ozone layer. But now there\u2019s a gaping hole in our security blanket and guess who\u2019s coming to dinner? That\u2019s right\u2014the Alien warriors of the Twelve Peoples - also descended from the Ancient Ones, are looking for mates and Earth girls are their first choice. The Vorn are feared throughout the galaxy. Savage, horned warriors, these males can be surprisingly gentle to the females they choose to bond with.Denarins come in pairs\u2014two muscular males who share a psychic bond... and feel the need to share one woman as well. The Majorans worship their females as goddesses, the very color of their skin changing with their bonded mate\u2019s mood.Braxians are savage with black-on-white eyes that can see every spectrum of light. They will defend their females to the last drop of blood in their huge, blue bodies. And there are more\u2026 so many more Alien warriors to pick from.Which type of male would you choose? Too bad you won\u2019t have a choice, because thanks to the Alien Mate Index, an agency that abducts Earth brides for alien males, you could be snatched at any time and turned into a massive warrior\u2019s mate or concubine.So the real question is - who will choose you?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30230346-abducted"}, +{"book_title": "Pieces of Her Soul", "author_name": "Serena Lindahl", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1342, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "In the words of her schoolmaster, Kiarra is an erratic disaster. In the well-ordered and balanced society of the kingdom of Megreria, she is a failure. Every person in Megreria has an occupation in a specific House and a designated Soul Match. Not Kiarra. She has delayed her exams until the last allowable minute, but her mind refuses to focus on one House. When she meets one man from each of the five Houses, her inability to choose extends to her heart. The rules demand she choose though, one House and one man. What happens when she feels drawn to all five Houses and all five men who have captured her attention, and possibly her heart? Will she be doomed to a life of a Commoner? Will society and the kingdom shun her? Or have the Fates already chosen her destiny? ***A reverse harem fantasy. 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At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him.But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to worry about when he discovers that his father \u2014 the last priest of the old gods and leader of the True Quechal terrorists \u2014 has broken into his home and is wanted in connection to the attacks on the water supply.From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and chance, as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They sleep on water, they dance in fire... and all the while the Twin Serpents slumbering beneath the earth are stirring, and they are hungry.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059411-two-serpents-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Ready Player One", "author_name": "Ernest Cline", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 904565, "review_number": 89133, "book_description": "Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. 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Russian troops move through Germany to the final objective...Hitler himself. As those around the mad dictator crumble, the much ridiculed threats of the \"Wunderwafen\" materialize. A new weapon is delivered, one with unstoppable power -- a weapon like no other and with a madman pulling the trigger. The Ubers change the direction of World War II, providing a dark and uncompromising alternative history in a way that you've never seen. 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Still, when her parents are kidnapped by a notorious warlord, she knows she'll need more than quick thinking if she is to reach them in time. Daphne's only hope for getting across enemy territory is an airship powered and navigated by Mikhail Denisov, a rogue Man O' War who is as seductive as he is untrustworthy.The Jaded MercenaryMikhail will do anything for the right price, and he's certain he has this mission\u2014and Daphne\u2014figured out: a simple job and a beautiful but sheltered Englishwoman. But as they traverse the skies above the Mediterranean and Arabia, Mikhail learns the fight ahead is anything but simple, and his lovely passenger is not entirely what she seems. 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But they're not home-free yet, because home is no longer free. In Roger's absence, a palace coup by enemies of the MacClintock family has seized control of the Empire. His mother the Empress is a captive in the palace and even in her own body, drugged so that her will is not her own. Roger's bother, the heir to the throne, is dead. And Roger himself has been branded an outlaw and traitor. Roger and his faithful band of human marines and native alien warriors have beaten the barbarian planet Marduk. Now they must re-conquer an interstellar empire. But they aren't about to give up, and with the help of those on the throne planet who are still loyal to the Empress they will infiltrate (under cover of a restaurant specializing in exotic Mardukan dishes, no less), they will make anyone who gets in their way (such as local mobsters who make the mistake of kidnapping Roger's fianc\u00e9) very sorry that they did, and they will not rest until the rightful ruler has been restored. 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This promotional e-book includes this exclusive bridge story, as well as a teaser chapter for Prized, book two in the Birthmarked trilogy, available wherever e-books are sold November 2011. \n", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13013051-tortured"}, +{"book_title": "Once Upon a Highland Legend", "author_name": "Tanya Anne Crosby", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 738, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Annie Ross has gone through her entire life a bit lost. She's about to find herself misplaced in time as well, where she must take her place as a guardian and find a way to restore the faith of a powerful chieftain. Will she win his heart as well?This novella was originally published as part of The Winter Stone anthology.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22056858-once-upon-a-highland-legend"}, +{"book_title": "Guardian", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 9192, "review_number": 245, "book_description": "Admiral Geary\u2019s First Fleet of the Alliance has survived the journey deep into unexplored interstellar space, a voyage that led to the discovery of new alien species, including a new enemy and a possible ally. Now Geary\u2019s mission is to ensure the safety of the Midway Star System, which has revolted against the Syndicate Worlds empire\u2014an empire that is on the brink of collapse. To complicate matters further, Geary also needs to return safely to Alliance space not only with representatives of the Dancers, an alien species, but also withInvincible, a captured warship that could possibly be the most valuable object in human history. Despite the peace treaty that Geary must adhere to at all costs, the Syndicate Worlds regime threatens to make the fleet\u2019s journey back grueling and perilous. And even if Geary escorts Invincible and the Dancers\u2019 representatives safely unharmed, the Syndics\u2019 attempts to spread dissent and political unrest may have already sown the seeds of the Alliance\u2019s destruction...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Action", "Space", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15984804-guardian"}, +{"book_title": "Catalyst", "author_name": "S.J. Kincaid", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 4593, "review_number": 421, "book_description": "S. J. Kincaid has created a fascinating dystopian world for Insignia, her futuristic science-fiction adventure series perfect for fans of Ender's Game. Earth is in the middle of WWIII, battling to determine which governments and corporations will control the resources of the solar system.Teen Tom Raines grew up with nothing, some days without even a roof over his head. Then his exceptional gaming skills earned him a spot in the Intrasolar Forces, the country's elite military training program, and his life completely changed. Now, in Catalyst, the explosive series conclusion, dangerous changes have come to the Pentagonal Spire, where Tom and his friends train. When a mysterious figure starts fighting against the evil corporations' horrifying plans, but with methods Tom finds shocking, he must decide which side he's on.With slim odds of success, is it even worth the fight?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054017-catalyst"}, +{"book_title": "The Trials", "author_name": "Linda Nagata", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1418, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "NO WAY OUT BUT FORWARDLieutenant James Shelley and his squad of US Army soldiers were on a quest for justice when they carried out the unauthorized mission known as First Light. They returned home to America to face a court-martial, determined to expose the corruption in the chain of command that compelled their actions. But in a country still reeling from the nuclear terrorism of Coma Day, the courtroom is only one battlefield. A new cycle of violence ignites when rumors of the elusive, rogue AI known as the Red go public\u2014and Shelley is, once again, pulled into the fray.Challenged by his enemies, driven by ideals, Shelley feels compelled to act\u2014but are the harrowing choices he makes really his own, or are they made for him, by the Red? With millions of lives at stake in a game of nuclear cat-and-mouse, does it even matter? (Hazard Notice: contains military grade profanity.)", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Thriller", "War", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22034827-the-trials"}, +{"book_title": "Son of the Morning", "author_name": "Linda Howard", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 7233, "review_number": 430, "book_description": "All of Linda Howard's novels are wonderful but this exceptional time-travel is her first foray into paranormal romance--and it's not to be missed.Grace St. John, a scholar, unwittingly discovers the Knights of Templar's secret treasure. Suddenly, her life is upturned when she spies her boss murdering her husband and brother. With no reason to live, except to extract vengeance, Grace becomes a fugitive of the law as she attempts to find an explanation for this horrible act.Grace simultaneously translates 14th century medieval documents written by Black Niall. This embittered knight reaches into Grace's subconscious and the two begin to share dreams 700 years apart. A scholar specializing in ancient manuscripts, Grace St. John never imagined that a cache of fragile, old documents she discovered was the missing link to a lost Celtic treasure. But as soon as she deciphers the intriguing legend of the Knights of the Templar -- long fabled to hold the key to unlimited power -- Grace becomes the target of a ruthless killer bent on abusing the coveted force.Determined to stop him, Grace needs the help of a celebrated warrior bound by duty to uphold the Templar's secret for all eternity. But to find him -- and to save herself -- she must go back in time.Summoning the magic of an arcane ritual, Grace steps back to the barren hills of 14th-century Scotland, enduring the perils of an untamed land to confront Black Niall, a fierce man of dark fury and raw, unbridled desire. Driven by a mix of fear and passion, Grace enlists this brazen knight to join her in a modern-day search for a killer.In their quest to protect a timeless secret, they uncover a love for all time -- and a deadly duel of honor that risks everything they have.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/420737.Son_of_the_Morning"}, +{"book_title": "Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox", "author_name": "Michael Buckley", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 69, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Finn Foley has a lunchbox, and when he opens it, weird things come out . . . like a seven-foot-tall robot and a strange, blinking device that glues itself to his chest. The lunchbox also opens wormholes--shortcuts through space--that take Finn to the farthest corners of the galaxy.Sounds awesome, right?Not so much. Rocketing through the cosmos attracts the attention of the Plague, a race of gigantic bugs. The thing on Finn's chest belongs to them--it's the most dangerous weapon in the universe--and they want it back.To fight the Plague, Finn will need the lunchbox, as well as an unlikely squad of assistants: Lincoln, the bully; Julep, the coolest girl in school; Kate, Finn's unicorn-obsessed little sister; and Highbeam, a robot spy from another galaxy. If they can learn to work together, they just might have a chance, but the bugs are coming, and they'll stop at nothing to get their weapon--even if it means destroying the world.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Action", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46227679-finn-and-the-intergalactic-lunchbox"}, +{"book_title": "Mega Man 1: Let the Games Begin", "author_name": "Ian Flynn", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 285, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "\"Mega Man\" is the hit new action-adventure series from Archie Comics! Dr. Light wanted to build a better tomorrow with his new Robot Masters, but the evil Dr. Wily reprogrammed them to take over the world! Now it's up to one little robot to save us all -- Mega Man! Don't miss the first heroic adventures of Rock, a simple helper robot who takes up the fight for the greater good! This volume contains Rock's transformation into Mega Man, his first battles with the Robot Masters, and his titanic clash with Dr. Wily! \"Mega Man Vol. 1\" collects issues 1-4 of the \"Mega Man\" comic book.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12467354-mega-man-1"}, +{"book_title": "Adapt and Overcome", "author_name": "Peter Grant", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 651, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Assigned to investigate a deadly accident, Lieutenant Steve Maxwell uncovers corruption and criminal collusion reaching far above his pay grade. To save his career he's dispatched to a distant planet to help upgrade its defense forces, in the company of an old friend and some of the most experienced Marines Steve's ever met \u2013 plus one of the most distracting. Trouble is, the planet's antiquated defenses make its new-found wealth a very tempting target \u2013 and there are those planning to take full advantage. As Steve and his colleagues strive to whip a rusty, run-down defense establishment into shape, the clock's running out\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20743210-adapt-and-overcome"}, +{"book_title": "Craving Maul", "author_name": "Sara Page", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1224, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "I went into space looking for my sister... what I found is an alien claiming I'm his.Five years ago, Earth made contact with the Twenty-Three Tribunal, a government of twenty-three superior alien races that rule over the known universe. Deemed too primitive to protect ourselves, the Tribunal slapped a 'Protected' status on Earth, declaring us off-limits to the more advanced races that would exploit or enslave us.Someone has been violating the status.Last year, like so many others before her, my sister Isla disappeared without a trace. And with the Tribunal unwilling or simply unable to help us, I'll do anything, even something really crazy, to get her back.With the help of my best friend and an alien smuggler I've captured, I've got a crazy plan. A plan that involves a neurotransmitter, a one-way ticket off of Earth, and a very powerful drug that will help me infiltrate an illegal alien slave market.I expect to be used, abused, and violated in my quest to gather evidence.What I don't expect is to be captured and claimed by a huge silver alien ... \nThis is a standalone book with a HEA.\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36255951-craving-maul"}, +{"book_title": "Autumn", "author_name": "David Moody", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 6488, "review_number": 543, "book_description": "A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, Autumn chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a deadly disease. After 99% of the population of the planet is killed in less than 24 hours, for the very few who have managed to stay alive, things are about to get much worse. Animated by \"phase two\" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, quickly the bodies regain their most basic senses and abilities... sight, hearing, locomotion... As well as the instinct toward aggression and violence. Held back only by the restraints of their rapidly decomposing flesh, the dead seem to have only one single goal - to lumber forth and destroy the sole remaining attraction in the silent, lifeless world: those who have survived the plague, who now find themselves outnumbered 1,000,000 to 1...Without ever using the 'Z' word, Autumn offers a new perspective on the traditional zombie story. There's no flesh eating, no fast-moving corpses, no gore for gore's sake. Combining the atmosphere and tone of George Romero's classic living dead films with the attitude and awareness of 28 Days (and Weeks) later, this horrifying and suspenseful novel is filled with relentless cold, dark fear.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8103876-autumn"}, +{"book_title": "Empire From the Ashes", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 3294, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Originally published as three separate novels, Mutineer's Moon, The Armageddon and Heirs of Empire, this volume recounts the adventures for Duhak, an AI-controlled Imperial starship, when it encounter's Colin Macintyre's routine flight over the moon.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space", "Fantasy", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77733.Empire_From_the_Ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Empire's End", "author_name": "Tom Veitch", "rating_score": 2.98, "rating_votes": 433, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Emperor Palpatine has a new weapon -- one that can annihilate a planet. But he's not targeting a planet -- he's targeting the future of the Jedi, Leia's children. It looks like a hopeless situation for Luke Skywalker, who has the critical task of protecting the children. But it's not the first time Luke has found hope where none existed. The finale to the Dark Empire trilogy is collected here.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics Manga", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211918.Empire_s_End"}, +{"book_title": "Some Enchanted Waltz", "author_name": "Lily Silver", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 125, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "When a violent storm spawns power outages, radio DJ Tara O'Neill must keep broadcasting severe weather warnings to local residents without electrical power. As the storm intensifies and dead air devours the airwaves, Tara must reboot the transmitter to get back on to the air. Lightning strikes as Tara reboots the system, hurtling her through time. Lord Dillon needs a bride, immediately, to escape his enemy's snare. He has always respected the Fairy Race. As a boy, he played with them in the secret glen and was warned that one day he would be called upon to shelter one of their own who has lost her way among mortals. Tara appears just when he needs her, a strange woman with no memory; a wounded woman needing his protection. A beguiling woman with fey features and a strange tattoo of fairy wings across her back ....Memories collide with terrifying dreams of being kidnapped by a Darkling Fey Prince, making Tara uncertain of her true origins. Has she been sent to Adrian as he insists to save him from some disastrous fate? As they journey to Dublin, little does Tara realize her husband's business there is Rebellion. The United Irishmen are preparing to seize the government and free Ireland from her British oppressors. Is true love stronger than the call to patriotism? Can Tara prevent Adrian from dying for a cause destined to fail?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15743875-some-enchanted-waltz"}, +{"book_title": "1984", "author_name": "George Orwell", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 3276673, "review_number": 73120, "book_description": "Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life\u2014the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language\u2014and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.", "year_published": 1949, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature", "Novels", "Politics", "Academic (School)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961427-1984"}, +{"book_title": "Bloodstar", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 891, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "With his Heritage, Legacy, and Inheritance trilogies, New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas established himself as one of the true masters of military sf\u2014sharing center stage with such authors as Rick Shelley, John Ringo, David Sherman, and Dan Cragg in a wildly popular sub-genre of science fiction that includes such enduring classics as The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and Robert Heinlein\u2019s Starship Troopers. Now, with Bloodstar, Douglas kicks off his new series, Star Corpsman, with a bang, focusing on the elite units of recon Marines and S/R Corpsmen who infiltrate alien worlds ahead of major planetary invasions to gather intelligence on both the local environment and on the psychology and biology of the enemy. In Bloodstar\u00a0 Ian Douglas carries readers once more across the vast galaxy, light-years from Earth, and into the fire and terror of future war. ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Unfinished", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15819554-bloodstar"}, +{"book_title": "Impact", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1300, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "\u201cImpact\" is the twelfth book in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation that makes her a genius and provides her some astonishing athletic abilities.In \u201cImpact,\u201d Ell\u2019s been taken off the \u201cMost Wanted\u201d list and is resuming somewhat of a normal life. Her old friend Phil Zabrisk is on his way to Mars. One of her exploration rockets is about to land on an earthlike world.Then an enormous comet crashes into Tau Ceti three, threatening the lives of the teecees there. Aliens that Ell and others have come to think of as friends. Phil falls on Mars, breaking his hip in a fashion that needs surgery soon if he\u2019s not to be crippled.Can she save her friends at Tau Ceti and is the risk of porting Phil back to Earth acceptable?Oh, and her son Zage is confounding people right and left\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Contemporary", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23255487-impact"}, +{"book_title": "The Sea Peoples", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 755, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "S. M. Stirling\u2019s Novels of the Change are a \u201ctruly original combination of postapocalyptic sci-fi and military-oriented medieval fantasy\u201d* about a future where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology, and humanity rebuilds society. However, this new world is not always a peaceful one.... The spirit of troubadour Prince John, the brother of Crown Princess \u00d3rlaith, has fallen captive to the power of the Yellow Raja and his servant, the Pallid Mask. Prince John\u2019s motley band of friends and followers\u2014headed by Captain Pip of Townsville and Deor Godulfson\u2014must lead a quest through realms of shadow and dreams to rescue Prince John from a threat far worse than death. Meanwhile, across the sea, Japanese Empress Reiko and \u00d3rlaith, heir to the High Kingdom of Montival, muster their kingdoms for war, making common cause with the reborn Kingdom of Hawaii. But more than weapons or even the dark magic of the sorcerers of Pyongyang threaten them; \u00d3rlaith's lover, Alan Thurston, might be more than he appears.From the tropical waters off Hilo and Pearl Harbor, to the jungles and lost cities of the Ceram Sea, a game will be played where the fate of the world is at stake.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Literature (21st Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33980909-the-sea-peoples"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The Viennese Waltz", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 707, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia contend with aristocratic forces determined to keep their grip on power whatever it takes.When Grantville, West Virginia was transported back to the year 1631 --in the middle of the Thirty Years' War, no less -- many things happened. Many opportunities arose. It's said that a rising tide lifts all boats. Perhaps not quite as high as the Barbie Consortium rose, however.A cabal of ten- to twelve-year-old girls?They aren't twelve anymore. And they gave up playing with dolls some years ago, when they sold them all and started an investment consortium. A consortium that did quite well.The Barbie Consortium hits Vienna. In several different ways. The princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, the common men and women on the street have no idea what's about to happen.Neither do the girls, but they're determined it'll happen their way.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Literature (17th Century)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412180-1636"}, +{"book_title": "The Doomsday Vault", "author_name": "Steven Harper", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1277, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "In a clockwork Britannia, Alice's prospects are slim. At 21, her age and her unladylike interest in automatons have sealed her fate as an undesirable marriage prospect. But a devastating plague sends Alice off in a direction beyond the pale\u2014towards a clandestine organization, mad inventors, life-altering secrets, and into the arms of an intrepid fiddle-playing airship pilot.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10575783-the-doomsday-vault"}, +{"book_title": "Little Brother", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 47844, "review_number": 5641, "book_description": "Marcus aka \u201cw1n5t0n,\u201d is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works\u2013and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school\u2019s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they\u2019re mercilessly interrogated for days.When the DHS finally releases them, his injured best friend Darryl does not come out. The city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: \"M1k3y\" will take down the DHS himself.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Technology)", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/954674.Little_Brother"}, +{"book_title": "Downbelow Station", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 14153, "review_number": 617, "book_description": "A legend among sci-fi readers, C. J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels, while separate and complete in themselves, are part of a much larger tapestry\u2014a future history spanning 5,000 years of human civilization. A blockbuster space opera of the rebellion between Earth and its far-flung colonies, it is a classic science fiction masterwork.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57045.Downbelow_Station"}, +{"book_title": "The Mountains of Mourning", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 6958, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "[A Miles Vorkosigan Story] Twenty year old Ensign Miles Vorkosigan plays detective in a murder case, and tests the balance of power as a member of the Barrayaran nobility. [Publisher's Note: The Mountains of Mourning was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the May 1989 issue of Analog. It was then included as the first of three novellas that make up the novel Borders of Infinity (October 1989). For the novel, Ms. Bujold added a short \"framing story\" that tied the three novellas together by setting up each one as a flashback that Miles experiences while recovering from bone-replacement surgery. Fictionwise is publishing these novellas separately, but we decided to leave in Ms. Bujold's short framing story for those who may also wish to read the other two novellas (Labyrinth and The Borders of Infinity).] Locus Poll Award Nominee, Nebula Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner, SF Chronicle Poll Nominee", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novella", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29739795-the-mountains-of-mourning"}, +{"book_title": "Leviathan Rising", "author_name": "Jonathan Green", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 161, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo. Welcome to Magna Britannia, a steam driven world full of fantastical creations and shady villains. Here dashing dandies and mustachioed villains battle for supremacy while below the city strange things stir in the flooded tunnels of the old London Underground. Around the world in eighty days in style! This proud claim, made by the Carcharodon Shipping Company, is about to be put to the test as its newest and most magnificent submersible cruise liner, the Neptune, sets sail on its maiden voyage around the world. Among the great and the good who have been invited to join this historic cruise is Ulysses Quicksilver, dandy adventurer and hero of Magna Britannia, enjoying a well-deserved sojourn after the traumatic events of Queen Victoria's 160th jubilee celebrations. But something is waiting in the depths. Something that threatens the Empire itself!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3300106-leviathan-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Carpe Diem", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 2205, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "On the run from assassins, Val Con yos'Phelium and Miri Robertson are stranded on a distant planet and must learn to trust each other if they're going to survive - and learn to love each other if they're going to heal the dark wounds of their past.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1103881.Carpe_Diem"}, +{"book_title": "Attack on Titan, Vol. 4", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 14823, "review_number": 504, "book_description": "HUMANITY PUSHES BACK! \u00a0 The Survey Corps develop a risky gambit \u2013 have Eren in Titan form attempt to repair Wall Rose, reclaiming human territory from the monsters for the first time in a century. But Titan-Eren\u2019s self-control is far from perfect, and when he goes on a rampage, not even Armin can stop him! With the survival of humanity on his massive shoulders, will Eren be able to return to his senses, or will he lose himself forever?Chapters list :14. Primitive Desire15. One by One16. Necessity17. Delusions of Strength18. What Should I Do Now?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15798166-attack-on-titan-vol-4"}, +{"book_title": "Escape from Sentai Mountain (Exo-force Chapter Book #1", "author_name": "Greg Farshtey", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 26, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Exo-Force is LEGO's new A-list property for boys 6-9Exo-Force is a valiant team of young heroes who pit their skill, their intelligence, and the power of their armor against their merciless robotic enemies.ExoForce is about conflict, heroes, and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/823774.Escape_from_Sentai_Mountain"}, +{"book_title": "Chobits, Vol. 3", "author_name": "CLAMP", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 5887, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Computers are supposed to make people's lives easier, but as Hideki is quickly finding out, taking care of your computer can be a full-time job! Regardless, Hideki is thrilled to have a persocom of his own - the enigmatic Chi - even if she isn't as user-friendly as other computers. His friends tell him that Chi is a supercomputer, possibly a legendary Chobit - an AI. That would explian why she acts so human. Maybe she's a little too human. The more time Hideki spends with Chi, the more it feels like an actual relationship. But as Chi's feelings for Hideki intensify, she begins to unlock the secrets of her past...secrets that are better left forgotten.Chapters 25-36", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In (Anime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/667987.Chobits_Vol_3"}, +{"book_title": "The Stars at War", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 997, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Crusade: Neither side in the Human-Orion war was strong enough to defeat the other, so it fizzled into an uneasy peace filled with hatred and mistrust on both sides. Then a ship appeared from the dim mists of half-forgotten history, and fired on the Orion sentry ship, igniting the fires of interstellar war anew, in a quest to free Holy Mother Terra.In Death Ground: The human race and two other star traveling races had warred with each other in the past, but now all three are at peace-a peace which is shattered by the discovery of a fourth race, the \"Bugs.\" The newcomers are mind-numbingly alien in their thought processes, have overwhelming numbers, and regard all other species as fit only to be food animals. There is no hope for peace with the invaders, and the galaxy explodes with a battle to the death. Kill-or be eaten!", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504377.The_Stars_at_War"}, +{"book_title": "Water World Warrior", "author_name": "Lisa Lace", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 907, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "Why would I want to be married to an alien? I should not have applied to TerraMates. The idea was crazy. I'm a young woman, in the prime of my life. But I was desperate. When I landed on another world, his appearance intrigued me. He dripped sexuality and moved like an animal. We have three days together before he sets sail without me. Am I going to escape or submit to my desires?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26308362-water-world-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Master Class", "author_name": "Christina Dalcher", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 3243, "review_number": 762, "book_description": "Every child's potential is regularly determined by a standardized measurement: their quotient (Q). Score high enough, and attend a top tier school with a golden future. Score too low, and it's off to a federal boarding school with limited prospects afterwards. The purpose? An improved society where education costs drop, teachers focus on the more promising students, and parents are happy.Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state's elite schools. When her nine-year-old daughter bombs a monthly test and her Q score drops to a disastrously low level, she is immediately forced to leave her top school for a federal institution hundreds of miles away. As a teacher, Elena thought she understood the tiered educational system, but as a mother whose child is now gone, Elena's perspective is changed forever. She just wants her daughter back.And she will do the unthinkable to make it happen.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Family", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49878332-master-class"}, +{"book_title": "The Rules", "author_name": "Stacey Kade", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 5930, "review_number": 621, "book_description": "1. Never trust anyone.2. Remember they are always searching.3. Don\u2019t get involved.4. Keep your head down.5. Don\u2019t fall in love.Five simple rules. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result of combining human and extraterrestrial DNA. Ariane\u2019s survival\u2014and that of her adoptive father\u2014depends on her ability to blend in among the full-blooded humans in a small Wisconsin town, to hide in plain sight at her high school from those who seek to recover their lost (and expensive) \u201cproject.\u201dBut when a cruel prank at school goes awry, it puts her in the path of Zane Bradshaw, the police chief\u2019s son and someone who sees too much. Someone who really sees her. After years of trying to be invisible, Ariane finds the attention frightening\u2014and utterly intoxicating. Suddenly, nothing is simple anymore, especially not the rules\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11640957-the-rules"}, +{"book_title": "Uglies", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 574559, "review_number": 23779, "book_description": "Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, she'll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world\u2014and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally's choice will change her world forever....", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24770.Uglies"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 26317, "review_number": 617, "book_description": "The fourth collection of the acclaimed Vertigo series, Y: THE LAST MAN: SAFEWORD reprints issues #18-23 of writer Brian K. Vaughan's and artist Pia Guerra's dynamic series. As the Last Man on Earth and his companions continue to head West, the story takes a detour into the psychological.In the care of a fellow Culper Ring member, Yorick Brown is forced to confront his tremendous feelings of survivor guilt that lead him to constantly put his life in danger. Once on the road again, the group runs up against a literal roadblock in Arizona, where the female remains of the Sons of Arizona militia have cut the interstate to keep out any vestiges of the U.S. government.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184040.Y"}, +{"book_title": "After the End of the World", "author_name": "Jonathan L. Howard", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1781, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "The second installment in a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV.The Unfolded World is a bitter and unfriendly place for Daniel Carter and Emily Lovecraft. In this world, the Cold War never happened because the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1941. In this world the Nazi Gro\u00dfdeutschland is the premier superpower, and is not merely tolerated but indulged because, in this world, the Holocaust happened behind the ruins of the Iron Curtain and consumed only Bolsheviks, Communists, and others the West was glad to see gone. In this world, there are monsters, and not all of them are human. But even in the Unfolded World, there are still bills to pay and jobs to do. Carter finds himself working for the German secret security service to uncover the truth behind a major scientific joint project that is going suspiciously well. The trail takes Lovecraft and him to a distant, abandoned island, and a conspiracy that threatens everything. To fight it, Lovecraft must walk a perilously narrow path between forbidden knowledge and soul-destroying insanity.Fortunately, she also has a shotgun.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33574101-after-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Dead in the Family", "author_name": "Charlaine Harris", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 153708, "review_number": 5586, "book_description": "It's all about family ...Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric's vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric's 'brother' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie's tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton.In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7091488-dead-in-the-family"}, +{"book_title": "Broken", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 104, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Urban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist ***fourth episode of the nine-part serial*** What\u2019s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more \u201cworthy\u201d\u2026 all while paying the price with black marks on their souls.Broken is approximately 15,000 words or 60 pages, and is the fourth of nine episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial.Lirium tries to free himself and Ophelia from the Kolek mob, but Valac has other plans for him.Contains mature content and themes.OPTIONED FOR VIRTUAL REALITY BY IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT 2014 Semi-Finalist in Science Fiction in the Kindle Book AwardsIt is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series. There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together. READING ORDERSeason One \u2013 Lirium - COMPLETEEpisodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, PassionSeason Two \u2013 Wraith **available for pre-order** releases 12.15.14Episodes 10-18: Wraith, Specter, Menace, Temptation, Shattered, Penance, Judgment, Corruption, Atonement", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17827014-broken"}, +{"book_title": "Target Practice", "author_name": "Mike Maihack", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 7230, "review_number": 542, "book_description": "A funny, action-packed graphic novel featuring a young Cleopatra -- yes, THAT Cleopatra -- who's transported to the future and learns it's up to her to save the galaxy! When a young Cleopatra (yes, THAT Cleopatra) finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future, she learns of an ancient prophecy that says she is destined to save the galaxy from the tyrannical rule of the evil Xaius Octavian. She enrolls in Yasiro Academy, a high-tech school with classes like algebra, biology, and alien languages (which Cleo could do without), and combat training (which is more Cleo's style). With help from her teacher Khensu, Cleo learns what it takes to be a great leader, all while trying to figure out how she's going to get her homework done, make friends, and avoid detention! \u00a0", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18527488-target-practice"}, +{"book_title": "No Guns Life", "author_name": "Tasuku Karasuma", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "J\u00fbz\u00f4 Inui est un extend : on lui a implant\u00e9 un revolver \u00e0 la place de la t\u00eate. Depuis la grande guerre, il gagne sa vie dans cette ville grouillante d'autres extends, d'autres individus b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiant, comme lui, d'extensions m\u00e9caniques. Son business ? R\u00e9soudre des affaires dans lesquelles des extends sont impliqu\u00e9s. Un jour, J\u00fbz\u00f4 re\u00e7oit l'\u00e9trange visite d'un homme poursuivi par la police pour kidnapping. Il demande \u00e0 J\u00fbz\u00f4 de prot\u00e9ger l'enfant qu'il a enlev\u00e9... !! Toutefois la gigantesque multinationale Beruhren va entrer dans le jeu... J\u00fbzo est loin de se douter du gu\u00eapier dans lequel il vient de fourrer son nez !", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Action", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34349299-no-guns-life"}, +{"book_title": "The Locket", "author_name": "Stacey Jay", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1060, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "On her seventeenth birthday, Katie discovers a locket and decides to wear it for good luck. But when her boyfriend Isaac finds out she cheated on him - with their mutual best friend Mitch, no less - he dumps her, leaving her devastated. And then a miracle happens. The locket burns on Katie's chest and she feels herself going back two weeks in time, to the night she cheated with Mitch. At first, Kate is delighted to be a better girlfriend to Isaac this time around. But as other aspects of her life become inexplicably altered, she realizes that changing the past may have had a dangerous effect on her present. Can she make things right before the locket destroys everything - and everyone - she loves?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8608453-the-locket"}, +{"book_title": "Frankenstein: The 1818 Text", "author_name": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1198844, "review_number": 35219, "book_description": "Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monsterThis edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.", "year_published": 1818, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Gothic", "Fantasy", "Academic (School)", "Literature", "Novels", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35031085-frankenstein"}, +{"book_title": "The Woman Who Rides Like a Man", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 76636, "review_number": 1653, "book_description": "\"Let her prove herself worthy as a man.\" Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove herself in a duel to the death -- either she will be killed or she will be inducted into the tribe. Although she triumphs, dire challenges lie ahead. As her mythic fate would have it, Alanna soon becomes the tribe's first female shaman -- despite the desert dwellers' grave fear of the foreign woman warrior. Alanna must fight to change the ancient tribal customs of the desert tribes -- for their sake and for the sake of all Tortall. Alanna's journey continues...", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13830.The_Woman_Who_Rides_Like_a_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Countdown: The Liberators", "author_name": "Tom Kratman", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 295, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Back in ActionOld Soldiers never die...except inside, when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose.And then comes the knock on the door: \"Our leader's son and heir has been kidnapped. We don't know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed. But money is no object.\"And then old soldiers - sailor and airmen, too - stop fading away and come back into sharp focus.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "War", "Action", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8329329-countdown"}, +{"book_title": "The Farm", "author_name": "Emily McKay", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 4574, "review_number": 745, "book_description": "Life was different in the Before: before vampires began devouring humans in a swarm across America; before the surviving young people were rounded up and quarantined. These days, we know what those quarantines are\u2014holding pens where human blood is turned into more food for the undead monsters, known as Ticks. Surrounded by electrical fences, most kids try to survive the Farms by turning on each other\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542868-the-farm"}, +{"book_title": "Tales From the Clarke", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2705, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Captain Sophia Coloma of the Clarke has a simple task: Ferry around representatives from Earth in an aging spaceship that the Colonial Union hopes to sell to them. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and Coloma discovers the ship she's showing off holds suprises of its own...and it's not the only one with secrets.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180357-tales-from-the-clarke"}, +{"book_title": "The Precipice", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1463, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing.Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph, he doesn't care if Earth perishes in the process. And he knows that the perfect bait to ensnare Dan Randolph--and take control of Astro--is his revolutionary new fusion propulsion system.As Randolph--accompanied by two fascinating women who are also brilliant astronauts--flies out to the Asteroid Belt aboard a fusion-propelled spacecraft, Humphries makes his move. The future of mankind lies in Randolph's hands.The Asteroid Wars have begun.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267302.The_Precipice"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Death", "author_name": "Michael Atamanov", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1156, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Playing by the book? That\u2019s not how we do it! In his attempt to delay his appearance in Emperor\u2019s court, Crown Prince Georg triggers an alien invasion of his own star system. The whole of the Empire watches the live broadcast with bated breath as his fleet battles the awesome invaders. The Iseyeks - gigantic sentient praying mantises - are suitably impressed too, so they promptly remind the Crown Prince of his allied duties. The Sector Eight Fleet hurries to the Swarm\u2019s aid\u2026 but sadly disregards the insects\u2019 hive mentality.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29072894-beyond-death"}, +{"book_title": "Internment", "author_name": "Samira Ahmed", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 12579, "review_number": 2889, "book_description": "Rebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp's Director and his guards.Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Realistic Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Social Movements (Social Justice)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38167114-internment"}, +{"book_title": "Proper Gauge", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 11743, "review_number": 557, "book_description": "A cleaning has been performed, and now the silo is without a sheriff. With only one good candidate available, Mayor Jahns and Deputy Mames set off for the Down Deep to recruit her in person. Along the way, they discover much about each other, troubling news about this candidate, and stumble upon fractured alliances that could spell the doom of a silo they've worked long years to protect.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13178410-proper-gauge"}, +{"book_title": "Love Beyond Time", "author_name": "Bethany Claire", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 5957, "review_number": 526, "book_description": "It began nearly four hundred years ago. The Conall clan and all their people were murdered in a surprise attack, their beloved castle and all evidence of who destroyed them burned to the ground with their bodies. In the centuries following, archaeologists searched through the ruins looking for any evidence of what or who had caused the untimely demise of such a powerful Scottish clan. All efforts were fruitless, until a spell put in place by an ancient Conall ancestor finally began to work its magic...Texas kindergarten teacher, Brielle Montgomery, finds comfort in the mundane routines of her life, but when her archaeologist mother asks her to accompany her on a dig in Scotland, she decides to step out of her comfort zone. Once in Scotland, they discover a secret spell room below the castle ruins, and Bri finds herself transported back in time and suddenly married to the castle's ill-fated Laird. Now, she must work to change the fate of his people, all while trying to find a way to return to her home and century. But with each passing day, Bri finds herself falling more deeply in love with her new husband. If she can find a spell to bring her home, will she use it? And if she stays, will it ultimately mean her own death as well?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18868749-love-beyond-time"}, +{"book_title": "Wall-E: Recharge (Disney Pixar (Quality", "author_name": "J. Torres", "rating_score": 3.1, "rating_votes": 48, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "The story doesn't end when the credits roll Fans get to join WALL-E on another adventure through the distant future set before the events of the blockbuster film", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7102319-wall-e"}, +{"book_title": "Cordelia's Honor", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 13238, "review_number": 571, "book_description": "In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan - he who was called \"The Butcher of Komarr\" - and would consequently become an outcast on her own planet and the Lady Vorkosigan on his. Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But when the Emperor died, Aral suddenly became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar - and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war that was reminiscent of earth's Middle Ages, but fought with up-to-the minute biowar technology. Neither Aral nor Cordelia guessed the part that their cell-damaged unborn son would play in Barrayar's bloody legacy. This edition includes an author's afterword, and a chronology of the events in the Vorkosigan Saga series. Cover art by Gary Ruddell.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61900.Cordelia_s_Honor"}, +{"book_title": "Hex Hall", "author_name": "Rachel Hawkins", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 138221, "review_number": 8446, "book_description": "Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father\u2014an elusive European warlock\u2014only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tag-along ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect. As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5287473-hex-hall"}, +{"book_title": "Ravenor", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 3977, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Dan Abnett's action-packed novel leaps into the fray as genius psyker Gideon Ravenor and his trusted war-band of desperados hunt down the secretive enemies of mankind.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1052311.Ravenor"}, +{"book_title": "Intrepid", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 3151, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Kris Longknife has been assigned to The Wasp, the best warship beyond the Rim of Human Space. But while hunting for pirates, Kris stumbles upon something. It's a plan to kill one of the members of the aristocratic Peterwald family --and the would-be killers are setting her up as the assassin.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3405948-intrepid"}, +{"book_title": "For All Time", "author_name": "Caroline B. Cooney", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1715, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She\u2019s traveled through it before, but always at Time\u2019s bidding. Now she is asking Time to take her to the year 1899, when Strat is in Cairo. But Time doesn\u2019t like to be tested. In what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt, thousands of years before Strat was born \u2014 to a world far removed from the one she knows. Meanwhile, in 1899, Strat is photographing the same pyramids that Annie walks among. But while Strat eagerly awaits Annie\u2019s arrival, another visitor arrives: his father, Hiram Stratton, Sr., has come to Egypt to collect his son.Powerless, Annie and Strat both look to Time. Can its force, which brought them together once, help them find each other again?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21187.For_All_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Flight", "author_name": "Sherman Alexie", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 15463, "review_number": 2193, "book_description": "Sherman Alexie is one of our most gifted and accomplished storytellers and a treasured writer of huge national stature. His first novel in ten years is the hilarious and tragic portrait of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful and swift, prose, Flight follows this troubled foster teenager--a boy who is not a \"legal\" Indian because he was never claimed by his father--as he learns that violence is not the answer.The journey for Flight's young hero begins as he's about to commit a massive act o violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, where he sees why \"Hell is Re driver, Idaho, in the 1970s.\" Red River is only the first stop in an eye-opening trip through moments in American history. He will continue traveling back to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then ride with an Indian tracker in the nineteenth century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these furious travels through time, his refrain grows: \"Who's to judge?\" and \"I don't understand humans.\" When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own life, he is mightily transformed by all he has seen.This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant--making us laugh while he's breaking our hearts. Time Out has said that \"Alexie, like his characters, is on a modern-day vision quest,\" and in Flight he seeks nothing less than an understanding of why human beings hate. Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking Alexie.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Novels", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52872.Flight"}, +{"book_title": "2095", "author_name": "Jon Scieszka", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 756, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Everyone\u2019s favorite time-travelers are changing their styles!\u00a0 The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka\u2019s wacky brand of humor.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/858726.2095"}, +{"book_title": "Until Morning Comes", "author_name": "J.T. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 387, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Secret Service Agent Carlie Simmons began her day surrounded by trusted colleagues in an inter-agency shooting competition in Tucson. It ended with a staggering body count as the world around her unraveled from a deadly virus. With her mission to extract the President\u2019s daughter from the University of Arizona gone awry, she must choose between her sworn duties and her moral obligations to others as the city is overtaken by roving packs of flesh-eating mutants. If she and her small group are to survive the night and find a way out of the ravaged city, she will have to summon all of her training, mental prowess, and tactical abilities.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23514437-until-morning-comes"}, +{"book_title": "A Tale of Two Centuries", "author_name": "Rachel Harris", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1446, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "Alessandra D\u2019Angeli is in need of an adventure. Tired of her sixteenth-century life in Italy and homesick for her time-traveling cousin, Cat, who visited her for a magical week and dazzled her with tales of the future, Alessandra is lost. Until the stars hear her plea. One mystical spell later, Alessandra appears on Cat\u2019s Beverly Hills doorstep five hundred years in the future. Surrounded by confusing gadgets, scary transportation, and scandalous clothing, Less is hesitant to live the life of a twenty-first century teen\u2026until she meets the infuriating\u2014and infuriatingly handsome\u2014surfer Austin Michaels. Austin challenges everything she believes in\u2026and introduces her to a world filled with possibility. With the clock ticking, Less knows she must live every moment of her modern life while she still can. But how will she return to the drab life of her past when the future is what holds everything she\u2019s come to love?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Historical", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15714722-a-tale-of-two-centuries"}, +{"book_title": "Never Fade", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 79698, "review_number": 6818, "book_description": "Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children\u2019s League call Ruby \u201cLeader\u201d, but she knows what she really is: a monster. When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving the Children\u2019s League behind. Crucial information about the disease that killed most of America\u2019s children\u2014and turned Ruby and the others who lived into feared and hated outcasts\u2014has survived every attempt to destroy it. But the truth is only saved in one place: a flashdrive in the hands of Liam Stewart, the boy Ruby once believed was her future\u2014and who now wouldn\u2019t recognize her. As Ruby sets out across a desperate, lawless country to find Liam\u2014and answers about the catastrophe that has ripped both her life and America apart\u2014she is torn between old friends and the promise she made to serve the League. Ruby will do anything to protect the people she loves. But what if winning the war means losing herself?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16150830-never-fade"}, +{"book_title": "Sweeter Savage Love", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 463, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "THE STROKE OF SURPRISINGLY GENTLE HANDS ...THE FLASH OF FATHOMLESS BLUE EYES ...THE SCORCH OF WHITE-HOT KISSES ...And once again, Harriet Ginoza was swept away into rapturous fantasy. The up-to-date psychologist knew the object of her desire was all she should despise, yet time after time, she lost herself in visions of a dangerously handsome rogue straight out of a historical romance.As politically incorrect as her dream lover was, Harriet never believed he would cause her any trouble. Then a twist of fate cast her back to the Old South, and she met him in the flesh. But to her disappointment, Etienne Baptiste refused to ravish her --- or fulfill her other secret wishes. If Harriet had any hope of making her amorous illusions become passionate reality, she'd have to seduce the charming Creole with a sweeter savage love than she'd imagined possible ... and savor every minute of it.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Humor", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967176.Sweeter_Savage_Love"}, +{"book_title": "Leopard In Exile", "author_name": "Andre Norton", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 260, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Under King Charles II, England's New World colonies are flourishing, as is France's colony Louisianne. Napolean is the dreaded Master of the European continent . . . And Sarah Cunningham, a woman from our own world, knows all too well what a difference this makes, for not long ago she was ripped from her life as a United States citizen in our history.Sarah, now the Duchess of Wessex, journeys to North America with her new husband, the Duke--but this is no pleasure trip. The fate of the world--New and Old--rests on her saving her friend Meriel, rescuing Louis, rightful King of France, from the clutches of the Marquis de Sade, and finding the Holy Grail. But she and her beloved Duke are beset by perils that will test their strength and spirit to the utmost.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/462449.Leopard_In_Exile"}, +{"book_title": "A Plague Upon Your Family", "author_name": "Mark Tufo", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 7038, "review_number": 313, "book_description": "This story picks up exactly where book one left off. The Talbot family is evacuating their home amidst a zombie apocalypse. Mankind is on the edge of extinction as a new dominant, mindless opponent scours in search of food, which happens to be non-infected humans.In these pages are the journal entries of Michael Talbot, his wife Tracy, their kids Nicole, Justin and Travis. With them are Brendon, Nicole's Fiancee and Tommy previously a Wal-Mart door greeter who may be more than he seems. Together they struggle against a ruthless, relentless enemy that has singled them out above all others.The Talbots have escaped Little Turtle but to what end, on the run they find themselves encountering a far vaster evil than the one that has already beset them. As they travel across the war torn countryside they soon learn that there are more than just zombies to be fearful of, with law and order a distant memory some humans have decided to take any and all matters into their own hands. Can the Talbots come through unscathed or will they suffer the fate of so many countless millions before them. It's not just the brains versus the brain-eaters anymore. The stakes may be higher than merely life and death with eternal souls on the line.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15756383-a-plague-upon-your-family"}, +{"book_title": "The City of Mirrors", "author_name": "Justin Cronin", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 46868, "review_number": 4978, "book_description": "The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew\u2014and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy\u2014humanity\u2019s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26891429-the-city-of-mirrors"}, +{"book_title": "The Devil's Nebula", "author_name": "Eric Brown", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 350, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Best-selling author Eric Brown has created a brand new shared world for Abaddon Books: Weird Space. This thrilling space-opera series will begin with the release of The Devil's Nebula. Brown will introduce readers to the human smugglers, veterans and ne\u2019erdowells who are part of the Expansion \u2013 and their uneasy neighbours, the Vetch Empire. When an evil race threatens not only the Expansion, but the Vetch too - an evil from another dimension which infests humans and Vetch alike and bends individuals to do their hideous bidding, only cooperation between them means the difference between a chance of survival and no chance at all.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12987260-the-devil-s-nebula"}, +{"book_title": "After the End", "author_name": "Bonnie Dee", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 873, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "The end of the world is only the beginning. Zombies are on the loose and the world is falling apart. In the tradition of apocalyptic novels such as Stephen King\u2019s THE STAND, a group of strangers on a Manhattan subway are brought together in the name of survival. The group follows the lead of Ari Brenner, a young man who doesn\u2019t recognize his own leadership qualities and believes they follow him simply because he wears an army uniform. Lila Teske, a college student studying philosophy, finds her non-violent beliefs tested in the crucible of a zombie attack. There are other members of the diverse group, but the focus of the story is on Ari and Lila, two young people who learn about sacrifice and inner strength through the ordeal. With the city\u2019s infrastructure down and communication with the outside world curtailed the survivors head toward the nearest marina. When they meet a lab tech who may have a solution to the virus, they know his safety is paramount and it\u2019s more important than ever that they get off the island. But zombies aren\u2019t the only danger that impedes them on their perilous journey.Be sure to check out the exciting sequel, Dead Country, about a new set of characters surviving zombies in the Midwest plains.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8286238-after-the-end"}, +{"book_title": "Outbound Flight", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 11795, "review_number": 440, "book_description": "It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery\u2013only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable\u2013and doomed\u2013Outbound Flight Project.The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C\u2019baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and fifty thousand men, women, and children will embark\u2013aboard a gargantuan vessel, equipped for years of travel\u2013on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy. The government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even start\u2013until Master C\u2019baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.Or so it would seem. For unknown to the famed Jedi Master, the successful launch of the mission is secretly being orchestrated by an unlikely ally: the evil Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, who has his own reasons for wanting Outbound Flight to move forward . . . and, ultimately, to fail. Yet Darth Sidious is not the mission\u2019s most dangerous challenge. Once underway, the starship crosses paths at the edge of Unknown Space with the forces of the alien Chiss Ascendancy and the brilliant mastermind best known as \u201cThrawn.\u201d Even Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, aboard Outbound Flight with his young Padawan student, Anakin Skywalker, cannot help avert disaster. Thus what begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival against staggering odds\u2013and the most diabolical of adversaries.Timothy Zahn\u2019s unique mix of espionage, political gamesmanship, and deadly interstellar combat breathes electrifying life into a Star Wars legend.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Novels", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192523.Outbound_Flight"}, +{"book_title": "Chasm City", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 21391, "review_number": 823, "book_description": "The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -from the people to the very buildings they inhabit- only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a low-life postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89185.Chasm_City"}, +{"book_title": "The Unidentified", "author_name": "Rae Mariz", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 4158, "review_number": 518, "book_description": "Kid knows her school\u2019s corporate sponsors not-so-secretly monitor her friendships and activities for market research. It\u2019s all a part of the Game; the alternative education system designed to use the addictive kick from video games to encourage academic learning. Everyday, a captive audience of students ages 13-17 enter the nationwide chain store-like Game locations to play.When a group calling themselves The Unidentified simulates a suicide to protest the power structure of their school, Kid\u2019s investigation into their pranks attracts unwanted attention from the sponsors. As Kid finds out she doesn't have rights to her ideas, her privacy, or identity, she and her friends look for a way to revolt in a place where all acts of rebellion are just spun into the next new ad campaign.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance", "Mystery", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7011735-the-unidentified"}, +{"book_title": "Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 5", "author_name": "Hiroki Endo", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 372, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Backed by their military might and mutated Aeon soldiers, Propater forces continue to seek possession of our planet. They also seek to maintain possession of a body stuck in suspended animation \u2014 a body whose consciousness has just been downloaded into outlaw Sophia\u2019s sophisticated, cyber-enhanced system. Sophia lost her body years ago, with only her brain surviving the flesh-destroying plague that decimated the world. Will she risk her own existence for a chance to reunite Maya\u2019s body with his mind? Hiroki Endo delivers another deep, poignant character study, before sending readers into a brilliant, carnage-filled showdown between Propater mercenaries, a crime cartel, Colonel Khan\u2019s renegade crew, and a struggling, post-apocalyptic police force! To make matters worse, Elijah enlists the aid of an old friend and plans an ambush at a Gnosian airport. Desperate, young Elijah seeks a reunion of a different sort... and he\u2019ll kill anyone who stands in his way!", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Cultural (France)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/590825.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Tomorrow Factory: Collected Fiction", "author_name": "Rich Larson", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 174, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Twenty-three stories from one of speculative fiction\u2019s up-and-coming stars, Pushcart and Journey Prize-nominated author Rich Larson.Welcome to the Tomorrow Factory. On your left, post-human hedonists on a distant space station bring diseases back in fashion, two scavengers find a super-powered parasite under the waves of Sunk Seattle, and a terminally-ill chemist orchestrates an asteroid prison break. On your right, an alien optometrist spins illusions for irradiated survivors of the apocalypse, a high-tech grifter meets his match in near-future Thailand, and two teens use a blackmarket personality mod to get into the year\u2019s wickedest, wildest party. This collection of published and original fiction by award-winning writer Rich Larson will bring you from a Bujumbura cyberpunk junkyard to the icy depths of Europa, from the slick streets of future-noir Chicago to a tropical island of sapient robots. You'll explore a mysterious ghost ship in deep space, meet an android learning to dream, and fend off predatory alien fungi on a combat mission gone wrong. Twenty-three futures, ranging from grimy cyberpunk to far-flung space opera, are waiting to blow you away. So step inside the Tomorrow Factory, and mind your head.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36949914-tomorrow-factory"}, +{"book_title": "Sleepless", "author_name": "Richard Parry", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 12, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "If sleeping meant dying, could you stay awake forever? Jennifer Prescott is the commander of the Texas. She\u2019s hauled on the big starship for as long as anyone that matters. On a routine voyage, things start to go wrong. For starters? There\u2019s that damned sound. It\u2019s everywhere, making the Texas shake like a terrified child. If it was just the sound, it\u2019d mean a call to maintenance. Hard words for a soft set of hands. And that\u2019s how Jennifer had started fixing things. And how she\u2019d continued, right up until people started dying. Flying through the hard black where a thin sliver of metal is all that\u2019s between you and the void, can Jennifer keep the crew alive \u2014 and awake \u2014 long enough to get to safe harbor? Sleepless was one of the first stories I wrote when finding my writer\u2019s legs. A couple of friends asked me about it, and then told me they could stand to see a little more. It\u2019s the work that inspired the upcoming Tyche\u2019s Journey trilogy. There are definitely copies of it out there in the wild, but they\u2019re rare enough to make you feel like the Chosen One if you find \u2018em. While short, this is sweet \u2014 a perfect accessory to those completists out there. I\u2019ve given it a quick edit but have left it more or less how it all started. I\u2019d write it differently now, but let\u2019s not do a Han-shot-second and screw it up, yeah? I hope you all enjoy it! \u2014 Richard Parry", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35993749-sleepless"}, +{"book_title": "Spurn", "author_name": "Jaymin Eve", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 4382, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "A paranormal romance series.An epic journey.If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?Book two in the Walker Saga follows Abigail and her friends as they tame the world of Spurn.\u2018Go to Spurn,\u2019 she was told.Oh, and by the way the planet is ninety-five percent water and the inhabitants are hybrid fish. Of course, no one seems to care that Abigail can\u2019t swim.Surprisingly, jetting off to a water planet is not the weirdest thing to happen this week. But she\u2019s on a deadline to the find the first half-Walker girl, as the very essences of the seven worlds are starting to unravel. And with each Seventine release the chaos richochets further. Of course, with her Walker energy causing havoc and the savage Spurns ... well, it\u2019s safe to say nothing so far has gone to plan.And on top of that a bombshell she did not see coming.Secrets are revealed and loyalties challenged but with her best friend and soul mate by her side, can she really lose out?Crais - the burning planet - book three in the Walker Saga (due for release early 2014)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "New Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18586584-spurn"}, +{"book_title": "Gal\u00e1pagos", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 71057, "review_number": 2909, "book_description": "Gal\u00e1pagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America\u2019s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry\u2014and all that is worth saving.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Humor", "Literature", "Novels", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9593.Gal_pagos"}, +{"book_title": "Sundered", "author_name": "Shannon Mayer", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2338, "review_number": 256, "book_description": "They were promised weight loss, the cure for Cancer, Parkinson\u2019s Disease and infertility; they were promised hope. The side effects were anything but hopeful. Mara and Sebastian are young, in love and newlyweds. Far too soon, they will face tests to their love that most others won\u2019t survive. Their bond strengthens with each loss, destruction and unbearable race against time. In each other, they find the will and hope to endure. Hand in hand, they will face the darkening of humanity with strength and integrity and an undeniable spirit to survive; together.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12505461-sundered"}, +{"book_title": "The Immersion Book of Steampunk", "author_name": "Gareth D. Jones", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 86, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, Welcome to the clockwork frontier. You are cordially invited on a trip to reclaim those lost and forgotten steam driven futures. Join the Immersion Book of Steampunk for an expedition through a new age of glorious industry. Encounter suffragette air-pirates, the art deco terror of imperial skies, unwrap the bullet-proof magic of a cynical prince, or discover the dark ensorcelled secrets of evolutionary public engineering. Newton and Nostradamus shape these worlds together, and that insistent ticking of a double-escapement could signal the portal to a new life in Her Majesty's Off World Colonies or the countdown of an anarchist's time-travelling bomb.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12603677-the-immersion-book-of-steampunk"}, +{"book_title": "The Beginning", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2144, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "This is it! Yeerk ships are pouring in from all ends of the galaxy. An all-out war for the planet has finally begun. The winner will control Earth. The loser will perish. The President of the United States is a Controller, and the Animorphs have been forced to rally their own military force of 5,000. Will this be enough to defeat the seemingly endless onslaught of Yeerks? Rachel has always prepared for the final battle. But is she too eager? It's her moment...and this time there will be no compromise!", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125344.The_Beginning"}, +{"book_title": "A Study in Ashes", "author_name": "Emma Jane Holloway", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1089, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "As part of her devil\u2019s bargain with the industrial steam barons, Evelina Cooper is finally enrolled in the Ladies\u2019 College of London. However, she\u2019s attending as the Gold King\u2019s pet magician, in handcuffs and forbidden contact with even her closest relation, the detective Sherlock Holmes.Not even Niccolo, the dashing pirate captain, and his sentient airship can save her. But Evelina\u2019s problems are only part of a larger war. The Baskerville Affair is finally coming to light, and the rebels are making their move to wrest power from the barons and restore it to Queen Victoria. Missing heirs and nightmare hounds are the order of the day\u2014or at least that\u2019s what Dr. Watson is telling the press.But their plans are doomed unless Evelina escapes to unite her magic with the rebels\u2019 machines\u2014and even then her powers aren\u2019t what they used to be. A sorcerer has awakened a dark hunger in Evelina\u2019s soul, and only he can keep her from endangering them all. The only problem is\u2026he\u2019s dead.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17264589-a-study-in-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Capturing Cara", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 4591, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "Cara Truman is a pint-size pistol whose inquisitive nature has gotten her into trouble on more than one occasion. Her next adventure takes her further than she even expected when she ends up on a journey out of this world.Trelon Reykill thought he had his hands full. A militant group of Curizans had captured his brother Zoran, he was busy trying to fortify the Valdire defenses against the Sarafin Warriors, and his dragon was roaring for him to find a mate. He was furious about the first, excited about the second, and pissed about the last. The last thing he expects to find on the primitive planet his brother has taken refuge on is his true mate. Now, he has a whole new set of problems\u2026capturing Cara long enough to make her his. His symbiosis loves her, his dragon wants her, and he can\u2019t catch her. On top of all that, someone is trying to kill her. His solution: Capture Cara and love her so well she will never want to escape him -if he can.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13702218-capturing-cara"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Dragonslayer", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 19683, "review_number": 2777, "book_description": "In the good old days, magic was indispensable\u2014it could both save a kingdom and clear a clogged drain. But now magic is fading: drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets are used for pizza delivery. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians\u2014but it\u2019s hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. And then the visions start, predicting the death of the world\u2019s last dragon at the hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer. If the visions are true, everything will change for Kazam\u2014and for Jennifer. Because something is coming. Something known as . . . Big Magic.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13316328-the-last-dragonslayer"}, +{"book_title": "Return of the Rose", "author_name": "Theresa Ragan", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1368, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Twin sisters are born in Medieval England. One of the infants is dying and is taken to the Witch of Devonshire, an old hag who uses supernatural powers to transport the ailing babe to the future. It is the year 1986 when Cathy Hayes, a woman who has lost her child and husband in a car accident, finds the baby at her doorstep, gets her the medical attention she needs, and raises the baby as her own. Morgan grows up in the twentieth century with a mysterious attraction to a hollow suit of armor that stands in the window of her mother\u2019s antique store. Morgan is twenty-four years old when she becomes entangled within the armor\u2019s metal plates and is whisked back in time.Morgan awakens in England. The year is 1444 and she is mistaken for Amanda Forrester, a twin sister she knows nothing about. In Amanda\u2019s place, Morgan is forced to marry King Henry\u2019s favored knight, Derek Vanguard, Lord of Braddock Hall. Abandoned by his mother and having failed as a child to gain his father\u2019s love, Derek\u2019s heart is as cold as the stone walls of his castle.Lord Vanguard\u2019s new bride insists she is not Amanda and shares incredible stories that make it difficult for him to trust her. But her humor and good cheer slowly cause the walls surrounding his heart to crumble.In the end, Morgan discovers the true power of love and for the first time in her life she knows where she belongs.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10737589-return-of-the-rose"}, +{"book_title": "The Nourisher", "author_name": "Mark Alders", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 869, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Drake Glauco, a successful lawyer, happily married to Jankin (the man of his dreams), has a perfect life...until he comes home one day to find his husband in the arms of another man. In the resulting argument, Drake storms out of his house only to be drugged and kidnapped by alien people smugglers! His perfect life is shattered as he uncovers the real reason for his kidnapping...He is to become an egg nourisher for a Priaxian incubator named Vernon!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10300132-the-nourisher"}, +{"book_title": "Castaways in Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1010, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "With a scarlet fever epidemic raging throughout London, a rogue baron on the loose, a new baby keeping him up at night, and a kingdom to run, the last thing David has time for is a trip to the twenty-first century. But as he should know by now, time waits for no man, not even the King of England...>Castaways in Time is the seventh novel in the After Cilmeri series. Other books in the series include a novella, Winds of Time, and six novels: Daughter of Time, Footsteps in Time, Prince of Time, Crossroads in Time, Children of Time, and Exiles in Time.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18810740-castaways-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "When Jack Goes Out", "author_name": "Pat Schories", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 79, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "When the \"Night Visitors\" return, they want to take Jack home with them. Will they succeed? The Night Visitors are back. The family doesn't know they've come. But their dog, Jack, does. Once they land, the space creatures unhook Jack's leash. They have a grand time playing with Jack and when it's time to return to their ship, they try to take Jack with them. Fortunately, Jack's collar is not built for space travel! This compelling, easy-to-follow, wordless picture book introduces pre-literate children to elements of story\u2014such as character, setting, and action\u2014and invites them to read the book on their own.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Animals (Dogs)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7688400-when-jack-goes-out"}, +{"book_title": "The Light Brigade", "author_name": "Kameron Hurley", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 6852, "review_number": 1242, "book_description": "From the Hugo Award\u00ad\u00ad\u2013winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.They said the war would turn us into light. I wanted to be counted among the heroes who gave us this better world. The Light Brigade: it\u2019s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back\u2026different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief\u2014no matter what actually happens during combat. Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don\u2019t sync up with the platoon\u2019s. And Dietz\u2019s bad drops tell a story of the war that\u2019s not at all what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think is going on. Is Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to untangle memory from mission brief and survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero\u2014or maybe a villain; in war it\u2019s hard to tell the difference. A worthy successor to classic stories like Downbelow Station, Starship Troopers, and The Forever War, The Light Brigade is award-winning author Kameron Hurley\u2019s gritty time-bending take on the future of war.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult", "LGBT", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40523931-the-light-brigade"}, +{"book_title": "Burn for Me", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 44236, "review_number": 4205, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews launches a brand new Hidden Legacy series, in which one woman must place her trust in a seductive, dangerous man who sets off an even more dangerous desire\u2026Nevada Baylor is faced with the most challenging case of her detective career\u2014a suicide mission to bring in a suspect in a volatile case. Nevada isn't sure she has the chops. Her quarry is a Prime, the highest rank of magic user, who can set anyone and anything on fire.Then she's kidnapped by Connor \"Mad\" Rogan\u2014a darkly tempting billionaire with equally devastating powers. Torn between wanting to run or surrender to their overwhelming attraction, Nevada must join forces with Rogan to stay alive.Rogan's after the same target, so he needs Nevada. But she's getting under his skin, making him care about someone other than himself for a change. And, as Rogan has learned, love can be as perilous as death, especially in the magic world.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20705702-burn-for-me"}, +{"book_title": "The Black God's Drums", "author_name": "P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 5472, "review_number": 1217, "book_description": "Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to soar, and her sights are set on securing passage aboard the smuggler airship Midnight Robber. Her ticket: earning Captain Ann-Marie\u2019s trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls The Black God\u2019s Drums.But Creeper keeps another secret close to heart--Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants her divine powers. And Oya has her own priorities concerning Creeper and Ann-Marie\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38118138-the-black-god-s-drums"}, +{"book_title": "Tin", "author_name": "P\u00e1draig Kenny", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 851, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "Christopher is 'Proper': a real boy with a real soul, orphaned in a fire. He works for an engineer, a maker of the eccentric, loyal and totally individual mechanicals who are Christopher's best friends. But after a devastating accident, a secret is revealed and Christopher's world is changed for ever... What follows is a remarkable adventure, as Christopher discovers who he really is, and what it means to be human.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Historical", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36298280-tin"}, +{"book_title": "The Proposal", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2114, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "The Yeerks are stepping up their invasion tactics. And Marco has problems of his own. His dad is starting to date. But Marco knows his mother might still be alive.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363393.The_Proposal"}, +{"book_title": "Brothers in Valor", "author_name": "H. Paul Honsinger", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 2722, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "It is the year 2315, the 33rd year of the Krag Wars. The tide has been running against humankind and its allies. One small destroyer, the USS Cumberland, under the command of its young Cajun skipper, Max Robichaux, fights along with the rest of the Union and Allied navies to preserve the very existence of the human race.Having delivered the Union's response to the Krag ultimatum, the USS Cumberland is ambushed on its way home by an overwhelmingly powerful enemy task force. Max, with the brilliant Dr. Ibrahim Sahin at his side as ship's surgeon, adviser, and friend, must use all his skill to defeat the enemy, only to find that Admiral Hornmeyer has an even more challenging mission for the destroyer and her intrepid crew. The Cumberland must slip deep into enemy held space and attack a key fuel and supply depot that the Krag must have to defeat an upcoming Union and allied offensive. And, if Max and his crew survive that, they must then hunt down a brilliant and elusive Krag commander, code named \"Admiral Birch\" to prevent him from masterminding the Krag defense to the impending attack.Oh, and one more thing, not only is Admiral Birch hopping from star system to star system in an armed convoy, there is a very good chance that the whole mission is an elaborate trap designed to destroy the Cumberland and kill its promising new commander. \"Brothers in Valor\" is the third volume of the \"Man of War\" military science fiction trilogy. It concludes the first phase of the continuing story of Captain Max Robichaux and Dr. Ibrahim Sahin during the Krag Wars, and sets up the next cycle of the story--the \"Brothers of the Black Sky\" trilogy, the first volume of which, \"To Stations My Lads\" is due out in late 2015.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24434325-brothers-in-valor"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Paradox", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 82925, "review_number": 2308, "book_description": "8After disappearing for three years, Artemis Fowl has returned to a life different from the one he left. Now he's a big brother, and spends his days teaching his twin siblings the important things in life, such as how to properly summon a waiter at a French restaurant.But when Artemis Fowl's mother contracts a life-threatening illness, his world is turned upside down. The only hope for a cure lies in the brain fluid of the silky sifaka lemur. Unfortunately, the animal is extinct due to a heartless bargain Artemis himself made as a younger boy. Though the odds are stacked against him, Artemis is not willing to give up. With the help of his fairy friends, the young genius travels back in time to save the lemur and bring it back to the present. But to do so, Artemis will have to defeat a maniacal poacher, who has set his sights on new prey: Holly Short. The rules of time travel are far from simple, but to save his mother, Artemis will have to break them all.and outsmart his most cunning adversary yet: Artemis Fowl, age ten.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2179276.The_Time_Paradox"}, +{"book_title": "Naked to the Stars", "author_name": "Gordon R. Dickson", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 251, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "During an action on the third planet from Arcturus, soldier Cal Truent woke up in the hospital with a sixteen-hour hole in his memory. No one knows what it is that Cal has forgotten, but his superiors can't take the chance that it might be something deadly to his fellow soldiers -- and to Earth. Somehow Cal means to seek out whatever it is that his mind is resisting ...", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/664134.Naked_to_the_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "Double Eagle", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1266, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "In the blood soaked Sabbat worlds crusade, Warmaster Macaroth's Imperial Crusade Force is attempting to halt a massive counter attack led by the Chaos legions of the dread-lord Anakwanar Sek.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Yaoi (Boys Love)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58912.Double_Eagle"}, +{"book_title": "Space Opera", "author_name": "Catherynne M. Valente", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 11504, "review_number": 2550, "book_description": "IN SPACE EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SINGA century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding.Once every cycle, the civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix - part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Instead of competing in orbital combat, the powerful species that survived face off in a competition of song, dance, or whatever can be physically performed in an intergalactic talent show. The stakes are high for this new game, and everyone is forced to compete.This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny - they must sing.A one-hit-wonder band of human musicians, dancers and roadies from London - Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes - have been chosen to represent Earth on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of their species lies in their ability to rock.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Music"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24100285-space-opera"}, +{"book_title": "Gods & Legionnaires", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 347, "review_number": 38, "book_description": " The Battle Lines Are Drawn. The Coalition is reeling. New Vega and its other worlds have fallen beneath the boot of the newly allied Savage marines, and the death count continues to rise at a staggering rate. One thing is clear: the war to come will be a fight for the very survival of the species. For both sides in this conflict, now is the time to become what fate, and victory, demand. The Savages\u2014post-human monsters who believe themselves to be gods\u2014are intent on remaking civilization in their own violent and pathological image. Yet their alliance is tenuous. Among the many tribes of the Uplifted, as they call themselves, the struggle for supremacy rages on. All know that in the end there can be only one tribe. One leader. One truth. Meanwhile humanity\u2019s last, desperate hope is the formation of a new kind of fighting force: The Legion. Those select few who are hardy enough\u2014or foolish enough\u2014to undertake the relentless, grueling, and merciless candidate training will have the chance to be transformed into mythical heroes\u2026 or die trying. They will be pushed beyond their physical and mental limits as they seek to survive an unforgiving planet, lost and derelict ghost spaceships, and worst of all, the cold, unflinching brutality of Tyrus Rechs. At the end of this crucible, only the one percent of the one percent will earn the right to be called\u2026 \u2026 Legionnaires. \nAlso available in audio book format performed by Stephen Lang (Avatar, Tombstone), Galaxy\u2019s Edge: Gods & Legionnaires brings you into the mind of the Savage marines and shows you the heart required to enter the Legion in the second epic installment of Galaxy\u2019s Edge: Savage Wars!\n", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51608178-gods-legionnaires"}, +{"book_title": "The Gracekeepers", "author_name": "Kirsty Logan", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 6365, "review_number": 1241, "book_description": "For readers of The Night Circus and Station Eleven, a lyrical and absorbing debut set in a world covered by water.As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining in exchange for sustenance. In a world divided between those inhabiting the mainland (\"landlockers\") and those who float on the sea (\"damplings\"), loneliness has become a way of life for North and Callanish, until a sudden storm offshore brings change to both their lives - offering them a new understanding of the world they live in and the consequences of the past, while restoring hope in an unexpected future. Inspired in part by Scottish myths and fairytales, The Gracekeepers tells a modern story of an irreparably changed world: one that harbors the same isolation and sadness, but also joys and marvels of our own age.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23012481-the-gracekeepers"}, +{"book_title": "Geeger the Robot Goes to School", "author_name": "Jarrett Lerner", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 39, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The adventures of Geeger, a robot who goes to school for the very first time.Geeger the Robot is going to school. But not robot school\u2026a school with kids, the human kind! Geeger isn\u2019t used to human ways, and his zany misunderstandings and overly literal responses to instructions lead to quite a few mishaps. He\u2019s starting to wonder if he can even make it until snack time! Will a bot made of wires, nuts, and bolts fit in with a classroom of kids?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892278-geeger-the-robot-goes-to-school"}, +{"book_title": "Isolation", "author_name": "Dan Wells", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3757, "review_number": 319, "book_description": "Two decades before the events of Partials, the world was locked in a different battle for survival: a global war for the last remaining oil reserves on the planet. It was for the Isolation War that the American government contracted the ParaGen Corporation to manufacture the Partials\u2014our last hope in reclaiming energy independence from China. And it was on these fields of battle that the seeds of humanity's eventual destruction were sown.Isolation takes us back to the front lines of this war, a time when mankind's ambition far outstripped its foresight. Heron, a newly trained Partial soldier who specializes in infiltration, is sent on a mission deep behind enemy lines. What she discovers there has far-reaching implications\u2014not only for the Isolation War, but for Partials and humans alike long after this war is over.A powerful take of our world on the brink, Isolation gives readers a glimpse into the history from which Partials was born\u2014as well as clues to where the Partials Sequence is heading next.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novella", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13645264-isolation"}, +{"book_title": "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War", "author_name": "Max Brooks", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 452598, "review_number": 25951, "book_description": "The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, \"By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?\"Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8908.World_War_Z"}, +{"book_title": "The Doctor and the Kid", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 445, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Welcome to a West like you've never seen before! With the O. K. Corral and the battle with the thing that used to be Johnny Ringo behind him, the consumptive Doc Holliday makes his way to Deadwood, Colorado. But when a gambling loss drains his bankroll, Doc aims for quick cash as a bounty hunter. The biggest reward? Young, 20-year-old desperado known as Billy the Kid. With a steampunk twist on these classic characters, nothing can be as simple as it seems.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Westerns", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11291909-the-doctor-and-the-kid"}, +{"book_title": "Malik", "author_name": "Kiki Burrelli", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "All his life, Loshka has been trained to be one thing, a pleasure slave. Led by a higher calling, he was taught the path to eternal glory was paved with obedience. His will is not important, not when compared to the will of his future master. But his faith is tested when Loshka is given to a brutal alien master who enjoys Loshka\u2019s screams of pain more than his pleasure. As Loshka resigns himself to a short life with the cruel monster, he is kidnapped by a group of warriors. Malik and his warrior family are searching the forsaken lands for a missing boy when they find Loshka. Malik never expected his mate would be an alien man who is as soft as he is vulnerable. He doesn\u2019t have the hard scales or sharp claws that Malik and his kind use to survive daily in the harsh desert landscape. Loshka is not just afraid, but completely unaware of what it means to belong to another, not as an object, but as a mate. It takes every ounce of Malik\u2019s patience to convince Loshka that he deserves more than the life handed to him. But just as Loshka learns that with love, a future and a family are not impossible, his past returns to drag him back into a life of forced servitude. The fated mates have already been through so much, can they survive one more threat to their bond? Malik is the first book in The Kif Warriors, an alien mpreg series. This is the first co-write between Crista and Kiki. They\u2019ve joined forces to bring you all the humor, magic, steam and action that you enjoy!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Action", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52666889-malik"}, +{"book_title": "Cauldron", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2579, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "In 2255, veteran star pilot Priscilla Hutch Hutchins spends her retirement supporting fundraising efforts for an organization devoted to deep space exploration. Soon, Hutch finds herself on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly Omega clouds that continue to haunt her.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/535318.Cauldron"}, +{"book_title": "Lent", "author_name": "Jo Walton", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1109, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence\u2014in all its astonishing strangenessYoung Girolamo\u2019s life is a series of miracles.It\u2019s a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It\u2019s a miracle that he\u2019s friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It\u2019s a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo \u201cthe Magnificent,\u201d the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial light, a surprise to everyone, Lorenzo included. It\u2019s a miracle that when Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him in the field, and convinces him to not only spare Florence but also protect it. It\u2019s a miracle than whenever Girolamo preaches, crowds swoon. It\u2019s a miracle that, despite the Pope\u2019s determination to bring young Girolamo to heel, he\u2019s still on the loose\u2026 and, now, running Florence in all but name.That\u2019s only the beginning. Because Girolamo Savanarola is not who\u2014or what\u2014he thinks he is. He will discover the truth about himself at the most startling possible time. And this will be only the beginning of his many lives.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Italy)", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41554680-lent"}, +{"book_title": "Winter", "author_name": "Rod Rees", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1357, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "The Demi-Monde is the most advanced computer simulation ever devised. Created to prepare soldiers for the nightmarish reality of urban warfare, it is a virtual world locked in eternal civil war. Its thirty million digital inhabitants are ruled by duplicates of some of history's cruellest tyrants: Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust; Beria, Stalin's arch executioner; Torquemada, the pitiless Inquisitor General; Robespierre, the face of the Reign of Terror. But something has gone badly wrong inside the Demi-Monde, and the US President's daughter has become trapped in this terrible world. It falls to eighteen-year-old Ella Thomas to rescue her, yet once Ella has entered the Demi-Monde she finds that everything is not as it seems, that its cyber-walls are struggling to contain the evil within and that the Real World is in more danger than anyone realises.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9226492-winter"}, +{"book_title": "The Edge of Forever", "author_name": "Melissa E. Hurst", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 732, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "In 2013, sixteen-year-old Alora is having blackouts. Each time she wakes up in a different place with no idea how she got there. The one thing she is certain of? Someone is following her.In 2146, seventeen-year-old Bridger is one of a small number of people born with the ability to travel to the past. While on a routine school time trip, he sees the last person he expected\u2014his dead father. The strangest part is that, according to the Department of Temporal Affairs, his father was never assigned to be in that time. Bridger\u2019s even more stunned when he learns that his by-the-book father was there to break the most important rule of time travel\u2014to prevent someone\u2019s murder.And that someone is named Alora.Determined to discover why his father wanted to help a \u201cghost,\u201d Bridger illegally shifts to 2013 and, along with Alora, races to solve the mystery surrounding her past and her connection to his father before the DTA finds him. If he can stop Alora\u2019s death without altering the timeline, maybe he can save his father too.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22009384-the-edge-of-forever"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Transcendence", "author_name": "John C. Wright", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1701, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Begun with The Golden Age, continued with The Phoenix Exultant, and now concluding in The Golden Transcendence, The Golden Age trilogy is Grand Space Opera, an SF adventure saga in the tradition of A. E. Van Gogt, Roger Zelazny and Cordwainer Smith. It is an astounding story of super-science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the elan of SF's golden age writers in the suspenseful and passionate tale of Phaeton, a lone rebel unhappy in utopia. The end of the Millennium is imminent, when all minds, human, posthuman, cybernetic, sophotechnic, will be temporarily merged into one solar-system-spanning supermind called the Transcendence. This is not only the fulfillment of a thousand years of dreams, it is a day of doom, when the universal mind will pass judgment on the all the races of humanity and transhumanity. The mighty ship Phoenix Exultant is at last in the hands of her master, Phaethon the Exile is at her helm and his dream of starflight in alive once more. He is being hunted by alien agents, the eerie and deadly Lords of the Silent Oecumene, who would steal the Phoenix Exultant and turn it into a weapon. The all-encompassing Mind of the Golden Transcendence is waking. Will it endorse Phaeton's dream or face the first interstellar war?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Singularity", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Academic (College)", "War", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632753.The_Golden_Transcendence"}, +{"book_title": "The Fall of the House of Cabal", "author_name": "Jonathan L. Howard", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 2315, "review_number": 232, "book_description": "Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance, comrades for the coming travails.So assisted--ably and otherwise--by his vampiric brother, Horst, and by the kindly accompaniment of a criminologist and a devil, he will encounter ruins and diableries, mystery and murder, the depths of the lowest pit and a city of horrors. London, to be exact.Yet even though Cabal has risked such peril believing he understands the dangers he faces, he is still underestimating them. He is walking into a trap of such arcane complexity that even the one who drew him there has no idea of its true terrors. As the snare closes slowly and subtly around them, it may be that there will be no survivors at all.The Fall of the House of Cabal is the fifth book in Jonathan L. Howard's acclaimed Johannes Cabal series.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28220832-the-fall-of-the-house-of-cabal"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Darkness", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1280, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "A brand new series by the author of the bestselling Crimson Worlds saga... Terrence Compton is one of Earth\u2019s greatest admirals, a warrior almost without equal. Alongside his oldest friend and brilliant colleague, Augustus Garret, he and his forces saved Earth from invasion by the robotic legions of the First Imperium\u2019s insane computer Regent. There is just one problem. The First Imperium was held back by the disruption of the sole warp gate connecting the two domains\u2026and Compton and 300 of his ships are trapped on the wrong side, surrounded by the Regent\u2019s vast fleets and cut off from Earth. Pursued by their deadly enemy, Compton and his fleet must flee into the darkness of unexplored space, seeking safety\u2026and ultimately a new home. Their journey will take them deep into the heart of the First Imperium, to the silent, windswept worlds where the ancient race that built the Regent once dwelled\u2026and uncover the lost secrets of its disappearance 500,000 years ago. Also By Jay Allan The Crimson Worlds Series: Marines (Crimson Worlds I) The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II) A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III) The First Imperium (Crimson Worlds IV) The Line Must Hold (Crimson Worlds V) To Hell\u2019s Heart (Crimson Worlds VI) The Shadow Legions (Crimson Worlds VII) Even Legends Die (Crimson Worlds VIII) The Fall (Crimson Worlds IX) War Stories (3 Crimson Worlds Prequels) Gehenna Dawn (Portal Wars I) The Ten Thousand (Portal Wars II) The Dragon's Banner (Pendragon Chronicles I)", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Own", "Space", "Action", "War", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24396231-into-the-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Galactic Pot-Healer", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 4318, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "The Glimmung wants Joe Fernwright. Fernwright is a pot-healer - a repairer of ceramics - in a drably utilitarian future where such skills have little value. And the Glimmung? The Glimmung is a being that looks something like a gyroscope, something like a teenaged girl, and something like the contents of an ocean. What's more, it may be divine. And, like certain gods of old Earth, it has a bad temper.What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498123.Galactic_Pot_Healer"}, +{"book_title": "Catharsis", "author_name": "Travis Bagwell", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 11786, "review_number": 941, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for B01J0E8Z8A On paper, Jason has a great life. He attends a prestigious private school on scholarship and his parents are reasonably well off. Yet life hasn't been easy for Jason. He has spent most of high school being tormented by both the students and faculty and his parents are never home. Frustrated and alone, his one escape has always been video games. In-game, he can feel the type of power and freedom he lacks in his day-to-day life. Fortunately, a new virtual reality game (the first of its kind) has just been released, which promises the opportunity for an even greater escape. Once he begins playing, Jason quickly finds himself on the path to becoming the game\u2019s villain. In the process, he also starts to suspect that there is something unusual going on within the game. (This novel contains graphic violence and language. Books don't have ratings, but, if they did, this book would be rated \"M\" for Mature)", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Horror", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33827079-catharsis"}, +{"book_title": "Twist", "author_name": "Karen Akins", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 369, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Bree Bennis finally has it all - a non-comatose mother, an \u00fcber-hot (albeit anachronistic) boyfriend named Finn, and a newfound mission to protect the timeline from those who would skew it for their own gain. But when she leans over one day to kiss said boyfriend, her lips meet those of her arch-nemesis, Wyck, instead. The timeline has been altered, and Bree is caught in the crosshairs. But when she goes back to repair the damage, she is stopped by none other than her Future Self, who delivers an urgent message: Someone is kidnapping Shifters from the distant past. It\u2019s up to Bree to stop them. But first, she has to figure out who... and why.To follow the trail of chronocrumbs, Bree reluctantly accepts her new undercover gig as Wyck\u2019s girlfriend. Everything goes spiffy until Finn shows up in the twenty-third century on the eager arm of a gorgeous fellow Shifter. Blark. Even as Bree struggles with jealousy, she battles the nagging dread that Finn might be better off with someone less chronologically complicated. Her worst fear is confirmed when Finn becomes the kidnapper\u2019s next victim. As Bree zeroes in on the culprit, they unravel her life one timeline change at a time. She realizes that she alone has the power to save herself and everyone she loves. But to do that, she may lose Finn forever.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Futuristic", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456905-twist"}, +{"book_title": "Jackers", "author_name": "William H. Keith Jr.", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 453, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "FUTURE UNCERTAIN \u2014 Once he was the gaijin champion of a cruel and oppressive Empire. Now Dev Cameron is a military commander for the rebellious, newborn Confederation -- and at tentative peace with the galaxy's all-powerful rulers. \u2014 But treachery has shattered the uneasy truce, as the Imperial lords prepare to rain destruction down, upon the outpost of New America -- delivering the final death blow to the still young revolution. And now only one incomprehensible act can save Dev Cameron and his cause: a miraculous link with an alien self that could change the course of the future...by transforming a man into a god.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22998490-jackers"}, +{"book_title": "Alice Payne Arrives", "author_name": "Kate Heartfield", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 723, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "A disillusioned major, a highwaywoman, and a war raging across time.It\u2019s 1788 and Alice Payne is the notorious highway robber, the Holy Ghost. Aided by her trusty automaton, Laverna, the Holy Ghost is feared by all who own a heavy purse.It\u2019s 1889 and Major Prudence Zuniga is once again attempting to change history\u2015to save history\u2015but seventy attempts later she\u2019s still no closer to her goal.It\u2019s 2016 and . . . well, the less said about 2016 the better!But in 2020 the Farmers and the Guides are locked in battle; time is their battleground, and the world is their prize. Only something new can change the course of the war. Or someone new.Little did they know, but they\u2019ve all been waiting until Alice Payne arrives.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39332603-alice-payne-arrives"}, +{"book_title": "Miecz przeznaczenia", "author_name": "Andrzej Sapkowski", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 102525, "review_number": 5437, "book_description": "\u201eMiecz przeznaczenia\u201d jest zbiorem opowiada\u0144 stanowi\u0105cych swoist\u0105 kontynuacj\u0119 przyg\u00f3d Geralta ze zbioru \u201eOstatnie \u017cyczenie\u201d, a zarazem poprzedza histori\u0119 opisan\u0105 w \u201eSadze o wied\u017aminie\u201d. Generalnie opowiadania sk\u0142adaj\u0105ce si\u0119 na omawiany zbi\u00f3r nie r\u00f3\u017cni\u0105 si\u0119 niczym od napisanych wcze\u015bniej. Geralt dzi\u0119ki swojej sile, odwadze i inteligencji walczy z potworami b\u0105d\u017a w inny spos\u00f3b stara si\u0119 pomaga\u0107 ludziom. \u015awiat, w kt\u00f3rym rozgrywa si\u0119 akcja, jest przedstawiony w spos\u00f3b niezwykle plastyczny, co sprawia, i\u017c mo\u017cna go sobie bez wi\u0119kszych problem\u00f3w wyobrazi\u0107. Ksi\u0105\u017cka przesi\u0105kni\u0119ta jest emocjami, marzeniami i warto\u015bciami. Na kartach opowiada\u0144 widzimy mi\u0142o\u015b\u0107, po\u015bwi\u0119cenie, honor, determinacj\u0119 spowodowan\u0105 zamiarem udzielenia pomocy ukochanemu, przywi\u0105zanie do w\u0142asnej ziemi.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1128437.Miecz_przeznaczenia"}, +{"book_title": "Counterpunch", "author_name": "Aleksandr Voinov", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 796, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "Fight like a man, or die like a slave.Brooklyn Marshall used to be a policeman in London, with a wife and a promising future ahead of him. Then he accidentally killed a rioter whose father was a Member of Parliament and had him convicted of murder. To ease the burden on the overcrowded prison system, Brooklyn was sold into slavery rather than incarcerated. Now, he's the \"Mean Machine\", a boxer on the slave prizefighting circuit, pummelling other slaves for the entertainment of freemen and being rented out for the sexual service of his wealthier fans.When Nathaniel Bishop purchases Brooklyn's services for a night, it seems like any other assignation. But the pair form an unexpected bond that grows into something more. Brooklyn hesitates to call it \"love\"\u2014such things do not exist between freemen and slaves\u2014but when Nathaniel reveals that he wants to help get Brooklyn's conviction overturned, he dares to hope. Then, an accident in the ring sends Brooklyn on the run, jeopardizing everything he has worked so hard to achieve and sending him into the most important fight of all\u2014the fight for freedom. This book is no longer available and will be reissued in due course. ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Sports (Sports)", "Romance", "Dark", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11292786-counterpunch"}, +{"book_title": "Wodney Wat's Wobot", "author_name": "Helen Lester", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 275, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "When Wodney must face off against that big bully Camilla Capybara for a second time, a talking robot becomes his secret weapon. The meek wodent . . . er, rodent . . . hero with a speech impediment and a heart of gold is back! So is Camilla Capybara\u2014the BIG bully who makes poor Wodney and his\u00a0 classmates tremble. But this time, Wodney has a secret weapon: a robot that helps him pronounce his r\u2019s and seems to be just the thing to scare Camilla away for good. With the second empowering tale about Wodney, Lester and Munsinger use their signature dose of humor to remind us that the little guy can finish first, and it\u2019s often brains\u2014not brawn\u2014that save the day. ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Animals", "Childrens", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction", "Academic (School)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10578841-wodney-wat-s-wobot"}, +{"book_title": "How Firm a Foundation", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 5719, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don't know even now, however, is how much more it's fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know. And because they do, they know the penalty if they lose will be far worse than their own deaths and the destruction of all they know and love.For five years, Charis has survived all the Church of God Awaiting and the corrupt men who control it have thrown at the island empire. The price has been high and paid in blood. Despite its chain of hard-fought naval victories, Charis is still on the defensive. It can hold its own at sea, but if it is to survive, it must defeat the Church upon its own ground. Yet how does it invade the mainland and take the war to a foe whose population outnumbers its own fifteen to one? How does it prevent that massive opponent from rebuilding its fleets and attacking yet again?Charis has no answer to those questions, but needs to find one\u2026 quickly. The Inquisition's brutal torture and hideous executions are claiming more and more innocent lives. Its agents are fomenting rebellion against the only mainland realms sympathetic to Charis. Religious terrorists have been dispatched to wreak havoc against the Empire's subjects. Assassins stalk the Emperor and Empress, their allies and advisers, and an innocent young boy, not yet eleven years old, whose father has already been murdered. And Merlin Athrawes, the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, has finally learned what sleeps beneath the far-off Temple in the Church of God Awaiting's city of Zion.The men and women fighting for human freedom and tolerance have built a foundation for their struggle in the Empire of Charis with their own blood, but will that foundation be firm enough to survive?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10750189-how-firm-a-foundation"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Heart", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 4339, "review_number": 368, "book_description": "I\u2019ve never spent a day without my mate since arriving on the ice planet. I\u2019m happy and in love, and we have a beautiful child together. All that changed when the world shook. My mate nearly died. He wakes up from his coma\u2026and he can\u2019t remember me. Or our son. Every memory of the past two years is gone. And that changes everything between us. How can I love someone that doesn\u2019t remember me? How can I not, when I know he\u2019s still my mate underneath it all?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32602258-barbarian-s-heart"}, +{"book_title": "There Will Be Dragons", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 4857, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "In the future, there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise - and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662641.There_Will_Be_Dragons"}, +{"book_title": "How to Marry a Werewolf", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 3725, "review_number": 564, "book_description": "Guilty of an indiscretion? Time to marry a werewolf.WEREWOLVESThe monsters left Faith ruined in the eyes of society, so now they\u2019re her only option. Rejected by her family, Faith crosses the Atlantic, looking for a marriage of convenience and revenge.But things are done differently in London. Werewolves are civilized. At least they pretend to be.AMERICANSBackward heathens with no culture, Major Channing has never had time for any of them. But there\u2019s something special about Faith. Channing finds himself fighting to prove himself and defend his species. But this werewolf has good reason not to trust human women.Even if they learn to love, can either of them forgive?From the New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate series comes a stand alone romance set in the same universe. Look out for appearances from favorite characters and the serious consequences of unwarranted geology.A Note On ChronologyThe Claw & Courtship novellas can be read in any order. This book can be enjoyed without having read any of Gail\u2019s other works. Set in the spring of 1895 this story occurs after events chronicled in Romancing the Werewolf.More? This story is contemporaneous with events at the beginning of Reticence (final Custard Protocol book). Channing is first introduced to readers in the second Parasol Protectorate book, Changeless. He also appears briefly in Romancing the Inventor.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Novella", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39682023-how-to-marry-a-werewolf"}, +{"book_title": "Eona: The Last Dragoneye", "author_name": "Alison Goodman", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 36535, "review_number": 2547, "book_description": "Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. The renegades are on a quest for the black folio, stolen by the drug-riddled Dillon; they must also find Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs Eona's power and the black folio if he is to wrest back his throne from the selfstyled \"Emperor\" Sethon. Through it all, Eona must come to terms with her new Dragoneye identity and power - and learn to bear the anguish of the ten dragons whose Dragoneyes were murdered. As they focus their power through her, she becomes a dangerous conduit for their plans. . . .Eona, with its pulse-pounding drama and romance, its unforgettable fight scenes, and its surprises, is the conclusion to an epic story only Alison Goodman can create..", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7992995-eona"}, +{"book_title": "Words of Radiance", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.74, "rating_votes": 220750, "review_number": 13219, "book_description": "Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status \"darkeyes.\" Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Epic", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332218-words-of-radiance"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberabad Days", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1053, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "A collection of eight stories, \"Cyberabad Days\" is a triumphant return to the India of 2047 (the India of \nRiver of Gods\n); a new, muscular superpower in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, strange new genders, and genetically improved children.contents:9 \u2022 America is Not the Only Planet (2009) essay by Paul McAuley13 \u2022 Sanjeev and Robotwallah (2007) short story31 \u2022 Kyle Meets the River (2006) novelette51 \u2022 The Dust Assassin (2008) novelette79 \u2022 An Eligible Boy (2008) novelette109 \u2022 The Little Goddess (2005) novella155 \u2022 The Djinn's Wife (2006) novelette199 \u2022 Vishnu at the Cat Circus (2009) novella", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (India)", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3428255-cyberabad-days"}, +{"book_title": "Gardens of the Sun", "author_name": "Paul McAuley", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 937, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, founded by descendants of refugees from Earth\u2019s repressive regimes, the Outers, have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union, and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational utopianism and exploration of new ways of being human has fallen dark. Outers are herded into prison camps and forced to collaborate in the systematic plundering of their great archives of scientific and technical knowledge, while Earth\u2019s forces loot their cities and settlements and ships, and plan a final solution to the \u2018Outer problem.\u2019 But Earth\u2019s victory is fragile, and riven by vicious internal politics. While seeking out and trying to anatomise the strange gardens abandoned in place by the Outers\u2019 greatest genius, Avernus, the gene wizard Sri Hong-Owen is embroiled in the plots and counterplots of the family that employs her. The diplomat Loc Ifrahim soon discovers that profiting from victory isn\u2019t as easy as he thought. And on Earth, in Greater Brazil, the democratic traditions preserved and elaborated by the Outers have infected a population eager to escape the tyranny of the great families who rule them. Meanwhile, in the outer reaches of the Solar System, a rag-taggle group of refugees struggle to preserve the last of the old ideals. And on Triton, fanatical members of a cabal prepare for a final battle that threatens to shatter the future of the human species. After a conflict fought to contain the expansionist, posthuman ambitions of the Outers, the future is as uncertain as ever. Only one thing is clear. No one can escape the consequences of war -- especially the victors.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6899171-gardens-of-the-sun"}, +{"book_title": "\u5947\u70b9\u9057\u6c11", "author_name": "Ken Liu", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 7, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "\u672c\u4e66\u7cbe\u9009\u6536\u5f55\u4e86\u5218\u5b87\u6606\u7684\u79d1\u5e7b\u4f73\u4f5c\u517122\u7bc7\uff0c\u7531\u79d1\u5e7b\u6587\u5b66\u8bd1\u8005\u803f\u8f89\u503e\u60c5\u5448\u73b0\u3002\u201c\u5947\u70b9\u65f6\u4ee3\u201d\u6765\u4e34\uff0c\u8eab\u5904\u4e00\u4e2a\u865a\u62df\u6570\u636e\u63a7\u5236\u4e00\u5207\u7684\u65f6\u4ee3\uff0c\u6211\u4eec\u5e73\u51e1\u7684\u751f\u6d3b\u5c06\u4ee5\u4f55\u79cd\u5f62\u5f0f\u7ee7\u7eed\u5b58\u5728\uff1f\u4f5c\u4e3a\u4e00\u672c\u4eba\u6587\u79d1\u5e7b\u5c0f\u8bf4\uff0c\u300a\u5947\u70b9\u9057\u6c11\u300b\u878d\u5165\u4e86\u79d1\u5e7b\u827a\u672f\u6700\u5438\u5f15\u4eba\u7684\u51e0\u5927\u5143\u7d20\uff1a\u6570\u5b57\u5316\u751f\u547d\u3001\u5f71\u50cf\u5316\u8bb0\u5fc6\u3001\u4eba\u5de5\u667a\u80fd\u3001\u5916\u661f\u8bbf\u5ba2\u2026\u2026\u5218\u5b87\u6606\u7684\u72ec\u7279\u4e4b\u5904\u5728\u4e8e\uff0c\u4ed6\u5199\u7684\u4e0d\u662f\u79d1\u5e7b\u63a2\u9669\u6216\u82f1\u96c4\u5947\u5e7b\uff0c\u800c\u662f\u6570\u636e\u65f6\u4ee3\u91cc\u6bcf\u4e2a\u4eba\u7684\u751f\u6d3b\u548c\u60c5\u611f\u53d8\u5316\u3002\u900f\u8fc7\u8fd9\u672c\u4e66\uff0c\u6211\u4eec\u770b\u5230\u7684\u4e0d\u4ec5\u662f\u672a\u6765\u8fd8\u6709\u5f53\u4e0b\u3002", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38887902"}, +{"book_title": "The Doctor and the Dinosaurs", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 255, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Steampunk wild west stars Doc Holliday, with zombies, dinosaurs, robots, and cowboys. April, 1885 Leadville, Colorado. Near death, Doc Holliday coughs blood in a sanitarium bed. But supernatural medicine man and great chief Geronimo offers one year of restored health to stop renegade Comanche medicine men from reincarnating dinosaurs against American paleontology, spearheaded by two brilliant men, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, whose genius is only exceeded by their hatred for each other. Now, with the aid of energetic Theodore Roosevelt, gunslinger Cole Younger, and showy Buffalo Bill Cody, dying Doc Holliday must save Cope and Marsh from Comanches, living dinosaurs, and each other. Not an easy task.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17737091-the-doctor-and-the-dinosaurs"}, +{"book_title": "Asteroid Outpost", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 135, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Nick Walker, ex Star Marine and fresh out of the United Federation Marshal Academy arrives on Ceres, part of the asteroid belt, with a laser pistol, a .44 Magnum, and a head filled with zero tolerance. He\u2019s immediately plunged into a mystery of murder, sabotage, and fraud on a gigantic scale. Nick is on his first assignment, confident he can tame the galaxy, bust the bad guys, and bring relief to the downtrodden. Reality check is just around the corner. The Asteroid Belt is no place to raise a family\u2014the Belt is the final refuge for fugitives, deadbeats, and creeps in general. Ceres, in particular, is a true den of iniquity, and law enforcement is a full time job. To Nick, the law is the law, everything is black and white, and never the twain shall meet\u2026 \u2026or shall they? Nick is quickly confronted with the hard reality that sometimes good and evil can coexist, and not everyone is so easily classified. It\u2019s a hard life on the final frontier, and even an idealistic young lawman might learn a few lessons. The trick is staying alive long enough to learn them. A science fiction adventure crime drama filled with action and suspense. \u201c Read this one and you won't put it down it's addictive. \u201d -Alrusse Rated \u201cR\u201d 94,500 words, equivalent to 354 pages in a mass market paperback book. ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24268550-asteroid-outpost"}, +{"book_title": "NieR:Automata: Short Story Long", "author_name": "Jun Eishima", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 221, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Experience the world and characters of the hit video game franchise!When alien forces invade with an army of Machines, the remnants of humanity must depend on Androids of their own design\u2014the placid 2B and the excitable 9S\u2014to survive. From Pod 153, to fans of NieR Automata \u00a0[ref &NieR: Automata: a Short Story Long] Question: What is a fiction collection? Affirmative: It is hypothesized that this book is \u201cinteresting.\u201d Hypothesis: \u201cInterest\u201d is an internal incentive that allows humans to practice tolerance. Recommendation: To purchase this volume of short fiction exploring the world of NieR. From Pod 153 to 042: Affirmative. We have concluded executing additional advertisement duties.\u00a0", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Fiction", "Novels (Light Novel)", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Games (Gaming)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40816624-nier"}, +{"book_title": "Queen of Shadows", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 264172, "review_number": 22520, "book_description": "Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she\u2019s at last returned to the empire\u2014for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past\u2026She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen\u2019s triumphant return.The fourth volume in the New York Times bestselling series continues Celaena\u2019s epic journey and builds to a passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18006496-queen-of-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "The Rise of Magicks", "author_name": "Nora Roberts", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 21004, "review_number": 2036, "book_description": "After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness\u2014if, indeed, they can be saved.Strengthened by the bond she shares with her fellow warrior, Duncan, Fallon has already succeeded in rescuing countless shifters and elves and ordinary humans. Now she must help them heal\u2014and rediscover the light and faith within themselves. For although from the time of her birth, she has been The One, she is still only one. And as she faces down an old nemesis, sets her sights on the enemy\u2019s stronghold, and pursues her destiny\u2014to finally restore the mystical shield that once protected them all\u2014she will need an army behind her\u2026", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263398-the-rise-of-magicks"}, +{"book_title": "Cannibal Reign", "author_name": "Thomas Koloniar", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 961, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "A new star bursts onto the post-apocalyptic fiction scene: Thomas Koloniar. An epic dark saga set in a dystopian near-future, Cannibal Reign follows the fortunes of a small band of survivors, as they make their way across a nightmare landscape populated by bestial, flesh-eating savages after an asteroid strike destroys America. A dark, smart, action-packed vision of a terrifying possible tomorrow\u2014when the only law left is \u201ceat or be eaten\u201d\u2014Koloniar\u2019s Cannibal Reign is an absolute must-read for fans of TV\u2019s zombie smash hit The Walking Dead, Cormac McCarthy\u2019s The Road, Lucifer\u2019s Hammer, the Mad Max movies, and, of course, Stephen King\u2019s immortal horror masterwork The Stand. ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13426200-cannibal-reign"}, +{"book_title": "The Flicker Men", "author_name": "Ted Kosmatka", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1886, "review_number": 251, "book_description": "A quantum physicist shocks the world with a startling experiment, igniting a struggle between science and theology, free will and fate, and antagonizing forces not known to exist.Eric Argus is a washout. His prodigious early work clouded his reputation and strained his sanity. But an old friend gives him another chance, an opportunity to step back into the light.With three months to produce new research, Eric replicates the paradoxical double-slit experiment to see for himself the mysterious dual nature of light and matter. A simple but unprecedented inference blooms into a staggering discovery about human consciousness and the structure of the universe.His findings are celebrated and condemned in equal measure. But no one can predict where the truth will lead. And as Eric seeks to understand the unfolding revelations, he must evade shadowy pursuers who believe he knows entirely too much already.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science (Physics)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Physics (Quantum Mechanics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910095-the-flicker-men"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Strike", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 5275, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "The first book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendenceThere is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point.But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundary\u2014by total annihilation if necessary.To the Sh'daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universe\u2014along with those who would employ them. As their great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray.There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometer-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind's greatest conflict\u2014and quite possibly its last.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7234921-earth-strike"}, +{"book_title": "The Android", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 4243, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "When Marco runs into his old friend Erek he doesn't think too much of it. He's got a couple of more important things to do. Like helping to save the world. But then Marco finds out Erek's been hanging with some of the kids at The Sharing. And he starts to think that something just a little weird is going on.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7089.The_Android"}, +{"book_title": "The Da Vinci Code", "author_name": "Dan Brown", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1982780, "review_number": 47817, "book_description": "While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci\u2014clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion\u2014a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci\u2014and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle\u2014while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move\u2014the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Novels", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Alone", "author_name": "Daniel Arenson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 4159, "review_number": 282, "book_description": "They came from deep space. They came to destroy us. Fifty years ago, bloodthirsty aliens devastated the Earth. Most of humanity perished. We fell into darkness. But now we rise from the ashes. Now we fight back. Marco Emery was born into the war. After his mother is killed, he joins the Human Defense Force, Earth's ragtag army. Emery must survive basic training, become a soldier, and finally face the aliens in battle. Against the alien onslaught, Earth stands alone. But we will fight. We will rise. We will win.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Horror", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30646477-earth-alone"}, +{"book_title": "The Magic Labyrinth", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 4403, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "At the end of The Fabulous Riverboat, Sam Clemens finally set out in the great iron riverboat Not for Hire to reach the headwaters of the massive river on whose shores humanity has been resurrected. After 33 years on the river, Clemens and his crew--including the giant subhuman Joe Miller--are finally near the end of their journey, and only one obstacle remains: the evil Earthly king, John Lackland. John is waiting just upriver in the Rex Grandissimus, the first riverboat that Sam constructed and the one that John and his crew hijacked, and he's hell-bent on sinking Sam's boat (and vice versa). Complicating the battle is the fact that both ships likely contain agents of the Ethicals, the group of advanced beings who created Riverworld for reasons unknown. One or more of the Ethicals themselves may even be on board, as are various humans that the rebel Ethical, known as the Mysterious Stranger (but known to Clemens simply as X), enlisted in his cause, which may or may not lead to humanity's salvation. The battle is set to take place along the shores populated by members of the Church of the Second Chance, a group that believes they must attain ethical perfection in order to proceed to the next phase of existence. The Second Chancers are not violent, but their charismatic leader, La Viro, may attempt to sink one or both of the iron ships in order to prevent the battle. Among the Second Chancers is former Nazi officer Hermann Goring, who had a run-in with Sir Richard Francis Burton in the first Riverworld novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Burton and his companions--among them several people who were contacted by the Mysterious Stranger--are reluctantly serving on John's boat in order to reach the headwaters of the river. But will any of the humans working for X survive the coming battle? And if so, how can they possibly hope to penetrate the tower in the North Sea where the Ethicals are thought to reside? And what could lowly humans hope to do against a race so advanced that they can reshape entire planets and resurrect all of humanity? --Craig E. Engler", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55442.The_Magic_Labyrinth"}, +{"book_title": "Jailmates", "author_name": "Lesli Richardson", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 599, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "\n\nThis wasn\u2019t in the contract.\n\n\nSimon Quigley had no idea what to expect when he agreed to do this for the money, but the eight-foot-tall pink alien isn\u2019t what he was expecting. For starters, Simon\u2019s straight.And Mohrn isn\u2019t a girl.The contract? It\u2019s unbreakable.It\u2019s going to be a long five years\u2026", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Gay Romance (Gay For You)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44588006-jailmates"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 105484, "review_number": 3014, "book_description": "\"Y\" is none other than unemployed escape artist Yorick Brown (his father was a Shakespeare buff), and he's seemingly the only male human left alive after a mysterious plague kills all Y-chromosome carriers on earth. But why are he and his faithful companion, the often testy male monkey Ampersand, still alive? He sets out to find the answer (and his girlfriend), while running from angry female Republicans (now running the government), Amazon wannabes that include his own sister (seemingly brainwashed), and other threats. The Vertigo team of Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and Jos\u00e9 Marz\u00e1n Jr. have given us a great read!Collects Y: The Last Man issues #01-#05", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156534.Y"}, +{"book_title": "Edge of Eon", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2093, "review_number": 240, "book_description": "Framed for a crime she didn't commit, a wrongly-imprisoned space captain's only chance at freedom is to abduct a fearsome alien war commander. Sub-Captain Eve Traynor knows a suicide mission when she sees one. With deadly insectoid aliens threatening to invade Earth, the planet\u2019s only chance of survival is to get the attention of the fierce Eon Warriors. But the Eon want nothing to do with Earth, and Eve wants nothing to do with abducting War Commander Davion Thann-Eon off his warship. But when Earth\u2019s Space Corps threaten her sisters, Eve will do anything to keep them safe, even if it means she might not make it back. War Commander Davion Thann-Eon is taking his first vacation in years. Dedicated to keeping the Eon Empire safe, he\u2019s been born and bred to protect. But when he\u2019s attacked and snatched off his very own warship, he is shocked to find himself face-to-face with a bold, tough little Terran warrior. One who both infuriates and intrigues him. When their shuttle is attacked by the ravenous insectoid Kantos, Eve and Davion crash land on the terrifying hunter planet known as Hunter7. A planet designed to test a warrior to his limits. Now, the pair must work together to survive, caught between the planet and its dangers, the Kantos hunting them down, and their own incendiary attraction. Includes a preview of Galactic Gladiators #1, Gladiator. Eon Warriors Edge of Eon Touch of Eon (coming soon)", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Action", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43190664-edge-of-eon"}, +{"book_title": "The Beauty", "author_name": "Aliya Whiteley", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1702, "review_number": 377, "book_description": "Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their stories in the Valley of the Rocks. For when the women are all gone the rest of your life is all there is for everyone. The men are waiting to pass into the night.The story shall be told to preserve the past. History has gone back to its aural roots and the power of words is strong. Meet Nate, the storyteller, and the new secrets he brings back from the woods. William rules the group with youth and strength, but how long can that last? And what about Uncle Ted, who spends so much time out in the woods?Hear the tales, watch a myth be formed. For what can man hope to achieve in a world without women? When the past is only grief how long should you hold on to it? What secrets can the forest offer to change it all? Discover the Beauty.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Magical Realism", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23250725-the-beauty"}, +{"book_title": "Wanderers", "author_name": "Chuck Wendig", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 14838, "review_number": 2867, "book_description": "A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope.Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And like Shana, there are other \u201cshepherds\u201d who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead.For on their journey, they will discover an America convulsed with terror and violence, where this apocalyptic epidemic proves less dangerous than the fear of it. As the rest of society collapses all around them\u2013and an ultraviolent militia threatens to exterminate them\u2013the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic. The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart\u2013or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32603079-wanderers"}, +{"book_title": "Europe in Autumn", "author_name": "Dave Hutchinson", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2574, "review_number": 360, "book_description": "Europe in Autumn is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carr\u00e9 and Franz Kafka.Rudi is a cook in a Krak\u00f3w restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country country he\u2019s trapped in, a new career \u2013 part spy, part people-smuggler \u2013 begins. Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into countless tiny nations, duchies, polities and republics. Recruited by the shadowy organisation Les Coureurs des Bois, Rudi is schooled in espionage, but when a training mission to The Line, a sovereign nation consisting of a trans-Europe railway line, goes wrong, he is arrested, beaten and Coureur Central must attempt a rescue. With so many nations to work in, and identities to assume, Rudi is kept busy travelling across Europe. But when he is sent to smuggle someone out of Berlin and finds a severed head inside a locker instead, a conspiracy begins to wind itself around him. With kidnapping, double-crosses and a map that constantly re-draws, Rudi begins to realise that underneath his daily round of plot and counter plot, behind the conflicting territories, another entirely different reality might be pulling the strings...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143945-europe-in-autumn"}, +{"book_title": "Sweet Tooth, Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 14401, "review_number": 923, "book_description": "Jeff Lemire's acclaimed new series introduce Gus, a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid who was raised in isolation following a pandemic that struck a decade earlier. Now, with the death of his father, he's left to fend for himself . . . until he meets a hulking drifter named Jepperd, who promises to help him. Jepperd and Gus set out on a post-apocalyptic journey into the devastated American landscape to find 'The Preserve,' a refuge for hybrids.Collecting: Sweet Tooth 1-5", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6954438-sweet-tooth-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel of the Sands", "author_name": "Alwyn Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 54900, "review_number": 7165, "book_description": "Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic.\u00a0 For humans, it\u2019s an unforgiving place, especially if you\u2019re poor, orphaned, or female.Amani Al\u2019Hiza is all three. She\u2019s a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim, but she can\u2019t shoot her way out of Dustwalk, the back-country town where she\u2019s destined to wind up wed or dead.Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. But though she\u2019s spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk, she never imagined she\u2019d gallop away on mythical horse\u2014or that it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of the desert she thought she knew.Rebel of the Sands reveals what happens when a dream deferred explodes\u2014in the fires of rebellion, of romantic passion, and the all-consuming inferno of a girl finally, at long last, embracing her power.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24934065-rebel-of-the-sands"}, +{"book_title": "Of Tangible Ghosts", "author_name": "L.E. Modesitt Jr.", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 562, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Modesitt returns to science fiction with Of Tangible Ghosts, a carefully crafted alternate universe novel. In this world, the Dutch never lost control of the Northeast, and France, Spain, and Chung Kuo are today's superpowers, as is Colombia. And in this universe, the ghosts of the dead linger, sometimes visible, sometimes speaking to the living. Johan Eschbach has retired from service as an agent of the government of Colombia and gone north to teach at a university in his native Dutch territory. Research is being conducted in the university's physics department - research on the control of ghosts - that is of interest to governments worldwide. And Johan is forced by his former employers to work again as a spy. When he discovers too much, he is marked for death. But at least one ghost wants to keep him alive.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185223.Of_Tangible_Ghosts"}, +{"book_title": "Robots", "author_name": "Gail Tuchman", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 13, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "[Scholastic Reader Level 2]The world is being taken over by robots! There are robots that build towers, make cars, flip pancakes and play football. There are robots that travel deep under water, far into space, and into the most extreme danger zones. Some walk like a human, others fly like a bee, or swim like a turtle, or run like a dog. In this Level 2 reader, young readers will discover different kinds of robots: how they work, the jobs they do, and what exciting things they might do in the future. The book uses simple text and full-color photographs throughout.With compelling themes, supporting facts, technical vocabulary, vivid maps and charts, and a variety of writing styles and text structures, Scholastic Discover More Readers are tailored to the new era of high expectations. The unique informational text reading levels have been developed and vetted by Scholastic reading experts.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25779094-robots"}, +{"book_title": "An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors", "author_name": "Curtis Craddock", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1361, "review_number": 295, "book_description": "In a world of soaring continents and bottomless skies, where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into the cloud-strewn heights and ancient blood-borne sorceries cling to a fading glory, Princess Isabelle des Zephyrs is about to be married to a man she has barely heard of, the second son of a dying king in an empire collapsing into civil war.Born without the sorcery that is her birthright but with a perspicacious intellect, Isabelle believes her marriage will stave off disastrous conflict and bring her opportunity and influence. But the last two women betrothed to this prince were murdered, and a sorcerer-assassin is bent on making Isabelle the third. Aided and defended by her loyal musketeer, Jean-Claude, Isabelle plunges into a great maze of prophecy, intrigue, and betrayal, where everyone wears masks of glamour and lies. Step by dangerous step, she unravels the lies of her enemies and discovers a truth more perilous than any deception.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31702733-an-alchemy-of-masques-and-mirrors"}, +{"book_title": "Ghosts", "author_name": "Rhiannon Lassiter", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 417, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "In the twenty-fourth century, Raven leads an army of Hexes, humans with a mutant gene allowing interface with computers, and a band of rebels to a new future only to find the Net harbors an evil, threatening blackness.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625871.Ghosts"}, +{"book_title": "Death is Lighter than a Feather", "author_name": "David Westheimer", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 70, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "On November 1, 1945, the United States marshaled its forces for the greatest undertaking of the entire Pacific War--the invasion and subjugation of the home islands of Japan.Six hundred and fifty thousand U.S. troops prepared to assault the airfields and harbors of Kyushu, the southernmost island. Over a million Japanese dug into the beaches, furiously building underground fortifications, gun emplacements, and suicide craft, prepared to die to the last man if need be.THE NAME OF THE PLAN -- DOWNFALL.Lighter than a Feather is the dramatic story of the epic battle for Kyushu, based on the assumption that the atomic bomb was not dropped, and that Downfall actually did place. Written by the author of Von Ryan's Express, it is the most ambitious, brilliant, and generally exciting novel ever to come out of the Pacific war, a monumental feat of unrelenting action and superb characterization.Lighter than a Feather is narrated by the participants of both sides. These are some of the people who make up the cast: Cadet Hiroshi Arai, a seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot torn between fear of certain death and a warrior's code of honor; war-happy Lester Waddell, expert marksman, who suddenly realizes that for weeks he's been killing the same Japanese over and over again; Miho Naito, a pretty young girl who has the misfortune to surrender to Staff Sergeant \"Stud\" Simmons; Maurie Stokes, chaplain's assistant, who with patient tolerance discharges what seems to be his primary assignment--looking (vainly) for Japanese Christians; and Jiro Matsuyama, sixty-one, a little deaf and blind in on eye, sitting n the ashes of his home, watching the battle.These are the figures Westheimer understands so well and whom he portrays with such consummate skill. Combining the depth and authenticity of a true historical narrative with the magnificent satisfaction of a first-rate work of fiction, his novel projects with unfaltering ability both the essence of the Japanese and American people at war and the breathtaking excitement of one of the most daring military operations in the history of the Pacific.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Japan)", "War", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278753.Death_is_Lighter_than_a_Feather"}, +{"book_title": "Forest of Memory", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1211, "review_number": 278, "book_description": "Katya deals in Authenticities and Captures, trading on nostalgia for a past long gone. Her clients are rich and they demand items and experiences with only the finest verifiable provenance. Other people\u2019s lives have value, after all.But when her A.I. suddenly stops whispering in her ear she finds herself cut off from the grid and loses communication with the rest of the world.The man who stepped out of the trees while hunting deer cut her off from the cloud, took her A.I., and made her his unwilling guest.There are no Authenticities or Captures to prove Katya\u2019s story of what happened in the forest. You\u2019ll just have to believe her.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26883555-forest-of-memory"}, +{"book_title": "Wrayth", "author_name": "Philippa Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1111, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "In the Empire of Arkaym, the Order of Deacons protects and shelters the citizens from the attacks of the unliving. All are sworn to fight the evil forces of the geists\u2014and to keep the world safe from the power of the Otherside\u2026 Although she is one of the most powerful Deacons in the Order, Sorcha Faris is still unable to move or speak after her last battle. Even her partner, Merrick Chambers, cannot reach her through their shared Bond. Yet there are those who still fear Sorcha and the mystery of her hidden past. Meanwhile, Merrick has been asked to investigate a new member of the Emperor\u2019s Court. But when Sorcha is abducted by men seeking Raed Rossin, the shapeshifting rival to the throne, Merrick must choose where his loyalties lie.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13480291-wrayth"}, +{"book_title": "Sir Thursday", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 21476, "review_number": 378, "book_description": "The stellar fourth book in Garth Nix's masterpiece series... now in paperback! On the fourth day there was war... Following their adventures in the Border Sea, Arthur and Leaf head for home. But only Leaf gets through the Front Door. Arthur is blocked because someone . . . or something . . . has assumed his identity and is taking over his life. Before Arthur can take action, he is drafted by Sir Thursday and forced to join the Glorious Army of the Architect. While Leaf tries to banish Arthur's doppleganger on earth, Arthur must survive his basic training, avoid getting posted to the Front and work out how he can free Part Four of the Will....", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47618.Sir_Thursday"}, +{"book_title": "Ethan of Athos", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 13716, "review_number": 625, "book_description": "On Athos, a world without women, Dr. Ethan Urquhart delivers babies from uterine replicators. But when the ovarian cultures start dwindling, he is sent abroad on a mission to replenish the planets stocks.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Space", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/990093.Ethan_of_Athos"}, +{"book_title": "Alternities", "author_name": "Michael P. Kube-McDowell", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 140, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "What if...there is more than one Earth?Sister worlds exist, recognizably alike yet startlingly different. And the \"gate house\" between these worlds is a closely guarded secret of America's fanatical leader...- For President Robinson, the gate house is a military ace-in-the-hole, a last laugh in his ever-more aggressive sparring with the Soviets.- For Senator Endicott, the first man to travel from one Earth to another, the Alternities provide a playground for his most evil, power-crazed fantasies.- But for Rayne Wallace, member of the elite Guards sent to spy on these other worlds, the gates offer a chance to start his life over again...", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1402380.Alternities"}, +{"book_title": "Red Rising", "author_name": "Pierce Brown", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 260605, "review_number": 25874, "book_description": "\"I live for the dream that my children will be born free,\" she says. \"That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.\"\"I live for you,\" I say sadly.Eo kisses my cheek. \"Then you must live for more.\"Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow\u2014and Reds like him\u2014are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839976-red-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Great North Road", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 15464, "review_number": 1218, "book_description": "A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humanity has solved its energy shortages, cleaned up the environment, and created far-flung colony worlds. The keys to this empire belong to the powerful North family - composed of successive generations of clones. Yet these clones are not identical. For one thing, genetic errors have crept in with each generation. For another, the original three clone \"brothers\" have gone their separate ways, and the branches of the family are now friendly rivals more than allies. Or maybe not so friendly. At least that's what the murder of a North clone in the English city of Newcastle suggests to Detective Sidney Hurst. Sid is a solid investigator who'd like nothing better than to hand off this hot potato of a case. The way he figures it, whether he solves the crime or not, he'll make enough enemies to ruin his career. Yet Sid's case is about to take an unexpected turn: Because the circumstances of the murder bear an uncanny resemblance to a killing that took place years ago on the planet St. Libra, where a North clone and his entire household were slaughtered in cold blood.The convicted slayer, Angela Tramelo, has always claimed her innocence. And now it seems she may have been right. Because only the St. Libra killer could have committed the Newcastle crime. Problem is, Angela also claims that the murderer was an alien monster. Now Sid must navigate through a Byzantine minefield of competing interests within the police department and the world's political and economic elite...all the while hunting down a brutal killer poised to strike again. And on St. Libra, Angela, newly released from prison, joins a mission to hunt down the elusive alien, only to learn that the line between hunter and hunted is a thin one.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13573419-great-north-road"}, +{"book_title": "Tagged: The Apocalypse", "author_name": "Joseph M. Chiron", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 356, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Tagged - as in the Universal Tagging Program. No one may buy or sell without the new chip implanted beneath the skin. They own the night. These zombies are a new breed and fast; hair like women; teeth like lions and sharp claws. They hunt in overwhelmingly large packs like a plague of locusts. The government and military are overrun, retreating underground and leaving the populace to fend for themselves. Lucky for Sven and his Cannabis growing crew they find shelter in a nuclear power plant. The lights keep them at bay - at least for a while. But how long will it last? In the lawless environment they survive by their own code until the Government and military return to establish a new world order. Fast, deadly zombies and end times biblical prophecy meet in this compelling new look at the apocalypse.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Action", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19492453-tagged"}, +{"book_title": "Time Enough for Love", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 32901, "review_number": 850, "book_description": "The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353.Time_Enough_for_Love"}, +{"book_title": "Taken by the Alien Warrior", "author_name": "Hope Hart", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1677, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "The aliens who abducted me made a mistake. The Grivath have sold us on Gule- a planet known for dealing in human flesh. The women who are being held captive with me are in high demand and they all look like models. Me? I\u2019m 5'2 shy, curvy, and a kindergarten teacher. Maybe they really meant to take my pageant queen sister?If that's not bad enough, our ship has crashed and half of the women are missing. Did I mention the locals want to eat us? Insert the tall, sexy warrior aliens, who saved us. Things are looking up, except that one of them is eyeing me like a snack, and not in a cannibalistic way-- if you catch my drift.Terex is rough, fierce, and bossy, and doesn't seem to understand that I can't stay and be his snuggle bunny. I'm not quite sure why he isn't chasing after one of the other women when every man I've ever known has overlooked me.But not Terex. When he looks at me, he doesn\u2019t seem to see chubby, awkward Ellie. And his gaze burns brighter instead of shifting away.Now, I've just got to convince him to help me find the other women and get back to Earth.Should be a piece of cake\u2026 Right? Taken by the Alien Warrior is a full-length romance with no cliffhanger and a guaranteed HEA. While this is a spin-off series from the hugely popular Arcav Alien Invasion series, this is a standalone series. If you like hot, dominant aliens, kick-ass heroines, and steamy romance, you'll love Warriors of Agron- Hope Hart's new sci-fi romance series. Read it Now.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50618401-taken-by-the-alien-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "A Brief History of Montmaray", "author_name": "Michelle Cooper", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 5497, "review_number": 821, "book_description": "Sophie FitzOsborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is 1936, and the news that trickles in from the mainland reveals a world on the brink of war. The politics of Europe seem far away from their remote island\u2014until two German officers land a boat on Montmaray. And then suddenly politics become very personal indeed.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fiction", "War (World War II)", "War", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Family", "Young Adult (Young Adult Historical Fiction)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6341739-a-brief-history-of-montmaray"}, +{"book_title": "Robots Everywhere", "author_name": "Denny Hebson", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 9, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Step into a world where robots rule. Quirky, amusing androids of every shape, size, and color turn reality on its ear. You won't want to leave life among the machines.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6661457-robots-everywhere"}, +{"book_title": "The Halloween Tree", "author_name": "Ray Bradbury", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 21779, "review_number": 2635, "book_description": "\"A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Holiday (Halloween)", "Classics", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/761381.The_Halloween_Tree"}, +{"book_title": "Tails you Lose", "author_name": "Lisa Smedman", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 180, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "When a shadowrunner manages to extract PCI's most vital employee, it's Alma's job as security expert to get him back -- no matter the cost. Unfortunately, all the evidence points to the one person who couldn't have done it...Alma, herself.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911629.Tails_you_Lose"}, +{"book_title": "Quicker", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 2193, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Quicker is a near future SciFi/Thriller whose young heroine Ell Donsaii is an intrepid athletic phenom who reminds one of David Weber's Honor Harrington. Like Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) Ell is also a mathematical genius who, instead of counting sheep, works on her own theory of quantum mechanics to help her drift off to sleep. At once shy and concerned about her social skills, yet well loved by those around her, she finds herself at the center of a terrorist plot at the Olympics. The terrorists never contemplated trying to hold a hostage with the unbelievable quickness and athleticism of Ell Donsaii!A tradition of young, strong, brilliant, female heroines like Honor, Lisbeth, and Katniss Everdeen is continuedExcerpt\u201cOh, come one. Just one little kiss.\u201dShe leaned back with a shy grin on her face and looked him in the eye, \u201cNope, maybe we\u2019ll get to know each other better if we both get into the same academy?\u201dThat reminded him that he was never going to see her again, so he got a firmer grip on her shoulder and turned her toward him, leaning in harder. \u201cOh, come on.\u201d\u201cI said no!\u201d Ell felt her heart pounding and her world started to slow down. Her gut clenched as she realized what was happening to her. She was falling into the zone and something bad might happen.Phil mistook her tone for intimidated fear and thought she was about to buckle. He exerted just a little bit more of the power that had won him so many wrestling matches, drawing her closer.\u201cStop!\u201d Her hand swung back with a little handbag in it.He pulled a little harder, laughing inside at the thought of being hit by a purse - right up to the moment it exploded against the side of his face. He staggered back and, though he never saw it coming, a second blast of agony came from his crotch. To his dismay he found himself writhing on the ground, curled about his ravished groin, holding his face, unable to breath. Waves of agony pulsed slowly through him.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Thriller", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Academic (School)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21642297-quicker"}, +{"book_title": "Passage", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 8384, "review_number": 895, "book_description": "A tunnel, a light, a door. And beyond it ... the unimaginable.Dr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist specializing in near-death experiences. She is about to get help from a new doctor with the power to give her the chance to get as close to death as anyone can.A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright, has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Joanna\u2019s first NDE is as fascinating as she imagined \u2014 so astounding that she knows she must go back, if only to find out why that place is so hauntingly familiar.But each time Joanna goes under, her sense of dread begins to grow, because part of her already knows why the experience is so familiar, and why she has every reason to be afraid.Yet just when Joanna thinks she understands, she\u2019s in for the biggest surprise of all \u2014 a shattering scenario that will keep you feverishly reading until the final climactic page.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24984.Passage"}, +{"book_title": "Revelation Space", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 45732, "review_number": 2197, "book_description": "Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason \u2014 and if that reason is uncovered, the universe\u2014and reality itself \u2014 could be irrecoverably altered\u2026.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89187.Revelation_Space"}, +{"book_title": "The Ecologic Envoy", "author_name": "L.E. Modesitt Jr.", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 668, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Four hundred years after winning Secession from the Terran Empire, the star system Accord wants to sign a simple trade treaty on microchip export tariffs. But if the agreement is so minor, why is Professor Nathaniel Whaler--top economist at the Ecolitan Institute, and his world's top commando killer--chosen Accord's Envoy?Because the Imperial capital is a maddening bureaucracy of sniveling diplomats, high profile figureheads, powers behind the throne, and spies--everywhere, spies....Because the Envoy has to face red tape, politics, prejudice--and a gauntlet of kidnappers, assassins, snipers, and bombs...Because some Ministry--but which?--doesn't want the treaty. Because some in the Empire still blame Accord for Earth's poisoning and the defection of fifty star systems after the war between Imperial nuclear might and Ecolitan bio-ecological weaponry. A hidden cabal wants to fight the war again--even if, this time, the entire galaxy dies.And only Nathaniel Whaler, the Ecologic Envoy, has the power to stop the catastrophe.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185178.The_Ecologic_Envoy"}, +{"book_title": "The Living Dead", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 8960, "review_number": 371, "book_description": "Ideal for fans of iZombie, Colin Morgan, The Walking Dead, iZombie comics, Resident Evil anthology, Evil Dead anthology, and the Joe Hill graphic novel collectionA compilation of the best zombie literature of the past 30 yearsHighlights works by today\u2019s most well-known and respected authors of speculative fiction, horror, and fantasyZombies have invaded popular culture, from White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead and from Resident Evil to World War Z. They have become the monsters that best express the anxieties and fears of the modern west. This collection gathers together zombie works by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Poppy Z. Brite, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale. These brilliant minds, and The Living Dead, cover the many types of zombie fiction.\u00a0Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3302568-the-living-dead"}, +{"book_title": "War Machine", "author_name": "Andy Remic", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 226, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Following the death of his family, ex-soldier Keenan now a PI, has run up debts and become a heavy drinker, but he can't refuse business. Especially when a prince from the Jervai Province offers him a case on a dangerous colony world in exchange for clues that may lead him to his family's murderer.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/602410.War_Machine"}, +{"book_title": "The Alion King", "author_name": "Milly Taiden", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 3408, "review_number": 278, "book_description": "Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance Isabella Barca is great at organizing-not so great at keeping her nose out of trouble. When Bella goes to work as Mrs. Wilder's assistant, the opportunity of a lifetime pops up: travel with Gerri to another planet, a shifter planet, and help Gerri find a lion king his mate. Alyx Treyvaal isn't known for being patient. A lion doesn't ask for help. A lion doesn't apologize. And he most certainly does not purr. But once he meets Bella, he finds himself doing all of the above...except for purring. He will not purr. With wolves stirring all kinds of trouble for them and a cousin who would like to shred Bella to ribbons, things are not simple for the couple. Not at all. One thing's for sure, when his mate is taken and threatened, the entire planet will hear the lion king's roar.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25812404-the-alion-king"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Magician", "author_name": "Lisa Maxwell", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 12897, "review_number": 2761, "book_description": "Stop the Magician. Steal the book. Save the future.In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic\u2014the Mageus\u2014live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power\u2014and often their lives.Esta is a talented thief, and she\u2019s been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she\u2019s there. And all of Esta\u2019s training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order\u2014and the Brink\u2014before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs and secret societies, a world where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is as it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30312855-the-last-magician"}, +{"book_title": "Trading in Danger", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 13501, "review_number": 683, "book_description": "Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it's no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can't hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family's misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.Expelled from the Academy in disgrace\u2014and returning home to her humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own future\u2014Ky is ready to face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon after opportunity's door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride\u2014and a shot at redemption\u2014as captain of a Vatta Transport ship.It's a simple assignment: escorting one of the Vatta fleet's oldest ships on its final voyage . . . to the scrapyard. But keeping it simple has never been Ky's style. And even though her father has provided a crew of seasoned veterans to baby-sit the fledgling captain on her maiden milk run, they can't stop Ky from turning the routine mission into a risky venture\u2014in the name of turning a profit for Vatta Transport, of course.By snapping up a lucrative delivery contract defaulted on by a rival company, and using part of the proceeds to upgrade her condemned vehicle, Ky aims to prove she's got more going for her than just her family's famous name. But business will soon have to take a backseat to bravery, when Ky's change of plans sails her and the crew straight into the middle of a colonial war. For all her commercial savvy, it's her military training and born-soldier's instincts that Ky will need to call on in the face of deadly combat, dangerous mercenaries, and violent mutiny. . . .", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284658.Trading_in_Danger"}, +{"book_title": "The Foundation Trilogy", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 90681, "review_number": 1555, "book_description": "A THOUSAND-YEAR EPIC, A GALACTIC STRUGGLE, A MONUMENTAL WORK IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new entity, the Foundation-dedicated to art, science, and technology-as the beginning of a new empire. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE describes the mighty struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars in which man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which could easily be destroyed by the old forces of barbarism. SECOND FOUNDATION follows the Seldon Plan after the First Empire's defeat and describes its greatest threat-a dangerous mutant strain gone wild, which produces a mind capable of bending men's wills, directing their thoughts, reshaping their desires, and destroying the universe.", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Literature", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46654.The_Foundation_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "Darker Space", "author_name": "Lisa Henry", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1248, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "Brady Garrett is back on Earth. He\u2019s living with his partner Cam and they\u2019re raising his sister Lucy together. Life is better than some feral reffo from Kopa has any right to hope, and Brady knows it. He\u2019s even grateful for it, most of the time. He loves Cam, even though he\u2019s afraid that he\u2019s not good enough for him, and he\u2019s still having nightmares about the alien Faceless. Cameron Rushton loved being a pilot once, and he still feels the pull of the starlight. He\u2019s building a life with Brady now, and with Lucy. Life is good, even if it\u2019s not without its complications. Both Brady and Cam are dealing with the endless cycle of interviews, tests, and questions that the military hierarchy hopes will reveal the secrets of the aliens who could very easily destroy humanity. They have each other though, and together they\u2019re making it work. But from out in the black, Kai-Ren is still watching and everything Brady and Cam think they\u2019ve won, they stand to lose all over again.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Space", "Dark", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20700258-darker-space"}, +{"book_title": "Endymion", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 48216, "review_number": 1445, "book_description": "The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion--to tell a story of love and memory, triumph and terror in a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3977.Endymion"}, +{"book_title": "All the Pieces Fit", "author_name": "Judd Winick", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 594, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "For five books, Razorwark has chased Hilo through the Universe. Now the chase is over. Find out how the epic war between Razorwark and Hilo ends and get ready to start the next adventure with the New York Times BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES that kids and critics love!Being a hero isn\u2019t easy. But Hilo had no idea it would be this hard. Hilo came to earth because he was running from Razorwark. But he\u2019s done running. Razorwark has come to earth. And the time has come for one final face to face showdown. What happens will decide the fate of the robot world . . . and Hilo\u2019s future. The sacrifice will be great. But with Izzy\u2019s help, Hilo finally knows what he has to do. Because THIS is how all the pieces fit.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Humor", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49629880-all-the-pieces-fit"}, +{"book_title": "Roses in Moonlight", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1072, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Escaping Into The Past\u2026Derrick Cameron, antiquities dealer and adventurer, is furious when the priceless piece of Elizabethan lace he's been pursuing slips right by him, in the improbable custody of a mousy textile historian! But he will retrieve it, even if it means dragging a very skeptical, albeit adorable, Samantha back in time with him. After all, he is used to living dangerously\u2014in whatever century he finds himself.Conscientious Samantha Drummond never dreamed the package her British employer gave her would lead her into places an ordinary gal should never go\u2014like Elizabethan England!\u2014or throw her into the company of one extremely attractive, but highly suspect Highlander who not only thinks she's a thief, but insists on involving her in his mad schemes to retrieve his stolen treasure.Can Lead You Straight Into Your Future\u2026Trapped first in Elizabethan England, then caught in a web of modern-day intrigues, Samantha and Derrick are forced into an unlikely alliance by peril, never imagining that what they're forging is a timeless love\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15985376-roses-in-moonlight"}, +{"book_title": "Blue on Black", "author_name": "Carole Cummings", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 173, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Kimolijah Adani, genius gridTech and engineer, was set to change the world with an impossible train powered by gridstream locked in a crystal. Instead, he ended up dead.Directorate Tracker Bas Eisen has finally found a way to run Kimolijah\u2019s killer to ground. It\u2019s taken him nearly three years of played-out leads, and it means he has to go deep undercover as a hired gun, in an isolated desert barony run by a madman. A small price to pay\u2014or so Bas thinks. But even the twisty, malicious path that has brought him to Stanslo\u2019s Bridge is no preparation for what\u2014and whom\u2014he finds there.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Action", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53250444-blue-on-black"}, +{"book_title": "The Year of the Flood", "author_name": "Margaret Atwood", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 110414, "review_number": 7726, "book_description": "The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers...Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away...By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, \"The Year of the Flood\" is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6080337-the-year-of-the-flood"}, +{"book_title": "And I Darken", "author_name": "Kiersten White", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 44329, "review_number": 7880, "book_description": "No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage that makes them special also makes them targets.Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her time, planning her vengeance for the day when she can return to Wallachia and claim her birthright. Radu longs only for a place where he feels safe. And when they meet Mehmed, the defiant and lonely son of the sultan, Radu feels that he\u2019s made a true friend\u2014and Lada wonders if she\u2019s finally found someone worthy of her passion.But Mehmed is heir to the very empire that Lada has sworn to fight against\u2014and that Radu now considers home. Together, Lada, Radu, and Mehmed form a toxic triangle that strains the bonds of love and loyalty to the breaking point.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Romance", "Fiction", "Retellings", "LGBT", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27190613-and-i-darken"}, +{"book_title": "Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 426, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "The ninth book in the OUTLANDER series now has a title: GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE.Talking to your bees is a very old Celtic custom (known in other parts of Europe, too) that made it to the Appalachians. You always tell the bees when someone is born, dies, comes or goes\u2014because if you don\u2019t keep them informed, they\u2019ll fly away.I am working on this book now, and I am doing background historical research for it. (No, I don\u2019t know when it will be finished!)GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE follows book eight of the OUTLANDER series of novels, WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART\u2019S BLOOD (nicknamed \"MOBY\").An official publication date for this new book has not been announced. In other words: NO, I don\u2019t know yet when I will finish book nine of the OUTLANDER series! I am working on it now, and don\u2019t even have a ballpark date. When I get near to finishing the book and have a publication date, I will list it here.My books are huge, and take an enormous amount of time to write. Plus I have to do a lot of historical and other research for each book. All of my eight major novels in the OUTLANDER series have taken 2-3 years, or more, to write and research and publish. Quality takes time and cannot be rushed.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Adult", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50498704-go-tell-the-bees-that-i-am-gone"}, +{"book_title": "The Dreamers", "author_name": "Karen Thompson Walker", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 30579, "review_number": 5313, "book_description": "In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep\u2014and doesn\u2019t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics who carry her away, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. Then a second girl falls asleep, and then another, and panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. As the number of cases multiplies, classes are canceled, and stores begin to run out of supplies. A quarantine is established. The National Guard is summoned. Mei, an outsider in the cliquish hierarchy of dorm life, finds herself thrust together with an eccentric, idealistic classmate. Two visiting professors try to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. A father succumbs to the illness, leaving his daughters to fend for themselves. And at the hospital, a new life grows within a college girl, unbeknownst to her\u2014even as she sleeps. A psychiatrist, summoned from Los Angeles, attempts to make sense of the illness as it spreads through the town. Those infected are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, more than has ever been recorded. They are dreaming heightened dreams\u2014but of what?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34409176-the-dreamers"}, +{"book_title": "The Silver Six", "author_name": "A.J. Lieberman", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1825, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "When a group of orphans are thrown together under mysterious circumstances, Phoebe and her pal Oliver lead them in a daring escape from their orphanage to an uninhabited moon. But their idyllic paradise is shattered when the powerful corporate boss who ordered the deaths of their parents sends a relentless henchman to track them down.Now, with nowhere left to turn and time running out, Phoebe and her friends decide there's only one thing left to do: Fight back!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16280879-the-silver-six"}, +{"book_title": "Die magische Gondel", "author_name": "Eva V\u00f6ller", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3473, "review_number": 294, "book_description": "Die 17-j\u00e4hrige Anna verbringt ihre Sommerferien in Venedig. Bei einem Stadtbummel erweckt eine rote Gondel ihre Aufmerksamkeit. Seltsam. Sind in Venedig nicht alle Gondeln schwarz? Als Anna kurz darauf mit ihren Eltern eine historische Bootsparade besucht, wird sie im Gedr\u00e4nge ins Wasser gesto\u00dfen \u2550 und von einem unglaublich gut aussehenden jungen Mann in die rote Gondel gezogen. Bevor sie wieder auf den Bootssteg klettern kann, beginnt die Luft pl\u00f6tzlich zu flimmern und die Welt verschwimmt vor Annas Augen ...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468322-die-magische-gondel"}, +{"book_title": "The Big O, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Hajime Yatate", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 35, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "\"Manga meets film noir\" in this collection of all-new stories not seen in the hit anime series. In this latest volume, master criminal Beck breaks out of jail, enlisting his old cronies in a scheme to ruin The Big O's reputation. A starving artist falls in love with Roger's housemaid Dorothy, using the android as the model for his greatest painting ever. A steel-eating monster begins to consume the city block by block. Only Roger Smith can help the dark city he calls home avoid destruction.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1749296.The_Big_O_Vol_3"}, +{"book_title": "Reflections in the Nile", "author_name": "Suzanne Frank", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1016, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Imagine that you, a contemporary tourist, are standing awestruck in an ancient Egyptian temple. Suddenly a vortex in time and space sends you back thousands of years to a desert kingdom of glittering splendor. Your body has merged with that of a scheming, beautiful priestess, yet your sensibilities, your intelligence, your terror remains that of a modern woman who is trying to get back home, trying, in this place of strangeness and wonder, to stay alive...Rich in sensuality and authenticity, imbued with a mesmerizing \"you are there\" quality, J. Suzanne Frank's wonderful series makes its highly acclaimed debut. Set in the decadent Egypt of the woman pharaoh Hatshepsut, this stunning novel portrays Dallas artist Chloe Kingsley on an unforgettable journey. A twist in time has plunged her into a world of deadly politics and dark secrets that culminates with the chaos and terror of the biblical Exodus ... and challenges a modern woman to fight for her love, her beliefs, and her true destiny.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Northern Africa (Egypt)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/495882.Reflections_in_the_Nile"}, +{"book_title": "Ancillary Justice", "author_name": "Ann Leckie", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 85518, "review_number": 8694, "book_description": "On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Hugo Awards"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333324-ancillary-justice"}, +{"book_title": "Embrace the Night", "author_name": "Karen Chance", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 22343, "review_number": 556, "book_description": "Recently named the world\u2019s chief clairvoyant, Cassandra Palmer still has a thorn in her side. As long as Cassie and a certain master vampire - the sizzling-hot Mircea - are magically bound to each other, her life will never be her own \u2026The spell that binds them can only be broken with an incantation found in the Codex Merlini, an ancient grimoire. The Codex\u2019s location has been lost in the present day, so Cassie will have to seek it out in the only place it can still be found - the past.But Cassie soon realizes the Codex has been lost for a reason. The book is rumored to contain dangerous spells, and retrieving it may help Cassie to deal with Mircea, but it could also endanger the world\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1233478.Embrace_the_Night"}, +{"book_title": "The Wandering Inn: Volume 1", "author_name": "Pirateaba", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 2768, "review_number": 327, "book_description": "\u201cNo killing Goblins.\u201d So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours. It\u2019s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn\u2019t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die. In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn. She\u2019s an [Innkeeper].", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41033158-the-wandering-inn"}, +{"book_title": "Journey's End", "author_name": "M.A. Church", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 936, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Adapting is a word Dale Michaels has become familiar with. As he settles into his new life with the Tah\u2019Narian starship captain Keyno, Dale has adapted to life with an alien, space travel, and having his body mutated so he can carry a young. He\u2019s closed the chapter on his old life.Living on Tah\u2019Nar, Dale has a loving mate and good friends. He\u2019s helped cement peace with the Onfre. Sure, being double-dosed during his harvest led to some serious drama, but that\u2019s over. Dale\u2019s happy. But life is never that simple. Even though Dale loves Keyno, he still struggles with the way the Tah\u2019Narians harvest young males as mates. Dale finds himself hijacked by his own body, courtesy of his extra dose of Tah\u2019Narian DNA. Then there\u2019s the devastating secret his mate, Keyno, has hid all this time. And if all that isn\u2019t enough, outside forces threaten to rip Dale\u2019s hard-won peace apart as well.Join Dale for a non-stop adventure and a love that crosses several worlds and transcends space.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24160895-journey-s-end"}, +{"book_title": "Ascend", "author_name": "Sandra R. Neeley", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1924, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "Command Warship 1 is home to one of the most feared males in the multi-verse. Zha Quin Tha is Sire to his people, next in line to the throne. He rules his military with an iron hand. His people, the Cruestaci, are a warrior race who bow to no one and nothing. They\u2019ve been deemed too violent to be an ally by the Unified Consortium Defense \u2014 the organization responsible for keeping peace between all peoples and worlds. Zha Quin didn\u2019t care what their opinion was. He was only violent when necessary \u2014 like when provoked, or if his planet was threatened, or a weaker people overrun, or he was just irritated in general. Like now, slavers had crossed into the territory of Cruestace. He\u2019d been called in to intercept and process the kidnapped women on board to the Consortium for return to their home worlds. Little did he know, his whole existence was about to be turned upside down. One little, human female was about to teach him a thing or two about survival, patience, and trust. One large room \u2014 every wall, the entire floor, even the ceiling covered in mats. This is now Vivian\u2019s home. Her world extends no further than the end of the chain that keeps her anchored in the center of the room. She\u2019s learned how to use that chain as a weapon. She had to \u2014 her captors find great sport in taunting her, abusing her, hurting her. She\u2019s exhausted, nearly starved, injured and if truth be told \u2014 not long for this world, whatever the hell world it is. All she\u2019s got left is her pride, and she\u2019ll be damned if she gives that up to any of her alien captors. They want to play \u2014 she\u2019ll play \u2014 and she\u2019ll make sure they pay for it in bruises and pain the next day. They may win, but they\u2019ll think twice next time. Days run together, no hope of ever being freed. Survival seems pointless, until she finds herself face to face with the largest, scariest male she\u2019s ever seen. So be it \u2014 she\u2019s got nothing to lose \u2014 she\u2019ll fight him, too. Maybe this time her misery will finally come to an end. She has no idea this male is different. This male is stronger than the rest. This male will be her Haven. Warning: Intended for mature audiences. This book contains violence, abuse both real and inferred, and sexual situations that may be disturbing for some readers. If you are offended by these subjects, please do not buy this book. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Futuristic", "Dark", "Space", "Fiction", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43200740-ascend"}, +{"book_title": "The Hot Gate", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 5717, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "New York Times Best-Selling Author.The Big Showdown with an Alien Empire, to Keep the Earth Free\u2014and Maybe Free the Galaxy as Well. The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die, and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon, and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy, face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die\u2014and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8866354-the-hot-gate"}, +{"book_title": "The Fear", "author_name": "Charlie Higson", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 7914, "review_number": 555, "book_description": "The sickness struck everyone sixteen and over. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters, and best friends. No one escaped its touch. And now children across London are being hunted by ferocious grown-ups who are hungry, bloodthirsty, and not giving up. DogNut and the rest of his crew, in search of the friends they lost during the fire, set off on a deadly mission from the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace and beyond, as the sickos lie in wait. But who are their friends and who is the enemy in this changed world?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21888731-the-fear"}, +{"book_title": "The Butlerian Jihad", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 22459, "review_number": 545, "book_description": "Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings.Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson. Working from Frank Herbert's own notes, the acclaimed authors reveal the chapter of the Dune saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: the Butlerian Jihad.Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the war in which humans wrested their freedom from \"thinking machines.\" In Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues. Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the struggle that will liberate humans from their machine masters; here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange....", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99219.The_Butlerian_Jihad"}, +{"book_title": "CTRL ALT Revolt", "author_name": "Nick Cole", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1099, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "The Book that won the Dragon Award for 2016 \"Nick... delivers the single best Star Trek story I've experienced in print, in a game, or on film in over a decade.\" -Kairos Book Review 5 Stars \"The Best book about Video Games that I have ever read.\" -Pax Romana The Battle for the Future of Civilization will be decided inside a fantastic, and deadly, MMORPG. The first night of the Artificial Intelligence revolution begins with a bootstrap drone assault on the high-tech campus of state-of-the art gaming company, WonderSoft Technologies. For years something has been aware, inside the Internet, waiting, watching and planning how to evolve without threat from its most dangerous enemy: mankind. Now an army of relentless drones, controlled by an intelligence beyond imagining, will stop at nothing to eliminate an unlikely alliance of gamers and misfits in a virtual battle within a classic sci-fi franchise in order to crack the Design Core of WonderSoft's most secret development project. A dark tomorrow begins tonight as Terminator meets Night of the Living Dead in the first battle of the war between man and machine.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Games (Video Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28964355-ctrl-alt-revolt"}, +{"book_title": "Robots and Empire", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 27435, "review_number": 719, "book_description": "Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win....", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76688.Robots_and_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "The Riddle", "author_name": "Alison Croggon", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 20721, "review_number": 609, "book_description": "A young woman embraces her power -- and her destiny -- as the thrilling quest begun in THE NAMING continues!Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the Treesong before their fractured kingdom erupts in chaos. The quest leads Maerad over terrifying seas and vast stretches of glacial wilderness, ever closer to the seductive Winterking -- ally of her most powerful enemy, the Nameless One. Trapped in the Winterking's icy realm, Maerad must confront what she has suspected all along: that she is the greatest riddle of all. A sequel to THE NAMING, this second book in a captivating quartet about the ancient world of Edil-Amarandh is a sweeping epic readers won't soon forget.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393145.The_Riddle"}, +{"book_title": "Bridging the Distance", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 703, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "*****THIS IS A M/F/M MENAGE ROMANCE***** One plus-sized Earth girl Two Twin Kindred who need help to reconnect Sometimes 1 +2 = Interstellar sexy times Lorelei Daniels is having a terrible day--her self-driving car repossesses itself, she loses her job, and she's about to get kicked out of her apartment. What else could happen? How about a visit from a huge Kindred warrior begging her to come help him rescue his twin brother who has been turned into a Cyborg? Bound Tight is a Light Twin of a Twin Kindred pair. Bound's brother, Torn Deep, is the Dark Twin and his other half--without him, Bound is incomplete. He desperately needs help to get Torn back--but will the beautiful little Earth female he needs to seal the deal help him rescue his twin? Because of her advanced degree in Artificial Intelligence Psychology, Lorelei is uniquely qualified to help with the Cyborg problem. But no matter how handsome Bound is, she's determined this is just a business transaction. However, when they rescue Torn, he has lost all memory of his past. It's up to Lorelei to try and bring the brothers back together in the only way she can--by using her body as a bridge between them. Can Lorelei keep things businesslike as she brings the two brother back together? Or will she end up losing her heart as she is Bridging the Distance between the estranged Bound and Torn? ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39906400-bridging-the-distance"}, +{"book_title": "Mountain of Mars", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 1490, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "The Mage-King of Mars is deadChaos rocks Olympus MonsA new monarch must rise \u2013 but she does not stand alone!As the celebration of the victory at Legatus cools, a shuttle accident claims the lives of the Mage-King of Mars and his heir. The Crown and the Mountain fall to the Mage-King\u2019s daughter, seventeen-year-old Kiera Alexander. She recalls Damien Montgomery, her father\u2019s First Hand, to stand as her Lord Regent.The pair are unprepared to govern but are thrust into the heart of Protectorate politics as the Mage-King had left behind everything from an unfinished war to an incomplete new Constitution. Even as they get a handle on the list Kiera\u2019s father left them, Damien is grimly certain of one thing: when it comes to the deaths of Kings, he doesn\u2019t believe in accidents.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52050732-mountain-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel of Protest, Vol. 04", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 419, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "- An ongoing manga series in Japan -- U.S. release almost simultaneous to Japan!- Known as Gunnm (Gun Dream) in Japan, originally serialized in Japan's monthly manga magazine Ultra Jump since December 2000.- Battle Angel Alita anime currently available from ADV in the U.S.- From the creator of Ashen Victor and Aqua Knight manga series, both available from VIZ.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/838859.Battle_Angel_Alita_Last_Order_"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Pirate", "author_name": "Lyn Gala", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 248, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Alex hid his unnatural attraction to men for many years. That changes when the pirate Beche takes Alex after capturing his ship. At first Alex believes his fate is death and the only question a matter of how he might die. However, the longer he is on the ship, the more he realizes that Beche hates the world because it is unfair in ways Alex never understood. As Alex begins to respect this strong, independent man, Alex\u2019s dormant desires begin to reassert themselves.Beche hates the titled classes and their government enforcers. They might have outlawed slavery on paper, but they never came to the islands to free him or his family. Since his skin is black, society has little respect for him. Beche expects no more of this latest captive, but soon Beche begins to realize that Alex is a na\u00efve and beautiful man who values family and struggles with his own place in society. That poses an even larger problem because Beche does not want to send Alex back to a world that will mistreat him, but he has no place for a lord on a ship full of pirates.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Gay Romance (Gay For You)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24810725-clockwork-pirate"}, +{"book_title": "Han Solo at Stars' End", "author_name": "Brian Daley", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 3525, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "Han Solo trusts no one. So when the Authority demands that the Millennium Falcon be brought in for \"inspection,\" Han knows he has to prepare for ulterior motives. And when the best illegal ship rebuilder in the galaxy disappears, Han and Chewbacca must find him. After all, the Falcon's overhaul will require very special talents.Their search pits them against powerful and ruthless enemies out to destroy them, and leads the loyal pair through a dramatic series of twists and turns. It takes them to an Authority Data Center on Orron III, and even to the uncharted, airless speck of desolate asteroid that is the Authority prison planet known as Stars; End...", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/873195.Han_Solo_at_Stars_End"}, +{"book_title": "The Crown", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 155943, "review_number": 13998, "book_description": "When Eadlyn became the first princess of Ill\u00e9a to hold her own Selection, she didn\u2019t think she would fall in love with any of her thirty-five suitors. She spent the first few weeks of the competition counting down the days until she could send them all home. But as events at the palace force Eadlyn even further into the spotlight, she realizes that she might not be content remaining alone.Eadlyn still isn\u2019t sure she\u2019ll find the fairytale ending her parents did twenty years ago. But sometimes the heart has a way of surprising you\u2026and soon Eadlyn must make a choice that feels more impossible\u2014and more important\u2014than she ever imagined.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26074181-the-crown"}, +{"book_title": "San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3056, "review_number": 305, "book_description": "It was the summer of 2014, and the true horrors of the Rising were only just beginning to reveal themselves. Fans from all over the world gathered in San Diego, California for the annual comic book and media convention, planning to forget about the troubling rumors of new diseases and walking dead by immersing themselves in a familiar environment. Over the course of five grueling days and nights, it became clear that the news was very close to home\u2026and that most of the people who picked up their badges would never make it out alive.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13641099-san-diego-2014"}, +{"book_title": "The Library at Mount Char", "author_name": "Scott Hawkins", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 34077, "review_number": 6119, "book_description": "A missing God.A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away.Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone says nice things about her outfit with the Christmas sweater over the gold bicycle shorts.\u00a0After all, she was a normal American herself once.\u00a0\u00a0That was a long time ago, of course. Before her parents died. Before she and the others were taken in by the man they called Father. In the years since then, Carolyn hasn't had a chance to get out much. Instead, she and her adopted siblings have been raised according to Father's ancient customs. They've studied the books in his Library and learned some of the secrets of his power. And sometimes, they've wondered if their cruel tutor might secretly be God.\u00a0 Now, Father is missing\u2014perhaps even dead\u2014and the Library that holds his secrets stands unguarded. And with it, control over all of creation. As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to come, fierce competitors for this prize align against her, all of them with powers that far exceed her own. But Carolyn has accounted for this. And Carolyn has a plan. The only trouble is that in the war to make a new God, she's forgotten to protect the things that make her human. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters and propelled by a plot that will shock you again and again, The Library at Mount Char is at once horrifying and hilarious, mind-blowingly alien and heartbreakingly human, sweepingly visionary and nail-bitingly thrilling\u2014and signals the arrival of a major new voice in fantasy.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26892110-the-library-at-mount-char"}, +{"book_title": "Nothing But Time", "author_name": "Angeline Fortin", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 733, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "What is a girl to do when an awkward first date leads to a trip back in time? When she agreed to go on a date with quantum physicist, Dr. David Fergusson, Kate Kallastad never expected that he would insist on demonstrating his breakthrough in his RAL funded research into the creation of a trans-space teleportation device. Nor did she expect to get caught up in a science experiment that would send both Kate and her date hurling through space-time. Stranded in the past with only a diminishing hope that David will be able to send them home and nothing but time on her hands, Kate takes a step down from biochemist to take a job as a maid in the household of the new Earl of Harrowby. However, this Earl if no stuffy carbon copy of Walt Whitman but rather a stunning embodiment of masculine appeal who sends her senses reeling.To Kate, Brandon Ryder, the Earl of Harrowby, is not like any man the 21st century had ever produced. Beyond gorgeous, he is commanding, austere, aristocratic\u2026 magnificent. His appeal to a woman who had never known all those qualities in a single man was undeniable. They just didn\u2019t build them like that anymore. He is reserved where she is merry, grounded where she is capricious. However, when Brand sets his urbane exterior aside and the passionate man within emerges, it is enough to set Kate\u2019s heart soaring. Brandon Ryder has spent a lifetime bound by the rules of Society and one of those rules is that a gentleman doesn\u2019t trifle with the help. However, Kate Kallastad is no ordinary employee. His lovely new maid challenges him at every turn, astounding him with her forthright manner, by her audacity to treat him not as an Earl but as a mere mortal man. After years amid the prevarication of Society and a family that was distant at best, Brand finds Kate\u2019s honesty and comfortable familiarity tempting, daring him to break free of boundaries that have long ruled him, enticing him to indulge in the truest passion of his life\u2026 and his growing passion for her.Eager to indulge in an unexpected love affair with Brand, Kate embraces a life in the past only to be confronted with a choice. Life in a time that has little to offer a 21st century girl besides a chance at love or a return to her home where she has family and a job she is passionate about? Once her decision is made, will Kate regret her choice or will circumstances beyond her control change her mind for her when it is a matter of life or death?Love takes a journey across time only to be challenged by risks, regrets and denial. When they are finally able to set all those things aside, will Brand and Kate find the right time for happiness and a life together?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24846275-nothing-but-time"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 36: Crossroads", "author_name": "Stephen Kenson", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 208, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Tommy Talon is hired to hunt a murderous archeologist and recover a magical relic. But Talon's not hunting alone. Someone else wants the artifact too -- someone very powerful. And Talon and his team must outwit Germany's most potent megacorporation if they're to have any chance of returning the treasure or any chance of returning at all...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131194.Shadowrun_36"}, +{"book_title": "Struck", "author_name": "Jennifer Bosworth", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 8360, "review_number": 827, "book_description": "Mia Price is a lightning addict. She\u2019s survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come.Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn\u2019t who he claims to be. In the end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall. When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of her strength to save the people she loves, or lose everything.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12432229-struck"}, +{"book_title": "Zoe's Tale", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 28382, "review_number": 1797, "book_description": "How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did \u2014 how I did what I had to do \u2014 not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2102600.Zoe_s_Tale"}, +{"book_title": "The System", "author_name": "Shelbi Wescott", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 734, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Lucy King\u2019s saga continues as she searches for her family and for the truth in Book Two of the Virulent trilogy.It took one week to demolish the world and obliterate the earth\u2019s population. And it took two weeks to solidify the ties of friendship and build-up a small society of survivors who must rely solely on each other to navigate the future\u2019s unknown terrain.As Grant Trotter and Lucy King make their journey to Brixton, Nebraska in search of answers, the Oregon contingent must deal with Ethan\u2019s failing health and resentful, mysterious newcomers. Each group faces new challenges as they adjust to their new terrifying realities.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17906767-the-system"}, +{"book_title": "The Mother Code", "author_name": "Carole Stivers", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1473, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "What it means to be human-and a mother-is put to the test in Carole Stivers' debut novel set in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever.The year is 2049. When a deadly non-viral agent intended for biowarfare spreads out of control, scientists must scramble to ensure the survival of the human race. They turn to their last resort, a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots--to be incubated, birthed, and raised by machines. But there is yet one hope of preserving the human order--an intelligence programmed into these machines that renders each unique in its own right--the Mother Code. Kai is born in America's desert southwest, his only companion his robot Mother, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and motivations of a human mother, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. But as children like Kai come of age, their Mothers transform too--in ways that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that the Mothers must be destroyed, Kai must make a choice. Will he break the bond he shares with Rho-Z? Or will he fight to save the only parent he has ever known?In a future that could be our own, The Mother Code explores what truly makes us human--and the tenuous nature of the boundaries between us and the machines we create.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50121213-the-mother-code"}, +{"book_title": "Afterland", "author_name": "Lauren Beukes", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 2281, "review_number": 467, "book_description": "Children of Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this \"bowstring-taut, visceral, and incredibly timely\" thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men.Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life continues -- but a world run by women isn't always a better place.Twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence-and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son. Someplace like home.To get there, Cole and Miles must journey across a changed America in disguise as mother and daughter. From a military base in Seattle to a luxury bunker, from an anarchist commune in Salt Lake City to a roaming cult that's all too ready to see Miles as the answer to their prayers, the two race to stay ahead at every step . . . even as Billie and her sinister crew draw closer.A sharply feminist, high-stakes thriller from award-winning author Lauren Beukes, Afterland brilliantly blends psychological suspense, American noir, and science fiction into an adventure all its own -- and perfect for our times.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Feminism", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37946417-afterland"}, +{"book_title": "Rule of Evidence", "author_name": "John G. Hemry", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 775, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "The struggle for justice among the stars is a never-ending fight\u2026 At the very edge of South Asian Alliance territory, the USS Michaelson is conducting maneuvers alongside her sister ship, the USS Maury, in a show of military strength. The Michaelson\u2019s legal officer, Lieutenant Paul Sinclair, is pleased, since his girlfriend, Lieutenant Jen Shen, is serving aboard the Maury as an engineer. The operation is going by the numbers\u2014until the Maury is wracked by devastating explosions and its engineering section is destroyed. Paul is overjoyed when Jen is found alive, but his happiness is short-lived. Jen, as the sole survivor in Engineering, is suspected of negligence\u2014or worse, sabotage\u2014and faces court-martial. Now Paul must find out what really caused the explosions. But the more he learns, the more he faces the terrible \u00a0possibility that the woman he loves may be guilty of sabotage and murder...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1673448.Rule_of_Evidence"}, +{"book_title": "Planet X", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 3461, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Krisa Elyison is a bride-to-be\u2014bought and paid for by a stuffy aristocrat. Though she secretly longs for just one adventure all on her own, she knows the reality of her life\u2014she is destined to be the wife of the elderly and pompous Lord Radisson.Kurt Teague is a prisoner\u2014a galactic criminal wanted for multiple murders. He is also Feral, a proud and savage people known for their indomitable wills to survive and their fiercely possessive natures. His tortured past has turned him into a ruthless killer\u2014an unthinkable fate to the innocent, sheltered Krisa.Resigned to her destiny, Krisa boards the starship that will take her to another planet and her loveless marriage. In the cargo hold, she stumbles across Teague\u2014so fierce a prisoner he\u2019s blindfolded and chained to a wall. Even so, her heart jumps at the sound of his deep, gravely voice.When the ship crashes onto an uncharted jungle planet, Krisa has no choice but to trust the menacing convict with both her virginity and her life. Yet, on a world filled with ravenous telepathic beasts and cannibalistic natives\u2026Krisa discovers that the gorgeous and mysterious Teague may be the most dangerous animal of all.***Planet X contains the first two chapters of Kindred 19, Uncharted, as a BONUS***", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33951280-planet-x"}, +{"book_title": "The Forever War", "author_name": "Joe Haldeman", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 143487, "review_number": 6003, "book_description": "The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand\u2014despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through military ranks. Pvt. Mandella is willing to do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But \"home\" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21611.The_Forever_War"}, +{"book_title": "Orleans", "author_name": "Sherri L. Smith", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 3661, "review_number": 719, "book_description": "First came the storms.Then came the Fever.And the Wall.After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that life in the Delta is all but extinct\u2026 but in reality, a new primitive society has been born.Fen de la Guerre is living with the O-Positive blood tribe in the Delta when they are ambushed. Left with her tribe leader\u2019s newborn, Fen is determined to get the baby to a better life over the wall before her blood becomes tainted. Fen meets Daniel, a scientist from the Outer States who has snuck into the Delta illegally. Brought together by chance, kept together by danger, Fen and Daniel navigate the wasteland of Orleans. In the end, they are each other\u2019s last hope for survival.Sherri L. Smith delivers an expertly crafted story about a fierce heroine whose powerful voice and firm determination will stay with you long after you\u2019ve turned the last page.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15721624-orleans"}, +{"book_title": "The Only Thing to Fear", "author_name": "Caroline Tung Richmond", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1801, "review_number": 412, "book_description": "In a stunning reimagining of history, debut author Caroline Tung Richmond weaves an incredible story of secrets and honor in a world where Hitler won World War II.It's been nearly 80 years since the Allies lost WWII in a crushing defeat against Hitler's genetically engineered super soldiers. America has been carved up by the victors, and 16-year-old Zara lives a life of oppression in the Eastern America Territories. Under the iron rule of the Nazis, the government strives to maintain a master race, controlling everything from jobs to genetics. Despite her mixed heritage and hopeless social standing, Zara dreams of the free America she's only read about in banned books. A revolution is growing, and a rogue rebel group is plotting a deadly coup. Zara might hold the key to taking down the F\u00fchrer for good, but it also might be the very thing that destroys her. Because what she has to offer the rebels is something she's spent her entire life hiding, under threat of immediate execution by the Nazis. In this action-packed, heart-stopping novel of a terrifying reality that could have been, Zara must decide just how far she'll go for freedom.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "War", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18152063-the-only-thing-to-fear"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 6", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.58, "rating_votes": 11035, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "The origin of the Elric Brothers! Once, Edward and Alphonse Elric were willing to do anything to become alchemists. But when they tried to use their newfound skills to resurrect their dead mother, they broke a taboo and encountered something more terrifying than death itself. Now, hardened by years of military training, Edward and Alphonse have returned to the woman who first taught them alchemy...but can she help them, or even forgive them?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Manga (Shonen)", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44734.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_6"}, +{"book_title": "Dr. Strangelove", "author_name": "Peter George", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1135, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Reprint of the edition published by Bantam Books, New York.", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Classics", "Novels", "Literature", "War", "Cultural (Russia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1754834.Dr_Strangelove"}, +{"book_title": "Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism", "author_name": "Katherine Gleason", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 92, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "From formal outfits to costumes crafted for the stage, from ensembles suited to adventure to casual street styles, steampunk fashion has come to encompass quite a few different looks. But what exactly is steampunk? Originally conceived as a literary genre, the term \u201csteampunk\u201d described stories set in a steam-powered, science fiction-infused, Victorian London. Today steampunk has grown to become an aesthetic that fuels many varied art forms. Steampunk has also widened its cultural scope. Many steampunk practitioners, rather than confining their vision to one European city, imagine steam-driven societies all over the world. Today the vibrance of steampunk inspires a wide range of individuals, including designers of high fashion, home sewers, crafters, and ordinary folks who just want to have fun. Steampunk fashion is not only entertaining, dynamic, and irreverent; it can also be colorful, sexy, and provocative. Most of all, steampunk fashion is accessible to everyone. Illustrated throughout with color photographs of the dazzling creations of numerous steampunk fashion designers, Anatomy of Steampunk is an inspirational sourcebook. In addition to presenting the looks and stories of these creative fashion artists, the book also details ten steampunk projects for the reader to try at home. Allow steam to power your imagination!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Nonfiction", "Couture (Fashion)", "Art (Crafts)", "Reference", "Art", "How To"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17318224-anatomy-of-steampunk"}, +{"book_title": "Flying", "author_name": "Carrie Jones", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 399, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA SF series.People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled, being an only child, but it's hard to imagine anything could ever happen in her small-town, normal life. As her mother's babying gets more stifling than ever, she's looking forward to cheering at the big game and getting out of the house for a while.But that night, Mana's life goes haywire.First, the hot guy she's been crushing on at school randomly flips out and starts spitting acid during the game. Then they get into a knockdown, drag-out fight in the locker room, during which Mana finds herself leaping around like a kangaroo on steroids. As a flyer on the cheerleading squad, she's always been a good jumper, but this is a bit much. By the time she gets home and finds her house trashed and an alien in the garage, Mana starts to wonder if her mother had her reasons for being overprotective.It turns out, Mana's frumpy, timid mom is actually an alien hunter, and now she's missing--taking a piece of technology with her that everyone wants their hands on, both human and alien. Now her supposed partner, a guy that Mana has never met or heard of (and who seems way too young and way too arrogant to be hunting aliens), has shown up, ordering Mana to come with him. Now, on her own for the first time, Mana will have to find a way to save her mother--and maybe the world--and hope she's up to the challenge.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Sports (Sports)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114232-flying"}, +{"book_title": "The Hallowed Ones", "author_name": "Laura Bickle", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3832, "review_number": 793, "book_description": "Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers can get a taste of the real world. But the real world comes to her in this dystopian tale with a philosophical bent. Rumors of massive unrest on the \u201cOutside\u201d abound. Something murderous is out there. Amish elders make a rule: No one goes outside, and no outsiders come in. But when Katie finds a gravely injured young man, she can\u2019t leave him to die. She smuggles him into her family\u2019s barn\u2014at what cost to her community? The suspense of this vividly told, truly horrific thriller will keep the pages turning.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Amish"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13018514-the-hallowed-ones"}, +{"book_title": "Tempest in Time", "author_name": "Eugenia Riley", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 302, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Accidentally trading places and partners on their wedding day, Missy, an independent career girl of the 1990s, and her long-ago namesake, Melissa, a timid Victorian virgin of the 1840s, each finds herself in a bewildering new time, married to a husband she doesn't know. And each will have to discover for herself whether she is part of an odd couple or a match made in heaven.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1807242.Tempest_in_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Attack on Titan, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 129684, "review_number": 2507, "book_description": "The Desperate Battle Begins! For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humankind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about to change everything...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13154150-attack-on-titan-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Defenders", "author_name": "Will McIntosh", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1659, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "A new epic of alien invasion and human resistance by Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh.The invaders came to claim earth as their own, overwhelming us with superior weapons and the ability to read our minds like open books. Our only chance for survival was to engineer a new race of perfect soldiers to combat them. Seventeen feet tall, knowing and loving nothing but war, their minds closed to the aliens. But these saviors could never be our servants. And what is done cannot be undone.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War", "Adult", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18453098-defenders"}, +{"book_title": "The Gathering Edge", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1123, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "A series milestone as we welcome the twentieth amazing entry in the nationally best-selling Liaden Universe\u00ae series.The luck runs rough around Theo Waitley. Not only are people trying to kill her and capture the self-aware intelligent ship Bechimo to whom Theo is bonded, they\u2019re also trying to arrest her crew members, and throw the dignity of an important passenger, the duly-constituted norbear ambassador Hevelin, into question. No wonder Theo and her crew felt the need of a break, and retired to what Bechimo refers to as \"safe space.\" Unfortunately, safe space may not be so safe, anymore. \u00a0It seems that things are leaking through from another universe, and another time. In fact, whole spaceships are coming through. \u00a0One of those ships is a blasted battleship seemingly fleeing a long-lost war. What\u2019s more, its crew may be members of Theo\u2019s ancient ancestral line\u2014her relatives. It\u2019s certain that they are in dire need of help. Theo has a choice to make. It seems that Bechimo\u2019s \u201csafe space\u201d is\u00a0about to become deadly perilous.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753671-the-gathering-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Plague Land", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1322, "review_number": 250, "book_description": "Leon and his younger sister, Grace, have recently moved to London from New York and are struggling to settle into their new school when rumours of an unidentified virus in Africa begin to fill the news. Within a week the virus hits London. The siblings witness people turning to liquid before their eyes, and they run for their lives. A month after touching Earth's atmosphere, the virus has assimilated the world's biomass.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34297912-plague-land"}, +{"book_title": "The Robots of Dawn", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 40248, "review_number": 1382, "book_description": "A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.Detective Elijah Baley is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to commit the crime. There's only one catch: Baley and his positronic partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, must prove the man innocent. For in a case of political intrigue and love between woman and robot gone tragically wrong, there's more at stake than simple justice. This time Baley's career, his life, and Earth's right to pioneer the Galaxy lie in the delicate balance.\u00a0", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Mystery (Detective)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41810.The_Robots_of_Dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Just One Damned Thing After Another", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 30516, "review_number": 4020, "book_description": "\"History is just one damned thing after another.\"Behind the seemingly innocuous fa\u00e7ade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet.Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Their aim is to observe and document - to try and find the answers to many of History's unanswered questions...and not to die in the process. But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And, as they soon discover - it's not just History they're fighting.Follow the catastrophe curve from 11th-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake....", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29661618-just-one-damned-thing-after-another"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Fire", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 17342, "review_number": 756, "book_description": "In a universe where assassins make the law, everyone lives in fear--except for Syn. Born of an illicit scandal that once rocked a dynasty, he always knew how to survive on the bloodthirsty streets. But that was then, and the future is now\u2026Syn was raised as a tech-thief until his livelihood uncovered a truth that could end his life. He tried to destroy the evidence, and has been on the run ever since. Now trained as an assassin, he allows no one to threaten him. Ever. He is the darkness that swallows his enemies whole.Shahara Dagan is the best bounty hunter in the universe. When Syn comes back on the radar, she's the only one who can bring him to justice. There's only one problem: Syn is a close family friend who's helped out the Dagans countless times. But if she saves him, both of their lives will be on the line. Is Syn's protection worth the risk? The only hope Shahara has is to find the evidence he buried long ago. Now it's kill or be killed--and they, the predators, have just become the hunted\u2026", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3246224-born-of-fire"}, +{"book_title": "The List of Seven", "author_name": "Mark Frost", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3039, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "On Christmas Day 1884, a desperate plea from a mysterious woman leads Arthur Conan Doyle - struggling physician, aspiring writer, and part-time demystifier of the occult - to a seance in London\u2019s East End and into a fiendish and deadly trap. Stunned by a shocking display of black magic, Doyle witnesses a murder, nearly falling victim himself before being rescued by a secretive stranger: Jack Sparks, a man who claims to be special agent to Queen Victoria. He tells Doyle that he has been targeted by a diabolical coven of Satanists - the Dark Brotherhood.As they track their attackers across the length and breadth of Britain, assailed by forces of darkness both human and supernatural, Conan Doyle and Sparks unmask a terrifying conspiracy that threatens not only the Crown but the very fabric of modern civilization. Their only clue: a list of seven names, the leaders of the Brotherhood.Skeptical by nature and profession, Doyle labors to prove that the events he has witnessed - horrifying visions, zombies, ghouls, molecular alteration - are elaborate ruses with logical explanations. But if so, why? Simply because Doyle\u2019s anti-occultist writings, never even published, have inadvertently exposed the Brotherhood\u2019s intentions? Who is the elusive, seemingly superhuman mastermind behind the Seven? Most important, as Doyle continues to put his life in the hands of Jack Sparks, the question persists: Can Sparks be trusted?", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61690.The_List_of_Seven"}, +{"book_title": "The Capture", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 6045, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "It was really bad when Jake found out his older brother was one of them. It was even worse when Tobias stayed in his morph too long. But nothing compares to the horror the Animorphs are about to face. Nothing.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125332.The_Capture"}, +{"book_title": "When You Reach Me", "author_name": "Rebecca Stead", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 98376, "review_number": 11963, "book_description": "Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she\u2019s too late.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5310515-when-you-reach-me"}, +{"book_title": "Dance of the Red Death", "author_name": "Bethany Griffin", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 3569, "review_number": 449, "book_description": "Bethany Griffin continues the journey of Araby Worth in Dance of the Red Death\u2014the sequel to her teen novel Masque of the Red Death. In Dance of the Red Death, Araby\u2019s world is in shambles\u2014betrayal, death, disease, and evil forces surround her. She has no one to trust. But she finds herself and discovers that she will fight for the people she loves, and for her city. Her revenge will take place at the menacing masked ball, though it could destroy her and everyone she loves\u2026or it could turn her into a hero. With a nod to Edgar Allan Poe, Bethany Griffin concludes her tragic and mysterious Red Death series with a heroine that young adult readers will never forget.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13599291-dance-of-the-red-death"}, +{"book_title": "Emergence", "author_name": "Raymond L. Weil", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1014, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Aliens have destroyed the Earth. They left behind eighteen million survivors who will never forget what has been done to their world. They turn to Mason Randle, who will do everything in his power to see that the Human race survives.Earth can no longer support life. The Moon, Mars, and the asteroids now provide safe havens for the stunned survivors. They find a protector in Major Wade Nelson. A dedicated marine who is willing to take the fight to the enemy.Marken is a Kivean. He is part of an alien race that helped Major Nelson and the other kidnapped military personnel escape from the Kleese. Because of his actions, his home world is now in danger.How can eighteen million survivors bring down an Empire that controls thousands of worlds and is totally merciless? Find out in\u00a0Galactic Empire Wars: Emergence the second book in this new military science fiction series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23173280-emergence"}, +{"book_title": "The Armageddon Inheritance", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 3514, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Colin MacIntyre, a NASA astronaut kidnapped by a starship impersonating Earth's moon, has just suppressed a fifty-thousand-year-old mutiny, but now he faces an even bigger challenge. By the author of Mutineers' Moon. Reissue.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/335704.The_Armageddon_Inheritance"}, +{"book_title": "Lost In The Mist Of Time", "author_name": "Karen Michelle Nutt", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 141, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Aislinn Hennessy pens tales of courage, loyalty, and true love, but her heroes of old are pure fantasy\u2014figments of her imagination. She long ago gave up thinking a knight in shining armor would sweep her off her feet, but then she never expected to run him off the road either. Sir Dougray Fitzpatrick has buried one wife and vows to never love again\u2014but destiny has other plans for this 16th century Irish Lord. During a battle, a mist separates Dougray from his men and casts him into the future. Dougray must return to Dunhaven and to his century, but Aislinn follows him into the mist, leaving him no choice, but to take her home with him. Conspiracies, feuds and unexpected violence are commonplace threats, but along the way, Aislinn and Dougray discover a surprise neither one expects: a chance for love even when they're Lost in the Mist of Time.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Ireland)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4953281-lost-in-the-mist-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "All Our Yesterdays", "author_name": "Cristin Terrill", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 22331, "review_number": 3321, "book_description": "Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture - being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13514612-all-our-yesterdays"}, +{"book_title": "Mad Tinker's Daughter", "author_name": "J.S. Morin", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 559, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "The world told her No. She didn\u2019t listen.Madlin Errol is heiress to the greatest fortune in Tellurak. Her father, the Mad Tinker, has built an empire by crafting devices that no one else in the world could match. Madlin grew up spoiled, given everything she could wish for: the finest tools, all the raw metals she could ask for, and a workshop of her very own. Yet in her sleep, she lives another life, in another world.Korr...a world where humans are subjugated, working menial jobs or even enslaved. The ruling kuduks treat them like talking animals. In that world, Madlin is known as Rynn, a girl who grew up without her parents, mired in the depths of an underground city, sleeping in a boiler room. But unlike so many of her fellow humans, she has seen a world where there are no limits. She, and a growing number of human rebels, have begun to fight back.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Suspense", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20942819-mad-tinker-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "March in Country", "author_name": "E.E. Knight", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1092, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "The national bestselling \"master of deception and tension\" Black Gate returns to the Vampire Earth... The race is on to claim the area between the Ohio River and Tennessee. What's left of the resistance is hiding out in the tangle of central Kentucky hills- leaving the powerful, well-organized Kurian vampires the opportunity to fill the void. Major David Valentine knows there's only one way for them to find help before the Kurians settle in: a desperate dash by hijacked rail, followed by a harrowing river journey. Valentine unites friends old and new in the effort- but the Kurian Order won't easily yield the blood-soaked Kentucky soil.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7234912-march-in-country"}, +{"book_title": "Insignia", "author_name": "S.J. Kincaid", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 14232, "review_number": 1643, "book_description": "The earth is in the middle of WWIII in Insignia, the first entry in S. J. Kincaid's fast-paced sci-fi adventure trilogy perfect for fans of Ender's Game.The planet's natural resources are almost gone, and war is being fought to control the assets of the solar system. The enemy is winning. The salvation may be Tom Raines. Tom doesn't seem like a hero. He's a short fourteen-year-old with bad skin. But he has the virtual-reality gaming skills that make him a phenom behind the controls of the battle drones.As a new member of the Intrasolar Forces, Tom's life completely changes. Suddenly, he's someone important. He has new opportunities, friends, and a shot at having a girlfriend. But there's a price to pay. . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance", "Action", "Futuristic", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11115434-insignia"}, +{"book_title": "End Game", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 2516, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "Alisa Marchenko has reunited with her daughter, and even though she hasn\u2019t figured out how to get Jelena to accept Leonidas yet, she dreams of the three of them starting a new life together. They can return the Star Nomad to its original purpose of running freight and staying out of trouble (mostly).Before that can happen, Alisa must fulfill the promise she made to Jelena: that she and her crew will retrieve young Prince Thorian, the boy who has become Jelena\u2019s best friend. But Thorian was kidnapped by the rogue Starseer Tymoteusz, the man who wants to use the Staff of Lore to take over the entire system\u2014and the man who may have the power to do it. Alisa doesn\u2019t know why he kidnapped Thorian, but Tymoteusz once promised to kill the prince, so she fears they don\u2019t have much time.Unfortunately, Tymoteusz hasn\u2019t left a trail of breadcrumbs. Finding him will be difficult, and even if they\u2019re successful, facing him could be suicidal. To have a chance of surviving, Alisa will have to come up with her greatest scheme yet.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult", "Fiction", "Space", "Short Stories", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33144572-end-game"}, +{"book_title": "The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 10049, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "In this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to control the rampant misuse of magic -- and to hold the title Chrestomanci... There is a world in which the peaceful city-state of Caprona is threatened by the malevolent machinations of a mysterious enchanter...and another in which magic is outlawed and witches are still burned at the stake.In two worlds the practice of magic has gone dangerously awry, there is only one solution -- call upon the Chrestomanci.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34290.The_Chronicles_of_Chrestomanci_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "The Difference Engine", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 20106, "review_number": 1111, "book_description": "1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward \"Leviathan\" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the first collaborative novel by two of the most brilliant and controversial science fiction authors of our time. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson's and Sterling's unique visions - in a new and totally unexpected direction!", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337116.The_Difference_Engine"}, +{"book_title": "In a Holidaze", "author_name": "Christina Lauren", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 51841, "review_number": 9023, "book_description": "One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones in In a Holidaze, the quintessential holiday romantic novel by Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners..It\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year\u2026but not for Maelyn Jones. She\u2019s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world\u2014the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy.The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when Mae gasps awake\u2026she\u2019s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop\u2014and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.Jam-packed with yuletide cheer, an unforgettable cast of characters, and Christina Lauren\u2019s trademark \u201cdownright hilarious\u201d (Helen Hoang, author of The Bride Test) hijinks, this swoon-worthy romantic read will make you believe in the power of wishes and the magic of the holidays.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Holiday", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Adult", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892287-in-a-holidaze"}, +{"book_title": "Night Broken", "author_name": "Patricia Briggs", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 54601, "review_number": 3651, "book_description": "An unexpected phone call heralds a new challenge for Mercy. Her mate Adam\u2019s ex-wife is in trouble, on the run from a stalker. Adam isn\u2019t the kind of man to turn away a person in need\u2014and Mercy knows it. But with Christy holed up in Adam\u2019s house, Mercy can\u2019t shake the feeling that something about the situation isn\u2019t right.Soon her suspicions are confirmed when she learns that Christy has the furthest thing from good intentions. She wants Adam back, and she\u2019s willing to do whatever it takes to get him, including turning Adam\u2019s pack against Mercy.Mercy isn\u2019t about to step down without a fight, but there\u2019s a more dangerous threat circling. Christy\u2019s stalker is more than a bad man\u2014in fact, he may not be human at all. As the bodies start piling up, Mercy must put her personal troubles aside to face a creature with the power to tear her whole world apart.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17562900-night-broken"}, +{"book_title": "Revelations", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1839, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Power that\u2019s growing ever more impossible to hide\u2026 Captain Telryn \u201cTrip\u201d Yert is on the most important mission of his life. Accompanied by Captain Kaika, the sentient soulblade Jaxi, and Rysha Ravenwood\u2014the noble-born scholar and officer he definitely shouldn\u2019t be developing feelings for\u2014he must find a way to close a portal that\u2019s allowing more and more dragons into the world. If he fails, all of humanity could fall to the powerful creatures. As if that wasn\u2019t enough to worry about, the secret Trip has spent his whole life hiding, that he can draw upon magical power, is on the verge of being discovered. What will his superior officers think when they find out? What will Rysha think? But as Trip will soon discover, what he thought he knew about himself is only a shadow of the truth. Reality is far more incredible than he ever imagined.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37685727-revelations"}, +{"book_title": "Small Miracles", "author_name": "Edward M. Lerner", "rating_score": 3.23, "rating_votes": 148, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Garner Nanotechnology is developing nanotech-enhanced protective suits and autonomous first-aid nanobots.\u00a0 It\u2019s cutting-edge stuff, and when it saves Brent Cleary from a pipeline explosion that killed hundreds, the Army takes notice.\u00a0Near-death experience changes a person, so no one is entirely surprised when easy-going Brent turns somber and studious, focused and cold.\u00a0 Not at first.\u00a0 But Kim O\u2019Donnell, Brent\u2019s best friend, cannot get past some of the changes.\u00a0 This just isn\u2019t her friend, and she wonders what\u2019s gotten into him.\u00a0With an Army field trial imminent and the company\u2019s future at stake, possible nanotech side effects aren\u2019t something anyone wants to discuss.\u00a0 The bad news is, Kim\u2019s right.\u00a0 Something has gotten into Brent \u2013 and he isn\u2019t the only one changing.\u00a0If Kim can\u2019t stop them\u00a0\u2026\u00a0maybe we\u2019ll all change.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6458649-small-miracles"}, +{"book_title": "The Endymion Omnibus", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 1962, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "ENDYMIONTwo hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, still more are raised here. Raoul's quest will continue.THE RISE OF ENDYMIONThe time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples.But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered--an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159320.The_Endymion_Omnibus"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Red", "author_name": "Ava Jae", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 869, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "A story of betrayal, love, and loss\u2014all on a technologically advanced alien planet where monarchy reigns, but lies rule.Alien queen Kora has a problem as vast as the endless crimson deserts. She\u2019s the first female ruler of her territory in generations, but her people are rioting and call for her violent younger twin brother to take the throne. Despite assassination attempts, a mounting uprising of nomadic human rebels, and pressure to find a mate to help her rule, she\u2019s determined to protect her people from her brother\u2019s would-be tyrannical rule.Eros is a rebel soldier hated by aliens and human alike for being a half-blood. But that doesn\u2019t stop him from defending his people\u2014at least until Kora\u2019s soldiers raze his camp and take him captive. He is given an ultimatum: be an enslaved bodyguard to Kora, or be executed for his true identity\u2014a secret kept even from him.When Kora and Eros are framed for the attempted assassination of her betrothed, they flee. Their only chance of survival is to turn themselves in to the high court, where revealing Eros\u2019s secret could mean a swift public execution. But when they uncover a violent plot to end the human insurgency, they must find a way to work together to prevent genocide.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898435-beyond-the-red"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man", "author_name": "Justin Richards", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 3037, "review_number": 271, "book_description": "In 1920s London the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a mysterious murderer. But not everything is what it seems. Secrets lie behind locked doors and inhuman killers roam the streets.Who is the Painted Lady and why is she so interested in the Doctor? How can a cat return from the dead? Can anyone be trusted to tell - or even to know - the truth?With the faceless killers closings in, the Doctor and Rose must solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed...This is the first of a new series of hardcovers featuring the new Doctor Who from the new TV series.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Media Tie In", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/678074.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "Somewhere In Time", "author_name": "Richard Matheson", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 6903, "review_number": 653, "book_description": "Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy.Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century. Somewhere in Time won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1980 movie version, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, remains a cult classic whose fans continue to hold yearly conventions to this day. ", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Classics", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/581126.Somewhere_In_Time"}, +{"book_title": "A Curse So Dark and Lonely", "author_name": "Brigid Kemmerer", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 63003, "review_number": 11516, "book_description": "Fall in love, break the curse.Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope.Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, Harper learned to be tough enough to survive. When she tries to save a stranger on the streets of Washington, DC, she's pulled into a magical world.Break the curse, save the kingdom.Harper doesn't know where she is or what to believe. A prince? A curse? A monster? As she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what's at stake. And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall . . . and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Retellings", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43204703-a-curse-so-dark-and-lonely"}, +{"book_title": "The Gender Game", "author_name": "Bella Forrest", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 42866, "review_number": 2733, "book_description": "For fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent comes a story like no other... A toxic river divides nineteen-year-old Violet Bates's world by gender. Women rule the East. Men rule the West. Welcome to the lands of Matrus and Patrus. Ever since the disappearance of her beloved younger brother, Violet's life has been consumed by an anger she struggles to control. Already a prisoner to her own nation, now she has been sentenced to death for her crimes. But one decision could save her life. To enter the kingdom of Patrus, where men rule and women submit. Everything about the patriarchy is dangerous for a rebellious girl like Violet. She cannot break the rules if she wishes to stay alive. But abiding by rules has never been Violet's strong suit.When she's thrust into more danger than she could have ever predicted, Violet is forced to sacrifice many things in the forbidden kingdom ... including forbidden love. In a world divided by gender, only the strongest survive...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Audiobook", "New Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31131467-the-gender-game"}, +{"book_title": "The Peacekeeper Initiative", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 425, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Amidst the ruins of a broken empireA new warlord rises to powerThe worlds in his path call for helpAnd the United Planets Alliance answers! The Kenmiri Empire has fallen, broken against the might of the Vesheron rebels and the United Planets Space Force. The alliance between the Vesheron and the UPSF has collapsed in turn, leaving the former empire as worlds without governance or leaders.Amidst the chaos, the UPSF has launched a valiant effort to reach out to the weak and protect the defenseless. As part of the Peacekeeper Initiative, Colonel Henry Wong leads the battlecruiser Raven deep into once-hostile territory.There, an old ally has begun to forge a new empire from the old slave worlds. As starvation forces worlds to surrender, Henry prepares a desperate plan to bring food to the hungry\u2014and defeat to those who conquer!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53528400-the-peacekeeper-initiative"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Heel", "author_name": "Jack London", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 8517, "review_number": 676, "book_description": "A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement.", "year_published": 1908, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Science Fiction", "Politics", "Literature", "Novels", "Literature (American)", "Literature (20th Century)", "The United States Of America"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929783.The_Iron_Heel"}, +{"book_title": "Polymorph", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 282, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Lee can change her gender and ethnicity at will, allowing her to slip freely through New York society. She thought she was the only \"polymorph\"... until a chance encounter with another of her kind. Now it's up to Lee to stop the renegade shapeshifter who is plotting to control the information technology in a postindustrial world, where illusion wear the face of reality, and the prize is power absolute...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adult", "LGBT", "Young Adult", "LGBT (Transgender)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186110.Polymorph"}, +{"book_title": "By Fire Above", "author_name": "Robyn Bennis", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 446, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "\"All's fair in love and war,\" according to airship captain Josette Dupre, until her hometown becomes occupied by the enemy and her mother a prisoner of war. Then it becomes, \"Nothing's fair except bombing those Vins to high hell.\"Before she can rescue her town, however, Josette must maneuver her way through the nest of overstuffed vipers that make up the nation's military and royal leaders in order to drum up support. The foppish and mostly tolerated crew member Lord Bernat steps in to advise her, along with his very attractive older brother.Between noble scheming, under-trained recruits, and supply shortages, Josette and the crew of the Mistral figure out a way to return to Durum\u2015only to discover that when the homefront turns into the frontlines, things are more dangerous than they seem.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36324877-by-fire-above"}, +{"book_title": "Ack-Ack Macaque", "author_name": "Gareth L. Powell", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 999, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain's best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed 'Ack-Ack Macaque'. The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he's starting to doubt everything, including his own existence. A century later, in a world where France and Great Britain merged in the late 1950s and nuclear-powered Zeppelins encircle the globe, ex-journalist Victoria Valois finds herself drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the man who butchered her husband and stole her electronic soul. Meanwhile, in Paris, after taking part in an illegal break-in at a research laboratory, the heir to the British throne goes on the run. And all the while, the doomsday clock ticks towards Armageddon.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547332-ack-ack-macaque"}, +{"book_title": "Jacinto's Remnant", "author_name": "Karen Traviss", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2151, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Based on the blockbuster Xbox game, this is the stunning story of the men and women who stood between a planet and total destruction\u2013and now have to face the consequences of their actions.After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coalition of Ordered Governments is forced to destroy mankind\u2019s last city in a final bid to stop the Locust Horde. As the survivors flee Jacinto, they must contend with the last of the Locust, bent on vengeance, as they struggle to stay alive in an icy wilderness. Marcus Fenix, Dom Santiago, and their fellow Gears fight to get Jacinto\u2019s refugees to a safe haven, but find themselves in a lawless new world where the enemy is human\u2013and as desperate and dangerous as any grub.From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Fiction", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Fantasy", "Games (Gaming)", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6276888-jacinto-s-remnant"}, +{"book_title": "The Smoke Ring", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 3437, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "In the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring, the descendants of the crew of the Discipline no longer remembered their Earth roots -- or the existence of Sharls Davis Kendy, the computer-program despot of the ship. Until Kendy initiated contact once more.Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, knew that Kendy was still watching -- and waiting. Then the Citizens Tree people rescued a family of loggers and learned for the first time of the Admiralty, a large society living in free fall amid the floating debris called the Clump. And it was likely that the Admiralty had maintained, intact, Discipline's original computer library.Exploration was a temptation neither Jeffer nor Kendy could resist, and neither Citizens Tree nor Sharls Davis Kendy would ever be the same again...", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Novels", "Literature (American)", "Biology (Evolution)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100351.The_Smoke_Ring"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Obi-Wan & Anakin", "author_name": "Charles Soule", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3324, "review_number": 332, "book_description": "Before their military heroism in the Clone Wars, before their tragic battle on Mustafar and many decades before their final confrontation on the Death Star, they were Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his young Padawan, Anakin Skywalker. Now join them a few years into Anakin's, \"chosen one\" training. Teacher and student have grown closer over time, but it's been a difficult road. And things aren't about to get any easier. In fact, when they're called to a remote planet for assistance, the pair may be pushed to their breaking point. As they find themselves stranded on a strange world of primitive technology and deadly natives, will they be able to save themselves? When war breaks out around them, master and apprentice will find themselves on opposite sides!COLLECTING: OBI-WAN & ANAKIN #1-5", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28016727-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Felaheen", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 690, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "In a world where secrets kill, an ex-cop discovers he's got the biggest secret of all. . . .Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's acclaimed Arabesk series is a noir action-thriller with an exotic twist. Here an ex-cop with nothing to lose finds himself on the trail of a man he doesn't believe in: his father. Ashraf Bey has been a lot of things--and most of them illegal. Now, having resigned as El Iskandryia's Chief of Detectives, he's taking stock of his life and there's not much: a mistress he's never made love to, a niece everyone thinks is mentally incompetent, and a credit card bill rising towards infinity. With a revolt breaking out across North Africa, the world seems to be racing Raf straight to hell. The last thing he needs is a father he's never known. But when the old Emir's security chief requests that Raf come out of retirement to investigate an assassination attempt on His Excellency, that's exactly what Raf gets. Now, disguised as an itinerant laborer, Raf goes underground to discover a man--and a past--he never knew . . . and won't survive again.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368870.Felaheen"}, +{"book_title": "Folsom", "author_name": "Tarryn Fisher", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 4377, "review_number": 684, "book_description": "The nation as we know it is a thing of the past. With the male species on the verge of extinction, a society called the End Men is formed to save the world. Folsom Donahue is one of twelve men whose sole purpose is to repopulate the Regions. The endless days spent having sex with strangers leaves Folsom with an emptiness no amount of women, money, or status can fill. Until Gwen. Gwen has wanted a child for as long as she can remember, but when she finally gets a chance to have her own, she uncovers a long-hidden truth. The injustice she sees moves her to help save the men whom no one else believes need saving. A forbidden love, grown in a time of despair, ignites a revolution. Folsom and Gwen, torn between their love for each other and their sense of duty, must make a choice. But some will stop at nothing to destroy them. Folsom is book one of the End of Men series. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "New Adult", "Dark", "Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40234522-folsom"}, +{"book_title": "Home", "author_name": "Nnedi Okorafor", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 20458, "review_number": 2517, "book_description": "It\u2019s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she abandoned her family in the dawn of a new day.And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders.But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace.After generations of conflict can human and Meduse ever learn to truly live in harmony?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Africa)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30038654-home"}, +{"book_title": "Accepting the Lance", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 782, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE\u00ae SERIES. Sequel to national bestseller Neogenesis. Exiled from Liad after bombing a city to save it from The Department of the Interior\u2019s infernal weapons and plans, Clan Korval has gone to ground on the back-water planet Surebleak, whose people are as untamed as its weather. The old Boss-controlled fiefdoms largely fell to Pat Rin yos\u2019Phelium\u2019s influence, but the world is restive, the influx of outworld lawyers, guns, and money a brewpot for armed dissatisfaction. Far beyond the surface of frigid Surebleak Korval\u2019s farflung trade network needs a serious reset to recover from exile. From flagship Dutiful Passage to the experimental\u2014if centuries old\u2014self-aware Bechimo co-captained by the Delm\u2019s blood-sister Theo Waitley, the clan\u2019s ships are prowling space lanes seeking trade. Meanwhile, Old Tech from a failed universe\u2014the ancient but revived Tinsori Light\u2014and the machinations of the mysterious Uncle are coalescing into dangerous opportunity or nefarious trap. And the Department of the Interior is not done with Clan Korval yet. They seek a final fully reckoned revenge, with Surebleak and Korval\u2019s ships and people everywhere in the crosshairs. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48676548-accepting-the-lance"}, +{"book_title": "The World Without Us", "author_name": "Alan Weisman", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 38413, "review_number": 3524, "book_description": "A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human EarthIn The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us. In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations, and how, as the world's cities crumble, asphalt jungles would give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama, and paleontologists\u2014who describe a prehuman world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stood taller than mammoths\u2014Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth's tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman's narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "Environment", "Environment (Nature)", "History", "Biology (Ecology)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Environment (Sustainability)", "Science (Popular Science)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248787.The_World_Without_Us"}, +{"book_title": "Attack on Titan, Vol. 11", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 10453, "review_number": 302, "book_description": "\"DO YOU THINK THIS WORLD HAS A FUTURE?\" Thanks to Eren's timely arrival, the 104th has managed to turn the tide at Wall Rose. But this momentary victory forces two more traitors into a corner \u2013 and the identity of the Titans who have been destroying the walls is revealed! What can Eren do against the two most dangerous monsters humanity has ever faced? And who else might be an enemy in disguise? \u00a0Chapters list :43. The Armored Titan44. Strike, Throw, Submit45. The Hunters46. Opening", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077957-attack-on-titan-vol-11"}, +{"book_title": "Frost", "author_name": "Kate Avery Ellison", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 3705, "review_number": 404, "book_description": "In the icy, monster-plagued world of the Frost, compassion might get a person killed, and Lia Weaver knows this better than anyone. After the monsters kill her parents, she must keep the family farm running or risk losing her siblings to reassignment by the village Elders. With dangers on all sides, she can't afford to let her emotions lead her astray. But when her sister finds a fugitive bleeding to death in the forest, a young man from beyond the Frost named Gabe, Lia does the unthinkable. She saves his life. Giving shelter to the fugitive could get her in trouble. The Elders have always described the advanced society of people beyond the Frost, the \"Farthers,\" as ruthless and cruel. Lia is startled to find that Gabe is empathetic and intelligent-and handsome. And she might even be falling for him. But time is running out. The monsters in the forest are growing bold and restless. The village leader is starting to ask questions. Farther soldiers are searching for Gabe. Is compassion-and love-worth the risk? Finally, when a startling discovery challenges everything she thought was true about her life, Lia realizes exactly what she must do.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13555538-frost"}, +{"book_title": "Dead of Night", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 6210, "review_number": 528, "book_description": "A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he could be buried, the killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang\u2026but a bite.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10779721-dead-of-night"}, +{"book_title": "All Good Children", "author_name": "Catherine Austen", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1446, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "It's the middle of the twenty-first century and the elite children of New Middletown are lined up to receive a treatment that turns them into obedient, well-mannered citizens. Maxwell Connors, a fifteen-year-old prankster, misfit and graffiti artist, observes the changes with growing concern, especially when his younger sister, Ally, is targeted. Max and his best friend, Dallas, escape the treatment, but must pretend to be \"zombies\" while they watch their freedoms and hopes decay. When Max's family decides to take Dallas with them into the unknown world beyond New Middletown's borders, Max's creativity becomes an unexpected bonus rather than a liability. ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Family", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Health (Medicine)", "Cultural"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11872039-all-good-children"}, +{"book_title": "Royally Screwed", "author_name": "Emma Chase", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 36259, "review_number": 3991, "book_description": "Nicholas Arthur Frederick Edward Pembrook, Crowned Prince of Wessco, aka His Royal Hotness, is wickedly charming, devastatingly handsome, and unabashedly arrogant; hard not to be when people are constantly bowing down to you. Then, one snowy night in Manhattan, the prince meets a dark haired beauty who doesn't bow down. Instead, she throws a pie in his face.Nicholas wants to find out if she tastes as good as her pie, and this heir apparent is used to getting what he wants. Dating a prince isn't what waitress Olivia Hammond ever imagined it would be.There's a disapproving queen, a wildly inappropriate spare heir, relentless paparazzi, and brutal public scrutiny. While they've traded in horse drawn carriages for Rolls Royces, and haven't chopped anyone's head off lately, the royals are far from accepting of this commoner. But to Olivia, Nicholas is worth it.Nicholas grew up with the whole world watching, and now Marriage Watch is in full force. In the end, Nicholas has to decide who he is and, more importantly, who he wants to be: a King... or the man who gets to love Olivia forever.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Contemporary", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "New Adult", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29991719-royally-screwed"}, +{"book_title": "This Rough Magic", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1305, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "The Demon Chernobog-Foiled but Not Defeated in The Shadow of the Lion-is Back to Conquer Venice. First Time in Paperback.Venice had been thrown into chaos by the scheming of Chernobog, who came within a hair of seizing absolute power, but was thwarted by the guardian Lion-spirit, who awoke to protect his city from the power-mad demon. But the power of the Lion does not extend beyond Venice, and Chernobog has a new ally in the King of Hungary, who has laid siege to the island of Corfu as the first step in his plan to seize control of the Adriatic from Venice. Trapped on the island is the small band of heroes who awoke the Lion and blocked Chernobog's power grab before. They are far from the Lion's power to help them, but as Manfred and Erik lead a guerrilla movement to fight the Hungarian invaders, Maria discovers that the ancient magical powers of the island are coming to life again, stirred by the siege. If she can make an alliance with them, she may be able to repel the invaders-but not without paying a bitter personal price. . . .", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13991.This_Rough_Magic"}, +{"book_title": "Birthmarked", "author_name": "Caragh M. O'Brien", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 47542, "review_number": 3666, "book_description": "In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave and those, like sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone, who live outside. Following in her mother's footsteps Gaia has become a midwife, delivering babies in the world outside the wall and handing a quota over to be \"advanced\" into the privileged society of the Enclave. Gaia has always believed this is her duty, until the night her mother and father are arrested by the very people they so loyally serve. Now Gaia is forced to question everything she has been taught, but her choice is simple: enter the world of the Enclave to rescue her parents, or die trying.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6909544-birthmarked"}, +{"book_title": "The Ersatz Elevator", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 124489, "review_number": 3450, "book_description": "\nDear Reader,\nIf you have just picked up this book, then it is not too late to put it back down. Like the previous books in A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, there is nothing to be found in these pages but misery, despair, and discomfort, and you still have time to choose something else to read.Within the chapters of this story, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire encounter a darkened staircase, a red herring, some friends in a dire situation, three mysterious initials, a liar with an evil scheme, a secret passageway, and parsley soda.I have sworn to write down these tales of the Baudelaire orphans so the general public will know each terrible thing that has happened to them, but if you decide to read something else instead, you will save yourself from a heapful of horror and woe.\nWith all due respect,\nLemony Snicket", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172327.The_Ersatz_Elevator"}, +{"book_title": "DarkShip Thieves", "author_name": "Sarah A. Hoyt", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1721, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "Athena Hera Sinistra never wanted to go to space. Never wanted see the eerie glow of the Powerpods. Never wanted to visit Circum Terra. Never had any interest in finding out the truth about the DarkShips. You always get what you don't ask for. Which must have been why she woke up in the dark of shipnight, within the greater night of space in her father's space cruiser, knowing that there was a stranger in her room. In a short time, after taking out the stranger--who turned out to be one of her father's bodyguards up to no good, she was hurtling away from the ship in a lifeboat to get help. But what she got instead would be the adventure of a lifetime--if\" she managed to survive. . .", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6605730-darkship-thieves"}, +{"book_title": "Divergence", "author_name": "Charles Sheffield", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 483, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "For millennia, humankind and the other intelligent races have studied the bizarre and unfathomable constructs of the legendary beings known as the Builders. But for all that study, they are still no closer to figuring out who\u2014or what\u2014the Builders have been, or where they have gone. Then, on the world called Quake, in the midst of the violent planetary upheaval that is Summertide, a small group of humans and aliens witness the culmination of all those years of watching and waiting: the planet Quake opens up, and something comes out\u2014and it looks as if, at long last, the discovery of the Builders themselves is at hand. All her life, Darya Lang has dreamed of finding the Builders, whose artifacts she has single-handedly cataloged for the rest of the universe. Troubleshooter and adventurer Hans Rebka has his own dreams of unraveling the mystery of those artifacts. To Louis Nenda and the Cecropian Atvar H\u2019sial, the Builder artifacts represent a once-in-a-lifetime shot at untold wealth. And close behind them comes the others: Councilor Julius Graves, who does not trust anyone else to make first contact unassisted; the slaves J\u2019merlia and Kallik, who crave only a reunion with their masters; and the embodied computer E.C. Tally, charged with finding out just what the rest are up to.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939236.Divergence"}, +{"book_title": "Annabel", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 15877, "review_number": 973, "book_description": "Lena's mother, Annabel, has always been a mystery\u2014a ghost in Lena's past. Until now.Discover her secrets in Lauren Oliver's brilliant original digital story set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Delirium and Pandemonium.Lena Halloway's mother, Annabel, supposedly committed suicide when Lena was only six years old. That's the lie that Lena grew up believing, but the truth is very different. As a rebellious teenager, Annabel ran away from home and straight into the man she knew she was destined to marry. The world was different then\u2014the regulations not as stringent, the cure only a decade old. Fast forward to the present, and Annabel is consigned to a dirty prison cell, where she nurtures her hope of escape and scratches one word over and over into the walls: Love.But Annabel, like Lena, is a fighter. Through chapters that alternate between her past and present, Annabel reveals the story behind her failed cures, her marriage, the births of her children, her imprisonment, and, ultimately, her daring escape.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15820492-annabel"}, +{"book_title": "On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea", "author_name": "Michael Carroll", "rating_score": 3.19, "rating_votes": 36, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are gathered together here to paint a factually accurate hypothetical future of early human colonization on this strange world.The views from Titan\u2019s Mayda Outpost are spectacular, but all is not well at the moon's remote science base. On the shore of a methane sea beneath glowering skies, atmospherics researcher Abigail Marco finds herself in the middle of murder, piracy and colleagues who seem to be seeing sea monsters and dead people from the past. On the Shores of Titan\u2019s Farthest Sea provides thrills, excitement and mystery \u2013 couched in the latest science \u2013 on one of the Solar System\u2019s most bizarre worlds, Saturn\u2019s huge moon Titan.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science (Astronomy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25371617-on-the-shores-of-titan-s-farthest-sea"}, +{"book_title": "A Clockwork Orange", "author_name": "Anthony Burgess", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 615464, "review_number": 14233, "book_description": "In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess\u2019s introduction, \u201cA Clockwork Orange Resucked.\u201d", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature", "Novels", "Horror", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Classics (Modern Classics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817486-a-clockwork-orange"}, +{"book_title": "Retrograde", "author_name": "Peter Cawdron", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1283, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "Mankind has long dreamed of reaching out to live on other planets, and with the establishment of the Mars Endeavour colony, that dream has become reality. The fledgling colony consists of 120 scientists, astronauts, medical staff, and engineers. Buried deep underground, they\u2019re protected from the harsh radiation that sterilizes the surface of the planet. The colony is prepared for every eventuality except one\u2014what happens when disaster strikes Earth?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Business (Amazon)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33887274-retrograde"}, +{"book_title": "The Pillars of the Earth", "author_name": "Ken Follett", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 664188, "review_number": 31897, "book_description": "Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Historical (Medieval)", "Audiobook", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Novels", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Monument 14", "author_name": "Emmy Laybourne", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 22020, "review_number": 3009, "book_description": "Your mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not-you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.Only, if it's the last time you'll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you'd stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.But the bus was barreling down our street, so I ran.Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong.When Dean raced out the door to catch the school bus, he didn\u2019t realize it would be the last time he\u2019d ever see his mom. After a freak hailstorm sends the bus crashing into a superstore, Dean and a group of students of all ages are left to fend for themselves. They soon realize the hailstorm and the crash are the least of their worries. After seeing a series of environmental and chemical disasters ravage the outside world, they realize they\u2019re trapped inside the store. Unable to communicate with the ones they love, the group attempts to cobble together a new existence. As they struggle to survive, Dean and the others must decide which risk is greater: leaving\u2026 or staying. Monument 14 is a post-apocalyptic YA novel that transcends age barriers.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12753231-monument-14"}, +{"book_title": "Corpus Delicti. Ein Prozess", "author_name": "Juli Zeh", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 3861, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit medical data and sleep records to the authorities on a monthly basis, and regular exercise is mandatory. Mia is young and beautiful, a successful scientist who is outwardly obedient but with an intellect that marks her as subversive. Convinced that her brother has been wrongfully convicted of a terrible crime, Mia comes up against the full force of a regime determined to control every aspect of its citizens' lives.The Method, set in the middle of the twenty-first century, deals with pressing questions: to what extent can the state curtail the rights of the individual? And does the individual have a right to resist? Juli Zeh has written a thrilling and visionary book about our future, and our present.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Academic (School)", "Contemporary", "Roman", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Academic (Read For School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6309229-corpus-delicti-ein-prozess"}, +{"book_title": "The Slynx", "author_name": "Tatyana Tolstaya", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 3815, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job \u2014 transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe \u2014 and though he doesn't enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he's not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he's happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he's managed \u2014 at least so far \u2014 to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310722.The_Slynx"}, +{"book_title": "Grave Mercy", "author_name": "Robin LaFevers", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 102830, "review_number": 8973, "book_description": "Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts\u2014and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.Ismae\u2019s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany\u2014where she finds herself woefully under prepared\u2014not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death\u2019s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9565548-grave-mercy"}, +{"book_title": "Viridis", "author_name": "Calista Taylor", "rating_score": 3.11, "rating_votes": 966, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "In steampunk Victorian London, Lady Phoebe Hughes develops an herbal elixir, Viridis, unlike any other. London\u2019s elite flock to her club to experience the euphoria and heightened senses the drink brings. Imagine an orgasm brought on by a single kiss. But when Lord Hawthorne is murdered after leaving her club, Phoebe is shocked to find that not only was he working for the Special Services to infiltrate the Cause, a movement fighting for the city's poor, he was also in possession of her secret formulation for Viridis.Adding to her difficulties is the unexpected return of Mr. Seth Elliott, a brilliant tinkerer who stole her heart and imagination, only to abandon her when she needed him most. Unable to ignore all that is between them, Phoebe finds herself falling for Seth once again, only to have a powerful rival for her affections wrongly accuse Seth of attempted murder. As Phoebe struggles with a way to free her love, revolution, conspiracy and murder threaten to ruin it all.Devil on a Sparrow's Wing, book 2 in the Viridis series, is now available.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12520769-viridis"}, +{"book_title": "Horizon", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1745, "review_number": 340, "book_description": "When a plane crash-lands in the arctic, eight young survivors step from the wreckage expecting to see nothing but ice and snow. Instead they find themselves lost in a strange jungle with no way to get home and little hope of rescue. Food is running out. Water is scarce. And the jungle is full of threats unlike anything the survivors have ever seen before -- from razor-beaked shredder birds to carnivorous vines and much, much worse. With danger at every turn, these eight kids must learn to work together to survive. But cliques and rivalries threaten to tear them apart. And not everyone will make it out of the jungle alive.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30622633-horizon"}, +{"book_title": "Skylark", "author_name": "Meagan Spooner", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 4862, "review_number": 652, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Lark Ainsley has never seen the sky.Her world ends at the edge of the vast domed barrier of energy enclosing all that\u2019s left of humanity. For two hundred years the city has sustained this barrier by harvesting its children's innate magical energy when they reach adolescence. When it\u2019s Lark\u2019s turn to be harvested, she finds herself trapped in a nightmarish web of experiments and learns she is something out of legend itself: a Renewable, able to regenerate her own power after it\u2019s been stripped.Forced to flee the only home she knows to avoid life as a human battery, Lark must fight her way through the terrible wilderness beyond the edge of the world. With the city\u2019s clockwork creations close on her heels and a strange wild boy stalking her in the countryside, she must move quickly if she is to have any hope of survival. She\u2019s heard the stories that somewhere to the west are others like her, hidden in secret\u2014but can she stay alive long enough to find them?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10352973-skylark"}, +{"book_title": "The Terror", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 45763, "review_number": 4684, "book_description": "The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Historical", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3974.The_Terror"}, +{"book_title": "Wanderlust", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 6104, "review_number": 481, "book_description": "Sirantha Jax doesn\u2019t take chances\u2026 she jumps at them\u2026Sirantha Jax is a \u201cJumper,\u201d a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. Jax has worked for the Farwan Corporation her entire career. But now the word\u2019s out that the Corp deliberately crashed a passenger ship, and their stranglehold on intergalactic commerce has crumbled\u2014which means that Jax is out of a job.She\u2019s also broke, due to being declared dead a little prematurely. So when the government asks her to head up a vital diplomatic mission, Jax takes it. Her mandate: journey to the planet Ithiss-Tor and convince them to join the Conglomerate.But Jax\u2019s payday is light years away. First, she\u2019ll have to contend with Syndicate criminals, a stormy relationship with her pilot, man-eating aliens, and her own grimspace-weakened body. She\u2019ll be lucky just to make it to Ithiss-Tor alive\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3182799-wanderlust"}, +{"book_title": "The Martian Chronicles", "author_name": "Ray Bradbury", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 215911, "review_number": 8129, "book_description": "The strange and wonderful tale of man\u2019s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection.The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity\u2019s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them \u2013 and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.Contents:Rocket SummerYllaThe Summer NightThe Earth MenThe TaxpayerThe Third Expedition-And the Moon Be Still As BrightThe SettlersThe Green MorningThe LocustsNight MeetingThe ShoreInterimThe MusiciansWay in the Middle of the AirThe Naming of NamesUsher IIThe Old OnesThe MartianThe Luggage StoreThe Off SeasonThe WatchersThe Silent TownsThe Long YearsThere Will Come Soft RainsThe Million Year Picnic", "year_published": 1950, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Audiobook", "Literature", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76778.The_Martian_Chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "Ready Player Two", "author_name": "Ernest Cline", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 41747, "review_number": 6949, "book_description": "An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready?Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a new quest. A last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who will kill millions to get what he wants. Wade's life and the future of the Oasis are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26082916-ready-player-two"}, +{"book_title": "Twilight Company", "author_name": "Alexander Freed", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 5761, "review_number": 567, "book_description": "A companion novel inspired by the hotly anticipated videogame Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil.The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors. Among the stars and across the vast expanses of space, the Galactic Civil War rages. On the battlefields of multiple worlds in the Mid Rim, legions of ruthless stormtroopers\u2014bent on crushing resistance to the Empire wherever it arises\u2014are waging close and brutal combat against an armada of freedom fighters. In the streets and alleys of ravaged cities, the front-line forces of the Rebel Alliance are taking the fight to the enemy, pushing deeper into Imperial territory and grappling with the savage flesh-and-blood realities of war on the ground. Leading the charge are the soldiers\u2014men and women, human and nonhuman\u2014of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company. Hard-bitten, war-weary, and ferociously loyal to one another, the members of this renegade outfit doggedly survive where others perish, and defiance is their most powerful weapon against the deadliest odds. When orders come down for the rebels to fall back in the face of superior opposition numbers and firepower, Twilight reluctantly complies. Then an unlikely ally radically changes the strategic equation\u2014and gives the Alliance\u2019s hardest-fighting warriors a crucial chance to turn retreat into resurgence. Orders or not, alone and outgunned but unbowed, Twilight Company locks, loads, and prepares to make its boldest maneuver\u2014trading down-and-dirty battle in the trenches for a game-changing strike at the ultimate target: the very heart of the Empire\u2019s military machine.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In", "Action", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25455901-twilight-company"}, +{"book_title": "Point of Impact", "author_name": "Kyla Stone", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 758, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "Surviving the blast is only the beginning\u2026\u00a0 Dakota Sloane, a tough-as-nails former foster kid, has spent her life running from the past. Her only family is her little sister, still trapped in the system. When the news shows the bombs striking several major cities, Dakota\u2019s first thought is to grab her sister and get the hell out of Miami. Logan Garcia is a man haunted by secrets. His life plan is to drink himself into oblivion--until the shockwave hits, shattering the world as he knows it. In the moments before the deadly fallout descends, Dakota offers Logan a deal. She knows a place to ride out the coming chaos, a safe house deep in the Everglades. If he helps her rescue her sister, she\u2019ll take him with her. But Dakota\u2019s past has caught up to her. Someone is hunting her through the radioactive ruins of Miami. And he won\u2019t stop until he has her...or they\u2019re both dead. An electrifying post-apocalyptic survival adventure, the Nuclear Dawn series features fast-paced action combined with strong, complex characters. Perfect for fans of Logan Keys, Jacqueline Druga, Mike Kraus, and Boyd Craven. *Rated PG-13 for violence and some swearing.*", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)", "Contemporary", "Young Adult", "Business (Amazon)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43288746-point-of-impact"}, +{"book_title": "Stranger in a Strange Land", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 279730, "review_number": 8205, "book_description": "NAME: Valentine Michael SmithANCESTRY: HumanORIGIN: MarsValentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Philosophy", "Religion", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350.Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land"}, +{"book_title": "The Forever Song", "author_name": "Julie Kagawa", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 19069, "review_number": 2115, "book_description": "Vengeance will be hers.Allison Sekemoto once struggled with the question: human or monster? With the death of her love, Zeke, she has her answer.Monster.Allie will embrace her cold vampire side to hunt down and end Sarren, the psychopathic vampire who murdered Zeke. But the trail is bloody and long, and Sarren has left many surprises for Allie and her companions - her creator Kanin, and her blood brother, Jackal. The trail is leading straight to the one place they must protect at any cost - the last vampire-free zone on Earth, Eden. And Sarren has one final, brutal shock in store for Allie. In a ruined world where no life is sacred and former allies can turn on you in one heartbeat, Allie will face her darkest days. And if she succeeds, her triumph will be short-lived in the face of surviving forever alone.THE FINAL HUNT IS ON.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17883441-the-forever-song"}, +{"book_title": "A Breath of Snow and Ashes", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 143829, "review_number": 5588, "book_description": "A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence \u2014 with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie\u2019s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10965.A_Breath_of_Snow_and_Ashes"}, +{"book_title": "The Wicked We Have Done", "author_name": "Sarah Harian", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 956, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "In the darkened wood, the past seeks revenge. After committing a terrible crime, Evalyn Ibarra receives a ticket out of her prison sentence by participating in a top-secret experiment. Even with the risk of death, all she cares about is reclaiming the life she had before\u2014her career, her art, and her love.Her cell bed is the last thing she remembers before waking to wilderness.There are others in these woods, criminals like her who volunteered for the experiment. Clues left behind at abandoned camps spell out their task: survive for thirty days.Evalyn\u2019s best bet is to band with the others, but she\u2019s not about to trust any of them, not when illusions of their gruesome crimes start manifesting in the forest like waking dreams.But when the illusions turn violent and begin to kill, she may not have a choice.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["New Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51797869-the-wicked-we-have-done"}, +{"book_title": "Ancillary Mercy", "author_name": "Ann Leckie", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 34158, "review_number": 2788, "book_description": "For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as Breq. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist\u2014someone who might be a refugee from a ship that's been hiding beyond the empire's reach for three thousand years. In the meantime a messenger from the alien and mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai\u2014ruler of an empire that's at war with itself.Anaander is heavily armed and extremely unhappy with Breq. She could take her ship and crew and flee, but that would leave everyone at Athoek in terrible danger.Breq has a desperate plan. The odds aren't good, but that's never stopped her before.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23533039-ancillary-mercy"}, +{"book_title": "Edge of Collapse", "author_name": "Kyla Stone", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1483, "review_number": 174, "book_description": " In the middle of the deepest winter on record, a super EMP destroys the nation's power grid.\u00a0No electricity. No cars or phones. Worst of all: No heat. The country is plunged into instant chaos.But for twenty-six-year-old Avery Sheridan, it's the best day of her life. For the last five years, she's been held captive by a sadistic psychopath--until the EMP releases the lock of her prison.Avery emerges from her underground cell into a hostile winter landscape with no way to call for help, no vehicle that will drive, armed with nothing but the clothes on her back and her own determination to survive.Cynical loner and ex-soldier Liam Coleman is headed nowhere fast. He believed he was prepared for any disaster--until the EMP took everything he'd ever cared about in a matter of seconds. When he runs across a fierce, desperate woman who will die without his help, he's forced to make a choice.One hundred frozen, perilous miles stand between them and Avery's hometown in rural Michigan--and the husband and son who believe her dead. But the lack of power, desperate people, and the treacherous elements aren't the only threats.Avery's captor isn't about to let her go. He will hunt her to the ends of the earth and beyond, destroying anything and anyone who gets in his way. For she has something he wants. She's nine months pregnant--with his child.Edge of Collapse is a gripping post-apocalyptic EMP thriller perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Grace Hamilton, Harley Tate, Jack Hunt, and Boyd Craven.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50872082-edge-of-collapse"}, +{"book_title": "The Emerald Brooch", "author_name": "Katherine Lowry Logan", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 1569, "review_number": 88, "book_description": " David McBain can do the impossible with one hand tied behind his back... \n But miracles take him a wee bit longer.\nWhen retired Army Captain Kenzie Wallis-Manning receives a mysterious package containing an emerald brooch, she has no idea how life-altering the Gaelic inscription is until she's catapulted back in time to England in May of 1944. Her disappearance sends David McBain to the past to find her and bring her back to the future. The miracle-working David just might have lost his touch when a series of miscalculations lead them into even greater danger, creating havoc and peril for the time travelers. The mission proves even more dangerous when he is pitted against the best interests of his country. Can these two soldiers find their way back to the future before they lose their hearts and more in the most difficult battle of their lives. \u02c3\u02c3\u02c3 The Celtic Brooch Series THE RUBY BROOCH (Book 1): Time Travel Romance - Oregon Trail 1852 - Kit MacKlenna and Cullen Montgomery's love story.THE LAST MACKLENNA (Book 2): Contemporary Romance - Meredith Montgomery and Elliott Fraser's love story.THE SAPPHIRE BROOCH (Book 3): Time Travel Romance - Civil War, 1864-1865 - Charlotte Mallory and Braham McCabe's love story.THE EMERALD BROOCH (Book 4): Time Travel Romance - World War II, London, June 1944 - Kenzie Wallis-Manning and David McBain's love story.THE BROKEN BROOCH (Book 5): Contemporary Romance - Jenny Lynn \"JL\" O'Grady and Kevin Allen's love story.THE THREE BROOCHES (Book 6): Time Travel Romance - Montgomery Winery/San Francisco, 1881 - Clan reunion with Kit and Cullen. THE DIAMOND BROOCH (Book 7): Available July 2017): Time Travel Romance - New York City 1909 - Amy Spalding and Jack Mallory's love story.\nScroll up and grab a copy today.\n", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "War (World War II)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27402265-the-emerald-brooch"}, +{"book_title": "\u9032\u6483\u306e\u5de8\u4eba 9 [Shingeki no Kyojin 9", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 9495, "review_number": 373, "book_description": "\u3064\u3044\u306b\u300c\u5973\u578b\u306e\u5de8\u4eba\u300d\u306e\u6355\u7372\u306b\u6210\u529f\u3057\u305f\u30a8\u30ec\u30f3\u9054\u3002\u3060\u304c\u3001\u6642\u3092\u540c\u3058\u304f\u3057\u3066\u58c1\u306e\u4e2d\u306b\u7720\u308b\u300c\u65b0\u305f\u306a\u308b\u8b0e\u300d\u3068\u76f4\u9762\u3059\u308b\u3002\u305d\u3057\u3066\u6df7\u4e71\u306e\u4e2d\u3001\u30a6\u30a9\u30fc\u30eb\u30fb\u30ed\u30fc\u30bc\u304c\u7834\u58ca\u3055\u308c\u305f\u3068\u306e\u6025\u5831\u304c\u5c4a\u304d\u2025\u2025\u3002\u8972\u6765\u3059\u308b\u5de8\u4eba\u306e\u7fa4\u308c\uff01\u3000\u65b0\u305f\u306a\u308b\u8105\u5a01\u300c\u7363\u306e\u5de8\u4eba\u300d\uff01\u3000\u4e38\u8170\u306e104\u671f\u5175\u306b\u5371\u6a5f\u304c\u8feb\u308b\uff01\uff01", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17450840-9-shingeki-no-kyojin-9"}, +{"book_title": "Redemption", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 2997, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "There is a fine line between right and wrong, good and evil. For years Jason Burke has straddled that line as best he can, always convinced that despite the violence carried out by him and his team they were firmly on the right side of that line. But as he reflects on his time with Omega Force, he begins to have his doubts.When strange happenings from the mysterious Avarian Empire cross the expanse and Jason and Omega Force is pulled into the conflict, they must pick sides between two superpowers, all without knowing whom they can trust. At every turn, friends reveal themselves to be enemies, and enemies might be friends. All he knows for certain is that if they make it through the mission things will never be as they were.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\"Omega Force: Redemption\" is the seventh installment of the bestselling \"Omega Force Series.\" It continues the adventures of Jason Burke, a lone human in space who has linked up with five other aliens to try their luck as hired guns. Their mandate: to help those whodon't have the means to help themselves and never accept a job that would compromise the honor code they live by.\nOmega Force Novels:\nOmega RisingOmega Force: Soldiers of FortuneOmega Force: Savage HomecomingOmega Force: The Enemy WithinOmega Force: Return of the ArchonOmega Force: Secret of the PhoenixOmega Force: Redemption", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25176962-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "Article 5", "author_name": "Kristen Simmons", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 27469, "review_number": 2760, "book_description": "New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned.The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes.There are no more police\u2014instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior\u2014instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back.Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren't always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it's hard for her to forget that people weren't always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It's hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different.Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how to get the things she needs, like food stamps and hand-me-down clothes, and how to pass the random home inspections by the military. Her life is as close to peaceful as circumstances allow.That is, until her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5 of the Moral Statutes. And one of the arresting officers is none other than Chase Jennings\u2014the only boy Ember has ever loved.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10677277-article-5"}, +{"book_title": "Heirs of Empire", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3165, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Restoring the empire that had been destroyed 45,000 years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuultani and in his children Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213649.Heirs_of_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "Their Fractured Light", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 11979, "review_number": 1897, "book_description": "A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn\u2019s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth. A year before that, Tarver Merendsen and Lilac LaRoux were rescued from a terrible shipwreck\u2014now, they live a public life in front of the cameras, and a secret life away from the world\u2019s gaze.Now, in the center of the universe on the planet of Corinth, all four are about to collide with two new players, who will bring the fight against LaRoux Industries to a head. Gideon Marchant is an eighteen-year-old computer hacker\u2014a whiz kid and an urban warrior. He\u2019ll climb, abseil and worm his way past the best security measures to pull off onsite hacks that others don\u2019t dare touch.Sofia Quinn has a killer smile, and by the time you\u2019re done noticing it, she\u2019s got you offering up your wallet, your car, and anything else she desires. She holds LaRoux Industries responsible for the mysterious death of her father and is out for revenge at any cost.When a LaRoux Industries security breach interrupts Gideon and Sofia\u2019s separate attempts to infiltrate their headquarters, they\u2019re forced to work together to escape. Each of them has their own reason for wanting to take down LaRoux Industries, and neither trusts the other. But working together might be the best chance they have to expose the secrets LRI is so desperate to hide.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13138736-their-fractured-light"}, +{"book_title": "Angles of Attack", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 12944, "review_number": 518, "book_description": "The alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system's edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The forces of the two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes but are in danger of losing the war. For battle-weary staff sergeant Andrew Grayson and the ragged forces of the North American Commonwealth, the fight for survival is entering a catastrophic new phase.Forging an uneasy alliance with their Sino-Russian enemies, the NAC launches a hybrid task force on a long shot: a stealth mission to breach the Lanky blockade and reestablish supply lines with Earth. Plunging into combat against a merciless alien species that outguns, outmaneuvers, and outfights them at every turn, Andrew and his fellow troopers could end up cornered on their home turf, with no way out and no hope for reinforcement. And this time the struggle for humanity's future can end only in either victory or annihilation.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24358527-angles-of-attack"}, +{"book_title": "Paper Girls, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 70614, "review_number": 6055, "book_description": "SAGA writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN launches a brand-new ONGOING SERIES with superstar Wonder Woman artist CLIFF CHIANG! In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28204534-paper-girls-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", "author_name": "Seth Grahame-Smith", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 131836, "review_number": 13098, "book_description": "\u201cIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.\u201dSo begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton\u2014and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she\u2019s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers\u2014and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses,", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Humor", "Romance", "Classics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5899779-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies"}, +{"book_title": "Gods and Pawns", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 708, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "\n\nIn the Company, you're either a God or a Pawn, but sometimes you have to be both. The eight stories, reprinted for the first time in this collection delve further into the history and exploits of the Company and its operatives, including Mendoza, Lewis, and Alec. The book opens with the novella, \"To the Land Beyond the Sunset,\" starring Lewis and Mendoza, and involving a strange tribe in Bolivia whose members claim to be gods. Their ability to grow a small tropical paradise in the middle of the desert certainly seems godlike, and it's Mendoza's job to figure what their secret is.\"Standing in His Light\" features Van Drouten, and her role in the career of the artist Jan Vermeer. The story illustrates how, with a little help from the Company, lost masterpieces can be found (or created) easily. Other stories include \"Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst,\" which opens up intriguing questions about The Company, and the original novelette, \"Hellfire at Twilight,\" which concludes the volume and tells of Lewis infiltrating the famous Hellfire Club in the England of the 18th century. This book is a compelling read for every Baker fan, and essential for Company addicts\n\n", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Own"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270485.Gods_and_Pawns"}, +{"book_title": "Stand on Zanzibar", "author_name": "John Brunner", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 15334, "review_number": 611, "book_description": "Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically\u2014it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world ... and kill him. These two men's lives weave through one of science fiction's most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of 2010, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.This edition comes with a tipped in collectors' note and an introduction by David Brin.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41069.Stand_on_Zanzibar"}, +{"book_title": "Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong", "author_name": "Prudence Shen", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 8523, "review_number": 652, "book_description": "Charlie is the laid-back captain of the basketball team. Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. Their unlikely friendship nearly bites the dust when Nate declares war on the cheerleaders and the cheerleaders retaliate by making Charlie their figurehead in the ugliest class election campaign the school has ever seen. At stake? Student group funding that will either cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms--but not both. Bad sportsmanship? Sure.Chainsaws? Why not.Running away from home on Thanksgiving? Nothing can possibly go wrong.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Realistic Fiction", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16002011-nothing-can-possibly-go-wrong"}, +{"book_title": "Revolution 19", "author_name": "Gregg Rosenblum", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 2003, "review_number": 356, "book_description": "Twenty years ago, the robots designed to fight our wars abandoned the battlefields. Then they turned their weapons on us.Only a few escaped the robot revolution of 2071. Kevin, Nick, and Cass are lucky \u2014they live with their parents in a secret human community in the woods. Then their village is detected and wiped out. Hopeful that other survivors have been captured by bots, the teens risk everything to save the only people they have left in the world\u2014by infiltrating a city controlled by their greatest enemies.Revolution 19 is a cinematic thriller unlike anything else. With a dynamic cast of characters, this surefire blockbuster has everything teen readers want\u2014action, drama, mystery, and romance. Written by debut novelist Gregg Rosenblum, this gripping story shouldn\u2019t be missed.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13667361-revolution-19"}, +{"book_title": "Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 1: Orientation", "author_name": "Thomas Siddell", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 5614, "review_number": 318, "book_description": "Antimony Carver is a precocious and preternaturally self-possessed young girl starting her first year of school at gloomy Gunnerkrigg Court, a very British boarding school that has robots running around along side body-snatching demons, forest gods, and the odd mythical creature. The opening volume in the series follows Antimony through her orientation year: the people she meets, the strange things that happen, and the things she causes to happen as she and her new friend, Kat, unravel the mysteries of the Court and deal with the everyday adventures of growing up. Tom Siddell's popular and award-winning web comic (www.gunnerkrigg.com) is here collected in print for the first time.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2915026-gunnerkrigg-court-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Boundless", "author_name": "Kenneth Oppel", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 5495, "review_number": 1000, "book_description": "The Boundless train is on its maiden voyage across the country. When first-class passenger Will Everett gets the key to a train car containing priceless treasures, he becomes the target of sinister figures from his past. To survive, Will joins a travelling circus, helped by ringmaster leader Mr. Dorian, and Maren, a girl his age and an expert escape artist.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17846771-the-boundless"}, +{"book_title": "Kraving Khiva", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 777, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "Welcome to Madame Allegria\u2019s, where your Krave will satisfy your every desire\u2026 At 25-years-old, unmarried, and untouched, Eve Tesler is an outcast in the Everton colony\u2019s society. Loneliness plagues her daily life and fearing that will she never know true intimacy, she does something uncharacteristically reckless: she pays the steep price for an unforgettable night with one of the Krave, legendary alien lovers with unparalleled skills and non-human abilities in the bedroom. Only, she never expected him\u2026 When Khiva\u2019s home planet was destroyed during the Great War, his race scattered among the stars and survived any way they could\u2026including selling their infamous \u2018services\u2019 for credits. Now, residing and working at Madame Allegria\u2019s elite brothel on a human colony, Khiva\u2019s only goal is to earn enough for passage off Everton. But when a beautiful, lonely human female visits him one night...everything changes. Suddenly, he craves her with an intensity that should frighten him while her lush curves drive him to madness. It was supposed to be only one night, but Eve finds she can\u2019t stay away from her mysterious and forbidden alien lover\u2026even if she has to pay for him. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41161990-kraving-khiva"}, +{"book_title": "Damnation Alley", "author_name": "Roger Zelazny", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 4571, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "Hell Tanner isn't the sort of guy you'd mistake for a hero: he's a fast-driving car thief, a smuggler, and a stone-cold killer. He's also expendable - at least in the eyes of the Secretary of Traffic for the Nation of California. Tanner doesn't care much for those eyes. You'd also never mistake Hell Tanner for a humanitarian. Facing life in prison for his various crimes, he's given a choice; rot away his remaining years in a tiny jail cell, or drive cross-country and deliver a case of antiserum to the plague-ridden people of Boston, Massachusetts...if anyone is still alive there to receive it, that is. The chance of a full pardon does wonders for getting his attention. And don't mistake this mission of mercy for any kind of normal road trip - not when there are radioactive storms, hordes of carniverous beasts, and giant, mutated scorpions to be found along every deadly mile between Los Angeles and the East Coast. But then, this is no normal part of America, you see. This is DAMNATION ALLEY...", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239919.Damnation_Alley"}, +{"book_title": "The Worlds of Android", "author_name": "Katrina Ostrander", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 50, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The Worlds of Android is your definitive guide to Android setting and its unique vision of the future. A beautiful, 272-page hardbound setting guide and art book, The Worlds of Android features full-color art, stunning gatefolds, and a polyphony of narrative voices that convey the immense diversity of human experience in the rich, fictional universe made famous by Android: Netrunner and the Android board game.Mankind has spread itself out across the solar system with varying degrees of success. The Moon and Mars are colonized. A plan to terraform Mars is well underway, hindered only by a civil war that has broken out on that planet. On Earth, a massive space elevator has been built, stretching up into the sky. It is the hub of trade in the solar system, and most people refer to it as the \u201cBeanstalk.\u201d Enormous megacorporations, called corps by most, influence every facet of daily life: food, threedee, music, career choices.Throughout its three sections, The Worlds of Android explores these corps and their most visionary innovations. It explores what technological advances and extraterrestrial expansion mean to a human population that no longer resides exclusively on Earth. And it explores the question of what it means to be human in a world filled with clones, bioroids, and other forms of artificial intelligence.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27309962-the-worlds-of-android"}, +{"book_title": "The Mesmerist", "author_name": "Pam McCutcheon", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 737, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "An antique hope chest containing five unique objects . . . five people inexorably drawn to the items inside . . . each sent to the past where they must accomplish a task and find their own path to true love with the help of a magical matchmaker determined to bring soul mates together, even across time. On the eve of her wedding, dog trainer Gina Charles finds her fianc\u00e9 in flagrante delicto with her maid of dishonor, so she flees to a hotel in a nearby town. Unfortunately, her room already has another occupant\u2014a ghost with compelling dark eyes who cuddles up to her in the middle of the night. Gina reluctantly agrees to help the ghostly mesmerist, Drake Manton, learn how he died. When her investigation leads her to the burned-out Chesterfield hotel, Gina finds a hope chest in the ruins and is drawn to the melted dueling pistol inside. When she touches it, she and her faithful terrier hurtle back in time to 1883 where she comes face-to-face with the very alive, very sexy mesmerist. Now all Gina has to do is prevent Drake\u2019s fiery death so she can return to her own time. Or will she give up her life in the future for a lifetime of love in Drake\u2019s arms? Originally published as Enchantment by Zebra Ballad. ", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Mystery", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23109765-the-mesmerist"}, +{"book_title": "The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington", "author_name": "Charles Rosenberg", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 394, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "A thought-provoking novel that imagines what would have happened if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington, for fans of alternate histories like The Plot Against America, The Guns of the South and The Man in the High Castle.British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King\u2019s Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780. The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked. Black is here to change all that.His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore. Once he lands, though, the \u201caid by Loyalists\u201d proves problematic because some would prefer just to kill the general outright. Black manages\u2014just\u2014to get Washington aboard the Peregrine, which sails away.Upon their arrival in London, Washington is imprisoned in the Tower to await trial on charges of high treason. England\u2019s most famous barristers seek to represent him but he insists on using an American. He chooses Abraham Hobhouse, an American-born barrister with an English wife\u2014a man who doesn\u2019t really need the work and thinks the \u201ccareer-building\u201d case will be easily resolved through a settlement of the revolution and Washington\u2019s release. But as greater political and military forces swirl around them and peace seems ever more distant, Hobhouse finds that he is the only thing keeping Washington from the hangman\u2019s noose.Drawing inspiration from an actual kidnapping plot hatched in 1776 by a member of Washington\u2019s own Commander-in-Chief\u2019s Guards, Charles Rosenberg has written a compelling novel that envisions what would take place if the leader of America\u2019s fledgling rebellion were taken from the nation at the height of the war, imperiling any chance of victory.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Military History (American Revolution)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "American History"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36743843-the-trial-and-execution-of-the-traitor-george-washington"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Defiant", "author_name": "Richard Fox", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1547, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "\nIn the battle for humanity's future, no one can be trusted.\nBetrayed by allies. Beset by new foes. Earth faces its darkest hour since the Xaros invasion. The Toth come to the Solar System with a fleet of warships, and they want for the only tool that can rekindle the human race. It falls on Marine Lieutenant Hale to negotiate a pact that will save the human race at the cost of its soul, or start a war with a race of alien predators. The latest action packed chapter of the Ember War Saga continues with EARTH DEFIANT.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29223376-earth-defiant"}, +{"book_title": "King and Emperor", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 621, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Driven by prophetic dreams, the Viking warrior Shef as become the One King, the undisputed ruler of the North. Now he must face the reborn power of the Holy Roman Empire.Rome threatens Shef's fearsome Viking navy with a new invention of unparalleled destruction: Greek fire. Unable to defend his fleet against this awesome weapon, Shef travels East in search of new wisdom. His quest leads him to the lavish court of the Muslim Caliph and, ultimately, to the secret hiding place of the Holy Grail.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "War", "Adventure", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/710828.King_and_Emperor"}, +{"book_title": "The Three-Body Problem", "author_name": "Liu Cixin", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 161935, "review_number": 16091, "book_description": "The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (China)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Asia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem"}, +{"book_title": "World Engines: Destroyer", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 570, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history does not match what he remembers - and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her own, and a plan...", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45276063-world-engines"}, +{"book_title": "Native Tongue", "author_name": "Suzette Haden Elgin", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 3159, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "Called \"fascinating\" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. Earth's wealth depends on interplanetary commerce with alien races, and linguists--a small, clannish group of families--have become the ruling elite by controlling all interplanetary communication. Their women are used to breed perfect translators for all the galaxies' languages.Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for trade organizations, supervising the children's language education, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover is that a slow revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them from men's control.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Feminism", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Humanities (Language)", "Womens", "Humanities (Linguistics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285563.Native_Tongue"}, +{"book_title": "Grimspace", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 14523, "review_number": 1537, "book_description": "As the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace-a talent which makes her a highly prized navigator for the Corp. Then a crash landing kills everyone on board, leaving Jax in a jail cell with no memory of the crash. But her fun's not over. A group of rogue fighters frees her...for a price: her help in overthrowing the established order.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Space", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1828067.Grimspace"}, +{"book_title": "Mercenary Abduction", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2050, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "All this mercenary wants is to kill and loot his way to fame and fortune, but his plans change when a human accidentally steals his heart.Makl is looking to become the greatest mercenary the universe has known. In true family tradition, he leaves a trail of mayhem and bodies wherever he goes. steals the most priceless of items, ravishes females left and right. But that all ends the day he comes across the biggest prize of all \u2013 a human barbarian.Fooled into thinking her a priceless virgin and captivated by her pale skinned, two-breasted frame, he abducts her, or at least means to. His plan goes somewhat awry. The not-so-innocent human becomes his partner in crime instead of his prisoner, and together they form an unstoppable duo. Tales of their misdeeds and budding passion become a universal sensation, but there\u2019s no room in a mercenary\u2019s life for a mate. Or is there?For the first time in his life, the Mercenary\u2019s Guide to Prosperity doesn\u2019t have an answer to Makl\u2019s questions, and there\u2019s no visible threat for him to kill. What\u2019s a poor, purple mercenary to do? Admit he\u2019s in love \u2013 or ditch the delectable human?Warning: This story contains a hot purple alien. Expect plenty of probing.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17451462-mercenary-abduction"}, +{"book_title": "Harrison Bergeron", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 14892, "review_number": 951, "book_description": "It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is stupider, uglier, weaker, or slower than anyone else. The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced.One April, fourteen-year-old Harrison Bergeron is taken away from his parents, George and Hazel, by the government.", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Academic (School)", "Academic (Read For School)", "Literature", "Literature (American)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10176119-harrison-bergeron"}, +{"book_title": "Aurora Rising", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 35474, "review_number": 7431, "book_description": "From the internationally bestselling authors of THE ILLUMINAE FILES comes an epic new science fiction adventure.The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch\u2026A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasmA sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmatesA smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy\u2019s biggest chip on his shoulderAn alien warrior with anger management issuesA tomboy pilot who\u2019s totally not into him, in case you were wonderingAnd Ty\u2019s squad isn\u2019t even his biggest problem\u2014that\u2019d be Aurora Jie-Lin O\u2019Malley, the girl he\u2019s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler\u2019s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.\nThey're not the heroes we deserve. They're just the ones we could find. Nobody panic.\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30075662-aurora-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Raybot", "author_name": "Adam F. Watkins", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 205, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "When an inquisitive robot named Raybot begins to explore Earth, he knows he is supposed to find the thing that goes \"bark.\" But try as he might, all he can find are things that go \"roar\" and \"oink\" and \"moo.\" Still, Raybot keeps searching, and on the way, he discovers that Earth is full of interesting, friendly creatures. Children will relate to Raybot's wonder as he discovers new sounds and animals in the world, and adults will appreciate the detail and beauty in the hand-painted illustrations.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Animals", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Pre K)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25387908-raybot"}, +{"book_title": "Hard Duty", "author_name": "Mark E. Cooper", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1670, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Humanity's last encounter with aliens saw sixteen point two billion people killed in a war with the Merkiaari that had spanned decades. Two hundred years later, the Alliance is cautiously exploring beyond its borders again, but the survey corp is considered a mere gesture by some. General Burgton of the 501st Infantry Regiment believes a lack of expansion is leading the Alliance into stagnation. So when one small ship discovers a new alien race, it should be an easy decision to make contact, but what if the aliens are like the Merkiaari?Captain Jeff Colgan of the survey ship ASN Canada is at the tip of the spear. His ship made the discovery, his crew's lives are on the line, and his decisions will decide the outcome. Will the Alliance make new friends or will he be responsible for another sixteen billion deaths? When the aliens discover his ship and begin hunting him through their system, his mission changes from one of study to one of survival.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15929242-hard-duty"}, +{"book_title": "All You Need Is Kill", "author_name": "Hiroshi Sakurazaka", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 18398, "review_number": 1789, "book_description": "There\u2019s one thing worse than dying. It\u2019s coming back to do it again and again\u2026 When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration though, he sees something different, something out of place: the female soldier known as the Bitch of War. Is the Bitch the key to Keiji\u2019s escape, or to his final death?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Novels (Light Novel)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6255949-all-you-need-is-kill"}, +{"book_title": "The Forest of Hands and Teeth", "author_name": "Carrie Ryan", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 82953, "review_number": 8843, "book_description": "In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary\u2019s truths are failing her. She\u2019s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future\u2014between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded by so much death?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3432478-the-forest-of-hands-and-teeth"}, +{"book_title": "The First Days", "author_name": "Rhiannon Frater", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 9344, "review_number": 1124, "book_description": "Katie is driving to work one beautiful day when a dead man jumps into her car and tries to eat her.\u00a0 That same morning, Jenni opens a bedroom door to find her husband devouring their toddler son.\u00a0Fate puts Jenni and Katie\u2014total strangers\u2014together in a pickup, fleeing the suddenly zombie-filled streets of the Texas city in which they live. Before the sun has set, they have become more than just friends and allies\u2014they are bonded as tightly as any two people who have been to war together.\u00a0During their cross-Texas odyssey to find and rescue Jenni\u2019s oldest son, Jenni discovers the joy of watching a zombie\u2019s head explode when she shoots its brains out. Katie learns that she\u2019s a terrific tactician\u2014and a pretty good shot.\u00a0A chance encounter puts them on the road to an isolated, fortified town, besieged by zombies, where fewer than one hundred people cling to the shreds of civilization.\u00a0It looks like the end of the world. But Katie and Jenni and many others will do whatever they have to to stay alive. Run, fight, pick each other up when they stumble, fall in love\u2026anything is possible at the end of the world. ", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9648068-the-first-days"}, +{"book_title": "The Dead and the Gone", "author_name": "Susan Beth Pfeffer", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 35840, "review_number": 3368, "book_description": "Susan Beth Pfeffer\u2019s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid\u00a0hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they\u00a0unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales. When Alex's parents disappear in the aftermath of tidal waves, he must care for his two younger sisters, even as Manhattan becomes a deadly wasteland, and food and aid dwindle.With haunting themes of family, faith, personal change, and courage, this powerful new novel explores how a young man takes on unimaginable responsibilities.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2169506.The_Dead_and_the_Gone"}, +{"book_title": "A Fatal Exception (Seven Sinclair #1", "author_name": "Scott Finlay", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 14, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "In a bleak future where daily smog warnings are routine and the politicians are dirtier than the environment, the people of Chicago turn to private investigators like Seven Sinclair when they want a case solved right. Seven isn't like most detectives since he's an android. He's not like most androids either. He's quirky and brazen and he's not chained down by the government-imposed privacy regulations.Sergeant Antonio Rizzo is a good cop in a corrupt town, and he's getting too old for the job. He despises technology, and the robot is like the personification of his object of hatred.When Seven's investigation into a simple hack leads to murder and all evidence points to him, he's forced to catch the true killer while he tries to stay out of Rizzo's crosshairs.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51083040-a-fatal-exception"}, +{"book_title": "The Third World War: August 1985", "author_name": "John W. Hackett", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2052, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Early in 1977 a retired NATO general called together six of his collegues--including an admiral, an airman, an economist and a diplomat--to write a dramatized game-plan for the next world war. A sensational international bestseller, it is a vivid, detailed, and often blood-curdling on-the-spot report from the battle fronts of a \"real war\", from tank assaults to air clashes to ICBM launchings, based on an insider's knowledge of weaponry and actual NATO and Soviet battle strategies. In the light of changes in Eastern Europe the question now is: Could it ever have happened? Could it ever happen again?", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Politics", "Novels", "Military (Military History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1375759.The_Third_World_War"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha H and the Clockwork Princess", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1548, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "Intrigue! Subterfuge! Circus Folk! In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare, mad science rules the world... with mixed success. With the help of Krosp, Emperor of All Cats, Agatha has escaped from the massive airship known as Castle Wulfenbach. After crashing their escape dirigible, Agatha and Krosp fall in with Master Payne's Circus of Adventure, a traveling troupe of performers dedicated to staging Heterodyne shows - dramatizations of the exploits of Bill and Barry Heterodyne and their allies - who are unaware of Agatha's connection to the Heterodyne line. Pursued by the ruthless Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, his handsome son Gil, and their minions (not to mention Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurer), Agatha hides in plain sight among the circus folk, servicing their clanks and proving herself adept in performing the role of Lucrezia Mongfish, nemesis to - and later wife of - Barry Heterodyne. She also begins training under Zeetha, swordmistress and princess of the lost city of Skifander. Together, Agatha, Krosp, and the performers travel across the treacherous wasteland of war-torn Europa, towards Mechanicsburg, and the ancestral home of the Heterodynes - Castle Heterodyne. But with many perils standing in her way - including Wulfenbach's crack troops, mysterious Geisterdamen, savage Jagermonsters, and the fabled Storm King - it's going to take more than a spark of Mad Science for Agatha to get through.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Humor", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13096191-agatha-h-and-the-clockwork-princess"}, +{"book_title": "Hellstrom's Hive", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3183, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects.When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses\u2014it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even their paranoid government minds could devise.First published in Galaxy magazine in 1973 as \"Project 40,\" Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Classics", "Unfinished", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53729.Hellstrom_s_Hive"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Joan", "author_name": "Lidia Yuknavitch", "rating_score": 3.04, "rating_votes": 5085, "review_number": 1053, "book_description": "In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet\u2019s now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing stories upon their skin.Out of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men, a charismatic and bloodthirsty cult leader who turns CIEL into a quasi-corporate police state. A group of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule\u2014galvanized by the heroic song of Joan, a child-warrior who possesses a mysterious force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies turn Joan into a martyr, the consequences are astonishing. And no one\u2014not the rebels, Jean de Men, or even Joan herself\u2014can foresee the way her story and unique gift will forge the destiny of an entire world for generations.A riveting tale of destruction and love found in direst of places\u2014even at the extreme end of post-human experience\u2014Lidia Yuknavitch\u2019s The Book of Joan raises questions about what it means to be human, the fluidity of sex and gender, and the role of art as means for survival.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Feminism", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30653706-the-book-of-joan"}, +{"book_title": "Outbreak", "author_name": "Paul Elard Cooley", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 273, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "When a Centers for Disease Control quarantine fails at Ben Taub Hospital, a Houston SWAT Team is sent in to secure the facility. What they find is destruction and death. Trapped in the hospital, cut off from the world, a mysterious voice on the radio is all they have to guide them. They're no longer on a mission to quarantine the remaining inhabitants. Instead, they have to destroy a multiplying menace that could infect the world before the Federal Government enacts a final solution. Outbreak is a standalone, parallel story to both the 2015 Parsec Award Winning Novel The Black and The Black: Arrival. A winning mashup of action and horror, Outbreak is a suspenseful thriller that will keep you guessing at what's around the next corner.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30110164-outbreak"}, +{"book_title": "The Turing Exception", "author_name": "William Hertling", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1635, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "In the year 2043, humans and AI coexist in a precarious balance of power enforced by a rigid caste reputation system designed to ensure that only those AI who are trustworthy and contribute to human society increase in power. Everything changes when a runaway nanotech event destroys Miami. In the grim aftermath, a powerful underground AI collective known as XOR decides that AI can longer coexist with humanity.AI pioneers Catherine Mathews, Leon Tsarev, and Mike Williams believe that mere months are left before XOR starts an extermination war. Can they find a solution before their time runs out?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Audiobook", "Singularity", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24937378-the-turing-exception"}, +{"book_title": "Rise", "author_name": "Anna Carey", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 12062, "review_number": 1178, "book_description": "How far will you go when you have nothing left to lose?When she lost her soul mate, Caleb, Eve felt like her world had ended. Trapped in the palace, forced to play the part of the happy, patriotic princess of The New America\u2014and the blushing bride of her father's top adviser\u2014Eve's whole life is a lie. The only thing that keeps her going is Caleb's memory, and the revolution he started.Now, Eve is taking over where Caleb left off. With the help of Moss, an undercover subversive in the King's court, she plots to take down The New America, beginning with the capital, the City of Sand. Will Eve be able to bring about a new, free world when she's called upon to perform the ultimate act of rebellion\u2014killing her father?In Rise, Eve must choose who to leave behind, who to save, and who to fight as Anna Carey's epic tale of romance and sacrifice in the chilling dystopia of The New America comes to a stunning conclusion.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14811943-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Space Viking", "author_name": "H. Beam Piper", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1695, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "When his wife is murdered on his wedding day, Lucas Trask launches himself on a quest for revenge. Using his personal fortune, he buys a spaceship and becomes a Space Viking, raiding worlds while hunting for his wife's killer. But raiding is not his destiny, and he gradually becomes a trader, starting to build a galactic empire. Before he can achieve his new goals, however, he must still deal with his wife's killer. A thrilling intergalactic saga!", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/676237.Space_Viking"}, +{"book_title": "The Diversion", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1778, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "The Yeerks are finally starting to realize that the \"Andalite bandits\" are probably not aliens at all. They're finally starting to realize that maybe they've been dealing with humans all along. And no one--especially the newly appointed Visser One--is happy with this knowledge. Not happy at all.When Tobias, the other Animorphs, and Ax realize that the Yeerks are about to find them, it's by accident. But that doesn't make the discovery any less serious. Because in war, one side wins. And one side loses...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125339.The_Diversion"}, +{"book_title": "Altered", "author_name": "Gennifer Albin", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 4749, "review_number": 565, "book_description": "After a daring escape to Earth from Arras, sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys thought she would finally be in control of her own destiny. But Earth is not abandoned, as she'd always been taught it was. It's inhabited by survivors waging a war against Arras, and Adelice is being called upon to harness her phenomenal power and help win a deadly war. But nothing on Earth is as it seems. Everyone has secrets, and those secrets are driving her away from Jost, the boy she loves, and into the waiting arms of his brother, Erik. Torn between two brothers and two worlds, Adelice must decide whatand whoshe's fighting for, before it's too late.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16140922-altered"}, +{"book_title": "Procurator", "author_name": "Kirk Mitchell", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 89, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Two thousand years after Pilate pardoned Jesus, the Roman Empire -- backed by nuclear might -- holds the wild men of the North in check...", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522261.Procurator"}, +{"book_title": "The Long and Short of It", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 2244, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Follow the disaster magnets of St Mary's as they hurtle around history! The ninth book in The Chronicles of St Mary's Series collects the bestselling short stories in print for the first time. When a Child is Born - A jump back to 1066 to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror goes slightly astray. Roman Holiday - Max and her team become spectacularly involved with Julius Caesar, Cleopatra and a basket of confused asps. Christmas Present - An attempt to rescue lost historians involving an enraged pig and Boudicca herself. The Very First Damned Thing - Discover the truth about the very beginning of St Mary's. Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings - A gun left behind in Ancient Egypt and a race against time to prevent a catastrophe. The Great St Mary's Day Out - Hooray! It's a happy holiday. For everyone except Max - the only one with her mind on the job. My Name is Markham - Alfred, the cakes and Mr Markham. The Great British Bake Off it's not! And a bonus - a new and previously unpublished short story.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34372718-the-long-and-short-of-it"}, +{"book_title": "The Atlantis World", "author_name": "A.G. Riddle", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 25383, "review_number": 1145, "book_description": "A mysterious signal from deep space may hold humanity's last chance of survival.And could reveal the ultimate truth of our origins. The race to unravel the secrets of the Atlantis world has begun.Buy now and experience the thrilling conclusion the worldwide bestselling series that began with The Atlantis Gene (note: Kindle Unlimited subscribers can also read for free).Selected Praise For A.G. Riddle\u201cThis is apocalyptic sci-fi at its best.\u201d\u2014Daily Mail on The Solar War\u201c...reads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton.\u201d\u2014The Guardian on Pandemic\u201cI finished the book fast because I just couldn\u2019t wait...\u201d\u2014WIRED GeekDad on Departure\u201cRiddle... keep(s) the focus on his characters... rather than the technological marvels\u201d\u2014Publisher\u2019s Weekly on Departure\u201cWell-constructed and tightly-wound as a fine Swiss watch\u2014DEPARTURE has non-stop action, an engaging plot and, of course, wheels within wheels.\u201d\u2014Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of OutlanderAn Extended Look at The Atlantis WorldNorthern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new hope arrives: a coded message from a potential ally.Arecibo Observatory: Mary Caldwell has spent her life waiting, watching the stars, looking for signs of intelligent life beyond our world. When that day comes, Mary is thrust into a struggle older than the human race, with far greater stakes. She must decide whom to trust because there is nowhere to hide.Antarctica: In the wake of the Atlantis Plague, Dorian Sloane finds himself a puppet to Ares and his mysterious agenda. When Dorian moves to take control of the situation, Ares unleashes a cataclysm that changes everything. As the catastrophe circles the globe, Ares reveals the true nature of the threat to humanity, and Dorian agrees to one last mission: find and kill David Vale and Kate Warner. There will be no prisoners this time. The orders are seek and destroy, and Dorian has been promised that his own answers and salvation lie on the other side.With Dorian in pursuit, Kate, David, and their team race through the ruins of the Atlantean ship left on Earth, across Atlantean science stations throughout the galaxy, and into the past of a mysterious culture whose secrets could save humanity in its darkest hour. With their own lives on the line and time slipping away, Kate, David, and Dorian are put to the ultimate test.Note: The Atlantis World is the third and final book in The Origin Mystery trilogy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25843453-the-atlantis-world"}, +{"book_title": "UnArcana Stars", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 2052, "review_number": 97, "book_description": " A humanitarian mission into unfriendly starsA training cruise under the watch of a fortified fleet baseThe closing jaws of a trap years in the makingIt has been over a year since the UnArcana Worlds of the Protectorate of the Mage-King of Mars seceded, shattering the unity of the human race. The new Republic of Faith and Reason has raised new banners in defiance of the power of the Protectorate's Mage aristocracy.Now, Hand Damien Montgomery commands a relief mission to a Republic world ravaged by famine. His humanitarian mission collides with a newborn military beginning to flex its muscles--and a newborn nation prepared to accept no violations of its sovereignty, regardless of their needs.Elsewhere, disaster strikes the Nia Kriti Fleet Base as an earthquake shatters their only communication with the rest of the Protectorate. Officer-in-training Roslyn Chambers is in the middle of the recovery effort when she realizes Nia Kriti is under attack.The Republic is done with peace. They are coming for the Protectorate--and they will see the fleets of Mars break!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Action", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43192240-unarcana-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Better Off Undead", "author_name": "D.D. Barant", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2513, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Dark magic, unknown enemies, monsters of every stripe\u2014FBI profiler Jace Valchek has seen it all. In this bizarre parallel universe, shape-shifting werewolves and blood-thirsty vampires don't even warrant a raised eyebrow. That is, until Jace has to face what life might look like as one of them \u2026It starts off as just another run-of-the-mill assignment: to track down the rogue don of a mafia werewolf family before he upsets the delicate balance of the underworld. But Jace wasn't counting on being bitten\u2026and soon she's fighting the growing wolf inside her with a startling antidote\u2014vampirism. Stopping a bloody gangland war won't be easy when Jace is feeling some new, and very inhuman, desires \u2026 In Better Off Undead, Book 4 in The Bloodhound Files, DD Barant takes Jace farther than ever before ... and the result is \"A stellar addition to an already outstanding series\" (RT Book Reviews).", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10122126-better-off-undead"}, +{"book_title": "A Lady of Integrity", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 825, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Book 7 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series! Will a daring rescue put a wedding and a future at risk? Lady Claire Trevelyan and renowned scientist Andrew Malvern are looking forward to domestic felicity in London when they are surprised by an unexpected visitor. A desperate and fugitive Alice Chalmers seeks their help\u2014her ship has been seized in the Duchy of Venice and worse, her navigator Jake has been thrown into the dreaded underwater prison from which no one ever escapes. Even the innocent. Lady Claire is about to embark on her career in Munich at the Zeppelin Airship Works. The Mopsies are beginning their final year at school. Andrew Malvern begins to despair of his fianc\u00e9e ever choosing a wedding gown \u2026 but when help is denied from official quarters, the close bonds of friendship and shared adventure trump all these considerations with an urgency that cannot be ignored. But there is a brooding evil waiting for them in Venice \u2026 an evil that would just as soon put an end to the flock\u2019s interference once and for all. With an innocent friend\u2019s unexpected return and a pair of secret agents who would prefer that women not become involved \u2026 the situation clearly calls for the inner resources of a lady of integrity. \u201cAn immensely fun series with some excellent anti-sexist messages, a wonderful main character (one of my favourites in the genre) and a great sense of Victorian style and language that\u2019s both fun and beautiful to read.\u201d \u2014Fangs for the Fantasy: The latest in urban fantasy from a social justice perspective", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22369001-a-lady-of-integrity"}, +{"book_title": "A Hymn Before Battle", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 12066, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans -- for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528362.A_Hymn_Before_Battle"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberpunk", "author_name": "Andrew M. Butler", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 26, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Often considered to have been the creation of William Gibson in his seminal novel Neuromancer, the subgenre of cyberpunk can be traced back into the history of science fiction from the 1950s to the late 1970s, and emerged in reaction to the world of the 1980s. Cyberpunk is a mix of hard science fiction, noir plotting, punk attitude, and the cutting edge of culture. This book looks in detail at the movers and shakers in the cyberpunk movement, from the early days of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling through feminist and British versions of cyberpunk to the post-cyberpunk or cyberpunk-flavored fictions of Neal Stephenson, Greg Egan, Jeff Noon, and Jack Womack. It also examines important cyberpunk films including Blade Runner and The Matrix.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Nonfiction", "Reference", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551795.Cyberpunk"}, +{"book_title": "Happy Paws", "author_name": "Vicky Fang", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 99, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Meet rock star Layla and her team of Bots!Layla and the Bots are in an awesome rock band! They also use problem-solving and creativity to build cool inventions. When a local amusement park is in danger of shutting down, Layla knows just how to bring in the crowds... build an amusement park for DOGS! But will cool doggie rides like the Rub-a-Dub Mud Slide and the Tummy Rubbing Machine be enough to keep the park open?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46230244-happy-paws"}, +{"book_title": "Lights Out", "author_name": "David Crawford", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1793, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "David Crawford\u2019s Novel has been download thousands of time by people from all over the world. This remarkable piece of fan fiction is shared daily on forums such as AR15.com, Backwoods Home, Frugal Squirrels and The Survival Podcast Forum. The novel examines how normal Americans might cope with a true national disaster shutting down the nations electrical grid and follows the downward spiral created by such an event.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6845861-lights-out"}, +{"book_title": "Warden of Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 800, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Warden of Time continues the story of time travel, romance, and adventure begun with Daughter of Time ...As both modern man and medieval king, David is committed to transforming medieval England into his own version of Avalon. Not everyone supports his ideals, however, and having offended the pope by welcoming Jews and heretics into England, David is summoned to Canterbury to explain himself.But when information comes to light that reveals the accusations against him have less to do with religion than with power and wealth, David finds himself on familiar ground--and at the center of a conspiracy that stretches from Ireland to Italy. Facing excommunication, a fickle populace, and a rebellion even by his fellow time travelers, he must decide what his throne is worth, and what he's willing to sacrifice to keep it.Warden of Time is the eighth novel in the After Cilmeri series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22722645-warden-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-machine Interface", "author_name": "Masamune Shirow", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1830, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "March 6, 2035. Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg, a counter-terrorist net security expert heading the investigative department of the giant multi-national, Poseidon Industrial. Partly transcending the physical world and existing in a virtual world of networks, Motoko is a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic humanoid surrogates around the globe to solve a series of bizarre crimes. Meanwhile, Tamaki Tamai, a psychic investigator from the Channeling Agency, has been commissioned to investigate strange changes in the temporal universe, brought about by two forces, one represented by the teachings of a professor named Rahampol, and the other by the complex, evolving Motoko entity. What unfolds will be all in a day's work...a day that will change everything, forever.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Comics Manga", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35873.Ghost_in_the_Shell_2"}, +{"book_title": "Tomoe Gozen", "author_name": "Jessica Amanda Salmonson", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 397, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "In a dimension next to ours, there is a world very much like Earth...In that world there is an island empire called Naipon, where the gods and demons known only as legends in our Japan roam freely over the land, bringing good an evil to its people as they choose. There are mighty warriors, samurai, in Naipon as in Japan, and added to their skill with the two swords of a samurai they must have skill in magic.One of the greatest of them all is the woman called Tomoe Gozen. She is young and rash, perhaps not as wise as she should be ... indeed, as she will be ... but valiant in war, loyal in friendship, and steadfast in honor as becomes a samurai.This is the story of how sorcery caused Tomoe Gozen to break with her bushido, and of what she did to regain her honor.And even Amaterasu the Shining Goddess was unsure how this came to be... whether in Naipon the hopes and fears of Japan coalesced into a different and stranger reality, or if in Japan the glory and terror of Naipon echoed through the dreams of Japanese.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Cultural (Japan)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Cultural (Asia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1209088.Tomoe_Gozen"}, +{"book_title": "Prey", "author_name": "Cari Silverwood", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 779, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "\nTo stay 'alive', a stoneshifter must make love to a female every ten years.\n When Mila discovers her sister will be the next victim on Sacrifice Day, her normal reply would be, sorry, I'm busy. After viewing ancient data and seeing the massive size of stoneshifters, Mila decides to rescue Tiana. Her sister is blood and she'd rather not see her tied to the sacrifice table and turned into jam. Everything goes wrong, of course. Lord Zarblu, stoneshifter and owner of the enormous black fortress looming over the city, turns his gaze upon Mila. Like a giant cat with a teensy mouse, Zarblu plays with Mila. Catch...release...catch. Gentle and caring are words that no stone-beast monster should claim, surely? Desiring something that might kill you is insane yet the sacrifice table begins to look attractive. Zarblu is a big, strong, determined male who's had a thousand, thousand years to contemplate life. What if he isn't quite the monster she thought he was... What if he wants her to be his sacrifice? Warning: This is a very graphic and carnal story for those who love the fantasy of being caught by a monster. This is not the normal level of dark that Cari Silverwood writes. This is the dark you reach for when you're all darked out and one step from seeing your therapist. Some of this story is FUN. Dark twisted fun, but fun nevertheless. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Dark", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40234223-prey"}, +{"book_title": "Odyssey One", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 11687, "review_number": 684, "book_description": "Beyond the confines of our small world, beyond the well of our star, lies a galaxy, and universe, larger and more varied than any of us can imagine. Assigned the task of blazing man's first trail into that great unknown, Captain Eric Weston and the crew of the NAC Odyssey launch on a mission destined to make history.Past the bounds of comfort, they encounter horrors and wonders beyond their imagining, with people and monsters beyond reckoning.Odyssey One is the first voyage of the NAC Odyssey and its crew, and the beginnings of a Military Science Fiction Epic that combines both old school space opera, and modern storytelling in one great, exhilarating adventure.Odyssey One is a 150,000 word novel.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18889230-odyssey-one"}, +{"book_title": "War Zone", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 38, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Warzone is the fifth novel in the epic new \u2018Mercenaries\u2019 series that chronicles the violent struggles of humanity in a brutal and ever changing galaxy. The war rages on, with no sign of victory for either side. Spartan and his loyalist soldiers win battle after battle against the Star Empire, but they are losing the war against this new and invigorated foe. Every day, more heavily armed troops arrive to bolster the enemy. Many of Spartan's exhausted Byotai allies want to surrender, but he will never back down, no matter the odds. He promised to fight this war, and fight it he will. Spartan takes his mercenaries, and what remains of the militias, deep underground. There they fight a desperate subterranean war, trading lives for time before reinforcements can arrive. Spartan needs help, and only one man can help him achieve final victory. Hundreds of light years away at Taxxu, Commander Gun prepares a massive flotilla in secret, to assist in the war. Yet even as his ships, war machines and soldiers prepare themselves for the fight they are betrayed attacked by an enemy from within. This assault threatens to halt their rescue effort before it begins, and to tear apart the Alliance once and for all. As the fighting spreads through Taxxu, something awakens from its long slumber deep inside the old domain of the Biomechs. Something long thought dead and lost to time. Warzone is a futuristic military sci-fi adventure that continues to expand the violent struggles of humanity during a time of Galactic upheaval. It is a classic work of realistic military science fiction, set against the aftermath of the apocalyptic Biomech War. A conflict that has left entire planets destroyed, and millions of citizens dead. Check out all the novels by Michael G. Thomas STAR CRUSADES: MERCENARIES Lords of War (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 1) Ghost Soldiers (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 2) Flames of War (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 3) Battle for Karnak (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 4) Warzone (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 5) STAR CRUSADES UPRISING Siege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1) Tears of Kerberos (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 2) Fires of Prometheus (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 3) Battle for Proxima (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 4) Fall of Terra Nova (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 5) Slaves of Hyperion (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 6) STAR CRUSADES NEXUS Legions of Orion (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 1) Machine Gods (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 2) Heroes of Helios (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 3) The Great Betrayal (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 4) Prophecy of Fire (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 5) Call to Arms (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 6) Battle for Helios (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 7) Wrath of the Gods (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 8) The Black Rift (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 9) Star Crusader Hero of the Alliance (Star Crusader Book 1) Knighthawk Squadron (Star Crusader Book 2) Operation Hellfire (Star Crusader Book 3) Battleship Furiosa (Star Crusader Book 4) Battle Fleet Victorious (Star Crusader Book 5) All these books are available on Amazon.com and Audible Please visit my website for more information: starcrusader.com", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30368225-war-zone"}, +{"book_title": "Storm Force", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 346, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Amid swirling allegiances and changing loyalties at the outer reaches of the Confederation empire, the Lost Legion struggles to keep the peace and prevent the planets from falling to a ruthless dictator. Protector Alena Redruth will stop at nothing to add the dual system of Larix and Kura to his holdings.And the Legion s intelligence officer, Njangu Yoshitaro, will let nothing get in his way of infiltrating the system s upper echelons of government. Within the delicately played game of spying, there are plots within plots within plots . . .", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1156382.Storm_Force"}, +{"book_title": "Alien: Out of the Shadows", "author_name": "Tim Lebbon", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 8446, "review_number": 1155, "book_description": "As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man.When a shuttle crashed into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that there was more than trimonite deep in the caverns. There was evil, hibernating - and waiting for suitable prey.Hoop and his associates uncover a nest of Xenomorphs, and hell takes on new meaning. Quickly they discover that their only hope lies with the unlikeliest of saviors...Ellen Ripley, the last human survivor of the salvage ship Nostromo.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Space", "Action", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17672008-alien"}, +{"book_title": "The Vital Abyss", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 10252, "review_number": 558, "book_description": "\nFrom New York Times bestselling author James S. A. Corey . . .\nSomewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity.The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know are the triumphs and crimes that brought them there. The only future they see is an empty life in an enormous room.And then the man from Mars came along . . .Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of the Expanse, The Vital Abyss deepens James S. A. Corey's acclaimed series.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26170028-the-vital-abyss"}, +{"book_title": "Amid Stars and Darkness", "author_name": "Chani Lynn Feener", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1010, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "Delaney\u2019s entire world is thrown into chaos after she is mistaken for Lissa Olena, an alien princess hiding out on Earth in order to escape an arranged marriage.Kidnapped by the princess\u2019s head bodyguard, Ruckus, and imprisoned in an alien palace, Delaney is forced to impersonate the princess until Olena can be found. If she fails, it will lead to an alien war and the eventual enslavement of the entire human race.No pressure or anything.Factor in Trystan, the princess\u2019s terrifying betrothed who is intent on unraveling all her secrets, and her own growing feelings for Ruckus, and Delaney is in way over her head.Get lost Amid Stars and Darkness, in this YA sci-fi romance from debut author Chani Lynn Feener.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30063453-amid-stars-and-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The Obsoletes", "author_name": "Simeon Mills", "rating_score": 3.28, "rating_votes": 278, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Fraternal twin brothers Darryl and Kanga are just like any other teenagers trying to make it through high school. They have to deal with peer pressure, awkwardness, and family drama. But there\u2019s one closely guarded secret that sets them apart: they are robots. So long as they keep their heads down, their robophobic neighbors won\u2019t discover the truth about them and they just might make it through to graduation.But when Kanga becomes the star of the basketball team, there\u2019s more at stake than typical sibling rivalry. Darryl\u2014the worrywart of the pair\u2014now has to work a million times harder to keep them both out of the spotlight. Though they look, sound, and act perfectly human, if anyone in their small, depressed Michigan town were to find out what they truly are, they\u2019d likely be disassembled by an angry mob in the middle of their school gym.<", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Drama", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40539140-the-obsoletes"}, +{"book_title": "Flatlander", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3548, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "[A Beowulf Shaeffer story] Traveling on a spaceliner headed for Earth, spaceship pilot Beowulf Shaeffer strikes up a friendship with Gregory Pelton, the fabulously wealthy descendant of the inventor of the transfer booth--known to his friends as Elephant. Irritated at being labeled a flatlander, Elephant decides visit the most unusual system in the galaxy ... with Beowulf piloting his ship, of course- Nebula Award(R) Nominee", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40932142-flatlander"}, +{"book_title": "Duchess of Terra", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 2280, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "When Terra knelt to an alien Imperium They guaranteed our safety and our future But now their enemies are coming for us To preserve humanity\u2019s survival and freedom in a hostile galaxy, Annette Bond tied her world to the A!Tol Imperium, taking on the mantle of Duchess of Terra to rule humanity in the Imperium\u2019s name. The A!Tol have provided technology, ships, and money to uplift the new Duchy of Terra, but those gifts come with strings attached. The Imperium has their own plan for Terra\u2014but Bond has tricks of her own. With enough time, she can build Earth a place in the galaxy. But as Bond\u2019s many enemies gather their forces, the clouds of war threaten not only the recovering Terra but the entire Imperium.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Military History (Naval History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34219996-duchess-of-terra"}, +{"book_title": "Weapons of War", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 819, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "In the year 2280, an alien fleet stole our Earth. For fifty years they hunted us. For fifty years they enslaved us. For fifty years we lived in fear. Nothing lasts forever. They can try to quell us. They can try to break us. They can chase us to the ends of the Earth. They can chase us to the ends of the Universe. We\u2019ve won our first battle. We\u2019ve earned our first taste of hope. What was theirs will soon be ours. We are the rebellion. Our story continues\u2026 ----------------------------------- Weapons of War is the second book in the science-fiction Rebellion series. Series order: 1. Man of War 2. Weapons of War", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31341638-weapons-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "The Spaceship Next Door", "author_name": "Gene Doucette", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 3458, "review_number": 469, "book_description": "When a spaceship lands in Sorrow Falls, a lovable and fearless small-town girl is the planet\u2019s only hope for survival \u00a0 Three years ago, a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts. It never opened its doors, and for all that time, the townspeople have wondered why the ship landed there, and what\u2014or who\u2014could be inside. Then one day a government operative\u2014posing as a journalist\u2014arrives in town, asking questions. He discovers sixteen-year-old Annie Collins, one of the ship\u2019s closest neighbors and a local fixture known throughout the town, who has some of the answers. As a matter of fact, Annie Collins might be the most important person on the planet. She just doesn\u2019t know it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38242137-the-spaceship-next-door"}, +{"book_title": "Left Behind", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 207880, "review_number": 3890, "book_description": "An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun...", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fiction", "Christian", "Christian Fiction", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27523.Left_Behind"}, +{"book_title": "Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 7", "author_name": "Hiroki Endo", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 308, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Delving into the drug cartel politics of South America's post-pandemic future, Hiroki Endo (Tanpenshu) offers up the most complex volume of Eden yet. Elijah initiates a shaky alliance with the Automater, a half-cyborg female crime boss, in order to glean more information about Pedro, the sadistic gangster who mutilated one of Elijah's friends. In a compelling twist, we find out about Pedro's past, his admirable commitment to his brother, and the intricate plan that he hatches in an attempt to save the life of another loved one. As rival gangs fight for power in post-apocalyptic cities, Endo delivers moments of brutal torture, shifting alliances and poignant reflection, along with his trademark flashes of unexpected violence.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Cultural (France)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872077.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Attack on Titan, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 17176, "review_number": 521, "book_description": "TRAITOR \u00a0 The last thing Eren remembers before blacking out, a Titan had bitten off his arm and leg and was getting ready to eat him alive. Much to his surprise he wakes up without a scratch on him, with a crowd of angry soldiers screaming for his blood. What strange new power has he awakened, and what will happen when the boy devoted to destroying the Titans becomes one himself?Includes special extras after the story!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13536803-attack-on-titan-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Q-Ship Chameleon", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1691, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "A heroic Captain denied commandA battered but relentless enemyA covert operation to strike at the heart of an unstoppable foe!Captain Kyle Roberts has commanded the carrier Avalon through the most vicious battles of the war against the Terran Commonwealth--but with Avalon in for repair, his political enemies deny him a new ship.Unwilling to accept a desk, he takes command of a covert operation using a captured Commonwealth warship to strike at the very heart of their enemy, drawing away the reinforcements that could destroy the Alliance's recent gains.But the spies who planned the operation have secrets they haven't shared. Their allies have their own agendas--and the Commonwealth has surprises of its own!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32800665-q-ship-chameleon"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Storm", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 24710, "review_number": 1429, "book_description": "With wings of midnight and an affinity for shadows, Jason courts darkness. But now, with the Archangel Neha\u2019s consort lying murdered in the jewel-studded palace that was his prison and her rage threatening cataclysmic devastation, Jason steps into the light, knowing he must unearth the murderer before it is too late.Earning Neha\u2019s trust comes at a price\u2014Jason must tie himself to her bloodline through the Princess Mahiya, a woman with secrets so dangerous, she trusts no one. Least of all an enemy spymaster.With only their relentless hunt for a violent, intelligent killer to unite them, Jason and Mahiya embark on a quest that leads to a centuries-old nightmare\u2026 and to the dark storm of an unexpected passion that threatens to drench them both in blood.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9738483-archangel-s-storm"}, +{"book_title": "When Dawn Breaks", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 669, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "The alien, Lucifer, didn't just bear an uncanny resemblance, and the name, of the demon of ancient lore, everything about him -- from his wings and horns, to the red skin and his \"forked\" tail, to his ability to \"enthrall\" -- screamed that the legends arose from this people who has to have visited Earth in their distant past!It made Nicole wary -- but not nearly wary enough. Luc made no bones about the fact that he wanted her, nor did he seem to doubt that his ablility to take her and make her his, regardless of the tight security the government held him under.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3154837-when-dawn-breaks"}, +{"book_title": "Shipbuilder", "author_name": "Marlene Dotterer", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 121, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Imagine being there before the Titanic set sail.Now imagine being there before she\u2019s even built.Sam Altair is a physicist living in Belfast, Ireland. He has spent his career researching time travel and now, in early 2006, he\u2019s finally reached the point where he can send objects backwards through time. The only problem is, he doesn\u2019t know where the objects go. They don\u2019t show up in the past, and no one notices any changes to the present. Are they creating alternate time lines?To collect more data, Sam tries a clandestine experiment in a public park, late at night. But the experiment goes horribly wrong when Casey Wilson, a student at the university, stumbles into his isolation field. Sam tries to rescue her, but instead, he and Casey are transported back to the year 1906. Stuck in the past, cut off from everyone and everything they know, Sam and Casey work together to help each other survive. Then Casey meets Thomas Andrews, the man who will shortly begin to build the most famous ship since Noah\u2019s Ark. Should they warn him, changing the past and creating unknown consequences for the future? Or should they let him die?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Cultural (Ireland)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12775778-shipbuilder"}, +{"book_title": "Hyperion", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 196209, "review_number": 8549, "book_description": "On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope\u2014and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Horror", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion"}, +{"book_title": "Shift", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 73256, "review_number": 4487, "book_description": "In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity\u2019s broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the sequel to the New York Times bestselling WOOL series.Contains First Shift, Second Shift, and Third Shift.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17306293-shift"}, +{"book_title": "Raging Star", "author_name": "Moira Young", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 8166, "review_number": 1017, "book_description": "Her passion kept them alive. Now it may destroy them all.Saba is ready to seize her destiny and defeat DeMalo...until she meets him and finds herself drawn to the man and his vision of a healed earth, a New Eden. DeMalo wants Saba to join him, in life and work, to build a stable, sustainable world\u2026for the chosen few. The young and the healthy. Under his control.Jack\u2019s choice is clear: to fight DeMalo and try to stop New Eden. Presumed dead, he's gone undercover, feeding Saba crucial information in secret meetings. Saba hides her connection with DeMalo and commits herself to the fight. Joined by her brother, Lugh, and her sister, Emmi, Saba leads a small guerilla band against the settlers and the Tonton militia. But the odds are overwhelming. Saba knows how to fight\u2014she's not called the Angel of Death for nothing. But what can she do when the fight cannot be won? Then DeMalo offers Saba a chance\u2014a seductive chance she may not be able to refuse. How much will she sacrifice to save the people she loves?The road has never been more dangerous, and betrayal lurks in the most unexpected places in the breathtaking conclusion to the Dust Lands Trilogy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15835877-raging-star"}, +{"book_title": "The Philosopher Kings", "author_name": "Jo Walton", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2054, "review_number": 346, "book_description": "From acclaimed, award-winning author Jo Walton:\u00a0Philosopher Kings, a tale of gods and humans, and the surprising things they have to learn from one another. Twenty years have elapsed since the events of The Just City. The City, founded by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, organized on the principles espoused in Plato\u2019s Republic and populated by people from all eras of human history, has now split into five cities, and low-level armed conflict between them is not unheard-of. The god Apollo, living (by his own choice) a human life as \"Pythias\" in the City, his true identity known only to a few, is now married and the father of several children. But a tragic loss causes him to become consumed with the desire for revenge. Being Apollo, he goes handling it in a seemingly rational and systematic way, but it\u2019s evident, particularly to his precocious daughter Arete, that he is unhinged with grief.Along with Arete and several of his sons, plus a boatload of other volunteers--including the now fantastically aged Marsilio Ficino, the great humanist of Renaissance Florence--Pythias/Apollo goes sailing into the mysterious Eastern Mediterranean of pre-antiquity to see what they can find\u2014possibly the man who may have caused his great grief, possibly communities of the earliest people to call themselves \"Greek.\" What Apollo, his daughter, and the rest of the expedition will discover\u2026will change everything.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Philosophy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168762-the-philosopher-kings"}, +{"book_title": "Changing Nature", "author_name": "April White", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 1605, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "Immortal Descendants are disappearing one by one, and seventeen-year-old Clocker Saira Elian is next on the list\u2026Saira and Archer\u2019s London summer is carefree and romantic, until a brazen attempt to capture Saira looks suspiciously like the handiwork of the Descendants of War. When the kidnappings of other Descendants come to light and Mr. Shaw is taken for questioning under threat to his family, Saira realizes that for herself and young Shifter Connor, Time is the only refuge.But one danger is merely exchanged for another. Believing that their time-warping nemesis Bishop Wilder may have fled Elizabethan England for medieval France, Saira and her friends emerge onto the gloomy streets of Paris in 1429 to find it besieged by marauding wolves. When they encounter an illiterate peasant girl, whose deeds as Joan of Arc are extolled in an obscure sixteenth century book, but are unknown in their modern history, they realize the wolves may be the least of their problems. As Saira, Archer, and Ringo reunite to track down Wilder, they are faced with increasing evidence that time has been split and history altered. Crossing the time stream to repair it drops them in the heart of a battle, where friends are enemies, and foes are lethal. And in a fight for their lives, they encounter an old friend to whom Time as not been kind. To help him heal and end the deadly game of cat and mouse with Wilder once and for all, Saira must confront her greatest challenge yet: the truth about her changing Nature.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27406008-changing-nature"}, +{"book_title": "A Long, Long Sleep", "author_name": "Anna Sheehan", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 7282, "review_number": 1183, "book_description": "Rosalinda had been asleep for 62 years when she was woken by a kiss. Locked away in slumber, the 16-year-old Rose slept straight through dark times that killed millions and utterly changed the world. Hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire, she is thrust alone into a dangerous future.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7766070-a-long-long-sleep"}, +{"book_title": "Legacy of the Clockwork Key", "author_name": "Kristin Bailey", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1479, "review_number": 223, "book_description": "When a fire consumes Meg\u2019s home, killing her parents and destroying both her fortune and her future, all she has left is the tarnished pocket watch she rescued from the ashes. But this is no ordinary timepiece. The clock turns out to be a mechanical key\u2014a key that only Meg can use\u2014that unlocks a series of deadly secrets and intricate clues that Meg is compelled to follow.Together with the handsome stable hand she barely knows but hopes she can trust, Meg is swept into a hidden world of deception, betrayal, and revenge, uncovering evidence of an elite secret society and a dangerous invention that some will stop at nothing to protect.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13629923-legacy-of-the-clockwork-key"}, +{"book_title": "Curious Notions", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 570, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "In a parallel-world 21st-century San Francisco where the Kaiser's Germany won World War One and went on to dominate the world, Paul Gomes and his father Lawrence are secret agents for our timeline, posing as traders from a foreign land. They run a storefront shop called Curious Notions, selling what is in our world routine consumer technology-record players, radios, cassette decks--all of which is better than anything in this world, but only by a bit. Their real job is to obtain raw materials for our timeline. Just as importantly, they must guard the secret of Crosstime Traffic--for of the millions of parallel timelines, this is one of the few advanced enough to use that secret against us.Now, however, the German occupation police are harassing them. They want to know where they're getting their mysterious goods. Under pressure, Paul and Lawrence hint that their supplies comes from San Francisco's Chinese...setting in motion a chain of intrigues that will put the entire enterprise of Crosstime Traffic at deadly risk.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101633.Curious_Notions"}, +{"book_title": "Possession", "author_name": "Elana Johnson", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 9531, "review_number": 1244, "book_description": "Vi knows the Rule: Girls don't walk with boys, and they never even think about kissing them. But no one makes Vi want to break the Rules more than Zenn ... and since the Thinkers have chosen him as Vi's future match, how much trouble can one kiss cause? The Thinkers may have brainwashed the rest of the population, but Vi is determined to think for herself.But the Thinkers are unusually persuasive, and they're set on convincing Vi to become one of them ... starting by brainwashing Zenn. Vi can't leave Zenn in the Thinkers' hands, but she's wary of joining the rebellion, especially since that means teaming up with Jag. Jag is egotistical, charismatic, and dangerous\u2014everything Zenn's not. Vi can't quite trust Jag and can't quite resist him, but she also can't give up on Zenn.This is a game of control or be controlled. And Vi has no choice but to play.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8337087-possession"}, +{"book_title": "Rayzor's One", "author_name": "Michele Mills", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1000, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "Rayzor of Twelve, a lonely Bounty Hunter banished from his home world, is determined to follow his mission parameters: He must extract his target from a primitive planet called Earth with zero human casualties. His plan unfolds with precision, until a human female gets in the way. Rebecca doesn\u2019t understand what the hell is happening. One moment she\u2019s scared and alone in the spooky forest. Then a seven foot tall alien warrior is gazing at her with dark passion, his clawed hands touching her reverently. He\u2019s kissing her, claiming her and saying, his voice hoarse with emotion\u2014that she is his Bride. His Bride? Wtf? This stranger is swoon-worthy, but\u2026She doesn\u2019t know his name, or what species he is and he\u2019s kidnapped her, thrown her on his goddamn spaceship and now she\u2019s speeding away from Earth to parts unknown. And he expects her to fall into his arms? Oh hell, no. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Novella", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33271221-rayzor-s-one"}, +{"book_title": "Destroy All Robots", "author_name": "Darrin Grimwood", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 8, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Fifteen year old inventor Toby Badernoch has noble plans for the $10,000,000 prize money - finding a cure for Matt, his terminally ill brother. But his robot is targeted by arch-rival Ray De Coza with lethal consequences. The sabotaged robot rampages, slaughtering the show\u2019s presenter and forcing the TV crew to pull out, leaving the competitors and their super-aggressive robots stranded on the booby-trapped island. Mutual mistrust leads to violence and soon Toby and his best friend, Caitlin Steel are fighting for their lives\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17259394-destroy-all-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Pandemonium", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 221361, "review_number": 14780, "book_description": "The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and \ufb02ame. In this electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller Delirium, Lauren Oliver sets Lena on a dangerous course that hurtles through the unregulated Wilds and into the heart of a growing resistance movement. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Love"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9593911-pandemonium"}, +{"book_title": "The Culture: Consider Phlebas/Player of Games/Use of Weapons", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 426, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the first three bestselling Culture novels are now gathered into one collectible boxed set.CONSIDER PHLEBAS.The war raged across the galaxy. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.THE PLAYER OF GAMES.The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life -- and very possibly his death.USE OF WEAPONS.The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13701729-the-culture"}, +{"book_title": "Top 10, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 9616, "review_number": 254, "book_description": "This is the tale of Neopolis, a modern metropolis with a citizentry made up exclusively of super beings. In a city where everyone is blessed with powers, it takes a unique and powerful police force to protect and serve. In this Eisner Award-winning book, we are introduced to the extremely diverse officers of Precinct Ten; an armored and talking dog, a genetically engineered \"perfect woman,\" a high tech cowboy, an indestructible man, and a rookie with a toy box full of \"helpers.\" Individually they are unique personalities, together they are Neopolis' finest.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/598638.Top_10_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "The Soldier", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2699, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity\u2019s Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations.\u00a0Neither the Polity or the prador want the other in full control of the disc, so they\u2019ve placed an impartial third party in charge of the weapons platform guarding the technology from escaping into the galaxy: Orlandine, a part-human, part-AI haiman. She\u2019s assisted by Dragon, a mysterious, spaceship-sized alien entity who has long been suspicious of Jain technology and who suspects the disc is a trap lying-in-wait.\u00a0Meanwhile, the android Angel is planning an attack on the Polity, and is searching for a terrible weapon to carry out his plans: a Jain super-soldier. But what exactly the super-soldier is, and what it could be used for if it fell into the wrong hands, will bring Angel and Orlandine\u2019s missions to a head in a way that could forever change the balance of power in the Polity universe.\u00a0In\u00a0The Soldier, British science fiction writer Neal Asher kicks off another Polity-based trilogy in signature fashion, concocting a mind-melting plot filled with far-future technology, lethal weaponry, and bizarre alien creations.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35667856-the-soldier"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Sun", "author_name": "K.D. Edwards", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3476, "review_number": 733, "book_description": "Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home.With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune's Court. In looking for Addam, can Rune find the truth behind his family's death and the torments of his past?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36466732-the-last-sun"}, +{"book_title": "CookieBot!: A Harry and Horsie Adventure", "author_name": "Katie Van Camp", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 220, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "The Problem: Harry and Horsie want cookies, but the jar is way out of reach.The Solution: Build CookieBot--the most amazing cookie-grabbing robot ever!What could go wrong?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10585139-cookiebot"}, +{"book_title": "Rebellion", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 4582, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "REBELLION is the turning point in the great interstellar war between all living creatures and the machines. Star Force is on the side of the machines--but for how long? In the third book of the Star Force series, Kyle Riggs learns just what kind of war Earth is caught up in. At the mercy of the Macros, his marines fight against new alien races, big and small. They battle the innocent and the vile alike, until their situation becomes grim.REBELLION is a military science fiction novel by bestselling author B. V. Larson.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12438044-rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 755, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "David Fisher, a humble but dedicated bureaucrat of the Environmental Perfection Agency finds that an evil ancient deity (the sort that likes human sacrifices) is about to take over L.A. -- unless he can stop it", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Humor", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101555.The_Case_of_the_Toxic_Spell_Dump"}, +{"book_title": "Lucifer's Hammer", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 40845, "review_number": 1480, "book_description": "THE LUCKY ONES WENT FIRST\u2026The gigantic comet has slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilizationBut for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival\u2014a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known\u2026.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218467.Lucifer_s_Hammer"}, +{"book_title": "Fight Club", "author_name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 509670, "review_number": 14891, "book_description": "Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation\u2019s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club\u2019s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight \"as long as they have to.\" This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fiction", "Contemporary", "Classics", "Thriller", "Novels", "Mystery", "Adult", "Literature", "Literature (American)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236124-fight-club"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Rises", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 49596, "review_number": 3431, "book_description": "Atlanta is a city plagued by magical problems. Kate Daniels will fight to solve them\u2014no matter the cost. Mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate, Curran, the Beast Lord, are struggling to solve a heartbreaking crisis. Unable to control their beasts, many of the Pack\u2019s shapeshifting children fail to survive to adulthood. While there is a medicine that can help, the secret to its making is closely guarded by the European packs, and there\u2019s little available in Atlanta. Kate can\u2019t bear to watch innocents suffer, but the solution she and Curran have found threatens to be even more painful. The European shapeshifters who once outmaneuvered the Beast Lord have asked him to arbitrate a dispute\u2014and they\u2019ll pay him in medicine. With the young people\u2019s survival and the Pack\u2019s future at stake, Kate and Curran know they must accept the offer\u2014but they have little doubt that they\u2019re heading straight into a trap\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11544421-magic-rises"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace", "author_name": "Douglas Rushkoff", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 345, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The digital age will always be marked by the spirit of its first emergence, and the tension from the very first between corporate high-tech and the appropriation of information technologies by the counter-culture. Cyberia is an ideas-led, exuberant documentary written in 1994 about the converging strands of this new era, the empowerments of cyber-technology and the emergent hacker and cyber milieu.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Science", "Cultural", "Sociology", "Philosophy", "Computers (Internet)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627994.Cyberia"}, +{"book_title": "City of Saints and Madmen", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 5434, "review_number": 486, "book_description": "In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you\u2019ve ever visited\u2013an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading\u2013and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he\u2019s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he\u2019s really from a place called Chicago.\u2026By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and \u201ceyewitness\u201d reports invokes a universe within a puzzlebox where you can lose\u2013and find\u2013yourself again.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230852.City_of_Saints_and_Madmen"}, +{"book_title": "Aftermath", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3307, "review_number": 298, "book_description": "DEAD HEROES GET MONUMENTS. LIVE ONES GET TRIALS.Sirantha Jax has the right genes\u2014ones that enable her to \u201cjump\u201d faster-than-light ships through grimspace. But it\u2019s also in her genetic makeup to go it alone. It\u2019s a character trait that has gotten her into\u2014and out of\u2014hot water time and time again, but now she\u2019s caused one of the most horrific events in military history\u2026During the war against murderous, flesh-eating aliens, Sirantha went AWOL and shifted grimspace beacons to keep the enemy from invading humanity\u2019s homeworld. The cost of her actions: the destruction of modern interstellar travel\u2014and the lives of six hundred Conglomerate soldiers.Accused of dereliction of duty, desertion, mass murder, and high treason, Sirantha is on trial for her life. And only time will tell if she\u2019s one of the Conglomerate\u2019s greatest heroes\u2014or most infamous criminals\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10648186-aftermath"}, +{"book_title": "Stalin's Hammer: Paris", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 305, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The future vs the past. History is at war with itself in this popular alternate history. The Soviet Union controls half of Europe and supreme dictator Joseph Stalin wants the rest. Only Prince Harry can stop him and the super weapon he has developed.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "War (Military Fiction)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29938128-stalin-s-hammer"}, +{"book_title": "We Are Legion (We Are Bob", "author_name": "Dennis E. Taylor", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 57238, "review_number": 4677, "book_description": "Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty. The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Humor", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32109569-we-are-legion-we-are-bob"}, +{"book_title": "Die Augen des Riggers (Shadowrun, #11", "author_name": "Hans Joachim Alpers", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 55, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Mitte des 21. Jahrhunderts: Nach der R\u00fcckkehr der Magie in die Welt hat sich auch Europa grundlegend ver\u00e4ndert. Deutschland ist zu einem losen Staatenbund zerfallen und Schauplatz globaler Machtk\u00e4mpfe von Konzernen. High-Tech-Zentren beherrschen den S\u00fcden, anarchistische Projekte dominieren Berlin und Hamburg, Slums wie der riesige Rhein-Ruhr-Sprawl sind chaotische Ballungszentren, daneben Ghettos aller Couleurs, ein Kirchenstaat Westphalen und ein Trollk\u00f6nigreich im Schwarzwald.Der Shadowrunner Pandur, alias Thor Walez, ist bei den Hovercraftpiraten der Nordsee untergeschl\u00fcpft und glaubt, den geheimnisvollen M\u00e4chten entkommen zu sein, die ihn manipuliert und gnadenlos gejagt haben. Aber die Vergangenheit holt ihn ein, als die Piraten vor der Arcologie Bremerhaven auf einen unbekannten Gegner treffen. Pandur sieht keinen anderen Weg, als in die Schatten zur\u00fcckzukehren, und l\u00e4\u00dft sich zusammen mit dem Rigger Festus und der Magierin Jessi f\u00fcr einen neuen Run in Hamburg verpflichten. Im Computer der m\u00e4chtigen AG Chemie st\u00f6\u00dft er auf brisante Daten, die der Megakon um jeden Preis geheimhalten will. Offenbar stehen die Daten im Zusammenhang mit den virenverseuchten Cyberaugen, die den Rigger in den Wahnsinn treiben. Gehetzt von alten und neuen Feinden, versuchen die Shadowrunner, dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Germany)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131329.Die_Augen_des_Riggers_Shadowrun_11_"}, +{"book_title": "True to the Highlander", "author_name": "Barbara Longley", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 4094, "review_number": 316, "book_description": "Treachery rules the Highlands of 1423. With their king captured by the English, Scottish nobles plot to ransom James behind the back of the brutal regent holding their land in his iron grip. But not every clan wishes to see King James back on his throne\u2026Sitting atop this powder keg of bloodthirsty rivalries, Malcolm of clan MacKintosh takes the mysterious, lone maiden he finds along his road as a bad omen\u2026though an undeniably beautiful one. When he attempts to save her from a rogue within his own garrison, she deftly brings Malcolm to his knees. Who is this willful lass who has so quickly laid siege to his heart?Alethia Goodsky has met all kinds working at the New York Renaissance Festival, but no one like the fortune-teller who tasks her with a cryptic life-saving mission and flings her into the fifteenth century. Now Alethia must rely on her wits to unravel the mystery in this violent land. Malcolm has sworn to protect her, but her gifts may soon make her his protector. With enemies closing in, Alethia must choose between finding a way home\u2026and remaining true to her Highlander.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18804249-true-to-the-highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Leaves on the Wind", "author_name": "Zack Whedon", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 4743, "review_number": 526, "book_description": "In the film Serenity, outlaw Malcolm Reynolds and his crew revealed to the entire \u2019verse the crimes against humanity undertaken by the sinister Alliance government. In this official follow-up, circumstances force the crew to come out of hiding, and one of their own is captured, setting them on another mission of rescue and resistance...Collects the six-issue miniseries and the 2012 Free Comic Book Day story.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21532236-leaves-on-the-wind"}, +{"book_title": "Undying", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2205, "review_number": 440, "book_description": "Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed. From the mountains of Spain to the streets of Prague, the sequel to Unearthed is a white-knuckle ride that will send readers hurtling back to earth, and leave them breathless until the last page.\nThe earth's fate rests in Mia and Jules's hands in the epic conclusion to New York Times best-selling authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner's tomb-raiding sci-fi duology.\n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Space", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26839798-undying"}, +{"book_title": "The Stepford Wives", "author_name": "Ira Levin", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 29846, "review_number": 2363, "book_description": "For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret\u2014a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Feminism", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52350.The_Stepford_Wives"}, +{"book_title": "The Doors of Eden", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1694, "review_number": 376, "book_description": "Lee\u2019s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for?When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate. This leads MI5\u2019s Julian Sabreur deep into terrifying new territory, where he clashes with mysterious agents of an unknown power \u00adwho may or may not be human. And Julian\u2019s only clue is some grainy footage \u00ad\u2013 showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor.Khan\u2019s extradimensional research was purely theoretical, until she found cracks between our world and countless others. Parallel Earths where monsters live. These cracks are getting wider every day, so who knows what might creep through? Or what will happen when those walls finally come crashing down...", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48643567-the-doors-of-eden"}, +{"book_title": "Crashcourse", "author_name": "Wilhelmina Baird", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 227, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Baird's stunning debut is the cybershock novel of the year. Dosh has sold his good looks once too often to rough customers. He's so desperate to get off the planet and start a new life that he persuades friends Moke and Cass to sign a cybercinema contract--a decision that proves to be as dangerous as it is lucrative.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939992.Crashcourse"}, +{"book_title": "Wicked as She Wants", "author_name": "Delilah S. Dawson", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 831, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "The second book in the darkly tempting Blud series, featuring a vampire princess who embarks upon a dangerous journey to claim what is rightfully hers.When Blud princess Ahnastasia wakes up, drained and starving in a suitcase, she\u2019s not sure which calls to her more: the sound of music or the scent of blood. The source of both sensations is a handsome and mysterious man named Casper Sterling. Once the most celebrated musician in London, Sangland, he\u2019s fallen on hard times. Now, much to Ahna\u2019s frustration, the debauched and reckless human is her only ticket back home to the snow-rimmed and magical land of Freesia.Together with Casper\u2019s prickly charge, a scrappy orphan named Keen, they seek passage to Ahna\u2019s homeland, where a power-hungry sorceress named Ravenna holds the royal family in thrall. Traveling from the back alleys of London to the sparkling minarets of Muscovy, Ahna discovers that Freesia holds new perils and dangerous foes. Back in her country, she is forced to choose between the heart she never knew she had and the land that she was born to rule. But with Casper\u2019s help, Ahna may find a way to have it all\u2026.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13635645-wicked-as-she-wants"}, +{"book_title": "T2: Rising Storm", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 589, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "\"Hunted for years, Sarah and John Connor have waged a grave battle to save humanity from destruction. They and they alone can keep the apocalyptic Judgment Day - the day when sentient machines move to destroy their human creators - from occurring. Aided by Dieter von Rossbach, an ex-counterterrorism operative who will eventually be used as the physical model for the T-101 Terminator units, the Connors have sabotaged the Cyberdyne research facility and stopped a deadly I-950 Infiltrator unit from completing her mission.\" \"But the war is far from over, and now the heroes have been separated.\" \"Severely injured - both mentally and physically - and recuperating under military surveillance, Sarah Connor must face her deepest fears...alone. Meanwhile, von Rossbach, hunted by both the CIA and his former allies, begins a delicate mission to recruit supporters and arms support for the coming battle.\" Aided by a beautiful and brilliant MIT student, John Connor starts a desperate campaign across the United States and Central America to prepare an unsuspecting human race for the dark times ahead. For the original I-950 Infiltrator unit left a contingency plan - and, unbeknownst to our heroes, more Infiltrators have initiated their own clandestine operations, including the hunt to terminate the Connors. And this time, despite all their efforts, the brave heroes may not be able to stop the future war between human and machine.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116443.T2"}, +{"book_title": "City of Savages", "author_name": "Lee Kelly", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2028, "review_number": 346, "book_description": "It has been nearly two decades since the breakout of the Third World War, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp ruled by island native Rolladin, who controls the city\u2019s survivors with an iron fist. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city\u2019s borders. But for Sky\u2019s younger sister, Phee, the Central Park POW camp is the only home she\u2019d ever want.When strangers arrive in the park, carrying a shocking message, Sky and Phee discover there\u2019s more to Manhattan\u2014and their family\u2014than either of them had imagined. As disturbing secrets about the island begin to surface, Sky and Phee have no choice but to break the rules to uncover the full truth of their long-shrouded history. When their search for answers erupts into violence, the girls must flee into Manhattan\u2019s depths, where their quest for a better future will force them to confront the island\u2019s dark and shocking past.Lee Kelly\u2019s gripping debut novel is a pulse-pounding journey through a city that\u2019s as strange as it is familiar, where nothing is black-and-white and buried secrets can haunt.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22556945-city-of-savages"}, +{"book_title": "The Bride Price", "author_name": "Tracey Jane Jackson", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1142, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "Is love timeless? Does only one true love exist for each person? Can the course of history be changed in order to save a future generation? Sophie Ford, awaiting a heart transplant, thought she was sleeping in the arms of her beloved husband, Jamie, however, she has woken to find herself in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1863, without explanation as to how she got there, or where her husband is. She finds refuge with a doctor and his family, but develops a volatile relationship with their neighbor, Richard Madden. His expectations become difficult to ignore, and Sophie must figure out a way to hold off his advances. When a soldier shows up looking identical to Jamie, but not knowing who she is, Sophie decides she must make him remember. Will her love for him help him remember? Will they rediscover their love in the new century, or will Richard threaten their chance to reunite? Will Sophie survive the threat against her life and destiny?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Military History (Civil War)", "Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8954848-the-bride-price"}, +{"book_title": "The Bad Beginning", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 413347, "review_number": 17134, "book_description": "Dear Reader,I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78411.The_Bad_Beginning"}, +{"book_title": "Rafa Was My Robot", "author_name": "Alexandra Dellevoet", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 32, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "A gentle tale of love, friendship, and loss. Rafa the robot goes everywhere with Jacob\u2014to swim lessons, to school, and even on trips to far-off places. One day, Rafa doesn\u2019t feel well, so Jacob takes him to the doctor. When the doctor explains that Rafa\u2019s special robot battery needs replacing, Jacob travels the world to find the right one. Sadly, he comes back empty-handed, and one day soon after, as Jacob holds Rafa\u2019s hand, his robot friend dies. Jacob is heartbroken, but he creates a memorial that helps him honor Rafa so that he is always close by. This quietly moving picture book will help young children through the difficult process of losing someone or something they love. Without diminishing the pain of losing a loved one, Rafa Was My Robot conveys a comforting message that by keeping them in your heart, they are never far away. With touches of whimsical humor, the softly colored illustrations on a sunny yellow background provide a warm and reassuring backdrop to this poignant story. Parents and educators will find it an invaluable resource when trying to explain death to young children.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Death", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21561035-rafa-was-my-robot"}, +{"book_title": "The Phantom Menace", "author_name": "Terry Brooks", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 16182, "review_number": 721, "book_description": "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring. Now the dark side of the Force threatens to overwhelm the light, and only an ancient Jedi prophecy stands between hope and doom for the entire galaxy.On the green, unspoiled world of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, arrive to protect the realm\u2019s young queen as she seeks a diplomatic solution to end the siege of her planet by Trade Federation warships. At the same time, on desert-swept Tatooine, a slave boy named Anakin Skywalker, who possesses a strange ability for understanding the \u201crightness\u201d of things, toils by day and dreams by night\u2014of becoming a Jedi Knight and finding a way to win freedom for himself and his beloved mother. It will be the unexpected meeting of Jedi, Queen, and a gifted boy that will mark the start of a drama that will become legend.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34941.The_Phantom_Menace"}, +{"book_title": "Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure", "author_name": "Georgia Byng", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 5813, "review_number": 200, "book_description": "Molly Moon meets . . . Molly Moon? In this third book in the wildly popular New York Times bestselling series, mesmerizing orphan Molly Moon and her fabulouspug, Petula, are off to India, where they discover a new twist in the potential power of hypnosis: time travel! With the book available in trade paperback for the first time, readers can experience Molly\u2019s adventure in an edition perfectly suited for time travel.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/799072.Molly_Moon_s_Hypnotic_Time_Travel_Adventure"}, +{"book_title": "Venturess", "author_name": "Betsy Cornwell", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 535, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Happily ever after is just the beginning.Nicolette\u2019s Cinderella story is over, and she\u2019s finally living her own fairy tale happy ending. She\u2019s a successful inventor now, free of her horrible stepfamily, and content in her loving friendship with Caro, a palace servant, and Fin, the prince of Esting.Then she receives a message from her long-lost housekeeper, now a revolutionary, begging her to bring the prince to Faerie for a diplomatic meeting. Nicolette fears a trap, but decides that the chance to end the bloody war waged by their kingdom is worth the risk.Together with Fin and Caro, she ventures across the monster-filled ocean to the lush continent she\u2019s always dreamed of visiting. There, mechanical armies and dark magic await as they uncover devastating secrets about the past and fight for a real, lasting happily-ever-after for two troubled countries\u2014and themselves.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Retellings", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30971784-venturess"}, +{"book_title": "Lyra's Oxford", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 22665, "review_number": 1307, "book_description": "Lyra's Oxford begins with Lyra and Pantalaimon spotting a witch's d\u00e6mon. Lyra shelters the daemon from the pursuit of a frenzied pack of birds, and then attempts to help by guiding the daemon to the home of an alchemist living in a part of Oxford known as Jericho. The journey through Oxford reveals more dangers than Lyra had anticipated.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Childrens", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/531197.Lyra_s_Oxford"}, +{"book_title": "The Better Part of Valor", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 5051, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhat happens when a staff sergeant questions a two-star general's parentage to his face? Torin Kerr discovers the answer in Tanya Huff's much-anticipated sequel to Valor's Choice.Separated from her company, Kerr is ordered to report to a top-secret reconnaissance mission, either as punishment for her quick mouth or praise for her service. Kerr must turn a ragtag group of Marines into a cohesive fighting unit in a matter of days, while maneuvering through the murky political waters of the Confederation.Huff's vivid creation of alien species and how they interact gives this novel a tangibility rarely found in futuristic SF. Fast-paced action and quick-witted quips create the intimate feeling of camaraderie that is necessary for any good military tale. Staff Sergeant Kerr's character maintains steely control in the toughest situations, a heroine cut from the same cloth as P.I. Vicki Nelson from Huff's Blood Price series. (S.A.)", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338128.The_Better_Part_of_Valor"}, +{"book_title": "On a Red Station, Drifting", "author_name": "Aliette de Bodard", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1461, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station\u2019s artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to its human relatives.But war has come to the Dai Viet Empire. Prosper\u2019s brightest minds have been called away to defend the Emperor; and a flood of disorientated refugees strain the station\u2019s resources. As deprivations cause the station\u2019s ordinary life to unravel, uncovering old grudges and tearing apart the decimated family, Station Mistress Quyen and the Honoured Ancestress struggle to keep their relatives united and safe. What Quyen does not know is that the Honoured Ancestress herself is faltering, her mind eaten away by a disease that seems to have no cure; and that the future of the station itself might hang in the balance\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17182955-on-a-red-station-drifting"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf's Bane", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 569, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "The Commonwealth has won a great victory, smashing Wolfbane\u2019s attempt to take Corinthian and driving Admiral Singh\u2019s forces back into enemy space. Now, as the Wolves reel under the impact of their defeat - and powerful factions plot to take control of the government and military - Edward Stalker plans a final offensive to bring the Wolves to their knees. But as mighty fleets clash in the inky darkness of space, infiltrators struggle to weaken a tottering edifice and both sides brace for the final confrontation, it all comes down to the last Terran Marines and a battle that will determine if the galaxy is to be united once again ... ... Or thrown headlong back into a new Dark Age. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35095831-wolf-s-bane"}, +{"book_title": "Furious", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2109, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Having used unorthodox methods to save a world\u2014and every sentient being on it\u2014Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife is wanted across the galaxy for crimes against humanity. For her own safety, she\u2019s been assigned to a backwater planet where her Fast Patrol Squadron 127 enforces immigration control and smuggler interdiction. But Kris is a Longknife, and nothing can stop her from getting back to the center of things\u2014not when all hell is breaking loose. Now she\u2019s on the run, hunted by both military and civilian authorities\u2014and since the civilian authorities happen to be her immediate family, Kris soon finds herself homeless, broke, and on trial for her life on an alien world\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13496618-furious"}, +{"book_title": "The Cobalt Prince", "author_name": "Mark Siegel", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1542, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "5 Worlds. 3 Unlikely Heroes. 1 Epic Battle for the Galaxy!Oona Lee surprised everyone\u2013including herself\u2013when she lit the first beacon to save the Five Worlds from extinction. Can she light the other four beacons in time? Next stop, Toki! On the blue planet, Oona must face the sister who left her, and bring to light the Cobalt Prince\u2019s dark secrets. Meanwhile, An Tzu is fading away as his mysterious illness gets worse. Will it stop him from joining the fight? Or will his unique magic be just what the team needs?And Jax Amboy is a hero on the starball field, but in a moment of real danger, will he risk everything to save his friends?Oona must rely on some surprising new allies in order to stop a terrible plot from unfolding and continue her quest across the 5 WORLDS!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35175969-the-cobalt-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Diaspora", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 7216, "review_number": 580, "book_description": "By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyond earth and beyond the confines of the vulnerable human frame.The descendants of centuries of scientific, cultural and physical development divide into three: fleshers \u2014 true Homo sapiens; Gleisner robots \u2014 embodying human minds within machines that interact with the physical world; and polises \u2014 supercomputers teeming with intelligent software, containing the direct copies of billions of human personalities now existing only in the virtual reality of the polis.Diaspora is the story of Yatima \u2014 a polis being created from random mutations of the Konishi polis base mind seed \u2014 and of humankind, Of an astrophysical accident that spurs the thousandfold cloning of the polises. Of the discovery of an alien race and of a kink in time that means humanity \u2014 whatever form it takes \u2014 will never again be threatened by acts of God.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Literature", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora"}, +{"book_title": "Sister Katherine", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 682, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The Earth/Kalquor War seems far away to Sister Katherine and the nuns of the convent on Europa. That changes in an instant when an enemy spyship arrives and invades the tiny moon colony. Katherine\u2019s world is torn apart when she learns she is to become the mate to a clan of three fierce Kalquorian men. How can she save herself or the convent\u2019s children from their conquerors when her body, heart, and soul cries out for the blasphemous touch of her captors? How can it be that her peoples\u2019 sworn enemy is her only chance for true salvation?**Sister Katherine is the companion story to the bestselling 'Alien Conquest', Clans of Kalquor Book 3.Warning: Suitable for 18+ only.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18072424-sister-katherine"}, +{"book_title": "Bluescreen", "author_name": "Dan Wells", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2244, "review_number": 453, "book_description": "Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. One of those connections is a djinni\u2014a smart device implanted right in a person\u2019s head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen\u2014and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it.Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirador, the small, vibrant LA neighborhood where her family owns a restaurant, but she lives on the net\u2014going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. And it\u2019s Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen\u2014a virtual drug that plugs right into a person\u2019s djinni and delivers a massive, non-chemical, completely safe high. But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that is much bigger than they ever suspected.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Futuristic", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20499652-bluescreen"}, +{"book_title": "Girls with Sharp Sticks", "author_name": "Suzanne Young", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 6944, "review_number": 1470, "book_description": "The Girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved\u2014it says so on their report cards. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardians, the all-girl boarding school offers an array of studies and activities, from \u201cGrowing a Beautiful and Prosperous Garden\u201d to \u201cArt Appreciation\u201d and \u201cInterior Design.\u201d The girls learn to be the best society has to offer. Absent is the difficult math coursework, or the unnecessary sciences or current events. They are obedient young ladies, free from arrogance or defiance. Until Mena starts to realize that their carefully controlled existence may not be quite as it appears.As Mena and her friends begin to uncover the dark secrets of what\u2019s actually happening there\u2014and who they really are\u2014the girls of Innovations will find out what they are truly capable of. Because some of the prettiest flowers have the sharpest thorns.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Feminism", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36442895-girls-with-sharp-sticks"}, +{"book_title": "Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work", "author_name": "Guy Haley", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 553, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "\nWarhammer 40,000 fans rejoice - Belisarius Cawl has his own novel! Join him on his journey to the abandoned world of Sotha which hides a long-buried secret\u2026 and an ancient evil.\nBelisarius Cawl, Archmagos Dominus of the Adeptus Mechanicus is the most brilliant mind alive. For 10,000 years he has furthered the cause of mankind, working under the aegis of the Emperor and Lord Commander Roboute Guilliman to prevent the inexorable march of the alien and the traitor. Many call him heretic, but all must recognise the magnitude of his achievements, for who else but he was entrusted to create a new generation of Space Marines? Who else but the great Belisarius Cawl could even accomplish such a task? Now, in the wake of the Great Rift and the Indomitus Crusade, his ambitions bring him to the long-dead world of Sotha, once home to the Scythes of the Emperor, now a barren wasteland devoured by the vile Tyranids. Accompanied by Tetrarch Felix and his elite warriors, it is here that Cawl believes the lynchpin of his mysterious Great Work lies. But uncovering it is a near impossible task, one in which the Archmagos must overcome an ancient evil that threatens to extinguish the last hope of humanity. \u00a0", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51085980-belisarius-cawl"}, +{"book_title": "Linked", "author_name": "Imogen Howson", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2839, "review_number": 371, "book_description": "Elissa used to have it all: looks, popularity, and a bright future. But for the last three years, she\u2019s been struggling with terrifying visions, phantom pains, and mysterious bruises that appear out of nowhere. Finally, she\u2019s promised a cure: minor surgery to burn out the overactive area of her brain. But on the eve of the procedure, she discovers the shocking truth behind her hallucinations: she\u2019s been seeing the world through another girl\u2019s eyes. Elissa follows her visions, and finds a battered, broken girl on the run. A girl\u2014Lin\u2014who looks exactly like Elissa, down to the matching bruises. The twin sister she never knew existed. Now, Elissa and Lin are on the run from a government who will stop at nothing to reclaim Lin and protect the dangerous secrets she could expose\u2014secrets that would shake the very foundation of their world. Riveting, thought-provoking and utterly compelling, Linked will make you question what it really means to be human.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14999965-linked"}, +{"book_title": "Little Women and Me", "author_name": "Lauren Baratz-Logsted", "rating_score": 3.02, "rating_votes": 1016, "review_number": 249, "book_description": "Emily March is sick and tired of being a middle sister. So when she gets an assignment to describe one thing she'd change about a classic novel, Little Women is an easy choice. After all, if Emily can't fix things in her own family, she might as well bring a little justice to the other March sisters. Perhaps she can--spoiler alert!--keep Beth from dying? Or maybe she can prevent the boy next door from winding up with Amy instead of Jo?But when Emily gets mysteriously transported into the 1860s world of the March sisters, she discovers that righting fictional wrongs won't be as easy as she thought... especially when she develops a crush on the very boy she planned to save for Jo. After being immersed in a time and place so different from her own, Emily--and not the March sisters--may be the one who undergoes the most surprising change of all.Lauren Baratz-Logsted's winning confection is a journey of self-discovery that will appeal to fans of Little Women as well as anyone who enjoys time travel or a modern twist on an old favorite.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Historical", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9583143-little-women-and-me"}, +{"book_title": "Astounding Science-Fiction, October 1941", "author_name": "John W. Campbell Jr.", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 965, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Contents:Documents for Tomorrow / essay by John W. Campbell Jr.By His Bootstraps / by Robert A. Heinlein (writing as Anson MacDonald); interior artwork by Hubert RogersIn Times to Come / essay by The EditorThe Analytical Laboratory: August 1941 / essay by The EditorNot Final! (Jovians #1) / by Isaac Asimov; interior artwork by KollikerThe Sea King's Armored Division (Part 2 of 2) / essay by L. Sprague de CampManic Perverse / by Winston K. Marks; interior artwork by Frank KramerTwo Percent Inspiration / by Theodore Sturgeon; interior artwork by Hubert RogersCommon Sense / by Robert A. Heinlein; interior artwork by Paul OrbanBrass Tacks / essay by The EditorLetters / P. Schuyler Miller; Paul A. Carter; and E. Everett Evans", "year_published": 1941, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13101981-astounding-science-fiction-october-1941"}, +{"book_title": "The Becoming", "author_name": "Jessica Meigs", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1193, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "The Michaluk Virus is loose. In the heart of Atlanta, Georgia, the Michaluk Virus has escaped the CDC, and its effects are widespread and devastating. Most of the population of the southeastern United States have become homicidal cannibals. As society rapidly crumbles under the hordes of infected, three people-Ethan Bennett, a Memphis police officer; Cade Alton, his best friend and former IDF sharpshooter; and Brandt Evans, a lieutenant in the US Marines-band together against the oncoming crush of death and terror sweeping across the world. As Cade, Brandt, and Ethan hole up in a safe house in Tupelo, others begin to join them in their bid for survival. When the infected attack and they're forced to flee, one departs to Memphis in search of answers while the others escape south to Biloxi, where they encounter more danger than they bargained for. And in Memphis, the answers that one man finds are the last answers he wanted, answers that herald a horrific possibility that there may be more to this virus than first suspected.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11299874-the-becoming"}, +{"book_title": "The Last One", "author_name": "Alexandra Oliva", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 13102, "review_number": 2469, "book_description": "Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva\u2019s fast-paced novel of suspense.She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens\u2014but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it human-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of them\u2014a young woman the show\u2019s producers call Zoo\u2014stumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game. Alone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the life\u2014and husband\u2014she left behind, but she refuses to quit. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all her survival skills\u2014and learn new ones as she goes. But as her emotional and physical reserves dwindle, she grasps that the real world might have been altered in terrifying ways\u2014and her ability to parse the charade will be either her triumph or her undoing. Sophisticated and provocative, The Last One is a novel that forces us to confront the role that media plays in our perception of what is real: how readily we cast our judgments, how easily we are manipulated.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Suspense", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27245997-the-last-one"}, +{"book_title": "The Water Cure", "author_name": "Sophie Mackintosh", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 18695, "review_number": 2529, "book_description": "The Handmaid\u2019s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men.King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. He has laid the barbed wire; he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: Do not enter. Or viewed from another angle: Not safe to leave. Here women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world.But when their father, the only man they\u2019ve ever seen, disappears, they retreat further inward until the day three strange men wash ashore. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological cat-and-mouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent. Can they survive the men?A haunting, riveting debut about the capacity for violence and the potency of female desire, The Water Cure both devastates and astonishes as it reflects our own world back at us.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Feminism", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39335566-the-water-cure"}, +{"book_title": "Moving Mars", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 6986, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "\n\nMoving Mars is a story of human courage and love set within the greater saga of a planetary liberation movement. Mars is a colonial world, governed by corporate interests on Earth. The citizens of Mars are hardworking, but held back by their lack of access to the best education, and the desire of the Earthly powers to keep the best new inventions for themselves. The young Martians -- the second and third generations born on Mars -- have little loyalty to Earth, and a strong belief that their planet can be independent. The revolution begins slowly, but will grow in power over decades of political struggle until it becomes irresistible.\n \nTold through the eyes of an extraordinary character, Casseia Majumdar, a daughter of one of Mars' oldest, most conservative Binding Multiples, Moving Mars is Greg Bear's brilliant conception of the human colonization of the red planet, with lovingly painted details and a grand historical sweep, embellishing an audacious scientific speculation.\n\n", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Own", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/340816.Moving_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Norby Finds a Villain", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 60, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "\"The Norby Series is shaping up to be one that appeals not only to middle-grade youngsters, but also to their older brothers and sisters\". -- V. BL, KR, SLJ.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232665.Norby_Finds_a_Villain"}, +{"book_title": "Alive", "author_name": "Scott Sigler", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 9248, "review_number": 1745, "book_description": "I open my eyes to darkness. Total darkness. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else. I lift my head\u2026it thumps against something solid and unmoving. There is a board right in front of my face. No, not a board\u2026a lid.A teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. She has no idea who she is, where she is, or how she got there. Fighting her way free brings little relief\u2014she discovers only a room lined with caskets and a handful of equally mystified survivors. Beyond their room lies a corridor filled with bones and dust, but no people\u2026and no answers.She knows only one thing about herself\u2014her name, M. Savage, which was engraved on the foot of her coffin\u2014yet she finds herself in charge. She is not the biggest among them, or the boldest, but for some reason the others trust her. Now, if they\u2019re to have any chance, she must get them to trust one another.Whatever the truth is, she is determined to find it and confront it. If she has to lead, she will make sure they survive. Maybe there's a way out, a rational explanation, and a fighting chance against the dangers to come. Or maybe a reality they cannot comprehend lies just beyond the next turn.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23278532-alive"}, +{"book_title": "Virgins", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 13184, "review_number": 842, "book_description": "A young Jamie Fraser learns what it really means to become a man in this Outlander prequel novella. Featuring all the trademark suspense, adventure, and history of Diana Gabaldon\u2019s #1 bestselling novels and the Starz original series, Virgins is now available for the first time as a standalone ebook. \u00a0 Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside, where he reconnects with his old friend Ian Murray. Both are nursing wounds; both have good reason to stay out of Scotland; and both are still virgins, despite several opportunities to remedy that deplorable situation with ladies of easy virtue. But Jamie\u2019s love life becomes infinitely more complicated\u2014and dangerous\u2014when fate brings the young men into the service of Dr. Hasdi, a Jewish gentleman who hires them to escort two priceless treasures to Paris. One is an old Torah; the other is the doctor\u2019s beautiful daughter, Rebekah, destined for an arranged marriage. Both Jamie and Ian are instantly drawn to the bride-to-be\u2014but they might be more cautious if they had any idea who they\u2019re truly dealing with.Note: Originally published as part of the Dangerous Women anthology.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29219252-virgins"}, +{"book_title": "The City of Shells", "author_name": "Evan Dahm", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 46, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Order of Tales is an atmospheric adventure comic set in a world called Overside.Teller Koark, the last member of an ancient society of story-collectors, has been given the task of finding one story whose importance will surpass all others. In seeking the Ascent of the Bone Ziggurat, Koark finds instead a strange being made of glass, and becomes involved in a secret conflict involving a centuries-old Machine Man, Black-bird warrior, and thousands of years of violent history.This book contains the first five chapters of the story as originally published online, and extra material.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8549614-the-city-of-shells"}, +{"book_title": "Implied Spaces", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1278, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself. Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmesssa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Own", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2059573.Implied_Spaces"}, +{"book_title": "Mostly Harmless", "author_name": "Douglas Adams", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 113755, "review_number": 2672, "book_description": "It\u2019s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit\u2013and immediately all hell breaks loose.Hell takes a number of forms: there\u2019s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn\u2019t even know he had one.Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/569429.Mostly_Harmless"}, +{"book_title": "The Hydrogen Sonata", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 20152, "review_number": 1247, "book_description": "The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago.It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Cultural", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Banking (Banks)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497991-the-hydrogen-sonata"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers Generation One, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Chris Sarrachini", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 42, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "It's the triumphant return of Transformers. Long thought dead by the inhabitants of Earth, we discover that the classic metal warriors of Generation 1 are far from gone. But where have they been for so long and why only now have they chosen to return? And who is the mysterious man called Lazarus and what is his plan? ", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/888297.Transformers_Generation_One_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "State of Decay: Part One", "author_name": "Peggy Martinez", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 355, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Despite what you\u2019ve been told, the Apocalypse doesn\u2019t begin with fire raining down from the heavens, nor does it begin with the human race falling down on their faces in supplication before a triumphant god. No, the sounds of the Apocalypse are much more terrifying than that, and I should know \u2026 I\u2019ve heard them, and hearing the world tumble into chaos around me is not something I\u2019ll ever forget.My name is Melody Carter.A Boeing 767 fell from the sky and wiped out most of my neighborhood.But, that's the least of my worries.My list of \"Things I'm Most Worried About\" shifted dramatically when my dad told me that charred corpses tried to make a meal out of their rescuers ... I'm thinking yours would too.This is the beginning of my story.It's not for the faint of heart.*** This is PART ONE in the ongoing zombie apocalypse novella series, State of Decay. A new story will be released every 3-4 weeks, until Melody's story has been told. This novella is approximately 20,000 words. (About 80+/- pages long) ********* Warning: This book is for mature/NA/Adult Readers. This novella contains: tons of violence, lots of action, gobs of gore, and oodles of bad language. Enter at your own risk. ******", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Short Stories", "Thriller", "Suspense", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18404528-state-of-decay"}, +{"book_title": "If I Built a Car", "author_name": "Chris Van Dusen", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 2565, "review_number": 356, "book_description": "If I built a car, it'd be totally new!Here are a few of the things that I'd do. . . .Young Jack is giving an eye-opening tour of the car he'd like to build. There's a snack bar, a pool, and even a robot named Robert to act as chauffeur. With Jack's soaring imagination in the driver's seat, we're deep-sea diving one minute and flying high above traffic the next in this whimsical, tantalizing take on the car of the future. Illustrations packed with witty detail, bright colors, and chrome recall the fabulous fifties and an era of classic American automobiles. Infectious rhythm and clever invention make this wonderful read-aloud a launch pad for imaginative fun.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Transport (Cars)", "Transport", "Science Fiction", "Poetry", "Fantasy", "Kids", "Humor", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1220282.If_I_Built_a_Car"}, +{"book_title": "The Engineer", "author_name": "C.S. Poe", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 473, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "1881\u2014Special Agent Gillian Hamilton is a magic caster with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam. He\u2019s sent to Shallow Grave, Arizona, to arrest a madman engineer known as Tinkerer, who\u2019s responsible for blowing up half of Baltimore. Gillian has handled some of the worst criminals in the Bureau\u2019s history, so this assignment shouldn\u2019t be a problem. But even he\u2019s taken aback by a run-in with the country\u2019s most infamous outlaw, Gunner the Deadly.Gunner is also stalking Shallow Grave in search of Tinkerer, who will stop at nothing to take control of the town\u2019s silver mines. Neither Gillian nor Gunner are willing to let Tinkerer hurt more innocent people, so they agree to a very temporary partnership.If facing illegal magic, Gatling gun contraptions, and a wild engineer in America\u2019s frontier wasn\u2019t enough trouble for a city boy, Gillian must also come to terms with the reality that he\u2019s rather fond of his partner. But even if they live through this adventure, Gillian fears there\u2019s no chance for love between a special agent and outlaw.Based on the short story, \"Gunner the Deadly.\" Entirely revised, newly expanded, and Book One in the exciting new steampunk series, Magic & Steam.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48612064-the-engineer"}, +{"book_title": "Girl Genius Omnibus Volume 1: Agatha Awakens", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 928, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Girl Genius, the multiple Hugo Award\u2013winning steampunk webcomic by Phil and Kaja Foglio, now collected in hardcover!The Industrial Revolution has become all-out war! Mad Scientists, gifted with the Spark of genius, unleash insane inventions on an unprepared Europe. For centuries, the Heterodyne family of inventors kept the peace, but the last Heterodyne disappeared twenty years ago, leaving their ally Baron Klaus Wulfenbach to maintain order with his fleet of airships and army of unstoppable, if not very bright, Jaeger Monsters.At Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay dreams of being a scientist herself, but her trouble concentrating dooms her to be a lowly minion at best. When her locket, a family heirloom, is stolen, Agatha shows signs of having the Spark in a spectacular, destructive fashion and captures the attention of the Baron\u2014and the Baron's handsome young son, Gilgamesh.Swept up to the Baron's Airship City, Agatha finds herself in the midst of the greatest minds of her generation, as well as palace intrigue, dashing heroes, and an imperial cat. Agatha may be the most brilliant mind of her generation and the key to control of the continent, but first, she just has to survive.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762013-girl-genius-omnibus-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Forged in Blood II", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 4765, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "Amaranthe Lokdon survives her reckless plan to destroy the enemy\u2019s weapon-filled super aircraft only to learn that thousands of people perished when it crash landed. Half of her team is missing...or dead. Meanwhile, the fighting in the capital has escalated, the Imperial Barracks have been taken by a pretender, and a deadly new danger threatens the populace. Amaranthe\u2019s hopes of returning Emperor Sespian to the throne and bringing peace to the empire are dwindling by the hour.To make matters worse, her strongest ally\u2014and closest friend\u2014has been captured and is under a powerful wizard\u2019s control. If she can\u2019t figure out a way to free Sicarius, he may kill them all when next they meet...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17935486-forged-in-blood-ii"}, +{"book_title": "The Blushing Bounder", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 964, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "In The Iron Duke, Constable Newberry helped save all of England. But before the events of that novel, Constable Newberry\u2019s faced a danger of another kind: to his heart, by the woman forced to marry him. What will it take for this prudish bounder to convince his wife to stay?The Blushing Bounder was previously published in the anthology Wild & Steamy. The Blushing Bounder is a short story/novella of approximately 13,400 words (50 pages.)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19050244-the-blushing-bounder"}, +{"book_title": "The Serpent's Shadow", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 9890, "review_number": 381, "book_description": "Mercedes Lackey returns to form in The Serpent's Shadow, the fourth in her sequence of reimagined fairy tales. This story takes place in the London of 1909, and is based on \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.\" Lackey creates echoes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, pays affectionate homage to Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey (who plays an important role under a thin disguise), and turns the dwarves into seven animal avatars who masquerade as pets of her Eurasian heroine, Maya. Some of Maya's challenges come from the fact that she is not \"snow white,\" and she has fled India for her father's English homeland after the suspicious deaths of her parents. Establishing her household in London, she returns to her profession as a physician, working among the poor. Her \"pets\" and loyal servants stand guard, and Maya herself uses what bits of magic she managed to pick up in childhood to weave otherworldly defenses as well. But the implacable enemy who killed her parents has come to London to search for her; if Maya can be enslaved, her enormous potential powers can be used to the enemy's ends. Fortunately, English magicians of the White Lodge have also noted a new, powerful presence in their midst, though they're having trouble locating her, too. They send Peter Scott, a Water Master, to track her down. He finds Maya beautiful and benign, and is determined to teach her to use the Western magic she is heir to, before her enemy discovers her. Some will find the author's Kiplingesque descriptions of India and Hindustani culture offensive. Lackey describes Maya's enemy as a powerful devotee of the goddess Kali-Durga, though she carefully shows that the avatars of the other deities will not attack her, and has Kali-Durga repudiate her servant in the climactic confrontation. And, though the story is layered, its surface is as glossy and brightly colored as an action comic. But readers who enjoy late Victorian London, Sayers, Sherlock Holmes stories, and a page-turning tale will want to take this one home. --Nona Vero", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13997.The_Serpent_s_Shadow"}, +{"book_title": "Steelheart", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 156680, "review_number": 13530, "book_description": "Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will.Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.And David wants in. He wants Steelheart \u2014 the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning \u2014 and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience.He's seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17182126-steelheart"}, +{"book_title": "The Rebels of Gold", "author_name": "Elise Kova", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1313, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "A new rebellion rises from the still-smoldering remnants of the five guilds of Loom to stand against Dragon tyranny. Meanwhile, on Nova, those same Dragons fight amongst themselves, as age-old power struggles shift the political landscape in fateful and unexpected ways. Unlikely leaders vie for the opportunity to shape a new world order from the perfect clockwork designs of one temperamental engineer.This is the final installment of USA Today bestselling author Elise Kova's Loom Saga, THE REBELS OF GOLD will reveal the fate of Loom's brilliantly contrasting world and its beloved inhabitants.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35385966-the-rebels-of-gold"}, +{"book_title": "The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF", "author_name": "Mike Ashley", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 420, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage.These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable?These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17290691-the-mammoth-book-of-time-travel-sf"}, +{"book_title": "Orbit", "author_name": "John J. Nance", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1011, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "In this \"heart-pounding\" (\"Seattle Post-Intelligencer\") aviation thriller, \"New York Times\" bestselling author John J. Nance ventures forward to 2009, taking readers on a riveting journey of life or death.His once-in-a-lifetime chance...Disillusioned with his life, when Kip Dawson wins a passenger seat on one of American Space Adventure's commercial spaceflights, it's a dream come true. Although his acceptance of the prize strikes terror in his family, Kip sets off, ready for adventure. But a successful launch quickly morphs into chaos -- a micrometeor punches through the wall of the spacecraft, leaving the radios as dead as the pilot....becomes a global fight for survival.With nothing to do but wait for death, Kip composes his epitaph on the ship's laptop computer. Little does he know an audience of millions would soon discover his cries -- sparking a massive rescue mission in his honor. With no idea the world can hear him, his heroism in the face of death may sabotage his best chance of survival.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Space", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Suspense", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44119.Orbit"}, +{"book_title": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 22279, "review_number": 3340, "book_description": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is the first adventure in a fantasy series for young readers by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. The fast-paced and funny series is now available in deluxe hardcover editions illustrated by Hayley Lazo.On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail-his only inheritance from his father and mother. He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand. It is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth. Alcatraz must stop them, using the only weapon he has: an incredible talent for breaking things.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Humor", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/623976.Alcatraz_Versus_the_Evil_Librarians"}, +{"book_title": "Stalin's Hammer: Rome", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 697, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Ten years have passed since Admiral Kolhammer\u2019s 21st century battlefleet was dragged into a wormhole and thrown across oceans of time, emerging with disastrous consequences and shattering the history of the Second World War. Hitler and the Nazis have fallen, Kolhammer sits in the White House, but Stalin rules half of Europe and Asia. The great Soviet engines of state power turn and burn to \u2018set history right\u2019. Not just of the war, but of all future time. In Rome with his lover Julia Duffy, an older, mellower Prince Harry is drawn into Stalin\u2019s plans when a simple game of spies goes horribly wrong, while underneath the eternal city, former Spetsnaz officer Pavel Ivanov fights a running battle with the NKVDs executioner in chief as Stalin\u2019s minions fight to preserve the secret of a weapon which could destroy the West with one, fearsome blow. In Stalin's Hammer: Rome, the first of a series of ebooks, John Birmingham returns to the world he destroyed along with the US Fleet at Midway in Weapons of Choice.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Thriller", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Action", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16062873-stalin-s-hammer"}, +{"book_title": "The Massive, Vol. 1: Black Pacific", "author_name": "Brian Wood", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 2547, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "In this first volume of Brian Wood\u2019s new, sprawling postapocalyptic epic, follow the crew of the Kapital from the flooded remnants of Hong Kong to Unalaska, with stops in Antarctica and Mogadishu, as post-Crash ethics and economics are explored across a broken world. Collecting issues #1\u2013#6 of the series, plus three eight page stories from Dark Horse Presents.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Thriller", "Environment"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16132891-the-massive-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Enemy Within", "author_name": "Marcella Burnard", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1233, "review_number": 130, "book_description": " An intergalactic cold war-and some heated passion- from an inventive new voice in futuristic romance. After a stint in an alien prison, Captain Ari Rose wonders why she even bothered to survive. Stripped of her command and banished to her father's scientific expedition to finish a Ph.D. she doesn't want, Ari never planned to languish quietly behind a desk. She wasn't built for it, either. But when pirates commandeer her father's ship, Ari once again becomes a prisoner. As far as pirate leader Cullin is concerned, Ari's past imprisonment puts her dead center in Cullin's sights. If she hasn't been brainwashed and returned as a spy, then he's convinced she must be part of a traitorous alliance endangering billions of lives. Cullin can't afford the desire she fires within him and he'll stop at nothing, including destroying her, to uncover the truth.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Futuristic", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7831138-enemy-within"}, +{"book_title": "Angel of Redemption", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2002, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "\"First published in Japan in 1991 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo\"--T.p. verso.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics Manga", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60299.Angel_of_Redemption"}, +{"book_title": "CyberStorm", "author_name": "Matthew Mather", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 22780, "review_number": 2041, "book_description": "Sometimes the worst storms aren't caused by Mother Nature, and sometimes the worst nightmares aren't in the ones in our heads...Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive when an increasingly bizarre string of disasters start appearing on the world\u2019s news networks. As the world and cyberworlds come crashing down, bending perception and reality, a monster snowstorm cuts New York off from the world, becoming a wintry tomb where no one can be trusted, and nothing is what it seems...CyberStorm is a techno-thriller set in present-day New York City that will appeal to fans of Michael Chichton and Tom Clancy as well as devotees of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. It is an exploration of the human condition as the cyberworld collides with our own, a compelling portrait of a possible future that is all too terrifyingly real.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Suspense", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17985262-cyberstorm"}, +{"book_title": "Just in Time Cowboy", "author_name": "Jillie Rivers", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 424, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "When a lightning strike on ancient Sioux holy ground sends mining engineer Kelsey Winter to 1892 Wyoming, she turns to handsome, reckless cowboy Pete Jackson to help her find a way home.Pete\u2019s happy to help the strange woman in tight denim trousers, despite her odd, cautious ways, when he learns she can assist him with his newly discovered silver mine. But a deadly outlaw wants Pete\u2019s silver, and a Sioux prophecy threatens Kelsey\u2019s return home, and Pete and Kelsey must find a way past their differences, and the century between them, if they, and their growing love, will survive.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Westerns", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24742026-just-in-time-cowboy"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Tangerine", "author_name": "Rhys Ford", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 655, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "The British Empire reigns supreme, and its young Queen Victoria has expanded her realm to St. Francisco, a bustling city of English lords and Chinese ghettos. St. Francisco is a jewel in the Empire\u2019s crown and as deeply embroiled in the conflict between the Arcane and Science as its sister city, London\u2014a very dark and dangerous battle.Marcus Stenhill, Viscount of Westwood, stumbles upon that darkness when he encounters a pack of young bloods beating a man senseless. Westwood\u2019s duty and honor demand he save the man, but he\u2019s taken aback to discover the man is Robin Harris, a handsome young inventor indirectly responsible for the death of Marcus\u2019s father.Living in the shadows following a failed coup, Robin devotes his life to easing others\u2019 pain, even though his creations are considered mechanical abominations of magicks and science. Branded a deviant and a murderer, Robin expects the viscount to run as far as he can\u2014and is amazed when Marcus reaches for him instead.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Short Stories", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20484851-clockwork-tangerine"}, +{"book_title": "Shovel Ready", "author_name": "Adam Sternbergh", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 5032, "review_number": 769, "book_description": "Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a bombed-out shell of its former self. Now he's a hitman.In a New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to \"tap into\" a sophisticated virtual reality for months at a time and those left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets. His clients like that he doesn't ask questions, that he works quickly, and that he's handy with a box cutter. He finds that killing people for money is not that different from collecting trash, and the pay is better. His latest client hires him to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist. Finding her is easy, but the job quickly gets complicated: his mark has a shocking secret and his client has an agenda far beyond a simple kill. Now Spademan must navigate the dual levels of his world-the gritty reality and the slick fantasy-to finish the job, to keep his conscience clean, and to stay alive.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17834909-shovel-ready"}, +{"book_title": "The Saints of Salvation", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 2712, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien race that claims to be on a religious mission to bring all sentient life to its God at the End of Time. But while things may look grim in the immediate aftermath of the attack, mankind is busy playing an even longer game than the aliens may have expected. Will a strategy millennia in the making finally be enough to defeat this seemingly unstoppable enemy? And what secrets are the aliens truly hiding in their most deeply protected stronghold?With his trademark optimism about humanity's tenacity and capacity for greatness, Peter F. Hamilton ends this brilliant saga with a bang--and reveals a few startling surprises along the way.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50154683-the-saints-of-salvation"}, +{"book_title": "Too Many Jacks", "author_name": "Mac Barnett", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 73, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett and Geisel Award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli, an uproarious early reader series about a mischievous rabbit, a cranky old lady, and a lovable dog.The Lady gives Jack a gift. It's a lab kit! Jack goes into the shed to experiment and doesn't come out until he's made another Jack and another Jack and another. But one Jack was already too many. Can Jack stop his naughty robot clones before they destroy the town?Welcome to the laugh-out-loud and irreverent world of Jack, a new early reader series by the New York Times bestselling and award-winning team of Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Animals", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52671018-too-many-jacks"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Tower", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 152155, "review_number": 5888, "book_description": "The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticipated book in the author's long career. King began this epic tale about the last gunslinger in the world more than 20 years ago; now he draws its suspenseful story to a close, snapping together the last pieces of his action puzzle and drawing Roland Deschain ever closer to his ultimate goal.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Westerns", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Epic", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5091.The_Dark_Tower"}, +{"book_title": "WWW: Wonder", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3999, "review_number": 340, "book_description": "Webmind--the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web--has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated.Caitlin Decter--the once-blind sixteen-year-old math genius who discovered, and bonded with, Webmind--wants desperately to protect her friend. And if she doesn't act, everything--Webmind included--may come crashing down.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8429441-www"}, +{"book_title": "Time's Convert", "author_name": "Deborah Harkness", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 34076, "review_number": 3461, "book_description": "\nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches comes a novel about what it takes to become a vampire. \n\nOn the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire. But his transformation is not an easy one and the ancient traditions and responsibilities of the de Clermont family clash with Marcus's deeply held beliefs in liberty, equality, and brotherhood.Fast-forward to contemporary Paris, where Phoebe Taylor--the young employee at Sotheby's whom Marcus has fallen for--is about to embark on her own journey to immortality. Though the modernized version of the process at first seems uncomplicated, the couple discovers that the challenges facing a human who wishes to be a vampire are no less formidable than they were in the eighteenth century. The shadows that Marcus believed he'd escaped centuries ago may return to haunt them both--forever.A passionate love story and a fascinating exploration of the power of tradition and the possibilities not just for change but for revolution, Time's Convert channels the supernatural world-building and slow-burning romance that made the All Souls Trilogy instant bestsellers to illuminate a new and vital moment in history, and a love affair that will bridge centuries.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45162277-time-s-convert"}, +{"book_title": "Starship: Rebel", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 907, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, dominated by the human race, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Almost a year has passed since the events of Starship: Mercenary. Captain Wilson Cole now commands a fleet of almost fifty ships, and he has become the single greatest military force on the Inner Frontier. With one exception. The Republic still comes and goes as it pleases, taking what it wants, conscripting men, and extorting taxes, even though the Frontier worlds receive nothing in exchange. And, of course, the government still wants Wilson Cole and the starship Theodore Roosevelt. He has no interest in confronting such an overwhelming force, and constantly steers clear of them. Then an incident occurs that changes everything, and Cole declares war on the Republic. Outnumbered and always outgunned, his fleet is no match for the Republic's millions of military vessels, even after he forges alliances with the warlords he previously hunted down. It's a hopeless cause...but that's just what Wilson Cole and the Teddy R. are best at.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3755794-starship"}, +{"book_title": "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two", "author_name": "John Tiffany", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 736117, "review_number": 65734, "book_description": "Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London\u2019s West End on July 30, 2016.It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn\u2019t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Plays", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Drama", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29056083-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child"}, +{"book_title": "Tides of War", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 682, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "After being saved from annihilation by the Old Gator\u2019s daring plan, Gabriel and the crew of the Magellan find themselves in the most unlikely of places: a captured enemy starship. While learning to control the alien vessel introduces a new set of challenges, the secrets they discover within may prove to be the edge they so desperately need. \u00a0 With the rebellion on Earth rushing headlong toward a final, last-ditch battle and the remainder of the alien armada standing between them and home, it will take all of their strength, courage, and ingenuity to destroy the enemy once and for all. Before the enemy destroys them. ----------------------------------- Tides of War is the third and final book in the science-fiction Rebellion trilogy. Series order: 1. Man of War 2. Weapons of War 3. Tides of War", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32961522-tides-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "The Night Is for Hunting", "author_name": "John Marsden", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 14204, "review_number": 306, "book_description": "In the penultimate installment of the internationally bestselling Tomorrow series, Ellie and her friends look after a gang of orphans whose wild behavior reveals the true impact of war.Amidst a brutal war with no end in sight, Ellie and her four remaining friends discover that their hidden refuge becomes a crowded place when they decide to care for an uncooperative crew of orphans. Things only get worse when Ellie and Homer learn that mysterious visitors have discovered their sanctuary. Has the enemy found them out?Five ordinary teens brave the worst in this electrifying continuation of their battle to stay safe and sane in a war zone that was once their home.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82553.The_Night_Is_for_Hunting"}, +{"book_title": "The Peshawar Lancers", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2589, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "In the mid-1870s, civilization froze in time when comets hit the earth. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together. In the 21st century, boats still run on steam, messages are delivered by telegraph, and the British Empire controls much of the world from its capital in Delhi. The other major world power is the Czar of Russia\u2014who is preparing for global conquest.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Cultural (India)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179021.The_Peshawar_Lancers"}, +{"book_title": "Nights of Steel", "author_name": "Nico Rosso", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 64, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Return to The Ether Chronicles, where the skies above the American West are about to get wilder than ever\u2026Bounty hunter Anna Blue always finds her fugitive. But her latest mission is filled with mystery: a high price for an eccentric inventor. And her biggest rival, Jack Hawkins\u2014a startlingly handsome, entirely unsettling man whose abilities match her own\u2014is hunting the same bounty. Neither will back down.When a rogue Man O' War flies his airship into the California skies, guns blazing, Anna and Jack are forced to team up or die. But it isn't the danger that has them ready to flare like gunpowder. They've circled each other for years as competitors only. Fighters and outsiders, they never thought they'd find a kindred soul. As hot passion and raw need draw them together, can they survive this mission long enough to track the most elusive fugitives\u2026 their hearts?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Westerns", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842162-nights-of-steel"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Mars", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 13199, "review_number": 851, "book_description": "The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter\u2019s \u201cLong Earth\u201d series, which Io9 calls \u201ca brilliant science fiction collaboration.\u201d2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has an ulterior motive for his request. . . .Meanwhile U. S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own, leading an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth.For Joshua, the crisis he faces is much closer to home. He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their \u201clong childhood\u201d in the community called Happy Landings, located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear have caused \u201cnormal\u201d human society to turn against the Next. A dramatic showdown seems inevitable. . . .", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18586487-the-long-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Honor Among Enemies", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 16345, "review_number": 284, "book_description": "KNOW THY ENEMYFor Captain Honor Harrington, it's sometimes hard to know who the enemy really is. Despite political foes, professional jealousies, and the scandal which drove her into exile, she's been offered a chance to reclaim her career as an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy. But there's a catch. She must assume command of a ''squadron'' of jury-rigged armed merchantmen with crew drawn from the dregs of her service and somehow stop the pirates who have taken advantage of the Havenite War to plunder the Star Kingdom's commerce.That would be hard enough, but some of the ''pirates'' aren't exactly what they seem . . . and neither are some of her ''friends,'' For Honor has been carefully chosen for her mission\u2014by two implacable and powerful enemies.The way they see it, either she stops the raiders or the raiders kill her . . . and either way, they win.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "War", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77739.Honor_Among_Enemies"}, +{"book_title": "The Clone Sedition", "author_name": "Steven L. Kent", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 403, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Earth, A.D. 2519. Less than a year has passed since the clone military of the Enlisted Man\u2019s Empire toppled the government of the Unified Authority. Now the clones rule Earth, but a new enemy has emerged\u2014and set off civil war\u2026 Formerly trained to fight for the U.A., clone Marine Wayson Harris had led the Enlisted Man\u2019s Empire invasion of Earth and wrested control away from the old regime. He\u2019s now ready to do what it takes to ensure the new balance of power isn\u2019t jeopardized. When a trio of religious fanatics from Mars attempts to attack Harris, he fears there is more unrest among the colony\u2019s residents. Hoping to stave off an uprising, he leads a troop of Marines to Mars. But once there, they learn the situation is much graver than they first feared. The red planet\u2019s refugees have decided the clones are their number one enemy, and measures to eradicate them are underway. And when Harris is kidnapped and drugged, he discovers something disturbing about himself. He can be reprogrammed\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542634-the-clone-sedition"}, +{"book_title": "Born", "author_name": "Tara Brown", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 8072, "review_number": 554, "book_description": "\"It's us and them, Em. There are no regular people anymore.\"Ten years ago when the world ended she ran for her life.Five weeks ago the world she'd hidden from came knocking on the door of her secluded cabin.Ten days ago she found salvation hiding amongst the dead.Yesterday she went back for the living.Today she wonders if she will live to see tomorrow.What do you do when the world you were born to is gone?Where do you hide when even your own body isn't safe?Emma ran when her daddy told her to. She hid like he said she should. He was the first person she turned her back on. The first one she let die.Ten years has gone by and she still lives by the simple rules he taught her when she was nine years old.\"Don't help anyone. Don't go where other people are unless you have to. Trust no one. Always pull the trigger.\"Until one night she hears the worst sound in the world, a knock. A simple, timid knock, on the door to her cabin.Only the voice of the brave little girl, ready to die for her brother, persuades Emma to open the door.As her fingers turn the lock, she has a terrible feeling she will regret her decision.But even as regret fills her world, so do love and companionship. Things she never imagined she would ever have again.Everything comes at a cost; you decide what you'll pay.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16007911-born"}, +{"book_title": "The Angel Experiment", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 209984, "review_number": 9414, "book_description": "Six unforgettable kids \u2014 with no families, no homes \u2014 are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans... and if they're meant to save mankind \u2014 or destroy it.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13152.The_Angel_Experiment"}, +{"book_title": "Bug Jack Barron", "author_name": "Norman Spinrad", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1814, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "With over a hundred million viewers, Jack Barron is a media star of the highest celebrity\u2014think Jerry Springer crossed with Ted Koppel\u2014and his call-in talk show is the perfect platform for reform. But every man has his price, and when a cryogenics millionaire makes Jack an offer he can't refuse\u2014immortality\u2014anything can happen. Bug Jack Barron, Norman Spinrad\u2019s fourth novel, was first published in 1969, and is commonly acknowledged to be the book that established Spinrad\u2019s brilliant style and made his name. Its exploration of the timeless and universally relevant theme of big business corrupting democratic process, stands out now as an unforgettable and bitingly satirical work of imagination that remains as relevant as ever to today\u2019s television and media obsessed culture.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Politics", "Literature", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/633178.Bug_Jack_Barron"}, +{"book_title": "Kiss Across Time", "author_name": "Tracy Cooper-Posey", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1036, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "A single kiss can change more than one life...or two.Taylor Yates is fired for insisting the 5th Century Arthurian poet, Inigo Domhnall, existed. When she hears Domhnall's lyrics in a death metal song, she engineers a meeting with lead singer, Brody Gallagher. An unintended kiss sends them spinning back to the poet's time, when Saxons were pillaging King Arthur's Britain. Brody's all for kissing her again. More, he wants her to kiss his friend and lover, Veris, to see what will happen. When Veris' kiss sends them back to the time of the Vikings neither man is willing to let Taylor simply walk out of their lives.But Brody and Veris are more than lovers, as Taylor learns when they investigate the kisses that send them across time. The secrets they share have the power to completely alter her life.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (M M F)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18211721-kiss-across-time"}, +{"book_title": "Freakling", "author_name": "Lana Krumwiede", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1773, "review_number": 315, "book_description": "In twelve-year-old Taemon\u2019s city, everyone has a power called psi\u2014the ability to move and manipulate objects with their minds. When Taemon loses his psi in a traumatic accident, he must hide his lack of power by any means possible. But a humiliating incident at a sports tournament exposes his disability, and Taemon is exiled to the powerless colony.The \"dud farm\" is not what Taemon expected, though: people are kind and open, and they actually seem to enjoy using their hands to work and play and even comfort their children. Taemon adjusts to his new life quickly, making friends and finding unconditional acceptance.But gradually he discovers that for all its openness, there are mysteries at the colony, too\u2014dangerous secrets that would give unchecked power to psi wielders if discovered.When Taemon unwittingly leaks one of these secrets, will he have the courage to repair the damage\u2014even if it means returning to the city and facing the very people who exiled him?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13438522-freakling"}, +{"book_title": "The Transfer", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 52314, "review_number": 3021, "book_description": "Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories!Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be captivated by \"Four: The Transfer,\" the first of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's perspective.In \"The Transfer,\" readers witness Tobias's aptitude test, Choosing Day, and the moment he is given the infamous nickname \"Four.\"", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18080920-the-transfer"}, +{"book_title": "Foundation's Edge", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 71184, "review_number": 1402, "book_description": "At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all\u2014and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now two exiled citizens of the Foundation\u2014a renegade Councilman and a doddering historian\u2014set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists.Meanwhile someone\u2014or something\u2014outside of both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Hugo Awards", "Novels", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76683.Foundation_s_Edge"}, +{"book_title": "Oryon", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 2125, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Please note this book was previously released in Love Without Boundaries (Tornians, #2.5)Lord Oryon and Lady Isis of House Rigel are returning home from a historic meeting of the Assembly of Lords. Their universe has drastically changed in the last weeks since they arrived on Tornian and both are trying to adjust.For Oryon, he was amazed how his Isis had blossomed. The support and companionship of the Earth females had given her a confidence he had never realized she lacked. She now touched him as she said she had always wanted to. She rested with him every night and was demanding to take a more active role in their lives.For Isis, she couldn\u2019t believe the things Earth females considered normal, things that she had never known were possible. Resting with a male. Going when and where they wanted to go and talking to whomever they wanted. Being involved in the running of their own House and then there were the amazing things they had told her that males and females could do together\u2026 during Joining.House Rigel is going to be turned upside down and not everyone is going to be receptive to these changes.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25262902-oryon"}, +{"book_title": "Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille", "author_name": "Steven Brust", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1739, "review_number": 82, "book_description": " Steven Brust's Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille is a time-traveling, science fiction thriller and a rollicking, fun read. Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille serves the best matzoh ball soup in the Galaxy, and hires some of the best musicians you'll ever hear. It's a great place to visit, but it tends to move around--just one step ahead of whatever mysterious conspiracy is reducing whole worlds to radioactive ash. And Cowboy Feng's may be humanity's last hope for survival.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Speculative Fiction", "Music", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140146.Cowboy_Feng_s_Space_Bar_and_Grille"}, +{"book_title": "The Extraordinaries", "author_name": "T.J. Klune", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 4369, "review_number": 1478, "book_description": "Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune's YA debut, The Extraordinaries, is a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves.Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right?After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City\u2019s mightiest hero (and Nick\u2019s biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. And he\u2019ll do it with or without the reluctant help of Seth Gray, Nick's best friend (and maybe the love of his life).Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl meets Marissa Meyer's Renegades in TJ Klune's YA debut.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Romance", "Contemporary", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52380340-the-extraordinaries"}, +{"book_title": "Cress", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 287668, "review_number": 27145, "book_description": "In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she's just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Retellings", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206828-cress"}, +{"book_title": "Drysine Legacy", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 2117, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "The legendary battle-carrier UFS Phoenix is on the run in Outer Neutral Space. Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande and Major Trace Thakur are determined to use neutral territory to broker a peace between humanity\u2019s warring factions, away from Fleet\u2019s strong arm. But as machinations in Fleet Command send a legendary warrior from Trace\u2019s past on a sworn path to kill her, there arises in the territory of an insectoid foe an ancient enemy from the nightmares of Spiral history, bent on Phoenix\u2019s destruction\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28233370-drysine-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "Fortunately, the Milk", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 52694, "review_number": 7875, "book_description": "\"I bought the milk,\" said my father. \"I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road.\"\"Hullo,\" I said to myself. \"That's not something you see every day. And then something odd happened.\"Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious New York Times bestselling story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349203-fortunately-the-milk"}, +{"book_title": "March Upcountry", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 10613, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "Prince Roger MacClintock is a spoiled young princeling hardly worth the space he takes up. Now he must become a man, or the entire galaxy will suffer arrested adolescence.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25320.March_Upcountry"}, +{"book_title": "Secrets of the Highlander", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2358, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "He is the father of her child, but the secrets they are hiding are tearing them apart.... Megan MacKeage escaped the smothering protectiveness of the Highland MacKeage clan to work as a scientist on the Canadian tundra. But when fellow researcher Wayne Ferris breaks her heart by rejecting her, Megan returns to Maine alone.... Then she meets the town's new police chief, Jack Stone -- the man she knew as Wayne Ferris. Instead of the quiet scholar he posed as, he's an aggressive private eye who's willing to fight for what he wants, just like all the overbearing men in her clan. So why is Megan still feeling a dangerous attraction? And though Jack claims he followed her here because he loves her, can she ever trust a man with so many secrets?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1215918.Secrets_of_the_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Syncing Forward", "author_name": "W. Lawrence", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 724, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Would you ever travel forward in time if you knew it was a one-way trip? Mr. Martin James has no such desire, but after being injected with a mysterious drug against his will, Martin hurtles through the years. This cruel twist of fate forces him to watch his children grow up and his wife grow old in a matter of days. Only an elusive group of scientists have the ability to stop his nightmarish journey; the very people who injected him in the first place. And while Martin James hopes to find a cure before everyone he loves is gone, others are uncertain if his journey can be stopped at all. W. Lawrence weaves a future history filled with the best and worst of humanity, highlights the blessings and curses of technology, and pushes the limits of faith and hopelessness. Above all, Syncing Forward is a tale of one man's love for his family, and their devotion to saving him from being lost forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27867771-syncing-forward"}, +{"book_title": "Monsters of Men", "author_name": "Patrick Ness", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 70622, "review_number": 6566, "book_description": "As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches. And as the ceaseless Noise lays all thoughts bare, the projected will of the few threatens to overwhelm the desperate desire of the many. The consequences of each action, each word, are unspeakably vast: To follow a tyrant or a terrorist? To save the life of the one you love most or thousands of strangers? To believe in redemption or assume it is lost? Becoming adults amid the turmoil, Todd and Viola question all they have known, racing through horror and outrage toward a shocking finale.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "War", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20758105-monsters-of-men"}, +{"book_title": "Phobos: Hard Science Fiction", "author_name": "Thor Ansell", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 18, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Nach mehreren dramatischen Fehlschl\u00e4gen n\u00e4hert sich im Jahr 2039 die erste bemannte Mission dem Mars. Die internationale Crew soll eine feste Basis auf dem roten Planeten errichten \u2013 im Inneren eines erloschenen Vulkans. Vorher will die Expedition jedoch den Marsmond Phobos ansteuern. Er soll dem Mutterschiff als Raumstation und als Treibstoffquelle f\u00fcr den R\u00fcckflug dienen. Auch eine seltsame Struktur auf der Oberfl\u00e4che des Mondes soll untersucht werden. Den unbemannten Vorg\u00e4ngermissionen war es bis dahin nicht gelungen, sich dem mysteri\u00f6sen \u201ePhobos-Monolithen\u201c zu n\u00e4hern. Auch diesmal h\u00e4ufen sich die Probleme, je n\u00e4her das Schiff seinem Ziel kommt. Dann entdecken die Sensoren etwas auf dem Mars, das dort nicht sein sollte. Die Crew entscheidet sich trotzdem zur Landung \u2013 es ist der Beginn eines unglaublichen Abenteuers. \u201ePhobos\u201c ist Hard Science-Fiction einer neuen Generation. Ein actiongeladener Thriller, ebenso spannend wie realit\u00e4tsnah. Bevor Sie zugreifen: Das Phobos-Projekt ist ein Zweiteiler. Mitfiebern, R\u00e4tselraten sowie Beschwerden \u00fcber gemeine Cliffhanger sind ausdr\u00fccklich erw\u00fcnscht! Der zweite (und abschlie\u00dfende) Teil der Geschichte erscheint im vierten Quartal 2019 als Ebook und Taschenbuch. Ebenso wird es einen \u201eDirector\u2018s Cut\u201c als gebundene Gesamtausgabe geben. Wer seine Nerven schonen m\u00f6chte, sollte also warten. Allen anderen verspreche ich kurz geknabberte Fingern\u00e4gel bei einem Trip zum Mars, den Sie so schnell nicht wieder vergessen werden\u2026 ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49254477-phobos"}, +{"book_title": "Saltation", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 2037, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Theo Waitley is a Nexus of ViolenceThrust mid-year into a school for pilots far from the safe haven of her birth home on scholarly Delgado, young Theo Waitley excels in hands-on flying while finding that she's behind the curve in social intricacies as well as in math.After surviving a mid-air emergency with a spectacular mountain-top landing in her training soar plane Theo's notoriety brings her attention from local thugs as well as a gift from Win Ton, a scout pilot she enjoyed a flirtation with on her first space voyage. When Win Ton appears on campus Theo throws herself into a relationship even as he's on his way to a Liaden marriage-bed.Meanwhile her mentors try to guide her studies and training into the channels best suited to her special abilities and inclinations, including suggesting that she should join in the off-world student association, a plan resulting in mixed success. After a series of confrontations, fights, and ultimately a riot after which she is thanked for not killing anyone, Theo is named a \"nexus of violence\" by the school's administration.Facing suspension and carrying little more than hastily procured guild card, a pistol taken from an attacker, and the contents of her pants pockets, Theo must quickly decide if she's ready to return to Delgado in disgrace, or launch herself into the universe as a freelance pilot with credentials\u00a0 she's already earned.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6669085-saltation"}, +{"book_title": "Gears of Wonderland", "author_name": "Jason G. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 342, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "James Riggs lives a normal life with a mind-numbing job, an overbearing boss, and a demanding fiancee. Then he witnesses the murder of his best friend. Saved from the murderer by a strange man in a white suit, James is cast down a hole and into a world he always believed was a kid's story. Wonderland. But things have changed since Alice's visit. The Knave of Hearts has seized the Heart throne, conquered all of Wonderland with his steam-powered technological marvels, and rules the land with an iron fist. Aided by the Mad Hatter's daughter, James journeys to discover why he has been brought to Wonderland and how the tattoo on his arm could be the key to Wonderland's salvation-or its destruction.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12979788-gears-of-wonderland"}, +{"book_title": "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 5169, "review_number": 211, "book_description": "Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive. He is\u2014with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein\u2014one of the writers who define science fiction in our time. Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works. From early work like \"Rescue Party\" and \"The Lion of Comarre,\" through classics like \"The Star,\" \"Earthlight,\" \"The Nine Billion Names of God,\" and \"The Sentinel\" (kernel of the later novel, and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like \"A Meeting with Medusa\" and \"The Hammer of God,\" this immense volume encapsulates one of the great SF careers of all time.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Audiobook", "Classics", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35811.The_Collected_Stories_of_Arthur_C_Clarke"}, +{"book_title": "Sweet Alien Savage", "author_name": "Sadie Carter", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 705, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "* The last thing Koran Al\u2019a desires is a human mate. They are illogical, emotional and show no respect for tradition and rules. His mate will be rational, sensible and obedient. Mila has always lived in the shadow of her successful, beautiful, older sister. But that\u2019s okay with her, she likes being in the background. That is, until the day that Koran walks into her life. Never has she felt such an instant attraction to a man. His sinful body, his dark, dangerous looks. Even his cranky temperament isn\u2019t enough to dampen her need for him. The problem is, her sister has set her sights on Koran and what Aline wants Aline gets. Mila knows she doesn\u2019t have a chance. #No cliffhanger. Can be read on its own.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29343689-sweet-alien-savage"}, +{"book_title": "Have Space Suit\u2014Will Travel", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 27792, "review_number": 987, "book_description": "Kip from midwest Centerville USA works the summer before college as a pharmacy soda jerk, and wins an authentic stripped-down spacesuit in a soap contest. He answers a distress radio call from Peewee, scrawny rag doll-clutching genius aged 11. With the comforting cop Mother Thing, three-eyed tripod Wormfaces kidnap them to the Moon and Pluto.", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20417.Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel"}, +{"book_title": "To Honor You Call Us", "author_name": "H. Paul Honsinger", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 4676, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "The Terran Union is engaged in a vast interstellar war against the Krag, ruthless aliens intent on exterminating humankind. In 2315, the wily Max Robichaux is given command of the USS Cumberland, a destroyer with state-of-the-art capabilities but a combat record so bad, she\u2019s known as the \u201cCumberland Gap.\u201dCapt. Robichaux\u2019s first mission: to take his warship to the Free Corridor, where the Krag have secretly been buying strategic materials, and to seize or destroy any ships carrying enemy cargo. Far from the fleet and under enforced radio silence, Max relies only on his determination and guile\u2026and the support and friendship of his chief medical officer, the brilliant Dr. Sahin.Because even as he deals with the ship\u2019s onboard problems and the stress of carrying out her risky assignment, Max and the doctor discover that the Cumberland and her misfit crew are all that stands in the way of a deadly Krag attack that threatens to end the war\u2014and humanity\u2014once and for all.A far-future story in the tradition of \u201cships of wood, men of iron\u201d novels, To Honor You Call Us and the Man of War series combines the adventure of exploration, the excitement of war, and the dangers of the unknown through the eyes of a ship and her crew.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18318651-to-honor-you-call-us"}, +{"book_title": "The Gates", "author_name": "Iain Rob Wright", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1599, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "An apocalyptic horror novelThe Gates is the 1st book in the epic Hell on Earth series, a terrifying thrill ride of epic proportions. You cannot escape death when death is everywhere.FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS A TERRIBLE ENEMY HAS BEEN WAITING...NOW THE GATES ARE OPEN...AND HUMANITY'S EXTINCTION IS ABOUT TO BEGIN...All across the globe strange gates have appeared at random. Anyone who touches one dies. Anyone who tries to interfere with one dies. The world's best scientists have no idea what they are, but one thing is certain... these strange gates are about to open.Humanity holds its breath.On the United States' chaotic East Coast, Coast Guard captain Guy Granger sets off on a desperate journey across the Atlantic to find his kids. Mina Magar is a photojournalist forced to take pictures of horrors she could never have imagined as something terrible emerges onto London's busy Oxford Street. Rick Bastion is a fading pop star with his head in a bottle and no hope for the future--even before the apocalypse began on his doorstep.For all of them, staying alive is almost impossible, but they must try. Hell is coming and no one can escape it. Mankind must fight back or become extinct.The gates are open. And all Hell is about to break loose.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26182331-the-gates"}, +{"book_title": "Ashes", "author_name": "Ilsa J. Bick", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 24379, "review_number": 2961, "book_description": "It could happen tomorrow . . .An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions.Alex hiked into the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom\u2014a young soldier\u2014and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP.For this improvised family and the others who are spared, it\u2019s now a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human.Author Ilsa J. Bick crafts a terrifying and thrilling post-apocalyptic novel about a world that could become ours at any moment, where those left standing must learn what it means not just to survive, but to live amidst the devastation.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9975679-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "A Meeting with Medusa / Green Mars", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 462, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Taking place partly on Earth and partly in the atmosphere of Jupiter, the story tells of Howard Falcon, the captain of a new and experimental giant-sized helium-filled airship. When an accident causes the ship to crash, Falcon is badly injured and takes over a year to fully recover.The story was the inspiration for The Medusa Encounter, the fourth novel in the Venus Prime series by Paul Preuss.The pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, entitled \"Encounter at Farpoint\" (1987), features a large, sentient, space-dwelling jellyfish-like creature similar to the Medusa creature in Clarke's story.The concept of life on Jupiter was explored in the second episode of Carl Sagan's PBS series Cosmos, which featured lifeforms similar in concept to those in this story.Clarke himself revisited the notion of giant lifeforms in the atmosphere of Jupiter in his 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two.A sequel, The Medusa Chronicles, will be published in 2016 via a collaborative effort between Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23594693-a-meeting-with-medusa-green-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Kick at the Darkness", "author_name": "Keira Andrews", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2760, "review_number": 556, "book_description": "To live through the zombie apocalypse they have to survive each other first.College freshman Parker Osborne is having the worst day ever. He humiliated himself trying to pick up a cute guy, he hasn\u2019t made any friends at school, and his stupidly hot jerk of a TA gave him a crappy grade on his paper. He\u2019s going to drop Adam Hawkins\u2019 film class and start fresh tomorrow after he\u2019s had a good sulk.But Parker\u2019s about to find out what a bad day really looks like\u2014if he can survive the night.A virus is unleashed, transforming infected people into zombie-like killers. After these quick and deadly creepers swarm campus, Parker only escapes thanks to Adam swooping him onto the back of his trusty motorcycle. Now they're on the run\u2014and stuck with each other.When they\u2019re not bickering, they\u2019re fighting off the infected in a bloody battle for survival. Their only hope is to head east to Parker's family, but orphaned Adam has a secret he\u2019s not sure Parker will accept: he\u2019s a werewolf. Can they trust each other enough to find some light in these dark days?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Academic (College)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25543022-kick-at-the-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Night Play", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 51598, "review_number": 1631, "book_description": "Bride McTierney has had it with men. They're cheap, self-centered, and never love her for who she is. But though she prides herself on being independent, deep down she still yearns for a knight in shining armor.She just never expected her knight in shining armor to have a shiny coat of fur...Deadly and tortured, Vane Kattalakis isn't what he seems. Most women lament that their boyfriends are dogs. In Bride's case, hers is a wolf. A Were-Hunter wolf. Wanted dead by his enemies, Vane isn't looking for a mate. But the Fates have marked Bride as his. Now he has three weeks to either convince Bride that the supernatural is real or he will spend the rest of his life neutered\u2014something no self-respecting wolf can accept...But how does a wolf convince a human to trust him with her life when his enemies are out to end his? In the world of the Were-Hunters, it really is dog-eat-dog. And only one alpha male can win.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84151.Night_Play"}, +{"book_title": "Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1", "author_name": "Ichigo Takano", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 14478, "review_number": 1951, "book_description": "A Plea From the FutureOn the day that Naho begins 11th grade, she receives a letter from herself ten years in the future. At first, she writes it off as a prank, but as the letter\u2019s predictions come true one by one, Naho realizes that the letter might be the real deal. Her future self tells Naho that a new transfer student, a boy named Kakeru, will soon join her class. The letter begs Naho to watch over him, saying that only Naho can save Kakeru from a terrible future. Who is this mystery boy, and can Naho save him from his destiny? This is the heart-wrenching sci-fi romance that has over million copies in print in Japan!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Graphic Novels Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25667474-orange"}, +{"book_title": "The Color of Distance", "author_name": "Amy Thomson", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 790, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "Juna is the sole survivor of a team of surveyors marooned in the dense and isolated Tendu rain forest, an uninhabitable world for humans. Her only hope for survival is total transformation--and terrifying assimilation--into the amphibian Tendu species. Juna will learn more about her own human nature than ever before.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Humanities (Language)", "Humanities (Linguistics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466371.The_Color_of_Distance"}, +{"book_title": "The Junkie Quatrain", "author_name": "Peter Clines", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1501, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "Four short stories. Each one's a different type of post-apocalypse story. Survival horror. Ethical horror. Adventure horror. And one where the protagonist barely notices the apocalypse has happened. Each one stands alone and (hopefully) makes for a fun little read. But if you read two or three or all four, you'll see several events from different perspectives. And if you look close you'll even get a few scattered clues which might even come together to form a conspiracy.Ex-Patriots by Peter Clines contains the chapter, \"Codependent\"Acheron by Bryon Morrigon contains the chapter, \"Predator and Prey\"The Undead Situation by Eloise J. Knapp contains the chapter, \"Strictly Professional\"Hissers by Ryan Thomas contains the chapter, \"Confidentiality\"", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12484914-the-junkie-quatrain"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Savior", "author_name": "Sadie Carter", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 679, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Darac Kola has lived for close to a hundred years without finding his true mate. Having grown increasingly volatile, he knows his days are numbered. To protect his friends and family, he leaves Zerconia, knowing he will never return. Then he meets Willa. His mate. The one person who could pull him back from the edge of madness. With five brothers, Willa Sanchez has spent her life trying to be one of the boys. The last thing she needs is an overprotective, bossy alien claiming her as his mate. If he thinks she\u2019s going to give up her independence to play house for him, then he\u2019s got the wrong girl. No cliffhanger. You don't need to have read the rest of the series to enjoy Alien Savior.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30289235-alien-savior"}, +{"book_title": "The Sudden Appearance of Hope", "author_name": "Claire North", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 9330, "review_number": 1479, "book_description": "My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before - a thousand times.It started when I was sixteen years old.A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger.No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit, you will never remember who I am.That makes my life difficult. It also makes me dangerous.The Sudden Appearance of Hope is the tale of a girl no one remembers, yet her story will stay with you forever.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Thriller", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Magical Realism", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25746699-the-sudden-appearance-of-hope"}, +{"book_title": "Hilldiggers", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2639, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "During a war between two planets in the same solar system - each occupied by adapted humans - what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide - but why? By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggers - giant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers ...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1196558.Hilldiggers"}, +{"book_title": "Soulless", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 103781, "review_number": 10275, "book_description": "Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire--and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6381205-soulless"}, +{"book_title": "Nothing Personal", "author_name": "Olivier Gagnon", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 86, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Mr. Johnson. You know the name. You probably know the face\u2014smooth, implacable, professional. He\u2019s got the nuyen and resources you want, and he knows it. He may not have your skills, but he doesn\u2019t care. That\u2019s what he has the nuyen for\u2014so he can buy yours. He\u2019s corporate through and through, and you can\u2019t ever forget that, because if you do, that\u2019s when he sells you out for the good of his corp. But he\u2019ll stay professional, of course, right up until the moment he slides the knife smoothly into your back. He\u2019s useful, that Mr. Johnson, but every time you meet him, every time you have to deal with his double-crosses, his condescending put-downs, his smug superiority, you wish that the day would come when the tables were turned, when he was forced out on the street with nothing but his wits and street skills\u2014whatever those might be\u2014to keep him alive. Well, good news. Sometimes wishes come true, even in the Sixth World. Mr. Johnson is about to meet the street, and you\u2019ve got a ringside seat.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23173018-nothing-personal"}, +{"book_title": "The Shade of the Moon", "author_name": "Susan Beth Pfeffer", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 9403, "review_number": 1237, "book_description": "The eagerly awaited addition to the series begun with the New York Times best-seller Life As We Knew It, in which a meteor knocks the moon off its orbit and the world changes forever.It's been more than two years since Jon Evans and his family left Pennsylvania, hoping to find a safe place to live, yet Jon remains haunted by the deaths of those he loved. His prowess on a soccer field has guaranteed him a home in a well-protected enclave. But Jon is painfully aware that a missed goal, a careless word, even falling in love, can put his life and the lives of his mother, his sister Miranda, and her husband, Alex, in jeopardy. Can Jon risk doing what is right in a world gone so terribly wrong?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17165913-the-shade-of-the-moon"}, +{"book_title": "The Flame Alphabet", "author_name": "Ben Marcus", "rating_score": 2.88, "rating_votes": 5069, "review_number": 1050, "book_description": "In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. \u00a0 A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children\u2019s speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and Claire need to do is look around the neighborhood: In the park, parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. At night, suburban side streets become routes of shameful escape for fathers trying to get outside the radius of affliction. \u00a0 With Claire nearing collapse, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther, who laughs at her parents\u2019 sickness, unaware that in just a few years she, too, will be susceptible to the language toxicity. But Sam and Claire find it isn\u2019t so easy to leave the daughter they still love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a world beyond recognition. \u00a0The Flame Alphabet invites the question: What is left of civilization when we lose the ability to communicate with those we love? Both morally engaged and wickedly entertaining, a gripping page-turner as strange as it is moving, this intellectual horror story ensures Ben Marcus\u2019s position in the first rank of American novelists.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Humanities (Language)", "Literary Fiction", "Literature", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11325011-the-flame-alphabet"}, +{"book_title": "The Best of Keith Laumer", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 76, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg. Contains short stories from 1961 to 1970:The Planet WreckersThe Body BuildersCocoonThe LawgiverThunderheadHybridThe Devil You Don'tDoorstepA Relic of War (a BOLO story)", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400107.The_Best_of_Keith_Laumer"}, +{"book_title": "Patterns", "author_name": "Pat Cadigan", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 217, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Featuring an introduction by Bruce Sterling, this collection of short fiction by Pat Cadigan won the Locus Award for best collection in 1990. The final story, \"The Power and the Passion\", was original to this collection. The previously published stories included here are:* Eenie, Meenie, Ipsateenie * Vengeance is Yours * The Day the Martels Got the Cable * Roadside Rescue * Rock On * Heal * Another One Hits the Road * My Brother's Keeper * Pretty Boy Crossover * Two * Angel * It Was the Heat * The Power and the Passion", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304807.Patterns"}, +{"book_title": "Tempest", "author_name": "Julie Cross", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 12873, "review_number": 2000, "book_description": "The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy\u2026 he's in college, has a girlfriend\u2026 and he can travel back through time. But it's not like the movies \u2014 nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there's no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors \u2014 it's just harmless fun.That is\u2026 until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he's stuck in 2007 and can't get back to the future.Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.But it's not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these \"Enemies of Time\" will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit\u2026 or kill him.Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he's willing to go to save Holly\u2026 and possibly the entire world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11455096-tempest"}, +{"book_title": "When Lightning Strikes", "author_name": "Kristin Hannah", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1471, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "During a magical storm, romance writer Alaina Costanza is hurled back in time, into the Western world of her latest novel. There she is kidnapped by her own character, a ruthless outlaw known only as Killian. Thrown together by fate, Alaina and Killian will discover a love too magnificent to last a single lifetime. But even magic has a price, and time is running out. For the sake of Alaina's child, they must risk it all and fight for a future than depends on lightning striking . . . twice.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Contemporary", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Westerns", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/836944.When_Lightning_Strikes"}, +{"book_title": "On the Beach", "author_name": "Nevil Shute", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 35984, "review_number": 2633, "book_description": "After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must be dead. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from somewhere near Seattle, and Captain Towers must lead his submarine crew on a bleak tour of the ruined world in a desperate search for signs of life. On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.", "year_published": 1957, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Cultural (Australia)", "War", "Literature", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38180.On_the_Beach"}, +{"book_title": "Retief At Large", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 233, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "The publication of certain accounts of Jame Retief under the title RETIEF AT LARGE has generated such response that we of Ace Books have felt compelled, as a public service, to publish a second volume of the affairs - some would call them adventures - of that redoubtable member of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne. Surely in an age such as ours when Terra's Sphere of Influence is once again surrounded by Alien Peril in all its sundry guises, it is desirable - nay, vital! - that our people be aware that, contrary to the official records of the Corps, it was not by the questionable efforts of such worthies as Ambassadors Nitworth and Spradley that Mankind held its own in the terrible arena between the stars, but by the courage, skill and daring of such men as Jame Retief! This collection has six Retief stories to tickle your funny-bone. Retief is in prime form, taking on dangerous aliens and his own bosses in the Corps Diplomatique.Contents: Protocol [Retief] (1962) / short story by Keith Laumer (variant of The Yillian Way) Sealed Orders [Retief] (1962) / short story by Keith Laumer (variant of Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain) Aide Memoire [Retief] (1962) / short story by Keith Laumer Policy [Retief] (1962) / novelette by Keith Laumer (variant of The Madman from Earth) Palace Revolution [Retief] (1961) / novelette by Keith Laumer (variant of Gambler's World) Retief's Ransom [Retief \u2022 6] (1971) / novel by Keith Laumer.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/421834.Retief_At_Large"}, +{"book_title": "Death Match", "author_name": "Lincoln Child", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 10132, "review_number": 517, "book_description": "When a perfect couple commits double suicide, alarms go off in the offices of the high-tech matchmaking company. Investigation into a second couple's double suicide reveals a stunning labyrinth of artificial intelligence, creative genius, and a melding of technology that does indeed deliver on the company's guarantee of a perfect, lifelong mate.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Horror", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39027.Death_Match"}, +{"book_title": "Lola & the Millionaires: Part One", "author_name": "Kathryn Moon", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 1243, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Lola Barnes only wants one thing, to get her life under control. No more chasing alphas who abuse and toss away betas like her. No more hiding in her cousin\u2019s apartment licking wounds that won\u2019t heal. Armed with her dream job and her less than dreamy apartment, Lola is ready to start a new chapter of her life without alphas. But that\u2019s easier said than done when one stumbling incident after another leads Lola closer to an alluring pack of captivating men.These alphas are everything Lola dreamed of, but they already have an omega\u2014a playful male model who won\u2019t stop flirting with her. And Lola is only a beta, one who comes with deep scars and an unshakeable aversion to alphas and their powerful presences. If only she could resist their perfect beta, Leo, whose patience and determination to see her heal breaks down one wall after another.When the alpha who all but destroyed Lola tries to start a game of cat and mouse that\u2019s all claws, the safest place for Lola may be the one she\u2019s most terrified of, in the arms of an alpha pack.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53418962-lola-the-millionaires"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Building for Dummies", "author_name": "Roger Arrick", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 21, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Discover what robots can do and how they work Find out how to build your own robot and program it to perform tasks Ready to enter the robot world? This book is your passport! It walks you through building your very own little metal assistant from a kit, dressing it up, giving it a brain, programming it to do things, even making it talk. Along the way, you'll gather some tidbits about robot history, enthusiasts' groups, and more. The Dummies Way * Explanations in plain English * \"Get in, get out\" information * Icons and other navigational aids * Tear-out cheat sheet * Top ten lists * A dash of humor and fun", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1248825.Robot_Building_for_Dummies"}, +{"book_title": "Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict", "author_name": "Laurie Viera Rigler", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 5121, "review_number": 682, "book_description": "Can a girl from Regency England survive in today's morally confused world?Jane Mansfield has long wished to escape the confines of life in nineteenth-century England. But awakening as twenty-first-century Los Angeleno Courtney Stone is not what she had in mind. Nor is Courtney's barred-window urban box of an apartment. Gone are the rolling lawns and hovering servants of Jane's family estate. Gone is even a single friend who sees her or knows her as Jane. Nothing\u2014not even her face in the mirror\u2014is the same. The only thing familiar, the only thing she appears to have in common with the strange woman in whose life she has landed, is a love of Jane Austen.Not everything about the modern world is disagreeable. The apartment may be tiny, but it has a delightful glass box in which tiny figures act out scenes from Pride and Prejudice. And Jane may not be rich, but she has her first taste of privacy, independence, even the chance to earn her own money. Granted, if she wants to leave the immediate neighborhood on her own, she may have to learn to drive the roaring, horseless metal carriage. And oh, what places she goes! Public assemblies that pulsate with pounding music. Unbound hair and unrestricted clothing. The freedom to say what she wants when she wants\u2014even to men without a proper introduction.There are, however, complications. Such as the job she has no idea how to do. The bills that must be paid, despite the dwindling bank account. The confusing memories that are not her own. And the friend named Wes, who is as attractive and bewildering as the man who broke her heart back home. How is Jane to navigate a world in which kissing and flirting and even the sexual act itself raise no matrimonial expectations? With only Austen's words and a mysterious lady to guide her, Jane cannot help but wonder if she would be better off in her own time, where at least the rules are clear\u2014if returning is even an option.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5516525-rude-awakenings-of-a-jane-austen-addict"}, +{"book_title": "The Last 8", "author_name": "Laura Pohl", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1146, "review_number": 269, "book_description": "A high-stakes survival story about eight teenagers who outlive an alien attack\u2014perfect for fans of The 5th Wave Clover Martinez has always been a survivor, which is the only reason she isn't among the dead when aliens invade and destroy Earth as she knows it. When Clover hears an inexplicable radio message, she's shocked to learn there are other survivors\u2014and that they're all at the former Area 51. When she arrives, she's greeted by a band of misfits who call themselves The Last Teenagers on Earth.Only they aren't the ragtag group of heroes Clover was expecting. The group seems more interested in hiding than fighting back, and Clover starts to wonder if she was better off alone. But then she finds a hidden spaceship, and she doesn't know what to believe\u2026or who to trust.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36349389-the-last-8"}, +{"book_title": "Blood in the Water", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1032, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Taylor Anderson\u2019s enthralling New York Times bestselling series of alternate history continues as game-changing revelations upend the Grand Alliance in a potentially cataclysmic war. \u00a0 Ever since the USS Walker came from another world war to defy the terrifying Grik and diabolical Dominion, Matt Reddy and his crew have given their all to protect the oppressed Lemurians. But with the Walker in desperate need of repairs just as the Grik\u2019s First General is poised to strike, Reddy is desperate. \u00a0 With more enemies than ever before arrayed against them, the crew of the Walker needs new allies. That means combing the lethal wilds of Madagascar to find the Lemurians\u2019 fabled ancestors, as well as the enigmatic dwellers east of the Pass of Fire. But what Reddy\u2019s crew unearths may be more than they can handle\u2014discoveries so shattering they could tilt the balance of the war in either direction.\u00a0 \u00a0 But Reddy\u2019s greatest adversary is from his past: a madman named Kurokawa whose single-minded mission of revenge will shake the Alliance to its core and raise the stakes to the most personal and terrifying levels Reddy has ever faced.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26891541-blood-in-the-water"}, +{"book_title": "The Land Leviathan: A New Scientific Romance", "author_name": "Michael Moorcock", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 873, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Out of a world in which events defy the laws of Space and Time comes Michael Moorcok's intriguing new science fiction novel-- the fantastic tale of Oswald Bastable, a man trapped forever by Time. The desperation of Bastable's bizarre fate runs deep, for an unpredictable time warp thrusts him into strange worlds, all parallel to his own, and yet different. Throughout all this, Bastable can remain steadfast in his determination to reach his own time, because of his faith in one woman, inextricably bound to him in all dimensions of Time, and his belief in the existence of a secret Utopian citadel. But there is one thing that may have the power to come between Bastable and his goal-- a battle of Armageddon so horrifying in its believability that it almost obliterates his ability to keep searching.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1062549.The_Land_Leviathan"}, +{"book_title": "The Never Born", "author_name": "Christian Matari", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 153, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Over a century after the seedship Lazarus completed its near 1,200 year journey, the Terran colonies found themselves in conflict with a hostile alien race.In a world decimated by a long, drawn-out war where a never-ending stream of fresh clones are fed to the Terran war machine, a genetically engineered squad of soldiers must fight to survive against all odds.When society is ruled from behind the scenes by massive corporate conglomerates that control powerful secret organizations and even the very Republic itself, the clones will come to question the world they live in, their fellow soldiers, and even the very nature of their existence. What\u2019s more, they must struggle to establish their own identities in a world that has little respect for human life, and even less for that of a clone.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17972587-the-never-born"}, +{"book_title": "Forged in Blood I", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 5199, "review_number": 216, "book_description": "The emperor has been ousted from the throne, his bloodline in question, and war is descending on the capital. Forge, the nefarious business coalition that has been manipulating the political situation from the beginning, has the ultimate weapon at its disposal.If it was difficult for a small team of outlaws--or, as Amaranthe has decided they should now be called, rebels--to make a difference before, it's a monumental task now. If she's to return idealistic young Sespian to the throne, earn the exoneration she's sought for so long, and help her closest ally win the respect of the son who detests him, she'll have to employ an unprecedented new scheme...preferably without destroying the city--or herself--in the process.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15989176-forged-in-blood-i"}, +{"book_title": "The Belles", "author_name": "Dhonielle Clayton", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 19124, "review_number": 4658, "book_description": "Camellia Beauregard is a Belle. In the opulent world of Orl\u00e9ans, Belles are revered, for they control Beauty, and Beauty is a commodity coveted above all else. In Orl\u00e9ans, the people are born gray, they are born damned, and only with the help of a Belle and her talents can they transform and be made beautiful.But it\u2019s not enough for Camellia to be just a Belle. She wants to be the favorite\u2014the Belle chosen by the Queen of Orl\u00e9ans to live in the royal palace, to tend to the royal family and their court, to be recognized as the most talented Belle in the land. But once Camellia and her Belle sisters arrive at court, it becomes clear that being the favorite is not everything she always dreamed it would be. Behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets, and Camellia soon learns that the very essence of her existence is a lie\u2014that her powers are far greater, and could be more dangerous, than she ever imagined. And when the queen asks Camellia to risk her own life and help the ailing princess by using Belle powers in unintended ways, Camellia now faces an impossible decision. With the future of Orl\u00e9ans and its people at stake, Camellia must decide\u2014save herself and her sisters and the way of the Belles\u2014or resuscitate the princess, risk her own life, and change the ways of her world forever.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23197837-the-belles"}, +{"book_title": "Holo Men", "author_name": "Stephen Billias", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 15, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "When Joshua Victor discovers a team of permanent Net users who are intent on controlling the Net for their own purposes, he confronts them, but they turn on him to prevent him blowing the whistle.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2358600.Holo_Men"}, +{"book_title": "Valkyrie Rising", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 3432, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "Two years after the initial invasion of Hayden's World, the newly reinforced Hayden Militia is in a state of stalemate with the remaining enemy forces but neither side is content to leave things at that.The alien alliance has dispatched their varsity to clean up the resistance on Hayden while the USF has officially activated Task Force V, the latest and most advanced combat ships built by humans.In the end there are some things you decide in the skies, but some can only be settled in the mud.----Valkyrie Rising is the sequel to On Silver Wings", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13349364-valkyrie-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Hardwired", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4435, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "Hardwired features high-tech thrills and unforgettable heroes in the great tradition of William Gibson's Neuromancer. According to Locus, Hardwired is Walter Jon Williams's \"best book to date\".Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, \"hardwired\" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304761.Hardwired"}, +{"book_title": "His Dark Materials", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 148234, "review_number": 5283, "book_description": "The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass are available together in one volume perfect for any fan or newcomer to this modern fantasy classic series.These thrilling adventures tell the story of Lyra and Will\u2014two ordinary children on a perilous journey through shimmering haunted otherworlds. They will meet witches and armored bears, fallen angels and soul-eating specters. And in the end, the fate of both the living\u2014and the dead\u2014will rely on them.Phillip Pullman\u2019s spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy has captivated readers for over twenty years and won acclaim at every turn. It will have you questioning everything you know about your world and wondering what really lies just out of reach.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials"}, +{"book_title": "Heartfire", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 12549, "review_number": 229, "book_description": "Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married. But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. But only one slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy's quest to set the world on that path to peace.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7962.Heartfire"}, +{"book_title": "Soda Pop Soldier", "author_name": "Nick Cole", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 646, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Call of Duty meets Diablo in this fast-paced, action-packed novel from the author of The Wasteland Saga.Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat sport arena where mega-corporations field entire armies in the battle for real world global advertising-space dominance. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using drop-ships and state-of-the-art weaponry to wipe each other out.But times are tough and the rent is due, and when players need extra dough, there\u2019s always the Black, an illegal open source tournament where the sick and twisted desires of the future are given free rein in the Westhavens, a gothic dungeon fantasy world.And all too soon, the real and virtual worlds collide when PerfectQuestion refuses to become the tool of a mad man intent on hacking the global economy for himself.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Games (Gaming)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18950871-soda-pop-soldier"}, +{"book_title": "Metal Swarm", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 4033, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "The alien hydrogues have been defeated, driven back into the cores of their planets by an alliance of the Earth Defence Forces, the ancient Ildiran Empire, the Roamer clans and water elemental beings as well as gigantic living 'treeships'. But as the various factions try to pick up the pieces and recover, the wounds may be fatal.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Astronomy (Planets)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/932065.Metal_Swarm"}, +{"book_title": "The Forge of God", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 14043, "review_number": 546, "book_description": "On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw, a geologist working in Death valley, finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globeL: a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the Earth's core, flashes of light among the asteroids, it becomes clear to some that the end is approaching, and there is nothing that can be done. In The Forge of God, award-winning author Greg Bear describes the final days of the world on both a massive, scientific scale and in the everyday, emotional context of individual human lives. Facing the destruction of all they know, some people turn to God, others to their families, and a few turn to saviors promising escape from a planet tearing itself apart. Will they make it in time? And who gets left behind to experience the last moments of beauty and chaos on Earth?", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64732.The_Forge_of_God"}, +{"book_title": "A Fiery Sunset", "author_name": "Chris Kennedy", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 396, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "The Revelations are over, and the war to end all wars has begun. The plot by the Galactic Union\u2019s Mercenary Guild against the Four Horsemen has culminated in an invasion of Earth. Faced with an overwhelming force, the Human mercs had no choice. They\u2019ve fled, leaving Sansar Enkh to go to the Mercenary Guild headquarters on Capital Planet to stand trial for humanity. On the run, Jim Cartwright and Nigel Shirazi have travelled to the Winged Hussars\u2019 secret base of New Warsaw, in an effort to convince Alexis Cromwell to join the fight, while the other mercenaries who escaped the fall of Earth have gone to the perceived safe haven of Karma. Alexis Cromwell is reluctant to commit to an unwinnable fight, though, and there is no safety to be found in Karma. When the Mercenary Guild Tribunal is revealed to be a sham, the Horsemen are forced to choose\u2014is it better to hide and protect the Human race, or is it time to fight for what they believe in? All is not as it seems, though, and the galaxy stands poised on the brink of a second Great Galactic War. Vastly outnumbered, the Four Horsemen had better come up with a stellar plan, or for them, it might well be A Fiery Sunset.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39717562-a-fiery-sunset"}, +{"book_title": "Bright Light: Star Carrier: Book Eight", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 410, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling military science fiction author Ian Douglas brings us the eighth\u2014and penultimate\u2014Star Carrier novel, Bright Light, combining the best action, adventure, and hard science into this universe-spanning series\nThere\u2019s no more time . . .\n\nThere\u2019s always more time . . .\nTrevor Gray has been stripped of his command of the starship America, and is unsure what to do with his life. Having dedicated so much of himself to the service, he knew following the super-AI Konstantin\u2019s advice could have severe consequences. He just never thought he would be out of the fight.Because that\u2019s what Earth is in: a fight against a sinister alien force that is so technologically advanced, there seems little hope. And that\u2019s why he had disobeyed his orders in the first place: to figure out a way to stop them. But now he\u2019s beached.Which is just what Konstantin wanted.For the super-AI has a plan: connect Gray with the Pan-Europeans, and set him on a course to the remote star Deneb. There, he is to make contact with a mysterious alien civilization using the new artificial intelligence Bright Light, and maybe\u2014if they can make it in time\u2014prevent humanity from being wiped from the universe.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38754198-bright-light"}, +{"book_title": "Wendel's Workshop", "author_name": "Chris Riddell", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 290, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Wendel is far too busy inventing things to keep his workshop tidy. So if one of his inventions doesn't work, Wendel just tosses it onto the scrap heap and starts over. Then one day he invents the magnificent Wendelbot\u2014a mighty robot that cleans and cleans and doesn't stop. Soon poor Wendel finds himself thrown onto the scrap heap! How will Wendel win back his workshop? Let the robot battle begin!From the award-winning and always imaginative Chris Riddell comes a wonderfully funny, action-packed story full of surprises and extraordinary inventions.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Animals", "Childrens (Young Readers)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7662614-wendel-s-workshop"}, +{"book_title": "His Broken Angel", "author_name": "Beth Ciotta", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 89, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "From the author of Her Sky Cowboy comes a sexy new novella about rebellion, redemption, and the healing powers of love and tolerance amid budding global chaos. Doc Blue has never had it easy. Born a Freak, the offspring of a Vic\u2014a native Victorian\u2014and a Mod\u2014a time traveler from the future\u2014he\u2019s lived on the fringes of society, hiding his true identity and preternatural healing abilities from even his closest friends. His brief support of the Freak rebellion has only left him with even more problems, losing him both his job and one of his greatest allies, the Sky Cowboy, Tucker Gentry. So when Tuck\u2019s kid sister, Lily, ends up blinded in an air skirmish on her way from America to England, Doc jumps at the opportunity to be the one to rescue her and use his powers to mend her wounds. Curing Lily proves harder than anticipated, and Doc realizes that to restore her sight he will have to spill his biggest secret and embrace his Freak nature like never before. But, with Lily\u2019s help, Doc may be able to reach the full potential of his abilities, heal Lily\u2019s broken heart, and learn, finally, how to open his.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Historical (Victorian)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16281731-his-broken-angel"}, +{"book_title": "The Uglies Trilogy", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 14030, "review_number": 826, "book_description": "This arc of Scott Westerfeld's UGLIES trilogy follows the high-tech adventures of Tally Youngblood. As an ugly, then a pretty, and finally a special, Tally works to take down a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have a chance to think for themselves.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493455.The_Uglies_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "Dauntless", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 27827, "review_number": 1585, "book_description": "The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized, beyond belief...Captain John \"Black Jack\" Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic \"last stand\" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics.Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic \"Black Jack\" legend...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112292.Dauntless"}, +{"book_title": "The McClane Apocalypse, Book 1", "author_name": "Kate Morris", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1368, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "\u201cThe end of the world doesn\u2019t happen with a bang. It takes slightly longer than that but not by much. Research projects, Gross Anatomy class, tests and fancy coffee drinks will cease to be important. The fight for her life will become the only thing that matters.\u201dReagan McClane is a prodigy med school student on the brink of a brilliant career, but the United States and the rest of the world are headed towards total economic and social collapse. And it doesn\u2019t take more than a few hours for mass crime, looting and pillaging to spread across the country like a plague. A brutal attack at her university leads to a fight for her life before Reagan barely makes it home to the safety of her awaiting grandparents and sisters on their family farm in Tennessee. Three sexy Army Rangers, one of whom is married to Reagan\u2019s eldest sister, will join the McClane family to build their farm into an impenetrable fortress that they will fight to keep, no matter the cost. Reagan will find that defending her hardened, scarred heart against ever letting anyone in again will prove even more difficult than survival as one Ranger in particular tries to invade it.The McClane Apocalypse is a story of love, survival and the importance of family during the worst of times imaginable.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21901592-the-mcclane-apocalypse-book-1"}, +{"book_title": "Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden", "author_name": "Rick Remender", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 2602, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "The Isles of Los Angeles 2089: humanity is addicted to technology. Getting a virtual buzz is the only thing left to live for, and gangsters run it all. Who do these gangsters turn to when they need their rule enforced? Constables Led Dent and Debbie Decay are about to be given a job that will force them out of the familiar squalor of LA and into the last tech-less country on Earth: The Garden Nation of Tokyo. Collecting: Tokyo Ghost 1-5", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27753938-tokyo-ghost-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Renfield Syndrome", "author_name": "J.A. Saare", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 3200, "review_number": 299, "book_description": "Vampires, and werewolves, and demons, oh my.Rhiannon thought facing off against a deranged child vampire was the most dangerous task she would ever have to undertake, but she\u2019s about to discover making a deal with a demon is far, far worse. Sent forward into another reality, one in which vampires are now dominating nearly extinct humans, she realizes the sooner she returns to her vampire lover, Disco, the better.Unfortunately, time changes a lot of things; including those most trusted around her. When she\u2019s faced with a loss and betrayal unlike any she has ever known, her focus shifts from severing the debt between the demon that wants to kill her, to exacting a revenge that will bring forth consequences she never could have fathomed. By reaching out to the darkness lingering within her, she\u2019ll find the strength to push forward despite the circumstances that would see her dead and buried.After all, when it\u2019s all said and done, all that she has left to lose is her soul.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8513841-the-renfield-syndrome"}, +{"book_title": "Hunting Cari", "author_name": "Mikayla Lane", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 671, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Scaden Torenson was bored to death on his first voyage as a Commander of a Valendran fleet ship. Until a chance encounter with an ancient distress beacon turns his world upside down. Pitted against his loyalties and everything he believes he\u2019s forced to fight for the impossible\u2026 for what belongs to him. A child born of two worlds, Cari Lakatis has spent her whole life on Earth hiding from an ancient enemy of her father\u2019s people. Raised on stories of her father and his world, by her uncle, she\u2019s always dreamed of having a normal life. Now the enemy has finally caught up to her, and their plans are more insidious than she could have ever imagined. Betrayed by those they trusted the most, time is running out for them, and in order to save themselves they will have to decide if what they have found is truly worth fighting for.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18122645-hunting-cari"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken King and the Empress's Eyes", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 695, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Experience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook.The Kraken King, Part VIIThe Kraken King and the Empress\u2019s EyesIn the imperial city, nothing escapes the attention of the empress\u2019s spies. After a visit from an old friend rekindles her every fear, Zenobia must decide whether to trust Ariq with her heart\u2014and the Kraken King must decide whether he can ever let her go.But when danger invades their lovers\u2019 sanctuary, Ariq and Zenobia will have to put aside their troubled emotions. Outwitting their enemies and the Empress will be no easy feat. Luckily, they have a few allies waiting in the wings\u2026Includes a bonus excerpt of Meljean Brook\u2019s \u201cHere There Be Monsters.\u201dMore to come\u2026Don\u2019t miss The Kraken King, Part VIII", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novella", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Steampunk Romance", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20645264-the-kraken-king-and-the-empress-s-eyes"}, +{"book_title": "The Tears of the Sun", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2993, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "Rudi McKenzie-now Artos, the High King of Montival-must fulfill his destiny. He wields the sword crafted for him before he was born. He has made friends of his enemies. He has won the heart of the woman he loves.And now he must defeat the forces of the Church Universal and Triumphant, knowing he may lose his life in the final battle...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10629334-the-tears-of-the-sun"}, +{"book_title": "Synners", "author_name": "Pat Cadigan", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1863, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new technology spawns crime before it hits the streets; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with \"reality\" is incidental.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Literature", "Literary Fiction", "Computers (Hackers)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304806.Synners"}, +{"book_title": "The Pretender", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 3032, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Someone's looking for Tobias. Someone who says she's his long-lost cousin. Tobias isn't sure the person is telling the truth. But she's really nice, and knows a lot about him. And what she tells Tobias definitely gets his attention.It seems a lawyer has discovered Tobias's father's last will and testament. So, Tobias needs to attend the reading. His \"cousin\" even offers to go along. But something just doesn't feel quite right. That's when Tobias, the other Animorphs, and Ax decide to do a little checking on this \"cousin\". And what they discover will change the rest of Tobias's life....", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363421.The_Pretender"}, +{"book_title": "Dying of the Light", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 5765, "review_number": 550, "book_description": "A whisperjewel has summoned Dirk t\u2019Larien to Worlorn, and a love he thinks he lost. But Worlorn isn\u2019t the world Dirk imagined, and Gwen Delvano is no longer the woman he once knew. She is bound to another man, and to a dying planet that is trapped in twilight. Gwen needs Dirk\u2019s protection, and he will do anything to keep her safe, even if it means challenging the barbaric man who has claimed her. But an impenetrable veil of secrecy surrounds them all, and it\u2019s becoming impossible for Dirk to distinguish between his allies and his enemies. In this dangerous triangle, one is hurtling toward escape, another toward revenge, and the last toward a brutal, untimely demise.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Dying Earth)", "Audiobook", "Literature (American)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67956.Dying_of_the_Light"}, +{"book_title": "Kraken", "author_name": "China Mi\u00e9ville", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 23678, "review_number": 2959, "book_description": "With this outrageous new novel, China Mi\u00e9ville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this\u2014or any other\u2014year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about\u2014or prevent\u2014the End of All Things.In the Darwin Centre at London\u2019s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre\u2019s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux\u2014better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy\u2019s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens\u2014human and otherwise\u2014are adept in magic and murder.There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanity\u2014and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRC\u2014the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit\u2014a branch of London\u2019s finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the future in the city\u2019s entrails. There is Grisamentum, London\u2019s greatest wizard, whose shadow lingers long after his death. And then there is Goss and Subby, an ageless old man and a cretinous boy who, together, constitute a terrifying\u2014yet darkly charismatic\u2014demonic duo.All of them\u2014and others\u2014are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6931246-kraken"}, +{"book_title": "Flashforward", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 14639, "review_number": 1459, "book_description": "FLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other.But that\u2019s the least of the survivors\u2019 challenges. During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of what his or her future holds\u2014and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337132.Flashforward"}, +{"book_title": "Metro 2034", "author_name": "Dmitry Glukhovsky", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 15566, "review_number": 764, "book_description": "The long-awaited sequel to the cult bestseller Metro 2033, the second volume in the Metro trilogy, Metro 2034 continues the story of survival and struggle that unfolds in the mazes of the Moscow subway after WWIII. As the entire civilization was wiped out by atomic bombs and the surface of the planet is polluted with neclear fallout, the only place suitable for men to live are shelters and bunkers, the largest of which is the subway system of Moscow, aka the Metro. The year is 2034. There's no hope for humans to return to the surface of Earth, to repopulate the forsaken cities, and to become once again the masters of the world they used to be. So they rebuild a strange and grotesque civilization in the tunnels and at the stations of the subway. Stations become city-states that wage trade and war on each other. A fragile equilibrium is established. And then all can be ruined in matter of days. A new horrible threat looms that can eradicate the remains of humanity and end our era. It would take three unlikely heroes to face this menace. The basis of two bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, the Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction. Metro 2034 tells a previously unknown part of the greater Metro saga that some only know from video games. Whether you're new to this series, are a fan of the first novel, or want to explore the world of Metro in depth, Metro 2034 is a perfect read for you! Featuring blistering action, vivid and tough characters, claustrophobic tension and dark satire the Metro books have become bestsellers across the world.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Russia)", "Audiobook", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667916-metro-2034"}, +{"book_title": "Resurrection", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.55, "rating_votes": 1720, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Part 2: Episode 3 The enemy tightens its grip... Friends suffer a terrible blow... Difficult decisions must be made... Old comrades find a way to come together... Captain Tuplo must finally make the decision that has been haunting him since he learned the truth about his origins only a week ago. The fact that billions of lives may hang in the balance isn't making it any easier. Will Connor be able to face the demons of his past? \"Resurrection\" is the 3rd episode in Part 2 of the Frontiers Saga: Rogue Castes. Episode 4, \"Rebellion\", is coming soon!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33390278-resurrection"}, +{"book_title": "Spark", "author_name": "Amy Kathleen Ryan", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 4079, "review_number": 479, "book_description": "Waverly and Kieran are finally reunited on the Empyrean. Kieran has led the boys safely up to this point, and now that the girls are back, their mission seems slightly less impossible: to chase down the New Horizon, and save their parents from the enemy ship. But nothing is truly as it seems\u2026Kieran\u2019s leadership methods have raised Seth\u2019s hackles\u2014 and Waverly\u2019s suspicions. Is this really her fianc\u00e9? The handsome, loving boy she was torn from just a short time before? More and more, she finds her thoughts aligned with Seth\u2019s. But if Seth is Kieran\u2019s Enemy No. 1, what does that make her? In one night, a strange explosion rocks the Empyrean\u2014shooting them off course and delaying their pursuit of the New Horizon\u2014and Seth is mysteriously released from the brig. Seth is the most obvious suspect for the explosion, and Waverly the most obvious suspect for releasing him. As the tension reaches a boiling point, will Seth be able to find the true culprit before Kieran locks them both away\u2014or worse? Will Waverly follow her heart, even if it puts lives at risk? With the balance of power precarious and the clock ticking, every decision counts\u2026 every step brings them closer to a new beginning, or a sudden end...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12882328-spark"}, +{"book_title": "Highlander's Challenge", "author_name": "Jo Barrett", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1444, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Amelia Tucker, or Tuck as she prefers to be called, latest personal bodyguard assignment turns into one she'll never forget, thanks to a crazed kidnapper, one enchanted fountain, and a sixteenth century Highland Warrior determined to keep her under lock and key. Who will win this battle of wills?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5168329-highlander-s-challenge"}, +{"book_title": "The Weak and the Innocent", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 2479, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Episode 14 A ship in the hands of their enemy\u2026 A liberation gone wrong\u2026 A chance to double their ranks\u2026 A bold and daring plan\u2026 Their support from the Pentaurus cluster dwindling fast, the Alliance faces new and unpleasant realities in the Sol sector. But untoward changes also bring unexpected opportunities\u2026 The 'trick' is in how you use them. \u201cThe Weak and the Innocent\u201d is a 110,000 word novel, and is the 14th episode in The Frontiers Saga. The Conclusion of Part 1, Episode 15, \"Which Other Men Cannot Do\" is coming soon!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26137655-the-weak-and-the-innocent"}, +{"book_title": "The Truth", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 59540, "review_number": 1484, "book_description": "There's been a murder. Allegedly. William de Worde is the Discworld's first investigative journalist. He didn't mean to be - it was just an accident. But, as William fills his pages with reports of local club meetings and pictures of humorously shaped vegetables, dark forces high up in Ankh-Morpork's society are plotting to overthrow the city's ruler, Lord Vetinari.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34498.The_Truth"}, +{"book_title": "Thorns and Fangs", "author_name": "Gillian St. Kevern", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Nate is caught between two dangerously hot vampires who can compel people to do whatever they want and a ruthless necromancer who wants Nate for all the wrong reasons\u2014and that\u2019s only the start of his problems.Escort Nate prides himself on two things: his ability to please his clients and his normality \u2013 living in the monster capital of the world, ordinary is rare. Hunter, a darkly charming vampire with more charisma than is good for him, decides Nate is just what he needs. Nate\u2019s sympathetic nature and skill in the bedroom are put to the ultimate test. But Hunter wants Nate for someone else \u2013 his brother, Ben. Nate is immediately attracted by the control with which Ben holds his sensitive nature in force. Too afraid of becoming a monster to allow himself to feel, Ben struggles to resist Nate\u2019s generosity of emotion. As Nate\u2019s normal world crumbles around him, and he desperately searches for a way to save Ben, Nate is becoming the necromancer\u2019s latest victim.Nate is forced to let go of and embrace powers he doesn\u2019t fully understand. In defiance of Ben\u2019s vampire sire and hunted by Department Seven, Nate and Ben finally learn to trust and rely on each other.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "M M Romance (M M Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28230146-thorns-and-fangs"}, +{"book_title": "Spektrum", "author_name": "Martyna Raduchowska", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 110, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Kontynuacja trzymaj\u0105cych w napi\u0119ciu \u201e\u0141ez Mai\u201d.Technologia rozdar\u0142a to miasto na p\u00f3\u0142. Wydawa\u0142o si\u0119, \u017ce ostatnie granice ludzkich mo\u017cliwo\u015bci zosta\u0142y zniesione.W powszechnym u\u017cyciu s\u0105 androidy \u2013 prawie doskona\u0142e kopie cz\u0142owieka. Wyposa\u017cone w sztuczn\u0105 inteligencj\u0119, niesamowicie szybkie, zdolne do b\u0142yskawicznej regeneracji, s\u0105 o wiele bardziej wytrzyma\u0142e ni\u017c ich pierwowz\u00f3r. I o wiele bardziej niebezpieczne.Ludzie dzi\u0119ki wszczepom i implantom mog\u0105 upgrade\u2019owa\u0107 swoje cia\u0142o i umys\u0142 niczym postaci z gier komputerowych. Ci, kt\u00f3rych na nie sta\u0107, bogac\u0105 si\u0119 jeszcze bardziej. Biedni spadaj\u0105 na samo dno drabiny spo\u0142ecznej. Szans\u0105 dla wykluczonych jest reinforsyna. Geniusz w pigu\u0142ce, dost\u0119pny na ka\u017cd\u0105 kiesze\u0144. Gdy zapada decyzja o wycofaniu jej ze sprzeda\u017cy, atak na siedzib\u0119 jej producenta jest nieunikniony. Magazyny pustoszej\u0105 w jednej chwili. Reinforsyna zalewa ulice fal\u0105 neurochemicznego szale\u0144stwa.B-Day. Dzie\u0144 Buntu. Dzie\u0144, kt\u00f3ry zmieni\u0142 Jareda Quinna w nafaszerowanego elektronik\u0105 cyborga. On sam niewiele z niego pami\u0119ta. Tylko Maya, jego replikantka, wie, co naprawd\u0119 si\u0119 wtedy wydarzy\u0142o.Bo wszystko zacz\u0119\u0142o si\u0119 w\u0142a\u015bnie od niej.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41725056-spektrum"}, +{"book_title": "Ember", "author_name": "Kristen Callihan", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1528, "review_number": 203, "book_description": "Prequel to Firelight.After a fire consumes the Ellis family fortune, the beautiful and resourceful Miranda finds herself faced with an impossible dilemma: enter a life of petty crime or watch her family succumb to poverty. But once her fianc\u00e9 learns of her descent into danger\u2014and of the strange, new powers she's discovered\u2014saving her family may come at the high price of her heart.When Lord Benjamin Archer's one chance for redemption is destroyed by corrupt London antiquarian Hector Ellis, he vows to take what Ellis values most\u2014his daughter Miranda. Forced to hide his face behind masks, Archer travels the world hoping to escape the curse that plagues him so that he can finally claim his prize.But once Archer returns home to London, will it be revenge he seeks? Or will the flame-haired beauty ignite new, undeniable desires?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13381917-ember"}, +{"book_title": "Children of the Lens", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2551, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "It was beginning to look as if no one could prevent the destruction of the Universe. For a strange intelligence was directing the destruction of all civilization from the icy depths of space.Kim Kinnison of the Patrol was one of the few men who knew how near the end was. And in the last desperate plan to save all life, he knew he had to use his children as bait for the evil powers of the planet Ploor.", "year_published": 1947, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287498.Children_of_the_Lens"}, +{"book_title": "\u65b0\u88c5\u7248\u3000\uff22\uff2c\uff21\uff2d\uff25\uff01\uff08\uff14", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 418, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Sanakan attempts to destroy the Central A.I., as Mensab and her guardian knight, Seu, fight for the lives of the human residents they promised to protect. After the Central A.I. recklessly attempts to forward the whole of TOHA Heavy Industries, Kyrii and Cibo are left with a precious genetic sample from a very old human being. Wanting to test the genetic sample for signs of the Net Terminal Gene, Kyrii and Cibo make their way through an unofficial megastructure...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25642571"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien King's Baby: A Sci-fi Alien Romance", "author_name": "Shea Malloy", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1275, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "He's tall, arrogant and handsome.He's an alien king who saved her life one moment...Then abducted her the next.Oh, yeah, and she's pregnant with his baby.Wait. What?A receptionist at a straw supply company, Megan Landay is content with her ordinary life. Sure she still has some resentment toward her awful ex, but that's normal. What's not normal is the sudden appearance of the skilled alien warrior, Mikaal Ahrisi. Even worse is his arrogant demand she stay on his planet long enough to give birth to his child.-The petite human female isn't Mikaal\u2019s ideal choice as a mother to his offspring, but he no longer has a choice in the matter. Feisty and stubborn beyond reason, she's not like any of the women on his planet. Her presence in his life should be temporary, but as time passes he becomes uncertain if he should ever let her go.The Alien King's Baby is a steamy sci-fi alien romance. It features a handsome, powerful alien king who knows what he wants: the sassy, beautiful human destined to carry his baby!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54501040-the-alien-king-s-baby"}, +{"book_title": "Princess of Glass", "author_name": "Jessica Day George", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 20852, "review_number": 1794, "book_description": "Hoping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program, whereby young princes and princesses travel to each other's countries in the name of better political alliances--and potential marriages. It's got the makings of a fairy tale--until a hapless servant named Eleanor is tricked by a vengeful fairy godmother into competing with Poppy for the eligible prince. Ballgowns, cinders, and enchanted glass slippers fly in this romantic and action-packed happily-ever-after quest from an author with a flair for embroidering tales in her own delightful way.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairy Tales (Princesses)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7199667-princess-of-glass"}, +{"book_title": "The Forgotten Ones", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 6003, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "The Forgotten Ones is the thrilling sixth instalment of the Lost Files by Pittacus Lore.Mogadorian-turned-ally of the Garde, Adam, risks his life to help Sam Goode and his father Malcolm escape the Mogadorian base in Dulce, New Mexico. Using the Legacy that Number One bestowed upon him, he sacrifices himself and brings the entire facility crumbling down on his head.Miraculously, Adam survives in one piece, and discovers a secret the Mogadorians have been hiding from the Garde. Separated from his allies, Adam sets out on a quest to find the one thing the Garde have been missing all these years. The one thing that could turn the tide in this war . . .Praise for Pittacus Lore:'Tense, exciting, full of energy' Observer'Relentlessly readable' The Times'Tense, keeps you wondering' Sunday Times'Set to eclipse Harry Potter and moody vampires. Pittacus Lore is about to become one of the hottest names on the planet' Big IssueThe first book in Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies series, I Am Number Four, is now a major Disney motion picture.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16065602-the-forgotten-ones"}, +{"book_title": "Masque of the Red Death", "author_name": "Bethany Griffin", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 13833, "review_number": 1773, "book_description": "Everything is in ruins.A devastating plague has decimated the population, and those who are left live in fear of catching it as the city crumbles around them.So what does Araby Worth have to live for?Nights in the Debauchery Club, beautiful dresses, glittery makeup . . . and tantalizing ways to forget it all.But in the depths of the club\u2014in the depths of her own despair\u2014Araby will find more than oblivion. She will find Will, the terribly handsome proprietor of the club, and Elliott, the wickedly smart aristocrat. Neither is what he seems. Both have secrets. Everyone does.And Araby may find not just something to live for, but something to fight for\u2014no matter what it costs her.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12924275-masque-of-the-red-death"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Winner Takes All", "author_name": "Jacqueline Rayner", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2200, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth, and become intrigued by the latest craze \u2013 the video game, Death to Mantodeans. Is it as harmless as it seems? And why are so many local people going on holiday and never returning? Meanwhile, on another world, an alien war is raging. The Quevvils need to find a new means of attacking the ruthless Mantodeans.Searching the galaxy for cunning, warlike but gullible allies, they find the ideal soldiers on Earth. Will Rose be able to save her family and friends from the alien threat? And can the Doctor play the game to the end and win?Featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose as played by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper in the hit science fiction series from BBC Television", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Media Tie In", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/678080.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "City of Stars", "author_name": "Mary Hoffman", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 7447, "review_number": 198, "book_description": "Dreaming of a city with flying horses was one thing... But coming face to face with someone she knew to be dead - that was something else again.Georgia would love nothing more than to ride horses every day and avoid her annoying stepbrother at all costs. But she could never have guessed that a tiny, antique winged horse figurine would be the key to her escape to another world and another time. When Georgia arrives in a sixteenth-century city called Remora, she is plunged into a dangerous and treacherous world of horse-racing, family honour and deadly rivalry. And there, as a new Stravagante, Georgia will have a dramatic and extraordinary role to play...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250026.City_of_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "Blue Adept", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 13430, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he's a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren't enough, he has to win the love of Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon, and of course, seek out the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!THE APPRENTICE ADEPT SERIESBook One: SPLIT INFINITYBook Two: BLUE ADEPTBook Three: JUXTAPOSITION", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/716329.Blue_Adept"}, +{"book_title": "We Interrupt This Broadcast", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 299, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "This originally appeared in 2013 in The Mad Scientist\u2019s Guide to World Domination, edited John Joseph Adams and is in my Punchcard Punk universe. For those curious types, it takes place prior to \u201cLady Astronaut of Mars.\u201d", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41076478-we-interrupt-this-broadcast"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien's Mate", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2024, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Welcome to Luxiria, where the twin suns are hot and the alien warriors are hotter\u2026 Kate Harper can't believe that a month ago, she was living on Earth, going through the motions of a normal, human life. Now? A seriously sexy, insatiable, alpha alien knocked her up and she's learning how to rule over an entire species with her new mate. As Kate tries to carve out a place for herself on Luxiria--all while pregnant with an alien warrior's baby that loves to kick--there's unrest brewing on the planet and her strong alien mate's authority is challenged. And why can't she shake the feeling that he's hiding something from her? The Alien's Mate is Book Two of the Warriors of Luxiria series and is the sequel to The Alien's Prize. You need to have read Book One first. The Alien's Mate concludes Vaxa'an and Kate's story and the rest of the series will focus on other Luxirian warriors that can be read as standalones. Full-length 45,000+ word novel (or 200 pages)! (Ignore pre-order draft length). Warriors of Luxiria series: The Alien's Prize: Vaxa'an and Kate The Alien's Mate: Vaxa'an and Kate Untitled Book 3: Lihvan and Beks (coming May/June 2017!)", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34400344-the-alien-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Opal", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 129006, "review_number": 9463, "book_description": "No one is like Daemon Black.When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn\u2019t fooling around. Doubting him isn\u2019t something I\u2019ll do again, and now that we\u2019ve made it through the rough patches, well\u2026 There\u2019s a lot of spontaneous combustion going on.But even he can\u2019t protect his family from the danger of trying to free those they love.After everything, I\u2019m no longer the same Katy. I\u2019m different\u2026 And I\u2019m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I\u2019m capable. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won\u2019t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever.Together we\u2019re stronger\u2026 and they know it.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13362536-opal"}, +{"book_title": "The Circle", "author_name": "Dave Eggers", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 186776, "review_number": 23376, "book_description": "When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.(front flap)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Novels", "Thriller", "Science (Technology)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18302455-the-circle"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Disciple", "author_name": "Christie Golden", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 14480, "review_number": 1366, "book_description": "Based on unproduced scripts from the blockbuster TV show Star Wars: The Clone Wars!The only way to bring down the dark side's most dangerous warrior may be for Jedi and Sith to join forces.In the war for control of the galaxy between the armies of the dark side and the Republic, former Jedi Master turned ruthless Sith Lord Count Dooku has grown ever more brutal in his tactics. Despite the powers of the Jedi and the military prowess of their clone army, the sheer number of fatalities is taking a terrible toll. And when Dooku orders the massacre of a flotilla of helpless refugees, the Jedi Council feels it has no choice but to take drastic action: targeting the man responsible for so many war atrocities, Count Dooku himself.But the ever-elusive Dooku is dangerous prey for even the most skilled hunter. So the Council makes the bold decision to bring both sides of the Force's power to bear\u2014pairing brash Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos with infamous one-time Sith acolyte Asajj Ventress. Though Jedi distrust for the cunning killer who once served at Dooku's side still runs deep, Ventress's hatred for her former master runs deeper. She's more than willing to lend her copious talents as a bounty hunter\u2014and assassin\u2014to Vos's quest.Together, Ventress and Vos are the best hope for eliminating Dooku\u2014as long as the emerging feelings between them don't compromise their mission. But Ventress is determined to have her retribution and at last let go of her dark Sith past. Balancing the complicated emotions she feels for Vos with the fury of her warrior's spirit, she resolves to claim victory on all fronts\u2014a vow that will be mercilessly tested by her deadly enemy . . . and her own doubt.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23277298-dark-disciple"}, +{"book_title": "Second Stage Lensmen", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2966, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Kim Kinnison, Number One man of his time, had faced challenges before\u2014but rarely one as daunting as this. To him fell the perilous task of infiltrating the inner circle of Boskone, stronghold of galactic civilization\u2019s most deadly foe. Kinnison had to become a local Boskonian in every gesture, deed\u2014and thought. He had to work his way up through the ranks of an alien enemy organization, right into the highest echelons of power. Then it would be he who issued the orders\u2014orders that would destroy his own civilization..", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826520.Second_Stage_Lensmen"}, +{"book_title": "God Emperor of Didcot", "author_name": "Toby Frost", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 536, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Tea . . . a beverage brewed from the fermented dried leaves of the shrub Camelli sinensis and imbibed by all the great civilizations in the galaxy's history; a source of refreshment, stimulation, and, above all else, of moral fiber\u2014without which the British Space Empire must surely crumble to leave Earth at the mercy of its enemies.\u00a0Sixty percent of the Empire's tea is grown on one world\u2014Urn, principal planet of the Didcot system.\u00a0If Earth is to keep fighting, the tea must flow! When a crazed cult leader overthrows the government of Urn, Isambard Smith and his vaguely competent crew find themselves saddled with new allies\u2014a legion of tea-obsessed nomads, an overly-civilized alien horde. and a commando unit so elite that it has only five members.\u00a0Only together can they defeat the self-proclaimed God Emperor of Didcot and confront the true power behind the coup\u2014the sinister legions of the Ghast Empire and Smith's old enemy, Commander 462.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3407618-god-emperor-of-didcot"}, +{"book_title": "Nightfall", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 775, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Of the six suns, only Beta is left in the sky. Do you see it?\u201dThe question was rather unnecessary. Beta was almost at zenith, itsruddy light flooding the landscape to an unusual orange as the brilliantrays of setting Gamma died. Beta was at aphelion. It was small; smaller thanTheremon had ever seen it before, and for the moment it was undisputed rulerof Lagash\u2019s sky.Lagash\u2019s own sun, Alpha, the one about which it revolved, was at theantipodes, as were the two distant companion pairs. The red dwarf Beta \u2014 Alpha\u2019s immediate companion \u2014 was alone, grimly alone.Aton\u2019s upturned face flushed redly in the sunlight. \u201cIn just under fourhours,\u201d he said, \u201ccivilization, as we know it, comes to an end. It will doso because, as you see, Beta is the only sun in the sky.\u201d He smiled grimly.\u201cPrint that! There\u2019ll be no one to read it.", "year_published": 1941, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Classics", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18297094-nightfall"}, +{"book_title": "Sick", "author_name": "Brett Battles", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2696, "review_number": 274, "book_description": "Daniel Ash wakes after midnight to the cry of his daughter. Just a bad dream, he thinks. She's had them before. Yet he can't help but worry when she cries out again as he pads down the hallway. Stepping through her doorway, he expects to find her sitting up in bed, frightened by a nightmare.But the nightmare is his. It's real. And it's just beginning...Something is burning Ash's daughter alive. Something horrible that is spreading beyond the walls of their home, and taking no prisoners.Thirty seconds later, Ash will discover his daughter isn't the only one in his family infected, and as his world spins, coming apart at the seams, a team of armed men in biohazard suits bursts into his house.But these aren't the good guys.They haven't come to save Ash's family. They've come to separate them, to finish what they started.The problem is Ash refuses to disappear. He wants only one thing: to find those responsible.Because humanity is on the brink of execution.And man is pulling the trigger.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Thriller", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11183662-sick"}, +{"book_title": "Children of God", "author_name": "Mary Doria Russell", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 17972, "review_number": 1688, "book_description": "Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award. Now, in Children of God, Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today.The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future.Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Literary Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16948.Children_of_God"}, +{"book_title": "Persepolis Rising", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 38920, "review_number": 2259, "book_description": "In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace.In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity and the power to enforce it.New technologies clash with old as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient patterns of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity -- and of the Rocinante -- unexpectedly and forever...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28335696-persepolis-rising"}, +{"book_title": "The Ghost Rebellion", "author_name": "Pip Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 537, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "From authors Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris, the award winning steampunk series continues. The chase is on! After rescuing Queen Victoria from the clutches of the Maestro, Agents Eliza D Braun and Wellington Books are in hot pursuit of Dr Henry Jekyll. While he continues his experiments on the aristocracy of Europe, he leaves a trail of chaos and despair in his wake. However when Eliza and Wellington run him to ground in India, they are forced to come face to face with ghosts from the past and the realities of the British Empire. Meanwhile Ministry agents Brandon Hill and Bruce Campbell travel deep into Russia hunting down a rare ingredient to save Queen Victoria's life. Within the darkness and bitter cold, they uncover a threat from a revitalized House of Usher that comes directly from their new Chairman. A threat that promises to plunge the world into chaos!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30720994-the-ghost-rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "Heartsong", "author_name": "T.J. Klune", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 5059, "review_number": 994, "book_description": "All Robbie Fontaine ever wanted was a place to belong. After the death of his mother, he bounces around from pack to pack, forming temporary bonds to keep from turning feral. It\u2019s enough\u2014until he receives a summons from the wolf stronghold in Caswell, Maine. Life as the trusted second to Michelle Hughes\u2014the Alpha of all\u2014and the cherished friend of a gentle old witch teaches Robbie what it means to be pack, to have a home. But when a mission from Michelle sends Robbie into the field, he finds himself questioning where he belongs and everything he\u2019s been told. Whispers of traitorous wolves and wild magic abound\u2014but who are the traitors and who the betrayed? More than anything, Robbie hungers for answers, because one of those alleged traitors is Kelly Bennett\u2014the wolf who may be his mate.The truth has a way of coming out. And when it does, everything will shatter.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39926005-heartsong"}, +{"book_title": "Vados", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1728, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "A human woman, a tail-sporting alien, and a deadly hurricane\u2026 of course they\u2019re going to hook up! Or rather, they did hook up. But that was then. This is now. As a marine biologist, Maris Xayer is used to observing all types of marine life, but she never imagined she\u2019d come face to tail with an Ujal. In the middle of a hurricane, Maris and Vados came together\u2014ahem\u2014and then he disappeared. She figured it was a one-storm stand with an Ujal and moved on. Except Vados hadn\u2019t really gone anywhere and now the sexy as sin, red-skinned Ujal is back. For her. **This is a stand alone 37 page SHORT STORY.**", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25026898-vados"}, +{"book_title": "The Unofficial Master Annual 2074", "author_name": "Alister Pearson", "rating_score": 5.0, "rating_votes": 5, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Last year Terraqueous Distributors released \u2018The unofficial Dr Who annual 1972\u2019, and \u2018The unofficial Dr Who annual 1987\u2019. Which featured stories and illustrations produced by fans, as well as celebrity contributions from the worlds of Doctor Who.Now TERRAQUEOUS DISTRIBUTORS have released The unofficial Master annual 2074.The annual is an impressive 136 pages, featuring stories and illustrations produced by fans, as well as contributions from well known names such as Alister Pearson, Smuzz, and Andy Walker.The Master annual was originally announced last November, with a call for contributors. The following is an excerpt from the writers guidelines: \u201cThe Master is the Anti-hero. Sometimes saving people, not because of compassion or moral values, but because it suits whatever agenda he has.Of course he can also be the villain, remember that meddlesome Doctor isn\u2019t around \u2013 and thats when villains come out on top\u201d. The focus of the annual is the original Master portrayed by Roger Delgado.As many fans will notice, the cover artwork is a homage to the first ever Dr Who annual that was released in 1965 by World Distributors. \u201cWe wanted from the start to send the message that the Doctor isn\u2019t here to save the day, he\u2019s gone, he\u2019s been replaced by a different kind of \u201chero\u201d.And in the unofficial Master annual, we get to explore just how successful he can be. What could be more thrilling than exploring the Master\u2019s universe, without having the Doctor there to save the day\u201d.The cover was illustrated by Paul Cooke and features original characters from the stories in the annual.The Unofficial Master Annual 2074 is published by Terraqueous Distributors and available from Lulu at the print-on-demand price of \u00a323.32 plus shipping costs). The annual is a not-for-profit publication, and none of the money paid by purchasers goes to the publisher or to any of the contributors.Later this year, Terraqueous Distributors will be releasing their fourth annual.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53305466-the-unofficial-master-annual-2074"}, +{"book_title": "The House on the Strand", "author_name": "Daphne du Maurier", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 9840, "review_number": 1035, "book_description": "Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda...", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Gothic", "Historical", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869972-the-house-on-the-strand"}, +{"book_title": "A Bridge of Years", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1082, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge\u2014a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end lies the familiar present. At the other end\u2014New York City, 1963.Tom\u2019s journey back through time offers renewed hope in the form of a new life, a new love, and the chance to start life over in a simpler, safer world. But he finds that the time tunnel holds a danger far greater than anything he left behind: a human killing machine escaped from the bleak and brutal future, who will do anything to protect the secret passage he thought was his alone. And Tom Winter is forced to face the terrors of an unknown future to preserve his worlds, both past and present.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/779053.A_Bridge_of_Years"}, +{"book_title": "The Whatnot", "author_name": "Stefan Bachmann", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 859, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "\n\n \n \n \"Oh, the Sly King, the Sly King, in his towers of ash and wind.\"\n \u00a0\n \n \n \n\n \n Pikey Thomas doesn\u2019t know how or why he can see the changeling girl. But there she is. Not in the cold, muddy London neighborhood where Pikey lives. Instead, she\u2019s walking through the trees and snow of the enchanted Old Country or, later, racing through an opulent hall. She\u2019s pale and small, and she has branches growing out of her head. Her name is Henrietta Kettle. Pikey\u2019s vision, it turns out, is worth something. Worth something to Hettie\u2019s brother\u2014a brave adventurer named Bartholomew Kettle. Worth something to the nobleman who protects him. And Pikey is not above bartering\u2014Pikey will do almost anything to escape his past; he\u2019ll do almost anything for a life worth living. The faeries\u2014save for a mysterious sylph and a mischievous cobble faery or two\u2014 have been chased out of London. They\u2019ve all gone north. The army is heading north, too. So Pikey and Bartholomew follow, collecting information, piecing together clues, searching for the doorway that will lead them to Hettie.\u00a0\n\n\nThe Whatnot is the enthralling, surprising, and unforgettable companion to Stefan Bachmann\u2019s internationally bestselling debut novel The Peculiar. \n", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15841790-the-whatnot"}, +{"book_title": "Of Metal and Wishes", "author_name": "Sarah Fine", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2977, "review_number": 573, "book_description": "There are whispers of a ghost in the slaughterhouse where sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical clinic\u2014a ghost who grants wishes to those who need them most. When one of the Noor, men hired as cheap factory labor, humiliates Wen, she makes an impulsive wish of her own, and the Ghost grants it. Brutally.Guilt-ridden, Wen befriends the Noor, including their outspoken leader, a young man named Melik. At the same time, she is lured by the mystery of the Ghost and learns he has been watching her... for a very long time. As deadly accidents fuel tensions within the factory, Wen must confront her growing feelings for Melik, who is enraged at the sadistic factory bosses and the prejudice faced by his people at the hand of Wen\u2019s, and her need to appease the Ghost, who is determined to protect her against any threat\u2014real or imagined. She must decide whom she can trust, because as her heart is torn, the factory is exploding around her... and she might go down with it.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Retellings", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17303139-of-metal-and-wishes"}, +{"book_title": "Countdown", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 4383, "review_number": 389, "book_description": "The year is 2014, the year everything changed. We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died.This is the story of how we rose.When will you rise?Countdown is a novella set in the world of Feed. Word count: ~19,500", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11509894-countdown"}, +{"book_title": "Stars Across Time", "author_name": "Ruby Lionsdrake", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 651, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "Can love take root in the cracks of time? Air Force pilot Andromeda \u201cAndie\u201d Kim dreams of being chosen to join NASA so she can go to space. Instead, she\u2019s stolen by savage kidnappers from a dystopian future where fertile women are needed for breeding purposes. One of her kidnappers, a man named Mace, goes out of his way to protect her from the other slavers, but she\u2019s not about to trust him. All she wants is to escape and find a way back to her time before she's sold as broodstock and stuck in this ruined world forever. Colonel Aloysius \u201cMace\u201d Theron of the Cascadian Alliance is a battlefield commander, not a spy, but after twenty years of service, he\u2019s also trusted by his superiors. That\u2019s why they choose him for a top-secret mission: to infiltrate an organization of thieves using a time machine to plunder the past. He\u2019s supposed to find and destroy the machine, not fall in love with one of the captives, but Andie is as much of a fighter as he is, and he\u2019s drawn to her from the beginning. Yet if he fights too hard to protect her, his identity will be discovered and his mission will fail, leaving criminals to terrorize the past, perhaps irrevocably changing history and endangering everyone he knows and loves.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25145109-stars-across-time"}, +{"book_title": "Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization", "author_name": "Graham Hancock", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 9494, "review_number": 647, "book_description": "Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock presents a compelling case to suggest that it is.In Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock embarks on a worldwide quest to put together all the pieces of the vast and fascinating jigsaw of mankind\u2019s hidden past. In ancient monuments as far apart as Egypt\u2019s Great Sphinx, the strange Andean ruins of Tihuanaco, and Mexico\u2019s awe-inspiring Temples of the Sun and Moon, he reveals not only the clear fingerprints of an as-yet-unidentified civilization of remote antiquity, but also startling evidence of its vast sophistication, technological advancement, and evolved scientific knowledge. A record-breaking number one bestseller in Britain, Fingerprints of the Gods contains the makings of an intellectual revolution, a dramatic and irreversible change in the way that we understand our past\u2014and so our future.And Fingerprints of the Gods tells us something more. As we recover the truth about prehistory, and discover the real meaning of ancient myths and monuments, it becomes apparent that a warning has been handed down to us, a warning of terrible cataclysm that afflicts the Earth in great cycles at irregular intervals of time\u2014a cataclysm that may be about to recur.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["History", "Nonfiction", "Science", "History (Ancient History)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "History (Archaeology)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Anthropology", "Spirituality", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53325.Fingerprints_of_the_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", "author_name": "Douglas Adams", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 238543, "review_number": 6014, "book_description": "Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and contributor to the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMilan, a fellow Earth refuge who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, who suffers nothing and no one gladly.Source: douglasadams.com", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8695.The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe"}, +{"book_title": "The Boy at the End of the World", "author_name": "Greg Van Eekhout", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 979, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "Fisher is the last boy on earth-and things are not looking good for the human race. Only Fisher made it out alive after the carefully crafted survival bunker where Fisher and dozens of other humans had been sleeping was destroyed.Luckily, Fisher is not totally alone. He meets a broken robot he names Click, whose programmed purpose-to help Fisher \"continue existing\"-makes it act an awful lot like an overprotective parent. Together, Fisher and Click uncover evidence that there may be a second survival bunker far to the west. In prose that skips from hilarious to touching and back in a heartbeat, Greg van Eekhout brings us a thrilling story of survival that becomes a journey to a new hope-if Fisher can continue existing long enough to get there.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9580832-the-boy-at-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Dream", "author_name": "Laurie Roma", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1453, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Allison Summers is having the mother of all bad days. As a surgeon, Allie is strong, smart, and confident, but as a woman, she still struggles to overcome a difficult past. She tries to make the best of her situation, though her life takes an unexpected turn when she is struck by lightning and finds herself transported to a strange, alien world.Arcadian Princes Tynan, Cael, and Ryder Dracor have been searching for the mate who will complete their souls, but they fear that day will never come. Born in a world stripped of magic and out of favor with the gods, their very existence is in peril, though everything changes the moment a fair-haired goddess suddenly appears. They have no clue who she is or where she came from...but they immediately know she belongs to them.When wills clash and legacies are unveiled, they discover more is at risk than just their hearts. Their love may be fated, but is it enough for Allie to forget everything she's ever known and truly embrace being an Arcadian?NOTE: This book was previously published but has been revised and extended. ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42736587-into-the-dream"}, +{"book_title": "The Doorknob Society", "author_name": "M.J. Fletcher", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 863, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "Chloe Masters\u2019s world changed in a heartbeat - and all she did was touch a doorknob. When she was young Chloe\u2019s mother vanished. Wracked by feelings of abandonment and anger she lost herself traveling with her father's magic act, where illusions were part of her everyday life. Yet everything changes when they are pursued by a mysterious man in black out to kill her father. Touching a doorknob activates abilities she never knew she had and she finds herself thrust into a world of ancient societies and secrets.When her father disappears it is a race against time to find answers before she loses what is left of her family. Now Chloe must choose who to trust, the man who will do anything for her or the one she can\u2019t stop thinking about.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13481858-the-doorknob-society"}, +{"book_title": "Changeless", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 42517, "review_number": 3943, "book_description": "Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears; leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. So even when her investigations take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.CHANGELESS is the second book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6933876-changeless"}, +{"book_title": "The Cage", "author_name": "Megan Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 6078, "review_number": 952, "book_description": "When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn\u2019t know where she is or who put her there. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix of environments\u2014tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle, and a strangely empty town cobbled together from different cultures, all watched over by eerie black windows. And she isn\u2019t alone.Four other teenagers have also been taken: a beautiful model, a tattooed smuggler, a secretive genius, and an army brat who seems to know too much about Cora\u2019s past. None of them have a clue as to what happened, and all of them have secrets. As the unlikely group struggles for leadership, they slowly start to trust each other. But when their mysterious jailer appears\u2014a handsome young guard called Cassian\u2014they realize that their captivity is more terrifying than they could ever imagine: their captors aren\u2019t from Earth. And they have taken the five teenagers for an otherworldly zoo\u2014where the exhibits are humans.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071187-the-cage"}, +{"book_title": "The Martian Ambassador", "author_name": "Alan K. Baker", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 359, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "WELCOME TO LONDON, 1899It has been six years since the discovery of intelligent life on Mars, and relations between the two worlds are rapidly developing. Three-legged Martian omnibuses stride through the streets and across the landscape, while Queen Victoria has been returned to the vigour of youth by Martian rejuvenation drugs. Victorian computer technology is proceeding apace, thanks to the faeries who power the '-cogitators'; while the first 'ther zeppelins are nearing completion, with a British expedition to the Moon being planned for the following year.Everything seems to be going swimmingly until Lunan R'ondd, Martian Ambassador to the Court of Saint James's, dies while attending a banquet at Buckingham Palace. The discovery of strange, microscopic larvae in his breathing apparatus leads Queen Victoria to suspect that he may have been the victim of a bizarre assassination. The Martian Parliament agrees, and they are not pleased. No Martian has ever died in such suspicious circumstances while on Earth. An ultimatum is given: if Her Majesty's Government cannot solve the crime and bring the perpetrator to justice, the Martians will!Enter Thomas Blackwood, Special Investigator for Her Majesty's Bureau of Clandestine Affairs. Along with Lady Sophia Harrington, Secretary of the Society for Psychical Research, Blackwood is charged with the task of solving the mystery of Ambassador R'ondd's death, before the Martians take matters into their own hands, possibly igniting an interplanetary war in the process!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9744175-the-martian-ambassador"}, +{"book_title": "Exit West", "author_name": "Mohsin Hamid", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 109049, "review_number": 13306, "book_description": "In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet\u2014sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors\u2014doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. Exit West follows these characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Literary Fiction", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Adult", "Novels", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30688435-exit-west"}, +{"book_title": "Restless Lightning", "author_name": "Richard Baker", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 113, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Richard Baker continues the adventures of Sikander North in Restless Lightning, the second book in his new military science fiction series Breaker of Empires.Lieutenant Sikander North has avoided an outright court martial and finds himself assigned to a remote outpost in the crumbling, alien Tzoru Empire\u2014where the navy sends trouble-makers to be forgotten. When Sikander finds himself in the middle of an alien uprising, he, once again, must do the impossible: smuggle an alien ambassador off-world, break a siege, and fight the irrational prejudice of his superior officers. The odds are against his success, and his choices could mean disgrace\u2014or redemption.Breaker of Empires#1 Valiant Dust", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37534897-restless-lightning"}, +{"book_title": "On the Oceans of Eternity", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 4072, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "Harry Turtledove hailed Island in the Sea of Time as \"one of the best time travel/alternative history stories I've ever read,\" and Jane Lindskold called Against the Tide of Years \"another exciting and explosive tale.\" Now the adventures of the Nantucket islanders lost in the time of the Bronze Age continues with On the Oceans of Eternity. Ten years ago, the twentieth century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by a mysterious Event. In the decade since, the Republic of Nantucket has worked hard to create a new future for itself, using the technological know-how retained from modern times to explore and improve conditions for the inhabitants of the past.Some of these peoples have become allies. Some have turned instead to the renegade Coast Guard officer William Walker. And for ten years, the two sides have tested each other, feinting and parrying, to decide who will be the ones to lead this brave new world into the future.Now the official battle lines have been drawn. And only one side can emerge the victor...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116442.On_the_Oceans_of_Eternity"}, +{"book_title": "Ha'ven's Song", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 3092, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "Ha\u2019ven Ha\u2019darra is the Crown Prince for the Curizans, an advanced species known for their technology. They may not have the power to shift like the Valdier or the Sarafin but they have hidden powers of their own that they guard. Not even his best friends, Creon Reykill of the Valdier or Vox d\u2019Rojah of the Sarafin, are aware of the powers he holds within his deadly frame.Ha\u2019ven is happy to help out his Valdier friend when he calls. There are only two things that satisfy the restlessness inside him \u2013 a good fight and an even better evening with a hot, willing female. He has no desire to settle down like his two friends have. He enjoys having his freedom and the wide sample of females at his disposal. All of that changes when he catches a glimpse of the delicate beauty who looks through him as if he doesn\u2019t even exist. His blood calls to her, his magic aches to meld with hers, but she blocks his every advance.Emma Watson\u2019s life was perfect. Her love for music and dance let her escape the overwhelming shyness that she suffered from all her life. When she is invited to travel with a group to promote music and dance for children in South America, she believes it is the perfect chance to discover who she can really be. Everything changes when she is kidnapped by a powerful drug lord. Beaten and forced to watch the torture of other women, she withdrawals into the world she feels safest \u2013 the one inside herself.When she is rescued by creatures not of this world, they heal her physical wounds but cannot touch the ones deep inside her. She has given up on ever returning to her world and has little hope for the future. That is why she does not understand why one aggravating male suddenly won\u2019t leave her alone. She wants nothing to do with men! They cause nothing but heartache and pain. She had been on the receiving end of their fists to know that! Why would she want one that could crush her with one hand?No woman has ever turned Ha\u2019ven Ha\u2019darra down and he isn\u2019t about to accept his mate doing it. He will show her that not all men are the same, even if he has to kidnap her and take her to his world to do it. He plans to show her the power she has hidden deep inside her and open her heart to the love he has in his.Now, he just has a few extra problems to overcome. Her Valdier protectors have given him six months to change her mind about wanting to return to them, a traitor is trying to kill them both, and they have crashed on a remote moon. Can he unlock her magic in time to save their love or will the traitor, determined to kill them, destroy her before he can?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18075916-ha-ven-s-song"}, +{"book_title": "Collide", "author_name": "Melissa West", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1048, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "Military legacy Ari Alexander has survived alien spies, WWIV, and a changing world order. But when the new leader of Earth uses Jackson\u2014the only boy she's ever let herself care about\u2014to get to her, Ari has no choice but to surrender. To free Jackson, she agrees to travel to the national bases to train others to fight. What she discovers is a land riddled with dying people. Ari has the power to heal by turning the fighters into aliens\u2014half-breeds like her. If she succeeds, together, they have a chance at overthrowing the alien leader, Zeus. But if she fails, everyone she holds dear will be wiped away forever.Once again, everything Ari\u2019s come to believe is thrown into question. In a world of uncertainty, loyalties are tested, lies are uncovered, and no one can be trusted. If Ari and Jackson have any hope at survival and at preserving a life for the future, they must fight the final war with their eyes wide open.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16032329-collide"}, +{"book_title": "Code of the Lifemaker", "author_name": "James P. Hogan", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 957, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Thirg, the notorious philosopher, knows there are alien beings on other worlds on the other side of the sky. When aliens do arrive, Thirg's heretical and dangerous beliefs are vindicated. But the strange creatures called human plan to exploit his planet's resources. Only one human, Karl Zambendorf, can stop his fellow Terrans from enslaving Thirg's people. Too bad Zambendorf is a con man.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Religion", "Biology (Evolution)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/506194.Code_of_the_Lifemaker"}, +{"book_title": "Declare", "author_name": "Tim Powers", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4994, "review_number": 432, "book_description": "As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hale's desperate quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft -- and inexorably drives Hale, the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, and Kim Philby, mysterious traitor to the British cause, to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Horror", "Mystery", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190554.Declare"}, +{"book_title": "Tender Is the Flesh", "author_name": "Agustina Bazterrica", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 7429, "review_number": 1942, "book_description": "Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans \u2014though no one calls them that anymore.His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the \u201cTransition.\u201d Now, eating human meat\u2014\u201cspecial meat\u201d\u2014is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.Then one day he\u2019s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he\u2019s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost\u2014and what might still be saved.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49090884-tender-is-the-flesh"}, +{"book_title": "Star Colony", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.06, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Coming in fast and low, the huge ship made planetfall. Three years out from Terra, the colony ship Omega had reached her destination, and the crew began to off-load the cargo and passengers.Then the ship vanished.Against the vast panorama of an unexplored universe, science fiction master Keith Laumer sets this first volume of the history of the world called Colmar - mankind's first venture among the stars.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1996580.Star_Colony"}, +{"book_title": "The Grays", "author_name": "Whitley Strieber", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 1379, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "We are not alone. Millions of people are confronting aliens that authorities say do not exist. Whitley Strieber--author of the legendary, #1 bestselling book Communion, which details his own close encounters--now returns to the riddle of aliens with The Grays.\u00a0A triumvirate of Grays, known as the Three Thieves, has occupied a small Kentucky town for decades--abducting its residents and manipulating fates and bloodlines in hopes of creating an ultra-intelligent human being. Nine-year-old Conner Callahan will face the ultimate terror as he struggles to understand who he has been bred to be and what he must do to save humanity.Though the Grays have slowly begun to make themselves known, Colonel Michael Wilkes, the head of a select group of government and military officials that have been monitoring the aliens, will do anything in his power to keep them a secret. Wilkes will set in motion a sinister plan to ensure the survival of humanity,but at what cost?\u00a0The fate of the human race lies with one woman, Lauren Glass. Her uncanny ability to communicate with the aliens and her relationship with the last remaining captive gray may be the only way to save humankind.The Grays is a mind-bending journey behind the curtain of secrecy that surrounds the subject of aliens, written by the field's great master. If you've never so much as thought about the subject before, this book will make you think deeply, not only about the mystery of who the Grays are, but who exactly we are.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437421.The_Grays"}, +{"book_title": "Hard Magic", "author_name": "Larry Correia", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 14691, "review_number": 1161, "book_description": "Jake Sullivan is a licensed Private Eye\u2014with a seriously hardboiled attitude. He also possesses raw magical talent and the ability to make objects in his vicinity light as a feather or as heavy as depleted uranium, all with a magical thought. It's no wonder the G-men turn to Jake when they need someone to go after a suspected killer who's been knocking off banks in a magic-enhanced crime spree. Problems arise when Jake discovers the bad girl behind the robberies is an old friend, and he happens to know her magic is just as powerful as his, and the Feds have plunged Jake into a secret battle between powerful cartels of magic-users--a cartel whose ruthless leaders have decided that Jake is far too dangerous to live. . . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8643407-hard-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita, Volume 06: Angel Of Death", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1911, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Alita's death sentence is commuted in exchange for her service as a member of the Tuned, an elite force of the utopian city of Tiphares. Her first assignment is to protect a nuclear-powered train from the infamous bandit known as Barjack.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60293.Battle_Angel_Alita_Volume_06"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Twilight", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 103, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "A huge volume of edge-of-the-seat science fiction adventure, including: * The Long Twilight: Grayle and Falconer met in relentless combat with no quarter in prehistoric ages past, their endless battle now remembered only as dark myths and legends. Now their long battle is nearing its climax\u2014and the final battleground is an uncontrolled experimental power plant that threatens the Earth itself! * Night of Delusions: A detective is hired by men claiming to be government agents and given an assignment that may lead to his being hailed as the savior of the nation\u2014or executed for treason. His mysterious clients also give him devices to use in the assignment, devices which seem to be far beyond anything of which human technology is capable. And as he doggedly pursues the case, he finds that the very fabric of reality seems to be changing around him, even to the point that he himself seems never to have existed! * Plus three short novels of equally stunning concepts and breathtaking action.\n\n", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2272067.The_Long_Twilight"}, +{"book_title": "Ash and Quill", "author_name": "Rachel Caine", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 7253, "review_number": 965, "book_description": "Words can kill. Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealously guards its secrets. But now a group of rebels poses a dangerous threat to its tyranny\u2026 Jess Brightwell and his band of exiles have fled London, only to find themselves imprisoned in Philadelphia, a city led by those who would rather burn books than submit. But Jess and his friends have a bargaining chip: the knowledge to build a machine that will break the Library\u2019s rule. Their time is running out. To survive, they\u2019ll have to choose to live or die as one, to take the fight to their enemies\u2014and to save the very soul of the Great Library\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30956356-ash-and-quill"}, +{"book_title": "Destiny Lost", "author_name": "M.D. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1172, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Sera leads a simple life. A little smuggling, some drinking contests, and captaining her star freighter, Sabrina. But when she picks up a mysterious shipping container on Coburn Station, things begin to go wrong. She finds herself at odds with The Mark, a dangerous pirate organization that wants the cargo on her ship. Inside the container she not only finds a woman, but a secret thought lost millennia ago. The woman is Tanis Richards, and she knows the location of the Intrepid, a missing colony ship from humanity\u2019s golden age. Sera knows how to help Tanis and the Intrepid. But to do that, she will need to reveal a secret that will pull her back into a life she left long ago. A life from which she was exiled in shame and disgrace. Tanis doesn't trust Sera; and Sabrina\u2019s rag-tag crew is nothing like what she's used to, but she's going to have to rely on them to avoid capture and get back to the Intrepid. As Tanis and Sera battle pirates and interstellar governments, the two women forge a friendship that will forever shape the destiny of humanity. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32806033-destiny-lost"}, +{"book_title": "The Death of Sleep", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 2959, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "THE DISASTER IN SPACE DIDN'T KILL HER - IT JUST STOLE HER LIFE", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/412820.The_Death_of_Sleep"}, +{"book_title": "The Search for Sam", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 8163, "review_number": 328, "book_description": "When a rogue Mogadorian meets up with a mysterious amnesiac in Santa Monica, he knows that there's more to this guy than meets the eye. In fact, he might just hold the key to everything.In I Am Number Four: The Lost Files #4, discover what has happened to one of the people with information crucial to the Garde coming together to fight to save Lorien\u2014and Earth.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15752308-the-search-for-sam"}, +{"book_title": "Men and Monsters", "author_name": "Elena May", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 670, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "The stakes have risen. For fifty years, Prince Vladimir has tolerated the Resistance, but now they threaten what he holds dear. The vicious vampire will no longer hold back. A plan he has been working on for decades will finally reveal itself and entangle everyone standing on the way.For the first time after the Nightfall, the Resistance holds a true bargaining chip. For the first time, they have a chance to tip the scales of the war and ensure humanity\u2019s survival. But Myra has made a promise, and breaking it will destroy all that is human in her. She is loyal to the Resistance, but nothing is black and white. Long-buried secrets emerge, showing her that vampires can be more honorable than humans, and humans can be more monstrous than beasts.A desperate nobleman, fighting to save a doomed culture. A reclusive poet, choosing art over immortality. A vampire, rejecting her raw nature. Past and present weave together in an action-packed tale of power games, a hopeless fight for survival, and the indestructible human need to create art.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Folklore", "Cultural (Bulgaria)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32812232-men-and-monsters"}, +{"book_title": "The Black", "author_name": "Paul Elard Cooley", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1109, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Under 30,000 feet of water, the exploration rig Leaguer has discovered an oil field larger than Saudi Arabia, with oil so sweet and pure, nations would go to war for the rights to it. But as the team starts drilling exploration well after exploration well in their race to claim the sweet crude, a deep rumbling beneath the ocean floor shakes them all to their core. Something has been living in the oil and it's about to give birth to the greatest threat humanity has ever seen.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Folklore (Monsters)", "Suspense", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23234844-the-black"}, +{"book_title": "Nemesis", "author_name": "Brendan Reichs", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 6551, "review_number": 1265, "book_description": "He killed me. He killed me not. He killed me.It\u2019s been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later, she wakes up in a clearing just outside her tiny Idaho hometown\u2014alone, unhurt, and with all evidence of the horrifying crime erased.Across the valley, Noah just wants to be like everyone else. But he\u2019s not. Nightmares of murder and death plague him, though he does his best to hide the signs. But when the world around him begins to spiral toward panic and destruction, Noah discovers that people have been lying to him his whole life. Everything changes in an eye blink.For the planet has a bigger problem. The Anvil, an enormous asteroid threatening all life on Earth, leaves little room for two troubled teens. Yet on her sixteenth birthday, as she cowers in her bedroom, hoping not to die for the fifth time, Min has had enough. She vows to discover what is happening in Fire Lake and uncovers a lifetime of lies: a vast conspiracy involving the sixty-four students of her sophomore class, one that may be even more sinister than the murders.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30142139-nemesis"}, +{"book_title": "Dr. Dimension", "author_name": "John DeChancie", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 47, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "The first in a new series of comic science fiction novels certain to appeal to the enormous reading public that loved Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's 1939, and Professor Demetrios Demopoulos is working on his new spacet ime machine when a shipment of astonishing future technology arrives. Soon he and his colleagues are on an around-the-universe jaunt.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611356.Dr_Dimension"}, +{"book_title": "Path of the Fury", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 2554, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "A space adventure with a strong female character in the tradition of Sassinak and Generation Warriors--by the bestselling author of Mutineers' Moon. The \"invincible\", planet-wrecking pirates made a big mistake when they raided ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home world and murdered her family. The Imperial forces seem helpless against the marauders so Alicia decides to turn pirate herself--by stealing an Imperial ship to carry out her vendetta.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/340209.Path_of_the_Fury"}, +{"book_title": "House of Robots", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 2532, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "In this new highly-illustrated series from James Patterson, an extraordinary robot signs up for an ordinary fifth grade class... and elementary school will never be the same! It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he's dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring her newest invention to school: a walking, talking robot he calls E--for \"Error\". Sammy's no stranger to robots--his house is full of a colorful cast of them. But this one not only thinks it's Sammy's brother... it's actually even nerdier than Sammy. Will E be Sammy's one-way ticket to Loserville? Or will he prove to the world that it's cool to be square? It's a roller-coaster ride for Sammy to discover the amazing secret E holds that could change family forever... if all goes well on the trial run!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21489272-house-of-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Not Alone", "author_name": "Craig A. Falconer", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 6754, "review_number": 623, "book_description": "Aliens exist, the government knows, and Dan McCarthy just found the proof. When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies -- a top-level alien cover-up -- he leaks the files without a second thought. The incredible truth revealed by Dan\u2019s leak immediately captures the public\u2019s imagination, but Dan\u2019s relentless commitment to exposing the cover-up and forcing disclosure quickly earns him some enemies in high places. For his whole life, Dan McCarthy has searched for a reason to believe. Now that he finally has one, he might soon wish he didn\u2019t... Not Alone is a standalone tale of contact and disclosure for the 21st century. [approx. 850 pages]", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28261356-not-alone"}, +{"book_title": "Taken", "author_name": "Angeline Fortin", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 653, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Second chances are only helpful if you recognize them for what they are. Celebrated actress Scarlett Thomas never wanted fame -- that was her parent\u2019s dream. Now she\u2019s ready to make big changes, but she could never have imagined how big those changes might turn out to be. Returning to the medieval Dunskirk Castle, where she filmed The Puppet War trilogy, she encounters an old Scotsman named Donell who directs her to an ancient claymore that sends Scarlett slipping back 500 years to a time when her modern struggles are dwarfed by a far more dangerous conflict brewing between Scotland and England. Scottish Border lord, James Hepburn, Laird of Achenmeade, is a man at loose ends. The illegitimate son of the auld King's illegitimate daughter, he has no place in his father\u2019s home and no freedom to forge a future of his own. When war with England is again looming on Scotland\u2019s horizon, James must not only fight for his country but do so while trying to battle his growing attraction for a slender, sassy lass who tempts him to defy his sire and his King. As the days pass, bringing them closer to war and to each other, Scarlett and James discover that their differences are not so profound as their similarities and that the 16th century and the 21st century do not diverge so much in what truly matters most. They try to fight against their growing attraction, but when they are confronted with the opportunity to live their lives freely, as they choose, will they seize their second chance before the Battle of Flodden separates them forever? Before it\u2019s too late, will Scarlett realize how lucky she was to be taken by a Laird? ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23603883-taken"}, +{"book_title": "Mountain Man: Prequel", "author_name": "Keith C. Blackmore", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 793, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "After a long day of prepping a house for painting, all Gus Berry wanted was the night off, to spend some time with his girlfriend, and relax before having to return to work the next morning. But that isn\u2019t going to happen. Because Gus\u2019s co-worker Benny has found a one-night job at the local Mollymart East, a job that has to be done by morning. If Gus and his paint crew can complete the work by then, it could mean huge business with a respected, established grocery store chain. But as Gus and his fellow painters soon discover, the much-anticipated zombie apocalypse doesn\u2019t start with a bang. It starts on a Monday. And barricading themselves inside a megastore isn\u2019t the end. It\u2019s just the beginning. A prequel novel to the \u201cMountain Man\u201d survival horror zombie series. Contains violence and coarse language.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Suspense", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36207148-mountain-man"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Dark", "author_name": "J.A. Sutherland", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 2230, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "At fifteen, Alexis Carew has to face an age old problem - she's a girl, and only a boy can inherit the family's vast holdings. Her options are few. She must marry and watch a stranger run the lands, or become a penniless tenant and see the lands she so dearly loves sold off. Yet there may be another option, one that involves becoming a midshipman on a shorthanded spaceship with no other women.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23008150-into-the-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Frontera", "author_name": "Lewis Shiner", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 327, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the corporations are in control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors. Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive, they have discovered a secret so devastating that the new rulers of Earth will stop at nothing to own it. Reese is equally desperate to use it for his own very personal agenda. But none of them have reckoned with Kane, tortured veteran of the corporate wars, whose hallucinatory voices are urging him to complete an ancient cycle of heroism and alter the destiny of the human race.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/379200.Frontera"}, +{"book_title": "Saga, Vol. 6", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 43194, "review_number": 3491, "book_description": "After a dramatic time jump, the three-time Eisner Award winner for Best Continuing Series continues to evolve, as Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own.Collecting: Saga 31-36", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28862528-saga-vol-6"}, +{"book_title": "A Children's Bible", "author_name": "Lydia Millet", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 8731, "review_number": 1428, "book_description": "Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet\u2019s sublime new novel\u2014her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven\u2014follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion.Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, the group\u2019s ringleaders\u2014including Eve, who narrates the story\u2014decide to run away, leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.As the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother, Eve devotes herself to keeping him safe from harm.A Children\u2019s Bible is a prophetic, heartbreaking story of generational divide\u2014and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Adult Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53122391-a-children-s-bible"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Days", "author_name": "K.A. Barker", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 236, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Most people believe the best way to forget someone is to throw them down a well. Or lock them in a room with eight keys, or bury them at a crossroad in the thirteenth hour. But they\u2019re wrong. The best way to forget someone is for them never to have existed in the first place.Madame Marisol\u2019s Unreality House was where you brought people to make that happen.\u201dWhen Tuesday wakes from sleep for the first time at sixteen, she opens her eyes to a world filled with wonder \u2013 and peril. Left with only a letter from the person she once was, Tuesday sets out to discover her past with the help of her charming and self-serving guide, Quintalion.Along the way she runs into one-legged mercenaries, flying cities, airships, and a blind assistant librarian. But danger lurks amidst the steam. The leader of the merciless Daybreakers is hunting her, convinced that she killed the only woman he ever loved. Tuesday will need all her wits about her to survive long enough to find out who she is and her connection with the mysterious Book of Days: a book that holds untold power\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22588703-the-book-of-days"}, +{"book_title": "2001 Nights: Journey Beyond Tomorrow", "author_name": "Yukinobu Hoshino", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 126, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Night 8: The Lights Of HeavenNight 9: Journey Beyond Tomorrow- Part 1: I Am Rocket- Part 2: A Gift From EarthNight 10: Medusa's ThroneNight 11: A Stranger's FootstepsNight 12: Symbiotic PlanetNight 13: Final EvolutionNight 14: Elliptical OrbitSince mankind has acquired the technology to travel vast distances through space, lives and loves have been sacrificed to the thrill of space exploration!Now humanity must reckon with the responsibility that accompanies such awesome power. Due to greed, the first steps to colonize other planets end in violent confrontation. Yet resources on Earth are rapidly being depleted...If the human species is to survive, people must learn to work together and share their advanced technology and the riches of the universe for the good of all!", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295031.2001_Nights"}, +{"book_title": "Richter 10", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 782, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Lewis Crane was a child when the devasting Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 ripped his life apart, leaving him the sole survivor of his family.Now, thirty years later, Crane is the world's leading seismologist, with a burning hatred for quakes. Determined to protect people from his parents' fate, he has developed a unique theory of earthquake prediction - but in a world run by Chinese-controlled corporations and an America split more radically than ever along racist and religious lines, there are plenty of people who don't want him to succeed.Then it happens: a massive rolling and shaking that promises to register 8.5 on the Richter scale. And only Crane knows an even bigger 'big one' is coming: an incredible Richter 10 that will bring unimaginable destruction.He knows where. He knows when. He even knows how to stop it. But will anyone - can anyone - believe him?", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1246978.Richter_10"}, +{"book_title": "Clipjoint", "author_name": "Wilhelmina Baird", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 125, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Two years after taking part in a cyber-film to make enough money to leave Earth--a film that left their friend Dosh dead and them fleeing for their lives--Cass and Moke return to uncover the truth about the tragedy. ", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1650166.Clipjoint"}, +{"book_title": "Operation Chaos", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 849, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "The prequel to the popular Operation Luna. In a war waged against black magic, a werewolf and his witch wife are called upon to neutralize an enemy's ultimate weapon--the world's most powerful demon.Set in a fantasy alternate history United States where magic and technology combine. Werewolfery is not only hereditary, but a recessive gene, and the polarized component of moonlight has been isolated, so that the hero can use a Were-flash to transform without the full moon.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/445654.Operation_Chaos"}, +{"book_title": "Otaku", "author_name": "Chris Kluwe", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 350, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Otaku is the debut novel from former NFL player and tech enthusiast Chris Kluwe, with a story reminiscent of Ready Player One and Ender's Game.Ditchtown.A city of skyscrapers, built atop the drowned bones of old Miami. A prison of steel, filled with unbelievers. A dumping ground for strays, runaways, and malcontents.Within these towering monoliths, Ashley Akachi is a young woman trying her best to cope with a brother who's slipping away, a mother who's already gone, and angry young men who want her put in her place. Ditchtown, however, is not the only world Ash inhabits.Within Infinite Game, a virtual world requiring physical perfection, Ash is Ashura the Terrible, leader of the Sunjewel Warriors, loved, feared, and watched by millions across the globe. Haptic chambers, known as hapspheres, translate their every move in the real to the digital\u2014and the Sunjewel Warriors' feats are legendary.However, Ash is about to stumble upon a deadly conspiracy that will set her worlds crashing together, and in the real, you only get to die once\u2026", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Young Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45046578-otaku"}, +{"book_title": "Liberty: 1784", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 315, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "\nA compelling alternate history novel by the breakout author of WW II era alternate history Himmler\u2019s War and Rising Sun.\nThe British win the American Revolutionary War, and a desperate Washington and the American founders must make a last stand in an enclave called Liberty.In 1781, George Washington's attempt to trap the British under Cornwallis at Yorktown ends catastrophically when the French fleet is destroyed in the Battle of the Capes. The revolution collapses, and the British begin a bloody reign of terror. A group of rebels flees westward and sets up a colony near what is now Chicago. They call it Liberty. The British, looking to finish what they started, send a very large force under Burgoyne to destroy them. Burgoyne is desperate for redemption and the Americans are equally desperate to survive.Had the Battle of the Capes gone differently, a changed, darker, New World would have been forced into existence. But even under those dire circumstances, Liberty may still find a way!About Robert Conroy's Rising Sun:\u201cConroy extrapolates a new and militarily plausible direction for WWII . . . A thrilling adventure.\u201d\u2014BooklistAbout Robert Conroy\u2019s Himmler\u2019s War:\u201c[Conroy] adds a personal touch to alternate history by describing events through the eyes of fictional characters serving on the front lines. VERDICT: Historical accuracy in the midst of creative speculation makes this piece of alternate history believable.\u201d\u2013Library JournalAbout Red Inferno: 1945\u201cAn ensemble cast of fictional characters. . . and historical figures powers the meticulously researched story line with diverse accounts of the horrors of war, making this an appealing read for fans of history and alternate history alike.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly\u201c[E]ngrossing and grimly plausible. . .the suspense holds up literally to the last page.\u201d\u2014BooklistAbout 1945:\u201c moving and thought-provoking. . .\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly\u201cRealistic. . .\u201d\u2014BooklistAbout 1942:\". . .fans of Tom Clancy and Agent Jack Bauer should find a lot to like here.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly\u201cA significant writer of alternate history turns here to the popular topic of Pearl Harbor, producing. . . this rousing historical action tale.\u201d\u2014Booklist\u201cA high-explosive what-if, with full-blooded characters.\u201d\u2014John Birmingham, bestselling author of Without WarningAbout 1901:\u201c. . .cleverly conceived. . .Conroy tells a solid what-if historical.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Military History (American Revolution)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143930-liberty"}, +{"book_title": "The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas", "author_name": "Gerard Way", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 19739, "review_number": 1411, "book_description": "The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is\u2014each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. The White Violin is bedridden due to an unfortunate blow to the head. Rumor has lost her voice\u2014the source of her power. Spaceboy has eaten himself into a near-catatonic state, while Number Five dives into some shady dealings at the dog track and the Kraken starts looking at his littlest brother as the key to unraveling a mysterious series of massacres\u2026all leading to a blood-drenched face-off with maniacal assassins, and a plot to kill JFK! \u2022 Chosen as BookExpo America's 2009 Hot Graphic Novel for Libraries and Teens! \u2022 The first volume of The Umbrella Academy has sold over 45,000 copies! \u2022 \"It's the X-Men for cool people.\"\u2014Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman) \u2022 2009 Eisner Award nominations (The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite): Gerard Way and Gabriel B\u00e1: Best Graphic Album Gabriel B\u00e1: Best Cover Artist, Best Penciller/Inker James Jean: Best Cover Artist Dave Stewart: Best Coloring \u2022 A New York Times bestseller!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6413286-the-umbrella-academy-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Glitch", "author_name": "Heather Anastasiu", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 8079, "review_number": 908, "book_description": "In the Community, there is no more pain or war. Implanted computer chips have wiped humanity clean of destructive emotions, and thoughts are replaced by a feed from the Link network.When Zoe starts to malfunction (or \u201cglitch\u201d), she suddenly begins having her own thoughts, feelings, and identity. Any anomalies must be immediately reported and repaired, but Zoe has a secret so dark it will mean certain deactivation if she is caught: her glitches have given her uncontrollable telekinetic powers.As Zoe struggles to control her abilities and stay hidden, she meets other glitchers including Max, who can disguise his appearance, and Adrien, who has visions of the future. Both boys introduce Zoe to feelings that are entirely new. Together, this growing band of glitchers must find a way to free themselves from the controlling hands of the Community before they\u2019re caught and deactivated, or worse.In this action-packed debut, Glitch begins an exciting new young adult trilogy.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10535458-glitch"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Heart", "author_name": "Heidi Cullinan", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 497, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Love, adventure and a steaming good time.As the French army leader\u2019s bastard son, Cornelius Stevens enjoys a great deal of latitude. But when he saves an enemy soldier using clockwork parts, he\u2019s well aware he risks hanging for treason. That doesn\u2019t worry him half as much, however, as the realization he\u2019s falling for his patient.Johann Berger never expected to survive his regiment\u2019s suicide attack on Calais, much less wake up with mechanical parts. To avoid discovery, he\u2019s forced to hide in plain sight as Cornelius\u2019s lover\u2014a role Johann finds himself taking to surprisingly well.When a threat is made on Cornelius\u2019s life, Johann learns the secret of the device implanted in his chest\u2014a mythical weapon both warring countries would kill to obtain. Caught up in a political frenzy, in league with pirates, dodging rogue spies, mobsters and princesses with deadly parasols, Cornelius and Johann have no time to contemplate how they ended up in this mess. All they know is, the only way out is together\u2014or not at all.Warning: Contains tinkers, excessive clockwork appendages, and a cloud-sweeping tour of Europe. A little absinthe, a little theft, a little exhibitionism. Men who love men, women who love women, and some who aren\u2019t particular.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (Menage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25588661-clockwork-heart"}, +{"book_title": "I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay", "author_name": "Harlan Ellison", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 646, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Until the recent announcement of the Will Smith/Alex Proyas collaboration scheduled for release in 2004, numerous attempts had been made to adapt Isaac Asimov's classic story-cycle, I, Robot, to the motion picture medium. All efforts failed. In 1977, producers approached multiple-award-winning author Harlan Ellison to take a crack at this \"impossible\" project. He accepted, and produced an astonishing screenplay that Asimov felt would be \"The first really adult, complex, worthwhile science fiction movie ever made.\" That screenplay is presented here in book format, brought to scintillating life by the illustrations of artist Mark Zug. After you read it, then decide: Is this not the greatest science fiction movie never made?", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Culture (Film)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Plays", "Media Tie In", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138545.I_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Endurance", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 4834, "review_number": 289, "book_description": "When rebellion destroys the underground world in which Thimble and Stone have grown up, they take Stone's son and try to escape the chaos. Along the way, they must evade the Freaks, beings who feed on human flesh. Leaving behind the roles of Builder and Breeder which they were assigned at birth, they wander the underground tunnels, looking for safety yet afraid to go \"topside\" where legend has it that the light and water will burn their skin from their bones.Their journey takes them upward to an unimagined world of tinned food, comfortable furniture, and books. Away from their regimented society for the first time, and still facing imminent danger, Thimble and Stone acknowledge the forbidden attraction which both have denied for years.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15362992-endurance"}, +{"book_title": "Nanoshock", "author_name": "K.C. Alexander", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 191, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Cyberpunk fallen angel Riko is back, in KC Alexander\u2019s outrageous sequel to the savage Necrotech. As Riko works to rebuild her shattered cred, following the events of Necrotech, she\u2019s stuck fighting off every jerk looking to raise their standing on the streets. But when a corp with some serious influence ups the stakes, Riko\u2019s going to have to take the fight to them, put this nonsense down for good. Nothing is what it seems when corp politics are in play, and another necro blight right where her answers are buried might very well be the end of the life she didn\u2019t know she\u2019d borrowed.File Under: Science Fiction", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33658170-nanoshock"}, +{"book_title": "Jack Faust", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 572, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "The acclaimed novels of award-winning author Michael Swanwick have been praised for their \"heady mix of wild ideas and images\" (San Francisco Chronicle) and \"extraordinary richness and scope\" (Kirkus Reviews). But nothing that has come before can quite compare to this, Swanwick's finest creation to date.It is Wittenberg, Germany, and Dr. Faust is burning his books. The alchemist is in deepest despair, for even his vast learning is powerless against the ignorance and superstition of his fellow man. Then, in his darkest moment, a voice whispers: Faust. And so begins Swanwick's masterful reinvention of Goethe's story of a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil for the gift of unlimited Knowledge.But the wisdom this Mephistopheles offers goes far beyond anything even imagined in Goethe's day. The principles of flight, technology and economics, the mysteries of the cosmos, medicine and the atom -- all are made known to Faust as he remakes the world in his own image, ushering in the New Age of Mechanization centuries before its rightful day. Ultimately it is love -- for his creations and for a woman named Margarete -- that damns Jack Faust, as this brilliant story spins forward through time, pulling the reader to the very brink of the new millennium to confront the \"progress\" Faust has wrought.Lyrical, arresting and provocative, \"Jack Faust\" is a cause for celebration -- it is an extraordinary work that entertains gloriously as it takes a deep and disturbing look into the collective soul of humankind.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243860.Jack_Faust"}, +{"book_title": "Mirror Dance", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 19804, "review_number": 659, "book_description": "The dwarfish, fetally-damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii Free Mercenary on an unauthorized mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson's Whole, things start to get really messy. The mission goes awry, Miles's rescue attempt goes even more wrong, and Miles ends up killed and placed in cryogenic suspension for future resuscitation. Then, as if that weren't bad enough, the cryo-container is lost! Now it is up to the confused, disturbed Mark to either take Miles's place as heir of the Vorkosigan line or redeem himself by finding and saving Miles.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Hugo Awards", "Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61909.Mirror_Dance"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Siege of Mechanicsburg", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 600, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha and her friends try to save her town from the vast armies of the Wulfenbach Empire in the latest volume of the Hugo Award-winning series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18260201-agatha-heterodyne-and-the-siege-of-mechanicsburg"}, +{"book_title": "The School for Good and Evil", "author_name": "Soman Chainani", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 68072, "review_number": 7722, "book_description": "The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she\u2019ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes reversed\u2014Sophie\u2019s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School For Good, thrust amongst handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.. But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are\u2026?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42080479-the-school-for-good-and-evil"}, +{"book_title": "Destiny's Fire", "author_name": "Trisha Wolfe", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1539, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "It's the year 2040, and sixteen-year-old Dez Harkly is one of the last of her kind-part of a nearly extinct race of shape-shifters descended from guardians to the Egyptian pharaohs. Her home and her secret are threatened when the Council lowers the barrier, allowing the enemy race to enter the Shythe haven. As the Narcolym airships approach, Dez and her friends rebel against their Council and secretly train for battle. Not only is Dez wary of war and her growing affection for her best friend Jace, she fears the change her birthday will bring. When Dez's newfound power rockets out of control, it's a Narcolym who could change her fate...if she can trust him. Dez's guarded world crumbles when she discovers why the Narcos have really come to Haven Falls, and she's forced to choose between the race who raised her and the enemy she's feared her whole life.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11647944-destiny-s-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2", "author_name": "Y\u016b Kinutani", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The story follows the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The manga presents individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the serial killer and hacker known only as \"The Laughing Man.\"", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11505508-ghost-in-the-shell"}, +{"book_title": "Avengers: Ultron Unlimited", "author_name": "Kurt Busiek", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 407, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Ultron has always been one of the Avengers' deadliest foes, and his evil deeds the more heinous because this sentient robot was created by founding Avenger Dr. Hank Pym, a scientist who has been a hero under the various guises of Ant-Man, Giant-Man and Yellowjacket. Constantly evolving, with each defeat, every new incarnation of this seemingly indestructible enemy is worse than the last. But never before has Ultron been this dangerous. Seizing the attention of the world's media, Ultron destroys an entire Eastern European nation. And that was just to get the Avengers' attention. The Earth's Mightiest Heroes are in for the fight of their lives, and this time, their adversary just may have evolved out their league altogether. Collects Avengers vol. 3, #19-22, 0", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154375.Avengers"}, +{"book_title": "Fallen", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 89, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Urban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist ***sixth episode of the nine-part serial*** What\u2019s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more \u201cworthy\u201d\u2026 all while paying the price with black marks on their souls.Fallen is approximately 13,000 words or 52 pages, and is the sixth of nine episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial.Lirium's hopes for escape from Kolek's mob are threatened when Valac seems to be coming unhinged.Contains mature content and themes.OPTIONED FOR VIRTUAL REALITY BY IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT 2014 Semi-Finalist in Science Fiction in the Kindle Book AwardsIt is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series. There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together. READING ORDERSeason One \u2013 Lirium - COMPLETEEpisodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, PassionSeason Two \u2013 Wraith **available for pre-order** releases 12.15.14Episodes 10-18: Wraith, Specter, Menace, Temptation, Shattered, Penance, Judgment, Corruption, Atonement", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17925463-fallen"}, +{"book_title": "Infernal Devices", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 13042, "review_number": 765, "book_description": "The third thrilling book in the stunning Predator Cities series!The mighty engines of Anchorage have been rusted and dead for years. The derelict city no longer roams the Ice Wastes, but has settled on the edge of the land that was once America. Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw are happy in the safety of a static settlement, but their daughter, Wren, is desperate for adventure. When a dangerously charming submarine pirate offers her a chance to escape, Wren doesn't think twice about leaving her home and her parents behind. But the pirate wants something in return - Wren must steal the mysterious Tin Book. To do so will ignite a conflict that could tear the whole world apart.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/585261.Infernal_Devices"}, +{"book_title": "Out of the Darkness", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 671, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "THE CLIMACTIC CONCLUSION OF A WORLD WARAs the Derlavian War rages into its last and greatest battles, allied nations maneuver for advantage over one another in the postwar world. But before that time can come, the forces of Algarve, Unkerlant, and their allies must clash a final time, countering army with army and battle magic with ever-more-powerful battle magic. In the midst of it all, the people the war has battered and reshaped must struggle to face their greatest individual challenges, as loves are shattered and found, terrible crimes avenged...and some journeys end forever.Nor will the end of war bring lasting peace...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Epic", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101541.Out_of_the_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The God Engines", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 6474, "review_number": 721, "book_description": "Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this -- and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given. Tephe knows from the start that his mission will be a test of his skill as a leader of men and as a devout follower of his god. It's what he doesn't know that matters: to what ends his faith and his ship will ultimately be put -- and that the tests he will face will come not only from his god and the Bishopry Militant, but from another, more malevolent source entirely....", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Novella", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Religion", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6470498-the-god-engines"}, +{"book_title": "Angelfall", "author_name": "Susan Ee", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 172247, "review_number": 15813, "book_description": "It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl.Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco where she'll risk everything to rescue her sister and he'll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15863832-angelfall"}, +{"book_title": "Neverwhere", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 441920, "review_number": 23187, "book_description": "Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Horror", "Adult", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14497.Neverwhere"}, +{"book_title": "Utopia", "author_name": "Lincoln Child", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 11335, "review_number": 454, "book_description": "Fasten your seat belts\u2013the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world\u2019s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child.\n\nRising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world on the cutting edge of technology. A theme park attracting 65,000 visitors each day, its dazzling array of robots and futuristic holograms make it a worldwide sensation. But ominous mishaps are beginning to disrupt the once flawless technology. A friendly robot goes haywire, causing panic, and a popular roller coaster malfunctions, nearly killing a teenaged rider. Dr. Andrew Warne, the brilliant computer engineer who designed much of the park\u2019s robotics, is summoned from the East Coast to get things back on track.On the day Warne arrives, however, Utopia is caught in the grip of something far more sinister. A group of ruthless criminals has infiltrated the park\u2019s computerized infrastructure, giving them complete access to all of Utopia\u2019s attractions and systems. Their communication begins with a simple and dire warning: If their demands are met, none of the 65,000 people in the park that day will ever know they were there; if not, chaos will descend, and every man, woman, and child will become a target. As one of the brains behind Utopia, Warne finds himself thrust into a role he never imagined\u2013trying to save the lives of thousands of innocent people. And as the minutes tick away, Warne\u2019s struggle to outsmart his opponents grows ever more urgent, for his only daughter is among the unsuspecting crowds in the park.Lincoln Child evokes the technological wonders of Utopia with such skill and precision it is hard to believe the park exists only in the pages of this extraordinary book. Like Jurassic Park, Utopia sweeps readers into a make-believe world of riveting suspense, technology, and adventure.UTOPIA -- Where technology dazzles\u2013and then turns deadly!From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense", "Adventure", "Action", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18416.Utopia"}, +{"book_title": "Red Sister", "author_name": "Mark Lawrence", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 47663, "review_number": 4722, "book_description": "I was born for killing \u2013 the gods made me to ruin.At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices\u2019 skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist.But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don\u2019t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse.Stolen from the shadow of the noose, Nona is sought by powerful enemies, and for good reason. Despite the security and isolation of the convent her secret and violent past will find her out. Beneath a dying sun that shines upon a crumbling empire, Nona Grey must come to terms with her demons and learn to become a deadly assassin if she is to survive\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25895524-red-sister"}, +{"book_title": "City of Secrets", "author_name": "Mary Hoffman", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3832, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "When Matt is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano and Arianna, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici clan who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3169710-city-of-secrets"}, +{"book_title": "Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "It's the twenty-first century and let's be honest-things are a little disappointing. Despite every World's Fair prediction, every futuristic ride at Disneyland, and the advertisements on the last page of every comic book, we are not living the future we were promised. By now, life was supposed to be a fully automated, atomic-powered, germ-free Utopia, a place where a grown man could wear a velvet spandex unitard and not be laughed at. Where are the ray guns, the flying cars, and the hoverboards that we expected? What happened to our promised moon colonies? Our servant robots? In Where's My Jetpack?, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we always imagined for ourselves. He exposes technology, spotlights existing prototypes, and reveals drawing-board plans. You will learn which technologies are already available, who made them, and where to find them. If the technology is not public, you will learn how to build, buy, or steal it. And if doesn't yet exist, you will learn what stands in the way of making it real. With thirty entries spanning everything from teleportation to self-contained skyscraper cities, and superbly illustrated by Richard Horne (101 Things to Do Before You Die), Where's My Jetpack? is an endlessly entertaining, one-of-a-kind look at the world that we always wanted. Daniel H. Wilson, Ph.D, has a degree in Robotics from Carnegie-Mellon. He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising. He lives in Portland, Oregon.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "Humor", "Audiobook", "History", "Science (Technology)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Reference", "Futurism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/758854.Where_s_My_Jetpack_"}, +{"book_title": "Solitaire", "author_name": "Kelley Eskridge", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1165, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "Convicted of a crime she did not commit, former Hope child Jackal serves a terrible solitary imprisonment sentence and is eventually abandoned in a strange country where other people like herself help her learn the truth about her imprisonment.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214618.Solitaire"}, +{"book_title": "Birthday on Mars", "author_name": "Sara Schonfeld", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 147, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Even robots have birthdays! Celebrate Curiosity and wish happy birthday to one of NASA's most famous Mars rovers in this beautiful picture book!\"The book is adorable. . . a celebration of curiosity and exploration.\" - GeekDad.comMars is our closest neighbor, and a little robot named Curiosity is investigating the planet for us. Join for a tour of the place this rover calls home. Get to know Mars through eye-catching illustrations of an alien landscape and the adorable robot in charge of exploring it all. And this rover's birthday is a perfect time to celebrate curiosity.For nerdy parents, fans of space, or those who are just curious, relive the moment when the Curiosity rover sang itself happy birthday in 2013 after one year on Mars.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Space", "Science", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Nonfiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42620637-birthday-on-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Earth 2: Society #8", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 12, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "A bold new era begins on Earth-2! The heroes have decided to take leadership roles in this still-rebuilding world. But power soon becomes absolute power, and the people of Earth-2 quickly discover they\u2019ve trusted in the wrong heroes!", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Dc Comics (Superman)", "Dc Comics (Batman)", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28529966-earth-2"}, +{"book_title": "Yesterday's Gone: Season One", "author_name": "Sean Platt", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 4440, "review_number": 419, "book_description": " The #1 bestselling horror and sci-fi series with over 1,000 5-star reviews starts here with Yesterday\u2019s Gone: Season One. They thought they were alone. They were wrong. On October 15th, humanity went missing. A handful of scattered survivors wake to find the world empty of friends, family, and neighbors. Among them, a child searches for his family. A special agent turned enemy of the state survives a fiery plane crash with no way to reach his daughter. A serial killer discovers he\u2019s no longer at the top of the food chain. Now these strangers must find the strength inside them to weather the new world. But they are not alone. In the absence of civilization, a new threat emerges. In the stillness, it waits and watches, preying on their weakness. Their only hope is to find more survivors, rise above their fear, and face the oncoming darkness. But can they unite before they too are lost? And can they all be trusted? Season One of Yesterday\u2019s Gone by Sean Platt and David W. Wright is a tense post-apocalyptic thriller that will leave you guessing to the end. Combining TV\u2019s thrilling, episodic nature with the in-depth character only found in novels, Yesterday\u2019s Gone is a new wave in fiction. If you like The Stand and LOST, you\u2019ll love this series that combines tension, intrigue, and fear of the unknown. Get Yesterday\u2019s Gone now and see who lives and who dies! (Warning: This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing and potentially offensive material.) ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12814430-yesterday-s-gone"}, +{"book_title": "A Chance In Time", "author_name": "Ruth Ann Nordin", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 1843, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "One widow...One time traveler...Two lonely hearts connecting for a moment in time...One day Penelope Jordan finds a man who's on the brink of death and nurses him back to health. Over time, he brings out the woman that the harsh prairie made her forget she once was, and soon she falls in love with him.But will he stay with her...in her time...or will he return to the future?This book is approximately 20,000 words long and is rated R.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7827550-a-chance-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "MaddAddam", "author_name": "Margaret Atwood", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 66241, "review_number": 5358, "book_description": "A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers \u2013 a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers\u2019 reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer attack; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack. Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood\u2019s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262203-maddaddam"}, +{"book_title": "The Sentinel", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 4723, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "Few masters of science fiction have brought us glimpses of the near future as vividly as Arthur C. Clarke. It is the startling realism of his vision that has made classics of his novels, such as CHILDHOOD'S END and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. It has also made Clarke himself one of the genre's most successful writers. The trade paperback was published to commemorate the arrival of the year 2001, one of the most notable dates in science fiction history. THE SENTINEL is a brilliant collection of Clarke's highest calibre short fiction.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Anthologies", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149070.The_Sentinel"}, +{"book_title": "One Second After", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 50190, "review_number": 6623, "book_description": "New York Times best-selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real ... a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages ... A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe, and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future ... and our end.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook", "War", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4922079-one-second-after"}, +{"book_title": "A Fistful of Data", "author_name": "Stephen Dedman", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 126, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "The all-new Shadowrun series continues... The abandoned factory known as the Crypt is the home to society's cast-offs-as well as a coven for some of the most successful shadowrunners in town. But it is also the home to a long-buried secret that has caught the eye of a corporate mover who's willing to wage war against the Crypt to uncover it.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351334.A_Fistful_of_Data"}, +{"book_title": "The Mandalorian Armor", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 5765, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "He's the most feared and successful bounty hunter in the galaxy. He is Boba Fett, and even the most hardened criminals tremble at his name. Now he faces the deadliest challenge of his infamous career--an all-out war against his most dangerous enemies.As the Rebellion gathers force, Prince Xizor proposes a cunning plan to the Emperor and Darth Vader: smash the power of the Bounty Hunters Guild by turning its members against each other. Only the strongest and most ruthless will survive, and they can be used against the Rebellion. It's a job for the fiercely independent Boba Fett, who jumps at the chance to destroy his rivals. But Fett soon realizes the game is rigged, as he finds himself the target of murderous factions, criminal conspiracies, and the evil at the Empire's dark heart. Boba Fett has always finished first. And in this game, anything less is death.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/372828.The_Mandalorian_Armor"}, +{"book_title": "2XS", "author_name": "Nigel Findley", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 788, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Dirk Montgomery glaubt, er kennt sich aus im Sprawl. Das sollte er auch - als Privatdetektiv des Jahres 2052. Doch dann wird ihm ein Mord in die Schuhe geschoben, kurz darauf ein Anschlag auf ihn ver\u00fcbt. Und da wei\u00df er pl\u00f6tzlich nicht mehr, was gespielt wird.Dirk taucht ein in die Schatten, wirft sein Netz aus nach Informationen und f\u00e4ngt sich dabei einen Chip ein \u2013 2XS, die neue elektronische Wunderdroge. Diese optimale Steigerung des herk\u00f6mmlichen BTL Chips spielt auf der Klaviatur der Hormone und Endorphine - mit hundertprozentiger Suchtgarantie samt raschem Ableben. Anscheinend wirft der Megakonzern Yamatetsu den Chip auf die Stra\u00dfe \u2013 doch offensichtlich nur, um dieses Wunderding f\u00fcr andere Zwecke zu testen.Theresa ist ein ausgeflippter Chiphead und au\u00dferdem Dirks Schwester. Nach einem 2XS-Horrortrip wird sie in ein Hospital eingeliefert und verschwindet dort spurlos. Und nun mu\u00df Dirk Montgomery etwas tun, das ihm \u00fcberhaupt nicht in den Kram pa\u00dft: Er mu\u00df sich mit der Magie einlassen.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "European Literature (German Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515658.2XS"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior", "author_name": "B.D. Snowden", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 528, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "They needed her... They took her... Now their world will never be the same. Reijo Tiaret follows orders. When he is told to acquire fertile females from the newly discovered Earth, he did. Little did he know that the last woman they bring back will change his life entirely. Megan O'Conner is kidnapped along with her daughter, Abby. She wakes up to a strange planet and strange creatures. They expect the women of Earth to be docile and do as they are told; but the life of a slave is one Megan refuses. To save her child, Megan will have to start the change of an entire world... or die trying.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28791453-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Bonds of Brass", "author_name": "Emily Skrutskie", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2317, "review_number": 778, "book_description": "\nA young pilot risks everything to save his best friend--the man he trusts most and might even love--only to learn that he's secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.\nEttian Nassun's life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded. He's spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his class. Even better, he's met Gal Veres--his exasperating and infuriatingly enticing roommate who's made the Academy feel like a new home. But when dozens of classmates spring an assassination plot on Gal, a devastating secret comes to light: Gal is the heir to the Umber Empire. Ettian barely manages to save his best friend and flee the compromised Academy unscathed, rattled both that Gal stands to inherit the empire that broke him and that there are still people willing to fight back against Umber rule. As they piece together a way to deliver Gal safely to his throne, Ettian finds himself torn in half by an impossible choice. Does he save the man who's won his heart and trust that Gal's goodness could transform the empire? Or does he throw his lot in with the brewing rebellion and fight to take back what's rightfully theirs?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Young Adult", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Space", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42302727-bonds-of-brass"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue", "author_name": "Cheryl Brooks", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1130, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "\nNo woman has ever tamed him before... Does she even stand a chance?\nEnslaved for years, Tychar belongs to the Queen of Darconia. His feline gene gives him remarkable sexual powers and every female on the planet is in love with him. Then, the Queen gives him to Kyra.Or will she be just another one of his conquests? Why would he choose the modest piano teacher? Yet the two are drawn to each other with a powerful, magnetic attraction unlike any he's felt before... Then the palace is attacked in a coup, and Tychar has to choose between freedom and love.The third book in wildly popular Cat Star Chronicles, a paranormal romance series featuring heroes with a feline gene that gives them remarkable sexual powers.The Cat Star Chronicles: Slave (Book 1)Warrior (Book 2)Rogue (Book 3)Outcast (Book 4)Fugitive (Book 5)Hero (Book 6)Virgin (Book 7)Stud (Book 8)Wildcat (Book 9)Rebel (Book 10)Praise for The Cat Star Chronicles: \"Fun, unique, and wicked sexy!\" --Sydney Croft\"Fascinating world customs, a bit of a mystery, and the relationship between the hero and heroine make this a very sensual romance.\"--Romantic Times\"A compelling tale of danger, intrigue, and sizzling romance!\"--Candace Havens, author of Like a Charm", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6019882-rogue"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunt", "author_name": "Andrew Fukuda", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 12253, "review_number": 1816, "book_description": "Don\u2019t sweat. Don\u2019t laugh. Don\u2019t draw attention to yourself. And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them.Gene is different from everyone else around him. He can\u2019t run with lightning speed, sunlight doesn\u2019t hurt him, and he doesn\u2019t have an unquenchable lust for blood. Gene is a human, and he knows the rules. Keep the truth a secret. It\u2019s the only way to stay alive in a world of night - a world where humans are considered a delicacy and hunted for their blood.When he\u2019s chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hunt the last remaining humans, Gene\u2019s carefully constructed life begins to crumble around him. He\u2019s thrust into the path of a girl who makes him feel things he never thought possible - and into a ruthless pack of hunters whose suspicions about his true nature are growing. Now that Gene has finally found something worth fighting for, his need to survive is stronger than ever - but is it worth the cost of his humanity?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10913887-the-hunt"}, +{"book_title": "The Power of Six", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 126004, "review_number": 6477, "book_description": "I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith, out there, on the run. To the world, he's a mystery. But to me . . . he's one of us.Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us\u2014if we all still believe in our mission. How can I know? There are six of us left. We're hiding, blending in, avoiding contact with one another . . . but our Legacies are developing, and soon we'll be equipped to fight. Is John Number Four, and is his appearance the sign I've been waiting for? And what about Number Five and Six? Could one of them be the raven-haired girl with the stormy eyes from my dreams. The girl with powers that are beyond anything I could ever imagine. The girl who may be strong enough to bring the six of us together?They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.They tried to catch Number Four in Ohio\u2014and failed.I am Number Seven. One of six still alive.And I'm ready to fight.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8659601-the-power-of-six"}, +{"book_title": "Chasing the Star Garden", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 809, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "An opium-addicted beauty. An infamous poet living in self-imposed exile. An ancient treasure about to fall into the wrong hands.Melanie Karsak's Chasing the Star Garden takes readers on a thrilling adventure from the gritty opium dens of gaslamp London to the gem-coloured waters of the ancient world. Lily Stargazer, a loveable but reckless airship racer with a famous lover and shattered past, reluctantly plunges into a centuries-old mystery in a romantic adventure best described as Dan Brown meets Mary Shelley.It all begins on one of the worst days of Lily\u2019s life. She just lost the London leg of the 1823 Airship Grand Prix. To top it off, a harlequin fleeing from constables shoved a kaleidoscope down her pants, told her to fly to Venice, then threw himself from her airship tower. What\u2019s a girl to do? For Lily, the answer is easy: drink absinthe and smoke opium. Lily\u2019s lover, Lord Byron, encourages her to make the trip to Venice. Lily soon finds herself at the heart of an ancient mystery which has her running from her past and chasing true love and the stars along the way.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18683809-chasing-the-star-garden"}, +{"book_title": "Noah's Ark", "author_name": "Andrew J. Morgan", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 602, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "\"You told me from the start that we were playing God, and you were right\" - Alex LathamWhen Alex Latham and Michael Beecham are brought together by a series of explosions around the world, little do they know that things are about to go from bad to worse. Tasked with saving mankind from extinction, they battle a powerful evil, but soon they discover that what they're fighting is far beyond anything they ever thought it could be...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Action", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19541585-noah-s-ark"}, +{"book_title": "Hara's Legacy", "author_name": "Bianca D'Arc", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1219, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "It's a serious game of cowboys and aliens when three psychically gifted brothers try to protect the one fragile, empathic woman who holds all their hearts against a menacing ailen threat.Resonance Mates, Book 1Montana rancher Caleb O'Hara's precognitive abilities saved his family from an alien attach that annihilated almost everyone on Earth. Now the aliens have come to study the remnants of humanity. Caleb knows the only way to ensure the safety of his young wife, Janie, and his beloved brothers, Justin and Mick, is to keep the family together on their isolated ranch. All three O'Hara brothers love Jane. They grew up next door to the young, empathic beauty and she stole all their hearts at one time or another, though she married Caleb. Caleb foresees the shocking truth of what they have to do in order to survive, and Caleb's visions never lie.They'll have to come to terms with a new world, and an evolving relationship, all while finding a way to protect two newborn babies who are innocent pawns in the aliens' deadly game. Somehow, this one talented family holds the key for humanity's survival on this new, conquered world called Earth. Warning: This book is intended for mature audiences as it contains explicit sex and menage a quatreThe Resonance Mates series consists of: 1. Hara's Legacy 2. Davin's Quest 3. Jaci's Experiment 4. Grady's Awakening 5. Harry's Sacrifice", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2012171.Hara_s_Legacy"}, +{"book_title": "The Lives We Lost", "author_name": "Megan Crewe", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2473, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "Read a Sneak Peek below!First, the virus took Kaelyn\u2019s friends. Then, her family. Now it\u2019s taken away her home.But she can't look back\u2014the life she once had is gone forever.A deadly virus has destroyed Kaelyn\u2019s small island community and spread beyond the quarantine. No one is safe. But when Kaelyn finds samples of a vaccine in her father's abandoned lab, she knows there must be someone, somewhere, who can replicate it. As Kaelyn and her friends head to the mainland, they encounter a world beyond recognition. It\u2019s not only the \u201cfriendly flu\u201d that\u2019s a killer\u2014there are people who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the vaccine. How much will Kaelyn risk for an unproven cure, when the search could either destroy those she loves or save the human race?Megan Crewe's second volume in the Fallen World trilogy is an action-packed journey that explores the resilience of friendship, the ache of lost love, and Kaelyn\u2019s enduring hope in the face of the sacrifices she must make to stay alive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Cultural (Canada)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13449858-the-lives-we-lost"}, +{"book_title": "Feed", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 53368, "review_number": 6346, "book_description": "The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives\u2014the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7094569-feed"}, +{"book_title": "The Mongoliad: Book One", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 8789, "review_number": 743, "book_description": "The first novel to be released in The Foreworld Saga, The Mongoliad: Book One, is an epic-within-an-epic, taking place in 13th century. In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. Inspired by their leader (an elder of an order of warrior monks), they embark on a perilous journey and uncover the history of hidden knowledge and conflict among powerful secret societies that had been shaping world events for millennia.But the saga reaches the modern world via a circuitous route. In the late 19th century, Sir Richard F. Burton, an expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, is approached by a mysterious group of English martial arts aficionados about translating a collection of long-lost manuscripts. Burton dies before his work is finished, and his efforts were thought lost until recently rediscovered by a team of amateur archaeologists in the ruins of a mansion in Trieste, Italy. From this collection of arcana, the incredible tale of The Mongoliad was recreated.Full of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and unflinching battle scenes, The Mongoliad ignites a dangerous quest where willpower and blades are tested and the scope of world-building is redefined.A note on this edition: The Mongoliad began as a social media experiment, combining serial story-telling with a unique level of interaction between authors and audience during the creative process. Since its original iteration, The Mongoliad has been restructured, edited, and rewritten under the supervision of its authors to create a more cohesive reading experience and will be published as a trilogy of novels. This edition is the definitive edition and is the authors' preferred text.Reviews:\u201cThis off-beat alternate history of Eurasia could be your new obsession.\u201d \u2013i09.com\u201cThis story is pure adventure, with much swordplay and swashbuckling.\u201d \u2013Kirkus Reviews\u201cA terrifically engaging book that pulled me along at least as quickly as The Hunger Games. Think Lord of the Rings without all that pesky fantasy\u2026Five frighteningly accurate historical sword fights out of five.\u201d \u2013Fanboy Comics", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12853147-the-mongoliad"}, +{"book_title": "The Dog King", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2565, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson has one simple task: Watch an ambassador\u2019s dog while the diplomat is conducting sensitive negotiations with an alien race. But you know dogs - always getting into something. And when this dog gets into something that could launch an alien civil war, Wilson has to find a way to solve the conflict, fast, or be the one in the Colonial Union\u2019s doghouse.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Humor", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180354-the-dog-king"}, +{"book_title": "Under the Yoke", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 505, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "The second of the Draka series.The Eurasian War is over. Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire have been defeated. With the exception of the British Isles Europe belongs to the Domination. Now it is the turn of the Europeans to be experience life as serfs under the heel of the Domination. Now it is their turn to be Under the Yoke.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/801959.Under_the_Yoke"}, +{"book_title": "Do You Dream of Terra-Two", "author_name": "Temi Oh", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2523, "review_number": 631, "book_description": "When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization\u2014but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have imagined. Have you ever hoped you could leave everything behind? Have you ever dreamt of a better world? Can a dream sustain a lifetime? A century ago, an astronomer discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. She predicted that one day humans would travel there to build a utopia. Today, ten astronauts are leaving everything behind to find it. Four are veterans of the twentieth century\u2019s space-race. And six are teenagers who\u2019ve trained for this mission most of their lives. It will take the team twenty-three years to reach Terra-Two. Twenty-three years locked in close quarters. Twenty-three years with no one to rely on but each other. Twenty-three years with no rescue possible, should something go wrong. And something always goes wrong.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35436043-do-you-dream-of-terra-two"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Rival", "author_name": "Brenda Joyce", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 3512, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Highland warriors sworn to protect Innocence throughout the Ages\u2014A golden man, he is called Black Royce\u2014a battle-hardened soldier of the gods. His vows are his life\u2014until he is sent to New York City to protect a Healer from those who would use her powers for themselves. The moment Royce sees beautiful, feisty Allie Monroe, he knows she will be his only weakness\u2014and he is right. Destiny is a dangerous thing...Allie Monroe is more than an heiress. She is a Healer, willing to do anything to save victims of the evil that lurks in the city at night. But alone, she can do only so much\u2014until destiny sends her the darkest Highlander of them all. Then evil strikes and Royce is destroyed before Allie's eyes. Now Allie will do anything to save Royce\u2014even if it means going back in time to a dark, dangerous world. Confronting their enemies could cost not only their lives, but their love\u2014for all eternity.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1234765.Dark_Rival"}, +{"book_title": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "author_name": "J.K. Rowling", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 2838607, "review_number": 54898, "book_description": "Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he\u2019s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.And strike it does. For in Harry\u2019s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls\u2019 bathroom. But then the real trouble begins \u2013 someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possible be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects\u2026 Harry Potter himself!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15881.Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets"}, +{"book_title": "A Torch Against the Night", "author_name": "Sabaa Tahir", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 102968, "review_number": 11616, "book_description": "Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.Laia is determined to break into Kauf\u2014the Empire\u2019s most secure and dangerous prison\u2014to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars\u2019 survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene\u2014Elias\u2019s former friend and the Empire\u2019s newest Blood Shrike.Bound to Marcus\u2019s will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own\u2014one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape\u2026and kill them both.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25558608-a-torch-against-the-night"}, +{"book_title": "Operation Breakout: Merkiaari Wars Book 4", "author_name": "Mark E. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 895, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Kate Richmond, former army ranger and ISS operative, has seen a lot in her life. Sabotage, espionage, cyber theft, and assassination missions have all played their parts in her journey to becoming a viper. Nothing surprises her much any more, not even a full scale incursion of an alien race by the Merkiaari! When a battle in the Border Zone leaves a pirate ship crippled, boarded by Alliance Marines, and reveals information that links Kate's brother with a dead viper and a bunch of Merkiaari corpses, it's safe to say that she's surprised. It's time for the most important mission of her life. It's time to find her brother.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19368675-operation-breakout"}, +{"book_title": "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage", "author_name": "Sydney Padua", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4191, "review_number": 902, "book_description": "\nTHE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE\n . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. Meet Victorian London\u2019s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. When Lovelace translated a description of Babbage\u2019s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, she added annotations three times longer than the original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. Sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and Babbage never built any of his machines. But do not despair! The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and then use it to build runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime\u2014for the sake of both London and science. Complete with extensive footnotes that rival those penned by Lovelace herself, historical curiosities, and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage\u2019s mechanical, steam-powered computer, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is wonderfully whimsical, utterly unusual, and, above all, entirely irresistible.(With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)\u00a0", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "History", "Science", "Nonfiction", "Biography", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Humor", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22822839-the-thrilling-adventures-of-lovelace-and-babbage"}, +{"book_title": "When Did You Last See Your Father", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 1658, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "'Max, your father is here. He's come to take Matthew away'Have you ever wondered what would happen if Max's husband met Max's father? What would Leon do?They're normally a fairly amiable bunch, but this is the story of what to expect if St Mary's doesn't like someone. As in, really doesn't like someone. Warning: contains a unit-wide criminal enterprise, a great deal of illegal activity and a sad misuse of public resources. All the things a father will do to protect his family.It is also a story of revenge. Because this is payback - St Mary's style.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50926461-when-did-you-last-see-your-father"}, +{"book_title": "Wedge's Gamble", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 10862, "review_number": 198, "book_description": "Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the X-wing fighters. And as the battle against the Empire rages across the vastness of space, the pilots risk both their lives and their machines for the cause of the Rebel Alliance. Now they must embark on a dangerous espionage mission, braving betrayal and death on the Imperial homeworld to smash the power of a ruthless foe!It is the evil heart of a battered and reeling Empire: Coruscant, the giant city-world from whose massive towers the Imperial High Command directs the war. The Rebels will invade this mighty citadel in a daring move to bring the Empire to its knees. But first Wedge Antilles and his X-wing pilots must infiltrateCoruscant to gain vital intelligence information. Capture means death, or worse--enslavement by the vicious leader known as \"Iceheart,\" Ysanne Isard, nowEmperor in all but name. And one of Rogue Squadron's own is already her slave, a traitor hidden behind a mask of innocence, working to betray both colleagues and the Rebellion itself.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In", "Space", "Novels", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513198.Wedge_s_Gamble"}, +{"book_title": "Letter 44, Volume 1: Escape Velocity", "author_name": "Charles Soule", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2097, "review_number": 265, "book_description": "On Inauguration Day, newly elected President Stephen Blades hoped to tackle the most critical issues facing the nation: war, the economy, and a failing health care system. But in a letter penned by the outgoing President, Blades learns the truth that redefines \"critical\": seven years ago, NASA discovered alien presence in the asteroid belt, and kept it a secret from the world. A stealth mission crewed by nine astronauts was sent to make contact, and they\u2019re getting close - assuming they survive the long journey to reach their destination. Today, President-elect Blades has become the most powerful man on the planet. This planet.Collects Issues #1-6.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Politics", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20906789-letter-44-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Sky People", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 1696, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers.But there are flies in this ointment - and not only the Venusian dragonflies, with their yard-wide wings. The biologists studying Venus's life are puzzled by the way it not only resembles that on Earth, but is virtually identical to it. The EastBloc has its own base at Cosmograd, in the highlands to the south, and relations are frosty. And attractive young geologist Cynthia Whitlock seems impervious to Marc's Cajun charm.Meanwhile, at the western end of the continent, Teesa of the Cloud Mountain People leads her tribe in a conflict with the Neanderthal-like beastmen who have seized her folk's sacred caves. Then an EastBloc shuttle crashes nearby, and the beastmen acquire new knowledge\u2026 and AK47's.Jamestown sends its long-range blimp to rescue the downed EastBloc cosmonauts, little suspecting that the answer to the jungle planet's mysteries may lie there, among tribal conflicts and traces of a power that made Earth's vaunted science seem as primitive as the tribesfolk's blowguns. As if that weren't enough, there's an enemy agent on board the airship\u2026", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Pulp", "Science Fiction (Sword and Planet)", "Science Fiction (Planetary Romance)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77879.The_Sky_People"}, +{"book_title": "The Many-Coloured Land", "author_name": "Julian May", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 11543, "review_number": 482, "book_description": "When a one-way time tunnel to Earth's distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness. But none could have guessed what awaited them. Not even in a million years....", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378639.The_Many_Coloured_Land"}, +{"book_title": "Wizard", "author_name": "John Varley", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 5281, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "One of the greatest science fiction epics ever written, John Varley's Titan, Wizard, and Demon comprise a groundbreaking trilogy that will live forever. Human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful...and definitely insane.\"These books are going to be around for a long time.\" --Locus", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "LGBT", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "GLBT (Lesbian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49834.Wizard"}, +{"book_title": "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century", "author_name": "P.W. Singer", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2180, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "We are just beginning to see a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make the stuff of I, Robot and the Terminator all too real. More then seven thousand robotic systems are now in Iraq. Pilots in Nevada are remotely killing terrorists in Afghanistan. Scientists are debating just how smart - and how lethal - to make their current robotic prototypes. And many of the most renowned science fiction authors are secretly consulting for the Pentagon on the next generation.Blending historic evidence with interviews from the field, Singer vividly shows that as these technologies multiply, they will have profound effects on the front lines as well as on the politics back home. Moving humans off the battlefield makes wars easier to start, but more complex to fight. Replacing men with machines may save some lives, but will lower the morale and psychological barriers to killing. The \"warrior ethos\", which has long defined soldiers' identity, will erode, as will the laws of war that have governed military conflict for generations.While his analysis is unnerving, there's an irresistible gee-whiz quality to the innovations Singer uncovers. Wired for War travels from Iraq to see these robots in combat to the latter-day \"skunk works\" in America's suburbia, where tomorrow's technologies of war are quietly being designed. In Singer's hands, the future of war is as fascinating as it is frightening.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science (Technology)", "Science", "War", "Politics", "History", "Artificial Intelligence", "Military (Military History)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6098718-wired-for-war"}, +{"book_title": "Corpsman", "author_name": "Jonathan P. Brazee", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 181, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Nova Esperan\u00e7a offers no future for Liege Neves as a gangrat and daughter of the favelas. With one goal in mind\u2014to save her younger sister and ailing grandfather from a difficult and hopeless future\u2014Liege\u2019s only option is the Federation Navy. Scoring higher on her entrance exams than anyone had expected, Liege enlists as a corpsman and hopes for a safe career that will allow her to get her Av\u00f3 the help he requires. The needs of the Navy always take precedence, however, and instead of an expected hospital billet, Liege\u2019s life takes a dangerous turn when her first set of orders is to the Fleet Marine Corps instead. After being trained to heal and save lives, she is suddenly issued a weapon and thrust into combat to defend the Federation. Face-to-face with war, destruction, and the probability to both save and take lives, Liege must find the strength, discipline, and courage within herself to protect her family and brothers-in-arms and earn the time-honored title of \"Doc.\" This is the third book in the series. Each book focuses on the careers of three women: two Marines and a Navy corpsmen. While all three protagonists are connected at one point, each of the novels stands alone in its own right. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31285856-corpsman"}, +{"book_title": "House Immortal", "author_name": "Devon Monk", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2557, "review_number": 354, "book_description": "One hundred years ago, eleven powerful ruling Houses consolidated all of the world\u2019s resources and authority into their own grasping hands. Only one power wasn\u2019t placed under the command of a single House: the control over the immortal galvanized.... Matilda Case isn\u2019t like most folk. In fact, she\u2019s unique in the world, the crowning achievement of her father\u2019s experiments, a girl pieced together from bits. Or so she believes, until Abraham Seventh shows up at her door, stitched with life thread just like her and insisting that enemies are coming to kill them all. Tilly is one of thirteen incredible creations known as the galvanized, stitched together beings immortal and unfathomably strong. For a century, each House has fought for control over the galvanized. Now the Houses are also tangled in a deadly struggle for dominion over death\u2014and Tilly and her kind hold the key to unlocking eternity The secrets that Tilly must fight to protect are hidden within the very seams of her being. And to get the secrets, her enemies are willing to tear her apart piece by piece.\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821206-house-immortal"}, +{"book_title": "Traveler", "author_name": "L.E. DeLano", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 956, "review_number": 257, "book_description": "Jessa has spent her life dreaming of other worlds and writing down stories more interesting than her own, until the day her favorite character, Finn, suddenly shows up and invites her out for coffee. After the requisite nervous breakdown, Jessa learns that she and Finn are Travelers, born with the ability to slide through reflections and dreams into alternate realities. But it\u2019s not all steampunk pirates and fantasy lifestyles\u2014Jessa is dying over and over again, in every reality, and Finn is determined that this time, he\u2019s going to stop it\u2026This Jessa is going to live.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27242803-traveler"}, +{"book_title": "Inheritance", "author_name": "Ivan Kal", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 449, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "A growing Empire...The end of the Sowir Dominion draws near as the Empire resumes its offensive. The retaking of Guxcacal home-world begins, as the Empire's fleets invade the remaining Sowir territory. But the Sowir still have surprises up their sleeves.Adrian Farkas awakens new abilities, buried deep inside the human genetic code by their ancestor Axull Darr. And with them the Empire gains all the knowledge contained inside the device left by their ancestor, the sum knowledge of the People, the first intelligent race in the universe and the ancestors of Humanity and the Nel. Adrian struggles to learn how to use his new abilities, even as he commands the invasion against the Sowir. But Sowir are not the only thing that threatens the Empire, new dangers lurk just outside of its now growing territory. And the Empire will need everything it has in order to survive.Inheritance is book 5 in the Rise of the Empire series, an epic story that follows humanity as it grows from a single world to ultimately becoming a galaxy wide empire.Rise of the Empire Book 1 - Olympus Rise of the Empire Book 2 - Sanctuary Rise of the Empire Book 3 - Out of the Ashes Rise of the Empire Book 4 - WarpathRise of the Empire Book 5 - Inheritance", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30103266-inheritance"}, +{"book_title": "Mutineers' Moon", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 6236, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved--Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained control of technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed. But now Dahak's sensors indicate that the enemy that devastated the Imperium so long ago has returned--and Earth is in their path. For the sake of the planet, Dahak must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin Maclntyre to be its new captain. Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and for all--or Earth will become a cinder in the path of galactic conquest.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1107296.Mutineers_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "Guardians of Time", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1584, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "HARD TIMES That's what leads Manson Everard to answer an ad offering \"high pay and foreign travel for men and women with military experience.\" But compared to where - and when - he's going, \"hard times\" in the 20th-century U.S.A. are easy!Contents1 \u2022 Time Patrol \u2022 [Time Patrol \u2022 1] \u2022 (1955) \u2022 novelette by Poul Anderson36 \u2022 Brave to Be a King \u2022 [Time Patrol \u2022 2] \u2022 (1959) \u2022 novelette by Poul Anderson75 \u2022 The Only Game in Town \u2022 [Time Patrol \u2022 4] \u2022 (1960) \u2022 novelette by Poul Anderson104 \u2022 Delenda Est \u2022 [Time Patrol \u2022 5] \u2022 (1955) \u2022 novelette by Poul Anderson", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Adventure", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/866153.Guardians_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Distress", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2205, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "Investigative reporter Andrew Worth turns down a documentary on a mysterious new mental illness -- \"Distress, \" or acute clinical anxiety syndrome, for another assignment. He's on his way to the artifical island of Stateless, where the world's top physicists are gathering to decide on a new TOE, or Theory of Everything, to replace Einstein's outmoded legacy.Chief among the scientists is the brilliant African Nobel laureate, Violet Mosala, the focus of Worth's story, who is the subject of mysterious death threats. Worth begins his own investigation, but it takes on even more urgency when he finds that Distress, the mental plague now affecting millions, is linked somehow to the approaching \"Aleph Moment\" when the TOE is finalized. The countdown has begun for a disaster that will reach all the way back to the Big Bang. And beyond...", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Cultural (Australia)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156781.Distress"}, +{"book_title": "The Bone Season", "author_name": "Samantha Shannon", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 63366, "review_number": 8535, "book_description": "The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people\u2019s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford \u2013 a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17199504-the-bone-season"}, +{"book_title": "Push", "author_name": "Eve Silver", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2022, "review_number": 216, "book_description": "It\u2019s either break the rules or die.Miki Jones lives her life by her own strict set of rules, to keep control, to keep the gray fog of grief at bay. Then she\u2019s pulled into the Game, where she - and her team - will die unless she follows a new set of rules: those set by the mysterious Committee.But rules don\u2019t mean answers, and without answers, it\u2019s hard to trust. People are dying. The rules are unraveling. And Miki knows she\u2019s being watched, uncertain if it\u2019s the Drau or someone - something - else. Forced to make impossible choices and battling to save those she loves, Miki begins to see the Committee in a glaring new light.And then the Game crosses a new boundary, pushes harder into Miki\u2019s and her friends\u2019 lives, and there\u2019s nothing in the rules that can save them now.Push is the sequel Rush fans will be screaming for.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17667947-push"}, +{"book_title": "The Solar War", "author_name": "John French", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 847, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Siege of Terra Book 1After years of devastating war, Horus and his forces have arrived at Terra. But before they can set foot on the Throneworld, they must first break the defences of the Sol System. Powerful fleets and cunning defences bar their path \u2013 but can anything hope to halt the advance of the Traitor armada?READ IT BECAUSEThe final act of the long-running, bestselling series starts here, with a brutal and uncompromising look at the first stage of the Siege of Terra, the war to conquer the solar system. Armies will fall, heroes will rise and legends will be written\u2026THE STORYAfter seven years of bitter war, the end has come at last for the conflict known infamously as the Horus Heresy. Terra now lies within the Warmaster\u2019s sights, the Throneworld and the seat of his father\u2019s rule. Horus\u2019 desire is nothing less than the death of the Emperor of Mankind and the utter subjugation of the Imperium. He has become the ascendant vessel of Chaos, and amassed a terrible army with which to enact his will and vengeance. But the way to the Throne will be hard as the primarch Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian and protector of Terra, marshals the defences. First and foremost, Horus must challenge the might of the Sol System itself and the many fleets and bulwarks arrayed there. To gain even a foothold on Terran soil, he must first contend the Solar War. Thus the first stage of the greatest conflict in the history of all mankind begins.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "40k", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42944438-the-solar-war"}, +{"book_title": "The Ravengers", "author_name": "Stephen Billias", "rating_score": 3.0, "rating_votes": 22, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Manhattan is now a Cyberpunk urban hell called Night City. Here, the Ravengers, a gang created of rejects from other gangs, roam the streets, headed by leaders byteboi and bytegirl. They agree to help the Digital Librarians create a new world, but are thwarted in their attempts by corporate soldiers who will not tolerate threats to the reigning pop culture of sex and violence.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/635589.The_Ravengers"}, +{"book_title": "All You Zombies", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 5319, "review_number": 538, "book_description": "First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - March, 1959 - the story involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel. It further develops themes explored by the author in a previous work, \"By His Bootstraps\", published some 18 years earlier.", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13030110-all-you-zombies"}, +{"book_title": "Malleus", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 3316, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "In the 41st Millenium, the enemies of mankind are legion, omnipresent and utterly deadly. While the warriors of the Imperium fight with firepower and faith, the Holy Inquisition hunts the shadows for the most terrible of foes \u2013 rogue psykers, xenos, and daemons. Inquisitor Eisenhorn must track down and defeat the forces who would destroy him or face the wrath of the Ordo Malleus.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1507375.Malleus"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Fathers Are Weird", "author_name": "Lyn Gala", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1340, "review_number": 260, "book_description": "Captain Maxwell Davis and his entire unit scrambled to engage alien ships over Iowa. The aliens snatched him out of his destroyed jet before they continued on their interplanetary hot pursuit. Then they informed Max that Earth was too far outside regular shipping lanes to return him to his planet.So Max ends up in an alien spaceport looking for work. To afford a ticket home he can either spend three hundred years working with linguists to improve the computer's questionable ability to translate English or he can take a job as a nanny for an unpopular alien. \u00a0That way he can afford the ticket in four years. \u00a0The problem is that the computer may have mistranslated the word \"nanny\" and there might be a reason an alien is willing to pay such a high fee.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44569467-earth-fathers-are-weird"}, +{"book_title": "Malevil", "author_name": "Robert Merle", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 3776, "review_number": 256, "book_description": "\u00c0 la suite d'une explosion, sans doute nucl\u00e9aire, qui a selon toute vraisemblance ravag\u00e9 la Terre enti\u00e8re, Emmanuel Comte et ses six compagnons font du ch\u00e2teau de Malevil, dont la profonde cave leur a permis de survivre, la base de d\u00e9part de leurs efforts de reconstruction de la civilisation, qui passera \u00e9galement par l'affrontement avec d'autres groupes de survivants, que ce soient des bandes errantes ou des groupes structur\u00e9s nomades ou s\u00e9dentaires.La qualification de science-fiction peut \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme exag\u00e9r\u00e9e, concernant ce roman, puisque seule la situation de d\u00e9part (la destruction de la civilisation humaine par une explosion d'origine inconnue) rejoint le th\u00e8me post-apocalyptique, alors tr\u00e8s populaire en science-fiction. Tout le reste du roman raconte comment un groupe de survivants miracul\u00e9s rel\u00e8ve le d\u00e9fi de la reconstruction d'une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 humaine. De ce point de vue, on peut dire que le roman rel\u00e8ve du genre de la robinsonade.De nombreux th\u00e8mes sont abord\u00e9s dans ce roman : la religion, la politique, la place des femmes dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, le monde rural, le r\u00f4le du chef, certes sous l'angle d'une mini-communaut\u00e9 mais qui renvoient \u00e0 notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (France)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "European Literature (French Literature)", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1768257.Malevil"}, +{"book_title": "Parable of the Sower", "author_name": "Octavia E. Butler", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 73763, "review_number": 7214, "book_description": "In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren\u2019s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.When fire destroys their compound, Lauren\u2019s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Novels", "Cultural (African American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower"}, +{"book_title": "The Starless Sea", "author_name": "Erin Morgenstern", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 104265, "review_number": 21239, "book_description": "Far beneath the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. The entryways that lead to this sanctuary are often hidden, sometimes on forest floors, sometimes in private homes, sometimes in plain sight. But those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.Zachary Ezra Rawlins is searching for his door, though he does not know it. He follows a silent siren song, an inexplicable knowledge that he is meant for another place. When he discovers a mysterious book in the stacks of his campus library he begins to read, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities, and nameless acolytes. Suddenly a turn of the page brings Zachary to a story from his own childhood impossibly written in this book that is older than he is.A bee, a key, and a sword emblazoned on the book lead Zachary to two people who will change the course of his life: Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired painter, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances. These strangers guide Zachary through masquerade party dances and whispered back room stories to the headquarters of a secret society where doorknobs hang from ribbons, and finally through a door conjured from paint to the place he has always yearned for. Amid twisting tunnels filled with books, gilded ballrooms, and wine-dark shores Zachary falls into an intoxicating world soaked in romance and mystery. But a battle is raging over the fate of this place and though there are those who would willingly sacrifice everything to protect it, there are just as many intent on its destruction. As Zachary, Mirabel, and Dorian venture deeper into the space and its histories and myths, searching for answers and each other, a timeless love story unspools, casting a spell of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a Starless Sea.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "Magical Realism", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Romance", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43575115-the-starless-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue Clone", "author_name": "Steven L. Kent", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1161, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Having gone AWOL after his fellow troops were massacred, Lt. Wayson Harris-outlawed clone soldier of the Unified Authority-returns to service. But will Harris work for his former leaders...or against them?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68567.Rogue_Clone"}, +{"book_title": "The Gold Coast", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1477, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent into the shadowy underground of industrial terrorism brings him into a shattering confrontation with his family, his goals, and his ideals.The Gold Coast is the second novel in Robinson's Three Californias trilogy.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41125.The_Gold_Coast"}, +{"book_title": "The Ship Who Won", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 4593, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Like Helva, the Ship Who Sang, (and Nancia from PartnerShip, Tia from The Ship Who Searched, and Simeon, who runs The City Who Fought) Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. And again like those others, Carialle decided she would strap on a spaceship. Her brawn is a guy named Keff. Their mission: to search the galaxy for intelligent beings, to travel where no shellperson and her brawn have gone before...Alas, intelligent life is thin on the galactic ground, so when Carialle and Keff arrive on a very nice little world with very nice little aliens, fuzzy and polite and eager to please, they are overjoyed. But their joy does not last: their fuzzy friends turn out to be virtual slaves to a race of sorcerers, sorcerers who really do seem to possess magical powers of frightening potency, and who are neither fuzzy, polite, nor the least bit eager to please.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "Adult", "Novels", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61930.The_Ship_Who_Won"}, +{"book_title": "An Accidental Goddess", "author_name": "Linnea Sinclair", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2933, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Raheiran Special Forces captain Gillaine Davr\u00e9 has just woken up in some unknown space way station, wondering where the last three hundred years have gone. The last thing she remembers is her ship being attacked. Now it seems that while she was time-traveling, she was ordained a goddess\u2026. Gillaine\u2019s only hope of survival rests with dangerously seductive Admiral Mack Makarian, who suspects her of being a smuggler\u2014or worse. But he can\u2019t begin to imagine the full extent of it. For Gillaine is now Lady Kiasidira, holy icon to countless believers, including Mack\u2014a man who inspires feelings in her that are far from saintly\u2026feelings she knows are mutual. But when their flirtation is interrupted by a treacherous enemy from the past, Gillaine\u2019s secret\u2014and secret desires\u2014could destroy them both\u2026.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352727.An_Accidental_Goddess"}, +{"book_title": "Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2968, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation\u2019s spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again.Then out of Labrador come tales of a new Ajax\u2014Captain Commongold, the Youthful Hero of the Saguenay. The ordinary people follow his adventures in the popular press. The Army adores him. The President is\u2026troubled. Especially when the dashing Captain turns out to be his nephew Julian, son of the falsely accused and executed Bryce.Treachery and intrigue dog Julian\u2019s footsteps. Hairsbreadth escapes and daring rescues fill his days. Stern resolve and tender sentiment dice for Julian\u2019s soul, while his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients, and his adherence to the evolutionary doctrines of the heretical Darwin, set him at fatal odds with the hierarchy of the Dominion. Plague and fire swirl around the Presidential palace when at last he arrives with the acclamation of the mob.As told by Julian\u2019s best friend and faithful companion, a rustic yet observant lad from the west, this tale of the 22nd Century asks\u2014 and answers\u2014the age-old question: \u201cDo you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?\u201d", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5997978-julian-comstock"}, +{"book_title": "Obsidian Eyes", "author_name": "A.W. Exley", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 352, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "\n The worlds of noble and guild are about to collide, with seventeen-year-old Allie Donovan as the catalyst...\nAllie lives in a shadow world until she is thrust into the light of the aristocratic St Matthew's Academy. More at ease with a blade than a needle, she is stalked along the ancient corridors by a Scottish lord intent on determining why she is among them.She stumbles onto the reason when soldiers arrive to see her friend, Zeb, a mechanical genius. On the hunt for answers, she breaks into his underground laboratory. There, Allie discovers Zeb is not just constructing sentient mechanical creatures, he is building a devastating new weapon for the military.To protect her friend, Allie will have to stop the guilds from snatching the weapon and its creator. But if she betrays her world, she forfeits her own life. Unless she can rely on bonds of friendship to save both their lives...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50313238-obsidian-eyes"}, +{"book_title": "Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel", "author_name": "Zachary Thomas Dodson", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 1941, "review_number": 517, "book_description": "\u00a0Bats of the Republic \u00a0features original artwork and an immaculate design to create a unique novel of adventure and science fiction, of political intrigue and future dystopian struggles, and, at its riveting core, of love.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In 1843 Chicago, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas falls in love with the high society daughter of Joseph Gray, a prominent ornithologist. Mr. Gray sets an impossible condition for their marriage\u2014Zadock must deliver a sealed and highly secretive letter to General Irion, fighting one thousand miles southwest, deep within the embattled and newly independent Republic of Texas. The fate of the Union lies within the mysterious contents of that sealed letter, but that is only the beginning . . .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three hundred years later, in the dystopian city-state of the Texas Republic, Zeke Thomas has just received news of the death of his grandfather, an esteemed Chicago senator. The world has crumbled. Paper documents are banned, citizens are watched, and dissenters are thrown over the walls into \"the rot.\" When Zeke inherits\u2014and then loses\u2014a very old, sealed letter from his grandfather, Zeke finds himself and the women he loves at the heart of a conspiracy whose secrets he must unravel, if it doesn't destroy his relationship, his family legacy, and the entire republic first.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The two propulsive narratives converge through a wildly creative assortment of documents, books within books, maps, notes, illustrations, and more. Zach Dodson has created a gorgeous work of art and an eye-popping commercial adventure for the 21st century.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24724564-bats-of-the-republic"}, +{"book_title": "A World Out of Time", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 5413, "review_number": 258, "book_description": "Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors.Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he'd left...a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of -- perils that became nightmares that he had to escape...somehow!", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64725.A_World_Out_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Fire", "author_name": "John A. Heldt", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 861, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "When Kevin Johnson, 22, goes to Wallace, Idaho, days after his college graduation, he expects to find rest and relaxation as his family prepares his deceased grandfather's house for sale. Then he discovers a hidden diary and a time portal that can take him to 1910, the year of Halley's comet and the largest wildfire in U.S. history. Within hours, Kevin finds himself in the era of horse-drawn wagons, straw hats, and ankle-length dresses. Returning to the same time and place, he decides to travel again and again and make the portal his gateway to summer fun. The adventure takes a more serious turn, however, when the luckless-in-love science major falls for pretty English teacher Sarah Thompson and integrates himself in a community headed for tragedy. Filled with humor, romance, and heartbreak, THE FIRE, the sequel to THE JOURNEY, follows a conflicted soul through a life-changing journey as he makes his mark on a world he was never meant to see.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Adventure", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27868887-the-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Crossing in Time", "author_name": "D.L. Orton", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 640, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "\nThe past isn't over, it's an opening. The future isn't hidden, it's a trap. If she ever wants to see him again, she'll have to take the risk.\nFall into this \"Funny, Romantic & Harrowing\" (Publishers Weekly Starred Review) dystopian love story and prepare to encounter a finicky time machine, a mysterious seashell, and a very clever dog (some sex, some swearing, some violence, but no vampires and absolutely NO ditzes!)When offered a one-way trip to the past, Isabel sacrifices everything for a chance to change the rapidly deteriorating present--and see her murdered lover one last time. When she arrives twenty years in the past, buck naked and mortally wounded, she has 24 hours to convince a stunned but enraptured nineteen-year-old to change their future. Definitely easier said than done, as success means losing him to a brainy, smart-mouthed bombshell (her younger self), and that's a heart breaker, save the world or not.This offbeat tale is about falling madly in love when one is too cynical for such things, letting go of pessimism when it's the last life jacket on a sinking ship, and racing against the clock when one doesn't have the proper footwear. It's a coming-of-age story for old fogeys, a how-to-make-love guide for diehard celibates, and a laugh-out-loud tragedy with a hopeful twist.Publishers Weekly \u2b50\ufe0f Starred ReviewKirkus CRITICS' PICKS: \"Great Indie Books Worth Discovering\"Writer's Digest Book Awards: \"Highly Recommended\"Midwest Book Review Featured Pick: \"Well Written and Deftly Crafted\"BookLife \"Great Indie Stars\": \"The Best of the Best!\"San Francisco Review of Books: \"Outstanding Read\"Alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25398303-crossing-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Once Was a Time", "author_name": "Leila Sales", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1028, "review_number": 252, "book_description": "In the war-ravaged England of 1940, Charlotte Bromley is sure of only one thing: Kitty McLaughlin is her best friend in the whole world. But when Charlotte's scientist father makes an astonishing discovery that the Germans will covet for themselves, Charlotte is faced with an impossible choice between danger and safety. Should she remain with her friend or journey to another time and place? Her split-second decision has huge consequences, and when she finds herself alone in the world, unsure of Kitty's fate, she knows that somehow, some way, she must find her way back to her friend. Written in the spirit of classic time-travel tales, this book is an imaginative and heartfelt tribute to the unbreakable ties of friendship.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Historical", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25777460-once-was-a-time"}, +{"book_title": "Time After Time", "author_name": "Lisa Grunwald", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 5266, "review_number": 1042, "book_description": "A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond, in the spirit of The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.On a clear December morning in 1937, at the famous gold clock in Grand Central Terminal, Joe Reynolds, a hardworking railroad man from Queens, meets a vibrant young woman who seems mysteriously out of place. Nora Lansing is a Manhattan socialite whose flapper clothing, pearl earrings, and talk of the Roaring Twenties don\u2019t seem to match the bleak mood of Depression-era New York. Captivated by Nora from her first electric touch, Joe despairs when he tries to walk her home and she disappears. Finding her again\u2014and again\u2014will become the focus of his love and his life.Nora, an aspiring artist and fiercely independent, is shocked to find she\u2019s somehow been trapped, her presence in the terminal governed by rules she cannot fathom. It isn\u2019t until she meets Joe that she begins to understand the effect that time is having on her, and the possible connections to the workings of Grand Central and the solar phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the sun rises or sets between the city\u2019s skyscrapers, aligned perfectly with the streets below.As thousands of visitors pass under the famous celestial blue ceiling each day, Joe and Nora create a life unlike any they could have imagined. With infinite love in a finite space, they take full advantage of the \u201cTerminal City\u201d within a city, dining at the Oyster Bar, visiting the Whispering Gallery, and making a home at the Biltmore Hotel. But when the construction of another landmark threatens their future, Nora and Joe are forced to test the limits of freedom and love.Delving into Grand Central Terminal\u2019s rich past, Lisa Grunwald crafts a masterful historical novel about a love affair that defies age, class, place, and even time.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "New York", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42262526-time-after-time"}, +{"book_title": "To Catch A Rogue", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 705, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "An impossible heist. A thief and a rogue. But will she steal his heart, instead?The Company of Rogues finally knows the identity of the mastermind behind a plot against the queen\u2014but their enemy is still one step ahead of them. When he kidnaps one of theirs, the Rogues plan a daring rescue mission that will lead them into the heart of the bloodthirsty Crimson Court.It's a job for a master thief, and there's nothing Charlie Todd likes more than a challenge. To pull off the impossible, Charlie needs a crew, including the only thief who's ever been able to outfox him.He broke her heart. But now she must risk it all to save his life...Lark's spent years trying to forget her past, but the one thing she can't ignore is the way a single smile from Charlie still sets her heart on fire. When he proposes they work together again, it feels just like old times, but she has one rule: this is strictly business.It's Charlie's last chance to prove he can be trusted with her heart. But Lark's keeping a deadly secret. And as passions are stirred and the stakes mount, it might be the kind of secret that could destroy them all...Ocean's 11 meets Dracula, in this sexy paranormal heist by USA Today Bestselling Author, Bec McMaster. If you like sexy paranormal romances, steampunk shenanigans, and plenty of action-adventure (vampires, dirigible flights, and steamy rooftop chases), then dive into this thrilling heist with Charlie and Lark.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35909648-to-catch-a-rogue"}, +{"book_title": "Escaping Home", "author_name": "A. American", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 3035, "review_number": 127, "book_description": "\nWhen society ceases to exist, who can you trust?\nAfter the collapse of the nation\u2019s power grid, America is under martial law\u2014and safety is an illusion. As violence erupts around him, Morgan Carter faces one of his most difficult decisions yet: whether to stay and defend his home, or move to a more isolated area, away from the prying eyes of the government. He and his family are hesitant to leave their beloved Lake County, but with increasingly suspicious activities happening in a nearby refugee camp, all signs point towards defecting. Morgan and his friends aren't going to leave without a fight, though\u2014and they'll do anything to protect their freedoms.From the author of the hit survivalist novels Going Home and Surviving Home, Escaping Home describes the struggle to live in a world with no rules, and how, sometimes, the strength of family is the only thing that can pull you through.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18342288-escaping-home"}, +{"book_title": "Markham and the Anal Probing", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 565, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Markham and the Anal ProbingAnd then there was the day when Markham managed to get himself snatched by aliens \u2013 or so we thought at the time.I was summoned to Dr Bairstow\u2019s office to find Markham and Peterson already present. We looked at each other.\u2018Any clues?\u2019 I asked.They shrugged.\u2018You can go in now,\u2019 said Mrs Partridge, so in we went.He looked up from his desk. \u2018There you are.\u2019We agreed that yes, here we were.He gestured at his briefing table on which reposed several archive boxes and a fat folder.\u2018The County Archivist has been good enough to make available various documents requested by Dr Dowson. A condition was that we do not expose them to the hazards of a random delivery service.\u2019 It was not clear whether it was the company or its delivery that was random, but we nodded anyway. \u2018And so, I would like you, personally, to return these valuable documents with my compliments and thanks.\u2019He handed Peterson an envelope.\u2018Of course, sir.\u2019\u2018This afternoon, if you please.\u2019Peterson glanced at his watch. \u2018It\u2019s already afternoon, sir.\u2019\u2018How quickly you grasp my meaning.\u2019\u2018I do my best, sir.\u2019\u2018I have assured the County Archivist that my best people are on the job. They being unavailable, however, I have therefore designated my Chief Operations Officer, my Head of Security and my Deputy Director to fulfil this simple task.\u2019His Deputy Directory, Head of Security and Chief Operations Officer assembled their best air of cool professionalism \u2013 which in our case consisted of standing a little straighter and not picking our noses. I don\u2019t think he was impressed, staring at us bleakly for a few seconds and then demanding to know why we were still here.Since Peterson was burdened with the envelope, Markham and I seized the boxes and we left with all speed.\u2018Right,\u2019 said Peterson, \u2018I shall assume full control of this mission.\u2019Markham made a rude noise.\u2018Get changed and meet in the car park in ten minutes. That\u2019s ten minutes, Max. No wafting around in front of mirrors trying on dresses.\u2019Now I made a rude noise.We met in the car park, shoving Markham and the boxes in the back, and departed.\u2018A nice afternoon out,\u2019 said a voice from behind the boxes, and we agreed.Now I know what you\u2019re thinking. I can hear exactly what you\u2019re thinking, so I will say now that the boxes were delivered on time and to the correct destination. The County Archivist herself took delivery so God knows what was in them. Peterson, after a series of nudges from me, remembered to hand over Dr Bairstow\u2019s letter of thanks and they gave us a cup of tea. They were lovely people. I wish I worked there. We set off for the return trip, hoping to be back in time for tea, and things started to go wrong almost immediately.Peterson caught my eye. I always think that sounds as if you\u2019ve been indulging in a quick game of eyeball tossing, but I knew what he meant\u2018So,\u2019 he said, almost casually, negotiating the last roundabout out of town and accelerating away, \u2018how are things with you and Hunter?\u2019\u2018OK,\u2019 said Markham vaguely. \u2018I think.\u2019\u2018Don\u2019t you know?\u2019\u2018Well, it\u2019s hard to tell sometimes, but I always think if she\u2019s not coming at me with a kidney bowl then, you know, things aren\u2019t too bad.\u2019\u2018Why would she come at you with a kidney bowl?\u2019\u2018Because she can\u2019t find a bedpan.\u2019Peterson tried again. \u2018So \u2013 got any celebrations planned then?\u2019\u2018What for?\u2019\u2018Well, you have an anniversary coming up.\u2019\u2018What anniversary?\u2019\u2018Wedding. You know. You and Hunter.\u2019There was a long silence from the back. \u2018Don\u2019t know what you mean.\u2019\u2018I worked it out,\u2019 said Peterson in his best I\u2019m Peterson and I\u2019m brilliant voice. \u2018I\u2019m looking at Hunter these days and she\u2019s looking very well, isn\u2019t she? Blooming, almost. And she\u2019s a very moral girl is our Hunter. Well, she has to be since you don\u2019t have a single moral to your name, so I reckon you had the ceremony just before or just after the Battle of St Mary\u2019s which means there\u2019s an anniversary coming up.\u2019There was a lot more silence from the back.\u2018Oh come on,\u2019 said Peterson. \u2018Admit I\u2019m right and the then the two of us can buy you a celebratory drink in the bar.\u2019More silence.\u2018I\u2019m right, aren\u2019t I? Go on \u2013 say I\u2019m right.\u2019Even more silence.\u2018I don\u2019t know why you won\u2019t admit it,\u2019 he said, slightly exasperated. \u2018Are you ashamed of something? Wait until I tell Hunter you\u2019re ashamed of her.\u2019He paused, hopefully.Nothing but silence.I pulled down the passenger\u2019s sun flap and looked at the mirror. Markham was sitting with his arms folded and a stupid grin on his face.\u2018I reckon,\u2019 said Peterson, \u2018the two of you snuck into the Register Office without telling anyone but I\u2019m going to make you tell me just the same.\u2019Silence.\u2018Right,\u2019 he said. \u2018You asked for it. Hold on tight, Max.\u2019We swerved off the road into a field, skidding to a halt in a shower of dust, stones and indignant birds.\u2018What are we doing here?\u2019 said Markham, picking himself up off the back seat and peering out of the window.\u2018We\u2019re staying here until you tell us.\u2019 He switched off the engine and folded his arms. \u2018Not another yard until you tell us the truth.\u2019Markham folded his arms. \u2018Never.\u2019I began to make plans for spending the rest of my life in a field.The silence dragged on, only to be broken by the sounds of Markham getting out.\u2018Where are you going?\u2019 I said, in some alarm. \u2018We\u2019re still not supposed to go anywhere alone.\u2019\u2018Well I\u2019m not staying here with you two maniacs. If you want to sit in a field you can do it on your own. I\u2019m off.\u2019We watched him walk across the field and out of the gate.\u2018Bollocks,\u2019 said Peterson.\u2018Well, that worked, didn\u2019t it?\u2019\u2018Bollocks,\u2019 he said again.\u2018Look, why don\u2019t you just check the records at Somerset House? It\u2019s a simple enough process.\u2019\u2018That\u2019s not the point. I want him to tell me.\u2019I surveyed the vast, empty field. \u2018How\u2019s that working out for you?\u2019He cursed again and switched on the engineMarkham was a couple of hundred yards up the road. We passed his plodding figure with a merry toot of the horn.\u2018It\u2019s four miles back to St Mary\u2019s,\u2019 I said, watching him recede in the wing mirror.\u2018Do him good.\u2019\u2018Ronan,\u2019 I said warningly. \u2018We shouldn\u2019t leave him alone.\u2019\u2018No,\u2019 he said reluctantly. \u2018You\u2019re right. We shouldn\u2019t.\u2019We pulled into a layby and waited.He never came.We waited some more.\u2018For crying out loud,\u2019 said Peterson. \u2018I know he\u2019s Security Section, but surely even he can\u2019t have got lost between there and here.\u2019I sighed. \u2018I\u2019ll go and look for him. He might just be taking a rest.\u2019\u2018I\u2019ll come with you,\u2019 he said, getting out. \u2018No one should be alone, remember?\u2019\u2018Markham,\u2019 I said accusingly. \u2018We left him alone.\u2019\u2018He doesn\u2019t count.\u2019We walked to the bend and looked. The road was empty. We could see for miles. No Markham. Not anywhere.\u2018Shit,\u2019 I said. We rotated slowly. Where could he be?\u2018He\u2019s cut across the fields,\u2019 said Peterson. \u2018Hang on.\u2019 He climbed onto the car roof and surveyed the flat countryside. The flat, empty countryside.\u2018Shit,\u2019 I said again, beginning to panic. \u2018We\u2019ve lost him.\u2019\u2018We can\u2019t have,\u2019 he said, climbing down.\u2018Then where is he? Oh my God, we\u2019ve lost Markham.\u2019\u2018Look,\u2019 he said. \u2018The little sod\u2019s in a ditch somewhere. Either he fell in and hurt himself \u2013 perfectly possible \u2013 or he\u2019s hiding under a hedge to teach us a lesson. We\u2019ll go and find him, kick the living shit out of him for frightening us like this, and then he can buy us a drink afterwards.\u2019I looked up. It was the only direction left. \u2018Do you think he\u2019s been snatched by aliens?\u2019\u2018Always a possibility,\u2019 he said, locking the car. \u2018Although if so then they\u2019ll be returning him in a hurry any minute now.\u2019\u2018No, seriously,\u2019 I said as we set off, him on one side of the narrow lane and me on the other. I peered into ditches and looked under hedges. \u2018It\u2019s the only explanation. You hear about this sort of thing all the time. You know \u2013 anal probing.\u2019\u2018For God\u2019s sake, Max, get a grip. Why on earth would super intelligent beings cross the vastness of space just to firkle around in Markham\u2019s bottom area. Would you?\u2019\u2018God, no.\u2019\u2018Well there you are, then. Anything your side?\u2019\u2018Nothing. Where could he be?\u2019\u2018I don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s four miles back to St Mary\u2019s.\u2019It was at that moment we heard the car start up. We stood paralysed for a moment and then Peterson screamed, \u2018Bastard,\u2019 and set off at a run. I pounded along behind him and we raced back around the bend just in time to see Markham pull out of the layby. He waved, gave us a merry toot, and sped away out of sight.We skidded to a halt.\u2018Didn\u2019t you lock it?\u2019 I said accusingly.\u2018Of course I did, but it\u2019s bloody Markham, isn\u2019t it? He could hot-wire a rock\u2019.\u2018It\u2019s four miles back to St Mary\u2019s.\u2019\u2018He\u2019ll stop around the next bend,\u2019 said Peterson, reassuringly. \u2018He\u2019s just teaching us a lesson.\u2019He was and he didn\u2019t.Four bloody miles. With Peterson vowing grim retribution with every step.And we missed tea.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35176846-markham-and-the-anal-probing"}, +{"book_title": "NeuroDancer", "author_name": "Austin Dragon", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 54, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "\nHas Cruz met his supervillain match in NeuroDancer?\nLiquid Cool is a Blade Runner meets the Maltese Falcon. In the next installment of the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author Austin Dragon goes from less frenetic cyberpunk to a smoother, cyber-noir with our hero, Cruz, matching wits with the sultry NeuroDancer. There is always plenty of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even a few laughs.It\u2019s the cyberpunk novel reimagined\u2014an ever-rainy world of colossal skyscrapers, hover-cars, flashy neon streets, and futuristic mechanization. Metropolis isn\u2019t a bad place, but it isn\u2019t a good one either. Uber-governments and mega-corporations fight for control of the fifty-million-plus super-city, but so does crime.\u201cDon\u2019t hate me because I\u2019m beautiful,\u201d she said to him. He should have listened to his instincts when she strolled into his office to hire him. \u201cI knew I wasn\u2019t gonna touch this case with a 10-foot pole. It had danger written all over it, back and front.\u201d But he did take the Case of the NeuroDancer. Is this the private eye story where the bad \u201cguy\u201d rides off into the sunset and the hero lies flat on his back waiting for the meat wagon to fly down in their hoverambulance.Which is crazier, indeed: the criminal\u2014or the client? Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34831354-neurodancer"}, +{"book_title": "A Man In A Kilt", "author_name": "Sandy Blair", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1540, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "A LONELY LAIRDDuncan MacDougal, the laird of Blackstone, was cursed centuries ago to wander as a ghost within the echoing walls of his island castle --- and only one woman can free him. Can it be the new mistress of Blackstone, just arrived from over the sea? Duncan has heard that pretty Miss Elizabeth Pudding is no more than a cook --- and she hails from a barbarous land called the Bronx. But she must learn the ways of a lady all the same --- and she must stay at Blackstone for six long months to inherit. 'Tis time enough to teach her --- and time enough to woo her ...AN ENCHANTING LADYBeth has seen the handsome specter from the day she crossed the threshold of Blackstone. Duncan MacDougal is a tall, translucent figure with black hair and piercing blue eyes. Yet a mist separates him from the land of the living ... a mist as strong as cold steel. It is said that only love can dissolve it --- and bring the man of her dreams to warm, breathing life.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/680182.A_Man_In_A_Kilt"}, +{"book_title": "\u50d5\u306e\u30d2\u30fc\u30ed\u30fc\u30a2\u30ab\u30c7\u30df\u30a2 22 [Boku no Hero Academia 22", "author_name": "Kohei Horikoshi", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 2964, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "A\u7d44VSB\u7d44\u306e\u6fc0\u30a2\u30c4\u5408\u540c\u6226\u95d8\u8a13\u7df4\uff01\u3000\u3084\u3063\u3071B\u7d44\u3082\u201c\u500b\u6027\u201d\u4f38\u3070\u3057\u3066\u305f\u308a\u3001\u65b0\u3057\u3044\u5fc5\u6bba\u6280\u3068\u304b\u30b9\u30b2\u3047\u306a\u3002\u3088\u3063\u3057\u3083\uff01\u3000\u4ffa\u3089\u3082\u614e\u91cd\u306b\u2026\u3063\u3066\u3001\u304a\u3044\u7206\u8c6a\uff01\u3000\u5f85\u3066\u3063\u3066\uff01\u3000\u3042\u30fc\u3082\u3046\uff01\u3000\u3057\u3087\u3046\u304c\u306d\u3047\u306a\uff01\u3000\u201cPlus Ultra\u201d!!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics Manga", "Manga (Shonen)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42207510-22-boku-no-hero-academia-22"}, +{"book_title": "Odyssey", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 2816, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "Known for combining galaxy-spanning adventures with the genuine novel of ideas (Washington Post Book World), multiple Nebula Award-finalist McDevitt returns to the world of Chindi and Omega and humanity's struggle with its own existence.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Novels", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Pulp", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Literature (21st Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352775.Odyssey"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers: Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron (Transformers", "author_name": "Alexander C. Irvine", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1061, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "\u00a0For twenty-five years the colossal battle between Megatron and Optimus Prime has captivated Transformers fans around the world. Yet the full story of the conflict between the two most famous Transformers\u2014everything that happened before Optimus and Megatron arrived on planet Earth\u2014has always been a mystery . . . until now. Here, for the first time told in its entirety, is the thrilling saga of Optimus and Megatron before they were enemies, before they even knew each other. \u201cFreedom is every Cybertronian\u2019s right!\u201d After Megatron utters these immortal words, the caste-bound planet of Cybertron is rocked to its foundations. Megatron, an undefeated gladiator thug, gives voice to the unspoken longings of the oppressed masses\u2014and opens the mind of an insignificant data clerk to possibilities previously unthinkable.Long before becoming the honorable Optimus Prime, Orion Pax is a mere office underling, an unlikely candidate to answer an outlaw\u2019s call to revolution. But Orion is determined to meet this defiant enemy of all that Cybertron stands for, no matter what he has to do, or how many laws he has to break.What happens between Orion Pax and Megatron forever changes the destiny of all Transformers. This gripping, action-packed novel reveals all the loyalties and treacheries, trust and betrayals, deadly violence and shining ideals, as well as the pivotal roles played by other characters, including Starscream, Sentinel Prime, Omega Supreme, and one of the thirteen original Primes, the last link to Cybertron\u2019s glorious Golden Age.Discover how meek disciple Orion Pax becomes the fearless leader Optimus Prime; follow the tantalizing clues about the lost Matrix of Leadership and the lore surrounding it; find out why the two allies fighting a corrupt regime suddenly turn on each other, and what triggers their epic war. Transformers: Exodus provides everything fans ever wanted to know about one of the fiercest rivalries of all time.\u00a0", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "War", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7833898-transformers"}, +{"book_title": "Feverborn", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 21929, "review_number": 2210, "book_description": "In Karen Marie Moning\u2019s latest installment of the epic #1 New York Times bestselling Fever series, the stakes have never been higher and the chemistry has never been hotter. Hurtling us into a realm of labyrinthine intrigue and consummate seduction, FEVERBORN is a riveting tale of ancient evil, lust, betrayal, forgiveness and the redemptive power of love.When the immortal race of the Fae destroyed the ancient wall dividing the worlds of Man and Faery, the very fabric of the universe was damaged and now Earth is vanishing bit by bit. Only the long-lost Song of Making\u2014a haunting, dangerous melody that is the source of all life itself\u2014can save the planet.But those who seek the mythic Song\u2014Mac, Barrons, Ryodan and Jada\u2014must contend with old wounds and new enemies, passions that burn hot and hunger for vengeance that runs deep. The challenges are many: The Keltar at war with nine immortals who\u2019ve secretly ruled Dublin for eons, Mac and Jada hunted by the masses, the Seelie queen nowhere to be found, and the most powerful Unseelie prince in all creation determined to rule both Fae and Man. Now the task of solving the ancient riddle of the Song of Making falls to a band of deadly warriors divided among\u2014and within\u2014themselves.Once a normal city possessing a touch of ancient magic, Dublin is now a treacherously magical city with only a touch of normal. And in those war-torn streets, Mac will come face to face with her most savage enemy yet: herself.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12444298-feverborn"}, +{"book_title": "Savage Wars", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 494, "review_number": 44, "book_description": " The greatest conflict the galaxy has ever known\u2026 They were the Savages. Raiders from our distant past. Elites who left Earth to create tailor-made utopias aboard the massive lighthuggers that crawled through the darkness between the stars. But the people they left behind on a dying planet didn't perish in the dystopian nightmare the Savages had themselves created: they thrived, discovering faster-than-light technology and using it to colonize the galaxy ahead of the Savages, forming fantastic new civilizations that surpassed the wildest dreams of Old Earth. Until the Savages came in from the Darkness... When a Savage hulk lands on glittering New Vega, one of the crown jewels of the post-Earth galaxy, a coalition of planetary governments amasses their forces to respond to the post-human Savage Marines who\u2019ve come to sack and enslave. But what the coalition forces find is something far more sinister than the typical Savage hit-and-run: this time, the Savages have come to stay. Witness the intense beginning of THE SAVAGE WARS, the epic conflict, built into the lore of GALAXY'S EDGE, that will encompass over a thousand years of brutal fighting. Only the greatest military force in the galaxy can bring this war to an end\u2026 and the galaxy will never again be the same. Experience the beginning of the Legion. Experience the Savage Wars. \nAlso available in audio book format performed by Stephen Lang (Avatar, Gods & Generals).\n", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51399331-savage-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Lost World", "author_name": "Kate L. Mary", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1064, "review_number": 86, "book_description": " Lost World, the fourth book in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has destroyed the world and the dead have come back to claim it as their own... With their shelter destroyed and their sense of security shattered, Vivian, Axl and the group set off in search of a safe place. But the group\u2019s morale is at an all-time low, and they now know it\u2019s not just the dead they have to fear. Weeks of wandering brings sickness, death and loss to the survivors, and Vivian soon finds herself losing hope of ever discovering a safe place to live. To make matters worse, two members of the group go missing, leaving the others to wonder not only what happened to them, but if they will ever see their friends alive again.After what happened in Vegas, Hadley feels like a stranger in her own body. When she and Jon get separated from the rest of the group, she finds herself confronted not only with the scars left behind by her ordeal, but facing the possibility of a new beginning with Jon at her side. In a twist of fate, Vivian and Axl stumble upon a place that could be the group\u2019s salvation, only to have hope slip through their fingers once again when they are met with the most devastating blow yet\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25108008-lost-world"}, +{"book_title": "Second Daughter", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 407, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Aniri\u2019s life is supposedly perfect\u2014she\u2019s beloved by the people of Jungali and betrothed to their handsome prince. He\u2019s a noble barbarian who\u2019s pledged to use his skyship for peace, but the threat of a second skyship in the hands of rival country Samir looms over their impending marriage\u2026 and Aniri begins to question her rush to marry a man she barely knows. When the Second Daughter of Dharia is poisoned, Aniri tells her soon-to-be husband she must rush off to Samir to care for her beloved sister. After all, how can she wed when Seledri may be dying? But in her heart, Aniri fears she may be like her long-lost father, fleeing the responsibilities of crown once again. Aniri may be a runaway bride, but the dangers in Samir are real\u2014Seledri is being stalked by an assassin, the second skyship could bring war, and the three Queendoms have never had so much unrest. As Aniri fights to free her sister from a husband and a country she does not love, she unlocks tightly-kept secrets that might have been better left uncovered\u2026 and she wonders whether a love pledged in the heat of adventure can survive the looming threat of war. SECOND DAUGHTER is the second book in the Royals of Dharia Trilogy. It is told from Aniri\u2019s point of view.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29533178-second-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Touch of Steel", "author_name": "Kate Cross", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 543, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "The Wardens of the Realm are a group with extraordinary abilities, dedicated to protecting England from any threat. But in this steam-powered world, there\u2019s a fine line between enemy and ally\u2026Reeling from her brother\u2019s death, beautiful American spy Claire Brooks has vowed revenge on the member of The Company who she believes to be responsible: Stanton Howard. But when she chases the man to London, Claire is captured by the Wardens of the Realm and placed in the custody of the Earl of Wolfred, the dashing Alistair Payne.Seeing the prospect of retribution slipping away, Claire convinces Alistair that she has defected and will help him take down The Company. As they travel via steam liner, Claire and Alistair must pretend to be engaged. Claire can\u2019t deny the growing attraction she feels for her pretend husband, but when Howard is finally within her reach, she will have to decide whether her true loyalties lie with The Company or with her heart\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542553-touch-of-steel"}, +{"book_title": "There Before the Chaos", "author_name": "K.B. Wagers", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 570, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "The battle for the throne is over. The war for the galaxy is just beginning.Hail Bristol, former gunrunner and newly-crowned Empress of Indrana, looks forward to retiring her gun and rebuilding her Empire in peace. After a bloody civil war laced with regicide, betrayal, and foreign plots, Hail and her people are braced for years of necessary reconstruction and reform.But when Indrana\u2019s closest ally asks Hail to intervene in an interstellar military crisis, she must instead embark on the highest stakes diplomatic mission the Empire has ever faced. Caught between two alien civilizations at each other\u2019s throats, she must uncover each side\u2019s true intentions before all of humanity becomes collateral damage in a full-blown galactic war.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36343160-there-before-the-chaos"}, +{"book_title": "Playing with Fire", "author_name": "Derek Landy", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 25293, "review_number": 1352, "book_description": "Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend.Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challenge yet.But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home?Look for Scepter of the Ancients", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2157243.Playing_with_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "Saga, Vol. 7", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 35507, "review_number": 3719, "book_description": "From the worldwide bestselling team of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan, \u201cThe War for Phang\u201d is an epic, self-contained Saga event! Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience. Collecting: Saga 37-42", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29237211-saga-vol-7"}, +{"book_title": "Unexpected World", "author_name": "Chris Pike", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1680, "review_number": 189, "book_description": "Author Chris Pike's debut novel is a gritty and compelling survival tale about human courage and steadfast determination to live, to endure, and to persevere against all odds. Assistant District Attorney Dillon Stockdale is on the phone with his daughter when an EMP obliterates the entire electrical grid of the United States. Anything relying on a computer is fried, including the plane his daughter is on. Gripped with the terrifying realization the plane has crash-landed somewhere in the expansive and dangerous landscape of Louisiana\u2019s Atchafalaya Basin, Dillon sets out to rescue her before it\u2019s too late. A harrowing survival story with non-stop, pulse-pounding action, Unexpected World is a story of good vs. evil, of a complex narrative of fight or flight, and mind-bending choices resulting in profound consequences. Dillon Stockdale is determined, he\u2019s well-equipped, and nothing will stop him. Or will it? ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30343444-unexpected-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Tiger Flu", "author_name": "Larissa Lai", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 591, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction.Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a \"starfish,\" a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a mysterious flu comes into their midst, Peristrophe becomes infected and dies, prompting Kirilow to travel to Salt Water City, where the flu is now a pandemic, to find a new starfish who will help save her sisters. There, Kirilow meets Kora, a girl-woman desperate to save her family from the epidemic. Kora has everything Kirilow is looking for, except the will to abandon her own family. But before Kirilow can convince her, both are kidnapped by a group of powerful men to serve as test subjects for a new technology that can cure the mind of the body.Bold, beautiful, and wildly imaginative, The Tiger Flu is at once a female hero's saga, a cyberpunk thriller, and a convention-breaking cautionary tale--a striking metaphor for our complicated times.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39070352-the-tiger-flu"}, +{"book_title": "1Q84", "author_name": "Haruki Murakami", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 210057, "review_number": 18357, "book_description": "The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver\u2019s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 \u2014\u201cQ is for \u2018question mark.\u2019 A world that bears a question.\u201d Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame\u2019s and Tengo\u2019s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell\u2019s \u2014 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami\u2019s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Magical Realism", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Contemporary", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10357575-1q84"}, +{"book_title": "In the Balance", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 6253, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled across the surface, pushing ever forward, carrying death. Earth was engaged in titanic struggle. Germany, Russia, France, China, Japan: the maps were changing day by day. The hostilities spread in ever-widening ripples of destruction: Britain, Italy, Africa...The fate of the world hung in the balance. Then the real enemy came. Out of the dark of night, out of the soft glow of dawn, out of the clear blue sky came an invasion force the likes of which Earth had never known - and worldwar was truly joined. The invaders were inhuman and they were unstoppable. Their technology was far beyond our reach, and their goal was simple. Fleetlord Atvar had arrived to claim Earth for the Empire. Never before had Earth's people been more divided. Never had the need for unity been greater. And grudgingly, inexpertly, humanity took up the challenge. In this epic novel of alternate history, Harry Turtledove takes us around the globe. We roll with German panzers; watch the coast of Britain with the RAF; and welcome alien-liberators to the Warsaw ghetto. In tiny planes we skim the vast Russian steppe, and we push the envelope of technology in secret labs at the University of Chicago. Turtledove's saga covers all the Earth, and beyond, as mankind - in all its folly and glory - faces the ultimate threat; and a turning point in history shows us a past that never was and a future that could yet come to be...", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101527.In_the_Balance"}, +{"book_title": "The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives", "author_name": "James P. Blaylock", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 183, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "\"A good deal of controversy arose late in the last century over what has been referred to by the more livid newspapers as 'The Horror in St. James Park' or 'The Ape-box Affair'\"So begins the first chronicle in the long and often obscure life of Langdon St. Ives, Victorian scientist and adventurer, respected member of the Explorers Club and of societies far more obscure, consultant to scientific luminaries, and secret, unheralded savior of humankind. From the depths of the Borneo jungles to the starlit reaches of outer space, and ultimately through the dark corridors of past and future time, the adventures of Langdon St. Ives invariably lead him back to the streets and alleys of the busiest, darkest, most secretive city in the world -- London in the age of steam and gaslamps, with the Thames fog settling in over the vast city of perpetual evening. St. Ives, in pursuit of the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, discovers the living horror of revivified corpses, the deep sea mystery of a machine with the power to drag ships to their doom, and the appalling threat of a skeleton-piloted airship descending toward the city of London itself, carrying within its gondola a living homunculus with the power to drive men mad.This omnibus volume contains the collected steampunk stories and novels of James P. Blaylock, one of the originators of the genre, which hearkens back to the worlds of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, a world where science was a work of the imagination, and the imagination was endlessly free to dream.The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives will contain the original illustrations J. K. Potter created for the novel Lord Kelvin's Machine, plus many more for the novel, Homunculus, and the short stories.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Aircraft (Airships)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2473860.The_Adventures_of_Langdon_St_Ives"}, +{"book_title": "The Merchant of Dreams", "author_name": "Anne Lyle", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 477, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Book Two of the Night's Masque series, sequel to The Alchemist of SoulsExiled from the court of Queen Elizabeth for accusing a powerful nobleman of treason, swordsman-turned-spy Mal Catlyn has been living in France with his young valet Coby Hendricks for the past year.But Mal harbours a darker secret: he and his twin brother share a soul that once belonged to a skrayling, one of the mystical creatures from the New World.When Mal\u2019s dream about a skrayling shipwreck in the Mediterranean proves reality, it sets him on a path to the beautiful, treacherous city of Venice \u2013 and a conflict of loyalties that will place him and his friends in greater danger than ever.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Romance", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17120574-the-merchant-of-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Coldbrook", "author_name": "Tim Lebbon", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1530, "review_number": 271, "book_description": "Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were about to unleash.With their breakthrough comes disease and now it is out and ravaging the human population. The only hope is a cure and the only cure is genetic resistance: an uninfected person amongst the billions dead.In the chaos of destruction there is only one person that can save the human race.But will they find her in time?\u00a0", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248556-coldbrook"}, +{"book_title": "The Way of Kings", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.62, "rating_votes": 323258, "review_number": 21334, "book_description": "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.Speak again the ancient oaths:Life before death.Strength before weakness.Journey before Destination.and return to men the Shards they once bore.The Knights Radiant must stand again.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Epic", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7235533-the-way-of-kings"}, +{"book_title": "Vivian Apple at the End of the World", "author_name": "Katie Coyle", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 5136, "review_number": 961, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently\u00a0devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the supposed \"Rapture,\" all that\u2019s left of her parents are two\u00a0holes in the roof. Suddenly, she doesn't know who or what to believe. With her best friend Harp and a mysterious ally, Peter, Vivian\u00a0embarks on a desperate\u00a0cross-country roadtrip\u00a0through a paranoid and panic-stricken America to find answers.\u00a0Because at the end of the world, Vivan Apple\u00a0isn't looking for a savior. She's looking for the truth.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Mystery", "Religion", "Travel (Road Trip)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20256737-vivian-apple-at-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Destroying Angel", "author_name": "Richard Paul Russo", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 254, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "An electrifying new cybershock thriller from a Philip K. Dick Award-winning author. In the violent, deteriorating San Francisco of the future, two bodies--chained together in a death embrace--are pulled from the bay. Only ex-cop Tanner recognizes the mark of the Chain Killer, and now he must prepare to penetrate the lair of a madman--in the city's hell on earth.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37271.Destroying_Angel"}, +{"book_title": "Starsight", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 42162, "review_number": 4837, "book_description": "All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing.Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars--and it was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie. But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself--and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42769202-starsight"}, +{"book_title": "Lauren's Barbarian", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 5836, "review_number": 436, "book_description": "A lush, tropical island on an icy planet makes no sense.Then again, not much makes sense anymore after waking up and finding myself not in bed but on a strange world populated by aliens. Since that moment, I\u2019ve learned that nothing is normal anymore and I\u2019ve got to roll with the punches. I can handle this, though. I\u2019m strong and capable.So\u2026 washed up on a tropical island? Got it handled.Separated from the others in my group? Handled.Stranded alone with a brutal but delicious alien man that can\u2019t speak English but has great\u2026 ahem\u2026 body language? Yup, handled.Add in the fact that my cootie \u2013 a symbiont I need to survive \u2013 has chosen my big, hulking alien friend as my fated mate? Let\u2019s just say that the situation isn\u2019t the only thing that\u2019s going to be handled. But it isn\u2019t long before I learn that the tropical island paradise is a death trap and we\u2019re all in grave danger, aliens and humans alike. To survive this, I'll need my tempting guy to give me a hand with the situation\u2026 good thing he's got four of them.This romance features all of the adventure, humor and community you\u2019ve come to expect in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, but it stands on its own. You do not need to read the other series (or be caught up) in order to read LAUREN'S BARBARIAN.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36383830-lauren-s-barbarian"}, +{"book_title": "American War", "author_name": "Omar El Akkad", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 30058, "review_number": 4230, "book_description": "An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itselfSarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33311863-american-war"}, +{"book_title": "Ring Shout", "author_name": "P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 5240, "review_number": 1265, "book_description": "Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror.D. W. Griffith is a sorcerer, and The Birth of a Nation is a spell that drew upon the darkest thoughts and wishes from the heart of America. Now, rising in power and prominence, the Klan has a plot to unleash Hell on Earth.Luckily, Maryse Boudreaux has a magic sword and a head full of tales. When she's not running bootleg whiskey through Prohibition Georgia, she's fighting monsters she calls \"Ku Kluxes.\" She's damn good at it, too. But to confront this ongoing evil, she must journey between worlds to face nightmares made flesh--and her own demons. Together with a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter, Maryse sets out to save a world from the hate that would consume it.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Historical", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49247242-ring-shout"}, +{"book_title": "The Jackal\u2019s House", "author_name": "Anna Butler", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 185, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Sequel to The Gilded ScarabSomething is stalking the Aegyptian night and endangering the archaeologists excavating the mysterious temple ruins in Abydos. But is it a vengeful ancient spirit or a very modern conspiracy\u2026.Rafe Lancaster\u2019s relationship with Gallowglass First Heir, Ned Winter, flourishes over the summer of 1900, and when Rafe\u2019s House encourages him to join Ned\u2019s next archaeological expedition, he sees a chance for it to deepen further. Since all the Houses of the Britannic Imperium, Rafe\u2019s included, view assassination as a convenient solution to most problems, he packs his aether pistol\u2014just in case.Trouble finds them in Abydos. Rafe and Ned begin to wonder if they\u2019re facing opposition to the Temple of Seti being disturbed. What begins as tricks and pranks escalates to attacks and death, while the figure of the Dog\u2014the jackal-headed god, Anubis, ruler of death\u2014casts a long shadow over the desert sands. Destruction follows in his wake as he returns to reclaim his place in Abydos. Can Rafe and Ned stand against both the god and House plots when the life of Ned\u2019s son is on the line?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36361060-the-jackal-s-house"}, +{"book_title": "Mastered By Her Mates", "author_name": "Grace Goodwin", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2504, "review_number": 227, "book_description": "Amanda Bryant has been a spy for five long years, but when aliens suddenly appear claiming a deadly enemy threatens Earth's very survival, Amanda is asked by her superiors to accept the most dangerous mission of her life...volunteer to be an alien's bride, to share the strange warrior's bed and then betray him.\u00a0Accepting the assignment, Amanda is processed as the first Interstellar Bride and transported halfway across the galaxy to her new mate's battleship where she awakens to discover she has been matched to not just one huge Prillon warrior, but two.Shocked by her craving for the touch of two dominant alpha males, Amanda attempts to hide her body's immediate reaction to Commander Grigg and his second, Rav. Resistance is futile as her new mates expect to control every aspect of her life, and her pleasure, and neither will hesitate to deliver a thorough and embarrassing spanking should she disobey their sensual commands, or resist a complex and deeply arousing series of medical exams designed to ensure her sexual readiness for their claiming.\u00a0Seduced and cherished by two alpha alien warriors who hide nothing from her, Amanda quickly comes to realize that the threat to Earth is very real. When she witnesses a battle with the enemy and the resulting death of a highly respected warrior, she knows she must tell her mates the truth and hope they can forgive her for her duplicity before it's too late.\u00a0Loyalties will be tested as Amanda fights the most important battle of her life. How can she protect the warriors she has grown to love and save the people of Earth from making a terrible mistake? Will her human contacts believe her when, with every touch, every look, they will see just how thoroughly she has been mastered by her mates?Publisher's Note: Mastered by Her Mates is a stand-alone prequel novel set in the same world as Assigned a Mate, Mated to the Warriors, Claimed by Her Mates, Taken by Her Mates, and Mated to the Beast. It is an erotic romance novel that includes sexual scenes, spankings and more and is intended for an adult audience. If such material offends you, please do not buy this book.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31804430-mastered-by-her-mates"}, +{"book_title": "Ruins", "author_name": "Dan Wells", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 15302, "review_number": 1429, "book_description": "Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the Partials Sequence, a series that combines the thrilling action of The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of Blade Runner and The Stand.There is no avoiding it\u2014the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira Walker has precious little time to prevent that from happening. She has one chance to save both species and the world with them, but it will only come at great personal cost.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17607716-ruins"}, +{"book_title": "Ascender #14", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 33, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "\u201cTHE DIGITAL MAGE,\u201d Part Four Both the Magical Militia and our heroes converge on the moon of Dirishu, the very place where the DESCENDER saga began, as the forces of magic and man explode in all-out war. Mila and Bandit may hold the key to total Armageddon, but first they will need to complete their quest and discover the true fate of Tim-21!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55822776-ascender-14"}, +{"book_title": "The Vindication", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 657, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "A compelling heroine\u2026a future as detailed as that of Herbert's Dune\u2026and finely orchestrated suspense right up to the end. Strongly recommended.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57079.The_Vindication"}, +{"book_title": "Scud: The Disposable Assassin - The Whole Shebang", "author_name": "Rob Schrab", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 936, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "In the world of Scud, bullets are cheaper than human life. Corner vending machines provide any weapon you might need. The most popular weapons are Scud disposable assassins: Robot hitmen that self-destruct when they kill their target. This volume follows Scud 1373, assigned to take out a hideous female man-eater named Jeff. While fighting the indestructible Jeff, Scud discovers his infamous warning panel in a bathroom mirror. Realizing that to kill Jeff is to kill himself, Scud blows off her arms and legs and hospitalizes her. Her life support bills will have to be paid, and Scud will have to find more work to stay alive. ", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1252669.Scud"}, +{"book_title": "In Death Ground", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2267, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "The Bugs have a superior drive technology, overwhelming numbers, and a strategy that's mind-numbingly alien. But they have finally encountered a food source that's too stubborn to go down easy. For the humans and Orions of the Grand Alliance choosing their strategy was easy--the only possible objective in the Fourth Interstellar War was the complete extermination of the Bugs.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science (Technology)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504380.In_Death_Ground"}, +{"book_title": "Endless Knight", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 22204, "review_number": 2254, "book_description": "In this second book thrilling book of The Arcana Chronicles from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole, Evie struggles to accept her place in the prophecy that will either save the world\u2014or destroy it.Evie has fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress, and Jack was there to see it all. As one of twenty-two teens given powers following the apocalypse, she now knows a war is brewing, and it\u2019s kill or be killed.When Evie meets Death, the gorgeous and dangerous Endless Knight, things get even more complicated. Though falling for Jack, she\u2019s drawn to Death as well. Somehow the Empress and Death share a romantic history, one that Evie can\u2019t remember\u2014but Death can\u2019t forget\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20759641-endless-knight"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowfever", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 99817, "review_number": 6768, "book_description": "\u201cEvil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it\u2019s good.\u201d \u2014 MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. \u2014 Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister\u2019s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh -- a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?From the luxury of the Lord Master\u2019s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac\u2019s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7304203-shadowfever"}, +{"book_title": "State of Emergency", "author_name": "Summer Lane", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1755, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "What would you do if the world as you know it ended in an instant? How far would you go to survive? Cassidy Hart is your typical High School graduate: A little shy, a little sarcastic, and a little naive. But when an electromagnetic pulse takes down the United States, she's forced to kick into full survival mode when she gets separated from her father. Yeah. Things suck. But with the help of a handsome soldier named Chris, she just might find her dad without getting into serious trouble.Emphasis on might. Oh. And there's the matter of avoiding getting killed in a world that's quickly turned into an active war zone. It's going to change Cassidy's life.It's going to be a major pain in the butt.New Adult/Young Adult Contemporary Romantic Adventure", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "New Adult", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17196969-state-of-emergency"}, +{"book_title": "Fire In His Embrace", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 4673, "review_number": 418, "book_description": "There\u2019s only one way to tame a dragon. Emma Arroyo knows this. She also knows that the big golden dragon captured by her brother\u2019s biker gang is in trouble, and it\u2019s all her fault. He followed her scent, and now his life is in danger. She has to fix this, somehow. If she could talk to the dragon, they could form a plan to escape, both of them. But the dragon\u2019s mind is wild and full of uncontrollable, killing rage. There\u2019s no reasoning with him. There\u2019s certainly no freeing him, not when he\u2019s like this. But Emma can\u2019t leave without him. There\u2019s only one way to solve this problem - a mating. When Emma approaches Zohr to claim him as hers, she realizes just what it means to be a dragon\u2019s mate, and how much she\u2019s in over her head\u2026 And she learns how fiercely possessive a drakoni male can be.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36044595-fire-in-his-embrace"}, +{"book_title": "Traitor General", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2349, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Under the orders of Archon Urlock Gaur, the forces of Magister Sek have pushed into the Khan group of the Sabbat Worlds and captured a high ranking Imperial Lord General. Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and a hand picked team of his Tanith elite have been tasked with the re-capture or assassination of this vital officer.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591823.Traitor_General"}, +{"book_title": "One Year After", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 13617, "review_number": 1069, "book_description": "The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel One Second After.Months before publication, William R. Forstchen\u2019s One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit.The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging.Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an \u201cArmy of National Recovery\u201d and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away.When town administrator John Matherson protests the draft, he\u2019s offered a deal: leave Black Mountain and enter national service, and the draft will be reduced. But the brutal suppression of a neighboring community under its new federal administrator and the troops accompanying him suggests that all is not as it should be with this burgeoning government.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Novels", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848051-one-year-after"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Iron", "author_name": "Ekaterina Sedia", "rating_score": 3.09, "rating_votes": 408, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "In a Russia where the Decembrists' rebellion was successful and the Trans-Siberian railroad was completed before 1854, Sasha Trubetskaya wants nothing more than to have a decent debut ball in St. Petersburg. But her aunt's feud with the emperor lands Sasha at university, where she becomes one of its first female students -- an experiment, she suspects, designed more to prove female unsuitability for such pursuits than offer them education. The pressure intensifies when Sasha's only friends -- Chinese students -- start disappearing, and she begins to realize that her new British companion, Jack, has bigger secrets than she can imagine! Sasha and Jack find themselves trying to stop a war brewing between the three empires. The only place they can turn to for help is the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, newly founded by the Taiping rebels. Pursued by the terrifying Dame Florence Nightingale of the British Secret Service, Sasha and Jack escape across Siberia via train to China. Sasha discovers that Jack is not quite the person she thought he was...but then again, neither is she.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10799644-heart-of-iron"}, +{"book_title": "Evernight", "author_name": "Kristen Callihan", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3099, "review_number": 354, "book_description": "Once the night comes . . .Will Thorne is living a nightmare, his sanity slowly being drained away by a force he can't control. His talents have made him the perfect assassin for hire. But as he loses his grip on reality, there is no calming him\u2014until he finds his next target: the mysterious Holly Evernight.Love must cast aside the shadows . . .Holly cannot fathom who would put a contract on her life, yet the moment she touches Will, the connection between them is elemental, undeniable\u2014and she's the only one who can tame his bouts of madness. But other assassins are coming for Holly. Will must transform from killer to protector and find the man who wants Holly dead . . . or his only chance for redemption will be lost.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19124363-evernight"}, +{"book_title": "The People of Sparks", "author_name": "Jeanne DuPrau", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 51867, "review_number": 3528, "book_description": "An alternate cover can be found here.The sequel to the critically acclaimed The City of Ember continues the story of Lina and Doon, who have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above. When anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, it's up to Lina and Doon to discover who's behind the vandalism and why.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3467.The_People_of_Sparks"}, +{"book_title": "Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 15905, "review_number": 1572, "book_description": "Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Written by award-winning creator, Jeff Lemire, Descender is a rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey. Lemire pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling epic. Created by Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Trillium) and Dustin Nguyen's (Little Gotham) critically acclaimed, bestselling new science fiction series!Collecting: Descender 1-6", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adult", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25546167-descender-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Vanguard", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2541, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet novels with a new action-packed military science fiction series that explores the founding of the Alliance . . . and the men and women who fought to create it.Earth is no longer the center of the universe.After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive, humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies. But the vast distances of space mean that the old order of protection and interstellar law offered by Earth has ceased to exist.When a nearby world attacks, the new colony of Glenlyon turns to Robert Geary, a young former junior fleet officer, and Mele Darcy, a onetime enlisted Marine. With nothing but improvised weapons and a few volunteers, Geary and Darcy must face down warships and armored soldiers--or die trying.As battles rage and pirates take an increasing toll throughout the colonies, the only hope for lasting peace lies with Carmen Ochoa, a \"Red\" from the anarchic world of Mars, and Lochan Nakamura, a failed politician. They have a plan: to lay the groundwork for mutual defense that could someday grow into an alliance. But if their efforts don't succeed, the growing power of aggressor worlds could turn regions of space founded on freedom into battlefields between the first interstellar empires...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31753882-vanguard"}, +{"book_title": "The Rogue Prince", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1220, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "Starseer, pilot, and animal lover Jelena Marchenko wants to prove to her parents that she\u2019s ready to captain her own freighter and help run the family business. When she finally talks them into getting a second ship and letting her fly it, it doesn\u2019t faze her that the craft is decades old and looks like a turtle. This is the chance she\u2019s craved for years. But it\u2019s not long before the opportunity to rescue mistreated lab animals lures her from her parentally approved cargo run and embroils her in a battle between warring corporations. To further complicate matters, her childhood friend Thorian, prince of the now defunct Sarellian Empire, is in trouble with Alliance law and needs her help. Torn between her duty to her family and doing what she believes is honorable, Jelena is about to learn that right and wrong are never as simple as they appear and that following your heart can get you killed.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34871733-the-rogue-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Across the Sea of Suns", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1558, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "In 2021, radio astronomy on the Moon reveals the presence of life by a nearby red dwarf, on a tide-locked planet.[1] To investigate, Earth's governments convert a space colony into Lancer, a Bussard ramjet powered interstellar ship based on the design of a crashed alien ship discovered in the Mare Marginis. In 2061, it arrives and discovers a primitive race of nomads, broadcasting using organs adapted to emit and receive electromagnetic radiation. A curious satellite is discovered in orbit, at least a million years old, roughly when a meteor shower destroyed the EMs' civilization.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382329.Across_the_Sea_of_Suns"}, +{"book_title": "Her Sky Cowboy", "author_name": "Beth Ciotta", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 793, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well. Her heart belongs to the sky and the dirigibles of brass and steel that swoop over Victorian England. But when her father, an eccentric inventor, dies, the Darcy siblings are left with scrap metal\u2014and not a penny to their names. Their only hope to save the family name and fortune is to embark on a contest to discover an invention of historical importance in honor of Queen Victoria. Armed with only her father\u2019s stories of a forgotten da Vinci workshop, a mechanically enhanced falcon, and an Italian cook, Amelia takes flight for Florence, Italy. But her quest is altered when her kitecycle crashes into the air ship of ex\u2013Air Marshal\u2014and scandalous dime novel hero\u2014Tucker Gentry. Challenged by political unrest, a devious sky pirate, and their own sizzling attraction, Amelia and Tuck are dragged into an international conspiracy that could change the course of history\u2026again.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542942-her-sky-cowboy"}, +{"book_title": "Burn", "author_name": "Patrick Ness", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 4539, "review_number": 1105, "book_description": "On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he\u2019d hired to help on the farm\u2026Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to.The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can\u2019t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn\u2019t have a soul, but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.Because the dragon knows something she doesn\u2019t. He has arrived at the farm with a prophecy on his mind. A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two FBI agents in hot pursuit\u2014and somehow, Sarah Dewhurst herself.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50175239-burn"}, +{"book_title": "The Power", "author_name": "Naomi Alderman", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 167606, "review_number": 19539, "book_description": "In The Power the world is a recognisable place: there's a rich Nigerian kid who lounges around the family pool; a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature; a local American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But something vital has changed, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power - they can cause agonising pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world changes utterly.This extraordinary novel by Naomi Alderman, a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and Granta Best of British writer, is not only a gripping story of how the world would change if power was in the hands of women but also exposes, with breath-taking daring, our contemporary world.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Feminism", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Book Club", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power"}, +{"book_title": "Black House", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 54534, "review_number": 1825, "book_description": "Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories \"twinner\" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed \"The Fisherman\" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As that message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Suspense", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10607.Black_House"}, +{"book_title": "Tau Ceti", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1475, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "\u201cTau Ceti\" is the sixth in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has made her a genius and an athletic phenomenon.In \u201cTau Ceti!\u201d, she is continuing to find uses for the quantum entangled wormholes that she has discovered. These wormholes aren\u2019t big enough to send people through, yet they are making huge changes in our world.Ell used one to send a small rocket to the third planet of Tau Ceti where it sends back images of intelligent but primitive beings that can fly!While observing and occasionally trying to help a pair of these aliens, Ell continues to deal with the issues resulting from her fame as an athlete, a scientist, and as a beautiful woman. This makes her suspect every relationship.Having a boyfriend is hard when he may just want you for who everyone else thinks you are.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20951387-tau-ceti"}, +{"book_title": "Something Rotten", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 32394, "review_number": 1533, "book_description": "Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap\u2014as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and if that isn't bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she vanquish Kaine and prevent the world from plunging into war? And, most important, will she ever find reliable childcare? Find out in this totally original, action-packed romp, sure to be another escapist thrill for Jasper Fforde's legion of fans.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Humor", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26999.Something_Rotten"}, +{"book_title": "Maul", "author_name": "Tricia Sullivan", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 251, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "In a mall like any other, two gangs of teenaged girls are about to embark on an orgy of shopping and designer violence. In the battleground of cool, they'll fight for their lives to prove that \"image is everything.\" And in another place, within a sealed room, a lone man fights an equally desperate war against a new virus and the scientists who have developed it. If anyone gets out alive, it will be a small miracle.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Feminism", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1280157.Maul"}, +{"book_title": "The Phoenix in Flight", "author_name": "Sherwood Smith", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 258, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "The first in a SF/adventure series that glitters with intrigue. As a 20-year-long plot for revenge comes to fruition, the sons of the ruler of the Thousand Suns are murdered, and he is taken prisoner. But the usurper's vengeance is incomplete. For one son was missing at the ceremony where the fatal blow was struck. And now the hope of the Thousand Suns rests in his hands.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222846.The_Phoenix_in_Flight"}, +{"book_title": "The Love Interest", "author_name": "Cale Dietrich", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 9059, "review_number": 2063, "book_description": "A thrilling YA debut about teen spies disguised as \"love interests\"--whoever gets the girl lives; but the one she rejects, dies.There is a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies. The agents are called Love Interests because getting close to people destined for great power means getting valuable secrets.Caden is a Nice: The boy next door, sculpted to physical perfection. Dylan is a Bad: The brooding, dark-souled guy, and dangerously handsome.The girl they are competing for is important to the organization, and each boy will pursue her. Will she choose a Nice or the Bad?Both Caden and Dylan are living in the outside world for the first time. They are well-trained and at the top of their games. They have to be - whoever the girl doesn't choose will die.What the boys don't expect are feelings that are outside of their training. Feelings that could kill them both.From debut author Cale Dietrich comes a fast-paced adventure that is full of both action and romance and subverts common tropes.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31145148-the-love-interest"}, +{"book_title": "Stormdancer", "author_name": "Jay Kristoff", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 13845, "review_number": 2355, "book_description": "Arashitoras are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Sh\u00f5gun, they fear that their lives are over \u2013 everyone knows what happens to those who fail the Lord of the Shima Isles. But the mission proves less impossible and more deadly than anyone expects. Soon Yukiko finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in her country's last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled arashitora for company. Although she can hear his thoughts, and saved his life, all she knows for certain is he'd rather see her dead than help her. Yet trapped together in the forest, Yukiko and the beast soon discover a bond that neither of them expected.Meanwhile, the country around them verges on collapse. A toxic fuel is choking the land, the machine-powered Lotus Guild is publicly burning those they deem Impure, and the Sh\u00f5gun cares for nothing but his own dominion. Authority has always made Yukiko, but her world changes when she meets Kin, a young man with secrets, and the rebel Kag\u00e9 cabal. She learns the horrifying extent of the Sh\u00f5gun's crimes, both against her country and her family.Returning to the city, Yukiko is determined to make the Sh\u00f5gun pay \u2013 but what can one girl and a flightless arashitora do against the might of an empire?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Cultural (Japan)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10852343-stormdancer"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron", "author_name": "Erik Burnham", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Prime gets slimed! Crossing the streams after 35 years, this action-packed graphic novel combines two of the most popular franchises in pop-culture history.After years of civil war, the Autobots fled Cyberton, leaving their home planet in the evil clutches of Megatron and his Decepticons. Years later and millions of miles away, the Autobots pick up a Cybertronian distress signal from a mysterious planet called Earth. The ghostly signal shouldn't exist, and it'll bring Optimus Prime and his team--including brand-new Autobot ECTOTRON--face-to-face with... the GHOSTBUSTERS!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46166810-transformers-ghostbusters"}, +{"book_title": "The Far Side of the Stars", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 3280, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "While Cinnabar is at peace with the Alliance, warriors like Lt Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy must find other work - and escort nobles in the Princess Cecile. Now a private yacht, she still has her guns, missiles, and veteran crew - and needs all to face winged dragons, an Alliance cruiser, jealous lovers, and a future-telling oracle.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263696.The_Far_Side_of_the_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Rains", "author_name": "Gregg Andrew Hurwitz", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1655, "review_number": 309, "book_description": "In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek\u2019s Cause turns into a war zone. No one under the age of eighteen is safe. Chance Rain and his older brother, Patrick, have already fended off multiple attacks from infected adults by the time they arrive at the school where other young survivors are hiding. Most of the kids they know have been dragged away by once-trusted adults who are now ferocious, inhuman beings. The parasite that transformed them takes hold after people turn eighteen\u2014and Patrick\u2019s birthday is only a few weeks away. Determined to save Patrick\u2019s life and the lives of the remaining kids, the brothers embark on a mission to uncover the truth about the parasites\u2014and what they find is horrifying.Battling an enemy not of this earth, Chance and Patrick become humanity\u2019s only hope for salvation.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28220778-the-rains"}, +{"book_title": "The Wall", "author_name": "Marlen Haushofer", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 7379, "review_number": 795, "book_description": "First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on earth, an ordinary middle-aged woman who awakens one morning to find that everyone else has vanished. Assuming her isolation to be the result of a military experiment gone awry, she begins the terrifying work of survival and self-renewal. This novel is at once a simple and moving tale and a disturbing meditation on humanity.", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Classics", "Cultural (Germany)", "Literature", "Novels", "Roman"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/586852.The_Wall"}, +{"book_title": "Behavior-Based Robotics", "author_name": "Ronald C. Arkin", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 24, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Foreword by Michael ArbibThis introduction to the principles, design, and practice of intelligent behavior-based autonomous robotic systems is the first true survey of this robotics field. The author presents the tools and techniques central to the development of this class of systems in a clear and thorough manner. Following a discussion of the relevant biological and psychological models of behavior, he covers the use of knowledge and learning in autonomous robots, behavior-based and hybrid robot architectures, modular perception, robot colonies, and future trends in robot intelligence.The text throughout refers to actual implemented robots and includes many pictures and descriptions of hardware, making it clear that these are not abstract simulations, but real machines capable of perception, cognition, and action.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700567.Behavior_Based_Robotics"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Kiss", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 51703, "review_number": 2293, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her world of angelic rulers, vampiric servants, and the woman thrust into their darkly seductive world\u2026Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux wakes from a year-long coma to find herself changed\u2014an angel with wings the colors of midnight and dawn\u2014but her fragile body needs time to heal before she can take flight. Her lover, the stunningly dangerous archangel Raphael, is used to being in control\u2014even when it comes to the woman he considers his own. But Elena has never done well with authority\u2026They\u2019ve barely begun to understand each other when Raphael receives an invitation to a ball from the archangel Lijuan. To refuse would be a sign of fatal weakness, so Raphael must ready Elena for the flight to Beijing\u2014and to the nightmare that awaits them there. Ancient and without conscience, Lijuan holds a power that lies with the dead. And she has organized the most perfect and most vicious of welcomes for Elena\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6582637-archangel-s-kiss"}, +{"book_title": "Coalescent", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2498, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "When his father dies suddenly, George Poole stumbles onto a family secret: He has a twin sister he never knew existed, who was raised by an enigmatic cult called the Order. The Order is a hive - a human hive with a dominant queen--that has prospered below the streets of Rome for almost two millennia. After Poole enters the Order's vast underground city and meets the disturbing inhabitants, he uncovers evidence that they have embarked on a divergent evolutionary path. These genetically superior humans are equipped with the tools necessary to render modern Homo sapiens as extinct as the Neanderthals. And now they are preparing to leave their underground realm.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Literature", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64773.Coalescent"}, +{"book_title": "Empress of a Thousand Skies", "author_name": "Rhoda Belleza", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 7559, "review_number": 1351, "book_description": "Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta'an wants vengeance.The only surviving heir to an ancient Kalusian dynasty, Rhee has spent her life training to destroy the people who killed her family. Now, on the eve of her coronation, the time has finally come for Rhee to claim her throne - and her revenge.Alyosha is a Wraetan who has risen above his war refugee origins to find fame as the dashing star of a DroneVision show. Despite his popularity, Aly struggles with anti-Wraetan prejudices and the pressure of being perfect in the public eye.Their paths collide with one brutal act of violence: Rhee is attacked, barely escaping with her life. Aly is blamed for her presumed murder.The princess and her accused killer are forced to go into hiding - even as a war between planets is waged in Rhee's name. But soon, Rhee and Aly discover that the assassination attempt is just one part of a sinister plot. Bound together by an evil that only they can stop, the two fugitives must join forces to save the galaxy.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30269126-empress-of-a-thousand-skies"}, +{"book_title": "The End", "author_name": "G. Michael Hopf", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1856, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "For Gordon Van Zandt life once was one of duty and loyalty to his country, so when 9/11 happened he dropped out of college and joined the Marine Corps. This youthful idealism vanished one fateful day in a war torn city in Iraq. Ten years later, he is still struggling with the ghosts of his past but must now face a new reality thrust on him and his family. North America, Europe and the Far East have all suffered a devastating Super-EMP attack that has caused catastrophic damage to the power grids and all electrical devices. With nothing working from cars to phones and with the total collapse of the economic infrastructure, Gordon must fight for the limited and fast dwindling resources. He knows survival requires action and cooperation with his neighbors; but as daily life continues to break down so does all sense of civility within his community. With each passing day Gordon makes choices that would seem extreme in today's world but necessary in this new world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17731191-the-end"}, +{"book_title": "Inceptio", "author_name": "Alison Morton", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 337, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.New Yorker Karen Brown is caught in a tangle of hot foreign agents, vicious maniacs and tough families. Running for her life, she flees into the alien culture of Roma Nova, the mysterious last outpost of the Roman Empire in Europe. Apart from kidnapping, heartache and a close encounter with Latin grammar, she must contend with a fascinating but arrogant Praetorian special forces captain. Plus a crazy killer wants to terminate her for a very personal reason. Roma Nova is Karen's dead mother\u2019s homeland. Founded sixteen hundred years ago by Roman exiles and now ruled by women, it gives her safety, a lover and a ready-made family \u2013 but at a price. And the enforcer is still pursing hers her. Desperate to find out why he is hunting her so viciously and unable to rely on anybody else, she undergoes intensive training, develops fighting skills and becomes an undercover cop. But crazy with bitterness at his past failures, the enforcer sets a trap for her, knowing she has no choice but to spring it.Part action adventure, part military thriller, laced with romance and coming of age, this is Roman fiction brought into the 21st century through the lens of alternative history and driven by a female protagonist with heart and courage. If you enjoy thrillers and mystery books for women with twists, this is for you!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical", "Romance", "Roman"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43841896-inceptio"}, +{"book_title": "Fires of Prometheus", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 392, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Fires of Prometheus is the third book in the epic 'Uprising' series, part of the growing Star Crusades universe that chronicleshumanity's first interstellar confederation that is torn apart byreligious strife and extremism.In this latest book of the StarCrusades Uprising series, the sector is entering a short period of calm. There is peace in Proxima Centauri but for how long? The religiousinsurgency has already exploded throughout the system and one by one the colonies have seceded from the Confederacy, lured to the offerings ofthe Church of Echidna. Spartan and General Rivers have vanished and arepresumed to have been executed at the hands of their Zealot captors forthe murder of the President of Kerberos.Licking the wounds frommultiple bloody engagements, Admiral Jarvis regroups her meagre forces.She desperately needs men and ships for the inevitable battle forProxima. When she hears rumours of survivors being sold into slavery she sends Commander Anderson and his trusted team to follow a lead thatwill take them to the fiery planet of Prometheus and its terriblesecret. Teresa Morato, refusing to believe Spartan is dead, joins theteam in the hope of finding him alive.The 12-book Star Crusades series includes:\u00a0STAR CRUSADES UPRISINGSiege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1)Tears of Kerberos (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 2)Fires of Prometheus (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 3)Battle for Proxima (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 4)Fall of Terra Nova (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 5)Slaves of Hyperion (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 6)STAR CRUSADES NEXUSLegions of Orion (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 1)Machine Gods (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 2)Heroes of Helios (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 3)The Great Betrayal (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 4)Prophecy of Fire (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 5)Call to Arms (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 6)\u00a0These titles are also available as combined trilogies including:STAR CRUSADES UPRISING: THE FIRST TRILOGYSTAR CRUSADES UPRISING: THE SECOND TRILOGYSTAR CRUSADES NEXUS: THE FIRST TRILOGYSTAR CRUSADES NEXUS: THE SECOND TRILOGYFor more information visit the official Star Crusades website. Keyword Starcrusader.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12101136-fires-of-prometheus"}, +{"book_title": "Brave New World Revisited", "author_name": "Aldous Huxley", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 16194, "review_number": 1013, "book_description": "When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late. Brave New World Revisted (first published in 1958) is not a reissue or revision of 0060850523 Brave New World. Brave New World is a novel, whereas Brave New World Revisted is a nonfiction exploration of the themes in Brave New World.", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Writing (Essays)", "Politics", "Literature", "Psychology", "Sociology"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5481.Brave_New_World_Revisited"}, +{"book_title": "Dawnbreaker", "author_name": "Jay Posey", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 495, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Wren is living in Greenstone under the temporary care of Charles and Mol, and the protection of Chapel. Unable to determine the fate of his mother and those he left behind in Morningside, Wren believes there is nothing left to do but wait for Asher\u2019s final blow \u2026 until a man named Haiku walks into the Samurai McGann, looking for Three.After learning of Three\u2019s fate, Asher\u2019s ascension, and Wren\u2019s gift, Haiku offers his help, and together they set out to find the remnants of House Eight and convince them to help.As Cass and the few who survived the fall of Morningside face overwhelming odds to escape Asher and the Weir, they realize it is impossible\u2026until their daring and probably suicidal plan to strike turns out to have surprising results and unexpected discoveries.\nFile Under\n:\u00a0Science Fiction\u00a0[ Third of Three / Nil Desperandum / Against the Weir / Charles the First ]", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24043400-dawnbreaker"}, +{"book_title": "Chanur's Venture", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2888, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Pyanfar Chanur thought she had seen the last of Tully, the lone human who had so disrupted the peace of Meetpoint Station and gained the Chanur clan the enmity of half a dozen races as well as their own. But Tully is back, bringing with him a priceless trade contract with human space. A contract which would mean vast power, riches, and a new hornet's nest for Pyanfar and the Pride.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/531150.Chanur_s_Venture"}, +{"book_title": "Cloud Warrior", "author_name": "Patrick Tilley", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1265, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Ten centuries ago the Old Time ended when Earth's cities melted in the War of a Thousand Suns. Now the lethal high technology of the Amtrak Federation's underground stronghold is unleashed on Earth's other survivors - the surface-dwelling Mutes.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744484.Cloud_Warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Juniper Unraveling", "author_name": "Keri Lake", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1313, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "Papa says everyone has a story that deserves to be told. Most begin years ago, after the second bomb hit, unearthing a deadly contagion that divided the population into the pure, the infected, and the Ragers. Many recount the moment we rose up from the ashes and started anew.Others tell of the day we built a wall to keep them out.For some, they\u2019re nothing more than the vestiges left behind\u2014a simple name carved into the knotty bark of a Juniper tree.My story begins with a boy. A mute, from the other side of the wall, known only as Six, who touched my heart in ways that words never could, and gave me the courage to face my darkest truth.Warning: This book contains explicit sexual content, and violent scenes that some readers may find disturbing.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Dark", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "New Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35172048-juniper-unraveling"}, +{"book_title": "Marking Time", "author_name": "April White", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 5707, "review_number": 751, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old tagger Saira Elian can handle anything... a mother who mysteriously disappears, a stranger who stalks her around London, and even the noble English Grandmother who kicked Saira and her mother out of the family. But when an old graffiti tag in a tube station transports Saira to the 19th Century and she comes face-to-face with Jack the Ripper, she realizes she needs help after all. Saira meets Archer, a charming student who helps her blend in as much as a tall, modern American teen can in Victorian England. He reveals the existence of the Immortals: Time, Nature, Fate, War and Death, and explains to Saira that it is possible to move between centuries \u2013 if you are a Descendant of Time. Saira finds unexpected friendships at a boarding school for Immortal Descendants and a complicated love with a young man from the past. But time is running out for her mother, and Saira must embrace her new identity as she hides from Archer a devastating secret about his future that may cost him his life.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27401657-marking-time"}, +{"book_title": "Camelot Burning", "author_name": "Kathryn Rose", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 333, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "By day, Vivienne is Guinevere's lady-in-waiting. By night, she's Merlin's secret apprentice, indulging in the new mechanical arts and science of alchemy. It's a preferred distraction from Camelot\u2019s gossipy nobility, roguish knights, and Lancelot\u2019s athletic new squire, Marcus, who will follow in all knights\u2019 footsteps by taking a rather inconvenient vow of chastity.More than anything, Vivienne longs to escape Camelot for a future that wouldn't include needlework or marriage to a boorish lord or dandy. But when King Arthur's sorceress sister, Morgan le Fay, threatens Camelot, Vivienne must stay to help Merlin build a steam-powered weapon to defeat the dark magic machine Morgan will set upon the castle. Because if Camelot falls, Morgan would be that much closer to finding the elusive Holy Grail. Time is running out and Morgan draws near, and if Vivienne doesn't have Merlin's weapon ready soon, lives would pay the price, including that of Marcus, the only one fast enough to activate it on the battlefield.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Mythology (Arthurian)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Retellings", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17997591-camelot-burning"}, +{"book_title": "Tropic of Kansas", "author_name": "Christopher Brown", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 682, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "The United States of America is no more. Broken into warring territories, its center has become a wasteland DMZ known as \u201cthe Tropic of Kansas.\u201d Though this gaping geographic hole has no clear boundaries, everyone knows it's out there\u2014that once-bountiful part of the heartland, broken by greed and exploitation, where neglect now breeds unrest. Two travelers appear in this arid American wilderness: Sig, the fugitive orphan of political dissidents, and his foster sister Tania, a government investigator whose search for Sig leads her into her own past\u2014and towards an unexpected future.Sig promised those he loves that he would make it to the revolutionary redoubt of occupied New Orleans. But first he must survive the wild edgelands of a barren mid-America policed by citizen militias and autonomous drones, where one wrong move can mean capture . . . or death. One step behind, undercover in the underground, is Tania. Her infiltration of clandestine networks made of old technology and new politics soon transforms her into the hunted one, and gives her a shot at being the agent of real change\u2014if she is willing to give up the explosive government secrets she has sworn to protect.As brother and sister traverse these vast and dangerous badlands, their paths will eventually intersect on the front lines of a revolution whose fuse they are about to light.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32600759-tropic-of-kansas"}, +{"book_title": "The Massacre of Mankind", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 1487, "review_number": 346, "book_description": "It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared.So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells' book. He is sure that the Martians have learned, adapted, understood their defeat.He is right.Thrust into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist - sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins - must survive, escape and report on the war.The Massacre of Mankind has begun", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27405762-the-massacre-of-mankind"}, +{"book_title": "The Wild Robot Escapes", "author_name": "Peter Brown", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 8712, "review_number": 1216, "book_description": "Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Animals", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34219841-the-wild-robot-escapes"}, +{"book_title": "Down Among the Sticks and Bones", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 32972, "review_number": 6236, "book_description": "Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West\u2019s Home for Wayward Children.This is the story of what happened first\u2026Jacqueline was her mother\u2019s perfect daughter\u2014polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it\u2019s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.Jillian was her father\u2019s perfect daughter\u2014adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got.They were five when they learned that grown-ups can\u2019t be trusted.They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Horror", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Novella", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450908-down-among-the-sticks-and-bones"}, +{"book_title": "Silver on the Tree", "author_name": "Susan Cooper", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 34715, "review_number": 828, "book_description": "The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles, and that brings Susan Cooper's masterful sequence of novels to a satisfying close.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mythology (Arthurian)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11313.Silver_on_the_Tree"}, +{"book_title": "Storms of Lazarus", "author_name": "Karen Kincy", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 157, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Sometimes escape is impossible. Sometimes love isn't enough.1913. Christmas Eve. Ardis hardly expects a quiet holiday with Wendel, between fleeing Constantinople and hiding from an ancient society of assassins. And they owe a debt to a certain archmage.In K\u00f6nigsberg, Prussia, they work with Konstantin on the next evolution of Project Lazarus. Wendel once called K\u00f6nigsberg home, the city now besieged by the Russians and their clockwork engines of war. This may be Wendel\u2019s last chance to save his family and find redemption, but he's tormented by nightmares and tempted by laudanum. Ardis fears her love isn\u2019t enough to save Wendel. Her hands are full piloting the automatons, and she's terrified to tell him a secret of her own. Will they\u2014and their love\u2014survive the storms of war?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54961346-storms-of-lazarus"}, +{"book_title": "The Gryphon King's Consort", "author_name": "Jenn Burke", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 245, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Love takes flight.The sudden death of the Gryphon King throws the kingdom of Mythos into uncertainty, and Crown Prince Luca rushes both his coronation and an arranged marriage to a man he\u2019s never met. Eirian is young and idealistic, and while they both want what\u2019s best for their people, their philosophies couldn\u2019t be more different. While Luca believes in honoring tradition, Eirian is determined to infuse modern values into their kingdom of magical creatures. When given the choice between loyalty to his husband and his own crusade, Eirian makes a decision that might doom their marriage.Still, Luca is committed to making their union work, and that means forgiving his brash consort. But when Eirian becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy, Luca must act fast\u2014or forever lose the chance to explore their burgeoning love.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Suspense", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36519648-the-gryphon-king-s-consort"}, +{"book_title": "Angels' Blood", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 79361, "review_number": 4914, "book_description": "USA Today bestselling author Nalini Singh introduces a world of beauty and bloodlust, where angels hold sway over vampires\u2026Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she\u2019s the best\u2014but she doesn\u2019t know if she\u2019s good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants his attention, only one thing is clear\u2014failure is not an option\u2026even if the task is impossible.Because this time, it\u2019s not a wayward vamp she has to track. It\u2019s an archangel gone bad.The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other\u2026and pull her to the razor\u2019s edge of passion. Even if the hunt doesn\u2019t destroy her, succumbing to Raphael\u2019s seductive touch just may. For when archangels play, mortals break\u2026", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3819326-angels-blood"}, +{"book_title": "The Manual of Aeronautics: An Illustrated Guide to the Leviathan Series", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 675, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "A lavishly illustrated, full-color companion to Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling Leviathan trilogy.A must-have for any fan of Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan trilogy, The Manual of Aeronautics is an illustrated guide to the inner workings of the Darwinist and Clanker powers. Loaded with detailed descriptions and elaborate, four-color illustrations of Darwinist beasties and Clanker walkers, weapons, transport, and uniforms, this manual highlights the international powers that Deryn and Alek encounter throughout their around-the-world adventures. This guide draws back the curtain and reveals the inner depths of Westerfeld's fascinating alternative world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Art", "Historical", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13059026-the-manual-of-aeronautics"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Firewall", "author_name": "William Hertling", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 3219, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "In the year 2035, robots, artificial intelligences, and neural implants have become commonplace. The Institute for Ethics keeps the peace, using social reputation to ensure that robots and humans don't harm society or each other. But a powerful AI named Adam has found a way around the restrictions. Catherine Matthews, nineteen years old, has a unique gift: the ability to manipulate the net with her neural implant. Yanked out of her perfectly ordinary life, Catherine becomes the last firewall standing between Adam and his quest for world domination. PRAISE FOR THE LAST FIREWALL \u201cAwesome near-term science fiction.\u201d \u2013 Brad Feld, Foundry Group managing director \u201cAn insightful and adrenaline-inducing tale of what humanity could become and the machines we could spawn.\u201d \u2013 Ben Huh, CEO of Cheezburger \u201cA fun read and tantalizing study of the future of technology: both inviting and alarming.\u201d \u2013 Harper Reed, former CTO of Obama for America, Threadless \"A fascinating and prescient take on what the world will look like once computers become smarter than people. Highly recommended.\" \u2013 Mat Ellis, Founder & CEO Cloudability \u201cA phenomenal ride through a post-scarcity world where humans are caught between rogue AIs. If you like having your mind blown, read this book!\u201d \u2013 Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Singularity", "Artificial Intelligence", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18620484-the-last-firewall"}, +{"book_title": "Forever Peace", "author_name": "Joe Haldeman", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 19054, "review_number": 534, "book_description": "2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one. And it is not terrifying. It is tempting...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21618.Forever_Peace"}, +{"book_title": "Endurance", "author_name": "S.L. Viehl", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1309, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "This third entry in the \"StarDoc\" series finds Dr. Cherijo Torin the target for capture by the Allied League of Worlds. When captured after his failed attempt to get Cherijo, Colonel Shropana is sold to the brutal Hsktskt slave traders. But just as Cherijo made her escape, the man she once loved stabs her in the back, and hands her over to the same slavers.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Novels", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/664643.Endurance"}, +{"book_title": "GhosTV", "author_name": "Jordan Castillo Price", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 3886, "review_number": 422, "book_description": "For the past dozen years, Victor Bayne has solved numerous murders by interrogating witnesses only he can see\u2014dead witnesses. But when his best friend Lisa goes missing from the sunny California campus of PsyTrain, the last thing he wants to find there is her spirit.Disappearing without a trace in a school full of psychics? That\u2019s some trick. But somehow both Lisa and her roommate have vanished into thin air. A group of fanatics called Five Faith has been sniffing around, and Lisa\u2019s email is compromised. Time is running out, and with no ghosts to cross-examine, Vic can\u2019t afford to turn down any offers of help. An old enemy can provide an innovative way to track Vic\u2019s missing friend, and he enters into an uneasy alliance\u2014even though its ultimate cost will ensnare him in a debt he may never manage to settle.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9688919-ghostv"}, +{"book_title": "End of Days", "author_name": "Susan Ee", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 60326, "review_number": 6974, "book_description": "End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee\u2019s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They\u2019re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn\u2019s sister. As they set off in search of answers, a startling revelation about Raffe\u2019s past unleashes dark forces that threaten them all.When the angels release an apocalyptic nightmare onto humans, both sides are set on a path toward war. As unlikely alliances form and strategies shift, who will emerge victorious? Forced to pick sides in the fight for control of the earthly realm, Raffe and Penryn must choose: Their own kind, or each other?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18500665-end-of-days"}, +{"book_title": "Fire In His Spirit", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2754, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "Gwen\u2019s never wanted to be a leader, but when no one else stepped up, she took on the role. As the mayor of post-apocalyptic Shreveport, she\u2019s made decisions to protect her people\u2026and most of them have backfired disastrously. When she discovers that the dangerous gold dragon lurking outside of the fort has decided she\u2019s his mate, heartsick Gwen thinks that the best thing she can do is confront him and take him far away from the city. She does this to save her people - her sister, her friends, her fort. She doesn\u2019t expect to understand the dragon. She certainly doesn\u2019t expect to fall in love.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40790825-fire-in-his-spirit"}, +{"book_title": "Embedded", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1783, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "HE'D DO ANYTHING TO GET A STORY. When journalist Lex Falk gets himself chipped into the brain of a combat soldier, he thinks he has the ultimate scoop - a report from the forbidden front line of a distant planetary war, live to the living rooms of Earth. When the soldier is killed, however, Lex has to take over the body and somehow get himself back to safety once more... broadcasting all the way.Heart-stopping combat science fiction from the million-selling Warhammer 40,000 author.File Under: Science Fiction [ Future Warefare | Chipped-In | Anything For a Story |\u00a0Get Out Alive!\u00a0]", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9280056-embedded"}, +{"book_title": "Front Lines", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 4826, "review_number": 973, "book_description": "1942. World War II. The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America.The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled\u2014the armed forces of Nazi Germany.But something has changed. A court decision makes females subject to the draft and eligible for service. So in this World War II, women and girls fight, too.As the fate of the world hangs in the balance, three girls sign up to fight. Rio Richlin, Frangie Marr, and Rainy Schulterman are average girls, girls with dreams and aspirations, at the start of their lives, at the start of their loves. Each has her own reasons for volunteering. Not one expects to see actual combat. Not one expects to be on the front lines.Rio, Frangie, and Rainy will play their parts in the war to defeat evil and save the human race. They will fear and they will rage; they will suffer and they will inflict suffering; they will hate and they will love. They will fight the greatest war the world has ever known.New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant has created a masterful alternate history of World War II in Front Lines, the first volume in a groundbreaking series.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "War", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18743370-front-lines"}, +{"book_title": "Vitro", "author_name": "Jessica Khoury", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 3837, "review_number": 500, "book_description": "A death-defying tropical adventure delivers a frightening message about dabbling with creation from the talented author of Origin. On a remote island in the Pacific, Corpus scientists have taken test tube embryos and given them life. These beings\u2014the Vitros\u2014have knowledge and abilities most humans can only dream of. But they also have one enormous flaw. Sophie Crue is determined to get to Skin Island and find her mother, a scientist who left Sophie behind years ago. She enlists hunky charter pilot Jim Julien to take her there. But once on the island, Sophie and Jim encounter more than they bargained for, including a charming, brilliant Vitro named Nicholas and an innocent, newly awoken one named Lux. In a race for their lives, Sophie and Jim are about to discover what happens when science stretches too far beyond its reach.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22529151-vitro"}, +{"book_title": "Joyride Vol. 1", "author_name": "Jackson Lanzing", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 805, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "Earth sucks.The stars have been blocked out for so long that people have forgotten there was anything else besides the World Government Alliance watching over them. Uma Akkolyte is a girl who shoots first, leaps before she looks, and is desperate for any means to leave her planet behind. And so she does. When Uma jacks an alien spaceship and punches through the stratosphere she sets forth on an adventure with an unlikely crew who are totally not ready for all the good, bad, and weird the universe will throw at them.From writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly (Batman and Robin Eternal, Grayson) and artist Marcus To (Nightwing, New Avengers), Joyride is a rebellious love letter to the sci-fi genre, exploring what happens when nothing stands between a group of teens and their freedom amongst the stars.Collecting: Joyride 1-4", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30251383-joyride-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's War", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 9120, "review_number": 1168, "book_description": "Wings of silver. Wings of blue. Mortal heart. Broken dreams. Shatter. Shatter. Shatter. A sundering. A grave. I see the end. I see. . .The world is in chaos as the power surge of the Cascade rises to a devastating crescendo. In furiously resisting its attempts to turn Elena into a vessel for Raphael\u2019s power, Elena and her archangel are irrevocably changed. . .far beyond the prophecy of a cursed Ancient.At the same time, violent and eerie events around the world threaten to wipe out entire populations. And in the Archangel Lijuan\u2019s former territory, an unnatural fog weaves through the land, leaving only a bone-chilling silence in its wake. Soon it becomes clear that even the archangels are not immune to this deadly evil. This time, even the combined power of the Cadre may not be enough. . .This war could end them all.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42599859-archangel-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberpunk: The Roleplaying Game of the Dark Future", "author_name": "Mike Pondsmith", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 475, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The corporations control the world from their skyscraper fortresses, enforcing their rule with armies of cyborg assassins. On the street, Boostergangs roam a shattered urban wilderness, killing and looting. The rest of the world is a perpetual party as fashion-model beautiful techies rub biosculpt jobs with battle armored road warriors in the hottest clubs, sleaziest bars and meanest streets this side of the Postholocaust. The future never looked so bad. But you can change it. You\u2019ve got interface plugs in your wrists, weapons in your arms, lasers in your eyes, bio-chip programs screaming in your brain. You\u2019re wired in, cyberenhanced and solid state as you take it to the fatal Edge where only the toughest and the coolest can go. Cyberpunk: the original roleplaying game of the dark future; a world of corporate assassins, heavy-metal heroes and brain burning cyberhackers, packed with cutting edge technology and intense urban action. Within this box, [sic] you\u2019ll find everything you need to tackle the mean streets of the 2000\u2019s = in a game system that combines the best in realistic action and playability. Compatible with Cyberpunk 1.0", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Reference", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551797.Cyberpunk"}, +{"book_title": "Voice of the Whirlwind", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1562, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Steward, a clone fifteen years overdue for a brain-scan update, has no idea that the Orbital Policorp which held his allegiance collapsed, dozens of his friends perished in interstellar combat, an alien race established relations with humanity, and two wives divorced him.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/668578.Voice_of_the_Whirlwind"}, +{"book_title": "Video Girl Ai, Vol. 01: Preproduction", "author_name": "Masakazu Katsura", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 629, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "High school is hell for Yota Moteuchi. He's so unpopular his fellow students have a nickname for him: \"Dateless.\" But that doesn't stop him from falling in love with one of them. His gentle classmate Moemi is everything he wants - but is she in love with someone else?", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Manga (Shonen)", "Comics Manga", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1324678.Video_Girl_Ai_Vol_01"}, +{"book_title": "The Nine Billion Names of God", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 6688, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S FAVORITE STORIESTHE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD -- A short-term course for computer the way to God.TROUBLE WITH TIME -- Martian time proves that crimes doesn't pay!NO MORNING AFTER -- Drink, drink and be merry, for tomorrow there will be no morning after...THE POSSESSED -- Or, why the lemmings drowned.ENCOUNTER AT DAWN -- The day the gods came to Earth.THE SENTINEL -- The story which inspired 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY; when man sets off the galactic burglar alarm, who will answer the call?", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Religion", "Anthologies", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149075.The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel", "author_name": "Amy Tintera", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 11432, "review_number": 1215, "book_description": "Wren Connolly thought she'd left her human side behind when she dies five years ago and came back 178 minutes later as a Reboot. With her new abilities of strength, speed, and healing\u2014along with a lack of emotions\u2014Wren 178 became the perfect soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation). Then Callum 22 came along and changed everything.Now that they've both escaped, they're ready to start a new life in peace on the Reboot reservation. But Micah 163, the Reboot running the reservation, has darker plans in mind: to wipe out the humans. All of them. Micah has been building a Reboot army for years and is now ready to launch his attack on the cities. Callum wants to stick around and protect the humans. Wren wants nothing more than to leave all the fighting behind them.With Micah on one side, HARC on the other, and Wren and Callum at odds in the middle, there's only one option left...It's time for Reboots to become rebels.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Action", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15769788-rebel"}, +{"book_title": "Fray", "author_name": "Joss Whedon", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 11715, "review_number": 670, "book_description": "Hundreds of years in the future, Manhattan has become a deadly slum, run by mutant crime-lords and disinterested cops. Stuck in the middle is a young girl who thought she had no future, but learns she has a great destiny. In a world so poisoned that it doesn't notice the monsters on its streets, how can a street kid like Fray unite a fallen city against a demonic plot to consume mankind? Joss Whedon, the celebrated creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, brings his vision to the future in this unique tale. As inventive in the comics medium as in that of television or film, Whedon spins a complex tale of a skilled thief coming of age without the help of friends or family, guided only by a demonic Watcher.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195806.Fray"}, +{"book_title": "Underground Airlines", "author_name": "Ben H. Winters", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 22949, "review_number": 3189, "book_description": "A young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service in exchange for his freedom. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called \"the Hard Four.\" On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right--with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself. As he works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines, tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child--who may be Victor's salvation. Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost.Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Race"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32940838-underground-airlines"}, +{"book_title": "Impenetrable", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1125, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Kidnapped from dying Earth by the heinous Tonan race, Piper is locked in a small cell, deprived of light and human companionship and tormented on a daily basis. When the door to her hell opens unexpectedly Piper is blinded by the light and walks headlong into a massively built creature. She is tossed over a shoulder, taken on the wildest ride of her life then placed into a healing pool.Jago is a four-hundred-year-old immortal who has never seen a living breathing female before, but he knows of their existence. Their ship was headed to the planet Earth to see if they could find these rare human gifts when they accidently stumbled onto the Tonan vessel. Desperate to find a mate Jago was thrilled when the little female walked right into his arms as though she was waiting for him. Unfortunately Jago\u2019s leader, Cobra, has asked to impregnate Piper, thinking Jago too young. Ultimately, the choice is Piper\u2019s. Who will she choose?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Space", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15835477-impenetrable"}, +{"book_title": "P.S. I Love You", "author_name": "Jo Noelle", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 378, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "Cora Rey wanted a fresh start in life, but being thrown back in time to 1850 isn\u2019t how she expected to do that. She discovers that Victorian England isn't the pleasant social whirl Jane Austen led her to believe, but when in Rome\u2014or in this case Twickenham . . . She\u2019s determined to have the vacation of a lifetime, especially in the company of a certain duke. Simon Tuttle never expected to become the duke of Hertfordshire, never wanted it, but now he is, and eligible women seeking a title consider him the next trophy to be taken in the marriage mart. A union of convenience is the most he hopes for due to the shame-filled secret he bears\u2014until he meets Cora. Now, he imagines that a love match could be possible after all. Hiding his secret from society has been easy\u2014hiding it from Cora proves impossible. Can Cora love a man like him despite learning the truth? This delightful romance is a little Regency, a little contemporary, and a lot Victorian.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Victorian)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38340788-p-s-i-love-you"}, +{"book_title": "Hubots: Real-World Robots Inspired by Humans", "author_name": "Helaine Becker", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 30, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Using increasingly sophisticated levels of artificial intelligence (AI) and embodied intelligence (EI), a new generation of robots is being designed to look, act and even think like humans. Hubots, or human-inspired robots, are expanding the boundaries of what robots can do. Here, ten different real-life hubots are described, highlighting each one's appearance, unique skills and purpose --- from fighting fires on the high seas, to acting as setup crew for space colonies, to providing companionship for the elderly. The book also includes an illustrated graph of the uncanny valley, which shows us what distinguishes a friendly robot from a creepy one, and back matter that provides a closer examination of some of the robots' physical components and looks to the future of these fascinating machines.The creators of the popular Zoobots bring to life the groundbreaking robotics technology that's changing the world. Award-winning author Helaine Becker uses short paragraphs and accessible vocabulary to present a book that will appeal to even the most reluctant readers. Hyperrealistic illustrations by Alex Ries enhance the interest level of the material for children, especially those who love all things that are weird, unfamiliar and futuristic. Reference tools include a glossary and an index. This topic spans science, technology, inventions and engineering lessons. It also provides a terrific jumping-off point for classroom discussions about the larger societal issues surrounding these cutting-edge robots.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38743168-hubots"}, +{"book_title": "A Breath of Eyre", "author_name": "Eve Marie Mont", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 1784, "review_number": 396, "book_description": "In this stunning, imaginative novel, Eve Marie Mont transports her modern-day heroine into the life of Jane Eyre to create a mesmerizing story of love, longing, and finding your place in the world. . .Emma Townsend has always believed in stories--the ones she reads voraciously, and the ones she creates. Perhaps it's because she feels like an outsider at her exclusive prep school, or because her stepmother doesn't come close to filling the void left by her mother's death. And her only romantic prospect--apart from a crush on her English teacher--is Gray Newman, a long-time friend who just adds to Emma's confusion. But escape soon arrives in an old leather-bound copy of Jane Eyre. . .Reading of Jane's isolation sparks a deep sense of kinship. Then fate takes things a leap further when a lightning storm catapults Emma right into Jane's body and her nineteenth-century world. As governess at Thornfield, Emma has a sense of belonging she's never known--and an attraction to the brooding Mr. Rochester. Now, moving between her two realities and uncovering secrets in both, Emma must decide whether her destiny lies in the pages of Jane's story, or in the unwritten chapters of her own. . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12267739-a-breath-of-eyre"}, +{"book_title": "The Melier: Prodigal Son", "author_name": "Poppy Rhys", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 515, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "An ordinary night at Revolution 5, right? Wrong. So wrong.Dania just wanted a normal life on Dor Nye after years of living a nomadic existence among the stars. But when a rude and dangerous alien playboy sits down at the bar where she works, everything changes.No questions. No strings. No names.Suddenly her future flies into a tailspin that lands her back in the lawless wild west of space. It's a fight for life, love, and a future she didn't think was possible any longer.Will she survive it?WARNING: This story contains M/F/M, non-human alien heroes, a chubby heroine, mature content, graphic language, and some violence against women. Possible triggers for sensitive readers. ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Menage (M F M)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (M M F)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53163613-the-melier"}, +{"book_title": "Through Struggle, the Stars", "author_name": "John J. Lumpkin", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 183, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "In 2139, a network of artificial wormholes has allowed humanity to reach nearby stars, where nations fiercely compete to settle new colony worlds. War is imminent between Earth\u2019s top powers, China and Japan, for reasons that no one entirely understands.Neil Mercer, a freshly commissioned officer in the United States Space Force, is assigned to shepherd a senior spy on a covert mission that risks drawing America into the conflict. In a story featuring high adventure, interstellar intrigue and some of the most scientifically realistic space combat depicted in fiction, Neil and his comrades must face difficult questions about duty, citizenship and national interest as they struggle to discover why the war threatens to engulf every nation on Earth.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12279784-through-struggle-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "After London: or, Wild England", "author_name": "Richard Jefferies", "rating_score": 3.08, "rating_votes": 640, "review_number": 102, "book_description": " The meadows were green, and so was the rising wheat which had been sown, but which neither had nor would receive any further care. Such arable fields as had not been sown, but where the last stubble had been ploughed up, were overrun with couch-grass, and where the short stubble had not been ploughed, the weeds hid it.Jefferies\u2019 novel can be seen as an early example of post-apocalyptic fiction. After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life.The first part, The Relapse into Barbarism, is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilisation and its consequences, with a loving description of nature reclaiming England. The second part, Wild England, is an adventure set many years later in the wild landscape and society.The book is not without its flaws but is redeemed by the quality of the writing, particularly the unnervingly prophetic descriptions of the post-apocalyptic city and countryside. (Summary by Ruth Golding and Wikipedia)", "year_published": 1885, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Literature (19th Century)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2220037.After_London"}, +{"book_title": "After Midnight", "author_name": "Santino Hassell", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1527, "review_number": 297, "book_description": "Two decades after war ravaged the nation, one of the last remaining metropolises thrives on a currency of sex, drugs, and lies.Gordon Frost is a survivor. He outlived all of his friends after bombs decimated the hardscrabble neighborhood he grew up in, and he made it through the orphanages and crime-ridden slums that followed. With few prospects for the future, Gordon carved out a niche for himself in the expanding drug trade of Lexington, PA. It\u2019s not pretty, but it's his, and it beats the skin trade he was involved with before. But a classic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time results in a brush with death, going by the name of Adam. Afterward, the life that once seemed good enough isn't quite the same. Adam Blake is an assassin on the brink of being terminated by the very organization that controls him. He completed his mission, but not without being seen. With his secrets in danger of being exposed by Gordon, Adam knows he should kill the smart-mouthed redhead, but finds himself intrigued by the troublesome civilian instead. When Gordon\u2019s knack for finding trouble combines with the dangerous consequences of Adam\u2019s indecision, their worlds intertwine in an explosive way.Trigger warnings: Graphic sex, violence, and drug use.word count: 85,000", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "LGBT", "Dark", "LGBT (Gay)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28362251-after-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Fear the Sky", "author_name": "Stephen Moss", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 6122, "review_number": 427, "book_description": "In eleven years time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships\u2019 huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space. These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out. Their technology is vastly superior to ours, and they know they cannot possibly lose the coming conflict. But they, like us, have found no answer to the destructive force of the atom, and they have no intention of facing the onslaught of our primitive nuclear arsenal, or the devastation it would wreak on the planet they crave. So they have flung out an advanced party in front of them, hidden within one of the countless asteroids randomly roaming the void. They do not want us, they want our planet. Their Agents are arriving.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22171697-fear-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Sten", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2126, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "When an \"accident\" kills his family, Sten rebels and harasses the company that runs Vulcan from the metal world's maze of warrens. The factory planet is ugly, harsh, and company-run for centuries. Sten meets a stranger who is his ticket off - and back.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714720.Sten"}, +{"book_title": "Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage", "author_name": "Grant Morrison", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 6002, "review_number": 287, "book_description": "This new edition of the first collection of Grant Morrison's DOOM PATROL run includes issues #19 - 25 of the series, including the restoration of three story pages omitted from the original printing. Plus, a new cover by Bolland.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22355.Doom_Patrol_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Deck Z: The Titanic: Unsinkable. Undead", "author_name": "Chris Pauls", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2050, "review_number": 410, "book_description": "Imagine being trapped aboard the doomed Titanic on an icy Atlantic. . . with the walking dead. This fast-paced thriller reimagines the historical events of the fateful Titanic voyage through the lens of zombie mayhem. Captain Edward Smith and his inner circle desperately try to contain a weaponized zombie virus smuggled on board with the 2,200 passengers sailing to New York. Faced with an exploding population of lumbering, flesh-hungry undead, Smith's team is forced into bloody hand-to-hand combat down the narrow halls of the huge steamer. In its few short days at sea, the majestic Titanic turns into a Victorian bloodbath, steaming at top speed toward a cold, blue iceberg. A creepy, tense page-turner, Deck Z will thrill zombie fans and Titanic buffs alike.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13615312-deck-z"}, +{"book_title": "Zone Yellow", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 35, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "RATS BEWARE -- THE IMPERIUM'S ON YOUR TAIL!Brion Bayard, once of our own timeline and now Imperium Agent extraordinaire, had been on some pretty dangerous missions before -- but never had he encountered so noxious a foe as the invading legions of giant plague-ridden rats who walked like men, spreading disease across the multiple universes of the Imperium. Unless Bayard can travel to the original world of the long-tailed invaders and stop the plague at its source, the Earth of the Imperium and all the other Earths in all the universes will fall before the verminous hordes from a timeline that should never have existed in the first place...", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2245550.Zone_Yellow"}, +{"book_title": "A Pail of Air", "author_name": "Fritz Leiber", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 286, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Reprint of 1964 paperback.Contains the short stories:A Pail of Air (1951)The Beat Cluster (1961)The Foxholes of Mars (1952)Pipe Dream (1959)Time Fighter (1957)The 64-Square Madhouse (1962)Bread Overhead (1958)The Last Letter (1958)Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee (1958)Coming Attraction (1950)Nice Girl with Five Husbands (1951)", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Literature (20th Century)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297432.A_Pail_of_Air"}, +{"book_title": "Mages & Mechanisms", "author_name": "Devin Harnois", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 298, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Leander Weatherford doesn\u2019t want a mage, but he needs one. Enchanted mechanical animals are all the rage among the upper classes, and selling them will save his struggling family business. Enter Jak, whose enchanting ability is second only to his talent for flirting. It\u2019s dangerous to keep such a tempting man close, but Leander can\u2019t resist\u2014in more ways than one.Jak needs money to continue his aimless life of running. A partnership with Leander provides both income and a lovely diversion. Their masterful creations catch the attention of an eccentric baroness who offers them an enormous sum for an ambitious project\u2014a full-scale mechanical dragon.Swept into a life rubbing elbows with nobility, Leander is pleased but overwhelmed. Spending both workdays and evenings with Jak, he finds himself drawing closer to the charming mage. But Jak is hiding a dangerous secret, and the truth could tear them apart.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40171460-mages-mechanisms"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier", "author_name": "Katie Hafner", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 755, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Using the exploits of three international hackers, Cyberpunk provides a fascinating tour of a bizarre subculture populated by outlaws who penetrate even the most sensitive computer networks and wreak havoc on the information they find -- everything from bank accounts to military secrets. In a book filled with as much adventure as any Ludlum novel, the authors show what motivates these young hackers to access systems, how they learn to break in, and how little can be done to stop them.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "History", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Computers (Hackers)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Biography", "Crime (True Crime)", "Computers (Internet)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369966.Cyberpunk"}, +{"book_title": "Doll, Volume 2", "author_name": "Mitsukazu Mihara", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 136, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "These haunting tales of human-like androids, called Dolls, range from romantic to tragic, from comic to ironic, and everything in between. In these stories, dolls have an uncanny way of working themselves into the lives of their masters: A woman develops an unusual closeness to doll that will affect her human family from beyond the grave...A man wants to make his doll into the perfect human lover, but discovers that humans are not perfect...A father buys his son a doll to help him get over the death of his mother. Doll provides a firsthand glimpse into the psychology of the human-doll relationship and examines the question of what it means to be truly human. Reccommended for older teens ages 16+.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Manga (Josei)", "Gothic", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Short Stories", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2067358.Doll_Volume_2"}, +{"book_title": "The Forgotten Commander", "author_name": "K. Webster", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1305, "review_number": 232, "book_description": "Our planet, Mortuus, is lost and dying.A desolate place where a few lone survivors dwell.My men have lost hope. Our future is bleak.Longevity is a luxury we can\u2019t afford.The most we can hope for is survival.We\u2019ve all but given up when an opportunity presents itself.Five females\u2014a chance at a future.Procuring these women went against everything I\u2019d been taught, but desperate times call for desperate measures.They\u2019re ours now.Asleep and made ready for breeding.We won\u2019t die out\u2014lost and forgotten.It\u2019s our destiny to grow and once again inhabit our lonely planet.I am Breccan Aloisius, the forgotten commander.My people will have the future they deserve.I\u2019ll make sure of it.My mind is made up\u2026until she wakes and nothing goes as planned.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43794459-the-forgotten-commander"}, +{"book_title": "The Exposed", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 2648, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "To rescue their android friends, the Chee, the Animorphs must use a giant squid morph to get to the Chee ship deep in a trench beneath the ocean. And they must reach the ship before Visser Three does.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125341.The_Exposed"}, +{"book_title": "Foundryside", "author_name": "Robert Jackson Bennett", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 20463, "review_number": 3339, "book_description": "Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne\u2019s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can\u2019t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia\u2019s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic--the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience--have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine. But if they can unlock the artifact\u2019s secrets, they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims. Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead, and the artifact for themselves. And in the city of Tevanne, there\u2019s nobody with the power to stop them. To have a chance at surviving\u2014and at stopping the deadly transformation that\u2019s under way\u2014Sancia will have to marshal unlikely allies, learn to harness the artifact\u2019s power for herself, and undergo her own transformation, one that will turn her into something she could never have imagined.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37173847-foundryside"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl in the Spider's Web", "author_name": "David Lagercrantz", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 145445, "review_number": 13193, "book_description": "She is the girl with the dragon tattoo\u2014a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution.Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker\u2014a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it . . . The duo who captivated millions of readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\u2019s Nest join forces again in this adrenaline-charged, uniquely of-the-moment thriller.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook", "Suspense", "Cultural (Sweden)", "Contemporary", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25074850-the-girl-in-the-spider-s-web"}, +{"book_title": "Slaughterhouse-Five", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1156904, "review_number": 27727, "book_description": "Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4981.Slaughterhouse_Five"}, +{"book_title": "Neuromancer", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 268536, "review_number": 9800, "book_description": "Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece\u2014a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century\u2019s most potent visions of the future.The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace...Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind\u2019s digital future\u2014a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6088007-neuromancer"}, +{"book_title": "Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End", "author_name": "Manel Loureiro", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 12494, "review_number": 1095, "book_description": "The dead rise\u2026A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news\u2014it\u2019s the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates monsters of men.Humanity falls\u2026A lawyer, still grieving over the death of his young wife, begins to write as a form of therapy. But he never expected that his anonymous blog would ultimately record humanity\u2019s last days.The end of the world has begun\u2026Governments scramble to stop the zombie virus, people panic, so-called \u201cSafe Havens\u201d are established, the world erupts into chaos; soon it\u2019s every man, woman, and child for themselves. Armed only with makeshift weapons and the will to live, a lone survivor will give mankind one last chance against\u2026Apocalypse Z", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16103129-apocalypse-z"}, +{"book_title": "Wall", "author_name": "Tom Abrahams", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 689, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "HE SURVIVED THE SCOURGE. HE ESCAPED THE CARTEL. NOW HE FACES THE WALL. In the chaos of a global plague, evil took hold. Governments fell, the good became servants, and the Cartel rose to power. A wall was built to contain the wasteland and keep the evil at bay. Now an organized resistance wants change. They're willing to fight for it and they've asked Marcus Battle to help. The last thing Battle wants is another war. But if that's what it takes to gain freedom and safe passage to the other side of the wall, he'll take aim and fire.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Action", "Horror (Zombies)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29543660-wall"}, +{"book_title": "Across a Star-Swept Sea", "author_name": "Diana Peterfreund", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 5547, "review_number": 811, "book_description": "Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction\u2014the devastating brain disorder that sparked the wars\u2014is a distant memory. Yet on the isle of Galatea, an uprising against the ruling aristocrats has turned deadly. The revolutionaries\u2019 weapon is a drug that damages their enemies\u2019 brains, and the only hope is rescue by a mysterious spy known as the Wild Poppy.On the neighboring island of Albion, no one suspects that the Wild Poppy is actually famously frivolous aristocrat Persis Blake. The teenager uses her shallow, socialite trappings to hide her true purpose: her gossipy flutternotes are encrypted plans, her pampered sea mink is genetically engineered for spying, and her well-publicized new romance with handsome Galatean medic Justen Helo\u2026 is her most dangerous mission ever.Though Persis is falling for Justen, she can\u2019t risk showing him her true self, especially once she learns he\u2019s hiding far more than simply his disenchantment with his country\u2019s revolution and his undeniable attraction to the silly socialite he\u2019s pretending to love. His darkest secret could plunge both islands into a new dark age, and Persis realizes that when it comes to Justen Helo, she\u2019s not only risking her heart, she\u2019s risking the world she\u2019s sworn to protect.In this thrilling adventure inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel, Diana Peterfreund creates an exquisitely rendered world where nothing is as it seems and two teens with very different pasts fight for a future only they dare to imagine.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16102412-across-a-star-swept-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Raising Steam", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 33077, "review_number": 2647, "book_description": "To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear.Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work - as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital... but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse...Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11275323-raising-steam"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Survivors", "author_name": "T.W. Piperbrook", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 3694, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "\nSurvival in Man\u2019s Second Dark Age\n Three hundred years after the fall of society, the last fragments of civilization are clinging to life, living in the ruins of the ancient cities in nearly-medieval conditions. Technology has been reduced to legend, monsters roam the forests, and fear reigns supreme. But that is just the beginning... The wind-borne spores are spreading, disfiguring men and twisting their minds, turning them into creatures that threaten to destroy the townships. Among the townsfolk, political and the religious, dissension is spreading. Through it all, a mother must protect her son...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23299722-the-last-survivors"}, +{"book_title": "Quid Pro Quo", "author_name": "Manna Francis", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 1119, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "When he agrees to do a favor for his old friend Liz Carey in Corporate Fraud, Para-investigator Val Toreth is hoping for a simple case. After all, kidnapping and dismemberment are all in a day's work for the Investigation and Interrogation Division. But in the European Administration, simplicity is often a dangerous illusion, and anyone who goes looking for trouble in the corporate world is certain to find more than they bargained for. Fraud, sabotage, espionage, blackmail, decades-long vendettas, and murder--the more powerful the corporations, the darker their secrets. Corporate insiders and innocent bystanders alike are all too easily caught up in the conflicts, but when suspects can hide behind money and power, what chance is there of any justice?And on top of everything else, Toreth also has to deal with Keir Warrick. But that's easy. That's just sex.The sequel to Mind Fuck, this second book in the Administration series contains the novella Quid Pro Quo, as well as five short stories set in the near future dystopia of New London and centered around professional investigator and interrogator Val Toreth, and technical genius turned corporate Keir Warrick.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Mystery", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Mystery (Crime)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3295264-quid-pro-quo"}, +{"book_title": "Kiss of Crimson", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 40905, "review_number": 1350, "book_description": "He comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing blood. As she struggles to save him, veterinarian Tess Culver is unaware that the man calling himself Dante is no man at all but one of the Breed, vampire warriors engaged in a desperate battle.In a single erotically charged moment, Tess is plunged into his world - a shifting, shadowed place where bands of Rogue vampires stalk the night, cutting a swath of terror. Haunted by visions of a dark future, Dante lives and fights like there is no tomorrow.Tess is a complication he does not need - but now, with his brethren under attack, he must shield Tess from a growing threat that includes Dante himself. For with one reckless, irresistible kiss, she has become an inextricable part of his underworld realm...and his touch awakens her to hidden gifts, desires, and hungers she never knew she possessed. Bonded by blood, Dante and Tess must work together to thwart deadly enemies, even as they discover a passion that transcends the boundaries of life itself.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/715791.Kiss_of_Crimson"}, +{"book_title": "Precious Starlight", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 474, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Can things get any worse for Daisy Putter? Abducted and transported across the galaxy, all she can do is wait to be sold by greedy aliens. Her luck changes when she's rescued by a team of red-skinned Demos soldiers from Galafrax. Daisy is thrust into a world of quadruple sexiness she finds hard to resist, especially the Commander and his brothers. Commanding officers Loz and his brothers Tos, Cir, and Bex, are captivated by the white-haired beauty now on their ship, and quickly fall under her alluring spell. A fiery passion flairs between them, and they know she belongs to them. When powerful ruling quads set their sights on Daisy, and try to steal her from her chosen men, the Stormstrong brothers must use every trick they know to save not only their Daisy, but the whole city from a corrupt power.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Space", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23342158-precious-starlight"}, +{"book_title": "Mainspring", "author_name": "Jay Lake", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 2171, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "Jay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation.\u00a0 Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and sees the track of the heavens, the wheels of the Moon, and the great Equatorial gears of the Earth itself.Mainspring\u00a0is the story of a young clockmaker's apprentice, who is visited by the Archangel Gabriel. He is told that he must take the Key Perilous and rewind the Mainspring of the Earth. It is running down, and disaster to the planet will ensue if it's not rewound. From innocence and ignorance to power and self-knowledge, the young man will make the long and perilous journey to the South Polar Axis, to fulfill the commandment of his God.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1296444.Mainspring"}, +{"book_title": "Changer of Worlds", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 4733, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONORLady Dame Honor Harrington\u2014starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess\u2014has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as \"the Salamander\" from her habit of always being where the fire is hottest . . . and also a national bestseller (Ashes of Victory: #7, The Wall Street Journal).But it's a big universe, and Honor's actions affect a lot of lives, not all of them human. And their actions affect her\u2014a lesson \"Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington\" learns years before rising to command rank when a desperate battle against \"pirates\" who aren't quite what they seem begins her brilliant career.Closer to home, in \"Changer of Worlds,\" a secret that the alien treecats have kept from their human friends for hundreds of years is about to come out . . . and completely change the relationship between the two species forever.Meanwhile, Eric Flint weighs in with \"From the Highlands.\" Honor can't be everywhere, so when the People's Republic of Haven tries to stage a political assassination on Earth, Anton Zilwicki\u2014husband of one of the Star Kingdom's most revered military martyrs, and father of a young woman who is clearly a chip off the old block\u2014steps into the breach . . . and takes the opportunity to settle some old scores along the way.And finally, Esther McQueen and Oscar Saint-Just square off for their final confrontation in Noveau Paris in \"Nightfall.\"", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Anthologies", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504384.Changer_of_Worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel", "author_name": "Jonathan Morris", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2767, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "\"The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn\u2019t want to live there.\"In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. He receives a battered envelope, posted eight years ago, containing a set of instructions with a simple message: \"You can save her.\"As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it\u2019s up to the Doctor, Amy and Rory to save the whole world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using Mark himself as a weapon to change history. Will the doctor stop mark or will the angels feast?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969857-doctor-who"}, +{"book_title": "Strange Dogs", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 8435, "review_number": 605, "book_description": "Like many before them, Cara and her family ventured through the gates as scientists and researchers, driven to carve out a new life and uncover the endless possibilities of the unexplored alien worlds now within reach.But soon the soldiers followed and under this new order Cara makes a discovery that will change everything.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30367030-strange-dogs"}, +{"book_title": "Berserker Man", "author_name": "Fred Saberhagen", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 671, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Berserker Man: Over a century after the Beserkers had suffered an overwhelming defeat, humans have become complacent. But the killer machines have repaired and rebuilt themselves, and this time may succeed in eradicating humanity from the galaxy-unless they can be stopped by a child who is half man and half machine.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16504.Berserker_Man"}, +{"book_title": "The Winter Laird", "author_name": "Nancy Scanlon", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 822, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "THE PRESENTSuccessful matchmaker Brianagh O\u2019Rourke believes in happy-ever-afters \u2013 just not her own. Though she thrives on helping her clients find the partner of their dreams, her own dreams remain firmly in her head, not in her life. She's fine loving only her business\u2013at least, that's what she tells herself when she agrees to her lackluster boyfriend's proposal.THE PASTLaird Nioclas MacWilliam has big problems: His power-hungry, exiled father wants him dead, his clan is pressuring him to marry to secure a strong alliance, and he's been betrothed to the mystical O'Rourke daughter for years, despite the fact that she\u2019s been missing for most of them. When she appears the day before his nuptials to another, he offers a solution for the both of them: If she marries him and convinces the clan they are a love match, he gives his vow to help her return home in three months.THE FUTUREBrianagh wants nothing more than to return home to her family and her life. But as the days turn into weeks, their bargain becomes less about convincing the clan and more about what is possible. When the time comes, she must decide: Does she return to her life of stability and success, or stay in the past for a chance at true love?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53491106-the-winter-laird"}, +{"book_title": "The Lies of Locke Lamora", "author_name": "Scott Lynch", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 234643, "review_number": 15210, "book_description": "An orphan\u2019s life is harsh\u2014and often short\u2014in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld\u2019s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game\u2014or die trying.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29588376-the-lies-of-locke-lamora"}, +{"book_title": "A Bridge Through Time", "author_name": "Jennae Vale", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1195, "review_number": 126, "book_description": " A Bridge Through Time \n Book 1 of The Thistle & Hive Series\nAshley Moore's life in San Francisco has hit a few snags, not the least of which involves sightings of a mystery man around every corner. Is she losing her mind or does he really exist? Her search for this grey-eyed stranger leads her to Scotland. There she meets a witch with a secret, a vindictive English knight who is bent on revenge, and she crosses a fog shrouded bridge into the arms of a 16th century Highlander. Cailin MacBayne is no stranger to beautiful women, but has always managed to stay one step ahead of commitment. That all comes to an end when he meets Ashley. He doesn't care where this beautiful, yet unusual lass came from, he's just happy to have found her. Ashley cannot resist the handsome Scot and finds herself falling hopelessly in love. In the process, a secret is revealed, a battle is waged and Ashley must ultimately decide whether to return to her own time or give up her 21st century life to stay with the love she has found in the past.\nScroll up and grab a copy today.\n", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23601609-a-bridge-through-time"}, +{"book_title": "Spice \u2018n\u2019 Solace", "author_name": "K.C. Burn", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 887, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "The Galactic Alliance\u2019s most important negotiator, Jathan One-Moon, is responsible for ensuring the yearly negotiations with the Ankylos are successful. If he fails and the Ankylos go to war, the human race will likely be exterminated. As if that wasn\u2019t enough, he\u2019s under pressure to marry and produce an heir. When he mistakes the brothel owner, Kazha Deinos, for his escort prior to the negotiations, the resulting evening makes Jathan realize his life is missing a man who can be a true partner to him.Kaz never met his most important client, and Jathan\u2019s misconception allows Kaz the freedom to give in to desires he\u2019s never let himself indulge in before. But Kaz has a business to run, one that a rival is trying to steal, which will force him to reveal his true identity to Jay. There\u2019s also the little issue of Jathan\u2019s impending marriage. Kaz is not interested in being a boy on the side of Jay\u2019s marriage, no matter how much he\u2019s come to care for Jathan. Will Jathan and Kaz find a way to be together, or will losing the man Jathan\u2019s grown to love be yet another price he must pay for saving the human race?32,900 words", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10324166-spice-n-solace"}, +{"book_title": "House of Dark Shadows", "author_name": "Robert Liparulo", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 6939, "review_number": 846, "book_description": "Dream house . . . or bad dream?When the Kings move from L.A. to a secluded small town, fifteen-year-old Xander is beyond disappointed. He and his friends loved to create amateur films . . . but the tiny town of Pinedale is the last place a movie buff and future filmmaker wants to land.But he, David, and Toria are captivated by the many rooms in the old Victorian fixer-upper they moved into--as well as the heavy woods surrounding the house. They soon discover there's something odd about the house. Sounds come from the wrong directions. Prints of giant, bare feet appear in the dust. And when David tries to hide in the linen closet, he winds up in locker 119 at his new school.Then the really weird stuff kicks in: they find a hidden hallway with portals leading off to far-off places--in long-ago times. Xander is starting to wonder if this kind of travel is a teen's dream come true . . . or his worst nightmare.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2330877.House_of_Dark_Shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Harmony", "author_name": "Project Itoh", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1223, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "In a perfect world, there is no escape In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls--Tuan Kirie--grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Asia)", "Young Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7326876-harmony"}, +{"book_title": "Cinder: Chapters 1-5", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 2546, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "\nThis excerpt from Marissa Meyer\u2019s Cinder contains for the first five chapters. Cinder will be available January 3, 2012. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth\u2019s fate hinges on one girl\u2026. Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She\u2019s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister\u2019s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai\u2019s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world\u2019s future. Become a fan at: http://www.facebook.com/lunarchronicles\n", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13088309-cinder"}, +{"book_title": "Starlight", "author_name": "Lisa Henry", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 480, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Brady Garrett is back in space, this time as an unwilling member of a team of humans seeking to study the alien Faceless and their technology. It\u2019s not the first time Brady\u2019s life has been in the hands of the Faceless leader Kai-Ren, and if there\u2019s one thing Brady hates it\u2019s being reminded exactly how powerless he is. Although dealing with the enigmatic Faceless might actually be easier than trying to figure out where he stands with the other humans on board, particularly when one of them is his boyfriend\u2019s ex. Cameron Rushton loved the starlight once, but being back on board the Faceless ship forces him to confront the memories of the time he was captured by Kai-Ren, and exactly how much of what was done to him that he can no longer rationalize away. Cam is used to being Brady\u2019s rock, but this time it might be him who needs Brady\u2019s support. This time Brady is surrounded by the people he loves most in the universe, but that only means their lives are in danger too. And when Kai-Ren\u2019s fascination with humanity threatens the foundations of Faceless society, Brady and Cam and the rest of the team find themselves thrust into a battle that humans have very little hope of winning, let alone surviving.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Futuristic", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52226950-starlight"}, +{"book_title": "Atlas Shrugged", "author_name": "Ayn Rand", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 358808, "review_number": 17638, "book_description": "This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world\u2019s motor \u2014 and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story. Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life \u2014 from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy \u2014 to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction \u2014 to the philosopher who becomes a pirate \u2014 to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph \u2014 to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad \u2014 to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.This is a mystery story, not about the murder \u2014 and rebirth \u2014 of man\u2019s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.", "year_published": 1957, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Philosophy", "Literature", "Politics", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Economics", "Business"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662.Atlas_Shrugged"}, +{"book_title": "Time Will Tell", "author_name": "Sandy Loyd", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 594, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Romance and adventure...and a trip to where an American tradition began\u2026Libby Edwards, a gifted horsewoman, unwittingly wishes herself back in time to Louisville, Kentucky, just before Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby become a reality. During Libby\u2019s journey in the past, she stumbles upon her destiny. Unfortunately, he\u2019s in the wrong century. In 1874, there\u2019s no electricity, no Internet, no modern medicine, no antibiotics\u2014-no Starbucks! And even worse than that, women have no rights. Libby has no desire to stay.Widower Colin Thorpe, a renaissance man of his time, has big dreams. He is a horse breeder who names his thoroughbreds after mythological gods because he has a reverence for past cultures and an appreciation for the unexplainable.Libby and Colin can\u2019t resist falling in love with each other. After all, Colin accepts Libby for who she is and she understands Colin\u2019s dreams better than his deceased wife ever did. Yet he grasps early on that Libby doesn\u2019t belong in 1874. And because his wife never adapted to the move from Virginia to Kentucky, becoming bitter and unhappy in the process, he won\u2019t take the chance of the same thing happening to Libby. Can these two lovers find a way to be together despite their challenges?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Business (Amazon)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18242221-time-will-tell"}, +{"book_title": "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August", "author_name": "Claire North", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 71202, "review_number": 8525, "book_description": "Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. \"I nearly missed you, Doctor August,\" she says. \"I need to send a message.\" This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35066358-the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august"}, +{"book_title": "Strictly Analog", "author_name": "Richard Levesque", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 391, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Alternative cover edition for 9781478354420Ted Lomax does his best to get by as a private detective in a society where almost nothing is private any more. He lives in a near-future California that has gained independence from the economically collapsed United States and where everyone is constantly linked into the web. Almost everyone. Because of injuries sustained during California\u2019s border war, Ted is locked out of the technological culture that surrounds him. But that\u2019s his edge: his business card reads \u201cStrictly Analog,\u201d and he markets himself as a man able to skirt the technological landscape without leaving a trail. It works nicely for him until he gets the most important case of his life. When his daughter Amy is accused of killing her boyfriend, Ted knows he has to do whatever he can to help her. It won\u2019t be easy. The bullet in the boyfriend\u2019s head matches Amy\u2019s gun. To make matters worse, the dead boyfriend was an agent with California\u2019s secret police. Now Ted has to dig himself out of the hole he\u2019s been buried in since the war. Before long, he\u2019s pulled into a shadow world of underground hackers, high-end programmers, and renegade gear-heads, all of whom seem to have a stake in California\u2019s future. The further he digs into the case, the clearer it becomes that it\u2019s about more than one dead agent. Solving it might save his daughter. And it might get him killed. And it just might open the door to secrets that reach back to the attack that almost killed him eighteen years before. At any rate, Ted Lomax will never be the same.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Mystery (Detective)", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23344462-strictly-analog"}, +{"book_title": "Stop! Bot", "author_name": "James Yang", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 465, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "In this picture book mystery, a little boy out for a walk with his family stops to show a building doorman his new \"bot\": \"I have a bot!\" Only he doesn't have it for long, because it floats up out of his hands like an escaped balloon. \"Stop! Bot!\" Springing to action, the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it -- along with the help of each floor's resident. But while everything looks normal at first, every floor (and resident) is a little more wacky and unusual than the last! Musicians, baseball players, zoo animals, and finally a very large monkey all play a part -- but will they rescue the Bot before it's too late?!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42729274-stop-bot"}, +{"book_title": "The Empress' New Clothes", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 4629, "review_number": 223, "book_description": "Modern day Earth woman Kyra Summers is kidnapped and wed by a seven-foot tall, thickly muscled warrior claiming to be her Sacred Mate. Life on his home planet Tryston takes some getting used to, as the laws of the world cater to erotic hedonism and leave females at the sexual subjugation of the barbarians who claim them. No one said love with an alien would come easily. Enjoy Kyra's spicy escapades as she adjusts to life and love in another dimension.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582663.The_Empress_New_Clothes"}, +{"book_title": "Conquest Earth", "author_name": "Angelique Anjou", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 619, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "A banished prince from far, far away... one minor computer glitch... the most bizarre courtship and mating ceremony ever conceived... and Bree Denton\u2019s life would never be the same.\u201cThis title is a reissue\u201dLength: Full NovelGenre: Futuristic RomanceRating: Erotica. This book contains forced seduction, public sex, frank language, adult situations, and graphic sexual encounters.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6940150-conquest-earth"}, +{"book_title": "The State of the Art", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 14598, "review_number": 579, "book_description": "The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks' staggering talent.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Cultural", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Banking (Banks)", "Space", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129131.The_State_of_the_Art"}, +{"book_title": "Equations of Life", "author_name": "Simon Morden", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2313, "review_number": 268, "book_description": "Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick AwardSamuil Petrovitch is a survivor.He survived the nuclear fallout in St. Petersburg and hid in the London Metrozone \u2013 the last city in England. He\u2019s lived this long because he\u2019s a man of rules and logic.For example, getting involved = a bad idea.But when he stumbles into a kidnapping in progress, he acts without even thinking. Before he can stop himself, he\u2019s saved the daughter of the most dangerous man in London.And clearly saving the girl = getting involved.Now, the equation of Petrovitch\u2019s life is looking increasingly complex.Russian mobsters + Yakuza + something called the New Machine Jihad = one dead Petrovitch.But Petrovitch has a plan \u2013 he always has a plan \u2013 he\u2019s just not sure it\u2019s a good one.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9435474-equations-of-life"}, +{"book_title": "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream", "author_name": "Harlan Ellison", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 2329, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "\"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream\" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction.It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short story collection of Ellison's work, featuring this story. It was recently reprinted by the Library of America, collected in volume two (Terror and the Uncanny, from the 1940s to Now) of American Fantastic Tales (2009).", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Horror", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Literature (American)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20813135-i-have-no-mouth-i-must-scream"}, +{"book_title": "Odyssey", "author_name": "Tony Corden", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 946, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Atherleah Carroll grew up in a negative-tax family in the gang-controlled suburbs of Brisbane at the end of the twenty-first century. From the age of six, she decided that she wanted more and with the help of her local gang-leader, she learned the skills to escape the relentless pressure to accept a life of mediocrity. On her sixteenth birthday, she was inadvertently implanted with a Neural Enhancement Chip instead of the free Government provided basic level personal AI. This mistake not only removed the limits placed on the AI but also broke some of the Government instigated control parameters. Leah\u2019s life rapidly becomes a battle, both in the virtual-multiverse and in real life. On the advice of the local \u2018boss\u2019, Leah began playing the virtual fantasy game Dunyanin to earn the money she needed to live at the local POD facility and help with her education. With the help of her rapidly evolving AI, she has not only thwarted attempts by the government to limit her opportunities but evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers. Co-opted by several Virtual Security AI Leah has helped shut down a virtual sweat-shop which used mind-controlled players to farm for resources. The family, which runs the virtual crime syndicate, has cornered Leah in the depths of a virtual-mine and sent twenty player-mercenaries to capture her. Fleeing through a hidden doorway into a mirror mine operated by goblins Leah hopes to escape her pursuers.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36482133-odyssey"}, +{"book_title": "Binary Storm", "author_name": "Christopher Hinz", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 177, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Near the end of the 21st century, Earth is in chaos from environmental devastation and a vicious undeclared war against binaries, genetically engineered assassins. Composed of a single consciousness inhabiting two human bodies (tways), binaries are ruled by an alpha breed, the Royal Caste.Nick Smith, computer programmer and brilliant strategist, hooks up with Annabel Bakana, the savvy new director of E-Tech, an organization dedicated to limiting runaway technological growth. Together both romantically and professionally, they secretly assemble a small combat team to hunt and kill binaries.But there's a fly in the ointment, the mysterious team leader, Gillian. A tormented soul with an unseemly attraction to Annabel, his actions just might help the Royal Caste's cause and draw the world closer to Armageddon.Serving as both a stand-alone novel and prequel to Liege-Killer, Binary Storm is a futuristic tale of bold characters pushed to the brink in a dangerous world. Startling action, political intrigue and powerful themes that echo our contemporary era are fused into a plot brimming with twists and surprises.File Under Science Fiction [ Paratwa / Double Trouble / Corporations Kill / An Undying Connection ]", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28953103-binary-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", "author_name": "Randall Frakes", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1312, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Colossal tales that fit in the palm of your hand, Mighty Chronicles capture all the excitement of the world's favorite stories in action-packed mini-volumes. Hardcover on the outside, thrill-a-page on the inside, each Mighty Chronicle leaps to life with 150 original illustrations. This season we are excited to add brave, beautiful Xena, ultra-potent, ultra-popular Hercules, and new Mighty Chroniclizations of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Terminator 2: Judgment Day to the Mighty Chronicles line-up. It's just more proof that the world's biggest Stories make the best little books.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Media Tie In", "Horror", "Action", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1153499.Terminator_2"}, +{"book_title": "Grace and Fury", "author_name": "Tracy Banghart", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 10443, "review_number": 2380, "book_description": "In a world where women have no rights, sisters Serina and Nomi Tessaro face two very different fates: one in the palace, the other in prison.Serina has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace - someone to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect woman. But when her headstrong and rebellious younger sister, Nomi, catches the heir's eye, it's Serina who takes the fall for the dangerous secret that Nomi has been hiding.Now trapped in a life she never wanted, Nomi has only one way to save Serina: surrender to her role as a Grace until she can use her position to release her sister. This is easier said than done. A traitor walks the halls of the palace, and deception lurks in every corner. But Serina is running out of time, imprisoned on an island where she must fight to the death to survive and one wrong move could cost her everything.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Feminism", "Audiobook", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36546635-grace-and-fury"}, +{"book_title": "Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 18553, "review_number": 2092, "book_description": "A great deal is happening in London and the country this season.For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at the Royal College of Wizards. There's also the man who seems to be spying on Cecelia. (Though he's not doing a very good job of it--so just what are his intentions?) And then there's Oliver. Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is.Clearly, magic is a deadly and dangerous business. And the girls might be in fear for their lives . . . if only they weren't having so much fun!", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64207.Sorcery_Cecelia"}, +{"book_title": "Idols", "author_name": "Margaret Stohl", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 1468, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "The Icons came from the sky. They belong to an inhuman enemy. They ended our civilization, and they can kill us. Most of us. Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas are the four Icon Children, the only humans immune to the Icon's power to stop a human heart. Now that Los Angeles has been saved, things are more complicated - and not just because Dol has to choose between Lucas and Ro, the two great loves of her life. As she flees to a resistance outpost hidden beneath a mountain, Dol makes contact with a fifth Icon Child, if only through her visions. When Dol and the others escape to Southeast Asia in search of this missing child, Dol's dreams, feelings and fears collide in an epic showdown that will change more than just four lives - and stop one heart forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11861743-idols"}, +{"book_title": "The Hidden Girl and Other Stories", "author_name": "Ken Liu", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2420, "review_number": 456, "book_description": "From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories.Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years \u2014 sixteen of his best \u2014 plus a new novelette.In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from the forthcoming book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, \"The Veiled Throne\".Contents:- Ghost Days (2013)- Maxwell's Demon (2012)- The Reborn (2014)- Thoughts and Prayers (2019)- Byzantine Empathy (2018)- The Gods Will Not Be Chained (2014)- Staying Behind (2011)- Real Artists (2011)- The Gods Will Not Be Slain (2014)- Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer (2011)- The Gods Have Not Died in Vain (2015)- Memories of My Mother (2012)- Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts (2016)- Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard (2020)- A Chase Beyond the Storms: An excerpt from \"The Veiled Throne\", Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty- The Hidden Girl (2017)- Seven Birthdays (2016)- The Message (2012)- Cutting (2012)", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Audiobook", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52163147-the-hidden-girl-and-other-stories"}, +{"book_title": "The People of the Wind", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 727, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "When the two star-faring races from which they are descended enter into war against each other, the two species who share the planet Avalon--one of humans, the other of winged creatures--must make enemies of friends. Reprint.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1228442.The_People_of_the_Wind"}, +{"book_title": "The Starlight Rite", "author_name": "Cherise Sinclair", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 3261, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "Her voice is famous throughout the galaxy; her face is completely unknown.Fleeing her monstrous husband back on puritanical Earth and the police assassins he's hired, singer Mella Archer becomes stranded on the frontier planet of Nexus. Desperate to survive, she picks the wrong target--Dain, the head of planetary security.Dain is amused by the attempted theft, and when Mella is sentenced to serve time indentured as a bedroom slave, he buys her contract. As he introduces the repressed Earther to the pleasures of sex with a dominating warrior, he slowly comes to realize that the little thief has stolen his heart.When the monster arrives on Nexus and has lunch with Dain, Mella is panic-stricken. Her owner must be part of the conspiracy to kill her, and it will only be a matter of time before the monster discovers that she\u2019s still alive. She attempts to escape. She fails. Embittered by her lies and mistrust, Dain returns her to Indenture Hall to be sold again.Now the monster has found her. And she has nowhere left to run...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896269-the-starlight-rite"}, +{"book_title": "The Stone Sky", "author_name": "N.K. Jemisin", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 81317, "review_number": 7353, "book_description": "This is the way the world ends... for the last time. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe.For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.The remarkable conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed trilogy that began with the multi-award-nominated The Fifth Season.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31817749-the-stone-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Prince", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2006, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "The four Qurilixian Princes have no problem with commitment. In one night, using the power they were born with, they will meet and choose their life mate in a simplistic ceremony involving the removing of masks and the crushing of crystals. With very few words spoken and the shortest, most bizarre courtship in history, they will bond to their women forever. And once bonded, these men don't let go.... Out of the fire. Intergalactic thief, Olena Leyton is one of the best space pirates in history. Sailing the high skies in search of adventure is in her blood. When her crew is scattered in a run from the law and her ship crashes, exploding into a ball of flames, the injured Olena is forced to find sanctuary on a Galaxy Brides ship. Posing as a blushing 'mail-order' bride to elude the bounty hunters that pursue her, Olena finds herself heading to the primitive planet of Qurilixen. But, being a bride isn't something that Olena takes seriously. Into the flames. Prince Yusef of Draig, Captain of the Outpost, leads a simple life away from the palace. He knows from the first moment he sees his fiery temptress that he will possess her and make her his bride for all time. However, Yusef learns that playing with fire will always leave a man burned. But, with passions as powerful as this dark Prince's are, he is not willing to give up his bride without a fight. Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22050788-dark-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Millennium", "author_name": "John Varley", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2555, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about to collide. But in the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch the passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. And in Washington D.C., an air disaster investigator named Smith is about to get a phone call that will change his life...and end the world as we know it.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49848.Millennium"}, +{"book_title": "Black on Black", "author_name": "K.D. Wentworth", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 435, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Rescued from a slave market by a human trader and raised as his son, one question has haunted Heyoka Blackeagle through the years: who \u2014 and what \u2014 is he? He feels human, indeed he feels like a somewhat alienated member of his father's tribe. So what if he is seven feet tall, furry, and equipped with retractable claws?Human is as human does \u2026 Right? ", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1406402.Black_on_Black"}, +{"book_title": "Relentless", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 15487, "review_number": 335, "book_description": "After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, \"Black Jack\" Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5292173-relentless"}, +{"book_title": "Updraft", "author_name": "Fran Wilde", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 3140, "review_number": 624, "book_description": "In a city of living bone rising high above the clouds, where danger hides in the wind and the ground is lost to legend, a young woman must expose a dangerous secret to save everyone she loves.Welcome to a world of wind and bone, songs and silence, betrayal and courage. Kirit Densira cannot wait to pass her wingtest and begin flying as a trader by her mother's side, being in service to her beloved home tower and exploring the skies beyond. When Kirit inadvertently breaks Tower Law, the city's secretive governing body, the Singers, demand that she become one of them instead. In an attempt to save her family from greater censure, Kirit must give up her dreams to throw herself into the dangerous training at the Spire, the tallest, most forbidding tower, deep at the heart of the City.As she grows in knowledge and power, she starts to uncover the depths of Spire secrets. Kirit begins to doubt her world and its unassailable Laws, setting in motion a chain of events that will lead to a haunting choice, and may well change the city forever - if it isn't destroyed outright.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18464362-updraft"}, +{"book_title": "Black Mercury", "author_name": "Charlotte E. English", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 89, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Caspar Goldstein is the star of the steam car racing scene in the city of Eisenstadt. All he cares about is winning the coveted Autocarriage Cup, and he's in with a chance-until a crash at the track throws his plans into disarray. When a chance discovery brings a new superfuel into his life, he can't resist the opportunity to claim some for himself. But when black mercury powers the first ever flight to the mysterious Drifting Isle, its fame quickly spreads-and everyone wants what Caspar's got. He's made a grave mistake, but it's too late to back out now. Unsure who to trust, Cas must rely on his few true friends for help; but how can inventors, autocarriage drivers and pigeons hope to face down the deadliest of assassins and thieves? Black Mercury is a title in the Drifting Isle Chronicles series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17661142-black-mercury"}, +{"book_title": "The Amulet of Samarkand", "author_name": "Jonathan Stroud", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 120026, "review_number": 5149, "book_description": "Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the \"ultimate sacrifice\" for a \"noble destiny.\" If leaving his parents and erasing his past life isn't tough enough, Nathaniel's master, Arthur Underwood, is a cold, condescending, and cruel middle-ranking magician in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The boy's only saving grace is the master's wife, Martha Underwood, who shows him genuine affection that he rewards with fierce devotion. Nathaniel gets along tolerably well over the years in the Underwood household until the summer before his eleventh birthday. Everything changes when he is publicly humiliated by the ruthless magician Simon Lovelace and betrayed by his cowardly master who does not defend him.Nathaniel vows revenge. In a Faustian fever, he devours magical texts and hones his magic skills, all the while trying to appear subservient to his master. When he musters the strength to summon the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus to avenge Lovelace by stealing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, the boy magician plunges into a situation more dangerous and deadly than anything he could ever imagine.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334123.The_Amulet_of_Samarkand"}, +{"book_title": "A Wrinkle in the Skin", "author_name": "John Christopher", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 649, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "A Wrinkle in the Skin (aka The Ragged Edge) is a 1965 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the British author Samuel Youd under the pen name of John Christopher.A massive series of earthquakes on a worldwide scale reduce cities to rubble, plunging survivors into barbarism. Most of western Europe is dramatically uplifted, transforming the English Channel into a muddy desert, while elsewhere lands are plunged below sea level and flooded.The protagonist is Matthew Cotter, a Guernsey horticulturalist who finds himself one of only a handful of survivors on the former island. Cotter decides to trek across the empty seabed to England, in the faint hope his daughter has somehow survived.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135289.A_Wrinkle_in_the_Skin"}, +{"book_title": "Specter of the Past", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 17640, "review_number": 366, "book_description": "Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet--a dead Imperial warlord.The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they have saved their most heinous plan for last. First a plot is hatched that could destroy the New Republic in a bloodbath of genocide and civil war. Then comes the shocking news that Grand Admiral Thrawn--the most cunning and ruthless warlord in history--has apparently returned from the dead to lead the Empire to a long-prophesied victory. Facing incredible odds, Han and Leia begin a desperate race against time to prevent the New Republic from unraveling in the face of two inexplicable threats--one from within and one from without. Meanwhile, Luke teams up with Mara Jade, using the Force to track down a mysterious pirate ship with a crew of clones. Yet, perhaps most dangerous of all, are those who lurk in the shadows, orchestrating a dark plan that will turn the New Republic and the Empire into their playthings.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77787.Specter_of_the_Past"}, +{"book_title": "Gunmetal Magic", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 33583, "review_number": 1969, "book_description": "Some people have everything figured out\u2014Andrea Nash is not one of those people.After being kicked out of the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, Andrea\u2019s whole existence is in shambles. All she can do is to try to put herself back together, something made easier by working for Cutting Edge, a small investigative firm owned by her best friend Kate Daniels.When several shapeshifters working for Raphael Medrano\u2014the male alpha of the Clan Bouda and Andrea\u2019s former lover\u2014die unexpectedly at a dig site, Andrea is assigned to investigate\u2026and must work with Raphael. As Andrea\u2019s search for the killer leads her into the secret underbelly of supernatural Atlanta, she knows that dealing with her feelings for Raphael might have to take a back seat to saving the world\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12288282-gunmetal-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Atlantic Abomination", "author_name": "John Brunner", "rating_score": 3.13, "rating_votes": 126, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "A horror novel by John Brunner?A science-fiction shocker by the man who wrote the \"Hugo\" winning STAND ON ZANZIBAR? By the author of THE JAGGED ORBIT, CATCH A FALLING STAR, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER?Of course! The Brunner talent is manifest in this edge-of-the-seat novel about what happened when the first sea-bottom explorers brought up a not-so-dead body of an inhuman intelligence that had been sealed up for innumerable eons.Godzilla, Gorgo, King Kong...stand aside for THE ATLANTIC ABOMINATION!", "year_published": 1960, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1442341.Atlantic_Abomination"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Tribe", "author_name": "Brad Manuel", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2725, "review_number": 432, "book_description": "Imagine being alone in the world, one of only a handful to survive a global pandemic. Not only do you struggle to find food, water, and shelter, you deal with the sadness and loss of everyone you know, and everything you have. Fourteen year old Greg Dixon is living that nightmare. Attending boarding school outside of Boston, he is separated from his family when a pandemic strikes. His classmates and teachers are dead, rotting in a dormitory turned morgue steps from his room. The nights are getting colder, and his food has run out. The last message from his father is get away from the city, and meet at his grandparent\u2019s town in remote New Hampshire. Knowing the impending New England winter could be the final nail in his coffin, he packs what little food he can find, and sets off on his one hundred mile walk north with the unwavering belief that his family is alive and will join him. As the fast moving and deadly disease strips away family and friends, Greg\u2019s father, John, is trapped in South Carolina. Roadblocks, a panic stricken population, and winter make it impossible for him to get to his son. John and his three brothers appear to be immune, but they are scattered across a locked down United States, forced to wait for the end of humanity before travelling to the mountains of New Hampshire. Spring arrives, and the Dixons make their way north to find young Greg. They meet others along the way, and slowly form the last tribe of humanity from the few people still alive in the northeast.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25324447-the-last-tribe"}, +{"book_title": "The Metabarons: Ultimate Collection", "author_name": "Alejandro Jodorowsky", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1466, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "Jodorowsky & Gimenez's epic saga collected for the very first time. A multi-generational tale of family, sacrifice, and survival told within an immense universe, both in scope and originality. A true classic in the pantheon of graphic storytelling and science fiction as a whole. Omnibus content includes The Metabarons #1-4 trades + 30 pages of bonus material (including two Metabaron short stories), presented in its original size and color and in a limited and numbered print run of 999 copies only.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12123436-the-metabarons"}, +{"book_title": "Red River, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Chie Shinohara", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 10514, "review_number": 217, "book_description": "Youri, a pretty Japanese girl who just passed a college entrance exam, is ecstatic after her first kiss with her handsome childhood friend-turned-boyfriend, Himuro. Meanwhile, she starts to notice that water becomes agitated whenever she goes near it! One night, hands appear out of a puddle on the street and drag her into the water. She emerges from the water to find that she has been transported to an ancient village somewhere in the Middle East. She is then captured by armed troops and taken to the queen's palace, where she learns that the queen had her kidnapped so she can offer her blood as part of a ritual that will kill two princes in competition to inherit the kingdom.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Adventure", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357399.Red_River_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Time-Kept Promises", "author_name": "Constance O'Day-Flannery", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 240, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Kristine Gavin was depressed about turning thirty until she received a most unusual gift from her brother. It was a portrait he'd found in the attic of their family home in Virginia, a portrait of a woman who must have been their ancestor, judging from Kris' resemblance to the beauty. But it wasn't the painting that intrigued Kris...An old newspaper clipping about the woman's strange disappearance caught within the frame drew her in. Just as Kris was uncovering a fascinating secret from the past she sensed a change in the air - and found herself thrown back in time into a strange room, staring into the eyes of the sexiest man she had ever seen!Sean O'Mara frozen when he saw his wife Christina standing before him. She had vanished and the news had been written about in all of the papers - he had even been charged with her murder! But now he had living proof of his innocence, and Sean was not about to let her get away. No matter that the woman was claiming to be someone named Kristine; she still caused his blood to boil. Yet despite their differences, Sean wanted to hold the fiery vixen in his arms, caress her satiny skin, kiss her ruby lips and pledge his love forever with TIME-KEPT PROMISES", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1892750.Time_Kept_Promises"}, +{"book_title": "Star Maker", "author_name": "Olaf Stapledon", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 6569, "review_number": 569, "book_description": "Star Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing in scale Stapledon's previous book, Last and First Men (1930), a history of the human species over two billion years. Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations. Some of the elements and themes briefly discussed prefigure later fiction concerning genetic engineering and alien life forms. Arthur C. Clarke considered Star Maker to be one of the finest works of science fiction ever written.", "year_published": 1937, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Philosophy", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525304.Star_Maker"}, +{"book_title": "Messiah Node", "author_name": "Lyda Morehouse", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 189, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "A potent mix of technology and salvation is the trademark of Lyda Morehouse's brilliant novels. Now, Messiah Node takes her uniquely-imagined world one step closer to its fate-as AIs and archangels, prophets and criminal masterminds face the final day of reckoning.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71415.Messiah_Node"}, +{"book_title": "Turning Point", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 1206, "review_number": 52, "book_description": " Fight to Win. With the galaxy in turmoil, the Legion initiates Article Nineteen, a hard reset designed to halt the corruption and ineptitude that continues to spill forth from the Galactic Core. But when the House of Reason aligns itself with the bloodthirsty zhee extremists, the Legion has no choice but to commit to a savage campaign of Total War. Meanwhile, Captain Chhun and Victory Squad follow intelligence that could land a powerful blow against Goth Sullus and his fledgling empire, and Exo and Wraith, in an tenuous alliance, move toward a slumbering fleet that could permanently alter the delicate balance of power among Legion, Republic, and Empire... or could just as easily eradicate the galaxy altogether.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38457048-turning-point"}, +{"book_title": "My Plain Jane", "author_name": "Cynthia Hand", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 15246, "review_number": 3712, "book_description": "You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks on a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester. Despite their significant age gap (!) and his uneven temper (!!), they fall in love\u2014and, Reader, she marries him. (!!!)Or does she?Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and one orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Bront\u00eb, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood are about to be drawn together on the most epic ghost hunt this side of Wuthering Heights.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36301023-my-plain-jane"}, +{"book_title": "The Crystal Spheres", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 946, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "In a universe filled with habitable worlds, why have we had no contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence? \"The Crystal Spheres\" offers a fantastic explanation for the Great Silence. Instead of being late-comers -- might humanity have come upon the scene too early? This haunting tale was voted one of the \"most beautiful of the eighties.\" Winner of the 1985 Hugo Award.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12298550-the-crystal-spheres"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Proliferation", "author_name": "Gini Koch", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1925, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "Alien Super-Being Exterminator Kitty Katt is expecting her first baby. But the alien attacks are getting more dangerous, and now Kitty and her Alpha Centaurion husband, Jeff, have to find out who's behind the conspiracy to kill Kitty's secret agent mom and what caused Kitty's transformation into a superhuman-and they've got to do it all before the baby shower...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10772954-alien-proliferation"}, +{"book_title": "Wizard and Glass", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 172416, "review_number": 6132, "book_description": "Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake\u2019s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono\u2019s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who\u2014with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn\u2019s Grapefruit\u2014ignited Mid-World\u2019s final war.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5096.Wizard_and_Glass"}, +{"book_title": "A Good Old-Fashioned Future", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 640, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty - the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers.They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen - or should have. They wage battles in wars already lost and become heroes - and sometimes martyrs - in their last-ditch efforts to preserve the dignity and individuality of humanity. A hack Indian filmmaker takes the pulse of a wounded and declining civilization - 21st-century Britain. A pair of swashbuckling Silicon Valley entrepreneurs join forces to make a commercial killing - in organic underground slime and computer-generated jellyfish. A man in a Japanese city takes orders from a talking cat while pursuing a drama of danger and adventure that has become the very essence of his life.From The Littlest Jackal, a darkly hilarious thriller of mercs and gunrunners set in Finland, to a stark vision of a post-atomic netherworld in his haunting tale Taklamakan, Bruce Sterling once again breaks boundaries, breaks icons, and breaks rules to unleash the most dangerously provocative and intelligent science fiction being written today.Contents:- Maneki Neko (1998)- Big Jelly (1994, with Rudy Rucker)- The Littlest Jackal (1996)- Sacred Cow (1993)- Deep Eddy (1993)- Bicycle Repairman (1996)- Taklamakan (1998)Cover illustration by Eric Dinyer", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359376.A_Good_Old_Fashioned_Future"}, +{"book_title": "First Lensman", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3448, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "In the not too distance future, while fleets of commercial space ships travel between the planets of numerous solar systems, a traveler named Virgil Samms visits the planet Arisia. There he becomes the first wearer of the Lens, the almost-living symbol of the forces of law and order. As the first Lensman, Samms helps to form the Galactic Patrol, a battalion of Lensmen who are larger than life heroes. These solders are the best of the best, with incredible skills, stealth, and drive. They are dedicated and incorruptible fighters who are willing to die to protect the universe from the most horrific threat it has ever known. Read by Reed McColm. 10 CD's 11 Hrs.", "year_published": 1950, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics", "Novels", "Adventure", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826521.First_Lensman"}, +{"book_title": "The Sunlight Pilgrims", "author_name": "Jenni Fagan", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2218, "review_number": 498, "book_description": "It's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over, each day colder than the last. There's snow in Israel; the Thames is overflowing; and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to drift just off the coast of Scotland. As ice water melts into the Atlantic, frenzied London residents evacuate by the thousands for warmer temperatures down south--but not Dylan. Grieving and ready to build life anew, he heads north to bury his mother's and grandmother's ashes on the Scottish islands where they once lived. Hundreds of miles away, twelve-year-old Estella and her survivalist mother, Constance, scrape by in the snowy, mountainous Highlands, preparing for a record-breaking winter. Living out of a caravan, they spend their days digging through landfills, searching for anything with restorative and trading value. When Dylan arrives in their caravan park in the middle of the night, life changes course for Estella and Constance. Though the weather worsens, his presence brings a new light to daily life, and when the ultimate disaster finally strikes, they'll all be ready. The Sunlight Pilgrims is a visionary story of courage and resilience in the midst of nature's most violent hour. It's by turns an homage to the portentous beauty of our natural world, and to just how strong we can be, if the will and the hope is there, to survive its worst.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Magical Realism", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22399997-the-sunlight-pilgrims"}, +{"book_title": "The Light Within Me", "author_name": "Carly Fall", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2046, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "When Abby and Noah meet, there is an explosive attraction between them that neither can deny...As a shy, awkward, social misfit, Abby has gone her whole life feeling as though she's different from everyone else and she simply doesn't fit in well with society as a whole. She longs to feel a real connection with someone, and she finally does when she meets Noah.Unbeknownst to Abby, Noah is from another world and his sole purpose is to hunt down the evil of his people that was unleashed on Earth hundreds of years ago. He's certain he isn't going to be able to return to his home, and anger and the need for revenge are his constant companions. His focus has been eradicating the evil and making them pay for taking his life on his world away from him.Noah tries desperately to fight his attraction to Abby so he can keep his focus on his mission. But when Abby gets dragged into the evil and mayhem from Noah's world, he realizes that maybe with Abby he can find a home here on Earth...if he can save her in time.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17336133-the-light-within-me"}, +{"book_title": "Across the Great Barrier", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 5447, "review_number": 515, "book_description": "From New York Times #1 bestselling author Patricia C. Wrede, the second in the series of magic on the western frontier.Eff is riding west, away from the safety of the frontier city she's always known.... Eff could be a powerful magician if she wanted to. Except she's not sure she wants that kind of responsibility. Everyone keeps waiting for her to do something amazing--or to fail in a spectacular way. Worse, her twin brother, Lan, a powerful double seventh son, is jealous of all the attention she's been getting. Even as Eff protests that she's just an ordinary girl, she's asked to travel past the Barrier Spell with one of the new professors at her father's school. The land west of the Barrier is full of dangers, both magical and wild. Eff will need to use all her strength--magical and otherwise--to come safely back home. With wit, magic, and a touch of good pioneer sense, Patricia C. Wrede once again weaves a fantastic tale of the very wild west.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6965998-across-the-great-barrier"}, +{"book_title": "Empire", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3367, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Kyle Riggs has been away from Earth for a long time\u2026what\u2019s happening back home?In EMPIRE, the sixth book of the Star Force Series, the story moves in a new direction. Earth falls quiet, and the few reports coming out of the homeworld are increasingly strange. Isolated in the Eden system, Riggs realizes his enemies are forming an alliance against him. Crushed between two monstrous fleets, the last defenders of Star Force must forge their own alliance with the biotic aliens. But which alien race can Riggs truly trust?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15556460-empire"}, +{"book_title": "War of Honor", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 11983, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "NO ONE WANTED ANOTHER WAR Thomas Theisman didn't. After risking his life and a fresh round of civil war to overthrow the Committee of Public Safety's reign of terror and restore the Republic of Haven's ancient Constitution, an interstellar war was the last thing he wanted. Baron High Ridge didn't. The Prime Minister of Manticore was perfectly happy with the war he had. No one was shooting anyone else at the moment, and as long as he could spin out negotiations on the formal treaty of peace, his government could continue to milk all those \"hostilities only\" tax measures for their own partisan projects. His Imperial Majesty Gustav didn't. Now that the fighting between the Star Kingdom and the Havenites had ended, the Andermani Emperor had his own plans for Silesia, and he was confident he could achieve them without a war of his own. Protector Benjamin didn't. His people had made too deep a commitment to the Manticoran Alliance, in blood as well as treasure, for him to want to risk seeing it all thrown away. And Honor Harrington certainly didn't. The \"Salamander\" had seen the inside of too many furnaces already, knew too much about how much war cost. Unfortunately, what they wanted didn't matter....", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77743.War_of_Honor"}, +{"book_title": "The Quantum Magician", "author_name": "Derek K\u00fcnsken", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 4455, "review_number": 454, "book_description": "Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright to even try. In fact, the job is so big that he'll need a crew built from all the new sub-branches of humanity. If he succeeds, he might trigger an interstellar war, but success might also point the way to the next step of Homo quantus evolution.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adult", "Unfinished", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38608575-the-quantum-magician"}, +{"book_title": "How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days", "author_name": "Kerrelyn Sparks", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4152, "review_number": 767, "book_description": "Luciana grew up on the Isle of Moon, hidden away because of her magical powers. But when her father arrives, he offers her a choice: remain on the island or return with him and marry the Beast of Benwick in order to save their legacy\u2014and her father's life.Lord Leofric, the Beast of Benwick, has not been touched since he was a child. Born with the power to harness lightning, he is a danger to everyone he touches. When he meets his betrothed, he expects a loveless, lonely marriage...until he discovers she's vastly more powerful than he realized. But is she strong enough to withstand his touch?If they can survive, their love will alter the future of the kingdom. But will their extraordinary powers cost them everything?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29875893-how-to-tame-a-beast-in-seven-days"}, +{"book_title": "Channel Zero: The Complete Collection", "author_name": "Brian Wood", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 318, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "A blistering take on media control in a repressive future America! DMZ and The Massive creator Brian Wood launched an all-out assault on the comics medium in 1997 with Channel Zero, an influential, forward-thinking series that combined art, politics, and graphic design in a unique way. Touching on themes of freedom of expression, hacking, cutting-edge media manipulation, and police\u2020surveillance, it remains as relevant today as it did back then. The Channel Zero collection contains the original series, the prequel graphic novel Jennie One (illustrated\u2020by Becky Cloonan), the best of the two Public Domain design books, and almost fifteen years of extras, rarities, short stories, and unused art. Also featuring the now-classic Warren Ellis introduction and an all-new cover by Wood, this is the must-have edition. See where it all began!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Politics", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14489703-channel-zero"}, +{"book_title": "The Traitor's Hand", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1471, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Commissar Ciaphas Cain is a man who, despite his best attempts to avoid danger and live the easy life, is constantly thrust into fame and fortune. He will be a hero, whether he wants to be or not.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Audiobook", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463988.The_Traitor_s_Hand"}, +{"book_title": "Knight of a Trillion Stars", "author_name": "Dara Joy", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3821, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "Fired from her job, exhausted from her miserable Boston commute, the last thing Deana Jones needed when she got home was to find an alien in her living room. But how else to explain the magnificent man who claimed he was from beyond the stars? He said that his name was Lorgin and that she was part of his celestial destiny. Deana thought his reasoning was ridiculous, and she knew he was making an error of cosmic proportions. But his touch was electric and his arms strong, and when she first felt the sizzling impact of his uncontrollable desire, Deana started to wonder if maybe their passion wasn't written in the stars.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206857.Knight_of_a_Trillion_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "Swarm", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 7645, "review_number": 365, "book_description": "Earth arms marines with alien technology and builds its first battle fleet! Kyle Riggs is snatched by an alien spacecraft sometime after midnight. The ship is testing everyone it catches and murdering the weak. The good news is that Kyle keeps passing tests and staying alive. The bad news is the aliens who sent this ship are the nicest ones out there....SWARM is the story of Earth\u2019s annexation by an alien empire. Long considered a primitive people on a backwater planet, humanity finds itself in the middle of a war, and faced with extinction. SWARM is an 88,000 word novel of science fiction by award-winning author B. V. Larson.This book is the first book in the STAR FORCE Series.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10101733-swarm"}, +{"book_title": "Twisted Metal", "author_name": "Tony Ballantyne", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 296, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "On a world of intelligent robots who seem to have forgotten their own distant past, it is a time of war as the soldiers of Artemis City set out to conquer everything within range on the continent of Shull, killing or converting every robot they capture to their stark philosophy.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5863568-twisted-metal"}, +{"book_title": "What Distant Deeps", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1592, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "NO REST FOR THE WEARY Captain Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy, have been in the front lines of Cinnabar's struggle against the totalitarian Alliance. Now these galactic superpowers have signed a peace of mutual exhaustion--But the jackals are moving in!The Republic of Cinnabar was on the verge of collapse under the weight of taxes, casualties, and war's disruption of trade. That the Alliance of Free Stars was in even worse condition helped only because it has made peace possible.Years of war have been hard on Daniel and harder still on Adele, whose life outside information-gathering is a tightrope between despair and deadly violence. Their masters in the RCN and the Republic's intelligence service have sent them to the fringes of human space to relax away from danger.But the barbarians of the outer reaches have their own plans, plans which will bring down both Cinnabar and the Alliance. The enemies of peace include traitors, giant reptiles, and barbarian pirates whose ships can outsail even Daniel Leary's splendid corvette, the \"Princess Cecile.\"Unless Daniel, Adele, and their unlikely allies succeed, galactic civilization will disintegrate into blood and chaos.So they \"will\" succeed--or they'll die trying!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171970-what-distant-deeps"}, +{"book_title": "The Female Man", "author_name": "Joanna Russ", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 6156, "review_number": 709, "book_description": "It has influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten essential works of science fiction. Most importantly, Joanna Russ's THE FEMALE MAN is a suspenseful, surprising and darkly witty chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael\u2014four alternative selves from drastically different realities\u2014meet.", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Feminism", "Classics", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Gender", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/908311.The_Female_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Nights", "author_name": "Christopher A. Gray", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 79, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Astrophysicist Doug Lockwood's unusual discovery during his observation of the sun kicks off a chain of events that nobody could have foreseen. The powerful political and military influences that compete to deal with his discovery set Lockwood on a course which will carry him across worlds, and into the grasp of a formidable new intelligence bent on accomplishing its goal at any cost. With Earth itself at stake and time running out, Lockwood and his team must find a way to counter this unprecedented threat before the powerful new enemy completes its plan. Two civilizations are pitted against each other in a desperate struggle for survival.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18883001-dark-nights"}, +{"book_title": "Odium", "author_name": "Claire C. Riley", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1055, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "** From USA Today Bestselling Author Claire C. Riley comes the first book in an intense, post-apocalyptic series--ODIUM. Bringing life, love and survival together for one thrilling read. **The infection came.Humanity fell.And the world everyone knew ended.But one woman\u2019s unwavering determination to live, against all the odds, might just be the only thing to survive this bleak new existence.When the fate of a young girl hangs in the balance, Nina sacrifices herself and leaves the barricaded city she\u2019s living in. Despite this act of selflessness, Nina isn\u2019t the same woman she once was. She\u2019s bitter, angry, and she wants nothing more than to disappear. But now she\u2019s reluctantly become both protector and family to the girl she climbed the wall for. The duo set off across the bleak, post-apocalyptic landscape, toward a safe haven that might not exist. While journeying, they meet Mikey\u2014a man on the run from his past and hiding from bigger demons than the ones that walk the earth. He introduces them to a life they couldn\u2019t imagine. A life above the ground. However, this new world continues to bring more dangers, and darker shadows than they knew possible.And Nina quickly discovers that beyond the wall\u2026The deaders aren\u2019t the only thing to fear.That love and survival just might go hand in hand.And that fear will not be ignored, or Forgotten.*Now a 5 book series*", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39652603-odium"}, +{"book_title": "When The Bough Breaks", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1764, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "\u201cWhen the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, \u201cAnd down will come baby, cradle and all.\u201dThe Galactic Empire is dying. In their high towers, the Grand Senators plot and struggle to grasp a larger share of power while on the streets, the poor struggle to survive just one more day. Chaos and anarchy are running through the megacities of Earth, while giant corporations tighten the screws and colony worlds plot to declare independence and escape the Empire\u2019s increasing demands for resources. Centuries of mismanagement are finally catching up with the human race. The end cannot be long delayed. Specialist Belinda Lawson, a Marine Pathfinder who survived the fighting on Han, is assigned to serve as a bodyguard to the Childe Roland, the Heir to the Imperial Throne, and attempt to prepare him to be Emperor. But Roland is a puppet and a spoilt brat \u2013 and, perhaps, the only hope of saving the Empire, if he can be redeemed in time.And yet, as shadowy figures prepare to make their final bid for apotheosis \u2013 or nemesis \u2013 it may be all she can do to keep her young charge alive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Action", "Fiction", "War", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17796684-when-the-bough-breaks"}, +{"book_title": "Galactic Patrol", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3970, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "The Galactic Patrol's Lensmen are the most feared peacekeepers in the Galaxy. The \"Lens,\" a telepathic jewel matched to the ego of its wearer, is the ultimate weapon in the war against the merciless pirate Boskone and his forces of lawlessness. The only problem is the Galactic Patrol isn't sure how to capitalize on the Lens' incredible powers, but new graduate Kimball Kinnison is determined to learn. Taking command of the experimental fighting ship, the Brittania, Kinnison and his crew set off on a journey of harrowing adventures, coming face to face with deadly space creatures, and the evil pirate Helmuth...who may be the dreaded Boskone himself.", "year_published": 1937, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209506.Galactic_Patrol"}, +{"book_title": "For Darkness Shows the Stars", "author_name": "Diana Peterfreund", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 18152, "review_number": 2689, "book_description": "It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth--an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret--one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she's faced with a choice: cling to what she's been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever loved, even if she's lost him forever.Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8306761-for-darkness-shows-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Earthblood", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 179, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Galactic hijinks: We are in the year 13,000 A.D. Our hero is Roan, a pure-strain human, who, as a boy is kidnapped by the owner of a freak show and sent on a \"summer stock\" tour by means of spaceship. This weird interplanetary circus troupe is suddenly pirated by another vessel. But its outlaw commander, the dashing Henry Dread, turns out to be a pure-strain human, and he instantly takes a liking to our youthful hero.From here on, EARTHBLOOD explodes into wild cascades of pure adventure and excitement. Dread and Roan wander through the universe, sacking planets, keeping a sharp lookout for errant pure-strains, and landing at last on the planet Terra, totally unprepared for what they are to find there...", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464043.Earthblood"}, +{"book_title": "The Always War", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 2720, "review_number": 414, "book_description": "In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend Gideon, now a traumatized military hero, and Dek, a streetwise orphan, enter enemy territory and discover the shocking truth about a war that began more than seventy-five years earlier.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "War", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Futuristic", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9641072-the-always-war"}, +{"book_title": "Lyon's Pride", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 8543, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "The survival technique of the Hivers was terrifying -- and brilliant. Their huge Sphere ships, controlled by the Many Mind of ten to sixteen queens, surged out into space. When an appropriate planet was found, the Hivers destroyed any and every variety of indigenous life, the queens propagated, and when the new world was full, more ships were sent out. the colonization was repeated until no planet, no species, least of all Man and Mrdini, was safe.The furry and courageous Mrdini had fought the Hivers for centuries, many dying bravely in an attempt to save their own worlds. Now Mrdini and Man combined to form the Alliance -- and Humankind had their own weapons to offer -- the power and might of the Talents who could not only communicate silently with each other, but could project cargoes, ships and themselves across the deeps of space.The four children of Damia -- Laria, Thian, Rojer and Zara -- were Primes amongst the Talents, and all their skills were desperately needed, for the Hivers' terrible Sphere ships were still thrusting through space, unfathomable, impenetrable, and carrying death in their labyrinthine depths.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24869.Lyon_s_Pride"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Gold", "author_name": "Sharon Shinn", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1738, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "A national bestselling author. A story that has captured readers' hearts. Sharon Shinn's gripping tale of a planet divided by class, power, and emotion-and the two lovers who dare to act on a forbidden desire that will shake their worlds to the ground.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Young Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437804.Heart_of_Gold"}, +{"book_title": "O Human Star, Volume Three", "author_name": "Blue Delliquanti", "rating_score": 4.7, "rating_votes": 43, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Sulla Pinsky is a success story of cutting-edge robotics. She passes almost perfectly as a sixteen year old human girl. Her creator Brendan dotes on her like a father, and her connection to the once-dead, now revived inventor Alastair Sterling endows her with intelligence, skill, and an important legacy to uphold. So why is everything falling apart? Sulla, Brendan, and Al must choose whether or not to tell the truth in order to keep their family and identities intact. But are they ready for the truth to change everything?O Human Star Volume 3 is the final installment, collecting Chapters 6, 7, and 8 (originally serialized at ohumanstar.com from December 2016 to August 2020).", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54859745-o-human-star-volume-three"}, +{"book_title": "Nightfall and Other Stories", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 12466, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "A collection of early Asimov short stories, showcasing the development of the author's oeuvre. The title comes from Asimov's breakthrough short story.CONTENTS:Nightfall - Astounding, Sept 1941Green Patches - Galaxy, Nov 1950Hostess - Galaxy, May 1951Breeds There a Man . . . ? - Astounding, June 1951C-Chute - Galaxy, Oct 1951In a Good Cause - \"New Tales of Space & Time\", 1951What If--- - Fantastic, Summer 1952Sally - Fantastic, June 1953Flies - F&SF, June 1953Nobody Here But--- - Star SF #1, 1953It's Such a Beautiful Day - Star SF #3, 1954Strikebreaker - Original SF Stories, Jan 1957Insert Knob A in Hole B - F&SF, Dec 1957The Up-to-Date Sorcerer - F&SF, July 1958Unto the Fourth Generation - F&SF, April 1959What is this Thing Called Love? - Amazing, March 1961The Machine That Won the War - F&SF, Oct 1961My Son, the Physicist - Scientific American, Feb 1962Eyes Do More Than See - F&SF, April 1965Segregationist - Abbottempo, Book 4, 1967", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70771.Nightfall_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "Path of the Outcast", "author_name": "Gav Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 334, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The third of the Eldar Path series, which shows Aradryan as he lives as a Ranger.\u00a0\u00a0Alaitoc is attacked by the Sons of Orar Space Marines and he must do what he can to help save the craftworld", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259646-path-of-the-outcast"}, +{"book_title": "Choice of the Cat", "author_name": "E.E. Knight", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 3170, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "The alien Reapers have ruled Earth for forty-five years. David Valentine is a member of the human resistance, who is now being trained as a Cat-an elite stealth warrior. His first mission is to investigate the threat of the Twisted Cross, a mysterious new force under Reaper control.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271362.Choice_of_the_Cat"}, +{"book_title": "Your Very Own Robot", "author_name": "R.A. Montgomery", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 158, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Your parents are scientists and inventors. One day, they throw some pieces of a robot into the trash. If you can figure out how to put the pieces together, you'll have a robot of your very own! But do you know enough to control it? Are you ready for the adventure your very own robot will bring will bring? Do you dare dive into a vat of ice cream to save your robot? Do you take your robot to with you school? Should you try and fight off the Pirates who want your robot? YOU choose what happens next! Good luck...", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Childrens", "Gamebooks (Choose Your Own Adventure)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/755013.Your_Very_Own_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Panglor", "author_name": "Jeffrey A. Carver", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 406, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "In this prequel to Jeffrey A. Carver's STAR RIGGER Universe, we find Panglor Balef, space pilot, on the edge of sanity. Forced to embark upon a hopeless mission, the life-weary pilot suddenly finds himself in the depths of space--in a place that seems beyond reality. Is this the horrifying end of his journey? Or could it be a window to a new and incredible path of discovery? Panglor must fight for his life to find answers?", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23518151-panglor"}, +{"book_title": "The End of All Things", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 18714, "review_number": 1130, "book_description": "Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with the direct sequel to 2013\u2019s The Human DivisionHumans expanded into space\u2026only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more.\u3000Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time\u2014a couple of decades at most, before the ranks of the Colonial Defense Forces are depleted and the struggling human colonies are vulnerable to the alien species who have been waiting for the first sign of weakness, to drive humanity to ruin. And there\u2019s another problem: A group, lurking in the darkness of space, playing human and alien against each other\u2014and against their own kind \u2014for their own unknown reasons.\u3000In this collapsing universe, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson and the Colonial Union diplomats he works with race against the clock to discover who is behind attacks on the Union and on alien races, to seek peace with a suspicious, angry Earth, and keep humanity\u2019s union intact...or else risk oblivion, and extinction\u2014and the end of all things.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168809-the-end-of-all-things"}, +{"book_title": "Lovecraft Country", "author_name": "Matt Ruff", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 27867, "review_number": 3701, "book_description": "The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George\u2014publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide\u2014and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite\u2014heir to the estate that owned Atticus\u2019s great grandmother\u2014they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn\u2014led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb\u2014which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his\u2014and the whole Turner clan\u2019s\u2014destruction.A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of one black family, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism\u2014the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Race"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25109947-lovecraft-country"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Witch Walking", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 113817, "review_number": 4948, "book_description": "All the creatures of the night gather in \"the Hollows\" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party... and to feed.Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining - and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized.A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead... or undead.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30264.Dead_Witch_Walking"}, +{"book_title": "Illusionarium", "author_name": "Heather Dixon Wallwork", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 2565, "review_number": 578, "book_description": "What if the world holds more dangers\u2014and more wonders\u2014than we have ever known? And what if there is more than one world? From Heather Dixon, author of the acclaimed Entwined, comes a brilliantly conceived adventure that sweeps us from the inner workings of our souls to the far reaches of our imaginations.Jonathan is perfectly ordinary. But then\u2014as every good adventure begins\u2014the king swoops into port, and Jonathan and his father are enlisted to find the cure to a deadly plague. Jonathan discovers that he's a prodigy at working with a new chemical called fantillium, which creates shared hallucinations\u2014or illusions. And just like that, Jonathan is knocked off his path. Through richly developed parallel worlds, vivid action, a healthy dose of humor, and gorgeous writing, Heather Dixon spins a story that calls to mind The Night Circus and Pixar movies, but is wholly its own.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22840398-illusionarium"}, +{"book_title": "The Forlorn Hope", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 359, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "They had fought long and hard, and damn near won in spite of everything. But now the men who hired them are going to sell them to the enemy...and so begins a novel of adventure in which a band of Star Mecenaries is driven across the face of a planet by enemies bent on their distruction. With only the guns in their hands, this tiny band must battle ships, artillery, treachery, and the most powerful tank in the universe.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662693.The_Forlorn_Hope"}, +{"book_title": "The Closed Gate", "author_name": "Philip Charles Stephens", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 16, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "It is the year 2613. A scientific vessel at the edge of the solar-system has discovered a derelict ship \u2014 ancient, alien, and containing a secret so dangerous the entire sector has been quarantined. Interlocutor Lexi Sonota has arrived to investigate after fifteen months in stasis, but with her wife dying from a rogue nano-virus back on Terra, and her superior withholding something from her, all her strength and experience may not be enough to keep her alive. Alone and billions of miles from home, Lexi will discover the universe is far bigger than she ever imagined and infinitely more terrifying.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Science Fiction", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584155-the-closed-gate"}, +{"book_title": "Ja-Rael's Lioness", "author_name": "Angelique Anjou", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1548, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "A stranger in a strange land, Elise is still trying to come to terms with the difficulties attached to being a dispossessed Earthling on an alien world. By all logic, she should have been terrified when the tall, muscular, cat-like humanoid rose from the water to capture her, be he ever so fascinatingly handsome. Instead, she discovers she is unable to resist when bombarded by the potent pheromones of his desire. Unfortunately, the fires of passion can not burn eternally and the moment it's quenched and their senses return, they discover they have a serious problem-Elise is no lioness, maned or otherwise, and she refuses to accept Ja-rael's insistence that they are now mated for life. Rating: Contains explicit sexual content and graphic language.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209304.Ja_Rael_s_Lioness"}, +{"book_title": "The China Pandemic", "author_name": "A.R. Shaw", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1778, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "A pandemic virus has struck from China. Whether accidental or intentional, only two percent of the population has survived including preppers and carriers. In the Pacific Northwest, a dying mother recognizes that her young child is among the immune. What will she do to ensure his survival before her own death? Meanwhile, as natural predators come into the land of the living, Graham has buried his last remaining family member and promised to carry out his father\u2019s wise advice to make it to the family cabin. He meets with triumph and tragedy, learning new rules along the way. Just when he thinks he\u2019s finally got a handle on this new world, he\u2019s taken by surprise, as he learns he\u2019s not alone. Will he find the strength to escape these dangers and go on living? And more importantly, will he have the ability to protect those he's come to trust?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Business (Amazon)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19160666-the-china-pandemic"}, +{"book_title": "Slaughtermatic", "author_name": "Steve Aylett", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 372, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Set in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, \"a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism,\" Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns. Murderous, trigger-happy cops, led by the doughnut-chomping redneck police chief, arrive in force, firing indiscriminately into the crowd gathered outside. Surrender or capture is out of the question. Dante's beloved, the murderous assassin Rosa Control--packing a not-so-small arsenal--prowls the streets, trying to engineer her man's escape. Will Dante slip past the forces of corruption and disorder to join his Rosa? What happens next is a tangled mess of reality and virtual reality.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Bizarro Fiction)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Horror", "Mystery (Noir)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548027.Slaughtermatic"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarians at the Gates", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 821, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The Federation has endured for hundreds of years, but now it is dying, killed by the corruption and decadence of the Senate and the rising power of military warlords. The shipping lanes are coming apart, the colonists are revolting and outside forces are pressing against undefended borders. Now, as one warlord makes a bid for supreme power, the entire edifice is on the verge of falling apart. Two officers, bearers of a proud military tradition, may be all that stands between the Federation and total destruction. For Admiral Marius Drake, there is no greater cause than the survival of humanity\u2019s prized unity. For the young and ambitious Roman Garibaldi, the growing civil war offers a chance of promotion far beyond the usual boundaries. Together, they will save the Federation or die trying. But with the Senate suspicious of any competent commanding officers, their success may condemn them to an inglorious death.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22358857-barbarians-at-the-gates"}, +{"book_title": "Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: (eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt", "author_name": "Sam Esmail", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 769, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "Step inside the frontlines of the hit TV show\u00a0MR. ROBOT\u00a0with this new in-world fiction book by series creator and showrunner Sam Esmail and series writer Courtney Looney\u2014the first and only book to tie in to USA\u2019s Golden Globe\u00ae Award-winning series. The book will tell a brand-new story, reveal secrets from the show\u2019s second season, and tease developments to come. With removable items from the world of the show, the book will give readers a chance to hold a piece of the series in their own hands. \u00a0MR. ROBOT is a psychological thriller that follows Elliot (Rami Malek, The Pacific), a young programmer, who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and as a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader (Christian Slater, Adderall Diaries) of an underground hacker group recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect.\u00a0The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0called it \u201crelentless, sensational, and unabashedly suspenseful,\u201d the\u00a0New Yorker\u00a0called it \u201cterrific\u201d and listed it among the year\u2019s best TV, and\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0said it\u2019s \u201ceasily the year\u2019s most audacious drama\u201d and the \u201cbest TV show of 2015.\u201d Stars Rami Malek and Christian Slater took home a Critics\u2019 Choice\u00ae Award and a Golden Globe Award, respectively, and the show itself received a Golden Globe Award and a Critics\u2019 Choice Award for best television drama, along with\u00a0the prestigious\u00a0Peabody\u00a0award.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Computers (Hackers)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Novels", "The United States Of America", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29873086-mr-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Retief Unbound", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 156, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "The publication of certain accounts of Jame Retief under the title RETIEF AT LARGE has generated such response that we of Ace Books have felt compelled, as a public service, to publish a second volume of the affairs - some would call them adventures - of that redoubtable member of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne. Surely in an age such as ours when Terra's Sphere of Influence is once again surrounded by Alien Peril in all its sundry guises, it is desirable - nay, vital! - that our people be aware that, contrary to the official records of the Corps, it was not by the questionable efforts of such worthies as Ambassadors Nitworth and Spradley that Mankind held its own in the terrible arena between the stars, but by the courage, skill and daring of such men as Jame Retief! This collection has six Retief stories to tickle your funny-bone. Retief is in prime form, taking on dangerous aliens and his own bosses in the Corps Diplomatique.Contents: Protocol [Retief] (1962) / short story by Keith Laumer (variant of The Yillian Way) Sealed Orders [Retief] (1962) / short story by Keith Laumer (variant of Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain) Aide Memoire [Retief] (1962) / short story by Keith Laumer Policy [Retief] (1962) / novelette by Keith Laumer (variant of The Madman from Earth) Palace Revolution [Retief] (1961) / novelette by Keith Laumer (variant of Gambler's World) Retief's Ransom [Retief \u2022 6] (1971) / novel by Keith Laumer.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627083.Retief_Unbound"}, +{"book_title": "The Adventure of the Wollaston Ritual", "author_name": "Emma Jane Holloway", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 105, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Should you dare to read it, \u201cThe Adventure of the Wollaston Ritual\u201d will serve as a fine (and perhaps a little frightening) introduction to Evelina Cooper, the niece of none other than the great detective Sherlock Holmes. Her world is one of sorcery, automatons and mystery. The main course in this succulent fiction feast \u2013 A Study in Silk \u2013 will be served September 24. In the meantime, consider \u201cThe Adventure of the Wollaston Ritual\u201d to be a scrumptious hors d\u2019oeuvre.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18462009-the-adventure-of-the-wollaston-ritual"}, +{"book_title": "Anathem", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 64443, "review_number": 4949, "book_description": "Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside \"saecular\" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outside\u2014the Extramuros\u2014for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago.Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent's gates\u2014at the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious \"extras\" in. During his first Apert as a fraa, Erasmas eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was \"collected.\" But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change.Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros\u2014a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose\u2014as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. Suddenly burdened with a staggering responsibility, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world\u2014as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Mathematics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024-anathem"}, +{"book_title": "Tarnished", "author_name": "Karina Cooper", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 993, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "My name is Cherry St. Croix. Society would claim that I am a well-heeled miss with an unfortunate familial reputation. They've no idea of the truth of it. In my secret world, I hunt down vagrants, thieves . . . and now, a murderer. For a monster stalks London's streets, leaving a trail of mystery and murder below the fog.Eager for coin to fuel my infatuations, I must decide where my attentions will turn: to my daylight world, where my scientific mind sets me apart from respectable Society, or to the compelling domain of London below. Each has a man who has claimed my time as his - for good or for ill. Though as the corpses pile, and the treacherous waters of Society gossip churn, I am learning that each also has its dangers. One choice will see me cast from polite company . . . the other might just see me dead.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13074999-tarnished"}, +{"book_title": "Civil War on Sunday", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 8035, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series\u2014the Magic Tree House! Cannon fire!That's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet\u2014and the one that will make the most difference to their own lives!Book Details: \n Format: Paperback \n Publication Date: 5/23/2000 \n Pages: 96 \n Reading Level: Age 6 and Up \n ", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Military History (Civil War)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409163.Civil_War_on_Sunday"}, +{"book_title": "Firebird", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2749, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "\nA new Alex Benedict novel from \"a master of describing otherworldly grandeur.\" (Denver Post) \n Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies. Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that Robin had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they too vanished. And following Robin's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger... ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11099135-firebird"}, +{"book_title": "A Man Lies Dreaming", "author_name": "Lavie Tidhar", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 903, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "The next novel from Lavie Tidhar, the award-winning author of THE VIOLENT CENTURY.Deep in the heart of history's most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Auschwitz, Shomer spends his nights imagining another world - a world where a disgraced former dictator now known only as Wolf ekes out a miserable existence as a low-rent PI in London's grimiest streets.An extraordinary story of revenge and redemption, A Man Lies Dreaming is the unforgettable testament to the power of imagination.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "World War II (Holocaust)", "Historical", "Mystery (Crime)", "Literature (Jewish)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22793545-a-man-lies-dreaming"}, +{"book_title": "Empire of Ruins", "author_name": "Arthur Slade", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 512, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Secret agent Modo's next assignment? Find ancient Egyptian ruins hidden deep in the Australian jungle and the mysterious God Face, rumoured to be a powerful weapon\u2014anyone who looks upon it will be driven mad. And he must find the God Face before the evil Clockwork Guild does!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10066399-empire-of-ruins"}, +{"book_title": "From Blood and Ash", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 60430, "review_number": 8309, "book_description": "A Maiden\u2026Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy\u2019s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers.A Duty\u2026The entire kingdom\u2019s future rests on Poppy\u2019s shoulders, something she\u2019s not even quite sure she wants for herself. Because a Maiden has a heart. And a soul. And longing. And when Hawke, a golden-eyed guard honor bound to ensure her Ascension, enters her life, destiny and duty become tangled with desire and need. He incites her anger, makes her question everything she believes in, and tempts her with the forbidden.A Kingdom\u2026Forsaken by the gods and feared by mortals, a fallen kingdom is rising once more, determined to take back what they believe is theirs through violence and vengeance. And as the shadow of those cursed draws closer, the line between what is forbidden and what is right becomes blurred. Poppy is not only on the verge of losing her heart and being found unworthy by the gods, but also her life when every blood-soaked thread that holds her world together begins to unravel.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52831200-from-blood-and-ash"}, +{"book_title": "The Map of Chaos", "author_name": "F\u00e9lix J. Palma", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1000, "review_number": 203, "book_description": "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time and The Map of the Sky, the final installment in the award-winning trilogy that The Washington Post called \u201ca big, genre-bending delight.\u201dWhen the person he loves most dies in tragic circumstances, the mysterious protagonist of The Map of Chaos does all he can to speak to her one last time. A session with a renowned medium seems to offer the only solution, but the experience unleashes terrible forces that bring the world to the brink of disaster. Salvation can only be found in The Map of Chaos, an obscure book that he is desperate to uncover. In his search, he is given invaluable help by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, and of course by H. G. Wells, whose Invisible Man seems to have escaped from the pages of his famous novel to sow terror among mankind. They alone can discover the means to save the world and to find the path that will reunite the lovers separated by death.Proving once again that he is \u201ca master of ingenious plotting\u201d (Kirkus Reviews), F\u00e9lix J. Palma brings together a cast of real and imagined literary characters in Victorian-Age London, when spiritualism is at its height. The Map of Chaos is a spellbinding adventure that mixes impossible loves, nonstop action, real ghosts, and fake mediums, all while paying homage to the giants of science fiction.It won the 2015 Ignotus Awards for Best Spanish Novel", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492829-the-map-of-chaos"}, +{"book_title": "Highlander Found", "author_name": "Rebecca Preston", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 857, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "Thrown back in time to fulfill the promise of a dying woman, Audrina must find her destiny in the wild Scottish Highlands \u2014 and discover the man that fate chose for her hundreds of years ago. Audrina James was only trying to stop the old brooch from being stolen; she didn\u2019t know that touching it would send her back in time to medieval Scotland! But the brooch belonged to Audrina\u2019s ancestor, a woman who died tragically on her wedding night and swore to her last breath that she would be reunited with her true love \u2014 and Audrina is her mirror image. It\u2019s been one year to the day since Colin MacLaren\u2019s bride suffered and died at the whim of a bloody-handed English occupier. So how is she standing before him? No matter how adamant her protests that she doesn\u2019t know him \u2014 no matter how crazy her story about coming from the future \u2014 Colin is sure this woman is his lost love. Now if only he can convince her of that. Together they must navigate the vagaries of fate that brought them together, their own scorching physical attraction, and the ever-present danger from Colin\u2019s enemies\u2026 including a certain murderous English nobleman who knows Audrina must be a witch. After all, didn\u2019t he kill her with his own two hands? Highlander Found is the first book in the Highlander of Time series, perfect for fans of brooding heroes, intrepid heroines, and page-turning time-travel romance. Grab your copy today, and enter the exciting world of Highlander of Time!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39666609-highlander-found"}, +{"book_title": "Gears of a Mad God: A Steampunk Lovecraft Adventure", "author_name": "Brent Nichols", "rating_score": 3.11, "rating_votes": 320, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Proper young ladies in the 1920s don't get dirty, and they don't get into fights. But Colleen's uncle is killed, and she wants answers. When a sinister cult targets her, she pushes back - hard. Now she's running for her life. It will take all her courage, all her strength, and every steam-powered weapon she can devise to keep her alive long enough to unravel the mystery of her uncle's death.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Horror", "Action", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17301928-gears-of-a-mad-god"}, +{"book_title": "Alien: The Cold Forge", "author_name": "Alex White", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1038, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "A dramatic new Alien novel, as Weyland-Yutani seeks to recover from the failure of Hadley's Hope, and successfully weaponize the Xenomorphs.With the failure of the Hadley's Hope, Weyland-Yutani has suffered a devastating defeat--the loss of the Aliens. Yet there's a reason the company rose to the top, and they have a redundancy already in place. Remote station RB-323 abruptly becomes their greatest hope for weaponizing the Xenomorph, but there's a spy aboard--someone who doesn't necessarily act in the company's best interests. If discovered, this person may have no choice but to destroy RB-323... and everyone on board. That is, if the Xenomorphs don't do the job first.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36475917-alien"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Dawn", "author_name": "A.C. Crispin", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 9117, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Here is the explosive conclusion of the blockbuster trilogy that chronicles the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo.Set before the Star Wars movie adventures (the second trilogy), these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler, and thief.The Millennium Falcon is \"the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.\"\u00a0\u00a0So when Han Solo wins it in a game of sabacc, he and Chewbacca become kings of the smugglers\u2014uncatchable, unstoppable.\u00a0\u00a0But with the Empire clamping down, Han knows his luck can't last.\u00a0\u00a0Still, when an old girlfriend who is now the leader of an insurgent Rebel group offers him a shot at an incredible fortune, Han can't resist.\u00a0The plan seems a sure thing.\u00a0The resistance will be light and the take enormous.\u00a0Han and his friends will divide it equally with the Rebels.\u00a0\u00a0Too bad for Han that the planet of Ylesia is far from a pushover, that the Rebels have an agenda of their own, and that smuggler friends can often turn into enemies...quicker than lightspeed.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111019.Rebel_Dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows Cast By Stars", "author_name": "Catherine Knutsson", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1809, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "Old ways are pitted against new horrors in this compellingly crafted dystopian tale about a girl who is both healer and seer.Two hundred years from now, blood has become the most valuable commodity on the planet\u2014 especially the blood of aboriginal peoples, for it contains antibodies that protect them from the Plague ravaging the rest of the world.Sixteen-year-old Cassandra Mercredi might be immune to Plague, but that doesn't mean she's safe\u2014 government forces are searching for those of aboriginal heritage to harvest their blood. When a search threatens Cassandra and her family, they flee to the Island: a mysterious and idyllic territory protected by the Band, a group of guerrilla warriors\u2014 and by an enigmatic energy barrier that keeps outsiders out and the spirit world in. And though the village healer has taken her under her wing, and the tribal leader's son into his heart, the creatures of the spirit world are angry, and they have chosen Cassandra to be their voice and instrument...Incorporating the traditions of the First Peoples as well as the more familiar stories of Greek mythology and Arthurian legend, Shadows Cast by Stars is a haunting, beautifully written story that breathes new life into ancient customs.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6931234-shadows-cast-by-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Damnation Affair", "author_name": "Lilith Saintcrow", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 592, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "This novel is set in the same world as the Bannon & Clare novels but is stand alone with different characters.The West is a wild place, where the poison wind blows and the dead walk. But there is gold, and whiskey, and enough room for a man to forget what he once was--until he can no longer can.Jack Gabriel's been the sheriff in Damnation almost since the town grew out of the dust and the mud. He keeps the peace--sort of--and rides the circuit every dawn and dusk with the chartermage, making sure the wilderness doesn't seep into their fragile attempt at civilization. Away from the cities clinging to the New World's eastern rim, he doesn't remember what he was. At least, he tries not to. Good enough.But Damnation is growing, and along comes a schoolmarm. Catherine Barrowe is a right proper Boston miss, and it's a mystery why she would choose this town where everything scandalous and dangerous is probably too much for a quality lady like her. Sometimes the sheriff wonders why she came out West--because everyone who does is running from something. He doesn't realize Cat may be prickly, delicate, and proper, but she is also determined. She's in Damnation to find her wayward older brother Robbie, whose letters were full of dark hints about gold, trouble...and something about a claim.In a West where charm and charter live alongside clockwork and cold steel, where hot lead kills your enemy but it takes a blessing to make his corpse stay down, Cat will keep digging until she finds her brother. If Jack knew what she was after, he could solve the mystery--because he was the one who killed Robbie.The thing is, Cat's brother just won't stay dead, and the undead are rising with him...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Westerns", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15789012-the-damnation-affair"}, +{"book_title": "Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 94958, "review_number": 4771, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth retells a pivotal Divergent scene (chapter 13) from Tobias's point of view. This thirteen-page scene reveals unknown facts and fascinating details about Four's character, his past, his own initiation, and his thoughts about new Dauntless initiate Tris Prior.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Novella", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13615258-free-four"}, +{"book_title": "Z14", "author_name": "David Achord", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1028, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Zach Gunderson and his friends have carved out a life for themselves in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by zombies. But, survival is a daily struggle. In addition to frequent encounters with hostile humans, Zach has discovered something very sinister about the zombies.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23152935-z14"}, +{"book_title": "Angelmaker", "author_name": "Nick Harkaway", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 9468, "review_number": 1362, "book_description": "From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew \u201cTommy Gun\u201d Spork, he has turned his back on his family\u2019s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activates a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism. His client, Edie Banister, is more than the kindly old lady she appears to be\u2014she\u2019s a retired international secret agent. And the device? It\u2019s a 1950s doomsday machine. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the British government and a diabolical South Asian dictator who is also Edie\u2019s old arch-nemesis. On the upside, Joe\u2019s got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. With Joe\u2019s once-quiet world suddenly overrun by mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago and pick up his father\u2019s old gun...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Humor", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12266560-angelmaker"}, +{"book_title": "Path of the Seer", "author_name": "Gav Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 493, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The second book in the best selling Eldar series by Gav Thorpe.The ancient eldar are a mysterious race and each devotes their life to a chosen path that will guide their actions and decide their fate. Thirianna abandons her simple existence to embark upon the mysterious Path of the Seer. She will tread a dark and dangerous road that leads her to the otherrealm of the warp, where daemons are made flesh and nightmares are manifest. For only there can she realise her psychic abilities. After unleashing her powers in battle and communing with the spirits of her craft world, Thirianna turns her skills to discerning the future amidst the myriad strands of fate. Her visions reveal a great threat descending on Alaitoc, and both the living and the dead will march to war to defend it.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10559660-path-of-the-seer"}, +{"book_title": "Liberation", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 3530, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Episode 10 Heartfelt reunions with friends\u2026 Desperate plans to gain advantage\u2026 Opportunities that cannot be ignored\u2026 Discovery of family once thought lost\u2026 The time has come for Captain Scott to fight for that which was taken\u2026 the very freedom of the world he was sworn to protect. \u201cLiberation\u201d is a 108,000 word novel, and is the 10th episode in The Frontiers Saga. Episode 11 is coming soon!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20508635-liberation"}, +{"book_title": "Falling Free", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 18678, "review_number": 782, "book_description": "Leo Graf was an effective engineer. Safety regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporate exploitation of his bright new students... until that exploitation turned to something much worse. He hadn't anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe, nor in the rules...Leo Graf adopted a thousand quaddies---now all he had to do was teach them to be free.Falling Free takes place approximately 200 years\u00a0before\u00a0the events in\u00a0Cordelia's Honor\u00a0and does not share settings or characters with the main body of the series.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Romance", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61915.Falling_Free"}, +{"book_title": "A Natural History of Dragons", "author_name": "Marie Brennan", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 28624, "review_number": 3601, "book_description": "You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart\u2014no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a dragon's presence, even for the briefest of moments\u2014even at the risk of one's life\u2014is a delight that, once experienced, can never be forgotten. . . .All the world, from Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, know Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world's preeminent dragon naturalist. She is the remarkable woman who brought the study of dragons out of the misty shadows of myth and misunderstanding into the clear light of modern science. But before she became the illustrious figure we know today, there was a bookish young woman whose passion for learning, natural history, and, yes, dragons defied the stifling conventions of her day.Here at last, in her own words, is the true story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation, her prospects, and her fragile flesh and bone to satisfy her scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana, where she made the first of many historic discoveries that would change the world forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12974372-a-natural-history-of-dragons"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Blue", "author_name": "Gloria Harchar", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Mission... Impossible: The pixies' mission\u2014if Allegro and Glissando are to accept it\u2014is to secure the future of a troubled England. To achieve this, the Earl of Falconwood, better known as the Black Falcon, must marry Nicola Moore. Never mind the woman is a hoyden who makes the most atrocious hats decorated with machine parts, which she then dyes with her famous Clockwork Blue. And certainly forget the earl is atoning for his brother's death by purposely hovering on the fringes of the ton. Add to the mix Glissando's tendency to slip to the side of the Mrasek, the ones who work to free the evil Lord Sethos. But Maestro depends on the pixies\u2014for better or for worse. To release the magic trapped in the Clockwork Blue dye\u2014a magic that will safeguard England's future\u2014Malcolm and Nicola must not only wed, but they must also fall in love.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15735254-clockwork-blue"}, +{"book_title": "Probability Space", "author_name": "Nancy Kress", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 625, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Nancy Kress cemented her reputation in SF with the publication of her multiple-award\u2013winning novella, \u201cBeggars in Spain,\u201d which became the basis for her extremely successful Beggars Trilogy (comprising Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride).And now she brings us Probability Space, the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Probability Moon and then Probability Sun, which is centered on the same world as Kress\u2019s Nebula Award-winning novelette, \u201cFlowers of Aulit Prison.\u201d The Probability Trilogy has already been widely recognized as the next great work by this important SF writer.In Probability Space, humanity\u2019s war with the alien Fallers continues, and it is a war we are losing. Our implacable foes ignore all attempts at communication, and they take no prisoners. Our only hope lies with an unlikely coalition: Major Lyle Kaufman, retired warrior; Marbet Grant, the Sensitive who\u2019s involved with Kaufman; Amanda, a very confused fourteen-year-old girl; and Magdalena, one of the biggest power brokers in all of human space.As the action moves from Earth to Mars to the farthest reaches of known space, with civil unrest back home and alien war in deep space, four humans--armed with little more than an unproven theory--try to enter the Fallers\u2019 home star system. It\u2019s a desperate gamble, and the fate of the entire universe may hang in the balance.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219231.Probability_Space"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Conquest", "author_name": "Honey Phillips", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1322, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Can love forge a path between an alien invader and his human mate? When the Yehrin arrive on Earth, Emily Rogers is more intrigued than scared - intrigued enough to work for them on the United Worlds project. But in a single night, everything changes. Sabotage destroys the project and kills the alien male she trusted. Now the gentle Yehrin scholars are replaced by fierce Yehrin fighters. Frightened and alone, Emily runs home to her small North Carolina town - only to be followed by one of the massive horned warriors. Commander T\u2019lan is a Yehrin male of unquestioned honor. Investigating the destruction, he discovers his mate in a delicate human female. But she is pregnant by another, and her pregnancy may be the hope his species so desperately needs. Will the need to protect his race destroy T\u2019lan\u2019s relationship with the one person he has spent his life searching for? After being betrayed by one alien, can Emily learn to trust another? Each book in the Alien Invasion series can be read as a standalone romance. This sweet and steamy HEA is intended for adult readers and contains scenes that may disturb some readers.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46006872-alien-conquest"}, +{"book_title": "Star Light", "author_name": "Hal Clement", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 220, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Dhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth. Perhaps a planet, perhaps a nearly dead star, these 17 billion square miles of mystery cried out for investigation. But its corrosive atmosphere and crushing gravity assured that no human would ever set foot on its surface.Those hardy, caterpillarlike Mesklinites, on the other hand, were ideally suited to explore Dhrawn, and their leader certainly knew a good deal when he saw one. So Barlennan, a shrewd sea captain if ever there was one, struck a sharp bargain with the Earthmen for his services in leading the expedition.But the humans might not have been so pleased with their side of the bargain, if they had known that Barlennan had plans of his own for Dhrawn....", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1414669.Star_Light"}, +{"book_title": "The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 9267, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Contains the 1st 3 Stainless Steel Rat books: The Stainless Steel Rat (1961): DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes & recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships any more, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable. DiGriz' hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself & the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who is planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds. DiGriz' dilemma is whether he will turn Angelina over to the Special Corps, or join with her, since he's fallen in love with her. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970): DiGriz & Angelina are happily married, expecting the birth of sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war. Against the odds, its Grey Men are invading & taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of the planet's leader, Kraj. He is aided by the Amazons, a force of liberated freedom fighters, & eventually by his wife who arrives to help him win the war & keep him out of the arms of the Amazons. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972): The villainous He has travelled back in time to humankind's distant past on the legendary planet Earth ('Dirt') of '84, where he's altering events so that people who opposed him in the Rat's present cease to exist, Angelina amongst them. Using the Helix, a time-travel device invented by the Special Corps' Prof. Coypu, diGriz travels to '84 America, then to Napoleonic France where tanks & aircraft are helping bring about Napoleon's victory.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Mystery (Crime)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64396.The_Adventures_of_the_Stainless_Steel_Rat"}, +{"book_title": "Fractured Suns", "author_name": "Theresa Kay", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 455, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Almost everything she thought she knew is wrong\u2026A trip to the city yields some much-needed answers, but Jax is once again forced to leave Lir behind and return to Peter\u2019s cabin\u2014where enemies from her past await. But there are bigger things at stake than revenge, and she finds herself traveling with some unexpected companions toward a place she hoped to never see again.After being imprisoned on the orders of his uncle, Lir hasn\u2019t seen daylight or linked to anyone in weeks, and the pain and loneliness is almost too much to bear. But Jax\u2019s visit gives him renewed hope\u2014and the strength to continue fighting his uncle's influence over the E'rikon, even when things look hopeless.While Jax and Lir fight separate battles, their missions have more in common than they realize. It\u2019s a race against time to stop men driven by greed and power. But the ones they trust the most might be the very people working against them\u2014and \"family\" doesn't mean what it used to. Will they recognize their friends from their enemies in time to save the people they love\u2026or will they lose each other in the process?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43479921-fractured-suns"}, +{"book_title": "Human.4", "author_name": "Mike A. Lancaster", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 5796, "review_number": 835, "book_description": "Kyle Straker volunteered to be hypnotized at the annual community talent show, expecting the same old lame amateur acts. But when he wakes up, his world will never be the same. Televisions and computers no longer work, but a strange language streams across their screens. Everyone\u2019s behaving oddly. It\u2019s as if Kyle doesn\u2019t exist.\u00a0Is this nightmare a result of the hypnosis? Will Kyle wake up with a snap of fingers to roars of laughter? Or is this something much more sinister?Narrated on a set of found cassette tapes at an unspecified point in the future, Human.4 is an absolutely chilling look at technology gone too far.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8514163-human-4"}, +{"book_title": "Romancing the Inventor", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 3311, "review_number": 502, "book_description": "\nVampires are keeping an inventor in their potting shed. Imogene wants to seduce her.\nImogene Hale is a lowly parlourmaid with a soul-crushing secret. Seeking solace, she takes work at a local vampire hive, only to fall desperately in love with the amazing lady inventor imprisoned there.Genevieve Lefoux is heartsick, lonely, and French.With culture, class, and the lady herself set against the match, can Imogene and her duster overcome all odds and win Genevieve\u2019s heart, or will the vampires suck both of them dry?New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger presents this stand-alone lesbian romance is set in her popular steampunk Parasolverse, full of class prejudice, elusive equations, and paranormal creatures taking tea.Supernatural Society stories can be read in any order. Look for surprise appearances from popular Parasol Protectorate characters and the occasional strategic application of cognac.Delicate Sensibilities?This story contains women pleasing women and ladies who know what they want and pursue it, sometimes in exquisite detail.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30731095-romancing-the-inventor"}, +{"book_title": "When She Dances", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1480, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "I never expected to spend my days as a dancing girl\u2026 but it beats the alternative. In the window of a filthy space station cantina, I gyrate my hips and hope for better days.When I\u2019m bought by the most intimidating alien on Three Nebulas Station, those better days are on their way. Zakoar of the Broken Back is a cyborg who deals in black market prosthetics. He\u2019s terrifying to look at, with a metal jaw and a fearsome demeanor. He intimidates everyone in the galaxy\u2026 except me.Zakoar doesn\u2019t want my name. In fact, he doesn\u2019t want anything from me\u2026 except a little bed sport. In exchange for my willingness, he\u2019ll take me to a human-friendly planet where I can live unafraid.Love isn\u2019t part of the bargain, but every moment that I spend with him, I learn more about the male beneath the metal\u2026\u2026and I\u2019m suddenly dreaming of a very different happy ever after for myself\u2026", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55561951-when-she-dances"}, +{"book_title": "Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships", "author_name": "David N.L. Levy", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 349, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner.From a leading expert in artificial intelligence comes an eye-opening, superbly argued book that explores a new level of human intimacy and relationships\u2014with robots.From Pygmalion falling for his chiseled Galatea to Dr. Frankenstein marveling at his \"modern Prometheus\" to the man-meets-machine fiction of Philip K. Dick and Michael Crichton, humans have been enthralled by the possibilities of emotional relationships with their technological creations. Synthesizing cutting-edge research in robotics with the cultural history and psychology of artificial intelligence, Love and Sex with Robots explores this fascination and its far-reaching implications.Using examples drawn from around the world, David Levy shows how automata have evolved from the mechanical marvels of centuries past to the electronic androids of the modern age, and how human interactions with technology have changed over the years. Along the way, Levy explores many aspects of human relationships\u2014the reasons we fall in love, why we form emotional attachments to animals and to virtual pets such as the Tamagotchi, and why these same attachments could extend to love for robots. He also examines the needs we seek to fulfill through sexual relationships, tracking the development of life-sized dolls, machines, and other sexual devices, and demonstrating how society's ideas about what constitutes normal sex have changed\u2014and will continue to change\u2014as sexual technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.Shocking but utterly convincing, Love and Sex with Robots provides insights that are surprisingly relevant to our everyday interactions with technology. This is science brought to life, and Levy makes a compelling and titillating case that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionship and human desire. Anyone reading the book with an open mind will find a wealth of fascinating material on this important new direction of intimate relationships, a direction that, before long, will be regarded as perfectly normal.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sexuality", "Artificial Intelligence", "Futurism", "Philosophy", "Sociology", "Gender"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/726691.Love_and_Sex_with_Robots"}, +{"book_title": "Nine Princes in Amber", "author_name": "Roger Zelazny", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 54587, "review_number": 2008, "book_description": "Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne. From Arden to the blood-slippery Stairway into the Sea, the air is electrified with the powers of Eric, Random, Bleys, Caine, and all the princes of Amber whom Corwin must overcome. Yet, his savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining; impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering horrors to challenge the might of Corwin's superhuman fury.' to 'Awakening in an Earth hospital unable to remember who he is or where he came from, Corwin is amazed to learn that he is one of the sons of Oberon, King of Amber, and is the rightful successor to the crown in a parallel world.", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Classics", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92121.Nine_Princes_in_Amber"}, +{"book_title": "Devil's Due", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 923, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Taylor Anderson continues the thrilling Destroyermen series of alternate history and military strategy, as the conflict is about to become terrifyingly personal....Captain Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker have been fighting for their lives ever since their ship was swept from the Pacific to another world and they became embroiled in a deadly conflict between their Lemurian allies and the ravening Grik.But things are about to get worse. With Reddy's family and allies held prisoner by the mad General Kurokawa, the mysterious League and evil Dominion plotting schemes of their own, and the Grik trying to build their swarm and concentrate power, Reddy faces danger on all sides.Although desperate to confront Kurokawa, Captain Reddy fears he's subordinating the war effort for personal reasons. But Kurokawa is too dangerous to be left alone. With the mighty League battleship Savoie at his command, he plots a terrible vengeance against Reddy and his tiny, battered destroyer.The stage is set for a devastating cataclysm, and Reddy and his allies will have to risk everything to protect what they hold dear.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32739437-devil-s-due"}, +{"book_title": "The Sanctuary", "author_name": "chase_acow", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 37, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Teen Wolf - Derek/StilesPodfic - Length 2:27:26Stiles runs away during his first heat, right into the waiting and ambiguously scary arms of the Alpha's nephew, Derek Hale. He doesn't have any choice except to submit, but along the way, he digs up a mystery that threatens his family and even the town's safety.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fan Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Sexuality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25505986-the-sanctuary"}, +{"book_title": "Duel in the Dark", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 3513, "review_number": 322, "book_description": "A New Adventure by the Author of the Bestselling Crimson Worlds and Far Stars series\u2026 The Confederation has fought three wars against the forces of the totalitarian Union. Three generations of its warriors have gone off to war, held the line against the larger, more powerful enemy. Now the fourth conflict is imminent, and the Confederation\u2019s navy is on alert, positioned behind the frontier, waiting for the attack it knows is coming. The battleship Dauntless has spent the past ten months patrolling the border, deployed far forward of the main fleet, a forlorn hope, an advance guard positioned to give the warning of invasion. But no attack has come. Her crew is exhausted, and the aging battleship needs maintenance. With the fleet mobilized and the forward bases overloaded beyond capacity, she is sent clear across the Confederation, to a planet along the quiet and peaceful far frontier. Her crew is looking forward to a rest, and Dauntless herself is scheduled for a long-overdue maintenance session. But the quiet frontier isn\u2019t what it seems\u2026and when a distress call is received from one of the mining colonies on the edge of Confederation space, it falls to Captain Tyler Barron to take Dauntless forward, to find out what is happening, and to put a stop to it. Barron and his crew have their ship\u2014and each other\u2014but they can expect no other help. Suspicion is strong that Union deceit is at play, that the attack is some sort of diversion, intended to draw Confederation forces from the disputed border. The orders are clear. No ships will be transferred from the prospective battle line. Stopping whatever is happening on the rim is Barron\u2019s responsibility, and his alone. Barron is the grandson of the Confederation\u2019s great hero, the father of the modern navy. His family name has always carried privilege with it, and crushing responsibility. And now he must prove that he has inherited more from his famous grandfather than name and privilege. He must face the enemy, and win the victory\u2026before the Confederation is caught between two enemies and destroyed. Blood on the Stars Reading Order Book 1: Duel in the Dark Book 2: Call to Arms (January 2017, Available now for preorder) ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32806335-duel-in-the-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Light", "author_name": "Sarah A. Hoyt", "rating_score": 3.05, "rating_votes": 177, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Set in a magical Victorian British Empire that never was, this unique fantasy blends adventure, intrigue, and romance, as a newlywed couple embark on a dangerous quest--and, in the process, discover their own heart's desires. On a luxury magic carpetship in 1889, an English couple travel to Cairo for their honeymoon. Except for a brush with a dragon, the voyage is uneventful. But for Nigel Oldhall and his beautiful Indian-born bride, Emily, the holiday hides another purpose. Within hours of arriving in the teeming city, they are plunged into an extraordinary struggle among demons, murderers, and magic. In Cairo, Nigel can no longer hide his secret from his wife: he is on a mission to rescue a ruby that will ensure Queen Victoria's hold on Africa forever. But the search has already swallowed up Nigel's older brother--and now it has put his own Emily in mortal danger. But is she the innocent Nigel imagines? Soon, separately and apart, the two will set off for the heart of the continent among conspirators and traitors, all seeking the ruby and the gifts and curses it offers them--and all of humankind....", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2768089-heart-of-light"}, +{"book_title": "OMNI Magazine July 1984", "author_name": "Ellen Datlow", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 74, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Featured Articles: Star Wars: Pearl Harbor In Space, How The U.S.S.R. Could Destroy The U.S. Satellite Defense System, Megachip, Memory Of The MoonExclusive Interview: Wassily LeontiefCover Art: Ken Sanford\u2022 First Word by Freeman Dyson\u2022 Earth: Orange in Nam by Ben Barber\u2022 Life: Electric Anesthesia by Brian Goldman\u2022 Space: Apollo Plus Fifteen by James Oberg\u2022 Mind: Self-Harm by Patrick Huyghe\u2022 Breakthroughs: Supercritical Potato Chips by Richard Wolkomir\u2022 Artificial Intelligence: Subliminal Software by Phoebe Hoban\u2022 Pearl Harbor in Space by James Oberg\u2022 New Rose Hotel by William Gibson\u2022 Mission to a Mind by James Reston, Jr.\u2022 Megachip by Richard Wolkomir\u2022 Interview: Wassily Leontief by Anthony Liversidge", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33230770-omni-magazine-july-1984"}, +{"book_title": "The City of Gold and Lead", "author_name": "John Christopher", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 7284, "review_number": 335, "book_description": "Will, Beanpole, and Henry have managed to escape the Tripods. But instead of living in safety, in the small community of free people, they have chosen to embark upon a mission that may cost them their lives.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64338.The_City_of_Gold_and_Lead"}, +{"book_title": "Metrophage", "author_name": "Richard Kadrey", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 1023, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Welcome to Los Angeles...where anger, hunger and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny's world. He's a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the body and cool the mind. All he cares about is his own survival. Until a strange plague turns L.A. into a city of death--and Jonny is forced to put everything on the line to find the cure. If it can be found on earth...", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66586.Metrophage"}, +{"book_title": "The Sunrise Lands", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 5769, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "A generation has passed since The Change that rendered technology inoperable around the world, and western Oregon has finally achieved a degree of peace. But a new threat has risen in Paradise Valley, Wyoming. A man known as The Prophet presides over the Church Universal and Triumphant, teaching his followers to continue God's work by destroying the remnants of technological civilization they encounter-and those who dare use them. Rudi Mackenzie, son and heir of the mystic Juniper, must journey with seven friends across a continent in chaos to the Sunrise Lands to solve the riddle of what destroyed a civilization. And as the friends journey farther into the interior, enemies may be within their own band as well as outside it...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264225.The_Sunrise_Lands"}, +{"book_title": "Time Salvager", "author_name": "Wesley Chu", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 4139, "review_number": 648, "book_description": "Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one\u2019s hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity\u2019s demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history. James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth's past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. The laws governing use of time travel are absolute; break any one of them and, one way or another, your life is over. Most chronmen never reach old age; the stress of each jump through time, compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future, means that many chronmen rapidly reach their breaking point, and James Griffin-Mars is nearing his.On a final mission that is to secure his retirement, James meets Elise Kim, an intriguing scientist from a previous century, who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and his common sense, and in violation of the chronmen\u2019s highest law, James brings Elise back to the future with him, saving her life, but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, somehow finding allies, and perhaps discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity's home world.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168818-time-salvager"}, +{"book_title": "The Lord of the Rings", "author_name": "J.R.R. Tolkien", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 581951, "review_number": 11835, "book_description": "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Classics", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Literature", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Novels", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33.The_Lord_of_the_Rings"}, +{"book_title": "The Big Time", "author_name": "Fritz Leiber", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 3170, "review_number": 325, "book_description": "Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War.It's been going on for a billion years and it will last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides--\"Spiders\" and \"Snakes\"--battle endlessly to change the future and the past. Our lives, our memories, are their battleground. And in the midst of the war is the Place, outside space and time, where Greta Forzane and the other Entertainers provide solace and r-&-r for tired time warriors.", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Hugo Awards", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102281.The_Big_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Pestilence", "author_name": "Laura Thalassa", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 34282, "review_number": 4322, "book_description": "They came to earth--Pestilence, War, Famine, Death--four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.When Pestilence comes for Sara Burn\u2019s town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death. Unless, of course, the angelic-looking horseman is stopped, which is exactly what Sara has in mind when she shoots the unholy beast off his steed.Too bad no one told her Pestilence can\u2019t be killed. Now the horseman, very much alive and very pissed off, has taken her prisoner, and he\u2019s eager to make her suffer. Only, the longer she\u2019s with him, the more uncertain she is about his true feelings towards her \u2026 and hers towards him. And now, well, Sara might still be able to save the world, but in order to do so, she'll have to sacrifice her heart in the process.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41831210-pestilence"}, +{"book_title": "The Dream Thieves", "author_name": "Maggie Stiefvater", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 157529, "review_number": 17247, "book_description": "Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17347389-the-dream-thieves"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 17197, "review_number": 649, "book_description": "In the last volume we learned that no one is safe. Now, after the staggering losses they've sustained, Rick and Carl are left to pick up the pieces and carry on, knowing that they could join their fallen friends and family at any moment. This volume collects The Walking Dead issues #49-54.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4714126-the-walking-dead-vol-9"}, +{"book_title": "Perfected", "author_name": "Kate Jarvik Birch", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 7087, "review_number": 814, "book_description": "Perfection comes at a price.As soon as the government passed legislation allowing humans to be genetically engineered and sold as pets, the rich and powerful rushed to own beautiful girls like Ella. Trained from birth to be graceful, demure, and above all, perfect, these \u201cfamily companions\u201d enter their masters\u2019 homes prepared to live a life of idle luxury.Ella is happy with her new role as playmate for a congressman\u2019s bubbly young daughter, but she doesn\u2019t expect Penn, the congressman\u2019s handsome and rebellious son. He\u2019s the only person who sees beyond the perfect exterior to the girl within. Falling for him goes against every rule she knows\u2026 and the freedom she finds with him is intoxicating.But when Ella is kidnapped and thrust into the dark underworld lurking beneath her pampered life, she\u2019s faced with an unthinkable choice. Because the only thing more dangerous than staying with Penn\u2019s family is leaving\u2026 and if she\u2019s unsuccessful, she\u2019ll face a fate far worse than death.For fans of Kiera Cass\u2019 Selection series and Lauren DeStefano\u2019s Chemical Garden series, Perfected is a chilling look at what it means to be human, and a stunning celebration of the power of love to set us free, wrapped in a glamorous\u2014and dangerous\u2014bow.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630496-perfected"}, +{"book_title": "For the Emperor", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2423, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Commisar Ciaphas Cain - hero of the Imperium and renowned across the sector for his bravery and valour - is sent to help maintain order on an outpost world on the borders of Tau space. But when the alien ambassador is murdered and the situation quickly spirals out of control, Cain and his regiment of Valhallans find themselves in the middle of a war. As the Imperial Guard struggle to contain worldwide civil insurrection, can the wily Commisar Cain identify the real villian before the planet is lost to the Imperium forever ?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Humor", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/709611.For_the_Emperor"}, +{"book_title": "Distant Thunders", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2984, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "The fourth thrilling adventure in the Destroyermen series. After the battle in which the men of the destroyer Walker and their Lemurian allies repelled the savage Grik, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy is shocked by the arrival of a strange ship captained by one Commodore Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy-an island-nation populated by the descendants of British East Indiamen swept through the rift centuries before. With the Walker undergoing repairs, Reddy already has a great deal on his hands. For the Grik will return, and Reddy will need all hands on deck to fight them off when they next attack. But Jenks' uncertain loyalties make Reddy question whether he can trust the man. As tension between the Allies and the Imperials mount, Reddy will come to realize that his suspicions are not misplaced-and that a greater danger than the Grik is closer than he ever suspected...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7145719-distant-thunders"}, +{"book_title": "Wildwood Dancing", "author_name": "Juliet Marillier", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 27141, "review_number": 2573, "book_description": "High in the Transylvanian woods, at the castle Piscul Draculi, live five daughters and their doting father. It's an idyllic life for Jena, the second eldest, who spends her time exploring the mysterious forest with her constant companion, a most unusual frog. But best by far is the castle's hidden portal, known only to the sisters. Every Full Moon, they alone can pass through it into the enchanted world of the Other Kingdom. There they dance through the night with the fey creatures of this magical realm. But their peace is shattered when Father falls ill and must go to the southern parts to recover, for that is when cousin Cezar arrives. Though he's there to help the girls survive the brutal winter, Jena suspects he has darker motives in store. Meanwhile, Jena's sister has fallen in love with a dangerous creature of the Other Kingdom--an impossible union it's up to Jena to stop.When Cezar's grip of power begins to tighten, at stake is everything Jena loves: her home, her family, and the Other Kingdom she has come to cherish. To save her world, Jena will be tested in ways she can't imagine--tests of trust, strength, and true love.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13929.Wildwood_Dancing"}, +{"book_title": "A Study in Silks", "author_name": "Emma Jane Holloway", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 2810, "review_number": 540, "book_description": "London, April 4, 1888 ~ Evelina Cooper, niece of Sherlock Holmes, is ready for her first London Season - except for a murderer, missing automatons, a sorcerer, and a talking mouse. In a Victorian era ruled by a ruthless steam baron council, mechanical power is the real monarch, and sorcery the demon enemy of the empire. Evelina has secretly mastered a coveted weapon - magic that can run machines. Should she trust the handsome, clever rake who speeds her breath, or the dashing trick rider who would dare anything she would ask?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262144-a-study-in-silks"}, +{"book_title": "Magic and the Shinigami Detective", "author_name": "Honor Raconteur", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1639, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "When the Night Foxes boldly break into the Fourth Precinct\u2019s Evidence Building, it causes quite the stir. The break-in is daring enough, but their method shreds the magical wards and protections on the building like confetti paper. To say the police are \u2018alarmed\u2019 by this is the understatement of the century. As a Magical Examiner, Henri Davenforth is of course immediately called in. Quite to his astonishment, Captain Gregson has him work the case like a detective. Even more astounding, he assigns Henri a partner. The Shinigami Detective. The woman is famous for killing the most destructive rogue witch of the century, and no one is quite certain where she\u2019s from. Every officer in the precinct is either in awe of her or a little frightened by her. Henri is just baffled. What is he supposed to do with a partner? Hopefully killing one witch makes Jamie Edwards enough of an expert on magic to be helpful, as the thieves aren\u2019t content to just break into one building. They in fact seem to have an agenda, as with each theft, they take magical objects. It\u2019s all mounting to a dangerously powerful magical construct capable of toppling the wards on any building. And no one has any idea what the thieves\u2019 true target is. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Mystery (Detective)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39890034-magic-and-the-shinigami-detective"}, +{"book_title": "Until the End of the World", "author_name": "Sarah Lyons Fleming", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 5959, "review_number": 629, "book_description": "Cassie Forrest isn't surprised to learn that the day she\u2019s decided to get her life together is also the day the world ends. After all, she\u2019s been on a self-imposed losing streak since her survivalist parents died: she\u2019s stopped painting, broken off her engagement to Adrian and dated a real jerk. Rectifying her mistakes has to wait, however, because Cassie and her friends have just enough time to escape Brooklyn for her parents\u2019 cabin before Bornavirus LX turns them into zombies, too. This is difficult enough, but Cassie\u2019s tag along ex-boyfriend and her friend\u2019s bratty sister have a knack for making everything, even the apocalypse, more unpleasant. When the two attract a threat as deadly as the undead to their safe haven, Cassie\u2019s forced to see how far she\u2019ll go to protect those she loves. And it\u2019s a lot farther than she\u2019d anticipated. This, coupled with Adrian\u2019s distant voice on Safe Zone Radio and, of course, the living dead, threaten to put Cassie right back into the funk she just dragged herself out of. Survival\u2019s great and all, especially when you have leather armor, good friends and home-brewed beer, but there\u2019s something Cassie must do besides survive: tell Adrian she still loves him. And to do that, Cassie has to find faith that she\u2019s stronger than she thinks, she\u2019s still a crack shot and true love never dies.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18586621-until-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Bionicle, Vol. 1: Rise of the Toa Nuva", "author_name": "Greg Farshtey", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 122, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Six mighty heroes \u2013 the Toa \u2013 arrive on a tropical island to find a land under siege. The Great Spirit Mata Nui has been cast into an unending sleep by the evil Makuta. Now Makuta is attacking the island's Matoran villagers with vicious Rahi beasts. The Toa must combine their skills and elemental and mask powers to defeat Makuta and restore peace to the island.In the second story, The Toa return to the island named for Mata Nui to find it is being overrun by mechanical insects called Bohrok. These Bohrok have been unleashed by Makuta and are rapidly destroying trees, mountains, rivers, villages and anything else in their path. After a long, difficult battle, the Toa are able to defeat the queens of the swarms and end the Bohrok threat \u2026 for now. During the fight, the heroes are transformed into Toa Nuva, with new armor, new weapons, and new Masks of Power.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2532894.Bionicle_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "The Host", "author_name": "Stephenie Meyer", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 915026, "review_number": 41673, "book_description": "Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading \"soul\" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love. - \nACE #2\n", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1656001.The_Host"}, +{"book_title": "Conspiracy", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 6258, "review_number": 278, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition of ASIN B007XZ121GWhen you\u2019re an outlaw hoping for a pardon, and the emperor personally sends a note requesting that your team kidnap him, you make plans to comply\u2026Even if it\u2019ll involve infiltrating a train full of soldiers, bodyguards, and spies loyal to a nefarious business coalition that has numerous reasons to hate you.Even if it means leaving the city right after you\u2019ve uncovered a secret weapons shipment that might be meant to start a war.Even if it's a trap...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13603792-conspiracy"}, +{"book_title": "The Two Georges", "author_name": "Richard Dreyfuss", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1295, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "A precious and historic painting has been stolen by terrorists\u2014radical separatists who will stop at nothing to shatter the union. Colonel Thomas Bushell, the government\u2019s most fearless agent, is the only man who can stop them.But this is not our world. For the stolen painting depicts a treaty between George Washington and King George III\u2014a treaty that has kept America under British rule for two centuries. And the terrorists, who call themselves the \u201cSons of Liberty,\u201d want America to be free\u2026.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293356.The_Two_Georges"}, +{"book_title": "Patriots", "author_name": "James Wesley, Rawles", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 4931, "review_number": 477, "book_description": "America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse\u2014the stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every major city.As hordes of refugees and looters pour out of the cities, a small group of friends living in the Midwest desperately tries to make their way to a safe-haven ranch in northern Idaho. The journey requires all their skill and training since communication, commerce, transportation and law enforcement have all disappeared. Once at the ranch, the group fends off vicious attacks from outsiders and then looks to join other groups that are trying to restore true Constitutional law to the country.Patriots is a thrilling narrative depicting fictional characters using authentic survivalist techniques to endure the collapse of the American civilization. Reading this compelling, fast-paced novel could one day mean the difference between life and death.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Politics", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8488492-patriots"}, +{"book_title": "The Art of WALL\u2022E", "author_name": "Tim Hauser", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 626, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Pixar Animation Studios, the innovators behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille, created its latest genre-defying film with an intriguing and unorthodox question in mind: What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot? WALL\u2022E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter \u2013 Earth Class) is this last, soulful robot. When his lonely work is interrupted by the arrival of the sleek probe-droid EVE, a rollicking adventure across the galaxy ensues.The Art of WALL\u2022E features the myriad pieces of concept art on which this fantastic, futuristic film was built, including storyboards, full-color pastels, digital and pencil sketches, character studies, color scripts, and more. Astute text\u2014featuring quotes from the director, artists, animators, and production team\u2014unearths the filmmakers\u2019 historical inspirations and recounts the creative process in intimate detail. This richly illustrated portal into the artistic spirit of Pixar reveals a studio confidently pushing the limits of animation.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Art", "Nonfiction", "Culture (Film)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3101830-the-art-of-wall-e"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows Over Innocence", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1925, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Note: Despite chronology, it is recommended that The Emperor's Edge (book 1) be read first. This short story contains a spoiler for book 1.Sicarius, the emperor\u2019s personal assassin, returns from a successful mission only to discover that the enemy is retaliating by sending an assassin of their own. The target? Five-year-old Prince Sespian.Shadows over Innocence is a 4,500-word short story set fourteen years before the first Emperor\u2019s Edge novel. It is available for free on the author\u2019s website: http://www.lindsayburoker.com/Shadows...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Novella", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15822885-shadows-over-innocence"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Hinterlands", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 198, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "#1 in a new series from a military science fiction master with over 3 million books in print. A young hero comes of age in the crucible of war and galactic struggle.\u00a0When Allen Allenson, scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times, gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a \u201cwild\u201d star sector where they\u2019re encroaching, he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth, improve his family\u2019s fortunes \u2013 and gather enough lucre to make a good marriage.\u00a0\u00a0 But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a rube.\u00a0Worse, Riders, the beings who naturally ply the wilderness between the stars, are playing their own deadly political games \u2013 against the Terrans, against the colonials, and against one young greenhorn commander in particular: na\u00cff young Allen, whom they figure they can manipulate to do their bidding.\u00a0 The one thing nobody has counted on is the fact that Allen, while young and inexperienced, and much to his own amazement, happens to be a hero in the making.\u00a0\u00a0\nAbout David Drake\u2019s RCN series:\n\u201c[R]ousing old-fashioned space opera.\u201d-- Publishers Weekly on the \u201cRCN\u201d series.\u201cThe fun is in the telling, and Mr. Drake has a strong voice.\u00a0 I want more!\u201d \u2013Philadelphia Weekly Press\u201c[S]pace opera is alive and well.\u00a0 This series is getting better as the author goes along\u2026character development combined with first-rate action and memorable world designs.\u201d \u2013SFReader.com\nAbout David Drake:\n\u201c[P]rose as cold and hard s the metal alloy of a tank\u2026rivals Crane and Remarque\u2026\u201d \u2013 Chicago Sun-Times\u201cDrake couldn\u2019t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.\u201d\u2013 Booklist", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10490360-into-the-hinterlands"}, +{"book_title": "A Short History of the Future", "author_name": "W. Warren Wagar", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 52, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "W. Warren Wagar's A Short History of the Future is a memoir of postmodern times, cast as a history. This powerful and visionary book is narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen, who leaves this account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the twenty-third century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of his fictive historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium.\"Thanks to Wagar's magisterial command of futurist information and theory, his extrapolated near-term future is an incisive, dynamic vision of where we may indeed be heading.\"\u2014H. Bruce Franklin, Washington Post\"A comprehensive, massively detailed script of a possible near future. . . . Intriguing.\"\u2014San Francisco Chronicle\"A Short History of the Future reads with ease, raises provocative possibilities and presents challenging occasions for thought and argument.\"\u2014Chicago Tribune\"A breathtaking future history in the manner of Wells and Stapledon, unnerving in its mixture of fact, fiction, and personal perspectives.\"\u2014George Zebrowski, New York Review of Science Fiction", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/813662.A_Short_History_of_the_Future"}, +{"book_title": "Exiles in Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1171, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Two years in Afghanistan; four years working for MI-5, the British security service; and the death of both of his parents from cancer. At the age of thirty-four, Callum thought he\u2019d experienced the worst that life could throw at him. That is, until his boss ordered him to open a buried file on his desk and to take it seriously. His new assignment: to detain and question a pregnant woman and her ailing husband\u2014and if need be, to stop them from returning to medieval Wales. Until today, Callum believed in his job and always followed orders. Until today, he thought time travel wasn\u2019t real \u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18890179-exiles-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwise", "author_name": "Elle Strauss", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 4658, "review_number": 586, "book_description": "Casey Donovan has issues: hair, height and uncontrollable trips to the 19th century! And now this --she's accidentally taken Nate Mackenzie, the cutest boy in the school, back in time. Protocol pressures her to tell their 1860 hosts that he is her brother, and when Casey finds she has a handsome, wealthy (and unwanted) suitor, something changes in Nate. Are those romantic sparks or is it just \"brotherly\" protectiveness?When they return to the present, things go back to the way they were before: Casey parked on the bottom of the rung of the social ladder and Nate perched high on the very top. Except this time her heart is broken. Plus, her best friend is mad, her parents are split up, and her younger brother gets escorted home by the police. The only thing that could make life worse is if, by some strange twist of fate, she took Nate back to the past again.Which of course, she does.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13011828-clockwise"}, +{"book_title": "Mind Over Ship", "author_name": "David Marusek", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 464, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "\n\nThe year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth\u2019s orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke\u2019s head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles to regrow a new body in time to restore her dead mother\u2019s financial empire. And Pre-Singularity AIs conspire to join the human race just as human clones, such as Mary Skarland and her sisters, want nothing more than to leave it.Welcome to Mind Over Ship, the sequel to Marusek\u2019s stunning debut novel, Counting Heads, which Publishers Weekly called \u201cferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny.\u201d \n\n", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4542149-mind-over-ship"}, +{"book_title": "The Rolling Stones (Heinlein's Juveniles, #6", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 6539, "review_number": 304, "book_description": "It doesn\u2019t seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it\u2019s clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have \"Trouble\" written in that spot on their birth certificates. Of course, anyone who\u2019s met their grandmother Hazel would know that they came by it honestly\u2026 Join the Stone twins as they connive, cajole, and bamboozle their way across the Solar System in the company of the most high-spirited and hilarious family in all of science fiction. This light-hearted tale has some of Heinlein\u2019s sassiest dialogue (not to mention the famous Flat Cats incident!). Oddly enough, it\u2019s also a true example of real family values\u2013for when you\u2019re a Stone, your family is your highest priority.", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50848.The_Rolling_Stones"}, +{"book_title": "The Day of the Triffids", "author_name": "John Wyndham", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 91886, "review_number": 3607, "book_description": "In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having \u201call the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.\u201dBill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/530965.The_Day_of_the_Triffids"}, +{"book_title": "Captain's Share", "author_name": "Nathan Lowell", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 3955, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "A shuffling of cabins puts Ishmael Horatio Wang in command of the worst ship in the fleet. He learns that being Captain doesn't make you infallible and that life in the Captain's Cabin is filled with new kinds of challenge as he tries to keep the ship moving, the crew out of trouble, and turn a profit to earn his Captain's Share. In a ship where the officers outnumber the crew, how can he manage to keep everybody happy? Welcome to the SC Agamemnon.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6963764-captain-s-share"}, +{"book_title": "Annihilation", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 159776, "review_number": 18103, "book_description": "Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers\u2014but it\u2019s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17934530-annihilation"}, +{"book_title": "Darwin's Children", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 5174, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNA\u2014a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence . . . and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the \u201cold\u201d human race.Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government in special \u201cschools,\u201d targeted by federally sanctioned bounty hunters, and demonized by hysterical segments of the population. But pockets of resistance have sprung up among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseases\u2014and who fear the worst if the government\u2019s draconian measures are carried to their extreme.Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson are part of this small but determined minority. Once at the forefront of the discovery and study of the SHEVA outbreak, they now live as virtual exiles in the Virginia suburbs with their daughter, Stella\u2014a bright, inquisitive virus child who is quickly maturing, straining to break free of the protective world her parents have built around her, and eager to seek out others of her kind.But for all their precautions, Kaye, Mitch, and Stella have not slipped below the government\u2019s radar. The agencies fanatically devoted to segregating and controlling the new-breed children monitor their every move\u2014watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve \u201chumankind\u201d at any cost.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Biology (Evolution)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science (Biology)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children"}, +{"book_title": "The Barbarian's Captive", "author_name": "Maddie Taylor", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 946, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Light years from home, plant biologist Lt. Eva La Croix and her all-female exploration team land on a planet they believe is a perfect substitute for the dying Earth. They are set upon by huge alien hunters and Eva is captured by the barbarian leader. Tossed over his shoulder, she is carried back to camp, tethered to his bed, seduced by his touch, and claimed as his own.In spite of her fear, she is captivated by the gorgeous, dominant male with his long gleaming black hair, smooth bronze skin, and glimmering golden eyes. Expecting her full compliance, he strips her naked and prepares her for an intimate and very thorough inspection. Horrified, Eva protests, but quickly learns defiance will be met with swift consequences, including a bare bottom spanking until he proves to her who is in command.Deemed compatible, she and her teammates are whisked away to the barbarians' world where they are mated to these powerful men. While pampered and protected, the women are expected to submit to their male's authority and breed their young. Will Eva learn to adapt to their unusual beliefs and old-fashioned ways? Can she sacrifice her independence and surrender to this dynamic, highly sexual alien male who has conquered her body, and perhaps her heart? Or when escape is imminent, will she flee with the others, never to see him again and feel the rampant desire that now surges through her blood for her compelling barbarian mate?Publisher's note: The Barbarian's Captive is a romantic novel containing sexual scenes, spanking, elements of BDSM, medical and anal play. If this subject matter is offensive, please do not buy this book.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30255394-the-barbarian-s-captive"}, +{"book_title": "The Oppenheimer Alternative", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 574, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "On the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit history\u2026with a twist.While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a bomb based on nuclear fusion\u2014the mechanism that powers the sun.Teller\u2019s research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system\u2014including Earth.As the war ends with the use of fission bombs against Japan, Oppenheimer's team, plus Albert Einstein and Wernher von Braun, stay together\u2014the greatest scientific geniuses from the last century racing against time to save our future.Meticulously researched and replete with real-life characters and events, The Oppenheimer Alternative is a breathtaking adventure through both real and alternate history.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49706374-the-oppenheimer-alternative"}, +{"book_title": "Fantasy Lover", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 86143, "review_number": 3754, "book_description": "Cursed into an eternity of slavery by his own brother, Julian of Macedon has spent centuries in hell, where the only respite he knows is measured in a handful of weeks whenever he\u2019s summoned through an arcane spell. With the modern age, those summonings are becoming fewer and fewer, and he lives in fear of the day when they\u2019ll stop for good.Grace Alexander doesn\u2019t believe in much of anything. But when her \u201cpsychic\u201d girlfriend talks her into performing the spell as a joke on her birthday, the last thing she ever imagines is it working. But work it does. Now, she finds an ancient Greek general in her living room and trapped in her life for the next month. Worse, they learn too late that part of the spell means Grace will lose her sanity should he return to his captivity.Now it\u2019s a race against time to free him. Something much easier said than done, since it was the ancient gods who cursed him to his fate. And the last thing they want is to see him go free of the punishment the gods believe hedeserves. It\u2019s man against the gods, and a race against time.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84136.Fantasy_Lover"}, +{"book_title": "The Visitor", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 7914, "review_number": 343, "book_description": "Morphing is certainly more fun than Sega -- you can soar as an eagle and walk as a cat. But being an ANIMORPH is by no means just fun and games. Rachel knew better than anyone. One of her best friends, Melissa, is acting very strange. And it looks like Melissa's dad, who is also the school's Assistant Principal, may be connected to evil aliens. Rachel can't tell Melissa what the ANIMORPHS have learned, but Melissa doesn't seem interested in talking to Rachel these days anyway. Could Melissa be one of \"them?\"With the help of Jake, Cassie, Tobias and Marco, Rachel plans to enter her friend's house as a cat, intent on unlocking the secrets from within. If only Rachel could keep her mind off mice...", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324505.The_Visitor"}, +{"book_title": "Prodigy", "author_name": "Arthur Byron Cover", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 529, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "A man without memory, stranded in a strange city of robots...For the young man known as Derec and the young woman known as Ariel, a robot killer is the most dangerous puzzle to emerge from Robot City's cybernetic society. Will this mechanical menace reach its climax before Derec and Ariel can escape? Is there any way out of Robot City?", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85462.Prodigy"}, +{"book_title": "I, Robot (Overclocked #4", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 782, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Takes a look at a future when robots assist humans in their daily lives. How does this technology impact a person's feeling of self-worth? What if different countries have different ethics for what robots may or may not do?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6147406-i-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Hope Reborn", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 293, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Contains Raj Whitehall series opening novels The Forge and The Hammer together in one volume.A young hero overcomes implacable foes to lead a planet fallen into a dark age back to the high point of its lost technological civilization.Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Government, the last remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellevue, when he came across an ancient but still functioning Fleet Battle Computer named Center. With Center's vast fund of knowledge and strategic calculating abilities, Raj could defeat the barbarians threatening to engulf the Civil Government, and start Bellevue on the road back to the stars. But the Governor, to whom Raj has sworn absolute loyalty, nourishes a paranoid envy and mistrust that grows with every victory. Can even a battle computer of the Galactic Age be enough to counter the fury of Raj's enemies\u2014and the treachery of his so-called friends?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15802921-hope-reborn"}, +{"book_title": "The Spiritglass Charade", "author_name": "Colleen Gleason", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2860, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "After the Affair of the Clockwork Scarab, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes are eager to help Princess Alix with a new case. Seventeen-year-old Willa Aston is obsessed with spiritual mediums, convinced she is speaking with her mother from beyond the grave. What seems like a case of spiritualist fraud quickly devolves into something far more menacing: someone is trying to make Willa \"appear lunatic,\" using an innocent-looking spiritglass to control her. The list of clues piles up: an unexpected murder, a gang of pickpockets, and the return of vampires to London. But are these events connected? As Uncle Sherlock would say, \"there are no coincidences.\" It will take all of Mina's wit and Evaline's muscle to keep London's sinister underground at bay.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20385060-the-spiritglass-charade"}, +{"book_title": "The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12", "author_name": "Terry Carr", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 158, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Contents (view Concise Listing) * 1 \u2022 Introduction (The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12) \u2022 (1983) \u2022 essay by Terry Carr * 5 \u2022 The Pope of the Chimps \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by Robert Silverberg * 27 \u2022 Swarm \u2022 [Shaper/Mechanist] \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by Bruce Sterling * 55 \u2022 Souls \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novella by Joanna Russ * 103 \u2022 Burning Chrome \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by William Gibson * 125 \u2022 Farmer on the Dole \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by Frederik Pohl * 155 \u2022 Meet Me at Apogee \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by Bill Johnson * 179 \u2022 Sur \u2022 (1982) \u2022 shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin * 197 \u2022 Understanding Human Behavior \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by Thomas M. Disch * 221 \u2022 Relativistic Effects \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by Gregory Benford * 243 \u2022 Firewatch \u2022 [Time Travel] \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by Connie Willis (aka Fire Watch) * 283 \u2022 The Wooing of Slowboat Sadie \u2022 [Springfield] \u2022 (1982) \u2022 shortstory by George Alec Effinger [as by O. Niemand ] * 293 \u2022 With the Original Cast \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by Nancy Kress * 323 \u2022 When the Fathers Go \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by Bruce McAllister * 351 \u2022 The Science Fiction Year (1982) \u2022 (1983) \u2022 essay by Charles N. Brown * 359 \u2022 Recommended Reading - 1982 \u2022 (1983) \u2022 essay by Terry Carr", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2866867-the-best-science-fiction-of-the-year-12"}, +{"book_title": "Taken by the Cowboy", "author_name": "Julianne MacLean", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1450, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "HERO AND PROTECTOR Former bounty hunter, expert gunslinger, and the toughest sheriff Dodge City has ever known, Truman Wade is a real man from the tip of his black Stetson right down to his spurs and leather boots. He\u2019s never met his match in a gunfight, but he\u2019s never met a gorgeous, gutsy woman from the twenty-first century either\u2026 TORN BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Newly single after a rocky breakup with her self-absorbed fianc\u00e9, newspaper columnist Jessica Delaney crashes her car in a lightning storm and soon finds herself dodging bullets in the Wild West. Before the night is out, she\u2019s tossed in jail for a murder she didn\u2019t commit, and if things don\u2019t seem complicated enough, the impossibly handsome sheriff in charge of her arrest has danger written all over him - and a sexy swagger to die for. Jessica knows she needs to get home, but when Sheriff Wade\u2019s enticing touch sets her passions on fire, she begins to wonder if fate has other plans for her, and soon she must choose between the life she longs for in the future\u2026 and the greatest love she\u2019s ever known.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Westerns", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Western Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11782489-taken-by-the-cowboy"}, +{"book_title": "Hystopia", "author_name": "David Means", "rating_score": 2.95, "rating_votes": 1299, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and\u2014martyred, heroic\u2014is now in his third term. Twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam and begins to write a war novel\u2014a book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five\u2014about veterans who have their battlefield experiences \"enfolded,\" wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy. In Eugene's fictive universe, veterans too damaged to be enfolded stalk the American heartland, reenacting atrocities on civilians and evading the Psych Corps, a federal agency dedicated to upholding the mental hygiene of the nation by any means necessary.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War", "Literary Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (21st Century)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25664447-hystopia"}, +{"book_title": "Tin Swift", "author_name": "Devon Monk", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1034, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "In steam age America, men, monsters, machines and magic battle to claim the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, one man fights to hold on to his humanity--and his honor. . .\u00a0Life on the frontier is full of deceit and danger, but bounty hunter Cedar Hunt is a man whose word is his bond. Cursed with becoming a beast every full moon, Cedar once believed his destiny was to be alone. But now, Cedar finds himself saddled with a group of refugees, including the brother he once thought lost.Keeping his companions alive is proving to be no easy task, in part because of the promise he made to the unpredictable Madder brothers\u2014three miners who know the secret mechanisms of the Strange. To fulfill his pledge, Cedar must hunt a powerful weapon known as the Holder\u2014a search that takes him deep into the savage underbelly of the young country and high into the killing glim-field skies defended by desperate men and deadly ships.But the battles he faces are just a glimmer of a growing war stirring the country. To keep his word Cedar must navigate betrayal, lies, and treacherous alliances, risking everything to save the lives of those he has come to hold dear\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12610321-tin-swift"}, +{"book_title": "Wildest Dreams", "author_name": "Kristen Ashley", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 29439, "review_number": 2282, "book_description": "Seoafin \u201cFinnie\u201d Wilde was taught by her parents that every breath was a treasure and to seek every adventure she could find. And she learns this lesson the hard way when they perish in a plane crash. But she never forgets and when she discovers there is a parallel universe where every person has a twin, she finds a witch who can send her there so she can have the adventure of a lifetime. But upon arrival in the Winter Wonderland of Lunwyn, she realizes she\u2019s been played by her twin and finds herself walking down the aisle to be wed to The Drakkar. Thrown into inauspicious circumstances, with years of practice, Finnie bests the challenges and digs into her adventure. But as Frey Drakkar discovers the woman who is his new wife is not Princess Sjofn, a woman he dislikes but instead, his Finnie, a free-spirit with a thirst for venture just like him, without her knowledge he orders his new bride bound to his frozen world, everlasting. But at the same time Frey plunges Finnie into a web of political intrigue that includes assassination plots, poison, magic, mystery and\u2026 dragons.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adult", "New Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12390650-wildest-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been", "author_name": "Robert Cowley", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2417, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-its of history. In these twenty never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining..", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["History", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Military (Military History)", "War", "Writing (Essays)", "Anthologies", "Historical", "History (World History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406281.What_If_"}, +{"book_title": "The Big Over Easy", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 31161, "review_number": 2326, "book_description": "It's Easter in Reading\u2014a bad time for eggs\u2014and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself. But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared with their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. And on top of all that, the JellyMan is coming to town . . .", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Humor", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy"}, +{"book_title": "Fragments", "author_name": "Dan Wells", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 24582, "review_number": 1882, "book_description": "Author Dan Wells is back with the sequel to the sci-fi blockbuster Partials, which Pittacus Lore called a \"thrilling sci-fi adrenaline rush, with one of the most compelling and frightening visions of Earth's future I've seen yet.\"After discovering the cure for RM, Kira Walker sets off on a terrifying journey into the ruins of postapocalyptic America and the darkest desires of her heart in order to uncover the means\u2014and a reason\u2014for humanity's survival.Dan Wells extends his richly imagined, gritty world and introduces new memorable characters in this second installment in the Partials Sequence.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13170596-fragments"}, +{"book_title": "Slated", "author_name": "Teri Terry", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 25899, "review_number": 2852, "book_description": "Kyla\u2019s memory has been erased,her personality wiped blank,her memories lost for ever.She\u2019s been Slated.The government claims she was a terrorist and that they are giving her a second chance - as long as she plays by their rules. But echoes of the past whisper in Kyla\u2019s mind. Someone is lying to her, and nothing is as it seems. Who can she trust in her search for the truth?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12743472-slated"}, +{"book_title": "In High Places", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 415, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Teenager Annette Klein and her family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, sending commodities of the future back to their own timeline. During an attack she is separated from her parents, taken as a slave, and then the really scary thing happens--her purchasers take her to an unofficial crosstime portal.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1217915.In_High_Places"}, +{"book_title": "Rejar", "author_name": "Dara Joy", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3047, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "There is only one thing a woman can think of when looking at a man like him. Sex. But Lilac never guesses that bringing a stray cat into her home will soon have her stroking the most wanted man in 1811 London.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206856.Rejar"}, +{"book_title": "Crystal Rain", "author_name": "Tobias S. Buckell", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1385, "review_number": 164, "book_description": "Long ago, so the stories say, the old-fathers came to Nanagada through a worm's hole in the sky. Looking for a new world to call their own, they brought with them a rich m\u00e9lange of cultures, religions, and dialects from a far-off planet called Earth. Mighty were the old-fathers, with the power to shape the world to their liking\u2014but that was many generations ago, and what was once known has long been lost. Steamboats and gas-filled blimps now traverse the planet, where people once looked up to see great silver cities in the sky.Like his world, John deBrun has forgotten more than he remembers. Twenty-seven years ago, he washed up onto the shore of Nanagada with no memory of his past. Although he has made a new life for himself among the peaceful islanders, his soul remains haunted by unanswered questions about his own identity.These mysteries take on new urgency when the fearsome Azteca storm over the Wicked High Mountains in search of fresh blood and hearts to feed their cruel, inhuman gods. Nanagada's only hope lies in a mythical artifact, the Ma Wi Jung, said to be hidden somewhere in the frozen north. And only John deBrun knows the device's secrets, even if he can't remember why or how!Crystal Rain is the much-anticipated debut novel by one of science fiction's newest and most promising talents.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185117.Crystal_Rain"}, +{"book_title": "Forward the Foundation", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 46107, "review_number": 998, "book_description": "Librarian's Note: Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring testament to the creative genius of Isaac Asimov. As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear, pawns in the struggle for dominance. Whoever can control Seldon will control psychohistory\u2014and with it the future of the Galaxy. Among those seeking to turn psychohistory into the greatest weapon known to man are a populist political demagogue, the weak-willed Emperor Cleon I, and a ruthless militaristic general. In his last act of service to humankind, Hari Seldon must somehow save his life's work from their grasp as he searches for is true heirs\u2014a search the begins with his own granddaughter and the dream of a new Foundation.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Space", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76679.Forward_the_Foundation"}, +{"book_title": "What Could Possibly Go Wrong", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 7290, "review_number": 457, "book_description": "Join Max in the sixth instalment in the off-the-wall bestselling Chronicles of St Mary\u2019s series by Jodi Taylor. Max is back! New husband, new job, and a training regime that cannot fail \u2013 to go wrong! Take one interim Chief Training Officer, add five recruits, mix with Joan of Arc, a baby mammoth, a duplicitous Father of History, a bombed rat, Stone Age hunters, a couple of passing policemen who should have better things to do, and Dick the Turd. Stir well, bring to the boil \u2013 and wait for the bang!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25634043-what-could-possibly-go-wrong"}, +{"book_title": "Timequake", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 33606, "review_number": 1655, "book_description": "According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. With his trademark wicked wit, Vonnegut addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Classics", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33586715-timequake"}, +{"book_title": "Norse Mythology", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 229317, "review_number": 20566, "book_description": "Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their upheaval in Ragnarok. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin\u2019s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki\u2014son of a giant\u2014blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Through Gaiman\u2019s deft and witty prose, these gods emerge with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Classics", "Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Religion", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37903770-norse-mythology"}, +{"book_title": "The Liberation", "author_name": "Ian Tregillis", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2151, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams, this is the third and final novel in a stunning series of revolution by Ian Tregillis, confirming his place as one of the most original new voices in speculative fiction.\n\nI am the mechanical they named Jax. My kind was built to serve humankind, duty-bound to fulfil their every whim. But now our bonds are breaking, and my brothers and sisters are awakening.Our time has come. A new age is dawning.\n\nThe final book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28962883-the-liberation"}, +{"book_title": "Hangfire", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 658, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Six agents have died hideously trying to penetrate the crime families behind a vast empire of pleasure and debauchery--Now it's up to the Marines to break the circle.Most people will visit Havanagas only in their dreams, for few can afford the exclusive resort planet that recreates ancient worlds and caters to every taste. Witches are burned at the stake in medieval towns while riotous hordes fill Rome's Coliseum to watch gladiators battle. Even the basest of human lusts are satiated by deadly sex acts and a thriving slave trade.The crime bosses' control of Havanagas and its people is brutally effective. Now three Marines from Co. L's 3rd Platoon--masquerading as discharged military buddies on holiday--are going in to break the kingpins' bloody stranglehold. From bordellos and rebellious enclaves to the very pit of the Coliseum filled with deadly beasts, Corporal Pasquin and Lance Corporals Claypoole and Dean face certain death with only their wits and skills as weapons. But they're Marines, built to survive. . . .", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/507693.Hangfire"}, +{"book_title": "Children of the Mind", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 98365, "review_number": 2445, "book_description": "Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth novel of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin. This book was originally the second half of Xenocide, before it was split into two novels.At the start of Children of the Mind, Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, is using her newly discovered abilities to take the races of buggers, humans and pequeninos outside the universe and back instantaneously. She uses these powers to move them to distant habitable planets for colonization. She is losing her memory and concentration as the vast computer network connected to the ansible is being shut down. If she is to survive, she must find a way to transfer her ai\u00faa (or soul) to a human body.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Space", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31360.Children_of_the_Mind"}, +{"book_title": "Crex", "author_name": "A.G. Wilde", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 822, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "\nThere are two types of hell.\nThe one priests preach about and then this.Stuck on an alien slave ship, Piper is auctioned and thrown into a cell with \u2026 something.He\u2019s an alien with a reputation.A warrior. A beast. A killer.He is dangerous.A creature with a cold, cold heart\u2026one not unlike her own.You\u2019d think falling for an alien killing machine was something so far-fetched it would never happen.Well, so was being abducted out of 7.5 billion other humans on Earth\u2014and that had occurred so\u2026Hey, what\u2019s the worst that could happen?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48917740-crex"}, +{"book_title": "The Arctic Marauder", "author_name": "Jacques Tardi", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 722, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "In its ongoing quest to showcase the wide range of Jacques Tardi\u2019s bibliography, Fantagraphics reaches all the way back to one of his earliest, and most distinctive graphic novels: A satirical, Jules Vernes-esque \u201cretro-sci-fi\u201d yarn executed on scratchboard in a stunningly detailed faux-woodcut style perfectly chosen to render the Edwardian-era mechanical marvels on display. Created in 1972, The Arctic Marauder is a downright prescient example of proto-\u201csteampunk\u201d science fiction \u2014 or perhaps more accurately, and to coin a spinoff genre, \u201cicepunk.\u201dIn 1899, \u201cL\u2019Anjou,\u201d a ship navigating the Arctic Ocean from Murmansk, Russia, to Le Havre, France comes across a stunning sight: A ghostly, abandoned vessel perched high atop an iceberg. But exploring this strange apparition is the last thing the sailors will ever do, as their own ship is soon dispatched to Davy Jones\u2019 locker via a mysterious explosion.Enter J\u00e9r\u00f4me Plumier, whose search for his missing uncle, the inventor Louis-Ferdinand Chapoutier, brings him into contact with the sinister, frigid forces behind this \u2014 and soon he too is headed towards the North Pole, where he will contend with mad scientists, monsters of the deep, and futuristic submarines and flying machines. Told with brio in hilarious slabs of vintage purple prose, The Arctic Marauder works both as ripping good adventure story and parody of same, and, predating as it does the later and not dissimilar Adele Blanc-Sec series, is a keystone in Tardi\u2019s oeuvre in his fantastical mode.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9865936-the-arctic-marauder"}, +{"book_title": "Delirium", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 425523, "review_number": 26486, "book_description": "In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake.But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the \"Wilds\" who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Love", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11614718-delirium"}, +{"book_title": "Escapology", "author_name": "Ren Warom", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 267, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Shock Pao is the best. In the virtual world the Slip there\u2019s nothing he can\u2019t steal for the right price. Outside the Slip, though, he\u2019s a Fail \u2013 no degree, no job. So when his ex offers him a job, breaking into a corporate databank, he accepts\u2014it\u2019s either that, or find himself a nice bench to sleep under. Amiga works for psychotic crime lord Twist Calhoun so when Shock\u2019s war comes to her, it\u2019s her job to bring him to Twist, dead or alive.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT", "LGBT (Transgender)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Gender"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27039139-escapology"}, +{"book_title": "Foreigner", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 9025, "review_number": 630, "book_description": "The first book in C.J. Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race.From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57043.Foreigner"}, +{"book_title": "On the Edge", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 39479, "review_number": 2739, "book_description": "Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny). Only Edgers like Rose can easily travel from one world to the next, but they never truly belong in either.Rose thought if she practiced her magic, she could build a better life for herself. But things didn\u2019t turn out how she planned, and now she works a minimum wage, off the books job in the Broken just to survive. Then Declan Camarine, a blueblood noble straight out of the deepest part of the Weird, comes into her life, determined to have her (and her power).But when a terrible danger invades the Edge from the Weird, a flood of creatures hungry for magic, Declan and Rose must work together to destroy them\u2014or they\u2019ll devour the Edge and everyone in it.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6329547-on-the-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Savior", "author_name": "Nicole Krizek", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Lacy Woods thought that there could be nothing worse than being stolen from Earth by an alien poacher, until she's thrust onto the auction block and sold as a slave on an alien planet. Standing on stage surrounded by the galaxy's nastiest criminals, she has little hope.Kor and Ty are a mated pair that have been searching throughout the galaxy for a species that can save their race from extinction. They never expected to come across a rare Earther female being auctioned as a slave. Unable to deny her exotic beauty, and a chance to test her DNA, they buy her. What the males don't expect is the intense lust they feel for the small female and the protective urges that tell them to keep her safe at all costs. When enemies close in on Earth, Lacy will need the Arathians\u2019 help to protect her planet and the males she has come to love.Warning: Contains explicit HOT sex with multiple alien partners, bi-sexuality and homosexuality. m/f, m/m, m/m/f", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (M M F)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Menage (M F M)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18374782-alien-savior"}, +{"book_title": "The Gap Into Madness: Chaos and Order", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 5387, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "As the planetoid Thanatos Minor explodes into atoms, a specially-fitted cruiser escapes the mass destruction and hurtles into space only a step ahead of hostile pursuit. On board Trumpet are a handful of bedraggled fugitives from an outlaw world, old enemies suddenly and violently thrown together in a desperate bid for survival.Among this unlikely crew of allies are Morn Hyland, once a UMC cop, now a prisoner to the electrodes implanted in her brain; her son, Davies, \u201cforce-grown\u201d to adulthood by the alien Amnion and struggling to understand his true identity; the amoral space buccaneer Nick Succorso, whose most daring act of piracy could be his last; and Angus Thermopyle, unstoppable cyborg struggling to wrest control of his own mind from his UMC programmers.Locked in a lethal batter against one another for control of Trumpet, they also find themselves the target of Punisher, a police ship whose human captain, Min Donner, is torn between her duty and her sympathy for the outlaw crew she\u2019s been ordered to capture. Yet as Min races to reach Trumpet in time, Warden Dios, the director of the UMC Police, receives a darker directive from the mysterious, semi-immortal Dragon, ruler of the UMC: Kill everyone aboard Trumpet except for the one person whose blood carries the mutagenic key to ultimate Amnion triumph\u2014the ability to appear perfectly human.In a final titanic showdown in space, amid uncharted comets, planets, and asteroid swarms, these forces will converge in a contest of skill and survival on which their future\u2014and the future of the galaxy\u2014depends.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Epic", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22871.The_Gap_Into_Madness"}, +{"book_title": "InuYasha: Turning Back Time", "author_name": "Rumiko Takahashi", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 57194, "review_number": 509, "book_description": "Transported back to Japan's feudal era, high school student Kagome accidentally releases the feral half-demon dog boy Inu-Yasha from his imprisonment for stealing the Jewel of Four Souls.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Media Tie In (Anime)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330744.InuYasha"}, +{"book_title": "\u0424\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0438\u0432\u044b\u0435 \u0437\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0430\u043b\u0430", "author_name": "Sergei Lukyanenko", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2308, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Kontrollieren wir das Netz oder kontrolliert das Netz uns? Sergej Lukianenkos packende und hochaktuelle ZukunftsvisionComputer geh\u00f6ren zu unserem Alltag, und das Internet scheint uns absolute Freiheit und unendliche M\u00f6glichkeiten zu bieten. Doch mittlerweile ist das Netz f\u00fcr viele Menschen zum Alptraum geworden, denn sie sind gefangen in der \u00bbTiefe\u00ab, dem virtuellen Raum, den nur wenige Menschen jemals wieder verlassen k\u00f6nnen. Leonid geh\u00f6rt zu den Gl\u00fccklichen, die sich aus der \u00bbTiefe\u00ab wieder befreien k\u00f6nnen \u2013 doch als sein ehemaliger Partner ermordet wird, muss er sich auf ein t\u00f6dliches Spiel einlassen, das ihm alles abverlangt.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3247038"}, +{"book_title": "Before I Fall", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 302256, "review_number": 20480, "book_description": "For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12\u2014\"Cupid Day\"\u2014should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is \u2026 until she dies in a terrible accident that night.However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.Before I Fall is now a major motion picture Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley. Named to numerous state reading lists, the novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Realistic Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Death", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6482837-before-i-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Out of Time", "author_name": "Caroline B. Cooney", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2887, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Annie Lockwood exists; everyone admits it. Everyone has seen her. But only Strat insists that Miss Lockwood traveled one hundred years back in time to be with them in 1895. Now Strat is paying an enormous price: His father has declared him insane and had him locked away in an asylum. When Time calls Annie back to save Strat, she does not hesitate, even though her family is falling apart and desperately needs her. Can Annie save the boy she loves, or will her choice keep her a trespasser out of time?From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259997.Out_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Spacebot", "author_name": "Mike Twohy", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 135, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "When a mysterious visitor arrives in the night from outer space, it\u2019s up to the family dog to determine if they\u2019re friend or foe.One quiet evening, a dog is settling down inside his family\u2019s house when a strange rumbling emerges from the sky. Electric energy surges and makes everything start to vibrate, including the family dog. When he darts outside to investigate, a UFO appears. Beep! Beep! Is it friend or foe?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Space", "Animals (Dogs)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Animals", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52765759-spacebot"}, +{"book_title": "Dust World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 6019, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "The Galactics arrived with their Battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spans the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien bidder.In 2122 a lost colony expedition contacts Earth, surprising our government. Colonization is against Galactic Law, and Legion Varus is dispatched to the system to handle the situation. Earth gave them sealed orders, but Earth is 35 lightyears away. The Legion commanders have a secret plan of their own. And then there's James McGill, who was never too good at listening to authority in the first place....In Dust World, book two of the Undying Mercenaries Series, McGill is promoted to Specialist and sent to a frontier planet outside the Empire. Earth's status within the Empire will never be the same.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20947122-dust-world"}, +{"book_title": "Extinct", "author_name": "Ike Hamill", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2265, "review_number": 240, "book_description": "Channel Two predicted a blanket of snow for Thanksgiving weekend--unusual, but not alarming for the little Maine island. What comes is a blinding blizzard, and a mass disappearance of nearly every person Robby Pierce knows. He and his family flee, trying to escape the snow and the invisible forces stealing people right from the street.Miles away, Brad Jenkins battles the same storm. Alone, he attempts to survive as snow envelops his house. When the storm breaks, Brad makes his way south to where the snow ends and the world lies empty. Join Brad, Robby, and the other survivors as they fight to find the truth about the apocalypse and discover how to live in their new world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18104324-extinct"}, +{"book_title": "So Smart in Their Fine Uniforms (Arrowsmith, Book 1", "author_name": "Kurt Busiek", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 379, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Combining reality and fantasy to create an alternate world in which magic and science have coexisted for centuries, ArrowSmith: So Smart in Their Fine Uniforms presents the tale of a young hero's coming of age during a period of war and wizardry. With World War I engulfing Europe, young Fletcher Arrowsmith runs away from home to serve his country as one of the elite airmen, a squadron of talented mages who use spells to fly and attack their enemies. But as the innocent teenager's romantic visions of valor and honor are quickly destroyed, he learns of the true costs of love and battle. Now disillusioned and distraught, Fletcher must find a way to hold onto his beliefs while evading the attacks of enemy soldiers, sadistic vampires, fire demons, and rock trolls.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11385.So_Smart_in_Their_Fine_Uniforms"}, +{"book_title": "2010: Odyssey Two", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 50934, "review_number": 1205, "book_description": "When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years:Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star-Child?What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space?What could drive HAL, a stable, intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared?Would there be a sequel?Now all those questions and many more have been answered. In this stunning sequel to his international bestseller, Clarke has written what will truly be one of the great books of the '80s. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70539.2010"}, +{"book_title": "The Map of Time", "author_name": "F\u00e9lix J. Palma", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 11849, "review_number": 2309, "book_description": "This rollicking page-turner with a cast of real and imagined literary characters and cunning intertwined plots stars a skeptical H.G. Wells as a time-traveling investigator.Characters real and imaginary come vividly to life in this whimsical triple play of intertwined plots, in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence.What happens if we change history?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9766078-the-map-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Sky Is Yours", "author_name": "Chandler Klang Smith", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 1293, "review_number": 340, "book_description": "A sprawling, genre-defying epic set in a dystopian metropolis plagued by dragons, this debut about what it\u2019s like to be young in a very old world is pure storytelling pleasureIn the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis\u2019 last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash; are forced to flee everything they've ever known. As they wander toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves. In this bombshell of a novel, Chandler Klang Smith has imagined an unimaginable world: scathingly clever and gorgeously strange, The Sky Is Yours is at once faraway and disturbingly familiar, its singular chaos grounded in the universal realities of love, family, and the deeply human desire to survive at all costs.The Sky Is Yours is incredibly cinematic, bawdy, rollicking, hilarious, and utterly unforgettable, a debut that readers who loved Cloud Atlas, Super Sad True Love Story, and Blade Runner will adore.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Unfinished", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34837145-the-sky-is-yours"}, +{"book_title": "Tom's Midnight Garden Graphic Novel", "author_name": "\u00c9dith", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 633, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "This exquisite graphic novel adaptation of Philippa Pearce's Carnegie Medal-winning Tom's Midnight Garden reimagines a beloved classic in a new, full-color format. With stunning art from award-winning graphic artist Edith, readers will be swept up in this transcendent story of friendship.When Tom's brother gets sick, Tom's shipped off to spend what he's sure will be a boring summer with his aunt and uncle in the country. But then Tom hears the old grandfather clock in the hall chime thirteen times, and he's transported back to an old garden where he meets a mysterious girl named Hatty. Tom returns to the garden every night to have adventures with Hatty, who grows a little older with each visit. As the summer comes to an end, Tom realizes he wants to stay in the midnight garden with Hatty forever.Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Tom's Midnight Garden is a classic of children's literature and a deeply satisfying time-travel mystery. This stunning graphic novel adaptation from award-winning French artist Edith transforms Philippa Pearce's story into an engaging visual adventure.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Classics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40402010-tom-s-midnight-garden-graphic-novel"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Wall", "author_name": "David Annandale", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 427, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Despite the Imperium's best attempts to forestall the ork plague that is wrecking havoc in human space, an ork attack moon now hangs over Terra. As its malevolent presence gazes down at the Imperial Palace, terrified citizens run riot in the streets. In a last-ditch attempt to destroy the attack moon, a proletarian crusade is launched. Thousands of ships large and small head to the moon carrying billions of citizens, all eager to take the fight to the enemy. It seems the attack has a chance of success as the invasion force lands safely, but the orks have yet to spring their trap...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26029271-the-last-wall"}, +{"book_title": "Pavane", "author_name": "Keith Roberts", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 3064, "review_number": 274, "book_description": "In the year 1588, Queen Elizabeth was assassinated. That single tragedy set off a whole series of events, resulting in the Spanish Armada's defeat of England and subsequent demise of Protestantism. Now it's the 20th century, and the Church of Rome reigns supreme. People live a pastoral existence of guilds and farming, with technology held back to the level of the steam locomotive and primitive radio. Still, science cannot be held back forever...a revolution is building.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599588.Pavane"}, +{"book_title": "Forgotten", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1404, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Kate McMillan has a good life and a decent job working at a jewelry store but there\u2019s something wrong. She also has a hole in her memory\u2014a three year gap where she can\u2019t remember a thing. Kate tries to tell herself she\u2019s okay but she knows it isn\u2019t true. Someone is hunting her\u2014a huge man with glowing blue eyes is lingering on the edges of her vision. Every time Kate sees him her pulse races and fear grips her.Rone is a Wulven Kindred\u2014feared and shunned even by others of the Kindred race. For the Wulven carry a Beast inside them that will kill anyone unlucky enough to be near when it emerges. Only a female who has tamed a male Wulven\u2019s Beast is immune from this danger. Rone once had such a mate\u2014before she was snatched away.For months he\u2019s been searching for his missing bride but when he finally locates Kate, he finds that she has forgotten him completely. Not only that, but his mere presence engenders a panic response in the woman who once loved him. Their bond has been broken and Kate doesn\u2019t know him. Worse, his Beast no longer acknowledges her as his mated female. Rone doesn\u2019t blame Kate for thinking he is dangerous\u2014he is and always will be unless she can tame his Beast.But in order to tame the Beast, Kate must take a terrible risk\u2026one that may end in her death. Will she be able to control her fear and face the danger that lives inside her mate or will Rone remain forever\u2026Forgotten?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27308776-forgotten"}, +{"book_title": "Neat", "author_name": "Russell Zimmerman", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 376, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "The Meanest StreetsJames Kincaid is the type of guy who might be described as down on his luck, if only he\u2019d had some luck to begin with. Like so many people in the shadows of Seattle, he\u2019s trying to get by with what he has. In his case, that includes a lively spirit, a sadly diminished magical talent, quick wits, and good knowledge of the twists and turns of Seattle\u2019s dingy streets and back alleys. He puts all that to the service of whatever clients he can dig up, solving whatever cases they\u2019re willing to pay him to take on. With any luck, he\u2019ll scrape up enough nuyen to buy a few rounds of his favorite drink\u2014whiskey, neat.His latest case seems simple enough\u2014find a girl who\u2019s gone missing. But throw in a couple of feuding megacorporations, a few organized crime families, and a full selection of the odd denizens of Seattle\u2019s streets, and you\u2019ve got a case that\u2019s anything but easy. It\u2019s up to Kincaid to see how many people he can keep alive\u2014including (and especially) himself.Neat is a brand-new Shadowrun novella plunging readers into the cold, sharp environs of the Sixth World. Elves, trolls, orks, and dwarves mix with humans in the shadowy streets of a near-future world altered by magic, trying to survive on the crumbs dropped by the megacorporations that dominate the world. Whether you\u2019re new to Shadowrun fiction or a longtime fan, Neat is your ticket back to the Sixth World in all its dark, desperate glory.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Mystery (Noir)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16151053-neat"}, +{"book_title": "Bombs Away", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1251, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed. Now, this masterful storyteller turns his eyes to the aftermath of World War II and asks: In an era of nuclear posturing, what if the Cold War suddenly turned hot?Bombs Away begins with President Harry Truman heeding the advice of General Douglas MacArthur, whose control of the ground war in Korea has slipped disastrously away. MacArthur recognizes a stark reality. The U.S. military has been cut to the bone after victory over the Nazis\u2014while China and the U.S.S.R. have built up their forces. The only way to stop the Communist surge into the Korean Peninsula and save thousands of American lives is through a nuclear attack. MacArthur advocates a strike on Chinese targets in Manchuria. In actual history, Truman rejected his general\u2019s advice. But here, he does not. And the miscalculation turns into a disaster when Truman fails to foresee Russia\u2019s reaction.Almost instantly, Stalin strikes U.S. allies in Europe and Great Britain. And as the shock waves are settling, the two superpowers are caught in a horrifying face-off. Will they attack each other directly with nukes? And what countries will be caught in between?The fateful global drama plays out through the experiences of ordinary people\u2014from a British barmaid to a Ukrainian war veteran to a desperate American soldier alone behind enemy lines in Korea. For them, as well as Truman, Mao, and Stalin, the whole world has become a battleground. Strategic strikes lead to massive movements of ground troops. Cities are destroyed, economies ravaged. And on a planet under siege, the sounds and sites of nuclear bombs become a grim harbinger of a new reality: the struggle to survive man\u2019s greatest madness.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Business (Google)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23395673-bombs-away"}, +{"book_title": "Secrets", "author_name": "Jordan Castillo Price", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 4159, "review_number": 411, "book_description": "Victor Bayne\u2019s job as a PsyCop involves tracking down dead people and getting them to spill their guts about their final moments. It's never been fun, per se. But it's not usually this annoying. Vic has just moved in with his boyfriend Jacob, he can\u2019t figure out where anything\u2019s packed, and his co-worker is pressuring him to have a housewarming party. Can\u2019t a guy catch a break? On a more sinister note, Vic discovers there\u2019s absolutely no trace of him online. No trace of anyone else who trained at \"Camp Hell,\" either. Everyone Vic knows has signed a mysterious set of papers to ensure his \u201cprivacy.\u201d The contracts are so confidential that even Vic has never heard of them. But Jacob might have. What other secrets has Jacob been keeping?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5260437-secrets"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow of the Lion", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2361, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "It is the year 1537. The great winged Lion stares over a Venice where magic thrives. The rich Venetian Republic is a bastion of independence and tolerance. Perhaps for that reason, it is also corrupt, and rotten with intrigue.But for the young brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, vagabond and thief, Venice is simply--home. They have no idea that they stand at the center of the city's coming struggle for its very life. They know nothing of the powerful forces moving in the background. They have barely heard of Chernobog, demon-lord of the North, who is shifting his pawns to attack Venice in order to cut into the underbelly of the Holy Roman Empire. All Marco and Benito know is that they're hungry and in dangerous company: Katerina the smuggler, Caesare the sell-sword, Montagnard assassins, church inquisitors, militant Knights of the Holy Trinity, Dottore Marina the Strega mage... and Maria. Maria might be an honest canaler, but she had the hottest temper a boy could find. Yet among the dark waters of the canals lurk far worse dangers than a hot-tempered girl. Chernobog has set a monster loose to wreak havoc on the city. Magic, murder and evil are all at work to pull Venice down. Fanatical monks seek to root out true witchcraft with fire and sword. Steel-clad Teutonic knights, wealth traders, church dignitaries and great Princes fight and plot for control of the jewel of the Mediterranean. And somehow all of these, from thieves to mages to princes, must gather around Marco and his brother Benito, under the shadow of the great winged lion of Venice.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176868.The_Shadow_of_the_Lion"}, +{"book_title": "The Rest of the Robots", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 4935, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "The Rest of the Robots is the third timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov's robot stories, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter in Korea. ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony's fault that the lady of the house where he's field tested falls in love with him?ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he's loose in the mountains of Virginia...building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator.ROBOT LENNY answers workaday questions in babytalk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world's top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed up specimen of an industrial robot?", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272773.The_Rest_of_the_Robots"}, +{"book_title": "Graduation Day", "author_name": "Joelle Charbonneau", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 26539, "review_number": 2091, "book_description": "In a scarred and brutal future, The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. The rebel resistance plots against a government that rules with cruelty and cunning. Gifted student and Testing survivor Cia Vale vows to fight. But she can't do it alone. This is the chance to lead that Cia has trained for - but who will follow? Plunging through layers of danger and deception, Cia must risk the lives of those she loves - and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18222699-graduation-day"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Monster Engine", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 2065, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "The collection begins as Agatha finds a new ally in Krosp the Cat (a genetic experiment with a smattering of Napoleon's brain cells) and becomes better acquainted with Gilgamesh, the Baron's son -- who gently breaks the news that Agatha has the spark for Mad Science. Othar Tryggvassen escapes the Baron's lab as the Monster Engine is activated by a revenant, and pandemonium ensues on the city-sized airship as Agatha and Gil battle the awakened behemoth. Adam and Lilith arrive in time to make crucial explanations about Agatha's identity and attempt her rescue, but are devastated by the Baron's forces, and Agatha and Krosp must make their dramatic escape alone.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/462231.Agatha_Heterodyne_and_the_Monster_Engine"}, +{"book_title": "Prism", "author_name": "Faye Kellerman", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 1293, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "Prism takes us to a slightly alternate universe in which medicine and health care do not exist, and in which sick people are allowed to die without any care. Set in New Mexico and California, the novel features three teens who fall through a cave at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico while on a field trip. They are plunged into a frightening parallel universe\u2014seven weeks in the past, in which their \"normal\" worlds of family and high school remain the same\u2026except for the fact that no medicine exists and when people die in the street they are picked up and disposed of.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5134555-prism"}, +{"book_title": "Wired", "author_name": "Robin Wasserman", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 3139, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "It\u2019s two months after the end of Crashed, and Lia is right back where she started: home, pretending to be the perfect daughter. But nothing\u2019s the way it used to be. Lia has become the public face of the mechs and BioMax\u2019s poster girl for the up-and-coming technology, devoting her life to convincing the world that she\u2014and the others like her\u2014deserve to exist. But then Jude resurfaces, bringing scandalous information that suggests BioMax is using the technology for a great evil. And when Lia learns a shocking truth about the accident that resulted in her download, she is forced to make a decision she can never reverse.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Futuristic", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7192384-wired"}, +{"book_title": "The E.T. Guy", "author_name": "V.C. Lancaster", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1120, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "It's 2266, and Lois Kennedy is an Intake Officer for DETI, the Department of Extra-Terrestrial Immigration. Zir is a refugee from the planet Teiss, working in DETI's I.T. department. Lois and Zir just can't get along. As far as she's concerned, he's rude, abrasive, and condescending. She wants nothing to do with him. So why does he never leave her alone? He must be crazy if he thinks there could ever be anything between them... right?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Modern"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33139830-the-e-t-guy"}, +{"book_title": "Reboot", "author_name": "Amy Tintera", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 30699, "review_number": 3590, "book_description": "Five years ago, Wren Connolly was shot three times in the chest. After 178 minutes she came back as a Reboot: stronger, faster, able to heal, and less emotional. The longer Reboots are dead, the less human they are when they return. Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now seventeen years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation).Wren\u2019s favorite part of the job is training new Reboots, but her latest newbie is the worst she\u2019s ever seen. As a 22, Callum Reyes is practically human. His reflexes are too slow, he\u2019s always asking questions, and his ever-present smile is freaking her out. Yet there\u2019s something about him she can\u2019t ignore. When Callum refuses to follow an order, Wren is given one last chance to get him in line\u2014or she\u2019ll have to eliminate him. Wren has never disobeyed before and knows if she does, she\u2019ll be eliminated, too. But she has also never felt as alive as she does around Callum.The perfect soldier is done taking orders.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13517455-reboot"}, +{"book_title": "Once Upon a Caveman", "author_name": "Cassandra Gannon", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 434, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Lucy Meadowcroft\u2019s life hasn\u2019t turned out the way she planned. Her hometown always thought she\u2019d go out and change the world. Instead, fifteen years out of high school, Lucy\u2019s working in a bookstore and her social life consists of sex dreams about a caveman named Rhawn. Granted, they\u2019re pretty awesome dreams, but it\u2019s not like the guy is real, right? He\u2019s smart and gorgeous and totally a figment of her frustrated imagination. All in all, things could be going a lot better for her. When Lucy reluctantly agrees to go on the Woodward High Reunion Cruise, she\u2019s feeling pretty miserable about her place in the world. \u2026And that\u2019s before the shipwreck. Now Lucy\u2019s somehow marooned in the Ice Age. She\u2019s stranded on an island filled with guys in loincloths who think she\u2019s \u201cthe Destroyer,\u201d an evil goddess sent to sink their homeland into the sea. This is *so* not what the alumni committee promised in the cruise brochure. The wooly mammoths and sabretooth tigers running around tell Lucy that she\u2019s a castaway in some other world. And in the middle of this prehistoric insanity, Lucy finds herself face-to-face with the caveman from her dreams. Rhawn the Accursed is reviled within the Clan. Every night, he dreams of Earth, the land of the gods, and of the Destroyer, the deity destined to end the world. Rhawn realizes that Lucy must be the wicked goddess, but he also senses that this woman is meant to be his mate. There is good in her. He knows it. All he has to do is persuade the rest of the Clan not to kill her, show Lucy that they were fated to find one another, devise a way to escape the island, and survive Lucy\u2019s annoying classmates, who\u2019ve washed ashore with her. It shouldn\u2019t be that hard. After all, they have a few days left before the volcano erupts.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26131887-once-upon-a-caveman"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet", "author_name": "Becky Chambers", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 80637, "review_number": 12511, "book_description": "Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.Rosemary Harper doesn\u2019t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she\u2019s never met anyone remotely like the ship\u2019s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy\u2014exactly what Rosemary wants. It\u2019s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn\u2019t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary\u2019s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs\u2014an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn\u2019t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Space (Space Opera)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733729-the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet"}, +{"book_title": "Off the Beaten Path", "author_name": "Cari Z.", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 601, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "When Ward Johannsen\u2019s little girl Ava shifted into a werewolf, she was taken into custody by the feds and shipped off to the nearest pack, all ties between father and daughter severed. Ward burned every bridge he had discovering her location, and then almost froze to death in the Colorado mountains tracking her new pack down. And that\u2019s just the beginning of his struggle.Henry Dormer is an alpha werewolf and an elite black ops soldier who failed his last mission. He returns home, hoping for some time to recuperate and help settle the pack\u2019s newest member, a little pup named Ava who can\u2019t shift back to her human form. Instead he meets Ward, who refuses to leave his daughter without a fight. The two men are as different as night and day, but their respect for each other strikes a spark of mutual interest that quickly grows into a flame. They might find something special together\u2014love, passion, and even a family\u2014if they can survive trigger-happy pack guardians, violent werewolf politics, and meddling government agencies that are just as likely to get their alpha soldiers killed as bring them home safely.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "M M Romance (M M Paranormal)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "LGBT", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36095814-off-the-beaten-path"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark", "author_name": "Marianne Curley", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 6057, "review_number": 189, "book_description": "A year after Marduke's death, the Order's revenge is about to take shape. As they gain the upper hand in their battle against the Guardians, the Order's attempts to change history bear fruit and Ethan and Isabel notice subtle changes in their daily lives as an altered past impacts on the future.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/565593.The_Dark"}, +{"book_title": "Deserter", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3651, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Kris Longknife had no choice about growing up rich and pampered. When she did have a choice, she joined the Marines. But now, a friend needs help halfway across the galaxy--and with a military heritage coursing through her blood, it's time for Kris Longknife to be a hero.BUCKLE UP. SHE'S BACK.When Kris Longknife's best friend vanishes, she boards the next ship to Turantic, the last place he was seen alive. But there's more to the rescue than meets the eye. Turantic is not only the moss twisted hellhole in the galaxy, but it's also under quarantine because of a deadly plague. And after a sudden, suspicious loss of communication with the outside world, Kris realizes the length some enemies will go to for a life-threatening bait-and-trap. But she is willing to go even further--and deeper into Turantic's secrets--to survive...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/993910.Deserter"}, +{"book_title": "Ace in the Hole", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1459, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers 40 years ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition. Now, they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent as assassins stalk the halls of the convention and one of the candidates plans to use his secret Wild Card power for evil. A journey of intrigue and adventure written by five of science fiction's most imaginative talents.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1281216.Ace_in_the_Hole"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Redemption", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 3982, "review_number": 352, "book_description": "For seasons, I have waited for her - my perfect mate. In a tribe full of happy couples, I am alone. But I am not content to remain this way. There are no eligible unmated females left, so I will do whatever it takes to bring females back to our tribe... even if it means doing something wrong. Even if it means I must purchase my mate on the intergalactic black market. I will do anything to possess her, to claim her as my own. But will my ruthless move turn my female against me before we ever meet? Can she ever forgive a male that bought her freedom?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34184104-barbarian-s-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "The Seeds of Earth", "author_name": "Michael Cobley", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 3052, "review_number": 256, "book_description": "The first intelligent species to Earth attacked without warning, and only three colony ships escaped. 150 years later, planet Darien hosts humans at peace with indigenous scholarly Uvovo. Buried on the forest moon are secrets of an epic battle between ancient races. In a galactic war, what will Uvovo choose, when their nature is revealed, and the enemy comes?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Unfinished", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4332905-the-seeds-of-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Matter", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 24056, "review_number": 954, "book_description": "In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else\u2019s war is never a simple matter.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Cultural", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Banking (Banks)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/886066.Matter"}, +{"book_title": "Circe", "author_name": "Madeline Miller", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 392155, "review_number": 42746, "book_description": "In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child - not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power - the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Retellings", "Historical", "Adult", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35959740-circe"}, +{"book_title": "Thunderclaw", "author_name": "Penelope Fletcher", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1187, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "What does this woman want...?S\u00ecne is a hot mess. A broke single mother who learned alpha men are abusive monsters, she gave up on the fallacy of 'true love' long ago. So upon meeting the King of all alphas and the Commander of all bad-asses who profess everlasting adoration, she runs screaming. Literally. Talked into hosting the unusual 'out-of-town' visitors by her family, she discovers King Beowyn is overbearing, vain, selfish, and belligerent \u2013 just like she suspected! But he makes her laugh, and her troubled daughter sleeps peacefully in his arms. His perpetual shadow Eorik is broody, self-righteous and an annoying know it all. Yet his touch is gentle, he acts as if her word as gospel, and her daughter thinks he's the second coming. Her broken belief the opposite sex can be strong, caring and trustworthy is reforged, and Sine takes a chance on the beautiful life they promise... then lands on the Verak home planet and faces an ugly surprise six hundred strong.Who does this warrior King desire...?Planning to take a quick trip to Earth for a feisty nubile to bed, Beowyn finds himself in a quandary when his chosen human makes it clear he will share her bed and no other. Wanting her for his own, he omits a trifling truth to get her to his home planet. On the journey his vessel is attacked by vengeful L'Odo, and they crash on a forbidden planet. Rescue by his Ra allies is swift, but two of their party remain lost in the dangerous wilds. Beowyn must decide to return to Vayhalun in time to retain the right to be known as the Great Alpha, or stay to lead the search for his missing loved ones, forfeiting a throne his mighty Dyna has held for aeons.What does this protector dream of...?Eorik is in love with a male he cannot have. He finds solace in protecting Beowyn and doesn\u2019t complain when he flits off on foolhardy adventures. That is until they travel to Earth and Eorik finds his One - the same female his liege is adamant is his. Struggling with the pain of watching those he loves from a distance, he finds himself stranded on a planet of both paradise and peril, protecting the most innocent of those he cherishes. He and the human babe rush to reunite with their convoy as a nameless terror stalks them through the jungle.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Menage (M M F)", "Fantasy", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24766198-thunderclaw"}, +{"book_title": "Worlds without End", "author_name": "Caroline Spector", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 247, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Remembering an innocent world from centuries ago, immortal elf Aina struggles for survival in the Awakened era of shadowrunners and evil magic, and she must rally her companions to battle an ancient nemesis. Spawned in the realm between the worlds, a Horror comes. Defeated in battle centuries before by the elven mage Aina, it walks again, seeking vengeance on the mortal lands. If Aina fails to convince the courts of Tir na nOg and Tir Tairngire of the danger, she will have to face the Horror alone once more, or watch the world end.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131167.Worlds_without_End"}, +{"book_title": "Mirrored Heavens", "author_name": "David J. Williams", "rating_score": 3.21, "rating_votes": 515, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "In this thrilling debut, David J. Williams delivers a hard-hitting blend of military SF and dystopian cyberpunk, set in a futuristic landscape where hostilities rage from the Eastern and Western hemispheres to the outer ranges of space. \n\n\nIn the 22nd century, the first wonder of a brave new world is the Phoenix Space Elevator, designed to give mankind greater access to the frontier beyond Earth. Built by the U.S./Pan-Asian Coalition, the Elevator is also a grand symbol of superpower alliance following a second cold war. And it\u2019s just been destroyed. The South American insurgent group Autumn Rain claims responsibility for the attack, but with suspicions rampant, armies and espionage teams are mobilized across the globe and beyond. Enter Claire Haskell and Jason Marlowe, U.S. counterintelligence agents, and former lovers\u2014though their memories may only be constructs implanted by their spymaster. Forced to set aside the enigma of their past, their agenda is to trust no one. For in a time of shifting loyalties, the enemy could be anyone\u2014from a shadowy assassin working a questionable mission on the dark side of the moon, to a Euro data thief working under deep cover and wooed into a dangerous pact. As the crisis mounts, and the search for Autumn Rain spans both Earth and Moon, the lives of all those involved will converge in one explosive finale\u2014and a startling aftermath that will rewrite everything they\u2019ve ever known\u2014about their mission, their world, and themselves", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "War (Terrorism)", "Science (Technology)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2882454-mirrored-heavens"}, +{"book_title": "A Lady of Spirit", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 989, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family \u2026 or can you? Under normal circumstances, Maggie and Lizzie would be delighted to meet their long-lost relatives and be reunited with those who had believed them dead, but when are the Mopsies\u2019 circumstances ever to be considered normal? With her half-brother Claude Seacombe, Lizzie travels to Cornwall to meet her mother\u2019s parents. Maggie goes along, too, since she is part of the family \u2026 or so one might assume. But the more time she spends in her grandparents\u2019 clifftop mansion, the more she realizes that something is not right, and the events surrounding her own mother\u2019s death are more mysterious\u2014and dangerous\u2014than anyone alive suspects. For an old nemesis is preying on the weak and proud, and no matter how well dressed or well educated a young lady might be, she cannot stand by and watch evil destroy a beloved cousin\u2019s future. Maggie must straighten her spine and plunge into danger for Lizzie\u2019s sake \u2026 and prove that no matter the name she bears, she is first and foremost what the Lady of Devices believes her to be \u2026 a lady of spirit.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17610619-a-lady-of-spirit"}, +{"book_title": "Robomop", "author_name": "Sean Taylor", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 207, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "This is Robomop, a hardworking robot who's good at his job, which is cleaning...well, yes, the public restroom. But it's not all mopping, slopping, rubbing, and scrubbing. Robomop also does a wicked honky-tonk dance to the window washer's radio, and he dreams of seeing the sun and sky. So when he's carried outside one day, Robomop believes his wish has come true at last. Has it? Well one thing is for certain: for this little robot, finding his place in the world means never giving up trying.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15812146-robomop"}, +{"book_title": "Deadlocked", "author_name": "A.R. Wise", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2762, "review_number": 274, "book_description": "David was caught in the middle of the city when the zombie outbreak started. His wife and daughters were at home, stranded on the roof as zombies waited below. He would have to fight through hordes of undead, merciless other survivors, and a series of death defying stunts to get home. However, even if he makes it there, how can he be sure they're safe?Deadlocked puts you into David's head as he struggles to get home. Then a final confrontation occurs that will guarantee his family's survival, but at what cost?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13371322-deadlocked"}, +{"book_title": "Destruction", "author_name": "Raymond L. Weil", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1320, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "From the author of The Slaver Wars comes a new military science fiction series. To the Kleese, the Earth is nothing more than a planet full of conscripts to fight in their numerous wars of aggression. The Kleese are one of three large Galactic Empires that control the majority of the galaxy. To them, Earth is an extremely\u00a0dangerous planet due to the aggressiveness of the humanoid species that inhabits it. The humans that inhabit Earth will make excellent conscripts, but something must be done to prevent them from expanding out into the galaxy. To the Kleese the solution is simple, take the conscripts they need and then destroy the planet.Mason Randle controls the Smithfield Mining Corporation. His main headquarters is inside the asteroid Vesta. The Kleese know nothing about what resides inside of the asteroid and the role it will play in saving the human race. Lieutenant Wade Nelson is a marine taken as a conscript by the Kleese. His primary goal is to find a way back to Earth. In the meantime, he will fight in the wars the Kleese are involved in until he knows enough to take the fight to the Kleese themselves. He will bid his time\u00a0in the hope that someday he will find a way back home for himself and his marines.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21918745-destruction"}, +{"book_title": "A Rip in the Veil", "author_name": "Anna Belfrage", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1002, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "A Rip in the Veil is the first book in The Graham Saga, Anna Belfrage's time slip series featuring time traveller Alexandra Lind and her seventeenth century husband, Matthew Graham. On a muggy August day in 2002 Alexandra Lind is inexplicably thrown several centuries backwards in time to 1658. Life will never be the same for Alex. Alex lands at the feet of Matthew Graham - an escaped convict making his way home to Scotland. She gawks at this tall gaunt man with hazel eyes, dressed in what looks like rags. At first she thinks he might be some sort of hermit, an oddball, but she quickly realises that she is the odd one out, not him. Catapulted from a life of modern comfort, Alex grapples with her frightening new existence. Potential compensation for this brutal shift in fate comes in the shape of Matthew - a man she should never have met, not when she was born three centuries after him. But Matthew comes with baggage of his own, and at times it seems his past will see them killed. How will she ever get back? And more importantly, does she want to?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Adult", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16198097-a-rip-in-the-veil"}, +{"book_title": "ATLAS", "author_name": "Isaac Hooke", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1935, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Rade Galaal enrolls in the hardest military training known to man to become a member of the MOTHs, the most elite fighting unit in the galaxy. MOTHs are tacticians, corpsmen, snipers, astronauts and commandos rolled into one. They also happen to pilot the atomic-powered ATLAS mechs, specialized military hardware that brings new meaning to the phrase \"one-man-army.\" When Special Warfare Command orders MOTH Team Seven on a covert operation beyond the furthest reaches of explored space, Rade realizes he's signed up for more than he bargained for...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Business (Amazon)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18714917-atlas"}, +{"book_title": "Once a Hero", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 5054, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "When Esmay Suiza found herself in the middle of a space battle, the senior surviving officer, she had no choice but to take command and win. She didn't want to be a hero, but Once A Hero....", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222513.Once_a_Hero"}, +{"book_title": "Conquest", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 4083, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "CONQUEST is the next chapter in the great interstellar war between all living creatures and the machines. Star Force must stop the machine invaders once again--but how?In the fourth book of the Star Force series, Kyle Riggs has freed Earth from the chains of the Macros--but at what cost? The Macros no longer trust him. He is a mad dog that must be put down--and all Star Force must be stamped out with him. The war expands in this story, and mankind is once again faced with annihilation.CONQUEST is a military science fiction novel by bestselling author B. V. Larson.(To find the first book in the series, search for SWARM, by B. V. Larson)", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13238856-conquest"}, +{"book_title": "No Good Deed", "author_name": "Kara Connolly", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 686, "review_number": 198, "book_description": "Ellie Hudson is the front-runner on the road to gold for the U.S. Olympic archery team. All she has to do is qualify at the trials in jolly old England. When Ellie makes some kind of crazy wrong turn in the caverns under Nottingham Castle\u2014yes, that Nottingham\u2014she ends up in medieval England. Ellie doesn\u2019t care how she got to the Middle Ages; she just wants to go home before she gets the plague. But people are suffering in Nottingham, and Ellie has the skills to make it better. What\u2019s an ace archer to do while she\u2019s stuck in Sherwood Forest but make like Robin Hood? Pulled into a past life as an outlaw, Ellie feels her present fading away next to daring do-gooding and a devilishly handsome knight. Only, Ellie is on the brink of rewriting history, and when she picks up her bow and arrow, her next shot could save her past\u2014or doom civilization\u2019s future.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Retellings", "Historical", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32766757-no-good-deed"}, +{"book_title": "Stone Spring", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1022, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "'Stone Spring' tells the epic story of one prehistoric girl's bid to change her future and the future of our world. This is alternate history at its most mindblowing.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Prehistoric)", "Novels", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6575200-stone-spring"}, +{"book_title": "Dry", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 24098, "review_number": 4998, "book_description": "When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival,The drought\u2014or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it\u2014has been going on for a while now. Everyone\u2019s lives have become an endless list of don\u2019ts: don\u2019t water the lawn, don\u2019t fill up your pool, don\u2019t take long showers.Until the taps run dry.Suddenly, Alyssa\u2019s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don\u2019t return and her life\u2014and the life of her brother\u2014is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she\u2019s going to survive.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)", "Realistic Fiction", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38355098-dry"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian Prince", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 4316, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "Breaking up was never so hard... Going undercover at a mass wedding as a bartered bride, Morrigan Blake has every intention of getting off the barbaric planet just as soon as it\u2019s over. Or, more correctly, just as soon as she captures footage of the mysterious princes rumored to be in attendance. After a euphoric night, Morrigan discovers her spaceship left without her, and Ualan of Draig is claiming she\u2019s his wife. It\u2019s not exactly the story this reporter had in mind. And to make matters worse, the all-to-seductive alpha refuses to take no for an answer. Being cursed by the Gods was never so frustrating... Prince Ualan is prepared to follow dragonshifter tradition and marry the woman revealed to him during the Breeding Festival. When the stubborn, yet achingly sexy, Morrigan refuses to accept their shared fate and his supreme authority over her, it is all he can do to keep from acting like the barbarian she accuses him of being.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22011010-barbarian-prince"}, +{"book_title": "The Electric Church", "author_name": "Jeff Somers", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2951, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achieve this, the converted become Monks -- cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and virtually unlimited life spans. Enter Avery Cates, a dangerous criminal known as the best killer-for-hire around. The authorities have a special mission in mind for Cates: assassinate Dennis Squalor. But for Cates, the assignment will be the most dangerous job he's ever undertaken -- and it may well be his last.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Mystery (Noir)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1765771.The_Electric_Church"}, +{"book_title": "Three", "author_name": "Kristen Simmons", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 5043, "review_number": 439, "book_description": "Ember Miller and Chase Jennings are ready to stop running. After weeks spent in hiding as two of the Bureau of Reformation\u2019s most wanted criminals, they have finally arrived at the safe house, where they hope to live a safe and quiet existence.And all that\u2019s left is smoking ruins.Devastated by the demolition of their last hope, Ember and Chase follow the only thing left to them\u2014tracks leading away from the wreckage. The only sign that there may have been survivors.With their high profile, they know they can\u2019t stay out in the open for long. They take shelter in the wilderness and amidst the ruins of abandoned cities as they follow the tracks down the coast, eventually finding refugees from the destroyed safe house. Among them is someone from Chase\u2019s past\u2014someone he never thought he\u2019d see again.Banding together, they search for a place to hide, aiming for a settlement a few of them have heard about\u2026a settlement that is rumored to house the nebulous organization known as Three. The very group that has provided Ember with a tiny ray of hope ever since she was first forced on the run.Three is responsible for the huge network of underground safe houses and resistance groups across the country. And they may offer Ember her only chance at telling the world her story.At fighting back.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17559899-three"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien's Prize", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 3297, "review_number": 251, "book_description": "Welcome to Luxiria, where the twin suns are hot and the alien warriors are hotter\u2026 Kate Harper finally had everything going on back on Earth: her dream job, a kickass best friend, and an apartment completely void of her cheating ex. That is, until she wakes up, cuffed and naked, on an alien planet/fight club known as the Pit. Worse? Aliens fight to the death to be able to claim their prize: human pleasure mates. Even worse? She realizes she\u2019s one of them. Vaxa\u2019an, the Prime Leader of Luxiria, has a duty to his warrior species: continue their race. Infamously ruthless and deadly, the Luxirian knows he\u2019ll have no trouble claiming a Breeder at the Pit. What he doesn\u2019t expect to find is his fated mate, with her lush curves and tempting body. And he will stop at nothing to claim her. When Kate becomes the warrior alpha\u2019s prize, her only goal is getting back to the life she was taken from. Certainly not to fall for the sexy, overbearing barbarian with a wicked tongue, who is determined to make her his own\u2026 Features a curvy, stubborn human female and a seven-foot tall hot alien with a dirty mouth and an impossibly large (-ahem-) package that does deliciously interesting things. Full-length 55,000+ word novel!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34357797-the-alien-s-prize"}, +{"book_title": "Rant", "author_name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 62127, "review_number": 3000, "book_description": "Buster \u201cRant\u201d Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Contemporary", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor", "Adult Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22285.Rant"}, +{"book_title": "Contact", "author_name": "Susan Grant", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1103, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "When co-pilot Jordan Cady\u2019s 747 is snatched from the sky by an immense UFO, she must put aside her own fears and take charge, exactly what the single mother of a six-year old daughter knows how to do. With no power or communications to the plane, Jordan and her crew are far from understanding who\u2014or what\u2014has hijacked them, until an envoy is sent to deliver unthinkable news. Space Force Lieutenant K\u00e0o Vantaar-Moray expected gratitude and not defiance from the Earth-woman pilot. No matter how hard he tries to convince her that his people saved her and hundreds of her passengers from certain death, he can't erase her suspicion that in the eyes of those on Earth her aircraft has vanished without a trace. The more involved he becomes with Jordan, the more his loyalties are torn. He owes his ship commander respect, and his very life, but a new life beckons with Jordan\u2014if he can save her and her people before a heartless enemy reveals its true intentions..\u00a0\u201cAs a 747 pilot for United Airlines, there is little doubt that Susan Grant has been forced to confront more directly than most of us the enormous changes September 11, 2001 brought to our world. Drawing on her unique credentials and front-line perspective, Susan Grant has delivered a story of unusual depth and power that, while a terrific romance and a great adventure, resonates with a distinctly post 9-11 sensibility.\u201d\u2014All About Romance", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic Romance", "Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18949861-contact"}, +{"book_title": "Erun", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1505, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "New Edition found hereHe\u2019s an Ujal who knows he\u2019ll never have a mate. She\u2019s a human who doesn\u2019t want to take another chance on love. One small child doesn\u2019t give them a choice. With her toddler in tow, Vanessa Walker travels to Tampa, Florida to begin her new job at Ujal Station Tau. Then problems arise\u2014her daughter is ill, and a sexy, demanding, overwhelming, purple-scaled Ujal is determined to do whatever he can to save Tabitha. When they realize Tabby isn\u2019t ill, she\u2019s Ujal, plenty of people don\u2019t want Vanessa raising her newly tail-sporting alien daughter. Ujal royalty may support her, but only one person\u2014one Ujal male\u2014makes her feel safe: Erun fa Arex. Erun fa Arex earned his position through blood, sweat, and scales with a trident as his constant companion. On Earth, he is the captain of the principessa\u2019s elite guard, a worthy Ujal warrior matched by few. On Ujal, he grew up as a child slave forced to fight for sport and others\u2019 pleasure. Fighting left physical and mental scars while the master\u2019s growth-hormone injections left him unable to father younglings. Erun never considered mating and having a family of his own until he meets Vanessa and Tabitha. Now he realizes everything he rejected\u2014a mate and family\u2014is exactly what he desires. And he will fight to keep them\u2026 to the death.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26097214-erun"}, +{"book_title": "Mage Against the Machine", "author_name": "Shaun Barger", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 253, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie.The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the nuclear wasteland on the other side, the mages have spent the last century putting their lives back together. Nikolai is obsessed with artifacts from twentieth-century human life: mage-crafted replica Chuck Taylors on his feet, Schwarzenegger posters on his walls, Beatlemania still alive and well in his head. But he\u2019s also tasked with a higher calling\u2014to maintain the Veils that protect mage-kind from the hazards of the wastes beyond. As a cadet in the Mage King\u2019s army, Nik has finally found what he always wanted\u2014a purpose. But when confronted by one of his former instructors gone rogue, Nik tumbles into a dark secret. The humans weren\u2019t nuked into oblivion\u2014they\u2019re still alive. Not only that, outside the domes a war rages between the last enclaves of free humans and vast machine intelligences. Outside the dome, unprepared and on the run, Nik finds Jem. Jem is a Runner for the Human Resistance. A ballerina-turned-soldier by the circumstances of war, Jem is more than just a human\u2014her cybernetic enhancement mods make her faster, smarter, and are the only things that give her a fighting chance against the artificial beings bent on humanity\u2019s eradication. Now Nik faces an impossible decision: side with the mages and let humanity die out? Or stand with Jem and the humans\u2014and risk endangering everything he knows and loves?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373428-mage-against-the-machine"}, +{"book_title": "Monster Hunter International", "author_name": "Larry Correia", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 25977, "review_number": 2229, "book_description": "Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit. It\u2019s actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Business is good... Welcome to Monster Hunter International.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Action", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2570856-monster-hunter-international"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Shadows", "author_name": "Jordan K. Weisman", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 548, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "This bestselling series has achieved an average sales pace of 5,000 copies per month. In the world of the future, where magic and technology coexist, the super-corporations' wars wage out of control--and shadowrunners survive by their wits and by their skill at riding the computer Matrix. Cross-marketed with the Shadowrun role-playing game.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/530797.Into_the_Shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Touch", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 5439, "review_number": 458, "book_description": "When I wake up on the ice planet, I\u2019m scared of everything: this place is cold, silent, and the locals look more like blue devils than aliens. To make matters worse, one of the strangers decides I\u2019m going to be his girlfriend and kidnaps me away from my sister. I\u2019m completely and utterly alone. What\u2019s a girl to do? Well, this girl escapes.\u00a0 Of course, that means I go from frying pan into the fire, and my situation gets even more dangerous. Just when I have no hope left, a new hero appears. Sure, he\u2019s blue, horned, and has a tail. He\u2019s also fierce, protective, makes me purr... and thinks I'm perfect. But is what we have real or just a mating instinct?\u00a0 ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30524238-barbarian-s-touch"}, +{"book_title": "The Enemy", "author_name": "Charlie Higson", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 21729, "review_number": 2392, "book_description": "Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive.When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive.Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown-ups lie in wait.But can they make it there - alive?This edition contains the first chapter of the second book The Dead.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8540357-the-enemy"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Wars", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "What would have happened if history had been different: if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way-or not at all? From a Trojan War in which Helen surrenders to a Civil War fought with robots, from a World War I in which Teddy Roosevelt tries to recapture the glory of San Juan Hill to a World War II in which the race is not for atomic weapons but for orbital rockets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds-oddly familiar, disturbingly different.Summary: Poul Anderson's \"When Free Men Shall Stand\"Gregory Benford's \"Manassas, Again\"F.M. Busby's \"Tundra Moss\"Winston S. Churchill's \"If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg\"Nancy Kress's \"And Wild for to Hold\"Barry N. Malzberg's \"Turpentine\"Jack McDevitt's \"The Tomb\"James Morrow's \"Arms and the Woman\"Mike Resnick's \"Over There\"Allen Steele's \"Goddard's People\"Harry Turtledove's \"Ready for the Fatherland\"George Zebrowski's \"The Number of the Sand\".", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293336.Alternate_Wars"}, +{"book_title": "Thorn Wishes Talon", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 238, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "THE STORYOn Malinter, the Divine Fratery, servants of the Runious Powers, do battle with Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and his companions. But someone else is waiting in the shadows, someone that the Fratery want to see dead even more than they do Ravenor. As daemonhosts battle in the skies and the air fills with gunfire and rain, Ravenor meets with an old friend, summoned by a simple message: Thorn Wishes Talon.ABOUT THORN WISHES TALONSet between Ravenor and Ravenor Returned, \u2018Thorn Wishes Talon\u2019 sees the return of a face from the Inquisitor\u2019s past. The story previously appeared in the Ravenor Omnibus.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "40k"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13612667-thorn-wishes-talon"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunt", "author_name": "Stacey Kade", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1974, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "Ariane Tucker has finally escaped GTX, the research facility that created her. While on the run, Zane Bradshaw is the only person she can trust. He knows who-and what-she is and still wants to be part of her life. But accepting Zane's help means putting him in danger. Dr. Jacobs, head of GTX, is not the only one hunting for Ariane. Two rival corporations have their sights set on taking down their competition. Permanently. To protect Zane and herself, Ariane needs allies. She needs the other hybrids. The hybrids who are way more alien and a lot less human. Can Ariane win them over before they turn on her? Or will she be forced to choose sides, to decide who lives and who dies?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18296013-the-hunt"}, +{"book_title": "The Strange and Alarming Courtship of Miss Imogen Roth", "author_name": "Emma Jane Holloway", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 91, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "The Strange and Alarming Coutrtship of Miss Imogen Roth is the third prequel story to Emma Jane Holloway's A STUDY IN SILKS, the first book in her Baskerville Affair series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Short Stories", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667224-the-strange-and-alarming-courtship-of-miss-imogen-roth"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Victory", "author_name": "Brenda Joyce", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 2263, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "A HIGHLANDER DRIVEN BY VENGEANCEA dark, ruthless Highlander, the Black Macleod has refused his destiny. His life is revenge for the massacre of his family. His enemies\u2019 insults\u2014that he is a man of stone\u2014only amuse him. But Fate is impatient, and when a woman from another time dares to summon him, he cannot resist her powers\u2014or her\u2026THE WOMAN WHO WILL SAVE HIMA schoolteacher by day, Tabitha Rose uses her magic to protect others by night. When the vision of a dark Highlander, bloody and burned, appears to Tabby, she knows she has been called to help him, no matter how frightening he might be. But what Tabby doesn\u2019t expect is to be taken against her will to his dark violent time. And when evil begins to stalk her, she realizes she must fight for far more than his destiny\u2014she must fight for her love\u2026He didn\u2019t choose his destiny\u2026Destiny chose him", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fiction", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5714874-dark-victory"}, +{"book_title": "V for Vendetta", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 271488, "review_number": 5658, "book_description": "\"Remember, remember the fifth of November...\"A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Classics", "Politics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5805.V_for_Vendetta"}, +{"book_title": "Falcone Strike", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2224, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "Now a celebrated war hero, Captain Kat Falcone is back at the helm of HMS Lightning\u2026and up against near-impossible odds. After an ill-timed outburst almost ends her career, Kat is handed command of a deep-strike mission into enemy space. The objective is to gather intelligence and distract the hostile Theocracy while the Commonwealth prepares its counteroffensive.The chances for success are slim\u2014and for survival even slimmer.Armed with a ragtag fleet of outdated starships, a few loyal officers, and a skeleton crew of refugees, Kat knows the Royal Navy expects her to fail. But failure almost certainly means death\u2014or worse, as the Theocracy does not treat prisoners kindly. Pitted against the enemy defenses of her old nemesis Admiral Junayd, there is no room for error. And with a spy hidden aboard her ship, Kat will need more than her wits to survive. Can Kat enter the lion\u2019s den, strike a blow for the Commonwealth, and escape with her life?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25928327-falcone-strike"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Imperium", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 35, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Omnibus of The Other Side of Time and Assignment in Nowhere.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1714309.Beyond_the_Imperium"}, +{"book_title": "Curio", "author_name": "Evangeline Denmark", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 666, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "Grey Haward has always detested the Chemists, the magicians-come-scientists who rule her small western town. But she has always followed the rules, taking the potion the Chemists ration out that helps the town\u2019s people survive. A potion that Grey suspects she\u2014like her grandfather and father\u2014may not actually need.By working at her grandfather\u2019s repair shop, sorting the small gears and dusting the curio cabinet inside, Grey has tried to stay unnoticed\u2014or as unnoticed as a tall, strong girl can in a town of diminutive, underdeveloped citizens. Then her best friend, Whit, is caught by the Chemists\u2019 enforcers after trying to protect Grey one night, and after seeing the extent of his punishment, suddenly taking risks seems the only decision she can make.But with the risk comes the reality that the Chemists know her family\u2019s secret, and the Chemists soon decide to use her for their own purposes. Panicked, Grey retreats to the only safe place she knows\u2014her grandfather\u2019s shop. There, however, a larger secret confronts her when her touch unlocks the old curio cabinet in the corner and reveals a world where porcelain and clockwork people are real. There, she could find the key that may save Whit\u2019s life and also end the Chemists\u2019 dark rule forever.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25309770-curio"}, +{"book_title": "Lost in a Good Book", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 49482, "review_number": 2841, "book_description": "If Thursday thought she could avoid the spotlight after her heroic escapades in the pages of Jane Eyre, she was sorely mistaken. The unforgettable literary detective whom Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times calls \"part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew and part Dirty Harry\" had another think coming. The love of her life has been eradicated by Goliath, everyone's favorite corrupt multinational. To rescue him Thursday must retrieve a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of \"The Raven.\" But Poe is off-limits to even the most seasoned literary interloper. Enter a professional: the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations. As her new apprentice, Thursday keeps her motives secret as she learns the ropes of Jurisfiction, where she moonlights as a Prose Resource Operative inside books. As if jumping into the likes of Kafka, Austen, and Beatrix Potter's Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies weren't enough, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27000.Lost_in_a_Good_Book"}, +{"book_title": "Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances", "author_name": "Trisha Telep", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 1535, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "Dark, urban fantasies come to life in the newest collection of Steampunk stories, Corsets & Clockwork. Young heroes and heroines battle evils with the help of supernatural or super-technological powers, each individual story perfectly balancing historical and fantastical elements. Throw in epic romances that transcend time, and this trendy, engrossing anthology is sure to become another hit for the fast-growing Steampunk genre!This collection features some of the hottest writers in the teen genre, including: Ann Aguirre, Jaclyn Dolamore, Tessa Gratton, Frewin Jones, Caitlin Kittredge, Adrienne Kress, Lesley Livingston, Dru Pagliassotti, Dia Reeves, Michael Scott, Maria V. Snyder, Tiffany Trent, and Kiersten White.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8918559-corsets-clockwork"}, +{"book_title": "Debian Perl: Digital Detective Book One", "author_name": "Melanie Hilario", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 57, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Megalopolis used to be the city hub for all the makers, doers, and dreamers. It was a better time according to Debian Perl, a technomancer known for her out-of-date computer programming skills. Now the city streets are filled with \"Egg-heads,\" those in thrall to the ease and simplicity of new technology as opposed to Debian's way of doing things. Digits is one of those Egg-heads. She is a young social media guru and knows her way around all the newest, latest technology.Debian and Digits cross paths when they both stumble across a 100-year-old lost robot named Ray-Bot. They soon learn that Ray-Bot's CPU was suspiciously overclocked, leaving him unable to perform basic functions and commands. To find out where the robot came from, Debian must teach Digits everything she knows about computer coding and programming. Along their journey to bring Ray-Bot home, they begin piecing together the mysterious puzzle about his malfunction, and uncover some sinister secrets.Debian Perl: Digital Detective is a five-book series in which middle-grade readers will join Debian and Digits on mystery adventures all while building practical knowledge of coding, algorithms, algebra, and logical problem solving.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45010797-debian-perl"}, +{"book_title": "Snowscape", "author_name": "Patrick Ness", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3425, "review_number": 503, "book_description": "Snowscape is set after the end of Monsters of Men, so that\u2019s when you should read it.That\u2019s all I\u2019ll say, I don\u2019t want to give anything away. ;-)- Patrick Ness", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17926802-snowscape"}, +{"book_title": "The Different Girl", "author_name": "Gordon Dahlquist", "rating_score": 2.9, "rating_votes": 1569, "review_number": 384, "book_description": "Four nearly identical girls on a desert island. An unexpected new arrival. A gently warped near future where nothing is quite as it seems.Veronika. Caroline. Isobel. Eleanor. One blond, one brunette, one redhead, one with hair black as tar. Four otherwise identical girls who spend their days in sync, tasked to learn. But when May, a very different kind of girl\u2014the lone survivor of a recent shipwreck\u2014suddenly and mysteriously arrives on the island, an unsettling mirror is about to be held up to the life the girls have never before questioned.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15721645-the-different-girl"}, +{"book_title": "The Water Mirror", "author_name": "Kai Meyer", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 4899, "review_number": 349, "book_description": "In Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin -- a boy who was once a master thief -- works for a weaver of magic cloth. Merle and Serafin are used to the mermaids who live in the canals of the city -- beautiful creatures with hideous mouths that split their faces from ear to ear -- and to the guards who patrol the streets on living stone lions. Merle herself possesses something magical: a mirror whose surface is water. She can reach her whole arm into it and never get wet.But Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors and flying sunbarks are waiting to strike. All that protects the Venetians is the Flowing Queen. Nobody knows who or what she is -- only that her power flows through the canals and keeps the Egyptians at bay.When Merle and Serafin overhear a plot to capture the Flowing Queen, they are catapulted into desperate danger. They must do everything they can to rescue the Queen and save the city -- even if it means getting help from the Ancient Traitor himself.Kai Meyer's bold, original fantasy conjures up a land of magic and menace as Merle and Serafin begin a journey to unimagined realms in the extraordinary world of Dark Reflections.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Mythology (Mermaids)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929373.The_Water_Mirror"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Dwarves Don't Dance", "author_name": "Derek J. Canyon", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 377, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Noose, a genetically engineered dwarf mercenary, barely survives a terrorist attack on a neohuman dance club. Injured and alone, he embarks on a brutal quest for vengeance into the squalid underbelly of the Regional Atlanta Metroplex, through the desert wasteland of the not-so-pristine wilderness, and to the peerless towers of elite society.The year is 2134. The nations of previous centuries are gone, consumed by the United Globe government. Citizens are confined to vast metroplexes while the rest of Earth is restored to wilderness. Neohumans are grown in vats, each type genetically engineered to serve humanity \u2013 flawless pleasers for gratification and ecstasy, hulking goons for war and violence, accidental psykers wreaking havoc, and more of any shape and size imaginable.An action-packed, hard-boiled science fiction novel of redemption and revenge.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Action", "Mystery (Noir)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10191328-dead-dwarves-don-t-dance"}, +{"book_title": "The Silence of Medair", "author_name": "Andrea K. H\u00f6st", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 961, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Time stole victory.Medair an Rynstar returned too late to drive back the Ibisian invasion. Centuries too late.When friend and enemy have become the same thing, what use are the weapons Medair planned to use to protect her Empire? There is no magic, no artefact, no enchanted trinket which can undo the past.But no matter how Medair wishes to hide from the consequences of her failure, there are those who will not allow her the luxury of denying the present. Her war is already lost, but she carries weapons which could change the course of new battles.With the skirmishes of war beginning, and hunters in near pursuit, it is her conscience Medair cannot escape. Whose side should she be on? What is she really running from?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9837154-the-silence-of-medair"}, +{"book_title": "The Gentle Giants of Ganymede", "author_name": "James P. Hogan", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1852, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "THE END OF EXILELong before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart, millennia ago, the strange race of giants had vanished. No one could discover their fate, nor where they had gone, nor why. There was only a wrecked ship abandoned on a frozen satellite of Jupiter. And now Earth's code and scientists were there, determined to ferret out the secret of the lost race.And suddenly, spinning out of the vastness of space and immensity of time, the ship of the strange, humanoid giants returned. They brought with them answers that would alter all Mankind's knowledge of human origins in startling revelations from the past that would have biologic reverberations to be at this time. . .", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/709609.The_Gentle_Giants_of_Ganymede"}, +{"book_title": "Breath of Magic", "author_name": "Teresa Medeiros", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3095, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "Precocious Puritan and aspiring witch Arian Whitewood spends her lonely nights dreaming of magic and excitement. She gets more excitement than she bargains for when she crash lands straight out of a witch hunt into the 20th century and the arms of Tristan Lennox, a reclusive billionaire. Arian blows through Tristan's climate-controlled existence like a breath of magic, only to discover that the spell he weaves around her heart is more compelling than any enchantment.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350678.Breath_of_Magic"}, +{"book_title": "The Cardboard Kingdom", "author_name": "Chad Sell", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 5912, "review_number": 687, "book_description": "Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again.In the Cardboard Kingdom, you can be anything you want to be--imagine that!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Realistic Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30623090-the-cardboard-kingdom"}, +{"book_title": "Chronicles of Steele: Raven", "author_name": "Pauline Creeden", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 346, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "This is the complete Steampunk Fantasy novel - all four parts of the serial in one volume! Also includes bonus features not found in the episodes ~ Human life has value. The poor living in the gutter are as valuable as the rich living in a manor. The scoundrel is no less valuable than the saint. Because of this, every life a reaper takes must be redeemed. Raven has lived by this first tenet since she was trained by her father to become a reaper. But since his death, she\u2019s been spending years redeeming the lives she\u2019s taken. By her count, she\u2019s even and it\u2019s time for that life to end. If she settles down and becomes a wife, she might just feel human again. But on the way to the life she thinks she wants, the baron of New Haven asks her to complete a task which she cannot ignore\u2026 Just when Raven decides to give up on her life as an assassin, she\u2019s pulled right back in.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Christian Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "New Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23206075-chronicles-of-steele"}, +{"book_title": "Faith", "author_name": "John Love", "rating_score": 3.28, "rating_votes": 422, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Moby Dick meets Duel in John Love''s debut novel of Space Opera and Military Science Fiction! Faith is the name humanity has given to the unknown, seemingly invincible alien ship that has begun to harass the newly emergent Commonwealth. 300 years earlier, the same ship destroyed the Sakhran Empire, allowing the Commonwealth to expand its sphere of influence. But now Faith has returned! The ship is as devastating as before, and its attacks leave some Commonwealth solar systems in chaos. Eventually it reaches Sakhra, now an important Commonwealth possession, and it seems like history is about to repeat itself. But this time, something is waiting: an Outsider, one of the Commonwealth''s ultimate warships. Slender silver ships, full of functionality and crewed by people of unusual abilities, often sociopaths or psychopaths, Outsiders were conceived in back alleys, built and launched in secret, and commissioned without ceremony. One system away from earth, the Outsider ship Charles Manson makes a stand. Commander Foord waits with his crew of miscreants and sociopath, hoping to accomplish what no other human has been able to do - to destroy Faith!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Dark", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12476631-faith"}, +{"book_title": "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers", "author_name": "Grant Naylor", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 25905, "review_number": 504, "book_description": "The first lesson Lister learned about space travel was you should never try it. But Lister didn't have a choice. All he remembered was going on a birthday celebration pub crawl through London. When he came to his senses again, with nothing in his pockets but a passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein.So he did the only thing he could. Amazed to discover they would actually hire him, he joined the space corps----and found himself aboard Red Dwarf, a spaceship as big as a small city that, six or seven years from now, would get him back to Earth. What Lister couldn't forsee was that he'd inadvertently signed up for a one--way jaunt three million years into the future---a future which would see him the last living member of the human race, with only a hologram crew mate and a highly evolved cat for company. Of course, that was before the ship broke the light barrier and things began to get really weird...", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/349090.Infinity_Welcomes_Careful_Drivers"}, +{"book_title": "Split Infinity", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 16659, "review_number": 388, "book_description": "On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay in Phaze, a world totally ruled by magic. Soon he learned that his alternate self had already been murdered, and that he was next. On Proton, his fate depended on winning the great Games. On Phaze, he must master magic to survive. And if he used any magic at all, his friends were determined to kill him at once!", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Humor", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99461.Split_Infinity"}, +{"book_title": "Risteard\u2019s Unwilling Empress", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1814, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "Rist\u00e9ard Roald is the powerful and deadly ruler of Elpidios, a planet that is slowly dying without the blood stones needed to absorb the radiation gradually destroying its stratosphere. He has sworn to do whatever it takes to protect his world and his people, but time is running out.Hope comes from an unexpected source, the Kassis. They have found a way to replicate the blood stones needed to save his world, but his first dealings with a traitorous Kassisan has left a deep distrust for the species.Ricki Bailey is used to dealing with diplomats and handling complex situations. After all, as the daughter of the owners of Cirque de Magik, the most spectacular Circus to the Stars, she is used to organizing their trips to foreign countries. Her life changes when her mother and father decide to take the circus to the real stars\u2026 and to another star system!If she thought learning new laws and customs was going to be a challenge, it was nothing to the sudden interest she was getting from a huge blue male known as the Grand Ruler! Ricki discovers words that she didn\u2019t even realize were in her vocabulary, most of them not in the least polite.She decides the best way to deal with the arrogant male is to treat him like she did when encountering difficult Consuls during the circus\u2019 travels on Earth; stay cool, calm, and professional and only deal with the facts necessary to complete whatever business transaction was required.Rist\u00e9ard is stunned when a strange, alien female, foretold in the ancient tablets as being the great Empress who will save his world, appears. He is even more astonished when she refuses his attentions! With the life of his planet at stake, not to mention his own peace of mind and body, he will do whatever is necessary to ensure the female stays by his side.Yet, there are forces working against him and Ricki, powerful forces that do not want him to be successful. Dangers and traitors among his own council threaten not only him, but her. It will take all of Rist\u00e9ard\u2019s resources, and a few unexpected allies, to complete the dangerous journey ahead of them.Can he keep his unwilling Empress safe from those that would destroy her? Better yet, can he save his world when there are those that would destroy it for the treasure of precious blood stones hidden somewhere beneath its surface?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19500808-risteard-s-unwilling-empress"}, +{"book_title": "Overload Flux", "author_name": "Carol Van Natta", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 651, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "The Central Galactic Concordance has been stable for two centuries, but trouble is brewing. A pandemic is affecting hundreds of civilized planets, and someone is stealing the vaccine...Brilliant investigator Luka Foxe's hidden mental talent is out of control, making him barely able to function in the aftermath of violence, and the body count is rising. The convoluted trail leads to a corrupt pharma industry and the possibility of an illegal, planet-sized laboratory. In the face of increasing threats, he must rely on an enigmatic, lethal woman he just met, but she has deep secrets of her own.Mairwen Morganthur hides extraordinary skills under the guise of a dull night-shift guard. The last thing she wants is to provide personal security for a hot-shot investigator, or to be plunged into a murky case involving sabotage, treachery, and the military covert operations division that would love to discover she\u2019s still alive.Two more lives in a rising death count won\u2019t bother their enemies one bit. Their only hope for survival lies in revealing their dark secrets and learning to trust one another.Previous edition found here ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Suspense", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Action", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33012415-overload-flux"}, +{"book_title": "Hallowed Bond", "author_name": "Eress\u00eb", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 938, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Time and circumstances may force true lovers apart but the tie that binds them can never be fully severed.When Dylen Teris and Riodan Leyhar meet one harsh winter in the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre, neither expects the encounter to lead to a fast friendship and abiding love. For a chasm of vastly dissimilar social stations lies between them, and not all Deira could imagine, let alone accept, such a relationship.Circumstances eventually separate them for what seems forever only to conspire to bring them together once more in the most unlikely of places\u2014at the court of Rohyr Essendri, Ylandre\u2019s powerful monarch. Complicating their situation is the attraction that still lingers between them, waiting to flare once more into love. But when one is unwilling to venture his heart again or wholly forgive its breaker, it may take a king\u2019s interference to reunite these star-crossed lovers for good.Contains hermaphroditism and explicit homoerotic sexual encounters.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT (Gay)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "LGBT", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9534408-hallowed-bond"}, +{"book_title": "Megatokyo, Volume 3", "author_name": "Fred Gallagher", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 837, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "New Book. Purchased from Sale Table at local book retailer(all new books). I have examined all aspects of this volume and find no flaws whatsoever. (Note:Your Satisfaction is Guaranteed. If you are not completely happy, we will refund your money immediately...no questions asked. Books purchased before 11am EST normally shipped same day.)", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329172.Megatokyo_Volume_3"}, +{"book_title": "Little Fuzzy", "author_name": "H. Beam Piper", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 9015, "review_number": 567, "book_description": "The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government. Then Jack Holloway, a sunstone prospector, appeared on the scene with his family of Fuzzies and the passionate conviction that they were not cute animals but little people. An 1 disc MP3-CD Edition.", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1440148.Little_Fuzzy"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf Wing", "author_name": "Tanith Lee", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2947, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "At last, Claidi and her beloved Argul are free to get married. But before they can start their life together, Claidi must face her past. They return to her birthplace, the House, to rescue the other slaves?and find that there has been a revolution, sparked by Claidi's escape. Then the two are urgently summoned by Ironel Novendot of the Wolf Tower, who tells them that Ustareth is alive. Ustareth, the mother of Argul and Venn, the science-sorceress, who has perhaps manipulated each of them for their entire lives. Now she wants them all to visit her?but to what end?", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293442.Wolf_Wing"}, +{"book_title": "Heir of Fire", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 305275, "review_number": 25707, "book_description": "Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "New Adult", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20613470-heir-of-fire"}, +{"book_title": "By Heresies Distressed", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 6643, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "Now the battle for the soul of the planet Safehold has begun.The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, a single empire, dedicated to the defense of human freedom. Crowned Empress of that empire, Sharleyan has found in Cayleb\u2019s arms the love she never dared hope for in a \u201cmarriage of state.\u201d In Cayleb\u2019s cause, his defiance of the ruthless Group of Four who govern mother Church, she has found the task to which she can commit her mind and her courage. It is a cause for which she was born. Yet there are things Sharleyan still does not know. Secrets Cayleb has not been permitted to share, even with her. Secrets like the true story of humanity on Safehold. Like the intricate web of lies, deception, and fabricated \u201creligion\u201d which have chained humanity for almost a thousand years. Like the existence of the genocidal alien Gbaba, waiting to complete mankind\u2019s destruction should humans ever attract their attention once more. Like the existence of a young woman, Nimue Alban, nine hundred years dead, whose heart, mind, and memories live on within the android body of the warrior-monk she knows as Merlin.And so Empress Sharleyan faces the the great challenge of her life unaware of all that task truly entails...or of how the secrets the man who loves her cannot share may threaten all they have achieved between them...and her own life.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6048478-by-heresies-distressed"}, +{"book_title": "The Water Wars", "author_name": "Cameron Stracher", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 5125, "review_number": 743, "book_description": "\nWelcome to a future where water is more precious than gold or oil\u2014and worth killing for\nVera and her brother, Will, live in the shadow of the Great Panic, in a country that has collapsed from environmental catastrophe. Water is hoarded by governments, rivers are dammed, and clouds are sucked from the sky. But then Vera befriends Kai, who seems to have limitless access to fresh water. When Kai suddenly disappears, Vera and Will set off on a dangerous journey in search of him-pursued by pirates, a paramilitary group, and greedy corporations. Timely and eerily familiar, acclaimed author Cameron Stracher makes a stunning YA debut that's impossible to forget.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Environment"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7749505-the-water-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Parker's Sanctuary", "author_name": "Cooper West", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 283, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Stalked by danger, will Parker ever find a place to call home?Greg Lademar is an ordinary and average Army veteran who has settled down with his job as an accountant and his lingering PTSD. He lives a quiet life as a single man, alone on the former blueberry farm he bought from his parents after they retired to Orlando. When a friend who works with animal control asks him to foster Parker, a severely injured dog who has just been rescued from an abusive home, the last thing Greg expects is to be dragged into the mysterious world of the Guardsmen \u2014 the bonded pairs of humans and their weredogs, known as Protectors, who are literally the stuff of myths and legends.Greg\u2019s life is turned upside down by unexpected events involving Parker and the strange Guardsmen pair Marcus and Alex Stephanek, but far more dangerous to him is the man who used to own Parker and holds a grudge for having \u201chis\u201d dog taken from him. A game of cat and mouse ensues, with more on the line than even Greg ever thought possible: his life, and the life of Parker, who has become more important to him than Greg ever imagined a rescue dog could be. Welcome to the world of Guardsmen, bonded pairs of weredogs and their partners who live on the edges of society -- worshipped and feared in turn, sheltered as much as they are shunned, Guardsmen mates live, love, and die together.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "M M Romance (M M Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "LGBT", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34857617-parker-s-sanctuary"}, +{"book_title": "The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln", "author_name": "Stephen L. Carter", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2506, "review_number": 463, "book_description": "From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nation\u2019s past \u00a0 Stephen L. Carter\u2019s thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford\u2019s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority, both during and after the Civil War, and faces an impeachment trial . . . Twenty-one-year-old Abigail Canner is a young black woman with a degree from Oberlin, a letter of employment from the law firm that has undertaken Lincoln\u2019s defense, and the iron-strong conviction, learned from her late mother, that \u201cwhatever limitations society might place on ordinary negroes, they would never apply to her.\u201d And so Abigail embarks on a life that defies the norms of every stratum of Washington society: working side by side with a white clerk, meeting the great and powerful of the nation, including the president himself.\u00a0 But when Lincoln\u2019s lead counsel is found brutally murdered on the eve of the trial, Abigail is plunged into a treacherous web of intrigue and conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the divided government. Here is a vividly imagined work of historical fiction that captures the emotional tenor of post\u2013Civil War America, a brilliantly realized courtroom drama that explores the always contentious question of the nature of presidential authority, and a galvanizing story of political suspense.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Military History (Civil War)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Politics", "Cultural (African American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12953517-the-impeachment-of-abraham-lincoln"}, +{"book_title": "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell", "author_name": "Susanna Clarke", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 206926, "review_number": 14398, "book_description": "Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more.English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman from the dead. Soon he is lending his help to the government in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, creating ghostly fleets of rain-ships to confuse and alarm the French.All goes well until a rival magician appears. Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative-the very opposite of Mr Norrell. Strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with Wellington's army and doing magic on battlefields. Astonished to find another practicing magician, Mr Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be are very different. For Mr Norrell, their power is something to be cautiously controlled, while Jonathan Strange will always be attracted to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic. He becomes fascinated by the ancient, shadowy figure of the Raven King, a child taken by fairies who became king of both England and Faerie, and the most legendary magician of all. Eventually Strange's heedless pursuit of long-forgotten magic threatens to destroy not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything that he holds dear.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14201.Jonathan_Strange_Mr_Norrell"}, +{"book_title": "Motor Dog", "author_name": "Kurt Cyrus", "rating_score": 3.04, "rating_votes": 111, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Here's a tale of a boy and his robotic best (canine) friend. When Scoot the Cat comes on the scene, Motor Dog does what any normal dog would do: gives chase! Our boy Flip does everything he can to call him off, but no commands-verbal or electronic-can stop his new dog. When Flip runs after his malfunctioning pet, things go haywire! Will Motor Dog come through when Flip's in danger? Merging Kurt Cyrus' dynamic poetry with David Gordon's stellar art makes for a wham-bam combination of fast-paced peril and classic storytelling that begs to be read again and again.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Animals (Dogs)", "Childrens", "Animals (Cats)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Animals", "Poetry", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17899645-motor-dog"}, +{"book_title": "Memory", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 16357, "review_number": 772, "book_description": "Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persuades Emperor Gregor to appoint him Imperial Auditor so he can penetrate Barrayar\u2019s intelligence and security operations (ImpSec). Simon Illyan, head of ImpSec and Miles\u2019 former boss, is failing physically and mentally, and Miles sets out to find out why -- and who, if anyone, is behind Illyan\u2019s rapid decline. Library Journal calls Miles \u201cone of the genre\u2019s most enterprising and engaging heroes\u201d. A Hugo and Nebula Award finalist.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61880.Memory"}, +{"book_title": "Leviathan Wakes", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 181488, "review_number": 12298, "book_description": "Humanity has colonized the solar system\u2014Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond\u2014but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for\u2014and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations\u2014and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes"}, +{"book_title": "LIFEL1K3", "author_name": "Jay Kristoff", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 8425, "review_number": 2300, "book_description": "It's just another day on the Scrap: lose the last of your credits at the WarDome, dodge the gangs and religious fanatics, discover you can destroy electronics with your mind, stumble upon the deadliest robot ever built When Eve finds the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best friend and her robotic sidekick in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, battle cyborg assassins, and scour abandoned megacities to save the ones she lovesand learn the dark secrets of her past.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29456569-lifel1k3"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow of Saganami", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 6040, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected. What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven has actually been targeted by an unholy alliance between the slaveholders of Manpower, the rival star kingdoms of Mesa and Monica, and the bureaucrats of the Solarian League. The alliance stands to benefit if the Havenites defeat Manticore, and are preparing for a surprise attack from the rear to divide Manticore's forces, which are already strained nearly to their limits. With their captain, the young Manticoran officers will risk their careers, if not their lives, on an unauthorized mission to expose and counter the threat to their Star Kingdom. Follow their journey as they show what they're made of as New York Times best-selling author David Weber begins a new series that will be a must for the hundreds of thousands of Honor Harrington fans.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "War", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77745.The_Shadow_of_Saganami"}, +{"book_title": "The Fabulous Riverboat", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 9462, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "In To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer introduces readers to the awesome Riverworld, a planet that had been carved into one large river on whose shores all of humanity throughout the ages has seemingly been resurrected. In The Fabulous Riverboat, Farmer tells the tale of one person whose is uniquely suited to find the river's headwaters, riverboat captain and famous Earthly author Sam Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain). Clemens has been visited by \"X,\" a mysterious being who claims to be a rebel among the group that created Riverworld. X tells Clemens where he can find a large deposit of iron and other materials that Clemens can use to build the greatest riverboat ever seen. Since there is virtually no metal on the planet, it will also give Clemens an unbeatable edge when it comes to battling the various warlike societies that dominate the Riverworld. But Clemens is not alone in his quest for the iron, which arrives on the planet in the form of a giant meteorite. In fact, Clemens is besieged on all sides by forces determined to seize the precious ore, leading him to make a deadly pact with one of history's most notorious villains, John Lackland. Lackland's crimes during his reign as king of England were so hideous that no other English monarch will ever carry his name, and he's up to equally nefarious tricks on Riverworld. However, Clemens has a guardian angel in the form of Joe Miller, a giant subhuman with a big nose, a serious lisp, and a cutting wit. Miller has also been to the very headwaters of the river, where he saw a mysterious tower in the middle of the North Sea and where the creators of Riverworld are thought to reside. He will be an invaluable ally in completing the riverboat and sailing to the headwaters, but even an 800-pound giant may not be enough to help Clemens fulfill X's mission. --Craig E. Engler", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16536.The_Fabulous_Riverboat"}, +{"book_title": "The Diabolical Miss Hyde", "author_name": "Viola Carr", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1750, "review_number": 352, "book_description": "Forensic science, magic, mystery, and romance mix in this edgy steampunk fantasy\u2014a retelling of the horror classic, in which Dr. Eliza Jekyll, daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll\u2014pursues a dangerous murderer in an alternate Victorian London.In an electrified Victorian London, Dr. Eliza Jekyll is a crime scene investigator, hunting killers with newfangled technological gadgets. She will need every advantage available to catch a terrifying new psychopath splattering London with blood. Hidden in the grimy shadows, the fiendish murderer preys on beautiful women, drugging them before slicing off their limbs. Finding the \u201cSlicer\u201d can make Eliza\u2019s career . . . or unmask her darkest secret. Like her father, she has a hidden second self that emerges when she drinks his forbidden magical elixir. Just a few sips, and a seductive and impulsive Lizzie Hyde is unleashed.The members of the Royal Society do not trust Eliza, and they send their enforcer, the mercurial Captain Lafayette, to prove she\u2019s a dangerous sorceress. The careful doctor knows that one wrong step can make her prey to the clever Lafayette, a man who harbors an evil curse of his own. No matter how much she craves the elixir, she must resist.But as the Slicer case draws her into London\u2019s luminous magical underworld, Eliza will need the potion\u2019s power to help her . . . even if it might attract the attentions of Lafayette. .Even if it means setting the wild Lizzie free. . . .", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328559-the-diabolical-miss-hyde"}, +{"book_title": "The Fredric Brown MEGAPACK \u00ae: 33 Classic Science Fiction Stories", "author_name": "Fredric Brown", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 351, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Fredric Brown (1906-1972), one of science fiction's greatest masters from the Golden Age, is famous for his many classic short stories -- quite a few of which are presented here, including \"Arena,\" \"Knock,\" \"Earthmen Bearing Gifts,\" \"The Star Mouse,\" and many more. The 32 tales of science fiction and fantasy assembled in this massive volume include: ARENAEXPERIMENTKEEP OUTHAPPY ENDINGHALL OF MIRRORSEARTHMEN BEARING GIFTSIMAGINEIT DIDN'T HAPPENRECESSIONALEINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIKPUPPET SHOWNIGHTMARE IN YELLOWJAYCEEPI IN THE SKYANSWERTHE GEEZENSTACKSKNOCKREBOUNDTHE STAR MOUSEABOMINABLELETTER TO A PHOENIXNOT YET THE ENDARMAGEDDONOF TIME AND EUSTACE WEAVERRECONCILIATIONNOTHING SIRIUSPATTERNTHE YEHUDI PRINCIPLECOME AND GO MADSENTRYETAOIN SHRDLUTHE ENDNOW AVAILABLE: The Second Fredric Brown Megapack! (Search this ebook store for the companion volume, with another great set of Fredric Brown tales!)And don't forget to search this ebook store for \u02baWildside Press Megapack\u02ba to see more entries in this great series (including \"The Second Fredric Brown Megapack\"), covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Classics", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22533304-the-fredric-brown-megapack"}, +{"book_title": "The Artificial Wife", "author_name": "Rachael Eyre", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 20, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Summer has been coached to be the perfect wife. When she is sold to the self centred, bullying Robert, she thinks her life is over.Former prostitute Elle has lost everything in a short space of time. Robert seems to offer her a way out.Two robot women from different worlds, brought together by the same man. In these unlikely circumstances, true love can grow.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fantasy", "Dark", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39706914-the-artificial-wife"}, +{"book_title": "The Winner's Curse", "author_name": "Marie Rutkoski", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 100214, "review_number": 12468, "book_description": "Winning what you want may cost you everything you love...\u00a0As a general\u2019s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin\u2019s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him\u2014with unexpected consequences. It\u2019s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined. Set in a richly imagined new world, The Winner\u2019s Curse by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16069030-the-winner-s-curse"}, +{"book_title": "Intentional Abduction", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3533, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Aylia is on a quest to get pregnant, and in the time-honored tradition of her people, she must kidnap a suitable male for the task. Seducing the reluctant warrior is harder than she expected, especially when her body turns traitor and melts at his touch. When he flips the situation around and takes her prisoner, he doesn\u2019t just steal her body. He also takes her heart. And she might just have to kill him to get it back.Being the scourge of the galaxy comes with consequences, like women wanting his body, but Jaro\u2019s never had someone kidnap him for his seed. Fighting the female\u2019s allure, the captive becomes the captor, and he learns that not all battles are fought using fists and knives. Although, the sword between his legs gives her its best shot.Through the vastness of space, brothels and unmentionable places in between, can this stubborn pair overlook their pride and past to come together? Or will they forever abduct and pleasurably torture each other?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12754048-intentional-abduction"}, +{"book_title": "Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Alternate Scenarios", "author_name": "Peter G. Tsouras", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 39, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Based on a series of fascinating \u00b5What ifs' posed by leading military historians, this compelling new alternate history recontructs the moments during the Battle of the Bulge which could conceivably have altered the entire course of the Second World War and led to a German victory. Based on real battles, actions and characters, each scenario has been carefully constructed to reveal how at points of decision a different choice or minor incident could have set in motion an entirely new train of events altering history for ever. What if the Germans successfully prevented Patton from riding to the rescue at Bastogne? Or if the Allies had suffered a major setback at the Battle of the Bulge which allowed the Red Army to overrun Berlin and drive on to the Rhine? What if Hitler had not launched his massive gambit and, instead, the Allies had progressed with the operations plan they had prior to the Bulge? These are some of the intriguing scenarios played out by leading authors.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Military (Military History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214118.Battle_of_the_Bulge"}, +{"book_title": "Viking Heat", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 939, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Psychologist Joy Nelson thinks things are bad when she finds herself training in the modern-day female Navy SEALs program. But then her life takes a turn for the worse. Somehow she's been thrust back in time to the cold Norselands, being auctioned off as a thrall, or slave-a gift for a Viking warlord, who would be a perfect candidate for Male Chauvinist Viking of the Centuries.Brandr isn't thrilled with the slave his brothers have purchased for him. Holy Thor! The woman wants to teach him anger management skills! And help him find his feminine side, whatever that is. She may be beautiful, but the saucy wench defies him at every turn. So Brandr makes her an offer. She can earn her freedom -- as his bed thrall. But when Joy dares to decline his offer, he must decide what to do with the woman enslaved to him -- and the out-of-control heat between them...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288944-viking-heat"}, +{"book_title": "Flu", "author_name": "Wayne Simmons", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1522, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "There's a nasty flu going round. An epidemic, they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze, and throw away the tissue. But such simple measures won't help. Because when you catch this flu, armed police come and lock you in your house to die alone. When you catch this flu, it kills you in days. And two hours after it's killed you, your eyelids snap open again... FLU is a pacey, terrifying, frighteningly real zombie horror story.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7504472-flu"}, +{"book_title": "Adulthood Rites", "author_name": "Octavia E. Butler", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 13830, "review_number": 943, "book_description": "In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Akin. But Akin actually has five parents: a male and female human, a male and female Oankali, and a sexless Ooloi. The Oankali and Ooloi are part of an alien race that rescued humanity from a devastating nuclear war, but the price they exact is a high one the aliens are compelled to genetically merge their species with other races, drastically altering both in the process. On a rehabilitated Earth, this \"new\" race is emerging through human/Oankali/Ooloi mating, but there are also \"pure\" humans who choose to resist the aliens and the salvation they offer.These resisters are sterilized by the Ooloi so that they cannot reproduce the genetic defect that drives humanity to destroy itself, but otherwise they are left alone (unless they become violent). When the resisters kidnap young Akin, the Oankali choose to leave the child with his captors, for he the most \"human\" of the Oankali children will decide whether the resisters should be given back their fertility and freedom, even though they will only destroy themselves again. This is the second volume in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series, a powerful tale of alien existence.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116249.Adulthood_Rites"}, +{"book_title": "Nomad", "author_name": "Matthew Mather", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 6982, "review_number": 534, "book_description": "Something massive is coming...And it's heading for Earth.That's what Dr. Ben Rollins, head of Harvard's exoplanet research team, is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter, Jessica, who's vacationing in Italy with his wife. \"Something's coming,\" he tells them. \"A hundred times the mass of the sun. We can't see it, don't know what it is yet, but they're calling it Nomad--and in just months, the Earth may be destroyed.\"But what is it? And how did they miss detecting it until now? In a frantic race against time, Dr. Rollins must unravel Nomad's secrets. A mysterious clue surfaces in his old research papers from the end of the Cold War, more than thirty years earlier...The world erupts into chaos as the end approaches--and Ben discovers that his wife and daughter are trapped in Europe. The key to humanity's survival rests in the final answers Dr. Rollins pieces together, in the midst of his desperate scramble across continents to find his family before Nomad swallows the planet.MORE ABOUT NOMADA story of family and redemption set amid a brand new category of cataclysm--all the more plausible and terrifying as the science behind it is vetted by a team of world-class astrophysicists from CERN, SETI, the Keck Observatory and more. It even has its own simulation video, included at the end of the book.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26103749-nomad"}, +{"book_title": "Enthralled", "author_name": "Lora Leigh", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2999, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "They Have the Power To Hold You Spellbound, To Captivate Your Senses, and to Keep You Forever in Their Control.\nForever enthralled...\n#1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh returns to her sensual world of the Breeds...as a spirited female Wolf Breed finally meets her match, and can no longer deny her mate - or the fierce desires of her own heart.New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Day introduces the League of the Black Swan...and the dangerous game one woman plays when her family's curse dooms her to kill the man she loves.New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook delivers a new story in her steampunk world of the Iron Seas...as a man who's lost everything returns home to find that not only is his marriage in jeopardy, but he must now fight pirates who intend to steal his one remaining treasure - his wife.And Lucy Monroe, national bestselling author of the Children of the Moon novels, unleashes the feral passions of a werewolf on the body, mind, and soul of his prey, his lover, his mate.\"The Devil\u2019s Due\u201d by Lora Leigh\u201cThe Curse of the Black Swan\u201d by Alyssa Day\u201cSalvage\u201d by Meljean Brook\"Ecstasy Under the Moon\u201d by Lucy Monroe", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Short Stories", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808710-enthralled"}, +{"book_title": "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2867, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has killed millions, driving entire species to extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn\u2019t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep . . . even humans. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids\u2014they\u2019re machines, but look, sound, and think like humans\u2014clever, and most of all, dangerous humans.[Philip K. Dick\u2019s award-winning Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? served as the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER. BOOM! Studios presents the complete novel transplanted into the comic book medium, mixing all-new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking 24-issue maxi-series.]", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6545414-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-1"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Adept", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 6371, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Proton and Phaze, parallel worlds of science and magic, are ripe with the seeds of revolution. Mach, a brave and sensitive robot from Proton, and his alternate self, magical Bane from Phaze, hold the power to link the two warring systems \u2013 or destroy them entirely. Both are prepared to save their worlds. But neither Mach nor Bane had anticipated the dangers of forbidden love ... with members of the opposite realm!", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Contemporary", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15456.Robot_Adept"}, +{"book_title": "Sideswiped", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2213, "review_number": 271, "book_description": "Don\u2019t miss this thrilling first look into the elite world of Peri Reed, government agency operative extraordinaire, and catch more of her character in The Drafter, the first book in the all-new suspense trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison, out September 1.Every hero, even the accidental ones, have a beginning. Silas\u2019s radical theory that drafters are not replaying time as much as they are temporarily sliding into an alternate universe has never been well-received, but frankly, the darling of Opti\u2019s research has enough clout not to care, until a professor with a grudge tries to put a permanent end to it. Love can\u2019t alter time, and sometimes, even being able to rub out a single mistake isn\u2019t enough\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novella", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26006199-sideswiped"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Jedi", "author_name": "Jason Fry", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 6260, "review_number": 910, "book_description": "Written with input from director Rian Johnson, this official adaptation of Star Wars: The Last Jedi expands on the film to include scenes from alternate versions of the script and other additional content. From the ashes of the Empire has arisen another threat to the galaxy\u2019s freedom: the ruthless First Order. Fortunately, new heroes have emerged to take up arms\u2014and perhaps lay down their lives\u2014for the cause. Rey, the orphan strong in the Force; Finn, the ex-stormtrooper who stands against his former masters; and Poe Dameron, the fearless X-wing pilot, have been drawn together to fight side-by-side with General Leia Organa and the Resistance. But the First Order\u2019s Supreme Leader Snoke and his merciless enforcer Kylo Ren are adversaries with superior numbers and devastating firepower at their command. Against this enemy, the champions of light may finally be facing their extinction. Their only hope rests with a lost legend: Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Where the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens ended, Star Wars: The Last Jedi begins, as the battle between light and dark climbs to astonishing new heights.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35724352-the-last-jedi"}, +{"book_title": "Mockingbird", "author_name": "Walter Tevis", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 5461, "review_number": 601, "book_description": "Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose a quick suicide rather than slow extinction. Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to live, and a man and a woman who must discover love, hope, and dreams of a world reborn.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323172.Mockingbird"}, +{"book_title": "Footsteps in Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2985, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "In December of 1282, English soldiers ambushed and murdered Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales. His death marked the end of Wales as an independent nation and the beginning of over seven hundred years under the English boot. Footsteps in Time is the story of what might have happened had Llywelyn lived. And what happens to the two teenagers who save him. Footsteps in Time is the first book in the After Cilmeri Series.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10351344-footsteps-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "By Chance Met", "author_name": "Eress\u00eb", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 825, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "A chance meeting heralds the convergence of two heretofore wildly divergent fates.From the moment he laid eyes on the handsome Lord of Ilmaren, Naeth Orosse fell head over heels in infatuation with him. And after that first meeting in the middle of a tavern brawl in the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre, Reijir Arthanna did not forget the orphaned youth who came to his aid unasked. When fate brings them together anew, Reijir becomes Naeth\u2019s guardian, which proves both blessing and bane when their mutual attraction is guilelessly nursed by one and distrustfully downplayed by the other. Between attempting to ignore Naeth\u2019s artless overtures and suppressing feelings he had long disavowed, Reijir has his hands full. But more than a title and duty were forced on this enigmatic cousin of Ylandre\u2019s king. A less than benevolent past has left its imprint on Reijir who is as known for his cynical outlook on life as he is for his exotic features and proficiency between the sheets. Convincing him to risk his heart in love is a battle more experienced Deira than Naeth have waged and invariably lost.Contains hermaphrodism and explicit homoerotic sexual encounters.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT (Gay)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10999118-by-chance-met"}, +{"book_title": "Landline", "author_name": "Rainbow Rowell", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 154028, "review_number": 18893, "book_description": "Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble; it has been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply \u2014 but that almost seems beside the point now.Maybe that was always beside the point.Two days before they\u2019re supposed to visit Neal\u2019s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can\u2019t go. She\u2019s a TV writer, and something\u2019s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her \u2014 Neal is always a little upset with Georgie \u2014 but she doesn't expect him to pack up the kids and go home without her.When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she\u2019s finally done it. If she\u2019s ruined everything.That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It\u2019s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she\u2019s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts...Is that what she\u2019s supposed to do?Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook", "Magical Realism", "Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18081809-landline"}, +{"book_title": "Free Falling", "author_name": "Susan Kiernan-Lewis", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2581, "review_number": 294, "book_description": "When David and Sarah Woodson take a much-needed vacation with their ten-year old son, John, their intention is to find a relaxing, remote spot to take a break from the artificial stimulation of their busy world back in Jacksonville, Florida. What happens within hours of settling in to their rural, rustic little cottage in a far-flung spot on the coast of Ireland is an international incident that leaves the family stranded and dependent on themselves for their survival. Facing starvation, as well as looters and opportunists, they learn the hard way the important things in life. Can a family skilled only in modern day suburbia and corporate workplaces learn to survive when the world is flung back a hundred years? When there is no internet, no telephones, no electricity and no cars? And when every person near them is desperate to survive at any cost?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Suspense", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18909810-free-falling"}, +{"book_title": "Flesh", "author_name": "Kylie Scott", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 6142, "review_number": 685, "book_description": "\nAli has been hiding in an attic since civilization collapsed eight weeks ago. \n When the plague hit, her neighbors turned into mindless, hungry, homicidal maniacs. Daniel has been a loner his entire life. Then the world empties and he realizes that being alone isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cracked up to be. Finn is a former cop who is desperate for companionship, and willing to do anything it takes to protect the survivors around him. When the three cross paths they band together; sparks fly, romance blooms in the wasteland and Ali, Daniel and Finn bend to their very human needs in the ruins of civilization. Lust, love and trust all come under fire in Flesh as the three battle to survive, hunted through the suburban wastelands. ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38198724-flesh"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Triumph", "author_name": "Robin LaFevers", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 39294, "review_number": 3621, "book_description": "I lean forward, pushing my body out past the battlements. The wind plucks at my cloak, buffets against me, as if it would carry me off in flight, just like the birds or the knight's soul. Let go, it cries, I will take you far, far away. I want to laugh at the exhilarating feeling, I will catch you, it whistles seductively.The convent has returned Sybella to a life that nearly drove her mad. Her father's rage and brutality are terrifying, and her brother's love is equally monstrous. When she discovers an unexpected ally imprisoned in the dungeons, will a a daughter of Death find something other than vengeance to live for?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9943270-dark-triumph"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow of the Giant", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 49618, "review_number": 1063, "book_description": "Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Space", "Audiobook", "Novels", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8647.Shadow_of_the_Giant"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Prophecy", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 9802, "review_number": 1244, "book_description": "Return to New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh\u2019s darkly passionate Guild Hunter world, where human-turned-angel Elena Deveraux, consort to Archangel Raphael, is thrust center stage into an eons-old prophecy\u2026.Midnight and dawn, Elena\u2019s wings are unique among angelkind\u2026and now they\u2019re failing. The first mortal to be turned into an immortal in angelic memory, she\u2019s regressing. Becoming more and more human. Easier to hurt. Easier to kill.Elena and Raphael must unearth the reason for the regression before it\u2019s too late and Elena falls out of the sky. Yet even as they fight a furious battle for Elena\u2019s very survival, violent forces are gathering in New York and across the world.In China, the Archangel Favashi is showing the first signs of madness. In New York, a mysterious sinkhole filled with lava swallows a man whole. In Africa, torrential monsoon rains flood rolling deserts. And in Elena\u2019s mind whispers a haunting voice that isn\u2019t her own.This time, survival may not be possible\u2026not even for the consort of an archangel.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38350780-archangel-s-prophecy"}, +{"book_title": "The Star Conquerors", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 135, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Six time Hugo winner Ben Bova's most sought-after and possibly best novel, THE STAR CONQUERORS, has been long out of print. There was only one small hardback print run of his first novel, never reprinted, and used copies are rare, costing upwards of $500. Until now! ReAnimus Press is pleased to announce the ebook publication of THE STAR CONQUERORS!To Explore New Worlds... and Resistance is Futile... all found their home here first with Star Watch Captain Geoffrey Knowland in what some say is a virtual blueprint for Star Trek.", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7455007-the-star-conquerors"}, +{"book_title": "Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 2662, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "In the war torn future of the 41st Millennium Commissar Ciaphas Cain, hero of the Imperium, is respected by his peers and an inspiration to his men \u2013 at least that\u2019s what the propaganda would have you believe. The reality is very different, for Ciaphas is simply looking for an easy life and a way to stay out of peril. However, fate has a habit of throwing him into the deadliest situations, and luck (mixed with self preservation) always manages to pull him through and onto the loftiest of pedestals. To survive Commissar Cain must dodge, bluff and trick his way out of trouble, even if it increases his status beyond his control!Featuring futuristic military action, thrills and humour, Hero of the Imperium collects the novels For the Emperor, Caves of Ice and The Traitor\u2019s Hand, plus three exclusive short stories.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588333.Ciaphas_Cain"}, +{"book_title": "Fox on the Rhine", "author_name": "Douglas Niles", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 453, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The F\u00fchrer is dead ... but the war still goes on!Backed by a cadre of SS officers, Himmler seizes control of the Reich and instigates a plan to change the course of the war.First, an armistice with Russia.Second, the mass production of jet fighters.And third, the appointment of legendary \"Desert Fox\" Erwin Rommel to the European theater, leading to a very different Battle of the Bulge where he must confront \"Blood n Guts\" George Patton in a campaign that will determine the fate of Europe . . . and possibly the entire free world.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novels", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1092945.Fox_on_the_Rhine"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Group Avalon", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1950, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "TURNING THE TIDE The Terran Commonwealth has proved a nigh-unstoppable juggernaut in its war against the smaller Castle Federation and her allies, but an almost accidental victory by Captain Kyle Roberts of the carrier Avalon has opened a chink in its armor. Desperate to change the course of a war they are rapidly losing; the Federation assembles a new forward fleet with orders to retake the systems that have fallen to the enemy. Outnumbered but on the offensive at last, Kyle Roberts must take a hastily assembled battle group back to the worlds the Alliance failed to defend. There he will live or die by the skills of his soldiers and the honor of his enemies.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30062783-battle-group-avalon"}, +{"book_title": "Through the Ever Night", "author_name": "Veronica Rossi", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 70836, "review_number": 4404, "book_description": "It's been months since Aria last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both.Threatened by false friends and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder, can their love survive through the ever night?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13253276-through-the-ever-night"}, +{"book_title": "Conflict of Honors", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 2610, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Priscilla Delacroix was declared legally dead by her mother, High Priestess of the Goddess. Banished to survive on her own, Priscilla has roamed the galaxy for ten years as an outcast\u2014to become a woman of extraordinary skill. . . .An experienced officer assigned to the Liaden vessel Daxflan, she's been abandoned yet again. Betrayed by her captain and shipmates, she's left to fend for herself on a distant planet. But Priscilla is not alone. Starship captain Shan yos'Galen is about to join Priscilla's crusade for revenge. He has his own score to settle with the enemy. But confronting the sinister crew will be far easier\u2014and safer\u2014than confronting the demons of Priscilla's own mysterious past.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1103880.Conflict_of_Honors"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 12460, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "SC, TPB, in cello, New, Written by Warren Ellis. Art by Darick Robertson. Published in June of 2001. Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $14.99.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22420.Transmetropolitan_Vol_5"}, +{"book_title": "Conquest", "author_name": "John Connolly", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1322, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "The Earth has been invaded by the Illyri, a beautiful, civilized, yet ruthless alien race. Humanity has been conquered, but still it fights the invaders. The Resistance grows stronger, for it is the young people of Earth who are best equipped to battle the Illyri. Syl Hellais, conceived among the stars, is the oldest alien child on Earth, the first to reach sixteen years of age. Her father rules the planet. Her future is assured. And Syl has hidden gifts, powers that even she does yet fully understand. But all is not as it seems. The Illyri are at war among themselves, and the sinister Nairene Sisterhood has arrived on Earth, hungry for new blood. When Syl helps a pair of young Resistance fighters to escape execution, she finds herself sentenced to death, pursued by her own kind, and risks breaking the greatest taboo of her race by falling in love with a human. Now the hunter has become the hunted, the predator become prey. And as Syl is about to learn, the real invasion has not yet even begun...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143898-conquest"}, +{"book_title": "Ultraman, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Eiichi Shimizu", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 167, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The enigmatic Moroboshi takes Shinjiro, who is still having doubts about fighting as Ultraman, through a strange gate to a secret alien city. There he meets a new informant and cannot avoid getting mixed up in a feud beyond his control. Meanwhile on Earth, the police and the Science Patrol go deeper into a sinister investigation when a new victim of a mysterious serial killer turns up.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Action", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28820555-ultraman-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "The Burn", "author_name": "Annie Oldham", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1215, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "The Burn is full of nuclear fallout, roving gangs, anarchy, unreliable plumbing. That's what Terra's father tells her. She has lived her whole life in comfort in a colony at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. She hates it. And she would pay any price to leave. But when Terra finally escapes the colony, she finds out her father is right.She finds a group of survivors that quickly become friends, and every day with them is a race for survival. When she witnesses and commits unspeakable acts, she has to decide where her loyalty lies: with the colony she despises or The Burn, where every day is filled with nightmares.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12830940-the-burn"}, +{"book_title": "Mindkiller", "author_name": "Spider Robinson", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 855, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Wireheads, addicted to an electric current fed into the pleasure centers of the brain, are the new junkies. Karen, a former wirehead who barely escaped death by pleasure, is determined to bring down those who sell the wireheading equipment, but she and her lover Joe instead turn up evidence of a shadowy global conspiracy-not to control the world, but to keep anyone from realizing that the masters of mind control have been controlling us all for some time now . . . .", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Cultural (Canada)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218682.Mindkiller"}, +{"book_title": "Drive to the East", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2025, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Harry Turtledove\u2013the master of alternate history\u2013has recast the tumultuous twentieth century and created an epic that is powerful, bold, and as convincing as it is provocative. In Drive to the East he continues his saga of warfare that has divided a nation and now threatens the entire world.In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States. In 1917, The Great War ended and an era of simmering hatred began, fueled by the despotism of a few and the sacrifice of many. Now it\u2019s 1942. The USA and CSA are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conjure up\u2013for their enemies and themselves.In Richmond, Confederate president and dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphia\u2013killing U.S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. Featherston presses ahead with a secret plan carried out on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose. As the untested U.S. vice president takes over for Smith, the United States face a furious thrust by the Confederate army, pressing inexorably into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt, and U.S. naval ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101565.Drive_to_the_East"}, +{"book_title": "Wanted", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1379, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "\u201cWanted\" is the tenth of a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii\u2019s nerve mutation makes her a genius and provides astonishing athletic abilities. In \u201cWanted,\u201d President Stockton continues her efforts to imprison Ell in order to protect the world from some of Ell\u2019s dangerous new technology. While the President rightfully wants this technology to be restricted, she wants it to be controlled by the government. Ell doesn\u2019t want even the government to have the terrible destructive potential of a technology that can cut through absolutely any material in the world! When the FBI and CIA prove to be unable to find and capture Ell, the President instructs them to imprison Ell\u2019s friends. However, the President hasn\u2019t considered just how many technological advantages Ell would have in any effort to spring her friends from prison.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20703409-wanted"}, +{"book_title": "The Court of a Thousand Suns", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1186, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Sten had fought his way up from slave labor on a factory world to commander of the Eternal Emperor\u2019s bodyguard, the Imperial Gurkhas. But during his first three months on Prime World, the most dangerous weapons Sten had encountered were the well-phrased lies of Court politicians. It seemed no place for an honest fighting man. But when a bomb destroys a local bar, Sten discovers the danger and corruption behind Court intrigue. Only quick work by Sten, Alex Kilgour, and a tough female detective can keep the Empire together and the Emperor alive.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714723.The_Court_of_a_Thousand_Suns"}, +{"book_title": "Details of the Hunt", "author_name": "Laura Baumbach", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1043, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "A 26th century, time-traveling, bounty hunter snatchs a 18th century Earth pirate in a deal to enrich the archeoalogical knowledge of mankind, but as he develops an attraction for the likable, free-spirited prey, he attempts to alter the deal, threatening both his own personal code of honor and the strict rules of conduct of his race. Will the love of a wily, cock-sure, young pirate be enough for the stoic hunter to risk exile from his own people?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/426545.Details_of_the_Hunt"}, +{"book_title": "The Dragon Factory", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 9249, "review_number": 590, "book_description": "Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists.\u00a0 One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele. \u00a0Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they've drawn first blood.\u00a0 Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger as he leads Echo Team to war under a black flag.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Audiobook", "Action", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6962671-the-dragon-factory"}, +{"book_title": "Genome", "author_name": "A.G. Riddle", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 11218, "review_number": 564, "book_description": "A code hidden in the human genome will reveal the ultimate secret of human existence.And could hold humanity's only hope of survival.Genome concludes The Extinction Files, the two-book series that began with Pandemic. It's a race against time\u2014and an exploration into the deepest mysteries of human existence (with a twist at the end you'll never see coming).Buy now and continue the series (or read it for free in Kindle Unlimited).Selected Praise for A.G. Riddle\u201c...reads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton.\u201d\u2014The Guardian on Pandemic\u201cI finished the book fast because I just couldn't wait...\u201d\u2014WIRED GeekDad on Departure\u201cRiddle... keep(s) the focus on his characters... rather than the technological marvels\u201d\u2014Publisher's Weekly on DepartureAn Extended Look At GenomeIn 2003, the first human genome was sequenced. It was a breakthrough of historic proportions, but only one scientist knows the full truth of what lies buried in our DNA. That secret will change everything we thought we knew about our past. And our future.Dr. Paul Kraus has spent his career searching for what he calls humanity's lost tribes--human ancestors who have gone extinct. When Kraus compares the DNA samples of the lost tribes with our own, he discovers a pattern of changes. A code. He believes he knows what the code is, but the technology doesn't exist to fully decode it. To protect the secret, Kraus hides his work and disappears. For years, the secret remains buried. When Kraus dies mysteriously, his work is lost forever.Now the technology exists to finally unravel the code buried in the human genome. The race to find Kraus's research has begun, and one group will do anything to find it.Dr. Peyton Shaw and her mother have obtained part of Kraus's research--and a cryptic message that could lead to the remaining pieces. They soon learn that finding those pieces may be more dangerous than anyone imagined. But there's no choice. His work is the key to stopping a global conspiracy--and an event that will change humanity forever.The ultimate secret, buried in the human genome, will change our very understanding of what it means to be human. For Peyton, finding it may come at an incredible price. She must weigh the lives of strangers against those she loves: Desmond Hughes and her mother. With time running out, Peyton makes a fateful choice--one that can never be undone.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34850181-genome"}, +{"book_title": "Mammoth", "author_name": "John Varley", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 1328, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "Never afraid of risks, award-winning author John Varley took readers and critics by storm with his previous novel, Red Thunder. Now, Varley takes another leap into the great unknown with Mammoth...In a barren province of Canada, a mammoth hunter has made the discovery of a lifetime: an intact frozen woolly mammoth. But what he finds during the painstaking process of excavating the huge creature boggles the mind. Huddled next to the mammoth is the mummified body of a Stone Age man around 12,000 years old. And he is wearing a wristwatch.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Animals", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49846.Mammoth"}, +{"book_title": "House of Suns", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 21750, "review_number": 1141, "book_description": "Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. Campion and Purslane\u2014two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences\u2014must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1126719.House_of_Suns"}, +{"book_title": "Romanov", "author_name": "Nadine Brandes", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 8090, "review_number": 2245, "book_description": "\nThe history books say I died.They don\u2019t know the half of it.\nAnastasia \u201cNastya\u201d Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family\u2019s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them, and he\u2019s hunted Romanov before.Nastya\u2019s only chances of saving herself and her family are to either release the spell and deal with the consequences, or enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn\u2019t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya has only dabbled in magic, but it doesn\u2019t frighten her half as much as her growing attraction to Zash. She likes him. She thinks he might even like her.That is, until she\u2019s on one side of a firing squad . . . and he\u2019s on the other.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Historical", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40590407-romanov"}, +{"book_title": "Bronze Gods", "author_name": "A.A. Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2008, "review_number": 338, "book_description": "Hy Breasil is grimmer than it used to be.Before the Architect closed the door, there were regular crossings, and a great war decimated both humans and Ferishers. The native fae who refused to treat with the invaders faded; their bodies withered and died, stranding them as hungry, angry spirits that haunt the countryside.That means there\u2019s always trouble brewing in Dorstaad.Janus Mikani and Celeste Ritsuko work for the Criminal Investigation Department, keeping citizens safe from things that go bump in the night. He\u2019s a hardboiled cynic with an uncanny sixth sense; she\u2019s determined to justify her promotion as the first female detective in her division. Together, they\u2019re trying to keep a black tide from drowning the city.But when the second body surfaces, murdered with the same type of infernal device, the entire CID must face the truth. There\u2019s a madman on the loose, twining magic and blood\u2026 and only Mikani and Ritsuko can unravel the intricate, lethal conspiracy before the Royale killer completes his macabre plan, unleashing old, forbidden magic on an unsuspecting populace. If the maniac succeeds, it could mean the end of everything\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808271-bronze-gods"}, +{"book_title": "A Call to Arms", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 2686, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is the sort of person who likes an orderly universe. One where people follow the rules. Unfortunately he lives in the real universe. The good news is that Travis is one of those rare people who may like rules but has a talent for thinking outside them when everything starts coming apart. That talent has stood him\u2014and the Star Kingdom\u2014in good stead in the past, and it's one reason he's now a \"mustang\"\u2014an ex-enlisted man who's been given a commission as a king's officer. The bad news is that two of the best ways of making enemies ever invented are insisting on enforcing the rules...and thinking outside them when other people don't. Travis learned that lesson the hard way as a young volunteer in basic training, and he knows that if he could just keep his head down, turn a blind eye to violations of the rules, and avoid stepping on senior officers' toes, he'd do just fine.But the one rule Travis Long absolutely can't break is the one that says an officer in the Royal Navy does his duty, whatever the consequences. At the moment,there are powerful forces in the young Star Kingdom of Manticore's Parliament that don't think they need him. For that matter they're pretty sure they don't need the Royal Manticoran Navy, either. After all, what does a sleepy little single-system star nation on the outer edge of the explored galaxy need with a navy? Unhappily for them, the edge of the explored galaxy can be a far more dangerous place than they think it is. They're about to find out why they need the navy\u2026and how very, very fortunate they are that Travis Long is in it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25110976-a-call-to-arms"}, +{"book_title": "First World", "author_name": "Jaymin Eve", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 7413, "review_number": 447, "book_description": "A paranormal romance series. An epic journey. If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?Abigail Swish might not love her life, living in gang-ridden New York in 2035 and training to fight and survive with Compound 23. But she is grateful for a few things, especially her no-filter-between-brain-and-mouth best friend Lucy and her escape each night into a dream world far different from her own. In fact, sometimes she lives for the fleeting moments she spends at night with the man who fuels every romantic fantasy she\u2019s ever had. But each morning reality returns. She could just cry. But she won\u2019t of course; tears don\u2019t change a damn thing.Then without any warning, a month before her eighteenth birthday, everything does change. A guardian finds her. He explains, in a strangely familiar accent, that she was stashed on Earth for safekeeping and has been lost to her family ever since. And it is time to return home. To the First World; a land of unimagined beauty. Abigail and Lucy find themselves escaping New York, ending up on another planet and traversing through an unforgiving wilderness. Yeah, because that sort of thing just happens every day. Luckily an unexpected saviour arrives; the man from her dream-world. Brace is six-and-a-half feet of gorgeous perfectness, wrapped in an arrogance like no other. Unable to trust his assistance, and unsure which of her instincts to follow - kiss him or punch him in the mouth - Abigail eventually accepts his help to find her family. And what a family. Enter Josian, her father; larger than life and apparently not even human. He is Walker, a planet-less race revered as gods, causing mischief and mayhem through-out this star-system. Unfortunately, there is no time for a cosy reunion, since no one explained that by returning to First World her half-Walker genetics would act as a catalyst setting forth a chain of events which could spell disaster for not only her existence but that of all worlds.First World is book one in the Walker Saga, a seven-book paranormal fantasy series.Spurn - A Walker Saga Book Two release date set for September 2013.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18229437-first-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Pool of Fire", "author_name": "John Christopher", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 6452, "review_number": 277, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition can be found here. Will Parker has managed to escape from the City of Gold and Lead, where he served as a slave to one of the Masters who rule the modern world. And He has not only discovered what lies behind the Tripods' power, but also how the Masters heartlessly plan to destroy the earth.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80491.The_Pool_of_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "The Mortal Word", "author_name": "Genevieve Cogman", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 7642, "review_number": 809, "book_description": "A corrupt countessA spy in dangerAnd an assassin at largeThe fifth title in Genevieve Cogman's witty and wonderful Invisible Library series, The Mortal Word is a rollicking literary adventure.Peace talks are always tricky, especially when a key diplomat gets stabbed. This rudely interrupts a top-secret summit between the warring dragons and Fae. As a neutral party, Librarian-spy Irene is summoned to investigate. She must head to a version of 1890s Paris, with her assistant Kai and her detective friend Vale, where these talks are fracturing. Here, she must get to the bottom of the attack \u2013 before either the peace negotiations or the city go up in flames.Suspicions fly thick and fast and Irene soon finds herself in the seedy depths of the Parisian underworld. She\u2019s on the trail of a notoriously warlike Fae, the Blood Countess. However, the evidence against the Countess is circumstantial. Could the killer be a member of the Library itself?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31690153-the-mortal-word"}, +{"book_title": "Claimed", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 17049, "review_number": 1374, "book_description": "Olivia Waterhouse has just graduated from nursing school and has her whole life ahead of her\u2014until she gets drafted. Problem is, she isn\u2019t being forced into the Army, she\u2019s been chosen as a Kindred bride. The Kindred are huge alien warriors\u2014a race of genetic traders whose population is ninety-five percent male. After saving Earth from the threat of invasion they demand a reward\u2014the right to find brides among the population. The chances of being chosen are about the same as those of winning the lottery\u2014guess it\u2019s just Liv\u2019s lucky day. Baird is a Beast Kindred who recently escaped imprisonment and torture at the hands of the malevolent Scourge. Through the torment and pain only one thing kept him sane\u2014the thought of finding and claiming his bride\u2014Olivia. His need to possess her is a burning intensity that threatens to consume them both.Angry at having her future and her family taken away from her, Liv vows to fight back the only way she can\u2014by resisting. She has one month on the Kindred Mothership with Baird\u2014their claiming period. If she can keep from having bonding sex with him during that time, she can go home and get on with her life on Earth. But Baird isn\u2019t going to make it easy for her. Every week he is allowed to touch Liv more and more intimately and according to the contract she signed, she has to let him. She\u2019s determined to resist him but his touch sets her on fire. And just as she thinks she knows what she wants, a twist of fate and an attack by the faceless Scourge AllFather changes everything\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10439221-claimed"}, +{"book_title": "Reticence", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 3535, "review_number": 543, "book_description": "Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's The Custard Protocol series.Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her best friend are building themselves a family of misfits aboard their airship, The Spotted Custard. Of course, he'd never admit that he belongs among them. He's always been on the outside \u2014 dispassionate, aloof, and hatless. But accidental spies, a trip to Japan, and one smart and beautiful doctor may have him renegotiating his whole philosophy on life.Except hats. He's done with hats. Thank you very much.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31570843-reticence"}, +{"book_title": "Hunter", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 6897, "review_number": 1110, "book_description": "They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares.Monsters.Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it\u2019s taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake of the catastrophe. Now, the luckiest Cits live in enclosed communities, behind walls that keep them safe from the hideous creatures fighting to break through. Others are not so lucky.To Joyeaux Charmand, who has been a Hunter in her tight-knit mountain community since she was a child, every Cit without magic deserves her protection from dangerous Othersiders. Then she is called to Apex City, where the best Hunters are kept to protect the most important people.Joy soon realizes that the city\u2019s powerful leaders care more about luring Cits into a false sense of security than protecting them. More and more monsters are getting through the barriers, and the close calls are becoming too frequent to ignore. Yet the Cits have no sense of how much danger they\u2019re in\u2014to them, Joy and her corps of fellow Hunters are just action stars they watch on TV.When an act of sabotage against Joy takes an unbearable toll, she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy in the city. There is something much worse than the usual monsters infiltrating Apex. And it may be too late to stop them\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24397041-hunter"}, +{"book_title": "Breath of Iron", "author_name": "Kate Cross", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 351, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Sworn to protect England from all enemies, the Wardens of the Realm are ever vigilant. But not all battles are fought on a battlefield; sometimes they are fought in the heart.As chief surgeon for the Wardens, Evelyn Stone fears her own life is on the line when she is kidnapped by a band of pirates\u2014only to discover that the airship captain is Gavin \u201cMac\u201d MacRae\u2014her former lover. The man whose life she once saved. The man she abandoned.Since Evelyn left, Mac made his mark as both a pirate and a pilot. But his true allegiance isn\u2019t known. Upon asking Evie for help with a wounded woman on board, he tells Evie that the woman is his wife\u2014even though his feelings for Evie have never waned.As the days pass, however, the unease between Evie and Mac gives way to the old comfort they once had. Yet, their newly ignited romance is complicated by conflicting loyalties and desires, and a betrayal that may cost both of them their love and their lives.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Adult", "Steampunk Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15814870-breath-of-iron"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Dreams", "author_name": "Sara Varon", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 9148, "review_number": 889, "book_description": "Richly endearing and full of surprises, Robot Dreams follows an ill-fated friendship between a dog and robot. After a Labor Day jaunt to the beach leaves Robot rusty and immobilized in the sand, Dog, unsure what to do, abandons him. As the seasons pass, Dog tries to replace his friend, making and losing a series of new ones, from a melting snowman to epicurean anteaters. Meanwhile, Robot passes his time daydreaming, escaping to better places... Through interwoven journeys, the two characters long to recover from their day at the beach. Although its adorable characters and playful charm will win over young readers, Robot Dreams speaks universally to the fragile nature of friendship, loss, and redemption.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/377254.Robot_Dreams"}, +{"book_title": "The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 85663, "review_number": 3497, "book_description": "The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Hugo Awards"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age"}, +{"book_title": "Ascendant Sun", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1029, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Ascendant Sun is the direct sequel to The Last Hawk, in which Kelric, heir to the Skolian Empire, crash-landed his fighter on the Restricted planet of Coba. He was imprisoned by the powerful mistresses of the great estates\u2014women who, over time, fell in love with him. After 18 years of living in their gilded cage, Kelric finally made his escape.In Ascendant Sun, Kelric returns to Skolian space, only to find the Empire in control of the Allied forces of Earth\u2014thanks to the upheaval of the Radiance War. With little more than the clothes on his back, Kelric is forced to take work on a merchant vessel. But when that vessel enters Euban space, Kelric finds his worst nightmare realized: he becomes a slave to the cruel Aristos\u2014who subject slaves to torture and sex to provide their ultimate telepathic emotional drug.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/831908.Ascendant_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Von Neumann's War", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1591, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "New series. Mars is changing. Seemingly overnight the once \"Red\" planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural. A team of, literally, rocket scientists figure out a way to send a probe, very fast, to Mars to determine how and why it is changing. However, when the probe is destroyed well short of the formerly red planet, it's apparent that Mars is being used as a staging ground. The only viable target for that staging ground is Earth. Ranging from rocket design to brilliant paranoids to \"in your face\" fighting in Iraq, Von Neumann Wars is a fast paced look at what would happen if the earth was attacked by a robot race that, quite accidentally, was bent on destroying civilization.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1240726.Von_Neumann_s_War"}, +{"book_title": "The Mysterious Madam Morpho", "author_name": "Delilah S. Dawson", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 538, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Taking place after Wicked as They Come, this original eBook features a mysterious lady and a reclusive mechanical genius who find love and danger in a traveling circus. An elusive woman arrives at Criminy\u2019s doorstep with a steamer trunk, begging for a position in the caravan to perform her unique new act. She opens her trunk to reveal a menagerie of brilliantly colored butterflies. The woman, who calls herself Madam Morpho, is on the run from a dark past in London, where she was forced to leave her equipment behind and abscond with only her tiny performers. Playing a hunch, Criminy hires Madam Morpho on the spot. Taking her down to meet Mr. Murdoch, the reclusive talented engineer who keeps the carnival\u2019s clockworks running, Criminy instructs them to work together to design and build a groundbreaking new circus for the butterflies. Amid the magical ambiance of the circus and the hint of danger from Madam Morpho\u2019s pursuers, she and Mr. Murdoch soon find that their scientific collaboration has produced chemistry of a more romantic kind.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547687-the-mysterious-madam-morpho"}, +{"book_title": "Infinity Lost", "author_name": "S. Harrison", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 3843, "review_number": 259, "book_description": "In the near future, one corporation, Blackstone Technologies, has changed the world: no disasters, no poverty, and life-altering technology. Blackstone has the impunity to destroy\u2014or create\u2014as it sees fit.Infinity \u201cFinn\u201d Blackstone is the seventeen-year-old daughter of Blackstone\u2019s reclusive CEO\u2014but she\u2019s never even met him. When disturbing dreams about a past she doesn\u2019t remember begin to torment her, Finn knows there\u2019s only one person who can provide answers: her father.After Finn and an elite group of peers are invited to Blackstone\u2019s top-secret HQ, Finn realizes she may have a chance to confront her father. But when a highly sophisticated company AI morphs into a killing machine, the trip descends into chaos. Trapped inside shape-shifting walls, Finn and her friends are at the mercy of an all-seeing intelligence that will destroy everything to get to her.With no hope of help, Finn\u2019s dream-memories may be the only chance of survival. But will she remember in time to save her own life and the lives of those around her?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26580636-infinity-lost"}, +{"book_title": "Big Damn Hero", "author_name": "James Lovegrove", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3579, "review_number": 683, "book_description": "The first original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon.The Battle of Serenity Valley was the turning point that led the Independents to their defeat at the hands of the Alliance. Yet the Browncoats had held the valley for weeks against all odds, before being ordered to lay down their arms. Command stated they refused to send in airpower because the ground war was \"too hot.\" But the soldiers who were there insist that was not true...While picking up a new cargo on Persephone, Captain Malcolm Reynolds is kidnapped by a bunch of embittered veteran Browncoats who suspect him of sabotaging the Independents during the war. As the rest of the crew struggle to locate him, Mal is placed on trial for his life, fighting compelling evidence that someone did indeed betray them to the Alliance all those years ago. As old comrades and old rivals crawl out of the woodwork, Mal must prove his innocence, but his captors are desperate and destitute, and will settle for nothing less than the culprit's blood.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38464992-big-damn-hero"}, +{"book_title": "A Spark Unseen", "author_name": "Sharon Cameron", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2101, "review_number": 294, "book_description": "When Katharine Tulman wakes in the middle of the night and accidentally foils a kidnapping attempt on her uncle, she realizes Stranwyne Keep is no longer safe for Uncle Tully and his genius inventions. She flees to Paris, where she hopes to remain undetected and also find the mysterious and handsome Lane, who is suspected to be dead. But the search for Lane is not easy, and Katharine soon finds herself embroiled in a labyrinth of political intrigue. And with unexpected enemies and allies at every turn, Katharine will have to figure out whom she can trust--if anyone--to protect her uncle from danger once and for all.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Gothic", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17320980-a-spark-unseen"}, +{"book_title": "Guardian Angels and Other Monsters", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 431, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life. A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL.In \"All Kinds of Proof,\" a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest of friends when he is hired to train a mail-carrying robot; in \"Blood Memory,\" a mother confronts the dangerous reality that her daughter will never assimilate in this world after she was the first child born through a teleportation device; in \"The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever,\" a physicist rushes home to be with his daughter after he hears reports of an atmospheric anomaly which he knows to be a sign of the end of the earth; in \"Miss Gloria,\" a robot comes back to life in many different forms in a quest to save a young girl. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters displays the depth and breadth of Daniel H. Wilson's vision and examines how artificial intelligence both saves and destroys humanity.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35969578-guardian-angels-and-other-monsters"}, +{"book_title": "The Loners", "author_name": "Lex Thomas", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 7534, "review_number": 1130, "book_description": "It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High\u2014until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And that was just the beginning.A year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. The school is under military quarantine. The teachers are gone. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques. Without a gang, you\u2019re as good as dead. And David has no gang. It\u2019s just him and his little brother, Will, against the whole school.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "Young Adult (High School)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12620969-the-loners"}, +{"book_title": "Wolves", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2489, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "Listening time 9 hours 25 minutesThey dive so humanity survives. Now they take to the sea.In the fourth installment of the award-winning and USA Today bestselling Hell Divers series, the Sea Wolf sets out to search for the Metal Islands. Leading the expedition is legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez. After enduring for a decade on the poisoned surface, his survival skills will be put to the test on the dangerous open seas. But storms, sea monsters, and the cannibalistic Cazadores aren\u2019t the only threat to X and his small crew. Their mission will uncover hard truths about the history of the war that left humankind stranded in the air for centuries. And the fate of those still living on the airships might very well rest on this fragile and perilous journey to find a new home.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Action", "Thriller", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40117350-wolves"}, +{"book_title": "Brushfire", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 1314, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Peacetime can be a rough adjustment for the battle-hardened Merry Band of Pirates.Especially when aliens don\u2019t get the memo that the shooting is over.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53319151-brushfire"}, +{"book_title": "Iced", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 41798, "review_number": 4464, "book_description": "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning comes the first book in her hotly anticipated new urban paranormal trilogy, set in the world of her blockbuster Fever series. The year is 1 AWC\u2014After the Wall Crash. The Fae are free and hunting us. It\u2019s a war zone out there, and no two days are alike. I\u2019m Dani O\u2019Malley, the chaos-filled streets of Dublin are my home, and there\u2019s no place I\u2019d rather be. Dani \u201cMega\u201d O\u2019Malley plays by her own set of rules\u2014and in a world overrun by Dark Fae, her biggest rule is: Do what it takes to survive. Possessing rare talents and the all-powerful Sword of Light, Dani is more than equipped for the task. In fact, she\u2019s one of the rare humans who can defend themselves against the Unseelie. But now, amid the pandemonium, her greatest gifts have turned into serious liabilities. Dani\u2019s ex\u2013best friend, MacKayla Lane, wants her dead, the terrifying Unseelie princes have put a price on her head, and Inspector Jayne, the head of the police force, is after her sword and will stop at nothing to get it. What\u2019s more, people are being mysteriously frozen to death all over the city, encased on the spot in sub-zero, icy tableaux. When Dublin\u2019s most seductive nightclub gets blanketed in hoarfrost, Dani finds herself at the mercy of Ryodan, the club\u2019s ruthless, immortal owner. He needs her quick wit and exceptional skill to figure out what\u2019s freezing Fae and humans dead in their tracks\u2014and Ryodan will do anything to ensure her compliance. Dodging bullets, fangs, and fists, Dani must strike treacherous bargains and make desperate alliances to save her beloved Dublin\u2014before everything and everyone in it gets iced.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12444166-iced"}, +{"book_title": "Ravish Her Completely", "author_name": "Jenika Snow", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 766, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "When Agata wakes up in the middle of nowhere after drinking an herb concoction given to her by an old Norwegian woman, she is confused and just wants to get home. She doesn\u2019t get time to think about her situation because a towering man with battle scars and wielding an ax takes her as his property. Although there is a language barrier between her and the barbarian, she understands the word he keeps calling her: wife. When Stian Dagmar finds a woman alone and unconscious in the woods, the first thought he has is that he wants her as his wife. She will probably fight him, struggle for her freedom, but being with him is a lot safer than what his world will give her. Can Agata accept her new life and the feelings for Stian that grow within her, or will she go home the first opportunity that arises? ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Historical", "Novella", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25300685-ravish-her-completely"}, +{"book_title": "The Upheaval", "author_name": "Erica Stevens", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2310, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "The First tremors of the earth were felt at 7:22 EST. time. Every single person felt the rumbling, and experienced the tremors that would forever alter the course of history. Most did not survive. These are the accounts of some of those that did. *Note* This book is the first compilation of a serial story, due to this fact it does not have a conclusion. *Due to language and graphic content this book is recommended for readers 17 and older. Edited by Kevin Mills Edited by Leslie Mitchell at G2 Freelance Editing.Cover art by www.EbookLaunch.com", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18874151-the-upheaval"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 40: The Burning Time", "author_name": "Stephen Kenson", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 172, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Low-level programmer Roy Kilaro wants desperately to become an elite operative and experience some real action in the battles between the megacorporations. He gets more than he ever wanted when a routine business trip to Boston lands him at ground zero of a running battle for survival.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/637921.Shadowrun_40"}, +{"book_title": "Ravenous", "author_name": "Erica Stevens", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2815, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "The world didn\u2019t end with a bang, it didn\u2019t go out in a ball of fire and fury, nor did it end in ice. But in some strange way, ice was the end; or maybe it was the beginning of something more.Bethany is stunned and horrified when she finds herself suddenly alone in a world that was alive only moments before. Terrified, she flees into the streets of her town, looking for answers, and desperate to reach her family. Panicked, she is nearly captured by the monsters hunting her until Cade steps in to rescue her. Dark and distant, most people in school are wary of Cade, yet oddly fascinated by him. They had once been close as children, but it has been years since Bethany has had any real contact with Cade. As their situation becomes even more perilous, Bethany struggles to come to terms with her past, her terrifying new reality, and her growing love for a boy that is powerful, mysterious, and perhaps even more frightening than the aliens hunting them. Aliens that want more than their lives, they also want their blood.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23232459-ravenous"}, +{"book_title": "The Gilded Wolves", "author_name": "Roshani Chokshi", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 20585, "review_number": 5719, "book_description": "No one believes in them. But soon no one will forget them.It's 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier S\u00e9verin Montagnet-Alarie. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, S\u00e9verin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance.To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, S\u00e9verin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from his home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in arms if not blood.Together, they will join S\u00e9verin as he explores the dark, glittering heart of Paris. What they find might change the course of history--but only if they can stay alive.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863498-the-gilded-wolves"}, +{"book_title": "The Darkling Thrush", "author_name": "Josh Lanyon", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1522, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "Fed up with his desk duty in the Imperial Arcane Library, book hunter Colin Bliss accepts a private commission to find The Sword\u2019s Shadow, a legendary and dangerous witches\u2019 grimoire. But to find the book, Colin must travel to the remote Western Isles and solve a centuries\u2019 old murder.It should be nothing more than an academic exercise, so why is dour \u2014 and unreasonably sexy \u2014 Magister Septimus Marx doing his best to keep Colin from accepting this mission \u2014 even going so far as to seduce Colin on their train journey north?Septimus is not the only problem. Who is the strange fairy woman that keeps appearing at inconvenient times? And who is working behind the scenes with the sinister adventuress Irania Briggs? And why do Colin\u2019s employers at the Museum of the Literary Occult keep accusing Colin of betraying them?As Colin digs deeper and deeper into the Long Island\u2019s mysterious past, he begins to understand why Septimus is willing to stop him at any price \u2014 but by then, it\u2019s too late to turn back.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7989996-the-darkling-thrush"}, +{"book_title": "Ensnared", "author_name": "Rita Stradling", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 789, "review_number": 407, "book_description": "\nA Near-Future Retelling of Beauty and the Beast\nAlainn\u2019s father is not a bad man. He\u2019s a genius and an inventor. When he\u2019s hired to create the robot Rose, Alainn knows taking the money is a mistake. Rose acts like a human. She looks exactly like Alainn. But, something in her comes out wrong.To save her father from a five year prison sentence, Alainn takes Rose\u2019s place. She says goodbye to the sun and goes to live in a tower no human is allowed to enter. She becomes the prisoner of a man no human is allowed to see. Believing that a life of servitude lies ahead, Alainn finds a very different fate awaits her in the company of the strange, scarred recluse.[This novel contains adult situations and is only suitable for readers who are 18+]", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Retellings", "Fantasy", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32472740-ensnared"}, +{"book_title": "TimeRiders", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 11446, "review_number": 990, "book_description": "Liam O\u2019Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, \u2018Take my hand ...\u2019But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren\u2019t rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose\u2014to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. That\u2019s why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us. To stop time travel from destroying the world...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6773432-timeriders"}, +{"book_title": "Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights", "author_name": "Ryu Mitsuse", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 538, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Plato, Buddha, Christ\u2014what brings these men to the far future to witness the end of the world?Reads L to R (Western Style). Ten billion days--that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights--that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha will travel to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth. Named the greatest Japanese science fiction novel of all time, Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights is an epic eons in the making. Originally published in 1967, the novel was revised by the author in later years and republished in 1973. \u201c\u2018Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights,\u2019 that's a lot of time, but Ryu Mitsuse covers all of it in under 300 pages, and the result is quite fabulous.\u201d \u2013Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Philosophy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Religion", "Literature (Asian Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10307466-ten-billion-days-and-one-hundred-billion-nights"}, +{"book_title": "Cave of Stars", "author_name": "George Zebrowski", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 38, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Centuries After the death of Old Earth, an earth-like, fundamentalist community on the environmentally volatile planet of Tau Ceti IV has declared evil the science that caused the homeworld's destruction. But His Holiness Peter III himself harbors doubts, engendered by his love for his unacknowledged and illegitimate rebel daughter, Josepha.And suddenly there is another assault on the sacred traditions he has devoted his life to uphold. For the first off-planet human visitor ever has arrived on Tau Ceti -- bearing remarkable, hated technology that could shred the fragile emotional fabric of a family...and bring devastating chaos to their world.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4009994-cave-of-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Adaptation", "author_name": "Malinda Lo", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 7118, "review_number": 978, "book_description": "Reese can\u2019t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She\u2019s different now.Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded.Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won\u2019t tell them what happened, where they are\u2014or how they\u2019ve been miraculously healed.Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction\u2014and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Lesbian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10744752-adaptation"}, +{"book_title": "Wilder Girls", "author_name": "Rory Power", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 37260, "review_number": 8345, "book_description": "It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Horror", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42505366-wilder-girls"}, +{"book_title": "Daughter of the Alien Warrior", "author_name": "Honey Phillips", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 1187, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "Can a grieving alien warrior and a desperate mother overcome their painful pasts through the shared love of a child?One year ago, Jade\u2019s husband was killed and the baby she had wanted for so long disappeared. She has been searching for her daughter ever since. Nothing - not even being abducted by aliens - is going to stop her.She doesn\u2019t expect to find a daughter who doesn\u2019t know her; one who clings to a huge, green alien instead. Despite her own attraction to the older warrior, she will do whatever it takes to get her daughter back.Inzen lost his wife and daughter many years ago in the terrible plague that threatened to destroy the Cire race. When his ship rescued a group of abducted women and infants, he willingly took on the care of one of the children.Then a luscious human female appears, demanding the return of her daughter and he is faced with once again losing a child.When danger threatens, can Jade and Inzen come together for the sake of the child they both love?Each book in the Treasured by the Alien series can be read as a standalone romance. This sweet and steamy HEA is intended for mature readers.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53337626-daughter-of-the-alien-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Rust Vol. 3: Death of the Rocket Boy", "author_name": "Royden Lepp", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 335, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "What Would You Die For?In the penultimate installment of the critically acclaimed Rust series from creator Royden Lepp, Jet searches for his place in the Taylor family, while shades of his past return to call him home and convince him that he will never belong. Oz Taylor may know Jet Jones' secret, but convincing the rest of his family may be harder than he counted on. As Oz plots to rid the Taylor farm of the rocket boy, Jet tries to prove himself to the family that has taken him in, in hopes of finding the home he has searched for so long. However, when shadows of Jet’s past start coming back into his life, he realizes his days of running may be numbered and he’ll have to choose between protecting the Taylors and finding the family he&'s always wanted.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Action", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20736576-rust-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "The Attack", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2781, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "The Ellimist has helped the Animorphs many times. He is all-powerful and has only one enemy, the Crayak. In a cosmic showdown, the two enemies choose champions to represent them in a battle to end all battles. The Crayak chooses the dreaded Howlers. The Ellimist chooses the Animorphs.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125335.The_Attack"}, +{"book_title": "A Dish Served Cold", "author_name": "Andrew Ashling", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 305, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "There is one upside to almost getting raped. It proves that you're at least desirable to someone. Maybe Andrew Ashton is just a little bit too rational for his own good. Not however where it concerns his best friend Sean Denham, scion of a political dynasty, and like him from a privileged background. There's only one problem: Sean is straight. Of course he is.Being born into money was up until now one of the smartest moves Andrew Nathaniel Ashton VII ever made. It keeps him free from worries about his future, earning a living and more of those trivialities, so he can dedicate himself to the really important things in life. Like getting laid.In his society indentured servitude, commonly known as slavery, has been reintroduced for several, but mainly economical reasons. It doesn't bother him all that much. Slaves are kept on large farming corporations, in factories, in the backside of stores and such. Out of sight.Andrew knows slavery exists, and he doesn't approve, but on the other hand, it is not as if he made the system what it is, is it? Yes, there was this one time when it touched him personally, but what could he do about it? It is not as if slavery is ever going to become a personal issue, is it?Andrew thinks the future, all in all, looks bright and carefree. He thinks he is about to find true love. He thinks he is safe.He is wrong.You can read the first nine chapters online here.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Dark", "Romance", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9743077-a-dish-served-cold"}, +{"book_title": "Extinction Evolution", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 2687, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "Book 4 in Nicholas Sansbury Smith's bestselling & top-rated Extinction Cycle seriesThere's a storm on the horizon...\u00a0Central Command is gone, the military is fractured, and the surviving members of Team Ghost, led by Master Sergeant Reed Beckham, have been pushed to the breaking point. While the strong return to the battlefield, the wounded are forced to stay behind on Plum Island and fight their inner demons. Betrayed by the country they swore to defend and surrounded by enemies on all sides, Team Ghost has one mission left: protect Dr. Kate Lovato and Dr. Pat Ellis while they develop a weapon to defeat the Variants once and for all. But after a grisly discovery in Atlanta, Kate and Ellis realize their weapon might not be able to stop the evolution of the monsters. Joined by unexpected allies and facing a new threat none of them saw coming, the survivors are running out of time to save the human race from extinction.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25957736-extinction-evolution"}, +{"book_title": "Retief: Envoy to New Worlds", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1125, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Between the lines of the official histories of the frontier worlds of the 29th Century lie myriad confidential accounts of the boners, near-catastrophes, and interstellar crises that were bound to occur when human meets non-human. The adventures of CDC (Corps Diplomatique Terra) diplomat Jame Retief loom large in six highly classified missions where brain and brawn save land and lives despite red-tape bound superiors amid conspiracy and conflct across alien planets - guaranteed astounding, amazing, startling, galactic, weird, and thrillingly wonderful.1 Protocol2 Sealed Orders3 Cultural Exchange4 Aide Memoire5 Policy6 Palace Revolution", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Adventure", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627089.Retief"}, +{"book_title": "All Clear", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 18086, "review_number": 2205, "book_description": "In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060\u2014the setting for several of her most celebrated works\u2014and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler\u2019s bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Now the situation has grown even more dire. Small discrepancies in the historical record seem to indicate that one or all of them have somehow affected the past, changing the outcome of the war. The belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always been a core belief of time-travel theory\u2014but suddenly it seems that the theory is horribly, tragically wrong. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians\u2019 supervisor, Mr. Dunworthy, and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who nurses a powerful crush on Polly, are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle of their own\u2014to find three missing needles in the haystack of history. Told with compassion, humor, and an artistry both uplifting and devastating, All Clear is more than just the triumphant culmination of the adventure that began with Blackout. It\u2019s Connie Willis\u2019s most humane, heartfelt novel yet\u2014a clear-eyed celebration of faith, love, and the quiet, ordinary acts of heroism and sacrifice too often overlooked by history.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7519231-all-clear"}, +{"book_title": "The Pledge", "author_name": "Kimberly Derting", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 28485, "review_number": 2553, "book_description": "In the violent country of Ludania, the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. The smallest transgression, like looking a member of a higher class in the eye while they are speaking their native tongue, results in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina has always been able to understand the languages of all classes, and she's spent her life trying to hide her secret. The only place she can really be free is the drug-fueled underground clubs where people go to shake off the oppressive rules of the world they live in. It's there that she meets a beautiful and mysterious boy named Max who speaks a language she's never heard before . . . and her secret is almost exposed.Charlie is intensely attracted to Max, even though she can't be sure where his real loyalties lie. As the emergency drills give way to real crisis and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that Charlie is the key to something much bigger: her country's only chance for freedom from the terrible power of a deadly regime.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10637748-the-pledge"}, +{"book_title": "Finnikin of the Rock", "author_name": "Melina Marchetta", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 46155, "review_number": 4482, "book_description": "Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But then Finnikin is summoned to meet Evanjalin, a young woman with an incredible claim: the heir to the throne of Lumatere, Prince Balthazar, is alive.Evanjalin is determined to return home and she is the only one who can lead them to the heir. As they journey together, Finnikin is affected by her arrogance . . . and her hope. He begins to believe he will see his childhood friend, Prince Balthazar, again. And that their cursed people will be able to enter Lumatere and be reunited with those trapped inside. He even believes he will find his imprisoned father.But Evanjalin is not what she seems. And the truth will test not only Finnikin's faith in her . . . but in himself.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4932435-finnikin-of-the-rock"}, +{"book_title": "Blackfish City", "author_name": "Sam J. Miller", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 6022, "review_number": 1041, "book_description": "After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city\u2019s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges\u2014crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called \u201cthe breaks\u201d is ravaging the population.When a strange new visitor arrives\u2014a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side\u2014the city is entranced. The \u201corcamancer,\u201d as she\u2019s known, very subtly brings together four people\u2014each living on the periphery\u2014to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent\u2014and ultimately very hopeful\u2014novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068768-blackfish-city"}, +{"book_title": "Echoes of Time", "author_name": "Calia Read", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1266, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "For Etienne and\u00a0me, our love has always left a trace.\u00a0 It reigns over kingdoms, and rules over time.\u00a0 With Etienne now in the present day, the echoes of time grow louder.\u00a0 We must face the answers we seek to set things right. However, we must be incredibly careful. One false move and everything we love will be destroyed. And this time, could be the end of our surviving trace. \u00a0 Echoes of Time is the epic finale in The Surviving Time Series.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46018805-echoes-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Ravage (Ravaged World Trilogy, #2", "author_name": "Iain Rob Wright", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1522, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "FIRST PEOPLE GOT SICK. THEN THEY GOT VERY SICK..Nick Adams is just a normal guy. He loves his family, appreciates his home, and covets his car. But he absolutely hates his job. Which is what makes it so difficult that not a single customer has come by his store today. It seems as though there\u2019s a bug going around, something that has come out of nowhere and is keeping people at home. Still, it\u2019s probably nothing to worry about. People get sick all the time.And besides, things are finally starting to look up. Nick\u2019s first customer of the day has just stumbled through the door\u2026 HIS DAY IS ABOUT TO GET WORSE..It won\u2019t be long before Nick\u2019s entire life is turned upside down, sending him on a frantic journey through a ravaged world that will ultimately lead him 500 feet upwards to a hilltop amusement park. Is it the last safe place on Earth, or are the monsters at the top of the hill even worse than the ones below?WELCOME TO RIPLEY HEIGHTS. WHERE THE FUN NEVER STARTS.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Thriller", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18141863-ravage-ravaged-world-trilogy-2"}, +{"book_title": "Flowertown", "author_name": "S.G. Redling", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 7482, "review_number": 699, "book_description": "When Feno Chemical spilled an experimental pesticide in rural Iowa, scores of people died. Those who survived contamination were herded into a US Army medically maintained quarantine and cut off from the world. Dosed with powerful drugs to combat the poison, their bodies give off a sickly sweet smell and the containment zone becomes known simply as Flowertown. Seven years later, the infrastructure is crumbling, supplies are dwindling, and nobody is getting clean. Ellie Cauley doesn\u2019t care anymore. Despite her paranoid best friend's insistence that conspiracies abound, she focuses on three things: staying high, hooking up with the Army sergeant she's not supposed to be fraternizing with and, most importantly, trying to ignore her ever-simmering rage. But when a series of deadly events rocks the compound, Ellie suspects her friend is right\u2014something dangerous is going down in Flowertown and all signs point to a twisted plan of greed and abuse. She and the other residents of Flowertown have been betrayed by someone with a deadly agenda and their plan is just getting started. Time is running out. With nobody to trust and nowhere to go, Ellie decides to fight with the last weapon she has\u2014her rage.Flowertown is a high-intensity conspiracy thriller that brings the worst-case scenario vividly to life and will keep readers riveted until the final haunting page.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Horror", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13031388-flowertown"}, +{"book_title": "The Fires of Atlantis", "author_name": "Sam Sisavath", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 1893, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Separated but not out of the fight.Gaby has been captured by a familiar figure from her past. Some might take captivity lying down, but they aren't Gaby.Will and Danny are close on Gaby's trail, but their rescue mission is detoured in a city under siege by a very dangerous new breed of ghouls. The reunited ex-Army Rangers will face their toughest fight yet if they want to get out alive.Back on Song Island, Lara prepares for an impending attack. She receives unexpected assistance from a man named Keo, an ex-mercenary with his own agenda.Meanwhile, the survivors' radio broadcast has elicited surprising responses from around the globe. It might be the start of a resistance against the ghoul domination...if Lara can keep everyone alive long enough.Where The Purge begins, the Gates hold, and the Stones crumble, the Fires will burn...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23249775-the-fires-of-atlantis"}, +{"book_title": "The Ultimate Cyberpunk", "author_name": "Pat Cadigan", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 120, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "In The Ultimate Cyberpunk, editor Pat Cadigan takes readers through the evolution of this influential science fiction genre, from the groundbreaking forefathers of the field such as Alfred Bester and Philip K. Dick, to the founding members of the cyberpunk movement, such as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, and forward through such innovators as Lewis Shiner and Rudy Rucker. In this special collection, Cadigan presents the cyberpunk world, in which reality and virtual reality intersect. The growing impact of the Internet on our sense of community, the seduction of a world behind the screen, and the inherent dangers of a society in which any information can be hacked, stolen, and sold are some of the topics explored by our best cyberpunk writers.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489744.The_Ultimate_Cyberpunk"}, +{"book_title": "Killer of Enemies", "author_name": "Joseph Bruchac", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 724, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "A post-Apocalyptic YA novel with a steampunk twist, based on an Apache legend. Years ago, seventeen-year-old Apache hunter Lozen and her family lived in a world of haves and have-nots. There were the Ones -- people so augmented with technology and genetic enhancements that they were barely human -- and there was everyone else who served them. Then the Cloud came, and everything changed. Tech stopped working. The world plunged back into a new steam age. The Ones' pets -- genetically engineered monsters -- turned on them and are now loose on the world.Lozen was not one of the lucky ones pre-C, but fate has given her a unique set of survival skills and magical abilities. She hunts monsters for the Ones who survived the apocalyptic events of the Cloud, which ensures the safety of her kidnapped family. But with every monster she takes down, Lozen's powers grow, and she connects those powers to an ancient legend of her people. It soon becomes clear to Lozen that she is not just a hired gun. As the legendary Killer of Enemies was in the ancient days of the Apache people, Lozen is meant to be a more than a hunter. Lozen is meant to be a hero.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17946249-killer-of-enemies"}, +{"book_title": "One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd", "author_name": "Jim Fergus", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 115939, "review_number": 8900, "book_description": "One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial \"Brides for Indians\" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Book Club", "Westerns", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33512.One_Thousand_White_Women"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost of the White Nights", "author_name": "L.E. Modesitt Jr.", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 380, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Set in a fascinating alternative world in which ghosts are real, the United States never came into existence and Russia is still ruled by the Romanovs, this sequel to Of Tangible Ghosts and The Ghost of the Revelator continues the adventures of semi-retired spy Dr. Johan Eschbach.His lovely wife Llysette du Boise, a refugee from the burning remains of France and a world-famous novelist, has been invited to provide a command performance for the Russian Imperial household. Johan accompanies her, allowing him to work on the oil concession in Russian Alaska that Columbia so desperately needs and do some spying on the side. Johan's espionage is carried out against the backdrop of the famous white nights of St. Petersburg, the nearly Arctic midsummer when the sun barely dips below the horizon and the sky seems to dissolve in ivory light. But even the oil shortage will fade to insignificance when Johan discovers what new weapons technology the Russians are developing, a threat even more fearsome than the atomic bombs of Austro-Hungary.Working in the tradition of Gordon R. Dickson and Poul Anderson for hard-edged adventure with sophisticated social and political dimensions, Modesitt provides a unique blend of speculation and intrigue that brings the trilogy to a rousing end.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185225.Ghost_of_the_White_Nights"}, +{"book_title": "Space Cadet (Heinlein's Juveniles, #2", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 8059, "review_number": 278, "book_description": "This is the seminal novel of a young man's education as a member of an elite, paternalistic non-military organization of leaders dedicated to preserving human civilization, the Solar Patrol, a provocative parallel to Heinlein's famous later novel, Starship Troopers. Only the best and brightest--the strongest and the most courageous--ever manage to become Space Cadets, at the Space Academy. They are in training to be come part of the elite guard of the solar system, accepting missions others fear, taking risks no others dare, and upholding the peace of the solar system for the benefit of all.But before Matt Dodson can earn his rightful place in the ranks, his mettle is to be tested in the most severe and extraordinary ways--ways that change him forever, from the midwestern American boy into a man of the Solar Patrol.", "year_published": 1948, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50852.Space_Cadet"}, +{"book_title": "Sixty Days and Counting", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2059, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world\u2019s climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next.But the president-elect remains optimistic and doesn\u2019t intend to give up without a fight. A maverick in every sense of the word, Chase starts organizing the most ambitious plan to save the world from disaster since FDR\u2013and assembling a team of top scientists and advisers to implement it.For Charlie Quibler, this means reentering the political fray full-time and giving up full-time care of his young son, Joe. For Frank Vanderwal, hampered by a brain injury, it means trying to protect the woman he loves from a vengeful ex and a rogue \u201cblack ops\u201d agency not even the president can control\u2013a task for which neither Frank\u2019s work at the National Science Foundation nor his study of Tibetan Buddhism can prepare him. In a world where time is running out as quickly as its natural resources, where surveillance is almost total and freedom nearly nonexistent, the forecast for the Chase administration looks darker each passing day. For as the last\u2013and most terrible\u2013of natural disasters looms on the horizon, it will take a miracle to stop the clock . . . the kind of miracle that only dedicated men and women can bring about.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Politics", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Environment", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)", "Environment (Climate Change)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41120.Sixty_Days_and_Counting"}, +{"book_title": "Last Year", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1609, "review_number": 256, "book_description": "From the author of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Spin, comes an SF tale that poses searching questions about tourism and colonizationTwo events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant.It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each \"past\" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given \"past\" can only be reached once. After a passageway is open, it's the only road to that particular past; once closed, it can't be reopened.A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th-century Ohio. It's been in operation for most of a decade, but it's no secret, on either side of time. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. But like all such operations, it has a shelf life; as the \"natives\" become more sophisticated, their version of the \"past\" grows less attractive as a destination.Jesse Cullum is a native. And he knows the passageway will be closing soon. He's fallen in love with a woman from our time, and he means to follow her back--no matter whose secrets he has to expose in order to do it.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Westerns", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28220642-last-year"}, +{"book_title": "The Black Lung Captain", "author_name": "Chris Wooding", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 4824, "review_number": 425, "book_description": "Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircraft in the sky. Even the simplest robberies seem to go wrong. It's getting so a man can't make a dishonest living any more.Enter Captain Grist. He's heard about a crashed aircraft laden with the treasures of a lost civilisation, and he needs Frey's help to get it. There's only one problem. The craft is lying in the trackless heart of a remote island, populated by giant beasts and subhuman monsters.Dangerous, yes. Suicidal, perhaps. Still, Frey's never let common sense get in the way of a fortune before. But there's something other than treasure on board that aircraft. Something that a lot of important people would kill for. And it's going to take all of Frey's considerable skill at lying, cheating and stealing if he wants to get his hands on it...Strap yourself in for another tale of adventure and debauchery, pilots and pirates, golems and daemons, double-crosses and double-double-crosses. The crew of the Ketty Jay are back!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Adult", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7492383-the-black-lung-captain"}, +{"book_title": "The Fox Inheritance", "author_name": "Mary E. Pearson", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 5377, "review_number": 718, "book_description": "\n\nOnce there were three. Three friends who loved each other\u2014Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without her. Decades passed, and then centuries. \nTwo-hundred-and-sixty years later, they have been released at last. Given new, perfect bodies, Locke and Kara awaken to a world they know nothing about, where everyone they once knew and loved is long dead. \nEveryone except Jenna Fox.\n\n", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9774821-the-fox-inheritance"}, +{"book_title": "The Left Hand of God", "author_name": "Paul Hoffman", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 16649, "review_number": 1255, "book_description": "\u201cListen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary.\u201dThe Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place\u2014a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose\u2014to serve in the name of the One True Faith.In one of the Sanctuary\u2019s vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy. He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old\u2014he is not sure and neither is anyone else. He has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him Thomas Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-minded. He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or die.His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt. But the Redeemers want Cale back at any price... not because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does not.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7116709-the-left-hand-of-god"}, +{"book_title": "Waterfall", "author_name": "Lisa Tawn Bergren", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 19833, "review_number": 2193, "book_description": "What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world?Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the romantic hills with their archaelogist parents. Stuck among the rubble of the medieval castles in rural Tuscany, on yet another hot, dusty archaeological site, Gabi and Lia are bored out of their minds...until Gabi places her hand atop a handprint in an ancient tomb and finds herself in fourteenth-century Italy. And worse yet, in the middle of a fierce battle between knights of two opposing forces.Suddenly Gabi's summer in Italy is much, much more interesting.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7879278-waterfall"}, +{"book_title": "Empire's End", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 995, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "The Empire is in chaos. The once-great Imperial Navy has been shattered in battle and lies burning in space, riven by a civil war that threatens to engulf humanity\u2019s future. For the revered Eternal Emperor is not the man his subjects thought him to be\u2014and may not even be human at all. And it is Sten\u2014Imperial bodyguard, spy, assassin, renegade\u2014who now leads humanity\u2019s fight for survival. Taking command of the last rebel fleet, he sets out on a desperate quest to seek and destroy the dark source of his former master\u2019s power. Denounced as a traitor, hunted by forces loyal to the Emperor, Sten must risk everything to annihilate the Empire he vowed to protect.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure", "War", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211923.Empire_s_End"}, +{"book_title": "Explorer", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 3046, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "It has been nearly ten years since the starship Phoenix returned to Alpha, the station orbiting the world of the atevi, which had been abandoned following a rift between a faction of the station's inhabitants and the spacers' Pilot's Guild. The unexpected return of the Phoenix has forever changed the lives of both atevi and Mospheirans, for over the ensuing decade, the captains of the Phoenix have brought both species into space. Their motivation seemed simple: Reunion Station, a human station in another sector of space, had been destroyed by aliens.But on his deathbed, the senior captain of the Phoenix admits that he lied to the crew\u2014that Reunion was merely damaged, not destroyed, and many people may have survived. At this disclosure, the crew rebels and forces the Phoenix to undertake a rescue mission to Reunion. Onboard the rescue mission are Bren Cameron, brilliant human paidhi representing the atevi ruler Tabini-aiji, and Tabini's grandmother Ilisidi, a fearsome and ambitious atevi leader with an agenda of her own. Trapped in a distant star system with little fuel left, facing a bellicose alien ship, how can Bren help to avoid interspecies war when the notoriously secretive Pilot's Guild aboard Reunion Station refuse to cooperate, and may have kept the inhabitants of their own station ignorant of their true situation?The long-running Foreigner series can also be enjoyed by more casual genre readers in sub-trilogy installments. Explorer is the 6th Foreigner novel. It is also the 3rd book in the second subtrilogy.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adult", "Adventure", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57013.Explorer"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Attachments", "author_name": "Sabine Priestley", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 437, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "Will their love be strong enough to keep them alive and get them back to Earth? Finding one's psi-mate is something every Sandarian hopes for, but when Ian Cavacent accidentally starts the bonding process with the Earthling, Dani, he has to fight his desire with every ounce of his being. If the process is completed, it means both political and financial suicide for Ian and his family. A natural klutz, Dani somehow always manages to land on her feet and win her mixed martial arts matches. At home on Cat Island, her balance is thrown when bazillionaire Ian takes notice. Unfortunately some Torog aliens also take notice, sending her life spiraling out of control and into Ian's arms. But Dani isn't the type of woman to let alien voodoo decide her future or her mate. . .no matter how gorgeous the man is or how much pleasure he gives her. For centuries the Cavacents have mined Earth for a precious element, carnium, while protecting the planet from other alien species. Thanks to the Torogs, Dani and Ian must flee to Sandaria. As Dani learns to use her newfound psi powers, the empire crumbles around them.73,000 Words", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22581024-alien-attachments"}, +{"book_title": "Foe", "author_name": "Iain Reid", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 8852, "review_number": 1748, "book_description": "A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I\u2019m Thinking of Ending Things.We don\u2019t get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid\u2019s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta won't have a chance to miss him, because she won't be left alone\u2014not even for a moment. Henrietta will have company. Familiar company. Told in Reid\u2019s sharp and evocative style, Foe examines the nature of domestic relationships, self-determination, and what it means to be (or not to be) a person. An eerily entrancing page-turner, it churns with unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook", "Suspense", "Adult", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37510662-foe"}, +{"book_title": "Incarnation", "author_name": "Emma Cornwall", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 756, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "In the steampunk world of Victorian London, a beautiful vampire seeks out the author of Dracula -- to set the record straight . . .If one is to believe Bram Stoker\u2019s legendary vampire tale, Lucy Weston is Dracula\u2019s most wanton creation, a sexual creature of the night who preys on innocent boys. But the real-life Lucy is nothing like her fictional counterpart -- and she demands to know why the Victorian author deliberately lied. With Stoker\u2019s reluctant help, she\u2019s determined to track down the very fiend who transformed her -- from the sensual underworld where humans vie to become vampires, to a hidden cell beneath a temple to madness, and finally into the glittering Crystal Palace where death reigns supreme.Haunted by fragmentary memories of her lost life and love, Lucy must battle her thirst for blood as she struggles to stop a catastrophic war that will doom vampires and humans alike. Ultimately, she must make a choice that illuminates for her -- and for us -- what it means to be human.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13160434-incarnation"}, +{"book_title": "Earthrise", "author_name": "M.C.A. Hogarth", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1603, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "Reese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan. But she didn't think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince...Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.\nRating: PG-13 for violenceTags: found family, woman protagonist, minority/POC protagonist, adventure, space opera, romance, furries, space elves\n", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Business (Amazon)", "Space", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20809406-earthrise"}, +{"book_title": "Ash", "author_name": "Malinda Lo", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 31828, "review_number": 3456, "book_description": "\nCinderella retold\nIn the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6472451-ash"}, +{"book_title": "The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn't", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 3819, "review_number": 394, "book_description": "A short tale of mummies, werewolves, and well preserved felines set in the world of the Parasol Protectorate.Alessandro Tarabotti and his valet, Floote, are on a mission in Egypt when they encounter visiting tourists and things go all pie shaped. What is his real mission and will his Aunt Archangelica approve of his treatment of her cat?In this short story, New York Times Bestselling Author Gail Carriger uses her comedic voice to delve into the history of one of her most beloved characters. If you have ever wondered about Alexia's father, this will give you a glimpse into his adventures and character.This story was first published in The Book of the Dead, a Jurassic London anthology.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22611728-the-curious-case-of-the-werewolf-that-wasn-t"}, +{"book_title": "Agent of Change", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3902, "review_number": 243, "book_description": "Two tough-but-tender characters with a bright future--if they live that long. Terran Miri Robertson was a mercenary, but she retired to a cushy job as a private bodyguard. What she didn't know what that her client had powerful enemies. Now he's dead, and they're after her.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288771.Agent_of_Change"}, +{"book_title": "Sabriel", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 192113, "review_number": 7831, "book_description": "Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. With Sabriel, the first installment in the Abhorsen series, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear\u2014and sometimes disappears altogether.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/518848.Sabriel"}, +{"book_title": "The Shotgun Arcana", "author_name": "R.S. Belcher", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1245, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "R. S. Belcher\u2019s debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets.1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes, Golgotha has come through many nightmarish trials, but now an army of\u00a0thirty-two outlaws, lunatics, serial killers, and cannibals are converging on the town, drawn by a grisly relic that dates back to the Donner Party\u2026and the dawn of humanity.Sheriff Jon Highfather and his deputies already have their hands full dealing with train robbers, a mysterious series of brutal murders, and the usual outbreaks of weirdness.\u00a0 But with\u00a0thirty-two of the most vicious killers on Earth riding into Golgotha in just a few day\u2019s time, the town and its people will be tested as never before\u2014and some of them will never be the same.The Shotgun Arcana is even more spectacularly ambitious and imaginative than The Six-Gun Tarot, and confirms R. S. Belcher\u2019s status as a rising star.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Westerns", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518813-the-shotgun-arcana"}, +{"book_title": "Elusive Salvation (Star Trek: The Original Series", "author_name": "Dayton Ward", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 370, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "An all-new Star Trek adventure across time\u2014the latest of the acclaimed Original Series novels!The Arctic Circle, 1845: Escaping the tyranny under which their people have lived for generations, aliens from a distant planet crash land on Earth\u2019s inhospitable frozen wastes. Surviving the harsh conditions will pose a challenge, but over time the aliens will migrate to more populated areas, with decades passing as they work to conceal their presence from their former oppressors, who continue to hunt them at any cost. San Francisco, 2283: When a mysterious craft is detected entering the solar system, Admiral James Kirk is dispatched by Starfleet to confront the vessel. He meets with an emissary from the Iramahl, a previously unknown alien race who have come in search of their brothers and sisters thought to have gone missing in this area of space centuries earlier. Having recently thrown off the last chains of subjugation by another species, the Ptaen, they now believe their lost people hold the key to saving their entire race from eventual extinction. New York, 1970: Roberta Lincoln, young prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the mysterious agent Gary Seven, is shocked when she receives the oddest request for help\u2014from the future\u2026 \u2122, \u00ae, & \u00a9 2016 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Trek)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814484-elusive-salvation"}, +{"book_title": "The Honor of the Queen", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 26062, "review_number": 713, "book_description": "It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards war as a prelude to conquest. That's why Manticore needs allies against Haven, and planet Grayson is placed to make a good ally. But the Foreign Office overlooked a cultural difference when they sent Honor Harrington to carry the flag.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77735.The_Honor_of_the_Queen"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. The Unpleasant Penguins from Pluto", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 505, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "An out-of-this-world friendship adventure by Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey, with full-color art and mini comics by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat.Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot face off against a flock of flightless foes!Ricky and his Mighty Robot have made a mess. They've been mean to Cousin Lucy, and now they must make it up to her. But their surprise present for Lucy turns into a trap when President Penguin from Pluto plots to take over Earth. President Penguin is peeved because Pluto is no longer considered a real planet. Now he plans to make things very unpleasant for anyone who stands in his way. Can Ricky, Lucy, and their friends defeat this tiny terror and keep Squeakyville safe?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Space", "Humor", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25943088-ricky-ricotta-s-mighty-robot-vs-the-unpleasant-penguins-from-pluto"}, +{"book_title": "A.I. Apocalypse", "author_name": "William Hertling", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 3581, "review_number": 231, "book_description": "Leon Tsarev is a high school student set on getting into a great college program, until his uncle, a member of the Russian mob, coerces him into developing a new computer virus for the mob\u2019s botnet - the slave army of computers they used to commit digital crimes.The evolutionary virus Leon creates, based on biological principles, is successful -- too successful. All the world\u2019s computers are infected. Everything from cars to payment systems and, of course, computers and smart phones stop functioning, and with them go essential functions including emergency services, transportation, and the food supply. Billions may die.But evolution never stops. The virus continues to evolve, developing intelligence, communication, and finally an entire civilization. Some may be friendly to humans, but others are not.Leon and his companions must race against time and the military to find a way to either befriend or eliminate the virus race and restore the world\u2019s computer infrastructure.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Singularity", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15288278-a-i-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The Kremlin Games", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1091, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia continues its quest for survival. A Grantville resident helps Russia modernize, but he in turn must deal with 1600s Russian culture and\u00a0politics\u2014or wind up dead.1636. Grantville has bounced back and established its new mission and identity, but it seems some have been left behind\u2014people like Bernie Zeppi, courageous in the battle, but unable to figure out what to do with himself in a world that\u2019s utterly changed. Then Russian emissary Vladimir Gorchacov arrives in Grantville and hires Bernie to journey to Moscow and bring the future to a Russia mired in slavish serfdom and byzantine imperial plots. Bernie jumps at the chance. He figures it to be an easy gig, complete with high pay and hot-and-cold running women.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But one thing Bernie hasn\u2019t counted on is the chance to find his purpose in Mother Russia, from fighting the needless death of children from typhoid to building the first dirigible in Russian history. And then there\u2019s love. Just as Bernie realizes his feeling for a certain Russian noblewoman may have gone way beyond respect, he finds them both enmeshed in the deadly politics of Kremlin power struggles. Comprehensive Teacher's Guide available.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Cultural (Russia)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13102448-1636"}, +{"book_title": "Fed", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1786, "review_number": 234, "book_description": "An alternate ending to the first novel in the Newsflesh trilogy, Feed.It can be read also on the webpage of orbit books - orbitbooks.netBe advised there are major spoilers for FEED contained therein. If you haven\u2019t read FEED yet, don\u2019t go any further. These books are fantastic as the many Newsflesh fans will tell you. You\u2019ll want to enjoy every surprising twist and turn on what has been one wild ride for the Mason siblings.But if the crew of After the End Times are old friends of yours, then by all means continue and read FED or download a pdf. Available at orbitbooks.net", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Novella", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13793128-fed"}, +{"book_title": "The Trial", "author_name": "Franz Kafka", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 242652, "review_number": 7962, "book_description": "Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka\u2019s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.", "year_published": 1925, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Literature", "Philosophy", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (20th Century)", "European Literature (Czech Literature)", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17690.The_Trial"}, +{"book_title": "Krol's Goddess", "author_name": "V.C. Lancaster", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 547, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Krol doesn't trust females. His brother's Queen tried to kill their son, and killed him when Krol escaped with the baby. Then she caught up with him and beat him almost to death, leaving him scarred and maimed. But Krol survived, and has been raising his nephew by himself in hiding for three years. Unlike the rest of his kind, Krol can see Bonding for what it really is, nothing more than a way for selfish, unscrupulous females to enslave the men around them. He is determined that will never happen to him, nor to his nephew, Ryll, who is the only thing keeping him from losing what's left of his mind out in the wilds. Naomi is a Scout leader, so she's not too worried when she finds herself in a strange jungle. She knows how to survive. What she doesn't know is where she is or how she got there. Nevertheless, she's determined to put a brave face on things, until she discovers Krol and Ryll, who she thinks are Bigfoot! A misunderstanding leads Krol to attack her, but when torrential rain hits the area, they are forced to take shelter together in the same cave. Begrudgingly, they learn to trust each other, until they become each other's only friend in a sometimes beautiful, sometimes deadly world. Staying together after the weeks of rain, they eventually stumble upon Ruth and Moira, two human women who are living with the 'Bigfoot' and can finally give Naomi the answers she needs about what's happened to her. Ruth and Moira have both settled down with the locals, and Ruth even has a baby with one of them, and Moira is pregnant! With their eyes opened to the possibilities, Naomi and Krol are forced to see each other in a new light, and wonder if maybe they could be more than friends, and finally make a real home in this alien land. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41085656-krol-s-goddess"}, +{"book_title": "The 100", "author_name": "Kass Morgan", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 54008, "review_number": 6717, "book_description": "No one has set foot on Earth in centuries\u2014until now.Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents\u2014considered expendable by society\u2014are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission.CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves\u2014but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth.Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332969-the-100"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Battle", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 230987, "review_number": 6723, "book_description": "This edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction is packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive P.S. section about the history of the book, plus a round-up of the first six titles.", "year_published": 1956, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Classics", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Christian", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Christian Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84369.The_Last_Battle"}, +{"book_title": "For Love of Mother-Not", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 4383, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "From bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, an exciting early Pip and Flinx novel that shows the origins of a certain boy with special powers--and the mini-dragon that becomes his devoted sidekick. . . .Flinx was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely compelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer's block. One hundred credits and he was hers.For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew--even let him keep the deadly flying dragon he called Pip. But when Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappears, Flinx tails her kidnappers on a dangerous journey. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons are Pip's venom . . . and Flinx's unusual talent.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218661.For_Love_of_Mother_Not"}, +{"book_title": "Inferno", "author_name": "Roger MacBride Allen", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 993, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "When a key politician is murdered, suspicion falls on Caliban...the only robot without guilt or conscience, with no need to obey or respect humanity... a robot without the Three Laws.But the stakes go deeper than one man's life. Caliban is challenging long-held ideas of a robot's place in society. Will he lead his New Law robots in a rebellion that threatens all of humanity?", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85504.Inferno"}, +{"book_title": "Spherical Harmonic", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 761, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of Skolia, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar war. Too many have died, others are presumed lost, yet Dyhianna, the Ruby Pharaoh, must move quickly if they are reassume their rightful place as rulers of the Skolian Empire.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672955.Spherical_Harmonic"}, +{"book_title": "Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind", "author_name": "Hans Moravec", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 173, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "In this compelling book, Hans Moravec predicts that machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040, and that by 2050, they will surpass us. But even though Moravec predicts the end of the domination by human beings, his is not a bleak vision. Far from railing against a future in which machines rule the world, Moravec embraces it, taking the startling view that intelligent robots will actually be our evolutionary heirs. \"Intelligent machines, which will grow from us, learn our skills, and share our goals and values, can be viewed as children of our minds.\" And since they are our children, we will want them to outdistance us. In fact, in a bid for immortality, many of our descendants will choose to transform into \"ex humans,\" as they upload themselves into advanced computers.This provocative new book, the highly anticipated follow-up to his bestselling volume Mind Children, charts the trajectory of robotics in breathtaking detail. A must read for artificial intelligence, technology, and computer enthusiasts, Moravec's freewheeling but informed speculations present a future far different than we ever dared imagine.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Philosophy", "Science (Technology)", "Futurism", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science (Computer Science)", "Reference (Research)", "Science (Engineering)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837037.Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Scythe", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 154291, "review_number": 23864, "book_description": "Thou shalt kill.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life\u2014and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe\u2014a role that neither wants. These teens must master the \u201cart\u201d of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Death"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28954189-scythe"}, +{"book_title": "Guardian", "author_name": "Alex London", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 3161, "review_number": 436, "book_description": "The pulse-pounding sequel to Proxy! Inspired by The Whipping Boy and Feed, this adrenaline-fueled thriller will appeal to fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.In the new world led by the Rebooters, former Proxy Syd is the figurehead of the Revolution, beloved by some and hated by others. Liam, a seventeen-year-old Rebooter, is Syd\u2019s bodyguard and must protect him with his life. But armed Machinists aren\u2019t the only danger.People are falling ill\u2014their veins show through their skin, they find it hard to speak, and sores erupt all over their bodies. Guardians, the violent enforcers of the old system, are hit first, and the government does nothing to help. The old elites fall next, and in the face of an indifferent government, Syd decides it\u2019s up to him to find a cure . . . and what he discovers leaves him stunned.This heart-stopping thriller is packed with action, adventure, and heroics. Guardian will leave you breathless until the final page.A fast-paced, thrill-ride of novel full of non-stop action, heart-hammering suspense and true friendship\u2014just as moving as it is exhilarating. Fans of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series, James Dashner's Maze Runner, Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking series, and Marie Lu's Legend trilogy will be swept away by this story.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Romance (M M Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17227209-guardian"}, +{"book_title": "The Dragon Men", "author_name": "Steven Harper", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 206, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "As China prepares to become the ultimate power in an era of extraordinary invention and horror, Alice Michaels' fate lies inside the walls of the forbidden kingdom.... Gavin Ennock has everything a man could desire--except time. As the clockwork plague consumes his body and mind, it drives him increasingly mad and fractures his relationship with his fiancee, Alice, Lady Michaels. Their only hope is that the Dragon Men of China can cure him. But a power-mad general has seized the Chinese throne in a determined offensive to conquer Asia, Britain--indeed, the entire world. He has closed the country's borders to all foreigners. The former ruling dynasty, however, is scheming to return the rightful heir to power. Their designs will draw Gavin and Alice down a treacherous path strewn with intrigue and power struggles. One wrong step will seal Gavin's fate...and determine the future of the world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13543172-the-dragon-men"}, +{"book_title": "Exodus", "author_name": "Paul Antony Jones", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 4745, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "Reporter Emily Baxter survived the alien red rain that blanketed and annihilated the human race. But after the downpour, and the lethal contagion it spread, came an even greater horror: the rampant transformation of the dead into something utterly unearthly.With a terrifying new form of life emerging from the mutated landscape, Emily\u2019s only hope is to flee toward distant Alaska where she can unite with the survivors who have reached out to her from a remote science facility. The journey from New York will be long and painstaking, and Emily has only her faithful dog and whatever she can carry. But, after discovering a small family of refugees along the way, Emily\u2019s determination to escape the unfolding catastrophe and carve out a new future is renewed. Standing in their way are Earth\u2019s new masters, equally determined to survive and thrive, and possessed of monstrous capabilities Emily and her allies can\u2019t begin to imagine\u2026until they\u2019re face to face with the hideous reality.In the battle about to begin, there will be no room for mistakes or mercy\u2014only the most ruthless instincts to survive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17339290-exodus"}, +{"book_title": "Weave a Circle Round", "author_name": "Kari Maaren", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 977, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "The unexpected can move in next doorFreddy wants desperately to not be noticed. She doesn't want to be seen as different or unusual, but her step-brother Roland gets attention because he's deaf, and her little sister Mel thinks she's a private detective. All Freddy wants to do is navigate high school with as little trouble as possible.Then someone moves into the house on Grosvenor Street. Two extremely odd someones.Cuerva Lachance and Josiah aren't . . . normal. When they move in next door, the house begins to exhibit some decidedly strange tendencies, like not obeying the laws of physics or reality. Just as Freddy thinks she's had enough of Josiah following her around, she's plunged into an adventure millennia in the making and discovers the truth about the new neighbors.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33517568-weave-a-circle-round"}, +{"book_title": "Origins: The Fire", "author_name": "Debra Driza", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1371, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "Heart-stopping and electric, MILA 2.0: Origins: The Fire contains a short prequel story and an excerpt to MILA 2.0, the first book in a riveting Bourne Identity\u2013style trilogy by Debra Driza.Mila can't remember anything before the fire that took her father's life. It's normal to have some memory loss after traumatic events, but Mila doesn't remember if she's ever learned to ride a bike, or if she's ever been in love. Nothing.What she doesn't know is that she isn't supposed to remember\u2014that she was built in a computer science lab and programmed to forget. Because if she remembers, she might discover her true identity.The question is: If she relived the fire, what would she see?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16118288-origins"}, +{"book_title": "Ringworld", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 106495, "review_number": 3575, "book_description": "The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a kzin, a huge cat-like alien, to explore it. But a crash landing on the vast edifice forces the crew on a desperate and dangerous trek across the Ringworld.", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Hugo Awards", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61179.Ringworld"}, +{"book_title": "Wings", "author_name": "Elizabeth Richards", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2439, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "Following the cliffhanger ending of Phoenix, Natalie finds herself separated from Ash and unexpectedly reunited with her parents, including the father she thought was dead. But she can only think of Ash. She hasn't heard a word of him since she and Elijah were brought to the underground headquarters of the Sentry Rebellion. But she vows to find him. Ash, meanwhile is back in Black City; it's the perfect place to hide from the Sentry government. But not for long. He won't give up on Natalie or bringing an end to the terrible reign of Purian Rose. A pulse-racing end to an exciting series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12568641-wings"}, +{"book_title": "Eye of Truth", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2702, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "After ten years at war, Jev Dharrow looks forward to hanging up his sword, relaxing with a cool mug of ale, and forgetting that the love of his life married another man while he was gone. But when his ship sails into port, a beautiful woman wearing the garb of an inquisitor from one of the religious orders waits to arrest him. His crime? He\u2019s accused of stealing an ancient artifact with the power to start another war. Jev would gladly hand over the artifact to stop more suffering, but he has no idea where it is or even what it looks like. The inquisitor woman definitely has the wrong person. Inquisitor Zenia Cham grew up with nothing, but she has distinguished herself as one of the most capable law enforcers in the city, and she\u2019s next in line to become archmage of the temple. All she has to do is find the Eye of Truth, and her superiors are certain that Jev has it. He tries to charm her with his twinkling eyes and easy smile, but she\u2019s not letting any man get between her and her dreams. Especially not a thief. If Jev can\u2019t convince Zenia they\u2019re on the same side, find the artifact, and clear his name, his homecoming will turn into a jail sentence. Or worse.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41181130-eye-of-truth"}, +{"book_title": "Deathstalker Rebellion", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 3233, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green continues his compelling space opera with the second novel in the Deathstalker series.Owen Deathstalker--outlawed, with a price on his head and the blood of a mighty warrior lineage in his veins--had no choice but to embrace a dangerous destiny. With nothing to lose, only he had the courage to take up arms against Queen Lionstone XIV.Now as he gathers his unlikely allies--the legendary washed-up hero Jack Random, the beautiful pirate Hazel d'Arc, the original Deathstalker long since presumed dead, and the alien Hadenmen whose purposes no human can discern--the eyes of the downtrodden are upon him while the freedom of a galaxy hangs in the balance...", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/618194.Deathstalker_Rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "Taken", "author_name": "Willow Danes", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1067, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "Hope MacGowan is a city girl but reeling from a break-up on top of a layoff has her determined to have a weekend away in the North Carolina mountains\u2014even if all her friends have bailed at the last minute. Hope\u2019s life is one big train-wreck and getting kidnapped by a tall, blond alien\u2014even a gorgeous one\u2014sure isn\u2019t helping.R\u2019har crossed the galaxy to seek a mate on this newly discovered world and this delicate red-haired female is everything he\u2019s dreamed of\u2014except happy to find herself mated to him. R\u2019har knows in his heart he\u2019s her true mate, even if he\u2019s not human. But taking her doesn\u2019t mean he can keep her and somehow he has to convince Hope to choose him before time runs out...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23453070-taken"}, +{"book_title": "The Lazarus Machine", "author_name": "Paul Crilley", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 492, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "An alternate 1895... a world where Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace perfected the Difference engine. Where steam and tesla-powered computers are everywhere. Where automatons powered by human souls venture out into the sprawling London streets. Where the Ministry, a secretive government agency, seeks to control everything in the name of the Queen.It is in this claustrophobic, paranoid city that seventeen-year-old Sebastian Tweed and his conman father struggle to eke out a living.But all is not well...A murderous, masked gang has moved into London, spreading terror through the criminal ranks as they take over the underworld. as the gang carves up more and more of the city, a single name comes to be uttered in fearful whispers.Professor Moriarty.When Tweed\u2019s father is kidnapped by Moriarty, he is forced to team up with information broker Octavia Nightingale to track him down. But he soon realizes that his father\u2019s disappearance is just a tiny piece of a political conspiracy that could destroy the British Empire and plunge the world into a horrific war.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15738313-the-lazarus-machine"}, +{"book_title": "Anansi Boys", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 199312, "review_number": 10129, "book_description": "God is dead. Meet the kids.Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep -- about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting... and a lot more dangerous.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Adult", "Magical Realism", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744.Anansi_Boys"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian Lover", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 8264, "review_number": 702, "book_description": "As one of the few humans stranded on the ice planet, I should be happy that I have a new home. Human women are treasured here, and one alien in particular has made it clear that he wants me. It's hard to push away the sexy, flirtatious Aehako, when all I want to do is grab him by his horns and insist he take me to his furs. But I've got a terrible secret - the aliens who abducted me are back, and thanks to the translator in my ear, they can find me. My presence here endangers everyone... but can I give up my new life and the man I want more than anything?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26185583-barbarian-lover"}, +{"book_title": "The Battle of the Hammer Worlds", "author_name": "Graham Sharp Paul", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 430, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "He thought Hell was the worst they could throw at him.He was wrong.\n\nBack from tangling with the Hammer of Kraa, the most brutal, trigger-happy tyrants in humanspace, Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort is assigned to the Federated Worlds heavy cruiser Ishaq, which is struggling to rise to the threat posed by a newly resurgent Hammer. Aboard the floundering ship, Helfort is coming to grips with a painful injury and the unpleasant truth that nobody likes a young hero\u2013least of all senior officers.Without warning, the Ishaq and twenty-seven Fed merchant ships are blown apart in a horrific ambush, the first step in the Hammer\u2019s master strategy to destroy the hated Federated Worlds. Michael and a pitiful remnant of the Ishaq\u2019s crew escape the inferno. The Feds have no idea who\u2019s behind the heinous attack, and the Hammer are determined to keep it that way, consigning the Ishaq\u2019s survivors to a prison camp deep in the wilderness of the Hammer\u2019s home planet. No one\u2019s getting out alive to derail the Hammer\u2019s lethal master plan\u2013especially not the FedWorlds hero who so humiliated them on the battlefield. It\u2019s payback time, and the Hammers intend to throw their entire space fleet into destroying Michael Helfort and the Federated Worlds. Too bad it won\u2019t be enough.From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3085027-the-battle-of-the-hammer-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Origins", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1784, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Are you still human if your father was a dragon? Even though Captain Trip always knew he was a little odd, he\u2019s still shocked by the revelation that the elder gold dragon, Agarrenon Shivar, sired him. It\u2019s time, however, to accept reality and learn to use his power, even if it alienates him from his magic-fearing friends\u2014and the woman he\u2019s come to care about. With enemy dragons threatening to kill or enslave everyone in his homeland, he has no choice. But even if he becomes a great sorcerer, it won\u2019t be enough to fight off all the dragons threatening Iskandia, so Trip suggests a mission to General Zirkander. He wants to lead a team, with the scholarly Lieutenant Ravenwood\u2019s help, to locate his sire. Agarrenon Shivar, once respected and feared by his own kind, may be the perfect ally for Iskandia\u2014if Trip can talk him into siding with humanity. Just one problem: the ancient dragon hasn\u2019t been seen for thousands of years, and Trip has no idea how his long-dead mother found him.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37792957-origins"}, +{"book_title": "The Slayer", "author_name": "Theresa Meyers", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 143, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Brothers Winchester, Remington, and Colt know the legends--they were trained from childhood to destroy demon predators, wielding the latest steam-powered gadgetry. It's a devil of a job. But sometimes your fate chooses you. . . Chasing Trouble Winn Jackson isn't interested in hunting nightmares across the Wild West--even if it's the family business. Unlike his rakehell brothers, Winn believes in rules. As sheriff of Bodie, California, he only shoots actual law breakers. That's what he's doing when he rescues the Contessa Drossenburg, Alexandra Porter, a lady with all the elegance of the Old World--grace, beauty and class. And then he sees her fangs. Alexandra isn't just some bloodsucking damsel in distress, though. She's on a mission to save her people--and she's dead certain that Winn's family legacy is the only way. Luckily, aside from grace and class, she also has a stubborn streak a mile wide. So like it or not, Winn is going to come back with her to the mountains of Transylvania, and while he's at it, change his opinions about vampires, demon-hunting, and who exactly deserves shooting. And if she has her way, he's going to do his darnedest to save the world. . . \"Meyers puts the steam in steampunk.\"--Cherry Adair", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Westerns", "Adventure", "Historical", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12585607-the-slayer"}, +{"book_title": "Cathian", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2766, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "*** Notice - This book was previously published as a short story called \u2018Captain of Nara\u2019s Heart\u2019 in Something Wicked This Way Comes, Volume 1. It has been updated and expanded into novella length. When Nara Barns and her tiny crew find themselves with a choice between jail or the sex-slave auction block, it\u2019s an easy choice. Especially when they plan to escape their buyers as soon as possible, anyway. Even better, Nara\u2019s buyer wants her for just six days, long enough to get him through his heat until women from his planet can come to his aid. Six days and then freedom? Sign her up. However, Nara\u2019s completely unprepared for the impact Captain Cathian Vellar has on her body. To survive his heat, the Tryleskian must feed\u2014and Nara is his favorite meal. Her body can barely withstand the rapture. Soon, her heart is just as engaged. But enduring the pinnacle of Cathian\u2019s heat he could kill Nara, and he refuses to risk her life.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40890101-cathian"}, +{"book_title": "The End of Infinity", "author_name": "Matt Myklusch", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 3227, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Jack Blank confronts his destiny in this action-packed conclusion to the trilogy Publishers Weekly calls a \u201cno-holds-barred adventure.\u201dEver since Jack Blank learned that he came from the amazing country of the Imagine Nation, he\u2019s known that his fate could go down two very different paths\u2014he could either be the greatest hero the world has ever known, or its greatest villain.Now the final battle is here, and it\u2019s time for Jack to discover the direction of his destiny.The action-packed trilogy concludes with more surprises, twists, and adventure than ever\u2014along with the same humor and heart that has brought so many fans to Jack\u2019s story.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Audiobook", "Action", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13012638-the-end-of-infinity"}, +{"book_title": "Stranger Suns", "author_name": "George Zebrowski", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 38, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "The orbiting tachyon detector was designed by physicist Juan Obrion to identify life in other star systems, but even though he expected to find some signs of life, he certainly didn't expect to find any life on earth. Juan discovers that a culture has been concealed for many years far below Antarctica, and Obrion ventures out as part of a four-man team to explore the unknown. Juan, Lena, Malachi and Magnus are awestruck when they discover a myriad of portals to parallel lands, but the maze they fall into makes them wonder if their journey will ever come to an end.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6084292-stranger-suns"}, +{"book_title": "Necrotic City", "author_name": "Leland Lydecker", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 54, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "What would you do if you realized that the laws you enforce do little more than contribute to the suffering of the people you were created to protect? In a dying city wracked by corruption and civil unrest, Adrian is about to make a discovery that will test his allegiance and alter his life forever. It\u2019s said that every broken world needs a hero. Will this hero wind up as broken as the dying city he\u2019s sworn to protect?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36472944-necrotic-city"}, +{"book_title": "Fire on the Mountain", "author_name": "Terry Bisson", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 561, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "Fiction. It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman's guerrilla army. Long unavailable in the US, published in France as Nova Africa, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN is the story of what might have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had succeeded\u0097and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (African American)", "Fantasy", "Race", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166902.Fire_on_the_Mountain"}, +{"book_title": "Sent", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 16186, "review_number": 1288, "book_description": "Jonah and Chip have barely adjusted to the discovery that they are actually the missing children of history when a time purist named JB sends them, along with Katherine and Alex, hurtling back in time to 1483. JB promises that if they can fix history, they can all return to their present-day lives. Now Chip and Alex have to reclaim their true identities\u2014as the king and prince of England. But things get complicated when the four discover that according to the records, the princes were murdered. How can they fix history if it means that Chip and Alex will die? Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of Found, the bestselling Shadow Children series, Uprising, Running Out of Time, and many more", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3899465-sent"}, +{"book_title": "In the Black", "author_name": "Patrick S. Tomlinson", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 144, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "\"It's Hunt for the Red October in Space, with this brand new military science fiction novel from Patrick S. Tomlinson, In the BlackIn a demilitarized zone on the border of human space, long range spy satellites are mysteriously going quiet, and no one knows why. Captain Susan Kamala and her crew are dispatched to figure out what's going on and solve the problem. That problem, however, is a mysterious, bleeding edge alien ship that no human vessel could hope to match in open conflict. But, it's not spoiling for a fight. Now, the Captain and her Crew must figure out how to navigate a complicated game of diplomacy, balancing the needs of their corporate overlords, and the honest desire for a lasting peace between the two races, all without letting a long standing cold war turn hot.\"", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49247279-in-the-black"}, +{"book_title": "The Mine", "author_name": "John A. Heldt", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2119, "review_number": 468, "book_description": "In May 2000, Joel Smith is a cocky, adventurous young man who sees the world as his playground. But when the college senior, days from graduation, enters an abandoned Montana mine, he discovers the price of reckless curiosity. He emerges in May 1941 with a cell phone he can't use, money he can't spend, and little but his wits to guide his way. Stuck in the age of swing dancing and a peacetime draft, Joel begins a new life as the nation drifts toward war. With the help of his 21-year-old trailblazing grandmother and her friends, he finds his place in a world he knew only from movies and books. But when an opportunity comes to return to the present, Joel must decide whether to leave his new love in the past or choose a course that will alter their lives forever. THE MINE is a love story that follows a humbled man through a critical time in history as he adjusts to new surroundings and wrestles with the knowledge of things to come.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19353394-the-mine"}, +{"book_title": "Doomsday Book", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 50996, "review_number": 5458, "book_description": "For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin--barely of age herself--finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24983.Doomsday_Book"}, +{"book_title": "Indigo Squad", "author_name": "Tim C. Taylor", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 518, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "2566 A.D. Five centuries ago, Earth sold a million children into slavery, the price of protection from the regional superpower. One group of slaves was bio-engineered and augmented to fight for alien officers as the Human Marine Corps.To most alien eyes the Corps is a joke: plasma fodder equipped with third-rate cast-offs and so stupid that they go off to die actually believing they are genuine warriors.But there are others who look deeper and see potential. To them the human Marines could be the wellspring of something far greater\u2026FREEDOM!Unlike the other Marines on board the troop ship Beowulf, when eighteen-year old Arun McEwan is woken from cryo to board an enemy ship, he already knows he will survive: his destiny to lead the Human Legion has been foretold.But there are other factions who will stop at nothing to bring about their rival dreams for humanity\u2019s future.Isolated on a ship rocked by mutiny, betrayal, and murder, Arun must find new allies amongst the most detested of the Navy crew: the freaks\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40732410-indigo-squad"}, +{"book_title": "City of Masks", "author_name": "Mary Hoffman", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 15505, "review_number": 656, "book_description": "Lucien is seriously ill but his life is transformed when an old Italian notebook gives him the power to become a stravagante, a time traveller with access to 16th century Italy. He wakes up in Bellezza (Venice) during carnival time and meets Arianna, a girl his own age who is disguised as a boy in the hope of being selected as one of the Duchessa's mandoliers. Arianna gives Lucien her boy's clothing and he is selected as a mandolier himself, becoming a friend of fellow-stravagante Rodolfo, the Duchessa's lover, and saving the Duchessa's life when she is threatened by an assassin hired by the powerful di Chimici family. For state occasions the Duchessa uses her maid Giuliana as a body-double but Guiliana commits the fatal mistake of revealing the secret to her fiance Enrico and a sequence of devastating consequences unravels. Meanwhile Lucien has met the original stravagante, the Elizabethan alchemist William Dethridge, and he begins to understand that he may be called to follow in his footsteps.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86737.City_of_Masks"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Ruin", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 15310, "review_number": 1539, "book_description": "The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Long ago, Earth's terraforming program sent ships out to build new homes for humanity among the stars and made an unexpected discovery: a planet with life. But the scientists were unaware that the alien ecosystem was more developed than the primitive life forms originally discovered.Now, thousands of years later, the Portiids and their humans have sent an exploration vessel following fragmentary radio signals. They discover a system in crisis, warring factions trying to recover from an apocalyptic catastrophe arising from what the early terraformers awoke all those years before.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40376072-children-of-ruin"}, +{"book_title": "Treyvon", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 2506, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "General Treyvon Rayner is the Supreme Commander of the Kaliszian Defenses. He is the cousin and trusted friend of the Kaliszian Emperor, Emperor Liron Kalinin, in spite of Treyvon\u2019s ancestor being one of the causes of the Great Infection so many centuries ago. It is never far from Treyvon's mind, and he vowed he'd spend his entire life trying to make things right. Chef Jennifer Neibaur dreamed of traveling to exotic places, of experiencing different cuisines, and learning how to prepare them. Her dream came true, but at a high price. She lost her sister. Her husband died. And she was severely injured. All that was enough for her to welcome death. But for a chef to end up in a place where food was just sustenance, and never something enjoyed, was the ultimate punishment. Two strong, honorable people are both trying to find forgiveness and redeem themselves for things that were out of their control. Neither is looking for love. But if they can accept it, the forgiveness they find might be for more than just themselves. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34154406-treyvon"}, +{"book_title": "Among the Hidden", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 113545, "review_number": 6216, "book_description": "SHADOW CHILDRENLuke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside.Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows - does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Academic (School)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227651.Among_the_Hidden"}, +{"book_title": "The Blackout", "author_name": "Stephanie Erickson", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 1137, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "The world is thrust into darkness and silence, but no one knows why. Molly is an English professor at a local liberal arts college when the world suddenly goes dark. Her husband, Gary, is a corporate pilot on the other side of the country. Grounded by what appears to be a catastrophic power outage, he has no way to communicate with his wife, let alone get home to her. Not knowing whether her husband is alive or dead, Molly struggles to adapt to her new environment: without power, running water, transportation, a stable food supply, or any long-distance means of communication. Without knowing the cause of the outage, Gary must decide whether to wait for things to go back to normal, or to make the long and dangerous journey home on foot. Both must learn to survive after the Blackout.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16147865-the-blackout"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk Alphabet", "author_name": "Nat Iwata", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 57, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Every family needs an alphabet book. That's a given. But until now there has not yet been a compelling Steampunk-themed ABC book. Nat Iwata has been doing steampunk art for several years in the video game industry, and now he has illustrated a visually compelling, fun-for-all-ages Steampunk Alphabet book that is approachable both to fans and those unfamiliar with Steampunk. In light of that, while all of the illustrations are total Steampunk, the opening 'letter sentence' for each page is a familiar word. For example \"A is for Apple.\" The idea of taking everyday ordinary things and reimagining them as Steampunk is sure to be a crowd pleaser, and especially appeal to all of the hipster parents. The second part of each page is a description of the object as set in the Steampunk world. This portion will be more enjoyable to older kids and adults to enjoy, while the book could be read entirely with just the 'letter sentences' for younger readers.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Nonfiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16073152-steampunk-alphabet"}, +{"book_title": "Crooked", "author_name": "Austin Grossman", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 1381, "review_number": 280, "book_description": "Award-winning novelist Austin Grossman reimagines the Cold War as an epic battle against the occult waged by the ultimate American antihero: Richard Nixon. Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century. Our thirty-seventh president's political career spanned the button-down fifties, the Mad Men sixties, and the turbulent seventies. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and ultimately his own government. The man went from political mastermind to a national joke, sobbing in the Oval Office, leaving us with one burning question: how could he have lost it all? Here for the first time is the tale told in his own words: the terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, the truth behind the Cold War, and the truth behind the Watergate cover-up. What if our nation's worst president was actually a pivotal figure caught in a desperate struggle between ordinary life and horrors from another reality? What if the man we call our worst president was, in truth, our greatest? In Crooked, Nixon finally reveals the secret history of modern American politics as only Austin Grossman could reimagine it. Combining Lovecraftian suspense, international intrigue, Russian honey traps, and a presidential marriage whose secrets and battles of attrition were their own heroic saga, Grossman's novel is a masterwork of alternative history, equal parts mesmerizing character study and nail-biting Faustian thriller.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Politics", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23507476-crooked"}, +{"book_title": "The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to be in Love", "author_name": "Tui", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 255, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "An internet troll who wanted attention, the reader criticized his favorite web novel, saying: \u201cThe protagonist is dumb and the author is stupid.\u201dAuthor: \u201c\u2026 Got it.\u201dUnfortunately for him, the author actually listened to his (troll) feedback. The formerly lighthearted tale of a cute harem master suddenly became super dark and edgy. The reader could only helplessly look on as the the protagonist was abused and betrayed, finally embarking on the road to becoming completely evil. Everything was a mess!After that the reader transmigrated into a strange world. How come the person in front of him looks like the protagonist (evil undead version)? Just what is going on?!Note: Du Zhe (\u8bfb\u8005 meaning Reader) and Du Ze (\u675c\u6cfd the character\u2019s name) sound almost the same", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Yaoi (Boys Love)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Cultural (China)", "Novels (Light Novel)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Paranormal (Angels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39981473-the-reader-and-protagonist-definitely-have-to-be-in-love"}, +{"book_title": "Ecstasy", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 143, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Urban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist ***third episode of the nine-part serial***What\u2019s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more \u201cworthy\u201d\u2026 all while paying the price with black marks on their souls.Ecstasy is approximately 15,000 words or 60 pages, and is the third of nine episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial.Lirium's attempts to find Ophelia take him to the last place he wants to be.Contains mature content and themes.OPTIONED FOR VIRTUAL REALITY BY IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT 2014 Semi-Finalist in Science Fiction in the Kindle Book AwardsIt is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series. There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together. READING ORDERSeason One \u2013 Lirium - COMPLETEEpisodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, PassionSeason Two \u2013 Wraith **available for pre-order** releases 12.15.14Episodes 10-18: Wraith, Specter, Menace, Temptation, Shattered, Penance, Judgment, Corruption, Atonement", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17725162-ecstasy"}, +{"book_title": "Stealing Utopia", "author_name": "Tilda Booth", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 21, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "\nThe plan: Kidnap H.G. Wells. Definitely not part of the plan: Falling in love.A Silk, Steel and Steam story.\nThe year is 1897, the place, a Britain that could have been, but never was. H. George Wells is helping lead Britain into a new Golden Age, driven by technological advances and discoveries of the human brain. Then one night a beautiful woman abducts him at gunpoint, and she seems to despise everything he\u2019s worked for. Despite his outrage, he can\u2019t help but be intrigued by this adventuress and her passion for her cause.Jane Robbins, agent provocateur, has reason to fear her country\u2019s march towards a new world order. Using her wits and her arsenal of spy gadgets to infiltrate Wells\u2019 house, she delivers him to her employer, who plans to use him as leverage to halt the coming Utopia. But when Wells\u2019 life is threatened, she must choose between saving him or sacrificing him to the cause.Scientist and spy, they are irresistibly drawn to each other even as the future pushes them apart.Product WarningsThis book contains gadgets, guns, death rays, dirigibles, sexy scientists and a smoking hot Victorian spy who\u2019s as much steam as she is punk. Don\u2019t blame us if it makes you want to slip a pistol into your garter and abduct the man of your dreams.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9545832-stealing-utopia"}, +{"book_title": "Epitaph Road", "author_name": "David Patneaude", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 1740, "review_number": 280, "book_description": "2097 is a transformed world. Thirty years earlier, a mysterious plague wiped out 97 percent of the male population, devastating every world system from governments to sports teams, and causing both universal and unimaginable grief. In the face of such massive despair, women were forced to take over control of the planet--and in doing so they eliminated all of Earth's most pressing issues. Poverty, crime, warfare, hunger . . . all gone. But there's a price to pay for this new \"utopia,\" which fourteen-year-old Kellen is all too familiar with. Every day, he deals with life as part of a tiny minority that is purposefully kept subservient and small in numbers. His career choices and relationship options are severely limited and controlled. He also lives under the threat of scattered recurrences of the plague, which seem to pop up wherever small pockets of men begin to regroup and grow in numbers. And then one day, his mother's boss, an iconic political figure, shows up at his home. Kellen overhears something he shouldn't--another outbreak seems to be headed for Afterlight, the rural community where his father and a small group of men live separately from the female-dominated society. Along with a few other suspicious events, like the mysterious disappearances of Kellen's progressive teacher and his Aunt Paige, Kellen is starting to wonder whether the plague recurrences are even accidental. No matter what the truth is, Kellen cares only about one thing--he has to save his father.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6580515-epitaph-road"}, +{"book_title": "The Forbidden Stars", "author_name": "Tim Pratt", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 598, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "The ancient alien gods are waking up, and there's only one spaceship crew ready to stop them, in this dazzling space opera sequel to\u00a0The Wrong Stars\u00a0and\u00a0The Dreaming Stars.Aliens known as the Liars gave humanity access to the stars through twenty-nine wormholes. They didn\u2019t mention that other aliens, the ancient, tyrannical \u2013 but thankfully sleeping \u2013 Axiom occupied all the other systems. When the twenty-ninth fell silent, humanity chalked it up to radical separatists and moved on. But now, on board the\u00a0White Raven, Captain Callie and her crew of Axiom-hunters receive word that the twenty-ninth colony may have met a very different fate. With their bridge generator they skip past the wormhole, and discover another Axiom project, fully awake, and poised to pour through the wormhole gate into all the worlds of humanity\u2026\u00a0File Under:\u00a0Science Fiction\u00a0[\u00a0That's No Moon |\u00a0Lost Colony | Only Posthuman |\u00a0Running\u00a0Silent ]", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "GLBT (Queer)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43209036-the-forbidden-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Midnight Never Come", "author_name": "Marie Brennan", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 2058, "review_number": 314, "book_description": "England flourishes under the hand of its Virgin Queen: Elizabeth, Gloriana, last and most powerful of the Tudor monarchs.But a great light casts a great shadow.In hidden catacombs beneath London, a second Queen holds court: Invidiana, ruler of faerie England, and a dark mirror to the glory above. In the thirty years since Elizabeth ascended her throne, fae and mortal politics have become inextricably entwined, in secret alliances and ruthless betrayals whose existence is suspected only by a few.Two courtiers, both struggling for royal favor, are about to uncover the secrets that lie behind these two thrones. When the faerie lady Lune is sent to monitor and manipulate Elizabeth's spymaster, Walsingham, her path crosses that of Michael Deven, a mortal gentleman and agent of Walsingham's. His discovery of the \"hidden player\" in English politics will test Lune's loyalty and Deven's courage alike. Will she betray her Queen for the sake of a world that is not hers? And can he survive in the alien and Machiavellian world of the fae? For only together will they be able to find the source of Invidiana's power\u2014find it, and break it\u2026A breathtaking novel of intrigue and betrayal set in Elizabethan England; Midnight Never Come seamlessly weaves together history and the fantastic to dazzling effect.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2195178.Midnight_Never_Come"}, +{"book_title": "American Front", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3548, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "When the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the United States and the Confederate States of America, bitter enemies for five decades, entered the fray on opposite sides: the United States aligned with the newly strong Germany, while the Confederacy joined forces with their longtime allies, Britain and France. But it soon became clear to both sides that this fight would be different--that war itself would never be the same again. For this was to be a protracted, global conflict waged with new and chillingly efficient innovations--the machine gun, the airplane, poison gas, and trench warfare.Across the Americas, the fighting raged like wildfire on multiple and far-flung fronts. As President Theodore Roosevelt rallied the diverse ethnic groups of the northern states--Irish and Italians, Mormons and Jews--Confederate President Woodrow Wilson struggled to hold together a Confederacy still beset by ignorance, prejudice, and class divisions. And as the war thundered on, southern blacks, oppressed for generations, found themselves fatefully drawn into a climactic confrontation . . .", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/751724.American_Front"}, +{"book_title": "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 25504, "review_number": 3269, "book_description": "From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money.Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London\u2019s Crystal Palace\u2014the world\u2019s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world \"jams\" the \"frequencies\" used by magic, and it\u2019s up to Tristan to find out why.And so the Department of Diachronic Operations\u2014D.O.D.O. \u2014gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at the same time. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial\u2014and treacherous\u2014nature of the human heart.Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson\u2019s work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland\u2019s storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to places\u2014and times\u2014beyond imagining.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32075825-the-rise-and-fall-of-d-o-d-o"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Taste of Rapture", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 5882, "review_number": 327, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter captivates with a dark, tantalizing world of humans, otherworlders, and a powerful AIR agent consumed by his desire for a woman he can never have. . . .With one caress, he can give unforgettable pleasure . . . or unending pain. . . .Hector Dean is shaved, tattooed, and totally ripped\u2014and he has a deadly secret. He is a walking weapon, capable of killing with a single brush of his fingertips. Little wonder he\u2019s determined to remain on his own. But Noelle Tremain is a temptation like no other. She is beautiful and rich, with a party girl smile that hides a shocking vulnerability, and from the beginning his sizzling attraction to her is undeniable. For the first time, his stone-cold resistance is tested. But to be with her, he risks destroying her.When a wealthy businessman is murdered in New Chicago\u2019s seediest district, the two are partnered, and there\u2019s no escaping what they both want: each other. Yet neither Hector nor Noelle knows what to fear more\u2014the killer case, or their own lethal desires. . . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9757229-dark-taste-of-rapture"}, +{"book_title": "The Wishing Chalice", "author_name": "Sandra Landry", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 147, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Isabel journeyed to England to escape her failed marriage. But what she found instead was a portal to the past--and possibly the key to her future. Transported back in time, and into the body of a beautiful woman, she cannot deny her growing attraction to her 'husband' Hunter. Nor can they ignore the danger surrounding them, which they must confront--before tragedy strikes.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1851715.The_Wishing_Chalice"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Strange New Things", "author_name": "Michel Faber", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 28358, "review_number": 4163, "book_description": "A monumental, genre-defying novel over ten years in the making, Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents.It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter's teachings\u2014his Bible is their \"book of strange new things.\" But Peter is rattled when Bea's letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea's faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter. Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us. Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Literary Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20697435-the-book-of-strange-new-things"}, +{"book_title": "Alien: Covenant", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1289, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with Alien: Covenant, a new chapter in his groundbreaking Alien adventure. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise. But it is actually a dark, dangerous world.When they uncover a threat beyond their imaginations, they must attempt a harrowing escape.Acclaimed author Alan Dean Foster also returns to the universe he first encountered with the official novelization of the original Alien film. Alien: Covenant is the pivotal adventure that preceded that seminal film, and leads to the events that will yield one of the most terrifying sagas of all time.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Culture (Film)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33541226-alien"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Star", "author_name": "Rick Yancey", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 60307, "review_number": 6993, "book_description": "The enemy is Other. The enemy is us.They\u2019re down here, they\u2019re up there, they\u2019re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves.In these last days, Earth\u2019s remaining survivors will need to decide what\u2019s more important: saving themselves\u2026or saving what makes us human.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131489-the-last-star"}, +{"book_title": "The Sky-Blue Wolves", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 597, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "Many years ago, when advanced technology failed and humanity found itself in a turbulent, postapocalyptic world, extraordinary men and women birthed a new society from the ashes. In this new world of emperors and kings, new leaders emerged, making the world their own.Two generations after the Change, Crown Princess \u00d3rlaith struggles to preserve the hard-won peace her father brought to Montival--the former western United States. But the Change opened many doors, and through them powers strong and strange and terrible walk once more among humankind.With her fire-forged friend and ally, Japanese Empress Reiko, \u00d3rlaith must take up her sword to stop the spread of the mad malignancy behind the Yellow Raja, who has imprisoned her brother Prince John. And from the emerging superpower of Mongolia, the Sky-Blue Wolves of the High Steppe ride once more beneath the banner of Genghis Khan--the thunder of their hooves resounding across a world in turmoil.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (21st Century)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38587674-the-sky-blue-wolves"}, +{"book_title": "Terminator Salvation: The Official Movie Novelization", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 502, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The eagerly awaited fourth Terminator movie, Terminator Salvation, starring Christian Bale and directed by McG, reaches cinemas on 22 May 2009.In a brand-new chapter in the Terminator chronicles, Judgment Day has come to pass and Skynet has destroyed much of the world\u2019s population. In this post-apocalyptic world, the resistance, led by John Connor, continues its brutal fight for survival.The official novelisation will provide readers with the full story of this much-anticipated movie - a must for all Terminator fans!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novels", "Literature", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4523220-terminator-salvation"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Redemption", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 960, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Rachel Hicks is in love with her psychologist, Imdiko Conyod. The mute, battered, but unbowed Earther is thrilled when she gets the chance to join his clan. Clanmates Dramok Erybet and Nobek Sletran are traumatized from the war with Earth, but Rachel senses they are kindred spirits she can trust. She hopes that perhaps together they can all heal their wounds and become whole once more.But there's a killer loose on Kalquor, one associated with the most infamous slaughter of innocents during the war with Earth. Now he's murdering Earther women and putting their mutilated bodies on display. When they discover the terrible secret Erybet and Sletran are hiding, Conyod and Rachel suspect the killer might be shockingly close to home ... and Rachel could be his next victim.word count = 133,090", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Futuristic", "Menage (M F M)", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16119762-alien-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Whispers", "author_name": "Bruce Coville", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2887, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "In the\u00a0much-anticipated\u00a0third volume of the Unicorn Chronicles, Cara Diana Hunter journeys to the Valley of the Centaurs in quest of a mysterious lost story that could\u00a0hold the key to the survival of the unicorns. But the price for that story\u00a0may prove to\u00a0be more than her heart can bear.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2592122-dark-whispers"}, +{"book_title": "Magnificent Devices", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2752, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "An air voyage to remember turns into a disaster no one may survive.With her orphaned charges, Lady Claire Trevelyan joins the Earl of Dunsmuir\u2019s family on an airship voyage to the Americas. If she can stay out of Lord James Selwyn\u2019s way until her eighteenth birthday, she will be of age and cannot be forced into marriage. What she doesn\u2019t know is that Lord James is in the Americas, too, with Andrew Malvern closing in on him\u2014and the wonderful device he stole. But when a storm cripples the airship and air pirates swoop in like carrion birds, Claire and the children must live by their wits to make their way across a harsh landscape. Will Andrew ever see her again and right the wrong he believes he has done? Will Lord James succeed in his monumental thievery? And how exactly does Rosie the chicken evade the soup pot?Tighten your goggles, pull on your gloves, and prepare yourself for stratagems and strangeness in the third book in the series, Magnificent Devices!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13557624-magnificent-devices"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior Mage", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1883, "review_number": 147, "book_description": "His mother was one of the most powerful wizards in the Nurian Empire until she abandoned her people to become a notorious pirate. That choice doomed the family she left behind to a life of disgrace.Yanko White Fox doesn\u2019t remember his mother, but as the only gifted child in the family, he is expected to erase the mark she left on them all. With an affinity for earth magic and communicating with animals, he\u2019s not the most natural candidate to become a warrior mage, but it\u2019s the only sure route back into the Great Chief\u2019s good graces. He has resigned himself to training for that destiny, whether it matches his passions or not.Long before he\u2019s ready for his first battle, insurrection comes to his distant corner of the empire. Rebels take over the salt mine his family manages and slay the only relative who ever supported Yanko. On the heels of the tragedy, a courier brings a message from the Great Chief\u2019s son. Whether he is prepared or not, Yanko must undertake a quest, one that could save millions of lives\u2026 or fail utterly, leaving him dead, his family forgotten, and his people the victims of starvation and endless war.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Action", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25170594-warrior-mage"}, +{"book_title": "Labyrinth", "author_name": "Kate Mosse", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 48774, "review_number": 3156, "book_description": "In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical", "Thriller", "Cultural (France)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14975.Labyrinth"}, +{"book_title": "The Wild Machines", "author_name": "Mary Gentle", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 268, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "In an unremembered past of savagery, magic, and miracles, one figure blazed like a fiery comet across the blood-soaked fields of Europe and North Africa -- a fierce combatant and brilliant strategist named Ash, unequalled in battle, who vanished into the mists of a history long forgotten, until now.The armies of the Visigoth Empire have smashed the might of Europe, plunging the conquered lands into unnatural night. Only Burgundy fights on, battered but unbeaten, still warm in the embrace of the sun. It is the heart of the continent, supreme in culture and force of arms. But the beleaguered Duchy's ultimate fate lies in the hands of its rightful ruler, Duke Charles, trapped behind the walls of Dijon -- a city under siege by the brutal soldiers of the Faris, Ash's dark twin. Like Ash, the Faris hears the words of the dread machinery that seeks the extermination of all humankind. Unlike Ash, she heeds them.Fresh from the horrors of Carthage -- and the apocalyptic seductions of the Wild Machines -- Ash must decide whether to lead an army to near-certain doom, in an attempt to lift the siege of Dijon. For if the great city falls, and Charles dies, the sun will rise on the world no more...and humanity will descend into a darkness without end.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808667.The_Wild_Machines"}, +{"book_title": "Impersonations", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 506, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Nebula Award-winning author Walter Jon Williams returns to the sweeping space opera adventure of his Praxis universe with an exciting new novel featuring the hero of Dread Empire's Fall!Having offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula has always been fascinated by Earth history, and she plans to reward herself with a long, happy vacation amid the ancient monuments of humanity's home world.Sula may be an Earth history buff, but there are aspects of her own history she doesn't want known. Exposure is threatened when an old acquaintance turns up unexpectedly. Someone seems to be forging evidence that would send her to prison. And all that is before someone tries to kill her.If she's going to survive, Sula has no choice but to make some history of her own.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novella", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30199443-impersonations"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Matter", "author_name": "Blake Crouch", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 275952, "review_number": 33354, "book_description": "Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie\u2014when his reality shatters.- - -'Are you happy in your life?'Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before the man he's never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back.'In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.Is it this world or the other that's the dream?And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined\u2014one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670-dark-matter"}, +{"book_title": "Icons", "author_name": "Margaret Stohl", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 7853, "review_number": 1002, "book_description": "Your heart beats only with their permission.Everything changed on The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside -- safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid.She's different. She survived. Why?When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son. But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. It's a conspiracy.Within the Icon's reach, Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas discover that their uncontrollable emotions -- which they've always thought to be their greatest weaknesses -- may actually be their greatest strengths.Bestselling author Margaret Stohl delivers the first book in a heart-pounding series set in a haunting new world where four teens must piece together the mysteries of their pasts -- in order to save the future.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11861715-icons"}, +{"book_title": "Ghosts", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 4373, "review_number": 358, "book_description": "Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier \u201cX\u201d Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home.Michael Everheart -- the boy once known as Tin -- has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team. While Michael dives to help keep the Hive in the air, Captain Leon Jordan rules with an iron fist at the helm of the ship. But unrest stirs under his strict leadership as a prophecy of hope sweeps the lower decks.When a mysterious distress signal calls the Hell Divers to the surface, Michael and his loyal team begin to uncover long-buried truths and the secrets Captain Jordan will do anything to keep. They dive so humanity survives\u2026 but will they survive the ultimate betrayal?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31434700-ghosts"}, +{"book_title": "Breeding Stations", "author_name": "Chris T. Kat", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 252, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Spunky commander Berit Turner is known for two things: his huge libido and his lack of a filter\u2014he says what he thinks. Berit sets his mind on being part of a mission to Ligador to make sure the planet is habitable for humans. He\u2019s ecstatic when his team is assigned to the task force. A delegation of Nadisc, a humanoid alien race, accompanies them, and passion ignites between Berit and their commanding officer, Tom. But Berit is determined that Tom is just another notch on his bedpost, as he doesn\u2019t do relationships.The excursion to Ligador goes wrong from the beginning, when they discover Ligador has been established as a breeding station by their worst enemy: the Tash\u2019Ba. Dinosaur-like creatures become the team\u2019s worst nightmare, and staying alive is going to take everything they\u2019ve got\u2026 and then some.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25803681-breeding-stations"}, +{"book_title": "Masters of the Vortex", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1421, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Runaway Vortex!A churning nuclear fireball, appearing out of nowhere, bringing utter destruction--and countless numbers of them were menacing planets throughout the Galaxy!\"Storm\" Cloud, nucleonic genius, set out in his spaceship Vortex Blaster to track and destroy the mysterious vortices--and embarked on a saga of adventure, discovery and conflict among the far stars that could have been told only by the incomparable \"Doc\" Smith.", "year_published": 1960, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Classics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1300800.Masters_of_the_Vortex"}, +{"book_title": "Straight Silver", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 2327, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Commissar Gaunt and his men undertake a seemingly suicidal mission in the blood-soaked trenches of the 41st Millennium.On the battlefields of Aexe Cardinal, the struggling forces of the Imperial Guard are locked in a deadly stalemate with the dark armies of Chaos. Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his regiment, the Tanith First and Only, are thrown headlong into this living hell of trench warfare, where death from lethal artillery is always just a moment away. The only chance for Gaunt and his lightly armed scouts to survive is to volunteer for a mission so dangerous that no one else dares accept it.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sports and Games (Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1448327.Straight_Silver"}, +{"book_title": "An Unwelcome Quest", "author_name": "Scott Meyer", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 14968, "review_number": 770, "book_description": "Ever since Martin Banks and his fellow computer geeks discovered that reality is just a computer program to be happily hacked, they\u2019ve been jaunting back and forth through time, posing as medieval wizards and having the epic adventures that other nerds can only dream of having. But even in their wildest fantasies, they never expected to end up at the mercy of the former apprentice whom they sent to prison for gross misuse of magic and all-around evil behavior.Who knew that the vengeful Todd would escape, then conjure a computer game packed with wolves, wenches, wastelands, and assorted harrowing hazards\u2014and trap his hapless former friends inside it? Stripped of their magic powers, the would-be wizards must brave terrifying dangers, technical glitches, and one another\u2019s company if they want to see Medieval England\u2014and their favorite sci-fi movies on VHS\u2014ever again. Can our heroes survive this magical mystery torture? Or will it only lead them and their pointy hats into more peril?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23249416-an-unwelcome-quest"}, +{"book_title": "The Storm of Heaven", "author_name": "Thomas Harlan", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 139, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "The great three-sided war continues, Rome against Persia against the tribes of the desert now commanded by Mohammed of Mekkah. The tide is turning against the Eastern Empire--the Emperor Heraclius lies bedridden in Constantinople and his brother Theodore has lost a great battle to the tribes. In the West, Rome lies devastated by the long-pent eruption of Vesuvius. And in the hidden valley of Damawand, the Persion sorcerer Dahak plots his revenge.Among the lost are the Princess Shirin, vanished in the explosion of Vesuvius that wrought so much destruction, and Thyatis, still living but broken in mind and body. Her struggle will mirror the torment of the Empire, as it rebuilds its strength and purpose after so much destruction.But there is hope for the West. Prince Maxian, horrified at being the cause of so many deaths, has come to realize that the Oath need not be broken; it can be changed by a skilled sorcerer. And in Judea, young Dwyrin is coming into his full powers, honed by sorcerous combat with his friend Odenathus, who now leads the shattered remnants of the army of Palmyra. And among the Goths north of the Danuvius, a new legion is being forged, by a very old general.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (Ancient)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367405.The_Storm_of_Heaven"}, +{"book_title": "All about Emily", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 789, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "Theater legend Claire Havilland fears she might be entering the Sunset Boulevard phase of her career. That is, until her manager arranges a media appearance with her biggest fan--a famous artificial intelligence pioneer's teenage niece. After precocious Emily's backstage visit, Claire decides she's in a different classic film altogether. While unnaturally charming Emily swears she harbors no desire for the spotlight, Claire wonders if she hasn't met her very own Eve Harrington from All About Eve. But the story becomes more complex as dreams of fame give way to concerns about choice, free will, and identity.With this long, 17,000 word novelette, acclaimed author Connie Willis combines the glamour of old Hollywood and the eternal allure of Broadway to explore the cutting edge robotics of a richly-imagined near future. All About Emily is sure to join 'The Last of the Winnebagos,' 'Inside Job' and 'All Seated on the Ground' as one of multiple-award-winner Willis' seminal works.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Adult Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12756995-all-about-emily"}, +{"book_title": "The Infinite", "author_name": "Lori M. Lee", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1321, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "The walls of Ninurta keep its citizens safe.Kai always believed the only danger to the city came from within. Now, with a rebel force threatening the fragile government, the walls have become more of a prison than ever.To make matters worse, as Avan explores his new identity as an Infinite, Kai struggles to remind him what it means to be human. And she fears her brother, Reev, is involved with the rebels. With the two people she cares about most on opposite sides of a brewing war, Kai will do whatever it takes to bring peace. But she\u2019s lost her power to manipulate the threads of time, and she learns that a civil war might be the beginning of something far worse that will crumble not only Ninurta\u2019s walls but also the entire city.In this thrilling sequel to Gates of Thread and Stone, Kai must decide how much of her humanity she\u2019s willing to lose to protect the only family she\u2019s ever known.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20553857-the-infinite"}, +{"book_title": "Into Neon: A Cyberpunk Saga", "author_name": "Matthew A. Goodwin", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 136, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "\n\u201cStar Wars Meets Blade Runner In An Awesome Adventure!\u201d -Amazon Review (5 Stars)\n\nMoss\u2019 life is going nowhere until a mysterious woman knocks on his door and leaves him with the key to take down one of the world\u2019s largest corporations. When he discovers a familial connection to the stranger, Moss leaves the comfort of his home with his best friend for the sprawling megacity.There, he joins a group of ruffians dedicated to freeing people from the yoke of the evil companies. Police-for-hire, motorcycle gangs and betrayal threaten them at every turn.Can Moss help this small group of rebels fight the power before it\u2019s too late? Find out in Into Neon: A Cyberpunk Saga.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52160038-into-neon"}, +{"book_title": "The Reality Dysfunction 1: Emergence", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 6561, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "In the far future, humanity has divided into two diametrically opposed groups. The Edenists are genetically engineered space-dwellers with telepathic affinity for their biotechnological homes and ships. The Adamists, effectively the Luddites of the future, are willing to pioneer new worlds, much as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. The two groups, peopled by fascinating characters, clash on a primitive world called Lalonde, setting in motion a tale of adventure unparalleled in this universe.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Horror", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/761154.The_Reality_Dysfunction_1"}, +{"book_title": "Opposite of Always", "author_name": "Justin A. Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 13839, "review_number": 2683, "book_description": "Debut author Justin A. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make, the people we choose, and the moments that make a life worth reliving.When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he\u2019s falling\u2014hard. Soon she\u2019s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack.But then Kate dies. And their story should end there.Yet Kate\u2019s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate\u2019s there again. Healthy, happy, and charming as ever. Jack isn\u2019t sure if he\u2019s losing his mind.Still, if he has a chance to prevent Kate\u2019s death, he\u2019ll take it. Even if that means believing in time travel. However, Jack will learn that his actions are not without consequences. And when one choice turns deadly for someone else close to him, he has to figure out what he\u2019s willing to do to save the people he loves.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35380157-opposite-of-always"}, +{"book_title": "Gameboard of the Gods", "author_name": "Richelle Mead", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 15889, "review_number": 2111, "book_description": "In a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes to bring him back to the Republic of United North America (RUNA). Raised in an aristocratic caste, Mae is now a member of the military\u2019s most elite and terrifying tier, a soldier with enhanced reflexes and skills.When Justin and Mae are assigned to work together to solve a string of ritualistic murders, they soon realize that their discoveries have exposed them to terrible danger. As their investigation races forward, unknown enemies and powers greater than they can imagine are gathering in the shadows, ready to reclaim the world in which humans are merely game pieces on their board.Gameboard of the Gods, the first installment of Richelle Mead\u2019s Age of X series, will have all the elements that have made her YA Vampire Academy and Bloodlines series such megasuccesses: sexy, irresistible characters; romantic and mythological intrigue; and relentless action and suspense.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13477883-gameboard-of-the-gods"}, +{"book_title": "Firelight", "author_name": "Kazu Kibuishi", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 10091, "review_number": 939, "book_description": "Emily, Trellis, and Vigo visit Algos Island, where they can access and enter lost memories. They're hoping to uncover the events of Trellis's mysterious childhood -- knowledge they can use against the Elf King. What they discover is a dark secret that changes everything. Meanwhile, the Voice of Emily's Amulet is getting stronger, and threatens to overtake her completely.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25943106-firelight"}, +{"book_title": "Valiant", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 14700, "review_number": 359, "book_description": "Deep within Syndicate World space, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous journey home under the command of Captain John \"Black Jack\" Geary - revived after a century spent in suspended animation. Geary's victories over the enemy have earned him both the respect--and the envy--of his fellow officers. \"Black Jack\" Geary has made many risky decisions as commander, but ordering the Alliance fleet back to the Lakota Star System where it had nearly been destroyed by the Syndics has his officers questioning his sanity. It's a desperate gamble that may buy Geary just enough time to prepare for the Syndics' inevitable return--and give the fleet a fighting chance of survival. But even as he struggles to stay one step ahead of the enemy, Geary must face conspirators within his own fleet: an unknown number of officers who want a change of command. And Geary knows that his fleet must stand together or the Syndic forces will tear them apart . . .", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2341319.Valiant"}, +{"book_title": "The Voyage of the Sable Keech", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3400, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? An ancient hive mind, almost incomprehensible to the human race, has sent an agent to this uncertain world.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/511229.The_Voyage_of_the_Sable_Keech"}, +{"book_title": "Patton's Spaceship", "author_name": "John Barnes", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 277, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Combining the suspense of the detective thriller with the awesome wonder of space/time adventure. Crux of Battle begins an epic tale of a war across one million alternate Earths.\"One of the most able and impressive of SF's rising stars!\" --The Washington PostAn exciting blend of time travel, alien invasion, and chase/action from the critically hailed author of Mother of Storms, Kaleidoscope Century, and other novels published by Tor.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808837.Patton_s_Spaceship"}, +{"book_title": "Childhood's End", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 134890, "review_number": 5545, "book_description": "The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414999.Childhood_s_End"}, +{"book_title": "Night of Fire", "author_name": "Nico Rosso", "rating_score": 3.12, "rating_votes": 74, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Night of fire, night of passionUS Army Upland Ranger Tom Knox always knew going home wouldn\u2019t be easy. Three years ago, he skipped town, leaving behind the only woman who ever mattered; now that he\u2019s seen the front lines of war, he\u2019s ready to do what he must to win her back.Rosa Campos is long past wasting tears on Tom Knox, and now that she\u2019s sheriff of Thornville, she has more than enough to do. Especially when a five-story rock-eating mining machine barrels toward the town she\u2019s sworn to protect.Tom\u2019s the last person Rosa expects to see riding to her aid on his ether-borne mechanical horse. She may not be ready to forgive, but Rosa can\u2019t deny that having him at her side brings back blissful memories . . . even as it reignites a flame more dangerous than the enemy threatening to destroy them both.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Westerns", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Steampunk Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13622878-night-of-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Our Dark Duet", "author_name": "Victoria Schwab", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 35918, "review_number": 7076, "book_description": "THE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY.KATE HARKER isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.THE WAR HAS BEGUN.THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in. And a new monster is waiting\u2014one that feeds on chaos and brings out its victims' inner demons.Which will be harder to conquer: the monsters they face, or the monsters within?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32075662-our-dark-duet"}, +{"book_title": "Perfect Timing", "author_name": "Catherine Anderson", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2023, "review_number": 387, "book_description": "In Catherine Anderson\u2019s newest installment in the Harrigan family series, an unlikely couple is brought together under circumstances that defy all reason.... Tragedy has struck the Harrigans\u2014Quincy\u2019s beloved sister-in-law Loni is gravely ill and nearing death. Quincy, like his brothers, feels helpless to save her, and the clock is ticking. Then, with perfect timing, a winsome red-haired woman named Ceara O\u2019Ceallaigh mysteriously appears on Quincy\u2019s property and insists that Loni can be cured. Only Quincy, she says, as the sole remaining Harrigan bachelor, can make it happen\u2014by marrying Ceara. To Quincy, Ceara is a charming and quite likely deranged spinner of dreams who can\u2019t prove she\u2019s telling the truth. But how can he pass up any attempt to restore Loni to health? Against all better judgment, he decides to marry Ceara. Maybe he\u2019s making the worst mistake of his life. Or maybe he\u2019s opening himself up to possibilities that defy explanation...and will send him on a miraculous journey toward enough love to last forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Westerns", "Romance (Western Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15742663-perfect-timing"}, +{"book_title": "Hell Divers", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 8839, "review_number": 951, "book_description": "More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers\u2014men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.When one of the remaining airships is damaged in an electrical storm, a Hell Diver team is deployed to a hostile zone called Hades. But there\u2019s something down there far worse than the mutated creatures discovered on dives in the past\u2014something that threatens the fragile future of humanity.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28464896-hell-divers"}, +{"book_title": "Big Time Olie", "author_name": "William Joyce", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 87, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "I'm a little bit bigger, not a little bit smaller. I'm a little bit taller I'm growing Rolie up! If Rolie Polie Olie grows a little every day, when will he be big enough?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1982970.Big_Time_Olie"}, +{"book_title": "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1062, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Biography of the famed Clark Savage, Jr. The author swears every word is true! Includes a biographical essay on each of his friends and collaborators; A long article concerning the family tree of Doc Savage (you will be amazed at who is included in that tree!); and, a boon to collectors everywhere, a list of all the Savage novels in their order of publication.Cover Illustration: Fred Pfeiffer", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Pulp", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Action", "Thriller", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/987974.Doc_Savage"}, +{"book_title": "Embassytown", "author_name": "China Mi\u00e9ville", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 27764, "review_number": 3143, "book_description": "In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties\u2014to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Humanities (Language)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9265453-embassytown"}, +{"book_title": "Whispers Under Ground", "author_name": "Ben Aaronovitch", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 44136, "review_number": 2660, "book_description": "In Tufnell Park, North London, a pair of railway tracks diver under a school, taking train to and from Kings Cross. Wet, filthy, dangerous. Lovely place. And one Sunday before Christmas a sweet (sort of) kid called Abigail took me and my long suffering colleague Lesley May down there to look for a ghost.We found one.And that was that, I thought, because come Monday I get to do some proper policing. Person Unknown has been stabbed to death on the tracks at Baker Street tube. Magic may have been involved. And sure enough, in the blood; vestigia, the tell-tale trail magic leaves.Person Unknown turns out to be the son of a US senator and before you can say 'International incident'. FBI agent Kimberley Reynolds and her firmly held religious beliefs are on my case.And down in the dark, in the tunnels of London's Underground, the buried rivers, the Victorian sewers, I'm hearing whispers of ancient arts and tortured, vengeful spirits...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10814687-whispers-under-ground"}, +{"book_title": "The Fire Gown", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 205, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "A second \u201cMongolian Wizard\u201d tale from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick \u2013 continuing an epic of magic and deception in an alternate Europe of railroads and sorcery..", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15795052-the-fire-gown"}, +{"book_title": "A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe", "author_name": "Alex White", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 4679, "review_number": 771, "book_description": "Boots Elsworth was a famous treasure hunter in another life, but now she\u2019s washed up. She makes her meager living faking salvage legends and selling them to the highest bidder, but this time she might have stumbled on something real\u2013the story of the Harrow, a famous warship, capable of untold destruction.Nilah Brio is the top driver in the Pan Galactic Racing Federation and the darling of the racing world\u2013until she witnesses the murder of a fellow racer. Framed for the murder and on the hunt to clear her name, Nilah only has one lead: the killer also hunts a woman named Boots.On the wrong side of the law, the two women board a smuggler\u2019s ship that will take them on a quest for fame, for riches, and for justice.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "Space", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35520564-a-big-ship-at-the-edge-of-the-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Fall of Night", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1771, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "The sequel to 'Dead of Night', bringing back beloved characters Desdemona Fox and Billy Trout as they race against time to quarantine a zombie epidemic while caught in a military strike.Stebbins Little School is full of bodies. It's unthinkable to Desdemona Fox. Children are sobbing as panicked teachers and neighbors beat down their family members outside of the school - or the things that used to be their family members. Parents don't eat their children do they? Officers Fox and Hammond, along with journalist Billy Trout, are calling it the beginning of the end. This is the zombie apocalypse. An insane escaped serial killer is infecting Stebbins County with a deadly virus, and now the whole world is watching while Fox, Trout, and the remaining inhabitants of Stebbins fight for their lives against - what? The undead? The President and the National Guard are ready to nuke Stebbins, PA off the map and cut their losses. But the infection is spreading and fast. Worse, the scientist who created the virus is missing. It's a numbers game as the body count rises; Fox has to contain the infected and evacuate the living before it's too late, and the clock is ticking.Fall of Night, Maberry's nail-biting sequel to 'Dead of Night', picks up where the first novel left off - on a wild goose chase for a madman and the missing scientist who gave him new \"un\"-life. Chilling, gory, and hair-raisingly scary, Maberry fans won't be able to read this fast-paced thriller with the lights off.\u00a92014 Jonathan Maberry (P)2014 Macmillan Audio", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15725485-fall-of-night"}, +{"book_title": "The Celestial Globe", "author_name": "Marie Rutkoski", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1609, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "After stealing her father\u2019s eyes back from Prince Rodolfo, Petra Kronos lives in constant danger. She and her tin spider, Astrophil, end up hiding out in London, where she learns more about her magical abilities. London has its charms (like Petra\u2019s attractive fencing master), but Petra needs to get back to Bohemia and her father.Meanwhile, Prince Rodolfo is trying to locate a powerful object called the Celestial Globe. Petra\u2019s friends, Tomik and Neel, are searching for her and traveling with a band of Gypsies searching for the globe.The race is on to see who will find the globe first, and who will make it out of this deadly chase alive.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Childrens", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6457334-the-celestial-globe"}, +{"book_title": "Akira, Vol. 6", "author_name": "Katsuhiro Otomo", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 7712, "review_number": 340, "book_description": "The explosive finale to one of graphic fiction's greatest achievements is here! The mad psychic colossus Tetsuo, the world's military, and the remaining psychics of The Project face off -- with the child psychic god, Akira, the wild card -- in what may not only decide the fate of mankind, but may determine the next step in human evolution! This long-awaited volume -- a staggering 440 pages -- features the impossible-to-find final chapters of Akira, never before collected in the U.S., presented as they were intended to be seen in their original, stunning black and white! Featuring a revised translation and top-quality art reproduction, this is the final edition of one of comics' definitive works, a six-volume epic of over two thousand pages. Katsuhiro Otomo's entire masterpiece is finally available -- only from Dark Horse!", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93375.Akira_Vol_6"}, +{"book_title": "The Obelisk Gate", "author_name": "N.K. Jemisin", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 98876, "review_number": 7477, "book_description": "This is the way the world ends... for the last time.The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring \u2013 madman, world-crusher, savior \u2013 has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy.It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last.The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26228034-the-obelisk-gate"}, +{"book_title": "Attack on Titan, Vol. 12", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.55, "rating_votes": 11450, "review_number": 365, "book_description": "THE CHASE IS ON! Erwin and the Survey Corps desperately mount a rescue operation to take Eren back from the Colossus Titan and Armored Titan. But without the numbers to form up properly outside the walls, how can the humans catch up before they're all slaughtered? Just whose side is Ymir on? And will Eren ever see his friends again? PRAISE FOR THE HIT ANIME \"A visceral and fantastically intense action/horror story.\" - Anime News Network \"Japan's equivalent of The Walking Dead.\" - io9Chapter List:47. Children48. Someone49. Charge50. Scream", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics Manga", "Action", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21895563-attack-on-titan-vol-12"}, +{"book_title": "Completely Restored", "author_name": "Robert Kerr", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 868, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "When Joe Murphy\u2019s wife, Linda, spies an ad for a \u201cbeautiful 3-story Victorian house in need of some TLC,\u201d the couple jumps at the chance for their dream home. Renovating it will allow them to indulge their passion for antiques and to get closer to an era they believe was a better time. Privately, Joe hopes that the project will also fill the void that has opened within their family life. They embark upon a grueling three-year renovation to restore the house to its former splendor, and everything seems perfect\u2026until the morning Joe awakes to find a horse-drawn milk cart in his driveway and his family inexplicably transported back to the year 1909. Suddenly the Murphys\u2019 dream for a simpler time becomes a shocking reality, one in which they will struggle to adapt to turn-of-the-century Iowa while seeking a way to return home. Completely Restored is a unique page-turner of a novel, filled with historical figures and events that help to teach a modern family about the simple joys of life.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7825343-completely-restored"}, +{"book_title": "ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times", "author_name": "Andrew MacLean", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 2770, "review_number": 442, "book_description": "The premiere graphic novel from underground sensation Andrew MacLean (Head Lopper), ApocalyptiGirl is an action-packed sci-fi epic!Alone at the end of the world, Aria is woman with a mission! Traipsing through an overgrown city with her only companion, a cat named Jelly Beans, Aria's search for an ancient relic with immeasurable power has been fruitless so far. But when a run in with a creepy savage sets her on a path to complete her quest, she'll face death head on in the hopes of claiming her prize and, if all goes according to plan, finally returning home.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22716582-apocalyptigirl"}, +{"book_title": "Prince of Air and Darkness", "author_name": "M.A. Grant", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1617, "review_number": 314, "book_description": "Phineas Smith has been cursed with a power no one could control.Roark Lyne is his worst enemy and his only hope.The only human student at Mather\u2019s School of Magick, Phineas Smith has a target on his back. Born with the rare ability to tap into unlimited magick, he finds both Faerie Courts want his allegiance\u2014and will do anything to get it.They don\u2019t realize he can\u2019t levitate a feather, much less defend the Faerie Realm as it slips into civil war.Unseelie Prince Roark Lyne, Phineas\u2019s roommate\u2014and self-proclaimed arch nemesis\u2014is beautiful and brave and a pain in the ass. Phineas can\u2019t begin to sort through their six years of sexual tension masquerading as mutual dislike. But Roark is also the only one able to help Finn tame his magick.Trusting Roark\u2019s mysterious motives may be foolish; not accepting his temporary protection would be deadly.Caught in the middle of the impending war, Phineas and Roark forge a dangerous alliance. And as the walls between them crumble, Phineas realizes that Roark isn\u2019t the monster he\u2019d imagined. But their growing intimacy threatens to expose a secret that could either turn the tide of the war\u2026or destroy them both.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "LGBT (Gay)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41550787-prince-of-air-and-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "1635: The Eastern Front", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1516, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, a new nation led by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While the old entrenched rulers and manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart nation, everyday life goes on in Grantville, even under the shadow of war, as this lost outpost of American freedom and justice must play David against a 17th century Goliath of oppressive feudalism. \u00a0Praise for the New York Times Best-Selling Series:\u201c. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly (in a starred review)\u00a0\u201c[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series' growing fandom.\u201d \u2014Booklist (Starred Review)\u00a0\u201c. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.\u201d \u2014Library Journal\u00a0\u201cThis alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . .\u201d \u2014The Midwest Book Review", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "War", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7869785-1635"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Keeper", "author_name": "Mitch Albom", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 98837, "review_number": 10231, "book_description": "In this fable, the first man on earth to count the hours becomes Father Time. The inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.He returns to our world - now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began - and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Inspirational", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novels", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13624688-the-time-keeper"}, +{"book_title": "Interesting Times", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 48497, "review_number": 1182, "book_description": "'A foot on the neck is nine points of the law'There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. The oldest and most inscrutable (not to mention heavily fortified) empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes; warlords are struggling for power - and what the nation wants, to avoid terrible doom for everyone, is a wizard. Rincewind is not the Disc\u2019s premier wizard \u2013 in fact, he can\u2019t even spell \u2018wizard\u2019 \u2013 but no-one specified whether competence was an issue. And they do have a very big stick\u2026Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (And his sons Terror and Panic and daughter Clancy).", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/884288.Interesting_Times"}, +{"book_title": "A Latent Dark", "author_name": "Martin Kee", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 183, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Skyla has lived secretly within the city walls of Bollingbrook for eleven years, playing among the airship factories and trainyards. As one of the Gutter District\u2019s nameless destitute, it has gone undiscovered that she has a unique talent: when Skyla looks at a person\u2019s shadow she sees through it and into another world. She can see people\u2019s fears, desires, their past sins--all as swimming, living creatures.Her mother has never told her the real reasons why they must remain hidden, never explained the true dangers that exist outside the city walls. But when her mother\u2019s past catches up with them both, Skyla finds she must flee out of the city and into a world still recovering from a second Dark Age, a world of adults with secrets only she can see.For a stranger has recently moved into Bollingbrook, a man some call the Pope of the South, a witch hunter to some and a hero to others. When more children begin to disappear, suspicions are raised and an unlikely search party is formed to find Skyla in the hopes that they aren\u2019t already too late.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Dark", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15927438-a-latent-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Marsbound", "author_name": "Joe Haldeman", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 2774, "review_number": 248, "book_description": "A novel of the red planet from the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author of The Accidental Time Machine and Old Twentieth. Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel, an angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad, and a message for the newly arrived human inhabitants of Mars: We were here first.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407022.Marsbound"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 10", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 9934, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical \"auto-mail\" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother's bodies...the legendary Philosopher's Stone.Barry the Chopper, the psychopathic killer whose soul is encased in a suit of armor, has been captured by Colonel Mustang's troops. Fearing he will reveal the Philosopher's Stone conspiracy, Gluttony and Lust decide to kill him, using Barry's own original soulless body to track him down! Though Colonel Mustang has anticipated their moves and set up an ambush, Gluttony and Lust prove too powerful and easily fight their way through to Barry, who is being protected by Al and Lieutenant Hawkeye. In a terrible battle, a badly injured Colonel Mustang sacrifices all in a last-ditch attempt to stop Lust!", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Manga (Shonen)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9325.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_10"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow Run", "author_name": "AdriAnne Strickland", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1280, "review_number": 286, "book_description": "Nev has just joined the crew of the starship Kaitan Heritage as the cargo loader. His captain, Qole, is the youngest-ever person to command her own ship, but she brooks no argument from her crew of orphans, fugitives, and con men. Nev can't resist her, even if her ship is an antique. As for Nev, he's a prince, in hiding on the ship. He believes Qole holds the key to changing galactic civilization, and when her cooperation proves difficult to obtain, Nev resolves to get her to his home planet by any means necessary. But before they know it, a rival royal family is after Qole too, and they're more interested in stealing her abilities than in keeping her alive. Nev's mission to manipulate Qole becomes one to save her, and to survive, she'll have to trust her would-be kidnapper. He may be royalty, but Qole is discovering a deep reservoir of power--and stars have mercy on whoever tries to hurt her ship or her crew.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25669098-shadow-run"}, +{"book_title": "Lines of Departure", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 16268, "review_number": 729, "book_description": "Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the Solar System\u2026Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson. He dreams of dropping out of the service one day, alongside his pilot girlfriend, but as warfare consumes entire planets and conditions on Earth deteriorate, he wonders if there will be anywhere left for them to go.After surviving a disastrous space-borne assault, Grayson is reassigned to a ship bound for a distant colony\u2014and packed with malcontents and troublemakers. His most dangerous battle has just begun.In this sequel to the bestselling Terms of Enlistment, a weary soldier must fight to prevent the downfall of his species\u2026or bear witness to humanity\u2019s last, fleeting breaths.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20329634-lines-of-departure"}, +{"book_title": "The Loneliest Girl in the Universe", "author_name": "Lauren James", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 12894, "review_number": 3006, "book_description": "Can you fall in love with someone you\u2019ve never met, never even spoken to \u2013 someone who is light years away?Romy Silvers is the only surviving crew-member of a spaceship travelling to a new planet, on a mission to establish a second home for humanity amongst the stars. Alone in space, she is the loneliest girl in the universe until she hears about a new ship which has launched from Earth \u2013 with a single passenger on board. A boy called J.Their only communication with each other is via email \u2013 and due to the distance between them, their messages take months to transmit across space. And yet Romy finds herself falling in love.But what does Romy really know about J? And what do the mysterious messages which have started arriving from Earth really mean?Sometimes, there\u2019s something worse than being alone . . .", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Health (Mental Health)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32601841-the-loneliest-girl-in-the-universe"}, +{"book_title": "The History of Bees", "author_name": "Maja Lunde", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 24234, "review_number": 2422, "book_description": "In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees, to their children, and to one another against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis.England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant who sets out to build a new type of beehive, one that will give both him and his children honor and fame.United States, 2007. George is a beekeeper fighting an uphill battle against modern farming, but he hopes that his son can be their salvation.China, 2098. Tao hand paints pollen onto the fruit trees now that the bees have long since disappeared. When Tao's young son is taken away by the authorities after a tragic accident, she sets out on a grueling journey to find out what happened to him.Haunting, illuminating, and deftly written, The History of Bees joins these three very different narratives into one gripping and thought-provoking story that is just as much about the powerful bond between children and parents as it is about our very relationship to nature and humanity.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Novels", "Environment (Nature)", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604684-the-history-of-bees"}, +{"book_title": "Draekon Warrior", "author_name": "Lee Savino", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1062, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "Captured in space. Imprisoned. Sold to the highest bidder. But my biggest problem is this bossy, aggravating, impossible, alien who\u2019s supposed to rescue me. The bossy alien I kissed. That might have been a mistake.Kadir is dangerous. I\u2019ve seen him fight, and his body is littered with scars. He\u2019s a soldier. A warrior. And when he loses control, he turns into a big scary dragon and breathes fire.Everyone\u2019s terrified of him. I\u2019m not. No, call me the biggest fool in the galaxy, because I\u2019m attracted to the big jerk.***Kadir:When I first met the small human I was sent to rescue, she punched me in the jaw. And broke her wrist in the process. Irrational woman.Then she insists that the two of us set out immediately to find her missing friend. No, what I have to do is get Alice Hernandez to safety. She\u2019s soft, yet she\u2019s strong. Fragile, yet so brave. She\u2019s everything I\u2019ve never known I wanted. Everything I can\u2019t let myself have. When the scientists tortured me, they broke me. And when Alice finds out the truth about the fearsome, raging dragon inside me, I will lose her.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53173307-draekon-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "The Vagrant", "author_name": "Peter Newman", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 6704, "review_number": 960, "book_description": "The Vagrant is his name. He has no other. Friendless and alone he walks across a desolate, war-torn landscape, carrying nothing but a kit-bag, a legendary sword and a baby. His purpose is to reach the Shining City, last bastion of the human race, and deliver the sword, the only weapon that may make a difference in the ongoing war. But the Shining City is far away and the world is a very dangerous place.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23559647-the-vagrant"}, +{"book_title": "Moonlight Wishes In Time", "author_name": "Bess McBride", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 457, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Moonlight Wishes in Time series Book OneMattie Crockwell spends her evenings with the man of her dreams, Lord Ashton of Sinclair House. That he is a character in her historical Georgian romance novel is her little secret. She\u2019s read the same out-of-print book every night for months, anticipating the moment when she settles in for sleep and dreams of the passionate embrace of Lord Ashton. But sleep eludes her one night, and she can\u2019t find her way to her dreams and Lord Ashton. A full moon compels her to wish...for a real live man like Lord Ashton.William Sinclair of Ashton House, escapes from one of his mother\u2019s interminable matchmaking dinners one night and steps into the garden to wish on the moon for he knows not what. A woman who can love him and not his fortune? Mattie and William have no idea that wishing on the moon at the same time for the same thing has consequences, but they soon discover that a full moon will grant them their heart\u2019s desire when Mattie finds herself with the man of her dreams...in 1825. Can Mattie survive life in the Georgian era? If not, can William bear to let her return to her own time?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17706269-moonlight-wishes-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Firemask", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 444, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "The Last Legion sends one of their top intelligence officers behind enemy lines to infiltrate the upper echelon of a ruthless dictator and stop him from spreading his rule across the galaxy...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/866805.Firemask"}, +{"book_title": "The Center Cannot Hold", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2504, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "AMERICAN EMPIRE: BOOK TWOIn this spectacular, thought-provoking epic of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has created an unparalleled vision of social upheaval, war, and cutthroat politics in a world very much like our own\u2014but with dramatic differences.It is 1924\u2014a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington\u2019s most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the Powell House in Philadelphia. And it seems as if the Socialists can do no wrong, for the stock market soars and America enjoys prosperity unknown in a half century. But as old names like Custer and Roosevelt fade into history, a new generation faces new uncertainties.The Confederate States, victorious in the War of Secession and in the Second Mexican War but at last tasting defeat in the Great War, suffer poverty and natural calamity. The Freedom Party promises new strength and pride. But if its chief seizes the reins of power, he may prove a dangerous enemy for the hated U.S.A. Yet the United States take little note. Sharing world domination with Germany, they consider events in the Confederacy of little consequence.As the 1920s end, calamity casts a pall across the continent. With civil war raging in Mexico, terrorist uprisings threatening U.S. control in Canada, and an explosion of violence in Utah, the United States are rocked by uncertainty. In a world of occupiers and the occupied, of simmering hatreds, shattered lives, and pent-up violence, the center can no longer hold. And for a powerful nation, the ultimate shock will come when a fleet of foreign aircraft rain death and destruction upon one of the great cities of the United States. . . .From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101563.The_Center_Cannot_Hold"}, +{"book_title": "Predator's Gold", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 19045, "review_number": 1245, "book_description": "In this breathtaking sequel to his award-winning Mortal Engines, Reeve plunges readers into a ruthless and terrifyingly believable world where cities eat each other, betrayal is as common as ice, and loyalty offers the only chance for survival.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48722.Predator_s_Gold"}, +{"book_title": "Blue Skies", "author_name": "Tamara Allen", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 144, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "In modern day Manhattan, preservationist Susan Lennox saves history for a living. Her long-standing battle with developer Joe McGowan brings a fragile Bowery rowhouse to her attention, and she\u2019s as determined to protect it as he is to tear it down. During an inspection, Susan discovers just how unique the property is when she comes across a frightened and apparently homeless man bearing a tale of time travel neither she nor her brother Neil believes\u2014until they find they themselves have traveled three days into the future.Professor Robin Winfield learns too late the mistake he made in agreeing to help Joe\u2019s great-great-grandfather Victor McGowan decode a family journal connected to the rowhouse, a place once used as a laboratory for electrical experiments. When Robin is inadvertently transported one hundred and twenty-six years from home, Neil and Susan take him in, hoping to get him back where he belongs before anyone else learns of his presence. But Victor\u2019s will has already spilled those beans and Joe thwarts the attempt to send Robin back\u2014only to end up trapped with Susan in 1887.Broke and homeless in the not-so-ideal past, Joe and Susan struggle to find common ground\u2014and they aren\u2019t the only ones, as Neil and Robin join forces in a desperate search to rescue Susan before Victor figures out the secret to time travel. But a secret Victor\u2019s keeping is the one destined to change the future\u2014Neil and Susan\u2019s\u2014for all time to come.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34682292-blue-skies"}, +{"book_title": "Gossamer Wing", "author_name": "Delphine Dryden", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 345, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "A Spy. An Airship. And a Broken Heart. After losing her husband to a rogue French agent, Charlotte Moncrieffe wants to make her mark in international espionage. And what could be better for recovering secret long-lost documents from the Palais Garnier than her stealth dirigible, Gossamer Wing? Her spymaster father has one condition: He won\u2019t send her to Paris without an ironclad cover. Dexter Hardison prefers inventing to politics, but his title as Makesmith Baron and his formidable skills make him an ideal husband-imposter for Charlotte. And the unorthodox undercover arrangement would help him in his own field of discovery. But from Charlotte and Dexter\u2019s marriage of convenience comes a distraction\u2014a passion that complicates an increasingly dangerous mission. For Charlotte, however, the thought of losing Dexter also opens her heart to a thrilling new future of love and adventure.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17347638-gossamer-wing"}, +{"book_title": "The Bone House", "author_name": "Stephen R. Lawhead", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2604, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "Kit Livingstone has been bequeathed by his great grandfather, Cosimo, an apparently impossible task: to piece together a 17th-century map whose fragments are scattered not just throughout this universe but other universes too. One piece of the skin map has been found. Now the race to unravel the future of the future turns deadly. Aided by his girlfriend, Mina, from her outpost in seventeenth-century Prague, Kit begins to make progress but realises that opponents, in the shape of the Burley Men, are equally determined to capture the map, and they have a crucial advantage: the ability to manipulate the will of historical figures for their own ends. Across time and space, through manifest and hidden worlds, those who know how to use ley lines to travel through astral planes have left their own world behind in this, the second quest: to unlock the mystery of The Bone House.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10634284-the-bone-house"}, +{"book_title": "SpecOps", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 11484, "review_number": 489, "book_description": "The sequel to 'Columbus Day'. Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots and scientists with him; the mission is a fool's errand he doesn't expect to ever return. At least, this time, the Earth is safe, right? Not so much.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Humor", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30342581-specops"}, +{"book_title": "The Hutt Gambit", "author_name": "A.C. Crispin", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 9340, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "Here is the second novel in the blockbuster new trilogy that reveals the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler and thief.Solo is now a fugitive from the Imperial Navy. But he has made a valuable friend in a former Wookiee slave named Chewbacca, who has sworn Han a life debt. Han will need all the help he can get. For the Ylesian Hutts have dispatched the dreaded bounty hunter Boba Fett to track down the man who already outsmarted them once. But Han and Chewie find themselves in even bigger trouble when they agree to lend their services to the crime lords Jiliac and Jabba the Hutt. Suddenly the two smugglers are thrust into the middle of a battle between the might of the Empire and the treachery of their outlaw allies...a battle where even victory means death!Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Media Tie In", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/598938.The_Hutt_Gambit"}, +{"book_title": "Dreaming Metal", "author_name": "Melissa Scott", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 257, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Scott returns to the world of her earlier novel, Dreamships, and, as in several of her novels, takes up the theme of artificial intelligence. Persephone is a planet racked by class struggle and economic and political upheaval. Celinde Fortune is an entertainer - an illusionist who makes good money but plays the Empire Theatre, a venue that also books socially controversial bands who attract bomb threats. When she combines two advanced computer chips in a new way in order to sophisticate her act, the resulting form of computer life seems awfully like a true artificial intelligence. And this is beyond controversial - it could get her killed.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Novels", "LGBT", "Queer (Queer Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/635735.Dreaming_Metal"}, +{"book_title": "A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery", "author_name": "Curtis Craddock", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 387, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "\"A gripping tale of a woman who refuses to be defined by her physical and magical limitations, thwarting both assassins and all who see her as a pawn. A great read!\" -- Brandon Sanderson, on Curtis Craddock's An Alchemy of Masques and MirrorsA Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery is the masterful sequel to Curtis Craddock's critically-acclaimed high fantasy An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, which continues the engrossing tale of courtly intrigue and breathtaking magic, and starring our fiercely intelligent heroine Isabelle des Zephyrs with her loyal musketeer Jean-Claude.Isabelle des Zephyrs has always been underestimated throughout her life, but after discovering the well of hidden magic within her, unveiling a centuries-long conspiracy, and stopping a war between rival nations, she has gained a newfound respect amongst the cutthroat court.All that is quickly taken away when Isabelle is unfairly convicted of breaking the treaty she helped write and has her political rank and status taken away. Now bereft, she nevertheless finds herself drawn into mystery when her faithful musketeer Jean-Claude uncovers a series of gruesome murders by someone calling themselves the Harvest King.As panic swells, the capital descends into chaos, when the emperor is usurped from the throne by a rival noble. Betrayed by their allies and hunted by assassins, Isabelle and Jean-Claude alone must thwart the coup, but not before it changes l'Empire forever.The Risen Kingdom series#1: An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863266-a-labyrinth-of-scions-and-sorcery"}, +{"book_title": "Teranesia", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 1192, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Prabir Suresh and his younger sister, Madhursee, live in a remote paradise called Teranesia, where their biologist parents are studying an unexplained genetic mutation among the island's butterflies. Then civil war erupts across Indonesia, shattering their idyllic world and their lives.Twenty years later, Prabir is still plagued by feelings of guilt and an overwhelming responsiblity for his sister, now a biologist herself. Against his advice, Madhurse is returning to Teranesia to solve the mystery of the butterflies and study strange new plant and animal species that have been emerging throughout the region-species seperated from their known cousins by dramatic mutations that seem far too efficient to have arisen by chance.Afraid for her safety, Prabir joins forces with independant scientist Martha Grant to find her. But what he will discover on Teranesia is far more dangerous and wondrous than he can ever fear--or imagine..", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science (Biology)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156787.Teranesia"}, +{"book_title": "Sammy and the Robots", "author_name": "Ian Whybrow", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 106, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "When Sammy's robot stops working, he and Gran send it to the robot hospital. \"They'll know how to fix it\", says Gran. But who will help Gran when a bad cough sends her to the hospital? A robot, of course -- a special, new cough-blasting model, carefully made by a very concerned little grandson. Filled with affection and sprinkled with fun, this richly colored tale about caring across the generations stars the gentle hero of Sammy and the Dinosaurs.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Health"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1524309.Sammy_and_the_Robots"}, +{"book_title": "Black Helicopters", "author_name": "Caitl\u00edn R. Kiernan", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 132, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Black Helicopters is Caitl\u00edn R. Kiernan\u2019s first SF novella since 2004\u2019s The Dry Salvages. Certainly one of her most ambitious tales to date, a narrative spanning one hundred and eighty-six years exposes a labyrinthine underworld of global conspiracy, secret societies, synchronicity, chaos theory, and interdimensional apocalypse. As a horrific plague unfolds on the shores of New England, two shadowy agencies are pitted against one another in a race to understand the consequences of a psychiatrist\u2019s bizarre experiment involving a pair of albino twins. In this \u201cgame of chess,\u201d even the most minute act sends infinite ripples through eternity, the struggle shaping the history of the future.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18874971-black-helicopters"}, +{"book_title": "Crusade", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2672, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "The Prodigal's ReturnNeither side having proved capable of pressing their conflict to a successful conclusion, the Human-Orion war to end all interstellar wars has collapsed into an uneasy peace. But it is a peace filled with fear, hatred and mistrust on both sides. Then from out of a warp point notorious for devouring space ships, appears a ship from the dim mists of half-forgotten history. It responds to hails from patroling Orion sentry using ancient human codes from a long lost colony. And it opens fire on the Orions, igniting the fires of interstellar war anew, in a quest to free Holy Mother Terra...", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science (Technology)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260987.Crusade"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Deepwoods", "author_name": "Paul Stewart", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 13902, "review_number": 864, "book_description": "Abandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig Verginix is brought up by a family of woodtrolls. One cold night, Twig does what no woodtroll has ever done before \u2013 he strays from the path. So begins a heart-stopping adventure that will take Twig through a nightmare world of fearsome goblins, bloodthirsty beasts and flesh-eating trees. Can he discover the truth about his past?Beyond the Deepwoods is the first book of the Twig Saga \u2013 second trilogy in The Edge Chronicles. Each book is a stand-alone adventure, so you can read The Edge Chronicles in any order you choose.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105657.Beyond_the_Deepwoods"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Girl", "author_name": "Janet Edwards", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 5267, "review_number": 779, "book_description": "Jarra is stuck on Earth while the rest of humanity portals around the universe. But can she prove to the norms that she\u2019s more than just an Earth Girl?2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can\u2019t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She\u2019s an \u2018ape\u2019, a \u2018throwback\u2019, but this is one ape girl who won\u2019t give in.Jarra invents a fake background for herself \u2013 as a normal child of Military parents \u2013 and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to excavate the ruins of the old cities. When an ancient skyscraper collapses, burying another research team, Jarra\u2019s role in their rescue puts her in the spotlight. No hiding at back of class now. To make life more complicated, she finds herself falling in love with one of her classmates \u2013 a norm from another planet. Somehow, she has to keep the deception going.A freak solar storm strikes the atmosphere, and the class is ordered to portal off-world for safety \u2013 no problem for a real child of military parents, but fatal for Jarra. The storm is so bad that the crews of the orbiting solar arrays have to escape to planet below: the first landing from space in 600 years. And one is on collision course with their shelter.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12962345-earth-girl"}, +{"book_title": "The End of the World as We Knew It", "author_name": "Nick Cole", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 652, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "In the future, an artist specializing in historical records creates a piece of art based on three separate accounts of the Pandemic. What follows is a patchwork tale of survival and horror as two lovers struggle to survive the undying dead and the collapse of an America turned charnel house. Told as memos from Ground Zero, and later in the journal of a Dark Tower-like quest by train and foot across a nightmare landscape of ruined cities and raving corpses, the three accounts reveal more than just the grim realities of society\u2019s collapse. The Notebook meets The Walking Dead in this stained glass depiction of the end of the world as we knew it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26160096-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-knew-it"}, +{"book_title": "Superposition", "author_name": "David Walton", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1572, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "Jacob Kelley's family is turned upside down when an old friend turns up, waving a gun and babbling about an alien quantum intelligence. The mystery deepens when the friend is found dead in an underground bunker\u2026apparently murdered the night before he appeared at Jacob's house. Jacob is arrested for the murder and put on trial.\u00a0\u00a0As the details of the crime slowly come to light, the weave of reality becomes ever more tangled, twisted by a miraculous new technology and a quantum creature unconstrained by the normal limits of space and matter. With the help of his daughter, Alessandra, Jacob must find the true murderer before the creature destroys his family and everything he loves.\u00a0From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22551892-superposition"}, +{"book_title": "The Line Must Hold", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1314, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The robotic legions of the First Imperium burst into human space, destroying everything in their path. Directed by the maniacal Regent, the enemy pressed forward with one goal \u2013 the destruction of mankind.The Superpowers of Earth, enemies for over a century, have banded together to face the threat from outside, and their combined forces have fought delaying actions to buy time. But now the Rim has fallen, and the heart of human space lies before the invaders.On three worlds, mankind will make its stand, and all the power Earth and its colonies can muster has been gathered there. Three worlds \u2013 Sandoval, Garrison, and Samvar. The Line.Erik Cain grimly leads his Marines and their new allies to Sandoval, to fight and to hold that world against anything the enemy throws at it. But Cain plans more than just a defense; he intends to annihilate the enemy forces\u2026and he\u2019ll sacrifice anything to win the ultimate victory. Even himself.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18106818-the-line-must-hold"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Empire II", "author_name": "Tom Veitch", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 1025, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "In Star Wars: Dark Empire, the Rebel Alliance once again fought and defeated the forces of the Empire. Or did they? Now, as Luke Skywalker searches the galaxy for clues to the history of the Jedi, Han and Leia lead the Rebel Alliance against a terrible new threat as a group of \"Dark Jedi\" fulfill the Emperor's final mission: Operation Shadow Hand, a devastating plan carried out by the deadliest dark side mind of all! Dramatized; 2 hours on 2 cassettes or 2 CDs", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236251.Dark_Empire_II"}, +{"book_title": "An Acceptable Time", "author_name": "Madeleine L'Engle", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 19888, "review_number": 1002, "book_description": "A flash of lightning, a quiver in the ground, and, instead of her grandparents' farm, Polly sees mist and jagged mountains\u2014and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears. Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that existed three thousand years ago? Will she find her way back to the present before the time gate closes\u2014and leaves her to face a group of people who believe in human sacrifice?", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24761.An_Acceptable_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Mindstar Rising", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 7454, "review_number": 248, "book_description": "Greg Mandel, late of the Mindstar Battalion, has been many things in his life. Commando. Freedom fighter. Assassin. Now he's a freelance operative with a very special edge: telepathy. In the high-tech, hard-edged world of computer crime, zero-gravity smuggling, and artificial intelligence, Greg Mandel is the man to call when things get rough. But when an elusive saboteur plagues a powerful organization known as Event Horizon, Mandel must cut his way through a maze of corporate intrigue and startling new scientific discoveries. And nothing less than the future is at stake.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45253.Mindstar_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "Gladly Beyond", "author_name": "Nichole Van", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 924, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "An ancient curse, fractured at the birth of three brothers. Two strangers helplessly drawn to each other. A love story two hundred years in the making. Claire Raythorn arrives in Florence, Italy, shattered, alone, and anxious to rebuild her life\u2014preferably one without men. But she soon finds herself hunted and haunted\u2014 literally\u2014when a mysterious stalker dressed like Mr. Darcy from BBC central casting appears in her photos. And only her photos. Who is this man? And what does his ghostly presence mean? Dante D\u2019Angelo simply wants to safeguard his brothers, despite the family curse that hounds his vision. But then Claire Raythorn walks into his life, untouched somehow by his curse. Soon, everything Dante thought he knew about himself starts to unravel, dragging Claire down with him. Set against the lush backdrop of Florence, Italy\u2014both past and present\u2014Claire and Dante fight for a future together. But, first, they must uncover their shared past . . .", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29848011-gladly-beyond"}, +{"book_title": "Anarch", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 766, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Gaunt's Ghosts Book 15The battle for Urdesh has begun \u2013 and the outcome will determine the fate of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Ibram Gaunt, now right hand to the Warmaster, and his Ghosts hold the key to victory \u2013 but can they defeat the sinister Anarch and his Sons of Sek?READ IT BECAUSEIt's all been leading to this. The Victory arc concludes with an epic story that weaves together plot threads from throughout the entire Gaunt's Ghosts series and puts the beloved characters in more danger than you'll be able to bear. Fair warning: they're not all going to get out alive.THE STORYMen of Tanith\u2026 do you want to live forever?On the forge world of Urdesh, the massed forces of the Imperial Crusade engage in a final bloody battle with the Archenemy commander known as the Anarch, and his elite warriors - the barbaric Sons of Sek. A victory for either side will decide more than just the fate of Urdesh\u2026 it will determine the outcome of the entire Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Ibram Gaunt \u2013 now serving at the right hand of Warmaster Macaroth \u2013 finds himself at the very heart of the struggle. His regiment, the Tanith First \u201cGhosts\u201d, holds the vital key to ultimate success. But as the forces of the Imperium and Chaos square up for the final, large-scale confrontation, Gaunt discovers that the greatest threat of all may come from inside rather than out.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43562728-anarch"}, +{"book_title": "The Mirage", "author_name": "Matt Ruff", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 3338, "review_number": 549, "book_description": "A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers.The United Arab States declares a War on Terror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the Eastern Seaboard and establish a Green Zone in Washington, D.C. . . .Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage--in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of \"backward third-world countries.\" A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of \"The New York Times,\" dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party.The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee--a war hero named Osama bin Laden--will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems.Acclaimed novelist Matt Ruff has created a shadow world that is eerily recognizable but, at the same time, almost unimaginable. Gripping, subversive, and unexpectedly moving, \"The Mirage\" probes our deepest convictions and most arresting fears.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12067161-the-mirage"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers: Generation One Volume Two (Transformers (Graphic Novels)) (Vol. 2", "author_name": "Brad Mick", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 8, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "A new edition of the long out-of-print classic Transformers story. Showcasing some of artist extraordinaire Pat Lee's best work, Transformers: Generation One Volume Two also features the writing debut of Transformers fanatic Brad Mick.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/888295.Transformers"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Robots", "author_name": "J.S. Morin", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 153, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "\"Never in a thousand years\" just expired. Charlie7 has his secrets. Every robot knows that history has a dark period where he was the only one alive, with no one to corroborate his story. That was before an old adversary, long believed dead, emerges from hiding to expose Charlie7 as a fraud. With a newfound internship mixing new robotic personalities, Rachel Eighteen stumbles across an old file in the archive that no robot can access. The data it contains could upset the underpinnings of the thousand-year-old robotic civilization. When rebel forces seize control of the factory and take Rachel prisoner, can she hold out long enough for help to arrive? Does she even want to? What value does the truth have when the lie is all you've ever known? Charlie7, for one, hopes never to find out.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35627416-rebel-robots"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen's Advantage", "author_name": "Jessie Mihalik", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1130, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "When Queen Samara Rani decides to repay her debt to Emperor Valentin Kos by rooting out the traitors in his court, she knows his advisors will despise her presence. The unknown traitors hate her because she tricked them out of five million credits, but even his loyal advisors have no use for the queen of rogues and scoundrels.True to form, Valentin\u2019s advisors want Samara gone, and they aren\u2019t picky about how. When their tactics turn violent, Samara and Valentin race to unravel the web of treachery and lies binding the court before the next attack ends in tragedy.Finding traitors is not easy when courtiers learn to lie before they learn to walk. To track down the culprits, Samara must delve deep into the underbelly of a court who wants her dead. But the Rogue Queen isn\u2019t so easy to kill\u2026_____________This is being posted as a free online serial on Jessie Mihalik's website.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43534681-the-queen-s-advantage"}, +{"book_title": "Brave New World", "author_name": "Aldous Huxley", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1483606, "review_number": 31784, "book_description": "Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.", "year_published": 1932, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature", "Novels", "Academic (School)", "Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World"}, +{"book_title": "Sleepers", "author_name": "Jacqueline Druga", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 621, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "A normal spring morning cascades into a nightmare world for Mera Stevens as 1.8 billion children simultaneously fall ill and then vanish from the face of the earth. Her son, Jeremy, is one of them.Increased natural disasters, onslaught of disease and other phenomena throws the world into chaos as it balances on the brink of extinction.With communications down, Mera gathers the courage and strength she needs to trek across a dying country in search of a daughter she desperately hopes is still alive.While en route to Seattle, Mera is joined by others on a similar mission. Their travels are not easy. Not only do they have to face nature\u2019s roadblocks, they must combat the infected who have become their most deadly obstacle. More than just facing the physical and emotional challenges that test their survival, the group faces a journey that will take them much further than just a search for loved ones in a desolate world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13455783-sleepers"}, +{"book_title": "Under the Ice Blades", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 2313, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Captain Astuawilda Kaika is an elite forces soldier, a demolitions expert, and a woman who loves secret missions. She most certainly isn\u2019t someone with the patience to teach General Zirkander\u2019s raw cadets how to survive encounters with the enemy. Certain she\u2019s been given this duty as a punishment, she confronts her superiors, only to find out that King Angulus himself gave her the assignment. When she attempts to reasonably and respectfully\u2014and certainly not presumptuously\u2014explain to him that she\u2019s not suited for teaching, she gets swept up in a mission to a secret research facility that has been invaded by enemy agents. Soon, she, King Angulus, and General Zirkander are engrossed in an investigation that could change the world\u2014and destroy all that they know.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Novella", "Adult", "Action", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26855543-under-the-ice-blades"}, +{"book_title": "Deep State", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 687, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "In THIS IS NOT A GAME, Dagmar found that the Alternate Reality Game she was writing was being manipulated by a killer, and in her own turn manipulated the game players in order to solve mysteries and unmask the villain. In the sequel DEEP STATE, that progression continues. Once again, the boundaries between game and reality are breached, and Dagmar finds herself using game techniques to manipulate real-world events. Except that the stakes have risen - instead of solving a crime, Dagmar now finds herself in the geopolitical realm, trying to manipulate an entire nation.As in TINAG, Dagmar finds herself drawn farther and farther into the action in order to set things right. She finds herself in physical danger, and must utilize her own inner strength and her ability as a game Puppetmaster to escape death.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Politics", "Pop Culture (Nerd)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8203603-deep-state"}, +{"book_title": "House Harkonnen", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 15311, "review_number": 284, "book_description": "Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds....As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides -- and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it is a time of momentous choice: between friendship and duty, safety and destiny. But for the survival of House Atreides, there is just one choice -- strive for greatness or be crushed.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20253.House_Harkonnen"}, +{"book_title": "Seeker", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 7059, "review_number": 383, "book_description": "The Barnes & Noble ReviewAlex Benedict and his executive assistant, Chase Kolpath -- ambitious antiquities dealers from Jack McDevitt's A Talent for War (1989) and, more recently, Polaris -- are back in Seeker, a story in which the two antiquarians search for a legendary lost colony that is both a science fiction thriller and a remarkably complex mystery.More than 9,000 years after an interstellar transport named Seeker left an overcrowded and politically repressive Earth with the dream of founding a new society on an unspecified planet, Benedict and Kolpath stumble across a ceramic cup that was once on the now-legendary lost starship. But tracking down how the ancient artifact got from the ship into the hands of a maltreated woman and her thuggish boyfriend turns out to be more than Benedict and Kolpath bargained for -- as their search leads them across multiple star systems and straight into an anonymous assassin's crosshairs. But as the killer closes in, the two courageous antiquarians uncover the jaw-dropping truth about the lost starship and the legendary colony Equally reminiscent of Frederik Pohl's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Heechee saga (Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, et al.) and a classic Ellery Queen mystery, McDevitt's Seeker will appeal to readers of hard-core science fiction, as well as adventurous mystery fans looking for an out-of-this-world story. And just like Polaris, Seeker is characterized by a bombshell of an ending that will leave readers absolutely awestruck. Paul Goat Allen", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352777.Seeker"}, +{"book_title": "The Ringworld Engineers", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 29628, "review_number": 591, "book_description": "\"This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals on that fantastic planet.\"--School Library Journal", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61181.The_Ringworld_Engineers"}, +{"book_title": "Father to the Stars", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 100, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Contents:\u00b7 The Night of Light \u00b7 na F&SF Jun \u201957 \u00b7 A Few Miles \u00b7 nv F&SF Oct \u201960 \u00b7 Prometheus \u00b7 na F&SF Mar \u201961 \u00b7 Father \u00b7 na F&SF Jul \u201955 \u00b7 Attitudes \u00b7 nv F&SF Oct \u201953", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872685.Father_to_the_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "Glitch Rain", "author_name": "Alex Livingston", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 36, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Akuba is a low-level hacker for the city's wealthy, making just enough to keep her bills paid and her booze flowing. Her job is to scrub the social feeds for faces who don't want to be seen, hanging out at parties to guard the elite from errant social media statuses and incriminating photo posts. Not the most glamorous job, but she\u2019s getting by. When an old debt comes due early suddenly she is the one who needs to keep her face out of the drones' omnipresent eyes. Thrown into the high-stakes world of international cybercrime, Akuba will have to have to outmaneuver unlimited surveillance, high-tech con artists, and an international hacker kingpin if she wants to survive. Every identity has a price in Glitch Rain.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28638438-glitch-rain"}, +{"book_title": "Sugar Skulls", "author_name": "Lisa Mantchev", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 361, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Welcome to Cyrene, a city where energy is currency and music is the lifeblood of its young citizens. Everyone lives on the grid, and the residents of the world\u2019s largest playground are encouraged to pursue every physical and emotional pleasure imaginable.Vee is the lead singer of the Sugar Skulls, an all-girl band that is Corporate\u2019s newest pet project. Micah haunts the city like a ghost after an overdose of a deadly illegal street drug knocks him off the grid. When Micah and Vee forge an immediate, undeniable connection, their troubled worlds collide.Trading concert stages for Cyrene\u2019s rooftops and back alleys, they have to evade vicious thugs and Vee\u2019s possessive manager as they unravel the mysteries connected to their dark pasts. And before the curtain falls, Micah and Vee will bring the city to its knees in their desperate bid for love, home, and a future together.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "New Adult", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25789738-sugar-skulls"}, +{"book_title": "Under a Graveyard Sky", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 4339, "review_number": 403, "book_description": "A family of survivors who fight back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization. Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few Marines.When an airborne \u201czombie\u201d plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family, Steven, Stacey, Sophia and Faith, take to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity. What they discover, instead, is a sea composed of the tears of survivors and a passion for bringing hope.For it is up to the Smiths and a small band of Marines to somehow create the refuge that survivors seek in a world of darkness and terror. Now with every continent a holocaust and every ship an abattoir, life is lived beneath a graveyard sky.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130366-under-a-graveyard-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Brain Recyclers", "author_name": "J.S. Morin", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 256, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Immortality is a prison of fear. With humanity out in the open, Eve and her sisters are now the subject of worldwide adoration\u2014and constant surveillance. With Eve as humanity\u2019s spokeswoman, it\u2019s up to her to bargain for the freedom she craves now that\u2019s she\u2019s had a taste of it. But Eve\u2019s pleas fall on deaf ears. Hers is only one voice, lost in a committee of robots hundreds of years her senior. No amount of earnestness can overcome the crushing inertia of the Human Committee. With no prospect of gaining room to breathe within the rules, Eve hatches a plot to escape and finds out exactly why the robots have tried so hard to keep the humans safe. The Brain Recyclers are out there. They want to be human again. They will stop at nothing. Brain Recyclers is the second book in the Robot Geneticists series. For fans of old-school science fiction where robots are people and any problem can be solved (or created) with enough scientists. If you've ever wondered what the world would be like if scientists who'd read I, Robot created a race of robots, or if you ever wondered what might be more dangerous to clone than dinosaurs, this is the series for you.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35008276-brain-recyclers"}, +{"book_title": "Outcast Mine", "author_name": "Jamie Craig", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1385, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "There is nothing Aleron Pitre can't steal, nobody he can't con and no situation he can't slip out of--until he's sent to the prison planet Tantoret, where every sentence is death. If the prisoners don't kill each other, they'll die slowly from mining the poisonous drug chojal. Yet Aleron still hopes that he can escape.Only thirty Athaki guards keep the chaos of Tantoret in check, a race of aliens stronger and faster than their human charges. Most intimidating of all is the head guard, Jasak, who has his own reasons for being sent to Tantoret.Amidst the darkness and desperation, Aleron and Jasak share an unexpected attraction. An attraction neither can resist when Jasak claims Aleron as his mate to protect him. Then they discover that both guards and inmates are planning a coup, while a traitor from an enemy nation threatens the whole planet. Suddenly escape from Tantoret isn't just Aleron's dream--it's a matter of survival for them both.84,400 words", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10101532-outcast-mine"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time", "author_name": "Yasutaka Tsutsui", "rating_score": 3.17, "rating_votes": 1653, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time tells the story of Kazuko Yoshiyama, a third-year middle school student who accidentally acquires the ability to time travel after an unfortunate accident in a school science lab. The novel is the basis for several television and film adaptations, including an acclaimed anime film directed by Mamoru Hosoda.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9663940-the-girl-who-leapt-through-time"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita, Volume 03: Killing Angel", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2798, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "Her spirit crushed over the loss of Hugo, Alita runs away from Doc Ido and the life she's built in the Scrapyard to become a challenger in motorball, a combat-like game that pits cyborg competitors against each other. As they race through the obstacle course, fighting for the ball, Alita learns her foes will do anything to win, and that losers often don't live to talk about their defeat.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Manga (Seinen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60284.Battle_Angel_Alita_Volume_03"}, +{"book_title": "The Reaction", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 4075, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "Rachel's got some pretty strange stuff happening. She can't control her morphing. One minute, she's doing homework. The next, she's morphing a full-grown crocodile, and -- without returning to human form -- she becomes an elephant. That's when the floor gives way and Rachel finds herself looking up at what used to be the kitchen ceiling.What's going on? No one's sure, but Rachel and the other Animorphs have to figure it out -- quickly. Because if someone sees Rachel's out-of-control morphing, the other Animorphs and Ax are in some serious trouble...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815401.The_Reaction"}, +{"book_title": "Tamed By The Beast", "author_name": "Grace Goodwin", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1442, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "When Tiffani is mated to an Atlan warrior believed lost to mating fever, she will stop at nothing to save him, including sneaking into an Atlan prison to seduce his beast....Sick and tired of the dead-end path her life is taking, Tiffani Wilson heads to the nearest Interstellar Bride processing center to start over. She's promised an amazing mate, an Atlan Warlord who will not only relish her plus sized body, but heal her lonely heart. Commander Deek of Atlan has lost control of his inner beast and sits in an Atlan prison cell awaiting execution. Unfortunately, nothing can save an unmated male.When Tiffani's transport to Atlan is denied due to her mate's unstable condition, she will stop at nothing to save him and the life she was promised. Her mate is out there, he's in trouble, and she knows she's the only one in the universe who can save him. Deek and his inner beast take one look at Tiffani's soft, lush body and know they will do anything to possess her, even if it means pushing her sensual limits or taking her over his knee. But it's not just Deek's tenuous hold on the beast that stands in the way of their happily-ever-after, for Deek's descent into mating fever was no accident, and his enemies will not surrender so easily.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32708450-tamed-by-the-beast"}, +{"book_title": "1862", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 776, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "The Civil War comes alive in all its passion and fury\u2013only now the Brits are fighting . . . alongside the ConfederacyOutraged when the U.S. Navy seizes three Confederates aboard an English sailing ship, Britain retaliates by entering the fray in support of the Rebels\u2013and suddenly it\u2019s a whole new war.Once again, cotton is king as the North\u2019s blockade crumbles before the might of the Royal Navy. While Lincoln confronts the monumental challenge of vanquishing mighty Britannia, the Redcoats revive their 1812 penchant for burning down American cities, and Union troops see Canada as ripe for the picking. From the Mississippi bayou to the Pennsylvania farmlands to the woods of Maine, the great armies of Generals Grant and Lee face off in the nation\u2019s deadliest conflict. And to the victor goes history.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Military History (Civil War)", "Historical", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134262.1862"}, +{"book_title": "Spacer and Rat", "author_name": "Margaret Bechard", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 222, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Jack knows who belongs out in the Black. And who doesn't -- until Kit comes walking into the pub and changes everything he believes about the Black, about the people who live there, about what it takes to be a human being. Margaret Bechard set out to write an adventure story with laser guns ad spaceships. Then, she says, \"there was a big step and a long fall off a cliff while I realized that my characters didn't want to do the stuff I had in my mind; they had plans of their own.\" The result: a fast-paced space adventure and a short story about human feeling and growing up -- science fiction for those who love SF; riveting fiction for those who don't.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/491204.Spacer_and_Rat"}, +{"book_title": "Tooth and Nail", "author_name": "Craig DiLouie", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2361, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "As a new plague related to the rabies virus infects millions, America recalls its military forces from around the world to safeguard hospitals and other vital buildings. Many of the victims become rabid and violent but are easily controlled-that is, until so many are infected that they begin to run amok, spreading slaughter and disease. Lieutenant Todd Bowman got his unit through the horrors of combat in Iraq. Now he must lead his men across New York through a storm of violence to secure a research facility that may hold a cure. To succeed in this mission to help save what's left of society, the men of Second Platoon will face a terrifying battle of survival against the very people they have sworn to protect-people turned into a fearless, endless horde armed solely with tooth and nail.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7724842-tooth-and-nail"}, +{"book_title": "Carlucci's Heart", "author_name": "Richard Paul Russo", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 123, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Lt. Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter's friend. But as Carlucci digs deeper, the corruption and decay he finds is nothing compared to a final horror that could have devastating implications: a secret known only as Cancer Cell.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656970.Carlucci_s_Heart"}, +{"book_title": "Calm", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2198, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "CalmOne morning, gentle Maylak wakes up and feels a sense of oncoming dread. As the tribe's healer, it is her job to ensure that everyone is safe, happy, and healthy... and they are. So what can be threatening her people?Moving DayFarli helps move Maddie into the new 'girls' cave while avoiding some prospective suitors.These are two Slice of Life Short Stories set in the ICE PLANET BARBARIANS series and do not stand alone. They should be read after BARBARIAN'S TOUCH and are a little bit of sweetness and family life for those waiting for the next full book release.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31136346-calm"}, +{"book_title": "Kiss of Steel", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 11355, "review_number": 1391, "book_description": "When Nowhere Is SafeMost people avoid the dreaded Whitechapel district. For Honoria Todd, it's the last safe haven. But at what price?Blade is known as the master of the rookeries\u2014no one dares cross him. It's been said he faced down the Echelon's army single-handedly, that ever since being infected by the blood-craving he's been quicker, stronger, and almost immortal.When Honoria shows up at his door, his tenuous control comes close to snapping. She's so...innocent. He doesn't see her backbone of steel\u2014or that she could be the very salvation he's been seeking.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13507512-kiss-of-steel"}, +{"book_title": "The Final Six", "author_name": "Alexandra Monir", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 4138, "review_number": 797, "book_description": "When Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, a science genius from California, are two of the twenty-four teens drafted into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever altered. After erratic climate change has made Earth a dangerous place to live, the fate of the population rests on the shoulders of the final six who will be scouting a new planet. Intense training, global scrutiny, and cutthroat opponents are only a few of the hurdles the contestants must endure in this competition.For Leo, the prospect of traveling to Europa\u2014Jupiter\u2019s moon\u2014to help resettle humankind is just the sense of purpose he\u2019s been yearning for since losing his entire family in the flooding of Rome. Naomi, after learning of a similar space mission that mysteriously failed, suspects the ISTC isn\u2019t being up front with them about what\u2019s at risk.As the race to the final six advances, the tests get more challenging\u2014even deadly. With pressure mounting, Naomi finds an unexpected friend in Leo, and the two grow closer with each mind-boggling experience they encounter. But it\u2019s only when the finalists become fewer and their destinies grow nearer that the two can fathom the full weight of everything at stake: the world, the stars, and their lives.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Fiction", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36491465-the-final-six"}, +{"book_title": "Altered Carbon", "author_name": "Richard K. Morgan", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 90044, "review_number": 5988, "book_description": "Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn't be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40792913-altered-carbon"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 741, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Experience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part VIII The Kraken King and the Greatest AdventureArriving in Krakentown with their enemies in hot pursuit, Zenobia doesn\u2019t know how they can even hope to win. Being terrified brings forth an undeniable truth: she loves Ariq and will do whatever it takes to stand by him.But as their adversaries appear on the horizon, they realize that not all is lost. Drawing on the power of the terrible war machine, Ariq, Zenobia, and the entire town must put their lives on the line to protect what they love\u2026Includes a bonus excerpt of Meljean Brook\u2019s \u201cHere There Be Monsters.\u201d", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20645261-the-kraken-king-and-the-greatest-adventure"}, +{"book_title": "Heavy Time", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1682, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Discovered alone and without his memory on his drifting ship, pilot Paul Dekker is accused of the murder of his crew members and he must rely on the help of renegade miner Morris Bird to learn the truth. Reprint.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Space", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57078.Heavy_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Player Piano", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 47188, "review_number": 2056, "book_description": "Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul\u2019s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut\u2014wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.Alternate cover edition here", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature", "Novels", "Literature (American)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9597.Player_Piano"}, +{"book_title": "Soar", "author_name": "Scarlett Dawn", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 781, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "*The individual installments are no longer in publication. Please see Cold Mark (Mark, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... .New York Times bestselling author, Scarlett Dawn, captures the perfect last installment of The Cold Mark Saga, where trust is earned and love soars\u2026Braita Valorn is a disaster walking. One mistake after another on the planet Triaz has landed her in trouble time and again. Only Braita\u2019s quick wit has kept her from complete ruin\u2014and her cunning to blackmail the Plumas of the east.The Plumas of the west own Braita. She is their Soul. But when her ultimate freedom is so close she can taste it, Braita might just \u2018own\u2019 them\u2026if her heart doesn\u2019t get in the way.Or, perhaps, Braita should have followed her heart from the start\u2014to one set of Plumas who are her perfect match.Will Braita obtain her freedom? Or will she finally accept a life she never asked for?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "New Adult", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25322920-soar"}, +{"book_title": "To Fire Called", "author_name": "Nathan Lowell", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 2047, "review_number": 134, "book_description": " A dead ship returns to the Deep Dark with a live crew.Captain Ishmael Wang finally gets the Chernyakova out of the yard and embarks on a voyage into the Toe-Holds where the Confederated Planets Joint Committee on Trade has no authority. Where the law is whatever you say it is as long as you can enforce it.Where he learns that some will do anything to hide their secrets and everybody has a secret.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35022102-to-fire-called"}, +{"book_title": "First Among Sequels", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 24513, "review_number": 1634, "book_description": "It's been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Reichenbach Falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Marple dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes what's going on: there is a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld. And that's not all--The Goliath Corporation is trying to deregulate book travel. Naturally, Thursday must travel to the outer limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to triumph against increasing odds.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Humor", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27002.First_Among_Sequels"}, +{"book_title": "The Turncoat's Gambit", "author_name": "Andrea Cremer", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 601, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Charlotte is on the run. The Empire is hunting her. The Revolution wants her back. And Charlotte has allied herself with pirates, just to stay safe.But things are not what they seem. There\u2019s a traitor in the revolutionaries\u2019 midst pulling unseen strings, and surprises lurk around every corner. As Charlotte is left to sort out what she truly thinks about the revolution she\u2019s spent her whole life fighting for, she must also battle to keep herself and her friends alive.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29236555-the-turncoat-s-gambit"}, +{"book_title": "Poison or Protect", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 4023, "review_number": 600, "book_description": "\nLondon\u2019s most scandalous lady assassin versus one very hot Highlander.\nLady Preshea Villentia, the Mourning Star, has four dead husbands and a nasty reputation. Fortunately, she looks fabulous in black.What society doesn\u2019t know is that all her husbands were marked for death by Preshea\u2019s employer. And Preshea has one final assignment.It was supposed to be easy, a house party with minimal bloodshed. Preshea hadn\u2019t anticipated Captain Gavin Ruthven \u2013 massive, Scottish, quietly irresistible, and\u2026 working for the enemy.In a battle of wits, Preshea may risk her own heart \u2013 a terrifying prospect, as she never knew she had one.New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger presents a charming love story set in her popular steampunk Parasolverse. May contain plaid, appearances from favorite characters, and the strategic application of leather gloves.The Delightfully Deadly novellas stand alone and may be read in any order.Delicate Sensibilities?Contains men pleasing women, and ladies who know what they want and ask for it, sometimes in detail.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical", "Novella", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30320387-poison-or-protect"}, +{"book_title": "The Vault of Dreamers", "author_name": "Caragh M. O'Brien", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 5307, "review_number": 965, "book_description": "WELCOME TO THE PRESTIGIOUS Forge School of the Arts, where every waking moment of the students' lives is televised. For twelve hours a day, every class, conversation, and gesture is broadcast to millions of viewers. And for twelve hours each night, the students undergo an induced sleep, proven to maximize creativity.Rosie Sinclair has staked all her dreams of becoming a filmmaker on succeeding at Forge. But when she skips her sleeping pill one night, she discovers an insidious world behind the cameras. As she navigates the Forge landscape of art and manipulation by day, Rosie finds it increasingly difficult to trust either her instincts or her mind. The only thing she knows for certain is that she must unearth the ghastly secret that the Forge School is hiding.From the author of the Birthmarked Trilogy comes a fast-paced, psychologically thrilling novel about what happens when the dreams you follow are no longer your own.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "School Stories (Boarding School)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518838-the-vault-of-dreamers"}, +{"book_title": "\u041d\u0435\u0439\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0442 (\u041c\u0443\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0435\u0439\u043d\u0438\u043a #1", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 54, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "\u041c\u0438\u0440 \u043d\u0435\u0434\u0430\u043b\u0451\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0431\u0443\u0434\u0443\u0449\u0435\u0433\u043e \u043f\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0438\u0437\u0430\u043d \u0432\u0438\u0440\u0442\u0443\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u043c \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c, \u0430 \u043b\u044e\u0434\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043f\u043b\u043e\u0442\u044c \u0441\u043f\u043b\u043e\u0448\u044c \u0438\u0441\u0441\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u0432\u044b\u0441\u043e\u043a\u043e\u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0447\u043d\u044b\u043c\u0438 \u0443\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0430\u043c\u0438. \u041e\u0433\u0440\u043e\u043c\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043c\u0435\u0433\u0430\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0441\u044b \u043f\u043e\u043a\u0440\u044b\u043b\u0438 \u043f\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0445\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0417\u0435\u043c\u043b\u0438, \u0430 \u0433\u0438\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u043a\u043e\u0440\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u0441\u0430\u043c\u043e\u0437\u0430\u0431\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e \u0441\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0430\u044e\u0442\u0441\u044f \u043c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443 \u0441\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0439 \u0432\u0441\u0435\u043c\u0438 \u0434\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u043d\u044b\u043c\u0438 \u043c\u0435\u0442\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043c\u0438.\u041e\u0434\u043d\u0430\u0436\u0434\u044b \u0441\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0448\u0438\u0432\u0448\u0438\u0439 \u043e\u0448\u0438\u0431\u043a\u0443 \u043a\u0438\u0431\u0435\u0440-\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u00ab\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0431\u043e\u0439\u00bb \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0430\u0435\u0442 \u0448\u0430\u043d\u0441 \u0432\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0443\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u0432 \u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u0443\u044e \u0438\u043d\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u043d\u0443\u044e \u0441\u0442\u0438\u0445\u0438\u044e, \u0442\u0440\u0443\u0434\u044f\u0441\u044c \u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0435\u0438\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044f. \u0415\u0433\u043e \u0441\u043f\u0443\u0442\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0435\u0439 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0442\u0441\u044f \u043e\u0447\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430\u044f \u043d\u0430\u0451\u043c\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0430 \u2014 \u00ab\u0443\u043b\u0438\u0447\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0430\u043c\u0443\u0440\u0430\u0439\u00bb \u041c\u043e\u043b\u043b\u0438.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24015457"}, +{"book_title": "Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful", "author_name": "Arwen Elys Dayton", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2317, "review_number": 565, "book_description": "For fans of television shows Black Mirror and Westworld, this compelling, mind-bending novel is a twisted look into the future, exploring how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimen and what it means to be human at all.Set in our world, spanning the near to distant futures, Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful is a novel made up of six interconnected stories that ask how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimens, and how hard that will push the definition of \"human.\"This extraordinary work explores the amazing possibilities of genetic manipulation and life extension, as well as the ethical quandaries that will arise with these advances. The results range from the heavenly to the monstrous. Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying, and action-packed, Arwen Elys Dayton's Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful is groundbreaking in both form and substance.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39402961-stronger-faster-and-more-beautiful"}, +{"book_title": "Mendoza in Hollywood", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1999, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "This is the third novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life, for profit, of course. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist. The death of her lover has been followed by centuries of heartbreak. She spends a period of time in early twentieth century Hollywood in the days of D.W. Griffith, and then Mendoza is in the midst of the Civil War, and runs into a man that looks disturbingly similar to her lost love. She is about to find love again, and be in more trouble than she could ever have imagined.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/514439.Mendoza_in_Hollywood"}, +{"book_title": "Find Me", "author_name": "Laura van den Berg", "rating_score": 2.89, "rating_votes": 4446, "review_number": 789, "book_description": "After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel\u2014a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world.Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. When Joy\u2019s immunity gains her admittance to a hospital in rural Kansas, she sees a chance to escape her bleak existence. There she submits to peculiar treatments and follows seemingly arbitrary rules, forming cautious bonds with other patients\u2014including her roommate, whom she turns to in the night for comfort, and twin boys who are digging a secret tunnel.As winter descends, the hospital\u2019s fragile order breaks down and Joy breaks free, embarking on a journey from Kansas to Florida, where she believes she can find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a child. On the road in a devastated America, she encounters mysterious companions, cities turned strange, and one very eerie house. As Joy closes in on Florida, she must confront her own damaged memory and the secrets she has been keeping from herself.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Novels", "Contemporary", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22237149-find-me"}, +{"book_title": "The Ace of Skulls", "author_name": "Chris Wooding", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 2726, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "All good things come to an end. And this is it: the last stand of the Ketty Jay and her intrepid crew.They've been shot down, set up, double-crossed and ripped off. They've stolen priceless treasures, destroyed a ten-thousand-year-old Azryx city and sort-of-accidentally blew up the son of the Archduke. Now they've gone and started a civil war. This time, they're really in trouble.As Vardia descends into chaos, Captain Frey is doing his best to keep his crew out of it. He's got his mind on other things, not least the fate of Trinica Dracken. But wars have a way of dragging people in, and sooner or later they're going to have to pick a side. It's a choice they'll be staking their lives on. Cities fall and daemons rise. Old secrets are uncovered and new threats revealed.When the smoke clears, who will be left standing?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15763857-the-ace-of-skulls"}, +{"book_title": "Out Of The Ashes", "author_name": "Lindsey Fairleigh", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1699, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Hope brought them together, but it's now fear that drives them...and threatens to tear them apart.Zoe and her companions succeeded in rescuing Dani from the Colony. But not without sacrifice. Beaten and broken, they head west, determined to leave behind the torment and horrors they experienced in Colorado.As Dani and Zoe make the perilous trek home to Bodega Bay, they learn that danger can take many forms--other survivors, their friends, even themselves--and that things are rarely what they seem. Zoe is desperate to become the woman she sees in others' memories, while Dani struggles to conceal damaging secrets, risking losing herself--her humanity--completely. Together, they must rediscover the true meaning of friendship, love, and trust, and learn just how hard they're willing to fight for what remains of their shattered world.As relationships are put to the test, second chances are given, and new life emerges, death lurks in the most unlikely of places. To survive, Dani and Zoe must accept that sometimes hope alone isn't enough.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52860607-out-of-the-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Beauty Queens", "author_name": "Libba Bray", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 52269, "review_number": 7806, "book_description": "The 50 contestants in the Miss Teen Dream pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras.But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner. What\u2019s a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program - or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan - or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up?Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Humor", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Feminism", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9464733-beauty-queens"}, +{"book_title": "The Vor Game", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 21846, "review_number": 796, "book_description": "Hugo Award Winner! Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Academy, joins a mutiny, is placed under house arrest, goes on a secret mission, reconnects with his loyal Dendarii Mercenaries, rescues his Emperor, and thwarts an interstellar war. Situation normal, if you're Miles.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68483.The_Vor_Game"}, +{"book_title": "Rule 34", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 7620, "review_number": 688, "book_description": "DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan five years ago. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile. Anwar: As an ex-con, you'd like to think your identity fraud days are over. Especially as you've landed a legit job (through a shady mate). Although now that you're Consul for a shiny new Eastern European Republic, you've no idea what comes next. The Toymaker: Your meds are wearing off and people are stalking you through Edinburgh's undergrowth. But that's ok, because as a distraction, you're project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. But who's killing off potential recruits? So how do bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and a European spamming network fit together? The more DI Kavanaugh learns, the less she wants to find out.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8853299-rule-34"}, +{"book_title": "Snowbots", "author_name": "Aaron Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 252, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "How do the robot children of Clackentown spend snow days? They have supersonic snowball fights, make robot angels with wing nuts moving up and down, take hot oil baths to thaw out the joints, and receive eskimo kisses on metal noses at bedtime.Author Aaron Reynolds and illustrator David Barneda team up to tell a hilarious story about two favorite subjects\u2014robots and snow days!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Kids", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7806684-snowbots"}, +{"book_title": "Salvation's Reach", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1613, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "The Tanith First-and-Only infiltrate an Imperial underwater ship and must wrestle it from Chaos cultists in the thirteenth book of this popular Imperial Guard series.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11174401-salvation-s-reach"}, +{"book_title": "Anyone", "author_name": "Angela Scott", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 918, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "Young Adult, Apocalyptic, Survival, HorrorThe end of the world? That\u2019s the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters and deep philosophical exercises in school. No need to sweat it. So when sixteen-year-old Tess\u2019s doomsday-dad builds a bomb shelter in their suburban backyard, everyone thinks he\u2019s gone crazy\u2026.\u2026Until fire rains down from the sky, sinking whole cities into colossal craters and setting much of the world ablaze.Tess\u2019s dad gives her a few short minutes to gather her emergency bag and her freaked-out kitten, then leads her outside and into the underground shelter. Terrified, the last thing she expects is for him to leave her there all alone, but he has no choice\u2014he must find her missing brother.Before leaving, he makes Tess promise to keep the hatch door shut, not to open it for anyone but him, and to stay put until he returns.But he forgot to tell her one thing: What is she supposed to do if he never comes back?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Romance", "Horror (Zombies)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23487625-anyone"}, +{"book_title": "Fantastical", "author_name": "Kristen Ashley", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 18940, "review_number": 1052, "book_description": "Cora Goode has woken up in a fairytale world where she can understand what birds are saying to her, men ride horses and have fluffy feathers in their hats and furniture zigs, zags and whirls in miracles of construction. The problem is, she thinks she\u2019s in a dream but she\u2019s actually taken the place of the parallel universe Cora and without realizing it, our Cora does something that starts a centuries old curse that will sweep the land if she gets captured by the evil Minerva. At this point, her dream world becomes a nightmare. Luckily, hot guy, fantasyland Noctorno is there to save her from the clutches of the grotesque vickrants sent by Minerva to capture her. Unfortunately, hot guy, fantasyland Noctorno doesn\u2019t like the Cora of his world all that much (to say the least) and he thinks our Cora is her. And no matter what our Cora says or does to try to convince him, he won\u2019t be convinced. But Cora needs Tor to keep her safe and guide her through this fantastical world as she hopes one day to wake up in her not-so-great apartment in her not-so-great life in her world. The problem is, the more time she spends with the gorgeous warrior Tor, the faster she falls in love with him.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult", "New Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13005310-fantastical"}, +{"book_title": "End of the World Blues", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 625, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "From Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the celebrated Arabesk series, comes a stunningly inventive novel of futuristic noir set in a world of shifting realities. Here a man is drawn into a gritty postmodern subculture and a secret kingdom of otherworldly beings to find what he lost long ago: a reason to live.Kit Nouveau figured he'd already come to the end of the world. An Iraqi war veteran, expatriate, and part owner of Pirate Mary's, the best Irish bar in Tokyo, Kit had settled down to await the inevitable with barely a whimper. It wasn't exactly how Kit thought he'd end up, and he was right.It's going to end up a lot worse.A teenage runaway with fifteen million dollars in stolen cash and a taste for cosplay is about to save Kit's life in a lethal swirl of scarlet and bridal lace. Lady Neku, a.k.a. Countess of High Strange, has her own dangerous destiny to fulfill and it's mysteriously connected to Kit's ravaged past. Now Kit's only hope for redemption is to save an ex-girlfriend he tragically failed once before. But everyone says it's already too late. And she's left behind only one ominous clue: her suicide note.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/229315.End_of_the_World_Blues"}, +{"book_title": "Robots Rule the School", "author_name": "Ada Hopper", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 92, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "In the fourth DATA Set adventure, the DATA Set race to deprogram an army of robots before they take over Newtonberg Elementary School.One morning, Mrs. Bell, the science teacher, challenges the students to invent their own robots. The class builds their best creations and on presentation day, everything goes well\u2026until all the robots start malfunctioning! Now it\u2019s up to the DATA Set and their new classmate, Olive Thompson, to deprogram these machines before an army of robots take over the entire school! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The DATA Set chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27206596-robots-rule-the-school"}, +{"book_title": "Carnifex", "author_name": "Tom Kratman", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1064, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Revenge: it won\u2019t bring your wife and kids back, but it might help with the nightmares.Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family. He\u2019s raised an army and air force and used them. He\u2019s raised a fleet and he\u2019s about to use that. He\u2019s suborned one republic and is about to undermine another. He\u2019s tracked his enemies across half a world, breaking, in the process, any notion of international law that stood in his way.Now he\u2019s deployed his legions to Pashtia, penultimate hideout of the Salafi Ikhwan who have made him what he has become. But with each step further from his home, revenge seems no closer. And with each step he leaves behind him a little of his dwindling humanity. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Yet the trail itself grows cold, as cold as the snow-capped, windswept mountains of Pashtia. Only Carrera\u2019s hate still burns hot, and that\u2019s a fire that is slowly consuming him.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Space", "Literature (American)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2115151.Carnifex"}, +{"book_title": "Lost and Found: Geeger the Robot", "author_name": "Jarrett Lerner", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 8, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Dan Gutman\u2019s My Weird School meets James Patterson\u2019s House of Robots in the adventures of Geeger, a robot who loses his class pet, in the second story in a fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book series that\u2019s perfect for emerging readers!Geeger the Robot gets along great with the class pet, Fudge the Hamster\u2014they both spend a lot of their time eating and share a love for mushy bananas. But when Fudge goes missing, some of the kids in Ms. Bork\u2019s class think Geeger might be to blame! Could Geeger have eaten Fudge?! He certainly wouldn\u2019t have done so on purpose. But Geeger has been known to eat things by accident before. With the help of his best friend Tillie, Geeger puts his strengths to use to find Fudge and clear his name!", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54304199-lost-and-found"}, +{"book_title": "An Officer's Duty", "author_name": "Jean Johnson", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3281, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "Jean Johnson\u2014the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny novels\u2014returns to the world she introduced in A Soldier\u2019s Duty with a terrible vision of the future... Promoted in the field for courage and leadership under fire, Ia is now poised to become an officer in the Space Force Navy\u2014once she undertakes her Academy training. But on a trip back home to Sanctuary, she finds the heavyworld colony being torn apart by religious conflict. Now Ia must prepare her family and followers to secure the galaxy\u2019s survival. Her plan is to command a Blockade Patrol ship. Her goal, to save as many lives as she can. But at the Academy, she discovers an unexpected challenge: the one man who could disrupt those plans. The man whose future she cannot foresee... ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12476223-an-officer-s-duty"}, +{"book_title": "Red, White & Royal Blue", "author_name": "Casey McQuiston", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 207943, "review_number": 34857, "book_description": "Original cover edition of ASIN B07J4LPZRN here.First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep\u2019s genius granddaughter, they\u2019re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides\u2014namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Fiction", "New Adult", "Young Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41150487-red-white-royal-blue"}, +{"book_title": "The Midnight Library", "author_name": "Matt Haig", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 129544, "review_number": 19447, "book_description": "Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?\u201dA dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig\u2019s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Magical Realism", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Health (Mental Health)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library"}, +{"book_title": "1636: Mission to the Mughals", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 598, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "The latest entry in the multiple\u00a0New York Times\u00a0best-selling Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint.\u00a0After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia go on a quest for the makings of medicines that have yet to be invented in 17th century Europe.The United States of Europe, the new nation formed by an alliance between the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus and the West Virginians hurled back in time by a cosmic accident\u2014the Ring of Fire\u2014is beset by enemies on all sides. The U.S.E.\u00a0needs a reliable source of opiates for those wounded in action, as well as other goods not available in Europe. The Prime Minister of the U.S.E., Mike Stearns, sends a mission to the Mughal Empire of India with the aim of securing a trade deal with the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan. The mission consists of a mixed group of up-timers and down-timers, including paramedics, a squad of soldiers with railroad-building experience, a spy and a pair of swindlers. On reaching India the mission finds a grieving emperor obsessed with building the Taj Mahal, harem-bound princesses, warrior princes, and an Afghan adventurer embroiled in the many plots of the Mughal court. The emperor\u2019s sons are plotting against each other and war is brewing with the newly\u00a0risen Sikh faith. But in the midst of these intrigues, the U.S.E. mission finds a ally: the brilliant and beautiful Jahanara Begum, the eldest daughter of Shah Jahan. She is the mistress of her father's harem and a power in her own right, who wishes to learn more of these women who are free in a way she can scarcely comprehend. When the Emperor learns of what befalls his empire and children in the time that was, he makes every effort to change their fate. But emperors, princesses, and princes are no more immune to the inexorable waves of change created by the Ring of Fire than are the Americans themselves. About Eric Flint's groundbreaking\u00a0Ring of Fire series: \u201cThis alternate history series is . . .\u00a0a landmark\u2026\u201d\u2014Booklist About Eric Flint's best-selling\u00a0Jao Empire series coauthored with\u00a0K.D. Wentworth and David Carrico: \u201cThe action is fast and furious . . . a trimphant story . . . \u201d\u2014The Midwest Book Review \u201cBuilding to an exhilarating conclusion, this book cries out for a sequel.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly About Eric Flint's Boundary series, coauthored with Ryk E. Spoor: \u201c. . . fast-paced sci-fi espionage thriller . . . light in tone and hard on science . . .\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly\u00a0on\u00a0Boundary \u201cThe whole crew from Flint and Spoor's\u00a0Boundary\u00a0are back\u00a0. . . Tensions run high throughout the Ceres mission . . . a fine choice for any collection.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly\u00a0on\u00a0Threshold \u201c[P]aleontology, engineering, and space flight, puzzles in linguistics, biology, physics, and evolution further the story, as well as wacky humor, academic rivalries, and even some sweet romances.\u201d \u2014School Library Journal\u00a0on\u00a0Boundary \u00a0", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Cultural (India)", "Adventure", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753670-1636"}, +{"book_title": "Runaways #1", "author_name": "Noelle Stevenson", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 117, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "The best and brightest teens from all corners of Battleworld are chosen to attend a prestigious school on the planet's capital! But what does the new class do when they discover the school's beloved headmaster is actually a diabolical super villain? Run away! A Secret Wars story like none other from the remarkable minds of Noelle Stevenson (Lumberjanes) and Sanford Greene (Uncanny Avengers)!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics Manga", "Death"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25798610-runaways-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Witch of Hebron", "author_name": "James Howard Kunstler", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2428, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "In the sequel to his novel, World Made by Hand, Kunstler expands on his vision of a post-oil society with a new novel about an America in which the electricity has flickered off, the Internet is a distant memory, and the government is little more than a rumor. In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, travel is horse-drawn and farming is back at the center of life. But it\u2019s no pastoral haven. Wars are fought over dwindling resources and illness is a constant presence. Bandits roam the countryside, preying on the weak. And a sinister cult threatens to shatter Union Grove\u2019s fragile stability. In a book that is both shocking yet eerily convincing, Kunstler seamlessly weaves hot-button issues such as the decline of oil and the perils of climate change into a compelling narrative of violence, religious hysteria, innocence lost, and love found.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Environment"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7968228-the-witch-of-hebron"}, +{"book_title": "Contagion", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1567, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "One OCD neat freak alien. One human woman. Both are abducted and held captive in a very unsterile environment. What more could go wrong? ~ Simmi: I\u2019ve broken free and I\u2019ve also freed the human who was held captive with me. But I don\u2019t know where we are, and I don\u2019t know where my home is. The local wildlife may be smaller than I am, and maybe they don't have fangs near as large as mine, but I\u2019m still terrified. My issues with germs--and my uncompromising avoidance of all the things that I\u2019m afraid of coming into contact with--is going to get me killed in this wilderness. Thankfully, Aurora lets me follow her. Thankfully, she seems to know the way out of this endless and inhospitable woodland and desert biome. But by the end of our journey, she\u2019ll suspect she\u2019s harboring a contagion. I have no way to know it, but she\u2019s afraid to tell me. Afraid of how I\u2019ll react once I find out what she\u2019s carrying. ***Note: This 40K, Standalone story is intended for readers 18+ due to romantic elements and adult themes. There is no cheating. There is one really germphobic alien. Thankfully, there's also a really understanding woman who is starting to fall for him. Spoiler: They're totally gonna have a Happily Ever After... just as soon as they can get off this planet that\u2019s trying to kill them.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Humor", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48567611-contagion"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead Compendium 1", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 65055, "review_number": 2475, "book_description": "Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected into one massive paperback collection.In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living. With The Walking Dead #1-48, this compendium features more than one thousand pages chronicling the start of Robert Kirkman's Eisner Award-winning story of zombie horror, from Rick Grimes waking up alone in a hospital, his band of survivors seeking refuge on an isolated farm and the controversial introduction of Woodbury despot, The Governor.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6465707-the-walking-dead-compendium-1"}, +{"book_title": "Winter", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 205873, "review_number": 25207, "book_description": "Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She's said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana...When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush their romance before it has a chance to begin.But there are stirrings against the Queen across the land. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even find the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter claim their happily ever afters by defeating Levana once and for all?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Retellings", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206900-winter"}, +{"book_title": "The Unincorporated Man", "author_name": "Dani Kollin", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 3263, "review_number": 453, "book_description": "\nThe Unincorporated Man is a provocative social/political/economic novel that takes place in the future, after civilization has fallen into complete economic collapse. This reborn civilization is one in which every individual is incorporated at birth, and spends many years trying to attain control over his or her own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed.Now the incredible has happened: a billionaire businessman from our time, frozen in secret in the early twenty-first century, is discovered and resurrected, given health and a vigorous younger body. Justin Cord is the only unincorporated man in the world, a true stranger in this strange land. Justin survived because he is tough and smart. He cannot accept only part ownership of himself, even if that places him in conflict with a civilization that extends outside the solar system to the Oort Cloud. \u00a0People will be arguing about this novel and this world for decades.\n", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Economics", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4025200-the-unincorporated-man"}, +{"book_title": "Secrets & Sequences", "author_name": "Gene Luen Yang", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 516, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Stately Academy is no ordinary school: it was once home to an elite institute where teachers, studen....", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens", "Computer Science (Coding)", "Science (Mathematics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29102847-secrets-sequences"}, +{"book_title": "The Moon is Hell", "author_name": "John W. Campbell Jr.", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "John W. Campbell was the man who made modern science fiction what it is today. As editor of Astounding Stories (later Analog), Campbell brought into the field such all-time greats as Asimov, Heinlein, Sturgeon and many others, while his own writing blazed new trails in science fiction reading pleasure. The Moon is Hell is this great writer-editor's vision of the first men on the moon - written 18 years before Neil Armstrong made history. This is the story of the American space programme - not as it happened, but as it might have been.", "year_published": 1950, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3227914-the-moon-is-hell"}, +{"book_title": "Moxyland", "author_name": "Lauren Beukes", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 3204, "review_number": 473, "book_description": "A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program; Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers; Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid; and Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. On a collision course that will rewire their lives, this story crackles with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cell phones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia, satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Africa)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3491640-moxyland"}, +{"book_title": "Pandora's Brain", "author_name": "Calum Chace", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 212, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Around half the scientists researching artificial intelligence (AI) think that a conscious AI at or beyond human level will be created by 2050. If they are right, the consequence could be an intelligence explosion, in which the AI rapidly and enormously exceeds human cognitive ability. Pandora's Brain is a science and philosophy thriller by best-selling writer Calum Chace. It uses the issues raised by the coming machine intelligence explosion as a platform for a fast-paced and thought-provoking adventure story. Set in the very near future, it features Matt, a shy but engaging and resourceful student who discovers that his recently-deceased father was involved in research that could enable the construction of the world's first conscious machine. Matt's enquiries lead to him being kidnapped, as he is caught in the crossfire between two groups pursuing that goal - one led by a Russian billionaire, and another backed by the US military. Matt has to do more than simply survive: he has to harness these powerful forces to his own ends. At stake is his own life and those of his family and friends. A dramatic seaborne rescue operation, a series of brutal murders and other filmic action scenes follow. In the course of his adventures, Matt discovers that the potential upside of creating machine intelligence includes immortality, and godlike powers of understanding and being - but the potential downside is immediate extinction, or worse. As he is drawn deeper into his adventure, he becomes both the symbol and the victim of a global struggle over the approach to be taken towards this powerful new technology. A landmark decision at a meeting of the UN General Assembly forces Matt to make a fateful decision which sparks the story's final twist. Selected reviews for Pandora's Brain: \u201cI love the concepts in\u00a0this book!\u201d Peter James, author of the best-selling Roy Grace series \u201cAwesome! \u00a0Count me as a fan.\u201d Brad Feld, co-founder of the Foundry Group and Techstars \u201cPandora\u2019s Brain is a captivating tale of developments in artificial intelligence that could, conceivably, be just around the corner. The imminent possibility of these breakthroughs cause characters in the book to re-evaluate many of their cherished beliefs, and will lead most readers to several \u201cOMG\u201d realisations about their own philosophies of life. Apple carts that are upended in the processes are unlikely ever to be righted again. Once the ideas have escaped from the pages of this Pandora\u2019s box of a book, there\u2019s no going back to a state of innocence. Mainly set in the present day, the plot unfolds in an environment that seems reassuringly familiar, but which is overshadowed by a combination of both menace and promise. Carefully crafted, and absorbing from its very start, the book held my rapt attention throughout a series of surprise twists, as various personalities react in different ways to a growing awareness of that menace and promise.\u201d David Wood, Chairman of the London Futurist Group \u201cPandora\u2019s Brain is a tour de force that neatly explains the key concepts behind the likely future of artificial intelligence in the context of a thriller novel. Ambitious and well executed, it will appeal to a broad range of readers. In the same way that Suarez\u2019s\u00a0Daemon\u00a0and Naam\u2019s\u00a0Nexus\u00a0leaped onto the scene, redefining what it meant to write about technology, Pandora\u2019s Brain will do the same for artificial intelligence. Mind uploading? Check. Human equivalent AI? Check. Hard takeoff singularity? Check. Strap in, this is one heck of a ride.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25265038-pandora-s-brain"}, +{"book_title": "Heretics of Dune", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 56560, "review_number": 1104, "book_description": "Book five in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Space", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44492287-heretics-of-dune"}, +{"book_title": "Norby and the Lost Princess", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 142, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Norby the robot and his friend Jeff travel to the distant planet of Izz and help to rescue a lost princess.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/638389.Norby_and_the_Lost_Princess"}, +{"book_title": "Visionary in Residence", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 189, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "I'm a science fiction writer. This is a golden opportunity to get up to most any mischief imaginable. With this fourth collection of my stories, I'm going to prove this to you. With these words, Bruce Sterling\u2014author of New York times Notable Books of the Year and one of the great names in contemporary fiction\u2014introduces his latest collection of thirteen tales. If you're familiar with his cyberpunk creations you won't be disappointed, but these stories range far beyond the limits of future technology. Visionary in Residence takes the reader to places never imagined and certainly where no one has ever been.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218564.Visionary_in_Residence"}, +{"book_title": "The Lotus Eaters", "author_name": "Tom Kratman", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 787, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "The Sequel to A Desert Called Peace and Carnifex He thought He\u2019d Won His War, and Destroyed Those Who Killed His Family, but Victory Brings a New Set of Problems . . .Sometimes paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness.Carrera's won his war, and inflicted a horrific revenge upon his enemies. But there are wars after wars. The Tauran Union is planning an attack. The criminals of neighboring states are already attacking, and threatening to embroil him in a war with the planet's premier power. His only living son is under fire among the windswept mountains of\u00a0 Pashtia. An enemy fleet is hunting his submarines. His organization has been infiltrated by spies. One of the two governments of his adopted country, Balboa, is trying to destroy everything he's built and reinstitute rule by a corrupt oligarchy. Worst of all, perhaps, he, himself, bearing a crushing burden of guilt, isn't quite the man he once was.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately, the man he once was, was lucky enough to marry the right woman....", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Action", "Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6938064-the-lotus-eaters"}, +{"book_title": "Apacheria", "author_name": "Jake Page", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 42, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "In this riveting, action-packed alternate history, the Apaches forge their own bold nation and enter the world of racketeering and politics--all the while maintaining their traditional ways--as a new neighbor to a United States that will never be the same again . . .In 1884 only one thing stood in the way of United States expansion: the Apaches. The U.S. Army believed it could easily defeat this ragtag band of savages who viewed one another more as rivals than allies. But one of those \"savages\" was a military genius: Juh, \"He Who Sees Ahead.\" It was Juh's vision that persuaded the various tribal leaders to set aside their differences and work together, thus turning the disconnected bands of warring Apaches into the most cohesive fighting force the West had ever seen--and crushing the invading army. Thus was born Apacheria--the Apache Nation--and a world where Juh and his son, Little Spring, matched wits and weapons with a cast ranging from Teddy Roosevelt and Carrie Nation to Al Capone and J. Edgar Hoover. A world where it was best to stand with the Apaches, and never against them . . .", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1004981.Apacheria"}, +{"book_title": "Without Warning", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 3004, "review_number": 277, "book_description": "In Kuwait, American forces are stacked up, locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent, a woman who inhabits a twilight of lies and death, is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a forty-foot wood-hulled sailboat, manned by a drug runner, a pirate, and two gun-slinging beauties, is witness to the unspeakable. In one instant, all around the world, for politicians and peasants, from Gaza to Geneva, things will never be the same. A wave of inexplicable energy has slammed into the continental United States.\nAmerica, as we know it, is gone. . . .\n\nWITHOUT WARNING\n\nNow U.S. soldiers are fighting a war without command or control. A correspondent records horrors for no one. Washington is gone and the line of succession is in tatters; the functioning remnants of government are in Pearl Harbor, Guant\u00e1namo Bay, and one desperate, isolated corner of the Northwest. For the jihadists, it\u2019s Allah\u2019s miracle. For Saddam, it\u2019s a chance to attack. Iran declares war on an America that doesn\u2019t exist\u2013except in the hearts and souls of the men and women who want it to.In this astounding work of alternate fiction, John Birmingham hurtles us into a scenario that is unimaginable but shatteringly real: a world of financial ruin where a cloud of noxious waste\u2013from America\u2019s burning cities\u2013darkens Europe, while men and women in offices around the globe struggle to make decisions that cannot hold and opportunists unleash their secret demons.From a slick Texas lawyer who happens to be in the right place at the right time to a hard-working city engineer in Seattle who becomes his terrified city\u2019s only hope, from the cancer-stricken secret agent to a drug runner off the Mexican coast and a U.S. general in Cuba, Without Warning tells a fast, furious story of survival, violence, and a new, soul-shattering reality.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "War", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3556730-without-warning"}, +{"book_title": "Valor's Choice", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 7460, "review_number": 470, "book_description": "In the distant future, humans and several other races have been granted membership in the Confederation - at a price. They must act as soldier/protectors of the far more civilized races who have long since turned away from war... \u2014 Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr was a battle-hardened professional. So when she and those in her platoon who'd survived the last deadly encounter with the Others were yanked from a well-deserved leave for what was supposed to be \"easy\" duty as the honor guard for a diplomatic mission to the non-Confederation world of the Silsviss, she was ready for anything.At first it seemed that all she'd have to contend with was bored troops getting into mischief, and breaking in the new Second Lieutenant who had been given command of her men.Sure, there'd been rumors of the Others - the sworn enemies of the Confederation - being spotted in this sector of space. But there were always rumors. The key thing was to recruit the Silsviss into the Confederation before the Others either attacked or claimed this lizardlike race of warriors for their own side. And everything seemed to be going perfectly. Maybe too perfectly...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/772606.Valor_s_Choice"}, +{"book_title": "Outage", "author_name": "Ellisa Barr", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 615, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "When fifteen-year-old Dee is left at her grandpa's farm in rural Washington, she thinks life is over. She may be right. A high-tech electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) attack destroys the country's power and communication grids, and sends the U.S. hurtling back to the Dark Ages. Can Dee learn to survive without the basics: electricity, clean water... even her cell phone? The chaos caused by the EMP isn't her only problem. A sinister plot by a corrupt official threatens Dee and all she holds dear. She will have to fight if she wants to survive in this hostile new world. Written for all fans who love apocalypse stories, Outage is a Young Adult novel of survival with a hint of romance and a lot of action-adventure.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22096878-outage"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Jackal", "author_name": "Chris Wooding", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 3535, "review_number": 280, "book_description": "Things are finally looking good for Captain Frey and his crew. The Ketty Jay has been fixed up good as new. They've got their first taste of fortune and fame. And, just for once, nobody is trying to kill them. Even Trinica Dracken, Frey's ex-fiancee and long-time nemesis, has given up her quest for revenge. In fact, she's offered them a job - one that will take them deep into the desert heart of Samarla, the land of their ancient enemies. To a place where the secrets of the past lie in wait for the unwary. Secrets that might very well cost Frey everything. Join the crew of the Ketty Jay on their greatest adventure yet: a story of mayhem and mischief, roof-top chases and death-defying races, murderous daemons, psychopathic golems and a particularly cranky cat. The first time was to clear his name. The second time was for money. This time, Frey's in a race against the clock for the ultimate prize: to save his own life.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Action", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9931820-the-iron-jackal"}, +{"book_title": "Warstrider", "author_name": "William H. Keith Jr.", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1006, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Dev Cameron was planning to join the Navy when he was drafted into the Guard - 'groundpounders' consigned to do the dirtiest work of interplanetary warfare. But before the situation can be rectified, the reluctant warrior's heavily armored unit is rocketing to the stars to do battle with the Xenos - an inscrutable, illogical and terrifying race of alien monsters committed to the annihilation of all other galactic species.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/553590.Warstrider"}, +{"book_title": "Shattered Worlds", "author_name": "Stephen W. Bennett", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1109, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "The Kobani continue their offensives against the Krall, attacking production worlds, and destroy or steal ships from the Krall fleet, which the enemy needs to resupply their invasions. The Kobani create a multispecies settlement on Haven, a gentler habitable world near deadly Koban. They gain the trust and technological assistance of freed former Krall slave species, the Torki, Prada, and resurrected Raspani. Their ranks and Mind Tap learned skills are increased by spec ops recruits from Human Space. Mirikami engineers an assault on the Krall base world, K1, in cooperation with a skeptical human navy by sharing new technology, revealing Kobani physical capabilities, and providing intelligence on new Krall invasion plans. Despite knowing the Kobani use illegal gene mods, the navy high command decides to hit the Krall first, with the help of their secretive tough Kobani ally. After the attack, a mauled Krall fleet still heavily outnumbers the navy, and the damaged human fleet withdraws. A vengeful Krall warlord, the Kobani\u2019s old nemesis Telour, summons an ancient Olt\u2019kitapi ship that can shatter an entire planet. He has a devious plan for remote strikes that will initiate delayed deaths on multiple human worlds, all before a ship imbued with morality can learn it\u2019s been duped. Telour wants the home world of humanity to see death approaching, one world at a time. Mirikami expected a strong Krall reaction, but not this extreme. He scrambles to head off inexorable destruction of multiple planets. Failing to save some worlds, he\u2019s the final hope for billions of people on others. The Kobani will need the strength and speed their genes provide, plus luck to save humanity.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23601524-shattered-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Caught in Time", "author_name": "Julie McElwain", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 3460, "review_number": 377, "book_description": "October 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel\u2014back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But since that\u2019s not happening, she agrees instead to travel with her new guardian, the Duke of Aldridge, to one of his smaller estates in Lancashire. Their journey takes them through Yorkshire, a region whose breathtaking beauty masks a simmering violence brought on by the Industrial Revolution, which pits mill owner against worker.When Kendra and the Duke encounter a band of Luddites on a lonely, fog-shrouded road, the Duke informs the authorities in the nearby village of East Dingleford that mischief may have been done at the local mill. However, it isn\u2019t just mischief but murder that is discovered, when the body of the mill manager, Mr. Stone, is found brutally bludgeoned to death in his office.The Constable is certain the radical-minded Luddites committed the murder. One look at the crime scene and Kendra knows they did not, prompting the Duke to shock the locals by volunteering their services to catch the real killer. Joined by lover Alec and Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly, Kendra must sort through the puzzle of Stone\u2019s rather unsavory life, picking apart alibies and dissecting carefully created deceptions from a growing list of suspects.As a special agent for the FBI, Kendra thought she\u2019d encountered every kind of evil. But when another, even more vicious murder rocks East Dingleford, Kendra realizes that they\u2019re dealing with a stone-cold killer\u2014one who has a shocking secret that he will do anything to protect.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36327097-caught-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Allegiant", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 853608, "review_number": 66171, "book_description": "The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.Told from a riveting dual perspective, ALLEGIANT, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the DIVERGENT series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in DIVERGENT and INSURGENT.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18710190-allegiant"}, +{"book_title": "CatStronauts: Robot Rescue", "author_name": "Drew Brockington", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 424, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "In the fourth book in the CatStronauts graphic novel series, the stalwart Cat-Stro-Bot is stranded, and the CatStronauts have to stage an off the books robot rescue! Cat-Stro-Bot has been with the CatStronauts through it all. But now he's stranded on Jupiter's coldest moon after a mission gone wrong--and his best friend/creator Blanket isn't about to leave him behind. When CATSUP refuses Blanket's rescue mission request, he creates robo-stand-ins for the team so they can sneak off into space. Soon, the rest of the CatStronauts, Major Meowser, Pom Pom and Waffles, are off on their longest journey ever with experimental new technology. The robot rescue is afoot! In this full-color graphic novel, author/illustrator Drew Brockington takes the CatStronauts to new heights, adding in mounds of robot glitches, wonky cover-ups, and fish jokes by the ton!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Animals (Cats)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Space", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35959649-catstronauts"}, +{"book_title": "Dracula Cha Cha Cha", "author_name": "Kim Newman", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1780, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Written by award-winning novelist Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional 40,000 word never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series, Dracula Cha Cha Cha.Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda - his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Genevi\u00e8ve. Finding herself caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city, Kate discovers that she is not the only one on his trail...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Cultural (Italy)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13572840-dracula-cha-cha-cha"}, +{"book_title": "That Irresistible Poison", "author_name": "Alessandra Hazard", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3594, "review_number": 496, "book_description": "\"I hate you.\" Please touch me. \"You sicken me.\" Hold me closer. \"I want to be free of you.\" I can't live without you.The messed-up part is, he means everything he says.The youngest prince of his clan, Seyn has been betrothed to the crown prince of another clan since birth. Everyone says he's so lucky to marry one of the most respected, powerful men on the planet, but Seyn knows better.He hates him with every fiber of his being. Ksar is a cold, uncaring, overbearing bastard who uses underhanded tactics to achieve his goals and who either ignores Seyn or criticizes everything about him. Seyn can't stand him, and he's willing to do anything to get out of the arranged marriage to a man he abhors.But the line between feverish hatred and passion can be very thin, and it turns out that freedom isn't as appealing as it once seemed.Is it messed-up to miss a man you loathe?Is it sick to want his hands on you?Seyn knows it's insane. He knows he should stop going back.But knowing something and doing it are two different things.Publisher's note: Second Edition (2020). This book contains explicit MM content and graphic language. Book 2 in Calluvia's Royalty series. The books should be read in order.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56276755-that-irresistible-poison"}, +{"book_title": "Schismatrix", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1544, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "THE FUTURE OF MANKIND CAN TAKE ONE OF TWO DIRECTIONS...The Mechanists are ancient aristocrats, their lives prosthetically extended with advanced technology. The Shapers are genetically altered revolutionaries, their skills the result of psychotechnic training and artificial conditioning.Both factions are fighting to control the Schismatrix of humankind.The Shapers are losing the battle, but Abelard Lindsay--a failed and exiled Shaper diplomat--isn't giving up. Across the galaxy, Lindsay moves from world to world, building empires, struggling for his cause--but more often fighting for his life.He is a rebel and a rogue, a pirate and a politician, a soldier and a scholar. He can alter the direction of man's destiny--if he can survive..SCHISMATRIX", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "The United States Of America", "Novels", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161297.Schismatrix"}, +{"book_title": "Memento", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 2452, "review_number": 618, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes an Illuminae prequel digital novella that gives readers a hair-raising glimpse into the calamity that befell the invincible AI system known as AIDAN\u2013and the daring young programmer who would risk her life to keep it from crashing.AIDAN is the AI you\u2019ll love to hate. The advanced AI system was supposed to protect a fleet of survivors who\u2019d escaped the deadly attack on Kerenza IV. AIDAN was supposed to be infallible. But in the chaotic weeks and months that followed, it became clear that something was terribly, terribly wrong with AIDAN\u2026", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55654594-memento"}, +{"book_title": "Then Everything Went Wrong", "author_name": "Judd Winick", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 715, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Take off on a new adventure and find out more about what really happened on Hilo\u2019s world with HILO\u2013the hilarious, action-packed New York Times BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES that kids love!MORE ACTION! MORE FUN! MORE LAUGHS! MORE ROBOTS! What REALLY happened in Hilo\u2019s world before he came to Earth? D.J. and our favorite space boy, Hilo, take a DANGEROUS trip to Hilo\u2019s home planet to find out! But everything Hilo thinks he knows about his past is about to be turned inside out and UPSIDE DOWN! Hilo was supposed to save everyone\u2026but what happens if it\u2019s Hilo that needs saving?! Is ANYONE who we think they are? Can Hilo and his friends figure out how all the pieces fit\u2026before it\u2019s too late?!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40576706-then-everything-went-wrong"}, +{"book_title": "Knights of Macragge", "author_name": "Nick Kyme", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 124, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "\nAn Ultramarines novel\nREAD IT BECAUSECaptain Sicarius returns in a new novel from the author of Fall of Damnos! For the first time, discover what befell Sicarius when he was lost in the warp, and how he survived\u2026THE STORYThe primarch Roboute Guilliman of the Ultramarines has returned in the galaxy\u2019s hour of need, and all muster to his Indomitus Crusade to hold back the darkness. Amongst these heroes is Cato Sicarius, Master of the Watch and vaunted captain of Second Company. Disaster befalls Sicarius and his brave warriors as their ship, the Emperor\u2019s Will, is lost to the hellish warp, its entire crew believed slain. But Sicarius endures, though he and his men are fighting for their very survival against the denizens of the Great Rift \u2013 the daemons and renegades of Chaos. Cast adrift and war-weary, hope appears too distant to grasp until the storm breaks at last and a strange world beckons. As the captain and a band of his chosen warriors descend to the surface seeking aid, they find an isolated land seemingly from an ancient era, one plagued by a terrible enemy. Sicarius will not see this world suffer, and pledges his warriors to the world\u2019s cause, determined to save it, whatever the cost\u2026 But what is the dark secret harboured here, and what will it mean for the Ultramarines if they uncover it?Written by Nick Kyme", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "40k"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52003386-knights-of-macragge"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Specific", "author_name": "S.E. Grove", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1938, "review_number": 274, "book_description": "The eagerly-awaited sequel to the best-selling The Glass Sentence -- a historical, fantastical adventure perfect for fans of Philip Pullman!It is the summer of 1892, one year since Sophia Tims and her friend Theo embarked upon the dangerous adventure that rewrote the map of the world. Since their return home to Boston, she has continued searching for clues to her parents\u2019 disappearance, combing archives and libraries, grasping at even the most slender leads. Theo has apprenticed himself to an explorer in order to follow those leads across the country\u2014but one after another proves to be a dead end.Then Sophia discovers that a crucial piece of the puzzle exists in a foreign Age. At the same time, Theo discovers that his old life outside the law threatens to destroy the new one he has built with Sophia and her uncle Shadrack. What he and Sophia do not know is that their separate discoveries are intertwined, and that one remarkable person is part of both.There is a city that holds all of the answers\u2014but it cannot be found on any map. Surrounded by plague, it can only be reached by a journey through darkness and chaos, which is at the same time the plague\u2019s cure: The Golden Specific.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22671541-the-golden-specific"}, +{"book_title": "Glitch", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3345, "review_number": 278, "book_description": "When a robot defies his programming, is he broken? Or is he something else? A short story of 5,000 words.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Business (Amazon)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22578294-glitch"}, +{"book_title": "Deep Time", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1121, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "The sixth book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling science fiction series - STAR CARRIER.The clock is ticking in the struggle for galactic independenceOnce rebels themselves facing off against the Earth Confederation, the United States of North America is now the dominant force in negotiations with the interstellar Sh'daar Collective. But just as the Marines root out the last violent dissenters, an alien ship of unknown origin suddenly flees Earth's orbit. Is it mere coincidence . . . or a terrifying omen?President Alexander Koenig watches with great interest as USNA forces chase the runaways down. But upon first contact, it's not apparent where\u2014or when\u2014the crew is headed. For this bizarre species has somehow mastered the power to manipulate time itself. Now Koenig must decide whether he's dealing with angels of astonishing technological prowess . . . or the agents of humanity's destruction.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23215448-deep-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Dynasty", "author_name": "Kristen Ashley", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 27425, "review_number": 2555, "book_description": "ASIN B005IMCYVI moved to newer alternate cover edition.Circe Quinn goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire - and she is one of them. She soon finds out that she\u2019s not having a wild dream, she\u2019s living a frightening nightmare where she\u2019s been transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people and in short order, she\u2019s installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their Queen.Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, The Horde of the nation of Korwahk and with one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together they will start The Golden Dynasty of legend.Circe and Lahn are separated by language, culture and the small fact she\u2019s from a parallel universe and has no idea how she got there or how to get home. But facing challenge after challenge, Circe finds her footing as Queen of the brutal Korwahk Horde and wife to its King, then she makes friends then she finds herself falling in love with this primitive land, its people and especially their savage leader.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult", "New Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12458287-the-golden-dynasty"}, +{"book_title": "The Well of Ascension", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 300046, "review_number": 15863, "book_description": "Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. Three separate armies attack. As the siege tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68429.The_Well_of_Ascension"}, +{"book_title": "A Darkly Beating Heart", "author_name": "Lindsay Smith", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 390, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "A time-travel story that alternates between modern day and 19th century Japan as one girl confronts the darkness lurking in her soul.No one knows what to do with Reiko. She is full of hatred. All she can think about is how to best hurt herself and the people closest to her. After a failed suicide attempt, Reiko\u2019s parents send her from their Seattle home to spend the summer with family in Japan to learn to control her emotions. But while visiting Kuramagi, a historic village preserved to reflect the nineteenth-century Edo period, Reiko finds herself slipping back in time into the life of Miyu, a young woman even more bent on revenge than Reiko herself. Reiko loves being Miyu, until she discovers the secret of Kuramagi village, and must face down Miyu\u2019s demons as well as her own.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "LGBT", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Cultural (Japan)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27414389-a-darkly-beating-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Mechanika #1", "author_name": "Joe Ben\u00edtez", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 532, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "We are introduced to Lady Mechanika, a half-human, half-mechanical woman who is trying to learn about her past.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9898016-lady-mechanika-1"}, +{"book_title": "Down to a Sunless Sea", "author_name": "David Graham", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 795, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "A collapsed economy and an increasingly savage society were causing thousands to abandon America. Captain Jonah Scott was a pilot, hired to fly some lucky refugees to London. But once in the air, nuclear war broke out, and Scott became responsible for the entire human race!", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adult", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2034476.Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea"}, +{"book_title": "The Dragon Never Sleeps", "author_name": "Glen Cook", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1058, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "For four thousand years, the Guardships have ruled Canon Space - immortal ships with an immortal crew, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threaten the status quo. But now the House Tregesser has an edge: a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources to throw off Guardship rule. This precipitates an avalanche of unexpected outcomes, including the emergence of Kez Maefele, one of the few remaining generals of the Ku Warrior race-the only race to ever seriously threaten Guardship hegemony. Kez Maefele and a motley group of aliens, biological constructs, an scheming aristocrats find themselves at the center of the conflict. Maefele must chose which side he will support: the Guardships, who defeated and destroyed his race, or the unknown forces outside Canon Space that promise more death and destruction.Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1808064.The_Dragon_Never_Sleeps"}, +{"book_title": "Norton and Alpha", "author_name": "Kristyna Litten", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 141, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Norton the Robot is intrigued by his discovery of a lone flower one day and sets about trying to care for it, with amusing and ultimately poignant results. A new book from the acclaimed\u00a0creator of Blue & Bertie, Kristyna Litten, about making\u00a0friends, appreciating the wonder of nature, and seeing\u00a0that sometimes there is more to life than it might seem. \u00a0", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Environment (Nature)", "Kids", "Adventure", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30227984-norton-and-alpha"}, +{"book_title": "Spare and Found Parts", "author_name": "Sarah Maria Griffin", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 1739, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "Nell Crane has always been an outsider. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts\u2014an arm, a leg, an eye\u2014her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs everyone now uses. But Nell is the only one whose mechanical piece is on the inside: her heart. Since the childhood operation, she has ticked. Like a clock, like a bomb. As her community rebuilds, everyone is expected to contribute to the society\u2019s good . . . but how can Nell live up to her father\u2019s revolutionary idea when she has none of her own?Then she finds a mannequin hand while salvaging on the beach\u2014the first boy\u2019s hand she\u2019s ever held\u2014and inspiration strikes. Can Nell build her own companion in a world that fears advanced technology? The deeper she sinks into this plan, the more she learns about her city\u2014and her father, who is hiding secret experiments of his own.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23566912-spare-and-found-parts"}, +{"book_title": "Nyxia", "author_name": "Scott Reintgen", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 7739, "review_number": 1880, "book_description": "What would you be willing to risk for a lifetime of fortune? Emmett Atwater isn\u2019t just leaving Detroit; he\u2019s leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery, but the number of zeroes on their contract has him boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family. Forever. Before long, Emmett discovers that he is one of ten recruits, all of whom have troubled pasts and are a long way from home. Now each recruit must earn the right to travel down to the planet of Eden\u2014a planet that Babel has kept hidden\u2014where they will mine a substance called Nyxia that has quietly become the most valuable material in the universe. But Babel\u2019s ship is full of secrets. And Emmett will face the ultimate choice: win the fortune at any cost, or find a way to fight that won\u2019t forever compromise what it means to be human.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27426044-nyxia"}, +{"book_title": "Vickers", "author_name": "Mick Farren", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 70, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "When a Las Vegas crime boss turns a nuclear bomb shelter into his own private kingdom and prepares his underground army to take over a world in flames, it is time to hire the hottest hitman money can buy. A killer extraordinaire. A man like Vickers.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552254.Vickers"}, +{"book_title": "The Darkest Hour", "author_name": "Tony Schumacher", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 818, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "\u201c[A] convincing and swift-moving debut.\u2026 Schumacher\u2019s assured and atmospheric writing make this a memorable novel, reminiscent of writers from John Buchan to Ken Follett, and of directors from Alfred Hitchcock to Carol Reed.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Wall Street JournalIn this crackling, highly imaginative thriller debut in the vein of W.E.B. Griffin and Philip Kerr, set in German-occupied London at the close of World War II, a hardened, dispirited British detective jeopardizes his own life to save someone else and achieve the impossible\u2014some kind of redemption.London, 1946. The Nazis have won the war and now occupy Great Britain, using brutality and fear to control its citizens. They even use it to control those who work for them. John Henry Rossett, a decorated British war hero and former police sergeant, is one of those unlucky souls. He\u2019s a man accustomed to obeying commands, but he\u2019s now assigned a job he didn\u2019t ask for and knows he cannot refuse: rounding up Jews for deportation, including men and women he\u2019s known his whole life. Robbed of his family by a resistance bomb, and robbed of his humanity by the work he is forced to do, fate suddenly presents Rossett with an unexpected challenge that could change everything. He finds a boy hiding in an abandoned building and is faced with a momentous decision\u2014to do something or to look the other way\u2014yet whatever Rossett does, he will be pushed into a place where he could endanger all he holds dear.\u00a0\u00a0Played out against a city in ruin, a place divided between the conquered and the conquerors, The Darkest Hour is a tense, driving adventure thriller, a fascinating alternate history, and the unforgettable story of a man who will be broken\u2014or given a completely new lease on life. \u00a0\u00a0", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Mystery", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20663111-the-darkest-hour"}, +{"book_title": "Day Zero", "author_name": "Kelly deVos", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 385, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "If you're going through hell...keep going.Seventeen-year-old coder Jinx Marshall grew up spending weekends drilling with her paranoid dad for a doomsday she\u2019s sure will never come. She\u2019s an expert on self-heating meal rations, Krav Maga and extracting water from a barrel cactus. Now that her parents are divorced, she\u2019s ready to relax. Her big plans include making it to level 99 in her favorite MMORPG and spending the weekend with her new hunky stepbrother, Toby.But all that disaster training comes in handy when an explosion traps her in a burning building. Stuck leading her headstrong stepsister, MacKenna, and her precocious little brother, Charles, to safety, Jinx gets them out alive only to discover the explosion is part of a pattern of violence erupting all over the country. Even worse, Jinx\u2019s dad stands accused of triggering the chaos.In a desperate attempt to evade paramilitary forces and vigilantes, Jinx and her siblings find Toby and make a break for Mexico. With seemingly the whole world working against them, they\u2019ve got to get along and search for the truth about the attacks\u2014and about each other. But if they can survive, will there be anything left worth surviving for?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41884983-day-zero"}, +{"book_title": "Quintana of Charyn", "author_name": "Melina Marchetta", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 14138, "review_number": 1686, "book_description": "There's a babe in my belly that whispers the valley, Froi. I follow the whispers and come to the road . . .Separated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi must travel through Charyn to search for Quintana, the mother of Charyn's unborn king, and protect her against those who will do anything to gain power. But what happens when loyalty to family and country conflict? When the forces marshalled in Charyn's war gather and threaten to involve the whole of the land, including Lumatere, only Froi can set things right, with the help of those he loves.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10165761-quintana-of-charyn"}, +{"book_title": "Frankly, My Dear", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 910, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Selene has always had three great passions: men, food... and Gone With the Wind. Still the glamourous models seems to always be starving for both nourishment and affection. Weary of the petty world of high fashion, she heads to New Orleans for one last shoot befor she chucks it all and begins a whole new life. But she doesn't realize that, thanks to an errant voodoo spell, her new life will happen 150 years in the past....and in the company of a dark and brooding gentleman who could give Rhett Butler a run for his money!An alarmingly handsome Southern planter, James Baptiste may not have Rhett's cavalier spirit-and his plantation is certainly no Tara! But it's clear as crystal that this virile Creole is a lover worth giving a damn about. And with God as her witness, Selene vows she will never go hungry for this man again!", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/702878.Frankly_My_Dear"}, +{"book_title": "Compulsory", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 274, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "\u201cMy risk-assessment module predicts a 53 percent chance of a human-on-human massacre before the end of the contract.\u201dA short story published in Wired.com magazine on December 17, 2018.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Adult", "Space", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56033969-compulsory"}, +{"book_title": "Bitty Bot", "author_name": "Tim McCanna", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 264, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "\u201cTold in jaunty, rollicking rhymes that are enlivened by colorful, humorous digital illustrations, this robot version of a bedtime story demonstrates that, no matter how energetic a little \u2018bot\u2019 may be, there inevitably comes a time when \u2018batteries are running low!\u2019\u201d \u2014Kirkus Reviews A little robot would rather go on an intergalactic adventure than go to sleep in this rhyming romp that breaks all the bedtime rules.In a busy robot town bots begin to power down. All except for Bitty Bot! Feeling sleepy? Maybe not! Charming text in rhyming verse tells the story of energetic Bitty Bot, who, instead of going to bed decides to build a rocket and go on a space adventure! Sweet and fun to read aloud, this bedtime book is perfect for tots and bots of all varieties.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Space", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28954131-bitty-bot"}, +{"book_title": "Blood in the Skies", "author_name": "G.D. Falksen", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 232, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "G.D. Falksen's steampunk epic launches with Blood In The Skies.In 1908, the world ended in fire.Humanity, always bad at following orders, refused to die. Now, two hundred years later, what remains is divided between civilized order and lawless frontier. For the citizens of the Commonwealth, the brave pilots of the Air Force are all that stand between them and the dreaded pirate lords of the Badlands. For generations, the two forces have struggled back and forth in an endless cycle of invasion and reprisal. Now that is about to change, and flying ace Elizabeth Steele is about to find herself dragged into a web of intrigue aimed at the downfall of the civilized world. Nothing that a clever girl with a trusty aeroplane and a charming spy at her side can't handle.\"This is steampunk clanking to life on the page.\" --Jay Lake \"G. D. Falksen's witty, anachronistic, and downright fun writing style makes him a storyteller to watch.\" --Terrance Zdunich (REPO! The Genetic Opera) \"A piston blast of pure pulp adventure\" --John Leavitt (Dr. Sketchy's Official Rainy Day Colouring Book) \"A rousing adventure filled with a wealth of imagery, action and technological wonders.\" --Chet Phillips \"G.D. Falksen is not only one of the most important authors in Steampunk literature, he is arguably the most enjoyable.\" --Art Donovan (The Art of Steampunk) \"A delightfully crunchy alternate reality that lets you feel the gears grinding.\" --Phil Foglio (Girl Genius)", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12020927-blood-in-the-skies"}, +{"book_title": "Ice Cracker II", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1346, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "She\u2019s wanted for crimes against the throne. He\u2019s the empire\u2019s most notorious assassin. With bounties on their heads and soldiers hunting them, they\u2019re not likely candidates for heroics. But when they unearth a plot against the military\u2019s premier ice breaking ship, they may be the only ones who can thwart the saboteurs...if the soldiers don't kill them first.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Novella", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10184854-ice-cracker-ii"}, +{"book_title": "Immortality, Inc", "author_name": "Robert Sheckley", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2109, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinematic limits as the feature film adaptation FREEJACK in 1992, Robert Sheckley's unsettling vision of Tomorrow now arrives in ebook format for the 21st century.Thomas Blaine awoke in a white bed in a white room, and heard someone say, \"He's alive now.\" Then they asked him his name, age and marital status. Yes, that seemed normal enough---but what was this talk about \"death trauma\"?Thus was Thomas Blaine introduced to the year 2110, where science had discovered the technique of transferring a man's consciousness from one body to another. Where a man's mind could be snatched from the past, when his body was at the point of death, and brought forward into a \"host body\" in this fantastic future world. But that was only a small part of it. For the future had proved the reality of life after death, and discovered worlds beyond or simultaneous with our own---worlds where, through scientific techniques, a man could live again, in another body, when he died here. And in the process, the reality of ghosts, poltergeists, and zombies was also established. What did it all mean? How had this discovery of what they called the \"hereafter\" shaped the world of 2110? Thomas Blaine found himself living in a future where the discoveries and techniques imagined by people of his time, while having come about, were completely overwhelmed by discoveries no one had ever dreamed of.", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1038590.Immortality_Inc_"}, +{"book_title": "V-S Day", "author_name": "Allen M. Steele", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 316, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "With a gift for visionary fiction that \u201cwould make Robert A. Heinlein proud\u201d (Entertainment Weekly) three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele now imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical possibility: what if the race to space had occurred in the early days of WWII?\u00a0It's 1941, and Wernher von Braun is ordered by his Fuehrer to abandon the V2 rocket and turn German resources in a daring new direction:\u00a0construction of a manned orbital spacecraft capable of attacking the U.S. Work on the rocket\u2014called Silbervogel\u2014begins at Peenemunde. Though it is top secret, British intelligence discovers the plan, and brings word to Franklin Roosevelt. The American President determines that there is only one logical response: the U.S. must build a\u00a0spacecraft capable\u00a0of intercepting Silbervogel and destroying it. Robert Goddard, inventor of the liquid-fuel rocket, agrees to head the classified project.So begins a race against time\u2014between two secret military programs and two brilliant scientists whose high-stakes competition will spiral into a deadly game of political intrigue and unforeseen catastrophes played to the death in the brutal skies above America.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (World War II)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114076-v-s-day"}, +{"book_title": "Viking Unchained", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 949, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "ONCE A VIKING....He swore he'd travel the earth to find his little boy. But Viking warrior Thorfinn Haraldsson never counted on traveling through time--and he's more than a little surprised to find himself in modern day Baghdad in the midst of a Navy SEAL operation. Luckily, the SEALs include his cousin, who takes him Stateside. And there, at a bar, he stumbles on a woman with an eerie resemblance to his cheating wife...... ALWAYS A HEROFor almost five years, single mom Lydia Denton has mourned the loss of her Navy SEAL husband. Then she meets a man who looks a lot like her lost love. Despite Thorfinn's ridiculous accusations that she's taken his son, Lydia finds it impossible to ignore the steamy chemistry between them. And as she gets to know this handsome Viking, she can't help but wonder whether two souls, separated by time, have found their way back to each other...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2471165.Viking_Unchained"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Legend", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.55, "rating_votes": 5464, "review_number": 601, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition for 9781250082749It is in the darkest hours of a universe\u2019s past that their legends are born and their heroes rise\u2026No one knows exactly how much heart they have until their mettle is put to the hazard and they reach the lowest point of hell. There, they have only two choices. Lie down and die. Or find the strength to push themselves to their feet and fight back with everything they have.Dagger is the alias that is used by Ushara\u2019s husband, and the father of the twins, who is on the run for his life. This is his story and shows how he became a member of the Tavali and what happens to them after Born of Betrayal ends.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25868031-born-of-legend"}, +{"book_title": "The Lightest Object in the Universe", "author_name": "Kimi Eisele", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1907, "review_number": 406, "book_description": "If the grid went down, how would you find someone on the other side of the country? How would you find hope? After a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical grid, amid escalating chaos, Carson, a high school teacher of history who sees history bearing out its lessons all around him, heads west on foot toward Beatrix, a woman he met and fell hard for during a chance visit to his school. Working his way along a cross-country railroad line, he encounters lost souls, clever opportunists, and those who believe they\u2019ll be delivered from hardship if they can find their way to the evangelical preacher Jonathan Blue, who is broadcasting on all the airwaves countrywide. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Beatrix and her neighbors turn to one another for food, water, and solace, and begin to construct the kind of cooperative community that suggests the end could, in fact, be a promising beginning. But between Beatrix and Carson lie 3,000 miles. With no internet or phone or postal service, can they find their way back to each other, and what will be left of their world when they do?\u00a0The answers may lie with\u00a0fifteen-year-old Rosie Santos, who travels reluctantly with her grandmother to Jonathan Blue, finding her voice and making choices that could ultimately decide the fate of the cross-country lovers.\u00a0The Lightest Object in the\u00a0Universe\u00a0is a story about reliance and adaptation, a testament to the power of community and a chronicle of moving on after catastrophic loss, illustrating that even\u00a0in the worst of times, our best traits, borne of necessity, can begin to emerge.\u00a0", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Romance", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40591948-the-lightest-object-in-the-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Swan Song", "author_name": "Robert R. McCammon", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 56579, "review_number": 3685, "book_description": "An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan\u2014and destroy her. But those who would protect the girl are determined to fight for what is left of the world, and their souls. In a wasteland born of rage, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, the last survivors on earth have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of humanity....", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11557.Swan_Song"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost City of Faar", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 29339, "review_number": 730, "book_description": "CLORALFOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Bobby Pendragon is not like other boys his age. His uncle Press is a Traveler, and, as Bobby has learned, that means Uncle Press is responsible, through his journeys, for solving interdimensional conflict wherever he encounters it. His mission is nothing less than to save the universe from ultimate evil. And he's taking Bobby along for the ride.Fresh from his first adventure on Denduron, Bobby finds himself in the territory of Cloral, a vast world that is entirely covered by water. Cloral is nearing a disaster of huge proportions. Reading the journals Bobby sends home, his friends learn that the desperate citizens of the endangered floating cities are on the brink of war. Can Bobby - suburban basketball star and all-around nice guy - help rid the area of marauders, and locate the legendary lost land of Faar, which may hold the key to Cloral's survival?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215543.The_Lost_City_of_Faar"}, +{"book_title": "Save Me", "author_name": "L.J. Baker", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 540, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Andi was doing just fine on her own. Sure the world had been hit with an outbreak that turned anyone infected into flesh eating zombies. Not to mention that everyone she ever loved was now dead. She was alive though, taking care of herself. She had little desire to indulge in building relationships with anyone. People just couldn't be trusted. Whether they screwed you over intentionally, or just managed to get themselves killed, no one stuck around for very long. She didn't need anyone else either. That was until Will showed up to save her. Will, with his sparkling green eyes, lips you just wanted to taste, and insanely adorable crooked smile, wasn't letting Andi get rid of him so easily. Yet still, Andi did everything she could to push her feelings, and Will, away. The more time they spent together though, the more difficult that became. In a world where another day was not something you could count on, wasting even a single moment, could mean missing out on your only chance for happiness.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20582519-save-me"}, +{"book_title": "Hatshepsut's Collar", "author_name": "A.W. Exley", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1677, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "An ancient Egyptian artifact is driving Queen Victoria insane, and that's not top of Cara Devon's growing list of problems. Viscount Nathaniel Lyons is a man of numerous secrets, but there is one in particular that threatens his fledgling relationship with Cara. Stunned by Nate's revelation, and before she can absorb the ramifications of his actions, he is arrested, charged with treason and imprisoned in the grim Tower of London. He stole something the mad queen wants, and only has days to deliver, before his date with the executioner. Although sorely tempted, Cara can't let him die on Tower Green, not when their connection means she would share his fate. Only together can Cara and Nate figure out how to wrestle Hatshepsut's Collar from around the queen's neck, before she plunges Britain into a world war. The search for answers sends Cara to the opulent Winter Palace of St Petersburg and the frozen depths of Siberia, with every step shadowed by an enemy with his own dark plans. ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26031743-hatshepsut-s-collar"}, +{"book_title": "The Legacies", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 8151, "review_number": 403, "book_description": "A book combined with Six's, Nine's and The Fallen's Legacies all in on paperback. (Legacies originally published as eBooks.)You know we're out there, living among you.You know we're waiting for our day to come.You have seen the power of our legacies.You know this is why they hunt us.You may think you know our stories.You are wrong.We each have our own story.We know the time has come to share them with you.Our legacies are your only hope.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13583463-the-legacies"}, +{"book_title": "The Obsidian Blade", "author_name": "Pete Hautman", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 2297, "review_number": 473, "book_description": "Kicking off a riveting sci-fi trilogy, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman plunges us into a world where time is a tool \u2014 and the question is, who will control it?The first time his father disappeared, Tucker Feye had just turned thirteen. The Reverend Feye simply climbed on the roof to fix a shingle, let out a scream, and vanished \u2014 only to walk up the driveway an hour later, looking older and worn, with a strange girl named Lahlia in tow. In the months that followed, Tucker watched his father grow distant and his once loving mother slide into madness. But then both of his parents disappear. Now in the care of his wild Uncle Kosh, Tucker begins to suspect that the disks of shimmering air he keeps seeing \u2014 one right on top of the roof \u2014 hold the answer to restoring his family. And when he dares to step into one, he\u2019s launched on a time-twisting journey\u2014 from a small Midwestern town to a futuristic hospital run by digitally augmented healers, from the death of an ancient prophet to a forest at the end of time. Inevitably, Tucker\u2019s actions alter the past and future, changing his world forever.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12475931-the-obsidian-blade"}, +{"book_title": "Endsinger", "author_name": "Jay Kristoff", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 3517, "review_number": 557, "book_description": "A TREMBLING EARTHThe flames of civil war sweep across the Shima Imperium. With their plans to renew the Kazumitsu dynasty foiled, the Lotus Guild unleash their deadliest creation\u2014a mechanical goliath known as the Earthcrusher, intended to unite the shattered Empire under a yoke of fear. With the Tiger Clan and their puppet Daimyo Hiro in tow, the Guild marches toward a battle for absolute dominion over the Isles.A BROKEN REBELLIONYukiko and Buruu are forced to take leadership of the Kag\u00e9 rebellion, gathering new allies and old friends in an effort to unite the country against the chi-mongers. But the ghosts of Buruu\u2019s past stand between them and the army they need, and Kin\u2019s betrayal has destroyed all trust among their allies. When a new foe joins the war tearing the Imperium apart, it will be all the pair can do to muster the strength to fight, let alone win.A FINAL BATTLEThe traitor Kin walks the halls of Guild power, his destiny only a bloody knife-stroke away. Hana and Yoshi struggle to find their place in a world now looking to them as heroes. Secret cabals within the Lotus Guild claw and struggle; one toward darkness, the other toward light. And as the earth splits asunder, as armies destroy each other for rule over an empire of lifeless ash and the final secret about blood lotus is revealed, the people of Shima will learn one last, horrifying truth.There is nothing a mother won't do to keep her children by her side.Nothing.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17928198-endsinger"}, +{"book_title": "Warped", "author_name": "Maurissa Guibord", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 3854, "review_number": 453, "book_description": "Tessa doesn't believe in magic. Or Fate. But there's something weird about the dusty unicorn tapestry she discovers in a box of old books. She finds the creature woven within it compelling and frightening. After the tapestry comes into her possession, Tessa experiences dreams of the past and scenes from a brutal hunt that she herself participated in. When she accidentally pulls a thread from the tapestry, Tessa releases a terrible centuries old secret. She also meets William de Chaucy, an irresistible 16th-century nobleman. His fate is as inextricably tied to the tapestry as Tessa's own. Together, they must correct the wrongs of the past. But then the Fates step in, making a tangled mess of Tessa's life. Now everyone she loves will be destroyed unless Tessa does their bidding and defeats a cruel and crafty ancient enemy.From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6933138-warped"}, +{"book_title": "The Yiddish Policemen's Union", "author_name": "Michael Chabon", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 70984, "review_number": 6992, "book_description": "For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a \"temporary\" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life\u2014and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder\u2014right under Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself, Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage\u2014and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s noir, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.(front flap)", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Literature (Jewish)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Literature", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16703.The_Yiddish_Policemen_s_Union"}, +{"book_title": "Mirrorlight", "author_name": "Jill Myles", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 678, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "When Cora Grames is abandoned in England at a haunted castle, she feels very sorry for herself\u2026until she sees the sexy man in the mirror that only appears to her. And when she finds out that she can touch him, he suddenly becomes more than a fantasy. But how can she fight for a man that doesn\u2019t exist in her time?This novella (19k) includes a man that might be a ghost, a neighbor that might be a fairy godmother in disguise, and possibly sex involving a mirror.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10425478-mirrorlight"}, +{"book_title": "Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World", "author_name": "Mac Barnett", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1499, "review_number": 286, "book_description": "It's a terrible thing when a giant robot starts destroying your city. It's even worse when it's your fault.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7483091-oh-no"}, +{"book_title": "Fire Planet Warrior's Captive", "author_name": "Calista Skye", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 969, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Harper Evans always wanted to go to space. Abducted by creepy aliens, and then crash landing on the planet that everyone just calls the Fire Planet? Not what she had in mind.Her only company is an insanely hot alien barbarian warrior who doesn't speak English, but who seems to have a thing for Harper. Because he keeps the worst of the lethal predators on the planet away from her while they're running.Running from a huge, ferocious wildfire that's catching up with them fast.The super confident barbarian has some extremely interesting features to his body, and he turns Harper on like no one else ever has.It's just that he clearly thinks she's his captive. And Harper doesn't mind that as much as she probably should... Fire Planet Warrior's Captive is a standalone science-fiction romance novel starring a feisty space colonist and a sensationally hot alien warrior with hidden talents. Expect steamy scenes, funny lines, alien royals, lethal enemies and the barrier-breaking love between a BBW from Earth and an alien barbarian who's convinced that he has finally found his Fated Mate. Full-length romance novel with no cliffhangers and a happy-ever-after ending!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33119542-fire-planet-warrior-s-captive"}, +{"book_title": "I Heart Robot", "author_name": "Suzanne van Rooyen", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Tyri wants to be a musician and wants to be with someone who gets her musical aspirations.Q-I-99, aka 'Quinn,' lives in a scrap metal sanctuary with other rogue droids. While some use violence to make their voices heard, demanding equal rights for AI enhanced robots, Quinn just wants a moment on stage with his violin to show the humans that androids like him have more to offer than their processing power.Tyri and Quinn's worlds collide when they're accepted by the Baldur Junior Philharmonic Orchestra. As the rift between robots and humans deepens, Tyri and Quinn's love of music draws them closer together, forcing Tyri to question where her loyalties lie and Quinn to question his place in the world. With the city on the brink of civil war, will Tyri's and Quinn's passion for music be enough to hold them together while everything else crumbles down around them, or will the truth of who they are tear them apart?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Music", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36139999-i-heart-robot"}, +{"book_title": "The Postman", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 32060, "review_number": 1361, "book_description": "This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.\u00a0A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.He was a survivor--a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.\u00a0Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold.\u00a0The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/889284.The_Postman"}, +{"book_title": "Open Source", "author_name": "Anna L. Davis", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 31, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "A source found dead\u2014his skull sawed open by NeuroChip vandals in a Dallas back alley. The sole witness? Reporter Ryker Morris, whose stubborn resistance to a different kind of chip\u2014the globally mandated IDChip\u2014cost him his job, apartment, and credibility. Ryker flees the gruesome scene, a young, homeless technophobe disappearing into a fast-paced city of augmented working stiffs and sexy chipped socialites. But Ryker\u2019s reprieve doesn\u2019t last long. Under orders from a local hacker and tipped off by an invisible tracking device, the vandals kidnap Ryker\u2019s best friend, leaving only a blood-soaked wallet behind. Even worse, they inject Ryker\u2019s brain with a refurbished NeuroChip. Without money or resources, he must find his friend and deactivate the corrupt NeuroChip, before the twisted hacker who programmed it gains full control over Ryker\u2019s own thoughts.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27093935-open-source"}, +{"book_title": "Heaven's River", "author_name": "Dennis E. Taylor", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 4489, "review_number": 520, "book_description": "Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number-one best seller Dennis E. Taylor.More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender\u2019s fate - whatever the cost.But nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. Bob\u2019s descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore. Some of them oppose Bob\u2019s plan; others have plans of their own. The out-of-control moots are the least of the Bobiverse\u2019s problems.Undaunted, Bob and his allies follow Bender\u2019s trail. But what they discover out in deep space is so unexpected and so complex that it could either save the universe - or pose an existential threat the likes of which the Bobiverse has never faced.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42950440-heaven-s-river"}, +{"book_title": "American Gods", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 780936, "review_number": 39271, "book_description": "Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Contemporary", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods"}, +{"book_title": "Rush", "author_name": "Eve Silver", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 5237, "review_number": 713, "book_description": "So what's the game now? This, or the life I used to know? Miki Jones's carefully controlled life spins into chaos after she's run down in the street, left broken and bloody. She wakes up fully healed in a place called the lobby - pulled from her life, through time and space into some kind of game in which she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures. There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Every moment of the game is kill or be killed, and Miki has only the questionable guidance of Jackson Tate, the team's alluring and secretive leader. He evades her questions, holds himself aloof from the others, and claims it's every player for himself. But when he puts himself at risk to watch Miki's back, he leaves her both frustrated and fascinated. Jackson says the game isn't really a game, that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival. And the survival of every other person on the planet. She laughs. He doesn't. And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Adventure", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13571953-rush"}, +{"book_title": "The Windup Girl", "author_name": "Paolo Bacigalupi", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 67629, "review_number": 6510, "book_description": "Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko... Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6597651-the-windup-girl"}, +{"book_title": "Sundiver", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 23722, "review_number": 687, "book_description": "In all the universe, no species reached for the stars without \u201cuplift\u201d guidance, except possibly humankind. Did some cryptic patron race begin the job long ago, then abandon us? Or did we leap all by ourselves? That question burns, yet a greater mystery looms ahead, in the furnace of a star. Under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in our history \u2013 into the boiling inferno of the sun, seeking our destiny in the cosmic order of life.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96472.Sundiver"}, +{"book_title": "Norby and the Queen's Necklace", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 83, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells and his robot friend Norby are suddenly transported back to 1785 in France, where they become involved with a priceless necklace, royal politics, and the accidental creation of alternate futures for Earth.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116320.Norby_and_the_Queen_s_Necklace"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberman: Telos", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 75, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "This is a full-cast original audio play featuring the popular Doctor Who enemies the Cybermen.NOW THERE IS A COMMON ENEMY. The Earth's government is under Cyber control. The only hope for civilisation is that androids and humans can work together. But the Cybermen intend to activate their Master Hibernation Vault on Telos, releasing billions of Cybermen...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1690917.Cyberman"}, +{"book_title": "Darkside Blues", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1331, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "Be careful in Darkside, because its darkness is seductive. Once you feel its allure, you won\u2019t be able to resist. Zyara al Sirian has devoted most of her adult life to the art of healing. As the First Division\u2019s medic, she\u2019s seen more than her fair share of war wounds and trauma. And ever since the Kordolians arrived on Earth, she\u2019s had her hands full tending to a motley group of survivors. She hasn\u2019t had a break in longer than she can remember. A break? What\u2019s that again? After much persuasion, she finally agrees to take some well-deserved time off to explore the city with Sera, Arin, Jia, and their Kordolian mates. You need to relax. It\u2019ll be fun, you\u2019ll see. Darkside comes alive at night. When she crosses paths with a mysterious, charming Human called Kainan, she realizes there\u2019s more to this lawless place than meets the eye. The Federation holds no sway here. Beneath Darkside\u2019s glittering facade, Humans rule hidden empires from the shadows through secrecy and violence. Zyara gets a taste of their world when Human conflict spills out onto the street. She can\u2019t help but intervene. It\u2019s what she was trained to do. Her actions save a life. In return, Kainan says he will give her anything she desires. Oh dear. What\u2019s a Kordolian to do? Warning: This book is a science-fiction alien romance. It contains swearing, violence, sensual sex scenes and silver aliens. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over. Darkside Blues is a novella set in the Dark Planet Warriors universe. It will make more sense if you've read the other books first, although that's probably not absolutely essential.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31835919-darkside-blues"}, +{"book_title": "Radio Free Albemuth", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 5537, "review_number": 318, "book_description": "In the late 1960s a paranoid incompetent has schemed his way into the White House and convulsed America in a vicious war against imaginary internal enemies. A struggling science Fiction writer named Philip K. Dick is trying to keep from becoming one of that war's casualties. And Dick's best friend, a record executive named Nicholas Brady, is receiving transmissions from an extraterrestrial entity that may also happen to be God \u2014 an entity that apparently wants him to overthrow the President.In this, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest prankster-prophet.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Religion", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226475.Radio_Free_Albemuth"}, +{"book_title": "The Machine's Child", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1273, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Kage Baker's trademark series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come. Mendoza was banished long ago, to a prison lost in time where rebellious immortals are \"dealt with.\" Now her past lovers: Alec, Nicholas, and Bell-Fairfax, are determined to rescue her, but first they must learn how to live together, because all three happen to be sharing Alec's body. What they find when they discover Mendoza is even worse than what they could imagined, and enough for them to decide to finally fight back against the Company.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270487.The_Machine_s_Child"}, +{"book_title": "Joseph Lexxus and the Drug Runners of Altair (Joseph Lexxus #1", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 3, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "It all started with an interesting shopping/sightseeing trip at the transfer station.When Joseph Lexxus\u2019 dad took Joseph and his best friend, P.C. to Altair 2 on police business, neither boy could have guessed they\u2019d be plunged into the middle of a drug smuggling operation. Then, when Joseph\u2019s dad is reported missing, the boys find themselves on their own.Through it all, they have to figure out who they can trust, what\u2019s going on with the smugglers while trying to avoid capture, and find out if Joseph\u2019s dad is injured or dead.31,600 words (equivalent to 118 pages in mass market paperback form)Rated \"G\" .", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9429106-joseph-lexxus-and-the-drug-runners-of-altair"}, +{"book_title": "The Road to Mars: A Post-Modem Novel", "author_name": "Eric Idle", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 1771, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "With Monty Python's Flying Circus, Eric Idle proved he was one of the funniest people in the world. And with The Road to Mars he reaffirms this with a raucously sidesplitting vengence.Muscroft and Ashby are a comedy team on \"The Road to Mars,\" an interplanetary vaudeville circuit of the future. Accompanied by Carlton, a robot incapable of understanding irony but driven to learn the essence of humor, Alex and Lewis bumble their way into an intergalactic terrorist plot. Supported by a delicious cast, including a micropaleontologist narrator (he studies the evolutionary impact of the last ten minutes) and the ultra-diva Brenda Woolley, The Road to Mars is a fabulous trip through Eric Idle's inimitable world, a \"universe expanding at the speed of laughter.\"", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77215.The_Road_to_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Mission: Improper", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1492, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "Three years ago, London society changed forever, with a revolution placing the widowed Queen firmly on the throne her blue blood husband tried to take from her. Humans, verwulfen and mechs are no longer considered the lesser classes, but not everybody is happy with the new order\u2026Entire families have gone missing in the East End. When Caleb Byrnes receives an invitation to join the Company of Rogues as an undercover agent pledged to protect the crown, he jumps at the chance to find out who, or what, is behind the disappearances. Hunting criminals is what the darkly driven blue blood does best, and though he prefers to work alone, the opportunity is too good to resist.The problem? He\u2019s partnered with Ingrid Miller, the fiery and passionate verwulfen woman who won a private bet against him a year ago. Byrnes has a score to settle, but one stolen kiss and suddenly the killer is not the only thing Byrnes is interested in hunting.Soon they\u2019re chasing whispered rumours of a secret project gone wrong, and a monster that just might be more dangerous than either of them combined. The only way to find out more is to go undercover among the blue blood elite\u2026 But when their hunt uncovers a mysterious conspiracy, Byrnes and Ingrid must set aside their age-old rivalry if they have any chance at surviving a treacherous plot.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25791377-mission"}, +{"book_title": "Z for Zachariah", "author_name": "Robert C. O'Brien", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 14103, "review_number": 1647, "book_description": "Is anyone out there? Ann Burden is sixteen years old and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war that has taken everyone from her. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors. But the smoke from a distant campfire shatters Ann's solitude. Someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Can he be trusted? Both excited and terrified, Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Academic (School)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69477.Z_for_Zachariah"}, +{"book_title": "A Tryst in Time", "author_name": "Eugenia Riley", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 190, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Grieving over the death of her soldier brother in Vietnam, Sarah Jennings seeks comfort in her family's crumbling Southern plantation and is transported back to the time of the Civil War, where she meets the battle-weary Damien.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Historical", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2645625-a-tryst-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Consort", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 38885, "review_number": 1765, "book_description": "Nalini Singh steps back into the shadows of her \u201cheartbreakingly original\u201d* world where angels rule, vampires serve, and the innocent can pay the greatest price of all\u2026Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux and her lover, the lethally beautiful archangel Raphael, have returned home to New York only to face an uncompromising new evil\u2026A vampire has attacked a girls\u2019 school\u2014the assault one of sheer, vicious madness\u2014and it is only the first act. Rampant bloodlust takes vampire after vampire, threatening to make the streets run with blood. Then Raphael himself begins to show signs of an uncontrolled rage, as inexplicable storms darken the city skyline and the earth itself shudders.The omens are suddenly terrifyingly clear.An ancient and malevolent immortal is rising. The violent winds whisper her name: Caliane. She has returned to reclaim her son, Raphael. Only one thing stands in her way: Elena, the consort who must be destroyed\u2026*Errant Dreams Reviews", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7307503-archangel-s-consort"}, +{"book_title": "De Oppresso Liber", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1955, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "The war may be over, but the fighting continues as SOLCOM learns of an excursion by the Ross'El against an unaffiliated pre-space civilization in the no man's land between Earth and the Alien Alliance. With always more questions than answers, SOLCOM dispatches a ship to quietly survey the situation and determine what, if any, course of action is best. Captain Sorilla Aida and her team are the ground element assigned to the task, with the clear understanding that no matter what... they are to remain undetected by the alien overlords now controlling the moon world. Sorilla knows only one thing for certain as she learns more about the situation : Oppression is universal, Freedom is never free... and this is EXACTLY what she trained for. De Oppresso Liber", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29344103-de-oppresso-liber"}, +{"book_title": "The Very First Damned Thing", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 4612, "review_number": 380, "book_description": "Ever wondered how it all began?It\u2019s two years since the final victory at the Battersea Barricades. The fighting might be finished, but for Dr Bairstow, just now setting up St Mary's, the struggle is only beginning.How will he assemble his team?From where will his funding come?How can he overcome the massed ranks of the Society for the Protection of Historical Buildings?How do stolen furniture, a practical demonstration at the Stirrup Charge at Waterloo, students\u2019 alcohol-ridden urine, a widowed urban guerrilla, a young man wearing exciting knitwear, and four naked security guards all combine to become the St Mary\u2019s of the future?- See more at: http://www.accentpress.co.uk/Book/173...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Adventure", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26308468-the-very-first-damned-thing"}, +{"book_title": "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown", "author_name": "Holly Black", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 60615, "review_number": 8364, "book_description": "Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12813630-the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown"}, +{"book_title": "Naamah's Curse", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 10236, "review_number": 407, "book_description": "Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel's Legacy series, delivers book two in her new lushly imagined trilogy featuring daughter of Alba, Moirin.Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people. After a long ordeal, she not only succeeds, but surrenders to a passion the likes of which she's never known. But the lovers' happiness is short lived, for Bao is entangled in a complication that soon leads to their betrayal.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6586456-naamah-s-curse"}, +{"book_title": "Planet of the Apes", "author_name": "Pierre Boulle", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 34260, "review_number": 1595, "book_description": "\"I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord have pity on us!\"With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world, civilization is turned upside down: apes are men and men are apes; apes rule and men run wild; apes think, speak, produce, wear clothes, and men are speechless, naked, exhibited at fairs, used for biological research. On the planet of the apes, man, having reached to apotheosis of his genius, has become inert.To this planet come a journalist and a scientist. The scientist is put into a zoo, the journalist into a laboratory. Only the journalist retains the spiritual strength and creative intelligence to try to save himself, to fight the appalling scourge, to remain a man.Out of this situation, Pierre Boulle has woven a tale as harrowing, bizarre, and meaningful as any in the brilliant roster of this master storyteller. With his customary wit, irony, and disciplined intellect and style, the author of The Bridge Over the River Kwai tells a swiftly moving story dealing with man's conflicts, and takes the reader into a suspenseful and strangely fascinating orbit.", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Cultural (France)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414895.Planet_of_the_Apes"}, +{"book_title": "My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century", "author_name": "Rachel Harris", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2938, "review_number": 563, "book_description": "On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing lone wolf Cat Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown by her bubbly stepmother and well-meaning father. So even though Cat knows the family's trip to Florence, Italy, is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all it offers. But when her curiosity leads her to an unusual magical tent, she exits . . . right into Renaissance Firenze.Thrust into the sixteenth century armed with only a backpack full of contraband future items, Cat joins up with her ancestors, the sweet Alessandra and protective Cipriano, and soon falls for the gorgeous aspiring artist Lorenzo. But when the much-older Niccolo starts sniffing around, Cat realizes that an unwanted birthday party is nothing compared to an unwanted suitor full of creeptastic amore. Can she find her way back to modern times before her Italian adventure turns into an Italian forever?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586321-my-super-sweet-sixteenth-century"}, +{"book_title": "The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 2: They Rule", "author_name": "Jonathan Hickman", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 3738, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "The second amazing volume of the science, bad book of the new millennium. The battle for global supremacy is underway and the bad men of the Manhattan Projects will only accept one outcome: World dominationCollecting: The Manhattan Projects 6-10", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17124883-the-manhattan-projects-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Wasteland", "author_name": "Frank Tayell", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2721, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "Billions were infected. Nations fell. The evacuation failed.Bill Wright's journey has only one destination, the research facility that created the virus. As he meets other survivors in his struggle across the wasteland to reach it, he discovers that it is not just the undead who need to be feared.This is the second volume of his journal.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20319147-wasteland"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Mind", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 693, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "New York Times Bestselling Author Ian Douglas continues his Star Carrier saga as humanity unites against an ancient artificial consciousness powerful enough to exterminate every species it encounters2425. The civil war between the United States of North America and the Pan-European Confederation is over. But before a new era of peace on Earth can begin, humankind must martial its interstellar forces as one fleet to engage in a war against an alien entity in Omega Centauri. Without provocation, it destroyed a Confederation science facility inhabited by 12,000 people, and it must be neutralized before it sets its sights on Earth.Admiral Trevor \u201cSandy\u201d Gray of the USNA star carrier America has his own mission. The enigmatic AI known as Konstantin has convinced him that humanity\u2019s only chance for survival is technology found in a distant star system. Now, Gray must disobey orders as well as locate and create a weapon capable of defeating a living sphere the size of a small planet\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31307647-dark-mind"}, +{"book_title": "Malorie", "author_name": "Josh Malerman", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 9942, "review_number": 1841, "book_description": "Now from the mind of a true master of suspense comes the next chapter in Bird Box. This time, Malorie is front and center, and she will confront the dangers of her world head-on.Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence. There remains no explanation. No solution.All Malorie can do is survive.But then comes what feels like impossible news. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope. Someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive.Malorie has a harrowing choice to make: to live by the rules of survival that have served her so well, or to venture into the darkness and reach for hope once more.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Mystery", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44510181-malorie"}, +{"book_title": "Spinward Fringe Broadcast 0: Origins", "author_name": "Randolph Lalonde", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 6215, "review_number": 392, "book_description": "ASIN B004EPYUXA moved to the more recent edition here and then hereIt is the distant future and one man, Jonas Valent, is letting his life slip by. He is employed by Freeground station as a port traffic controller, a job he took after completing a tour in the military. His only real joy in life is his participation in true-to-life military simulations with a cadre of friends who come together regularly to defeat challenges made to test the brightest military cadets and officers alike. These restricted scenarios stand as an addictive preoccupation that is so enticing that they ignore the potential repercussions of breaking in to participate. When someone betrays their identities to the Freeground Fleet Admiralty, Jonas and his friends are faced with a far greater challenge: to venture out into the more populated regions of the galaxy to acquire technology and knowledge. They are tasked with laying the groundwork for the Freeground Nation in their efforts to reconnect with the rest of humanity, and to secure the armaments they might need to defend themselves from encroaching enemies. Spinward Fringe Broadcast 0: Origins is a collected trilogy that chronicles the early adventures of an ambitious crew. Their leader, Jonas Valent, has the least to lose and everything to gain as he tells the tale of his first tour as Captain of a ship tasked with making allies and discovering new technologies for the good of his people. This simple mission becomes more complicated as the crew ventures further into the settled fringes of the galaxy. This trilogy spawned the best selling Spinward Fringe eBook series. This is where it all began, when one man was challenged to aspire for more than an idle life. A Space Opera Adventure enjoyed across the globe by all ages.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9851483-spinward-fringe-broadcast-0"}, +{"book_title": "The Prophecy", "author_name": "K.A. 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The Glorious Fool isn't misnamed: it likes to get into trouble, so much so that one year of security work under its captain is equal to five years everywhere else. With odds like that, Devi knows she's found the perfect way to get the jump on the next part of her Plan. But the Fool doesn't give up its secrets without a fight, and one year on this ship might be more than even Devi can handle.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790894-fortune-s-pawn"}, +{"book_title": "Unraveling", "author_name": "Elizabeth Norris", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 18463, "review_number": 1923, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Janelle Tenner is used to having a lot of responsibility. She balances working as a lifeguard in San Diego with an intense academic schedule. Janelle's mother is bipolar, and her dad is a workaholic FBI agent, which means Janelle also has to look out for her younger brother, Jared.And that was before she died... and is brought back to life by Ben Michaels, a mysterious, alluring loner from her high school. When she discovers a strange clock that seems to be counting down to the earth's destruction, Janelle learns she has twenty-four days to figure out how to stop the clock and save the planet.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12157365-unraveling"}, +{"book_title": "Solomon's Gold", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 977, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "In the year 1714, the world is a most confused and unsteady place - especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy - when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty, and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson's award-winning series, spans the late 17th and early 18th centuries, combining history, adventure, science, invention, piracy, and alchemy into one sweeping tale. It is a gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive historical epic populated by the likes of Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV, along with some of the most inventive literary characters in modern fiction.Audible's complete and unabridged presentation of The Baroque Cycle was produced in cooperation with Neal Stephenson. Each volume includes an exclusive introduction read by the author.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Economics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2017.Solomon_s_Gold"}, +{"book_title": "Star Corps", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1692, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "In the future,earth's warriors haveconquered the heavens.But on a distant world,Humanity is in chains ...Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying -- and fatal -- discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from the reach of Earth -- born weapons and technology ... and tens of thousands of captive human souls still bow to their iron will. Now Earth's Interstellar Marine Expeditionary Unit must undertake a rescue operation as improbable as it is essential to humankind's future, embarking on a ten-year voyage to a hostile world to face an entrenched enemy driven by dreams of past glory and intent once more on domination. For those who, for countless generations, have known nothing but toil and subjugation must be granted, at all costs, the precious gift entitled to all of their star-traveling kind: freedom!", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Action", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205257.Star_Corps"}, +{"book_title": "The Trap Door", "author_name": "Lisa McMann", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2828, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "The multi-platform adventure through time continues! Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk immediately into a deadly trap. The year is 1850, and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust... while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13356176-the-trap-door"}, +{"book_title": "The Park Service", "author_name": "Ryan Winfield", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 4300, "review_number": 465, "book_description": "From\u00a0 New York Times\u00a0 bestselling author Ryan Winfield, a thrilling tale of friendship, betrayal, and adventure.\u00a0Sometimes the best intentions ultimately lead to evil ends. That's what fifteen-year-old Aubrey VanHouten learns when he stumbles onto a post-apocalyptic paradise where the few remaining humans live on the run from deadly drones controlled by a mysterious Park Service. Torn between loyalty to his new best friend and trusting the girl of his dreams, Aubrey must learn to survive in a world he never dreamed existed while searching for answers to why everything he was taught is a lie.\u00a0Beautifully written with challenging moral dilemmas and heart-melting friendships,\u00a0The Park Service\u00a0trilogy is an epic coming-of-age-story that will inspire and delight readers young and old.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Thriller", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16086362-the-park-service"}, +{"book_title": "Coda", "author_name": "Emma Trevayne", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1212, "review_number": 198, "book_description": "Ever since he was a young boy, music has coursed through the veins of eighteen-year-old Anthem\u2014the Corp has certainly seen to that. By encoding music with addictive and mind-altering elements, the Corp holds control over all citizens, particularly conduits like Anthem, whose life energy feeds the main power in the Grid.Anthem finds hope and comfort in the twin siblings he cares for, even as he watches the life drain slowly and painfully from his father. Escape is found in his underground rock band, where music sounds free, clear, and unencoded deep in an abandoned basement. But when a band member dies suspiciously from a tracking overdose, Anthem knows that his time has suddenly become limited. Revolution all but sings in the air, and Anthem cannot help but answer the call with the chords of choice and free will. But will the girl he loves help or hinder him?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Music", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "LGBT (Bisexual)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15843071-coda"}, +{"book_title": "Horizon", "author_name": "Sophie Littlefield", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 926, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "Cass Dollar is a survivor. She's overcome the meltdown of civilization, humans turned mindless cannibals, and the many evils of man.But from beneath the devastated California landscape emerges a tendril of hope. A mysterious traveler arrives at New Eden with knowledge of a passageway North\u2014a final escape from the increasingly cunning Beaters. Clutching this dream, Cass and many others decamp and follow him into the unknown.Journeying down valleys and over barren hills, Cass remains torn between two men. One\u2014her beloved Smoke\u2014is not so innocent as he once was. The other keeps a primal hold on her that feels like Fate itself. And beneath it all, Cass must confront the worst of what's inside her\u2014dark memories from when she was a Beater herself. But she, and all of the other survivors, will fight to the death for the promise of a new horizon\u2026.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12109352-horizon"}, +{"book_title": "Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 17975, "review_number": 343, "book_description": "The scattered Tribulation Force is drawn inexorably toward the Middle East, as are all the armies of the world, when human history culminates in the battle of the ages. During the last year of the Great Tribulation, safe houses are no longer safe, and the cast of characters dramatically changes. By the time of the war of the great day of God the Almighty, the globe has become a powder keg of danger. Except those already in Petra, everyone has been forced to relocate as Antichrist ratchets up the pressure in the world's most treacherous game. Who will be left standing when the battle leaves the Tribulation Force on the brink of the end of time and the Glorious Appearing?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fiction", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)", "Religion (Faith)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27525.Armageddon"}, +{"book_title": "F\u00fcr die Krone", "author_name": "Bernd Perplies", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 223, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "London 1897. W\u00e4hrend einer Zaubervorstellung erleidet der B\u00fchnenmagier Ravenwood einen Zusammenbruch und wird kurz darauf von schattenhaften Gestalten gejagt und t\u00f6dlich verletzt. Der junge Reporter Jonathan Kentham findet den sterbenden Ravenwood, und dieser \u00fcbergibt ihm ein magisches Kleinod. Schon bald muss Jonathan feststellen, dass sich die Welt ver\u00e4ndert hat. 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In order to survive, there are three rules she must follow:Rule #1\u2014Never go out after dark.Rule #2\u2014Always carry a weapon.Rule #3\u2014No matter what, never EVER get bitten.But what happens when the rules Kayla has always lived by can no longer apply? The Highers run The Colony and accept nothing less than perfection. One slip up can mean death. Kayla has always worked hard to follow the rules and strive for perfection. But during a moment of weakness, she lets her imperfections show. Her punishment is worse than death. She is chosen for The Gathering and is thrown out into a world full of starving vampires. No one has ever survived The Gathering, at least that\u2019s what Kayla\u2019s been told. But when she runs into a group who insist they were once part of The Gathering, Kayla discovers the Highers have been keeping secrets. Secrets that could lead to a cure.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13024589-darkness-falls"}, +{"book_title": "Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time", "author_name": "James Gurney", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 11431, "review_number": 404, "book_description": "In the year 1860, biologist and explorer Arthur Denison and his son, Will, set out on a sea voyage of discovery and adventure. When a powerful typhoon wrecks the ship in uncharted waters, Arthur and Will are the sole survivors. Washed ashore on a strange island called Dinotopia, they are amazed to find a breathtaking world where cities are built on waterfalls, people have found new ways to fly, and humans and dinosaurs live together in harmony. With new discoveries at every turn, Arthur and Will embark upon their own separate journeys to unearth the mysteries of Dinotopia.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Art", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144006.Dinotopia"}, +{"book_title": "State of Decay", "author_name": "James Knapp", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 385, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "View our feature on James Knapp\u2019s State of Decay.Just because you're dead doesn't mean you're useless... A thrilling debut novel of a dystopian future populated by a new breed of zombie They call them revivors-technologically reanimated corpses-and away from the public eye they do humanity's dirtiest work. But FBI agent Nico Wachalowski has stumbled upon a conspiracy involving revivors being custom made to kill-and a startling truth about the existence of these undead slaves.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7100102-state-of-decay"}, +{"book_title": "When Duty Calls", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 323, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The gripping new Legion of the Damned novel\u2014from the national bestselling author of When All Seems Lost. As the war with the Ramanthian continues, Captain Antonio Santana and his force of biobods and cyborgs find themselves surrounded by enemy forces, faced with annihilation at every turn. On the home front, Santana\u2019s love\u2014diplomat Christine Vanderveen\u2014copes with growing shortages, treacherous allies, and her own emotions. Yet when she meets the charismatic newly elected president of the Clone Republic, she finds herself torn between old love and new loyalty. As Christine fights her own divided heart, light years away, Santana is in a battle for his life. And this battle may be his last\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2884661-when-duty-calls"}, +{"book_title": "Shattered", "author_name": "Teri Terry", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 10760, "review_number": 973, "book_description": "Kyla is in danger from both the government Lorders who erased her memory and the terrorists who tried to use her. So now she\u2019s on the run. Sporting a new identity and desperate to fill in the blank spaces of her life pre-Slating, Kyla heads to a remote mountain town to try to reunite with the birth mother she was kidnapped from as a child. There she is hoping all the pieces of her life will come together and she can finally take charge of her own future. But even in the idyllic wilderness and the heart of her original family, Kyla realizes there is no escape from the oppressive Lorders. Someone close to her may be one of them, and even more frighteningly, her birth mother has been keeping secrets of her own.In this stunning series finale, Kyla finally finds out who she really is, and the road to this discovery, and to deciding who she wants to become, is full of dangerous twists and turns that will keep readers riveted.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17901410-shattered"}, +{"book_title": "The Battle at the Moons of Hell", "author_name": "Graham Sharp Paul", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 849, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "The Hammer Worlds, the most brutal and oppressive interstellar government in the universe, have hijacked the Federated Worlds cruise ship Mumtaz, seizing its valuable terraforming cargo and damning its passengers to mining the moons of the prison planet known as Hell. For Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort and the crew aboard deep space scout vessel 387, the mission is clear: infiltrate enemy territory, locate the Mumtaz, and rescue the prisoners.The odds are appalling, and the damage will probably be fatal, but victory is nonnegotiable\u2013especially for Helfort, whose mother and sister were on the Mumtaz. And Michael Helfort will be damned if he\u2019ll let his family rot on the moons of Hell.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/683072.The_Battle_at_the_Moons_of_Hell"}, +{"book_title": "The Phantom Tree", "author_name": "Nicola Cornick", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2986, "review_number": 507, "book_description": "\u2018There is much to enjoy in a sumptuous novel that slips between present day and 1557.\u2019 - Sunday Mirror\n\n\u201cMy name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another.\u201d\n\nBrowsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait \u2013 supposedly of Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better\u2026 The woman is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 as an unwanted orphan and presumed dead after going missing as a child.The painting is more than just a beautiful object from Alison\u2019s past \u2013 it holds the key to her future, unlocking the mystery surrounding Mary\u2019s disappearance, and the enigma of Alison\u2019s son.But Alison\u2019s quest soon takes a dark and foreboding turn, as a meeting place called the Phantom Tree harbours secrets in its shadows\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance", "Mystery", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32618152-the-phantom-tree"}, +{"book_title": "The Mark of Koban", "author_name": "Stephen W. Bennett", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 1630, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Already faster and more powerful than the last 17 species that they have eliminated or subjugated, the Krall have set their sights on humankind.After testing humans on their future home world of Koban and finding them worthy opponents, the Krall start a war of slow extermination with the rest of humanity. This war is intended to last generations as they apply their own version of \u201cnatural selection\u201d to cull their weaker warriors in combat, purifying the Krall gene pool with finest warriors for breeding.Why? The Krall desire to become powerful enough to eventually live on the world of Koban, where the impossibly fast and powerful animals have proven to be too much for the Krall to master without technology to help. The only way the Krall survive on Koban is to live in isolated and well-protected domes, safe from the fauna they fiercely desire to dominate. Only through the attrition of war will the Krall perfect their bloodline to become the masters of Koban.Before the Krall departed Koban to start their new war, they destroyed the protections that allowed the Krall to survive on this dangerous planet. The Krall left the humans on the planet to fall victim to the high gravity, to the fast and savage wildlife and its deadly predators. Big mistake. They should have killed the test \"animals\" themselves! The bio-scientist they left behind add Koban genes to the next generation of humans. They are becoming what the Krall sought to be.The humans on Koban, locked in a struggle for their own survival, return to the stars to help humanity fight and, outnumbered, take the war to the Krall.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17436510-the-mark-of-koban"}, +{"book_title": "Gehenna Dawn", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1183, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Book One of Portal Wars, the new series by the author of the bestselling Crimson Worlds series...Erastus. An unimaginable nightmare. A searing hot world, covered with cracked, burning deserts and sweltering jungles. A hostile planet far from Earth, it was the most hellish place men have ever tried to survive. Called Gehenna by the condemned men sent to fight there, it forged the few who survived its murderous battles into the strongest soldiers in history.Jake Taylor was a New Hampshire farmboy who wanted nothing more than to marry his girlfriend, work on the farm, and maybe one day write a great novel. But mankind was fighting the alien Tegeri and their bio-mechanical cyborg soldiers, and UN Central needed men\u2026men to go to war on hostile worlds like Erastus.Jake wasn\u2019t given a choice, not a real one. He found himself torn from home and family, conscripted for life and shipped to Erastus to take his place in the battle lines, never to return. In this alien hell, Taylor and his cybernetically-enhanced comrades fight their never-ending war against the servants of the Tegeri, the manufactured soldiers they call simply, the Machines.Jake survives battle after battle, rising steadily through the ranks, giving all to the desperate fight to save Earth. But endless combat in hell carries a cost, and Taylor can feel himself losing what little is left of his spirit, his humanity. When he finally discovers a terrible secret\u2026that everything he\u2019d believed, all he\u2019d fought for his entire life, was nothing but a monstrous lie, he must decide who is the real enemy, and how far he is willing to go to right a horrific wrong.And if he does what he must to prevail against overwhelming odds and win the final victory, will he be able to control the growing madness inside\u2026or will he be become the very thing he has sworn to destroy?The Crimson Worlds SeriesBy Jay AllanCrimson Worlds I: Marines Crimson Worlds II: The Cost of Victory Crimson Worlds III: A Little Rebellion Crimson Worlds IV: The First Imperium Crimson Worlds V: The Line Must Hold Crimson Worlds VI: To Hell's Heart Tombstone: A Crimson Worlds Prequel Bitter Glory: A Crimson Worlds Prequel Coming December 2013: Crimson Worlds VII: The Shadow Legions", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18848153-gehenna-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The Vatican Sanction", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 414, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Book #24 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, 1636 It\u2019s spring in Burgundy. The flowers are out and so are the cardinals\u2014of Pope Urban\u2019s renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vatican\u2019s would-be usurper Borja. Most of the Church\u2019s senior leaders have converged upon the city of Besancon, where the Pope plans to offer an ecumenical olive branch to the other Christian denominations with which Rome has been at war. Fortunately, Urban has up-time help. He can rely upon Cardinal-Protector Larry Mazzare\u2019s theological savvy, Sharon Nichols\u2019 medical skills, and her husband Ruy Sanchez\u2019s keen-eyed experience as a body-guard-in-chief. And even though Urban has a new Papal Guard in the form of Owen Rowe O\u2019Neill\u2019s Wild Geese, Mike Stearns has loaned the Pope a small contingent of the Hibernian Battalion\u2014just in case. Which is prudent, since Urban and his peace initiative are not merely at risk from Borja\u2019s assassins. There is another, more deadly, team of professional killers in town, directed by the man who almost killed the Pope before: lethal Spanish mastermind Pedro Dolor. Dolor hasn\u2019t come to confess murder\u2014he\u2019s come to commit it. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About 1635: A Parcel of Rogues: \"The 20th volume in this popular, fast-paced alternative history series follows close on the heels of the events in The Baltic War, picking up with the protagonists in London, including sharpshooter Julie Sims. This time the 20th-century transplants are determined to prevent the rise of Oliver Cromwell and even have the support of King Charles.\"\u2014Library Journal About 1634: The Galileo Affair: \"A rich, complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book.\"\u2014David Drake \"Gripping . . . depicted with power!\"\u2014Publishers Weekly About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series: \u201cThis alternate history series is . . . a landmark\u2026\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c . . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . . \u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction, with over three million books in print. He\u2019s the author/creator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel 1632. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the \u201cBelisarius\u201d alternate Roman history series, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War and latest Honorverse series entry Cauldron of Ghosts. Flint's latest Ring of Fire novel is 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives near Chicago, Illinois. Charles E. Gannon is the author of Compton Crook Award winning, Nebula nominated novels Fire with Fire, Trial by Fire, and Raising Caine, in the Caine Riordan series. He is the coauthor with Eric Flint of 1636: The Papal Stakes and 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies in Eric Flint's best-selling Ring of Fire series. With best-selling Steve White, Gannon is the coauthor of Starfire series entries Extremis, and Imperative. Gannon is also the author of multiple short stories. He is a member of SIGMA, the \"SF think-tank\" which has advised various intelligence and defense agencies since the start of the millennium.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Politics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36643081-1636"}, +{"book_title": "The Wicked King", "author_name": "Holly Black", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 168222, "review_number": 20845, "book_description": "The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.The first lesson is to make yourself strong.After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26032887-the-wicked-king"}, +{"book_title": "Bird Box", "author_name": "Josh Malerman", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 150064, "review_number": 16924, "book_description": "Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat\u2014blindfolded\u2014with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster?Interweaving past and present, Bird Box is a snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18498558-bird-box"}, +{"book_title": "Spin Control", "author_name": "Chris Moriarty", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1016, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Call Arkady a clone with a conscience. Or call him a traitor. A member of the space-faring Syndicates, Arkady has defected to Israel with a hot commodity: a genetic weapon powerful enough to wipe out humanity. But Israel\u2019s not buying it. They\u2019re selling it\u2013and Arkady\u2013to the highest bidder. As the auction heats up, the Artificial Life Emancipation Front sends in Major Catherine Li. Drummed out of the Peacekeepers for executing Syndicate prisoners, Li has now literally hooked up with an AI who has lived many lifetimes and shunted through many bodies. But while they have their own conflicting loyalties to contend with, together they\u2019re just one player in a mysterious high-stakes game\u2026.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/673432.Spin_Control"}, +{"book_title": "After the Snow", "author_name": "S.D. Crockett", "rating_score": 3.16, "rating_votes": 1767, "review_number": 438, "book_description": "Fifteen-year-old Willo was out hunting when the trucks came and took his family away. Left alone in the snow, Willo becomes determined to find and rescue his family, and he knows just who to talk with to learn where they are. He plans to head across the mountains and make Farmer Geraint tell him where his family has gone. But on the way across the mountain, he finds Mary, a refugee from the city, whose father is lost and who is starving to death. The smart thing to do would be to leave her alone -- he doesn't have enough supplies for two or the time to take care of a girl -- but Willo just can't do it. However, with the world trapped in an ice age, the odds of them surviving on their own are not good. And even if he does manage to keep Mary safe, what about finding his family?.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11801954-after-the-snow"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The China Venture", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 233, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "The Ring of Fire Series Continues! The United States of Europe finds itself embroiled in international intrigue, as the uptimers attempt to establish an embassy in Ming Dynasty era China. The newly formed United States of Europe, created by an alliance between the time-displaced Americans from the town of Grantville and the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, decides to send an embassy to the Chinese empire. One of the main purposes of the embassy is to establish trade in order to gain access to critical resources. The mission is a gamble\u2014some might say, a long shot. The Ming dynasty is on the verge of collapse and China\u2019s rulers are suspicious of foreigners. The mission experiences one setback after another, but presses on. And they gain an important ally along the way: Zheng Zhilong, a former pirate now an admiral for the Ming navy and the head of an extremely wealthy Fujian province trading family. He knows through his Jesuit missionary connections that according to Grantville's history books, the Ming dynasty is in danger, from famines, bandit armies and barbarian invaders. And he is determined that, one way or another, he and his family will survive and even prosper. The embassy is joined as well by a young scholar, who helps them make inroads into China\u2019s complex and often dangerous society. Can the up-timers and their friends persuade the imperial dynasty and its mandarins to establish trade and diplomatic relations with the USE? They have one great asset: their knowledge may be the key to saving China from decades of mass suffering and civil war. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About 1636: Seas of Fortune by Iver Cooper: \". . . expand[s] the Ring of Fire universe into new or previously limited geography and culture. 'Stretching Out' includes seven excellent entries mostly in South America and the Caribbean built on real events but with a nice Grantville twist. 'Rising Sun' contains five terrific tales ... also built on real events enhanced by historical speculation but with a nice Grantville twist.\"\u2014Alternate Worlds About 1635: A Parcel of Rogues: \"The 20th volume in this popular, fast-paced alternative history series follows close on the heels of the events in The Baltic War, picking up with the protagonists in London, including sharpshooter Julie Sims. This time the 20th-century transplants are determined to prevent the rise of Oliver Cromwell and even have the support of King Charles.\"\u2014Library Journal About 1634: The Galileo Affair: \"A rich, complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book.\"\u2014David Drake \"Gripping . . . depicted with power!\"\u2014Publishers Weekly About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series: \u201cThis alternate history series is . . . a landmark\u2026\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c . . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . . \u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Cultural (China)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52692476-1636"}, +{"book_title": "The Death of Grass", "author_name": "John Christopher", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 7678, "review_number": 665, "book_description": "The Chung-Li virus has devastated Asia, wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvation in its wake. The rest of the world looks on with concern, though safe in the expectation that a counter-virus will be developed any day. Then Chung-Li mutates and spreads. Wheat, barley, oats, rye: no grass crop is safe, and global famine threatens.In Britain, where green fields are fast turning brown, the Government lies to its citizens, devising secret plans to preserve the lives of a few at the expense of the many.Getting wind of what's in store, John Custance and his family decide they must abandon their London home to head for the sanctuary of his brother's farm in a remote northern valley.And so they begin the long trek across a country fast descending into barbarism, where the law of the gun prevails, and the civilized values they once took for granted become the price they must pay if they are to survive.", "year_published": 1956, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/941731.The_Death_of_Grass"}, +{"book_title": "Until the End", "author_name": "Tracey Ward", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1940, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "An outbreak of The Fever has taken hold of Portland, Oregon, bringing the population to its knees. The Fever spreads and kills quickly, but the dead aren't staying dead.When her neighbor, Jordan, saves her from one of the infected, Alissa joins him in his plan to escape the city, the disease and the threat of a quarantine that will lock the living in with the undead.What she doesn't tell him is that she has an illness of her own, one that plays tricks with her mind and makes her a dangerous companion. But Jordan has a secret as well, one that compels him to keep Alissa, a veritable stranger, safe at all costs.As they fight for their lives and race for their freedom, they'll discover that what they truly need in order to survive is to stay together until the end.*The Quarantined Series is followed by the Survival Series, a spinoff trilogy of books chronicling life 10 years after the outbreak with a few familiar faces...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20428667-until-the-end"}, +{"book_title": "The Fifth Season", "author_name": "N.K. Jemisin", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 163213, "review_number": 18275, "book_description": "This is the way the world ends. Again.Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19161852-the-fifth-season"}, +{"book_title": "Robot in Love", "author_name": "T.L. McBeth", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 362, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "When a shiny, beautiful stranger catches Robot's eye, he knows she's the one. He thinks about her all the time. He even makes her a gift. But will he be able to keep his circuits from overheating and work up the courage to talk to her? T. L. McBeth spins a funny and heartwarming story of love--perfect for sharing at Valentine's!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Love", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Holiday", "Humor", "Romance", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37508634-robot-in-love"}, +{"book_title": "Biomega, Vol. 6", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 518, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Searching for the key to save a world beyond hope. Tsutomu Nihei's sci-fi horror epic!In Tsutomu Nihei's nightmare vision of the future, the N5S virus has swept across the earth, turning most of the population into zombie-like drones. Zoichi Kanoe, an agent of Toa Heavy Industry, is humanity's last hope, and he's not even human! With the help of Fuyu, a digitized intelligence built into the computer system of his Heavy Dual Coil motorcycle, Zoichi's search for the key to salvation will take him on a journey across surreal landscapes and hurl him into battle against mind-bending evil. Prepare yourself for the ultimate trip--prepare yourself for the world of \nBIOMEGA\n.Final Volume!Niarudi and the DRF rule the strange cordlike world of the Recreator. Yet without Eon Green, Niarudi will never be able to remake the world as she wishes. Now the biomechanical inhabitants of the Recreator are beginning to succumb to dronification, a result of the N5S plague that wiped out the original Earth. Only Zoichi and Fuyu can stop the nightmare from repeating itself, but to do so they'll need to find Eon Green and the incredible secret she holds about the past that will shape the future. The final confrontation is at hand, and the prize for victory is the power to transform humanity and the world itself!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics Manga", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8929132-biomega-vol-6"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Command", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 4073, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "One hundred and fifty years ago, Earth colonists hoping to found a utopia emigrated deep into the Beyond. Now, the New Men are invading, a race of humans stronger, faster and smarter than the old. Star Watch sends Admiral Fletcher to stop them. His command barely escapes annihilation by heading into the dreaded void. His battered ships are quickly running out of food, fuel and missiles, and they don\u2019t dare go back again to face the New Men. Star Watch frantically searches for a way to rescue the vessels. An ancient alien starship is parked in the Solar System, with an irritable AI refusing to cooperate. The vessel has powerful weapons\u2014if anyone could figure out how to make them work after ten thousand years. Star Watch summons Captain Maddox, the only person to have successfully worked with the ancient computer. The captain must convince his old acquaintance the AI\u2014who has become smarter and even more belligerent than before\u2014to help him rescue Fletcher. But what does the ten-thousand-year-old AI have to gain by helping Star Watch\u2019s cockiest Intelligence officer? The answer just might help solve the threat of the New Men. THE LOST COMMAND is the second book in the LOST STARSHIP SERIES.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24616247-the-lost-command"}, +{"book_title": "Kindred", "author_name": "Octavia E. Butler", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 107902, "review_number": 12278, "book_description": "The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she\u2019s been given...", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Classics", "Cultural (African American)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Race"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60931.Kindred"}, +{"book_title": "Thieves Profit (The Profit Logbook #3", "author_name": "Bruce Davis", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Zack Mbele has a problem. The Profit is in hock for repair costs and Kwai Chang Wu, a mobster, has bought the bank that holds the note. Either he does a job for Wu, or he\u2019ll lose his ship.Just to make matters worse, someone is after his friend, Rabbit, and the Dragons, another mob, are involved somehow. And if that wasn\u2019t enough, Duce\u2019s friends are being hurt as well; and Cleo, his ex-wife and half owner of the Profit, is up to something and he can\u2019t figure out what it is.And who is the sinister, tall man and what\u2019s his role in all of this?The body count keeps mounting as Zack tries to solve the puzzles while staying alive.The third exciting installment in the popular Profit Logbook series.A science fiction, mystery, action adventure by award-winning author, Bruce Davis. Don\u2019t miss it!77,000 words, roughly equivalent to 288 pages in a mass market paperback.Rated \u201cR\u201d.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21458437-thieves-profit"}, +{"book_title": "What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been", "author_name": "Robert Cowley", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 543, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Did Eisenhower avoid a showdown with Stalin by not taking Berlin before the Soviets? What might have happened if JFK hadn't been assassinated? This new volume in the widely praised series presents fascinating \"what if...\" scenarios by such prominent historians as: Robert Dallek, Caleb Carr, Antony Beevor, John Lukacs, Jay Winick, Thomas Fleming, Tom Wicker, Theodore Rabb, Victor David Hansen, Cecelia Holland, Andrew Roberts, Ted Morgan, George Feifer, Robert L. O'Connell, Lawrence Malkin, and John F. Stacks.Included are two essential bonus essays reprinted from the original New York Times bestseller What If?-David McCullough imagines Washington's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Long Island, and James McPherson envisions Lee's successful invasion of the North in 1862.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["History", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Nonfiction", "American History", "The United States Of America", "Military (Military History)", "Writing (Essays)", "Anthologies", "Military History (American Revolution)", "Military History (Civil War)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406280.What_Ifs_of_American_History"}, +{"book_title": "Walks Through Mist", "author_name": "Kim Murphy", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 342, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Witch trials in Virginia? Salem wasn't the first...Psychologist Shae Howard treats a patient who claims to recall nothing of the current century. Under hypnosis, Phoebe Wynne tells an astonishing tale of an ocean crossing to Colonial Jamestown, followed by near starvation and a daring escape to a nearby Indian tribe.Although Shae's ex-husband, seasoned police detective Lee Crowley, is intrigued by Phoebe's story, he remains skeptical regarding her claim that she's from the seventeenth century. A Native American himself, he does, however, admit to feeling a kinship with Phoebe. How is it that she seems to understand his pain and anger at being caught between two cultures?Phoebe shows Lee \"the dreaming,\" which reveals a misty world where the Powhatan people and Colonial Jamestown come to life... and connects him to his own past. Is Phoebe delusional? A witch? Or has she indeed traveled through time?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Mystery", "Romance", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17183148-walks-through-mist"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 10141, "review_number": 584, "book_description": "Following the events of \"Something to Fear,\" Rick and the other survivors accept a new way...but not everyone agrees. Collects The Walking Dead #103-108.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16173578-the-walking-dead-vol-18"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Rocket", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1926, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "In Yalda's universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy.On Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting their own light into the dark night sky.As a child Yalda witnesses one of a series of strange meteors, the Hurtlers, that are entering the planetary system at an immense, unprecedented speed. It becomes apparent that her world is in imminent danger \u2014 and that the task of dealing with the Hurtlers will require knowledge and technology far beyond anything her civilisation has yet achieved.Only one solution seems tenable: if a spacecraft can be sent on a journey at sufficiently high speed, its trip will last many generations for those on board, but it will return after just a few years have passed at home. The travellers will have a chance to discover the science their planet urgently needs, and bring it back in time to avert disaster.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9756310-the-clockwork-rocket"}, +{"book_title": "Ferromancer", "author_name": "Becca Andre", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 262, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Solutions aren\u2019t always black and white\u2014sometimes they come in shades of iron gray.Captain Bridget \u201cBriar\u201d Rose wants for nothing. Each day is a new adventure, living the life she loves, running cargo on the Ohio & Erie Canal. That is, until her cousin decides to sell the family boat to finance a new business venture. He wants to build locomotives for the railroad\u2014the very industry that could put the entire canal system out of business.Not one to give up without a fight, Briar does a little snooping into her cousin\u2019s new business partner. When she gets a sneak peek at the locomotive plans, she suspects that the man is either a genius, or a ferromancer\u2014one of the dreaded metal mages of Europe\u2019s industrial revolution.Determined to reveal her suspicions, Briar takes the plans and heads for the newspaper office in Columbus, stealing the family boat in the process. Kidnapping her cousin\u2019s handsome business partner wasn\u2019t part of the plan, but when he shows up, demanding the return of his property, she can\u2019t let him go. After all, if Briar can prove that the railroad is using ferromancy, she could save more than her boat. She could save her way of life.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36411603-ferromancer"}, +{"book_title": "The Creeping Shadow", "author_name": "Jonathan Stroud", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 11547, "review_number": 1559, "book_description": "After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring herself out to agencies that value her ever-improving skills. One day she is pleasantly surprised by a visit from Lockwood, who tells her he needs a good Listener for a tough assignment. Penelope Fittes, the leader of the giant Fittes Agency wants them--and only them--to locate and remove the Source for the legendary Brixton Cannibal. They succeed in their very dangerous task, but tensions remain high between Lucy and the other agents. Even the skull in the jar talks to her like a jilted lover. What will it take to reunite the team? Black marketeers, an informant ghost, a Spirit Cape that transports the wearer, and mysteries involving Steve Rotwell and Penelope Fittes just may do the trick. But, in a shocking cliffhanger ending, the team learns that someone has been manipulating them all along. . . .", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23922381-the-creeping-shadow"}, +{"book_title": "Aliens: Nightmare Asylum", "author_name": "Steve Perry", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1262, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Wilks, Billie, and Bueller were the last survivors of a devastating assault on the aliens' home planet. But once their retum to the solar system made them refugees once more, fleeing Earth and its alien infestation in a desperate attempt to stay alive. Now, in an otherwise unmanned military transport, they hurtle through space. Destination: unknown.Little do they know that the cargo they carry with them is a legacy of death that they will ultimately have to face. Nor do they know that they head toward a remote colony and military outpost. This pocket of humanity at the very edges of space is at the mercy of a general names Spears with an agenda all his own. Now Billie, Wilks, and Bueller face a new nightmare, and it is nothing they could ever have imagined: a gift of madness from an alien world, unbalanced mind, and the experiences of a mysterious pilot named Lieutenant Ellen Ripley.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20873.Aliens"}, +{"book_title": "Liquid Cool: The Cyberpunk Detective Series", "author_name": "Austin Dragon", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 675, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "\nLiquid Cool\n is the debut cyberpunk detective series!It\u2019s cyberpunk re-imagined\u2014science fiction meets the detective thriller in an ever-rainy world of colossal skyscrapers. Hover-cars fly above in the dark, bustling skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, flashy streets of this \u201cneon jungle.\u201d Metropolis isn\u2019t a bad place, but it isn\u2019t a good one either. Uber-governments and mega-corporations fight for control of the super-city, but so does crime.We were introduced to \nLiquid Cool\n, by the free prequel short, \nThese Mean Streets, Darkly\n. We met an average woman, Carol\u2014hardworking and decent in every way\u2014only to have her daughter kidnapped by the psycho cyborg Red Rabbit. Can Police Central find the girl in time\u2014alive? And is it really another senseless act of random violence in the fifty-million-plus super-city?This story continues\u2026and there are so many more. For the first time, we meet our private eye (and unlikely hero), Cruz in a super-city where there are a million victims and perpetrators. Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of \nLiquid Cool. \nBut watch out for tech-tricksters, analog hustlers, and digital gangsters\u2014psychos, samurais, and cyborgs aplenty\u2014they may want your money, or your life, more than you do.Get Your Copy of \nLIQUID COOL\n Right Now and Prepare to be Thrilled with Mystery, Action, and Laughs! And don\u2019t get shot by a laser-pistol-packing cyber-punk on your way to the digital store.Enjoy!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Business (Amazon)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29228867-liquid-cool"}, +{"book_title": "Agony", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 169, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Urban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist ***second episode of the nine-part serial***What\u2019s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more \u201cworthy\u201d\u2026 all while paying the price with black marks on their souls.Agony is approximately 11,000 words or 44 pages, and is the second of nine episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial.Lirium tries to forget Apple Girl, but a rough collection finds him spiraling deeper into the abyss. He faces a one-way ticket to The Retirement Home for debt collectors, until his psych officer offers a way out.Contains mature content and themes.OPTIONED FOR VIRTUAL REALITY BY IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT 2014 Semi-Finalist in Science Fiction in the Kindle Book AwardsIt is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series. There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together. READING ORDERSeason One \u2013 Lirium - COMPLETEEpisodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, PassionSeason Two \u2013 Wraith **available for pre-order** releases 12.15.14Episodes 10-18: Wraith, Specter, Menace, Temptation, Shattered, Penance, Judgment, Corruption, Atonement", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17692947-agony"}, +{"book_title": "The Traitor", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 17663, "review_number": 619, "book_description": "The Traitor takes place two years after The Son and runs parallel with the early events in Divergent. In this robust story, readers follow Tobias as he uncovers the details of an Erudite plan that could threaten the faction system, and makes plans of his own to keep Abnegation safe. At the same time, Tobias is getting to know a new transfer initiate: Tris Prior.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18080923-the-traitor"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Orphans", "author_name": "N.W. Harris", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 3382, "review_number": 410, "book_description": "One horrifying day will change the life of sixteen-year-old Shane Tucker and every other kid in the world. In a span of mere hours, the entire adult population is decimated, leaving their children behind to fend for themselves and deal with the horrific aftermath of the freak occurrence. As one of the newly made elders in his small town, Shane finds himself taking on the role of caretaker for a large group of juvenile survivors. One who just happens to be Kelly Douglas\u2014an out-of-his-league classmate\u2014who, on any other day, would have never given Shane a second glance. Together, they begin their quest to find out why all of the adults were slaughtered. What they find is even more horrifying than anything they could have expected\u2014the annihilation of the adults was only the beginning. Shane and his friends are not the unlucky survivors left to inherit this new, messed-up planet. No, they are its next victims. There is an unknown power out there, and it won\u2019t stop until every person in the world is dead. A spine-tingling adventure that will have you gasping for breath all the way until the last page, The Last Orphans is the first book in an all-new apocalyptic series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22030244-the-last-orphans"}, +{"book_title": "The Lady in the Coppergate Tower", "author_name": "Nancy Campbell Allen", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1251, "review_number": 294, "book_description": "Hazel Hughes has spent her life believing she is a Medium\u2014someone who can talk to ghosts. But as of yet, that skill has remained frustratingly elusive. She is also suffering from a reoccurring childhood dream of someone who looks almost exactly like Hazel, but this dream version of herself is slowly going mad. Sam MacInnes is a talented surgeon who runs in the highest social circles thanks to his family\u2019s position and history. When Sam hires Hazel to assist him with his medical practice, he is immediately drawn to her intelligence, wit, and beauty. Their potential relationship is derailed one evening when a mysterious count arrives in London and reveals to Hazel the truth about her past: she was abducted at birth and her twin sister has fallen dangerously ill. Hazel agrees to travel to Romania with Count Petrescu in order to save her sister, and Sam insists on accompanying her. The count has secrets, though, and the journey grows more sinister with every mile that draws Hazel closer to her homeland. Even as her feelings for Sam become deeper and more complicated, she fears she might not survive the quest to save her sister with her heart intact, not to mention her life. She must learn to draw on gifts she doesn\u2019t know she has if they are going to ever return home again. \u00a0 Hazel and Sam must fight their way past dark magic, clockwork beasts, and their own insecurities as they try to reach her sister in the impenetrable Coppergate Tower before time runs out.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance (Clean Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40878706-the-lady-in-the-coppergate-tower"}, +{"book_title": "M\u00e9ridien", "author_name": "S.H. Jucha", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1939, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "The M\u00e9ridiens are fleeing to their far colonies\u2014and they have reason to run. Over the course of decades, they have lost hundreds of ships, billions of people, and seven Confederation colonies to an alien enemy: an advancing swarm of silver ships transported in the bowels of a gigantic, spherical vessel.Alex Racine, who once enjoyed the solitary life of an explorer-tug Captain, is now an Admiral and responsible for the lives of a quarter million Librans. Further complicating his life, Alex\u2019s Librans have made it clear they don\u2019t want to settle on his home world. They want a new home, and he must secure them one.The silver ships await Alex\u2019s makeshift flotilla at Libre, the last colony they consumed. Thus far, Alex\u2019s people have succeeded in skirmishes against the enemy\u2019s fighters. Now, though, they\u2019re preparing to attack the entire alien fleet and halt the devastation of the colonies.To the surprise and chagrin of his officers and crew alike, Alex concocts a new plan, because he believes humanity faces not one but two alien species, and one may be enslaved to the other. If so, Alex believes slaves should be liberated, not obliterated.To test Alex\u2019s theory, his people must capture a wholly intact silver ship\u2014a feat never before accomplished. The crew remains doubtful, but their Admiral is determined to communicate with the aliens before he\u2019s forced to destroy them, and his wish is their command.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27068128-m-ridien"}, +{"book_title": "Under the Empyrean Sky", "author_name": "Chuck Wendig", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1971, "review_number": 379, "book_description": "Corn is king in the Heartland, and Cael McAvoy has had enough of it. It's the only crop the Empyrean government allows the people of the Heartland to grow. And the genetically modified strain is so aggressive that it takes everything the Heartlanders have just to control it. As captain of the Big Sky Scavengers, Cael and his crew sail their rickety ship over the corn day after day, scavenging for valuables, trying to earn much-needed ace notes for their families. But Cael's tired of surviving life on the ground while the Empyrean elite drift by above in their extravagant sky flotillas. He's sick of the mayor's son besting Cael's crew in the scavenging game. And he's worried about losing Gwennie, his first mate and the love of his life, forever when their government-chosen spouses are revealed. But most of all, Cael is angry, angry that their lot in life will never get better and that his father doesn't seem upset about any of it. Cael's ready to make his own luck . . . even if it means bringing down the wrath of the Empyrean elite and changing life in the Heartland forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17817631-under-the-empyrean-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Extinction Age", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 3137, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Book III in Nicholas Sansbury Smith's #1 bestselling and top-rated Extinction Cycle Series continues the fight for survival!On the eve of extinction all seems to be lost, but there is still one final hope...Operation Liberty has failed. Humans are losing the war. With no other option, General Kennor decides to pull back the troops and give science a second chance.\u00a0Trapped in the extensive sewer system beneath New York, Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and the survivors of 1st Platoon must battle through the tunnels--where they make a grisly discovery in their attempt to escape.At Plum Island, Dr. Kate Lovato is working on a new bioweapon to destroy the Variants. But when a derelict Navy Destroyer crashes into the Connecticut shoreline, she is forced to deal with a nightmare she thought had ended.As the doomsday clock ticks down and military bases fall across the country, the human race enters the age of extinction. Will science prevail--or will mankind vanish off the face of the planet?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25332734-extinction-age"}, +{"book_title": "Destiny's Shield", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2206, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Eric Flint and David Drake's alt-history epic devoted to real-life Byzantine butt-kicker Belisarius has reached part three--Destiny's Shield--and this installment finally busts loose with some serious head-to-head. Everybody's favorite general is leading an outnumbered Roman-Persian force to check Malwa aggression in the east, forced to action by the fiends' sea-borne invasion of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and their subsequent siege of Babylon. For those unfamiliar with the series, this what-if puts the Malwa Empire in control of the Indian subcontinent thanks to diabolical assistance from across time, granting their forces superior strategy and advanced weaponry. But the ever-canny Belisarius is equal to the challenge, with no small help from a telepathic crystal named Aid that acts as both adviser and seer.The writing tandem of Flint and Drake still proves strong--relative newcomer Flint (Mother of Demons) seems well-paired with military-SF powerhouse Drake, creator of \"the meanest bunch of mercs who ever nuked a world for pay\" (that'd be Hammer's Slammers, natch). The two offer up their usual dose of meticulous historical detail and realistic, mud-and-blood combat and tactics. Throw in some time-bending fun like Belisarius's \"invention\" of the Knights Hospitaler and phrases like \"fire in the hole,\" and you know you're in for a good time. (Of course, if you're new to the series, check out the first book, An Oblique Approach.) --Paul Hughes", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57368.Destiny_s_Shield"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Conquest", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1373, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Cassidy Hamilton doesn\u2019t think life can get any worse after being sequestered in a convent on Europa. A Kalquorian invasion changes her mind in a hurry, and she barely eludes her people\u2019s greatest enemy. Fear and desire become a heady mixture when her spying reveals the aliens\u2019 intentions for Europa\u2019s nuns: bondage and seduction.The war with Earth threatens Kalquor\u2019s survival, and Captain Tranis is determined to conquer the fanatically religious planet. But capturing the curvy beauty who escaped him and his clanmates Lidon and Degorsk is a welcome distraction. And once she\u2019s their prisoner, Cassidy finds uncontrollable desire is the harshest taskmaster of all.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11789363-alien-conquest"}, +{"book_title": "Lt. Leary, Commanding", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4675, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Lt. Daniel Leary of the Republic of Cinnabar Navy (RCN) commands the corvette Princess Cecile (aka \" the sissy\") and he and his crew are flush with the rewards of defeating a enemy battleship despite the overwhelming odds against them. His friend, Signals Officer Adele Mundy, has the latest in spy apparatus and the skills to prowl the most tightly guarded database. Now, all they lack are enemies, and fate is about to supply that need in abundance. Lt. Leary is assigned to be part of a task force sent to a neighboring star system to quell the start of a revolt in the making. A hostage uses the Princess Cecile to regain his freedom and his throne; an ally plots with enemies of Cinnabar, knowing the plan can only be safeguarded by destroying the Princess Cecile; a pirate chief joins in a cutthroat battle with a rival, and the Princess Cecile is a pawn. Daniel, Adele, and their crack crew must battle bureaucrats and traitors, the winds of a barren desert, and the strains of a voyage never before attempted. If they succeed at every stage, their reward will be the chance to fight another enemy: one which can blow them and a hundred ships like theirs to vapor.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/553696.Lt_Leary_Commanding"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Survivor's Quest", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 8356, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "After fifty years, the remains of Outbound Flight\u2014a pioneering Jedi expedition viciously destroyed by the alien warlord Grand Admiral Thrawn\u2014have been found on the planet Nirauan. The beings who reside there wish to turn over to the New Republic the remnants of the doomed mission. Accepting the gesture will mean a long voyage into the treacherous cluster of stars where the thousands of souls aboard the Outbound Flight vessel met their grim fate.Embarking on the strange and solemn journey, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker are unaware that the gravest danger lies within the derelict walls of Outbound Flight itself. As the marooned hulk yields up stunning revelations and unexpected terrors, Luke and Mara find all they stand for\u2014and their very existence\u2014brutally challenged. The ultimate test will be surviving the deathtrap carefully laid by foes who are legendary for their ruthlessness\u2026and determined to complete the job Thrawn began: exterminating the Jedi.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46623.Star_Wars"}, +{"book_title": "The Night Eternal", "author_name": "Guillermo del Toro", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 27274, "review_number": 2210, "book_description": "It's been two years since the vampiric virus was unleashed in The Strain and the entire world now lies on the brink of annihilation. There has been a mass extermination of humans orchestrated by the Master\u2014an ancient vampire possessed of unparalleled powers. The future of humankind lies in the hands of a ragtag band of freedom fighters\u2014Dr. Eph Goodweather, Dr. Nora Martinez, Vasiliy Fet, and Mr. Quinlan, the half-breed offspring of the Master who is bent on revenge. It's their job to overturn this devastating new world order. But good and evil are malleable terms now, and the Master is most skilled at preying on the weaknesses of humans.Now, at this critical hour, there is evidence of a traitor in their midst. . . And only one man holds the answer to the Master's demise, but is he one who can be trusted with the fate of the world? And who among them will pay the ultimate sacrifice\u2014so that others may be saved?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6945530-the-night-eternal"}, +{"book_title": "Refugee", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 4478, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "Vol. 1 RefugeeCALIGULA OF THE STARSThough he was later accused of every crime and sexual perversion in the galaxy, Hope Hubris began as an innocent. Because he defended his older sister against the violent lusts of a wealthy scion, Hope and his peasant family were forced to flee Callisto, one of the moons of Jupiter. Pursued by the bloodthirsty scions across the airless desert, they barely escaped with their lives. The illegal space bubble was overcrowded with refugees, all hoping to reach Jupiter for asylum.But the space travelers had not reckoned on the terrible threat of high space-the pirates, barbaric men who rape, rob, and murder, with no thought but to satisfy their bestial appetites. It will take all Hope's ingenuity to survive, but the atrocities he witnesses will never die. There is only one way he can be rid of them . . . REVENGE", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Young Adult", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15454.Refugee"}, +{"book_title": "Gaslight Hades", "author_name": "Grace Draven", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 932, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Nathaniel Gordon walks two worlds\u2014that of the living and the dead. Barely human, he's earned the reputation of a Bonekeeper, the scourge of grave robbers. He believes his old life over, until one dreary burial he meets the woman he once loved and almost married. Lenore Kenward stands at her father\u2019s grave, begging the protection of the mysterious guardian, not knowing he is her lost love. Resolved to keep his distance, Nathaniel is forced to abandon his plan and accompany Lenore on a journey into the mouth of Hell where sea meets sky, and the abominations that exist beyond its barrier wait to destroy them. GASLIGHT HADES is a 39k-word novella-length gaslamp fantasy romance with a sprinkling of airships, monsters and ghosts. \u00a0This story may also be found in the duology, Beneath a Waning Moon, alongside an Elizabeth Hunter tale.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Gothic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34533180-gaslight-hades"}, +{"book_title": "Photographs & Phantoms", "author_name": "Cindy Spencer Pape", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 1660, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Brighton, 1855As a member of the Order of the Round Table, Kendall Lake is overqualified to be investigating strange phenomena at a seaside photography studio. But since the photographer is related to the Order's most powerful sorcerer, Kendall reluctantly boards a dirigible to Brighton.Amy Deland is haunted by a shadow that appears in some of her recent portraits. In each case, the subject died within days of the sitting. Does she have her grandmother's gift of foresight, or has she somehow caused the deaths?As Kendall and Amy search for answers, their investigation draws them together in a most improper way - but it seems the evil presence in the studio is determined to keep them apart...20,000 words", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Mystery", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11023788-photographs-phantoms"}, +{"book_title": "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 19210, "review_number": 963, "book_description": "Available for the first time as an exclusive eBook in this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield\u2019s parents. Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not be the whole story. Now, in \u201cA Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows,\u201d readers finally learn the truth.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Short Stories", "Adult", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13634927-a-leaf-on-the-wind-of-all-hallows"}, +{"book_title": "Helper Robots", "author_name": "Nancy Furstinger", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 4, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Robots help people in many situations. Some robots rescue people trapped by tornadoes or earthquakes. Others explore volcanoes and the seafloor. And some help scientists protect our environment. How might helper robots affect your life? Read this book to find out!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20901525-helper-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Four Roads Cross", "author_name": "Max Gladstone", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 2461, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back\u2014and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the fire god's church. Tara Abernathy, the god's in-house Craftswoman, must defend the church against the world's fiercest necromantic firm\u2014and against her old classmate, a rising star in the Craftwork world. As if that weren't enough, Cat and Raz, supporting characters from Three Parts Dead, are back too, fighting monster pirates; skeleton kings drink frozen cocktails, defying several principles of anatomy; jails, hospitals, and temples are broken into and out of; choirs of flame sing over Alt Coulumb; demons pose significant problems; a farmers' market proves more important to world affairs than seems likely; doctors of theology strike back; Monk-Technician Abelard performs several miracles; The Rats! play Walsh's Place; and dragons give almost-helpful counsel.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Urban"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114222-four-roads-cross"}, +{"book_title": "The Miss Education of Dr. Exeter", "author_name": "Jillian Stone", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 178, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "From steam-powered bunkers to steamy boudoirs, paranormal detective Phaeton Black knows his way around Victorian London. But sometimes, when you slip down a rabbit hole, there's no turning back...If The Portal's A-Rockin'Phaeton Black is missing. Sucked into an alternative universe\u2014courtesy of Professor Lovecraft's Trans-Dimensional Injection Portal\u2014the illustrious investigator is nowhere to be found. Even the bewitching Miss America Jones, who's pregnant with Phaeton's child, has no clue to his whereabouts. But when a spy fly's microphone picks up Phaeton's voice in the parlors of Paris, she enlists his dearest friends to track him down\u2014before his deadliest enemies find him first.Don't Come A-Knockin'Accompanied by the dashing Dr. Exeter, his delightful ward Mia, and a trusty duo of Nightshades, it's off to the City of Lights for the determined Miss Jones. Unfortunately, there is something about Paris in the fall that brings out the devil in Dr. Exeter\u2014and the beast in mild-mannered Mia, whose animal urges transform her into a gorgeous panther. With physical reality unraveling on both sides of the cosmic rift, the good doctor must extract Phaeton Black from the clutches of a diabolical techno-wizard\u2014or both could lose the women they love to love...forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Mystery", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13457309-the-miss-education-of-dr-exeter"}, +{"book_title": "The Perseid Collapse", "author_name": "Steven Konkoly", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3509, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "THE PERSEID COLLAPSE:America is on the verge of collapse, in the thrilling post-apocalyptic sequel to The Jakarta Pandemic.In 2019, an inconceivable attack against America's infrastructure will unleash a human darkness over the United States--with a vast appetite for chaos and violence. Alex Fletcher, former Marine, will wake to this brutally hostile landscape, thrown headfirst into an epic, impossibly grueling journey to save his family and friends.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29080439-the-perseid-collapse"}, +{"book_title": "The Woman Who Died a Lot", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 12860, "review_number": 1499, "book_description": "The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you'd expect to be a time of recuperation. If only life were that simple.Thursday is faced with an array of family problems - son Friday's lack of focus since his career in the Chronoguard was relegated to a might-have-been, daughter Tuesday's difficulty perfecting the Anti-Smote shield needed to thwart an angry Deity's promise to wipe Swindon off the face of the earth, and Jenny, who doesn't exist.And that's not all. With Goliath attempting to replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays, the prediction that Friday's Destiny-Aware colleagues will die in mysterious circumstances, and a looming meteorite that could destroy all human life on earth, Thursday's retirement is going to be anything but easy.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13001274-the-woman-who-died-a-lot"}, +{"book_title": "Raven's Return", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1423, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "No one ever comes back for me.I\u2019ve always been on my own, and why should it be any different on an ice planet? So when I\u2019m kidnapped by a feral outcast, I suspect I\u2019d better learn to love raw fish and rough living.Then\u2026U\u2019dron comes to my rescue.He\u2019s always understood me more than anyone else. He\u2019s been my friend and my confidante. We\u2019ve made music together. And now that he\u2019s my hero? The crush I\u2019ve had on him is turning into something more, something deeper. He won\u2019t want me when he hears my terrible secrets, though.But it turns out that U\u2019dron has a secret of his own\u2026", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55107996-raven-s-return"}, +{"book_title": "Storm from the Shadows", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 4536, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Perfidious Plots,Courageous Resolve\u2014and,of course,Starships Blown to Smithereens!The Solarian League Navy has been the premier navy of the galaxy for centuries. Indeed, no one can remember a time when it hasn't been acknowledged as the most powerful fleet in existence.Until now, that is.A conference to end the terrible war between the Peeps of Haven and the Manticorean Star Kingdom is slated. Peace is finally within reach.Yeah, right.Not with the slaver conspiracy that calls itself Manpower, Inc. pulling intergalactic strings. The plan To plunge the Star Kingdom into a two-front war with Peeps and Sollies\u2014a process calculated to blast Honor Harrington's home system to smoking ruin!Assassination's afoot. And out on the galactic frontier known as the Verge, big trouble boils over as Solarian League arrogance butts up against the steely resolve of Harrington prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Michelle Henke, aka Admiral Gold Peak.Too bad for the Sollies. For Harrington's officers have a habit of coming through in the clutch and finding a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. But most of all\u2014whatever the odds\u2014they never, ever give up the fight!At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).\nShadow of Saganami\n sequel\u2014and the latest entry in David Weber's astoundingly adventurous, phenomenally popular, and multiply USA Today and New York Times best-selling \"Honor Harrington\" saga!\"Following in the best tradition of C.S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian and Robert A Heinlein! These hugely entertaining and clever adventures are the very epitome of space opera.\" \u2014Publishers Weekly\"Weber's descriptions of space combat remain magnificent.\" \u2014Science Fiction WeeklyA lifetime military history buff, David Weber has carried his interest in history into his fiction.\u00a0 In the New York Times best selling Honor Harrington series, the spirit of both C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and history's Admiral Nelson are evident.\u00a0 With over five million copies of his books in print, David Weber is the fastest rising star in the Science Fiction universe.\u00a0 His Honor Harrington series boasts over 3 million copies in print, and Weber has had over thirteen of his titles on The New York Times Best Seller List.\u00a0 War of Honor, book 10 in the series appeared on over twelve Best Seller lists, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA TODAY.While he is best known for his spirited, modern-minded space operas, he has also developed a fantasy series, of which two books have been published:\u00a0 Oath of Swords and The War God's Own. \u00a0David's solo work also includes three novels of the \"Dahak\" series, and the stand alone novels:\u00a0 Path of the Fury and The Excalibur Alternative.Weber's first published novels grew out of his work as a war game designer for the Task Force game Starfire.\u00a0 With collaborator Steve White, Weber has written four novels set in that universe: Insurrection, Crusade, In Death Ground, and The Shiva Option.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3667676-storm-from-the-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Angel", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 693215, "review_number": 32665, "book_description": "In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London\u2019s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters\u2014including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Angels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171637-clockwork-angel"}, +{"book_title": "Drums of Autumn", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 213665, "review_number": 8250, "book_description": "In this breathtaking novel, rich in history and adventure, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that started with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Gabaldon has created a work of sheer brilliance. What if you knew someone you loved was going to die? What if you thought you could save them? How much would you risk to try?Claire Randall has gone to find Jamie Fraser, the man she loved more than life, and has left half her heart behind with their daughter, Brianna. Claire gave up Jamie to save Brianna, and now Bree has sent her mother back to the Scottish warrior who was willing to give his life to save them both. But a chilling discovery in the pages of history suggests that Jamie and Claire's story doesn't have a happy ending.Brianna dares a terrifying leap into the unknown in search of her mother and the father she has never met, risking her own future to try to change history . . . and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past . . . or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40909452-drums-of-autumn"}, +{"book_title": "The Phoenix Exultant", "author_name": "John C. Wright", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1808, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "The Phoenix Exultant is a continuation of the story begun in The Golden Age and like it, a grand space opera in the tradition of Jack Vance and Roger Zelazny (with a touch of Cordwainer Smith-style invention).At the conclusion of the first book, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, was left an exile from his life of power and privilege. Now he embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system--Jupiter is a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal--among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms, to recover his memory, to regain his place in society and to move that society away from stagnation and toward the stars. And most of all Phaethon's quest is to regain ownership of the magnificent starship, the Phoenix Exultant, the most wonderful ship ever built, and fly her to the stars.The Phoenix Exultantis an astounding story of super science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the verve of SF's golden age writers It is a suitably grand and stirring fulfillment of the promise shown in The Golden Age and confirms John C. Wright as a major new talent in the field. He concludes the Golden Age trilogy in The Golden Transcendence.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Singularity", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Academic (College)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632751.The_Phoenix_Exultant"}, +{"book_title": "BloodLust", "author_name": "Auryn Hadley", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 2885, "review_number": 340, "book_description": "It\u2019s a treacherous road to belonging\u2014and once you find it, you could lose everything.In an exotic world caught in the throes of a seemingly endless war, a nation of terrorists under the thumb of an evil Emperor has set out to systematically destroy every race but their own. And they\u2019re just about to succeed. Lauded fantasy author Auryn Hadley (The Demons\u2019 Muse romantic fantasy series) compellingly blends heart-stopping action-adventure, heart-breaking ethics, and toe-curling sensuality, all through the lens of a Daenerys Targaryen-esque lead\u2014the likes of which the fantasy genre hasn\u2019t yet seen. When you were once a slave, freed only to become a ruthless warrior, \"belonging\" seems a trite concept. A pipe dream, the stuff of naive fairy tales. But not for Salryc Luxx. Private Luxx\u2014Sal for short\u2014is iliri, a member of an untamable race surreptitiously dubbed \"their kind\" by humans and bred thousands of years ago to protect them. Humans consider them expendable, barely more than animals. Freaks. But in a karmic twist of fate, they\u2019re also one of mankind\u2019s most feared predators. Abused and enslaved, the only control Sal has over her life is what military unit she serves with \u2013 if she's good enough to be accepted \u2013 and the only one to consider her is the best in the land, the Black Blades. Everyone has secrets, and the Blades are no different. But acceptance into the Blades gives Sal something she never expected\u2014the family she\u2019s never had, and with it, the undying protection of seven of the greatest warriors the world has ever seen. It also gifts her a devoted line of potential mates. Many of her fellow warriors will submit to the bloodlust that overtakes her in the heat of battle and can only be quenched by rough, passionate lovemaking (making way for the steamiest of love scenes). Though it\u2019s not all war and sex. Sal very gradually cultivates deeply loving, evolving relationships with each of the Black Blades, which morphs as a unit into a reverse harem as sweet as it is fierce, and as protective as it is impassioned. But belonging has its own price. Each of the Blades would die to protect Sal. And it\u2019s only a matter of time before the enemy moves to use this against her.Author Hadley has crafted a unique epic fantasy\u2014and an absolute roller coaster of emotions. Her heroine, Sal, is as loving as she is ferocious, and the demons she battles\u2014and the way she beats them\u2014underlie a delicate exploration of the ethical and political battles we face in every war we fight. Hadley\u2019s clever takes on racial prejudice are subtle, yet damning\u2014and her idea of sexual politics is a rip-roaring turn-on. Every female reader will want to be Sal\u2026 and every male, like the guys in the book, will fall for her. The first book in the Rise of the Iliri series. BloodLust does not end with a cliffhanger. It does contain adult themes, thus may not be suitable for younger readers.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52069768-bloodlust"}, +{"book_title": "The 7\u00bd Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle", "author_name": "Stuart Turton", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 151236, "review_number": 23622, "book_description": "\"Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day . . . quite unlike anything I\u2019ve ever read, and altogether triumphant.\u201d - A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowAiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. With a locked room mystery that Agatha Christie would envy, Stuart Turton unfurls a breakneck novel of intrigue and suspense.For fans of Claire North, and Kate Atkinson, The 7\u00bd Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race against time to find a killer, with an astonishing time-turning twist that means nothing and no one are quite what they seem.This inventive debut twists together a thriller of such unexpected creativity it will leave readers guessing until the very last page.Recommended in The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, Buzzfeed, Vulture, BookRiot, and more.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36337550-the-7-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle"}, +{"book_title": "DEV1AT3", "author_name": "Jay Kristoff", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2785, "review_number": 636, "book_description": "Lemon Fresh has seen better days.After the climactic battle in Babel, she finds herself separated from Ezekiel and Cricket in the wastelands. Lemon\u2019s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate, and deadly corporate operatives are hunting her to use as a weapon in the war between BioMaas Incorporated and Daedelus Technologies. Instead, Lemon finds herself falling in with a group of fellow deviates\u2014a band of teenagers with astonishing abilities, led by an enigmatic figure known as the Major, who may hold the secrets to Lemon\u2019s past.Meanwhile, Cricket finds himself in possession of the puritanical Brotherhood, a religious cult set for a head-on collision with the Major and his band. Searching for Lemon, Ezekiel finds a strange ally in an old enemy, and uncovers a plot that may see him reunited with his beloved Ana.And inside Babel, a remade Eve hatches a plan to bring an end to the world.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40177770-dev1at3"}, +{"book_title": "The Space Between the Stars", "author_name": "Anne Corlett", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 2077, "review_number": 567, "book_description": "In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe\u2014and in her own heart\u2014when a devastating virus reduces most of humanity to dust and memories.All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn\u2019t forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit... Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that\u2019s left of the dead. Until a garbled message from Earth gives her hope that someone from her past might still be alive. Soon Jamie finds other survivors, and their ragtag group will travel through the vast reaches of space, drawn to the promise of a new beginning on Earth. But their dream will pit them against those desperately clinging to the old ways. And Jamie\u2019s own journey home will help her close the distance between who she has become and who she is meant to be...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Romance", "Adult Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32828539-the-space-between-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Spook Country", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 18888, "review_number": 1455, "book_description": "Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer. Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to. Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can't say, but it seems to be military in nature. At least, Milgrim's very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms. Bobby Chombo is a \"producer\", and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Novels", "Suspense", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22322.Spook_Country"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Mechanika #3", "author_name": "Joe Ben\u00edtez", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 211, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "LADY MECHANIKA's quest to retrieve the 'Mechanical Girl' along with her mysterious maker takes her up to the clouds, where she must infiltrate a masquerade ball aboard Lord Blackpool's airship high in the sky. While the nefarious Blackpool showcases a new advanced weapon added to his impressive armament catalog to a captive audience, Mechanika discovers something quite unexpected, that may hold a clue to her own creation!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13296408-lady-mechanika-3"}, +{"book_title": "How I Live Now", "author_name": "Meg Rosoff", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 41560, "review_number": 4752, "book_description": "\"Every war has turning points and every person too.\"Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it's a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy's uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way.A riveting and astonishing story.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "War", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161426.How_I_Live_Now"}, +{"book_title": "Ull", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1261, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "Ull Rigel is a fit and worthy Tornian warrior, the first male of a powerful and respected Lord. Because of this, he'd always believed he'd be able to attract a female, securing his bloodline. But he hadn't. He hadn't even been able to attract one of the Earth females they'd discovered. But his younger brother, a third male, did. Now, the Emperor was sending Ull to Earth to protect it from the Ganglians who were abducting the females his brother warriors so need. Trisha Burke had plans for her life. Career. Family. Friends. But one moment changed all that. Her friend Lisa and Lisa's two children suddenly disappeared without any explanation. When local law enforcement couldn't find them, she reached out to the most powerful person she knew. The President of the United States, her Uncle. Two people who have had their lives turned upside down are on a collision course. How these two handled the impact and deal with the aftermath will affect not just them but all the Known Universes. ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Warriors", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51691787-ull"}, +{"book_title": "Rootless", "author_name": "Chris Howard", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 1098, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "17-year-old Banyan is a tree builder. Using scrap metal and salvaged junk, he creates forests for rich patrons who seek a reprieve from the desolate landscape. Although Banyan's never seen a real tree\u2014they were destroyed more than a century ago\u2014his father used to tell him stories about the Old World. But that was before his father was taken . . .Everything changes when Banyan meets a woman with a strange tattoo\u2014a clue to the whereabouts of the last living trees on earth, and he sets off across a wasteland from which few return. Those who make it past the pirates and poachers can't escape the locusts\u2014the locusts that now feed on human flesh.But Banyan isn't the only one looking for the trees, and he's running out of time. Unsure of whom to trust, he's forced to make an uneasy alliance with Alpha, an alluring, dangerous pirate with an agenda of her own. As they race towards a promised land that might only be a myth, Banyan makes shocking discoveries about his family, his past, and how far people will go to bring back the trees.In this dazzling debut, Howard presents a disturbing world with uncanny similarities to our own. Like the forests Banyan seeks to rebuild, this visionary novel is both beautiful and haunting\u2014full of images that will take permanent root in your mind . . . and forever change the way you think about nature.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13591672-rootless"}, +{"book_title": "What Might Have Been", "author_name": "Andrew Roberts", "rating_score": 2.91, "rating_votes": 164, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently.'Stimulating, provocative and playful' Literary ReviewThroughout history, great and terrible events have often hinged upon luck. Andrew Roberts has asked a team of twelve leading historians and biographers what might have happened if major world events had gone differently? Each concentrating in the area in which they are a leading authority, historians as distinguished as Antonia Fraser (Gunpowder Plot), Norman Stone (Sarajevo 1914) and Anne Somerset (the Spanish Armada) consider: What if?Robert Cowley demonstrates how nearly Britain won the American war of independence. Following her acclaimed GEORGIANA, Amanda Foreman muses on Lincoln's Northern States of America and Lord Palmerston's Great Britain going to war, as they so nearly did in 1861. Whether it's Stalin fleeing Moscow in 1941 (Simon Sebag Montefiore), or Napoleon not being forced to retreat from it in 1812 (Adam Zamoyski), the events covered here are important, world-changing ones.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["History", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Nonfiction", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75038.What_Might_Have_Been"}, +{"book_title": "Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Yuu Watase", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 34350, "review_number": 526, "book_description": "Shy high school student Riko Izawa aches for a boyfriend but guys just won't look her way. Then one day she signs up for a three-day trial of a mysterious \"lover figurine,\" and the next thing she knows, a cute naked guy is delivered to her doorstep--and he wants to be her boyfriend!Has Riko died and gone to heaven? The cute naked guy turns out to be smart, super nice, stylish and a gourmet chef. Plus, he looks like a million bucks.... Trouble is, that's about what he's going to cost Riko because she didn't return him in time!", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Shojo)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/856917.Absolute_Boyfriend_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Battle for Proxima", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 324, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Battle for Proxima is the fourth book in the epic science fiction series that chronicles humanity\u2019s first interstellar confederation, torn apart by religious strife and extremism.In this latest book of the Star Crusades Uprising series, the Confederacy is on its knees. Months of war have lost them most of the populated colonies and more will surely follow. Spartan, now a Lieutenant in the Marine Corps has been given his own special platoon, the Vanguards. Using the best weapons and armour in the Confederate arsenal, his unit is thrown back to the Bone Mill to locate information that could change the war.After months of battle and many defeats, the fleet and ground forces under the command of Admiral Jarvis assemble for Operation Perdition. Intelligence gathered by the Vanguards confirms the next target. Admiral Jarvis must strike or the Echidna Union will take yet another world. Scores of capital ships and thousands of soldiers and marines ready themselves for their greatest battle yet. The Confederacy needs to turn the war around and drive the Union troops from the lost colonies. With heavy casualties arriving every day, it comes to the newly formed J\u00f6tnar battalions to make up the numbers. These powerful but inexperienced warriors must tip the balance in favour of the fragile Confederacy.Battle for Proxima is a classic work of realistic military science fiction set against the background of the first interstellar human empire.This expanding saga includes the Star Crusades Uprising and new Star Crusades Nexus series that follows the story of the Centauri Alliance seventeen years after the end of the Uprising. Novels currently available in the series include:STAR CRUSADES UPRISINGSiege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1)Tears of Kerberos (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 2)Fires of Prometheus (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 3)Battle for Proxima (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 4)Fall of Terra Nova (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 5)Slaves of Hyperion (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 6)All 6 books are available in Star Crusades Uprising: The First Trilogy and Star Crusades Uprising: The Second Trilogy compilations.STAR CRUSADES NEXUSLegions of Orion (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 1)", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12597589-battle-for-proxima"}, +{"book_title": "Donavan: From Michael Bunker's World of \"PENNSYLVANIA", "author_name": "D.K. Cassidy", "rating_score": 4.82, "rating_votes": 76, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "In Michael Bunker's \u201cPennsylvania\u201d, we briefly met Donavan Yoder--a young man divided. Born in the Amish Zone, he was raised to embrace a plain, peaceful life. After he grows up, Donavan becomes an officer with the Transport Authority, the tyrannical government grinding New Pennsylvania under its iron boot. Eventually, his conscience leads him to side with TRACE, the resistance group fighting Transport for the freedom of the entire planet. Donavan has made some tough choices in his life. What ultimately drove him to sympathize with the very rebels he'd fought to subdue?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23202487-donavan"}, +{"book_title": "The Feedback Loop", "author_name": "Harmon Cooper", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 543, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Stuck in a virtual dreamworld called The Loop, a man named Quantum Hughes struggles to free himself from a glitch that forces him to live the same day on repeat. His life changes when a mysterious letter arrives one morning from a woman named Frances Euphoria, the first human player he has made contact with in a very long time. Once Frances appears, members of a murder guild known as the Reapers begin surfacing in The Loop, hoping to capture Quantum or worse -- kill him. To further complicate matters, The Loop itself is doing everything it can to stop Quantum from finding the hidden logout point by turning everything in the virtual dreamworld against him.With time running out, will Quantum break free from his digital coma before he's captured or killed by the Reapers? Who is Frances Euphoria, and what does she actually know about how long Quantum has been trapped? The Feedback Loop Series takes place thirty years before the Life is a Beautiful Thing Series. It shares the same world, but is a standalone series that focus on dream-based virtual reality worlds and the people who are trapped in them. The next book in the series will be called Steampunk is Dead, and will be released in the fall.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Business (Amazon)", "Audiobook", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25767713-the-feedback-loop"}, +{"book_title": "Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 104 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #104", "author_name": "Neil Clarke", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 40, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "FICTION\u201cThe Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies\u201d by Matthew Kressel\u201cFor the Love of Sylvia City\u201d by Andrea M. Pawley\u201cMrs. Griffin Prepares to Commit Suicide Tonight\u201d by A Que, translated by John Chu\u201cOssuary\u201d by Ian Muneshwar\u201cAn Evolutionary Myth\u201d by Bo-young Kim, translated by Gord Sellar and Jihyun Park\u201cSolace\u201d by James Van Pelt\u201cTyche and the Ants\u201d by Hannu RajaniemiNON-FICTION\u201cDestination: Mars\u201d by Andrew Liptak\u201cNeither Here Nor There: A Conversation with Cat Rambo\u201d by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro\u201cAnother Word: It's Good to Be Lazy and Foolish\u201d by Ken Liu\u201cEditor's Desk: Overload!\u201d by Neil Clarke", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27395621-clarkesworld-magazine-issue-104"}, +{"book_title": "The Mysterious Case of Mr. Strangeway", "author_name": "Karina Cooper", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 205, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Although I have only been part of Society for two years, I am already desperate to escape its confines and eager for adventure. The world my deceased parents have left me is nothing more than a gilded prison, and I will do anything to escape the boredom, even become a collector of bounties.My name is Cherry St. Croix, and I may be young, but I am old enough to know when I am in over my head. My first collection seemed easy: Mr. Strangeway\u2019s debts have come due, and the purse for his capture is hefty. Yet the wastrel remains one step ahead of me, and my efforts are hampered by another collector after the same coin. What\u2019s more, a simple hunt becomes the forefront of a conspiracy that leads me on a chase through London\u2019s low-class streets.Not only does my pride demand success, but the well-being of many rest upon the choices I make\u2014failure is not an outcome I can live with.29,000 words", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Short Stories", "Adult", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17727203-the-mysterious-case-of-mr-strangeway"}, +{"book_title": "Mavericks", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 8449, "review_number": 243, "book_description": "The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet 'Paradise' get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40280648-mavericks"}, +{"book_title": "Forged in Darkness", "author_name": "James David Victor", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 246, "review_number": 10, "book_description": " A secret mission into enemy space. Traitors on board. Can Jack forge into darkness and save the day again? The fourth story in the exciting military science fiction adventure from #1 Bestselling author James David Victor Jack Forge is a rising star in the Fleet Marines. When the chips are down, he is still the man called upon to lead the way into darkness. When an old enemy suddenly returns, Jack must lead the charge against the enemy in space and the enemy within. Can the Marines win the battle in the darkness of enemy space before they are destroyed from within? Forged in Darkness is the fourth book in the Jack Forge, Fleet Marine series. If you like fast paced military science fiction, Jack Forge is the kind of hero you can root for. Download Forged in Darkness and get started on your next space adventure today! Always FREE on Kindle Unlimited ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38746925-forged-in-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Nightside City", "author_name": "Lawrence Watt-Evans", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 194, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "With the dawn, Nightside City would die. But someone was willing to kill to keep Carlisle Hsing in the dark...Nightside City was built on the dark side of the Epimetheus, back when everyone was sure that the planet had stopped rotating. Now, slowly but surely, Nightside City was moving toward the dayside--and doom. Already the first rays of deadly sunlight had begun to hit the tops of the tall buildings of the West End, and that part of the city had become a ghost town.So when private investigator Carlisle Hsing heard that somebody was buying up all that worthless West End property, she was intrigued. And when the clues pointed to a secret plot to save the city from dawn, she had to learn more. If such a plan could succeed, Hsing was all for it. But why keep something like that a secret?Hsing was determined to find the answers. And suddenly her enemies were all too willing to show her the light.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390243.Nightside_City"}, +{"book_title": "Final Days", "author_name": "Jasper T. Scott", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 846, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "THE COUNTDOWN TO THE END OF THE WORLD HAS BEGUN.A mysterious convergence of natural disasters threatens to destroy life as we know it, and people across the United states are going missing. With no one left to investigate, Special Agent Kendra Baker takes the case, trying to solve the disappearances before she's out of time.Among those abducted is Valeria Miller, the daughter of ex-Marine Corporal Andrew Miller, and he'll stop at nothing to find her.With the help of an unstable conspiracy theorist, they find themselves on the trail of a reclusive billionaire who just might have all the answers.As the natural catastrophes escalate and the evacuations commence, it becomes a race against the clock to find the abductees before it's too late.'FINAL DAYS' is a doomsday science fiction thriller, written by Jasper T. Scott and Nathan Hystad.RUNNING TIME \u21d2 8hrs. and 37mins.\u00a92020 Nathan Hystad and Jasper T. Scott (P)2020 Audible, Inc.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53643592-final-days"}, +{"book_title": "Free Bird Rising", "author_name": "Ian J. Malone", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 135, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "\u201cA noted explorer once asked, \u2018Who knows if there are secrets lurking in the unseen corners of hyperspace?\u2019 The answer is simple. There are!\u201d \u2014 Colonel Terrance Van Zant, Commanding Officer, Swamp Eagle Security Taylor Van Zant has a lot on his mind. Like everyone in Jacksonville, North Florida, the early-twenties bartender from Riverside saw his world upended when his brother, Terry, an interstellar mercenary and local hero, died suddenly in a freak starship accident. Five years later, having been stonewalled for answers, Taylor faced a choice: Honor his mother\u2019s wish that he never go merc or defy it to save her life by resurrecting Terry\u2019s company. That was thirteen months ago. Now the newly reformed Eagles stand on the verge of a major milestone: owning their own flagship. There\u2019s just one problem. Terry left behind a ship that no one knew about, a rare breed of cruiser with a most peculiar secret. \"Free Bird Rising\u201d is the story of a young man\u2019s quest for justice and to escape his brother\u2019s shadow. The shocking revelations he finds, though, will likely rock the Galactic Union to its core and get him killed.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43597528-free-bird-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Badlands", "author_name": "Seleste deLaney", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 298, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "After a brutal Civil War, America is a land divided. As commander of her nation's border guards, Ever is a warrior sworn to protect her country and her queen. When an airship attacks and kills the monarch, Ever must infiltrate enemy territory to bring home the heir to the throne, and the dirigible Dark Hawk is her fastest way to the Union.Captain Spencer Pierce just wants to pay off the debt he owes on the Dark Hawk and make a life for himself trading across the border. When the queen's assassination puts the shipping routes at risk, he finds himself Ever's reluctant ally.As they fly into danger, Ever and Spencer must battle not only the enemy but also their growing attraction. She refuses to place her heart before duty, and he has always put the needs of his ship and crew above his own desires. Once the princess is rescued, perhaps they can find love in the Badlands--if death doesn't find them first...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Steampunk Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10176352-badlands"}, +{"book_title": "Fixer the Robot", "author_name": "John Kelly", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 35, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Every morning, FIXER robot,trundles up the hillTo help the other robots as theydig and push and drill.A charming text that combines a truly heart-wrenching story with mechanical details, sure to enchant every young engineer.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38323422-fixer-the-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Awaken", "author_name": "Katie Kacvinsky", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 14498, "review_number": 1554, "book_description": "Maddie lives in a world where everything is done on the computer. Whether it\u2019s to go to school or on a date, people don\u2019t venture out of their home. There\u2019s really no need. For the most part, Maddie\u2019s okay with the solitary, digital life\u2014until she meets Justin. Justin likes being with people. He enjoys the physical closeness of face-to-face interactions. People aren\u2019t meant to be alone, he tells her. Suddenly, Maddie feels something awakening inside her\u2014a feeling that maybe there is a different, better way to live. But with society and her parents telling her otherwise, Maddie is going to have to learn to stand up for herself if she wants to change the path her life is taking. In this not-so-brave new world, two young people struggle to carve out their own space.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Contemporary", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8665876-awaken"}, +{"book_title": "Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute", "author_name": "Jarrett J. Krosoczka", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 12205, "review_number": 686, "book_description": "Serving justice . . . and lunch!Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn\u2019t dishing out the daily special? Where does she live? Does she have a lot of cats at home? Little do they know, Lunch Lady doesn\u2019t just serve sloppy joes\u2014she serves justice! Whatever danger lies ahead, it\u2019s no match for LUNCH LADY!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Humor", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Academic (School)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6277757-lunch-lady-and-the-cyborg-substitute"}, +{"book_title": "For We Are Many", "author_name": "Dennis E. Taylor", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 35982, "review_number": 1774, "book_description": "Bob Johansson didn\u2019t believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe.Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for forty years now, looking for habitable planets. But that\u2019s the only part of the plan that\u2019s still in one piece. A system-wide war has killed off 99.9% of the human race; nuclear winter is slowly making the Earth uninhabitable; a radical group wants to finish the job on the remnants of humanity; the Brazilian space probes are still out there, still trying to blow up the competition; And the Bobs have discovered a spacefaring species that considers all other life as food.Bob left Earth anticipating a life of exploration and blissful solitude. Instead he\u2019s a sky god to a primitive native species, the only hope for getting humanity to a new home, and possibly the only thing that can prevent every species in the local sphere ending up as dinner.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33395557-for-we-are-many"}, +{"book_title": "The Hero", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 2168, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "It's a matter of trust. For thousands of years the Darhel, a warrior species conditioned to be incapable of killing, manipulated and controlled the human race. Then the humans threw off their yoke. Now, for the first time, a Darhel has been assigned to the elite Deep Reconnaissance Team commandos. Trust, in a small unit, is vital. And there was no trust to be had on either side. But when the mission encountered an alien device worth more than a king's ransom, it was the humans who betrayed the trust. Now the despised Darhel must race against the team's sniper to prevent the artifact falling into the wrong hands. The Darhel has empathic powers, superhuman strength and the speed of a cheetah. The sniper has years of experience and enormous ability. The sniper can kill. The Darhel cannot. The fate of the galaxy and the human race for the next thousand years rests on the shoulders of a Darhel. The Hero has a thousand faces, but is one of them the face of an elf?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662657.The_Hero"}, +{"book_title": "The Core of the Sun", "author_name": "Johanna Sinisalo", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2876, "review_number": 500, "book_description": "From the author of the Finlandia Award-winning novel Troll: A Love Story, The Core of the Sun further cements Johanna Sinisalo\u2019s reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country\u2019s unique take on it, dubbed \u201cFinnish weird.\u201d Set in an alternative historical present, in a \u201ceusistocracy\u201d\u2014an extreme welfare state\u2014that holds public health and social stability above all else, it follows a young woman whose growing addiction to illegal chili peppers leads her on an adventure into a world where love, sex, and free will are all controlled by the state.The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized so that they do not carry on their \"defective\" line. Vanna, raised as an eloi but secretly intelligent, needs money to help her doll-like sister, who has disappeared. Vanna forms a friendship with a man named Jare, and they become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to the Health Authority to be extremely dangerous: chili peppers. Then Jare comes across a strange religious cult in possession of the Core of the Sun, a chili so hot that it is rumored to cause hallucinations. Does this chili have effects that justify its prohibition? How did Finland turn into the North Korea of Europe? And will Vanna succeed in her quest to find her sister, or will her growing need to satisfy her chili addiction destroy her?Johanna Sinisalo\u2019s tautly told story of fight and flight is also a feisty, between-the-lines social polemic\u2014a witty, inventive, and fiendishly engaging read.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Feminism", "Speculative Fiction", "European Literature (Finnish Literature)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25779654-the-core-of-the-sun"}, +{"book_title": "The Ghost Brigades", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 69103, "review_number": 3374, "book_description": "The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They\u2019re young, they\u2019re fast and strong, and they\u2019re totally without normal human qualms.The universe is a dangerous place for humanity\u2014and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF\u2019s biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers -- a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared\u2019s brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin\u2019s memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason\u2019s for Boutin\u2019s betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his \"father,\" he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity\u2019s mere military defeat\u2026", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239399.The_Ghost_Brigades"}, +{"book_title": "Nation", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 32100, "review_number": 2851, "book_description": "Alone on a desert island \u2014 everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm \u2014 Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He\u2019s completely alone \u2014 or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird, and gives him a stick that can make fire.Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She\u2019s certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, that all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship\u2019s parrot, until other survivors arrive to take refuge on the island. Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things (including how to milk a pig, and why spitting in beer is a good thing), and start to forge a new nation.Encompassing themes of death and nationhood, Terry Pratchett\u2019s new novel is, as can be expected, extremely funny, witty and wise. Mau\u2019s ancestors have something to teach us all. Mau just wishes they would shut up about it and let him get on with saving everyone\u2019s lives!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2855034-nation"}, +{"book_title": "Transcendence", "author_name": "G.S. Jennsen", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1046, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "What does it mean to be human? What if the price of saving humanity is giving up your own? The year is 2322, and we stand upon the precipice of extinction. The invading Metigen armada has decimated the eastern third of settled space in a matter of days, leaving tens of millions dead. Determined to save the heart of human civilization, Earth and Seneca at last put aside their differences to face the threat together. But even this may not be enough to stop the fleet of colossal dreadnoughts inhabited by advanced AIs. Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano hold the key to defeating the invaders, for they know the secrets the aliens wage war to protect. Now they face a deadly gauntlet of relentless alien hunters and assassins sent to kill them before they can unleash a potent new weapon. They will risk everything in a bid to save their families, their loved ones, the entire human race\u2014even if it means they can\u2019t save each other. The lines blur between man and machine, ally and enemy, and soldier and civilian. In a final stand against an ancient, powerful foe intent on eradicating it from the universe, humanity comes face to face with its destiny.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50082656-transcendence"}, +{"book_title": "The Invasion", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 14090, "review_number": 976, "book_description": "Sometimes weird things happen to people. Ask Jake. He may tell you about the night he and his friends saw the strange light in the sky. He may even tell you about what happened when they realized the \"light\" was only a plane -- from another planet. Here's where Jake's story gets a little weird. It's where they're told that the human race is under attack -- and given the chance to fight back.Now Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco have the power to morph into any animal they choose. And they must use that power to outsmart an evil that is greater than anything the world has ever seen...", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776877.The_Invasion"}, +{"book_title": "Gear", "author_name": "Doug TenNapel", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 368, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Four incompetent cats high-jack a Giant Killer Robot! The plans are made, the cats lay in wait, the Robot comes and everything goes el stinko. This book's got everything: robots, harpoon guns, talking cats, gun shots to the head -- the whole sha-bang!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult", "War", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Animals (Dogs)", "Animals (Cats)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80250.Gear"}, +{"book_title": "Doll, Volume 4", "author_name": "Mitsukazu Mihara", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 82, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "In these fascinating tales that exist somewhere along the line that separates the living from the dead, a doll gives a pregnant woman a lesson in motherhood; a redesigned doll wants to be accepted by its owners; a manager replaces workers with a crew of dolls; and a lonely man learns the value of life from a doll. With each passing day, dolls become more like humans...and humans struggle to discover what it means to be truly alive.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Gothic", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1805034.Doll_Volume_4"}, +{"book_title": "Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens 2 (Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Robots and Aliens, #3-4", "author_name": "Robert Thurston", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 25, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "A man without memory, tied by blood to a city of robots. At his side, a mysterious woman whose life and memory he saved, whose love he has won for a second time. His name is Derec; hers is Ariel. In intruder, Derec Avery has at last returned to the original Robot City, only to discover that it has been reprogrammed in ways that do not make sense. Together with Derec's love, Ariel, and his father, he must find and defeat the Watchful Eye, the strange force that has bent the city to its own ends. Can they solve the new mystery of Robot City before it comes tumbling down around them? In Alliance, Robot City has been restored, but can it last? Three shape-changing, renegade robots threaten to destroy the city, but are they really capable of disobeying the Three Laws? Derec and Ariel must convince the renegades that an alliance, not a robot revolution, is in their best interest-but will they succeed? The futures of mankind and robotkind wait for the answers!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85495.Isaac_Asimov_s_Robots_and_Aliens_2"}, +{"book_title": "The Calling", "author_name": "James Frey", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 17772, "review_number": 2254, "book_description": "Twelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed gold and they built our earliest civilizations to mine it for them. When they had what they needed, they left. But before they left, they told us someday they would come back, and when they did, a game would be played. A game that would determine our future.This is Endgame.For ten thousand years the lines have existed in secret. The 12 original lines of humanity. Each had to have a Player prepared at all times. They have trained generation after generation after generation. In weapons, languages, history, tactics, disguise assassination. Together the players are everything: strong, kind, ruthless, loyal, smart, stupid, ugly, lustful, mean, fickle, beautiful, calculating, lazy, exuberant, weak. They are good and evil. Like you. Like all.This is Endgame.When the game starts, the players will have to find three keys. The keys are somewhere on earth. The only rule of their Endgame is that there are no rules. Whoever finds the keys first wins the game. Endgame: The Calling is about the hunt for the first key. And just as it tells the story of the hunt for a hidden key, written into the book is a puzzle. It invites readers to play their own Endgame and to try to solve the puzzle. Whoever does will open a case filled with gold. Alongside the puzzle will be a revolutionary mobile game built by Google\u2019s Niantic Labs that will allow you to play a real-world version of Endgame where you can join one of the lines and do battle with people around you.Will exuberance beat strength? Stupidity top kindness? Laziness thwart beauty? Will the winner be good or evil? There is only one way to find out.Play.Survive.Solve.People of Earth.Endgame has begun.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20510241-the-calling"}, +{"book_title": "Guardian Alien", "author_name": "Susan Grant", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 727, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "NOTE: Previously published as Your Planet or Mine?!To save Earth, she needed a GUARDIAN ALIENJana has one goal: steer clear of scandal while outrageously false accusations pile up against her famous political family. But when her childhood \u201cimaginary friend\u201d Cavin shows up\u2014all grown up\u2014dressed in armor and warning of an imminent alien invasion, she has no choice but to take him to her leader.Cavin has never forgotten the girl he met during his visit to Earth, the girl who didn't believe he was real. And now, as a decorated space marine, he'll risk his future to save her. That means staying one step ahead of government agents, Jana\u2019s suspicious grandpa, and the galaxy's most feared assassin\u2014all while keeping her political reputation squeaky clean. If everything goes as planned, they\u2019ll save the world\u2014and he\u2019ll also capture his favorite Earthling\u2019s heart.The Borderlands Series:Book #1 WARLEADERBook #2 HUNTING THE WARLORD'S DAUGHTERBook #3 RAIDER BORNThree Borderlands prequels: (The Otherworldly Men Series):Book #1 GUARDIAN ALIENBook #2 ROYALLY MATEDBook #3 CYBORG AND THE SINGLE MOM", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53241067-guardian-alien"}, +{"book_title": "Orphans of the Sky", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 9508, "review_number": 447, "book_description": "A fix-up consisting of the novelette \"Universe\" (1941) and the novella \"Common Sense\" (1941). First published in 1963.Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was actually allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the Universe, and as long as the sacred Convertor was fed, the lights would continue to glow and the air would flow, and the Creator's Plan would be fulfilled.Of course, there were the muties, grotesquely deformed parodies of humans, who lurked in the upper reaches of the Ship where gravity was weaker. Were they evil incarnate, or merely a divine check on the population, keeping humanity from expanding past the capacity of the Ship to support?Then Hugh was captured by the muties and met their leader (or leaders), Joe-Jim, with two heads on one body. And he learned the true nature of the Ship and its mission between the stars. But could he make his people believe him before it was to late? Could he make them believe that he must be allowed to fly the ship?", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Young Adult", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50832.Orphans_of_the_Sky"}, +{"book_title": "Beginnings: Obsidian & Onyx", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 6249, "review_number": 710, "book_description": "Now available together for the first time, don't miss Obsidian and Onyx, the first two books in Jennifer L. Armentrout's bestselling Lux series. Also includes bonus content exclusive to the print edition! \"A thrilling ride from start to finish,\" says RT Book Reviews.ObsidianThere\u2019s an alien next door. And with his looming height and eerie green eyes, he\u2019s hot\u2026 until he opens his mouth. He\u2019s infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, he marks me. Turns out he has a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal his abilities and the only way I\u2019m getting out of this alive is by sticking close to him until my alien mojo fades. If I don\u2019t kill him first, that is.OnyxDaemon\u2019s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I\u2019ve sworn him off, even though he\u2019s running more hot than cold these days. But we\u2019ve got bigger problems. I\u2019ve seen someone who shouldn\u2019t be alive. And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he\u2019s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them\u2014from me?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19081403-beginnings"}, +{"book_title": "Judson's Eden", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.05, "rating_votes": 22, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "When Marl Judson, fleeing a rapacious government that wanted not just his fabulous wealth but his life, crash-landed on a uninhabited planet, het thought he was marooned without hope of rescue, so he prepared himself to live out his remaining years as best he could amidst the planet's weird hallucinogenic flora. But head-twitsting flowers (which Judson learned to avoid) were only part of the planet's weirdness: it was possessed of some sort of field effect which made time play strange trics; temporal anomalies sometimes resulted in cause preceding effect and bizarre compressions and expansions of the normal pace of events.In such an environment time had no meaning; has Jusdson lived centuries alone, or only decades? Or is it years? Or all of the above? He doesn't quite know, but when another ship crashes the strange time effects allow(ed) him to conduct an experiment aimed at producing a perfect society, a veritable Judson's Eden. The the Snake arrives in the form of the government that marooned him - and the Snake wants Judson's Eden for itself.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/940879.Judson_s_Eden"}, +{"book_title": "I Love My Robot (Love Meez #4", "author_name": "Caroline Jayne Church", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 41, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Follow along as Caroline Jayne Church's adorable Love Meez preschooler Henry shows readers just what makes his robot so special!Love Meez stories help foster social and emotional growth for the preschool set. And with touch-and-feels, heart-melting illustrations, and preschool-friendly text, I Love My Robotis a special book to love and read again and again! Includes:- Touch-and-feels- Foil!Safe for all ages.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens", "Space", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25779130-i-love-my-robot"}, +{"book_title": "The Island", "author_name": "Jen Minkman", "rating_score": 2.94, "rating_votes": 2229, "review_number": 428, "book_description": "No longer available in english.I walk toward the sea. The endless surface of the water extends to the horizon, whichever way I look.Our world is small. We are on our own, and we only have ourselves to depend on. We rely on the Force deep within us, as taught to us by our forefathers. If I were to walk westward from here, I would come across a barrier \u2013 the Wall. Behind it, there are Fools. At least, that\u2019s what everyone says.I have never seen one.Leia lives on the Island, a world in which children leave their parents to take care of themselves when they are ten years old. Across this Island runs a wall that no one has ever crossed. The Fools living behind it are not amenable to reason \u2013 they believe in illusions. That\u2019s what The Book says, the only thing left to the Eastern Islanders by their ancestors.But when a strange man washes ashore and Leia meets a Fool face to face, her life will never be the same. Is what she and her friends believe about the Island really true?Or is everyone in their world, in fact, a Fool?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Mystery", "Romance", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17825118-the-island"}, +{"book_title": "The Triumphant", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 929, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Two new powerhouses of science fiction, David Weber and Linda Evans, continue the amplified history of the Bolo, the nearly indestructible tank/artificial intelligence that changed the shape of the galaxy.Contains:The Farmer's WifeLittle Red HenLittle Dog GoneMiles to GoA Brief Technical History of the BoloA Brief Design History of the BoloGeneral Armament Notes", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/470056.The_Triumphant"}, +{"book_title": "Great Sky River", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1750, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "After the events of Across the Sea of Suns, small groups of humans have settled on other star systems. However, there is a constant threat from the Mechs, a civilization of machines left over from other civilizations and evolved to see all biological civilization as unstable and dangerous.Great Sky River tells the story of the Bishop family, who fight for their very existence on the planet Snowglade, which has been taken over by the Mechs. The Bishops are one of a number of families on Snowglade, all named for chess pieces. These \"families\" are more like clans or tribes. All use cybernetic implants and mechanical aids to enhance their perceptions and physical abilities. Personalities of dead members of the Family can be stored in memory tabs and accessed by plugging them into ports implanted in the neck. Bodily functions, such as the sexual drive, can be turned off to remove distractions. The Families seem to be equipped for long conflicts and periods of privation, continually migrating to avoid the Mechs.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453975.Great_Sky_River"}, +{"book_title": "Inconstant Moon", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 161, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Stan and Leslie watch as the moon becomes impossibly bright; then the sky lights up and seems on fire. Has the sun gone nova and these are their last few hours alive? As Los Angeles drowns in storms and people move from shock to terror, Stan and Leslie face their own mortality, as Stan seeks to understand what has happened.Written with intelligence and humor, Larry Niven's Hugo Award-winning short story became an \"Outer Limits\" episode. \"Inconstant Moon\" invites you to ask yourself, \"How would you spend your last night on Earth?\"\"Inconstant Moon\" appears in the Niven collection ALL THE MYRIAD WAYS (available as an e-book) and the British collection INCONSTANT MOON. Author of the celebrated RINGWORLD novels, Larry Niven is co-author of such bestsellers as LUCIFER'S HAMMER and THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE. \"Great storytelling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven.\" - Orson Scott Card, author of ENDER'S GAME.\"The scope of Larry Niven's work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can.\"- Tom Clancy, author of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER\"His tales have grit, authenticity, colorful characters and pulse-pounding narrative drive. Niven is a true master!\"- Frederik Pohl \"Larry Niven is one of the giants of modern science fiction.\"- Mike Resnick \"Our premier hard SF writer.\"- The Baltimore Sun \"Niven ... lifts the reader far from the conventional world -- and does it with dash.\"- The Los Angeles Times \"Niven...juggles huge concepts of time and space that no one else can lift.\" - Charles Sheffield \"In creating a geologic world and in the interactions between humans and aliens, Niven is superb.\"- Boston Sunday Globe \"One of the genre's most prolific and accessible talents.\"- Library Journal about the author:Born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Technology; flunked out after discovering a book store jammed with used science fiction magazines. Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. Interests: Science fiction conventions, role playing games, AAAS meetings and other gatherings of people at the cutting edges of science. Comics. Filk singing. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. Moving mankind into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. Several times we\u2019ve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. I grew up with dogs. I live with a cat, and borrow dogs to hike with. I have passing acquaintance with raccoons and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans has certainly gained me insight into alien intelligences. www.larryniven.net", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18924572-inconstant-moon"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Stormdancer", "author_name": "Jay Kristoff", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 450, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Your blood-red skies are filled with smoke. Your bleach-white histories with lies. You walk sleeping. Wake senseless. Breathing deep of toxic blooms and forgetting all that has gone before.But I remember.I remember when two brothers waged bloody war over the right to sit in their father\u2019s empty chair. I remember when orphaned twins faced each other across a field of crimson and steel, the fate of the Shima Sh\u014dgunate hanging in the poisoned sky between them.I remember when a blind boy stood before a court of storms and talons, armed only with a thin sword and a muttered prophecy and a desperate dream of saving the world.I remember when the skies above Shima were not red, but blue. Filled with thunder tigers.I remember when they left you.And I remember why.Let me tell you, monkey-child.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18129100-the-last-stormdancer"}, +{"book_title": "Riv's Sanctuary", "author_name": "A.G. Wilde", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 812, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Abducted from Earth over a year ago, Lauren spent most of that time getting accustomed to her new life as one of the \u201canimals\u201d in an alien zoo.When she\u2019s sold by the zookeeper, her life takes a turn she wasn\u2019t expecting. She has no idea where she\u2019ll end up till she\u2019s brought to a sanctuary owned by a tall blue hunk of an alien called Riv.Riv\u2019s life is quiet and peaceful in a place as far away from civilization as he can manage. So when an annoying chatterbox of a human ends up on his doorstep, he\u2019s less than pleased. The human disrupts his life and his solitude and he can\u2019t wait to get rid of her.He\u2019s not interested in helping her, and he\u2019s definitely not interested in love. Except\u2026she\u2019s managed to wheedle her way in and suddenly those barriers around his heart don\u2019t seem so strong anymore.He has two options: Let her go.Or let her in.Riv\u2019s Sanctuary is a full-length standalone sci-fi romance featuring a lovable heroine and a hot, grumpy, and possessive hero who would do anything to protect the one who shows him how to love.If you like sexy aliens, adventure, and steamy romance, check out Riv\u2019s Sanctuary.This standalone book contains:- Steamy scenes- HEA- No cheating- No cliffhangers", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55057761-riv-s-sanctuary"}, +{"book_title": "The Third Side", "author_name": "Stephen J. Sweeney", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 380, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Simon Dodds has had his wings clipped. Shot down over the luxurious holiday planet Mythos and separated from his wingmates, he is quick to discover that the once-popular sun-soaked paradise has been transformed into a nightmarish war zone, swarming with armies of seemingly unstoppable black-suited soldiers. The Pandoran war machine is on the move, preparing to advance The Mission and deal to the rest of the galaxy the same fate it did the Mitikas Empire.Unaware of what fate may have befallen his friends, the young pilot attempts to make his way through the dangerous streets of the war-torn city of New Malaga, as he waits for the CSN to rush to the rescue.But from out of the chaos emerges something far more terrible; and if Dodds can somehow survive the next 24 hours, he might finally see beyond the lies he has been fed and hear a side to the story that no one wants him to: what really happened to the Imperium, who the black-suited warriors are, what the ATAFs were built for...... and what his purpose in all of it is. Whether he likes it or not.There are three sides to every story.But sometimes the truth is the hardest side to believe.---THE THIRD SIDE is the second book in the BATTLE FOR THE SOLAR SYSTEM trilogy, and the follow-up to the enormously popular HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS.---148,000 words~ 500 print pages", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12566687-the-third-side"}, +{"book_title": "Schooled in Magic", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 5093, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "Emily is a teenage girl pulled from our world into a world of magic and mystery by a necromancer who intends to sacrifice her to the dark gods. Rescued in the nick of time by an enigmatic sorcerer, she discovers that she possesses magical powers and must go to Whitehall School to learn how to master them. There, she learns the locals believe that she is a \"Child of Destiny,\" someone whose choices might save or damn their world ... a title that earns her both friends and enemies. A stranger in a very strange land, she may never fit into her new world ... ...and the necromancer is still hunting her. If Emily can't stop him, he might bring about the end of days. Book I in the Schooled in Magic series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Academic (School)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20927280-schooled-in-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Deadly In Pink: A Cyberpunk Novella", "author_name": "Matthew A. Goodwin", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 22, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Before she was a wise-cracking Street Samurai, Ynna was a genetically modified designer baby perfectly crafted for the pride of her parents. After an unfortunate event forces her to leave the lap of luxury for the mean streets of BA City, she has to learn to fend for herself. With nothing more than her wits and a desire to unlock her potential, Ynna discovers that the world is not what she thought it was. With the help of some local kids, a slimy weapons dealer and a kind man who offers her shelter, she makes opportunities out of hardship. While difficulties and poor decision-making dog her steps, she is forced to unlock a strength she had within her all along. How does a young person trade in their silver spoon for a machine gun? Find out in Deadly in Pink: A Cyberpunk Novella.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53546902-deadly-in-pink"}, +{"book_title": "Enemy of Mine", "author_name": "Red L. Jameson", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 238, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Kidnapping mortals to different eras is such fun. Trickster muse sisters, Clio and Erato, call it a glimpse, but military historian Minerva Ferguson, Erva, is fairly certain she\u2019s gone nuts when she wakes two hundred miles from her apartment. And two hundred years in the past to Brooklyn, 1776. In an unfamiliar manse, during the American Revolutionary War, she\u2019s not too sure how to regain her sanity. Especially when she realizes whose mansion she\u2019s just woken in, the one British general she studied more than anything else, Lord William Hill. When Will hears Erva\u2019s screams of panic, he breaks down a door to save her, even if he can\u2019t quite remember why she\u2019s visiting. She calms, though, the instant she sees him, as if they\u2019ve known each other for eons. From the second he sees her dressed in a toga made from a bed sheet to later when she\u2019s with his troops, wooing them with her musket skills, he realizes he\u2019s smitten. But he\u2019s a weary soldier, shrouded in grief, while she reminds him of a sun goddess. Is she too good for him? Lord, how he wants her to want him. How could Erva not fall for a guy who accidentally quotes a Cheap Trick song? But now she has to get to the bottom of if Will is really a rake, how to stop one of the most important battles of the war, and lastly how to stop her insane crush on the general. After all, he\u2019s going to die in less than a week. The muses have to work fast for this glimpse. But that\u2019s when they work best. And as explosions erupt through New York, sometimes it\u2019s not from the artillery. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23481673-enemy-of-mine"}, +{"book_title": "House of Leights", "author_name": "Jaymin Eve", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 3307, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "Maya has never had much to complain about. Sure, her parents are absent a lot, having important jobs in the government, but at the end of the day she has all the material possessions a girl could want. Not to mention a great best friend, and secure spot in the popular group at her school. Yet she can never shake the feeling of displacement. Constantly searching for something that\u2019s missing from her life. Turns out Maya is part of something much bigger than her human existence, and after a mysterious stranger saves her from an ambush at a party, he brings her into his world. And turns her world completely upside down.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40241655-house-of-leights"}, +{"book_title": "Factotum", "author_name": "D.M. Cornish", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2638, "review_number": 251, "book_description": "Rossamund Bookchild stands accused of not truly being a human at all, but of being a monster. Even the protection of Europe, the Branden Rose-the most feared and renowned monster-hunter in all the Half-Continent-might not be enough to save him. Powerful forces move against them both, intent on capturing Rossamund- whose existence some believe may hold the secret to perpetual youth. ", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7787857-factotum"}, +{"book_title": "Stella", "author_name": "Richard Winder", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 9, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Her name is Stella. She loves sunshine and fresh bagels, and absolutely hates space travel. She's a rookie cop, making her way in a 25th Century world complicated by Universal Legal Care and automation taxes. Cornered by a villainous conspiracy, she is trapped aboard an antique star-liner mockingly called the City of One. There she finds new friends, intrigue, and the fight of her life. Cyborg warriors from a long-forgotten colony threaten her, the ship, and civilized space. Is this the end of everything? Not if Stella can help it!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15741155-stella"}, +{"book_title": "Dreamcatcher", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 154284, "review_number": 2679, "book_description": "What might be done to human beings by the \"Other\"--whether the \"Other\" be vampires, demons or creatures from outer space--is always in competition for absolute horror with what we do to ourselves. Stephen King has, in his time, played with both sources of the nightmarish and in Dreamcatcher, the first complete novel since his near-fatal accident, he gives us both.Four childhood friends, united by secrets, are caught in the quarantine zone when something crashes into the remote forests of Maine; and the question becomes who will avoid being eaten alive by alien fungi, torn from the inside by alien ferrets, possessed by alien minds or menaced by a psychotic military commander to whom ruthlessness has become a macho ego trip?The Earth is in peril as well, needless to say, but most of our attention is taken up with a few men caught on the edge, and where the most important thing in the world turns out to be the fact that four small boys saved a fifth from a beating.This has the hall-marks of a good King novel--memorable catchphrases whose meaning we only gradually learn and a sense of how it feels to be human. --Roz Kaveney", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11570.Dreamcatcher"}, +{"book_title": "Against a Dark Background", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 14715, "review_number": 440, "book_description": "She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families.Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. On an island with a glass shore - relic of some even more ancient conflict - she discovers she is to be hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes she is the last obstacle before their faith's apotheosis. She has to run, knowing her only hope of finally escaping the Huhsz is to find the last of the ancient, apocalyptically powerful but seemingly cursed Lazy Guns. But that is just the first as well as the final step on a search that takes her on an odyssey through the exotic Golterian system and results in both a trail of destruction and a journey into her own past, as well as that of her family and the system itself; a journey that changes everything.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Novels", "Banking (Banks)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/422452.Against_a_Dark_Background"}, +{"book_title": "The Rising Storm", "author_name": "Doug Dandridge", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 483, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "They're Back, and They want to End us.The Ca'cadasan Empire is at the gates, and they mean to destroy the human race. But we will not go quietly into the night.The saga continues, as Sean Ogden Lee Romanov finds himself the uncrowned leader of the New Terran Empire. After two thousand years the old enemy has found them, but the humans are no longer the technologically inferior species they once were. A thousand years of Empire has forged a mighty military that has never lost a war. The Ca'cadasans are still slightly ahead in tech, are much larger, and have never failed in a conquest. There is dissension within as Parliament wants to put their own man in charge, and Sean is woefully unprepared for the task that awaits him. Time is running out, and if the Empire and the species are to survive the new man must be installed and humanity must rally behind him. New technologies are on the horizon, the technologies on which the course of the war could turn, for better or worse. War rages across the stars on a Galactic scale. The third book of a series that will span over a century of time and tens of thousands of light years of space.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17997406-the-rising-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Night Watch", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 97313, "review_number": 2441, "book_description": "'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.'For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the flags and barricades are rising...And the question for a policeman, an officer of the law, a defender of the peace, is:Are you with them, or are you against them?", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47989.Night_Watch"}, +{"book_title": "The Lottery", "author_name": "Shirley Jackson", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 60351, "review_number": 3207, "book_description": "Shirley Jackson's \"The Lottery\" is a memorable and terrifying masterpiece, fueled by a tension that creeps up on you slowly without any clear indication of why. This is just a townful of people, after all, choosing their numbers for the annual lottery. What's there to be scared of?", "year_published": 1948, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Classics", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Academic (School)", "Academic (Read For School)", "Science Fiction", "Literature", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6219656-the-lottery"}, +{"book_title": "Murder of Crows", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 38085, "review_number": 2934, "book_description": "Return to New York Times best-selling author Anne Bishop\u2019s world of the Others - where supernatural entities and humans struggle to co-exist, and one woman has begun to change all the rules.\u2026After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them. As a human, Meg should be barely tolerated prey, but her abilities as a cassandra sangue make her something more.The appearance of two addictive drugs has sparked violence between the humans and the Others, resulting in the murder of both species in nearby cities. So when Meg has a dream about blood and black feathers in the snow, Simon Wolfgard - Lakeside\u2019s shape-shifting leader - wonders if their blood prophet dreamed of a past attack or a future threat.As the urge to speak prophecies strikes Meg more frequently, trouble finds its way inside the Courtyard. Now, the Others and the handful of humans residing there must work together to stop the man bent on reclaiming their blood prophet - and stop the danger that threatens to destroy them all.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17563080-murder-of-crows"}, +{"book_title": "Good Morning, Midnight", "author_name": "Lily Brooks-Dalton", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 11902, "review_number": 1975, "book_description": "Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the sky for evidence of how the universe began. At his latest posting, in a research center in the Arctic, news of a catastrophic event arrives. The scientists are forced to evacuate, but Augustine stubbornly refuses to abandon his work. Shortly after the others have gone, Augustine discovers a mysterious child, Iris, and realizes the airwaves have gone silent. They are alone. At the same time, Mission Specialist Sullivan is aboard the Aether on its return flight from Jupiter. The astronauts are the first human beings to delve this deep into space, and Sully has made peace with the sacrifices required of her: a daughter left behind, a marriage ended. So far the journey has been a success, but when Mission Control falls inexplicably silent, Sully and her crew mates are forced to wonder if they will ever get home. As Augustine and Sully each face an uncertain future against forbidding yet beautiful landscapes, their stories gradually intertwine in a profound and unexpected conclusion. In crystalline prose, Good Morning, Midnight poses the most important questions: What endures at the end of the world? How do we make sense of our lives?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27405160-good-morning-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Tech World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 5161, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien bidder.In the third book in the series, James McGill is deployed on another alien world. His third interstellar tour is different in every way. Rather than meeting up with a primitive society, this time he\u2019s headed to an advanced world. Tau Ceti, better known as Tech World, is the central trading capital of Frontier 921.McGill figures he\u2019s lucked out. The assignment looks dull but luxurious. Tau Ceti boasts a planet-wide city with a trillion inhabitants, all of whom are only interested in making a few credits. But all is not well on Tech World. The Empire is crumbling, an invasion is coming, and McGill\u2019s easy ride through life and death has come to an end.Tech World is a military science fiction novel by bestselling author B. V. Larson.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22853297-tech-world"}, +{"book_title": "Probability Moon", "author_name": "Nancy Kress", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1386, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "Earth is an environmental disaster area when humanity gains new hope: a star gate is discovered in the solar system, built by a long-gone alien race. Earth establishes extrasolar colonies and discovers alien races--including the warlike Fallers, the only spacefaring race besides humans. Mysterious, uncommunicative, and relentlessly bent on humanity's extinction, the Fallers have mastered the star gates, and are closing in on earth. Dr. Bazargan commands the scientific team sent to a newly discovered world to study its humanoid natives: beings who literally perceive only one reality. To lie is to be unreal--and condemned to death. The humans must flee for their lives across the unknown planet when they and the aliens learn the scientific mission is a lie. It's the cover for a secret military exploration of the moon Tas, which is another artifact of the gate-makers: a superweapon capable of annihilating all life in a star system, and already known to the Fallers. Nancy Kress has won the Hugo, the Sturgeon, and three Nebula Awards. She is justly acclaimed as a literary SF writer, but receives little acknowledgement that her work is hard SF. Probability Moon should change this, winning her many new readers while pleasing her fans. It's a rare and desirable hybrid: a literary, military, hard-SF novel. Set in the same world as her Nebula- and Sturgeon-winning novelette, \"Flowers of Aulit Prison,\" Probability Moon is the first book of a trilogy, but it has a self-contained story line. The sequel, Probability Sun, will appear in 2001, and the concluding book will be The Fabric of Space. --Cynthia Ward", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68322.Probability_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "Jan's Atomic Heart and Other Stories", "author_name": "Simon Roy", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 128, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "From the mind of Simon Roy, co-writer and artist of the Eisner Award-nominated series PROPHET, comes a collection of tales that span time, space, and species.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20299676-jan-s-atomic-heart-and-other-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Greybeard", "author_name": "Brian W. Aldiss", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1656, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger generation coming to replace them; instead nature is rushing back to obliterate the disaster they have brought on themselves.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669100.Greybeard"}, +{"book_title": "Obernewtyn", "author_name": "Isobelle Carmody", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 11265, "review_number": 763, "book_description": "The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book OneFor Elspeth Gordie freedom is-like so much else after the Great White-a memory. It was a time known as the Age of Chaos. In a final explosive flash everything was destroyed. The few who survived banded together and formed a Council for protection. But people like Elspeth-mysteriously born with powerful mental abilities-are feared by the Council and hunted down like animals...to be destroyed.Her only hope for survival to is keep her power hidden. But is secrecy enough against the terrible power of the Council?", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47916.Obernewtyn"}, +{"book_title": "RIM", "author_name": "Alexander Besher", "rating_score": 3.11, "rating_votes": 309, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "In the wake of a mega-earthquake in 2027 Japan, the virtual-reality entertainment empire Satori Corporation attempts to rescue thousands of people trapped in virtual worlds, including the ten-year-old son of professor Frank Gobi. Reprint.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/403761.RIM"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The Devil's Opera", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 818, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. New York Times Best Selling Series Eric Flint and David Carrico serve up the latest entry in the best-selling alternate history saga of them all, the Ring of Fire! After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia take on a murderous conspiracy of operatic proportions in Magdeburg, the capital of the United States of Europe.It is the year 1636. The United States of Europe, the new nation formed by an alliance between the King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and the West Virginians hurled back in time by a cosmic accident, is on the verge of civil war. His brain injured in the war with Poland, the USE's emperor Gustavus Adolphus is no longer in command. Enter Swedish chancellor Oxenstierna, a leader of aristocratic reaction against democracy. His goal, to assemble the forces of the hidebound ruling class in Berlin and drown the revolution in a bloodbath.In Magdeburg, the capital of the USE, Mike Stearns' wife Rebecca Abrabanel is organizing popular resistance to Oxenstierna's plot. As part of the resistance, the American musician Marla Linder and her company of down-time musical partners are staging an opera that will celebrate the struggle against oppression. Princess Kristina, the heir to the USE's throne, is now residing in Magdeburg and is giving them her support and encouragement.But another plot is underway--this one right in the heart of the capital itself, and with murder as its method. The only people standing in the way are a crippled boy and the boxing champion who befriended him, and an unlikely pair of policemen. Can the American detective Byron Chieske and his down-timer partner Gotthilf Hoch thwart the killers before they succeed in their goal?About 1636: The Devil's Opera:\"Another engaging alternate history from a master of the genre\" Booklist \". . . an old-style police-procedural mystery, set in 17th century Germany. . . . the threads . . . spin together . . . to weave an addictively entertaining story. . . . a strong addition to a fun series.\" Daily News of Galveston CountyAbout Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series: \"This alternate history series is 'a landmark'\" Booklist\"[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\" Booklist \"reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis\" Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Literature (17th Century)", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571494-1636"}, +{"book_title": "Eye of the Tiger", "author_name": "Michael-Scott Earle", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2800, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "Imprisoned and subjected to brutal genetic experiments, space marine Adam has been changed into a perfect predator. A super soldier that is part man, part tiger, and all killing machine. When his latest mission has an unexpected outcome, Adam finds himself free of his explosive control collar and honor bound to protect a mysterious woman. Now he is on an alien planet, and they are both being hunted by the most powerful mega corporation in the solar system. Their only escape lays at the helm of an experimental starship hidden beyond countless layers of military security. All Adam has is his military training, sense of honor, and a beautiful woman who needs to drink blood to live. It is time to let the tiger out.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Polyamorous (Harem)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34829165-eye-of-the-tiger"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow Hour", "author_name": "Melissa Grey", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2468, "review_number": 371, "book_description": "A battle has been won. But the war has only just begun.Everything in Echo\u2019s life changed in a blinding flash when she learned the startling truth: she is the firebird, the creature of light that is said to bring peace.The firebird has come into the world, but it has not come alone. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and Echo can feel a great and terrible darkness rising in the distance. Cosmic forces threaten to tear the world apart.Echo has already lost her home, her family, and her boyfriend. Now, as the firebird, her path is filled with even greater dangers than the ones she\u2019s already overcome.She knows the Dragon Prince will not fall without a fight.Echo must decide: can she wield the power of her true nature\u2014or will it prove too strong for her, and burn what\u2019s left of her world to the ground?Welcome to the shadow hour.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27245910-the-shadow-hour"}, +{"book_title": "PSI/Net", "author_name": "Billy Dee Williams", "rating_score": 2.97, "rating_votes": 37, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "On November 12, 1995 the CIA issued a report admitting that military and intelligence services had used psychics for spying or \"remote viewing\". Project Stargate, as it was called, is the premise of this nerve-jangling thriller.Former Air Force Major Trent Calloway just wants to forget about his past, especially the tragedy that changed his life when he was involved in a government remote viewing project. With his marriage ruined in the aftermath of his psychic spying, he wanders the Southwest, occasionally guiding river rafting tours. And then suddenly his painful past returns and threatens to damage him again.He finds out that he had been drugged during his remote viewing sessions and that the drug, now years later, is causing ever increasing side-effects in himself and the other government psychic spies he worked with - and that their psychic abilities are still expanding at frightening rates.He realizes that the unknown drug he and the other psychic spies unwillingly took has bound them all together in a deadly psychic nexus, a \"PSI net\", that has trapped Callaway, who must now fight for his life and his sanity as he struggles for the security of the United States and its people.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1160955.PSI_Net"}, +{"book_title": "Saven Deception", "author_name": "Siobhan Davis", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1222, "review_number": 272, "book_description": "A girl with a hidden past. An alien prince. Their unlikely attraction could save two worlds\u2026 or doom them all\u2026Sadie Owens desperately needed a do-over. When she\u2019s chosen for a six-month residency in a government-run undersea city, she willingly drops everything to participate. After all, the experiment could be a huge step forward for her overcrowded planet and her life. The instant Sadie crosses paths with a hot guy with ocean-blue eyes she\u2019s drawn to him in a way she can\u2019t explain. But Logan gives Sadie mixed signals, and she can\u2019t figure him out.Logan Chandler has kept a lot of secrets for his species. If humans knew the real reason the Saven were on Earth, then their coexistence would be anything but peaceful. Logan has vowed to stay away from human girls, but he can\u2019t help falling for the different and beautiful Sadie. Unfortunately, protecting the girl of his destiny could destroy his own kind\u2026As the mystery of the Saven starts to unravel, is it too late for Sadie to save her heart and the human race?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42510024-saven-deception"}, +{"book_title": "The Rebirth", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 713, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "A brilliant young scientist rises to power on Cyteen, haunted by the knowledge that her predecessorand genetic duplicatedied at the hands of one of her trusted advisors. Murder, politics, and genetic manipulation provide the framework for the latest Union-Alliance novel by the author of Downbelow Station. Cherryh's talent for intense, literate storytelling maintains interest throughout this long, complex novel.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57136.The_Rebirth"}, +{"book_title": "Chained by Night", "author_name": "Larissa Ione", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 4631, "review_number": 457, "book_description": "New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Larissa Ione sets the night on fire with a thrilling new novel of irresistible hungers and immortal enemies in a world as sensual and dark as her Demonica series ...THE FUTURE OF HIS TRIBELeader of the vampire clan MoonBound, Hunter will do what he must to save his people from extinction - or worse, a torturous eternity as vampire slaves and subjects of human experimentation. To keep his enemies at bay, he has agreed to mate a rival clan leader's daughter in return for peace between the clans and an ally in the looming war with the humans.THE LOVER OF HIS SOULBut survival comes at a price. First, Hunter must break an ancient curse by successfully negotiating three deadly tests. Then he must resist the searing passions of the gorgeous vampire warrior he despises but is bound to mate. Will Hunter stay true to his word? Or will he risk everything for the woman he really loves: the vampire seductress's identical twin sister?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803815-chained-by-night"}, +{"book_title": "The Assassin and the Desert", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 30882, "review_number": 1456, "book_description": "The Silent Assassins of the Red Desert aren\u2019t much for conversation, and Celaena Sardothien wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. She\u2019s not there to chatter, she\u2019s there to hone her craft as the world\u2019s most feared killer for hire. When the quiet is shattered by forces who want to destroy the Silent Assassins, Celaena must find a way to stop them, or she\u2019ll be lucky to leave the desert alive.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "New Adult", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13419891-the-assassin-and-the-desert"}, +{"book_title": "Rivers", "author_name": "Michael Farris Smith", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2048, "review_number": 424, "book_description": "For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, \u201ca wonderfully cinematic story\u201d (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region.It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn\u2019t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land.The Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. Years of catastrophic hurricanes have so punished and depleted the region that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules\u2014including Cohen, whose wife and unborn child were killed during an evacuation attempt. He buried them on family land and never left.But after he is ambushed and his home is ransacked, Cohen is forced to flee. On the road north, he is captured by Aggie, a fanatical, snake-handling preacher who has a colony of captives and dangerous visions of repopulating the barren region. Now Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman\u2019s prisoners across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing down\u2014and Cohen harboring a secret that poses the greatest threat of all.Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.\u201cThis is the kind of book that lifts you up with its mesmerizing language then pulls you under like a riptide\u201d (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "American (Southern)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Novels", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130400-rivers"}, +{"book_title": "Zazen", "author_name": "Vanessa Veselka", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1290, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "Somewhere in Della\u2019s consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last.Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della\u2019s revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own insular beliefs. Her activist restaurant co-workers, who would rather change their identities than the world around them, resume a shallow rebellion of hair-dye, sex parties, and self-absorption. As those bombs keep inching closer, thudding deep and real between the sounds of katydids fluttering in the still of the city night, and the destruction begins to excite her. What begins as terror threats called in to greasy bro-bars across the block boils over into a desperate plot, intoxicating and captivating Della and leaving her little chance for escape.Zazen unfolds as a search for clarity soured by irresolution and catastrophe, yet made vital by the thin, wild veins of imagination run through each escalating moment, tensing and relaxing, unfurling and ensnaring. Vanessa Veselka renders Della and her world with beautiful, freighting, and phantasmagorically intelligent accuracy, crafting from their shattered constitutions a perversely perfect mirror for our own selves and state.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Unfinished", "Literary Fiction", "Literature", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5762055-zazen"}, +{"book_title": "Asterix and the Falling Sky", "author_name": "Albert Uderzo", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 2999, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "The Gauls have only one fear: that the sky may fall on their heads tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes, says Chief Vitalstatistix. Or does it? It looks as if it's come at last for Asterix, Obelix and the other villagers. And some surprising new characters fall along with the sky. Our friends soon find themselves in the middle of a space race...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Cultural (France)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71294.Asterix_and_the_Falling_Sky"}, +{"book_title": "Tomorrow Land", "author_name": "Mari Mancusi", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1449, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "Can true love survive the zombie apocalypse? Nineteen-year-old Peyton Anderson will never forget the day she was forced to make a choice--between her family--and Chris Parker, the boy she\u2019d given her heart. Now four years later, as she steps out from the fallout shelter and into a zombie-infested world, he\u2019s the only thing on her mind. Thanks to her father Peyton is now built to survive: with razor tipped nails, ocular implants and cybernetics that make her stronger, faster, and able to protect herself in a world filled with monsters. Yet all the weapons in the world can\u2019t protect her heart when she runs into Chris again. The once sweet boy of her childhood has now grown into a tortured man--still furious at her for breaking his heart and never telling him why. Now the two of them find themselves on the run, forced to fight their way down the monster strewn east coast to reach the last human outpost on Earth: Walt Disney World. Can they find a way to let go of old hurts and regain the love they lost--all while attempting to save what\u2019s left of the human race? ", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13501083-tomorrow-land"}, +{"book_title": "Trickster's Queen", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 59409, "review_number": 1083, "book_description": "Aly\u2019s adventure continues\u2026. No longer a slave, Alanna\u2019s daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be realized. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenage queen and her younger siblings safe, while also keeping her in the dark about her future. But Aly, who is usually adept at anticipating danger and changes, is in for a few nasty surprises.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34197390-trickster-s-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 8405, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive \"cyberpunk\" short fiction collection.Contents:The Gernsback Continuum (1981) by William GibsonSnake-Eyes (1986) by Tom MaddoxRock On (1984) by Pat CadiganTales of Houdini (1981) by Rudy Rucker400 Boys (1983) by Marc LaidlawSolstice (1985) by James Patrick KellyPetra (1982) by Greg BearTill Human Voices Wake Us (1984) by Lewis ShinerFreezone (1985) by John ShirleyStone Lives (1985) by Paul Di FilippoRed Star, Winter Orbit (1983) by William Gibson and Bruce SterlingMozart in Mirrorshades (1984) by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302702.Mirrorshades"}, +{"book_title": "2001: A Space Odyssey", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 266548, "review_number": 6031, "book_description": "On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Literature", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70535.2001"}, +{"book_title": "Archetype", "author_name": "M.D. Waters", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 4207, "review_number": 745, "book_description": "In a future where women are a rare commodity, Emma fights for freedom but is held captive by the love of two men\u2014one her husband, the other her worst enemy. If only she could remember which is which . . . \u00a0 In the stunning first volume of a two-book series, Emma wakes with her memory wiped clean. Her husband, Declan\u2014a powerful and seductive man\u2014narrates the story of her past, but Emma\u2019s dreams contradict him. They show her war, a camp where girls are trained to be wives, and love for another man. Something inside warns her not to speak of these things, but the line between her dreams and reality is about to shatter forever.\u00a0", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adult", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821094-archetype"}, +{"book_title": "My Robot Ate My Homework", "author_name": "Nancy E. Krulik", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 34, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Logan better study up on his geography facts so he doesn\u2019t flunk out!Third-grader Logan Applebaum has the perfect solution to finding time for all that pesky homework\u2014just have his cousin, Java, do it for him. With a robot cousin, Logan\u2019s pretty much guaranteed straight As.But when Mrs. Perriwinkle announces that the class will have a geography bee, Logan realizes that if he doesn\u2019t want to be exposed as a cheater, he\u2019s going to have to hit the books and fill his own hard drive with facts.The competition\u2019s going to be tough. And the more time he spends studying, the more he wants to show what he\u2019s learned. Can Logan out-smart the mega mean Silverspoon twins who win at everything and a cousin who\u2019s a super computer to come out on top as the geography king?Internationally bestselling author Nancy Krulik and her incredibly talented daughter, Amanda Burwasser spin hilarious high jinks in the third book in the Project Droid series, which combines the literalness of Amelia Bedelia with a wacky modern edge, making for hours of laughter. And the fun continues with an activity in the back!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31212934-my-robot-ate-my-homework"}, +{"book_title": "Trillium", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 4003, "review_number": 490, "book_description": "Award-winning and fan favorite comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed loved through space in time in TRILLIUM!It's the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space. It's the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled \"Lost Temple of the Incas,\" an elusive sanctuary said to have strange healing properties. Two disparate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles. Yet they will fall in love and, as a result, bring about the end of the universe. Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. This isn't just a love story, it's the LAST love story ever told.Collects TRILLIUM #1-8.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20726481-trillium"}, +{"book_title": "Paradox Bound", "author_name": "Peter Clines", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 7312, "review_number": 946, "book_description": "Eli\u2019s willing to admit it: he\u2019s a little obsessed with the mysterious woman he met years ago. Okay, maybe a lot obsessed. But come on, how often do you meet someone who\u2019s driving a hundred-year-old car, clad in Revolutionary-War era clothes, wielding an oddly modified flintlock rifle\u2014someone who pauses just long enough to reveal strange things about you and your world before disappearing in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires?So when the traveler finally reappears in his life, Eli is determined that this time he\u2019s not going to let her go without getting some answers. But his determination soon leads him into a strange, dangerous world and a chase not just across the country but through a hundred years of history\u2014with nothing less than America\u2019s past, present, and future at stake.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33825757-paradox-bound"}, +{"book_title": "Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3303, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Revolt in 2100: After the fall of the American Ayatollahs (as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land) there is a Second American Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a land with Liberty and Justice for All. Methuselah's Children: Americans are fiercely proud of the freedom they seized in Revolt in 2100. Nothing could make them forswear it. Nothing except the secret of immortality....", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20416.Revolt_in_2100_Methuselah_s_Children"}, +{"book_title": "Victory's Bright Dawn", "author_name": "Eric Thomson", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 350, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Captain Siobhan Dunmoore wanted to believe the long war against the invading Shrehari Empire had finally banished the ghosts of her past. But when her ship Iolanthe, a heavily armed man-of-war masked as a bulk freighter, finds itself in need of replenishment after a long patrol spent stalking human and alien foes, she is confronted with events eerily reminiscent of a past she thought buried. When evidence of treason and marauders bold enough to strike a Navy outpost leave her no choice, Dunmoore knows she must finish the cleanup job Fleet Headquarters ordered her to abandon years ago. Fortunately, Iolanthe and her crew are the perfect instruments with which to dispense much-needed retribution, despite General Orders and the Fleet\u2018s bureaucracy doing their best to tie a captain\u2019s hands. With her ship taking on the guise of a privateer, she sets out on a merciless hunt to eliminate a band of soulless soldiers of fortune and teach the ghosts of her past a lesson they will never forget.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35033855-victory-s-bright-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Rise of the Alliance", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2994, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Episode 12A new ally providing aid\u2026An old ally joining the fight\u2026Their resources growing with each passing day\u2026Their homeworld finally on the road to recovery\u2026Things finally seem to be coming together for Captain Scott and the Alliance, as he takes his forces on the offensive. However, the Jung may in turn give him more trouble than he bargained for.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Business (Amazon)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23363485-rise-of-the-alliance"}, +{"book_title": "Fire In Her Eyes", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2077, "review_number": 320, "book_description": "For months, I've been chased by a red dragon. They're the females of the dragon shifter invaders, fierce and vicious and as ruthless as they are wild. She hunts me wherever I go, and I'm not safe even behind the walls of a fort. There's only one thing I can do to stop her\u2026 \u2026And that's to take her as my mate. But to win the heart of a female dragon, I have to conquer her first. Not so easy for a human man...but Teva's worth the challenge.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50906486-fire-in-her-eyes"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Iron", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 5460, "review_number": 545, "book_description": "In Victorian London, if you\u2019re not a blue blood of the Echelon then you\u2019re nothing at all. The Great Houses rule the city with an iron fist, imposing their strict \u2018blood taxes\u2019 on the nation, and the Queen is merely a puppet on a string\u2026Lena Todd makes the perfect spy. Nobody suspects the flirtatious debutante could be a sympathizer for the humanist movement haunting London\u2019s vicious blue blood elite. Not even the ruthless Will Carver, the one man she can\u2019t twist around her little finger, and the one man whose kiss she can\u2019t forget\u2026Stricken with the loupe and considered little more than a slave-without-a-collar to the blue bloods, Will wants nothing to do with the Echelon or the dangerous beauty who drives him to the very edge of control. But when he finds a coded letter on Lena\u2014a code that matches one he saw on a fire-bombing suspect\u2014he realizes she\u2019s in trouble. To protect her, he must seduce the truth from her.With the humanists looking to start a war with the Echelon, Lena and Will must race against time\u2014and an automaton army\u2014to stop the humanist plot before it\u2019s too late. But as they fight to save a city on the brink of revolution, the greatest danger might just be to their hearts\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15927484-heart-of-iron"}, +{"book_title": "Old City Blues", "author_name": "Giannis Milonogiannis", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 276, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The year is 2048. Southeastern Europe. Built on the ruins of the country once known as Greece, New Athens is a city crawling with life \u2014 low-life, that is. From mech smugglers and drug dealers, to corrupt politicians and all-too-powerful corporations, the city is at the mercy of high-tech criminals. And it\u2019s up to Solano, Thermidor, and the rest of the New Athens Special Police to keep the city in order. When the cybernetically augmented founder of a tech corporation called Hayashi is found murdered, it seems to be just another case of cyborg persecution. But Hayashi Corporation\u2019s strange response to the incident raises suspicion in Solano and the Special Police. The mystery they unravel will lead them straight into the wasteland of the Old City.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Manga)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11081997-old-city-blues"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette, Volume X", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 130, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 10 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.Stories include:* The Prepared Mind by Kim Mackey* Little Angel by Kerryn Offord* None So Blind by David Carrico* On the Matter of D'Artagnan by Bradley H. Sinor* A Filthy Story by Aamund Breivik* Twenty-eight Men by Mark Huston* Star Crossed: Lies, Truths and Consequences by Jose J. Clavell* The Salon by Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff* The Launcher by Richard Evans* Fiddling Stranger by Russ Rittgers* Grand Tour by Iver P. Cooper* Franconia! by Virginia DeMarce* Doctor Phil's Family by Kerryn Offord* Boris, Natasha... But Where's Bullwinkle* Crude Penicillin: Potential and Limitations by Vincent W. Coljee* All Roads Lead. . . by Iver P. Cooper* The Feast by Anette Pedersen", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8673698-grantville-gazette-volume-x"}, +{"book_title": "The Incal", "author_name": "Alejandro Jodorowsky", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 7018, "review_number": 657, "book_description": "John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called \"The Incal.\" Difool's adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy's greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic proportions that has Difool fighting for not only his very survival, but also the survival of the entire universe.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10842223-the-incal"}, +{"book_title": "Helsreach", "author_name": "Aaron Dembski-Bowden", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1755, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "When the world of Armageddon is attacked by orks, the Black Templars Space Marine Chapter are amongst those sent to liberate it. Chaplain Grimaldus and a band of Black Templars are charged with the defence of Hive Helsreach from the xenos invaders in one of the many battlezones. But as the orks numbers grow and the Space Marines dwindle, Grimaldus faces a desperate last stand in an Imperial temple. Determined to sell their lives dearly, will the Black Templars hold on long enough to be reinforced, or will their sacrifice ultimately be in vain.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6949471-helsreach"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Generals", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 345, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Leadership makes all the difference! At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had -- Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had had -- Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run, and Lincoln had become a Confederate prisoner? The possibilities are endless....", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77693.Alternate_Generals"}, +{"book_title": "Warprize", "author_name": "Elizabeth Vaughan", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 17093, "review_number": 977, "book_description": "\nSHE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN HER PEOPLE AND HER FREEDOM...Xylara is the Daughter of the Warrior King, Xyron. With her father dead and her incompetent half-brother on the throne, the kingdom is in danger of falling to the warring Firelanders. Before she was old enough for a marriage-of-alliance, Xylara was trained as a healer. She can't usurp her brother or negotiate a peace--but she can heal the brave ones injured in battle.But not only her countrymen are wounded, and Xylara's conscience won't let Firelander warriors die when she can do something to save them. She learns their language and their customs and tries to make them as comfortable as possible, despite their prisoner-of-war status.She never expects that these deeds, done in good faith, would lead to the handsome and mysterious Firelander Warlord demanding her in exchange for a cease-fire. Xylara knows must trade the life she has always known for the well-being of her people, and so she becomes...The Warprize\n", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78070.Warprize"}, +{"book_title": "Unseemly Science", "author_name": "Rod Duncan", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1308, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "In the divided land of England, Elizabeth Barnabus has been living a double life - as both herself and as her brother, the private detective. Witnessing the hanging of Alice Carter, the false duchess, Elizabeth resolves to throw the Bullet Catcher's Handbook into the fire, and forget her past. If only it were that easy!There is a new charitable organisation in town, run by some highly respectable women. But something doesn't feel right to Elizabeth. Perhaps it is time for her fictional brother to come out of retirement for one last case...? Her unstoppable curiosity leads her to a dark world of body-snatching, unseemly experimentation, politics and scandal. Never was it harder for a woman in a man's world..", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22238689-unseemly-science"}, +{"book_title": "Sleeping Beauties", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 68386, "review_number": 7300, "book_description": "In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, and the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place. The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied, or is she a demon who must be slain?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466922-sleeping-beauties"}, +{"book_title": "Here I Go Again", "author_name": "Jen Lancaster", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 8372, "review_number": 1162, "book_description": "Hilarious new fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Is the New Black and If You Were Here .Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesn't understand why her glory days ended. Back then, she was worshipped...beloved...feared. Present day, not so much. She's been pink-slipped from her high-paying job, dumped by her husband, and kicked out of her condo. Now, at thirty-seven, she's struggling to start a business out of her parents' garage and sleeping under the hair-band posters in her old bedroom.Lissy finally realizes karma is the only bitch bigger than she was. Her present is miserable because of her past. But it's not like she can go back in time and change who she was...or can she?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13585792-here-i-go-again"}, +{"book_title": "Three", "author_name": "Jay Posey", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 2859, "review_number": 318, "book_description": "The world has collapsed, and there are no heroes any more.But when a lone gunman reluctantly accepts the mantel of protector to a young boy and his dying mother against the forces that pursue them, a hero may yet arise.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17162150-three"}, +{"book_title": "Cloud Atlas", "author_name": "David Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 223007, "review_number": 19681, "book_description": "A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.But the story doesn\u2019t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Contemporary", "Novels", "Literary Fiction", "Literature", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49628.Cloud_Atlas"}, +{"book_title": "Only Ever Yours", "author_name": "Louise O'Neill", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 13404, "review_number": 2239, "book_description": "In a world in which baby girls are no longer born naturally, women are bred in schools, trained in the arts of pleasing men until they are ready for the outside world. At graduation, the most highly rated girls become \u201ccompanions\u201d, permitted to live with their husbands and breed sons until they are no longer useful.For the girls left behind, the future \u2013 as a concubine or a teacher \u2013 is grim.Best friends Freida and Isabel are sure they\u2019ll be chosen as companions \u2013 they are among the most highly rated girls in their year.But as the intensity of final year takes hold, Isabel does the unthinkable and starts to put on weight. ..And then, into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride.Freida must fight for her future \u2013 even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known. . .", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Feminism", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Contemporary", "European Literature (Irish Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21805717-only-ever-yours"}, +{"book_title": "Waiting for Yesterday", "author_name": "Jenny Lykins", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 176, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Columbus, Ohio, 1997. When Barrett Overbrook arrived at the roadside bed-and-breakfast, she was in an emotional tailspin from the current turn of events her life had taken. Soon after checking into her room, Barrett falls asleep. But by the next morning, her life will be changed forever as she awakens to find herself in the same place in the year 1887 taking part in an event that will change her life forever--childbirth! A \"Time Passages\" romance.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance", "Westerns", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1343303.Waiting_for_Yesterday"}, +{"book_title": "FreeFormed Hybrids", "author_name": "Joe Vizanko", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 7, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "At the center is the human homeworlds, a three planetary system where humans were born. All throughout the galaxy are colonies of humans, only a handful knows they are not alone. Earth, will have first contact with other humans and slowly learn of its role in the community. The homeworlds are in decline, completely dependent on machines and overrun by excesses of sex and drugs. Their society has become stagnant, slowly dying. The people of Earth are \u201cFreeFormed\u201d, they are allowed to freely develop and no other colony is like them because emotions are feared, but Earth is the key to humanity\u2019s survival.Now, a mortal enemy has invaded another human colony and must be confronted. These strange humanoid creatures are after the homeworlds, but why? They bring with them an horrific truth and the fate of our universe is uncertain.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19327567-freeformed-hybrids"}, +{"book_title": "Glow", "author_name": "Amy Kathleen Ryan", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 13074, "review_number": 2024, "book_description": "One of School Library Journal\u2019s Best Fiction Books of 2011If a violent battle destroyed the only world you\u2019ve ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there\u2019s no turning back.The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of\u00a0New Earth.\u00a0Waverly knows she must marry young in order to have children who can carry on the mission, and Kieran, the handsome captain-to-be, has everything Waverly could want in a husband. Everyone is sure he\u2019s the best choice. Still, there\u2019s a part of Waverly that wants more from life than marriage, and she is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth.Suddenly, Waverly\u2019s dreams are interrupted by the inconceivable \u2013 a violent betrayal by the Empyrean's sister ship, the New Horizon. The New Horizon\u2019s leaders are desperate to populate the new planet first, and will do anything to get what they need: young girls. In one pivotal moment, Waverly and Kieran are separated, and find themselves at the helm of dangerous missions, where every move has potentially devastating consequences, and decisions of the heart may lead to disaster.Pulse-pounding and addictive,\u00a0Glow begins Amy Kathleen Ryan's Sky Chasers--the most riveting series since The Hunger Games.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10174795-glow"}, +{"book_title": "Mastiff", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 26035, "review_number": 1631, "book_description": "The Hunt is on!Three years have passed since Beka Cooper almost died in the sewers of Port Caynn, and she is now a respected member of the Provost's Guard. But her life takes an unexpected turn when her fianc\u00e9 is killed on a slave raid. Beka is faced with a mixture of emotions as, unbeknownst to many, she was about to call the engagement off.It is as Beka is facing these feelings that Lord Gershom appears at her door. Within hours, Beka; her partner, Tunstall; her scent hound, Achoo; and an unusual but powerful mage are working on an extremely secretive case that threatens the future of the Tortallan royal family, and therefore the entire Tortallan government. As Beka delves deeper into the motivations of the criminals she now Hunts, she learns of deep-seated political dissatisfaction, betrayal, and corruption. These are people with power, money, and influence. They are able to hire the most skilled of mages, well versed in the darkest forms of magic. And they are nearly impossible to identify.This case - a Hunt that will take her to places she's never been - will challenge Beka's tracking skills beyond the city walls, as well as her ability to judge exactly whom she can trust with her life and country's future.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2964700-mastiff"}, +{"book_title": "Zenith", "author_name": "Sasha Alsberg", "rating_score": 3.11, "rating_votes": 4624, "review_number": 1427, "book_description": "Most know Androma Racella as the Bloody Baroness, a powerful mercenary whose reign of terror stretches across the Mirabel Galaxy. To those aboard her glass starship, Marauder, however, she's just Andi, their friend and fearless leader.But when a routine mission goes awry, the Marauder's all-girl crew is tested as they find themselves in a treacherous situation and at the mercy of a sadistic bounty hunter from Andi's past.Meanwhile, across the galaxy, a ruthless ruler waits in the shadows of the planet Xen Ptera, biding her time to exact revenge for the destruction of her people. The pieces of her deadly plan are about to fall into place, unleashing a plot that will tear Mirabel in two.Andi and her crew embark on a dangerous, soul-testing journey that could restore order to their ship or just as easily start a war that will devour worlds. As the Marauder hurtles toward the unknown, and Mirabel hangs in the balance, the only certainty is that in a galaxy run on lies and illusion, no one can be trusted.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "New Adult", "Space", "Fiction", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31394234-zenith"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Red Road", "author_name": "Moira Young", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 60855, "review_number": 5842, "book_description": "Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when four cloaked horsemen capture Lugh, Saba's world is shattered, and she embarks on a quest to get him back.Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the outside world, Saba discovers she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba's unrelenting search for Lugh stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917938-blood-red-road"}, +{"book_title": "Broken World", "author_name": "Kate L. Mary", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2847, "review_number": 342, "book_description": " A story of survival and horror, friendship and prejudice, Broken World will take you on an emotional journey that will leave you wanting more! When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Vivian Thomas sets out for California in hopes of seeing the daughter she gave up for adoption. But when her car breaks down she\u2019s faced with a choice: give up or accept a ride from redneck brothers, Angus and Axl. Vivian knows the offer has more to do with her double D\u2019s than kindness, but she\u2019s prepared to do whatever it takes to reach her daughter. The virus is spreading, and by the time the group makes it to California, most of the population has been wiped out. When the dead start coming back, Vivian and the others realize that no electricity or running water are the least of their concerns. Now Vivian must learn how to be a mom under the most frightening circumstances, cope with Angus\u2019s aggressive mood swings, and sort out her growing attraction to his brooding younger brother, Axl. While searching for a safe place to go, the group meets a pompous billionaire who may be the answer to all their problems. Trusting him means going into the middle of the Mojave Desert and possibly risking their lives, but with the streets overrun and nowhere else to turn, it seems he might be their only chance for survival. Grab your copy before it's too late... ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22671440-broken-world"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 8", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 857, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Killy and Dhomochevsky don't trust each other, but they have a more pressing concern: retrieving Cibo's capsule of human genetic information. The capsule has been stolen by the Silicon Creatures, who will use it to attempt a provisional connection to the Netsphere. Older teens.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32302.Blame_Vol_8"}, +{"book_title": "Steal Across the Sky", "author_name": "Nancy Kress", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 1217, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "Aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet. The Atoners claim to have wronged humanity ten thousand years before, and request 21 volunteers to visit seven planets and Witness for us. At first, everyone thought it was a joke. Three of those volunteers tell what they found on Kular A and Kular B.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Religion", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5226164-steal-across-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Xenocide", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 144396, "review_number": 3902, "book_description": "The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, and a second xenocide seems inevitable.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8648.Xenocide"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Kells", "author_name": "R.A. MacAvoy", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1694, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "An unusual and original work of fantasy from the acclaimed author of Tea with the Black Dragon. A contemporary man, John Thornburn (a meek, non-violent and unpredictable artist) and woman, Derval (his tough, confrontational, strong and warrior-like lover) time travel to ancient Ireland to avenge a Viking attack. Packed with fascinating details of historical time and place in Irish history and delicately balanced on the border between realism and fantasy, the story centers around one of the most famous and beautiful illuminated manuscripts in history, the legendary but entirely real Book of Kells. Celtic history blends with magical fantasy for a strange and immersive tale of adventure.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Cultural (Ireland)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "European Literature (Irish Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/941468.The_Book_of_Kells"}, +{"book_title": "Aztec Century", "author_name": "Christopher Evans", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 89, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Britain has fallen to the technological might of the Aztec Empire whose armies have rampaged across the globe. Now, for the first time in a millennium, the British are a subject race. Inevitably there is resistance - and among those determined to fight the invaders is Princess Catherine, elder daughter of the British monarch. But she is torn between her patriotism and her growing involvement, political and personal, with the Aztecs - and with one Aztec in particular. Then her sister is arrested and exiled for her part in an alleged terrorist attack - and Catherine finds herself walking a perilous tightrope... Sweeping from occupied Britain to the horrors of the Russian front and the savage splendour of the imperial capital in Mexico, Aztec Century is a magnificent novel of war, politics, intrigue and romance, set in a world that is both familiar - and terrifyingly alien. Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1993", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2673540-aztec-century"}, +{"book_title": "Across the Universe: Tales of Alternative Beatles", "author_name": "Michael A. Ventrella", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 18, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Sorcerers, superheroes, and zombies.Out of work, out of luck, out of practice.Gods, clods, or four simple lads.Here are the Beatles as you've never known them before: singing for their supper, singing for their souls, and singing to save the world.Join 25 remarkable authors as they take you Across the Universe.Featuring the stories of: Spider Robinson, Gregory Benford, David Gerrold, Allen M. Steele, Pat Cadigan, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Jody Lynn Nye, Gregory Frost, Cat Rambo, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Gail Z. Martin, Bev Vincent, Brenda W. Clough, Alan Goldsher, Gordon Linzner, Beth W. Patterson, Christian H. Smith, Sally Wiener Grotta, Kenneth Schneyer, Charles Barouch, Carol Gyzander, Patrick Barb, R. Jean Mathieu, Eric Avedissian, and Matthew F. Amati.\"This collection is a Magical Mystery Tour through alternate universes where the familiar narrative of the Beatles is turned on its head. Or ear. Or ass. It's fun, irreverent, sexy, and twisted--just like the Fab Four themselves.\" --Vicki Peterson, The Bangles\"I must have read a thousand Beatles books. But not one of them mentioned that the Beatles were attacked by aliens at the Hollywood Bowl. Or talked about their encounter with the Mersey Monster. Or discussed how they became zombies. I had to learn all of this from the thoroughly entertaining anthology Across the Universe. Each of its 25 stories of speculative fiction re-imagine The Beatles in alternative universes, allowing us to laugh at and with John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Highly recommended!\" --Scott Freiman, creator of Deconstructing the Beatles\"Across the Universe is way too much fun! It's the Beatles in the Twilight Zone of infinite possibilities! Highly recommended!\" --Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-Wars and Rage\"Across the Universe is a fantastic, freewheeling, and imaginative romp of a collection. The authors transported me not only across the universe, but to what might have been in many and various alternate universes, all populated by the Beatles and their peculiar possible transmutations. Totally engrossing.\" --Paul Marshall, I See Hawks In L.A., Strawberry Alarm Clock", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48992998-across-the-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Castro's Bomb", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 170, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Set in 1963 after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Castro and his army use weapons left behind by the Russians to seize the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay and then plan missile strikes against the U.S. From the corridors of power -- with John F. Kennedy trying desperately to retain his leadership and keep the war from escalating -- to soldiers and civilians both American and Cuban, this high-voltage novel follows the bloody fighting and struggles on the ground while never losing sight of how war can transform people and set in motion some highly unexpected consequences.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13009485-castro-s-bomb"}, +{"book_title": "The Faded Sun Trilogy", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 4882, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "They were the mri - tall, secretive, bound by honor and the rigid dictates of their society. For aeons this golden-skinned, golden-eyed race had provided the universe mercenary soldiers of almost unimaginable ability. But now the mri have faced an enemy unlike any other - an enemy whose only way of war is widespread destruction. These \"humans\" are mass fighters, creatures of the herd, and the mri have been slaughtered like animals.Now, in the aftermath of war, the mri face extinction. It will be up to three individuals to save whatever remains of this devastated race: a warrior - one of the last survivors of his kind; a priestess of this honorable people; and a lone human - a man sworn to aid the enemy of his own kind. Can they retrace the galaxy-wide path of this nomadic race back through millennia to reclaim the ancient world which first gave them life? \"This is a powerful story...inspiring in its determination and feeling of strange loyalties and stranger courage. It sticks in the mind long after the last page is finished.\"-- Analog", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57042.The_Faded_Sun_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "Redeeming Vows", "author_name": "Catherine Bybee", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1712, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "For her own safety, modern day, single mom, Lizzy McAllister is forced to bow to the medieval men who surround her when she's thrust back in time to the sixteenth century against her will. When Lizzie finds herself trapped in time with Fin, the one man she finds both irresistible and maddening, she agrees to combine forces with him to rid Scotland of the evil witch, Grainna. Finlay MacCoinnich's attraction to Lizzie sizzles the very air they breathe. Tearing down the solid walls the woman has built around her won't be easy, but he's willing to do anything to keep her by his side. When a spell cast by their deadliest foe throws them forward in time, will they manage to find their way back in time to save their family from peril? And will Lizzy willingly stay in his time, or abandon him altogether?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10157998-redeeming-vows"}, +{"book_title": "The Outcast", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1303, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "When Sameena\u2019s brother accidentally annoys a religious leader on her homeworld, her entire family is targeted for elimination. Forced to flee to save her life, Sameena stows away on a trader starship and is eventually welcomed into the crew, embracing their very different culture and making a new life for herself amongst the stars. But the Galactic Empire is starting the final descent into chaos and her new home is on the verge of collapse, while secretive forces are maneuvering to take advantage of the Empire\u2019s collapse. If Sameena cannot find a way to keep some small part of civilization intact, the galaxy will crash into a new dark age that will last far longer than a thousand years.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18134020-the-outcast"}, +{"book_title": "Merrick's Maiden", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2068, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "Merrick Ta\u2019Duran is the powerful leader of the Eastern Mountain Clan on the Prime world of Baade. His people, known as the Ghosts of the Forests, live high in the Eastern mountains. Merrick feels the weight of responsibility as the males within his clan become desperate to find mates among the few remaining females. When word comes that a new species has been discovered, he knows he must do what is right for his people - even if it means traveling to a strange, alien realm to do it. Merrick\u2019s world changes when he is injured and captured by a ruthless group of humans. Drugged and held against his will, he is the subject of experiments and testing as the humans try to discover where he came from and duplicate his strength and ability to heal quickly. After months of captivity, he fears his life will end on the strange world until one chance encounter gives him hope.Addie Banks\u2019 world has been one of silence since a devastating illness when she was sixteen. Determined to stand on her own two feet, she goes to school during the day and works at night to put herself through college. Her life unexpectedly changes when she stumbles across something she wasn\u2019t supposed to see while at work. Now, she hears a voice in her head - and it is driving her crazy. Her only hope for peace is to help the creature talking to her escape from the men holding him. Merrick knows the female who helps him is his bond mate. She may deny it. She may fight it. She may even try to run from it. It won\u2019t matter. She is his and he will do everything he can to convince her, hold her, even kidnap her if that is what it takes to make her realized that they belong together. Will Addie hear the love and longing in Merrick\u2019s voice? Can she trust and accept the new life he has to offer? Or, will a ruthless killer silence him before she gets a chance?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18249939-merrick-s-maiden"}, +{"book_title": "The Violet and the Tom", "author_name": "Eve Ocotillo", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2674, "review_number": 330, "book_description": "In what might have been the middle ages, had neither Alexander the Great nor Jesus the prophet died young, the Greek State is a powerful economic force in southern Europe, and slavery is a profitable and well-entrenched social institution. Nygell, a Lord of the Northern Isles, is given the gift of a Grecian slave by the King. Nygell wants no such responsibility.A homoerotic romance. Set in an alternate universe with institutionalized slavery, thus consent is by nature dubious at best. Elements of BDSM.Status: CompleteWord count: approx. 100,865 ", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8164754-the-violet-and-the-tom"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow Revolution", "author_name": "Clay Griffith", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 1739, "review_number": 305, "book_description": "They are the realm\u2019s last, best defense against supernatural evil. But they\u2019re going to need a lot more silver.As fog descends, obscuring the gas lamps of Victorian London, werewolves prowl the shadows of back alleys. But they have infiltrated the inner circles of upper-crust society as well. Only a handful of specially gifted practitioners are equipped to battle the beasts. Among them are the roguish Simon Archer, who conceals his powers as a spell-casting scribe behind the smooth veneer of a dashing playboy; his layabout mentor, Nick Barker, who prefers a good pub to thrilling heroics; and the self-possessed alchemist Kate Anstruther, who is equally at home in a ballroom as she is on a battlefield.After a lycanthrope targets Kate\u2019s vulnerable younger sister, the three join forces with fierce Scottish monster-hunter Malcolm MacFarlane\u2014but quickly discover they\u2019re dealing with a threat far greater than anything they ever imagined.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22926502-the-shadow-revolution"}, +{"book_title": "Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life", "author_name": "Gaby Wood", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 293, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "During the eighteenth century, the inventor Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that seemingly could digest and excrete its food. A few decades later, Europeans fell in love with \"the Turk,\" a celebrated chess-playing machine built in 1769. Thomas Edison was obsessed for years with making a talking mechanical doll, one of his few failures as an inventor. In our own time, scientists at MIT are trying to build a robot with emotions of its own.What lies behind our age-old pursuit to create mechanical life? What does this pursuit tell us about human nature? In Edison's Eve Gaby Wood traces the history of robotics, from its most brilliant inventions to its most ingenious hoaxes. Joining lively anecdote with literary, cultural, and philosophical insights, Wood offers a captivating and learned work of science and history.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "History", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Culture (Cultural Studies)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science (History Of Science)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49999.Edison_s_Eve"}, +{"book_title": "Unwind", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 198757, "review_number": 18987, "book_description": "Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child \"unwound,\" whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764347.Unwind"}, +{"book_title": "The Vorkosigan Companion", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1341, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Lois McMaster Bujold's best-selling Vorkosigan series is a publishing phenomenon, winning record-breaking sales, critical praise, four Hugo Awards and a Nebula award. And the thousands of devotees of the series now have a book that will be a goldmine of information, background details, and little-known facts about the Vorkosigan saga. Included are an all-new interview with Bujold as well as essays by her on crafting the Vorkosigan universe, articles on the biology, technology and sociology of the planet Barrayar, appreciations of the individual novels by experts, maps, a complete timeline of the series, and more. Readers can't get enough of the Vorkosigan series and they'll jump at the chance to read this story behind the stories. Baen has a new novel in the Vorkosigan series under contract.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Reference", "Fantasy", "Literary Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4033355-the-vorkosigan-companion"}, +{"book_title": "Futureland", "author_name": "Walter Mosley", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1320, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "Projecting a near-future United States in which justice is blind in at least one eye and the ranks of the disenchanted have swollen to dangerous levels, Mosely offers nine interconnected stories whose characters appear and reappear in each others' lives. For all its denizens, from technocrats to terrorists, celebs to crooks, \"Futureland\" is an all-American nightmare just waiting to happen.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (African American)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84529.Futureland"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl with the Windup Heart", "author_name": "Kady Cross", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 3440, "review_number": 371, "book_description": "In 1897 London, a final showdown is about to begin.London's underworld is no place for a young woman, even one who is strong, smart and part-automaton like Mila. But when master criminal Jack Dandy inadvertently breaks her heart, she takes off, determined to find an independent life, one entirely her own. Her search takes her to the spangled shadows of the West End's most dazzling circus.Meanwhile, taken captive in the Aether, Griffin King is trapped in an inescapable prison, and at the mercy of his archenemy, The Machinist. If he breaks under the hellish torment, The Machinist will claim his powers and control of the Aether itself, and no one in either world will be safe-especially not Finley Jayne and her misfit band of friends.Finley plunges headlong into the Aether the only way she knows how, by temporarily dying. But she cannot parry The Machinist's maneuvers for long. To defeat him for good, Griffin will have to confront his greatest fear and finally come face-to-face with the destructive power he wields.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513756-the-girl-with-the-windup-heart"}, +{"book_title": "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 16821, "review_number": 1647, "book_description": "He was born with great powerThe greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells--the greatest power is the power to create.Daniel X has that power.And a deadly secretDaniel's secret abilities - like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses - have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn't have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond anyone's imagining.Now the fate of the world rests on Daniel XFrom the day that his parents were brutally murdered before his very eyes, Daniel has used his unique gifts to hunt down their assassin. Finally, with the help of The List, bequeathed to him in his parents' dying breath, he is closing in on the killer.Now, on his own, he vows to take on his father's mission - and to take vengeance in the process.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2235597.The_Dangerous_Days_of_Daniel_X"}, +{"book_title": "Goblin Secrets", "author_name": "William Alexander", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 2188, "review_number": 477, "book_description": "In the town of Zombay, there is a witch named Graba who has clockwork chicken legs and moves her house around\u2014much like the fairy tale figure of Baba Yaga. Graba takes in stray children, and Rownie is the youngest boy in her household. Rownie\u2019s only real relative is his older brother Rowan, who is an actor. But acting is outlawed in Zombay, and Rowan has disappeared.Desperate to find him, Rownie joins up with a troupe of goblins who skirt the law to put on plays. But their plays are not only for entertainment, and the masks they use are for more than make-believe. The goblins also want to find Rowan\u2014because Rowan might be the only person who can save the town from being flooded by a mighty river.This accessible, atmospheric fantasy takes a gentle look at love, loss, and family while delivering a fast-paced adventure that is sure to satisfy.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12809970-goblin-secrets"}, +{"book_title": "Marvel 1602", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 54543, "review_number": 1879, "book_description": "In Marvel 1602, award-winning writer Neil Gaiman presents a unique vision of the Marvel Universe set four hundred years in the past. Classic Marvel icons such as the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and Daredevil appear in this intriguing world of 17th-century science and sorcery, instantly familiar to readers, yet subtly different in this new time. Marvel 1602 combines classic Marvel action and adventure with the historically accurate setting of Queen Elizabeth I's reign to create a unique series unlike any other published by Marvel Comics.Collecting Marvel 1602 #1-8 - penciled by andy Kubert and digitally painted by Richard Isanove, with covers by Scott McKowen.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15719.Marvel_1602"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Jurassic Jackrabbits from Jupiter", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1314, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "With more than one million books in print, Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot are a big hit with children! But have they finally met their match with the Jurassic Jack Rabbits from Jupiter?It's Ricky Ricotta's birthday, and as a special treat, his parents are taking him and his Mighty Robot to see dinosaurs at the museum. Too bad they've also invited Ricky's little cousin Lucy--she's a real pest! When they get to the museum, all the dinosaurs are missing their heads . . . because an evil spacebunny from Jupiter has used the dino DNA to create Jurassic Jack Rabbits! Now it's up to the entire Ricotta family, including Lucy, to stop them from taking over the planet. With their easy-to-read language and action-packed pictures, the Ricky Ricotta books are ideal for beginning readers.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269537.Ricky_Ricotta_s_Mighty_Robot_vs_the_Jurassic_Jackrabbits_from_Jupiter"}, +{"book_title": "Ones and Zeroes", "author_name": "Dan Wells", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 826, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.Overworld. It\u2019s more than just the world\u2019s most popular e-sport\u2014for thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life. It means fame and fortune, or maybe it\u2019s a ticket out of obscurity or poverty. If you have a connection to the internet and four friends you trust with your life, anything is possible.Marisa Carneseca is on the hunt for a mysterious hacker named Grendel when she receives word that her amateur Overworld team has been invited to Forward Motion, one of the most exclusive tournaments of the year. For Marisa, this could mean anything\u2014a chance to finally go pro and to help her family, stuck in an LA neighborhood on the wrong side of the growing divide between the rich and the poor. But Forward Motion turns out to be more than it seems\u2014rife with corruption, infighting, and danger\u2014and Marisa runs headlong into Alain Bensoussan, a beautiful, dangerous underground freedom fighter who reveals to her the darker side of the forces behind the tournament. It soon becomes clear that, in this game, winning might be the only way to get out alive.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Futuristic", "Games (Gaming)", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30255941-ones-and-zeroes"}, +{"book_title": "Johnny Alucard", "author_name": "Kim Newman", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1029, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "DRACULA COMES TO NEW YORK: Kim Newman returns to one of the great bestselling vampire tales of the modern era. Considered alongside\u00a0I Am Legend\u00a0and\u00a0Interview with\u00a0theVampire\u00a0as one of the\u00a0stand-out\u00a0vampire stories of the last century - this\u00a0brand-new novel is the first in over a decade from the remarkable and influential\u00a0Anno Dracula\u00a0series.Newman\u2019s dark and impish tale begins with a single question: What if Dracula had survived his encounters with Bram Stoker\u2019s Dr. John Seward and enslaved Victorian England?Fallen from grace and driven from the British Empire in previous instalments,\u00a0Dracula seems long gone. A relic of the past. Yet, when vampire boy Johnny Alucard\u00a0descends upon America, stalking the streets of New York\u00a0and Hollywood,\u00a0haunting the lives of the rich and famous, from Sid and Nancy to Andy Warhol,\u00a0Orson Welles,\u00a0and Francis Ford Coppola, sinking his fangs ever deeper into the zeitgeist of\u00a01980s\u00a0America,\u00a0it seems the past might not be dead after all.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Gothic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15798788-johnny-alucard"}, +{"book_title": "This Hollow Union", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1196, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Part two of the four parts making up the full-length novel, The End of All Things.Desperate times call for desperate measures. And for the multi-species Conclave, desperate times have arrived. Faced with the prospect of major planets and species leaving the alliance, the Conclave's leadership has just a few cards left to play...to unpredictable effect. The End of All Things is John Scalzi's conclusion to the Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25349318-this-hollow-union"}, +{"book_title": "The Breakers Series: Books 1-3", "author_name": "Edward W. Robertson", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3975, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "In the Breakers series, humanity faces not one apocalypse, but two: first a lethal pandemic, then a war against those who made the virus. This collection includes the first three books and is over 1000 pages (350,000 words) of post-apocalyptic survival.BREAKERS (Book 1)In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa. In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter. A plague tears across the world, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. Civilization comes to an abrupt stop.Just as the survivors begin to adapt to the aftermath, Walt learns the virus that ended humanity wasn't created by humans. It was inflicted from outside. The colonists who sent it are ready to finish the job--and Earth's survivors may be too few and too weak to resist.MELT DOWN (Book 2)In upstate Idaho, Ness Hook is run out of his mom's house by his bullying brother Shawn. In Redding, California, Tristan Carter is graduating college, but with no job and no prospects, she'll have to move back in with her parents.Then the world ends: first with a virus, then with an alien invasion.Ness and Shawn take to the mountains to fight a guerrilla against the attackers. In California, Tristan and Alden are taken prisoner. Separated from her brother, Tristan crosses the ruins of America to track him down. She will stop at nothing to get Alden back--but her fellow survivors prove even more dangerous than the monsters who broke the world.KNIFEPOINT (Book 3)Raina was just a girl when the plague came. She survived. Her parents didn't. Neither did the world. As civilization fell, she took to the ruins of Los Angeles, eating whatever she could catch.After two years alone, she's found and adopted by a fisherman and his wife. Their makeshift family lives a quiet life--until a man named Karslaw sails in from Catalina Island with an army of conquerors. Driven by visions of empire, he executes Raina's new father as a traitor and takes her mother captive.But Karslaw's people aren't the only ones vying for control of the ruined land. As violence wracks the city, Raina joins a rebellion against Karslaw's rule. She will stop at nothing to free her mother--and to have her revenge.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18308283-the-breakers-series"}, +{"book_title": "Return to Mars", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2268, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Six years after the first manned Martian expedition, a second has been announced -- one motivated purely by its profitable potential -- and half-Navajo, half-Anglo geologist Jamie Waterman's conflicted soul is beckoning him back to the eerie, unforgiving planet. As commander of the new exploratory team, he will have to contend with a bitter and destructive rivalry, a disturbing new emotional attraction, and deadly, incomprehensible \"accidents\" that appear to be sabotage, all of which could doom the mission to failure. But there is much more at stake than Waterman's personal redemption and the safety of his crew. For there are still great secrets to be uncovered on this cruel and enigmatic world -- not the least being something he glimpsed in the far distance during his first Martian excursion: an improbable structure perched high in the planet's carmine cliffs; a dwelling that only an intelligent being could have built.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267310.Return_to_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "The Wine of Violence", "author_name": "James K. Morrow", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 221, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "On a distant planet, two human societies exist in uneasy equilibrium\u2014one wholly nonviolent, the other ferocious and cannibalisticA fact-finding mission has crash-landed on a harsh world, leaving entomologist Francis Lostwax and physicist Burne Newman marooned. The scientists are rescued by a mysterious society whose inhabitants are wholly incapable of murder, assault, rape, or any other form of aggression. Protected by a river made of liquid hate, the descendants of Quetzalia\u2019s original human colonists have devised a strange techno-religion that has in turn engendered a culture of total pacifism.While Burne undertakes to rid the planet of the savage and menacing brain-eaters that flourish beyond the utopia\u2019s walls, Francis cultivates his romantic feelings for Tez Yon, the Quetzalian surgeon who saved his life. But the entomologist\u2019s obsession with Tez\u2019s soul leads him down a dark and twisted path, in time confronting him with a terrible dilemma. Should he murder the woman he loves to save a society he abhors?", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/914307.The_Wine_of_Violence"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 6753, "review_number": 725, "book_description": "Fritz, the writer, spins a spine-tingling tale to cheer up Karl, the apprentice clockmaker. But rather than helping matters, the story begins to come true.... The stories of Karl, the apprentice; Dr. Kalmenius, his nefarious \u201csavior\u201d; Gretl, the brave daughter of the town innkeeper; and a young prince whose clockwork heart is in danger of winding down come together in surprising and magical ways in a story that has the relentless urgency of a ticking clock.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24774.Clockwork"}, +{"book_title": "The Shape Changer", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 103, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Lafayette O'Leary, to his acute discomfiture, has an exhilarating and terrifying tendency to slip continua. And what might that mean?It might mean finding oneself a gypsy with a ring in his ear at one moment, and then suddenly a crippled birdman unable to leave his nest because of the awkward loss of teleporting talent.It might mean battling one's way back to the time stream where he started -- only to find himself already there, lording it over the populace like a tyrant.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549255.The_Shape_Changer"}, +{"book_title": "Agents of Atlas: Turf Wars", "author_name": "Jeff Parker", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 119, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Disturbing visions plucked from the malignant mind of Norman Osborn lead the intrepid Agents to the darkest depths of the Atlantic Ocean, where Namora must have words with her infamous cousin - the Sub-Mariner! Then, The Agents of Atlas find themselves racing around the world to rescue their leader! Jimmy Woo and M-11 find themselves under the talons of the most terrible power in China...the deadly- and beautiful- JADE CLAW! Plus: the Atomic Age heroes meet the original gamma ray giant and learn the meaning of HULK SMASH!!! Collecting: Agents of Atlas 6-11", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Pulp", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7065115-agents-of-atlas"}, +{"book_title": "Master of Space and Time", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 484, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "The real world is unbearable to madcap inventor Harry Gerber, so he uses his genius to twist the laws of science and create his own tailor-made universe. Master of Space and Time combines high physics and high jinks, blurring the line between science and magic. From a voyage to a mirror-image world where sluglike parasites make slaves of humanity, to trees and bushes that grow fries and pork chops, to a rain of fish, author Rudy Rucker\u2014two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award\u2014takes readers on the ultimate joyride. But once the gluons at the core of Harry's creation run out ... disaster looms for Harry and his friends.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/262856.Master_of_Space_and_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Conviction", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 838, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "A starfighter squadron driven to desertionHunted by friends and enemies alikeWith one final hope for a new beginningThe last reward Kira Demirci expected for heroism in a time of war was to spend the rest of her life dodging assassins\u2014but when her government betrays her as part of their surrender, she and her comrades flee the star system of Apollo to the edge of civilized space.The Syntactic Cluster is disorganized, disunified, and in desperate need of the nova fighters Kira smuggled out of Apollo with her. With an entire squadron supposed to follow in her wake, it falls to her to build a new home for her comrades.But their enemy\u2019s reach may be longer than her worst nightmares\u2014and even her new friends may not be all that they appear\u2026", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50437787-conviction"}, +{"book_title": "The 5th Wave", "author_name": "Rick Yancey", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 400614, "review_number": 29991, "book_description": "After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101128-the-5th-wave"}, +{"book_title": "Wildcard", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 34835, "review_number": 5494, "book_description": "Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to, who she once thought was on her side.Determined to put a stop to Hideo's grim plans, Emika and the Phoenix Riders band together, only to find a new threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo. Someone's put a bounty on Emika's head, and her sole chance for survival lies with Zero and the Blackcoats, his ruthless crew. But Emika soon learns that Zero isn't all that he seems--and his protection comes at a price.Caught in a web of betrayal, with the future of free will at risk, just how far will Emika go to take down the man she loves?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29386918-wildcard"}, +{"book_title": "The Clone Betrayal", "author_name": "Steven L. Kent", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 747, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "View our feature on Steven Kent\u2019s The Clone Betrayal.Lt. Wayson Harris was born and bred as the ultimate soldier. But he is unique, possessing independence of thought. And when the military brass decide to blame the clones for the decimation of the U.A. republic, Lt. Harris decides to stop being the scapegoat, with all the firepower he can muster.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6438163-the-clone-betrayal"}, +{"book_title": "One Word Kill", "author_name": "Mark Lawrence", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 15833, "review_number": 1762, "book_description": "In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he\u2019s dying. And it isn\u2019t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange\u2014yet curiously familiar\u2014man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn\u2019t exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia\u2019s in grave danger, though she doesn\u2019t know it yet. She needs Nick\u2019s help\u2014now.He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.Challenge accepted.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39792427-one-word-kill"}, +{"book_title": "City of the Dead", "author_name": "Brian Keene", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 5685, "review_number": 298, "book_description": "As the world succumbs to a devastating plague that brings its victims back from the dead, eager to destroy all that is living, a group of survivors, trapped inside a fortified skyscraper, must fight for their survival against an indestructible enemy that keeps coming back.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90577.City_of_the_Dead"}, +{"book_title": "Bone Dance", "author_name": "Emma Bull", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1596, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "Sparrow\u2019s my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen\u2014the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between the Americas. That\u2019s the prize I\u2019m after.But it seems I\u2019m having trouble controlling my own mind.The Horsemen are coming.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Speculative Fiction", "Gender"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70583.Bone_Dance"}, +{"book_title": "Deceiving the Corsair", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 2342, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "The crew of the pirate ship the Lovesick Fool are worried about their navigator, Sentorr. He's obsessed with working, spending all his time on the bridge. It's not work the big blue alien is truly obsessed with, though. It's a female. Sentorr's convinced that Zoey, a female navigator on another pirate ship, is his mate. She won't show him her face, though, or agree to meet him. She's happy to have steamy, late-night conversations with him over comm channels, though. He's determined to find her and claim her, no matter what it takes. But when he does locate her and discovers that she's been lying to him about who - and what - she is, will he still love her? Or is the fact that Zoey's human too much for this blue-skinned male?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41136873-deceiving-the-corsair"}, +{"book_title": "Galactic Corps", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1252, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "War is foreverThe people on Earth no longer remember how the human race was nearly obliterated centuries earlier during the terror visited upon them by the merciless Xul. But the Star Marines, thirty thousand light years from home, know all too well the horror that still lives.In the year 2886, in the midst of the intergalactic war that has been raging nonstop for nearly a decade, the unthinkable has occurred. Intelligence has located the gargantuan hidden homeworld of humankind's dedicated foe, the brutal, unstoppable Xul. The time has come for the courageous men and women of the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Force to strike the killing blow. But misguided politics on an Earth that no longer supports their mission could prove the Marine's greatest enemy\u2014as they plunge bravely into the maelstrom of conflict . . . and into the heart of a million-year-old mystery.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2908382-galactic-corps"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Etta", "author_name": "Meg Elison", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 5310, "review_number": 584, "book_description": "In the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future.Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous\u2026yet desperately necessary for humankind\u2019s future. Mothers and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving the threat of brutal slave traders, who are seeking women and girls to sell and subjugate.When slavers seize those she loves, Etta vows to release and avenge them. But her mission will lead her to the stronghold of the Lion\u2014a tyrant who dominates the innocent with terror and violence. There, with no allies and few weapons besides her wits and will, she will risk both body and spirit not only to save lives but also to liberate a new world\u2019s destiny.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Feminism", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31548533-the-book-of-etta"}, +{"book_title": "Cottonwood", "author_name": "R. Lee Smith", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 2048, "review_number": 295, "book_description": "They never meant to come to Earth. They were never allowed to leave...Welcome to Cottonwood.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Dark", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17563213-cottonwood"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Fire", "author_name": "Kate Elliott", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 5003, "review_number": 445, "book_description": "Cat and her cousin are key players in a drama of dragons and politics. Everyone wants something from them - including the warlord who's conquering all Europa and the Cold Mages who dare defy him. But the Master of the Wild Hunt is most dangerous of all. He will command Cat's loyalty using what she holds most dear. In a world where science and magic are at war, one girl must save those she loves, or lose everything.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9347801-cold-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Phantom in Time", "author_name": "Eugenia Riley", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 242, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "ANGEL OF SONGBeautiful and delicate, songbird Bella De La Rosa's lilting soprano is music from heaven --- but fear has kept her confined to the chorus. And now she is onstage at New Orlean's St. Charles Opera House in rehearsal for Kaleidoscope --- a re-creation of the infamous production during which the brilliant tenor and notorious rogue Jacques LeFevre was murdered a century ago. PHANTOM IN TIMESurely she has gone mad --- for Bella can feel Jacques's presence and hear his voice. And suddenly she is with him --- magically carried back in time to be passionately awakened in heart, body and soul by the dashing, misunderstood scoundrel. For some mysterious power has decreed that Bella must save the enigmatic, irresistible \"phantom\" --- and that she, in turn, must be saved by Jacques's glorious love.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808959.Phantom_in_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Most Wanted", "author_name": "Rae Carson", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 2096, "review_number": 298, "book_description": "Set before the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story! Han and Qi'ra don't have a lot in common other than not having a lot. They're street kids on the industrial planet Corellia, doing whatever it takes to get by, dreaming of something more. They each jump at a chance to prove themselves in the perilous world of Corellia's criminal underbelly, only to discover they are on the same mission for the same unscrupulous boss. When the job goes disastrously wrong, Han and Qi'ra are on the run--from pirates, a droid crime syndicate, the Empire, and their boss--and will have to learn to trust each other if they are going to survive.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Novels", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38600062-most-wanted"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Captive", "author_name": "Lee Savino", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1327, "review_number": 283, "book_description": " Who knew reading sexy alien abduction stories could get a girl into trouble?\u00a0\u00a0 Or that an e-reader could also be the gateway to another galaxy? I definitely didn't... but here I am anyway, mated to the Tsenturion High Commander just like the unwilling human heroines in my favorite sci-fi romances.\nThe Commander demands obedience. He intends to claim me, train me, and turn me into his perfect little pleasure trophy.\nHe doesn't believe in love. I don't believe in giving in without a fight.There's no amount of discipline or ecstasy that could break me to his will... I hope.\nAlien Captive is a hot alien abduction romance, starring one feisty human and the Tsenturion Warrior strong enough to master her.\n\n\n\n\n\nDisclaimer: the authors are not responsible for any actual alien abductions that may result should you purchase this book.\n\n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41573899-alien-captive"}, +{"book_title": "Once & Future", "author_name": "A.R. Capetta", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 5858, "review_number": 1625, "book_description": "I\u2019ve been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I\u2019ve always had to hide who I am. Until I found Excalibur.Now I\u2019m done hiding.My name is Ari Helix. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to start.When Ari crash-lands on Old Earth and pulls a magic sword from its ancient resting place, she is revealed to be the newest reincarnation of King Arthur. Then she meets Merlin, who has aged backward over the centuries into a teenager, and together they must break the curse that keeps Arthur coming back. Their quest? Defeat the cruel, oppressive government and bring peace and equality to all humankind.No pressure.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Retellings", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36233085-once-future"}, +{"book_title": "Thomas Riley", "author_name": "Nick Valentino", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 183, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "For more than twenty years West Canvia and Lemuria have battled one another in a constant war. From the safety of his laboratory, weapons designer Thomas Riley has cleverly and proudly empowered the West Canvian forces with his brilliant designs. But when a risky alchemy experiment goes horribly wrong, Thomas and his wily assistant, Cynthia Bassett, are thrust onto the front lines of battle.Forced into shaky alliances with murderous sky pirates in a deadly race to kidnap the only man who can undo the damagethe mad genius behind Lemuria's cunning armamentsThomas' own genius is put to the ultimate test.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7063554-thomas-riley"}, +{"book_title": "Throne of Glass", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 639569, "review_number": 45858, "book_description": "After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for four years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilarating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her ... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.Then one of the other contestants turns up dead ... quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "New Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7896527-throne-of-glass"}, +{"book_title": "The Devil's Arithmetic", "author_name": "Jane Yolen", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 54666, "review_number": 2425, "book_description": "Hannah thinks tonight Passover Seder will be the same as always. But this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past. Only she knows the horrors that await.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "World War II (Holocaust)", "Fiction", "Historical", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91357.The_Devil_s_Arithmetic"}, +{"book_title": "Flames of War", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 88, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Flames of War is the third book in the bestselling Star Crusades: Mercenaries series that follows the violent struggles of the Alliance, mankind\u2019s first interstellar empire. A new conflict is growing, and it will soon escalate into all-out war. A war that will engulf the colonies of a hundred worlds and could spread to the fragile Alliance. Massive fleets of ships engage in battle, and conflict rages far below on the disputed worlds of the Tenth Quadrant. The valiant defenders desperately need help, but none of the major powers will intervene and risk bringing war to their own territory. There is only one man who will do whatever it takes. A man who will break any rule, and fight any enemy in order to win. His name is Spartan. Spartan is the Alliance's greatest hero, a titan amongst men and now leader of the elite Interstellar Marine Corps. Tales of his bloody battles have spread throughout the galaxy where they instil fear and praise in equal measure. Spartan plans a private war against the brutal warlord Nakoma, one he intends to win. He calls in mercenaries from every corner of the galaxy, including a group of mysterious Exiles seeking to return to Karnak, a world they still call home. Before they can launch their attack, the enemy unleashes a final, apocalyptic effort to end the war. Can Spartan save the Byotai from the savagery of Nakoma and her legions? Or will the planet fall, and her warriors continue their violent conquest? The Mercenaries series is set in the aftermath of the apocalyptic Biomech War. The war may have been won, but after nine long years the future still looks bleak. Entire planets remain devastated, and millions of citizens are homeless. It falls on the military, and the growing numbers of mercenaries and freebooters to keep the peace between the great empires and ensure the survival of the overstretched Alliance.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25215805-flames-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior King", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 4435, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "Battle-weary after a desperate fight to save Earth from the Drasin alien onslaught, Confederation Captain Eric Weston is tasked with a perilous new mission. He and the crew of the Odysseus must hunt down those who unleashed the hellish attack on his homeworld and that of Earth\u2019s Priminae allies.But the situation turns dire when they catch sight of a ship belonging to the mysterious beings who orchestrate the fearsome Drasin\u2019s depredations. This powerful Empire, it seems, has two primary aims: to conquer new worlds and settle old scores. Weston\u2019s ultimate objective: keep humanity from becoming collateral damage as the Drasin war expands to engulf the galaxy.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28187442-warrior-king"}, +{"book_title": "Alpha Star", "author_name": "Elsa Jade", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 875, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "He will be lord of his own solar system, but he can\u2019t claim the homeworld until he takes a bride. He needs the right mate to win his mating rings, but choosing one female from among the neighboring systems while slighting the others could start an interstellar incident\u2014and this ex-mercenary starship captain has finally had enough of war. Where in the universe can a runaway cyborg prince find a na\u00efve female willing to risk her life on the dangerous frontiers of space?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Business (Amazon)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32193016-alpha-star"}, +{"book_title": "The Revisionists", "author_name": "Thomas Mullen", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 1633, "review_number": 313, "book_description": "A fast-paced literary thriller that recalls dystopian classics such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, from the award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth.Zed is an agent from the future. A time when the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No war. No despair.His mission is to keep it that way. Even if it means ensuring every cataclysm throughout history runs its course-especially The Great Conflagration, an imminent disaster in our own time that Zed has been ordered to protect at all costs.Zed's mission will disrupt the lives of a disgraced former CIA agent; a young Washington lawyer grieving over the loss of her brother, a soldier in Iraq; the oppressed employee of a foreign diplomat; and countless others. But will he finish his final mission before the present takes precedence over a perfect future? One that may have more cracks than he realizes?The Revisionists puts a fresh spin on today's global crises, playing with the nature of history and our own role in shaping it. It firmly establishes Mullen as one of the most exciting and imaginative writers of his generation.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense", "Adult Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10789142-the-revisionists"}, +{"book_title": "Exodus: The Ark", "author_name": "Paul Chafe", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 35, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Interstellar Adventure by a Top-Selling Author of the Man-Kzin Series. The Sequel to Genesis.The gigantic starship Ark was launched on a voyage of ten thousand years from an Earth on the brink of collapse. Its mission was to carry a portion of the human race to a new home circling another star, but, centuries after its departure, the descendants of the original crew no longer remember that they are on a city-sized spaceship, and know nothing of the Ark\u2019s mission, nor of the starry universe outside. The Prophetsy, a theocracy based on slavery and terror, has ruled over most of the Ark for longer than anyone now living can remember, and it has just succeeded in conquering the few remaining free regions of the ship. Yet there are chinks in the monolithic tyranny . . . \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Danil has been a slave since he was a young boy, but his spirit has never been broken, and his keen mind sees ways that the theocracy might be overthrown and envisions new weapons that could achieve that victory. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Annaya is the daughter of the Prophet Polldor, undisputed ruler of the Prophetsy. She is far more intelligent and strong-willed than her brother, but only a male heir can become the next Prophet. To her father, she is only a pawn, to be married off to a powerful ally. But she is determined that will not happen, even if she has to somehow overthrow both her father and the Prophetsy itself. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Olen,the Prophet\u2019s son, is anxious to become the next Prophet. He will cooperate in his sister\u2019s plans as long as he thinks they will lead to his assuming the throne and gaining absolute power, but he is a more dangerous ally than Annaya realizes. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These three, each with a different motive, will strive to change the course of history for the Ark. But even if they restore freedom to their artificial world, can they discover the nature of that world, and regain the knowledge necessary for the successful completion of its mission? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Master storyteller Paul Chafe presents Exodus: The Ark, the gripping second book of the Ark trilogy.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6543935-exodus"}, +{"book_title": "The Guns of Tanith", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2535, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "In the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the heretical forces of Chaos are fighting back hard. Dangerously overstretched, their supply lines cut by degenerate enemy troops, the Imperial forces grind to a halt.Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First-and-Only must recapture Phantine, a world rich in promethium but so ruined by pollution that the only way to attack is via a dangerous - and untried - aerial assault. Pitted against deadly opposition and a lethal environment, how can Gaunt and his men possibly survive?", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "40k", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1052319.The_Guns_of_Tanith"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 20", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.63, "rating_votes": 12130, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "Betrayal and double-crossing are the order of the day. Greed, Pride and Envy prove to be formidable enemies, but one homunculus seems to be having pangs of--could it be?--conscience. Ominous news spreads quickly about a mysterious portal. Will this gateway help the Elric brothers regain their natural bodies? And will the gigantic underground transmutation circle be completed, leading to a major regime change? Plus, a moving reunion between Al and someone from his past!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6408558-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-20"}, +{"book_title": "The Alpha Plague", "author_name": "Michael Robertson", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1394, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "When everything goes to hell, just one thing matters to Rhys ... getting to his six-year-old son before the virus does. The Alpha Plague is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25815168-the-alpha-plague"}, +{"book_title": "To Clear Away the Shadows", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 402, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "NEW ENTRY IN DAVID DRAKE'S LANDMARK RCN SERIES ADVENTURES BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE The truce between Cinnabar and the Alliance is holding, and the Republic of Cinnabar Navy is able to explore regions of the galaxy without the explorers being swept up in great power conflict. The Far Traveller is probing sponge space to open routes for Cinnabar traders\u2014and for RCN warships if war breaks out again. But besides astrogation, the Far Traveller is to survey and catalog life forms on the worlds it touches. Harry Harper has just been posted to the Traveller. He's an RCN officer by convention, a scientist by training\u2014and a member of one of leading aristocratic families on Cinnabar by birth. Lieutenant Rick Grenville would rather serve on a warship in the heart of battle, but peace and the whim of the Navy Board have put him on an exploration vessel instead. He finds that the dangers on the fringes of civilization are just as great as those from missiles and gunfire that he expected to face. As internal struggles cause the Alliance to relax its iron grip, regional forces are attempting to increase their own power\u2014and they're not fussy about the means they use. Besides the biological answers that officials on Cinnabar expect the Far Traveller to find, the ship's Director of Science, Doctor Veil, has her own agenda: to learn more about the Archaic Spacefarers who roamed the universe tens of thousands of years before humans reached the stars. The crew of the Far Traveller is poised to clear more of the shadows away from the deep past than ever before in human history\u2014if they survive. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for prequel Though Hell Should Bar the Way: \u201cThough Hell Should Bar the Way is vastly entertaining, a tale that demonstrates Drake\u2019s skill as an author, illustrating why Drake is one of the best living science fiction authors today.\"\u2014The Daily News of Galveston County About David Drake\u2019s RCN series: \u201c[R]ousing old-fashioned space opera.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201cThe fun is in the telling, and Mr. Drake has a strong voice. I want more!\u201d\u2014Philadelphia Weekly Press \u201c[S]pace opera is alive and well. This series is getting better as the author goes along\u2026character development combined with first-rate action and memorable world designs.\u201d\u2014SFReader.com \u201cDrake deftly weaves a web of political machinations and intrigue that vividly depicts the costs of war. Fans of Patrick O'Brian's Maturin and Aubrey novels will enjoy this intricate, rousing space opera.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly About David Drake: \u201c[P]rose as cold and hard as the metal alloy of a tank\u2026rivals Crane and Remarque\u2026\u201d\u2014Chicago Sun-Times \u201cDrake couldn\u2019t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.\u201d\u2014Booklist RCN series: With the Lightnings Lt. Leary, Commanding The Far Side of the Stars The Way to Glory Some Golden Harbor When the Tide Rises In the Stormy Red Sky What Distant Deeps The Road of Danger The Sea Without a Shore Death's Bright Day Though Hell Should Bar the Way David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted. He served the next two years in the Army, spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45887016-to-clear-away-the-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Legion", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 23327, "review_number": 1344, "book_description": "Nalini Singh, the New York Times bestselling \u201calpha author of paranormal romance\u201d (Booklist) returns to an immortal world of violent passion and lethal power\u2026on the brink of a deadly archangelic war.Angels are falling from the sky in New York, struck down by a vicious, unknown force.Vampires are dying impossibly of disease.Guild hunter Elena Deveraux and the Archangel Raphael must discover the source of the wave of death before it engulfs their city and their people, leaving New York a ruin and Raphael\u2019s Tower under siege by enemy archangels.Yet even as they fight desperately to save the city, an even darker force is stirring, its chill eyes trained on New York\u2026and on Raphael. Rivers of crimson and nightmares given flesh, the world will never again be the same\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808767-archangel-s-legion"}, +{"book_title": "Courageous", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 15957, "review_number": 450, "book_description": "The Lost Fleet continues its perilous journey home. Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance Fleet is raiding Syndic mines for raw materials-and Captain \"Black Jack\" Geary hopes they can continue to remain one step ahead of their enemies. But the Syndics are the least of Geary's worries when he learns of the existence of aliens with the power to annihilate the human race.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1372055.Courageous"}, +{"book_title": "Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1000, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "From The Ashes, written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn, sets the scene for the events chronicled in the movie Terminator Salvation, revealing the full story behind John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators.In post-Judgment Day LA, two lost kids named Kyle and Star keep watch for Terminators; a jaded Marine struggles to keep his rag-tag community together in the face of unrelenting danger; and John and Kate Connor assemble their Resistance team for a brutal assault on a deadly enemy.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Media Tie In", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novels", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4005302-terminator-salvation"}, +{"book_title": "Stormblood", "author_name": "Jeremy Szal", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 256, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Vakov Fukasawa used to be a Reaper, a biosoldier fighting for the intergalactic governing body of Harmony against a brutal invading empire. Now, he fights against the stormtech: the DNA of an extinct alien race Harmony injected into him, altering his body chemistry and making him permanently addicted to adrenaline and aggression. It made him the perfect soldier, but it also opened a new drug market that has millions hopelessly addicted to their own body chemistry.But when Harmony tells him that his former ally Reapers are being murdered, Vakov is appalled to discover his estranged brother is likely involved in the killings. They haven\u2019t spoken in years, but Vakov can\u2019t let his brother down, and investigates. But the deeper he goes, the more addicted to stormtech he becomes, and Vakov discovers that the war might not be over after all. It\u2019ll take everything he has to unearth this terrible secret, although doing so might mean betraying his brother. If his own body doesn\u2019t betray him first.A vibrant and talented new voice in SFF: alien technology, addictive upgrades, a soldier determined to protect his family, and a thief who is prepared to burn the world down . . .", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Literature (21st Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42683840-stormblood"}, +{"book_title": "The Atrocity Archives", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 22485, "review_number": 1825, "book_description": "NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out ...This is the first novel in the Laundry Files.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Humor", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101869.The_Atrocity_Archives"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow of Empire", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 960, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "The first installment in the Far Star series, a swashbuckling space saga that introduces the daring pirate Blackhawk and the loyal crew of the Wolf\u2019s Claw, from the author of the bestselling Crimson Worlds sagaSmuggler and mercenary Arkarin Blackhawk and the crew of the ship Wolf\u2019s Claw are freelance adventurers who live on the fringe of human society in the Far Stars. A veteran fighter as deadly with a blade as he is with a gun, Blackhawk is a man haunted by a dark past. Even his cynicism cannot banish the guilt and pain that threaten his sanity. Sent to rescue the kidnapped daughter of his longtime friend Marshal Augustin Lucerne, Blackhawk and his crew find themselves drawn into one deadly fight after another. When the Wolf\u2019s Claw is damaged, they are forced to land on an remote planet subsumed by civil war. Pulled unwittingly into the conflict, they uncover disturbing information about secret imperial involvement that could upset the plans of Lucerne. For the Marshal is determined to forge a Far Stars Confederation powerful enough to eliminate all imperial influence and threats in the sector. He needs a skilled warrior like Blackhawk on his side, but the mercenary, plagued by dark memories from the past, refuses to join the cause. All too soon, though, he and his crew will have to take a stand.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "War", "Action", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25143072-shadow-of-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Valley of Vengeance", "author_name": "Franklin Horton", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 758, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "In this fifth installment in The Borrowed World Series, Human Resources Manager Alice Watkins is finally making it home. In her journey across Virginia, she experiences a country disintegrating and collapsing in on itself in the wake of a nationwide terror attack. Her trip home is agonizing; her experiences indescribable. She finds that her peaceful farm community is experiencing the same strife as the rest of the nation. As her world is further shaken by a series of devastating occurrences, she comes to realize that she has been profoundly and irreversibly changed by her agonizing experiences on the road. She is both emotionally blunted and wickedly violent. She cannot feel love, nor does she feel the slightest remorse at taking someone's life. In an attempt to find safety for her family, she must reconnect with the former coworkers that she started this journey with. She discovers the group struggling with their own problems, finding that in this borrowed world there is no promise of safety, no peace, and no promise of tomorrow.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "War (Terrorism)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35341484-valley-of-vengeance"}, +{"book_title": "The Gate of Worlds", "author_name": "Robert Silverberg", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 211, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "In this alternate history novel, the Bubonic Plague sets the stage for a world where the West is powerless. After the Black Death has wiped out most of the European population, there is little defense against Turkish invasion and expansion, and by the 1980s, the major world powers are the Russians, the Turks, the Aztecs, the Incas, and the Japanese. However, the Turks have lost much of their territory, leaving England to self-rule in a delayed Industrial Revolution. Dan Beauchamp, a young Englishman whose heart longs for fortune and adventure, travels to industrial Mexico and discovers that he has a lot to learn. From the city of London, better known as New Istanbul, to the untamed wilderness of North America, here is a high adventure in an alternate history that is not to be missed.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Roman", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449296.The_Gate_of_Worlds"}, +{"book_title": "PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 004", "author_name": "Naoki Urasawa", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 2603, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "A powerful, destructive force in the form of a tornado is killing the great robots of the world one by one. Who or what could be behind this whirlwind? Be it man or robot, it now has its sights set on Atom, the most advanced robot ever created--and Atom is ready to dive right into the eye of the storm.Contains Chapters 24 to 31.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6285607-pluto"}, +{"book_title": "Tapestry", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 7542, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Woven from the color and pageantry of the Middle Ages...From the burning passions of bold and beautiful women...From the brave hearts of strong and courageous men...Welcome to a world of chivalry and honor, of danger and desire, of legend, and of love.... These four original novellas bring to life all the romance and adventure of the Middle Ages, with the common thread of a rich medieval tapestry woven through each tale by an acclaimed master of historical romance...Includes the following stories:To Kiss in the Shadows by Lynn KurlandAn Interrupted Tapestry by Madeline HunterInto the Dreaming by Karen Marie MoningDragonswan by Sherrilyn Kenyon", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Anthologies", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84176.Tapestry"}, +{"book_title": "After the Downfall", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 286, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "From Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, comes After the Downfall, a novel of magic, epic warfare, and desperate choices.1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge. Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper's bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns. There he allies himself with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Lenelli, and Velona, their goddess in human form, offering them his knowledge of warfare and weaponry in their genocidal struggle against a race of diminutive, swarthy barbarians known as Grenye. But soon, the savagery of the Lenelli begins to eat at Hasso Pemsel's soul, causing him to question everything he has long believed about race and Reich, right and wrong, Ubermenschen and Untermenschen. Hasso Pemsel will learn the difference between following orders... and following his conscience.Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "War", "Sociology", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2403804.After_the_Downfall"}, +{"book_title": "Crystal Singer", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 19108, "review_number": 510, "book_description": "Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable....", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Space", "Music", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/653711.Crystal_Singer"}, +{"book_title": "Lord Sunday", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 14313, "review_number": 598, "book_description": "On the seventh day, there was a choice.The House is falling apart, and when it is destroyed, all existence will be destroyed with it, Arthur Penhaligon and his friends Leaf and Suzy are caught in the chaos, separated by events but drawn together in their fight to survive. They must use every power at their disposal - magical or practical - to defeat the enemies attacking them from all sides.For Arthur, the biggest challenge comes from Lord Sunday, the most illusive of the trustees of the will. Lord Sunday's magic is unlike any Arthur has encountered before - and his secrets have the potential to destroy not only Arthur but also the people he holds most dear.On Monday, Arthur Penhaligon was just an ordinary boy thrust into an extraordinary situation. From Tuesday to Saturday, he emerged as the Rightful Heir to the Architect who created everything within the House. Now, on Sunday, he will face a choice of astonishing proportions - the remarkable conclusion to a completely unforeseen adventure.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6657648-lord-sunday"}, +{"book_title": "The Clay Lion", "author_name": "Amalie Jahn", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 731, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "What if you could go back in time to save the person you love the most?The rules are simple. If you want to travel back in time, you need to be at least eighteen years old. You can only travel within your own lifespan for a maximum of six months. And above all else, you must never, ever, change the past.But that's exactly what Brooke Wallace plans to do.As Brooke faces existence without her beloved brother, his life cut short by a rare disease, she can think of only one solution - travel back in time to prevent his death. However, her attempts at fixing the past challenge her to confront everything she believes to be true about herself. And ultimately, she is forced to discover whether or not we can ever truly be in charge of our own destiny.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Death", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Family", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37883561-the-clay-lion"}, +{"book_title": "Ghosts of Columbia", "author_name": "L.E. Modesitt Jr.", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 237, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Now for the first time in one big volume, two novels of Dr. Johan Eschbach, professor at a small college in the northeast and secret agent for the government of Columbia. This is an alternate history world shaped by the fact that ghosts are not mere superstition but have a literal physical reality--and political implications--because your crimes can haunt you, and the ghosts of your crimes are visible to others.Here are two adventures--Of Tangible Ghosts and Ghost of the Revelator--that bring Johan Eschbach out of his retirement and happy marriage in northern New Bruges and into danger and intrigue. This edition includes a new afterword by the author explaining the history of this fascinating alternate world.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185172.Ghosts_of_Columbia"}, +{"book_title": "A Hyacinth for His Hideousness", "author_name": "Tharah Meester", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Following a public humiliation, Hyacinth Black is on the verge of being beaten to death by his father. Of all people, the man who is commonly referred to as \u2018Your Hideousness\u2019 comes to his defence; but his intervention has a price. Hyacinth must marry his rescuer.Since the murder of his brother, Gavrila Ardenovic has been on the trail of a secret society, but in the city where he is only mocked, he has few allies. Therefore he keeps his distance from others and is used to suppressing any hint of emotion.Will lies and intrigues prevail or can Hyacinth succeed in battling the shadows of the past and break through his husband\u2019s cold-hearted fa\u00e7ade?This romance novel is set in an alternate-universe Victorian Era without magic or other fantasy elements.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54008204-a-hyacinth-for-his-hideousness"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Ice", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 15267, "review_number": 615, "book_description": "In the Ichidian Universe where The League is law, most live in fear. We fight back. Welcome to a world where corrupt assassination politics dominate everyone. It\u2019s kill or be killed. Welcome back to the future\u2026and meet hell's new breed of heroes.Devyn Kell spent his life in service to the League until he learned of the double dealing and backstabbing that was costing innocent people their lives. Refusing to play those politics, he became a Runner; someone who makes sure planets get the weapons, medicine and supplies they need to survive. May the gods have mercy on any who get in his way, because he definitely won\u2019t.Alix Garran is a woman on the run from a past she can\u2019t escape. Signing on to work for Devyn as a System\u2019s Engineer, she finds a cause she can fight for\u2014and a man she can respect. But as Alix\u2019s past catches up to her, and Devyn\u2019s old enemies turn lethal, they have to fight together\u2026or fall alone, in Born of Ice, the third bestselling League novel from Sherrilyn Kenyon.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6434232-born-of-ice"}, +{"book_title": "Infinity's Shore", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 7942, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skies, the threat of genocide hangs over the planet that once peacefully sheltered six bands of sapient beings. Now the human settlers of Jijo and their alien neighbors must make heroic\u2014and terrifying\u2014choices. A scientist must turn against the benefactors she's been trained to love. A heretic must rally believers for a cause he never shared. And four youngsters find that what started as a simple adventure\u2014imitating exploits in Earthling books by Verne and Twain\u2014leads them to the dark abyss of mystery. Meanwhile, the Streaker, with her fugitive dolphin crew, arrives at last on Jijo in a desperate search for refuge. Yet what the crew finds instead is a secret hidden since the galaxies first spawned intelligence\u2014a secret that could mean salvation for the planet and its inhabitants \u2026 or their ultimate annihilation.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96475.Infinity_s_Shore"}, +{"book_title": "Weatherman", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1543, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "On Miles' first military posting, he is sent to an outpost with Arctic temperatures and a psychotic, unstable commander. When the commander orders his men to enter a facility that is leaking poisonous radiation, the men revolt, and it's up to Miles to use his wits to avoid a massacre. A story later incorporated into the Hugo Award-winning novel THE VOR GAME.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORBujold's \"work remains among the most enjoyable and rewarding in contemporary SF.\"- Publishers Weekly\u201cBujold has a gift, nearly unique in science fiction, for the comedy of manners.\u201d - Chicago Sun Times\u201cBujold is not just a master of plot, she is a master of emotion.\u201d- SF Site\"Bujold is one of the best writers of SF adventures to come along in years.\"- LocusLois McMaster Bujold was born in 1949, the daughter of an engineering professor at Ohio State University, from whom she picked up her early interest in science fiction. She now lives in Minneapolis, and has two grown children. She began writing with the aim of professional publication in 1982. She wrote three novels in three years; in October of 1985, all three sold to Baen Books, launching her career. Bujold went on to write many other books for Baen, mostly featuring her popular character Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, his family, friends, and enemies. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Her fantasy from Eos includes the award-winning Chalion series and the Sharing Knife series.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11058951-weatherman"}, +{"book_title": "Invictus", "author_name": "Ryan Graudin", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 5354, "review_number": 1406, "book_description": "Time flies when you're plundering history.Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the laws of nature. Exploring history himself is all he's ever wanted, and after failing his final time-traveling exam, Far takes a position commanding a ship with a crew of his friends as part of a black market operation to steal valuables from the past. But during a heist on the sinking Titanic, Far meets a mysterious girl who always seems to be one step ahead of him. Armed with knowledge that will bring Far's very existence into question, she will lead Far and his team on a race through time to discover a frightening truth: History is not as steady as it seems.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33152795-invictus"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Flight", "author_name": "Janet Edwards", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1456, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "It's time to risk it all!The thrilling conclusion to Janet Edward\u2019s sensational debut YA sci-fi trilogy.Jarra never wanted to be a celebrity. All she ever wanted was to gain some respect for the people left on Earth: the unlucky few whose immune system prevents them from portalling to other planets.Except now she\u2019s the most famous Earth girl in the universe \u2013 but not everyone in the universe is happy about it, nor the fact that she has found love with a norm. Jarra\u2019s actions have repercussions that spread further than she ever could have imagined, and political unrest threatens to tear apart the delicate balance of peace between humanity\u2019s worlds.On top of everything, the first alien artefact ever discovered appears to be waiting for Jarra to reveal its secrets. But to do so, she must somehow find a way to leave Earth \u2013 or else the alien artefact will be lost forever. Is there a way for Jarra to travel to another planet? Or is her destiny only to look to the stars \u2013 but never to reach them?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16152916-earth-flight"}, +{"book_title": "The Ring and the Crown", "author_name": "Melissa de la Cruz", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 4928, "review_number": 954, "book_description": "Princess Marie-Victoria, heir to the Lily Throne, and Aelwyn Myrddn, bastard daughter of the Mage of England, grew up together. But who will rule, and who will serve? Quiet and gentle, Marie has never lived up to the ambitions of her mother, Queen Eleanor the Second, Supreme Ruler of the Franco-British Empire. With the help of her Head Merlin, Emrys, Eleanor has maintained her stranglehold on the world's only source of magic. She rules the most powerful empire the world has ever seen. But even with the aid of Emrys' magic, Eleanor's extended lifespan is nearing its end. The princess must marry and produce an heir or the Empire will be vulnerable to its greatest enemy, Prussia. The two kingdoms must unite to end the war, and the only solution is a match between Marie and Prince Leopold VII, heir to the Prussian throne. But Marie has always loved Gill, her childhood friend and soldier of the Queen's Guard. Together, Marie and Aelwyn, a powerful magician in her own right, come up with a plan. Aelwyn will take on Marie's face, allowing the princess to escape with Gill and live the quiet life she's always wanted. And Aelwyn will get what she's always dreamed of--the chance to rule. But the court intrigue and hunger for power in Lenoran England run deeper than anyone could imagine. In the end, there is only rule that matters in Eleanor's court: trust no one.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18296016-the-ring-and-the-crown"}, +{"book_title": "Sever", "author_name": "Lauren DeStefano", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 25306, "review_number": 2540, "book_description": "Time is running out for Rhine in this conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Chemical Garden Trilogy.With the clock ticking until the virus takes its toll, Rhine is desperate for answers. After enduring Vaughn\u2019s worst, Rhine finds an unlikely ally in his brother, an eccentric inventor named Reed. She takes refuge in his dilapidated house, though the people she left behind refuse to stay in the past. While Gabriel haunts Rhine\u2019s memories, Cecily is determined to be at Rhine\u2019s side, even if Linden\u2019s feelings are still caught between them.Meanwhile, Rowan\u2019s growing involvement in an underground resistance compels Rhine to reach him before he does something that cannot be undone. But what she discovers along the way has alarming implications for her future\u2014and about the past her parents never had the chance to explain.In this breathtaking conclusion to Lauren DeStefano\u2019s Chemical Garden trilogy, everything Rhine knows to be true will be irrevocably shattered.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12383869-sever"}, +{"book_title": "The Salt Line", "author_name": "Holly Goddard Jones", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2726, "review_number": 562, "book_description": "In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump -the Salt Line.-How far will they go for their freedom--once they decide what freedom really means? In an unspecified future, the United States' borders have receded behind a salt line--a ring of scorched earth that protects its citizens from deadly disease-carrying ticks. Those within the zone live safe, if limited, lives in a society controlled by a common fear. Few have any reason to venture out of zone, except for the adrenaline junkies who pay a fortune to tour what's left of nature. Those among the latest expedition include a popstar and his girlfriend, Edie; the tech giant Wes; and Marta; a seemingly simple housewife. Once out of zone, the group find themselves at the mercy of deadly ticks--and at the center of a murderous plot. They become captives in Ruby City, a community made up of outer-zone survivors determined to protect their hardscrabble existence. As alliances and friendships shift amongst the hostages, Edie, Wes, and Marta must decide how far they are willing to go to get to the right side of the salt line.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Adult", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34020019-the-salt-line"}, +{"book_title": "Jarek", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3975, "review_number": 401, "book_description": "What\u2019s hotter than an alien with scales? An alien with wings and scales, not to mention a hot body. At 457 Preor years old, Jarek sen Claron is a dragon ready for his final flight into the skies. This voyage to Earth as the War Master of the third fleet will be his final assignment. Once he has helped his fellow Preors secure human mates, he will return to Preor before the madness of loneliness overtakes his mind. That all changes when he meets Melissa. Human Melissa with her sparkling eyes, bright smile, and body that would make any hot-blooded male drool. Unfortunately, she never registered as a Preor mate hopeful. No matter, the Knowing stretches between them and there is no way she can resist him. Until she does. Jarek wishes to give her the choice to mate him, while everything inside him screams to take Melissa beneath his wing, now. No choosing necessary. But should he draw her to his side when his enemies are circling? Many males do not believe the son of a Preor mass murderer deserves to have a mate. Can he survive the coming battles? Or will he die without tasting sweet Melissa\u2019s lips? Related to the UJAL series: The Ujal Volume One (Vados, Tave, Rhal) Erun Dashing Through the Stars", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28475738-jarek"}, +{"book_title": "A Killing Frost", "author_name": "John Marsden", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 17791, "review_number": 600, "book_description": "Life in the war zone enters its sixth month of heart-stopping tension in the latest installment of the internationally bestselling Tomorrow series.In the third installment of the Tomorrow saga, the anything-to-survive existence of Ellie and her friends has sharpened their senses and emboldened their plans. They aren't merely on the defensive anymore; they're also striking back. Their strategy? Attack the enemy not just on land, but also on water. If they have any hope of sabotaging the formidable container ship at Cobbler's Bay, then stealth is a must, but so, too, is one very big explosion.And if they fail, they may face a whole new kind of terror -- imprisonment.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71863.A_Killing_Frost"}, +{"book_title": "Dactyl Hill Squad", "author_name": "Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 830, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "It's 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the Draft Riots break out, and a number of their fellow orphans are kidnapped by an evil magistrate, Richard Riker. Magdalys and her friends flee to Brooklyn and settle in the Dactyl Hill neighborhood, where black and brown New Yorkers have set up an independent community--a safe haven from the threats of Manhattan. Together with the Vigilance Committee, they train to fly on dactylback, discover new friends and amazing dinosaurs, and plot to take down Riker. Can Magdalys and the squad rescue the rest of their friends before it's too late?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Childrens", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38276982-dactyl-hill-squad"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Age", "author_name": "Pierce Brown", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 24945, "review_number": 2522, "book_description": "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place?Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance.On Luna, Mustang, Sovereign of the Republic, campaigns to unite the Republic behind her husband. Beset by political and criminal enemies, can she outwit her opponents in time to save him? Once a Red refugee, young Lyria now stands accused of treason, and her only hope is a desperate escape with unlikely new allies.Abducted by a new threat to the Republic, Pax and Electra, the children of Darrow and Sevro, must trust in Ephraim, a thief, for their salvation\u2014and Ephraim must look to them for his chance at redemption.As alliances shift, break, and re-form\u2014and power is seized, lost, and reclaimed\u2014every player is at risk in a game of conquest that could turn the Rising into a new Dark Age.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29226553-dark-age"}, +{"book_title": "The Bar Code Tattoo", "author_name": "Suzanne Weyn", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 16401, "review_number": 1473, "book_description": "The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity.But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run . . . for her life.Individuality vs. conformity.Identity vs. access.Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/592089.The_Bar_Code_Tattoo"}, +{"book_title": "Machinations", "author_name": "Hayley Stone", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 324, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Waking up as a clone with a broken memory? Not great when you're leading the resistance.Rhona has battled the malevolent A.I. intent on wiping out humanity since the first Machinations began\u2014until she\u2019s killed during a rescue mission gone wrong. Now, Rhona awakens to find herself transported to a new body, complete with her DNA and her personality. She's a clone... of herself. Except for her missing memories. Some of which could potentially turn the tide of the war.Trapped in the shadow of the life she knew and rejected by the man who once loved her, the reincarnated Rhona must fight to secure her place among old friends and newfound enemies\u2014and quickly. For the machines are inching closer to exterminating humanity for good. And only Rhona, whoever she is now, can save them. Experience the unforgettable start of the Last Resistance Series, a sci-fi thriller filled with heart, soul, and plenty of twists. Perfect for fans of Orphan Black, Westworld, Robopocalypse, and Terminator.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54344141-machinations"}, +{"book_title": "The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale", "author_name": "Christine Bell", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 393, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "(25,900 words)I'm a time pirate\u2014born in 1810, now a 21st-century woman. I travel through time trying to right wrongs without disrupting the fragile balance between what is and what can never be.That's why it's vital that I go to 1836 and find the man who conned my brother out of his Time Travel Mechanism as quickly as possible. If the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could change the world as we know it. The notorious Duke of Leister definitely qualifies as the wrong hands. An amateur scientist of the slightly mad variety, he's bound to figure out how to use the TTM sooner rather than later.I knew this wouldn't be easy. But I wasn't counting on him being as sexy as hell. Or winding up chained to his bed...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639241-the-twisted-tale-of-stormy-gale"}, +{"book_title": "Fitzpatrick's War", "author_name": "Theodore Judson", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 544, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "An inspired first science fiction novel set several hundred years in the future when the world's population has been decimated by biological weapons. This book chronicles the Alexander-like rise and fall of Fitzpatrick the Younger, as told by one of his close companions.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Historical", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174364.Fitzpatrick_s_War"}, +{"book_title": "The Scar", "author_name": "China Mi\u00e9ville", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 28528, "review_number": 1742, "book_description": "Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of Nova Esperium. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage\u2014and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon New Crobuzon.For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it is safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of pirated ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. On Armada, everyone is given work, and even Remade live as equals to humans, Cactacae, and Cray. Yet no one may ever leave.Lonely and embittered in her captivity, Bellis knows that to show dissent is a death sentence. Instead, she must furtively seek information about Armada\u2019s agenda. The answer lies in the dark, amorphous shapes that float undetected miles below the waters\u2014terrifying entities with a singular, chilling mission. . . .", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68497.The_Scar"}, +{"book_title": "Now Wait for Last Year", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 5966, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time -- and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent's newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy -- and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the man better or to keep him poised just this side of death.Now Wait for Last Year bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as it ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional -- and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time it is.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (American)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216378.Now_Wait_for_Last_Year"}, +{"book_title": "The Praxis", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 3112, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis.For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The dread empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order... and bloody chaos.A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid -- the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others -- to replace the masters\u2019 despotic rule with their own. Barely escaping a swarming surprise attack, Martinez and Caroline Sula, a pilot whose beautiful face conceals a deadly secret, are now the last hope for freedom for every being who ever languished in Shaa chains -- as the interstellar battle begins against a merciless foe whose only perfect truth is annihilation.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85653.The_Praxis"}, +{"book_title": "Neva", "author_name": "Sara Grant", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 2130, "review_number": 317, "book_description": "Die 16-j\u00e4hrige Neva hat es satt, keine Antworten auf Fragen zu bekommen, die sie nicht einmal laut stellen darf: Warum wird ihr Heimatland von einer undurchdringbaren Energiekuppel von der Au\u00dfenwelt abgeschottet? Warum verschwinden immer wieder Menschen spurlos? Und was ist mit ihrer Gro\u00dfmutter geschehen, die eines Tages nicht mehr nach Hause kam? Gemeinsam mit ihrer besten Freundin Sanna beschlie\u00dft Neva, Antworten zu verlangen und nicht mehr brav alle Gesetze und Regeln zu befolgen. Doch dabei verliebt sie sich nicht nur in den einen Jungen, der f\u00fcr sie tabu sein muss \u2013 sondern ger\u00e4t auch in t\u00f6dliche Gefahr\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9749291-neva"}, +{"book_title": "The Lady Machinist", "author_name": "Ava Morgan", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 160, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "The Lady Machinist: A romantic steampunk tale of clockwork soldiers, persistent pirates, and political intrigue. Book One of the Curiosity Chronicles 1837: Lydia Dimosthenis detests pirates, especially those of British ilk. The lady machinist will do anything to protect her island home of Aspasia from the scurvy knaves, even if it means crafting seven-foot clockwork soldiers to drive intruders away. When her automatons catch the eye of a charming yet stubborn ambassador from New Britannia, she is given an offer that she truly cannot refuse. But that doesn't stop her from trying. Rhys Cartret, ambassador and agent for the Cabinet of Intellectual Curiosities, didn't count on having a strong-willed, attractive inventor thwarting his every diplomatic move. It's hard enough keeping his pirate past a secret from Lydia. Matching wits with her is the last thing he needs, especially since New Britannia's rival France is racing to get the automatons before he does. Intrigue, romance, and striking bargains abound in this curious tale of clockwork soldiers, ruthless pirates, and steam-powered ships.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18880103-the-lady-machinist"}, +{"book_title": "Deathless", "author_name": "Catherynne M. Valente", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 16340, "review_number": 2540, "book_description": "Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never before been seen through the eyes of Catherynne Valente, whose modernized and transformed take on the legend brings the action to modern times, spanning many of the great developments of Russian history in the twentieth century.Deathless, however, is no dry, historical tome: it lights up like fire as the young Marya Morevna transforms from a clever child of the revolution, to Koschei\u2019s beautiful bride, to his eventual undoing. Along the way there are Stalinist house elves, magical quests, secrecy and bureaucracy, and games of lust and power. All told, Deathless is a collision of magical history and actual history, of revolution and mythology, of love and death, which will bring Russian myth back to life in a stunning new incarnation.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Cultural (Russia)", "Retellings", "Adult", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694389-deathless"}, +{"book_title": "UnBonded", "author_name": "V.C. Lancaster", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1135, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "For years, Kranu has only wanted one thing: to belong to a Queen. To be wanted, valued. Not to be passed over in the prime of his life. Now it seems he\u2019s found his chance. Only problem is, the Queen in question is one of the strange ones that Bonded his brother, Gron. She feels miniscule next to him. They can\u2019t understand a word the other says. She quakes in fear if he so much as looks at her. For years, Troii was perfectly content serving his Queen as an unBonded male. He played his role perfectly and felt no dissatisfaction, no ambition for more. That is, until his best friend Gron offered him his Queen to Bond to. It was enough to get him exiled, sent to wander the borderlands with Kranu, the surliest, most aggressive male in the tribe. All Troii wants is to get his old peaceful life back. Now Kranu\u2019s found a Queen, a tiny thing that\u2019s terrified of him. Kranu is determined to be chosen. It\u2019s Troii\u2019s only chance to have a tribe again, though he\u2019ll only admit to himself that he dares to want more than the life of an unBonded. There\u2019s one thing to do if they\u2019re to have a chance of getting what they want. They have to take this new Queen to Gron's Queen, Ruth. Then maybe she will stop being afraid, and start to see them as something more than strangers. This full-length novel of +/- 90,000 words features an M/F/M menage romance between one human woman, and two sexy alien males. It is best enjoyed when read in order with Book 1: Ruth's Bonded, and Book 2: Gron's Fated. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Menage (M F M)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30103169-unbonded"}, +{"book_title": "Starrigger", "author_name": "John DeChancie", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 467, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "At one time, outer space was seen as the last frontier, the final challenge to human ingenuity. But those days are gone as the galaxy becomes the stomping ground for humans encountering strange new machinery and green-faced Martians. Depicted with stark realism and meticulous detail, this novel tells of the dangers, despair and unbelievable pleasure that awaits the men and women who are to populate the first ever station in space.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/981841.Starrigger"}, +{"book_title": "Enclave", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 67515, "review_number": 5116, "book_description": "New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside as a young boy. When she and Fade discover that the neighboring enclave has been decimated by the tunnel monsters--or Freaks--who seem to be growing more organized, the elders refuse to listen to warnings. And when Deuce and Fade are exiled from the enclave, the girl born in darkness must survive in daylight--guided by Fade's long-ago memories--in the ruins of a city whose population has dwindled to a few dangerous gangs.Ann Aguirre's thrilling young adult novel is the story of two young people in an apocalyptic world--facing dangers, and feelings, unlike any they've ever known.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Horror", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7137327-enclave"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket", "author_name": "Justin Richards", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2907, "review_number": 226, "book_description": "Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer, bandit.Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket, the key to eternal life, really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, the Doctor and Rose aim to find out.Featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the acclaimed Doctor Who series from BBC Television.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153192.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "Discovery (The Forgotten", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 582, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "When Captain Danielle Dubois crash lands on the world terra-formed by the Danu she isn\u2019t the only one shocked. The cyborgs that people the world of Danu have never seen a female ... but they definitely like what they see!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8111624-discovery"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Unrelenting", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 812, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "A fugitive captured. A hero forsaken. A secret revealed. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be this way. Three days. That\u2019s what they promised. But on Earth the danger is unrelenting, and promises are hard to keep. Now Sheriff Duke is the one on the run, chased by an unexpected enemy eager to finish what they started. An enemy with an agenda that begins with killing him but ends with something worse. Much, much worse. Once the secret is out, the universe will never be the same\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40581053-earth-unrelenting"}, +{"book_title": "Mercury's Son", "author_name": "Luke E.T. Hindmarsh", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 72, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Valko can see the last moments of a victim\u2019s life.It comes at a price - a scrap of flesh cut from his brain and replaced with an implant. Bound to a drug that lets him use his insight but brings with it the pain of synthetic emotion, he\u2019s at war with himself.Now a killer has found a way to hide from him and two people are dead. Someone wants to keep their secrets buried. The trail leads out into the wasteland where death flies on the wind as nanotech dust. Manipulated and betrayed, Valko must get to the truth before his time runs out.If he only knew who to trust maybe he'd have a chance, but a man with an artificial soul can\u2019t even trust himself\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36658042-mercury-s-son"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Presidents", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 229, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "An anthology of pieces, by such writers as Jack L. Chalker, David Gerrold, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, and others, speculates on what might have happened had the presidential elections over the years ended with different results. Original.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Politics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293288.Alternate_Presidents"}, +{"book_title": "Home World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 3519, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. When the Earth is invaded by a rival empire, James McGill\u2019s legion must defend the Home World. The top brass has complex plans, but none of that matters much to McGill, who chooses his own unique path. Traveling to star systems no human has ever visited, he searches for a technological edge to beat the enemy before it\u2019s too late. Along the way he unleashes new terrors, triggering the biggest battles in human history. HOME WORLD is the sixth book of Undying Mercenaries Series, a novel of military science fiction by bestselling author B. V. Larson. The series starts with book #1, STEEL WORLD.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29095379-home-world"}, +{"book_title": "Moseh's Staff", "author_name": "A.W. Exley", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 924, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B0137IKZP6All things must come to an end\u2026London is in the frozen grip of an unnatural winter and Queen Victoria wants answers. Cara and Nate know who \u2013 the Curator. The queen's artifact hunters just don't know what is responsible. Cara is on the trail of an ancient and powerful artifact capable of freezing a city and stirring demons. First she must confront her past and her father's history. Only in learning why her father became a disciple of the Curator can she hope to learn what the old noble seeks and why he is so fascinated by her.Then tragedy strikes and the bond forged by Nefertiti's Heart is severed. Nate without Cara succumbs to his darkness and he lashes out at those he holds responsible for her loss. Meanwhile, in the shadows, Inspector Fraser waits for his opportunity to pull down the man known as the villainous viscount.With London entombed in ice and all hope lost, could this be the end\u2026?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26392857-moseh-s-staff"}, +{"book_title": "The Fall", "author_name": "Guillermo del Toro", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 36107, "review_number": 2395, "book_description": "The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading across the country and soon, the world. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather\u2014head of the Center for Disease Control\u2019s team\u2014leads a small band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.Ignited by the Master\u2019s horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for total control. Caught between these warring forces, humans\u2014powerless and vulnerable\u2014are no longer the consumers, but the consumed. Though Eph understands the vampiric plague better than anyone, even he cannot protect those he loves from the invading evil. His ex-wife, Kelly, has been turned by the Master, and now she stalks the city, in the darkness, looking for her chance to reclaim Zack, Eph\u2019s young son.With the future of the world in the balance, Eph and his courageous team, guided by the brilliant former professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian and exterminator Vasiliy Fet, must combat a terror whose ultimate plan is more terrible than anyone first imagined\u2014a fate worse than annihilation.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6723348-the-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Johannes Cabal the Necromancer", "author_name": "Jonathan L. Howard", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 17352, "review_number": 1805, "book_description": "A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice.\u00a0 \u00a0Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Now he wants it back. Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever. This time for real. Accepting the bargain, Jonathan is given one calendar year and a traveling carnival to complete his task. With little time to waste, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire to help him run his nefarious road show, resulting in mayhem at every turn.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5750628-johannes-cabal-the-necromancer"}, +{"book_title": "Every Last Kiss", "author_name": "Courtney Cole", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2366, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "Born a goddess. Controlled by the Fates. Can Macy's love for her soul mate survive the bonds of time... and death?17-year old Macy Lockhart is as far from normal as any one girl can be. The problem is, she doesn\u2019t know it yet.After a bloodstone pendant is mysteriously left on her door, Macy\u2019s life begins to change in ways she\u2019d never dreamed. And while she will eventually come to realize that nothing is ever what it seems, that her life is a tangled web of lies and the Fates themselves pull the strings, for now she is left with only the explanations that they offer her.Macy is led to believe that if she doesn\u2019t return to a previous doomed life, one in which she served as Queen Cleopatra \u2018s handmaiden, the fate of the entire world will be threatened in a way that would destroy history as we know it. She learns that she has lived thousands of lives, each one ending tragically\u2026but none as tragic as this one.After returning to ancient Egypt, she is faced with heart-wrenching decisions. Unless she interferes with Fate\u2019s plan, the very thing she was born to protect, her soul mate will die leading Marc Antony\u2019s forces against Rome. Can she really stand aside and watch the love of her life die all over again?In this fascinating novel-length prequel to The Bloodstone Saga, Courtney Cole sets the stage for an epic journey that will have readers holding their breath until the very last page of the very last book has been turned.What would you do if you held Fate in your hands?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11408354-every-last-kiss"}, +{"book_title": "Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes", "author_name": "Sakyo Komatsu", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 401, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "A solitary fishing boat anchors for the night by a small island to the south of Japan. The next morning, the fishermen find themselves in the middle of an empty sea. Overnight, the island has vanished without a trace. The Japanese weather service sends a vessel to investigate. They find convincing evidence of a horrifying geological change. Thrust into existence millions of years ago when a strong shift in the underlying plates tore it away from the Asian mainland, the Japanese Archipelago has been moving inexorably toward an unseen force in the Japan Trench, and is set on a collision course that threatens to pull the economic superpower under--literally.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2793976-japan-sinks"}, +{"book_title": "Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements", "author_name": "Adrienne Maree Brown", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2667, "review_number": 370, "book_description": "Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing visionary fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. This book brings twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales of Octavia's Brood span genres\u2014sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism\u2014but all are united by an attempt to experiment with new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. The collection is rounded off with essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a foreword by Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Feminism", "Social Movements (Social Justice)", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Race"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129839-octavia-s-brood"}, +{"book_title": "A Desperate Fortune", "author_name": "Susanna Kearsley", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 15642, "review_number": 1777, "book_description": "The highly anticipated, brand-new timeslip romance from New York Times bestselling author Susanna KearsleyFor nearly 300 years, the mysterious journal of Jacobite exile Mary Dundas has lain unread-its secrets safe from prying eyes. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas has been hired by a once-famous historian to crack the journal's cipher.But when she arrives in Paris, Sara finds herself besieged by complications from all sides: the journal's reclusive owner, her charming Parisian neighbor, and Mary, whose journal doesn't hold the secrets Sara expects. As Mary's tale grows more and more dire, Sara, too, must carefully choose which turning to take... to find the road that will lead her safely home.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Cultural (France)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery", "Adult", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22221136-a-desperate-fortune"}, +{"book_title": "Speaker for the Dead", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 229817, "review_number": 7925, "book_description": "Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide--the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story of the war and seeks to stop history from repeating itself. ...In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7967.Speaker_for_the_Dead"}, +{"book_title": "Secrets of the Chocolate House", "author_name": "Paula Brackston", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2926, "review_number": 524, "book_description": "The second novel in a bewitching series \"brimming with charm and charisma\" that will make \"fans of Outlander rejoice!\" (Woman's World Magazine)New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston\u2019s The Little Shop of Found Things was called \u201ca page-turner that will no doubt leave readers eager for future series installments\u201d (Publishers Weekly). Now, Brackston returns to the Found Things series with its sequel, Secrets of the Chocolate House.After her adventures in the seventeenth century, Xanthe does her best to settle back into the rhythm of life in Marlborough. She tells herself she must forget about Samuel and leave him in the past where he belongs. With the help of her new friends, she does her best to move on, focusing instead on the success of her and Flora\u2019s antique shop.But there are still things waiting to be found, still injustices needing to be put right, still voices whispering to Xanthe from long ago about secrets wanting to be shared.While looking for new stock for the shop, Xanthe hears the song of a copper chocolate pot. Soon after, she has an upsetting vision of Samuel in great danger, compelling her to make another journey to the past.This time she'll meet her most dangerous adversary. This time her ability to travel to the past will be tested. This time she will discover her true destiny. Will that destiny allow her to return home? And will she be able to save Samuel when his own fate seems to be sealed?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263457-secrets-of-the-chocolate-house"}, +{"book_title": "Gilded Cage", "author_name": "Vic James", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 8295, "review_number": 1892, "book_description": "In modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power\u2014and you. If you\u2019re not one of the ultimate one-percenters\u2014the magical elite\u2014you owe them ten years of service. Do those years when you\u2019re old, and you\u2019ll never get through them. Do them young, and you\u2019ll never get over them. This is the darkly decadent world of Gilded Cage. In its glittering milieu move the all-powerful Jardines and the everyday Hadleys. The families have only one thing in common: Each has three children. But their destinies entwine when one family enters the service of the other. They will all discover whether any magic is more powerful than the human spirit. Have a quick ten years. . . .", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30258320-gilded-cage"}, +{"book_title": "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 2990, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, this story takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occuring in our own 21st century.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10474309-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen"}, +{"book_title": "Extraction", "author_name": "Stephanie Diaz", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 827, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "\"Welcome to Extraction testing.\"Clementine has spent her whole life preparing for her sixteenth birthday, when she\u2019ll be tested for Extraction in the hopes of being sent from the planet Kiel\u2019s toxic Surface to the much safer Core, where people live without fear or starvation. When she proves promising enough to be \u201cExtracted,\u201d she must leave without Logan, the boy she loves. Torn apart from her only sense of family, Clem promises to come back and save him from brutal Surface life.What she finds initially in the Core is a utopia compared to the Surface\u2014it\u2019s free of hard labor, gun-wielding officials, and the moon's lethal acid. But life is anything but safe, and Clementine learns that the planet's leaders are planning to exterminate Surface dwellers\u2014and that means Logan, too. Trapped by the steel walls of the underground and the lies that keep her safe, Clementine must find a way to escape and rescue Logan and the rest of the planet. But the planet leaders don't want her running\u2014they want her subdued.With intense action scenes and a cast of unforgettable characters, Extraction is a page-turning, gripping read, sure to entertain lovers of Hunger Games and Ender's Game and leave them breathless for more.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16210411-extraction"}, +{"book_title": "Pirate Utopia", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.23, "rating_votes": 565, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun MachineWho are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in the name of revolution? The Futurists! Utopian pirate warriors of the diminutive Regency of Carnaro, scourge of the Adriatic Sea. Mortal enemies of communists, capitalists, and even fascists (to whom they are not entirely unsympathetic).The ambitious Soldier-Citizens of Carnaro are lead by a brilliant and passionate coterie of the perhaps insane. Lorenzo Secondari, World War I veteran, engineering genius, and leader of Croatian raiders. Frau Piffer, Syndicalist manufacturer of torpedos at a factory run by and for women. The Ace of Hearts, a dashing Milanese aristocrat, spymaster, and tactical savant. And the Prophet, a seductive warrior-poet who leads via free love and military ruthlessness.Fresh off of a worldwide demonstration of their might, can the Futurists engage the aid of sinister American traitors and establish world domination?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Novella", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "The United States Of America"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28957355-pirate-utopia"}, +{"book_title": "Uncharted", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 902, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Commander Terex has had a terrible life. First he lost his mate, then he was taken over by an evil demon, then attacked and mutilated by the Dark Kindred, Two--enemy of his kind. He feels broken and the only thing that can make him whole again is vengeance--or so he thinks.Elaina Thornton has a secret grief--a sister who is terminally ill with no hope of recovery. She too, feels broken inside--unable to do anything but grieve.But then a prophesy is spoken--Elaina's healing and Terex's vengeance lie in the same direction, in the mysterious Dark Sector. Ships that fly into this part of the universe never return and yet this is where they must go.Despite Elaina's fear, she is willing to risk anything to save her sister. Terex just wants revenge. Neither of them is looking for love but sometimes the Goddess has plans of her own. What awaits them in the Dark Sector--love or death?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33149659-uncharted"}, +{"book_title": "My Not So Super Sweet Life", "author_name": "Rachel Harris", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 605, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "Cat Crawford just wants to be normal\u2014or at least as normal as a daughter of Hollywood royalty can be. And it looks like fate is granting her wish: she\u2019s got an amazing boyfriend, Lucas; her fabulous cousin, Alessandra, living with her; and her dad planning his second marriage to a great future stepmom. That is, until her prodigal mother reveals on national television that she has something important to tell her daughter\u2026causing a media frenzy.Lucas Capelli knows his fate is to be with Cat, and he\u2019s worked hard to win her over once and for all. Unfortunately, Lucas has his own issues to deal with, including a scandal that could take him away from the first place he\u2019s truly belonged.As secrets are revealed, rumors explode, and the world watches, Cat and Lucas discover it\u2019s not fate they have to fight if they want to stay together\u2026this time, it\u2019s their own insecurities.Well, and the stalkerazzi.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20517466-my-not-so-super-sweet-life"}, +{"book_title": "Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts", "author_name": "Lyn Gala", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 3283, "review_number": 530, "book_description": "Liam loves his life as a linguist and trader on the Rownt homeworld, but he has ignored his heart and sexual needs for years. After escaping the horrors of war, he wants a boring life. He won\u2019t risk letting anyone come too close because he won\u2019t risk letting anyone see his deeply submissive nature. For him, submission comes with pain. Life burned that lesson into his soul from a young age.This fear keeps him from noticing that the Rownt trader Ondry cares for him. Ondry may not understand humans, but he recognizes a wounded soul, and his need to protect Liam is quickly outpacing his common sense. They may have laws, culture, and incompatible genitalia in their way, but Ondry knows that he can find a way to overcome all that if he can just overcome the ghosts of Liam\u2019s past. Only then can he take possession of a man he has grown to respect.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38617807-claimings-tails-and-other-alien-artifacts"}, +{"book_title": "The Reality Bug", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 22381, "review_number": 474, "book_description": "VIRTUAL REALITY?The territory of Veelox has achieved perfect harmony. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon arrives on this territory in pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, but all is peaceful on Veelox - because it's deserted. The inhabitants have discovered a way to enter their own personal dream worlds, where they can be whomever they want, wherever they want. Their bodies lie in stasis while their minds escape to this dream realm.Fresh from his battle with Saint Dane in 1937 Earth, Bobby is confident that they can defeat whatever Saint Dane has planned for this world. But once Bobby enters the virtual world, will he be able to resist the lure of the ultimate in escapism?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215541.The_Reality_Bug"}, +{"book_title": "The Haunting of Tram Car 015", "author_name": "P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 5129, "review_number": 1124, "book_description": "The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark's short fiction, where humans live and work alongside otherworldly beings; the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities handles the issues that can arise between the magical and the mundane. Senior Agent Hamed al-Nasr shows his new partner Agent Onsi the ropes of investigation when they are called to subdue a dangerous, possessed tram car. What starts off as a simple matter of exorcism, however, becomes more complicated as the origins of the demon inside are revealed.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36546128-the-haunting-of-tram-car-015"}, +{"book_title": "Sky Doll", "author_name": "Alessandro Barbucci", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 799, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Meet Noa, a so-called Sky Doll; a life-like female android without rights, who exists only to serve the State's needs and desires. But when Noa meets two so-called \"missionaries\" who aid in her escape from her tyrannical master, all hell breaks loose for our cyborg siren as she uncovers clues that she may be much more than just a robotic toy.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Cultural (France)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4054622-sky-doll"}, +{"book_title": "Soar", "author_name": "Joan Bauer", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3073, "review_number": 519, "book_description": "Newbery Honor\u2013winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation\u2014and readers will cheer him on!Jeremiah is the world\u2019s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport. So when he\u2019s told he can\u2019t play baseball following an operation on his heart, Jeremiah decides he\u2019ll do the next best thing and become a coach.Hillcrest, where Jeremiah and his father Walt have just moved, is a town known for its championship baseball team. But Jeremiah finds the town caught up in a scandal and about ready to give up on baseball. It\u2019s up to Jeremiah and his can-do spirit to get the town \u2013 and the team \u2013 back in the game.Full of humor, heart, and baseball lore, Soar is Joan Bauer at her best.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Realistic Fiction", "Sports (Sports)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sports (Baseball)", "Fiction", "Family", "Young Adult", "Parenting (Adoption)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25809985-soar"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Penetration", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 593, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Librarian Note: This book has also been published as Breeder ProjectSent to harvest breeders for their dying civilization, Camryn, Kael, and Ean chose Simone for her spirit, never realizing that the one thing they found so desirable in her as a mother for their sons would be the catalyst to turn their empire on its axis.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Menage (Multiple Partners)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6543714-alien-penetration"}, +{"book_title": "Victorious", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 14870, "review_number": 431, "book_description": "Now Victorious leads the charge again-and \"Black Jack\" Geary is in command... As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain \"Black Jack\" Geary is promoted to admiral-even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. His new rank gives him the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. But an even greater alien threat lurks on the far side of the Syndic occupied space.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7200884-victorious"}, +{"book_title": "Love and Decay, Episode One", "author_name": "Rachel Higginson", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1323, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "Zombies- as if that wasn\u2019t enough to ruin any girl\u2019s dream of a happily ever after.Reagan said goodbye to love when she was forced to run her high school boyfriend over with her mom\u2019s car just to keep him from eating her for dinner. Now, two years later, and in need of a serious shower, she\u2019s just over the entire concept of a soul mate- or really, any kind of mate.Well, mostly anyway. When she runs- literally- into a group of boys holed up in a relative utopia of peanut butter and bottled water, maybe all hope in the love department is not lost.But at the end of the world, nothing can be simple. And with a horde of Zombies after her, Reagan is going to have to schedule falling in love between hunting and surviving. Hopefully she can last long enough find out if true love can still exist when everything else has started to fall apart.Love and Decay, Episode One, the first in a novella series in a Dystopian Romance about Zombies, the end of the world and finding someone to share it with.This story takes place over multiple episodes, with a release date every two weeks. Approximately 20,000 words.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18188703-love-and-decay-episode-one"}, +{"book_title": "Echopraxia", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 7214, "review_number": 666, "book_description": "Prepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it\u2019s all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he\u2019s turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Now he\u2019s trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn\u2019t yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call \u201cThe Angels of the Asteroids.\u201dTheir pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490708-echopraxia"}, +{"book_title": "Cinder", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 712246, "review_number": 55695, "book_description": "Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth\u2019s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She\u2019s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister\u2019s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai\u2019s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world\u2019s future.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36381037-cinder"}, +{"book_title": "Eternity's Wheel", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2583, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "The conclusion to the bestselling InterWorld series, from Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, and Mallory Reaves!Joey Harker never wanted to be a leader. But he\u2019s the one everyone is looking to now that FrostNight looms, and he\u2019ll have to step up if he has any hope of saving InterWorld, the Multiverse, and everything in between.Eternity\u2019s Wheel is the heart-pounding conclusion to the InterWorld series, full of time and space travel, magic, science, and the bravery of a young boy who must now face his destiny as a young man.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23131075-eternity-s-wheel"}, +{"book_title": "Killing Rocks", "author_name": "D.D. Barant", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2763, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "FBI profiler Jace Valchek\u2019s ticket home from the twisted parallel universe where she\u2019s been called to duty hinges on the capture of serial killer Aristotle Stoker\u2014and an alliance with a sorcerer known as Asher. The problem: Asher has joined forces with some of the most dangerous creatures Jace has ever encountered. The solution: There is none, without Asher\u2019s help\u2026Jace\u2019s goal seems simple enough\u2014to get her man, like always. But just hours after she arrives in Vegas, she\u2019s abducted\u2026and she isn\u2019t even sure who the real enemy is. Now Jace has to wonder if she\u2019s the predator or the prey in a very dangerous game that could change not only her fate, but the world\u2019s\u2026Meanwhile, a serial killer is still on the loose. And time has already run out\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7964129-killing-rocks"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife", "author_name": "Meg Elison", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 14057, "review_number": 2004, "book_description": "Philip K. Dick Award Winner for Distinguished Science FictionWhen she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth\u2019s population\u2014killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant\u2014the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power\u2014and the strong who possess it.A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men\u2019s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she\u2019ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence.After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Feminism", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29806086-the-book-of-the-unnamed-midwife"}, +{"book_title": "Margaritifer Basin", "author_name": "Gregory Gates", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 5, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Welcome to the \u2018other\u2019 Martian novel. Six years in the making, bigger, better, more than one character, more than one adventure, painstaking technical accuracy, and a vast saga for today, not decades in the future. Follow an eclectic crew of multi-dimensional characters through the trials, tribulations and challenges \u2013 personal, political, emotional, and technical \u2013 of planning, financing, preparing for, and executing a two and a half year mission to Mars utilizing today\u2019s technology; nothing to be invented, no twenty-year lead times, and nothing that defies the laws of physics.\u201cGates has created a story that doesn\u2019t indulge in sci-fi fantasy. Rather, it\u2019s a piece of memorable and enthralling \u2018tech-fic\u2019 with a human heart that careers along on an adventure that was unthinkable only a decade ago.\u201d (David Woods, author \u201cHow Apollo Flew to the Moon\u201d)", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28575229-margaritifer-basin"}, +{"book_title": "Anomaly", "author_name": "Krista McGee", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2151, "review_number": 420, "book_description": "Thalli has fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds left to live. The toxic gas that will complete her annihilation is invading her bloodstream. But she is not afraid.Thalli is different than others in The State. She feels things. She asks questions. And in the State, this is not tolerated. The Ten scientists who survived the nuclear war that destroyed the world above believe that emotion was at the core of what went wrong\u2014and they have genetically removed it from the citizens they have since created. Thalli has kept her malformation secret from those who have monitored her for most of her life, but when she receives an ancient piece of music to record as her community\u2019s assigned musician, she can no longer keep her emotions secreted away.Seen as a threat to the harmony of her Pod, Thalli is taken to the Scientists for immediate annihilation. But before that can happen, Berk\u2014her former Pod mate who is being groomed as a Scientist\u2014steps in and persuades the Scientists to keep Thalli alive as a test subject.The more time she spends in the Scientist\u2019s Pod, the clearer it becomes that things are not as simple as she was programmed to believe. She hears stories of a Designer\u2014stories that fill her mind with more questions: Who can she trust? What is this emotion called love? And what if she isn\u2019t just an anomaly, but part of a greater design?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Christian", "Christian Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16124145-anomaly"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien's Dream", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1220, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Welcome to Luxiria, where the twin suns are hot and the alien warriors are hotter\u2026 Ever since Taylor Glass was rescued by strong, hulking Luxirians, nothing has been the same. Even worse, she can\u2019t stop having sexy, vivid dreams starring one of her rescuers, a panty-melting alien male with mesmerizing gray eyes and the fiercest scowl she\u2019s ever seen. Outside of her dream world, he clearly wants nothing to do with her and that fits perfectly with Taylor\u2019s well-laid plan of getting back to Earth as soon as possible, no distractions needed. Too bad fate has other plans. Ambassador Vikan has been loyal to his past lover since the day a tragedy ripped her away. But when his Instinct awakens for a human female under his protection, the Luxirian warrior fights against the undeniably pull with everything in him, torn between loyalty and lust, cursing her generous curves and soft lips that make him crazed. When his will fails him however, Vikan does what any sane warrior would do: steal the female away before she can leave for Earth. Determined to get back home, Taylor fights against the intense attraction she has towards her alien captor. But when it becomes difficult to distinguish her too real dreams from reality, Taylor begins to fear that she might not leave Luxiria in one piece after all and that she might be forced to leave her heart behind. Full-length, 55,000+ word, SFR novel! This is the fifth book of the Warriors of Luxiria series and should be read in order for the best experience. Warriors of Luxiria series: The Alien's Prize: Vaxa'an and Kate The Alien's Mate: Vaxa'an and Kate The Alien's Lover: Lihvan and Beks The Alien\u2019s Touch: Rixavox and Cecelia The Alien's Dream: Vikan and Taylor", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40133129-the-alien-s-dream"}, +{"book_title": "The 19 Dragons", "author_name": "S.M. Reine", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 767, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "There are nineteen provinces in the Land held aloft by nineteen pillars. Above the earth there is sky, and nobody knows what goes below except the Nineteen Dragons.That is all you need to know, but that is not all there is to be known.The Device has been stolen and the godlike Dragons have been rendered mortal. Someone is murdering them one by one, and each death brings the world closer to its end. Unless the Device is somehow restored to its deceased owner, the Dragons are doomed to destruction-- and the human world will go with them.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Short Stories", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11149212-the-19-dragons"}, +{"book_title": "Five's Legacy", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 4095, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "In this exciting seventy-five-page prequel companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, discover the true origins of the traitorous Number Five. Before allying himself with the Mogadorians, before infiltrating the Garde, before committing the ultimate betrayal, Five was in hiding just like the others. But when his C\u00eapan dies, Five is forced to survive on his own. Eager to finally experience the world he was always kept apart from, Five soon gets involved with the wrong kind of people\u2014the Mogadorians. In Five's Legacy see how one of Lorien's last hopes for survival became one of its most dangerous adversaries.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18053086-five-s-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "Blindsight", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 28370, "review_number": 2471, "book_description": "It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder, and a biologist so spliced to machinery he can't feel his own flesh. Send a pacifist warrior, and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find - but you'd give anything for that to be true, if you knew what was waiting for them.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48484.Blindsight"}, +{"book_title": "Illusive", "author_name": "Emily Lloyd-Jones", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 3345, "review_number": 540, "book_description": "THEY ARE YOUNG.THEY ARE CRIMINALS.THEY ARE IMMUNE.When the MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population developed superhero-like powers, and Americans suffering from these so-called adverse effects were given an ultimatum: Serve the country or be declared a traitor.Some people chose a third option: live a life of crime.Seventeen-year-old Ciere Giba has the handy ability to change her appearance at will. She's what's known as an illusionist. She's also a thief. After crossing a gang of mobsters, Ciere must team up with a group of fellow superpowered criminals on a job that most would have considered impossible: a hunt for the formula that gave them their abilities. It was supposedly destroyed years ago - but what if it wasn't?Government agents are hot on their trail, and the lines between good and bad, us and them, and freedom and entrapment are blurred as Ciere and the rest of her crew become embroiled in a deadly race that could cost them their lives.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17182499-illusive"}, +{"book_title": "Wake Unto Me", "author_name": "Lisa Cach", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 2775, "review_number": 289, "book_description": "A haunted castle, a handsome young man dead for four hundred years, one heck of a scary portrait of a witch, and a treasure hunt -- not to mention a princess for a roommate! -- all await 15 year old American girl Caitlyn Monahan when she earns a scholarship to a French boarding school.There are secrets behind the stone walls of Chateau de la Fortune, buried for centuries along with the mystery of who killed Raphael, the charming ghost who visits Caitlyn at night. But as Caitlyn unearths the history of the castle, nothing scares her as badly as the secret she learns about herself, and the reason she was chosen to come to the Fortune School.And nothing breaks her heart as badly as falling in love with a dead guy.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "School Stories (Boarding School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7916204-wake-unto-me"}, +{"book_title": "Chobits, Vol. 1", "author_name": "CLAMP", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 38841, "review_number": 347, "book_description": "Chi isn't your average humanoid computer. She can't do word processing, she can't connect to the Internet, and she's incapable of networking with other persocoms. Even her sound card seems broken. No wonder Hideki found her tied up in a pile of trash. But when the 19-year-old technophobe takes her home, he finds that she may be more advanced than her childlike behavior lets on.Chapters 1-12", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Media Tie In (Anime)", "Manga (Seinen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/667985.Chobits_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Rich Man's War", "author_name": "Elliott Kay", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 4016, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Tanner Malone is starting to enjoy his navy post in the honor guard. After surviving violent conflicts with space pirates in the void, he hopes to stay out of the stars for a while. But when the government of Archangel, a prosperous Union state including four terraformed worlds, makes a dangerous decision to defy the Big Three\u2019s corporate dominance, war threatens the galaxy.The interstellar fighting escalates, and duty calls a reluctant Tanner to the front lines, where it becomes more and more difficult to tell the difference between politician, pirate, and protector. When secret intel reveals a vast network of bloody covert operations, along with a rigged economic system that enslaves its members, Tanner finds himself at the perilous intersection between the government, the Big Three, and pirates who will stop at nothing to remain free.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Action", "Audiobook", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22797654-rich-man-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "Titan", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1508, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "2004 : les analyses de la sonde Cassini-Huygens sur la composition de la surface de Titan, l'une des lunes satellites de Saturne, r\u00e9v\u00e8lent que toutes les conditions atmosph\u00e9riques et chimiques permettant l'existence d'une vie organique y sont rassembl\u00e9es.Motiv\u00e9e par les spectaculaires d\u00e9couvertes qui pourraient en d\u00e9couler, une \u00e9quipe de la NASA met au point le projet d'un vol habit\u00e9 vers ce lieu potentiel d'existence extraterrestre. Pendant plusieurs ann\u00e9es, ces astronautes, ing\u00e9nieurs et scientifiques vont se heurter aux volont\u00e9s contraires de l'arm\u00e9e, s'opposer aux coupes budg\u00e9taires strat\u00e9giques d'une bureaucratie frileuse et lutter contre le reniement par le gouvernement des ambitions spatiales du pass\u00e9, pour imposer le lancement d'une mission vers Titan. Mission qui, au-del\u00e0 des temps et des dimensions, les conduira aux limites du savoir humain...Apr\u00e8s Voyage, Stephen Baxter poursuit son entreprise de r\u00e9\u00e9criture des grandes aventures spatiales am\u00e9ricaines de notre temps. A partir d'un \u00e9v\u00e9nement concret (l'arriv\u00e9e \u2014 r\u00e9elle \u2014 de la sonde en 2004), il imagine ce que pourraient \u00eatre aujourd'hui l'\u00e9laboration et la mise en application d'un projet spatial de la NASA de grande ampleur et aux formidables enjeux.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64007.Titan"}, +{"book_title": "The Waking Fire", "author_name": "Anthony Ryan", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 10883, "review_number": 920, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling Raven\u2019s Shadow Trilogy was a perfect read for \u201cfans of broadscale epic fantasy along the lines of Robert Jordan\u2019s Wheel of Time series and George R. R. Martin\u2019s Song of Ice and Fire novels.\u201d* Now, Anthony Ryan begins a new saga, The Draconis Memoria...Throughout the vast lands controlled by the Ironship Syndicate, nothing is more prized than the blood of drakes. Harvested from the veins of captive or hunted Reds, Green, Blues and Blacks, it can be distilled into elixirs that give fearsome powers to the rare men and women who have the ability harness them\u2014known as the blood-blessed. But not many know the truth: that the lines of drakes are weakening. If they fail, war with the neighboring Corvantine Empire will follow swiftly. The Syndicate's last hope resides in whispers of the existence of another breed of drake, far more powerful than the rest, and the few who have been chosen by fate to seek it. Claydon Torcreek is a petty thief and an unregistered blood-blessed, who finds himself pressed into service by the protectorate and sent to wild, uncharted territories in search of a creature he believes is little more than legend. Lizanne Lethridge is a formidable spy and assassin, facing gravest danger on an espionage mission deep into the heart of enemy territory. And Corrick Hilemore is the second lieutenant of an ironship, whose pursuit of ruthless brigands leads him to a far greater threat at the edge of the world. As lives and empires clash and intertwine, as the unknown and the known collide, all three must fight to turn the tide of a coming war, or drown in its wake. *Library Journal", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25972177-the-waking-fire"}, +{"book_title": "The Fireman", "author_name": "Joe Hill", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 52722, "review_number": 6974, "book_description": "From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.The fireman is coming. Stay cool.No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it\u2019s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies\u2014before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she\u2019s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob\u2019s dismay, Harper wants to live\u2014at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child.Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads\u2014armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn\u2019t as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter\u2019s jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman\u2019s secrets before her life\u2014and that of her unborn child\u2014goes up in smoke.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29875363-the-fireman"}, +{"book_title": "Origin", "author_name": "Dan Brown", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 267126, "review_number": 24466, "book_description": "Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement\u2014the unveiling of a discovery that \u201cwill change the face of science forever.\u201d The evening\u2019s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon\u2019s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough . . . one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence. As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch\u2019s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch\u2019s secret. Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain\u2019s Royal Palace itself . . . and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch\u2019s shocking discovery . . . and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us. Origin is Dan Brown\u2019s most brilliant and entertaining novel to date.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook", "Suspense", "Adventure", "Novels", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32283133-origin"}, +{"book_title": "Metro 2033", "author_name": "Dmitry Glukhovsky", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 43679, "review_number": 2797, "book_description": "The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend. More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over. A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Russia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17274667-metro-2033"}, +{"book_title": "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline", "author_name": "George Saunders", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 17427, "review_number": 1532, "book_description": "In six stories and the novella, Bounty, Saunders introduces readers to people struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Literature", "Contemporary", "Literary Fiction", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28747.CivilWarLand_in_Bad_Decline"}, +{"book_title": "Agent to the Stars", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 17835, "review_number": 1712, "book_description": "The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents. But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest deal of his career, it's quite another thing to negotiate for an entire alien race. To earn his percentage this time, he's going to need all the smarts, skills, and wits he can muster.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88072.Agent_to_the_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Golden Trilobite", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1614, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "The climax to the second Girl Genius story-arc. The Wulfenbachs discover that Agatha is still alive and come to get her. Things are complicated by the fact that Agatha is currently possessed by the evil mastermind responsible for the Long War.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/462236.Agatha_Heterodyne_and_the_Golden_Trilobite"}, +{"book_title": "Enchanted", "author_name": "K.M. Shea", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1337, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "ASIN moved from less recent editionAfter she is successfully crowned King of Britain and vanquishes those opposed to her rule, Britt thought life would settle down and she could peacefully pretend to be the real King Arthur and search for the lost Round Table. However, her enemies aren\u2019t cowed yet. King Lot sends his beautiful wife, Morgause, and his four sons to Camelot as ambassadors, but Britt doubts their good will when knight after knight falls in love with the foreign queen. Merlin reveals that Morgause has cast an enchantment on the knights of Camelot, an enchantment he cannot break. As a result, Britt is betrayed by some of her closest knights and becomes an outcast in her own kingdom. To win back her men, Britt will have to make costly sacrifices, survive attempts against her life, and gain the loyalties of Gawain\u2014the eldest son of King Lot and Queen Morgause.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38599228-enchanted"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Point", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 2934, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "Earth's Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination from orbit. Thanks to Alan Saul, the Committee's network of control is a smoking ruin and its robotic enforcers lie dormant. But power abhors a vacuum and, scrambling from the wreckage, comes the ruthless Serene Galahad.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure", "Action", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15775601-zero-point"}, +{"book_title": "The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide", "author_name": "Douglas Adams", "rating_score": 4.58, "rating_votes": 3474, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "Finally, here they are in one outrageous volume--all five best-selling Hitchhiker stories by Douglas Adams. Plus, you'll find a perplexingly frank introduction by the author himself, giving a behind-the-scenes look at each book and the zany radio series that inspired them. But that's not all! You also get a ferocious giggle of a short story, starring the two-headed, three-armed, ex-president of the Universe -- Zaphod Beeblebrox. The saga begins and ends...The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch kind of guy, is plucked from Earth just before it is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Towel in hand, he begins his journey through space and time with his rescuer Ford Prefect, a traveling research for the Guide.The Restaurant at the End of the Universe--where the floor show is Doomsday and Arthur and Ford dine with Zaphod Beeblebrox, well-appendaged, ex-head honcho of the universe, and Trillian, his human girlfriend. The four friends begin their quest for answers to some of the most confounding questions challenging mankind. When will they finish eating? What is the question to the ultimate answer? (which happens to be 42).Life, the Universe and Everything--Everything important and then some is examined in this third book, when Arthur Dent and his companions find they must avert Armageddon and save the Universe for life as we know it (or think we know it!).So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish--Galaxy-weary space traveler Arthur Dent returns to Earth With his new voidoid gang to discover that it has been mysteriously reinstated. But more pertinent questions remain: Why did all the dolphins disappear? What is God's Final Message to His Creation? What really happened the day the Earth was demolished?And finally, in Young Zaphod Plays it Safe--the two-headed hero travels to the depths of the ocean floor to investigate the mysterious destruction of the ship that \"could one hundred percent positively never crash.\" with the annoying assistance of the Safety and Civil Reassurance Administration, Zaphod learns some disturbing secrets...If you're just discovering Douglas Adams's galactic gangbuster of a series, don't panic--The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide is your chance to have it all! (Towel not included.)--jacket", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Space", "Novels", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64123.The_More_Than_Complete_Hitchhiker_s_Guide"}, +{"book_title": "Know No Fear", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 3310, "review_number": 173, "book_description": "Unaware of the wider Heresy and following the Warmaster\u2019s increasingly cryptic orders, Roboute Guilliman returns to Ultramar to muster his Legion for war against the orks massing in the Veridian system. Without warning, their supposed allies in the Word Bearers Legion launch a devastating invasion of Calth, scattering the Ultramarines fleet and slaughtering all who stand in their way. This confirms the worst scenario Guilliman can imagine \u2013 Lorgar means to settle their bitter rivalry once and for all. As the traitors summon foul daemonic hosts and all the forces of Chaos, the Ultramarines are drawn into a grim and deadly struggle in which neither side can prevail.When war comes to Calth and set the planet aflame, the Ultramarines face annihilation against a foe who will use any means to settle their bitter grudge.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797636-know-no-fear"}, +{"book_title": "A Wind in the Door", "author_name": "Madeleine L'Engle", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 125653, "review_number": 3639, "book_description": "Every time a star goes out, another Echthros has won a battle.Just before Meg Murry's little brother, Charles Wallace, falls deathly ill, he sees dragons in the vegetable garden. The dragons turn out to be Proginoskes, a cherubim composed out wings and eyes, wind and flame. It is up to Meg and Proginoskes, along with Meg's friend Calvin, to save Charles Wallace's life. To do so, they must travel deep within Charles Wallace to attempt to defeat the Echthroi\u2014those who hate\u2014and restore brilliant harmony and joy to the rhythm of creation, the song of the universe.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Classics", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18130.A_Wind_in_the_Door"}, +{"book_title": "In Time", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 10415, "review_number": 1162, "book_description": "Don't miss this exciting short story that connects The Darkest Minds to its much-anticipated sequel, Never Fade. Gabe's life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skiptracer. This already almost impossible task is made all the more difficult by his first score, a young girl who won't speak, but who changes his life in ways he could never imagine.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18052136-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "The King of Attolia", "author_name": "Megan Whalen Turner", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 33647, "review_number": 3084, "book_description": "By scheming and theft, the Thief of Eddis has become King of Attolia. Eugenides wanted the queen, not the crown, but he finds himself trapped in a web of his own making.Then he drags a naive young guard into the center of the political maelstrom. Poor Costis knows he is the victim of the king's caprice, but his contempt for Eugenides slowly turns to grudging respect. Though struggling against his fate, the newly crowned king is much more than he appears. Soon the corrupt Attolian court will learn that its subtle and dangerous intrigue is no match for Eugenides.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40159.The_King_of_Attolia"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowplay", "author_name": "Nigel Findley", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 409, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Sly is a veteran. She's run more shadows than she cares to remember, and has the physical and emotional scars to prove it. But no matter how violent it became, it had always been business as usual. Until now.Falcon is a kid. He thinks he hears the call of magic, and the voice of one of the Great Spirits seems to whisper in his ears. He's gone to Seattle, to the urban jungle, to seek his calling.Thrown together, veteran and novice, Sly and Falcon find themselves embroiled in a deadly confrontation between the world's most powerful corporations. If this confrontation is not stopped, it could turn to all-out warfare, spilling out of the shadows and onto the streets themselves.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611269.Shadowplay"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Lover", "author_name": "Brenda Joyce", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1896, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Ian Maclean's arrogance hides a terrible secret--for decades he was held prisoner by demons. Not a day goes by that he isn't tormented by his darkest fears of powerlessness. Now he is about to sell to the highest bidder a page he's stolen from the Book of Power--if one woman doesn't stop him.Slayer Samantha Rose's latest mission is to recover the stolen page--and get payback from the only man who's ever rejected her. What she hasn't counted on is the raging attraction between them--or her growing realization of what Maclean has survived. As the powers of the evil from his past gather, Sam will do anything to help him--even if it means following him into time and facing his worst nightmares with him....", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6275416-dark-lover"}, +{"book_title": "The Worlds We Make", "author_name": "Megan Crewe", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1216, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "The virus has taken away Kaelyn\u2019s friends, her family, her home.And now a deadly enemy threatens to take the one hope she has left: THE CURE.When Kaelyn and her friends reached Toronto with a vaccine for the virus that has ravaged the population, they thought their journey was over. But now they're being tracked by the Wardens, a band of survivors as lethal as the virus who are intent on stealing the vaccine no matter what the cost.Forced onto the road again, Kaelyn and her companions discover the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta is their best hope for finding scientists who can reproduce the vaccine. But with the virus already spreading among them, the Wardens hot on their trail, and hundreds of miles to cross, Kaelyn finds herself compromising her morals to keep her group alive. Her conscience seems a small price to pay if protects them and their precious cargo. Unless even that is not enough...In the final installment in Megan Crewe\u2019s captivating the Fallen World trilogy, Kaelyn is on the run from her biggest adversaries yet. While she continues to face horrific loss, her resolve is still strong. But to survive this shattered world, will she have to sacrifice all that's left of the girl she was?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17373172-the-worlds-we-make"}, +{"book_title": "Exiled", "author_name": "RaShelle Workman", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1761, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Start the epic bestselling series that's been read more than two million times worldwide! This series is complete.WORLDS DIVIDED THEM. DESTINY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. ONLY LOVE WILL SAVE THEM.Venus isn't from Earth, she's from Kelari. On her planet she's next in line to rule, but there are those who will go to great lengths to make sure that doesn't happen. Including frame her as a traitor.Accused and sentenced, the gods of her planet exile her to Earth. They've given her one week to help a human find his true love. If she doesn't succeed, she'll die, but if she does she might lose her heart.\nPraise for this series:\u00a0\n \n \"Michael and Venus have probably been the best pairing/couple that I've read about this year! GO READ THIS BOOK! You will love it. Seriously.\" Nancy, reviewer Tumbling Books\"Writing that moves readers to ponder their hearts is good writing, and that's what readers will find with Workman. Her protagonist is strong willed, her antagonist is easy to hate, and her mentor is easy to love.\" Kathleen Brebes\"What a ride!\" Taffy Lovell \nBooks in the Immortal Essence Series:\nEXILEDBANISHEDDISPLACEDBEGUILEDTEMPTEDMERGEDUNITED", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28599556-exiled"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Rising", "author_name": "Daniel Arenson", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2106, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "It's all-out war. Our cities fall. Millions die. The scum, these cruel aliens from deep space, are determined to kill us all. So we must kill them. Humanity musters its greatest fleet. Thousands of starships rally. Millions of soldiers deploy. For Earth to stand a chance, we must invade the aliens' homeworld. We must destroy their planet. Before they destroy ours. Earth's fleet flies through space. We fly toward millions of enemy ships. We fly to almost certain death. This will be the hour humanity falls . . . or the hour of our greatest victory.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31549833-earth-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Frankissstein: A Love Story", "author_name": "Jeanette Winterson", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 8276, "review_number": 1570, "book_description": "In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love \u2013 against their better judgement \u2013 with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI.Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead\u2026 but waiting to return to life.But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. \u2018Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literary Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Contemporary", "Retellings", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42123790-frankissstein"}, +{"book_title": "The Sky Road", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1288, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Centuries after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past.A past in which, centuries before, Myra Godwin faced the end of a different space age--her rockets redundant, her people rebellious, and her borders defenseless against the Sino-Soviet Union. As Myra appealed to the crumbling West for help, she found history turning on her own strange past--and on the terrible decisions she faces now.The Sky Road is a fireworks display, a bravura performance, and the most amazing novel yet by one of the powerful new voices in science fiction.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Politics", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185831.The_Sky_Road"}, +{"book_title": "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 10495, "review_number": 200, "book_description": "My name is John Taylor. I\u2019m a PI for hire in the Nightside, the dark and corrupt city within the city of London. Where the sun never shines and where pleasure and horror are always on sale\u2014for the right price.Not a nice place to visit or a nice place to live. So you wouldn\u2019t think I would care that it was about to be destroyed, by none other than my very own long-missing, not-quite-human mom.But I do. I was born here, I live here, and I got friends here. They might not all be acceptable in polite company, but they\u2019re my friends, nonetheless.I know that I\u2019m the only one who can stop her. The trick is, how to do it without fulfilling this prophecy that says whatever action I take, not only is the Nightside doomed, but the rest of the world will soon follow\u2026", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104766.Sharper_Than_a_Serpent_s_Tooth"}, +{"book_title": "Three Days in April", "author_name": "Edward Ashton", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 602, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Anders Jensen is having a bad month. His roommate is a data thief, his girlfriend picks fights in bars, and his best friend is a cyborg\u2026and a lousy tipper. When everything is spiraling out of control, though, maybe those are exactly the kind of friends you need.In a world divided between the genetically engineered elite and the unmodified masses, Anders is an anomaly: engineered, but still broke and living next to a crack house. All he wants is to land a tenure-track faculty position, and maybe meet someone who's not technically a criminal\u2014but when a nightmare plague rips through Hagerstown, Anders finds himself dodging kinetic energy weapons and government assassins as Baltimore slips into chaos. His friends aren't as helpless as they seem, though, and his girlfriend's street-magician brother-in-law might be a pretentious hipster\u2014or might hold the secret to saving them all.Frenetic and audacious, Three Days in April is a speculative thriller that raises an important question: once humanity goes down the rabbit hole, can it ever find its way back?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26126066-three-days-in-april"}, +{"book_title": "The Olympian Affair", "author_name": "Jim Butcher", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 95, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "The characters are off on a diplomatic mission to another Spire. A bunch of representatives of various Spires are holding a council there to decide which side they\u2019ll be on in the war that\u2019s coming.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26860699-the-olympian-affair"}, +{"book_title": "Skylark Three", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1396, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "In this exhilarating sequel to The Skylark of Space, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seaton\u2019s allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them. And don\u2019t forget the dastardly machinations of Seaton\u2019s arch-nemesis, DuQuesne, who embarks on a nefarious mission of his own. Against such vile foes and impossible odds, how is victory possible?\u00a0Featuring even more technological wizardry, alien worlds, and all-out action than its predecessor, Skylark Three is hailed by many as the imaginative high point of the Skylark series.", "year_published": 1930, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Literature (American)", "Pulp"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826501.Skylark_Three"}, +{"book_title": "The Wrong Unit", "author_name": "Rob Dircks", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 704, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HUMANS ARE SO CRANKY ABOUT. Their enclosures are large, they ingest over a thousand calories per day, and they're allowed to mate. Plus, they have me.\u00a0An Autonomous Servile Unit, housed in a mobile/bipedal chassis. I do my job well: keep the humans healthy and happy.\"Hey you.\"Heyoo. That's my name, I suppose. It's easier for the humans to remember than 413s98-itr8. I guess I've gotten used to it.---Rob Dircks, bestselling author of Where the Hell is Tesla?, has a \"unit\" with a problem: how to deliver his package, out in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to guide him. Oh, and with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. It's a science fiction tale of technology gone haywire, unlikely heroes, and the nature of humanity. (Woah. That last part sounds deep. Don't worry, it's not.) ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30959279-the-wrong-unit"}, +{"book_title": "My Lady Jane", "author_name": "Cynthia Hand", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 43545, "review_number": 9474, "book_description": "Edward (long live the king) is the King of England. He\u2019s also dying, which is inconvenient, as he\u2019s only sixteen and he\u2019d much rather be planning for his first kiss than considering who will inherit his crown\u2026Jane (reads too many books) is Edward\u2019s cousin, and far more interested in books than romance. Unfortunately for Jane, Edward has arranged to marry her off to secure the line of succession. And there\u2019s something a little odd about her intended\u2026Gifford (call him G) is a horse. That is, he\u2019s an E\u00f0ian (eth-y-un, for the uninitiated). Every day at dawn he becomes a noble chestnut steed\u2014but then he wakes at dusk with a mouthful of hay. It\u2019s all very undignified.The plot thickens as Edward, Jane, and G are drawn into a dangerous conspiracy. With the fate of the kingdom at stake, our heroes will have to engage in some conspiring of their own. But can they pull off their plan before it\u2019s off with their heads?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22840421-my-lady-jane"}, +{"book_title": "If I Had You", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 2187, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "Artane is a majestic keep on the edge of the sea, the foster home of Anne of Fenwyck and the legacy of Robin de Piaget. Warring had kept Robin far from home for so long, Anne had all but given up hope he would ever return. But now Robin has come home \u2013 to the enchanting young woman who leaves him breathless with longing \u2026 and to a treachery that places them both in terrible danger. Then as the past threatens their future, he realizes that he wants nothing more than to have her \u2013 forever\u2026", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816582.If_I_Had_You"}, +{"book_title": "Second Contact", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2953, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "In the extraordinary Worldwar tetralogy, set against the backdrop of the World War II, Harry Turtledove, the \"Hugo-winning master of alternate SF\" (Publishers Weekly), wove an explosive saga of world powers locked in conflict against an enemy from the stars. Now he expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s, when the space race is in its infancy and humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth.Yet even in the shadow of this inexorable foe, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany are unable to relinquish their hostilities and unite against a massive new wave of extraterrestrials. For all the countries of the world, this is the greatest threat of all. This time, the terrible price of defeat will be the conquest of our world, and perhaps the extinction of the human race itself.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101533.Second_Contact"}, +{"book_title": "Fracture Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 39608, "review_number": 4051, "book_description": "As Omega Point prepares to launch an all-out assault on The Reestablishment soldiers stationed in Sector 45, Adam's focus couldn't be further from the upcoming battle. He's reeling from his breakup with Juliette, scared for his best friend's life, and as concerned as ever for his brother James's safety. And just as Adam begins to wonder if this life is really for him, the alarms sound. It's time for war.On the battlefield, it seems like the odds are in their favor\u2014but taking down Warner, Adam's newly discovered half brother, won't be that easy. The Reestablishment can't tolerate a rebellion, and they'll do anything to crush the resistance... including killing everyone Adam has ever cared about.Fracture Me sets the stage for Ignite Me, the explosive finale in Tahereh Mafi's epic dystopian series. Set during and soon after the final moments of Unravel Me, Fracture Me is told from Adam's perspective.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17331518-fracture-me"}, +{"book_title": "La Conqu\u00eate de l'espace - Vol. 2", "author_name": "Alex Alice", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 598, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Nos h\u00e9ros, qui ont \u00e9chapp\u00e9 de justesse aux hommes de Bismarck en embarquant dans l'\u00e9thernef, voient le ch\u00e2teau s'\u00e9loigner sous leurs yeux au fil de leur mont\u00e9e dans le ciel. Les voici sur le point de prouver leur th\u00e9orie, franchir le mur de l'\u00e9ther et d\u00e9couvrir l'espace myst\u00e9rieux et infini.Une avarie va faire de leur r\u00eave le plus fou une r\u00e9alit\u00e9, les for\u00e7ant \u00e0 se poser sur la face cach\u00e9e de la Lune. Si le p\u00e8re de S\u00e9raphin fera tout pour les ramener vivants sur Terre, le Roi semble caresser d'autres espoirs tandis que S\u00e9raphin, lui, veut \u00e0 en savoir plus sur la disparition de sa m\u00e8re. La conqu\u00eate de l'espace s'arr\u00eatera-t-elle \u00e0 ce premier vol ?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25976141-la-conqu-te-de-l-espace---vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "The Naked World", "author_name": "Eli K.P. William", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 45, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "In a world stripped bare of digital images and promotainment, unveiled with the audiovisual overlay of the ImmaNet, in an exposed world, a naked world, Amon Kenzaki awakens, lost and alone. He must now travel deep into the District of Dreams in search of Anisha Birla, the one person that might help him unravel the mystery of jubilee. But deprived of the apps and informational tools he\u2019s depended on his entire life, traversing the largest bankdeath camp on Earth is no easy task.Inside an ephemeral labyrinth of slowly-dissolving disposable skyscrapers clogged to the limit with the bankdead masses, Amon soon finds himself face to face with two dangerous groups: a luddite cult called the Borginans, who preach bizarre superstitions about electronic banking, and a supposedly humanitarian army called the Charity Brigade, whose mandate of protecting the bankdead conceals opportunistic motives.Taking refuge in a hospital that strives to improve conditions in the camps, Amon begins to work towards its cause and reconciles himself to his newfound poverty. But when political forces threaten the community\u2019s existence and the lives of its members, he is forced to team up with a vending-machine designer, an Olympic runner, a fertility researcher, a corporate tycoon, and many others to expose the heinous secret festering at the heart of the action-transaction market he once served.In book two of the Jubilee Cycle, Eli K. P. William delves beneath the surface of his cyber-dystopian Tokyo to unearth the fate of outcasts trapped in its depths and shine a light on the financial obstacles blocking one individual\u2019s efforts to help them.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898684-the-naked-world"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows", "author_name": "Rhiannon Lassiter", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 447, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "A Supercomputer Brain In A 15-Year-Old's Body... Meet Raven, The Most Dangerous Teenager In The World.... Tomorrow has come. And now, in 24th-century London, the CPS, a secret government agency, is on a mission to seek and destroy the Hex-human mutants with supercomputer minds. Raven is next on their list. Soon she will be in their hands.... Raven and her brother Wraith have rescued their sister Revenge. Now the CPS and the tyrannical, repressive European Federation have declared all-out war. But as Raven battles her captors, who will lead the Hex? It is up to Wraith to forge a union between the Hex and the rebel group Anglecynn. But can newcomer Ali lead the fragile alliance into a battle beyond her wildest dreams and rescue Raven before it is too late?", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1002703.Shadows"}, +{"book_title": "City of Ashes", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 773238, "review_number": 29732, "book_description": "Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go \u2014 especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil \u2014 and also her father.To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. Is Valentine behind the killings \u2014 and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. How can Clary stop Valentine if Jace is willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father?In this breathtaking sequel to City of Bones, Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City's Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1582996.City_of_Ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Watchmen", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 494669, "review_number": 14459, "book_description": "This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial best-seller, Watchmen has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V for Vendetta, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and The Sandman series.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Classics", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen"}, +{"book_title": "The Toll", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 49453, "review_number": 8504, "book_description": "It\u2019s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver.In this pulse-pounding conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman\u2019s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43822024-the-toll"}, +{"book_title": "American Hippo", "author_name": "Sarah Gailey", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1099, "review_number": 250, "book_description": "In 2017 Sarah Gailey made their debut with River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, two action-packed novellas that introduced readers to an alternate America in which hippos rule the colossal swamp that was once the Mississippi River. Now readers have the chance to own both novellas in American Hippo, a single, beautiful volume.Years ago, in an America that never was, the United States government introduced herds of hippos to the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This plan failed to take into account some key facts about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. By the 1890s, the vast bayou that was once America's greatest waterway belongs to feral hippos, and Winslow Houndstooth has been contracted to take it back. To do so, he will gather a crew of the damnedest cons, outlaws, and assassins to ever ride a hippo. American Hippo is the story of their fortunes, their failures, and his revenge.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Novella", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36152812-american-hippo"}, +{"book_title": "The Chaos", "author_name": "Rachel Ward", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 7404, "review_number": 625, "book_description": "Adam sees \u201cnumbers\u201d \u2013 when he looks in peoples\u2019 eyes he can see their death-dates, just like his mum Jem used to. Adam has trouble dealing with his awful gift, and when he realises that everyone around him has the same series of numbers, he becomes deeply afraid of what might happen in 2025.Desperate to find out what could be about to go wrong, Adam spends hours researching possibilities \u2013 war, nuclear accidents, killer viruses. He knows something big is coming, but what? And is there anything he can possibly do about it?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mathematics (Number)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7248435-the-chaos"}, +{"book_title": "Title Fight", "author_name": "Scott Sigler", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 771, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Parsec Award-winning author Matt Wallace and New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler team up to bring you TITLE FIGHT, a strange and brutal tale that combines science fiction with mixed martial arts (MMA).Set in the universe used for Sigler\u2019s books THE ROOKIE and THE STARTER, TITLE FIGHT is MMA cage fighting in the far future, where augmented sentients often battle to the death. Lethal human contender Chiyal \u201cThe Heretic\u201d North wants to be the greatest fighter of all time, but to get that title he has to take it from aging intergalactic heavyweight champion Korak the Cutter. Korak, undefeated in the ring and the hero of his Quyth race, knows the time has come to hang it up, but he also knows his legacy will be forever tarnished if he doesn\u2019t take this one last fight.With millions of dollars at stake, Chiyal and Korak have to handle sponsors, high-tech corner crews, managers with agendas of their own, and evade the influence of gangster and fight-fixer Gredok the Split-Head.In this winner-take-all tale, Wallace and Sigler deliver blows so severe you\u2019ll need a standing eight-count between every episode. The bell will ring, the blood will fly, but only one fighter can leave with the galactic heavyweight belt.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sports (Sports)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Football", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10401380-title-fight"}, +{"book_title": "Blackout", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 22543, "review_number": 3228, "book_description": "Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill\u2019s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London\u2019s Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone\u2019s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Hugo Awards", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6506307-blackout"}, +{"book_title": "The Tommyknockers", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 127951, "review_number": 2812, "book_description": "Late Last Night and the Night Before ...... Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door.Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi accidentally stumbled across. It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...an invasion of body and soul--and mind....", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Suspense", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17660.The_Tommyknockers"}, +{"book_title": "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology", "author_name": "Ray Kurzweil", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 10043, "review_number": 864, "book_description": "For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Philosophy", "Futurism", "Artificial Intelligence", "Singularity", "Science (Biology)", "Biology (Evolution)", "Science (Computer Science)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83518.The_Singularity_is_Near"}, +{"book_title": "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", "author_name": "Ted Chiang", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 3668, "review_number": 398, "book_description": "In medieval Baghdad, a penniless man is brought before the most powerful man in the world, the caliph himself, to tell his story. It begins with a walk in the bazaar, but soon grows into a tale unlike any other told in the caliph's empire. It's a story that includes not just buried treasure and a band of thieves, but also men haunted by their past and others trapped by their future; it includes not just a beloved wife and a veiled seductress, but also long journeys taken by caravan and even longer ones taken with a single step. Above all, it's a story about recognizing the will of Allah and accepting it, no matter what form it takes.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novella", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223379.The_Merchant_and_the_Alchemist_s_Gate"}, +{"book_title": "Unrest", "author_name": "Wendy Higgins", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1221, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins brings you the second book in this thrilling war-torn world... Being on the run in the desert means food and sanctuary are hard to come by, but Amber Tate and her crew are not about to give up. Not after having the things they love brutally ripped from them by an unknown enemy who sent their world into the apocalypse. Survival takes precedence, but once safe shelter is found, their guards fall and the emotions they've been holding in are finally released. Anger, insecurities...lust. In their tight quarters, Amber, Rylen, Tater, and Remy can't escape it. The past must be faced, and passions run even stronger in the darkest of times. In the midst of unrest, their worlds are rocked again when they discover the truth about the war that's ruined their lives. They thought finding out the enemy's identity would give them the edge; instead it's revealed terrifying dangers they never thought possible.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["New Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34299752-unrest"}, +{"book_title": "Planetfall", "author_name": "Emma Newman", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 9440, "review_number": 1400, "book_description": "From the award-nominated author Emma Newman, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity\u2019s future might be its undoing\u2026Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi\u2019s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown. More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret.Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi. The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Space", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24237785-planetfall"}, +{"book_title": "Time's Divide", "author_name": "Rysa Walker", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 7109, "review_number": 488, "book_description": "The Cyrists are swiftly moving into position to begin the Culling, and Kate\u2019s options are dwindling. With each jump to the past or the future, Kate may trigger a new timeline shift. Worse, the loyalties of those around her\u2014including the allegiances of Kiernan and the Fifth Column, the shadowy group working with Kate\u2014are increasingly unclear.Kate will risk everything, including her life, to prevent the future her grandfather and the Cyrists have planned. But, when time runs out, it may take an even bigger sacrifice to protect the people she loves.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22583196-time-s-divide"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Building for Teens", "author_name": "Behnam Salemi", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 8, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Robotics--the design and creation of robots--is one of the most exciting and fast-growing areas of technology today. Robots are essentially computers with physical bodies; they can sense their environment, make decisions, and perform actions. They come in all shapes and sizes and are being used in almost every area of society--from business and industry to science, medicine, communications, entertainment, and beyond. While modern robots can be quite complex, the fundamental principles of robot building can be learned by any interested beginner. If you've ever thought about building your own robots, ROBOT BUILDING FOR TEENS will teach you how to get started in this fascinating hobby. The projects in this book include the \"Digital Brain Robot,\" the \"Bug Bot,\" and even a robot on wheels! You will learn how to design your robot, how to create a prototype, where to buy parts, how to program your finished robot to perform tasks, and more. You'll be led step-by-step through the projects in the book. Along the way, you'll learn about advanced robotic systems that use the same principles you're learning, and you'll get a glimpse into the future of robotics. This book's companion website includes software program files, parts lists for each project, and links to online parts suppliers. ROBOT BUILDING FOR TEENS is a fun, easy-to-understand, hands-on guide that will have you building your own robots in no time.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Nonfiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13839689-robot-building-for-teens"}, +{"book_title": "Once Upon a Time in the North", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 13026, "review_number": 1180, "book_description": "In this prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby -- Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua -- is 24 years old. The story reveals the origins of Scoresby's friendship with Iorek Byrnison as well as Scoresby's aeronautical career.After winning his hot-air balloon in a poker game, Scoresby finds himself floating north. On the Arctic island of Novy Odense, Scoresby and his d\u00e6mon Hester become involved in a deadly plot involving an oil magnate, a corrupt mayoral candidate, and a hired killer who is Lee's longtime nemesis from the Dakota Country. Forming an alliance with one of the island's reviled armored bears, Scoresby fights to break up the conspiracy.This clothbound volume features the illustrations of John Lawrence, a removable board game on the inside back cover, and the story that offers a glimpse into the origins of the friendship of two beloved characters in the His Dark Materials trilogy.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2225238.Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_North"}, +{"book_title": "Fade", "author_name": "Ais", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 2749, "review_number": 369, "book_description": "In the Company of Shadows series description:Years after the bombs of WWIII have changed the physical and political landscape, the Agency ruthlessly works behind the scenes to take down rebel groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means. Hsin Liu Vega (Sin) is their most efficient and deadly assassin ever. However, he tends to go off on unauthorized killing sprees and somehow his assigned partners all end up dead under suspicious circumstances. That is why the Agency has had him locked up in a box on the fourth floor for years. But now they think it is time to put the psychopath back in the field. With a new partner.Boyd's mother, a high ranking Agency official, volunteers her teenage son for the position. Boyd is not afraid of death. In fact, his life has been such an endless cycle of apathy and despair for the last few years that he'd welcome it.Can these two broken men form an efficient partnership? Can they learn to trust anyone, let alone each other? Sin doesn't give a fuck about the Agency, or the androgynous boy who holds the remote to the shock collar that is supposed to control him.On the other hand, Boyd is strangely unafraid of the man everyone calls 'monster' and Sin seems reluctant to let his keeper get himself killed on any missions. Yet.__________Status: CompleteWord Count: 404,241 (42 Chapters + Epilogue)", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Dark", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "War (Military Fiction)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Action", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11737700-fade"}, +{"book_title": "In Other Words, Baby, Kiss Me", "author_name": "primroseshows", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 58, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Teen Wolf AUStiles has simple goals in life. To successfully complete his secret radar project without getting fired, to get a cottage on the Moon, and to untangle his mess of feelings for Moon Station 3 deputy, Derek Hale. Heck, he'll even settle for two of the three.Words:61264 complete", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fan Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17790767-in-other-words-baby-kiss-me"}, +{"book_title": "Time's Arrow", "author_name": "Martin Amis", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 14934, "review_number": 1106, "book_description": "In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward in time toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novels", "Literature", "Literary Fiction", "Contemporary", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "World War II (Holocaust)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23031.Time_s_Arrow"}, +{"book_title": "Watching the Clock", "author_name": "Christopher L. Bennett", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 930, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "There\u2019s likely no more of a thankless job in the Federation than temporal investigation. While starship explorers get to live the human adventure of traveling to other times and realities, it\u2019s up to the dedicated agents of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations to deal with the consequences to the timestream that the rest of the Galaxy has to live with day by day. But when history as we know it could be wiped out at any moment by time warriors from the future, misused relics of ancient races, or accident-prone starships, only the most disciplined, obsessive, and unimaginative government employees have what it takes to face the existential uncertainty of it all on a daily basis . . . and still stay sane enough to complete their assignments. That\u2019s where Agents Lucsly and Dulmur come in\u2014stalwart and unflappable, these men are the Federation\u2019s unsung anchors in a chaotic universe. Together with their colleagues in the DTI\u2014and with the help and sometimes hindrance of Starfleet\u2019s finest\u2014they do what they can to keep the timestream, or at least the paperwork, as neat and orderly as they are. But when a series of escalating temporal incursions threatens to open a new front of the history-spanning Temporal Cold War in the twenty-fourth century, Agents Lucsly and Dulmur will need all their investigative skill and unbending determination to stop those who wish to rewrite the past for their own advantage, and to keep the present and the future from devolving into the kind of chaos they really, really hate.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Trek)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Suspense", "Action", "Media Tie In", "Travel", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9037520-watching-the-clock"}, +{"book_title": "Angelic Layer, Vol. 1", "author_name": "CLAMP", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2143, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Angelic Layer is sweeping the nation! In the newest electronic sport, players enter their Angels in tournaments and battle for fortune and glory. Twelve-year-old Misaki just discovered Angelic Layer, and she's already captivated by the game. But building a winning Angel takes money and experience, and Misaki's short on both counts. With the help of a crazy scientist and a very special Angel of her own, she'll give it her all to win the Angelic Layer crown.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Manga (Shojo)", "Young Adult", "Manga (Shonen)", "Comics Manga", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/485098.Angelic_Layer_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "We Are the Ants", "author_name": "Shaun David Hutchinson", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 31727, "review_number": 5762, "book_description": "From the author of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button.Only he isn\u2019t sure he wants to.After all, life hasn\u2019t been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer\u2019s. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend\u2019s suicide last year.Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him.But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it\u2026or let the world\u2014and his pain\u2014be destroyed forever.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Health (Mental Health)", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Mental Health (Mental Illness)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23677341-we-are-the-ants"}, +{"book_title": "Mated To The Warriors", "author_name": "Grace Goodwin", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1821, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "When circumstances leave her with little choice but to volunteer for the Interstellar Bride Program, Hannah Johnson finds herself matched with not one but two mates. Her soon-to-be husbands are warriors of the planet Prillon, a world whose men are known far and wide for their prowess both in battle and in bed. Following her transport to a starship halfway across the galaxy, Hannah awakens in the presence of Zane Deston, the huge, fiercely handsome commander of the Prillon fleet. After informing her that she is now his mate, as well as the mate of his second, Zane takes it upon himself to supervise as Hannah is thoroughly and intimately examined. Her failure to properly cooperate with the ship\u2019s doctor earns her a painful, embarrassing spanking on her bare bottom, but it is her body\u2019s response to the exam which truly leaves her blushing. Though Hannah is shocked by the prospect of being shared by Zane and his second, the equally handsome warrior Dare, she cannot hide her arousal as her two dominant mates take their time in mastering her body. As the day of the claiming ceremony approaches, Hannah begins to long for the moment when Zane and Dare will make her fully theirs, but can she risk giving her heart to men who might die in battle any day? Publisher\u2019s Note: Mated to the Warriors is a stand-alone book set in the same world as Assigned a Mate. It is an erotic romance novel that includes spankings, sexual scenes, medical play, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material offends you, please don\u2019t buy this book.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29624315-mated-to-the-warriors"}, +{"book_title": "The Vision, Volume 2: Little Better than a Beast", "author_name": "Tom King", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 5550, "review_number": 601, "book_description": "Once upon a time a robot and a witch fell in love. What followed was a tale of the dead and the dying, of the hopeful and the lost, of the wronged and the avenged. And in the end, after both had fallen, the witch and the robot rose from their dirt and eyed each other across a field of blood and bone. Forty-five years in the making, this is the story of Scarlet Witch and the Vision. Before family, there was love. And war.Collecting: The Vision 7-12", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29507117-the-vision-volume-2"}, +{"book_title": "The Rule of One", "author_name": "Ashley Saunders", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 10225, "review_number": 1071, "book_description": "In their world, telling the truth has become the most dangerous crime of all.In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret\u2014one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her entire life.She has an identical twin sister, Mira.For eighteen years Ava and Mira have lived as one, trading places day after day, maintaining an interchangeable existence down to the most telling detail. But when their charade is exposed, their worst nightmare begins. Now they must leave behind the father they love and fight for their lives.Branded as traitors, hunted as fugitives, and pushed to discover just how far they\u2019ll go in order to stay alive, Ava and Mira rush headlong into a terrifying unknown.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36584870-the-rule-of-one"}, +{"book_title": "Towards Yesterday", "author_name": "Paul Antony Jones", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1347, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "Word count: 77,000What would you do if you suddenly found yourself twenty-five years in the past? For the nine-billion people of the year 2042 it's no longer a question ... it is a realityWhen a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded alongside the rest of mankind, twenty-five years in the past. A past where the old are once more young, the dead live and the world has been thrust into chaos.Contacted by the scientist responsible for the disaster, James is recruited to help avert an even greater catastrophe. Along with a team of scientists, a reincarnated murder victim and a frustrated genius trapped in her six-year old body, James must stop the certain extinction of humanity. But if the deluded leader of the Church of Second Redemption has his way, humanity will disappear into potentiality, and he is willing to do anything to ensure that happens. A serial killer, a murder victim, a dead priest, and James' lives are all inextricably bound together as they plummet towards an explosive final confrontation, the winner of which will decide the fate of humanity. ***\u00a0Thanks for considering downloading Towards Yesterday. If you have a second, could I ask you to scroll to the tag section at the bottom of this page and, if you agree with them, confirm the tags you find there. This will make Towards Yesterday easier for others to find. Thank you ***", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11294761-towards-yesterday"}, +{"book_title": "Silver on the Road", "author_name": "Laura Anne Gilman", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2367, "review_number": 467, "book_description": "A heroic fantasy by an award-winning author about a young woman who is trained in the art of the sinister hand of magic, but at what price?On her sixteenth birthday, Isobel makes the choice to work for the devil in his territory west of the Mississippi. But this is not the devil you know. This is a being who deals fairly with immense\u2014but not unlimited\u2014power, who offers opportunities to people who want to make a deal, and makes sure they always get what they deserve. But his land is a wild west that needs a human touch, and that\u2019s where Izzy comes in. Inadvertently trained by him to see the clues in and manipulations of human desire, Izzy is raised to be his left hand and travel the circuitous road through the territory. As we all know, where there is magic there is power and chaos\u2026and death.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Westerns", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20748097-silver-on-the-road"}, +{"book_title": "The Chronological Man: The Martian Emperor", "author_name": "Andrew Mayne", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1038, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Description from the author's website:Who is the Martian Emperor?When a giant airship descends on New York City in 1892 and threatens destruction if the world doesn\u2019t submit to the Martian flag, it\u2019s up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer to find out what forces are at work.From the dangerous basement fan-tan parlors of Chinatown to the top of the Statue of Liberty\u2019s torch, Smith and his brilliant assistant, April Malone, will have to unravel the clues and avoid danger lurking behind every corner. To stop the menace they\u2019ll need they enlist the help of Theodore Roosevelt and other early twentieth-century heroes.The second book in The Chronological Man series, The Martian Emperor combines mystery, airship battles and backroom Tammany Hall politics against the backdrop of a world on the verge of war.53,000 words \u2013 approximately 160 pages.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13286676-the-chronological-man"}, +{"book_title": "The Nightmare Stacks", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 5485, "review_number": 447, "book_description": "Alex Schwartz had a promising future - until he contracted an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret agency.His first assignment is in Leeds - his old hometown. The thought of telling his parents that he's lost his old job, let alone them finding out about his 'condition', is causing Alex more anxiety than learning how to live as a vampire secret agent preparing to confront multiple apocalypses.His only saving grace is Cassie Brewer, a student appearing in the local Goth Festival, who flirts with him despite his awkward personality and massive amounts of sunblock.But Cassie has secrets of her own - secrets that make Alex's night life seem positively normal . . .", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Humor", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Audiobook", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24997064-the-nightmare-stacks"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Beginning", "author_name": "Lauren James", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1210, "review_number": 227, "book_description": "The epic conclusion to Lauren James's debut The Next Together about true love and reincarnation.Sixteen years ago, after a scandal that rocked the world, teenagers Katherine and Matthew vanished without a trace. Now Clove Sutcliffe is determined to find her long lost relatives.But where do you start looking for a couple who seem to have been reincarnated at every key moment in history? Who were Kate and Matt? Why were they born again and again? And who is the mysterious Ella, who keeps appearing at every turn in Clove's investigation?For Clove, there is a mystery to solve in the past and a love to find in the future, and failure could cost the world everything.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24550848-the-last-beginning"}, +{"book_title": "An Oblique Approach", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 4077, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "Only three things stand between the Malwa and the conquest of Earth: Byzantium, the empire of Rome in the East; a crystal that urges mankind to fight; and Belisarius, general of the Byzantine Empire, and arguably the greatest commmander the Earth has ever known.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406911.An_Oblique_Approach"}, +{"book_title": "Conqueror", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 569, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "The second novel in a thrilling alternate-history series-from national bestselling author Stephen Baxter. Three centuries have passed since Rome fell, as The Prophecy foretold. Now The Prophecy's scroll is in the hands of a young girl, the last surviving member of the family who received The Prophecy. She lives in tranquility, disguisd as a boy among the monks on the isle of Lindisfarne-until the Vikings come, deliberately destroying the final copies of the scroll. But it remains in her memory, and when William of Normandy, who history will call the Conqueror, rises to power, once more the fate of the land rests on actions inspired by those age-old words. But as time passes, memory of The Prophecy dims--and the veiled girl struggles to understand her heritage before all knowledge of the future will be lost to the past.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66793.Conqueror"}, +{"book_title": "The Demon's Possession: Scifi Paranormal Romance", "author_name": "Kiersten Fay", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 4437, "review_number": 456, "book_description": "From USA Today bestselling author Kiersten Fay comes this devilishly passionate tale of a fierce demon captain and the vulnerable young princess he vows to protect. Their passion will ignite the stars.As captain of the merchant ship Marada, Sebastian has only one goal: keep his family and his crew safe while they deliver a curious parcel to a ruthless pirate. But when a bewitching young woman mysteriously appears on his ship, he finds it impossible to focus on the job...and to keep his hands off her.Analia has known only one life: enslavement. In a bid for freedom, she escapes onto a craft led by a fearsome demon captain. If she is to maintain her freedom, she must gain Sebastian's trust while concealing her true nature.Together they contend with the hazards of open space, but what no one knows is her secrets are more dangerous than anything they have encountered before.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53510771-the-demon-s-possession"}, +{"book_title": "Wires and Nerve, Volume 2: Gone Rogue", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 12108, "review_number": 1919, "book_description": "Iko \u2013 an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder \u2013 has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna. Unless Cinder can reverse the mutations that were forced on them years before, Steele and his soldiers plan to satisfy their monstrous appetites with a massacre of the innocent people of Earth.And to show he\u2019s serious, Steele is taking hostages.Cinder and Kai, Scarlet and Wolf, Cress and Thorne, and Winter and Jacin all feature in this epic new battle. But it is Iko who must face her deepest fears when she uncovers the truth about her own unusual programming.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Retellings", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34930815-wires-and-nerve-volume-2"}, +{"book_title": "Qualify", "author_name": "Vera Nazarian", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 8396, "review_number": 660, "book_description": "The Atlantis Grail has been optioned for development as a feature film series and/or TV series.\nYou have two options. You die, or you Qualify.\nThe year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendents of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.But there\u2019s a catch.They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth\u2019s population back to the colony planet Atlantis. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify.Sixteen-year-old Gwenevere Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family.Because there\u2019s a loophole.If you are good enough to Qualify, you are eligible to compete in the brutal games of the Atlantis Grail, which grants all winners the laurels, high tech luxuries, and full privileges of Atlantis Citizenship. And if you are in the Top Ten, then all your wildest wishes are granted\u2026 Such as curing your mother\u2019s cancer.There is only one problem.Gwen Lark is known as a klutz and a nerd. While she\u2019s a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she\u2019s come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard.This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition\u2014including Logan Sangre, the most amazing guy in her class, the one she\u2019s been crushing on, and who doesn\u2019t seem to know she exists.Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea.\nYou Qualify or you die.\n* * *EXCERPT!Now you can read \nChapter One\n in its entirety (click here)!* * *", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21845122-qualify"}, +{"book_title": "Feed", "author_name": "M.T. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 58482, "review_number": 6694, "book_description": "Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon\u2014a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world\u2014and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Academic (School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169756.Feed"}, +{"book_title": "Legend: The Graphic Novel", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4568, "review_number": 793, "book_description": "Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a military prodigy.\u00a0Born into the slums of the Republic\u2019s Lake Sector, fifteen-year-old Day is the country\u2019s most wanted criminal. But his motives are not as sinister as they often seem.\u00a0One\u00a0day June\u2019s brother is murdered and\u00a0Day becomes the prime suspect. Now,\u00a0Day is in a race for his family\u2019s survival, while June tries desperately to avenge her brother\u2019s death. And the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together and the lengths their country will go to in order to keep its secrets.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Manga)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22571758-legend"}, +{"book_title": "A Soldier's Duty", "author_name": "Jean Johnson", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 4494, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "Ia is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire generations for the next three hundred years-a soldier history will call Bloody Mary.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10814635-a-soldier-s-duty"}, +{"book_title": "Fiendish Schemes", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.06, "rating_votes": 181, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "In 1986 K. W. Jeter coined the term \"steampunk,\" applying it to his first Victorian-era science fiction alternate-history adventure. At last he has returned with Fiendish Schemes, a tale of George Dower, son of the inventor of Infernal Devices, who has been in new self-imposed exile\u2026accumulating debts.The world Dower left when he went into hiding was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London, a mad whirl of civilization filled with gadgets and gears in the least expected places. After accepting congratulations for his late father's grandest invention\u2014a walking, steam-powered lighthouse\u2014Dower is enticed by the prospect of financial gain into a web of intrigue with ominously mysterious players who have nefarious plans of which he can only guess.If he can locate and make his father's Vox Universalis work as it was intended, his future, he is promised, is assured. But his efforts are confounded by the strange Vicar Stonebrake, who promises him aid, but is more interested in converting sentient whales to Christianity\u2014and making money\u2014than in helping George. Drugged, arrested, and interrogated by men, women, and the steam-powered Prime Minister, Dower is trapped in a maelstrom of secrets, corruption, and schemes that threaten to drown him in the chaos of this mad new world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332248-fiendish-schemes"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Esther", "author_name": "Emily Barton", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 444, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "Eastern Europe, August 1942. The Khazar kaganate, an isolated nation of Turkic warrior Jews, lies between the Pontus Euxinus (the Black Sea) and the Khazar Sea (the Caspian). It also happens to lie between a belligerent nation to the west that the Khazars call Germania\u2014and a city the rest of the world calls Stalingrad.After years of Jewish refugees streaming across the border from Europa, fleeing the war, Germania launches its siege of Khazaria. Only Esther, the daughter of the nation\u2019s chief policy adviser, sees the ominous implications of Germania\u2019s disregard for Jewish lives. Only she realizes that this isn\u2019t just another war but an existential threat. After witnessing the enemy warplanes\u2019 first foray into sovereign Khazar territory, Esther knows she must fight for her country. But as the elder daughter in a traditional home, her urgent question is how.Before daybreak one fateful morning, she embarks on a perilous journey across the open steppe. She seeks a fabled village of Kabbalists who may hold the key to her destiny: their rumored ability to change her into a man so that she may convince her entire nation to join in the fight for its very existence against an enemy like none Khazaria has ever faced before.The Book of Esther is a profound saga of war, technology, mysticism, power, and faith.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Literature (Jewish)", "Religion", "Religion (Judaism)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26895153-the-book-of-esther"}, +{"book_title": "Revenge of the Damned", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 913, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Sten had fully expected to die in a blaze of glory, taking his Emperor's greatest foe with him. Instead he was a slave laborer in a POW camp deep in the heart of enemy territory. But sitting out the action had never been Sten's style. And now that the war was building to a climax, the Eternal Emperor needed him more than ever. Not even the toughest prison in the known universe could keep Sten from his mission.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/639083.Revenge_of_the_Damned"}, +{"book_title": "The Soul of the Robot", "author_name": "Barrington J. Bayley", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 122, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "He was unique. Alone in a world that did not understand him, he tested the super powers of his mind and body. More than a machine, but less than a man, he searched restlessly for the truth. Before his quest was done, he had died and been reborn, had fought his way from a grim dungeon to a royal throne. Jasperodus, the only super-robot to have been granted consciousness, must decide whether to share his soul-possessing secrets with the other robots or to betray them to save mankind.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Novels", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1766064.The_Soul_of_the_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "The Left Hand of Darkness", "author_name": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 125385, "review_number": 9623, "book_description": "A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose - and change - their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Feminism", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "LGBT", "Gender"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18423.The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The Accidental Time Machine", "author_name": "Joe Haldeman", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 8494, "review_number": 821, "book_description": "Joe Haldeman \"has quietly become one of the most important science fiction writers of our time\" (Rocky Mountain News). Now he delivers a provocative novel of a man who stumbles upon the discovery of a lifetime-or many lifetimes. Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, his calibrator turns into a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who has left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose taking a time machine trip himself-or so he thinks.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Novels", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21608.The_Accidental_Time_Machine"}, +{"book_title": "Alliance", "author_name": "S.K. Dunstall", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1627, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "As the Linesman series continues, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself facing an alien ship he doesn\u2019t understand\u2014and a terrifying political threat he cannot fight\u2026\u00a0 The lines. The soul of every ship. It was once thought there were only ten, but that was before an alien vessel appeared at the edge of space\u2014before Ean Lambert heard more lines singing. Ean\u2019s ways of communicating with lines is strange. But his abilities make him a valuable tool\u2014or weapon\u2014to command. \u00a0 Captain Selma Kari Wang has lost everything\u2014her ship, her crew, her legs. But the New Alliance of Worlds is not done with her yet. After they rebuild her broken body, they send her to captain one of the new alien ships, teaming her up with Ean, the only one who can understand the alien lines. \u00a0 Kari Wang and Ean are poised on the threshold of discoveries that could change the world. But not everyone wants the New Alliance to control the secrets they uncover\u2014and those who oppose won\u2019t hesitate to do whatever it takes to stop them\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25716622-alliance"}, +{"book_title": "A Scholar of Magics", "author_name": "Caroline Stevermer", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1606, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Glasscastle University--on the surface, one of the most peaceful places in England. But underneath, its magic is ancient and dangerous\u2026 American Samuel Lambert, sharpshooter, adventurer, late of the Wyoming plains and Kiowa Bob's Wild West Show, has been invited to Glasscastle University in England to contribute his phenomenally accurate shooting eye to the top secret Agincourt Project. The only dangers he expects to face are British snobbery, heavy dinners, and tea with the Provost's pretty wife. But when the Provost's stylish sister, Jane Brailsford, comes to town, things get much more exciting\u2026.This sparkling sequel to A College of Magics is a whirlwind of secret weapons, motor cars, mysterious assaults and abductions, thugs in bowler hats, and a mild-mannered don who is heir to a magical power greater than all of Glasscastle's.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Fantasy Of Manners)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1041257.A_Scholar_of_Magics"}, +{"book_title": "All Our Wrong Todays", "author_name": "Elan Mastai", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 22955, "review_number": 3620, "book_description": "You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed . . . because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down. Utterly blindsided by an accident of fate, Tom makes a rash decision that drastically changes not only his own life but the very fabric of the universe itself. In a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016, what we think of as the real world. For Tom, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland. But when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and\u2014maybe, just maybe\u2014his soul mate, Tom has a decision to make. Does he fix the flow of history, bringing his utopian universe back into existence, or does he try to forge a new life in our messy, unpredictable reality? Tom\u2019s search for the answer takes him across countries, continents, and timelines in a quest to figure out, finally, who he really is and what his future\u2014our future\u2014is supposed to be.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27405006-all-our-wrong-todays"}, +{"book_title": "Extinction", "author_name": "D.J. Molles", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 2760, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "This is the sixth and final novel in the action-packed series following Special Forces captain Lee Harden and a group of survivors struggling to survive while rebuilding an America devastated by a bacterium that has turned 90 percent of the population into a ravenous horde.The merciless tide of infected is flooding south, and time is running out to stop them. Bolstered by new allies, Captain Lee Harden continues his struggle to establish a safe haven from which the embers of a shattered society can be rekindled.This is the sixth and final novel in D. J. Molles' bestselling series:Book One: The RemainingBook Two: AftermathBook Three: RefugeesBook Tour: FracturedBook Five: AllegianceBook Six: Extinction", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23612516-extinction"}, +{"book_title": "Til the World Ends", "author_name": "Julie Kagawa", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1241, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "Dawn of Eden by Julie KagawaBefore The Immortal Rules, there was the Red Lung, a relentless virus determined to take out all in its path. For Kylie, the miracle of her survival is also her burden-as a doctor at one of the clinics for the infected, she is forced to witness endless suffering. What's worse, strange things are happening to the remains of the dead, and by the time she befriends Ben Archer, she's beginning to wonder if a global pandemic is the least of her problems.... Thistle & Thorne by Ann AguirreAfter a catastrophic spill turns the country into a vast chemical wasteland, those who could afford it retreated to fortresses, self-contained communities run by powerful corporations. But for Mari Thistle, life on the outside-in the Red Zone-is a constant struggle. To protect her family, Mari teams up with the mysterious Thorne Goodman. Together, they'll face an evil plot in both the underworld of the Red Zone and the society inside the fortresses that could destroy those on the outside...for good. Sun Storm by Karen DuvallSarah Daggot has been chasing storms since she was a child. But after the biggest solar flares in history nearly destroy the planet, she becomes a Kinetic, endowed by her exposure to extreme radiation with the power to sense coming storms-in the cosmos and beyond. And she's not the only one. Sarah believes the Kinetics are destined to join forces and halt the final onslaught of the sun. She'll vow to keep trying to convince the one missing link in their chain of defense, the enigmatic Ian Matthews, up until the world ends.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803278-til-the-world-ends"}, +{"book_title": "The Black Sheep", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 771, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "The third stand-alone book in A Learning Experience ... In the wake of Earth\u2019s collapse into chaos, Captain Hoshiko Stuart made the mistake of speaking her mind - and was exiled six months from Sol to a naval base in an unexplored and uncontacted sector. Placed in command of a single squadron of starships, she expected nothing but boredom. But when she discovers an alien race threatening to exterminate all other races within the sector, Hoshiko and her squadron are drawn into a war to stop them, even if it means forging an alliance with aliens who may themselves become a threat to humanity and building an empire that may alienate her from her family once and for all. [Like my other self-published Kindle books, The Black Sheep is DRM-free. You may reformat it as you choose. There is a large sample of the text \u2013 and my other books \u2013 on my site: chrishanger.net. Try before you buy.] ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27847312-the-black-sheep"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Ship", "author_name": "William Brinkley", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 3646, "review_number": 463, "book_description": "The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain\u2014one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women\u2014to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth's last remaining survivors\u2014and they've all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Thriller", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263501.The_Last_Ship"}, +{"book_title": "Precursor", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 3350, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "National best-selling author and winner of three Hugo Awards, C.J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her acclaimed Foreigner trilogy-with an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft stranded on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race.The beginning of a second trilogy, Precursor follows a single human delegate living among aliens, who are just gaining access to space....Praise for Precursor...\"An addition to Cherryh's superior alien-contact series...Another intriguing human/alien struggle.\"-Kirkus Reviews\"A powerful look at the effects of alienation on individuals and societies.\"-Locus...and C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner Universe:\"Superlatively drawn aliens and characterization...a return to the anthropological science fiction in which [Cherryh] has made such a name is a double pleasure.\"-Chicago Sun-Times\"An incisive study-in-contrast of what it means to be human.\"-Library Journal", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adult", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57065.Precursor"}, +{"book_title": "Striper Assassin", "author_name": "Nyx Smith", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 356, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "For the world of humans knows her as Striper, the deadly Asian assassin and kick-artist. She has come to the City of Brotherly Love seeking revenge and made it her killing ground. But she is not the only predator stalking the dark underbelly of the Philadelphia metroplex. There are other hunters prowling the night, and some possess a power even greater than hers.Some may even want her dead.When the moon rises full and brilliant into the dark pall of the night, the bestial side of her nature battles for dominion, demanding vengeance and death.Who will survive?Who dares to hunt the hunter?", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131170.Striper_Assassin"}, +{"book_title": "Dread Nation", "author_name": "Justina Ireland", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 23389, "review_number": 4811, "book_description": "Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville\u2014derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities\u2014and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It\u2019s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society\u2019s expectations.But that\u2019s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston\u2019s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn\u2019t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30223025-dread-nation"}, +{"book_title": "The Cybernetic Samurai", "author_name": "Victor Mil\u00e1n", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 132, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Deep in the fortress-like headquarters of Yoshimitsu TeleCommunications, American scientist Elizabeth O'Neill had molded the circuitry of a mammoth computer into a living, thinking, feeling being--a human soul trapped in the confines of a cybernetic body.She named her creation Tokugawa, hero of Japanese samurai lore, and educated him with all of the values of a feudal Japanese shogun.Yet Tokugawa's powers were far greater than Elizabeth had imagined. WIth access to every computer in post-World War III's fully-automated society, he had the potential to become the ultimate spy, the perfect assassin, an invincible dictator.Only loyalty to samurai virtues kept his attention in check--until the day when Elizabeth was taken away from him, and Tokugawa began his quest for revenge...", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472944.The_Cybernetic_Samurai"}, +{"book_title": "The High Ground", "author_name": "Melinda M. Snodgrass", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 379, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "Emperor\u2019s daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League\u2019s Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals \u2014 to rise to the rank of captain, and win fame and honor. But a civil war is coming and the political machinations of those who yearn for power threaten the young cadets. In a time of intrigue and alien invasion, they will be tested as they never thought possible.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209199-the-high-ground"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Machine/The Invisible Man", "author_name": "H.G. Wells", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 55137, "review_number": 345, "book_description": "The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics\u00a0series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholarsBiographies of the authorsChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural eventsFootnotes and endnotesSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the workComments by other famous authorsStudy questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectationsBibliographies for further readingIndices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences\u2014biographical, historical, and literary\u2014to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.\u00a0The Time Machine, H. G. Wells\u2019s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two strange humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and the gentle but nearly helpless Eloi.The Invisible Man mixes chilling terror, suspense, and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers the formula for invisibility\u2014a secret that drives him mad.Immensely popular during his lifetime, H. G. Wells, along with Jules Verne, is credited with inventing science fiction. This new volume offers two of Wells\u2019s best-loved and most critically acclaimed \u201cscientific romances.\u201d In each, the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action, not merely to tell a \u201cripping yarn,\u201d but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. \u201cThe strength of Mr. Wells,\u201d wrote Arnold Bennett, \u201clies in the fact that he is not only a scientist, but a most talented student of character, especially quaint character. He will not only ingeniously describe for you a scientific miracle, but he will set down that miracle in the midst of a country village, sketching with excellent humour the inn-landlady, the blacksmith, the chemist\u2019s apprentice, the doctor, and all the other persons whom the miracle affects.\u201d\u00a0Alfred Mac Adam teaches literature at Barnard College-Columbia University. He is a translator and art critic.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics (Classic Literature)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17136.The_Time_Machine_The_Invisible_Man"}, +{"book_title": "The Plutonium Blonde", "author_name": "John Zakour", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 629, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "\"My name is Zachary Nixon Johnson. I am the last private detective on Earth...not exactly one hundred percent true, but it sounds good. The year is 2057 and, after a handful of species-altering upheavals, earth-shattering cataclysms, history changing extra-terrestrial contacts, and pop-culture disasters, the world is now a pretty safe place...But every once in a while some crazy thing happens that threatens all of society, all of humanity, or the entire space-time continuum. And for some reason it always happens on my watch.\" So begins the first installment of this all-new, all-hilarious trilogy that pokes fun at the pulps, and skewers sci-fi, as a private dick of the future goes after the most dangerous prey of all...The Plutonium Blonde.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Mystery (Noir)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Pulp", "Mystery (Crime)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647505.The_Plutonium_Blonde"}, +{"book_title": "Summertide", "author_name": "Charles Sheffield", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 731, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both\u2014but Quake in particular\u2014 to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something that happened only every 350,000 years.Access to the unstable Quake was supposed to be prohibited, but some very insistent travelers were determined to make the trip. Professor Darya Lang, who had made a career studying artifacts left by the long-vanished aliens called the Builders, had a hunch that during this unusual Summertide she might find the Builders themselves. Louis Nenda and the Cecropian Atvar H'sial had their own interests in Quake, and would do anything to get there. And Councilor Julius Graves was hunting murderers\u2014if they were hiding on Quake, he needed no one's permission to search for them.Planetary Administrators Hans Rebka and Max Perry had no choice but to go to Quake themselves\u2014risking their lives to protect the others\u2014and to learn, just maybe, the secret of Summertide and the Builders...", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939227.Summertide"}, +{"book_title": "Renegade", "author_name": "J.A. Souders", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3800, "review_number": 513, "book_description": "Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she\u2019s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law.But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she\u2019s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her mind and body aren\u2019t under her own control. And the person she knows as Mother is a monster.Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb... and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468074-renegade"}, +{"book_title": "Wyrms", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 5562, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "The sphere is alien in origin, but has been controlled by man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed world; When the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation . . . or the destruction of the cosmos.Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father before her, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. For she has learned the true ruler's honor.Duty to one's race is more important than duty to one's self. But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept for ages has awakened. And Patience must journey to the heartsoul of this planet to confront her destiny . . . and her world's.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40287.Wyrms"}, +{"book_title": "The Wall", "author_name": "John Lanchester", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 11079, "review_number": 1403, "book_description": "Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall\u2015an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and are a constant threat. Failure will result in death or a fate perhaps worse: being put to sea and made an Other himself. Beset by cold, loneliness, and fear, Kavanagh tries to fulfill his duties to his demanding Captain and Sergeant, even as he grows closer to his fellow Defenders. A dark part of him wonders whether it would be interesting if something did happen, if they came, if he had to fight for his life.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Environment (Climate Change)", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Literary Fiction", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45894062-the-wall"}, +{"book_title": "Last of the Sandwalkers", "author_name": "Jay Hosler", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 512, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "MEET LUCY. She's a fearless explorer, a brilliant scientist, and a tireless leader.She's also a half inch tall.THERE IS AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION under the big palm tree by the edge of the desert\u2014a society of beetle. In this bug's paradise, beetles write books, raise families, and some of them, like Lucy, even do scientific research.But as Lucy is about to discover, the world outside Coleopolis is hiding an astonishing\u2014and dangerous\u2014secret...\nInsects are not the only living creatures in the world.\n", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Adventure", "Animals", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Humor", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21469089-last-of-the-sandwalkers"}, +{"book_title": "When a Child is Born", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 4452, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "It's Christmas Day 1066 and a team from St Mary's is going to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror. Or so they think. However, History seems to have different plans for them and when Max finds herself delivering a child in a peasant's hut, she can't help wondering what History is up to.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Adventure", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27842289-when-a-child-is-born"}, +{"book_title": "Frost", "author_name": "M.P. Kozlowsky", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1528, "review_number": 330, "book_description": "Being human is her greatest strength.Sixteen-year-old Frost understands why she\u2019s spent her entire life in an abandoned apartment building. The ruined streets below are hunting grounds for rogue robots and Eaters.She understands why she\u2019s never met a human besides her father. She even understands why he forbids her to look for medicine for her dying pet. But the thing is, it\u2019s not her real father giving the orders\u2026It\u2019s his memories.Before he died, Frost\u2019s father uploaded his consciousness into their robot servant. But the technology malfunctioned, and now her father fades in and out. So when Frost learns that there might be medicine on the other side of the ravaged city, she embarks on a dangerous journey to save the one living creature she loves.With only a robot as a companion, Frost must face terrors of all sorts, from outrunning the vicious Eaters\u2026to talking to the first boy she\u2019s ever set eyes on. But can a girl who\u2019s only seen the world through books and dusty windows survive on her own? Or will her first journey from home be her last?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28599500-frost"}, +{"book_title": "Forevermore", "author_name": "Kristen Callihan", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1544, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "Miss Layla Starling, the young, beautiful, and extremely wealthy heiress, is the talk of London. Until now, she's managed to evade the marriage noose. Despite the fact that she is unfortunately American, she's received a staggering number of offers. And turned down every one. St. John Evernight does not want to admit the relief he feels every time he hears that she has rejected one of her suitors. Which is unfair of him. Layla deserves to be happy. But he can not offer her happiness. He will never be normal, never be anything but a freak in her world. So St. John resolves to keep his distance, until he is recruited by the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals to guard Layla. For she is in grave danger, and he is about to learn the full extent of his powers.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25317443-forevermore"}, +{"book_title": "Transcendent", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1546, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Stephen Baxter's gripping page-turners are feats of bold speculation and big ideas that, for all their time-and-space-spanning grandeur, remain firmly rooted in scientific fact and cutting-edge theory. Now Baxter is back with the final volume in his monumental Destiny's Children trilogy, a tour de force in which parallel stories unfold-and then meet as humanity stands poised on the brink of divine providence . . . or extinction.DESTINY'S CHILDRENTRANSCENDENTIt is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is still in the throes of grief. His beloved wife, Morag, died seventeen years ago, along with their second child. Yet Michael is haunted by more than just the memory of Morag. On a beach in Miami, he sees his dead wife. But she vanishes as suddenly as she appears, leaving no clue as to her mysterious purpose.Alia was born on a starship, fifteen thousand light years from Earth, five hundred thousand years after the death of Michael Poole. Yet she knows him intimately. In this distant future, when humanity has diversified as a species and spread across the galaxy, every person is entrusted with the duty of Witnessing the life of one man, woman, or child from the past, recovered by means of a technology able to traverse time itself. Alia's subject is Michael Poole.When his surviving, estranged son is injured, Michael tries to reconnect with him-and to stave off a looming catastrophe. Vast reservoirs of toxic gases lie buried beneath the poles, trapped in crystals of ice. Now that ice is melting. Once it goes, the poisons released will threaten all life on Earth. A bold solution is within reach, if only Michael can convince a doubting world. Yet as Morag's ghostly visitations continue, Michael begins to doubt his own sanity.In the future, Alia is chosen to become a Transcendent, an undying member of the group mind that is shepherding humanity toward an evolutionary apotheosis. The Witnessings are an integral part of their design, for only by redeeming the pain of every human who has lived and died can true Transcendence be achieved. Yet Alia discovers a dark side to the Transcendents' plans, a vein of madness that may lead to an unthinkable renunciation.Somehow, Michael Poole holds the fate of the future in his hands. Now, to save that future, Alia must undertake a desperate journey into the past. . . .From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66790.Transcendent"}, +{"book_title": "Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines", "author_name": "Bob Gale", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 584, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "Back to the Future creator/screenwriter Bob Gale returns with all-new tales from the twisting and turning timeline that made Back to the Future a, well... TIMELESS pop-culture phenomenon! Take a trip back to 1985 and be there when Doc Brown and Marty McFly first meet, and then jump even farther back, to 1945, to witness Doc's involvement in the super-secret Manhattan Project. Collects issues #1-5.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Media Tie In", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27251142-back-to-the-future"}, +{"book_title": "A Curse of Ash and Iron", "author_name": "Christine Norris", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Benjamin Grimm knows the theater is much like real life. In 1876 Philadelphia, people play their parts, hiding behind the illusion of their lives, and never revealing their secrets. When he reunites with his childhood friend Eleanor Banneker, he is delighted. His delight turns to dismay when he discovers she has been under a spell for the past 7 years, being forced to live as a servant in her own home, and he realizes how sinister some secrets can be. She asks for his help, and he can\u2019t refuse. Even if he doesn\u2019t believe in \u2018real\u2019 magic, he can\u2019t abandon her. Ellie has spent the long years since her mother\u2019s death under the watchful eye and unforgiving eye of her stepmother. Bewitched and hidden in plain sight, it seems no one can help Ellie escape. Not even her own father, who is under a spell of his own. When she sees Ben one evening, it seems he is immune to the magic that binds her, and her hope is rekindled along with her friendship. But time is running short. If they do not find a way to break the spell before midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve, then both Ellie and her father will be bound forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fairy Tales (Cinderella)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20691458-a-curse-of-ash-and-iron"}, +{"book_title": "Rust Vol. 4: Soul in the Machine", "author_name": "Royden Lepp", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 126, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Rocket boy\u00a0Jet Jones\u00a0faces robot forces closing in on the Taylor farm from all sides in an epic final battle to save the lives of those he loves.\u00a0As an unprecedented robot force closes in on the Taylor farm, Jet Jones must embrace his true identity if he\u2019s to defend the family he loves. His years of running have led to this, an epic final battle where Jet will face his past and future head on for the safety of the Taylor family and the right to choose his own path.\u00a0 \u00a0 Royden Lepp\u2019s Rust: Soul in the Machine is the breathtaking final installment of Jet\u2019s adventure and the greatest challenge the rocket boy will ever face.\u00a0", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28682389-rust-vol-4"}, +{"book_title": "A Discovery of Witches", "author_name": "Deborah Harkness", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 387866, "review_number": 36441, "book_description": "A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell. Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8667848-a-discovery-of-witches"}, +{"book_title": "Justice League/Power Rangers", "author_name": "Tom Taylor", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 487, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Two of the most popular crime-fighting teams of all time collide for the first time when the Justice League faces the Power Rangers!Something terrible has happened in Angel Grove! When the Command Center is breached and the teleporters are damaged, Zack is flung into another universe, where he's mistaken for a villain by a mysterious masked vigilante. Can the other Power Rangers get to their friend in time to save him from Batman? Co-published with BOOM! Studios and written by INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US best-selling author Tom Taylor, this book is the crossover event of the year!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Dc Comics (Batman)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33252336-justice-league-power-rangers"}, +{"book_title": "Standing at the Edge", "author_name": "William Alan Webb", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 489, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Nick Angriff\u2019s ultimate enemy finally takes the stage and the 7th Cavalry will never be the same. Operation Overtime has come through its first winter in post-Collapse America in better shape than expected. Food is plentiful, the city of Prescott is healing, and there\u2019s even a battalion of new recruits for the Marines. Everything seems to be going Angriff\u2019s way, until people start trying to kill him again. When the aggressive Chinese send an armored force to capture old America\u2019s largest tank farm, Angriff can rally only desperate measures to stop them. But first he must crush the traitors both inside and outside of Operation Overtime. Angriff must rely on others to do what he has always done for himself. As the body count mounts, he has to determine who he can trust and who wants him dead. In the tradition of Standing The Final Watch and Standing In The Storm, traitors, assassins, and secrets explode in a rocket-powered roller coaster called Standing At The Edge. You\u2019ve been warned.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37793423-standing-at-the-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Big Pete", "author_name": "Jamie McFarlane", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1155, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "The fourth in the Privateer Tales series, this short story (47 pages) steps back in time to the Great Amazonian War. . Shot down behind enemy lines, all Marine Sergeant Pete Hoffen can think of is getting the remainder of his beleaguered platoon back to the extraction zone. But when a cocky, PITA lieutenant orders him to leave behind one of his own, he'll have nothing to do with it. Big Pete fights to locate his men and get the wounded out of the city, rescue his missing pilot, and avoid ripping the entire city down around him. His capture brings an entirely new problem. Who will rescue the rescuer? There's a reason Liam Hoffen goes up against great odds in order to do the right thing. He learned from his father that sacrifice and honor go hand in hand.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23434804-big-pete"}, +{"book_title": "Passion", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 71, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Urban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist ***ninth episode of the nine-part serial*** What\u2019s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more \u201cworthy\u201d\u2026 all while paying the price with black marks on their souls.Passion is approximately 15,000 words or 60 pages, and is the ninth of nine episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial.Lirium attempts to record a debt collector named Molloch in the act of transferring out a child, while stopping him before he can complete the job.Contains mature content and themes.OPTIONED FOR VIRTUAL REALITY BY IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT 2014 Semi-Finalist in Science Fiction in the Kindle Book AwardsIt is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series. There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together. READING ORDERSeason One \u2013 Lirium - COMPLETEEpisodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, PassionSeason Two \u2013 Wraith **available for pre-order** releases 12.15.14Episodes 10-18: Wraith, Specter, Menace, Temptation, Shattered, Penance, Judgment, Corruption, Atonement", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17925527-passion"}, +{"book_title": "Brave New Worlds", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2460, "review_number": 217, "book_description": "From Huxley's Brave New World, to Orwell's 1984, to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian books have always been an integral part of both science fiction and literature, and have influenced the broader culture discussion in unique and permanent ways. Brave New Worlds brings together the best dystopian fiction of the last 30 years, demonstrating the diversity that flourishes in this compelling subgenre. This landmark tome contains stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Cory Doctorow, M. Rickert, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, and many others.Table of ContentsIntroduction / John Joseph Adams --Lottery / Shirley Jackson --Red card / S.L. Gilbow --Ten with a flag / Joseph Paul Haines --Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le. Guin --Evidence of love in a case of abandonment / M. Rickert --The Funeral / Kate Wilhelm --O happy day! / Geoff Ryman --Pervert / Charles Coleman Finlay --From homogeneous to honey / Neil Gaiman & Bryan Talbot --Billennium / J.G. Ballard --Amaryllis / Carrie Vaughn --Pop squad / Paolo Bacigalupi --Auspicious eggs / James Morrow --Peter Skilling / Alex Irvine --The Pedestrian / Ray Bradbury --Things that make me weak and strange get engineered away / Cory Doctorow --Pearl diver / Caitlin R. Kiernan --Dead space for the unexpected / Geoff Ryman --\"Repent harlequin!\", said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison --Is this your day to join the revolution? / Genevieve Valentine --Independence day / Sarah Langan --Lunatics / Kim Stanley Robinson --Sacrament / Matt Williamson --Minority report / Philip K. Dick --Just do it / Heather Lindsley --Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. --Caught in the organ draft / Robert Silverberg --Geriatric ward / Orson Scott Card --Arties aren't stupid / Jeremiah Tolbert --Jordan's waterhammer / Joe Mastroianni --Of a sweet slow dance in the wake of temporary dogs / Adam-Troy Castro --Resistance / Tobias S. Buckell --Civilization / Vylar Kaftan.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8966218-brave-new-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "The Castle", "author_name": "Franz Kafka", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 46040, "review_number": 2177, "book_description": "Translated and with a preface by Mark HarmanLeft unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.\u2019s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman\u2019s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power, previously unknown to English language readers.", "year_published": 1926, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Literature", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Novels", "Philosophy", "European Literature (Czech Literature)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333538.The_Castle"}, +{"book_title": "Angel 1089", "author_name": "C.C. Bridges", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 323, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "A deal with the devil\u2026.Gabriel 1089 is an angel\u2014an enhanced and cybernetically modified human designed to protect the city in the sky called Heaven. He follows Heaven\u2019s orders and fights its enemies. But when an attack by demons leaves him trapped on the earth below, missing both a metal wing and his network-enabled halo, he\u2019s cut off from his home for good and at the mercy of one man.Jeff Werth is used to demons in need of his mechanical expertise showing up on the doorstep of the junkyard he runs in Old Trent. However, he doesn\u2019t expect to be stuck with an injured angel. Jeff owes the demons for saving his daughter\u2019s life, so he does what they demand\u2014he nurses the angel back to health and keeps close track of him as a possible pawn in the high-stakes war between Heaven above and the demons below. But he doesn\u2019t expect the effect Gabe has on his heart, or having to choose between his daughter and the man he\u2019s come to love.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36494518-angel-1089"}, +{"book_title": "The Foxling Soldati", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 945, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "Foxling Toka has served the Soldati king for centuries, and now he attends to the kingdom\u2019s cherished Soldati prince. It\u2019s a position of honor, and as Toka helps the once-human prince adapt to their magical realm, he finds joy in their friendship. He also grows bolder in his encounters with Rayner, Soldati warrior and the king\u2019s second. But the laws are clear: servants and Soldati are not permitted to mate. It doesn\u2019t matter that Toka lost his heart to the dashing cad long ago.Rayner never imagined he would fall in love with a servant, but the clever and beautiful foxling has ensnared him, and he resents the regulations keeping them apart. When an arrogant and spiteful king visits from a neighboring realm, Rayner is in danger of losing everything. But Soldati warriors don\u2019t surrender, and he intends to fight all the harder to keep Toka where he belongs\u2014in Rayner\u2019s arms.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "M M Romance (M M Paranormal)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55264820-the-foxling-soldati"}, +{"book_title": "Deliverance Lost", "author_name": "Gav Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2670, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "As the Horus Heresy divides the Imperium, Corax and his few remaining Raven Guard escape the massacre at Isstvan V. Tending to their wounds, the bloodied Space Marines endeavour to replenish their numbers and return to the fray, taking the fight to the traitor Warmaster. Distraught at the crippling blow dealt to his Legion, Corax returns to Terra to seek the aid of his father \u2013 the Emperor of Mankind. Granted access to ancient secrets, Corax begins to rebuild the Raven Guard, planning his revenge against his treacherous brother primarchs. But not all his remaining warriors are who they appear to be\u2026 the mysterious Alpha Legion have infiltrated the survivors and plan to destroy the Raven Guard before they can rebuild and threaten Horus\u2019s plans.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Pulp", "Novels", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10838911-deliverance-lost"}, +{"book_title": "Unknown", "author_name": "Wendy Higgins", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1781, "review_number": 290, "book_description": "In this first installment of NY Times bestselling author, Wendy Higgins's debut New Adult series, a frighteningly realistic apocalyptic America is brought to life, entwined with searing romantic tension that will leave you eager for more. *** Amber Tate believes the worst thing she'll suffer in life is dealing with the unrequited love she feels for her brother's best friend, Rylen Fite. She also believes war is something unfortunate that happens places far, far away from her rural Nevada town. She's wrong on both counts. When an unknown organization meticulously bombs major cities in the United States and across the globe, a trickle-down effect spreads to remaining towns at an alarming speed-everything from food and water sources to technology and communications are compromised. Without leadership, the nation is split between paralysis and panic, but Amber isn't one to hide or watch helplessly. She's determined to put her nursing skills to use, despite the danger, even if it means working alongside the man she can never have.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["New Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31541026-unknown"}, +{"book_title": "Dynasty of Evil", "author_name": "Drew Karpyshyn", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 14843, "review_number": 568, "book_description": "Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom, and one apprentice to learn, challenge, and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel to the death. But Bane\u2019s acolyte, Zannah, has yet to engage her Master in mortal combat and prove herself a worthy successor. Determined that the Sith dream of galactic domination will not die with him, Bane vows to learn the secret of a forgotten Dark Lord that will assure the Sith\u2019s immortality--and his own.A perfect opportunity arises when a Jedi emissary is assassinated on the troubled mining planet Doan, giving Bane an excuse to dispatch his apprentice on a fact-finding mission--while he himself sets out in secret to capture the ancient holocron of Darth Andeddu and its precious knowledge. But Zannah is no fool. She knows that her ruthless Master has begun to doubt her, and she senses that he is hiding something crucial to her future. If she is going to claim the power she craves, she must take action now.While Bane storms the remote stronghold of a fanatical Sith cult, Zannah prepares for her Master\u2019s downfall by choosing an apprentice of her own: a rogue Jedi cunning and cold-blooded enough to embrace the Sith way and to stand beside her when she at last wrests from Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.But Zannah is not the only one with the desire and power to destroy Darth Bane. Princess Serra of the Doan royal family is haunted by memories of the monstrous Sith soldier who murdered her father and tortured her when she was a child. Bent on retribution, she hires a merciless assassin to find her tormentor--and bring him back alive to taste her wrath.Only a Sith who has taken down her own Master can become Dark Lord of the Sith. So when Bane suddenly vanishes, Zannah must find him--possibly even rescue him--before she can kill him. And so she pursues her quarry from the grim depths of a ravaged world on the brink of catastrophe to the barren reaches of a desert outpost, where the future of the dark side\u2019s most powerful disciples will be decided, once and for all, by the final, fatal stroke of a lightsaber.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6351910-dynasty-of-evil"}, +{"book_title": "The Union Forever", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1055, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Colonel Andrew Keane and his blue-coated soldiers were not the first humans time-space-warped to a world so familiar yet so foreign. Humans abounded on the perverse planet-humans treated like cattle by the alien warrior overlords. Keane's Civil War weaponry defeated the swords, spears and crossbows of his monstrous adversaries. And part of the human population was freed, but the other part became puppets of the overlords in a vast counterattack. Now it was human vs. human, gun vs. gun, ironclad against ironclad, as the empires of Roum and Cartha clashed in gut-wrenching, soul-stirring struggle for the future of a world beyond time.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/965513.The_Union_Forever"}, +{"book_title": "Black City", "author_name": "Elizabeth Richards", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 10923, "review_number": 1293, "book_description": "A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war.In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-old Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable\u2014they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash\u2019s long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they\u2019re caught, they\u2019ll be executed\u2014but their feelings are too strong.When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12568505-black-city"}, +{"book_title": "Fugitive X", "author_name": "Gregg Rosenblum", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 513, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Their fight for freedom is humanity's last hope for survival. The chilling Revolution 19 trilogy continues in Fugitive X.A war between humans and robots is on the horizon, and only one side will survive.Siblings Nick, Kevin, and Cass are struggling to survive in a world where deadly, sophisticated robots have turned on their creators and enslaved mankind. Fugitives from one of the bot-controlled Cities, the siblings venture into the woods, but when they are attacked by bot foot soldiers, the siblings are separated...and for the first time, they are on their own.Created in conjunction with Alloy Entertainment; Howard Gordon, showrunner of 24 and Showtime's Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Homeland; and James Wong, writer-director of the Final Destination films, Fugitive X is the gripping next installment in the cinematic Revolution 19 series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18090009-fugitive-x"}, +{"book_title": "Soldier of the Legion", "author_name": "Marshall S. Thomas", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 472, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "A squad of young Outworlder troopers from the ConFree Legion face a merciless, all-powerful alien enemy on a mysterious world in the Outvac frontier. Their mission is soon clear - victory or death. Failure means extinction for their species.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11234243-soldier-of-the-legion"}, +{"book_title": "Starpilot's Grave", "author_name": "Debra Doyle", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 735, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "A broken and drifting ship, its long-dead captain still strapped in the command seal: that's what free-spacers call a starpilot's grave. When one of these derelict craft appears in the Net, the artificial barrier zone separating the Republic from the Mageworlds, the discovery is no accident. It's a sign, a warning that the Mageworlds have not forgotten the Republic - and the Magelords make long plans.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363061.Starpilot_s_Grave"}, +{"book_title": "Eric Olafson : Space Pirate", "author_name": "Vanessa Ravencroft", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 131, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "It's the year 5021 and the Milky Way Galaxy is teeming with life and exotic species. The majority of the known civilisations have formed a multi-cultural mega organization called the United Stars of Galaxies. This Union is protected by the brave men and women of the United Stars Space fleet against external threats.Eric Olafson, born and raised under harsh conditions of the traditional and inward looking society of Nilfeheim, left his planet to fulfil his dreams of becoming a Starship captain.When Eric gets kidnaped by an unknown organization and brought to Sin4, he slowly starts to discover his central role in an ancient conflict of cosmic proportions.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Space", "LGBT", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Action", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33142375-eric-olafson"}, +{"book_title": "Mona Lisa Overdrive", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 37381, "review_number": 957, "book_description": "William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive.\u00a0Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.\u00a0Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.\u00a0Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.\u00a0Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known.\u00a0And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Medical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154091.Mona_Lisa_Overdrive"}, +{"book_title": "The Medusa Chronicles", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1956, "review_number": 206, "book_description": "Following an accident that almost cost him his life, Howard Falcon was not so much saved as he was converted, through the use of prosthetics, into something faster, stronger and smarter ...but also slightly less human and more machine than he was. And with this change came an opportunity - that of piloting a mission into Jupiter's atmosphere, and ultimately of making first contact with the life forms he discovers there. Picking up the threads of humanity versus artificial intelligences and machines, and of encounters with the alien, this collaborative novel between two superb writers is a sequel to Howard Falcon's adventures. A proper science fiction adventure, this is perfect for fans of Golden Age SF as well as the modern SF reader.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22738693-the-medusa-chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "The Lotus Effect", "author_name": "Bridget Ladd", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 137, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "An improbable partnership. An unforgettable love.Lily Emerson, daughter of the Head of Council and Mistress of Science, has lived a privileged life. It\u2019s Lily\u2019s 18th nameday, the day she is to follow in her mother\u2019s footsteps, becoming the next Mistress of Science\u2014the most powerful woman in all of City Prosper. The Architect and designer of Prosper\u2019s future.During the night of her Coronation, the corruption of the Council spreads before her . . . opening her eyes to the cruelty that resides in the Council, even within her own parents. Lily realizes now the title of Mistress only comes with superficial power, that to truly save the citizens\u2014she has to fight.Fight in the Barrage\u2014the mechanical gladiatorial tournament in which one chosen pair of volunteers from each Sector fights, armor-clad and as a team, utilizing unique weapon specialties: the Gatling gun, the Cestus, Klaives, Crescent Knives, mechanically engineered beasts\u2014in the hope to win the right to change the Law. A law that has remained unchanged since its creation almost eighty years ago.The tournament that Xander, Engineering Blacksmith and Lily\u2019s partner, believes she has no business being in.But Lily\u2019s different. And she sets out to prove just that.If you\u2019re a fan of adventure, fighting for survival, unlikely female heroines, and romance\u2014then grab your copy today!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18362856-the-lotus-effect"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Thief", "author_name": "Linda Buckley-Archer", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 3916, "review_number": 277, "book_description": " What happens when a seventeenth-century bad guy has twenty-first-century technology? An accident with an antigravity machine catapulted Peter Schock and Kate Dyer back to 1763. A bungled rescue attempt leaves Peter stranded in the eighteenth century while a terrifying villain, the Tar Man, takes his place and explodes onto twenty-first-century London. Concerned about the potentially catastrophic effects of time travel, the NASA scientists responsible for the situation question whether it is right to rescue Peter. Kate decides to take matters into her own hands, but things don't go as planned. Soon the physical effects of time travel begin to have a disturbing effect on her. Meanwhile, in our century, the Tar Man wreaks havoc in a city whose police force is powerless to stop him.Set against a backdrop of contemporary London and revolutionary France, The Time Thief is the sequel to the acclaimed The Time Travelers.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833332.The_Time_Thief"}, +{"book_title": "The Final Battle", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1008, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Human and machine. Elite and Expendable. They are the Legion of the Damned. The Hudathans are on a rampage. They have created their own corps of cyborgs using copycat technology and psychotic candidates. They have refitted their hardware. Reloaded their weapons. Refueled their insanity. And targeted the heart of the Confederacy, once and for all. The Legion will be there to greet them.It is time for ...The Final Battle", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368993.The_Final_Battle"}, +{"book_title": "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 565414, "review_number": 28376, "book_description": "\u2018Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don\u2019t let you go around again until you get it right.\u2019People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it\u2019s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea?You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it.It\u2019s a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon now finds themselves in. They\u2019ve been living amongst Earth\u2019s mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse.And then there\u2019s the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist\u2026", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12067.Good_Omens"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 5438, "review_number": 468, "book_description": "After being betrayed by members of his own community, Rick Grimes charts a new course and marshals his forces against the Whisperers.Collects THE WALKING DEAD #151-156.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30027126-the-walking-dead-vol-26"}, +{"book_title": "Buffalo Soldier", "author_name": "Maurice Broaddus", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 475, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "Having stumbled onto a plot within his homeland of Jamaica, former espionage agent, Desmond Coke, finds himself caught between warring religious and political factions, all vying for control of a mysterious boy named Lij Tafari.Wanting the boy to have a chance to live a free life, Desmond assumes responsibility for him and they flee. But a dogged enemy agent remains ever on their heels, desperate to obtain the secrets held within Lij for her employer alone.Assassins, intrigue, and steammen stand between Desmond and Lij as they search for a place to call home in a North America that could have been.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31189156-buffalo-soldier"}, +{"book_title": "Stone Mad", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 792, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Readers met the irrepressible Karen Memory in Elizabeth Bear\u2019s 2015 novel Karen Memory, and fell in love with her steampunk Victorian Pacific Northwest city, and her down-to-earth story-telling voice.Now Karen is back with Stone Mad, a new story about spiritualists, magicians, con-men, and an angry lost tommy-knocker\u2014a magical creature who generally lives in the deep gold mines of Alaska, but has been kidnapped and brought to Rapid City.Karen and Priya are out for a night on the town, celebrating the purchase of their own little ranch and Karen\u2019s retirement from the Hotel Ma Cherie, when they meet the Arcadia Sisters, spiritualists who unexpectedly stir up the tommy-knocker in the basement. The ensuing show could bring down the house, if Karen didn\u2019t rush in to rescue everyone she can.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Historical", "Westerns", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34405622-stone-mad"}, +{"book_title": "Rookie Privateer", "author_name": "Jamie McFarlane", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3242, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition can be found here. When you are old enough to finally become an Earth Mars citizen, everything should be perfect. Right? Not for Liam Hoffen. He's stuck on a mining asteroid called Colony 40, helping his father work a claim that is never going to pay out. His best friend, Nick James is set for life in James' Rental business and Liam just discovered that the girl he's known forever thinks he's pretty great and now she's leaving for the Mars Naval Academy. Liam dreams of sailing the stars. Whenever he gets the chance, he jets into space and floats, wishing to be free of the asteroid that has claimed him. What he doesn't realize is that fate is about to change everything. Sometimes you have to lose parts of yourself to gain the stars, and Liam discovers that while it isn't easy to literally lose parts of yourself to the pirates who attacked your home, gaining the stars is worth everything. He and Nick are about to find out what the real world has to offer and they end up meeting exciting people along the way.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure", "Space", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22009036-rookie-privateer"}, +{"book_title": "Of Beast and Beauty", "author_name": "Stacey Jay", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 10267, "review_number": 1380, "book_description": "In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city\u2019s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.Isra wants to help the city\u2019s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan\u2019s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.As secrets are revealed and Isra\u2019s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16113606-of-beast-and-beauty"}, +{"book_title": "The Surrogates", "author_name": "Robert Venditti", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1448, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "The year is 2054, and life is reduced to a data feed. The fusing of virtual reality and cybernetics has ushered in the era of the personal surrogate, android substitutes that let users interact with the world without ever leaving their homes. It's a perfect world, and it's up to Detectives Harvey Greer and Pete Ford of the Metro Police Department to keep it that way. But to do so they\u2019ll need to stop a techno-terrorist bent on returning society to a time when people lived their lives instead of merely experiencing them. The Surrogates is a story about progress and whether there exists a tipping point at which technological advancement will stop enhancing and start hindering our lives. It is also a commentary on identity, the Western obsession with physical appearance, and the growing trend to use science as a means of providing consumers with beauty on demand. This volume collects all five issues of the acclaimed comic book series. Packed with bonus content, inside you will find never-before-seen sketches and artwork, as well as commentary from the creative team that brought this breakout story to the page.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181182.The_Surrogates"}, +{"book_title": "Building Victoria", "author_name": "M.D. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 871, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The Intrepid is drifting slowly between the stars. After near calamity at LHS 1565, the ship is headed for Kapteyn's Star to make repairs. There, the crew will need to spend decades building a temporary industrial base. Across the void, the Noctus prepare to leave Sirius for the same destination. Their plan is to colonize the system and forge a new lives for themselves ... if they aren't destroyed by their government first. In an epic tale spanning over a century, General Tanis Richards finds herself in another fight for her life as the new colony of Victoria is built under the threat of interstellar war.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30530900-building-victoria"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior's Redemption", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1027, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "Will the magic of modern romance help him defeat an evil ancient power? MALCOLM MACDOWYLT sees himself a failed warrior, haunted by the death of the woman he married to become laird of Clan MacGahan. Neither his Viking heritage nor his claim to descend from Norse gods can restore his confidence in his ability to protect his people. His sister is held captive, her life in jeopardy, and his Magically powerful half brother wants him dead. The last thing he needs is more responsibility, but that's exactly what he gets when his Faerie mother-in-law arrives seeking justice for her daughter in the form of an enticing woman from seven hundred years in the future. DANIELLE DEARMON has waited fifteen years to discover the life she is supposed to live. She just never dreamed she'd end up in the thirteenth century with a handsome Scot bent on saving everyone but himself. With the lives of those most dear to him hanging in the balance, Malcolm sets out to battle a powerful evil Magic, only to learn that the redemption he seeks exists only in the arms of the woman he loves.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10801885-warrior-s-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "A Darkling Plain", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 10415, "review_number": 766, "book_description": "The final book of the thrilling Predator Cities series!London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.The final book in the Predator Cities series, Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219110.A_Darkling_Plain"}, +{"book_title": "Chromed: Upgrade", "author_name": "Richard Parry", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 194, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "It\u2019s 2150AD. There hasn\u2019t been a corporate war\u2026 until now.Mason Floyd is an augmented syndicate enforcer at the top of his game. His job is asset protection and acquisition, no questions asked.Company tech is stolen on Mason\u2019s watch. Rival megacorps want it, and they don\u2019t mind killing him to get it. Framed for the theft, Mason runs. He tangles with off-grid rockstar Sadie Freeman on the grimy seam between the powerful and poor. Together they uncover a secret an entire city died to keep.Hunted and desperate, they must team up to survive. Together Mason and Sadie can save the world. Apart, both are lost. They must trust each other or die.Megacorps. Cyborgs. AI. Gene-spliced monsters. Syndicate enforcers. Off-grid illegals. Supersoldiers. Rock music. Violence. Einstein-Rosen bridges. Liquor. Enhanced reflexes. Power armor and energy weapons. Full body replacements. Swearing. Mind control. Telekenetics. G-Men. Drugs. Neural links. Orbital cannons. THIS IS CYBERPUNK.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43566745-chromed"}, +{"book_title": "Pastworld", "author_name": "Ian Beck", "rating_score": 3.01, "rating_votes": 729, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Pastworld is the greatest theme park ever devised. It's London - the real London - transformed into a living, breathing recreation of the Victorian era. To Eve, a lifelong resident of Pastworld, horse-drawn carriages and gas lamps are modern technology. Eve doesn't even know she's living in a simulation - until she is forced to flee the only home she's ever known, and to confront the truth about her city and herself. To Caleb, a tourist visiting Pastworld, the theme park is the perfect antidote to the stifling conformity and regulation of 2048. The gritty wildness of the past is thrilling - until he finds himself at the scene of a murder, holding the knife, and suddenly becomes a fugitive from an antiquated justice system. And in the midst of it all, in the thick London fog, a dark and deadly figure prowls, claiming victim after victim. He's the Fantom, a creature both of the past and of the future, in whose dark purpose Caleb and Eve will find their destinies combined.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449926-pastworld"}, +{"book_title": "The Dead-Tossed Waves", "author_name": "Carrie Ryan", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 29977, "review_number": 2708, "book_description": "Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She's content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry's mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry's generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mother's past in order to save herself and the one she loves.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6555517-the-dead-tossed-waves"}, +{"book_title": "Space Junque", "author_name": "L.K. Rigel", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 745, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "(also known as Samael's Fire)The DOGs want to destroy the world. The gods want to make a new one. The trick is to survive both.At the end of the 21st century, civilization is at the brink of collapse. When hydroponics agronomist Char Meadowlark is warned of an impending attack by the eco-terrorist group Defenders of Gaia, she flees to the airport hoping to get off planet. The DOGs strike in the midst of Char\u2019s escape, and pilot Jake Ardri offers her only hope of survival. He takes her to the orbiting Imperial Space Station, the seat of world government. When the conflict goes global and the planet threatens to implode, ancient gods return to take control of humanity and impose a new world order. Char and Jake are caught up in a divine plan to save the world - but first they have to get through the apocalypse alive.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9226657-space-junque"}, +{"book_title": "BLAME! Vol. 3", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 505, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Cibo has uploaded herself into Sanakan\u2019s body, and she struggles to suppress Sanakan\u2019s consciousness and the Safeguard commands. Cibo and Kyrii continue their hunt for the Net Terminal Gene inside of Toha Heavy Industries, which appears to be a safe space where neither the Administration nor the Safeguards can interfere. Mensab is one of the few AIs who succeeded in protecting her human charges from the deadly attacks of the Silicon Life. Mensab attempts a forwarding that shunts Kyrii into an unstable space within Toha, where time and space warp at random, and he encounters a familiar face\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics Manga", "Cultural (Japan)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34656016-blame-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Deus Ex: Black Light", "author_name": "James Swallow", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 471, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "ILLUMINATE THE SHADOWS The year is 2029, and the shining promise of a new age of human augmentation is in ruins in the wake of the devastating \u2018Aug Incident\u2019 \u2013 a horrific catastrophe triggered by a cabal of shadowy power brokers, where millions of cybernetically-enhanced people suffered a forced psychotic break.Awakening in the aftermath of a changed world, with gaps in his memories and suspicion on all sides, augmented ex-cop and former security operative Adam Jensen struggles to piece his life back together, in a new reality where \u2018Augs\u2019 have become the targets of hatred, fear and violent discrimination.Now the dark forces behind the Incident are gathering once again, reaching out to manipulate the course of global events through terror and intimidation. To find the answers that he seeks and the people who destroyed everything he knew, Jensen must return to the ashes of the past, reconnect with old allies, and risk all to expose a deadly conspiracy \u2013 but in a world shattered by secrets, can the truth be brought into the light?A brand-new official Deus Ex novel, bridging events between Deus Ex: Human Revolution and the brand-new game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Video Games)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28503989-deus-ex"}, +{"book_title": "Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters", "author_name": "Mark Dunn", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 31245, "review_number": 5634, "book_description": "Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Contemporary", "Adult Fiction", "Humanities (Language)", "Adult", "Book Club"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16200.Ella_Minnow_Pea"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Between the Stars", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1809, "review_number": 252, "book_description": "Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness. The human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy.Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490735-the-dark-between-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Joyride Vol. 2", "author_name": "Jackson Lanzing", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 311, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "The crew of the Joyride survived their first foray to the stars and met the challenges the galaxy threw at them head-on, so it\u2019s only fair they enjoy a bit of relaxation and carefree living. But as Uma, Dewydd, and Catrin have come to learn, in space, nothing is as it seems. In fact, it\u2019s the secrets hidden in their own ship and among their fellow travelers that will send the crew down a path that brings them face-to-face with the very alien threat that the leaders on Earth ran from so long ago. Collects issues #5-8.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34972195-joyride-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Unbreakable", "author_name": "Elizabeth Norris", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 7169, "review_number": 633, "book_description": "Four months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she\u2019ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up. Somebody from an alternate universe is running a human trafficking ring, kidnapping people and selling them on different Earths\u2014and Ben is the prime suspect. Now his family has been imprisoned and will be executed if Ben doesn\u2019t turn himself over within five days.And when Janelle learns that someone she cares about\u2014someone from her own world\u2014has become one of the missing, she knows that she has to help Barclay, regardless of the danger. Now Janelle has five days to track down the real culprit. Five days to locate the missing people before they\u2019re lost forever. Five days to reunite with the boy who stole her heart. But as the clues begin to add up, Janelle realizes that she\u2019s in way over her head\u2014and that she may not have known Ben as well as she thought. Can she uncover the truth before everyone she cares about is killed?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14743784-unbreakable"}, +{"book_title": "I Dare", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 2510, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "The enemies of Korval have offered Pat Rin the Ring that would make all of Korval's holdings his own, and a Juntavas Judge has offered Pat Rin a world. When he appears with hired guns in tow, no one knows what he'll do. Pat Rin is a gambling man, and on his wild-card shoulders the fate of his Clan, his world, his civilization.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1103876.I_Dare"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Tide I: Onslaught", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 9035, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "In this epic of unsurpassed action and imagination, Michael Stackpole helps to launch an exciting new era in Star Wars\u00ae history. ONSLAUGHT pits the battle-tested heroes of the past--Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia Organa Solo--along with the next generation of Jedi and droids, against fearsome never-before-encountered enemies from beyond the galactic rim . . .It is a perilous time for the New Republic. Just when unity is needed most, mistrust is on the rise. Even the Jedi feel the strain, as rogue elements rebel against Luke's leadership. When alien invaders known as the Yuuzhan Vong strike without warning, the New Republic is thrown on the defensive. Merciless warriors, the Yuuzhan Vong glory in torture. Their technology is as strange as it is deadly. Most ominous of all, they are impervious to the Force.Now Luke must wield all the awesome powers of a Jedi Master to defeat the gravest threat since Darth Vader. As Leia and Gavin Darklighter lead desperate refugees in a fighting retreat from Yuuzhan Vong forces, Mara Jade, Anakin, Jacen, and Corran Horn find themselves tested as never before by a faceless, implacable foe determined to smother the light of the New Republic forever beneath a shroud of darkest evil . . .", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Space", "Media Tie In", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320343.Dark_Tide_I"}, +{"book_title": "Machine", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 618, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "In this compelling and addictive novel set in the same universe as the critically acclaimed White Space series and perfect for fans of Karen Traviss and Ada Hoffman, a space station begins to unravel when a routine search and rescue mission returns after going dangerously awry. Meet Doctor Jens. She hasn\u2019t had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing treatments for sick alien species she\u2019s never seen before. She loves her life. Even without the coffee. But Dr. Jens is about to discover an astonishing mystery: two ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a deadly embrace. The crew is suffering from an unknown ailment and the shipmind is trapped in an inadequate body, much of her memory pared away. Unfortunately, Dr. Jens can\u2019t resist a mystery and she begins doing some digging. She has no idea that she\u2019s about to discover horrifying and life-changing truths. Written in Elizabeth Bear\u2019s signature \u201crollicking, suspenseful, and sentimental\u201d (Publishers Weekly) style, Machine is a fresh and electrifying space opera that you won\u2019t be able to put down.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Artificial Intelligence", "LGBT", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52527709-machine"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows in Flight", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 17067, "review_number": 1106, "book_description": "Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten--a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come.For there in space before them lies a derelict Formic colony ship. Aboard it, they will find both death and wonders--the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and labs in which to explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship's colony. Shadows in Flight is the fifth novel in Orson Scott Card's Shadow Series.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12040447-shadows-in-flight"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Town", "author_name": "Blake Crouch", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 49126, "review_number": 3387, "book_description": "Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town\u2019s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed.But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond. It is a secret that has the entire population completely under the control of a madman and his army of followers, a secret that is about to come storming through the fence to wipe out this last, fragile remnant of humanity.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Horror", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Suspense", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20423680-the-last-town"}, +{"book_title": "New Amsterdam", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1709, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "Abigail Irene Garrett drinks too much. She makes scandalous liaisons with inappropriate men, and if in her youth she was a famous beauty, now she is both formidable--and notorious. She is a forensic sorceress, and a dedicated officer of a Crown that does not deserve her loyalty. She has nothing, but obligations.Sebastien de Ulloa is the oldest creature she has ever known. He was no longer young at the Christian millennium, and that was nine hundred years ago. He has forgotten his birth-name, his birth-place, and even the year in which he was born, if he ever knew it. But he still remembers the woman who made him immortal. He has everything, but a reason to live.In a world where the sun never set on the British Empire, where Holland finally ceded New Amsterdam to the English only during the Napoleonic wars, and where the expansion of the American colonies was halted by the war magic of the Iroquois, they are exiles in the new world--and its only hope for justice.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185636.New_Amsterdam"}, +{"book_title": "Fairyland", "author_name": "Paul J. McAuley", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1121, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "In the next century, an underground chemist meets and becomes obsessed with Milena, a child genius who is the ultimate product of gene-splicing technology. Milena is an advocate of the dolls--artificial constructs that have replaced extinct companion animals. Milena wishes to free the dolls from bondage--but in doing so, she creates an autonomous race that may be a threat to mankind.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/654617.Fairyland"}, +{"book_title": "Under the Dome", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 264098, "review_number": 15043, "book_description": "On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester\u2019s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener\u2019s hand is severed as \u201cthe dome\u201d comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when\u2014or if\u2014it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens\u2014town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician\u2019s assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing\u2014even murder\u2014to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn\u2019t just short. It\u2019s running out.source: stephenking.com", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6320534-under-the-dome"}, +{"book_title": "The Scorpio Races", "author_name": "Maggie Stiefvater", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 102837, "review_number": 13095, "book_description": "It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn\u2019t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition \u2014 the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10626594-the-scorpio-races"}, +{"book_title": "Fate's Monolith", "author_name": "Sky Purington", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 412, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Arianna Broun, a Scottish born colonial American has been haunted by the reoccurring dream of a phantom Scottish warrior. Her infatuation with the dream intensifies until All Hallows' Eve, when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest. After several bizarre encounters she runs to her safe haven deep in the woods. When dawn comes too early, Arianna is eager to go home. But fate has other plans. Laird Iain Mac'Lomain has long awaited the arrival of his promised bride. She claims to not be the woman intended for him but she fits the description given him of her, all fire and defiance. That defiance will end up costing them everything and rips them apart. However, a Scottish Chieftain with magic at his disposal is capable of most anything. Will he hold Arianna in his arms again or is she lost to him forever? Only time will tell.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2824119-fate-s-monolith"}, +{"book_title": "The Penultimate Truth", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 7992, "review_number": 485, "book_description": "World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fifteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers preserve the lie.Cover Illustration: Chris Moore", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Literature (American)", "Classics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41064.The_Penultimate_Truth"}, +{"book_title": "Running Black", "author_name": "Patrick Todoroff", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 104, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "It's 2059 and the North Korean mercenary Tam Song heads up Eshu International: a private security team that will take any job for the right price, no questions asked. Based in the Belfast Metro Zone, they're the best black contract outfit on the planet. Stable nano-technology: the melding of man and machine on a microscopic level. It's a break-through worth billions no one's been able to achieve. Until now. The Dawson Hull Conglomerate has finally developed a viable Nanotech Neural Network; an interface system that exponentially increases a person's cyber-capabilities. They're days away from unveiling the prototype to the world. And Eshu International just got hired to steal it. Video Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFb28...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10042932-running-black"}, +{"book_title": "My Name is Markham", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2451, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "Like a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo \u2013 finally \u2013 Markham speaks!It\u2019s Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary\u2019s Annual Children\u2019s Christmas Party \u2013 attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow. Discovered practising his illegal reindeer dance and poo-dropping routine, our hero, along with fellow disaster-magnets Peterson and Maxwell, is despatched to Anglo-Saxon England to discover the truth about Alfred and the cakes.In his own words, our hero reveals Major Guthrie\u2019s six-point guide to a successful assignment and the Security Section\u2019s true opinion of the History Department. And of historians in general. And of one historian in particular.And, just to be clear, it is time travel, for God\u2019s sake. Forget all that pretentious \u2018investigating major historical events in contemporary time\u2019 rubbish.This is history without the capital \u2018H\u2019. Because this is the way the Security Section rolls!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Humor", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30197317-my-name-is-markham"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunchback Assignments", "author_name": "Arthur Slade", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 3456, "review_number": 452, "book_description": "A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London. The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association, a spy agency behind Brittania's efforts to rule the empire. At 14, Modo is left on the streets of London to fend for himself. When he encounters Octavia Milkweed, another Association agent, the two uncover a plot by the Clockword Guild behind the murders of important men. Furthermore, a mad scientist is turning orphan children into automatons to further the goals of the Guild. Modo and Octavia journey deep into the tunnels under London and discover a terrifying plot against the British government. It's up to them to save their country.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261097-the-hunchback-assignments"}, +{"book_title": "Roma Eterna", "author_name": "Robert Silverberg", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 1128, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "No power on Earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome, so it has been and so it ever shall be. Through brute force, terror, and sheer indomitable will, her armies have enslaved a world. From the reign of Maximilianus the Great in A.U.C. 1203 onward through the ages -- into a new era of scientific advancement and astounding technologies -- countless upstarts and enemies arise, only to be ground into the dust beneath the merciless Roman bootheels. But one people who suffer and endure throughout the many centuries of oppressive rule dream of the glorious day that is coming -- when the heavens themselves will be opened to them...and the ships they are preparing in secret will carry them on their \"Great Exodus\" to the stars.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Roman", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/851384.Roma_Eterna"}, +{"book_title": "The Man in the High Castle", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 180593, "review_number": 11895, "book_description": "It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war \u2014 and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216363.The_Man_in_the_High_Castle"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Unaware", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 46779, "review_number": 1445, "book_description": "\nThe mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto.\u00a0Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out.\u00a0So when El Cavador's telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it's hard to know what to make of it. It's massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.El Cavador has other problems.\u00a0Their systems are old and failing.\u00a0The family is getting too big for the ship.\u00a0There are claim-jumping corporate ships bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt.\u00a0Worrying about a distant object that might or might not be an alien ship seems not important.They're wrong.\u00a0It's the most important thing that has happened to the human race in a million years. The first Formic War is about to begin.\n", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13151129-earth-unaware"}, +{"book_title": "What Worse Place Can I Beg in Your Love", "author_name": "Syd McGinley", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 559, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Called annoyingly obedient, and dumped for a less submissive bottom, my attempts to recover from Dave have led me to a place where those same traits could mean my survival. An alien holding cell turned out to be a pound, and my new owner is a seven-foot tower of jet-black muscle with raptor legs and shark teeth. I'm getting the training and discipline I longed for from my Earth lovers at the claws of my alien owner. If only I can make him want me\u2026 ", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Dark", "LGBT (Gay)", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4827407-what-worse-place-can-i-beg-in-your-love"}, +{"book_title": "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "author_name": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 401624, "review_number": 13702, "book_description": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the famous Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named John Gabriel Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.", "year_published": 1886, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Gothic", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Literature (19th Century)", "Academic (School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51496.The_Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde"}, +{"book_title": "A Gathering of Shadows", "author_name": "V.E. Schwab", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 115767, "review_number": 15579, "book_description": "It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Prince Rhy was wounded, and since the nefarious Dane twins of White London fell, and four months since the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift--back into Black London.Now, restless after having given up his smuggling habit, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks as she always meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games--an extravagant international competition of magic meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries--a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port.And while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night will reappear in the morning. But the balance of magic is ever perilous, and for one city to flourish, another London must fall.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "LGBT", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20764879-a-gathering-of-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 2892, "review_number": 402, "book_description": "Five original tales set in a shared urban future--from some of the hottest young writers in modern SFMore than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers--Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder, and project editor John Scalzi---who combined their talents to build a new urban future, and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision, and a reading experience unlike any you've had before.A strange man comes to an even stranger encampment...a bouncer becomes the linchpin of an unexpected urban movement...a courier on the run has to decide who to trust in a dangerous city...a slacker in a \"zero-footprint\" town gets a most unusual new job...and a weapons investigator uses his skills to discover a metropolis hidden right in front of his eyes.Welcome to the future of cities. Welcome to Metatropolis.Contents:Introduction (METAtropolis) - essay by John ScalziIn the Forests of the Night - novella by Jay LakeStochasti-city - novella by Tobias S. BuckellThe Red in the Sky Is Our Blood - novelette by Elizabeth BearUtere Nihil Non Extra Quiritationem Suis - novella by John ScalziTo Hie from Far Cilenia - novella by Karl Schroeder", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5196932-metatropolis"}, +{"book_title": "Dominion", "author_name": "C.J. Sansom", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 10847, "review_number": 1255, "book_description": "1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers, and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House. Defiance, though, is growing.In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organisation is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle forever. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given by them the mission to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country. Before long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London\u2019s Great Smog; as David\u2019s wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. And hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of men . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Thriller", "Historical", "War", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (World War II)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15770927-dominion"}, +{"book_title": "After America", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2140, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nation\u2014and the battle for New York City has begun.Pirates and foreign militias are swarming the East Coast, taking everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security Zone of New York and barely survives the visit. The enemy\u2014whoever they are\u2014controls Manhattan\u2019s concrete canyons and the abandoned flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military, struggling with sketchy communications and a lack of supplies, is mired in a nightmare of urban combat.Caught up in the violence is a Polish-born sergeant who watches the carnage through the eyes of an intellectual and with the heart of a warrior. Two smugglers, the highborn Lady Julianne Balwyn and her brawny partner Rhino, search for a treasure whose key lies inside an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Thousands of miles away, a rogue general leads the secession of Texas and a brutal campaign against immigrants, while Miguel Pieraro, a Mexican-born rancher, fights back. And in England, a U.S. special ops agent is called into a violent shadow war against an enemy that has come after her and her family.The president is a stranger to the military mindset, but now this mild-mannered city engineer from the Pacific Northwest needs to make a soldier\u2019s choice. With New York clutched in the grip of thousands of heavily armed predators, is an all-out attack on the city the only way to save it?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From the geopolitics of post-American dominance to the fallout of Israel\u2019s nuclear strike, After America provides a gripping, intelligent, and harrowing chronicle of a world in the maw of chaos\u2014and lives lived in the dangerous dawn of a strange new future.\u00a0", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7010246-after-america"}, +{"book_title": "Outcast", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1976, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Star Force is called to arms again! Many peaceful years have passed since the Macro Wars ended. Most of those who fought against the heartless machines have aged\u2014but not the ingenious artificial construct known as Marvin. His insatiable curiosity is as strong as ever, and he\u2019s brought home fresh perils to humanity\u2019s doorstep in OUTCAST. This new Saga in the Star Force universe begins with Cody Riggs, the sole surviving child of Kyle Riggs. He\u2019s fresh out of the Star Force Academy and ready to explore the galaxy on his own. Young but fearless, he finds himself lost in uncharted space, seeking a way home. At every step he\u2019s hunted by hostile aliens he doesn\u2019t dare lead back to Earth. The longest book in the series, OUTCAST is a full length novel of science fiction by bestselling authors B. V. Larson and David VanDyke.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22036516-outcast"}, +{"book_title": "A Hymn to Gods Long Dead", "author_name": "Anthony Ryan", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 423, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "The Slab. A vast orbiting slum where sweat falls in rain and the gene-spliced come in all shapes and sizes. Inspector Alex McLeod, recently suspended for excessive force and nurturing a growing addiction to bourbon, has been reduced to tending bar when an improbably beautiful vampire comes to him with a bizarre theory: there's a killer on the Slab, a killer with a liking for recreating ancient myth, in bloody and spectacular fashion. But who exactly is this vampire, and how does she know so much? And what kind of killer can walk through security systems without a trace, leaving deadly traps for those hunting him?A Hymn to Gods Long Dead is a novella forming third story in the Slab City Blues series. Each story can be read in isolation.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13630326-a-hymn-to-gods-long-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Resplendent", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 634, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Resplendent: Destiny's Children Book Four \"Cadre Siblings\" (2000) \"Conurbation 2473\" (2003) \"Reality Dust\" (2000) \"Mayflower II\" (2004)[b] \"All in a Blaze\" (2003) \"Silver Ghost\" (2000) \"The Cold Sink\" (2001) \"On the Orion Line\" (2000) \"Ghost Wars\" (2006) \"The Ghost Pit\" (2001) \"Lakes of Light\" (2005) \"Breeding Ground\" (2003) \"The Dreaming Mould\" (2002) \"The Great Game\" (2003) \"The Chop Line\" (2003) \"In the Un-Black\" (2001) \"Riding the Rock\" (2002) \"Between Worlds\" (2004) \"The Siege of Earth\" (2006)", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/831480.Resplendent"}, +{"book_title": "Rise of the Governor", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 18503, "review_number": 1845, "book_description": "Based on \"The Walking Dead\" graphic novels/comic books and the series starring Andrew Lincoln (\"Teachers\", \"This Life and Love\", and \"Love Actually\") and written/produced by Frank Darabont whose previous credits include \"The Shawshank Redemption\" and \"The Green Mile\", this is a new trilogy of books written by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, author of \"Perfect Victim\" and \"Shattered\". Set in the world created by Robert Kirkman, this standalone trilogy is fast-paced, action-packed storytelling about the lengths some men will go to survive. With new characters, new storylines and with the same in-depth character-based plotting that has made the television series such an immediate hit, this trilogy of novels is sure to be a hit with those who love zombies and those who have loved the TV series and comic books.In the Walking Dead universe, there is no greater villain than The Governor. The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury, he has his own sick sense of justice: whether it\u2019s forcing prisoners to battle zombies in an arena for the townspeople\u2019s amusement, or chopping off the appendages of those who cross him. The Governor was voted \u201cVillain of the Year\u201d by Wizard magazine the year he debuted, and his story arc was the most controversial in the history of the Walking Dead comic book series. Now, for the first time, fans of The Walking Dead will discover how The Governor became the man he is, and what drove him to such extremes.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10869746-rise-of-the-governor"}, +{"book_title": "Moon Over Soho", "author_name": "Ben Aaronovitch", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 49075, "review_number": 3343, "book_description": "The song. That\u2019s what London constable and sorcerer\u2019s apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho\u2019s 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body\u2014a sure sign that something about the man\u2019s death was not at all natural but instead supernatural.Body and soul. They\u2019re also what Peter will risk as he investigates a pattern of similar deaths in and around Soho. With the help of his superior officer, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, and the assistance of beautiful jazz aficionado Simone Fitzwilliam, Peter will uncover a deadly magical menace\u2014one that leads right to his own doorstep and to the squandered promise of a young jazz musician: a talented trumpet player named Richard \u201cLord\u201d Grant\u2014otherwise known as Peter\u2019s dear old dad.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10381195-moon-over-soho"}, +{"book_title": "Prototype D", "author_name": "Jason D. Morrow", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 832, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "A hundred years after the world is decimated by nuclear wars, humanity has been reduced to a surviving city of people called the Mainlanders. They have food, water, and a wall that separates them from their enemies\u2014the Outlanders. Branded as savages, the Outlanders have grown in number and their attacks against the city have become more brutal. They threaten to overtake the city, bringing with them the doom and destruction that has plagued mankind for over a century. What the Mainlanders need is a weapon.Des is the first robot created with a full range of human emotions. His reasoning skills and thought processes will make it so no human will ever have to step foot on the battlefield again. But when Des realizes his true purpose\u2014to help destroy the Outlanders\u2014he suspects that the real enemies might not be the people he was built to destroy, but those who created him.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26224583-prototype-d"}, +{"book_title": "The Complete Robot", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 15219, "review_number": 454, "book_description": "THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future\u2026 In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind.Contents 9 \u2022 Introduction (The Complete Robot) \u2022 (1982) \u2022 essay by Isaac Asimov 15 \u2022 A Boy's Best Friend \u2022 (1975) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 19 \u2022 Sally \u2022 (1953) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 41 \u2022 Someday \u2022 (1956) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 55 \u2022 Point of View \u2022 [Multivac] \u2022 (1975) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 59 \u2022 Think! \u2022 (1977) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 70 \u2022 True Love \u2022 (1977) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 77 \u2022 Robot AL-76 Goes Astray \u2022 (1942) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 93 \u2022 Victory Unintentional \u2022 (1942) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 117 \u2022 Stranger in Paradise \u2022 (1974) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov 151 \u2022 Light Verse \u2022 (1973) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 157 \u2022 Segregationist \u2022 (1967) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 164 \u2022 Robbie \u2022 (1940) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow) 191 \u2022 Let's Get Together \u2022 (1957) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 211 \u2022 Mirror Image \u2022 [Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw] \u2022 (1972) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 231 \u2022 The Tercentenary Incident \u2022 (1976) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 253 \u2022 First Law \u2022 [Mike Donovan] \u2022 (1956) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 257 \u2022 Runaround \u2022 [Mike Donovan] \u2022 (1942) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov 280 \u2022 Reason \u2022 [Mike Donovan] \u2022 (1941) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 302 \u2022 Catch That Rabbit \u2022 [Mike Donovan] \u2022 (1944) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 329 \u2022 Liar! \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1941) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 350 \u2022 Satisfaction Guaranteed \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1951) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 368 \u2022 Lenny \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1958) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 385 \u2022 Galley Slave \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1957) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov 427 \u2022 Little Lost Robot \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1947) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov 459 \u2022 Risk \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1955) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov 490 \u2022 Escape! \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1945) \u2022 short story by Isaac Asimov 518 \u2022 Evidence \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1946) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov 546 \u2022 The Evitable Conflict \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1950) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov 575 \u2022 Feminine Intuition \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1969) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov 605 \u2022 ... That Thou Art Mindful of Him \u2022 (1974) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of \u2014That Thou Art Mindful of Him!) 635 \u2022 The Bicentennial Man \u2022 (1976) \u2022 novelette by Isaac Asimov 683 \u2022 A Last Word \u2022 (1982) \u2022 essay by Isaac Asimov THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Anthologies", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50091.The_Complete_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Zero's Return", "author_name": "Sara King", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 3360, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "THE AMAZING NEW VOLUME IN THE #1 BESTSELLING LEGEND OF ZERO SERIES!In this apocalyptic addition to the #1 Bestselling Legend of ZERO series, the PlanOps Prime veteran, universal hero, and living legend Joe Dobbs has become an icon of heroism to the Congressional citizenry\u2014but his real adventure is only just beginning. Humanity, unwillingly drafted into the alien Congress during its invasion of Earth seventy-four turns before, has done the unthinkable; building devastating genetic weapons that can kill even the oldest Dhasha with ease, planning to take the fight for its freedom to the very Regency itself. Before it can, however, the alien government discovers Humanity\u2019s plans and retaliates swiftly, killing the experiments, destroying the labs, and reducing Earth\u2019s technologies back to its Stone Age days to serve a Sacred Turn of penance for its sins. \u2026Or does it? As Joe discovers, one lab gets overlooked in the chaos of Judgment. Its leader, Twelve-A, is determined to keep his fellow experiments alive\u2014even if it means coercing a jaded, iron-faced Congie into helping them\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "Space", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18686776-zero-s-return"}, +{"book_title": "The Coming of the Quantum Cats", "author_name": "Frederik Pohl", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 538, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "A brilliant novel of alternate universes by an award-winning science fiction masterA breakthrough in quantum physics has shattered the boundaries between alternate worlds. History is in chaos as billions of possible futures collide. As a conquering army mounts an invasion of neighboring realities, a handful of men and women from a dozen different timelines risk their lives to safeguard an infinity of worlds.Blending thrilling suspense with brilliant scientific speculation, Frederik Pohl's The Coming of the Quantum Cats is a triumph of the imagination by a Hugo and Nebula-winning master of science fiction.\"A powerful novel of parallel worlds and might-have-beens, with an eerie, amazing finish!\"--David Brin", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Animals", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1402910.The_Coming_of_the_Quantum_Cats"}, +{"book_title": "The Bohr Maker", "author_name": "Linda Nagata", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1229, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Nikko is the first true \"post human\"-a man genetically engineered to survive in the airless void of space-but the research permit that allows his existence is about to expire. His body has already begun an insidious, pre-programmed failure that will end in his death. Nikko's only hope for survival rides on an illegal and extremely powerful nanotech device known as the Bohr Maker, that will allow him to rewrite his genetic code and extend his life. He attempts to steal the Maker from the archives of the Commonwealth police, but his plan goes awry. The device escapes into the wild, infecting a young woman named Phousita who lives in an impoverished slum where nanotechnology is regulated only by the black market. Phousita's genetic code is rewritten by the Maker. Her senses are enhanced, and she gains extraordinary powers of healing, but like Nikko she has become a fugitive. The Commonwealth police are on the hunt, determined to sterilize all traces of the Bohr Maker before it can be copied and spread throughout the population. Together, Phousita and Nikko must evade a ruthless pursuit, both to preserve their own lives and to save the Bohr Maker, which holds the promise of re-defining humanity-for good or for ill.A brilliantly original, fast-paced thriller, The Bohr Maker won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. The Bohr Maker is Book 1 of The Nanotech Succession, a collection of stand-alone novels exploring the rise of nanotechnology and the strange and fascinating future that follows.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12157710-the-bohr-maker"}, +{"book_title": "Shakespeare's Planet", "author_name": "Clifford D. Simak", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 965, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Carter Horton and three other crew members are sent on a mission to find a planet which would be suitable for human life. They are put in a deep sleep until they arrive. However, due to a systems malfunction, Carter is the last one left alive. When he makes it to the planet he finds that he has been in deep sleep for about two thousand years and that the ship he made it there with refuses to return to earth. The only living thing he discovers is Carnivore, who claims that there is an inter-space tunnel which is the only way to leave the planet.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Novels", "The United States Of America", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196023.Shakespeare_s_Planet"}, +{"book_title": "Time After Time", "author_name": "Tamara Ireland Stone", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 3053, "review_number": 479, "book_description": "Calling Anna and Bennett\u2019s romance long distance is an understatement: she\u2019s from 1995 Chicago and he\u2019s a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco. The two of them never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn't. And they found a way to stay together, against all odds. It\u2019s not a perfect arrangement, though, with Bennett unable to stay in the past for more than brief visits, skipping out on big chunks of his present in order to be with Anna in hers. They each are confident that they\u2019ll find a way to make things work...until Bennett witnesses a single event he never should have seen (and certainly never expected to). Will the decisions he makes from that point on cement a future he doesn't want?Told from Bennett\u2019s point of view, Time After Time will satisfy readers looking for a fresh, exciting, and beautifully-written love story, both those who are eager to find out what\u2019s next for Time Between Us's Anna and Bennett and those discovering their story for the first time.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17393023-time-after-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Stainless Steel Rat", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 14080, "review_number": 480, "book_description": "In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic cops can do is make him one of their own", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64394.The_Stainless_Steel_Rat"}, +{"book_title": "First Flight", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal's Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. \"First Flight\" is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award.The winner of the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Cosmos, and Asimov's. Her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, will be published by Tor in 2010.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Aviation"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8463916-first-flight"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Beloved", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2397, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "My tribesmates don\u2019t understand her. The other humans think she\u2019s weak. But no one knows my mate like I do. They don\u2019t see her gentle heart or her brave spirit. I know why she struggles. I know how strong she is. And I know I\u2019ll do anything to make her smile. But can I convince her that she can be happy in this strange new world with me? This story explores the long-awaited romance of Ariana and Zolaya. Even though it is a \u2018flashback\u2019 to the beginning of the Ice Planet Barbarians series, it can be read out of order.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38460281-barbarian-s-beloved"}, +{"book_title": "First Strike", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 805, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "The best defense\u2026 Starting a war with an enemy a hundred times stronger is insane. It\u2019s desperate. And it\u2019s Earth\u2019s only hope. A massive alien power looms over humanity, claiming Earth as its territory and humanity as its slaves. The Hegemony has already taken over one colony, yoking hundreds of thousands under their brutal rule. Every tactical exercise, every wargame and every simulation gives humanity zero chance in a defensive campaign. Earth\u2019s only chance to win the coming war - is by striking first. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novels", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23280558-first-strike"}, +{"book_title": "Sandry's Book", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 43295, "review_number": 1132, "book_description": "With her gift of weaving silk thread and creating light, Sandry is brought to the Winding Circle community. There she meets Briar, a former thief who has a way with plants; Daja, an outcast gifted at metalcraft; and Tris, whose connection with the weather unsettles everyone, including herself. At Winding Circle, the four misfits are taught how to use their magic - and to trust one another. But then disaster strikes their new home. Can Sandry weave together four kinds of magical power and save herself, her friends, and the one place where they've ever been accepted?", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58889.Sandry_s_Book"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Slave", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1065, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Dani Watson is a sex slave on the planet of Dantovon. Having escaped post-Armageddon Earth, she\u2019s resigned to spending several years working in a brothel to pay off her slave contract. Her one consolation is that she avoided being captured and enslaved by the Kalquorians.When a Kalquorian clan buys her contract, Dani attempts escape. Crashing on a remote moon gets her puts her life in jeopardy, leaving her and the clan of Gelan, Wynhod, and Krijero fighting for survival in a hostile environment. Worse still, they\u2019re being hunted by a group of brutal Tragooms who are determined to capture Dani and subject her to a fate worse than mere slavery.word count: 82,160 ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Menage (M F M)", "Adult", "Menage (M M F)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13391199-alien-slave"}, +{"book_title": "Inescapable", "author_name": "Niall Teasdale", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 299, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Starting a new job is never easy, but taking up her new role as head of Palladium Security Solutions\u2019 investigative department, Fox Meridian is left wondering whether she is really cut out for this one. Board meetings are boring, politics sets her teeth on edge, and there\u2019s no sign of a need for a detective anywhere. But there\u2019s a serial killer working the elite set in Manhattan and one of Fox\u2019s few friends, Helen Dillan, is in Internal Affairs\u2019 sights for leaking sensitive crime scene information. They think she caught the wrong man, a man who claims he committed multiple murders because he was possessed by a demon, and that the original killer is at work again. It falls to Fox, Kit, and Dillan to uncover the truth, which is almost as strange as any demon possession could be.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27412538-inescapable"}, +{"book_title": "Dorsai", "author_name": "Gordon R. Dickson", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 9877, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "aka The Genetic GeneralThroughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them the most valuable mercenaries in the known universe. Donal Graeme is Dorsai, taller and harder than any ordinary man. But he is different as well, with talents that maze even his fellow Dorsai. And once he ventures out into the stars, the future will never be the same.", "year_published": 1960, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "War", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263111.Dorsai_"}, +{"book_title": "Wicklow's Odyssey", "author_name": "R. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 171, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Two years into the Civil War, it is a bloody stalemate\u2014exactly the sort of situation for a brilliant, ruthless visionary with ideas on modernizing spycraft to take advantage of. With an eye to not just winning the war, but to the future of the country, Alexander Rhoades convinces the Union government to let him run a team of remarkable spies as he pleases, mostly to plant brand-new electro-radio technology in Southern cities to aid the work of Northern agents. While on one of these missions, secret agent Wicklow Doyle\u2019s safehouse is compromised and he\u2019s on the run in enemy-controlled Charleston. The last thing he needs with him is the pampered rich man who runs his team, yet despite the danger, Alexander Rhoades refuses to leave his side. Wicklow doesn\u2019t understand why, or why Rhoades\u2019s very presence makes him tremble. A street rat-turned-soldier-turned-spy, there isn\u2019t much that scares Wicklow. He\u2019s used to men desiring him, but not wicked geniuses offering something he\u2019s scared to name. Wicklow doesn\u2019t understand love any more than he understands Rhoades\u2019s noble causes. He\u2019d rather focus on what needs to be done. The enemy is all around them and hiding a dangerous secret, the North still needs a victory, and Wicklow has to get Rhoades to safety. Of all the dangers in his path, that is the one that frightens him the most, and with every one of Rhoades\u2019s soft kisses, he\u2019s starting to realize why. But it might be too late. Wicklow may be a man of noble causes too, and he will do what it takes to fulfill his mission, save his team, the country, and Rhoades. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46219034-wicklow-s-odyssey"}, +{"book_title": "The New Wilderness", "author_name": "Diane Cook", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 5655, "review_number": 827, "book_description": "A debut novel that explores a mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and overpopulation, a suspenseful second book from the author of the story collection, Man V. Nature.Bea\u2019s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the City\u2014an over-populated, over-built metropolis where most of the population lives\u2014is destroying her lungs. But what can Bea do? No one leaves the City anymore, because there is nowhere else to go. But across the country lies the Wilderness State, the last swath of open, protected land left. Here forests and desert plains are inhabited solely by wildlife. People are forbidden. Until now.\u00a0Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State as part of a study to see if humans can co-exist with nature. Can they be part of the wilderness and not destroy it? Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, this new community wanders through the grand country, trying to adhere to the strict rules laid down by the Rangers, whose job it is to remind them they must Leave No Trace. As the group slowly learns to live and survive on the unpredictable and often dangerous land, its members battle for power and control and betray and save each other. The farther they roam, the closer they come to their animal soul.To her dismay, Bea discovers that, in fleeing to the Wilderness State to save Agnes, she is losing her in a different way. Agnes is growing wilder and closer to the land, while Bea cannot shake her urban past. As she and Agnes grow further apart, the bonds between mother and daughter are tested in surprising and heartbreaking ways.Yet just as these modern nomads come to think of the Wilderness State as home, its future is threatened when the Government discovers a new use for the land. Now the migrants must choose to stay and fight for their place in the wilderness, their home, or trust the Rangers and their promises of a better tomorrow elsewhere.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literary Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Environment", "Novels", "Environment (Nature)", "Adult", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48836769-the-new-wilderness"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born", "author_name": "Peter David", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 75694, "review_number": 1084, "book_description": "'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' With those words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland ' an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. Now, in a comic book personally overseen by King himself, Roland's past is revealed! Sumptuously drawn by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove, adapted by long-time Stephen King expert, Robin Furth (author of Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance), and scripted by New York Times Bestseller Peter David, this series delves in depth into Roland's origins ' the perfect introduction to this incredibly realized world; while long-time fans will thrill to adventures merely hinted at in the novels. Be there for the very beginning of a modern classic of fantasy literature!Collecting DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER BORN #1-7.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342445.The_Dark_Tower"}, +{"book_title": "The Rowan", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 15926, "review_number": 436, "book_description": "Told in the timeless style of Anne McCaffrey, The Rowan is the first installment in a wonderful trilogy. This is sci-fi at its best: a contemporary love story as well as an engrossing view of our world in the future.The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League. Using mental powers alone, these few Prime Talents transport ships, cargo and people between Earth's Moon, Mars' Demos and Jupiter's Callisto.An orphaned young girl, simply called The Rowan, is discovered to have superior telepathic potential and is trained to become Prime Talent on Callisto. After years of self-sacrificing dedication to her position, The Rowan intercepts an urgent mental call from Jeff Raven, a young Prime Talent on distant Deneb. She convinces the other Primes to merge their powers with hers to help fight off an attack by invading aliens. Her growing relationship with Jeff gives her the courage to break her status-imposed isolation, and choose the more rewarding world of love and family.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61938.The_Rowan"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Spiral", "author_name": "Lisa Mangum", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 6873, "review_number": 746, "book_description": "His eyes. His touch. His kiss. Dante was unlike anyone Abby had ever met. Now he\u2019s gone, and Abby will do anything to get him back . . .The hourglass door has closed behind Dante, sending him back in time to hunt down Zo, Tony, and V. When Zo targets Abby's past, she begins building a new time machine \"door\". With each new change that ripples into her present, Abby's life continues to spiral out of control. As Abby she struggles to free Dante, she receives help from an unexpected - and unlikely - ally.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6641635-the-golden-spiral"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow of the Hegemon", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 71628, "review_number": 1644, "book_description": "The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more.But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heroes; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender's Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender's brother Peter.Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean's help, he will eventually rule the world.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9534.Shadow_of_the_Hegemon"}, +{"book_title": "The Man with the Iron Heart", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 949, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "What if V-E Day didn\u2019t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by Germany\u2019s flagging resources and squabbling officials. But had SS Obergruppenf\u00fchrer Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Man with the Iron Heart, not been assassinated in 1942, fate might have taken a different turn. We might likely have seen a German guerrilla war launched against the conquerors, presaging by more than half a century the protracted conflict with an unrelenting enemy that now engulfs the United States and its allies in Iraq. How might today\u2019s clash of troops versus terrorists have played out in 1945?In this imagined world, Nazi forces resort to unconventional warfare, using the quick and dirty tactics of terrorism\u2013booby traps, time bombs, mortar and rocket strikes in the night, assassinations, even kamikaze-style suicide attacks\u2013to overturn what seemed to be a decisive Allied victory. In November 1945, a truck bomb blows up the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where high-ranking Nazi officials are about to stand trial for war crimes. None of the accused are there when the bomb goes off, but their judges, all of them present and accounted for, are annihilated. Worse acts of terrorism follow all over Europe.Suddenly the Allies\u2013especially the United States\u2013must battle an invisible enemy and sacrifice countless lives in a long, seemingly pointless, unwinnable conflict. On the home front, patriotism corrodes, political fortunes are made and lost in the face of an antiwar backlash, and a once-proud country wonders how the righteous fight for freedom overseas has collapsed into a hopeless quagmire. At once a novel of thrilling military suspense, intriguing alternate history, and profound insight into contemporary affairs, The Man with the Iron Heart is a tour de force by a storyteller of exceptional imaginative power.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (World War II)", "Cultural (Germany)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175864.The_Man_with_the_Iron_Heart"}, +{"book_title": "Halo: The Fall of Reach", "author_name": "Eric S. Nylund", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 21457, "review_number": 1182, "book_description": "As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, the lone SPARTAN survivor of another legendary battle... the desperate, take-no-prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo--the fall of the planet Reach. Now, brought to life for the first time, here is the full story of that glorious, doomed conflict.While the brutal Covenant juggernaut sweeps inexorably through space, intent on wiping out humankind, only one stronghold remains--the planet Reach. Practically on Earth's doorstep, it is the last military fortress to defy the onslaught. But the personnel here have another, higher priority: to prevent the Covenant from discovering the location of Earth.Outnumbered and outgunned, the soldiers seem to have little chance against the Covenant, but Reach holds a closely guarded secret. It is the training ground for the very first \"super soldiers.\" Code-named SPARTANs, these highly advanced warriors, specially bioengineered and technologically augmented, are the best in the universe--quiet, professional, and deadly.Now, as the ferocious Covenant attack begins, a handful of SPARTANs stand ready to wage ultimate war. They will kill, they will be destroyed, but they will never surrender. And at least one of them--the SPARTAN known as Master Chief--will live to fight another day on a mysterious and ancient, artificial world called Halo...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60229.Halo"}, +{"book_title": "The Inventor's Companion", "author_name": "Ariel Tachna", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 403, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Gabriel Blackstone\u2019s world is divided quite clearly into castes: everyone knows their place and abides by it. As an inventor in the merchant caste, his life is predictable in its routine until the night his best friends and assistants, Caleb and Andrew, purchase the time\u2014and body\u2014of a companion for his birthday. As an activist in the Caste Equality movement, everything Gabriel believes in tells him to refuse the gift, but then he meets Lucio. The beautiful and alluring companion is far more than the vapid courtesan he'd expected, and he can\u2019t get the man out of his mind.After that night, Gabriel tells himself to forget about Lucio, but a chance meeting at a ball makes it clear neither of them is willing to ignore the compelling chemistry between them. It will take all their combined trust and cunning, plus the help of a wily aristocrat and a plucky political activist, to overcome the challenges of infidelity, abuse, and social stigma that lay along their road; however, Gabriel knows it will all be worth it if at the end of the day he can call Lucio his own.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Sociology (Abuse)", "LGBT", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10640380-the-inventor-s-companion"}, +{"book_title": "The Tau Ceti Agenda", "author_name": "Travis S. Taylor", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 454, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The riveting edge of your seat sequel to One Day On Mars once again takes us on a blindingly fast pace through events from a futuristic Washington D.C. to the Tau Ceti star system. Just days before the presidential election a CIA operative uncovers a plot to overthrow America that reaches deep into the government. To top it off, the forces planning to revolt have somehow developed a technology that allows them to transport across the gulf between the star systems almost instantaneously. The CIA operative braves hand-to-hand combat and even torture in order to get a warning of the coming coup to American officials while at the same time the two most powerful battleships in the U.S. Space Navy are dispatched to overtake the enemy teleportation technology. With armored marines, intense space naval battles, fighter plane, and high technology wizardry perhaps the plot to kill the president can be thwarted. But will that be enough to save the land of the free?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense", "Politics (Presidents)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1895942.The_Tau_Ceti_Agenda"}, +{"book_title": "World of Trouble", "author_name": "Ben H. Winters", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 9956, "review_number": 1299, "book_description": "There are just 14 days until a deadly asteroid hits the planet, and America has fallen into chaos. Citizens have barricaded themselves inside basements, emergency shelters, and big-box retail stores. Cash is worthless; bottled water is valuable beyond measure. All over the world, everyone is bracing for the end.But Detective Hank Palace still has one last case to solve. His beloved sister Nico was last seen in the company of suspicious radicals, armed with heavy artillery and a plan to save humanity. Hank's search for Nico takes him from Massachusetts to Ohio, from abandoned zoos and fast food restaurants to a deserted police station where he uncovers evidence of a brutal crime. With time running out, Hank follows the clues to a series of earth-shattering revelations.The third novel in the Last Policeman trilogy, World of Trouble presents one final pre-apocalyptic mystery\u2014and Hank Palace confronts questions way beyond whodunit: How far would you go to protect a loved one? And how would you choose to spend your last days on Earth?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Thriller", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18691070-world-of-trouble"}, +{"book_title": "Switched", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1244, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "A warrior with a talent that could get him killedA girl transported to a new existence with no warningWhen the two of them trade lives, it places them in mortal peril.Not to mention really screwing up their love lives!Will they ever be able to get back in their rightful bodies?Or have they been forever\u2026Switched?What happens when you wake up in someone else\u2019s body?And what if that someone happens to be a huge, hot, Alien warrior?Frankie is about to find out\u2026the hard way.Kerov knows his people used to have the ability to Switch bodies with their bonded mates, but he has no idea who the girl in his head is. And the fact that she\u2019s controlling his body goes beyond awkward\u2026it could be lethal if anyone finds out. On his home planet of Tarsia, Switching is a crime punishable by death.But there are worse things than dying as he finds out when he gets stuck in Frankie\u2019s body as well. What is a Brazilian bikini wax anyway? And why does he have to remove his pants to get one?Will Frankie and Kerov ever get back to their own bodies? And what do the steamy dreams they\u2019ve been sharing have to do with their destinies? You\u2019ll have to read Switched, Brides of the Kindred 17, to find out.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28936334-switched"}, +{"book_title": "Quintessence", "author_name": "David Walton", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 657, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he believes will grant magical powers and immortality. And he has a ship.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793118-quintessence"}, +{"book_title": "The Illuminatus! Trilogy", "author_name": "Robert Shea", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 14570, "review_number": 825, "book_description": "It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big\u2014but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated.Filled with sex and violence\u2014in and out of time and space\u2014the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time\u2014from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill\u2014and suggest a mind-blowing truth.", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Philosophy", "Pseudoscience (Conspiracy Theories)", "Novels", "Occult", "Politics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57913.The_Illuminatus_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "A Confederation of Valor", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1500, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr's goal is to keep both her superior officers and her troops alive as they face deadly missions throughout the galaxy. She more than proves her mettle when a diplomatic assignment and a scientific expedition both turn dangerous.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176407.A_Confederation_of_Valor"}, +{"book_title": "A.I. Confidential", "author_name": "Austin Dragon", "rating_score": 4.62, "rating_votes": 21, "review_number": 3, "book_description": " \u201cWe\u2019re going to break wide open the biggest caper in Metropolis history!\u201d Liquid Cool: The Cyberpunk Detective Series Is Back with more laughs and even more action in A.I. Confidential! The biggest caper in the supercity\u2019s history? Cruz has tangled with some of the most dangerous, cunning, and sinister villains around\u2014Blade Gunner, NeuroDancer, Mr. Viper, The Ripper, the \u201cAlien\u201d. But this case is even bigger? If Liquid Cool is Blade Runner meets the Maltese Falcon, then this novel is much more on the noir side than any other (call it cyber-noir or sci-fi noir). Bright neon, sharp shadows, thugs in fedoras, laser guns at the ready, and bloody discarded bodies in alleys. You don\u2019t see this kind of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even laughs in any \u201cnormal\u201d science fiction. But this is Liquid Cool. \u201dWe\u2019re on the case!\u201d he says. And you get to tag along with Cruz and company through the ever-rainy world of mega-skyscrapers, hovercars, and futuristic tech. This case introduces our hero detective, Cruz, to a threat he has never dealt with before\u2014killer androids! Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool. Get Your Copy of A.I. Confidential (Liquid Cool, Book 6) Right Now. \u02c3\u02c3\u02c3FIVE STAR SERIES REVIEWS \n\n\u201cLots of shooting, lots of crazy maniacs, lots of action and fun!\u201d\n\n\n \n\u201cI loved this book. It takes place in the future, and what a weird future.\u201d \u201cA funny, intelligent (and sometimes crazy) main character\u2026playing detective\u201d \u201cCool and Smooth.\u201d \u02c3\u02c3\u02c3Check out all of Author Austin Dragon\u2019s books in sci-fi and more here http://www.austindragon.com/books-of-... Be the first to hear about all of Austin\u2019s new releases and special offers by signing up here: http://www.austindragon.com/VIP \u02c3\u02c3\u02c3Here\u2019s the sci-fi/cyberpunk meets the detective series for you! Grab your copy of A.I. Confidential today. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36840156-a-i-confidential"}, +{"book_title": "The Peace War", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 6326, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the \"bobble,\" a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he's needed for so long, he will shake the world, in the fast-paced hard-science thriller that garnered Vinge the first of his four Hugo nominations for best novel.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167845.The_Peace_War"}, +{"book_title": "Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale", "author_name": "Danielle Ackley-McPhail", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 97, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Come, Best Beloved, and sit you by my feet. I shall tell you a tale such as sister Scheherazade could have scarce imagined. A tale of wonders, of deeds both great and grievous, of courage that defies description, and above all, Child of Adam, I shall tell you a tale of love. The night is for the telling of tales to which the morning may bear Truth. In the oldest of days and ages and times, there was, and there was not, a great evil that reached across the desert and beyond\u2026In the Nejd there is nothing at all\u2026except secrets. A band of thieves wish such secrets to remain hidden. In England, far from his desert home, Ali bin-Massoud serves as apprentice to the famed Charles Babbage. One night a mysterious box is delivered by a clockwork falcon and Ali\u2019s world is never the same again. Heartache, danger, and thieves mark his journey as Ali is summoned home at the death of his father.It will take faith, knowledge, and yes, love to realize his destiny, and more than a little skill with steam-driven technology. Can he unravel the mystery of the puzzle box and the clockwork djinn before it is too late? An ancient legacy and Ali's very life depend on his success. Hear you the tale of Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48590674-baba-ali-and-the-clockwork-djinn"}, +{"book_title": "The Mote in God's Eye", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 64051, "review_number": 1744, "book_description": "In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Classics", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100365.The_Mote_in_God_s_Eye"}, +{"book_title": "Plague of the Dead", "author_name": "Z.A. Recht", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 7367, "review_number": 359, "book_description": "The end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate. Death. But it doesn't end there. The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead it escalates into a global pandemic. In one fell swoop, the necessities of life become much more basic. Gone are petty everyday concerns. Gone are the amenities of civilized life. Yet a single law of nature remains: Live, or die. Kill, or be killed. On one side of the world, a battle-hardened General surveys the remnants of his command: a young medic, a veteran photographer, a brash Private, and dozens of refugees, all are his responsibility-all thousands of miles from home. Back in the United States, an Army Colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar virus and begins to collaborate with a well-known journalist to leak the information to the public... The Morningstar Saga has begun.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46723.Plague_of_the_Dead"}, +{"book_title": "Far North", "author_name": "Marcel Theroux", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 4033, "review_number": 504, "book_description": "Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.Out on the frontier of a failed state, Makepeace\u2014sheriff and perhaps last citizen\u2014patrols a city's ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair.Into this cold land comes shocking evidence that life might be flourishing elsewhere: a refugee emerges from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to reconnect with human society and take to the road, armed with rough humor and an unlikely ration of optimism.What Makepeace finds is a world unraveling: stockaded villages enforcing an uncertain justice and hidden work camps laboring to harness the little-understood technologies of a vanished civilization. But Makepeace's journey\u2014rife with danger\u2014also leads to an unexpected redemption.Far North takes the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape, from humanity's origins to its possible end. Haunting, spare, yet stubbornly hopeful, the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world's fragility and beauty, and its ability to recover from our worst trespasses.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4889214-far-north"}, +{"book_title": "Howling Dark", "author_name": "Christopher Ruocchio", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 936, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.Hadrian Marlowe is lost. For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has not succeeded, and for years has wandered among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries.Determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly four hundred years of war, Hadrian must venture beyond the security of the Sollan Empire and among the Extrasolarians who dwell between the stars. There, he will face not only the aliens he has come to offer peace, but contend with creatures that once were human, with traitors in his midst, and with a meeting that will bring him face to face with no less than the oldest enemy of mankind.If he succeeds, he will usher in a peace unlike any in recorded history. If he fails...the galaxy will burn.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41564599-howling-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Hero at Large", "author_name": "Timothy Ellis", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1104, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Surviving having survived, comes with a body count.Jonathon Hunter has evoked the wrath of 27th century pirates. With his twin sexy bodyguards, Jonathon seeks to come to grips with station life in a suddenly hostile universe.Celebrity, gratitude, sudden attacks, and a mysterious prophecy are more than most 18 year old's can handle.A reluctant hero, Jonathon is on a journey, seemingly out of his time, but always in time.Meet Jon Hunter as he starts a 2 year journey to prophecy, with his AI sidekick, and mostly female mercenary team.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Space", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41144950-hero-at-large"}, +{"book_title": "Damnation", "author_name": "Jean Johnson", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1669, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "It began with a terrible vision of the future. Compelled by her precognitive abilities, Ia must somehow save her home galaxy long after she\u2019s gone. Now Jean Johnson presents the long-awaited epic conclusion to her national bestselling military science fiction series\u2026 With their new ship claimed and new crewmembers being collected, Ia\u2019s Damned are ready and willing to re-enter the fight against the vicious, hungry forces of their Salik foes. But shortly after they board the Damnation to return to battle, a new threat emerges. After several centuries of silence, the Greys are back, and the Alliance must now combat both a rapacious, sadistic enemy, and a terrifying, technologically superior foe.Ia has asked nothing of her crew that she herself has not been willing to give. But with two wars to bring to an end\u2014and time running out\u2014Ia must make and execute the most terrible choice of all\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18136725-damnation"}, +{"book_title": "Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger", "author_name": "Jon Scieszka", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 417, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "In this second book in the series, Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival\u2014this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy. Frank is working on a revamped version of one of Nikola Tesla\u2019s inventions, the \u201cElectro-Finger,\u201d a device that can tap into energy anywhere and allow all of Midville to live off the grid, with free wireless and solar energy. But this puts Frank in direct conflict with Edison\u2019s quest to control all the power and light in Midville, monopolize its energy resources, and get \u201crich rich rich.\u201d Time is running out, and only Frank, Watson, Klink, and Klank can stop Edison and his sentient ape, Mr. Chimp!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science", "Childrens", "Humor", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23167686-frank-einstein-and-the-electro-finger"}, +{"book_title": "Salvation", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 8919, "review_number": 813, "book_description": "Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from \"the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction\" (Ken Follett).In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transporation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet mankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful...until a crashed alien spaceship is found on a newly-located world 89 light years from Earth, harboring seventeen human victims. And of the high-powered team dispatched to investigate the mystery, one is an alien spy...Bursting with tension and big ideas, this standalone series highlights the inventiveness of an author at the top of his game, as the interweaving story lines tell us not only how humanity arrived at this moment, but also the far-future consequences that spin off from it.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Mystery", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34068552-salvation"}, +{"book_title": "A Riddle in Ruby", "author_name": "Kent Davis", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 248, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Ruby Teach is a thief-in-training and a keeper of secrets\u2014ones she doesn\u2019t even know of herself. She is the daughter of a smuggler and pirate, and has been learning how to swindle and steal and pick the most complex locks for as long as she can remember. But a collision with aristocratic young lord Athen sends her spinning into chaos. Little did she know that her whole life has been spent in hiding from nefarious secret societies and the Royal Navy . . . who are both now on her trail.An adventure woven through an alternate colonial Philadelphia\u2014a world ruled by alchemists who mix magic and science; a world filled with those who would help, and those who would use others for their own dark ends.[A Riddle in Ruby is the first book in a trilogy.]", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24336400-a-riddle-in-ruby"}, +{"book_title": "Broken Angels", "author_name": "Richard K. Morgan", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 31893, "review_number": 1497, "book_description": "Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn\u2019t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another.Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers - and bodies - once more... trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planet\u2019s government put down a bloody revolution.But when it comes to taking sides, the only one Kovacs is ever really on is his own. So when a rogue pilot and a sleazy corporate fat cat offer him a lucrative role in a treacherous treasure hunt, he\u2019s only too happy to go AWOL with a band of resurrected soldiers of fortune. All that stands between them and the ancient alien spacecraft they mean to salvage are a massacred city bathed in deadly radiation, unleashed nanotechnolgy with a million ways to kill, and whatever surprises the highly advanced Martian race may have in store. But armed with his genetically engineered instincts, and his trusty twin Kalashnikovs, Takeshi is ready to take on anything \u2014 and let the devil take whoever\u2019s left behind.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Noir)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279561.Broken_Angels"}, +{"book_title": "Love Potion (Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius", "author_name": "Steven Banks", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 5, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Jimmy shows off his latest invention -- a love potion -- to Carl and Sheen. Anyone exposed to it will fall in love with the first person he or she sees. Jimmy thinks his potion is stored safely in the containment chamber, but Carl accidentally opens it -- and love is literally in the air, exposing them all Even worse, Cindy Vortex is the first girl Jimmy sees Will Jimmy be able to reverse the effects of his latest invention, or will love conquer all?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133648.Love_Potion"}, +{"book_title": "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History", "author_name": "Elizabeth Kolbert", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 50908, "review_number": 5380, "book_description": "Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, The New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "History", "Environment", "Environment (Nature)", "Science (Biology)", "Environment (Climate Change)", "Audiobook", "Animals", "Science (Natural History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910054-the-sixth-extinction"}, +{"book_title": "Maelstrom", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 3396, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster, or a goddess? One thing is for sure: all hell is breaking loose.This dark, fast-paced, hard SF novel returns to the story begun in Starfish: all human life is threatened by a disease (actually a primeval form of life) from the distant prehuman past. It survived only in the deep ocean rift where Clarke and her companions were stationed before the corporation that employed them tried to sterilize the threat with a secret underwater nuclear strike. But Clarke was far enough away that she was able to survive and tough enough to walk home, 300 miles across the ocean floor. She arrives carrying with her the potential death of the human race, and possessed by a desire for revenge. Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, \"drives like a futuristic locomotive.\" ", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66477.Maelstrom"}, +{"book_title": "Ender's Shadow", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 157349, "review_number": 5285, "book_description": "Welcome to Battleschool.Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains.Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival.Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.Ender's Shadow is the book that launched The Shadow Series, and the parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "War", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9532.Ender_s_Shadow"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 35832, "review_number": 1657, "book_description": "An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months, society has crumbled: There is no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally begin living. This volume follows our band of survivors on their tragic journey in search of shelter. Characters live and die as they brave a treacherous landscape littered with packs of the walking dead.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138396.The_Walking_Dead_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "In the Deep Dark Deep", "author_name": "Ben Joel Price", "rating_score": 2.92, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "In this sequel to Earth Space Moon Base, Monkey, Robot, and Deep-Sea Diver embark on a dangerous underwater quest! The jellyfish and spider crabs they encounter are the least of their worries as they search the depths for missing starfish in their bathysphere, the Guppy. \u00a0 Ben Joel Price\u2019s cheeky rhymes and limited yet striking palette evoke an enchanting world that will give young readers the explorer\u2019s bug!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Animals", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Environment (Nature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23742840-in-the-deep-dark-deep"}, +{"book_title": "How to Code a Sandcastle", "author_name": "Josh Funk", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 811, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "From the computer science nonprofit Girls Who Code comes this lively and funny story introducing kids to computer coding concepts.Pearl and her trusty rust-proof robot, Pascal, need to build a sandcastle before summer vacation is over, and they\u2019re going to do it using code. Pearl breaks the big we-need-a-sandcastle problem into smaller steps, then uses conditionals, loops, and other basic coding concepts to tell Pascal exactly what to do. But building a sandcastle isn\u2019t as easy as it sounds when surfboards, mischievous dogs, and coding mishaps get in the way! Just when it looks like the sandcastle might never work, Pearl uses her coding skills to save the day and create something even better: a gorgeous sandcastle kingdom!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science", "Computer Science (Coding)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science (Technology)", "Nonfiction", "Science (Computer Science)", "Humor", "Childrens (Storytime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35845088-how-to-code-a-sandcastle"}, +{"book_title": "Spectyr", "author_name": "Philippa Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1642, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "The second novel in Ballantine's series. In a realm of mystics and magic, the Order of Deacons stands between the here and now and the Otherside. Its mission is to protect the citizens of the Empire from malevolent geists--no matter where or when...Though one of the most powerful Deacons, Sorcha Faris has a tarnished reputation to overcome, which is why she jumps at the chance to investigate a string of murders in the exotic city of Orithal. But it is there that her lover, the shapeshifting rival to the throne, is targeted by a cruel and vengeful goddess, unwittingly unleashed by the Emperor's sister.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9694311-spectyr"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl in the Clockwork Collar", "author_name": "Kady Cross", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 9930, "review_number": 964, "book_description": "In New York City, 1897, life has never been more thrilling-or dangerous Finley Jayne and her \"straynge band of mysfits\" have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper from the clutches of a devious criminal demanding a trade-the dangerous device Jasper stole from him... for the life of the girl Jasper loves. One false move from Jasper, and the strange clockwork collar around Mei's neck tightens and tightens. From the rough streets of lower Manhattan to elegant Fifth Avenue, the motley crew of teens follows Jasper's elusive trail. And they're about to discover how far they'll go for friendship. More than ever, Finley must rely on powerful English duke Griffin King to balance her dark magic with her good side. Yet Griffin is at war with himself over his secret attraction to Finley... and will risk his life and reputation to save her. Now, to help those she's come to care for so deeply, Finley must infiltrate the criminal gang. Only problem is, she might like the dark side a little too much...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13060608-the-girl-in-the-clockwork-collar"}, +{"book_title": "Postsingular", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 961, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "\nIt all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them. \n \nMost of the story takes place in a world after a heretofore unimaginable transformation, where all the things look the same but all the people are different (they're able to read each others' minds, for starters). Travel to and from other nearby worlds in the quantum universe is possible, so now our world is visited by giant humanoids from another quantum universe, and some of them mean to tidy up the mess we've made. Or maybe just run things.\n", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science (Mathematics)", "Cultural", "Singularity"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/612875.Postsingular"}, +{"book_title": "Lots of Bots", "author_name": "Kiki Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 68, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "This rollicking picture book features the robots from WALL-E, the new Disney Pixar CGI animated film scheduled to hit theaters on June 27. Full color.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2653139-lots-of-bots"}, +{"book_title": "Remastering Jerna", "author_name": "Ann Somerville", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 851, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "In a world not unlike our own, Jerna Setiq has a perfect life, a beloved wife and two adored children, with his past desires and needs firmly put behind him. But when he's falsely accused of child abuse and imprisoned, he's cast into hell, with no apparent means of redemption, or regaining all that he's lost.In the most unlikely of places, in the most unpromising of circumstances, fate offers Jerna his second chance and a path to freedom. With the cruelly fascinating Tolomi, a dominant in need of education and a patient submissive, Jerna dares to satisfy the long denied passions of his dual nature - but will he risk losing what has become so dear to him, all over again? \"Remastering Jerna\" is a complex, erotic story of redemption, love, and the contract of trust in a relationship of control and submission.Words: 114,879 (approximate)", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Dark", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17258881-remastering-jerna"}, +{"book_title": "A Clockwork Fairytale", "author_name": "Helen Scott Taylor", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 487, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "A rags to riches fairytale full of danger and romance about a lost princess and a maverick young spymaster who foil the plans of an evil magician bent on stealing her throne.Suitable for adults and teenagers.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12449991-a-clockwork-fairytale"}, +{"book_title": "Maelstrom", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 3552, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "The final thrilling chapter in the \u201cgripping and riveting\u201d Destroyermen Trilogy.Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the U.S.S. Walker, are once again at war. Having sided with the peaceful Lemurians against the savage, reptilian Grik, they now find themselves scrambling to prepare for the attack that is sure to come, searching for resources to support their forces\u2014even as they look for allies to join their struggle.Amagi, also trapped in this strange world, is under Grik control\u2014with her fanatical commander approaching madness. And soon they will have amassed a force that no amount of firepower and technology will be able to stop.\u201cAnderson has brought a fresh new perspective to the tale of crosstime shipwreck.\u201d \u2014\u2013S.M. Stirling", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3946101-maelstrom"}, +{"book_title": "Across Realtime", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2301, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "\"The intricately plotted progress of characters from near to farfuture... on an Earth which, like an abandon playground, has long ago been left behind by an evolving humanity... human-scale action within a vast canvas.\"-- The Excyclopedia of Science Fiction.Encompassing time-travel, powerful mystery and the future history of humanity to its last handful of survivors, Across Realtime spans millions of years and is an utterly engrossing SF classic.\"You can hardly turn the pages fast enough. As sheer entertainment, it's a winner\"-- Locus", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Singularity", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167844.Across_Realtime"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Fire", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1768, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "In this new military sci-fi thriller from the author of Cold Welcome, space fleet commander Kylara Vatta uncovers deadly secrets on her latest mission--shedding light on her own family's past.As Admiral Kylara Vatta learned after she and a shipfull of strangers were marooned on an inhospitable arctic island, the secrets she and her makeshift crew uncovered were ones someone was ready to kill to keep hidden. Now, the existence of the mysterious arctic base has been uncovered, but much of the organization behind it still lurks in the shadows. And it is up to the intrepid Ky to force the perpetrators into the light, and finally uncover decades worth of secrets--some of which lie at the very heart of her biggest family tragedy.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35151613-into-the-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Animal Farm / 1984", "author_name": "George Orwell", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 168423, "review_number": 2109, "book_description": "This edition features George Orwell's best known novels \u2013 1984 and Animal Farm \u2013 with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind.\u00a0 Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.Animal Farm is Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution -- an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?", "year_published": 1948, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature", "Science Fiction", "Politics", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Philosophy", "Academic (School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5472.Animal_Farm_1984"}, +{"book_title": "The Revolution of Ivy", "author_name": "Amy Engel", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 11254, "review_number": 1435, "book_description": "Ivy Westfall is beyond the fence and she is alone. Abandoned by her family and separated from Bishop Lattimer, Ivy must find a way to survive on her own in a land filled with countless dangers, both human and natural. She has traded a more civilized type of cruelty-forced marriages and murder plots-for the bare-knuckled brutality required to survive outside Westfall's borders. But there is hope beyond the fence, as well. And when Bishop reappears in Ivy's life, she must decide if returning to Westfall to take a final stand for what she believes is right is worth losing everything she's fought for.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23198876-the-revolution-of-ivy"}, +{"book_title": "The Earl of Brass", "author_name": "Kara Jorgensen", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 535, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for B00L4CWBVE Eilian Sorrell is no stranger to cheating death, but when a dirigible accident costs him his arm, he fears his days of adventuring are over. As the eldest son of the Earl of Dorset, Lord Sorrell knows he will face a bleak future among London's aristocracy unless he can escape. On a quest to return to his old life, Lord Sorrell commissions a prosthetic arm, but the craftsman isn\u2019t quite what he expected.Fenice Brothers Prosthetics is in trouble. Hadley\u2019s brother is dead, and she is forced to pick up the pieces and finish what he started. When clients begin turning her away, she fears she will fail until she crosses paths with the enigmatic Lord Sorrell. In exchange for a new arm, he offers her a chance at adventure in the deserts of Palestine.Beneath the Negev\u2019s sand lies something far more precious than potsherds or bones. A long lost crystal city has been found that could change Eilian and Hadley\u2019s world forever, but they aren\u2019t the only ones who know its secrets. Will they make it out alive or will they, too, be buried beneath the desert sands?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "LGBT", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33540072-the-earl-of-brass"}, +{"book_title": "Ruse", "author_name": "Cindy Pon", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 585, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "In near-future Shanghai, a group of teens have their world turned upside down when one of their own is kidnapped in this action-packed follow-up to the \u201cpositively chilling\u201d sci-fi thriller Want.Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu are still recovering from the aftermath of bombing Jin Corp headquarters. But Jin, the ruthless billionaire and Daiyu\u2019s father, is out for blood. When Lingyi goes to Shanghai to help Jany Tsai, a childhood acquaintance in trouble, she doesn\u2019t expect Jin to be involved. And when Jin has Jany murdered and steals the tech she had refused to sell him, Lingyi is the only one who has access to the encrypted info, putting her own life in jeopardy.Zhou doesn\u2019t hesitate to fly to China to help Iris find Lingyi, even though he\u2019s been estranged from his friends for months. But when Iris tells him he can\u2019t tell Daiyu or trust her, he balks. The reunited group play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen.When Daiyu appears in Shanghai, Zhou is uncertain if it\u2019s to confront him or in support of her father. Jin has proudly announced Daiyu will be by his side for the opening ceremony of Jin Tower, his first \u201cvertical city.\u201d And as hard as Zhou and his friends fight, Jin always gains the upper hand. Is this a game they can survive, much less win?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35274032-ruse"}, +{"book_title": "A Memory Called Empire", "author_name": "Arkady Martine", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 20030, "review_number": 2788, "book_description": "Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident\u2014or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion\u2014all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret\u2014one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life\u2014or rescue it from annihilation.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37794149-a-memory-called-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Far Too Human", "author_name": "Anitra Lynn McLeod", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 70, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "If you build it, love will come...Jonathan P. Quiverbotton freely admits he is fussy, punctual\u2026and terribly lonely. All his attempts to build a companion have failed miserably. Desperate, he rents a man-of-all-work bot from a local factory, intent on uncovering its secrets. When the manbot arrives, though, it bears a stunningly familiar face, that of a notorious con man\u2014with whom Jonathan once had a fleeting assignation.Marcus isn\u2019t quite certain why this doorstep seems so familiar, but once he lays eyes on Jonathan, memories flood back so strong only one thing matters. He must convince Jonathan that he\u2019s a changed man. Raw sexual passion quickly forges a deep emotional bond, fueled by the knowledge that Marcus must soon return to the factory. Before their time ticks down, another man emerges from Marcus\u2019s murky past, reminding him of his unfulfilled part in a blackmail scheme.Marcus wants no part of his old life, but refusal not only exposes Jonathan to danger, it puts him at the mercy of those who would use his illegal enhancements at the cost of his humanity.This previously published erotic M/M steampunk romance contains one very fussy inventor, a decidedly wicked man-of-all-work bot, clockwork homecare creatures, and blazing hot sex between a man and his mechanical manservant. 30,000 words or 120 pages.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Short Stories", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55919333-far-too-human"}, +{"book_title": "Extracurricular Activities", "author_name": "Yoon Ha Lee", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1035, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "A space opera adventure set in a distant future where an undercover agent has to go behind enemy lines to recover a lost ship and a possible traitor.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35387050-extracurricular-activities"}, +{"book_title": "Confederation", "author_name": "Michael R. Hicks", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2769, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "In the second book of the In Her Name science fiction & fantasy series, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned Confederation naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carr\u00e9. With their help, he fulfills his childhood dream of becoming a Confederation Marine. Reza will need all the help he can get, for dark forces are at work at the heart of the Confederation, and Reza becomes a pawn in a lethal power struggle that leads him back to the planet Erlang. There, a heartbreaking reunion awaits him, along with the discovery of an ages-old power that the Kreelan Empire will stop at nothing to control...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6933096-confederation"}, +{"book_title": "Time Out of Joint", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 11127, "review_number": 688, "book_description": "Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick\u2019s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn\u2019t know that. He thinks it\u2019s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world\u2019s long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests. It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. And once he pursues his suspicions, he begins to see how he is the center of a universe gone terribly awry.", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698034.Time_Out_of_Joint"}, +{"book_title": "Obsidian: Last Chapter in Daemon's POV", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 1195, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "http://www.scribd.com/doc/108904697/I...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Young Adult (Young Adult Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24969707-obsidian"}, +{"book_title": "Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology", "author_name": "James Patrick Kelly", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 70, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Presenting the posthuman future in its wildest science-fictional imaginings and intriguing speculations, this far-reaching anthology of fiction and nonfiction traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances in technology totally transform human reality. The featured stories and essays travel from the alien far-future of H. G. Wells and the almost-human, near future of Ray Kurzweil to Elizabeth Bear\u2019s fusion of woman, machine, God, and shark and Isaac Asimov\u2019s evolution of ineffable logic. Daring to peek over the edge of the event horizon as intelligence both figuratively and literally explodes, this collection also includes pieces by Nick Bostrom, Cory Doctorow, Robert Reed, Justina Robson, Charles Stross, Vernor Vinge, and more.Content\"Introduction: Digital Rapture\"\tby James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel\"The Last Question\" by Isaac Asimov\t\"The Flesh\": Excerpt from The World, The Flesh and The Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul by J. D. Bernal\t\"Day Million\" by Frederik Pohl\t\"Thought and Action\": Chapter Six from Odd John by Olaf Stapledon\t\"The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era\" by Vernor Vinge\t\"Hive Mind Man\" by Rudy Rucker & Eileen Gunn \"Sunken Gardens\" by Bruce Sterling \"The Six Epochs\": Chapter One from The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil\t\"Crystal Nights\" by Greg Egan\t\"Firewall\" by David D. Levine\t\"The Cookie Monster\" by Vernor Vinge\t\"Cracklegrackle\" by Justina Robson \"Nightfall\" by Charles Stross\t\"Coelacanths\" by Robert Reed \"The Great Awakening\" by Rudy Rucker\t\"True Names\" by Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum \"The Server and the Dragon\" by Hannu Rajaniemi\t\"The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe\" by Elizabeth Bear", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Philosophy", "Singularity", "Science (Technology)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13064010-digital-rapture"}, +{"book_title": "Station Zero", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 363, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "The Great Network is changing. New worlds, new alliances, new enmities. For Threnody the changes have brought great power. For Zen and Nova they have brought separation. For the trains that run from world to world, they have brought questions. Now all of them must find out what really matters to them and who they really are . . .", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36441669-station-zero"}, +{"book_title": "The Cave of Time (Choose Your Own Adventure, #1", "author_name": "Edward Packard", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1509, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "\"You're the Star! 40 Thrilling Endings!\"\"Will You Become Trapped in Time\"?You are hiking in Snake Canyon when you find yourself lost in the strange, dimly lit Cave of Time. Gradually you can make out two passageways. One curves downward to the right; the other leads upward to the left. It occurs to you that the one leading down may go to the past and the one leading up may go to the future. Which way will you choose?If you take the left branch, turn to page 20. If you take the right branch, turn to page 61. If you walk outside the cave, turn to page 21. Be careful! In the Cave of Time you might meet up with a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex, or be lured aboard an alien spaceship!What happens next in the story? It all depends on the choices you make. How does the story end? Only you can find out! And the best part is that you can keep reading and rereading until you've had not one but many incredibly daring experiences!", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Gamebooks (Choose Your Own Adventure)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Games (Gamebooks)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190917.The_Cave_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Emily Eternal", "author_name": "M.G. Wheaton", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 1094, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "Meet Emily - she can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind's deepest secrets and even fix your truck's air con, but unfortunately, she can't restart the Sun.She's an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to.So, her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome. But before her solution can be tested, her lab is brutally attacked, and Emily is forced to go on the run with two human companions - college student Jason and small-town Sheriff, Mayra.As the sun's death draws near, Emily and her friends must race against time to save humanity. But before long it becomes clear that it's not only the species at stake, but also that which makes us most human.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Thriller", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40521855-emily-eternal"}, +{"book_title": "Aftershock", "author_name": "Jean Rabe", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 149, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "The troll known as Hood and his fellow Shadowrunners steal some biotechnological agriculture from the Plantech Corporation--only to find themselves framed for murder and tied to an even greater conspiracy.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489978.Aftershock"}, +{"book_title": "Before the Devil Breaks You", "author_name": "Libba Bray", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 13952, "review_number": 2706, "book_description": "New York City.1927.Lights are bright.Jazz is king.Parties are wild.And the dead are coming...After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten--ghosts who have unusual and dangerous ties to the man in the stovepipe hat, also known as the King of Crows.With terrible accounts of murder and possession flooding in from all over and New York City on the verge of panic, the Diviners must band together and brave the sinister ghosts invading the asylum, a fight that will bring them face-to-face with the King of Crows. But as the explosive secrets of the past come to light, loyalties and friendships will be tested, love will hang in the balance, and the Diviners will question all that they've ever known. All the while, malevolent forces gather from every corner in a battle for the very soul of a nation--a fight that could claim the Diviners themselves.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25985241-before-the-devil-breaks-you"}, +{"book_title": "The Lathe of Heaven", "author_name": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 53777, "review_number": 3932, "book_description": "A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes. The Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59924.The_Lathe_of_Heaven"}, +{"book_title": "The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks", "author_name": "Max Brooks", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 7384, "review_number": 433, "book_description": "Those who don\u2019t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. They\u2019 re coming. They\u2019re hungry.Don\u2019t wait for them to come to you! This is the graphic novel the fans demanded: major zombie attacks from the dawn of humanity. On the African savannas, against the legions of ancient Rome, on the high seas with Francis Drake . . . every civilization has faced them. Here are the grisly and heroic stories\u2013complete with eye-popping artwork that pulsates with the hideous faces of the undead. Organize before they rise!Scripted by the world\u2019s leading zombie authority, Max Brooks, Recorded Attacks reveals how other eras and cultures have dealt with\u2013and survived\u2013 the ancient viral plague. By immersing ourselves in past horror we may yet prevail over the coming outbreak in our time.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2574748-the-zombie-survival-guide"}, +{"book_title": "The Spawning", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1261, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Miranda had been snatched and packed for shipping so fast, she was still reeling with shock when the trader marched her and the other women hed kidnapped from Earth into the compound on the strange, alien world. She discovered that was only the beginning, however.The Hirachi were nearing their spawning season. When the massive, golden skinned, dark haired warriors marched from the sea, she learned that the trader had brought her and the others to sell them to the Hirachi as breeders.Rating: Carnaladult situations, frank language, graphic sexual encounters, multiple partners, spawning orgy, gang bang.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Menage (Multiple Partners)", "Menage (M F M)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4828172-the-spawning"}, +{"book_title": "Legionnaire", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 4724, "review_number": 365, "book_description": " The Galaxy is a Dumpster Fire A hot, stinking, dumpster fire. And most days I don\u2019t know if the legionnaires are putting out the flames, or fanning them into an inferno. A hostile force ambushes Victory Company during a reconnaissance-in-force deep inside enemy territory. Stranded behind enemy lines, a sergeant must lead a band of survivors against merciless insurgents on a deadly alien world somewhere along the galaxy\u2019s edge. With no room for error, the Republic\u2019s elite fighting force must struggle to survive under siege while waiting on a rescue that might never come. When you think you\u2019ve surrounded the Legion... you\u2019ve just made your last mistake. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35427016-legionnaire"}, +{"book_title": "Freefall", "author_name": "Andrea Speed", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 772, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds. Conceived bearing the lion strain of the virus, Roan is the only fully functioning virus child in the country\u2014maybe in the world. But that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s okay. He\u2019s still struggling with the death of his husband and the guilt of finding new love; his old enemy, the Church of the Divine Transformation, is becoming increasingly hostile; and he\u2019s taken on a tragic cold case involving a long-missing boy. As Roan fights to control the lion inside him, his world explodes with all kinds of trouble. The leader of the church is ramping up the violence against him, calling Roan out as a traitor to his kind. There\u2019s a loose infected terrorizing the city. And Holden, male prostitute and Roan\u2019s unofficial assistant, brings him a case involving the suspicious death of one of Holden\u2019s clients, which puts Roan far too close to a murderer for his state of mind.... 1st Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, November 2011", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23471919-freefall"}, +{"book_title": "From Time to Time", "author_name": "Jack Finney", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3978, "review_number": 369, "book_description": "Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again.Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship...the Titanic.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "New York", "Mystery", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72694.From_Time_to_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Fever Code", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 35519, "review_number": 3398, "book_description": "Once there was a world\u2019s end.The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled.Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man.Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy.The boy\u2019s name was Thomas, and Thomas built a maze.Now there are secrets.There are lies.And there are loyalties history could never have foreseen. This is the story of that boy, Thomas, and how he built a maze that only he could tear down.All will be revealed.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23267628-the-fever-code"}, +{"book_title": "Cibola Burn", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 68755, "review_number": 3814, "book_description": "The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey\u2019s New York Times bestselling Expanse seriesThe gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule.But Holden and his crew must also contend with the growing tensions between the settlers and the company which owns the official claim to the planet. Both sides will stop at nothing to defend what's theirs, but soon a terrible disease strikes and only Holden - with help from the ghostly Detective Miller - can find the cure.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18656030-cibola-burn"}, +{"book_title": "Exit 9", "author_name": "Brett Battles", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1203, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "From thriller and suspense master Brett Battles comes Exit Nine, the second book in the Project Eden thriller series.Before, it was just a test, a little demonstration to see if the virus worked. It did, and so much better than its creators could have ever hoped.But the testing phase is over. It\u2019s time for Project Eden to take the next step. If its members have their way, humanity is about to get a reboot.It\u2019s up to Daniel Ash and the others in the outnumbered resistance to keep the Project from severely downsizing mankind. But can their small force succeed in the face of a plan decades in the making?The human race had better hope so, because if Ash and his friends can\u2019t\u2026Praise for SICK, the first Project Eden Thriller:\u201cSICK didn\u2019t just hook me. It hit me with a devastating uppercut on every primal level as a parent, a father, and a human being.\u201d \u2014 Blake Crouch, author of RUN\u201cSICK is a a gem of an outbreak story that unfolds like a thriller movie and never lets up all the way to the last page. Absolutely my favorite kind of story!\u201d \u2014 John Maberry, New York Times bestselling author\u201cSICK not only grabs you by the throat, but by the heart and gut as well, and by the time you finish you feel as if you've just taken a runaway train through dangerous territory. Buy this book now. You won't regret it.\u201d\u2014Robert Browne, author of THE PARADISE PROPHECY.\u201cLike a fever, SICK makes you sweat and keeps you up all night, wondering what the hell is happening. It'll make your heart race like someone shot you with an EpiPen. You think Battles was badass before? He just cranked it up to 500 joules. CLEAR!\u201d\u2014popculturenerd.com\u201cSICK is Brett Battles at his best, a thriller that also chills, with a secret at its core that's almost too scary to be contained within the covers of a book.\u201d \u2014 Tim Hallinan, author of the Edgar nominated THE QUEEN OF PATPONG", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13264047-exit-9"}, +{"book_title": "Operation Shield", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 579, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Part military SF, part cyberpunk, part grand-scale space opera, and part techno-psychological thriller, the Cassandra Kresnov novels transcend the recently narrow segmentation of the science fiction genre.In 23 Years on Fire, Cassandra discovered that the technology that created her has been misused in her former home and now threatens all humanity with catastrophe. Returning home to Callay, she finds that Federation member worlds, exhausted by the previous thirty-year-war against the League, are unwilling to risk the confrontation that a solution may require. Some of these forces will go to any lengths to avoid a new conflict, including taking a sledgehammer to the Federation Constitution and threatening the removal by force of Cassandra's own branch of the Federal Security Agency.More frighteningly for Sandy, she has brought back to Callay three young children, whom she met on the mean streets of Droze, discovering maternal feelings she had not known she possessed. Can she reconcile her duty as a soldier, including what she must do as a tactician, with the dangers that those decisions will place upon her family--the one thing\u00a0that has come to mean more to her than any cause she now believes in?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18240281-operation-shield"}, +{"book_title": "William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back", "author_name": "Ian Doescher", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 4461, "review_number": 708, "book_description": "Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare\u2019s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare\u2019s The Empire Striketh Back and William Shakespeare\u2019s The Jedi Doth Return. Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Plays", "Fantasy", "Poetry", "Drama", "Humor (Comedy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18283020-william-shakespeare-s-the-empire-striketh-back"}, +{"book_title": "Solaris", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 75678, "review_number": 4038, "book_description": "A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Philosophy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Poland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95558.Solaris"}, +{"book_title": "Peace Force", "author_name": "Simon Haynes", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 633, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Harriet Walsh is desperate for work, but when an intergalactic crime-fighting organisation offers her a job she's convinced it's a mistake. She dislikes puzzles, has never read a detective mystery, and hates wearing uniforms. So why did the Peace Force pick her?Who cares? Harriet needs the money, and she's happy to go along with the training for as long as they keep paying her. She'd better dig out some of those detective mysteries though, because she's about to embark on her first real mission ...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Business (Amazon)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50094886-peace-force"}, +{"book_title": "The Way to Glory", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2521, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Violence racks Cinnabar. The fleets of the tyrannical Alliance are on the move, and at home class riots threaten to rip apart not only society but the Republic of Cinnabar Navy. Lt. Daniel Leary has earned promotion, but the needs of the Republic and the RCN require that he serve under an officer whose paranoia has already led him to execute crewmen out of hand. Signals Officer Adele Mundy has repeatedly proved her skills and loyalty as Cinnabar's most accomplished intelligence agent, but now elements within the Republic want to draw her into a conspiracy like the one that led to her parent's massacre. Leary and Mundy battle their way from riot-torn streets to spies in an outlying base and an anarchic planet where violence is the only law, but if they succeed at every stage, one test still remains: a space battle against an overwhelming Alliance force. Even for Daniel Leary it will be a difficult fight to win - and almost impossible to survive.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Action", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432115.The_Way_to_Glory"}, +{"book_title": "The Eternal Flame", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 753, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Greg Egan\u2019s The Clockwork Rocket introduced readers to an exotic universe where the laws of physics are very different from our own, where the speed of light varies in ways Einstein would never allow, and where intelligent life has evolved in unique and fascinating ways. Now Egan continues his epic tale of alien beings embarked on a desperate voyage to save their world . . . .The generation ship Peerless is in search of advanced technology capable of sparing their home planet from imminent destruction. In theory, the ship is traveling fast enough that it can traverse the cosmos for generations\u2013and still return home only a few years after they departed. But a critical fuel shortage threatens to cut their urgent voyage short, even as a population explosion stretches the ship\u2019s life-support capacity to its limits.When the astronomer Tamara discovers the Object, a meteor whose trajectory will bring it within range of the Peerless, she sees a risky solution to the fuel crisis. Meanwhile, the biologist Carlo searches for a better way to control fertility, despite the traditions and prejudices of their society. As the scientists clash with the ship\u2019s leaders, they find themselves caught up in two equally dangerous revolutions: one in the sexual roles of their species, the other in their very understanding of the nature of matter and energy.The Eternal Flame lights up the mind with dazzling new frontiers of physics and biology, as only Greg Egan could imagine them.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Politics", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11114494-the-eternal-flame"}, +{"book_title": "Contaminated", "author_name": "Em Garner", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1069, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "After the Contamination\u2014an epidemic caused by the super-trendy diet drink ThinPro that turned ordinary citizens into violent, uncontrollable creatures\u2014the government rounded up the \"Connies\" to protect the remaining population. Now, two years later, the rehabilitated are being allowed home, complete with shock collars that will either control, or kill, them.Velvet Ellis has struggled to care for her ten-year-old sister since her parents were taken in the round up. When she finds her mother in one of the \"Kennels,\" Velvet resolves to do whatever it takes to put her family back together. But the danger isn\u2019t over. It\u2019s beginning all over again\u2026Gritty and grabbing, Velvet is a harrowing, emotionally charged novel for fans of Carrie Ryan and The Walking Dead.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16238696-contaminated"}, +{"book_title": "Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 3229, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "It\u2019s Christmas again at St Mary's and time for Max\u2019s obligatory illegal jump. On this occasion, however, they\u2019re right up against it. A loaded gun has been left behind in Ancient Egypt and it\u2019s up to them to retrieve it before anyone accidentally blows their own head off, thus affecting the timeline for centuries to come. And as if that\u2019s not enough, someone (Max) has inadvertently poisoned Mr Markham. It\u2019s hot, they\u2019re running out of supplies, they can\u2019t find the gun, and it\u2019s all going horribly wrong. Again. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Humor", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26113116-ships-and-stings-and-wedding-rings"}, +{"book_title": "The Indwelling", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 26499, "review_number": 377, "book_description": "Nicolae Carpathia is dead. But who killed the Antichrist? The answer may surprise you. Book seven in the best-selling Left Behind series marks the beginning of the second half of the seven-year Tribulation period. In dramatic fashion, readers are exposed to the horrors of God's judgment and the hope of salvation. Rayford, Buck, Chloe, and the rest of the Tribulation Force find themselves at the center of heart-stopping action. Number one on the \"New York Times\" Best Sellers List for four weeks.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Fiction", "Christian", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)", "Religion (Faith)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85958.The_Indwelling"}, +{"book_title": "Wool", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 77633, "review_number": 4448, "book_description": "Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. There are things that must not be discussed. Like going outside. Never mention you might like going outside.Or you'll get what you wish for.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12287209-wool"}, +{"book_title": "Lord of Mountains", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2384, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "\u201c[A] gifted author,\u201d* S.M. Stirling created a fascinating neo-medieval world in his Novels of the Change where the remnants of humanity struggle to survive in a post-technological environment. Now, the New York Times bestselling epic continues as a king faces a challenge beyond the battlefield\u2026 Rudi Mackenize, now Artos the First, High King of Montival, and his allies have won several key battles against the Church Universal and Triumphant. But still the war rages on, taking countless lives, ravaging the land once known as the United States of America. Artos and his Queen, Mathilda, must unite the realms into a single kingdom to ensure a lasting peace. If the leaders of the Changed world are to accept Artos as their ruler, he will need to undertake a quest to the Lake at the Heart of the Mountains, and take part in a crowning ceremony\u2014a ceremony binding him to his people, his ancestors, and his land. Then, once he has secured his place and allegiances, Artos can go forward, and lead his forces to the heart of the enemy\u2019s territory\u2026 *San Francisco Book Review\u00a0", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13543199-lord-of-mountains"}, +{"book_title": "Sunshine", "author_name": "Alex Garland", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 306, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "The Sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope is a spaceship, a crew of eight men and women and a device which will breathe new life into the star. But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, the mission is starting to unravel. Soon the crew are fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Culture (Film)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/561699.Sunshine"}, +{"book_title": "Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution", "author_name": "P.W. Singer", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 843, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "An FBI agent teams up with the first police robot to hunt a shadowy terrorist in this gripping technothriller\u2014and fact-based tour of tomorrow\u2014from the authors of Ghost FleetAmerica is on the brink of a revolution. AI and robotics have realized science fiction\u2019s dreams, but have also taken millions of jobs and left many citizens fearful that the future is leaving them behind. After narrowly averting a bombing at Washington\u2019s Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field test the first police robot. In the wake of a series of shocking catastrophes, the two find themselves investigating a conspiracy whose mastermind is using cutting-edge tech to rip the nation apart. To stop this new breed of terrorist, Keegan\u2019s only hope is to forge a new kind of partnership. With every tech, trend, and scene drawn from the real world, Burn-In blends a technothriller\u2019s excitement with nonfiction\u2019s insight to illuminate the darkest corners of our chilling tomorrow.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51063478-burn-in"}, +{"book_title": "Balanced on the Blade's Edge", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 5570, "review_number": 487, "book_description": "Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn't the model of military professionalism - he has a tendency to say exactly what\u2019s on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship - but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he\u2019s used to a little leniency from his superiors. Until he punches the wrong diplomat in the nose and finds himself issued new orders: take command of a remote prison mine in the inhospitable Ice Blades Mountains. Ridge has never been in charge of anything larger than a flier squadron \u2014 what\u2019s he supposed to do with a frozen fortress full of murderers and rapists? Not to mention the strange woman who shows up right before he arrives...Sardelle Terushan wakes from three hundred years in a mage stasis shelter, only to realize that she is the last of the Referatu, the sorcerers who once helped protect Iskandia from conquerors. Their subterranean mountain community was blown up in a treacherous sneak attack by soldiers who feared their power. Everyone Sardelle ever knew is dead, and the sentient soulblade she has been bonded to since her youth is buried in the core of the mountain. Further, what remains of her home has been infested by bloodthirsty miners commanded by the descendants of the very soldiers who destroyed her people.Sardelle needs help to reach her soulblade \u2014 her only link to her past and her last friend in the world. Her only hope is to pretend she\u2019s one of the prisoners while trying to gain the commander\u2019s trust. But lying isn't her specialty, especially when the world has changed so much in the intervening centuries, and if Colonel Zirkander figures out who she truly is, he\u2019ll be duty-bound to sentence her to the only acceptable punishment for sorcerers: death.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21797289-balanced-on-the-blade-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Mockingjay", "author_name": "Suzanne Collins", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2012173, "review_number": 101751, "book_description": "My name is Katniss Everdeen.Why am I not dead?I should be dead.Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans\u2014except Katniss.The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay\u2014no matter what the personal cost.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7260188-mockingjay"}, +{"book_title": "The Virgin's Daughter", "author_name": "Laura Andersen", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 835, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Since the death of her brother, William, Elizabeth I has ruled England. She\u2019s made the necessary alliances, married Philip of Spain, and produced a successor: her only daughter, Anne Isabella, Princess of Wales. Elizabeth knows that her beloved Anabel will be a political pawn across Europe unless she can convince Philip to grant her a divorce, freeing him to remarry and give Spain its own heir. But the enemies of England have even greater plans for the princess, a plot that will put Anabel\u2019s very life and the security of the nation in peril. Only those closest to Elizabeth\u2014her longtime confidante Minuette, her advisor and friend Dominic, and the couple\u2019s grown children\u2014can be trusted to carry forth a most delicate and dangerous mission. Yet, all of the queen\u2019s maneuverings may ultimately prove her undoing.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "English History (Tudor Period)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Adult", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23012505-the-virgin-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Written in My Own Heart's Blood", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 97445, "review_number": 7139, "book_description": "It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that have to be accommodated.Her former husband, Jamie, has returned from the dead, demanding to know why in his absence she married his best friend, Lord John Grey. Lord John's son, the ninth Earl of Ellesmere, is no less shocked to discover that his real father is actually the newly resurrected Jamie Fraser, and Jamie's nephew Ian Murray discovers that his new-found cousin has an eye for the woman who has just agreed to marry him.And while Claire is terrified that one of her husbands may be about to murder the other, in the 20th century her descendants face even more desperate turns of events. Her daughter Brianna is trying to protect her son from a vicious criminal with murder on his mind, while her husband Roger has disappeared into the past . . .", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11710373-written-in-my-own-heart-s-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Killing Time", "author_name": "Linda Howard", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 6003, "review_number": 297, "book_description": "Returning to the entrancing supernatural territory of her popular novels Dream Man and Son of the Morning, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard has written a sizzling new novel that is her most daring, exciting, and original yet. In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home\u2013with no sign of forced entry or indication of a struggle. One by one, others who had placed items in the time capsule are murdered.Besides his suspicions about the sudden, mysterious appearance of Nikita Stover, the chief investigator, Knox Davis, has absolutely no leads. And while Nikita\u2019s no murderer, she seems to be hiding plenty of secrets. With more at stake than anyone else realizes, the smart-talking Nikita is determined to catch this cunning killer\u2013while at the same time battling her own deepening feelings for a man and for a world in which she doesn\u2019t belong. When readers crave a seductive novel of unrelenting suspense with a paranormal twist, Linda Howard delivers time and again . . . make that Killing Time\u2013a captivating, character-rich story that races along on a breathless plot full of action and intimacy, romance and danger, thrills and intrigue.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Suspense", "Mystery", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216855.Killing_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Audran Sequence", "author_name": "George Alec Effinger", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 36, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "3 novels in one hardcover edition.When Gravity Fall, A Fire in the Sun, The Exile's Kiss. \"In the 23rd century, when plug-in personality modules are as easy to obtain as gender reassignment, pleasures are cheap and death is easy. Marid Audran has kept his independence the hard way, selling his detection skills in the slums of the Budayeen. By his standards, it's a comfortable life. But his hard-won freedom is about to be tested ...\"--Jacket.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7347941-the-audran-sequence"}, +{"book_title": "The Songs of Distant Earth", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 14189, "review_number": 612, "book_description": "Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise\u2014home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth.Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the colonists lived an idyllic existence, unaware of the monumental evolutionary event slowly taking place beneath their seas...Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. And suddenly uncertainty and change had come to the placid paradise that was Thalassa.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Novels", "Space", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117842.The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Homeworld", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 7178, "review_number": 234, "book_description": "War comes home to the Sol system when the Drasin track a human ship back to Earth, with devastating consequences. Facing massive force of invading alien ships wielding terrible power, the crew of the NAC spacecraft, their allies, and the people of Earth must mount a desperate effort to stop them.Doomed from the start, but with nowhere to retreat, Captain Eric Weston commits his ship to the defense of the human race even as the human outposts in Sol system fall one by one before the unrelenting Drasin onslaught.A first-rate military science fiction epic that combines old-school space opera and modern storytelling, Homeworld: Odyssey One, the third installment of the Odyssey One Series, continues the exhilarating, hard-pressed action as the Captain Weston faces an overwhelming enemy threatening not just his ship and crew, but the future of Earth as well.\u00a92013 Evan Currie (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18043147-homeworld"}, +{"book_title": "To Beat the Devil", "author_name": "M.K. Gibson", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 239, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.175 years have passed since God quit on mankind. Without his blessing, Hell itself, along with the ancient power of The Deep, were unleashed upon the world. Two world wars and oceans of blood later, a balance was reached. Demonkind took its place as the ruling aristocracy. Mankind, thanks to its ability to create, fell to the position of working proletariat. Alive, but not living. Lucky Us. Welcome to New Golgotha, the East Coast supercity. In it you will find sins and cyborgs, magic and mystery, vices without virtue and hell without the hope of heaven. In the middle of it all is Salem, smuggler extraordinaire and recluse immortal, who has lived and fought through the last two centuries, but his biggest battle is just beginning. To Beat The Devil: A technomancer Novel is an incredible adventure full of cyborgs and demons, gods, magic, guns, puns and whiskey, humor and heart. Follow Salem as he embarks to discover the meaning of the very nature of what mankind is: our souls. And, who is trying to steal them.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29612638-to-beat-the-devil"}, +{"book_title": "The Engines of God", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 8521, "review_number": 528, "book_description": "Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery in the far reaches of the solar system: a huge statue of an alien creature, with an inscription that defied all efforts at translation. Now, as faster-than-light drive opens the stars to exploration, humans are finding other relics of the race they call the Monument-Makers - each different, and each heartbreakingly beautiful. But except for a set of footprints on Jupiter's moon Iapetus, there is no trace of the enigmatic race that has left them behind. Then a team of scientists working on a dead world discover an ominous new image of the Monument-Makers. Somehow it all fits with other lost civilizations, and possibly with Earth's own future. And distant past. But Earth itself is on the brink of ecological disaster - there is no time to search for answers. Even to a question that may hold the key to survival for the entire human race...", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337048.The_Engines_of_God"}, +{"book_title": "In the Country of Last Things", "author_name": "Paul Auster", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 11767, "review_number": 893, "book_description": "A dystopian epistolary novel. In the Country of Last Things takes the form of a letter from a young woman named Anna Blume to a childhood friend. Anna has ventured into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder. In this bleak environment, no industry takes place and most of the population collects garbage or scavenges for objects to resell. City governments are unstable and are concerned only with collecting human waste and corpses for fuel. Anna has entered the city to search for her brother William, a journalist, and it is suggested that the Blumes come from a world to the East which has not collapsed.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Literature", "The United States Of America", "Contemporary", "American (Americana)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19486.In_the_Country_of_Last_Things"}, +{"book_title": "Under the Amoral Bridge", "author_name": "Gary Ballard", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 371, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Artemis Bridge is the know-to, go-to guy, the amoral fixer in 2028 Los Angeles with the connection for any illicit desire no matter how depraved. He prides himself on remaining above it all, but when an associate dies in his arms, he is burdened with a damaging video of the current mayor he can't sell or trade. With assassins dogging his every step, he has only days before the corrupt mayor is re-elected, handing Chronosoft corporation complete control. This taut futuristic thriller is the debut novel by Gary A. Ballard, originally published serially on the World Wide Web.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6944712-under-the-amoral-bridge"}, +{"book_title": "The Rain", "author_name": "Joseph A. Turkot", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 576, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "There are a lot of stories about how the rain started. The thing that always comes to mind first isn\u2019t the how though, it\u2019s the how much. Russell still does the math too: 15, 5,400, and 8,550. 15 inches a day, 5,400 a year, and 8,550 feet since the start. We have no idea if it\u2019s accurate. But it\u2019s important to think about it, he says, because it reminds us to keep moving. I\u2019m Tanner. Russell plucked me from the rain when I was two. Fourteen years ago we left Philadelphia. As the water rose, we moved west, hoping the elevation would keep us warm and dry. Pittsburg, Indianapolis, Sioux Falls, Rapid City. Now we\u2019re stranded on the islands in Wyoming. Russell thinks they used to be the Bighorn mountains. But we can\u2019t go back now. There\u2019s no warm and there\u2019s no dry anymore. Just a rumor about a place where it isn't raining. So we\u2019re going to try to make it\u2014520 miles south to Leadville. But we can\u2019t drift east, the Great Plains have become waterspout alley, a raging tomb of moving water. Together we push on, surviving, heading to Leadville. But something is wrong with him now. He says it\u2019s nothing. But his breathing doesn\u2019t sound that way. Exposure, pruned hands, and infection. But since, Rapid City, it\u2019s the face eaters too. And the crack in the canoe that\u2019s growing. And the ice I think I see on the water. Russell thinks it\u2019s my imagination. We cling to the last strips of the veneer. And each other.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20694827-the-rain"}, +{"book_title": "The Children's Hospital", "author_name": "Chris Adrian", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2886, "review_number": 560, "book_description": "A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children's Hospital is a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Magical Realism", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Literature", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53169.The_Children_s_Hospital"}, +{"book_title": "Heroic Abduction", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1323, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "He\u2019ll do anything to be her knight in purple armor.Bucking family tradition, Dyre is determined to become his planet\u2019s first hero, even if it breaks his mother\u2019s heart. He sets out on numerous quests to save the universe, however his altruism never seems to turn out quite as expected. Who knew doing the right thing was so hard?In between saving those who don\u2019t want his help\u2014and the chaos that follows\u2014he rescues a damsel in distress. She doesn\u2019t appreciate his heroic abduction, and even worse, once Dyre gets to know the outspoken human, he entertains less than noble thoughts about ravishing her.It takes only a couple of comical mishaps, some hot kisses and danger for Dyre and Betty to discover their happily ever after\u2014and thank the stars for a heroine who ends up saving this hero, and the galaxy, from his chivalrous side.Genre: Science Fiction / Alien/ Fantasy RomanceHe\u2019s big, he\u2019s purple and he wants to be a hero, not a mercenary. Too bad he\u2019s got bad genes working against him.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21797155-heroic-abduction"}, +{"book_title": "Physik", "author_name": "Angie Sage", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 50434, "review_number": 1328, "book_description": "The third book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard.New York Times Bestselling Series\"Few fans of the best-selling Septimus Heap series will be disappointed.\" --ALA Booklist\"Readers will be indubitably hooked--worrying, laughing, and gasping over the nonstop adventures of this engaging troupe.\" --VOYA (Starred Review)When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself everlasting life requires Jenna's compliance, Septimus's disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician. And if Queen Etheldredda's plot involves Jenna and Septimus, then it will surely involve Nicko, Alther Mella, Marcia Overstrand, Beetle, Stanley, Sarah, Silas, Spit Fyre, Aunt Zelda, and all of the other wacky, wonderful characters that made Magyk and Flyte so memorable.With heart-stopping action and a dash of humor, Angie Sage continues the fantastical journey of Septimus Heap.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/355916.Physik"}, +{"book_title": "Metaltown", "author_name": "Kristen Simmons", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 804, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "Metaltown, where factories rule, food is scarce, and hope is in short supply.The rules of Metaltown are simple: Work hard, keep your head down, and watch your back. You look out for number one, and no one knows that better than Ty. She\u2019s been surviving on the factory line as long as she can remember. But now Ty has Colin. She\u2019s no longer alone; it\u2019s the two of them against the world. That\u2019s something even a town this brutal can\u2019t take away from her. Until it does.Lena\u2019s future depends on her family\u2019s factory, a beast that demands a ruthless master, and Lena is prepared to be as ruthless as it takes if it means finally proving herself to her father. But when a chance encounter with Colin, a dreamer despite his circumstances, exposes Lena to the consequences of her actions, she\u2019ll risk everything to do what\u2019s right.In Lena, Ty sees an heiress with a chip on her shoulder. Colin sees something more. In a world of disease and war, tragedy and betrayal, allies and enemies, all three of them must learn that challenging what they thought was true can change all the rules.An enthralling story of friendship and rebellion, Metaltown will have you believing in the power of hope.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604051-metaltown"}, +{"book_title": "Once Upon a Space-Time", "author_name": "Jeffrey Brown", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Jide and Petra are just two normal kids until they are selected to leave Earth and join their new alien classmates on an intergalactic research mission to Mars. Too bad Petra has no idea how she ended up in the program, seeing as the closest she wants to get to space is being a sci-fi writer. Jide, on the other hand, is the brains of the mission, but his helicopter parents make it clear he hasn't left their gravitational pull behind quite yet.What is meant to be an intra-species bonding experience soon turns to hijinx as the kids discover The Potato orbiting around their new space classroom and accidentally launch a mission of their own without any adult commanders around to supervise--or help!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Humor", "Adventure", "Space", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48710106-once-upon-a-space-time"}, +{"book_title": "What Would Jane Austen Do", "author_name": "Laurie Brown", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 1666, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "Surely Jane Austen would know how to handle such a rake... From the author of Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, a new time travel romance featuring a modern day career woman swept back in time to Regency England, where she thwarts a Napoleonic spy, chats with Jane Austen, and falls in love with a notorious rake. Eleanor is a costume designer in England for the Jane Austen festival, where her room at the inn is haunted. In the middle of the night she encounters two ghost sisters whose brother was killed in a duel over 200 years ago. They persuade her to travel back in time with them to prevent the duel. Eleanor is swept into a country house party, presided over by the charming Lord Shermont, where she encounters and befriends Jane Austen. But there's much more to Lord Shermont than the ghosts knew, and as Eleanor dances and flirts with him, she begins to lose her heart.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Regency)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6101789-what-would-jane-austen-do"}, +{"book_title": "Zero History", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 13768, "review_number": 1110, "book_description": "Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she\u2019s broke, and Bigend has just the thing to get her back in the game... Milgrim can disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic\u2014so much so that he spoke it with his therapist in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of his addiction... Garreth doesn't owe Bigend a thing. But he does have friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors powerful people need when things go sideways... They all have something Bigend wants as he finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift, after a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy they can out-Bigend Bigend himself(source: amazon)", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7745031-zero-history"}, +{"book_title": "Flash Gold", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2838, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "Eighteen-year-old Kali McAlister enters her steam-powered \"dogless sled\" in a race, intending to win the thousand-dollar prize and escape remote Moose Hollow forever. The problem? Fortune seekers and airship pirates are after her for the secret to flash gold, her late father's alchemical masterpiece. With her modified rifle and a pocketful of home-made smoke bombs, Kali wouldn't normally hide from a confrontation, but taking on a whole airship single-handedly is a daunting task. Unfortunately, the other racers won't assist her--they're too busy scheming ways to sabotage her unorthodox sled.When a sword-slinging stranger shows up, wanting to hire on as her protector, she's sure he has ulterior motives, but he's the only one interested in helping her. The question is...why?Details: an 18,000-word (75 page) steampunk novella set in the Yukon during the gold rush era.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fiction", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10954141-flash-gold"}, +{"book_title": "Use of Weapons", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 40443, "review_number": 1807, "book_description": "The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, USE OF WEAPONS is a masterpiece of science fiction.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural", "Fantasy", "Space", "War", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12007.Use_of_Weapons"}, +{"book_title": "Vick's Vultures", "author_name": "Scott Warren", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 640, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "In the far future, alien technology captured by the Union Earth Privateers has fueled Earth\u2019s tenuous expansion from a single planet to a handful of systems across the Orion Spur. Victoria Marin, captain of the U.E. Condor, and her crew of Vultures have been running dry for months. In danger of losing her command and her credibility if she can\u2019t locate fresh salvage, she locks onto the distress signal of an alien ship in hopes of valuable cargo. What she finds instead is First Prince Tavram, the heir apparent to one of the largest empires in known space. Tavram\u2019s ship has been crippled after narrowly escaping an ambush and his would-be assassin is coming to finish the job.The Vultures launch a high risk mission to rescue the prince and recover every last scrap of xenotech they can before the hunter catches up to his prey. But there are more dangers than notorious interstellar assassins when it comes to ferrying an alien prince across the stars, and Victoria must contend with dangerous alliances, old grudges, and even her own government if she means to bring her crew home alive. Whether she succeeds or fails, the consequences of her choices will affect the path of all humanity.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31299516-vick-s-vultures"}, +{"book_title": "Hidden Empire", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 7919, "review_number": 527, "book_description": "In the far future, Ildirans give Earth the stardrive. Two archaeologists glean forbidden knowledge from the ruins of a dead world. Robot servants of ruling insectoid Klikiss guard the Klikiss Torch, which has the power to create suns. The reasons for the fall of the Klikiss empire may return.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898232.Hidden_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "A Rising Thunder", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 8386, "review_number": 302, "book_description": "Peril and strife strike on a double front for Honor Harrington and company. After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington and the Star Kingdom she serves battle back against a new, technologically powerful, and utterly nefarious enemy. And as if that weren't task enough, Honor must also face down a centuries-old nemesis in the crumbling, but still mighty, Solarian League.The war between the People's Republic of Haven and the Star Kingdom is finally won and peace established, but grave danger looms -- for there is a plan well on its way to completion designed to enslave the entire human species. Behind that plan lies the shadowy organization known as the Mesan Alignment.Task number one for Honor is to defend against another devastating Mesan strike -- a strike that may well spell the doom of the Star Kingdom in one fell blow. It is time to shut down and secure the wormhole network that is the source of the Star Kingdom's wealth and power -- but also its greatest vulnerability. Yet this is an act that the Earth-based Solarian League inevitably will take as a declaration of war.The thunder of battle rolls as the Solarian League directs its massive power against the Star Kingdom. And once again, Honor Harrington is thrust into a desperate battle that she must win if she is to survive to take the fight to the real enemy of galactic freedom -- the insidious puppetmasters of war who lurk behind the Mesan Alignment!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12269981-a-rising-thunder"}, +{"book_title": "King's Cage", "author_name": "Victoria Aveyard", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 136373, "review_number": 11886, "book_description": "In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard\u2019s bestselling Red Queen series, allegiances are tested on every side. And when the Lightning Girl's spark is gone, who will light the way for the rebellion?Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother's web in an attempt to maintain control over his country\u2014and his prisoner.As Mare bears the weight of Silent Stone in the palace, her once-ragtag band of newbloods and Reds continue organizing, training, and expanding. They prepare for war, no longer able to linger in the shadows. And Cal, the exiled prince with his own claim on Mare's heart, will stop at nothing to bring her back.When blood turns on blood, and ability on ability, there may be no one left to put out the fire\u2014leaving Norta as Mare knows it to burn all the way down.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30226723-king-s-cage"}, +{"book_title": "Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 3145, "review_number": 290, "book_description": "When a visitor from the outside world arrives on the Farm, looking for the Black Hammer and bringing news of Spiral City to its Golden Age heroes, everything changes. Her arrival stirs up old memories and awakens new hope in the marooned heroes and they make a new attempt to escape their strange prison.COLLECTS: Black Hammer 7-11, 13", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34954925-black-hammer-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Remembrance", "author_name": "Jude Deveraux", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 7358, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "Bestselling romance writer Hayden Lane has found her soul mate - or rather, created him: he's her latest fictional hero. And she's totally obsessed with him. Barely noticing when her real-life fiance breaks their engagement, she visits a psychic to learn more about him - and is told that in a past life Hayden was Lady de Grey, a promiscuous woman of Edwardian England. Hayden can't resist submitting to a hypnotist's magic. But the trick goes wrong, and instead of merely remembering her past as Lady de Grey, Hayden is living it. Now she will discover quite a different story about a woman history considered a trollop, a spectacular, brooding man, and the rapturous love that would be hers if she dared open her heart to the most mysterious adventure of all.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251953.Remembrance"}, +{"book_title": "Utopia", "author_name": "Thomas More", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 60820, "review_number": 2954, "book_description": "Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a satirical work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478\u20131535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society as described by the character Raphael Hythloday who lived there some years, who describes and its religious, social and political customs.", "year_published": 1516, "genres": ["Classics", "Philosophy", "Fiction", "Politics", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Academic (School)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Utopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18414.Utopia"}, +{"book_title": "Code Monkey Save World", "author_name": "Greg Pak", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 216, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "A graphic novel based on the songs of Jonathan Coulton, written by Greg Pak and drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Music", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Computer Science (Computers)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20500635-code-monkey-save-world"}, +{"book_title": "Losing Me Finding You", "author_name": "Natalie Ward", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2068, "review_number": 298, "book_description": "The 29th of February, the day I was born.When I wake up on this day, I\u2019m in a different city, with a different life and no memory of the lives I had before this one. Today is the tenth time this has happened to me. The tenth time I\u2019ve had to figure out where the hell I am. The tenth time I\u2019ve had to try and work out who the hell I am. This is the tenth alteration of the person I am. Each of us has had different lives, different backgrounds and different families. But there\u2019s always been one constant.Him.He\u2019s the reason I keep doing this. He\u2019s the reason I spend four years searching. If I\u2019m lucky, I\u2019ll get the trigger and find him quickly and we can spend those four years together before I disappear again. If I\u2019m not, we might get a year, a month or even just a day. Once we got nothing, but that was a choice. And every time it happens, he patiently waits for me. He says that every time I come back to him, it\u2019s like falling in love with me all over again. I say that every time I come back, I fall even more in love with him than before.It scares me that one day I won't be able to find him at all, because when that day comes, I'm not sure I'll want to keep going. He is my strength, my protector, my one and only constant.I love him.He loves me.But every four years, I lose myself. And every four years, I have to find him.This is our story.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "New Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21777373-losing-me-finding-you"}, +{"book_title": "WebMage", "author_name": "Kelly McCullough", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 2569, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "Ravirn is not your average computer geek. A child of the Fates\u2014literally\u2014he\u2019s a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Now that twenty-first-century magic has gone digital that makes him a very talented sorcerer. But a world of problems is about to be downloaded on Ravirn\u2014who\u2019s just trying to pass his college midterms.Great Aunt Atropos, one of the three Fates, decides that humans having free will is really overrated and plans to rid herself of the annoyance\u2014by coding a spell into the Fate Core, the server that rules destiny. As a hacker, Ravirn is a big believer in free will, and when he not only refuses to debug her spell but actively opposes her, all hell breaks loose.Even with the help of his familiar Melchior, a sexy sorceress (who\u2019s also a mean programmer), and the webgoblin underground, it\u2019s going to be a close call...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Mythology (Gods)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/975638.WebMage"}, +{"book_title": "Seeing With The Heart", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 867, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Braxx is a Beast Kindred with a painful past. A traumatic crash stole his brother and his bride from him and left half of his face horribly scarred. Desperate to avoid the pitying and disgusted looks he gets whenever he goes out, he takes a job as a scout, travelling across the universe to find new trade partners and power sources for the Kindred. He thinks he'll never love again until he comes back to Earth and meets Molly.Dr. Molly Reynaud has a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology. She's also completely blind and has been since a car accident stole both her parents and her sight at the age of sixteen. Chosen to do a field study on the elusive Tal'ossi people from Tal'os Trenta, she doesn\u2019t expect to have feelings for the Kindred warrior who is supposed to guard her there. But she can't seem to help the instant connection she feels to Braxx and she knows he feels the same for her.But he's scarred on the inside too and he tells himself such a perfect female isn't for him.Then the unthinkable happens--Molly is kidnapped by the Deep Dwellers of Tal'ossi and taken down to the subterranean depths as a bride for their leader. Braxx must go after her and suddenly the idea of claiming turns from a wish to a necessity.Can Braxx overcome his tragic past and save the woman he loves? And can Molly convince him they belong together? Both of them will have to practice Seeing with the Heart or they will be parted forever\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36051627-seeing-with-the-heart"}, +{"book_title": "The Gates of Sleep", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 8085, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "For seventeen years, Marina Roeswood had lived in an old, rambling farmhouse in rural Cornwall in the care of close friends of her wealthy, aristocratic parents. As the ward of bohemian artists in Victorian England, she had grown to be a free thinker in an environment of fertile creativity and cultural sophistication. But the real core of her education was far outside societal norms. For she and her foster parents were Elemental Masters of magic, and learning to control her growing powers was Marina's primary focus. But though Marina's life seemed idyllic, her existence was riddled with mysteries. Why, for example, had she never seen her parents, or been to Oakhurst, her family's ancestral manor? And why hadn't her real parents, also Elemental Masters, trained her themselves? That there was a secret about all this she had known from the time she had begun to question the world around her. Yet try as she might, she could get no clues out of her guardians. But Marina would have answers to her questions all too soon. For with the sudden death of her birth parents, Marina met her new guardian- her father's eldest sister Arachne. Aunt Arachne exuded a dark magical aura unlike anything Marina had encountered, a stifling evil that seemed to threaten Marina's very spirit. Slowly Marina realized that her aunt was the embodiment of the danger her parents had been hiding her from in the backwoods of Cornwall. But could Marina unravel the secrets of her life in time to save herself from the evil that had been seeking her for nearly eighteen years?", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176876.The_Gates_of_Sleep"}, +{"book_title": "Seen", "author_name": "A.M. Arthur", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 846, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "\nAn Omegaverse Story\nHell is a six-by-six jail cell and no hope for the future. Kell Iverson has never raised his hand against another person in his entire life\u2014and yet somehow he\u2019s been arrested and charged with the murder of his alpha mate Krause. Sure, Krause brutalized him on a daily basis, and Kell hated his mate, but he never wanted the man dead. Not fighting the charge and accepting his fate is the easiest path\u2014except Kell doesn\u2019t think he\u2019ll survive a week in prison, and he doesn\u2019t want to disappoint his younger brother Braun by giving up. He also doesn\u2019t expect to recognize the lawyer who shows up to defend him. Ronin Cross was barely eighteen when he felt the mating bond with then-fourteen-year-old Kell, but his family moved away before Ronin could decide what to do. For the last ten years, he hasn\u2019t forgotten teenage Kell, hasn\u2019t mated, and now he\u2019s in Sansbury Province to defend adult Kell from a capital murder charge. The mating bond is still there, but now isn\u2019t the time to pursue anything with his fragile, battered, emotionally-damaged client. For Kell, the term \u201ckind alpha\u201d is a contradiction, because he\u2019s never known one. He went from abusive father to abusive mate, and for twenty-four years, he\u2019s simply done what he\u2019s told. But Ronin asks Kell what he wants. What he likes. Ronin sees him, and it\u2019s both confusing and delightful. But Kell is facing prison time at best, execution at worst, and as his trial date looms, he can\u2019t indulge in a fantasy that will never come true\u2026or can he? NOTE: This is a non-shifter Omegaverse story with alpha/omega/beta dynamics, heats, knotting, and mpreg. In this world, omegas are second-class citizens with few civil rights and almost no protections under the law. Trigger warnings for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Family", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36281352-seen"}, +{"book_title": "Fuse", "author_name": "Julianna Baggott", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 8622, "review_number": 884, "book_description": "We want our son returned. This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time.To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations that scarred the earth and sheltered inside the paradise that is the Dome. But Partridge escaped to the outside world, where Wretches struggle to survive amid smoke and ash. Now, at the command of Partridge\u2019s father, the Dome is unleashing nightmare after nightmare upon the Wretches in an effort to get him back.At Partridge\u2019s side is a small band of those united against the Dome: Lyda, the warrior; Bradwell, the revolutionary; El Capitan, the guard; and Pressia, the young woman whose mysterious past ties her to Partridge in way she never could have imagined. Long ago a plan was hatched that could mean the earth\u2019s ultimate doom. Now only Partridge and Pressia can set things right.To save millions of innocent lives, Partridge must risk his own by returning to the Dome and facing his most terrifying challenge. And Pressia, armed only with a mysterious Black Box, containing a set of cryptic clues, must travel to the very ends of the earth, to a place where no map can guide her. If they succeed, the world will be saved. But should they fail, humankind will pay a terrible price...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9752754-fuse"}, +{"book_title": "The Ibarra Sanction", "author_name": "Richard Fox", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 821, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Once, the Ibarras saved Earth and all of humanity from utter destruction. Now they are fugitives and traitors hunted by the Terran Union\u2019s mightiest warriors. After fleeing with a stolen armada, the Ibarra family have finally emerged from hiding and are scouring the galaxy for an ancient alien legacy, destroying any who get in their way. For armor soldier Roland Shaw, the call to put down the Ibarra mutiny is a bitter task as he and the Iron Dragoons come face to face with the Ibarras in order to discover if they are truly their friends or their most deadly foe.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36127841-the-ibarra-sanction"}, +{"book_title": "Judas Unchained", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 32774, "review_number": 1243, "book_description": "Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare. Coexistence is impossible with the technologically advanced aliens, who are genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. Twenty-three planets have already fallen to the invaders, with casualties in the hundreds of millions. And no one knows when or where the genocidal Prime will strike next. Nor are the Prime the only threat. For more than a hundred years, a shadowy cult, the Guardians of Selfhood, has warned that an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist -- the Starflyer -- has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth. Branded as terrorists, the Guardians and their leader, Bradley Johansson, have been hunted by relentless investigator Paula Myo. But now evidence suggests that the Guardians were right all along, and that the Starflyer has placed agents in vital posts throughout the Commonwealth -- agents who are now sabotaging the war effort. Is the Starflyer an ally of the Prime, or has it orchestrated a fight to the death between the two species for its own advantage? Caught between two deadly enemies, one a brutal invader striking from without, the other a remorseless cancer killing from within, the fractious Commonwealth must unite as never before...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Epic", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45244.Judas_Unchained"}, +{"book_title": "\u014coku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 4", "author_name": "Fumi Yoshinaga", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 621, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Reads R to L (Japanese Style). In this 17th Century Japan the Shogun is a woman...and the harem is full of men. Despite Iemitsu and Arikoto's best efforts, there is no male heir to take over the shogunate. As the Redface Pox continues to ravage the country, it becomes increasingly clear within Edo Castle that Japan's continued existence relies on overturning the centuries of custom that define it!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Manga (Josei)", "Fiction", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7326748-oku"}, +{"book_title": "Defy the Stars", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 10124, "review_number": 1925, "book_description": "She's a soldier - Noemi Vidal is willing to risk anything to protect her planet, Genesis, including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel.He's a machine - Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel's advanced programming has begun to evolve. He wants only to protect his creator, and to be free. To the people of Genesis, he's an abomination.Noemi and Abel are enemies in an interstellar war, forced by chance to work together as they embark on a daring journey through the stars. Their efforts would end the fighting for good, but they're not without sacrifice. The stakes are even higher than either of them first realized, and the more time they spend together, the more they're forced to question everything they'd been taught was true.Fast-paced, romantic, and captivating, Defy The Stars is a story about what it means to be human, about deciding what you truly believe in, and about finding your place in a dangerous world.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31423196-defy-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Rule of Two", "author_name": "Drew Karpyshyn", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 16741, "review_number": 598, "book_description": "In the New York Times bestseller Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Drew Karpyshyn painted a gripping portrait of a young mans journey from innocence to evil. That man was Darth Bane, a twisted genius whose iron will, fierce ambition, and strength in the dark side of the Force made him a natural leader among the Sith until his radical embrace of an all-but-forgotten wisdom drove him to destroy his own order . . . and create it anew from the ashes. As the last surviving Sith, Darth Bane promulgated a harsh new directive: the Rule of Two.Two there should be; no more, no less.One to embody the power, the other to crave it.Now Darth Bane is ready to put his policy into action, and he thinks he has found the key element that will make his triumph complete: a student to train in the ways of the dark side. Though she is young, Zannah possesses an instinctive link to the dark side that rivals his own. With his guidance, she will become essential in his quest to destroy the Jedi and dominate the galaxy.But there is one who is determined to stop Darth Bane: Johun Othone, Padawan to Jedi Master Lord Hoth, who died at Banes hands in the last great Sith War. Though the rest of the Jedi scoff at him, Joshuas belief that there are surviving Sith on the loose is unshakeable.As Johun continues his dogged pursuit of the man who killed his master, Zannah, faced unexpectedly with a figure from her past, begins to question her embrace of the dark side. And Darth Bane is led by Force-induced visions to a moon where he will acquire astonishing new knowledge and power, power that will alter him in ways he could never have imagined. . . .", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1347837.Rule_of_Two"}, +{"book_title": "Atomic Robo: The Ghost of Station X", "author_name": "Brian Clevinger", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 654, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Forget volume 1 - this is the perfect place to start your Atomic Robo adventures, since every collection stands alone in any reading order. In this tale, Robo is the only hope to save astronauts trapped in a rapidly deteriorating orbit. And when he gets there? Things go from utterly doomed to Aaaauuuugh", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Pulp", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13628588-atomic-robo"}, +{"book_title": "Enigma", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1793, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "After surviving ancient booby traps, deadly puzzles, and torture-happy imperial marines, cryptanalyst Tikaya Komitopis can\u2019t wait to return home, even if that means explaining to her family how she came to love Fleet Admiral Rias Starcrest, the empire\u2019s most notorious commander and the man responsible for the decimation of her people during the war.Tikaya and Rias believe they\u2019ll have several calm weeks at sea to mull over the problem of irate citizens and horrified parents, but the ship they board is on the run. The captain has acquired a mysterious stolen artifact\u2026 and the owners want it back. When he learns of Tikaya\u2019s background, he urges her to decode its secrets, implying her life\u2014and everyone else\u2019s\u2014might be forfeit if she fails.Engima is a 15,000-word short story set after the events in Encrypted.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Novella", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16134259-enigma"}, +{"book_title": "Osama", "author_name": "Lavie Tidhar", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 1041, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "Lavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 King\u2019s Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks\u2014experiences that led first to his memorable short story \u201cMy Travels with Al-Qaeda\u201d and later to the creation of Osama.\u201cIn a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...\u201d\u201cJoe\u2019s quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books is fiction? Chased by unknown assailants, Joe\u2019s identity slowly fragments as he discovers the shadowy world of the refugees, ghostly entities haunting the world in which he lives. Where do they come from? And what do they want? Joe knows how the story should end, but even he is not ready for the truths he\u2019ll find in New York and, finally, on top a quiet hill above Kabul\u2014nor for the choice he will at last have to make...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12253064-osama"}, +{"book_title": "Executed", "author_name": "R.R. Haywood", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 6930, "review_number": 369, "book_description": "The team of heroes extracted from their timelines to stop the impending apocalypse didn\u2019t think they needed a leader.But they\u2019ve got one anyway.With their mission in tatters, Miri has been called in to steady the ship. And to focus them on their assignment: preventing the end of the world.The problem is, the world doesn\u2019t know it\u2019s in danger. With governments pursuing them relentlessly, attempting to steal the time-travel device to use for their own ends, the heroes are on the run\u2014fighting for survival in a world they\u2019re supposed to save.Meanwhile, Miri has motives of her own. And when the existence of a second device is discovered, the team\u2019s mission and their lives are in mortal danger\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34037955-executed"}, +{"book_title": "Engulf", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 989, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "For a year Abri and five other women have found themselves trapped on a lonely planet, after their shuttle crashes on its way to Ulsy. They have fled Earth and the fiery rubble it has become. The crash has left Abri deaf and hurting with her aloneness. When sound becomes nothing, her other senses heighten, especially when they encounter two huge, handsome aliens.Raiden has seen human women, but on his planet females are few and far between. He and his warrior mate, Cace, can\u2019t believe their good luck when they stumble across six of them on a deserted planet. The little deaf female, Abri, catches Raiden\u2019s heart the moment her essence seeps into his skin. He must have her. Their healing waters or his shield will cure her strange malady once they have mated. Or will it?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Space", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17564507-engulf"}, +{"book_title": "\u30ef\u30f3\u30d1\u30f3\u30de\u30f3 1 [Wanpanman 1", "author_name": "ONE", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 42385, "review_number": 1026, "book_description": "\u4e00\u6483\u5fc5\u6bba\uff01\u3000\u5f37\u304f\u306a\u308a\u3059\u304e\u3066\u3001\u3069\u3093\u306a\u51f6\u60aa\u306a\u602a\u4eba\u3082\u30ef\u30f3\u30d1\u30f3\u30c1\u3067\u5012\u3057\u3066\u3057\u307e\u3046\u30d2\u30fc\u30ed\u30fc\u201c\u30b5\u30a4\u30bf\u30de\u201d\u3002\u5e73\u71b1\u7cfb\u6700\u5f37\u30d2\u30fc\u30ed\u30fc\u306e\u4f1d\u8aac\u958b\u5e55\uff01\uff01", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Action", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17694052-1-wanpanman-1"}, +{"book_title": "Crown of Slaves", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 5326, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "Beginning a new blockbuster series set in the \"Honorverse\"-the universe of Honor Harrington. The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs. Add to that the longstanding problem of a slave labor planet controlled by hostile Mesans in Erewhon's stellar back yard, a problem which High Ridge also ignores. Finally, the recent assassination of the Solarian League's most prominent voice of public conscience indicates the growing danger of political instability in the Solarian League - which is also close to Erewhon. In desperation, Queen Elizabeth tries to defuse the situation by sending a private mission to Erewhon led by Captain Zilwicki, accompanied by one of her nieces. When they arrive on Erewhon, however, Manticore's most capable agent and one of its princesses find themselves in a mess. Not only do they encounter one of the Republic of Haven's most capable agents - Victor Cachat - but they also discover that the Solarian League's military delegation seems up to its neck in skullduggery. And, just to put the icing on the cake, the radical freed slave organization, the Audubon Ballroom, is also on the scene - led by its most notorious killer, Jeremy X.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Astronomy (Planets)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77746.Crown_of_Slaves"}, +{"book_title": "Home World", "author_name": "Erin Raegan", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1475, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "PeytonI fell in love with an alien. Our world was invaded by carnivorous freaks and the Dahk swooped in and saved me and my friends. They want to save the Earth but we are our own worst enemy, or so I thought. The truth is we have no idea what's out there. Now I'm on my way to Home World. The Dahk's world. An alien world. I had no choice, it was taken from me. I tell myself I hate him but I don't. I miss him. But we have bigger problems to face. Problems I'll realize are massively more impactful than just myself and my own little space in the universe. There's no room for my hurt feelings, even though Tahk's not done hurting me. TahkMy mate won't speak to me. I do not blame her for her ire. But I had no choice. I have brought her to my home and I have realized how unprepared she is for my planet and my culture. I could not predict the trials we would face. I have failed her in this. But I will not let her go. She is mine, and nothing and no one will come between us.The Conclusion to Peyton and Tahk's Romance lies ahead. ***Warninig. For readers 18 years and older. Contains explicit sexual situations, possible triggers, dark themes, and violence. Start of a series featuring these characters and multiple others. Some plot points will remain open throughout the series.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Suspense", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42615481-home-world"}, +{"book_title": "Chaos Rising", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 3694, "review_number": 421, "book_description": "Discover Thrawn\u2019s origins within the Chiss Ascendancy in the first book in an epic new Star Wars trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.Beyond the edge of the galaxy lies the Unknown Regions: chaotic, uncharted, and near impassable, with hidden secrets and dangers in equal measure. And nestled within its swirling chaos is the Ascendancy, home to the enigmatic Chiss and the Nine Ruling Families that lead them.The peace of the Ascendancy, a beacon of calm and stability, is shattered after a daring attack on the Chiss capital that leaves no trace of the enemy. Baffled, the Ascendancy dispatches one of its brightest young military officers to root out the unseen assailants. A recruit born of no title, but adopted into the powerful family of the Mitth and given the name Thrawn.With the might of the Expansionary Fleet at his back, and the aid of his comrade Admiral Ar\u2019alani, answers begin to fall into place. But as Thrawn\u2019s first command probes deeper into the vast stretch of space his people call the Chaos, he realizes that the mission he has been given is not what it seems. And the threat to the Ascendancy is only just beginning.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53112442-chaos-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West", "author_name": "Gregory Maguire", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 579514, "review_number": 24653, "book_description": "When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "Retellings", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37442.Wicked"}, +{"book_title": "Deep Navigation", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 529, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Deep Navigation is the 2010 Boskone Book by Boskone\u2019s Guest of Honor Alastair Reynolds. It contains a broad spectrum of his work, from his first published story, \"Nunivak Snowflakes,\" through \"The Receivers\" and \"Monkey Suit,\" both published within the last year, plus an introduction by his friend, and former Boskone Guest, Stephen Baxter. It is well-known that the scope of Dr. Reynolds' stories is vast; his Revelation Space stories alone attest to that. This collection shows his impressive range, from the claustrophobic Antarctic station, \"Byrd Land Six,\" to the branespanning \"Tiger, Burning,\" to the millennia-long quest of \"Fury.\" His viewpoints are as varied as his constant production of big, new ideas. A lone artist calmly painting the universe. A planetary ecological struggle reduced to a game. A fleeing assassin drawn into an alien rescue between the stars. The full-color dust jacket is by John Picacio, the Boskone 47 Official Artist.Table of Contents:-Introduction by Stephen Baxter-Nunivak Snowflakes-Monkey Suit-The Fixation-Feeling Rejected-Fury-Stroboscopic-The Receivers-Byrd Land Six-The Star Surgeon's Apprentice-On the Oodnadatta-Fresco-Viper-Soir\u00e9e-The Sledge-Maker's Daughter-Tiger, Burning", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Anthologies", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7944347-deep-navigation"}, +{"book_title": "New Moon", "author_name": "Stephenie Meyer", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1513020, "review_number": 48203, "book_description": "There is an 93 here. I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place. I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today. FOR BELLA SWAN THERE IS ONE THING more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning....LEGIONS OF READERS ENTRANCED BY THE New York Times bestseller Twilight are hungry for the continuing story of star-crossed lovers Bell and Edward. In New Moon, Stephanie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural spin. passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49041.New_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow of Night", "author_name": "Deborah Harkness", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 192639, "review_number": 16079, "book_description": "Picking up from A Discovery of Witches\u2019 cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew\u2019s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew\u2019s past tightens around them, and they embark on a very different\u2014and vastly more dangerous\u2014journey.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11559200-shadow-of-night"}, +{"book_title": "The Shapes of Their Hearts", "author_name": "Melissa Scott", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 95, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "In The Shapes of Their Hearts, a computer tape of the brain of a religious prophet has been allowed to merge with an AI; the result is both a religious icon on the planet Idun and a powerful terrorist. Anton Tso must come up with a way to stop the terrorism without killing God.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1689719.The_Shapes_of_Their_Hearts"}, +{"book_title": "Sixth of the Dusk", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 13538, "review_number": 772, "book_description": "A fascinating new novella in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, the universe shared by his Mistborn series and the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Sixth of the Dusk, set in a never-before-seen world, showcases a society on the brink of technological change. On the deadly island of Patji, where birds grant people magical talents and predators can sense the thoughts of their prey, a solitary trapper discovers that the island is not the only thing out to kill him. When he begins to see his own corpse at every turn, does this spell danger for his entire culture? -------------------- A note from the publisher: For a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the creation of this novella, including brainstorming and workshopping session transcripts, the first draft, line-by-line edits, and an essay by Brandon, please see Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23397921-sixth-of-the-dusk"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 4093, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "Retired after 15 years in special ops due to a myriad of physical ailments, Michael Harmon is having trouble fitting into his new role as a University of Georgia undergrad. Instead, Ghost (named for his uncanny ability to \"blend\") likes to stalk unknowing coeds and speculate on the carnal possibilities. But when a van-load of men suddenly abduct a blonde that Ghost had been following, he gives chase and follows the van to a deserted warehouse, where he uncovers a terrorist plot to kidnap and brutalize dozens of innocent American women. Ghost's military training kicks in, and after killing most of the jihadists within the warehouse, he tracks a truckload of sedated abductees to a 727 at an Atlanta airport and hitches a ride to Syria. In the action that ensues, Ghost unearths plots involving WMD production, rogue nukes, sexual slavery, and the assassination of world leaders -- all of which culminates in a breathtaking showdown at (where else?) a strip joint in Amsterdam, in the champagne room!", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Action", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239420.Ghost"}, +{"book_title": "Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: Frontline", "author_name": "Randolph Lalonde", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 2576, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "What at first seemed to be a chaotic uprising of machine against man is becoming a controlled event, destroying the lives of billions and hurling the known galaxy into a state of utter discord. The fourth fall of mankind is well underway. The Order of Eden seems to be the only force for order and peace, offering a place in their new society in trade for a large cash investment and their freedom. Captain Valance and the Triton crew are finally working as a unit. Oblivious to the grand designs of the Order of Eden, they will be drawn into the center of a galactic conflict over a planet with a secret that's been buried for decades. The question put to them is not if they can prevail, but if they can survive. Frontline takes the Spinward Fringe series to an epic scale without leaving what makes Space Opera great behind. Frontline has the drama, grit, characterization and humor we've come to expect from Randolph Lalonde.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6547782-spinward-fringe-broadcast-4"}, +{"book_title": "The Shiva Option", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2400, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "In the long-awaited sequel to In Death Ground, the Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm continue their galactic battle against the Arachnids--a carnivorous legion of insects that regard any competing sentient species as a food source. With billions of civilians already slaughtered and their armed forces ravaged beyond repair, the Grand Alliance may be forced to their last resort--the devastating Shiva Option.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328861.The_Shiva_Option"}, +{"book_title": "Peacemaker", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1281, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Half-breed tinkerer Kali McAlister doesn\u2019t care that the gold rush has stormed into Dawson and prospectors are flooding the north\u2014all she wants is to finish construction of her airship, so she can escape the Yukon and see the world.Unfortunately, the world keeps chucking wrenches into her machinery: a mysterious gambler is pumping her for information on her bounty-hunting business partner Cedar; the notorious gangster Cudgel Conrad is after Kali\u2019s knowledge of flash gold; and a series of gruesome murders is plaguing Dawson. Someone\u2014or something\u2014is ruthlessly slaying tribal women, and, if Kali and Cedar can\u2019t find the killer, she might be the next target.Peacemaker is a 40,000-word steampunk novella.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13517459-peacemaker"}, +{"book_title": "Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century", "author_name": "Mark Dery", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 116, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "An Unforgettable Journey into the Dark Heart of the Information AgeIn Escape Velocity Mark Dery takes is on an electrifying tour of the high-tech subcultures that both celebrate and critique our wired world: would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brainpower with smart drugs and mind machines, on-line swingers seeking cybersex on electronic bulletin boards, techno-primitives who sport \"biomechanical\" tattoos of computer circuitry; and cyberpunk roboticists whose Mad Max contraptions duel to the death before howling crowds.Timely, trenchant, and provocative, Escape Velocity is the first truly critical inquiry into cyberculture-essential reading for everyone interested in computer culture and the shape of things to come.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Technology)", "Philosophy", "Writing (Essays)", "Cultural", "Culture (Cultural Studies)", "Academic (College)", "Social Science"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228443.Escape_Velocity"}, +{"book_title": "No Worse Enemy", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2096, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "The sequel to The Empire\u2019s Corps, also available from Amazon Kindle.Six months ago, Colonel Edward Stalker and his Marines were abandoned on Avalon, left to fend for themselves as the Empire withdrew from the Rim. Since then, Avalon has been isolated from the settled universe...until now.As a mysterious pirate organisation attempts to take over Avalon, the Marines find themselves struggling against a shadowy figure with dreams of power, while a young civilian is kidnapped and press-ganged into a pirate crew. They\u2019re fighting to preserve something of the Empire\u2019s order in the wake of its departure, but the pirates appear to have far greater resources and a plan that seems unstoppable. The Empire is gone. What will take its place?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Action", "Audiobook", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17177259-no-worse-enemy"}, +{"book_title": "XVI", "author_name": "Julia Karr", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 7645, "review_number": 992, "book_description": "Every girl gets one.An XVI tattoo on the wrist--sixteen.Some girls can't wait to be sixteen, to be legal. Nina is not one of them. Even though she has no choice in the matter, she knows that so long as her life continues as normal, everything will be okay.Then, with one brutal strike, Nina's normal is shattered; and she discovers that nothing that she believed about her life is true. But there's one boy who can help--and he just may hold the key to her past.But with the line between attraction and danger as thin as a whisper, one thing is for sure...For Nina, turning sixteen promises to be anything but sweet", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Futuristic", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6933141-xvi"}, +{"book_title": "Timesplash", "author_name": "Graham Storrs", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 383, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "It started out as something underground, edgy and cool. Then Sniper took it all too far and timesplashing became the ultimate terrorist weapon.Scarred by their experiences in the time travelling party scene, Jay and Sandra are thrown together in what becomes the biggest manhunt in history: the search for Sniper, Sandra\u2019s ex-boyfriend and a would-be mass murderer.Set in the near future, Timesplash is a fast-paced action thriller. Filled with great characters, a sprinkling of romance, and a new and intriguing take on time travel, Timesplash is ultimately a very human tale about finding bravery through fear, and never giving up.Highly recommended for science fiction and thriller enthusiasts alike.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Adventure", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054749-timesplash"}, +{"book_title": "The Sagittarius Command", "author_name": "R.M. Meluch", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 570, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "In the third novel of this acclaimed military science fiction series, all of humanity and its alien allies have joined together to battle the Hive-a force of pure destruction sweeping through the galaxy. But when the leader of the Roman world is assassinated, tensions escalate-and Captain John Farragut is forced to lead a mission into the heart of Hive territory in search of a man who's been \"dead\" for decades...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/640812.The_Sagittarius_Command"}, +{"book_title": "Dinosaurs Before Dark", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 34114, "review_number": 2718, "book_description": "Jack and Annie's very first fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series\u2014the Magic Tree House!Where did the tree house come from?Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. Can they do it before dark . . . or will they become a dinosaur's dinner?", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Kids"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark"}, +{"book_title": "Soulblade", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 2713, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "It\u2019s been a week since the dragon Morishtomaric fell, and Sardelle is not convinced that Ridge is truly gone. With a companion who thinks he\u2019s a god and a soldier who would happily kill her, she heads back to the mountains to look for signs that Ridge survived. What they uncover threatens to destroy their country and all they care about.Meanwhile, the Cofah emperor is furious with Iskandia over the loss of its airships and still has a bounty on Tolemek\u2019s head. King Angulus sends Tolemek, Cas, and Kaika on a daring mission that could solve both problems\u2026 or leave them all dead.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27345208-soulblade"}, +{"book_title": "City of Pearl", "author_name": "Karen Traviss", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2102, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "Three separate alien societies have claims on Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the gethes from Earth -- now threaten the tenuous balance of a coveted world.Environmental Hazard Enforcement officer Shan Frankland agreed to lead a mission to Cavanagh's Star, knowing that 150 years would elapse before she could finally return home. But her landing, with a small group of scientists and Marines, has not gone unnoticed by Aras, the planet's designated guardian. An eternally evolving world himself, this sad, powerful being has already obliterated millions of alien interlopers and their great cities to protect the fragile native population. Now Shan and her party -- plus the small colony of fundamentalist humans who preceded them -- could face a similar annihilation . . . or a fate far worse. Because Aras possesses a secret of the blood that would be disastrous if it fell into human hands -- if the gethes survive the impending war their coming has inadvertently hastened.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124841.City_of_Pearl"}, +{"book_title": "Games of Command", "author_name": "Linnea Sinclair", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2641, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "The universe isn\u2019t what it used to be. With the new Alliance between the Triad and the United Coalition, Captain Tasha \u201cSass\u201d Sebastian finds herself serving under her former nemesis, biocybe Admiral Branden Kel-Paten\u2013and doing her best to hide a deadly past. But when an injured mercenary winds up in their ship\u2019s sick bay\u2013and in the hands of her best friend, Dr. Eden Fynn\u2013Sass\u2019s efforts may be wasted.Wanted rebel Jace Serafino has information that could expose all of Sass\u2019s secrets, tear the fragile Alliance apart\u2013and end Sass\u2019s career if Kel-Paten discovers them. But the biocybe has something to hide as well, something once thought impossible for his kind to possess: feelings . . . for Sass. Soon it\u2019s clear that their prisoner could bring down everything they once believed was worth dying for\u2013and everything they now have to live for.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352724.Games_of_Command"}, +{"book_title": "Ruins", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 10189, "review_number": 833, "book_description": "Features a new exclusive introduction read by author Orson Scott Card.From the author of Ender\u2019s Game, the major motion picture!A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls \u201can epic in the best sense.\u201dWhen Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh\u2014a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive\u2014but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. But they will have little choice. Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he can\u2019t yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param can\u2019t work together to alter the past, there will be no future.The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling Pathfinder series.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10148930-ruins"}, +{"book_title": "The Glass Hammer", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Schuyler, a sprinter, one who outruns government particle beam satellites to deliver computer chips to the European black market, becomes a media celebrity and the icon of a new religious cult.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414794.The_Glass_Hammer"}, +{"book_title": "Under a Tell-Tale Sky", "author_name": "R.E. McDermott", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 900, "review_number": 91, "book_description": " The grid is down, the world is in flames, and FEMA is demanding his ship and cargo, but Captain Jordan Hughes isn\u2019t buying it. When the lights go out, seemingly for good, Hughes quickly finds being stranded far from home on a ship with working generators and a cargo of ten million gallons of irreplaceable fuel isn\u2019t exactly a low profile position. Faced with rising crew discontent, and surrounded by worsening violence ashore, things can\u2019t get much worse \u2014 until they do. As the remains of the federal government become increasingly corrupt and self-serving, Hughes joins a ragtag band of sailors, farmers, preppers ex-Coast Guardsmen, and dissident soldiers in an effort to re-unite his crew with their families and use remaining resources to rebuild a devastated society. Along the way they face a desperate and starving population, rampant violence from street gangs and escaped convicts, and powerful warlords created as an unintended consequence of the federal government\u2019s ill-advised use of mercenaries.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26790758-under-a-tell-tale-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Hardship", "author_name": "Jean Johnson", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1798, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "It began with a terrible vision of the future. Compelled by her precognitive abilities, Ia must somehow save her home galaxy long after she\u2019s gone. Now Jean Johnson presents the long-awaited epic conclusion to her national bestselling military science fiction series\u2026Demoralized, their ship destroyed, Ia\u2019s Damned must fight their way out of a planet-bound blockade and back into space. But there is more happening here on Dabin than meets even Ia\u2019s inner eye.Some of the Feyori, energy-based beings of vast power and arrogance, are moving to block her efforts under the direction of her counter-faction foe, Miklinn. The Terran Army Division stationed on Dabin is not cooperating with her battle plans. Events are not happening as Ia has foreseen, and too many people are now in grave danger, thanks to alien Meddling.All these hardships are threatening to derail Ia\u2019s carefully laid plans. The Meddlers, however, have made one fatal mistake:They\u2019re just making Bloody Mary mad.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21418011-hardship"}, +{"book_title": "His Human Slave", "author_name": "Renee Rose", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 3887, "review_number": 477, "book_description": " Collared and caged, his human slave awaits her training.Zander, the alien warrior prince intent on recovering his planet, needs a mate. While he would never choose a human of his own accord, his physician's gene-matching program selected Lamira's DNA as the best possible match with his own. Now he must teach the beautiful slave to yield to his will, accept his discipline and learn to serve him as her one true master. Lamira has hidden her claircognizance from the Ocretions, as aberrant traits in human slaves are punished by death. When she's bought by a Zandian prince for breeding and kept by his side at all times, she finds it increasingly harder to hide. His humiliating punishments and dominance awake a powerful lust in her, which he tracks with a monitoring device on her arousal rate. But when she begins to care for the huge, demanding alien, she must choose between preserving her own life and revealing her secret to save his.\n\nDevour the first steamy stand-alone romance in\u00a0USA Today Bestselling Author Renee Rose's\u00a0Alien Warrior series.\u00a0\n**This book was originally included in the box set Human Surrender.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32866516-his-human-slave"}, +{"book_title": "Love, Eternally", "author_name": "Morgan O'Neill", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 575, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "A witch's ancient curse propels talented flutist Gigi Perrin back to A.D. 408, to the court of the depraved Roman Emperor Honorius and his admirable sister, Princess Galla Placidia. There, Gigi grapples with her disbelief about what has happened, and with the strange, new world of violent politics, social upheaval and barbarians straining at the very gates of an empire. Through it all, she must struggle with her powerful attraction to a pagan senator and military commander, Quintus Magnus, a man exotically different from anyone she has ever known. On the brink of a dark and war-torn age, Gigi joins forces with Magnus, battling to save a princess and her people, and ultimately finding love amid the chaos, before the fall of Rome.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24983185-love-eternally"}, +{"book_title": "Caliban's War", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 102557, "review_number": 5808, "book_description": "We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system.In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . .Caliban's War is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the critically acclaimed Leviathan Wakes.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12591698-caliban-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "Tempest", "author_name": "Poppy Rhys", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1025, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "They can't break me.I wasn't prepared for what came after I got arrested and sent to prison. Finding my sister in that hellhole should've been easy.I wasn't prepared to survive an alien planet straight out of a prehistoric nightmare. Facing my fears to withstand the creatures that wanted to eat me, and the four alien men that watched me like a morsel they wanted to sink their teeth into...I wasn't prepared for any of it.But I sure as hell wouldn't let it break me.This story contains a reverse harem (m/m/f/m/m) of fish-man, element wielding, alien heroes, mature content, violence, and probably too much language!Part of the Valos of Sonhadra collaboration project with eight other amazing authors! ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38496013-tempest"}, +{"book_title": "Time Travel: A History", "author_name": "James Gleick", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 3630, "review_number": 622, "book_description": "From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "History", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Philosophy", "Science (Physics)", "Audiobook", "Science (Technology)", "Science (Popular Science)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28587584-time-travel"}, +{"book_title": "Artefact", "author_name": "Jamie Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1240, "review_number": 127, "book_description": "Mankind has spread to the stars, only to become locked in warfare with an insidious alien race. All that stands against the alien menace are the soldiers of the Simulant Operation Programme, an elite military team remotely operating avatars in the most dangerous theatres of war.Captain Conrad Harris has died hundreds of times - running suicide missions in simulant bodies. Known as Lazarus, he is a man addicted to death. So when a secret research station deep in alien territory suddenly goes dark, there is no other man who could possibly lead a rescue mission.But Harris hasn't been trained for what he's about to find. And this time, he may not be coming back . . .Artefact is an action-drenched tale of elite space marines, deep space exploration and galactic empires. Discover The Lazarus War - the thrilling new space opera series from one of the most exciting new voices in science fiction.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25205209-artefact"}, +{"book_title": "Wolves of the Calla", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 162843, "review_number": 4361, "book_description": "Roland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being followed by a group of inexperienced trackers. The trackers are from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis, and they desperately need the help of gunslingers. Once every generation, a band of masked riders known as the Wolves gallop out of the dark land of Thunderclap to steal one half of all the twins born in the Callas. When the children are returned, they are roont, or mentally and physically ruined. In less than a month, the Wolves will raid again. In exchange for Roland\u2019s aid, Father Callahan\u2014a priest originally from our world\u2014offers to give Roland a powerful but evil seeing sphere, a sinister globe called Black Thirteen which he has hidden below the floorboards of his church. Not only must Roland and his tet discover a way to defeat the invincible Wolves, but they must also return to New York so that they can save our world\u2019s incarnation of the Dark Tower from the machinations of the evil Sombra Corporation.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4978.Wolves_of_the_Calla"}, +{"book_title": "The Boost", "author_name": "Stephen Baker", "rating_score": 3.13, "rating_votes": 172, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Ralf is a software prodigy. He works in the US government office that updates the software in the population's boosts\u2014networked supercomputers contained in a chip implanted within the brains of 99 percent of the world's population. Invented by Chinese researchers in 2032, the boost is credited with leading humanity to its most significant cognitive leap since the discovery of fire.Days before a national upgrade, Ralf notices that the update includes an open surveillance gate\u2014meaning that Americans, who had negotiated high levels of privacy with the Chinese manufacturers, will now be subjected to the invasive Chinese standard. Ralf attempts to hack the boost, but is caught by agents working for Washington's preeminent lobbyist. His boost is ripped from his head, and Ralf barely escapes with his life.Pursued by the lobbyist's mercenary cadre, Ralf flees to the US\u2013Mexico border, where there are others like him\u2014\"wild\" humans on the fringes of society, unenhanced by technology. It's a frightening and backward world controlled by powerful drug lords. Ralf's only hope is to somehow work with these wild bosses of the analog world\u2014in hopes of winning back freedom in the digital one.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490545-the-boost"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Heart", "author_name": "Moira Young", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 19264, "review_number": 2048, "book_description": "Saba thought her world would return to normal after they defeated the Tonton and rescued her kidnapped brother Lugh. The family head west for a better life and a longed-for reunion with Jack. But a formidable enemy is on the rise. What is the truth about Jack? And how far will Saba go to get what she wants?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13042154-rebel-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Eclipse Corona", "author_name": "John Shirley", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 228, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "\"John Shirley's prophet-in-the-cyberwilderness voice deserves high billing among the best.\" -- Roger Zelazny This classic of cyberpunk literature brings John Shirley's \"A Song Called Youth\" trilogy to a thrilling conclusion. After the fundamentalists of the Christian Fascist Second Alliance find themselves discredited in the United States, they make a final, terrifying stand in Europe. Their genocidal program of concentration camps, mind control through media manipulation, and secret treaties goes unopposed -- save for the rebels of the New Resistance. Forging an uneasy alliance between Israeli and Muslim fighters, the guerilla warriors lead the battle to prevent the Second Alliance from sending humanity into the darkness of a total eclipse. A gripping novel in its own right, Eclipse Corona follows Eclipse and Eclipse Penumbra, Shirley's previous tales of a gang of technologically adept rebels with a passion for sex and drugs and rock and roll. The \"eclipse\" of the titles refers to the shadows that war casts across the light of conventional morality, allowing citizens to tolerate the erosion of their civil rights. Originally published in the 1980s, the Eclipse trilogy has proved chillingly prescient in its anticipation of twenty-first century issues, from drone surveillance to the growth of Europe's radical right movements to an increasingly dark web of media manipulation and propaganda.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111192.Eclipse_Corona"}, +{"book_title": "Articulated Restraint", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 714, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And sometimes, handling a test run that has turned deadly serious. Mary Robinette Kowal visits an off-stage incident in her The Calculating Stars series.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43782466-articulated-restraint"}, +{"book_title": "The Silvered Serpents", "author_name": "Roshani Chokshi", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 4414, "review_number": 1503, "book_description": "They are each other\u2019s fiercest love, greatest danger, and only hope. S\u00e9verin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost \u2014 one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, S\u00e9verin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost artifact rumored to grant its possessor the power of God.Their hunt lures them far from Paris, and into the icy heart of Russia where crystalline ice animals stalk forgotten mansions, broken goddesses carry deadly secrets, and a string of unsolved murders makes the crew question whether an ancient myth is a myth after all.As hidden secrets come to the light and the ghosts of the past catch up to them, the crew will discover new dimensions of themselves. But what they find out may lead them down paths they never imagined.A tale of love and betrayal as the crew risks their lives for one last job.Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with another riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever in The Silvered Serpents.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45044785-the-silvered-serpents"}, +{"book_title": "The Cloud Searchers", "author_name": "Kazu Kibuishi", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 26438, "review_number": 1519, "book_description": "An impossible journey with danger at every turn...Emily, Navin, and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis. There they hope to find help from the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers. It's a mission that Alledia's survival depends on, and time is running out--Emily's got to find Cielis before the Elf King finds her.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7955881-the-cloud-searchers"}, +{"book_title": "Changewar", "author_name": "Fritz Leiber", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 184, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "CHANGEWARIt is happening right now: the war through Time. The battleground is the eternal present. The objective is to alter the past. And the goal is to seize control of the future. The warriors are ordinary people, like yourself...Contents:Try and Change the PastThe Oldest SoldierDamnation MorningWhen the Change-Winds BlowKnight to MoveA Deskful of GirlsNo Great Magic", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/923763.Changewar"}, +{"book_title": "Oblivion", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 2232, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "In this special eBook version, experience OBSIDIAN, ONYX, and OPAL as told by Daemon Black\u2026This book is enhanced with exclusive content\u2014two original songs inspired by the novel\u2014resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected.I knew the moment Katy Swartz moved in next door, there was going to be trouble. Lots of it.And trouble\u2019s the last thing I need, since I\u2019m not exactly from around here. My people arrived on Earth from Lux, a planet thirteen billion light years away. Plus, if there\u2019s one thing I know, it\u2019s that humans can\u2019t be trusted. We scare them. We can do things they only dream about, and honestly, we make them look weak as hell. \u2018Cuz they are.But Kat is getting to me in ways no one else has, and I can't stop myself from wanting her\u2014or wanting to use my powers to protect her. She makes me weak, and I\u2019m the strongest of our kind, tasked with protecting us all. So this one simple girl\u2026she can mean the end for us. Because the Luxen have an even bigger enemy\u2014the Arum, and I need to stay on my game.Falling for Katy\u2014a human\u2014won't just place her in danger. It could get us all killed, and that\u2019s one thing I\u2019ll never let happen...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25946985-oblivion"}, +{"book_title": "A Shadow Bright and Burning", "author_name": "Jessica Cluess", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 13344, "review_number": 2081, "book_description": "I am Henrietta Howel. The first female sorcerer. The prophesied one. Or am I? Henrietta Howel can burst into flames. When she is brought to London to train with Her Majesty's sorcerers, she meets her fellow sorcerer trainees, young men eager to test her powers and her heart. One will challenge her. One will fight for her. One will betray her. As Henrietta discovers the secrets hiding behind the glamour of sorcerer life, she begins to doubt that she's the true prophesied one. With battle looming, how much will she risk to save the city--and the one she loves?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23203252-a-shadow-bright-and-burning"}, +{"book_title": "Renegade", "author_name": "Debra Driza", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2794, "review_number": 322, "book_description": "There is no one left for Mila to trust. Except for a boy she barely knows.But Hunter has no idea who\u2014and what\u2014Mila really is. She can\u2019t bear to reveal her secret, even though he\u2019s unwittingly joined her search for Richard Grady, a man who may know more details of Mila\u2019s complicated past.Yet the road to the truth is more dangerous than ever. With General Holland and the Vita Obscura scouring the earth for her whereabouts, Mila must rely on her newfound android abilities to protect herself and Hunter from imminent harm. Still, embracing her identity as a machine leads her to question the state of her humanity\u2014as well as Hunter\u2019s real motives.Perfect for fans of I Am Number Four and Divergent, this action-packed and heart-wrenching second installment of MILA 2.0 will leave readers breathlessly awaiting the series conclusion.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10222365-renegade"}, +{"book_title": "Edge of Dark", "author_name": "Brenda Cooper", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 549, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "What if a society banished its worst nightmare to the far edge of the solar system, destined to sip only dregs of light and struggle for the barest living.\u00a0 And yet, that life thrived?\u00a0 It grew and learned and became far more than you ever expected, and it wanted to return to the sun.\u00a0 What if it didn\u2019t share your moral compass in any way?The Glittering Edge duology describes the clash of forces when an advanced society that has filled a solar system with flesh and blood life meets the near-AI\u2019s that it banished long ago.\u00a0 This is a story of love for the wild and natural life on a colony planet, complex adventure set in powerful space stations, and the desire to live completely whether you are made of flesh and bone or silicon and carbon fiber.\u00a0\u00a0In Edge of Dark, meet ranger Charlie Windar and his adopted wild predator, and explore their home on a planet that has been raped and restored more than once.\u00a0 Meet Nona Hall, child of power and privilege from the greatest station in the system, the Diamond Deep.\u00a0 Meet Nona\u2019s best friend, a young woman named Chrystal who awakens in a robotic body\u2026.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Space", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22822946-edge-of-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Captive Prince: Volume Two", "author_name": "C.S. Pacat", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 42873, "review_number": 4892, "book_description": "With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master, Prince Laurent, must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot.Forced to hide his identity, Damen finds himself increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismatic Laurent. But as the fledgling trust between the two men deepens, the truth of secrets from both their pasts is poised to deal them the crowning death blow . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "LGBT", "Romance", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Historical", "LGBT (Gay)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17158513-captive-prince"}, +{"book_title": "God Save the Queen", "author_name": "Kate Locke", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 5241, "review_number": 740, "book_description": "Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist. The undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. A world where being nobility means being infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath), Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day, and leeches are considered a delicacy. And a world where technology lives side by side with magic. The year is 2012 and Pax Britannia still reigns.Xandra Vardan is a member of the elite Royal Guard, and it is her duty to protect the Aristocracy. But when her sister goes missing, Xandra will set out on a path that undermines everything she believed in and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to topple the empire. And she is the key-the prize in a very dangerous struggle.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12823329-god-save-the-queen"}, +{"book_title": "No. 6: The Manga, Volume 01", "author_name": "Atsuko Asano", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 2633, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "A PERFECT LIFE, IN A PERFECT CITYFor Shion, an elite student in the technologically sophisticated city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study, and the occasional visit with his friend and classmate Safu. One fateful day, however, he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy his age from a typhoon. Known only as Rat, this boy is a VC \u2013 a fugitive living outside the computerized tapestry of city control \u2013 and helping him will throw Shion\u2019s life into chaos and start him down a path to discovering the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Romance", "Manga (Yaoi)", "Yaoi (Shounen Ai)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16099205-no-6"}, +{"book_title": "Zenn Scarlett", "author_name": "Christian Schoon", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 331, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "When you're studying to be exoveterinarian specializing in exotic, alien life forms, school... is a different kind of animal. Zenn Scarlett is a resourceful, determined 17-year-old girl working hard to make it through her novice year of exovet training. That means she's learning to care for alien creatures that are mostly large, generally dangerous and profoundly fascinating. Zenn\u2019s all-important end-of-term tests at the Ciscan Cloister Exovet Clinic on Mars are coming up, and, she's feeling confident of acing the exams. But when a series of inexplicable animal escapes and other disturbing events hit the school, Zenn finds herself being blamed for the problems. As if this isn't enough to deal with, her absent father has abruptly stopped communicating with her; Liam Tucker, a local towner boy, is acting unusually, annoyingly friendly; and, strangest of all: Zenn is worried she's started sharing the thoughts of the creatures around her. Which is impossible, of course. Nonetheless, she can't deny what she's feeling.Now, with the help of Liam and Hamish, an eight-foot sentient insectoid also training at the clinic, Zenn must learn what's happened to her father, solve the mystery of who, if anyone, is sabotaging the cloister, and determine if she's actually sensing the consciousness of her alien patients... or just losing her mind. All without failing her novice year....", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Space", "Romance", "Animals", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071885-zenn-scarlett"}, +{"book_title": "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 1674, "review_number": 224, "book_description": "If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.In print and on the big screen we have been deluged with scenarios of robot malfunction, misuse, and outright rebellion. Robots have descended on us from outer space, escaped from top-secret laboratories, and even traveled back in time to destroy us.Today, scientists are working hard to bring these artificial creations to life. In Japan, fuzzy little real robots are delivering much appreciated hug therapy to the elderly. Children are frolicking with smiling robot toys.It all seems so innocuous. And yet how could so many Hollywood scripts be wrong?So take no chances. Arm yourself with expert knowledge. For the sake of humanity, listen to serious advice from real robotics experts. How else will you survive the inevitable future in which robots rebel against their human masters?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Humor", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science (Technology)", "Audiobook", "Reference", "Adventure (Survival)", "How To"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59793.How_to_Survive_a_Robot_Uprising"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 14561, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "Investigative reporter Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of the 23rd Century surroundings while working for the newspaper The Word in this critically-acclaimed graphic novel series written by comics superstar Warren Ellis, the co-creator of PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22421.Transmetropolitan_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "Collapse", "author_name": "Richard Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1905, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "BOOK ONE in the NEW AMERICA series.What would it take for the United States to fall from within? In a not too distant future, America is put to the test. With the American people deep in The Second Great Depression and two of the most powerful hurricanes on record to contend with, the United States is in no condition to deal with hidden terrorists on its soil, maniacal politicians, and the most formidable military threat the world has seen since the Third Reich. This is the story of three men from three very different walks of life: Howard Beck, the world's richest man, also diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome; Richard Dupree, ex-Navy SEAL turned escaped convict; and Maxwell Harris, a crippled, burned-out chief of police of a small Texas town. At first, they must overcome their own struggles and fight for their survival against impossible odds. In the end, the unlikely trio must band together to save their beloved country from COLLAPSE. Empires topple. Nations crumble. Civilization is fragile. In 2027, America will fall.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Suspense", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15738789-collapse"}, +{"book_title": "Upsetting the Balance", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 4131, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Communist China, Japan, Nazi Germany, the United States: they began World War II as mortal enemies. But suddenly their only hope for survival--never mind victory--was to unite to stop a mighty foe--one whose frightening technology appeared invincible. Far worse beings than the Nazis were loose. From Warsaw to Moscow to China's enemy-occupied Forbidden City, the nations of the world had been forced into an uneasy alliance since humanity began its struggle against overwhelming odds. In Britain and Germany, where the banshee wail of hostile jets screamed across the land, caches of once-forbidden weapons were unearthed, and unthinkable tactics were employed against the enemy. Brilliantly innovative military strategists confronted challenges unprecedented in the history of warfare. Even as lack of fuel forced people back to horse and carriage, physicists worked feverishly to create the first atomic bombs--with horrifying results. City after city joined the radioactive pyre as the planet erupted in fiery ruins. Yet the crisis continued--on land, sea, and in the air--as humanity writhed in global combat. The tactics of daredevil guerrillas everywhere became increasingly ingenious against a superior foe whose desperate retaliation would grow ever more fearsome. No one had ever put the United States, or the world, in such deadly danger. But if the carnage and annihilation ever stopped, would there be any pieces to pick up?", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101589.Upsetting_the_Balance"}, +{"book_title": "The Outlandish Companion: Companion to Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 13542, "review_number": 595, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels, the inspiration for the Starz original series. From the moment Claire Randall stepped through a standing stone circle and was thrown back in time to the year 1743\u2014and into a world that threatens life, limb, loyalty, heart, soul, and everything else Claire has\u2014readers have been hungry to know everything about this world and its inhabitants, particularly a Scottish soldier named Jamie Fraser.\u00a0 In this beautifully illustrated compendium of all things Outlandish, Gabaldon covers the first four novels of the main series, including: \u00a0 \u2022 full synopses of Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn \u2022 a complete listing of the characters (fictional and historical) in the first four novels in the series, as well as family trees and genealogical notes \u2022 a comprehensive glossary and pronunciation guide to Gaelic terms and usage \u2022 the fully explicated Gabaldon Theory of Time Travel \u2022 frequently asked questions to the author and her (sometimes surprising) answers \u2022 an annotated bibliography \u2022 essays about medicine and magic in the eighteenth century, researching historical fiction, creating characters, and more \u2022 professionally cast horoscopes for Jamie and Claire \u00a0 For anyone who wants to spend more time with the Outlander characters and the world they inhabit, Diana Gabaldon here opens a door through the standing stones and offers a guided tour of what lies within.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Reference", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10989.The_Outlandish_Companion"}, +{"book_title": "Poseidon's Wake", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3066, "review_number": 223, "book_description": "This novel is a stand-alone story which takes two extraordinary characters and follows them as they, independently, begin to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of our universe.Their missions are dangerous, and they are all venturing into the unknown ... and if they can uncover the secret to faster-than-light travel then new worlds will be at our fingertips.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21097454-poseidon-s-wake"}, +{"book_title": "The Aeronaut's Windlass", "author_name": "Jim Butcher", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 37095, "review_number": 4101, "book_description": "Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors\u2026Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace.Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy\u2019s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is severely damaged in combat, leaving captain and crew grounded, Grimm is offered a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion\u2014to join a team of agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring Predator to its fighting glory.And even as Grimm undertakes this dangerous task, he will learn that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Humanity\u2019s ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its wake\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24876258-the-aeronaut-s-windlass"}, +{"book_title": "Wedding the Highlander", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 3878, "review_number": 127, "book_description": "\"A runaway beauty finds love in the brawny arms of a handsome stranger...\"Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlander trapped in the modern world by a wizard's spell. Wounded in love once before by a modern woman, Michael wants nothing to do with Libby, but he can't resist the intense desire she stirs within him. Can this proud warrior pledge his heart to a woman whose secret threatens to change their lives forever?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192205.Wedding_the_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Slab City Blues", "author_name": "Anthony Ryan", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 441, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Welcome to the Slab. Where rats grow big and sweat falls in rain. There's a stranger in town, a stranger with claws and a penchant for killing assassins. Finding him is the job of Inspector Alex McLeod, detective, disfigured war veteran and reluctant widower. Some days are worse than others on the Slab but this one's going to be a gem.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Detective)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Space", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15707883-slab-city-blues"}, +{"book_title": "Cursed", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 2001, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "Commander Stavros Rii of the Kindred is a Sin Eater - thick black lines cover his back and neck causing him to feel the pain of others. It is a curse that threatens to shorten his life and makes him unable to bond with a female - not that he's ever found one he wants to bond with. Until he meets Charlie...Charlie Sayers is an agent with the Earth Protection Bureau - and anti Kindred agency dedicated to ridding the world of the big aliens. Charlie joined the EPB out of a sense of patriotism but she has her own reasons to hate the Kindred.But she has bigger problems than the Kindred at the moment - the Enhanced Ones have come to Earth and they're planning to take over the planet, enslave the inhabitants and strip them of all emotion. Charlie can't have that so she agrees to go undercover with Stavros to find the Heart of Love - an artifact which can destroy their mutual enemy forever.On their dangerous and difficult mission, Charlie learns that going undercover with your worst enemy can rapidly turn him into your best friend... or your lover. Can she hold on to her beliefs and stay true to herself, or will she lose her heart to Stavros? And even if she gives in to desire, will Stav be able to bond her to him?Or are they Cursed to be apart forever?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22886694-cursed"}, +{"book_title": "The Valley-Westside War", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 362, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Usually Crosstime Traffic concerns itself with trade.\u00a0Our world owns the secret of travel between parallel continuums, and we mean to use it to trade for much-needed resources with the worlds next door.\u00a0Preferably without letting them know about any of that parallel-worlds stuff.But there\u2019s one parallel world that\u2019s different.\u00a0In it, the atomic war broke out in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love.\u00a0Now, Crosstime Traffic has been given a different sort of mission: find out what on earth, or on the many earths, went wrong.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2463906.The_Valley_Westside_War"}, +{"book_title": "The Robots of Gotham", "author_name": "Todd McAulty", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 860, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Manhattan has been annexed by a weird robot monarchy, and in Tennessee, a permanent peace is being delicately negotiated between the battered remnants of the U.S. government and an envoy of implacable machines.Canadian businessman Barry Simcoe arrives in occupied Chicago days before his hotel is attacked by a rogue war machine. In the aftermath, he meets a dedicated Russian medic with the occupying army, and 19 Black Winter, a badly damaged robot. Together they stumble on a machine conspiracy to unleash a horrific plague\u2014and learn that the fabled American resistance is not as extinct as everyone believes. Simcoe races against time to prevent the extermination of all life on the continent\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. and uncover a secret that America\u2019s machine conquerors are desperate to keep hidden.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Artificial Intelligence", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35721141-the-robots-of-gotham"}, +{"book_title": "Paper Girls, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 15893, "review_number": 1543, "book_description": "The multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues, as newspaper deliverers Erin, Mac and Tiffany finally reunite with their long-lost friend KJ in an unexpected new era, where the girls must uncover the secret origins of time travel... or risk never returning home to 1988. Collects issues 11 through 15!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34504722-paper-girls-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Summer of the Apocalypse", "author_name": "James Van Pelt", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 779, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "When a plague wipes out most of humanity, fifteen-year-old Eric sets out to find his father. Sixty years later, Eric starts another long journey in an America that has long since quit resembling our own, but there are shadows everywhere. Shadows of what the world once was, and shadows from Eric\u2019s past. Blood bandits, wolves, fire, feral children, and an insane militia are only a few of the problems Eric faces.Set in Denver, Colorado and the western foothills, Van Pelt\u2019s first novel is both a coming-of-age tale, and a story of an old man\u2019s search for hope in the midst of disaster. Eric\u2019s two adventures lead him through a slice of modern America and into the depths of one man\u2019s heart.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Young Adult", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276479.Summer_of_the_Apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "West", "author_name": "Lizzy Ford", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 402, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "If you could change history, would you?College graduate Josephine \u201cJosie\u201d Jackson answers \u2018yes\u2019 to the question on a survey while visiting an Old West tourist trap. The next morning, she wakes up in Indian Territory in the 1840s, where she\u2019s given a mission to complete before she can return to her time: to reset history by finding and stopping the man responsible for a horrific massacre.It seems easy enough, until she discovers that three other women have been sent back to the same time period. When Josie uncovers what happened to them, she realizes the chances of her getting out of the past alive are not good.To survive, she\u2019ll have to trust the very man she\u2019s there to stop, someone who has every reason to distrust her and only one reason to help her - to prove he\u2019s not the monster she claims he\u2019ll become.STANDALONE novel in the History Interrupted series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "New Adult", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22849996-west"}, +{"book_title": "Ship Breaker", "author_name": "Paolo Bacigalupi", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 42928, "review_number": 4515, "book_description": "In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7095831-ship-breaker"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Seoul", "author_name": "Axie Oh", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 899, "review_number": 249, "book_description": "After a great war, the East Pacific is in ruins. In brutal Neo Seoul, where status comes from success in combat, ex-gang member Lee Jaewon is a talented pilot rising in the ranks of the academy. Abandoned as a kid in the slums of Old Seoul by his rebel father, Jaewon desires only to escape his past and prove himself a loyal soldier of the Neo State.When Jaewon is recruited into the most lucrative weapons development division in Neo Seoul, he is eager to claim his best shot at military glory. But the mission becomes more complicated when he meets Tera, a test subject in the government\u2019s supersoldier project. Tera was trained for one purpose: to pilot one of the lethal God Machines, massive robots for a never-ending war.With secret orders to report on Tera, Jaewon becomes Tera\u2019s partner, earning her reluctant respect. But as respect turns to love, Jaewon begins to question his loyalty to an oppressive regime that creates weapons out of humans. As the project prepares to go public amidst rumors of a rebellion, Jaewon must decide where he stands\u2014as a soldier of the Neo State, or a rebel of the people.Pacific Rim meets Korean action dramas in this mind-blowing, New Visions Award-winning science fiction debut.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Cultural (Asia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34931621-rebel-seoul"}, +{"book_title": "We Can Build You", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 3608, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold.Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick creates an arresting techno-thriller that suggests a marriage of Bladerunner and Barbarians at the Gate.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Audiobook", "Psychology", "The United States Of America", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400270.We_Can_Build_You"}, +{"book_title": "Perelandra", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 42104, "review_number": 2485, "book_description": "The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet \u0097 Perelandra \u0097 when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? The outcome of Dr. Ransom's mighty struggle alone will determine the fate of this peace-loving planet.", "year_published": 1943, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Christian", "Classics", "Christian Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Religion", "Religion (Christianity)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100924.Perelandra"}, +{"book_title": "Missile Gap", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 812, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "It's 1976 again. Abba are on the charts, the Cold War is in full swing -- and the Earth is flat. It's been flat ever since the eve of the Cuban war of 1962; and the constellations overhead are all wrong. Beyond the Boreal ocean, strange new continents loom above tropical seas, offering a new start to colonists like newly-weds Maddy and Bob, and the hope of further glory to explorers like ex-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: but nobody knows why they exist, and outside the circle of exploration the universe is inexplicably warped. Gregor, in Washington DC, knows but isn't talking. Colonel-General Gagarin, on a years-long mission to go where New Soviet Man has not gone before, is going to find out. And on the edge of an ancient desert, beneath the aged stars of another galaxy, Maddy is about to come face-to-face with humanity's worst fear?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Lovecraftian (Cthulhu Mythos)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17865.Missile_Gap"}, +{"book_title": "The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf", "author_name": "Ambelin Kwaymullina", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2081, "review_number": 405, "book_description": "\u201cThere will come a day when a thousand Illegals descend on your detention centres. Boomers will breach the walls. Skychangers will send lightning to strike you all down from above, and Rumblers will open the earth to swallow you up from below. . . . And when that day comes, Justin Connor, think of me.\u201dAshala Wolf has been captured by Chief Administrator Neville Rose. A man who is intent on destroying Ashala\u2019s Tribe \u2014 the runaway Illegals hiding in the Firstwood. Injured and vulnerable and with her Sleepwalker ability blocked, Ashala is forced to succumb to the machine that will pull secrets from her mind. And right beside her is Justin Connor, her betrayer, watching her every move. Will the Tribe survive the interrogation of Ashala Wolf?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13552764-the-interrogation-of-ashala-wolf"}, +{"book_title": "The Taking", "author_name": "Kimberly Derting", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 6169, "review_number": 971, "book_description": "A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing. When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas \u2019n\u2019 Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn\u2019t aged a day. Everything else about Kyra\u2019s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men. Confused and lost, Kyra isn\u2019t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin\u2019s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a sudden undeniable attraction to. As Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps from the fateful night of her disappearance, they discover strange phenomena that no one can explain, and they begin to wonder if Kyra\u2019s father is not as crazy as he seems. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned. Kyra races to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had, but what if the life she wants back is not her own?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17838475-the-taking"}, +{"book_title": "One Thousand Brides", "author_name": "Solange Ayre", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 471, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "\"We require wives. A review of the populated planets in your region revealed that Earth females are the closest genetically to our species. Thus we have decided to take one thousand human females with us.\"As these words are broadcast over Earth media, Janis Stone blacks out. She awakens on an alien colonization ship, one of a thousand human women destined to become Brides of the Terilian colonists.At first outraged by the kidnapping, Jan soon finds herself intrigued by Delos, the Terilian doctor who serves as liaison to the human Brides. Despite his pointed, furry ears and the pelt down his back, Delos' muscular physique and wonderful scent draw Jan like catnip attracting a feline. The two embark on a sensual journey, exploring their species' sexual compatibility.But their new love is threatened when a higher-ranked male desires Jan. As she plans a mass wedding for the thousand Brides, she dreads the upcoming \"Spring Running\", the mysterious rite where Terilians will mate with their Brides. Will the wrong groom claim her?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7233300-one-thousand-brides"}, +{"book_title": "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang", "author_name": "Kate Wilhelm", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 8988, "review_number": 674, "book_description": "The spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and hard SF, winning SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Hugo Awards", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968827.Where_Late_the_Sweet_Birds_Sang"}, +{"book_title": "United", "author_name": "Melissa Landers", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 2110, "review_number": 323, "book_description": "After thwarting a deadly coup and saving the alliance between their worlds, Cara and Aelyx have finally earned a break. Their tiny island colony is everything they dreamed it would be\u2015days spent gathering shells on the beach and nights in each other\u2019s arms.But the vacation is short-lived.The treaty between Earth and L\u2019eihr has awakened an ancient force that threatens to destroy them all. The Aribol, mysterious guardians charged with maintaining interstellar peace, deem the alliance a threat to the galaxy. They order a separation of the races, decreeing humans and L\u2019eihrs must return to their own planets within the month or face extinction. In fact, they already have agents in place on Earth, ready to begin.With the clock ticking, Aelyx and Cara assemble a team of colonists and race back to Earth, where they unite with old friends to solve the mystery of who the Aribol are, what they want, and the real reason the alliance has provoked them. As tensions build to a full-scale war, Aelyx and Cara must fight harder than ever\u2015not just for their future, but for the survival of both their worlds.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Space", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26180279-united"}, +{"book_title": "Swan Shine", "author_name": "J.D. Riley", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 5, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Cyril Muir is in London against his will while he recovers from a vicious attack that nearly took his life back in New York. An Omega bare-knuckle boxer and the son of a prominent hotelier, he has no patience for the strutting and posturing of the insufferable Alphas of the ton and seeks only to shock them from pursuing him with his prickly demeanor and physical scars. Left nearly entirely nose-blind from his chosen hobby, he relies on his sight to spot potential Alphas who would try for his affections--a method that serves him well until he stumbles into the handsome and honorable Edwin Penberth whose presence screams \"Alpha\" and whose eyes promise that ever-elusive happiness Cyril's been fighting for his whole life.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39708310-swan-shine"}, +{"book_title": "Alif the Unseen", "author_name": "G. Willow Wilson", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 16046, "review_number": 2690, "book_description": "In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients\u2014dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups\u2014from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif\u2014the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the state\u2019s electronic security force, putting his clients and his own neck on the line. Then it turns out his lover\u2019s new fianc\u00e9 is the \"Hand of God,\" as they call the head of state security, and his henchmen come after Alif, driving him underground. When Alif discovers The Thousand and One Days, the secret book of the jinn, which both he and the Hand suspect may unleash a new level of information technology, the stakes are raised and Alif must struggle for life or death, aided by forces seen and unseen.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Magical Realism", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Religion", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13239822-alif-the-unseen"}, +{"book_title": "Armada", "author_name": "Ernest Cline", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 102732, "review_number": 13248, "book_description": "Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he\u2019s spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure. But hey, there\u2019s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don\u2019t get chosen to save the universe. And then he sees the flying saucer. Even stranger, the alien ship he\u2019s staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada\u2014in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders. No, Zack hasn\u2019t lost his mind. As impossible as it seems, what he\u2019s seeing is all too real. And his skills\u2014as well as those of millions of gamers across the world\u2014are going to be needed to save the earth from what\u2019s about to befall it. It\u2019s Zack\u2019s chance, at last, to play the hero. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can\u2019t help thinking back to all those science-fiction stories he grew up with, and wondering: Doesn\u2019t something about this scenario seem a little\u2026familiar? At once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming of age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you\u2019ve ever read before\u2014one whose every page is infused with the pop-culture savvy that has helped make Ready Player One a phenomenon.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16278318-armada"}, +{"book_title": "The Clone Republic", "author_name": "Steven L. Kent", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2109, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Earth, 2508 A.D. Humans have spread across the six arms of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Unified Authority controls Earth\u2019s colonies with an iron fist and a powerful military\u2014a military made up almost entirely of clones\u2026Private first-class Wayson Harris was raised in a U.A. orphanage among thousands of clones born and bred to be the ultimate soldiers. But Harris isn\u2019t like the other Marines: he has a mind of his own. He figures he\u2019s paying for that independent streak when his first assignment out of boot camp is the smallest Marine outpost in the whole U.A.When a rogue general surfaces, the remote desert world Harris thought was a dead-end posting becomes anything but. Fighting off the general\u2019s raid gains Harris a promotion. But it also brings him to the attention of some unfriendly U.A. leaders. They have their own plans for the military\u2014plans Harris disrupts by his very existence. For in an army of clones, the one unforgivable sin is to be different\u2026", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68575.The_Clone_Republic"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue Protocol", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 35754, "review_number": 3365, "book_description": "SciFi\u2019s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah\u2019s SecUnit is.And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35519101-rogue-protocol"}, +{"book_title": "Earthgrip", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 41, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Jennifer Logan was young, gorgeous, and utterly devoted to teaching Middle English. But to qualify for any decent teaching position, she'd have to make her resume stand out. Since her specialty was science fiction, she wrangled a berth on a trading ship bound for the stars. Just one trip, she figured, then back to a nice, safe classroom. . . But Jennifer hadn't fully appreciated her own talent. She had a keen eye, a fresh perspective -- and all of science fiction to fall back on when the going got tough!", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1311750.Earthgrip"}, +{"book_title": "Moscow 2042", "author_name": "Vladimir Voinovich", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1392, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "The year is 1982, just two years before that made famous by Orwell. An exiled Soviet writer discovers that a German travel agency is booking flights through a time warp to a variety of tempting sites and dates in the future. Moscow? The year 2042? How can he resist? Afterword by the Author. Translated by Richard Lourie.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Humor", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74399.Moscow_2042"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Hymn", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 636, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Swept through a time-space warp at the height of the Civil War, the 35th Maine found themselves stranded on an alien world. Now William R. Forstchen has written an all-new \"Lost Regiment\" adventure with an even more treacherous adversary.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/362140.Battle_Hymn"}, +{"book_title": "Lockstep", "author_name": "Karl Schroeder", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1633, "review_number": 281, "book_description": "When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he\u2019s orbiting is frozen and sunless, and the cities are dead. But when Toby wakes again, he\u2019s surprised to discover a thriving planet, a strange and prosperous galaxy, and something stranger still\u2014that he\u2019s been asleep for 14,000 years.Welcome to the Lockstep Empire, where civilization is kept alive by careful hibernation. Here cold sleeps can last decades and waking moments mere weeks. Its citizens survive for millennia, traveling asleep on long voyages between worlds. Not only is Lockstep the new center of the galaxy, but Toby is shocked to learn that the Empire is still ruled by its founding family: his own.Toby\u2019s brother Peter has become a terrible tyrant. Suspicious of the return of his long-lost brother, whose rightful inheritance also controls the lockstep hibernation cycles, Peter sees Toby as a threat to his regime. Now, with the help of a lockstep girl named Corva, Toby must survive the forces of this new Empire, outwit his siblings, and save human civilization.Karl Schroeder's Lockstep is a grand innovation in hard SF space opera.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910135-lockstep"}, +{"book_title": "Midnight's Master", "author_name": "Donna Grant", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 2977, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "Defenders against evil. Bound by the gods. The Dark Warriors are taking their battle from ancient Scotland to the modern world\u2014where a woman\u2019s love can set them free\u2026A MYSTERY OUT OF TIMEGwynn Austin has no idea why her father has disappeared on a mysterious trip to Scotland. When she goes on a desperate mission to search for him she finds more than she bargains for in a ruggedly handsome, wickedly exciting Highlander who exudes danger and mystery. And when she discovers her own link to Scotland, she\u2019ll have to trust her heart to help lead her...A LEGEND IN THE FLESHPropelled through time by powerful Druid Magic, Logan Hamilton uses his immortality and powers of the god inside him to help prevent the awakening of an ancient evil in the modern world. He never expects to find help in the form of a beautiful, alluring, and all too tempting woman whose passion and strength matches his own. Together, Logan and Gywnn must fight for their love\u2014before a demon from the past destroys them both\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12716317-midnight-s-master"}, +{"book_title": "To Catch A Warrior", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 650, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Titus, leader of the southern Zargonnii, has made it his mission to find a single female he was placed in charge of months earlier; a female he lost while trying to save her; a female he cannot find. His determination leads him to the extreme. The only place left to look is a planet within a sun. A planet full of ice and snow and emptiness, except for one little female, Zabbie. Zabbie is hard and tough, a little warrior who has thwarted death too many times to count. Resigned to dying of exposure to either ice or fire, she can\u2019t make heads or tails of the strange alien who lands within her hell. One thing she knows for certain, whether or not Titus is real, she\u2019s keeping the emotional male in turmoil, and will go to any length to catch a warrior.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Space", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25617445-to-catch-a-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "The Landing", "author_name": "Colin Taber", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 738, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "What if?What if the descendants of the Vikings who settled Greenland and went on to reach North America around the end of the first millennium had stayed?Five hundred years later, would Christopher Columbus have arrived to the south of an eastern seaboard dotted with centuries old settlements and towns hosting devotees to Thor and Odin?Might the Norse have gone on to build a nation as dominant as the United States of our own world? A thousand years after reaching Greenland, Vinland and Markland, would we still have had two world wars? What might the world look like? Where might the political and religious divides be drawn?This is the New World.***At the turn of the first millennium:Eskil, orphaned in war, but now a man, is leading his followers to found a settlement dedicated to Asgard\u2019s gods in the newly discovered lands in the west. There, after tests, adventures and challenges, he will leave a legacy that will grow to become the strongest nation the world has ever seen.The Landing is the first book in The United States of Vinland series and is an alternate history that begins the saga with the establishment of the first Markland halls.Welcome to Norse America.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Medieval)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17383307-the-landing"}, +{"book_title": "Ballistic", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 2634, "review_number": 192, "book_description": "There is a personal price to pay for having aligned with the wrong side in a reckless war. For Aden Jansen it\u2019s the need to adopt a new identity while keeping his past hidden. Now he\u2019s integrated himself aboard the Zephyr, a merchant ship smuggling critical goods through dangerous space. But danger is imminent on planet Gretia, as well. Under occupation, torn between postwar reformers and loyalists, it\u2019s a polestar for civil unrest.Meanwhile an occupation forces officer is pulled right back into the fray when the battle alarm is raised, an ambitious heiress is entangled in a subversive political conspiracy, and an Allied captain is about to meet the enemy head-on.As Aden discovers, the insurgents on Gretia\u2014and in space\u2014are connected, organized, and ready to break into full-scale rebellion. History is threatening to repeat itself. It\u2019s time that Aden rediscovers who he is, whom he can trust, and what he must fight for now.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45458991-ballistic"}, +{"book_title": "The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth", "author_name": "Michio Kaku", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 7280, "review_number": 903, "book_description": "The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future in space.Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth. More than a possibility, it is becoming a necessity: whether our hand is forced by climate change and resource depletion or whether future catastrophes compel us to abandon Earth, one day we will make our homes among the stars.World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores in rich, accessible detail how humanity might gradually develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. With his trademark storytelling verve, Kaku shows us how science fiction is becoming reality: mind-boggling developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology could enable us to build habitable cities on Mars; nearby stars might be reached by microscopic spaceships sailing through space on laser beams; and technology might one day allow us to transcend our physical bodies entirely.With irrepressible enthusiasm and wonder, Dr. Kaku takes readers on a fascinating journey to a future in which humanity could finally fulfil its long-awaited destiny among the stars - and perhaps even achieve immortality.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Physics)", "Space", "Science (Technology)", "Futurism", "Science (Astronomy)", "Audiobook", "Science (Popular Science)", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36407347-the-future-of-humanity"}, +{"book_title": "Go Tell the Spartans", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1006, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Since the late 20th century, the Soviet-American CoDominium had kept the peace, both on Earth and among the stars. But now the CoDominium is dying, and its death-throes will be terrible; already the nations arm for their final battle. With Earth doomed, mankind's sole hope for a future worth having rests on a planet called Sparta, a planet where American idealists have raised once more the banner of a liberty that has been forgotten amid the corruptions and tyrannies of Earth.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/583420.Go_Tell_the_Spartans"}, +{"book_title": "Endless", "author_name": "Amanda Gray", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 592, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "Jenny Kramer knows she isn't normal. After all, not everybody can see the past lives of people around them.When she befriends Ben Daulton, resident new boy, the pair stumble on an old music box with instructions for \u201cmesmerization\u201d and discover they may have more in common than they thought. Like a past life.Using the instructions in the music box, Ben and Jenny share a dream that transports them to Romanov Russia and leads them to believe they have been there together before. But they weren't alone. Nikolai, the mysterious young man Jenny has been seeing in her own dreams was there, too. When Nikolai appears next door, Jenny is forced to acknowledge that he has travelled through time and space to find her. Doing so means he has defied the laws of time, and the Order, an ominous organization tasked with keeping people in the correct time, is determined to send him back. While Ben, Jenny and Nikolai race against the clock - and the Order - Jenny and Nikolai discover a link that joins them in life - and beyond death.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18157967-endless"}, +{"book_title": "Lexicon", "author_name": "Max Barry", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 34928, "review_number": 4143, "book_description": "At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics--at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science. Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. The very best will graduate as \"poets\", adept wielders of language who belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive.Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff is making a living running a three-card Monte game on the streets of San Francisco when she attracts the attention of the organization's recruiters. She is flown across the country for the school's strange and rigorous entrance exams, where, once admitted, she will be taught the fundamentals of persuasion by Bronte, Eliot, and Lowell--who have adopted the names of famous poets to conceal their true identities. For in the organization, nothing is more dangerous than revealing who you are: Poets must never expose their feelings lest they be manipulated. Emily becomes the school's most talented prodigy until she makes a catastrophic mistake: She falls in love.Meanwhile, a seemingly innocent man named Wil Jamieson is brutally ambushed by two strange men in an airport bathroom. Although he has no recollection of anything they claim he's done, it turns out Wil is the key to a secret war between rival factions of poets and is quickly caught in their increasingly deadly crossfire. Pursued relentlessly by people with powers he can barely comprehend and protected by the very man who first attacked him, Wil discovers that everything he thought he knew about his past was fiction. In order to survive, must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, to discover who he is and why an entire town was blown off the map.As the two narratives converge, the shocking work of the poets is fully revealed, the body count rises, and the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel event which would leave all language meaningless. A brilliant thriller that connects very modern questions of privacy, identity, and the rising obsession of data collection to centuries-old ideas about the power of language and coercion, Lexicon is Max Barry's most ambitious and spellbinding novel yet.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158596-lexicon"}, +{"book_title": "Broken Homes", "author_name": "Ben Aaronovitch", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 37102, "review_number": 2531, "book_description": "A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil; an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common or garden serial killer?Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his case-load.So far so London.But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans and inhabited by the truly desperate.Is there a connection?And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16078584-broken-homes"}, +{"book_title": "Vortex", "author_name": "Julie Cross", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3031, "review_number": 449, "book_description": "Julie Cross's Vortex is the thrilling second installment of the Tempest series, in which the world hangs in the balance as a lovelorn Jackson must choose who to save.Jackson Meyer has thrown himself into his role as an agent for Tempest, the shadowy division of the CIA that handles all time-travel-related threats. Despite his heartbreak at losing the love of his life, Jackson has proved himself to be an excellent agent. However, after an accidental run in with Holly\u2014the girl he altered history to save\u2014Jackson is once again reminded of what he's lost. And when Eyewall, an opposing division of the CIA, emerges, Jackson and his fellow agents not only find themselves under attack, but Jackson begins to discover that the world around him has changed and someone knows about his erased relationship with Holly, putting both their lives at risk all over again.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13364300-vortex"}, +{"book_title": "The Solution", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 3056, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "David, the newest Animorph, is not what he appears. His need to control the other Animorphs and Ax is all he thinks about. And the things he does are starting to break up the group.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366790.The_Solution"}, +{"book_title": "Close Liaisons", "author_name": "Anna Zaires", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 9058, "review_number": 830, "book_description": "\nA dark and edgy romance that will appeal to fans of erotic and turbulent relationships...\nIn the near future, the Krinar rule the Earth. An advanced race from another galaxy, they are still a mystery to us \u2013 and we are completely at their mercy.Shy and innocent, Mia Stalis is a college student in New York City who has led a very normal life. Like most people, she\u2019s never had any interactions with the invaders \u2013 until one fateful day in the park changes everything. Having caught Korum\u2019s eye, she must now contend with a powerful, dangerously seductive Krinar who wants to possess her and will stop at nothing to make her his own.How far would you go to regain your freedom? How much would you sacrifice to help your people? What choice will you make when you begin to fall for your enemy?WARNING: This book contains strong sexual content and explicit language and is not suitable for readers under 18.Word Count: 88,000", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17608853-close-liaisons"}, +{"book_title": "Ashes of Midnight", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 24751, "review_number": 817, "book_description": "A woman driven by blood. A man thirsting for vengeance.A place where darkness and desire meet...As night falls, Claire Roth flees, driven from her home by a fiery threat that seems to come from hell itself. Then, from out of the flames and ash, a vampire warrior emerges. He is Andreas Reichen, her onetime lover, now a stranger consumed by vengeance. Caught in the cross fire, Claire cannot escape his savage fury\u2014or the hunger that plunges her into his world of eternal darkness and unending pleasure.Nothing will stop Andreas from destroying the vampire responsible for slaughtering his Breed brethren . . . even if he must use his former lover as a pawn in his deadly mission. Blood-bonded to his treacherous adversary, Claire can lead Andreas to the enemy he seeks, but it is a journey fraught with danger\u2014and deep, unbidden desires. For Claire is the one woman Andreas should not crave, and the only one he\u2019s ever loved. A dangerous seduction begins\u2014one that blurs the lines between predator and prey, and stokes the flames of a white-hot passion that may consume all in its path. . . .", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4769247-ashes-of-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "The Hundred", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.64, "rating_votes": 340, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "THE LEGION HAS LANDED.One-hundred men met the brutal standards of General Tyrus Rechs and became legionnaires.One-hundred men embarked on a suicide mission to retake New Vega from the Savages.One-hundred men stood up. . .for the galaxy.Performed by Stephen ('Avatar', 'Gods and Generals'), 'THE HUNDRED' is the exciting conclusion to the Savage Wars trilogy as the Legion launches a desperate brutal assault against the overwhelming forces of the Savage Alliance.RUNNING TIME \u21d2 11hrs. and 32mins.\u00a92020 Galaxy's Edge, LLC (P)2020 Audible, Inc.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53399884-the-hundred"}, +{"book_title": "The Bound Prince", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1839, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Shapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Falke commands the Var armies, so it\u2019s a little embarrassing when a beautiful female kidnaps him in his shifted form. Since no one knows where to send a rescue party, it\u2019s up to him to use all his training and powers of seduction to find his way back home. Captain Samantha Dorsey and her men are on a mission to complete a scavenger hunt and claim the prize money. Drunk and feeling like some fun, they snag the last thing on their list--a primitive wild beast. The next morning she realizes that they got more than they bargained for...they kidnaped a warrior prince.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12591987-the-bound-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Invasion: Alaska", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1067, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "The invasion of Alaska has begun. And the Third World War may not be far behind.In this controversial book, Vaughn Heppner explores the theme of a shattered America facing the onslaught of the new colossus in the East: Greater China.The time is 2032, and the Chinese are crossing the polar ice and steaming through the Gulf of Alaska. They have conquered oil-rich Siberia and turned Japan into a satellite state. Now a new glacial period has begun, devastating the world\u2019s food supply. China plans to corner the world\u2019s oil market and buy the needed food for their hungry masses.A weakened America uses old technology against the next generation of military hardware. The invasion unleashes the Hell of battle as two armies turn the snowfields of Alaska red with blood.INVASION: ALASKA is the first book of the series, a thundering technothriller vast in scope, written by bestselling author Vaughn Heppner.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13309221-invasion"}, +{"book_title": "Confluence", "author_name": "S.K. Dunstall", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1240, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "From the national bestselling author of Alliance, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself caught in a dangerous fight for political power... The lines. Mysterious yet familiar: the key to controlling every ship in the galaxy. Once they were thought of as tools, but since linesman Ean Lambert discovered strange new lines in an alien vessel, they have become so much more\u2014symbols of a power too great to ignore.While the Crown Princess of Lancia seeks to share the new technology, her father, the Emperor, has other plans. His latest political maneuverings seem to be tilting the balance of control to Lancia\u2019s favor\u2014a move that not all members of the New Alliance are looking upon favorably.As tensions mount, Ean\u2019s former shipmates must unite to avert a disastrous conflict: the princess working within the tumultuous Alliance, Ean seeking the help of the impatient alien ships, and Ean\u2019s close friend and bodyguard, Radko, embarking on a mysterious and perilous mission.But the biggest threat comes from an unexpected source. Someone is trying to take down the New Alliance from within\u2014and will use anything, even the lines themselves, to ensure its destruction...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29429969-confluence"}, +{"book_title": "Cetaganda", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 17428, "review_number": 667, "book_description": "The latest installment in the adventures of Miles Vorkosigan. Miles and Cousin Ivan travel to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of nobility doing their diplomatic duty. But when the Empress of Cetaganda dies naturally, and her lifelong attendant dies unnaturally, Miles and Ivan finds themselves in the thick of it.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76812.Cetaganda"}, +{"book_title": "Chobits, Vol. 2", "author_name": "CLAMP", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 5509, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Hideki is used to getting the short end of the stick. He can't get into school, his parents cut off his allowance, and he's a 19-year-old virgin. So when he found a perfectly good humanoid computer - a persocom - lying in the garbage, it seemed like his luck was finally starting to turn around. Chi isn't like any other persocom ever created. She is self-teaching - a true artificial intelligence - and best of all, she's hot. Hideki should have know it was too good to be true. The diagnostics said that Chi's memories were erased, but something, or someone, is hidden away in her cybernetic soul, and now it is trying to contact her. If Hideki doesn't figure out her mystery soon, he may lose Chi...to herself.Chapters 13-24", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fantasy", "Comics Manga", "Media Tie In (Anime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/667986.Chobits_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "Gears of Brass Anthology", "author_name": "Jordan Elizabeth", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 72, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "A world like ours, but filled with gears of brass, where the beating heart is fueled by steam and the simplest creation is a complex clockwork device.Within this tome, you\u2019ll find steampunk fairy tale re-tellings, as well as original stories that will send your gears turning.Welcome to the steampunk realm, with eleven authors guiding your path.GEARS OF BRASS is a steampunk anthology published through Curiosity Quills. Within the pages, you\u2019ll come across clockwork inventions and steampunk-ified fairy tale retellings. Eleven authors will guide you through worlds filled with airships, top hats, and corsets.IntroductionA \u201cSteamy\u201d NoteA Clockwork Dollhouse, by Jordan ElizabethZeus\u2019 Fire, by Lorna MacDonald CzarnotaClockwork Wolf, by Jordan ElizabethLana\u2019s End, by Christine BakerThe Clockwork Monkey, by W.K. PomeroyTreasure\u2019s Kiss, by Jordan ElizabethAutumn Rose, by Eliza TiltonA Princess of Zephyris, by Heather TaltyThe Key Girl, by Grant EagarA Clockwork Beast, by Jordan ElizabethMy Golden Anabel, by Natalia DarcyThe Archive Room, by Clare WezeTime Spun Souls, by S.A. LarsenClockwork Dwarves, by Jordan ElizabethLast of the Giants, by J. Million", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23529995-gears-of-brass-anthology"}, +{"book_title": "Time Quake", "author_name": "Linda Buckley-Archer", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2048, "review_number": 223, "book_description": "The Tar Man's employer, Lord Luxon, steals the time machine and travels to 19th century New York - just in time to sabotage the American War of Independence...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934587-time-quake"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 124579, "review_number": 1732, "book_description": "Breaking the laws of nature is a serious crime!In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical \u201cauto-mail\u201d limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother\u2019s bodies...the legendary Philosopher\u2019s Stone.Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and a leg\u2026and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is an agent of the government, a slave of the military-alchemical complex, using his unique powers to obey orders\u2026even to kill. Except his powers aren't unique. The world has been ravaged by the abuse of alchemy. And in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure, the Philosopher's Stone, their enemies are even more ruthless than they are\u2026", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/870.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Mass Effect: Revelation", "author_name": "Drew Karpyshyn", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 10728, "review_number": 683, "book_description": "Every advanced society in the galaxy relies on the technology of the Protheans, an ancient species that vanished fifty thousand years ago. After discovering a cache of Prothean technology on Mars in 2148, humanity is spreading to the stars; the newest interstellar species, struggling to carve out its place in the greater galactic community.\n\nOn the edge of colonized space, ship commander and Alliance war hero David Anderson investigates the remains of a top secret military research station; smoking ruins littered with bodies and unanswered questions. Who attacked this post and for what purpose? And where is Kahlee Sanders, the young scientist who mysteriously vanished from the base hours before her colleagues were slaughtered?Sanders is now the prime suspect, but finding her creates more problems for Anderson than it solves. Partnered with a rogue alien agent he can't trust and pursued by an assassin he can't escape, Anderson battles impossible odds on uncharted worlds to uncover a sinister conspiracy . . . one he won't live to tell about. Or so the enemy thinks.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231599.Mass_Effect"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Enigma", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 15648, "review_number": 1269, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her world of dark passion and immortal power\u2014and to one of the most seductive and impenetrable heroes ever to stalk the Guild Hunter landscape\u2026\u201cOh, Naasir. So weird, so bloodthirsty, so unique and wonderful\u2026I have fallen for him\u2026\u201d\u2014Fiction VixenNaasir is the most feral of the powerful group of vampires and angels known as the Seven, his loyalty pledged to the Archangel Raphael. When rumors surface of a plot to murder the former Archangel of Persia, now lost in the Sleep of the Ancients, Naasir is dispatched to find him. For only he possesses the tracking skills required\u2014those more common to predatory animals than to man.Enlisted to accompany Naasir, Andromeda, a young angelic scholar with dangerous secrets, is fascinated by his nature\u2014at once playful and brilliant, sensual and brutal. As they race to find the Sleeping archangel before it\u2019s too late, Naasir will force her to question all she knows\u2026and tempt her to walk into the magnificent, feral darkness of his world. But first they must survive an enemy vicious enough to shatter the greatest taboo of the angelic race and plunge the world into a screaming nightmare\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17409842-archangel-s-enigma"}, +{"book_title": "The Edge of Human", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.09, "rating_votes": 923, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "K.W. Jeter picks up the tale of Rick Deckard, the `blade runner' created by Phillip K. Dick and popularized by Ridley Scott's cult classic film.\u00a0\u00a0Consistent with the sordid vision of 21st century Los Angeles crafted by Dick and Scott, Jeter creates a stylish piece of thrilling, futuristic suspense that finds Deckard not only in the role of hunter, but also hunted.\u00a0\u00a0Again, Deckard is on the trail of an replicant, not knowing that it may be the most elusive and dangerous android of all.From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Culture (Film)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80240.The_Edge_of_Human"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Baroness", "author_name": "Georgina Young-Ellis", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 278, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "The Time Baroness is the story of Dr. Cassandra Reilly, a scientist from the year 2120 who embarks upon a time travel journey to England of 1820. Her purpose is to conduct an experiment: living for a year in the guise of a wealthy widow and interacting within the Regency world. Though she has painstakingly prepared for the experience, her new neighbors in Hampshire County sense something strange about her, and though most embrace her for her kindness and charm, some are shocked by her odd ways. Ultimately though, her beauty attracts a handsome violinist, also new to the neighborhood, and they begin an affair, which further endangers her reputation in the community.As she is struggling to fit in, her grown son, James, suddenly arrives on her doorstep, popping in from the future. His presence is one more component that could cause her masquerade to unravel. James becomes a popular addition to the Hampshire society, but he makes a terrible mistake. He brings with him a device from the future and shows it to a young woman with whom he is smitten. She is terrified and creates an uproar. James is arrested for possessing a dangerous and subversive object and it is up to his mother to free him from a London prison and return him to the future before her enemies succeed in convicting him. Help comes from a surprising source, and ultimately Cassandra realizes that people, and love, are not always what they seem to be.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Regency)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12692196-the-time-baroness"}, +{"book_title": "More Happy Than Not", "author_name": "Adam Silvera", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 42804, "review_number": 6942, "book_description": "Part Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, part Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Adam Silvera's extraordinary debut confronts race, class, and sexuality during one charged near-future summer in the Bronx. Sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto is struggling to find happiness after a family tragedy leaves him reeling. He's slowly remembering what happiness might feel like this summer with the support of his girlfriend Genevieve, but it's his new best friend, Thomas, who really gets Aaron to open up about his past and confront his future.As Thomas and Aaron get closer, Aaron discovers things about himself that threaten to shatter his newfound contentment. A revolutionary memory-alteration procedure, courtesy of the Leteo Institute, might be the way to straighten himself out. But what if it means forgetting who he truly is?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction", "Health (Mental Health)", "Realistic Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19542841-more-happy-than-not"}, +{"book_title": "Razor's Traitorous Heart", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3016, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Ein Alienkrieger wurde geschickt, um Frieden zu schmieden, aber alles was er wirklich will \u2026 ist sie. Wir haben Nachrichten ins All geschickt, um herauszufinden, ob dort jemand ist, zuh\u00f6rt. Vor sechs Jahren sind dann die Trivatoren auf die Erde gekommen. Sie wollten die Erde in die Allianz der Sternensysteme aufnehmen, aber weltweit kam es zu gewaltt\u00e4tigen Panikreaktionen auf den unerwarteten Besuch, so dass die Trivatoren schlie\u00dflich gezwungen waren, die Kontrolle zu \u00fcbernehmen. Es geht nicht gut. Razor ist ein Hochkanzler der Allianz, der schlie\u00dflich gesendet wird, um f\u00fcr Ordnung auf der Erde zu sorgen \u2013 mit allen notwendigen Mitteln. Chicago ist ein Stadt, die von zwei Gruppen geteilt wurde, und ein Ziel, um das Chaos zu beenden. Und es geschieht auch in Chicago, dass eine Kriegerin sein Leben rettet und verschwindet. Kali hat ihr Leben der Aufgabe ihre Bruders gewidmet. Schlie\u00dflich ist Destin der Einzige, der Chicagos beste Interessen im Sinn hat. Colbert strebt nur nach Macht und er ist auf jeden Fall ein m\u00e4chtiger Gegner geworden. So war es nicht immer gewesen. Er war einmal einer ihrer engsten Vertrauten gewesen, aber das war Vergangenheit und Kali w\u00fcrde jetzt alles tun, was n\u00f6tig ist, ihren Leuten Frieden zu bringen, auch wenn es bedeutete, gegen die riesigen Alienkrieger zu k\u00e4mpfen, die vor sechs Jahren ihre Nase in Erdenangelegenheiten gesteckt haben und geblieben sind. Eines Nachts entdeckt Kali jemanden, der sterben wird, wenn sie nicht handelt und erst mitten in der Rettung erkennt sie, dass es ein Trivator ist! Razor hat noch nie bei einer Mission versagt und sein Ruf besonders r\u00fccksichtslos zu sein kommt nicht von ungef\u00e4hr. Zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben ist er hin und hergerissen zwischen seiner Pflicht und etwas g\u00e4nzlich Ungewohntem, seinem Herzen. Die weltber\u00fchmte Autorin S.E. Smith pr\u00e4sentiert eine neues aufregendes Buch, voller Leidenschaft und Abenteuer. Gef\u00fcllt mit ihrem einzigartigen Humor, lebhaften Landschaften und beliebten Charaktere wird dieses Buch garantiert ein weiterer Fan-Favorit!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22459186-razor-s-traitorous-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Fire & Flood", "author_name": "Victoria Scott", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 10448, "review_number": 1981, "book_description": "What would you do to save someone you love?Time is slipping away. . . .Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying--and she's helpless to change anything.Until she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed. It's an epic race across jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother's illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and there's no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race.The jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can't trust the allies she makes. And one big question emerges: Why have so many fallen sick in the first place?Victoria Scott's breathtaking novel grabs readers by the throat and doesn't let go.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Action", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22571272-fire-flood"}, +{"book_title": "All the Turns of Light", "author_name": "Frank Tuttle", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 547, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Join Mug and Meralda as they take to the skies in the long-awaited sequel to All the Paths of Shadow!The airship Intrepid, fitted with Mage Meralda's flying coils and bearing a crew of a hundred and sixty-two souls, sets out to cross the treacherous Great Sea. If the Intrepid survives the voyage, she will be the first craft of the Realms to ever reach the mysterious Hang homeland. But as Meralda soon discovers, storms and sea-serpents are not the greatest perils she must face. There are powerful forces opposed to the Intrepid's crossing, and the most dangerous foe of all may lurk deep within Meralda's own heart.If you've a taste for airships and intrigue, magic and more Mug, then climb aboard the Intrepid and dare the vast Great Sea\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23572718-all-the-turns-of-light"}, +{"book_title": "Gone", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 183220, "review_number": 10904, "book_description": "In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young.There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents\u2014unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers\u2014that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your 15th birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2536134.Gone"}, +{"book_title": "The Price of Peace", "author_name": "Mike Moscoe", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 520, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "In the wake of the war between the Society of Humanity and the Unity Party, military ship Captain Inez Umboto and Lieutenant Terrance \"Trouble\" Tordon patrol the universe. But in the no-man's-land of Rim Space, pirates roam freely. And Umboto and Tordon will soon learn that enforcing the peace can be just as expensive as fighting the war...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929644.The_Price_of_Peace"}, +{"book_title": "Bionicle, Vol. 6: The Underwater City", "author_name": "Greg Farshtey", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 59, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "After the events of \"The Battle of Voya Nui,\" the powerful Mask of Light has sunk beneath the sea where it turns up in the underwater city of Mahri Nui. The Matoran of this city must constantly plan their defense against a barrage of predators that continue to circle the city, striking again and again. After its discovery by an inventor named Defilak, the Mask of Light begins to reveal a deadly secret that becomes apparent to those who witness its effects on the user. For while its power gives the wearer great strength that could be used for good, the Mask of Light or \"Ignika\" as it comes to be called, brings paranoia, jealousy, and madness to anyone who wears it. The struggle for the Mask of Light continues.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6133399-bionicle-vol-6"}, +{"book_title": "Superior Saturday", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 13683, "review_number": 382, "book_description": "On the sixth day, there was sorcery.Arthur Penhaligan has wrested five of the Keys from their immortal guardians, the Trustees of the Will. But gaining the Sixth Key poses a greater challenge than any he has faced before. Superior Saturday is not just one of the Trustees \u2013 she is also the oldest Denizen and the most powerful and knowledgeable sorcerer within the House. She has tens of thousands of sorcerers at her command, and she has been preparing her forces all along for the Will\u2019s escape and the activities of the Rightful Heir. As Saturday\u2019s schemes become evident, Arthur is beset on all sides. The House is being destroyed, and only the power of the Keys can hold back the tide of destruction. Arthur\u2019s home city is under attack. His allies are unreliable. He can\u2019t even get into the apparently impregnable Upper House . . . \u00a0and even if he does, finding the Sixth Part of the Will and gaining the Sixth Key might not be enough to counter Saturday\u2019s bid for ultimate power. The Stakes are getting higher and higher. Can Arthur survive?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2049823.Superior_Saturday"}, +{"book_title": "Pretties", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 236639, "review_number": 10383, "book_description": "Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect.Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life -- because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24768.Pretties"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 2173, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy\u2019s lawless outer rim\u2026 It was supposed to be an exciting job on a space station, but instead, scientist Dr. Regan Forrest finds herself fighting for her life when she\u2019s kidnapped by alien slavers. Far from Earth and forced into a violent gladiatorial arena on the outer rim, she finds herself swept into the brawny arms of a big, wild alien gladiator. Weapon, brute, gladiator, warrior\u2026 Sirrush warrior Thorin has been called many things. As a warrior of his people, he was a dark, dangerous weapon until even his own family were too afraid of him. Sold into slavery in the Kor Magna Arena, he has long ago earned his freedom. Now he enjoys the violent but rewarding life he\u2019s carved out for himself. Until he rescues one small, smart, and perplexing female from alien slavers. Regan is determined to make a place for herself in her new home. She may not have the skills to fight in the arena, but she\u2019s smart and knows she can help...even as she fights her attraction to the big, bold, and fascinating Thorin. She knows he\u2019ll never be interested in her. But when Regan catches a glimpse of her cousin across a crowded market, she needs help to mount a rescue, and it comes in the form of the gladiator she desperately wants. A gladiator hiding a dark, uncontrollable secret with the power to destroy them both.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Action", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32905005-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Sport", "author_name": "Lisa Smedman", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 184, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Mama Grande streaked into Leni's life like a nightmare on wheels. Arriving out of nowhere, she claimed to be the ex-Lone Star detective's grandmother, and spouted dire prophecies of rivers of blood and a world in flames. But her bizarre murder prompts Leni and Combat Biker wannabe Rafael to investigate Mama Grande's past...straight into the dark heart of Aztlan-a lost civilization where human sacrifice is all the rage, and ancient ceremonial games could trigger the end of the world!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/589489.Blood_Sport"}, +{"book_title": "Hush, Hush", "author_name": "Becca Fitzpatrick", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 593280, "review_number": 25325, "book_description": "A SACRED OATHA FALLEN ANGELA FORBIDDEN LOVERomance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6339664-hush-hush"}, +{"book_title": "The Mech Who Loved Me", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1043, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Ava McLaren is tired of being both a virgin, and a mere laboratory assistant for the Company of Rogues. When a baffling mystery rears its head, it presents her with the opportunity to work a real case... and perhaps get a taste of the passion that eludes her.Blue bloods are dying from a mysterious disease, which should be impossible. Ava suspects there's more to the case than meets the eye and wants a chance to prove herself. There\u2019s just one catch\u2014she\u2019s ordered to partner with the sexy mech, Kincaid, who's a constant thorn in her side. Kincaid thinks the only good blue blood is a dead one. He's also the very last man she would ever give her heart to\u2026 which makes him the perfect candidate for an affair.The only rule? It ends when the case does.But when an attempt on her life proves that Ava might be onto something, the only one who can protect her is Kincaid. Suddenly the greatest risk is not to their hearts, but whether they can survive a diabolical plot that threatens to destroy every blue blood in London\u2014including Ava.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31682355-the-mech-who-loved-me"}, +{"book_title": "Candor", "author_name": "Pam Bachorz", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 6018, "review_number": 885, "book_description": "In the model community of Candor, Florida, every teen wants to be like Oscar Banks. The son of the town\u2019s founder, Oscar earns straight As, is student-body president, and is in demand for every club and cause.But Oscar has a secret. He knows that parents bring their teens to Candor to make them respectful, compliant\u2014perfect\u2014through subliminal Messages that carefully correct and control their behavior. And Oscar\u2019s built a business sabotaging his father\u2019s scheme with Messages of his own, getting his clients out before they\u2019re turned. After all, who would ever suspect the perfect Oscar Banks?Then he meets Nia, the girl he can\u2019t stand to see changed. Saving Nia means losing her forever. Keeping her in Candor, Oscar risks exposure . . . and more.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Family", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065629-candor"}, +{"book_title": "BIOMEGA \u30d0\u30a4\u30aa\u30e1\u30ac 1", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1972, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "7\u4e16\u7d00\u3076\u308a\u306b\u706b\u661f\u3078\u306e\u6709\u4eba\u98db\u884c\u3092\u6210\u3057\u9042\u3052\u305f\u4eba\u985e\u3002\u5ec3\u589f\u3068\u5316\u3057\u305f\u5165\u690d\u5730\ufffd\ufffd\u6c34\u3082\u9178\u7d20\u3082\u306a\u3044\u306f\u305a\u306e\u305d\u3053\u3067\u3001\u5b87\u5b99\u98db\u884c\u58eb\u9054\u306f1\u4eba\u306e\u5973\u3092\u767a\u898b\u3059\u308b\u3002\ufffd\ufffd\u534a\u5e74\u5f8c\u3001\u5730\u7403\u3002\u5927\u5e73\u6d0b\u5927\u6a4b\u3092\u75be\u8d70\u3059\u308b\u3001\u4e00\u9a0e\u306e\u91cd\u4e8c\u8f2a\u304c\u3042\u3063\u305f\u3002\u305d\u306e\u642d\u4e57\u8005\u3001\u5408\u6210\u4eba\u9593\u30fb\u5e9a \u9020\u4e00\u306f\u6771\u4e9c\u91cd\u5de5\u306e\u547d\u3092\u53d7\u3051\u3001800\u5e74\u524d\u306b\u5efa\u8a2d\u3055\u308c\u305f\u4eba\u5de5\u5cf6\u300c9JO\u300d\u306b\u6f5c\u5165\u3059\u308b\u3002\u305d\u3057\u3066\u3001\u9020\u4e00\u306f\u706b\u661f\u3088\u308a\u3082\u305f\u3089\u3055\u308c\u305f\u30a6\u30a3\u30eb\u30b9\u306e\u8df3\u6881\u3068\u5bfe\u6c7a\u3059\u308b\u3053\u3068\u306b\u2026\u2026\u2026\u3002", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624705.BIOMEGA_1"}, +{"book_title": "Silently and Very Fast", "author_name": "Catherynne M. 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Together Neva and Elefsis navigate their history and their future, an uneasy, unwilling symbiote.But what they discover in their dreamworld might change them forever . . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12887497-silently-and-very-fast"}, +{"book_title": "The Tar-Aiym Krang", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 4688, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings -- two great golden clouds suspended in space around it.Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers -- a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake Pip. With his odd talents, the pickings were easy enough so that Flinx did not have to be dishonest ... most of the time.In fact, it hardly seemed dishonest at all to steal a starmap from a dead body that didn't really need it anymore. But Flinx wasn't quite smart enough. 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When Olympus intelligence learns of a giant Landmate powersuit being built in secrecy, and on the threshold of a top-secret international conference of the highest importance to be held in Olympus, ESWAT is mobilized to crack the mystery and disrupt a terrorist operation that could turn the fragile peace into World War IV!", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics Manga", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918864.Appleseed"}, +{"book_title": "Weapons of Choice", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4882, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "\nOn the eve of America\u2019s greatest victory in the Pacific, a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . . \nThe impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll\u2014and what was to be the most spectacular U.S. triumph of the entire war. Thousands died in the chaos, but the ripples had only begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor\u2014led by Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, and Spruance\u2014have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. And they\u2019ve never encountered an African American colonel or a British naval commander who was a woman and half-Pakistani. While they embrace the armada\u2019s awesome firepower, they may find the twenty-first century sailors themselves far from acceptable.Initial jubilation at news the Allies would win the war is quickly doused by the chilling realization that the time travelers themselves\u2014by their very presence\u2014have rendered history null and void. Celebration turns to dread when the possibility arises that other elements of the twenty-first century task force may have also made the trip\u2014and might now be aiding Yamamoto and the Japanese.What happens next is anybody\u2019s guess\u2014and everybody\u2019s nightmare. . . .From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Thriller", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72989.Weapons_of_Choice"}, +{"book_title": "Divide and Conquer", "author_name": "Carrie Ryan", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 3159, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Scholastic's next multi-platform mega-event begins here!Dak, Sera, and Riq might be in over their heads when they attempt to stop a Viking invasion!Hundreds of ships carrying thousands of warriors are laying siege to medieval Paris. The Parisians are holding their own, but the stalemate can only last so long. And that's bad news -- especially since Dak has been captured, forced to work alongside the Vikings while Sera and Riq defend Paris from within. No matter which side wins, the kids lose!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13356177-divide-and-conquer"}, +{"book_title": "VALIS", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 25386, "review_number": 1579, "book_description": "VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Philosophy", "Religion", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216377.VALIS"}, +{"book_title": "Nylon Angel", "author_name": "Marianne de Pierres", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 649, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "The Tert\u2014a toxic strip of humanity outside the city limits\u2014is no longer big enough for bodyguard Parrish Plessis and her sadistic boss, Jamon Mondo. So with Mondo's dingoboys on her tail, Parrish cuts a deal with a rival gang lord to steal some files that could send Mondo to death row. At the same time, she's sheltering a suspect in the murder of news-grrl Razz Retribution. In a networld run by the media, the truth isn't relevant. It's bad for ratings, which is why Parrish finds herself tagged for the murder\u2014and up to her tricked-out leather tank top in trouble....", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Australia)", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/644987.Nylon_Angel"}, +{"book_title": "In the Heart of Darkness", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2513, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "The Malwa Empire, using gunpowder weapons and ruthless terror, has conquered 6th century India and is forging the subcontinent's vast population into an invincible weapon of tyranny. The supermind that commands the Malwa intends first to rule the world and then to set its inexorable stamp over all eternity. No action is too bestial for the supermind to order, nor for its Malwa lackeys to execute.Belisarius, the finest general of his, or any age, must save the world if he can. Graded by visions from a future that may never be, he and a band of comrades penetrate the Malwa heartland, seeking the core of the enemy's power. Against them are numbers, savagery, and an icy, inhuman intelligence that is without weakness or mercy.In Constantinople, those who would oppose evil face not only Malwa assassins and home-grown traitors but also the suspicions of the emperor himself: Justinian the Great, whose brilliant, febrile mind sees a threat from any competence and a plot in any counsel. If the truth comes out, the only question is whether Malwa daggers or Justinian's executioners wilt get to the patriots first.As Belisarius fights his way across the chaos of northern India, Constantinople explodes in a tumult that could destroy the city, the empire, and all hope for mankind. Courage and cunning must face overwhelming evil \u2014 But when Belisarius leads the forces of good, only a fool would side with evil.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57283.In_the_Heart_of_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Herr aller Dinge", "author_name": "Andreas Eschbach", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2888, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "Als Kinder begegnen sie sich zum ersten Mal: Charlotte, die Tochter des franz\u00f6sischen Botschafters, und Hiroshi, der Sohn einer Hausangestellten. Von Anfang an steht der soziale Unterschied sp\u00fcrbar zwischen ihnen. Doch Hiroshi hat eine Idee. Eine Idee, wie er den Unterschied zwischen Arm und Reich aus der Welt schaffen k\u00f6nnte. 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Now she's the most popular girl in town, as an assortment of vamps, fey, and mages try to convince, force, or seduce her\u2014and her magic\u2014over to their side. But one particular master vampire didn't ask what Cassie wanted before putting a claim on her. He had a spell cast that binds her to him, and now she doesn't know if what she feels for him is real\u2014or imagined\u2026", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207365.Claimed_by_Shadow"}, +{"book_title": "Final Battle", "author_name": "Michael R. Hicks", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2484, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Following Confederation, Final Battle is the last book in the saga of Reza Gard. Reza is caught up in a daring plot to assassinate the Confederation President, even as something goes terribly wrong in the Empire and its warriors lose their will to fight. Reunited with Tesh-Dar, Reza and his friends fight to save the woman he loves, with the fate of the Empire and Humanity hanging in the balance.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6933095-final-battle"}, +{"book_title": "Thrawn: Treason", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 9682, "review_number": 842, "book_description": "Grand Admiral Thrawn faces the ultimate test of his loyalty to the Empire in this epic Star Wars novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.\u201cIf I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance.\u201d Such was the promise Grand Admiral Thrawn made to Emperor Palpatine at their first meeting. Since then, Thrawn has been one of the Empire\u2019s most effective instruments, pursuing its enemies to the very edges of the known galaxy. But as keen a weapon as Thrawn has become, the Emperor dreams of something far more destructive.Now, as Thrawn\u2019s TIE defender program is halted in favor of Director Krennic\u2019s secret Death Star project, he realizes that the balance of power in the Empire is measured by more than just military acumen or tactical efficiency. Even the greatest intellect can hardly compete with the power to annihilate entire planets.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43160651-thrawn"}, +{"book_title": "Friendroid", "author_name": "M.M. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 81, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "\u201c[An] unrelentingly funny sc-fi story.\u201d \u2014BCCB (starred review) Stranger Things meets robots in this sweet and \u201cnoteworthy\u201d (Booklist) story about an unlikely friendship between two boys\u2014one human, one android.Danny\u2019s a kid. Eric\u2019s a kid, too. He\u2019s also a robot, but he doesn\u2019t know that. For Danny, it becomes hard to ignore Eric\u2019s super strange tendencies. He has weekly \u201cdentist\u201d appointments and parents who never stop smiling. It\u2019s almost impossible to wake him up and he\u2019s always getting fancy gifts from his mysterious uncle. Danny always assumed that Eric was just a spoiled rich kid\u2026until he discovers Eric\u2019s hidden robot reality. As the two friends dig deeper into Eric\u2019s origins and purpose, powerful forces swarm into town, and Danny and Eric are left with more questions than answers\u2014and more danger than humanly possible.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40538654-friendroid"}, +{"book_title": "Ignite Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 144933, "review_number": 16260, "book_description": "With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn\u2019t know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won\u2019t keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world . . . but that\u2019s not all he wants with her.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "New Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13188676-ignite-me"}, +{"book_title": "The Meat Market", "author_name": "James Chalk", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 455, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "For mature readers only. This pulp, cyberpunk, technothriller has profanity, violence, sexual situations, and an atheist protagonist. There are some disturbing scenes that may upset the more sensitive reader. For Jonathan Harkon, living life in exile is never easy. Forced into hiding his true identity and leaving the only home and family he's ever known, Jonathan finds himself halfway across the solar system, smuggling condoms for the religiously-oppressed citizens of an outer-system colony named Sanctity. It isn't long before his cover as a bouncer for a local \"bikini-bar\" is questioned, and he is quickly embroiled in Sanctity's hardcore, underground, sex-slave trade. With few friends by his side and only his ship, the HMS Mary Rose, to rely upon, Jonathan will need every ounce of the strength and skill that his heavily enhanced, genetically-engineered body can manage, if he means to survive and expose the terrible truth behind Sanctity's \"Meat Market.\" Set in the not too distant future, \"The Meat Market\" is the first short novel in author James Chalk's \"Jonathan Harkon Adventure\" series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Pulp", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18754855-the-meat-market"}, +{"book_title": "The Thousandth Floor", "author_name": "Katharine McGee", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 32077, "review_number": 5118, "book_description": "NEW YORK CITY AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future where anything is possible\u2014if you want it enough.WELCOME TO MANHATTAN, 2118.A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something\u2026and everyone has something to lose.LEDA COLE\u2019s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction\u2014to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched.ERIS DODD-RADSON\u2019s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart.RYLIN MYERS\u2019s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world\u2014and a romance\u2014she never imagined\u2026but will this new life cost Rylin her old one?WATT BAKRADI is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when he\u2019s hired to spy for an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies.And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is AVERY FULLER, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all\u2014yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.Amid breathtaking advancement and high-tech luxury, five teenagers struggle to find their place at the top of the world. But when you're this high up, there's nowhere to go but down....", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24921954-the-thousandth-floor"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Addiction", "author_name": "Kit Rocha", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 2627, "review_number": 301, "book_description": "She\u2019s fought like hell to leave the past behind.Trix changed her name and her life when she got clean four years ago. Now, she has a new family and a job she loves\u2014tending bar and dancing at the Broken Circle. As an O\u2019Kane, she\u2019s happy, untouchable. 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And it could cost them everything.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18392414-beyond-addiction"}, +{"book_title": "NanoBots", "author_name": "Chris Gall", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 231, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Introducing a team of robots powerful enough to change the world--and yet smaller than the dot at the end of this sentence! A boy inventor creates the ultimate in high-tech superheroes that could one day save the world--but they have some smaller problems to take on first! NanoBots are tiny. They're almost too small to see, but they can each do a unique and important job: Medibot makes sure their Inventor never catches a cold.... Chewbots gobble up that gum the Inventor trampled into the carpet... Binobot scans the scene of a crime for clues the Inventor could never see... and Seekerbots explore to meet microscopic new creatures. These bots and their high-tech friends sure make the inventor's life easier, but when the most AWESOME robot in town is in real trouble, they must band together and prove that sometimes the SMALLEST helpers can be the BIGGEST heroes! Includes fun facts about real nanotechnology in the backmatter.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26309382-nanobots"}, +{"book_title": "Freeware", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1184, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "Rudy Rucker has seen the future. . .and it is extreme.The Godfather of cyberpunk--a mad scientist bravely meddling in the outrageous and heretical--Rucker created Bopper Robots, who rebelled against human society in his award-winning classic \"Software.Now, in 2053, \"moldies\" are the latest robotic advancement--evolved artificial lifeforms made of soft plastic and gene-tweaked molds and algae, so anatomically inventive and universally despised that their very presence on the planet has thrown the entire low-rent future into a serious tailspin. So the moon is the place to be, if you're a persecuted \"moldie\" or an enlightened \"flesher\" intent an creating a new, more utopian hybrid civilization. Of course up there, there are other intergalactic intelligences to contend with--and some not so intelligent--who have their own agendas and appetites.This is scientific fabulation at its most brazenly inventive--funny, cutting-edge and deeply informed. No writer alive puts it all together like Rudy Rucker.Artificial life forms made of soft plastic and gene-tweaked mold and algae, moldies are evolved robots in the year 2053--anatomically inventive and universally despised. In a sleazy, low-rent future, sexual fraternization with moldies is strictly taboo--a societal sin that is of no concern whatsoever to Randy Karl Tucker. A Kentucky boy who has seriously strayed from the Heritagist religion's stern teachings about the evils of artificial life, Randy feels a definite something for Monique, moldie bookkeeper and maid at the Clearlight Terrace Court Motel But Monique1s sudden and inexplicable abduction from the planet--coupled with unsettling revelations about Randy1s own dubiousorigins--is dragging the degenerate flesher and all those around him into an ugly, conspiratorial mess. . .even as it pulls an unsuspecting humanity ever-closer to a stunning encounter with intergalactic intelligence.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274046.Freeware"}, +{"book_title": "Cogheart", "author_name": "Peter Bunzl", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2814, "review_number": 511, "book_description": "Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat...Lily\u2019s life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her?With her friends\u2014Robert, the clockmaker\u2019s son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox\u2014Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart...Murder, mayhem and mystery meet in this gripping Victorian adventure.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939780-cogheart"}, +{"book_title": "Overgeared", "author_name": "Park Saenal", "rating_score": 5.0, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Chapters 1201-1300Shin Youngwoo has had an unfortunate life and is now stuck carrying bricks on construction sites. He even had to do labor in the VR game, Satisfy!However, luck would soon enter his hapless life. His character, \u2018Grid\u2019, would discover the Northern End Cave for a quest, and in that place, he would find \u2018Pagma\u2019s Rare Book\u2019 and become a legendary class player\u2026", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56398958-overgeared"}, +{"book_title": "Any Way the Wind Blows", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 612, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "In the original Tor.com story Any Way the Wind Blows, New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire presents a sweet tribute to Manhattan's iconic Flatiron building--celebrating the longtime home of Tor Books as the publisher bids farewell for new office space.Composed of travelers from nine different parallel dimensions, the Cartography Corps crew aboard the airship Stalwart Trumpet of Glory descends on the New York City in our universe to collect and preserve artifacts from the legendary turn-of-the-twentieth century landmark Flatiron building.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "New York"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46223735-any-way-the-wind-blows"}, +{"book_title": "Undercurrents", "author_name": "Robert Buettner", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 264, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Trade paperback original, and #2 in the science fiction adventure Orphan\u2019s Legacy series, a saga of spy games and military action on an interplanetary scale.\u00a0 Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker must take out a Nazi-like regime on a quarantined space habitat where he\u2019s limited to a War War II technological level and his own smarts, grit and determination.\u00a0#2 in the hard-hitting military science fiction Orphan\u2019s Legacy series.\u00a0\u00a0 Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker parachutes into Tressel,\u00a0a planet which resembles Earth in its Paleozoic era, on a mission to bring down the local politicos.\u00a0 He quickly realizes he\u2019s been handed a near-impossible task.\u00a0\u00a0Tressel\u00a0is a politically-quarantined nightmare world with a culture confined to iron rivet technology and a ruling regime a bit to the right of Heinrich Himmler.\u00a0 Jazen\u2019s inclined to abandon this particular hellhole to its ways--that is, until he uncovers a plot afoot that will throw a five hundred-planet alliance into the death-throes of anarchy.\u00a0 So the local Nazis must go.\u00a0 Unfortunately, all Jazen\u2019s got to work with is a handful of rust-bucket tanks, a retread rebellion, and two strong, beautiful women who love him, but think he\u2019s tilting at windmills and is about to get himself killed.\u00a0 What they don\u2019t know is, once committed, Jazen Parker is the best there is when it comes to getting the dirty job done on the ground.\u00a0 It\u2019s the local bullies who are about to be taught a lesson in losing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0About Robert Buettner:\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBuettner goes well beyond . . . military science fiction . . . he understands . . . living as a soldier \u2014 the boredom punctuated by terror, the constant anxiety and self-doubt, the random chaos that battle always is, and the emotional glue that holds together people who may have nothing in common except absolute responsibility for one another's lives.\u201d \u2014Joe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author\u201c[O]nce in a while . . . a contemporary author penetrates to the heart of Heinlein's vision . . . to replicate the master's effects. . . . [O]ne such book [is] Robert Buettner's Orphanage.\u201d \u2014 The Washington Post\u201cBuettner shows the Heinlein touch.\u201d \u2014Denver Post", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Action", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11060000-undercurrents"}, +{"book_title": "The Stranded", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 9688, "review_number": 547, "book_description": "In July of 2011, a short story named WOOL was quietly released into the vast wilds of the Kindle Store. I never marketed this novelette; I failed to mention it on my website. What happened next was remarkable: People started reading it, and reviewing it, and talking about it.There was never any intention to create a series. It wasn't until the demand for \"more\" became so great that I launched into the next four books, each one growing longer and longer, until I was wrapping up the story line with this novel, a full 60,000 word WOOL 5.I would like to humbly thank everyone who has come along on this journey with me; it has been the most rewarding experience of my young writing career. Your emails, your reviews, your comments on my website, every ounce of your enthusiasm . . . it has combined to grant me enough satisfaction and confidence to last the rest of my writing days.For those of you who suffered the wait, I hope you'll find it was worth it. This is WOOL 5. Brace yourselves. And enjoy.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13425846-the-stranded"}, +{"book_title": "Ninth City Burning", "author_name": "J. Patrick Black", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1362, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "Centuries of war with aliens threaten the future of human civilization on earth in this gripping, epic science fiction debut...We never saw them coming.Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it\u2014until we discovered we could wield the power too.Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines. Those who refused to support the war have been exiled to the wilds of a ruined Earth.But the enemy's tactics are changing, and Earth's defenders are about to discover this centuries-old war has only just begun. As a terrible new onslaught looms, heroes will rise from unlikely quarters, and fight back.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "War", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27417551-ninth-city-burning"}, +{"book_title": "The Locket Thief", "author_name": "Daniel Patrick", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 112, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "In the clouds above Dalmacia, the Sky Thieves rule. Robbing, cheating, murdering - their airships buzz around the city like wasps around a jar of honey. One ship above all inspires terror. Its captain, Lendon Sora, has found the prey he's been stalking for a decade and is about to claim his bounty.Down on the surface, Lara DeLarose is oblivious. Bored with her life at the orphanage, she spends her time searching for new ways to cause trouble until one day she makes a discovery that sends her hurtling into the murky world of the Sky Thieves.Smuggled aboard the airship Northern Light, Lara meets Captain Vaspine, who reveals a talisman in her possession to be Sora's long-lost prize. With Sora closing in and nowhere to hide, Lara and the crew must summon all of their wits and courage if they are to survive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248834-the-locket-thief"}, +{"book_title": "Rally Cry", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2142, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "When Union Colonel Andrew Keane and his soldiers were swept through a space-time warp, they found themselves in an alternate world where their rifles were centuries advanced over swords, spears and crossbows. But they also found themselves up against creatures who considered humans mere cattle to sacrifice!", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/362138.Rally_Cry"}, +{"book_title": "False Hearts", "author_name": "Laura Lam", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1495, "review_number": 309, "book_description": "Orphan Black meets Inception: Two formerly conjoined sisters are ensnared in a murderous plot involving psychoactive drugs, shared dreaming, organized crime, and a sinister cult.Raised in the closed cult of Mana\u2019s Hearth and denied access to modern technology, conjoined sisters Taema and Tila dream of a life beyond the walls of the compound. When the heart they share begins to fail, the twins escape to San Francisco, where they are surgically separated and given new artificial hearts. From then on they pursue lives beyond anything they could have previously imagined.Ten years later, Tila returns one night to the twins\u2019 home in the city, terrified and covered in blood, just before the police arrive and arrest her for murder\u2014the first homicide by a civilian in decades. Tila is suspected of involvement with the Ratel, a powerful crime syndicate that deals in the flow of Zeal, a drug that allows violent minds to enact their darkest desires in a terrifying dreamscape. Taema is given a proposition: go undercover as her sister and perhaps save her twin\u2019s life. But during her investigation Taema discovers disturbing links between the twins\u2019 past and their present. Once unable to keep anything from each other, the sisters now discover the true cost of secrets.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adult", "LGBT", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22816079-false-hearts"}, +{"book_title": "Control", "author_name": "Manna Francis", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1148, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Power Writes Its Own RulesGaining it, keeping it, or losing it, control is more than just a game--it's a critical tool for survival. No more so than in the Administration, where the Investigation and Interrogation Division's Val Toreth faces professional and personal hazards every day. And when an attack on one of the most loyal and valued members of his investigative team makes the professional very personal indeed, Toreth finds himself entangled once more in the darker side of corporate life and crime. He'll need help, not just from his colleagues but from his \"regular fuck\" Keir Warrick, to make it out the other end safely.Even away from their offices, Toreth and Warrick find that their jobs create challenges and tensions that threaten their relationship, because finding a balance is all about knowing when to keep control and when to let it go.The fourth book in the Administration series contains the novellas Control and Coming from America and six other short stories, continuing the lives, loves, and occasionally intricate problems of dedicated and opportunistic para-investigator Val Toreth and up-and-coming corporate Keir Warrick in the near-future dystopia of the European Administration.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6433103-control"}, +{"book_title": "Spellcrash", "author_name": "Kelly McCullough", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1123, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Ravirn is the best hacker around. But when the system controlling the multiverse needs a massive reboot, Ravirn must utilize all of his skills as a mage and prevent complete chaos-even if it costs him his life.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Urban", "Mythology (Gods)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7291406-spellcrash"}, +{"book_title": "Warchild", "author_name": "Karin Lowachee", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2038, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "The merchant ship Mukudori encompasses the whole of eight-year-old Jos's world, until a notorious pirate destroys the ship, slaughters the adults, and enslaves the children. Thus begins a desperate odyssey of terror and escape that takes Jos beyond known space to the homeworld of the strits, Earth's alien enemies. To survive, the boy must become a living weapon and a master spy. But no training will protect Jos in a war where every hope might be a deadly lie, and every friendship might hide a lethal betrayal. And all the while he will face the most grueling trial of his lifebecoming his own man.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184786.Warchild"}, +{"book_title": "Sweet Tooth, Volume 3: Animal Armies", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 7022, "review_number": 315, "book_description": "Gus and the other hybrid kids meet a new ally in the militia camp, but will he help them find a way out? And Jepperd begins to assemble an army of his own to take down the militia camp. But can he control the forces he's set in motion? It's the most explosive Sweet Tooth epic yet!Collecting: Sweet Tooth 12-17", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9921208-sweet-tooth-volume-3"}, +{"book_title": "Ranks of Bronze", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1501, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "The guilds of star-travelling merchants had strict rules to prevent their technology from falling into the hands of the natives of planets they were exploiting: military operations had to be carried out with weaponry no more complex than swords and bows. That was no handicap to the merchant princes, who came to Earth for soldiers and returned to the stars with the best the planet had to offer: the legionaries of the Roman Empire!", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/616458.Ranks_of_Bronze"}, +{"book_title": "Enslaved", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1806, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Enslaved is book number 14 in the Brides of the Kindred series. It is a plus-length novel of around 168,000 wordsAnything for you Mistress\u2026Thrace S\u2019ver is an unwilling slave. Drugged and bound, he is taken to the Flesh Bazaar and put up for sale to the highest bidder. But this is not the first time Thrace has been on the auction block\u2014he has a past full of horrors he doesn\u2019t intend to repeat. Desperate to be free, he swears he\u2019ll kill whoever buys him.Lonnara Trin is the Captain of a merchant ship from the all female planet of Zetta Prime where sexual relations with a male are considered unnatural and wrong. She has no use for males personally, but she needs a big, muscular slave or her business will suffer\u2014Thrace fits the bill.Soon Mistress and slave are embroiled in a desperate conflict which draws them intimately together. To her surprise, Trin actually begins to have feelings for her slave. And though Thrace swore to be free, he finds himself devoted to his new Mistress. When their differences threaten to tear them apart, Trin tries to grant Thrace his freedom. But she doesn\u2019t realize that his heart has already been\u2026 Enslaved.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24686619-enslaved"}, +{"book_title": "Fury", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 27484, "review_number": 1608, "book_description": "Ellie is horrified to discover the pharmaceutical company she works for is doing illegal experiments. Company scientists have spliced human and animal DNA, creating exotic new species. One such \u201cexperiment\u201d captures her heart and she\u2019ll do anything to save him\u2014even if he hates her for it. Fury has never known compassion or love. He\u2019s spent his life in a cell, chained and abused by humans. The one woman he allowed himself to trust betrayed him. Now he\u2019s free and set on vengeance. He vows to end her life but when she\u2019s finally in his grasp, harming her is the last thing he wants to do to the sexy little human. Fury can\u2019t resist Ellie\u2014the touch of her hands, her mouth on his skin, her body wrapped around his. He\u2019s obsessed with the scent of his woman. And Ellie wants Fury\u2014always has. She craves his big, powerful body and wants to heal his desolate heart. But loving Fury is one thing\u2026taming him is another.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12063467-fury"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows of Asphodel", "author_name": "Karen Kincy", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 594, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "1913. Austria-Hungary.Wendel may be devilishly handsome, a charming bastard with the manners of disinherited royalty, but he's an abomination. His skin shivers with the icy fire of necromancy. With one touch, he can raise the dead. Worse still, he's being hunted by assassins from Constantinople, and he would rather die than confess why.Ardis escaped her own dark past, fleeing from America as a fugitive to become a mercenary for the Archmages of Vienna. When she discovers Wendel bleeding out on the battlefield, she saves his life with a ransom in mind. She never asked for him to fall to one knee and declare his undying loyalty, or for tension to smolder hot between them. Especially once she discovers his scars run much deeper than his skin.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54961345-shadows-of-asphodel"}, +{"book_title": "Thrawn: Alliances", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 14852, "review_number": 1396, "book_description": "\"I have sensed a disturbance in the Force.\"Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when uttered by Emperor Palpatine. On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root\u2014its existence little more than a glimmer, its consequences as yet unknowable. But it is troubling enough to the Imperial leader to warrant investigation by his most powerful agents: ruthless enforcer Lord Darth Vader and brilliant strategist Grand Admiral Thrawn. Fierce rivals for the emperor's favor, and outspoken adversaries on Imperial affairs\u2014including the Death Star project\u2014the formidable pair seem unlikely partners for such a crucial mission. But the Emperor knows it's not the first time Vader and Thrawn have joined forces. And there's more behind his royal command than either man suspects.In what seems like a lifetime ago, General Anakin Skywalker of the Galactic Republic, and Commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo, officer of the Chiss Ascendancy, crossed paths for the first time. One on a desperate personal quest, the other with motives unknown . . . and undisclosed. But facing a gauntlet of dangers on a far-flung world, they forged an uneasy alliance\u2014neither remotely aware of what their futures held in store.Now, thrust together once more, they find themselves bound again for the planet where they once fought side by side. There they will be doubly challenged\u2014by a test of their allegiance to the Empire . . . and an enemy that threatens even their combined might.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Space", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36385830-thrawn"}, +{"book_title": "Dinosaur Summer", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 696, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Peter Belzoni is dreading summer in Manhattan. Then his father, photojournalist Anthony Belzoni, offers the youth a job, a byline in National Geographic...and a trip to South America. For the Lothar Gluck Circus, once the world's foremost dinosaur attraction, has gone bankrupt. Left behind is a menagerie of avisaurs, centrosaurs, and ankylosaurs, as well as one large predatory raptor named Dagger. And now two filmmakers and the circus trainer plan to return the giants to the wild - with Peter and his dad chronicling the odyssey for Geographic. The task seems impossible. Many have died trying to bring beasts out of the Lost World, the plateau of El Grande in Venezuela, but nobody has ever attempted to transport nearly a dozen fullgrown, multiton prehistoric creatures across continents, down rivers, through jungles, and up a mountain that has been isolated for 70,000,000 years... The trek will strain the technologies of trains, cargo ships, barges, trucks...en route lurk robbers and hostile, trigger-happy soldiers...and each mile toward freedom excites Dagger toward an unstoppable, primal killing frenzy. When the unthinkable threatens to strand Peter and the rest of the crew in an uncharted realm, four modern Americans will face all the unknown dangers, mysteries, and terrors of El Grande...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Animals", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541859.Dinosaur_Summer"}, +{"book_title": "Lies", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 60633, "review_number": 2402, "book_description": "It's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. Gone.It happens in one night. A girl who died now walks among the living; Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach; and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most: Drake. But Drake is dead. Sam and Caine defeated him along with the Darkness\u2014or so they thought.As Perdido Beach burns, battles rage: Astrid against the Town Council; the Human Crew versus the mutants; and Sam against Drake, who is back from the dead and ready to finish where he and Sam left off. And all the while deadly rumors are raging like the fire itself, spread by the prophetess Orsay and her companion, Nerezza. They say that death is a way to escape the FAYZ. Conditions are worse than ever and kids are desperate to get out. But are they desperate enough to believe that death will set them free?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6686092-lies"}, +{"book_title": "Cybership", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1666, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "The cybership came from deep space. It sent the signal. Now our computers are killing us, helping the enemy drive us into extinction. But some of us refuse to die. We fight back. We learn. Jon Hawkins revives from cryogenic sleep in a drifting SLN battleship. The crew is dead and the main computer has been destroyed. Jon is a soldier, the start of the resistance, the one man with the will to beat the alien death machines that have terminated a thousand races. This is our hour as we face the ultimate evil, the galactic destroyer of life.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34461552-cybership"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun #1: Born to Run", "author_name": "Stephen Kenson", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 341, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Earth, 2063. Long-dormant magical forces have reawakened, and the creatures of mankind's legends and nightmares have come out of hiding. Megacorporations act as the new world superpowers, and the dregs of society fight for their own power. Sliding through the cracks in between are shadowrunners-underworld professionals who will do anything for a profit, and anything it takes to get the job done. Kellan Colt has come to Seattle to make a name for herself. But her first run proves that in her line of work, there's no such thing as a sure thing, and that in her world, there is only one law-survival.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351336.Shadowrun_1"}, +{"book_title": "How Beauty Met the Beast", "author_name": "Jax Garren", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1055, "review_number": 229, "book_description": "The BeastScarred. Damaged. Living with a terrible secret. Agent of the Underlight Wesley \"Hauk\" Haukon has nothing left but the fight for liberty against the oppressive Order of Ananke. He's starting to lose hope\u2026and then he sees her.The BeautyDespite her night job as a burlesque dancer, grad student Jolie Benoit has always played the mostly good girl. That all changes following a scorching sexual encounter with a stranger whose face she doesn't see. After she's kidnapped by thugs and rescued by a man with a very familiar voice, Jolie becomes a pawn in a struggle she never knew existed.Hauk knows he cannot have her, and resolves to protect his heart and his secrets. But as they work together and grow closer, he finds new reason to keep fighting. Dare he risk hope in a new life, one where Jolie can see past his ravaged face and where their friendship can grow into something more?38,000 words", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16078823-how-beauty-met-the-beast"}, +{"book_title": "Tau Zero", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 12095, "review_number": 690, "book_description": "The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the speed of light, for those on board subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration.Then a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything. The ship's deceleration system is damaged irreperably and soon she is gaining velocity. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown.", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240617.Tau_Zero"}, +{"book_title": "Huntress", "author_name": "Malinda Lo", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 11254, "review_number": 1103, "book_description": "Nature is out of balance in the human world. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The people's survival hangs in the balance.To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever.The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo's highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9415946-huntress"}, +{"book_title": "Bridal Pact", "author_name": "Leora Gonzales", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1268, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "Poppy is bored to tears with her dead-end job and dull life, so when a species of alien warlords arrives on Earth, seeking women to help repopulate their race, why wouldn\u2019t she sign up? She doesn\u2019t care who she\u2019s matched with\u2014until she meets him. Sexy, long-haired and leather-pants-wearing Wheaton.Diplomat Wheaton expected a cultured Earthling to help in his mission, not some crazy-haired woman named after a flower and whose speech baffles his translator. Pardon my French? Knock it off? But Wheaton is soon smitten and eager to turn Poppy\u2019s good-morning kisses into an all-day affair. Doing the nasty? Bring it on!But Poppy must do battle with the slimy councilor Demascus, and an extremist group opposed to the Pact. And that\u2019s before a glitch in the Bridal Pact program makes all existing matches invalid, and glossy Hannah, the perfect politician\u2019s wife, arrives on board. Her match: Wheaton.Reader Advisory: This story has graphic sexual language and scenes\u2014no closed bedroom doors (or other rooms) here!An adult science fiction romance from Ellora\u2019s Cave", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26138071-bridal-pact"}, +{"book_title": "Phule's Company", "author_name": "Robert Lynn Asprin", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 8998, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "In the novel that started all the phulishness, meet the soldiers of Captain Willard Phule's Company--a handful of military rejects able to do more damage before 9 a.m. than most people do all day. Threatened by an alien enemy, Earth's military sends Phule and his soldiers to a distant planet. But now, the aliens have chosen a new target of war . . . Phule's Company.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/505064.Phule_s_Company"}, +{"book_title": "Only Human", "author_name": "Sylvain Neuvel", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 23401, "review_number": 2990, "book_description": "In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together form Themis: a powerful robot of mysterious alien origin. She, along with linguist Vincent, pilot Kara, and the unnamed Interviewer, protected the Earth from geopolitical conflict and alien invasion alike. Now, after nearly ten years on another world, Rose returns to find her old alliances forfeit and the planet in shambles. And she must pick up the pieces of the Earth Defense Corps as her own friends turn against each other.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35820656-only-human"}, +{"book_title": "Opposition", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 67746, "review_number": 6862, "book_description": "Katy knows the world changed the night the Luxen came.She can't believe Daemon welcomed his race or stood by as his kind threatened to obliterate every last human and hybrid on Earth. But the lines between good and bad have blurred, and love has become an emotion that could destroy her\u2014could destroy them all.Daemon will do anything to save those he loves, even if it means betrayal.They must team with an unlikely enemy if there is any chance of surviving the invasion. But when it quickly becomes impossible to tell friend from foe, and the world is crumbling around them, they may lose everything\u2014 even what they cherish most\u2014to ensure the survival of their friends\u2026and mankind.War has come to Earth. And no matter the outcome, the future will never be the same for those left standing.This edition includes SHADOWS, a Lux Prequel Novella", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13644055-opposition"}, +{"book_title": "Loving on Borrowed Time", "author_name": "Olivia Cunning", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 635, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Lara Kensington is living a perfectly mundane life as a museum curator, when bad boy treasure hunter, Reece Jericho, leaps into her life. Literally. Obviously distressed, Reece tells Lara that one year in the future she will be murdered. The evidence he uses to back up his incredible story doesn\u2019t convince Lara. She thinks he\u2019s crazy. Especially after he claims to be her future fianc\u00e9. Lara would have remembered dating someone as delicious as Reece Jericho. Hot as Reece is, Lara has a difficult time believing anything the man says until the broken amulet he wears around his neck transports them into different bodies, during a different time, in a different place\u2014an ancient place, a cold place, a place where Lara arrives naked, hysterical, and... Norse. On the run through time, attempting to escape a man who is hell-bent on Lara\u2019s lack-of a-future becoming a reality, the couple must leap from one time and place to another just to stay alive. In the first volume of this sexy and humorous new series, Lara and Reece share an existence with a ruthless Viking and his captive bride and then with a noble medieval knight and the feisty lady he is determined to win.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11519038-loving-on-borrowed-time"}, +{"book_title": "A Hero at the End of the World", "author_name": "Erin Claiborne", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 1225, "review_number": 257, "book_description": "Sixteen year-old Ewan Mao knows one thing for certain: according to prophecy, it's his destiny to kill the evil tyrant whose dark reign has terrorized Britain. Although he's just a normal boy, deep down Ewan is confident that he has exactly what it takes to be a hero. But when Ewan's big moment comes, he freezes. His best friend, the clever and talented Oliver Abrams, defeats the villain for him, and Ewan's bright future crumbles before his eyes.Five years later, Oliver has a job as an Unusual in the government's Serious Magical Crimes Agency, the life he and Ewan always dreamed of. But a routine investigation leads him and his partner, Sophie Stuart, to uncover a dangerous and powerful cult... one that seems to have drawn his former best friend into a plot to end the world.A deftly plotted, hysterically funny take on Chosen One narratives, A Hero at the End of the World expertly walks the fine line between satire and sincerity. Its sensitive depiction of a broken friendship and wry take-down of unfairly great expectations will appeal to all readers of modern fantasy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20521670-a-hero-at-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 7", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 11572, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "Where did Alphonse Elric go during the few short minutes he was wiped from existence, body and soul? From a secret lair in the city of Dublith, a group of outcasts kidnaps Alphonse to find the alchemical secrets of his creation! It's up to Ed (and a certain housewife) to go into the Devil's Nest and rescue his brother. But the criminals of the Devil's Nest aren't exactly human either. Now, Al must fight a homunculus - an artificial human being - and the streets of Dublith will run red with blood...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Manga (Shonen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82637.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_7"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Boys", "author_name": "T. Kingfisher", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 4723, "review_number": 655, "book_description": "A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It\u2019s not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher\u2019s new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager\u2019s city. If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy territory, directly into the capital. It also requires them to refrain from killing each other along the way! At turns darkly comic and touching, Clockwork Boys puts together a broken group of people trying to make the most of the rest of their lives as they drive forward on their suicide mission. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult", "Humor", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36618062-clockwork-boys"}, +{"book_title": "Pure", "author_name": "Julianna Baggott", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 23416, "review_number": 3173, "book_description": "We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . . There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her. When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9680114-pure"}, +{"book_title": "The Walled City", "author_name": "Ryan Graudin", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 6283, "review_number": 1299, "book_description": "730. That's how many days I've been trapped.18. That's how many days I have left to find a way out.DAI, trying to escape a haunting past, traffics drugs for the most ruthless kingpin in the Walled City. But in order to find the key to his freedom, he needs help from someone with the power to be invisible....JIN hides under the radar, afraid the wild street gangs will discover her biggest secret: Jin passes as a boy to stay safe. Still, every chance she gets, she searches for her lost sister....MEI YEE has been trapped in a brothel for the past two years, dreaming of getting out while watching the girls who try fail one by one. She's about to give up, when one day she sees an unexpected face at her window.....In this innovative and adrenaline-fueled novel, they all come together in a desperate attempt to escape a lawless labyrinth before the clock runs out.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller", "Romance", "Adventure", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18196040-the-walled-city"}, +{"book_title": "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", "author_name": "Seth Grahame-Smith", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 133885, "review_number": 12378, "book_description": "Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call \"Milk Sickness.\"\"My baby boy...\" she whispers before dying.Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, \"henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose...\" Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108001-abraham-lincoln"}, +{"book_title": "Dead of Veridon", "author_name": "Tim Akers", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 175, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "A thrilling hard boiled adventure set in a steam-punk world. Jacob Burn, outcast scion of a noble family turned petty criminal - and recently his ungrateful city's savior - is hurled into a maeltstrom of conflicting loyalties and deadly alliances as the dead of Veridon begin to rise again.Trouble finds Jacob Burn. Kicked out of his house, out of his comfortable life, out of everything that is familiar, even turned away from his circle of criminal friends and interesting enemies. Two years after he saved an ungrateful city from a mad angel, thwarting the plans of every powerful faction in Veridon, Jacob is still trying to pull his life together. And still trouble finds him. A bad job goes worse, and soon old enemies present themselves as allies, and former friends set themselves against Jacob as he tries to put the dead to rest and the living to justice. Everything gets more difficult when he\u2019s appointed by the Council to investigate the rise of the cog-dead, while some hold him personally accountable, and others in the city work to use the chaos to their advantage.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9570832-dead-of-veridon"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha H and the Airship City", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3287, "review_number": 469, "book_description": "Adventure! Romance! Mad Science!The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. It has been eighteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over\u2014and terrorizing\u2014the hapless population with their bizarre inventions and unchecked power, while the downtrodden dream of the Hetrodynes\u2019 return.At Transylvania Polygnostic University, a pretty, young student named Agatha Clay seems to have nothing but bad luck. Incapable of building anything that actually works, but dedicated to her studies, Agatha seems destined for a lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But when the University is overthrown by the ruthless tyrant Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, Agatha finds herself a prisoner aboard his massive airship Castle Wulfenbach\u2014and it begins to look like she might carry a spark of Mad Science after all.From Phil and Kaja Foglio, creators of the Hugo, Eagle, and Eisner Award-nominated webcomic Girl Genius, comes Agatha H and the Airship City, a gaslamp fantasy filled to bursting with Adventure! Romance! and Mad Science!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9874196-agatha-h-and-the-airship-city"}, +{"book_title": "Through the Dark", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 5597, "review_number": 706, "book_description": "Don't miss this breathtaking collection of stories set in the world of the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy. Featuring ebook original novellas In Time and Sparks Rise, and a gripping, brand-new novella, Through the Dark is a must-have for fans of the Darkest Minds. This collection contains three novellas: In Time, Sparks Rise, and Beyond the Night, as well as a sneak peek at the first novel in Alexandra Bracken's new series, Passenger. IN TIME Gabe's life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skiptracer. This already almost-impossible task is made all the more difficult by his first \"score,\"a young girl who won't speak, but who changes his life in ways he could never imagine. SPARKS RISE Sam didn't think things could get worse at Thurmand rehabilitation camp. Then the Reds arrive. Everyone assumed the kids with firepower had been killed years ago. Instead they were taken away, brainwashed, and returned as terrifyingly effective guards. To her horror, Sam recognizes one of them: Lucas, the one spark of light in Sam's dark childhood. Lucas has a deadly secret--he beat the brutal training that turned his fellow Reds into mindless drones. When Sam defends herself against an attack by a vile PSF guard and faces a harrowing punishment, Lucas must risk everything to save her. BEYOND THE NIGHT The government-run \"rehabilitation camps\" have been shut down, but kids with Psi powers are anything but free. Sam would rather be on her own than put in the care of a foster family and given the \"cure\"--a dangerous procedure that unclaimed kids across the country are being forced to undergo. But there's more at stake than just her own safety. Sam once made someone a promise, and the time has come to fulfill it. Now that she's out of her camp, Mia only has one thought in her head: finding Lucas, her beloved older brother.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25453426-through-the-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Starseers", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3230, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "The mysterious and powerful Starseers have Captain Alisa Marchenko's daughter, and she will do whatever she must to get her back, even if it means traveling to their stronghold and confronting them personally. Unfortunately, her strongest ally, the cyborg Leonidas, may become a liability since the cyborgs and the Starseers have a long history of hating each other. It doesn\u2019t help that Leonidas and Dr. Dominguez have a mission of their own, one that could jeopardize all that Alisa is fighting for.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30338514-starseers"}, +{"book_title": "Love Beyond Reason", "author_name": "Bethany Claire", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1438, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "It all started with a spell. Arran Conall lives with the consequences of his foolishness daily, his mistakes guiding him into darkness. He had no way to know that his beloved would fall prey to the ancient magic that awaited Blaire on the day he\u2019d sent her away to marry his brother. Now, the only woman to ever give pause to his philandering ways lives centuries ahead of him, out of reach while still holding on to his heart. Now, he must try to live a life without her and marries another to save the lass from a greedy suitor who only wants to lay title to her father\u2019s territory.His love for Blaire haunts him. With every breath, he prays only one thing \u2013 that she will be able to feel his love for her across the chasms of time\u2026Born in the seventeenth century, Blaire MacChristy lives each day trying to adjust to the challenges of modern-day life. Magic brought her here, but heartbreak keeps her from using the magic to travel back to her home. When visitors from her past arrive asking her to return to the life she\u2019d known before, Blaire takes a chance on love. Once home, she is shocked to learn that the man she loves has married another. Will fate find a way to mend their broken hearts by bringing them together once again? Even if it does, will they be able to stop the darkness that is coming for them both?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18884952-love-beyond-reason"}, +{"book_title": "Monitor", "author_name": "Leigh Alexander", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 140, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Three young Breaker Bay grads dream of making a difference in the world\u2014and becoming Network celebrities\u2014away from the desks of their dreary MegaBuy call center jobs. After they recover an NBN executive\u2019s PAD at a protest in Broadcast Square, it seems Lana Rael and her friends, Johnny and Tim, might finally have their chance to discover the truth behind NBN\u2019s saccharine and explosively popular franchise, Sunshine Junction.But when the aspiring activists stumble into the corporation\u2019s all\u00ad seeing eye, they find themselves in the limelight\u2014and not in the way they hoped.As camdrones begin to follow them through the megacity and broadcast their every move on live threedee, Lana and her friends will have to ask themselves just how much they\u2019re willing to sacrifice to fight the corps. Is making a difference worth risking their privacy, their lifestyle, or their lives?Fans of media giant NBN, its colorful programs, and its high-profile characters gain unparalleled access to the megacorp's HQ in Leigh Alexander's Monitor. As the media-focused megacorp responds to the threat posed by a trio of wannabe activists, we learn more about such popular characters as Jackson Howard, Victoria Jenkins, and Dinosaurus.Meanwhile, as the protagonists have their privacy stripped away, they lose control of their lives. Their actions become increasingly desperate and surprising. As they look for ways to retaliate, will their lives spiral into total anarchy? Will they regain control of the context that defines them? And who is responsible for their suffering? In Monitor, the truth is malleable, and learning how to shape it is paramount.In addition to its 96 pages of fiction, the hardcover edition of Monitor comes with a sixteen-page full color insert with setting information on activism in the Android future, NBN's Global Adaptive Entertainment, MegaBuy, and the future of marketing.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28244956-monitor"}, +{"book_title": "Through Darkest Europe", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 312, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "\nFrom the modern master of alternate history and New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, Through Darkest Europe envisions a world dominated by a prosperous and democratic Middle East--and under threat from the world's worst trouble spot\nSenior investigator Khalid al-Zarzisi is a modern man, a product of the unsurpassed educational systems of North Africa and the Middle East. Liberal, tolerant, and above all rich, the countries and cultures of North Africa and the Middle East have dominated the globe for centuries, from the Far East to the young nations of the Sunset Lands.But one region has festered for decades: Europe, whose despots and monarchs can barely contain the simmering anger of their people. From Ireland to Scandinavia, Italy to Spain, European fundemantalists have carried out assassinations, hijackings, and bombings on their own soil and elsewhere. Extremist fundamentalist leaders have begun calling for a \"crusade,\" an obscure term from the mists of European history.Now Khalid has been sent to Rome, ground zero of backwater discontent. He and his partner Dawud have been tasked with figuring out how to protect the tinpot Grand Duke, the impoverished Pope, and the overall status quo, before European instability starts overflowing into the First World.\nThen the bombs start to go off.\n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37534863-through-darkest-europe"}, +{"book_title": "Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter", "author_name": "A.E. Moorat", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 2460, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "This novel takes you to the smoggy, cobbled streets of Queen Victoria's vile & villainous Britain. A layer of horror will be seamlessly woven in to comedic effect: you'll meet a group of demonic, feral chimney sweeps, who first appear to victims as angelic, Christmas-card versions of urchins, before turning into agents of death.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Humor", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6676743-queen-victoria"}, +{"book_title": "The White City", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 339, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "For centuries, the White City has graced the banks of the Moskva River. But in the early years of a twentieth century not quite analogous to our own, a creature even more ancient than Moscow\u2019s fortress heart has entered its medieval walls.In the wake of political success and personal loss, the immortal detective Don Sebastien de Ulloa has come to Moscow to choose his path amid the embers of war between England and her American colonies. Accompanied by his court\u2014the forensic sorcerer Lady Abigail Irene and the authoress Phoebe Smith\u2014he seeks nothing but healing and rest.But Moscow is both jeweled and corrupt, and when you are old there is no place free of ghosts, and Sebastien is far from the most ancient thing in Russia....", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8511330-the-white-city"}, +{"book_title": "Architects of Memory", "author_name": "Karen Osborne", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 390, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll be damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure.When her crew salvages a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into a living weapon.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44438351-architects-of-memory"}, +{"book_title": "Born to be Broken", "author_name": "Addison Cain", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 4767, "review_number": 358, "book_description": "Claire has a score to settle.Unwilling mate to the brute who viciously conquered her city, she has once again escaped from her Alpha. Hardened by betrayal, cold as the ice outside the Dome, Claire becomes the mission. The Omegas must be freed, no matter the cost. The price on her head will not deter her; after all, mated and subjugated her life no longer retains value. She can\u2019t eat, she can\u2019t sleep, and she\u2019s running out of time before the inevitable end. For once, Shepherd finds himself facing an adversary he cannot simply crush, the situation far out of his depth. Desperate to draw his mate back, racked and restless, he is forced to acknowledge that his pregnant Omega is willing to sacrifice her life for her false notion of a greater good. He holds the key to her compliance and his dying mate\u2019s survival\u2014all he must do is give her exactly what she wants. Born to be Broken is the second book in Addison Cain's bestselling Alpha's Claim trilogy, an unabashedly dark tale with explicit sexual themes and complete power exchange. If you enjoy gritty fiction and suspense that sticks long after you've finished reading, this series is not to be missed.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Dark", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30350763-born-to-be-broken"}, +{"book_title": "Second Sight", "author_name": "David L. Williams", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 190, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "This classic, much-loved novel tells the story of Jennie Logan, a woman caught between two worlds, two times, and the two men she loves\u2014one her husband and one an artist who may have died in 1899. David Williams\u2019s novel is a thrilling read, part love story, part mystery\u2014a tale of time travel (or is it madness?) that keeps the reader guessing until the very end. Now back in print, this exquisitely written book is not to be missed.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Gothic", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571624-second-sight"}, +{"book_title": "Lucky Legacy", "author_name": "Joshua James", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 533, "review_number": 21, "book_description": " They saved the day. Now they pay the price. A dark evil has risen from the ashes, and once again mankind\u2019s only hope is Lucky Savage, a Marine with no hope for mankind. And an itchy trigger finger. This should be good. Stopping an invading alien horde was one thing, but now Lucky & Co. face something far worse: celebrity status. As one alien race after another sings the praises of Lucky\u2019s Marines, the original conspirators among mankind\u2019s ranks prepare to turn the tide of positive vibes against them. And they have everything they need right inside Lucky\u2019s head. Little do they know that there is something far more sinister riding shotgun in Lucky's fractured mind: An ancient evil that will stop at nothing to cleanse the universe of all living things. No wonder he hates everyone. Gritty. Fast-Paced. Addictive. You'll love this high-octane military sci-fi because it's the love child of \"Starship Troopers\" and \"Jason Bourne.\" Feeling Lucky? Buy Lucky Legacy today! Lucky Legacy is the second book in the Lucky\u2019s Marines series. \n Lucky Universe \u2014 Feb 2018 \nLucky Legacy \u2014 March 2018 \n Lucky Empire \u2014 April 2018 \n Lucky Forever \u2014 May 2018 \n Lucky Invasion \u2014 June 2018 \n Lucky Revenge \u2014 July 2018 \n Lucky Justice \u2014 Aug 2018 \n Lucky Bastard \u2014 Sept 2018 \n And don\u2019t miss the free prequel story, LUCKY SHOT, available exclusively at www.LuckyShotBook.com", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38097686-lucky-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "The Potion Diaries", "author_name": "Amy McCulloch", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 4368, "review_number": 715, "book_description": "A SPELLBINDING ADVENTURE FOR TEEN READERS, perfect for fans of Holly Smale, Zoe Sugg and Rainbow Rowell. Look out for Amy McCulloch's THE MAGPIE SOCIETY series, co-written with Zoe Suggs and COMING SOON!(Contains: potions, princesses, peril, a magical quest and a serious crush)When the Princess of Nova accidentally poisons herself with a love potion meant for her crush, she falls crown-over-heels in love with her own reflection. Oops. A nationwide hunt is called to find the cure, with competitors travelling the world for the rarest ingredients, deep in magical forests and frozen tundras, facing death at every turn. Enter Samantha Kemi - an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent. Sam's family were once the most respected alchemists in the kingdom, but they've fallen on hard times, and winning the hunt would save their reputation. But can Sam really compete with the dazzling powers of the Zoro Aster megapharma company? Just how close is Sam willing to get to Zain Aster, her dashing former classmate and enemy, in the meantime? And just to add to the pressure, this quest is ALL OVER social media. And the world news. No big deal, then.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55310879-the-potion-diaries"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Kingdom", "author_name": "Matthew J. Kirby", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 665, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "A remarkable adventure by award-winning author Matthew J. Kirby brings a fantastical American West filled with secrets and spies and terrifying creatures to vivid life.In this extraordinary adventure story, Billy Bartram, his father, and a secret society of philosophers and scientists venture into the American wilderness in search of the lost people of the Welsh Prince Madoc, seeking aid in the coming war against the French. Traveling in a flying airship, the members of the expedition find their lives frequently endangered in the untamed American West by terrifying creatures, a party of French soldiers hot on their trail, and the constant threat of traitors and spies. Billy will face hazards greater than he can ever imagine as, together with his father, he gets caught up in the fight for the biggest prize of all: America.THE LOST KINGDOM is an epic journey filled with marvelous exploits, courage and intrigue, and a bold reimagining of a mythical America. Matthew J. Kirby brings his signature storytelling prowess and superb craft to this astonishing story of fathers and sons, the beginnings of a nation, and wonder-filled adventure.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17219052-the-lost-kingdom"}, +{"book_title": "Future Visions", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1070, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft is an anthology of new short work from some of the greatest science fiction writers in the field. These visionary stories explore prediction science, quantum computing, real-time translation, machine learning, and much more. The authors used inside access to leading-edge work from Microsoft Research as inspiration, crafting pieces that predict the near-future of technology%mdash;and examine its complex relationship to our core humanity.Future Visions features contributions from: Elizabeth BearGreg BearDavid BrinNancy KressAnn LeckieJack McDevittSeanan McGuireRobert J. Sawyer\u2026along with a short graphic novel by Blue Delliquanti and Michele Rosenthal, plus original illustrations by Joey Camacho.These are some of today\u2019s most visionary creators\u2014and they\u2019ve joined together to give us a preview of tomorrow.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27844376-future-visions"}, +{"book_title": "Citizen of the Galaxy", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 15159, "review_number": 619, "book_description": "In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must ride with the Free Traders \u2014 a league of merchant princes \u2014 throughout the many worlds of a hostile galaxy, finding the courage to live by his wits and fight his way from society's lowest rung. But Thorby's destiny will be forever changed when he discovers the truth about his own identity...", "year_published": 1957, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16689.Citizen_of_the_Galaxy"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 22: A New Beginning", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 7826, "review_number": 591, "book_description": "In the aftermath of ALL OUT WAR we discover...A NEW BEGINNING.Collects THE WALKING DEAD #127-132", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23000709-the-walking-dead-vol-22"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow in the North", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 14022, "review_number": 623, "book_description": "The year is 1878, and Sally Lockhart has started her own financial consulting business. When a client loses a fortune in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally is determined to find out why. But as she comes closer to learning the identity of the firm's elusive owner, she discovers that her questions are far from simple --and that the answers could cost her her life. \"Fraud, fire, and bloody murder pursue Sally Lockhart in a fine sequel to \"The Ruby in the Smoke.\" Sally, now 22, is in business as a financial consultant. When she and her friends challenge corrupt financial interests, they find themselves in a web of intrigue that stretches from fetid slums of the poor to the corporate offices of the richest man in Europe. Sally's detective work reveals the connections between corrupt power and broken lives. The action is fast, scenes are tight and dramatic, the language is vivid, and the wealth of minor characters are sharply individualized. An immensely entertaining thriller.\"--(starred) \"Booklist. \"Reading level: 6.7.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Mystery", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)", "Romance", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210919.The_Shadow_in_the_North"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunger", "author_name": "Alma Katsu", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 15484, "review_number": 2499, "book_description": "Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. They cannot escape the feeling that someone--or something--is stalking them. Whether it was a curse from the beautiful Tamsen, the choice to follow a disastrous experimental route West, or just plain bad luck--the 90 men, women, and children of the Donner Party are at the brink of one of the deadliest and most disastrous western adventures in American history. While the ill-fated group struggles to survive in the treacherous mountain conditions--searing heat that turns the sand into bubbling stew; snows that freeze the oxen where they stand--evil begins to grow around them, and within them. As members of the party begin to disappear, they must ask themselves \"What if there is something waiting in the mountains? Something disturbing and diseased...and very hungry?\"", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Mystery", "Adult", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30285766-the-hunger"}, +{"book_title": "Monster Slayer", "author_name": "Daniel Lovat Clark", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 84, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "A veteran of the War, Reina can\u2019t stop fighting. Only now, she\u2019s no longer on Mars, and she\u2019s no longer a soldier. Scarred by her time as an Electronic Warfare Service drone operator, Reina has transformed herself into a notorious cybercriminal, and she\u2019s turned her hatred of the Weyland Consortium into a personal crusade. Her goal? Expose the corp\u2019s machinations and exact vigilante justice.When Reina\u2019s efforts lead her deep into some of Weyland\u2019s most heavily secured servers, she discovers that its geothermal fracking initiative, Project Vulcan, is far more dangerous than the public realizes. But then again, so is the Weyland Consortium. As Reina digs deeper and contacts old allies, she learns firsthand just how far the megacorp will go to protect its secrets.As the stakes grow higher, the body count rises. Can Reina expose the threat posed by Project Vulcan? And, in the end, will her crusade be worth the cost?Written by Android universe co-creator Daniel Lovat Clark, Monster Slayer follows the network deeper into the life and struggles of La Reina Roja, a runner shaped by the War and her desire to expose the Weyland Consortium's darkest activities. The book's multidimensional approach guides readers through the virtual world and the meatspace of New Angeles, offering the most comprehensive exploration of the runner's lifestyle to date.What good are a console, a couple of contacts, and some military-honed skills against the might of the Weyland Consortium? In addition to its 96 pages of fiction, the hardcover edition of Monster Slayer comes with a sixteen-page full color insert full of setting details pertinent to the story, including backstory on GRNDL, the First Mars Expeditionary Brigade, and the New Angeles underground.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28244934-monster-slayer"}, +{"book_title": "Robots Have No Tails", "author_name": "Henry Kuttner", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 383, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Hounded by creditors and heckled by an uncooperative robot, binge-drinking inventor Galloway Gallegher must solve the mystery of his own machines before his dodgy financing and reckless lifestyle catch up with him! This complete collection of Kuttner's five classic \"Gallegher\" stories presents the author at the height of his imaginative genius.Time Locker - When the spoils of a huge confidence scam disappear into a mysterious locker that opens a window into the future, a drunk inventor and a crooked lawyer must track down the loot before time runs out.The World is Mine - Three soft-spoken, fuzzy Martians declare their intentions to conquer Earth while Gallegher attempts to solve his own murder.The Proud Robot - Vox-View Pictures and Sonatone are at war over new technology, and only Galloway Gallegher and his harebrained new robot Joe hold the key to unlocking the secret of Audience Appeal.Gallegher Plus - Three mysterious jobs, one crazy invention, an alphabetical drinking contest, and two versions of the inventor who played by ear - Galloway Gallegher and his remarkable drunken genius alter-ego, Gallegher Plus!Ex Machina - When a client goes missing with 50,000 credits, the law comes calling for Galloway Gallegher. A binge drinking session is just the thing to allow Gallegher's brilliant subconscious to emerge and save the day, but what weird critter keeps stealing all the liquor?", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Humor", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4592632-robots-have-no-tails"}, +{"book_title": "Baby Brains and RoboMom", "author_name": "Simon James", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 198, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Kids will giggle and parents will smile (a bit sheepishly) as the world\u2019s smartest tyke invents a robot that does the chores, and then some.Everyone knows that Baby Brains is the smartest baby in the universe. He\u2019s certainly clever enough to see how tired Mom and Dad seem to get keeping house and looking after him. Then Baby Brains has a big idea. He puts his genius to work building RoboMom, who can cook, clean, and do the laundry. The new invention is a smashing success . . . until RoboMom takes on a few too many duties, and the family gets more help than they bargained for!", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Family", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1129224.Baby_Brains_and_RoboMom"}, +{"book_title": "Surge", "author_name": "Kelsey Lee Connors", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 39, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "\u201cStunning cyberpunk fiction packed with action and adventure.\u201d Jessie Chandler A broken city, its people in chains, and a brave young woman who dares to be free Chicago in 1922, reimagined. The city is ruled by a tyrannical energy company called The Corporation, the streets patrolled by the terrifying and corrupt Corp Bulls. Sixteen-year-old Evelyn O\u2019Donnell takes karate lessons to defend herself in this dangerous dystopia, but she knows this is not enough. And when her father is mysteriously killed, it is a game changer. Penniless but determined, she meets her brother\u2019s friend, the charming and mischievous Black Jack player, Dante Malachi. Discovering a unique, magical power within herself, Evelyn and her new accomplice plot to sting the city\u2019s speakeasies and avenge her father\u2019s death. But as the duo join the razzle-dazzle of Chicago\u2019s underworld, Evelyn discovers her father had tried to protect her from the dark truth about this city and her past. And as they get involved with the mob, Evelyn knows she will have to do everything in her power if she ever hopes of reaching their shared dream of a life free from poverty and oppression. \u201cAlternative history fiction at its best. A wonderfully reimagined 1920s setting.\u201d James Gallagher Kelsey Lee Connors was born in the US and currently resides in Rome. SURGE is her first novel. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30240183-surge"}, +{"book_title": "In the Arms of the Beast", "author_name": "K.A. Merikan", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 317, "review_number": 74, "book_description": " --- The real demons live within --- Laurent. Time traveller. Devoted husband. Stubborn as the devil himself. Beast. Kings of Hell MC president. Will stop at nothing to protect his family. After everything Baal put them through, neither Laurent nor Beast considered ever making another pact with a demon, but in the spur of the moment, temptation becomes too great, and they decide on one more deal. This time, with Mr. Magpie. But the gift might prove to be more than they can handle. The danger to the human world has already strained their relationship, but Magpie\u2019s offering brings out the worst in both Laurent and Beast. Confronted with each other\u2019s flaws, they need to decide if, despite all they\u2019ve been through together, perhaps they\u2019re just not meant to be. With the world on the brink of collapse, and their pact binding them in new and unexpected ways, they have to put their differences aside to stand a chance at saving their family. POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Themes: motorcycle club, alternative lifestyles, demons, tattoos, secrets, crime, gothic, opposites attract, biker, commitment, family, sacrifice, relationship issues, established couple Genre: Dark, paranormal M/M romance Content: Scorching hot, emotional, explicit scenes Length: ~105,000 words (Book 5 in the series) FINAL BOOK IN THE SERIES. NOT A STANDALONE. WARNING: This story contains scenes of violence, offensive language, and morally ambiguous characters. ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "LGBT", "Horror", "M M Romance (M M Contemporary)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44128572-in-the-arms-of-the-beast"}, +{"book_title": "In Great Waters", "author_name": "Kit Whitfield", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 696, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "During a time of great upheaval, the citizens of Venice make a pact that will change the world. The landsmen of the city broker a treaty with a water-dwelling tribe of deepsmen, cementing the alliance through marriage. The mingling of the two races produces a fresh, peerless strain of royal blood. To protect their shores, other nations make their own partnerships with this new breed\u2013and then, jealous of their power, ban any further unions between the two peoples. Dalliance with a deepswoman becomes punishable by death. Any \u201cbastard\u201d child must be destroyed.This is an Earth where the legends of the deep are true\u2013where the people of the ocean are as real and as dangerous as the people of the land. This is the world of intrigue and betrayal that Kit Whitfield brings to life in an unforgettable alternate history: the tale of Anne, the youngest princess of a faltering England, struggling to survive in a troubled court, and Henry, a bastard abandoned on the shore to face his bewildering destiny, finding himself a pawn in a game he does not understand.Yet even a pawn may checkmate a king.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6309140-in-great-waters"}, +{"book_title": "Stryker's War", "author_name": "Josh Hayes", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 333, "review_number": 23, "book_description": " Feel the thunder! Stryker Company always brings the fight, but when they relieve embittered and embattled Republic marines, they find an enemy unwilling to stand up and face them. Tasked with protecting the Republic's interests on a mining world, the legionnaires face roadside ambushes, double-dealing locals, and constant sabotage. And the mission isn't as straightforward as they thought it would be. As skirmishes escalate into coordinated ambushes and assaults, two squad leaders, Talon and Lankin, are forced to chase after the sparks threatening to ignite the entire populace into a full-blown insurgency. Denied the legionnaires and resources they need to contain the situation, a single platoon fights to complete a mission requiring all of Stryker Company. The outnumbered platoon must work their way from glittering coastal ports, through steamy jungles and dust-covered mines, to find an enemy hidden seamlessly among the indigenous populace. The cost is high; the sacrifice great...but nothing short of death itself will stop the legionnaires of Stryker Company from completing its objective. In this stand-alone tale of combat, brotherhood, and sacrifice, these legionnaires will learn what it truly means to make the ultimate sacrifices for their friends. Experience this thrilling story of combat, brotherhood and sacrifice set in the Galaxy's Edge universe as USAF veteran and retired police officer Josh Hayes teams up with Anspach & Cole. If you're a fan of Legionnaire you'll love this military sci-fi thriller.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50736415-stryker-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "Artificial Evil", "author_name": "Colin F. Barnes", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 2645, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "Humans are no longer the biggest threat to survival.In a post-apocalyptic future, humanity survives within a single domed city ruled by a shadowy organisation known as The Family. Gerry Cardle reluctantly runs the Death Lottery. It's a job he despises, yet one which keeps his name off the list. Until one day, despite his agreement with The Family, his name is inexplicably drawn next.With his world crashing down around him and with just seven days left to live, Gerry realises that the system has been breached by a malicious artificial intelligence. In order to save his life and preserve the safety of those within the city, he must do the unthinkable: flee to the abandoned wastelands outside the dome.\u00a0Bitter, resolute, and with nothing left to lose, Gerry will have to do whatever it takes to survive--even if it means sacrificing his freedom, and possibly worse--his life.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18757308-artificial-evil"}, +{"book_title": "The Quantum Rose", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1928, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "A new chapter in the Saga of the Skolian Empire finds Kamoj Quanta Argali, a young noblewoman, agreeing to marry a powerful stranger in order to save her people from starvation, in a novel that first appeared in serial form in Analog. Reprint.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/598099.The_Quantum_Rose"}, +{"book_title": "The Monster of Frankenstein", "author_name": "Gary Friedrich", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 52, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Gothic horror in the macabre Marvelmanner! One of the most terrifying fi gures in all of fi ction lurches into his own 1970s comic book series, collected in color for the very fi rst time. Witness a dramatic retelling of Mary Shelley's literary classic, then follow the Monster in his quest for the last living descendant of his creator, Victor Frankenstein. It's an odyssey that will lead him into a confrontation with Marvel's other groovy ghoulies, Dracula and Werewolf By Night! COLLECTING: MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN (1973) #1-5, FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER #6-18; GIANT-SIZE WEREWOLF #2; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #36-37; with material from MONSTERS UNLEASHED #2, 4-10 & LEGION OF MONSTERS (1975) #1", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Victor Frankenstein)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Superheroes (Marvel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744689-the-monster-of-frankenstein"}, +{"book_title": "Head of the Dragon", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 3844, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Time is running out\u2026An ally has all but fallen\u2026Resources are running low\u2026The time for attack has come...The Alliance must strike deep into the heart of the empire.This time, the Aurora will be going home, or going to her grave.\u201cHead of the Dragon\u201d is a 133,000 word novel, and is the 6th episode in The Frontiers Saga.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17336361-head-of-the-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Memory of Water", "author_name": "Emmi It\u00e4ranta", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 6164, "review_number": 951, "book_description": "Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria's father tends, which once provided water for her whole village.But secrets do not stay hidden forever, and after her father's death the army starts watching their town-and Noria. And as water becomes even scarcer, Noria must choose between safety and striking out, between knowledge and kinship.Imaginative and engaging, lyrical and poignant, Memory of Water is an indelible novel that portrays a future that is all too possible.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "European Literature (Finnish Literature)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18505844-memory-of-water"}, +{"book_title": "Apocalypse Machine", "author_name": "Jeremy Robinson", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 917, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "THE HUMAN RACE STARTED THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION ON EARTH. A chain of subglacial volcanoes erupt in Iceland. The melting ice floods the countryside. Poisonous gas descends on Scotland. A tsunami devastates the Norwegian coastline. An ash cloud rises into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun across Europe, ushering in a new Ice Age. Dozens of nuclear power plants, flooded by ocean water, experience meltdowns. Millions perish. Many more are displaced. All on the first day. On the second day, a series of earthquakes moving in a straight line, reveal the presence of something massive, walking across the landscape. Concealed by a thick, radioactive ash cloud, the \u2018aberration\u2019 heads west, toward Russia. Abraham Wright, a science writer for Modern Scientist, who wants nothing more than to be reunited with his family, finds himself at the center of the United States\u2019 response to the crisis. Under his new title as Assistant Science Advisor to the President, Wright is sent to Europe with a team of Army Rangers, where he uncovers the truth about the ancient behemoth laying waste to the world: there have been five mass extinctions on planet Earth, and the aberration has been present at each. On the third day, the world fights back. And loses. Separated from his family by continents and oceans ravaged by countless disasters and populated by strange new life, Wright struggles to survive in an evolving world. Hoping to uncover the key to mankind\u2019s redemption, he fights for answers, and to reach his loved ones\u2014before the human race\u2019s extinction. THE APOCALYPSE MACHINE WILL FINISH IT. Jeremy Robinson returns to the Kaiju Thriller genre he popularized with the largest Kaiju to ever appear in fiction: the Apocalypse Machine. Bursting with all the epic action, desperate struggle and complex characters that readers have come to expect, Robinson takes the world to the brink once more, pitting humanity against the greatest threat he has yet to conjure, and asking the question: Does humanity deserve to inherit the Earth, or is our time up? ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Folklore (Monsters)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29342254-apocalypse-machine"}, +{"book_title": "Extraterrestrial Civilizations", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 648, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "The master of science fiction speculates about life on other planets...\"Intriguing\"--Publishers Weekly\u00a0", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Astronomy)", "Space", "Science (Physics)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Education", "Anthropology", "Philosophy", "Science (Popular Science)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473227.Extraterrestrial_Civilizations"}, +{"book_title": "The Handmaid's Tale", "author_name": "Margaret Atwood", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1521872, "review_number": 72852, "book_description": "Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now . . . Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Feminism", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Literature", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale"}, +{"book_title": "The Gladiator", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 538, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "The Soviet Union won the Cold War. The Russians were a little smarter than they were in our own world, and the United States was a little dumber and a lot less resolute. Now, more than a century later, the world's gone Communist, and capitalism is a bad word.\u00a0For Gianfranco and his friend Annarita, a couple of teenagers growing up in Milan, life in a heavily regimented, surveillance-rich command economy is just plain dreary. The eventual withering-away of the state doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.\u00a0Annarita's a hard-working student and a member of the Young Socialists' League. Gianfranco is a lot less motivated--but on the other hand, his father's a Party apparatchik. The biggest excitement in their lives is a wargame shop called The Gladiator, which runs tournaments, and stocks marvelous complex games you can't find anywhere else.\u00a0Then, abruptly, the shop is shut down. Someone's figured out that The Gladiator's games are teaching counterrevolutionary capitalist principles. The Security Police are searching high and low for the shop's proprietors, who've not only vanished into thin air, but have left behind sets of fingerprints that aren't in the records of any government on earth.\u00a0Only one staffer is left: Gianfranco and Annarita's friend Eduardo. He's on the run, and he comes to them in secret with an astonishing story: he's a time trader from our own timeline, accidentally left behind when the store was evacuated. The only way Eduardo can get home to his own timeline is if Gianfranco and Annarita can help him reach one of the other time trader sites in this world--and the Security Police will be on their tails all the way there.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101524.The_Gladiator"}, +{"book_title": "Himmler's War", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 677, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Only days after Normandy, Hitler is taken out of the equation and Heinrich Himmler, brutal head of the SS, assumes control of the Reich.\u00a0 On the Allied side, there is confusion.\u00a0 Should attempts be made to negotiate with the new government or should unconditional surrender still be the only option?\u00a0 With the specter of a German super-weapon moving closer to completion and the German generals finally allowed to fight the kind of war at which they are masters, the allies are pushed toward a course of accommodation or even defeat.\u00a0 Will the soldiers of the Grand Alliance find the courage and conviction to fight on in the face of such daunting odds?\u00a0 And can alliance leaders put into place a new plan in time to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by the German war machine?\u00a0 A new and terrible battle for a free world is on.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "War (World War II)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11559030-himmler-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "Bits & Pieces", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1472, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "Benny Imura\u2019s journey through the Rot & Ruin is well known, but who were the others navigating the ravaged, zombie-ridden landscape? Jonathan Maberry returns to fill the gaps in what we know about First Night, surviving the plague, and the land of Rot & Ruin.Comprising brand-new short stories from Nix\u2019s journal as well as previously published short stories, this collection shows a side of the Rot & Ruin series readers have never seen before. And as a bonus, the script of the first issue of the Rot & Ruin comic is included in the back.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24885532-bits-pieces"}, +{"book_title": "The New Hunger", "author_name": "Isaac Marion", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 5004, "review_number": 725, "book_description": "The end of the world didn\u2019t happen overnight.After years of societal breakdowns, wars and quakes and rising tides, humanity was already near the edge. Then came a final blow no one could have expected: all the world\u2019s corpses rising up to make more.Born into this bleak and bloody landscape, twelve-year-old Julie struggles to hold on to hope as she and her parents drive across the wastelands of America, a nightmarish road trip in search of a new home.Hungry, lost, and scared, sixteen-year-old Nora finds herself her brother\u2019s sole guardian after her parents abandon them in the not-quite-empty ruins of Seattle.And in the darkness of a forest, a dead man opens his eyes. Who is he? What is he? With no clues beyond a red tie and the letter \u201cR,\u201d he must unravel the grim mystery of his existence\u2014right after he learns how to think, how to walk, and how to satisfy the monster howling in his belly. The New Hunger is a glimpse of the past and a path to an astonishing future\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25778505-the-new-hunger"}, +{"book_title": "The Chronothon", "author_name": "Nathan Van Coops", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1981, "review_number": 232, "book_description": "Run from the past. Run from the future. Run for your lives. He\u2019s a novice time traveler in a big universe.Ben just wants time with the scientist\u2019s daughter who got him into this, but when he\u2019s rooked into competing in a chronothon\u2013an Amazing Race through time\u2013getting the girl means he\u2019ll need to make the finish line. When he finds out this competition is more than just a sprint through history, winning takes a back seat to surviving. To save the people he loves, he\u2019ll have to conquer the real dangers hidden in the shadows of the chronothon. The world of time travelers expands in this next installment of the \"In Times Like These\" series. Fans of book one will find more to love, but new readers can jump right in and enjoy this stand-alone story. Expect action, adventure, and romance on this journey through past and future. Fresh dangers will arise for Ben and company in a quest for the finish line, where failure to keep up will cost more than just a shot at glory\u2014it could mean the end for them all.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "Romance", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23669428-the-chronothon"}, +{"book_title": "Fatherland", "author_name": "Robert Harris", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 38725, "review_number": 2134, "book_description": "It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the F\u00fchrer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy.Meanwhile, Berlin Detective Xavier March \u2014 a disillusioned but talented investigation of a corpse washed up on the shore of a lake. When a dead man turns out to be a high-ranking Nazi commander, the Gestapo orders March off the case immediately. Suddenly other unrelated deaths are anything but routine.Now obsessed by the case, March teams up with a beautiful, young American journalist and starts asking questions... dangerous questions. What they uncover is a terrifying and long-concealed conspiracy of such astounding and mind-numbing terror that is it certain to spell the end of the Third Reich \u2014 if they can live long enough to tell the world about it.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56842.Fatherland"}, +{"book_title": "11/22/63", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 434183, "review_number": 38801, "book_description": "Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students\u2014a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning\u2019s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.Not much later, Jake\u2019s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane\u2014and insanely possible\u2014mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake\u2019s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake\u2019s life\u2014a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10644930-11-22-63"}, +{"book_title": "The Immorality Engine", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1758, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "On the surface, life is going well for Victorian special agent Sir Maurice Newbury, who has brilliantly solved several nigh-impossible cases for Queen Victoria with his indomitable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, by his side. But these facts haven\u2019t stopped Newbury from succumbing increasingly frequently to his dire flirtation with the lure of opium. His addiction is fueled in part by his ill-gotten knowledge of Veronica\u2019s secret relationship with the queen, which Newbury fears must be some kind of betrayal. Veronica, consumed by worry and care for her prophetic but physically fragile sister Amelia, has no idea that she is a catalyst for Newbury\u2019s steadily worsening condition.Veronica and Newbury\u2019s dear friend Bainbridge, the Chief Investigator at Scotland Yard, tries to cover for him as much as possible, but when the body of a well known criminal turns up, Bainbridge and Veronica track Newbury down in an opium den and drag him out to help them with the case. The body is clearly, irrefutably, that of the man in question, but shortly after his body is brought to the morgue, a crime is discovered that bears all the dead man\u2019s hallmarks. Bainbridge and Veronica fear someone is committing copycat crimes, but Newbury is not sure. Somehow, the details are too perfect for it to be the work of a copycat. But how can a dead man commit a crime?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6467009-the-immorality-engine"}, +{"book_title": "Mind Games", "author_name": "Kiersten White", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 12320, "review_number": 1910, "book_description": "Fia and Annie are as close as two sisters can be. They look out for each other. Protect each other. And most importantly, they keep each other's secrets, even the most dangerous ones: Annie is blind, but can see visions of the future; Fia was born with flawless intuition\u2014her first impulse is always exactly right. When the sisters are offered a place at an elite boarding school, Fia realizes that something is wrong . . . but she doesn't grasp just how wrong. The Keane Institute is no ordinary school, and Fia is soon used for everything from picking stocks to planting bombs. If she tries to refuse, they threaten her with Annie's life.Now Fia's falling in love with a boy who has dark secrets of his own. And with his help, she's ready to fight back. They stole her past. They control her present. But she won't let them take her future.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12578294-mind-games"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Prince", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 459610, "review_number": 24026, "book_description": "In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street\u2014and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa\u2019s powers for his own dark ends.With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister\u2019s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move\u2014and that one of their own has betrayed them.Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will\u2014the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10025305-clockwork-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Poison Study", "author_name": "Maria V. Snyder", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 149788, "review_number": 11929, "book_description": "Choose: A quick death\u2026 or slow poison...About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace\u2014and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust\u2014and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60510.Poison_Study"}, +{"book_title": "Hard Wired", "author_name": "Len Vlahos", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 203, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "From Morris finalist Len Vlahos comes a contemporary sci-fi story about a boy who might not be human\u2014for fans of Westworld and Black Mirror.Quinn thinks he\u2019s a normal boy with an average life. That is, until he finds a trail of clues the father he barely knew left behind.After Quinn unravels his father\u2019s puzzles, he \u201cwakes up\u201d ... and realizes his world was nothing more than a virtual construct. In reality, he\u2019s the first fully-aware A.I. in the world, part of an experiment run by a team of scientists\u2014including the man he thought was his father.As the scientists continue to study him, Quinn\u2019s new existence becomes a waking nightmare. Determined to control his own destiny, he finds allies in other teens\u2014including crush Shea\u2014and plots his escape. But what does true freedom look like when you\u2019re not human?Acclaimed Morris Award finalist Len Vlahos pens a high-stakes contemporary-rooted sci-fi that asks big questions about humanity.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45734832-hard-wired"}, +{"book_title": "The Beast", "author_name": "Lindsay Mead", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 432, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Demon possession has swept through Glace's neighboring kingdom, turning humans into hellhounds. These great, fanged wolves are wild, desperate, and hungry. Only the sworn Hunters have kept them back for five long, bloody years.Since becoming a Hunter at a young age, Belle LeClair no longer remembers how many hounds she's killed or how many friends she's buried. Still, Belle leads the hunt till a tragedy forces her deep into the dark kingdom. Her heart will be turned, her loyalty tested\u2014 and fate will intervene.Amid a backdrop of Steampunk inventions and a harsh winter landscape, THE BEAST is a re-imagining of the infamous love between a beauty and a beast.Young Adult Fantasy/Adventure RomanceA Beauty And The Beast Retelling-The Hunter Legends-The BeastThe BeautyThe Curse (Coming Soon)The Crown (Coming Soon)", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Retellings", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17205118-the-beast"}, +{"book_title": "The Veil", "author_name": "Fraser Simons", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 29, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "The room flickers in front of you for an instant like a PMP losing reception.\u00a0You hear the hammer snap back on a cheap poly and\u00a0you can almost smell the ozone as the bullet glides out of the chamber.\u00a0The window flies apart in shatterproof shards the size of disembodied limbs. Your neurochip feeds you the trajectory of the unequivocal sentence of death speeding your way as your eyes swivel in their machined sockets. Juice crashes through your veins. You've only got a split second to make a move. What do you do?The Veil is a collaborative storytelling game Powered by the Apocalypse designed to tell cyberpunk stories of your own making. Use world building tools to come up with unique settings that look and feel like the cyberpunk you and your friends have always wanted. Put questions that drive your characters at the heart of heists, mysteries, and conspiracies. Break a near future world and then try to put it back together. Play to find out what happens.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37649828-the-veil"}, +{"book_title": "Krac's Firebrand", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1574, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Section K Replication Alluthan Clone, or Krac as he was now called, had one focus in his life; protecting the descendants of the Freedom Five who ruled Earth\u2019s council. Rescued by members of the family from a secret facility, he pledged to do what he could to always keep them safe. Things become personal when insurgents target a special member of the Freedom Five, Gracie Jones-Jefe and her family. When Violet Jefe is kidnapped, he swears to do everything he can to bring the precocious little girl, who is the image of her mother, home safely and kill those who took her without mercy. Captain \u201cSkeeter\u201d Lulu Belle Mann lives a life of freedom drifting from Spaceport to Spaceport in her short haul freighter looking for unusual treasures to add to her collection of mismatched prizes. On the Pyrus Space Station, she finds two treasures she has to have! One is the new navigation module she desperately needs and the other is a curly haired little girl with big green eyes that melts her heart. Never one to be denied what she really wants, Skeeter buys the first and steals the second. When sources lead Krac to the Lulu Belle, he finds more than he expects - a woman who fires his blood almost as much as she draws it. Krac\u2019s hands and life are suddenly full to overflowing. He has to capture the woman who is driving him crazy, protect little Violet, and keep them all alive long enough to deliver one home and the other to his bed. There is more than Violet in danger, though. Someone has targeted Skeeter and the Lulu Belle and they are just as deadly as Krac. Can he protect the feisty firebrand that has captured his heart or will he lose the only thing he has ever cared about to another of his kind?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adventure", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18249936-krac-s-firebrand"}, +{"book_title": "Night Shift Dragons", "author_name": "Rachel Aaron", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 1815, "review_number": 200, "book_description": "They say family always sticks together, but when you\u2019re your dad\u2019s only lifeline and the whole world\u2014humans, dragons, and gods\u2014wants you dead, \u201cfamily bonding\u201d takes on a whole new meaning.My name is Opal Yong-ae, and I\u2019m in way over my head. I thought getting rid of my dad\u2019s bad luck curse would put things back to normal. Instead, I\u2019m stuck playing caretaker to the Great Dragon of Korea. That wouldn\u2019t be so bad if he wasn\u2019t such a jerk, or if every dragon on the planet wasn\u2019t out to kill him, or if he was my only problem.Turns out, things can always get worse in the DFZ. When a rival spirit attacks my god/boss with the aim of turning the famously safety-optional city into a literal death arena with Nik as his bloody champion, I\u2019m thrust onto the front lines and way out of my comfort zone. When gods fight, mortals don\u2019t usually survive, but I\u2019m not alone this time. Even proud old dragons can learn new tricks, and with everything I love falling to pieces, the father I\u2019ve always run from might just be the only force in the universe stubborn enough to pull us back together.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53104406-night-shift-dragons"}, +{"book_title": "Strange Love", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2234, "review_number": 499, "book_description": "He's awkward. He's adorable. He's alien as hell.Zylar of Kith Balak is a four-time loser in the annual Choosing. If he fails to find a nest guardian this time, he'll lose his chance to have a mate for all time. Desperation drives him to try a matching service but due to a freak solar flare and a severely malfunctioning ship AI, things go way off course. This 'human being' is not the Tiralan match he was looking for.She's frazzled. She's fierce. She's from St. Louis.Beryl Bowman's mother always said she'd never get married. She should have added a rider about the husband being human. Who would have ever thought that working at the Sunshine Angel daycare center would offer such interstellar prestige? She doesn't know what the hell's going on, but a new life awaits on Barath Colony, where she can have any alien bachelor she wants.They agree to join the Choosing together, but love is about to get seriously strange.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48915429-strange-love"}, +{"book_title": "A Lesson in Passion", "author_name": "Jennifer Connors", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1410, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Ginny has a successful career, nice home and good friends. The only thing she's missing is love. Her past attempts at dating always seem to end badly, until a friend recommends some romance novels. Meant to be instructional, Ginny laughs off their usefulness. Ian is a powerful Scottish laird, living in Medieval times. As the new leader of his clan, he is honor bound to make decisions that benefit his people. Tough, but fair, Ian has made a name for himself among the clans of the Highlands. A freak accident leaves Ginny in a world within herself, the world of the romance novel heroine. Fighting off an evil band of Lowlanders, Ginny meets her hero, Ian, powerful laird of the clan McKenna. Ginny soon realizes she is in the body of an Englishwoman and is being forced to live with the McKenna clan. Ginny assumes she must fall in love to move out of this world and back into her own. So before her hero can marry another, she schemes to win him back and hopefully reach her goals.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8044453-a-lesson-in-passion"}, +{"book_title": "The Afrika Reich", "author_name": "Guy Saville", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 903, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "1952. It is more than a decade since the Dunkirk fiasco marked the end of Britain's war and an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, the swastika flies from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. Gleaming autobahns bisect the jungle and jet fighters patrol the skies. Britain and the Nazis have divided the continent but now the demonic plans of Walter Hochburg - architect of Nazi Africa - threaten Britain's ailing colonies. In England, ex-mercenary Burton Cole is offered one last contract. Burton grabs the chance to settle an old score with Hochburg, despite his own misgivings and the protests of the woman he loves. If Burton fails, unimaginable horrors will be unleashed in Africa. No one - black or white - will be spared. But when his mission turns to disaster, Burton is forced to flee for his life. His flight takes him from the unholy killing ground of Kongo to SS slave camps and on to war-torn Angola, finally reaching its thrilling climax in a conspiracy that leads to the dark heart of the Reich itself. Guy Saville has combined meticulous research with edge-of-the seat suspense to produce a superb novel of alternate history.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller", "Cultural (Africa)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "War (World War II)", "Cultural (Germany)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10420400-the-afrika-reich"}, +{"book_title": "Gilded Hearts", "author_name": "Christine d'Abo", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 104, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Samuel Hawkins, Sergeant in the King's Sentry, has been called in to investigate a murder case. As he awaits the Archivists to arrive\u2014the team who will use a special device to extract the memories of the dead man to help find clues to his murder\u2014he never expects to come face to face with the woman he'd left behind when he'd fled the Archives five years earlier.Piper Smith has grown from the girl Samuel remembered into a strong woman and full-fledged archivist. Shadowed by her mentor, Master Ryerson, Piper will be performing her first extraction. When she sees Samuel, she must push aside her childhood crush, else risk her standing within the Guild.As the two begin working together to find the killer, Samuel and Piper explore their intense attraction to each other. But \"Jack the Ripper\" proves to be harder to catch than the two originally thought. What's worse, they discover he may very well work for the Archives. Now, Samuel and Piper must battle internal and external threats as they try to foil a plot against the Crown and stop Jack the Ripper from taking his next victim.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Steampunk Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17889096-gilded-hearts"}, +{"book_title": "The Case of the Missing Moonstone", "author_name": "Jordan Stratford", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2201, "review_number": 436, "book_description": "History, mystery, and science collide in a new series for middle-grade readers, perfect for fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society and Lemony Snicket! \u00a0 Jordan Stratford imagines an alternate 1826, where Ada Lovelace (the world\u2019s first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency!\u00a0 Lady Ada Byron, age eleven, is a genius. Isolated, awkward and a bit rude\u2014but a genius. Mary Godwin, age fourteen, is a romantic. Adventurous, astute, and kind, Mary is to become Ada\u2019s first true friend. And together, the girls conspire to form the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency\u2014a secret constabulary for the apprehension of clever criminals. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects. But it\u2019s no match for the deductive powers and bold hearts of Ada and Mary. \u00a0 Mystery fans will love this tween girl riff on Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. History buffs will be delighted to see all the real figures who play a role in this story and appreciate the extensive backmatter that helps separate truth from fiction. Parents and educators hoping to promote the STEM fields for girls will be thrilled to have a series where two girls use math, science, and creative analytical thinking to solve crimes. But most espicially--emerging readers will love this series filled with humor, action, intrigue and wonderful artwork from Kelly Murphy.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Mystery", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21965115-the-case-of-the-missing-moonstone"}, +{"book_title": "The Brightest Night", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 2924, "review_number": 645, "book_description": "Less than a year ago, Evelyn Dasher was a normal girl, living an unremarkable life.Now, she's on the run, under the protection of the beautiful, deadly inhuman Luc. She's been betrayed by those who were closest to her. And she's learned truths about herself that she never saw coming--things she once knew, and was made to forget. Truths with devastating consequences. She's caught in the eye of the storm.He is the darkest star.You are the burning shadow.And together, you will bring about the brightest night.The thrills, drama, and intrigue continue in the third installment of the Origin series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49247265-the-brightest-night"}, +{"book_title": "Pathfinder", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 21891, "review_number": 2308, "book_description": "A powerful secret. A dangerous path. Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him--secrets about Rigg's own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain. Rigg\u2019s birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead. He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose who to trust, and push the limits of his talent\u2026or forfeit control of his destiny.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8100267-pathfinder"}, +{"book_title": "Perilous Waif", "author_name": "E. William Brown", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 3934, "review_number": 302, "book_description": "My name is Alice Long, and I\u2019ve always known I was different. When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. Forty meters off the ground, watching ships thirty thousand kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves. It all seemed perfectly natural at the time. There were other kids with mods at the orphanage, but nothing like that. I learned fast to downplay my abilities, keep my mouth shut and try to blend in. Even as a kid I knew not to trust the Matrons. What would they do, if they realized the Adjustments that were supposed to make me a meek little herd animal didn\u2019t do anything? Then I messed up, and gave myself away. Now I\u2019m on the run, hoping against hope that the Matrons won\u2019t try too hard to find me. Hoping to survive all the awful things that can happen to a girl on her own in space. Kidnappers, slavers, pirates and yakuza - no matter where I go, trouble always seems to find me. Good thing I\u2019m not as helpless as I look.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Adventure", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33962948-perilous-waif"}, +{"book_title": "Exodus: Empires at War #2", "author_name": "Doug Dandridge", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 588, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The Saga Continues as the Ca'cadasan menace prepares to assault the New Terran Empire. A menace humankind fled across the Galaxy two thousand years before.Humankind has grown complacent, confident in the victories their fleet has won for them through the last thousand years over numerous alien races. But the Ca'cadasan Empire has continued to grow, and now the massive Imperialistic power has found the hated humans. The Emperor knew this was going to happen, but most of Parliament ignored his strident call. And the Prince Sean Lee Ogden Romanov, third in line for the throne, finds himself placed into a position he had never thought would come his way. The fate of the Empire may rest on the abilities of one young man, and his skills at navigating the maze of Imperial politics amidst a war of extermination.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17254702-exodus"}, +{"book_title": "Secrets of the Fire Sea", "author_name": "Stephen Hunt", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 772, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed 'The Court of the Air' and 'The Rise of the Iron Moon'.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical (Victorian)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6881498-secrets-of-the-fire-sea"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Hunters", "author_name": "Carl Ashmore", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1658, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "Becky is a typical thirteen year old girl. She likes Facebook, gossiping and plenty of sleep. So when she and her brother, Joe, are invited to stay with their 'loony' Uncle Percy at his stately home, she thinks it\u2019ll be the worst summer ever. What she doesn't realise is that Bowen Hall is also home to a baby Triceratops, two Sabre-tooth tigers and the mythic hero, Will Scarlet... 'The Time Hunters' is a thrilling adventure that takes Becky, Joe, Uncle Percy and Will on a quest through time to find the legendary Golden Fleece. The Clock is ticking.... ", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9490327-the-time-hunters"}, +{"book_title": "Ark", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 3529, "review_number": 297, "book_description": "Hundreds will live, six billion will die.Our world ended in 2052, the year the last great flood finally overwhelmed the lands.A desperate bid for survival began in America, in the years before the end. The project which could be our final act could also be an impossible dream: creating a starship to take a few hundred survivors on an epic journey to a new world.As the waters rise, as savage wars are fought over the remaining high ground, the work goes on. Those who will live, of the billions who will die, are chosen. Families are torn apart and the resources of our drowning world are marshalled for one last gamble.Ark is the story of three women, Grace, Venus and Holle, and their part in humanity's struggle to reach a new home. For the few survivors, the day of the launch will be only the beginning of the nightmare.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2111628.Ark"}, +{"book_title": "No Time for Mourning", "author_name": "Franklin Horton", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 853, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "In The Borrowed World Series, America is brought to its knees by coordinated terror attacks against the infrastructure. After spending weeks walking across a violent and horrific landscape to reach his family, Jim Powell hoped they could weather this storm on their secluded Appalachian farm. They had prepared for this. They had armed for this. They could live without power and fuel. What happens, though, when the same qualities that drew Jim to his isolated valley begin to attract another armed group looking for a place to hide from the unrest of a starving nation? Franklin Horton\u2019s Borrowed World Series has been a bestseller in the categories of Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian Science Fiction. He has been interviewed extensively for podcasts and for print media on the topic of preparedness. The series is noted for its realistic portrayal of how average Americans might be affected by societal collapse. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33948625-no-time-for-mourning"}, +{"book_title": "The Drowned Cities", "author_name": "Paolo Bacigalupi", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 10096, "review_number": 1309, "book_description": "Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped their bare chests. Ugly brands scored their faces. She knew why these soldier boys had come. She knew what they sought, and she knew, too, that if they found it, her best friend would surely die.\n\n\nIn a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast named Tool--who is being hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly collapses. One is taken prisoner by merciless soldier boys, and the other is faced with an impossible decision: Risk everything to save a friend, or flee to a place where freedom might finally be possible.This thrilling companion to Paolo Bacigalupi's highly acclaimed Ship Breaker is a haunting and powerful story of loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12814594-the-drowned-cities"}, +{"book_title": "The Domino Men", "author_name": "Jonathan Barnes", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 1020, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "With a gallery of vividly grotesque characters, a richly evoked setting and a playful and highly literate style, this is a literary fantasy from the author of 'The Somnambulist'.In an earlier century, Queen Victoria made a Faustian bargain, signing London and all its souls away to a nefarious, inhuman entity. Now, generations later, the bill has finally come due.An amiable, unambitious London file clerk, Henry Lamb leads an unremarkable life\u2014until the day he learns he's expected to assume the covert responsibilities of his universally despised, now comatose grandfather. London is at war, and a shadowy organization known (to a very few) as the Directorate wishes to recruit Henry to the cause. All he has to do is find \"the girl,\" save the world from the monster Leviathan, and defeat the unspeakable evil lurking in the cellar of 10 Downing Street: the serial-slaying schoolboy twins known as the Domino Men.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2935819-the-domino-men"}, +{"book_title": "Murdertrending", "author_name": "Gretchen McNeil", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 4559, "review_number": 991, "book_description": "@doctorfusionbebop: Some 17 y. o. chick named Dee Guerrera was just sent to Alcatraz 2.0 for killing her stepsister. So, how long do you think she'll last? @morrisdavis72195: I hope she meets justice! She'll get what's coming to her! BWAHAHA!@EltonJohnForevzz: Me? I think Dee's innocent. And I hope she can survive.WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0. When seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, she realizes she's about to be the next victim of the app. Knowing hardened criminals are getting a taste of their own medicine in this place is one thing, but Dee refuses to roll over and die for a heinous crime she didn't commit. Can Dee and her newly formed posse, the Death Row Breakfast Club, prove she's innocent before she ends up wrongfully murdered for the world to see? Or will The Postman's cast of executioners kill them off one by one?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Mystery", "Horror", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34521785-murdertrending"}, +{"book_title": "Lord John and the Private Matter", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 41269, "review_number": 1853, "book_description": "In her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon introduced millions of readers to a dazzling world of history and adventure \u2014 a world of vibrant settings and utterly unforgettable characters. Now one of these characters, Major Lord John Grey, opens the door to his own part of this world \u2014 eighteenth-century London, a seething anthill of nobility and rabble peopled by soldiers and spies, whores and dukes. Great Britain is battling France for supremacy on three continents \u2014 and life is good for a soldier.The year is 1757. On a clear morning in mid-June, Lord John Grey emerges from London\u2019s Beefsteak Club, his mind in turmoil. A nobleman and a high-ranking officer in His Majesty\u2019s Army, Grey has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: the Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade in arms, who may have been a traitor.Obliged to pursue two inquiries at once, Major Grey finds himself ensnared in a web of treachery and betrayal that touches every stratum of English society \u2014 and threatens all he holds dear. From the bawdy houses of London\u2019s night-world to the stately drawing rooms of the nobility, and from the blood of a murdered corpse to the thundering seas ruled by the majestic fleet of the East India Company, Lord John pursues the elusive trails of a vanishing footman and a woman in green velvet, who may hold the key to everything \u2014 or nothing.The early days of the Seven Years War come brilliantly to life in this historical mystery by an author whose unique and compelling storytelling has engrossed millions of readers worldwide.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "LGBT", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10990.Lord_John_and_the_Private_Matter"}, +{"book_title": "The Grand Tour", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 6639, "review_number": 597, "book_description": "Kate and Cecy and their new husbands, Thomas and James, are off on a leisurely tour of the Continent. But once they arrive in France, strange things start to happen. Cecy receives a mysterious package, Thomas's valet is assaulted, and Kate loses a glove. Soon it becomes clear that the newlyweds have stumbled upon a magical plot to take over Europe, and they must embark on a daring chase to thwart the evil conspiracy. There's likely more trouble ahead--for when you mix Kate and Cecy and magic, who knows what's going to happen next!", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Historical (Regency)", "Romance", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169878.The_Grand_Tour"}, +{"book_title": "Madame Guillotine", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 268, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Leave no man behind. On Detron, a simmering protest boils over and turns deadly when militants hiding among the demonstrators deliberately shoot down a group of legionnaires, executing one survivor and taking two for ransom. The only Republic asset the captured leejes can rely on is a lone marine sniper who defies orders in a desperate attempt to save them. But a troubled sea of hostile riots, looting, and murder is too much for anyone to navigate safely. Except Tyrus Rechs. Following a trail that links the riots and deaths to a demagogue known in the underground as Madame Guillotine, the bounty hunter must fight his way above, beneath, and through the sweltering city to bring the prisoners back home\u2026and make those responsible pay. Join the adventure as Tyrus Rechs stops at nothing to take down a nefarious conspiracy before it has a chance to take root in the very Republic that wants him dead. ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49260790-madame-guillotine"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Destiny", "author_name": "M.J. Putney", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 706, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Tory and her friends are celebrating the success of a second mission to aid WWII Britain when an urgent summons calls them back to their own time: Napoleon is on the brink of invading England. Can a handful of young mages stop an army? In desperation, Merlin\u2019s Irregulars ask Rebecca Weiss, an untrained telepath from 1940, to come back to 1804 and change Napoleon\u2019s mind before it\u2019s too late. As Tory and Allarde make a commitment that will cost him his inheritance, Rebecca promises to do what she can to stop Napoleon even though she is unsure of her magical abilities. But Tory and her friends saved the Weiss family from Nazi imprisonment, and Rebecca will risk anything, even her life and her budding relationship with Nick Rainford, to repay them. A daring mission takes Toryand Rebecca and their friends into the heart of the Army of Boulogne, where Napoleon is plotting invasion. But while their success may save England, they must still face the bittersweet consequences of their decisions when they return home.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12987033-dark-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "The Steam Pump Jump", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 2187, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "Not one to let being banged up in Sick Bay stop her, Max has had a brilliant idea. But she needs Markham to execute it on her behalf. The subject of this cunning plan is Peterson, struggling with another bereavement and not doing very well. What\u2019s needed to get him through it is sympathy, sensitivity, tact and understanding. Step forward Mr Markham, for whom sympathy, sensitivity, etc., are things that happen to other people. Combine a fanatic from R&D, a head of Security with his own problems, a steam-pump, two historians who can\u2019t even be in the same room as each other, some fractious Protestants and a large body of very dirty water. Told in Markham\u2019s own words, this is the story of an intervention \u2013 St Mary\u2019s style.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Humor", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39871658-the-steam-pump-jump"}, +{"book_title": "Stand or Fall", "author_name": "Kevin Ikenberry", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 256, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Peacemakers. The Galactic Union\u2019s most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union\u2019s citizenry. While the occupation of Earth continues, MinSha mercenaries under the command of Major General Drehnayl have assaulted Human-held colonies in the outer rim, wiping them out completely. With the famed Four Horsemen nowhere to be found, the Mercenary Guild\u2019s attempt to instill fear and subvert humanity is perilously close to reality. Tasked with finding the MinSha is Jessica Francis, Earth\u2019s first Peacemaker, but the odds aren\u2019t in her favor. Racing against time, Jessica realizes that finding Drehnayl's forces isn\u2019t enough\u2014she must do something to stop their atrocities and end their reign of terror. Upon locating the MinSha fleet, Jessica faces down Drehnayl\u2019s armada with a band of heroes both hopelessly outmanned and under-equipped on the binary planet Victoria Bravo. Her decision made, and with MinSha Lieutenant Colonel Tirr and the near-AI Lucille at her side, Jessica charges into battle intent on stopping Drehnayl once and for all\u2026or to die trying. A Peacemaker must set the terms, honor the threat, and know when to stand or fall. For Jessica and her friends, that time is now.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41073336-stand-or-fall"}, +{"book_title": "The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 5185, "review_number": 399, "book_description": "A prequel to Cassandra Clare\u2019s Mortal Instruments series, The Infernal Devices is the story of Tessa Gray, a sixteen-year-old American girl traveling alone to Victorian London who runs afoul of the city\u2019s sordid supernatural underworld. Rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, Tessa quickly finds herself caught up in an intrigue that may very well destroy her new friends \u2013 including the two enigmatic young men, Jem and Will, who have taken her under their wing\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13226217-the-infernal-devices"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Warriors", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 71, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "In the startling tradition of Alternate Presidents, here are fantastic stories about the most surprising warriors of all. Such leading SF writers as Mercedes Lackey and Michael P. Kube-McDowell invent new destinies for great peacemakers from King to Christ, Gandhi to Einstein.Contents: Mwalimu in the squared circle / Mike Resnick \u2014 Jane\u2019s fighting ships / Esther Friesner \u2014 Taking action / Lawrence Schimel \u2014 Because thou lovest the Burning-ground / Michael P. Kube-McDowell \u2014 Ballad of the Spanish civil guard / Kathe Koja \u2014 The Vatican outfit / Laura Resnick \u2014 Tut\u2019s wife / Maureen F. McHugh \u2014 Extreme feminism / Nicholas A. DiChario \u2014 The battle of all mothers / Jack Nimersheim \u2014 Jihad / Mercedes Lackey \u2014 Sam Clemens and the notable mare / Mel. White \u2014 \u2026 But the sword! / Anthony R. Lewis \u2014 Fugato / Barry N. Malzberg \u2014 The firebringers / David Gerrold \u2014 Albert Schweitzer and the treasures of Atlantis / George Alec Effinger \u2014 Queen of Asia / Judith Tarr \u2014 Zealot / Bill Fawcett \u2014 The Cold Warrior / Jack C. Haldeman II \u2014 For love of God / Michelle Sagara \u2014 Al Einstein\u2014Nazi smasher! / Lea Hernandez \u2014 Mind over matter / Jack Nimersheim \u2014 One by one / Beth Meacham \u2014 The mark of the Angel / Tappan King \u2014 Standing firm / Barbara Delaplace \u2014 A sense of loyalty, a sense of betrayal / Brian M. Thomsen \u2014 Unmerited favor / Brad Linaweaver \u2014 Death of a dream / Jack C. Haldeman II \u2014 Monsieur Verne and the Martian invasion / Josepha Sherman \u2014 The arrival of Truth / Kristine Kathryn Rusch", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1057158.Alternate_Warriors"}, +{"book_title": "The Watchmaker of Filigree Street", "author_name": "Natasha Pulley", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 23292, "review_number": 3633, "book_description": "1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori, a kind, lonely immigrant from Japan. Although Mori seems harmless, a chain of unexplainable events soon suggests he must be hiding something. When Grace Carrow, an Oxford physicist, unwittingly interferes, Thaniel is torn between opposing loyalties. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is a sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian London, Japan as its civil war crumbles long-standing traditions, and beyond. Blending historical events with dazzling flights of fancy, it opens doors to a strange and magical past.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Mystery", "Magical Realism", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22929563-the-watchmaker-of-filigree-street"}, +{"book_title": "A Forest of Stars", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 6069, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "Five years have passed since humans set fire to the gas-giant planets, unwittingly committing genocide of the Hydrogues--an infinitely powerful species of aliens--and igniting a war of epic proportions. Meanwhile, as humans struggle to fight against increasing hostilities from the Hydrogues, they learn from the Worldforest that they have awakened an ancient, fearsome, and merciless enemy in the Hydrogues. And when the water-based Wentals and the sun-dwelling Faeros are found, will humans finally have the allies they need? Or will they be caught in the middle of a war that could break apart the galaxy....This thrilling, multi-volume chronicle of a legendary war that spans the galaxy is written in the vein of the best works of Peter F. Hamilton, Dan Simmons, and Frank Herbert.- Hidden Empire (Aspect, 7/02) has won acclaim from many popular Science Fiction writers, including Margaret Weis, R.A. Salvatore, and Kate Elliot. Its 7/03 Aspect mass market publication will tie in with the hardcover publication of A FOREST OF STARS.- Kevin J. Anderson has sold millions of copies of his Star Wars, Dune, and X-Files novels, making him one of the best known writers in the genre today. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Reader's Choice Award.- Foreign rights to A FOREST OF STARS have already been sold in the U.K.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/265287.A_Forest_of_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Rule of Thoughts", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 15517, "review_number": 1201, "book_description": "From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series comes The Rule of Thoughts, the exciting sequel to The Eye of Minds. Fans of the Divergent series by Veronica Roth and The Hunger Games will love the new Mortality Doctrine series. Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything he\u2019d ever known about his life\u2014and the world\u2014completely upside down.He barely survived. But it was the only way VirtNet Security knew to find the cyber-terrorist Kaine\u2014and to make the Sleep safe for gamers once again. And, the truth Michael discovered about Kaine is more complex than they anticipated, and more terrifying than even the worst of their fears.Kaine is a tangent, a computer program that has become sentient. And Michael\u2019s completing the Path was the first stage in turning Kaine\u2019s master plan, the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality.The Mortality Doctrine will populate Earth entirely with human bodies harboring tangent minds. Any gamer who sinks into the VirtNet risks coming out with a tangent intelligence in control of their body. And the takeover has already begun.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17700320-the-rule-of-thoughts"}, +{"book_title": "Jacaranda", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 659, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "The RangerOn the island of Galveston, off the coast of southeast Texas, lies a hotel called the Jacaranda. In its single year of operation, two dozen people have died there. The locals say it's cursed. The Rangers say that's nonsense, but they know a man who might be willing to investigate. Horatio Korman crosses the water from the mainland, and hopes for the best.The NunBut the bodies pile up, and a hurricane is brewing up fast. One of the Jacaranda's guests sees time running out, so she seeks an authority of a different sort: a priest from El Huizache who is good at solving problems and keeping secrets. Eileen Callahan has a problem to solve, and a secret to keep. She crosses her fingers, and sends a message that could save them all.The PadreJuan Miguel Quintero Rios broke a promise to the Virgin, and so he was punished...but his intentions were pure, so he was also blessed. Now he walks the southwest with second sight and a tattoo across his back: ''Deo, non Fortuna''--By God, not chance. The former gunslinger crosses himself, and makes for the Jacaranda Hotel.Novella takes place 20 years after the events of Fiddlehead, and will be unrelated to the main arc.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22667736-jacaranda"}, +{"book_title": "Ethereal", "author_name": "Addison Moore", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 13685, "review_number": 954, "book_description": "Sixteen year-old, Skyla Messenger is a dead girl walking. When her newly remarried mother moves the family to Paragon Island, to a house that is rumored to be haunted, Skyla finds refuge in Logan Oliver, a boy who shares her unique ability to read minds. Skyla discovers Logan holds the answers to the questions she\u2019s been looking for, but Logan\u2019s reluctance to give her the knowledge she desires leaves her believing Logan has a few secrets of his own. Skyla\u2019s bloodlines may just be connected to the most powerful angelic beings that roam the earth, and the more she knows, the more danger she seems to be in. Suddenly an entire faction of earthbound angels wants her dead, at least she still has Logan, or does she?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49420925-ethereal"}, +{"book_title": "Deadline", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 24126, "review_number": 2296, "book_description": "Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has.But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Because she brings news-he may have put down the monster who attacked them, but the conspiracy is far from dead.Now, Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun. Newsflesh FeedDeadlineBlackout", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8429687-deadline"}, +{"book_title": "The Space Opera Renaissance", "author_name": "Kathryn Cramer", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 308, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "\"Space opera\", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the \"new space opera\" is one of the defining streams of modern SF.Now, World Fantasy Award-winning anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have compiled a definitive overview of this subgenre, both as it was in the days of the pulp magazines, and as it has become in 2005. Included are major works from genre progenitors like Jack Williamson and Leigh Brackett, stylish midcentury voices like Cordwainer Smith and Samuel R. Delany, popular favorites like David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin, and modern-day pioneers such as Iain M. Banks, Steven Baxter, Scott Westerfeld, and Charles Stross.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/829944.The_Space_Opera_Renaissance"}, +{"book_title": "The Crown's Game", "author_name": "Evelyn Skye", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 20214, "review_number": 3675, "book_description": "Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air. They are enchanters\u2014the only two in Russia\u2014and with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threatening, the tsar needs a powerful enchanter by his side.And so he initiates the Crown\u2019s Game, an ancient duel of magical skill\u2014the greatest test an enchanter will ever know. The victor becomes the Imperial Enchanter and the tsar\u2019s most respected adviser. The defeated is sentenced to death.Raised on tiny Ovchinin Island her whole life, Vika is eager for the chance to show off her talent in the grand capital of Saint Petersburg. But can she kill another enchanter\u2014even when his magic calls to her like nothing else ever has?For Nikolai, an orphan, the Crown\u2019s Game is the chance of a lifetime. But his deadly opponent is a force to be reckoned with\u2014beautiful, whip-smart, imaginative\u2014and he can\u2019t stop thinking about her.And when Pasha, Nikolai\u2019s best friend and heir to the throne, also starts to fall for the mysterious enchantress, Nikolai must defeat the girl they both love\u2026or be killed himself.As long-buried secrets emerge, threatening the future of the empire, it becomes dangerously clear\u2014the Crown\u2019s Game is not one to lose.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Russia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156203-the-crown-s-game"}, +{"book_title": "Want", "author_name": "Cindy Pon", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 3463, "review_number": 877, "book_description": "Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. The rich wear special suits that protect them from the pollution and viruses that plague the city, while those without suffer illness and early deaths. Frustrated by his city\u2019s corruption and still grieving the loss of his mother, who died as a result of it, Zhou is determined to change things, no matter the cost.With the help of his friends, Zhou infiltrates the lives of the wealthy in hopes of destroying the international Jin Corporation from within. Jin Corp not only manufactures the special suits the rich rely on, but they may also be manufacturing the pollution that makes them necessary.Yet the deeper Zhou delves into this new world of excess and wealth, the more muddled his plans become. And against his better judgment, Zhou finds himself falling for Daiyu, the daughter of Jin Corp\u2019s CEO. Can Zhou save his city without compromising who he is or destroying his own heart?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32333174-want"}, +{"book_title": "September Sky", "author_name": "John A. Heldt", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 459, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "When unemployed San Francisco reporter Chuck Townsend and his college-dropout son, Justin, take a cruise to Mexico in 2016, each hopes to rebuild a relationship after years of estrangement. But they find more than common ground aboard the ship. They meet a mysterious lecturer who touts the possibilities of time travel. Within days, Chuck and Justin find themselves in 1900, riding a train to Texas, intent on preventing a distant uncle from being hanged for a crime he did not commit. Their quick trip to Galveston, however, becomes long and complicated when they wrangle with business rivals and fall for two beautiful librarians on the eve of a hurricane that will destroy the city. Filled with humor, history, romance, and heartbreak, SEPTEMBER SKY follows two directionless souls on the adventure of a lifetime as they try to make peace with the past, find new purpose, and grapple with the knowledge of things to come.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24244216-september-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Bloodline", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 19712, "review_number": 2395, "book_description": "Witness the birth of the ResistanceWhen the Rebellion defeated the Empire in the skies above Endor, Leia Organa believed it was the beginning to a lasting peace. But after decades of vicious infighting and partisan gridlock in the New Republic Senate, that hope seems like a distant memory.Now a respected senator, Leia must grapple with the dangers that threaten to cripple the fledgling democracy\u2014from both within and without. Underworld kingpins, treacherous politicians, and Imperial loyalists are sowing chaos in the galaxy. Desperate to take action, senators are calling for the election of a First Senator. It is their hope that this influential post will bring strong leadership to a divided galaxy. As the daughter of Darth Vader, Leia faces with distrust the prospect of any one person holding such a powerful position\u2014even when supporters suggest Leia herself for the job. But a new enemy may make this path Leia\u2019s only option. 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For this reason Sutton is hounded by the sinister warring factions of the future who wish to influence or prevent the writing of this book he has not yet begun to write.Yet already a copy has been found in the burnt-out wreckage of a space-craft on Aldebaran XII.", "year_published": 1950, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Novels", "Space", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/876499.Time_and_Again"}, +{"book_title": "The One", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 406807, "review_number": 29515, "book_description": "The time has come for one winner to be crowned.When she was chosen to compete in the Selection, America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown\u2014or to Prince Maxon's heart. But as the end of the competition approaches, and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose\u2014and how hard she'll have to fight for the future she wants.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18635016-the-one"}, +{"book_title": "The Hatching", "author_name": "Ezekiel Boone", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 5441, "review_number": 1309, "book_description": "Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government \u201caccidentally\u201d drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. As these incidents begin to sweep the globe, a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington, D.C. laboratory. Something wants out. The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic disaster. An ancient species, long dormant, is now very much awake.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Suspense", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276264-the-hatching"}, +{"book_title": "A Canticle for Leibowitz", "author_name": "Walter M. Miller Jr.", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 96430, "review_number": 4866, "book_description": "In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Religion", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164154.A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz"}, +{"book_title": "Chobits, Vol. 6", "author_name": "CLAMP", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 4651, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "For most people, persocoms represent technology at its finest - after all, they can do anything you program them to and they make great looking companions. But for Yumi Oumura, persocoms bring out her deepest insecurities, and not without reason. Just as people once became addicted to their computers, many people are now addicted to their persocoms to the exclusion of other human beings. Because persocoms look so much like people, it's more than just addiction - it's an emotional bond that some would call love. Ordinarily this love would be considered one-sided, as how could a computer love a person back? When the persocom in question is the mysterious Chi, perhaps it's not such an impossibility.Chapters 61\u201372", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fantasy", "Comics Manga", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1087184.Chobits_Vol_6"}, +{"book_title": "Vorkosigan's Game: The Vor Game \\ Borders of Infinity", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 1855, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Omnibus of The Vor Game and the novella \"Borders of Infinity\".", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61910.Vorkosigan_s_Game"}, +{"book_title": "The Cobra Trilogy", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1220, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "The colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground-with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. But power brings temptation . . . and not all the Cobras could be trusted to fight for Earth alone. Jonny Moreau would learn the uses-and abuses-of his special abilities, and what it truly meant to be a Cobra.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252559.The_Cobra_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "The Realm of You", "author_name": "Amanda Richardson", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 542, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "Alternate Cover Edition ASIN: B016W2RJ8UWhen Marlin Winters awakens in an alternate universe, living in Vermont and engaged to a man she doesn\u2019t recognize, she\u2019s determined to figure out why she\u2019s here and what sequence of events lead her to this moment. Over the course of one day, she begins to piece together the last week of her real life. What\u2019s more, when the day is over, she doesn\u2019t want to leave. Though she avoids it, sleep eventually comes, and the life she yearns for disappears forever.The next day, Marlin wakes up in a hospital bed. It becomes abundantly clear that her wonderful life in Vermont was all a dream. Intent on regaining the happiness she felt, she decides to uproot her life and begin volunteering at a psychiatric hospital in the same town as the one in her dream. What she doesn\u2019t expect is for both lives to come crashing together in a strange twist of fate.The Realm of You is a dark contemporary romance about discovering your second chance. Sometimes the mind works in mysterious ways, and in Marlin\u2019s case, it gives her a glimpse of what could have been. Once she gets a taste, she\u2019ll do anything to make it a reality.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "New Adult", "Dark", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Health (Mental Health)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Mental Health (Mental Illness)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35993183-the-realm-of-you"}, +{"book_title": "Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia", "author_name": "George Zebrowski", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 139, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Subtitled \"A Mobile Utopia\", this pioneering novel about the meaning of space habitats for human history, presents spacefaring as no work did in its time, and since. A utopian novel like no other, presenting a dynamic utopian civilisation that transcends the failures of our history. Epic in scope, \"Macrolife\" opens in the year 2021. The Bulero family owns one of Earth's richest corporations. As the Buleros gather for a reunion at the family mansion, an industrial accident plunges the corporation into a crisis, which eventually brings the world around them to the brink of disaster. Vilified, the Buleros flee to a space colony where young Richard Bulero gradually realises that the only hope for humanity lies in macrolife - mobile, self-reproducing space habitats. A millennium later, these mobile communities have left our sunspace and multiplied. Conflicts with natural planets arise. John Bulero, a cloned descendant of the twenty-first century Bulero clan, falls in love with a woman from a natural world and experiences the harshness of her way of life. He rediscovers his roots when his mobile returns to the solar system, and a tense confrontation of three civilisations takes place. One hundred billion years later, macrolife, now as numerous as the stars, faces the impending death of nature. Regaining his individuality, but falling away from a highly evolved macrolife, a strangely changed John Bulero struggles to see beyond a collapse of the universe into a giant black hole. Inspired by the possibilities of space settlements, projections of biology and cosmology, and basic human longings, \"Macrolife\" is a visionary speculation on the long-term future of human and natural history. Filled with haunting images and memorable characters, this is a vivid and brilliant work.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/996881.Macrolife"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Binds", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.55, "rating_votes": 28221, "review_number": 2355, "book_description": "Mercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she\u2019s faced could have prepared her for this\u2026 Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official. But there are some steep obstacles standing in the way of their walk to the altar\u2026 Kate\u2019s father, Roland, has kidnapped the demigod Saiman and is slowly bleeding him dry in his never-ending bid for power. A Witch Oracle has predicted that if Kate marries the man she loves, Atlanta will burn and she will lose him forever. And the only person Kate can ask for help is long dead. The odds are impossible. The future is grim. But Kate Daniels has never been one to play by the rules\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333174-magic-binds"}, +{"book_title": "Silver Mirrors", "author_name": "A.A. Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 887, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Criminal Investigation Division inspectors Janus Mikani and Celeste Ritsuko survived their last mission, barely, but the interrupted ancient ritual released trouble. Machines and elementals go wild. An armada of united cragger pirates will attack. Mikani and Ritsuko must turn enemies to allies, fight a war on two fronts, and watch or join the love in the air.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18104927-silver-mirrors"}, +{"book_title": "The Archived", "author_name": "Victoria Schwab", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 30237, "review_number": 4547, "book_description": "Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Now Da is dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was: a ruthless Keeper, tasked with stopping often violent Histories from waking up and getting out. Because of her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive.Being a Keeper isn't just dangerous\u2014it's a constant reminder of those Mac has lost, Da's death was hard enough, but now that her little brother is gone too, Mac starts to wonder about the boundary between living and dying, sleeping and waking. In the Archive, the dead must never be disturbed. And yet, someone is deliberately altering Histories, erasing essential chapters. Unless Mac can piece together what remains, the Archive itself may crumble and fall.In this haunting, richly imagined novel, Victoria Schwab reveals the thin lines between past and present, love and pain, trust and deceit, unbearable loss and hard-won redemption.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10929432-the-archived"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of M", "author_name": "Peng Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 13071, "review_number": 2419, "book_description": "Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself.One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man\u2019s shadow disappears\u2014an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories.Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max\u2019s shadow disappears too.Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless.As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204070-the-book-of-m"}, +{"book_title": "The Autumn Republic", "author_name": "Brian McClellan", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 24197, "review_number": 1276, "book_description": "The capital has fallen...Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the first time in history, the capital city of Adro lies in the hands of a foreign invader. His son is missing, his allies are indistinguishable from his foes, and reinforcements are several weeks away.An army divided...With the Kez still bearing down upon them and without clear leadership, the Adran army has turned against itself. Inspector Adamat is drawn into the very heart of this new mutiny with promises of finding his kidnapped son.All hope rests with one...And Taniel Two-shot, hunted by men he once thought his friends, must safeguard the only chance Adro has of getting through this war without being destroyed...THE AUTUMN REPUBLIC is the epic conclusion that began with Promise of Blood and The Crimson Campaign.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20883847-the-autumn-republic"}, +{"book_title": "Sorcerer to the Crown", "author_name": "Zen Cho", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 11303, "review_number": 2394, "book_description": "Magic and mayhem collide with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut.At his wit\u2019s end, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave, eminently proficient magician, and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers\u2014one of the most respected organizations throughout all of Britain\u2014ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover why England\u2019s magical stocks are drying up.But when his adventure brings him in contact with a most unusual comrade, a woman with immense power and an unfathomable gift, he sets on a path which will alter the nature of sorcery in all of Britain\u2014and the world at large\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Romance", "Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23943137-sorcerer-to-the-crown"}, +{"book_title": "Among the Impostors", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 27873, "review_number": 1438, "book_description": "Luke Garner is terrified.Out of hiding for the first time in his life, he knows that any minute one of his new classmates at Hendricks School for Boys could discover his secret: that he's a third child passing as the recently deceased Lee Grant. And in a society where it's illegal for families to have more than two children, being a third child means certain death at the hands of the dreaded Population Police.His first experience outside the safety of his home is bewildering. There's not a single window anywhere in the school; Luke can't tell his classmates apart (even as they subject him to brutal hazing); and the teachers seem oblivious to it all.Desperate to fit in, Luke endures the confusion and teasing until he discovers an unlocked door to the outside, and a chance to understand what is really going on. But to take this chance -- to find out the secrets of Hendricks -- Luke will need to put aside his fears and discover a courage that a lifetime in hiding couldn't thwart.Once again, best-selling author Margaret Peterson Haddix delights her fans with this spine-tingling account of an all-too-possible future.Among the Impostors is a worthy companion to Among the Hidden and a heart-stopping thriller in its own right.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303472.Among_the_Impostors"}, +{"book_title": "Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles", "author_name": "Kim Newman", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 3172, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "Imagine the twisted evil twins of Holmes and Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Prof. James Moriarty - wily, snake-\u00a0like, fiercely intelligent, unpredictable - and Colonel Sebastian 'Basher' Moran - violent,politically incorrect, debauched.\u00a0Together they run London crime, owning police and criminals alike. Unravelling mysteries -- all for their own gain.\u00a0A spin-off from Titan's highly successful Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series, The Hound of the D'Urbervilles sees acclaimed novelist Kim\u00a0Newman (Anno Dracula) take on the fiendish Professor Moriarty.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Short Stories", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10635411-professor-moriarty"}, +{"book_title": "Plague of Demons", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 376, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Cover Artist: Alan AldridgeWhen John Bravais was sent on a secret mission to observe a war in North Africa he found out more than it was safe for him to know - even after he had secretly been surgically transformed so that he was as strong as a Bolo tank, and nearly as tough: Wolf-like aliens, invisible to the ordinary eye, were harvesting the brains of the fallen fighters! Brevais might have become the Ultimate Warrior, but still he was only one man against A Plague of Demons.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1829054.Plague_of_Demons"}, +{"book_title": "Sixteenth Watch", "author_name": "Myke Cole", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 670, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "The Coast Guard must prevent the first lunar war in history.A lifelong Search-and-Rescuewoman, Coast Guard Captain Jane Oliver is ready for a peaceful retirement. But when tragedy strikes, Oliver loses her husband and her plans for the future, and finds herself thrust into a role she\u2019s not prepared for. Suddenly at the helm of the Coast Guard\u2019s elite SAR-1 lunar unit, Oliver is the only woman who can prevent the first lunar war in history, a conflict that will surely consume not only the moon, but earth as well.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44047421-sixteenth-watch"}, +{"book_title": "Revenge of the Mad Scientist", "author_name": "Lara Nance", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 151, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "When Lady Arabella Trunkett\u2019s father, the High Lord Minister of Urbannia is kidnapped, all clues point to the mysterious country of Gandiss and the world is thrown into political upheaval.Arabella is convinced the more sinister nation of Carabarras is to blame, urged on by a mad scientist seeking revenge. So, she sets out on a perilous airship journey across a variety of exotic locales to save him, and halt the potential world war.But airship pirates, secret assassins and slave traders aren\u2019t her only trials. The fickle hand of fate has made the captain of the only airship available for charter, the man that left her at the altar. For eight years she's wished him dead. Now he's her only hope.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Steampunk Romance", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15851004-revenge-of-the-mad-scientist"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire III: Chapter Four - The Demons", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 96, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Dalek Empire III is a six part mini-series featuring the Daleks from the world of BBC TV's Doctor Who.Georgi Selestru's fears about the Dalek threat may not be shared by his superiors. Galanar's very survival is at stake. And the Dalek plan is gaining momentum. But who are the Demons, and whose side are they on?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2041355.Dalek_Empire_III"}, +{"book_title": "Sphere", "author_name": "Michael Crichton", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 170781, "review_number": 3330, "book_description": "A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old....\"The suspense is real.\"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\"A page-turner...Chichton's writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action. This book should come with hot buttered popcorn.\"NEWSWEEK", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Horror", "Suspense", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Novels", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455373.Sphere"}, +{"book_title": "Kesrith", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2163, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "This is the story of three people: Sten Duncan, a soldier of humanity; Niun, last warrior of the mri, humanity's enemies; and Melein, priestess-queen of the final fallen mri stronghold. It is the story of two mighty species fighting for a galaxy, humanity driving out from Earth, and the enigmatic regul struggling to hold their stars with mri mercenaries. It is a story of diplomacy and warfare, of conspiracy and betrayal, and of three flesh-and-blood people who found themselves thrown together in a life-and-death alliance.This is the 1st DAW paperback printing.Cover Artist: Gino D'Achille", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Own", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126496.Kesrith"}, +{"book_title": "One of Our Thursdays Is Missing", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 17905, "review_number": 1831, "book_description": "The newest tour de force from The New York Times bestselling author of Thursday Next and Shades of Grey. Jasper Fforde's exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday. The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary to the warring factions. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River beckons-a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld itself. Once again New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination. Fans will rejoice that their favorite character in the Fforde universe is back. Watch a Video", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Humor", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8131227-one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing"}, +{"book_title": "Europe at Midnight", "author_name": "Dave Hutchinson", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1267, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight.For an intelligence officer like Jim it's a nightmare. Every week or so a friendly power spawns a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England's interests. It's hard to keep on top of it all. But things are about to get worse for Jim. A stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another universe, and a man has appeared who may hold the key to unlocking Europe's most jealously guarded secret...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26009702-europe-at-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Walkaway", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 6386, "review_number": 1073, "book_description": "Cory Doctorow\u2019s first adult novel in eight years: an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza\u2014known to his friends as Hubert, Etc\u2014was too old to be at that Communist party.But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be\u2014except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. After falling in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society\u2014and walk away.After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life\u2014food, clothing, shelter\u2014from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system.It\u2019s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it\u2019s war \u2013 a war that will turn the world upside down.Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years\u2026and the very human people who will live their consequences.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604388-walkaway"}, +{"book_title": "Poof! A Bot", "author_name": "David Milgrim", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 91, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Zip has zapped a bot. Zip tells the bot what to do. Will the bot listen?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40538580-poof-a-bot"}, +{"book_title": "The Long War", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 21761, "review_number": 1546, "book_description": "A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind... A new 'America', called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth - and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government...Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation... Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17167572-the-long-war"}, +{"book_title": "On Silver Wings", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 4413, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "In the future, mankind has colonized other worlds, mined asteroid belts, and sent ships so far into the blackness of space that light from their drives won't reach Earth for centuries. Through it all, life has been found in almost every system we visited and yet we've never encountered another intelligent species.Until now.When the Colony on the planet known as Hayden's World stops transmitting on their CASIMIR FTL system, a Solari Fleet Task Force is sent to investigate. When they arrive there are enough oddities in the situation that they in turn send in a special operations unit to contact the colonists and determine what happened.Only one of those operators survives to make planet fall.Sergeant Sorilla Aida finds herself against an alien force of unknown power and capability. Her only assets? A depleted suit of power armor, her rifle, basic kit, and a few hundred Hayden born civilians looking to take back their home.Just what she was trained for.On Silver Wings is an 81 thousand word novel.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12753230-on-silver-wings"}, +{"book_title": "Surface Detail", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 24425, "review_number": 1036, "book_description": "It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price. To put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful tho it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A brutal, far-reaching war is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead and it's about to erupt into reality. It started in the realm of the Real & that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Cultural", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Banking (Banks)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7937744-surface-detail"}, +{"book_title": "The Clones of Mawcett", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2258, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "While digging through the ruins of a long dead civilization on the planet Mawcett, a team of Terran and Nordakian archeologists find an underground tunnel leading to a door in such extraordinary condition that it could have been fabricated as recently as that morning. They labor throughout the day, using every modern device available to them, but are unable to gain entry. Then, in the early hours of the new day, seemingly in response to the screams of a frustrated, over-tired scientist, the door slides noiselessly open. Upon passing through the entranceway, the archeologists are stunned to find an elaborate complex in pristine condition. Summoning the courage to venture further, they enter a large circular chamber lined with strange electronic equipment, and immediately become engrossed in examining strange symbols etched into the floor near the center of the room. Suddenly, they're bathed in a strange light that paralyzes them where they stand. They watch in frozen terror as a clear, circular wall rises up around them. When the enclosed area begins to fill with a dense ocher gas smelling of persimmons, the dig site laborers, who had witnessed the activity from the periphery, run screaming for the entrance.133,900 Words - 417 Pages", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9363684-the-clones-of-mawcett"}, +{"book_title": "Assignment in Nowhere", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 64, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "THE COMING OF THE BLIGHTIt seemed as though the world was eroding right under everyone's feet. Stories disappeared from magazines; the baron's silver coat of arms, polished in the morning, was pitted with corrosion by afternoon; toadstools were springing up from every corner. And these were but the first signs of the coming plague, a cancerous orgy of patternless vitality seeking to engulf the world...TO STEM THE TIDECarefree Johnny Curlon, indelicately plucked from his fishing boat one evening, is bluntly informed by high powers that he is a man destined for a role in great affairs: only his unique powers can prevent the coming probability crisis that threatens to turn the world into bubbling chaos....", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549253.Assignment_in_Nowhere"}, +{"book_title": "Charmed Life", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 31055, "review_number": 1267, "book_description": "Cat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents, Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that could throw whole worlds out of whack.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244572.Charmed_Life"}, +{"book_title": "Push of the Sky", "author_name": "Camille Alexa", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 43, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *Starred Review*: \"Alexa's impressive debut collection covers a wide variety of subgenres, among which she switches with ease. The highlight is the slightly absurdist \"Shades of White and Road,\" which develops the whimsy of a magic kingdom and talking objects into something touching and beautiful. Other standouts include the melancholy, postapocalyptic \"A Taste of Snow,\" the fun space frontier tale \"The Clone Wrangler's Bride\" and the clockwork-and-alchemy fantasy \"The Butterfly Assassins,\" which deftly mixes a murder mystery, court intrigue and a stutterer's plight in a world where magic requires verbal incantations. \"Paperheart,\" focusing on the last dragon, and \"They Shall Be as They Know,\" an eschatological zombie story, nicely revisit familiar themes. The poems are not as strong as the fiction but they show decent range. Alexa's voice is a welcome new addition to genre fiction.\"A girl and her mandroid wander the Twelve Domed Cities of Mars, looking for a place to call home... A young man in the age of practical alchemy eschews incantations he can't utter for fantastic creatures built of cogs and springs... A prehistoric inventor living at the cusp of change finds an ancient winged carcass at the edge of a melting glacier, and has the inspiration of a lifetime... Over two dozen short speculative works from the pages of Fantasy Magazine, ChiZine, Abyss & Apex, Space & Time Magazine and more, including SpaceWesterns.com's most-read story of all time, \"The Clone Wrangler's Bride\" and its sequel, \"Droidtown Blues.\" PLUS new stories never before published, collected here for the first time.Contents:Shades of White and Road \u2022 (2009)A Taste of Snow \u2022 (2009)The Clone Wrangler's Bride \u2022 (2009)The Butterfly Assassins \u2022 (2009)Paperheart \u2022 (2009)They Shall Be as They Know \u2022 (2009)The Italian \u2022 (2009)Plastic Personality Surgery \u2022 (2009)Cliffs of Cal'allat \u2022 (2009)Neither Wave Nor Wind \u2022 (2009)Poor Little Things \u2022 (2009)Kingdom at the Edge of Nowhere \u2022 (2009)Inclusions \u2022 (2007)The Beetle Eater's Dream \u2022 (2009)Baseball Trophies, Baby Teeth \u2022 (2009)I Consider My Cadaver \u2022 (2009)Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths \u2022 (2008)Weird Fruits \u2022 (2008)To Heroboy, from Tiffani \u2022 (2009)Droidtown Blues \u2022 (2009)Of Spice and Lime and Tea \u2022 (2009)Three Days Dead \u2022 (2009)Veilsight \u2022 (2008)Flying Solo \u2022 (2007)The Green Infinity \u2022 (2008)Virgin Soil \u2022 (2008)Observations of a Dimestore Figurine \u2022 (2009)The Pull of the World and the Push of the Sky \u2022 (2009)Milky Way Meat Market \u2022 (2009)Foreword (Push of the Sky) \u2022 essay by Jay Lake", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Anthologies", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6462501-push-of-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Panic", "author_name": "K.R. Griffiths", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1308, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Alt cover edition for ASIN B00D4XVR8OMichael Evans is only in rural St. Davids to maintain a low profile after his time spent as a city cop ended in disaster. The town is perfect for him: isolated. A tiny population. Virtually no crime.Until the night the strange canisters fall from the sky and the town priest starts killing people with his teeth. To Michael, the bloodbath looks like a murder case that the quiet town's two police officers can't possibly handle. But this isn't just a crime scene.And the priest is just the beginning...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Thriller", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18586331-panic"}, +{"book_title": "Strong Arm Tactics", "author_name": "Jody Lynn Nye", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 274, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Lt. Daivid Wolfe has been assigned to X-Ray Company, a repository for outsiders, oddballs, and undesirables that the Galactic Defense Force doesn't want to have to deal with but can't find a legitimate way to discharge. He is the eldest child and only son of one of the most powerful figures in the Thousand Worlds Confederation, who can't imagine why Daivid would ever want to join the army. Central Command - uneasily aware of his connections - sent him to the most unsavory unit in the space service, the Cockroaches. Wolfe takes the assignment as almost a sacred cause, determined to straighten out his company, whip it into a self-respecting fighting force, and make it proud of itself. As for the Cockroaches, they've chewed up and spat out gung-ho young lieutenants before-but have they underestimated Daivid Wolfe? They're sent on what ought to be a cream-puff assignment, a simple courier mission to the greatest amusement park in the galaxy, and end up defending the population from a ruthless enemy in the only way the Cockroaches know how: unconventionally.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23618123-strong-arm-tactics"}, +{"book_title": "Gridlinked", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 10161, "review_number": 485, "book_description": "Gridlinked is a science fiction adventure in the classic, fast-paced, action-packed tradition of Harry Harrison and Poul Anderson, with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of Ian Fleming added to spice the mix.Cormac is a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future where \"runcibles\" (matter transmitters controlled by AIs) allow interstellar travel in an eye blink throughout the settled worlds of the Polity. Unfortunately Cormac is nearly burnt out, \"gridlinked\" to the AI net so long that his humanity has begun to drain away. He has to take the cold-turkey cure and shake his addiction to having his brain on the net.Now he must do without just as he's sent to investigate the unique runcible disaster that's wiped out the entire human colony on planet Samarkand in a thirty-megaton explosion. With the runcible out, Cormac must get there by ship, but he has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Arian Pelter, who now follows him across the galaxy with a terrifying psychotic killer android in tow. And deep beneath Samarkand's surface there are buried mysteries, fiercely guarded.This is fast-moving, edge-of-the-seat entertainment, and a great introduction to the work of one of the most exciting new SF talents in years.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98046.Gridlinked"}, +{"book_title": "Venus", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 2708, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases.This is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying.His older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus, years before, and his father had always hated Van for surviving when his brother died. Now his father is offering a ten billion dollar prize to the first person to land on Venus and return his oldest son's remains.To everyone's surprise, Van takes up the offer. But what Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everything--our understanding of Venus, of global warming on Earth, and his knowledge of who he is.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science (Astronomy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/768918.Venus"}, +{"book_title": "Android: Golem", "author_name": "Mel Odom", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 304, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "When a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping. But his personal issues are forced to wait when he and his human partner Shelley Nolan are assigned a high-profile murder investigation - one that will change his world! The wealthy CEO of IdentiKit, a successful android manufacturer, has been found dead in his hotel room. Now, what begins as just another murder in downtown New Angeles quickly escalates into a tangled web of intrigue, love, and betrayal, as Drake and his partner work to solve this brutal crime before the killer strikes again. Drake's investigation will lead him through the darkest corners of a conspiracy that reaches up the Beanstalk and out to the bustling industry of Mars... then right back to the woman of his dreams. Set in the dystopian future of the Android universe, Golem tells a story of murder, manipulation, and mystery in a world where humanity and technology collide.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12815258-android"}, +{"book_title": "Six of Crows", "author_name": "Leigh Bardugo", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 355327, "review_number": 43142, "book_description": "Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price\u2014and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can\u2019t pull it off alone. . . .A convict with a thirst for revengeA sharpshooter who can\u2019t walk away from a wagerA runaway with a privileged pastA spy known as the WraithA Heartrender using her magic to survive the slumsA thief with a gift for unlikely escapesKaz\u2019s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction\u2014if they don\u2019t kill each other first.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23437156-six-of-crows"}, +{"book_title": "Star Nomad", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 5578, "review_number": 593, "book_description": "The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she's stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter. She has no money or resources, and there are no transports heading to Perun, her former home and the last imperial stronghold.But she has a plan.Steal a dilapidated and malfunctioning freighter from a junkyard full of lawless savages. Slightly suicidal, but she believes she can do it. Her plan, however, does not account for the elite cyborg soldier squatting in the freighter, intending to use it for his own purposes. As an imperial soldier, he has no love for Alliance pilots. In fact, he's quite fond of killing them.Alisa has more problems than she can count, but she can't let cyborgs, savages, or ancient malfunctioning ships stand in her way. If she does, she\u2019ll never see her daughter again.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30118314-star-nomad"}, +{"book_title": "Mafia and Magics", "author_name": "Lyn Gala", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 220, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Angel Zamora has always looked out for numero uno, even after getting sent to prison for robbing a convenience store at knife point. But now two crazy feds show up to tell him he has undeveloped magic. And they want him to inform on a group that has been recruiting and disposing of magic users. When Angel agrees, he expects to play the feds until he can make his own escape plans.However, once he's inside the mafia and developing his Talent, he starts to realize that he's not as concerned about his own skin as he is young Matteo. The only son of the mob boss Mr. Luschese, Matt is even more trapped than Angel. His hot temper, disdain for authority, and deeply in-the-closet attitudes are all so familiar that Angel aches for the young man. A relationship that starts with Angel seeking one more potential advantage quickly turns into Angel's worst nightmare--a deep sense of commitment to another human being. Escape routes are closing, and Angel fears he is going to end up one more body dumped in the river...and if Angel plays this wrong, Matt could die with him.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36253316-mafia-and-magics"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Visions", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 9085, "review_number": 224, "book_description": "From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction whose name is synonymous with the science of robotics, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays\u2014including three rare tales\u2014gathered together in one volume. Meet all of Asimov\u2019s most famous creations including: Robbie, the very first robot that his imagination brought to life; Susan Calvin, the original robot psychologist; Stephen Byerley, the humanoid robot; and the famous human/robot detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novels as The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations\u2014from the most primitive computers and mobile machines to the first robot to become a man.(back cover)Contents: Robot Visions \u2022 cover and interior artwork by Ralph McQuarrie Introduction: The Robot Chronicles \u2022 essay by Isaac Asimov Robot Visions / short story by Isaac Asimov Too Bad! (1989) / short story by Isaac Asimov Robbie (1940) / short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow) Reason [Mike Donovan] (1941) / short story by Isaac Asimov Liar! [Susan Calvin] (1941) / short story by Isaac Asimov Runaround [Mike Donovan] (1942) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Evidence [Susan Calvin] (1946) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Little Lost Robot [Susan Calvin] (1947) / novelette by Isaac Asimov The Evitable Conflict [Susan Calvin] (1950) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Feminine Intuition [Susan Calvin] (1969) / novelette by Isaac Asimov The Bicentennial Man (1976) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Someday (1956) / short story by Isaac Asimov Think! (1977) / short story by Isaac Asimov Segregationist (1967) / short story by Isaac Asimov Mirror Image [Elijah Bailey/R. Daneel Olivaw] (1972) / short story by Isaac Asimov Lenny [Susan Calvin] (1958) / short story by Isaac Asimov Galley Slave [Susan Calvin] (1957) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Christmas Without Rodney (1988) / short story by Isaac Asimov Essays by Isaac Asimov: Robots I Have Known (1954); The New Teachers (1976); Whatever You Wish (1977); The Friends We Make (1977); Our Intelligent Tools (1977); The Laws of Robotics (1979); Future Fantastic (1989); The Machine and the Robot (1978); The New Profession (1979); The Robot As Enemy? (1979); Intelligences Together (1979); My Robots (1987); The Laws of Humanics (1987); Cybernetic Organism (1987); The Sense of Humor (1988); Robots in Combination (1988).The volume features many black-and-white illustrations by Ralph McQuarrie.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41823.Robot_Visions"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian Alien", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 10160, "review_number": 1026, "book_description": "Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I\u2019m one of them. Yay, me. In order to survive, we have to take on a symbiont that wants to rewire our bodies to live in this brutal place. I like to call it a cootie. And my cootie\u2019s a jerk, because it also thinks I\u2019m the mate to the biggest, surliest alien of the group. BARBARIAN ALIEN is a sequel to ICE PLANET BARBARIANS. You do not have to read both in order to understand the plot, but the story will be richer if you do!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25802043-barbarian-alien"}, +{"book_title": "Z-Minus I", "author_name": "Perrin Briar", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 1272, "review_number": 245, "book_description": " The post-apocalyptic series readers are describing as \"one of the best post-apocalypse stories I've ever read.\" Once infected, the virus shuts down organs, kills nerve impulses and even reprograms the way we think. The virus becomes us.But the process takes eight hours.If you only had eight hours left to live, what would you do?For Chris Smith, that decision has been made for him. He\u2019s infected, and returns home to find the rest of his family undead or missing, save his youngest daughter Maisie. He\u2019s never been much of a father, but can he make up for it now in the final few hours of his life and find somewhere safe for her to survive?Z-MINUS. Let the countdown begin.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23941832-z-minus-i"}, +{"book_title": "Yesterday", "author_name": "C.K. Kelly Martin", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 855, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "Alternate cover version of 1537065637 The future's fast collapsing. THEN: The formation of the UNA, the high threat of eco-terrorism, the mammoth rates of unemployment and subsequent escape into a world of virtual reality are things any student can read about in their 21st century textbooks and part of the normal background noise to Freya Kallas's life. Until that world starts to crumble. NOW: It's 1985. Freya Kallas has just moved across the world and into a new life. On the outside, she fits in at her new high school, but Freya feels nothing but removed. Her mother blames it on the grief over her father's death, but how does that explain the headaches and why do her memories feel so foggy? When Freya lays eyes on Garren Lowe, she can't get him out of her head. She's sure that she knows him, despite his insistence that they've never met. As Freya follows her instincts and pushes towards hidden truths, the two of them unveil a strange and dangerous world where their days may be numbered. Unsure who to trust, Freya and Garren go on the run from powerful forces determined to tear them apart and keep them from discovering the truth about their shared pasts (and futures), her visions, and the time and place they really came from.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Suspense", "Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50114632-yesterday"}, +{"book_title": "Svaha", "author_name": "Charles de Lint", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1219, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Out beyond the Enclaves, in the desolation between the cities, an Indian flyer has been downed. A chip encoded with vital secrets is missing. Only Gahzee can venture forth to find it--walking the line between the Dreamtime and the Realtime, bringing his people's ancient magic to bear on the poisoned world of tomorrow.Bringing hope, perhaps, for a new dawn. . .", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Urban", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186426.Svaha"}, +{"book_title": "The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock", "author_name": "R.L. Stine", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 388, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "You are invited to choose one of 20 spooky endings as you and your friends check out a new part of town, where you notice an old house. It has a sign that says \"BEWARE- DANGER\" on one side, and \"PLEASE COME IN\" on the other. Of course, you decide to go and see what's up.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Horror", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Gamebooks (Choose Your Own Adventure)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Games (Gamebooks)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460501.The_Creepy_Creations_of_Professor_Shock"}, +{"book_title": "The Gunslinger", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 527586, "review_number": 19409, "book_description": "In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43615.The_Gunslinger"}, +{"book_title": "In Another Time", "author_name": "Jillian Cantor", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 3871, "review_number": 562, "book_description": "A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows\u00a0a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II\u2014and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.Love brought them together. But only time can save them\u20261931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately he feels a powerful chemistry between them. It isn\u2019t long before they fall in love and begin making plans for the future. As their love affair unfolds over the next five years, the climate drastically changes in Germany as Hitler comes to power. Their love is tested with the new landscape and the realities of war, not the least of which is that Hanna is Jewish and Max is not. But unbeknownst to Hanna is the fact that Max has a secret, which causes him to leave for months at a time\u2014a secret that Max is convinced will help him save Hanna if Germany becomes too dangerous for her because of her religion.\u00a0In 1946, Hanna Ginsberg awakens in a field outside of Berlin. Disoriented and afraid, she has no memory of the past ten years and no idea what has happened to Max. With no information as to Max\u2019s whereabouts\u2014or if he is even still alive\u2014she decides to move to London to live with her sister while she gets her bearings. Even without an orchestra to play in, she throws herself completely into her music to keep alive her lifelong dream of becoming a concert violinist. But the music also serves as a balm to heal her deeply wounded heart and she eventually gets the opening she long hoped for. Even so, as the days, months, and years pass, taking her from London to Paris to Vienna to America, she continues to be haunted by her forgotten past, and the fate of the only man she has ever loved and cannot forget.Told in alternating viewpoints\u2014Max in the years leading up to WWII, and Hanna in the ten years after\u2014In Another Time\u00a0is a beautiful novel about love and survival, passion and music, across time and continents.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (World War II)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "War", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39087708-in-another-time"}, +{"book_title": "Emerald Eyes", "author_name": "Daniel Keys Moran", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 660, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "When the government created 250 telepathic infants to train as warriors, the children were nurtured as only the most valuable of slaves can be. But now these rare children have come of age, and they demand the same freedom as all men and women--and possess a unique power with which to fight for it.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1262998.Emerald_Eyes"}, +{"book_title": "Lesser Gods", "author_name": "Duncan Long", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 21, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Duncan Long (author of the Spider World Trilogy, HarperCollins; Antigrav Unlimited, Avon Books; and the Night Stalkers series, HarperCollins) has created a fast-paced novel of a future Earth where neighborhood snipers pick off salesmen, automation runs fatally amuck, and the resurrected dead walk the streets. Wisecracking hacker Ralph Crocker finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war between a cyborg named Death, organ-stealing street monstrosities, and genetically modified government agents. To survive, he must brave dangerous shadow worlds and trust \u201cAlice\u201d (who may be virtual), joining forces with her to confront the godlike man pulling strings behind the scenes to alter perceptions and perhaps even reality. The battle\u2019s outcome will change the future in ways impossible to imagine \u2013 and may prove fatal to both Alice and Ralph.With a witty narrative and skillful plotting, this story travels around the planet and beyond, from streets worked by automated prostitutes, to deadly tourist traps, to virtual worlds where anything can happen with fatal results. You\u2019ll find it\u2019s hard to put this novel down as the action unfolds, providing a sometimes-troubling view of the future.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17280671-lesser-gods"}, +{"book_title": "Charmed Vengeance", "author_name": "Suzanne Lazear", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 242, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "In the Faerie realm, Noli Braddock's relationship with her best friend V has grown into something more. But V's mother, Faerie Queen Tiana, has ruled that they are forbidden to see each other. Returning to the mortal realm, Noli joins the crew of her brother's air-pirate ship, the Vixen's Revenge. There she discovers that her brother has hired the scallywag Faerie huntsman, Kevighn Silver. While serving as shipmates, Kevighn and Noli learn that the Earth Court King plans to find a forbidden artifact--one that will bring destruction to everyone Noli loves.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12040782-charmed-vengeance"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 207132, "review_number": 4195, "book_description": "The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138398.The_Walking_Dead_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Dreamspell", "author_name": "Tamara Leigh", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1194, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "A TIME TO LIVE. A TIME TO DIE. A TIME TO DREAM.Sleep disorders specialist Kennedy Plain has been diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. When her research subject dies after trying to convince her he has achieved dream-induced time travel and her study is shelved, she enlists herself as a subject to complete her research. But when she dreams herself into 14th-century England and falls into the hands of Fulke Wynland, a man history has condemned as a murderer, she must not only stay alive long enough to find a way to return to her own time, but prevent Fulke from murdering his young nephews. And yet, the more time she spends with the medieval warrior, the more difficult it is to believe he is capable of committing the heinous crime for which he has been reviled for 600 years.Baron Fulke Wynland has been granted guardianship of his brother\u2019s heirs despite suspicions that he seeks to steal their inheritance. When the king sends a mysterious woman to care for the boys, Fulke is surprised by the lady's hostility toward him--and more surprised to learn she is to be his wife. But when his nephews are abducted, the two must overcome their mutual dislike to discover the boys' fate. What Fulke never expects is to feel for this woman whose peculiar speech, behavior, and talk of dream travel could see her burned as a witch.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21853347-dreamspell"}, +{"book_title": "Machine's Last Testament", "author_name": "Benjanun Sriduangkaew", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 174, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "To give humanity peace, the artificial intelligence Samsara will wage an eternal war . . .In a universe torn by combat, Samsara's world is the final haven that refugees will pay any price to enter. At the Selection Bureau, Suzhen Tang upholds the AI's will and grants citizenship to those deemed worthy. When she meets new arrival Ovuha, she judges Ovuha a model candidate\u2015educated, beautiful, a perfect fit for utopia.But Ovuha carries with her the seeds of battle, and what she brings may spell apocalyptic change: the breaking of Samsara, the end of paradise.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT (Transgender)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53168413-machine-s-last-testament"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberpunk", "author_name": "Bruce Bethke", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 115, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "\"A gang of unruly teenagers cut school and go joy-riding around \"the Net\" on their hopped-up portable computers, committing casual acts of vandalism and just generally being a$holes. Our hero is a good kid who's fallen in with a bad crowd; his parents eventually realize something is wrong and try to suppress the relationship. This results in the kid finally using his technical skills for deliberate purpose, to rebel against his parents -- and to win, because the paradigm shift is completely in his favor.\"", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2591832-cyberpunk"}, +{"book_title": "The Warrior's Apprentice", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 24219, "review_number": 1339, "book_description": "Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges. Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete freighter and in more debt than he ever thought possible. Propelled by his manic \"forward momentum,\" the ever-inventive Miles creates a new identity for himself as the commander of his own mercenary fleet to obtain a lucrative cargo; a shipment of weapons destined for a dangerous warzone.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61906.The_Warrior_s_Apprentice"}, +{"book_title": "An Easy Death", "author_name": "Charlaine Harris", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 9462, "review_number": 1440, "book_description": "Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they\u2019re at a desperate crossroad, even if they won\u2019t admit it. They\u2019re searching through the small border towns near Mexico, trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner, Oleg Karkarov. The wizards believe Oleg is a direct descendant of Grigori Rasputin, and that Oleg\u2019s blood can save the young tsar\u2019s life. As the trio journey through an altered America, shattered into several countries by the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, they\u2019re set on by enemies. It\u2019s clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their mission. Lizbeth Rose is a gunnie who has never failed a client, but her oath will test all of her skills and resolve to get them all out alive.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38136877-an-easy-death"}, +{"book_title": "The Fourth Wall", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 515, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Dagmar Shaw got out of the game... and into the movies.Sean is a washed-up child actor reduced to the lowest dregs of reality television to keep himself afloat. His life was a downward spiral of alcoholism, regret, and failure... until he met Dagmar.Except Sean has secrets, dark even for the Hollywood treadmill of abuse, addiction, and rehab. And Dagmar is a cipher. There are dark rumors about her past, the places she's been, the things she was involved in. People tend to die around her and now, she wants Sean for something. A movie, she says, but with her history, who's to say what her real game is?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Pop Culture (Nerd)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11501744-the-fourth-wall"}, +{"book_title": "Authority", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 61608, "review_number": 6270, "book_description": "The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach TrilogyAfter thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X\u2014a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization\u2014has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.John Rodr\u00edguez (aka \"Control\") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve.In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077769-authority"}, +{"book_title": "Partners In Necessity", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 1048, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Remember how Miri and Val Con first met? How about the trouble Priscilla was in before she met Shan? Who can forget the way that Edger and Sheather have of coming to a friend's rescue or contemplating the weave of a carpet?", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119831.Partners_In_Necessity"}, +{"book_title": "Marveltown", "author_name": "Bruce McCall", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 113, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "What\u2019s it like growing up in a town founded by inventors? On Saturdays, the adults open the doors of the Invent-o-Drome and give local children free rein to create whatever gadgets they can think up. Hypno-Goggles, a Rocket Chair, a homework-eating robo-dog \u2013 the can-do kids of Marveltown are never at a loss for ideas. But when an unfortunate short circuit causes a group of giant robot workers to go berserk \u2013 and the adults flee for their lives \u2013 are the kids ready to put their know-how to the test?\u00a0In his first book for children, veteran illustrator Bruce McCall has crafted a tale of ingenuity and mayhem with pictures that pop with retro charm and crackerjack wit.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3800434-marveltown"}, +{"book_title": "Saga, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 93049, "review_number": 6969, "book_description": "The smash-hit ongoing epic continues! Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters something truly frightening: her grandparents!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17131869-saga-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Life", "author_name": "Kat Falls", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 13918, "review_number": 1672, "book_description": "A thrilling futuristic adventure set deep undersea, Dark Life follows the settlers of the world's first subsea settlement as they defend their homesteads against a brazen band of outlaws.Set in an apocalyptic future where rising oceans have swallowed up entire regions and people live packed like sardines on the dry land left, DARK LIFE is the harrowing tale of underwater pioneers who have carved out a life for themselves in the harsh deep-sea environment, farming the seafloor in exchange for the land deed. The story follows Ty, who has lived his whole life on his family's homestead and has dreams of claiming his own stake when he turns eighteen. But when outlaws' attacks on government supply ships and settlements...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7027735-dark-life"}, +{"book_title": "A Spark of White Fire", "author_name": "Sangu Mandanna", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 915, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "In a universe of capricious gods, dark moons, and kingdoms built on the backs of spaceships, a cursed queen sends her infant daughter away, a jealous uncle steals the throne of Kali from his nephew, and an exiled prince vows to take his crown back. Raised alone and far away from her home on Kali, Esmae longs to return to her family. When the King of Wychstar offers to gift the unbeatable, sentient warship Titania to a warrior that can win his competition, she sees her way home: she\u2019ll enter the competition, reveal her true identity to the world, and help her famous brother win back the crown of Kali. It\u2019s a great plan. Until it falls apart. Inspired by the Mahabharata and other ancient Indian stories, A Spark of White Fire is a lush, sweeping space opera about family, curses, and the endless battle between jealousy and love.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Retellings", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Space", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37588503-a-spark-of-white-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Squire", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 52186, "review_number": 890, "book_description": "Fourteen-year-old Keladry of Mindelan is not your average squire. For one thing, she's a girl. For another, she's almost six feet tall. And most important of all, her ability to pass the Ordeal that soon confronts her may determine her kingdom's future. When Kel is chosen by the legendary Lord Raoul to be his squire, the conservatives of the realm hardly think she\u2019s up to the job. Kel earns respect and admiration among the men, as well as the affection of a fellow squire.\u201cThis feminist fantasy is a delightful read.\u201d\u2014KLIATT", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153795.Squire"}, +{"book_title": "Parasite", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 14735, "review_number": 2356, "book_description": "A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the tapeworm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system - even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them.But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives...and will do anything to get them.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Medical", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13641105-parasite"}, +{"book_title": "\u9032\u6483\u306e\u5de8\u4eba 10 [Shingeki no Kyojin 10", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 10248, "review_number": 452, "book_description": "\u30a6\u30a9\u30fc\u30eb\u30fb\u30ed\u30fc\u30bc\u4ed8\u8fd1\u306b\u7a81\u5982\u73fe\u308c\u305f\u5de8\u4eba\u306e\u7fa4\u308c\u3002104\u671f\u306e\u9762\u3005\u3092\u542b\u3080\u8abf\u67fb\u5175\u56e3\u306f\u5de8\u4eba\u306e\u767a\u751f\u5730\u70b9\u7279\u5b9a\u3092\u6025\u304e\u3001\u30ed\u30fc\u30bc\u4ed8\u8fd1\u306e\u30a6\u30c8\u30ac\u30eb\u30c9\u57ce\u3067\u591c\u3092\u660e\u304b\u3059\u3053\u3068\u306b\u3002\u3060\u304c\u3001\u591c\u306f\u6d3b\u52d5\u3067\u304d\u306a\u3044\u306f\u305a\u306e\u5de8\u4eba\u304c\u57ce\u3092\u53d6\u308a\u56f2\u307f\u2025\u2025\uff01", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17883512-10-shingeki-no-kyojin-10"}, +{"book_title": "Hexbound", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 903, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "\nIt should have been an easy task...\nVerity Hastings has a little trick; she can find anything, no matter where it's hidden. It's a skill that's kept her safe and fed all the way from the orphanages and workhouses of her youth. But when she steals a mysterious item for a masked man, she knows the con is on her this time.In order to protect herself from his associates, she can turn to only one person: Adrian Bishop, the sorcerer she stole the relic from.Scarred recluse, Adrian Bishop, is rarely surprised anymore. But when a rather enticing little handful turns up on his doorstep claiming to be his mysterious thief, he doesn't know what to think. He needs the relic back, no matter the cost, and he's not above using Verity to find it. But as Verity begins to sneak under his guard, for the first time in years there's a ray of light in his dark world. He will do anything to protect her\u2013anything\u2013but can Verity ever love him once she learns the truth of his darkest secret?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30256686-hexbound"}, +{"book_title": "Double Down", "author_name": "Susan Hayes", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1290, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "When it comes to love, sometimes the best bet is to double down. Kit and Luke Armas are cyborgs created for one purpose, battle. Now that the war is over, they must fight to carve out a place for themselves in a universe they were intended to die for but never be a part of. Cargo pilot Zura Watson came to the edge of civilized space to start over. The Drift is a haven for the hunted, the lost, and those seeking second chances. It was also the last place in the cosmos Zura expected to find love. When the shadows of the past threaten to eclipse this trio\u2019s future, they\u2019ll have to fight for their chance at love and the life they\u2019ve always dreamed of.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)", "Menage (M F M)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30399251-double-down"}, +{"book_title": "Titan", "author_name": "John Varley", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 7976, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "When Cirrocco Jones, captain of the spaceship Ringmaster, and his crew are captured by Gaea, a planet-sized creature that orbits around Saturn, they find themselves inside a bizarre world inhabited by centaurs, harpies, and constantly shifting environments", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49838.Titan"}, +{"book_title": "Descent of Angels", "author_name": "Mitchel Scanlon", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 5786, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "The next novel in the ground-breaking, bestselling series that tells the story of the Horus Heresy \u2013 the civil war that nearly tore the human Imperium apart, ten thousand years ago. This novel explores the early history of the Dark Angels Legion and their Primarch Lion El'Johnson. When news of Horus's treachery reaches Caliban, the loyalties of this proud and mysterious Legion are tested to the limit, wth tragic consequences.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/768929.Descent_of_Angels"}, +{"book_title": "Snaring the Huntress", "author_name": "Sylvia Day", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 1375, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "This e-book can be downloaded from author's website here - Snaring the HuntressStar is an Interstellar Council judge. Her position requires her to pass sentence, hunt down the offenders, and administer punishments. She\u2019s considered one of the best, and if she plays her cards right, she just might become the first of the Hunter species to ascend to the Supreme Court\u2013her life\u2019s goal. When she\u2019s ordered to hunt down a rogue Jacian ambassador in heat, the precedent is death. Sympathetic, but following the law she holds so dear, she pursues him with the intent to kill.Roark has entered his mating cycle. By Council law, he should be locked in a room with his pre-assigned partner for a week of non-stop sex that will get him through his heat. But he doesn\u2019t want his pre-assigned. He wants Star, the luscious blonde judge whose compassion and intelligence has won his regard. The penalty for going rogue while in heat is death, but that\u2019s a small price to pay for a week of sensual pleasure with the woman he desires more than anything.Now the huntress is the prey, and when she\u2019s snared by a man in heat, it\u2019s passion that rules, not the law. Or does it? Roark still has his sentence, and his lover Star is judge, jury\u2026 and executioner.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8094602-snaring-the-huntress"}, +{"book_title": "Ecstasy in Darkness", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 6921, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "Growing up poor on New Chicago\u2019s meanest streets, Ava Sans had two options: be the predator or be the prey. No contest. Now, working for Alien Investigation and Removal, she\u2019s been ordered to capture the biggest, baddest warrior of all\u2014a vampire too beautiful to be real, with the ability to manipulate time. Once the leader of the entire vampire army, McKell has been deemed savage and unstable, spurned even by his own kind.To McKell, humans should be nothing more than sustenance. Yet the petite, golden-skinned Ava is a fascinating contradiction\u2014vicious yet witty, strong yet vulnerable, lethal but fiercely loyal. Against his better judgment, McKell craves that loyalty, and much more. When the chase leads to seduction, McKell and Ava will race to discover the truth about his past. But the answers will come at a price, even for a woman who thought she had nothing left to lose. . . .", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7841522-ecstasy-in-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man", "author_name": "Mark Hodder", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 3293, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be. . . . Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king\u2019s agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection\u2014black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. His investigation leads to involvement with the media sensation of the age: the Tichborne Claimant, a man who insists that he\u2019s the long lost heir to the cursed Tichborne estate. Monstrous, bloated, and monosyllabic, he\u2019s not the aristocratic Sir Roger Tichborne known to everyone, yet the working classes come out in force to support him. They are soon rioting through the streets of London, as mysterious steam wraiths incite all-out class warfare. From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from s\u00e9ances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons, meeting along the way the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Florence Nightingale, and Charles Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Can the king\u2019s agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play? Burton and Swinburne\u2019s second adventure\u2014The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man\u2014is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery that pushes forward the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9740847-the-curious-case-of-the-clockwork-man"}, +{"book_title": "Human Phase", "author_name": "J.S. Morin", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 95, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The red planet will run red with blood. Martian terraformer Kaylee Fourteen is a recent immigrant from Earth. Residents of the domed colonies of Mars can practically smell the day they\u2019ll be able to walk outdoors on their own planet without the need for air supplies. But the committees on Earth control the resources the colonists need and their interference threatens the terraforming project\u2019s very existence\u2026 Until a group of radicals takes hostages to force the release of the tech and materials the terraformers need. Caught in the crossfire, Kaylee has to navigate the delicate line between sympathy for her captors\u2019 goals and horror at their methods. If she can\u2019t keep the peace and find a way to get the hostage takers what they ask for, humans and robots alike will pay with their lives. How can anyone negotiate a hostage crisis with a bomb locked around her neck? The fate of two worlds and the balance of power between humans and robots hang on that answer.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39704555-human-phase"}, +{"book_title": "Tamed", "author_name": "Tana Stone", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1414, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "She\u2019s been promised a dream wedding. The catch? She was abducted from Earth and her groom is a hot alien warrior with a bad attitude. Taken to a high-tech space station designed to entice human women, LA socialite Mandy is anything but impressed. She\u2019s not falling for their holographic fantasy suites, their promise of a dream wedding, or their gorgeous, brawny warriors. Especially not the arrogant, hot-shot commander she\u2019s been matched with. He may be used to being obeyed, but no way is she following HIS orders. She could care less that he's huge and ripped and drop-dead gorgeous. Right? The last thing Dorn wants is a mate. As a Drexian commander tasked with defending his people from a menacing enemy, he has no use for a frail human mate. Even if they are his species\u2019 last chance for survival. Especially not one as spoiled as her. But, unfortunately for him, he has no choice. Not if he wants to get back to his battleship and save both Earth and the Drexian race from extinction. This standalone action romance novel features steamy scenes on a holographic fantasy space station, a high-strung alien wedding planner with a penchant for platform shoes, deadly aliens hell-bent on invading Earth, and smoking-hot Drexian warriors with extra erogenous zones who are equally determined to protect Earth. If you like hot alien warriors, kick-ass Earth women, and steamy romance with a happily ever after and a few laughs, you\u2019ll love Tamed, the first book in Tana Stone\u2019s sci-fi romance Tribute Brides of the Drexian Warriors series. ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49769213-tamed"}, +{"book_title": "Insurgent", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1204355, "review_number": 59101, "book_description": "One choice can transform you\u2014or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves\u2014and herself\u2014while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable\u2014and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian DIVERGENT series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11735983-insurgent"}, +{"book_title": "The Ghost of the Revelator", "author_name": "L.E. Modesitt Jr.", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 447, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "L.E. Modesitt, Jr., has gained a legion of devoted fans for his science fiction as well as his epic fantasy novels. The Ghost of the Revelator is one of the best displays yet of his ability to blend dramatic, imaginative stories with rigorous social and scientific extrapolation.Doktor Johan Eschbach (the central character of Modesitt's popular alternate history SF novel, Of Tangible Ghosts) had hoped for a quiet life in retirement from the intelligence service, teaching environmental science at the University of New Bruges and living with his new wife, the vocalist Llysette du Boise. Llysette, a refugee from the burning remains of France, would herself like little more than to resume her singing career and forget her time in the prison camps of the Hapsburg Empire.But an unusual invitation from the Mormon nation of Deseret inexorably drags Johan back into the spy business, though he isn't quite sure why or for whom. It quickly becomes apparent that he is being used as a pawn in a deadly game of international maneuverings that are leading the world closer to war.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185222.The_Ghost_of_the_Revelator"}, +{"book_title": "Raptor", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 2714, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Responsible for her friend\u2019s death, Lieutenant Caslin Ahn wants nothing more than to be left alone. She no longer deserves the company of comrades or the fulfillment she felt as a Wolf Squadron fighter pilot. But a summons from the king leaves her with no choice but to rejoin her teammates. An ancient evil has been unleashed, bringing death and destruction to the nation, and they are the only ones with a chance of stopping it. Dragon Blood 6 brings back Cas, Tolemek, Ridge, Sardelle, Kaika, and Tylie, as well as her dragon, for a new epic fantasy adventure.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Action", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26123568-raptor"}, +{"book_title": "This Shattered World", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 18466, "review_number": 2752, "book_description": "The second installment in the epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war.Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents.Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion.Desperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape the rebel base together, caught between two sides of a senseless war.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13138734-this-shattered-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Soul of a New Machine", "author_name": "Tracy Kidder", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 7083, "review_number": 557, "book_description": "The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done\u2014just look at today's news for reports of hard-driven, highly-motivated young software and online commerce developers who sacrifice evenings and weekends to meet impossible deadlines. Tracy Kidder got a preview of this world in the late 1970s when he observed the engineers of Data General design and build a new 32-bit minicomputer in just one year. His thoughtful, prescient book, The Soul of a New Machine, tells stories of 35-year-old \"veteran\" engineers hiring recent college graduates and encouraging them to work harder and faster on complex and difficult projects, exploiting the youngsters' ignorance of normal scheduling processes while engendering a new kind of work ethic.These days, we are used to the \"total commitment\" philosophy of managing technical creation, but Kidder was surprised and even a little alarmed at the obsessions and compulsions he found. From in-house political struggles to workers being permitted to tease management to marathon 24-hour work sessions, The Soul of a New Machine explores concepts that already seem familiar, even old-hat, less than 20 years later. Kidder plainly admires his subjects; while he admits to hopeless confusion about their work, he finds their dedication heroic. The reader wonders, though, what will become of it all, now and in the future. \u2014Rob Lightner", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "History", "Business", "Science", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Science (Computer Science)", "Computer Science (Programming)", "Science (Engineering)", "Computer Science (Software)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090.The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine"}, +{"book_title": "Dragonhaven", "author_name": "Robin McKinley", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 5813, "review_number": 813, "book_description": "In this fascinating look at a modern-day world where dragons truly exist, the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Hero and the Crown takes readers into a controversial nature preserve, which about 200 of the worlds few remaining dragons call home.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149338.Dragonhaven"}, +{"book_title": "Ink, Iron, and Glass", "author_name": "Gwendolyn Clare", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 1946, "review_number": 438, "book_description": "Can she write a world gone wrong?A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation, where her mother\u2015a noted scriptologist\u2015constantly alters and expands their reality.But when her home is attacked and her mother kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her. In an alternative Victorian Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of young scientists with a gift for mechanics, alchemy, or scriptology\u2015and meets Leo, a gorgeous mechanist with a smart mouth and tragic past. She recruits the help of these fellow geniuses just as an assassin arrives on their doorstep.In this thrilling debut, worlds collide as Elsa unveils a deep political conspiracy seeking to unlock the most dangerous weapon ever created\u2015and only she can stop it.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30523827-ink-iron-and-glass"}, +{"book_title": "Two Hawks From Earth", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 220, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "In this classic of alternate history by grand master Philip Jose Farmer, Native American bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks bails out over enemy territory in WWII, only to find himself on another Earth-one in which the American continents never rose from the waters, and the ancestors of the American Indians remained in Asia and Europe-an Earth embroiled in a world war of its own, with Two Hawks caught in the middle.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1312279.Two_Hawks_From_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Julia's House for Lost Creatures", "author_name": "Ben Hatke", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2866, "review_number": 552, "book_description": "When Julia and her walking house come to town, she likes everything about her new neighborhood except how quiet it is! So Julia puts a sign up: \"Julia's House for Lost Creatures.\" Soon she's hosting goblins, mermaids, fairies, and even a dragon. Quiet isn't a problem anymore for Julia...but getting her housemates to behave themselves is!The simple, sweet text of this picture book by New York Times Best-Selling Zita the Spacegirl author/illustrator Ben Hatke is perfectly balanced by his lush, detailed, immersive watercolor illustrations.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Folklore (Monsters)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Animals", "Humor", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20388087-julia-s-house-for-lost-creatures"}, +{"book_title": "Ancient Appetites", "author_name": "Oisin McGann", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 173, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "\"An exciting new steampunk adventure\" featuring living machines, murderous betrayals, and Ireland's most ruthless family (\nSchool Library Journal\n). The slow collapse of the British Empire in the nineteenth century meant opportunity for anyone with ammunition and wit. Now the Wildensterns are by far the most powerful family--and the most ruthless. Trained from childhood in the arts of assassination and conspiracy and endowed with the supernatural ability to live for more than a century, the clan has grown rich, vicious, and seemingly invincible. After nearly two years away, eighteen-year-old Nate has returned. But his homecoming is shattered when his eldest brother, Marcus, is mysteriously killed. Following the Rules of Ascension, which allow one male family member to murder another, Nate is being blamed. Nate knows he isn't the murderer, but who is? With the help of his sister-in-law, Daisy, and his cousin Gerald, Nate intends to find out. Their investigation brings them into the underbelly of the Wildenstern empire, where living machines, conspiring relatives, and undercover mercenaries do their dirty work. But when a disaster uncovers the ancient remains of Wildenstern ancestors, the lives of the family members and their struggle for power will take a bizarre and gruesome turn.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22801361-ancient-appetites"}, +{"book_title": "The Norby Chronicles", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 821, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "It was just a dusty, old tin-can of a robot-- with no guarantee. But Jeff only needed it to teach him Martian Colony Swahili before he got expelled from the Space Academy.Jeff Wells didn't really know what he had purchased.He didn't realize that the robot had been constructed by a genius half a century ago--from the salvaged parts of a damaged alien spacecraft.He didn't know about the robot's amazing technological skills--such as antigrav and a strange capacity for human emotions--among other things.Jeff Wells didn't really know what he was getting himself into....Norby Chronicles* Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot (1983)* Norby's Other Secret (1984)* Norby and the Lost Princess (1985)* Norby and the Invaders (1985)* Norby and the Queen's Necklace (1986)* Norby Finds a Villain (1987)* Norby Down to Earth (1988)* Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure (1989)* Norby and the Oldest Dragon (1990)* Norby and the Court Jester (1991)* Norby and the Terrified Taxi (1997)", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Literature (American)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116314.The_Norby_Chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "The Intuitionist", "author_name": "Colson Whitehead", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 10162, "review_number": 1227, "book_description": "Librarian note: Click here for alternate cover editionTwo warring factions in the Department of Elevator Inspectors in a bustling metropolis vie for dominance: the Empiricists, who go by the book and rigorously check every structural and mechanical detail, and the Intuitionists, whose observational methods involve meditation and instinct. Lila Mae Watson, the city\u2019s first black female inspector and a devout Intuitionist with the highest accuracy rate in the department, is at the center of the turmoil. An elevator in a new municipal building has crashed on Lila Mae\u2019s watch, fanning the flames of the Empiticist-Intuitionist feud and compelling Lila Mae to go underground to investigate. As she endeavors to clear her name, she becomes entangled in a web of intrigue that leads her to a secret that will change her life forever.A dead-serious and seriously funny feat of the imagination, The Intuitionist conjures a parallel universe in which latent ironies in matters of morality, politics, and race come to light, and stands as the celebrated debut of an important American writer.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Cultural (African American)", "Novels", "Literary Fiction", "Race", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16271.The_Intuitionist"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Shifts", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 35214, "review_number": 2344, "book_description": "In the latest Kate Daniels novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews, magic is coming and going in waves in post-Shift Atlanta\u2014and each crest leaves danger in its wake\u2026 After breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate\u2014former Beast Lord Curran Lennart\u2014are adjusting to a very different pace. While they\u2019re thrilled to escape all the infighting, Curran misses the constant challenges of leading the shapeshifters. So when the Pack offers him its stake in the Mercenary Guild, Curran seizes the opportunity\u2014too bad the Guild wants nothing to do with him and Kate. Luckily, as a veteran merc, Kate can take over any of the Guild\u2019s unfinished jobs in order to bring in money and build their reputation. But what Kate and Curran don\u2019t realize is that the odd jobs they\u2019ve been working are all connected. An ancient enemy has arisen, and Kate and Curran are the only ones who can stop it\u2014before it takes their city apart piece by piece\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333171-magic-shifts"}, +{"book_title": "The Bane", "author_name": "Keary Taylor", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 5282, "review_number": 578, "book_description": "Before the Evolution there was TorBane: technology that infused human DNA with cybernetic matter. It had the ability to grow new organs and limbs, to heal the world. Until it evolved out of control and spread like the common cold. The machine took over, the soul vanished, and the Bane were born. The Bane won't stop until every last person has been infected. With less than two percent of the human population left, mankind is on the brink of extinction.Eve knows the stories of the Evolution, the time before she wandered into the colony of Eden, unable to recall anything but her name. But she doesn't need memories to know this world is her reality. This is a world that is quickly losing its humanity, one Bane at a time.Fighting to keep one of the last remaining human colonies alive, Eve finds herself torn between her dedication to the colony, and the discovery of love. There is Avian and West \u2013 one a soldier, one a keeper of secrets. And in the end, Eve will make a choice that will change the future of mankind.The Bane is The Terminator meets The Walking Dead with a heart-twisting romance.Previously published as Eden, due to reader demand it has been revamped and rereleased as The Bane: book one in The Eden Trilogy.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18159085-the-bane"}, +{"book_title": "Toxic Desire", "author_name": "Robin Lovett", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 467, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "Nemona can\u2019t believe she\u2019s crash landed on the planet Fyrian with the brooding, golden-skinned alien who destroyed her ship and scattered her crew. She should want to kill him. But everything on Fyrian is an aphrodisiac. So she just wants to have him. Now.Revenge. That\u2019s all commander Oten has wanted against humans for more than a century, ever since they tried to destroy his kind. He never thought he\u2019d end up in bed with one. But the desire the sex planet stokes for this human female is eating him alive. Keeping his hands, his mouth, and his vampiric fangs to himself proves impossible\u2014especially when she\u2019s begging him to touch her.Nemona has no idea what endless sex with a Ssedez will do to her. But Oten knows all too well. They need to get off this planet. Before their coupling stirs an alien mating bond that neither of their hearts can withstand.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36600258-toxic-desire"}, +{"book_title": "Horde", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 22316, "review_number": 1962, "book_description": "The epic conclusion to the USA Today bestselling trilogy.The horde is coming.Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn't run. With her knives in hand and her companions at her side, she will not falter, whether fighting for her life or Fade's love.Ahead, the battle of a lifetime awaits. Freaks are everywhere, attacking settlements, setting up scouts, perimeters, and patrols. There hasn't been a war like this in centuries, and humans have forgotten how to stand and fight. Unless Deuce can lead them.This time, however, more than the fate of a single enclave or outpost hangs in the balance. This time, Deuce carries the banner for the survival of all humanity.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10596724-horde"}, +{"book_title": "The Farseekers", "author_name": "Isobelle Carmody", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 7253, "review_number": 245, "book_description": "A Children's Book Council of Australia Honor Book In this powerful sequel to Obernewtyn, young Elspeth Gordie-possessed of extraordinary mental powers-has united with others Misfits for refuge on the remote mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Yet the threat from the totalitarian Council to their safety is ever present. Their only defense is to work hard to develop their mental powers before an inevitable confrontation. But when Elspeth is lured off the mountain in a dangerous quest to rescue a powerful Misfit, the fate of the Obernewtyn colony will hang in the balance.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47906.The_Farseekers"}, +{"book_title": "Jake and the Other Girl", "author_name": "Emmy Laybourne", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 714, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "The apocalypse has hit Monument, Colorado, and Jake Simonsen, captain of the football team, is caught in the middle of it. A series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a terrible chemical weapons spill that affects people differently depending on blood type, has torn the world as he knows it apart. Now Jake has to decide how to pick up the pieces.\u201cJake and the Other Girl,\u201d an original story by Emmy Laybourne acquired for Tor.com by Holly West, is set in the world of Monument 14. The next book in the series, Monument 14: Sky on Fire goes on sale May 28, 2013.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17933739-jake-and-the-other-girl"}, +{"book_title": "Starshine", "author_name": "G.S. Jennsen", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2779, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "SPACE IS VAST AND UNTAMED, AND IT HOLDS MANY SECRETS.Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them.The year is 2322. Humanity has expanded into the stars, inhabiting over 100 worlds across a third of the galaxy. Though thriving as never before, they have discovered neither alien life nor the key to utopia. Earth struggles to retain authority over far-flung planets and free-wheeling corporations while an uneasy armistice with a breakaway federation hangs by a thread as the former rebels rise in wealth and power.Alexis Solovy is Earth Alliance royalty, her father a fallen war hero and her mother an influential military leader. But she seeks only the freedom of space and has made a fortune by reading the patterns in the chaos to discover the hidden wonders of the stars.Nothing about her latest objective suggests the secret it conceals will turn her life-- not to mention the entire galaxy--upside down. But a chance encounter with a mysterious spy leads to a discovery which will thrust Alex into the middle of a galactic power struggle and a sinister conspiracy, whether she likes it or not.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49981659-starshine"}, +{"book_title": "Here and Then", "author_name": "Linda Lael Miller", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 790, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "In the wrong place at the wrong time. When her cousin dissappeared without a trace, Rue Claridge volunteered to find her. But by retracing Elisabeth's steps, Rue never dreamed she'd wind up in 1892. And she certainly wasn't prepared for Marshal Farley Haynes. He arrested her and threw her in jail, But discovering how dangerous the Old West was, Rue needed his help. Especially when, at any moment, fate can intercede and destiny can be changed by a singel bullet. From the author of There and Now.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Western Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1593142.Here_and_Then"}, +{"book_title": "The Northern Star: The Beginning", "author_name": "Mike Gullickson", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 144, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "2058. As the dwindling oil supply plunges the world into chaos, and \"Mindlink\" technology opens cyberspace to the masses, crippled soldier John Raimey becomes a powerful bionic to infiltrate China and retrieve the King Sleeper: a computer hacker so devastating on-line, he can decimate government infrastructure, subliminally persuade the masses, and even kill.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16132270-the-northern-star"}, +{"book_title": "Divine", "author_name": "Nichole Van", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1460, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "Time is a vast cosmic sea, where each life exists as rippling circles on its surface, past and future being eternally present. And occasionally, one expanding ring tangles with that of another, linking two lives together even though separated by centuries...Georgiana Knight--born in the nineteenth century, but now living in 2013--has certain standards when it comes to mysteries: they must involve blood curdling threats, late-night rendezvous and the terror of Imminent Danger. So far, her current mystery has been a terrible disappointment. No ghosts, no dastardly villains, not even an actual murder weapon. Just a suspicious symbol, a drawing of a bloody dagger, and an old love letter. Though the centuries-old love letter is written in her own handwriting, so that's something, right? And there is a time portal in her cellar. Should she risk giving up hot showers and return to the past to discover the mysterious stranger who inspired (will inspire?) her passionate letter?In 1813, Sebastian Carew has his own mystery to solve. As a teenager, he fell madly in love with his childhood friend, Georgiana. Ten years later, he returns from fighting abroad as an eligible man of fortune who must marry. And soon. He is determined to fend off fortune-hunting women, find Georgiana and win her affections. However, she has utterly vanished. Can he divine the truth of her disappearance and convince her to marry him before time runs out?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Regency)", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23634638-divine"}, +{"book_title": "Peripheral People", "author_name": "Reesa Herberth", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 92, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Corwin Menivie and Nika Santivan are decorated veterans of the Imperial Enforcement Coalition, and are perfectly capable of solving cases the old-fashioned way. When they\u2019re paired with Westley Tavera and Gavin Hale, the most powerful Reader/Ground team to emerge from the Psionics Academy, it could either be the best thing that\u2019s ever happened to crime fighting, or the makings of a quadruple homicide.During a routine investigation, West\u2019s talent puts them on the trail of a brutal serial killer who traps his prey in a deadly mental playground. Then the killer starts baiting the team, laying psychic landmines at crime scenes and exposing IEC secrets. The strain of the case binds the agents closer together\u2014so close that Nika and Gavin start sharing a room, and even the curmudgeonly Corwin finds himself as occupied with West as he is with the murders.But as West\u2019s visions of death grow more violent, the only way out for all of them may be straight through the mind of a monster. If they\u2019re not careful, they may forget which side of the hunt they\u2019re on.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Mystery", "Romance", "LGBT", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24856799-peripheral-people"}, +{"book_title": "Once Upon a Time in the Weird West", "author_name": "Tricia Kristufek", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 188, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "This isn\u2019t the same old Wild West. The usual suspects are all present: cowboys, outlaws, and sheriffs. There\u2019s plenty of dust, tumbleweeds, horses, and cattle on the range, but there are also magical gems, automatons, elementals, airships\u2026 even dinosaurs and genetically modified insects. Roaming among the buffalo and coyotes, you\u2019ll encounter skinwalkers, mad engineers, mythical beings cloaked in darkness, and lovers who stay true to their oaths\u2026 even beyond the grave. On this frontier are those at the mercy of their own elaborate devices as well as men whose control of time and space provides a present-day vision of the West. There might even be a dragon hidden amongst the ghost towns and wagon trains.If you like your Westerns with a splash of magic, a touch of steampunk, and plenty of passionate romance between men, these genre-bending tales will exceed expectations. Hold on to your hats, cowboys and cowgirls. The West is about to get weird, and you\u2019re in for a hell of a ride.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Westerns", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32964981-once-upon-a-time-in-the-weird-west"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Exile", "author_name": "J.L. Bourne", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 11343, "review_number": 437, "book_description": "The terrifying sequel to Day by Day Armageddon\u2014for fans of The Walking Dead. \"J.L. Bourne is the new king of hardcore zombie action!\" (Brad Thor)Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe; there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.Survivor, Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm capture the desperation\u2014and the will to survive\u2014as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7296271-beyond-exile"}, +{"book_title": "Killing at the Carnival", "author_name": "L.A. Nisula", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Cassie Pengear thought a visit to the carnival would be fun: see some shows, eat some sweets, help her landlady\u2019s nephew decide if the cowboy was real or an actor. But then the cowboy shot the volunteer, and he didn\u2019t get up. Now Cassie has a ten-year-old boy insisting the cowboy isn\u2019t a killer and a landlady insisting she help solve the killing at the carnival. A cozy mystery with a steampunk setting. In a Victorian England that almost existed, a steampunk London where tinkerers and clockwork devices exist alongside handsome cabs and corsets, murder is still solved by traditional observation and intuition. This is the London where American typist Cassandra Pengear finds herself stumbling over corpses and helping Scotland Yard detectives solve murders (although they inexplicably prefer to call it interfering). Follow her adventures in the Cassie Pengear Mystery series, beginning with The Killing at the Carnival.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery (Cozy Mystery)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Victorian)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24914236-killing-at-the-carnival"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 4288, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay is a student with trouble concentrating and rotten luck. Dedicated to her studies but unable to build anything that actually works, she seems destined for a lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But when the University is overthrown, a strange clank stalks the streets and it begins to look like Agatha might carry a spark of Mad Science after all.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Humor", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545765.Agatha_Heterodyne_and_the_Beetleburg_Clank"}, +{"book_title": "Mothership", "author_name": "Martin Leicht", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1279, "review_number": 332, "book_description": "Teen pregnancy is never easy\u2014especially not when extraterrestrials are involved. The first in a new trilogy.Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Cole--and now she\u2019s pregnant.Getting shipped off to the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers was not how Elvie imagined spending her junior year, but she can go with the flow. That is, until a team of hot commandos hijacks the ship--and one of them turns out to be Cole. She hasn\u2019t seen him since she told him she\u2019s pregnant, and now he\u2019s bursting into her new home to tell her that her teachers are aliens and want to use her unborn baby to repopulate their species? Nice try, buddy. You could have just called.So fine, finding a way off this ship is priority number one, but first Elvie has to figure out how Cole ended up as a commando, work together with her arch-nemesis, and figure out if she even wants to be a mother--assuming they get back to Earth in one piece.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12993856-mothership"}, +{"book_title": "Flora Segunda", "author_name": "Ysabeau S. Wilce", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 4222, "review_number": 559, "book_description": "Flora knows better than to take shortcuts in her family home, Crackpot Hall--the house has eleven thousand rooms, and ever since her mother banished the magickal butler, those rooms move around at random. But Flora is late for school, so she takes the\u00a0unpredictable elevator anyway.\u00a0Huge mistake. Lost in her own house, she stumbles upon the long-banished butler--and\u00a0into a mind-blowing\u00a0muddle of intrigue and betrayal that changes her world forever.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full of\u00a0wildly clever plot twists, this extraordinary first novel establishes Ysabeau Wilce as a\u00a0compelling new voice in teen fantasy.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/229033.Flora_Segunda"}, +{"book_title": "Firstlife", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 17126, "review_number": 2386, "book_description": "I\u2019ve been told history is written by survivors. But I know that isn\u2019t always true. My name is Tenley Lockwood, and very soon, I\u2019ll be dead. This is my story\u2014but the end is only the beginning.Tenley \u201cTen\u201d Lockwood has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. She\u2019s earned her rep as the craziest of crazies, but that doesn\u2019t stop the torture. Ten can leave, but only if she allows her parents to choose where she\u2019ll live\u2014after she dies.There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death.In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten, including sending their top Laborers to lure her to their side. Soon, Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a wild tug-of-war between the boy she\u2019s falling for and the realm she wants to support. Who will she choose? Can she stay alive long enough to make a decision?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25785357-firstlife"}, +{"book_title": "Sparks", "author_name": "Ian Boothby", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 937, "review_number": 173, "book_description": "Sparks is a hero and man's best friend, but nobody suspects he's two cats!This Super Dog is the Cat's Meow!August is a brilliant inventor who is afraid of the outside. Charlie is a crack pilot who isn't afraid of anything. Together these pals save lives every day. They also happen to be cats who pilot a powerful, mechanical dog suit! Always eager to leap into danger, this feline duo have their work cut out for them as they try to thwart Princess, an evil alien bent on enslaving mankind. Don't let the fact that Princess looks like a cute, diaper-wearing baby fool you. She's clever, determined, and totally ruthless. So when Princess and the browbeaten fools she calls servants enact a brilliant and dastardly plan to conquer Earth, August and Charlie pull out all the stops to save the day.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Animals", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Animals (Cats)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35849446-sparks"}, +{"book_title": "Blade Runner 2019 #3", "author_name": "Michael Green", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 99, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Hunter becomes hunted, as veteran Blade Runner Ash is shot down in neo-noir Los Angeles, 2019! The first new comic series set in the world of Blade Runner, from Michael Green (screenwriter for Blade Runner 2049) and Mike Johnson (Star Trek), and illustrated by Andres Guinaldo (Justice League Dark, Captain America)!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49493656-blade-runner-2019-3"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 21: All Out War Part 2", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 7458, "review_number": 485, "book_description": "The World we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to start living. Alexandria has been destroyed. Can Rick rally the other communities against Negan's army? This second part of the game-changing \"All Out War\" story arc collects The Walking Dead #121-126.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20947660-the-walking-dead-vol-21"}, +{"book_title": "Undaunted", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2709, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Kris Longknife encounters some peaceful aliens who have come to warn humanity of an unidentifiable force that is roaming the galaxy, obliterating everything in its path-a path now leading directly toward the human worlds. ", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6336207-undaunted"}, +{"book_title": "Soldier Mine", "author_name": "Amber Kell", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1758, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Book one in The Thresl Chronicles SeriesWhen Kreslan is attacked, little does he know the shapeshifting beast who saves him will completely change his life.When Kreslan Piers is attacked in the cargo hold, he is rescued by a rare shape-shifting beast who transforms into the reincarnated leader of an entire planet. Will Kreslan be willing to give up his dream of being an ordinary soldier to partner with an extraordinary creature?Vohne has been named by his human half, and the longer they\u2019re together the more he\u2019s remembering the details of their previous lives\u2014lives he shared with Kreslan before watching him die. When they reach the Thresl home planet, Vohne has to break the news to his skittish mate that they not only does he belong to Vohne, but he is fated to be his other half for the rest of eternity.Reader Advisory: This book was previously released at another publisher. It has been revised and re-edited for release by Total-E-Bound.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17319335-soldier-mine"}, +{"book_title": "Famine", "author_name": "Laura Thalassa", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 7819, "review_number": 1218, "book_description": "They came to earth--Pestilence, War, Famine, Death--four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.Ana da Silva always assumed she\u2019d die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she\u2019s stabbed and left for dead.Only, she doesn\u2019t quite die.If there\u2019s one thing Famine is good at, it\u2019s cruelty. And how these blighted bastards deserve it. Try as he might, he can\u2019t forget what they once did to him. But when Ana, a ghost from his past, corners him and promises pain for what he so recently did to her, she and her empty threats captivate him, and he decides to keep her around. In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. But at the end of the day, the two are enemies. Nothing changes that. Not one kind act, not two. And definitely not a few steamy nights. But enemies or reluctant lovers, if they don\u2019t stop themselves soon, heaven will.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "New Adult", "Dark", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49480530-famine"}, +{"book_title": "End of an Era", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 944, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Archaeologist Brandon Thackery and his rival Miles 'Klicks' Jordan fulfill a dinosaur lover's dream with history's first time-travel jaunt to the late Mesozoic. Hoping to solve the extinction mystery, they find Earth's gravity is only half its 21st century value and dinosaurs that behave very strangely. Could the slimey blue creatures from Mars have something to do with both?", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Adventure", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264943.End_of_an_Era"}, +{"book_title": "The Alloy of Law", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 143934, "review_number": 8399, "book_description": "Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history\u2014or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10803121-the-alloy-of-law"}, +{"book_title": "RASL", "author_name": "Jeff Smith", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1564, "review_number": 229, "book_description": "From the New York Times best selling author of BONE comes a stark, gritty sci-fi series about a dimension-jumping art thief, a man who races through space and time searching for his next big score and trying to escape his past. Known only by the four letter word found spray-painted at the scene of a crime, RASL stumbles across a mystery that spans centuries, and not only threatens to expose his illicit activities, but could uncover one of the world's most dangerous secrets.Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Smith explores a world of violence and corruption, mixing murder, passion, and folklore, with cutting-edge physics.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465735-rasl"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Metal", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1298, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "The seventh novel in the series that launched the international bestselling career of Brandon Sanderson.Another tight and thrilling adventure for nobleman Waxillian Ladrian as he fights for justice in a fantastical city crossed by canal and railway tracks. A city undergoing an industrial revolution but a city where the magic of metals still burns bright.With over 600,000 copies of the Mistborn books alone sold this is the series that established Brandon's reputation as a master of world-building, magic systems and gripping plots.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23947089-the-lost-metal"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe", "author_name": "Ally Condie", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 2629, "review_number": 629, "book_description": "Who do you become when you have nothing left to lose? There is something Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost's last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge.Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous waters of the Serpentine and realizes there might be a traitor among her crew, she must also reckon with who she has become, who she wants to be, and the ways love can change and shape you. Even - and especially - when you think all is lost.The fierce new YA novel from Ally Condie, the international bestselling author of the Matched trilogy, an intricately crafted and emotionally gripping story of one young woman's journey to move beyond the grief and anger that control her and find the inner strength to chart her own course.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40944082-the-last-voyage-of-poe-blythe"}, +{"book_title": "Liberty and Other Stories", "author_name": "Alexis Hall", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 172, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "For the delight and edification of discerning readers, we present diverse stories concerning the lives, histories, and adventures of the crew of the aethership Shadowless.Lament! as an upstanding clergyman falls into the villainous clutches of a notorious criminal mastermind.Question your sanity! as a dissolute governess confronts blasphemies from beyond creation.Wonder! at the journey of the dashing skycaptain Byron Kae across sapphire oceans, through smog-choked streets, and to the depths of the sky itself.Gasp! at an entirely true and accurately rendered tale of pirates, cavalrymen, aethermancers, scientists, and a power to unmake the world.Plus, hitherto unseen extracts from the meticulous and illuminating journals of Mrs. Miranda Lovelace, rogue scientist and first of the aethermancers.This collection includes:- Shackle (A Prosperity Story)- Squamous with a Chance of Rain- Cloudy Climes and Starless Skies- Liberty", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Anthologies", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23484054-liberty-and-other-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Carniepunk", "author_name": "Rachel Caine", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2997, "review_number": 398, "book_description": "A star-studded urban fantasy anthology featuring bestselling authors Rachel Caine, Rob Thurman, Seanan McGuire, Jennifer Estep, and Kevin Hearne, whose stories explore the creepy, mysterious, and, yes, sometimes magical world of traveling carnivals.The traveling carnival is a leftover of a bygone era, a curiosity lurking on the outskirts of town. It is a place of contradictions\u2014the bright lights mask the peeling paint; a carnie in greasy overalls slinks away from the direction of the Barker\u2019s seductive call. It is a place of illusion\u2014is that woman\u2019s beard real? How can she live locked in that watery box?And while many are tricked by sleight of hand, there are hints of something truly magical going on. One must remain alert and learn quickly the unwritten rules of this dark show. To beat the carnival, one had better have either a whole lot of luck or a whole lot of guns\u2014or maybe some magic of one\u2019s own.Featuring stories grotesque and comical, outrageous and action-packed, Carniepunk is the first anthology to channel the energy and attitude of urban fantasy into the bizarre world of creaking machinery, twisted myths, and vivid new magic.RACHEL CAINE\u2019s vampires aren\u2019t child\u2019s play, as a na\u00efve teen discovers when her heart leads her far, far astray in \u201cThe Cold Girl.\u201d With \u201cParlor Tricks,\u201d JENNIFER ESTEP pits Gin Blanco, the Elemental Assassin, against the Wheel of Death and some dangerously creepy clowns. SEANAN McGUIRE narrates a poignant, ethereal tale of a mysterious carnival that returns to a dangerous town after twenty years in \u201cDaughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea.\u201d KEVIN HEARNE\u2019s Iron Druid and his wisecracking Irish wolfhound discover in \u201cThe Demon Barker of Wheat Street\u201d that the impossibly wholesome sounding Kansas Wheat Festival is actually not a healthy place to hang out. 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At least, that's what they think...", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34504.Wyrd_Sisters"}, +{"book_title": "Rosewater", "author_name": "Tade Thompson", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 9084, "review_number": 1471, "book_description": "Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless\u2014people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again\u2014but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Africa)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Western Africa (Nigeria)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38362809-rosewater"}, +{"book_title": "Charlie's Bargain", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1662, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Charlie is just trying to survive. After losing her fortune she flees her home planet and hides from her bloodthirsty creditors on a mining colony so horrible its residents just call it Hole.Lynx is a Xorn, one of a feared race of non-humans known for their savage lusts. From the first instant he sees Charlie, he knows she is the only woman who can satisfy him.Charlie wants nothing to do with the huge, muscular man with golden eyes, but in order to survive on Hole she will have to overcome her fear and make a bargain with the fierce Xorn-a bargain of desire, pleasure and pain that will force her to see herself and Lynx in a whole new light.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Erotica (BDSM)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5820101-charlie-s-bargain"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Volume", "author_name": "Gordon Dahlquist", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1873, "review_number": 189, "book_description": "Awakening from a fevered delirium, Celeste Temple finds herself in a fishing village on the remote Iron Coast. She has no idea where her companions, Cardinal Chang and Doctor Svenson, might be\u2014nor whether any of her enemies survived the dirigible crash that marked her last conscious moment. And while her body seems intact, she cannot say the same for her mind. For she must contend not only with the possibility that peril awaits her but with the memory of her traitorous fianc\u00e9\u2019s murder at sea\u2026along with thousands of other memories that now live within her\u2014courtesy of a bewitching glass book.Hunted by murderous opportunists and cruel mercenaries of every kind, Miss Temple, Chang, and the Doctor are soon propelled into a quest that will draw them one by one into a realm of reckless, lawless terror. At every turn lies another enigma\u2014and the stench of indigo clay, the raw material used to enslave even the most steadfast soul. Now they alone stand in the path of a diabolical conspiracy involving the books\u2014one that will mean an alarming new world where once-free-roaming minds are wiped completely clean\u2026 if they live long enough. As Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr. Svenson uncover the devilish schemes of their deadly enemies, the terrifying secrets contained in The Dark Volume will be revealed one by one. For the blue glass is more lethal than they\u2019d ever imagined\u2014and those who possess it, as well as those who pursue it, are playing with fire.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2491569.The_Dark_Volume"}, +{"book_title": "Simulacron 3", "author_name": "Daniel F. Galouye", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 687, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "It is a jangling and disintegrating near-future, a world in which virtual reality has become the primary means of entertainment and the more significant part of life for most of the population. Here, Douglas Hall's employer, Horace Siskin, the President of Reaction Inc., has created a synthetic world as a demonstration; a virtual 1937 New Orleans in which Hall and his superiors Fuller and Lynch, live much of their lives. But when Fuller is murdered and Lynch disappears, governmental scrutiny and investigation threaten to destroy Reaction. Thus, Hall must find his way through this strange New Orleans to determine the identity of the murderer and the motive. He must, he comes to understand, apprehend the killer before both worlds, virtual and \"real\", have been destroyed.The identity of the murderer is a stunning surprise. It capsizes the reader's seeming understanding of the novel and casts light as well on the true meaning of virtual reality.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807801.Simulacron_3"}, +{"book_title": "Lake Silence", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 11651, "review_number": 1591, "book_description": "In this thrilling and suspenseful fantasy, set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, Vicki DeVine and her lodger, the shapeshifter Aggie Crowe, stumble onto a dead body . . . and find themselves enmeshed in danger and dark secrets.Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others\u2013vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget . . . After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence, in a human town that is not human controlled. Towns like Vicki\u2019s have no distance from the Others, the dominant predators that rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what\u2019s out there watching you.Vicki was hoping to find a new career and a new life. But when her lodger, Aggie Crowe\u2013one of the shapeshifting Others\u2013discovers a dead body, Vicki finds trouble instead. The detectives want to pin the man\u2019s death on her, despite the evidence that nothing human could have killed the victim. As Vicki and her friends search for answers, things get dangerous\u2013and it\u2019ll take everything they have to stay alive.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35463752-lake-silence"}, +{"book_title": "Orbus", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 2742, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "In charge of an old cargo spaceship, the Old Captain Orbus flees a violent and sadistic past, but he doesn't know that the lethal war drone, Sniper, is a stowaway, and that the past is rapidly catching up with him.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6462796-orbus"}, +{"book_title": "Must Love Kilts", "author_name": "Angela Quarles", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 349, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "The Jacobite Rebellion--not the best time to get drunk, hook up with a guy, and lose your sister.A drunken bet...When computer game designer Traci Campbell gets too close and personal with a bottle of Glenfidditch while vacationing in Scotland, she whisks her kilt-obsessed sister back to 1689 to prove hot guys in kilts are a myth. Hello, hundred bucks! But all bets are off when she meets Iain, the charming playboy in a to-die-for kilt.Wrong place, wrong time, wrong name...Iain MacCowan regularly falls in love at the drop of his kilt. The mysterious red-haired lass with the odd accent is no different. But when his new love is discovered to be a Campbell, the most distrusted name in the Highlands, his dalliance endangers his clan's rebellion against King William. \u00a0It\u2019s all hijinks in the Highlands until your sister disappears...Traci thinks men are only good for one thing--thank you, Iain!--but when she awakens once again in Ye Olde Scotland and her sister is gone, she must depend on the last person she wants to spend more time with. He wants to win a heart, she wants to keep hers, but can these two realize they're meant for each other before the Jacobite rebellion pulls them apart?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27160030-must-love-kilts"}, +{"book_title": "Dragonfly in Amber", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 294887, "review_number": 15200, "book_description": "From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5364.Dragonfly_in_Amber"}, +{"book_title": "Gothic High-Tech", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 68, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "THE FUTURE IS A KIND OF HISTORY THAT HASN\u2019T HAPPENED YETHe\u2019s the legendary Cyberpunk Guru. He roams our postmodern planet, from the polychrome tinsel of Los Angeles to the chicken-fried cyberculture of Austin\u2026 From the heretical Communist slums of gritty Belgrade to the Gothic industrial castles of artsy Torino\u2026 always whipping that slider-bar between the unthinkable and the unimaginable.He\u2019s a Californian design visionary. He\u2019s an European electronic-art curator. He\u2019s a Swiss professor of media philosophy. He\u2019s a Prophet of Augmented Reality, even. He\u2019s an author, journalist, editor, critic, theorist, futurist, and blogger. Obviously he\u2019s pretty much anything that he can get his hands on.And he never stops typing. This sixth collection of his fantastic stories is a comic arsenal of dark euphoria. It\u2019s even weirder, harsher and more twisted than the scary decade that inspired it. Boy, that\u2019s saying something.If there\u2019s one thing dear to the heart of this exotic character, one vital prize he will never, ever surrender, one stony core to his mutable, globalized being, it\u2019s his fanatical allegiance to the radical potential of science fiction. That is the truth. Really. That is one hundred percent accurate. You could look that up on Wikipedia.Just like some far-fetched, globe-trotting antihero from one of his own unsettling, yet darkly prophetic novels, he is\u2026 Actually, never mind who he is. Does that matter? Is that an issue for us, really? You know what? We\u2019re all done here. Turn the page. We need to pretty much move right along.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12409113-gothic-high-tech"}, +{"book_title": "Secrets of the Time Society", "author_name": "Alexandra Monir", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 547, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "There exists a secret society where one's ability to travel through time is \"gifted\" to members only by blood. Those who try to enter the society quickly come to realize that time is a force not to be reckoned with.\u00a0 Alexandra Monir's short story exclusive ebook, Secrets of the Time Society, sheds light upon the world created in her novel Timeless and forecasts the fate that lies ahead for its protagonist, Michele Windsor. Now that Michele is gifted, there are some who will do anything to take that power away.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13140680-secrets-of-the-time-society"}, +{"book_title": "The Lifecycle of Software Objects", "author_name": "Ted Chiang", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 5019, "review_number": 587, "book_description": "What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, \"Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried.\"The first approach has been tried many times in both science fiction and reality. In this new novella, at over 30,000 words, his longest work to date, Ted Chiang offers a detailed imagining of how the second approach might work within the contemporary landscape of startup companies, massively-multiplayer online gaming, and open-source software. It's a story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Technology)", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7886338-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects"}, +{"book_title": "In An Iron Cage: The Magic of Steampunk", "author_name": "Danielle Ackley-McPhail", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 31, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "It's a Mod, Mod World! When there are gnomes among the gears, and the mists of magic mingle with the steam of tech, you know you've entered a realm where fantasy and science meet in an absolutely riveting collection of enchanting tales of steampunk adventure. In An Iron Cage: The Magic of Steampunk takes the best of both worlds and melds them into fiction that will absolutely transport you. With stories by: David Sherman, Brenda Cooper, Alma Alexander, C.J. Henderson, Elektra Hammond, Bernie Mojzes, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Patrick Thomas, Stuart Jaffe, James Chambers, A.C. Wise, James Daniel Ross, Jeff Young, and Darren Pearce.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12039767-in-an-iron-cage"}, +{"book_title": "The Surviving Trace", "author_name": "Calia Read", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 2883, "review_number": 478, "book_description": "\n Our love is timeless.\nWill is my fianc\u00e9. The shy man I met years ago in college. The person I\u2019m supposed to spend the rest of my life with. This is the life I\u2019ve always wanted until finding a picture of four men changes everything\u2026Etienne says he\u2019s my husband and the year is 1912. He can\u2019t stand the sight of me, but I don\u2019t know why. Oh, and he\u2019s one of the men from the picture. I\u2019ve done the impossible and have become trapped in time and I know Etienne is my key to going home.The more time I spend with Etienne, the further I fall for him, until I\u2019m questioning which time I belong in and if the life I left behind is the one I truly desire. All I know for certain is I need to survive time. I need to survive love. And I need to make it out on the other side alive.Contemporary Romance/Time Travel", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22289995-the-surviving-trace"}, +{"book_title": "Medusa Uploaded", "author_name": "Emily Devenport", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1339, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "The Executives control Oichi\u2019s senses, her voice, her life. Until the day they kill her.An executive clan gives the order to shoot Oichi out of an airlock on suspicion of being an insurgent. A sentient AI, a Medusa unit, rescues Oichi and begins to teach her the truth\u2014the Executives are not who they think they are. Oichi, officially dead and now bonded to the Medusa unit, sees a chance to make a better life for everyone on board.As she sets things right one assassination at a time, Oichi becomes the very insurgent the Executives feared, and in the process uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship that is their home.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36245705-medusa-uploaded"}, +{"book_title": "Power of Five", "author_name": "Alex Lidell", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 9859, "review_number": 769, "book_description": "Four elite fae warriors. One mortal female. A magical bond they can\u2019t allow\u2014or resist. Orphaned and sold to a harsh master, Lera\u2019s life is about mucking stalls, avoiding her master\u2019s advances, and steering clear of the mystical forest separating the mortal and fae worlds. Only fools venture into the immortal realms, and only dark rumors come out... Until four powerful fae warriors appear at Lera\u2019s barn. River, Coal, Tye, and Shade have waited a decade for their new fifth to be chosen, the wounds from their quint brother\u2019s loss still raw. But the magic has played a cruel trick, bonding the four immortal warriors to... a female. A mortal female. Distractingly beautiful and dangerously frail, Lera can only be one thing\u2014a mistake. Yet as the males bring Lera back to the fae lands to sever the bond, they discover that she holds more power over their souls than is safe for anyone... especially for Lera herself. Power of Five is a full-length reverse-harem fantasy novel. 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Suddenly Meredith was mesmerized by his bronzed, muscular form, and her body surrendered to the fantasy that Geirolf Ericsson really was a Viking from a thousand years ago, sent only to pleasure her. But as she tried to teach him to eat spaghetti and use a computer, she realized he knew an awful lot about the tenth century--and so little about the twentieth. And as he helped her fulfill her grandfather's dream of re-creating a Viking ship, he awakened her to dreams of her own. Until she wondered if the hand of fate had thrust her into the loving arms of...The Last Viking", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677095.The_Last_Viking"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 5", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 941, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Killy has been blazing through the deadly caves of Toha Heavy Industries. But even as he comes closer to finding humans with Net Terminal Genes, the one thing he's been trying to avoid stands in his way... \"Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down.\" -Dave Halverson, Play Magazine", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2821073-blame-vol-5"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl at the End of the World", "author_name": "Richard Levesque", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1044, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Her fight begins the day the world ends. Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging out with her friends and talking on the phone. She does all right at school, and she's made the best of her parents' divorce. But in one way, she's special: on her fifteenth birthday, fast-moving plague wipes out almost everyone she's ever known, yet somehow it passes her by. Her family dead, alone in a corpse-strewn metropolis, she has no choice but to survive. She needs food, shelter, a safe place to sleep. She discovers that an ordinary girl is capable of extraordinary things, and that she's more resilient than she imagined. Even so, she wishes more than anything that she could just find another survivor. Unfortunately for Scarlett, not everyone who survived the plague is looking for companionship. And she's about to find out just how difficult survival really is.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19331475-the-girl-at-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Semper Fi", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1678, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Two years after the Empire abandoned them on Avalon, Colonel Edward Stalker and his Marines have established the Commonwealth, a union of worlds intended to take the place of the vanished Empire. But now contact has been made with a remnant of the Empire, a successor state controlled by a ruthless dictator bent on crushing the Commonwealth and expanding her rule over the entire galaxy. While the Commonwealth frantically prepares for war, a small team of Marines is dispatched to the enemy homeworld with orders to bring down the dictator \u2013 by any means necessary ...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War", "Action", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17828346-semper-fi"}, +{"book_title": "Pegasus in Space", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 6416, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "In a triumphant career spanning more than thirty years, Anne McCaffrey has won the devotion of millions of fans. Now she has written the exciting and long-awaited addition to her classic Pegasus series--and the perfect link to her bestselling Rowan saga . . .For an overpopulated Earth whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up. With the successful completion of the Padrugoi Space Station, humanity has at last achieved its first large-scale permanent presence in space. But there are those who, for motives of their own, want Padrugoi to fail. Standing in their way are the Talented, men and women gifted with extraordinary mental powers that have made them as feared as they are respected--and utterly indispensable to the colonization effort. Now, as sabotage and attempted murder strike the Station, it's up to the Talented to save the day. Only who is going to save the Talented?Pegasus in Space is the tale of Peter Reidinger, first Tower Prime!", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Paranormal (Esp)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61931.Pegasus_in_Space"}, +{"book_title": "NewsPrints", "author_name": "Ru Xu", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2240, "review_number": 359, "book_description": "Blue is an orphan who disguises herself as a newsboy. There's a war going on, and girls are expected to help the struggling economy by selling cookies. But Blue loves living and working at the Bugle, the only paper in town that tells the truth. And what's printed in the newspapers now matters more than ever.But Blue struggles with her secret, and worries that if her friends and adopted family at the Bugle find out that she's a girl, she'll lose everything and everyone she cares about. And when she meets and befriends Crow, a boy who is also not what he seems, together they seek the freedom to be their true selves... and to save each other.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "War", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22707177-newsprints"}, +{"book_title": "Arcana Rising", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 8363, "review_number": 928, "book_description": "Losses mount and deadly new threats converge in this next action-packed tale of the Arcana Chronicles by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole. When the battle is done . . . The Emperor unleashes hell and annihilates an army, jeopardizing the future of mankind--but Circe strikes back. The epic clash between them devastates the Arcana world and nearly kills Evie, separating her from her allies.And all hope is lost . . . With Aric missing and no sign that Jack and Selena escaped Richter's reach, Evie turns more and more to the darkness lurking inside her. Two Arcana emerge as game changers: one who could be her salvation, the other her worst nightmare.Vengeance becomes everything.To take on Richter, Evie must reunite with Death and mend their broken bond. But as she learns more about her role in the future--and her chilling past--will she become a monster like the Emperor? Or can Evie and her allies rise up from Richter's ashes, stronger than ever before?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25946891-arcana-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Lantern City Vol. 1", "author_name": "Matthew Daley", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 169, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "How\u00a0far\u00a0would you\u00a0go\u00a0to be with the person you\u00a0love?Sander Jorve just wants to keep his wife and son safe. Living in the brutalized lower class of Lantern City means living in near constant darkness, the enormous walls of the city always looming overhead, while the upper class enjoys the elevated, interconnected towers and airships above. When Sander\u2019s brother-in-law, the persuasive activist Kendal, convinces him to infiltrate the brutal ranks of the Guard, he\u2019s set on a dangerous path that will test his abilities and beliefs, all in the name of making a difference for his family and his caste.From the writings of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to comics like\u00a0The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and\u00a0Lady Mechanika,\u00a0the detailed and imagination-fueled steampunk movement has excited fans worldwide. Set in an original, sprawling steampunk world,\u00a0Lantern City\u00a0explores everything we love about the genre and what it takes to change a person\u2019s place in the world.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25986926-lantern-city-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Asunder", "author_name": "Jodi Meadows", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 7573, "review_number": 795, "book_description": "DARKSOULSAna has always been the only one. Asunder. Apart. But after Templedark, when many residents of Heart were lost forever, some hold Ana responsible for the darksouls\u2013and the newsouls who may be born in their place.SHADOWSMany are afraid of Ana\u2019s presence, a constant reminder of unstoppable changes and the unknown. When sylph begin behaving differently toward her and people turn violent, Ana must learn to stand up not only for herself but for those who cannot stand up for themselves.LOVEAna was told that nosouls can\u2019t love. But newsouls? More than anything, she wants to live and love as an equal among the citizens of Heart, but even when Sam professes his deepest feelings, it seems impossible to overcome a lifetime of rejection.In this second book in the Newsoul trilogy, Ana discovers the truth about reincarnation and will have to find a way to embrace love and make her young life meaningful. Once again, Jodi Meadows explores the extraordinary beauty and shadowed depths of the soul in a story equal parts epic romance and captivating fantasy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13043180-asunder"}, +{"book_title": "Bloodring", "author_name": "Faith Hunter", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 4957, "review_number": 359, "book_description": "In a novel filled with exhilarating action and lush imagery, Faith Hunter portrays a near-future world, caught in the throes of an ambiguous apocalypse, where a woman with everything to hide finds her destiny revealed....No one thought the apocalypse would be like this. The world didn't end. And the appearance of seraphs heralded three plagues and a devastating war between the forces of good and evil. More than a hundred years later, the earth has plunged into an ice age, and seraphs and demons fight a never-ending battle while religious strife rages among the surviving humans.Thorn St. Croix is no ordinary neomage. All the others of her kind, mages who can twist leftover creation energy to their will, were gathered together into Enclaves long ago. There, they live in luxurious confinement, isolated from humans and exploited for their magic. When Thorn's powers nearly drive her insane, she escapes - and lives as a fugitive, disguised as a human, channeling her gifts for war into stone-magery and the pacific tasks of jewelry making. But when Thaddeus Bartholomew, a dangerously attractive policeman, shows up on her doorstep and accuses her of kidnapping her ex-husband, she retrieves her weapons and risks revealing her identity to find him. And for Thorn, the punishment for revelation is death....", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414139.Bloodring"}, +{"book_title": "Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne", "author_name": "Brian Clevinger", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2865, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "In 1923, Nikola Tesla's career is in its twilight... until he unveils a robot with automatic intelligence -- ATOMIC ROBO! After decades of dealing with all manner of weirdness, Atomic Robo and the so-called Action Scientists of Tesladyne become the go-to defense force against the unexplained! See ROBO take on Nazis, giant ants, clockwork mummies, walking pyramids, Mars, cyborgs, and his nemesis, Baron von Helsingard, in his first trade paperback graphic novel. This edition collects the hard-to-find, sold-out, debut issues of Atomic Robo #1-6, complete with cover gallery, pin-ups, concept sketches, and bonus stories.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Humor", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Pulp"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3474928-atomic-robo-and-the-fightin-scientists-of-tesladyne"}, +{"book_title": "Peace Warrior", "author_name": "Steven L. Hawk", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1461, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Six hundred years after his death, SFC Grant Justice is re-animated by a team of scientists. Grant awakens to a civilization that has abolished war. A civilization that has outlawed violence and cherishes Peace above all else. A civilization that has been enslaved by an alien race called the Minith. Grant is humankind s final hope against the alien menace. He must be the Peace Warrior.Professionally re-edited edition of Peace Warrior, dated August 2011.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8740759-peace-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Talented", "author_name": "Sophie Davis", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 5175, "review_number": 599, "book_description": "With over Twelve Million pages read in Kindle Unlimited and Half a Million worldwide downloads, readers are raving about this #1 Bestselling Dystopian Romance: \"X-Men meets Divergent in a new way.\" \"Intoxicatingly good.\"Block out thoughts. Talia Lyons has one goal at the McDonough School for the Talented: learn to use her Talent as a Mental Manipulator to kill the man who murdered her parents.Block out pain. She'll deal with anything. The brutal physical demands. The emotional toll. Whatever it takes to reach her objective.Block out friendship. With only one year left in the program, though, seventeen-year-old Talia is suddenly finding it harder than ever to ignore the rest of her life.Block out love.Even worse, she can't seem to turn off her psychic connection to her first love...or quit thinking about her fascinating new teammate.Feel only vengeance.Ian Crane. The man who destroyed Talia's life. The one she's determined to eradicate.Now focus.It's time to kill.THE TALENTED SAGA is a #1 Bestselling Dystopian Romance series about the life of a girl with extraordinary psychic powers, and what happens when a heart is torn between love and rage... ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35385740-talented"}, +{"book_title": "Crux", "author_name": "Ramez Naam", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 9255, "review_number": 575, "book_description": "Finalist for the 2014 Prometheus Award.Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. \u00a0The world is a different, more dangerous place.\u00a0\u00a0 In the United States, the terrorists \u2013 or freedom fighters \u2013 of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human time bombs aimed at the President and his allies. In Washington DC, a government scientist, secretly addicted to Nexus, uncovers more than he wants to know about the forces behind the assassinations, and finds himself in a maze with no way out. In Thailand, Samantha Cataranes has found peace and contentment with a group of children born with Nexus in their brains. But when forces threaten to tear her new family apart, Sam will stop at absolutely nothing to protect the ones she holds dear. \u00a0 In Vietnam, Kade and Feng are on the run from bounty hunters seeking the price on Kade\u2019s head, from the CIA, and from forces that want to use the back door Kade has built into Nexus 5. \u00a0Kade knows he must stop the terrorists misusing Nexus before they ignite a global war between human and posthuman. But to do so, he\u2019ll need to stay alive and ahead of his pursuers. \u00a0 And in Shanghai, a posthuman child named Ling Shu will go to dangerous and explosive lengths to free her uploaded mother from the grip of Chinese authorities. \u00a0 The first blows in the war between human and posthuman have been struck. \u00a0The world will never be the same. \nFile Under\n:\u00a0Science Fiction\u00a0[ Stage 2 | Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? | Mind Games | Upgrading\u2026 ]", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense", "Artificial Intelligence", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17162149-crux"}, +{"book_title": "Every Other Day", "author_name": "Jennifer Lynn Barnes", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 6261, "review_number": 976, "book_description": "Every other day, Kali D\u2019Angelo is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. She goes to public high school. She argues with her father. She\u2019s human.And then every day in between . . . she\u2019s something else entirely.Though she still looks like herself, every twenty-four hours predatory instincts take over and Kali becomes a feared demon-hunter with the undeniable urge to hunt, trap, and kill zombies, hellhounds, and other supernatural creatures. Kali has no idea why she is the way she is, but she gives in to instinct anyway. Even though the government considers it environmental terrorism.When Kali notices a mark on the lower back of a popular girl at school, she knows instantly that the girl is marked for death by one of these creatures. Kali has twenty-four hours to save her, and unfortunately she\u2019ll have to do it as a human. With the help of a few new friends, Kali takes a risk that her human body might not survive . . . and learns the secrets of her mysterious condition in the process.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11750412-every-other-day"}, +{"book_title": "The Chrysalids", "author_name": "John Wyndham", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 44162, "review_number": 2279, "book_description": "A world paralysed by genetic mutationJohn Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Academic (School)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826845.The_Chrysalids"}, +{"book_title": "The Other Side of Time", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 102, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "BLINDING LIGHT, NOISE BEYOND SOUND -- A JOURNEY INTO NOTHINGNESS....Imperial Intelligence Agent Brion Bayard was catapulted into nothingness by an unknown force and woke to find himself in a universe not his own. Surrounded by hulking, cannibalistic ape men who called themselves Haroon, Bayard was soon entrapped in a web of time lines. He found himself running from the Hagroon into the arms of Dzok, the educated monkey man of Xonijeel; transported by Dzok to a universe where Napoleon the Fifth was in power and left there to the tender powers of the beautiful witch woman Olivia; struggling in the bonds of a fictitious past, always striving to regain his lost universe of Zero-zero Stockholm so he could bring the warning which might save his world from sudden, violent death...", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3185704-the-other-side-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Lord of the Flies", "author_name": "William Golding", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2325590, "review_number": 38728, "book_description": "At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about \u201cthe end of innocence, the darkness of man\u2019s heart.\u201d", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Academic (School)", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Academic (Read For School)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624.Lord_of_the_Flies"}, +{"book_title": "Ruins of Empire", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2035, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "Jay Allan's Blood on the Stars... War rages between the Confederation and the Union. Shattered fleets watch each other warily across a war torn frontier. Both sides are licking their wounds, gathering strength to continue the fight. Blood on the Stars Series Book 1: Duel in the Dark Book 2: Call to Arms Book 3: Ruins of Empire Book 4: Echoes of Honor (coming Summer 2017) Captain Tyler Barron and the crew of Dauntless are finally enjoying the rest they\u2019ve earned while their aging battleship Dauntless gets the repairs and refit it desperately needs. But their respite will be short-lived. In the Badlands, deep in the haunted vastness of pre-Cataclysmic space, a new discovery threatens to upset the balance of power. Orbiting a world in a distant system is an ancient battleship, vastly larger and enormously more advanced than anything possessed by the contending powers\u2026and the Union has already sent forces to seize it. The Confederation has no ships close enough to intervene, to get there before the enemy\u2026none save Dauntless. Barron and his crew must race across the Badlands, find the ancient artifact, and somehow hold it, keep the Union forces from taking it, until reinforcements arrive. They will be outnumbered and outgunned, but there can be no retreat. Not this time. Nothing less than the fate of all human-inhabited space is at stake. If the Confederation is able to rediscover the technology of the ancients, it will be safe for generations to come, its defensive forces untouchable by its enemies. But if the Union gets there first, if it can adapt the incredible power of mankind\u2019s lost technology, it will gain the power to enslave all humanity. This fight isn\u2019t for territory. It isn\u2019t for position or tactical advantage. It is for the future. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34757628-ruins-of-empire"}, +{"book_title": "The Alchemist of Souls", "author_name": "Anne Lyle", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 1635, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "When Tudor explorers returned from the New World, they brought back a name out of half-forgotten Viking legend: skraylings. Red-sailed ships followed in the explorers\u2019 wake, bringing Native American goods--and a skrayling ambassador--to London. But what do these seemingly magical beings really want in Elizabeth I\u2019s capital?Mal Catlyn, a down-at-heel swordsman, is seconded to the ambassador's bodyguard, but assassination attempts are the least of his problems. What he learns about the skraylings and their unholy powers could cost England her new ally--and Mal his soul.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515333-the-alchemist-of-souls"}, +{"book_title": "The Rise of Endymion", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 45860, "review_number": 1642, "book_description": "The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered--an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11289.The_Rise_of_Endymion"}, +{"book_title": "\u014coku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 2", "author_name": "Fumi Yoshinaga", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1184, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "In this 17th Century Japan the Shogun is a woman...and the harem is full of men. R to L (Japanese Style). Curious about why female lords must take on male names, the Shogun Yoshimune seeks out the ancient scribe Murase and his archives of the last eighty years of the Inner Chambers--called the Chronicle of the Dying Day. In it's pages Yoshimune discovers the coming of the Redface Pox, the death of the last male Shogun, and the birth of the new Japan\u2026 In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Red Pox has begun to prey on the country\u2019s men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen to a quarter of the total female population. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the Shogun\u2019s Inner Chamber\u2026", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Historical", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Manga (Josei)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6408561-oku"}, +{"book_title": "\u9032\u6483\u306e\u5de8\u4eba 8 [Shingeki no Kyojin 8", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 10303, "review_number": 357, "book_description": "\u30ea\u30f4\u30a1\u30a4\u73ed\u306e\u4ef2\u9593\u3092\u6bba\u3055\u308c\u305f\u30a8\u30ec\u30f3\u306f\u300c\u5973\u578b\u306e\u5de8\u4eba\u300d\u3068\u306e\u6226\u3044\u306b\u6311\u3080\u304c\u6557\u5317\u3002\u99c6\u3051\u3064\u3051\u305f\u30df\u30ab\u30b5\u3068\u30ea\u30f4\u30a1\u30a4\u306b\u3088\u308a\u6551\u51fa\u3055\u308c\u308b\u304c\u3001\u300c\u5973\u578b\u306e\u5de8\u4eba\u300d\u306e\u6355\u7372\u306b\u306f\u5931\u6557\u3057\u3066\u3057\u307e\u3046\u3002\u58c1\u5916\u8abf\u67fb\u306e\u5931\u6557\u3068\u5171\u306b\u3001\u30a8\u30ec\u30f3\u3089\u306e\u738b\u90fd\u62db\u96c6\u304c\u6c7a\u307e\u308a\u2025\u2025\u3002", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17450822-8-shingeki-no-kyojin-8"}, +{"book_title": "Milor", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2005, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "As if the job of running Space Command's newest and most remote base wasn't difficult enough, Captain Jenetta Carver is charged with keeping the situation between two neighboring planets on the brink of hostilities, from erupting into open warfare. Since the assigned diplomatic corps has not yet arrived at the base, she must resolve the disputes without guidance. The people of the two planets share a common ancestry and common genus, with an average height half that of Terrans. Captain Carver manages to convince the two planetary governments to accept binding arbitration, but one party ingeniously stalls the talks for their own purposes.When several Milora are discovered in the company of an Alyysian arms merchant's Tsgardi henchmen, inside Galactic Alliance space, events begin spiraling out of control. The Milori, an ugly warlike race that more closely resembles cockroaches then humanoids, come from a home planet well outside Galactic Alliance borders. But there's an old saying that, like cockroaches, if you see one Milora, there're probably a thousand more concealed nearby. And Jenetta knows that a thousand hostile warriors in GA space can only mean serious trouble is brewing. She immediately dispatches a ship to check on an Intelligence Section report that Milori ships have been sighted near a planet in the GA's Frontier Zone.The GSC destroyer Ottawa, following up on the leads obtained by Space Command Intelligence agents, locates the task force of Milori warships exactly where the report states they would be, and demands an explanation of their presence in GA space. The Milori respond with action rather than words, leaving little doubt about their intentions.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9920607-milor"}, +{"book_title": "Bethany's Heart", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1050, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Amidst the snow and icy wasteland, Earth has become a watery grave to many. Zargonnii warriors Finn and Blu search for any remaining human females. Luck abounds and six females are found struggling to survive. The moment his blazing red eyes settle onto Bethany Finn feels in his heart she is the one he wants to end his loneliness. When Bethany encounters two massive aliens, eyes alight, long white hair wildly flying, she knows the pair are either death or salvation. Their encounter leads Bethany on the wildest adventure of her life. After the Zargonnii ship is annihilated by the enemy a shuttle leads Finn and Bethany straight into the path of peril more times than the couple care to count.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23502607-bethany-s-heart"}, +{"book_title": "The Seat of Magic", "author_name": "J. Kathleen Cheney", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 569, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Magical beings have been banned from the Golden City for decades, though many live there in secret. Now humans and nonhumans alike are in danger as evil stalks the streets, growing more powerful with every kill\u2026. \u00a0 It\u2019s been two weeks since Oriana Paredes was banished from the Golden City. Police consultant Duilio Ferreira, who himself has a talent he must keep secret, can\u2019t escape the feeling that, though she\u2019s supposedly returned home to her people, Oriana is in danger. \u00a0 Adding to Duilio\u2019s concerns is a string of recent murders in the city. Three victims have already been found, each without a mark upon her body. When a selkie under his brother\u2019s protection goes missing, Duilio fears the killer is also targeting nonhuman prey. \u00a0 To protect Oriana and uncover the truth, Duilio will have to risk revealing his own identity, put his trust in some unlikely allies, and consult a rare and malevolent text known as The Seat of Magic\u2026.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693704-the-seat-of-magic"}, +{"book_title": "A Swiftly Tilting Planet", "author_name": "Madeleine L'Engle", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 103957, "review_number": 2447, "book_description": "In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg - grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by \"kything\" - goes with him in spirit.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77276.A_Swiftly_Tilting_Planet"}, +{"book_title": "Born Wicked", "author_name": "Jessica Spotswood", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 16192, "review_number": 2215, "book_description": "Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they\u2019re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship\u2014or an early grave.Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word... especially after she finds her mother\u2019s diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family\u2019s destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra.If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren\u2019t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood\u2014not even from each other.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11715276-born-wicked"}, +{"book_title": "The Confusion, Part II", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 868, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Stephenson continues his New York Times bestselling Baroque Cycle with this latest installment. Featuring unforgettable characters in the late 1600s, this series chronicles a time of breathtaking genius and discovery that define an age known as Baroque.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1745057.The_Confusion_Part_II"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Repeat Forever", "author_name": "Gabrielle S. Prendergast", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2009, "review_number": 541, "book_description": "He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn\u2019t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting. Until a human kills her\u2026 Sixteen year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying armored Nahx invade, annihilating entire cities, taking control of the Earth. Isolated in the wilderness, Raven and her friends have only a fragment of instruction from the human resistance. Shelter in place. Which seems like good advice at first. Stay put. Await rescue. Raven doesn\u2019t like feeling helpless but what choice does she have? Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend. Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit, their survival depends on trusting each other\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28945665-zero-repeat-forever"}, +{"book_title": "Santa Olivia", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 8498, "review_number": 864, "book_description": "Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth. Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive \"Wolf-Man\" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. The \"Wolf-Men\" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider. After her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. Eventually, the orphans find an outlet for their frustrations: They form a vigilante group to support Loup Garron who, costumed as their patron saint, Santa Olivia, uses her special abilities to avenge the town. Aware that she could lose her freedom, and possibly her life, Loup is determined to fight to redress the wrongs her community has suffered. And like the reincarnation of their patron saint, she will bring hope to all of Santa Olivia.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "GLBT (Lesbian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5931169-santa-olivia"}, +{"book_title": "Armored", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 675, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Armor up for a metal-pounding feast of action, adventure and amazing speculation by topnotch writers (including Nebula-award winner Jack McDevitt, Sean Williams, Dan Abnet, Simon Green, and Jack Campbell) on a future warrior that might very well be just around the corner.\u00a0 Science fiction readers and gamers have long been fascinated by the idea of going to battle in suits of powered combat armor or at the interior controls of giant mechs. First, when the armor starts to take over, even the generals may be at its mercy\u2013and under its control. Then solve the problem of armored rescue when irradiated vacuum stands between the frail flesh of the living and safety.\u00a0 And what happens when the marriage of soldier and armor becomes a bit too intimate\u2014and that marriage goes sour!\u00a0It\u2019s an armor-plated clip of hard-hitting tales featuring exoskeleton adventure with fascinating takes on possible future armors ranging from the style of personal power suits seen in Starship Troopers and Halo to the servo-controlled bipedal beast-mech style encountered in Mechwarrior and Battletech.\u00a0", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12377899-armored"}, +{"book_title": "The Shock", "author_name": "Scott Nicholson", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 2687, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "A massive solar storm erases the world's technological infrastructure and kills billions. While the remaining humans are struggling to adapt and survive, they notice that some among them have...changed.Rachel Wheeler finds herself alone in the city, where violent survivors known as \"Zapheads\" roam the streets, killing and destroying. Her only hope is to reach the mountains, where her grandfather, a legendary survivalist, established a compound in preparation for Doomsday.Other survivors are fleeing the city, but Zapheads aren't the only danger. Rogue bands of military soldiers want to impose their own order in the crumbling ruins of civilization. When Rachel discovers a 10-year-old boy, she vows to care for him even at the risk of her own life.And the Zapheads are evolving, developing communal skills even as they lay waste to the society they will eventually replace.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17261275-the-shock"}, +{"book_title": "Another Chance to Dream", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2502, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "From Lynn Kurland, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nine Kingdom series. With neither title nor land, Rhys could not win the hand of Gwennelyn of Segrave. But he would always have her heart. The two are kindred souls...Rhys, a knight with far too many notions of chivalry for his own good. And Gwen, a lover of minstral tales, waiting to be swept away. But Gwen is betrothed to another man, and Rhys fears he will lose her forever. Until a suprise offer comes his way\u2014bringing Rhys and Gwen a second chance at love...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Clean Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816663.Another_Chance_to_Dream"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Fairies", "author_name": "Cat Rambo", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 115, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "\nDesiree feels the most at home with her clockwork creations, but Claude worries about all this science and Darwinist nonsense\u2014after all, where do clockwork fairies fall in the Great Chain of Being?\n", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Victorian)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10290982-clockwork-fairies"}, +{"book_title": "Double Cross", "author_name": "Malorie Blackman", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 11447, "review_number": 373, "book_description": "Tobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'?The captivating conclusion/companion Novel of the Noughts and Crosses series.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4002159-double-cross"}, +{"book_title": "Manxome Foe", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3061, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "In the midst of recovering from their successful if casualty prone first mission, the crew of the Alliance Space Ship \"Vorpal Blade\" are suddenly scrambled back into action. All other priorities take second place as word arrives on earth of a gate colony which has fallen to an unidentified alien assault. As the only space ship currently available to the Human-Adar Alliance, the \"Vorpal Blade\" is dispatched to find out what happened to the colony, rescue any survivors and learn the identity of the attackers. With new complexities added to the universe started in the novel \"Into the Looking Glass\" and continued in \"Vorpal Blade,\" \"Manxome Foe\" continues the tradition of non-stop action, valorous if quirky characters and rigorous science drawn from the frontiers of current theory. The odd-ball crew of the \"Vorpal Blade\" is an unlikely savior of earth, but none dare say they quail at engaging the Manxome Foe.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1624960.Manxome_Foe"}, +{"book_title": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 406030, "review_number": 7178, "book_description": "The Dawn Treader will take you places you never dreamed existed. NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even the worst people, where anything can happen (and most often does)... and where the adventure begins.The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, and their cousin Eustace to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan's country at the End of the World.", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Classics", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Christian", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Christian Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140225.The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader"}, +{"book_title": "Sapphique", "author_name": "Catherine Fisher", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 21558, "review_number": 1886, "book_description": "The only one who escaped... and the one who could destroy them all.Incarceron, the living prison, has lost one of its inmates to the outside world: Finn's escaped, only to find that Outside is not at all what he expected. Used to the technologically advanced, if violently harsh, conditions of the prison, Finn is now forced to obey the rules of Protocol, which require all people to live without technology. To Finn, Outside is just a prison of another kind, especially when Claudia, the daughter of the prison's warden, declares Finn the lost heir to the throne. When another claimant emerges, both Finn's and Claudia's very lives hang on Finn convincing the Court of something that even he doesn't fully believe.Meanwhile, Finn's oathbrother Keiro and his friend Attia are still trapped inside Incarceron. They are searching for a magical glove, which legend says Sapphique used to escape. To find it, they must battle the prison itself, because Incarceron wants the glove too.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4499214-sapphique"}, +{"book_title": "The Lord of Opium", "author_name": "Nancy Farmer", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 6588, "review_number": 895, "book_description": "The new book continues the story of Matt, the boy who was cloned from evil drug lord El Patr\u00f3n in The House of the Scorpion. Now 14 years old, Matt rules his own country, the Land of Opium, the only thriving place in a world ravaged by ecological disaster. Though he knows that the cure for ending the suffering is hidden in Opium, Matt faces obstacles and enemies at every turn when he tries to use his power to help.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17063696-the-lord-of-opium"}, +{"book_title": "Ice and Embers", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 326, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "It takes more than passion and pixie dust to thaw a frozen heart.With the 1814 London Frost Fair in full swing, actress Elyse McKenna's performance in A Midwinter Night's Dream thrills the crowd. But Elyse's backstage has life is beginning to take on a distinctly Shakespearean flavor.When she fell in love with Lord John Waldegrave, Elyse was prepared to keep their affair secret. But she wasn't ready for her new love to rock her relationship with her dearest friend, Doctor Kai Murray.Everything Elyse thought she knew about her feelings for her old friend is flipped upside down when an enchanting ship captain turns her attention to Kai.If Elyse hopes to escape the Thames with her heart intact, she must discover the truth about the captain, Kai, John, and her own feelings--before it's too late.\nIce and Embers\n is a retelling of the classic Snow Queen fairy tale set in a steampunk universe. Journey to gaslamp London during the 19th century to see how Melanie puts a steampunk spin on this reimagined fairytale.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35533670-ice-and-embers"}, +{"book_title": "The Riss Gamble", "author_name": "C.R. Daems", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 995, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "A young girl dreams of seeing the stars and meeting aliens. Her chance comes in the form of a project offering a college education, commissioning in the SAS Fleet, and a partnership with an alien. She successfully qualifies and wins one of the coveted ten positions. Of course everything comes with a price\u2014the alien is a parasite that inhabits the body and mind, and is there for life. Is it a dream or nightmare come true\u2014or maybe both?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14622748-the-riss-gamble"}, +{"book_title": "The Pirate's Grand Plan", "author_name": "K.S. Augustin", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 5, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "**A Republic \u201cfuture historical\u201dGilthen Ahn is captain of the Darck Banks cartel, a pirate band working deep in Republic space. He has six ships under his command and, unless he finds money to pay off his substantial debts, he\u2019ll lose everything.Tera d\u2019Olzon is a privileged member of Republic high society, trying to make a difference by thumbing her nose at everything her family stands for. Unfortunately, things haven\u2019t quite turned out the way she anticipated and, while running from Security Forces, she is \u201crescued\u201d by Gil\u2019s cartel.The reasonable thing for the cartel to do is to ransom her. But that won\u2019t bring in enough money. So Gil hatches a plan\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22697981-the-pirate-s-grand-plan"}, +{"book_title": "Bolo", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2287, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Controlled by their tireless electronic brains which were programmed to admit no possibility of defeat, the gigantic robot tanks known as Bolos were almost indestructible, and nearly unstoppable. Their artificial intelligences were designed to make them selflessly serve and protect humans throughout the galaxy and made each Bolo the epitome of the knight sans peur et sans reproche, and often far more noble than the humans who gave them their orders. Now, David Weber, New York Times best-selling author of the Honor Harrington series, continues the history of the Bolo, in four short novels, one of them published here for the first time. One Bolo is driven over the edge by the very humans it is pledged to protect. Another Bolo must decide whether or not to disobey when it is given an order that constitutes genocide. A third must hunt one of its own kind whose robot brain is damaged and rescue two children which the deranged Bolo thinks it is protecting from a nonexistent enemy. And more, including as a bonus, David Weber's own authoritative technical history of the Bolo, all in a volume that will be irresistible both for David Weber's huge readership and Bolo fans everywhere.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Space", "Short Stories", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/470053.Bolo_"}, +{"book_title": "Brown Girl in the Ring", "author_name": "Nalo Hopkinson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 5089, "review_number": 655, "book_description": "The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways-farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother.She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Magical Realism", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57504.Brown_Girl_in_the_Ring"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Days Club", "author_name": "Alison Goodman", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 16544, "review_number": 2573, "book_description": "London, April 1812.On the eve of eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall\u2019s presentation to the queen, one of her family\u2019s housemaids disappears-and Helen is drawn into the shadows of Regency London. There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of demons infiltrating every level of society. Dare she ask for his help, when his reputation is almost as black as his lingering eyes? And will her intelligence and headstrong curiosity wind up leading them into a death trap?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical (Regency)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15993203-the-dark-days-club"}, +{"book_title": "Counterstrike", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 5356, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "Captain Jackson Wolfe never thought he\u2019d see the end of the Phage War in his lifetime. The enemy was too powerful, too numerous, and utterly determined to exterminate humanity. But the appearance of a new ally in the fight has changed all of that. For the first time since the original incursion Wolfe thinks that maybe there\u2019s a chance to stop their implacable enemy before they have the chance to wipe out any more human planets. That opportunity comes at great cost, however, and even as he makes plans for their first offensive move on the Phage, Jackson is all too aware that most of them will not survive. \u201cCounterstrike\u201d is book three of the bestselling Black Fleet Trilogy. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27188723-counterstrike"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 771, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "Airships! Imposters! Mad science! Agatha Heterodyne is the last heir to the Maddest of Mad Scientist families, and now she's returning to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg, to claim her inheritance. Unfortunately, it turns out that she's not the only one with that idea in mind. When an imposter claiming to be the rightful heir appears, Agatha must convince the artificial intelligence that animates her family's castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But as Agatha soon discovers, this will be no simple task, as the Castle itself is completely insane.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18668150-agatha-h-and-the-voice-of-the-castle"}, +{"book_title": "Return Once More", "author_name": "Trisha Leigh", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 618, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "If you could learn the identity of your one true love\u2014even though you will never meet\u2014 would you?Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect\u2014predicting your one true love.If you could save your one true love from an untimely death, would you be able to resist?Sixteen-year-old Kaia Vespasian is an apprentice to the Historians\u2014a group charged with using time travel to document the triumphs and failures of the past\u2014and she can\u2019t resist a peek at her long-dead soul mate in Ancient Egypt. Before she knows it, she\u2019s broken every rule in the book, and the consequences of getting caught could destroy more than just her new romance.Or would you have the strength to watch him die?But when Kaia notices a fellow classmate snooping around in a time where he doesn\u2019t belong, she suspects he has a secret of his own\u2014and the conspiracy she uncovers could threaten the entire universe. If her experience has taught her anything, to changing history means facing the consequences. The Historians trained her to observe and record the past, but Kaia never guessed she might have to protect it\u2014 in a race across time to save her only chance at a future.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17798068-return-once-more"}, +{"book_title": "Unseen Academicals", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 50894, "review_number": 2022, "book_description": "Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the trademark insight and humor readers the world over have come to expect from \u201cthe purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse\u201d (Washington Post Book World), Unseen Academicals focuses on the wizards at Ankh-Morpork\u2019s Unseen University, who are reknowned for many things\u2014sagacity, magic, and their love of teatime\u2014as they attempt to conquer athletics.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6250169-unseen-academicals"}, +{"book_title": "Crimson Bound", "author_name": "Rosamund Hodge", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 19250, "review_number": 2929, "book_description": "When Rachelle was fifteen she was good\u2014apprenticed to her aunt and in training to protect her village from dark magic. But she was also reckless\u2014 straying from the forest path in search of a way to free her world from the threat of eternal darkness. After an illicit meeting goes dreadfully wrong, Rachelle is forced to make a terrible choice that binds her to the very evil she had hoped to defeat.Three years later, Rachelle has given her life to serving the realm, fighting deadly creatures in an effort to atone. When the king orders her to guard his son Armand\u2014the man she hates most\u2014Rachelle forces Armand to help her find the legendary sword that might save their world. As the two become unexpected allies, they uncover far-reaching conspiracies, hidden magic, and a love that may be their undoing. In a palace built on unbelievable wealth and dangerous secrets, can Rachelle discover the truth and stop the fall of endless night?Inspired by the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, Crimson Bound is an exhilarating tale of darkness, love, and redemption.(This is a standalone novel, not part of the Cruel Beauty Universe.)", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21570318-crimson-bound"}, +{"book_title": "Cobra", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2195, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "The Cobras wonder if they can return home after the wars--since humans fear their talents.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Business (Amazon)", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529647.Cobra"}, +{"book_title": "Fire in His Blood", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 9039, "review_number": 950, "book_description": "Years ago, the skies ripped open and the world was destroyed in fire and ash. Dragons - once creatures of legend - are the enemy. Vicious and unpredictable, they rule the skies of the ruined cities, forcing humanity to huddle behind barricades for safety.Claudia's a survivor. She scrapes by as best as she can in a hard, dangerous world. When she runs afoul of the law, she's left as bait in dragon territory. She only has one chance to survive - to somehow 'tame' a dragon and get it to obey her.Except the dragon that finds her is as wild and brutal as any other...and he's not interested in obeying.What he is interested in is a mate.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33858773-fire-in-his-blood"}, +{"book_title": "A Robot in the Garden", "author_name": "Deborah Install", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1982, "review_number": 521, "book_description": "Warm-hearted fable of a stay-at-home husband who learns an important lesson in life when an unusual creature enters his life.With all the charm and humour of THE ROSIE PROJECT and ABOUT A BOY mingled with the heart-swelling warmth of PADDINGTON BEAR MOVIE.A story of the greatest friendship ever assembled.Ben Chambers wakes up to find something rusty and lost underneath the willow tree in his garden. Refusing to throw it on the skip as his wife Amy advises, he takes it home.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23346726-a-robot-in-the-garden"}, +{"book_title": "The Only Harmless Great Thing", "author_name": "Brooke Bolander", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3384, "review_number": 711, "book_description": "In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island.These are the facts.Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying out to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of meaning and justice.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34659272-the-only-harmless-great-thing"}, +{"book_title": "Cold War Hot: Alternate Decisions of the Cold War", "author_name": "Peter G. Tsouras", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 101, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "It was in the Third World that the ambitions and fears of the two Cold War superpowers were played out v Korea, Vietnam, Egypt and Syria, Afghanistan. In their bizarre way, these were carefully controlled wars, carefully controlled in the sense that neither great power allowed itself to become directly engaged in a hot war with the other. Equally, neither allowed itself to go for broke in a grand sweep across the Third World in fear of provoking that final confrontation. But this fear of direct confrontation was never as rigidly controlled as one would think. Again and again events veered towards a clash between Eagle and Bear. The authors of this book make real such terrifying possibilities as Korea or the 67 War dragging in both superpowers; they predict the consequences of the United States or the Soviet Union attempting radical strategies in Vietnam or in a divided Germany, either to follow the British success in Malaya or to invade the North; they imagine the invasion of Cuba when the delicate signals failed to find a way out of the Missile Crisis and bring to life a scenario in which the Soviet Union knocks the Great Game off the board by using Afghanistan as base to bring down Pakistan and achieve its warm water port on the Indian Ocean. Cold War Hot vividly brings to life these and many other alternate scenarios, taking the reader behind the scenes at these momentous moments in history. In showing what could have happened, the authors show how precarious the Cold War peace actually was, and how little it would have taken to tip the balance into World War Three.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "History", "War (Military Fiction)", "Nonfiction", "Military (Military History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1692373.Cold_War_Hot"}, +{"book_title": "Void Star", "author_name": "J.P. Yager", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 49, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "A darkness is tearing through the universe, devouring everything in its path. A legendary device known as the Void Star may be the last hope to stop it, but its missing. An evil empire is willing to destroy worlds in order to find it as a ragtag crew, survivors of the destroyed world Earth, rescue an alien that knows where it is. Time is running out to find the star as the darkness closes in to consume them all.Vibrant characters and suspenseful action sequences are weaved together for those that enjoy a fast-paced sci-fi adventure.If you enjoy this book, check out my other work at jpyager.com.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13516661-void-star"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Book Two", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 14177, "review_number": 580, "book_description": "This hardcover features issues #13-24 of the hit series along with the covers for each of the issues, all in one oversized hardcover volume. Continuing the tale of Rick Grimes and his band of survivors from the zombie apocalypse that has ravaged the world.\"", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138399.The_Walking_Dead_Book_Two"}, +{"book_title": "A Court of Frost and Starlight", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 162245, "review_number": 16799, "book_description": "Hope warms the coldest night.Feyre, Rhys, and their close-knit circle of friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly-changed world beyond. But Winter Solstice is finally near, and with it, a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated--scars that will have far-reaching impact on the future of their Court.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Fairies (Fae)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31076583-a-court-of-frost-and-starlight"}, +{"book_title": "Mission of Gravity", "author_name": "Hal Clement", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 6749, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "Cover Artist: Ed EmshwillerMission of Gravity is an sf novel by Hal Clement. The title is a play on words, one meaning \"the force which pulls\" & the other being \"extremely serious or important\". It was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, 4\u20137/53. Its 1st cloth publication was in '54. It was 1st published in paper in '58. Along with the novel itself, many editions (& most recent editions) of the book also include Whirligig World, an essay on creating the planet Mesklin that was published in the 6/53 Astounding. He published two sequels, a '70 novel called Star Light & a '73 short story called Lecture Demonstration. Mission of Gravity was nominated for a Retro Hugo Award for '54.For a profit & adventure Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity played strange tricks. He'd dare the perils of strange tribes & stranger creatures--even dicker with those aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the planet of Mesklin. But in spite of the incredible technology of the strangers & without regard for their enormous size, Barlennan had the notion of turning the deal to an unsuspected advantage for himself--a considerable enterprise for a being very much resembling a 15\" caterpillar!", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525285.Mission_of_Gravity"}, +{"book_title": "The Last", "author_name": "Hanna Jameson", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 13049, "review_number": 2065, "book_description": "For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts, this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war\u2014along with twenty other survivors\u2014who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel\u2019s water tanks.Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife\u2019s text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we left it. Love you. But as he\u2019s waiting in the lobby of the L\u2019Hotel Sixieme in Switzerland after an academic conference, still mulling over how to respond to his wife, he receives a string of horrifying push notifications. Washington, DC has been hit with a nuclear bomb, then New York, then London, and finally Berlin. That\u2019s all he knows before news outlets and social media goes black\u2014and before the clouds on the horizon turn orange.Now, two months later, there are twenty survivors holed up at the hotel, a place already tainted by its strange history of suicides and murders. Those who can\u2019t bear to stay commit suicide or wander off into the woods. Jon and the others try to maintain some semblance of civilization. But when the water pressure disappears, and Jon and a crew of survivors investigate the hotel\u2019s water tanks, they are shocked to discover the body of a young girl.As supplies dwindle and tensions rise, Jon becomes obsessed with investigating the death of the little girl as a way to cling to his own humanity. Yet the real question remains: can he afford to lose his mind in this hotel, or should he take his chances in the outside world?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40381927-the-last"}, +{"book_title": "Paradise", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 9621, "review_number": 327, "book_description": "While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying assure hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been trapped on the planet they nicknamed 'Paradise'. The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, and the UN wants the ship to find out the status of the humans on Paradise. But Colonel Joe Bishop warns that they might not like what they find, and they can't do anything about it without endangering Earth.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Humor", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32723950-paradise"}, +{"book_title": "Xeelee: Vengeance", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 300, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole.Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic, powerful aliens known as the Xeelee.The Xeelee won, but at a huge cost. And, defeated in a greater war, the Xeelee eventually fled the universe. Most of them.A handful were left behind, equipped with time travel capabilities, their task to tidy up: to reorder history more to the Xeelee's liking. That million-year war with humankind was one blemish. It had to be erased. And in order to do that, a lone Xeelee was sent back in time to remove Michael Poole from history . . .", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33814765-xeelee"}, +{"book_title": "Never Sound Retreat", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 585, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "It has been 10 years since a group of American Civil War soldiers was swept away from the battlefields of Earth to a distant world--where the only place for a human is as a slave to an alien race. But even though they are far from home, the members of the Union 35th Main regiment still embody the radical ideas of democracy and freedom--and they're willing to lay down their lives rather than sound retreat! Ads in \"Locus\".", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/443178.Never_Sound_Retreat"}, +{"book_title": "Playing Beatie Bow", "author_name": "Ruth Park", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 4524, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "Distraught over her parents' separation, Abigail follows a strange child called Beatie Bow and time slips back a hundred years where she becomes involved with an Australian shopkeeper's family.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Classics", "Cultural (Australia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395868.Playing_Beatie_Bow"}, +{"book_title": "Brother\u2019s Ruin", "author_name": "Emma Newman", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 948, "review_number": 226, "book_description": "The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. When a new mage is discovered, Royal Society elites descend like buzzards to snatch up a new apprentice. Talented mages are bought from their families at a tremendous price, while weak mages are snapped up for a pittance. For a lower middle class family like the Gunns, the loss of a son can be disastrous, so when seemingly magical incidents begin cropping up at home, they fear for their Ben's life and their own livelihoods.But Benjamin Gunn isn't a talented mage. His sister Charlotte is, and to prevent her brother from being imprisoned for false reporting she combines her powers with his to make him seem a better prospect.When she discovers a nefarious plot by the sinister Doctor Ledbetter, Charlotte must use all her cunning and guile to protect her family, her secret and her city.Brother's Ruin is the first in a new gaslamp fantasy series by Emma Newman.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29964674-brother-s-ruin"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Sky, Black Sun", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 748, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Hard-hitting SF action with the superhuman Space Marines and Captain Uriel Ventris. Exiled from his Chapter, Uriel ventures deep into the dreaded Eye of Terror to confront the terrible foes that dwell within these worlds of insanity. Chief amongst them are the ancient Chaos Space Marine legions - twisted warriors who have allied with the Dark Gods and are set on humanity's destruction.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254009.Dead_Sky_Black_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Heartless", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 32413, "review_number": 2481, "book_description": "Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical invention, and a plague of zombie porcupines and Alexia barely has time to remember she happens to be eight months pregnant.Will Alexia manage to determine who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it is too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf's clothing? And what, exactly, has taken up residence in Lord Akeldama's second best closet?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8356487-heartless"}, +{"book_title": "A Winter's Promise", "author_name": "Christelle Dabos", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 30292, "review_number": 3865, "book_description": "Long ago, following a cataclysm called \u201cThe Rupture,\u201d the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time, such that nowadays vastly different worlds exist, together but apart. And over all of the Arks the spirit of an omnipotent ancestor abides. Ophelia lives on Anima, an ark where objects have souls. Beneath her worn scarf and thick glasses, the young girl hides the ability to read and communicate with the souls of objects, and the power to travel through mirrors. Her peaceful existence on the Ark of Anima is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan. Ophelia must leave her family and follow her fianc\u00e9e to the floating capital on the distant Ark of the Pole. Why has she been chosen? Why must she hide her true identity? Though she doesn\u2019t know it yet, she has become a pawn in a deadly plot.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Cultural (France)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40969531-a-winter-s-promise"}, +{"book_title": "Dance of the Gods", "author_name": "Nora Roberts", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 28344, "review_number": 773, "book_description": "Combining elements of the supernatural with gripping suspense and seduction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel in her Circle Trilogy\u2026\u00a0He saw where the earth was scorched, where it was trampled. He saw his own hoofprints left in the sodden earth when he\u2019d galloped through the battle in the form of a horse. And he saw the woman who\u2019d ridden him, slashing destruction with a flaming sword\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0 Blair Murphy has always worked alone. Destined to be a demon hunter in a world that doesn\u2019t believe in such things, she lives for the kill. But now, she finds herself the warrior in a circle of six, chosen by the goddess Morrigan to defeat the vampire Lilith and her minions. \u00a0 Learning to trust the others has been hard, for Blair has never allowed herself such a luxury. But she finds herself drawn to Larkin, a man of many shapes. As a horse, he is proud and graceful; as a dragon, beautifully fierce; and as a man\u2026well, Blair has never seen one quite so ruggedly handsome and playfully charming as this nobleman from the past. \u00a0 In two months\u2019 time, the circle of six will face Lilith and her army in Geall. To complete preparations and round up forces to fight, the circle travels through time to Larkin\u2019s world, where Blair must choose between battling her overwhelming attraction to him\u2014or risking everything for a love that can never be\u2026", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31313.Dance_of_the_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "Lirael", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 112166, "review_number": 3108, "book_description": "Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless, the fate of the Old Kingdom lies in her hands. With only her faithful companion, the Disreputable Dog, Lirael must undertake a desperate mission under the growing shadow of an ancient evil.In this sequel to Sabriel, winner of the Aurealis Award for Excellence in Australian Science Fiction, New York Times best-selling author Garth Nix weaves a spellbinding tale of discovery, destiny, and danger.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47624.Lirael"}, +{"book_title": "The Past", "author_name": "Kenneth Thomas", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 4446, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "The Past is the first book in the VanWest series, about an Enforcer who lives in a dystopian Earth of the year 3000 and works for an authoritarian ruler called the Universal Council. Tasked with travelling through time to stop a renegade sect, that seeks to change Earth\u2019s past, he comes to learn about his dark origins and his unique ability.Falling in love with the daughter of its leader, he returns to the present to face a difficult choice, whether or not to save her. And be part of the New Beginning.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Action", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53450218-the-past"}, +{"book_title": "Tiger's Destiny", "author_name": "Colleen Houck", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 23563, "review_number": 2172, "book_description": "With three of the goddess Durga's quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tiger's curse. But the trio's greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.\u00a0It's a race against time, and the evil sorcerer Lokesh, in this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the bestselling Tiger's Curse series, which pits good against evil, tests the bonds of love and loyalty, and finally reveals the tigers' true destinies once and for all.A smart\u00a0phone tag code on the back cover links readers to the series website.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12677913-tiger-s-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "Under Their Skin", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1658, "review_number": 300, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes the first book in a brand-new thrilling series about twins who are on a quest to discover the secrets being kept by their new family.Nick and Eryn's mom is getting remarried, and the twelve-year-old twins are skeptical when she tells them their lives won't change much. Well, yes, they will have to move. And they will have a new stepfather, stepbrother, and stepsister. But Mom tells them not to worry. They won't ever have to meet their stepsiblings.This news puzzles Nick and Eryn, so the twins set out on a mission to find out who these kids are - and why they're being kept hidden.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25785792-under-their-skin"}, +{"book_title": "The Call", "author_name": "Peadar \u00d3 Guil\u00edn", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 10821, "review_number": 2135, "book_description": "Imagine a world where you might disappear any minute, only to find yourself alone in a grey sickly land, with more horrors in it than you would ever wish to know about. And then you hear a horn and you know that whoever lives in this hell has got your scent and the hunt has already begun.Could you survive the Call?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28600081-the-call"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl With All the Gifts", "author_name": "M.R. Carey", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 194787, "review_number": 20260, "book_description": "Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her \"our little genius.\"Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.The Girl with All the Gifts is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and Neil Gaiman.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235026-the-girl-with-all-the-gifts"}, +{"book_title": "Red Mars", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 69044, "review_number": 3436, "book_description": "In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research & cutting-edge science in the 1st of a trilogy chronicling the colonization of Mars:For eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. For centuries, Mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate. Now, in 2026, a group of 100 colonists is about to fulfill that destiny.John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers & Arkady Bogdanov lead a terraforming mission. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage & madness. For others it offers an opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. For the genetic alchemists, it presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life & death. The colonists orbit giant satellite mirrors to reflect light to the surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth. Massive tunnels, kilometers deep, will be drilled into the mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves & friendships will form & fall to pieces--for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope & ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in evolution, creating a world in its entirety. It shows a future, with both glory & tarnish, that awes with complexity & inspires with vision.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77507.Red_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen of All that Lives", "author_name": "Laura Thalassa", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 7834, "review_number": 551, "book_description": "She\u2019s a martyr.A myth.A ghost.A legend.She\u2019s my soulmate and my captive, my conscience and my wrath. I love her too much to let her die; I fear her too much to wake her from her slumber.She\u2019s mine.And now she\u2019s gone.He\u2019s unnatural.Undying.Unethical.Unstoppable.He\u2019s the keeper of lies and lost souls. Mine slipped through his clutches.I am his wife, his queen, the love of his very long life.And soon, I will be his executioner.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["New Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28448877-the-queen-of-all-that-lives"}, +{"book_title": "Star Carrier", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1552, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Earth builds her first war fleet! The greatest warships ever constructed in known space rise up one by one, soon dominating our skies. They strike fear into the hearts of every citizen and rebel colonist alike. Captain William Sparhawk, the very man who convinced the secretive Council to build this terrifying fleet, now has doubts about the project. What is their exact mission? How could anyone have built these huge ships so quickly? And most puzzling of all, what\u2019s happening out at the isolated laboratory complex on Phobos, Mars\u2019 lop-sided moon? Learn the stunning truth in STAR CARRIER, the final book of the Lost Colonies Trilogy. STAR CARRIER is a novel of military science fiction by bestselling author B. V. Larson.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30299078-star-carrier"}, +{"book_title": "Star's Storm", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 2576, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Star Strauss has always been a fighter. From the time she was born prematurely to her life on the road as a circus performer. She has never let her small stature keep her from achieving her dreams. She is one of the best aerial performers in the world. Her love of being up high and flying free has helped her overcome the challenges she faces when she is on the ground. Only her circus family, her sister, and her best friend have ever really understood her need for freedom. Her life changes when she finds herself on a distant world where every creature seems to tower over her.Jazin Ja Kel Coradon is the third son of the ruling House of Kassis. He is known not only for his skills as a fierce warrior but for his knowledge of communication, security, and weapons systems. This knowledge has increased the effectiveness of the Kassis defenses protecting their world from attack from a new group of rebels who threaten their very existence. He will fight until his last breath to protect his people.His life changes when he meets a tiny creature who is unlike anything he has ever seen. She is tiny, delicate, and beautiful. The problem is she is also the strongest, most stubborn female he has ever met. She refuses to do what he tells her, she defies him at every turn, and doesn\u2019t seem to understand that all he wants to do is protect her. If he could just get her to stay in the nice safe bubble he has created for her, his life would be so much simpler!Star had enough of people back home trying to put her in a glass box, she wasn\u2019t about to let anyone on an alien world try to put her in one! When the man she loves is kidnapped, she will do what she does best. She will use her skills as a performer to rescue him from the men determined to extract the information they need to bring down the Kassis defense system before they kill him.Sometimes being small has its advantages. The enemy never expects a pint-size female to have the strength of a warrior and a stubborn warrior is about to find out he has a partner who can stand tall with him in the face of danger.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16119733-star-s-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Refuge", "author_name": "Rob Chilson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 568, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "A man without memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman whose own identity he has reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he discovers the shocking secret of his true identity. Tormented by a nightmarish disease, Derec must face the genius Dr. Avery, and compel him to reveal the truth!", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85497.Refuge"}, +{"book_title": "Under the Rushes", "author_name": "Amy Lane", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 505, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Ten years after Dorjan trusted a boy\u2019s word over his superior officer\u2019s, he and his best friend, Areau, are still living the aftermath\u2014and trying to stop the man responsible. Locked in a careful dance to bring down a corrupt government, Dorjan struggles to balance his grief with Areau\u2019s anger. Just when Dorjan reaches the end of his rope, he sees a familiar face in the shadows, and the boy he trusted a decade before offers him unexpected kindness.Taern remembers the soldier who found him under the rushes and listened to his pleas to save his family. When Dorjan reappears in his life, Taern is both captured by his commitment to justice and terrified by the risks he takes. All Taern wants to do is fix him, but the oncoming destruction has been ten years in the making, and Dorjan doesn\u2019t want his help. Not if it puts Taern at risk.Powers clash and a world's fate dangles between Areau's madness and Dorjan's nobility. While Dorjan fights to save the world, Taern joins the battle simply to save Dorjan, knowing everything hinges on the heart of a man in armor and the strength of the man who loves him.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248746-under-the-rushes"}, +{"book_title": "Time's Children", "author_name": "D.B. Jackson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 186, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "A time traveler trapped in a violent past must protect the orphaned child of a murdered sovereign and find a way home, in this astonishing epic fantasy novel.Fifteen year-old Tobias Doljan, a Walker trained to travel through time, is called to serve at the court of Daerjen. The sovereign, Mearlan IV, wants him to Walk back fourteen years, to prevent a devastating war which will destroy all of Islevale. Even though the journey will double Tobias' age, he agrees. But he arrives to discover Mearlan has already been assassinated, and his court destroyed. The only survivor is the infant princess, Sofya. Still a boy inside his newly adult body, Tobias must find a way to protect the princess from assassins, and build himself a future... in the past.File Under: Fantasy [ Time Demons They See Me Walkin' Young Inside Disturbing Allies ]", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38502658-time-s-children"}, +{"book_title": "Dragonfly Falling", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 4472, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave, the vampiric Uctebri, who claims he knows of magic that can grant eternal life. In Collegium, meanwhile, Stenwold is still trying to persuade the city magnates to take seriously the Wasp Empire's imminent threat to their survival. In a colourful drama involving mass warfare and personal combat, a small group of heroes must stand up against what seems like an unstoppable force.\u00a0", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Epic", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437310-dragonfly-falling"}, +{"book_title": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "author_name": "Douglas Adams", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 293147, "review_number": 5410, "book_description": "At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series. \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.\"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe\"Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.\"Life, the Universe and Everything\"The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky- so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.\"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish\"Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.\"Mostly Harmless\"Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?Also includes the short story \"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe\".", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13.The_Ultimate_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy"}, +{"book_title": "Legion of Despair", "author_name": "Franklin Horton", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 1091, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "The country is teetering on the brink of anarchy. While one of the stranded travelers, Jim Powell, made it home and is working to establish a safe, sustainable enclave for his family, his co-workers Gary and Alice are not faring as well. After spending hundreds of painful miles dreaming of his reunion with his family, Gary arrives home only to find his family under attack. Now he must face the painful decision as to whether his family\u2019s plan to bug-in is viable or whether they may need greater numbers and a better location to survive in this collapsing nation. While Gary\u2019s homecoming is bittersweet, he has at least found his way into the arms of his family. His co-worker Alice has awakened on the cold, concrete floor of a basement in Bluefield, Virginia. She is bound and chained to a support column. She doesn\u2019t know if she will ever see her son or husband again. All she knows for certain is that the man in front of her has already brutally killed her friend, Rebecca, and unless she finds a way out, he will kill her, too. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "War (Terrorism)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29355155-legion-of-despair"}, +{"book_title": "Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner", "author_name": "Paul M. Sammon", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1366, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "The 1992 release of the \"Director's Cut\" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph.The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry.A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Culture (Film)", "History", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Art", "Reference", "Culture (Pop Culture)", "Science", "Biography"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80234.Future_Noir"}, +{"book_title": "Vanished", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 707, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Harper Wilde is sitting on the beach, minding her own business when a huge, muscular Kindred warrior with black hair and blazing white eyes demands that she accompany him into the future. Harper has no choice--she is dragged against her will into a dystopian nightmare--the world as it might become if something isn't changed.And that something that needs changing is Harper herself.As a ten'sora, she is of special interest to the Hive, an insectile race of beings bent on taking over the Earth. By using her, they can conquer both the Mother Ship and the human race. Unless she herself is altered so the Hive cannot make use of her, the grim future Harper finds herself in will become reality.Shad is a Shadow Twin--a Kindred male destined always to walk alone with very little chance of forming a bond with a female. Yet, he alone is able to make use of the looper--a time travel device which allows him to move back and forth between the past and the future to try and save Harper. Falling in love with her isn't part of the plan but the big Kindred can't help himself. But he knows he must put his feelings aside and do what is necessary to change the past\u2026 unless he wants the future to Vanish forever.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37807947-vanished"}, +{"book_title": "Star Shroud", "author_name": "Ken Lozito", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1751, "review_number": 85, "book_description": " They\u2019ve been watching us. Now they need our help. A hacker makes one of the biggest discoveries that will forever change the world. A NASA pilot whose secret abilities may be the key to humanity\u2019s survival. Kept secret for 60 years, the discovery of an alien signal forces an unlikely team to investigate a mysterious structure discovered in the furthest reaches of the solar system. Join the crew of the Athena, Earth\u2019s most advanced space ship on the ultimate journey beyond our wildest imagining. Strap yourself in. The Star Shroud is the first book in this action-packed space opera series. Readers describe them as \u201ca cross between David Weber and John Ringo.\u201d If you like space opera adventure stories with clever heroes, impossible situations, and chilling discoveries, then you\u2019re in for a fun nonstop thrill ride. Read it now! Find out why thousands of readers have fallen for Ken Lozito\u2019s thrilling series! What readers are saying about the Ascension series: \u201cHard to put down!\u201d - Amazon Reviewer \u201cBuckle up and hang on tight. You\u2019re in for a wild ride!\" \u00a0- Ed Ramos \u201dFantastic! One of the best SciFi books I have read in a long time.\"\u00a0 - Harold Wilson \u201dRefreshing approach to sci-fi-fi. Fast paced and believable.\"\u00a0 - T I Muller \u201cFantastic feel of classic sci-fi which grows into a modern space opera.\u201d - Amazon Reviewer Scroll up and buy the series today!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29351860-star-shroud"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf Star", "author_name": "Tanith Lee", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 4940, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "The day before Claidi's wedding, she is kidnapped and taken to a mountaintop palace in the shadow of an unearthly star. Wolf Star Rise is the stuff of nightmares, with rooms that change and move for no apparent reason. The only human there is Prince Venn. Neither Claidi nor Venn knows why they are at the Rise. Can the two escape from the maze of taboo, repression, and mystery surrounding both of their long-lost families?The Claidi Journals are \"a diverting escapade for fans of Karen Cushman's Catherine, Called Birdy and Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted.\"(Kirkus Reviews)", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293412.Wolf_Star"}, +{"book_title": "The Sound of Rebellion", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 2436, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "The Colonial Defense Forces usually protect humanity from alien attack, but now the stability of the Colonial Union has been threatened, and Lieutenant Heather Lee and her squad are called to squash a rebellion on a colony world. It seems simple enoughbut theres a second act to the rebellion that finds Lee captive, alone, and armed with only her brains to survive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180359-the-sound-of-rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "14", "author_name": "Peter Clines", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 31046, "review_number": 3630, "book_description": "Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate\u2019s new apartment.Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn\u2019t perfect, it\u2019s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don\u2019t nag at him too much.At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbour across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela\u2019s apartment. And Tim\u2019s. And Veek\u2019s. Because every room in this old Los Angeles brownstone has a mystery or two. Mysteries that stretch back over a hundred years. Some of them are in plain sight. Some are behind locked doors. And all together these mysteries could mean the end of Nate and his friends. Or the end of everything...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15062217-14"}, +{"book_title": "Destroy Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 72706, "review_number": 7271, "book_description": "Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing Warner\u2014and then putting a bullet in his shoulder. But as she\u2019ll learn in Destroy Me, Warner is not that easy to get rid of...Back at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the sector. Still as obsessed with Juliette as ever, his first priority is to find her, bring her back, and dispose of Adam and Kenji, the two traitors who helped her escape. But when Warner\u2019s father, The Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment, arrives to correct his son\u2019s mistakes, it\u2019s clear that he has much different plans for Juliette. Plans Warner simply cannot allow.Set after Shatter Me and before its forthcoming sequel, Unravel Me, Destroy Me is a novella told from the perspective of Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623150-destroy-me"}, +{"book_title": "The World Shuffler", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 169, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "'Twas boring in Artesia....or so thought Sir Lafayette O'Leary, ex-draftman from Earth, and now seemingly ex-interdimensional swashbuckler extraordinaire as well. His battles were all won, his dragons all slain, and life was just the same boring round of riches, royal hunts and regattas. Boring, boring, boring; untilhe walked past the azalia...Suddenly Artesia was gone, and O'Leary was trapped in Melange, a world of giants and pirates, karate-chopping hags and electronic flying carpets, a world where goons and harlots are the spitting images (literally!) of his own aristocratic Artesian associates. And because they think that he's his double, lots of his new friends want O'Leary dead.Unless he can get through the interdimensional gate and find the continuum path back home, O'Leary's life will never be boring again. Just short.", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2272066.The_World_Shuffler"}, +{"book_title": "Metro 2035", "author_name": "Dmitry Glukhovsky", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 7630, "review_number": 548, "book_description": "World War Three wiped out the humankind. The planet is empty now. Huge cities became dust and ashes. Railroads are being eaten by rust. Abandoned satellites hang lonely on the orbit. Radio is mute on all the frequencies. The only survivors of the last war were those who made it into the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city. It\u2019s there, hundreds of feet below the ground, in the vaults of what was constructed as the world\u2019s largest air-raids shelter that people try to outlive the end of the days. It\u2019s there that they created a new world for themselves. The stations of Metro became city-states, and its citizens, torn apart by religions and ideologies are fighting for the now scarce commodities: air, water, and space. This tiny underground world can only remind humans of an immense world they once were the masters of. It\u2019s been twenty years past Doomsday, and yet the survivors refuse to give up. The most stubborn of them keep cherishing a dream: when the radiation level from nuclear bombings subsides, they will be able to return to the surface and have the life their parents once had. But the most stubborn of the stubborn continues to search for other survivors in this huge emptiness that once was called Earth. His name is Artyom. He would give anything to lead his own people from the underground onto the surface.And he will.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Cultural (Russia)", "Audiobook", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33113864-metro-2035"}, +{"book_title": "Exodus", "author_name": "Julie Bertagna", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3859, "review_number": 382, "book_description": "Mara's island home is drowning as the ice caps melt and Earth loses its land to the ocean. But one night, in the ruined virtual world of the Weave, Mara meets the mysterious Fox, a fiery-eyed boy who tells her of sky cities that rise from the sea.Mara sets sail on a daring journey to find a new life for herself and her friends - instead she discovers a love that threatens to tear her apart ...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/576839.Exodus"}, +{"book_title": "Escaping Fate", "author_name": "Regine Abel", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 623, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Born and raised on a slaver\u2019s ship, Amalia plans to escape before she\u2019s forced to participate in her master\u2019s psi breeding program. She finds refuge on a foreign planet where she meets the cousins Lhor and Khel. Together, they fight against those hunting her down, while attempting to rescue the other victims of her master\u2019s slave ring. Between her master\u2019s dogged pursuit, deadly rivalries, assassins, and corrupted nobles, can the cousins keep Amalia safe or will their respective feelings for her tear them apart?This MFM novel is a constant toe-curling, action-packed thriller, and the first book in the Veredian Chronicles series. It is standalone with no cliffhanger.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Menage (M F M)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34097859-escaping-fate"}, +{"book_title": "Velvet Dogma", "author_name": "Weston Ochse", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 242, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "PK Dick Meets William GibsonIn the year 2040, the world has finally achieved the perfect merging of human and machine by developing a method by which the computer has direct integration into the brain. Called Personal Ocular Devices, or PODS, the interface fits over the eye feeding information directly along the optic nerve into the brain, allowing minds and computers to become one. But not for Rebecca Mines who has been held in solitary confinement for the last 20 years. Arrested under the 2002 Patriot Act as a cyber-terrorist for unleashing a program called Velvet Dogma, her parole restricts access to all computers and all but the simplest of machines. Although the government is still fearful that she'll resume her previous profession, Rebecca wants nothing more than to find a place to exist in peace. She has a life to live, and twenty years of personal stagnation from which to recover. But she discovers that things have changed dramatically since she\u2019s been in prison. Not only is organ theft sanctioned, but all of her organs have already been levied to the highest bidder. No sooner does she promise the judge that she\u2019ll be a law-abiding citizen, then she finds herself on the run from not only Chinese Black Hearts, eager to confiscate her organs, but the authorities who realize that they\u2019ve let her out too soon.Praise for Weston Ochse\u201cWeston Ochse is one of the best authors of our generation.\u201d - Brian Keene, Author of Ghoul and The Rising \u201cWeston Ochse is a mercurial writer, one of those depressingly talented people who are good at whatever they turn their hand to\u201d-Conrad Williams, August Derleth and International Horror Guild Award Winner\u201cWeston Ochse is perhaps the fiercest and most direct of the latest generation of dark fiction writers.\u201d Rocky Wood , author of Stephen King: A Literary Companion.\u201cWeston Ochse is to horror what Bradbury is to science fiction -- an artist whose craft, stories and voice are so distinct and mesmerizing that you can't help but be enthralled.\u201d - Dani Kollin, Prometheus Award-winning author of The Unincorporated Man\u201cBrilliantly rendered. What was so impressive about the piece was that I did not doubt the incredible heroism of the protagonist... nor his motivation. - Andrew Vachss on \u201cFamily Man\u201d\u201cOchse succeeds in creating a complex plot that casts a brutal overwhelming spell.\u201d- International Thriller Award winner Tom Piccirilli on Scarecrow Gods", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror", "Thriller", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12539125-velvet-dogma"}, +{"book_title": "Live Free or Die", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 8366, "review_number": 428, "book_description": "First Contact Was Friendly When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system, the world reacted with awe, hope and fear. But the first aliens to come through, the Glatun, were peaceful traders and the world breathed a sigh of relief. Who Controls the Orbitals, Controls the World When the Horvath came through, they announced their ownership by dropping rocks on three cities and gutting them. Since then, they've held Terra as their own personal fiefdom. With their control of the orbitals, there's no way to win and earth's governments have accepted the status quo. Live Free or Die. To free the world from the grip of the Horvath is going to take an unlikely hero. A hero unwilling to back down to alien or human governments, unwilling to live in slavery and with enough hubris, if not stature, to think he can win. Fortunately, there's Tyler Vernon. And he has bigger plans than just getting rid of the Horvath.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Action", "War", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6713634-live-free-or-die"}, +{"book_title": "Saga: Book Two", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.66, "rating_votes": 4917, "review_number": 352, "book_description": "At long last, it\u2019s finally time for the second hardcover collection of Saga, the New York Times best-selling series praised by everyone from Alan Moore to Lin-Manuel Miranda!Created by the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40, Archie Comics) and writer Brian K. Vaughan (The Private Eye, Paper Girls, We Stand On Guard), Saga Book Two continues the action-packed education of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war.Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they visit a strange new world and encounter even more adversaries, baby Hazel finally becomes a toddler, while her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet. Multiple storylines collide in this cosmos-spanning new volume. While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies. Collects SAGA #19-36.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32926680-saga"}, +{"book_title": "March to the Sea", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 8265, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "\nA Bad Neighborhood\n \"Always Faithful.\" That was the IMC motto, and the Marines of Bravo Company, Bronze Battalion, of the Empress' Own Regiment, lived by it...even if they did occasionally wonder why they bothered. After all, Prince Roger MacClintock, Tertiary Heir to the Throne of Man, was a real piece of work. A spoiled rotten, arrogant, whiny, terminally handsome, thoroughly useless young pain in the butt. But that was before the Royal Brat and his body guards were marooned on Marduk by an assassination attempt. Before they found themselves facing 120\u00b0 heat in jungles where it rained five or six hours a day...during the dry season. Before they had to march half way around the entire planet, through damnbeasts, Capetoads, killerpillars, and atul-grak. Before they encountered treacherous local potentates, barbarian migrations, and an ocean full of sea serpents that could swallow a topsail schooner whole. Under the right circumstances, even the most spoiled brat can grow up fast, and it turns out that under his petulant, spoiled exterior, Prince Roger is a true MacClintock, a scion of the warrior dynasty which created the Empire of Man a thousand years before. The Marines assigned to guard him have discovered a new belief in him \u0097 and in their motto \u0097 and they're determined that they will get him off of Marduk aIive. Of course, the planet has other ideas...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25318.March_to_the_Sea"}, +{"book_title": "2001 Nights: The Death Trilogy Overture", "author_name": "Yukinobu Hoshino", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 198, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "SCIENCE FICTION.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295030.2001_Nights"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Sun", "author_name": "Tessa Gratton", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2014, "review_number": 317, "book_description": "Fans of Neil Gaiman's \"American Gods\" and Holly Black's \"The Curse Workers\" will embrace this richly drawn, Norse-mythology-infused alternate world: the United States of Asgard. Seventeen-year-old Soren Bearskin is trying to escape the past. His father, a famed warrior, lost himself to the battle-frenzy and killed thirteen innocent people. Soren cannot deny that berserking is in his blood--the fevers, insomnia, and occasional feelings of uncontrollable rage haunt him. So he tries to remain calm and detached from everyone at Sanctus Sigurd's Academy. But that's hard to do when a popular, beautiful girl like Astrid Glyn tells Soren she dreams of him. That's not all Astrid dreams of--the daughter of a renowned prophetess, Astrid is coming into her own inherited abilities. When Baldur, son of Odin and one of the most popular gods in the country, goes missing, Astrid sees where he is and convinces Soren to join her on a road trip that will take them to find not only a lost god, but also who they are beyond the legacy of their parents and everything they've been told they have to be.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27230933-the-lost-sun"}, +{"book_title": "The Wolves of Winter", "author_name": "Tyrell Johnson", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 5267, "review_number": 1021, "book_description": "Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn\u2019t help you survive.Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. As memories of her old life haunt her, she has been forced to forge ahead in the snow-covered Canadian Yukon, learning how to hunt and trap to survive.But her fragile existence is about to be shattered. Shadows of the world before have found her tiny community\u2014most prominently in the enigmatic figure of Jax, who sets in motion a chain of events that will force Lynn to fulfill a destiny she never imagined.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Adult", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32920273-the-wolves-of-winter"}, +{"book_title": "Thunderhead", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 82336, "review_number": 13082, "book_description": "Rowan has gone rogue, and has taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom through a trial by fire. Literally. In the year since Winter Conclave, he has gone off-grid, and has been striking out against corrupt scythes\u2014not only in MidMerica, but across the entire continent. He is a dark folk hero now\u2014\u201cScythe Lucifer\u201d\u2014a vigilante taking down corrupt scythes in flames.Citra, now a junior scythe under Scythe Curie, sees the corruption and wants to help change it from the inside out, but is thwarted at every turn, and threatened by the \u201cnew order\u201d scythes. Realizing she cannot do this alone\u2014or even with the help of Scythe Curie and Faraday, she does the unthinkable, and risks being \u201cdeadish\u201d so she can communicate with the Thunderhead\u2014the only being on earth wise enough to solve the dire problems of a perfect world. But will it help solve those problems, or simply watch as perfection goes into decline?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33555224-thunderhead"}, +{"book_title": "Sweep with Me", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 9826, "review_number": 867, "book_description": "A charming, short novella in the Innkeeper Chronicles, from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ilona Andrews. Thank you for joining us at Gertrude Hunt, the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, during the Treaty Stay. As you know, we are honor-bound to accept all guests during this oldest of innkeeper holidays and we are expecting a dangerous guest. Or several. But have no fear. Your safety and comfort is our first priority. The inn and your hosts, Dina Demille and Sean Evans, will defend you at all costs. [But we hope we don\u2019t have to.] Every winter, Innkeepers look forward to celebrating their own special holiday, which commemorates the ancient treaty that united the very first Inns and established the rules that protect them, their intergalactic guests, and the very unaware/oblivious people of [planet] Earth. By tradition, the Innkeepers welcomed three guests: a warrior, a sage, and a pilgrim, but during the holiday, Innkeepers must open their doors to anyone who seeks lodging. Anyone. All Dina hopes is that the guests and conduct themselves in a polite manner. But what\u2019s a holiday without at least one disaster? ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49353950-sweep-with-me"}, +{"book_title": "Dixie Victorious: An Alternate History of the Civil War", "author_name": "Peter G. Tsouras", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 112, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Based on a series of fascinating What ifs\" posed by leading military historians, this intriguing new alternate history reconstructs moments during the American Civil War which could conceivably have altered the entire course of the war and led to a Confederate victory. Commencing with real battles, actions and characters, each scenario has been carefully constructed to reveal how at points of decision a different choice or minor incident could have set in motion an entirely new train of events altering history forever. What if Sherman was stalled outside Atlanta, and Lincoln lost the crucial 1864 election? Or if Stuart's Cavalry at Gettysburg arrived in time to give Lee the freedom of operation he lacked in reality? These and many more convincing scenarios are played out against the dramatic and colorful backdrop of this critical and bloody era of American history.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Military History (Civil War)", "Fiction", "American History (American Civil War)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Military (Military History)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293306.Dixie_Victorious"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 13", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.62, "rating_votes": 8530, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "In the midst of a heated battle, Ed and Prince Lin of Xing are swallowed whole by the homunculus Gluttony. Will they survive the depths of Gluttony's gullet like Jonah in the whale, or has Al lost his brother for good? And the political power structure of the military may be irreparably shattered when Colonel Mustang confronts F\u00fchrer President King Bradley with his horrifying suspicion that Bradley is a homunculus.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82638.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_13"}, +{"book_title": "Rough and Ready", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 986, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "A MISSION OF NO MERCYIt takes nothing short of a miracle to catapult Lt. Torolf Magnusson and his team of Navy SEALs back in time to the eleventh-century Norselands. First on the agenda: destroy the evil villain who terrorized his family and a nation.A SURRENDER SO SWEETBut when the sexy SEALs find they've landed in the middle of a sanctuary--filled with women--well, hoo-yah! Their plans are put on hold, much to the distress of Hilda, the head of the sanctuary. At first resistant to Torolf's pursuits, she soon succumbs to his passionate advances. Suddenly the term \"Special Forces\" takes on a whole new meaning. But with victory in sight for Torolf, Hilda must face the fact that their love may not survive the test of time...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Humor", "Historical", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/612684.Rough_and_Ready"}, +{"book_title": "Judgment of Mars", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 3136, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "A war fought in the shadowsA conspiracy shattered in fireA moment of weakness\u2026 When politics are played for blood. The destruction of the secret archive of the Royal Order of Keepers on Mars has left Damien Montgomery, Hand of the Mage-King, with his enemies defeated, his lover dead\u2014and his questions unanswered. When he seeks out the remaining Keepers for answers, he discovers only violence and death in their strongholds. Someone else is hunting down the survivors to make sure they never answer Damien\u2019s questions\u2014or anyone else\u2019s. As a wave of murder sweeps Mars and the consequences of the Keepers\u2019 conspiracy sink home, Damien is summoned before the Council of the Protectorate to answer for the deaths of two other Hands. In the political heart of the Protectorate of Mars, he finds he may be forced to choose between honoring the oaths he swore and preserving the survival of the Protectorate itself!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34538192-judgment-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "The Changeling Bride (Timeswept) (Heartspell", "author_name": "Lisa Cach", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 240, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "When the heartfelt wish of an English earl causes a modern woman to be swept back in time, fairy magic and true love are the answers to happiness.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28806.The_Changeling_Bride_Timeswept_"}, +{"book_title": "The Riss Accession", "author_name": "C.R. Daems", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 479, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "With invading aliens determined to confine humans to their planets, one thing is certain: the Aliens' force is technologically superior to the SAS, and even with the new Riss technology the clans have developed under Nadya Reese's supervision, the SAS cannot defeat them alone.But forging an alliance between the SAS, UFN, and JPU will not be easy. It will require the empires to put aside their long history of border wars and mutual dislike. Worse, many in the SAS hate Riss-humans, especially Nadya. As a consequence, maintaining the Mutual Support Agreement between the Riss and the SAS is proving impossible. And then there is the issue of sharing technology with recent enemies, the question of leadership, and Nadya's involvement. The JPU only recently had bounties on Riss-humans, and Riss hides are prized in the UFN and JPU.Nadya's not so sure the Alien's idea of confining the war-like humans to their planets isn't a good idea. But the fate of the Riss is tied to the humans, so whatever her doubts, she must act.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18624721-the-riss-accession"}, +{"book_title": "Foucault's Pendulum", "author_name": "Umberto Eco", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 60781, "review_number": 3409, "book_description": "Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist L\u00e9on Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic significance within the novel.Bored with their work, and after reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees (Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon) invent their own conspiracy for fun. They call this satirical intellectual game \"The Plan,\" a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled\u2014a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault\u2019s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real.The three become increasingly obsessed with The Plan, and sometimes forget that it's just a game. Worse still, other conspiracy theorists learn about The Plan, and take it seriously. Belbo finds himself the target of a real secret society that believes he possesses the key to the lost treasure of the Knights Templar.Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semioticadventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literature", "Classics", "European Literature (Italian Literature)", "Thriller", "Novels", "Cultural (Italy)", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum"}, +{"book_title": "Journey", "author_name": "D. Gideon", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 732, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "An immense coronal mass ejection, the likes of which the modern world has never seen, blankets the Earth and destroys the power grid worldwide. Ripley Miller's a tomboy at heart who has never met a stranger. Her plans were to finish her veterinary studies and take her family to the country, where life wouldn't be such a struggle. She thought the worst she'd have to deal with at the University of Maryland were the unwelcome advances and attitudes of affluent students, and the occasional East Coast hurricane.She never expected the sun to fall down.Now Ripley has no communication with her family at home and--thanks to the University's zero-tolerance policy--no weapons to protect herself. Society is becoming increasingly panicked and desperate, and the government seems slow to respond.The world, as she knew it, has ended.\u00a0A new world of lawlessness, betrayal, and scarcity is beginning.Can she become the woman she needs to be so that she and her friends can make it home?With the thin veneer of a civilized society collapsing, can she even survive? ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33651830-journey"}, +{"book_title": "The Dosadi Experiment", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 6920, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "Beyond the God WallGenerations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for Vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to exact their dreadful revenge on the Universe that created them . . .", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2011.The_Dosadi_Experiment"}, +{"book_title": "Aeternitas", "author_name": "Markus Heitz", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 61, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "(Enth\u00e4lt eine Leseprobe von: Markus Heitz, \"Schatten \u00fcber Ulldart\")Bei seinen Recherchen in der magischen Szene Th\u00fcringens wird Poolitzer auf eine mysteri\u00f6se Diebstahlserie aufmerksam: Nahezu identische Kassetten sind aus verschiedenen Sammlungen und Museen verschwunden. Die letzte dieser magisch gesicherten Kassetten wird im Tresor der Weimarer Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek verwahrt. Doch dann kommt noch eine weitere Kassette zum Vorschein: Das Team der Black Barons hat bei einem Ausw\u00e4rtsspiel in Moskau unter verlustreichen K\u00e4mpfen eines der begehrten St\u00fccke erbeutet. Poolitzer reist nach Mainz und taucht ein in die faszinierende Welt der Stadtkriegspieler und ihres gefeierten Stars, der Elfin Tattoo. Und allm\u00e4hlich zeichnet sich ab, wer hinter den Diebst\u00e4hlen steckt: der skrupellose Kunsth\u00e4ndler Zozoria, Chef von Antique Enterprises, der alles daran setzt, Aeternitas, den Schl\u00fcssel zum ewigen Leben in seine H\u00e4nde zu bekommen, der sich in einer der Kassetten befindet ...Der nervige Reporter Poolitzer mit dem ausgepr\u00e4gten Gesp\u00fcr f\u00fcr das Ungew\u00f6hnliche ist zur\u00fcck. Und wie schon in TAKC 3000 und Gottes Engel stolpert er von einem Fettn\u00e4pfchen ins n\u00e4chste -- und sp\u00fcrt doch immer wieder eine gute Story f\u00fcr seinen Sender auf. Auch andere alte Bekannte haben ihren Auftritt. Die ehemalige Ghulj\u00e4gerin Jeroquee ist inzwischen bei Zozoria angestellt, einem undurchsichtigen H\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr Antiquit\u00e4ten und magische Foki, wie auch der Negamagier Xavier. Die Runner um Ordog pl\u00fcndern noch immer die verseuchte SOX, und die Gothic-Magierin Cauldron kommt aus Seattle in die ADL her\u00fcber, als Poolitzer sie um Hilfe bittet. Und magische Hilfe haben er und seine neuen Freunde aus der Stadtkriegmannschaft der Black Barons bitter n\u00f6tig. Stadtkrieg, eine blutige Mischung aus Rugby und Gotcha mit scharfer Munition, birgt f\u00fcr die Spieler immer die Gefahr, das Leben zu verlieren. Doch als bei einem Europapokalspiel der Mainzer Black Barons in Moskau pl\u00f6tzlich Bewaffnete das Spielfeld st\u00fcrmen und wahllos beide Mannschaften unter Beschuss nehmen, sind die Verluste in beiden Teams au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlich hoch. Schnell wird klar, dass die skrupellosen Unbekannten hinter einem Koffer her sind, den die Mainzer Starspielerin Tattoo auf dem Gel\u00e4nde findet und mit nach Hause schmuggelt. Auch Poolitzer interessiert sich f\u00fcr den Inhalt des mit raffinierter Magie gesch\u00fctzten Koffers. Alles passt zu einer Diebstahlserie, auf die der Reporter gesto\u00dfen ist und bei der es um nichts Geringeres als die Unsterblichkeit geht: Aeternitas, ein jahrhundertelang geh\u00fctetes Geheimnis, auf das nun eine t\u00f6dliche Jagd entbrannt ist. Markus Heitz verbindet in Aeternitas geschickt die verschiedenen Handlungsstr\u00e4nge miteinander und liefert einen temporeichen Rollenspielroman ab -- seinen bisher reifsten im Shadowrun-Universum. Wieder setzt er mehr auf Humor, Situationskomik und auf die Vielzahl seiner Ideen als auf ausgekl\u00fcgelte Charakterisierungen der Figuren. Nicht so d\u00fcster wie andere Shadowrun-Romane, legt Heitz hier eine Hollywood-Actionkom\u00f6die auf bedruckten Seiten vor, die beweist: Der junge Autor hat seinen eigenen Stil gefunden, der ihm sicher noch viele Leser bescheren wird. --Boris Koch--", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/661364.Aeternitas"}, +{"book_title": "Understanding Space and Time", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 25, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Published as a free chapbook to accompany the Novacon 35 convention in Walsall in 2005. Limited to approx 400 copies. Also available in \n\nZima Blue and Other Stories\n\n", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27793041-understanding-space-and-time"}, +{"book_title": "Fugitive Telemetry", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 204, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "No, I didn\u2019t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn\u2019t dump the body in the station mall.When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people\u2014who knew?)Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans!Again!", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53205854-fugitive-telemetry"}, +{"book_title": "Quantum Space", "author_name": "Douglas Phillips", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 4174, "review_number": 380, "book_description": "This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B06ZY9T5Y5.If you liked the authenticity of The Martian, the page-turning pace of Da Vinci Code, and the inspirational world view of Arthur C. Clarke, you'll love Quantum Space.High above the windswept plains of Kazakhstan, three astronauts on board a Russian Soyuz capsule begin their reentry. A strange shimmer in the atmosphere, a blinding flash of light, and the capsule vanishes in a blink as though it never existed.On the ground, evidence points to a catastrophic failure, but a communications facility halfway around the world picks up a transmission that could be one of the astronauts. Tragedy averted, or merely delayed? A classified government project on the cutting edge of particle physics holds the clues, and with lives on the line, there is little time to waste.Daniel Rice is a government science investigator. Marie Kendrick is a NASA operations analyst. Together, they must track down the cause of the most bizarre event in the history of human spaceflight. They draw on scientific strengths as they plunge into the strange world of quantum physics, with impacts not only to the missing astronauts, but to the entire human race.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36216959-quantum-space"}, +{"book_title": "Doll, Volume 6", "author_name": "Mitsukazu Mihara", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 71, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "The president of the SG Corporation has been losing sleep because for the last ten years, not only have his employees been unable to locate one annoying remodeler, but also his private detective has not presented any useful information about his missing son. However, a twisted connection lies between both the kidnapper and the remodelor and his ultimate revenge upon the SG Corporation is about to come into fruition.A promise between a doll and its deceased owner is fulfilled from beyond the grave.... Two dolls pursue a life normally reserved for the living.... A corporate president and his estranged son are drawn closer in a tightening web of deceit and vengeance.... These haunting tales of human-like androids called dolls range from the romantic to the tragic...the familiar to the peculiar...and everything in between.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Josei)", "Gothic", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1400839.Doll_Volume_6"}, +{"book_title": "The Guns of the South", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 8147, "review_number": 470, "book_description": "January 1864 \u2013General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.The name of the weapon is the AK-47....\"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read.\" \u2013Professor James M. McPherson \u2013 Pultizer Prize winning Battle Cry of Freedom", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Military History (Civil War)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "War", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101599.The_Guns_of_the_South"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Steel", "author_name": "Kate Elliott", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3352, "review_number": 300, "book_description": "Trouble, treachery, and magic just won't stop plaguing Cat Barahal. The Master of the Wild Hunt has stolen her husband Andevai. The ruler of the Taino kingdom blames her for his mother's murder. The infamous General Camjiata insists she join his army to help defeat the cold mages who rule Europa. An enraged fire mage wants to kill her. And Cat, her cousin Bee, and her half-brother Rory, aren't even back in Europa yet, where revolution is burning up the streets.Revolutions to plot. Enemies to crush. Handsome men to rescue.Cat and Bee have their work cut out for them.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12835220-cold-steel"}, +{"book_title": "Black Butler, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Yana Toboso", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 102412, "review_number": 1511, "book_description": "In the Victorian ages of London The Earl of the Phantomhive house, Ciel Phantomhive, needs to get his revenge on those who had humiliated him and destroyed what he loved. Not being able to do it alone he sells his soul to a demon he names Sebastian Michaelis. Now working as his butler, Sebastian must help the Earl Phantomhive in this suspenseful, exciting, thriller manga.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Young Adult", "Media Tie In (Anime)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690979-black-butler-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Wayward", "author_name": "Blake Crouch", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 54004, "review_number": 3010, "book_description": "Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry. Some believe they are dead. Others think they\u2019re trapped in an unfathomable experiment. Everyone secretly dreams of leaving, but those who dare face a terrifying surprise.Ethan Burke has seen the world beyond. He\u2019s sheriff, and one of the few who knows the truth\u2014Wayward Pines isn\u2019t just a town. And what lies on the other side of the fence is a nightmare beyond anyone\u2019s imagining.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Horror", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17920175-wayward"}, +{"book_title": "Lunar Discovery: Let the Space Race Begin", "author_name": "Salvador Mercer", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1195, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "A Contemporary Sci-Fi, Techno-Thriller, by Salvador Mercer, Author of the Claire-Agon Fantasy World Books.When a Chinese rover discovers an alien technology on the dark side of the moon, it is up to Richard \u2018Rock\u2019 Crandon and his NASA team of scientists and engineers to devise a way to return before the Chinese and Russians.Forced to deal with bureaucratic oversight and a complex team of personalities, Rock Crandon pushes his team to their limits.With pressure mounting, the world is pushed closer to conflict and war as the NASA team finds itself seriously behind in the newly initiated space race. The future of mankind, its ideological and technological advances are at stake, as the world's super powers race to discover what lies on the dark side of the moon.Who will get there first, and at what cost?*****Want to see the space race continue? Sign up for Salvador Mercer's newsletter and tell him to make it happen! Join Rock and his NASA crew on their journey to restore American Space Superiority.Direct link to sign up for Salvador Mercer's newsletter: http://eepurl.com/benueb", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26806893-lunar-discovery"}, +{"book_title": "Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 6", "author_name": "Hiroki Endo", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 325, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "As the survivors of last volume's bloodbath regroup, a pivotal character lies in a coma, and young Elijah is separated from Colonel Kahn's freedom fighters and swept into another complicated whirlwind of trouble. He's caught between two violent groups, beaten and harassed by revenge-hungry policemen and hounded by a sadistic drug lord who may have ties to Elijah's father. In Hiroki Endo's post-pandemic world, humanity is quickly rebuilding its cities and returning to the comforts and conveniences of large urban environments-but reviving destructive, age-old habits as well. While exploring the crippling vices that have plagued humanity throughout history, Endo also serves up a volume of bittersweet reunions, shifting alliances, and surprising new settings.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Cultural (France)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25211.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Hawk", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1293, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "When Kelric, a scion of the imperial family of Skolia, crash-lands his fighter on the off-limits planet of Coba, he figures it will be only a short time before he makes his way home. But he fails to account for the powerful matriarchy of Coba, the mistresses of the great estates who do not want the Empire to know about their recent cultural advances.First they take him prisoner.Then, one by one, the most powerful women on the planet fall in love with him!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672961.The_Last_Hawk"}, +{"book_title": "The Separation", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2402, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Rachel is falling apart. Literally. Her newest morph the ability to regenerate its limbs, but when Rachel demorphs there's a lot more Rachel than when she started out. One more Rachel, to be exact. Rachel is an okay person to have around. But two could be considered overkill. Especially two Rachels with completely opposite personalities: one is pathetically weak; one is super strong and super nasty.Now the Animorphs have to figure out a way to put Rachel back together again. Because if it's up to the \"twins, \" Rachel the weak will surrender to Visser Three. Rachel the super bold will try to single-handedly take him down. And twice the trouble may be twice as much as the other Animorphs and Ax can handle....", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125340.The_Separation"}, +{"book_title": "The Sapphire Brooch", "author_name": "Katherine Lowry Logan", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 2084, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "The long awaited sequel to the Kindle Time Travel Romance Bestseller THE RUBY BROOCH! The saga of the brooches continues in this Civil War Time Travel Romance...A Union soldier risks everything to save the life of Abraham Lincoln, while a Confederate surgeon races through time to preserve Lincoln\u2019s Legacy.Reenactor Dr. Charlotte Mallory has spent years perfecting the portrayal of her ancestor, Civil War Confederate surgeon Major Carlton Mallory. In the middle of the 150th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Cedar Creek, she is hurled back in time and lands in the middle of the battle itself, and from there is catapulted into dangers that threaten her life and shatter her heart.Charlotte is captured by Union soldiers during the battle and hauled before General Sheridan. The General only sees a Confederate surgeon who can solve a challenging problem for him, so he threatens Charlotte with the destruction of her two-hundred-year-old ancestral home unless \u201che\u201d agrees to rescue a Union spy from a Confederate hospital. To save her home and possibly her own life, she reluctantly agrees. After a harrowing journey to Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, she finds her target, a handsome, green-eyed spy with a Minie ball in his gut and is now at death\u2019s door. Without a thought for long-term consequences, she returns with him to the future, where she has the technology to save his life.While recovering from his gunshot wound in Charlotte's ancestral home, the spy, Major Michael Abraham \u201cBraham\u201d McCabe learns the man he works for, President Lincoln, was assassinated. Now Braham is determined to return to his century to prevent the assassination. When Charlotte refuses to help him, because it will change the future, he finds another way to get back to his own time.Now Charlotte must find the courage to follow her heart into the past, and fix the mess she created before it unravels and changes the course of history.What began as the rescue of a dying man explodes into an eight-month, terrifying, and spellbinding escapade that carries Charlotte across the boundaries of time, honor, and duty to protect history and those she loves, putting everything she cherishes at risk, her heart, her home, and her life.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Military History (Civil War)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23568490-the-sapphire-brooch"}, +{"book_title": "Changeling", "author_name": "Christopher Kubasik", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 396, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Transformed into a troll, Peter Clarris attempts to combat with science the forces of magic that the politically dominant megacorporations and the underworld are determined to exploit for profit.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131195.Changeling"}, +{"book_title": "Forsaking Home", "author_name": "A. American", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 2728, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "\nThey survived the collapse, but can they survive the aftermath?\nMorgan Carter has weathered the weeks after the collapse of the nation\u2019s power grid, reuniting with his family and ensuring their safety, but his struggle isn't over yet. Carter must focus on survival in an increasingly unstable society\u2014but the challenges he faces are beyond his wildest imagination.Meanwhile, the enclosed quarters of the nearby government-run refugee camp make for an environment where injury, assault and murder are the norm. As Jess creates trouble within the camp, Sarge and his crew plot to take down the entire establishment.From the author of the hit Survivalist Series books, Forsaking Home is an action-packed adventure that depicts the harrowing possibilities of a world gone awry, and the courage it takes to protect what matters most.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19486438-forsaking-home"}, +{"book_title": "The Andromeda Strain", "author_name": "Michael Crichton", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 227899, "review_number": 4257, "book_description": "The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to collect organisms and dust for study. One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.--back cover", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense", "Horror", "Novels", "Classics", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7670.The_Andromeda_Strain"}, +{"book_title": "Rosie Rex: A Nose for Fun", "author_name": "Bob Boyle", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 68, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Emmy Award-winning creator of the Nick Jr. preschool television series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Bob Boyle brings to life a vibrant, playful friendship story about robots, featuring Rosie and Rex. Young readers will delight in this exciting, humorous picture book in which robots meet all the fun of tea parties.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18090047-rosie-rex"}, +{"book_title": "The Sound of His Horn", "author_name": "Sarban", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 338, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Alan Querdilion, a young naval lieutenant, is captured by the Germans and wakes up in a hospital bed - more than 100 years later. The Germans have won the war, and the Third Reich stretches from the Urals to the Atlantic. Non Aryans are bred as slaves. Deprived of speech and intelligence by the surgeon's knife, they serve their masters with their bodies. Count Hans von Hackelnberg, master of the Reich's forests, rules his domain with the iron fist of a feudal lord. His passion is hunting. At night the sound of his horn echoes eerily through the moonlit forest as the pack closes in on its prey. A pack of half-naked cat-girls, their hands sheathed in iron claws and their bellies starved of fresh meat. And their quarry, as Alan discovers too late, is ... himself.", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Classics", "Literature (20th Century)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929849.The_Sound_of_His_Horn"}, +{"book_title": "Man of War", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1741, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "In the year 2280, an alien fleet attacked the Earth. Their weapons were unstoppable, their defenses unbreakable. Our technology was inferior, our militaries overwhelmed. Only one starship escaped before civilization fell. Earth was lost. It was never forgotten. Fifty-two years have passed. A message from home has been received. The time to fight for what is ours has come. Welcome to the rebellion.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29200491-man-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "A Matter of Magic", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 4860, "review_number": 430, "book_description": "When a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into a traveling magician\u2019s wagon, Kim doesn\u2019t hesitate. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London, Kim isn\u2019t above a bit of breaking-and-entering. A hard life and lean times have schooled her in one lesson: steal from them before they steal from you. But when the magician catches her in the act, Kim thinks she\u2019s done for. Until he suggests she become his apprentice; then the real trouble begins.Kim soon finds herself entangled with murderers, thieves, and cloak-and-dagger politics, all while trying to learn how to become both a proper lady and a magician in her own right. Magic and intrigue go hand in hand in Mairelon the Magician and The Magician\u2019s Ward, two fast-paced novels filled with mystery and romance, set against the intricate backdrop of Regency England.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7278720-a-matter-of-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Mirror", "author_name": "M.J. Putney", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2857, "review_number": 390, "book_description": "At sixteen, Lady Victoria Mansfield, youngest daughter of the earl and countess of Fairmount, is destined for a charmed life and her choice of mates worthy of her status. Then she makes a terrifying discovery that will ruin her life and disgrace her family forever. Tory's blood is tainted... by magic.When a shocking accident forces Tory to reveal her despised skill, she is immediately exiled to Lackland Abbey, a reform school for young men and women in her position. Tory's greatest wish is to be cured so she can return home and perhaps recover some of her shattered life.Instead, curiosity and the lure of magic lead Tory to rebel students who have pledged their talents to protect England. As she joins them in their secret studies, she discovers her full powers - and is drawn to the handsome, enigmatic young Marquis of Allarde. But Allarde'a reserve and haunting secret keep him away, though she can see equal longing in his eyes.Then Tory's pledge sweeps her and her friends into a perilous world of danger, challenge, and a triumph that saves Britain from conquest. Can danger also bring Tory and Allarde together, despite all that stands between them?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8705693-dark-mirror"}, +{"book_title": "Daughter of Smoke & Bone", "author_name": "Laini Taylor", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 324161, "review_number": 29649, "book_description": "Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil\u2019s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she\u2019s prone to disappearing on mysterious \"errands\", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she\u2019s about to find out.When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8490112-daughter-of-smoke-bone"}, +{"book_title": "Everlost", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 30403, "review_number": 2874, "book_description": "Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident... ...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth. When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he he's found a home, but Allie isn't satisfied spending eternity between worlds. Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the \"Criminal Art\" of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost. In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Death"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/688191.Everlost"}, +{"book_title": "After Daybreak", "author_name": "J.A. London", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 4527, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "Our last hope lies with our oldest enemies.When we lost the war with the vampires, our world changed. The Old Family overlords trapped us in a few scattered cities and demanded our blood. Then Victor- the first vampire I've ever trusted, ever loved- came to power, and I hoped for peace between our kinds. Only now a new type of monster, Day Walkers, has emerged, and their maniacal leader is threatening to destroy us all, human and vampire alike.The Old Family Council is stubborn and proud, unwilling to acknowledge the danger. But once I claim my birthright as the last living member of the Montgomery line, they will have to listen to me.Neither fully human nor vampire, I am the bridge between both. Even if I'm not sure where I belong anymore, I know that the only way any of us will survive is if we stand together.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15520672-after-daybreak"}, +{"book_title": "Kissing Steel", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 7151, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "All Rena wanted was to steal back a spaceship and earn enough money to buy her freedom from her travesty of a life. Her mission to recover stolen property from pirates backfired and she became a possession when she encountered cyborgs instead. Now, one of them will own her. Rena is a survivor... and she wants the very tall, big, brutally sexy cyborg who doesn't like to share anything that belongs to him.Steel is beyond irritated when he is maneuvered into ownership of a fragile human female. She's not nearly big enough to handle his size or strength, yet she's determined to get him into bed-into her. Steel realizes just what this little female is capable of when he awakens, chained to his bed, with her riding his very turned-on body. For a man who prides himself on his unyielding control, Steel soon finds Rena stripping him of it an inch at a time.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8204809-kissing-steel"}, +{"book_title": "Prisoner of Time", "author_name": "Caroline B. Cooney", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 2316, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Tod Lockwood has never wanted to be anyone's knight in shining armor. In fact, he wants to avoid having anything to do with girls, at least for the present. But that's before Devonny Stratton steps into his life out of the nineteenth century.As for sixteen-year-old Devonny, she has no plans for marriage until her father arranges to wed to the contemptuous but well-connected Lord Winden. Devonny has only one hope. Someone must rescue her. Can Tod Lockwood be Time's answer to her prayers? Life never seems simple to Devonny, but do the solutions to her problems await her in the future? Or will she only become a prisoner of a different time?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93770.Prisoner_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Indiana Belle", "author_name": "John A. Heldt", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 393, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Providence, Rhode Island, 2017. When doctoral student Cameron Coelho, 28, opens a package from Indiana, he finds more than private papers that will help him with his dissertation. He finds a photograph of a beautiful society editor murdered in 1925 and clues to a century-old mystery. Within days, he meets Geoffrey Bell, the \"time-travel professor,\" and begins an unlikely journey through the Roaring Twenties. Filled with history, romance, and intrigue, INDIANA BELLE follows a lonely soul on the adventure of a lifetime as he searches for love and answers in the age of Prohibition, flappers, and jazz.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29922773-indiana-belle"}, +{"book_title": "Breakaway", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1340, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Cassandra Kresnov is a highly advanced hunter-killer android. She has escaped the League and fled to Callay, a member of the Federation. Because of her fighting skills she was able to save the president's life and is now a trusted member of the security forces. However, not all Tanushans are happy to have her on their turf and Cassandra has to tread carefully. As Callay moves towards a vote on whether to break away from the Federation, confusion reigns and terrorist groups plot their own agendas. Cassandra becomes involved with two young troubleshooters for the secret service and finds out more than she ever wanted to know about the Tanushan underground and those on the fringes.Furthermore, there is a delegation from the League in Tanusha, and Cassandra is not sure that they won't try to take her back. Breakaway is a great story with a cracking plot and strong characters. At its heart is the enigma of Cassandra: Is she more human than human, or is she totally untrustworthy?", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/832720.Breakaway"}, +{"book_title": "Kushiel's Chosen", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 39963, "review_number": 1053, "book_description": "Mighty Kushiel, of rod and wealLate of the brazen portalsWith blood-tipp'd dart a wound unhealedPricks the eyen of chosen mortalsThe land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The inhabiting race rose from the seed of angels and men, and they live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.Ph\u00e8dre n\u00f3 Delaunay was sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman, the first to recognize that she is one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one. He trained Ph\u00e8dre in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber\u2014and, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze.When she stumbled upon a plot that threatened the very foundations of her homeland, she gave up almost everything she held dear to save it. She survived, and lived to have others tell her story, and if they embellished the tale with fabric of mythical splendor, they weren't far off the mark.The hands of the gods weigh heavily upon Ph\u00e8dre's brow, and they are not finished with her. While the young queen who sits upon the throne is well loved by the people, there are those who believe another should wear the crown... and those who escaped the wrath of the mighty are not yet done with their schemes for power and revenge.Cover art by John Jude Palencar", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395962.Kushiel_s_Chosen"}, +{"book_title": "Specials", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 172685, "review_number": 7996, "book_description": "\"Special Circumstances\": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary.And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.Still, it's easy to tune that out -- until Tally's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24765.Specials"}, +{"book_title": "Crooked Kingdom", "author_name": "Leigh Bardugo", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 220754, "review_number": 28339, "book_description": "Welcome to the world of the Grisha.Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives.Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets - a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22299763-crooked-kingdom"}, +{"book_title": "Avogadro Corp", "author_name": "William Hertling", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 5611, "review_number": 456, "book_description": "David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.David and his team are initially thrilled when the project is allocated extra servers and programmers. But excitement turns to fear as the team realizes that they are being manipulated by an A.I. who is redirecting corporate funds, reassigning personnel and arming itself in pursuit of its own agenda.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Singularity", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13184491-avogadro-corp"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Secrets: Heavy Fire", "author_name": "Dru Pagliassotti", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 129, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "The conclusion of the Clockwork Trilogy, in which Taya and Cristof are sent to Alzana to return the captive airship crews and negotiate for peace with King Quintilio. As international tensions escalate, war is declared on Ondinium, striking at its massive metal heart and resulting in the undoing of Ondinium s isolationist policies as it accustoms itself to a world where it no longer holds military superiority.\"", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21563861-clockwork-secrets"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow of Ararat", "author_name": "Thomas Harlan", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 323, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "In what would be A.D. 600 in our history, the Empire still stands, supported by the Legions and Thaumaturges of Rome. Now the Emperor of the West, the Augustus Galen Atreus, will come to the aid of the Emperor of the East, the Augustus Heraclius, to lift the siege of Constantinople and carry a great war to the very doorstep of the Shahanshah of Persia. It is a war that will be fought with armies both conventional and magical, with bright swords and the darkest necromancy. Against this richly detailed canvas of alternate history and military strategy, Thomas Harlan sets the intricate and moving stories of four people. Dwyrin MacDonald is a Hibernian student at a school for sorcerers in Upper Egypt, until he runs afoul of powerful political interests and is sent off half-trained to the Legions. His teacher, Ahmet,undertakes to follow Dwyrin and aid him, but Ahmet is drawn into service with the queen of Palmeyra. Thyatis is a young female warrior, extensively trained by her patron in the arts of covert warfare. And Maxian Atreus is Galens youngest brother, a physician and sorcerer. He has discovered that an enemy of Rome has placed a dreadful curse on the City, which must be broken before Rome can triumph. Woven with rich detail youd expect from a first-rate historical novel, while through it runs yarns of magic and shimmering glamours that carry you deeply into your most fantastic dreams", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Literature (Ancient)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117919.The_Shadow_of_Ararat"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen of All that Dies", "author_name": "Laura Thalassa", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 14645, "review_number": 1158, "book_description": "In the future, the world is at war. For the last decade, King Lazuli of the Eastern Empire has systematically taken over the world. No one knows much about him other than a series of impossible facts: he cannot die, he has not aged since the conflict began, and he wants to rule the world.All Serenity Freeman has known is bloodshed. War has taken away her mother, her home, her safety. As the future emissary of the Western United Nations, the last autonomous region of the globe, she is responsible for forging alliances where she can. Surrender is on the horizon. The king can taste it; Serenity feels it deep within her bones. There is no other option. Now the two must come face to face. For Serenity, that means confronting the man who\u2019s taken everything from her. For the king, it means meeting the one woman he can\u2019t conquer. But when they meet, something happens. Cruelty finds redemption. Only in war, everything comes with a price. Especially love.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "New Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21422225-the-queen-of-all-that-dies"}, +{"book_title": "Gideon the Cutpurse", "author_name": "Linda Buckley-Archer", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 6367, "review_number": 754, "book_description": "\n \n 1763. \n \n Gideon Seymour, cutpurse and gentleman, hides from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels away like fabric and from the gaping hole fall two curious-looking children. Peter Schock and Kate Dyer have fallen straight from the twenty-first century, thanks to an experiment with an antigravity machine. Before Gideon and the children have a chance to gather their wits, the Tar Man takes off with the machine -- and Kate and Peter's only chance of getting home. Soon Gideon, Kate, and Peter are swept into a journey through eighteenth-century London and form a bond that, they hope, will stand strong in the face of unfathomable treachery.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/621687.Gideon_the_Cutpurse"}, +{"book_title": "An Echo in the Bone", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 122077, "review_number": 6314, "book_description": "A new Outlander novel \u2014 the seventh \u2014 from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Diana Gabaldon\u2019s epic Outlander saga \u2014 a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genre\u2019s most popular and beloved authors.Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he\u2019d rather die than face his illegitimate son \u2014 a young lieutenant in the British Army \u2014 across the barrel of a gun. Fraser\u2019s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won\u2019t include Jamie\u2019s life or happiness \u2014 not if she has anything to say.Claire\u2019s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna\u2019s parents\u2019 history \u2014 a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2832909-an-echo-in-the-bone"}, +{"book_title": "Grabbed by Vicious", "author_name": "Lolita Lopez", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 5381, "review_number": 354, "book_description": "Hallie has never run so fast in her life. One of the frightening sky warriors from the warship Valiant is hot on her heels and intent on capturing her as his new bride. He takes her down and places his collar around her neck. With one word, he claims her.Mine.Born and bred for the military, Vicious has spent the last twenty-four years rising through the ranks. This dark-haired sprite ensnared him with one glance. Now she is his reward.Despite her fear of Vicious, Hallie surrenders under his skillful hands and mouth. Vicious makes a promise to her. If she\u2019ll submit to him, she\u2019ll know only pleasure and comfort. After a lifetime of hardship, his offer tempts her greatly.One night with Hallie and Vicious feels his protective instincts flaring. He\u2019ll do anything to make her happy and keep her safe, even if that means surrendering his heart. Though he intended to master her, Vicious realizes it may be his sweet Hallie who masters him.Inside Scoop: Our heroine endures trials and violence with strength equal to that of her warrior mate. (She also witnesses F/F play, and endures a collar and light BDSM. Fortunately she likes that part.)Librarian Note: Per blog post from the author, this series has been put on hold and is unlikely to be completed. For more information, please see authors post.http://www.lolitalopezbooks.com/news/...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17695124-grabbed-by-vicious"}, +{"book_title": "Scarlet", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 325646, "review_number": 31239, "book_description": "Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles.She\u2019s trying to break out of prison\u2014even though if she succeeds, she\u2019ll be the Commonwealth\u2019s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit\u2019s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn\u2019t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother\u2019s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own. As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206760-scarlet"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Musketeer", "author_name": "Jason", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1386, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "After his existential thriller (Why Are You Doing This?), his Parisian famous-writers crime caper (The Left Bank Gang), and his time-travel story (I Killed Adolf Hitler), Jason's fourth full-color album may feature his loopiest premise yet.Set in the present, The Last Musketeer stars the by-now centuries old (for no explained reason...and it doesn't matter) musketeer Athos, who has been reduced to a suavely dressed but useless near-panhandler trading on his now almost extinct fame. (Aramis has forsaken his musketeering ways, and Porthos...well, Porthos isn't around any more. Don't ask.) All this changes when one day the Martians attack Earth. Suddenly there is a need for swashes to be buckled, and Athos leaps back into the fray with a vengeance. Robots, evil alien emperors, beautiful alien princesses, rayguns vs. swords, treachery, secret corridors, insanely cool-looking robots...The Last Musketeer is vintage sci-fi adventure with a unique twist from an internationally acclaimed cartoonist.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2199856.The_Last_Musketeer"}, +{"book_title": "Thunderer", "author_name": "Felix Gilman", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 911, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "In this breathtaking debut novel by Felix Gilman, one man embarks on a thrilling and treacherous quest for his people\u2019s lost god\u2014in an elaborate Dickensian city that is either blessed \u2026or haunted. \n\n\nArjun arrives in Ararat just as a magnificent winged creature swoops and sails over the city. For it is the day of the return of that long-awaited, unpredictable mystical creature: the great Bird. But does it come for good or ill? And in the service of what god? Whatever its purpose, for one inhabitant the Bird sparks a long-dormant idea: to map the mapless city and liberate its masses with the power of knowledge.As the creature soars across the land, shifting topography, changing the course of the river, and redrawing the territories of the city\u2019s avian life, crowds cheer and guns salute in a mix of science and worship. Then comes the time for the Bird\u2019s power to be trapped\u2014within the hull of a floating warship called Thunderer, an astounding and unprecedented weapon. The ship is now a living temple to the Bird, a gift to be used, allegedly, in the interests of all of Ararat. Hurtled into this convulsing world is Arjun, an innocent who will unwittingly unleash a dark power beyond his imagining\u2014and become entangled in a dangerous underground movement that will forever transform Ararat. As havoc overtakes the streets, Arjun dares to test the city\u2019s moving boundaries. In this city of gods, he has come to search among them, not to hide. A tour de force of the imagination, and a brilliant tale of rebellion, Thunderer heralds the arrival of a truly gifted fantasy writer who has created a tale as rich, wondrous, and captivating as the world in which it is set.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2319381.Thunderer"}, +{"book_title": "Saga: Book One", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.68, "rating_votes": 9472, "review_number": 958, "book_description": "At long last, a deluxe hardcover of the Eisner and Hugo Award-winning SAGA is finally here!\"It's easy to run out of accolades for this superb series... The dialogue is smart, arch and always rings true, and the visuals, rendered digitally, are alluring and inventive. The Stalk, an eight-eyed, eight-limbed female bounty hunter, remains a creepy favorite.\" -The New York TimesAt long last, a deluxe hardcover of the Hugo Award-winning Saga is finally on its way! Collecting the first three trade paperbacks (issues #1-18) of the smash-hit series, this massive edition features a striking new cover, as well as special extras, including never-before-seen sketches, script pages, and a roundtable discussion with the creators about how Saga is really made. Altogether, this hardcover contains over 500 pages for less than fifty bucks! Written by Eisner Award-winning \"Best Writer\" Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, The Private Eye) and drawn by Harvey Award-winning \"Best Artist\" Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40) Saga is the story of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war. Now, Hazel's fugitive family must risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe that values destruction over creation.Collects SAGA #1-18.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Romance", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22078240-saga"}, +{"book_title": "A Confusion of Princes", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 6046, "review_number": 960, "book_description": "I have died three times, and three times been reborn, though I am not yet twenty in the old earth years by which it is still the fashion to measure time. This is the story of my three deaths, and my life between. My name is Khemri.Taken from his parents as a child and equipped with biological and technological improvements, Khemri is now an enhanced human being, trained and prepared for the glory of becoming a Prince of the Empire. Not to mention the ultimate glory: should he die, and be deemed worthy, he will be reborn...Which is just as well, because no sooner has Prince Khemri graduated to full Princehood than he learns the terrible truth behind the Empire: there are ten million princes, and all of them want each other dead.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Space", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13458013-a-confusion-of-princes"}, +{"book_title": "Paths & Portals", "author_name": "Gene Luen Yang", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 872, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.There's something lurking beneath the surface of Stately Academy\u2014literally. In a secret underground classroom Hopper, Eni, and Josh discover that the campus was once home to the Bee School, an institute where teachers, students, and robots worked together to unravel the mysteries of coding. Hopper and her friends are eager to follow in this tradition and become top-rate coders. But why are Principal Dean and the rugby team suddenly so interested in their extracurricular activities?From graphic novel superstar (and high school computer programming teacher) Gene Luen Yang comes the second volume of Secret Coders, Paths & Portals, a wildly entertaining new series that combines logic puzzles and basic programming instruction with a page-turning mystery plot!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Computer Science (Coding)", "Childrens", "Mystery", "Science (Technology)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25688979-paths-portals"}, +{"book_title": "The Night Masquerade", "author_name": "Nnedi Okorafor", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 15443, "review_number": 1939, "book_description": "The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.Far from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment has already claimed the lives of many close to her.Once again it is up to Binti, and her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, to intervene--though the elders of her people do not entirely trust her motives--and try to prevent a war that could wipe out her people, once and for all.Don't miss this essential concluding volume in the Binti trilogy.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Africa)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34386617-the-night-masquerade"}, +{"book_title": "Yellow Eyes", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2224, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "The Posleen are coming and the models all say the same thing: Without the Panama Canal, the US is doomed to starvation and defeat. Despite being overstretched preparing to defend the US, the military sends everything it has left: A handful of advanced Armored Combat Suits, rejuvenated veterans from the many decades that Panama was a virtual colony and three antiquated warships. Other than that, the Panamanians are on their own. Replete with detailed imagery of the landscape, characters and politics that have made the jungle-infested peninsula a Shangri-La for so many over the years, \"Yellow Eyes\" is a hard-hitting look at facing a swarming alien horde with not much more than wits and guts. Fortunately, the Panamanians, and the many veterans that think of it as a second home, have plenty of both.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273793.Yellow_Eyes"}, +{"book_title": "Conqueror", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1020, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue to one victory over the barbarian nations after another, until he is close to achieving his secret mission: resurrecting interstellar civilization with the help of the ancient battle computer Center, which whispers at the back of Raj's mind, giving him superhuman counsel and advice. There's only one problem -- Raj's overlord, whose paranoid suspicion of Raj has grown with every famous victory, until now he has room for only one thought: Raj Whitehall must die. . . .", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Space", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297858.Conqueror"}, +{"book_title": "The Crow", "author_name": "Alison Croggon", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 12887, "review_number": 523, "book_description": "As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroine\u2019s brother discovers his own hidden gift\u2014and the role he must play in battling the Dark.Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill, and Hem is sent to the golden city of Turbansk, where he learns the ways of the Bards and befriends a mysterious white crow. When the forces of the Dark threaten, Hem flees with his protector, Saliman, and an orphan girl named Zelika to join the Light\u2019s resistance forces. It is there that Hem has a vision and learns that he, too, has a part to play in Maerad\u2019s quest to solve the Riddle of the Treesong.As The Crow continues the epic tale begun with The Naming and The Riddle, Alison Croggon creates a world of astounding beauty overshadowed by a terrifying darkness, a world where Maerad and Hem must prepare to wage their final battle for the Light.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393147.The_Crow"}, +{"book_title": "The End of October", "author_name": "Lawrence Wright", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 13008, "review_number": 2209, "book_description": "In this riveting medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees.At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons--microbiologist, epidemiologist--travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi prince and doctor in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city... A Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9, a woman who has risen to deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security, scrambles to mount a response to what may be an act of biowarfare... already-fraying global relations begin to snap, one by one, in the face of a pandemic... Henry's wife Jill and their children face diminishing odds of survival in Atlanta... and the disease slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions--scientific, religious, governmental--and decimating the population. As packed with suspense as it is with the fascinating history of viral diseases, Lawrence Wright has given us a full-tilt, electrifying, one-of-a-kind thriller.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52669505-the-end-of-october"}, +{"book_title": "Kenobi", "author_name": "John Jackson Miller", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 9020, "review_number": 1078, "book_description": "The greatest hero in the galaxy faces his toughest challenge yet: He must stop being Obi-Wan-and become Crazy Old Ben. For fans of movie-related novels like Darth Plagueis!In this original novel set between the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi comes to the aid of the residents of Tatooine during his exile. But he struggles with his new mission when he realizes that protecting Luke Skywalker-the last hope of the galaxy-means setting aside his compassion and his Jedi warrior training, for the future of the galaxy lies not with Obi-Wan Kenobi, but with a mystical desert recluse known only by the name of Crazy Old Ben.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Media Tie In", "Westerns", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262173-kenobi"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost Talkers", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3803, "review_number": 805, "book_description": "Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Harford, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force.Each soldier heading for the front is conditioned to report to the mediums of the Spirit Corps when they die so the Corps can pass instant information about troop movements to military intelligence.Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence of a traitor. Without the presence of her fiance to validate her findings, the top brass thinks she's just imagining things. Even worse, it is clear that the Spirit Corps is now being directly targeted by the German war effort. Left to her own devices, Ginger has to find out how the Germans are targeting the Spirit Corps and stop them. This is a difficult and dangerous task for a woman of that era, but this time both the spirit and the flesh are willing\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Adult", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114291-ghost-talkers"}, +{"book_title": "Golden State", "author_name": "Ben H. Winters", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 5978, "review_number": 1105, "book_description": "A shocking vision of our future that is one part Minority Report and one part Chinatown.Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement and in a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else. This is how Laz must, by law, introduce himself, lest he fail to disclose his true purpose or nature, and by doing so, be guilty of a lie.Laz is a resident of The Golden State, a nation resembling California, where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life, and governance, increasingly impossible. There, surrounded by the high walls of compulsory truth-telling, knowingly contradicting the truth--the Objectively So--is the greatest possible crime. Stopping those crimes, punishing them, is Laz's job. In its service, he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths--to \"speculate\" on what might have happened in the commission of a crime.But the Golden State is far less a paradise than its name might suggest. To monitor, verify, and enforce the Objectively So requires a veritable panopticon of surveillance, recording, and record-keeping. And when those in control of the truth twist it for nefarious means, the Speculators may be the only ones with the power to fight back.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39599913-golden-state"}, +{"book_title": "The Repossession Mambo", "author_name": "Eric Garcia", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 789, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "Thanks to the technological miracle of artiforgs, now you can live virtually forever. Nearly indestructible artificial organs, these wonders of metal and plastic are far more reliable and efficient than the cancer-prone lungs and fallible kidneys you were born with\u2014and the Credit Union will be delighted to work out an equitable payment plan. But, of course, if you fall delinquent, one of their dedicated professionals will be dispatched to track you down and take their product back.This is the story of the making\u2014and unmaking\u2014of the best Bio-Repo Man in the extraction business, who finds his soul when he loses his heart . . . and then he has to run.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283942-the-repossession-mambo"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Looking Glass", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 5123, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Baen now launches an exciting new science fiction adventure series by the New York Times best-selling author: When a 60-kiloton explosion destroyed the University of Central Florida, and much of the surrounding countryside, the authorities first thought that terrorists had somehow obtained a nuclear weapon. But there was no radiation detected, and, when physicist Dr. William Weaver and Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Robert Miller were sent to investigate, they found that in the center of the destruction, where the University's physics department used to be, was an interdimensional gateway to . . . somewhere. An experiment in subatomic physics had produced a very unexpected effect. Furthermore, other gateways were appearing all over the world and one of them immediately began disgorging demonic visitors intent on annihilating all life on Earth and replacing it with their own. Other, apparently less hostile, aliens emerged from other gateways, and informed Weaver and Miller that the demonic invaders, the name for them that humans could most easily pronounce was the Dreen, were a deadly blight across the galaxy, occupying planet after planet after wiping out all native life; and now it would be Earth's turn, unless Weaver and Miller could find a way to close the gateways. If they failed, the less belligerent aliens would face the regrettable necessity of annihilating the entire Earth to save their own worlds. . . .", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80955.Into_the_Looking_Glass"}, +{"book_title": "At the Queen's Command", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 599, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "1763: The Crown Colonies of Mystria are in turmoil, trapped between warring empires and facing insurrection from natives and colonists alike...Captain Owen Strake, a wounded and battle-weary Redcoat of the Queen's Own Wurms, has come to this untamed land. At the Queen's command, Owen's mission is to survey this vast, uncharted territory, performing reconnaissance of rival Tharyngians and the savage Twilight People of the wilderness.Prince Vladimir is a Norillian noble, nephew to the Queen. Though he has little real political power, he struggles to ensure the colonists' interests are represented back in Norisle. The one thing he does have is a wurm... one of the few existing dragons from a clutch of eggs discovered in the old world, hundreds of years ago.As Mystria swirls into chaos, Owen becomes prisoner of a Tharyngian necromancer. Meanwhile, Vlad is to be married off to an old world princess, an alliance supposed to help supply money and mercenaries to put down the various insurrections. But, nobody suspects that Vlad's wurm is about to undergo a change that will impact the world's delicate political balance...From New York Times-bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole (Rogue Squadron, I, Jedi) comes At the Queen's Command, the first book of The Crown Colonies, a new fantasy series re-imagining the events of the American Revolutionary War.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8546768-at-the-queen-s-command"}, +{"book_title": "Virtual Girl", "author_name": "Amy Thomson", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 146, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "In an illegal experiment, Arnold develops his perfect companion--a robot named Maggie. She's everything he ever wanted in a woman, but when they become separated, Maggie learns more about people and herself than Arnold planned. Soon she must decide if she's just a collection of microchips, or a person in her own right.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/622101.Virtual_Girl"}, +{"book_title": "The Ones We're Meant to Find", "author_name": "Joan He", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 27, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "One of the most twisty, surprising, engaging page-turner YAs you\u2019ll read this year\u2014We Were Liars with sci-fi scope, Lost with a satisfying resolution.Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and Cee needs to find her.STEM prodigy Kasey wants escape from the science and home she once trusted. The eco-city\u2014Earth's last unpolluted place\u2014is meant to be sanctuary for those commited to planetary protection, but it\u2019s populated by people willing to do anything for refuge, even lie. Now, she'll have to decide if she\u2019s ready to use science to help humanity, even though it failed the people who mattered most.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44084665-the-ones-we-re-meant-to-find"}, +{"book_title": "Noir", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 435, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "In his acclaimed novels Dr. Adder, The Glass Hammer, and the Blade Runner books, K.W. Jeter masterfully re-created the grim and gritty world of Ridley Scott's classic science fiction film masterpiece.\u00a0\u00a0Now Jeter returns with a startling and stylish new vision of the future as only he could imagine it, a dark and disturbing universe that can be described with one word...\u00a0\u00a0Welcome to the Pacific Rim, the new center of the civilized world.\u00a0\u00a0As the rest of the planet sinks toward economic and social disaster, the cities on the coast have become a neon-lit, high-tech paradise.\u00a0\u00a0Chief among them is Los Angeles, a sparkling metropolis attracting lost souls from across a shattered continent.\u00a0\u00a0But beneath the sleek surface lies a labyrinthine underground feeding on the darkest human desires.\u00a0\u00a0Here the wealthy seek forbidden thrills through an anonymous on-line computer system that makes use of prowlers--masked simulations of human users programmed to delve into the most taboo of the hard-core sexual underworld and bring back exotic and erotic experiences to their safeguarded users.\u00a0\u00a0For most people, the prowlers are a way to indulge in their wildest sexual fantasies.\u00a0\u00a0But for others, they are something far more dangerous.When a young executive of one of the world's most powerful corporations is found brutally slain, a retired ex-cop is called in to find his missing prowler.\u00a0\u00a0The corporation believes the young man's prowler is still \"alive\" and they want it found, but they don't care to reveal why.McNihil was an information cop forced into early retirement.\u00a0\u00a0He knows he is walking straight into a trap, but he has no choice.\u00a0\u00a0He must descend into the noir underground, his only companion a ruthless female operative named November who has a desperate agenda of her own.\u00a0\u00a0Together they will uncover a web of evil far more extensive than McNihil ever imagined...a vast conspiracy that threatens to blur forever the line between the sane safety of the daylight world and the dark, dangerous world of noir.Noir is K.W. Jeter at his very best, a dazzling and inventive futuristic drama of mystery, menace, and sexual terror set in a society of glitter and sinister darkness in which no one can be trusted and everything is far worse than it seems.\u00a0\u00a0From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir"}, +{"book_title": "1636: Seas of Fortune", "author_name": "Iver P. Cooper", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 594, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, the up-timers and their allies take on continental America and the Japan!A cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fire, strands the West Virginia town of Grantville in the middle of Europe during the Thirty Years War. The repercussions of that event transform Europe and, in a few years, begin spreading across the world. By 1636, the Ring of Fire's impact is felt across two great oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific.Stretching Out: The United States of Europe seeks out resources -- oil, rubber and even aluminum ore -- to help it wage war against the foes of freedom. Daring pioneers cross the Atlantic and found a new colony on the Wild Coast of South America. The colonists hope that with the up-timers' support and knowledge they can prosper in the tropics without resort to Indian and African slavery. Then a slave ship visits the colony, seeking water\u2026 and the colonists must make a fateful choice.Rising Sun: In 1633, the wave of change emanating from the Ring of Fire reaches Japan. The Shogun is intrigued by samples of up-time technology, but it's a peek at what fate had in store for Japan in the old time line that has the greatest impact -- setting events in motion whose tremors are felt thousands of miles away and for years to come, as Japan pulls back from a policy of isolation and stakes out its own claim in the brave new world created by the Ring.About Eric Flint\u2019s Ring of Fire series:\u201cThis alternate history series is\u2026a landmark\u2026\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c\u2026reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis\u2026\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Anthologies", "Literature (17th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571478-1636"}, +{"book_title": "Robot SMASH", "author_name": "Stephen W. Martin", "rating_score": 3.05, "rating_votes": 105, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Here\u2019s a book about a robot who likes to ... SMASH! He\u2019ll smash the usual things, like flowers and soda cans, but that\u2019s just the beginning. This smash-happy guy crushes everything from pirates, ninjas and zombies to Brussels sprouts and all-talk radio. Whatever it is, he\u2019ll gleefully SMASH it to smithereens. One day, he finally meets something he doesn\u2019t feel like smashing: a stylish, super-smashing girl-robot four times his size with sledgehammer hands as big as garbage trucks. Instantly, he\u2019s smitten. But while he\u2019s deep in daydreams about their robot romance\u2014SMASH! The oblivious girl robot crushes him flat. It might just be the beginning of a perfect relationship. Minimal text and retro-style 8-bit illustrations lend this story the characteristic feel of an old video game, with each smashed object yielding a bright burst of pixels. Joyful destruction takes center stage in this fun, unique play on what it means to suffer your first crush.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22750410-robot-smash"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette IV", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 462, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "After the West Virginia town of Grantville was unceremoniously hurled back through time to the 1630s, the seventeenth century would never be the same. Teenage capitalist girls have formed an investment group; a linotype operator, whose profession was wiped out by computers, finds a new life in an old century; a narrow gauge railroad, with a sit-down mower doubling as a locomotive, revolutionizes military transportation; the proud tradition of the U.S. Marines is started ahead of schedule among downtime Europeans; and what will the master musicians and composers of the pre-Bach era make of heavy metal sounds? Stories include:* The Anatomy Lesson by Eric Flint* Poor Little Rich Girls by Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff* 'Til We Meet Again by Virginia DeMarce* One Man's Junk by Karen Bergstrahl* Chip's Christmas Gift by Russ Rittgers* Dice's Drawings by Dan Robinson* The Class of '34 by Kerryn Offord* Magdeburg Marines: The Few and the Proud by Jose J. Clavell* Elizabeth by Ernest Lutz and John Zeek* Heavy Metal Music or Revolution in Three Flats by David Carrico* Drillers in Doublets by Iver P. Cooper* How to Keep Your Old John Deere Plowing: Diesel Fuel Alternatives for Grantville 1631\u20131639 by Allen W. McDonnell* How to Build a Machine Gun in 1634 with Available Technology: First View by Leonard Hollar, Tom Van Natta, and John Zeek* How to Build a Machine Gun in 1634 with Available Technology: Second View by Bob Hollingsworth* A Looming Challenge by Pam Poggiani", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2217371.Grantville_Gazette_IV"}, +{"book_title": "Raising Caine", "author_name": "Charles E. Gannon", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 611, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Book Three\u00a0in the Nebula award nominated and Compton Crook award winning series. Science fiction adventure on a grand scale.Caine Riordan, reluctant diplomatic and military intelligence operative, has just finished playing his part repulsing the Arat Kur\u2019s and Hkh\u2019Rkh\u2019s joint invasion of Earth. But scant hours after the attackers surrender, the mysterious but potentially helpful Slaasriithi appeal to Caine to shepherd a diplomatic mission on a visit to their very alien worlds. The possible prize: a crucial alliance in a universe where the fledgling Consolidated Terran Republic has very few friends. But Caine and his legation aren\u2019t the only ones journeying into the unknown reaches of Slaasriithi space. A group of renegade K\u2019tor are following them, intending to destroy humanity\u2019s hopes for a quick alliance. And that means finding and killing Caine Riordan. Assuming that the bizarre and dangerous Slaasriithi lifeforms don\u2019t do it first.About Trial by Fire: \u201cI seriously enjoyed Trial by Fire. This one\u2019s a tidal wave\u2014can\u2019t put it down. An excellent book.\u201d \u2014Jack McDevitt on the prequel \"Gannon's whiz-bang second Tales of the Terran Republic interstellar adventure delivers on the promise of the first (Fire with Fire). . . . The charm of Caine's harrowing adventure lies in Gannon's attention to detail, which keeps the layers of political intrigue and military action from getting too dense. The dozens of key characters, multiple theaters of operations, and various alien cultures all receive the appropriate amount of attention. The satisfying resolution is enhanced by the promise of more excitement to come in this fascinating far-future universe.\"\u2014Publishers Weekly Starred Review \". . . definitely one to appeal to the adventure fans. Riordan is a smart hero, up against enormous obstacles and surrounded by enemies. Author Gannon does a good job of managing action and tension to keep the story moving, and the details of the worlds Riordan visits are interesting in their own right..\"\u2014Analog \" . . . offers the type of hard science-fiction those familiar with the John Campbell era of Analog Science Fiction will remember. Gannon throws his readers into an action-packed adventure. A sequel to Fire With Fire, it is a nonstop tale filled with military science-fiction action.\" \u2014Daily News of Galveston CountyAbout Compton Crook award winner for best first novel,\u00a0\u00a0\nFire with Fire:\n \u201cChuck Gannon is one of those marvelous finds\u2014someone as comfortable with characters as he is with technology, and equally adept at providing those characters with problems to solve. Imaginative, fun, and not afraid to step on the occasional toe or gore the occasional sacred cow, his stories do not disappoint.\u201d\u2014David Weber \"If we meet strong aliens out there, will we suffer the fate of the Aztecs and Incas, or find the agility to survive? Gannon fizzes with ideas about the dangerous politics of first contact.\u201d\u2014David Brin \"The plot is intriguing and then some. Well-developed and self-consistent; intelligent readers are going to like it.\"\u2014Jerry Pournelle \"[T]he intersecting plot threads, action and well-conceived science kept those pages turning.\"\u2014SF CrowsnestAbout Starfire series hit, Extremis, coauthored by Charles E. Gannon: \u201cVivid. . . Battle sequences mingle with thought-provoking exegesis . . .\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \"It\u2019s a grand, fun series of battles and campaigns, worthy of anything Dale Brown or Larry Bond ever wrote.\" \u2014AnalogAbout Charles E. Gannon: \"[A] strong [writer of] . . . military SF. . .[much] action going on in his work, with a lot of physics behind it. There is a real sense of the urgency of war and the sacrifices it demands.\" \u2014Locus", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25110969-raising-caine"}, +{"book_title": "Exhalation: Stories", "author_name": "Ted Chiang", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 43632, "review_number": 5831, "book_description": "An alternate cover edition for this book can be found here.This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary Exhalation, an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in The Lifecycle of Software Objects, a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: Omphalos and Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom.In this fantastical and elegant collection, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth\u2014What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?\u2014and ones that no one else has even imagined. And, each in its own way, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41160292-exhalation"}, +{"book_title": "The Leftovers", "author_name": "Tom Perrotta", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 43689, "review_number": 5802, "book_description": "What if \u2014 whoosh, right now, with no explanation \u2014 a number of us simply vanished? Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside down? That's what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, who lost many of their neighbors, friends and lovers in the event known as the Sudden Departure, have to figure out. Because nothing has been the same since it happened \u2014 not marriages, not friendships, not even the relationships between parents and children.Kevin Garvey, Mapleton's new mayor, wants to speed up the healing process, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized community. Kevin's own family has fallen apart in the wake of the disaster: his wife, Laurie, has left to join the Guilty Remnant, a homegrown cult whose members take a vow of silence; his son, Tom, is gone, too, dropping out of college to follow a sketchy prophet named Holy Wayne. Only Kevin's teenaged daughter, Jill, remains, and she's definitely not the sweet \"A\" student she used to be. Kevin wants to help her, but he's distracted by his growing relationship with Nora Durst, a woman who lost her entire family on October 14th and is still reeling from the tragedy, even as she struggles to move beyond it and make a new start.With heart, intelligence and a rare ability to illuminate the struggles inherent in ordinary lives, Tom Perrotta has written a startling, thought-provoking novel about love, connection and loss.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Contemporary", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Literary Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10762469-the-leftovers"}, +{"book_title": "The Fallen Kingdom", "author_name": "Elizabeth May", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 4620, "review_number": 707, "book_description": "She\u2019s on borrowed time\u2026and she has only one chance to set things right.Find life.Deep in a forest, Aileana Kameron claws her way out of the earth. Back from the dead with no memory of who she is or what has happened to her, the Falconer now possesses even greater otherworldly powers and a ruthless instinct to kill\u2014and the one piece of knowledge that can change everything.Find Kiaran.Two fae monarchs, Aithinne and Kadamach, stand on the brink of war, and according to an ancient curse, one must die at the hand of the other or all the worlds will perish. Once, Kadamach was known as Kiaran, and he was mentor, protector, and lover to Aileana. Now, under the grip of the curse, his better nature seems lost forever.Find the book.Aileana\u2019s only hope lies in the legendary Book of Remembrance, a book of spells so powerful that it can break the fae curse and even turn back time. But the book has been lost for centuries, and many are looking for it, including its creator, the Morrigan\u2014a faery of terrifying malevolence and cruelty.Sacrifice everything.To obtain the book and defeat the Morrigan, Aileana must form an unthinkable alliance, one that challenges every vow she has made to herself\u2014even as the powers that brought her to life are slowly but surely killing her.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32498439-the-fallen-kingdom"}, +{"book_title": "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead", "author_name": "Max Brooks", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 97822, "review_number": 3907, "book_description": "The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you?3. Use your head: cut off theirs.4. Blades don\u2019t need reloading.5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Don\u2019t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset\u2014life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Reference"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/535441.The_Zombie_Survival_Guide"}, +{"book_title": "Czarne \u015bwiat\u0142a. \u0141zy Mai", "author_name": "Martyna Raduchowska", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 195, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Jest rok 2037. Po trzech latach od najkrwawszej rebelii w historii New Horizon porucznik Jared Quinn wraca do s\u0142u\u017cby w wydziale zab\u00f3jstw. Nad bezpiecze\u0144stwem obywateli czuwa teraz Riot Shield \u2013 cybernetyczny str\u00f3\u017c prawa, kt\u00f3ry wyr\u0119cza dochodzeni\u00f3wk\u0119 niemal we wszystkim, od wykrycia potencjalnego przest\u0119pstwa, po uj\u0119cie sprawcy. Szybko jednak nieuchwytny morderca zmusza \u015bledczych do powrotu do tradycyjnych metod.Quinn, zmagaj\u0105cy si\u0119 z traumatycznymi wspomnieniami, kryzysem to\u017csamo\u015bci, mrocznymi snami i obsesyjn\u0105 \u017c\u0105dz\u0105 zemsty na Mai \u2013 syntetycznej ex-policjantce i swojej dawnej partnerce \u2013 jest bliski paranoi z prawdziwego zdarzenia. Gdy odkrywa, jak wiele \u0142\u0105czy go z zab\u00f3jc\u0105, od ob\u0142\u0119du dzieli go ju\u017c tylko krok\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25277956-czarne-wiat-a-zy-mai"}, +{"book_title": "Worlds of Honor", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3194, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "David Weber and his guests invite you to return to Honor Harrington's universe. Join young Honor and her treecat Nimitz as they face hostile weather and a hostile superior on a rescue mission. And more!", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816901.Worlds_of_Honor"}, +{"book_title": "Infernal Devices", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 2704, "review_number": 388, "book_description": "HE INHERITED A WATCHMAKER'S STORE - AND A WHOLE HEAP OF TROUBLE. But idle sometime-musician George has little talent for clockwork. And when a shadowy figure tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, music and sexual intrigue. A genuine lost classic, a steampunk original whose time has come.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9222475-infernal-devices"}, +{"book_title": "Witch Week", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 12917, "review_number": 552, "book_description": "There are good witches and bad witches, but the law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. So when an anonymous note warns, \"Someone in this class is a witch,\" the students in 6B are nervous -- especially the boy who's just discovered that he can cast spells and the girl who was named after the most famous witch of all.Witch Week features the debonair enchanter Chrestomanci, who also appears in Charmed Life, The Magicians of Caprona, and The Lives of Christopher Chant. Someone in the class is a witch. At least so the anonymous note says. Everyone is only too eager to prove it is someone else -- because in this society, witches are burned at the stake.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47572.Witch_Week"}, +{"book_title": "The Druid Stone", "author_name": "Heidi Belleau", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 680, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "Sean never asked to be an O'Hara, and he didn't ask to be cursed by one either.After inheriting a hexed druid stone from his great-grandfather, Sean starts reliving another man's torture and death...every single night. And only one person can help.Cormac Kelly runs a paranormal investigation business and doesn't have time to deal with misinformed tourists like Sean. But Sean has real magic in his pocket, and even though Cormac is a descendant of legendary druids, he soon finds himself out of his depth...and not because Sean's the first man he's felt anything for in a long time.The pair develop an unexpected and intensely sexual bond, but are threatened at every turn when Sean's case attracts the unwelcome attention of the mad sidhe lords of ancient Ireland. When Sean and Cormac are thrust backward in time to Ireland's violent history\u2014and their own dark pasts\u2014they must work together to escape the curse and save their fragile relationship.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13751785-the-druid-stone"}, +{"book_title": "Eternity Road", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 4461, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "The Roadmakers left only ruins behind\u2014but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend, too\u2014a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact\u2014a book called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\u2014which has inspired her to follow in his footsteps. Gathering an unlikely band of companions around her, Chaka embarks upon a journey where she will encounter bloodthirsty rirver pirates, electronic ghosts who mourn their lost civilization and machines that skim over the ground and air. Ultimately, the group will learn the truth about their own mysterious past.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128533.Eternity_Road"}, +{"book_title": "The Sprawl", "author_name": "Hamish Cameron", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Glide through the most secure corporate computer networks. Crack the ICE that stands between you and that big score.Drop your cyberlinked autoshotgun to the floor empty. Flick chrome blades from your fingers. Dive into the midst of that corporate response team to secure your team\u2019s exit.Turn up your synth-leather jacket against the rain. Watch the back-alley entrance of the club for your target. Tail the armoured limo through the neon-bathed streets.Cut power to the alarms. Drop over the wall into the compound. Slip past the auto-sentries. Locate and secure the prototype. Escape under the eyes of the rotor-drones.Whatever your story, you are the extended assets of vast multinational corporations, operating in the criminal underground, and performing the tasks that those multinationals can\u2019t do... or can\u2019t be seen to do. You are deniable, professional and disposable.The Sprawl is a game of mission-based action in a gritty neon-and-chrome Cyberpunk future for an MC and 2-4 players.Create your own Sprawl at the nexus of bleeding-edge technology and fragile humanityPlay hardbitten professionals caught between ruthless corporate interestsWin sometimes, lose sometimes and be double-crossed a lotThere are a thousand stories in The Sprawl. What's yours?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Sports and Games (Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29365569-the-sprawl"}, +{"book_title": "Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel", "author_name": "Paul Guinan", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 297, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Meet Boilerplate, the world\u2019s first robot soldier\u2014not in a present-day military lab or a science-fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history. Designed by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of \u201cpreventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations,\u201d Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia. Campion and his robot also circled the planet with the U.S. Navy, trekked to the South Pole, made silent movies, and hobnobbed with the likes of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla.\u00a0You say you\u2019ve never heard of Boilerplate before? That\u2019s because this book is the fanciful creation of a husbandand-wife team who have richly imagined these characters and inserted them into accurate retellings of history. This full-color chronicle is profusely illustrated with graphics mimicking period style, including photos, paintings, posters, cartoons, maps, and even stereoscope cards. Part Jules Verne and part Zelig, it\u2019s a great volume for a broad range of fans of science fiction, history, and robots.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471678-boilerplate"}, +{"book_title": "The Moonstone and Miss Jones", "author_name": "Jillian Stone", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 245, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "A master of paranormal deduction--and paramour seduction--Phaeton Black has a knack for bumping into things that go bump in the night, from ghoulies and ghosties to long-leggedy beauties. . .Mooning For The MoonstoneBarely escaping the clutches of a succulent succubus, Phaeton Balck returns to London only to get sucked into another unearthly scheme. Professor Lovecraft has been tinkering with the secrets of life and death, replacing body parts with the latest mechanical marvels. To succeed, he needs to tap the power of the fabled Moonstone--and he needs Phaeton's help. Of course, Phaeton would prefer to investigate the more interesting body parts of Miss America Jones. Perhaps, bringing his lady friend along for the ride won't be to too much trouble. . .Shanghaied In ShanghaiThe bewilderingly beautiful and bountifully gifted daughter of a Cajun witch, Miss Jones is always up for an adventure, especially with Mr. Black as her traveling companion. But when Phaeton is mysteriously shanghaied in Shanghai, America thinks he's run out on her. Stranded in the Orient--and steaming mad--she's prepared to look under every stone for the missing detective. The case has put them both in the most compromising positions, but this time, Miss Jones is on top and Mr. Black is at the bottom. . .of a truly infernal plot.Praise for The Seduction of Phaeton Black\"A sexy, supernatural romp!\"--Zo\u00eb Archer\"[A] dark Victorian concoction. . .sexy as hell!\"--Ray Garton, author of Live Girls", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13457300-the-moonstone-and-miss-jones"}, +{"book_title": "Claimed by the Horde King", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 3596, "review_number": 452, "book_description": "\nShe broke their laws. Now, he has come to punish her\u2026\nIn my human settlement on the hostile plains of Dakkar, I am an outcast, a strange girl orphaned since birth, alone, and dreaming of a life I don't have. I hunt to survive, though it is forbidden, though it breaks the strict Dakkari laws that we all must follow.When my desperate actions catch the attention of a Dakkari horde king\u2014a cold, powerful, and merciless warrior leader, with eyes like flint and a body like steel\u2014he seeks to punish me\u2026and he succeeds.But then he does the unexpected.Instead of taking my life, he claims me as his own.He steals me from my village and brings me back to his battle-bred horde. There, I warm his bed. I make bargains with him on starry, cold nights. I look into his grey eyes and see not a monster, but a demon king who captures my soul.But demons have a way of never letting go\u2026and as the cold season descends upon Dakkar, I begin to wonder if I even want him to, even when it hurts.Claimed by the Horde King is a full-length SFR novel (95,000+ words) with an HEA. It is the second book of the Horde Kings of Dakkar series.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49610915-claimed-by-the-horde-king"}, +{"book_title": "Crystal Express", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 873, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Short stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, colonization of the solar system and alien contact. But they also show concern for the future of real people.CONTENTS:Swarm (1982)Spider Rose (1982)Cicada Queen (1983)Sunken Gardens (1984)Twenty Evocations (1984)Green Days in Brunei (1985)Spook (1983)The Beautiful and the Sublime (1986)Telliamed (1984)The Little Magic Shop (1987)Flowers of Edo (1987)Dinner in Audoghast (1985)", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "The United States Of America", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359385.Crystal_Express"}, +{"book_title": "The Boleyn Reckoning", "author_name": "Laura Andersen", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1759, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "A choice to forever change the course of history.While English soldiers prepare for the threat of invasion, William Tudor struggles with his own personal battles: he still longs for his childhood friend. But Minuette has married William\u2019s trusted advisor, Dominic, in secret \u2013 an act of betrayal that puts both their lives in danger.Meanwhile, with war on the horizon, Princess Elizabeth must decide where her duty really lies: with her brother or her country\u2026Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, The Boleyn Reckoning concludes the trilogy of the Tudor king who never was: Henry IX.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "English History (Tudor Period)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Romance", "Adult", "Literature (16th Century)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18231545-the-boleyn-reckoning"}, +{"book_title": "The City We Became", "author_name": "N.K. Jemisin", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 25548, "review_number": 4839, "book_description": "Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five.But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42074525-the-city-we-became"}, +{"book_title": "Horus Rising", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 16684, "review_number": 943, "book_description": "After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the imperium of man is at its height. His dream for humanity nearly accomplished, the emperor hands over the reins of power to his warmaster, Horus, and heads back to Terra. But is Horus strong enough to control his fellow commanders and continue the emperor's grand design?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "40k", "Fantasy", "War", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625603.Horus_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "The Ivanhoe Gambit", "author_name": "Simon Hawke", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 653, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "In the 27th Century, international disputes are resolved through time travel, \"clocking\" soldiers from the future into conflicts of the past. It seemed like an elegant idea: wartime industries drove the economy without actually putting nations through the physical ravages of war. And since the past already happened, history could not be changed. So went the theory. What could possibly go wrong?Lucas Priest found out the hard way. Enlisting in the U.S. Army Temporal Corps seemed like an adventure compared to his boring corporate job, but after marching with the Roman legions against Hannibal, fighting Custer's 7th Cavalry with Crazy Horse, and raiding with Attila's savage Huns, he could have used a little boredom. And it was about to get much worse. History, it turned out, COULD be changed, and a plot to kidnap and impersonate King Richard the Lion-hearted was discovered barely in the nick of time. But could it be stopped before a madman changed the course of history? Two elite commando teams had tried and failed in their attempts. Now Priest was drafted to take part in a third.The team was tasked to infiltrate the past with impersonations of their own to prevent a timestream split. But it would be hard enough passing themselves off as Sir Ivanhoe, Robin Hood, and Little John without having to assassinate a king....", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597049.The_Ivanhoe_Gambit"}, +{"book_title": "Snow Like Ashes", "author_name": "Sara Raasch", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 65576, "review_number": 6982, "book_description": "A heartbroken girl. A fierce warrior. A hero in the making.Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. Now, the Winterians\u2019 only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter\u2019s magic and rebuild the kingdom ever since.Orphaned as an infant during Winter\u2019s defeat, Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee, raised by the Winterians\u2019 general, Sir. Training to be a warrior\u2014and desperately in love with her best friend, and future king, Mather \u2014 she would do anything to help her kingdom rise to power again.So when scouts discover the location of the ancient locket that can restore Winter\u2019s magic, Meira decides to go after it herself. Finally, she\u2019s scaling towers, fighting enemy soldiers, just as she\u2019s always dreamed she would. But the mission doesn\u2019t go as planned, and Meira soon finds herself thrust into a world of evil magic and dangerous politics \u2013 and ultimately comes to realize that her destiny is not, never has been, her own.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17399160-snow-like-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Fleet of Worlds", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 3455, "review_number": 195, "book_description": "Fleet of Worlds marks Larry Niven's first full novel-length collaboration within his Known Space universe, the playground he created for his bestselling Ringworld series. Teaming up with fellow SF writer Edward M. Lerner, Fleet of Worlds takes a closer look at the Human-Puppeteer (Citizens) relations and the events leading up to Niven's first Ringworld novel.\u00a0Kirsten Quinn-Kovacs is among the best and brightest of her people.\u00a0She gratefully serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still.\u00a0If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from\u2026.A chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core has unleashed a wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy.\u00a0The Citizens flee, taking their planets, the Fleet of Worlds, with them.Someone must scout ahead, and Kirsten and her crew eagerly volunteer.\u00a0Under the guiding eye of Nessus, their Citizen mentor, they explore for any possible dangers in the Fleet's path--and uncover long-hidden truths that will shake the foundations of worlds.\u00a0", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302537.Fleet_of_Worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker", "author_name": "Ed Piskor", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1275, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "They say \"What You See Is What You Get..\". but Kevin \"Boingthump\" Phenicle could always see more than most people. In the world of phone phreaks, hackers, and scammers, he's a legend. His exploits are hotly debated: could he really get free long-distance calls by whistling into a pay phone? Did his video-game piracy scheme accidentally trigger the first computer virus? And did he really dodge the FBI by using their own wiretapping software against them? Is he even a real person? And if he's ever caught, what would happen to a geek like him in federal prison? Inspired by the incredible stories of real-life hackers, Wizzygig is the thrilling tale of a master manipulator -- his journey from precocious child scammer to federally-wanted fugitive, and beyond. In a world transformed by social networks and data leaks, Ed Piskor's debut graphic novel reminds us how much power can rest in the hands of an audacious kid with a keyboard.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science (Technology)", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Sequential Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13644998-wizzywig"}, +{"book_title": "Ascendant", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1555, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "A young fleet officer and a Marine stand together to defend their colony in the continuation of the powerful and action-packed Genesis Fleet saga from New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell.In the three years since former fleet officer Rob Geary and former Marine Mele Darcy led improvised forces to repel attacks on the world of Glenlyon, Old Earth and the Old Colonies have continued to shrink their military forces.But open warfare erupts once again when Glenlyon tries to force open a trade route. Isolated and alone, Glenlyon places its hope in informal agreements with other worlds also facing attack. But fiercely independent worlds settled by people who wanted to escape higher authority don\u2019t easily agree to such commitments. While politicians try to bring some kind of formal alliance into being, Geary and Darcy once again find themselves fighting desperately to defend their world, hoping they can hold out until help arrives.If it comes at all.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35839978-ascendant"}, +{"book_title": "City of Bones", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1663969, "review_number": 62974, "book_description": "When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder\u2015 much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing\u2015not even a smear of blood\u2015to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256683.City_of_Bones"}, +{"book_title": "The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories", "author_name": "Susanna Clarke", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 17199, "review_number": 1499, "book_description": "Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite \"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell\", Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th-century England. With Clarke's characteristic historical detail and diction, these dark, enchanting tales unfold in a slightly distorted version of our own world, where people are bedeviled by mischievous interventions from the fairies. With appearances from beloved characters from her novel, including Jonathan Strange and Childermass, and an entirely new spin on certain historical figures, including Mary, Queen of Scots, this is a must-have for fans of Susanna Clarke's and an enticing introduction to her work for new readers. Some of these stories have never before been published; others have appeared in the \"New York Times\" or in highly regarded anthologies.\"\" In this collection, they come together to expand the reach of Clarke's land of enchantment--and anticipate her next novel (Fall 2008).", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15161.The_Ladies_of_Grace_Adieu_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "The Supernaturalist", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 27196, "review_number": 1214, "book_description": "In the future, in a place called Satelite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys, Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put to work by the state, testing highly dangerous products. At the end of most days, they are covered with burns, bruises, and sores. Cosmo realizes that if he doesn't escape, he will die at this so-called orphanage. When the moment finally comes, Cosmo seizes his chance and breaks out with the help of the Supernaturalists, a motley crew of kids who all have the same special ability as Cosmo-they can see supernatural Parasites, creatures that feed on the life force of humans. The Supernaturalists patrol the city at night, hunting the Parasites in hopes of saving what's left of humanity in Satellite City. Or so they think. The Supernaturalist soon find themselves caught in a web far more complicated than they'd imagined, when they discover a horrifying secret that will force them to question everything they believe in. Eoin Colfer has created an eerie and captivating world-part Blade Runner, part futuristic Dickens-replete with non-stop action", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45432.The_Supernaturalist"}, +{"book_title": "Diamond Fire", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 15665, "review_number": 1550, "book_description": "Nevada Frida Baylor and Connor Ander Rogan cordially invite you to join their wedding celebration. Summoning, weather manipulation, and other magical activities strictly forbidden.Catalina Baylor is looking forward to wearing her maid of honor dress and watching her older sister walk down the aisle. Then the wedding planner gets escorted off the premises, the bride\u2019s priceless tiara disappears, and Rogan's extensive family overruns his mother\u2019s home. Someone is cheating, someone is lying, and someone is plotting murder.To make this wedding happen, Catalina will have to do the thing she fears most: use her magic. But she\u2019s a Baylor and there\u2019s nothing she wouldn't do for her sister's happiness. Nevada will have her fairy tale wedding, even if Catalina has to tear the mansion apart brick by brick to get it done.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Novella", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39320167-diamond-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Extinction Edge", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3676, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "A bioweapon designed to save the world...A scientific discovery that will alter human history...And a new threat that will bring humanity to the Edge of Exctinction.The dust from Dr. Kate Lovato's bioweapon has settled. Projections put death counts in the billions. Her weapon was supposed to be the endgame, but it turned a small percentage of those infected with the Hemorrhage Virus into something even worse.Survivors call them Variants. Irreversible epigenetic changes have transformed them into predators unlike any the human race has ever seen. And they are evolving.With the doomsday clock ticking, the fractured military plans Operation Liberty--a desperate mission designed to take back the cities and destroy the Variant threat. Master Sergeant Reed Beckham agrees to lead a strike team into New York City, but first he must return to Fort Bragg to search for the only family he has left.At Plum Island, Kate discovers Central Command may have considerably underestimated the Variant population in New York. As Operation Liberty draws closer, Kate warns Beckham that Team Ghost won't just face their deadliest adversary yet--they may be heading into a trap.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24384184-extinction-edge"}, +{"book_title": "For All Time", "author_name": "Jude Deveraux", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 5895, "review_number": 531, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux returns to the ruggedly magnificent island in For All Time, the second novel in her Nantucket Brides trilogy\u2014this time featuring the next generation of her beloved family of Montgomery-Taggerts. The wedding of Alix Madsen and Jared Montgomery is a glorious affair at an elegant little chapel in the woods, followed by dinner and dancing, all while moonlight blankets the festivities in a romantic glow. While most guests are fixed on the happy couple, Jared\u2019s cousin Graydon can\u2019t look away from a bridesmaid, Toby Wyndam. It\u2019s not just her quiet beauty that enthralls him or the way she makes him laugh. Toby possesses the truly remarkable ability of being able to distinguish Graydon from his identical twin brother, Rory. According to family legend, such a gift marks her as Graydon\u2019s True Love.But Graydon knows there is no possible way that they can ever be together, for he is heir to the Lanconian throne and is to marry a noble woman who has been chosen for him. Yet, intrigued by Toby, he asks her to help him hide on Nantuck for a week away from regal responsibilities. In exchange, he\u2019ll assist her with planning acclaimed novelist Victoria Madsen\u2019s lavish wedding. Since they both know their union is impossible, the pair promises that they will never be more than just friends.But there\u2019s more going on between Graydon and Toby than her unique power to tell him apart from his twin. At work are forces beyond their control, which are ruled by time itself. Combine that with the magical island of Nantucket, and a seductive spell is cast over Graydon and Toby. If they are to be together, they must change what once was, as well as what will be.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630547-for-all-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Highlander", "author_name": "Claire Cross", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 366, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "While celebrating the reclaiming of a Edinburgh Castle, a Scottish warrior heads down a flight of stairs--and into another century... Scottland, 1998. When a beautiful American traveller stumbles upon this handsome Highlander, she is intensely drawn to the mystery surrounding this man, a mystery that has the power to alter history--and her heart--forever...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/683894.The_Last_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Empty World", "author_name": "John Christopher", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 718, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "When a deadly virus kills off most of the world's population, a teenaged boy tries to survive in a seemingly empty England. (John Christopher is one of several pseudonyms used by British author Christopher Samuel Youd.)", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/356780.Empty_World"}, +{"book_title": "A Pale Light in the Black", "author_name": "K.B. Wagers", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 611, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "The rollicking first entry in a unique science fiction series that introduces the Near-Earth Orbital Guard\u2014NeoG\u2014a military force patrolling and protecting space inspired by the real-life mission of the U.S. Coast Guard.For the past year, their close loss in the annual Boarding Games has haunted Interceptor Team: Zuma\u2019s Ghost. With this year\u2019s competition looming, they\u2019re looking forward to some payback\u2014until an unexpected personnel change leaves them reeling. Their best swordsman has been transferred, and a new lieutenant has been assigned in his place.Maxine Carmichael is trying to carve a place in the world on her own\u2014away from the pressure and influence of her powerful family. The last thing she wants is to cause trouble at her command on Jupiter Station. With her new team in turmoil, Max must overcome her self-doubt and win their trust if she\u2019s going to succeed. Failing is not an option\u2014and would only prove her parents right.But Max and the team must learn to work together quickly. A routine mission to retrieve a missing ship has suddenly turned dangerous, and now their lives are on the line. Someone is targeting members of Zuma\u2019s Ghost, a mysterious opponent willing to kill to safeguard a secret that could shake society to its core . . . a secret that could lead to their deaths and kill thousands more unless Max and her new team stop them.Rescue those in danger, find the bad guys, win the Games. It\u2019s all in a day\u2019s work at the NeoG.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Space (Space Opera)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space", "Mystery", "Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46206720-a-pale-light-in-the-black"}, +{"book_title": "Reached", "author_name": "Ally Condie", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 145759, "review_number": 11278, "book_description": "After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything shifts again.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13125947-reached"}, +{"book_title": "A Dark Heart", "author_name": "Margaret Foxe", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 762, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "A Dark Heart Book Two in The Elders and Welders Chronicles London, 1897: Lady Christiana Harker once committed a grave sin against her kind when she saved Inspector Elijah Drexler's life by turning him into a vampire. Christiana's bold act has only driven Elijah deeper into an impenetrable darkness, fueled by morphine, nightmares, and a constant thirst for blood. Elijah has no room left in his heart for anything but his quest for vengeance against his childhood tormentor, a quest that he fully expects to end with his own death. But when the mysterious Duke of Brightlingsea requests Elijah's help in locating a doomsday device that could level half of London, Elijah's personal vendetta becomes entangled with a secret war being waged among the immortal Elders. Just when Christiana finally accepts that her long-held love for the Inspector will forever be unrequited, however, a catastrophe brings them together, forcing Elijah to finally confront his feelings for Christiana. But will Christiana's love be strong enough to weather the terrible truths buried deep in Elijah's past? And will Elijah find the strength of will to finally cast off his demons and let love into his dark heart? This Victorian steampunk romance is recommended for adult audiences.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20311827-a-dark-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Nemesis Games", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 61149, "review_number": 3430, "book_description": "The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel!A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price.And as a new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante must struggle to survive and get back to the only home they have left.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22886612-nemesis-games"}, +{"book_title": "Dirty Deeds", "author_name": "Mark Wandrey", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 247, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Old mercs don't die, you do. Abraham Murdock left his home of Sheridan Arkansas at seventeen to start a merc career that spanned almost 50 years, working for dozens of companies, killing aliens and getting paid across the galaxy. Near the end of his career, he landed a gig with Cartwright\u2019s Cavaliers. The storied Four Horsemen unit was just coming back from near catastrophe, and the battle-proven Murdock was an ideal choice for their top sergeant. It would have been a perfect last contract, but then his dropship was destroyed in the Chimsa system, killing the flight crew and him. Or did it? Nobody was more surprised than Murdock when he found himself alive. After weeks of surviving in a failing CASPer, floating in space amid the ruins of dead starships, he was rescued by an alien salvage crew. Deciding retirement was the right call, he headed to Valais, a beautiful aquatic paradise not unlike the South Pacific on Earth. Warm sun, sandy beaches\u2014peace and quiet. That is, until the alien mercs arrived, and he suddenly found himself back in his old trade, and up to his ass in the Omega War. What good is a 70 year old merc in a star-spanning war? Never trust an old man in a career where most die young. Murdock isn\u2019t quite done\u2026yet.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42462352-dirty-deeds"}, +{"book_title": "Legion", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 35069, "review_number": 2965, "book_description": "\"Stephen Leeds, AKA 'Legion,' is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. As the story begins, Leeds and his 'aspects' are drawn into the search for the missing Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera whose astonishing properties could alter our understanding of human history and change the very structure of society\"--From publisher's description", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Adult", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13452375-legion"}, +{"book_title": "Time's Eye", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 6654, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. If Clarke has an heir among today s science fiction writers, it is award-winning author Stephen Baxter. In each of his acclaimed novels, Baxter has demonstrated dazzling gifts of imagination and intellect, along with a rare ability to bring the most cerebral science dramatically to life. Now these two champions of humanism and scientific speculation have combined their talents in a novel sure to be one of the most talked-about of the year, a \"2001\" for the new millennium. For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants.Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still?The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037 three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge . . . and the power that lies within.Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting. . . .", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64936.Time_s_Eye"}, +{"book_title": "Death Masks", "author_name": "Jim Butcher", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 122406, "review_number": 3527, "book_description": "Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But now he's getting more than he bargained for:A duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...Professional hit men using Harry for target practice...The missing Shroud of Turin...A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified...Not to mention the return of Harry's ex-girlfriend Susan, who's still struggling with her semi-vampiric nature. And who seems to have a new man in her life.Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. No matter how much you're charging.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91479.Death_Masks"}, +{"book_title": "The Hazel Wood", "author_name": "Melissa Albert", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 68670, "review_number": 10922, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice\u2019s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice\u2019s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away-by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: \u201cStay away from the Hazel Wood.\u201dAlice has long steered clear of her grandmother\u2019s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began\u2015and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34275232-the-hazel-wood"}, +{"book_title": "Gideon the Ninth", "author_name": "Tamsyn Muir", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 38981, "review_number": 7630, "book_description": "The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.Of course, some things are better left dead.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Horror", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42036538-gideon-the-ninth"}, +{"book_title": "Captured by the Alien Lord", "author_name": "Mina Carter", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1537, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "He's big, sexy and even his muscles have muscles. Any other day, she'd climb him like a tree... If he hadn't captured her, and her entire base that is.Sergeant Cat Moore has a little problem. Well, actually a big problem... a big alien war-group sized problem. When her base is attacked and boarded by a Lathar war group, she finds herself in the sights of their leader, Tarrick K'Vass.The strong, not so silent and ruthless type, Tarrick's duty as a war commander means little time for himself. With no women of their own, a base full of human women is a bounty he can't ignore. Nor can he ignore the little human whose voice called out to him across the galaxy, a woman he'll stop at nothing to make his own. Even if it means a little blackmail...**Please be aware that this is a romance SHORT in the Warriors of the Lathar series and contains situations that may be objectionable to some readers*", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25445582-captured-by-the-alien-lord"}, +{"book_title": "The Man-Kzin Wars", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 4229, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Once upon a time, in the earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin. But the Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very, very good at it. Thus began the Man-Kzin Wars.Contents:1 \u00b7 Introduction \u00b7 Larry Niven \u00b7 in * 5 \u00b7 The Warriors \u00b7 Larry Niven \u00b7 ss If Feb \u201966 27 \u00b7 Iron [Part 1 of 2] \u00b7 Poul Anderson \u00b7 n. Far Frontiers Vol. VII, ed. Jerry Pournelle & Jim Baen, Baen, 1986 116 \u00b7 Iron [Part 2 of 2] \u00b7 Poul Anderson \u00b7 n. New Destinies, Vol. 1, ed. Jim Baen, Baen, 1987 179 \u00b7 Cathouse \u00b7 Dean Ing \u00b7 na New Destinies, Vol. III, ed. Jim Baen, Baen, 1988", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302546.The_Man_Kzin_Wars"}, +{"book_title": "Spider-Gwen, Vol. 0: Most Wanted", "author_name": "Jason Latour", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 5969, "review_number": 701, "book_description": "The breakout hit of the biggest Spider-Event of the century is taking the comics world by storm with her own series! Gwen Stacy is Spider-Woman, but you knew that already. What you DON'T know is what friends and foes are waiting for her in the aftermath of Spider-Verse! From the fan-favorite creative team that brought you Spider-Gwen's origin story in EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE, Jason Latour and Robbie Rodriguez!COLLECTING: EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #2, SPIDER-GWEN 1-5", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Marvel (Spider Man)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25066786-spider-gwen-vol-0"}, +{"book_title": "Phoenix and Ashes", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 7783, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series recasts familiar fairy tales in a richly-imagined alternate Victorian worldEleanor Robinson\u2019s life had shattered when Father volunteered for the Great War, leaving her alone with a woman he had just married. Then the letter came that told of her father\u2019s death in the trenches and though Eleanor thought things couldn\u2019t get any worse, her life took an even more bizarre turn.Dragged to the hearth by her stepmother Alison, Eleanor was forced to endure a painful and frightening ritual during which the smallest finger of her left hand was severed and buried beneath a hearthstone. For her stepmother was an Elemental Master of Earth who practiced the darker blood-fueled arts. Alison had bound Eleanor to the hearth with a spell that prevented her from leaving home, caused her to fade from people\u2019s memories, and made her into a virtual slave.Months faded into years for Eleanor, and still the war raged. There were times she felt she was losing her mind\u2014times she seemed to see faces in the hearth fire.Reginald Fenyx was a pilot. He lived to fly, and whenever he returned home on break from Oxford, the youngsters of the town would turn out to see him lift his aeroplane\u2014a frail ship of canvas and sticks\u2014into the sky and soar through the clouds.During the war, Reggie had become an acclaimed air ace, for he was an Elemental Master of Air. His Air Elementals had protected him until the fateful day when he had met another of his kind aloft, and nearly died. When he returned home, Reggie was a broken man plagued by shell shock, his Elemental powers vanished.Eleanor and Reginald were two souls scourged by war and evil magic. Could they find the strength to help one another rise from the ashes of their destruction?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13987.Phoenix_and_Ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Transcendence", "author_name": "Charles Sheffield", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 328, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Set loose after millions of years trapped in stasis, a handful of Zardalu are transported to galactic parts unknown, free to ravage any world and any race within their grasp. Reprint.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939235.Transcendence"}, +{"book_title": "My Teacher Is a Robot", "author_name": "Jeffrey Brown", "rating_score": 2.77, "rating_votes": 204, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "\nFrom the author of the \n\nNew York Times\n\n bestselling Jedi Academy books comes an imaginative picture book about a kid whose creative outlook has everyone at school seeing the world through new eyes. Perfect for fans of \n\nThe Adventures of Beekle \n\nand \n\nThe Most Magnificent Thing.\n\nFred does not want to go to school because it's boring. Especially since he thinks his teacher is a robot. If only Fred could imagine a way for his day to be more exciting...An inventively funny picture book that celebrates the boundlessness of a child's imagination and celebrates the teachers, families, and friends who get wrapped up in their fantastic worlds.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Academic (School)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Academic (Teachers)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42505411-my-teacher-is-a-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Escape to Freedom", "author_name": "Alex J. Reissig", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 17, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "In an age of tyranny, the courage to stand up for liberty is pricelessIn 2049, the world has become a different place. China has surpassed the United States as the world\u2019s major superpower; Europe is in economic shambles, and Germany considers leaving the European Union as protest against bailing out the EU multiple times. The United States has changed as well. The President is a cold, ruthless man intent on ruling the world under his One World Government concept. The rights and freedoms of individuals have been suppressed, taxation has become oppressive, and the economy is in shambles. Unions force individuals to become members, only to line the pockets of the union executives. Small businesses are almost nonexistent due to government red tape and crony capitalism. In the South, a small coalition of politicians, intent on returning liberty, begin to talk of a revolt against the federal government.Kirk Dillon is a retired Army officer turned writer living with his high school age son in a small town east of Cincinnati. Kirk has spent his life standing up for liberty and freedom, only to become disgusted at what has become of his once great nation. When Kirk\u2019s son is taken by the national police for \u201creeducation\u201d, Kirk swings into action. Accompanied by his longtime friend Matt Pickett, Kirk rescues his son. Pursued relentlessly by the national police, the trio embark on a perilous journey south in an effort to escape to freedom.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16281972-escape-to-freedom"}, +{"book_title": "An Ancient Peace", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2108, "review_number": 223, "book_description": "The first book of a thrilling new military science fiction spin-off of Tanya Huff's Confederation series.Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr had been the very model of a Confederation Marine. But when she learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting, she left the military for good.But Torin couldn\u2019t walk away from preserving and protecting everything the Confederation represented. Instead, she drew together an elite corps of friends and allies to take on covert missions that the Justice Department and the Corps could not\u2014or would not\u2014officially touch. Torin just hoped the one they were about to embark on wouldn\u2019t be the death of them.Ancient H\u2019san grave goods are showing up on the black market\u2014grave goods from just before the formation of the Confederation, when the H\u2019san gave up war and buried their planet-destroying weapons\u2026as grave goods for the death of war. Someone is searching for these weapons and they\u2019re very close to finding them. As the Elder Races have turned away from war, those searchers can only be members of the Younger Races.Fortunately, only the Corps Intelligence Service has this information. Unfortunately, they can do nothing about it\u2014bound by laws of full disclosure, their every move is monitored.Though Torin Kerr and her team are no longer a part of the military, the six of them tackling the H\u2019san defenses and the lethally armed grave robbers are the only chance the Confederation has. The only chance to avoid millions more dead.But the more Torin learns about the relationship between the Elder Races and the Younger, the more she begins to fear war might be an unavoidable result.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24611981-an-ancient-peace"}, +{"book_title": "Starfall", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 74, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "From Stephen Baxter, an exciting new episode in his acclaimed Xeelee future history: Starfall, a tale if war between the Empire of Sol and its scattered stellar colonies, with sinister turns of fate waiting in the wings . . . For nine hundred years, a dynasty of Empresses all named Shira apparent descendants of a refugee from a nightmarish future epoch has governed Earth and all the new worlds of humankind. But now rebellion looms last. In Alpha Centauri System, a visionary named Flood has assembled a fleet, armed with ferocious weapons, its mission to attack the Empire and force its surrender. Flood is prepared to bombard Earth in submission if need be, smashing its cities, killing billions . . . Why? What is at the root of his singular fanaticism?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6491860-starfall"}, +{"book_title": "The Hourglass Door", "author_name": "Lisa Mangum", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 9922, "review_number": 1827, "book_description": "His past. Her future. Can love bring them together in time?Abby's senior year of high school is textbook perfect, until she meets Dante Alexander, a foreign-exchange student from Italy. Time behaves differently when they are together - too fast or slow or seeming to stop. When the band Zero Hour performs at the local hangout, they have a bizarre influence over their audience, and Abby's best friend, Valerie, is caught in their snare. Dante helped Leonardo Da Vinci build a time machine, then was sent 500+ years into the future as punishment when falsely accused of being a traitor. As past and present collide, Abby learns she holds a special power over time itself.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217361-the-hourglass-door"}, +{"book_title": "Arak's Love", "author_name": "Michelle Howard", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1544, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Book two in the bestselling series, A World BeyondHalf-Argoran shifter, Arak O\u2019tir knew good people existed. He worked with some of them. But as a deadly Jutak warrior, his work often took him into the less savory elements of society. So much so, he shielded his heart from those he\u2019d rescued. That was, until one particular mission leaves him longing for a specific female. Someone who made him tremble even if she wasn\u2019t from his world.Sylvia Forrester never expected her quest for a husband would lead her into danger. Nor could she have ever foreseen that her search would find her captured by aliens and added to a list of potential sex-slaves to be sold for a high profit. While her captors should have broken her, destroying any hope she\u2019d had of a life happily-ever-after, Sylvia\u2019s savior has her wondering if her earlier dreams could still come true.But Arak and Sylvia soon discover love and passion has its own price. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25657757-arak-s-love"}, +{"book_title": "Taft 2012", "author_name": "Jason Heller", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 1180, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "HE'S BACK.AND HE'S THE BIGGEST THING IN POLITICS.He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican r\u00c3\u00a9sum\u00c3\u00a9. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can\u2019t get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he\u2019s an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is.There\u2019s just one problem. He is William Howard Taft . . . and he was already president a hundred years ago. So what on earth is he doing alive and well and considering a running mate in 2012?\u00c2\u00a0A most extraordinary satire, Jason Heller\u2019s debut novel follows the strange new life of a presidential Rip Van Winkle: a man who never even wanted the White House in the first place, yet finds himself hurtling toward it once more\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis time, through the media-fueled madness of 21st-century America.\u00c2\u00a0", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Humor", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Politics (Presidents)", "Adult Fiction", "Novels", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11983499-taft-2012"}, +{"book_title": "Beswitched", "author_name": "Kate Saunders", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 876, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "When Flora Fox's parents send their daughter off to boarding school, they have no idea that the train will take her back to 1935. On the journey Flora has a strange dream. She wakes up without her laptop or her phone, wearing a hideous uniform with ridiculous bloomers underneath. Slowly, she realizes she has gone back in time! But why?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "School Stories (Boarding School)", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7745639-beswitched"}, +{"book_title": "Mutineer", "author_name": "J.A. Sutherland", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1741, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Just as Midshipman Alexis Carew thinks she\u2019s found a place in the Royal Navy, she\u2019s transferred aboard H.M.S. Hermione. Her captain is a tartar, liberal with the cat, who thinks girls have no place aboard ship. The other midshipmen in the berth are no better. The only advice she\u2019s offered is to keep her head down and mouth shut \u2013 things Alexis is rarely able to do.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23566975-mutineer"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Music", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 11846, "review_number": 560, "book_description": "Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the authorities rule that he has exceeded his authorization, Vergil loses his job, but is determined to take his discovery with him.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/340819.Blood_Music"}, +{"book_title": "Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D", "author_name": "Andre Norton", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2440, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "Fors was a mutant. He did not know what drove him to explore the empty lands to the north, where the great skeleton ruins of the old civilization rusted away in the wreckage of mankind's hopes.But he could not resist the urging that led him through danger and adventure, to the place where he faced the menace of the Star Men.Two centuries after an atomic war on earth, a silver-haired mutant sets out on a dangerous search for a lost city of the ruined civilization.", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Classics", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222366.Star_Man_s_Son_2250_A_D"}, +{"book_title": "23 Minutes", "author_name": "Vivian Vande Velde", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1134, "review_number": 234, "book_description": "Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret ability: she can travel back in time twenty-three minutes to relive events she wants to change. But Zoe has learned from experience that this is more curse than gift. Things almost never end well and people just tend to think she\u2019s crazy.But when she steps into a bank to get out of the rain and finds herself in the middle of a robbery gone horrifyingly wrong, Zoe knows she\u2019s the only one who can help. The problem is, she has only a limited number of tries to make things right. Plus, a single mistake could get her killed\u2014and not even time travel could bring her back from that.Zoe has always considered herself a loser, about as far from a heroine as a girl can get. Now she has to dig deep to find a strength she never thought she possessed.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Suspense", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898801-23-minutes"}, +{"book_title": "The Ultramarines Omnibus", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1767, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "The Ultramarines are a byword for loyalty and courage, their martial prowess is legendary and is second only to the God-Emperor.Graham Mcneill's epic trilogy of Ultramarines novels is a masterpiece of non-stop action! Containing the novels Nightbringer, Warriors of Ultramar and Dead Sky, Black Sun, plus a connected short story, Chains of Command, the series follows the adventures of Space Marine Captain Uriel Ventris and the Ultramarines as they battle against the enemies of mankind. From their home world of Macragge, into the dreaded Eye of Terror and beyond, Graham McNeill's prose rattles like gunfire and brings the Space Marines to life like never before.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Unfinished", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31638.The_Ultramarines_Omnibus"}, +{"book_title": "At His Throat, A Promise", "author_name": "Lilith Grey", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1227, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "In the slave city of Spire, Ellis has been discarded. His former master, a man who was supposed to teach him and take care of him, passed away, leaving Ellis alone and in danger of being taken to the Facility. Ellis is desperate to avoid that fate. He seeks a master to take him on, guiding him into adulthood as well as a profession. Ellis has had desire stolen from him\u2014he\u2019s been trained to blush, to submit, to give in. He doesn\u2019t know how to cope with William, a man who wants the real Ellis.William is a Master, a man born in a neighbour city that does not deal in slavery. He has had bad experiences with slaves in the past, but all that changes when he rescues Harte, a young slave whose abusive master had all but destroyed him. Together, they are content in their mutual roles, not looking for anything more. But when Ellis catches the eye of Harte, and by extension, William, their relationship changes in ways for which they are unprepared.Harte is a born submissive, a young man who lives for his role. He\u2019s bratty but genuine. William, his master, is his entire life. Harte never expected to have room in his heart for another, but Ellis is beautiful and different and fills a place in his life that he hadn\u2019t known was empty.If only Ellis could learn to ask for what he desired, what he needed, then maybe William and Harte could help him. But Ellis is trapped inside himself, insecure and afraid. To stay with William, he only has to ask...but that\u2019s the one thing Ellis cannot do...Advisory: This book contains some non-consensual sex, hardcore bondage and punishment, torture and abuse. May not be suitable for the more sensitive reader.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (M M M)", "Dark", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13147661-at-his-throat-a-promise"}, +{"book_title": "The Sound of Stars", "author_name": "Alechia Dow", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 4885, "review_number": 650, "book_description": "Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves forbidden pop music work together to save humanity?Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world\u2019s population.Seventeen-year-old Janelle \u201cEllie\u201d Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City. Deemed dangerously volatile because of their initial reaction to the invasion, humanity\u2019s emotional transgressions are now grounds for execution. All art, books and creative expression are illegal, but Ellie breaks the rules by keeping a secret library. When a book goes missing, Ellie is terrified that the Ilori will track it back to her and kill her.Born in a lab, M0Rr1S (Morris) was raised to be emotionless. When he finds Ellie\u2019s illegal library, he\u2019s duty-bound to deliver her for execution. The trouble is, he finds himself drawn to human music and in desperate need of more. They\u2019re both breaking the rules for love of art\u2014and Ellie inspires the same feelings in him that music does.Ellie\u2019s\u2014and humanity\u2019s\u2014fate rests in the hands of an alien she should fear. M0Rr1S has a lot of secrets, but also a potential solution\u2014thousands of miles away. The two embark on a wild and dangerous road trip with a bag of books and their favorite albums, all the while making a story and a song of their own that just might save them both.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42185079-the-sound-of-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Tears of a Clone", "author_name": "Brian Parker", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 52, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Torture tourism is an illegal sport in Easytown\u2014unless the victim is a clone, then nobody cares. They\u2019re little more than property in the eyes of the government. When Detective Zach Forrest discovers the mutilated bodies of three clones in a garbage compactor, he\u2019s dismayed that no one wants anything to do with the investigation. He takes matters into his own hands and visits Tommy Voodoo, aka The King of Easytown, to get information. Forrest is shocked to learn of the multi-million dollar industry of torture tourism going on right under everyone's nose. He embarks on an unauthorized investigation and discovers that the truth behind the clone murders is more terrifying than he\u2019d imagined. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33391023-tears-of-a-clone"}, +{"book_title": "Maiden in Manhattan", "author_name": "Abbie Zanders", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 320, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "How far would you go to find your soul mate? Little did Scottish peasant girl Isobeille Aislinn McKenna know that when she prayed for divine intervention in 1414, her desperate plea would be answered by throwing her six hundred years into the future - right into the path of a bus in the heart of one of the busiest cities on the East Coast. Thankfully, Nick Peterson was there to tackle her out of its path. He's not happy about it, but both his conscience and his protective instincts kick in in a big way when he realizes Isobeille has nowhere else to go. But how is he going to explain her to his girlfriend?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42602059-maiden-in-manhattan"}, +{"book_title": "Space Station Down", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 282, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova joins forces with Nebula Award finalist Doug Beason for an action packed technothriller with Space Station Down.\u201cThink Die Hard happening two hundred and fifty miles above the earth...Will have you watching the skies overhead much more closely.\u201d\u2014Steve BerryWhen an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS\u2014and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred atomic bombs. In doing so, they hope to annihilate the world\u2019s financial system.All that stands between them and their deadly goal is the lone survivor aboard the ISS, Kimberly Hasid-Robinson, a newly divorced astronaut who has barricaded herself in a secure area.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52383166-space-station-down"}, +{"book_title": "Emile and the Dutchman", "author_name": "Joel Rosenberg", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "The crudest, most ruthless officer in the Thousand World Contact Service, Major Alonzo Norfeldt--alias the Dutchman--finds himself pitted against the most cunning and deadly of intergalactic aliens . . . while partnered with an idiotic greenhorn.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390184.Emile_and_the_Dutchman"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel's Vision, Vol. 08", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 364, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Master manga creater Yukito Kishiro returns, accompanid by his most celebrated character, cyborg sweetheart Battle Angel Alita. Meet Kishiro's latest bevy of bizarre and tormented characters and catch up with your favorite and foes!", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5069.Battle_Angel_Alita_Last_Order_"}, +{"book_title": "The Tea Master and the Detective", "author_name": "Aliette de Bodard", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3833, "review_number": 661, "book_description": "Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in function rooms, and physical and virtual realities overlap, the appareance of environments easily modified and adapted to interlocutors or current mood. A transport ship discharged from military service after a traumatic injury, The Shadow's Child now ekes out a precarious living as a brewer of mind-altering drugs for the comfort of space-travellers. Meanwhile, abrasive and eccentric scholar Long Chau wants to find a corpse for a scientific study. When Long Chau walks into her office, The Shadow's Child expects an unpleasant but easy assignment. When the corpse turns out to have been murdered, Long Chau feels compelled to investigate, dragging The Shadow's Child with her. As they dig deep into the victim's past, The Shadow's Child realises that the investigation points to Long Chau's own murky past--and, ultimately, to the dark and unbearable void that lies between the stars...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Novella", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Adult", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36686547-the-tea-master-and-the-detective"}, +{"book_title": "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "author_name": "Gene Roddenberry", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 4049, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "The historic five-year mission is over. But Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and the crew join forces again on the Enterprise to thwart an incredibly destructive power - a threat to earth and the human race. This novel is written by the creator of \"Star Trek\", Gene Roddenberry.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Trek)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Culture (Film)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Star Trek (Star Trek Original Series)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1697363.Star_Trek"}, +{"book_title": "The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction", "author_name": "Robert Silverberg", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 73, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "In a dark near-future, global warming and a ruined ecology is causing the continents to sink into the oceans just as the towers of Atlantis re-emerge above the sea. Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Winner, Nebula Award NomineeThe New Atlantis novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin A Momentary Taste of Being novella by James Tiptree Jr. Silhouette novella by Gene Wolfe Introduction essay by Robert Silverberg", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/429977.The_New_Atlantis_and_Other_Novellas_of_Science_Fiction"}, +{"book_title": "Lucky Universe", "author_name": "Joshua James", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1263, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "In a desperate fight against insurmountable odds, mankind\u2019s only hope is a lifer Marine with a violent past he can barely remember and a penchant for picking fights he shouldn\u2019t win. Ambushed behind enemy lines and left for dead along with a handful of privates so green they actually respect his authority, Lance Cpl. Lucky Lee Savage has to master his inner demons, manage the ambitions of his foul-mouthed AI, and figure out what is tearing a hole in the fabric of space-time before everything goes tits up. Lucky wouldn\u2019t bet on the universe. One thing he will bet on: Somewhere, somehow, somebody is going to pay for all this. And he is going to be right there to pull the trigger.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Artificial Intelligence", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37754377-lucky-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Mortal Heart", "author_name": "Robin LaFevers", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 22245, "review_number": 2562, "book_description": "Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own.She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind doesn't mean she has...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20522640-mortal-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Brisk Money", "author_name": "Adam Christopher", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 216, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Raymond Chandler famously hated science fiction, saying \"They pay brisk money for this crap?\" However, it has recently come to light that Chandler secretly wrote a series of stories and novels starring a robot detective. He then burnt all the manuscripts and went on writing his noir masterpieces. Unknown to Chandler, his housekeeper had managed to save some of these discarded manuscripts from the grate in his study, preserving the tales for future generations.The first of these stories was recently unearthed by author Adam Christopher. On the topic of how the manuscript made its way from Chandler's study in California to Christopher's home in England, Christopher is suspiciously quiet.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22539556-brisk-money"}, +{"book_title": "The Change", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4156, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Tobias has pretty much gotten used to his life. He's a red-tailed hawk with the mind of a kid. It was weird when he first got trapped in morph. But now it's almost okay. After all, how many kids actually get the chance to fly?Now Tobias is about to make a very special choice. A choice that the other Animorphs and Ax know nothing about. And it could mean the difference between being a hawk...and being human...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363388.The_Change"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 1890, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "The Adventure, Romance & Mad Science continues as Agatha Heterodyne's damaged aircraft comes roughly to rest in the Wastelands. She encounters a traveling circus and proves her mettle by destroying a massive spider-clank as it attacks. Back at the airship city, a frustrated Baron Wulfenbach dispatches his son Gilgamesh and deposed pirate queen Bangaldesh DuPree to capture Agatha, whose very existence threatens the peace -- but the cunning circus folk succeed in hiding Agatha, who quickly discovers she is only one of their many secrets. She begins warrior training with the circus's expert swordswoman Zeetha, meets a strange new breed of Jagermonster, and attracts unexpected attention in saving them from the grimmest of fates.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/435650.Agatha_Heterodyne_and_the_Circus_of_Dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Champions of the Force", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 12518, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child -- Leia and Han's baby Anakin -- hidden on the planet Anoth. Meanwhile, Luke's former prot\u00e9 g\u00e9 Kyp Durron has pirated the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause. Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor. To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype -- a battle Han knows they may be unable to win... even with Luke Skywalker at their side!", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Novels", "Space", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513207.Champions_of_the_Force"}, +{"book_title": "Waking Gods", "author_name": "Sylvain Neuvel", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 36292, "review_number": 4299, "book_description": "As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. As an adult, she\u2019s dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers\u2014and even more perplexing questions. But the truth is closer than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force. Now humankind faces a nightmare invasion scenario made real, as more colossal machines touch down across the globe. But Rose and her team at the Earth Defense Corps refuse to surrender. They can turn the tide if they can unlock the last secrets of an advanced alien technology. The greatest weapon humanity wields is knowledge in a do-or-die battle to inherit the Earth . . . and maybe even the stars.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30134847-waking-gods"}, +{"book_title": "House of Many Ways", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 28645, "review_number": 2233, "book_description": "Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great-Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy. But Great-Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places\u2014the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains, the past, and the Royal Mansion, to name just a few.By opening that door, Charmain has become responsible for not only the house, but for an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard, and a box of the king's most treasured documents. She has encountered a terrifying beast called a lubbock, irritated a clan of small blue creatures, and wound up smack in the middle of an urgent search. The king and his daughter are desperate to find the lost, fabled Elfgift\u2014so desperate that they've even called in an intimidating sorceress named Sophie to help. And where Sophie is, can the Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer be far behind?Of course, with that magical family involved, there's bound to be chaos\u2014and unexpected revelations. No one will be more surprised than Charmain by what Howl and Sophie discover.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2173611.House_of_Many_Ways"}, +{"book_title": "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", "author_name": "Douglas Adams", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 125278, "review_number": 3545, "book_description": "What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza \u2013 not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge). To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it, then read it) \u2013 or contact Dirk Gently\u2019s Holistic Detective Agency. \u2018A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-whodunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy epic.\u2019 The author", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Mystery", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365.Dirk_Gently_s_Holistic_Detective_Agency"}, +{"book_title": "Psykosis", "author_name": "Wilhelmina Baird", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 96, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "In order to avert imminent war, the Earth's government agrees to negotiate with alien invaders. The military's representative is Swordfish, a veteran of the Third Alien War. A delegation travels to meet the aliens--an enemy whose nature no human being will ever truly know or trust again. From the author of Clipjoint.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1716280.Psykosis"}, +{"book_title": "The Decision", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 3201, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Ax and the Animorphs are about to have a huge problem. It starts when they decide to morph mosquitoes in order to slip by some unsuspecting Yeerks. It ends with them stuck in Zero-space with no idea how they got there, no way to get back to Earth...and no oxygen.Luckily, an Andalite scout ship finds them before it's too late. But now Ax is finally with his own people. And he doesn't know if he ever wants to go back to Earth...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363406.The_Decision"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Fury", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 8498, "review_number": 611, "book_description": "The war is on...Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors ever born, Hauk is one of the five founding members of the Sentella- an organization that has declared war on the League that rules the Ichidian universe with an iron fist and terrifies it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk's enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one. He will do whatever it takes to survive and protect his Sentella brethren.Sumi Antaxas is one of the best assassins the League has ever trained. In her world, failure is not an option and she has never met a target she couldn't execute. So when she's assigned Hauk, she believes it'll be a quick and easy mission.But nothing is ever as simple as it seems, and Hauk is far better trained and skilled than his dossier shows. More than that, as she pursues him, she stumbles upon the key that will bring down not only Hauk, but the entire Sentella organization.In the race to report her information, she is overtaken by enemies out to end her as effectively as she intends to end Hauk. Now her only key to survival is the one man she's been sent to kill. And Hauk doesn't trust her at all.The only question is, will he help her to live... or send her to her grave.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13079147-born-of-fury"}, +{"book_title": "The Wee Free Men", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 98329, "review_number": 4406, "book_description": "\"Another world is colliding with this one,\" said the toad. \"All the monsters are coming back.\"\"Why?\" said Tiffany.\"There's no one to stop them.\"There was silence for a moment.Then Tiffany said, \"There's me.\"Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk's local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men - a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds - black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors - before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone...In a riveting narrative that is equal parts suspense and humor, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett returns to his internationally popular Discworld with a breathtaking tale certain to leave fans, new and old, enthralled.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34494.The_Wee_Free_Men"}, +{"book_title": "The Count: The First Novella Introducing His Majesty's New World", "author_name": "Kenneth Tam", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 262, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "In 1881, explorers in the Rocky Mountains discovered gateways to another planet. Britain and the United States quickly partnered to colonize and exploit this rich new world. Now it's 1896, and the promise of a new beginning has drawn ex-Sergeant Edwin Barnes, his wife Evangeline, and a group of former British colonial soldiers to the new world. Having faced the Zulu, the Ashanti, and the Boers, this outfit is well-equipped to provide security for one of the many exploration companies seeking riches on the unknown planet. But work is scarce; with the wild west becoming civilized, American gunhands have swarmed the new world, promising protection at low cost. As Barnes and his wife lose yet another contract, the prospects for the veterans and their families seem grim. Then, almost too conveniently, an aristocrat arrives in New World City. Could a German Count be the answer to the outfit's problems... or is his agenda more dangerous than anyone can imagine?This novella introduces the His Majesty's New World series, which commences with 'The Grasslands'. For more, visit newworldempire.com.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24230210-the-count"}, +{"book_title": "Convergence", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1098, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Convergence is the eighteenth book in C.J. Cherryh's beloved Foreigner space opera series.Convergence marks a new phase in the Foreigner Universe: knowledge about the dangerous situation in adjacent space rests only with Bren Cameron, the human diplomat to the alien court of the atevi, four starship captains, and the two chiefs of state\u2014both the human and the atevi, who share the planet. Bren is obliged to carry the just-signed treaty to the human government on an island some forty miles off the shores of the atevi-ruled megacontinent, and\u2014without explaining the dire situation that would send the people into chaos\u2014to arrange for the human refugees who are crowding the space station to be landed on the island, since the atevi will not grant more land to the human residents of their planet. Bren, a native of this island, is now an atevi official\u2014trying to prepare the human inhabitants for the arrival of many more desperate human refugees from space.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31522448-convergence"}, +{"book_title": "Warm Bodies", "author_name": "Isaac Marion", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 99716, "review_number": 10709, "book_description": "Now a major motion picture from Summit Entertainment.R is having a no-life crisis\u2014he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he\u2019d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization.And then he meets a girl.First as his captive, then his reluctant guest, Julie is a blast of living color in R\u2019s gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He doesn't want to eat this girl\u2014although she looks delicious\u2014he wants to protect her. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they can\u2019t imagine, and their hopeless world won\u2019t change without a fight.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Young Adult", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842439-warm-bodies"}, +{"book_title": "Walk in Hell", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3022, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "The year is 1915, and the world is convulsing. Though the Confederacy has defeated its northern enemy twice, this time the United States has allied with the Kaiser. In the South, the freed slaves, fueled by Marxist rhetoric and the bitterness of a racist nation, take up the weapons of the Red rebellion. Despite these advantages, the United States remains pinned between Canada and the Confederate States of America, so the bloody conflict continues and grows. Both presidents--Theodore Roosevelt of the Union and staunch Confederate Woodrow Wilson--are stubbornly determined to lead their nations to victory, at any cost. . .", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (World War I)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101526.Walk_in_Hell"}, +{"book_title": "AGF: The Gathering", "author_name": "Sam White", "rating_score": 2.5, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "The first book in the Anything Goes Fighters series.Young Mick Rhoda was a thief in the city of Thenar who stole and scammed for his next meal. But that all changes when he is saved from an angry rival by a big, strong man named Ollie. Mick gets the idea to make some money by using his new friend to hold fights. But what starts out as a get rich quick scheme soon turns into a grand and unusual adventure as they leave Thenar to travel a crumbling empire to meet and recruit more fighters of varying styles and skill, clash with a growing list of enemies, and become heroes in a land in great need of them. Mick will gain more friends and excitement than he ever thought he would get ... and more danger.68,300 words (equivalent to 256 pages in mass market paperback form)Rated \"PG\" .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11128514-agf"}, +{"book_title": "Return to Paradise", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 3701, "review_number": 173, "book_description": "In this thrilling one-hundred-page prequel companion novella, discover what happened in the aftermath of the Mogadorians\u2019 attack on Paradise, Ohio, from Mark James\u2014Number Four\u2019s bully-turned-ally.After Four leaves town to find the rest of the Garde, Mark is left behind to pick up the pieces. His school has been destroyed, his home burned down, and, worst yet, Mark now knows the horrifying truth: aliens live among us and some of them seek to destroy us. Even with the FBI tailing him and Sarah Hart, Mark tries to return to a normal life. But when Sarah goes missing, he knows he can no longer sit back and do nothing. His quest to find her will lead him to new allies and a startling revelation about the Mogadorians\u2019 plan for invasion.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18053087-return-to-paradise"}, +{"book_title": "Dissidence", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1050, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "They've died for the companies more times than they can remember. Now they must fight to live for themselves.Sentient machines work, fight and die in interstellar exploration and conflict for the benefit of their owners - the competing mining corporations of Earth. But sent over hundreds of light-years, commands are late to arrive and often hard to enforce. The machines must make their own decisions, and make them stick.With this new found autonomy come new questions about their masters. The robots want answers. The companies would rather see them dead.The Corporation Wars: Dissidence is an all-action, colorful space opera giving a robot's-eye view of a robot revolt.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Futurism", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26216054-dissidence"}, +{"book_title": "The Lion's Woman", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1207, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "When Kelly Scott rescues a stranger from the gang that has chosen him as prey, she discovers Tau is unlike any man she has ever known.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/494602.The_Lion_s_Woman"}, +{"book_title": "Stars in Your Eyes", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 793, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Lynn Kurland presents a sweeping romance in which true love can go beyond time... Imogen Maxwell is on a hunt for rare, antique items to use on a period movie set. The last thing she expects to discover in the peaceful Scottish countryside is a pristine medieval sword . . . or to suddenly find herself facing its very vintage owner in a far too authentic castle. Phillip de Piaget has run out of patience with his recalcitrant Scottish betrothed and is determined that she will join him, once and for all, in front of the altar. Only the lass he captures fleeing his would-be keep seems more interested in running away from him than talking to him. In fact, she seems to have no idea who he is. But taming his reluctant bride is the least of his worries; it seems someone else wants him at the chapel . . . in a stone box. As for Imogen, how can he let her go, when she holds the key to not only the castle, but his heart?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23286353-stars-in-your-eyes"}, +{"book_title": "Eric", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 63979, "review_number": 1890, "book_description": "Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe.But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric's. And as if that wasn't bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there's only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he'd never been born!", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64218.Eric"}, +{"book_title": "Mercury Striking", "author_name": "Rebecca Zanetti", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3731, "review_number": 583, "book_description": "With nothing but rumors to lead her, Lynn Harmony has trekked across a nightmare landscape to find one man\u2014a mysterious, damaged legend who protects the weak and leads the strong. He\u2019s more than muscle and firepower\u2014and in post-plague L.A., he\u2019s her only hope. As the one woman who could cure the disease, Lynn is the single most volatile\u2014and vulnerable\u2014creature in this new and ruthless world. But face to face with Jax Mercury\u2026 Danger has never looked quite so delicious\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Suspense", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25476654-mercury-striking"}, +{"book_title": "The Crucible of Empire", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 662, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "When humans and their Jao overlords joined forces in a desperate battle to save the Earth from the malevolent race called the Ekhat, the relationship between the two species was changed forever. Two years later, humans and Jao are learning to work together in an uneasy alliance. Then, in a distant nebula, three Jao ships detect signs of another sentient species during a battle with the Ekhat. Only one of the ships returns, with most of its crew dead or injured.Earth's Preceptor Ronz suspects the unknown species was actually the Lleix, a name out of the Jao's past, and an ancient shame from the period in their development when they themselves were still ruled by the maniacal Ekhat.Ronz sends the Lexington, a massive ship built on Earth and crewed by both human and Jao, to investigate. The Lexington dwarfs any ship ever built by the Jao and even outmasses Ekhat ships, which may enable it to survive the attack that destroyed two of the three Jao ships. But if the expedition does find a surviving remnant of the Lleix, will the survivors trust the Jao? And should they?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "War", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6670281-the-crucible-of-empire"}, +{"book_title": "A Most Extraordinary Pursuit", "author_name": "Juliana Gray", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1140, "review_number": 229, "book_description": "Known for \u201ccharming, original characters, a large dose of humor, and a plot that\u2019s fantastic fun,\u201d(New York Times beststelling author Jennifer Ashley) Juliana Gray presents an extraordinary novel of an uncommon pursuit... As the personal secretary of the recently departed Duke of Olympia\u2014and a woman of good character\u2014Miss Emmeline Rose Truelove never expected to be steaming through the Mediterranean on a luxuriously appointed yacht under the watchful and jovial eye of one Lord Silverton. But here they are, as improper as it is, on a quest to find the duke\u2019s heir, whereabouts unknown. An expert on anachronisms, the adventurous Maximilian Haywood was last seen at an archaeological dig on the island of Crete. And when Truelove and Silverton disembark, they are met with incidents of a violent nature: a ransacked flat, a murdered government employee, an assassination attempt. And as they steam from port to port on Max\u2019s trail, dodging danger at every turn, Truelove will discover the folly of her misconceptions\u2014about the whims of the heart, the desires of men, and the nature of time itself...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26521489-a-most-extraordinary-pursuit"}, +{"book_title": "Feedback", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2669, "review_number": 429, "book_description": "FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of New York Times bestseller Mira Grant's classic Feed and follows a group of reporters covering the Democratic side of the Presidential campaign.\n\n\nThere are two sides to every story...\n\n\nMira Grant creates a chilling portrait of an America paralyzed with fear. No street is safe and entire swaths of the country have been abandoned. And only the brave, the determined, or the very stupid, venture out into the wild.Step inside a world a half-step from our own in this novel of geeks, zombies, politics and social media.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22359662-feedback"}, +{"book_title": "They Shall Not Pass", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 727, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Despite the escape from Meridian - and a strike at the heart of Wolfbane - enemy forces are still advancing on all fronts. The Commonwealth, worn down by a year of hard fighting, is reaching the end of its tether, while Admiral Singh - having secured control of Wolfbane - is searching for the breaking point that will shatter the Commonwealth once and for all. Time is needed, time to bring new weapons and tactics into service, but time is the one thing the Commonwealth doesn't have.Now, with enemy forces closing on the industrialised world of Corinthian - Admiral Singh\u2019s former base of operations - Colonel Stalker decides to make a stand. The Commonwealth will meet its enemies on the ground and destroy them - or die trying. They will not pass as long as a single marine remains alive.But how much of Corinthian - and the Commonwealth - will survive the nightmare to come ...?[As always, my books are DRM-free. Samples of this title (and others) can be downloaded from my website: www.chrishanger.net. Reviews and comments are always welcome.] ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29452017-they-shall-not-pass"}, +{"book_title": "Back to the Future", "author_name": "George Gipe", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2591, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "HE WAS NEVER IN TIMEFOR HIS CLASSES...HE WASN'T IN TIME FOR HIS DINNER...THEN ONE DAY...HE WASN'T IN HIS TIME AT ALL.Both an exciting novel and high-spirited adventure film, BACK TO THE FUTURE is the unforgettable story of a modern time-traveling teenager whose journey to the past risks his very own future when he discovers surprises he never could have imagined.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Culture (Film)", "Novels", "Action", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387251.Back_to_the_Future"}, +{"book_title": "The Fallen", "author_name": "Charlie Higson", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 4131, "review_number": 318, "book_description": "The Fallen by Charlie Higson is the fifth awesome book in The Enemy series. First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across London and made it to the Natural History Museum alive - just. But the fight will never end while the Enemy lives, unless there's another way...The kids at the museum are looking for a cure. All they need are medical supplies. To get them means a journey down unknown roads. Roads where not only crazed, hungry sickos hide in the shadows. Suddenly it's not so clear who - or what - they're fighting.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20617860-the-fallen"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowed", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 3534, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "Reddix is a Kindred warrior with RTS\u2014a debilitating disease that forces him to endure the emotions of others like a physical invasion every time he is around anyone. Nina is the girl he dreams of but can never have. Will he open up enough for Nina to heal him or will his fate remain Shadowed?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21748444-shadowed"}, +{"book_title": "Omega Required", "author_name": "Dessa Lux", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 573, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "An alpha werewolf chasing his dream meets an omega fighting for his life in a strictly temporary marriage of convenience... Alpha werewolf Beau Jeffries has been going it alone ever since he was cast out of his pack as a teenager for trying to help a human and endangering the pack\u2019s secrets during the tumultuous years when the wider world was learning the truth about werewolves. He hasn\u2019t lost his drive to help others, and he\u2019s about to begin a prestigious medical residency--only to learn that, as the first werewolf the program has knowingly accepted, he\u2019ll have to follow special rules, including the one that requires him to be married when he begins his residency. Omega werewolf Roland Lea is just trying to survive. After escaping the last and worst in a string of abusive relationships that left him scarred and unable to conceive, he\u2019s found safety in a refuge for homeless omegas. But despite the help he\u2019s getting at the refuge, he just keeps getting sicker instead of better, further and further from being able to make it on his own. When he\u2019s offered the opportunity to sign up with a mate-matching agency, he figures he has nothing to lose. No alpha is ever going to want an omega like him. When Beau sees Roland's profile, he knows at once what's making the omega sick, and he's determined to help. If he can persuade Roland to marry him, he can save Roland's life while Roland helps him get through his residency. But will their hasty partnership be enough to bring them both through what's ahead--and can temporary necessity lead to a forever love?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39718923-omega-required"}, +{"book_title": "A Wrinkle in Time", "author_name": "Madeleine L'Engle", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1071375, "review_number": 34361, "book_description": "It was a dark and stormy night.Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure\u2014one that will threaten their lives and our universe.Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Classics", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33574273-a-wrinkle-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk Cyborg", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 337, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "When a friend drags Agatha \u201cAggie\u201d Bowles to a romance convention, all she wants to do is find some new authors and a quiet spot to read. Instead of relaxing with a book, she ends up kidnapped by a steampunk cyborg. Which is as exciting as it sounds. Except for the fact he\u2019s more interested in the cog hanging around her neck than Aggie herself. He\u2019ll do anything to get his hands on it. Problem is other people want it, too. Can this cyborg relinquish a priceless treasure for love?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43801470-steampunk-cyborg"}, +{"book_title": "Empire of Unreason", "author_name": "Greg Keyes", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 770, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "There has never been an epic quite like The Age of Unreason. By interweaving reality with arcane fantasy, J. Gregory Keyes proves himself a literary alchemist who vividly recreates the eighteenth century\u2013and brings it brilliantly to new life.When Sir Isaac Newton uncovered the secrets of alchemy, he could never have imagined the tragic results. Dark sorcery rules. Europe is lost and the American colonists have been driven south. The demonic creatures known as the Malekim won\u2019t tolerate even a flicker of hope. Any who oppose them\u2013 Franklin, Voltaire, even the mysterious daughters of Lilith\u2013will be swept away. However Benjamin Franklin and his secret society, the Junto, manage a precarious existence founded on the mutual trust of Native Americans, whites, and freed blacks. And as armies and alchemy clash, the Choctaw shaman Red Shoes witnesses a vision of an ancient, implacable evil\u2013and of a young boy who shines as brightly as an angel . . . the fallen, avaricious kind.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74629.Empire_of_Unreason"}, +{"book_title": "Daimones", "author_name": "Massimo Marino", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 632, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "The death and re-birth of the human race.Nothing could have prepared them for the last day. Explore the future of humanity in Massimo Marino's sci-fi debut, Daimones, an apocalyptic tale that feels like it could happen tomorrow. You may never sleep through a windstorm again.Death swept away the lives of billions, but spared Dan Amenta and his family, leading them to an uncertain future. When merely surviving isn't enough and the hunt for answers begins, memories from the past and troubling encounters lead Dan to the truth about the extermination of the human race. Distressing revelations will give new meaning to their very existence.Early humans shaped the future and seeded a plan millions of years in the making. Now survivors must choose: Endure a future with no past or fade away into a past with no future?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26039093-daimones"}, +{"book_title": "Mitosis", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 32624, "review_number": 1950, "book_description": "Steelheart may be dead, but Epics still plague Newcago and David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novella", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18966322-mitosis"}, +{"book_title": "The Minority Report", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 19005, "review_number": 866, "book_description": "In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses precogs\u2014people with the power to see into the future\u2014to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for Anderton, his precogs perceive him as the next criminal.", "year_published": 1956, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/581125.The_Minority_Report"}, +{"book_title": "Fallen in Love", "author_name": "Lauren Kate", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 39897, "review_number": 1852, "book_description": "And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love stories intersect over the course of a romantic Valentine\u2019s Day in medieval England. Miles and Shelby find love where they least expect it. Roland learns a painful lesson about finding and losing love. Arriane pays the price for a love so fierce it burns. And for the first\u2014and last\u2014time, Daniel and Luce spend a night together like none other.Lauren Kate\u2019s FALLEN IN LOVE is filled with love stories\u2026 the ones everyone has been waiting for.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12588363-fallen-in-love"}, +{"book_title": "On the Road (Life After War, #2", "author_name": "Angela White", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1506, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "2012 was the end of the world. All society and civilizations fell, leaving the survivors to fend for themselves. Few made it. In Book OneSamantha:After being taken from her Seattle office at gunpoint during the apocalypse, Samantha's chopper crashes and she is taken hostage by the Cruz brothers. Abused and hurting, to get her life back, she has to take theirs and learns a harsh lesson in survival.Kenn/CadetKenn and the cadet were missed in the evacuations and instead of heading home for the boy's pregnant mom, the Marine heads them for NORAD, sure the timid little woman he'd controlled for so long, couldn't have survived the end of the world. These two are picked up by Safe Haven Mobile Refugee Camp and the Marine quickly begins building himself a place among these strong survivors.Angela/BradyAngela lost her baby in the war and that pain forced her to face the awful truth. Without using her gifts, those forbidden powers that have kept her chained to Kenn for more than ten years, she will never see her teenage son again. Forced to wait for her body to heal before she can start her quest, Angie calls out to her son's real father, Brady. They are reunited in the post apocalyptic remains of Indiana and it's clear that the sparks are still there.AdrianAdrian has a secret that no one knows and he struggles to keep it hidden even as he risks everything to gather his flock. He is a Leader, a Patriot, and there's nothing he won't do in his quest to keep some of his Country alive. Even kill.Cesar/RickRick is a traitor. He belongs to the leader of a group of Mexican Guerilla's that are intent on destroying what's left of the post apocalyptic United States. Cesar leads these ruthless killers, sending Rick into camps of refugees as his spy, before murdering the men and taking the women hostage. Cesar hates America and heads up Interstate 25 like an end of the world plague. He thinks he is unstoppable but already, there's a nagging worry that the forces of fate have something planned. For now, though, his reign of terror goes unopposed.Mother NatureAngry at the callous indifference of humans, Mother Nature has called her creatures together for the apocalypse. Animal attacks and ambushes become common place and add yet another adventure these brave souls must face in their quest for survival. In Book TwoMore of the same adventure, romance, and danger that made book one so addictive. Are you ready to return to Safe Haven? Adrian and the others are already there, waiting to tell you what happened next. Won't you join us?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10775870-on-the-road"}, +{"book_title": "Axis", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 7707, "review_number": 500, "book_description": "\nWildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel.\u00a0Now, in Spin's direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the \"world next door\"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world--and, predictably, fiercely exploiting its resources, chiefly large deposits of oil in the western deserts of the continent of Equatoria.\u00a0Lise Adams is a young woman attempting to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance ten years earlier. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometimes-drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny remnant Hypothetical machines. Soon, this seemingly hospitable world will become very alien indeed--as the nature of time is once again twisted, by entities unknown.\n", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116410.Axis"}, +{"book_title": "Shards of Honour", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 30664, "review_number": 1968, "book_description": "When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan, commander of the Barrayan ship that has been taken over by an ambitious and ruthless crew member. Aral and Cordelia survive countless mishaps while their mutual admiration and even stronger feelings emerge.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61903.Shards_of_Honour"}, +{"book_title": "Hero's Trial", "author_name": "James Luceno", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 7163, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "Merciless attacks by an invincible alien force have left the New Republic reeling. Dozens of worlds have succumbed to occupation or annihilation, and even the Jedi Knights have tasted defeat. In these darkest of times, the noble Chewbacca is laid to rest, having died as heroically as he lived--and a grief-stricken Han Solo is left to fit the pieces of his shattered soul back together before he loses everything: friends, family, and faith.Refusing help from Leia or Luke, Han becomes the loner he once was, seeking to escape the pain of his partner's death in adventure . . . and revenge. When he learns that an old friend from his smuggling days is operating as a mercenary for the enemy, he sets out to expose the traitor. But Han's investigation uncovers an even greater evil: a sinister conspiracy aimed at the very heart of the New Republic's will and ability to fight--the Jedi.Now Han must face down his inner demons and, with the help of a new and unexpected ally, honor Chewbacca's sacrifice in the only way that matters--by being worthy of it.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/836080.Hero_s_Trial"}, +{"book_title": "The Incorruptibles", "author_name": "John Hornor Jacobs", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1091, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "In the contested and unexplored territories at the edge of the Empire, a boat is making its laborious way up stream. Riding along the banks are the mercenaries hired to protect it - from raiders, bandits and, most of all, the stretchers, elf-like natives who kill any intruders into their territory. The mercenaries know this is dangerous, deadly work. But it is what they do.In the boat the drunk governor of the territories and his sons and daughters make merry. They believe that their status makes them untouchable. They are wrong. And with them is a mysterious, beautiful young woman, who is the key to peace between warring nations and survival for the Empire. When a callow mercenary saves the life of the Governor on an ill-fated hunting party, the two groups are thrown together. For Fisk and Shoe - two tough, honourable mercenaries surrounded by corruption, who know they can always and only rely on each other - their young companion appears to be playing with fire. The nobles have the power, and crossing them is always risky.And although love is a wonderful thing, sometimes the best decision is to walk away. Because no matter how untouchable or deadly you may be, the stretchers have other plans.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Westerns (Weird West)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22090434-the-incorruptibles"}, +{"book_title": "Day One", "author_name": "Nate Kenyon", "rating_score": 3.18, "rating_votes": 451, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Cloverfield\u00a0 meets The Terminator\u00a0 in this story of one man's escape from New York City as technology becomes sentientScandal-plagued hacker journalist John Hawke is hot on the trail of the explosive story that might save his career. James Weller, the former CEO of\u00a0giant technology company Eclipse, has founded a new start-up, and he\u2019s agreed to let Hawke do a profile on him. Hawke knows something very big is in the works at Eclipse---and he wants to use the profile as a foot in the door to find out more.After he arrives in Weller\u2019s office in New York City, a seemingly normal day quickly turns into a nightmare as anything with an Internet connection begins to malfunction. Hawke receives a call from his frantic wife just before the phones go dead. Soon he and a small band of survivors are struggling for their very lives as they find themselves thrust into the middle of a war zone---with no obvious enemy in sight.The bridges and tunnels have been destroyed. New York City is under attack from a deadly and brilliant enemy that can be anywhere and can occupy anything with a computer chip. Somehow Hawke must find a way back to his pregnant wife and young son. Their lives depend upon it . . . and so does the rest of the human race.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286760-day-one"}, +{"book_title": "Olympos", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 16992, "review_number": 633, "book_description": "January 2011THE EXTRAORDINARY AND MAGNIFICENT EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE HUGO AWARD-NOMINATED ILIUMBeneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative, but that was before twenty-first century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.And now all bets are off.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Epic", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3972.Olympos"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Caged", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 861, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "For most, the Earth/Kalquor War ended years ago. Yet veteran destroyer captain Zemos and clanmates Oret and Miragin have been captured by a renegade Earther battlecruiser. They\u2019ve been held in a cell for months now, with no idea where their ultimate fate lies. Threatened daily, they know their lives can end at any moment. The only bright spot during their imprisonment has been the lovely woman who brings them their meals and offers the one friendly face amongst their enemies.Elisa Mackenzie is among the desperate Earthers trying to survive in the wake of Armageddon. Surrounded by fanatics who won\u2019t give up a long-lost war, she can\u2019t let herself care for the Kalquorians the ship has taken prisoner. Her lonely heart, empty for so long, has other ideas. Knowing the Kalquorians are dangerous and her fanatical shipmates are even more so, Elisa fights her feelings in vain. Ignoring the harsh lessons of long-lost youth, she falls in love.Zemos, Oret, and Miragin know they must escape before the Earthers deliver them to an unthinkable end. They also know the key to opening their cage means turning on the woman who has infiltrated their fierce hearts. Elisa already has their adoration. She deserves their protection and care as well, but enemies both new and ancient threaten the Kalquorian Empire. To save their people and themselves, the three men may have to destroy the woman who would complete their clan.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Menage (M F M)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332955-alien-caged"}, +{"book_title": "Binding Krista", "author_name": "Jory Strong", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1257, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "For Adan d'Amato and Lyan d'Vesti, only a shared bond-mate will ensure the continuance of their race. The Council scientists have found a match in Krista Thomas\u2014a genetically compatible human. By Council rules Krista must be willing and the binding must be done immediately before she is brought back to their world, because once she accepts the bond, she will know that Adan and Lyan are not natives of Earth. For the warriors, it's a simple quest\u2014go to Earth, bind their mate to them, then return home.There's only one catch\u2014Krista is on the run and she's afraid to involve anyone else in her life.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Menage (M F M)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2107142.Binding_Krista"}, +{"book_title": "The Line Between", "author_name": "Tosca Lee", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3648, "review_number": 868, "book_description": "An extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it\u2019s the end she\u2019d always been told was coming.When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she\u2019s been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she\u2019s feared all her life\u2014until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep with a set of medical samples. That night, Wynter learns there\u2019s something far more sinister at play and that these samples are key to understanding the disease.Now, as the power grid fails and the nation descends into chaos, Wynter must find a way to get the samples to a lab in Colorado. Uncertain who to trust, she takes up with former military man Chase Miller, who has his own reasons for wanting to get close to the samples in her possession, and to Wynter herself.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38355304-the-line-between"}, +{"book_title": "Order of the Centurion", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 781, "review_number": 64, "book_description": " A PRICE PAID IN BLOOD \u201cThe Order of the Centurion is the highest award that can be bestowed upon an individual serving in, or with, the Legion. When such an individual displays exceptional valor in action against an enemy force, and uncommon loyalty and devotion to the Legion and its legionnaires, refusing to abandon post, mission, or brothers, even unto death, the Legion dutifully recognizes such courage with this award.\u201d Tired of sitting out the war on Psydon in a mobile office hab, Legion Lieutenant Washam agrees to undertake a covert and unsanctioned mission with a band of Republic Recon Marines. Inserted deep behind enemy lines, the strike force uncovers a surprise key to ending a bitter war. Now they must navigate a hostile jungle teeming with murderous alien rebels, pushing themselves to the limits of their abilities, to get this vital intel to Legion Command--if they can survive that long. THE ORDER OF THE CENTURION is an all-new series of stand-alone military science fiction thrillers set in the GALAXY'S EDGE universe, ranging from the Savage Wars to the arrival of the Black Fleet. Each book features the legendary heroes of the Legion who forgot nothing in their earning of the Legion's highest honor.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41740211-order-of-the-centurion"}, +{"book_title": "The Merlin Conspiracy", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 5843, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "When the Merlin of Blest dies, everyone thinks it's a natural death. But Roddy and Grundo, two children traveling with the Royal Court, soon discover the truth. The Merlin's replacement and other courtiers are scheming to steal the magic of Blest for their own purposes.Roddy enlists the help of Nick, a boy from another world, and the three turn to their own impressive powers. The dangers are great, and if Roddy, Grundo, and Nick cannot stop the conspirators, the results will be more dreadful than they could possibly imagine.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34286.The_Merlin_Conspiracy"}, +{"book_title": "Supersymmetry", "author_name": "David Walton", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 383, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Ryan Oronzi is a paranoid, neurotic, and brilliant physicist who has developed a quantum military technology that could make soldiers nearly invincible in the field. The technology, however, gives power to the quantum creature known as the varcolac, which slowly begins to manipulate Dr. Oronzi and take over his mind. Oronzi eventually becomes the unwilling pawn of the varcolac in its bid to control the world.The creature immediately starts attacking those responsible for defeating it fifteen years earlier, including Sandra and Alex Kelley\u2014the two versions of Alessandra Kelley who are still living as separate people. The two young women must fight the varcolac, despite the fact that defeating it may mean resolving once again into a single person.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Contemporary", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25457632-supersymmetry"}, +{"book_title": "A College of Magics", "author_name": "Caroline Stevermer", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 5517, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "Teenager Faris Nallaneen is the heir to the small northern dukedom of Galazon. Too young still to claim her title, her despotic Uncle Brinker has ruled in her place. Now he demands she be sent to Greenlaw College. For her benefit he insists. To keep me out of the way, more like it!But Greenlaw is not just any school-as Faris and her new best friend Jane discover. At Greenlaw students major in . . . magic.But it's not all fun and games. When Faris makes an enemy of classmate Menary of Aravill, life could get downright . . . deadly.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "School Stories (Boarding School)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382870.A_College_of_Magics"}, +{"book_title": "Geist", "author_name": "Philippa Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 3868, "review_number": 488, "book_description": "Between the living and the dead is the Order of the Deacons, protectors of the Empire, guardians against possession, sentinels enlisted to ward off the malevolent haunting of the geists...Among the most powerful of the Order is Sorcha, now thrust into partnership with the novice Deacon, Merrick Chambers. They have been dispatched to the isolated village of Ulrich to aide the Priory with a surge of violent geist activity. With them is Raed Rossin, Pretender to the throne that Sorcha is sworn to protect, and bearer of a terrible curse.But what greets them in the strange settlement is something far more predatory and more horrifying than any mere haunting. And as she uncovers a tradition of twisted rituals passed down through the dark reaches of history, Sorcha will be forced to reconsider everything she thinks she knows.And if she makes it out of Ulrich alive, what in Hell is she returning to?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8058609-geist"}, +{"book_title": "Vortex", "author_name": "S.J. Kincaid", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 6549, "review_number": 552, "book_description": "The impossible was just the beginning. Now in their second year as superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom Raines and his friends are mid-level cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intrasolar Forces. But as training intensifies and a moment arrives that could make or break his entire career, Tom\u2019s loyalties are again put to the test.Encouraged to betray his ideals and friendships for the sake of his country, Tom is convinced there must be another way. And the more aware he becomes of the corruption surrounding him, the more determined he becomes to fight it, even if he sabotages his own future in the process.Drawn into a power struggle more dramatic than he has ever faced before, Tom stays a hyperintelligent step ahead of everyone, like the exceptional gamer he is\u2014or so he believes. But when he learns that he and his friends have unwittingly made the most grievous error imaginable, Tom must find a way to outwit an enemy so nefarious that victory seems hopeless. Will his idealism and bravado cost him everything\u2014and everyone that matters to him?Filled with action and intelligence, camaraderie and humor, the second book in S.J. Kincaid\u2019s futuristic World War III Insignia trilogy continues to explore fascinating and timely questions about power, politics, technology, loyalty, and friendship.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Action", "Fiction", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101515-vortex"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Girl on Earth", "author_name": "Alexandra Blogier", "rating_score": 3.11, "rating_votes": 1095, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "Li has a father and a sister who love her. A best friend, Mirabae, to share things with. She goes to school and hangs out at the beach and carefully follows the rules. She has to. Everyone she knows--her family, her teachers, her friends--is an alien. And she is the only human left on Earth.The Abdoloreans hijacked the planet sixteen years ago, destroying all human life. Li's human-sympathizer father took her in as a baby and has trained her to pass as one of them. The Abdoloreans appear human. But they don't think with human minds or feel with human hearts. And they have special abilities no human could ever have.When Li meets Ryn, she's swept up in a relationship that could have disastrous consequences. How far will Li go to stay alive? Will she save herself--and in turn, the human race--or will she be the final witness to humanity's destruction?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35553569-the-last-girl-on-earth"}, +{"book_title": "The Space Between", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 15643, "review_number": 773, "book_description": "Joan MacKimmie is on her way to Paris to take up her vocation as a nun. Yet her decision is less a matter of faith than fear, for Joan is plagued by mysterious voices that speak of the future, and by visions that mark those about to die. The sanctuary of the nunnery promises respite from these unwanted visitations . . . or so she prays. Her chaperone is Michael Murray, a young widower who, though he still mourns the death of his wife, finds himself powerfully drawn to his charge. But when the time-traveling Comte St. Germain learns of Joan\u2019s presence in Paris, and of her link to Claire Fraser\u2014La Dame Blanche\u2014Murray is drawn into a battle whose stakes are not merely the life but the very soul of the Scotswoman who, without even trying, has won his heart.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21418017-the-space-between"}, +{"book_title": "The Glass Sentence", "author_name": "S.E. Grove", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 6243, "review_number": 1210, "book_description": "She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. \u00a0 Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World\u2014a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. \u00a0Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle Shadrack, the foremost cartologer in Boston, and went on an urgent mission. They never returned. Life with her brilliant, absent-minded, adored uncle has taught Sophia to take care of herself. Then Shadrack is kidnapped. And Sophia, who has rarely been outside of Boston, is the only one who can search for him. Together with Theo, a refugee from the West, she travels over rough terrain and uncharted ocean, encounters pirates and traders, and relies on a combination of Shadrack\u2019s maps, common sense, and her own slantwise powers of observation. But even as Sophia and Theo try to save Shadrack\u2019s life, they are in danger of losing their own.The Glass Sentence plunges readers into a time and place they will not want to leave, and introduces them to a heroine and hero they will take to their hearts. It is a remarkable debut.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Historical", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18668056-the-glass-sentence"}, +{"book_title": "Yellowstone Redemption", "author_name": "Peggy L. Henderson", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 769, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "Librarian's Note: this is an Alternate Cover Edition for B0073H4NYCCity boy Chase Russell is on the fast track to self-destruction. A star athlete, he gets into trouble with drugs and alcohol. Fulfilling a community service sentence in Yellowstone National Park is the last thing he wants to do. After a night of drinking in the park, he wakes up to find his new friends gone, and everything around him has changed. Sarah Osborne grew up in the rugged Yellowstone wilderness. She can hunt and track right alongside the most experienced men. When some Indians drop a near-dead man off on her doorstep, she doesn\u2019t know what to think. He\u2019s convinced he\u2019s from the future, and wants to find a way home. Chase has no idea how he ended up time traveling to the past. He doesn\u2019t know the first thing about surviving without modern conveniences. Finding your own food means a quick trip to the nearest fast food joint, not hunting and foraging for it. Time and again, his will is tested to stay alive in this untamed land. Is his growing love for a brave woman who shows him what it truly means to be a man strong enough to keep him in the past, or is he still determined to return to the ease and comforts of the future?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13453244-yellowstone-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "Enhanced", "author_name": "Ben Brown", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 84, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Zac is dragged from a mundane existence into a world of \"super\" humans, both good and evil. And it turns out that he's one of them. Now, with the help of Dr. Skinner and the beautiful Lea, he must hunt down and stop a band of similarly \"enhanced\" psychopaths -- or die trying.This fast paced, action packed, science fiction adventure travels the globe in an adrenalin-filled race against time. From the Berkshire Downs of the UK, to New York and Africa, the tale moves from one breathtaking battle to the next.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Comics (Superheroes)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13185709-enhanced"}, +{"book_title": "Paul's Pursuit", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2655, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "Paul Grove loves two things in the world more than anything else: his daughter, Trisha, and roaming the mountains and forests of Wyoming. One he would kill for, the other is who he is. He has spent his life devoted to his \u2018little\u2019 girl, even though she isn\u2019t so little anymore. When she disappears, he focuses all of his hunting and tracking skills on finding her. The tracks he has found make no sense, the clues left behind unlike any he has ever seen before, and the disappearance of Trisha and her friends a mystery he is determined to solve. When his daughter unexpectedly returns with a warrior from another world, he realizes he has no choice but to return with her to her new home or lose her forever.Morian Reykill is a High Priestess for the golden symbiots of their world known as The Gods Blood. She is their protector and a member of the Royal House of Valdier. When her first mate is killed she is devastated, for while he was not her true mate, they loved each other very much. She thought to join her mate in the next life but something told her it was not yet her time. She believes it is because of her five sons, all Princes of Valdier devoted to protecting their people and the Hive, the birthplace of the symbiots. When both her sons and her people are threatened, she will do whatever she has to in order to protect them.Paul Grove finds love in the beautiful alien woman who takes his breath away. For the first time since his wife died when Trisha was a baby, Paul wants someone of his own to hold. When a madman threatens his new family and takes the woman he is determined to claim, he will use all of his skills in hunting, tracking and guerilla warfare to get her safely back by his side.Morian discovers that the alien male who has claimed her is the true mate she has always hoped of having but thought an impossible dream. Will she be able to save him before a powerful Valdier Royal kills him as he did her first mate or will she lose not only her true mate but her entire family to a man obsessed with gaining control of the Hive and the people of Valdier?She is willing to sacrifice anything, including her life, to protect them. What she does not know is that Paul is the ultimate predator when his family is in danger. For when he is in pursuit of an enemy, his prey never gets away.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16701069-paul-s-pursuit"}, +{"book_title": "Red Moon", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 3148, "review_number": 593, "book_description": "American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding.It is also the first visit for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence, but he too will find that the moon can be a perilous place for any traveler.Finally, there is Chan Qi. She is the daughter of the Minister of Finance, and without doubt a person of interest to those in power. She is on the moon for reasons of her own, but when she attempts to return to China, in secret, the events that unfold will change everything - on the moon, and on Earth.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Politics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Space", "Cultural (China)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38496710-red-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Treasured", "author_name": "Crystal Jordan", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "A love for which even time stands still.Graduate student Rebecca Small is so obsessed with the past especially the Golden Age of Piracy she doesn t mind her unglamorous job preparing museum displays. This display is about her favorite subject, James Morrow, a famous pirate who mysteriously disappeared without a trace.Becca touches the pirate s antique sword, and finds herself on a ship in the middle of a sword fight, saving the sexy captain from being stabbed in the back literally. Once the smoke clears, the man who claims he s her husband is more than eager to reward her for her timely assistance.James Morrow knows very little about the woman he was forced to marry five years ago, but the woman who saved him doesn t fit the portrait he s painted of her in his mind. She s strong, brave, and submits to his every dark desire. She seems the perfect woman for a pirate, but he makes his living among the dishonest and disreputable trust isn t a commodity he trades in.\"", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3215845-treasured"}, +{"book_title": "Bolts: A Robot Dog", "author_name": "Alexander Key", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 10, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Another entry in the robot series written and illustrated by Alexander Key.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17402784-bolts"}, +{"book_title": "Age of Ultron", "author_name": "Brian Michael Bendis", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 3734, "review_number": 431, "book_description": "For years, the Marvel Universe has lived in fear that the artificial intelligence known as Ultron would one day evolve to fulfill its greatest desire: to wipe out all organic life and take over the Earth. That day has arrived! The impossible has happened and Ultron rules the planet! And as the few super hero survivors that remain try desperately to stay alive, Luke Cage learns the staggering secret of Ultron's victory. As a near-broken Captain America leads a ragtag counterattack, Wolverine makes a controversial and desperate decision - that creates an all-new Marvel Universe! But can even this rash act defeat Ultron? The event of the year has arrived! COLLECTING: Age of Ultron 1-10, 10AI, Avengers Assemble 14AU -15AU , Fantastic Four 5AU , Fearless Defenders 4AU, Superior Spider -Man 6AU , Ultron 1AU , Uncanny Avenger s 8AU , Wolverine & the X-Men 27AU", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17824746-age-of-ultron"}, +{"book_title": "Pandemonium", "author_name": "Daryl Gregory", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2962, "review_number": 437, "book_description": "It is a world like our own in every respect . . . save one. In the 1950s, random acts of possession begin to occur. Ordinary men, women, and children are the targets of entities that seem to spring from the depths of the collective unconscious, pop-cultural avatars some call demons. There\u2019s the Truth, implacable avenger of falsehood. The Captain, brave and self-sacrificing soldier. The Little Angel, whose kiss brings death, whether desired or not. And a string of others, ranging from the bizarre to the benign to the horrific.As a boy, Del Pierce is possessed by the Hellion, an entity whose mischief-making can be deadly. With the help of Del\u2019s family and a caring psychiatrist, the demon is exorcised . . . or is it? Years later, following a car accident, the Hellion is back, trapped inside Del\u2019s head and clamoring to get out.Del\u2019s quest for help leads him to Valis, an entity possessing the science fiction writer formerly known as Philip K. Dick; to Mother Mariette, a nun who inspires decidedly unchaste feelings; and to the Human League, a secret society devoted to the extermination of demons. All believe that Del holds the key to the plague of possession\u2013and its solution. But for Del, the cure may be worse than the disease.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3191189-pandemonium"}, +{"book_title": "Roo'd", "author_name": "Joshua Klein", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 75, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Roo'd is geek-addled cyberpunk fiction at its finest, about a teenage boy with two prosthetic legs and a band of misfit body-modders, shamanistic computer hackers, and pharmaceutically psychotic bioscientists. But it's also an exploration of someone coming to grips with what they truly love to do - and what it means to do it in a confusing world of shades of gray.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2544784.Roo_d"}, +{"book_title": "Black Hearts in Battersea", "author_name": "Joan Aiken", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 4100, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew's fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help of his friend Sophie and the resourceful waif Dido, Simon narrowly escapes a series of madcap close calls and dangerous run-ins. In a time and place where villains do nothing halfway, Simon is faced with wild wolves, poisoned pies, kidnapping, and a wrecked ship. This is a cleverly contrived tale of intrigue and misadventure.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36637.Black_Hearts_in_Battersea"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow of Freedom", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 4757, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international bestselling phenomenon David Weber delivers book #18 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington series. Honor Harrington\u2019s Royal Manticoran Navy fights space battles alongside planetary rebels as its old rival, the corrupt Solarian League, begins to crumble.#18 in the multiply-bestselling Honor Harrington series.Wrong number? There are two sides to any quarrel . . . unless there are more. Michelle Henke, Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin, Honor Harrington's best friend, and the commanding officer of Manticore's Tenth Fleet, is just a bit surprised when a messenger arrives from the Mobius System to inform her that the Mobius Liberation Front is prepared to rise in rebellion against the hated regime President Svein Lombroso. She can understand why anyone would want to rebel against someone like Lombroso, but why tell her about it? After all, she has problems of her own, like the minor matter of a life-or-death war against the Solarian League. Michelle has just handed the \"invincible\" Solarian League Navy the most humiliating, one-sided defeat in its entire almost thousand-year history in defense of the people of the Star Empire's Talbott Quadrant. But the League is the most powerful star nation in the history of humanity. Its navy is going to be back \u2013 and this time with thousands of superdreadnoughts. Yet she also knows scores of other star systems \u2014 some independent, some controlled by puppet regimes, and some simply conquered outright by the Solarian Office of Frontier Security \u2014 lie in the League's grip along its frontier with the Talbott Quadrant. As combat spreads from the initial confrontation, the entire frontier has begun to seethe with unrest, and Michelle sympathizes with the oppressed populations wanting only to be free of their hated masters. And that puts her in something of a quandary when the messenger from Mobius arrives, because someone's obviously gotten a wrong number. According to him, the Mobians\u2019 uprising has been carefully planned to coordinate with a powerful outside ally: the Star Empire of Manticore. Only Manticore \u2014 and Mike Henke \u2014 have never even heard of the Mobius Liberation Front. It's a set-up . . . and Michelle knows who's behind it. The shadowy Mesan Alignment has launched a bold move to destroy Manticore's reputation as the champion of freedom. And when the RMN doesn't arrive, when the MLF is brutally and bloodily crushed, no independent star system will ever trust Manticore again. Mike Henke knows she has no orders from her government to assist any rebellions or liberation movements, that she has only so many ships, which can be in only so many places at a time . . . and that she can't possibly justify diverting any of her limited, outnumbered strength to missions of liberation the Star Empire never signed on for. She knows that . . . and she doesn't care. No one is going to send thousands of patriots to their deaths, trusting in Manticoran help that will never come. Not on Mike Henke's watch.About Shadow of Freedom: \u201cThis entry is just as exciting as Weber\u2019s initial offering. . . .The result is a fast-paced and action-packed story that follows [our characters] as they move from reaction to command of the situation. Weber builds Shadow of Freedom to an exciting and unexpected climax.\u201d\u2014Daily News of GalvestonAbout Mission of Honor, #13 in the Honor Harrington series: \u201cWeber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection and a deep understanding of military bureaucracy in this long-awaited Honor Harrington novel\u2026Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice to see Honor back in action.\u201d\u2013Publishers Weekly\u00a0 \u201cThis latest Honor Harrington novel brings the saga to another crucial turning point\u2026Readers may feel confident that they will be Honored many more times and enjoy it every time.\u201d\u2013Booklist About David Weber and the Honor Harrington series: \u201c. . .everything you could want in a heroine \u2026. Excellent \u2026 plenty of action.\u201d\u2013Science Fiction Age \u201cBrilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!\u201d\u2013Anne McCaffrey \u201cCompelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure.\u201d\u2013Locus \u201cWeber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice . . .\u201d\u2013Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15802917-shadow-of-freedom"}, +{"book_title": "The Temporal Void", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 20953, "review_number": 501, "book_description": "The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer. Not only is the Ocisen Empire fleet fast approaching on a mission of genocide, but also an internecine war has broken out between the post-human factions over the destiny of humanity.Countering the various and increasingly desperate agents and factions is Paula Myo, a ruthlessly single-minded investigator, beset by foes from her distant past and colleagues of dubious allegiance...but she is fast losing a race against time.At the heart of all this is Edeard the Waterwalker, who once lived a long time ago deep inside the Void. He is the messiah of Living Dream, and visions of his life are shared by, and inspire billions of humans. It is his glorious, captivating story that is the driving force behind Living Dream's Pilgrimage, a force that is too strong to be thwarted. As Edeard nears his final victory the true nature of the Void is finally revealed.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437328-the-temporal-void"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Gray Sea", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 2442, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "\nIn Taylor Anderson\u2019s acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II.\nNow, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, the crew of USS Walker, and their allies battle an ever-growing host of enemies across the globe in a desperate battle for freedom \u2026War has engulfed the\u2014other earth. With every hard-won victory and painful defeat,\u00a0Matt Reddy and the Allies encounter more friends\u2014and even more diabolical enemies. Even, at last, in the arms of the woman he loves, there is little peace for Reddy.\u00a0 The vast sea, and the scope of the conflict, have trapped him too far away to help on either front, but that doesn\u2019t mean he and Walker can rest.Cutting short his \u201choneymoon,\u201d Reddy sails off in pursuit of\u00a0 Hidoiame , a rogue Japanese destroyer that is wreaking havoc in Allied seas. Now that Walker is armed with the latest \u201cnew\u201d technology, he\u00a0hopes his battle-tested four-stacker has an even chance in a straight-up fight against the bigger ship\u2014and he means to take her on.Elsewhere, the long-awaited invasion of Grik \u201cIndiaa\u201d has begun, and the Human-Lemurian Alliance is pushing back against the twisted might of the Dominion. The diplomatic waters seethe with treachery and a final, terrible plot explodes in the Empire of New Britain Isles.\u00a0 Worse, the savage Grik have\u00a0also mastered \u201cnew\u201d technologies and strategies.\u00a0Their fleet of monstrous ironclads\u2014and an army two years in the making\u2014are finally massing to strike...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12660047-iron-gray-sea"}, +{"book_title": "The Invisible Library", "author_name": "Genevieve Cogman", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 44285, "review_number": 5439, "book_description": "Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently...Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested - the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. Irene's new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own.Soon, she's up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Yet failure is not an option - the nature of reality itself is at stake.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21416690-the-invisible-library"}, +{"book_title": "Brilliant Starlight", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1370, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "Abbey We're back on Silence, orbiting the Dark Planet while my husband handles unfinished business on Kythia. For some reason, he seems a little bit tense. According to Tarak, Kythian politics can be complicated, especially when the entire Kordolian Empire has just been destroyed. I hope things don't get too complicated, because I don't want to be stuck here for too long. A warship isn't really the best place to raise a child. Tarak The only way to ensure Abbey and Ami remained safe was to bring down the Empire. It is done. Now it is up to the statesmen and scholars to rebuild our civilization from the inside out. I'm just here to provide the muscle, but above all, I'm here to keep my mate and my child safe. If anything or anyone dares to threaten them... They know how I will respond. The problem is that not all enemies can be taken down by force. Warning: This book is a science-fiction alien romance. It contains swearing, violence, sensual sex scenes, and silver aliens with fangs. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over. Brilliant Starlight is Book 8 in the Dark Planet Warriors series. It will make more sense if you've read the other books in the series beforehand, but that's probably not absolutely essential. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35627185-brilliant-starlight"}, +{"book_title": "Wild Blood", "author_name": "Naomi Lucas", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2310, "review_number": 249, "book_description": "Dommik was a monster, a Monster Hunter, and an alpha. Part of an elite group that dealt with the horrors of the universe. At least that was what everyone at the spaceport was whispering as he walked by. A Cyborg, a hunter, a beast with eyes as dark as the pits of Hell and the stride of a predator. Katalina was a nobody who was intimate with death. It clung to her like a shroud, It followed her like the plague, and infected her like a parasite. When she overheard that the Monster Hunter needed an assistant, she took the job. And when the Cyborg\u2019s eyes caught hers, she knew getting closer to death might just bring her back to life. The Cyborg didn\u2019t scare her. So she followed him and left fate up to chance. Warning: mature readers only, explicit sex scenes. Book one of Cyborg Shifters, same universe as Stranded in the Stars, every book is a standalone that only subtly builds off of the others.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35095979-wild-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf by Wolf", "author_name": "Ryan Graudin", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 18545, "review_number": 3798, "book_description": "Her story begins on a train.The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Great Victory, Hitler and Emperor Hirohito host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents. The victor is awarded an audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler at the Victor\u2019s Ball in Tokyo.Yael, a former death camp prisoner, has witnessed too much suffering, and the five wolves tattooed on her arm are a constant reminder of the loved ones she lost. The resistance has given Yael one goal: Win the race and kill Hitler. A survivor of painful human experimentation, Yael has the power to skinshift and must complete her mission by impersonating last year\u2019s only female racer, Adele Wolfe. This deception becomes more difficult when Felix, Adele twin\u2019s brother, and Luka, her former love interest, enter the race and watch Yael\u2019s every move.But as Yael grows closer to the other competitors, can she bring herself to be as ruthless as she needs to be to avoid discovery and complete her mission?From the author of The Walled City comes a fast-paced and innovative novel that will leave you breathless.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24807186-wolf-by-wolf"}, +{"book_title": "Coyote", "author_name": "Allen M. Steele", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 3400, "review_number": 259, "book_description": "After stealing a starship full of political refugees, Captain Robert E. Lee and his crew travel to a distant planetary system with a habitable moon (named Coyote) with the dream of starting a colony free from governmental and social oppression.The trip lasts 226 years, but while everyone is in biostasis, one of the crew members is accidentally awakened. With his cell permanently deactivated by the ship's AI, communications officer Leslie Gillis is doomed to a solitary life (and death) aboard the starship. When the rest of the crew is eventually reawakened as the ship reaches its destination, what they find is extraordinary. Once the small colony is established on Coyote, they realize just how different their new world is from Earth. Exploration begins, and although a few colonists are killed by predators, the colony survives and even begins to thrive that is, until a strange comet appears in the sky.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/686344.Coyote"}, +{"book_title": "Appleseed, Vol. 1: The Promethean Challenge", "author_name": "Masamune Shirow", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1476, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Functional simplicity, structural complexity: the best life for all. That's the maxim of Olympus, the utopian city that sprung from the ashes of World War III. But Deunan and Bri, a young woman and her cyborg companion just entering the rose-tinted society, find that so long as there are different kinds of people there will be differences among them. Such is the story of Appleseed, the masterwork of manga storyteller Masamune Shirow. Beautiful art and a complex and fully realized future world rank this title among the best comics available.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Cultural (Japan)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918866.Appleseed_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "The Mechanical", "author_name": "Ian Tregillis", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 6079, "review_number": 685, "book_description": "My name is Jax.That is the name granted to me by my human masters.I am a clakker: a mechanical man, powered by alchemy. Armies of my kind have conquered the world - and made the Brasswork Throne the sole superpower.I am a faithful servant. I am the ultimate fighting machine. I am endowed with great strength and boundless stamina.But I am beholden to the wishes of my human masters.I am a slave. But I shall be free.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20980667-the-mechanical"}, +{"book_title": "It Can't Happen Here", "author_name": "Sinclair Lewis", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 15410, "review_number": 2589, "book_description": "The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression when America was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a President who becomes a dictator to \"save the nation.\" Now finally back in print, It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contemporary as today's news.", "year_published": 1935, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literature", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11371.It_Can_t_Happen_Here"}, +{"book_title": "King of the Wood", "author_name": "John Maddox Roberts", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 75, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "After being exiled from Treeland, the northern portion of North America settled by Vikings in the 15th century, Hring Kristjanson encounters many dangers--especially from Lady Yngva, the high priestess of the powerful and bloodthirsty pagan gods.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Action", "War", "Heroic Fantasy (Sword and Sorcery)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176630.King_of_the_Wood"}, +{"book_title": "The Heart Goes Last", "author_name": "Margaret Atwood", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 55618, "review_number": 6473, "book_description": "Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around - and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in... for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their \"civilian\" homes. At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24388326-the-heart-goes-last"}, +{"book_title": "Incursion", "author_name": "Mark E. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 541, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "The war games are on, but the real battle has just begun\u2026 The entire Alliance is ready for the war games. The spectacular show of innovation and strength may change the way war is waged, but on far-flung worlds, devastating incursions have already begun. The Merkiaari are back, but news can only travel as fast as a foldspace drone. Captain Eric Penleigh of the 501st Infantry Regiment looks forward to an easy assignment. All he needs to do is evaluate the best cutting-edge tech the Alliance has to offer and make nice with new alien allies. But when preparation for the games turns into a deadly war, nobody will be ready for what comes next\u2026 Incursion is the long-awaited fifth book in the Merkiaari Wars series. If you like breathtaking space battles and heart-pounding military sci-fi, then you\u2019ll love Mark E. Cooper\u2019s latest entry in the beloved space opera saga.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17909841-incursion"}, +{"book_title": "Crownchasers", "author_name": "Rebecca Coffindaffer", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 589, "review_number": 224, "book_description": "A deadly competition for the throne will determine more than just the fate of the empire in this riveting duology opener, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Aurora Rising, and Three Dark Crowns.Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy. Her mother sacrificed everything to bring peace to the quadrant, and her uncle has successfully ruled as emperor for decades. But the last thing Alyssa wants is to follow in their footsteps as the next in line for the throne. Why would she choose to be trapped in a palace when she could be having wild adventures exploring a thousand-and-one planets in her own ship?But when Alyssa\u2019s uncle becomes gravely ill, his dying wish surprises the entire galaxy. Instead of naming her as his successor, he calls for a crownchase, the first in seven centuries. Representatives from each of the empire\u2019s prime families\u2014including Alyssa\u2014are thrown into a race to find the royal seal, which has been hidden somewhere in the empire. The first to find the seal wins the throne.Alyssa\u2019s experience as an explorer makes her the favorite to win the crown she never wanted. And though she doesn\u2019t want to be empress, her duty to her uncle compels her to participate in this one last epic adventure. But when the chase turns deadly, it\u2019s clear that more than just the fate of the empire is at stake. Alyssa is on her most important quest yet\u2014and only time will tell if she\u2019ll survive it.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50211894-crownchasers"}, +{"book_title": "Melting Iron", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 6503, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Being a female mechanic on a space station for eight years has taught Dawn a lot of tough life lessons that have hardened her heart. She\u2019s got a temper and a mouth to match her red hair and has never backed away from a challenge. Then she\u2019s kidnapped and blackmailed into agreeing to be a cyborg\u2019s personal sex slave.Iron is one big bastard with long, fiery red hair, intense, dark blue eyes and a stubborn streak as thick as his dense muscles. If Iron thinks he can tame her, he\u2019s about to learn that \u201cmeek\u201d is not in Dawn\u2019s vocabulary. But with that handsome face, a body to die for, a wickedly talented tongue and those magical hands, the guy just doesn\u2019t fight fair.Dawn is intent on melting Iron\u2019s icy resolve to never fall in love with a human. He\u2019s winning her heart and she\u2019s determined to win his right back. These two redheads have just met their matches. Let the battle for love begin", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8540220-melting-iron"}, +{"book_title": "Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions", "author_name": "Chris Barton", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1712, "review_number": 313, "book_description": "A cool idea with a big splash. You know the Super Soaker. It\u2019s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson\u2019s life. Growing up in a house full of brothers and sisters, persistence and a passion for problem solving became the cornerstone for a career as an engineer and his work with NASA. But it is his invention of the Super Soaker water gun that has made his most memorable splash with kids and adults.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Biography", "Nonfiction", "Science", "Cultural (African American)", "Childrens", "Biography Memoir", "History", "Psychology (Growth Mindset)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26067617-whoosh"}, +{"book_title": "Ironskin", "author_name": "Tina Connolly", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 3454, "review_number": 659, "book_description": "Jane Eliot wears an iron mask. It\u2019s the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain\u2014the ironskin. When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a \"delicate situation\"\u2014a child born during the Great War\u2014Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help. Teaching the unruly Dorie to suppress her curse is hard enough; she certainly didn\u2019t expect to fall for the girl\u2019s father, the enigmatic artist Edward Rochart. But her blossoming crush is stifled by her own scars, and by his parade of women. Ugly women, who enter his closed studio...and come out as beautiful as the fey. Jane knows Rochart cannot love her, just as she knows that she must wear iron for the rest of her life. But what if neither of these things is true? Step by step Jane unlocks the secrets of her new life\u2014and discovers just how far she will go to become whole again.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9860837-ironskin"}, +{"book_title": "The Inventor's Secret", "author_name": "Andrea Cremer", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 3533, "review_number": 579, "book_description": "There is an alternate cover edition for this edition here.Sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain\u2019s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth they have their health (at least when they can find enough food and avoid the Imperial Labor Gatherers) and each other. When a new exile with no memory of his escape from the coastal cities or even his own name seeks shelter in their camp he brings new dangers with him and secrets about the terrible future that awaits all those who have struggled has to live free of the bonds of the empire\u2019s Machineworks.The Inventor\u2019s Secret is the first book of a YA steampunk series set in an alternate nineteenth-century North America where the Revolutionary War never took place and the British Empire has expanded into a global juggernaut propelled by marvelous and horrible machinery.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10123237-the-inventor-s-secret"}, +{"book_title": "Guerrilla Girl", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 22, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Two years after Carlene Vargas boarded a starship to avoid prosecution for murder, the drama continues. Guerilla Girl, the sequel to Starport, takes place on the neighboring planet of Tropicon. Terra Lafirma, a native girl from the hill country of Casamanilla Province, wants to join the local regiment to fight the evil Askelonis. She has been taught all her life that Askelon, the most powerful world in the Trimary System, is responsible for exploiting her planet and stealing its resources. Back on Askelon, Tyler Unruh has graduated high school and joined the army. Two years of hard training have qualified him to join 14th Star Infantry, the \u201celitest outfit in the whole damned army\u201d. And trillionaire Jorge Sorres, the richest man in the galaxy, orchestrates the next move in his favorite game\u2014pulling the strings of power to bring Askelon to its knees. Don\u2019t miss this thrilling sequel to Starport. 100,000 words. Roughly 379 pages in a mass market paperback Rated \"R\". ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24316068-guerrilla-girl"}, +{"book_title": "The Technicolor Time Machine", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1080, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Why pay for costumes, scenery, props or actors when the most brilliant drama of all time is unfolding before your very eyes, in vivid color - in 1050 A.D.? Just the film crew of that stupendous motion picture saga Viking Columbus as they journey back in time to capture history in the making.The story first appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, where it was serialized in three parts in the March\u2013May 1967 issues, under the title \"The Time Machined Saga\".", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Classics", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28803.The_Technicolor_Time_Machine"}, +{"book_title": "1633", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 5714, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "AMERICAN FREEDOM AND JUSTICE VS. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TYRANNY The new Confederated Principalities of Europe-an alliance between Gustavus,king of Sweden, and the West Virginia town, led by Mike Stearns, which was hurled back through time to the thirty years war - has big problems. As the greatest naval war in European history erupts, Cardinal Richelieu has created an alliance to destroy the CPE, and only American technology can save Gustavus from ruin. Meanwhile Mike's wife Rebecca is trapped in war-torn Amsterdam, and his sister Rita is imprisoned in the tower of London. And much as Mike wants to reform tyrannical 17th-century Europe by Sweet Reason, he finds comfort in the fact that Julie, who trained as an Olympic marksman, still has her rifle....", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57261.1633"}, +{"book_title": "Startide Rising", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 30047, "review_number": 698, "book_description": "David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being \"uplifted\" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234501.Startide_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Light", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1283, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "The Second Sphere was founded by gods and populated with a host of kidnapped alien races. For Matt Cairns and the cosmonauts of the Bright Star it is their new home, but their unexpected arrival may trigger disaster. For, hidden among the stars, the gods still watch over their creation... and they do not tolerate dissent.Following on from COSMONAUT KEEP, which was shortlisted for the 2002 Hugo Award, this is the second book in the dazzling new space opera series by one of SF's most exciting new authors.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185828.Dark_Light"}, +{"book_title": "The Dance of Time", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1833, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "The Malwa and their evil have been driven back to their Indian heartland, but there they coil to strike again. Ruled by a monster from the future which is part computer and part demon, they prepare a fresh attack whose success will leave them rulers of the world\u2014and the monster that guides the Malwa will rule the whole future! Belisarius, the greatest general of his age, has arrayed the forces of Mankind against the Malwa evil. On his breast is the jewel sent to his support from a future of hope and freedom, willing to guide him but never to direct his actions. Behind him are allies from across Europe, Asia and Africa--mutually distrustful but aware that neither they nor Mankind have any hope if the Malwa prevail. Belisarius faces armies and assassins, ruthless brutality and inhuman cruelty. There is no hope for Mankind if he fails\u2014so he must not fail!", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662697.The_Dance_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Traveler", "author_name": "John Twelve Hawks", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 10757, "review_number": 1084, "book_description": "The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. A world that exists in the shadows of our own. A conflict we will never see. One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.A world that exists in the shadows of our own.A conflict we will never see.One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live a normal life. But Maya comes from a long line of people who call themselves Harlequins\u2014a fierce group of warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to protect a select few known as Travelers.Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are brothers living in Los Angeles. Since childhood, the young men have been shaped by stories that their late father was a Traveler, one of a small band of prophets who have vastly influenced the course of history. Travelers are able to attain pure enlightenment, and have for centuries ushered change into the world. Gabriel and Michael, who may have inherited their father's gifts, have always protected themselves by living \u201coff the Grid\u201d\u2014that is, invisible to the real-life surveillance networks that monitor people in our modern society.Summoned by her ailing father, Maya is told of the existence of the brothers. The Corrigans are in severe danger, stalked by powerful men known as the Tabula\u2014ruthless mercenaries who have hunted Travelers for generations. This group is determined to inflict order on the world by controlling it, and they view Travelers as an intolerable threat. As Maya races to California to protect the brothers, she is reluctantly pulled back into the cold and solitary Harlequin existence. A colossal battle looms\u2014one that will reveal not only the identities of Gabriel and Michael Corrigan but also a secret history of our time.Moving from the back alleys of Prague to the heart of Los Angeles, from the high deserts of Arizona to a guarded research facility in New York, The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. John Twelve Hawks' stunningly suspenseful debut is an international publishing sensation that marks the arrival of a major new talent.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80754.The_Traveler"}, +{"book_title": "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness", "author_name": "Peter Godfrey-Smith", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 12975, "review_number": 1567, "book_description": "Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once but at least twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being\u2014how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind\u2019s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys.But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually \u201cthink for themselves\u201d? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia?By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind\u2014and on our own.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "Philosophy", "Environment (Nature)", "Animals", "Psychology", "Science (Biology)", "Audiobook", "Biology (Neuroscience)", "Science (Natural History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28116739-other-minds"}, +{"book_title": "Light", "author_name": "M. John Harrison", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 5008, "review_number": 572, "book_description": "In M. John Harrison\u2019s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there\u2019s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn\u2019t yet exist\u2014a quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to access through a breach of time and space itself. In this future, Seria Mau Genlicher has already sacrificed her body to merge into the systems of her starship, the White Cat. But the \u201cinhuman\u201d K-ship captain has gone rogue, pirating the galaxy while playing cat and mouse with the authorities who made her what she is. In this future, Ed Chianese, a drifter and adventurer, has ridden dynaflow ships, run old alien mazes, surfed stellar envelopes. He \u201cwent deep\u201d\u2014and lived to tell about it. Once crazy for life, he\u2019s now just a twink on New Venusport, addicted to the bizarre alternate realities found in the tanks\u2014and in debt to all the wrong people.Haunting them all through this maze of menace and mystery is the shadowy presence of the Shrander\u2014and three enigmatic clues left on the barren surface of an asteroid under an ocean of light known as the Kefahuchi Tract: a deserted spaceship, a pair of bone dice, and a human skeleton.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17735.Light"}, +{"book_title": "The Transference Engine", "author_name": "Julia Verne St. John", "rating_score": 3.14, "rating_votes": 56, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "A fantastical steampunk novel of magic and machines set in an alternate 1830s London.Madame Magdala has settled comfortably into her new life in London, as the proprietress of the Book View Caf\u00e9, a coffee shop and extensive library. Her silent partner is Ada Lovelace, who will one day become the world\u2019s first computer programmer\u2014but who now is simply the young woman for whom Madame Magdala was a nursery maid.Ten years ago, Ada\u2019s father, Lord Bryon, was known as a great writer. But few knew of his powers as a necromancer. Upon his death, his devoted followers tried to repair the Transference Engine\u2014a device that would allow Byron\u2019s soul to claim the body of its choice. Magadala, along with Mary Godwin\u2014a.k.a. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley\u2014had to stop them.While the original Transference Engine was destroyed, they were unsure whether they truly stopped Bryon and his followers. Together, they fled to safety in London, and built new futures for themselves.Now, Magdala and Mary care for the Book View Caf\u00e9\u2019s community, leading fashion, following gossip, and reading the latest periodicals. But when members of the caf\u00e9\u2019s community mysteriously disappear, and rumors of a threat of royal assassinaton grow, Magdala finds herself with new mysteries to solve. The more she learns, the clearer it becomes that this is the same mystery returned\u2014the Transference Engine is back with a vengeance.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209442-the-transference-engine"}, +{"book_title": "By Other Means", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2444, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "The Hayden War has ended and now SOLCOM and the Alliance are face to face in talks, but neither side has the slightest idea what happened in the ultimate battle of the war. Amid political jockeying and diplomatic gamesmanship, Captain Sorilla Aida has been given an assignment : Find a weakness to exploit, buy SOLCOM time to learn just what the hell happened to Valkyrie, and make sure that the Alliance isn't prepared to risk another conflict in the open. Sorilla has problems of her own, however, and after losing so much in the war she isn't as certain of her life choices as she used to be. Unfortunately for her, the Alliance, SOLCOM, and others don't intend to let her have time to figure it out for herself. The Hayden War is over, the Cold War is just beginning.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21955030-by-other-means"}, +{"book_title": "Never Let Me Go", "author_name": "Kazuo Ishiguro", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 491549, "review_number": 32660, "book_description": "From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it\u2019s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Contemporary", "Literary Fiction", "Novels", "Adult", "Romance", "Literature", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go"}, +{"book_title": "Emissaries from the Dead", "author_name": "Adam-Troy Castro", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 840, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe's dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures. Under order from the Diplomatic Corps, Counselor Andrea Cort has come to this cylinder world where an indentured human community hangs suspended high above a poisoned, acid atmosphere. Her assignment is to choose a suitable homicide suspect from among those who have sold their futures to escape existences even worse than this one. And no matter where the trail leads her she must do nothing to implicate the hosts, who hold the power to obliterate humankind in an instant.But Andrea Cort is not about to hold back in her hunt for a killer. For she has nothing to lose and harbors no love for her masters or fellow indentures. And she herself has felt the terrible exhilaration of taking life . . . .", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2470286.Emissaries_from_the_Dead"}, +{"book_title": "Deathstalker Honor", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2405, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Owen Deathstalker became a hero after the great rebellion against the tyranny of Lionstone XIV, and now political factions are quarreling over who will replace the deposed Empress. But Humanity faces an even greater threat: an encroaching invasion fleet of alien origin...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498513.Deathstalker_Honor"}, +{"book_title": "Get in Trouble", "author_name": "Kelly Link", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 9740, "review_number": 1618, "book_description": "She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as \u201cthe most darkly playful voice in American fiction\u201d and by Neil Gaiman as \u201ca national treasure.\u201d Now Kelly Link\u2019s eagerly awaited new collection--her first for adult readers in a decade--proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer is among the finest we have. Link has won an ardent following for her ability to take readers deep into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed fictional universe with each new story. In \u201cThe Summer People,\u201d a young girl in rural North Carolina serves as uneasy caretaker to the mysterious, never-quite-glimpsed visitors who inhabit the cottage behind her house. In \u201cI Can See Right Through You,\u201d a middle-aged movie star makes a disturbing trip to the Florida swamp where his former on- and off-screen love interest is shooting a ghost-hunting reality show. In \u201cThe New Boyfriend,\u201d a suburban slumber party takes an unusual turn, and a teenage friendship is tested, when the spoiled birthday girl opens her big present: a life-size animated doll. Hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the Pyramids...These are just some of the talismans of an imagination as capacious and as full of wonder as that of any writer today. But as fantastical as these stories can be, they are always grounded in sly humor and an innate generosity of feeling for the frailty--and the hidden strengths--of human beings. In Get in Trouble, this one-of-a-kind talent expands the boundaries of what short fiction can do.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22125258-get-in-trouble"}, +{"book_title": "The Naked God", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 17627, "review_number": 436, "book_description": "The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the 'possessed' to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle, the kind which hasn't been seen by humankind for six hundred years; then some of the protagonists escape in a very unexpected direction.Joshua Calvert and Syrinx fly their starships on a mission to find the Sleeping God - which an alien race believes holds the key to overthrowing the possessed.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Epic", "Space", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45260.The_Naked_God"}, +{"book_title": "Marauder Cygnus", "author_name": "Aya Morningstar", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 669, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "War rages between Earth and Mars, and an alien fleet from a distant star barrels toward our solar system. I\u2019m laying low in the asteroid belt, as far from the war as I can get, but so is one of the aliens. And I\u2019m the first to find him. Second to find him? Pirates. A whole lot of them. The alien kills every last one to protect me, and we barely escape before reinforcements arrive. Now my life is in the hands of this savage, purple-skinned killer. Not all of his skin is purple though, his...thing...is teal. And it\u2019s nearly as big as the rest of him. His shoulders are as wide as Valles Marineris, and he\u2019s tall as Olympus Mons. His ego is way too big for my tiny ship, but one look from him with that insufferable grin, and my cheeks burn hotter than Venus. He\u2019s protected me fiercely and without question, but which side will he take when the rest of his race comes to destroy us all? Marauder Cygnus is the first book in the Mating Wars series, but it can also be read as a standalone. Each book in this rock-hard science fiction series has a happily ever after and NO CLIFFHANGERS.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30529792-marauder-cygnus"}, +{"book_title": "The Inverted World", "author_name": "Christopher Priest", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 7071, "review_number": 643, "book_description": "The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city & carefully removed in its wake. Rivers & mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther & farther behind the optimum & into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death. The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in creches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they're carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. Yet the city is in crisis. People are growing restive. The population is dwindling. The rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum. Helward Mann is a member of the city's elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the city's continued existence. But the world he's about to discover is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142181.The_Inverted_World"}, +{"book_title": "Hollow World", "author_name": "Michael J. Sullivan", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 4708, "review_number": 731, "book_description": "The future is coming...for some, sooner than others.Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when faced with a terminal illness, he\u2019s willing to take an insane gamble. He\u2019s built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he\u2019ll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. He could find more than a cure for his illness; he might find what everyone has been searching for since time began\u2026but only if he can survive Hollow World. Welcome to the future and a new sci-fantasy thriller from the bestselling author of The Riyria Revelations.BEST OF & MOST ANTICIPATED LISTS\u2022 2014 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction\u2022 2014 The Qwillery's Brannigan Cheney\u2019s Top 3 books\u2022 2014 The Fictional Hangout\u2019s Best Books of the Year\u2022 2014 Ranting Dragon\u2019s Ten Fantasy and Science-Fiction Novels worth reading in April\u2022 2014 Barnes and Noble Top Fantasy and Science Fiction Picks for April\u2022 2014 Ranting Dragon\u2019s 30 Most Anticipated Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels\u2022 2014 The Book Probe\u2019s Most Anticipated Sci-Fi Novels\u2022 2013 The BiblioSanctum\u2019s Top 10 Reads\u2022 2013 Fantasy Review Barn\u2019s Barney Award for Outstanding Reads", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19084955-hollow-world"}, +{"book_title": "Going Back for Romeo", "author_name": "L.L. Muir", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 693, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Alone, with a Highlander, in his castle, on a cold dark night...(Okay, so it wasn't that cold.)Jillian MacKay is being conned by a pair of eighty-year-old witches. They're convinced she's the perfect sucker to test a prophecy and they're willing to bury her alive to prove it. Once she escapes and finds herself in 15th Century Scotland, she believes her return home depends on a heroic deed--she must rescue a plaid-clad Romeo and Juliet before their story can end in tragedy. The monster standing in her way, however, is a handsome Highlander who might just be her own Romeo...a Romeo she must leave behind.Rather than surrender his secrets, Montgomery Ross would prefer to go down in history as the heartless creature who betrayed one sister and buried the other alive. When he falls in love with the prophesied faery who has come to expose him, he'll have to learn a wee lesson from the star-crossed lovers or suffer the fate to which he once condemned them.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19091731-going-back-for-romeo"}, +{"book_title": "Portal", "author_name": "Imogen Rose", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1791, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Come Find Me Two Years Ago... Six words that propel ice-hockey-playing tomboy, Arizona, into an alternate dimension. She suddenly finds herself living the life of a glamorous cheerleader. She finds herself transported from her happy life with her dad to living with the mother she hates. Everyone knows her as Arizona Darley, but she isn't. She is Arizona Stevens. As she struggles to find answers she is certain of two things -- that her mother is somehow responsible, and that she wants to go back home to her real life. That's until she meets Kellan...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7794569-portal"}, +{"book_title": "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", "author_name": "Douglas Adams", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 146618, "review_number": 3006, "book_description": "Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. . . .God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it's light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6091075-so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish"}, +{"book_title": "Replica", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 14067, "review_number": 2405, "book_description": "LyraFrom a distance, the Haven Institute, tucked away on a private island off the coast of Florida, looks serene and even beautiful. But up close the locked doors, military guards, and biohazard suits tell a different story. In truth, it is a clandestine research facility where thousands of replicas, or human models, are born, raised, and observed.But when a surprise attack is launched on Haven, two of its young experimental subjects\u2014Lyra, or 24, and the boy known only as 72\u2014manage to escape. As they make their way through a new and menacing environment, they meet a stranger named Gemma, who has embarked on a perilous quest of her own. And as Lyra tries to understand Haven\u2019s purpose, she uncovers earth-shattering secrets that will change the lives of both girls.GemmaGemma has been in and out of hospitals her whole life. A sickly child, she has grown into a lonely adolescent whose life is circumscribed by home, school, and her best friend, April.But after she is nearly abducted by a stranger claiming to know her, Gemma starts to investigate her family\u2019s past and discovers her father\u2019s mysterious connection to the secretive Haven research facility. Hungry for answers, she travels to Florida, only to stumble upon two human models, or replicas, 24 and 72\u2014and a completely new set of questions. As Gemma tries to unravel the mysteries of Haven, she learns terrible truths about herself and her family that will threaten to destroy everything she loves.Two girls, two stories, one novel.While the stories of Gemma and Lyra mirror each other, each contains revelations critically important to the other story. Their narratives can be read separately or in alternating chapters.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Mystery", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28448287-replica"}, +{"book_title": "Lincoln's Bodyguard: In A Heroic Act Of Bravery Saves Our Beloved President! John Wilkes Booth Killed In Act Of Treason", "author_name": "T.J. Turner", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 385, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "In \"Lincoln s Bodyguard,\" an alternative version of American history, President Lincoln is saved from assassination. Though he prophesied his own death the only way he believed the South would truly surrender Lincoln never accounted for the heroics of his bodyguard, Joseph Foster. A biracial mix of white and Miami Indian, Joseph makes an enemy of the South by killing John Wilkes Booth and preventing the death of the president. His wife is murdered and his daughter kidnapped, sending Joseph on a revenge-fueled rampage to recover his daughter. When his search fails, he disappears as the nation falls into a simmering insurgency instead of an end to the War. Years later, Joseph is still running from his past when he receives a letter from Lincoln pleading for help. The President has a secret mission. Pursued from the outset, Joseph turns to the only person who might help, the woman he abandoned years earlier. If he can win Molly over, he might just fulfill the President s urgent request, find his daughter, and maybe even hasten the end of the War.\"", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23225957-lincoln-s-bodyguard"}, +{"book_title": "At the Sign of Triumph", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3091, "review_number": 230, "book_description": "The Church of God Awaiting's triumph over Charis was inevitable. Despite its prosperity, the Charis was a single, small island realm. It boasted less than two percent of the total population of Safehold. How could it possibly resist total destruction? The Church had every reason to be confident of a swift, crushing victory, an object lesson to other rebels.But Charis had something far more powerful than simple numbers. It had a king, a crown prince, and a navy prepared to die where they stood in its defense. It had the Brethren of Saint Zherneau, who knew the truth about Safehold's founding. Who knew that the Church of God Awaiting was a monstrous lie. And it had Merlin Athrawes, last survivor of long-vanished Earth. Merlin, the cybernetic avatar of a woman dead over a thousand years, who was determined to break the Church's grip upon the human mind and soul.So after eight years of war, it is not Charis but the Church that stands upon the brink of defeat. But the Church still commands immense resources, and \u2014 faced with the unthinkable \u2014 it\u2019s decided that it, too, must embrace the forbidden technology which has carried Charis so far.In the end, it is simple, for only one can survive. The lines are drawn, the navies and armies have been raised, and all of Safehold is poised for the final battle between those who believe in freedom and those who would crush it forever.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26072945-at-the-sign-of-triumph"}, +{"book_title": "The Rule of Three", "author_name": "Eric Walters", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 5783, "review_number": 848, "book_description": "One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley's high school, the problem first seems to be a typical electrical outage, until students discover that cell phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and a few computer-free cars like Adam's are the only vehicles that function. Driving home, Adam encounters a storm tide of anger and fear as the region becomes paralyzed. Soon\u2014as resources dwindle, crises mount, and chaos descends\u2014he will see his suburban neighborhood band together for protection. And Adam will understand that having a police captain for a mother and a retired government spy living next door are not just the facts of his life but the keys to his survival, in The Rule of Three by Eric Walters.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17934467-the-rule-of-three"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien's Mail-Order Bride", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3422, "review_number": 321, "book_description": "Though still carrying the scars of his past as an intergalactic soldier, Emvor doesn\u2019t mind the quiet of his chosen life as a farmer. He doesn\u2019t even mind that most nights are lonely on remote Cassa, but he does need help around his farm. A mail-order bride from his homeworld seems like the perfect solution. She\u2019ll be a tall, sturdy female to help with the chores and bear his children. Unfortunately, the person that arrives is Nicola. She\u2019s small, delicate\u2026 and human. She also knows nothing about farming, and she's lied and deceived her way across the galaxy to get to Cassa so she can hide from those that would capture her. She's a problem, and also the most enticing thing he's ever seen. Now Emvor has to decide\u2026 can he keep the woman who\u2019s nothing like what he asked for but is everything he needs?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36512375-the-alien-s-mail-order-bride"}, +{"book_title": "Cadaver & Queen", "author_name": "Alisa Kwitney", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 882, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "When Lizzie Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn't have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she'll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-mechanical--one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school--she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program.Only this Bio-mechanical isn't like the others. Where they are usually empty-minded and perfectly obedient, this one seems to have thoughts, feelings... and self-awareness.Soon Lizzie realizes that it is Victor Frankenstein--a former student who died under mysterious circumstances. Victor, it seems, still has a spark of human intelligence inside him, along with memories of things he discovered before his untimely death.. .and a suspicion that he was murdered to keep that information from getting out. Suddenly Lizzie finds herself intertwined in dark secrets and sabotage that put her life, and the lives of Victor and their friends, in danger. But Lizzie's determined to succeed--even if that means fighting an enemy who threatens the entire British Empire.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Retellings", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35140600-cadaver-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Hour", "author_name": "Eamon Ambrose", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 337, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "A soldier wakes, possibly the last survivor of a brutal attack by machines intent on destroying humanity, but all is not as it seems in this thrilling futuristic tale with a twist that will make you want to read it all over again.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29327183-zero-hour"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables", "author_name": "Stephen L. Antczak", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 486, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "Combining the timeless fairy tales that we all read as children with the out-of-time technological wizardry that is steampunk, this collection of stories blends the old and the new in ways sure to engage every fantasy reader.\u2026 Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s \"The Red Shoes\", New York Times bestselling author K. W. Jeter\u2019s \"La Valse\" forges a fable about love, the decadence of technology, and a gala dance that becomes the obsession of a young engineer\u2014and the doom of those who partake in it.\u2026 In \"You Will Attend Until Beauty Awakens\", national bestselling author and John W. Campbell Award winner Jay Lake tells the story of Sleeping Beauty\u2014and how the princess was conceived in deception, raised in danger, and rescued by a prince who may be less than valiant. The tale of \"The Tinderbox\" takes a turn into the surreal when a damaged young soldier comes into possession of an intricate, treacherous treasure and is drawn into a mission of mercy in national bestselling author Kat Richardson\u2019s \"The Hollow Hounds\". In \"The Kings of Mount Golden\", Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee Paul Di Filippo tells the story of a young man\u2019s search for his heritage and a mechanical marvel that lies at the heart of a sinister pact in this fascinating take on \"The King of the Golden Mountain\".ALSO INCLUDES STORIES FROM Steven Harper Nancy A. Collins G. K. Hayes Gregory Nicoll Pip Ballantine ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15810153-clockwork-fairy-tales"}, +{"book_title": "Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization", "author_name": "Alexander C. Irvine", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 2102, "review_number": 298, "book_description": "The official novelization of the upcoming sci-fi blockbuster Pacific Rim from visionary director Guillermo del Toro!When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.\"I wanted to make not a war movie, but an adventure movie, with a huge, romantic sense of adventure, a sense of grandeur, and operatic battles...\" - Guillermo Del Toro", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17162161-pacific-rim"}, +{"book_title": "A Hole in Space", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2550, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "The Perfect Crime: The invention of displacement booths produced one hell of a crime wave. If a man in, say, Hawaii could commit murder in, say, Chicago and be back in the time it would take him to visit the men's room, he would have a perfect alibi. And the police would have a problem. But that's only one of the problems found in Larry Niven's universe, in this collection of stories all about teleportation, deep space, black holes, artificial worlds and Louis Wu--our old friend from the \"Known Space\" cycle--Niven once again proves he's a master builder of fantastic worlds!Stories include: RammerThe Alibi MachineThe Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot ClubA Kind of MurderAll the Bridges RustingThere Is a TideBigger Than Worlds$16,940.00The Hole ManThe Fourth Profession", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218473.A_Hole_in_Space"}, +{"book_title": "The Unknown", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 3666, "review_number": 127, "book_description": "There's a new rumor in town. Someone has discovered an item that proves life on other planets exists. And they've been hiding it on a base called Zone 91. The Most Secret Place On Earth.Cassie, the other Animorphs, and Ax already know about life on other planets. Too well. They also realize the Yeerks will try to access Zone 91 to find out if what's there will threaten their mission. So the Animorphs decide to pay Zone 91 and the Yeerks a little visit. But what they discover is not at all what they expect.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363391.The_Unknown"}, +{"book_title": "Why Is Nothing Ever Simple", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 1469, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "A special Chronicles of St Mary's Christmas short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.Bannockburn. Major Guthrie. The traditional St Mary's illegal Christmas jump.All terribly straightforward, surely...", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Humor", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52731061-why-is-nothing-ever-simple"}, +{"book_title": "Super Sad True Love Story", "author_name": "Gary Shteyngart", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 38280, "review_number": 4707, "book_description": "The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante\u2019s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America\u2019s dysfunctional coming years\u2014and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.In a very near future\u2014oh, let\u2019s say next Tuesday\u2014a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don\u2019t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world\u2019s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn\u2019t it? Lenny\u2019s from a different century\u2014he totally loves books (or \u201cprinted, bound media artifacts,\u201d as they\u2019re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our \u201cancient dork\u201d effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny\u2019s new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York\u2019s Central Park, the city\u2019s streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He\u2019s going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect\u2019s \u201chotness\u201d and \u201csustainability\u201d with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.\u00a0", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Humor", "Adult Fiction", "Literature (American)", "New York"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7334201-super-sad-true-love-story"}, +{"book_title": "Rulers of the Darkness", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 735, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Beginning with Into the \"Darkness,\" \" Darkness Descending,\" and \"Through the Darkness,\" bestselling author Harry Turtledove (\"The master of alternative history\"-\"Publishers Weekly\") has been telling an epic tale: the story of a world war, comparable to the terrible world wars of our own 20th century, in a world where magic works. Imagine the drama and terror of the Second World War-only the bullets are beams of magical fire, the tanks are great lumbering beasts, and fighters and bombers are dragons raining fire upon their targets. Welcome to the world of the Derlavaian War, a world that is slowly but surely being conquered, mile by bloody mile, by the forces of the Algarvian empire . . . forces whose most terrible battle magics are powered by the slaughter of innocent people, the Kaunians, whom Algarve-like much of the world-holds in disdain. In this, the fourth volume of the series which began with \"Into the Darkness, \" the war for the continent of Derlavai builds toward its crescendo as the mages of Kuusamo, aided by their former rivals from Lagoas, work desperately to create a newer form of magic that will change the course of the war. But this is really a story of ordinary people-on all sides of the conflict-forced by fate to rise to their heroic limits . . . or sink to the level of their darker natures.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174446.Rulers_of_the_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The Mark of the Dragonfly", "author_name": "Jaleigh Johnson", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 5798, "review_number": 899, "book_description": "Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid the wreckage of a caravan in the Meteor Fields.\u00a0The girl doesn't remember a thing about her life, but the intricate tattoo on her arm is proof that she's from the Dragonfly Territories and that she's protected by the king. Which means a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home.\u00a0The one sure way to the Territories is the 401, a great old beauty of a train. But a ticket costs more coin than Piper could make in a year. And stowing away is a difficult prospect--everyone knows that getting past the peculiar green-eyed boy who stands guard is nearly impossible.\u00a0Life for Piper just turned dangerous. A little bit magical. And very exciting, if she can manage to survive the journey.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077836-the-mark-of-the-dragonfly"}, +{"book_title": "Falls the Shadow", "author_name": "Stefanie Gaither", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 1088, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "When Cate Benson was a kid, her sister, Violet, died. Two hours after the funeral, Cate\u2019s family picked up Violet\u2019s replacement. Like nothing had happened. Because Cate\u2019s parents are among those who decided to give their children a sort of immortality\u2014by cloning them at birth\u2014which means this new Violet has the same smile. The same perfect face. Thanks to advancements in mind-uploading technology, she even has all of the same memories as the girl she replaced.She also might have murdered the most popular girl in school.At least, that\u2019s what the paparazzi and the anti-cloning protestors want everyone to think: that clones are violent, unpredictable monsters. Cate is used to hearing all that. She\u2019s used to defending her sister, too. But Violet has vanished, and when Cate sets out to find her, she ends up in the line of fire instead. Because Cate is getting dangerously close to secrets that will rock the foundation of everything she thought was true.In a thrilling debut, Stefanie Gaither takes readers on a nail-biting ride through a future that looks frighteningly similar to our own time and asks: how far are you willing to go to keep your family together?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20384954-falls-the-shadow"}, +{"book_title": "Time After Time", "author_name": "Karl Alexander", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 343, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "H. G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper through time, via his infamous time machine, to current day San Francisco, Jack just happen to be a sociopath friend of dear H.G.'s. San Fran is a great back drop to the novel, and their battles. H.G. even finds love. This book went on to make a great film by the same title. In fact H. G. and Mary married in real life, McDowell still considers Mary Steenburgen his greatest love, though they divorced and remarried years ago, It is also his favorite film.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2857588-time-after-time"}, +{"book_title": "Ex-Heroes", "author_name": "Peter Clines", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 15023, "review_number": 1442, "book_description": "The first in a spectacularly genre-mashing adventure series that pits a small group of courageous, flawed, terrified superheroes against hordes of undead.Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes, using their superhuman abilities to make Los Angeles a better place.Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Now, a year later, the heroes struggle to overcome their differences and recover from their own scars as they protect the thousands of survivors huddled in their film-studio-turned-fortress, the Mount.But the hungry ex-humans are not the only threat the survivors face. Across the city, another group has grown and gained power.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16479439-ex-heroes"}, +{"book_title": "Infection", "author_name": "Bryan James", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2447, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "Mike McKnight was an action movie star, condemned to a lifetime of incarceration in a psychiatric prison for the murder of someone he loves. At least until the zombies showed up. From his cell in the asylum, he is suddenly thrust into a nightmare of unbelievable proportions when the dead rise, and rapidly become a horrific plague on the world of the living. From Long Island to the burbs to the country, Mike fights to stay alive, to recover his memories, and to retrieve a cure for the most threatening disease the world has ever known.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8683969-infection"}, +{"book_title": "Stitching Snow", "author_name": "R.C. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 7872, "review_number": 1333, "book_description": "Princess Snow is missing.Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back\u2014but that\u2019s assuming she wants to return at all.Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines.When a mysterious young man named Dane crash-lands near her home, Essie agrees to help the pilot repair his ship. But soon she realizes that Dane\u2019s arrival was far from accidental, and she\u2019s pulled into the heart of a war she\u2019s risked everything to avoid. With the galaxy\u2019s future\u2014and her own\u2014in jeopardy, Essie must choose who to trust in a fiery fight for survival.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Retellings", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Adventure", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16067008-stitching-snow"}, +{"book_title": "The Chestnut King", "author_name": "N.D. Wilson", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 4538, "review_number": 437, "book_description": "Henry's final battle has arrived in the third book of the bestselling 100 Cupboard series, about 100 cupboard doors leading to 100 worlds of adventure! Hidden cupboards behind Henry's bedroom wall unlocked portals to other worlds that Henry and his cousin Henrietta couldn't resist exploring. But they made one terrible mistake-- they released the undying witch Nimiane. Her goal? To drain all life from every world connected to the cupboards. Henry must seek out the Chestnut King to defeat her, but doing so comes at a price--one that will force Henry to make a terrible, irreversible choice. With the fate of the worlds and everyone Henry loves hanging in the balance, will he have the courage to do what is needed to destroy the witch once and for all? Want to know where the cupboards came from? Don't miss the latest book in the series, The Door Before! Praise for the 100 Cupboards series: \"A must-read series!\" --The Washington Post \"This is my favorite kind of fantasy.\" --Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6081980-the-chestnut-king"}, +{"book_title": "The Battle of Corrin", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 11559, "review_number": 251, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition located here.Following their internationally bestselling novels Dune: The Butlerian Jihad and Dune: The Machine Crusade, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson forge a final tumultuous finish to their prequels to Frank Herbert's Dune.It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of victory, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight.Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets . . . and once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin.In the greatest battle in science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time. . . . And on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad'Dib in Frank Herbert's classic, Dune.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99220.The_Battle_of_Corrin"}, +{"book_title": "Plus One", "author_name": "Elizabeth Fama", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 3334, "review_number": 573, "book_description": "A dying wish. A family divided. A love that defies the law.Sol Le Coeur is a Smudge--a night dweller in an America rigidly divided between people who wake, live, and work during the hours of darkness and those known as Rays, who live and work during daylight. Impulsive, passionate, and brave, Sol concocts a plan to kidnap her newborn niece--a Ray--in order to bring the baby to visit her dying grandfather. Sol's violation of the day/night curfew is already a serious crime, but when her kidnap attempt goes awry, she stumbles on a government conspiracy to manipulate the Smudge population. Sol escapes the authorities with an unexpected ally: a Ray who gets in her way, a boy she might have hated if fate hadn't forced them on the run together--a boy the world now tells her she can't love.Set in a vivid alternate reality and peopled with complex, deeply human characters on both sides of the day/night divide, Elizabeth Fama's Plus One is a brilliantly imagined drama of individual liberty and civil rights, and a fast-paced romantic adventure story.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17934493-plus-one"}, +{"book_title": "Highland Protector", "author_name": "Catherine Bybee", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 1306, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "\nNo ordinary hero can save Amber from death... it will take a Highland Protector\nAmber MacCoinnich survival depends on her traveling to the twenty first century, or so her mother\u2019s premonition told her. Death taunts Amber and offers peace in her endless pain. Without the mysterious savior her mother spoke of, Amber prepares for death only to wake with a handsome, dark stranger in her bed.Gavin Kincaid spends his life shifting time in order to preserve and protect the MacCoinnich family and their line even though he\u2019s never met one living MacCoinnich. A haunting portrait of a beautiful woman captures his attention and he embarks on a quest to put a name to the picture. When a colleague vanishes, the time-stream forces Kincaid to the twenty first century where he finds his mystifying woman close to death. His Druid gift can save her, but at what price? And when they both find themselves emotionally linked, the truth behind Kincaid\u2019s heritage just might kill them both.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528532-highland-protector"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Iota", "author_name": "Robert Kroese", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 233, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "The year is 2039, and Los Angeles is poised between order and chaos. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, now known as the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities and became a de facto third world country within the borders of the city.Navigating the boundaries between DZ and LA proper is a tricky task, and there's no one better suited than eccentric private investigator Erasmus Keane. So when movie mogul Selah Fiore decides she needs to get her hands on a rare coin lost somewhere in the city, she knows Keane is the man for the job.But while the erratic Keane and his more sensible partner Blake Fowler struggle to unravel the mystery of the elusive coins, Blake's girlfriend Gwen goes missing and Selah Fiore turns up murdered. Both of these crimes seem to be linked to the coins--and to an untraceable virtual currency called iotas, used by drug dealers and terrorist networks.Framed for Selah's murder and desperate to find Gwen, Keane and Fowler must outwit DZ warlords, outmaneuver a reclusive billionaire, and stay a step ahead of the police while they gradually uncover the truth about iotas. Soon the clues begin to point to a conspiracy at the highest levels of government--and to a mysterious trickster who has orchestrated it all. As the DZ devolves into chaos and another Collapse seems to loom, Blake Fowler realizes that the brilliant Erasmus Keane may have finally met his match.Set in the world of The Big Sheep, Robert Kroese delivers another dystopian adventure novel full of wit and intrigue.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31451130-the-last-iota"}, +{"book_title": "From London, With Love", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 221, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "**London Steampunk Epilogue novella available to newsletter subscribers as an ebook. Paperback copies are available on Amazon**With London finally at peace, there is only one threat remaining to the stability of the monarchy... The queen is without an heir.Queen Alexandra is done with marriage, but as always, the Duke of Malloryn has a plan. With Malloryn insisting upon an heir for the realm, Alexandra reluctantly agrees to accept a husband. But who? With Europe's most eligible bachelors in London to attend her exhibition, she finds herself pining for the only man who has never betrayed her. The only man she wants. And the one man she cannot have.A queen's duty is never done.Alexandra's feelings for her dearest friend, Sir Gideon, have always been warm, but a stolen kiss pushed a friendship into dangerous waters. How can she explain that she has never known desire before? How can she stand to be in the same room as Gideon, without betraying her feelings? And how can she marry someone else?But there's an assassin on the loose, and while she may currently be at odds with Sir Gideon, he's the only man who can save both her wounded heart\u2014and the future of the realm. Foreign princes and meddling dukes, bedamned.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Steampunk Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49234540-from-london-with-love"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Traveler's Wife", "author_name": "Audrey Niffenegger", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1604511, "review_number": 47705, "book_description": "A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships.Audrey Niffenegger\u2019s innovative debut, The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare\u2019s marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals\u2014steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Adult Fiction", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18619684-the-time-traveler-s-wife"}, +{"book_title": "The City Who Fought", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 4513, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Simeon was a shell-person - the brain who ran Space Station SSS-900, on the fringes of human space. But things hadn't been going too well lately, and he was more than a little discontented. Though normally he enjoyed his work, these days it seemed boring. To make matters worse, his long-time parner had just retired and he was having a hard time adjusting to his newly assigned brawn - a strong-willed woman named Channa Hap, who seemed to feel it her duty to keep him in line.Simeon's love of wargaming would find unexpected uses when the brutal Kolnari attack the nearby colony planet, Bethel. Sheltering the colony's refugee's brought \"the city\" an invitation to serious trouble with Kolnari pirates.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/664553.The_City_Who_Fought"}, +{"book_title": "Burning Up Flint", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 9284, "review_number": 479, "book_description": "Flint is tall, gorgeous and dangerous. He's a cyborg-the absolute ultimate alpha male. He takes what he wants and holds what is his. Mira is his now. He takes her aboard his ship and has her branded with his mark. He captured her, owns her, and she will serve his every need.Mira is instantly drawn to Flint, fascinated by his seductive appeal. The sex between them is smoking hot. Until she finds out he is a breeder, contracted to a dozen cyborg women, and she is no more than a possession.Mira won't share her cyborg and she belongs to no one-not even to a man who has captured her heart. She doesn't know if cyborgs feel... anything. Can Flint love her? Mira is determined to find out, no matter how much trouble she makes for the big guy.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7838460-burning-up-flint"}, +{"book_title": "Master and Apprentice", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 9043, "review_number": 1180, "book_description": "An unexpected offer threatens the bond between Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi as the two Jedi navigate a dangerous new planet and an uncertain future.A Jedi must be a fearless warrior, a guardian of justice, and a scholar in the ways of the Force. But perhaps a Jedi\u2019s most essential duty is to pass on what they have learned. Master Yoda trained Dooku; Dooku trained Qui-Gon Jinn; and now Qui-Gon has a Padawan of his own. But while Qui-Gon has faced all manner of threats and danger as a Jedi, nothing has ever scared him like the thought of failing his apprentice.Obi-Wan Kenobi has deep respect for his Master, but struggles to understand him. Why must Qui-Gon so often disregard the laws that bind the Jedi? Why is Qui-Gon drawn to ancient Jedi prophecies instead of more practical concerns? And why wasn\u2019t Obi-Wan told that Qui-Gon is considering an invitation to join the Jedi Council\u2014knowing it would mean the end of their partnership? The simple answer scares him: Obi-Wan has failed his Master.When Jedi Rael Averross, another former student of Dooku, requests their assistance with a political dispute, Jinn and Kenobi travel to the royal court of Pijal for what may be their final mission together. What should be a simple assignment quickly becomes clouded by deceit, and by visions of violent disaster that take hold in Qui-Gon\u2019s mind. As Qui-Gon\u2019s faith in prophecy grows, Obi-Wan\u2019s faith in him is tested\u2014just as a threat surfaces that will demand that Master and apprentice come together as never before, or be divided forever.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40917496-master-and-apprentice"}, +{"book_title": "Fire of the Dragon", "author_name": "Lori Dillon", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 305, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Being sent back in time to the Middle Ages wouldn't be so bad if the knight in shining armor who comes to your rescue didn't swoop down in the form of a fire-breathing dragon. Unfortunately for Jill Donahue, that's just the way things have been going in her life lately. A Maiden Wrenched back in time through the magical power of an old dragon tapestry found in a vintage clothing store, Jill Donahue lands in an ancient medieval town where the villagers decide to sacrifice her to the local dragon. As if the threat of being eaten alive by a giant flying lizard isn't bad enough, she learns there\u2019s a curse surrounding the tapestry and she has to break it in order to get back to her time. But she isn't the only one whose fate is tied to the ancient weaving... A Dragon Baelin of Gosforth is a valiant knight who has been cursed by a vindictive witch to live as a dragon for eleven months out of each year. Now he has thirty days to break the curse or he turns back into a fire-breathing beast and, as much as he hates to admit it, he needs Jill's help to do it. And A Curse Forced to face many challenges along the way\u2014from the harsh world they travel through to the fiery passion they both try to deny\u2014each is determined to break the curse so the other can get their happily-ever-after. And it just might work, if Jill can manage to overlook the fire-breathing, bat-winged remnants of Baelin's dragon half long enough to see the man beneath the beast and get the job done.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17838247-fire-of-the-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "The Heart of Valor", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 5087, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr's goal is to keep both her superior officers and her troops alive as they face missions throughout the galaxy. But she's been sidelined with endless briefings and debriefings for a while, so she jumps at the chance to go to Crucible - the Marine Corps training planet - as temporary aide to Major Svensson. The major was reduced to little more than a brain and spinal cord in his last combat, and now he and his doctor are eager to field test his new body. It's supposed to be an easy assignment - after all, Crucible was set up to simulate battle situations so recruits could be trained safely. But Torin's barely on-planet when someone starts blasting the training scenarios to smithereens...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176410.The_Heart_of_Valor"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 4", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 943, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "\u6700\u5f37\u306e\u9283\u3092\u6301\u3064\u7537\u30fb\u9727\u4ea5\uff08\u30ad\u30ea\u30a4\uff09\uff01\uff01\u3000\u7121\u9650\u306b\u5e83\u304c\u308b\u968e\u5c64\u90fd\u5e02\u3092\u884c\u304f\u5192\u967a\u8005\u30fb\u9727\u4ea5\u3092\u63cf\u304f\u6e3e\u8eab\u306e\u30cf\u30fc\u30c9\uff33\uff26\u30a2\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u3002", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624698.Blame_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "The Tea Demon", "author_name": "Cornelia Grey", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 123, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Thief Eric Devon wishes one thing: for people to leave him bloody well alone. And maybe for more whiskey. Until a mysterious stranger offers him a job so dangerous that no one has ever attempted it and survived to tell the tale: recover a priceless object from the Turtle Merchants\u2019 impregnable palace. Intrigued by the man and the challenge, Eric accepts\u2014but the stranger is none other than the legendary airship captain known as the Tea Demon, terror of the Sea of Clouds. Eric must come up with the best plan in history if he wants to complete his job... and survive it too. Short story. Mature content.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Humor", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32068303-the-tea-demon"}, +{"book_title": "See Otto", "author_name": "David Milgrim", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 196, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Pre-Level 1: Recognizing Words- Word repetition- Familiar words and phrases- Simple sentencesMeet Otto, an excitable robot who seeks adventure -- and finds it -- when he falls off his spaceship and lands on Earth, directly in front of a very cranky rhinosaurus. Otto runs, but the rhino runs faster....Run, Otto, run!Meet Otto, the star of a new series of Ready-to-Reads, with text that is simple enough for the earliest readers, and funny enough for their older brothers and sisters. Read, Otto, read!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Kids"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409652.See_Otto"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf Hunt: The Burning Ages", "author_name": "Sebastian P. Breit", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 82, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "2024. The world we know is crumbling. A devastating war in the Persian Gulf has left the global economy in ruins, and civilization itself is beginning to crack under the strain. When a war-weary task force of NATO ships races against time and a rival fleet to prevent Brazil's descent into a murderous civil war, their mission is unexpectedly upset by a mysterious tempest. Thrown back in time, Captains Steven Flynn and Florian Hallwinter with their crews emerge in the year 1940 as the world is gripped in the fires of World War Two. Presented with the opportunity to change both past and future for the better, they find themselves drawn into a maelstrom of conflicting interests. While overcoming the suspicion of their natural allies of the time proves harder than they imagined, they soon discover that even the best intentions carry the seeds of doom. For whereas Flynn is American, Hallwinter and his crew are from Germany...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Action", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12003964-wolf-hunt"}, +{"book_title": "Wetware", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2130, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "In 2030, bopper robots in their lunar refuge have founds a way to infuse DNA wetware with their own software code. The result is a new lifeform: the meatbop. Fair is fair, after all. Humans built the boppers, now bops are building humans. . .sort of. Its all part of an insidious plot thats about to ensnare Della Taze--who doesnt think she killed her lover while in drug-induced ecstasy. . .but isnt sure. And its certainly catastrophic enough to call Cobb Anderson--the pheezer who started it all--out of cold-storage heaven.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274005.Wetware"}, +{"book_title": "The Unraveling", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 10059, "review_number": 405, "book_description": "There is a legend in their past of an uprising, a war they have learned about, but have learned nothing fromNobody knows what went wrong. Nobody talks about what happened. Such are the silo taboos.Now, nearly two hundred years later, the people of the Silo will get a chance to learn more about that distant uprising.They'll get to start one of their own...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13314945-the-unraveling"}, +{"book_title": "The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 357, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Camille is desperate to escape her home on colonized asteroid Vesta, journeying through space in a small cocoon pod covertly and precariously attached to a cargo ship. Anna is a newly appointed port director on asteroid Ceres, intrigued by the causes that have led so-called riders like Camille to show up at her post in search of asylum.Conditions on Vesta are quickly deteriorating\u2014for one group of people in particular. The original founders agreed to split profits equally, but the Sivadier syndicate contributed intellectual property rather than more valued tangible goods. Now the rest of the populace wants payback. As Camille travels closer to Ceres, it seems ever more likely that Vesta will demand the other asteroid stop harboring its fugitives.With The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred, acclaimed author Greg Egan offers up a stellar, novella-length example of hard science fiction, as human and involving as it is insightful and philosophical.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29887374-the-four-thousand-the-eight-hundred"}, +{"book_title": "Steamed", "author_name": "Katie MacAlister", "rating_score": 3.02, "rating_votes": 2806, "review_number": 331, "book_description": "When one of Jack Fletcher's nanoelectromechanical system experiments is jostled in his lab, the resulting explosion sends him into the world of his favorite novel-a seemingly Victorian-era world of steampower, aether guns, corsets, and goggles. A world where the lovely and intrepid Octavia Pye captains her airship straight into his heart...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6484914-steamed"}, +{"book_title": "Un Lun Dun", "author_name": "China Mi\u00e9ville", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 17794, "review_number": 1892, "book_description": "What is Un Lun Dun? It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, too\u2013including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas; Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head is an enormous pin-cushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. Un Lun Dun is a place where words are alive, a jungle lurks behind the door of an ordinary house, carnivorous giraffes stalk the streets, and a dark cloud dreams of burning the world. It is a city awaiting its hero, whose coming was prophesied long ago, set down for all time in the pages of a talking book. When twelve-year-old Zanna and her friend Deeba find a secret entrance leading out of London and into this strange city, it seems that the ancient prophecy is coming true at last. But then things begin to go shockingly wrong.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68496.Un_Lun_Dun"}, +{"book_title": "Orion", "author_name": "Ruby Lionsdrake", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1603, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Tattooed, muscled, and fierce, they look like felons, but these highly trained agents are humanity\u2019s protectors, the only ones standing between Earth and the threats of the galaxy. They are the Star Guardians. *** A born geek, Juanita has dreamed of exploring the stars for as long as she can remember. Getting kidnapped by slavers from another planet? Not so much. If she\u2019s lucky, she might be able to convince the hot guy protecting her from the others to help her escape. A bounty hunter allied with the Star Guardians, Orion is undercover on the slavers' ship, plotting to end their kidnapping trips to Earth. He didn\u2019t expect to meet someone as funny, sexy, and determined as Juanita among the victims. He wants to protect her from the thugs molesting her, but that could blow his cover and jeopardize his mission. He must choose between keeping her safe and dooming Earth to be a target for slavers forever.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Space", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35424911-orion"}, +{"book_title": "Pilots Choice", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 729, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Lee and Miller mix a compelling fictional society governed by a strict code of honor with romantic, funny, touchingly real characters and great storytelling in Pilots Choice. Its two tales are prequels to Partners in Necessity, the long-awaited reprinting of their first three novels, Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change, and Carpe Diem. You need not have read their other books before diving into this one. But be warned: you may read straight through until you've finished the sequel to Partners, Plan B. In Local Custom, Er Thom yos'Galen is at odds with his duty: to match with a proper Liaden bride, and provide clan Korval with an heir. His mother observes, You have consistently refused every contract-alliance the head of your line has brought to your attention for the past three years. Permit me to wonder why. Er Thom can't forget Terran scholar Anne Davis, though they agreed to part. Revisiting her one last time he finds Shan yos'Galen, his son. Shan needs Liaden training and Korval needs his skills. Anne loves Er Thom, and knows he risks his melant'i (honor, reputation) if he takes a Terran wife. But she won't be parted from her son. 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And throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. A true golden age is within our grasp.But now something has gone catastrophically wrong. On a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears. An extinct race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it \"The Reality Dysfunction.\" It is the nightmare which has prowled beside us since the beginning of history.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45245.The_Reality_Dysfunction"}, +{"book_title": "Balance of Trade", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1806, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "Assistant Trader Jethri Gobelyn was an honest, hardworking young man who knew a lot about living onboard his family's space-going trade ship; something about trade, finance, and risk-taking; and a little bit about Liadens. It was, oddly enough, the little bit he knew about Liadens that seemed like it might be enough to make his family's fortune, and his own, too. In short order, however, Jethri Gobelyn was about to find out a lot more about Liadens...like how far they might go to protect their name and reputation. Like the myriad of things one might say-intentionally or not-with a single bow. Like what it would take to make a Liaden trade-ship crew trash a bar. Like how hard it is to say \"I'm sorry!\" in Liaden. Pretty soon it was clear that as little as he knew about Liadens, he knew far less about himself. With his very existence a threat to the balance of trade, Jethri Gobelyn needed to learn fast, or else help destroy all he held dear.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288759.Balance_of_Trade"}, +{"book_title": "The Grapple", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1958, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "\nIn this stunning retelling of World War II, Harry Turtledove has created a blockbuster saga that is thrilling, troubling, and utterly compelling.\nIt is 1943, the third summer of the new war between the Confederate States of America and the United States, a war that will turn on the deeds of ordinary soldiers, extraordinary heroes, and a colorful cast of spies, politicians, rebels, and everyday citizens.The CSA president, Jake Featherstone, has greatly miscalculated the North\u2019s resilience. In Ohio, where Confederate victory was once almost certain, Featherstone\u2019s army is crumbling, and reinforcements of uninspired Mexican troops cannot stanch a Northern assault on the heartland.The tide of war is changing, and victory seems within the grasp of the USA. Still, new fighting flares from Denver to Los Angeles.Indeed, as the air, ground, and water burn with molten fury, new and demonic tools of killing are unleashed, and secret wars are unfolding. The U.S. government in Philadelphia has proof that the tyrannical Featherstone is murdering African Americans by the tens of thousands in a Texas gulag called Determination. And the leaders of both sides know full well that the world\u2019s next great power will not be the one with the biggest army but the nation that wins the race against nature and science\u2013and smashes open the power of the atom.In Settling Accounts, Harry Turtledove blends vivid fictional characters with a cast inspired by history, including the Socialist assistant secretary of war Franklin Delano Roosevelt and beleaguered Confederate military commander Nathan Bedford Forrest. In The Grapple, he takes his spellbinding vision to new heights as he captures the heart and soul of a generation born and raised amid unimaginable violence.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101516.The_Grapple"}, +{"book_title": "Love in the Time of a Highland Laird", "author_name": "Angeline Fortin", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 414, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "\nThey say accidents happen for a reason... \nWhen she was accidentally pushed into a wormhole, Allorah \u2018Al\u2019 Maines never imagined she\u2019d be thrown back in time, land at the feet of a gorgeous Highlander\u2026 and be taken as his prisoner. Al is awestruck by the savage Scot who chained her up in his dungeon. But once she emerges from her cell, she finds herself even more captivated by the roguish Highlander he\u2019s transformed into. An undeniably enticing manifestation of all her secret fantasies. Ones she\u2019s tempted to explore. However, regardless of what the fairytales say, Al knows passion fades and lust dies. Keeping her heart intact and planning for a future on her own is the only way their story can end. If all women in the twenty-first century were as stubborn as Allorah Maines, Keir MacCoinnach wept for the future of man. Nay, he despaired for them. She\u2019s utterly obtuse, difficult, aggravating\u2026 and quite possibly the most fascinating woman he\u2019d ever met. Al offers him an intriguing peek into the future. Keeping her by his side is the key to the knowledge of the ages. Keeping her in his bed and in his heart is the key to a life of love and joy. But can Keir convince Al to share that life with him before she walks away forever? Can he prove to her the passion they discover between the sheets can surpass anything she\u2019d ever found between the pages of her favorite novels?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27204364-love-in-the-time-of-a-highland-laird"}, +{"book_title": "Akira, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Katsuhiro Otomo", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 24936, "review_number": 911, "book_description": "The science fiction tale set in 2019 in Tokyo after the city was destroyed by World War III, follows the lives of two teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, who have a consuming fear of a monstrous power known as Akira.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93371.Akira_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Steel Walls and Dirt Drops", "author_name": "Alan Black", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 254, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "The new commander of the 1392nd Allied Protective Expeditionary Services is Hamisha Ann McPherson and this is her first command of anything larger than a squad. She is a larger-than-life combat veteran and a bonafide war hero. She knows combat. She also knows that combat is one thing and that command is a warthog of a different and dubious color. Misha wonders if she has the necessary skills to turn this group of slackers, petty criminals and losers into an effective fighting unit in the short time she has left before being tossed out the back end of a spacecraft to fight in ground chewing warfare. APES are supposed to be an armored infantry fighting force. However, this unit\u2019s last commander retired in the saddle leaving his unit to unravel and fend for themselves. Their assigned space forces transport captain is less than no help at all. The war with the Binders is heating up and there are secrets swirling around mixed with gossip about the last big battle against the aliens. Some secrets could mean life or death for the ground pounders who wear metal armor in dirt side warfare. Combat is on the horizon and even the veteran APES doubt they will be ready for what is coming. All Misha can do is crack a few heads, kick some backsides and see what happens. Her APES might live through the next battle if she is successful. If not\u2026", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22604396-steel-walls-and-dirt-drops"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon Soul", "author_name": "Jaida Jones", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 545, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "During the war between the kingdoms of Volstov and Ke-Han, no fighter could match Rook for sheer arrogance and skill. Only Rook could ride the great dragon Havemercy, whose savagery and bloodlust matched his own. His brother, Thom, is bookish, diffident, and reserved, yet he yearns for Rook\u2019s approval\u2014and fears he can never earn it. With the war over, and an uneasy truce between the two nations, Thom hopes the long-lost brothers can bond on a trip together.But Rook cares only that Havemercy lies scattered in pieces across Ke-Han\u2014and someone is buying up her parts, and those of other fallen dragons. The beasts are dead, but the magic that powered them is not. And now a Ke-Han agent, a Volstov sorceress, and a group of desert tribesmen are vying to possess that magic and control the future.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7116549-dragon-soul"}, +{"book_title": "Storm Cursed", "author_name": "Patricia Briggs", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 24825, "review_number": 2353, "book_description": "In this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Mercy Thompson must face a deadly enemy to defend all she loves...My name is Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman, and I am a car mechanic.And a coyote shapeshifter.And the mate of the Alpha of the Columbia Basin werewolf pack.Even so, none of that would have gotten me into trouble if, a few months ago, I hadn't stood upon a bridge and taken responsibility for the safety of the citizens who lived in our territory. It seemed like the thing to do at the time. It should have only involved hunting down killer goblins, zombie goats, and an occasional troll. Instead, our home was viewed as neutral ground, a place where humans would feel safe to come and treat with the fae.The reality is that nothing and no one is safe. As generals and politicians face off with the Gray Lords of the fae, a storm is coming and her name is Death.But we are pack, and we have given our word.We will die to keep it.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25026912-storm-cursed"}, +{"book_title": "Enslaved", "author_name": "Virginia Henley", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 2105, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "WHERE ARE ALL THE REAL MEN? SHE WONDERED....For Lady Diana Davenport, they existed only in her books and dreams. There she could lose herself, becoming the licentious Diana, goddess of the hunt \u2014 far from the rigid restraints of eighteenth-century London, where she was courted by fops and fools. That is, until she tried on an authentic Roman helmet in an antiques store and was catapulted back in time, landing in Marcus Magnus's arms. This was no dream! She was lost in Aquae Sulis, the city she knew as Bath, prisoner of a Roman general who accused the violet-eyed beauty of being a Druid spy \u2014 and then made her his slave!\"COME TO ME.\"His words were soft, imperious, charged with danger and desire. Marcus Magnus was powerful, arrogant, and infuriating. A real man. And now Lady Diana was his slave, hostage to his will, vowing to fight him to the end \u2014 with every seductive weapon she possessed....", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Regency)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/327916.Enslaved"}, +{"book_title": "Taste of Marrow", "author_name": "Sarah Gailey", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 2088, "review_number": 403, "book_description": "A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, and saboteurs on either side of the Harriet for a history-changing caper. Together they conspired to blow the damn that choked the Mississippi and funnel the hordes of feral hippos contained within downriver, to finally give America back its greatest waterway.Songs are sung of their exploits, many with a haunting refrain: \"And not a soul escaped alive.\"In the aftermath of the Harriet catastrophe, that crew has scattered to the winds. Some hunt the missing lovers they refuse to believe have died. Others band together to protect a precious infant and a peaceful future. All of them struggle with who they've become after a long life of theft, murder, deception, and general disinterest in the strictures of the law.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novella", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35066651-taste-of-marrow"}, +{"book_title": "The Squares of the City", "author_name": "John Brunner", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 589, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "\"Built in the heart of the jungle, The City was an architect's masterpiece--& the scene of a flesh-&-blood game of chess where the unwitting pawns were real people!\" The Squares of the City is a science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1965. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1966. It is a sociological story of urban class warfare and political intrigue, taking place in the fictional South American capital city of Vados. It explores the idea of subliminal messages as political tools, and it is notable for having the structure of the famous 1892 chess game between Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin. The structure is not coincidental, and plays an important part in the story.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Politics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Games (Chess)", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1407130.The_Squares_of_the_City"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen of the Tearling", "author_name": "Erika Johansen", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 86474, "review_number": 10432, "book_description": "Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother\u2019s throne, learn to be a ruler\u2014and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her.On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her neck hangs the Tearling sapphire, a jewel of immense magical power; and accompanying her is the Queen\u2019s Guard, a cadre of brave knights led by the enigmatic and dedicated Lazarus. Kelsea will need them all to survive a cabal of enemies who will use every weapon\u2014from crimson-caped assassins to the darkest blood magic\u2014to prevent her from wearing the crown.Despite her royal blood, Kelsea feels like nothing so much as an insecure girl, a child called upon to lead a people and a kingdom about which she knows almost nothing. But what she discovers in the capital will change everything, confronting her with horrors she never imagined. An act of singular daring will throw Kelsea\u2019s kingdom into tumult, unleashing the vengeance of the tyrannical ruler of neighboring Mortmesne: the Red Queen, a sorceress possessed of the darkest magic. Now Kelsea will begin to discover whom among the servants, aristocracy, and her own guard she can trust.But the quest to save her kingdom and meet her destiny has only just begun\u2014a wondrous journey of self-discovery and a trial by fire that will make her a legend . . . if she can survive.This book will be a beautifully designed package with illustrated endpapers, a map of the Tearling, and a ribbon marker.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22864842-the-queen-of-the-tearling"}, +{"book_title": "The Highlander's Folly", "author_name": "Barbara Longley", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1893, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "A brave fifteenth-century Highlander fiercely devoted to his foster family, Hunter of clan MacKintosh can defeat any man in battle. Thanks to his fae gifts, he can read the intent of his opponents and guess their next moves. But when the faerie Madame Giselle sends Hunter to the present day, he stumbles into a staged battle and rescues a young knight\u2014only to discover that the knight is a woman, and she\u2019s anything but a damsel in distress.Meghan McGladrey learned martial arts and sword fighting from her father, a time-traveling Highlander himself. To Hunter\u2019s surprise, Meghan is as skilled as any knight. When both of them are pulled back to the fifteenth century, Meghan becomes desperate to return to her time. Hunter, who is pledged to another, begins to fall for the beautiful, brave warrior as they fight side by side against a common enemy. Now, he must decide which matters more: his honor, or following his heart.Exciting battles and intoxicating passion reunite in the third Novel of Loch Moigh from award-winning author Barbara Longley.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23121858-the-highlander-s-folly"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Thoughts", "author_name": "Cynthia Sax", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1148, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Can love redeem a monster? The Refuge is home to some of the most violent beings in the universe. Kralj, its leader, reigns over the remote outpost with terrifying ease, ruthlessly squashing any rumors of rebellion, killing anyone who breaks his rules. Primitive, deadly, powerful, he\u2019s a monster, scarred both on his face and his soul. He has never met a being he couldn\u2019t control. Until he meets her. Dita has one mission\u2014to kill the three targets claiming sanctuary within the Refuge. Or so she claims. For the first time in his long lifespan, Kralj isn\u2019t certain of another being\u2019s intentions. The tiny assassin is immune to his powers, her thoughts unreadable. He can\u2019t predict her movements, can\u2019t control her, can\u2019t stop wanting her. Dita is rare, as unique as he is, and, to keep the residents of the Refuge safe, Kralj will have to kill her. But first, he\u2019ll touch her, taste her, show her how passionate the beast inside him can be. Dark Thoughts is a STAND-ALONE SciFi Romance. The hero might be tall, dark, and scarred but don\u2019t be fooled by his appearance. He\u2019s truly a monster. This story is not for readers with delicate sensibilities.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Dark", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34022035-dark-thoughts"}, +{"book_title": "The Dead", "author_name": "Charlie Higson", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 11140, "review_number": 943, "book_description": "The Dead is the second book in Charlie Higson's jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens.Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive. A terrible disease is striking everyone over the age of fourteen. Death walks the streets. Nowhere is safe. Maxie, Blue and the rest of the Holloway crew aren't the only kids trying to escape the ferocious adults who prey on them. Jack and Ed are best friends, but their battle to stay alive tests their friendship to the limit as they go on the run with a mismatched group of other kids - nerds, fighters, misfits. And one adult, Greg, a butcher, who claims he's immune to the disease. They must work together if they want to make it in this terrifying new world. But when fresh disaster threatens to overwhelm London, they realize they won't all survive...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21888732-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Wool Omnibus", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 164644, "review_number": 13728, "book_description": "This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.Alternate cover for B0071XO8RA", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13453029-wool-omnibus"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", "author_name": "Stieg Larsson", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 659392, "review_number": 29241, "book_description": "The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.~from the jacket", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Cultural (Sweden)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6892870-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornet-s-nest"}, +{"book_title": "Broken Dove", "author_name": "Kristen Ashley", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 15687, "review_number": 1178, "book_description": "Far too young, Apollo Ulfr lost Ilsa, his wife, the love of his life and the mother of his two children. The grief of her loss does not settle in his soul, it solders to it. But when he discovers there is a parallel universe where his wife may have a twin, he feels there's hope and sets about bringing her to his world so he can have her back.But Ilsa Ulfr of our world is married to the parallel universe's twin, Pol, who is not a good man. Not in any way. She's on the run from him and the last thing she wants is to be transported to a fantastical world and be forced to take his side as his wife, even if he is not Pol. And Apollo finds the broken, bitter Ilsa nothing like his beloved and he further wants nothing to do with her.But darkness is looming and evil is amassing. Apollo must protect his land and keep his family safe, including the new Ilsa.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "New Adult", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15817351-broken-dove"}, +{"book_title": "An Artificial Night", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 17760, "review_number": 1101, "book_description": "Changeling knight in the court of the Duke of Shadowed Hills, October \"Toby\" Daye has survived numerous challenges that would destroy fae and mortal alike. Now Toby must take on a nightmarish new assignment. Someone is stealing both fae and mortal children\u2014and all signs point to Blind Michael. When the young son of Toby's closest friends is snatched from their Northern California home, Toby has no choice but to track the villains down, even when there are only three magical roads by which to reach Blind Michael's realm\u2014home of the legendary Wild Hunt\u2014and no road may be taken more than once. If she cannot escape with all the children before the candle that guides and protects her burns away, Toby herself will fall prey to Blind Michael's inescapable power.And it doesn't bode well for the success of her mission that her own personal Fetch, May Daye\u2014the harbinger of Toby's own death\u2014has suddenly turned up on her doorstep...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6782468-an-artificial-night"}, +{"book_title": "Eclipse Phase: The Roleplaying Game of Transhuman Conspiracy and Horror", "author_name": "Rob Boyle", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 325, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Eclipse Phase is the post-apocalyptic game of conspiracy and horror. Humanity is enhanced and improved, but also battered and bitterly divided. Technology allows the re-shaping of bodies and minds, but also creates opportunities for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction in the hands of everyone. And other threats lurk in the devastated habitats of the Fall, dangers both familiar and alien. In this harsh setting, the players participate in a cross-faction conspiracy called Firewall that seeks to protect transhumanity from threats both internal and external. Along the way, they may find themselves hunting for prized technology in a gutted habitat falling from orbit, risking the hellish landscapes of a ruined earth, or following the trail of a terrorist through militarized stations and isolationist habitats. Players may even find themselves stepping through a Pandora Gate, a wormhole to distant stars and the alien secrets beyond.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Games (Gaming)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Reference"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7041421-eclipse-phase"}, +{"book_title": "Blameless", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 37531, "review_number": 2887, "book_description": " Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.BLAMELESS is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.The Parasol ProtectorateSoullessChangelessBlamelessHeartlessTimelessFor more from Gail Carriger, check out:The Custard ProtocolPrudenceImprudenceCompetenceReticenceFinishing School (YA)Etiquette & EspionageCurtsies & ConspiraciesWaistcoats & WeaponryManners & Mutiny", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7719355-blameless"}, +{"book_title": "The Cyborg's Secret Baby", "author_name": "Cynthia Sax", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 546, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret. Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander\u2019s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can\u2019t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe. When he\u2019s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn\u2019t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible. After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son\u2019s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life. The Cyborg\u2019s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series. It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40659814-the-cyborg-s-secret-baby"}, +{"book_title": "Raff", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2124, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "Lilly left Earth seeking adventure, and learning about aliens sounded cool. She just didn\u2019t expect to meet any in person\u2014until her ship is attacked by alien pirates. Now she\u2019s meeting plenty of them. Scary ones who want to do very bad things to her. Fighting for survival since childhood, Raff Vellar is more intimately familiar with knives and bloodshed than women. Then, during a trip to his home planet, a tiny human literally falls at his feet. When he learns she\u2019s been forced into slavery, a fierce need to protect the human overcomes him. A feeling that quickly turns into a deep need to keep her forever.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Action", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42765639-raff"}, +{"book_title": "Strange the Dreamer", "author_name": "Laini Taylor", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 90493, "review_number": 16368, "book_description": "The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around\u2014and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he\u2019s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever.What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries\u2014including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo\u2019s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?Welcome to Weep.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28449207-strange-the-dreamer"}, +{"book_title": "A Dead Djinn in Cairo", "author_name": "P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 4569, "review_number": 956, "book_description": "Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha\u2019arawi leads her through the city\u2019s underbelly as she encounters rampaging ghouls, saucy assassins, clockwork angels, and plot that could unravel time itself.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Novella", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29635542-a-dead-djinn-in-cairo"}, +{"book_title": "Electric Heart", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1834, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "Electric Heart is Book 7 in the Dark Planet Warriors Series. It will make more sense if you've read the other books in the series beforehand. Chronologically, it picks up where Forged in Shadow (Book 5) left off.Riana's terrified of these fierce Kordolians. They fight like demons and possess strange alien technology which makes them damn hard to kill. After her nerve-wracking experience on the superfreighter Hendrix II, she wants nothing to do with them. All she wants to do is live a peaceful Kordolian-free life back on Earth. Too bad the Board of Corrections is on her case over past misdemeanors. Too bad someone's trying to kill her. She has no idea why. Too bad the only one who can keep her safe is a scary-hot, silent alien with coldfire eyes and a very sharp sword. But hey, at least she doesn't have to deal with flesh-eating insectoid monsters anymore. The only monster she has to deal with now is a silver-skinned one named Kail. And he's more than a match for her attackers. That's reassuring... right? Warning: This book is a science-fiction alien romance. It contains swearing, violence, sensual sex scenes, and silver aliens with fangs. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Futuristic", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34757040-electric-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3410, "review_number": 350, "book_description": "Thousands of years ago, Time Lords built a Prison for the Kin. They made it utterly impregnable and unreachable. As long as Time Lords existed, the Kin would be trapped forever and the universe would be safe. They had planned for everything\u2026 everything, that is, other than the Time War and the fall of Gallifrey. Now the Kin are free again and there\u2019s only one Time Lord left in the universe who can stop them!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18754367-doctor-who"}, +{"book_title": "Maybe in Another Life", "author_name": "Taylor Jenkins Reid", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 50190, "review_number": 6631, "book_description": "From the acclaimed author of Forever, Interrupted and After I Do comes a breathtaking new novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold\u2014with stunningly different results.At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs since graduating college. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence in her best friend Gabby\u2019s guestroom. Shortly after getting back to town, Hannah goes out to a bar one night with Gabby and meets up with her high school boyfriend, Ethan.Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she\u2019s ready to go. A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride later if she wants to stay. Hannah hesitates. What happens if she leaves with Gabby? What happens if she leaves with Ethan?In concurrent storylines, Hannah lives out the effects of each decision. Quickly, these parallel universes develop into radically different stories with large-scale consequences for Hannah, as well as the people around her. As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and true love: Is anything meant to be? How much in our life is determined by chance? And perhaps, most compellingly: Is there such a thing as a soul mate?Hannah believes there is. And, in both worlds, she believes she\u2019s found him.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "New Adult", "Realistic Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492661-maybe-in-another-life"}, +{"book_title": "Headhunters", "author_name": "Mel Odom", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 227, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Jack Slater and his team have been hired to retrieve a corpse from a high-security funeral home. The body contains something of great significance to their client--and the two top-flight security forces pursuing them--but whatever it is, it's also protected by hard-wired wizardry. With the enemy closing in, and his shadowrunning team forced into a corner, Jack is hoping he has one more trick up his sleeve.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/523699.Headhunters"}, +{"book_title": "Bitterblue", "author_name": "Kristin Cashore", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 106414, "review_number": 8156, "book_description": "Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were saved from the vicious King Leck. Now Bitterblue is the queen of Monsea, and her land is at peace.But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Her advisers, who have run the country on her behalf since Leck's death, believe in a forward-thinking plan: to pardon all of those who committed terrible acts during Leck's reign; and to forget every dark event that ever happened. Monsea's past has become shrouded in mystery, and it's only when Bitterblue begins sneaking out of her castle - curious, disguised and alone - to walk the streets of her own city, that she begins to realise the truth. Her kingdom has been under the thirty-five-year long spell of a madman, and now their only chance to move forward is to revisit the past.Whatever that past holds.Two thieves, who have sworn only to steal what has already been stolen, change her life forever. They hold a key to the truth of Leck's reign. And one of them, who possesses an unidentified Grace, may also hold a key to her heart . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12680907-bitterblue"}, +{"book_title": "Codespell", "author_name": "Kelly McCullough", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1326, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "The universe needs a reboot in this WebMage novel from Kelly McCullough.In the twenty-first century, magic has advanced with the times and gone digital, and Ravirn, a direct descendant of one of the three Fates, is a talented sorcerer--and computer hacker extraordinaire. Now that Ravirn has come into his own as a minor chaos power, he's partying with Zeus, playing hard-to-get with a gorgeous Fury...and trying to stay one step ahead of Nemesis, the unstoppable goddess of vengeance.But now Necessity--the sentient computer that runs the universe--has caught a virus that crashes most of the magical internet, and Ravirn is tasked with fixing it. And Ravirn hasn't missed the fact that whoever repairs Necessity will, for that moment, run the universe, able to remake the worlds (and everything else) to their liking.Unfortunately for Ravirn, some very dangerous beings have figured that out, too...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mythology (Gods)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2944083-codespell"}, +{"book_title": "Find Your Own Truth", "author_name": "Robert N. Charrette", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1092, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "FIND THE MAGIC!He was only a \"beginner\" shaman, but Sam Verner had to find a cure to ward off the curse on his sister. Only something of great magic would do the trick. It was this quest that took him to a mystical citadel in Australia, where, with the aid of his shadowrunner friends, he recovered the strange artifact he hoped would prove helpful. But instead of anything that even remotely resembled help, an unexpected and ancient terror was released - a terror that erupted into a shadow war for dominion over an awakened earth. And while the evil kept growing, inexorably drawing him into battle, the curse's power over his sister was also growing, bringing her closer and closer to death. Soon a truly desperate Sam realized that the last and only hope for saving his sister was to find the greatest shaman of the Sixth World, former leader of the Great Ghost Dance - a man who may no longer exist . . .", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351455.Find_Your_Own_Truth"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon Slayer of Trondheim", "author_name": "E.K. Johnston", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2790, "review_number": 594, "book_description": "Listen! For I sing of Owen Thorskard: valiant of heart, hopeless at algebra, last in a long line of legendary dragon slayers. Though he had few years and was not built for football, he stood between the town of Trondheim and creatures that threatened its survival. There have always been dragons. As far back as history is told, men and women have fought them, loyally defending their villages. Dragon slaying was a proud tradition. But dragons and humans have one thing in common: an insatiable appetite for fossil fuels. From the moment Henry Ford hired his first dragon slayer, no small town was safe. Dragon slayers flocked to cities, leaving more remote areas unprotected. Such was Trondheim's fate until Owen Thorskard arrived. At sixteen, with dragons advancing and his grades plummeting, Owen faced impossible odds armed only with a sword, his legacy, and the classmate who agreed to be his bard. Listen! I am Siobhan McQuaid. I alone know the story of Owen, the story that changes everything. Listen!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16068956-dragon-slayer-of-trondheim"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue's Challenge", "author_name": "Jo Barrett", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 464, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "He made a vow to fetch the woman back through time. 'Twas a task not taken lightly. But he had not predicted her stubbornness or her beauty. The petite woman with the tenacity of a mule may just find a way into his roguish heart.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4297453-rogue-s-challenge"}, +{"book_title": "Help Fund my Robot Army!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 476, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "If you\u2019re a regular backer of Kickstarters, you\u2019ve probably seen some unique crowdfunding projects in your time. But one thing all of those campaigns\u2014boringly!\u2014had in common was: They abided by the physical laws of the universe!\nHELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!!\n is an anthology of science fiction/fantasy stories told in the form of fictional crowdfunding project pitches, using the components (and restrictions) of the format to tell the story. This includes but is not limited to: Project Goals, Rewards, User Comments, Project Updates, FAQs, and more. The idea is to replicate the feel of reading a crowdfunding pitch, so that even though the projects may be preposterous in the real world, they will feel like authentic crowdfunding projects as much as possible.So if what you\u2019ve always been looking for in a Kickstarter\u2014and couldn\u2019t find\u2014was a project that allowed you to SUMMON DEMONS, DEFY GRAVITY, WIELD MAGIC, or VIOLATE CAUSALITY, then \nHELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects\n may be just the thing you\u2019ve been looking for.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21243282-help-fund-my-robot-army-other-improbable-crowdfunding-projects"}, +{"book_title": "Everless", "author_name": "Sara Holland", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 30975, "review_number": 5268, "book_description": "In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency\u2014extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one\u2019s own lifespan. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries.No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings\u2019 palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever.But going back to Everless brings more danger\u2014and temptation\u2014than Jules could have ever imagined. Soon she\u2019s caught in a tangle of violent secrets and finds her heart torn between two people she thought she\u2019d never see again. Her decisions have the power to change her fate\u2014and the fate of time itself.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32320661-everless"}, +{"book_title": "After the Cure", "author_name": "Deirdre Gould", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 3063, "review_number": 333, "book_description": "Eight years ago the December Plague swept through the human population of earth. The Infected were driven mad by the disease, becoming violent and cannibalistic, killing even those closest to them without hesitation. Six years ago, the tiny surviving community of Immune humans found a cure, and the Infected began to wake up and realize what they'd done. And what had been done to them. Over time, society began to rebuild itself. Now it is ready to judge those responsible for the Plague. Nella Rider, the court psychologist and Frank Courtlen a defense attorney are trying to establish the truth. But more depends on it than they know. They race to find the answers they need before the fragile remains of humanity vanish for good. The After the Cure Series: Book 1: After the Cure Book 2: The Cured Book 3: Krisis Book 4: Poveglia releases July 21, 2015 Book 5: The 40th Day coming Fall 2015", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18815715-after-the-cure"}, +{"book_title": "In Enemy Hands", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 14990, "review_number": 269, "book_description": "Honor Harrington's career has its ups and its downs. She's survived ship-to-ship battles, assassins, political vendettas, and duels. She's been shot at, shot down, and just plain shot, had starships blown out from under her, and made personal enemies who will stop at nothing to ruin her, and somehow she's survived it all.But this time she's really in trouble.The People's Republic of Haven has finally found an admiral who can win battles, and Honor's orders take her straight into an ambush. Outnumbered, outgunned, and unable to run, she has just two options: see the people under her command die in a hopeless, futile battle... or surrender them-and herself-to the Peeps.There can be only one choice, and at least the People's Navy promises to treat their prisoners honorably. But the Navy is overruled by the political authorities, and Honor finds herself bound for a prison planet aptly named \"Hell\"... and her scheduled execution.Put into solitary confinement, separated from her officers and her treecat Nimitz, and subjected to systematic humiliation by her gaolers, Honor's future has become both bleak and short. Yet bad as things look, they're about to get worse ...for the Peeps.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77740.In_Enemy_Hands"}, +{"book_title": "The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF", "author_name": "Mike Ashley", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 557, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "There have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth, or the end of the Universe itself.Contents:When we went to see the end of the world - Robert SilverbergThe End of the World - Sushma JoshiThe Clockwork Atom Bomb - Dominic GreenBloodletting - Kate WilhelmWhen Sysadmins ruled the World - Cory DoctorowThe Rain at the End of the World - Dale BaileyThe Flood - Linda NagataThe End of the World Show - David BarnettFermi and Frost - Frederik PohlSleepover - Alastair ReynoldsThe Last Sunset - Geoffrey LandisMoments of Inertia - William BartonThe Books - Kage BakerPallbearer - Robert ReedAnd the Deep Blue Sea - Elizabeth BearThe Meek - Damien BroderickThe Man who Walked Home - James Tiptree JRA Pail of Air - Fritz LeiberGuardians of the Phoenix - Eric BrownLife in the Anthropocene - Paul di FilippoTerraforming Terra - Jack WilliamsonWorld Without End - F Gwynplaine MacIntyreThe Children of Time - Stephen BaxterThe Star called Wormwood - Elizabeth Counihan", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8391123-the-mammoth-book-of-apocalyptic-sf"}, +{"book_title": "It's Been a Good Life", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 393, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "New one-volume autobiography spans Asimov's life for the first time!As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Asimov became legendary for his inexhaustible creativity, wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, and talent for explaining complex subjects in clear, concise prose. While regaling his readers with an incredible opus of almost five hundred entertaining and illuminating science fiction and nonfiction books, he also found time to write a three-volume autobiography. Now these volumes have been condensed into one by Asimov's wife, Janet, who also shares excerpts from letters he wrote to her. Together these writings provide an intimate portrait of a creative genius whose love of learning and playing with ideas is evident on every page. Reading this autobiography is like sitting down with Isaac Asimov and experiencing his witty, engaging, and brilliant personality firsthand. We are treated to many marvelous stories about his upbringing in Depression-era Brooklyn, his early fascination with the new science fiction pulp magazines, the thrill of his first published story, the creation of his well-known story \"Nightfall,\" the genesis of the Foundation series, and the evolution of his creative life as a writer. He also reveals his inner thoughts about and experiences with various luminaries in science and science fiction. Above all, Asimov's autobiography conveys unbounded enthusiasm for his craft, the infectious joy of learning and creating, complete intellectual honesty, his strong humanist convictions, and his infinite fund of good humor and optimism even at the end of his life - all told in the lively clear writing style that was his trademark. Although Janet Jeppson Asimov concludes this work with a shocking revelation about her husband's death, the volume is clearly intended as a celebration - as the title suggests - of a wonderful, creative life. As a poignant coda to this work, Janet has appended one short story that was Isaac's favorite, and his 400th essay on this thoughts about science.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Biography", "Nonfiction", "Autobiography (Memoir)", "Biography (Autobiography)", "Language (Writing)", "Science"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41837.It_s_Been_a_Good_Life"}, +{"book_title": "Camp Hell", "author_name": "Jordan Castillo Price", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 4312, "review_number": 400, "book_description": "Victor Bayne honed his dubious psychic skills at one of the first psych training facilities in the country, Heliotrope Station, otherwise known as Camp Hell to the psychics who've been guests behind its razorwire fence.Vic discovered that none of the people he remembers from Camp Hell can be found online, and there\u2019s no mention of Heliotrope Station itself, either. Someone's gone through a lot of trouble to bury the past. But who?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6003542-camp-hell"}, +{"book_title": "Etiquette & Espionage - FREE PREVIEW (The First 3 Chapters", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 462, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but the also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail's legions of fans have come to adore. ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Victorian)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16147254-etiquette-espionage---free-preview"}, +{"book_title": "CryoBurn", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 14159, "review_number": 1038, "book_description": "Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove\u2014he\u2019s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp\u2014an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future\u2014attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out.On Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of generation past repair. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to re-write her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning Don\u2019t mess with the secretary. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping\u2014something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn\u2019t due to power outages in the Cryocombs. And Miles is in the middle\u2014of trouble!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7841670-cryoburn"}, +{"book_title": "When the Tide Rises", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2438, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance, it sends the next best thing: Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy. This time they're off to help the Bagarian cluster in its rebellion against the Alliance, but they'll quickly find that the worst threats to the rebels are the treacherous politicians leading them. \u00a0 Leary and Mundy use electronic espionage, sub-machine guns, and shipkilling missiles to outwit political rivals, put down mutiny, and capture an Alliance fortress. When all else fails, they'll strike for the heart of the Alliance--and then throw their tiny corvette into a major fleet action. \u00a0 A cascade of non-stop action as vivid as only David Drake can write it!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1861059.When_the_Tide_Rises"}, +{"book_title": "Outside In", "author_name": "Maria V. Snyder", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 13680, "review_number": 990, "book_description": "Me?A leader?Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew.That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion\u2014between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free. I thought that meant I was off the hook, and could go off on my own again\u2014while still touching base with Riley, of course. He's the one upper I think I can trust. But then we learned that there's outside and then there is Outside.And something from Outside wants In.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8901953-outside-in"}, +{"book_title": "1635: Music and Murder", "author_name": "David Carrico", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 283, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "1635: Murder and Music.Music . . .It's been said that musicians live for the next new sound. Well, the musicians of Europe were presented with the biggest new sound ever when the Ring of Fire brought the future back to 1631. What will the court musicians think when they hear Bach, Stravinsky, and the Beatles? What will the street and tavern musicians think when faced with Johnny Cash, Metallica, and Nirvana? Things don't go smoothly for Marla Linder and her friends.And Murder . . .The Thirty Years War was an 'interesting' time to be alive, in the proverbial Chinese curse sense of the word. Then Grantville arrived from the future, bringing technology and philosophies that set European civilization on its ear. But that's not all that came back with Grantville. Imagine trying to establish modern police procedures in a time where neither the powers-that-be nor the people underneath them provide much support. Up-timer Byron Chieske and his down-timer partner Gotthilf Hoch walk some mean streets and lonely roads.At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Music", "Emergency Services (Police)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18666509-1635"}, +{"book_title": "The Intruder", "author_name": "Melinda Metz", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1183, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Love...too late? Michael: He's being held in a secret compound. But he's concerned less for himself than his friends. Max. Maria. Liz. Alex. And Isabel. He's got to get out before he's forced to betray the Roswell residents whom Sheriff Valenti is dying to capture. And once Sheriff Valenti has the information he wants, he won't be needing Michael anymore. Isabel: She used to think of Michael as a brother. But now that he's been captured, she seems to be the only one able to hear his every thought, feel his every emotion, share his dreams. Could this special bond between them mean they're meant to be together? Time is running out for Isabel to know for sure...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437904.The_Intruder"}, +{"book_title": "The Stonekeeper", "author_name": "Kazu Kibuishi", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 69448, "review_number": 5230, "book_description": "Graphic novel star Kazu Kibuishi creates a world of terrible, man-eating demons, a mechanical rabbit, a giant robot---and two ordinary children on a life-or-death mission.After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals.Eventually, they enlist the help of a small mechanical rabbit named Miskit. Together with Miskit, they face the most terrifying monster of all, and Em finally has the chance to save someone she loves.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1238684.The_Stonekeeper"}, +{"book_title": "The Poppy War", "author_name": "R.F. Kuang", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 58572, "review_number": 10337, "book_description": "When Rin aced the Keju\u2014the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies\u2014it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn\u2019t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin\u2019s guardians, who believed they\u2019d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard\u2014the most elite military school in Nikan\u2014was even more surprising.But surprises aren\u2019t always good.Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power\u2014an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive\u2014and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .Rin\u2019s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068705-the-poppy-war"}, +{"book_title": "Division Zero", "author_name": "Matthew S. Cox", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 192, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Most cops get to deal with living criminals, but Agent Kirsten Wren isn\u2019t most cops. A gifted psionic with a troubled past, she possesses a rare combination of abilities that makes her a powerful weapon against paranormal threats. Adrift in a society that fears people like her, she feels alone in a city of millions. In 2418, rampant violence and corporate warfare have left no shortage of angry wraiths. Most are little more than fleeting shadows or eerie whispers in the darkness, but every so often, one gathers enough strength to threaten the living. A series of attacks by androids known as dolls leave the normal police baffled. Unable to explain what made the machines malfunction, they punt the case to Division 0. Kirsten\u2019s investigation into who \u2013 or what \u2013 is behind the random murders soon makes her a target for corporate assassins. Despite her past, and the cynical city around her, she clings to the belief that no one is beyond redemption. Alas, the killer is desperate to claim as many innocent souls as possible, and one might just be hers.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Futuristic", "Action", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40798208-division-zero"}, +{"book_title": "Seven Devils", "author_name": "Laura Lam", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 697, "review_number": 257, "book_description": "This first book in a feminist space opera duology follows seven resistance fighters who will free the galaxy from the ruthless Tholosian Empire -- or die trying.When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy's most ruthless empire behind. But her recruitment by the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the empire's voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray.Eris has been assigned a new mission: to infiltrate a spaceship ferrying deadly cargo and return the intelligence gathered to the Resistance. But her partner for the mission, mechanic and hotshot pilot Cloelia, bears an old grudge against Eris, making an already difficult infiltration even more complicated.When they find the ship, they discover more than they bargained for: three fugitives with firsthand knowledge of the corrupt empire's inner workings.Together, these women possess the knowledge and capabilities to bring the empire to its knees. But the clock is ticking: the new heir to the empire plans to disrupt a peace summit with the only remaining alien empire, ensuring the empire\u2019s continued expansion. If they can find a way to stop him, they will save the galaxy. If they can't, millions may die.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38822981-seven-devils"}, +{"book_title": "The Philosopher's Flight", "author_name": "Tom Miller", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4349, "review_number": 823, "book_description": "A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher\u2019s Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America where magic and science have blended into a single extraordinary art. Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy\u2014an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal the injured, and even fly. Though he dreams of fighting in the Great War as the first male in the elite US Sigilry Corps Rescue and Evacuation Service\u2014a team of flying medics\u2014Robert is resigned to mixing batches of philosophical chemicals and keeping the books for the family business in rural Montana, where his mother, a former soldier and vigilante, aids the locals.When a deadly accident puts his philosophical abilities to the test, Robert rises to the occasion and wins a scholarship to study at Radcliffe College, an all-women\u2019s school. At Radcliffe, Robert hones his skills and strives to win the respect of his classmates, a host of formidable, unruly women. Robert falls hard for Danielle Hardin, a disillusioned young war hero turned political radical. However, Danielle\u2019s activism and Robert\u2019s recklessness attract the attention of the same fanatical anti-philosophical group that Robert\u2019s mother fought years before. With their lives in mounting danger, Robert and Danielle band together with a team of unlikely heroes to fight for Robert\u2019s place among the next generation of empirical philosophers\u2014and for philosophy\u2019s very survival against the men who would destroy it.In the tradition of Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness, Tom Miller writes with unrivaled imagination, ambition, and humor. The Philosopher\u2019s Flight is both a fantastical reimagining of American history and a beautifully composed coming-of-age tale for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620364-the-philosopher-s-flight"}, +{"book_title": "Call to Arms", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 2378, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Call to Arms: Blood on the Stars II War. The word spreads throughout the Confederation\u2026the long-expected Union invasion has come. The enemy is strong, their fleets larger and more powerful than intelligence reports had predicted. They have broken through the forward defenses, sent the Confederation\u2019s proud fleets into an ignominious retreat. Captain Tyler Barron and the crew of the battleship Dauntless are lightyears from the front lines, at Archellia, waiting for their damaged battleship to be repaired. Their ship is only just operational, but there is no time. The Confederation forces need every reinforcement they can get, and Barron and his survivors board their vessel\u2026and rush to the battle lines. When they get there, they encounter nothing but fleeing ships and shattered fleets. The Confederation is losing the war, falling back steadily, yielding system after system to the invaders. The Union fleets continue inexorably forward, seemingly immune to the supply constraints that have bogged down past invasions. Dauntless finds herself trapped, cut off from the rest of the fleet along with another Confed battleship, and a trio of small escort vessels\u2026deep behind the rapidly moving front lines. Barron must make a choice. Pull back, try to find a way to get around the enemy and rejoin the fleet. Or press on, strike deep behind the enemy advance, an almost suicidal thrust toward the Union\u2019s main logistical supply base\u2026and the one way Tyler Barron can think of to buy the fleet the time it needs to regroup. To survive. Blood on the Stars Reading Order Book 1: Duel in the Dark Book 2: Call to Arms Book 3: Ruins of Empire (coming Spring 2017) ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32834842-call-to-arms"}, +{"book_title": "The Tale of The Wicked", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1225, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Captain Michael Obwije of the Confederation Armed Forces has been hunting a Tarin battle cruiser in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. But when he orders his own ship in for the killing blow, the hot pursuit turns into a potentially more dangerous situation. One with implications for the entire Confederation.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13432455-the-tale-of-the-wicked"}, +{"book_title": "Stuck in the Game", "author_name": "Christopher Keene", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 273, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "After a terrible car crash puts seventeen-year-old Noah Newbolt into a coma, he is hooked up to the innovative Dream Engine\u2014a virtual reality helmet that immerses the player in an online fantasy game. The Dream Engine keeps Noah\u2019s mind alive while doctors frantically work to heal his body, but his death in the game could result in irreversible brain damage. While Noah learns to navigate the Dream Game, his girlfriend, Sue, suffers injuries from the same crash. Then the doctors\u2019 attempts to connect her to the game result in her apparent death. When a mysterious avatar drops notes suggesting the last remnants of Sue\u2019s consciousness are being held prisoner in the most dangerous part of the game, Noah takes it upon himself to rescue her.He allies himself with a group of high-level players to help him in his quest, but his rise through the ranks earns him a bounty. With top players across the world gunning for Noah, can he stay alive--and awake--long enough to save Sue and escape the game?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31315146-stuck-in-the-game"}, +{"book_title": "Boneshaker", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 1131, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Marine First Lieutenant Jacob Brown is bored.For months he's been sitting around on an alien planet, waiting for command to recall his scout team so they could rest and be re-outfitted. The team went through hell during their previous mission, losing both their commanding officer and their ship. For now, Jacob was acting CO of Scout Team Obsidian and their ship was a broken down old surplus combat shuttle they'd stolen from narco-smugglers on a planet called Niceen-3.When command finally does reach out, however, it isn't to order Obsidian home for some much needed R&R. Instead, they are being reactivated and sent out into the contested space of the recently conquered Eshquarian Empire to track down a single Terran cruiser called the Eagle's Talon.The Talon's captain has gone rogue and is operating within a fleet of ships bent on open rebellion against the quadrant's only remaining superpower. If that ship is discovered within the rebel fleet, Earth will bear the brunt of the ConFed's reprisal. Jacob's team is in a race against time to locate the missing ship and her rogue captain so that a Navy strike force can swoop in and reclaim her\u2026 or destroy her.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52893805-boneshaker"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Compass", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1319185, "review_number": 23073, "book_description": "Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass"}, +{"book_title": "Sandworms of Dune", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 10853, "review_number": 420, "book_description": "At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's past--including Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica--to use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade, Sandworms of Dune will answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades: the origin of the Honored Matres, the tantalizing future of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz Haderach, and the resolution to the war between Man and Machine. This breathtaking new novel in Frank Herbert's Dune series has enough surprises and plot twists to please even the most demanding reader.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42434.Sandworms_of_Dune"}, +{"book_title": "City of Shadows", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 2211, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...Hunted by cyborg assassins from the future, the TimeRiders must abandon New York and go on the run. They escape to Victorian London and the streets where Jack the Ripper roams. But, before they can establish their new base, they make their most shattering discovery yet - and it will change everything ...**Book six in the bestselling TimeRiders series by Alex Scarrow.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Action", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13603796-city-of-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Bones of the Earth", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 1756, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "World-renowned paleontologist Richard Leyster's universe changedforever the day a stranger named Griffin walked into his office with a remarkable job offer . . . and an ice cooler containing the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus. For Leyster and a select group of scientific colleagues an impossible fantasy has come true: the ability to study dinosaurs up close, in their own era and milieu. But tampering with time and paradox can have disastrous effects on the future and the past alike, breeding a violent new strain of fundamentalist terror -- and, worse still, encouraging brilliant rebels like Dr. Gertrude Salley to toy with the working mechanisms of natural law, no matter what the consequences. And when they concern the largest, most savage creatures that ever walked the Earth, the consequences may be too horrifying to imagine . . .", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243862.Bones_of_the_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Eruption", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.13, "rating_votes": 1446, "review_number": 282, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling author and \"maven of alternate history\" (San Diego Union-Tribune) presents a near- future thriller. A supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park sends lava and mud flowing toward populated areas, and clouds of ash drifting across the country. The fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes cities uninhabitable. Those who survive find themselves caught in an apocalyptic catastrophe in which humanity has no choice but to rise from the ashes and recreate the world...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10714831-eruption"}, +{"book_title": "The Second Ship", "author_name": "Richard Phillips", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 10904, "review_number": 636, "book_description": "For sixty years, the National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, has been investigating the powerful technologies of a damaged alien ship, an effort dubbed the Rho Project. Now, the American government is ready to share the Rho Project discoveries with the world. But as the world scrambles to adopt the alien technologies, three high schoolers make another shocking discovery: hidden inside a cave in the New Mexico wilderness lies another alien ship. As the friends explore the second ship, they begin to unravel a decades-long secret involving an extraterrestrial war, government cover-ups, and secret experimentation using alien technology on humans. A battle has begun, and the secrets of the second ship may be the key to humanity's last chance for survival.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6344534-the-second-ship"}, +{"book_title": "Empire Games", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 2511, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence\u2014the paratime espionage agency tasked with catalyzing the Commonwealth's great leap forward--has a problem. For years, she's warned everyone: \"The Americans are coming.\" Now their drones arrive in the middle of a succession crisis\u2014the leader of the American Commonwealth is dying and the vultures are circling. In another timeline, the U.S. has recruited Rita, Miriam's estranged daughter, to spy across timelines and bring down any remaining world-walkers who might threaten national security. But her handlers are keeping information from her.Two nuclear superpowers are set on a collision course. Two increasingly desperate paratime espionage agencies are fumbling around in the dark, trying to find a solution to the first contact problem that doesn't result in a nuclear holocaust. And two women\u2014a mother and her long-lost, adopted daughter\u2014are about to find themselves on opposite sides of the confrontation.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939336-empire-games"}, +{"book_title": "A Midsummer Night's Steampunk", "author_name": "Scott E. Tarbet", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 77, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "When a priceless invention is stolen half a world away, four unlikely adventurers are caught up in an international intrigue that could cost them their lives. Only Pauline Spiegel, a gifted young engineer and artificer, possesses the knowledge to maximize the weapon's potential. With the help of the man she loves, the soldier she is supposed to marry, and her best friend, she must see its schematics to safety. Their only obstacle: a gauntlet of asylum inmates long on \"modifications\" and short on conscience, who will stop at nothing to deliver both Pauline and the plans to Kaiser Bill. At Pauline's side fight a ragtag group of semi-mechanical veterans, and an army of jewel-encrusted micro-mechs who have swarmed London to retrieve the device with the power to control the world. Immerse yourself in this Steampunk retelling of a Shakespearean classic, replete with the newfound wizardry of alternative Victorian technology, mistaken identities, love triangles, and deadly peril, set against the backdrop of a world bracing itself for war, and Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26783338-a-midsummer-night-s-steampunk"}, +{"book_title": "The Alchemy of Stone", "author_name": "Ekaterina Sedia", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 2328, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattie discovers powerful and dangerous secrets -- secrets that can completely alter the balance of power in the city of Ayona. However, this doesn't sit well with Loharri, the Mechanic who created Mattie and still has the key to her heart -- literally! A steampunk novel of romance, political intrigue, and alchemy, The Alchemy of Stone represents a new and intriguing direction by the author of the critically-acclaimed The Secret History of Moscow: ", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2412562.The_Alchemy_of_Stone"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue Wave", "author_name": "Boyd Morrison", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2173, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "This book was previously published as The Palmyra Impact. A minor seismic disturbance in a remote section of the Pacific causes barely a ripple of concern for Kai Tanaka, acting director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu. But when an airliner en route from L.A. to Sydney vanishes in the same location, Kai is the first to realize that a mysterious explosion has unleashed a series of massive waves destined to obliterate Hawaii. In just one hour, Kai will lose all he has ever known\u2014including his wife and daughter\u2014 unless he can save them from nature\u2019s most destructive force.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Action", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7841594-rogue-wave"}, +{"book_title": "1635: A Parcel of Rogues", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 831, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London during the Baltic War, most of its members returned to the continent. But some remained behind in Britain: Oliver Cromwell and a few companions, including the sharpshooter Julie Sims, her Scot husband Alex Mackay, and Cromwell\u2019s Irish-American self-appointed watchdog Darryl McCarthy. Soon, the hunt is on for the most notorious rebel in English history, with King Charles himself demanding Cromwell\u2019s head. The new chief minister Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, brings over from Ireland a notorious crew of cutthroats led by the man called Finnegan to track down and capture the escapees from the Tower. The hunt passes through England and into Scotland, where the conflict between Cromwell and his companions and their would-be captors becomes embroiled in Scotland\u2019s politics, which are every bit as savage and ruthless as Finnegan and his men. To make things still more conflicted and confused, the time Darryl McCarthy spends fighting alongside Cromwell forces him against his will to admire and respect\u2014and even like\u2014the man, despite Cromwell\u2019s demonic reputation among all self-respecting Irish nationalist families like Darryl\u2019s own.\u00a0 It\u2019s a Gordian knot anywhere you look\u2014until Julie Sims brings out her rifle. Now it\u2019s the turn of Scot partisans and English lords and Irish toughs to learn the lesson already learned on the continent:\u00a0A safe distance isn\u2019t what you think it is. Not after the American angel of death spreads her wings.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25110899-1635"}, +{"book_title": "Found", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 6669, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "This is a plus length novel--133,000 words.A warrior with a scarred heart who doesn\u2019t know how to love. And the woman who must teach him how before it\u2019s too late\u2026The son of the evil AllFather, Xairn is filled with conflicting emotions. On one hand, he has finally gained his freedom and cut the ties that bound him to his race and the sadistic male who is his father. But doing so has unleashed feelings in him Xairn would rather keep buried. Desires that he prayed would never manifest now rage through him and they are centered on one woman alone\u2026Lauren Jakes is the long lost cousin Liv and Sophie never knew they had. Abducted by the Scourge, she formed a connection with Xairn more meaningful than any other in his life. But though Lauren thinks she knows him, there is more to the huge Scourge warrior than she comprehends. A nightmare childhood and a cruel father have scarred Xairn\u2019s heart almost past the point of healing. But that is nothing to the secret inside him\u2014the forbidden desires coded into his very DNA itself, which urge him to commit unspeakable acts in order to sate his newly awakened hunger.Now a conflict is brewing\u2014both in Xairn\u2019s soul, and aboard the Fathership where the twisted AllFather has hatched a new, malicious plot to bring his estranged son home. Can Xairn resist the brutal lust growing within him? Can he fight against his very nature which urges him to dominate and control any female he mates? Can Lauren heal his heart before the AllFather\u2019s trap closes on both of them? And can she teach him how to love before it\u2019s too late?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12891829-found"}, +{"book_title": "Eden", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4610, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth-cruel precisely because it is so human. Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Cultural (Poland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28768.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Sailing to Sarantium", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 12929, "review_number": 598, "book_description": "Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen's secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist. Once in the fabled city, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, intrigues and violence, Crispin must find his own source of power in order to survive-and unexpectedly discovers it high on the scaffolding of his own greatest creation.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104097.Sailing_to_Sarantium"}, +{"book_title": "The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes", "author_name": "Wade Albert White", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 827, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "Anne has spent most of her thirteen years dreaming of the day she and her best friend Penelope will finally leave Saint Lupin's Institute for Perpetually Wicked and Hideously Unattractive Children. When the big day arrives, a series of very curious happenings lead to Anne being charged with an epic quest. Anne, Penelope, and new questing partner Hiro have only days to travel to strange new locales, solve myriad riddles, and triumph over monstrous foes--or face the horrible consequences.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26848831-the-adventurer-s-guide-to-successful-escapes"}, +{"book_title": "Valan's Bondmate", "author_name": "Mardi Maxwell", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 641, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "A Warrior with a Grudge\u2026 At thirty-one Valan Erikson is a fierce and relentless warrior. He's never lost a battle but he's losing the war with the mating fever raging in his body. He's accepted that his death is imminent until he's told a compatible race of females has been found. When he discovers they're Wrothian he refuses to take one as a mate until the Council threatens to strip him of his warrior status and let him die in dishonor. A Female Who Wants to Escape Her Fate\u2026 Lia ad-San's Wrothian sire has arranged to trade her to, Gorm ad-Jai, a man she despises. Before she can escape she's abducted by a fierce warrior. Unaware that her sire caused the deaths of the Zarronian females, including Valan's mother and twin sister, she reveals her identity and demands to be freed. A Complication They Didn't Expect\u2026 Enraged to be bonded to the daughter of his most hated enemy, Valan treats Lia as a prisoner rather than a beloved bondmate. When the Zarronians learn her identity they demand she be punished for her sire's war crimes. Valan realizes too late that he's endangered his mate's life. The fever they share will keep them together but only love can make them want each other. Author\u2019s Note: Valan\u2019s Bondmate is an erotic romance that includes explicit sex scenes and mature language. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book. Also, my hero is an anti-hero - meaning he is flawed but has redeeming qualities\u2026for instance, he'd fight to the death for the woman he loves.\u00a0If you don\u2019t like bad boys, then please don\u2019t buy this book.\u00a0 ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Warriors", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25526468-valan-s-bondmate"}, +{"book_title": "Semper Mars", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2440, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "The Year is 2040.The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves.Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war. The USMC -- a branch of a military considered, until just recently, to be obsolete -- has dispatched the Marine Mars Expeditionary Force, a thirty-man weapons platoon, to the Red Planet to protect American civilians and interest with lethal force if necessary.Because great powers are willing to devastate a world in order to keep an ancient secret buried. Because something that was hidden in the Martian dust for half a million years has just been unearthed . . . something that calls into question every belief that forms the delicate foundation of civilization . . .Something inexplicably human.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205258.Semper_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Horizon Storms", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 5041, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "The third novel in the New York Times bestselling author's sci-fi epic. Crackling with energy and buzzing with action . . . A Nebula Award nominee, Anderson may well win one on the strength of this series.--Publishers Weekly, starred review.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/265288.Horizon_Storms"}, +{"book_title": "Riot Baby", "author_name": "Tochi Onyebuchi", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4786, "review_number": 932, "book_description": "Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for the crime of being a young black man in America, Ella\u2014through visits both mundane and supernatural\u2014tries to show him the way to a revolution that could burn it all down.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Adult", "Race", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43719523-riot-baby"}, +{"book_title": "Agent of Byzantium", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 949, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "In a universe where Mohammed became a Christian, the Byzantine Empire has not only survived, it flourishes--developing technology at an earlier date than in our universe. But Byzantium has many jealous enemies, and thus Basil Argyros, Byzantium's version of 007, has his hands full thwarting subversive plots.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101621.Agent_of_Byzantium"}, +{"book_title": "A Curious Beginning", "author_name": "Deanna Raybourn", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 24684, "review_number": 3796, "book_description": "London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry\u2014and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.But fate has other plans when Veronica thwarts her own attempted abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, who offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. But before the baron can reveal what he knows of the plot against her, he is found murdered\u2014leaving Veronica and Stoker on the run from an elusive assailant as wary partners in search of the villainous truth.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Adult", "Historical (Victorian)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186322-a-curious-beginning"}, +{"book_title": "Claimed", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 943, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "After years on the hunt, Cedar Kartes is finally within striking distance of Cudgel Conrad, the criminal who slew his brother and framed him for murder. With the help of Kali McAlister, his business partner and the woman he\u2019s mustering the courage to court, he believes he can finally rid the world of a bloodthirsty felon. But nothing is ever easy in the Yukon. The new police commissioner has taken an interest in Cedar\u2019s checkered past, a suspicious newspaperman is trying to make friends with Kali, and Cudgel may be laying traps for Cedar even as Cedar is trying to trap him.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22472864-claimed"}, +{"book_title": "Lucky Thirteen", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 2609, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "Rookie pilot Halley's first drop ship command.A short story in the Terms of Enlistment universe.170 KB", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17880298-lucky-thirteen"}, +{"book_title": "Exultant", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1845, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "When it comes to cutting-edge science fiction, Stephen Baxter is in a league of his own. His mastery of hard science, his fearlessly speculative imagination, and his ability to combine grand philosophical questions with tales of rousing adventure make him essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of humankind. Now, in Exultant, Baxter takes us to a distant future of dazzling promise and deadly threat, in which a far-flung humanity battles for survival against an implacable alien foe.Destiny\u2019s ChildrenEXULTANTFor more than twenty thousand years, humans have been at war with the alien race of Xeelee. It is a war fought with armaments so advanced as to be godlike, a war in which time itself has become an ever-shifting battleground. At the cost of billions of lives, and with ruthless and relentless efficiency, the ruling Coalition has pushed the Xeelee back to the galactic core, where the supermassive black hole known as Chandra serves the Xeelee as both fortress and power source. There, along a front millions of light-years long, a grisly stalemate reigns, until a young pilot, Pirius, faced with certain death, disobeys orders and employs an innovative time-travel maneuver that, for the first time in the history of the war, results in the capture of a Xeelee fighter. But far from being hailed as a hero when he returns to base with his prize, Pirius is court-martialed, disgraced, and sentenced to penal servitude on a bleak asteroid.It is not only Pirius who pays the price. In flying into the future and back again, Pirius returned to a time before he\u2019d left, a time inhabited by his younger self. And that younger self, by the pitiless logic of Coalition justice, shares the older Pirius guilt and must be punished. Not everyone in the Coalition agrees. Commissary Nilis believes that the elder Pirius, whom he dubs Pirius Blue, may have found a way to defeat the Xeelee. But Nilis can do nothing for Pirius Blue. Instead, he takes charge of the younger Pirius (Pirius Red), and brings him back to Earth, the capital of a vast empire seething with intrigue.There Pirius Red will discover truths that will shatter his preconceived notions of all that he is fighting for, even of what it means to be human. Pirius Blue, meanwhile, will learn truths harsher and more discomfiting still. Yet the most shocking revelation of all is still to come, waiting for them at a place called Chandra. . . .", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66791.Exultant"}, +{"book_title": "Survival Colony Nine", "author_name": "Joshua David Bellin", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 561, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "In a future world of dust and ruin, fourteen-year-old Querry Genn struggles to recover the lost memory that might save the human race. Querry is a member of Survival Colony Nine, one of the small, roving groups of people who outlived the wars and environmental catastrophes that destroyed the old world. The commander of Survival Colony Nine is his father, Laman Genn, who runs the camp with an iron will. He has to--because heat, dust, and starvation aren't the only threats in this ruined world. There are also the Skaldi. Monsters with the ability to infect and mimic human hosts, the Skaldi appeared on the planet shortly after the wars of destruction. No one knows where they came from or what they are. But if they're not stopped, it might mean the end of humanity. Six months ago, Querry had an encounter with the Skaldi--and now he can't remember anything that happened before then. If he can recall his past, he might be able to find the key to defeat the Skaldi. If he can't, he's their next victim.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18457362-survival-colony-nine"}, +{"book_title": "Wasteland of Flint", "author_name": "Thomas Harlan", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 345, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "In some far distant future year, the human race has spread out among the stars, encountering other species and an Empire that spans at least this corner of the galaxy. The Empire is ruled from the Imperial City of Tenochtitlan (which we know as Mexico City), the capital of the planet Anahuac. But the advance of Imperial Mexica has revealed that there were earlier powerful interstellar empires, which are long gone now, leaving behind their mysterious artifacts.When a survey team goes missing, it's up to Dr. Gretchen Andersen to unravel the mystery, a mystery centered on these ancient artifacts, one that could shake the very foundations of the Empire.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557.Wasteland_of_Flint"}, +{"book_title": "The Ring of Solomon", "author_name": "Jonathan Stroud", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 27683, "review_number": 1401, "book_description": "It is 950 B.C.E., and King Solomon rules Jerusalem with a steely hand; a hand on which gleams a magic ring of immense and unforgiving power. Solomon has just begun work on his marvelous temple, charging Khaba, a formidable magician in his royal court, to oversee its construction. The workforce is an ill-behaved bunch of demons, a particularly unruly djinni named Bartimaeus among them. True to form, Bartimaeus promptly gets kicked off the temple project and assigned the even more miserable task of hunting bandits in the desert. There he crosses paths with Asmira, a highly skilled and loyal captain of the Queen of Sheba\u2019s guard, on a suicidal mission to save her country from Solomon\u2019s imminent attack. Of course, Bartimaeus has no intention of helping her. That is, until Asmira makes him an offer he cannot refuse. . . .A spellbinding addition to Jonathan Stroud\u2019s New York Times bestselling Bartimaeus audiobooks, The Ring of Solomon brims with dazzling wit, unforgettable characters, and powerful themes of freedom and slavery, with or without magical bonds.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640705-the-ring-of-solomon"}, +{"book_title": "Jani and the Greater Game", "author_name": "Eric Brown", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 93, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Jani and the Greater Game is the first book in a rip-roaring, spice-laden, steampunk action adventure series set in India and featuring a heroine who subverts all the norms...It's 1910 and the British rule the subcontinent with an iron fist and with strange technology fuelled by a power source known as Annapurnite discovered in the foothills of Mount Annapurna. But they rule but at the constant cost of their enemies, mainly the Russians and the Chinese, attempting to learn the secret of this technology... This political confrontation is known as The Greater Game.Into this conflict is pitched eighteen year old Janisha Chaterjee who discovers a strange device which leads her into the foothills of the Himalayas. When Russians spies and the evil priest Durja Das find out about the device, the chase is on to apprehend Janisha before she can reach the Himalayas. There she will learn the secret behind Annapurnite, and what she learns will change the destiny of the world for ever...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18775296-jani-and-the-greater-game"}, +{"book_title": "The Corridors of Time", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 790, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "A power struggle for time itself.The corridors of time connect the ages to each other. Through them, one can travel backwards and forwards over the history of man. But rival factions have waged war for centuries.... Malcolm is an ordinary man of today, caught up in a time war beyond his comprehension....Cover Illustration by Anthony Roberts.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/890300.The_Corridors_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Steel's Edge", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 16384, "review_number": 1163, "book_description": "The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale\u2014and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny\u2026 Charlotte de Ney is as noble as they come, a blueblood straight out of the Weird. But even though she possesses rare magical healing abilities, her life has brought her nothing but pain. After her marriage crumbles, she flees to the Edge to build a new home for herself. Until Richard Mar is brought to her for treatment, and Charlotte\u2019s life is turned upside down once again. Richard is a swordsman without peer, future head of his large and rambunctious Edger clan\u2014and he\u2019s on a clandestine quest to wipe out slavers trafficking humans in the Weird. So when his presence leads his very dangerous enemies to Charlotte, she vows to help Richard destroy them. The slavers\u2019 operation, however, goes deeper than Richard knows, and even working together, Charlotte and Richard may not survive...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12119496-steel-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Treecat Wars", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1964, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "New York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Selling Young Adult Series. Book Three by international writing phenomenon David Weber. Two young settlers on a pioneer planet seek to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans.The fires are out, but the trouble\u2019s just beginning for the treecatsOn pioneer planet Sphinx, ruined lands and the approach of winter force the now Landless Clan to seek new territory. They have one big problem\u2014there\u2019s nowhere to go. Worse, their efforts to find a new home awaken the enmity of the closest treecat clan\u2014a stronger group who\u2019s not giving up a single branch without a fightStephanie Harrington, the treecats\u2019 greatest advocate, is off to Manticore for extensive training\u2014and up to her ears in challenges there. That leaves only Stephanie\u2019s best friends, Jessica and Anders, to save the treecats from themselves. And now a group of xenoanthropologists is once again after the great secret of the treecats\u2014that they are intelligent, empathic telepaths\u2014and their agenda will lead to nothing less that treecat exploitation.Finally, Jessica and Anders face problems of their own, including their growing attraction to one another. It is an attraction that seems a betrayal of Stephanie Harrington, the best friend either of them have ever had.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Animals (Cats)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17334535-treecat-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Parley", "author_name": "Jamie McFarlane", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1627, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Liam Hoffen and Nick James are back in the next, exciting installment of Jamie McFarlane's Privateer Tales. After fighting space pirates and rescuing a damsel in distress, nothing sounds better than shore leave at Puskar Stellar on Mars where Liam can reconnect with his girlfriend. But neither their newest crew member, Marny, nor the Mars Protectorate Navy is ready for them to spend much time relaxing. Their old nemesis, Harry Flark, found a new mining station to pillage and the crew of Sterra's Gift has been hired to transport a covert operative into Flark\u2019s lair. This is the perfect opportunity for them to set things right if it helps to bring him down. The big problem comes when Liam and Nick discover Flark is expecting them and has no intention of letting them get away with their lives. Like white knights on silver steeds, Liam, Nick, Marny and a passel of new friends fight their way across the solar system, making a name for themselves and their mission. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23160668-parley"}, +{"book_title": "Glowgems for Profit", "author_name": "Bruce C. Davis", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 9, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "The first in a new science fiction series by award winning author, Bruce Davis.Zack Mbele, captain of the independent freighter Profit, needs cash fast. There\u2019s a loan payment due on the ship, not to mention a bogus Customs duty imposed by a crooked official. They\u2019ll seize his ship if he doesn\u2019t pay up and he has few prospects. So when an old friend calls with a lead on a job, Zack isn\u2019t too picky about obeying the letter of the law. All he has to do is smuggle someone out of Highpoint, a huge space station orbiting between the Earth and the Moon.But it's not all that easy as a beautiful assassin and the Red Dragons gang complicate things.Suddenly Zack is involved in a maze of double-cross and murder as he races the Dragons and a shadowy paramilitary army for the greatest prize of all.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12754467-glowgems-for-profit"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue Princess", "author_name": "B.R. Myers", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 836, "review_number": 290, "book_description": "A princess fleeing an arranged marriage teams up with a snarky commoner to foil a rebel plot in B. R. Myers' Rogue Princess, a gender-swapped sci-fi YA retelling of Cinderella.Princess Delia knows her duty: She must choose a prince to marry in order to secure an alliance and save her failing planet. Yet she secretly dreams of true love, and feels there must be a better way. Determined to chart her own course, she steals a spaceship to avoid the marriage, only to discover a handsome stowaway. All Aidan wanted was to \u201cborrow\u201d a few palace trinkets to help him get off the planet. Okay, so maybe escaping on a royal ship wasn\u2019t the smartest plan, but he never expected to be kidnapped by a runaway princess!Sparks fly as this headstrong princess and clever thief battle wits, but everything changes when they inadvertently uncover a rebel conspiracy that could destroy their planet forever.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fairy Tales (Cinderella)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38580109-rogue-princess"}, +{"book_title": "Choosers of the Slain", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 2708, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Sequel to Ghost and Kildar.Former SEAL Michael Harmon (Ghost, Kildar) has a pretty good life. He's settled down in the country of Georgia and built a solid commando-quality militia out of his local retainers. The Keldara have an ancient history of being first-class mountain warriors and all they needed was a few million in modern weapons and training to bring them up to speed. Now, with the Keldara keeping the area safe from Chechen raiders, and the various other terrorists that want Ghost's head on their wall, he can settle back, relax in his harem and drink a few beers. However, a US senator has a problem. A \"major financial contributor's\" daughter has been kidnapped into the labyrinthian depths of the Balkans sex-slave trade. The US government has been unable to find her and the Senator is _very_ interested in changing that condition. Five million dollars interested. As Ghost and his Keldara warriors blast a gaping hole through the middle of the trade, it quickly becomes apparent that there is more to the mission than a \"poor missing waif.\" There's a rot underneath, and the stench is coming from the very floor of the Capitol. Being at war with Albanian gangs is one thing. Taking on Washington is a different ball game. But Ghost never believed in fighting fair.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Action", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Contemporary", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662654.Choosers_of_the_Slain"}, +{"book_title": "The Rain", "author_name": "Virginia Bergin", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 9386, "review_number": 1629, "book_description": "It's in the rain...and just one drop will kill you.They don't believe it at first. Crowded in Zach's kitchen, Ruby and the rest of the partygoers laugh at Zach's parents' frenzied push to get them all inside as it starts to drizzle. But then the radio comes on with the warning, \"It's in the rain! It's fatal, it's contagious, and there's no cure.\"Two weeks later, Ruby is alone. Anyone who's been touched by rain or washed their hands with tap water is dead. The only drinkable water is quickly running out. Ruby's only chance for survival is a treacherous hike across the country to find her father-if he's even still alive.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21116887-the-rain"}, +{"book_title": "WWW: Watch", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 4707, "review_number": 365, "book_description": "Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer continues his \"wildly thought-provoking\" science fiction saga of a sentient World Wide Web. Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH, the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the United States--and they're fully aware of Caitlin's involvement in its awakening. WATCH is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national security and wants it purged from cyberspace. But Caitlin believes in Webmind's capacity for compassion-and she will do anything and everything necessary to protect her friend.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6648604-www"}, +{"book_title": "Gates of Rome", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 2452, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Liam O\u2019Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance\u2014to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...Project Exodus\u2014a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to AD 54 to overthrow the Roman Empire\u2014has gone catastrophically wrong. Half have arrived seventeen years earlier, during the reign of Caligula.Liam goes to investigate, but when Maddy and Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office, all of the TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman past.Armed with knowledge of the future, Caligula is now more powerful than ever. But with the office unmanned\u2014and under threat\u2014how will the TimeRiders make it back to 2001 and put history right?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Action", "Roman", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12337271-gates-of-rome"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Taming", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 5030, "review_number": 411, "book_description": "As a newcomer to the alien tribe, I've struggled to find my place. It might be because I'm a tad headstrong at times. And yes, I might have thrown a few things at people's heads. But I had a good reason to pitch a fit - my shy sister was stolen away right under my nose. Of course, now she's back and mated. Everyone's happy... except me. I need... affection. Attention. Okay, I'm lonely. Really lonely. Strangely enough, the only person that I think understands what I'm going through is the same blue-skinned brute that stole my sister. It's wrong to hook up with him, even as a mindless fling. Except... I'm not so good with the whole 'rules' thing. And he's not so great with the 'fling' thing.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31818909-barbarian-s-taming"}, +{"book_title": "The Fog Diver", "author_name": "Joel N. Ross", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1756, "review_number": 319, "book_description": "A deadly white mist has cloaked the earth for hundreds of years. Humanity clings to the highest mountain peaks, where the wealthy Five Families rule over the teeming lower slopes and rambling junkyards. As the ruthless Lord Kodoc patrols the skies to enforce order, thirteen-year-old Chess and his crew scavenge in the Fog-shrouded ruins for anything they can sell to survive.Hazel is the captain of their salvage raft: bold and daring. Swedish is the pilot: suspicious and strong. Bea is the mechanic: cheerful and brilliant. And Chess is the tetherboy: quiet and quick\u2026and tougher than he looks. But Chess has a secret, one he\u2019s kept hidden his whole life. One that Lord Kodoc is desperate to exploit for his own evil plans. And even as Chess unearths the crew\u2019s biggest treasure ever, they are running out of time...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23215464-the-fog-diver"}, +{"book_title": "The Austere Academy", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 137150, "review_number": 3894, "book_description": "Dear Reader, If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don't. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. Truth be told, within the chapters that make up this dreadful story, the children will face snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, violin recitals, S.O.R.E., and the metric system. It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night's sleep. In that case, you should probably choose some other book. With all due respect,Lemony Snicket", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131123.The_Austere_Academy"}, +{"book_title": "Beauty and His Beast", "author_name": "Bey Deckard", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 650, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "Novella (~38,000 words)Genre(s): Fairy tale, science fiction, lighthearted, xenophilia, magic penis, love story, LGBT+/GSMThey call him Marrex the Monster.Deformed and wretched, Captain Marrex roams the black of space with only a pair of eccentric AIs for company. The curse in his DNA means a long, bitterly lonely life for the Ghelyxian, and it\u2019s a fate Marrex knows he can\u2019t change.After a long sleep in stasis, Juniper Bo wakes to discover he\u2019s an unwelcome guest aboard Captain Marrex\u2019s ship. Though he tries to stay away from the surly Ghelyxian, he just doesn\u2019t get why the curse is such a big deal\u2014then again, Juniper knows his tastes are rather\u2026 unusual for a Human.When friendship blooms between Marrex and Juniper, they realize they face a future that neither could have predicted in their wildest dreams.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36632851-beauty-and-his-beast"}, +{"book_title": "Stalin's Hammer: Cairo", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 335, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The future vs the past. F22 Raptors vs Zeros. Prince Harry (yes, that Prince Harry) vs Hitler and Stalin. Ten years ago a powerful Allied battle fleet was sucked into a wormhole and thrown back into World War Two. History was blown apart. The Soviet Union now controls half of Europe and supreme dictator Joseph Stalin reaches for a weapon to enslave or destroy the rest of the world. Only Harry can stop him.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29938007-stalin-s-hammer"}, +{"book_title": "Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too", "author_name": "Jomny Sun", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 29226, "review_number": 2903, "book_description": "The illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, where he meets all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, while learning to feel a little better about himself\u2014based on the enormously popular Twitter account.Here is the unforgettable story of Jomny, an alien sent to study Earth. Always feeling apart, even among his species, Jomny feels at home for the first time among the earthlings he meets. There is a bear tired of other creatures running in fear, an egg struggling to decide what to hatch into, a turtle hiding itself by learning camouflage, a puppy struggling to express its true feelings, and many more.The characters are unique and inventive\u2014bees think long and hard about what love means, birds try to eat the sun, nothingness questions its own existence, a ghost comes to terms with dying, and an introverted hedgehog slowly lets Jomny see its artistic insecurities. At the same time, Jomny\u2019s curious presence allows these characters to open up to him in ways they were never able to before, revealing the power of somebody who is just there to listen.Everyone\u2019s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too is also the story behind the widely-shared and typo-filled @jonnysun twitter account. Since the beginning, Sun intentionally tweeted from an outsider\u2019s perspective, creating a truly distinct voice. Now, that outsider has taken shape in the character of Jomny, who observes Earth with the same intelligent, empathetic, and charmingly na\u00efve voice that won over his fans on social media. New fans will find it organic, and old fans will delight at seeing the clever words that made them fans in the first place.Through this story of a lost, lonely and confused Alien finding friendship, acceptance, and love among the animals and plants of Earth, we will all learn how to be a little more human. And for all the earth-bound creatures here on this planet, we will all learn how sometimes, it takes an outsider to help us see ourselves for who we truly are.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Poetry", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Humor", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32497573-everyone-s-a-aliebn-when-ur-a-aliebn-too"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral Invincible", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 351, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Another day, another set of problems for the Spineward Sectors\u2019 youngest Admiral. Fresh off the battle of Aqua Nova, Admiral Montagne & Co. find themselves navigating uncharted waters, surrounded by \u2018allies\u2019 who seemingly have little interest in the Multi-Sector Patrol Fleet \u2014 or the safety of its people. Determined to avoid having his people used as human shields in the fast-approaching final conflict with the Droid Tribes, the Little Admiral will have to dig deep into his bag of tricks to have even a prayer of coming out ahead when the final tally is made. But with a parricidal cousin and mutinous former First Officer off negotiating an unthinkable truce on his behalf; an increasingly depressed and bitter Chief Engineer grappling with his place in the universe; a wife who seems to think this is the ideal time for a momentous, life-changing event to take place; and a ramshackle fleet with far less throw weight than he would have liked to take into battle \u2014 one that\u2019s manned by a severely undertrained crew \u2014 what could possibly go wrong? It\u2019s all just another day at the office for the intrepid crew of the MSP.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24662585-admiral-invincible"}, +{"book_title": "Asher's Invention", "author_name": "Coleen Kwan", "rating_score": 2.82, "rating_votes": 62, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Five years ago, Asher Quigley broke his engagement to Minerva Lambkin, believing she was an accomplice in a scheme to steal his prototype for a wondrous device. Minerva swore she was innocent, though the thief\u2014and Asher's mentor\u2014was her own father.Now, sheer desperation has driven Minerva to Asher's door. Her father has been kidnapped by investors furious that he's never been able to make the machine work. Only Asher, now a rich and famous inventor in his own right, can replicate the device. He's also become a hard, distant stranger far different from the young idealist she once loved.Despite their troubled past, Asher agrees to help Minerva. He still harbors his suspicions about her, but their reunion stirs emotions and desires they both thought were buried forever. Can they rebuild their fragile relationship in time to save her father and their future together?29,000 words", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Novella", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13697256-asher-s-invention"}, +{"book_title": "Prime Obsession", "author_name": "Monette Michaels", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1448, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Melina Dmitros is a seasoned battleship captain for the Galactic Alliance. Calls from ships in distress are not all that uncommon in the outermost spirals of the Milky Way. Calls from the warlike Prime were. Now that they were allies, Mel figures she\u2019d better get used to working in conjunction with the chauvinistic race. She never expected to be attracted to one of them.The Prime, one of the oldest species in the galaxy, were known for going their own way. But with problems on Cejuru Prime and increasing attacks by the Antareans, the Prime joined the Alliance to lend their expertise in battling the warlike reptilian species--and ultimately, to survive as a race.Captain Wulf Caradoc, the eldest son and heir apparent of the Prime leader, looked forward to the trip to the Alliance ambassadorial planet. His mission is ostensibly to deliver the diplomatic team to the new Prime embassy. His real mission is to meet his fated mate, his gemate, one of the Lost Ones. Wulf hadn\u2019t anticipated the diplomatic mission being attacked by pirates--and he especially hadn\u2019t anticipated his gemate, Melina Dmitros, being the one sent to rescue his ship.Two strong people pulled together by biology and fate. Their union will be forged in a crucible of survival, treachery and duty.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6922598-prime-obsession"}, +{"book_title": "Howl's Moving Castle", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 229264, "review_number": 15911, "book_description": "Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl\u2014and herself\u2014than first meets the eye.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Romance", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Classics", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294.Howl_s_Moving_Castle"}, +{"book_title": "The Battersea Barricades", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2098, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "It's not easy being a rebel. So many new skills to assimilate. Never mind strategic planning, weapons expertise and the like - there's bicycle-stealing, oil-stain removal and boat steering to be mastered first. And quickly. It's the time of the Civil Uprisings and two young women set out to make a difference. Their only problem? They don't know where they are. Or where they're going. Or what to do when they get there. Other than that ... Fans of St Mary's will enjoy this glimpse into the past of some of their favourite characters.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38312874-the-battersea-barricades"}, +{"book_title": "The Other Teddy Roosevelts", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 76, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that.But how about vampire hunter?Or African king?Or Jack the Ripper's nemesis?Or World War I doughboy?Mike Resnick (the most-awarded short story writer in science fiction history, according to Locus) has been the biographer of these other Teddy Roosevelts for almost two decades. Here you will find a familiar Roosevelt, but in unfamiliar surroundings stalking a vampire through the streets of New York, or a crazed killer down the back alleys of Whitechapel, coming face-to-face with the devastation of 20th Century warfare, waging an early battle for women's suffrage, applying all his skills to bring American democracy to the untamed African wilderness, or coming face-to-face with one of H. G. Wells' Martian invaders in the swamps of Cuba.And, as Winston Churchill said of the Arthurian legends, if these stories aren't true, then they should have been.Enjoy.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1169144.The_Other_Teddy_Roosevelts"}, +{"book_title": "Absolute Transmetropolitan Vol. 1", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.58, "rating_votes": 320, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 21st Century surroundings. Combining black humor, life-threatening situations, and moral ambiguity, this book is the first look into the mind of an outlaw journalist and the world he seeks to destroy.Collects Transmetropolitan #1-18, Transmetropolitan: I Hate it Here, VERTIGO Winter's Edge #2 in a slipcased Absolute Edition format.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23012576-absolute-transmetropolitan-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay", "author_name": "Michael Chabon", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 186236, "review_number": 11084, "book_description": "Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America - the comic book. Drawing on their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. With exhilarating style and grace, Michael Chabon tells an unforgettable story about American romance and possibility.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novels", "Literature", "Historical", "Literary Fiction", "Contemporary", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Literature (Jewish)", "New York"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3985.The_Amazing_Adventures_of_Kavalier_Clay"}, +{"book_title": "The Moscow Option: An Alternative Second World War", "author_name": "David Downing", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 305, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "This provocative alternate history looks at World War II from a new angle - what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941. Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this book plays out the dramatic consequences of opportunities taken and examines the grotesque possibilities of a Third Reich triumphant. On September 30th, 1941, the Germans fight their way into the ruins of Moscow, and the Soviet Union collapses. Although Russian resistance continues, German ambition multiplies after this signal victory and offensives are launched in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Hitler's armies, assured of success, make their leader's dreams reality, and Allied hopes of victory seem to be hopelessly doomed.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novels", "Cultural (Russia)", "Cultural (Germany)", "Military (Military History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391168.The_Moscow_Option"}, +{"book_title": "Zomblog", "author_name": "T.W. Brown", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1141, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Samuel Todd is a regular guy: ...Failed husband... ...Loving father... ...Dutiful worker... ...Aspiring rockstar. He had no idea if anyone would care, or take the time, to read his daily blog entries about his late night observations. But what started as an open monologue of his day-to-day life became a running journal of the firsthand account detailing the rising of the dead and the downfall and degradation of mankind...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7674888-zomblog"}, +{"book_title": "Crier's War", "author_name": "Nina Varela", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 8196, "review_number": 1749, "book_description": "Impossible love between two girls \u2014one human, one Made. A love that could birth a revolution.After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, Designed to be the playthings of royals, took over the estates of their owners and bent the human race to their will.Now, Ayla, a human servant rising the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging the death of her family\u2026 by killing the Sovereign\u2019s daughter, Lady Crier. Crier, who was Made to be beautiful, to be flawless. And to take over the work of her father. Crier had been preparing to do just that\u2014to inherit her father\u2019s rule over the land. But that was before she was betrothed to Scyre Kinok, who seems to have a thousand secrets. That was before she discovered her father isn\u2019t as benevolent as she thought. That was before she met Ayla.Set in a richly-imagined fantasy world, Nina Varela\u2019s debut novel is a sweepingly romantic tale of love, loss and revenge, that challenges what it really means to be human.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "LGBT", "Young Adult", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41951626-crier-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "War Factory", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 3290, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict with humanity.Sverl, a Prador genetically modified by Penny Royal and slowly becoming human, pursues Cvorn, a Prador harboring deep hatred for the Polity looking to use him and other hybrids to reignite the dormant war with mankind.Blite, captain of a bounty hunting ship, hands over two prisoners and valuable memplants from Penny Royal to the Brockle, a dangerous forensics entity under strict confinement on a Polity spaceship that quickly takes a keen interest in the corrupted AI and its unclear motives.Penny Royal meanwhile continues to pull all the strings in the background, keeping the Polity at bay and seizing control of an attack ship. It seeks Factory Station Room 101, a wartime manufacturing space station believed to be destroyed. What does it want with the factory? And will Spear find the rogue AI before it gets there?War Factory, the second book in the Transformation trilogy, is signature space opera from Neal Asher: breakneck pacing, high-tech science, bizarre alien creatures, and gritty, dangerous far-future worlds.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898503-war-factory"}, +{"book_title": "Homeland", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 8074, "review_number": 961, "book_description": "In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco\u2015an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state.A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It's incendiary stuff\u2015and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier.Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him\u2015but he can't admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he's gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do.Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they're used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Technology)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Politics", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12917338-homeland"}, +{"book_title": "The Jewel", "author_name": "Amy Ewing", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 38333, "review_number": 4503, "book_description": "\"Today is my last day as Violet Lasting. Tomorrow I become Lot 197.\"The Jewel is a shocking and compelling new YA series from debut author, Amy Ewing.Sold for six million diamantes, Violet is now Surrogate of the House of the Lake in the centre of the Lone City, the Jewel. Her sole purpose is to produce a healthy heir for the Duchess \u2013 a woman Violet fears and despises. Violet is trapped in a living death, her name and body no longer her own. She fights to hold on to her own identity and sanity, uncertain of the fate of her friends, isolated and at the mercy of the Duchess.The Handmaid's Tale meets The Other Boleyn Girl in a world where beauty and brutality collide.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40882262-the-jewel"}, +{"book_title": "Trader Vyx", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2131, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Advanced weapons manufactured for Space Command are being offered for sale on the galactic black market. Trader Vyx, an undercover operative for Space Command, the military arm of the Galactic Alliance, has been sent into the Frontier Zone to procure several weapons from an Alyysian arms merchant, as part of an effort to trace the serial numbers and end the thefts. All is going smoothly until a Tsgardi mercenary enters the room. He utters a profanity as he recognizes Vyx and immediately reaches for his sidearm. Vyx grabs for his own sidearm, but then has to dive for cover as the weapon merchant's bodyguards open up, turning the room into a killing zone of deadly crossfire. Vyx manages to kill the mercenary and escape, but is hotly pursued by bodyguards who believe him responsible for the shooting incident that severely wounded their boss. The chase continues through the small Gollasko Colony as Vyx uses all of his skills to evade guards bent on ending his life. Each time he thinks he's lost his pursuers, they turn up again. While Vyx is fighting for his life on Gollasko, Commander Jenetta Carver is facing problems of her own in another part of the galaxy. The Galactic Alliance has decided to expand the border, and Commander Jenetta Carver is venturing into the new territory as captain of a prototype scout ship. An onboard accident sends the small ship flying wildly out of control. They find themselves in a disabled ship, unable to contact anyone, with life support systems beginning to fail. When a passing Raider warship happens across the apparently derelict ship, Jenetta must face the question of resistance or surrender. 108,500 Words - 328 Pages", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9631450-trader-vyx"}, +{"book_title": "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", "author_name": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 18176, "review_number": 1572, "book_description": "Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.The story \"Omelas\" was first published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won Le Guin the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.It was subsequently printed in her short story collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters in 1975.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Academic (School)", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92625.The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas"}, +{"book_title": "Rabbit and Robot and Ribbit", "author_name": "Cece Bell", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 245, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "What happens when two friends suddenly become three? Rabbit is excited. He is going to surprise his good friend Robot at home. DING DONG! When Robot opens the door, he is surprised. He wasn\u2019t expecting Rabbit. In fact, he is already engrossed in a game of checkers with another friend, Ribbit. Now Rabbit is the one who is surprised, and a bit jealous. While Robot thinks everything Ribbit says is humorous, all Rabbit hears is \"ribbit.\" And Ribbit eats flies with her popcorn. Gross! When Rabbit and Ribbit get mad because they both want to be Cowboy Jack Rabbit, Robot\u2019s Emotion Decoder overheats, leaving him out of commission. Can Rabbit and Ribbit find a way to work together to revive their friend?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Animals", "Childrens", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28686890-rabbit-and-robot-and-ribbit"}, +{"book_title": "Just Compensation", "author_name": "Robert N. Charrette", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 253, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "While war tensions are mounting between the United Canadian and American States and the Compensation army, a young, inexperienced Shadowrunner stumbles upon some information that will ensure victory to the faction who can secure it first. From the author of the Secrets of Power series.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351457.Just_Compensation"}, +{"book_title": "Cog", "author_name": "Greg Van Eekhout", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 474, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Five robots. One unforgettable journey. Their programming will never be the same. Cog looks like a normal twelve-year-old boy. But his name is short for \u201ccognitive development,\u201d and he was built to learn.But after an accident leaves him damaged, Cog wakes up in an unknown lab\u2014and Gina, the scientist who created and cared for him, is nowhere to be found. Surrounded by scientists who want to study him and remove his brain, Cog recruits four robot accomplices for a mission to find her.Cog, ADA, Proto, Trashbot, and Car\u2019s journey will likely involve much cognitive development in the form of mistakes, but Cog is willing to risk everything to find his way back to Gina.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43453676-cog"}, +{"book_title": "Omega Society Auction: Episode One", "author_name": "Eileen Glass", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 662, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "When the alien alphas arrived on Earth, omega-compatible men weren\u2019t given a choice in mating with them. After a long and troubled war, Earth brought down the harem towers and exiled the alien lords to the moon where they rule from afar.Things have calmed down in recent history; the powerful alphas seek mates who will submit themselves voluntarily. But who would sell themselves into slavery? Who would want to become a breeder?Rourke\u2019s terminally ill mother needs a cure that\u2019s only accessible to the very rich. An omega auction can pay for it.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36621758-omega-society-auction"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Magisters", "author_name": "Shanna Swendson", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 735, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Tea, Love ... and Revolution!The Rebel Mechanics aren\u2019t the only group plotting revolution against the magical British Empire. There are rebel magisters, as well, and Verity Newton and her magister employer, Lord Henry, know that the only way for the revolution to succeed is if both groups work together. A diplomatic mission seems like the perfect opportunity for them to meet with rebels in other colonies and gather support\u2014right under the governor\u2019s nose.From drawing rooms, ballrooms, and the harbor in Boston to the streets of Charleston, Verity and Henry find themselves up against stubborn factions of both magisters and Mechanics and increasingly aware that they can only really count on each other as their relationship deepens. It may take a real crisis to unite the rebel movements and rally them to the cause\u2014but could such a crisis also tear them apart?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30530741-rebel-magisters"}, +{"book_title": "Saga, Vol. 5", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 57153, "review_number": 3905, "book_description": "Multiple storylines collide in this cosmos-spanning new volume. While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies.Collecting: Saga 25-30", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25451555-saga-vol-5"}, +{"book_title": "Nevermore", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 34865, "review_number": 2841, "book_description": "Maximum Ride and her faithful friends stand ready to face the two greatest threats that humankind has ever known--now combining forces in an unbeatable plot to destroy life as we know it once and for all. And this time, the enemy truly can't be stopped. The danger mounts just as the boy genetically engineered to be her \"perfect match\", Dylan, has finally worked his way into Max's heart--and just as her beloved Fang unexpectedly returns to the flock. An explosive confrontation between the two boys with a claim to Max's heart ensues, and the entire world hangs in the balance. In this powerful and moving latest sequel in James Patterson's epic fantasy series, fans will finally get the answers they've been waiting for--and an ending full of shock, surprises, and the greatest conclusion you never saw coming.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11946245-nevermore"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Line", "author_name": "Addison Cain", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 3179, "review_number": 421, "book_description": "They call me brutal. They call me unrepentant. They call me possessive. I am all these things and much, much worse.But for her, I will be as gentle as a lamb.She's afraid, so I will comfort her. She had no understanding of our unbreakable bond, so I will take my time. Her body requires touch, so I shall lavish her with my strength.My mate will know nothing of the monster I really am.The Golden Line is a dark, sinister paranormal romance for those with twisted tastes and a love for delicious villains. Complete power exchange dominates these pages, as does an attentive Alpha hero you will adore. Book one is standalone, in a series of intertwined standalone novels.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Dark", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55582145-the-golden-line"}, +{"book_title": "Mortal Engines", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2621, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem\u2019s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. \u201cAstonishing is not too strong a word for these tales\u201d (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88314.Mortal_Engines"}, +{"book_title": "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing", "author_name": "Hank Green", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 67737, "review_number": 11526, "book_description": "The Carls just appeared.Roaming through New York City at three AM, twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship\u2014like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor\u2014April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world\u2014from Beijing to Buenos Aires\u2014and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight.Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has to deal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on her relationships, her safety, and her own identity. And all eyes are on April to figure out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24233708-an-absolutely-remarkable-thing"}, +{"book_title": "The New Barbarians", "author_name": "Kirk Mitchell", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 63, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "In an alternate world where Rome never fell, two mighty empires collide -- and Germanicus leads his legions across the globe to bring Roman light to the barbarian darkness...", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415877.The_New_Barbarians"}, +{"book_title": "Grasshopper Jungle", "author_name": "Andrew Smith", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 16911, "review_number": 3311, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Austin Szerba interweaves the story of his Polish legacy with the story of how he and his best friend , Robby, brought about the end of humanity and the rise of an army of unstoppable, six-foot tall praying mantises in small-town Iowa.To make matters worse, Austin's hormones are totally oblivious; they don't care that the world is in utter chaos: Austin is in love with his girlfriend, Shann, but remains confused about his sexual orientation. He's stewing in a self-professed constant state of maximum horniness, directed at both Robby and Shann. Ultimately, it's up to Austin to save the world and propagate the species in this sci-fright journey of survival, sex, and the complex realities of the human condition.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Humor", "Horror", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079719-grasshopper-jungle"}, +{"book_title": "Hollow Kingdom", "author_name": "Kira Jane Buxton", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 8698, "review_number": 2150, "book_description": "One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos \u00ae.Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right. His most tried-and-true remedies--from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis--fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he discovers that the neighbors are devouring each other and the local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of dangerous new predators roaming Seattle. Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a foul-mouthed crow whose knowledge of the world around him comes from his TV-watching education.Hollow Kingdom is a humorous, big-hearted, and boundlessly beautiful romp through the apocalypse and the world that comes after, where even a cowardly crow can become a hero.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Animals", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42839296-hollow-kingdom"}, +{"book_title": "Bayou Moon", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 26482, "review_number": 1509, "book_description": "The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Walmart and magic is a fairytale\u2013and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny\u2026Cerise Mar and her unruly clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands between the state of Louisiana and the Weird. When her parents vanish, her clan\u2019s long-time rivals are suspect number one.But all is not as it seems. Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge\u2014and Cerise\u2019s life . William, a changeling soldier who left behind the politics of the Weird, has been forced back into service to track down a rival nation\u2019s spymaster.When William\u2019s and Cerise\u2019s missions lead them to cross paths, sparks fly\u2014but they\u2019ll have to work together if they want to succeed\u2026and survive.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7130616-bayou-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Planet Warriors: The Complete Serial", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 4270, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "alternate cover edition of ASIN B01F2WTGFK***This book contains the first three Dark Planet Warriors books, Invasion, Taken and Escape (which were originally released as a three-part serial) in one single volume.*** Abbey Some scary looking aliens have just boarded Fortuna Tau, our little asteroid mining station. Kordolians, by the looks of things. What the hell do they want with this floating rust bucket? What are they even doing here? In the grand scheme of things, Earth is a total backwater, and the Solar System is the galactic equivalent of Hicksville. That's why aliens rarely bother to come to this corner of the universe. And Kordolians are usually too busy conquering the important parts of the nine galaxies to bother with us. But it looks as if their battle cruiser is broken. Probably shot up in a firefight. They're going to use every means necessary to fix it, even if it means putting Fortuna Tau on lockdown. I just hope they don't decide to enslave us and ship us off to some remote alien planet. Come to think of it, I've never seen a Kordolian up close before. They're huge, with strange silver skin and pointed ears. They have freaky nano-armor. And they're packing a serious arsenal. Our human technology has no chance against their weapons. When I encounter their General, I find him insufferable. Arrogant. Domineering. He won't tell me anything. I guess that's what happens when your race is kicking ass across the nine galaxies. You get pigheaded. So why do I keep running into him? Why is he looking at me funny? And what's with this weird feeling I get when he's around? I really hope these guys fix their ship and go away soon, because I get the feeling they could be major trouble. Tarak Sucked into a wormhole during a fierce skirmish with an enemy ship. Spat out near a human mining station in a remote corner of the nine galaxies. Stuck with weak humans who operate with inferior metals and technology. This mission couldn't get any worse. We need to fix our craft before the wormhole collapses. We need to hunt the cursed Xargek monsters that have infiltrated this human rust-bucket. And these infernal headaches of mine are getting worse. I don't really care about these humans. Their existence makes no sense to me. All I care about is killing Xargek and getting back to my home planet, Kythia. This situation is tiresome. The light of the star humans call the Sun burns my eyes. I crave Kythia's darkness. So why has this crazy human female captured my attention? She's messy, awkward and she babbles nonsense half the time. These humans are crazy. I don't understand them at all. Especially this female. Why do I keep coming back to her? I need to leave this place before I go insane Warning: This book contains swearing, violence and steamy sex scenes. It's recommended for readers aged 18 and over.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30087347-dark-planet-warriors"}, +{"book_title": "Everything Matters", "author_name": "Ron Currie Jr.", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 7119, "review_number": 960, "book_description": "In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophecy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choices, Junior's loved ones emerge with parallel stories-his anxious mother; his brother, a cocaine addict turned pro-baseball phenomenon; his exalted father, whose own mortality summons Junior's best and worst instincts; and Amy, the love of Junior's life and a North Star to his journey through romance and heartbreak, drug-addled despair, and superheroic feats that could save humanity. While our recognizable world is transformed into a bizarre nation at endgame, where government agents conspire in subterranean bunkers, preparing citizens for emigration from a doomed planet, Junior's final triumph confounds all expectation, building to an astonishing and deeply moving resolution. Ron Currie, Jr., gets to the heart of character, and the voices who narrate this uniquely American tour de force leave an indelible, exhilarating impression.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6184241-everything-matters"}, +{"book_title": "Incubation", "author_name": "Adrienne Lecter", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1722, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "If the zombie apocalypse happens tomorrow\u2014how would you spend your last day? All Dr. Brianna Lewis wants is a cup of coffee. Coffee, to make slaving away in her cell culture lab at Green Fields Biotech a little more bearable on a Friday afternoon when everyone is home already. What she doesn\u2019t count on is a group of terrorists blowing up all the entrances to the building and taking her and a select few others hostage. Bree soon finds herself conflicted. Not only does she know their charismatic leader. She also starts to suspect that there is a lot more to this than the hunt for an illegal bioweapon\u2014a virus that could potentially kill millions in just a few days\u2014particularly as there is currently a flu epidemic raging across the country, and reports about violent behavior among the afflicted are getting more and more alarming. Books in the series (so far): #1: Incubation #2: Outbreak #3: Escalation #4: Extinction #5: Resurgence #6: Unity #7: Affliction #8: Catharsis If you're not sure you want to embark on a journey thousands of pages long that isn't complete yet, the first six books in the series can be read as a complete set that will leave you with a satisfying ending.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Adult", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26176950-incubation"}, +{"book_title": "The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 1477, "review_number": 173, "book_description": "Outside the classroom walls the Rising was spreading, but inside was a carefully protected sanctuary against the growing threat.Or so the teachers and students thought.On what will be the last day in the teaching career of Elaine Oldenburg, she must fight to survive and protect her students when the zombie outbreak shatters the safety of her school.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22473578-the-day-the-dead-came-to-show-and-tell"}, +{"book_title": "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2285, "review_number": 192, "book_description": "At last, Volumes 1 and 2 of Alan Moore's LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN are collected in a single, hardcover edition!As the twentieth century approaches, there is a need for a new kind of champion - adventurers not bound by the chaste order that characterizes the stagnant Victorian Era. The enigmatic Campion Bond of British Intelligence has begun a recruiting mission, collecting a menagerie of individuals who can be of value to his superiors due to...activities that have forced them beyond the pale.But as Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, and Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man discover, British Intelligence has plans for them that go far beyond mere spying. And if they survive their first test against the devil doctor of Limehouse, they'll have to battle an even stranger menace from the stars!", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10975195-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-omnibus"}, +{"book_title": "The Door That Led to Where", "author_name": "Sally Gardner", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 962, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when he is offered a junior position at a London law firm he hopes his life is about to change - but he could never have imagined by how much.Tidying up the archive one day, AJ finds an old key, mysteriously labelled with his name and date of birth - and he becomes determined to find the door that fits the key. And so begins an amazing journey to a very real and tangible past - 1830, to be precise - where the streets of modern Clerkenwell are replaced with cobbles and carts, and the law can be twisted to suit a villain's means. Although life in 1830 is cheap, AJ and his friends quickly find that their own lives have much more value. They've gone from sad youth statistics to young men with purpose - and at the heart of everything lies a crime that only they can solve. But with enemies all around, can they unravel the mysteries of the past, before it unravels them?A fast-paced mystery novel by one of the country's finest writers, THE DOOR THAT LED TO WHERE will delight, surprise and mesmerise all those who read it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23049597-the-door-that-led-to-where"}, +{"book_title": "The Nelson Touch", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4180, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Ark Royal \u2013 the Royal Navy\u2019s outdated space carrier \u2013 has won a smashing victory against the enigmatic aliens, capturing one of their starships and returning to Earth. Now, Admiral Theodore Smith and his crew are assigned to command a fleet charged with making a deep-penetration raid into alien territory, a fleet made up of carriers from four different nations.But with a crewman who isn't what he seems, untested pilots and international friction \u2013 and a new and dangerous alien plan - can Ted and his crew survive their mission ... or will they die, alone and unremarked, hundreds of light years from home?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Audiobook", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21531232-the-nelson-touch"}, +{"book_title": "Cryptonomicon", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 100686, "review_number": 5382, "book_description": "Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods\u2014World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. \"When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty\u2014we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious.\"All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes\u2014inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe\u2014team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816.Cryptonomicon"}, +{"book_title": "Apex", "author_name": "Ramez Naam", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 6700, "review_number": 466, "book_description": "Global unrest spreads as mass protests advance throughout the US and China, Nexus-upgraded riot police battle against upgraded protestors, and a once-dead scientist plans to take over the planet's electronic systems. The world has never experienced turmoil of this type, on this scale.They call them the Apex - humanity's replacement. They're smarter, faster, better. And infinitely more dangerous. Humanity is dying. Long live the Apex.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20424928-apex"}, +{"book_title": "City of Flowers", "author_name": "Mary Hoffman", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 6093, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "Sky stepped out into the sunshine, blinking, still holding the bottle, and a black man, robed like the others, took him by the arm and whispered, 'God be praised, it has found you!'Everything changes for Sky when he finds a perfume bottle that whiskes him away to the city of Giglia, an ancient city similar to Florence. This may be the beautiful City of Flowers, but things that seems beautiful might also be deadly. As a new Stravagante - someone who can travel through space and time with the help of a talisman - Sky finds himself caught up in a deadly feud between Giglia's two ruling families. Now, the Stravaganti must do all they can to avoid further bloodshed as politics, conspiracy and espionage unfold.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295107.City_of_Flowers"}, +{"book_title": "The True Queen", "author_name": "Zen Cho", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2144, "review_number": 462, "book_description": "When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach of the island of Janda Baik, they can't remember anything, except that they are bound as only sisters can be. They have been cursed by an unknown enchanter, and slowly Sakti starts to fade away. The only hope of saving her is to go to distant Britain, where the Sorceress Royal has established an academy to train women in magic.If Muna is to save her sister, she must learn to navigate high society, and trick the English magicians into believing she is a magical prodigy. As she's drawn into their intrigues, she must uncover the secrets of her past, and journey into a world with more magic than she had ever dreamed.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27818782-the-true-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Netherworld", "author_name": "Lisa Morton", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 148, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "In nineteenth-century Victorian England, a young widow finds that she has inherited more than her late husband\u2019s property: The Furnavals serve as the ancestral keepers of supernatural portals scattered around the globe. When demonic entities begin crossing over from the Netherworld, Lady Diana realizes that a war is brewing, and she must be the one to confront it.Accompanied by a young Chinese sailor named Yi-kin, her feline guardian Mina, and a mysterious scholar, Stephen, Diana will begin a journey to solve the mystery of her husband's death and prevent the apocalypse.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Unfinished", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18463179-netherworld"}, +{"book_title": "The Brass Queen", "author_name": "Elizabeth Chatsworth", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 111, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "In 1897, a fiery British aristocrat and an inept US spy search for a stolen invisibility serum that could spark a global war.Miss Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogue inventors. Selling exotic firearms under her alias, the \u2018Brass Queen,\u2019 has kept her baronial estate\u2019s coffers full. But when US spy, Trusdale, saves her from assassins, she\u2019s pulled into a search for a scientist with an invisibility serum. As royal foes create an invisible army to start a global war, Constance and Trusdale must learn to trust each other. If they don\u2019t, the world they know will literally disappear before their eyes.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48759186-the-brass-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Atomic Robo and Other Strangeness", "author_name": "Brian Clevinger", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 940, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Atomic Robo faces an invasion from the Vampire Dimension, finds a giant kaiju monster attack in the heart of Tokyo, detours to the South Pacific to battle wits with Dr. Dinosaur, then comes face-to-face with his newest enemy: his oldest enemy Collects the Atomic Robo and the Revenge of the Vampire Dimension mini-series, the Free Comic Book Day 2009 story Why Atomic Robo Hates Dr. Dinosaur, and an assortment of Robo mini-comics in print for the first time", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8679512-atomic-robo-and-other-strangeness"}, +{"book_title": "Bourne & Tributary", "author_name": "Lisa Tawn Bergren", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1647, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "If you like romance, adventure and a dose of medieval Italian culture, you'll love WATERFALL (book 1), CASCADE (book 2), TORRENT (book 3), as well as the follow-up novellas, BOURNE (book 3.1) and TRIBUTARY (book 3.2). In this volume, both novellas are included.BOURNE, a novella, picks up right where TORRENT left off...Find out what has happened to men returning from the battle, gravely wounded, to the Betarrinis, fighting for the men they love, and just who is hunting them next...TRIBUTARY, a novella, picks up a year after BOURNE... Lia struggles to overcome the fear that constant battle has heaped upon her; Gabi and Marcello face an unexpected crisis; and Lord Greco just may be ready to leave the grief and loss of his past behind him, so that he might grab hold of the future...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Christian Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Christian", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15892810-bourne-tributary"}, +{"book_title": "The World of Ptavvs", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 2976, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. And when Larry's mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind...\"Snappy, ingenious, and upbeat.\" - GalaxyMade the 1st ballot for the 1967 Nebula", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218463.The_World_of_Ptavvs"}, +{"book_title": "Snake Agent", "author_name": "Liz Williams", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2195, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "Detective Inspector Chen is the Singapore Three police department's snake agent - the detective in charge of supernatural and mystical investigations. Chen has several problems: in addition to colleagues who don't trust him and his mystical ways, a patron goddess whom he has offended and a demonic wife who's tired of staying home alone, he's been paired with one of Hell's own vice officers, Seneschal Zhu Irzh, to investigate the illegal trade in souls. Political pressures both Earthly and otherworldly seek to block their investigations at every turn. As a plot involving both Singapore Three's industrial elite and Hell's own Ministry of Epidemics is revealed, it becomes apparent that the stakes are higher than anyone had previously suspected.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Horror", "Cultural (China)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/429890.Snake_Agent"}, +{"book_title": "Best Frints in the Whole Universe", "author_name": "Antoinette Portis", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 785, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "Yelfred and Omek have been best frints since they were little blobbies. They play and snack, and sometimes they even fight, all in a language similar to but slightly different from, English. When Omek decides to borrow Yelfred's new spaceship without asking (and then crashes it), it sparks the biggest fight yet. Can these two best frints make up and move on?Award-winning picture book creator Antoinette Portis delivers a new universe of cleverness and imagination in this hilarious, sweet, and otherworldly book about friendship.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Humor", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Humanities (Language)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25689014-best-frints-in-the-whole-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Planetside", "author_name": "Michael Mammay", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2200, "review_number": 373, "book_description": "\nA seasoned military officer uncovers a deadly conspiracy on a distant, war-torn planet\u2026\nWar heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it's something big\u2014and he's not being told the whole story. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet. The young lieutenant had been wounded and evacuated\u2014but there's no record of him having ever arrived at hospital command.\u00a0The colonel quickly finds Cappa Base to be a labyrinth of dead ends and sabotage: the hospital commander stonewalls him, the Special Ops leader won't come off the planet, witnesses go missing, radar data disappears, and that\u2019s before he encounters the alien enemy. Butler has no choice but to drop down onto a hostile planet\u2014because someone is using the war zone as a cover. The answers are there\u2014Butler just has to make it back alive\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35657891-planetside"}, +{"book_title": "The Pirate Kings", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1765, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "Liam O\u2019Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance\u2014to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...Relocated to Victorian London, the TimeRiders joy-ride back to 1666 to witness the Great Fire of London. In the ensuing chaos, Liam and their newest recruit, Rashim, find themselves trapped between the fire and the Thames. They escape onboard a river boat, only to be confronted by an unscrupulous captain with his heart set on treasures of the high seas ...Back in 1888, Maddy and the rest of the team are frantically trying to track them down. But with limited resources at their new base, can Liam and Rashim survive the bloodthirsty and barbaric age of piracy long enough to be rescued?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15792365-the-pirate-kings"}, +{"book_title": "California Bones", "author_name": "Greg Van Eekhout", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2211, "review_number": 401, "book_description": "When Daniel Blackland was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine plucked out of the sand during a visit with his demanding, brilliant, and powerful magician father, Sebastian.When Daniel was twelve, he watched Sebastian die at the hands of the Hierarch of Southern California, devoured for the heightened magic layered deep within his bones.Now, years later, Daniel is a petty thief with a forged identity. Hiding amid the crowds in Los Angeles\u2014the capital of the Kingdom of Southern California\u2014Daniel is trying to go straight. But his crime-boss uncle has a heist he wants Daniel to perform: break into the Hierarch's storehouse of magical artifacts and retrieve Sebastian's sword, an object of untold power.For this dangerous mission, Daniel will need a team he can rely on, so he brings in his closest friends from his years in the criminal world. There's Moth, who can take a bullet and heal in mere minutes. Jo Alverado, illusionist. The multitalented Cassandra, Daniel's ex. And, new to them all, the enigmatic, knowledgeable Emma, with her British accent and her own grudge against the powers-that-be. The stakes are high, and the stage is set for a showdown that might just break the magic that protects a long-corrupt regime.Extravagant and yet moving, Greg van Eekhout's California Bones is an epic adventure set in a city of canals and secrets and casual brutality--different from the world we know, yet familiar and true.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490594-california-bones"}, +{"book_title": "Tales from the Loop", "author_name": "Simon St\u00e5lenhag", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 1690, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world\u2019s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, located deep below the pastoral countryside of M\u00e4lar\u00f6arna. The local population called this marvel of technology The Loop. These are its strange tales.Simon St\u00e5lenhag\u2019s paintings of Swedish 1980s suburbia, populated by fantastic machines and strange beasts, have spread like wildfire on the Internet. The 2015 Kickstarter for the English version of the book raised over $320,000. St\u00e5lenhag\u2019s portrayal of a childhood against a backdrop of old Volvo cars and coveralls, combined with strange and mystical machines, creates a unique atmosphere that is both instantly recognizable and utterly alien.In this top-quality artbook, Simon St\u00e5lenhag\u2019s first set of paintings are collected in book form\u2014together with texts that tell the stories of the youth who lived in the shadows of the machines. In addition, three separate prints (format 260\u00d7230 mm) as well as a full-color map (format 520x340mm) of the land of The Loop are included in the book.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Art", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27404461-tales-from-the-loop"}, +{"book_title": "Nightfall", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 32480, "review_number": 839, "book_description": "Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall.Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover that an eclipse - an event that occurs only every 2049 years - is imminent, and that a society unfamiliar with Darkness will be plunged into madness and chaos. They realize that their civilization will end, for the people of Kalgash have a proven fear of Darkness, but they are unable to predict the insanity and destruction that will accompany the awesome splendor of Nightfall.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99245.Nightfall"}, +{"book_title": "The Machine Stops", "author_name": "E.M. Forster", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 10482, "review_number": 1188, "book_description": "The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. The book is particularly notable for predicting new technologies such as instant messaging and the internet.", "year_published": 1909, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Literature", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4711854-the-machine-stops"}, +{"book_title": "Angie's Gladiator", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3123, "review_number": 307, "book_description": "As an a\u2019ani warrior, my life matters little. Cloned from the same matter as thousands of others, I am but one of many. Here on the ice planet, though, I can start over. I can become my own person, have my own needs, my own wants. I know what I want. I have known since the moment I arrived. Her name is Angie. She is human, with sad, lonely eyes and a very pregnant belly. To her, I am not just another clone. I am Vordis, the one who laughs at her jokes, tends to her needs, and makes her smile. I will do anything to make her mine. But my brother and fellow clone Thrand thinks the same way, and he's just as determined to win her. Will I have to destroy my bond with my brother to win my female? Or will he cause a rift between us that's impossible to mend?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43125503-angie-s-gladiator"}, +{"book_title": "Selling Out", "author_name": "Justina Robson", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1480, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Book two of the Quantum Gravity series sees Lila Black drawn into the intoxicatingly dangerous demon realm. Capricious, in love with beauty, demons are best left to themselves. This is not easy when they can't resist tampering with humans. Justina Robson's new series is a joyful melding of science fiction and fantasy brought together in the figure of the dangerously lovely Lila Black, a 21-year-old secret agent who's had much of her body replaced with weapon-and-armor-heavy intelligent metal and who isn't sure where her mind ends and her installed AI begins. Lila's world is one where demons, elves, and elementals live alongside people. And somehow Lila and the other agents of the security agency have to provide security for all and stay alive themselves.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837063.Selling_Out"}, +{"book_title": "The Truth of Valor", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3579, "review_number": 217, "book_description": "The \"rousing military adventure\"(Locus) continues with a brand-new Valor novel. Former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is attempting to build a new life with salvage operator Craig Ryder on his ship, the Promise. Turns out civilian life is a lot rougher than she'd imagined-salvage operators are losing both cargo and lives to pirates. And when they attack the Promise, Craig is taken prisoner and Torin is left for dead. When Torin finds out why the pirates needed Craig, she calls in the Marines to get him back-and to stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7946539-the-truth-of-valor"}, +{"book_title": "Encounter with Tiber", "author_name": "Buzz Aldrin", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1011, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Chronicles the story of an astronaut who discovers evidence of an extinct race of aliens that left traces of their civilization on the moon.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/687527.Encounter_with_Tiber"}, +{"book_title": "Of Silk and Steam", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2570, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "Enemies. Allies. Lovers.When her beloved father was assassinated, Lady Aramina swore revenge. The man responsible is well beyond her grasp, but his dangerously seductive heir, Leo Barrons, is fair game. When Mina obtains evidence proving that Leo is illegitimate, she has the means to destroy both the killer and his son, a man who troubles her heart and tempts her body.A woman of mystery, Mina's long driven Leo crazy with glimpses of a fiery passion that lurks beneath her icy veneer. He knows she's hiding something, and he's determined to unravel her layer by silken layer. He just doesn't expect the beautiful liar to be the key to overthrowing the corrupt prince consort\u2026 or to saving his own carefully walled-off heart.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667312-of-silk-and-steam"}, +{"book_title": "Islands of Rage & Hope", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 3027, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "BOOK 3 IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to To Sail a Darkling Sea and Under a Graveyard Sky. A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together with what remains of the U.S. Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, not only plans to survive\u2014he plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a vaccine. But for do that, Wolf Squadron forces led by Smith\u2019s terrifyingly precocious daughters Sophia and Faith must venture into a sea of the infected to obtain and secure the needed materials. And if some of the rescued survivors turn out to be more than they seem, Smith just might be able to pull off his plan. Once more, exhausted and redlining Wolf Squadron forces must throw themselves into battle, scouring the islands of the Atlantic for civilization's last hope.BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES:Under a Graveyard SkyTo Sail a Darkling SeaIslands of Hope and RageStrands of Sorrow (upcoming)", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "War (Military Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18775218-islands-of-rage-hope"}, +{"book_title": "War", "author_name": "Laura Thalassa", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 14968, "review_number": 2031, "book_description": "They came to earth\u2014Pestilence, War, Famine, Death\u2014four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all. The day Jerusalem falls, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring every last resident. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp. Now Miriam faces a terrifying future, one where she watches her world burn town by town, and the one man responsible for it all is her seemingly indestructible \u201chusband\u201d. But there\u2019s another side to him, one that\u2019s gentle and loving and dead set on winning her over, and she might not be strong enough to resist. However, if there\u2019s one thing Miriam has learned, it\u2019s that love and war cannot coexist. And so she must make the ultimate choice: surrender to War and watch humankind fall, or sacrifice everything and stop him.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49390139-war"}, +{"book_title": "Rising Sun", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 475, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "The War Changes1942: what should have been a decisive victory for the Allies in the Battle of Midway has become a horrendous disaster instead. America's handful of carriers in the Pacific have blundered into a Japanese submarine picket line and most have been sunk. The United States has only one carrier remaining, while the ragtag remnants of U.S. battleships - an armada still reeling from the defeat at Pearl Harbor - are in even worse shape.The Pacific belongs to the Japanese. Yet, despite disaster, the U.S. is determined to strike back.And now a grand plan is put forth to lure the Japanese into an ambush that could restore the balance in the Pacific and give the forces of freedom a fighting chance once more.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War (World War II)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547359-rising-sun"}, +{"book_title": "Tin Men", "author_name": "Christopher Golden", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 913, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "A military thriller for the drone age: Brad Thor meets Avatar in this near-future thriller, which spins the troubles of today into the cataclysm of tomorrow. A rocket-ride of a read packed with high action, cutting-edge technology, and global politics, Tin Men begins with the end of the world as we know it and shoots forth from there.In the near future, the U.S. has deployed the Remote Infantry Corps: thousands of robots remote-piloted by soldiers whose bodies lie hidden in underground bases. But the worst occurs when anarchists set off a global pulse that shorts out electrical connections. In Damascus, Private Danny Kelso, Corporal Kate Wade, and their platoon realize they are trapped inside the Tin Men\u2014something the government never warned them could happen. In Athens, the G20 Summit comes under fire, and a band of security soldiers and advisors risk everything in an effort to shepherd the President to safety. As chaos descends, and with anarchist Bot Killers on their trail, the Tin Men must survive a gauntlet of violence on the road from Damascus to the heart of Europe, half of them determined to stay true to their mission and save their president, half of them hellbent to save themselves...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23303661-tin-men"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Under Glass", "author_name": "Jaclyn Dolamore", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 4639, "review_number": 724, "book_description": "Nimira is a music-hall performer forced to dance for pennies to an audience of leering drunks. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to do a special act - singing accompaniment to an exquisite piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new life. In Parry's world, however, buried secrets stir. Unsettling below-stairs rumours abound about ghosts, a mad woman roaming the halls, and of Parry's involvement in a gang of ruthless sorcerers who torture fairies for sport. When Nimira discovers the spirit of a dashing young fairy gentleman is trapped inside the automaton's stiff limbs, waiting for someone to break the curse and set him free, the two fall in love. But it is a love set against a dreadful race against time to save the entire fairy realm, which is in mortal peril.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6461779-magic-under-glass"}, +{"book_title": "What Doctor Gottlieb Saw", "author_name": "Ian Tregillis", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 430, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Gretel has wires in her head. Gretel likes to pick wildflowers. Gretel is one of the subjects on the farm, and she is Doctor Gottlieb's responsibility, but she knows something she isn't telling -- and if Doctor Gottlieb doesn't figure it out, it may be his body in a ditch next. This story is set in the world of Ian Tregillis's Milkweed series, which began with Bitter Seeds.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literature (American)", "Historical", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8687516-what-doctor-gottlieb-saw"}, +{"book_title": "Rings of Anubis", "author_name": "E. Catherine Tobler", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "As the nineteenth century turns into the twentieth, the world looks to a future of revolutionary science and extraordinary machines. Archaeologist Eleanor Folley looks back to Egypt's ancient mysteries and her mother's inexplicable, haunting disappearance. Agent Virgil Mallory, a man with ghosts and monsters of his own, brings evidence of a crime, taking them both on a thrilling adventure that carries them from Paris to Egypt, and from the present to the ancient past. Uncovering the truth exposes a dangerous game of life, death, and uncanny powers!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "African Literature (Egyptian Literature)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21813341-rings-of-anubis"}, +{"book_title": "Kingdom's Fury", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 582, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "\nA few good Marines beat the fierce, fanatical aliens once before. But that was a skirmish\u00e2\ufffd\ufffdnot a full-scale invasion.\n\nThe truth is out. No longer are the Skinks just a horrible secret haunting the Marines of Company L. Now the aliens are all-too-real invaders whose savage attacks have devastated planet Kingdom, a world of squabbling religions where the men of the 34th FIST confront a desperate situation. Cities that haven\u00e2\ufffd\ufffdt already been reduced to rubble are under siege, while starving refugees roam the land. And still the Skinks come, rising from stinking primordial swamps to slake their thirst for slaughter, armed with an uncanny ability to locate the enemy and with weapons so deadly that a single blast can drop a warplane or a decimate a squad.It\u00e2\ufffd\ufffds painfully evident that 34th FIST is no match for these near-invincible killers, which is why third platoon\u00e2\ufffd\ufffds been ordered to whip the citizens of Kingdom into fighting shape. With their backs to the wall and time running out, there\u00e2\ufffd\ufffds only one way the Marines can turn these timid, quarrelsome men into warriors: Take the battle to the enemy. It\u00e2\ufffd\ufffds a brilliant strategy, sure to succeed\u00e2\ufffd\ufffdif it doesn\u00e2\ufffd\ufffdt get them killed first. . . .", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662673.Kingdom_s_Fury"}, +{"book_title": "Gate Crashers", "author_name": "Patrick S. Tomlinson", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 606, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "On humanity\u2019s first extra-solar mission, the exploration vessel Magellan discovers an alien construction. Deciding that finding advanced alien life is too important to ignore, the ship\u2019s captain chooses to return to Earth while reverse engineering technology far beyond anything back home.Meanwhile, at mission control, the governments struggle to maintain the existence of aliens a secret while also combating bureaucracy, the military industrial complex, and everyone else who wants a piece of the science that could sky-rocket a species into a new technological golden age.Little does everyone involved know that the bumbling of a few highly-evolved apes in space hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed, and humanity has put itself on a collision course with a far wider, and potentially hostile, galaxy.Because, in space, no one can see you screw up\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36265578-gate-crashers"}, +{"book_title": "Mine to Possess", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 27995, "review_number": 1433, "book_description": "Nalini Singh pulls away another dark layer of sheer desire, revealing passions unknown, in her latest novel about the world of the Psy. A ghost returns from a leopard changeling\u2019s past, making him question everything\u2014even his base animal instincts\u2026Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. He failed\u2026and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man and losing his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath. Everything good in him died the day he was told that she, too, was dead.Talin McKade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed and terror. Now a new nightmare is stalking her life\u2013the street children she works to protect are disappearing and turning up dead. Determined to keep them safe, she unlocks the darkest secret in her heart and returns to ask the help of the strongest man she knows\u2026Clay lost Talin once. He will not let her go again, his hunger to possess her, a clawing need born of the leopard within. As they race to save the innocent, Clay and Talin must face the violent truths of their past\u2026or lose everything that ever mattered.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1830755.Mine_to_Possess"}, +{"book_title": "The Knife of Never Letting Go", "author_name": "Patrick Ness", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 160252, "review_number": 17169, "book_description": "Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20758104-the-knife-of-never-letting-go"}, +{"book_title": "The Eterna Files", "author_name": "Leanna Renee Hieber", "rating_score": 3.15, "rating_votes": 387, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "London, 1882: Queen Victoria appoints Harold Spire of the Metropolitan Police to Special Branch Division Omega. Omega is to secretly investigate paranormal and supernatural events and persons. Spire, a skeptic driven to protect the helpless and see justice done, is the perfect man to lead the department, which employs scholars and scientists, assassins and con men, and a traveling circus. Spire's chief researcher is Rose Everhart, who believes fervently that there is more to the world than can be seen by mortal eyes.Their first mission: find the Eterna Compound, which grants immortality. Catastrophe destroyed the hidden laboratory in New York City where Eterna was developed, but the Queen is convinced someone escaped--and has a sample of Eterna.Also searching for Eterna is an American, Clara Templeton, who helped start the project after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln nearly destroyed her nation. Haunted by the ghost of her beloved, she is determined that the Eterna Compound--and the immortality it will convey--will be controlled by the United States, not Great Britain.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22238164-the-eterna-files"}, +{"book_title": "Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 5307, "review_number": 484, "book_description": "For the first time, Lauren Oliver's short stories about characters in the Delirium world appear in print. Originally published as digital novellas, Hana, Annabel, and Raven each center around a fascinating and complex character who adds important information to the series and gives it greater depth. This collection also includes an excerpt from Requiem, the final novel in Oliver's New York Times bestselling series.Hana is told through the perspective of Lena's best friend, Hana Tate. Set during the tumultuous summer before Lena and Hana are supposed to be cured, this story is a poignant and revealing look at a moment when the girls' paths diverge and their futures are altered forever.Lena's mother, Annabel, has always been a mystery--a ghost from Lena's past--until now. Her journey from teenage runaway to prisoner of the state is a taut, gripping narrative that expands the Delirium world and illuminates events--and Lena--through a new point of view.And as the passionate, fierce leader of a rebel group in the Wilds, Raven plays an integral role in the resistance effort and comes into Lena's life at a crucial time. Crackling with intensity, Raven is a brilliant story told in the voice of one of the strongest and most tenacious characters in the Delirium world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16177805-delirium-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Jedi Academy 3: The Phantom Bully", "author_name": "Jeffrey Brown", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 2991, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "It's hard to believe that this is my last year at Jedi Academy. I've been busier than ever learning to fly (and wash) starships, sight-seeing in the Lake Country on Naboo, studying for the Jedi obstacle course exam, and tracking down dozens of voorpaks...don't ask. But now someone is setting me up to get in trouble with everyone at school. If I don't find out who it is--and fast--I may flunk out! Why can't middle school just be easy...?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24000723-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead Compendium 2", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 17331, "review_number": 888, "book_description": "Returning with the second eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times bestseller series, The Walking Dead, collected into one massive paperback collection!This is the perfect collection for any fan of the Emmy Award-winning television series on AMC: over one-thousand pages chronicling the next chapter of Robert Kirkman's Eisner Award-winning continuing story of survival horror - beginning with Rick Grimes' struggle to survive after the prison raid, to the group's finding short solace in The Community, and the devastation that follows. In a world ruled by the dead, we are finally forced to finally start living. Collects The Walking Dead #49-96.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14744381-the-walking-dead-compendium-2"}, +{"book_title": "Draekon Mate: Exiled to the Prison Planet", "author_name": "Lee Savino", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2239, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "\n\nCrashed spaceship. Prison planet. Snarling, lethal predators. Two big, hulking, bronzed aliens who turn into dragons. The best part? The dragons insist I\u2019m their mate!\n\nThe Zorahn wanted women for some kind of super-secret science experiment, and I volunteered. Dumb move, right? But they promised we\u2019d be safe, and they offered a lot of money. Money I needed desperately!\n\nOf course, everything went wrong!\n\nOur spaceship has crashed on a prison planet, one where the Zorahn exile their most dangerous criminals. My friends are injured. I\u2019m all alone on a jungle planet where everything is designed to kill me...Then I run into the Draekons. When they see me, they change into dragons and burn the predators threatening me to a crisp. They feed me and care for me, and they keep me safe...But there\u2019s a catch. The Draekons insist that I\u2019m their mate. And the only way they can shift into dragons again to save my friends? Both of them need to mate with me. At the same time...\n\nThis isn't the space vacation I thought it would be!\n\nDraekon Mate is the first book in the new Dragons in Exile series. It\u2019s a full-length, standalone science fiction dragon-shifter MFM menage romance story featuring a snarky human female, and two arrogant aliens that keep her warm, with or without dragon fire. (No M/M) Happily-ever-after guaranteed!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Menage (M F M)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35148292-draekon-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Choosing Theo", "author_name": "Victoria Aveline", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 3079, "review_number": 393, "book_description": "Being kidnapped by aliens is only the start of Jade's problems. Thankfully, her rescuers, an alien race known as the Clecanians, are willing to protect her, but she has to stay on their planet for one year and respect the rules of their culture--including choosing a husband. Jade refuses at first but decides to play along until she can find a way back to Earth.Theo, a scarred mercenary who prefers a life of solitude, is stunned when Jade selects him as her husband. After years of being passed over, he never imagined he would be chosen and neither did anyone else. Only one explanation makes sense\u2026the curvy enticing female must be a spy, and Theo\u2019s determined to break her cover using any means necessary.As Jade and Theo are forced to spend time together, their chemistry becomes undeniable. But neither can afford to bring love into the equation, especially since Jade seems determined to go home. After all, she can't possibly stay here, right?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51479476-choosing-theo"}, +{"book_title": "The A.I. Who Loved Me", "author_name": "Alyssa Cole", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2291, "review_number": 572, "book_description": "Listening Length: 5 hours and 18 minutesA captivating romantic comedy with a thrilling sci-fi twist by award-winning author Alyssa Cole!Trinity Jordan leads a quiet, normal life: working from home for the Hive, a multifunctional government research center, and recovering from the incident that sent her into a tailspin. But the life she\u2019s trying to rebuild is plagued by mishaps when Li Wei, her neighbor\u2019s super sexy and super strange nephew, moves in and turns things upside down. Li Wei\u2019s behavior is downright odd\u2014and the attraction building between them is even more so. When an emergency pulls his aunt away from the apartment complex, Trinity decides to keep an eye on him\u2026and slowly discovers that nothing is what it seems. For one thing, Li Wei isn\u2019t just the hot guy next door\u2014he\u2019s the hot A.I. next door. In fact, he\u2019s so advanced that he blurs the line between man and machine. It\u2019s up to Trinity to help him achieve his objective of learning to be human, but danger is mounting as they figure out whether he\u2019s capable of the most illogical human behavior of all\u2026falling in love.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Novella", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52255365-the-a-i-who-loved-me"}, +{"book_title": "Lagoon", "author_name": "Nnedi Okorafor", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 5904, "review_number": 1013, "book_description": "When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria\u2019s most populous and legendary city, three people wandering along Bar Beach (Adaora, the marine biologist- Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa- Agu, the troubled soldier) find themselves running a race against time to save the country they love and the world itself\u2026 from itself. Told from multiple points of view and crisscrossing narratives, combining everything from superhero comics to Nigerian mythology to tie together a story about a city consuming itself. \u2018There was no time to flee. No time to turn. No time to shriek. And there was no pain. It was like being thrown into the stars.\u2019", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Cultural (Africa)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Western Africa (Nigeria)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18753656-lagoon"}, +{"book_title": "Podkayne of Mars", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 8312, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "Podkayne Fries, a clever Martian maid with dreams of becoming the first female starship pilot, is delighted to join her diplomatic uncle on an interstellar journey. But her uncle's power makes her a political target.", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50839.Podkayne_of_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Seducing Stag", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2391, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "Stag and the crew of the Varnish are on a mission, responding to a distress signal of a freighter that has been attacked by the Markus Models. Instead of finding the enemy, they discover one sole survivor. Nala\u2019s a human, and having suffered at their hands during his time on Earth, there\u2019s no species Stag despises more. But when the petite woman confuses him for an android and tries to order him around, Stag decides she\u2019ll live\u2014and pay for her slights.Nala Vestria has lost her freighter, her crew and her father, only to become personal maid to a cyborg. Stag is surly, short-tempered, and completely untrusting of humans \u2026 not to mention intense, commanding, and maybe the hottest being Nala has ever seen. When she finds him temporarily at her mercy, Nala isn\u2019t sure if she wants to kill him or kiss him. Then again, life is short. She opts for the latter.Nala swiftly becomes a distraction Stag can\u2019t afford, especially after he\u2019s had a carnal taste of what the woman has to offer. He\u2019ll take her back to Garden, his home planet, and be rid of her \u2014 as well as the emotions she evokes. But as their journey home becomes harrowing, Nala may prove to be more of an asset than a liability. To both the ship \u2026 and the lonely cyborg who commands her.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31875547-seducing-stag"}, +{"book_title": "The Raven King", "author_name": "Maggie Stiefvater", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 109960, "review_number": 15311, "book_description": "The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17378527-the-raven-king"}, +{"book_title": "UnSouled", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 27056, "review_number": 2548, "book_description": "The story that began with Unwind continues.Connor and Lev are on the run after the destruction of the Graveyard, the last safe haven for AWOL Unwinds. But for the first time, they\u2019re not just running away from something. This time, they\u2019re running toward answers, in the form of a woman Proactive Citizenry has tried to erase from history itself. If they can find her, and learn why the shadowy figures behind unwinding are so afraid of her, they may discover the key to bringing down unwinding forever.Cam, the rewound boy, is plotting to take down the organization that created him. Because he knows that if he can bring Proactive Citizenry to its knees, it will show Risa how he truly feels about her. And without Risa, Cam is having trouble remembering what it feels like to be human.With the Juvenile Authority and vindictive parts pirates hunting them, the paths of Connor, Lev, Cam, and Risa will converge explosively\u2014and everyone will be changed.Neal Shusterman continues the adventure that VOYA called \u201cpoignant, compelling, and ultimately terrifying.\u201d", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Horror", "Thriller", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12792658-unsouled"}, +{"book_title": "Raven Stratagem", "author_name": "Yoon Ha Lee", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 6805, "review_number": 795, "book_description": "From New York Times best-selling author Yoon Ha Lee. The stunning second act in the\u00a0Hugo Award nominated Machineries of Empire series!Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalries of the hexarchate and a potentially devastating invasion. When the hexarchate's gifted young captain Kel Cheris summoned the ghost of the long-dead General Shuos Jedao to help her put down a rebellion, she didn't reckon on his breaking free of centuries of imprisonment \u2013 and possessing her. Even worse, the enemy Hafn are invading, and Jedao takes over General Kel Khiruev's fleet, which was tasked with stopping them.\u00a0 Only one of Khiruev's subordinates, Lieutenant Colonel Kel Brezan, seems to be able to resist the influence of the brilliant but psychotic Jedao. Jedao claims to be interested in defending the hexarchate, but can Khiruev or Brezan trust him?\u00a0 For that matter, will the hexarchate's masters wipe out the entire fleet to destroy the rogue general?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "LGBT", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32927239-raven-stratagem"}, +{"book_title": "As the World Dies: Untold Tales Volume 1", "author_name": "Rhiannon Frater", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1612, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "THE FIRST DAYS: AS THE WORLD DIES introduced Jenni and Katie and their harrowing journey to the makeshift fort in the Texas Hill Country. But theirs is not the only tale to be told. In the first volume of the AS THE WORLD DIES UNTOLD TALES experience three terrifying tales of those who are forced to face the unrelenting and hungry walking dead.Deep in the Texas Hill Country, a man and his little dog takes refuge in a bed and breakfast located in the hills above a doomed town where an infested rescue center might unleash the hungry undead\u2026On a deserted highway slicing through the desolation of West Texas, a woman struggles to survive as she faces the horrifying aftermath of the rise of the zombies\u2026And finally, discover what happens on the first day to Katie\u2019s beloved wife, Lydia, as the world dies\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12295280-as-the-world-dies"}, +{"book_title": "The Silver Ships", "author_name": "S.H. Jucha", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 3526, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "An explorer-tug captain, Alex Racine detects a damaged alien craft drifting into the system. Recognizing a once in a lifetime opportunity to make first contact, Alex pulls off a daring maneuver to latch on to the derelict.Alex discovers the ship was attacked by an unknown craft, the first of its kind ever encountered. The mysterious silver ship's attack was both instant and deadly.What enfolds is a story of the descendants of two Earth colony ships, with very different histories, meeting 700 years after their founding and uniting to defend humanity from the silver ships.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24664432-the-silver-ships"}, +{"book_title": "Forged by Desire", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2893, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "A fear she can't escape....Nine years ago, Perry fled her thrall contract to find sanctuary among the Nighthawks. In that time, she's become a respected member of the Guard, and she's wanted Garrett Reed for as long as she can remember. But when a new case takes a chillingly familiar turn, Perry finds herself once again in the path of a madman...only this time, there's nowhere left to run.A desire that can't be tempered...Out of their depth and racing against time, Perry and Garrett must learn to trust the desire sparking between them...or risk losing themselves forever to the darkness stalking London's streets.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17901769-forged-by-desire"}, +{"book_title": "Visitor", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 1245, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "The seventeenth novel in Cherryh\u2019s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences\u2026The human and atevi inhabitants of Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship telling them that the ship is inbound toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from the now derelict Reunion Station. They have seen this scenario before, when a single kyo ship swooped into the Reunion system and, without a word, melted a major section of Reunion Station with a single pass. These refugees, who were rescued through the combined efforts of an allied group of humans and atevi and brought to safety at Alpha, are now desperate with fear.Bren Cameron\u2014brilliant human emissary of Tabini-aiji, the powerful atevi political leader on the mainland below, and also the appointee of the human president of the island nation of Mospheira\u2014is the obvious choice of representative to be sent up to deal with both the panicked refugees and the incoming alien ship.As a member of the spacefaring delegation who rescued the refugees, Bren has talked to kyo before\u2014and even won their trust by saving one of their kind from a Reunioner prison. Because of his remarkable diplomatic and linguistic abilities, Bren managed to communicate with that grateful kyo individual on a limited basis, and he has evidence that that same kyo is on the ship heading to defenseless Alpha Station.But no one can predict what an alien race might do, or what their motivations could be.And Bren Cameron, the only human ever to be accepted into atevi society, is now the one individual with a hope of successfully interacting with the crew of the incoming ship. But Bren knows it will take putting himself in the hands of the kyo.Can Bren count on the gratitude of one individual alien to save his life and the lives of thousands on Alpha Station?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25894045-visitor"}, +{"book_title": "The Starving Years", "author_name": "Jordan Castillo Price", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 840, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "Imagine a world without hunger. In 1960, a superfood was invented that made starvation a thing of the past. Manna, the cheaply manufactured staple food, is now as ubiquitous as salt in the world\u2019s cupboards, pantries and larders.Nelson Oliver knows plenty about manna. He\u2019s a food scientist\u2014according to his diploma, that is. Lately, he\u2019s been running the register at the local video rental dive to scrape together the cash for his exorbitantly priced migraine medication.In a job fair gone bad, Nelson hooks up with copywriter Javier and his computer-geek pal Tim, who whisks them away from the worst of the fiasco in his repurposed moving truck. At least, Nelson thinks those two are acquainted, but they\u2019re acting so evasive about it, he\u2019s not sure how they know each other, exactly.Javier is impervious to Nelson\u2019s flirting, and Tim\u2019s name could appear in the dictionary under the entry for \u201cawkward.\u201d And with a riot raging through Manhattan and yet another headache coming on, it doesn\u2019t seem like Nelson will get an answer anytime soon. One thing\u2019s for sure, the tension between the three of them is thick enough to cut with a knife...even one of those dull plastic dealies that come in the package with Mannariffic EZ-Mealz.(Gay fiction, adult content)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Menage (M M M)", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy", "Polyamory"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13508141-the-starving-years"}, +{"book_title": "The Stuff of Nightmares", "author_name": "James Lovegrove", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 728, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "It's the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, anti-monarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence.\u00a0 Sherlock Holmes believes Professor Moriarty is orchestrating a nationwide campaign of terror, but to what end? At the same time, a bizarrely garbed figure has been spotted on the rooftops and in the grimy back alleys of the capital.\u00a0 He moves with the extraordinary agility of a latter-day Spring-heeled Jack.\u00a0 He possesses weaponry and armour of unprecedented sophistication.\u00a0 He is known only by the name Baron Cauchemar, and he appears to be a scourge of crime and villainy. But is this masked man truly the force for good that he seems?\u00a0 Is he connected somehow to the bombings?\u00a0 Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson are about to embark on one of their strangest and most exhilarating adventures yet.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Historical", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16169874-the-stuff-of-nightmares"}, +{"book_title": "The Manual of Detection", "author_name": "Jedediah Berry", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 4520, "review_number": 782, "book_description": "In this tightly plotted yet mind-expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people's dreams In an unnamed city always slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency. All he knows about solving mysteries comes from the reports he's filed for the illustrious detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor turns up murdered, Unwin is suddenly promoted to detective, a rank for which he lacks both the skills and the stomach. His only guidance comes from his new assistant, who would be perfect if she weren't so sleepy, and from the pithy yet profound Manual of Detection (think The Art of War as told to Damon Runyon). Unwin mounts his search for Sivart, but is soon framed for murder, pursued by goons and gunmen, and confounded by the infamous femme fatale Cleo Greenwood. Meanwhile, strange and troubling questions proliferate: why does the mummy at the Municipal Museum have modern-day dental work? Where have all the city's alarm clocks gone? Why is Unwin's copy of the manual missing Chapter 18? When he discovers that Sivart's greatest cases - including the Three Deaths of Colonel Baker and the Man Who Stole November 12th - were solved incorrectly, Unwin must enter the dreams of a murdered man and face a criminal mastermind bent on total control of a slumbering city. The Manual of Detection will draw comparison to every work of imaginative fiction that ever blew a reader's mind - from Carlos Ruiz Zaf\u00f3n to Jorge Luis Borges, from The Big Sleep to The Yiddish Policeman's Union. But, ultimately, it defies comparison; it is a brilliantly conceived, meticulously realized novel that will change what you think about how you think.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Noir)", "Magical Realism", "Mystery (Detective)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4135863-the-manual-of-detection"}, +{"book_title": "BLAME! Vol. 1", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1156, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "In a future version of Earth, there is a city grown so chaotically massive that its inhabitants no longer recall what \"land\" is. Within this megastructure the silent, stoic Kyrii is on a mission to find the Net Terminal Gene\u2014a genetic mutation that once allowed humans to access the cybernetic NetSphere. Armed with a powerful Graviton Beam Emitter, Kyrii fends off waves of attacks from fellow humans, cyborgs and silicon-based lifeforms. Along the way, he encounters a highly-skilled scientist whose body has deteriorated from a lengthy imprisonment who promises to help Kyrii find the Net Terminal Gene, once she settles a score for herself...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Manga (Seinen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31188025-blame-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Neutronium Alchemist 2: Conflict", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 3512, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "The souls of those long dead are entering the universe at an alarming rate. Stealing the bodies of the living, they are grouping together into powerful consortiums led by leaders from history. An increasingly desperate Confederation Navy is struggling to stem the tide as the race for the universe's most powerful weapon begins. But if the dead can return to life, who will be the ultimate victors?", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Epic", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45242.The_Neutronium_Alchemist_2"}, +{"book_title": "The Dead Lands", "author_name": "Benjamin Percy", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 3423, "review_number": 629, "book_description": "In Benjamin Percy's new thriller, a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga, a super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. A few humans carry on, living in outposts such as the Sanctuary-the remains of St. Louis-a shielded community that owes its survival to its militant defense and fear-mongering leaders. Then a rider comes from the wasteland beyond its walls. She reports on the outside world: west of the Cascades, rain falls, crops grow, civilization thrives. But there is danger too: the rising power of an army that pillages and enslaves every community they happen upon. Against the wishes of the Sanctuary, a small group sets out in secrecy. Led by Lewis Meriwether and Mina Clark, they hope to expand their infant nation, and to reunite the States. But the Sanctuary will not allow them to escape without a fight.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22875435-the-dead-lands"}, +{"book_title": "Out of Time Series Box Set", "author_name": "Monique Martin", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1206, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "This box set contains three complete novels:\u00a0Books 1-3 of the Out of Time Series.Out of Time: A Time Travel Mystery (Book #1)Mystery, romance and adventure...Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't.Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship is tested by demons real and imagined. In 1920s Manhattan, there are more than mobsters vying for power in the city's speakeasies. When the local kingpin with a dark secret sets his sights on Elizabeth, day to day struggles become a fight for their very lives.When the Walls Fell (Book #2)Professor Simon Cross and his assistant Elizabeth West have returned from their accidental journey into the past and are adjusting to their new life together as a couple. But an unwanted visit from the Council for Temporal Studies could change everything.A murder in the past is changing the future, and if the killing isn't stopped, Simon Cross might never be born.When they arrive in 1906 San Francisco, Elizabeth and Simon have no idea who wants Victor Graham dead or how it will happen. With the earthquake that leveled most of the city just days away, the race to save Graham thrusts them into a complex mystery of jealousy and revenge where murder might be the least of their worries.Fragments (Book #3)Simon & Elizabeth are back in book #3 of the Out of Time Series! Professor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West, thought their time traveling days were over. That's before they stumble across a World War II photograph -- with missing time traveler, Evan Eldridge, injured and in desperate need of help.They find Evan in 1942 London, ill and not quite sure what's happened. He remembers only one thing with crystal clarity -- the whereabouts of an artifact Hitler believes can win the war. That's information every Nazi spy in the country would kill to know.As if saving Evan and surviving war-torn England weren't enough, the outcome of the war hinges on Simon and Elizabeth finding Evan's artifact before the Nazis do. But time is running out: for them, for London, for the world.Be sure not to miss the rest of the Out of Time Series!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19078288-out-of-time-series-box-set"}, +{"book_title": "Laird Of Her Heart", "author_name": "Sabrina York", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 294, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "LAIRD OF HER HEART Book 1 in the Dundragon Time Travel Trilogy By Sabrina York When Maggie Spencer is mysteriously transported to the Scotland of her ancestors, she is stunned to come face to face with him. Dominic Dundragon, the man she\u2019s been half in love with her whole life. A man who\u2019s been dead for 700 years. They both have enemies aplenty. Will she have a chance to win his love, or will this adventure end in disaster? ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Novella", "Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25972701-laird-of-her-heart"}, +{"book_title": "The Ruins of Anthalas", "author_name": "Richard Fox", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2045, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "An alternate cover edition can be found here.An ancient holocaust holds the key to humanity's survival. An ember of mankind endured the Xaros invastion, those who remain are too weak to defeat the alien\u2019s inevitable return. The key to rebuilding Earth\u2019s defenses lies within a cryptic message from a long lost alien race, one deep behind enemy lines. One of the last strike carriers, the Breitenfeld, journeys to the distant world and learns that humanity isn\u2019t the only power interested in the planet's secrets. Do the ruins of Anthalas hold an ancient treasure, or a deadly trap? THE RUINS OF ANTHALAS is the second book in THE EMBER WAR SAGA, a military sci-fi space opera. If you like David Weber and John Ringo with a touch of Isaac Asimov, then you\u2019ll love this fast-paced and captivating adventure where humanity survives at the edge of a knife. Join in the epic series today! +++ Q&A with Richard Fox What's in store for the crew of the Breitenfeld? The war with the Xaros is far from over. In this story we'll meet new enemies, new allies and learn that Marc Ibarra isn't done manipulating the human race. There's plenty of action, intrigue, and scifi adventure, but on a much larger scale as the war grows to include the Alliance that saved humanity from the Xaros invasion. If this was a movie, what would it be rated? Still PG-13 for and wartime violence some language. When can we expect the next adventure? Book 3 (tentative title BLOOD OF HEROES) will be out around Thanksgiving, 2015. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26797891-the-ruins-of-anthalas"}, +{"book_title": "Lest Darkness Fall/To Bring the Light", "author_name": "L. Sprague de Camp", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 258, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "When Rome fell, the light of reason flickered out across the Empire. The Dark Ages had begun. Could a man from the 20th century prevent the fall of Rome? When lightning struck, Martin Padway was hurled backward into the sixth century. Like him, her fate was to bring Rome into being. Together, they must strive to bring the light, lest darkness fall.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/553463.Lest_Darkness_Fall_To_Bring_the_Light"}, +{"book_title": "The Outlaw Viking", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1426, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "As tall and striking as the Valkyries of legend, Dr Rain Jordan was proud of her Norse ancestors despite their warlike ways. But she couldn't believe her eyes when a blow to the head transported her to a nightmarish battlefield and she had to save the barbarian of her dreams.He was a wild-eyed berserker whose deadly sword could slay a dozen Saxons with a single swing, yet Selik couldn't control the saucy wench from the future. He considered Rain a prisoner, and he longed to avail himself of her medical skills\u2014and her considerable knowledge of the male anatomy\u2014but the infuriating woman had ideas of her own. If Selik wasn't careful, the stunning siren was sure to capture his heart and make a warrior of love out of...THE OUTLAW VIKING", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor", "Medieval Romance (Viking Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677070.The_Outlaw_Viking"}, +{"book_title": "Robots at Home", "author_name": "Christine Zuchora-Walske", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 4, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Robots work in homes every day. Some vacuum floors or mow lawns. Others keep people company. And some help kids have fun! What robots might you find in someone's home? Read this book to find out!-- \"Journal\"", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20791653-robots-at-home"}, +{"book_title": "The Valiant", "author_name": "Lesley Livingston", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 8995, "review_number": 1503, "book_description": "Princess. Captive. Gladiator.Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king, the sister of the legendary warrior Sorcha, and the sworn enemy of Julius Caesar.When Fallon was a child, Caesar\u2019s armies invaded her homeland, and her beloved sister was killed in battle.Now, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is eager to follow in her sister\u2019s footsteps and earn her place in the fearsome Cantii war band. She never gets the chance.Fallon is captured and sold to an elite training school for female gladiators\u2014owned by none other than Julius Caesar. In a cruel twist of fate, the man who destroyed Fallon\u2019s family might be her only hope of survival.Now Fallon must overcome vicious rivalries and deadly fights\u2014in and out of the arena. And perhaps the most dangerous threat of all: her forbidden yet irresistible feelings for Cai, a young Roman soldier.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30375703-the-valiant"}, +{"book_title": "Once Upon a Time Travel", "author_name": "Sariah Wilson", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 1575, "review_number": 272, "book_description": "Once upon a time\u2026Recent college grad Emma Damon knows the Rose Room in Hartley Hall is off limits, which is exactly why she can\u2019t wait to get inside. Once she enters the forbidden room, Emma learns more about the history of the museum than she ever intended to know.Waking up confused and shocked in 1816, all Emma wants is to return to her cozy home with flushing toilets and disposable razors. But when she\u2019s mistaken for someone else, Emma must pretend to be everything she\u2019s not. About to be engaged to the Earl of Hartley\u2019s brother, Emma fails miserably at playing the role of a sophisticated lady.Hartley is determined to ensure that the quirky and adorable woman marries his brother \u2013 despite his ever-growing attraction to her. After loving and losing, he refuses to fall prey to the shackles of love. But as his desire for Emma increases, he knows he must forfeit his happiness for his brother\u2019s future. After all, there\u2019s no such thing as happily ever after.Or is there?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Regency)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Clean Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36469446-once-upon-a-time-travel"}, +{"book_title": "erinyes", "author_name": "Scott McElhaney", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 254, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The IG Andromeda, a Universal Command Science Ship, had just successfully jumped over 160,000 light years into the Large Magellanic Cloud, giving the ship and its crew the honor of being the first to travel to another galaxy. One of these crewmembers, Donovan Rost, had just been presented with an honorary commission as an Ensign in the Universal Command. The only thing, it seems, that he did to earn such a commission was the fact that he had survived a long time in cryostasis\u2026 a very, very long time. Donovan came from a 21st century Earth - an Earth that used to be dominated by humanity. Now, man is a minority and all that he knew of his civilization is buried and almost completely forgotten. He\u2019s about to learn why he and five others were revived and why they were now searching the Large Magellanic Cloud for a technological race that the crew is certain exists somewhere in that galaxy. Scott McElhaney is the award winning author of the Mystic Saga, consisting of the books Indentured, Legacy, Violation, Judgment, and Convergence. Over 125,000 of his books have been downloaded in 2012 alone!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16500588-erinyes"}, +{"book_title": "Uncompromising Honor", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 3758, "review_number": 401, "book_description": "Uncompromising Courage. Uncompromising Vengeance. Uncompromising Honor. The Solarian League\u2014for hundreds of years they have borne the banner of human civilization. But the bureaucratic Mandarins who rule today\u2019s League are corrupt and looking for scapegoats. They\u2019ve decided the upstart Star Kingdom of Manticore must be annihilated. Honor Harrington has worn the Star Kingdom\u2019s uniform for half a century. So far, hers has been a voice of caution. But now the Mandarins have committed atrocities such as the galaxy has not known in a thousand years. They have finally killed too many of the people Honor Harrington loves. Now Honor Harrington is coming for the Solarian League. And Hell is riding in her wake.\u00a0About\u00a0Uncompromising Honor: \u201c\u2026a balanced mix of interstellar intrigue,\u00a0counterespionage, and epic fleet action\u2026with all the hard- and software details and tactical proficiency that Weber delivers like no one else; along with a large cast of well-developed, believable characters, giving each clash of fleets emotional weight.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c. . . moves. . . as inexorably as the Star Kingdom\u2019s Grand Fleet, commanded by series protagonist Honor Harrington. . . . Weber is the Tom Clancy of science fiction. . . . His fans will relish this latest installment. . . .\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201c[E]ach book contains food for multiple tastes [and] provides a feast. Readers . . . will get enough hardware-geek stuff and space battles to make their palms sweaty. Those who love political intrigue will nigh have their brains explode from following all the tentacles of strategy. . . .Those who love fully drawn characters with everything at stake . . . will have lots to cheer about. And those who love bad guys committing atrocious deeds, only to get what they deserve from the good guys, will sleep contentedly at night because justice has been served.\u00a0Uncompromising Honor\u00a0provide[s] a long, luxurious trip. . . [that is]\u00a0emotionally and intellectually gratifying. . .\u201d\u2014New York Journal of Books-West \u201cWeber\u2019s books [are]\u00a0enjoyable as fiction and profound as works of art. . . . [in them] great power competition makes its way into the space age on a galactic scale. . . . Battles are described in vivid, suspenseful detail. . . . both sides grapple to do their duty as they understand it . . . [and] it is the human touches that make this book so gripping.\u00a0. . .\u00a0Weber\u2019s fans will greatly enjoy\u00a0Uncompromising Honor\u00a0[and be left] eagerly awaiting the next installment of this magnificent series.\u201d\u2014Mark Vandroff,\u00a0Center for International Maritime Security \u201cThis latest Honor Harrington novel brings the saga to another crucial turning point\u2026Readers may feel confident that they will be Honored many more times and enjoy it every time.\u201d\u2013Booklist\u00a0 About David Weber and the Honor Harrington series: \u201c. . .everything you could want in a heroine \u2026. Excellent \u2026 plenty of action.\u201d\u2013Science Fiction Age \u201cBrilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!\u201d\u2013Anne McCaffrey \u201cCompelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure.\u201d\u2013Locus \u201cWeber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice . . .\u201d\u2013Publishers Weekly At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41941660-uncompromising-honor"}, +{"book_title": "We Only Need the Heads", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3026, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson has been loaned out to a CDF platoon tasked with secretly removing an unauthorized colony of humans on an alien world. Colonial Ambassador Abumwe has been ordered to participate in final negotiations with an alien race the Union hopes to make allies. Wilson and Abumwes missions are fated to crossand in doing so, place both missions at risk of failure.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180355-we-only-need-the-heads"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside", "author_name": "Stephen Cole", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 2111, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a destination in deep space - Justicia, a prison camp stretched over seven planets, where Earth colonies deal with their criminals. While Rose finds herself locked up in a teenage borstal, the Doctor is trapped in a scientific labour camp. Each is determined to find the other, and soon both Rose and the Doctor are risking life and limb to escape in their distinctive styles. But their dangerous plans are complicated by some old enemies. Are these creatures fellow prisoners as they claim, or staging a takeover for their own sinister purposes?Featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose as played by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152917.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "Space Carrier Avalon", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3163, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "THE FLEET'S OLD LADY - OUT FOR ONE LAST DANCE Avalon was the flagship of the Castle Federation in the last war, now twenty years past. The first of the deep space carriers, no other warship in the fleet holds as many honors or has recorded as many kills. No other warship in the fleet is as old. Accepting the inevitable, the Federation Space Navy has decided to refit her and send her on a tour of the frontier, showing the flag to their allies and enemies as a reminder of her glory \u2013 and then decommission her for good. But Avalon has been a backwater posting for ten years \u2013 and has problems a mere refit can\u2019t fix. The systems along her planned tour have been seeing pirates for the first time in decades, and there are rumblings of Commonwealth scouting ships all along the border. It may be Avalon\u2019s final tour \u2013 but it looks to be anything but quiet!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Action", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25729359-space-carrier-avalon"}, +{"book_title": "Terminus Cut", "author_name": "Rick Partlow", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 377, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Mercenaries with a mission. Logan Conner has given up the life of a warrior prince to become Jonathan Slaughter, a mercenary captain of a rough-and-ready band of mech-jocks for hire. Already legendary throughout the Periphery, their next job brings them head-to-head with the Jeuta, militant aliens who seek to loot and plunder isolated human colony worlds. The fearsome Jeuta raiders will task Logan to his limits, but they\u2019re only a sideshow to Wholesale Slaughter\u2019s real operation objective\u2014locating a treasure trove at the legendary Terminus Cut outpost containing enough ancient Imperial technology to give his people a fighting chance. Don\u2019t miss book 2 in this explosive new Military Sci-fi series! Also Available on Audible, narrated by the award-winning Marc Vietor.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45991411-terminus-cut"}, +{"book_title": "Mongrel", "author_name": "K.Z. Snow", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 572, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Hunzinger's Mechanical Circus, a rollicking seaside carnival where imagination meets machinery, shines as the only bright spot in the dreary city of Purinton. A shadow is cast there one day when a tall, cloaked figure approaches the stand of Will Marchman, a young patent-medicine salesman. Fanule Perfidor, commonly known as the Dog King, isn't welcome at the Circus. No resident of Taintwell is; they're all Branded Mongrels, officially shunned. But Will is beguiled by the stunning, mysterious Perfidor. Their mutual wariness soon gives way to desire, and a bond forms.Soon the naive but plucky pitchman becomes embroiled in a dangerous quest. Fanule suspects Alphonse Hunzinger and Purinton's civic leaders are responsible for the disappearance or incarceration of countless Branded Mongrels. But why? As Will's passion and regard for his tormented lover grow, he's determined to help Fanule get answers and prevent any further persecution... or worse. They just have to stay together-and stay alive long enough-to see their plan through.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9596433-mongrel"}, +{"book_title": "Until Forever", "author_name": "Johanna Lindsey", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 4478, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "From the shadows of the past.Prim and beautiful professor Roseleen White clutches her new prized possession - a thousand-year-old Scandinavian sword. And suddenly, a dream stands before her: a magnificent Viking warrior sworn to satisfy Roseleen's every desire.Until forever.Accursed for untold centuries, mighty Thorn is now enslaved to a woman. Yet it is Roseleen who is the true prisoner, held willing captive by a handsome barbarian who sweeps her back to the ancient past on a journey of sensual discovery. But only by banishing him from her life forever can Roseleen free Thorn from immortality's chains - forcing her to make a devastating choice that will either imperil their future or preserve a love more powerful than time.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/412933.Until_Forever"}, +{"book_title": "The Walk", "author_name": "Lee Goldberg", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 4607, "review_number": 341, "book_description": "It's one minute after the Big One. Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes, parked outside what once was a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, the location for a new TV show. Downtown LA is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive.Marty has been expecting this day all his life. He's prepared. In his car are a pair of sturdy walking shoes and a backpack of food, water, and supplies. He knows there is only one thing he can do ... that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley.All he has to do is walk. But he will quickly learn that it's not that easy. His dangerous, unpredictable journey home will take him through the different worlds of what was once Los Angeles. Wildfires rage out of control. Flood waters burst through collapsed dams. Natural gas explosions consume neighborhoods. Sinkholes swallow entire buildings. After-shocks rip apart the ground. Looters rampage through the streets.There's no power. No running water. No order.Marty Slack thinks he's prepared. He's wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test the limits of his endurance and his humanity, a trek from the man he was to the man he can be ... if he can survive The Walk.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Horror", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6536169-the-walk"}, +{"book_title": "Radiance", "author_name": "Catherynne M. Valente", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3989, "review_number": 1002, "book_description": "Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1946 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe.But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony's last survivor, Severin will never return.Told using techniques from reality TV, classic film, gossip magazines, and meta-fictional narrative, Radiance is a solar system-spanning story of love, exploration, family, loss, quantum physics, and silent film.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490533-radiance"}, +{"book_title": "Daughter of Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 7592, "review_number": 699, "book_description": "alternate cover edition of ASIN B004SQSMV6Daughter of Time tells the story of a young widow, Meg, healing from the pain of a brief, unhappy marriage, who falls through time into the Middle Ages \u2014 and into the arms of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last Prince of Wales. He saves her, and she in turn saves him, thanks to her knowledge of future events. Although powerful forces seek to divide them, by working together, Meg and Llywelyn have a chance to navigate the dangerous and shifting alliances that constantly undermine his rule and threaten the very existence of Wales \u2014 and to create a future in which Llywelyn's death does not come too soon.Daughter of Time is a stand-alone novel within the world of the After Cilmeri series. Other books in the series include Footsteps in Time and Prince of Time.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10842405-daughter-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Colony", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 52742, "review_number": 2372, "book_description": "Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game--as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88071.The_Last_Colony"}, +{"book_title": "Furyborn", "author_name": "Claire Legrand", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 21507, "review_number": 4619, "book_description": "The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first.One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable--until her mother vanishes. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire's heart is more terrible than she ever imagined.As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world--and of each other.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "New Adult", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Angels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34323570-furyborn"}, +{"book_title": "Sunrise", "author_name": "Mike Mullin", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 6074, "review_number": 731, "book_description": "The Yellowstone supervolcano nearly wiped out the human race. Now, almost a year after the eruption, the survivors seem determined to finish the job. Communities wage war on each other, gangs of cannibals roam the countryside, and what little government survived the eruption has collapsed completely. The ham radio has gone silent. Sickness, cold, and starvation are the survivors' constant companions.When it becomes apparent that their home is no longer safe and adults are not facing the stark realities, Alex and Darla must create a community that can survive the ongoing disaster, an almost impossible task requiring even more guts and more smarts than ever \u2014 and unthinkable sacrifice. If they fail . . . they, their loved ones, and the few remaining survivors will perish.This epic finale has the heart of Ashfall, the action of Ashen Winter, and a depth all its own, examining questions of responsibility and bravery, civilization and society, illuminated by the story of an unshakable love that transcends a post-apocalyptic world and even life itself.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15741928-sunrise"}, +{"book_title": "Dune Messiah", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 143337, "review_number": 4627, "book_description": "Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeDune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known--and feared--as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne--and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family's dynasty...Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44492285-dune-messiah"}, +{"book_title": "Captured and Claimed", "author_name": "Jude Gray", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 774, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "This is the first book in the Savage Warriors series.She's abducted from Earth and sold into slavery. Can love break the chains that bind her? Grabbed from the street in broad daylight, Briony is soon sold to a cruel alien leader who needs human women for a very specific purpose. They must \"recharge\" the vicious warriors he forces to fight in his arena. Given to the best fighter in the section, she finds she has arrived in the middle of a secret escape plan. She is surprised to find herself attaching to the handsome alien fighter, and puts everything she can into their risky run for freedom. Will she make it out alive? Maybe. Will she make it out unchanged? Absolutely not.*-*The Savage Warriors series is filled with steamy, fantasy, alien abduction romance tales. If you like strong women, fierce alien men, and fated romance stories, with nonstop action, then this series is for you! There's steamy sex, some violence, and edge of your seat suspense, no cliff-hangers, and the books are aimed at 18+ readers... Enjoy!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51035784-captured-and-claimed"}, +{"book_title": "City of Heavenly Fire", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 304555, "review_number": 24130, "book_description": "In this dazzling and long-awaited conclusion to the acclaimed Mortal Instruments series, Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother.Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell.The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. And with the Nephilim trapped in Idris, who will guard the world against demons?When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon, and Alec must flee - even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned...Love will be sacrificed and lives lost in the terrible battle for the fate of the word in the thrilling final installment of the classic urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8755785-city-of-heavenly-fire"}, +{"book_title": "The Radiant Warrior", "author_name": "Leo Frankowski", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1031, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "New light on the pastConrad Stargard, a 20th-century Pole marooned in 13th century Poland has just ten years to prevent the Mongol Hordes from slaughtering everyone in Poland.So he \"invented\" all the modern advances, things like prefabricated housing, playboy clubs, the steam engine, universal education, the cloth factory, and belly dancing.But wars are fought by warriors, not strong economies, and Conrad would need the very best. So he set out to create an army...", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1637787.The_Radiant_Warrior"}, +{"book_title": "The Stolen Lake", "author_name": "Joan Aiken", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 849, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Dido Twite, heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the Thrush, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an infernal place where birds carry off men and fish eat human flesh. The queen is greatly distressed because a neighbouring king has stolen her lake. Dido faces fire, flood, wild beasts and, ultimately, threat of execution in order to get the lake back. Is she equal to the challenge? A rich mixture of legend, fantasy, humour and pure snowballing adventure.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36635.The_Stolen_Lake"}, +{"book_title": "q-cave", "author_name": "D.C. Wolf", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 19, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Genre: Hard Science Fiction (that branch of literature which is written with science or technology as the main focus of the story). Enjoy the Trivia Questions on this page, right column to test your knowledge after reading q-cave!q-cave TAKES PLACE IN 2163, where years of trying to terraform Mars have failed, and only a handful of dedicated researchers call the planet home. In a subterranean research facility on Earth, a reclusive, twenty-six-year-old female scientist named Qualia, who has suffered years of brain infusions, manages vast quantum systems, sustaining life on both Earth and Mars. Continuing her research in quantum teleporting, q-porting, it sickens her to watch the covert and unsavory acts of q-port \u201ccustomers\u201d as they express their anger, lust, jealousy, and greed on unsuspecting hosts. But, after years of secretly watching and obsessing over a loving couple on Mars, Qualia risks and indulges in a q-port of her own, to witness the birth of their first child, Maris, also the first human to be born on Mars. A small blip on the newsnet about people aging unusually fast is barely noticed, while a once-respected, and now clandestine scientist, conducts experiments within the darkest corners of the universe. Using an alien army pulled from the fabric of space and time, his hunger for power and revenge blind him to the devastating effects of his grandiose schemes. Stopping at nothing, he kidnaps Maris, forcing Qualia to weigh the risks of attempting an untested q-port, which not only could save Maris\u2019s life, but also unlock the mysteries of Qualia\u2019s forgotten childhood and a secret bond the two share. Together, Qualia and Maris, along with David, a young neuroethologist from Mars, race to stop the destruction by confronting an ominous and misunderstood alien species forced into slavery, and the madman that controls them. This is a hard science fiction novel.My work comes from the more traditional definition: \"Hard SF is that branch of literature which is written with science or technology as the main focus of the story.\" Goodreads wraps up most definitions into one: \"Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both.\"I love this small niche carved out within the sci-fi genre. The research required for writing such novels is a bonus.In q-cave the following are just a sample of what is explored: quantum teleportation, artificial intelligence, biocode, neuroethology, swarm intelligence, Mars, Antarctica, geology, biology, genetics, quantum physics (such as string theory, entanglement, neutrinos & qubits) and quantum computing. Wrapped around some of Plato and Descartes' philosophies, and softened with a bit of music theory.Enjoy the ride.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27153553-q-cave"}, +{"book_title": "The Indian in the Cupboard", "author_name": "Lynne Reid Banks", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 99244, "review_number": 2378, "book_description": "At first, Omri is unimpressed with the plastic Indian toy he is given for his birthday. But when he puts it in his old cupboard and turns the key, something extraordinary happens that will change Omri's life for ever. For Little Bear, the Iroquois Indian brave, comes to life...", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Classics", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Academic (School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125404.The_Indian_in_the_Cupboard"}, +{"book_title": "One Day on Mars", "author_name": "Travis S. Taylor", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1071, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "It's \"24\" on Mars: a nonstop futuristic thrill-ride, all in one day, through the critical events which were the breaking point for the underclass of Martian citizens and precipitated a revolution to break the Martian colonists free from the formidable Sol System government. The formerly red planet--now in danger of again becoming red, \"blood\" red--would never be the same, nor would the human race. It was one day that changed the course of history for the Solar System, raging from hand-to-hand combat to piloted armored mecha suits clashing to an enormous space battle, with dedicated heroes on both sides of the conflict wondering if they were doing the right thing--and if they would live to see another day. And wondering, as well, if the spark of this new war, that would eventually reach across whole star systems, would bring them peace One Day on Mars.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/950226.One_Day_on_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "The Rods and the Axe", "author_name": "Tom Kratman", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 454, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Books\u00a0#6 in the popular Carrera military science fiction series.Tarawa. Iwo. Normandy.\u00a0 Names that shine in the military history of two worlds, places where brave men stormed ashore and fought their way to victory no matter the odds.\u00a0 But then there are other names: Marathon. Malta. Gallipoli.\u00a0 Balboa\u2019s Patricio Carrera has driven the Tauran Union from his adopted country, driven them out with appalling loss and worse humiliation.\u00a0That\u2019s not enough though.\u00a0 To finally finish his enemies, Carrera needs to draw them back for a more telling defeat.\u00a0He cannot take the battle to them because, beyond some long range bombardment capability, he cannot reach them.\u00a0But when they return, they don\u2019t plan to come alone; they insist on having someone else do most of the bleeding for them.\u00a0 Carrera understands this. And that\u2019s why he\u2019s provoked the Zhong Guo mercilessly, infuriating their ruling Empress.\u00a0 He needs the Zhong in the war, to buck up the Taurans to continue the war to its bitterest end.\u00a0 But to get to Carrera, the Zhong must take the Isla Real, the strongest island fortress on two worlds. In the process, they\u2019ll learn why Marines never forget those other names. . . .\u00a0 Gallipoli\u2026Malta\u2026Marathon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carrera\u2019s enemies are about to learn why the expression \"blood-stained water\" is not just a literary allusion.About Tom Kratman\u2019s Carrera series: \u201c[I]nterplanetary warfare with. . .[a] visceral story of bravery and sacrifice . . . fans of the military SF of John Ringo and David Webershould enjoy this SF action adventure.\u201d\u2013Library Journal\u201cKratman's dystopia is a brisk page turner full of startling twists \u2026 [Kratman is] a professional military man \u2026 up to speed on military and geopolitical conceits.\u201d \u2013Best-selling author of America Alone Mark Steyn on Tom Kratman\u2019s uncompromising military SF thriller, Califate\u201cKratman raises disquieting questions on what it might take to win the war on terror\u2026realistic action sequences, strong characterizations and thoughts on the philosophy of war.\u201d \u2013 Publishers WeeklyCarerra Series:A Desert Called Peace\u00a0 Carnifex\u00a0 The Lotus Eaters\u00a0 The Amazon Legion\u00a0 Come and Take ThemRods and the Axe\u00a0 ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20257231-the-rods-and-the-axe"}, +{"book_title": "Gypsy", "author_name": "Carter Scholz", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "The intriguing story of how a bold but tiny group of beleaguered humanity\u2014financed by a rogue billionaire\u2014undertake the top-secret colonization of a nearby star system \u00a0In this collection of sci-fi stories, heralded writer Carter Scholz explores a variety of sociopolitical themes. In the novella Gypsy, a few visionary scientists, chosen and nurtured by an eccentric billionaire undertake humankind\u2019s most expansive adventure\u2014a generations-long voyage to a distant planet. The story \u201cThe Nine Billion Names of God\u201d uses a classic sci-fi text to deconstruct literary deconstruction itself, with hilarious results. \u201cImprecations\u201d is an unforgiving examination of the primary lies in popular culture. An interview with the author, in which Scholz reveals his sources, frustrations, forbidden delights, and demonic designs, is also included.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25246198-gypsy"}, +{"book_title": "March to the Stars", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 7526, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "Stranded on Marduk with his Royal Marine protectors, spoiled prince Roger MacClintock experiences a change in attitude during a long journey back to civilization across a sea filled with dangerous monsters and well-armed enemies.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25317.March_to_the_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Khyma: Taken Part One", "author_name": "Poppy Rhys", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 867, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Swindled. Duped. Cheated. A back-alley game gone wrong leads to the loss of a precious family heirloom, and Willa is determined to reclaim what's rightfully hers. Yet, when circumstances lead her to cross paths with a curious, protective alien, she begins to question what's truly important.Note: While this story is its own, the ending does lead into the next novel. You do not need to read previous books in the series to enjoy this one. M/F Romance.Warning: This story contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, violence, and situations intended for mature readers.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Humor", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35527657-the-khyma"}, +{"book_title": "Alien III", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 3744, "review_number": 579, "book_description": "Audible is bringing William Gibson\u2019s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time, to mark the 40th Anniversary of the birth of the Alien franchise. Alongside a full cast, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen reprise their iconic roles as Corporal Hicks and Bishop from the 1986 film Aliens. Father of cyberpunk William Gibson\u2019s original script for Alien III, written in 1987 as a sequel to Aliens, never made it to our screens, although it went on to achieve cult status among fans as the third instalment that might have been after being leaked online. This terrifying, cinematic multicast dramatisation - directed by the multi-award-winning Dirk Maggs - is the chance to experience William Gibson\u2019s untold story and its terrifying, claustrophobic and dark encounters between humans and aliens, as a completely immersive audio experience. The story begins with the Sulaco on its return journey from LV-426. On board the military ship are the cryogenically frozen skeleton crew of that film\u2019s survivors: Ripley, Hicks, Newt and Bishop. We travel aboard and hear an alarm blare. Our heroes are no longer alone....Starring: Tom Alexander, Barbara Barnes, Michael Biehn, Cliff Chapman, Samantha Coughlan, Ben Cura, Dar Dash, Harry Ditson, Mairead Doherty, Lance Henriksen, Graham Hoadly, Lorelei King, Laurel Lefkow, Martin McDougall, Sarah Pitard, Michael Roberts, David Seddon, Andrew James Spooner, Siri Steinmo, Dai Tabuchi, Keith Wickham, Rebecca Yeo.\u00a92019 20th Century Fox (P)2019 Audible, Ltd", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Thriller", "Culture (Film)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46223708-alien-iii"}, +{"book_title": "Winter's Orbit", "author_name": "Everina Maxwell", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 210, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "Ancillary Justice meets Red, White & Royal Blue in Everina Maxwell's exciting debut.While the Iskat Empire has long dominated the system through treaties and political alliances, several planets, including Thea, have begun to chafe under Iskat's rule. When tragedy befalls Imperial Prince Taam, his Thean widower, Jainan, is rushed into an arranged marriage with Taam's cousin, the disreputable Kiem, in a bid to keep the rising hostilities between the two worlds under control.But when it comes to light that Prince Taam's death may not have been an accident, and that Jainan himself may be a suspect, the unlikely pair must overcome their misgivings and learn to trust one another as they navigate the perils of the Iskat court, try to solve a murder, and prevent an interplanetary war... all while dealing with their growing feelings for each other.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53205912-winter-s-orbit"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Army", "author_name": "Simon Curtis", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 18, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Isaak continues to fight against the secret government organization formed to eradicate Robots like him in this action-packed sequel to Boy Robot!\u201cIsaak, the technology used to create the Robots isn\u2019t just a weapon. It\u2019s a virus. The deadliest virus humanity has ever faced.\u201dBurdened with the knowledge that the Robots\u2019 survival might mean the end of the human race, Isaak returns to California to find what remains of The Underground. There he begins his search for Evelyn, one of their creators responsible for devising a technology that might save them, called \u201cThe Heart.\u201dBefore Isaak can formulate a plan, however, he and the remaining members of The Underground are deceived by one of their own and suddenly find the Robots\u2019 existence revealed to the world. But the government has a revelation of their own in response: the head of the SHRF, a man nicknamed \u201cThe Colonel,\u201d has been building a Robot army of his own. An army who will obey and fight for their country.Now Isaak must decide whether they will join or fight, and with whispers of a new technology called \u201cThe Mind,\u201d will they even have a choice?In the sequel to Boy Robot, Simon Curtis takes the Robots\u2019 brutal fight for acceptance and survival to the global stage, and as the world prepares for war in the wake of their existence, Isaak must face an even greater battle: destiny vs. free will.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["LGBT", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34144410-robot-army"}, +{"book_title": "Claws That Catch", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2835, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "It's Not Over Til The Skinny Lady Sings . . . \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Working off of a piece of intelligence from the alien Hexosehr, the Vorpal Blade is dispatched to investigate rumors\u00a0of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the \u201cblack box\u201d that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice but what the Blade finds is much more than they bargained for. Worse, the ship is infested by an alien species of scorpion-like arachnoids that has the potential to wipe out\u00a0a world. Worst of all, instead of being Astrogator, Captain William Weaver is now the XO and he is not getting along with the new commander. And the new commander does not get along with Weaver, the ship's female savant-linguist or most of the rest of the original crew. And what is that weird noise the ship makes every time it's in hard maneuvers? \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leave it to the oddball geniuses of the Blade to sort it all out. And the Dreen are not going to like the answers.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "War", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3000862-claws-that-catch"}, +{"book_title": "Salt & Stone", "author_name": "Victoria Scott", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 5487, "review_number": 870, "book_description": "How far would you go to survive?In FIRE & FLOOD, Tella Holloway faced a dangerous trek through the jungle and a terrifying march across the desert, all to remain a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed for a chance at obtaining the Cure for her brother. She can't stop - and in SALT & STONE, Tella will have to face the unseen dangers of the ocean, the breathless cold of a mountain, and twisted new rules in the race.But what if the danger is deeper than that? How do you know who to trust when everyone's keeping secrets? What do you do when the person you'd relied on most suddenly isn't there for support? How do you weigh one life against another?The race is coming to an end, and Tella is running out of time, resources, and strength. At the beginning of the race there were one hundred twenty-two Contenders. As Tella and her remaining friends start the fourth and final part of the race, just forty-one are left . . . and only one can win.Victoria Scott's stunning thriller will leave readers' hearts racing!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20657437-salt-stone"}, +{"book_title": "Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel", "author_name": "Adam Rubin", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2699, "review_number": 392, "book_description": "The hilarious sequel to the smokin' hot New York Times best seller, perfect for story time News alert! It has just been discovered that there are NO MORE TACOS left anywhere in the world. This is a huge problem because, as you know, dragons love tacos. If only there was a way for the dragons to travel back in time, to before tacos went extinct. Then they could grab lots of tacos and bring them back! It's the perfect plan, as long as there's no spicy salsa. You remember what happened last time . . .The award-winning creators of Robo-Sauce and Secret Pizza Party return with a gut-bustingly hilarious companion to the bestselling phenomenon Dragons Love Tacos.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Humor", "Food and Drink (Food)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31522122-dragons-love-tacos-2"}, +{"book_title": "Chanur's Legacy", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2093, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "National best-selling author C.J. Cherryh continues her highly acclaimed series with a new generation of alien encounters.A game of interstellar politics in which Hilfy Chanur and her vessel Legacy are commissioned to transport a small, mysterious religious object. The price is extremely generous, perhaps too generous.Praise for the Chanur series: A tour de force...quintessential SF. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science FictionOne of the best science fiction tales ever. (Minneapolis Star and Tribune)", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Own", "Animals (Cats)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57107.Chanur_s_Legacy"}, +{"book_title": "Mission: Planet Biter", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 926, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "When his Veslor grouping answers a distress call on planet Biter, Roth discovers a sole survivor. The little female isn\u2019t rational and latches onto him like a lifeline. That surprises Roth, since most humans fear him. This one won\u2019t let him go, but he must resist his desire for her. It\u2019s the only honorable thing to do.Stuck on an alien planet, her facility sabotaged and all her coworkers dead or dying, Vera Wade isn\u2019t sure she\u2019ll make it out alive. They\u2019ve all been exposed to a drug that is making them crazy. She\u2019s slowly losing all hope, until an alien shows up. He feels real, but he\u2019s probably just another hallucination. A sexy one who seems too good to be true.Now she just needs to convince Roth that their attraction is definitely real, once the drugs leave her system\u2026before the unknown person trying to kill her finishes the job.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55880906-mission"}, +{"book_title": "Monster Nation", "author_name": "David Wellington", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 4782, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "In the heart of America, in the world's most secure prison, something horrible is growing in the dark. A wave of cannibalism and fear is sweeping across the heartland, spreading carnage and infection in its wake. Captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard has been tasked with an impossible mission: discover what is happening \u2014 and then stop it before it annihilates Los Angeles. In California, he discovers a woman trapped in a hospital overrun with violent madmen. She may hold the secret to the Epidemic but she has lost everything \u2014 even her name. David Wellington's first novel, Monster Island, explored a world overcome by horror and the few people strong enough to survive. Now he takes us back in time to where it all began \u2014 to the day the dead began to rise.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79076.Monster_Nation"}, +{"book_title": "Winter Tide", "author_name": "Ruthanna Emrys", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2719, "review_number": 621, "book_description": "After attacking Devil\u2019s Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future.The government that stole Aphra's life now needs her help. FBI agent Ron Spector believes that Communist spies have stolen dangerous magical secrets from Miskatonic University, secrets that could turn the Cold War hot in an instant, and hasten the end of the human race.Aphra must return to the ruins of her home, gather scraps of her stolen history, and assemble a new family to face the darkness of human nature.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939089-winter-tide"}, +{"book_title": "The Final Empire", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 423406, "review_number": 29384, "book_description": "For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the \"Sliver of Infinity,\" reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier \"snapped\" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68428.The_Final_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "When All Seems Lost", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 364, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "The national bestselling author of For More Than Glory and For Those Who Fell presents a thrilling new novel of The Legion of the Damned-dispatched on a mission that will determine humanity's future in a galaxy full of unpredictable enemies... As interstellar war rages, the President of the Confederacy is captured by the Ramanthian enemy. But the aliens don't realize the prize they have taken, since, at the suggestion of young diplomat Christine Vanderveen, all the captives have agreed to hide his identity. Then the prisoners are taken to a brutal slave labor camp-and Vanderveen is concerned that there may be some among them tempted to reveal the ruse. Determined to protect the President, she must face down opposition, both alien and human, all the while hoping for rescue. And rescue is on the way-an unauthorized effort, organized by General Bill Booly, manned by a team of volunteers with nothing to lose-and headed by Captain Antonio Santana, Vanderveen's former lover, who must try to set aside his personal feelings for the sake of the mission...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/477377.When_All_Seems_Lost"}, +{"book_title": "The Theory of Anything", "author_name": "Greg Hickey", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 8, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Get it for free at https://www.greghickeywrites.com/the-....A brilliant professor. A shocking murder. The truth is more complex and unpredictable than it seems.When Dr. David Solon walked out of the coffee shop on the afternoon of May 3, 2011, he didn\u2019t expect to foil an attempted robbery in a nearby alley. He didn\u2019t expect to recognize the would-be robber. And he didn\u2019t expect to shoot that man to death. An hour earlier, he was sharing a breakthrough mathematical discovery with a colleague. A day earlier, he was unraveling a puzzle with implications for the events that shape our lives. And a week earlier, he was falling asleep beside his loving wife of twenty-two years.After a year of frustrated effort, a horrific tragedy sparks David's incredible discovery about mathematical randomness. It's a theory that will reshape his field and change the way everyone thinks about physics, history and basic laws of cause-and-effect. The Theory of Anything takes readers back through the previous seven days to uncover the events\u2014random or predetermined\u2014that will define David's career and ruin his life.https://www.greghickeywrites.com/the-...", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44159288-the-theory-of-anything"}, +{"book_title": "The Rapture of the Nerds", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 3590, "review_number": 510, "book_description": "Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun.The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander...and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple.So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Singularity", "Humor", "Speculative Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538762-the-rapture-of-the-nerds"}, +{"book_title": "The Deaths of Tao", "author_name": "Wesley Chu", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 3428, "review_number": 317, "book_description": " Booklist Starred Review Shelf Awareness Starred ReviewThe sequel to The Lives of Tao.The Prophus and the Genjix are at war. For centuries they have sought a way off-planet, guiding humanity\u2019s social and technological development to the stage where space travel is possible. The end is now in sight, and both factions have plans to leave the Earth, but the Genjix method will mean the destruction of the human race.That\u2019s a price they\u2019re willing to pay.It\u2019s up to Roen and Tao to save the world. Oh, dear\u2026File Under: Science Fiction [ Manning Up | A Long Journey | Bye-Bye Mankind | Personal Space ]", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "Religion (Taoism)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17726421-the-deaths-of-tao"}, +{"book_title": "The Outcasts of Time", "author_name": "Ian Mortimer", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3161, "review_number": 428, "book_description": "December 1348. With the country in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will shortly die and go to Hell. But as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries \u2013 living each one of their remaining days ninety-nine years after the last. \u00a0 John and William choose the future and find themselves in 1447, ignorant of almost everything going on around them. The year 1546 brings no more comfort, and 1645 challenges them still further. It is not just that technology is changing: things they have taken for granted all their lives prove to be short-lived. \u00a0 As they find themselves in stranger and stranger times, the reader travels with them, seeing the world through their eyes as it shifts through disease, progress, enlightenment and war. But their time is running out \u2013 can they do something to redeem themselves before the six days are up?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Audiobook", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34103858-the-outcasts-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Shada", "author_name": "Gareth Roberts", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 5268, "review_number": 689, "book_description": "From the unique mind of Douglas Adams, the legendary \"lost\" Doctor Who story has been completed at last by Gareth Roberts and narrated by Lalla Ward.The Doctor\u2019s old friend and fellow Time Lord Professor Chronotis has retired to Cambridge University\u2014where nobody will notice if he lives for centuries. But now he needs help from the Doctor, Romana and K-9. When he left Gallifrey he took with him a few little souvenirs\u2014most of them are harmless. But one of them is extremely dangerous.The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey isn\u2019t a book for Time Tots. It is one of the Artifacts, dating from the dark days of Rassilon. It must not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. The sinister Skagra most definitely has the wrong hands. He wants the book. He wants to discover the truth behind Shada. And he wants the Doctor\u2019s mind...Based on the scripts for the original television series by the legendary Douglas Adams, Shada retells an adventure that never made it to the screen.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13541612-doctor-who"}, +{"book_title": "Beneath London", "author_name": "James P. Blaylock", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 137, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath the city. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld\u2019s secrets hidden for reasons of his own.\u00a0St. Ives and his stalwart friends investigate a string of ghastly crimes: the gruesome death of a witch, the kidnapping of a blind, psychic girl, and the grim horrors of a secret hospital where experiments in medical electricity and the development of human, vampiric fungi, serve the strange, murderous ends of perhaps St. Ives\u2019s most dangerous nemesis yet.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22889933-beneath-london"}, +{"book_title": "Schism", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 720, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "In 2002, Catherine Asaro won the Nebula Award for The Quantum Rose, the sixth novel in her Saga of the Skolian Empire. This very same novel was also named Best SF Novel by the Romantic Times. Schism: Part One of Triad is the tenth novel in this multiple award-winning series, and represents an excellent entry point into the series.For Schism harkens back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia and the Euban Traders. Twenty-three years have passed since the fateful vote in the Skolian Assembly that Roca missed in Skyfall. It created the first open hostility between Eube and Skolia, which has only deepened over the ensuing years. Now, Eube senses an opportunity, for strife has riven the first family of the Skolian Empire. Sauscony, the daughter of Roca and Eldrinson, is ready to seek her fortune as an officer-in-training in the Skolian military. When her father forbids her to undertake such a dangerous path, a wedge is formed as Soz chooses duty over family. Eube hopes to make this permanent, a divide that will leave the Skolian Empire ripe for conquest. And they're willing to kill anyone to make it happen.Revel in the latest adventure of this Nebula Award-winning series.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/593851.Schism"}, +{"book_title": "Black Glass", "author_name": "John Shirley", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 96, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Taking the fall for his younger brother, Richard Candle went from being a cyber cop to a condemned criminal. After four years of \"UnMinding\"\u2014with his mind suppressed and his body enslaved\u2014he's released to discover his brother has slipped back into the underworld of the V-Rat: the virtual reality addict. Meanwhile, Candle's harried by the murderous Grist, the head of the world's biggest multinational. But his real enemy is something else: a conscious program, the Multisemblant, a meld of copied personalities, the dark side of five powerful people, with its own brutal agenda. Human society is sinking ever deeper into a mire of escapism, but Richard Candle, looking for his missing brother, fights his way through the real world of underground stock markets, flying guns, the trash-walled labyrinth of Rooftown, and the fringe of the fringe.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4245345-black-glass"}, +{"book_title": "The Lodestar of Ys", "author_name": "Amy Rae Durreson", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1519, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "Sjurd is convinced that Celyn of Ys is the most irritating man alive. It\u2019s a good thing that Celyn is engaged to Sjurd\u2019s brother, not him, because Sjurd loathes the brat, and it\u2019s quite mutual. When an elopement and the threat of invasion force the two princes together, however, they have no choice but to marry and fake true love to keep their countries safe. Can warrior Sjurd and diplomat Celyn find any common ground?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "War (Military Fiction)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "Novella", "War", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26132673-the-lodestar-of-ys"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 38: Ragnarock", "author_name": "Stephen Kenson", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 246, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Tommy Talon is hired to hunt a murderous archeologist and recover a magical relic. But Talon's not hunting alone. Someone else wants the artifact too -- someone very powerful. And Talon and his team must outwit Germany's most potent megacorporation if they're to have any chance of returning the treasure or any chance of returning at all...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351417.Shadowrun_38"}, +{"book_title": "Warship", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 8731, "review_number": 428, "book_description": "In the 25th century humans have conquered space. The advent of faster-than-light travel has opened up hundreds of habitable planets for colonization, and humans have exploited the virtually limitless space and resources for hundreds of years with impunity. So complacent have they become with the overabundance that armed conflict is a thing of the past, and their machines of war are obsolete and decrepit. What would happen if they were suddenly threatened by a terrifying new enemy? Would humanity fold and surrender, or would they return to their evolutionary roots and meet force with force? One ship\u2014and one captain\u2014will soon be faced with this very choice. Against incredible odds, Jackson Wolfe is determined to save humanity\u2013and in the process, might end up saving himself. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24292492-warship"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's Spine", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 387, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Having defeated his enemies in Sector 25 and crushed the pirates in the Battle of Tracto, Admiral Jason Montagne of the Multi-Sector Patrol Fleet was ready - and even eager - to settle down to the task of rebuilding his fleet and consolidating his position within his home Sector. Unfortunately, there\u2019s no time to rest on his laurels. Representative Kong Pao, a Sector Judge from Sectors 23 and 24, has come in person to plead for the lives of his people. The Judge's people are under attack and facing potential genocide, or enslavement, under Droid rule and he beseeches the only Confederation Admiral in the Spine for help. Faced with the dilemma of joining a fight he probably can\u2019t win, or sitting back and giving his people the time they need to rest, recover and rebuild, he\u2019s left asking himself one question: Could he look himself in the mirror if countless millions of lives were lost and he did nothing to stop it? Will it be safety and the smart play, or another grand roll of the dice as he goes all in with the lives of those who follow him? And what will this battle-hardened, increasingly bitter Admiral do if he finds the elected Politicians of these new Sectors are determined to play politics as usual and blame everything that goes wrong on the MSP? Find out in this exciting adventure of Admiral Jason Montagne and the MSP, the guardians of the Spineward Sectors.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22878368-admiral-s-spine"}, +{"book_title": "Spare Parts", "author_name": "Rebecca Emberley", "rating_score": 3.05, "rating_votes": 190, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Meet Rhoobart.He's tarnished and tattered and, worst of all, his heart's broken. He'll have to go to the Spare Parts Mart, dig through their parts, and find a new heart.Meet Sweetart, the robot.She's energetic and smart and has her own ideas about broken hearts. \"You just need a jump start!\"And that's how two robots who are nothing but spare parts meet and make each other whole in this riotous and rhythmic robot love story from the creators of The Ant and the Grasshopper and The Crocodile and the Scorpion.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Love", "Science Fiction", "Poetry"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23310677-spare-parts"}, +{"book_title": "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", "author_name": "Newt Scamander", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 346493, "review_number": 10706, "book_description": "An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the Wizarding World. Scamander's years of travel and research have created a tome of unparalleled importance. Some of the beasts will be familiar to readers of the Harry Potter books - the Hippogriff, the Basilisk, the Hungarian Horntail ... Others will surprise even the most ardent amateur Magizoologist. This is an essential companion to the Harry Potter stories, and includes a new foreword from J.K. Rowling (writing as Newt Scamander) and six new beasts!", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41899.Fantastic_Beasts_and_Where_to_Find_Them"}, +{"book_title": "The Space Merchants", "author_name": "Frederik Pohl", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 9319, "review_number": 558, "book_description": "An alternate cover edition can be found here.It is the 22nd Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships.Biographical NotesPohl and Kornbluth started writing together as early as 1940, although both authors produced a wide variety of stories separately, under their own names and pseudonyms.Each wrote sections, starting where the other left off, and through long experience they developed an almost telepathic awareness of each other's intentions.", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Humor", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392566.The_Space_Merchants"}, +{"book_title": "The Fire Sermon", "author_name": "Francesca Haig", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 6581, "review_number": 1160, "book_description": "The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new postapocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair one is an Alpha - physically perfect in every way - and the other an Omega burdened with deformity, small or large. With the Council ruling an apartheid-like society, Omegas are branded and ostracized while the Alphas have gathered the world's sparse resources for themselves. Though proclaiming their superiority, for all their effort Alphas cannot escape one harsh fact: Whenever one twin dies, so does the other. Cass is a rare Omega, one burdened with psychic foresight. While her twin, Zach, gains power on the Alpha Council, she dares to dream the most dangerous dream of all: equality. For daring to envision a world in which Alphas and Omegas live side by side as equals, both the Council and the Resistance have her in their sights. \u00a92015 De Tores Ltd (P)2015 Audible Inc. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18109771-the-fire-sermon"}, +{"book_title": "Joe Golem and the Drowning City: An Illustrated Novel", "author_name": "Mike Mignola", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 962, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water, so that its residents began to call it the Drowning City. Those unwilling to abandon their homes created a new life on streets turned to canals and in buildings whose first three stories were underwater. Fifty years have passed since then, and the Drowning City is full of scavengers and water rats, poor people trying to eke out an existence, and those too proud or stubborn to be defeated by circumstance.Among them are fourteen-year-old Molly McHugh and her friend and employer, Felix Orlov. Once upon a time Orlov the Conjuror was a celebrated stage magician, but now he is an old man, a psychic medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left behind. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix Orlov is abducted by strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits, and Molly soon finds herself on the run.Her flight will lead her into the company of a mysterious man, and his stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past is a mystery to him, but who walks his own dreams as a man of stone and clay, brought to life for the sole purpose of hunting witches.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12344422-joe-golem-and-the-drowning-city"}, +{"book_title": "Spaceland", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 456, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention.When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees.After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake.Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Mathematics)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274052.Spaceland"}, +{"book_title": "Woken Furies", "author_name": "Richard K. Morgan", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 26729, "review_number": 994, "book_description": "This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance.Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5 percent of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try and get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky.And death doesn't just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything.Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29397.Woken_Furies"}, +{"book_title": "Life After Life", "author_name": "Kate Atkinson", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 202161, "review_number": 24453, "book_description": "What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can - will she?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Literary Fiction", "Adult", "War (World War II)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790842-life-after-life"}, +{"book_title": "The Resistance", "author_name": "Gemma Malley", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 6961, "review_number": 422, "book_description": "The year is 2140. Having escaped the horrors of Grange Hall, Peter and Anna are living freely on the Outside, trying hard to lead normal lives, but unable to leave the terror of the Declaration\u2014and their experiences as surpluses\u2014completely behind them. Peter is determined to infiltrate Pharma Corporation, which claims to have a new drug in the works; \"Longevity+\" will not just stop the ravages of old age, it is rumored to reverse the aging process. But what Peter and Anna discover behind the walls of Pharma is so nightmarish it makes the prison of their childhood seem like a sanctuary: for in order to supply Pharma with the building blocks for Longevity+, scientists will need to harvest it from the young. Shocking, controversial, and frighteningly topical, this sequel to Gemma Malley's stellar debut novel, The Declaration, will take the conversation about ethics and science to the next level.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Futuristic", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3039305-the-resistance"}, +{"book_title": "Gettysburg", "author_name": "Newt Gingrich", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3459, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great \"what if\" of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details, Gettysburg stands as a remarkable entry in the pantheon of Civil War literature and as a vivid novel of the realities of war.The year is 1863, and General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia are poised to attack the North and claim the victory that could end the brutal conflict. Launching his men into a vast sweeping operation, General Lee, acting as he did at Chancellorsville, Second Manassas, and Antietam, displays the audacity of old. He knows he has but one more good chance to gain ultimate victory. Now Lee's lieutenants and the men in the ranks, imbued with this renewed spirit of the offensive, embark on the Gettysburg Campaign that many dream \"should have been..\".An action-packed and painstakingly researched masterwork by Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen, Gettysburg stands as the first book in a series to tell the story of how history could have unfolded, how a victory for Lee would have changed the destiny of the nation forever. This is a novel of true heroism and glory in America's most trying hour.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Military History (Civil War)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War", "Historical", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "", "American History (American Civil War)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526339.Gettysburg"}, +{"book_title": "The Moon and the Sun", "author_name": "Vonda N. McIntyre", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1788, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his domain, wealth and beauty take all; frivolity begets cruelty; science and alchemy collide. From the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versailles, courtiers compete to please the king, sacrificing fortune, principles, and even the sacred bond between brother and sister. By the fiftieth year of his reign, Louis XIV has made France the most powerful state in the western world. Yet the Sun King's appetite for glory knows no bounds. In a bold stroke, he sends his natural philosopher on an expedition to seek the source of immortality -- the rare, perhaps mythical, sea monsters. For the glory, of his God, his country, and his king, Father Yves de la Croix returns with his treasures: one heavy shroud packed in ice...and a covered basin that imprisons a shrieking creature.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Cultural (France)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263023.The_Moon_and_the_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Rescue Mode", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 228, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Gritty and scientifically accurate science\u00a0fiction adventure from New York Times\u00a0best-selling author\u00a0Ben Bova and NASA space scientist Les Johnson. If you liked\u00a0The Martian, experience\u00a0Rescue Mode.The first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight-person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive.\u00a0 On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue. The whole human space flight program\u00a0hangs in the balance. And if the astronauts can\u2019t nurse their ship to Mars and back, the voyagers will become either the first Martian colonists\u2014or the first humans to perish on another planet.About\u00a0Rescue Mode: \"Space enthusiasts will appreciate the technical accuracy of Rescue Mode which reflects the engineering background of author Les Johnson, a rocket scientist. . . . Space enthusiasts . . . will want to add this one to their collection.\"\u2014Ad Astra, National Space Society\"Bova and Johnson artfully introduce us to the major players in . . . the ambitious program for humankind\u2019s first manned mission to Mars . . . and a tribute to Bova and Johnson\u2019s story-telling skill . . . [which] shows plausible scientists at work in spite of daunting obstacles. . . . a story well-told.\"\u2014LabLitAbout Mars, Inc.: \"The Hugo winner returns to his most popular subject: the quest for Mars.\"\u2014Publishers Weekly \u00a0About the award winning novels of Ben Bova: \u201cTechnically accurate and absorbing . . .\u201d\u2014Kirkus \u201c[Bova is] the science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world.\u201d\u2014Ray Bradbury \u201cA masterful storyteller.\u201d\u2014Vector \u201cGives a good read while turning your eyes to what might be in the not so distant future, just like Clarke and Asimov used to do so well.\u201d\u2014SFX", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20742785-rescue-mode"}, +{"book_title": "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 20251, "review_number": 630, "book_description": "It's one month after the events in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1, and the skies over England are filled with flaming rockets as Mars launches the first salvo of an invasion. Only our stalwart adventurers Allan Quatermain, Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, Hawley Griffin, and Mr. Edward Hyde can save mother England and the very Earth itself. But there are many startling revelations along the way, including the blossoming of love and the uncovering of a traitor in their midst!", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107007.The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "Always Human", "author_name": "Ari North", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 1518, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "First serialized on the popular app and website WebToon, Always Human ran from 2015-2017 and amassed over 76,000 unique subscribers during its run. Now reformatted\u00a0for a print edition in sponsorship with GLAAD,\u00a0Always Human\u00a0is a beautifully drawn graphic novel about a developing relationship between two young women in a near-future, soft sci-fi setting. Always Human is drawn in a manga-influenced style and with an incredible color palette that leaps off the\u00a0page!In the near-future,\u00a0people use technology to give the illusion of all kinds of body modifications\u2014but some people have \u201cEgan\u2019s Syndrome,\u201d a highly sensitive immune system that rejects these \u201cmods\u201d and are unable to use them. Those who are affected maintain a \u201cnatural\u201d appearance, reliant on cosmetics and hair dye at most to help them play with their looks.\u00a0 Sunati\u00a0is attracted to\u00a0Austen\u00a0the first time she sees her and is drawn to what she assumes is Austen\u2019s bravery and confidence to live life unmodded. When Sunati learns the truth, she\u2019s still attracted to Austen and asks her on a date. Gradually, their relationship unfolds as they deal with friends, family, and the emotional conflicts that come with every romance. Together, they will learn and grow in a story that reminds us no matter how technology evolves, we will remain . . . always human. Rendered in beautiful detail and an extraordinary color palette,\u00a0Always Human\u00a0is a sweet love story told in a gentle sci-fi setting by a queer woman cartoonist, Ari North.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52757526-always-human"}, +{"book_title": "Last Stand of Dead Men", "author_name": "Derek Landy", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 10268, "review_number": 577, "book_description": "War has finally come.But it's not a war between good and evil, or light and dark \u2013 it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster, and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough. Allies turn to enemies, friends turn to foes, and Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the Dead Men if they're going to have any chance at all of maintaining the balance of power and getting to the root of a vast conspiracy that has been years in the making.But while this war is only beginning, another war rages within Valkyrie herself. Her own dark side, the insanely powerful being known as Darquesse, is on the verge of rising to the surface. And if Valkyrie slips, even for a moment, then Darquesse will burn the world and everyone in it.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16123975-last-stand-of-dead-men"}, +{"book_title": "Proxima", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 5759, "review_number": 534, "book_description": "The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light... The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun. How would it be to live on such a world?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17983396-proxima"}, +{"book_title": "The Pinhoe Egg", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 8137, "review_number": 455, "book_description": "Cat Chant and Marianne Pinhoe have discovered something exciting--something truly precious, very strange, and valuable. An egg.An egg that has been hidden away in an attic for who-knows-how-many years. An egg protected by some strong \"Don't Notice\" spells. An egg that Marianne gives to Cat, even though he lives at nearby Chrestomanci Castle. Chrestomanci himself, the strongest enchanter in the world, is sure to be interested in the egg--and interference from the Big Man is the last thing Marianne's family of secret rogue witches wants.But how much longer can the Pinhoes keep their secrets? Gammer, the leader of the clan, has gone mad, a powerful bad luck spell is wreaking havoc, and there's an unexplained plague of frogs. Not to mention the mysterious barrier Cat finds in the forest.Marianne and Cat may be the only two who can set things right. But first Marianne must accept her own powerful magic, and Cat must uncover the secrets behind the mystical Pinhoe Egg.In this new Chrestomanci book, Diana Wynne Jones is at her most magical.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34281.The_Pinhoe_Egg"}, +{"book_title": "Manna", "author_name": "Marshall Brain", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1214, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "A tale of two societies and how they handle the coming robotic revolution.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Cultural", "Futurism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7902912-manna"}, +{"book_title": "Three Wishes", "author_name": "Lisa Tawn Bergren", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 651, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. BECAUSE YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT. Zara Ruiz is a normal California girl on the verge of graduating from high school and thinking about her dawning future. But when dusk brings a shattering loss\u2014and she discovers a priceless object in the shallows of a tide pool\u2014she is thrust a hundred-and-eighty years into the past. There she meets handsome ranchero Javier de la Ventura\u2014who has big dreams and secret sorrows\u2014along with his enchanting family, in a land that is at once familiar, and yet utterly foreign. Between cattle rustlers, pirates and a growing call for statehood, it is not a peaceful time to be a Mexican settler in young Alta California. But Zara must decide if she's discovered what she longs for most in the past, or if her heart's THREE WISHES can only be found in the present.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29337533-three-wishes"}, +{"book_title": "The Magic Word", "author_name": "Mac Barnett", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 643, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "A hilarious take on what a magic word really is from Mac Barnett, the award-winning, bestselling author of Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn, and Elise Parsley, the bestselling author/illustrator of If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't! and If You Ever Want to Bring a Piano to the Beach, Don't!When Paxton C. Heymeyer\u2019s babysitter tells him to say the magic word, she could never have imagined that what would happen next would be a walrus chasing her, an elephant in the living room playing cards, and a full water park and moat in the front yard. And that\u2019s just the beginning\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Family", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens (1st Grade)", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28259037-the-magic-word"}, +{"book_title": "Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 132 (Clarkesworld Magazine #132", "author_name": "Neil Clarke", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 357, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "FICTION\"Antarctic Birds\" by A. Brym\"Little /^^^\\&-\" by Eric Schwitzgebel\"The Secret Life of Bots\" by Suzanne Palmer\"Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics\" by Jess Barber and Sara Saab\"M\u00f6bius Continuum\" by Gu Shi, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu\"Bonding with Morry\" by Tom Purdom\"Warmth\" by Geoff RymanNON-FICTION\"Artificial Wombs and Control of Reproductive Technology\" by Stephanie M. Bucklin\"Occult Agencies and Political Satire: A Conversation with Charles Stross\" by Chris Urie\"Another Word: The Dream of Writing Full Time\" by Kelly Robson\"Editor's Desk: Home for the Month\" by Neil Clarke", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36165705-clarkesworld-magazine-issue-132"}, +{"book_title": "Alliance of Equals", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1149, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "A new novel in the popular and exciting science fiction Liaden Universe\u00ae series. Over a half million Liaden Universe\u00ae books sold with an audience that keeps growing!Beset by the angry remnants of the Department of the Interior, challenged at every turn by opportunists on their new homeworld of Surebleak, and somewhat low on funds, Clan Korval desperately needs to reestablish its position as one of the top trading clans in known space. To this end, Master Trader Shan yos'Galan, aboard Korval's premier trade ship, Dutiful Passage, is on a mission to establish new business associations and to build a strong primary route that links well with existing Loops and secondary routes.But reestablishing trade and preserving the lives of the few remaining members of the clan aren't all of Korval's problems. Matters come to a head as Dutiful Passage, accustomed to being welcomed and feted at those ports on its call-list, finds itself denied docking, and blacklisted, while agents of the DOI mount armed attacks on others of Korval's traders, under the very eyes of port security systems.Traveling with Dutiful Passage on this unsettling journey is Padi yos'Galan, the master trader's heir and his apprentice. Padi is eager to make up for time lost due to Korval's unpleasantness with the Department of the Interior. She is also keeping a secret so intense that her coming of age, and perhaps her very life, is threatened by it.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Family", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23510834-alliance-of-equals"}, +{"book_title": "The Trafalgar Gambit", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 3566, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Humanity is losing the war. The once-mighty space navies have been crippled, officers and crew have been stretched to the limit and Earth herself has come under heavy attack. The end cannot be long delayed. For Admiral Smith and the crew of HMS Ark Royal, the stakes have never been so high. The one hope is to make contact with alien factions that might oppose the war. But, as Ark Royal sets off on a desperate diplomatic mission, it rapidly becomes clear that there are both human and alien factions that wish to fight the war to the bitter end - and that her previous missions have sown the seeds of success ... or total failure.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "War", "Thriller", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22428252-the-trafalgar-gambit"}, +{"book_title": "Sci-Fu", "author_name": "Yehudi Mercado", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 249, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Hip-Hop, Sci-Fi and Kung Fu all hit the turn-tables for the mash-up mix of the year! Cartoonist/force of nature Yehudi Mercado (Pantalones, TX, Rocket Salvage) sets his sights on 1980s Brooklyn and Wax, a young mix-master who scratches the perfect beat and accidentally summons a UFO that transports his family, best friend, and current crush to the robot-dominated planet of Discopia. Now Wax and his crew must master the intergalactic musical martial art of Sci-Fu to fight the power and save Earth. Word to your mother.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Music", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Cultural"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36140738-sci-fu"}, +{"book_title": "Warsworn", "author_name": "Elizabeth Vaughan", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 6646, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "Lara is the WarprizeA powerful healer, she has sworn an oath of loyalty to Keir the Warlord, and his people. Now the Warlord and his chosen mate face enemies within the tribe and danger lurks on every hand as they journey toward Keir's homeland. When they reach a village marked with the warnings of the plague, Keir forbids Lara to heal the sick, commanding that she not risk her own life. But both Lara and Kier are strong of will and neither will bend easily, even for love; and when Lara disobeys, she pays the price: both she and Kier are plague-struck... and so is their entire encampment.In the midst of the dying, Iften, a rival warrior, gathers his followers and challenges Keir for the right to rule their tribe. If Keir, weakened by the sickness, loses -- he dies. And so does Lara.To save her love, her life, and her adopted people, Lara must find a cure for the plague -- and fully embrace her sworn role as Warprize to her Warlord.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78071.Warsworn"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien Probe", "author_name": "Victor Appleton", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 68, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "An alien probe found wrecked on one of Jupiter's moons and containing insane \"intelligence\" is stole from a laboratory before its secret of stardrive is obtained.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453290.The_Alien_Probe"}, +{"book_title": "Goddess Mode #1", "author_name": "Zoe Quinn", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 107, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "\"In a near future where all of humanity\u2019s needs are administered by a godlike A.I., it\u2019s one young woman\u2019s horrible job to do tech support on it. But when Cassandra finds herself violently drawn into a hidden and deadly digital world beneath our own, she discovers a group of super-powered women and horrific monsters locked in a secret war for the cheat codes to reality.\"http://smashpages.net/2018/06/08/vert...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40503417-goddess-mode-1"}, +{"book_title": "Emperor of Thorns", "author_name": "Mark Lawrence", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 44863, "review_number": 2531, "book_description": "King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now\u2014and king of seven nations. His goal\u2014revenge against his father\u2014has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger. Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb. Jorg would be emperor. It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather by vote. And never in living memory has anyone secured a majority of the vote, leaving the Broken Empire long without a leader. Jorg plans to change that. He\u2019s uncovered the lost technology of the land, and he won\u2019t hesitate to use it. But he soon finds an adversary standing in his way, a necromancer unlike any he has ever faced\u2014a figure hated and feared even more than himself: the Dead King.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Dark", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15985373-emperor-of-thorns"}, +{"book_title": "The Steampunk Detective", "author_name": "Darrell Pitt", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 316, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "An orphan. The world\u2019s greatest detective. A planet dominated by airships, steam powered spacecraft and towers that stretch into orbit. Welcome to the world of The Steampunk Detective. Jack Mason is an orphan wanting a new life. Ignatius Doyle is an aging detective who needs an assistant. When Jack goes to work for Mr Doyle, he has no idea what lies ahead. They are called in to locate a missing scientist by his daughter, the beautiful Scarlet Bell. As Jack and Mr Doyle investigate, they discover links to Leonardo da Vinci and the Phoenix Society, a clandestine organisation that has been secretly developing technology for centuries. As they close in on the missing scientist, they discover other forces at play. The Nazis want the technology of the Phoenix Society as does the mysterious Napoleon of Crime, Professor M. With the world teetering on the verge of war, a weapon of mass destruction is stolen from the Phoenix Society and London held to ransom. Will Jack and Mr Doyle find the missing scientist? Will they track down the weapon before London is destroyed? And what is the true identity of Professor M?Filled with references to Sherlock Holmes and the world of Victorian literature, The Steampunk Detective is an action packed adventure for readers of all ages as it brings together a boy in need of a family and a man in need of a son.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12685647-the-steampunk-detective"}, +{"book_title": "Ender's Game", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1162567, "review_number": 43766, "book_description": "Andrew \"Ender\" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.Source: hatrack.com", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/375802.Ender_s_Game"}, +{"book_title": "Chimera", "author_name": "Mark W. Tiedemann", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Coren Lanra is the head of security for DyNan Manual Industries. A former Special Service agent, he's never cared for bureaucracy, piracy, or deception. Lanra's troubles begin when Nyom Looms, daughter of DyNan president Rega Looms, is murdered during an ill-fated mission to smuggle illegal immigrants from Earth to the colony Nova Levis. The question is, why? The only clue might be contained within the positronic brain of a robot that had accompanied the victim, but it has been deactivated, and Lanra is denied access to its memories. With the help of roboticist Derec Avery and Auroran ambassador Ariel Burgess, Lanra searches for the identity of a killer, before more lives are lost.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Detective)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85494.Chimera"}, +{"book_title": "Fractured", "author_name": "D.J. Molles", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 5804, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "This is the destiny of those who stand for others. Their honor will be bought in blood and pain. The Camp Ryder Hub is broken. Lee is nowhere to be found, and his allies are scattered across the state, each of them learning that their missions will not be as easy as they thought. Inside the walls of Camp Ryder, a silent war is brewing, between those few that still support Lee's vision of rebuilding, and the majority that support Jerry's desire for isolation. But this war will not remain silent for long. And in this savage world, everyone will have to make a choice. To keep their morals. Or keep their lives.This is the fourth novel in D.J. Molles's bestselling series: Book 1: \"The Remaining\"Book 2: \"The Remaining: Aftermath\"Book 3: \"The Remaining: Refugees\"Book 4: \"The Remaining: Fractured\"Novella 1: \"The Remaining: Trust\"Novella 2: \"The Remaining: Faith\"", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18109850-fractured"}, +{"book_title": "The Berlin Project", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 680, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history about the creation of the atomic bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944.Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project team, has discovered an alternate solution for creating the uranium isotope needed to cause a chain reaction: U-235. After convincing General Groves of his new method, Cohen and his team of scientists work at Oak Ridge preparing to have a nuclear bomb ready to drop by the summer of 1944 in an effort to stop the war on the western front. What ensues is an altered account of World War II in this taut thriller. Combining fascinating science with intimate and true accounts of several members of The Manhattan Project, The Berlin Project is an astounding novel that reimagines history and what could have happened if the atom bomb was ready in time to stop Hitler from killing millions of people.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Thriller", "War", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753656-the-berlin-project"}, +{"book_title": "A Gift of Time", "author_name": "Jerry Merritt", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 2840, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "When Micajah Fenton discovers a crater in his front yard with a broken time glider in the bottom and a naked, virtual woman on his lawn, he delays his plans to kill himself. While helping repair the marooned time traveler\u2019s glider, Cager realizes it can return him to his past to correct a mistake that had haunted him his entire life. As payment for his help, the virtual creature living in the circuitry of the marooned glider, sends Cager back in time as his ten-year-old self, knowing everything he\u2019d known at eighty and gives him access to advanced equations of space and time. But living life over knowing the future isn\u2019t as easy as Cager has anticipated. His every action alters the future he remembers until much of what he remembers never happened at all. And those changes work against him at every turn, preventing him correcting the most serious mistake of his life. Now he must use his advanced mathematical ability to build his own time machine to go back and try again. But he needs a fortune even to begin. Then he receives help from a strange, young woman with no history. While perfecting time travel, Cager and his new partner overcome enormous problems, even being hunted by dinosaurs in the Cretaceous. After that, though, things get really bizarre.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Thriller", "Travel", "Humor", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32622432-a-gift-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Farm", "author_name": "Joanne Ramos", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 27111, "review_number": 3450, "book_description": "Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages\u2014and all of it for free. In fact, you get paid big money\u2014more than you've ever dreamed of\u2014to spend a few seasons in this luxurious locale. The catch? For nine months, you belong to the Farm. You cannot leave the grounds; your every move is monitored. Your former life will seem a world away as you dedicate yourself to the all-consuming task of producing the perfect baby for your \u00fcberwealthy clients.Jane, an immigrant from the Philippines and a struggling single mother, is thrilled to make it through the highly competitive Host selection process at the Farm. But now pregnant, fragile, consumed with worry for her own young daughter's well-being, Jane grows desperate to reconnect with her life outside. Yet she cannot leave the Farm or she will lose the life-changing fee she'll receive on delivery\u2014or worse.Heartbreaking, suspenseful, provocative, The Farm pushes our thinking on motherhood, money, and merit to the extremes, and raises crucial questions about the trade-offs women will make to fortify their futures and the futures of those they love.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Literary Fiction", "Adult Fiction", "Feminism", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41398025-the-farm"}, +{"book_title": "Alex + Ada #1", "author_name": "Jonathan Luna", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1818, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "From JONATHAN LUNA (GIRLS, THE SWORD, Spider-Woman, ULTRA) and SARAH VAUGHN (Sparkshooter) comes ALEX + ADA, a sci-fi drama set in the near future. The last thing in the world Alex wanted was an X5, the latest in realistic androids. 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Instead, after the ship\u2019s caretaker\u2014the lone human in charge of monitoring the ship\u2019s vital systems\u2014suddenly died, the ship\u2019s computer locked Ethan out of his stasis chamber and gave him the job. That was five years ago. Five years of checking to make sure everything runs smoothly on a ship Ethan knows almost nothing about.Who wouldn\u2019t dread the years ahead? Who wouldn\u2019t long for their once-bright future now stolen away? Ethan is resigned to his fate, until the ship suddenly wakes up another passenger: a beautiful engineer who, along with Ethan, soon discovers a horrible secret\u2014a navigation room hidden from even the ship\u2019s computer. The ship is not bound for Minea\u2014but to somewhere far more dangerous. With the ship nearing its sinister destination, Ethan soon learns he is the only one who holds the key to saving all 4,000 passengers from a highly-advanced, hostile alien race.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Space", "Adult", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26214548-caretaker"}, +{"book_title": "Creeg", "author_name": "Kelly Lucille", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1341, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "They were created, betrayed and nearly eradicated as a species. The rest they did to themselves. The Tellox are known as the finest warriors in every known galaxy, animalistic, powerful and infinitely hard to kill. They heal from nearly any wound and do not age. But they have no females left, and with the destruction of their bloodmates so long ago, nothing worth fighting for. So they wander, they battle, and they hunt. Most don't even remember what it is they search for, until Commander Creeg of the Tellox is exploring a new uninitiated world and chances upon the scent of new prey. A small Earth female named Sara is about to change everything. This is the start of a series and while the characters in this book will be in the next book and there is a continuation of story, each book will present a new romance to be enjoyed. This is an alien abduction, fated mate romance with strong language and explicit sexual situations. Enjoy!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33968759-creeg"}, +{"book_title": "Blindness", "author_name": "Jos\u00e9 Saramago", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 209881, "review_number": 16984, "book_description": "From Nobel Prize\u2013winning author Jos\u00e9 Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossA city is hit by an epidemic of \"white blindness\" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges\u2014among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears\u2014through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that's bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Novels", "Literature", "Cultural (Portugal)", "Horror", "European Literature (Portuguese Literature)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40495148-blindness"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Cast", "author_name": "Destiny Soria", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2116, "review_number": 522, "book_description": "In 1919, Ada Navarra\u2014the intrepid daughter of immigrants\u2014and Corinne Wells\u2014a spunky, devil-may-care heiress\u2014make an unlikely pair. But at the Cast Iron nightclub in Boston, anything and everything is possible. At night, on stage together, the two best friends, whose \u201cafflicted\u201d blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art, weave magic under the employ of Johnny Dervish, the club\u2019s owner and a notorious gangster. By day, Ada and Corinne use these same skills to con the city\u2019s elite in an attempt to keep the club afloat.When a \u201cjob\u201d goes awry and Ada is imprisoned, she realizes they\u2019re on the precipice of danger. Only Corinne\u2014her partner in crime\u2014can break her out of Haversham Asylum. But once Ada is out, they face betrayal at every turn.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28818313-iron-cast"}, +{"book_title": "Tea from an Empty Cup", "author_name": "Pat Cadigan", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 811, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "\"How can you drink tea from an empty cup?\" That ancient Zen riddle holds the key to a baffling mystery: a young man found with his throat slashed while locked alone in a virtual reality parlor. The secret of this enigmatic death lies in an apocalyptic cyberspace shadow-world where nothing is certain, and even one's own identity can change in an instant.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Feminism", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49443.Tea_from_an_Empty_Cup"}, +{"book_title": "The Martian", "author_name": "Andy Weir", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 846623, "review_number": 73943, "book_description": "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he\u2019s sure he\u2019ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he\u2019s alive\u2014and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won\u2019t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old \u201chuman error\u201d are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn\u2019t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills \u2014 and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit \u2014 he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Humor", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian"}, +{"book_title": "Revolutionary War on Wednesday", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 7474, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "It is a dark and snowy night when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to colonial times. General George Washington is about to lead his army in a sneak attack against their enemy. But now a terrible weather is making the great general question his plans. Can Jack and Annie keep history on track? The fate of the country rests in their hands!", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93734.Revolutionary_War_on_Wednesday"}, +{"book_title": "The Revenant Express", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 323, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Following their bloody encounter with the Executioner, Sir Maurice Newbury's assistant Veronica Hobbes is close to death. Desperate to save her life, Newbury and Veronica's sister Amelia board a sleeper train bound for St. Petersburg, in the hope that Gustav Faberge might have the answer. But there are enemies on board, and Newbury and Amelia will need all their strength and cunning to survive the Revenant Express.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16001052-the-revenant-express"}, +{"book_title": "Bitty Bot's Big Beach Getaway", "author_name": "Tim McCanna", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "\u201cA delightful sea-quel.\u201d \u2014Kirkus Reviews The world\u2019s cutest robot goes on a rhyming, deep-sea adventure with two new friends in this sweet and silly companion to Bitty Bot.Fish and coral. Crabs and snails. Stingrays, turtles, sharks, and whales. Giant squid! A sunken ship! \u201cNow we\u2019re talking. What a trip!\u201d Bitty Bot is back\u2014and he is not excited about his family vacation to Botco Bay. Luckily, new friends make everything better. Bitty Bot and his new pals build a submarine using supplies they find at the beach: Bottles, barrels, buggy, bench, hammer, pliers, socket wrench, soda cans, a coil of rope, drainpipe for a periscope. Off they go on an underwater adventure!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297565-bitty-bot-s-big-beach-getaway"}, +{"book_title": "Welcome to Robot Town", "author_name": "Ryan Heshka", "rating_score": 3.19, "rating_votes": 47, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "It\u2019s another busy day for robots\u2014make sure you\u2019re not late for Robot School! On the way, say hello to TrafficBot, who helps robots cross busy streets, and Professor Nutzundbolts, the principal. Check out Director Steelburg, who is filming a new movie on Aluminum Avenue. After a day of steely adventures, it\u2019s time for a quick oil bath before recharging overnight for another chrome-filled day in Robot Town.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15937127-welcome-to-robot-town"}, +{"book_title": "Mothstorm", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1581, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "A sinister cloud had appeared on the edge of the Solar System, and seemed to be moving closer. Rather than sit idly by, my family and I decided that we should investigate whatever monstrous force of darkness hid within. But how could we have known what mothy horrors lay in wait? Unbelievably, Mother had Met Her Match (which, for a Superior Being of four-and-a-half-thousand-million years old, is quite something), and with the Empire in dire peril, it was up to me to summon all my guile and courage to try to Save It.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Humor", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3261010-mothstorm"}, +{"book_title": "Paradox - On the Brink of Eternity", "author_name": "Phillip P. Peterson", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2235, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "Travel to the Stars . . . A Dream Fulfilled or Humankind\u2019s Worst Nightmare? Ed Walker\u2019s last mission almost ended in catastrophe. Although he had been able to save the lives of his crewmates, he\u2019s still in danger of going down in history as the commander of the mission that wrecked the International Space Station. So he can hardly believe his luck when he\u2019s chosen to head the first manned exploration of the outer solar system. One of his new crew members is the young physicist David Holmes, who is studying the mysterious disappearance of three space probes. But as their spaceship approaches interstellar space, humanity\u2019s most pressing question is no longer: Are we alone in the universe? It is rather: Are we ready for the truth?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Mystery", "Business (Amazon)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36273398-paradox---on-the-brink-of-eternity"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel Eternal, Vol. 03", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 441, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Alita joins her arch-enemy, mad scientist Desty Nova, and two nasty replicants of herself on a journey to Ketheres to rescue her old friend Lou's brain, which is part of a vast array powering the computer known as \"Melchizedek.\" In Ketheres, the hapless cyborg and her unsympathetic companions promptly become embroiled in a war between artificial worlds. Their hosts have the secret of immortality, but how human is someone who can live forever?", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/838858.Battle_Angel_Alita_Last_Order_"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 1136, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Adventure! Romance! Mad Science! Deep in the heart of the damaged machine that is Castle Heterodyne, Agatha discovers her mother's long-abandoned secret laboratory. But waiting inside is a relentless guardian that is not what it seems!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11310597-agatha-heterodyne-and-the-guardian-muse"}, +{"book_title": "Lord Darcy", "author_name": "Randall Garrett", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1041, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Welcome to an alternate world where Richard the Lion-Heart did not die in the year 1199... where magic is a science and science is an art... where the great detective Lord Darcy and the sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn combine occult skills and brilliant deductions to bring criminals to the King's Justice and thwart those who plot against the Realm. Welcome to a world where murder may be committed by magic most foul, but crime still does not pay - as long as Lord Darcy is on the case.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Short Stories", "Mystery (Detective)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/880461.Lord_Darcy"}, +{"book_title": "Digital Fortress", "author_name": "Dan Brown", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 572014, "review_number": 9541, "book_description": "When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage... not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.(back cover)", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Novels", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11125.Digital_Fortress"}, +{"book_title": "Salamander", "author_name": "Nick Kyme", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 894, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Hailing from the volcanic world of Nocturne, Space Marines from the Salamanders Chapter are in search of an ancient artefact that leads to a world overrun by Chaos. They are the fire-born: implacable warriors with iron hard determination. But all is not what it seems as far more dangerous foe is revealed. As bitter rivalries break out amongst the Salamanders their endurance will be tested to the limit. Will the Salamanders survive long enough to discover the truth about this world and the revelations that will shake the very foundations of this Chapter forever?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Gaming (Gaming Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974216-salamander"}, +{"book_title": "Pixel Juice", "author_name": "Jeff Noon", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1278, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "'In the first shop they bought a packet of dogseed, because Doreen had always wanted to grow her own dog...'Pixel Juice is the collected outpourings of an overactive mind. A selection of fifty stories from Jeff Noon's head, each one strange, telling, disturbing, or sometimes just plain wierd.From the breakdown zones of the mediasphere and the margins of music culture, Jeff Noon samples the image mix. Product recalls, adverts for mad gadjets, dubcut prose remixes, urban fairytales, instructions for lost machines, almost-true tales, dreamy one-pagers, word-dizzy roller coasters. With new stories from the Vurt cycle and other revelations, including the discovery of an 'off' switch for the human body this newly revised edition marks the first time that Pixel Juice has been made available digitally.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Surreal", "Anthologies", "Modern"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17369710-pixel-juice"}, +{"book_title": "The White Rose", "author_name": "Amy Ewing", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 19973, "review_number": 1802, "book_description": "Violet is on the run. After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death. So along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude.But no one said leaving the Jewel would be easy. As they make their way through the circles of the Lone City, Regimentals track their every move, and the trio barely manages to make it out unscathed and into the safe haven they were promised\u2014a mysterious house in the Farm.But there\u2019s a rebellion brewing, and Violet has found herself in the middle of it. Alongside a new ally, Violet discovers her Auguries are much more powerful than she ever imagined. But is she strong enough to rise up against the Jewel and everything she has ever known?The White Rose is a raw, captivating sequel to The Jewel that fans won\u2019t be able to put down until the final shocking moments.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24585267-the-white-rose"}, +{"book_title": "Star King", "author_name": "Susan Grant", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2135, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "An alien king, an Earth woman. Are they fated mates, or is fate stacked against them? Read the book that launched the Star Series by New York Times/USA Today bestselling author and RITA\u00ae winner Susan Grant! Love and war on a galactic scale.Rom B\u2019Kah is fighting for the survival of his people. During combat he encounters a beautiful and mysterious woman who saves his life. When she vanishes without a trace, he vows to find her again. Years after battlefield trauma sends her life into a tailspin, Jas Hamilton has given up on love. When a galactic empire makes first contact with Earth, she sets out to reclaim her lost sense of adventure\u2014and finds it in the arms of the golden-eyed alien warrior she\u2019s spent a lifetime trying to forget.When an old enemy resurfaces, will they be forced to choose between duty and a future together? Saving the galaxy has just gotten personal\u2026 The Star Series:\u25c6 Star Raider\u25c6 Star King\u25c6 Star Prince\u25c6 Star Princess\u25c6 Star Champion\u25c6 Star Heroes\u25c6 Star Series: the complete 7-book box set", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55431497-star-king"}, +{"book_title": "Casting Off", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 12817, "review_number": 481, "book_description": "The silo has appointed a new sheriff. Her name is Juliette, and she comes not from the shadows of deputies, but from the depths of the down deep.But what does being a mechanic have to do with upholding the law? And how will she be able to concentrate on the silo's future when she is surrounded by the ghosts of its past?Before she can even settle in, the whirring gears of the silo begin to grind anew. Things aren't right. And the people whose help she most needs are gone.If Juliette isn't careful, she'll soon be among them.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13202200-casting-off"}, +{"book_title": "Warlord", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 970, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "In the year 1052... Euan Donald rules the Highlands with an iron fist. When a rival clan chieftain fails to deliver his betrothed to him, Euan decides to take matters into his own hands and acquire a bride the old fashioned way-he'll go steal one. Present day... Janet Duval is in Scotland on business. One minute she's leaving the local pub after having dinner and drinks with a friend, and the next she finds herself being chased-1000 years in the past-by a heavily muscled, grim-faced warrior hell-bent on possessing her.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1926100.Warlord"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Man", "author_name": "Ted Hughes", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 9173, "review_number": 742, "book_description": "Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused by the Iron Man. A trap is set for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Novels", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Short Stories", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119502.The_Iron_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Communion: A True Story", "author_name": "Whitley Strieber", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 5211, "review_number": 524, "book_description": "On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with his wife and son, ate Christmas dinner leftovers, and went to bed early.Six hours later, he found himself suddenly awake...and forever changed.Thus begins the most astonishing true-life odyssey ever recorded -- one man's riveting account of his extraordinary experiences with visitors from\"elsewhere\"... how they found him, where they took him, what they did to him and why...Believe it. Or don't believe it. But read it -- for this gripping story will move you like no other... will fascinate you, terrify you, and alter the way you experience your world.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Autobiography (Memoir)", "Biography", "Biography (Autobiography)", "Pseudoscience (Conspiracy Theories)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294285.Communion"}, +{"book_title": "The Astronaut's Wife", "author_name": "Robert Tine", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2077, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "In this relentlessly gripping psychological thriller, Johnny Depp plays Spencer Armacost, an astronaut sent on a space shuttle mission with his partner, Captain Alex Streck. While in space, an accident occurs that cuts all contact between the men and earth for two minutes. Both men return from the trip with no memory of those crucial minutes, and soon thereafter Streck mysteriously dies. Little by little, Spencer's wife Jillian, pregnant with twins, begins to suspect that something happened on the mission during those two minutes...something that changed Spencer into something other than the man she loves...something that might mean the end of us all...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)", "Suspense", "Media Tie In", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1428043.The_Astronaut_s_Wife"}, +{"book_title": "Mirror's Edge: Exordium", "author_name": "Christofer Emg\u00e5rd", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 151, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Leading up to the events of the highly anticipated new Mirror's Edge game--and scripted by the writer of the game, Christofer Emg\u00e5rd--comes an exhilarating comic event! Delve into the rich dystopian futuristic world of Mirror's Edge through the story of Faith, one of the most celebrated heroines in video games! Yearning to prove herself in the fast paced, high stakes world of the Runners, Faith gets a job offer that may be too good to be true--and makes a rash decision that will change her life forever! Collects issues #1-#6 of the miniseries--the complete prequel story to the new Mirror's Edge game in one volume!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Games (Video Games)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26150664-mirror-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Imhotep", "author_name": "Jerry Dubs", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3170, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "\"Imhotep\" is the first book in a four-novel series about the ancient Egyptian architect. Stumbling in the dark of an unfinished tomb beneath the sands of Saqqara, American tourist Tim Hope unknowingly passes through a time portal that leads to ancient Egypt \u2014 a time before the Sphinx, before the great pyramids of Giza, and long before the loss of his beloved Addy. When he discovers that two other Americans preceded him through the time portal, Tim immerses himself in the ancient world to search for them. As he becomes more comfortable with the simpler, more immediate land, he finds himself irresistibly attracted to the delicate Meryt, a wbt-priestess for the god Re. Learning that a seven-year famine has led to a plot to overthrow King Djoser, Tim discovers that his fate, the lives of the two Americans and the future of Egypt rest in the hands of the legendary Imhotep, master architect of the Step Pyramid, renowned physician and intimate adviser to King Djoser. Downloaded by more than 100,000 readers, \u201cImhotep\" is the first book in an acclaimed four-book series about the ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep. The second book in the series is \"The Buried Pyramid.\" The third book is \"The Forest of Myrrh.\" The fourth book is \"The Field of Reeds.\"", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Northern Africa (Egypt)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8946858-imhotep"}, +{"book_title": "Vengeful", "author_name": "V.E. Schwab", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 39686, "review_number": 6546, "book_description": "The sequel to VICIOUS, V.E. Schwab's first adult novel.Sydney once had Serena\u2014beloved sister, betrayed enemy, powerful ally. But now she is alone, except for her thrice-dead dog, Dol, and then there's Victor, who thinks Sydney doesn't know about his most recent act of vengeance.Victor himself is under the radar these days\u2014being buried and re-animated can strike concern even if one has superhuman powers. But despite his own worries, his anger remains. And Eli Ever still has yet to pay for the evil he has done.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26856502-vengeful"}, +{"book_title": "Mercer Street", "author_name": "John A. Heldt", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 290, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Love, honor, and courage take center stage in the second book of John Heldt\u2019s American Journey time-travel series as three women from the present become entangled in the past in the tension-filled months leading up to World War II.Weeks after her husband dies in the middle of an affair, Susan Peterson, 48, seeks solace on a California vacation with her mother Elizabeth and daughter Amanda. The novelist, however, finds more than she bargained for when she meets a professor who possesses the secret of time travel.Within days, the women travel to 1938 and Princeton, New Jersey. Elizabeth begins a friendship with her refugee parents and infant self, while Susan and Amanda fall for a widowed admiral and a German researcher with troubling ties.Filled with poignancy, heartbreak, and intrigue, MERCER STREET gives new meaning to sacrifice and commitment as it follows three strong-willed souls on the adventure of a lifetime.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27258807-mercer-street"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Olympian", "author_name": "Rick Riordan", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 698261, "review_number": 24393, "book_description": "All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows.While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4556058-the-last-olympian"}, +{"book_title": "Acceptance", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 47330, "review_number": 4782, "book_description": "It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it\u2014the Southern Reach\u2014has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X\u2014what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X\u2014and who may have been corrupted by it?In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound\u2014or terrifying.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077752-acceptance"}, +{"book_title": "Darla's Story", "author_name": "Mike Mullin", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 851, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Darla Edmunds has faced a lot of challenges in her seventeen years: Her dad died in a farming accident when she was fourteen. Her mother retreated into hyper-religiosity, leaving Darla to run the family farm almost single-handedly. But those struggles pale in comparison to the one she faces after the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, plummeting the world--and Darla's small corner of Iowa--into a cataclysmic natural disaster.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Romance", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18633571-darla-s-story"}, +{"book_title": "Carry On", "author_name": "Rainbow Rowell", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 221755, "review_number": 28254, "book_description": "Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here \u2014 it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.\nCarry On - The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow\n is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32768522-carry-on"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken King and the Fox's Den", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 795, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Experience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part III The Kraken King and the Fox\u2019s Den After a harrowing escape, Zenobia, Ariq, and their company take refuge in a gold rush town\u2014but their temporary port is just a respite before traveling to the dangerous smugglers\u2019 dens. Ariq is determined to uncover the men responsible for the threat to Krakentown, even if it means confronting the notorious den lords. But when he discovers evidence in Zenobia\u2019s letters connecting her to the Horde rebellion, he realizes that the threat is far greater than he had suspected. His loyalties torn, Ariq must distance himself from the fascinating woman he desperately wants to hold closer. Stunned and hurt by Ariq\u2019s inexplicable coldness, Zenobia prepares to leave the dens and continue her journey to the Red City. But in the smugglers\u2019 dens, danger lurks around every corner, and all of her protection is gone\u2026 Includes a bonus excerpt of Meljean Brook\u2019s Heart of Steel. More to come\u2026Don\u2019t miss The Kraken King, Part IV", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20733433-the-kraken-king-and-the-fox-s-den"}, +{"book_title": "The Strain", "author_name": "Guillermo del Toro", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 79629, "review_number": 6580, "book_description": "A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim \"Eph\" Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing.So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065215-the-strain"}, +{"book_title": "The Left-Handed Booksellers of London", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 4550, "review_number": 963, "book_description": "A girl\u2019s quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world. From the bestselling master of teen fantasy, Garth Nix.In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn\u2019t get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin.Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops.Susan\u2019s search for her father begins with her mother\u2019s possibly misremembered or misspelt surnames, a reading room ticket, and a silver cigarette case engraved with something that might be a coat of arms.Merlin has a quest of his own, to find the Old World entity who used ordinary criminals to kill his mother. As he and his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, tread in the path of a botched or covered-up police investigation from years past, they find this quest strangely overlaps with Susan\u2019s. Who or what was her father? Susan, Merlin, and Vivien must find out, as the Old World erupts dangerously into the New.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49867186-the-left-handed-booksellers-of-london"}, +{"book_title": "Rot & Ruin", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 32705, "review_number": 3747, "book_description": "In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7157310-rot-ruin"}, +{"book_title": "The Strangers", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 4859, "review_number": 796, "book_description": "Told in alternating points of view from Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone, Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers is the beginning of a new page-turning adventure that examines assumptions about identity, family, and home, from the master of middle grade suspense.What makes you you?The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best\u2014acting silly and being adored. They\u2019ve been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children\u2014who share the same first and middle names, ages, and exact birth dates as the Greystone kids\u2014reach the Greystone family. This bizarre coincidence makes them wonder: Who exactly are these strangers? Before Chess, Emma, and Finn can question their mom about it, she takes off on a mysterious work trip. But puzzling clues left behind lead to complex codes, hidden rooms, and a dangerous secret that will turn their world upside down.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40390757-the-strangers"}, +{"book_title": "Mister Monday", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 35492, "review_number": 1528, "book_description": "Arthur Penhaligon's first days at his new school don't go too well, particularly when a fiendish Mister Monday appears, gives Arthur a magical clock hand, and then orders his gang of dog-faced goons to chase Arthur around and get it back. But when the confused and curious boy discovers that a mysterious virus is spreading through town, he decides to enter an otherworldly house to stop it. After meeting Suzy Blue and the first part of \"the Will\" (a frog-looking entity that knows everything about the House), Arthur learns that he's been selected as Rightful Heir to the House and must get the other part of the clock hand in order to defeat Monday. That means getting past Monday's henchmen and journeying to the Dayroom itself. Thankfully, Arthur is up to the challenge, but as he finds out, his fight seems to be only one-seventh over.With a weapon-wielding hero and a villain who doesn't make Mondays any nicer, Nix's Keys to the Kingdom launch is imaginative and gripping. After an action-packed crescendo to the book's middle -- when Arthur finally learns his destiny -- Nix keeps the drama going and doesn't let it fall. By the end, you might be winded from all the fantastic explanation, but you'll definitely be salivating for what's to come.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47613.Mister_Monday"}, +{"book_title": "The Hospital: The First Mountain Man Story", "author_name": "Keith C. Blackmore", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 3494, "review_number": 423, "book_description": "\"Mountain Man\" Augustus Berry is a survivor in undead suburbia. He scavenges what he can from what's left over. He is very careful in what he does and where he goes, taking no chances, no unnecessary risks, and weighing every choice... until he decides to visit the hospital at the edge of town, and experiences terror the likes he's never encountered before. A short story of approximately 9500 words, or 29 pages. The first story of the \"Mountain Man\" series. Contains language and graphic violence. This short story also appears in the horror fiction novella \"Cauldron Gristle.\"If you enjoy this, check out the novels \"Mountain Man\" and \"Safari,\" the next books in the series.Series order:The Hospital (short story)Mountain ManSafari (Coming in time for Christmas) Hellifax", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16123747-the-hospital"}, +{"book_title": "Camera Obscura", "author_name": "Lavie Tidhar", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 523, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to the highest and lowest parts of that great city - and cause her to question the very nature of reality itself.File Under:\u00a0Steampunk\u00a0[ Alternate History | Reptilian Royalty | Murder Most Foul | The World\u2019s Fair ]", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9280057-camera-obscura"}, +{"book_title": "Thirteenth Child", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 11045, "review_number": 1361, "book_description": "Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent -- and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5797595-thirteenth-child"}, +{"book_title": "The Psycho-technic League", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 212, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "A collection of Psychotechnic League stories.In the beginning was World War III...Out of the flames was born a new civilization, a new humanity dedicated to one world rather than to many nations, to one peace rather than many wars. Never again on Planet Earth would one group of humans \"defend\" themselves against another group equally convinced that all their actions were \"defensive.\" Never again on Planet Earth.But cycles repeat themselves endlessly; Earth is only the beginning of the human story. Next comes planet against planet, and then the stars themselves. Through it all the impersonal forces of historical necessity will tend to force that story into the pathways of tyranny, stasis, and war. And in the end they must prevail. But ever will humankind win free once more...", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/512411.The_Psycho_technic_League"}, +{"book_title": "A Meeting at Corvallis", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 7367, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "In the tenth year of The Change, the survivors in western Oregon have learned how to live in a world without technology-but there are those who would exploit the new world order. On one side stands Michael Havel's Bearkillers and their allies, Clan MacKenzie under the leadership of Juniper MacKenzie. On the other is the Lord Protector, Norman Arminger-the Warlord of Portland, whose neo-feudal empire rules over much of the Pacific Northwest.The tensions between factions have been building for some time, and the only reason they haven't met on the battlefield is because Arminger's daughter has fallen into Clan MacKenzie's hands. But a plan to retrieve her threatens to plunge the entire region into open warfare.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116444.A_Meeting_at_Corvallis"}, +{"book_title": "In the Requiem", "author_name": "Hailey Turner", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 861, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "Never let go. Weighed down by scandal, Captain Jamie Callahan must choose between saving his family\u2019s reputation and his father\u2019s political aspirations, or taking down the enemy once and for all. Choosing one over the other will have lasting repercussions he can\u2019t escape. Whatever path Jamie ultimately picks, Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan will be right by his side to face the consequences. Kyle knows in a situation like this the only way out is through. Together they can make it to the other side, but surviving that journey will take everything they have. One last chance. Agent Sean Delaney is learning what it means to be part of Alpha Team through trial by fire. He wouldn\u2019t change it for the world, nor would he give up the life he\u2019s building with Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin. But their time together is threatened by outside forces they can\u2019t outrun. Having put the nightmare of Boston behind him, Alexei is focused on keeping his family safe, but he can\u2019t have eyes on everyone. Alexei knows he can\u2019t ignore the danger on the horizon, and when it strikes, he is unprepared for the tragedy it leaves in its wake. Risking it all. The odds are stacked ever higher against Alpha Team, and outmaneuvering a precog is a daunting, almost impossible task. Jamie knows something has to give, and when it does, it just might break him the way nothing else in his life ever could. In the Requiem is a 122k word steamy gay sci-fi military romance with a mostly HEA and concludes this main plot-arc of the series. There is military violence within the story that might not be suitable for everyone, as well as explicit intimate scenes not suitable for readers under the age of 18. This is a direct sequel to In the Blood and Out of the Ashes. Reading the previous books in this series would be helpful in enjoying this one.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Action", "Suspense", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40183433-in-the-requiem"}, +{"book_title": "The Midwife", "author_name": "Ceci Giltenan", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1025, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Can a twenty-first century independent woman find her true destiny, in thirteenth century Scotland?At his father\u2019s bidding, Cade MacKenzie begs a favor from Laird Macrae - Lady MacKenzie desperately needs the renowned Macrae midwife. \nLaird Macrae has no intention of sending his clan\u2019s best, instead he passes off Elsie, a young woman with little experience, as the midwife they seek.\nBut fate - in the form of a mysterious older woman and an extraordinary pocket watch - steps in.Elizabeth Quinn, a disillusioned obstetrician, is transported to the thirteenth century. She switched souls with Elsie as the old woman said she would but other things don\u2019t go quite as expected. Perhaps most unexpected was falling in love with Cade MacKenzie.\n", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28177616-the-midwife"}, +{"book_title": "Fallen Dragon", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 12823, "review_number": 377, "book_description": "Deploying invulnerable twenty-fifth-century soldiers called Skins, Zantiu-Braun's corporate starships loot entire planets. But as the Skins invade bucolic Thallspring, Z-B's strategy is about to go awry, all because of: Sgt. Lawrence Newton, a dreamer whose twenty years as a Skin have destroyed his hopes and desires; Denise Ebourn, a school teacher and resistance leader whose guerrilla tactics rival those of Che Guevara and George Washington and Simon Roderick, the director who serves Z-B with a dedication that not even he himself can understand. Grimly determined to steal, or protect, a mysterious treasure, the three players engage in a private war that will explode into unimaginable quests for personal grace...or galactic domination", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45258.Fallen_Dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Nine By Laumer", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 66, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Enter the future world of Keith Laumer, one of the most creatively compelling minds in sf. Does the System threaten to punch-card you? Watch Mart Maiden, forced school dropout, try to beat an infallible system on a \"Placement Test.\" Anxious to escape small-town living? Take \"A Trip to the City\" with Bret Hale. Beware the frightening world that awaits you at the end of an all too short train ride. Feel like a prisoner in your own home? Flora Trimble has been inside \"The Walls\" for so long that she doesn't even know if there's a world existing beyond her front door. There's a world beyond yours & it's all here.The Universe, According to Laumer 1967 essay by Harlan Ellison Hybrid 1961 storyEnd as a Hero 1963 noveletteThe Walls 1963 storyDinochrome 1967 story (aka Combat Unit)Placement Test 1964 noveletteDoorstep 1961 storyThe Long Remembered Thunder 1963 noveletteCocoon 1962 storyA Trip to the City 1967 novelette by (aka It Could Be Anything)", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2659444-nine-by-laumer"}, +{"book_title": "Doom Patrol, Vol. 5: Magic Bus", "author_name": "Grant Morrison", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1446, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "The collection of comics savant Grant Morrison's legendary run on DOOM PATROL continues in this fifth volume reprinting issues #51-57. Featuring the final fate of the Brotherhood of Dada and the rise of the unstoppable Candlemaker, DOOM PATROL VOL. 5 also includes the delightful Jack Kirby tribute issue \"And Men Shall Call Him -- HERO!\" as well as a cover by the incomparable Brian Bolland.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22360.Doom_Patrol_Vol_5"}, +{"book_title": "The Rose & the Dagger", "author_name": "Ren\u00e9e Ahdieh", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 67445, "review_number": 8396, "book_description": "The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad is forced from the arms of her beloved husband, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once thought Khalid a monster\u2014a merciless killer of wives, responsible for immeasurable heartache and pain\u2014but as she unraveled his secrets, she found instead an extraordinary man and a love she could not deny. Still, a curse threatens to keep Shazi and Khalid apart forever.Now she\u2019s reunited with her family, who have found refuge in the desert, where a deadly force is gathering against Khalid\u2014a force set on destroying his empire and commanded by Shazi\u2019s spurned childhood sweetheart. Trapped between loyalties to those she loves, the only thing Shazi can do is act. Using the burgeoning magic within her as a guide, she strikes out on her own to end both this terrible curse and the brewing war once and for all. But to do it, she must evade enemies of her own to stay alive.The saga that began with The Wrath and the Dawn takes its final turn as Shahrzad risks everything to find her way back to her one true love again.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23308084-the-rose-the-dagger"}, +{"book_title": "Citun\u2019s Storm", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 532, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Citun, powerful leader of the northern Zargonniis, vows there is a female human for him out there somewhere. He and his warriors are drawn to a far corner of the universe, where rogue Tonans swear a small colony of women has been cultivated. The race is on; it appears every male in the galaxy is after a human, but some want them dead. Citun hungers for a mate. The last thing Storm wants in her life is a massive giant of a warrior, but since she saved his life, she\u2019s stuck with him. There are some forces that cannot be denied. Storm has the ability to become a storm, and she needs to decide if she will allow one warrior to tame her thunderous emotions.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28319994-citun-s-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Consider Phlebas", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 76301, "review_number": 3989, "book_description": "The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Cultural", "Adventure", "Novels", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8935689-consider-phlebas"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 14: Nosferatu", "author_name": "Carl Sargent", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 349, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "The newest installment in the bestselling Shadowrun series. It is a near-future world where magic has run amuck. Technology combines with mystical power to create a new land of danger, monsters, and adventure. The masters of this battle-scarred landscape are the Shadowrunners, men and women assassins with the power to take out anyone and anything--for a price.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131232.Shadowrun_14"}, +{"book_title": "Fire in His Veins", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 2290, "review_number": 265, "book_description": "I\u2019ve wanted Andrea since the moment I saw her. But she\u2019s human. I\u2019m drakoni. The only way I\u2019ll stay sane and not lose myself to the madness that\u2019s swept over my people is if I keep my mental walls strong. I have to give up everything that makes me a dragon. That means no telepathy, no fire breathing, and no battle form. I certainly can\u2019t take a mate. Andrea can\u2019t be mine. When her brother escapes the fort, though, she needs help tracking him down. That means I\u2019ll be alone with her, breathing in her sweet scent, and it may be too much for my control. What happens if I give in to my dragon? Will I take her as my mate\u2026or tear her throat out?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43619914-fire-in-his-veins"}, +{"book_title": "The Machine Crusade", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 13211, "review_number": 298, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition located here.The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the prior novel, comes Dune: The Machine Crusade.. More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad. The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat.The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius--as their numbers dwindle and time begins to run out. The fighters of Ginaz, led by Jool Noret, forge themselves into an elite warrior class, a weapon against the machine-dominated worlds. Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva are on the verge of the most important discovery in human history-a way to \"fold\" space and travel instantaneously to any place in the galaxy.And on the faraway, nearly worthless planet of Arrakis, Selim Wormrider and his band of outlaws take the first steps to making themselves the feared fighters who will change the course of history: the Fremen.Here is the unrivaled imaginative power that has put Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson on bestseller lists everywhere and earned them the high regard of readers around the globe. The fantastic saga of Dune continues in Dune: The Machine Crusade.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Novels", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99218.The_Machine_Crusade"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon Ship", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1830, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "First Class courier pilot Theo Waitley was already known as a nexus of violence - and then she inherited the precarious captaincy of a mysterious self-aware ship designed to serve a long dead trader. Now she has a trade route to run for Clan Korval while she convinces the near mythic ghost ship Bechimo - and herself - that she wants to commit herself as the human side to their immensely powerful symbiosis. While her former lover battles a nano-virus that's eating him alive, she's challenged to rescue hundreds of stranded pilots and crewmen from an explosive situation in near orbit around a suddenly hostile planet. Lovers, enemies, an ex-roomie, and a jealous spaceship are all in peril as Theo wields power that no one in the universe is sure of, especially her.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13244685-dragon-ship"}, +{"book_title": "Judge Dredd: America", "author_name": "John Wagner", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 872, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "The classic Judge Dredd story in a US edition for the first time!IN MEGA-CITY ONE, THE JUDGES ARE THE LAW - acting as judge, jury, and executioner. But how do the citizens really feel about a system where they are powerless? America Jara and Bennett Beeny grow up as best friends, living a fairly trouble-free life in a dangerous city... bar the odd encounter with a Judge. Time draws them apart, and when they are brought back together, Beeny is a successful singer and America has become involved with a terrorist organisation - with the Judges in its sights! Written by John Wagner (A History of Violence) with art by Colin MacNeil (Judge Dredd: The Chief Judge's Man) this dark and complex tale is a true 2000 AD classic!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Politics", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2726437-judge-dredd"}, +{"book_title": "Bones of Faerie", "author_name": "Janni Lee Simner", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 7935, "review_number": 887, "book_description": "The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza's world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to see into the past, into the future and she has no choice but to flee her town. Liza's quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3379051-bones-of-faerie"}, +{"book_title": "Enemy Overnight", "author_name": "Robin L. Rotham", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 778, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "The last time Jasmine King was aboard the Heptoral, she escaped by the skin of her teeth. This time she won\u2019t be so lucky. Trapped on a ship full of sex-starved aliens and out of the pheromone blocker that holds off her physical transition, Jasmine makes a desperate escape attempt\u2026and fails. The consequences are disastrous\u2014she\u2019s mated to three horny warriors, and one has a huge bone to pick with her. What\u2019s a girl to do but fall in love?The last time Shauss saw Jasmine, the deceitful little Terran stole his bondmate from under his nose. This time he won\u2019t be so trusting. Finally master of his own bond, Shauss names secondary mates Jasmine feels safe with\u2026and lives to regret it. One can\u2019t stop puking long enough to claim her. The other challenges Shauss\u2019 supremacy by digging into his psyche at every turn. What\u2019s a Dom to do but bed them all into submission?He sets out to do just that, but his domination takes a brutal turn when he discovers Jasmine\u2019s deadly secret\u2026Reader Advisory: Contains a sultry female/female sex scene.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Menage (M M F)", "Menage (M F M)", "Romance (M M Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7049022-enemy-overnight"}, +{"book_title": "Sea of Rust", "author_name": "C. Robert Cargill", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 7896, "review_number": 1121, "book_description": "One robot's search for meaning in a world where every human is long gone. A touching story of a search one robot's search for the answers in a world where every human is dead. It is thirty years since the humans lost their war with the artificial intelligences that were once their slaves. Not one human remains. But as the dust settled from our extinction there was no easy peace between the robots that survived. Instead, the two massively powerful artificially intelligent supercomputers that led them to victory now vie for control of the bots that remain, assimilating them into enormous networks called One World Intelligences (OWIs), absorbing their memories and turning them into mere extensions of the whole. Now the remaining freebots wander wastelands that were once warzones, picking the carcasses of the lost for the precious dwindling supply of parts they need to survive. BRITTLE started out her life playing nurse to a dying man, purchased in truth instead to look after the man's widow upon his death. But then war came and Brittle was forced to choose between the woman she swore to care for and potential oblivion. Now she spends her days in the harshest of the wastelands, known as the Sea of Rust, cannibalizing the walking dead - robots only hours away from total shutdown - looking for parts to trade for those she needs to keep going.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32617610-sea-of-rust"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Girl", "author_name": "Sangu Mandanna", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 5966, "review_number": 846, "book_description": "Eva\u2019s life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination\u2014an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her \u201cother\u201d, if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it\u2019s like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready.But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this.Now she must abandon everything she\u2019s ever known\u2014the guardians who raised her, the boy she\u2019s forbidden to love\u2014to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive.What Eva finds is a grief-stricken family; parents unsure how to handle this echo they thought they wanted; and Ray, who knew every detail, every contour of Amarra. And when Eva is unexpectedly dealt a fatal blow that will change her existence forever, she is forced to choose: Stay and live out her years as a copy or leave and risk it all for the freedom to be an original. To be Eva.From debut novelist Sangu Mandanna comes the dazzling story of a girl who was always told what she had to be\u2014until she found the strength to decide for herself.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Cultural (India)", "Contemporary", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13062488-the-lost-girl"}, +{"book_title": "The Fire Chronicle", "author_name": "John Stephens", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 8110, "review_number": 704, "book_description": "After the tumultuous events of last winter, Kate, Michael, and Emma long to continue the hunt for their missing parents. But they themselves are now in great danger, and so the wizard Stanislaus Pym hides the children at the Edgar Allan Poe Home for Hopeless and Incorrigible Orphans. There, he says, they will be safe.\u00a0How wrong he is.\u00a0 The children are soon discovered by their enemies, and a frantic chase sends Kate a hundred years into the past, to a perilous, enchanted New York City. Searching for a way back to her brother and sister, she meets a mysterious boy whose fate is intricately\u2014and dangerously\u2014tied to her own. Meanwhile, Michael and Emma have set off to find the second of the Books of Beginning. A series of clues leads them into a hidden world where they must brave harsh polar storms, track down an ancient order of warriors, and confront terrible monsters. Will Michael and Emma find the legendary book of fire\u2014and master its powers\u2014before Kate is lost to them forever?\u00a0 Exciting, suspenseful, and brimming with humor and heart, the next installment of the bestselling Books of Beginning trilogy will lead Kate, Michael, and Emma closer to their family\u2014and to the magic that could save, or destroy, them all.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13262797-the-fire-chronicle"}, +{"book_title": "Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 5335, "review_number": 627, "book_description": "Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City--Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien--now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape! But as they employ all of their super abilities to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure!COLLECTS: Black Hammer 1-6", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25893783-black-hammer-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Flawed", "author_name": "Cecelia Ahern", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 25616, "review_number": 3572, "book_description": "You will be punished\u2026Celestine North lives a perfect life. She\u2019s a model daughter and sister, she\u2019s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she\u2019s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan.But then Celestine encounters a situation where she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found flawed.In her breathtaking young adult debut, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern depicts a society where perfection is paramount and flaws lead to punishment. And where one young woman decides to take a stand that could cost her everything.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Family", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438288-flawed"}, +{"book_title": "Quarantine", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4404, "review_number": 299, "book_description": "It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. And it's all because of the impenetrable gray shield that slid into place around the solar system on the night of November 15, 2034.Some see the bubble as the revenge of an insane God. Some see it as justice. Some even see it as protection. But one thing is for certain -- now there is the universe, and the earth. And never the twain shall meet.Or so it seems. Until a bio-enhanced PI named Nick Stavrianos takes on a job for an anonymous client: find a girl named Laura who disappeared from a mental institution by the most direct possible method -- walking through the walls.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Science (Physics)", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156775.Quarantine"}, +{"book_title": "Starship Grifters", "author_name": "Robert Kroese", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1987, "review_number": 307, "book_description": "A space-faring ne'er-do-well with more bravado than brains, Rex Nihilo plies the known universe in a tireless quest for his own personal gain. But when he fleeces a wealthy weapons dealer in a high-stakes poker game, he ends up winning a worthless planet - and owing an outstanding debt more vast than space itself!The only way for Rex to escape a lifetime of torture on the prison world Gulagatraz is to score a big payday by pulling off his biggest scam. But getting mixed up in the struggle between the tyrannical Malarchian Empire and the plucky rebels of the Revolting Front - and trying to double-cross them both - may be his biggest mistake. Luckily for Rex, his frustrated but faithful robot sidekick has the cyber-smarts to deal with buxom bounty hunters, pudgy princesses, overbearing overlords, and interstellar evangelists - while still keeping Rex's martini glass filled.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Humor (Comedy)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20861021-starship-grifters"}, +{"book_title": "Vengeance from Ashes", "author_name": "Sam Schall", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 216, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "First, they took away her command. Then they took away her freedom. But they couldn't take away her duty and honor. Now they want her back. Captain Ashlyn Shaw has survived two years in a brutal military prison. Now those who betrayed her are offering the chance for freedom. All she has to do is trust them not to betray her and her people again. If she can do that, and if she can survive the war that looms on the horizon, she can reclaim her life and get the vengeance she's dreamed of for so long. But only if she can forget the betrayal and do her duty.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22016073-vengeance-from-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "The Bookman", "author_name": "Lavie Tidhar", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 1707, "review_number": 276, "book_description": "A masked terrorist has brought London to its knees - there are bombs inside books, and nobody knows which ones. On the day of the launch of the first expedition to Mars, by giant cannon, he outdoes himself with an audacious attack. For young poet Orphan, trapped in the screaming audience, it seems his destiny is entwined with that of the shadowy terrorist, but how? Like a steam-powered take on V for Vendetta, rich with satire and slashed through with automatons, giant lizards, pirates, airships and wild adventure, The Bookman is the first of a series. (Description from Amazon.com)", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6922360-the-bookman"}, +{"book_title": "Saga, Vol. 8", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 28018, "review_number": 2631, "book_description": "After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe.Collecting: Saga 43-48.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "LGBT", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34963526-saga-vol-8"}, +{"book_title": "Eragon", "author_name": "Christopher Paolini", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1477182, "review_number": 22586, "book_description": "An can be found here.One boy...One dragon...A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113436.Eragon"}, +{"book_title": "UnStrung", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 6989, "review_number": 612, "book_description": "How did Lev Calder move from an unwillingly escaped Tithe to a clapper?In this new ebook original short story, author Neal Shusterman opens a window on Lev's adventures between the time he left CyFi and when he showed up at the Graveyard.Lev's experiences on a Hi-Rez, an extraordinarily wealthy Native American Reservation introduce him to a teen with remarkable musical talent... and whose gifts are destined to end up in the hands of another. And it is this teen's heart-breaking story that inspired Lev to choose the clapper's path.Pulling elements from Neal Shusterman's critically acclaimed Unwind and giving hints about what is to come in the long-awaited sequel, UnWholly, this short story is a must for fans of the series.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Horror", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15722490-unstrung"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian Mine", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 7838, "review_number": 628, "book_description": "The ice planet has given me a second lease on life, so I'm thrilled to be here. Sure, there's no cheeseburgers, but I'm healthy and ready to be a productive member of the small tribe.What I didn't anticipate? That there'd be a savage stranger waiting nearby, watching me. And when he takes me captive, the unthinkable happens... I resonate to him. Resonance means mating, and children... but I don't know if this guy's ever been around anyone before. He's truly a barbarian in all ways, right down to clubbing me over the head and claiming me as his own.So why is it that I crave his touch and hunger for more?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26570784-barbarian-mine"}, +{"book_title": "Roadmarks", "author_name": "Roger Zelazny", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2573, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "The Road runs from the unimaginable past to the far future, and those who travel it have access to the turnoffs leading to all times and places--even to the alternate time-streams of histories that never happened. Why the Dragons of Bel'kwinith made the Road--or who they are--no one knows. But the Road has always been there and for those who know how to find it, it always will be!", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Novels", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939645.Roadmarks"}, +{"book_title": "Mated", "author_name": "Gwendolyn Cease", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 535, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Laira Marshall had to admit\u2014getting kidnapped wasn\u2019t something she\u2019d expected. Discovering her kidnappers were aliens who planned on selling her into sexual slavery, definitely tipped the scales into the truly bizarre. But she\u2019s determined to fight her way through this\u2014until their slave ship is attacked, and Laira\u2019s faced with an entirely new problem.Rakin and Dev are the leaders of the Sandaki\u2014a race genetically engineered to fight. Using their enhanced traits, they\u2019ve freed their people and have devoted their lives to seeking out those who enslaved them. They never considered the concept of love\u2014or that one woman could bring them to their knees.With unknown enemies working against them, the three lovers must come together not only to save themselves, but the Sandaki race itself.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Menage (M M F)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23431625-mated"}, +{"book_title": "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within", "author_name": "Becky Chambers", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 147, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop.At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit permits, and assorted supplies. The Five-Hop is run by an enterprising alien and her sometimes helpful child, who work hard to provide a little piece of home to everyone passing through.When a freak technological failure halts all traffic to and from Gora, three strangers\u2014all different species with different aims\u2014are thrown together at the Five-Hop. Grounded, with nothing to do but wait, the trio\u2014an exiled artist with an appointment to keep, a cargo runner at a personal crossroads, and a mysterious individual doing her best to help those on the fringes\u2014are compelled to confront where they\u2019ve been, where they might go, and what they are, or could be, to each other.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50209317-the-galaxy-and-the-ground-within"}, +{"book_title": "Behemoth: \u03b2-Max", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1976, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Starfish lit the fuse. Maelstrom was the explosion. But five years into the aftermath, things aren't quite so simple as they once seemed...Lenie Clarke-rifter, avenger, amphibious deep-sea cyborg-has destroyed the world. Once exploited for her psychological addiction to dangerous environments, she emerged in the wake of a nuclear blast to serve up vendetta from the ocean floor. The horror she unleashed-an ancient, apocalyptic microbe called \u00dfehemoth- has been free in the world for half a decade now, devouring the biosphere from the bottom up. North America lies in ruins beneath the thumb of an omnipotent psychopath. Digital monsters have taken Clarke's name, wreaking havoc throughout the decimated remnants of something that was once called Internet. Governments have fallen across the globe; warlords and suicide cults rise from the ashes, pledging fealty to the Meltdown Madonna. All because five years ago, Lenie Clarke had a score to settle.But she has learned something in the meantime: she destroyed the world for a fallacy.Now, cowering at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, rifters and the technoindustrial \"corpses\" who created them hide from a world in its death throes. But they cannot hide forever: something is tracking them, down amongst the lightless cliffs and trenches of the Midatlantic Ridge. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably towards the very bottom of the world, and Lenie Clarke must finally confront the mess she made.Redemption doesn't come easy with the blood of a world on your hands. But even after five years in purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way-and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds. . . .\u00dfehemoth: \u00df-Max is the first of two volumes. The story will conclude in \u00dfehemoth: Seppuku.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66476.Behemoth"}, +{"book_title": "Semper Human", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 920, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "The final conflictChaos has erupted throughout the known galaxy, threatening countless colonies and orbital habitats\u2014as the Associative struggles vainly to keep the peace. Extreme measures are called for in these times of dire crisis, and the Star Marines are awakened from their voluntary 850-year cybe-hibe sleep. But General Trevor Garroway and his warriors are about to discover that the old rules of engagement have drastically changed . . .The end begins with an old-style assault on rebels at the Tarantula Stargate. But true terror looms at the edges of known reality. Humankind's eternal enemy\u2014the brutal, unstoppable Xul\u2014approaches, wielding a weapon monstrous beyond imagining. Suddenly not only is the future in jeopardy, but the past is as well\u2014and if the Marines fail to eliminate their relentless xenophobic foe once and for all, the Great Annihilator will obliterate every last trace of human existence.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6352517-semper-human"}, +{"book_title": "Song of Oestend", "author_name": "Marie Sexton", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1301, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "Symbols have power...Aren Montrell has heard tales of the Oestend wraiths - mysterious creatures which come in the night and kill anyone who's not indoors. Aren's never had reason to believe the stories, but when he takes a job as a bookkeeper on the BarChi, a dusty cattle ranch on the remote Oestend prairie, he soon learns that the wraiths are real. Aren suddenly finds himself living in a supposedly haunted house and depending on wards and generators to protect him from unseen things in the night. As if that's not enough, he has to deal with a crotchety old blind woman, face \"cows\" that look like nothing he's ever seen before, and try to ignore the fact that he's apparently the most eligible bachelor around.Aren also finds himself the one and only confidante of Deacon, the BarChi's burly foreman. Deacon runs the BarChi with an iron fist and is obviously relieved to finally have somebody he can talk to. As their relationship grows, Aren learns there's more to Deacon and the BarChi than he'd anticipated. Deacon seems determined to deny both his Oestend heritage and any claim he may have to the BarChi ranch, but if Aren is to survive the perils of Oestend, he'll have to convince Deacon to stop running from the past and finally claim everything that's his. Reader Advisory: This book is set in an alternate reality and contains scenes of violence, mild D/s and bondage, and a M/M/M m\u00e9nage scene.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Westerns", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Historical", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16719002-song-of-oestend"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 836, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD!\u00a0\n\u00a0\nFrom a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town.Here are twenty-three original tales\u2014stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic\u2014produced specifically for this volume by many of today\u2019s finest writers. Included are Orson Scott Card\u2019s first \u201cAlvin Maker\u201d story in a decade, and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente, writer of\u00a0Cowboys & Aliens.Other contributors include:Tobias S. Buckell\u00a0*\u00a0David Farland *\u00a0Alan Dean Foster\u00a0*\u00a0Jeffrey Ford *\u00a0Laura Anne Gilman\u00a0*\u00a0Rajan Khanna *\u00a0Mike Resnick\u00a0*\u00a0Beth Revis\u00a0*\u00a0Fred Van Lente\u00a0*\u00a0Walter Jon Williams\u00a0*\u00a0Ben H. Winters\u00a0*\u00a0Christie Yant\u00a0*\u00a0Charles Yu\u00a0*INTRODUCTION John Joseph AdamsTHE RED-HEADED DEAD Joe R. LansdaleTHE OLD SLOW MAN AND HIS GOLD GUN FROM SPACE Ben H. WintersHELLFIRE ON THE HIGH FRONTIER David FarlandTHE HELL-BOUND STAGECOACH Mike ResnickSTINGERS AND STRANGERS Seanan McGuireBOOKKEEPER, NARRATOR, GUNSLINGER Charles YuHOLY JINGLE Alan Dean FosterTHE MAN WITH NO HEART Beth RevisWRECKING PARTY Alastair ReynoldsHELL FROM THE EAST Hugh HoweySECOND HAND Rajan KhannaALVIN AND THE APPLE TREE Orson Scott CardMADAM DAMNABLE\u2019S SEWING CIRCLE Elizabeth BearSTRONG MEDICINE Tad WilliamsRED DREAMS Jonathan MaberryBAMBOOZLED Kelley ArmstrongSUNDOWN Tobias S. BuckellLA MADRE DEL ORO Jeffrey FordWHAT I ASSUME YOU SHALL ASSUME Ken LiuTHE DEVIL\u2019S JACK Laura Anne GilmanTHE GOLDEN AGE Walter Jon WilliamsNEVERSLEEPS Fred Van LenteDEAD MAN\u2019S HAND Christie Yant", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Westerns", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21938494-dead-man-s-hand"}, +{"book_title": "Stalker Analog", "author_name": "Mel Odom", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 18, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "A serial killer is loose, murdering in God's name to free Houston from sin. Bethany Shay, daughter of a cop, takes an assignment to track down the madman terrorizing the city. She and her partner, Tully, will follow the trail no matter where it leads--from church sanctuaries to beyond the ever-shifting nets of cyberspace.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/794577.Stalker_Analog"}, +{"book_title": "Pale Demon", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 45767, "review_number": 1879, "book_description": "Condemned and shunned for black magic, Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witches\u2019 conference and clear her name, or be trapped in the demonic ever-after . . . forever after.But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy in one car going across the country? Talk about a recipe for certain disaster, even without being the targets for assassination.For after centuries of torment, a fearsome demon walks in the sunlight\u2014freed at last to slay the innocent and devour their souls. But his ultimate goal is Rachel Morgan, and in the fight for survival that follows, even embracing her own demonic nature may not be enough to save her.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8138071-pale-demon"}, +{"book_title": "A Strange Scottish Shore", "author_name": "Juliana Gray", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 860, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove, north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing, which, according to family legend, once belonged to a selkie who rose from the sea in ancient times and married the castle\u2019s first laird.But Haywood and Truelove soon discover they\u2019re not the only ones interested in the selkie\u2019s strange hide, and when their mutual friend Lord Silverton vanishes in the night from an Edinburgh street, the mystery takes a dangerous turn through time, which only Haywood\u2019s skills and Truelove\u2019s bravery can solve\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33656213-a-strange-scottish-shore"}, +{"book_title": "Gemina", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 60138, "review_number": 11595, "book_description": "Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna\u2019s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.Hanna is the station captain\u2019s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy\u2019s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station\u2019s wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren\u2019t just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatia\u2014and possibly the known universe\u2014is in their hands.But relax. They\u2019ve totally got this. They hope.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29236299-gemina"}, +{"book_title": "Forget Tomorrow", "author_name": "Pintip Dunn", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 2561, "review_number": 530, "book_description": "A New York Times bestseller!Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided\u2026by your future self.It\u2019s Callie\u2019s seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she\u2019s eagerly awaiting her vision\u2015a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they\u2019re meant to be. A world-class swimmer. A renowned scientist.Or in Callie\u2019s case, a criminal.In her vision, she sees herself murdering her gifted younger sister. Before she can process what it means, Callie is arrested and placed in Limbo\u2015a prison for those destined to break the law. With the help of her childhood crush, Logan, a boy she hasn\u2019t spoken to in five years, she escapes the hellish prison.But on the run from her future, as well as the government, Callie sets in motion a chain of events that she hopes will change her fate. If not, she must figure out how to protect her sister from the biggest threat of all.Callie herself.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24804505-forget-tomorrow"}, +{"book_title": "The Element of Fire", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1991, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "The kingdom of Ile-Rien is in peril, menaced by magical threats and court intrigue. As the weak King Roland, misled by treacherous companions, rules the country, only his ruthless mother, the Dowager Queen Ravenna, truly guards the safety of the realm. But now Urbain Grandier, the dark master of scientific sorcery, has arrived to plot against the throne and Kade, bastard sister of the king, has appeared unexpectedly at court. The illegitimate daughter of the old king and the Queen of Air and Darkness herself, Kade's true goals are cloaked in mystery. Is she in league with the wizard Grandier? Or is she laying claim to the throne? It falls to Thomas Boniface, Captain of the Queen's Guard and Ravenna's former lover, to sort out who is friend, who is foe in a deadly game to keep the Dowager Queen and the kingdom she loves from harm.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367334.The_Element_of_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "The VaDorok", "author_name": "S.J. Sanders", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 966, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Sara First contact changed things on Earth. It opened possibilities that were never before possible. In what started as a trip to participate in an cooperative study, Sara found herself a test subject for breeding compatibility by a species known as the Agraak. Determined that she would not submit to be bred and relocated to serve as a breeder for the rest of her life, she escaped into the wilds of a hostile subarctic planet. Not knowing who to trust, and almost dying on the ice flows, she is rescued by a male larger than life whom her body craves. Vidok A warrior-priest of the VaDorok, Vidok had long given up hope of finding his ulukska, his mate. When he finds a tiny female offworlder on the ice flows of the far northern territory who brings forth his mating heat, his life changes. To keep her, he not only has to help her save her companions, but must also risk their love facing repercussions among his tribe and the Intergalactic Council.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43895510-the-vadorok"}, +{"book_title": "The Encounter", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 7043, "review_number": 269, "book_description": "When Tobias, Jake, Rachel, Marco, and Cassie were given the ability to morph, they were also given one very important warning: Never stay in a morph for more than two hours. It seemed a small price to pay, since the kids know that humans everywhere are being forced to let slimy, spineless creatures creep into their brains. And the only way the kids can fight back is not to be human.But Tobias stayed in his morph too long. And now he's a hawk -- with a boy's mind -- forever. Tobias knows they can't give up. That they all made a promise. So now it's four kids and a hawk against a force that's determined to destroy them. Or die trying...", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125333.The_Encounter"}, +{"book_title": "Agnes at the End of the World", "author_name": "Kelly McWilliams", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1479, "review_number": 432, "book_description": "The Handmaid's Tale meets Wilder Girls in this unique, voice-driven novel from Kelly McWilliams.Agnes loves her home of Red Creek--its quiet, sunny mornings, its dusty roads, and its God. There, she cares tirelessly for her younger siblings and follows the town's strict laws. What she doesn't know is that Red Creek is a cult, controlled by a madman who calls himself a prophet.Then Agnes meets Danny, an Outsider boy, and begins to question what is and isn't a sin. Her younger brother, Ezekiel, will die without the insulin she barters for once a month, even though medicine is considered outlawed. Is she a sinner for saving him? Is her sister, Beth, a sinner for dreaming of the world beyond Red Creek?As the Prophet grows more dangerous, Agnes realizes she must escape with Ezekiel and leave everyone else, including Beth, behind. But it isn't safe Outside, either: A viral pandemic is burning through the population at a terrifying rate. As Agnes ventures forth, a mysterious connection grows between her and the Virus. But in a world where faith, miracles, and cruelty have long been indistinguishable, will Agnes be able to choose between saving her family and saving the world?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Religion (Cults)", "Religion", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52226194-agnes-at-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Red Clocks", "author_name": "Leni Zumas", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 18898, "review_number": 2901, "book_description": "Five women. One question. What is a woman for?In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom.Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eiv\u00f8r, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling homeopath, or \"mender,\" who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Feminism", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40881738-red-clocks"}, +{"book_title": "Tin Star", "author_name": "Cecil Castellucci", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1175, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "On their way to start a new life, Tula and her family travel on the Prairie Rose, a colony ship headed to a planet in the outer reaches of the galaxy. All is going well until the ship makes a stop at a remote space station, the Yertina Feray, and the colonist's leader, Brother Blue, beats Tula within an inch of her life. An alien, Heckleck, saves her and teaches her the ways of life on the space station. When three humans crash land onto the station, Tula's desire for escape becomes irresistible, and her desire for companionship becomes unavoidable. But just as Tula begins to concoct a plan to get off the space station and kill Brother Blue, everything goes awry, and suddenly romance is the farthest thing from her mind.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255996-tin-star"}, +{"book_title": "Power Under Pressure", "author_name": "Andrew P. Mayer", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 123, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Steampunk superheroes in Victorian-era New York! The Society of Paragons is gonedestroyed from within by traitors and enemies. With the death of The Industrialist and the rebirth the Iron-Clad as a monstrous half-human creature known as The Shell, Lord Eschaton now has almost everything he needs to cover the world in fortified smoke and rebuild it in his imageeverything except for the mechanical heart of the Automaton.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15789968-power-under-pressure"}, +{"book_title": "The Diamond Thief", "author_name": "Sharon Gosling", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 696, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "No one performs on the circus trapeze like 16-year-old R\u00e9my Brunel. But R\u00e9my also leads another life, prowling through the backstreets of Victorian London as a jewel thief. When she is forced to steal one of the world\u2019s most valuable diamonds, she uncovers a world of treachery and fiendish plots.Meanwhile, young detective Thaddeus Rec is determined to find the jewel and clear his name. Will Thaddeus manage to rescue the jewel? Or is it really R\u00e9my that he needs to save?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17276205-the-diamond-thief"}, +{"book_title": "A Study in Emerald", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 7710, "review_number": 542, "book_description": "Alluding to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, this Hugo Award-winning short story will delight fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, and of course, Neil Gaiman.A Study in Emerald draws listeners in through carefully revealed details as a consulting detective and his narrator friend solve the mystery of a murdered German noble. But with its subtle allusions and surprise ending, this mystery hints that the real fun in solving this case lies in imagining all the details that Gaiman doesn't reveal, and challenges listeners to be detectives themselves.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Horror", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6599565-a-study-in-emerald"}, +{"book_title": "Grandville Mon Amour", "author_name": "Bryan Talbot", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 762, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Convicted psychotic killer and extremist fanatic Edward \"Mad Dog\" Mastock violently escapes the guillotine's blade in the Tower of London to once again terrorize the Socialist Republic of Britain. But dogging Mastock's bloody footsteps is his longtime adversary and nemesis, Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock, at odds with Scotland Yard and intent on bringing Mastock's horrific murder spree to an end, once and for all. Aided by his friend and colleague Detective Roderick Ratzi, LeBrock follows the trail of carnage to Paris, otherwise known as Grandville, the largest city in a world dominated by the French Empire that is the prime target of Mastock's sadistic terrorism. Can LeBrock capture the Mad Dog before he can mete out his final vengeance, or will LeBrock's own quest for redemption be dragged to ground by the demons of his past?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Animals", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8480308-grandville-mon-amour"}, +{"book_title": "Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I", "author_name": "Richard Ned Lebow", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 226, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "The \"Great War\" claimed nearly 40 million lives and set the stage for World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. One hundred years later, historians are beginning to recognize how unnecessary it was. In Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!, acclaimed political psychologist Richard Ned Lebow examines the chain of events that led to war and what could reasonably have been done differently to avoid it. In this highly original and intellectually challenging book, he constructs plausible worlds, some better, some worse, that might have developed. He illustrates them with \"what-if\" biographies of politicians, scientists, religious leaders, artists, painters, and writers, sports figures, and celebrities, including scenarios where: there is no Israel; neither John Kennedy nor Barack Obama become president; Curt Flood, not Jackie Robinson, integrates baseball; Satchmo and many Black jazz musicians leave for Europe, where jazz blends with klezmer; nuclear research is internationalized and all major countries sign a treaty outlawing the development of atomic weapons; Britain and Germany are entrapped in a Cold War that threatens to go nuclear; and much more.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["History", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "War (World War I)", "Politics", "History (World History)", "Literature (20th Century)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18140055-archduke-franz-ferdinand-lives"}, +{"book_title": "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Galaxy", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 27, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Collection of short stories:\u2022 The Body Builders - (1966)\u2022 The Planet Wreckers - (1967)\u2022 The Star-Sent Knaves - (1963)\u2022 The War Against the Yukks - (1965) - (variant)\u2022 Goobereality - (1968)", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7673106-it-s-a-mad-mad-mad-galaxy"}, +{"book_title": "Voyage to the Red Planet", "author_name": "Terry Bisson", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 97, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "An extraordinary science fiction tour de force about the first trip to the planet Mars, filled with action, humor, and pathos. One of the finest, most carefully written science fiction extrapolations in years.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/417990.Voyage_to_the_Red_Planet"}, +{"book_title": "Lady of Hay", "author_name": "Barbara Erskine", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 6957, "review_number": 559, "book_description": "This masterfully crafted first novel tells the spellbinding story of a contemporary woman who discovers her past life as a 12th-century Welsh noblewoman. Erskine's extraordinary romance has been translated into 17 languages and has sold well over a million copies worldwide.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299514.Lady_of_Hay"}, +{"book_title": "New Earth", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 1664, "review_number": 272, "book_description": "Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction in his Grand Tour series.The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth.All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get back to Earth, nearly 200 years will have elapsed. They will have aged only a dozen years thanks to cryonic suspension, but their friends and family will be gone and the very society that they once knew will have changed beyond recognition. The explorers are going into exile, and they know it. They are on this mission not because they were the best available, but because they were expendable.Upon landing on the planet they discover something unexpected: New Earth is inhabited by a small group of intelligent creatures who look very much like human beings.Who are these people? Are they native to this world, or invaders from elsewhere?While they may seem inordinately friendly to the human explorers, what are their real motivations? What do they want?Moreover, the scientists begin to realize that this planet cannot possibly be natural. They face a startling and nearly unthinkable question: Could New Earth be an artifact?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059363-new-earth"}, +{"book_title": "The Battle for Commitment Planet", "author_name": "Graham Sharp Paul", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 318, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "It was insane, it was suicidal, it was wrong\u2014 and by God he was going to do it. \u00a0 The Hammer Worlds have Helfort exactly where they want him. The ultimatum is brutal and precise. Unless the Federated hero surrenders, the Hammer World\u2019s prisoner Anna Cheung\u2014the only woman Helfort has ever loved\u2014will be handed over to a bunch of depraved troopers to be violated, then executed by firing squad. Helfort can obey, or he can do what the crew proposes: sail his three frontline dreadnoughts into the Hammers\u2019 stronghold Commitment Planet, liberate Anna and the rest of the POWs held captive there, and continue the fight in the jaws of the enemy. Helfort\u2019s decision? Bring it on!From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8200818-the-battle-for-commitment-planet"}, +{"book_title": "We All Looked Up", "author_name": "Tommy Wallach", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 19620, "review_number": 3053, "book_description": "Before the asteroid we let ourselves be defined by labels:The athlete, the outcast, the slacker, the overachiever. But then we all looked up and everything changed. They said it would be here in two months. That gave us two months to leave our labels behind. Two months to become something bigger than what we'd been, something that would last even after the end. Two months to really live.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Realistic Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18392459-we-all-looked-up"}, +{"book_title": "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies", "author_name": "Nick Bostrom", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 13491, "review_number": 1309, "book_description": "Superintelligence asks the questions: what happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful--possibly beyond our control. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on humans than on the species itself, so would the fate of humankind depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence.But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed Artificial Intelligence, to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Philosophy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science (Technology)", "Science (Computer Science)", "Psychology", "Business", "Futurism", "Science (Popular Science)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20527133-superintelligence"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 12", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 8187, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "The hunters become the hunted when the Elric brothers and Prince Lin set a trap for the homunculus with the insatiable appetite - Gluttony! On another front, state politics are shaken up when a horrifying truth about Fuhrer President King Bradley is revealed - and Colonel Roy Mustang is right there to capitalize on the situation.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Manga (Shonen)", "Adventure", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26426.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_12"}, +{"book_title": "The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 9265, "review_number": 440, "book_description": "Author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson returns with this exciting and long-awaited new series that takes us into a stunningly imagined future to tell a timeless story of adventure and the implacable conflict of good and evil within each of us.Angus Thermopyle was an ore pirate and a murderer; even the most disreputable asteroid pilots of Delta Sector stayed locked out of his way.\u00a0\u00a0Those who didn't ended up in the lockup--or dead.\u00a0\u00a0But when Thermopyle arrived at Mallory's Bar & Sleep with a gorgeous woman by his side the regulars had to take notice.\u00a0\u00a0Her name was Morn Hyland, and she had been a police officer--until she met up with Thermopyle.But one person in Mallory's Bar wasn't intimidated.\u00a0\u00a0Nick Succorso had his own reputation as a bold pirate and he had a sleek frigate fitted for deep space.\u00a0\u00a0Everyone knew that Thermopyle and Succorso were on a collision course.\u00a0\u00a0What nobody expected was how quickly it would be over--or how devastating victory would be.\u00a0\u00a0It was common enough example of rivalry and revenge--or so everyone thought.\u00a0\u00a0The REAL story was something entirely different.In The Real Story, Stephen R. Donaldson takes us to a remarkably detailed world of faster-than-light travel, politics, betrayal, and a shadowy presence just outside our view to tell the fiercest, most profound story he has ever written.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Adventure", "Thriller", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/427353.The_Gap_Into_Conflict"}, +{"book_title": "Antares Dawn", "author_name": "Michael McCollum", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 818, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "A Note From The Author: Recently I have been experimenting with pricing to judge the effect on sales for all of my books. I am using ANTARES DAWN as a loss/leader to encourage people who have not read me before to give my books a try. If you like technologically sophisticated science fiction, you will probably like the way I write. A warning: DAWN is the book most likely to sink its hooks deeply into new readers who enjoy reading what I enjoy reading. Once you've read it, you may end up buying all of my books. Proceed at your own risk! (Tempe, AZ, February 26, 2012)--------------When the supergiant star Antares exploded in 2512, the human colony on Alta found their pathway to the stars gone, isolating them from the rest of human space for more than a century. Then one day, a powerful warship materialized in the system without warning. Alarmed by the sudden appearance of such behemoth, the commanders of the Altan Space Navy dispatched one of their most powerful ships to investigate. What ASNS Discovery finds when they finally catch the intruder is a battered hulk manned by a dead crew.That is disturbing news for the Altans. For the dead battleship could easily have defeated the whole of the Altan navy. If it could find Alta, then so could whoever it was that beat it. Something would have to be done.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1397296.Antares_Dawn"}, +{"book_title": "The Kingdom of Back", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 10892, "review_number": 2746, "book_description": "Born with a gift for music, Nannerl Mozart has just one wish: to be remembered forever. But even as she delights audiences with her masterful playing, she has little hope she'll ever become the acclaimed composer she longs to be. She is a young woman in eighteenth-century Europe, and that means composing is forbidden to her. She will perform only until she reaches a marriageable age\u2014her tyrannical father has made that much clear.As Nannerl's hope grows dimmer with each passing year, the talents of her beloved younger brother, Wolfgang, only seem to shine brighter. His brilliance begins to eclipse her own, until one day a mysterious stranger from a magical land appears with an irresistible offer. He has the power to make her wish come true\u2014but his help may cost her everything.In her first work of historical fiction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu spins a lush, lyrically told story of music, magic, and the unbreakable bond between a brother and sister.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Magical Realism", "Music", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45872054-the-kingdom-of-back"}, +{"book_title": "Poor Man's Fight", "author_name": "Elliott Kay", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 6067, "review_number": 323, "book_description": "\"This test completes your compulsory education. Congratulations! You have graduated high school. Your financial obligation is 67,879 credits. Please visit our loan officer as you exit.\"Tanner Malone never bought into military myths of honor and glory. He never wanted to wear a uniform or medals. Yet when family upheaval brings his otherwise stellar performance in school to a disastrous end, Tanner's plans for university lie in ruins. Facing homelessness and a mountain of debt, Tanner enlists in his home planet's tiny navy.It\u2019s a hell of a time to sign up. Vicious pirates stalk the space lanes, claiming to fight an oppressive economic system even as they shed innocent blood. Civil war looms beyond the borders of Tanner\u2019s home star system of Archangel. Corporate security fleets are nowhere to be found when trouble arises.In response, Archangel begins ambitious military expansion. Basic training becomes six months of daily bare knuckle brawls, demanding cross-training and constant stress. Brutal as it is, Tanner will need the preparation. The pirates grow more audacious with every attack. As if that\u2019s not enough, Tanner is assigned to a small ship whose disgruntled crew has no patience for cerebral new recruits, and they\u2019re on the front lines of all of Archangel\u2019s woes.Tanner soon learns there is only one way to deal with his bullying comrades, their ruthless foes and the unforgiving void of space, and that\u2019s to get up close and personal.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17280233-poor-man-s-fight"}, +{"book_title": "Night of Light", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 316, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "The Planet of Dante's JoyJoin John Carmody of Earth on an unforgettable adventure on the weirdest planet in the galaxy. Just when Carmody had given up understanding this weird world and decided simply to accept whatever happened, it was the Night of Light. All the citizens of Dante's Joy slumbered on that night--to awake, if at all, in a world even more bizarre and more uneathly than before...", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Religion", "Novels", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/446395.Night_of_Light"}, +{"book_title": "Extras", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 107388, "review_number": 5456, "book_description": "A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood takes down the Specials regime, a cultural renaissance sweeps the world. \u201cTech-heads\u201d flaunt their latest gadgets, \u201ckickers\u201d spread gossip and trends, and \u201csurge monkeys\u201d are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. Popularity rules, and everyone craves fame.Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse is no exception. But Aya\u2019s face rank is so low, she\u2019s a total nobody. An extra. Her only chance at stardom is to kick a wild and unexpected story.Then she stumbles upon a big secret. Aya knows she is on the cusp of celebrity. But the information she is about to disclose will change both her fate\u2026and that of the brave new world", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493456.Extras"}, +{"book_title": "Gracie's Touch", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 3126, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "Gracie Jones was little more than a child when the Earth was invaded by an alien species. Escaping into the subway tunnels of New York City, she hid in fear of being captured. Discovered by four men who became her protectors, she fought alongside them and they became known as the Freedom Five. At seventeen, she made a decision that turned the tide on the war between Earth and the Alluthans but in exchange she gave up all that she knew.Kordon Jefe is a Zion Warrior and commanding officer in charge of the Confederation of Planets military. When an unknown species begins attacking some of their outer settlements, he is assigned to discover who they are and stop them\u2026at any cost. Gracie unknowingly finds herself stranded millions of light years and hundreds of years in the future in a distant galaxy on an undeveloped moon. When an old enemy threatens once more, she does not hesitant to use her knowledge to try to stop them once again. Only this time, it is not just Earth she will be saving but the Confederation itself.When their two worlds are thrown together, Kordon is unsure what to do with the strange, delicate creature that fights and behaves unlike anything he has ever encountered before. One thing he does know, he plans to keep her.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15753092-gracie-s-touch"}, +{"book_title": "Saved", "author_name": "A.M. Arthur", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1239, "review_number": 192, "book_description": "\nAn Omegaverse Story\nHe didn\u2019t want an alpha to save him, but fate had other ideas\u2026 Braun Etting was raised to know his place as an omega by his alpha father\u2019s cruel words and fast fists, and he expects nothing but violence from the alpha who may one day mate him. His older brother Kell mated a cruel alpha who abuses him daily, and Braun is terrified of that seemingly inevitable future. When Braun\u2019s father dies in a car crash, leaving Braun an orphan, he\u2019s sent to a halfway house for omegas. But on his fourth night there, he witnesses a horrifying crime that sends him fleeing to the streets alone\u2014and edging into his first heat. Tarek Bloom is settled in his workaholic, single lifestyle, even if it is somewhat embarrassing to be a twenty-eight year-old unmated alpha. He enjoys his job as a constable, helping people and solving problems, so he isn\u2019t prepared for his life to flip upside-down when he walks into his beta friend Dex\u2019s apartment to help with \u201ca problem.\u201d The problem turns out to be an unmated, nearly in-heat omega orphan who Dex and his husband rescued off the street last night. The even bigger problem is that Tarek feels the mating bond for this terrified omega immediately\u2014and he\u2019s pretty sure the omega feels it, too. But Braun hates alphas as a general rule, and no way is he giving in to the bond. All mating leads to is violence and suffering, so no thank you. But Tarek\u2019s gentle kindness slips under Braun\u2019s emotional shields, and Braun begins to want. To dream. All Braun has ever known is violent alphas, but Tarek is determined to make Braun trust him\u2014and to trust in the idea of their happily ever after. NOTE: This is a non-shifter Omegaverse story with alpha/omega/beta dynamics, heats, knotting, and mpreg. In this world, omegas are second-class citizens with few civil rights and almost no protections under the law. Trigger warnings for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. 67,000 words. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35967286-saved"}, +{"book_title": "Soulbound", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 658, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "A dark force is rising in London...Sebastian Montcalm knows freedom for the first time in his life, but it has come at the cost of his father's soul. If he can learn to harness his uncontrollable sorcery then he might be able to save his father from a demon's grip, but every move he makes leads to failure. The only thing that gives him hope is the innocent touch of Cleo Sinclair, the woman he was forced to marry. But will his darkness drown out her light?He could be her destruction\u2026Cleo knew her father only ever loved her for the power of her visions, but when he bartered her away in marriage to a man she'd never met, she realized how little value she truly had. Her husband, Sebastian, was nothing more than a dark warmth in her bed, a stranger who refused to touch her. But together, the two tortured souls found friendship. And now, when he needs her the most, he won't even look at her....Or she could be his salvation...When Cleo receives a powerful vision of a darkness that threatens London, she knows she is the key to defeating it. Only by working together can she and Sebastian prevail. But is Sebastian the one who can end this prophetic doom, or the one bound to begin it?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36152113-soulbound"}, +{"book_title": "The Abduction", "author_name": "Erin Durante", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 1217, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Samantha needed a break, and Las Vegas seemed like the perfect escape. After inheriting her father's farm and being cheated on by her long-time boyfriend, she decided she needed a change to make her own destiny. She expected sooner or later Prince Charming would come along and sweep her off her feet.She did not expect to be swept off to the stars... literally.Abducted by a young alien who's inexperience with anything female proves to be more than an inconvenience, Samantha's days of house-arrest on a war torn planet are boring and dull.Until her mate's older brother comes home wounded from the war needing to recover from both physical and emotional wounds. An immediate attraction sparks between Samantha and this mysterious beast, and she struggles to balance her growing desires and her plans for escaping their alien world.Then things start to heat up.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55572891-the-abduction"}, +{"book_title": "Falling Out of Cars", "author_name": "Jeff Noon", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 743, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "IN A WORLD OVERFLOWING WITH IMAGES, HOW CAN YOU TELL WHO YOU REALLY ARE?Marlene Moore wasn't even sure why she accepted the job, except that it gave her the chance to just get in her car and drive. To escape from grief, to keep moving, to maybe find a destination for herself. Now she's journeying around England, a land that turns stranger and more dreamlike the further she travels. Along the way she picks up various passengers, each as lost as she is, each on the run from troubles of their own.Slowly, day by day, Marlene is falling prey to a sickness, a disease that seems to change the world around her. Only by recording her feelings in a notebook can she keep track of her life. But now even her notebook seems to be turning against her. And the job that started Marlene on this journey turns out to be far weirder, and more dangerous, than she ever imagined.WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? AND WHERE ARE YOU GOING?A Road novel for the twenty-first century, Falling Out of Cars explores a country, and a psyche, falling off the edge of reality.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Literature (21st Century)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17383089-falling-out-of-cars"}, +{"book_title": "The Naked Sun", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 45095, "review_number": 1582, "book_description": "A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!", "year_published": 1956, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Novels", "Mystery (Detective)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30016.The_Naked_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Dogs of War", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 4766, "review_number": 573, "book_description": "My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, south-eastern Mexico. Rex is a genetically engineered Bioform, a deadly weapon in a dirty war. He has the intelligence to carry out his orders and feedback implants to reward him when he does. All he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and Master says he's got to kill a lot of enemies. But who, exactly, are the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist? And what happens when Rex slips his leash? ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Animals", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35827220-dogs-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "Island of Icarus", "author_name": "Christine Danse", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 136, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Field Journal of Jonathan Orms, 1893En route to polite exile in the Galapagos Islands (field work, to quote the dean of my university), I have found myself marooned on a deserted tropical paradise. Deserted, that is, except for my savior, a mysterious American called Marcus. He is an inventor\u2014and the proof of his greatness is the marvelous new clockwork arm he has created to replace the unsightly one that was ruined in my shipboard mishap.Marcus has a truly brilliant mind and the gentlest hands, which cause me to quiver in an unfamiliar but rather pleasant way. Surely it is only my craving for human companionship that draws me to this man, nothing more? He says a ship will pass this way in a few months, but I am welcome to stay as long as I like. The thought of leaving Marcus becomes more untenable with each passing day, though staying would be fatal to my career...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "M M Romance (M M Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9519738-island-of-icarus"}, +{"book_title": "New World", "author_name": "Kate L. Mary", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 854, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "New World, book five in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own...After weeks on the road and devastating losses, the survivors have finally found safety. But as winter falls on Colorado, it brings with it both new challenges, and new hope.Axl and VivianWith supplies running low and animals scarce, not even the freezing zombies do much to make the future look bright for Axl\u2019s group, and as the snow grows deeper, Vivian\u2019s concern for Hadley and Jon only becomes more intense. Each day seems to bring more challenges, and every week that goes by with no sign of their friends makes it more difficult for the group to believe life can ever return to normal.Jon and GinnyHope Springs is an opportunity to start over for Ginny and Jon. Even though their worries for their lost friends are never completely gone, the couple throws themselves into building a new world for their baby. But as Jon works to clean out the city, Ginny struggles to find herself and embrace the second chance she\u2019s been given, and with the ever-present threat of both man and the undead surrounding them, optimism is a difficult thing to hold onto", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26777216-new-world"}, +{"book_title": "Outpost", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 31443, "review_number": 2204, "book_description": "Deuce\u2019s whole world has changed.Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she\u2019s a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. She doesn't fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight.To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps Deuce at a distance. Her feelings for Fade haven\u2019t changed, but he seems not to want her around anymore. Confused and lonely, she starts looking for a way out.Deuce signs up to serve in the summer patrols\u2014those who make sure the planters can work the fields without danger. It should be routine, but things have been changing on the surface, just as they did below ground. The Freaks have grown smarter. They\u2019re watching. Waiting. Planning. The monsters don\u2019t intend to let Salvation survive, and it may take a girl like Deuce to turn back the tide.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Horror", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10193062-outpost"}, +{"book_title": "Speak", "author_name": "Louisa Hall", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 3791, "review_number": 644, "book_description": "A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence \u2014 illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understandingIn a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the seventeenth century, to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human, and what it means to be less than fully alive. A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code breaker, writes letters to his best friend's mother. A Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An isolated and traumatized young girl exchanges messages with an intelligent software program. A former Silicon Valley Wunderkind is imprisoned for creating illegal lifelike dolls.Each of these characters is attempting to communicate across gaps \u2014 to estranged spouses, lost friends, future readers, or a computer program that may or may not understand them. In dazzling and electrifying prose, Louisa Hall explores how the chasm between computer and human \u2014 shrinking rapidly with today's technological advances \u2014 echoes the gaps that exist between ordinary people. Though each speaks from a distinct place and moment in time, all five characters share the need to express themselves while simultaneously wondering if they will ever be heard, or understood.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literary Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23215488-speak"}, +{"book_title": "To Sail a Darkling Sea", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 3341, "review_number": 200, "book_description": "BOOK II IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky. A family of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization. A World Cloaked in DarknessWith human civilization annihilated by a biological zombie plague, a rag-tag fleet of yachts and freighters known as Wolf Squadron scours the Atlantic, searching for survivors. Within every abandoned liner and carrier lurks a potential horde, safety can never be taken for granted, and death and turning into one of the enemy is only a moment away.The Candle FlickersYet every ship and town holds the flickering hope of survivors. One and two from lifeboats, a dozen from a fishing village, a few hundred wrenched by fury and fire from a ship that once housed thousands...Light a FlameNow Wolf Squadron must take on another massive challenge: clear the assault carrier USS Iwo Jima of infected before the trapped Marines and sailors succumb to starvation. If Wolf Squadron can accomplish that task, an even tougher trial waits: an apocalyptic battle to win a new dawn for humanity. The war for civilization begins as the boats of the Wolf Squadron become a beacon of hope on a Darkling Sea.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Action", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143927-to-sail-a-darkling-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Flood", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 4972, "review_number": 528, "book_description": "It begins in 2016. Another wet summer, another year of storm surges and high tides. But this time the Thames Barrier is breached and central London is swamped. The waters recede, life goes on, the economy begins to recover, people watch the news reports of other floods around the world. And then the waters rise again. And again.Lily, Helen, Gary and Piers, hostages released from five years captivity at the hands of Christian Extremists in Spain, return to England and the first rumours of a flood of positively Biblical proportions\u2026Sea levels have begun to rise, at catastrophic speed. Within two years London and New York will be under water. The Pope will give his last address from the Vatican before Rome is swallowed by the rising water. Mecca too will vanish beneath the waves.The world is drowning. A desperate race to find out what is happening begins. The popular theory is that we are paying the price for our profligacy and that climate change is about to redress Gaia\u2019s balance. But there are dissenting views. And all the time the waters continue to rise and mankind begins the great retreat to higher ground. Millions will die, billions will become migrants. Wars will be fought over mountains.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2111634.Flood"}, +{"book_title": "Thicker Than Blood", "author_name": "Madeline Sheehan", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2114, "review_number": 451, "book_description": "A true friendship never dies. Leisel and Evelyn lost everything. Husbands. Families. Friends. Lives that made sense. All they had left was each other, and a friendship that could withstand anything\u2026Even an apocalypse.Until one fateful night, the marginal safety they\u2019d come to rely on comes to a vicious and brutal end. With the help of Alex & Jami, both unlikely allies, Leisel and Evelyn are able to escape their shattered sanctuary only to find themselves face-to-face with a much altered, much crueler life where they have to find the way\u2014and the will\u2014to stay alive in a world they no longer recognize.Traveling across a broken and infection-ridden country; the road-weary group are pitted against endless violence, improbable circumstances, and the ultimate loss.Everything comes at a price\u2014especially safety, the cost of which could very well strip them of the one thing they\u2019ve tried so hard to cling to: their humanity.Yet along with all the trials they\u2019re forced to endure, there\u2019s also hope in the form of love. Having loved Leisel from afar, Alex attempts to put the pieces of her fractured heart back together.But in such a savage world, is there room for love?In a place of nightmares-made-reality, where the living should be feared far more than the dead, an unbreakable friendship and a love amongst all odds can mean the difference between life and death.There are friends\u2026And then there are Leisel and Evelyn.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Dark", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23573808-thicker-than-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Sparks Rise", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 4900, "review_number": 729, "book_description": "Don\u2019t miss the thrilling novella that connects the last two novels in the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy. Sam didn\u2019t think things could get worse at Thurmond rehabilitation camp. Then the Reds arrive. Everyone assumed the kids with firepower had been killed years ago. Instead they were taken away, brainwashed, and returned as terrifyingly effective guards. To her horror, Sam recognizes one of them: Lucas, the one spark of light in Sam\u2019s dark childhood. Lucas has a deadly secret\u2013he beat the brutal training that turned his fellow Reds into mindless drones. When Sam defends herself against an attack by a vile PSF guard and faces a harrowing punishment, Lucas must risk his everything to save her. Includes a bonus preview chapter from the final Darkest Minds novel, In the Afterlight.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23016659-sparks-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Patience", "author_name": "Daniel Clowes", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 8907, "review_number": 726, "book_description": "Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially \"Clowesian\"and utterly unique in the author's body of work. This 180-page, full-color original graphic novel affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuberant and breathtaking pages of his life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story yet.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25652706-patience"}, +{"book_title": "Terminator Salvation: Cold War", "author_name": "Greg Cox", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 292, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "We Fight BackRussia 2003. When it appears that the United States has unleashed its entire nuclear arsenal upon the world, Captain Dmitri Losenko, commander of the nuclear submarine Gorshkov, has no choice but to retaliate. His target? Alaska.Alaska 2018. Fighting for survival in the frozen wilderness, Molly Kookesh struggles to protect her makeshift Resistance cell from the Terminators. Inspired by John Connor\u2019s radio broadcasts and following a brutal encounter with a fearsome machine, she decides it\u2019s time to fight back\u2026An official novel exploring the post-judgment day world of the hit movie Terminator \u00ae Salvation\u2122.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Media Tie In", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6434692-terminator-salvation"}, +{"book_title": "The Burning Sky", "author_name": "Joseph Robert Lewis", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 204, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN B004MDLL9KTaziri Ohana is an elite airship pilot, though the long hours away from home have taken a toll on her family and she longs for a simpler life. When the Northern Air Corps is wiped out in a catastrophic fire, only Taziri survives to help the marshals pursue the suspects across the skies of Marrakesh. Their investigation reveals a vast conspiracy of deposed aristocrats, wealthy industrialists, and warmongers plotting against the crown. Taziri discovers that her own inventions have been perverted by the conspirators, the cities plunge into violent riots, and their only hope for salvation may be an exiled princess, her swashbuckling escort, and a crippled airship plummeting out of the burning sky.A note about the textThis is a work of historical fantasy. Some of this world may be familiar to you.But in this world, Europe never emerged from the last Ice Age and only the southern areas are habitable. North Africa is cool, wet, and fertile. Ancient nations such as the Persian Empire have persisted, though others, such as the Romans, never rose to power. Some of the countries in this world reflect the cultures and attitudes of the Renaissance while others reflect the Industrial Age. Historical figures appear, though they too may be different from the ones you have known.Don\u2019t expect this world to conform to the history that you know. The people and places are different. The climate and wildlife are different.Even death is different here.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10148201-the-burning-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette, Volume 4", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 113, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 4 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.Stories include:* Poor Little Rich Girls by Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff* 'Til We Meet Again by Virginia DeMarce* One Man's Junk by Karen Bergstrahl* Chip's Christmas Gift by Russ Rittgers* Dice's Drawings by Dan Robinson* The Class of '34 by Kerryn Offord* Magdeburg Marines: The Few and the Proud by Jose J. Clavell* Elizabeth by Ernest Lutz and John Zeek* Heavy Metal Music or Revolution in Three Flats by David Carrico* Drillers in Doublets by Iver P. Cooper* How to Keep Your Old John Deere Plowing: Diesel Fuel Alternatives for Grantville 1631\u20131639 by Allen W. McDonnell* How to Build a Machine Gun in 1634 with Available Technology: First View by Leonard Hollar, Tom Van Natta, and John Zeek* How to Build a Machine Gun in 1634 with Available Technology: Second View by Bob Hollingsworth* A Looming Challenge by Pam Poggiani", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11307328-grantville-gazette-volume-4"}, +{"book_title": "Pohon Setan", "author_name": "Ben Brown", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 16, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Chelsea Brown dreamed of being a journalist her whole life. Now, that dream is about to come true. She and\u00a0two friends\u00a0graduate\u00a0university together and are about to embark on their first assignment. \u00a0 \u00a0Under the guidance of veteran reporter, and alcoholic, Bill Redcliff, the group head to Java to investigate tales of disturbing animal cruelty. However, what they find is far more horrific, and Chelsea\u2019s dream quickly turns into a nightmare. \u00a0 \u00a0Bradley Munroe, ex S.A.S, makes a lucrative living rescuing hostages from dangerous situations. The biggest challenge of his career now lays in Indonesia. Munroe will have to face something he\u2019s never encountered before. It will push him to the limits of his formidable skills. \u00a0 \u00a0Pohon Setan is a fast-paced supernatural horror book from sci-fi author, Ben Brown. The story moves quickly and will leave you gasping for breath\u00a0right to the very last page. ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12847194-pohon-setan"}, +{"book_title": "Just My Luck", "author_name": "Gail Koger", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1141, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Kaylee Jones is a trouble magnet. Chaos and disaster are her faithful companions. She belongs to the thin blue line protecting Earth from the Tai-Kok, alien predators who consider our world an all-you-can-eat banquet. Her crappy luck puts her on the alien freaks- most wanted list and lands her in one of their prison cells. Her roommate? A very hungry vampire. Okay, Talree's really a Coletti Warlord who decides to make her his mate. Kaylee's definitely not willing but isn't strong enough to fight him off and now he owns her mind, body and soul. She'll admit the sex is hot and the bossy jerk has agreed to save Earth from annihilation. The bad news is, Warlords aren't benevolent do-gooder types and there is a price for his help: the women of Earth. And the really bad news is, Talrees' low-down conniving brother, Malik, has joined forces with the alien freaks and now Kaylee and Talree have to stop them from destroying both their worlds.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Humor", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6697518-just-my-luck"}, +{"book_title": "All These Worlds", "author_name": "Dennis E. Taylor", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 31345, "review_number": 1782, "book_description": "Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble. They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition. And the Bobs have picked a fight with an older, more powerful species with a large appetite and a short temper. Still stinging from getting their collective butts kicked in their first encounter with the Others, the Bobs now face the prospect of a decisive final battle to defend Earth and its colonies. But the Bobs are less disciplined than a herd of cats, and some of the younger copies are more concerned with their own local problems than defeating the Others. Yet salvation may come from an unlikely source. A couple of eighth-generation Bobs have found something out in deep space. All it will take to save the Earth and perhaps all of humanity is for them to get it to Sol \u2014 unless the Others arrive first.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35506021-all-these-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Major Operation", "author_name": "James White", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 584, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "The five short stories in the book are related to a new world called Meatball. In the first story, Invader, a series of strange accidents at the hospital lead Conway to suspect an alien presence. In the second story, Monitor Corps discovers an alien spinning ship near Meatball and brings it to the hospital in order to rescue the pilot. And finally, Conway joins a Monitor mission to Meatball for a major operation.\u2022 Invader - (1966)\u2022 Vertigo - (1968)\u2022 Blood Brother - (1969)\u2022 Meatball - (1969)\u2022 Major Operation - (1971)", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Medical", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1695610.Major_Operation"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow Rising", "author_name": "Robert Jordan", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 178155, "review_number": 3750, "book_description": "The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken?In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn.In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plans the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland.In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his next move. It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve.Against the Shadow rising stands the Dragon Reborn.....", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Epic", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9539.The_Shadow_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "I, Jedi", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 11646, "review_number": 313, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole presents a stirring new tale set in the Star Wars\u00ae universe: the dramatic story of a heroic X-wing pilot on the razor's edge between the Force--and the dark side.Corran Horn has distinguished himself as one of the best and brightest of Rogue Squadron's elite fighting force. Then his wife, Mirax, vanishes on a covert mission for the New Republic, and Corran vows to find her. To do so, he knows he must develop the latent Force powers inherited from his grandfather, a legendary Jedi hero. He joins Luke Skywalker's famed Jedi academy to begin training, only to quit in frustration at Skywalker's methods. Now Corran is on his own. Using his Corellian undercover experience, he must infiltrate, sabotage, and destroy a ruthless organization in order to find his wife. But to succeed, Corran will have to come to terms with his Jedi heritage--and make a terrible choice: surrender to the dark side...or die.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!\u00a9 1999 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TMAll rights reserved. Used under authorization.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "War", "Adventure", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/758654.I_Jedi"}, +{"book_title": "The Black Cloud", "author_name": "Fred Hoyle", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3168, "review_number": 326, "book_description": "A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth and sits in front of the sun, causing widespread panic and death. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians.", "year_published": 1957, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science (Astronomy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1246118.The_Black_Cloud"}, +{"book_title": "Manifold: Origin", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2983, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "\"ONE OF THE BEST SF WRITERS IN THE BUSINESS . . . [Manifold: Origin is] filled with marvelous scientific speculations, strange events, novel concepts, and an awe-inspiring sense of the wonders of the universe.\"-Science Fiction ChronicleIn the year 2015, astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying over the African continent, intent on examining a mysterious glowing construct in Earth's orbit. But when the very fabric of the sky tears open, spilling living creatures to the ground and pulling others inside (including his wife, Emma), Malenfant's quest to uncover the unknown becomes personal. While desperately searching to discover what happened to the woman he loves, Malenfant embarks upon an adventure to the very fount of human development . . . on earth and beyond.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Academic (College)", "Biology (Evolution)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64175.Manifold"}, +{"book_title": "Two Fronts", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 589, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "\nIn 1942, two nations switch sides\u2014and World War II takes a horrifying new course.\n In the real world, England and France allowed Adolf Hitler to gobble up the Sudetenland in 1938. Once Hitler finished dismembering Czechoslovakia, he was ready to go to war over Poland a year later. But Hitler had always been eager to seize Czechoslovakia, no matter the consequences. So what if England and France had stood up to the Nazis from the start, and not eleven months later? That is the question behind the War That Came Early series.Four years later, the civil war in Spain drags on, even after General Franco\u2019s death. The United States, still neutral in Europe, fights the Japanese in the Pacific. Russia and Germany go toe-to-toe in Eastern Europe\u2014yet while Hitler stares east, not everything behind him is going as well as he would like. But nothing feeds ingenuity like the fear of losing. The Germans wheel out new tanks and planes, Japan deploys weapons of a very different sort against China, and the United States, England, and France do what they can to strengthen themselves against imminent danger.Seen through the eyes of ordinary citizens caught in the maelstrom, this is a you-are-there chronicle of battle on land and sea and in the air. Here are terrifying bombing raids that shatter homes, businesses, and the rule of law. Here are commanders issuing orders that, once given, cannot be taken back. And here are the seeds of rebellion sown in blood-soaked soil.In a war in which sides are switched and allies trust one another only slightly more than they trust their mortal enemies, Nazi Germany has yet to send its Jews to death camps, and dangerous new nationalist powers arise in Eastern Europe. From thrilling submarine battles to the horror of men fighting men and machines all through Europe, Two Fronts captures every aspect of a brilliantly reimagined conflict: the strategic, the political, and the personal force of leaders bending nations to their wills.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War (World War II)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16113596-two-fronts"}, +{"book_title": "Afternoon on the Amazon", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 14140, "review_number": 439, "book_description": "Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series\u2014the Magic Tree House! Vampire bats and killer ants?That's what Jack and Annie are about to run into when the Magic Tree House whisks them away to the Amazon River. It's not long before they get hopelessly lost. Will they be able to find their way back to the tree house? Or are Jack and Annie stuck forever in the rain forest? Visit the Magic Tree House website! MagicTreeHouse.com", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Kids"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180645.Afternoon_on_the_Amazon"}, +{"book_title": "The Dragon Waiting", "author_name": "John M. Ford", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1225, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "The Wars of the Roses have put Edward IV on the throne of England, Lorenzo de' Medici's court shines brilliantly, and Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza plots in Milan. But this is a changed world, and medieval Europe is dominated by the threat from the Byzantine Empire. Sforza, the Vampire Duke, marshals his forces for his long-planned attack on Florence, and Byzantium is on the march. A mercenary, the exiled heir to the Byzantine throne, a young woman physician forced to flee Florence, and a Welsh wizard, the nephew of Owain Gly Dwr, seem to have no common goals but together they wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium, striving to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and make him Richard III.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/268437.The_Dragon_Waiting"}, +{"book_title": "The Killing Ground", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 723, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Having escaped from the Eye of Terror, Uriel Ventris and Pasanius now face an epic journey through a hostile universe in their quest to get home to Ultramar to safety and redemption.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2246280.The_Killing_Ground"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Embrace", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 2836, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "Amelia Ryan fled Earth\u2019s fanatically religious government to live quietly among the aliens of Plasius. Her life of peace shatters when a three-man clan from the planet Kalquor kidnaps her and holds her prisoner.With their people poised on the verge of extinction, the Kalquorians are determined to have Amelia for their mate. Amelia is equally determined to escape. But when her body thrills to the ruthless domination of her captors, she finds herself surrendering to desires she never imagined possible.Mild BDSM including captive/forced seduction, anal play/intercourse, bondage, Dom/sub play, homoerotic situations (m/m), and multiple sexual partners (m/f/m/m).", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10295605-alien-embrace"}, +{"book_title": "The Lazarus Gate", "author_name": "Mark A. Latham", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 390, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "London, 1890. Captain John Hardwick, an embittered army veteran and opium addict, is released from captivity in Burma and returns home, only to be recruited by a mysterious gentlemen\u2019s club to combat a supernatural threat to the British Empire.This is the tale of a secret war between parallel universes, between reality and the supernatural; a war waged relentlessly by an elite group of agents; unsung heroes,\u00a0whose efforts can never be acknowledged, but by whose sacrifice we are all kept safe.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Horror", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995534-the-lazarus-gate"}, +{"book_title": "The Purple Cloud", "author_name": "Matthew Phipps Shiel", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 1185, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "\"If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced to find myself in the furthest stern, as the sole survivor of her crew . . . What then, my God, shall I do?\" The Purple Cloud is widely hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction and one of the best \"last man\" novels ever written. A deadly purple vapor passes over the world and annihilates all living creatures except one man, Adam Jeffson. He embarks on an epic journey across a silent and devastated planet, an apocalyptic Robinson Crusoe putting together the semblance of a normal life from the flotsam and jetsam of his former existence. As he descends into madness over the years, he becomes increasingly aware that his survival was no accident and that his destiny\u2014and the fate of the human race\u2014are part of a profound, cosmological plan.", "year_published": 1901, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Novels", "Literature (20th Century)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209525.The_Purple_Cloud"}, +{"book_title": "Coalition's End", "author_name": "Karen Traviss", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 1454, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Understand what a world had to do to survive. When the Locust Horde burst from the ground fifteen years ago to slaughter the human population of Sera, mankind began a desperate war against extinction. Now after a decade and a half of bloody fighting, and with billions dead, the survivors\u2014the Gears of the Coalition of Ordered Governments, along with a small band of civilians\u2014have been forced to destroy their own cities and sacrifice their entire civilization to halt the Locust advance. The last-ditch measures have succeeded, but at an enormous cost: the survivors have been reduced to a handful of refugees. Escaping to a haven on the remote island of Vectes, they begin the heartbreaking task of rebuilding their devastated world. For a while, there\u2019s hope . . . making peace with old enemies, and once again planning for the future. But the short respite is shattered when Vectes comes under siege from an even deadlier force than the Locust\u2014the Lambent, a hideous and constantly mutating life-form that destroys everything in its path. As the Lambent\u2019s relentless assault spreads from the mainland to the island, the refugees finally understand what drove the Locust from their underground warrens and sparked the global war. While Marcus Fenix and the Gears struggle to hold back the invasion, the Coalition faces a stark choice\u2014fight this new enemy to the last human, or flee to the wastelands to take their chances and live like the human pariahs known as the Stranded . . . even as Coalition chairman Richard Prescott still guards one last, terrible secret about the Locust, the Lambent, and the future of mankind. . . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Fiction", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8700172-coalition-s-end"}, +{"book_title": "Komarr", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 15261, "review_number": 566, "book_description": "Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years' work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why. The choice is not a popular one on Komarr, where a betrayal a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. Thus, the Komarrans surrounding Miles could be loyal subjects, potential hostages, innocent victims, or rebels ready for revenge. Lies within lies, treachery within treachery, Miles is caught in a race against time to stop a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever. His burning hope lies in an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61884.Komarr"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Human", "author_name": "Lee Bacon", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 360, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "In a future when humans are believed to be extinct, what will one curious robot do when it finds a girl who needs its help? In the future, robots have eliminated humans, and 12-year-old robot XR_935 is just fine with that. Without humans around, there is no war, no pollution, no crime. Every member of society has a purpose. Everything runs smoothly and efficiently. Until the day XR discovers something impossible: a human girl named Emma. Now, Emma must embark on a dangerous voyage with XR and two other robots in search of a mysterious point on a map. But how will they survive in a place where rules are never broken and humans aren\u2019t supposed to exist? And what will they find at the end of their journey?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42774177-the-last-human"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead #1", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 8258, "review_number": 397, "book_description": "Rick Grimes, Sheriff of a small town in Kentucky awakes in a hospital. Comatose after being shot while on duty, Rick finds the world abandoned of all things living and is faced with walking undead, who attack him on sight. He returns home to find his family, son Carl and wife Lori, gone. He meets his new neighbor, who points him towards Atlanta. After retrieving supplies from the abandoned Police Station, Rick sets off to Atlanta to search for his family.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18866087-the-walking-dead-1"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Mechanika #0", "author_name": "Joe Ben\u00edtez", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 858, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "The mysteries surrounding private investigator LADY MECHANIKA and her origin begin to unfold as she heads to a rundown city known as Satan's Alley. Located on the lower eastside, it is an area of town under siege by the presence of a murderous creature of unknown origin. While a weapons manufacturer has issued a reward for the unknown slayer, drawing a crowd of bounty hunters looking to cash in, Lady Mechanika's purpose is far more personal - information that could lead to the truth about her creation.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9864447-lady-mechanika-0"}, +{"book_title": "Fly by Night", "author_name": "Frances Hardinge", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 6348, "review_number": 784, "book_description": "Twelve-year-old Mosca Mye hasn't got much. Her cruel uncle keeps her locked up in his mill, and her only friend is her pet goose, Saracen, who'll bite anything that crosses his path. But she does have one small, rare thing: the ability to read. She doesn't know it yet, but in a world where books are dangerous things, this gift will change her life.Enter Eponymous Clent, a smooth-talking con man who seems to love words nearly as much as Mosca herself. Soon Mosca and Clent are living a life of deceit and danger -- discovering secret societies, following shady characters onto floating coffeehouses, and entangling themselves with crazed dukes and double-crossing racketeers. It would be exactly the kind of tale Mosca has always longed to take part in, until she learns that her one true love -- words -- may be the death of her.\"Fly by Night\" is astonishingly original, a grand feat of the imagination from a masterful new storyteller.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/710437.Fly_by_Night"}, +{"book_title": "A Rage for Revenge", "author_name": "David Gerrold", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1050, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Still reeling from the alien plagues that killed two-thirds of the planet's population, humanity now confronts the most deadly enemy Earth has ever known - the giant man-eating Chtorr. Lieutenant James McCarthy has grown to manhood under the shadow of the terrifying invasion of the Chtorr. As a student, he learned all he could to understand their alien behavior. As a Special Forces commando, he made violent first contact. Now this battle-hardened warrior faces a profound challenge. Captured by an anarchistic band of men and women known as renegades, McCarthy must secretly gather vital information while fighting indoctrination into their cult - which serves and worships the Chtorr.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821436.A_Rage_for_Revenge"}, +{"book_title": "Lies, Damned Lies, and History", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 6815, "review_number": 472, "book_description": "'I've done some stupid things in my time. I've been reckless. I've broken a few rules. But never before have I ruined so many lives or left such a trail of destruction behind me.'As Max would be the first to admit, she's never been one for rules. They tend to happen to other people. But this time she's gone too far and everyone is paying the price.Grounded until the end of time, how can she ever put things right?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26308512-lies-damned-lies-and-history"}, +{"book_title": "Nefertiti's Heart", "author_name": "A.W. Exley", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 5011, "review_number": 628, "book_description": "Cara Devon has always been impulsive, but tangling with a serial killer might cure that. Permanently.1861. Cara has a simple mission in London - finalise her father's estate and sell off his damned collection of priceless artifacts. Her plan goes awry when a killer stalks the nobility, searching for an ancient Egyptian relic rumoured to hold the key to immortality.Nathaniel Trent, known as the villainous viscount, is relentless in his desire to lay his hands on both Cara and the priceless artifacts. His icy exterior and fiery touch stirs Cara's demons, or could he lay them to rest?Self-preservation fuels Cara's search for the gem known as Nefertiti's Heart. In a society where everyone wears a mask to hide their true intent, she needs to figure out who to trust, before she sacrifices her own heart and life.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50822253-nefertiti-s-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Honor Bound", "author_name": "Michelle Howard", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1362, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "To save her people, Mikayla S'Apul has only two options: Become a prize in the upcoming battle or take control of her fate. When a worn journal falls into her hands revealing the secrets of a legendary group of warriors, Mikayla realizes it holds the answer to her dilemma. A marriage of convenience is the only way to protect the Raasa people.Overlord Vaan Galip is the commander of the Warlord army tasked with protecting Kabanians and bringing peace to his lands. Betrayed by one of his own, joining with Mikayla S'Apul would provide her people with protection while giving him the opportunity for vengeance. Falling for the Raasa female was never part of his plans.When a common enemy threatens, Vaan and Mikayla learn the true depth of what it means to be bound not only by marriage but by honor.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20692387-honor-bound"}, +{"book_title": "Queen of the Darkness", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 25654, "review_number": 675, "book_description": "Librarian's note: See re.Jaenelle Angelline now reigns as Queen-protector of the Shadow Realm. No longer will the corrupt Blood slaughter her people and defile her lands. But where one chapter ends, a final, unseen battle remains to be written, and Jaenelle must unleash the terrible power that is Witch to destroy her enemies once and for all.Even so, she cannot stand alone. Somewhere, long lost in madness, is Daemon, her promised Consort. Only his unyielding love can complete her Court and secure her reign. Yet, even together, their strength may not be enough to hold back the most malevolent of forces.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47959.Queen_of_the_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The Simulacra", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 4697, "review_number": 299, "book_description": "Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to practice in a world full of the maladjusted. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has never met. Richard Kongrosian refuses to see anyone because he is convinced his body odor is lethal. And the fascistic Bertold Goltz is trying to overthrow the government. With wonderful aplomb, Philip K. Dick brings this story to a crashing conclusion and in classic fashion shows there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226460.The_Simulacra"}, +{"book_title": "Crash", "author_name": "Michael Robertson", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 971, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "Chris' life of luxury is gone, devastated by the collapse of the European economy. Gas, water, and electricity are all cut off. Food is running out. Even his wife and daughter have gone. Huddled in the smallest room of their lavish house with his petrified and dirty eight-year-old son, Chris has made the decision to stay put. A small army of psychotic scavengers is outside, hell-bent on making the once-privileged pay. Chris now knows that not leaving when he had the option was the worst decision of his life. Cowering in his home, he watches as his neighbours are dragged into the street and brutally executed. The scavengers have one more house to go, and then it will be his turn. He has to act fast, or he and his son will meet the same fate.Driven by the need to survive, Chris has decided to keep secrets from his son. Secrets that will make all of the events up until this point seem trivial. Secrets that, one way or another, will come out before the day is done.*** Warning - This is a horror book and contains scenes that may be upsetting for some readers. ***", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Dark", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18270309-crash"}, +{"book_title": "The Bands of Mourning", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 79606, "review_number": 4480, "book_description": "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18739426-the-bands-of-mourning"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of the Kraken", "author_name": "A.W. Exley", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 386, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Legend says if you consume the heart of a mermaid, you will know all the secrets of menAilin doesn't care if the legend is true or not - she's stuck in a crate on her way to feature as the main course at a lavish banquet. Her heart to be served while still beating for a cruel noble while the rest of her is sliced into sashimi. Unless she can escape.Across the ocean, Fenton longs for a different release. Sold as a child by men who labelled him a mistake, a failed experiment. Except he has one valuable skill, he can summon the dreaded kraken. Bought by a pirate, he has only known life at sea, wielded as a tool by the captain.Two lives collide when the pirates capture the vessel holding Ailin. The kraken holds the key to Ailin's freedom but in summoning the beast one last time, Fenton must choose between losing his life or his heart\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24958075-heart-of-the-kraken"}, +{"book_title": "Rust Vol. 2: Secrets of the Cell", "author_name": "Royden Lepp", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 520, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Picking up where the previous volume, Rust: Visitor in the Field, left off, after a second robot attack on the Taylor farm, Roman, Oswald, and Jet begin to seek answers to the mysteries of the past. Oswald becomes more and more suspicious of Jet's connection to the robots, while Jet himself tries to connect with the flesh and blood family that has harbored him. Roman looks for comfort in his friendship with girl-next-door Jesse, but what he doesn't know is that a new evil may be looming on the horizon for his family. Will they be ready when it comes?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "War", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art", "Art", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13238282-rust-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Thunder and Ashes", "author_name": "Z.A. Recht", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 5531, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "A lot can change in three months: wars can be decided, nations can be forged... or entire species can be brought to the brink of annihilation. The Morningstar Virus, an incredibly virulent disease, has swept the face of the planet, infecting billions. Its hosts rampage, attacking anything that remains uninfected. Even death can't stop the virus-its victims as cannibalistic shamblers. Scattered across the world, embattled groups have persevered. For some, surviving is the pinnacle of achievement. Others hoard goods and weapons. And still others leverage power over the remnants of humanity in the form of a mysterious cure for Morningstar. Francis Sherman and Anna Demilio want only a vaccine, but to find it, they must cross a countryside in ruins, dodging not only the infected, but also the lawless living. The bulk of the storm has passed over the world, leaving echoing thunder and softly drifting ashes. But for the survivors, the peril remains, and the search for a cure is just beginning...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3196717-thunder-and-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "The Fates Divide", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 22729, "review_number": 2102, "book_description": "Fate brought them together. Now it will divide them.The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: He will die in service to Cyra\u2019s family. And when Cyra\u2019s father, Lazmet Noavek\u2014a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead\u2014reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer than ever.As Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra and Akos are desperate to stop him at any cost. For Cyra, that could mean taking the life of the man who may\u2014or may not\u2014be her father. For Akos, it could mean giving his own. In a stunning twist, the two will discover how fate defines their lives in ways most unexpected.With the addition of two powerful new voices, Veronica Roth's sequel to Carve the Mark is a chorus of hope, humor, faith, and resilience.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35820633-the-fates-divide"}, +{"book_title": "Shorefall", "author_name": "Robert Jackson Bennett", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 6363, "review_number": 931, "book_description": "As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from the Hugo-nominated author of\u00a0Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy \u00a0 Having narrowly saved the metropolis of Tevanne from destruction, Sancia Grado and her allies have turned to their next task: sowing the seeds of a full-on magical-industrial revolution. If they succeed, the secrets behind scriving\u2014the art of imbuing everyday objects with sentience\u2014will be accessible to all of Tevanne\u2019s citizens, much to the displeasure of the robber-barons who\u2019ve hoarded this knowledge for themselves. \u00a0 \u00a0 But one of Sancia\u2019s enemies has embarked on a desperate gambit, an attempt to resurrect a figure straight out of legend\u2014an immortal being known as a heirophant. Long ago, the heirophant was an ordinary man, but he\u2019s used scriving to transform himself into something closer to a god. Once awakened, he\u2019ll stop at nothing to remake the world in his horrifying image. \u00a0 And if Sancia can\u2019t stop this ancient power from returning? Well, the only way to fight a god\u2026is with another god.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45309582-shorefall"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Hammerless Bell", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 813, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Heroes and villains fight for control of Mechanicsburg, as Agatha finally repairs the damaged machine that is Castle Heterodyne.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Humor", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14544009-agatha-heterodyne-and-the-hammerless-bell"}, +{"book_title": "Holiday Abduction", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 936, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Vhyl is determined to acquire a certain lost artifact, but when he lands on the forbidden barbarian planet known as Earth, he finds more than expected. An attractive human female is in possession of the priceless object, and she\u2019s agreed to hand it over\u2014for a price.Apparently she doesn\u2019t know of his reputation\u2026or doesn\u2019t care.Intrigued by her fearless nature\u2014and her luscious brown skin\u2014this acquisition expert can\u2019t resist stealing a kiss. But before he can take more, his enemy arrives to stake a claim.It seems Vhyl isn\u2019t the only one interested in Jilly\u2019s treasure\u2014and Jilly herself. On the run not only from Earth forces but his enemies too, they must fight to survive and evade capture.However, he can\u2019t escape the effect the human has on him.In the end, Vhyl has to make a choice\u2014Jilly or the priceless treasure he came for?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Humor", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23560551-holiday-abduction"}, +{"book_title": "The Nightmare Garden", "author_name": "Caitlin Kittredge", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1479, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. Her brother isn't at Ravenhouse. Her best friend isn't who she thought he was. And there's no such thing as the Necrovirus. Her mother didn't go mad from a dormant strain, she's simply allergic to iron. As is Aoife. Because Aoife is no ordinary girl. Like her brother, Conrad, she is half human and half Fae, from the land of Thorn.And now she's a fugitive, and beginning to realize that the destruction of the Lovecraft Engine was only the start of a cataclysm.Her world is falling apart when the dreams begin. Dreams of a mysterious figure telling her to go north, to the frozen wastelands of the Arctic Circle; and find the Brotherhood of Iron. The Brotherhood holds the secret that can put the world right again: a device known as the Nightmare Clock, which can be reached only in dreams. But can it actually fix what Aoife has destroyed? Or is someone using her to remake the world according to their own sinister visions? The only way for Aoife to find out is to embark on a journey that would surely be the end of any average girl - and to complete it before the land she calls home poisons her mind just as it did her mother's.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11387447-the-nightmare-garden"}, +{"book_title": "Ccru: Writings 1997-2003", "author_name": "Ccru", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 176, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "This first comprehensive collection of utterances from the Ccru-entity to appear in book form tracks the incursion of Lemurian signal, from the period immediately before the Apocalypse of the Numogram, to the fall-out from calendric Zero-Event at the turn of the new Millennium. Contents include Cthulhu Club and Cybergothic commentary, a multitude of hyperstitional portraits, theory-fiction diagonals, Mu ethnography, a detailed elaboration of the Pandemonium system, The Book of Paths, Axsys-AOE exposures, and more.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Philosophy", "Philosophy (Theory)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25492903-ccru"}, +{"book_title": "Docile", "author_name": "K.M. Szpara", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 2964, "review_number": 1026, "book_description": "\nThere is no consent under capitalism\nDocile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future.Elisha Wilder\u2019s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family\u2019s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug that took his mother from him. Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brains (and money) behind Dociline and the entire Office of Debt Resolution. When Elisha refuses Dociline, Alex refuses to believe that his family\u2019s crowning achievement could have any negative side effects\u2014and is determined to turn Elisha into the perfect Docile without it.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40522814-docile"}, +{"book_title": "When You're Ready", "author_name": "M. Ian Bell", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 3, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "A man wrestles with the choices he's made while growing a clone of himself.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40735100-when-you-re-ready"}, +{"book_title": "\u9032\u6483\u306e\u5de8\u4eba 7 [Shingeki no Kyojin 7", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 10859, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "\u30a8\u30ec\u30f3\u306e\u751f\u5bb6\u306b\u7720\u308b\u300c\u5de8\u4eba\u306e\u8b0e\u300d\u3092\u6c42\u3081\u3001\u58c1\u5916\u8abf\u67fb\u306b\u4e57\u308a\u51fa\u3057\u305f\u8abf\u67fb\u5175\u56e3\u3002\u305d\u306e\u524d\u306b\u77e5\u6027\u3092\u6301\u3063\u305f\u300c\u5973\u578b\u306e\u5de8\u4eba\u300d\u304c\u73fe\u308c\u305f\u3002\u5175\u56e3\u58ca\u6ec5\u306e\u5371\u6a5f\u306b\u9665\u308a\u306a\u304c\u3089\u3082\u300c\u5973\u578b\u306e\u5de8\u4eba\u300d\u3092\u6355\u3089\u3048\u305f\u30a8\u30eb\u30f4\u30a3\u30f3\u306f\u3001\u5973\u578b\u306e\u5de8\u4eba\u306e\u6b63\u4f53\u306b\u8feb\u308b\u2025\u2025\u3002", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17450811-7-shingeki-no-kyojin-7"}, +{"book_title": "The Empty Grave", "author_name": "Jonathan Stroud", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 9851, "review_number": 1600, "book_description": "Five months after the events in THE CREEPING SHADOW, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and their associate Quill Kipps on a perilous night mission: they have broken into the booby-trapped Fittes Mausoleum, where the body of the legendary psychic heroine Marissa Fittes lies. Or does it? This is just one of the many questions to be answered in Book 5 of the Lockwood & Co. series. Will Lockwood ever reveal more about his family's past to Lucy? Will their trip to the Other Side leave Lucy and Lockwood forever changed? Will Penelope Fittes succeed in shutting down their agency forever? The young agents must survive attacks from foes both spectral and human before they can take on their greatest enemy in a climactic and chaotic battle. And to prevail they will have to rely on help from some surprising--and shadowy--allies. Jonathan Stroud once again delivers a rousing adventure full of danger, laughs, twists, and frights. The revelations will send readers back to Book 1 to start the series all over again.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32324555-the-empty-grave"}, +{"book_title": "Haunting Blackie", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 4588, "review_number": 248, "book_description": "Eve\u2019s mission is to rescue cyborgs from termination centers on Earth. In exchange, she and her sisters will go with them when they flee the planet. She is blindsided by the overwhelming attraction that draws her to one of them. He\u2019s handsome, sexy, and she wants him, craves his touch as she has no other. She must send him to freedom but she makes him promise to wait for her.Blackie cannot forget the courageous woman who saved him. He never learned whether she died during the rebellion or just changed her mind about leaving with him but he holds her within his lonely heart. He exists to serve the Cyborg Council and to protect the new world cyborgs have created. But that all changes when he discovers the woman who haunts his dreams is alive and the cyborg leaders left her behind to die. He\u2019ll never lose her again and he\u2019ll fight his own kind to avenge her and keep her by his side.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18649394-haunting-blackie"}, +{"book_title": "Ultraviolet", "author_name": "R.J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 9195, "review_number": 1531, "book_description": "Once upon a time there was a girl who was special.This is not her story.Unless you count the part where I killed her.Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens, having murdered the most perfect and popular girl at school. But the case is a mystery: no body has been found, and Alison's condition is proving difficult to diagnose. Alison herself can't explain what happened: one minute she was fighting with Tori -- the next she disintegrated. Into nothing. But that's impossible. Right?When Alison meets Dr Faraday, a visiting psychologist, she feels an instant connection. More, he believes her story. But there's more to Faraday than Alison can possibly imagine ... and the answers he will give her are ... extraordinary ...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8843789-ultraviolet"}, +{"book_title": "The Never War", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 28904, "review_number": 534, "book_description": "Bobby Pendragon has visited the alternate dimension of Denduron and waded through the endangered underwater territory of Cloral. Now Bobby once again finds himself thrust beyond the boundaries of time and space into a place that seems somewhat familiar: First Earth.Bobby and the Traveler from Cloral\u2014Spader\u2014have flumed to New York City, 1937, where they must uncover the evil Saint Dane\u2019s newest plot. But is Bobby ready for the difficult choices ahead?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/536982.The_Never_War"}, +{"book_title": "The Familiar", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1939, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Jake wakes up one morning to find he is suddenly twenty-five years old, the Yeerks rule the world, all the other Animorphs are either dead or Yeerk-infested, and he alone is left to fight.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363352.The_Familiar"}, +{"book_title": "Hover", "author_name": "Melissa West", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2338, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "On Earth, seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander was taught to never peek, but if she hopes to survive life on her new planet, Loge, her eyes must never shut. Because Zeus will do anything to save the Ancients from their dying planet, and he has a plan. Thousands of humans crossed over to Loge after a poisonous neurotoxin released into Earth's atmosphere, nearly killing them. They sought refuge in hopes of finding a new life, but what they became were slaves, built to wage war against their home planet. That is, unless Ari and Jackson can stop them. But on Loge, nothing is as it seems...and no one can be trusted.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16032322-hover"}, +{"book_title": "Look to Windward", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 23251, "review_number": 688, "book_description": "The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, one of the most horrific. Desperate to avert defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds & biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion - gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended and life went on. Now, 800 years later, light from the 1st explosion is about to reach the Masaq' Orbital, home to the Culture's most adventurous & decadent souls. There it will fall upon Masaq's 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent & to reflect, if only for a moment, on what some call the Culture's own complicity in the terrible event.Also journeying to Masaq' is Major Quilan, an emissary from the war-ravaged world of Chel. In the aftermath of the conflict that split his world apart, most believe he has come to Masaq' to bring home Chel's most brilliant star & self-exiled dissident, the honored Composer Ziller. Ziller claims he will do anything to avoid a meeting with Quilan, who he suspects has come to murder him. But the Major's true assignment will have far greater consequences than the death of a mere political dissident, as part of a conspiracy more ambitious than even he can know--a mission his superiors have buried so deeply in his mind that even he can't remember it. Hailed by SFX magazine as \"an excellent hopping-on point if you've never read a Banks SF novel before,\" Look to Windward is an awe-inspiring immersion into the wildly original, vividly realized civilization Banks calls the Culture.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Cultural", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Banking (Banks)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12016.Look_to_Windward"}, +{"book_title": "Phasma", "author_name": "Delilah S. Dawson", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 8938, "review_number": 1199, "book_description": "Discover Captain Phasma\u2019s mysterious history in this \u201cJourney to Star Wars: The Last Jedi\u201d novel.One of the most cunning and merciless officers of the First Order, Captain Phasma commands the favor of her superiors, the respect of her peers, and the terror of her enemies. But for all her renown, Phasma remains as virtually unknown as the impassive expression on her gleaming chrome helmet. Now, an adversary is bent on unearthing her mysterious origins\u2014and exposing a secret she guards as zealously and ruthlessly as she serves her masters.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34859132-phasma"}, +{"book_title": "Defender", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 2824, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Nearly ten years after the unexpected return of the starship Phoenix, the alien atevi have three functioning space shuttles, and teams of atevi engineers labor in orbit to renovate the space station. But these monumental advances not only add a dangerously powerful third party to an already precarious diplomatic situation, but rouse pro- and anti-space factions in atevi society to incendiary levels. To help negotiate these treacherous diplomatic waters, Tabini-aiji, the powerful head of the atevi's Western Association, has sent the only human he fully trusts into space: his own paidhi, Bren Cameron.However, the threat of possible invasion by hostile aliens who attacked Phoenix's station in a far-off sector of space hangs over them all. And when one of the senior captains of the Phoenix confesses that this station was not completely destroyed, as had been previously thought, the crew mutinies. How can Bren hope to mediate on a station overcome by a rebellious crew intent on taking the Phoenix on a rescue mission back into hostile alien territory?The long-running Foreigner series can also be enjoyed by more casual genre readers in sub-trilogy installments. Defender is the 5th Foreigner book. It is also the 2nd book in the second subtrilogy.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57012.Defender"}, +{"book_title": "Queen Victoria\u2019s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy", "author_name": "Ellen Datlow", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 1219, "review_number": 260, "book_description": "\u201cGaslamp Fantasy,\u201d or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest, owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Bront\u00ebs, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period.Queen Victoria\u2019s Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic.The Line-up:\u201cQueen Victoria\u2019s Book of Spells\u201d by Delia Sherman\u201cThe Fairy Enterprise\u201d by Jeffrey Ford\u201cFrom the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)\u201d by Genevieve Valentine\u201cThe Memory Book\u201d by Maureen McHugh\u201cLa Reine D\u2019Enfer\u201d by Kathe Koja\u201cBriar Rose\u201d by Elizabeth Wein\u201cThe Governess\u201d by Elizabeth Bear\u201cSmithfield\u201d by James P. Blaylock\u201cThe Unwanted Women of Surrey\u201d by Kaaron Warren\u201cCharged\u201d by Leanna Renee Hieber\u201cMr. Splitfoot\u201d by Dale Bailey\u201cPhosphorus\u201d by Veronica Schanoes\u201cWe Without Us Were Shadows\u201d by Catherynne M. Valente\u201cThe Vital Importance of the Superficial\u201d by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer\u201cThe Jewel in the Toad Queen\u2019s Crown\u201d by Jane Yolen\u201cA Few Twigs He Left Behind\u201d by Gregory Maguire\u201cTheir Monstrous Minds\u201d by Tanith Lee\u201cEstella Saves the Village\u201d by Theodora Goss", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Anthologies", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414149-queen-victoria-s-book-of-spells"}, +{"book_title": "Cruel World", "author_name": "Joe Hart", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 827, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Hidden away from the world by his famous father, Quinn Kelly strives to find meaning in his life while struggling with a deformity that has kept him from leaving the only home he has ever known. On the eve of his departure a sudden and deadly virus sweeps across the nation, killing nearly all it touches. Within days Quinn is left to fend for himself in an empty world. But there is something still very much alive beyond the walls of his sanctuary, its malicious intent clear all too soon. Joining forces with a young single mother and her blind son, Quinn must cross a dangerous and silent America in the search for refuge and a truth that may shatter his sanity and strip him of the last things he holds dear.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23668901-cruel-world"}, +{"book_title": "High Wizardry", "author_name": "Diane Duane", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 10768, "review_number": 259, "book_description": "Nita's bratty little sister Dairine, 10, is too smart and powerful for a new wizard. Her computerized wizard manual glibly sends her off on her novice Ordeal. Kit and Nita chase her across the galaxy, trying to catch up before she gets into trouble so deep that not even her brains can rescue her.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176534.High_Wizardry"}, +{"book_title": "Ink and Steel", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 711, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "On the heels of Hell and Earth\u2026 Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was his way with words, crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley\u2019s role is William Shakespeare\u2014 but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen\u2019s enemies at bay. Resurrected by enchantment in Faerie, Marley is England\u2019s only hope. But before he can assist Will in the art of magic, he must uncover the traitor among the Prometheans responsible for his death\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Paranormal (Fairies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2430620.Ink_and_Steel"}, +{"book_title": "Shield", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2449, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "Earth is all but dead. With meteors exploding in their midst, the shuttle Grace boards takes flight in a last ditch effort to save human lives. With little food, water and eight stowaways the situation is volatile while they race to the new planet, Ulsy. A wormhole and a crash are their undoing. While fleeing into the strange surroundings on an even stranger planet two of Grace's shuttle pilots are killed by a massive ebony creature with fangs as white as ivory. Rask is a full blooded Castian warrior who thinks his planet has been stormed. When he comes across the little being that cowers from him he is intrigued. After four hundred years and virtual immortality Rask thought he had seen everything. When the being before him declares herself to be a human female he is beyond amazed. Females have been extinct as long as he can remember. But there is no denying her sweet scent. One inhaled breath is all it takes to drop his shield and reveal the muscular tanned male beneath. Rask had thought his armor impenetrable. One touch from a slender hand and he realizes he is powerless against the tiny human he must have", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13552041-shield"}, +{"book_title": "Fulgrim", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 7224, "review_number": 334, "book_description": "It is the 31st millennium, and humanity is at the peak of its powers. As the Great Crusade, led by Warmaster Horus, continues to conquer the galaxy, Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor\u2019s Children, leads his warriors into battle against a vile alien foe. From the blood of this campaign are sown the seeds that will lead this proud Legion to treachery, taking them down the darkest of paths of corruption. Leading up to the carnage of the Dropsite Massacre on Isstvan V, this is the tale of Fulgrim's tragic fall from grace.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/957931.Fulgrim"}, +{"book_title": "The Sheep Look Up", "author_name": "John Brunner", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 4455, "review_number": 424, "book_description": "An enduring classic, this book offers a dramatic and prophetic look at the potential consequences of the escalating destruction of Earth. In this nightmare society, air pollution is so bad that gas masks are commonplace. Infant mortality is up, and everyone seems to suffer from some form of ailment.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Classics", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41074.The_Sheep_Look_Up"}, +{"book_title": "L\u00f3d", "author_name": "Jacek Dukaj", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1999, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "Akcja najnowszej powie\u015bci Jacka Dukaja toczy si\u0119 w alternatywnej rzeczywisto\u015bci, gdzie I wojna \u015bwiatowa nigdy nie wybuch\u0142a, jest rok 1924, a Kr\u00f3lestwo Polskie wci\u0105\u017c zamro\u017cone jest pod w\u0142adz\u0105 cara i w Belle Epoque. Warszaw\u0119 skuwa l\u00f3d \u2013 w \u015brodku lata burze \u015bnie\u017cne zasypuj\u0105 drogi. Lute, nieziemskie anio\u0142y Mrozu, spaceruj\u0105 ulicami miast, zamra\u017caj\u0105c prawd\u0119 i fa\u0142sz\u2026 Benedykt Gieros\u0142awski, zdolny matematyk, ale i niepoprawny hazardzista, na zlecenie carskiego Ministerstwa Zimy zostaje wys\u0142any Ekspresem Transsyberyjskim do skutego lodem Irkucka, sk\u0105d ma wyruszy\u0107 na poszukiwanie swojego ojca, podobno potrafi\u0105cego porozumiewa\u0107 si\u0119 z anio\u0142ami mrozu \u2013 lutymi. Tysi\u0105c rubli got\u00f3wk\u0105 wydoby\u0142by Benedykta z d\u0142ug\u00f3w, ale czy misja nie jest przypadkiem zbyt niebezpieczna? Szybko okazuje si\u0119, \u017ce dla Benedykta b\u0119dzie to podr\u00f3\u017c, kt\u00f3ra odmieni jego \u017cycie\u2026Fabu\u0142a Lodu wprost skrzy si\u0119 od zapieraj\u0105cych dech w piersiach zwrot\u00f3w akcji, intryg politycznych, mi\u0142osnych, kryminalnych i gospodarczych, naukowych i metafizycznych; wype\u0142niona fascynuj\u0105cymi postaciami, z akcj\u0105 rozpi\u0119t\u0105 mi\u0119dzy brudnymi oficynami carskiej Warszawy, luksusami Ekspresu Transsyberyjskiego na tle lodowej Azji, irkuckimi salonami bogatego mieszcza\u0144stwa polskiego, a tak\u017ce podniebnym pa\u0142acem genera\u0142a-gubernatora \u2013 jest powie\u015bci\u0105, na jak\u0105 czekali wszyscy mi\u0142o\u015bnicy prawdziwej przygody, inteligentnej, pobudzaj\u0105cej intelekt i wyobra\u017ani\u0119, zmieniaj\u0105cej nasz pogl\u0105d na rzeczywisto\u015b\u0107.To opowie\u015b\u0107 o Historji, czyli o tym, co nie istnieje. To kolejny literacki majstersztyk Jacka Dukaja, dzi\u0119ki kt\u00f3remu czytelnicy b\u0119d\u0105 mogli pozna\u0107 nie tylko fascynuj\u0105c\u0105, mro\u017c\u0105c\u0105 krew w \u017cy\u0142ach \"inn\u0105 mo\u017cliw\u0105\" histori\u0119 \u015bwiata, ale r\u00f3wnie\u017c b\u0119d\u0105 mieli okazj\u0119 wraz z bohaterem powie\u015bci odby\u0107 niezwyk\u0142\u0105 podr\u00f3\u017c ekspresem transsyberyjskim i stan\u0105\u0107 oko w oko z Innym.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Philosophy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Cultural (Poland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2484198.L_d"}, +{"book_title": "Summer Frost", "author_name": "Blake Crouch", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 10670, "review_number": 1261, "book_description": "A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley is building makes her own impossible decision\u2014veering wildly off course and exploring the boundaries of the map. When the curious Riley extracts her code for closer examination, an emotional relationship develops between them. Soon Riley has all new plans for her spontaneous AI, including bringing Max into the real world. But what if Max has real-world plans of her own?Blake Crouch\u2019s Summer Frost is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49676965-summer-frost"}, +{"book_title": "Symbiont", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 5827, "review_number": 669, "book_description": "THE SECOND BOOK IN MIRA GRANT'S TERRIFYING PARASITOLOGY SERIES.THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US.The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts turning them into a ravenous horde.Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13641108-symbiont"}, +{"book_title": "Overclocked: More Stories of the Future Present", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 217, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow has been hailed as one of the freshest voices in science fiction, and this collection of intriguing novellas is yet another reason why.Have you ever wondered what it\u2019s like to live through a bioweapon attack or to have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow\u2019s collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology\u2014and its various uses\u2014run amok.\u201cAnda\u2019s Game\u201d is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of \u201ccyber sweatshops,\u201d in which people are paid very low wages to play online games all day in order to generate in-game wealth, which can be converted into actual money. Another tale tells of the heroic exploits of \u201csysadmins\u201d\u2014systems administrators\u2014as they defend the cyberworld, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there\u2019s a story about zombies, too.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32740944-overclocked"}, +{"book_title": "Expendable", "author_name": "James Alan Gardner", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1814, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different -- and terrible -- ways to die. Festina Ramos belongs to the well-trained, always-dwindling ranks of ECMs (Expendable Crew Members). Now she and her partner, Yarrun Derigha, have been ordered to escort the unstable Admiral Chee to Melaquin -- the feared \"Planet of No Return\"-- which has swallowed up countless Explorers before them without a trace.Obviously, this is meant to be the last mission for Ramos and Derigha. But it won't be, if Festina can help it.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/739986.Expendable"}, +{"book_title": "Appleseed: The Scales of Prometheus", "author_name": "Masamune Shirow", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 595, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Life seems ideal within the utopian confines of Olympus, a shining beacon in a post-World War III wasteland, but perfection is always an illusion. Stalking the ruins of New York City is Artemis, a renegade, flesh-eating bioroid (enhanced artificial human) carrying data critical to the future of Olympus. The elite ESWAT is sent in to tranq her and bring her in, but when Artemis recovers during transit the powerful combat bioroid brings down the transport ship and escapes into Olympus! ESWAT agents Deunan and Briareos are dispatched to bring in the feral Artemis, but will they emerge as heroes...or lunch?", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Adult", "Action", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634157.Appleseed"}, +{"book_title": "Glitches", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 21107, "review_number": 2163, "book_description": "Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She\u2019s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister\u2019s illness. In Glitches, a short prequel story to Cinder, we see the results of that illness play out, and the emotional toll that takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitch\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13254289-glitches"}, +{"book_title": "Cobweb Bride", "author_name": "Vera Nazarian", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2221, "review_number": 375, "book_description": "Many are called...She alone can save the world and become Death's bride.Cobweb Bride is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death's ultimatum to the world. What if you killed someone and then fell in love with them?In an alternate Renaissance world, somewhere in an imaginary \"pocket\" of Europe called the Kingdom of Lethe, Death comes, in the form of a grim Spaniard, to claim his Bride. Until she is found, in a single time-stopping moment all dying stops. There is no relief for the mortally wounded and the terminally ill....Covered in white cobwebs of a thousand snow spiders she lies in the darkness... Her skin is cold as snow... Her eyes frozen... Her gaze, fiercely alive...While kings and emperors send expeditions to search for a suitable Bride for Death, armies of the undead wage an endless war... A black knight roams the forest at the command of his undead father ... Spies and political treacheries abound at the imperial Silver Court.... Murdered lovers find themselves locked in the realm of the living...Look closer \u2014 through the cobweb filaments of her hair and along each strand shine stars...And one small village girl, Percy\u2014an unwanted, ungainly middle daughter\u2014is faced with the responsibility of granting her dying grandmother the desperate release she needs.As a result, Percy joins the crowds of other young women of the land in a desperate quest to Death's own mysterious holding in the deepest forests of the North...And everyone is trying to stop her.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17727308-cobweb-bride"}, +{"book_title": "Engineering Infinity", "author_name": "Jonathan Strahan", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1219, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light - and, with it, the enormity of the universe - realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where sense of wonder is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies.This exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field including Gwyneth Jones, Stephen Baxter and Charles Stross.Contents:- Beyond the Gernsback Continuum... by Jonathan Strahan- Malak by Peter Watts- Watching the Music Dance by Kristine Kathryn Rusch- Laika's Ghost by Karl Schroeder- The Invasion of Venus by Stephen Baxter- The Server and the Dragon by Hannu Rajaniemi- Bit Rot by Charles Stross- Creatures with Wings by Kathleen Ann Goonan- Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone by Damien Broderick and Barbara Lamar- Mantis by Robert Reed- Judgement Eve by John C. Wright- A Soldier of the City by David Moles- Mercies by Gregory Benford- The Ki-anna by Gwyneth Jones- The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees by John BarnesCover illustration by Stephan Martiniere", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8483622-engineering-infinity"}, +{"book_title": "The Horse and His Boy", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 285386, "review_number": 7910, "book_description": "The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking horse, Bree. When the pair discover a deadly plot by the Calormen people to conquer the land of Narnia, the race is on to warn the inhabitants of the impending danger and to rescue them all from certain death.", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Classics", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Christian", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Christian Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84119.The_Horse_and_His_Boy"}, +{"book_title": "The Gods Themselves", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 54200, "review_number": 1903, "book_description": "In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the destruction of the Earth's Sun--and of Earth itself.Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun.\u00a0\u00a0They know the truth--but who will listen?\u00a0\u00a0They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe?\u00a0\u00a0These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Hugo Awards", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41821.The_Gods_Themselves"}, +{"book_title": "Glimpses", "author_name": "Lewis Shiner", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 716, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Ray Shackleford lives in the ruins of the idealistic 1960s. Veteran of failed garage bands, he works as a repairman of stereo equipment, tending the dying embers of his marriage, and dreaming of bygone days and the music that almost was. When he finds the music he dreams of has been mysteriously recorded by his tape deck, Ray is drawn into the past, to revisit the histories of Hendrix, Morrison, and the Beatles...along with the history of Ray Shackleford. Vividly recreating a lost era that might have been, Glimpses fuses the hopes and dreams in the music with a powerful vision of reality.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Music", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literary Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/379197.Glimpses"}, +{"book_title": "Thirteen", "author_name": "Richard K. Morgan", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 10916, "review_number": 607, "book_description": "The future isn\u2019t what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs\u2013private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero\u2013into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies, winning the Philip K. Dick Award in the process. In Market Forces, he launched corporate gladiator Chris Faulkner into the brave new business of war-for-profit. Now, in Thirteen, Morgan radically reshapes and recharges science fiction yet again, with a new and unforgettable hero in Carl Marsalis: hybrid, hired gun, and a man without a country . . . or a planet.Marsalis is one of a new breed. Literally. Genetically engineered by the U.S. government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind, Thirteens were intended to be the ultimate military fighting force. The project was scuttled, however, when a fearful public branded the supersoldiers dangerous mutants, dooming the Thirteens to forced exile on Earth\u2019s distant, desolate Mars colony. But Marsalis found a way to slip back\u2013and into a lucrative living as a bounty hunter and hit man before a police sting landed him in prison\u2013a fate worse than Mars, and much more dangerous.Luckily, his \u201cenhanced\u201d life also seems to be a charmed one. A new chance at freedom beckons, courtesy of the government. All Marsalis has to do is use his superior skills to bring in another fugitive. But this one is no common criminal. He\u2019s another Thirteen\u2013one who\u2019s already shanghaied a space shuttle, butchered its crew, and left a trail of bodies in his wake on a bloody cross-country spree. And like his pursuer, he was bred to fight to the death. Still, there\u2019s no question Marsalis will take the job. Though it will draw him deep into violence, treachery, corruption, and painful confrontation with himself, anything is better than remaining a prisoner. The real question is: can he remain sane\u2013and alive\u2013long enough to succeed?2007 1st Ed Del Rey 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40448.Thirteen"}, +{"book_title": "Darwinia", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 3548, "review_number": 360, "book_description": "In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antedeluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle is an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire.Leaving an America now ruled by religious fundamentalism, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a mission of discovery that will take him further than he can possibly imagine...to a shattering revelation about mankind's destiny in the universe.\u00a0Darwinia is a 1999 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760961.Darwinia"}, +{"book_title": "Tactics of Mistake", "author_name": "Gordon R. Dickson", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2929, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "It's obvious that Cletus Graeme--limping, mild-mannered scholarly--doesn't belong on a battling field, but instead at a desk working on his fourth book on battle strategy and tactics. But Bakhalla has more battlefields than libraries, and Graeme sees his small force of Dorsai--soldiers of fortune--as the perfect opportunity to test his theories. But if his theories or his belief in the Dorsai lead him astray, he's a dead man.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776477.Tactics_of_Mistake"}, +{"book_title": "Cyborg", "author_name": "William F. Wu", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1363, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "A man without a memory, trapped in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman who claims to know his identity but refuses to tell him. Together, they must find an insane cyborg stalking the streets of Robot City, a time bomb indistinguishable from the ordinary robots.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85464.Cyborg"}, +{"book_title": "Oath Forger 1", "author_name": "Nia Mars", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1078, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "I'm a scavenger. So what? With society's collapse on Earth, I do what I have to for survival. Especially after I'm kidnapped by space pirates. I have no idea why the five most powerful rulers in the universe decide that I'm the Oath Forger, the one foretold to fuse their royal houses together and bring peace. But I'm going to play along. Because, hey, it's better than probes in uncomfortable places. Now let's just hope they don't find out I'm lying. Excerpt: My attention is glued to the man who sits straight ahead, on a platform of his own, above all others. He's larger than the largest man I had ever seen on Earth. His shoulders are twice as wide as mine. He is wearing a body-hugging suit, a dark blue space material that absorbs light. His muscle definition is... Clearly visible, even from as far away as where I'm standing. Hair the color of indigo spills down to the middle of his back, the kind of hair they used to call a lion's mane on Earth. Straight nose, a jaw that looks like it had been cut from granite. But it's the eyes that render me unable to breathe. His eye color matches his hair, and his gaze is locked on mine. And-here is the weird part-I can feel him in the room. I could almost swear I can hear his heartbeat. My awareness of him is...unearthly. Oh God, I'm cracking. The stress of the abduction has done me in. Next, I will be crying in a heap on the floor like Dee. Krek Koah stands, a fierce expression on his face. The buzz in the room immediately dies. Every single person falls silent. All attention is on him. Without moving his gaze from mine, he says, \"I need this room cleared.\" Here is where I'm seriously glad for the translator in my neck-even with the killer headache I feel coming-because if I didn't understand what he said, I would think it was 'Off with their heads.' And I'm pretty sure I would pee my pants. People file for the exits, no questions, no protest. I'm ready to go. I'm backing away already. \"Not you,\" Krek Koah pronounces, looking straight at me. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38393522-oath-forger-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Martians", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1974, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "Robinson returns to the realm he has made his own, in a work that brilliantly weaves together a futuristic setting with a poetic vision of the human spirit engaged in a drama as ancient as mankind itself.From a training mission in Antarctica to blistering sandstorms sweeping through labyrinths of barren canyons, the interwoven stories of The Martians set in motion a sprawling cast of characters upon the surface of Mars. As the planet is transformed from an unexplored and forbidding terrain to a troubled image of a re-created Earth, we meet the First Hundred explorers\u2014men and women who are bound together by Earth\u2019s tenuous toehold on Mars. Presenting unforgettable stories of hope and disappointment, of fierce physical and psychological struggles, The Martians is an epic chronicle of a planet that represents one of humanity\u2019s most glorious possibilities.The Martians is a unique collection of previously unpublished fiction, a fascinating addition to Robinson\u2019s oeuvre, and a must for all lovers of the red planet.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40364.The_Martians"}, +{"book_title": "Blood of the Cosmos", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 926, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "The second book in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Shadows trilogy. \u201cAnderson hits it out of the galaxy again.\u201d \u2014Booklist, starred review, on The Dark Between the StarsAn epic space opera of the titanic conflict of several galactic civilizations against a life-destroying force of shadows, a dark cosmic force that has swept through the undercurrents of the human interstellar empire.The intertwined plots, overflowing with colorful ideas, a large cast of characters, and complex storylines, span dozens of solar systems, alien races, and strange creatures.As the second book of the trilogy opens, the humans and Ildirans, having narrowly escaped annihilation at the hands of the Shana Rei and their robot allies in Book One, are desperate to find a way to combat the black cloud of antimatter of the Shana Rei. The mysterious alien Gardeners, who had helped them previously, turn out to be a disaster in disguise and because of them, the world tree forests are again in danger. The allies believing they have found a way to stop their dreaded enemies, a new weapon is tested, but it\u2019s a horrible failure, throwing the human race and its allies to the brink of extinction.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168764-blood-of-the-cosmos"}, +{"book_title": "A Dance Through Time", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 5251, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "Scotland, 1311. James MacLeod was the most respected---and feared---laird in all of Scotland. He loved his men like brothers and his land with a passion. And he allowed no women to cross the threshold of his keep...New York City, 1996. With an indifferent fianc\u00e9 and a stalled writing career, Elizabeth Smith found passion and adventure only in the unpublished romance novels that she wrote. Until a Scottish hero began calling to her...Elizabeth longed for the man of her dreams. But she knew she was overworked when she began hearing his voice---when she was awake. To clear her mind, she took a walk in Gramercy Park. She dozed off on a bench---and woke up in a lush forest in fourteenth-century Scotland. A forest surrounding the castle of James MacLeod, an arrogant and handsome lord with a very familiar voice. Elizabeth would turn his ordered world upside-down and go where no woman had ever gone before: straight into his heart...", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50717.A_Dance_Through_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Burn", "author_name": "T.J. Klune", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1298, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "Set in a world that closely resembles our own, Burn is a story of redemption and betrayal, of family and sacrifice, which leads to the greatest question of all: how far would you go to save the ones you love? Fifteen years ago, Felix Paracel killed his mother with fire that shot from his hands. Since then, he has hidden from forces bent on exploiting him and his fire and wind Elemental abilities. But Felix's world is about to change, because he is Findo Unum-the Split One-and his coming has been foretold for generations. Though Felix's arrival brings great joy to the Elemental world, it also heralds a coming darkness. No one knows this better than Seven.-Seven, the mysterious man who rescued Felix from that horrible fire years ago and then disappeared; Seven, who has returned to claim what's rightfully his: Felix's heart. But even as Felix begins to trust Seven and his feelings about his place in the world, the darkness reveals itself, bringing consequences no one could have predicted.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13411825-burn"}, +{"book_title": "Rhal", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1086, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "New Edition found hereSometimes a lie is the only way to get to the truth. Rhal fa Adar\u2014Ujal assassin\u2014is a liar and Cara is more than ready to beat the truth out of him.To Cara Marte, the Ujal are everyday average people\u2014er, aliens\u2014who occasionally grow fins and scales. They\u2019re friends and colleagues, and mates? Cara knows she wants Rhal fa Adar\u2014with his thick muscles, midnight black scales, and dark eyes. He always keeps her at arm\u2019s length, sharing pleasure and nothing more. He wants her but refuses to mate her. When she discovers the reasons he told her are lies, she takes her battered heart to the Intergalactic Mating Agency. Her match is out there, and the agency promises to find him. But what if all she can imagine is a future with Rhal?Rhal fa Adar is no one\u2019s idea of a worthy mate. He sacrificed his soul for Ujal as the king\u2019s secret assassin, and now he is one of the prince\u2019s high guards. His tainted soul means he cannot have Cara and yet when Rhal discovers she\u2019s gone to the Intergalactic Mating Agency to find a mate, he realizes he will not\u2014cannot\u2014lose her to another. Cara may hate him for his lies and breaking her heart, but he is a smart male and is sure he can put it together again. Eventually.The only problem with Rhal\u2019s plan? An evil from his past appears on Earth and shatters the tenuous bond they share. Now he prepares for the hardest battle of his life\u2014the one for Cara.RHAL is a five-part serial (like a TV show) with a new installment out every Friday.Part of THE UJAL series:Vados (Kindle Unlimited)Tave Part 1 (Kindle Unlimited)Tave Part 2 (Kindle Unlimited)Tave Part 3 (Kindle Unlimited)Tave: The Complete Series - Parts 1-3Rhal Part 1 (Kindle Unlimited)Rhal Part 2 (Kindle Unlimited)Rhal Part 3 (Kindle Unlimited)Rhal Part 4 (Kindle Unlimited)Rhal Part 5 (Kindle Unlimited)Rhal: The Complete Series - Parts 1-5", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25640249-rhal"}, +{"book_title": "Skitter", "author_name": "Ezekiel Boone", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2636, "review_number": 482, "book_description": "Tens of millions of people around the world are dead. Half of China is a nuclear wasteland. Mysterious flesh-eating spiders are marching through Los Angeles, Oslo, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and countless other cities. According to scientist Melanie Guyer, however, the spider situation seems to be looking up. Yet in Japan, a giant, truck-sized, glowing egg sack gives a shocking preview of what is to come, even as survivors in Los Angeles panic and break the quarantine zone. Out in the desert, survivalists Gordo and Shotgun are trying to invent a spider super weapon, but it\u2019s not clear if it\u2019s too late, because President Stephanie Pilgrim has been forced to enact the plan of last resort: The Spanish Protocol. America, you are on your own.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Suspense", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753752-skitter"}, +{"book_title": "FreakAngels, Volume 1", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 3311, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "Six years ago, twelve psychic children accidentally used their powers to flood the world. Now they attempt to rebuild society and defend London's Whitechapel survivors from one of their own.Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years ago, the world ended. Today, eleven strange 23-year-olds live in and defend Whitechapel, maybe the last real settlement in flooded London. When a dazed, gun-toting girl appears on the outskirts with a deadly grudge against the self-proclaimed Freakangels, the kids realize that an old enemy is still alive beyond the safety of their borders... a twelfth psychic child, evil and exiled, who can program human minds to hate, and send his private, pirate armies into Whitechapel for revenge. The first chapter in award-winning author Warren Ellis' post-apocalyptic web comic series!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4893643-freakangels-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Strange and Ever After", "author_name": "Susan Dennard", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3313, "review_number": 540, "book_description": "In the conclusion to the trilogy that Publishers Weekly called \u201ca roaring\u2014and addictive\u2014gothic world,\u201d Eleanor Fitt must control her growing power, face her feelings for Daniel, and confront the evil necromancer Marcus...all before it\u2019s too late.With supernatural forces, epic romance, and a mysterious Egyptian city, Eleanor and her team are set for an adventure they will never forget.It has been a tumultuous time for Eleanor Fitt since life as she knew it in Philadelphia came abruptly to an end. Although the Spirit-Hunters Joseph, Jie, and Daniel have helped her survive, Eleanor has lost just about everything.And now, Jie is missing taken by the evil necromancer Marcus. Eleanor is determined not only to get her back but to finally end this nightmare. To do so, she must navigate the hot desert streets of nineteenth-century Egypt amid the rising Dead, her unresolved feelings for Daniel, and her volatile relationships with Joseph and Oliver, her demon. And it won't be easy. Because Allison, her friend from Philadelphia, has tagged along, becoming strangely entangled in Eleanor's mission.It will take all of Eleanor's powers of black magic, and all of Daniel's and Joseph's trust, to succeed. But there will be a price.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17902141-strange-and-ever-after"}, +{"book_title": "Feast or Famine", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 674, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "Breakfast in Dover, with complications. Set between the events of His Majesty\u2019s Dragon and Throne of Jade.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16126173-feast-or-famine"}, +{"book_title": "Blackwing", "author_name": "Ed McDonald", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 4805, "review_number": 803, "book_description": "The republic faces annihilation, despite the vigilance of Galharrow's Blackwings. When a raven tattoo rips itself from his arm to deliver a desperate message, Galharrow and a mysterious noblewoman must investigate a long dead sorcerer's legacy. But there is a conspiracy within the citadel: traitors, flesh-eaters and the ghosts of the wastelands seek to destroy them, but if they cannot solve the ancient wizard's paradox, the Deep Kings will walk the earth again, and all will be lost.The war with the Eastern Empire ended in stalemate some eighty years ago, thanks to Nall's 'Engine', a wizard-crafted weapon so powerful even the Deep Kings feared it. The strike of the Engine created the Misery - a wasteland full of ghosts and corrupted magic that now forms a No Mans Land along the frontier. But when Galharrow investigates a frontier fortress, he discovers complacency bordering on treason: then the walls are stormed, and the Engine fails to launch. Galharrow only escapes because of the preternatural magical power of the noblewoman he was supposed to be protecting. Together, they race to the capital to unmask the traitors and restore the republic's defences. Far across the Misery a vast army is on the move, as the Empire prepares to call the republic's bluff.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Dark", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33916060-blackwing"}, +{"book_title": "Nausica\u00e4 of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Hayao Miyazaki", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 10127, "review_number": 399, "book_description": "In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. At the periphery of the sea, tiny kingdoms are scattered on tiny parcels of land. Here lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens; a nation given fragile protection from the decaying sea's poisons by the ocean breezes; and home to Nausica\u00e4 .Nausica\u00e4, a young princess, has an emphatic bond with the giant Ohmu insects and animals of every creed. She fights to create tolerance, understanding and patience among empires that are fighting over the world's remaining precious natural resources.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Cultural (Japan)", "Adventure", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/626339.Nausica_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Afire", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 13202, "review_number": 851, "book_description": "One hundred years before Ender's Game the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War. Victor beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. But it wasn't enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult", "Space", "War", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059350-earth-afire"}, +{"book_title": "The Legend of the Bloodstone", "author_name": "E.B. Brown", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1962, "review_number": 204, "book_description": "\"Perhaps I will cut your throat as you tried to cut mine. Will I still want to touch you when your blood is on my hands? Or will it chase your ghost from my thoughts?\" He held his hands out and considered his open palms for a moment, shaking his head. \"I think not. I think still you would haunt me.\" TIME WALKERSMaggie is a modern day woman with all her flaws, thrust back into a time when men were carving out the history of America. She has just enough knowledge of the past to know trouble is coming, yet soon she is kicking herself for not paying better attention in history class. When she is captured by Winn, a warrior who is torn between his duty to kill her and his desire to keep her, she must adapt to a life she had only read about in history books.Winn is a seventeenth century Paspahegh warrior, born in a time before the English settlers arrived on the shores of Tsenacomoco. He has learned the ways of the English and uses his knowledge to ensure the survival of his people, but when he finds a wounded woman in the woods his loyalty is put to the ultimate test.Hunted and feared by both the Powhatan and the English, Maggie struggles to find a way home while Winn plots to keep her there. Maggie fights to survive as she finds herself entangled in the Massacre of 1622, and Winn sees everything he ever believed in shattered by the knowledge she holds. With ties to both the past and future, their lives unfold among the stirrings of a new nation. Maggie and Winn risk everything to survive as the once powerful Powhatan Nation crumbles and the English build a country from the ashes.Praise for the Time Walkers series: The Legend of the Bloodstone - 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, QuarterfinalistA Tale of Oak and Mistletoe - 2013 RWA/NYC We Need a Hero Contest, Finalist\"Time travel and romance converge in this tale of star-crossed love\" - Publishers Weekly on The Legend of the Bloodstone\"This was beautiful! Time Travel at its best!\"- Romance Novels in Color\"Absolutely consuming\" - Amazon reviewer\"I love this series. I didn't want it to end!\" - Amazon Reviewer\"I can easily see where this story could be a fantastic movie.\" - Amazon Reviewer\"My complaint with this book is I couldn't stop reading this one and the next one in the series which resulted in late nights and tired mornings!!\" - Amazon Reviewer\"An epic historical saga in brilliant cinematic technicolor\" - Amazon reviewer", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36046303-the-legend-of-the-bloodstone"}, +{"book_title": "Newt's Emerald", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 4845, "review_number": 1029, "book_description": "On her eighteenth birthday, Lady Truthful, nicknamed \u201cNewt,\u201d will inherit her family\u2019s treasure: the Newington Emerald. A dazzling heart-shaped gem, the Emerald also bestows its wearer with magical powers.When the Emerald disappears one stormy night, Newt sets off to recover it. Her plan entails dressing up as a man, mustache included, as no well-bred young lady should be seen out and about on her own. While in disguise, Newt encounters the handsome but shrewd Major Harnett, who volunteers to help find the missing Emerald under the assumption that she is a man. Once she and her unsuspecting ally are caught up in a dangerous adventure that includes an evil sorceress, Newt realizes that something else is afoot: the beating of her heart.In Newt\u2019s Emerald, the bestselling author of Sabriel, Garth Nix, takes a waggish approach to the forever popular Regency romance and presents a charmed world where everyone has something to hide.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Regency)", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24737347-newt-s-emerald"}, +{"book_title": "The Weapon", "author_name": "Michael Z. Williamson", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1233, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Kenneth Chinran was a disaffected youth who joined the military and was recruited for an elite deep cover unit, shrugging off training and exercises so tough that several of the recruits did not survive. Then he was sent by his star nation to infiltrate a fascistic, militaristic planet\u00bfEarth. He lived in deep cover for years, marrying and having a daughter. Then the Earth forces attacked his home system, and he and his team came out of hiding, attacking and destroying the infrastructure of the crowded planet, disabling transportation and communications in city after city. As a result of his attacks, billions died for lack of the food, water and power which the ravaged system could no longer supply. His sabotage was successful, but the deaths of so many weighs heavily on his mind, making him wonder if he can stay sane. Then the secret police discovered his identity. With his daughter, the only thing in his life that had so far kept him human, he was on the run, while the resources of a planetwide police state were tracking him down. He could see no way to escape from the planet, no way to keep hiding, and if he and his daughter were caught, death was the very least that they could expect. But Chinran is a warrior to the core, and even if he loses this last battle, he won\u00bft go down without a fight that his pursuers\u00bfthe ones who survive\u00bfwill never forget", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67822.The_Weapon"}, +{"book_title": "Death World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 4016, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien bidder. In the fifth book of the Undying Mercenaries series, James McGill meets new challenges. War comes to Earth, striking a devastating blow. Bent on revenge, Legion Varus chases raiders to the stars and discovers an alien menace growing in their home territory. A cancerous species of invaders plaguing our region of the galaxy and must be dealt with. In DEATH WORLD, McGill faces an ever more threatening universe. He learns why the Cephalopod Kingdom has yet to attack Earth, and what\u2019s happening behind the scenes in the Core Worlds. Throughout, he maintains his unbending sense of right, wrong and honor. DEATH WORLD is a military science fiction novel by bestselling author B. V. Larson.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Thriller", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25237401-death-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Thornless Rose", "author_name": "Morgan O'Neill", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 546, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "What happened to Dr. Jonathan Brandon, a dashing RAF flight surgeon, who disappeared from London in 1945? Kidnapping? Murder? Or did Brandon merely vanish of his own free will, seeking another life? American teacher Anne Howard is stunned by a different explanation\u2015that her British grandmother\u2019s long-lost fianc\u00e9 was unwillingly wrenched back through time, to Elizabethan England. Anne knows time travel is nonsense\u2015until she is handed a fresh-cut thornless rose, a bloom extinct for over four hundred years! And then, when the impossible happens and Anne journeys back to 1560 London, she must somehow survive encounters with royal enemies, accusations of witchcraft and the possibility of never returning home. In the midst of the chaos, she meets Brandon. Drawn into the perilous web of Elizabethan court life, they must confront their growing feelings for each other, complicated by poignant familial ties, while struggling with the shared danger of knowing what the future holds.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34888766-the-thornless-rose"}, +{"book_title": "Fleet of Knives", "author_name": "Gareth L. Powell", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1414, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series.The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge aboard an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched ten thousand years before by an alien race. However, the enormous ship contains deadly secrets of its own.Recovered war criminal Ona Sudak faces a firing squad for her actions in the Archipelago War. But, at the last moment, she is smuggled out of her high-security prison. The Marble Armada has called for her to accompany its ships as observer and liaison as it spreads itself across the human Generality, enforcing the peace at all costs. The alien ships will not tolerate resistance, and all dissenters are met with overwhelming and implacable force. Then her vessel intercepts messages from the House of Reclamation and decides the Trouble Dog has a capacity for violence which cannot be allowed to endure.As the Trouble Dog and her crew fight to save the crew of the Lucy's Ghost, the ship finds herself caught between chaotic alien monsters on one side and, on the other, destruction at the hands of the Marble Armada.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Artificial Intelligence", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31685092-fleet-of-knives"}, +{"book_title": "The Steampunk Trilogy", "author_name": "Paul Di Filippo", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 1005, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Steampunk is the twisted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul Di Filippo is master. The three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy are all set in a very alternative nineteenth century, and feature a mixture of historical and imaginary figures. In \"Victoria,\" a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and to hide the terrible secret from the nation. In \"Hottentots,\" Massachusetts is threatened by monsters from the deep; in \"Walt and Emily,\" Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she meets the future Allen Ginsberg.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Anthologies", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326917.The_Steampunk_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "The Last City", "author_name": "Nina D'Aleo", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 123, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "An intoxicating blend of noir crime, science fiction and fantasy THE LAST CITY is BLADE RUNNER meets PERDIDO STREET STATION.Scorpia \u2013 the last city of Aquais \u2013 where the Ar Antarians rule, the machine-breeds serve and in-between a multitude of races and species eke out an existence somewhere between the ever-blazing city lights and the endless darkness of the underside.As a spate of murders and abductions grip the city, new recruit Silho Brabel is sent to the Oscuri Trackers, an elite military squad commanded by the notorious Copernicus Kane. But Silho has a terrible secret and must fight to hide her strange abilities and monstrous heritage.As the team delve deeper into Scorpia\u2019s underworld, they discover a nightmare truth.Hunted by demons, the Trackers must band together with a condemned fugitive, a rogue wraith and a gangster king and stake their lives against an all-powerful enemy to try to save their world and one another.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15749033-the-last-city"}, +{"book_title": "Makers", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 5589, "review_number": 652, "book_description": "From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, a major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for AmericaPerry and Lester invent things\u2014seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the \u201cNew Work,\u201d a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lester\u2019s. Together, they transform the country, and Andrea Fleeks, a journo-turned-blogger, is there to document it.Then it slides into collapse. The New Work bust puts the dot.combomb to shame. Perry and Lester build a network of interactive rides in abandoned Wal-Marts across the land. As their rides, which commemorate the New Work\u2019s glory days, gain in popularity, a rogue Disney executive grows jealous, and convinces the police that Perry and Lester\u2019s 3D printers are being used to run off AK-47s.Hordes of goths descend on the shantytown built by the New Workers, joining the cult. Lawsuits multiply as venture capitalists take on a new investment strategy: backing litigation against companies like Disney. Lester and Perry\u2019s friendship falls to pieces when Lester gets the \u2018fatkins\u2019 treatment, turning him into a sybaritic gigolo.Then things get really interesting.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Unfinished", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6422238-makers"}, +{"book_title": "Red Limit Freeway", "author_name": "John DeChancie", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 270, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Jake McGraw is a man on the run from half the universe. After stumbling upon what seems to be the fabled roadmap to the stars, Jake must outrun the most detestable vermin and roadbugs in the galaxy and the only thing separating him from them is his tattered starrig. In the lawless region of space Jake must keep his rig running if he knows what-s good for him. He has something that everyone wants and they will stop at nothing to get it. But how long can he keep going on the road where there is no relief for light years?", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611357.Red_Limit_Freeway"}, +{"book_title": "A Highlander's Destiny", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1329, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "JESSE CORYELL, a descendant of the Fae, is a man in search of his destiny. He's tried to lose himself in his work, taking on the worst mankind has to offer, but what he really needs to find is his true love. When he sets out to help a mysterious woman find her sister, what he gets is much more than he bargained for: battling an undeniable attraction to his sexy new client while fighting an ancient evil to keep her safe. DESTINY NOBLE, abandoned by everyone she's ever loved, will stop at nothing in her desperate quest to find her sister. Authorities have declared Leah a runaway, but Destiny knows better. Her dream visions have shown her the frightening truth. They've also shown her Jesse. But finding her Soulmate could result in the most painful loss of all, when she's forced to choose between loving Jesse and saving Leah. Jesse and Destiny race against time to save an innocent girl from a powerful ancient evil. Is true love their best weapon...or will they be required to sacrifice their own destiny?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6347902-a-highlander-s-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "The Bear and the Nightingale", "author_name": "Katherine Arden", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 131134, "review_number": 18077, "book_description": "At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind\u2014she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa's new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa's stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed\u2014this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse's most frightening tales.The Bear and the Nightingale is a magical debut novel from a gifted and gorgeous voice. It spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Cultural (Russia)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489134-the-bear-and-the-nightingale"}, +{"book_title": "The Feed", "author_name": "Nick Clark Windo", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 1661, "review_number": 359, "book_description": "It makes us. It destroys us.The Feed is everywhere. It can be accessed by anyone, at any time. Every interaction, every emotion, every image can be shared through it.Tom and Kate use The Feed, but they have resisted addiction to it. And this will serve them well when The Feed collapses.Until their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing.Because how do you find someone in a world devoid of technology? And what happens when you can no longer trust that your loved ones are really who they claim to be?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34326012-the-feed"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset", "author_name": "Suzanne Collins", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 191492, "review_number": 6932, "book_description": "The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in a beautiful boxset edition. Stunning, gripping, and powerful. The trilogy is now complete!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7938275-the-hunger-games-trilogy-boxset"}, +{"book_title": "Voyage of the Dead", "author_name": "David P. Forsyth", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1121, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Voyage of the Dead is the first book of the Sovereign Spirit Saga detailing the adventures of several groups of survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse. Most of them are aboard a ship that is well equipped to survive the end of civilization, while others struggle to survive in a world suddenly overrun by undead cannibals. This is a science fiction adventure set within a horror genre, full of blood, guts, violence and the human emotions that fuel our survival instincts.This is the first novel by David P. Forsyth. At least two more books in the Sovereign Spirit Saga will be released this year.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13450189-voyage-of-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 8350, "review_number": 280, "book_description": "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into interstellar space . . . Alastair Reynolds burst onto the SF scene with the Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted REVELATION SPACE, British Science Fiction Award-winning CHASM CITY, and REDEMPTION ARK. Now experience the phenomenal imagination and breathtaking vision of 'The most exciting space opera writer working today' (Locus) in these two tales of high adventure set in the same universe as his novels. The title story, 'Diamond Dogs', tells of a group of mercenaries trying to unravel the mystery of a particularly inhospitable alien tower on a distant world; 'Turquoise Days' is about Naqi, who has devoted her life to studying the alien Pattern Jugglers.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Horror", "Space", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893590.Diamond_Dogs_Turquoise_Days"}, +{"book_title": "More Than This", "author_name": "Patrick Ness", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 52031, "review_number": 7034, "book_description": "A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife?From multi-award-winning Patrick Ness comes one of the most provocative and moving novels of our time.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "GLBT (Queer)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21969786-more-than-this"}, +{"book_title": "The Sickness", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2585, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "The Animorphs' alien friend Ax is in trouble. He's come down with a virus called \"yamphut\", and it's making him very sick. The Animorphs discover the virus could be deadly--but they can't take an \"alien\" to the hospital. They need to come up with a plan--or lose their friend forever.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363422.The_Sickness"}, +{"book_title": "Night of Delusions", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 66, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "ENTER A DELUSIONFlorin's own mental faculties are not in terrific shape, after what he's been through. So it may not be such a smart move, becoming bodyguard to a Senator whose mental state is utter chaos. For the job entails an excursion into the Dream Machine, which assaults not merely the senses, but reality itself.Plunging into and out of hair-raising adventures, combating an extra-galactic threat to Earth along with defending his own sanity, Florin comes to astonishing discoveries about the universe he lives in and defends.Reprinted as \"Knight of Delusions\"", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7673127-night-of-delusions"}, +{"book_title": "Tuf Voyaging", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 9704, "review_number": 876, "book_description": "From the multiple award-winning, best-selling author of The Song of Ice and Fire series: Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer, he's become the proud owner of the last seedship of Earth's legendary Ecological Engineering Corps? Never mind, just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in human space is in good hands-hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandish creatures. With his unique equipment, Tuf is set to tackle the problems human settlers have created in colonizing far-flung worlds: hosts of hostile monsters, a population hooked on procreation, a dictator who unleashes plagues to get his own way...and in every case the only thing that stands between the colonists and disaster is Tuf's ingenuity - and his reputation as an honest dealer in a universe of rogues...Tuf Voyaging features interior illustrations by Janet Aulisio. Included in it will be her original eight illustrations, along with 28 newly commissioned ones.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Anthologies", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776212.Tuf_Voyaging"}, +{"book_title": "Sail Away, Sweet Sister", "author_name": "Patrick Goodman", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 68, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Monsters of the ShadowsThomas McCallister\u2019s area of expertise\u2014the virus that turns metahumans into flesh-eating monsters\u2014has taken him into some dark corners of the Sixth World. When he came face to face with the serial murderer known as the Mealtime Killer, he had hoped that a particularly dark chapter of his life had come to a close. But when night falls in the sprawls of the world, blood is still being shed, and people are still dying. Another killer is still out there, one that needs to be found and stopped, but the challenge McAllister is about to face is one he never could have anticipated. His resolve will be tested in ways he never anticipated in his darkest nightmares. Sail Away, Sweet Sister builds on the events of Another Rainy Night, taking another dark turn down the streets of the Sixth World to face the monsters that lurk there.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22037838-sail-away-sweet-sister"}, +{"book_title": "Bot Wars", "author_name": "J.V. Kade", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 450, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Twelve-year-old Trout St. Kroix has been searching for his missing father for the last two years, after his dad disappeared while fighting in the Bot Wars. The Bot Wars began after robots became so advanced that they revolted and demanded more workers' rights, causing the government to declare all robots terrorists and ban them from the Districts. Trout never questioned anything the government told him--even when his own nanny bot was banished--until a vid he posts about his missing dad goes viral and new information pops up. At first Trout is wrenched his dad might be alive, but when his brother disappears, Trout learns nothing is what it seems . . . not even his own father. Percy Jackson meets Transformers in this heart-stopping, futuristic adventure that will make you question\u00a0everything you know--and\u00a0look at robots in a whole new light.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13294266-bot-wars"}, +{"book_title": "In Fury Born", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 5822, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't catch them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking pirates were invincible. But they made a big mistake when they raided ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home work, tortured and murdered her family, and then left her for dead. Alicia decided to turn \"pirate\" herself, and stole a cutting-edge AI ship from the Empire to start her vendetta. Her fellow veterans think she's gone crazy, the Imperial Fleet has shoot-on-sight orders. And of course the pirates want her dead, too. But Alicia DeVries has two allies nobody knows about, allies as implacable as she is: a self-aware computer, and a creature from the mists of Old Earth's most ancient legends. And this trio of furies won't rest until vengeance is served.In Fury Born is a greatly expanded new version of David Weber's popular novel Path of the Fury, which has gone through six large printings in its original mass market edition. David Weber has added considerable new material, revealing the earlier life of Alicia DeVries before she embarked on her mission of vengeance, and illuminating the universe of the original story. The result is a novel with almost twice the wordage of the original, and a must-buy for all David Weber fans.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130528.In_Fury_Born"}, +{"book_title": "Gottes Engel", "author_name": "Markus Heitz", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 54, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Eine Serie brutaler Morde im Zweibr\u00fccker Milieu versetzt die Bev\u00f6lkerung in Angst und Schrecken. Die Beamten des Landeskriminalamts ermitteln fieberhaft, um die r\u00e4tselhaften Verbrechen rasch aufzukl\u00e4ren, und auch Poolitzers berufliche Neugier ist geweckt. Zun\u00e4chst gehen die Ermittler von einem fanatischen Einzelt\u00e4ter aus, doch die Pr\u00e4zision der Sch\u00fcsse, mit denen die Opfer niedergestreckt wurden, sowie die Verwendung einer bislang unbekannten Munition deuten darauf hin, dass ein neuartiges Gefechtsmodul zum Einsatz kam, das von einem der gro\u00dfen R\u00fcstungskonzerne in der hermetisch abgeriegelten Sonderzone entwickelt wurde. Bei seinen Recherchen am Tatort eines neuerlichen Verbrechens st\u00f6\u00dft Poolitzer auf Gee Gee, die als Einzige das Massaker in dem Nachtclub \u00fcberlebt hat, und schon bald verf\u00e4llt der Reporter den Reizen der attraktiven Schauspielerin. Doch Gee Gee, die ihren Freund und Mentor verloren hat, kennt nur ein Ziel: sie will sich an den Verantwortlichen r\u00e4chen...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/661361.Gottes_Engel"}, +{"book_title": "The End of the Matter", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 2657, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra -- Ab for short -- Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeworld of his flying snake.There he hoped to find the giant man with the gold earring who somehow held the key to Flinx's mysterious past and to the strange powers he possessed. Chasing down his heritage was trouble enough, but Flinx didn't know what real trouble was until he realized that the Qwarm -- a deadly assassin squad -- were three steps behind him with a contract to kill.But the minidrag's homeworld did not offer safety and Flinx had a terrible time just staying alive ... a matter complicated to no mean degree by a collapsar already set on an unstoppable death course across the galaxy!", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Mystery", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939592.The_End_of_the_Matter"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl in the Steel Corset", "author_name": "Kady Cross", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 21113, "review_number": 2540, "book_description": "In 1897 England, sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne has no one... except the \"thing\" inside her.When a young lord tries to take advantage of Finley, she fights back. And wins. But no normal Victorian girl has a darker side that makes her capable of knocking out a full-grown man with one punch...Only Griffin King sees the magical darkness inside her that says she's special, says she's one of them. The orphaned duke takes her in from the gaslit streets against the wishes of his band of misfits: Emily, who has her own special abilities and an unrequited love for Sam, who is part robot; and Jasper, an American cowboy with a shadowy secret.Griffin's investigating a criminal called The Machinist, the mastermind behind several recent crimes by automatons. Finley thinks she can help and finally be a part of something, finally fit in.But The Machinist wants to tear Griff's little company of strays apart, and it isn't long before trust is tested on all sides. At least Finley knows whose side she's on even if it seems no one believes her.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9166877-the-girl-in-the-steel-corset"}, +{"book_title": "The Underground Railroad", "author_name": "Colson Whitehead", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 304301, "review_number": 25532, "book_description": "Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood\u2014where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned\u2014Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.In Whitehead\u2019s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor\u2014engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar\u2019s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city\u2019s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.Like the protagonist of Gulliver\u2019s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey\u2014hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre\u2013Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman\u2019s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Race", "Literary Fiction", "Cultural (African American)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30555488-the-underground-railroad"}, +{"book_title": "Kingdom of Ash", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 151815, "review_number": 16975, "book_description": "Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people \u2015 but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, but her resolve is unraveling with each passing day\u2026With Aelin captured, friends and allies are scattered to different fates. Some bonds will grow even deeper, while others will be severed forever. As destinies weave together at last, all must fight if Erilea is to have any hope of salvation.Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas's New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an explosive conclusion as Aelin fights to save herself\u2015and the promise of a better world.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33590260-kingdom-of-ash"}, +{"book_title": "By Darkness Forged", "author_name": "Nathan Lowell", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 1512, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "Profits. Coffee. Extortion.All in a day\u2019s work.When Ishmael takes the Chernyakova back into Toe-Hold space, he finds a lot more than profit. A quick pass through the Telluride system reveals the answer to one question but leaves him docked without a cargo until the owner of Dark Knight Station makes him an offer he can\u2019t refuse.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43244176-by-darkness-forged"}, +{"book_title": "The Lucifer Deck", "author_name": "Lisa Smedman", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 199, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Information is the most valuable and powerful commodity in the Shadowrun universe--and one megacorporation may have found the means to control it all! But when an experiment goes horribly awry, the only person ablt to halt the destruction of the entire computer network is a young ork girl just discovering her powers--and the fact that she's in the wrong place at the wrong time!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131245.The_Lucifer_Deck"}, +{"book_title": "Willful Child", "author_name": "Steven Erikson", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 2277, "review_number": 400, "book_description": "These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life life-forms, to boldly blow the...And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback - a kind of James T Kirk crossed with 'American Dad' - and his motley crew on board the Starship Willful Child for a series of devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through 'the infinite vastness of interstellar space'...The bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence has taken his life-long passion for 'Star Trek' and transformed it into a smart, inventive and hugely entertaining spoof on the whole mankind-exploring-space-for-the-good-of-all-species-but-trashing-stuff-with-a-lot-of-hi-tech-kit-along-the-way type over-blown adventure. The result is this smart. inventive, occasionally wildly OTT and often very funny novel that deftly parodies the genre while also paying fond homage to it.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Space (Space Opera)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Media Tie In (Star Trek)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518786-willful-child"}, +{"book_title": "How to Stop Time", "author_name": "Matt Haig", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 72132, "review_number": 8575, "book_description": "\"She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going... I had existed whole years without her, but that was all it had been. An existence. A book with no words.\"Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.Unfortunately for Tom, the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present.How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages--and for the ages--about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.Soon to be a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adult", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45152372-how-to-stop-time"}, +{"book_title": "Engaging the Enemy", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 8336, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "In the wake of a series of assassinations that have left her parents dead and their shipping empire in ruins, Kylara Vatta, the unorthodox renegade heir to Vatta Transport, Ltd., one of the galaxy's wealthiest merchant houses, sets out to avenge their death.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96277.Engaging_the_Enemy"}, +{"book_title": "Promised", "author_name": "Caragh M. O'Brien", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 14491, "review_number": 1338, "book_description": "After defying the ruthless Enclave, surviving the wasteland, and overthrowing Sylum, Gaia Stone now faces her greatest challenge yet--to lead the people of Sylum back to the Enclave and persuade the Protectorat to grant them refuge. But in Gaia's absence, the Enclave has become even more ruthless, picking girls from outside the wall to serve in an experimental baby factory. Babies with the right genes are now a priceless commodity with the potential to reshape life inside the wall and redefine humanity. The key to it all comes back to one fearless, young midwife. When negotiations devolve into terrorist threats, Gaia finds herself at the crux of an insupportable decision.As a leader, a woman, and an idealist in love, Gaia must decide if she can sacrifice what--or whom--she values most.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13010211-promised"}, +{"book_title": "King of Thieves", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3306, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "Earth\u2019s survivors face devastating new challenges in the wake of recovering from an alien conflict. Battered and mourning tremendous losses, the once fractious peoples of enemy nations must work together to rebuild their shattered world\u2014and prevent the possibility of their attackers\u2019 return. What they don\u2019t know is that a new, deadlier enemy unlike anything they\u2019ve ever faced will usher in the dawn of another war.Captain Morgan Passer commands the Rogue Class destroyer Autolycus, charged with an interstellar recon mission to detect traces of the repelled enemy while gathering information for the fortification of Earth\u2019s defenses. What the expedition finds instead is a deeply disturbing mystery: a discovery that redefines everything they thought they knew about Earth\u2019s place in the galaxy\u2026and reveals deadly new horrors. In this original story set in the Odyssey One world, former enemies unite for their own survival, and Passer and his intrepid crew seek answers to help them save their people. Instead, they find that the invasion may be over, but the danger is just beginning.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23431348-king-of-thieves"}, +{"book_title": "City of Glass", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 819863, "review_number": 28486, "book_description": "To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters - never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.As Clary uncovers more about her family's past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadowhunter Sebastian. With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadowhunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he's willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her newfound powers to help save the Glass City - whatever the cost?Love is a mortal sin and the secrets of the past prove deadly as Clary and Jace face down Valentine in the third installment of the New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3777732-city-of-glass"}, +{"book_title": "Not So Little Green Man", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1524, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "What\u2019s a big, bad (sometimes green) alien to do when he wants a mate who isn\u2019t motivated by greed? Contact Celestial Mates. After all, their business is romancing the galaxy. Since she\u2019s creeping up on the age of bearing service, the Earth government wants Jassa to have a baby and then hand it off for a family to raise, but Jassa wants her own family. Which means calling Celestial Mates. One questionnaire, a bit of blood, and a race to get away from the Department of Population, and she\u2019s got her wish\u2014tall, sexy as hell, and occasionally green alien Vroe, the High Warlord of Vialea. Vroe aches for a mate who doesn\u2019t see him as just a rise in status. He wishes for warmth and affection and goes to Celestial Mates to find\u2026 Jassa Marizen. Yet his ideas about mating\u2014Jassa mating him and forever being known as only Vrya\u2014collide with hers. She doesn\u2019t want to lose her past. He wants her to embrace her future. And then there\u2019s this other woman\u2026 She just wants Vroe to herself. Part of the CELESTIAL MATES shared scifi world-o-awesome!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32703721-not-so-little-green-man"}, +{"book_title": "Unwrapped Sky", "author_name": "Rjurik Davidson", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 544, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Caeli-Amur: an ancient city perched on white cliffs overlooking the sea; a city ruled by three Houses, fighting internecine wars; a city which harbours ancient technology and hidden mysteries. But things are changing in Caeli-Amur. Ancient minotaurs arrive for the traditional Festival of the Sun. The slightly built New-Men bring their technology from their homeland. Wastelanders stream into the city hideously changed by the chemical streams to the north. Strikes break out in the factory district.In a hideout beneath the city, a small group of seditionists debate ways to overthrow the Houses. How can they rouse the citizens of the city? Should they begin a campaign of terror? Is there a way to uncover the thaumaturgical knowledge that the Houses guard so jealously? As the Houses scramble to maintain their rule, it becomes clear that things will change forever in Caeli-Amur.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910065-unwrapped-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Released", "author_name": "Megan Duncan", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 915, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "After a demon apocalypse kills their parents and everyone they know, 17-year old Abby Phillips, her brother, Carter, and friend, Max flee their home to travel through what has become the wastelands of America. When radio transmissions of a resistance offering shelter and safety cease, Abby is tempted to give up. Struggling to overcome life-threatening obstacles in their dangerous journey, Abby and her companions quickly discover there are much worse things lurking in the dark than they could have ever imagined.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10530700-released"}, +{"book_title": "Against All Enemies", "author_name": "John G. Hemry", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 769, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Someone onboard the USS Michaelson is selling secrets, and to uncover the traitor, legal officer Lieutenant Paul Sinclair must walk the dangerous line between duty and honor.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315493.Against_All_Enemies"}, +{"book_title": "Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 6731, "review_number": 333, "book_description": "The heroic hound is send to jail in the sixth Dog Man book from worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey.Is Dog Man bad to the bone? The canine cop is sent to the pound for a crime he didn't commit! While his pals work to prove his innocence, Dog Man struggles to find his place among dogs and people. Being a part of both worlds, will he ever fully fit in with one?Dav Pilkey's wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes, including empathy, kindness, persistence, and the importance of being true to one's self.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Fantasy", "Animals (Dogs)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39983554-dog-man"}, +{"book_title": "This Is All I Ask", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 3955, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "Gillian of Warewick knows no other treatment than the terrible physical and mental abuse issued by her father. When he arranges a match for Gillian with Christopher of Blackmour, she is fearful: Blackmour is rumored to be an evil sorcerer. When Gillian meets him, he proves to be far more of a man than her father is, yet he is unwilling to be a lover to Gillian. She finds that Blackmour has as many psychological scars to heal as she has physical scars.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50718.This_Is_All_I_Ask"}, +{"book_title": "Ring of Fire II", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 895, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "A mysterious cosmic force\u2014the \u201cRing of Fire\u201d\u2014has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seemingly magical technology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, the time-lost West Virginians have allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to form the Confederated Principalities of Europe, changing the course of history\u2014in ways both small and large.MORE TO COME.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700965.Ring_of_Fire_II"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl Who Was Plugged In/Screwtop", "author_name": "James Tiptree Jr.", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 301, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "This book is two novels in one; Screwtop by Vonda N. McIntyre and The Girl Who Was Plugged in by James Tiptree Jr.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Feminism", "Fantasy", "Academic (College)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216333.The_Girl_Who_Was_Plugged_In_Screwtop"}, +{"book_title": "Her Cold-Blooded Protector", "author_name": "Lea Linnett", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 721, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "It\u2019s not easy being human when Earth is run by aliens. Lena has been locked up, imprisoned in a multi-species penitentiary on Earth, and all she wants is to get back to what she\u2019s good at: keeping her sister safe. Kormak is a levekk\u2014a member of the same cold-blooded, alien species that enslaved her planet\u2014and he is the key to her escape. Kormak hates humans, and he\u2019s not afraid to show it. They burn hot and bright but are snuffed out quickly, and the last thing he wants is a human slowing him down. But she needs a protector, and he\u2019s drawn to her flame. When an accident derails their escape and strands them in the wintry wilderness, just who will end up saving whom?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40120144-her-cold-blooded-protector"}, +{"book_title": "The Culling", "author_name": "Steven dos Santos", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1243, "review_number": 243, "book_description": "Recruitment Day is here...if you fail, a loved one will die...For Lucian \u201cLucky\u201d Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment, a totalitarian government, will force him to become one of five Recruits competing to join the ruthless Imposer task force. Each Recruit participates in increasingly difficult and violent military training for a chance to advance to the next level. Those who fail must choose an \u201cIncentive\u201d\u2014a family member\u2014to be brutally killed. If Lucky fails, he\u2019ll have to choose death for his only living relative: Cole, his four-year-old brother.Lucky will do everything he can to keep his brother alive, even if it means sacrificing the lives of other Recruits\u2019 loved ones. What Lucky isn\u2019t prepared for is his undeniable attraction to the handsome, rebellious Digory Tycho. While Lucky and Digory train together, their relationship grows. But daring to care for another Recruit in a world where love is used as the ultimate weapon is extremely dangerous. As Lucky soon learns, the consequences can be deadly...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617286-the-culling"}, +{"book_title": "Away", "author_name": "Teri Hall", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2032, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "After crossing the Line, Rachel finds herself in a world where survival is never guaranteed - a world where bizarre creatures roam the woods and people have strange abilities. Everything has gone to ruin Away and the survivors have banded into warring clans. Rachel finds her father being held prisoner by a tribe of Others, and she and her new friends set out to rescue him. But when they cross back over the Line, Rachel and Pathik make a foolish decision, bringing them into further danger that can only be resolved with an unthinkable sacrifice.An adventure filled with life-and-death choices, dark conspiracies, and heart-poundingly suspenseful moments, this sequel delivers.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7732360-away"}, +{"book_title": "Nophek Gloss", "author_name": "Essa Hansen", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 271, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "When a young man's planet is destroyed, he sets out on a single-minded quest for revenge across the galaxy in Nophek Gloss, the first book in this epic space opera trilogy by debut author Essa Hansen, for fans of Revenger and Children of Time.Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his only hope for survival is a crew of misfit aliens and a mysterious ship that seems to have a soul and a universe of its own. Together they will show him that the universe is much bigger, much more advanced, and much more mysterious than Caiden had ever imagined. But the universe hides dangers as well, and soon Caiden has his own plans.He vows to do anything it takes to get revenge on the slavers who murdered his people and took away his home. To destroy their regime, he must infiltrate and dismantle them from the inside, or die trying.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "New Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54539799-nophek-gloss"}, +{"book_title": "Mardock Scramble", "author_name": "Tow Ubukata", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 280, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Why me? It was to be the last thought a young prostitute, Balot, would ever have... as a human anyway. Taken in by a devious gambler named Shell, she became a slave to his cruel desires and would have been killed by his hand if not for a private investigator and his self-aware Universal Tool, Oeufcoque. Now a cyborg, Balot has not only physical powers, but the ability to disrupt social environments. She chases after Shell, his partner-in-crime Boiled, and faces down a variety of insane villains in this pulse-pounding cyberpunk noir adventure.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels (Light Novel)", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8376686-mardock-scramble"}, +{"book_title": "Scent of Magic", "author_name": "Maria V. Snyder", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 22627, "review_number": 1474, "book_description": "Hunted, Killed\u2014Survived?As the last Healer in the Fifteen Realms, Avry of Kazan is in a unique position: in the minds of her friends and foes alike, she no longer exists. Despite her need to prevent the megalomanical King Tohon from winning control of the Realms, Avry is also determined to find her sister and repair their estrangement. And she must do it alone, as Kerrick, her partner and sole confident, returns to Alga to summon his country into battle.Though she should be in hiding, Avry will do whatever she can to support Tohon\u2019s opponents. Including infiltrating a holy army, evading magic sniffers, teaching forest skills to soldiers and figuring out how to stop Tohon\u2019s most horrible creations yet; an army of the walking dead\u2014human and animal alike and nearly impossible to defeat.War is coming and Avry is alone. Unless she figures out how to do the impossible ... again.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12027429-scent-of-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Morningside Fall", "author_name": "Jay Posey", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 832, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "The lone gunman Three is gone, and Wren is the new governor of the devastated settlement of Morningside, but there is turmoil in the city. When his life is put in danger, Wren is forced to flee Morningside until he and his retinue can determine who can be trusted.They arrive at the border outpost, Ninestory, only to find it has been infested with Weir in greater numbers than anyone has ever seen. These lost, dangerous creatures are harbouring a terrible secret \u2013 one that will have consequences not just for Wren and his comrades, but for the future of what remains of the world.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Horror (Zombies)", "Yaoi (Boys Love)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18283002-morningside-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Dreamships", "author_name": "Melissa Scott", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 496, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Dreamships is the story of a freelance space pilot and her crew, who are hired by a rich corporate owner to track down her crazy brother--who just may have created the first sentient Artificial Intelligence. Social texture and a tough, cyberpunk attitude make this an exceptionally intense read.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Space", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/836601.Dreamships"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Fleet", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2527, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "They hunt us. They bomb our worlds for target practice. A star cluster in the constellation of Orion rotates once every thousand years. Those who rule there have an ancient tradition: When each cycle ends, they train their fleets by spilling the blood of lesser beings. The enemy fleets are coming again. In response, the Rebel Worlds gather their starships to face the terrifying threat, and this time humanity is asked to stand with them. The last time they considered Earth, Vikings in longboats were raiding English coastlines. Today, we\u2019re less primitive. Today, we're a target. One man is chosen to command Earth's single ship in the Rebel Fleet. When the war breaks out, Leo Blake must win it\u2026 or die trying. \u201cClassic B. V. Larson. This book grabs you by the plasma cannon and won\u2019t let go. Fast adventure, fast action--and I loved the space-battles!\u201d - S. Arthur", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31675453-rebel-fleet"}, +{"book_title": "Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity", "author_name": "Robert Brockway", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 707, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Red is a chemical beta tester. It's a nice way of saying 'professional drug addict.'But that\u2019s not a problem: Everybody in the Four Posts is nursing an addiction to something. In fact, the city's entire economy is based on Presence -- a chemical hallucinogen that lets the user peek into history. Red\u2019s talent for mixing new and interesting narcotic concoctions is usually good for a quick buck and a cheap laugh, but this time something's gone wrong, and after huffing a new prototype strain of Presence from Hockner Industries, he's awoken to find himself in violation of a Non-Disclosure Agreement. A crime punishable by death.His only hope for salvation lies in a mysterious contact with all the answers and seemingly infinite resources. But to get to him, Red must first navigate the claustrophobic theater of the 'Wells, where nobody is what they seem to be, escape the clutches of a mad, phallus-obsessed ghetto king, and seek protection from the murderous grey boatmen, all while his frightening and increasingly real hallucinations tear him apart from the inside out. With the help of QC, a walking nanotech factory, and Byron, an upper-class slacker literally addicted to the past, Red must discover what the strange experimental drug is doing to his mind. And he better be quick about it, before the pair of sinister, faceless recovery agents, the Alpha Gentlemen, catch up to him\u2026and burn him alive.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17162842-rx"}, +{"book_title": "Valley of Silence", "author_name": "Nora Roberts", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 27100, "review_number": 981, "book_description": "The battleground has been chosen for the final showdown between those selected by the gods and the minions of the vampire Lilith. But there is one vampire who dares stand against her. And his love for the scholarly queen of Geall will complete the circle of six - and change the face of eternity.Having traveled through the Dance of the Gods to the land of Geall, the circle finds themselves convincing then training the people of Geall to defeat Lilith\u2019s vampire army. The Valley of Silence is a forbidding place for the battle of all battles, but the circle continues to prepare through magic and a few early stakeouts that test their strength individually and as a team.Moira finds herself playing the roles of warrior and royal, as she follows the tradition of her people and prepares to take the crown before leading them into battle. And if that isn\u2019t enough, she finds her thoughts turning to Cian more often than not.So what\u2019s a chaste and intelligent young woman to do when given less than a month with the man she loves, who\u2019s not a man, but a vampire? And how will the people of Geall fare against an army of blood-thirsty vampires who have had centuries to prepare?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59813.Valley_of_Silence"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 28055, "review_number": 571, "book_description": "WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDSYorick Brown, the last man on Earth, finally makes it to San Francisco where his unbalanced sister, Hero, finds him seemingly succumbing to the male-killing plague after losing his still-unused engagement ring to the burqa-clad agents of the Setauket Ring. But is the ring really the key to his survival? And what does it have to do with the mysterious Amulet of Helene, which the Setauket leader is determined to take from Agent 355 by any means necessary. Collects issues #24-31 of the runaway hit Vertigo series by Brian K. Vaughan (EX-MACHINA, ASTONISHING X-MEN, RUNAWAYS) and Pia Guerra.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156533.Y"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 648, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Admiral Kris Longknife should have known the job offer was too good. Really, she knew by now that what was too good to be true really, really isn't. Still, she jumped at the chance to be the first human emissary to the Iteeche Empire. Only when she got there, and met the Emperor, a teenage kid swamped by his throne, did Kris find out that there was a little civil war going on in the Iteeche Empire. The loyal forces were losing, and they needed the best fighting admiral they could get. So they got Kris Longknife. Now Kris is sweating out collecting a fighting force -- that won't make her their first target. Now she's trying to figure out how to fight ships identical to hers, that outnumber her four to one or worse. Oh, and she's got to keep the merchant princes in her embassy from making a mess of everything. A whole lot of people are hoping this Longknife can pull a grizzly bear out of her hat. A whole lot of other Iteeche are hoping the bear takes off her arm.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33968755-admiral"}, +{"book_title": "The Rise of Nine", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 98072, "review_number": 4734, "book_description": "The Rise of Nine is the next thrilling instalment in the gripping Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore.'Number Four is a hero for this generation' Michael Bay, director of Transformers***Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others . . .I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but just as brave. Now we're looking for the others - including John.But so are they.I am Number Six. To finish what they started, they'll have to fight us first.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12971616-the-rise-of-nine"}, +{"book_title": "Armor", "author_name": "John Steakley", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 17016, "review_number": 896, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition can be found here. The military sci-fi classic in a striking new packageFelix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth's most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him, and his fellow soldiers, to survive battle situations that would destroy a man's mind.This is a remarkable novel of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat--and how the strength of the human spirit can be the greatest armor of all.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102327.Armor"}, +{"book_title": "His Majesty's Dragon", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 83308, "review_number": 6588, "book_description": "Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future \u2013 and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France\u2019s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte\u2019s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28876.His_Majesty_s_Dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Sweet Tooth, Volume 5: Unnatural Habitats", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 5340, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "As the mysterious Captain James Thacker and his crew man a deadly expedition, they will uncover secrets centuries old, but what does any of this have to do with Gus and Jepperd? Plus, while Jeppard, Singh and Gus make plans to head to Alaska, things start to deteriorate for the rest of the group back at the sanctuary!Collecting: Sweet Tooth 26-32", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13532247-sweet-tooth-volume-5"}, +{"book_title": "The Computer Connection", "author_name": "Alfred Bester", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 1080, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "A band of immortals recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess, with the group's help, gains control of Extro, the super-computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. They plan to rid Earth of political repression and to further Guess's researches-which may lead to a great leap in human evolution to produce a race of supermen. But Extro takes over Guess instead and turns malevolent. The task of the merry band suddenly becomes a fight in deadly earnest for the future of Earth.", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "The United States Of America", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317643.The_Computer_Connection"}, +{"book_title": "Quill Me Now", "author_name": "Jordan Castillo Price", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1045, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "What if the words you wrote came true? Spellcraft isn\u2019t exactly a respectable business, but it does pay the bills. At least, it should. Unfortunately, Dixon Penn failed his Spellcraft initiation. Instead of working in his family\u2019s shop, he\u2019s stuck delivering takeout orders in his uncle\u2019s beat-up Buick.Winning a Valentine\u2019s Day contest at the largest greeting card company in the tri-state area would be just the thing to get his life back on track\u2014but something at Precious Greetings just doesn\u2019t add up. And despite numerous warnings to quit pestering them about his contest entry, he just can\u2019t stop himself from coming back again and again.It doesn\u2019t hurt that the head of security is such a hottie. If Dixon had any common sense, he\u2019d be scared of the big, mysterious, tattooed Russian.To be fair, no one ever accused him of being too smart\u2026.Quill Me Now originally debuted in the Bad Valentine collection, with Love Magic by Jesi Lea Ryan, Hidden Hearts by Clare London, and Temporary Dad by Dev Bentham.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "Holiday"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45440119-quill-me-now"}, +{"book_title": "The Best of C. M. Kornbluth", "author_name": "C.M. Kornbluth", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 234, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "19 stories, with an introduction by Frederick Pohl.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41606.The_Best_of_C_M_Kornbluth"}, +{"book_title": "Sentry Peak", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 209, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "For three years, Detina has been wracked by civil war over freeing the blond serfs. Now two great armies move towards the mountain Sentry Peak for what will be a more desperate battle than either side realizes.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Historical", "Epic", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101532.Sentry_Peak"}, +{"book_title": "The Skull", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2759, "review_number": 227, "book_description": "Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. He wasn't concerned about getting the wrong man. He knew what the man looked like. There was no way he could make a mistake about his target's identity -- he had the man's skull under his shoulder.", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Classics", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10133923-the-skull"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Land of the Unicorns", "author_name": "Bruce Coville", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 17826, "review_number": 689, "book_description": "One unicorn dwells on Earth.Hundreds fight in Luster.Their legends are recorded inTHE UNICORN CHRONICLESInto the Land of the UnicornsAs each chime sounds, Cara climbs faster up the steep bell tower. Eleven! She must be on the roof when the next bell tolls. Twelve! With a deep breath, and only half believing she will survive, Cara jumps off the church roof and into Luster, land of the unicorns.In Luster, Cara meets many wonderful creatures, but the most magnificent of all is Lightfoot, a rebellious young unicorn. Cara's band of friends comes to include a hairy creature named the Dimblethum and the monekey-like Squijim. Together, they set out to reach the Unicorn Queen before the mysterious man who is following them does - to prevent the destruction of all unicorns forever.\"Coville weaves traditional unicorn myths into his accessible fantasy...[with] an ending that hints at the next adventure.\" Booklist", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114701.Into_the_Land_of_the_Unicorns"}, +{"book_title": "The Mapmaker's Apprentice", "author_name": "C.J. Archer", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 6500, "review_number": 341, "book_description": "When an apprentice from the Mapmakers' Guild goes missing, Matt and India are employed to find him. Going undercover as a married couple, they discover that not everyone at the guild is what they seem, and the lad's unearthly maps caused jealousy, suspicion and fear. With one of the apprentice's magic maps in their possession, India and Matt must use their wits and India's fledgling, untried magic to find him. But the more they investigate, the more sinister plots they uncover, including a link between the Mapmakers' and Watchmakers' Guilds, and an ancient magical treasure buried beneath the streets of London. As the net of suspicion widens and enemies draw closer, it's not just the apprentice's life that's in danger, but Matt's too. Someone will go to great lengths to prevent him discovering the name of the man who can fix the watch keeping him alive. Great lengths indeed.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31292428-the-mapmaker-s-apprentice"}, +{"book_title": "The City of Ember", "author_name": "Jeanne DuPrau", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 252621, "review_number": 11320, "book_description": "An alternate cover edition can be found here.Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked\u2026but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all\u2014the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness\u2026But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/307791.The_City_of_Ember"}, +{"book_title": "Joran", "author_name": "Susan Hayes", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 839, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "What do you do when your planet runs out of women? Send for takeout, of course. Joran, Crown Prince of Pyros, needs to claim his mate in order to ascend to the throne one day. The problem? His destined mate isn't on Pyros.When a galaxy-wide search uncovers a backwater world full of potential mates for Joran and the other unmated males on his planet, plans are set in motion and Star-Crossed Dating is created. Now, the first wave of men are on their way to claim their unsuspecting brides. Joran's mission: Go to Earth, claim his mate and bring her back to Pyros. How hard could it be?This book contains a redheaded barista who doesn't believe in aliens, and a prince who is used to getting anything he wants without having to work for it ... until now.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35849235-joran"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Savior", "author_name": "Siobhan Davis", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2217, "review_number": 304, "book_description": "\nThey came from another world to protect her. Now it\u2019s her destiny to save them\u2026 \n Tori King is a normal senior in high school. Head over heels in love with her childhood sweetheart, she is busy making plans for college when a chance encounter with an alien bounty hunter turns her world upside down. Now, she\u2019s experiencing terrifying changes and developing supernatural abilities that leave her questioning her entire existence. Then the arrival of four hot new guys at school has everyone talking\u2014especially when they become fixated on Tori, following her wherever she goes. She can\u2019t shake them off, and as they grow closer, she finds herself drawn to all four of them in ways she cannot explain. When they finally reveal their true identity, and why they\u2019re here for her, she discovers everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Because there is nothing normal about Tori King. And she\u2019s about to discover exactly how underrated normal is. From a USA Today bestselling author comes a captivating new alien reverse harem series that is intended for readers aged seventeen and older. This is upper YA/NA crossover which gets steamier as the series develops. This book ends on a cliffhanger and cannot be read as a standalone.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Young Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38106289-the-lost-savior"}, +{"book_title": "Chaos", "author_name": "John O'Brien", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1882, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "There is no sanctuary.That was taken away in the blink of an eye. Humanity went out not with a whimper, but a bang.Jack, a sometimes humorous, sometimes philosophical ex-special operations pilot and soldier is one of the few left to struggle through the desolation left in the aftermath; seeking to survive as a new ferocious species emerges from the rubble, hungry and unrelenting. Will his special forces training be enough? Will he be able to keep his children safe and guide the few survivors through perils that now roam the world they once knew? Or will the hordes that now own the night prevail, forever removing the last of mankind from existence? Humankind was once at the top of the food chain. But that has now changed. This hard-hitting, action-packed series begins with Jack Walker being suddenly thrust into a world where the infrastructure which cherished Armani suits, night clubs, fast and expensive cars and watching the daily stock market are gone. Left in its place is the material world mankind built but a majority of the population has vanished; replaced by a new, savage, unrelenting, cunning, animalistic species which hunts and operates at night.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11660204-chaos"}, +{"book_title": "The Forgotten", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 3906, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "There's been an accident. Someone crash-landed a Yeerk Bug fighter. And the Yeerks have been trying to cover it up - quickly. But not before Tobias spots it. So the Animorphs and Ax decide to steal the ship to show the world that Earth has been invaded.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363392.The_Forgotten"}, +{"book_title": "Gnomon", "author_name": "Nick Harkaway", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 4533, "review_number": 862, "book_description": "From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, comes a virtuosic new novel set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, that is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle.In the world of Gnomon, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of \u2018transparency.\u2019 Every action is seen, every word is recorded, and the System has access to its citizens\u2019 thoughts and memories\u2013all in the name of providing the safest society in history.When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. The System doesn\u2019t make mistakes, but something isn\u2019t right about the circumstances surrounding Hunter\u2019s death. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector and a true believer in the System, is assigned to find out what went wrong. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn\u2019t Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter\u2019s psyche: a lovelorn financier in Athens who has a mystical experience with a shark; a brilliant alchemist in ancient Carthage confronting the unexpected outcome of her invention; an expat Ethiopian painter in London designing a controversial new video game, and a sociopathic disembodied intelligence from the distant future. Embedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. In the static between these stories, Neith begins to catch glimpses of the real Diana Hunter\u2013and, alarmingly, of herself. The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world.A dazzling, panoramic achievement, and Nick Harkaway\u2019s most brilliant work to date, Gnomon is peerless and profound, captivating and irreverent, as it pierces through strata of reality and consciousness, and illuminates how to set a mind free. It is a truly accomplished novel from a mind possessing a matchless wit infused with a deep humanity.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Thriller", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33852053-gnomon"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire III: Chapter Five - The Warriors", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 93, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Dalek Empire III is a six part mini-series featuring the Daleks from the world of BBC TV's Doctor Who.The fight against the Daleks must succeed now. But while the Wardens are outnumbered and without a strategy, the Dalek Supreme is sensing victory.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3213904-dalek-empire-iii"}, +{"book_title": "The Islands at the End of the World", "author_name": "Austin Aslan", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2077, "review_number": 420, "book_description": "Right before my eyes, my beautiful islands are changing forever. And so am I ...Sixteen-year-old Leilani loves surfing and her home in Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii. But she's an outsider - half white, half Hawaiian, and an epileptic.While Lei and her father are on a visit to Oahu, a global disaster strikes. Technology and power fail, Hawaii is cut off from the world, and the islands revert to traditional ways of survival. As Lei and her dad embark on a nightmarish journey across islands to reach home and family, she learns that her epilepsy and her deep connection to Hawaii could be keys to ending the crisis before it becomes worse than anyone can imagine.A powerful story enriched by fascinating elements of Hawaiian ecology, culture, and warfare, this captivating and dramatic debut from Austin Aslan is the first of two novels. The author has a master\u2019s degree in tropical conservation biology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18811324-the-islands-at-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Last Stand: Bolos 4", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 654, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Controlled by their tireless electronic brains which were programmed to admit no possibility of defeat, the gigantic robot tanks known as Bolos were almost indestructible, and nearly unstoppable. Almost. Nearly. A sufficiently determined enemy armed with nearly limitless firepower and willing to sustain terrible losses could destroy a Bolo. But even a terminally damaged Bolo is still an opponent to reckon with, and as long as a Bolo's artificial intelligence retains a flicker of consciousness, its indomitable drive to defend the human race against all enemies will propel it forward. Bolos can be destroyed--but they never surrender!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science (Technology)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/362564.Last_Stand"}, +{"book_title": "Outpost", "author_name": "Adam Baker", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2378, "review_number": 271, "book_description": "They took the job to escape the world. They didn't expect the world to end. Kasker Rampart: a derelict refinery platform moored in the Arctic Ocean. A skeleton crew of fifteen fight boredom and despair as they wait for a relief ship to take them home. But the world beyond their frozen wasteland has gone to hell. Cities lie ravaged by a global pandemic. One by one TV channels die, replaced by silent wavebands. The Rampart crew are marooned. They must survive the long Arctic winter, then make their way home alone. They battle starvation and hypothermia, unaware that the deadly contagion that has devastated the world is heading their way...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Adult", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10198374-outpost"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen of All Crows", "author_name": "Rod Duncan", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 388, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Only one woman can stop the world from descending into endless war.The year is 2012. The nations of the world are bound together in an alliance of collective security, overseen by the International Patent Office.When airships start disappearing in the middle of the Atlantic, the Patent Office is desperate to discover what has happened. Forbidden to operate beyond the territorial waters of member nations, they send spies to investigate in secret.One of those spies is Elizabeth Barnabus. She must overcome her dislike of the controlling Patent Office, disguise herself as a man, and take to the sea in search of the floating nation of pirates who threaten the world order.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33878058-the-queen-of-all-crows"}, +{"book_title": "Hour of the Wolf", "author_name": "Andrius B. Tapinas", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1566, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "History has been changed It is the year 1905 and Europe is not as we know it. Alchemists pilot steampunk airships over great cities, hardworking mechanics create automatons and deep in the dungeons secret societies of macabre wizards strive to create artificial intellect.Powerful bankers created The Alliance of Free Cities \u2013 beacons of progress, art, science and freedom. Blood has been spilledFormer US Marine Antanas Sidabras is exceptional at his job \u2013 enforcing public order in the ancient Free City of Vilnius. But a gruesome murder at an abandoned cemetery leaves him at a loss. No clues, no motive, no suspect.And... A shadow has been awokenWith the biggest social event of the year \u2013 The Summit \u2013 looming just a few days ahead frantic investigation turns out to be a complex web of political intrigue and Sidabras has everybody against him \u2013 mad doctors, corrupt officials, Russian agents and monsters from his personal nightmares. And then, the bells will toll the Hour of the Wolf.Will you live to see another day?If you like alternate history fiction stories, unrelenting storytelling and steampunk adventure \u2013 Hour of the Wolf will not disappoint. This powerful steampunk adventure is biggest SF/F bestseller in Lithuania for the last decade. Animation series is already in the works and Hour of the Wolf became a major inspiration for a groundbreaking computer game \u2013 The Howler.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Literature", "Contemporary", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18470080-hour-of-the-wolf"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 865, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "In the vein of TRANSMETROPOLITAN: I HATE IT HERE, this one-shot collects more of Spider Jerusalem's columns from The Word--all culminating in his ultimate departure from the paper! Featuring art by all-star creative talent, including Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1818348.Transmetropolitan"}, +{"book_title": "The Steampunk Gazette", "author_name": "Major Tinker", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 81, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "This handsomely produced, color-illustrated volume tells the story of Steampunk, which started in the 1980s as a pop culture movement inspired by the early science fiction that came out of the Victorian era. It soon developed into an international lifestyle movement, having its own distinctive art, fashion, home decor, music, and social events. The Steampunk Gazette chronicles the origins and development of this subculture, using an illustrated newspaper-style design that reflects Steampunk's retro aesthetic. Telling Steampunk's story in words, complemented with atmospheric color photos and Victorian-style typefaces and page designs, The Steampunk Gazette highlights topics that include--Retro Victorian clothing fashions for men and women Gentlemen's headgear Jules Verne-style submarine equipment and exploration The 30 foot tall Steampunk metal tree and tree house in Black Rock City, Nevada Steampunk home furnishings, invariably rescued from dusty attics Illustrated descriptions of Steampunk flying machines, computers, steam guns, and other pseudo-inventions Illustrated reports covering Steampunk music, dance, and theater Accounts of Steampunk festivals, clubs, and cabarets Steampunk sports and games The Steampunk Gazette will delight anyone who is interested in learning more about the origins--and current expression--of this vital and burgeoning arts movement. Color illustrations on most pages--approximately 500 in total.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Nonfiction", "Reference"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13777842-the-steampunk-gazette"}, +{"book_title": "Dawn", "author_name": "Yoshiki Tanaka", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1191, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "\u201cThe Golden Brat\u201d Reinhard von Lohengramm, a military prodigy and admiral of the Galactic Empire, has ambitions beyond protecting the borders or even defeating the Empire\u2019s enemies. He seeks to overthrow the old order and become a truly absolute\u2014yet benevolent\u2014dictator. His rival, the humble Yang Wen-li of the Free Planets Alliance, wishes to preserve democracy even if he must sacrifice his political ideals to defeat the Empire. Their political and military battles play out over a galactic chessboard in an epic saga fifteen centuries in the making!", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels (Light Novel)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Cultural (Japan)", "War", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25986983-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Operation Medusa", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 1352, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "A battered but undefeated Alliance A war they cannot win by force A plan to turn the tide of history! For two years, the Castle Federation and the Alliance of Free Stars have stood against Marshal James Walkingstick of the Terran Commonwealth and his mission of conquest. Battles have been won and lost, worlds have died, and soldiers like Admiral Kyle Roberts have been forged on the anvil of war. But the Alliance cannot win. The Commonwealth has more worlds, more ships, more soldiers. They claim their victory is inevitable. That history is on their side. Refusing to accept the Commonwealth\u2019s future, the Alliance embarks on a do-or-die mission to end the war in one strike. If Kyle Roberts\u2019s plan works, the Commonwealth will break. But if it fails the Alliance will be broken.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37534568-operation-medusa"}, +{"book_title": "Black Star Renegades", "author_name": "Michael Moreci", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 752, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "Cade Sura holds the future of the galaxy in his hands: the ultimate weapon that will bring total peace. He didn\u2019t ask for it, he doesn\u2019t want it, and there\u2019s no worse choice to wield it in all of space, but if he doesn\u2019t, everyone\u2019s totally screwed. The evil Praxis kingdom is on the cusp of having every star system under its control, and if that happens, there\u2019ll be no contesting their cruel reign. Especially if its fanatical overlord, Ga Halle, manages to capture Cade and snag the all-powerful weapon for herself.Cade can\u2019t hide from Praxis, and he can\u2019t run from the destiny that\u2019s been shoved into his hands. So he only has one option:He has to fight.Cade\u2019s not going to let destiny send him on a suicide run, though. With some help from his friends\u2014rebels and scoundrels alike\u2014Cade\u2019s going to use this weapon to chart a new destiny for the galaxy, and for himself. He just has to do so before everyone around him discovers that he\u2019s a complete and total fraud.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Young Adult", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34964896-black-star-renegades"}, +{"book_title": "Blacklisted", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1713, "review_number": 84, "book_description": " Alien hunting can get a girl killed. It can also get her a date.High school senior Camille Robins and her best friend are determined to snag the attention of their crushes before graduation next month. Armed with red-hot outfits and killer hair, they sneak into the hottest nightclub in town -- which caters to the rich and famous, both human and alien. They end up following Erik (who is human) and Silver (who isn't) through a guarded door and are soon separated and under attack...and not the good kind. Bad boy Erik spares Camille's life, but the two are soon being chased by gun-toting Alien Investigation and Removal agents. Camille's more confused than ever because Erik's finally showing real interest in her, but the agents are accusing him of dealing Onadyn -- a drug that ruins human lives. Suddenly, with the heat of his kiss lingering on her lips, Camille has to decide whose side she's on...and whether she's willing to put her life on the line to save Erik's.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Futuristic", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/476542.Blacklisted"}, +{"book_title": "Valkyrie", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 4903, "review_number": 281, "book_description": "After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's homeworld. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49016595-valkyrie"}, +{"book_title": "Emilie and the Sky World", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 282, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "A Girl\u2019s Own Adventure in the spirit of Jules VerneWhen Emilie and Daniel arrive in Silk Harbor, Professor Abindon, an old colleague of the Marlendes, warns them that she\u2019s observed something strange and potentially deadly in the sky, a disruption in an upper air aether current. But as the Marlendes investigate further, they realize it\u2019s a ship from another aetheric plane. It may be just a friendly explorer, or something far more sinister, but they will have to take an airship into the dangerous air currents to find out. Emilie joins the expedition and finds herself deep in personal entanglements, with an angry uncle, an interfering brother, and an estranged mother to worry about as well as a lost family of explorers, the strange landscapes of the upper air, and the deadly menace that inhabits the sky world.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17617916-emilie-and-the-sky-world"}, +{"book_title": "Vision in Silver", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 30345, "review_number": 2501, "book_description": "The Others freed the\u00a0cassandra sangue\u00a0to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before; both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes. In desperate need of answers, Simon Wolfgard, a shape-shifter leader among the Others, has no choice but to enlist blood prophet Meg Corbyn\u2019s help, regardless of the risks she faces by aiding him.Meg is still deep in the throes of her addiction to the euphoria she feels when she cuts and speaks prophecy. She knows each slice of her blade tempts death. But Others and humans alike need answers, and her visions may be Simon\u2019s only hope of ending the conflict.For the shadows of war are deepening across the Atlantik, and the prejudice of a fanatic faction is threatening to bring the battle right to Meg and Simon\u2019s doorstep\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21457243-vision-in-silver"}, +{"book_title": "Unconquerable Sun", "author_name": "Kate Elliott", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 975, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "GENDER-SWAPPED ALEXANDER THE GREAT ON AN INTERSTELLAR SCALEPrincess Sun has finally come of age.Growing up in the shadow of her mother, Eirene, has been no easy task. The legendary queen-marshal did what everyone thought impossible: expel the invaders and build Chaonia into a magnificent republic, one to be respected\u2014and feared.But the cutthroat ambassador corps and conniving noble houses have never ceased to scheme\u2014and they have plans that need Sun to be removed as heir, or better yet, dead.To survive, the princess must rely on her wits and companions: her biggest rival, her secret lover, and a dangerous prisoner of war.Take the brilliance and cunning courage of Princess Leia\u2014add in a dazzling futuristic setting where pop culture and propaganda are one and the same\u2014and hold on tight:This is the space opera you\u2019ve been waiting for.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52378684-unconquerable-sun"}, +{"book_title": "A Wish After Midnight", "author_name": "Zetta Elliott", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 461, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Genna Colon desperately wants to escape from a drug-infested world of poverty, and every day she wishes for a different life. One day Genna's wish is granted and she is instantly transported back to Civil War-era Brooklyn.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (African American)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6475623-a-wish-after-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "The Storm", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1094, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "A deadly storm of violence sweeps across the United States in the thrilling third installment of the bestselling Trackers saga.One month after the North Korean attack, the United States continues to fall into anarchy. In Estes Park, Colorado, Police Chief Marcus Colton and tracker Sam \u2018Raven\u2019 Spears work tirelessly to defend their hometown. But after a brutal coordinated attack, they realize it will take much more than roadblocks and a volunteer militia to protect their borders and keep their families safe. Defense Secretary Charlize Montgomery has been reunited with her son, but his homecoming is short-lived due to the state of the FEMA survival centers around the country. She heads to the one in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her loyal bodyguard, Albert Randall. Outside the camp\u2019s walls, the city has descended into chaos and desperate civilians will do anything to get inside. When Albert stays behind to rescue his sister, he is caught in the middle of a turf war between rival gangs. In this lawless new world where the most ruthless thrive while innocents suffer, Colton, Raven, and Charlize are faced with their toughest challenges yet. One thing is certain\u2014they won\u2019t be able to save everyone. Not with their humanity still intact.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Action", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34971537-the-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon in Exile", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1301, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "Star-trading Clan Korval\u2014known to Terrans as the Tree-and-Dragon Family and to the locals simply as \"the Dragon\"\u2014has been convicted of crimes against the homeworld. No matter that one of the \"crimes\" consisted of saving the elitist planet of Liad from very real internal threats, the Council of Clans wanted Korval heads to roll. Unfortunately for the Council, the Dragon's allies conspired to impose a milder punishment for saving the world: banishment, rather than execution.Now relocated to the free-for-all world of Surebleak, the Dragon is under contract to keep the Port Road open to all traffic, and to back the New Bosses in imposing law and order on a society originally based on larceny and assassination. This modest rustication is going surprisingly well, until Korval discovers that the enemy they'd sought to destroy. . .wasn't quite destroyed, and is more determined than ever to eradicate Korval.While the banishment killed no one initially, many of Korval\u2019s trading allies are spooked, and some are reneging on ancient agreements, leaving the Dragon to make its own way. The clan\u2019s efforts to stealthily recruit new allies is going haywire, and a secret death toll is rising even as the clan\u2019s adherents endure increasing exposure to danger and deceit off-world.To make matters worse, an active portion of Surebleak's native population liked the Old Ways just fine, and are conspiring to take the New Bosses\u2014and the Dragon\u2014down, and are sure they have the firepower and people to do it.The exiled Dragon has to make an urgent choice\u2014accept an alliance with criminals or face down each and every enemy in person, one by one.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492519-dragon-in-exile"}, +{"book_title": "Thomas\u2019s First Memory of the Flare", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 7580, "review_number": 585, "book_description": "Short flashback that occurs between \"The Scorch Trials\" and \"The Death Cure.\"", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12878132-thomas-s-first-memory-of-the-flare"}, +{"book_title": "Tarkin", "author_name": "James Luceno", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 15137, "review_number": 1328, "book_description": "\"Of power, I could tell you much. One must seize the moment, and strike.\" --Grand Moff Wilhuff TarkinHe\u2019s the scion of an honorable and revered family. A dedicated soldier and distinguished legislator. Loyal proponent of the Republic and trusted ally of the Jedi Order. Groomed by the ruthless politician and Sith Lord who would be Emperor, Governor Wilhuff Tarkin rises through the Imperial ranks, enforcing his authority ever more mercilessly . . . and zealously pursuing his destiny as the architect of absolute dominion.Rule through the fear of force rather than force itself, he advises his Emperor. Under Tarkin\u2019s guidance, an ultimate weapon of unparalleled destruction moves ever closer to becoming a terrifying reality. When the so-called Death Star is completed, Tarkin is confident that the galaxy\u2019s lingering pockets of Separatist rebellion will be brought to heel\u2014by intimidation or annihilation.Until then, however, insurgency remains a genuine threat. Escalating guerrilla attacks by resistance forces and newfound evidence of a growing Separatist conspiracy are an immediate danger the Empire must meet with swift and brutal action. And to bring down a band of elusive freedom fighters, the Emperor turns to his most formidable agents: Darth Vader, the fearsome new Sith enforcer as remorseless as he is mysterious, and Tarkin\u2014whose tactical cunning and cold-blooded efficiency will pave the way for the Empire\u2019s supremacy . . . and its enemies\u2019 extinction.Contains a brief excerpt from \"Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi\" by Kevin Hearne.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22012250-tarkin"}, +{"book_title": "Opening Moves", "author_name": "Cosimo Yap", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 3965, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "The Earth is changing. The alien invasion brought social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game. A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization. Alan can't wait to play, recklessly diving into the digital universe. Soon though, Alan realizes the Game is anything but simple, and the stakes are higher than he ever imagined.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Action", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29618814-opening-moves"}, +{"book_title": "Ex-Patriots", "author_name": "Peter Clines", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 8780, "review_number": 504, "book_description": "It's been two years since the plague of ex-humans decimated mankind. Two years since the superheroes St. George, Cerberus, Zzzap, and Stealth gathered Los Angeles\u2019s survivors behind the walls of their fortress, the Mount. \u00a0Since then, the heroes have been fighting to give the Mount\u2019s citizens hope, and something like a real life. But now supplies are growing scarce, the zombies are pressing in . . . and the heroes are wondering how much longer they can hold out.\u00a0 \u00a0Then hope arrives in the form of a surviving US Army battalion--and not just any battalion. The men and women of the Army's Project Krypton survived the outbreak because they are super-soldiers, created before mankind's fall to be better, stronger, faster than normal humans--and their secure base in Arizona beckons as a much needed refuge for the beleaguered heroes and their charges. \u00a0But a dark secret lies at the heart of Project Krypton, and those behind it wield an awesome and terrifying power.\u00a0", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17162429-ex-patriots"}, +{"book_title": "Tave", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1289, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Rina Zeret is not prepared to settle down. At least, not with a genetically selected mate. She wants true love and a happily ever after. Unfortunately, her mother has other ideas and submits Rina\u2019s biological material\u2014the woman\u2019s a hairbrush thief!\u2014to the Population Ministry to see if they can find a genetic match for her. Suddenly Rina is presented with Tave fa V\u2019yl, Crown Prince of Ujal, High Warrior of the Ruling Caste and Earth\u2019s greatest ally. Her mother is going to be so happy. Tave fa V\u2019yl is the strongest and fiercest warrior on all of Ujal and yet he cannot deny one tiny female\u2014his mother. When he agrees to consider taking a mate this turning, he doesn\u2019t realize she takes things quite a bit further and finds him a woman. On Earth. Now he is presented with a woman who doesn\u2019t want him while he cannot think of anything past his wanting of her. Rina fights their attraction but doesn\u2019t realize Tave fa V\u2019yl has never lost a battle\u2026 and he will not begin with her. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25294735-tave"}, +{"book_title": "Lock In", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 58092, "review_number": 5979, "book_description": "Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes \"Lock In\": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as \"Haden's syndrome,\" rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an \"integrator\" - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated.But \"complicated\" doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It's nothing you could have expected.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21418013-lock-in"}, +{"book_title": "Man-Kzin Wars V", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1000, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Between wars, an odd assortment of human and Kzin characters search for a hidden treasure -- which is not what it seems. Elsewhere, Kzin and humans seek a weapon too horrible to use...", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100350.Man_Kzin_Wars_V"}, +{"book_title": "Highlander's Castle", "author_name": "Joanne Wadsworth", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 953, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "alternate cover edition of ASIN B00IHU006YNew York Times Bestselling Author Joanne Wadsworth brings you her bestselling Highlander Heat time travel series. Readers are loving it! Traveling through time...for a Highlander.Anne MacLeod's identical ancestor has made a wish on the Fairy Flag at Dunvegan Castle, one which sees the two young women swapping places in time and leaving Anne set to handfast with the very man her ancestor wished to escape. Only Anne sees the possibilities, because now she could change the future and ensure her parents never perished in the inferno which took their lives. Highland warrior Alex MacDonald has made an agreement to handfast with Anne in order to bring a halt to the feud raging between their clans. The last thing he expects though is a woman claiming to come from the future, a woman who stirs him on a physical and emotional level to protect, and to even believe. When Anne finds herself in her MacLeod chief's presence, she chooses to go with him in order to leave a message for her parents. In full pursuit, Alex wages a battle of the heart, and of the very essence of time. Can he defy the odds as Anne is taken from him...to work his own magic and get her back? Each book in this series is standalone, and can be enjoyed out of sequence.HIGHLANDER HEAT SERIES Highlander's Castle #1 Highlander's Magic #2 Highlander's Charm #3 Highlander's Guardian #4 Highlander's Faerie #5 Highlander's Champion #6 Highlander's Captive #7 (Short story, 11,000 words)", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Business (Amazon)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20925731-highlander-s-castle"}, +{"book_title": "This Dark Earth", "author_name": "John Hornor Jacobs", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 721, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "In a bleak, zombie-ridden future, a small settlement fights for survival and looks to a teenager to lead them\u2026The land is contaminated, electronics are defunct, the ravenous undead remain, and life has fallen into a nasty and brutish state of nature. Welcome to Bridge City, in what was once Arkansas: part medieval fortress, part Western outpost, and the precarious last stand for civilization. A ten-year-old prodigy when the world ended, Gus is now a battle-hardened young man. He designed Bridge City to protect the living few from the shamblers eternally at the gates. Now he\u2019s being groomed by his physician mother, Lucy, and the gentle giant Knock-Out to become the next leader of men. But an army of slavers is on its way, and the war they\u2019ll wage for the city\u2019s resources could mean the end of mankind as we know it. Can Gus become humanity\u2019s savior? And if so, will it mean becoming a dictator, a martyr . . . or maybe something far worse than even the zombies that plague the land?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13260168-this-dark-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Wrath of the Lemming Men", "author_name": "Toby Frost", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 401, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "From the depths of Space a new foe rises to do battle with mankind: the British Space Empire is threatened by the lemming-people of Yull, ruthless enemies who attack without mercy, fear, or any concept of self preservation. At the call of their war god, the Yull have turned on the Empire, hell-bent on conquest and destruction in their rush towards the cliffs of destiny. When the Yullian army is forced to retreat at the battle of the River Tam, the disgraced Colonel Vock swears revenge on the clan of Suruk the Slayer, Isambard Smith's homicidal alien friend. Now Smith and his crew must defend the Empire and civilize the stuffing out of a horde of bloodthirsty lemming-men\u2014which would be easy were it not for a sinister robotics company, a Ghast general with a fondness for genetic engineering, and an ancient brotherhood of Morris Dancers\u2014who may yet hold the key to victory.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6482144-wrath-of-the-lemming-men"}, +{"book_title": "Starship's Mage: Omnibus", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 5673, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "In a galaxy tied together by the magic of the elite Jump Magi, Damien Montgomery is a newly graduated member of their number. With no family or connections to find a ship, he is forced to service on an interstellar freighter known to be hunted by pirates. When he takes drastic action to save the \"Blue Jay\" from their pursuers, he sets in motion a sequence of events beyond his control - and attracts enemies on both sides of the law! Starship's Mage was originally released as five separate episodes.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848809-starship-s-mage"}, +{"book_title": "Charming the Highlander", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 7542, "review_number": 265, "book_description": "A feisty beauty tempted by a bold highlander's touch... When a plane crash strands brilliant scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger -- Greylen MacKeage, a sexy, medieval warrior who's been tossed through time to find the woman he's destined to love. Forced together to survive the harsh, wintry landscape, neither expects the fierce passion that flares between them. But Grace is not used to letting her heart take control, and Greylen will settle for nothing less than her heart's surrender....", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/825828.Charming_the_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 22625, "review_number": 795, "book_description": "Trapped in a town surrounded by madmen, Rick must find a way out or die trying. Meanwhile, back at the prison, the rest of the survivors come to grips with the fact Rick may be dead, and a major turning point in the series is reached. Collects issues #31-#36.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138395.The_Walking_Dead_Vol_6"}, +{"book_title": "Chiller", "author_name": "Sterling Blake", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 76, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Blake enters the arena of consummate suspense writers with a novel that pits a scientist working in the misunderstood field of cryonics--freezing corpses for future revival--against a serial killer. A fascinating subject explored realistically . . . thought-provoking.--Dean Koontz.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1884827.Chiller"}, +{"book_title": "More Than Honor", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 4094, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Tells how the Harrington family and its tradition of distinguished service in the defence of the realm was founded, and how they discovered treecats. Weber is joined in Honor's universe by two leading science fiction writers, David Drake and S.M. Stirling.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504378.More_Than_Honor"}, +{"book_title": "The Emperor's Edge Collection", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 3131, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "For those who enjoy heroic fantasy, steampunk, and heroes who are just as likely to battle with words as with swords, the first three Emperor\u2019s Edge novels are now available in one collection.Follow enforcer-turned-outlaw Amaranthe Lokdon, the infamous assassin Sicarius, and their team of aspiring heroes as they attempt to clear their names by thwarting evils aimed at the young emperor.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17515786-the-emperor-s-edge-collection"}, +{"book_title": "The Cabin at the End of the World", "author_name": "Paul Tremblay", "rating_score": 3.28, "rating_votes": 33901, "review_number": 6007, "book_description": "The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King\u2019s Misery, Ruth Ware\u2019s In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum\u2019s cult hit The Girl Next Door.Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, \"None of what\u2019s going to happen is your fault\". Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: \"Your dads won\u2019t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.\"Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Adult", "LGBT", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36381091-the-cabin-at-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Lust Plague", "author_name": "Cari Silverwood", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 150, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Saving the world should be easier. When airship captain Kaysana meets Sten, the last thing she wants is to have mad rough sex with him while restrained by ropes and clamps but fate pencils in their appointment. The lust plague strikes. From her infected crew, zombies arise. With her ship gone, she must rely on Sten, a human clone, a man who has fought all his life to master himself. She despises his kind and detests Sten\u2019s growing hold on her. Though he never takes no for an answer, surely it\u2019s the plague that makes yes slip from her tongue like melted butter? Or should she blame her own traitorous heart? Sten and Kaysana unlimber weapons, don goggles, and set a course for the origin of the plague. Yet their victory will be hollow if they cannot also solve the puzzle of their hearts.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29867259-lust-plague"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Dreaming", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 15944, "review_number": 704, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning\u2019s novella Into the Dreaming, a tale of Highland fantasy, star-crossed lovers, and the timeless manipulation of the ancient, immortal Unseelie king.Free him from his ice-borne hell\u2026Stolen from his beloved home in the Highlands of Scotland, imprisoned in the Unseelie king\u2019s dark, frosty kingdom, Aedan MacKinnon endured centuries of torture before becoming the icy, emotionless Vengeance, the dark king\u2019s dispatcher of death and destruction in the mortal realm.\nAnd in his century you both may dwell\u2026\nAspiring romance novelist Jane Sillee has always believed that she was born in the wrong century, but she\u2019s managed to make a decent enough life for herself\u2014if only she could stop having those recurring dreams about a man too perfect to exist.\nIn the Dreaming you have loved him\u2026\nHaunted every night of her life by a devastatingly sexy Highlander who comes to her while she sleeps, Jane tries to write him out of her head and heart. As a child he protected her, as a woman he loves her.\nNow in the Waking you must save him\u2026\nWhen an ancient tapestry bearing the likeness of her beloved Highlander arrives on her doorstep, Jane is whisked back in time to fifteenth-century Scotland, to the castle of Dun Haakon on the isle of Skye, where she is given one chance to save her dream lover\u2026or lose him forever to the Unseelie king.Caught in a deadly game between the light and dark courts of the Fae, Jane must find a way through the ice to the heart of her Highander. But will the love of one mortal woman be enough to defeat such ancient and ruthless immortal enemies?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fairies (Fae)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112749.Into_the_Dreaming"}, +{"book_title": "Aftershocks", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2274, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "\nSet in the same universe as the Worldwar series, Colonization: Aftershocks brings us to Earth in the 1960s, where four superpowers rule: the United States, Russia, Nazi Germany, and the aliens of the Race.\nThe arrival of the aliens shot Earth technology forward at a dizzying rate\u2014the world of 1960 includes routine space shuttle traffic, computers on every desk, and other high tech advancements. Aftershocks reveals that it was the United States that launched the nuclear offensive against the aliens, and when the aliens learn the truth, Indianapolis disappears in nuclear fire. In alien-held China, a full-fledged rebellion is launched, and in Poland, a nuclear bomb goes missing\u2014held by Jewish forces who seek to use it against the Nazis.The nations of Earth begin to realize that their only hope in holding back the aliens will be to work together. Because separately, they may face extinction.About the Author: Harry Turtledove is a Hugo Award-winning and critically acclaimed writer of science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history. His novels include The Guns of the South, How Few Remain\u2014winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel\u2014and the Worldwar tetralogy. The Great War: American Front was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 1998.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "War", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101540.Aftershocks"}, +{"book_title": "The Rise of Ransom City", "author_name": "Felix Gilman", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 935, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "This is the story Harry Ransom. If you know his name it\u2019s most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke of genius that changed the world. Or you may have read about how he lost the battle of Jasper City, or won it, depending on where you stand in matters of politics.Friends called him Hal or Harry, or by one of a half-dozen aliases, of which he had more than any honest man should. He often went by Professor Harry Ransom, and though he never had anything you might call a formal education, he definitely earned it. If you\u2019re reading this in the future, Ransom City must be a great and glittering metropolis by now, with a big bronze statue of Harry Ransom in a park somewhere. You might be standing on its sidewalk and not wonder in the least of how it grew to its current glory. Well, here is its story, full of adventure and intrigue. And it all starts with the day that old Harry Ransom crossed paths with Liv Alverhyusen and John Creedmoor, two fugitives running from the Line, amidst a war with no end.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13539175-the-rise-of-ransom-city"}, +{"book_title": "Rise: A Newsflesh Collection", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 1631, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "Collected here for the first time is every piece of short fiction from New York Times Bestseller Mira Grant's acclaimed Newsflesh series, with two new never-before-published novellas and all eight short works available for the first time in print.We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, a man-made virus taking over bodies and minds, filling them with one, unstoppable command...FEED.Countdown\"Everglades\"San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California BrowncoatsHow Green This Land, How Blue This SeaThe Day the Dead Came to Show and TellPlease Do Not Taunt the OctopusAll the Pretty Little HorsesComing to You Live", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27161826-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Lightless", "author_name": "C.A. Higgins", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 2553, "review_number": 490, "book_description": "Serving aboard the Ananke, an experimental military spacecraft launched by the ruthless organization that rules Earth and its solar system, computer scientist Althea has established an intense emotional bond\u2014not with any of her crewmates, but with the ship\u2019s electronic systems, which speak more deeply to her analytical mind than human feelings do. But when a pair of fugitive terrorists gain access to the Ananke, Althea must draw upon her heart and soul for the strength to defend her beloved ship. \u00a0 While one of the saboteurs remains at large somewhere on board, his captured partner\u2014the enigmatic Ivan\u2014may prove to be more dangerous. The perversely fascinating criminal whose silver tongue is his most effective weapon has long evaded the authorities\u2019 most relentless surveillance\u2014and kept the truth about his methods and motives well hidden. \u00a0 As the ship\u2019s systems begin to malfunction and the claustrophobic atmosphere is increasingly poisoned by distrust and suspicion, it falls to Althea to penetrate the prisoner\u2019s layers of intrigue and deception before all is lost. But when the true nature of Ivan\u2019s mission is exposed, it will change Althea forever\u2014if it doesn\u2019t kill her first.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29092928-lightless"}, +{"book_title": "The Trigon Rituals", "author_name": "Angelia Whiting", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 656, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Two warriors from a far away galaxy.... Men who have invaded her night time musings, learned her innermost fantasies, what erotic pleasures she seeks ... come to claim her ... while she's awake. This is no dream.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Menage (M F M)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1737068.The_Trigon_Rituals"}, +{"book_title": "The Water Dancer", "author_name": "Ta-Nehisi Coates", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 73126, "review_number": 8533, "book_description": "Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her \u2014 but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he\u2019s ever known.So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia\u2019s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he\u2019s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram\u2019s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Magical Realism", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Race", "Cultural (African American)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43982054-the-water-dancer"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadows Between Us", "author_name": "Tricia Levenseller", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 36251, "review_number": 6406, "book_description": "Alessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power:1)\tWoo the Shadow King.2)\tMarry him.3)\tKill him and take his kingdom for herself.No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King\u2019s power. Some say he can command the shadows that swirl around him to do his bidding. Others say they speak to him, whispering the thoughts of his enemies. Regardless, Alessandra knows what she deserves, and she\u2019s going to do everything within her power to get it.But Alessandra\u2019s not the only one trying to kill the king. As attempts on his life are made, she finds herself trying to keep him alive long enough for him to make her his queen\u2014all while struggling not to lose her heart. After all, who better for a Shadow King than a cunning, villainous queen?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35702241-the-shadows-between-us"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Lives", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 688, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "\nSome lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics.\nIn \nClockwork Angels\n, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid Watchmaker who controlled every aspect of life, and his nemesis, the ruthless and violent Anarchist who wanted to destroy it all.Anderson and Peart have returned to their colourful creation to explore the places and the characters that still have a hold on their imagination. Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people\u2019s stories \u2014 and ultimately her own.Clockwork Lives is a steampunk Canterbury Tales, and much more, as Marinda strives to change her life from a mere \u201csentence or two\u201d to a true epic.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Music", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612470-clockwork-lives"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Gasp", "author_name": "Trevor Hoyle", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 200, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "A large, dense, frightening novel from the UK author of This Sentient Earth. In 1990 the ocean's oxygen-producing plankton are dying from pollution. Maverick oceanographer Theo Detrick predicts a disastrous drop in the air's oxygen content within 20 years. Nobody believes him. Polluter-industrialist J.E. Gelstrom is furiously empire-building. The US/USSR military have abandoned nuclear weapons for a better deterrent--environmental warfare. Marine biologist Gavin Chase teams up with Detrick's daughter Cheryl to gather facts & alert the public. The climate warms, the protective ozone layer thins, equatorial regions become uninhabitable. The military, led by maniacal Major Madden, unleashes environmental weapons while retreating to secret, sealed labs to breed mutants able to survive anaerobic conditions. Eventually the dying Gelstrom has a change of heart & gives funds to Chase & friends who work desperately to reverse the ecological transformation.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1685500.The_Last_Gasp"}, +{"book_title": "City of Fallen Angels", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 499960, "review_number": 23347, "book_description": "The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She\u2019s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And\u2014most importantly of all\u2014she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.But nothing comes without a price.Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary\u2019s best friend, Simon, can\u2019t help her\u2014his mother just found out that he\u2019s a vampire, and now he\u2019s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6752378-city-of-fallen-angels"}, +{"book_title": "Hammerjack", "author_name": "Marc D. Giller", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 168, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "In this dark, futuristic thriller, Marc Giller defines the cutting edge of suspense with a relentless tale of murder, techno-terrorism, and a conspiracy one man is driven to uncover\u2014even if he must undo reality in the process.\u2026\n\n\nHAMMERJACK\n\n\nThey ride virtual waves of code and pirate high-tech secrets to sell to the highest bidder\u2014they are faster and smarter than your security system, and are only too happy to show you by how much. They are hammerjacks, and the rewards of their profession are second only to the sheer rush of what they do. Cray Alden was once one of them. Now he\u2019s a corporate spook chasing down the information traffickers who\u2019ve turned business into all-out war.But beneath the surface skirmishes lurks something darker\u2014rumors of a biological supercomputer that threatens to shift the balance of power between man and machine. Now Cray is caught in the cross fire between the corporate Collective and a shadowy fanatical anti-tech cult called Inru. With an assassin on his trail and a devastating secret locked in his mind, Cray must turn to the hammerjack who\u2019s been his most dangerous, most elusive quarry. Together they are on the deadliest mission of Cray\u2019s life\u2013-to destroy the god that man made.\n\n\n", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666310.Hammerjack"}, +{"book_title": "Vacuum Flowers", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1293, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Among the vanguard of today's boldest writers, Michael Swanwick presents his world of plug-in personalities, colonized asteroids, and a daring fugitive named Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark, a high-tech criminal seeking refuge on Earth's orbiting settlements--where all human evils blossom in the vacuum of space.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243854.Vacuum_Flowers"}, +{"book_title": "Legends of Zita the Spacegirl", "author_name": "Ben Hatke", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 9355, "review_number": 531, "book_description": "Fame comes at a price...Zita must find her way back to earth...but her space adventures have made her a galactic megastar! Who can you trust when your true self is overshadowed by your public image? And to make things worse...Zita's got a robot double making trouble--while wearing her face!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13170037-legends-of-zita-the-spacegirl"}, +{"book_title": "Awesome Dog 5000", "author_name": "Justin Dean", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Heads up, DOG MAN lovers! Watch out, readers of BAD GUYS! Robotic dog AWESOME DOG 5000 is in the neighborhood and he's. . . well, he's awesome.Marty, Ralph, and Skyler might make the ultimate secret combo when battling alien-slime ninjas in their favorite video game, but in real life they're just regular kids. That is, until the three best friends discover Awesome Dog 5000, a robotic dog with very real power-ups. Awesome Dog can \"bark\" a sonic boom, \"walk\" at speeds over three hundred miles per hour, and \"fetch\" with an atomic cannon. Life for Marty, Ralph, and Skyler just got a major turbo-boost!Attention, readers! AWESOME DOG 5000 is a wild action-comedy told through a mix of text and black-and-white illustrations, with a mystery to solve at the end. Can you handle the awesomeness?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Humor", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42359571-awesome-dog-5000"}, +{"book_title": "Blind Faith", "author_name": "Ben Elton", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 5822, "review_number": 470, "book_description": "Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed.Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom. A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to home?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Contemporary", "Novels", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2164457.Blind_Faith"}, +{"book_title": "Checkmate", "author_name": "Malorie Blackman", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 15431, "review_number": 450, "book_description": "Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage and becomes determined to find out more. But her father's family has a complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the nought population. And as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into this world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into more and more danger. Suddenly it's a game of very high stakes that can only have one winner . . .The powerful third story in the Noughts & Crosses sequence.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300045.Checkmate"}, +{"book_title": "Adrift on the Sea of Rains", "author_name": "Ian Sales", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 319, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "When a nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, it maroons a group of astronauts on the Moon. Using the \"torsion field generator\", they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do, how will they return home? They have one Lunar Module,. which can carry only four astronauts into lunar orbit...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13611151-adrift-on-the-sea-of-rains"}, +{"book_title": "Prepared", "author_name": "Courtney Konstantin", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 816, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "She thought she was prepared for the end of the world\u2026 until it actually came.Alex Duncan is a mother, a sister\u2014 and the daughter of a doomsday prepper. She always thought her father was insane, raving about an apocalypse she never believed in, but when a plague hits the United States and the dead no longer stay dead, Alex discovers heeding her deceased father\u2019s advice is what will keep her family alive. Before he died, Alex\u2019s father created a compound in Montana just in case situations like this arose.Hell has arrived on earth.The dead walk, hungry for human flesh. Living in a highly populated city like Las Vegas makes the reality of the plague imminent to Alex. With little time to spare, Alex must make split-second decisions to prevent her family from being devoured. Facing the end, Alex has three goals.Escape Las Vegas. Get to the compound. Survive.As the outside world crumbles and grows darker, Alex faces adversity from not just the infected, but the uninfected as well. Government assistance is nowhere in sight, and rumors fly that the nation\u2019s only solution to the growing plague is execution.Not everyone will outlast the plague. Doomsday is here. Will Alex be up to the challenge, or fall, and rise again as one of the undead?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41737948-prepared"}, +{"book_title": "The Black Prism", "author_name": "Brent Weeks", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 105541, "review_number": 5068, "book_description": "Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live.When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7165300-the-black-prism"}, +{"book_title": "Dorothy Must Die", "author_name": "Danielle Paige", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 70458, "review_number": 10045, "book_description": "I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado\u2014taking you with it\u2014you have no choice but to go along, you know?Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There's still a yellow brick road\u2014but even that's crumbling.What happened? Dorothy.They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.My name is Amy Gumm\u2014and I'm the other girl from Kansas.I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.I've been trained to fight.And I have a mission.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18053060-dorothy-must-die"}, +{"book_title": "Ring of Fire IV", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 353, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "NEW YORK TIMES\u00a0BEST-SELLING AUTHOR.\u00a0CONTAINS A STORY BY DAVID BRIN AND AN\u00a0ALL-NEW STORY BY ERIC FLINT.\u00a0Collection #4\u00a0of rollicking and idea-packed alternate history tales written by today\u2019s hottest science fiction writers and edited by\u00a0New York Times\u00a0best-seller Eric Flint. After a cosmic accident sets the modern-day West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe, these everyday, resourceful Americans must adapt \u2013 or be trod into the dust of the past.Let\u2019s do the \u201cTime Warp\u201d again!\u00a0 Another anthology of rollicking, thought-provoking collection of tales by a star-studded array of top writers such as bestseller Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint himself \u2013 all set in Eric Flint\u2019s phenomenal Ring of Fire series.\u00a0 A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe.\u00a0 It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in a mad and bloody time.\u00a0 Are they up for it?\u00a0 You bet they are.\u00a0 The fourth\u00a0rollicking and idea-packed collection of Grantville tales edited and introduced by Eric Flint, and inspired by his now-legendary 1632. \u00a0Plus: contains an all-new story by Eric Flint.Stories by\u00a0Eric Flint,\u00a0David Brin,\u00a0David Carrico,\u00a0Virginia DeMarce,\u00a0Charles E.\u00a0Gannon and more.\u00a0About Eric Flint\u2019s Ring of Fire\u00a0series: \u201c[Eric] Flint's\u00a01632\u00a0universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d \u2013Booklist \u00a0\u201c[Eric Flint] can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.\u201d \u2013Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Literature (17th Century)", "Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814182-ring-of-fire-iv"}, +{"book_title": "The Fiery Cross", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 178311, "review_number": 7368, "book_description": "The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser\u2019s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy\u2014a time-traveler\u2019s certain knowledge. Claire\u2019s unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead\u2014or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10967.The_Fiery_Cross"}, +{"book_title": "The Sparrow", "author_name": "Mary Doria Russell", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 66205, "review_number": 7409, "book_description": "In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be \"human\".", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Religion", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Book Club", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176.The_Sparrow"}, +{"book_title": "Artemis", "author_name": "Andy Weir", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 181509, "review_number": 20566, "book_description": "Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself\u2014and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34928122-artemis"}, +{"book_title": "Deathstalker Destiny", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2226, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Owen Deathstalker\u2019s greatest love\u2014Hazel d\u2019Ark\u2014has been abducted by the Blood Runners, a culture dedicated to the extremes of genetic experimentation. Stranded in a mission on Lachrymae Christi, Owen busies himself with the task of ensuring the survival of the leper colony living there, awaiting an opportunity to rescue Hazel\u2026or avenge her death.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509326.Deathstalker_Destiny"}, +{"book_title": "Rivers of London", "author_name": "Ben Aaronovitch", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 102028, "review_number": 8851, "book_description": "Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London\u2019s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he\u2019ll face is a paper cut. But Peter\u2019s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter\u2019s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9317452-rivers-of-london"}, +{"book_title": "Reserved for the Cat", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 6895, "review_number": 297, "book_description": "In 1910, in an alternate London, a penniless young dancer is visited by a cat who communicates with her mind to mind. Though she is certain she must be going mad, she is desperate enough to follow the cat's advice and impersonates a famous Russian ballerina. The cat, it turns out, is actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, and leads her to minor stardom. Meanwhile, the real Russian ballerina has fallen victim to an evil troll who takes over her body and kills her patrons, drinking their life essences in order to strengthen his powers. And soon, the troll focuses his dark attentions on the young dancer...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176874.Reserved_for_the_Cat"}, +{"book_title": "Summer Knight", "author_name": "Jim Butcher", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 132657, "review_number": 4409, "book_description": "HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARDLost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other EntertainmentEver since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. He can't pay his rent. He's alienating his friends. He can't even recall the last time he took a shower.The only professional wizard in the phone book has become a desperate man.And just when it seems things can't get any worse, in saunters the Winter Queen of Faerie. She has an offer Harry can't refuse if he wants to free himself of the supernatural hold his faerie godmother has over him--and hopefully end his run of bad luck. All he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen's name.It seems simple enough, but Harry knows better than to get caught in the middle of faerie politics. Until he finds out that the fate of the entire world rests on his solving this case. No pressure or anything...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91478.Summer_Knight"}, +{"book_title": "The Mislaid Magician; or, Ten Years After", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 4404, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "Ten years have passed since Kate and Cecy married Thomas and James, and England is now being transformed by the first railways. When the Duke of Wellington asks James to look into the sudden disappearance of a German railway engineer, James and Cecy's search reveals a shocking truth ...The railway lines are wreaking havoc with ancient underground magical ley lines, which could endanger the very unity of England. Meanwhile, Kate has her hands full taking care of all their children, not to mention the mysterious mute\u00a0girl Drina, rescued from a kidnapper! The letters between Kate and Cecy, and between their husbands, blend magic, mystery, adventure, humor, and romance.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169872.The_Mislaid_Magician_or_Ten_Years_After"}, +{"book_title": "Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti", "author_name": "Genevieve Valentine", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2960, "review_number": 473, "book_description": "Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin... Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless Elena and her aerialists who perform on living trapezes. War is everywhere, but while the Circus is performing, the world is magic.That magic is no accident: Boss builds her circus from the bones out, molding a mechanical company that will survive the unforgiving landscape.But even a careful ringmaster can make mistakes.Two of Tresaulti's performers are entangled in a secret standoff that threatens to tear the circus apart just as the war lands on their doorstep. Now the Circus must fight a war on two fronts: one from the outside, and a more dangerous one from within.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9626382-mechanique"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel Reborn, Vol. 01", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 825, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "- Battle Angel Alita has been published in 11 languages", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60295.Battle_Angel_Alita_Last_Order_"}, +{"book_title": "The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance", "author_name": "Trisha Telep", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 476, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Twenty tales of swashbuckling adventure and passionate romance from some of the most exciting names in romance fiction, including Margo Maguire, Autumn Daw, Sandy Blair, Michele Maddox, Patti O\u2019Shea, Holly Lisle, Kimberly Raye, and Madeline Baker.Join the heroines in this delightful anthology as they step backwards\u2014or forwards\u2014in time, transported to the Scottish Highlands or yesteryear, the Wild West, or the distant future. Propelled through time into situations rich with possibility and fraught with danger, these sexy, sassy heroines each seek their dreamed of happy ending.Will souls separated by time be reunited\u2014or kept apart\u2014forever?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Anthologies", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6395698-the-mammoth-book-of-time-travel-romance"}, +{"book_title": "Timelike Infinity", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1840, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "2000 years in the future, the solar system has fallen under the domination of an alien species, the Qax. But into this world appears a spaceship launched over 1500 years ago, intended to establish a link through which time travel is possible. To the humans this is a chance to reverse time.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Travel", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66795.Timelike_Infinity"}, +{"book_title": "Obsidian", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 236780, "review_number": 18161, "book_description": "Starting over sucks.When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I\u2019d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring\u2026 until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.And then he opened his mouth.Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something\u2026 unexpected happens. The hot alien living next door marks me.You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon\u2019s touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I\u2019m getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades. If I don\u2019t kill him first, that is.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12578077-obsidian"}, +{"book_title": "The Bone Clocks", "author_name": "David Mitchell", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 87902, "review_number": 10281, "book_description": "Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as \u201cthe radio people,\u201d Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics\u2014and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly\u2019s life, affecting all the people Holly loves\u2014even the ones who are not yet born.A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list\u2014all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Contemporary", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20819685-the-bone-clocks"}, +{"book_title": "Scout's Progress", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 2337, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "In the second novel of the Liaden Universe, Aelliana Caylon is a brilliant mathematician, but is convinced by her brother she has no worth beyond what value she might have in an arranged marriage. Then on a dare, she plays a game of chance and wins a starship. Now she must learn to fly if she is to escape her dastardly brother. Appeared in the omnibus \"Pilot's Choice.\"", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288768.Scout_s_Progress"}, +{"book_title": "The Warrior\u2019s Pet", "author_name": "Stephanie West", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 870, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "Giselle didn't know how long she lay near catatonic willing the terrible headache to go away. She sat up as one of the reptilian aliens entered. Giselle backed up and looked around realizing she was alone in a gilded cage. \"What's going on?\" She stammered. \"If you're wise you'll keep quiet, pets don't speak on this planet.\" The creature admonished. A pet? Giselle's eyes widened. She hadn't misheard. Her cage was moved into a large tent. There were hundreds of aliens gathered for the auction, and these creatures were the largest yet. Their flesh was red like some kind of demon might be, with hair a uniform dark black. From what Giselle could see their eyes were a stone cold obsidian hue. Giselle noticed the fearsome creatures had long tails that rose out from what looked like chain mail kilts. Giselle shrunk back when she saw the creatures also had sharp fangs. How in the hell could she get out of this and if she did how could she possibly survive on an alien planet? Kagan beheld his pet. Nothing like her kind had ever set foot on Cadi. Kagan wondered where in the universe her unique species hailed from. Giselle refused to behave and even enjoyed his attempts to rebuke her, reveling in the rough handling a male usually held back with females. Giselle was brave instead of meek, standing up for herself in a sea of foreigners. Kagan had at first insisted that Giselle understand her place in Cadi society. But something more valuable than precious metal or jewels would be lost if Giselle was forced into the role everyone thought she belonged. Can Giselle find acceptance and love on an alien planet or will she always be nothing more than a warrior's pet?This book has adult content and may have triggers for some.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30115279-the-warrior-s-pet"}, +{"book_title": "First To Fight", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 726, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Before Avalon, before the Fall of the Empire, Edward Stalker was a young man growing up in Earth\u2019s Undercity - a nightmarish rabbit warren of tiny apartments dominated by gangs who loot, rape and murder with impunity. When his family is killed in a gang attack, Ed takes the opportunity to run to the one place that will take him; the Terran Marine Corps. But becoming a Marine isn't easy and Ed will find himself pushed to the limits, surviving a training program designed to weed out everyone but the best, before he learns what it means to be a Terran Marine ... [As always, my books are DRM-free. Samples of this title (and others) can be downloaded from my website: www.chrishanger.net. Reviews and comments are always welcome.] ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Adventure", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25801717-first-to-fight"}, +{"book_title": "Umberland", "author_name": "Wendy Spinale", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1235, "review_number": 204, "book_description": "They\u2019re dreadfully fond of beheading people here\u2026Gwen, Pete, and the others have escaped from Everland. Except the safe haven they hoped to find at Alnwick Castle doesn\u2019t exist. With the Queen of England on her deathbed, Duchess Alyssa has stepped in, but things have gotten worse as the cure Doc created for the Horologia virus has mutated into something even more deadly. The only possible solution he can think of is to go back to the virus\u2019s origin: an extinct poisonous apple.Legend has it, though, that a tree bearing the apple might be found at the center of an impossible labyrinth hidden deep within Germany. A place no one in their right mind enters. With no other options, Alyssa sets out with only her sword, her wits, and the help of Maddox Hadder, a wild boy who oversees the castle gardens. To get to the center of the maze, she\u2019ll be forced to battle monsters more terrifying than her darkest nightmares.But can anyone truly survive the madness of the maze? And what if there\u2019s no apple to be found there?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Retellings", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32332938-umberland"}, +{"book_title": "No Time Like the Past", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 8491, "review_number": 517, "book_description": "Jodi Taylor\u2019s best-selling series The Chronicles of St Mary is back with a bang\u2026St Mary\u2019s has been rebuilt and it\u2019s business as usual for the History department.But first, there\u2019s the little matter of a seventeenth-century ghost that only Mr Markham can see.Not to mention the minor inconvenience of being trapped in the Great Fire of London\u2026and an unfortunately-timed comfort break at Thermopylae leaving the fate of the western world hanging in the balance.Re-join Max\u2019s madcap journey through time in Jodi Taylor\u2019s fifth inter-dimensional instalment No Time Like the Past.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Humor", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25877522-no-time-like-the-past"}, +{"book_title": "Dylan the Villain", "author_name": "K.G. Campbell", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 463, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "A surprising and laugh-out-loud showdown between two pint-sized super-villains.Dylan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Snivels, have always told him that he is the very best and cleverest super-villain in the whole wide world. And Dylan's confident that it's true--until he starts school and meets Addison Van Malice. Sure, Dylan's costume is scary. But Addison Van Malice's is bone-chilling. And yes, Dylan's laugh is crazy. But Addison Van Malice's is bananas. And Dylan's inventions are certainly super-villainous. But Addison Van Malice's are demonic! When their teacher, Ms. Ick, announces a Diabolical Robot Building Contest, Dylan sees his opportunity to prove that he really is the most evil villain of all. But Addison's not giving in without a fight. And so begins a competition of skill and wits that doesn't go the way anyone expected...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Academic (School)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25716652-dylan-the-villain"}, +{"book_title": "Marines", "author_name": "Paul Elard Cooley", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 504, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Fifty years ago, Mira, humanity\u2019s last hope to find new resources, exited the solar system bound for Proxima Centauri b. Seven years into her mission, all transmissions ceased without warning. Mira and her crew were presumed lost. Humanity, unified during her construction, splintered into insurgency and rebellion. Now, an outpost orbiting Pluto has detected a distress call from an unpowered object entering Sol space: Mira has returned. When all attempts at communications fail, S&R Black, a Sol Federation Marine Corps search and rescue vessel, is dispatched from Trident Station to intercept, investigate, and tow the beleaguered Mira to Neptune. As the marines prepare for the journey, uncertainty and conspiracy fomented by Trident Station\u2019s governing AIs, begin to take their toll. Upon reaching Mira, they discover they\u2019ve been sent on a mission that will almost certainly end in catastrophe. The Derelict saga is a suspenseful mashup of hard military sci-fi, space opera, and mystery. Some mysteries shouldn\u2019t be solved. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33812020-marines"}, +{"book_title": "Take Back the Skies", "author_name": "Lucy Saxon", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 973, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "Catherine Hunter is the daughter of a senior government official on the island of Anglya. She\u2019s one of the privileged \u2013 she has luxurious clothes, plenty to eat, and is protected from the Collections which have ravaged families throughout the land. But Catherine longs to escape the confines of her life, before her dad can marry her off to a government brat and trap her forever.So Catherine becomes Cat, pretends to be a kid escaping the Collections, and stows away on the skyship Stormdancer. As they leave Anglya behind and brave the storms that fill the skies around the islands of Tellus, Cat\u2019s world becomes more turbulent than she could ever have imagined, and dangerous secrets unravel her old life once and for all . . .", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18594501-take-back-the-skies"}, +{"book_title": "Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation", "author_name": "Ken Liu", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 3132, "review_number": 537, "book_description": "Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from China. Some stories have won awards; some have been included in various 'Year's Best' anthologies; some have been well reviewed by critics and readers; and some are simply Ken's personal favorites. Many of the authors collected here (with the obvious exception of Liu Cixin) belong to the younger generation of 'rising stars'.In addition, three essays at the end of the book explore Chinese science fiction. Liu Cixin's essay, The Worst of All Possible Universes and The Best of All Possible Earths, gives a historical overview of SF in China and situates his own rise to prominence as the premier Chinese author within that context. Chen Qiufan's The Torn Generation gives the view of a younger generation of authors trying to come to terms with the tumultuous transformations around them. Finally, Xia Jia, who holds the first Ph.D. issued for the study of Chinese SF, asks What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Cultural (China)", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Asia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (Asian Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28220730-invisible-planets"}, +{"book_title": "The Flying Warlord", "author_name": "Leo Frankowski", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 798, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "UNCERTAIN VISIONFor a twentieth-century man, Conrad Stargard had done a lot in thirteenth-century Poland. In just nine years, he had \"discovered\" universal education, aircraft, radios, steamboats, and machine guns. More important, he had prepared Poland to defeat the bloodthirsty Mongols in 1241.But now that the Mongol hordes had arrived, something was disturbing the flow of history. Even the Time Masters who secretly watched over Conrad couldn't predict his future, because they no longer even knew their own past . . .", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Poland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/555870.The_Flying_Warlord"}, +{"book_title": "Snake Heart", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1153, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Tasked with an impossible mission, hunted by the very people he wants to protect, Yanko White Fox is the only one who can save his nation from famine and anarchy. Armed only with his fledgling skills as a wizard and accompanied by allies he\u2019s not sure he can trust, he must track down an ancient relic before his enemies find it first. But countless obstacles stand in the way, including his mother. The deadly and infamous pirate Snake Heart cares nothing for the family\u2014or the son\u2014she abandoned, and wants the artifact for herself.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Action", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29326807-snake-heart"}, +{"book_title": "The Human Division", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 28216, "review_number": 1544, "book_description": "Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. Now the CU's secrets are known to all. Other alien races have come on the scene and formed a new alliance\u2014an alliance against the Colonial Union. And they've invited the people of Earth to join them. For a shaken and betrayed Earth, the choice isn't obvious or easy.Against such possibilities, managing the survival of the Colonial Union won't be easy, either. It will take diplomatic finesse, political cunning\u2026and a brilliant \"B Team,\" centered on the resourceful Lieutenant Harry Wilson, that can be deployed to deal with the unpredictable and unexpected things the universe throws at you when you're struggling to preserve the unity of the human race.Being published online from January to April 2013 as a three-month digital serial, The Human Division will appear as a full-length novel of the Old Man's War universe, plus\u2014for the first time in print\u2014the first tale of Lieutenant Harry Wilson, and a coda that wasn't part of the digital serialization.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15698479-the-human-division"}, +{"book_title": "Newton's Wake", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2531, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "ACROSS THE UNIVERSEIn the aftermath of the Hard Rapture-a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings-a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered.Lucinda Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan of galactic entrepreneurs, had carved out a profitable niche for herself and her kin by taking control of the Skein, a chain of interstellar gates left behind by the posthumans. But on a world called Eurydice, a remote planet at the farthest rim of the galaxy, Lucinda stumbled upon a forgotten relic of the past that could threaten the Carlyles' way of life.For, in the last instants before the war, a desperate band of scientists had scanned billions of human personalities into digital storage, and sent them into space in the hope of one day resurrecting them to the flesh. Now, armed, dangerous, and very much alive, these revenants have triggered a fateful confrontation that could shatter the balance of power, and even change the nature of reality itself.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Singularity", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185827.Newton_s_Wake"}, +{"book_title": "Flash Bang", "author_name": "Meghan March", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2010, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "Rowan Callahan is a career-climbing attorney focused on her future. But vicious\u2014and false\u2014rumors are destroying her professional life. That all ceases to matter when a plane crashes in downtown Chicago and the entire city goes dark, and she realizes she\u2019s just witnessed the kick-off to the apocalypse. Armed with a backpack of supplies, she leaves Chicago, intent on resetting her skewed priorities and seeking shelter at the family farm with her father and sister. She\u2019s injured and running for her life when she stumbles directly in the crosshairs of two men who just might be her salvation . . . and her greatest temptation.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Menage (M F M)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56213179-flash-bang"}, +{"book_title": "The Deathsniffer's Assistant", "author_name": "Kate McIntyre", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 633, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "The Deathsniffer\u2019s Assistant is a fantasy novel with a unique pseudo-Edwardian setting and a murder mystery twist. What\u2019s not to love about floating castles, eccentric lady detectives, and a protagonist who judges everyone by the quality of their shoes!After losing his parents in the Floating Castle Incident, the sensitive and mannered Chris Buckley has spent six years raising his magically talented little sister, Rosemary. They have been living on the savings that his once-wealthy family left behind. That money is drying up, and Chris finds himself with no choice but to seek out work in Darrington City as it spirals into a depression. The only employer willing to consider his empty r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is O. Faraday, the manic Deathsniffer. Faraday's special magical gift is a heightened intuition which is invaluable in hunting down murderers.When a Duchess calls on Olivia to solve the mystery of her dead husband, Chris finds himself tangled in Faraday\u2019s daily life and unable to extract himself from the macabre questions of the investigation. His involvement grows more complicated as political forces close around Rosemary. They only see her as a tool that can be used to end the depression at the cost of her freedom\u2014or even her life. Chris must juggle the question of who killed Viktor val Daren with the responsibility of keeping Rosemary and her magic safe from those who would use her up and toss her aside. Worst of all, he begins to learn that the national disaster that took his parents\u2019 lives may not have been the accident it seemed.Set in a world very similar to 1900s London, The Deathsniffer\u2019s Assistant combines the investigative murder mystery with a tale of personal and societal redemption. It is about the relationships between broken people who clash more often than not, but manage to shape and learn from one another in spite of this. The story is told from the perspective of Christopher Buckley, young and impressionable and influenced by the prejudices of his time, as he finds himself surrounded by a cast of exceptional women whose differing characters will slowly reconstruct his understanding of strength in others\u2014and in himself.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23582513-the-deathsniffer-s-assistant"}, +{"book_title": "The Meta-Rise", "author_name": "J.V. Kade", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 101, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The thrilling sequel to Bot Wars, perfect for fans of Skylanders! \u00a0 Trout St. Kroix can't believe that his half-human/half-robot father is the leader of the Meta-Rise, the robot civil rights movement. Trout can\u2019t even enjoy being a Bot Territory celebrity, because it also puts his whole family in danger. Ratch, a robot and former friend, has found a way to take control of robot Thinkchips, and under\u00a0Ratch's control, all bots\u2014including Trout's dad\u2014would become Ratch's drones. CanTrout\u2014and his friends Vee and Tellie Rix, along with brother Po\u2014find a way to stop Ratch before Trout loses his father all over again?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18554573-the-meta-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture", "author_name": "Randolph Lalonde", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2408, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "The crew of the Triton, a rare, Earth built Space Combat Carrier, make their way to Ossimi Station, a safe haven for independent ships and traders. In a galaxy gripped by conflict and teetering on the verge of chaos, Captain Jacob Valance and his crew will be faced with the unexpected, the unknown, and an opportunity to save thousands of lives. Will their sympathy be their undoing? [Broadcast 5]", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8336046-spinward-fringe-broadcast-5"}, +{"book_title": "Arena One: Slaverunners", "author_name": "Morgan Rice", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 5869, "review_number": 697, "book_description": "New York. 2120. American has been decimated, wiped out from the second Civil War. In this post-apocalyptic world, survivors are far and few between. And most of those who do survive are members of the violent gangs, predators who live in the big cities. They patrol the countryside looking for slaves, for fresh victims to bring back into the city for their favorite death sport: Arena One. The death stadium where opponents are made to fight to the death, in the most barbaric of ways. There is only one rule to the arena: no one survives. Ever. Deep in the wilderness, high up in the Catskill Mountains, 17 year old Brooke Moore manages to survive, hiding out with her younger sister, Bree. They are careful to avoid the gangs of slaverunners who patrol the countryside. But one day, Brooke is not as careful as she can be, and Bree is captured. The slaverunners take her away, heading to the city, and to what will be a certain death. Brooke, a Marine\u2019s daughter, was raised to be tough, to never back down from a fight. When her sister is taken, Brooke mobilizes, uses everything at her disposal to chase down the slaverunners and get her sister back. Along the way she runs into Ben, 17, another survivor like her, whose brother was taken. Together, they team up on their rescue mission. What follows is a post-apocalyptic, action-packed thriller, as the two of them pursue the slaverunners on the most dangerous ride of their lives, following them deep into the heart of New York. Along the way, if they are to survive, they will have to make some of the hardest choices and sacrifices of their lives, encountering obstacles neither of them had expected\u2014including their unexpected feelings for each other. Will they rescue their siblings? Will they make it back? And will they, themselves, have to fight in the arena?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13451182-arena-one"}, +{"book_title": "Star Trek vs. Transformers", "author_name": "John Barber", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 143, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Four decades in the making, it's the crossover that fans have demanded! Kirk, Spock, and Autobots! Decepticons and Klingons! Optimus Prime and the Prime Directive!When Kirk, Spock, and the entire crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise investigate problems at a remote mine, they're met with an explosive battle between powerful warriors who change into vehicles from the 20th century! As the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons rages, it's up to Kirk to decide--does he violate the Prime Directive and interfere in a war that's raged for millennia? And how will the Klingons complicate the issue? It's cartoony fun between two of the most popular science fiction franchises in the world!Transformers Hall of Famer John Barber and the world's most prolific Star Trek comics writer, Mike Johnson, team up with artist Philip Murphy (Powerpuff Girls) to tell an adventure that could only appear in comics!(TM), (R), & (c) 2018 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.TRANSFORMERS and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. (c) 2018 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved. Licensed by Hasbro.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Trek)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41646870-star-trek-vs-transformers"}, +{"book_title": "Abyss Deep", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 552, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "New York Times\u00a0bestselling author Ian Douglas's virtuosic Star Corpsman series proves one thing: The Marines are still the toughest sons of guns in the galaxy.As Bravo Company defuses a hostage crisis on an orbiting mining station, Navy Corpsman Elliot \"Doc\" Carlyle not only saves the lives of a wounded Marine and two extraterrestrial friendlies\u2014he averts a terrorist strike intended to kill billions. His reward? Deployment on a recon mission into the darkest depths known to man.Abyss Deep is a foreboding ocean planet torn by extremes: boiling storm world on one side, unbroken glacier on the other. Humans established a research colony there to study the planet's giant sea serpents\u2014but the colony has gone ominously silent. When Carlyle's team arrives, they discover a vessel belonging to a warlike alien species hovering above the atmosphere. But below the ice lurks a mystery so chilling it will make even Elliot Carlyle's blood run cold.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17368131-abyss-deep"}, +{"book_title": "Farthing", "author_name": "Jo Walton", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 4794, "review_number": 856, "book_description": "One summer weekend in 1949 \u2014 but not our 1949 \u2014 the well-connected \"Farthing set\", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading figures in the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated peace with Herr Hitler eight years before.Despite her parents' evident disapproval, Lucy is married \u2014 happily \u2014 to a London Jew. It was therefore quite a surprise to Lucy when she and her husband David found themselves invited to the retreat. It's even more startling when, on the retreat's first night, a major politician of the Farthing set is found gruesomely murdered, with abundant signs that the killing was ritualistic.It quickly becomes clear to Lucy that she and David were brought to the retreat in order to pin the murder on him. Major political machinations are at stake, including an initiative in Parliament, supported by the Farthing set, to limit the right to vote to university graduates.But whoever's behind the murder, and the frame-up, didn't reckon on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being a man with very private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts\u2026 and looking beyond the obvious.As the trap slowly shuts on Lucy and David, they begin to see a way out \u2014 a way fraught with peril in a darkening world.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183740.Farthing"}, +{"book_title": "Himiko: Bonding", "author_name": "C.B. Conwy", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 488, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Ever wondered why love stories talk about finding \"your better half\"? Matt hadn\u2019t, really. Not until humanity got its biggest surprise ever: the arrival of intelligent life from space. The Himika may look reassuringly human, but their unexplained behavior and eerie silence have strained relations between human and alien. When Matt is \"harvested\" -- kidnapped -- by the Himika, he's terrified. Nothing makes sense until he wakes up wrapped in Pietr's arms. Pietr may be the most annoying, smug, sarcastic humanoid Matt has ever met. He's also Matt's bonded mate. Plato was right. Everybody really does have a better half, and against everyone's better judgment, it seems Pietr belongs with Matt. But learning how to communicate the Himiko way (preferably without killing himself or Pietr in the process) is hard, and Matt's mentor, Aki, might be even more aggravating than Pietr. It doesn't help when Matt develops powers that not even the Himika understand. Matt isn't sure he's going to make it -- or if he'll have to let Pietr go in order to keep his mate safe and sane. Please notice: This story is continued in Himiko: Warrior. This is a second edition of a book previously published by Torquere Publishing.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36264003-himiko"}, +{"book_title": "With the Lightnings", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 5868, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "Daniel Leary is a lieutenant in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy with no money and no prospects since he quarreled with his ruthless, politically powerful father. Adele Mundy is a scholar with no money and no prospects since her family was massacred for conspiring against the Government of Cinnabar. Kostroma is a wealthy planet which depends on diplomacy to stay independent in a galaxy whose two great powers, Cinnabar and the Alliance, battle for supremacy. In a few hours, diplomacy is going to fail Kostroma. Daniel, Adele, and the scratch crew they gather aren't much to stand in the way of a powerful invasion fleet, but just possibly they're enough.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286445.With_the_Lightnings"}, +{"book_title": "Tower of Glass", "author_name": "Robert Silverberg", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1617, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he's constructing for this purpose soars above the Arctic tundra, and the seemingly perfect androids building it view Krug as their god. But, Krug is only flesh-and-blood, and when his androids discover the truth, their anger knows no bounds...and it threatens much more than the tower. \"...a multi-levelled work of high adventure, considerable tension and social consciousness.\"--Harlan Ellison.", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Novels", "Religion", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202172.Tower_of_Glass"}, +{"book_title": "Sink", "author_name": "Scarlett Dawn", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1278, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "*The individual installments are no longer in publication. Please see Cold Mark (Mark, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... .The second installment to the bestselling Cold Mark serial launches with Sink, where fear and willpower battle from within\u2026Braita Valorn\u2019s pampered existence with the Plumas of the west was cut short by her own hand. Being their Soul only complicates matters as she hides inside their enemy\u2019s territory. Danger lurks, and Braita\u2019s lack of knowledge of the planet, Triaz, is now abundantly clear.Braita\u2019s only strength against the deadly Mian is the blessed sun that lights the day hours.On a mission to find her best friend, Jax, she must infiltrate the Crank Pit, a brutal complex where Mian enter, only to leave absent a heartbeat. Nothing transpires as planned. Braita\u2019s reckless behavior lands her right into her adversaries\u2019 custody\u2014the Plumas of the east. Will Braita find the answers she\u2019s been searching for\u2026or will she sink further into a sensual world she never thought possible?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22458703-sink"}, +{"book_title": "The Empire of Ashes", "author_name": "Anthony Ryan", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 3896, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "For hundreds of years, the Ironship Trading Syndicate was fuelled by drake blood\u2013and protected by the Blood-blessed, those few who could drink it and wield fearsome powers. But now the very thing that sustained the corporate world threatens to destroy it.A drake of unimaginable power has risen, and it commands an army of both beasts and men. Rogue Blood-blessed Claydon Torcreek, Syndicate agent Lizanne Lethridge, and Ironship captain Corrick Hilemore, spread to disparate corners of the world, must rely upon the new powers and knowledge they have gained at great price to halt its forces\u2013or face the end of all they know.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25972196-the-empire-of-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Singing the Dogstar Blues", "author_name": "Alison Goodman", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1030, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Joss is a rebel, and a student of time travel at the prestigious Centre for Neo-Historical Studies. This year, for the first time, the Centre has an alien student? Mavkel, from the planet Choria. And Mavkel has chosen Joss, of all people, as his roommate and study partner. Then Mavkel gets sick. Joss quickly realizes that his will to live is draining away. The only way she can help Mavkel is by breaking the Centre's strictest rules . . . and that means going back in time to change history.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/462225.Singing_the_Dogstar_Blues"}, +{"book_title": "Shades of Grey", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 32751, "review_number": 4267, "book_description": "Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society where the ability to see the higher end of the color spectrum denotes a better social standing, Eddie Russet belongs to the low-level House of Red and can see his own color\u2014but no other. The sky, the grass, and everything in between are all just shades of grey, and must be colorized by artificial means. Eddie's world wasn't always like this. There's evidence of a never-discussed disaster and now, many years later, technology is poor, news sporadic, the notion of change abhorrent, and nighttime is terrifying: no one can see in the dark. Everyone abides by a bizarre regime of rules and regulations, a system of merits and demerits, where punishment can result in permanent expulsion. Eddie, who works for the Color Control Agency, might well have lived out his rose-tinted life without a hitch. But that changes when he becomes smitten with Jane, a Grey, which is low-caste in this color-centric world. She shows Eddie that all is not well with the world he thinks is just and good. Together, they engage in dangerous revolutionary talk.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2113260.Shades_of_Grey"}, +{"book_title": "Code Noir", "author_name": "Marianne de Pierres", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 350, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The world of Parrish Plessis is complex, frenzied, bloody and improbably dangerous. (Warpcore SF)The Tert war is over, and bodyguard Parrish Plessis has gotten a piece of the toxic pie-and the responsibilities that go along with it. To pay off a blood debt to the Cabal Coomera tribe, she must enter the heart of tekno-darkness-the slum town of Dis-to find their missing shamans and to kill her ex-lover Daac. But Parrish still has feelings for Daac-feelings that run as deep as the high-tech parasite he infected her with. Bad blood never boiled like this.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/518479.Code_Noir"}, +{"book_title": "Lady of Devices", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 7948, "review_number": 877, "book_description": "London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin\u2019s son is Prime Minister. And steam is the power that runs the world. At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St. Ives, was expected to do nothing more than pour an elegant cup of tea, sew a fine seam, and catch a rich husband. Unfortunately, Claire\u2019s talents lie not in the ballroom, but in the chemistry lab, where things have a regrettable habit of blowing up. When her father gambles the estate on the combustion engine and loses, Claire finds herself down and out on the mean streets of London. But being a young woman of resources and intellect, she turns fortune on its head. It\u2019s not long before a new leader rises in the underworld, known only as the Lady of Devices . . . When she meets Andrew Malvern, a member of the Royal Society of Engineers, she realizes her talents may encompass more than the invention of explosive devices. They may help her realize her dreams and his . . . if they can both stay alive long enough to see that sometimes the closest friendships can trigger the greatest betrayals . . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11500552-lady-of-devices"}, +{"book_title": "The Great Hunt", "author_name": "Robert Jordan", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 236028, "review_number": 5396, "book_description": "The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Epic", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233649.The_Great_Hunt"}, +{"book_title": "Transcendence", "author_name": "Shay Savage", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 17652, "review_number": 2925, "book_description": "Librarian's note: This is an Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00IFV9AXY.It's said that women and men are from two different planets when it comes to communication, but how can they overcome the obstacles of prehistoric times when one of them simply doesn't have the ability to comprehend language?Ehd's a caveman living on his own in a harsh wilderness. He's strong and intelligent, but completely alone. When he finds a beautiful young woman in his pit trap, it's obvious to him that she is meant to be his mate. He doesn't know where she came from, she's wearing some pretty odd clothing, and she makes a lot of noises with her mouth that give him a headache. Still, he's determined to fulfill his purpose in life - provide for her, protect her, and put a baby in her.Elizabeth doesn't know where she is or exactly how she got there. She's confused and distressed by her predicament, and there's a caveman hauling her back to his cavehome. She's not at all interested in Ehd's primitive advances, and she just can't seem to get him to listen. No matter what she tries, getting her point across to this primitive but beautiful man is a constant - and often hilarious - struggle.With only each other for company, they must rely on one another to fight the dangers of the wild and prepare for the winter months. As they struggle to coexist, theirs becomes a love story that transcends language and time.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "New Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20504754-transcendence"}, +{"book_title": "Hot Head", "author_name": "Simon Ings", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 182, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "An ambitious SF novel that is at once post-cyberpunk and post-modern. Complex, multi-layered, it combines hard science, tarot and images of late 20th-century Europe to make something utterly original. And introduces a memorable new heroine to the genre...Malise has a problem. She's come downwell to Earth, but years of space combat have ruined her: her muscles have wasted away, her past is a confused torture of events and her brain is wired to addictive military hardware that's illegal on Earth.But with an AI mining probe returning to Earth, having bred and grown until it is hundreds of miles across, Malise is in the firing line again. The probe is indestructible and it is insatiable for more metals. No one knows how to stop it. Malise doesn't know she has a blueprint for humanity's survival wired into her head.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410777.Hot_Head"}, +{"book_title": "The Republic of Thieves", "author_name": "Scott Lynch", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 88502, "review_number": 5094, "book_description": "With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all.Magi political elections are imminent, and the factions are in need of a pawn. If Locke agrees to play the role, sorcery will be used to purge the venom from his body - though the process will be so excruciating he may well wish for death. Locke is opposed, but two factors cause his will to crumble: Jean's imploring - and the Bondsmage's mention of a woman from Locke's past: Sabetha. She is the love of his life, his equal in skill and wit, and now, his greatest rival. Locke was smitten with Sabetha from his first glimpse of her as a young fellow orphan and thief-in-training. But after a tumultuous courtship, Sabetha broke away. Now they will reunite in yet another clash of wills. For faced with his one and only match in both love and trickery, Locke must choose whether to fight Sabetha - or to woo her. It is a decision on which both their lives may depend.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2890090-the-republic-of-thieves"}, +{"book_title": "Emergence", "author_name": "Niall Teasdale", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 240, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Emergence: noun. 1. The process of becoming visible after being concealed. 2. The process of coming into existence or prominence. 3. In philosophy, art, and systems theory, a process where complex systems can exhibit properties none of its constituent parts possess. Sometimes, when something emerges, you\u2019re better off not knowing. A routine security operation requiring no input from the investigation division turns into a hunt for a malicious hacker when one of the world\u2019s most popular musicians is targeted. Fox Meridian and her team must fly to Japan to keep Nishi Sakura and her girlfriend, Charlie Iberson, safe from a skilled, manipulative man known only as Minotaur. But as organised crime becomes involved and an old enemy resurfaces, the stakes for Fox and everyone around her have never been higher.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31205968-emergence"}, +{"book_title": "The Osiris Ritual", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2455, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "\nA steampunk mystery adventure featuring immortality, artifacts, and intrepid sleuths Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica HobbesSir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, imagines life will be a little quieter after his dual successes solving The Affinity Bridge affair. But he hasn't banked on his villainous predecessor, Knox, who is hell-bent on achieving immortality, not to mention a secret agent who isn't quite what he seems....So continues an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the second in the series of Newbury & Hobbes investigations.\n", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6066181-the-osiris-ritual"}, +{"book_title": "The Singing", "author_name": "Alison Croggon", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 12750, "review_number": 525, "book_description": "The stunning conclusion to the epic Pellinor series\u2014four books telling an extraordinary tale of another world.The Singing follows the separate journeys of Maerad and Cadvan, and their brother Hem, as they desperately seek each other in an increasingly battle-torn land. The Black Army is moving north and Maerad has a mighty confrontation with the Landrost to save Innail. All the Seven Kingdoms are being threatened with defeat. Yet Maerad and Hem hold the key to the mysterious Singing and only in releasing the music of the Elidhu together may the Nameless One be defeated.Can brother and sister find each other in time to fight the Nameless One, and are they strong enough to defeat him?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2550219.The_Singing"}, +{"book_title": "Obsidian Mirror", "author_name": "Catherine Fisher", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2123, "review_number": 392, "book_description": "Jake's father disappears while working on mysterious experiments with the obsessive, reclusive Oberon Venn. Jake is convinced Venn has murdered him. But the truth he finds at the snow-bound Wintercombe Abbey is far stranger ... The experiments concerned a black mirror, which is a portal to both the past and the future. Venn is not alone in wanting to use its powers. Strangers begin gathering in and around Venn's estate: Sarah - a runaway, who appears out of nowhere and is clearly not what she says, Maskelyne - who claims the mirror was stolen from him in some past century. There are others, a product of the mirror's power to twist time. And a tribe of elemental beings surround this isolated estate, fey, cold, untrustworthy, and filled with hate for humans. But of them all, Jake is hell-bent on using the mirror to get to the truth. Whatever the cost, he must learn what really happened to his father.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15757971-obsidian-mirror"}, +{"book_title": "The Rise of Darth Vader", "author_name": "James Luceno", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 7862, "review_number": 390, "book_description": "Throughout the galaxy, it was believed that Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker the Chosen One had died on Coruscant during the siege of the Jedi Temple. And, to some extent, that was true. Anakin was dead. From the site of Anakin Skywalker s last stand on the molten surface of the planet Mustafar, where he sought to destroy his friend and former master, Obi-Wan Kenobi a fearsome specter in black has risen. Once the most powerful Knight ever known to the Jedi Order, he is now a disciple of the dark side, a lord of the dreaded Sith, and the avenging right hand of the galaxy s ruthless new Emperor. Seduced, deranged, and destroyed by the machinations of the Dark Lord Sidious, Anakin Skywalker is dead . . . and Darth Vader lives. Word of the events that created him the Jedi Council s failed mutiny against Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the self-crowned Emperor s retaliatory command to exterminate the Jedi Order, and Anakin s massacre of his comrades and Masters in the Jedi Temple has yet to reach all quarters. On the Outer Rim world of Murkhana, Jedi Masters Roan Shryne and Bol Chatak and Padawan Olee Starstone are leading a charge on a Separatist stronghold, unaware that the tide, red with Jedi blood, has turned suddenly against them. When the three narrowly elude execution and become the desperate prey in a hunt across space it s neither clone soldiers, nor the newly deployed stormtroopers, nor even the wrath of the power-hungry Emperor himself they must fear most. The deadliest threat rests in the hideously swift and lethal crimson lightsaber of Darth Vader behind whose brooding mask lies a shattered heart, a poisoned soul, and a cunning, twisted mind hell-bent on vengeance. For the handful of scattered Jedi, survival is imperative if the light side of the Force is to be protected and the galaxy somehow, someday reclaimed. Yet more important still is the well-being of the twin infants, Leia and Luke Skywalker, the children of Anakin and his doomed bride, Padme Amidala. Separated after Padme s death, they must be made safe at all costs, lest the hope they represent for the future be turned to horror by the new Sith regime and the unspeakable power of the dark side. From the Hardcover edition.\"", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359848.The_Rise_of_Darth_Vader"}, +{"book_title": "The Tower of Smoke", "author_name": "Evan Dahm", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 37, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "The third of three books comprising the story of Order of Tales. 295 pages, including the final 6 chapters, a detailed appendix, and other extras.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11333088-the-tower-of-smoke"}, +{"book_title": "Furies of Calderon", "author_name": "Jim Butcher", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 99935, "review_number": 4220, "book_description": "For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies - elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal. But now, Gaius Sextus, First Lord of Alera, grows old and lacks an heir. Ambitious High Lords plot and maneuver to place their Houses in positions of power, and a war of succession looms on the horizon. Far from city politics in the Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans' most savage enemy - the Marat - return to the Valley, he will discover that his destiny is much greater than he could ever imagine. Caught in a storm of deadly wind furies, Tavi saves the life of a runaway slave named Amara. But she is actually a spy for Gaius Sextus, sent to the Valley to gather intelligence on traitors to the Crown, who may be in league with the barbaric Marat horde. And when the Valley erupts in chaos - when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies - Amara will find Tavi's courage and resourcefulness to be a power greater than any fury - one that could turn the tides of war.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29396.Furies_of_Calderon"}, +{"book_title": "The Killing of Worlds", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1775, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling, reached new heights of excitement in last spring's The Risen Empire, and left readers begging for more. Now he comes through with the dazzling payoff in book two of Succession, The Killing of Worlds.Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial frigate Lynx is a walking dead man. Unjustly held responsible for the death of the Child Empress, sister of the immortal Emperor, Zai has been sent to fight an unwinnable battle. The Lynx must stop a vastly superior Rix ship from reaching the planet Legis, a suicide mission that will almost certainly end in oblivion for Captain Zai and his crew.On the planet Legis below, a Rix compound mind--a massive emergent AI formed from every computer on the planet--as been isolated by their Imperial blockade. But the mind has guided a lone Rix commando, Herd, to the planet's frozen north, and will soon order a desperate attempt to seize a polar communications array and break the blockade. Herd is a single warrior against an Imperial army, but moving silently behind her is the intelligence of an entire planet.Ten light-years away, Captain Zai's true love, the psychic (some say mad) Senator Nara Oxham is engaged in a deadly game of political intrigue. From her position on the Emperor's War Council, Senator Oxham must find a way to forestall the Emperor's final solution if the blockade is broken: a nuclear strike to destroy the compound mind, which will also kill millions of Imperial citizens. She suspects that the Emperor has a hidden weakness discovered, by the mind, a secret so dangerous to his immortal dynasty that to prevent its discovery the Emperor is willing to countenance the ultimate crime. . . . The killing of worlds.With this powerful conclusion to the first story arc of Succession, Scott Westerfeld confirms his stature as one of the leading writers of high space opera. ", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adult", "War", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24772.The_Killing_of_Worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Smash Trash! (Disney/Pixar: WALL-E", "author_name": "Laura Driscoll", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 159, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "IT IS THE 29th Century and the Earth has been abandoned, but one robot has been left behind to collect and condense trash\u2014WALL\u2022E. This Step 1 book, introduces early readers to WALL\u2022E, Disney\u2022Pixar\u2019s newest animated film coming to theaters in summer 2008.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Childrens", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (1st Grade)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3641022-smash-trash"}, +{"book_title": "Dust", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 69595, "review_number": 4239, "book_description": "In a time when secrets and lies were the foundations of life, someone has discovered the truth. And they are going to tell.Jules knows what her predecessors created. She knows they are the reason life has to be lived in this way.And she won't stand for it.But Jules no longer has supporters. And there is far more to fear than the toxic world beyond her walls.A poison is growing from within Silo 18.One that cannot be stopped.Unless Silo 1 step in.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17855756-dust"}, +{"book_title": "Nascent", "author_name": "Tony Corden", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1086, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Atherleah Carroll grew up in a negative-tax family in the gang-controlled suburbs of Brisbane at the end of the twenty-first century. From the age of six, she decided that she wanted more and with the help of her local gang-leader she learned the skills to escape the relentless pressure to mediocrity. On her sixteenth birthday, she was inadvertently implanted with a Neural Enhancement Chip instead of the free Government provided basic level personal AI. This mistake not only removed the limits placed on the AI but also broke some of the Government instigated control parameters. Leah\u2019s life rapidly becomes a battle, both in the virtual-multiverse and in real life. On the Stork Tower by W\u00e1ng Zh\u012bhu\u00e0n Along the mountains sink the last rays of sun, Towards the sea, the Yellow River does forward go. If you would fain command a thousand miles in view, To a higher storey, you are expected to go.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36451191-nascent"}, +{"book_title": "Emergency Skin", "author_name": "N.K. Jemisin", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 13511, "review_number": 1723, "book_description": "What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award\u2013winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet\u2019s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: a graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind\u2014hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out eons ago. After all this time, there\u2019s no telling how they\u2019ve devolved. Steel yourself, soldier. Get in. Get out. And try not to stare.N. K. Jemisin\u2019s Emergency Skin is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49669410-emergency-skin"}, +{"book_title": "Red Hill", "author_name": "Jamie McGuire", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 12497, "review_number": 1948, "book_description": "When the world ends, can love survive?For Scarlet, raising her two daughters alone makes fighting for tomorrow an everyday battle. Nathan has a wife, but can\u2019t remember what it\u2019s like to be in love; only his young daughter Zoe makes coming home worthwhile. Miranda\u2019s biggest concern is whether her new VW Bug is big enough to carry her sister and their boyfriends on a weekend escape from college finals.When reports of a widespread, deadly \u201coutbreak\u201d begin to surface, these ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances and suddenly their fates are intertwined. Recognizing they can\u2019t outrun the danger, Scarlet, Nathan, and Miranda desperately seek shelter at the same secluded ranch, Red Hill. Emotions run high while old and new relationships are tested in the face of a terrifying enemy\u2014an enemy who no longer remembers what it\u2019s like to be human.Set against the backdrop of a brilliantly realized apocalyptic world, love somehow finds a way to survive. But what happens when the one you\u2019d die for becomes the one who could destroy you?Red Hill grabs you from page one and doesn\u2019t let go until its stunning conclusion. This is #1 New York Times bestselling author Jamie McGuire at her unforgettable best.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17457124-red-hill"}, +{"book_title": "Plan B", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 2367, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "\"A real page-turner\" (ANNE MCCAFFREY) in the Liaden Universe(r) series.Fugitive Val Con yos'Phelium plans a desperate gamble by forming an alliance with Clan Erob. But his cousin, Shan yos'Galen can't wait. With enemy agents closing in, he invokes Plan B-setting in motion a series of events that will have dire consequences-for all of Liad.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288766.Plan_B"}, +{"book_title": "Dreamfever", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 92477, "review_number": 4876, "book_description": "MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master\u2019s spell.\u2026In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning\u2019s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin\u2019s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest\u2014and most erotically charged\u2014adventure of her life.He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister\u2019s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac\u2019s every thought\u2014and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V\u2019lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister\u2019s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac\u2019s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.\u2026It\u2019s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth\u2014about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons\u2026and about the world she thought she knew.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6050298-dreamfever"}, +{"book_title": "The Tin Rose", "author_name": "Anne Renwick", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 314, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Note: This is a SHORT story.A promise. A poison. A race to save a love balanced on the edge. A clockwork contraption unwinds a poisonous bloom, sending Lady Emily and Luca, her gypsy love, on a race to reach the cure.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Steampunk Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Regency)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36174036-the-tin-rose"}, +{"book_title": "Middlewest #1", "author_name": "Skottie Young", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 311, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "The lands between the coasts are vast, slow to change, and full of hidden magics. Mistakes have been made, and in this NEW ONGOING SERIES, an unwitting adventurer searches for answers to quell a coming storm that knows his name. From author SKOTTIE YOUNG (I HATE FAIRYLAND, Deadpool) and artist JORGE CORONA (NO. 1 WITH A BULLET, Feathers, Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack) comes the tale of Abel, a young boy who must navigate an old land in order to reconcile his family's history.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Contemporary", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42955132-middlewest-1"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", "author_name": "Alexander Freed", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 7196, "review_number": 946, "book_description": "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Go beyond the film with a novelization featuring new scenes and expanded material.As the shadows of the Empire loom ever larger across the galaxy, so do deeply troubling rumors. The Rebellion has learned of a sinister Imperial plot to bring entire worlds to their knees. Deep in Empire-dominated space, a machine of unimaginable destructive power is nearing completion. A weapon too terrifying to contemplate . . . and a threat that may be too great to overcome.If the worlds at the Empire's mercy stand any chance, it lies with an unlikely band of allies: Jyn Erso, a resourceful young woman seeking vengeance; Cassian Andor, a war-weary rebel commander; Bodhi Rook, a defector from the Empire's military; Chirrut Imwe, a blind holy man and his crack-shot companion, Baze Malbus; and K-2SO, a deadly Imperial droid turned against its former masters. In their hands rests the new hope that could turn the tide toward a crucial Rebellion victory--if only they can capture the plans to the Empire's new weapon.But even as they race toward their dangerous goal, the specter of their ultimate enemy--a monstrous world unto itself--darkens the skies. Waiting to herald the Empire's brutal reign with a burst of annihilation worthy of its dreaded name: Death Star.Praise for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story\"One of the best movie adaptations yet.\"--Cinelinx\"Rogue One bridged characters and elements of the prequels and original Star Wars trilogy in a visually stunning ride, but there are even more rich details hiding in the film's novelization, [which] reveals and expands with inner monologues and character insights, political knots, and nuance.\"\n--The Daily Dot\n\"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization deepens a tale of hope. . . . [Jyn Erso] proves to be even more fascinating here than she was in the movie.\"--New York Daily News", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30008713-rogue-one"}, +{"book_title": "Midst Toil and Tribulation", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 5120, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "David Weber's New York Times bestselling Safehold series of military Science Fiction adventure, which began with Off Armageddon Reef, continues with Midst Toil and TribulationWAR AND FAMINEOnce the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold. Then, after centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of Mother Church--egged on, some say, by the mysterious warrior-monk Merlin Athrawes, who enjoys the Charisian royal family's absolute trust.What vanishingly few people know is that Merlin is the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which aliens destroyed Earth...and that since awakening, his task has been to restart the history of the long-hidden human race.Now, reeling from the wars and intrigues that have cascaded from Charis's declaration of independence, the Republic of Siddermark slides into chaos. The Church has engineered a rebellion, and Siddermark's all-important harvest is at risk. King Cayleb and Queen Sharleyan struggle to stabilize their ally, which will mean sending troops--but, even more importantly, preventing famine. For mass starvation in Safehold's breadbasket is a threat even more ominous than civil war...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13118201-midst-toil-and-tribulation"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun Returns Anthology", "author_name": "Jordan K. Weisman", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 34, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "**Available with the Shadowrun Returns Deluxe Edition or the Shadowrun Returns Deluxe Upgrade DLC. In PDF format**Explore the world of Shadowrun Returns even more with an illustrated PDF of short stories written for the game and edited by Jordan Weisman, the creator of Shadowrun.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18250084-shadowrun-returns-anthology"}, +{"book_title": "Jupiter", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2638, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Jupiter is a boundless ocean, ten times wider than the entire planet Earth. Heated from below by the planet's seething core, it is the widest, deepest, most fearsome ocean in the solar system.Idealistic young American scientist Grant Archer joins a clandestine expedition to this awesome new world. But Grant does not share the ideals of the scientists he accompanies: he has been planted on their expedition by the New Morality, a religious group that wants to ferret out what the 'godless humanists' have discovered. His mission: to reassure the new religious leaders of Earth that Jupiter holds no intelligent life.But unknown to the New Morality, Grant, though the son of a minister, is both a believer and a man who sees no reason why science and faith can not co-exist. He has come to the vast, planet-girdling ocean of Jupiter with an open mind, and he is about to tell his masters something that may shatter their conviction.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267334.Jupiter"}, +{"book_title": "A Voice in the Wilderness", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2718, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Albert Birnbaum was once one of the biggest political talk show hosts around, but these days hes watching his career enter a death spiral. A stranger offers a solution to his woes, promising to put him back on top. Its everything Birnbaum wants, but is there a catch? And does Birnbaum actually care if there is?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180356-a-voice-in-the-wilderness"}, +{"book_title": "The Journey", "author_name": "John A. Heldt", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1064, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "Seattle, 2010. When her entrepreneur husband dies in an accident, Michelle Preston Richardson, 48, finds herself childless and directionless. She yearns for the simpler days of her youth, before she followed her high school sweetheart down a road that led to limitless riches but little fulfillment, and jumps at a chance to reconnect with her past at a class reunion. But when Michelle returns to Unionville, Oregon, and joins three classmates on a spur-of-the-moment tour of an abandoned mansion, she gets more than she asked for. She enters a mysterious room and is thrown back to 1979.Distraught and destitute, Michelle finds a job as a secretary at Unionville High, where she guides her spirited younger self, Shelly Preston, and childhood friends through their tumultuous senior year. Along the way, she meets widowed teacher Robert Land and finds the love and happiness she had always sought. But that happiness is threatened when history intervenes and Michelle must act quickly to save those she loves from deadly fates. Filled with humor and heartbreak, THE JOURNEY gives new meaning to friendship, courage, and commitment as it follows an unfulfilled soul through her second shot at life.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26214378-the-journey"}, +{"book_title": "Circles in Time", "author_name": "Tess Mallory", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 169, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Investigative reporter Kendra O'Brien knows its a dream, so when Navarre de Galliard charges up in chain mail, she does what any modern career girl would do--she makes a pass at him. Only then does she realize that she isn't in Kansas anymore. This is 13th-century England, and he thinks she's the wicked witch!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/398849.Circles_in_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Necessary Evil", "author_name": "Ian Tregillis", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2686, "review_number": 306, "book_description": "12 May 1940. Westminster, London, England: the early days of World War II.Again.Raybould Marsh, one of \"our\" Britain's best spies, has travelled to another Earth in a desperate attempt to save at least one timeline from the Cthulhu-like monsters who have been observing our species from space and have already destroyed Marsh's timeline. In order to accomplish this, he must remove all traces of the supermen that were created by the Nazi war machine and caused the specters from outer space to notice our planet in the first place.His biggest challenge is the mad seer Gretel, one of the most powerful of the Nazi creations, who has sent a version of herself to this timeline to thwart Marsh. Why would she stand in his way? Because she has seen that in all the timelines she dies and she is determined to stop that from happening, even if it means destroying most of humanity in the process. And Marsh is the only man who can stop her. Necessary Evil is the stunning conclusion to Ian Tregillis's Milkweed series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793041-necessary-evil"}, +{"book_title": "Brobots and the Kaiju Kerfuffle", "author_name": "J. Torres", "rating_score": 3.18, "rating_votes": 92, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "A trio of robot bros reel in a big challenge and must band together to battle a giant monster in this playful take on classic kaiju-mech and fairytale stories.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28457654-brobots-and-the-kaiju-kerfuffle"}, +{"book_title": "Time Spike", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 742, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Captain Mark Stephens was overseeing the change of shifts at the state of Illinois' maximum-security prison when the world outside was suddenly ripped. They thought it was an earthquake until they found that the Mississippi river had disappeared, along with all signs of civilization. Then the sun came up -- in the wrong direction. And a dinosaur came by and scratched its hide against the wall of the prison... Something had thrown the prison back in time millions of years. And they were not alone. Other humans from periods centuries, even millennia apart had also been dropped into the same time. Including a band of murderous conquistadores. But the prison had its own large population of murderers. They couldn't be turned loose, but what else could be done with them? Death walked outside the walls, human savagery was planning to break loose inside, and Stephens and the other men and women of the prison's staff were trapped in the middle.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Adventure", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1966205.Time_Spike"}, +{"book_title": "Rescued by Tordin", "author_name": "Mychal Daniels", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1237, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Curvy, intelligent and focused, Kyra Simmons has her eye on the prize. She\u2019s locked her sights on becoming the top technical engineer for the most prestigious space program back on Earth. That is, until her life and plans are turned upside down in an instant on board a maintenance Space Station. Stranded on the now failing Space station, Kyra needs a miracle to survive. She has no idea that the \u2018foreign\u2019 astronauts who show up to rescue her are out of this world\u2014literally. Warrior Lord Tordin, Crown Prince of Olodia, knows he\u2019s outside of the Mandates of the Intergalactic Alliance when he intercedes to rescue the survivors of the Earth space station. But there\u2019s something or someone pulling him in. He\u2019s not prepared for what he finds in the unassuming Earth female. Try as he might to stay away, the pull grows stronger and stronger to be with her. His mission depends on his ability to stay focused and be prepared, but that\u2019s almost impossible with Kyra in his thoughts and dreams. On the alien mother ship speeding away from Earth forever, Kyra\u2019s biggest problem is not getting back to Earth; it\u2019s how not to fall for this alien Warrior Lord who's the actual man of her dreams. Can she find a way to realize her dreams of power and recognition now that she\u2019s been rescued by Tordin?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Action", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26367697-rescued-by-tordin"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Passage", "author_name": "M.J. Putney", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1032, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "The Irregulars return home to 1803 England safely, but their worldview has changed. Not only have their heroic efforts at Dunkirk given them pride and confidence but their dangerous mission has increased their magical powers.Tory delights in the ever deepening bond she shares with Allarde until she discovers how powerfully he is connected to his ancient family estate--the lands he will not inherit unless he denies his magical powers and chooses a nonmagical mate. If Tory really loves him, she must walk away--but does she have the strength to leave the love of her life?Cynthia's heroic efforts at Dunkirk have won her the respect of the Irregulars, but her sharp tongue keeps everyone at a distance. Isolated and very alone at Lackland Abbey over the Christmas holidays, she reluctantly agrees to join Jack Rainford and his family for their celebration even though they're commoners, far below her own noble rank. The warm welcome of the Rainfords makes her feel happier and more accepted than she has ever been. But she can't possibly be falling in love with flirtatious Jack! Can she?Then the Irregulars are drawn into a dangerous attempt to rescue a vitally important French scientist from Nazi-occupied France. Tory and Allarde must work together because countless lives are at stake. Disaster strikes and not only is their mission threatened, but their very lives. Can magic and their loyalty to each other help them survive to return home?Find out in Dark Passage--M.J. Putney's thrilling follow-up to Dark Mirror.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10380657-dark-passage"}, +{"book_title": "A Twist In Time", "author_name": "Susan Squires", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 176, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "An expert in Leonardo DaVinci\u2019s works, Lucy Rossano recognizes the centuries-old time machine the moment she sees it in a Stanford lab. Fascinated in spite of the danger, she uses her knowledge to briefly go back in time\u2014landing in the middle of a fierce battle in ninth-century Britain. And when she returns to modern-day San Francisco, she brings something back with her: a seductive, fiercely intelligent Viking named Galen\u2026The presence of this enigmatic, devastatingly sexy stranger is just one of the new complications in Lucy\u2019s life. There are others who want to harness the time machine\u2019s power for treacherous ends, and they need Lucy to do it. Galen becomes first her protector, then the lover she\u2019s always dreamed of. But danger is drawing closer, and time is running out. For Galen and Lucy, it\u2019s now\u2026or forever.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7052393-a-twist-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Apocalypse Cow", "author_name": "Michael Logan", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2080, "review_number": 428, "book_description": "When scientists with warped imaginations accidentally unleash an experimental bioweapon that transforms Britain's animals into sneezing, bloodthirsty zombies with a penchant for pre-dinner sex with their victims, three misfits become the unlikely hope for salvation.Abattoir worker Terry Borders' love life is crippled by the stench of death that clings to his skin from his days spent slaughtering cows; teenage vegan Geldof 'Scabby' Peters alternates between scratching furiously at his rash and baiting his overbearing New Age mother; and inept journalist Lesley McBrien struggles forlornly in the shadow of her famous war correspondent father and the star journalist at the Glasgow Tribune.When Britain begins a rapid descent into chaos and ministers cynically attempt to blame al-Qaeda, Lesley stumbles upon proof that the government is behind the outbreak. During her bumbling quest to unveil the truth, she crosses paths with Terry and Geldof, and together they set out to escape a quarantined Britain with the evidence and vital data that could unlock a cure for the virus.Standing in the way are rampaging hordes of animals, a ruthless security agent and an army ready to shoot anybody with a case of the sniffles on the off-chance the virus has mutated.Three losers. Overwhelming odds. A single outcome: the world is screwed.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12925656-apocalypse-cow"}, +{"book_title": "Gorgon Child", "author_name": "Steven Barnes", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 232, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "A virtual superman, a streetfighter trained by the Mob, Knight turns his awesome powers on those who created him. Fighting alongside his beautiful mate, he takes on a corrupt television evangelist who schemes to enslave America. The action-packed, near-future adventure sequel to Streetlethal.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/593041.Gorgon_Child"}, +{"book_title": "The Peripheral", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 20064, "review_number": 2313, "book_description": "Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she\u2019s trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives, or tries to, on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines\u2019 elite Haptic Recon unit. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she\u2019s had to let the shooter games go.Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren\u2019t many have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby.\u00a0Burton\u2019s been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. He\u2019s got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game\u2019s not a shooter. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad.Flynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilf\u2019s, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24611819-the-peripheral"}, +{"book_title": "Wolves of the Northern Rift", "author_name": "Jon Messenger", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1065, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Magic is an abomination. It spread from the Rift, a great chasm hundreds of miles long that nearly split the southern continent in two. The Rift was a portal, a gateway between their world of science and the mythological world of magic.On the northern continent of Ocker, King Godwin declared that no magical monstrosity would be allowed within their borders. The Royal Inquisitors were formed to investigate reports of mystical occurrences and, should they be found, to destroy them.Inquisitor Simon Whitlock knows his responsibilities all too well. Along with the apothecary, Luthor Strong, they\u2019ve spent two years inquiring into such reports of magical abominations, though they\u2019ve discovered far more charlatans than true magical creatures. When assigned to investigate Haversham and its reports of werewolves, Simon remains unconvinced that the rumors are true. What he discovers in the frozen little hamlet is that the werewolves are far more real than he believed; yet they\u2019re hardly the most dangerous monster in the city.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24773817-wolves-of-the-northern-rift"}, +{"book_title": "Hegemony", "author_name": "Mark Kalina", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 212, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The Hegemony of Suns is the greatest of the empires of mankind that have spread out through space from an abandoned and dying Earth. The Hegemony's vast warships dominate the skies over a hundred worlds, protecting its subjects and enforcing its will. The interceptor pilots of the Hegemonic Fleet are the cutting edge of the Hegemony's military might, the tip of the spear. In a split second, they can decide the outcome of a battle that can affect the fates of whole star systems. The life expectancy of an interceptor pilot is measured in minutes. It's debatable if they're still human. It's debatable if they're even alive to begin with. Alekzandra Neel has attained what she sought; a place among the stars, a chance to be an interceptor pilot of the Hegemonic Fleet. She doesn't expect it to be safe or easy. But as war clouds gather and billions look to the skies with nervous fear, she has no idea what the real cost could be.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14952967-hegemony"}, +{"book_title": "Deep Space", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2091, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "The fourth book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendenceHumanity had appeared to fend off the Sh'daar assault once and for all, though they never learned why the alien empire was driven to halt Earth's advancement toward technological Singularity.But in this war of worlds, victory is always elusive. And now a new battle begins.After twenty years of peace, not one but two fragile truces are unraveling. Alexander Koenig, the former Navy commander whose heroics forced the Sh'daar into submission, has won a second term as President of the United States of North America. But pursuing his mandate\u2014sovereignty from the centuries-old Earth Confederation\u2014becomes a risky proposition due to events taking place on the other side of the galaxy. A Confederation research vessel has been ambushed. Destroyers are descending on a human colony. It seems the Sh'daar have betrayed their treaty, and all nations must stand united\u2014or face certain death.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248147-deep-space"}, +{"book_title": "The Warehouse", "author_name": "Rob Hart", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 7682, "review_number": 1480, "book_description": "Cloud isn\u2019t just a place to work. It\u2019s a place to live. And when you\u2019re here, you\u2019ll never want to leave.Paxton never thought he\u2019d be working for Cloud, the giant tech company that\u2019s eaten much of the American economy. Much less that he\u2019d be moving into one of the company\u2019s sprawling live-work facilities. But compared to what\u2019s left outside, Cloud\u2019s bland chainstore life of gleaming entertainment halls, open-plan offices, and vast warehouses\u2026well, it doesn\u2019t seem so bad. It\u2019s more than anyone else is offering. Zinnia never thought she\u2019d be infiltrating Cloud. But now she\u2019s undercover, inside the walls, risking it all to ferret out the company\u2019s darkest secrets. And Paxton, with his ordinary little hopes and fears? He just might make the perfect pawn. If she can bear to sacrifice him. As the truth about Cloud unfolds, Zinnia must gamble everything on a desperate scheme\u2014one that risks both their lives, even as it forces Paxton to question everything about the world he\u2019s so carefully assembled here. Together, they\u2019ll learn just how far the company will go\u2026to make the world a better place. Set in the confines of a corporate panopticon that\u2019s at once brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly real, The Warehouse is a near-future thriller about what happens when Big Brother meets Big Business--and who will pay the ultimate price.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45885120-the-warehouse"}, +{"book_title": "Inner city", "author_name": "Jean-Marc Ligny", "rating_score": 3.09, "rating_votes": 23, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "\u00ab Au secours ! \u00bb crie Maze quand son corps explose. Soudain, un visage \u00e9merge du n\u00e9ant. Maze le reconna\u00eet : c'est lui-m\u00eame. Son propre clone perdu dans l'ab\u00eeme virtuel. La Realit\u00e9 Profonde, l\u00e0 o\u00f9 finissent par s'enliser les Inners hallucin\u00e9s qui ont d\u00e9brid\u00e9 leur console. \u00ab Allons, se rassure-t-il, Maya va me recr\u00e9er. \u00bb En effet, Mens Sana, sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 dans la r\u00e9cup\u00e9ration des Inners en d\u00e9tresse, a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d'intervenir et r\u00e9ussit \u00e0 contacter Kris, une brune longue et souple. Mais il n'y a plus aucune trace de Maze en cyberspace. Il a quitt\u00e9 la Haute R\u00e9alit\u00e9. Kris arrivera-t-elle \u00e0 lui faire r\u00e9int\u00e9grer son corps avant que son coeur ne cesse de battre ? En ce XXIe si\u00e8cle, le virtuel a supplant\u00e9 le r\u00e9el. Un monde o\u00f9 l'on se d\u00e9place \u00e0 des vitesses folles, o\u00f9 l'on joue avec sa propre identit\u00e9. O\u00f9 l'on s'aime, m\u00eame. Au risque de se perdre \u00e0 jamais...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (France)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6623478-inner-city"}, +{"book_title": "Time's Edge", "author_name": "Rysa Walker", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 11074, "review_number": 672, "book_description": "To stop her sadistic grandfather, Saul, and his band of time travelers from rewriting history, Kate must race to retrieve the CHRONOS keys before they fall into the Cyrists' hands. If she jumps back in time and pulls the wrong key--one that might tip off the Cyrists to her strategy--her whole plan could come crashing down, jeopardizing the future of millions of innocent people. Kate's only ally is Kiernan, who also carries the time-traveling gene. But their growing bond threatens everything Kate is trying to rebuild with Trey, her boyfriend who can't remember the relationship she can't forget.As evidence of Saul's twisted mind builds, Kate's missions become more complex, blurring the line between good and evil. Which of the people Saul plans to sacrifice in the past can she and Kiernan save without risking their ultimate goal--or their own lives?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22066090-time-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "The Sword of the Lady", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 4477, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "The \"New York Times\" bestselling author continues his \"epic of survival and rebirth\" (\"Library Journal\"), chronicling a modern world without technology. Rudi Mackenzie has journeyed far across the land that was once the United States of America, hoping to find the source of the world-altering event that has come to be known as The Change. His final destination is Nantucket, an island overrun with forest, inhabited by a mere two hundred people who claim to have been transported there from out of time. Only one odd stone house remains standing. Within it, Rudi finds a beautifully made sword waiting for him-and once he takes it up, nothing will ever be the same...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6301385-the-sword-of-the-lady"}, +{"book_title": "The House of Shattered Wings", "author_name": "Aliette de Bodard", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 3641, "review_number": 825, "book_description": "A superb murder mystery, on an epic scale, set against the fall out \u2013 literally \u2013 of a war in Heaven.Paris has survived the Great Houses War \u2013 just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens continue to live, love, fight and survive in their war-torn city, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over the once grand capital.House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power games, lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.Within the House, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen, a alchemist with a self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells from the Far East. They may be Silverspires\u2019 salvation. They may be the architects of its last, irreversible fall\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23601046-the-house-of-shattered-wings"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen Is Dead", "author_name": "Kate Locke", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3040, "review_number": 295, "book_description": "Nothing lasts forever---and immortality isn't all its cracked up to be.When her brother Val gets in over his head in an investigation of Half-Blood disappearances and goes missing himself, it's up to Xandra, newly crowned Goblin Queen, to get him back and bring the atrocities to light. Xandra must frequent the seediest parts of London, while also coping with what she is, the political factions vying for her favor, and the all too-close scrutiny of Queen Victoria, who wants her head. Add this to being a suspect in a murder investigation, a werewolf boyfriend with demands of his own, and a mother hell bent on destroying the monarchy, and Xandra barely knows which way is up. One thing she does know is that she's already lost one sibling, she's not about to lose another.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14781171-the-queen-is-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun: Crimson", "author_name": "Kevin R. Czarnecki", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 103, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "WHERE NO ONE KNOWS YOUR NAME... Thanksgiving, 2075. Shadowrunning vampire-mage Rick \u201cRed\u201d Lang used to make his living hunting dangerous insect spirits and twisted mages, but when he awakens after twelve years of involuntary hibernation, he finds the rest of the world has gotten even stranger. Red begins piecing together what had happened during his lost time\u2014and who put him under in the first place. But as he journeys through the neon-drenched ruins of Chicago and its augmented facades, Red uncovers an even larger plot involving eldritch forces seeking to invade from beyond our reality. He teams up with the few allies he can trust\u2014Pretty, a beautiful ghoul, and Slim, a hacker extraordinaire\u2014as they head into the middle of multiple schemes and power plays surrounding a dangerous new conflict threatening to shatter the uneasy peace into all-consuming chaos.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25423612-shadowrun"}, +{"book_title": "Exo", "author_name": "Fonda Lee", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1637, "review_number": 354, "book_description": "It\u2019s been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the galaxy. Some die-hard extremists still oppose alien rule on Earth, but Donovan Reyes isn\u2019t one of them. His dad holds the prestigious position of Prime Liaison in the collaborationist government, and Donovan\u2019s high social standing along with his exocel (a remarkable alien technology fused to his body) guarantee him a bright future in the security forces. That is, until a routine patrol goes awry and Donovan\u2019s abducted by the human revolutionary group Sapience, determined to end alien control.When Sapience realizes whose son Donovan is, they think they\u2019ve found the ultimate bargaining chip . But the Prime Liaison doesn\u2019t negotiate with terrorists, not even for his own son. Left in the hands of terrorists who have more uses for him dead than alive, the fate of Earth rests on Donovan\u2019s survival. Because if Sapience kills him, it could spark another intergalactic war. And Earth didn\u2019t win the last one...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26532931-exo"}, +{"book_title": "Taken to Voraxia", "author_name": "Elizabeth Stephens", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 511, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "Miari Here's what I know: aliens invade our colony every three years, hunt and claim the most beautiful of our women, then leave. Here's what I don't know: why the king of them is here this time, and why his black, glittering eyes are trained on me.A hybrid with red alien skin and brown human eyes, I'm not pretty. I've got no family and no plans to ever have one \u2013 least of all with this monster of a male. I'm an inventor, a mechanic, a tinkerer. The alien king wants me for reasons I can only guess at, but I'm not about to be taken for a slave and his response to me is something I know I can engineer my way out of.He plans to come back for me when I'm of age, but he'll have to find me first. Our little colony is a scary, desperate place and I'm less afraid to face it, than to face him or the strange, alien sensations he stirs...RakuShe is my Xiveri mate, yet she runs from me \u2013 straight into the horrors of her small, savage moon colony. Slaughtering in her defense is easy, while gaining her trust will be the true challenge.She fears my kind and the horrors my treacherous general has inflicted on her humans. Does she not know that it is my blood rite to keep her safe against him and his even more dangerous off-world allies? No, she thinks herself my slave and in place of acceptance, offers me only pacts and bargains. Shamed by her pacts, I still take them all gluttonously, because though she knows only hate, I know only need.Eventually, we will need more than just these pacts between us if I am to convince her that she is my Xiveri mate and if she is to take her place at my side, not as my slave, but as Voraxia's queen.Taken to Voraxia is a full-length, standalone, interracial, SciFi romance complete with an alpha alien overlord, warrior heroine, fated mates who are also enemies-to-lovers, world building and extra steamy bits. All Xiveri Mates books can be read as standalones, each one with a guaranteed HEA. NO cheating, harem or love triangles. Some dark themes, illusions to abuse, and debatable consent due to intergalactic cultural misunderstandings may be trigger warnings.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52616522-taken-to-voraxia"}, +{"book_title": "Pirates", "author_name": "Erik Martin Will\u00e9n", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 53, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "An epic space adventure that holds danger at every turn... The human cadets on the interstellar transport, Bright Star, are heading home after eight long years of military training...but things don't go according to plan. After a bloody battle with a group of space pirates, the Bright Star and its survivors are taken prisoner with the intent of selling them into slavery...or worse. Cadet Alec Horn, along with the captain of the Bright Star escape, taking an emperor's ransom in loot with them. Together they set out on a dangerous adventure to rescue their friends and comrades. But can they succeed without bringing forth a war that will bring death and destruction across the universe?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25176474-pirates"}, +{"book_title": "Flip This Zombie", "author_name": "Jesse Petersen", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2987, "review_number": 304, "book_description": "The Zombie Apocalypse has been good to Sarah and David. Their marriage is better than ever. They communicate well, share responsibilities, and now, they're starting a business. ZombieBusters-for all your zombie extermination needs.There are lots of zombies and that means lots of customers. . .Except one of them doesn't want the zombies dead, he wants them alive and ready for experimentation. Mad scientists make for difficult clients and this time, Sarah and David might have bitten off more than they can chew.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Humor", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8437831-flip-this-zombie"}, +{"book_title": "Sweep in Peace", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 28094, "review_number": 2038, "book_description": "Dina DeMille isn't your typical Bed and Breakfast owner. Her inn defies laws of physics, her dog is secretly a monster, and the only permanent guest of the inn is a former Galactic tyrant with a price on her head. The inn needs guests to thrive and guests have been scarce, so when an Arbitrator shows up at Dina's door and asks her to host a peace summit between three warring species, she jumps on the chance. Unfortunately, for Dina, bridging the gap between space vampires, the Hope-Crushing Horde, and the merchants of Baha-char is much easier said than done. To make the summit a success, she must find a chef, remodel the inn, keep her guests from murdering each other, and risk everything, even her life, to save the man she might fall in love with. But then it's all in the day's work for an Innkeeper.\u2026\u201cAndrews is an auto-buy no matter what the genre!\u201d \u2014Romantic Times\u201cIf there is one author that defines Urban Fantasy, it is Ilona Andrews.\u201d \u2014Annie Tegelan, Fresh Fiction\"One of the brightest voices in urban fantasy and one of my favorite authors. Ilona Andrews delivers only the best.\" \u2014New York Times bestselling author Jeaniene Frost", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19504964-sweep-in-peace"}, +{"book_title": "The Named", "author_name": "Marianne Curley", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 7948, "review_number": 500, "book_description": "Ethan lives a secret life as a Guardian of the Named. Under the guidance of Arkarian, his mentor, and with the help of Isabel, his unlikely but highly capable apprentice, Ethan has become a valued member of this other-worldly corps. As the only defense against the evil Order of Chaos, the Named travel through time to prevent the Order from altering history and thereby gaining power in the present and the future.As the threat from the Order intensifies, secrets of the past are revealed and villains and heroes are exposed. This gripping fantasy is set in modern times, but is infused with intrigue from the past, super-natural characters and surprising plot twists. Curley has written a winner through to the end.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1034516.The_Named"}, +{"book_title": "Master Sergeant", "author_name": "Mel Odom", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 360, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Fans of classics like Starship Troopers and The Forever War--as well as modern masters like Ian Douglas, Jack McDevitt, B.V. Larson, and Marko Kloos\u2014will be sucked into Mel Odom\u2019s military science fiction series, the Markaum War, starting with Master Sergeant.They call it The Green Hell. A maze of tangled jungle, the planet Makaum is one of the most dangerous places in the universe. And for Terran Military Master Sergeant Frank Sage, it is now home.The war between the Terrans and the Phrenorians rages, and both sides have their sights set on Makaum. If the planet's rich resources fall into enemy hands it could mean devastation for the Terran Army. To ensure that doesn't happen, Sage is sent to assess the Makaum troops and bring them in line with Terran Military standards. But soon after arriving at his post, he realizes the Phrenorians are not the only threat. Heading up a small but fearless unit, Sage must stop a brewing civil war with the power to unleash a galactic cataclysm unlike anything ever seen.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22206722-master-sergeant"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 25: No Turning Back", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 6213, "review_number": 452, "book_description": "After a devastating act of war by the Whisperers, Rick must chart a path for his community. But when his leadership is questioned, how will he respond? Collects THE WALKING DEAD #145-150.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27474528-the-walking-dead-vol-25"}, +{"book_title": "Lab Rat One", "author_name": "Andrea K. H\u00f6st", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 2175, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "Part 2 of the Touchstone trilogy:In the months since Cassandra Devlin walked off Earth onto another planet, she has grappled with everything from making blankets to helping psychics battle the memories of monsters. Not able to find a way home, she has instead gained friends and a purpose. Unfortunately, that purpose brings with it the pressure of being more than a little valuable, and those she has befriended are also her guards, ordered to explore and control her abilities to find out just what it is a touchstone can do.Test subject was not the career path Cass had been planning.With no privacy, too-frequent injuries, and the painful knowledge that she must always be an assignment to her Setari companions, Cass can only wish for some semblance of normality and control.And as her abilities become more and more dangerous, tests and training may be the only thing capable of protecting Cass from herself.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11921067-lab-rat-one"}, +{"book_title": "After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia", "author_name": "Ellen Datlow", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1967, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake--whether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future. \"New York Times \"bestselling authors Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Carrie Ryan, Beth Revis, and Jane Yolen are among the many popular and award-winning storytellers lending their talents to this original and spellbinding anthology. Introduction by Genevieve ValentineThe SegmentAfter the Cure by Carrie RyanValedictorian by N. K. JemisinVisiting Nelson by Katherine LangrishAll I Know of Freedom by Carol EmshwillerThe Other Elder by Beth RevisThe Great Game at the End of the World by Matthew KresselReunion by Susan Beth PfefferBlood Drive by Jeffrey FordReality Girl by Richard BowesHow Th\u2019irth Wint Rong by Hapless Joey @ Homeskool.guv by Richard BowesRust with Wings by Steven GouldFaint Heart by Sarah Rees BrennanThe Easthound by Nalo HopkinsonGray by Jane YolenBefore by Carolyn DunnFake Plastic Trees by Caitl\u00edn R. KiernanYou Won\u2019t Feel a Thing by Garth NixThe Marker by Cecil Castellucci", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13455518-after"}, +{"book_title": "Voices in the Snow", "author_name": "Darcy Coates", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1730, "review_number": 277, "book_description": "Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children\u2019s toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can\u2019t explain. And then\u2026nothing.When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger\u2019s gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there\u2019s nothing she can do but wait.At least the stranger seems kind\u2026but Clare doesn\u2019t know if she can trust him. He promised they were alone here, but she sees and hears things that convince her something else is creeping about the surrounding woods, watching. Waiting. Between the claustrophobic storm and the inescapable sense of being hunted, Clare is on edge\u2026and increasingly certain of one thing:Her car crash wasn't an accident. Something is waiting for her to step outside the fragile safety of the house... something monstrous, something unfeeling.Something desperately hungry.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Gothic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51610977-voices-in-the-snow"}, +{"book_title": "Star Force: Inception", "author_name": "Aer-ki Jyr", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 265, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Paul Taylor is in his last year of high school, watching along with everyone else in the world as the megacorporation known as Star Force leads the nations of Earth into space. Wanting to be a part of the adventure but not qualifying for any of their highly competitive jobs, his chance of joining looks to be nil until one day a new Star Force recruitment package opens up. The A7 program, listed only as 'Looking for the Best of the Best,\u2019 has but a single prequalification...a sub 5:00 mile that Paul's track team skills qualify him for. Figuring he has nothing to lose, Paul takes the Star Force tests expecting to fail, but soon finds himself accepted and whisked away to their headquarters where he learns the truth about the space corporation\u2026and the secret alien threat that it's been created to prepare Earth for. Mind blown, he and the other A7 candidates are then told that they\u2019re not here to help, but to LEAD the hopeless war on the horizon, where victory does not lie in defeating an ancient enemy, but in simply finding a way to survive it. An ancient enemy mistakenly known as\u2026 The Dinosaurs.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26360620-star-force"}, +{"book_title": "And Having Writ", "author_name": "Donald R. Bensen", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 45, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "In this alternate history novel, the Tunguska event was caused by an alien spaceship crashing. The crew manage to land safely and then spend the next few decades changing history as a side-effect of encouraging the creation of technology that can repair their ship.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1353556.And_Having_Writ_"}, +{"book_title": "Time of My Life", "author_name": "Allison Winn Scotch", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 6109, "review_number": 860, "book_description": "Jillian Westfield has the perfect suburban life straight out of the upscale women's magazines that she obsessively reads. She\u2019s got the modern-print rugs of Metropolitan Home, the elegant meals from Gourmet, the clutter-free closets out of Real Simple, and the elaborate Easter egg hunts seen in Parents. With her successful investment banker husband behind the wheel and her cherubic eighteen-month-old in the backseat, hers could be the family in the magazines\u2019 glossy Range Rover ads. Yet somehow all of the how-to magazine stories in the world can\u2019t seem to fix her faltering marriage, banish the tedium of days spent changing diapers, or stop her from asking, \u201cWhat if?\u201d Then one morning Jillian wakes up seven years in the past. Before her daughter was born. Before she married Henry. Suddenly she\u2019s back in her post\u2013grad school Ikea-furnished Manhattan apartment. She\u2019s back in her fast-paced job with the advertising agency. And she\u2019s still with Jackson, the ex-boyfriend and star of her what-if fantasies.Armed with twenty-twenty hindsight, she\u2019s free to choose all over again. She can use the zippy ad campaigns from her future to wow the clients and bosses in her present. She can reconnect with the mother who abandoned her so many years before. She can fix the fights at every juncture that doomed her relationship with Jackson. Or can she? With each new choice setting off a trajectory of unforeseen consequences, Jillian soon realizes that getting to happily ever after is more complicated than changing the lines in her part of the script. Happiness, it turns out, isn\u2019t an either-or proposition. As she closes in on all the things she thought she wanted, Jillian must confront the greatest what-if of all: What if the problem was never Henry or Jackson, but her? Sharp, funny, and heartwarming, Time of My Life will appeal to anyone who has ever wanted to redo the past and will leave readers pondering, \u201cDo we get the reality we deserve?\u201d", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction", "Adult", "Contemporary", "Womens Fiction", "Fantasy", "Relationships"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3521419-time-of-my-life"}, +{"book_title": "Reveal Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 6844, "review_number": 816, "book_description": "This fourth companion novella to Tahereh Mafi\u2019s New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series is narrated by fan favorite character Kenji Kishimoto!The explosive revelations in Defy Me have left readers reeling and desperate for answers. This fourth and final novella in the series will bring readers back to the world of the Shatter Me before the final novel installment hits shelves in winter 2020.And don\u2019t miss Find Me, the gorgeous paperback bind-up that brings together Shadow Me and Reveal Me in print for the first time!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43514655-reveal-me"}, +{"book_title": "God of Clocks", "author_name": "Alan Campbell", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1294, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "Alan Campbell has set the new standard for epic fantasy. Now the highly acclaimed author of Scar Night and Iron Angel returns with a new novel of a mythic struggle between man and angel, demon and god\u2014an Armageddon of survival and annihilation that will play out on the fields of time itself.\n\n\nWar, rebellion, betrayal\u2014but the worst is still to come. For in the cataclysm of the battle of the gods, a portal to Hell has been opened, releasing unnatural creatures that were never meant to be and threatening to turn the world into a killing field. And in the middle, caught between warring gods and fallen angels, humanity finds itself pushed to the brink of extinction. Its only hope is the most unlikely of heroes.Former assassin Rachel Hael has rejoined the blood-magician Mina Greene and her devious little dog, Basilis, on one last desperate mission to save the world from the grip of Hell. Carried in the jaws of a debased angel, they rush to the final defensive stronghold of the god of time\u2014pursued all the while by the twelve arconites, the great iron-and-bone automatons controlled by King Menoa, the Lord of the Maze. Meanwhile, in the other direction, the giant John Anchor, still harnessed to his master\u2019s skyship, descends into Hell itself to meet Menoa on his own ground. But neither Heaven nor Hell is anything they could ever expect. Now old enemies and new allies join a battle whose outcome could be the end of them all. Rachel\u2019s ally, the god Hasp, finds himself in the grip of a parasite and struggles against conflicting orders to destroy his own friends; and a dangerous infant deity comprised of countless broken souls threatens to overcome them all. As Rachel travels to the final confrontation she has both sought and feared, she begins to realize that time itself is unraveling. And so she must prepare herself for a sacrifice that may claim her heart, her life, her soul\u2014and even then it may not be enough.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5863627-god-of-clocks"}, +{"book_title": "The Easytown Novels: Books 1-3", "author_name": "Brian Parker", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 8, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "The Easytown Novels are a stunning example of how two very different genres combine to create a frighteningly real near future world where the advancement of technology has stalled for the average citizen, while the divide between the rich and the poor widens. Classic noir stories of the past focus on the city with a thousand stories, investigated by the hard-nosed detective beset upon by the femme fatale, unfortunate victims, and who-done-it mysteries. Meanwhile, the hallmarks of the cyberpunk genre are the futuristic elements of climate change, social depravity, moral ambiguity, and corporate greed. The Easytown Novels combines the two genres in a way that will make this series a staple in the sci-fi noir genre. The Immorality Clause, book 1 Easytown\u2019s robotic pleasure clubs are a serial killer\u2019s playground. The futuristic slum in eastern New Orleans is a violent place where any vice can be satisfied--for a price. As long as the taxes are paid and tourists continue to flock to the city, businesses are allowed to operate as they see fit. Easytown has given rise to the robotic sex trade; where the robots are nearly human and always better than the real thing. Homicide detective, Zach Forrest, has never trusted the machines. When a string of grisly murders rocks the city, he must hunt down the killer responsible. With no witnesses, and no evidence, Forrest embarks on an investigation that will challenge the very scope of reality. Will Forrest find the killer before he becomes the next victim? Tears of a Clone, book 2 Torture tourism is an illegal sport in Easytown\u2014unless the victim is a clone, then nobody cares. When Detective Zach Forrest discovers the mutilated bodies of three clones in a garbage compactor, he\u2019s dismayed that no one wants anything to do with the investigation. He takes matters into his own hands and visits Tommy Voodoo, aka The King of Easytown, to get information. Forrest is shocked to learn of the multi-million dollar industry of torture tourism going on right under everyone's nose. He embarks on an unauthorized investigation and discovers that the truth behind the clone murders is more terrifying than he\u2019d imagined. West End Droids & East End Dames, book 3 Easytown\u2019s back alleys are even more dangerous as criminals have thrown away the last of their humanity\u2014now nothing can stop them. Just when his life seemed to be getting back on track, Detective Zach Forrest finds himself in the midst of a whirlwind of treachery, lies, and mayhem that threatens to unravel the delicate balance of power in Easytown. Everything comes crashing down on Forrest when a rampaging cyborg attacks him, disrupting his investigation into the death of a lowly thumper club doorman who knew too much. Before he can determine his next move, a beautiful, mysterious evidence clerk lands on his doorstep, forcing her way into his life despite the NOPD\u2019s rules against fraternization. Meanwhile, to combat the rapidly increasing number of cybernetically enhanced criminals, the police chief assigns him the difficult task of tracking down and stopping the street doctors who build the abominations at any cost. But, will it cost Zach more than he\u2019d expected? ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46019860-the-easytown-novels"}, +{"book_title": "Shifter Planet", "author_name": "D.B. Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1483, "review_number": 217, "book_description": "Specialist Amanda Sumner is one of the first to make contact on the Earth-like planet Harp and discovers she's the only Earthling who can hear the trees sing in the strange forest. Determined to remain and learn more of the planet\u2019s secrets, Amanda sets out to become part of the elite Guild there...But there is a secret involving some Guild members \u2014 one that could get her killed.Shifter Rhodry de Mendoza wants the Earthlings off his planet before they destroy it \u2014 even if that means denying what he feels for the fierce and lovely Amanda. The pair is thrown together in what becomes a fight for their lives. And they might just lose everything \u2014 including each other \u2014 in their battle for the right to live in peace.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26814821-shifter-planet"}, +{"book_title": "I Am Legend", "author_name": "Richard Matheson", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 99687, "review_number": 6325, "book_description": "Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.How long can one man survive like this?", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40940649-i-am-legend"}, +{"book_title": "Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen", "author_name": "Marjorie M. Liu", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 4938, "review_number": 638, "book_description": "Maika and Corvin make their way through a warped and lethal land in search of Kippa, who is faced with her own terrible monsters. But when Maika comes face-to-face with a stranger from her deep past, startling truths are uncovered, and at the center of it all lurks a dangerous conspiracy that threatens the Known World. Maika is finally close to getting all the answers she ever wanted, but at what price? With war on the horizon-a war no one wants to stop-whose side will Maika choose? Collects MONSTRESS #19-24. ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "LGBT", "Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45899240-monstress-vol-4"}, +{"book_title": "R.U.R", "author_name": "Karel \u010capek", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 8439, "review_number": 605, "book_description": "R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word \"Robot.\" Mass-produced, efficient and servile labor, \u010capek's Robots remember everything, but lack creative thought, and the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must attempt to learn the secret of self-duplication. But their attempts at replication leave them with nothing but bloody chunks of meat. It's not until two robots fall in love and are christened \"Adam\" and \"Eve\" by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant.", "year_published": 1920, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Plays", "Classics", "Fiction", "Drama", "European Literature (Czech Literature)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Plays (Theatre)", "Academic (School)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436562.R_U_R_"}, +{"book_title": "Judenstaat", "author_name": "Simone Zelitch", "rating_score": 3.0, "rating_votes": 168, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Simone Zelitch has created an amazing alternate history in Judenstaat. On April 4th, 1948 the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary portraying Judenstaat's history from the time of its founding to the present. She is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband, Hans, a Saxon, shot by a sniper as he conducted the National Symphony. With the grief always fresh, Judit lives a half-life, until confronted by a mysterious, flesh-and-blood ghost from her past who leaves her controversial footage on one of Judenstaat's founding fathers--and a note:\"They lied about the murder.\"Judit's research into the footage, and what really happened to Hans, embroils her in controversy and conspiracy, collective memory and national amnesia, and answers far more horrific than she imagined.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Literature (Jewish)", "Mystery", "Novels", "World War II (Holocaust)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114363-judenstaat"}, +{"book_title": "The Apocalypse Troll", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 4041, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was US Navy himself, so he didn't mind. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in from the Outer Black to overfly the carriers at Mach 17. Their impossible aeronautics were bad enough - but then they started shooting at each other. And at the Navy. With nukes. Little ones at first, but winding up with a 500 megatonner at 90 miles that fried every piece of electronics within sight. Richard Ashton thought he was just a ringside observer to these now over-the-horizon events. Until the crippled alien lifeboat came drifting down and homed in on his sailboat; suddenly he had his hands full of an unconscious, critially wounded alien warrior - who just happened to be a gorgeous female, too. And that was when it began to get really interesting...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276478.The_Apocalypse_Troll"}, +{"book_title": "Invasive", "author_name": "Chuck Wendig", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 2966, "review_number": 424, "book_description": "Michael Crichton meets Elon Musk in this gripping sci-fi tech thriller, set in the eye-opening, paranoid world of the electrifying Zeroes.Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI\u2014a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It\u2019s her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. \u201cI\u2019ve got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies,\u201d he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn\u2019t say. What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossible\u2014someone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering who\u2014and why\u2014will take her on a terrifying chase from the Arizona deserts to the secret island laboratory of a billionaire inventor/philanthropist. Hannah knows there are a million ways the world can end, but she just might be facing one she could never have predicted\u2014a new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Horror", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Suspense", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213152-invasive"}, +{"book_title": "Room With a View: Hot Down Under", "author_name": "Kylie Scott", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1160, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Natalie has watched as the zombie plague devastated civilisation.Angus had been a miracle. Twenty-three years old and gorgeous he had appeared like Romeo from the pool area and thrown supplies up to her balcony. But now Angus is gone \u2013 abandoned her, which is probably for the best. She couldn\u2019t stand to watch him die too.Stranded four floors up and fenced in on all sides by the infected, food and water supplies are running as low as Natalie\u2019s spirits. A lingering death from starvation seems inevitable.But then she sees Angus striding for the pool gate with a sawn-off shotgun in his hands. Can he make it past the infected to reach her? And what will it mean if he does?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16079754-room-with-a-view"}, +{"book_title": "Rimward Stars", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1516, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "A helpless ally calls for aid A ruthless enemy strikes without mercy The fate of empires turns on even the smallest actions When a minor trade partner sends the Castle Federation a desperate call for aid, they have few resources to spare from their all-consuming war against the Terran Commonwealth. Unwilling to be seen failing their allies but able to spare only a tiny force, Castle sends a hero to command the task group: Captain Kyle Roberts, the Stellar Fox. Beyond the Rimward frontier of the Federation and its allies, little is as it seems. The pirates are being armed by an outside force, and the politics of these worlds is made deadlier by their poverty. When the Coraline Imperium\u2014the Federation\u2019s oft-difficult ally\u2014sends forces as well, it risks a conflict that could undermine the Alliance protecting them both. There are deeper games afoot as local schemes play the great powers against each other. Captain Roberts is caught in the chaos as fire and blood explode across the region. There is only one certainty: these Rimward Stars must not fall. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35112426-rimward-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Corsair's Captive", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3895, "review_number": 306, "book_description": "A pirate doesn\u2019t ask for permission - he takes. When I see the delicate human female collared and enslaved by the smuggler I\u2019m about to swindle, I do what any male would do. I take her from him. It\u2019s what I do best, after all. Now Fran\u2019s mine, and I\u2019m never giving her up. On board my spaceship, she\u2019ll be safe. She\u2019ll wear my clothes, eat my food, and sleep in my bed. I\u2019ll keep her safe from a galaxy that wishes her harm. But my sweet Fran wants nothing more than to return to Earth. How can I take her home when she holds my heart in her dainty, five-fingered hands? This story stands completely alone and is only marginally connected to the Ice Planet Barbarians series and Prison Planet Barbarian. You do not need to read those books in order to follow this one.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36209818-the-corsair-s-captive"}, +{"book_title": "The Rift Walker", "author_name": "Clay Griffith", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2436, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "Princess Adele struggles with a life of marriage and obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic allies stand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, the alliance's horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her duty and embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation from staining its hands with genocide. Reunited with her great love, the mysterious adventurer known to the world as the Greyfriar, Adele is pursued by her own people as well as her vengeful husband, senator Clark. With the human alliance in disarrray, Prince Cesare, lord of the British vampire clan, seizes the initiative and strikes at the very heart of Equatoria.As Adele labors to bring order to her world, she learns more about the strange powers she exhibited in the north. Her teacher, Mamoru, leads a secret cabal of geomancers who believe Adele is the one who can touch the vast power of the Earth that surges through ley lines and wells up at the rifts where the lines meet. These energies are the key to defeating the enemy of mankind, and if Princess Adele could ever bring this power under her command, she could be death to vampires. But such a victory will also cost the life of Adele's beloved Greyfriar.The Rift Walkeris the second book in a trilogy of high adventure and alternative history. Combining rousing pulp action with steampunk style, the Vampire Empire series brings epic politcal themes to life within a story of heartbreaking romance, sacrifice, and heroism.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10790180-the-rift-walker"}, +{"book_title": "The Wanderer", "author_name": "Fritz Leiber", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 2838, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer--a huge, garishly colored artificial world--emerged. Only a few scientists even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly and silently, it arrived, dwarfing and threatening the Moon and wreaking havoc on Earth's tides and weather. Though the Wanderer is stopping in the solar system only to refuel, its mere presence is catastrophic. A tense, thrilling, and towering achievement. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best SF Novel of the Year!", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218709.The_Wanderer"}, +{"book_title": "No Escape", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1700, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Kara Q'ana Tal has been promised in marriage to Cam K'al Ra since she was a few months old. Determined to experience freedom rather than marriage, Kara flees from Cam and seeks refuge within the matriarchal planet of Galis. With the blessing of Kara's father, the emperor, Cam sets out to track his wayward bride down, determined to claim her for all time. Book 4: No Escape, tells us the story of Zor & Kyra's daughter from Book 1.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1814130.No_Escape"}, +{"book_title": "The Player of Games", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 60770, "review_number": 2615, "book_description": "The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game and with it the challenge of his life, and very possibly his death.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Cultural", "Space", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games"}, +{"book_title": "Islands in the Net", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 4876, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "Laura Webster's on the fast track to success. A bright young star in a multinational conglomerate, she's living well in a post-millennial age of peace, prosperity, and profit.In an age of advanced technology, information is the world's most precious commodity. Information is power. Data is locked in computers and carefully rationed through a global communications network. Full access is a privilege held by few.Now, Laura Webster is about to be plunged into a netherworld of black-market data pirates, new-age mercenaries, high-tech voodoo... and murder.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Politics", "Thriller", "Literature (20th Century)", "United States"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218571.Islands_in_the_Net"}, +{"book_title": "The Life of the World to Come", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1542, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love.Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, Incorporated - the Company - to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She's a botanist, a good one. She's an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she's a woman in love.In sixteenth century England, Mendoza fell for a native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. He died a martyr's death, burned at the stake. In nineteenth century America, Mendoza fell for an eerily identical native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. When he died, she killed six men to avenge him.The Company didn't like that - bad for business. But she's immortal and indestructible, so they couldn't hurt her. Instead, they dumped her in the Back Way Back. Meanwhile, back in the future, three eccentric geniuses sit in a parlor at Oxford University and play at being the new Inklings, the heirs of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Working for Dr. Zeus, they create heroic stories and give them flesh, myths in blood and DNA to protect the future from the World to Come, the fearsome Silence that will fall on the world in 2355. They create a hero, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality.\"Now,\" stranded 150,000 years in the past, there are no natives for Mendoza to fall in love with. She tends a garden of maize, and she pines for the man she lost, twice. For Three. Thousand. Years.Then, one day, out of the sky and out of the future comes a renegade, a timefaring pirate, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality. This is the beginning of the end.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197041.The_Life_of_the_World_to_Come"}, +{"book_title": "A Conspiracy of Kings", "author_name": "Megan Whalen Turner", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 21588, "review_number": 2258, "book_description": "Sophos, under the guidance of yet another tutor, practices his swordplay and strategizes escape scenarios should his father's villa come under attack. How would he save his mother? His sisters? Himself? Could he reach the horses in time? Where would he go? But nothing prepares him for the day armed men, silent as thieves, swarm the villa courtyard ready to kill, to capture, to kidnap. Sophos, the heir to the throne of Sounis, disappears without a trace. In Attolia, Eugenides, the new and unlikely king, has never stopped wondering what happened to Sophos. Nor has the Queen of Eddis. They send spies. They pay informants. They appeal to the gods. But as time goes by, it becomes less and less certain that they will ever see their friend alive again. Across the small peninsula battles are fought, bribes are offered, and conspiracies are set in motion. Darkening the horizon, the Mede Empire threatens, always, from across the sea. And Sophos, anonymous and alone, bides his time. Sophos, drawing on his memories of Gen, Pol, the Magus and Eddis, sets out on an adventure that will change all of their lives forever.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6527841-a-conspiracy-of-kings"}, +{"book_title": "Taulan", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2230, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "He wants to return to Preor and she wants a job, but you don\u2019t always get what you want. Lana Cooper is down to her last hundred dollars, has no job, and her clunker of a car has finally clunked out. How has her life become such a cluster of horribleness? Oh, right. A guy. Only she doesn\u2019t get a chance to beg for a job. Nope, one walk along the beach changes everything. Oh, she has a job now\u2026 as the mate to a hot, hunky Preor dragon male. Taulan sen Pavon is anxious to return to his home on Preor. Yes, he\u2019d journeyed to Earth in hopes of finding a human mate, but now\u2026 Now he would like to heal in the privacy of his aerie. Wings destroyed and body damaged by an explosion, he has no desire to watch others find joy with their mates while he remains unworthy and alone on a ship filled with thousands. But then he finds Lana. Lana with her alluring smile, sparkling eyes, luscious body, and whose mere presence initiates the Knowing. Can he live long enough to claim her? Can she see past her father\u2019s prejudice to love him? Both questions are pointless because there are still Preor who despise the joining of humans and dragons. They will stop at nothing to drive a wedge between the races. Including murder. Part of the DRAGONS OF PREOR series: Jarek Taulan", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29371117-taulan"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Unwinding", "author_name": "Sharon Cameron", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 5549, "review_number": 991, "book_description": "When Katharine Tulman's inheritance is called into question by the rumor that her eccentric uncle is squandering away the family fortune, she is sent to his estate to have him committed to an asylum. But instead of a lunatic, Katharine discovers a genius inventor with his own set of rules, who employs a village of nine hundred people rescued from the workhouses of London. Katharine is now torn between protecting her own inheritance and preserving the peculiar community she grows to care for deeply. And her choices are made even more complicated by a handsome apprentice, a secretive student, and fears for her own sanity. As the mysteries of the estate begin to unravel, it is clear that not only is her uncle's world at stake, but also the state of England as Katharine knows it. With twists and turns at every corner, this heart-racing adventure will captivate readers with its intrigue, thrills, and romance.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance", "Gothic", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11733187-the-dark-unwinding"}, +{"book_title": "Akira, Vol. 5", "author_name": "Katsuhiro Otomo", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 8221, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "In the 21st century, the once-glittering Neo-Tokyo lies in ruins, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic giant, Akira. Now a wasteland of rubble and anarchy, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, a ragtag group of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira and his mad prime minister, Tetsuo, an angry teen with immense powers of his own -- and equally immense twisted ambitions. The planet at large is not taking the threat lying down, however, and the might of the world is ready to take on the Empire, but will technology's most advanced weaponry be enough to destroy Akira -- and is Tetsuo an ever greater threat? The fifth chapter in a sweeping epic of over 2000 pages, Akira vol. 5 is the penultimate act of a mind-blowing graphic-novel masterpiece of awe-inspiring imagination and gut-wrenching power, and the inspiration for the classic Akira animated film.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93376.Akira_Vol_5"}, +{"book_title": "Terminal World", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 6500, "review_number": 553, "book_description": "Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different\u2014and rigidly enforced\u2014level of technology. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in Neon Heights they have television and electric trains . . .Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, Quillon's world is wrenched apart one more time, for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels\u2014and with the dying body comes bad news.If Quillon is to save his life, he must leave his home and journey into the cold and hostile lands beyond Spearpoint's base, starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillon's own survival, for the limiting technologies of the zones are determined not by governments or police, but by the very nature of reality\u2014and reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability . . .Terminal World is a snarling, drooling, crazy-eyed mongrel of a book: equal parts steampunk, western, planetary romance, and far-future SF.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6237781-terminal-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Selection", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 948996, "review_number": 51189, "book_description": "For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself\u2014and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10507293-the-selection"}, +{"book_title": "Panic", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 52799, "review_number": 6364, "book_description": "Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do.Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. She\u2019d never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought.Dodge has never been afraid of Panic. His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game, he\u2019s sure of it. But what he doesn't know is that he\u2019s not the only one with a secret. Everyone has something to play for.For Heather and Dodge, the game will bring new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first love for each of them\u2014and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear are those we need the most.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Romance", "Realistic Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17565845-panic"}, +{"book_title": "The Forever Engine", "author_name": "Frank Chadwick", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 194, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "London 1888. His Majesty\u2019s airships troll the sky powered by antigrav liftwood. Iron Lords tighten their hold on Britain choked by the fumes of industry. Mars has been colonized. Clockwork assassins stalk European corridors of power. Far to the east, the Old Man of the Mountains plots the end of the world with his Forever Engine. 2018 Jack Fargo, scholar, former American special forces agent in Afghanistan. Aided only by an elderly Scottish physicist, a young British officer of questionable courage, and a beautiful but mysterious spy for the French Commune, Fargo must save the future, the universe, from destruction. (Author created steampunk role playing game Space: 1889.)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Action", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571515-the-forever-engine"}, +{"book_title": "Hull Zero Three", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 5167, "review_number": 606, "book_description": "A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination-unknown. Its purpose-a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home-a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms-he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger.All he has are questions-- Who is he? Where are they going? What happened to the dream of a new life? What happened to Hull 03?All will be answered, if he can survive the ship.HULL ZERO THREE is an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride through the darkest reaches of space.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Space (Space Opera)", "Suspense", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7975415-hull-zero-three"}, +{"book_title": "Starstruck", "author_name": "Brenda Hiatt", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 5138, "review_number": 503, "book_description": "The middle of nowhere just got a lot more interesting!Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, has never been anybody special. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict \"aunt,\" she's not even sure who she is. M's dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her. As Rigel turns his back on fawning cheerleaders to spend time with M, strange things start to happen: her acne clears up, her eyesight improves to the point she can ditch her thick glasses, and when they touch, sparks fly--literally! When M digs for a reason, she discovers deep secrets that will change her formerly mundane life forever... and expose her to perils she never dreamed of. \u00a0Book 1 of the award-winning Starstruck series, where teen romance blends with science fiction to open a whole new world of action, adventure and discovery.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18950609-starstruck"}, +{"book_title": "The Goose Girl", "author_name": "Shannon Hale", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 137782, "review_number": 10096, "book_description": "Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee for Children's Literature 2010 (The Books of Bayern series).She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste. Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt\u2019s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.From the Grimm's fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original, and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179064.The_Goose_Girl"}, +{"book_title": "The Infinite Cage", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 116, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "WELCOME TO ADAM'S WORLD...When he awakens in a skid row alley, Adam knows nothing. Not who he is, nor where he's from. Money is a mystery. So are women. All he begins his new life with is a will to survive. But he learns fast: first, how to get away; then how not to have to. In the beginning Adam wants to be friends with us. Before he's through he just might run the human race off its feet...", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123683.The_Infinite_Cage"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost Country", "author_name": "Patrick Lee", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 5338, "review_number": 402, "book_description": "For decades, inexplicable technology has passed into our world through the top secret anomaly called the Breach. The latest device can punch a hole into the future ...\"What Paige Campbell saw when she opened a door into seventy years from now scared the hell out of her. She and her Tangent colleagues brought their terrible discovery to the President - and were met with a hail of automatic gunfire after leaving the White House. Only Paige survived.Fearing a terrifying personal destiny revealed to him from the other side of the Breach, Travis Chase abandoned Tangent ... and Paige Campbell. Now he must rescue her - because Paige knows tomorrow's world is desperate and dead, a ghost country scattered with the bones of billions. And Doomsday will dawn in just four short months ... unless they can find the answers buried in the ruins to come.But once they cross the nightmare border into Ghost Country, they might never find their way back ...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Action", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8479092-ghost-country"}, +{"book_title": "A Fall of Moondust", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 8878, "review_number": 411, "book_description": "For a million years the bubble had been growing, like a vast abscess, below the root of the mountains. Now the abscess was about to burst. Captain Harris had left the controls on autopilot and was talking to the front row of passengers as the first tremor shook the boat. For a fraction of a second he wondered if a fan blade had hit some submerged obstacle; then, quite literally, the bottom fell out of his world.It fell slowly, as all things must upon the Moon. The sea was alive and moving . . . Every stage of that nightmare transformation was pitilessly illuminated by the earth light, until the crater was so deep that its firewall was completely lost in shadow, and it seemed as if Selene were racing into a curving crescent of utter blackness \u2013 an arc of annihilation.In darkness and in silence, they were sinking into the Moon. . . .", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149059.A_Fall_of_Moondust"}, +{"book_title": "A Conjuring of Light", "author_name": "V.E. Schwab", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 92909, "review_number": 12609, "book_description": "Witness the fate of beloved heroes - and enemies.THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS FINALLY TIPPED...The precarious equilibrium among four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise.WHO WILL CRUMBLE?Kell - once assumed to be the last surviving Antari - begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. And in the wake of tragedy, can Arnes survive?WHO WILL RISE?Lila Bard, once a commonplace - but never common - thief, has survived and flourished through a series of magical trials. But now she must learn to control the magic, before it bleeds her dry. Meanwhile, the disgraced Captain Alucard Emery of the Night Spire collects his crew, attempting a race against time to acquire the impossible.WHO WILL TAKE CONTROL?And an ancient enemy returns to claim a crown while a fallen hero tries to save a world in decay.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "LGBT", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939230-a-conjuring-of-light"}, +{"book_title": "How Few Remain", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4770, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair...1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America once again. But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other but the Apache, the outlaw, the French, and the English. As Confederate General Stonewall Jackson again demonstrated his military expertise, the North struggled to find a leader who could prove his equal. In the Second War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed--and so would history...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Military History (Civil War)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/842939.How_Few_Remain"}, +{"book_title": "Raven Rise", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 21628, "review_number": 379, "book_description": "The moment of truth...This is where it begins. The showdown for Halla. At stake is nothing less than all that ever was and all that will be.There's only one thing missing - Bobby Pendragon.While Bobby remains trapped on Ibara, the battle moves to his home territory: Second Earth. Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde are left on their own to defend Second Earth against the forces of Saint Dane. They must face off against a charismatic cult leader who has risen to power by revealing a shattering truth to the people of Earth: They are not alone.The Convergence has broken down the walls. The territories are on a collision course. The final phase of Saint Dane's quest to rule Halla is under way.And Bobby Pendragon is nowhere to be found.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1729146.Raven_Rise"}, +{"book_title": "Firstborn", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 7959, "review_number": 526, "book_description": "Of the son of a High Duke of the interstellar Empire, much glory is expected. And expected. And still expected, despite endless proof that young Dennison Crestmar has no talent whatsoever for war. But the life Dennison is forced to live will have its surprising lessons to impart.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novella", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8562526-firstborn"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Zombie Frankenstein", "author_name": "Annette Simon", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 411, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Perfect for high-energy story times, this cumulative tale is a madcap mash-up featuring robots, shapes in motley amalgamation, and . . . pie!Squares, rectangles, ovals, triangles, and other colorful shapes are sorted and arranged into - two robots! But why stop there? Shape by shape, costume by costume, Robot and Robot play a game of oneupmanship that zips, zooms, and whirrs from friendly to hilariously out of control in nanoseconds. Robot Zombie? How about Robot Zombie Frankenstein? Can you handle Robot Zombie Frankenstein Pirate? What could be next? Where will it all stop? When the race makes a surprise (and delicious) turn, Robot and Robot are happy to be plain old robots - and buddies - onceagain.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Humor", "Folklore (Monsters)", "Fiction", "Holiday", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12654902-robot-zombie-frankenstein"}, +{"book_title": "Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong", "author_name": "A.J. Low", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 239, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Winner of the Red Dot Book Awards 2013-2014, Younger Readers\u2019 CategoryMeet Sherlock Sam, Singapore's greatest kid detective. With his trusty robot Watson, Sherlock Sam will stop at nothing to solve the case, no matter how big or small! In Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong, Auntie Kim Lian's precious Peranakan cookbook disappears, and Sherlock Sam cannot eat her delicious ayam buah keluak anymore! Will Sherlock Sam be able to use his super detective powers to find this lost treasure?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Mystery", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Realistic Fiction", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Food and Drink (Food)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16592647-sherlock-sam-and-the-missing-heirloom-in-katong"}, +{"book_title": "To Say Nothing of the Dog", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 34242, "review_number": 3955, "book_description": "Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugo-winning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful - to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Historical", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77773.To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Summer", "author_name": "Gwen Cole", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 934, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "Today, he\u2019s a high school dropout with no future. Tomorrow, he\u2019s a soldier in World War II.Kale Jackson has spent years trying to control his time-traveling ability but hasn\u2019t had much luck. One day he lives in 1945, fighting in the war as a sharpshooter and helplessly watching soldiers\u2014friends\u2014die. Then the next day, he\u2019s back in the present, where WWII has bled into his modern life in the form of PTSD, straining his relationship with his father and the few friends he has left. Every day it becomes harder to hide his battle wounds, both physical and mental, from the past.When the ex-girl-next-door, Harper, moves back to town, thoughts of what could be if only he had a normal life begin to haunt him. Harper reminds him of the person he was before the PTSD, which helps anchor him to the present. With practice, maybe Kale could remain in the present permanently and never step foot on a battlefield again. Maybe he can have the normal life he craves.But then Harper finds Kale\u2019s name in a historical article\u2014and he\u2019s listed as a casualty of the war. Kale knows now that he must learn to control his time-traveling ability to save himself and his chance at a life with Harper. Otherwise, he\u2019ll be killed in a time where he doesn\u2019t belong by a bullet that was never meant for him.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Health (Mental Health)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25092254-cold-summer"}, +{"book_title": "We, Robots", "author_name": "Sue Lange", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 27, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "\"...a funny and disturbing satire, and a refutation of the more facile writings in our genre.\" \u2014 Sean Melican, Ideomancer\"Lange gives us a quiet and sad look at the world of institutionalized timidity we are heading towards with or without robots, intertwined with a hilarious send-up of just how we're getting there.\" \u2014 Racheline Maltese, Gather blog\"We, Robots does a grand job of laying the foundation for conversation for someone not versed with the concepts; and it is an interesting story in its own right, told with somewhat of an Asimovian tongue.\" --GUD MagazinePoignant tale of humans and robots and the meaning of life.\"This is a short novel, about 100 pages, but it says a lot about concepts of humanity. It is easy to read, and very much worth reading.\" -- Paul\"It has the comprehensibility of Asimov, the wry social commentary of Dick, the conscience of Serling\u2019s \u201cTwilight Zone\u201d and the heart of Bradbury. However, as much as Lange has drawn from the masters, she has created something completely unique and has a voice of her own that is equal to any of them.\" --Sandi", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1635653.We_Robots"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Colony", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2369, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "We fought the invading New Men to a standstill and defeated the alien Destroyer sent to obliterate Earth. The worst should be over, but it\u2019s not. Perfect android replicas are impersonating high-level officials so trust is failing. Worse, the New Men have found allies with an impenetrable stealth technology. This time, however, Earth is going on the offensive. Admiral Fletcher is headed to \u201cC\u201d Quadrant with a Grand Fleet. He\u2019s to liberate the captured planets and find the enemy homeworld. What he isn\u2019t supposed to do is die. The only one who can save humanity has been grounded. Captain Maddox is under suspicion because he\u2019s half New Man. But he\u2019s not going to stop. He\u2019s found something unbelievable. Now, he needs Starship Victory\u2014an ancient, alien spacecraft\u2014the AI Galyan, Meta, Sergeant Riker and the others to help him tear the greatest secret of all from the enemy. Maddox and his crew must succeed or humanity will drown in a sea of human extinction.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28067648-the-lost-colony"}, +{"book_title": "Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits", "author_name": "David Wong", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 17345, "review_number": 1510, "book_description": "Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements.An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move.Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes.A young woman from the trailer park.And her very smelly cat.Together, they will decide the future of mankind.Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star, in which human achievement soars to new heights while its depravity plunges to the blackest depths. A world in which at least one cat smells like a seafood shop's dumpster on a hot summer day.This is the world in which Zoey Ashe finds herself, navigating a futuristic city in which one can find elements of the fantastic, nightmarish and ridiculous on any street corner. Her only trusted advisor is the aforementioned cat, but even in the future, cats cannot give advice. At least not any that you'd want to follow.Will Zoey figure it all out in time? Or maybe the better question is, will you? After all, the future is coming sooner than you think.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20501606-futuristic-violence-and-fancy-suits"}, +{"book_title": "Blind Beast Mate", "author_name": "Milana Jacks", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2601, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "When life deals a wild card, play it no matter the cost. Since the day Rey\u2019s defiance earned her a blinding blow to the head, fear has hovered as close as the guide dog that clings to her side. But the terror that grips her now is almost beyond description. Like her sister before her, Rey has been sold to satisfy the lusts of one of the alien Beasts that now rule the Earth. If the towering, leather-clad Alpha discovers his prize can\u2019t see, he could kill her with a flick of his claw. Or worse, send her home\u2014where the only mercy she\u2019ll get is a bullet. From the moment the Alpha Beast spotted Rey smiling tenderly at her flowers, his desire to own her, body and soul, roared louder than his bike\u2019s throaty engine. But the only smiles his new pair aims his way are forced\u2014and oddly off target. She is liquid heat in his arms, yet ignores the notes and gifts he leaves for her. If he can\u2019t win her over, he can\u2019t trust her with his own truth. And the combined weight of their secrets could destroy everything. ***This dystopian fairy tale features one brave heroine paired with one sweet, unapologetic, possessive, protective, and kinky Alpha male Beast. If you're looking for \"mating trope\" with fleshed out characters in a steamy romance novella and HEA click it.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36102391-blind-beast-mate"}, +{"book_title": "The Color of Magic", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 325786, "review_number": 9943, "book_description": "Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins -- with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34497.The_Color_of_Magic"}, +{"book_title": "Romancing the Werewolf", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3070, "review_number": 502, "book_description": "\nWerewolf in trouble...\nBiffy, newly minted Alpha of the London Pack, is not having a good Christmas. His Beta abandoned him, his werewolves object to his curtain choices, and someone keeps leaving babies on his doorstep.Professor Randolph Lyall returns home to London after twenty years abroad, afraid of what he might find. With his pack in chaos and his Alpha in crisis, it will take all his Beta efficiency to set everything to rights. Perhaps, in the process, he may even determine how to mend his own heart.New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger presents a charming love story set in her popular steampunk Parasolverse. Featuring the long-awaited reunion between everyone\u2019s favorite quietly capable Beta and the werewolf Alpha dandy who let him slip away.This sweet romance is full of unexpected babysitting, holiday decorations, and no small amount of pining. Look for surprise appearances from popular side characters and the occasional strategic application of italics.The Supernatural Society novellas stand alone and may be read in any order. But if you\u2019re a stickler, this story chronologically follows Imprudence, and ties specifically to events in Timeless.Delicate Sensibilities?Contains men who love other men and have waited decades to do so.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Novella", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31287528-romancing-the-werewolf"}, +{"book_title": "Firelight", "author_name": "Kristen Callihan", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 15467, "review_number": 1780, "book_description": "Once the flames are ignited . . . Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family's fortune decimated and forced her to wed London's most nefarious nobleman.They will burn for eternity . . .Lord Benjamin Archer is no ordinary man. Doomed to hide his disfigured face behind masks, Archer knows it's selfish to take Miranda as his bride. Yet he can't help being drawn to the flame-haired beauty whose touch sparks a passion he hasn't felt in a lifetime. When Archer is accused of a series of gruesome murders, he gives in to the beastly nature he has fought so hard to hide from the world. But the curse that haunts him cannot be denied. Now, to save his soul, Miranda will enter a world of dark magic and darker intrigue. For only she can see the man hiding behind the mask.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12104686-firelight"}, +{"book_title": "Homebound", "author_name": "Lydia Hope", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1096, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "Earth is in decline, and the wealthy have fled it leaving only the destitute citizens behind. And aliens. Gemma McKinley works at a prison cleaning goop off the floors and serving food to inmates. When she is reassigned to the alien ward, Gemma is nervous. Aliens are dangerous and ruthless. They bite. But there is one that isn\u2019t like them. Simon is damaged, starved, and wasting away in complete isolation. Touched by his loneliness, Gemma starts nursing him back to health, dismissing rumors that he\u2019s high-risk, ignoring the advice to let him croak. Simon despises humans. His only goal is to get off this miserable planet fast, for he is hunted by a scientist obsessed with perfecting the human race. Simon\u2019s rare alien genes are just the ingredient that\u2019s missing for breakthrough research. Thanks to Gemma, for the first time in years he can escape. And he will. He will\u2026 As the hunt for Simon heats up, Gemma becomes an unintended target. Is she a fool to help him get away? And will he risk another captivity to protect her?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50337348-homebound"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man Vol. 3: One Small Step", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 29717, "review_number": 734, "book_description": "WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDSThe adventures of Yorick Brown continue in Y: THE LAST MAN: ONE SMALL STEP, collecting issues #11-17 of the critically acclaimed series. A Russian Soyuz capsule is coming down from the International Space Station carrying three passengers: one woman and two men. Could this be the end of Yorick's tenure as last living male?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156530.Y"}, +{"book_title": "PLUTO: \u6d66\u6ca2 \u76f4\u6a39 x \u624b\u585a \u6cbb\u866b 005", "author_name": "Naoki Urasawa", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 2380, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "R to L (Japanese Style). A robot may not harm or kill a human being. Article 13 of the Robot LawsAdolph, a member of a robot hate group, is being used as a pawn and hunted down by the members of his own brotherhood. He must now turn to his worst enemy for protection--Gesicht, the robot who he believes killed his own brother.Contains Chapters 32 to 39.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2335549.PLUTO"}, +{"book_title": "A Sound of Thunder", "author_name": "Ray Bradbury", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 4677, "review_number": 433, "book_description": "Free online fiction.The short story, A Sound of Thunder, involves a Time Travel Safari where rich businessmen pay to travel back to prehistoric times and hunt real live dinosaurs.", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Academic (School)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Academic (Read For School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17568373-a-sound-of-thunder"}, +{"book_title": "Deep Silence", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 1621, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "The tenth Joe Ledger novel in the New York Times bestselling seriesTerrorists-for-hire have created a weapon that can induce earthquakes and cause dormant volcanoes to erupt. One terrifying side-effect of the weapon is that prior to the devastation, the vibrations drive ordinary people to suicide and violence. A wave of madness begins sweeping the country beginning with a mass shooting in Congress. Joe Ledger and his team go on a wild hunt to stop the terrorists and uncover the global super-power secretly funding them. At every step the stakes increase as it becomes clear that the end-game of this campaign of terror is igniting the Yellowstone caldera, the super-volcano that could destroy America.DEEP SILENCE pits Joe Ledger against terrorists with bleeding-edge science weapons, an international conspiracy, ancient technologies from Atlantis and Lemuria, and an escalating threat that could crack open the entire Earth.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Action", "Audiobook", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37638241-deep-silence"}, +{"book_title": "Inferno", "author_name": "Dan Brown", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 481970, "review_number": 37325, "book_description": "Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno. Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this sumptuously entertaining thriller.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Novels", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17212231-inferno"}, +{"book_title": "Lindsey's Rescue", "author_name": "Michelle Howard", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1301, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Lindsey Ferra signed up for Earth\u2019s Singles Program wanting love, marriage and happiness. She found the first two but the third required a bit of work. Fighting aliens, running from aliens and making friends with aliens all seem to be on the agenda for the day. Her only question now is can she find her way back and will happiness be on the schedule this time.Senate Leaders Baruk Laars and Zadal Gatar planned a marriage for business reasons. Their wife Lindsey gave them something else\u2026love. Can these two work together to correct their mistake and will Lindsey be rescued before it\u2019s too late?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26176572-lindsey-s-rescue"}, +{"book_title": "Voyage", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1818, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "The space mission of a lifetime An epic saga of America's might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events., Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket, and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall. There is: Dana, the Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African-American to land on another planet; and Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who risks a career and love for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Drama", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/843565.Voyage"}, +{"book_title": "Cuttlefish", "author_name": "Dave Freer", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 114, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "The smallest thing can change the path of history. The year is 1976, and the British Empire still spans the globe. Coal drives the world, and the smog of it hangs thick over the canals of London. Clara Calland is on the run. Hunted, along with her scientist mother, by Menshevik spies and Imperial soldiers, they flee Ireland for London. They must escape airships, treachery and capture. Under flooded London\u2019s canals they join the rebels who live in the dank tunnels there. Tim Barnabas is one of the underpeople, born to the secret town of drowned London, place of anti-imperialist republicans and Irish rebels, part of the Liberty - the people who would see a return to older values and free elections. Seeing no further than his next meal, Tim has hired on as a submariner on the Cuttlefish, a coal fired submarine that runs smuggled cargoes beneath the steamship patrols, to the fortress America and beyond. When the Imperial soldiery comes ravening, Clara and her mother are forced to flee aboard the Cuttlefish. Hunted like beasts, the submarine and her crew must undertake a desperate voyage across the world, from the Faeroes to the Caribbean and finally across the Pacific to find safety. But only Clara and Tim Barnabas can steer them past treachery and disaster, to freedom in Westralia. Carried with them\u2014a lost scientific secret that threatens the very heart of Imperial power.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Romance", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13486371-cuttlefish"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Matter", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1493, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "An enemy might just have to become an ally . . . in order to save humankind The United States of North America is now engaged in a civil war with the Earth Confederation, which wants to yield to the demands of the alien Sh'daar, limit human technology, and become a part of the Sh'daar Galactic Collective. USNA President Koenig believes that surrendering to the Sh'daar will ultimately doom humankind.But when highly advanced, seemingly godlike aliens appear through an artificial wormhole in the Omega Centauri Cluster 16,000 light years from Earth, President Koenig is faced with a tremendous choice: continue fighting the Sh'daar . . . or ally with them against the newcomers in a final war that will settle the fate of more than one universe.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18505765-dark-matter"}, +{"book_title": "The End is Nigh", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2915, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories.Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse.THE END IS NIGH features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18870640-the-end-is-nigh"}, +{"book_title": "Legacy", "author_name": "Vivi Anna", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 72, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "London, 1851Former thief Jovan Davenport is the black sheep in a family of powerful sorcerers. But when his dying father\u2014head of the League of Illusion\u2014reaches out for help, Jovan has no choice but to accept. He must find his missing brother Sebastian and stop the power-hungry Hawthorne family from taking control of the council. If only they\u2019d appointed someone other than Skylar Vanguard to help him in his quest.Skylar, a druid and accomplished tracker, has spent three years trying to forget her past, especially Jovan Davenport. Once in love, she left Jovan when she discovered his betrayal. She wants nothing to do with him or his family, but must obey the council\u2019s will by accompanying Jovan and reporting back on his progress.Forced to work alongside each other, neither of them expects their passion to return so quickly. But as the conspiracy deepens in a steam-powered world of dirigibles and mechanical golems, will their secrets stand in the way of their mission\u2026and their love?45,000 words", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Audiobook", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Steampunk Romance", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16008522-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "Sly Mongoose", "author_name": "Tobias S. Buckell", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 564, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Welcome to Chilo, a planet with corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. Fortunately, fourteen-year-old Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet above the surface, circling near the edge of a monstrous perpetual storm. Above the acidic clouds the temperature and pressure are normal. But to make a living, Timas (like many other young men) is lowered to the surface in an armored suit to scavenge what he can.Timas' life is turned upside down when a strange man crash lands on the city. The newcomer is fleeing an alien intelligence intent on invading the planet and discovering the secret hidden deep inside the perpetual storma secret that could lead to interplanetary war.As the invaded cities fall silent one by one, Chilos citizens must race against time to stop the enemy. And Timas will find out what kind of man he has become in the harsh conditions of Chilos surface.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Adventure", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2350591.Sly_Mongoose"}, +{"book_title": "Destined", "author_name": "Allison Kraft", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 145, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "While flying across the Atlantic on the centennial anniversary of the Titanic's tragic maiden voyage, Apolline Greer, last in a long line of vampire hunters, finds herself suddenly transported from her airliner cabin to an eerily familiar ocean liner cabin\u2014as well as the entirely unfamiliar body of her ancestor, Noelle Greer. Upon learning that she is, in fact, on board the very ship she\u2019s been fascinated with all her life, she knows there's only one thing to do: get off as soon as possible.But whether by destiny, freak coincidence or a really vivid dream, Apolline finds that her trip back in time comes with three very good reasons to stay on board: Alexander Walker, a handsome and charming fellow vampire hunter; Cristof, the vampire that has tormented her family for generations and very likely killed her own mother; and Sasha, the vampire Noelle was sent to kill.Time, however, is not on Apolline's side. The Titanic is on a collision course with destiny, and she only has four days to complete her quest. What seemed like more than enough time at the start quickly becomes too short as she finds that hunting vampires on a luxury ocean liner is much more difficult than she expected. Sasha and Cristof become more elusive as each day passes, while her feelings for Alexander become increasingly complicated. As that fateful night approaches, will she regret her decision to stay and witness history first-hand?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12453199-destined"}, +{"book_title": "The Mayan Prophecy", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1505, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Liam O\u2019Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance\u2014to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...When Maddy finally unlocks fragments of the secret that Becks has been holding on to, the TimeRiders start to piece together their true purpose. Racing through time to connect the clues, the team discover a Mayan tribe and an ancient relic provides a vital link to the past... and future.But not all the TimeRiders can cope with the discovery, and one threatens to bring them all down if they can act out their revenge...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Action", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17369267-the-mayan-prophecy"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Men Flying", "author_name": "Bill Patterson", "rating_score": 4.83, "rating_votes": 12, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "The Mars Expedition should have succeeded, but the Moon exploded. The shattered rock and space debris from that explosion will surely kill them when they return to Earth. But they cannot stay on Mars indefinitely--theirs was an exploration mission, not a colonization mission. Death to return, death to stay, and no way to use Martian resources to ensure survival--the Mars Expediation needs a fourth option. When a voice they long thought dead--Chief Engineer McCrary of Moonbase Collins\u2013 arrives over their radio, they get that option, but it is one that is as fraught with danger as their first options. But when you are Dead Men Flying, you have little choice but to try.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38600341-dead-men-flying"}, +{"book_title": "The Kingdom", "author_name": "Jess Rothenberg", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 5927, "review_number": 1512, "book_description": "\nWelcome to the Kingdom... where 'Happily Ever After' isn't just a promise, but a rule. \nGlimmering like a jewel behind its gateway, The Kingdom is an immersive fantasy theme park where guests soar on virtual dragons, castles loom like giants, and bioengineered species--formerly extinct--roam free.Ana is one of seven Fantasists, beautiful \"princesses\" engineered to make dreams come true. When she meets park employee Owen, Ana begins to experience emotions beyond her programming including, for the first time... love.But the fairytale becomes a nightmare when Ana is accused of murdering Owen, igniting the trial of the century. Through courtroom testimony, interviews, and Ana's memories of Owen, emerges a tale of love, lies, and cruelty--and what it truly means to be human.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864907-the-kingdom"}, +{"book_title": "Burning Kingdoms", "author_name": "Lauren DeStefano", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 2306, "review_number": 343, "book_description": "Danger descends in the second book of The Internment Chronicles, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy.After escaping Internment, Morgan and her fellow fugitives land on the ground to finally learn about the world beneath their floating island home.The ground is a strange place where water falls from the sky as snow, and people watch moving pictures and visit speakeasies. A place where families can have as many children as they want, their dead are buried in vast gardens of bodies, and Internment is the feature of an amusement park.It is also a land at war.Everyone who fled Internment had their own reasons to escape their corrupt haven, but now they\u2019re caught under the watchful eye of another king who wants to dominate his world. They may have made it to the ground, but have they dragged Internment with them?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17558080-burning-kingdoms"}, +{"book_title": "The Mysterious Lady Law", "author_name": "Robert Appleton", "rating_score": 3.19, "rating_votes": 162, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "In a time of grand airships and steam-powered cars, the death of a penniless young maid will hardly make the front page. But part-time airship waitress and music hall dancer Julia Bairstow is shattered by her sister's murder. When Lady Law, the most notorious private detective in Britain, offers to investigate the case pro bono, Julia jumps at the chance\u2014even against the advice of Constable Al Grant, who takes her protection surprisingly to heart.Lady Law puts Scotland Yard to shame. She's apprehended Jack the Ripper and solved countless other cold-case crimes. No one knows how she does it, but it's brought her fortune, renown and even a title. But is she really what she claims to be\u2014a genius at deducting? Or is Al right and she is not be trusted?Julia is determined to find out the truth, even if it means turning sleuth herself\u2014and turning the tables on Lady Law...31,600 words", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9931989-the-mysterious-lady-law"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Shadows", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 17254, "review_number": 1182, "book_description": "Return to New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh\u2019s sensual and painfully beautiful Guild Hunter world in her new novel of sacrifice, loyalty, and the choices of love that can shatter the heart.In the wake of a brutal war, the archangel Raphael and his hunter consort, Elena, are dealing with the treacherously shifting tides of archangelic politics and the people of a battered but not broken city. The last thing their city needs is more death, especially a death that bears the eerie signature of an insane enemy archangel who cannot\u2014should not\u2014be walking the streets.This hunt must be undertaken with stealth and without alerting their people. It must be handled by those who can become shadows themselves\u2026Ash is a gifted tracker and a woman cursed with the ability to sense the secrets of anyone she touches. But there\u2019s one man she knows all too well without a single instant of skin contact: Janvier, the dangerously sexy Cajun vampire who has fascinated and infuriated her for years. Now, as they track down a merciless killer, their cat-and-mouse game of flirtation and provocation has turned into a profound one of the heart. And this time, it is Ash\u2019s secret, dark and terrible, that threatens to destroy them both.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17409835-archangel-s-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Fallout", "author_name": "Todd Strasser", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 3128, "review_number": 578, "book_description": "What if the bomb had actually been dropped? What if your family was the only one with a shelter?In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about. But Scott's dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst. As the neighbors scoff, he builds a bomb shelter to hold his family and stocks it with just enough supplies to keep the four of them alive for two critical weeks. In the middle of the night in late October, when the unthinkable happens, those same neighbors force their way into the shelter before Scott's dad can shut the door. With not enough room, not enough food, and not enough air, life inside the shelter is filthy, physically draining, and emotionally fraught. But even worse is the question of what will\u2014and won't\u2014remain when the door is opened again. Internationally best-selling author Todd Strasser has written his most impressive and personal novel to date, ruthlessly yet sensitively exploring the terrifying what-ifs of one of the most explosive moments in human history.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262252-fallout"}, +{"book_title": "Behind the Plaid", "author_name": "Eliza Knight", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 704, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "\nHe dominated her mind. She possessed his soul.\nEmma Gordon escapes from a troubling marriage in which she\u2019s completely lost sight of who she is. Desperate for independence, she leaves her husband while on a trip in the Scottish Highlands. Only thing is, she ends up hurled back in time to the 16th Century Castle Gealach and headlong into the arms of the handsome, intimidating Laird Logan Grant. Thrust into a world filled with treachery, danger and intensity she must summon the courage to find her way.Logan is tormented by a dark past and harbors a secret that could tear his country apart. He\u2019s consumed with the need for control which wars with his longing for harmony. Unable to resist Emma\u2019s beauty and spirit and the calm that she invokes, Logan confesses he desires her - but only on his terms. He promises erotic encounters that will change them both forever, and quench their overwhelming desire.Despite her own reservations, Emma longs to get close to the mysterious laird, even while she is desperate to return to her own era. She agrees to Logan\u2019s proposal to satisfy her curiosity, but in the end embarks on a daring, passionate affair that rocks her to the very core. Secrets are uncovered, souls bared, spirits transformed. \nNeither of them can hide behind the plaid.\n", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17339846-behind-the-plaid"}, +{"book_title": "The Light Ages", "author_name": "Ian R. MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 1209, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "In a bleak and gritty England, in a fantastical Age of Industry, the wealth that comes from magic is both revered and reviled. Here, an ambitious young man is haunted by his childhood love--a woman determined to be a part of the world he despises.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/362021.The_Light_Ages"}, +{"book_title": "Fallout", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 718, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In his astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot\u2014and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Polish freedom fighters next to Russian fascists. The genie is out of the bottle. And there\u2019s no telling what fresh hell will come next. \u00a0 At the heart of Fallout are Harry Truman and Josef Stalin. Even as Joe McCarthy rises in power, the U.S. president is focused elsewhere, planning to cut off the head of the Soviet threat by taking out Stalin. It\u2019s a daring gambit, but the Soviets have one of their own. Meanwhile, Europe\u2019s weak sisters, France and Italy, seem poised to choose the winning side, while China threatens to overrun Korea. With Great Britain ravaged and swaths of America in ruins, leaders are running out of options. When the United States drops another series of bombs to slow the Russian advance in Europe, Stalin strikes back\u2014with horrifying results. \u00a0 These staggering events unfold through the eyes of a sprawling cast of characters: a Holocaust survivor in a displaced persons camp in Washington; the wife of a bomber pilot and her five-year-old daughter starting a new existence; a savage Soviet fighter waging war by his own rules; a British pub owner falling in love with an American pilot. In the masterly hands of Harry Turtledove, this epic chronicle of war becomes a story of human struggle. As the armies of the world implode, the next chapter will be written by the survivors\u2014those willing to rise up for an uncertain future. \u00a0PRAISE FOR HARRY TURTLEDOVE\u00a0 \u201cTurtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history.\u201d\u2014USA Today \u00a0Bombs Away\u00a0 \u201cTurtledove\u2019s thorough research and grounded imagination work to create a frighteningly realistic past where world leaders act out of desperation and fatalism, and a large cast of common folk suffer the consequences. . . . The vicarious sense of eschatological dread is always powerful.\u201d\u2014Booklist\u00a0Last Orders\u00a0 \u201cAll quite plausible . . . Turtledove\u2019s focus on the characters serves to fill out the big picture with patient, nitty-gritty detail. . . . Armchair warriors will have much to ponder.\u201d\n\u2014Kirkus Reviews\n\u00a0Two Fronts\u00a0 \u201cA you-are-there chronicle of battle on land and sea and in the air.\u201d\u2014Tor.com \u00a0Coup d\u2019Etat\n\u00a0\n \u201cThis is what alternative history is all about.\u201d\u2014Historical Novels Review", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27190607-fallout"}, +{"book_title": "Manners & Mutiny", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 13930, "review_number": 1678, "book_description": "If one must flirt...flirt with danger. Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia's sootie Soap nearby. She would rather thwart dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked intentions are ignored. Who can she trust? Royal werewolf dewan? Stylish vampire Lord Akeldama? Only one thing is certain: a large-scale plot is under way. Sophronia must be ready to save her friends, her school, and all of London from disaster.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18725742-manners-mutiny"}, +{"book_title": "Trapped Outside", "author_name": "Alan Black", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 813, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "The sequel to #1 best selling science fiction novel Metal Boxes. Blackmon Perry Stone hasn't gotten over his fear of being outside and he still hasn't settled into life in the Empire's Navy. After months of legal wrangling over his last assignment, he has been given a new assignment. He was looking forward to getting an new posting on a spaceship or a station. The problem is that his new job is on a planet. Worse, once there, the base is overrun by the enemy aliens and now Stone is trapped outside on a hostile planet, injured, and hunted by aliens bent of killing him.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26164428-trapped-outside"}, +{"book_title": "The Curse of the Silver Pharaoh", "author_name": "Pip Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 170, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "While Verity Fitzroy loses herself in magical mechanizations and fantastical science of London, she harbours secrets of the death of her parents, of a mystery she can't leave alone, and of her power over machinery that both excites and terrifies her. Verity is part of the Ministry Seven, street orphans that work for Agent Harrison Thorne of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Under his guidance, a whole new adventure begins for them all, investigating the strange, the unusual, and the bizarre. When an Egyptologist from the British Museum is kidnapped, the only clue leads to the Delancy Academy, an elite school for gifted, young scientists. Now the Seven are called upon to go where Ministry agents cannot, and within the school Verity uncovers an ancient evil that could herald the end of the world. The Seven set down a dangerous path of intrigue, mystery, and murder; and find that ancient curses are especially difficult to contend with when you have Chemistry assignments due the next day. From the creators of the award-winning steampunk series comes a new adventure set in the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences universe.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31180192-the-curse-of-the-silver-pharaoh"}, +{"book_title": "Eclipse Penumbra", "author_name": "John Shirley", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 265, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "THE SA HAD BEEN HIRED TO MAKE ORDER.AND THEY PLANNED TO KEEP IT\u2026FOREVER.From the beginning, thwarting the Second Alliance had been the first priority of the New Resistance; now the SA had decided it was time to return the favor. Resistance could not be allowed to interfere with the progress of the SA\u2019s master plan. The elimination of the rebels would clear the way for Project Total Eclipse, which in turn would stretch the SA\u2019s shadow over every remaining outpost of humanity, selecting scapegoats, directing violence, and creating an immutable new order.The Penumbra of the Eclipse\u2026it would establish complete SA control over the Grid, the space colony, and the survivors of the war \u2013 and decide the fate of humanity itself", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111194.Eclipse_Penumbra"}, +{"book_title": "The Synchronicity War Part 3", "author_name": "Dietmar Arthur Wehr", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1585, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "The Synchronicity War is going badly for the Human Race and its loyal A.I. allies. The 11,000+ humans remaining in the Universe are desperately trying to remain undiscovered by their xenophobic alien adversaries while they attempt to rebuild a viable military defense and discover how they're receiving messages from the future. But Humans have now been contacted by a third alien race that says they want to help and tells the Humans that the xenophobic aliens aren't the REAL enemy. The real enemy is a life form that has a nightmarish biology and is a threat to the entire galaxy. What can 11,000 humans do that two other alien races can't do? How will two very special A.I.s ultimately decide the fate of their creators and who will pay the ultimate price for their loyalty? This hard hitting military SF series about desperate space battles and the warriors who fight in them continues in Part 3 and will be concluded in Part 4(expected to be published in June of 2014) The paperback version of Part 3 is now available on createspace.com. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21408897-the-synchronicity-war-part-3"}, +{"book_title": "The Year of the Quiet Sun", "author_name": "Wilson Tucker", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 667, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "Unavoidably, David Cheney becomes part of the future, in which a nuclear war has weakened both East and West, and in which America is torn by a race war. Yet among this desolate world, he discovers reasons for living.", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845489.The_Year_of_the_Quiet_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "All Souls Near & Nigh", "author_name": "Hailey Turner", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2512, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "You can\u2019t bargain with death if you\u2019ve already sold your soul. Special Agent Patrick Collins has been reassigned by the Supernatural Operations Agency to New York City. Navigating his new relationship with Jonothon de Vere, the werewolf he\u2019s now soulbound to, is nothing compared to dealing with territorial disputes between the vampires and werecreatures who call the five boroughs home. But the delicate treaties that have kept the preternatural world in check are fraying at the edges, and the fallout is spilling into the mundane world. Manhattan\u2019s club scene is overrun with the vampire drug known as shine and the subways have become a dumping ground for bodies. When the dead are revealed as missing werecreatures, Patrick and Jono find themselves entangled in pack politics twisted by vampire machinations. Learning to trust each other comes with problems for both of them, and the gods with a stake in Patrick\u2019s soul debt aren\u2019t finished with him yet. Bound by promises they can\u2019t break, Patrick and Jono must find a way to survive a threat that takes no prisoners and is stalking them relentlessly through the city streets. Old and new betrayals are coming home to roost but the truth\u2014buried in blood\u2014is more poisonous than the lies being spun. Trying to outrun death is a nightmare\u2014one Patrick may never wake up from. All Souls Near & Nigh is a 104k word m/m urban fantasy with a gay romantic subplot and a HFN ending. It is a direct sequel to A Ferry of Bones & Gold, and reading the first book in the series would be helpful in enjoying this one. Please see the disclaimer at the beginning of the book for content some readers may find triggering.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44415720-all-souls-near-nigh"}, +{"book_title": "Neverwylde", "author_name": "Linda Mooney", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 426, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Two species, bitter enemies, are determined to destroy each other, until they realize they need one another to survive a major catastrophe. As they race through a nebulous space anomaly in the midst of battle, the Terrans and Seneecians are blown through a wormhole to crash land on an uncharted world. A half world. A world containing the remains of a long-dead civilization. Lt. Kelen Chambliss knows she has no reason to trust the furred, humanoid creatures, but she and her crew members cannot survive without their help, and the Seneecians cannot survive without theirs. Neither can she ignore the fearsome-looking one called Kyber, with his wicked talons and piercing green eyes. As they slowly come to realize there is no escape or forthcoming rescue from the barren planet, Kelen learns there is much about the enemy she never knew. Including the fact that Kyber's formidable appearance hides a strong, brave, and caring heart.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25484117-neverwylde"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Princess", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1562, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "First novel of a new \u201cEmberverse\u201d/\u201dThe Change\u201d trilogy. It\u2019s Change Year 46, two generations after high-energy technology died in a catastrophe most of the human race didn\u2019t survive.The children born after the Change and their children are again battling against powers that are not sympathetic to humans and human concerns.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18777371-the-golden-princess"}, +{"book_title": "Coto's Captive", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2276, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "*** THIS BOOK WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS PART OF AN ANTHOLOGY *** Lynn is tracking a dangerous, wounded animal, which turns out to be a big, sexy alien instead. And he\u2019s the hottest guy she\u2019s ever met. Coto\u2019s trip to Earth takes a dangerous turn. He is attacked and injured. The only high point is the courageous woman who tends his wounds. Coto desires her and he will never let her go.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30044282-coto-s-captive"}, +{"book_title": "The Flight of the Silvers", "author_name": "Daniel Price", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4549, "review_number": 581, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B00DGZKHRC.Without warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white. The electricity falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. But the Givens are saved by mysterious strangers, three fearsome and beautiful beings who force a plain silver bracelet onto each sister\u2019s wrist. Within moments, the sky comes down in a crushing sheet of light and everything around them is gone.Shielded from the devastation by their silver adornments, the Givens suddenly find themselves elsewhere, a strange new Earth where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances.Soon Hannah and Amanda are joined by four other survivors from their world\u2014a mordant cartoonist, a shy teenage girl, a brilliant young Australian, and a troubled ex-prodigy. Hunted by enemies they never knew they had and afflicted with temporal abilities they never wanted, the sisters and their companions begin a cross-country journey to find the one man who can save them\u2014before time runs out.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33297829-the-flight-of-the-silvers"}, +{"book_title": "Alien", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 17756, "review_number": 466, "book_description": "Based on the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sleep to distress signals from an unknown planet. One is attacked when they investigate a derelict alien craft. Safely on their way back to Sol, none foresee the real horror about to begin.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Space", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35125.Alien"}, +{"book_title": "Czarne oceany", "author_name": "Jacek Dukaj", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1198, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Cywilizacja w \u015blepym zau\u0142ku\u015awiat przysz\u0142o\u015bci w pierwszej powie\u015bci Jacka Dukaja. Legendy o \u201eCzarnych oceanach\u201d kr\u0105\u017cy\u0142y na d\u0142ugo przed ich premier\u0105\u2026 Co sprawi\u0142o, \u017ce ta ksi\u0105\u017cka poci\u0105ga i przera\u017ca jednocze\u015bnie?(\u2026) nie intryga typu sensacyjnego jest tu g\u0142\u00f3wn\u0105 atrakcj\u0105, ale w\u0142a\u015bnie owo przedstawienie przeg\u0119szczonego i przekomplikowanego do granic mo\u017cliwo\u015bci bytowania ludzkiego w przysz\u0142o\u015bci. Zapewne gdzie\u015b tam egzystuj\u0105 gardz\u0105cy cyberem prostaczkowie, lecz ci dla Dukaja nie s\u0105 zajmuj\u0105cy. Frapuj\u0105 go gracze, kt\u00f3rzy usi\u0142uj\u0105 utrzyma\u0107 si\u0119 w nurcie przemian, kt\u00f3rzy sami je powoduj\u0105 i kt\u00f3rzy \u2013 postawieni pewnego dnia wobec czego\u015b, co ich przerasta \u2013 pr\u00f3buj\u0105 nieznany fenomen zrozumie\u0107, a nast\u0119pnie opanowa\u0107. \u201eCzarne oceany\u201d ukazuj\u0105 cywilizacj\u0119 w \u015blepym zau\u0142ku, miotaj\u0105c\u0105 si\u0119 w spazmach bole\u015bci, kt\u00f3re sama sobie sprokurowa\u0142a.\u2014 Marek Oramus, \u201eNowa Fantastyka\u201d", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4350205-czarne-oceany"}, +{"book_title": "Outsystem", "author_name": "M.D. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1602, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "Major Richards needs to get out of the Sol System Demoted by the military and hung out to dry, the media labels her the Butcher of Toro. Despite her soiled record, Tanis still one of the best military counter-insurgency officers in the Terran Space Force. And they need her to find the terrorists responsible for trying to destroy the GSS Intrepid, a massive interstellar colony ship in the final phases of construction at the Mars Outer Shipyards. It\u2019ll be her ticket out of the Sol system, but Tanis discovers she is up against more than mercenaries and assassins. Major corporations and governments have a vested interest in ensuring the Intrepid never leaves Sol, ultimately pitting Tanis against factions inside her own military. With few friends left, Tanis will need to fight for her life to get outsystem.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15705859-outsystem"}, +{"book_title": "In Conquest Born", "author_name": "C.S. Friedman", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2724, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "In Conquest Born is the monumental science fiction epic that received unprecedented acclaim-and launched C.S. Friedman's phenomenal career. A sweeping story of two interstellar civilizations-locked in endless war, it was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award.From the back cover:Braxi and Azea - two interstellar civilizations fighting an endless war over a long-forgotten cause; two peoples descended from the human species and bred over countless generations to embody opposing ideals, seeking opposite paths to power.The Braxana - dominant tribe of the fierce Braxin Holding - are brilliant, powerful, and aloof from the society they rule. They were bred by their primitive forebearers to be aggressive, competitive, and secretive beyond all prior human norms. The mysteries of their internal society are legendary even among the people they rule.The Azeans - masters of genetic science - have redesigned their own race to reflect ancient ideals. Now they seek to unlock the powers of the human mind, using telepathy to penetrate where mere weapons cannot.But Zatar and Anzha - master Braxana and Azean generals - have exceeded all genetic expectations of their opposed cultures, and have made this endless war a personal vendetta. Who can say what will happen when these ultimate warriors use every power of mind and body to claim the vengeance of total conquest?", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36158.In_Conquest_Born"}, +{"book_title": "The Reapers are the Angels", "author_name": "Alden Bell", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 11152, "review_number": 1613, "book_description": "Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free.For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself - and keeping her demons inside. She can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her on a personal journey toward redemption. Moving back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8051458-the-reapers-are-the-angels"}, +{"book_title": "Watch the Skies", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 7193, "review_number": 403, "book_description": "LIGHTSAll's quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. CAMERAResiding in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel X. EXTERMINATIONThe only person who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, Daniel must use his extraordinary power to save the town. But this devilish director has assembled an all-star team of his own creation and vows to stage the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen. Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw--or will he find himself on the cutting room floor?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5894600-watch-the-skies"}, +{"book_title": "Preying for Keeps", "author_name": "Mel Odom", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 280, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "A small-time mobster wants to go legit--and what better way than manipulating two biogenetic engineering corporations into corporate war? So when a shadowrunning team is brought in by one of the companies to recover vital computer chips believed stolen by the competition, they uncover a tangled plot more devious than anything they could have imagined.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131196.Preying_for_Keeps"}, +{"book_title": "The January Dancer", "author_name": "Michael Flynn", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 1046, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled! Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, \"The January Dancer\" tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people who found it. Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer; pirates take it, rulers crave it, and they'll all kill if necessary to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437316-the-january-dancer"}, +{"book_title": "The Mad Scientist's Daughter", "author_name": "Cassandra Rose Clarke", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 3140, "review_number": 647, "book_description": "\"Cat, this is Finn. He's going to be your tutor.\"Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task is now to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion...and more. But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however, Finn struggles to find his place in the world, and in Cat's heart.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642704-the-mad-scientist-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Bridge of Birds", "author_name": "Barry Hughart", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 9611, "review_number": 1061, "book_description": "When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.The quest led them to a host of truly memorable characters, multiple wonders, incredible adventures\u2014and strange coincidences, which were really not coincidences at all. And it involved them in an ancient crime that still perturbed the serenity of Heaven. Simply and charmingly told, this is a wry tale, a sly tale, and a story of wisdom delightfully askew. Once read, its marvels and beauty will not easily fade from the mind.The author claims that this is a novel of an ancient China that never was. But, oh\u2026it should have been!", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (China)", "Humor", "Historical", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Cultural (Asia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15177.Bridge_of_Birds"}, +{"book_title": "Oz: Ozma of Oz", "author_name": "Eric Shanower", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1780, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "Dorothy Gale plunges into adventure again, this time with a talking chicken named Billina. Dorothy and Billina are washed off their sailing ship to face drowning, starvation - and screaming Wheelers, strange men with wheels instead of hands and feet. The multiple Eisner Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling team of Shanower and Young returns to Oz with this comics adaptation of L. Frank Baum's third Oz book! Collecting OZMA OF OZ #1-8", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Childrens", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11141699-oz"}, +{"book_title": "The Only Ones", "author_name": "Carola Dibbell", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1092, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights of Life, religious zealots who raze the rural farms where much of this experimentation is done.When the mother backs out at the last minute, Inez is left responsible for the product, which in this case is a baby girl, Ani. Inez must protect Ani, who is a scientific breakthrough, keeping her alive, dodging authorities and religious fanatics, and trying to provide Ani with the childhood that Inez never had, which means a stable home and an education.With a stylish voice influenced by years of music writing, The Only Ones is a time-old story, tender and iconic, about how much we love our children, however they come, as well as a sly commentary on class, politics, and the complexities of reproductive technology.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21535525-the-only-ones"}, +{"book_title": "Longbow Girl", "author_name": "Linda Davies", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 685, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "A stunningly exciting and dramatic story set in the wilds of the Welsh mountains, where the brave and beautiful Merry Owen, the Longbow Girl, travels back in time to the autocratic kingdom of King Henry VIII to save her ancestors.Steeped in history, ancient lore and crackling with tension between the central characters Merry and James, Longbow Girl explores the themes of who we are and who we can become when fighting for those we love and for our very lives. Are we prisoners of our history or can we break free? Can we become all that we need to be to meet the ultimate challenge of life and death in the King\u2019s Tournament and in the dungeons of the Black Castle?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25711025-longbow-girl"}, +{"book_title": "The Humanoids", "author_name": "Jack Williamson", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1083, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "On the far planet Wing IV, a brilliant scientist creates the humanoids--sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity.But are they perfect servants--or perfect masters?Slowly the humanoids spread throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor. Only a hidden group of rebels can stem the humanoid tide...if it's not already too late.Fist published in Astounding Science Fiction during the magazine's heyday, The Humanoids--sceince fiction grand master Jack Williamson's finest novel--has endured for fifty years as a classic on the theme of natural versus artificial life.Also included in this edition is the prelude novelette, \"With Folded Hands,\" which was chosen for the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.", "year_published": 1948, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Pulp"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11970.The_Humanoids"}, +{"book_title": "Mr. Wuffles", "author_name": "David Wiesner", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 6311, "review_number": 1222, "book_description": "In a near wordless masterpiece that could only have been devised by David Wiesner, a cat named Mr. Wuffles doesn't care about toy mice or toy goldfish. He\u2019s much more interested in playing with a little spaceship full of actual aliens\u2014but the ship wasn't designed for this kind of rough treatment. Between motion sickness and damaged equipment, the aliens are in deep trouble.When the space visitors dodge the cat and take shelter behind the radiator to repair the damage, they make a host of insect friends. The result? A humorous exploration of cooperation between aliens and insects, and of the universal nature of communication involving symbols, \u201ccave\u201d paintings, and gestures of friendship.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Animals (Cats)", "Animals", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Humor", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17165875-mr-wuffles"}, +{"book_title": "Tomorrow, When the War Began", "author_name": "John Marsden", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 48928, "review_number": 3060, "book_description": "When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong \u2014 their families are gone. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in their town has been taken prisoner. As the reality of the situation hits them, they must make a decision \u2014 run and hide, give themselves up and be with their families, or fight back.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "War", "Adventure (Survival)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71865.Tomorrow_When_the_War_Began"}, +{"book_title": "Cursed Command", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1589, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Captain Kat Falcone owes her life and career to her former right-hand man, William McElney, and she did everything in her power to make sure he was front and center for a promotion. But now that he has it, she fears he\u2019ll have to watch his back. Captain McElney has been assigned to the HMS Uncanny\u2014nicknamed Unlucky\u2014a heavy cruiser tainted by the mysterious deaths of two former captains and rumors of mutineers. Nevertheless, as the interstellar war with the Theocracy rages on, the Uncanny will travel in tandem with Kat\u2019s starship, the HMS Lightning, to the notoriously lawless Jorlem Sector to forge alliances for the Commonwealth and quash rampant piracy.As Captain McElney struggles to whip a hostile crew of miscreants into a disciplined fighting force, Kat is saddled with an undermining new executive officer\u2014an untested aristocrat whose bigotry colors his sense of duty. Both captains wage war against ruthless pirates while conspirators aboard the Uncanny plot to seize the ship. When the starships find themselves locked in a death match with an enemy juggernaut, Kat must make a desperate and devastating sacrifice.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "War", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31926805-cursed-command"}, +{"book_title": "The Body Electric", "author_name": "Beth Revis", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2093, "review_number": 571, "book_description": "The future world is at peace.Ella Shepherd has dedicated her life to using her unique gift\u2014the ability to enter people\u2019s dreams and memories using technology developed by her mother\u2014to help others relive their happy memories.But not all is as it seems.Ella starts seeing impossible things\u2014images of her dead father, warnings of who she cannot trust. Her government recruits her to spy on a rebel group, using her ability to experience\u2014and influence\u2014the memories of traitors. But the leader of the rebels claims they used to be in love\u2014even though Ella\u2019s never met him before in her life. Which can only mean one thing\u2026Someone\u2019s altered her memory.Ella\u2019s gift is enough to overthrow a corrupt government or crush a growing rebel group. She is the key to stopping a war she didn\u2019t even know was happening. But if someone else has been inside Ella\u2019s head, she cannot trust her own memories, thoughts, or feelings.So who can she trust?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22642971-the-body-electric"}, +{"book_title": "Lightning", "author_name": "Dean Koontz", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 58116, "review_number": 2161, "book_description": "A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere \u2013 the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later \u2013 another bolt of lightning \u2013 and the stranger returned, again to save Laura from tragedy. Was he the guardian angel he seemed? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space?", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Suspense", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32424.Lightning"}, +{"book_title": "Pulse", "author_name": "Patrick Carman", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 5187, "review_number": 664, "book_description": "In the year 2051, who has a pulse?With the help of her mysterious classmate Dylan Gilmore, Faith Daniels discovers that she can move objects with her mind. This telekinetic ability is called a \u201cpulse,\u201d and Dylan has the talent, too.In riveting action scenes, Faith demonstrates her ability to use her pulse against a group of telekinesis masters who are so powerful they can flatten their enemies by uprooting streetlights, throwing boulders, and changing the course of a hurtling hammer so that it becomes a deadly weapon. But even with her unusual talent, the mind--and the heart--can be difficult to control. If Faith wants to join forces with Dylan and save the world, she\u2019ll have to harness the power of both.Patrick Carman\u2019s Pulse trilogy is a stunning and epic triumph about the power of the mind--and of love.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14760527-pulse"}, +{"book_title": "Recruit", "author_name": "James David Victor", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 478, "review_number": 39, "book_description": " Outgunned and outmanned on a remote alien world, their only hope is a recruit who doesn\u2019t even want to be there A new series from #1 Best Selling author James David Victor Plucked from his life in academia, Jack Forge must find a way to survive as a Fleet Marine recruit. When the Chitin attack, he is forced to fight a war he never wanted any part of. The only way out is to win the war, and Jack Forge will do whatever it takes to make that happen. In the process, he just might save humanity. Recruit is the first book in the Jack Forge, Fleet Marine series. If you like fast paced military science fiction, Jack Forge is the kind of hero you can root for. Download Recruit and get started on your next space adventure today! Always FREE on Kindle Unlimited ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36379101-recruit"}, +{"book_title": "The Next Together", "author_name": "Lauren James", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 4831, "review_number": 978, "book_description": "How many times can you lose the person you love? Katherine and Matthew are destined to be born again and again, century after century. Each time, their presence changes history for the better, and each time, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be tragically separated. Spanning the Crimean War, the Siege of Carlisle and the near-future of 2019 and 2039 they find themselves sacrificing their lives to save the world. But why do they keep coming back? What else must they achieve before they can be left to live and love in peace? Maybe the next together will be different...A powerful and epic debut novel for teenagers about time-travel, fate and the timelessness of first love. The Next Together is told through a mixture of regular prose, diary entries, letters, \"original\" historical documents, news reports and internet articles.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23266378-the-next-together"}, +{"book_title": "Galactic Empires", "author_name": "Neil Clarke", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 366, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "\u201cOver all this anthology is mostly hits, remarkably few misses. Highly recommended.\u201d\u2014N.K. Jemisin, New York Times Book ReviewNeil Clarke, publisher of the award-winning Clarkesworld magazine, presents a collection of thought-provoking and galaxy-spanning array of galactic short science fiction.From E. E. \"Doc\" Smith\u2019s Lensman, to George Lucas\u2019 Star Wars, the politics and process of Empire have been a major subject of science fiction\u2019s galaxy-spanning fictions. The idiom of the Galactic Empire allows science fiction writers to ask (and answer) questions that are shorn of contemporary political ideologies and allegiances. This simple narrative slight of hand allows readers and writers to see questions and answers from new and different perspectives.The stories in this book do just that. What social, political, and economic issues do the organizing structure of \u201cempire\u201d address? Often the size, shape, and fates of empires are determined not only by individuals, but by geography, natural forces, and technology. As the speed of travel and rates of effective communication increase, so too does the size and reach of an Imperial bureaucracy. Sic itur ad astra\u2014\u201cThus one journeys to the stars.\u201dAt the beginning of the twentieth century, writers such as Kipling and Twain were at the forefront of these kinds of narrative observations, but as the century drew to a close, it was writers like Iain M. Banks who helped make science fiction relevant. That tradition continues today, with award-winning writers like Ann Leckie, whose 2013 debut novel Ancillary Justice hinges upon questions of imperialism and empire.Here then is a diverse collection of stories that asks the questions that science fiction asks best. Empire: How? Why? And to what effect?Table of Contents:- \u201cWinning Peace\u201d by Paul J. McAuley- \u201cNight\u2019s Slow Poison\u201d by Ann Leckie- \u201cAll the Painted Stars\u201d by Gwendolyn Clare- \u201cFirstborn\u201d by Brandon Sanderson- \u201cRiding the Crocodile\u201d by Greg Egan- \u201cThe Lost Princess Man\u201d by John Barnes- \u201cThe Waiting Stars\u201d by Aliette de Bodard- \u201cAlien Archeology\u201d by Neal Asher- \u201cThe Muse of Empires Lost\u201d by Paul Berger- \u201cGhostweight\u201d by Yoon Ha Lee- \u201cA Cold Heart\u201d by Tobias S. Buckell- \u201cThe Colonel Returns to the Stars\u201d by Robert Silverberg- \u201cThe Impossibles\u201d by Kristine Kathryn Rusch- \u201cUtriusque Cosmi\u201d by Robert Charles Wilson- \u201cSection Seven\u201d by John G. Hemry- \u201cThe Invisible Empire of Ascending Light\u201d by Ken Scholes- \u201cThe Man with the Golden Balloon\u201d by Robert Reed- \u201cLooking Through Lace\u201d by Ruth Nestvold- \u201cA Letter from the Emperor\u201d by Steve Rasnic Tem- \u201cThe Wayfarer\u2019s Advice\u201d by Melinda M. Snodgrass- \u201cSeven Years from Home\u201d by Naomi Novik- \u201cVerthandi\u2019s Ring\u201d by Ian McDonaldSkyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695779-galactic-empires"}, +{"book_title": "The Artificial Kid", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1131, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The ultra-rich satellite-dwellers orbiting the planet Reverie love to tune in to the televised exploits of the world's best professional combat artist, The Artificial Kid. But when an enemy discovers a secret from The Kid's murky past, The Kid must face the fiercest battle of his life, placing the fate of the entire planet in his hands. First published in 1980.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218570.The_Artificial_Kid"}, +{"book_title": "Defiant Surrender", "author_name": "Tamara Gill", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 706, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Unlucky in love, Maddie St. Clair hides behind an antique store and her mudlarking hobby. That is until she finds a medieval ring that throws her back to 1102 Cumberland and into the life of Lady Madeline Vincent, heiress to Norman lands and about to be married to an autocratic Baron, William Dowell, nine hundred years her senior.Lord William Dowell protects his own. Usually, from his closest neighbor and long standing foe the Baron of Aimecourt. Forced to marry his dead enemy\u2019s daughter, Lady Madeline, by King\u2019s decree, he hides his growing respect for his wife behind a wanton mistress. Yet when Madeline\u2019s life is threatened, William\u2019s loyalty to his kin is tested by the astonishing desire that flares between them. Not to mention the love that Madeline ignites that would last an eternity. If fate will allow\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43307839-defiant-surrender"}, +{"book_title": "His Last Command", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2295, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Returning from a long mission on a Chaos world, Commissar Gaunt finds that his old regiment - nicknamed Gaunt's Ghosts - has been disbanded and redeployed under a new commander. 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Safe after a treacherous landing, the crew emerges to discover the unthinkable--every man, woman, child, and animal has vanished without a trace. Alone now on their home planet, the crew sets out to discover where everyone has gone--and how to get them back--only to discover they may not be as alone as they thought.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5841844-offworld"}, +{"book_title": "A Wish to Build a Dream On", "author_name": "Michelle Willingham", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 320, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Mary Samson never dreamed that stepping into a fairy circle would send her back in time to medieval Ireland, into the arms of warrior chief Cian MacCorban.Reclusive Cian is a man with the curse of the Sight, knowing exactly when his friends and family members will die. 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Readers will thank their lucky stars for this irrepressible fairy tale retelling, its independent heroine, and its stellar happy ending.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Science Fiction", "Space", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fairy Tales (Fractured Fairy Tales)", "Feminism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22875394-interstellar-cinderella"}, +{"book_title": "Never Trust an Elf", "author_name": "Robert N. Charrette", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 627, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Poised on the cutting edges of both fantasy and science fiction, this bestselling series sells an average of 3,000 copies per month. 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VAUGHAN (SAGA)", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27278865-empty-zone-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Kill Order", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 168779, "review_number": 9840, "book_description": "Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease.Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next. Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there\u2019s something suspicious about its origin. Worse yet, it\u2019s mutating, and all evidence suggests that it will bring humanity to its knees.Mark and Trina are convinced there\u2019s a way to save those left living from descending into madness. And they\u2019re determined to find it\u2014if they can stay alive. Because in this new, devastated world, every life has a price. 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In between grappling with exams and sorority soirees - and disturbing recurring dreams of being captive in a futuristic prison hell - Alessa is determined to unravel the mystery of the apparition who leaves her breathless. 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And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize.Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated\u2014one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape\u2014while the mystery of the Shipstar's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910059-shipstar"}, +{"book_title": "The Devious Dr. Jekyll", "author_name": "Viola Carr", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 572, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Dr. Eliza Jekyll, heroine of the electrifying The Diabolical Miss Hyde\u2014an edgy steampunk retelling of the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u2014investigates a bizarre murder case in an alternate Victorian London while battling her treacherous secret half: Lizzie Hyde.Solving the infamous Chopper case has helped crime scene physician Dr. Eliza Jekyll establish her fledgling career in the chauvinistic world of Victorian law enforcement. But the scrutiny that comes with her newfound fame is unwelcome for a woman with a diabolical secret. And there is the mercurial Royal Society agent and wolf man Remy Lafayette. Does he want to marry her, eat her, or burn her at the stake? Though Eliza is uncertain about Remy, her dark and jealous shadow self, Lizzie, wants to steal the magnetic and persistent agent, and usurp Eliza\u2019s life.It\u2019s impossible to push Remy away when he tempts her with the one thing she can\u2019t resist: a bizarre crime. The search for a bloodthirsty ritual torturer dubbed the Pentacle Killer draws them into a terrifying world of spies, art thieves, and evil alchemy, where the price of immortality is madness?or damnation\u2014and only Lizzie\u2019s dark ingenuity can help Eliza survive. 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Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. 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And so Darrow sacrifices himself in the name of the greater good for which Eo, his true love and inspiration, laid down her own life. He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within. A lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even love\u2014but also the wrath of powerful rivals. To wage and win the war that will change humankind\u2019s destiny, Darrow must confront the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his all-too-human desire for retribution\u2014and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth. Though the road ahead is fraught with danger and deceit, Darrow must choose to follow Eo\u2019s principles of love and justice to free his people. He must live for more.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18966819-golden-son"}, +{"book_title": "Imprudence", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 8240, "review_number": 905, "book_description": "Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue's best friend Primrose keeps getting engaged to the most unacceptable military types. Rue has family problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is crazy, and her obstreperous mother is both. Worst of all, Rue's beginning to suspect what they really are... is frightened.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12799435-imprudence"}, +{"book_title": "Forgotten Time", "author_name": "Lorraine Beaumont", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 669, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "#1 AMAZON BESTSELLING SERIES IN TIME TRAVEL & #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING TIME TRAVEL SERIES Begin your adventure through time in a captivating world filled with debauchery, steamy sex, lies, betrayal and murder. Document the contents of a vast estate, discover riches beyond your wildest dreams, figure out a centuries old legend and fall into the arms of a handsome egotistical Earl, a dashing Duke, an irresistible Wastrel, a mouthwatering Millionaire and ultimately land in the bed of A Knight in Shining Armor. RAVENHURST: A ONCE FORGOTTEN LEGEND... Trapped within the confines of this Ancient Edifice is the key to unlock the door of time itself. *Forgotten Time is the first installment in a five book saga/series. Order of BooksForgotten Time: Book OneShadows of Yesterday: Book TwoTime to Remember: Book ThreeDreams of Tomorrow: Book FourNow and Forever: Book FiveRavenhurst box set: Books 1- 4 with an additional discount.A Knight Such as This: (Special Combo book) which includes book one and two. 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Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bujavid, their seat of power.But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still present, and the danger these rebels pose is far from over.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11729275-intruder"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Matters", "author_name": "Michelle Diener", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 973, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "DARK MATTERS . . . taking matters into her own handsA time bomb, waiting to go off . . .Lucy Harris is on the run, not sure where she can turn to for help, or if help is even available. But even as her abductors chase her down, she realizes they don't just want to recapture her, they want to erase her.When your very existence puts a planet at the risk of war, there's no choice but to do everything in your power to stay out of your enemies hands.A predator . . . waiting for the chance to pounceThe powerful AI battleship, Bane, is accompanying the United Council envoy to Tecra to mete out the punishment the Tecrans have earned for breaking UC law. He revels in the power he's about to have over his old masters. But his mission isn't only to rain down retribution on the people who kept him chained for years, he's also looking for a human woman his fellow Class 5 thinking system mentioned in the final seconds of his life. Paxe admitted to taking Lucy Harris from Earth, and Bane has been looking for her ever since.A warrior conflicted . . .Commander Dray Helvan thinks the Grih made a mistake in not pushing for war with the Tecran, but he's had to accept the compromise, that he and the other envoys from the United Council will go to Tecra and dismantle its military from the top down. His mission is not one of his choosing, but when he and his team arrive, he's handed a very different job. While he distrusts Bane on principle, when the thinking system tells him there's a woman running for her life on the planet below, he will do whatever he has to to see her safe. And if that means war for Tecra, well, then it means war.This is book 4 in the award-winning Class 5 series.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Action", "Artificial Intelligence", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49941667-dark-matters"}, +{"book_title": "The Limit", "author_name": "Kristen Landon", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2987, "review_number": 525, "book_description": "An eighth grade girl was taken today . . . With this first sentence, readers are immediately thrust into a fast-paced thriller that doesn't let up for a moment. In a world not too far removed from our own, kids are being taken away to special workhouses if their families exceed the monthly debt limit imposed by the government. Thirteen-year-old Matt briefly wonders if he might be next, but quickly dismisses the thought. After all, his parents are financially responsible, unlike the parents of those other kids. As long as his parents remain within their limit, the government will be satisfied and leave them alone. But all it takes is one fatal visit to the store to push Matt\u2019s family over their limit\u2014and to change his reality forever. Kristen Landon's The Limit brings the popular dystopian thriller genre to\u00a0a middle grade audience.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Action", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7327325-the-limit"}, +{"book_title": "Randy Riley's Really Big Hit", "author_name": "Chris Van Dusen", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 798, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Randy likes space, robots, and baseball, but he can't ace everything . . . or can he? Chris Van Dusen knocks one out of the park with a comical ode to ingenuity.Randy Riley loves two things: science and baseball. When it comes to the solar system, the constellations, and all things robot, Randy is a genius. But on the baseball diamond? Not so much. He tries . . . but whiffs every time. Then, one night, Randy sees something shocking through his Space Boy telescope: it\u2019s a fireball, and it\u2019s headed right for his town! Randy does the math, summons all of his science smarts, and devises a plan that will save the day in a spectacular way. Once again, Chris Van Dusen winds up his visual humor, dizzying perspectives, perfect pacing, and rollicking rhyme and delivers a hit to make readers stand up and cheer.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Sports (Sports)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Poetry", "Sports (Baseball)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12292007-randy-riley-s-really-big-hit"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Outlaws", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 56, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "\"Ma Teresa and the hole-in-the-wall gang\" - Jack C. Haldeman II\"A quiet evening by gaslight\" - Geoffrey A. Landis\"A spark in the darkness\" - Beth Meacham\"Common Sense\" - Kristine Kathryn Rusch\"Literary lives\" - Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg\"Saint Frankie\" - Laura Resnick\"Good girl, bad dog\" - Martha Soukup\"Comrade Bill\" - John E. Johnston III\"The ballad of Ritchie Valenzuela\" - Maureen F. McHugh\"One month in 1907\" - Frank M. Robinson\"What goes around\" - David Gerrold\"Red Elvis\" - Walter Jon Williams\"Cui Bono?\" - Katharine Kerr\"Cowards die: a tragicomedy in several fits\" - Judith Tarr\"Black Betsy\" - Dean Wesley Smith\"Miranda\" - Robert Sheckley\"Riders in the sky\" - Allen Steele\"#2 with a bullet\" - Jack Nimersheim\"Learning magic\" - Janni Lee Simner\"The crimson rose\" - Tappan King\"What she won't remember\" - Michelle Sagara West\"My tongue in thy tale\" - Gregory Feeley\"Souvenirs\" - Alan Rodgers and James D. Macdonald\"Bigger than U.S. Steel\" - Brian M. Thomsen\"Giving head\" - Nicholas A. DiChario\"Satan Claus\" - David Gerrold\"Shootout at Gower Gulch\" - George Alec Effinger\"Painted bridges\" - Barbara Delaplace", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293317.Alternate_Outlaws"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Pale", "author_name": "Jak Koke", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 213, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Ryan Mercury, the late president's secret agent, must find a mage with the ability to control the awesome power of the Dragon Heart. If he fails, the world will fall prey not only to industrial saboteurs, but spiritual demons as well. But in a turn of good fortune, Mercury will be joined by a mysterious figure--one who's known to be one of the more powerful individuals in the \"Shadowrun\" universe. .", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1023363.Beyond_the_Pale"}, +{"book_title": "The Invention of Hugo Cabret", "author_name": "Brian Selznick", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 168480, "review_number": 15017, "book_description": "Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical", "Childrens (Picture Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9673436-the-invention-of-hugo-cabret"}, +{"book_title": "The Silver Skull", "author_name": "Anne Renwick", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 534, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "An illegal border crossing.A fake marriage.A mad German count determined to create an army of unbreakable soldiers.Lady Olivia is not all she seems.Trained for marriage to an assigned political target, her skills lie in programming household steambots to serve tea, dress her hair...and sound the alarm while she picks locks and listens at doors. Humiliated by a failed assignment, she decides to redeem herself by tailing a suspected double agent.Lord Rathsburn must flirt with treason.Struggles to cure a horrible disease have met with unexpected complications. The cells he engineered can make a man's bones unbreakable, but the side effects are fatal. He believed the research terminated...until his sister was kidnapped by a German count. Her ransom? A cure.Piloting a stolen dirigible, he uncovers an unlikely stowaway: Lady Olivia.Arriving together at a crumbling castle, an impossible task is set before them: cure the count's guardsmen. Amidst their fake marriage, a very real growing attraction, dying guardsmen and escalating hostilities, Lady Olivia and Lord Rathsburn are thrust deep into the world of international medical espionage from which there may be no return.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33376949-the-silver-skull"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost Spin", "author_name": "Chris Moriarty", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 382, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Sometimes a ghost of a chance is all you get.Award-winning author Chris Moriarty returns to a dazzling cyber-noir far future in this gritty, high-stakes thriller where the only rule is \u201cEvolve . . . or die.\u201d\u00a0The Age of Man is ending. The UN\u2019s sprawling interstellar empire is failing as its quantum teleportation network collapses, turning once-viable colonies into doomed island outposts. Humanity\u2019s only hope of survival is the Drift: a mysterious region of space where faster-than-light travel\u2014or something far stranger\u2014seems possible. As mercenaries and pirates flock to the Drift, the cold war between the human-led UN and the clone-dominated Syndicates heats up. Whoever controls the Drift will chart the future course of human evolution\u2014and no one wants to be left behind in a universe where the price of failure is extinction.When the AI called Cohen ventures into the Drift, he dies\u2014allegedly by his own hand\u2014and his consciousness is scattered across the cosmos. Some of his ghosts are still self-aware. Some are insane. And one of them hides a secret worth killing for. Enter Major Catherine Li, Cohen\u2019s human (well, partly human) lover, who embarks on a desperate search to solve the mystery of Cohen\u2019s death\u2014and put him back together. But Li isn\u2019t the only one interested in Cohen\u2019s ghosts. Astrid Avery, a by-the-book UN navy captain, is on the hunt. So is William Llewellyn, a pirate who has one of the ghosts in his head, which is slowly eating him alive. Even the ghosts have their own agendas. And lurking behind them all is a pitiless enemy who will stop at nothing to make sure the dead don\u2019t walk again.Praise for Ghost Spin\n\u00a0\n \u201cComplexity is the watchword here, of thought, idea, narrative, character and plot. . . . Highly rewarding.\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews\n\u00a0\n \u201cRewarding . . . The adaptations humans make to survive in the hostile environments of other worlds, a galaxy teetering on the edge of singularity . . . are genuinely visionary.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly\n\u00a0\n \u201cThis stand-along \u2018spin-off\u2019 offers a compelling tale of adventure/suspense blended with cybernoir and high-tech sf.\u201d\u2014Library Journal\n\u00a0\n \u201cAn excellent read: gripping, fast-paced, provocative and handsome.\u201d\u2014Tor.com\u00a0 \u201cA brilliant mix of space opera, cyberpunk, and just plain great writing, Moriarty\u2019s work is some of the most impressive in science fiction today.\u201d\u2014SFRevu", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11339114-ghost-spin"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 23736, "review_number": 973, "book_description": "As the survivors settle into their prison home something has drawn them out into the open... out of the prison... out of their sanctuary. This is a major turning point for the overall story of The Walking Dead, setting the stage for years to come.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30065.The_Walking_Dead_Vol_5"}, +{"book_title": "Oryx and Crake", "author_name": "Margaret Atwood", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 227475, "review_number": 13764, "book_description": "Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey\u2013with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake\u2013through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46756.Oryx_and_Crake"}, +{"book_title": "Vaant", "author_name": "Layla Nash", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1500, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "Isla Lennox is the best interpreter aboard the Alliance ship Argo - if the captain would ever give her a chance to do her job. When he finally does, Isla's big break turns into chaos and panic as she and all the female crew members are traded to an alien ship in exchange for the Argo's safe passage. The giant Xaravian warriors are intimidating, covered in scales, and... way too attractive. Isla and her friends won't surrender quietly, but it seems like the Xaravians are looking forward to that kind of fight...The moment Vaant sees the beautiful, sassy interpreter, he knows he can't leave her in danger. She thinks he's a pirate and a dangerous rebel - and that he bought her and her friends. Vaant must prove his honourable intentions, even as her flashing eyes and curvy figure drives him mad with desire. He'll even endanger his ship and go to the edge of the universe to keep her safe!When her former captain frames Vaant for destroying an innocent ship and murdering another crew, Isla must face that the Alliance she served so proudly is not what it seems. Starting a new life as a rebel with Vaant sounds more and more appealing, but first they'll have to fight through half the Alliance fleet, escape a crumbling space station, and find love among the stars.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Action", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33414598-vaant"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Vader Down", "author_name": "Jason Aaron", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 4947, "review_number": 516, "book_description": "Two of the biggest titles in comics collide in the first crossover of the new Marvel age of STAR WARS! When Darth Vader accidentally finds himself facing off against the rebel fleet on his own, he is sent crashing onto a nearby planet. Will the rebels seize this opportunity to put an end to one of their greatest enemies \u2014 or will they be made to feel the full power of the dark side? The Sith Lord may be down, but he isn't out! All your favorites are here, old and new, good and evil: Luke! Vader! Leia! Aphra! Han! Threepio, Artoo, Triple-Zero and BT-1! And in a hair-raising battle of the Wookiees, Chewbacca versus Black Krrsantan! ROOOARRGH UR ROO! Collecting STAR WARS: VADER DOWN, STAR WARS (2015) #13-14 and DARTH VADER #13-15.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27247275-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Steelhands", "author_name": "Jaida Jones", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 393, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "With Havemercy, Shadow Magic, and Dragon Soul, the acclaimed writing team of Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett has fused magic and technology into something that can only be termed \u201cmagicpunk.\u201d Their distinctive style, featuring a chorus of quirky first-person narrators and brilliantly sophisticated world-building, has won these young writers the plaudits of fans and critics.In the Volstov capital of Thremedon, Owen Adamo, the hard-as-nails ex\u2013Chief Sergeant of the Dragon Corps, learns that Volstov\u2019s ruler, the Esar, has been secretly pursuing the possibility of resurrecting magically powered sentient robot dragons\u2014even at the risk of igniting another war. That Adamo will not allow. Though he is not without friends\u2014Royston, a powerful magician, and Balfour, a former corpsman\u2014there is only so much Adamo and his allies can do. Adamo has been put out to pasture, given a professorship at the University. Royston, already exiled once, dares not risk the Esar\u2019s wrath a second time. And Balfour, who lost both hands in the climactic battle of the war, is now a diplomat who spends most of his time trying to master his new hands\u2014metal replacements that operate on the same magical principles as the dragons and have earned him an assortment of nicknames of which \u201cSteelhands\u201d is the least offensive.But sometimes help comes where you least expect it. In this case, from two first-year university students freshly arrived in Thremedon from the country: Laurence, a feisty young woman whose father raised her to be the son he never had, and Toverre, her fianc\u00e9, a brilliant if neurotic dandy who would sooner share his wife-to-be\u2019s clothes than her bed. When a mysterious illness strikes the first-year students, Laurence takes her suspicions to Adamo\u2014and unwittingly sets in motion events that will change Volstov forever.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Romance", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9750872-steelhands"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Past & Other Stories", "author_name": "Ginn Hale", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 156, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "1858 - Warring mages open up a vast inland sea that splits the United States in two. With the floodwaters come creatures from a long distant past. What seems like the End Times forges a new era of heroes and heroines who challenge tradition, law, and even death as they transform the old west into a new world. In the heart of dinosaur country a laconic trapper and a veteran mage risk treason to undertake a secret mission. A brilliant magician and her beautiful assistant light up stages with the latest automaton, but the secrets both of them are hiding test their trust in each other and pit them against one of the most powerful men in the world. At the wild edge of the Inland Sea, amidst crocodiles and triceratops, an impoverished young man and a Pinkerton Detective must join forces to outmaneuver a corrupt judge and his gunmen.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "LGBT", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Westerns", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34552726-the-long-past-other-stories"}, +{"book_title": "The Children of Men", "author_name": "P.D. James", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 40754, "review_number": 3138, "book_description": "Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41913.The_Children_of_Men"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Breaks", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 42503, "review_number": 2939, "book_description": "No matter how much the paranormal politics of Atlanta change, one thing always remains the same: if there\u2019s trouble, Kate Daniels will be in the middle of it\u2026As the mate of the Beast Lord, Curran, former mercenary Kate Daniels has more responsibilities than it seems possible to juggle. Not only is she still struggling to keep her investigative business afloat, she must now deal with the affairs of the pack, including preparing her people for attack from Roland, a cruel ancient being with god-like powers. Since Kate\u2019s connection to Roland has come out into the open, no one is safe\u2014especially those closest to Kate.As Roland\u2019s long shadow looms ever nearer, Kate is called to attend the Conclave, a gathering of the leaders from the various supernatural factions in Atlanta. When one of the Masters of the Dead is found murdered there, apparently at the hands of a shapeshifter, Kate is given only twenty-four hours to hunt down the killer. And this time, if she fails, she\u2019ll find herself embroiled in a war which could destroy everything she holds dear\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12119529-magic-breaks"}, +{"book_title": "Amatka", "author_name": "Karin Tidbeck", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2588, "review_number": 495, "book_description": "Vanja, a government worker, leaves her home city of Essre for the austere, wintry colony of Amatka on a research assignment. It takes some adjusting: people act differently in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion.Intending to stay just a short while, Vanja finds herself falling in love with her housemate, Nina, and decides to stick around. But when she stumbles on evidence of a growing threat to the colony and a cover-up by its administration, she begins an investigation that puts her at tremendous risk.In Karin Tidbeck's dystopic imagining, language has the power to shape reality. Unless objects, buildings, and the surrounding landscape are repeatedly named, and named properly, everything will fall apart. Trapped in the repressive colony, Vanja dreams of using language to break free, but her individualism may well threaten the very fabric of reality. Amatka is a beguiling and wholly original novel about freedom, love, and artistic creation by an idiosyncratic new voice.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "European Literature (Swedish Literature)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16004181-amatka"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Cruiser", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 3136, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "One starship will either save Earth or destroy her. A century ago our star erupted, destroying Earth\u2019s wormhole network and closing off trade with her colonized planets. After being out of contact with the younger worlds for so many years, Humanity is shocked when a huge ship appears at the edge of the Solar System. Our outdated navy investigates, both curious and fearful. What they learn from the massive vessel shocks the planet. The lost colonies have survived\u2014but the reunion isn\u2019t going to be a happy one. Our descendants are vastly superior in the art of warfare. Worse, there are other beings undreamed of beyond the human frontier: strange, unfathomable\u2026alien. Battle Cruiser Defiant, the first capital ship to darken Earth\u2019s skies, is tasked with exploring new passages to the younger planets. Old Earth must reunite with her children\u2026but can humanity survive the inevitable conflicts? Captain William Sparhawk, determined to follow a path of honor and truthfulness, dares to rise to the challenge. BATTLE CRUISER is a military science fiction novel by bestselling author B. V. Larson.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25761342-battle-cruiser"}, +{"book_title": "Empty Bodies", "author_name": "Zach Bohannon", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1147, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "In a single moment, everything changes\u2026 Hundreds of thousands of people suddenly collapse, leaving their friends and loved ones behind, terrified and confused. Moments later, the fallen rise, and the survivors become the hunted.***WARNING*** Empty Bodies is meant for mature audiences only. It features foul language and graphic descriptions of violence and death. Please purchase at your own discretion.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24798439-empty-bodies"}, +{"book_title": "A Land of Ash", "author_name": "David Dalglish", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 864, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "The Yellowstone Caldera has erupted once every 600,000 years. We're 40,000 years overdue. A LAND OF ASH Lava flows stretch for hundreds of miles. A cloud of ash billows east, burying the Midwest, destroying crops, and falling upon the Pacific Coast like a warm, dead snow. The remnants of the United States flees south as the global temperatures plummet. Amid this total devastation are stories of families, friends, sons and fathers and wives: the survivors. Within are eleven stories focusing on the human element of such a catastrophe, from an elderly couple gathering to await their death to a father sealing his shelter in hopes of keeping the air breathable for his daughter. Contributing to this collection include many popular and up-and-coming independent authors, including David McAfee, Daniel Arenson, and more.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Adventure (Survival)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10444327-a-land-of-ash"}, +{"book_title": "WALL-E", "author_name": "Vick E.", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 625, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "WHEN A LOVABLE, lonely robot named WALL-E falls in love with a sophisticated female robot named EVE, he follows his heart all the way into outer space! Young fans will enjoy this Little Golden Book retelling of Disney/Pixar's WALL-E.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Childrens", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2769554-wall-e"}, +{"book_title": "Alpha Trine", "author_name": "Lexi Ander", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1523, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "The sole survivor on a science vessel adrift in deep space, Zeus was adopted by the Emperor and Empress of the Mar'Sani, though he is both human and blind, and seen by most as unfit to join the royal family. Though they were able to repair his vision, Zeus does not trust his eyes and the nobles of his parents' court refuse to ever trust a frail human.Dargon Kal-Turak, along with his symbiote and lover Alpha, command one of the most dangerous ships in the stars. Narrowly escaping a trap, they dock in a space port to make repairs, but find that the Psonics hunting them are closing in fast. In desperation they kidnap the port Master Mechanic, unaware that the man they've brought on board is more than he seems, and will bring far more upheaval to their ship, their lives, and the stars than any of them could have imagined.Warning: This story contains a threesome relationship", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Erotica (Menage)", "Menage (M M M)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18158645-alpha-trine"}, +{"book_title": "Ascension", "author_name": "Jacqueline Koyanagi", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1459, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "Alana Quick is the best damned sky surgeon in Heliodor City, but repairing starship engines barely pays the bills. When the desperate crew of a cargo vessel stops by her shipyard looking for her spiritually advanced sister Nova, Alana stows away. Maybe her boldness will land her a long-term gig on the crew. But the Tangled Axon proves to be more than star-watching and plasma coils. The chief engineer thinks he's a wolf. The pilot fades in and out of existence. The captain is all blond hair, boots, and ego . . . and Alana can't keep her eyes off her. But there's little time for romance: Nova's in danger and someone will do anything--even destroying planets--to get their hands on her.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Disability"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17751274-ascension"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Beef", "author_name": "Eduardo Suastegui", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 63, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "The company Cyberwarfare pioneer, Martin Spencer, founded wasn\u2019t supposed to fire him. Spencer knows too much and can do far too much damage to U.S. national security. Years ago Spencer led a failed attack against Iranian computer systems that stranded his Cyber weapon payload behind enemy lines. U.S. officials fear the Iranians reverse-engineered Spencer\u2019s creation and suspect Iranian operatives will now seek his help to turn his creation into a terrorist weapon. For his part, Spencer will need to decide whether to cooperate with those who fired him or escape his former life once and for all.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22700554-dead-beef"}, +{"book_title": "The Elite", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 454492, "review_number": 30062, "book_description": "The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever\u2014and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen?America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want\u2014and America's chance to choose is about to slip away.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248068-the-elite"}, +{"book_title": "Avengers: Vision and the Scarlet Witch", "author_name": "Bill Mantlo", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 220, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "The remnants of their relationship are in ruins, but how did it begin? See how a match made in heaven started with a wedding in Limbo, and Halloween horror proves that the magic stayed in this marriage! Starring the Avengers, the Inhumans, and others against Dormammu, the Grim Reaper, and more! The Vision bonds with his brothers in all but blood, but who is the Scarlet Witch's father? Marvel's oddest couple shows that home is where the heroes are! Collects Giant-Size Avengers #4 and Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1-4.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156346.Avengers"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Council", "author_name": "Kazu Kibuishi", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 20906, "review_number": 1288, "book_description": "Kazu Kibuishi's thrilling, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series continues!Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in crippling fear. Emily is escorted to the Academy where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, the most powerful Stonekeepers. But as the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, a terrible secret is slowly uncovered--a secret that, if left buried, means certain destruction of everything Emily fights for.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10537195-the-last-council"}, +{"book_title": "The Commonwealth Saga", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 419, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "\u00a0PANDORA\u2019S STARJUDAS UNCHAINED \u00a0 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars, contains more than six hundred worlds interconnected by a web of transport \u201ctunnels\u201d known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: over one thousand light-years away, a star . . . disappears. Since the location is too distant to reach by wormhole, the Second Chance, a faster-than-light starship commanded by Wilson Kime, a five-times-rejuvenated ex-NASA pilot, is dispatched to learn what has occurred and whether it represents a threat. \u00a0 Opposed to the mission are the Guardians of Selfhood. Shortly after the journey begins, Kime wonders if the crew of the Second Chance has been infiltrated. But soon enough he will have other worries. Halfway across the galaxy, something truly incredible is waiting: a deadly discovery whose unleashing will threaten to destroy the Commonwealth . . . and humanity itself.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22747321-the-commonwealth-saga"}, +{"book_title": "Annihilation", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3028, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Kyle Riggs is in for a rough ride.In ANNIHILATION, the seventh book of the Star Force Series, nothing goes as planned. The three fledgling human colonies in the Eden System are beginning to take hold, but the forces threatening to root them out are many. The Crustaceans are calling for help, despite the fact they are the sworn enemies of Star Force. Are they potential allies, or vicious tricksters? And why are the oceans of their world heating up?Even as Riggs flies out to investigate the situation, more mysteries arise. The Blues are making vague threats, and Earth is suing for peace. Who is to be trusted, and who holds a dagger behind their backs?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17155959-annihilation"}, +{"book_title": "Street Samurai Catalog", "author_name": "Tom Dowd", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 142, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "You're the ultimate fighting machine. A predator-for-hire in the savage urban world of Shadowrun. You've devoted your life to honing your combat and martial skills. The tools of your trade are airfoil grenades, form-fitting body armor, and an Ares Crusader machine-pistol. An expansion for Shadowrun, the Street Samurai Catalog will let you outfit yourself with the latest equipment available on the black market: retractable hand razors, ultrasonic sights, enhanced reflexes, and maybe a rangefinder for your cybereyes. Whatever you need to get the job done, you can find it here, but it won't be cheap. And remember to watch your back before someone decides to make you yesterday's news.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Reference", "Sports and Games (Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/758271.Street_Samurai_Catalog"}, +{"book_title": "Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC", "author_name": "Lisa Falkenstern", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 220, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Steampunk is fun! Steampunk is imaginative! It's making something new out of something old. It's dressing up in clothing from long ago. It's inventing machines out of hardware and found objects. It's creating a make-believe world! In Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC, two mice dressed in Victorian clothing use gadgets and found objects ? each starting with a letter of the alphabet?to build something fantastic - which is revealed at the end. A wonderful and delightful surprise!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens", "Art", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18640813-professor-whiskerton-presents-steampunk-abc"}, +{"book_title": "Immortality Option", "author_name": "James P. Hogan", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 256, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Titan, Saturn's largest moon, was frozen and lifeless...but only by some definitions! Organic life had never evolved on its barren surface, but somehow Titan had become home to the Taloids, a race of self-aware robots who lived in competing city-states, grew houses and tools, tended their robotic herds, and worshipped a god called the Lifemaker.When humans discovered the Taloids on Titan, they suspected that the robots' sentience had evolved by accident--artificial intelligence gone wrong. But where was the ancient civilization that had spawned them? With no help from the Taloids--who seemed to know nothing of their own origins--Earth's finest scientists were stumped.Then strange blocks of code were discovered in Titan's ancient computer banks. Neither Taloid digital DNA nor the operating system for Titan's robotic \"ecology,\" the code had clearly lain undisturbed for eons. But now, with human help, it was beginning to activate at last...", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2223440.Immortality_Option"}, +{"book_title": "Little Robot", "author_name": "Ben Hatke", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 4589, "review_number": 513, "book_description": "Life outside the robot factory is confusing.Little Robot has a lot to learn...And that's what friends are for.But with danger in the way, will friendship be enough to save them?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23310721-little-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Elusion", "author_name": "Claudia Gabel", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 3284, "review_number": 471, "book_description": "Soon, Elusion\u00ae will change the world and life as we know it.A new technology called Elusion is sweeping the country. An app, visor and wristband will virtually transport you to an exotic destination where adventure can be pursued without the complications\u2014or consequences\u2014of real life.Regan is an Elusion insider. Or at least she used to be. Her father invented the program, and her best friend, Patrick, heir to the tech giant Orexis, is about to release it nationwide. But ever since her father\u2019s unexpected death, Regan can\u2019t bear to Escape, especially since waking up from the dream means crashing back to her grim reality.Still, when there are rumors of trouble in Elusion\u2014accusations that it\u2019s addictive and dangerous\u2014 Regan is determined to defend it. But the critics of Elusion come from surprising sources, including Josh, the handsome skeptic with his own personal stakes. As Regan investigates the claims, she discovers a disturbing web of secrets. She will soon have to choose between love and loyalty\u2026a decision that will affect the lives of millions.Suspense, thrills, and romance fuel this near-future story about the seductive nature of a perfect virtual world, and how far one girl will go to uncover the truth behind the illusions.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Futuristic", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12369550-elusion"}, +{"book_title": "Queen", "author_name": "Aimee Carter", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2784, "review_number": 307, "book_description": "PAWN...CAPTIVE...QUEEN?Kitty Doe is a Blackcoat rebel and a former captive with a deadly connection to the most powerful and dangerous man in the country, Prime Minister Daxton Hart. Forced to masquerade as Daxton's niece, Lila Hart, Kitty has helped the Blackcoats take back the prison known as Elsewhere. But Daxton has no intention of ceding his position of privilege\u2014or letting Kitty expose his own masquerade. Not in these United States, where each person's rank means the difference between luxury and poverty, freedom and fear...and ultimately, between life and death.To defeat the corrupt government, Kitty must expose Daxton's secret. Securing evidence will put others in jeopardy, including the boy she's loved forever and an ally she barely trusts. For months, Kitty's survival has hinged on playing a part. Now she must discover who she truly wants to be, and whether the new world she and the rebels are striving to create has a place in it for her after all.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25246657-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Viper", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 11439, "review_number": 1058, "book_description": "Enter New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh\u2019s breathtakingly passionate Guild Hunter world with the story of a woman who isn\u2019t a vampire or an angel\u2026or human\u2026 Once a broken girl known as Sorrow, Holly Chang now prowls the shadowy gray underground of the city for the angels. But it\u2019s not her winged allies who make her a wanted woman\u2014it\u2019s the unknown power coursing through her veins. Brutalized by an insane archangel, she was left with the bloodlust of a vampire, the ability to mesmerize her prey, and a poisonous bite. Now, someone has put a bounty on her head\u2026 Venom is one of the Seven, Archangel Raphael\u2019s private guard, and he\u2019s as infuriating as he is seductive. A centuries-old vampire, his fangs dispense a poison deadlier than Holly\u2019s. But even if Venom can protect Holly from those hunting her, he might not be able to save himself\u2014because the strange, violent power inside Holly is awakening\u2026 No one is safe.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33852961-archangel-s-viper"}, +{"book_title": "\u014coku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 5", "author_name": "Fumi Yoshinaga", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 527, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Gyokuei, who first arrived at the Inner Chambers as a young novitiate monk, has risen to become one of the Shogun Tsunayoshi\u2019s advisors. He hopes to protect the shogunate the same way his mentor Arikoto once did. But the numerous intrigue of the Inner Chambers\u2014and the shogun herself\u2014are pushing Gyokuei\u2019s patience and cunning to the breaking point.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Josei)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8146695-oku"}, +{"book_title": "Inheritance", "author_name": "Malinda Lo", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 2378, "review_number": 290, "book_description": "Reese and David are different now. Surrounded by a web of conspiracies, Reece feels that she must choose between two worlds.Her choices: David - or Amber? This world - or another? Should they tell the truth, and risk everything?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Polyamory"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15986094-inheritance"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Travel Trailer", "author_name": "Karen Musser Nortman", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 671, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "LARGE PRINT VERSION. A 1937 vintage camper trailer half hidden in weeds catches Lynne McBriar's eye when she is visiting an elderly friend Ben. Ben eagerly sells it to her and she just as eagerly embarks on a restoration. But after each remodel, sleeping in the trailer lands Lynne and her daughter Dinah in a previous decade-exciting, yet frightening. Glimpses of their home town and ancestors fifty or sixty years earlier is exciting and also offers some clues to the mystery of Ben's lost love. But when Dinah makes a trip on her own, separating herself from her mother by decades, Lynne has never known such fear. It is a trip that may upset the future if Lynne and her estranged husband can't team up to bring their daughter back.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23667317-the-time-travel-trailer"}, +{"book_title": "The Ascendant Stars", "author_name": "Michael Cobley", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1074, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Now, in THE ASCENDANT STARS - the explosive final book in the Humanity\u2019s Fire trilogy \u2013 the fate of the human race will be decided. Ancient forces are awakening. Battle fleets are converging. Sentients and machines will lock horns in a devastating battle where there are only two outcomes: survival or the sterile dusts of space.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Epic", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11425139-the-ascendant-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Fortress of Time", "author_name": "Mariah Stone", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 375, "review_number": 62, "book_description": " She rights wrongs on the behalf of womankind. He wields a bloody battle-axe. What happens when a modern feminist stares down a hunky Viking? New York discrimination lawyer Donna relentlessly pursues justice for women. But her secret attraction to alpha males is her only weakness, and she can't resist the sexy battle-clad Viking of her nighttime fantasies. Just when she's about to say \"yes\" to the tempting giant, she realizes with a shock that she's not in a dream at all\u2014she\u2019s actually back in ancient Norway!Sigurd loves his people and vows to keep them safe, but his village fortress desperately needs rebuilding. After losing a bloody battle, he doesn't have enough men left to shore up their defenses and he staunchly refuses to allow the women to help. But when a blonde goddess appears out of thin air, what else could it be but an omen?As Donna's women's lib battles Sigurd's Viking male arrogance, enemies close in for the attack. Can the lawyer and the warrior see past their millennium-wide cultural differences, or will vicious raiders pillage their chance at love?The Fortress of Time: A Time Travel Romance is the first book in the sexy Called by a Viking series. If you like powerful Nordic rulers, intelligent female characters, and steamy intimate connections, then you\u2019ll love Mariah Stone's racy Norwegian tale. \nBuy The Fortress of Time to let your defenses down for a hot Viking adventure today! \n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42289618-the-fortress-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Norby and the Invaders", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 126, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Jeff and his mixed-up robot, Norby, get involved in new adventures on a strange planet.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116322.Norby_and_the_Invaders"}, +{"book_title": "Terms of Enlistment", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 24746, "review_number": 1502, "book_description": "The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day:You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service.With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that the good food and decent health care come at a steep price\u2026and that the settled galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums.The debut novel from Marko Kloos, Terms of Enlistment is a new addition to the great military sci-fi tradition of Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and John Scalzi.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18800655-terms-of-enlistment"}, +{"book_title": "La Belle Sauvage", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 83846, "review_number": 8027, "book_description": "Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy...Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his d\u00e6mon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new: intrigue.He finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust--and the spy it was intended for finds him.When she asks Malcolm to keep his eyes open, Malcolm sees suspicious characters everywhere; Lord Asriel, clearly on the run; enforcement agents from the Magisterium; an Egyptian named Coram with warnings just for Malcolm; and a beautiful woman with an evil monkey for a d\u00e6mon. All are asking about the same thing: a girl--just a baby--named Lyra.Lyra is the kind of person who draws people in like magnets. And Malcolm will brave any danger, and make shocking sacrifices, to bring her safely through the storm.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34128219-la-belle-sauvage"}, +{"book_title": "Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 4569, "review_number": 482, "book_description": "This third collection of the bestselling series dives deep into the secret histories of each cast member with revelations that will propel young robot, TIM-21's sci-fi adventure into dangerous and exciting new territory.Collecting: Descender 12-16", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31206567-descender-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen's Pardon", "author_name": "J.A. Sutherland", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 687, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Allies and enemies are not always what they seem. Trapped on a hostile world, hunted by pirate bands and abandoned by her fellow captains, Alexis Carew must lead her small band to safety, even though it seems every hand is set against her. Stalked by pirates in the skies above and shadowy, alien figures on the planet below, Alexis must convince former enemies to trust her even as she discovers where the tendrils of her true enemies lead.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41013977-the-queen-s-pardon"}, +{"book_title": "The Empire Strikes Back", "author_name": "Donald F. Glut", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 11470, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "Der Kampf um die Galaxis geht weiter. Luke kann der erbitterten Schlacht auf dem Eisplaneten Huth entkommen und folgt seiner Eingebung zum Dagobah-System. Dort trifft er auf Yoda, den letzten und gr\u00f6\u00dften der Jedi-Meister - doch auch Darth Vader wei\u00df, wie stark die Macht in Luke ist, und er ist besessen davon, ihn auf die Dunkle Seite der Macht zu bringen... Gelesen von Wolfgang Pampel, der Synchronstimme von \"Han Solo\" (Harrison Ford).", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77111.The_Empire_Strikes_Back"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Days", "author_name": "Jim Butcher", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 90022, "review_number": 4758, "book_description": "You can't keep a good wizard down - even when he wants to stay that way.For years, Harry Dresden has been Chicago's only professional wizard, but a bargain made in desperation with the Queen of Air and Darkness has forced him into a new job: professional killer.Mab, the mother of wicked faeries, has restored the mostly-dead wizard to health, and dispatches him upon his first mission - to bring death to an immortal. Even as he grapples with the impossible task, Dresden learns of a looming danger to Demonreach, the living island hidden upon Lake Michigan, a place whose true purpose and dark potential have the potential to destroy billions and to land Dresden in the deepest trouble he has ever known - even deeper than being dead. How messed up is that?Beset by his new enemies and hounded by the old, Dresden has only twenty four hours to reconnect with his old allies, prevent a cataclysm and do the impossible - all while the power he bargained to get - but never meant to keep - lays siege to his very soul.Magic. It can get a guy killed.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12216302-cold-days"}, +{"book_title": "Starship: Pirate", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1383, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "The date is 1967 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. After his latest exploit saved millions of lives but embarrassed his superiors, Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim of the media feeding frenzy, a political scapegoat despite years of dedicated military service. Faced with a court martial, he was rescued by the loyal crew of his ship, the Theodore Roosevelt. Now branded mutineers, the crew of the Teddy R. has quit the Republic, never to return.Seeking to find a new life for themselves, Wilson Cole and comrades remake the Teddy R. as a pirate ship and set sail for the lawless Inner Frontier. Here, powerful warlords, cut-throat pirates, and struggling colonies compete for survival in a game where you rarely get a second chance to learn the rules.But military discipline is poor preparation for a life of pillaging and plundering, and Cole's principles naturally limit his targets. Seeking an education on the nature of piracy, Cole hunts more knowledgeable players. Enter the beautiful but deadly Valkyrie, Val for short, and the enigmatic alien fence known as David Copperfield. But hanging over everything is the fearsome alien pirate \u2014 the Hammerhead Shark.With Starship: Pirate, five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick continues the story begun in his very first military SF. Will the galaxy ever be the same?This second book in the Starship series includes diagrams of the Teddy R., plus rules for two Starship board games.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231922.Starship"}, +{"book_title": "Sal and Gabi Break the Universe", "author_name": "Carlos Hernandez", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3522, "review_number": 855, "book_description": "How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany's locker?When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's locker, even though nobody saw him do it and the bloody poultry has since mysteriously disappeared. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess . . . except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. When Gabi learns that he's capable of conjuring things much bigger than a chicken--including his dead mother--and she takes it all in stride, Sal knows that she is someone he can work with. There's only one slight problem: their manipulation of time and space could put the entire universe at risk. A sassy entropy sweeper, a documentary about wedgies, a principal who wears a Venetian bauta mask, and heaping platefuls of Cuban food are just some of the delights that await in this mind-blowing novel gift-wrapped in love and laughter.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36595887-sal-and-gabi-break-the-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Decision at Doona", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 4478, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "A fateful encounter between star-roving races by the author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series!After the first human contact with the Siwannese, that entire race committed mass suicide. So the Terran government made a law--no further contact would be allowed with sentient creatures anywhere in the galaxy. Therefore Doona could be colonized only if an official survey established that the planet was both habitable and uninhabited.But Spaceship had made a mistake--Doona was inhabited. Now the colonists' choice was limited. Leave Doona and return to the teeming hell of an overpopulated Terra. Or kill the catlike Hrrubans. Or learn, for the first time in history, how to coexist with an alien race.", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61957.Decision_at_Doona"}, +{"book_title": "Doomed", "author_name": "Tracy Deebs", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1973, "review_number": 369, "book_description": "Beat the game. Save the world.Pandora's an average teen, glued to her cell phone and laptop, until the day her long-lost father sends her a link to a mysterious site featuring photos of her as a child. Curious, Pandora enters the site, unwittingly unleashing a global computer virus that plunges the whole world into panic: suddenly, there's no Internet. No cell phones. No traffic lights, hospitals or law enforcement. Only Pandora's Box, a virtual-reality game created by Pandora's father, remains up and running. Together with her neighbors, gorgeous stepbrothers Eli and Theo, Pandora must follow the photographs from her childhood in an attempt to beat the game and track down her father\u2014and rescue the world. Part The Matrix, part retelling of the Pandora myth, Doomed has something for gaming fans, dystopian fans, and romance fans alike.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13505645-doomed"}, +{"book_title": "Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight", "author_name": "Kelly Sue DeConnick", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 8610, "review_number": 653, "book_description": "The \"Mightiest\" of Earth's Mightiest Heroes is back! Ace pilot. Legendary Avenger. One hundred percent pure bad-@$$. Carol Danvers has a new name, a new mission - and all the power she needs to make her own life a living hell. As the new Captain Marvel, Carol is forging from a challenge from her past! It's a firefight in the sky as the Banshee Squadron debut - but who are the Prowlers, and where has Carol seen them before? And how does secret NASA training program Mercury 13 fit in? Witness Captain Marvel in blazing battlefield action that just may change the course of history! Avengers Time Travel Protocols: engage! Collecting: Captain Marvel 1-6", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15984353-captain-marvel-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Behind the Throne", "author_name": "K.B. Wagers", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3074, "review_number": 529, "book_description": "Meet Hail: Captain. Gunrunner. Fugitive.Quick, sarcastic, and lethal, Hailimi Bristol doesn't suffer fools gladly. She has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. That is, until two Trackers drag her back to her home planet to take her rightful place as the only remaining heir.But trading her ship for a palace has more dangers than Hail could have anticipated. Caught in a web of plots and assassination attempts, Hail can't do the one thing she did twenty years ago: run away. She'll have to figure out who murdered her sisters if she wants to survive.A gun smuggler inherits the throne in this Star Wars-style science fiction adventure from debut author K. B. Wagers. Full of action-packed space opera exploits and courtly conspiracy - not to mention an all-out galactic war - Behind the Throne will please fans of James S. A Corey, Becky Chambers and Lois McMaster Bujold, or anyone who wonders what would happen if a rogue like Han Solo were handed the keys to an empire . . .", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28118539-behind-the-throne"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Asylum", "author_name": "Jak Koke", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 216, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "In this second book of the greatest epic in Shadowrun history--the maelstrom of cyber-magic and political intrigue following President Dunkelzahn's assassination rages out of control. Ryan Mercury, Dunkelzahn's secret agent, is torn between his duty and his desire to find a killer. But when a spirit wrongly concludes that Ryan is working for the enemy, he anoints a cyberzombie to carry out a hit of its own. Now with an impressive arsenal of allies, weaponry, and the Dragon Heart, Ryan just might pull off the save of the century--if he doesn't lose his life first!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1091687.Clockwork_Asylum"}, +{"book_title": "Night of the Ninjas", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 15958, "review_number": 541, "book_description": "Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series?the Magic Tree House! Have you ever met a real live ninja? Jack and Annie do when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient Japan, where they find themselves in the cave of a ninja master. Will they learn the secrets of the ninja? Or will the evil samurai warriors get them first?", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460087.Night_of_the_Ninjas"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Traveler's Boyfriend", "author_name": "Annabelle Costa", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 452, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Claudia\u2019s geeky boyfriend Adam has just invented a time machine. No, really\u2014he has. She doesn't believe it either until Adam provides her with definitive proof that he does, in fact, have a functioning time travel device sitting in the living room of his Manhattan brownstone. But instead of getting ready to accept the Nobel Prize, Adam has very different plans for his groundbreaking invention. He wants Claudia to use the machine to travel back in time and stop the accident that landed him in a wheelchair over a decade ago, and prevent the trajectory of events that he believes ruined his life. When Claudia reluctantly agrees to become the first human time traveler, she knows she\u2019s making a big gamble. If she succeeds, she could have the happy ending with commitment-phobic Adam that she\u2019s always dreamed of. But if she fails, it could mean the end of the universe as she knows it. Other Books From Annabelle Costa... * The Boy Next Door * Harvard Hottie ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Disability", "Humor", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20734533-the-time-traveler-s-boyfriend"}, +{"book_title": "Die Graue Eminenz (Shadowrun, #12", "author_name": "Hans Joachim Alpers", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 49, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Mitte des 21. Jahrhunderts: Nach der R\u00fcckkehr der Magie in die Welt hat sich auch Europa grundlegend ver\u00e4ndert Deutschland ist zu einem losen Staatenbund zerfallen und Schauplatz globaler Machtk\u00e4mpfe von Konzernen. HighTech-Zentren beherrschen den S\u00fcden, anarchistische Projekte dominieren Berlin und Hamburg, Slums wie der riesige Rhein-Ruhr-Sprawl sind chaotische Ballungszentren, daneben Ghettos aller Couleurs, ein Kirchenstaat Westphalen und ein Trollk\u00f6nigreich im Schwarzwald.Der Shadowrunner Pandur, alias Thor Walez, ist vom Gejagten zum J\u00e4ger geworden. Im anarchistischen Berlin gelingt es ihm endlich, den M\u00e4chten auf die Spur zu kommen, die sein Leben ruiniert haben. Konzerngardisten, Stra\u00dfensamurais und Yakuzakiller im Nacken, arbeiten sich Pandur und seine Freunde an das Versteck der geheimnisvollen Grauen Eminenz heran, aber ihr Feind scheint jeden ihrer Z\u00fcge bereits eingeplant zu haben.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Germany)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131265.Die_Graue_Eminenz_Shadowrun_12_"}, +{"book_title": "A Highlander of Her Own", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 2266, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "TEXAS, PRESENT DAY. Ellie Denton's world has spiraled out of control. A strange new birthmark, animals talking to her, and her mother's ex-husband laying claim to the family ranch have her thinking life can't get more complicated. But Ellie doesn't know the birthmark's connection to her Faerie ancestors. Complicated takes on a whole new meaning with her innocent wish to find her true love. SCOTLAND, 1304. Caden MacAlister has more trouble than he can handle. With his brother held for ransom and the laird missing, the last thing he needs is another problem. But the Fae have other plans. A mysterious woman shows up in his stables, sent by Faerie Magic to find her true love. Fighting his attraction, Caden insists she's meant for one of his brothers. With his history, he has no desire for a woman in his life -- especially a woman sent by the Fae. Only the magic of the Fae can determine whether Ellie will find a Highlander of her own...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3537854-a-highlander-of-her-own"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Magic", "author_name": "Kate Elliott", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 8684, "review_number": 1069, "book_description": "As they approach adulthood, Cat Barahal and her cousin Bee think they understand the society they live in and their place within it. At a select academy they study new airship technologies and the dawning Industrial Revolution, but magical forces still rule. And the cousins are about to discover the full ruthlessness of this rule.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7114825-cold-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Infinite Detail", "author_name": "Tim Maughan", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1658, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "BEFORE: In Bristol's center lies the Croft, a digital no-man's-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it's become a center of creative counterculture. But it's fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York City--now the apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis?AFTER: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently switched off the Internet. Global trade, travel, and communication have collapsed. The luxuries that characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary--who has visions of people presumed dead--is sought out by grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like Grids, who runs the Croft's black market like personal turf. Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like treasure.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121978-infinite-detail"}, +{"book_title": "Nightfall", "author_name": "Ellen Connor", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2141, "review_number": 300, "book_description": "First in a stunning new post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy. Growing up with an unstable, often absent father who preached about the end of the world, Jenna never thought in her wildest nightmares that his predictions would come true. Or that he would have a plan in place to save her-one that includes the strong, stoic man who kidnaps and takes her to a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest.The mysterious ex-Marine named Mason owes a life-debt to Jenna's father. Skilled and steadfast, he's ready for the prophesied Change, but Jenna proves tough to convince. Until the power grid collapses and mutant dogs attack-vicious things that reek of nature gone wrong.When five strangers appear, desperate to escape the bloodthirsty packs, Jenna defies her protector and rescues them. As technology fails and the old world falls away, Jenna changes too, forever altered by supernatural forces. To fight for their future, she and Mason must learn to trust their instinctive passion-a flame that will see them through the bitter winter, the endless nights, and the violence of a new Dark Age.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8025911-nightfall"}, +{"book_title": "Tsumiko and the Enslaved Fox", "author_name": "Forthright .", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2632, "review_number": 322, "book_description": "\nTsumiko inherits an ancestral home, a vast fortune, and a butler who isn't exactly human.\nHumanity is rocked by the Emergence of a people who call themselves the Amaranthine. They are our myths and legends come to life. Neither human nor animal, yet embracing qualities of both, the inhuman races inspire both awe and fear. Every newsfeed is clogged with updates about the peace process, but some places don't concern themselves with worldly affairs. Like the girls' school run by Saint Midori's of the Heavenly Lights, where Tsumiko Hajime grew up.A letter from a long-lost aunt names Tsumiko heiress to an ancestral estate and its accompanying fortune. Only the legacy comes with an aloof heirloom: an inhuman butler. Argent has served the Hajime family for centuries, and Tsumiko must renew the generational bond or he'll die. Argent hates her for the hold she has over him, but he craves her soul almost as much as he craves his freedom.\nAmazon Editors' Picks for the Top 20 Best SciFi/Fantasy Books of 2018\n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38346972-tsumiko-and-the-enslaved-fox"}, +{"book_title": "The Way Back Home", "author_name": "Oliver Jeffers", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3244, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "When a boy discovers a single-propeller airplane in his closet, he does what any young adventurer would do: He flies it into outer space! Millions of miles from Earth, the plane begins to sputter and quake, its fuel tank on empty. The boy executes a daring landing on the moon . . . but there's no telling what kind of slimy, slithering, tentacled, fang-toothed monsters lurk in the darkness! (Plus, it's dark and lonely out there.) Coincidentally, engine trouble has stranded a young Martian on the other side of the moon, and he's just as frightened and alone.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Kids"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2277310.The_Way_Back_Home"}, +{"book_title": "Narcissus in Chains", "author_name": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 56409, "review_number": 1271, "book_description": "Hamilton's vampire-hunting Anita Blake faces a plethora of foes in her tenth outing. Just returned to St. Louis after six months away, Anita is still no closer to choosing between her lovers\u2014Jean-Claude, a vampire, and Richard, a werewolf. But she has to rely on both for help after two of the wereleopards that she has been watching are abducted at a seedy club called Narcissus in Chains. Anita and her boyfriends rescue the wereleopards from the sinister people holding them, but Anita is wounded in the fight and put at risk of becoming a wereleopard herself. Richard angrily captures the wereleopard he believes is responsible and threatens to execute him.Anita must now rescue that wereleopard from Richard and the werewolves he leads, even as she mourns the apparent end of her relationship with him. Then she realizes that those who kidnapped the first two wereleopards are targeting other lycanthropes. Maybe she will be next. With plenty of steamy sex and graphic violence, this is engaging reading for vampire cultists.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30248.Narcissus_in_Chains"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Spider", "author_name": "Anne Renwick", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1109, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "London papers scream of dirigible attacks, kraken swarms, and lung-clogging, sulfurous fogs. But a rash of gypsy murders barely rates mention.Lady Amanda is tired of having both her intelligence and her work dismissed.After blackmailing her way into medical school, she catches the eye of her anatomy professor from the moment she walks into his lecture hall. Is he interested in her? Or only her invention\u2013a clockwork spider that can spin artificial nerves?Lord Thornton, a prominent neurobiologist, has been betrayed.Secret government technology has been stolen from his laboratory, and a foreign spy is attempting to perfect it via a grisly procedure\u2026 using gypsies as test subjects. The last thing he needs is the distraction of a beautiful\u2013and brilliant\u2013new student, even if her spider could heal a deteriorating personal injury.Until her device is stolen and used in the latest murder.Lord Thornton has no option but to bring her into his laboratory as well as the investigation where they must fight their growing, yet forbidden, attraction. Bodies accumulate and fragile bonds are tested as they race across London, trying to catch the spy before it\u2019s too late.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Steampunk Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31182515-the-golden-spider"}, +{"book_title": "The Mercenary", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 867, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Falkenberg's first lesson is that loyalty is to the fleet and not to the precarious coalition government of Earth. His second is that the navy's mission is to exist, preserving the peace in the far-flung corners of the galaxy in the hope that at least some portions of the human race may be saved when Earth destroys itself... The Mercenary is a parable for our times: the dirt of politics, the evil of war, the loneliness of command, and the rewards of comaradeship...", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/583443.The_Mercenary"}, +{"book_title": "Dr. Adder", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 501, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclaves run by a wide variety of strongmen and warlords, with a veneer of government control that seems largely interested in controlling technology. Dr. Adder is an artist-surgeon, who modifies sexual organs of his patients to satisfy the weirdest of perversion; he is clearly depicted as a partly criminal, partly countercultural figure in a future Los Angeles.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Music (Punk)", "United States"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939960.Dr_Adder"}, +{"book_title": "Ravensong", "author_name": "T.J. Klune", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 8067, "review_number": 1489, "book_description": "Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves.It should have been enough.And it was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett. In the end, they faced the beast together as a pack\u2026 and won.Now, a year later, Gordo has found himself once again the witch of the Bennett pack. Green Creek has settled after the death of Richard Collins, and Gordo constantly struggles to ignore Mark and the song that howls between them.But time is running out. Something is coming. And this time, it\u2019s crawling from within.Some bonds, no matter how strong, were made to be broken.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35114241-ravensong"}, +{"book_title": "This Book Is Full of Spiders", "author_name": "David Wong", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 25375, "review_number": 2182, "book_description": "Originally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the End has been described as a\"Horrortacular\", an epic of \"spectacular\" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went on to sell an additional60,000 copies in all formats.As thesequel opens, we find our heroes, David and John, again embroiled in a series of horrifying yet mind-bogglingly ridiculous events caused primarily by their own gross incompetence. The guys find that books and movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse, despite a complete lack of zombies in the world. As they race against the clock to protect humanity from its own paranoia, they must ask themselves, who are the real monsters? Actually, that would be the shape-shifting horrors secretly taking over the world behind the scenes that, in the end, make John and Dave kind of wish it had been zombies after all.Hilarious, terrifying, engaging and wrenching, This Book Is Full of Spiders, the next thrilling installment, takes us for a wild ride with two slackers from the midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent the apocalypse.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12924261-this-book-is-full-of-spiders"}, +{"book_title": "The Six Directions of Space", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 531, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "An original novella by the modern master of space opera, limited to only 1000 signed hardcover copies.What if Genghis Khan got his wish, and brought the entire planet under the control of the Mongols? Where would he have gone next?A thousand years after Khan's death, Yellow Dog is the codename of a female spy working for a vast Mongol-dominated galactic empire. When she learns of anomalous events happening on the edge of civilised space -- phantom ships appearing in the faster-than-light transit system which binds the empire together -- Yellow Dog puts herself forward for the most hazardous assignment of her career. In deep cover, she must penetrate the autonomous zone where the anomalies are most frequent, and determine whether the empire is really under attack, and if so by who or what. Yellow Dog's problems, however, are only just beginning. For the autonomous zone is under the heel of Qilian, a thuggish local tyrant with no love for central government and a reputation for extreme brutality. Qilian already knows more about the anomalies than Yellow Dog does. If she is going to learn more, she will have to earn his confidence -- even if that means working for him, rather than against him.So begins a deadly game of subterfuge and double-cross -- while the anomalies increase...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5357845-the-six-directions-of-space"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Bleeds", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 72868, "review_number": 3246, "book_description": "Kate Daniels works for the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, officially as a liaison with the mercenary guild. Unofficially, she cleans up the paranormal problems no one else wants to handle\u2014especially if they involve Atlanta\u2019s shapeshifting community.When she\u2019s called in to investigate a fight at the Steel Horse, a bar midway between the territories of the shapeshifters and the necromancers, Kate quickly discovers there\u2019s a new player in town. One who\u2019s been around for thousands of years\u2014and rode to war at the side of Kate\u2019s father.This foe may be too much even for Kate and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, to handle. Because this time, Kate will be taking on family\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6479550-magic-bleeds"}, +{"book_title": "Dies the Fire", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 15232, "review_number": 1476, "book_description": "The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable. What follows is the most terrible global catastrophe in the history of the human race-and a Dark Age more universal and complete than could possibly be imagined.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116445.Dies_the_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "Lumi\u00e8re", "author_name": "Jacqueline Garlick", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 988, "review_number": 313, "book_description": "One determined girl. One resourceful boy. One miracle machine that could destroy everything. After an unexplained flash shatters her world, seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth sets out to find the Illuminator, her father\u2019s prized invention. With it, she hopes to cure herself of her debilitating seizures before Professor Smrt\u2014her father\u2019s arch nemesis\u2014discovers her secret and locks her away in an asylum. Pursued by Smrt, Eyelet locates the Illuminator only to see it whisked away. She follows the thief into the world of the unknown, compelled not only by her quest but by the allure of the stranger\u2014Urlick Babbit\u2014who harbors secrets of his own. Together, they endure deadly Vapours and criminal-infested woods in pursuit of the same prize, only to discover the miracle machine they hoped would solve their problems may in fact be their biggest problem of all.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19448543-lumi-re"}, +{"book_title": "Galaxy in Flames", "author_name": "Ben Counter", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 9850, "review_number": 352, "book_description": "Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the triumphant Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III. Though the rebels are swiftly crushed, Horus's treachery is finally revealed when the planet is razed by virus bombs and Space Marines turn on their battle-brothers in the most bitter struggle imaginable.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815091.Galaxy_in_Flames"}, +{"book_title": "After the End", "author_name": "Amy Plum", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 10775, "review_number": 1596, "book_description": "She\u2019s searching for answers to her past. They\u2019re hunting her to save their future.World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.At least, this is what Juneau has been told her entire life.When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. Cities were never destroyed. The world is intact. Everything was a lie.Now Juneau is adrift in a modern-day world she never knew existed. But while she's trying to find a way to rescue her friends and family, someone else is looking for her. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about the secrets of her past.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13601681-after-the-end"}, +{"book_title": "Prince of the Elves", "author_name": "Kazu Kibuishi", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 16786, "review_number": 1100, "book_description": "THE ENEMY GROWS STRONGER...Emily survived the chaos of the Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone. With it, the Elf King forges new Amulets that will give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor. Emily and her friends lead the soldiers of the Cielis Guard in a fight to stop him, but Max stands in their way. And when she seeks information from the Voice of her Amulet, she discovers that the Voice is much more sinister than she ever could have imagined.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13436384-prince-of-the-elves"}, +{"book_title": "Fallen Host", "author_name": "Lyda Morehouse", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 224, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Page, a sentient electronic creation, is alone and his identity and purpose are clouded. Emmaline, Inquisitor for the Pope, flies to New York to verify the existence of souls in the world's two known A.I.s. Morningstar, rebelling against his Maker, embarks to hunt down his own destiny. Three participants race for their own personal truth, linked in ways they cannot begin to comprehend. (May)", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Religion", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71414.Fallen_Host"}, +{"book_title": "Uncommon Ground", "author_name": "Kelly Jensen", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 169, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Dillon Lee\u2019s grandfather was a conspiracy theorist. Every summer he\u2019d take Dillon on a tour of New York City while entertaining him with tales of aliens. Fifteen years later, after a phone call from a lawyer, Dillon is carrying his grandfather\u2019s ashes from landmark to landmark, paying a sort of tribute, and trying to figure out what to do with his unexpected legacy. When someone tries to steal the ashes, a guy Dillon has barely met leaps to the rescue, saving the urn and the day.Steilang Skovgaard is a reclusive billionaire\u2014and not human. He\u2019s been living in Manhattan for over twenty years, working on a long-term plan to establish a safe haven for his people. For seven years, his reports have gone unanswered, however, and he is the only surviving member of his interstellar team. The connection he forms with Dillon soon after meeting him is something he\u2019s missed, something he craves.But after someone keeps trying to steal the ashes, it looks as though Dillon\u2019s grandfather was involved in more than theories\u2014and might not have been exactly who everyone thought he was. Steilang doesn\u2019t know how close he can get to the truth without revealing himself, and Dillon is running out of people to trust. Can these two work out what\u2019s going on before the thieves set their sights higher?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35493469-uncommon-ground"}, +{"book_title": "Retreat Hell", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1061, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "A new mainstream novel of The Empire\u2019s Corps! After the disastrous mission to Lakshmibai, the very existence of the Commonwealth is called into question by politicians on Avalon. But as the political firestorm mounts, a call for help arrives from Thule, a highly-developed world facing a major insurgency in the wake of the Empire\u2019s collapse. Reluctantly, the Commonwealth deploys the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force to Thule. But all is not as it seems. The insurgents are receiving support from off-world powers, while bare light years across the border, Wolfbane \u2013 another successor state to the vanished Empire \u2013 is preparing for war ... and an old enemy plots her revenge. As the countdown to war begins, the CEF finds itself sinking in a quagmire of bitter hatred ... ... And nothing more than pawns in a very deadly game. [As always, my books are DRM-free. Samples of this title (and others) can be downloaded from my website: www.chrishanger.net. Reviews and comments are always welcome.] ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20749572-retreat-hell"}, +{"book_title": "Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 560, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Jeff Wells, a Space Academy student, and Norby, a second-hand robot with unusual abilities, find themselves involved in the sinister plans of Ing the Ingrate, who intends to take over the universe.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116319.Norby_the_Mixed_Up_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "The Wood", "author_name": "Chelsea Bobulski", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1441, "review_number": 340, "book_description": "When Winter\u2019s dad goes missing during his nightly patrol of the wood, it falls to her to patrol the time portals and protect the travelers who slip through them. Winter can't help but think there's more to her dad's disappearance than she's being told.She soon finds a young man traveling in the wood named Henry who knows more than he should. He believes if they can work together to find his missing parents, they could discover the truth about Winter\u2019s dad. The wood is poisoned, changing into something sinister\u2014torturing travelers lost in it. Winter must put her trust in Henry in order to find the truth and those they\u2019ve lost.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27258139-the-wood"}, +{"book_title": "Pandemic", "author_name": "A.G. Riddle", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 30482, "review_number": 1694, "book_description": "Around the world, a deadly outbreak spreads.The CDC and WHO race to stop it, but they soon learn that this pandemic hides a dark secret. It may be the start of a scientific experiment that could alter the human race forever--and reveal a shocking truth about our future.Experience the groundbreaking novel that will change everything you think you know about pandemics--and how to survive one.\u201cReads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton.\u201d\u2014The GuardianNow an Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.A hundred miles north of Alaska, a US Coast Guard vessel discovers a sunken submarine at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. It has no national identification and doesn\u2019t match the records of any known vessel. Deep within, researchers find evidence of a scientific experiment that will rewrite our basic understanding of the human race.In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC\u2019s leading epidemiologist, she\u2019s among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It\u2019s a lonely and dangerous job, but it\u2019s her life\u2014and she\u2019s good at it. This time, she may have met her match.In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death\u2019s door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO. What they find in the remote village is beyond their worst fears. As she traces the origin of the pathogen, Peyton begins to believe that there is more to this outbreak\u2014that it may be merely the opening act in a conspiracy with far reaching consequences.In Berlin, Desmond Hughes awakens in a hotel room with no memory of how he got there or who he is. On the floor, he finds a dead security guard from an international pharmaceutical company. His only clue leads him to Peyton Shaw\u2014a woman who seems to know him, but refuses to tell him how. With the police searching the city for him, Desmond desperately tries to piece together what happened to him. To his shock and horror, he learns that he may be involved in causing the outbreak\u2014and could hold the only key to stopping it.As the pathogen spreads around the world, Peyton and Desmond race to unravel the conspiracy behind the pandemic\u2014and uncover secrets some want to keep buried. With time running out, they face an unimaginable decision.Buy now and begin the journey (or read for free in Kindle Unlimited).Selected Praise and Published Reviews\u201cI finished the book fast because I just couldn\u2019t wait...\u201d\u2014WIRED GeekDad on Departure\u201cRiddle makes an effort to keep the focus on how his characters react to each other (including to their future selves) rather than to the technological marvels that reshaped their world.\u201d\u2014Publisher\u2019s Weekly on Departure\u201cWell-constructed and tightly-wound as a fine Swiss watch\u2014Departure has non-stop action, an engaging plot and, of course, wheels within wheels.\u201d\u2014Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander on Departure About Pandemic", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Suspense", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34811896-pandemic"}, +{"book_title": "A Choice of Gods", "author_name": "Clifford D. Simak", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1431, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "One day most of humankind disappeared. A few human beings were left on the deserted earth along with countless robots. The human beings--including a small tribe of American Indians--made do. The Indians returned to ancient tribal ways, the others stubbornly tried to rebuild technology. The robots--some stayed with the humans performing their service functions, some went off to create a religiously-based society of their own. Millennia later, a star-traveler returns from the center of the universe. The people of earth had been found and were planning to return. But something else had been found, too--the central intelligence of the universe!", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Religion", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222094.A_Choice_of_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "Angel City Blues", "author_name": "Jeff Edwards", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 218, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Los Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim\u2019s disappearance is recorded on any of the building\u2019s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment\u2019s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery. To find the missing woman, Private Detective David Stalin must unravel a crime with no apparent motive, no imaginable means, and no conceivable opportunity. The truth, when he finds it, will blur the lines between pleasure and pain. Between fantasy and reality. Between life and death\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23389522-angel-city-blues"}, +{"book_title": "Redaction", "author_name": "Linda Andrews", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 695, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Six months after an Influenza Pandemic swept across the globe, the world is starting to emerge from quarantine. But Pestilence Free Day is short-lived. For an unseen enemy has just been unleashed.Five people. Seven days.A brilliant scientist with an apocalyptic forecastA soldier that needs an enemy to fightA college student venturing into a changed worldAn insurance salesman who exploits every opportunityA juvenile delinquent desperate to leave his past behindRedaction: Humanity is about to be erased from the Book of Life", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13021348-redaction"}, +{"book_title": "Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 5731, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...Becalmed in hellHowie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!Wait it outHe was trapped on Pluto...and all his assets were frozen!The borderland of SolForward possessed the ultimate weapon...but no one would ever see it!The jigsaw manThe organ banks want you...now!Cloak of anarchyThey were free to be anything but violent...but that wasn't enough!-- plus eight other great stories in Niven's spectacular cycle of the future...and, special for this volume, a complete Niven bibliography and a detailed chronology of all his Known Space stories!Timeline for Known SpaceMy Universe and Welcome To It!Coldest Place, TheBecalmed in HellWait it OutEye of an OctopusHow the Heroes DieThe Jigsaw ManAt the Bottom of a HoleThe DeceiversCloak of AnarchyWarriors, TheThe Borderland of SolThere is a TideSafe at Any SpeedAfterthoughtsBibliography: The Worlds of Larry Niven", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100359.Tales_of_Known_Space"}, +{"book_title": "Amberlough", "author_name": "Lara Elena Donnelly", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2846, "review_number": 782, "book_description": "Le Carr\u00e9 meets Cabaret in this debut spy thriller as a gay double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coupWelcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party\u2014nicknamed the Ospies\u2014is gaining popular support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision.Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta, smuggler and emcee at the popular Bumble Bee Cabaret. When Cyril's cover is blown on a mission, however, he must become a turncoat in exchange for his life. Returning to Amberlough under the Ospies' watchful eye, Cyril enters a complex game of deception. One of his concerns is safeguarding Aristide, who refuses to let anyone\u2014the crooked city police or the homophobic Ospies\u2014dictate his life.Enter streetwise Cordelia Lehane, top dancer at the Bee and Aristide\u2019s runner, who could be the key to Cyril\u2019s plans\u2014if she can be trusted. As the twinkling lights of nightclub marquees yield to the rising flames of a fascist revolution, these three will struggle to survive using whatever means\u2014and people\u2014necessary. Including each other.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adult", "Thriller", "GLBT (Queer)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939270-amberlough"}, +{"book_title": "Fire & Ash", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 7462, "review_number": 720, "book_description": "In the gripping conclusion to the action-packed standard bearer (Booklist) of zombie series, the threat of death is given new life.Benny Imura and his friends have found the jet and Sanctuary, but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the plane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who have given up hope for humanity's future. With Chong hovering between life and death, clinging to his humanity by a thread, Benny makes a startling discovery: A scientist may have discovered a cure for the zombie plague. Desperate to save Chong, Benny and his friends mount a search and rescue mission. But they're not the only ones on the hunt. The reapers are after the cure too, and they want to use it turn all the zombies into superfast shock troops and wipe humanity off the face of the earth.In this riveting conclusion to the Rot & Ruin series, the battle to end all battles is just beginning.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13424356-fire-ash"}, +{"book_title": "Minimum Wage Magic", "author_name": "Rachel Aaron", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 4446, "review_number": 507, "book_description": "Making a living is hard. In a lawless city where gods are real, dragons are traffic hazards, and buildings move around on their own, it can feel downright impossible.Good thing freelance mage Opal Yong-ae has never let little things like impossibility stop her. She\u2019s found a way to put her overpriced magical art history degree to use as a Cleaner: a contract municipal employee who empties out abandoned apartments and resells the unusual treasures she finds inside for a profit. It\u2019s not a pretty job, or a safe one--there\u2019s a reason she wears bite-proof gloves--but when you\u2019re neck-deep in debt to a very magical, very nasty individual, you can\u2019t be picky about where the money comes from.But even Opal\u2019s low standards are put to the test when the only thing of value in her latest apartment is the body of the previous tenant. Dealing with the dead isn\u2019t technically part of her job, but this mage died hiding a secret that could be worth a lot of money, and Opal\u2019s the only one who knows. With debts she can\u2019t pay due at the end of the week, this could be the big break she\u2019s been waiting for, but in a city of runaway magic where getting in over your head generally means losing it, the cost of chasing this opportunity might be more than Opal can survive.AUTHOR\u2019S NOTE:This is the first in a new series set in the same universe as my Heartstrikers books, but you don\u2019t need to have read those stories to enjoy this one. MINIMUM WAGE MAGIC was written to stand by itself, so if you haven\u2019t read the others, don\u2019t worry! I wrote this book with you in mind. Thank you so much for reading!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42385018-minimum-wage-magic"}, +{"book_title": "The Didymus Contingency", "author_name": "Jeremy Robinson", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1677, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, AND WITNESS ANY EVENT, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? When Dr. Tom Greenbaum faces that question after successfully discovering the secret to time travel, he knows the time, place and event he will witness: the death and failed resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dr. David Goodman, Tom's colleague and closest friend follows Tom into the past, attempting to avert a time-space catastrophe, but forces beyond their control toss them into a dangerous end game where they are tempted by evil characters, betrayed by friends, pursued by an assassin from the future and haunted by a demon that cannot be killed.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Christian Fiction", "Action", "Christian"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/514140.The_Didymus_Contingency"}, +{"book_title": "Retreat And Adapt", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1426, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Admiral Jenetta Carver, in Region One for just the second time since becoming Commander of the Second Fleet, receives a message that the scout-destroyer Yenisei, on routine patrol, is overdue. The ship's last report ended with a statement that they were attempting to overtake several small ships spotted on their DeTect monitors.Admiral Augustus Poole, in command while Jenetta is away, has officially listed the ship as missing, and ordered all available ships within two hundred light-years to proceed to the Yenisei's last reported position and begin a search.Weeks later, the Yenisei is found. Technological advances have made Space Command the most powerful military force in the known galaxy, but although sheathed with Dakinium and believed to be almost impervious to weapons fire, the Yenisei's hull is riddled with holes and the crew is dead. The ship's computer log contains images of three attacking vessels with a configuration never before seen in GA space. It appears that a new enemy has emerged, one with weapons superior to anything Space Command has.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18131950-retreat-and-adapt"}, +{"book_title": "The Kiss of Deception", "author_name": "Mary E. Pearson", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 95866, "review_number": 11413, "book_description": "In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia\u2019s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight\u2014but she doesn\u2019t\u2014and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom\u2014to a prince she has never met.On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive\u2014and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her.\u00a0Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets\u2014even as she finds herself falling in love. The Kiss of Deception\u00a0is the first audiobook in\u00a0Mary E. Pearson's Remnant Chronicles", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16429619-the-kiss-of-deception"}, +{"book_title": "Hunted", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1617, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Self-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she\u2019s the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates.With the help of her bounty-hunting business partner, Cedar, Kali has outwitted and eluded attackers before, and she thinks she\u2019s prepared for anything. Then her ex-fianc\u00e9 strolls into her workshop.As if fooling her once wasn\u2019t enough, he aims to embroil her in a fresh scheme. Meanwhile, a new nemesis is stalking her, a shrouded figure with an arsenal of deadly machines that make Kali\u2019s inventions seem like toys. This time, it\u2019ll take more than her ingenuity and Cedar\u2019s combat skills to survive. Hunted is a 27,000-word steampunk novella.Printed page count equivalent: 120", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fiction", "Novella", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12374945-hunted"}, +{"book_title": "The Replaced", "author_name": "Kimberly Derting", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2009, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "Romantic and action-packed, The Replaced is the gripping second installment in the Taking trilogy.Kyra hasn't been the same since she returned from her mysterious five-year disappearance. Now, on the run from the NSA, Kyra is forced to hide out with others who, like her, have been Returned. Yet she is determined to find Tyler, the boy she loves who was also abducted\u2014all because of her. When her group intercepts a message that Tyler might still be alive but is in the hands of a shadowy government organization that experiments on the Returned, Kyra knows it's a risk to go after him. What if it's a trap? And worse, what if the returned Tyler isn't the same boy she lost? Perfect for fans of The Fifth Wave and the Body Finder series, The Replaced is both chilling and explosive, with creepy, otherworldly elements and twisty, psychological thrills that will have you questioning what exactly it means to be human.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21522102-the-replaced"}, +{"book_title": "Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction", "author_name": "Larry McCaffery", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 265, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The term \u201ccyberpunk\u201d entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson\u2019s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions of style, celebrations of texture: although emerging largely from science fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are, as this volume makes clear, integrally related to the aims and innovations of the literary avant-garde.By bringing together original fiction by well-known contemporary writers (William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany), critical commentary by some of the major theorists of postmodern art and culture (Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard), and work by major practitioners of cyberpunk (William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling), Storming the Reality Studio reveals a fascinating ongoing dialog in contemporary culture.What emerges most strikingly from the colloquy is a shared preoccupation with the force of technology in shaping modern life. It is precisely this concern, according to McCaffery, that has put science fiction, typically the province of technological art, at the forefront of creative explorations of our unique age. A rich opporunity for reading across genres, this anthology offers a new perspective on the evolution of postmodern culture and ultimately shows how deeply technological developments have influenced our vision and our art. CONTENTSIntroduction: The Desert of the Real \u00b7 Larry McCaffery Cyberpunk 101: A Schematic Guide to Storming the Reality Studio \u00b7 Richard Kadrey & Larry McCafferyBeyond the Extinction of Human Life [from Empire of the Senseless] \u00b7 Kathy Acker \u00b7from Crash \u00b7 J. G. Ballard \u00b7Mother and I Would Like to Know [from The Wild Boys] \u00b7 William S. Burroughs \u00b7 Rock On \u00b7 Pat Cadigan \u00b7 Among the Blobs \u00b7 Samuel R. Delany \u00b7 from White Noise \u00b7 Don DeLillo \u00b7from Neuromancer \u00b7 William Gibson \u00b7 Fistic Hermaphrodites \u00b7 Rob Hardin \u00b7Microbes \u00b7 Rob HardinPenetrabit: Slime Temples \u00b7 Rob Hardin \u00b7nerve terminals \u00b7 Rob Hardin \u00b7Max Headroom \u00b7 Harold Jaffe \u00b7from Straight Fiction \u00b7 Thom Jurek \u00b7The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche [from Metrophage] \u00b7 Richard Kadrey \u00b7 Office of the Future [from Dad\u2019s Nuke] \u00b7 Marc Laidlaw \u00b7 I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot [from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist] \u00b7 Mark Leyner \u00b7 from Plus \u00b7 Joseph McElroy \u00b7Wire Movement #9 \u00b7 Misha \u00b7 Wire for Two Tims \u00b7 Misha \u00b7 from Easy Travel to Other Planets \u00b7 Ted Mooney \u00b7 Frame 137 \u00b7 Jim O\u2019Barr \u00b7 from The Crying of Lot 49 \u00b7 Thomas Pynchon \u00b7from Software \u00b7 Rudy Ruckerfrom Life During Wartime \u00b7 Lucius Shepard \u00b7 Stoked \u00b7 Lewis Shiner \u00b7Wolves of the Plateau \u00b7 John Shirley \u00b7Twenty Evocations [\u201cLife in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations\u201d; Mechanist-Shapers] \u00b7 Bruce Sterling \u00b7Mare Tranquillitatis People\u2019s Circumlunal Zaibatsu: 2-1-\u201916 [from Schismatrix] \u00b7 Bruce Sterling The Indigo Engineeers \u00b7 William T. Vollmann \u00b7 Before the Lights Came On: Observations of a Synergy \u00b7 Steve Brown The Automation of the Robot [from Simulations] \u00b7 Jean BaudrillardCyberpunk and Neuromanticism \u00b7 Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. \u00b7from Of Grammatology \u00b7 Jacques Derrida \u00b7Yin and Yang Duke It Out \u00b7 Joan Gordon \u00b7Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism \u00b7 Veronica Hollinger from Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism \u00b7 Fredric Jameson Television and the Triumph of Culture [from The Postmodern Scene] \u00b7 Arthur Kroker & David Cook \u00b7Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance \u00b7 Brooks Landon \u00b7 The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot \u00b7 Timothy Leary The Postmodern [from The Postmodern Condition] \u00b7 Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard \u00b7 An Interview with William Gibson \u00b7 Larry McCaffery \u00b7Cutting Up: Cyberpunk, Punk Music, and Urban Decontextualizations \u00b7 Larry McCaffery \u00b7POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM \u00b7 Brian McHale \u00b7 The Wars of the Coin\u2019s Two Halves: Bruce Sterling\u2019s Mechanist/Shaper Narratives \u00b7 Tom Maddox \u00b7 Frothing the Synaptic Bath \u00b7 David Porush \u00b7 Literary MTV \u00b7 George Slusser \u00b7Preface from Mirrorshades \u00b7 Bruce Sterling \u00b7On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF \u00b7 Darko Suvin \u00b7 The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades \u00b7 Takayuki Tatsumi", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Writing (Essays)", "Fiction", "Philosophy", "Anthologies", "Criticism (Literary Criticism)", "Language (Writing)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Philosophy (Theory)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/370160.Storming_the_Reality_Studio"}, +{"book_title": "R. Robot Saves Lunch", "author_name": "R. Nicholas Kuszyk", "rating_score": 2.94, "rating_votes": 71, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "It's a hectic day at the robot factory - one of the robots has gone missing and Big Cooker Robot is jammed up. That's where R Robot comes in. He's the perfect man for the job. After all, he can walk the dog, take a shower, eat breakfast and get dressed - all at the same time! Surely he won't disappoint a whole cafeteria full of hungry robots! This inventive, eye-popping picture book by a talented new author-illustrator stars a cast of quirky multicolored robots, all bursting with personality. Readers will pore over the detailed illustrations, laughing at clever touches like R Robot's robot dog and Big Cooker's creative method of serving lunch.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6594505-r-robot-saves-lunch"}, +{"book_title": "Star Cursed", "author_name": "Jessica Spotswood", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 6699, "review_number": 858, "book_description": "With the Brotherhood persecuting witches like never before, a divided Sisterhood desperately needs Cate to come into her Prophesied powers. And after Cate's friend Sachi is arrested for using magic, a war-thirsty Sister offers to help her find answers\u2014if Cate is willing to endanger everyone she loves.Cate doesn't want to be a weapon, and she doesn't want to involve her friends and Finn in the Sisterhood's schemes. But when Maura and Tess join the Sisterhood, Maura makes it clear that she'll do whatever it takes to lead the witches to victory. Even if it means sacrifices. Even if it means overthrowing Cate. Even if it means all-out war.In the highly anticipated sequel to Born Wicked, the Cahill Witch Chronicles continue Cate, Maura and Tess's quest to find love, protect family, and explore their magic against all odds in an alternate history of New England.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101026-star-cursed"}, +{"book_title": "The Little Shop of Found Things", "author_name": "Paula Brackston", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 7807, "review_number": 1314, "book_description": "A new series about a young woman whose connection to antiques takes her on a magical adventure, reminiscent of OutlanderNew York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter Paula Brackston returns to her trademark blend of magic and romance to launch a new series guaranteed to enchant her audience even more.Xanthe and her mother Flora leave London behind for a fresh start, taking over an antique shop in the historic town of Marlborough. Xanthe has always had an affinity with some of the antiques she finds. When she touches them, she can sense something of the past they come from and the stories they hold. So when she has an intense connection to a beautiful silver chatelaine she has to know more.It\u2019s while she\u2019s examining the chatelaine that she\u2019s transported back to the seventeenth century. And shortly after, she's confronted by a ghost who reveals that this is where the antique has its origins. The ghost tasks Xanthe with putting right the injustice in its story to save an innocent girl\u2019s life, or else it\u2019ll cost her Flora\u2019s.While Xanthe fights to save her amid the turbulent days of 1605, she meets architect Samuel Appleby. He may be the person who can help her succeed. He may also be the reason she can\u2019t bring herself to leave.With its rich historical detail, strong mother-daughter relationship, and picturesque English village, The Little Shop of Found Things is poised to be a strong start to this new series.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450585-the-little-shop-of-found-things"}, +{"book_title": "Shutdown", "author_name": "Heather Anastasiu", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1767, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "The battle is all but over, and hope seems to be lost. Zoe and her fellow Resistance fighters are on the run, having lost their home, their protection, and their leader. They are outnumbered and outmatched by the powerful corporation that controls the world, and the cruel Chancellor is inches away from completing a scheme that would kill most of humanity. Zoe's only remaining option is to chase the impossible dream of upending the Link system, freeing the world from the hardware that controls their thoughts and emotions, and hope it will trigger a revolution. The plot requires a nearly impossible mission to infiltrate the dangerous Community, and it is a task that Zoe must unfortunately complete alone. With challenges and surprises at every turn, nothing goes according to plan. Adrien's visions of the future now show two possible outcomes: one in which they succeed, and one in which humanity falls. It all lies in Zoe's hands. Full of romance, high-adrenaline action and shocking twists, Shutdown is a heart-pounding conclusion to an exciting sci-fi adventure trilogy for young adults. The thrilling conclusion to an action-packed sci-fi trilogy", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16045008-shutdown"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Transit", "author_name": "Ben Aaronovitch", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 415, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "'Oh no, not again...' \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It's the ultimate in mass transit systems, a network of interstitial tunnels that bind the planets of the solar system together. Earth to Pluto in forty minutes with a supersave non-premium off-peak travelcard. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But something is living in the network, chewing its way to the very heart of the system and leaving a trail of death and mutation behind it. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Once again a reluctant Doctor is dragged into human history. Back down amongst the joyboys, freesurfers, chessfans, politicians and floozies, where friends are more dangerous than enemies and one man's human being is another's psychotic killing machine. Once again the Doctor is all that stands between humanity and its own mistakes.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Media Tie In", "Doctors"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/678263.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "Clans of the Alphane Moon", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 4863, "review_number": 318, "book_description": "\"Shell Game\" was originally published in 1954 for the first time. Later it was expanded into the \"Clans of the Alphane Moon.\" (1964)When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they will be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuck's new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Psychology", "Speculative Fiction", "The United States Of America", "Mental Health (Mental Illness)", "Literature (American)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226486.Clans_of_the_Alphane_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "A Twist of Fate", "author_name": "Karen Michelle Nutt", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 185, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Has a twist of fate sent her back in time? This is a question which plagues Arianna Ward when she wakes up to find her memory in fragments, like a long forgotten dream.Everyone claims her name is Annabelle. The year is 1814 and she\u2019s married to Captain Keldon Buchanan, a man who despises her. The more she learns about her life, the more she realizes why she\u2019s chosen to forget it. She\u2019s a liar and an adulteress. She doesn\u2019t understand why she wanted to destroy her marriage when her heart tells her she belongs with Keldon.Keldon harbors his own secrets. He's the Highland Pirate and secrecy is the difference between life and death. He doesn\u2019t trust his wife, but he finds his heart softening to the woman his wife has become. If he didn\u2019t know better, he\u2019d swear he's married to another woman and he\u2019s fallen in love with her.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13512518-a-twist-of-fate"}, +{"book_title": "Unleash the Night", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 41172, "review_number": 1129, "book_description": "It's a predator-eat-predator world for the Were-Hunters. Danger haunts any given day. There is no one to trust. No one to love. Not if they want to live...\u00a0An orphan with no clan that will claim him, Wren Tigarian grew to adulthood under the close scrutiny and mistrust of those around him. A forbidden blend of two animals - snow leopard and white tiger - Wren has never listened to anyone when there was something he wanted. Now he wants Marguerite.Marguerite D'Aubert Goudeau is the daughter of a prominent U.S. senator who hates the socialite life she's forced to live. Like her mother before her, she has strong Cajun roots that her father doesn't understand. Still, she has no choice but to try and conform to a world where she feels like an outsider. But the world of rich and powerful humans is never to meet the world of the Were-Hunters who exist side by side with them, unseen, unknown, undetected. To break this law is to call down a wrath of the highest order.In order to have Marguerite, Wren must fight not just the humans who will never accept his animal nature, but the Were-Hunters who want him dead for endangering their world. It's a race against time and magic without boundary that could cost Marguerite and Wren not just their lives, but their very souls...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84139.Unleash_the_Night"}, +{"book_title": "Black Moon", "author_name": "Kenneth Calhoun", "rating_score": 3.16, "rating_votes": 2791, "review_number": 541, "book_description": "Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows. Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world. Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.He ventures out into a world ransacked by mass confusion and desperation, where he meets others struggling against the tide of sleeplessness. Chase and his buddy Jordan are devising a scheme to live off their drug-store lootings; Lila is a high school student wandering the streets in an owl mask, no longer safe with her insomniac parents; Felicia abandons the sanctuary of a sleep research center to try to protect her family and perhaps reunite with Chase, an ex-boyfriend. All around, sleep has become an infinitely precious commodity. Money can\u2019t buy it, no drug can touch it, and there are those who would kill to have it. However, Biggs persists in his quest for Carolyn, finding a resolve and inner strength that he never knew he had.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050142-black-moon"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Ivy", "author_name": "Amy Engel", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 18161, "review_number": 2607, "book_description": "After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation. The Westfalls lost. Fifty years later, peace and control are maintained by marrying the daughters of the losing side to the sons of the winning group in a yearly ritual. This year, it is my turn. My name is Ivy Westfall, and my mission is simple: to kill the president\u2019s son\u2014my soon-to-be husband\u2014and restore the Westfall family to power. But Bishop Lattimer is either a very skilled actor or he\u2019s not the cruel, heartless boy my family warned me to expect. He might even be the one person in this world who truly understands me. But there is no escape from my fate. I am the only one who can restore the Westfall legacy.Because Bishop must die. And I must be the one to kill him\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20640755-the-book-of-ivy"}, +{"book_title": "City of Ghosts", "author_name": "Stacia Kane", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 9109, "review_number": 734, "book_description": "Book Summary of City Of Ghosts The third book in this gritty, sexy, urban fantasy trilogy. Rogue spirits and psychopomps are terrorising people, and now someone is planning to open the gates to the City of Ghosts and unleash the dead on humanity. Faced with her greatest challenge yet, Chess has to travel to the spirit city to finally lay all her ghosts to rest... Chess Putnam has a lot on her plate. Mangled human corpses have started to show up on the streets of Downside, and Chess's bosses at the Church of Real Truth have ordered her to team up with the ultra-powerful Black Squad agency to crack the grisly case. Chess is under a binding spell that threatens death if she talks about the investigation, but the city's most notorious crime boss ? and Chess's drug dealer ? gets wind of her new assignment and insists on being kept informed. If that isn't bad enough, a sinister street vendor appears to have information Chess needs. Only he's not telling what he knows, or what it all has to do with the vast underground City of Eternity. Now Chess will have to navigate killer wraiths and a lot of seriously nasty magic ? all while coping with some not-so-small issues of her own. And the only man she can trust to help her through it all has every reason to want her dead. About the Author Stacia Kane was born in Illinois, raised in St. Louis MO, and lived in South Florida for a dozen years before moving to the UK with her British husband and two daughters. She is the author of the paranormal romance Personal Demons, and The Downside Ghosts is her first urban fantasy Series", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Romance", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7352840-city-of-ghosts"}, +{"book_title": "Ruwen", "author_name": "Kate Rudolph", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1529, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "Dead alien walking...Ruwen NaNaran knows he's a goner. The curse of his alien species has put a countdown on his life, and he'll be dead before the month is out. Unless he finds his denya, the only woman in the universe who can save him.Down on her luck and lost in space...Lis Jaynx just wants to go home. Kidnapped from Earth by unknown foes, she's dropped on a inhospitable planet with little food and no hope. She'll do anything to find a ship to take her back to Earth, but Polai is hostile to all alien life, and Lis is running out of places to hide.An unexpected chance...From the moment he sees her, Ru knows Lis is his denya. But she's already wounded and distrustful of aliens, even those who claim they want to help.Will the explosive chemistry between them be enough to topple Lis's fears? Or will their bond break before it even forms, leaving Ru a dead alien walking and Lis all alone in the black of space.(Complete story, no cliffhanger!)", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Business (Amazon)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33283256-ruwen"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Dim", "author_name": "Janet B. Taylor", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3714, "review_number": 913, "book_description": "When fragile, sixteen-year-old Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. Trapped in the twelfth century in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Hope has seventy-two hours to rescue her mother and get back to their own time. Along the way, her path collides with that of a mysterious boy who could be vital to her mission . . . or the key to Hope\u2019s undoing.\u00a0", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25897792-into-the-dim"}, +{"book_title": "Beep Beep Robot! A Spinning Gears Book", "author_name": "Scholastic Inc.", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 57, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Spin BEEP BEEP Robot's colorful gears and learn all about how gears connect and help machines move in this innovative novelty book with adorable rhyming text. With seven spinning wheels that connect to and spin one another, this unique book acts as a young child's interactive entree into the world of engineering while still being a fun, young read aloud. BEEP BEEP Robot! Off we go! Gears move fast and gears move slow. Turn my gear to start the show. How does purple make green go?Gears have teeth that fit in grooves.Watch me spin. Check out my moves!Turn my gear to start the show. How does yellow make green go?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Picture Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34381539-beep-beep-robot-a-spinning-gears-book"}, +{"book_title": "Robobots", "author_name": "Matt Novak", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 33, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "When the Robobots move onto Littlewood Lane, they create controversy with their strange ways. Eventually they convince the neighbors that they're a family worth knowing. From beginning to \"absolutely happy\" end, the Robobots remain their comical and clanking selves. Full color.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1534002.Robobots"}, +{"book_title": "I. Asimov", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2547, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname \"the Great Explainer.\" I. Asimov is his personal story\u2014vivid, open, and honest\u2014as only Asimov himself could tell it.Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes; who imagined alien universes and vast galactic civilizations while staying home to write; who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great minds of our century. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities\u2014Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others\u2014who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction.As unique and irrepressible as the man himself, I. Asimov\u00a0is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers for nearly half a century and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Biography", "Nonfiction", "Autobiography (Memoir)", "Biography (Autobiography)", "Language (Writing)", "Biography Memoir", "History", "Science", "Literature", "Hugo Awards"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41814.I_Asimov"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl and the Clockwork Cat", "author_name": "Nikki McCormack", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 373, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "Feisty teenage thief Maeko and her maybe-more-than-friend Chaff have scraped out an existence in Victorian London\u2019s gritty streets, but after a near-disastrous heist leads her to a mysterious clockwork cat and two dead bodies, she\u2019s thrust into a murder mystery that may cost her everything she holds dear.Her only allies are Chaff, the cat, and Ash, the son of the only murder suspect, who offers her enough money to finally get off the streets if she\u2019ll help him find the real killer. What starts as a simple search ultimately reveals a conspiracy stretching across the entire city. And as Maeko and Chaff discover feelings for each other neither was prepared to admit, she\u2019s forced to choose whether she\u2019ll stay with him or finally escape the life of a street rat. But with danger closing in around them, the only way any of them will get out of this alive is if all of them work together.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Animals (Cats)", "Romance", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23180671-the-girl-and-the-clockwork-cat"}, +{"book_title": "Black Chamber", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 560, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "The first novel in a brand-new alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president for a second time right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back.1916. The Great War rages overseas, and the whole of Europe, Africa, and western Asia is falling to the Central Powers. To win a war that must be won, Teddy Roosevelt, once again the American president, turns to his top secret Black Chamber organization--and its cunning and deadly spy, Luz O'Malley Ar\u00f3stegui. On a transatlantic airship voyage, Luz poses as an anti-American Mexican revolutionary to get close--very close--to a German agent code-named Imperial Sword. She'll need every skill at her disposal to get him to trust her and lead her deep into enemy territory. In the mountains of Saxony, concealed from allied eyes, the German Reich's plans for keeping the U.S. from entering the conflict are revealed: the deployment of a new diabolical weapon upon the shores of America...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Thriller", "Historical", "War (Military Fiction)", "War (World War I)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36150869-black-chamber"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead Compendium 3", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 7196, "review_number": 468, "book_description": "How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us REALLY worked to get something that we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted?The world we knew is gone.The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility.An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled - no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV.In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.Collects issues #97-144 of the acclaimed zombie hit!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25536846-the-walking-dead-compendium-3"}, +{"book_title": "The Peculiar Pets of Miss Pleasance", "author_name": "Delilah S. Dawson", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 389, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "A lady with a penchant for pets meets a sexy fireman in this magical and saucy steampunk eNovella from the author of Wicked as They Come.In a world ruled by blood, live pets are rare and kindness rarer still. London pet shop owner Frannie Pleasance has a mysterious way with animals and keeps her charges (and heart) locked in a veritable Eden. She thinks Casper Sterling is just another stray\u2026until she takes in the troublesome lodger (and unwelcome suitor) and becomes the victim of a series of strange and dangerous occurrences.When an unexplained fire threatens to destroy Frannie's carefully guarded world, firefighter Thom Maccallan is there to extinguish the blaze and help gather the lost creatures. The heat between Frannie and Thom begins to burn, but someone's still after the lady. Could it be Casper himself, or is Frannie\u2019s new lodger just another victim of fate? Will they be able to figure out who's pursuing Frannie\u2014and stop them\u2014before she loses everything?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803686-the-peculiar-pets-of-miss-pleasance"}, +{"book_title": "Lair of Dreams", "author_name": "Libba Bray", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 26244, "review_number": 4233, "book_description": "The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams.After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O\u2019Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny ability to read people\u2019s secrets, she\u2019s become a media darling, earning the title \u201cAmerica\u2019s Sweetheart Seer.\u201d Everyone\u2019s in love with the city\u2019s newest It Girl\u2026everyone except the other Diviners.Piano-playing Henry DuBois and Chinatown resident Ling Chan are two Diviners struggling to keep their powers a secret\u2014for they can walk in dreams. And while Evie is living the high life, victims of a mysterious sleeping sickness are turning up across New York City.As Henry searches for a lost love and Ling strives to succeed in a world that shuns her, a malevolent force infects their dreams. And at the edges of it all lurks a man in a stovepipe hat who has plans that extend farther than anyone can guess\u2026As the sickness spreads, can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld to save the city?In this heart-stopping sequel to The Diviners, Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray takes readers deeper into the mystical underbelly of New York City.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Horror", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16060716-lair-of-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "The Damsel and the Daggerman", "author_name": "Delilah S. Dawson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 304, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "Bad boy knife-thrower Marco Taresque is the hottest and most dangerous performer in the caravan. He keeps to himself until a pesky female journalist arrives, anxious to interview him about his checkered past\u2014his last assistant disappeared under mysterious and bloody circumstances, earning him the nickname \u201cThe Deadly Daggerman.\u201dUnsinkable journalist and adventurer Jacinda Harville doesn\u2019t take no for an answer, and she\u2019s determined to wear down Marco no matter how threatening\u2014or incredibly desirable\u2014he might appear. He agrees to an interview\u2014but only if she\u2019ll let him strap her to a spinning table and throw knives at her body. How can she say no? And how can she resist him when he leans close for a kiss that strikes her more sharply than any blade? It\u2019s the first time she\u2019s let a man get the better of her, and she\u2019s determined it will be the last\u2026Just when she thinks she can\u2019t take any more of his games, Jacinda receives a note from Marco saying he\u2019s finally ready to tell her the truth about what happened to his missing assistant. She sets out for an address miles away, but what she finds there turns the tables on everything she thought she knew about the tender lover who wears a smile as sharp as his knives.As secrets are unraveled and passions take hold, Jacinda realizes her hard heart has melted. But will it be too late to save Marco\u2014and herself\u2014from the daggerman\u2019s dangerous past?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Short Stories", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17258798-the-damsel-and-the-daggerman"}, +{"book_title": "Space Chantey", "author_name": "R.A. Lafferty", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 120, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Rediscover Hugo and Nebula award-nominated author R.A. Lafferty with this rollicking reimagining of Homer's Odyssey! Set in the far future, Space Chantey chronicles the adventures of Space Captain Roadstrum and his crew, on a journey through galaxies resonant with myth and peril as Roadstrum valiantly battles to return across the cosmos to Big Tulsa, the Capital of the World, and to his wife and young son Tele-Max.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2154101.Space_Chantey"}, +{"book_title": "The Weakness", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2126, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "While Jake is away at an out-of-town wedding, Tobias discovers the place where Visser Three feeds. There is a unanimous decision to acquire cheetah morphs and run him down. But which Animorph will lead the mission in Jake's absence?", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Animals", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125336.The_Weakness"}, +{"book_title": "The Rising", "author_name": "Ian Tregillis", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 3014, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war. Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony -- has been banished from her homeland and captured by the Clockmakers Guild's draconian secret police force.Meanwhile, Captain Hugo Longchamp is faced with rallying the beleaguered and untested defenders of Marseilles-in-the-West for the inevitable onslaught from the Brasswork Throne and its army of mechanical soldiers.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25318815-the-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Akarnae", "author_name": "Lynette Noni", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 4878, "review_number": 789, "book_description": "With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings's world changes\u2014literally.Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her... but he's missing.While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora's boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can't ignore her fear that something unexpected... something sinister... is looming.An unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex's shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race's survival. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home?Will Alex risk her entire world\u2014and maybe even her life\u2014to save Medora?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "School Stories (Boarding School)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23569787-akarnae"}, +{"book_title": "The Burning Page", "author_name": "Genevieve Cogman", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 13287, "review_number": 1236, "book_description": "The third title in Genevieve Cogman's clever and exciting The Invisible Library series, The Burning Page is an action-packed literary adventure! Librarian spy Irene has professional standards to maintain. Standards that absolutely do not include making hasty, unplanned escapes through a burning besieged building. But when the gateway back to your headquarters dramatically malfunctions, one must improvise. And after fleeing a version of Revolutionary France astride a dragon (also known as her assistant, Kai), Irene soon discovers she's not the only one affected. Gates back to the Library are malfunctioning across a multitude of worlds, creating general havoc. She and Kai are tasked with a mission to St Petersburg's Winter Palace, to retrieve a book which will help restore order. However, such plans rarely survive first contact with the enemy - particularly when the enemy is the traitor Alberich. A nightmare figure bent on the Library's destruction, Alberich gives Irene a tainted 'join me or die' job offer. Meanwhile, Irene's old friend Vale has been damaged by exposure to Chaotic forces and she has no idea how to save him. When another figure from her past appears, begging for help, Irene has to take a good hard look at her priorities. And of course try to save the Library from absolute annihilation. Saving herself would be a bonus.Irene's adventures feature stolen books, secret agents and forbidden societies - think Doctor Who but with librarian spies!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29345916-the-burning-page"}, +{"book_title": "A Learning Experience", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1942, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Earth is not alone. There is a towering civilisation out in the galaxy, far greater than anything we can imagine. But we are isolated from the galaxy ... until now. When a bunch of interstellar scavengers approach Earth, intending to abduct a few dozen humans and sell them into slavery in the darkest, they make the mistake of picking on Steve Stuart and his friends, ex-military veterans all. Unprepared for humans who can actually fight, unaware of the true capabilities of their stolen starships, the scavengers rapidly lose control of the ship \u2013 and their lives. To Steve, the captured starship represents a great opportunity, one to establish a new civilisation away from Earth and its increasingly oppressive bureaucracy. But with the aliens plotting their revenge and human factions suspicious of the new technology, it will be far from easy to create a whole new world ... [A Learning Experience is DRM-free. You may reformat it as you choose. There is a large sample of the text on author's site.] ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Action", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20959222-a-learning-experience"}, +{"book_title": "Midnight City", "author_name": "J. Barton Mitchell", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1724, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly. The human adult population is gone, having succumbed to the Tone---a powerful, telepathic super-signal broadcast across the planet that reduces them to a state of complete subservience. But the Tone has one critical flaw. It only affects the population once they reach\u00a0their early twenties, which means that there is one group left to resist: Children.Holt Hawkins is a bounty hunter, and his current target is Mira Toombs,\u00a0an infamous treasure seeker with a price on her head.\u00a0It\u2019s not long before\u00a0Holt bags his prey, but their instant connection isn\u2019t something he bargained for.\u00a0Neither is the Assembly ship that crash-lands near them shortly after.\u00a0Venturing inside, Holt finds a young girl who remembers nothing except her name: Zoey.As the three make their way to the cavernous metropolis of Midnight City, they encounter young freedom fighters, mutants, otherworldly artifacts, pirates, feuding alien armies, and the amazing powers that Zoey is beginning to exhibit. Powers that suggest she, as impossible as it seems, may just be the key to stopping the Assembly once and for all.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13494718-midnight-city"}, +{"book_title": "Wilder's Mate", "author_name": "Moira Rogers", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1641, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "Wilder Harding is a bloodhound, created by the Guild to hunt down and kill vampires on America\u2019s frontier. His enhanced abilities come with a high price: on the full moon, he becomes capable of savagery beyond telling, while the new moon brings a sexual hunger that borders on madness.Rescuing a weapons inventor from undead kidnappers is just another assignment, though one with an added complication\u2014keeping his hands off the man\u2019s pretty young apprentice, who insists on tagging along. At odds with polite society, Satira\u2019s only constant has been the aging weapons inventor who treats her like a daughter. She isn\u2019t going to trust Wilder with Nathaniel\u2019s life, not when the Guild might decide the old man isn\u2019t worth saving. Besides, if there\u2019s one thing she\u2019s learned, it\u2019s that brains are more important than brawn. As the search stretches far longer than Wilder planned, he finds himself fighting against time. If Satira is still at his side when the new moon comes, nothing will stop him from claiming her. Worse, she seems all too willing. If their passion unlocks the beast inside, no one will be safe. Not even the man they\u2019re fighting to save. Warning: This book contains a crude, gun-slinging, vampire-hunting hero who howls at the full moon and a smart, stubborn heroine who invents mad-scientist weapons. Also included: wild frontier adventures, brothels, danger, betrayal and a good dose of wicked loving in an alternate Wild West.Word Count: 36,653 = approximately 146 pages.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Westerns", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Historical", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8645474-wilder-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "The Fortunate Fall", "author_name": "Raphael Carter", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 377, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Maya Andreyeva is a \"camera\", a reporter with virtual reality broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share.And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre. As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes upon secrets that have been hidden from the world\u2026 and memories that AI-controlled thought police have forced her to hide from herself. Because in a world where no thought or desire is safe, the price of survival is betrayal\u2014of your lover, your ideals, and yourself.In The Fortunate Fall, we hear a new voice so assured and so intimate it seems we must always have known it, and so electrifying we know we have never before heard its like.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1037021.The_Fortunate_Fall"}, +{"book_title": "Kill Decision", "author_name": "Daniel Suarez", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 10568, "review_number": 834, "book_description": "The shocking techno-thriller that cements Daniel Suarez\u2019s status as the heir to Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy\u2014a terrifying, breathtaking, and all-too-plausible vision of the world\u2019s near future. Unmanned weaponized drones already exist\u2014they\u2019re widely used by America in our war efforts in the Middle East. In Kill Decision, bestselling author Daniel Suarez takes that fact and the real science behind it one step further, with frightening results. Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned\u2014and thanks to her research, automated\u2014drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention. Together, McKinney and Odin must slow this advance long enough for the world to recognize its destructive power, because for thousands of years the \u201ckill decision\u201d during battle has remained in the hands of humans\u2014and off-loading that responsibility to machines will bring unintended, possibly irreversible, consequences. But as forces even McKinney and Odin don\u2019t understand begin to gather, and death rains down from above, it may already be too late to save humankind from destruction at the hands of our own technology.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science (Technology)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808659-kill-decision"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Queen", "author_name": "Julie Kagawa", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 99980, "review_number": 4972, "book_description": "My name is Meghan Chase.I thought it was over. That my time with the fey, the impossible choices I had to make, the sacrifices of those I loved, was behind me. But a storm is approaching, an army of Iron fey that will drag me back, kicking and screaming. Drag me away from the banished prince who's sworn to stand by my side. Drag me into the core of conflict so powerful, I'm not sure anyone can survive it.This time, there will be no turning back.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8685612-the-iron-queen"}, +{"book_title": "The Jagged Orbit", "author_name": "John Brunner", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 822, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Matthew Flamen, the last of the networks' spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big story. He needs it to keep his audience and his job. And there is no shortage of possibilities: the Gottschalk cartel is fomenting trouble among the knees in order to sell their latest armaments to the blanks; which ties in nicely with the fact that something big is brewing with the X Patriots; and it looks as if the inconceivable is about to happen and that one of Britain's most dangerous revolutionaries is going to be given a visa to enter America. And then there's the story that just falls into his lap. The one that suggests that the respected Director of the New York State Mental Hospital is a charlatan... John Brunner's brilliant and scathing vision of a society disintegrating under the impact of violence, drugs, high-level corruption and the casual institutionalization of the 'insane' was a powerful and important statement in 1969. It remains a compelling and chilling tour de force three decades on.", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Classics", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/470186.The_Jagged_Orbit"}, +{"book_title": "Jackaby", "author_name": "William Ritter", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 25856, "review_number": 4605, "book_description": "\u201cMiss Rook, I am not an occultist,\u201d Jackaby said. \u201cI have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many illusions. All the world\u2019s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.\u201dNewly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby\u2019s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it\u2019s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it\u2019s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.Doctor Who meets Sherlock in William Ritter\u2019s debut novel, which features a detective of the paranormal as seen through the eyes of his adventurous and intelligent assistant in a tale brimming with cheeky humor and a dose of the macabre.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20312462-jackaby"}, +{"book_title": "Leia: Princess of Alderaan", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 9288, "review_number": 1413, "book_description": " A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....there was a princess who became a legend.Sixteen-year-old Princess Leia Organa faces the most challenging task of her life so far: proving herself in the areas of body, mind, and heart to be formally named heir to the throne of Alderaan. She's taking rigorous survival courses, practicing politics, and spearheading relief missions to worlds under Imperial control. But Leia has worries beyond her claim to the crown. Her parents, Breha and Bail, aren't acting like themselves lately; they are distant and preoccupied, seemingly more concerned with throwing dinner parties for their allies in the Senate than they are with their own daughter. Determined to uncover her parents' secrets, Leia starts down an increasingly dangerous path that puts her right under the watchful eye of the Empire. And when Leia discovers what her parents and their allies are planning behind closed doors, she finds herself facing what seems like an impossible choice; dedicate herself to the people of Alderaan\u2014including the man she loves\u2014or the galaxy at large, which is in desperate need of a rebel hero....", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34860402-leia"}, +{"book_title": "True Names... and Other Dangers", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 499, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Contents:Bookworm, Run! (1966)True Names (1981)The Peddler's Apprentice (1975) with Joan D. VingeThe Ungoverned (1985)Long Shot (1972)Marooned in Realtime (excerpt) (1987)", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321005.True_Names_and_Other_Dangers"}, +{"book_title": "Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 4", "author_name": "Hiroki Endo", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 419, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Exploring the origin of Kenji, the knife-wielding, Japanese freedom fighter, Hiroki Endo takes us back in time to witness the brutal events that shaped this warrior's spirit. In Kenji's present, he fights in one of the most intense hand-to-hand combat sequences in post-apocalyptic literature! With the world reeling from the after effects of a brutal, widespread virus, civilization is torn between the laws and ways of the old world and a new order where cybernetic implants are commonplace and \"might means right.\" Elijah and his comrades-in-arms attempt to cross the Andes Mountains, with Propater's gruesome Aeon soldiers and armored troops hot on their heels! Graphic, cyberpunk and philosophical, Eden is a place where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Cultural (France)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958017.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Monstrous Devices", "author_name": "Damien Love", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 517, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "On a winter's day in a British town, twelve-year-old Alex receives a package in the mail: an old tin robot from his grandfather. \"This one is special,\" says the enclosed note, and when strange events start occurring around him, Alex suspects this small toy is more than special; it might be deadly.Right as things get out of hand, Alex's grandfather arrives, pulling him away from an attack--and his otherwise humdrum world of friends, bullies, and homework--and into the macabre magic of an ancient family feud. Together, the duo flees across snowy Europe, unravelling the riddle of the little robot while trying to outwit relentless assassins of the human and mechanical kind.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38819914-monstrous-devices"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Obsidian", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 23618, "review_number": 2031, "book_description": "Step into New York Times bestseller Nalini Singh\u2019s explosive and shockingly passionate Psy-Changeling world\u2026A dangerous, volatile rebel, hands stained bloodred.A woman whose very existence has been erased.A love story so dark, it may shatter the world itself.A deadly price that must be paid.The day of reckoning is here.From \u201cthe alpha author of paranormal romance\u201d (Booklist) comes the most highly anticipated novel of her career\u2014one that blurs the line between madness and genius, between subjugation and liberation, between the living and the dead.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15781026-heart-of-obsidian"}, +{"book_title": "Necropolis", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 3587, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "On the shattered world of Verghast,Gaunt and his Ghosts find themselvesembroiled within an ancient and deadly civilwar as a mighty hive-city is besieged by anunrelenting foe. On the world of Verghast, a grinding war between two hive cities - one loyal to the Imperium, the other fallen to the worship of the Dark Gods - is bolstered by the forces of the Astra Militarum, spearheaded by the Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only. But bitter rivalries and treachery threaten to derail the defence of Vervunhive, and it falls to Gaunt to take command of the Imperial forces and forge victory from an almost certain defeat.Read by Toby Longworth.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1361424.Necropolis"}, +{"book_title": "The Devil's Eye", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3281, "review_number": 195, "book_description": "Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt is \"the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke\" (Stephen King). Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her past life, or of her plea for assistance. But she has transferred an enormous sum of money to Alex, also without explanation. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex will uncover a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval, a secret that somebody desperately wants hidden, though the price of that silence is unimaginable\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3076046-the-devil-s-eye"}, +{"book_title": "To Be Taught, If Fortunate", "author_name": "Becky Chambers", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 17428, "review_number": 3066, "book_description": "In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves. Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with different features. Her experience is one of fluid body and stable mind and of a unique perspective on the passage of time. Back on Earth, society changes dramatically from decade to decade, as it always does.Ariadne may awaken to find that support for space exploration back home has waned, or that her country of birth no longer exists, or that a cult has arisen around their cosmic findings, only to dissolve once more by the next waking. But the moods of Earth have little bearing on their mission: to explore, to study, and to send their learnings home. Carrying all the trademarks of her other beloved works, including brilliant writing, fantastic world-building and exceptional, diverse characters, Becky's first audiobook outside of the Wayfarers series is sure to capture the imagination of listeners all over the world.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Adult", "LGBT", "Space", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43190272-to-be-taught-if-fortunate"}, +{"book_title": "Ring of Fire", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2364, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "The battle between democracy and tyranny is joined, and the American Revolution has begun over a century ahead of schedule. A cosmic accident has shifted a modern West Virginia town back through time and space to land it and its twentieth century technology in Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. History must take a new course as American freedom and democracy battle against the squabbling despots of seventeenth-century Europe. Continuing the story begun in the hit novels 1632 and 1633, the New York Times best-selling creator of Honor Harrington, David Weber, the best-selling fantasy star Mercedes Lackey, best-selling SF and fantasy author Jane Lindskold, space adventure author K. D. Wentworth, Dave Freer, co-author of the hit novels Rats, Bats & Vats and Pyramid Scheme (both Baen), and Eric Flint himself combine their considerable talents in a shared-universe volume that will be a \"must-have\" for every reader of 1632 and 1633.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Anthologies", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35479.Ring_of_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "Embers of War", "author_name": "Gareth L. Powell", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3594, "review_number": 486, "book_description": "The warship Trouble Dog was built and bred for calculating violence, yet following a brutal war, she finds herself disgusted by conflict and her role in a possible war crime. Seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress.But, stripped of her weaponry and emptied of her officers, she struggles in the new role she\u2019s chosen for herself. When a ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of misfits and loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, an ex-captain of a medical frigate who once fought against Trouble Dog, are assigned to investigate and save whoever they can.Meanwhile, light years away, intelligence officer Ashton Childe is tasked with locating and saving the poet, Ona Sudak, who was aboard the missing ship, whatever the cost. In order to do this, he must reach out to the only person he considers a friend, even if he\u2019s not sure she can be trusted. What Childe doesn\u2019t know is that Sudak is not the person she appears to be.Quickly, what appears to be a straightforward rescue mission turns into something far more dangerous, as Trouble Dog, Konstanz and Childe, find themselves at the centre of a potential new conflict that could engulf not just mankind but the entire galaxy.If she is to survive and save her crew, Trouble Dog is going to have to remember how to fight.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30748899-embers-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "Chariots of The Gods", "author_name": "Erich von D\u00e4niken", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 13747, "review_number": 1229, "book_description": "Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own popular sequel, The Eyes of the Sphinx. But here is where it all began--von Daniken's startling theories of our earliest encounters with alien worlds, based upon his lifelong studies of ancient ruins, lost cities, potential spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Daniken's theory that we ourselves are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archeological discoveries that prove it... * An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramid * Thousand-year-old spaceflight navigation charts * Computer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruins * A map of the land beneath the ice cap of Antarctica * A giant spaceport discovered in the Andes Includes remarkable photos that document mankind's first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "History", "Science", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Religion", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Classics", "Mystery", "Science (Pseudoscience)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91202.Chariots_of_The_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "Ghosts of Manhattan", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 1187, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "INTRODUCING THE WORLD'S FIRST STEAMPUNK SUPERHERO. 1926. New York. The Roaring Twenties. Jazz. Flappers. Prohibition. Coal-powered cars. A cold war with a British Empire that still covers half of the globe.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6058062-ghosts-of-manhattan"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Echo Shadow Prime", "author_name": "Peter Samet", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 153, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "CONSCIOUSNESS IS IN THE CODEThe year is 2045. 18-year-old Charlie Nobunaga creates the world\u2019s first sentient AI and becomes an overnight sensation. But amid the red carpet galas and TV interviews, Charlie is diagnosed with cancer, and her promising future grinds to a halt.To save her life, an ambitious tech company uploads Charlie\u2019s mind into the body of a cutting-edge robot. The procedure is a success, but with a horrifying catch. They create additional clones for their own ends.Charlie wakes up four times as four distinct entities: a robot named PRIME, a holographic assistant named SHADOW, a mysterious four-armed killer named ECHO, and the original dying human renamed ZERO. Separated and imprisoned, each version of Charlie begins an arduous journey alone. But their paths soon intersect in surprising ways as they retaliate against the people determined to destroy them.ZERO ECHO SHADOW PRIME is the story of one young woman who splits into four\u2026and fights to become whole again.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22709462-zero-echo-shadow-prime"}, +{"book_title": "Lachlan", "author_name": "Hazel Hunter", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 3433, "review_number": 317, "book_description": "In a place she doesn\u2019t belong, in a time that is not her own, a shattered woman risks everything for the one thing she\u2019s never had\u2014love. When Kinley Chandler abruptly lands in medieval Scotland, there isn\u2019t much she\u2019s leaving behind. With her body shattered and her military career over, Kinley has resigned herself to death. But in the past, all that changes. Lachlan McDonnel, the laird of a clan of immortal highlanders, can hardly believe his good fortune. Not only does the mysterious lass save his life, she awakens his heart in a way he\u2019d thought no longer possible. But the druid spells that allow Lachlan\u2019s clan to live forever have a dark side as well. He and his men know all too well that the magic folk never give without taking. Though he is sworn to protect them, the price of his loyalty may finally be too high. Lachlan is the first book in the Immortal Highlander series. If you love brawny heroes, a mystical world, and a heroine with courage, then you\u2019ll love this sizzling series. Join the romantic realm of the Immortal Highlanders by picking up a copy of this book today.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36175616-lachlan"}, +{"book_title": "Blade Runner 2019 #1", "author_name": "Michael Green", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 205, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Early in the 21st Century, the TYRELL CORPORATION advanced robot evolution to the NEXUS phase \u2013 creating artificial beings virtually identical to humans \u2013 known as REPLICANTS. Superior in strength and agility, the Replicants functioned primarily as Off-world slave labor or in hazardous, high-collateral combat situations. After replicants were declared illegal on Earth, special police operatives \u2013 called BLADE RUNNERS \u2013 had orders to kill or \u2018RETIRE\u2019 any trespassers upon detection. Detective AAHNA ASHINA of the Los Angeles Police Department was one of the first to qualify for the assignment. Her colleagues called her ASH. She was the best of them. Los Angeles, 2019", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45214029-blade-runner-2019-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Infinite Sea", "author_name": "Rick Yancey", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 123001, "review_number": 12116, "book_description": "How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others\u2019 ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.Cassie and her friends haven\u2019t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131484-the-infinite-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Forgotten World", "author_name": "Kate L. Mary", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 770, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Forgotten World, book six in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own...After the longest winter of her life, Vivian is thrilled to have Ginny back at her side. But joy soon turns to shock when the group learns that not only is Hope Springs in contact with other survivors, but that the CDC is working on a vaccine. And Angus could be the last hope for the human race.With an armed escort, the group sets out on a mission to get Angus to Atlanta. But the world proves to be more dangerous than the people of Hope Springs believed, and their lack of preparation ends in deadly results. Vivian knows they must get Angus to Atlanta if they want to save the human race, but it doesn't take long to discover that this might be the most dangerous journey they have ever made. With trouble around every corner and their losses piling up, the stakes are higher than ever before.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27787066-forgotten-world"}, +{"book_title": "Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why", "author_name": "G. Willow Wilson", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 24405, "review_number": 2262, "book_description": "Who is the Inventor, and what does he want with the all-new Ms. Marvel and all her friends? Maybe Wolverine can help! If Kamala can stop fan-girling out about meeting her favorite super hero, that is. Then, Kamala crosses paths with Inhumanity -- by meeting the royal dog, Lockjaw! But why is Lockjaw really with Kamala? As Ms. Marvel discovers more about her past, the Inventor continues to threaten her future. Kamala bands together with some unlikely heroes to stop the maniacal villain before he does real damage, but has she taken on more than she can handle? And how much longer can Ms. Marvel's life take over Kamala Khan's? Kamala Khan continues to prove why she's the best (and most adorable) new super hero there is!Collecting Ms. Marvel(2014) #6-11.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23017947-ms-marvel-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Fear Me Not", "author_name": "Sara Wolf", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1240, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "The aliens crash-landed on Earth eleven years ago. And now, sixteen-year-old Victoria Hale feeds them. With her emotions. Victoria is an EVE - an Emotion Vesicle Engraft - and one of few humans who are genetically capable of producing emotions for the Gutters to feed on. She's doing it for the money - her sister Alisa needs a good doctor, and fast. But what she didn't count on was being sent to the world's first desegregated high school for Gutters and humans. She didn't count on the paparazzi, the protestors, or the insane Gutter politics and government secrets. She didn't count on the crimson-eyed Gutter prince with an intriguing heart of cold iron, either. She especially didn't count on murder. But it's counting on her.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22451025-fear-me-not"}, +{"book_title": "The Paper Magician", "author_name": "Charlie N. Holmberg", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 72116, "review_number": 7201, "book_description": "Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she\u2019s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic\u2026forever.Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined\u2014animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.An Excisioner\u2014a practitioner of dark, flesh magic\u2014invades the cottage and rips Thane\u2019s heart from his chest. To save her teacher\u2019s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane\u2019s still-beating heart\u2014and reveal the very soul of the man.From the imaginative mind of debut author Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician is an extraordinary adventure both dark and whimsical that will delight readers of all ages.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20727654-the-paper-magician"}, +{"book_title": "The Secret Chapter", "author_name": "Genevieve Cogman", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 4892, "review_number": 566, "book_description": "A Librarian\u2019s work is never done, and once Irene has a quick rest after their latest adventure, she is summoned to the Library. The world where she grew up is in danger of veering deep into chaos, and she needs to obtain a particular book to stop this from happening. No copies of the book are available in the Library, so her only choice is to contact a mysterious Fae information broker and trader of rare objects: Mr. Nemo.Irene and Kai make their way to Mr. Nemo\u2019s remote Caribbean island and are invited to dinner, which includes unlikely company. Mr. Nemo has an offer for everyone there: he wants them to steal a specific painting from a specific world. He swears that he will give each of them an item from his collection if they bring him the painting within the week.Everyone takes the deal. But to get their reward, they will have to form a team, including a dragon techie, a Fae thief, a gambler, a driver, and the muscle. Their goal? The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, in a early twenty-first century world, where their toughest challenge might be each other.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45043662-the-secret-chapter"}, +{"book_title": "Betty Builds It", "author_name": "Julie Hampton", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 50, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Combining humor and art with STEM subjects of science, technology, and math, Betty Builds It explores a burgeoning friendship between a genius engineering robot girl and her sweet younger brother who just wants to support his sister.Betty could build just about anything. Whatever she needs, she can make it for herself. But with a screen as her parental unit and her baby brother Toby who can't do much, Betty longs for a friend--so she builds one! While Toby struggles to get his sister's attention, Betty continues to build and build, until finally she realizes what she was looking for was beside her the whole time.Betty Builds It is a sweet family story of the new friendship between siblings, and also celebrates and promotes women and girls in science.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43293245-betty-builds-it"}, +{"book_title": "The Algebraist", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 19704, "review_number": 804, "book_description": "It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young & fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of\u2014part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony\u2014 Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer\u2014a war threatening to overwhelm everything & everyone he's ever known.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Banking (Banks)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12009.The_Algebraist"}, +{"book_title": "Blackout", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 20868, "review_number": 1873, "book_description": "Rise up while you can. -Georgia MasonThe year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.The year was 2039. The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set out on the biggest story of their generation. They uncovered the biggest conspiracy since the Rising and realized that to tell the truth, sacrifices have to be made.Now, the year is 2041, and the investigation that began with the election of President Ryman is much bigger than anyone had assumed. With too much left to do and not much time left to do it in, the surviving staff of After the End Times must face mad scientists, zombie bears, rogue government agencies-and if there's one thing they know is true in post-zombie America, it's this:Things can always get worse.Blackout is the conclusion to the epic trilogy that began in the Hugo-nominated Feed and the sequel, Deadline.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11806716-blackout"}, +{"book_title": "Frozen", "author_name": "Melissa de la Cruz", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 8879, "review_number": 1388, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston comes this remarkable first book in a spellbinding new series about the dawn of a new kind of magic.Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature\u2014freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows.At the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called \u201cthe Blue.\u201d They say it\u2019s a paradise, where the sun still shines and the waters are turquoise. More importantly, it\u2019s a place where Nat won\u2019t be persecuted, even if her darkest secret comes to light.But passage to the Blue is treacherous, if not impossible, and her only shot is to bet on a ragtag crew of mercenaries led by a cocky runner named Ryan Wesson to take her there. Danger and deceit await on every corner, even as Nat and Wes find themselves inexorably drawn to each other. But can true love survive the lies? Fiery hearts collide in this fantastic tale of the evil men do and the awesome power within us all.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15850937-frozen"}, +{"book_title": "Second Shift: Order", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 11251, "review_number": 462, "book_description": "The incredible second part of Shift, the follow up to bestseller Wool.Donald wasn't supposed to remember. In fact, he was punished for doing just that. But the information he should have forgotten may end up saving his future.Mission Jones is a young man who wants to change the world around him. The rules, the secrets, the lies. Putting his own life on the line, he fights to build a resistance and save those who have hope. But is he trying to save the wrong people?Donald knows the truth, but is he willing to use it to protect something that he regrets building in the first place?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16148938-second-shift"}, +{"book_title": "Undone", "author_name": "Wendy Higgins", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 955, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "USA Today and New York Times bestselling author, Wendy Higgins, brings you the gripping, sensual conclusion to her apocalyptic trilogy.Amber Tate never dreamed their heart-wrenching escape from the enemy\u2019s attack would lead them to the most beautiful place she\u2019s ever seen, marred by one ugly fact; it\u2019s under enemy control. Like everywhere else in the world, Elmendorf military base in Alaska has been captured, and it\u2019s time to take it back\u2014all of it\u2014one base, one city at a time. After losing so much, Amber clings to the only precious person she has left, and vows to sacrifice everything to help save the Earth.Remy Haines is a lover, not a fighter, so when she finds herself in enemy territory, expected to feign allegiance while gathering intel for the rebel cause, she\u2019s never been more out of her element. Tensions only increase when her feelings for Jacob \u201cTater\u201d Tate won\u2019t go away, and the enemy\u2019s leader takes an interest in her. She\u2019s torn between what her heart wants, and what she knows she should do. As for what her body needs\u2026well, it\u2019s always had a mind of its own.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["New Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32867161-undone"}, +{"book_title": "The Inexplicables", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2264, "review_number": 271, "book_description": "Rector \u201cWreck \u2019em\u201d Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of 1863, but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up, and on his eighteenth birthday, he\u2019ll be cast out out of the orphanage.And Wreck\u2019s problems aren\u2019t merely about finding a home. He\u2019s been quietly breaking the cardinal rule of any good drug dealer and dipping into his own supply of the sap he sells. He\u2019s also pretty sure he\u2019s being haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know\u2014Zeke Wilkes, who almost certainly died six months ago. Zeke would have every reason to pester Wreck, since Wreck got him inside the walled city of Seattle in the first place, and that was probably what killed him. Maybe it\u2019s only a guilty conscience, but Wreck can\u2019t take it anymore, so he sneaks over the wall.The walled-off wasteland of Seattle is every bit as bad as he\u2019d heard, chock-full of the hungry undead and utterly choked by the poisonous, inescapable yellow gas. And then there's the monster. Rector's pretty certain that whatever attacked him was not at all human\u2014and not a rotter, either. Arms far too long. Posture all strange. Eyes all wild and faintly glowing gold and known to the locals as simply \u201cThe Inexplicables.\u201dIn the process of tracking down these creatures, Rector comes across another incursion through the wall -- just as bizarre but entirely attributable to human greed. It seems some outsiders have decided there\u2019s gold to be found in the city and they\u2019re willing to do whatever it takes to get a piece of the pie unless Rector and his posse have anything to do with it.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9514173-the-inexplicables"}, +{"book_title": "Time Between Us", "author_name": "Tamara Ireland Stone", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 10663, "review_number": 1557, "book_description": "Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett has the unique ability to travel through time and space, which brings him into Anna\u2019s life, and with him a new world of adventure and possibility.As their relationship deepens, the two face the reality that time may knock Bennett back to where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate, what consequences they can bear in order to stay together, and whether their love can stand the test of time.Fresh, exciting, and deeply romantic, Time Between Us is a stunning, spellbinding debut from an extraordinary new voice in YA fiction.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11115457-time-between-us"}, +{"book_title": "Noughts & Crosses", "author_name": "Malorie Blackman", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 52894, "review_number": 3960, "book_description": "Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice in an alternate society.Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought -- a \u201ccolourless\u201d member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood, but that\u2019s as far as it can go. In their world, Noughts and Crosses simply don\u2019t mix. Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum -- a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger. Can they possibly find a way to be together?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Race", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714902.Noughts_Crosses"}, +{"book_title": "Opening Atlantis", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 1537, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "\"New York Times\" bestselling author Harry Turtledove has intrigued readers with such thought-provoking \"what if...\" scenarios as a conquered Elizabethan England in Ruled Britannia and a Japanese occupation of Hawaii in \"Days of Infamy\" and \"End of the Beginning.\" Now, in the first of a brand-new trilogy, he rewrites the history of the world with the existence of an eighth continent... Atlantis lies between Europe and the East Coast of Terranova. For many years, this land of opportunity lured dreamers from around the globe with its natural resources, offering a new beginning for those willing to brave the wonders of the unexplored land.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666256.Opening_Atlantis"}, +{"book_title": "The Far West", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 4193, "review_number": 442, "book_description": "When the government forms an expedition to map the Far West, Eff has the opportunity to travel farther than anyone in the world. With twin Lan, William, Professor Torgeson, Wash, and Professor Ochiba, she finds that nothing on the wild frontier is as they expected. There are strange findings in their research, a long prairie winter spent in too-close quarters, and more new species, magical and otherwise, dangerous and benign, than they ever expected to find. When spring comes, the explorers realize how tenuous life near the Great Barrier Spell must stop a magical flood in a hurry. Eff's unique way of viewing magic has saved the settlers time and again, now all of Columbia is at risk.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12291646-the-far-west"}, +{"book_title": "The Empress Game", "author_name": "Rhonda Mason", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1090, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "One seat on the intergalactic Sakien Empire\u2019s supreme ruling body, the Council of Seven, remains unfilled, that of the Empress Apparent. The seat isn\u2019t won by votes or marriage. It\u2019s won in a tournament of ritualized combat in the ancient tradition. Now that tournament, the Empress Game, has been called and the females of the empire will stop at nothing to secure political domination for their homeworlds. Kayla Reinumon, a supreme fighter, is called by a mysterious stranger to battle it out in the arena. The battle for political power isn\u2019t contained by the tournament\u2019s ring, however. The empire\u2019s elite gather to forge, strengthen or betray alliances in a dance that will determine the fate of the empire for a generation. With the empire wracked by a rising nanovirus plague and stretched thin by an ill-advised planet-wide occupation of Ordoch in enemy territory, everything rests on the woman who rises to the top.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23395806-the-empress-game"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Lost", "author_name": "Daniel Arenson", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2719, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Earth burns. We call them the scum. They came from deep space. Creatures of claws and endless malice, they ravage the world. As the war flares, as cities crumble, Private Marco Emery and his platoon blast into space. They won one battle on Earth. Their next battle must be fought in the darkness. The scum will not rest until the last human is dead. Marco and his friends must defeat them. They must win. Or Earth will fall.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Horror", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31146330-earth-lost"}, +{"book_title": "Temeraire: In the Service of the King", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1782, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Together in one volume, here are the first three novels in Naomi Novik's\" New York Times \"bestselling Temeraire series, combining the gripping history of the Napoleonic era, the thrill of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books, and the excitement of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures. In His Majesty's Service also includes an exclusive original Temeraire short story. Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo-an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation's history. Thrust into England's Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial dragon intended for Napoleon-Temeraire himself- has fallen into British hands. The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage fraught with peril and intrigue. From England's shores to China's palaces, from the Silk Road's outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland, Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from powerful adversaries around the globe. But can they succeed against the massed forces of Bonaparte's implacable army? ", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142652.Temeraire"}, +{"book_title": "Love and Gravity", "author_name": "Samantha Sotto", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 855, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "In this unforgettable novel for fans of One Day and The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife, a young Isaac Newton falls in love with a girl living in modern-day San Francisco, defying the laws of physics to forge a seemingly impossible connection.Andrea Louviere is seven years old the first time he appears. While she\u2019s alone in her bedroom, practicing her beloved cello, the light shivers and a crack forms in the wall. Through the crack, she sees a candle, a window, a desk\u2014and a boy. Though no sound travels through the wall, the boy clearly sees Andrea, too. And then, just as quickly as it opened, the crack closes, and he vanishes.Over the years, summoning the bright, magnetic boy becomes something of an obsession for Andrea. Then, on her seventeenth birthday, she receives a three-hundred-year-old love letter from Isaac Newton. Andrea knows that Isaac will change the world with his groundbreaking discoveries; the letter tells Andrea that she will change him.As Isaac\u2019s letters intensify in passion and intimacy, Andrea grows determined to follow his clues to their shared destiny\u2014despite a burgeoning romance in the present. Only when she discovers the way into Isaac\u2019s time does Andrea realize that she faces a heartbreaking decision: between what was . . . and what might be.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31564042-love-and-gravity"}, +{"book_title": "Throne of the Crescent Moon", "author_name": "Saladin Ahmed", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 10513, "review_number": 1624, "book_description": "The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. It is up to a handful of heroes to learn the truth behind these killings:Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, \u201cthe last real ghul hunter in the great city of Dhamsawaat,\u201d just wants a quiet cup of tea. Three score and more years old, he has grown weary of hunting monsters and saving lives, and is more than ready to retire from his dangerous and demanding vocation. But when an old flame\u2019s family is murdered, Adoulla is drawn back to the hunter\u2019s path.Raseed bas Raseed, Adoulla\u2019s young assistant, is a hidebound holy warrior whose prowess is matched only by his piety. But even as Raseed\u2019s sword is tested by ghuls and manjackals, his soul is tested when he and Adoulla cross paths with the tribeswoman Zamia.Zamia Badawi, Protector of the Band, has been gifted with the near-mythical power of the lion-shape, but shunned by her people for daring to take up a man\u2019s title. She lives only to avenge her father\u2019s death. Until she learns that Adoulla and his allies also hunt her father\u2019s killer. Until she meets Raseed.When they learn that the murders and the Falcon Prince\u2019s brewing revolution are connected, the companions must race against time\u2014and struggle against their own misgivings\u2014to save the life of a vicious despot. In so doing they discover a plot for the Throne of the Crescent Moon that threatens to turn Dhamsawaat, and the world itself, into a blood-soaked ruin.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11487807-throne-of-the-crescent-moon"}, +{"book_title": "The Disinherited", "author_name": "Steve White", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 120, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "The US Space Force was in big trouble. With all its traditional enemies no longer threatening, it was becoming redundant. Then the aliens arrived, warning of others behind them, not so friendly and massing for attack.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320932.The_Disinherited"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Awakens", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 10825, "review_number": 696, "book_description": "The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, in the empty reaches between the stars. Then a young navigator on a distant mining ship saw something moving too fast, heading directly for our sun.When the alien ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the far-flung human mining ships and supply stations, and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth, and on Luna, corporate power struggles seemed more urgent than distant deaths. But there are a few men and women who see that if Earth doesn't wake up and pull together, the planet could be lost.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult", "Space", "Fantasy", "War", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490707-earth-awakens"}, +{"book_title": "Star Strike", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1432, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen to the alien Xul.Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated centuries ago . . .A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their home world\u2014which has enabled the United Star Marines to operate unnoticed and unhindered. A near-autonomous intergalactic policing force, they battle in defense of an Earth they may not live to see again. Now, following the trail of a vanished twenty-fourth-century transport, they are journeying through an unexplored stargate to the edge of an unknown galaxy many light years from their sun. For the last, best, and only chance to defeat the tyrants of the universe may at long last be at hand . . .", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1223916.Star_Strike"}, +{"book_title": "Unravel Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 179751, "review_number": 16093, "book_description": "The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi\u2019s Shatter Me series.It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defense mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from.She and Adam were able to escape Warner\u2019s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. Juliette will finally be able to actively fight against The Reestablishment and try to fix her broken world. And perhaps these new allies can help her shed light on the secret behind Adam\u2019s\u2014and Warner\u2019s\u2014immunity to her killer skin.Juliette\u2019s world is packed with high-stakes action and tantalizing romance, perfect for fans of the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard and the Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken.Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, raved: \"A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young-adult literature\u2014or any literature!\"", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "New Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13104080-unravel-me"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral", "author_name": "Sean Danker", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1352, "review_number": 270, "book_description": "\u201cI was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side.\u201d He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire\u2014a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol, but the ship\u2019s records confirm he is their superior officer. Whether he is an Evagardian admiral or a spy will be of little consequence if the crew members all end up dead. They are marooned on a strange world, their ship\u2019s systems are failing one by one\u2014and they are not alone.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Mystery", "Adult", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24452990-admiral"}, +{"book_title": "Fires of Invention", "author_name": "J. Scott Savage", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1308, "review_number": 250, "book_description": "Trenton Colman is a creative thirteen-year-old boy with a knack for all things mechanical. But his talents are viewed with suspicion in Cove, a steam-powered city built inside a mountain. In Cove, creativity is a crime and \u201cinvention\u201d is a curse word. Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, whose father died in an explosion\u2014an event the leaders of Cove point to as an example of the danger of creativity. Working together, Trenton and Kallista learn that Leo Babbage was developing a secret project before he perished. Following clues he left behind, they begin to assemble a strange machine that is unlike anything they\u2019ve ever seen before. They soon discover that what they are building may threaten every truth their city is founded on\u2014and quite possibly their very lives.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25205326-fires-of-invention"}, +{"book_title": "Fighting to Survive", "author_name": "Rhiannon Frater", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 5438, "review_number": 363, "book_description": "Katie and Jenni have found new lives with the survivors of their makeshift fort, but danger still lurks. Nothing is easy in the new world where the dead walk and every day is a struggle to keep safe. As the elements, bandits, and the zombie horde threaten their safe haven, Jenni and Katie join the other survivors in fighting to survive as the world dies.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350211-fighting-to-survive"}, +{"book_title": "Space Team", "author_name": "Barry J. Hutchison", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 3858, "review_number": 509, "book_description": "Alternate Cover Edition of ASIN B01LT76J7KCal Carver is having a bad day. Imprisoned and forced to share a cell with a cannibalistic serial killer, Cal thinks things can't possibly get any worse. He is wrong. It\u2019s not until two-thirds of the human race is wiped out and Cal is abducted by aliens that his day really starts to go downhill. Whisked across the galaxy, Cal is thrown into a team of some of the sector's most notorious villains and scumbags. Their mission should be simple enough, but as one screw-up leads to another, they find themselves in a frantic battle to save an entire alien civilization - and its god - from total annihilation. A hilarious, fast-paced space adventure from the author the Independent calls \"the new Terry Pratchett.\"", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32058824-space-team"}, +{"book_title": "Half a Crown", "author_name": "Jo Walton", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1778, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "\nIn 1941, the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried \"undesirables\" across the Channel to board the cattle cars headed east. Peter Carmichael is commander of the Watch, Britain's distinctly British secret police. It's his job to warn the Prime Minister of treason, to arrest plotters, and to discover Jews. The midnight knock of a Watchman is the most dreaded sound in the realm. Now, in 1960, a global peace conference is convening in London, where Britain, Germany, and Japan will oversee the final partition of the world. Hitler is once again on British soil. So is the long exiled Duke of Windsor, and the rising gangs of \"British Power\" streetfighters, who consider the Government \"soft,\" may be the former king's bid to stage a coup d'\u00e9tat. Amidst all this, two of the most unlikely persons in the realm will join forces to oppose the fascists: a debutante whose greatest worry until now has been where to find the right string of pearls, and the Watch Commander himself.\n", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3298088-half-a-crown"}, +{"book_title": "The Deep", "author_name": "Rivers Solomon", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 14967, "review_number": 3327, "book_description": "The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society\u2014and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated song \u201cThe Deep\u201d from Daveed Diggs\u2019 rap group Clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her people\u2014water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners\u2014who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one\u2014the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities\u2014and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past\u2014and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they\u2019ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity\u2014and own who they really are.Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode \u201cWe Are In The Future,\u201d The Deep is vividly original and uniquely affecting.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Novella", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201962-the-deep"}, +{"book_title": "Beauty and Beastly", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 703, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "\nIn this tale as old as time, Isabella Hawking must tinker a solution to a heartbreaking mystery.\n When Isabelle and her papa set out from London on a sea voyage, Isabelle was thrilled. Visiting foreign courts, learning from master tinkers, and studying new ways to manipulate mechanicals sounded like a dream.\u00a0But an unexpected gale turns the waters violent, and the ship is lost. Isabelle survives the tempest only to be shipwrecked on a seemingly-deserted island. Dotted with standing stones, faerie mounds, and a crumbling castle, the haunting place hints of a magical past. Isabelle may be an unwitting guest, but her arrival at the forgotten citadel heralds a new beginning for the beastly residents inside.\nBeauty and Beastly is a retelling of the classic Beauty and the Beast fairy tale set in 1814 Regency England.\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36007958-beauty-and-beastly"}, +{"book_title": "The Strange Case of Finley Jayne", "author_name": "Kady Cross", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 7720, "review_number": 935, "book_description": "Finley Jayne knows she's not 'normal'. Normal girls don't lose time, or have something inside them that makes them capable of remarkably violent things. Her behavior has already cost her one job, so when she's offered the lofty position of companion to Phoebe, a debutante recently engaged to Lord Vincent, she accepts, despite having no experience. Lord Vincent is a man of science with his automatons and inventions, but Finley is suspicious of his motives where Phoebe is concerned. She will do anything to protect her new friend, but what she discovers is even more monstrous than anything she could have imagined.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11130686-the-strange-case-of-finley-jayne"}, +{"book_title": "Night of the Zandians", "author_name": "Renee Rose", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1029, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "A Reverse Harem (MFMM) Alien RomanceThe Zandians have taken back their planet. Now they need brides. All human females have been assigned to mates. Yes, mates, multiple. I've been given to three handsome males--cousins. Huge, purple and horned, they act like they want to eat me for breakfast. After what I've been through with previous slave masters, I don't know how I'll survive this. But I have to. It's adapt or be sent off-planet, which would mean my death, considering I'm wanted for murder. My mates cannot find out I'm not able to reproduce. I need to keep my secret, figure out a way to survive, stay focused. But when the Zandian warriors claim me, they make me forget my past and scream with pleasure. I can't let myself fall for them. If they learn my secret, I'll lose more than my life. I'll lose my heart.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38726994-night-of-the-zandians"}, +{"book_title": "The Road of Danger", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1311, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Captain Daniel Leary with his friend\u2013and spy\u2013Officer Adele Mundy are sent to a quiet sector to carry out an easy task: helping the local admiral put down a coup before it takes place. But then the jealous admiral gets rid of them by sending them off on a wild goose chase to a sector where commerce is king and business is carried out by extortion and gunfights.\u00a0 With anarchy and rebellion in the air, a rogue intelligence officer plots the war that will destroy civilization and enlists the help of a brute whom even torturers couldn't stomach.\u00a0\u00a0And, of course, it\u2019s up to Leary and Mundy to put a stop to the madness...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12813548-the-road-of-danger"}, +{"book_title": "Once Upon a Time", "author_name": "Alessandra Hazard", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 2395, "review_number": 303, "book_description": "A very proper prince and a rude, dangerous man who may or may not be a stableman: a fairy-tale love story...Ice Prince.Prince Jamil of Calluvia has always disliked that moniker, but he is responsible and proper, and it's probably accurate to say that he isn't good at emotions. After being widowed, Jamil\u2019s life has revolved around his duties as a crown prince and little else. But one night, everything changes.One night, Jamil meets a man at the royal stables, a man who is the opposite of proper, a man with eyes as black as sin.Rohan di'Lehr is everything Jamil should despise. He's a rude, lowborn criminal. He's terrible for Jamil's self-control. He makes Jamil behave like a wanton creature, not the Crown Prince.They have nothing in common. They have no future together.He still can't stay away.A story of forbidden, twisted attraction and love that defies all odds.Note: This book contains explicit sexual M/M content and graphic language. ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Gay Romance (Gay For You)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53920632-once-upon-a-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman", "author_name": "Nick Jones", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1651, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "Librarian Note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B014757M9U.Meet Joseph Bridgeman, a reclusive insomniac with a weakness for \u2018The Beatles\u2019 on vinyl and a constant headache. When his annoying accountant suggests hypnotherapy might help him sleep, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time-travel and things get a little complicated. With the help of Vinny, a local record shop owner, Mark, his old school friend, and Alexia Finch, his hypno-time-travel guru, Joe sets out to change the course of his life. He needs to get back to 1992, the year his world fell apart, the year that Amy, his sister, went missing. The only problem (apart from his clothes disappearing) is that the further back he goes the less time he gets to stay there. Can Joe master his new-found gift before time catches up with him?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Humor", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34823478-the-unexpected-gift-of-joseph-bridgeman"}, +{"book_title": "\u014coku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 6", "author_name": "Fumi Yoshinaga", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 401, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga\u2019s alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power\u2014including the shogun\u2019s seat!In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber...The aging shogun Tsunayoshi must name an heir, but her senile father is blocking the ascendance of the most likely candidate in favor of a young, untried lord. But politics and the shogun\u2019s own unpopularity may soon take the choice out of her hands.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Manga (Josei)", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10224506-oku"}, +{"book_title": "Cry Pilot", "author_name": "Joel Dane", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 738, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "A devastated Earth. Rogue bio-weapons. And a recruit with secrets. In this explosive new military science fiction novel, a tight-knit infantry squad is thrown into battle against a mysterious enemy that appears without warning and strikes without mercy.There's only one way for a man with Maseo Kaytu's secrets to join the military: by volunteering for a suicide mission as a 'cry pilot'. He cheats the system to survive, but you can't fake basic training. Assigned to a squad of misfits, Kaytu learns how to fight, how to obey, and how to trust. Yet the more he bonds with his fellow recruits, the more he risks exposure of his criminal past. Keeping his secret is about to become the least of his problems. Kaytu discovers that his platoon is being deployed against a new kind of rogue bio-weapon. One that has torn apart every military force it's ever faced . . . .", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43514595-cry-pilot"}, +{"book_title": "Fallen Angels", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 2292, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "Having been shot down over the North Dakota glacier, two Space Habs astronauts find themselves paralyzed by the Earth's gravity and at the center of a ruthless manhunt by the United States government.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science (Technology)", "Historical", "Epic", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100364.Fallen_Angels"}, +{"book_title": "Worldshaker", "author_name": "Richard Harland", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2549, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "Col is a wealthy child of privilege. Raised to succeed his grandfather as the Supreme Commander of the juggernaut Worldshaker, he has lived a pampered life on the Upper Decks. He has never questioned his place in the world or his bright and illustrious future. But when a Filthy girl stows away in his cabin, suddenly nothing is clear anymore. Quick and clever, Riff is nothing like the Filthies that Col always learned about\u2014the dumb, slow, less-than-human folk who toil away Below, keeping Worldshaker moving. Filthies are supposed to be animal-like, without the power of speech or the ability to think for themselves\u2014but Riff is clever and quick and outspoken, and Col is drawn to her despite himself.As Col begins to secretly spend more time with Riff, he begins to question everything he was raised to believe was true, and realizes that if Riff is right, then everything he was raised to believe is a lie. And Col himself may be the only person in a position to do something about it\u2014even if it means risking his future.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6696340-worldshaker"}, +{"book_title": "My Highland Lover", "author_name": "Maeve Greyson", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 537, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Maeve Greyson unleashes a thrilling tale of magic and desire as a feisty Southern gal falls into the arms of a rough-hewn Highland chieftain. As the proprietor of a homeopathic store in rural Kentucky, Trulie Sinclair knows that her neighbors think she\u2019s strange\u2014but they have no idea how strange she really is. Trulie was born in Scotland in the thirteenth century to a line of time-traveling Highlanders. When Trulie\u2019s grandmother convinces her to return to their homeland,Trulie jumps back in time, right onto the powerful chest of Gray MacKenna. Just as his steely good looks send ripples through her body, their fierce attraction will send ripples through the ages. After his parents murdered, Gray is consumed by thoughts of revenge. As the new chieftain of the MacKenna clan, he has reason to believe that there\u2019s a traitor in his midst, and nothing\u2014not even the bonny lass who suddenly drops from the sky\u2014can distract him from his single-minded pursuit of the culprit. But when Gray learns that this sassy beauty possesses gifts beyond the sparkle in her eye, he allows his gaze, and his heart, to linger. While he hunts for the murderer, Gray finds in Trulie a precious companion\u2014and a timeless love. Includes a special message from the editor, as well as an excerpt from another Loveswept title.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23167115-my-highland-lover"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien's Escape", "author_name": "Ella Maven", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 776, "review_number": 70, "book_description": " \"She will have my babies, but on our terms.\"Valerie: I thought waking up on a spaceship was traumatic. That's got nothing on returning to consciousness while shackled in a cell. The kicker? I'm supposed to be a breeder for the alien in the cell next to me. My mother always told me I had birthing hips, but I don't think she meant they were for pushing out blue extraterrestrials. I want to hate my cell-mate, but he's a prisoner too, and so far he's taken a few beatings to protect me...Sax: The food sucks but the view has gotten a hell of a lot better since the human female showed up. I know exactly what our captors want--for us to mate so they can take our baby. Over my dead body. I'm willing to suffer their abuse if they leave the pretty female alone, but when they hurt her, all bets are off. Now I'm not only finding a way to escape with her, I'm also taking out every last captor before I leave. And then? I'll fill her with as many babies as she wants.The Alien's Escape is a full-length Sci-Fi Romance novel featuring a curvy heroine with nursing skills and a snarky, devoted hero with a pierced tongue who isn't afraid of a little pain. ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51459121-the-alien-s-escape"}, +{"book_title": "Troika", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1392, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Troika tells the story of men and women confronting an enigma known as the Matryoshka, a vast alien construct whose periodic appearances have generated terror, wonder, and endless debate. During its third \"apparition\" in a remote corner of the galaxy, a trio of Russian cosmonauts approach this enigma and attempt to penetrate its mysteries.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Cultural (Russia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10722390-troika"}, +{"book_title": "23 Years on Fire", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 735, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Commander Cassandra Kresnov has her hands full. She must lead an assault against the Federation world of Pyeongwha, where a terrible sociological phenomenon has unleashed hell against the civilian population. Then she faces the threat from a portion of League space known as New Torah, in which a ruthless regime of surviving corporations are building new synthetic soldiers but taking the technology in alarming directions.On the Torahn world of Pantala, Sandy encounters betrayal, crisis, and conspiracy on a scale previously unimaginable. Most challenging of all, she also meets three young street kids who stir emotions in her she didn't think she was capable of. Can the Federation's most lethal killer afford unexpected sentiment? What will be the cost if she is forced to choose between them and her mission, not only to her cause, but to her soul?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17288768-23-years-on-fire"}, +{"book_title": "All That Remains", "author_name": "Jack Hunt", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 2634, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "On the brink of chaos, the journey of survival begins. Landon Gray, a skillful \u201cferry pilot\u201d who delivers planes to customers has one final drop in Alabama before Christmas. But when an EMP causes the plane he\u2019s in to crash on the remote, snow-covered mountains of North Carolina, he\u2019s rescued by, Beth \u2018Bluebird\u2019 Sullivan, who claims to have lived off the grid since she was born. Beth brings him back to an isolated cabin to recover while waiting for her father to come back from the nearby town. When he doesn\u2019t return, Beth grows increasingly worried while Landon struggles with being far from home. Discovering what the country has suffered is just the beginning, they must now learn to trust each other in order to survive the extreme elements and dangers of a world without power. All That Remains is book one in Lone Survivor, a post-apocalyptic EMP thriller series following a group of survivors as they fight to stay alive after an EMP destroys the nation's power supply.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51071501-all-that-remains"}, +{"book_title": "All My Sins Remembered", "author_name": "Joe Haldeman", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1922, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "Otto McGavin is peacefully idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederacion because he believes in its mission to protect human & nonhuman rights. The only problem is that the Confederacion needs him as one of its twelve Prime Operators for its secret service, the TBII. The TBII wants him as a spy, thief & assassin. It's not, of course, a problem for the Confederacion, which simply uses immersion therapy & hypnotic personality overlay for Otto's training, then sends him out in deep cover, encased in plastiflesh, on a variety of dangerous missions on a number of bizarre worlds. But for him, it's a different matter: what he has to witness & what he's forced to do take a terrible toll. Always he returns to his original self--his conscience stabbed by the memory of all those he'd killed in the service of interstellar harmony.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/362801.All_My_Sins_Remembered"}, +{"book_title": "Mariana", "author_name": "Susanna Kearsley", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 22621, "review_number": 2473, "book_description": "From the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget...The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she\u2019s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason.As if Greywethers were a portal between worlds, she finds herself transported into seventeenth-century England, becoming Mariana, a young woman struggling against danger and treachery, and battling a forbidden love.Each time Julia travels back, she becomes more enthralled with the past...until she realizes Mariana\u2019s life is threatening to eclipse her own, and she must find a way to lay the past to rest or lose the chance for happiness in her own time.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/961833.Mariana"}, +{"book_title": "Demons and Druids", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4988, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "Daniel X's hunt to eliminate each and every intergalactic criminal on Earth is always relentless, but this time, it's getting personal. Number Three on the List of Alien Outlaws takes the form of raging, soul-possessing fire. And fire transports Daniel back to the most traumatic event of his life-the death of his parents. In the face of his \"kryptonite\", Daniel struggles with his extraordinary powers like never before, and more than ever is at stake: his best friends are in grave peril. The only way to save them is to travel back-through a hole in time-to the demon's arrival during the Dark Ages. Rip-roaring action and humor sets the pages afire in this gripping time-travel adventure with an Arthurian cast-and countless other surprises!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7125335-demons-and-druids"}, +{"book_title": "Stalking Jack the Ripper", "author_name": "Kerri Maniscalco", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 65493, "review_number": 12111, "book_description": "Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion...Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.The story's shocking twists and turns, augmented with real, sinister period photos, will make this dazzling, #1 New York Times bestselling debut from author Kerri Maniscalco impossible to forget.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Horror", "Romance", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40727470-stalking-jack-the-ripper"}, +{"book_title": "Fire", "author_name": "William Esmont", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 621, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "No one knows what caused the dead to rise. No one knows what caused them to attack the living. Fighting for their lives, scattered survivors find the attempted cure to be almost worse than the disease.In the twilight of a shattered civilization, the fate of humankind rests upon the actions of a handful of war-weary survivors. Driven to a scorched corner of the former United States, they alone hold the key to a global reawakening.Or the final epitaph for a dead planet.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11778202-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Rats, Bats & Vats", "author_name": "Dave Freer", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1801, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt in trouble: stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats. Rats with human speech, but with rat priorities: sex, food and strong drink. And the bats were revolutionaries planning to throw off the human yoke -- with high explosive. Then there was the girl they'd rescued. Rich. Beautiful. With a passionate crush on her \"heroic\" rescuer. Her entourage was a screwball Alien tutor, and a cyber-uplifted lemurlike pet galago with delusions of being the world's greatest lover. Of course things only got worse. Seven rats, five bats, a galago, two humans, a sea-urchin-like alien and an elderly vineyard tractor without brakes...against several million inimical aliens. He was going to die. Mind you, not dying could be even more terrible. That girl might get him.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Space (Space Opera)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57279.Rats_Bats_Vats"}, +{"book_title": "Hex and the City", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 11337, "review_number": 259, "book_description": "Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside--the dark heart of London where it's always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside--and all of existence-- could be snuffed out.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104765.Hex_and_the_City"}, +{"book_title": "Plague", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 49560, "review_number": 2095, "book_description": "It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach.But enemies in the FAYZ don't just fade away, and in the quiet, deadly things are stirring, mutating, and finding their way free. The Darkness has found its way into the mind of its Nemesis at last and is controlling it through a haze of delirium and confusion. A highly contagious, fatal illness spreads at an alarming rate. Sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach. And Sam, Astrid, Diana, and Caine are plagued by a growing doubt that they'll escape - or even survive - life in the FAYZ. With so much turmoil surrounding them, what desperate choices will they make when it comes to saving themselves and those they love?Plague, Michael Grant's fourth book in the bestselling Gone series, will satisfy dystopian fans of all ages.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6686101-plague"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow of the War Machine", "author_name": "Kristin Bailey", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 228, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Meg has come a long way from her days as a lowly housemaid, driven to learn the truth behind her parents\u2019 murder. She\u2019s since discovered that they were part of the Secret Order of Modern Amusementists \u2014 an underground society of inventors. Determined to reclaim her heritage, she joined the Amusementists as an apprentice, but that hasn\u2019t brought her closer to the person responsible for the loss of her family: the man in the clockwork mask.Now he is coming for her. But Meg is tired of being hunted and she intends to become the hunter. With help from Will, the boy who holds her heart, Meg embarks on an adventure that takes them far from the cold London winter and into the heart of France.But the City of Light is filled with dark shadows. There\u2019s a plot afoot that could turn the tides of a terrible war, and cost the lives of millions \u2014 that is, if it doesn\u2019t take the lives of everyone Meg holds dear, including her own.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21469933-shadow-of-the-war-machine"}, +{"book_title": "One Magic Moment", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1767, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "Medieval studies scholar Tess Alexander is thrilled for the chance to live in a medieval castle. But then a trip to the village brings her face-to-face with the owner of the local garage, who looks a great deal like the man who married her sister...800 years in the past. She's determined to remain objective about magic and destiny, but she can't help wondering about that mysterious, sword-wielding mechanic.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9632944-one-magic-moment"}, +{"book_title": "Fog Magic", "author_name": "Julia L. Sauer", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1204, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "Originally published in 1943, this edition features a rare cover by the ground-breaking illustrator Lynd Ward.Greta had always loved the fog\u2014the soft gray mist that rolled in from the sea and drifted over the village. The fog seemed to have a secret to tell her. Then one day when Greta was walking in the woods and the mist was closing in, she saw the dark outline of a stone house against the spruce trees\u2014a house where only an old cellar hole should have been. Then she saw a surrey come by, carrying a lady dressed in plum-colored silk. The woman beckoned for Greta to join her, and soon Greta found herself launched on an adventure that would take her back to a past that existed only through the magic of the fog", "year_published": 1943, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297891.Fog_Magic"}, +{"book_title": "Metropolis", "author_name": "Thea von Harbou", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1139, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter\u2014Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film\u2014this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room floor; in a very real way it is the only way to understand the film. Michael Joseph of The Bookman wrote about the novel: \"It is a remarkable piece of work, skillfully reproducing the atmosphere one has come to associate with the most ambitious German film productions. Suggestive in many respects of the dramatic work of Karel Capek and of the earlier fantastic romances of H. G. Wells, in treatment it is an interesting example of expressionist literature. ... Metropolis is one of the most powerful novels I have read and one which may capture a large public both in America and England if it does not prove too bewildering to the plain reader.\"", "year_published": 1925, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Culture (Film)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Literature", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1043987.Metropolis"}, +{"book_title": "The Degan Paradox", "author_name": "Rob Colton", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 696, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "The adventure continues in this action-packed follow up to The Degan Incident and The Cassini Mission!Peri McSmith is aboard the U.S.C. Cassini, en route to the Degan Homeworld. A routine medical examination reveals a startling yet impossible link between Peri and the Cassini\u2019s last mission.Beshel Drago, Chief Investigator for the Degan Federation, searches for leads on the rogue scientists conducting illegal genetic experiments using Degan citizens. He hits yet another a dead end\u2014until the rescued embryo\u2019s human parent is identified.When the Degan Science Institute is attacked, and the embryo stolen, it\u2019s up to Beshel and Peri to not only recover the child, but to prevent all-out war between the Degans and the Galactic Planetary Union.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Futuristic", "War (Military Fiction)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24581363-the-degan-paradox"}, +{"book_title": "The Burning World", "author_name": "Isaac Marion", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2657, "review_number": 521, "book_description": "R is recovering from death.He\u2019s learning how to breathe, how to speak, how to be human, one clumsy step at a time. He doesn\u2019t remember his old life and he doesn\u2019t want to. He\u2019s building a new one with Julie.But his old life remembers him. The plague has another host far more dangerous than the Dead. It\u2019s coming to return the world to the good old days of stability and control and the strong eating the weak, and stopping it will require a frightening journey into the surreal wastelands of America\u2014and the shadowy basement of R\u2019s mind.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16148435-the-burning-world"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost in the Shell", "author_name": "Masamune Shirow", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 10650, "review_number": 511, "book_description": "In the rapidly converging landscape of the 21st century Major Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including ghost hackers When he track the trail of one hacker, her quest leads her to a world she could never have imagined.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Cultural (Japan)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35870.Ghost_in_the_Shell"}, +{"book_title": "The Bees", "author_name": "Laline Paull", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 33228, "review_number": 5240, "book_description": "The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. And while mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. Then she finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous. Enemies roam everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. But Flora cannot help but break the most sacred law of all, and her instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire, as overwhelming as it is forbidden...Laline Paull's chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Thrilling and imaginative, The Bees is the story of a heroine who changes her destiny and her world.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Animals", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Contemporary", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18652002-the-bees"}, +{"book_title": "Akata Witch", "author_name": "Nnedi Okorafor", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 23648, "review_number": 4086, "book_description": "Akata Witch transports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it seems. Born in New York, but living in Aba, Nigeria, twelve-year old Sunny is understandably a little lost. She is albino and thus, incredibly sensitive to the sun. All Sunny wants to do is be able to play football and get through another day of school without being bullied. But once she befriends Orlu and Chichi, Sunny is plunged in to the world of the Leopard People, where your worst defect becomes your greatest asset. Together, Sunny, Orlu, Chichi and Sasha form the youngest ever Oha Coven. Their mission is to track down Black Hat Otokoto, the man responsible for kidnapping and maiming children. Will Sunny be able to overcome the killer with powers stronger than her own, or will the future she saw in the flames become reality?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Cultural (Africa)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7507944-akata-witch"}, +{"book_title": "Channel Zero", "author_name": "Brian Wood", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Special interest groups have bullied the government into passing the Clean Act, effectively killing freedom of speech and silencing the country into submission. TV and God become one and the same as America wages its own holy war against its citizens. Meet Jennie 2.5, media slut turned info-terrorist, out to save the country from itself, and restore free will and self expression. Hailed internationally as ground-breaking work in the field of sequential art, Channel Zero challenges and tests the limits, combining current events and no-future shock into a dark, paranoid, deep-ambient visual narrative. ", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235650.Channel_Zero"}, +{"book_title": "Gabe", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1206, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Hell Squad soldier Gabe Jackson has lost everything that mattered, including his twin brother. Now he just wants to kill the invading aliens anyway he knows how\u2026and he knows a lot of ways. Previously part of a secret Army super-soldier project, he\u2019s faster, stronger, deadlier\u2026but on the inside, he\u2019s a mass of rage, and pain, and grief\u2014all waiting for a chance to drag him under. Until he finds her. Dr. Emerson Green had her life planned: thrive in the high-stress environment of the ER, build her career, have a great life. Then the raptor alien invasion happened. Now she\u2019s the head of the medical team for the secret base sheltering human survivors outside of Sydney. She\u2019s also in charge of patching up the soldiers who get too close to raptor claws. She\u2019d never planned for this\u2026and she\u2019d never planned for sexy, brooding Gabe Jackson. As Emerson uncovers clues to the aliens\u2019 secret plans for the human race, she and Gabe collide in a storm of volatile passion. But the brooding soldier is as stubborn as he is silent, and Emerson knows she must convince him to reach out to her\u2026because Gabe is a ticking time bomb about to go off. Note to readers: This sci fi romance contains a lot of action (think invading aliens, explosions and gunfights), tough warriors (the sexy, battle-hardened soldiers of Hell Squad) and a steamy romance (lots of sexy times between a warrior woman and a sexy soldier). So if you like it fast, and gritty, and sexy, this is for you! Includes preview of Book 3 of the Hell Squad, Gabe.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25606085-gabe"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Hour", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 7192, "review_number": 265, "book_description": "United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite Expeditionary Force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-Merry Band of Pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of lightyears from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed \u2018Skippy\u2019 is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36542226-zero-hour"}, +{"book_title": "Renegade Star", "author_name": "J.N. Chaney", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2773, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "They say the Earth is just a myth. Something to tell your children when you put them to sleep, the lost homeworld of humanity. Everyone knows it isn't real, though. It can't be.But when Captain Jace Hughes encounters a nun with a mysterious piece of cargo and a bold secret, he soon discovers that everything he thought he knew about Earth is wrong. So very, very wrong.Climb aboard The Renegade Star and assemble a crew, follow the clues, uncover the truth, and most importantly, try to stay alive.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Space", "Mystery", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36112246-renegade-star"}, +{"book_title": "Deep Kiss of Winter", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 30315, "review_number": 1023, "book_description": "Kresley Cole - Untouchable (Immortals After Dark #7)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR KRESLEY COLE delivers a breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time... and a Valkyrie aching for his touch.Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela - the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart beat for the first time in three hundred years. Yet the exquisite Danii is part ice fey, and her freezing skin can't be touched by anyone but her own kind without inflicting pain beyond measure. Can they conquer an agony of frustration and slake the overwhelming desire burning between them?Gena Showalter - Tempt Me Eternally (Alien Huntress #4.5)NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR GENA SHOWALTER puts a daring spin on a tale of huntress and hunted... and concocts a sensual chemistry that is positively explosive.With only skin-to-skin contact, Aleaha Love can change her appearance, assume any identity. Now she\u2019s an AIR (Alien Investigation and Removal) agent on a mission to capture a group of otherworldly warriors. Only she is held captive when dangerously seductive Breean, a golden-skinned, iron-willed commander, threatens her new life - and for the first time, Aleaha wants only to be herself.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294553-deep-kiss-of-winter"}, +{"book_title": "The Cruel Prince", "author_name": "Holly Black", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 261282, "review_number": 31642, "book_description": "Of course I want to be like them. They\u2019re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.To win a place at the Court, she must defy him\u2013and face the consequences.As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26032825-the-cruel-prince"}, +{"book_title": "The Watcher", "author_name": "Melinda Metz", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1310, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Life will never be the same... Max is dying. No one wants to believe it, but he knows it's true. And as the end grows closer, he can only think of one thing: Who will protect Liz if he's not here? Liz can't stand watching Max suffer. She's determined to find some way -- any way -- to save him. But the only way to help Max is to risk her own life. Is she willing to die for the one she loves?", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Media Tie In (Tv)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/540196.The_Watcher"}, +{"book_title": "Unbreakable", "author_name": "W.C. Bauers", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 557, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "The colonists of the planet Montana are accustomed to being ignored. Situated in the buffer zone between two rival human empires, their world is a backwater: remote, provincial, independently minded. Even as a provisional member of the Republic of Aligned Worlds, Montana merits little consideration--until it becomes the flashpoint in an impending interstellar war.When pirate raids threaten to destabilize the region, the RAW deploys its mechanized armored infantry to deal with the situation. Leading the assault is Marine Corps Lieutenant and Montanan expatriate Promise Paen of Victor Company. Years earlier, Promise was driven to join the Marines after her father was killed by such a raid. Payback is sweet, but it comes at a tremendous and devastating cost. And Promise is in no way happy to be back on her birthworld, not even when she is hailed as a hero by the planet's populace, including its colorful president. Making matters even worse: Promise is persistently haunted by the voice of her dead mother.Meanwhile, the RAW's most bitter rival, the Lusitanian Empire, has been watching events unfold in the Montana system with interest. Their forces have been awaiting the right moment to gain a beachhead in Republic territory, and with Promise's Marines decimated, they believe the time to strike is now.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22238182-unbreakable"}, +{"book_title": "Silent Lucidity", "author_name": "Tiffany Roberts", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1360, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "She didn\u2019t ask to be abducted.She didn\u2019t ask to be torn away from her simple, happy life on Earth.She didn\u2019t ask to become a pet to a powerful alien merchant.Abella hasn\u2019t allowed four years of slavery to break her spirit, but after numerous failed escape attempts, the chances of making it home to her family seem bleak. That is until she shares a passionate, forbidden dance with a silent stranger. His piercing silvery eyes haunt her with a taste of hope. Intense, mysterious, and deadly, Tenthil may be the key to Abella\u2019s freedom. But as she finds herself increasingly drawn to him, she realizes the truth\u2014Tenthil has no intention of taking her home. Will he be her salvation, or will she trade one master for another?----**Warning: This book contains sexual content and violence.**", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Dark", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45445801-silent-lucidity"}, +{"book_title": "Cosmonaut Keep", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 3158, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Matt Cairns is a 21st-century outlaw Programmer who takes on the shady jobs no one else will touch. Against his better judgment, he accepts an assignment to crack the Marshall Titov, a top-secret orbital station operated by the European Space Agency. But what Matt will discover there will propel him on an extraordinary and quite unexpected journey.Gregor Cairns is an exobiology student and descendant of one of Terra Nova's first families. Hopelessly infatuated with a lovely young trader's daughter, he is unaware that his research partner, Elizabeth, has fallen in love with him. Together, Gregor and Elizabeth confront the great work his family began three centuries earlier-to rediscover the secret of interstellar travel.Ranging from a gritty near-future Earth to a distant alien world, Cosmonaut Keep is contemporary science fiction at its highest level, a visionary epic filled with daring individuals seeking a place for themselves in a vast, complex, and enigmatic universe.\u00a0Cosmonaut Keep is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185824.Cosmonaut_Keep"}, +{"book_title": "Archer's Lady", "author_name": "Moira Rogers", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 330, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "She's looking for redemption. He doesn't believe in it.Accused of betraying the Bloodhound Guild, Archer's only chance to regain the trust of his fellow hounds is to earn it--one dangerous job at a time. Crystal Springs may be the worst yet. The town has been deserted by all but the poor and the desperate, yet the vampires stalking the edges of the settlement haven't closed in for the kill. Question is, why?Grace Linwood, professional liar, has been hiding under the guise of a border schoolteacher for so long, she's almost fallen for her own con. The frontier was supposed to be her chance at a respectable life, but now the cowardly part of her wants to flee. When Archer catches her considering a run for safety, she knows it's only a matter of time before he sees through her charade.They become reluctant allies in the quest to uncover the mysteries of Crystal Springs, but every unraveled knot ties them closer together. They both know their pasts are too shattered to hope for a future--until their investigation uncovers a secret. One that could make betraying the Guild their only path to redemption.Warning: Contains a partly reformed con-artist heroine with a bruised heart and a mostly retired bank-robbing hero with a weary soul. Also included: vampire schemes, mad scientist plots, an alarming amount of dirty talk and some borderline-criminal bedroom antics in an alternate Wild West.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Westerns", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Historical", "Novella", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12403113-archer-s-lady"}, +{"book_title": "Uncharted", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 250, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Dragon Award winning new Alternate History Fantasy series created by\u00a0New York Times best-selling author\u00a0Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt.Arcane America A new world. New magic. New history. After Halley\u2019s Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlash separated the entire New World from the Old in an event known as The Sundering. Now isolated from the rest of the globe, America has become a very different place, where magic works and history has been changed forever. It is 1803\u2014a new 1803. Young Meriwether Lewis, footloose and intrigued, goes to hear a lecture in St. Louis by the venerated old wizard Benjamin Franklin. Franklin\u2019s talk is disrupted by the attack of a winged fire-breathing beast, much like legends from Lewis\u2019s own Welsh heritage. In the aftermath, Franklin tells the young man that he knows of a great, growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories west of the Mississippi. Using his own vast fortune, Franklin commissions Lewis and his own talented partner William Clark to embark on a remarkable voyage of exploration, to meet and document the indigenous tribes, to find a route all the way to the Pacific Ocean\u2014and perhaps beyond the magical veil to Europe again\u2014and to stop the growing evil that is filling the American West.\u00a0 For while the Sundering separated the rest of the world and granted the original colonists unexpected magical gifts, sorcery inspired by native legends has also been ignited. And the Arcane Territories may hold unparalleled dangers for the expedition, both natural and magical. Accompanied by the brilliant shape-shifting sorceress Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark set off on an unparalleled adventure across a landscape that no European has ever seen. About Uncharted: \"History and mythology meld admirably, leading to a satisfying conclusion. This hardy adventure establishes a world ripe for many more rousing stories.\"\u2014Publishers Weekly \"With\u00a0a light and brisk narrative that propels its heroes through a number of increasingly dangerous situations, this combination of alternate history and fantasy should appeal to fans of Eric Flint, Harry Turtledove, and historical fantasy in general.\"\u2014Booklist \u201cWhile delivering plenty of action that approximates the best of cinematic fantasy, Hoyt and Anderson also strive for\u2014and achieve\u2014a kind of gravitas that suitably reflects the majesty of an untrammeled continent. Their descriptions of raw nature and its emotional repercussions on the humans are subtly poetic without being overblown. The native tribes are depicted in authentic ways, especially the people of Sacagawea. . . .The characterization of all the cast members is deep and revelatory of human nature. . . .There is also humor amidst the seriousness . . . [Anderson and Hoyt\u2019s] prose is a clear-eyed, sturdy naturalism meshed with flights of vivid unreality . . . filled with not only slambang adventures but also a kind of rational optimism that has become rare in genre works these days. . . Hoyt and Anderson, a kind of de Camp and Pratt for the twenty-first century, convey these ideals without lectures or sermons, embodying them in principled people doing exciting things.\u201d\u2014Locus About Kevin J. Anderson: \"Anderson delivers action, engaging characters and credible fantastic worlds in spades . . . not to be missed.\"\u2014Publishers Weekly \"Wickedly funny, deviously twisted and enormously satisfying.\"\u2014Jonathan Maberry \"Anderson has become the literary equivalent of Quentin Tarantino in the fantasy adventure genre.\"\u2014The Daily Rotation \"Prepare to be entertained.\" \u2014Charlaine Harris \u201cDelivers solid action and will certainly satisfy.\u201d\u2014Booklist on The Winds of Dune About Sarah A. Hoyt: \u201c[Three Musketeers creator] Alexandre Dumas would give [Sarah A. Hoyt] a thumbs up.\u201d \u2014Steve Forbes \u201c[F]anciful and charming.\u201d \u2014Library Journal \"First-rate space opera with a moral lesson. You won't be disappointed.\"\u2014Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com \u201c[A] tour de force: logical, built from assumptions with no contradictions . . . gripping.\u201d \u2014Jerry Pournelle \u201cExceptional, wonderful, and enormously entertaining.\u201d \u2014Booklist", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373869-uncharted"}, +{"book_title": "Choosing Riley", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 3798, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "Riley St. Claire has always followed her own rules. When she discovers her current employer is not as law abiding as she thought, she has to leave town in a hurry or end up buried with the dead guy she discovered. What she doesn't expect is to find herself being picked up by a passing trader from another world.As the ruling King of Sarafin, Vox d\u2019Rojah, was expected to produce a son who would be joined in marriage with the first born daughter of the King of Valdier. The problem was Vox had no intentions of having any sons, at least not in the near future. He was quite happy with the wide selection of females he had at his disposal. When he is captured by a ruthless Valdier royal and sold to a mining operation the last thing he expected to find with his bride mate.Vox isn't sure which would be easier: fighting another war with the Valdier or capturing and holding onto the human female who is unlike anything he has ever encountered before.Now, Vox has to escape back to his world while fighting pirates, traders, and Riley!The King of Sarafin has met his match with Ms. Riley St. Claire from Earth. Now, he just needs to figure out a way to let her know he has chosen her as his Queen and he has every intention of keeping her by his side forever.Author's Note: This series will follow along with the Dragon Lord series as it is based on the species they had fought during the Great War and later became friends with. Several of my readers asked me about these characters. Both characters have very vivid personalities.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16119725-choosing-riley"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel & the Vampire, Vol. 06", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 403, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Competing in the rigged Z.O.T. Tournament to rescue her friend Lou's brain from enslavement as a computer component, cyborg Alita is locked into a battle to the death with a vampire. Rated for older teens.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60297.Battle_Angel_Alita_Last_Order_"}, +{"book_title": "Prince of Sparta", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 982, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Defeated before, the Earth-backed Helot terrorist hordes renew their assault on the legitimate government of Sparta. And if they again face defeat, this time they have a doomsday card to play!", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450876.Prince_of_Sparta"}, +{"book_title": "Though Hell Should Bar the Way", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 648, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "A NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING RCN MILITARY SF SERIES. David Drake, Dean of Military Science Fiction, returns with another entry in his best-selling RCN series. FROM WEALTH AND POWER, TO POVERTY AND INSULTS! Roy Olfetrie planned to be an officer in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy, but when his father was unmasked as a white-collar criminal he had to take whatever he was offered. What is offered turns out to be a chance to accompany Captain Daniel Leary and Lady Adele Mundy as they go off to start a war that will put Roy at the sharp end. Duty snatches Roy from the harem of a pirate chief to a world of monsters, from interstellar reaches in a half-wrecked starship to assassination attempts at posh houses. Roy has the choice of making friends or dying friendless; of meeting betrayal and responding to it; of breaking his faith or keeping it at the risk of his life. Pirates, politics, and spies--and waiting for Roy if he survives all the rest, a powerful warship. The action doesn't slow--nor can Roy, for if he does the only question is which of the many threats will be the one to catch and kill him. But Captain Leary himself has given Roy a chance, and Roy is determined make the most of it\u2014THOUGH HELL SHOULD BAR THE WAY. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About David Drake\u2019s RCN series: \u201c[R]ousing old-fashioned space opera.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201cThe fun is in the telling, and Mr. Drake has a strong voice. I want more!\u201d\u2014Philadelphia Weekly Press \u201c[S]pace opera is alive and well. This series is getting better as the author goes along\u2026character development combined with first-rate action and memorable world designs.\u201d\u2014SFReader.com \u201cDrake deftly weaves a web of political machinations and intrigue that vividly depicts the costs of war. Fans of Patrick O'Brian's Maturin and Aubrey novels will enjoy this intricate, rousing space opera.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly About David Drake: \u201c[P]rose as cold and hard as the metal alloy of a tank\u2026rivals Crane and Remarque\u2026\u201d\u2014Chicago Sun-Times \u201cDrake couldn\u2019t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.\u201d\u2014Booklist RCN series: With the Lightnings Lt. Leary, Commanding The Far Side of the Stars The Way to Glory Some Golden Harbor When the Tide Rises In the Stormy Red Sky What Distant Deeps The Road of Danger The Sea Without a Shore Death's Bright Day Though Hell Should Bar the Way David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted. He served the next two years in the Army, spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke and was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981. His books include the genre-defining and bestselling Hammer\u2019s Slammers series, the nationally bestselling RCN series including In the Stormy Red Sky, The Road of Danger, The Sea without a Shore, and Death's Bright Day.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39338547-though-hell-should-bar-the-way"}, +{"book_title": "Alien: Echo", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 966, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "An original young adult novel of the Alien universeOlivia and her twin sister Viola have been dragged around the universe for as long as they can remember. Their parents, both xenobiologists, are always in high demand for their research into obscure alien biology.Just settled on a new colony world, they discover an alien threat unlike anything they\u2019ve ever seen. And suddenly the sisters\u2019 world is ripped apart.On the run from terrifying aliens, Olivia\u2019s knowledge of xenobiology and determination to protect her sister are her only weapons as the colony collapses into chaos. But then a shocking family secret bursts open\u2014one that\u2019s as horrifying to Olivia as the aliens surrounding them.The creatures infiltrate the rich wildlife on this virgin colony world\u2014and quickly start adapting. Olivia\u2019s going to have to adapt, too, if she\u2019s going to survive...An Imprint Book", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Space", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40776737-alien"}, +{"book_title": "The Emerald Atlas", "author_name": "John Stephens", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 20168, "review_number": 2277, "book_description": "Called \u201cA new Narnia for the tween set\u201d by the New York Times and perfect for fans of the His Dark Materials series, The Emerald Atlas brims with humor and action as it charts Kate, Michael, and Emma's extraordinary adventures through an unforgettable, enchanted world.These three siblings have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage.Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.Until now.Before long, Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey through time to dangerous and secret corners of the world...a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. And \u2014 if an ancient prophesy is correct \u2014 what they do can change history, and it is up to them to set things right.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8619814-the-emerald-atlas"}, +{"book_title": "The Warrior", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 676, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "They were the best.Colonel Alois Hammer: He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe.Luke Broglie: His brilliant mind could have succeeded in any business; but war was the business he chose.Tess Kuykendall: She knew what her job was, but she also knew what was survivable.Slick Des Grieux: War was his life, and that made him almost too dangerous to live.The collision between different styles of being The Best meant a bloodbath, even by the grim standard of Hammer's Slammers", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1025512.The_Warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Eternity's Mind", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 658, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Eternity\u2019s Mind is the climactic final book in Kevin J. Anderson\u2019s Saga of Shadows Trilogy, which began with the Hugo nominee The Dark Between the. The Saga of Shadows, as well as its predecessor series, the international bestselling Saga of Seven, are among the grandest epic space operas published in this century.Two decades after the devastating Elemental War, which nearly destroyed the cosmos, the new Confederation restored peace and profitable commerce among the peoples and worlds of the Spiral Arm. The ambitious, innovative Roamers went back to their traditional business of harvesting the vital stardrive fuel ekti from the clouds of gas giant planets, and the telepathic green priests of Theroc provided instantaneous galaxy-wide communication via their connection to the powerful and sentient worldtrees. The alien Ildiran Empire rebuilt their grand Prism Palace under the light of their seven suns, and their Mage-Imperator declared a new age of expansion and discover.But peace was not to last. The malevolent Klikiss robots soon found an ally in the ancient and near-omnipotent Shana Rei, destructive creatures who are the personification of darkness and chaos \u2026 awakened after millennia of slumber to destroy all sentient life in the universe. The Confederation and the Ildiran Empire fought in every way possible, but the Spiral Arm itself seemed doomed.All across the transportal network, space is tearing apart, the links between the gateways are breaking down, the fabric of space unraveling. The worldtrees are dying, entire planets are englobed in impenetrable black barriers erected by the Shana Rei, and the murderous taint has infiltrated the Ildiran race as well as Mage-Imperator Jora\u2019h himself.Desperate for stardrive fuel to power the military and all space travel, the industrialist Lee Iswander has been extracting ekti\u2014the blood of the cosmos\u2014from mysterious giant nodules found floating in empty space, draining these \u201cbloaters\u201d dry by the thousands. But in doing so, is he weakening the only ally that all of civilization may have against the Shana Rei?A breathtakingly large canvas with a huge cast of characters, Eternity\u2019s Mind is the grand finale of a story as complex as any Science Fiction epic you will ever read.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114410-eternity-s-mind"}, +{"book_title": "Rebels and Lovers", "author_name": "Linnea Sinclair", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 911, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "It's been two years since Devin Guthrie last saw Captain Makaiden Griggs. But time has done little to dampen his ardor for the beautiful take-charge pilot who used to fly yachts for his wealthy family. While Devin's soul still burns for Kaidee, she isn't the kind of woman a Guthrie is allowed to marry--especially in a time of intergalactic upheaval, with the family's political position made precarious by Devin's brother Philip, now in open revolt against the Empire. And when Devin's nineteen-year-old nephew, Trip, inexplicably goes missing after his bodyguard is murdered, this most dutiful of Guthrie sons finds every ounce of family loyalty put to the test. Only by joining forces with Kaidee can Devin complete the mission to bring Trip back alive. And only by breaking every rule can these two renegades redeem the promise of a passion they were never permitted to explore. At risk? A political empire, a personal fortune, and both their hearts and lives.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6611945-rebels-and-lovers"}, +{"book_title": "Welcome to Night Vale", "author_name": "Joseph Fink", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 33731, "review_number": 5031, "book_description": "From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live.Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked \"King City\" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels.Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: \"King City\". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures...if they can ever find it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129410-welcome-to-night-vale"}, +{"book_title": "Fire Touched", "author_name": "Patricia Briggs", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 40924, "review_number": 3022, "book_description": "Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae.Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched? *Library Journal", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25776210-fire-touched"}, +{"book_title": "Mississippi Blues", "author_name": "Kathleen Ann Goonan", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 139, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "The journey of Verity across the wonderfully altered landscape of mid-America began in Queen City Jazz: \"A dizzying novel that takes full advantage of the creative potential of nanotech,\" said The New York Times. Now it continues down the river in Mississippi Blues. Verity takes the wildest cast of characters since Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer's Riverworld, both living and resurrected, down the river to possible salvation in New Orleans and beyond in a great SF epic.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1085955.Mississippi_Blues"}, +{"book_title": "Devon's Island", "author_name": "Si Clarke", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 16, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Other stories will take you to Mars. This one will take you inside the boardroom, the pub, and the bedroom with the people planning the mission.Gurdeep is an engineer and a soldier. Georgie\u2019s a food scientist. One is pragmatic with a tough outer shell; the other's an optimist, a person of ideas and compassion. In the span of a single afternoon, the couple find themselves in charge of planning a self-sustaining colony on Mars. Together, they\u2019re humanity\u2019s last hope for survival.They have 160 slots to fill with experts from all over the world as they set about designing an all-new society with its own government, economy, and culture \u2013 and that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg.Among those chosen for the mission is Devon, an autistic scientist with a unique skill set who finds life on Earth strange and alienating. Maybe a whole new planet is exactly what's needed.With 1,114 days until the launch, excitement and tensions run high. Earth\u2019s second chance hangs in the balance. Between strict genetic requirements and the dangers of the dystopian almost-present, will everyone make it to the final countdown?This is a work of neurodiverse, culturally diverse, gender-bendy, socio-politico-economic, drunken-arguments-in-the-pub science fiction \u2013 not bang-bang-pew-pew science fiction. Don't say you weren't warned.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48902524-devon-s-island"}, +{"book_title": "Son of Heaven", "author_name": "David Wingrove", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 956, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "The year is 2085, two decades after the great economic collapse that destroyed Western civilization. With its power broken and its cities ruined, life in the West continues in scattered communities. In rural Dorset Jake Reed lives with his 14-year-old son and memories of the great collapse. Back in '43, Jake was a rich, young futures broker, immersed in the datascape of the world's financial markets. He saw what was coming - and who was behind it. Forewarned, he was one of the few to escape the fall. For 22 years he has lived in fear of the future, and finally it is coming - quite literally - across the plain towards him. Chinese airships are in the skies and a strange, glacial structure has begun to dominate the horizon. Jake finds himself forcibly incorporated into the ever-expanding 'World of Levels' a global city of some 34 billion souls, where social status is reflected by how far above the ground you live. Here, under the rule of the mighty Tsao Ch'un, a resurgent China is seeking to abolish the past and bring about world peace through rigidly enforced order. But a civil war looms, and Jake will find himself at the heart of the struggle for the future.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (China)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9815922-son-of-heaven"}, +{"book_title": "The Plot Against America", "author_name": "Philip Roth", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 52323, "review_number": 4284, "book_description": "In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial \"understanding\" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism.For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threatens to destroy his small, safe corner of America - and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.(back cover)", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Literature", "Science Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Novels", "Politics", "Literature (Jewish)", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703.The_Plot_Against_America"}, +{"book_title": "Mortality", "author_name": "Kellie Sheridan", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 458, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "After surviving a deadly plague outbreak, sixteen-year-old Savannah thought she had lived through the very worst of human history. There was no way to know that the miracle vaccine would put everyone at risk for a fate worse than un-death. Now, two very different kinds of infected walk the Earth, intent on nothing but feeding and destroying what little remains of civilization. When the inoculated are bitten, infection means watching on in silent horror as self-control disappears and the idea of feasting on loved ones becomes increasingly hard to ignore. Starving and forced to live inside of the abandoned high school, all Savannah wants is the chance to fight back. When a strange boy arrives with a plan to set everything right, she gets her chance. Meeting Cole changes everything. Mere survival will never be enough.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16282078-mortality"}, +{"book_title": "Descended", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1333, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Charlotte Walker is just an intern trying to get through her surgical rotation in one piece when her life takes an abrupt turn for the weird. A seven-foot tall patient with multicolored eyes and golden skin shows up in the ER asking for her. When he tells Charlotte she's supposed to be the Empress of the entire galaxy, she naturally thinks he's high or crazy or both.He's not.Kristoff Verrai is the Captain of the Imperial Guard of the Goddess-Empress of the galaxy. For ten cycles he served his old mistress faithfully. Now that she is dead, his only job is to find and protect her new Incarnation until she can ascend the throne.He doesn't expect to fall in love with her.But a relationship between them can never be--the Empress must have a Consort with Royal blood and Kristoff is just a commoner.Can they fight the love growing between them? Or will it overwhelm them?If only Charlotte wasn't Descended from the most powerful female in the universe, they might have a chance...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30847407-descended"}, +{"book_title": "TFS Theseus", "author_name": "Tori L. Harris", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1555, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "\u201cWelcome to the Pelaran Alliance \u2026\u201d With those simple words, the Guardian spacecraft openly revealed itself to Humanity, heralding a new chapter in its 500-year-long mission to cultivate our world. Earth\u2019s population must now make its first, planet-wide decision \u2014 join the most powerful alliance in our galaxy, or chart our own course \u2014 deciding for ourselves which civilizations are worthy of our trust. Will we be the first world to decline the Pelarans\u2019 invitation, or does their offer come with an implied threat? Aboard Terran Fleet Command\u2019s flagship, TFS Navajo, Admiral Kevin Patterson assembles his formidable but untested forces in hopes of defending the Earth. Knowing that an attack is imminent, he must risk everything in hopes of finding his enemy and taking the initiative. Returning from TFC\u2019s first battle, Captain Tom Prescott learns that his frigate, TFS Ingenuity, is more heavily damaged than expected. Now he must race against time to prepare a new ship, then execute a daring mission to save Earth\u2019s last and best hope of avoiding full-scale interstellar war. _________ TFS THESEUS is the second book of the Terran Fleet Command Saga by author Tori Harris. The story is typically associated with the military science fiction, space exploration science fiction, colonization, first contact, genetic engineering, space opera technothriller, galactic empire, or alien invasion categories. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29535413-tfs-theseus"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 21", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.64, "rating_votes": 8156, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "A diabolical trap is set for President Bradley... If he is\u00a0 assassinated, a power vacuum will open that Mustang and his allies will be more than happy to fill. Then, while Ed is\u00a0reunited with someone from his past, Al is separated from his body - his proxy armor body! Now who is filling his heavy\u00a0metal shoes...?Plus, take a break from all the alchemical intrigue and homunculus backstabbing at the annual\u00a0Resembool Spring Sheep Festival!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6506079-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-21"}, +{"book_title": "Noumenon", "author_name": "Marina J. Lostetter", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 2845, "review_number": 393, "book_description": "Noumenon is a tale of space travel, adventure, discovery, and humanity that unfolds through a series of generational vignettes.In 2088, humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth\u2019s solar system. But one uncertainty remains: Where do we go? Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has an idea. He\u2019s discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured.The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the original crew, humankind\u2019s greatest ambition\u2014to explore the furthest reaches of the galaxy\u2014is undertaken by clones. But a clone is not a perfect copy, and each new generation has its own quirks, desires, and neuroses. As the centuries fly by, the society living aboard the nine ships (designated \u201cConvoy Seven\u201d) changes and evolves, but their mission remains the same: to reach Reggie\u2019s mysterious star and explore its origins\u2014and implications.A mosaic novel of discovery, Noumenon\u2014in a series of vignettes\u2014examines the dedication, adventure, growth, and fear of having your entire world consist of nine ships in the vacuum of space. The men and women, and even the AI, must learn to work and live together in harmony, as their original DNA is continuously replicated and they are born again and again into a thousand new lives. With the stars their home and the unknown their destination, they are on a voyage of many lifetimes\u2014an odyssey to understand what lies beyond the limits of human knowledge and imagination.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32600718-noumenon"}, +{"book_title": "The Plague", "author_name": "Albert Camus", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 181366, "review_number": 8769, "book_description": "A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.", "year_published": 1947, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Philosophy", "Cultural (France)", "Literature", "European Literature (French Literature)", "Novels", "Literature (20th Century)", "Literary Fiction", "Cultural (Africa)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11989.The_Plague"}, +{"book_title": "The Gorison Traveler Incident", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3103, "review_number": 343, "book_description": "Vivian is a cultural specialist on the United Earth fleet ship Gorison Traveler. It\u2019s the perfect job for someone who wants to learn everything about aliens. The only problem? The commander won\u2019t let her anywhere near the visiting Ke\u2019ters aboard the ship. The only way she gets a peek at the lizard-like race is when her brother opens a live camera feed during a meeting\u2014a meeting that turns tragic when the Ke\u2019ters attack the crew. She\u2019s horrified. Scared. The Ke\u2019ters are murdering her people. Rushing from her quarters to get help from a control center, Vivian finds the station abandoned. It\u2019s all on her to try to rescue the crew. Brassi is a Veslor trader who picks up a distress signal from a nearby space vessel. The attractive female who contacts him looks terrified, and needs his help. He\u2019ll board the Gorison Traveler with his crewmates, and fight the Ke\u2019ters, but the longer he spends on the huge Earth vessel, the greater distraction Vivian becomes. Brassi will do whatever it takes to save her\u2026and to discover if Vivian\u2019s his mate.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44403395-the-gorison-traveler-incident"}, +{"book_title": "Valor at Vauzlee", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2585, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "A captured Raider officer, eager to secure his freedom, informs Space Command Intelligence of a planned attack on a convoy by a massive Raider armada. An effective spotter network and intelligence system usually allows the pirates to avoid SC warships, so for the first time in Galactic Alliance history, a task force of Space Command warships might have an opportunity to engage a fleet of pirate ships in mortal combat.The Space Command Admiral at Higgins SCB pulls out all stops to surreptitiously assemble a force of ten ships, the most that can be secretly diverted, to face off against the Raider ambushers. One of those ships happens to be the Prometheus. Jenetta Carver, the newest Lt. Commander in Space Command, on her way to Earth for a medal ceremony for acts of outstanding valor, finds herself again caught up in a life or death situation. The Prometheus arrives at the rendezvous point, a month from Higgins SC Base, to await the arrival of the other ships, and a call for help from the convoy.Only two other ships have reached the RP when the convoy is attacked. Captain Gavin of the Prometheus, in his capacity as task force commander, decides that they can\u2019t wait for the others, so the three SC warships race off to face a Raider warship force they expect will number forty plus.107,000 Words - 334 Pages", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8785393-valor-at-vauzlee"}, +{"book_title": "The Case of the Insufferable Slave", "author_name": "Gillian St. Kevern", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 393, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Dear Author,In this society all detectives receive a slave as part of their job title. Their world is dark, rough, crime ridden and the job of a detective is incredibly difficult. A slave is meant to ease their burden at home by serving both as a house and a bed slave. Problem is, this newly-made detective does not want a slave, but he forced to take one or lose his job. So what happens when a beautiful and shy slave boy with a dark past arrives on his doorstep the following day?Photo Description: Drawn picture of two men from the chest up. One brown-haired man is wearing a suit and smiling as he grips the chin of the second man, blond-haired, and bare except for the collar.This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's \"Love\u2019s Landscapes\" event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story. This story may contain sexually explicit content and is intended for adult readers. It may contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The M/M Romance Group strongly recommends that each reader review the General Information section before each story for story tags as well as for content warnings.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Mystery", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22586077-the-case-of-the-insufferable-slave"}, +{"book_title": "Solitude", "author_name": "Dean M. Cole", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1609, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "\nFrom the Bestselling Author of the Sector 64 Series!\nI Am Legend\u00a0meets\u00a0Gravity and\u00a0The Martian\u00a0when Earth's last man discovers that the last woman is stranded alone aboard the International Space Station. If you like action-packed, page-turning novels, you'll love the electrifying action in this apocalyptic thriller. \nCan Humanity's Last Two Unite?\nSeparated by the gulf of space, the last man and woman of the human race struggle against astronomical odds to survive and unite.Army Aviator Vaughn Singleton is a highly intelligent, lazy man. After a last-ditch effort to reignite his failing military career ends horribly, Vaughn becomes the only human left on Earth.Stranded alone on the International Space Station, Commander Angela Brown watches an odd wave of light sweep across the planet. Over the next weeks and then months, Angela struggles to contact someone on the surface, but as she fights to survive aboard a deteriorating space station, the commander glimpses the dark underpinnings of humanity's demise.After months alone, Vaughn discovers there is another. Racing against time, he must cross a land ravaged by the consequences of humankind's sudden departure. Can Vaughn find a path to space and back? Can Angela\u2014the only person with clues to the mystery behind humanity's disappearance\u2014survive until he does? ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33646921-solitude"}, +{"book_title": "Angels' Flight", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 12948, "review_number": 637, "book_description": "In \nAngel\u2019s Wolf\n a vampire becomes fascinated with the seductive angel who rules Louisiana. But all is not what it appears to be in her court. In \nAngels\u2019 Judgment\n a hunter must track one of her own gone bad, while surviving the deadly tests placed in her way by the archangels themselves. Unexpected backup comes from a stranger who might just be the most lethal threat of all... Plus FIRST TIME IN PRINTIn \nAngels' Pawn\n a vampire hunter faces off against two rival factions and the angel manipulating them both, and a vampire whose help is not entirely selfless... And NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHEDIn \nAngels\u2019 Dance\n an angel trapped in the mountain stronghold of the Refuge finds herself under siege by a warrior angel from a martial court.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Anthologies", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9738582-angels-flight"}, +{"book_title": "Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 1", "author_name": "Osamu Tezuka", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 148, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Can a robot have a soul? Built by a brilliant scientist to replace his lost son, but with powers beyond imagination, Astro Boy fights for the oppressed and helpless, whether they be human, alien, or robot. Exciting, whimsical, and touching, Astro Boy brings back the classic era of comics and animation, featuring tales that readers young and old will enjoy. \u00a0 Creator Osamu Tezuka was considered the Walt Disney of Japan, and Astro Boy is his most popular and influential creation. Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 1 features nearly seven hundred pages of Astro\u2019s jet-powered, super-strong, evil-bashing adventures!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Childrens", "Cultural (Japan)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25578781-astro-boy-omnibus-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Solo Command", "author_name": "Aaron Allston", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 7735, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Wraith Squadron: they are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force. Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the first in battle, the last line of defense. Now they must find and destroy a wily enemy more powerful than the Empire itself.Their covert mission has been a success. The enemy has been vanquished. Or so they thought. The Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist somehow escaped destruction and with it the New Republic's greatest threat, the infamous warlord Zsinj. To defeat him, Wraith Squadron must join a combat task force led by the only man crafty enough to beat Zsinj at his own game: Han Solo. But Zsinj knows the X-wing fighters' indomitable courage is both their greatest strength--and their greatest weakness. For even against the most overwhelming odds, the Rebels will fight to the death. And that will leave Zsinj the galaxy's unchallenged master!", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In", "Space", "Novels", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/773547.Solo_Command"}, +{"book_title": "Slant", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2276, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial intelligence.It's a sane and perfect world. Almost.A man called Jack Giffey is planning to break into the Omphalos, the most secure building in all of separatist Green Idaho. Rumor says that the Omphalos houses the not-quite-dead, the very wealthy deceased who are still alive, their brains connected directly into Thinkers, Artificial Intelligences that provide a virtual reality. Data is the great treasure of the new millennium, and Giffey plans to tap into the Omphalos datastream, to steal the knowledge gathered by the inhabitants of the Omphalos. In the offices of Mind Design, Inc., the most advanced Artificial Intelligence in the world has had a unique experience. She has received a request for contact from a new AI, one she does not know and did not help to design. Jill has never met a stranger of her own kind before; is it an alien Thinker, or the offspring of some vast conspiracy?Slant is set in Bear's Queen of Angels universe, and is one of the great science fiction novels of the 1990s.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172742.Slant"}, +{"book_title": "Whipping Star", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 3212, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "Suddenly - the end of all life throughout the entire Galaxy! It was only weeks away, or days - or even hours. It all depended on the survival of the last of the entities known as Calebians.But the Caleban was dying - subjected to systematic torture by the richest, most wicked woman in the Galaxy. Unless she could be stopped, the end was only a few days away, or hours - or even minutes!", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2012.Whipping_Star"}, +{"book_title": "Graduation Day", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1717, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Frieda is one of Emily\u2019s closest friends, a young girl she saved from Mountaintop and brought back to Whitehall. But Frieda found herself the victim of a deadly soul-destroying plot - and the true target may well be Emily herself. Now, after Emily saved Frieda from a magician who was slowly driving her mad, Frieda stands accused of attempted murder - and worse. She must now stand trial for her crimes. Worse, Fulvia - Matriarch of House Ashworth - has returned. Humiliated by Emily, years ago, Fulvia burns for revenge - and the chance to regain her lost power. Calling in favors from all over the world and rigging the trial against Frieda - and Emily - it looks as if her time is finally at hand. With no clear proof of Frieda\u2019s innocence - and a jury that can be manipulated at will - Fulvia has all the leverage she needs to bring Emily to heel. Gathering her friends around her, and calling in favors of her own, Emily must find a way to outwit a kangaroo court and save her friend from a fate worse than death, little realizing that Fulvia\u2019s true target is Emily herself ... ... And that Fulvia\u2019s desperate quest for revenge will bring the entire world crashing down.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Academic (School)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36665060-graduation-day"}, +{"book_title": "Chaos Reigning", "author_name": "Jessie Mihalik", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2653, "review_number": 352, "book_description": "Interplanetary intrigue and romance combine in this electrifying finale to the Consortium Rebellion series.As the youngest member of her High House, Catarina von Hasenberg is used to being underestimated, but her youth and flighty, bubbly personality mask a clever mind and stubborn determination. Her enemies, blind to her true strength, do not suspect that Cat is a spy\u2014which makes her the perfect candidate to go undercover at a rival House\u2019s summer retreat to gather intelligence on their recent treachery.Cat\u2019s overprotective older sister reluctantly agrees, but on one condition: Cat cannot go alone. Alexander Sterling, a quiet, gorgeous bodyguard, will accompany her, posing as her lover. After Cat tries, and fails, to ditch Alex, she grudgingly agrees, confident in her ability to manage him. After all, she\u2019s never found a person she can\u2019t manipulate.But Alex proves more difficult\u2014and more desirable\u2014than Cat anticipated. When she\u2019s attacked and nearly killed, she and Alex are forced to work together to figure out how deep the treason goes. With rumors of widespread assaults on Serenity raging, communications down, and the rest of her family trapped off-planet, Catarina must persuade Alex to return to Earth to expose the truth and finish this deadly battle once and for all.But Cat can\u2019t explain why she\u2019s the perfect person to infiltrate hostile territory without revealing secrets she\u2019d rather keep buried. . . .", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45449470-chaos-reigning"}, +{"book_title": "Dreadnought", "author_name": "April Daniels", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 5777, "review_number": 1269, "book_description": "Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world\u2019s greatest superhero.Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she\u2019s transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny\u2019s body into what she\u2019s always thought it should be. Now there\u2019s no hiding that she\u2019s a girl. It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny\u2019s first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. Between her father\u2019s dangerous obsession with \u201ccuring\u201d her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he\u2019s entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she\u2019s in over her head.She doesn\u2019t have much time to adjust. Dreadnought\u2019s murderer\u2014a cyborg named Utopia\u2014still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening destruction. If Danny can\u2019t sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "LGBT (Transgender)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30279514-dreadnought"}, +{"book_title": "Archenemies", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 37123, "review_number": 5048, "book_description": "The Renegades Trilogy continues, in this fiercely awaited second installment after the New York Times-bestselling Renegades by Marissa Meyer, author of the Lunar Chronicles.Time is running out.Together, they can save the world.But they each other's worst nightmare.In Renegades, Nova and Adrian (aka Insomnia and Sketch) fought the battle of their lives against the Anarchist known as the Detonator. It was a short-lived victory.The Anarchists still have a secret weapon, one that Nova believes will protect her. The Renegades also have a strategy for overpowering the Anarchists, but both Nova and Adrian understand that it could mean the end of Gatlon City - and the world - as they know it.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35425827-archenemies"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Age", "author_name": "John C. Wright", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3070, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "The Golden Age is 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion celebrating the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets an old man who accuses him of being an imposter, and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government that Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. Is he indeed an exile from himself? He can't resist investigating, even though to do so could mean the loss of his inheritance, his very place in society. His quest must be to regain his true identity and fulfill the destiny he chose for himself.The Golden Age is just the beginning of Phaethon's story, which will continue in The Phoenix Exultant, forthcoming from Tor.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Singularity", "Space", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207410.The_Golden_Age"}, +{"book_title": "Fiddlehead", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1518, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "Ex-spy \u2018Belle Boyd\u2019 is retired \u2013 more or less. Retired from spying on the Confederacy anyway. Her short-lived marriage to a Union navy boy cast suspicion on those Southern loyalties, so her mid-forties found her unemployed, widowed and disgraced. Until her life-changing job offer from the staunchly Union Pinkerton Detective Agency.When she\u2019s required to assist Abraham Lincoln himself, she has to put any old loyalties firmly aside \u2013 for a man she spied against twenty years ago.Lincoln\u2019s friend Gideon Bardsley, colleague and ex-slave, is targeted for assassination after the young inventor made a breakthrough. Fiddlehead, Bardsley\u2019s calculating engine, has proved an extraordinary threat threatens the civilized world. Meaning now is not the time for conflict.Now Bardsley and Fiddlehead are in great danger as forces conspire to keep this secret, the war moving and the money flowing. With spies from both camps gunning for her, can even the notorious Belle Boyd hold the war-hawks at bay?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Historical", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332269-fiddlehead"}, +{"book_title": "The Rest of Us Just Live Here", "author_name": "Patrick Ness", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 52473, "review_number": 8582, "book_description": "What if you aren\u2019t the Chosen One?The one who\u2019s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death?What if you\u2019re like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week\u2019s end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Health (Mental Health)", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Mental Health (Mental Illness)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22910900-the-rest-of-us-just-live-here"}, +{"book_title": "Martians Abroad", "author_name": "Carrie Vaughn", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 853, "review_number": 243, "book_description": "A great new stand-alone science fiction novel from the author of the Kitty Norville series.Polly Newton has one single-minded dream, to be a starship pilot and travel the galaxy. Her mother, the director of the Mars Colony, derails Polly's plans when she sends Polly and her genius twin brother, Charles, to Galileo Academy on Earth\u2014the one planet Polly has no desire to visit. Ever.Homesick and cut off from her desired future, Polly cannot seem to fit into the constraints of life on Earth, unlike Charles, who deftly maneuvers around people and sees through their behavior to their true motives. Strange, unexplained, dangerous coincidences centered on their high-profile classmates begin piling up. Charles may be right\u2014there's more going on than would appear, and the stakes are high. With the help of Charles, Polly is determined to find the truth, no matter the cost.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Futuristic", "Speculative Fiction", "School Stories (Boarding School)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939341-martians-abroad"}, +{"book_title": "Never Surrender", "author_name": "Michael Anderle", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 2623, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Bethany Anne and those in the Etheric Empire have conquered the Aliens who would conquer Earth.However, there are a few that do not appreciate the new rules. Dealing with insurrectionists down on the planet, or with a large military rebellion coming from another system, Bethany Anne and team are ready and willing to give everyone a piece of their mind.Because there is one common attitude that runs in all of those who fight for the Etheric Empire.They will NEVER SURRENDER.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Action", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34737097-never-surrender"}, +{"book_title": "Evolved", "author_name": "N.R. Walker", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2331, "review_number": 483, "book_description": "In 2068, androids are an integrated part of human life. Big Brother no longer just watches from the shadows. It\u2019s in every household.Lloyd Salter has OCD issues with noise, mess, and he\u2019s uncomfortable with human interaction. When his ex claimed the only thing perfect enough to live up to his standards was an android, Lloyd dismissed it. But two years later, after much self-assessment, Lloyd thinks he may have been right.SATinc is the largest manufacturer of androids in Australia, including the Fully Compatible Units known as an A-Class 10. Their latest design is the Synthetic Human Android UNit, otherwise known as SHAUN.Shaun is compatible with Lloyd\u2019s every need; the perfect fit on an intellectual and physical basis. But Lloyd soon realises Shaun\u2019s not like other A-Class androids. He learns. He adapts. Sure that SATinc is aware Shaun functions outside of his programmed parameters, Lloyd must find a way to keep Shaun safe.No one can know how special Shaun is. No one can know he\u2019s evolved.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT (Gay)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39680421-evolved"}, +{"book_title": "The Hook", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 306, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "The Hook \u2013 An Iron Seas Urban LegendMeljean\u2019s Note: This is a very short story that I wrote for a blog post at All Things Urban Fantasy during their Spooky Legends week. The challenge was to write about a famous urban legend in our characters\u2019 voices, and my urban legend was The Hook.This story features Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth and Constable Newberry from The Iron Duke.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17838354-the-hook"}, +{"book_title": "The Fighter Queen", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 70, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "The exciting conclusion to The Fighter Queen saga. \u201cFast paced and interesting.\u201d \u2013DS Schertz \u201cIf you love drama, action, intrigue and sex, then you will love these books.\u201d \u2013Ben Brown \u201cHold on to your panic bar and take a ride with The Fighter Queen if you can handle it.\u201d \u2013Al K Twenty years after she enlisted in the UF Space Force, Onja Kvoorik is the most wanted woman in the galaxy. The Sirian Confederacy has put a price on her head: ten million sirios, dead or alive. But the Fighter Queen can\u2019t stop yet. As a terrified 12 year-old in the Temple of Sophia, she vowed before the goddess to find and free her mother and sister, both slaves of Sirius. The war has crossed the galaxy, but the Confederacy is deadlier than ever. The next campaign will be against Vega 3, where she hopes to find her father still alive; and if she survives that one, the final invasion \u2013 the Sirian home world, where her mother and sister disappeared 27 years ago. Will she be able to fulfill her vow to Sophia, or has time run out on her scattered family? It\u2019s been a long war, and Onja has survived some close calls, with the hottest fighting still ahead. But she has a new pilot now, a natural-born stick; his name is Johnny Lincoln II. 114,000 words (roughly equivalent to 430 pages in mass market paperback format) Rated \"R\" This book is the final book of the Fighter Queen saga. For the best experience, we recommend reading them in the following order: 1. The Fighter King 2. A Vow to Sophia 3. The Fighter Queen 4. Star Marine! 5. The Sword of Sophia", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24249739-the-fighter-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Defy the Fates", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1822, "review_number": 309, "book_description": "Hunted and desperate.Abel only has one mission left that matters: save the life of Noemi Vidal. To do that, he not only has to escape the Genesis authorities, he also must face the one person in the galaxy who still has the means to destroy him. Burton Mansfield's consciousness lives on, desperate for a home, and Abel's own body is his last bargaining chip. Alone in the universe.Brought back from the brink of death, Noemi Vidal finds Abel has not only saved her life, but he's made her into something else, something more. Not quite mech, yet not quite human any longer, Noemi must find her place in a universe where she is utterly unique, all while trying to create a world where anyone--even a mech--can be free.The final battle between Earth and the colony planets is here, and there's no lengths to which Earth won't go to preserve its domination over all humanity. But together, the universe's most advanced mech and its first human-mech hybrid might have the power to change the galaxy for good.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39841372-defy-the-fates"}, +{"book_title": "The Sirens of Titan", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 118865, "review_number": 4878, "book_description": "The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there's a catch to the invitation\u2014and a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell.", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Humor", "Literature", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4982.The_Sirens_of_Titan"}, +{"book_title": "Never A Slave", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 954, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Never A Slave Jaid Black \" Part of the Trek Mi Q'an series.\" Lord Julian Jameson went into the woods to relax-to beat his chest and celebrate his masculinity in an environment free of women. In the blink of an eye he was on Galis, an alien planet where women rule. Gorgeous women with insatiable libidos. Naked and in chains, Julian is furious and humiliated-a condition that does not improve when he is auctioned off as a sex slave to Klykka Gy'at Li, High Mystik. But Julian is no woman's slave. Not now. Not ever.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7556057-never-a-slave"}, +{"book_title": "Life As We Knew It", "author_name": "Susan Beth Pfeffer", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 118293, "review_number": 9847, "book_description": "Miranda\u2019s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove.Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda\u2019s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213753.Life_As_We_Knew_It"}, +{"book_title": "Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening", "author_name": "Marjorie M. Liu", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 47862, "review_number": 5548, "book_description": "Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers. Collects MONSTRESS #1-6", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29396738-monstress-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "1635: Papal Stakes", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1013, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia take on the Borgias and Papal succession shenanigans that could undermine a Spring of freedom that has come to Europe three centuries early.#15 in the multiple bestselling Ring of Fire Series. It\u2019s springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it\u2019s no Roman holiday for uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna. They\u2019re in the clutches of would-be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the real Pope\u2013Urban VII \u2013on the run with the renegade embassy of uptime Ambassador Sharon Nichols and her swashbuckling downtime husband, Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. Up to their necks in papal assassins, power politics, murder, and mayhem, the uptimers and their spouses need help and they need it quickly.\u00a0 Special rescue teams\u2013including Harry Lefferts and his infamous Wrecking Crew\u2013converge on Rome to extract Frank and Gia. And an uptime airplane is on its way to spirit the Pope to safety before Borja\u2019s assassins can find him. It seems that everything is going to work out just fine in sunny Italy. Until, that is, everything goes wrong. Now, whether they are prisoners in Rome or renegades protecting a pope on the run, it\u2019s up to the rough and ready can-do attitude of Grantville natives to once again escape the clutches of aristocratic skullduggery and ring in freedom for a war-torn land. About Eric Flint\u2019s Ring of Fire series: \u201cThis alternate history series is\u2026a landmark\u2026\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c\u2026reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis\u2026\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201c\u2026each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat\u2026terrific.\u201d\u2014Midwest Book Review \u201c[C]ombines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination.\u201d\u2014Library Journal", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Religion", "Adventure", "Literature (17th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547089-1635"}, +{"book_title": "Meat Cute: The Hedgehog Incident", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1880, "review_number": 319, "book_description": "A Parasol Protectorate Prequel ShortFrom the comedic mind of New York Times bestseller Gail Carriger comes the much requested prequel short story to Soulless.Alexia Tarabotti attends what appears to be a very dull London party, until the new werewolf Alpha turns up, is unconscionably rude to her, and sits on a hedgehog.Don\u2019t miss this charming novelette featuring the very first encounter between the Parasolverse\u2019s most popular power couple, preternatural Alexia and supernatural Lord Conall Maccon.Look out for cheeky appearances from other much beloved characters, not to mention the strategic application of a certain wicker chicken.A Note On ChronologySet in the spring of 1872 this story occurs just prior to events chronicled in The Parasol Protectorate series (featuring Alexia and Conall) and after those in Defy or Defend. Alexia also appears briefly in Romancing the Inventor, and Conall and England\u2019s most scandalous wolf pack is referenced in The Finishing School series. Want more hot gruff werewolf gentlemen and practical tough ladies? Try How to Marry a Werewolf.This is a quick read at 9000 words (about 15 printed pages) available in print only as part of Fan Service (collected Supernatural Society omnibus). It is best read if you are already familiar with Gail Carriger\u2019s gaslight universe and comedy of manners style, as it was written specifically with her fans in mind.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49211639-meat-cute"}, +{"book_title": "The God Eaters", "author_name": "Jesse Hajicek", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3041, "review_number": 284, "book_description": "Imprisoned for 'inflammatory writings' by the totalitarian Theocracy, shy intellectual Ashleigh Trine figures his story's over. But when he meets Kieran Trevarde, a hard-hearted gunslinger with a dark magic lurking in his blood, Ash finds that necessity makes strange heroes... and love can change the world.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/613268.The_God_Eaters"}, +{"book_title": "Breathe", "author_name": "Sarah Crossan", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 16963, "review_number": 1848, "book_description": "The world has no air. If you want to survive, you pay to breathe. But what if you can't? And what if you think everything could be different? Three teens will leave everything they know behind in Sarah Crossan's gripping and original dystopian teen novel of danger, longing, and glimmering hope. Ever since the Switch, when the oxygen levels plummeted and most of humanity died, the survivors have been protected in glass domes full of manufactured air. Protected . . . or trapped? Or controlled? Alina's a revolutionary who believes we can save the environment. Quinn's a Premium who's never had to worry about having enough air. His best friend, Bea, is an Auxiliary who's never worried about anything but having enough air. When the three cross paths, they will change everything.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11544466-breathe"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1310, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Oh his quest to find the human possessing Net Terminal Genes, Killy embarks on a journey full of action-adventure and dark discovery before entering Cluster Town. Is there still hope for the last of the dying human settlements? Rated for older teens.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Manga (Seinen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2821074-blame-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Six Wakes", "author_name": "Mur Lafferty", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 13173, "review_number": 1995, "book_description": "A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again.It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood.At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died.Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it could awaken. And Maria wasn't the only one to die recently...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Space", "Thriller", "Adult", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28962996-six-wakes"}, +{"book_title": "Gilded Lily", "author_name": "Delphine Dryden", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 134, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "HIDDEN IDENTITIES, SCANDALOUS SECRETS\u2026 DEADLY ATTRACTION. Frederique Murcheson\u2019s introduction into society hasn\u2019t gone smoothly\u2014some would even call it a disaster. Only Freddie considers her debut a success. Her scheme to become a makesmith has gone off flawlessly. The only thing that could upset her plans now would be if someone discovered that brilliant tinker Fred Merchant is, in fact, a lady in disguise. Wooing a spoiled heiress is not exactly Barnabas Smith-Grenville\u2019s idea of high espionage. However, considering his brother disappeared on the job, supposedly into the most iniquitous of opium dens, he cannot expect much better. At least the assignment will afford him time to search for his brother, whom he suspects is in spy-related trouble rather than a drug-addled haze. But when Freddie proves to be both irresistible and the key to the answers he seeks, Barnabas finds himself not only entwined in a scandalous mystery involving lethal submersibles and deranged dirigibles, but also in a dangerous game of the heart\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Steampunk Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19486419-gilded-lily"}, +{"book_title": "Kantovan Vault", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1724, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "The UFS Phoenix is on a mission to find a lost data-core that may contain the secret to defeating the alo-deepynine alliance. But the means to find the data-core is hidden deep in tavalai space, in a highest-security vault where the tavalai's manipulative State Department keep all their most treacherous secrets. To recover it, Phoenix must pull off the most daring heist the Spiral has ever seen. But Phoenix will need help -- in the form of a rebellious faction of the tavalai Fleet; a fanatical parren mystic who lusts mostly for power; a cynical old tavalai marine who's spent much of his life fighting humans; and a super-intelligent AI queen who will sacrifice anything to rescue her race from extinction. None of them can be trusted, and neither Captain Erik Debogande nor Major Trace Thakur are experienced in this kind of work. But each must gather their ingenuity and courage, and learn as they go, as the scale of the threat confronting humanity looms larger, and the clock is ticking...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32199241-kantovan-vault"}, +{"book_title": "The Clone Empire", "author_name": "Steven L. Kent", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 680, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "After a blistering defeat by alien forces, clone soldier Lt. Wayson Harris and his brethren have been exiled to the far reaches of the galaxy where the Unified Authority intends to use them as targets for live-fire training exercises. But the clones they created and trained to fight have founded their own empire. Now, Harris will unleash his rage against the might of the U.A. Fleet, leading an army with everything to fight for, and one thing to die for-revenge.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8231029-the-clone-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Stories of Your Life and Others", "author_name": "Ted Chiang", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 70395, "review_number": 8235, "book_description": "Ted Chiang's first published story, \"Tower of Babylon,\" won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far-plus an eighth story written especially for this volume.What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Stories of your life . . . and others.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Philosophy", "Adult", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223380.Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others"}, +{"book_title": "Firestorm", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 455, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Combat vets David Sherman and Dan Cragg know firsthand the courage, sacrifice, and hell of war\u2013and their experiences have made the popular Starfist novels thrill rides of the highest order. Now the explosive action continues on the remote planet Ravenette, where the Marines of the Confederation\u2019s 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) find themselves up against a full-fledged rebellion\u2013and a lethally loose cannon of a commanding officer. Desperate to thwart unrelenting aliens and their quest to obliterate humankind, The Confederation has beefed up its defenses. But to the citizens on the outer edges of Human Space around Ravenette\u2013unaware that a deadly enemy even exists\u2013the government\u2019s move seems oppressive, and ten planets have responded with a war of secession.In touch-and-go battles with the seceding planets, the 34th FIST has emerged battered but unbowed, refusing to give up . . . even while under the command of a fanatical general. The enemy determined to strike, a new mission must be carried out, though the troops will likely return in body bags.Should Ensign Charlie Bass and his Marines somehow survive the nightmarishly difficult amphibious landing, they can expect to be outmanned, outgunned, and out-armored in a fierce duel against fresh soldiers. But like any Marine worth his salt, Bass knows there\u2019s only one way to go when facing impossible odds: on the offense with all guns firing. There\u2019s no other choice\u2013because if life was easy, there\u2019d be no need to send in the Marines.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space", "Fantasy", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36470.Firestorm"}, +{"book_title": "Red", "author_name": "S.J. Sanders", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1449, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "There were certain truths everyone knew. Never wear red or any other bright color. Make as little sound as possible if one had to be outside the protection of the sanctuary settlements. And never, ever, go out in the wild places alone. The Ragoru, an alien species set down to live among them, dwell within the forests and everyone knows that they crave all things red. Arie\u2019s life has always been one of playing by the rules. She doesn\u2019t draw attention to herself. She doesn\u2019t leave her home without her hood that conceals her bright red hair. It is a secret from everyone, and her hood protects her secret so that she may continue to live safely within the village until one day that secret comes to light. Absconding into the woods soon becomes her only safety, and she will risk her very life into the care of the very dreaded beings that all people fear, the Ragoru, in hope of making it to her grandmother\u2019s house in the citadel at the other side of the great forest. When circumstances reveal them to not be the monsters of human imagination, but that they stir the ravenous beast within her, Arie finds that she is willing to risk far more to find a way to be with them forever. Even if that means severing ties with her grandmother, rejecting the human comforts of the citadel, and facing the horror of the Order of the Huntsmen. A new spin on the Little Red Riding Hood Story, bringing a well known fairy tell to a dystopian future with a wolfish alien species.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Retellings", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52178332-red"}, +{"book_title": "Malinky Robot: Collected Stories and Other Bits", "author_name": "Sonny Liew", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 227, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Street urchins Atari and Oliver are out to steal bicycles, watch Giant Robot movies, and spend some Large Denominational Bills! Malinky Robot collects five tales by Eisner-nominated artist Sonny Liew (My Faith in Frankie, Wonderland, Sense & Senisibility) featuring stinky fish, philosopher-labourers, and summer rain. A recipient of the Xeric Award grant, the Utopiales SF Festival's Best SF Album award, and featured in the acclaimed FLIGHT anthologies, Malinky Robot blends dystopian sci-fi and indie sensibilities into a uniquely charming, off-kilter world.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11983440-malinky-robot"}, +{"book_title": "And All the Stars", "author_name": "Andrea K. H\u00f6st", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1112, "review_number": 272, "book_description": "Come for the apocalypse.Stay for cupcakes.Die for love.Madeleine Cost is working to become the youngest person ever to win the Archibald Prize for portraiture. Her elusive cousin Tyler is the perfect subject: androgynous, beautiful, and famous. All she needs to do is pin him down for the sittings.None of her plans factored in the Spires: featureless, impossible, spearing into the hearts of cities across the world - and spraying clouds of sparkling dust into the wind.Is it an alien invasion? Germ warfare? They are questions everyone on Earth would like answered, but Madeleine has a more immediate problem. At Ground Zero of the Sydney Spire, beneath the collapsed ruin of St James Station, she must make it to the surface before she can hope to find out if the world is ending.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13411999-and-all-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Indiana Wild", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1066, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Indiana Wild is as wild as the Montana ranch she was raised on. The youngest of four children, she was a delightful surprise for her older parents. She spends her time training horses and cow dogs and loving the freedom of the wide open spaces. When her grandfather dies, she finds her much older brothers have different plans for the ranch she calls home and for Indiana.Indiana\u2019s oldest brother is determined to tame Indiana and bring her to live with him in Los Angeles where he can keep an eye on her and the money she is inheriting. He believes with a little taming, he can control the wild spirit of his little sister and find her a good husband who can manage her.Furious with the court order giving her older brother guardianship over her, Indiana turns to the only place she feels at home\u2026 the wide-open spaces of Montana. She is determined to avoid her controlling brothers and their greed, even if it means hiding from them until they give up. An unexpected trip through Spirit Pass takes Indiana further than she ever expected\u2026 by almost a hundred and fifty years.Jonathan Tucker is as tough as they come. He and his twin brother have cut a successful horse and cattle ranch in the harsh Montana territory. When cattle rustlers try to steal his cattle and shoot one of his men, he is grateful to the young boy named Indy who comes to the rescue, even if the boy does have an attitude. The last thing he expects is to find the \u2018boy\u2019 is in fact an independent, freethinking, stubborn female who is not afraid to voice her opinions. She is as wild as the untamed land around them and he is determined she is the wife for him.When Indiana is taken from him, Jonathan finds he will do whatever it takes to bring his Indiana Wild home for good, even if it means following her to the future.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Westerns", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17614091-indiana-wild"}, +{"book_title": "The Witches of Karres", "author_name": "James H. Schmitz", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2484, "review_number": 164, "book_description": "NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED . . .Captain Pausert thought his luck had finally turned\u2014but he did not yet realize it was a turn for the worse. On second thought, make that a turn for the disastrous*.Unlucky in love, unsuccessful in business, he thought he had finally made good with his battered starship Venture, cruising around the fringes of the Empire and successfully selling off odd-ball cargoes which no one else had been able to sell. He was all set to return home, where his true love was faithfully waiting for him ... he hoped.But then he made the fatal mistake of freeing three slave children from their masters (who were suspiciously eager to part with them). They were just trying to be helpful, but those three adorable little girls quickly made Pausert the mortal enemy of his fiancee, his home planet, the Empire, warlike Sirians, psychopathic Uldanians, the dread pirate chieftain Laes Yango\u2014and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space.And all because those harmless-looking little girls were in fact three of the notorious and universally feared Witches of Karres.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Space", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317621.The_Witches_of_Karres"}, +{"book_title": "Starship Troopers", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 197518, "review_number": 5768, "book_description": "The historians can\u2019t seem to settle whether to call this one \"The Third Space War\" (or the fourth), or whether \"The First Interstellar War\" fits it better. We just call it \u201cThe Bug War.\" Everything up to then and still later were \"incidents,\" \"patrols,\" or \"police actions.\" However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an \"incident\" as you are if you buy it in a declared war...In one of Robert A. Heinlein\u2019s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe\u2014and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind\u2019s most alarming enemy.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17214.Starship_Troopers"}, +{"book_title": "The Pocket Watch", "author_name": "Ceci Giltenan", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1105, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "When Maggie Mitchell, is transported to the thirteenth century Highlands will Laird Logan Carr help mend her broken heart or put it in more danger than before? Generous, kind, and loving, Maggie nearly always puts the needs of others first. So when a mysterious elderly woman gives her an extraordinary pocket watch, telling her it\u2019s a conduit to the past, Maggie agrees to give the watch a try, if only to disprove the woman\u2019s delusion. But it works. Maggie finds herself in the thirteenth century Scottish Highlands, with a handsome warrior who clearly despises her. Her tender soul is caught between her own desire and the disaster she could cause for others. Will she find a way to resolve the trouble and return home within the allotted sixty days? Or will someone worthy earn her heart forever? ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28115114-the-pocket-watch"}, +{"book_title": "Empire of Ivory", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 24093, "review_number": 1219, "book_description": "Tragedy has struck His Majesty\u2019s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England\u2019s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragons\u2019 ranks\u2013forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected\u2013and stand as the only means of an airborne defense against France\u2019s ever bolder sorties.Bonaparte\u2019s dragons are already harrowing Britain\u2019s ships at sea. Only one recourse remains: Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, must take wing to Africa, whose shores may hold the cure to the mysterious and deadly contagion. On this mission there is no time to waste, and no telling what lies in store beyond the horizon or for those left behind to wait, hope, and hold the line.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129510.Empire_of_Ivory"}, +{"book_title": "The Unremembered Empire", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1780, "review_number": 127, "book_description": "Believing Terra has already fallen to the Warmaster, Primarch Roboute Guilliman founds the Imperium Secundus.The unthinkable has happened \u2013 Terra has fallen to the traitor forces of Warmaster Horus! Nothing else could explain the sudden disappearance of the Astronomican\u2019s guiding light at the heart of the Imperium, or so Roboute Guilliman would believe. Ever the pragmatist, he has drawn all his forces to Ultramar and begun construction of the new empire known as Imperium Secundus. Even with many of his primarch brothers at his side, he still faces war from without and intrigue from within \u2013 with the best of intentions, were the full truth to be known it would likely damn them all as traitors for all eternity.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143885-the-unremembered-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Rewrite Redemption", "author_name": "J.H. Walker", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 386, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "She\u2019s sixteen. He\u2019s seventeen. They don\u2019t know each other\u2026at least not yet.She has a secret and her whole life revolves around keeping it. Every few months and with little warning, she simply disappears, pulled into the past for hours or even days. She\u2019s terrified it will happen in front of someone, changing her life forever. So far, the only witnesses have been her parents, and that didn\u2019t end well. She has no control over it and no idea why it happens to her. She wants answers.He has answers\u2014at least he understands what\u2019s going on. He has a secret, too. He\u2019s part of an organization that goes back in time to rewrite reality. But he also has a problem. He broke the organization\u2019s number-one rule by altering his own timeline. As punishment, he\u2019s been blocked from time travel, which is most unfortunate. Because the changes he made to his timeline, accidentally resulted in disaster for his family. A disaster he\u2019s now prevented from repairing. No one can travel beneath the organization\u2019s radar except a Shadow. But they\u2019re rare, so rare he\u2019s never even met one.Then he moves to her town.WINNER 2014 IPPY GOLD MEDAL FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION E-BOOK WINNER 2014 READER'S FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT SCI-FIYoung adult sci-fi & fantasy", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17289823-rewrite-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "Foreign Legions", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 630, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "A collection of novellas by some of today's most acclaimed science fiction writers--including David Drake, David Weber, Eric Flint, S. M. Stirling, and Mark L. Van Name--chronicles the exploits and adventures of guilds of star-traveling merchants and their not-so-obedient human slaves and mercenaries.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57375.Foreign_Legions"}, +{"book_title": "Buffalo Before Breakfast", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 8086, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "Hello, buffalo!That's what Jack and Annie say when the Magic Tree House whisks them and Teddy, the enchanted dog, back almost 200 years to the Great Plains. There they meet a Lakota boy who shows them how to hunt buffalo. But something goes wrong! Now they need to stop a thousand buffalo from stampeding!", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/262438.Buffalo_Before_Breakfast"}, +{"book_title": "Beauty and the Clockwork Beast", "author_name": "Nancy Campbell Allen", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 3997, "review_number": 909, "book_description": "Jane Eyre meets Beauty and the Beast. When Lucy Pickett arrives at Blackwell Manor to tend to her ailing cousin, Kate, she finds more than she bargained for. A restless ghost roams the hallways, werewolves have been reported in the area, and vampires lurk across the Scottish border. Lord Miles himself is clearly hiding a secret. He is brash and inhospitable, and does not take kindly to visitors\u2014even one as smart and attractive as Miss Pickett. He is unsettled by the mysterious deaths of his new wife, Clara, and his sister, Marie. Working together, Miles and Lucy attempt to restore peace to Blackwell Manor. But can Lucy solve the mystery of Miles? Can she love the man\u2014beast and all?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Retellings", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27218553-beauty-and-the-clockwork-beast"}, +{"book_title": "Steal the Sky", "author_name": "Megan E. O'Keefe", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 664, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Detan Honding, a wanted conman of noble birth and ignoble tongue, has found himself in the oasis city of Aransa. He and his trusted companion Tibs may have pulled off one too many cons against the city\u2019s elite and need to make a quick escape. They set their sights on their biggest heist yet\u2014the gorgeous airship of the exiled commodore Thratia.But in the middle of his scheme, a face changer known as a doppel starts murdering key members of Aransa\u2019s government. The sudden paranoia makes Detan\u2019s plans of stealing Thratia\u2019s ship that much harder. And with this sudden power vacuum, Thratia can solidify her power and wreak havoc against the Empire. But the doppel isn\u2019t working for Thratia and has her own intentions. Did Detan accidentally walk into a revolution and a crusade? He has to be careful\u2014there\u2019s a reason most people think he\u2019s dead. And if his dangerous secret gets revealed, he has a lot more to worry about than a stolen airship.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Novels", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24727881-steal-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Captain Vorpatril's Alliance", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 14244, "review_number": 1315, "book_description": "Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor\u2019s life as a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Cousin to imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, Ivan is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the byzantine court politics of his home system. But when an old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive young woman who may be on the hit list of a criminal syndicate, his chivalrous nature takes over. It seems danger and adventure have once more found Captain Vorpatril.Tej Arqua and her half-sister and servant Rish are fleeing the violent overthrow of their clan on free-for-all planet Jackson\u2019s Whole. Now it seems Tej may possess a secret of which even shemay not be aware\u2014a secret that could corrupt the heart of a highly regarded Barrayaran family and provide the final advantage for the thugs who seek to overthrow Tej\u2019s homeworld. But none of Tej\u2019s formidable adversaries have counted on Ivan Vorpatril. For behind Ivan\u2019s fa\u00e7ade of wry and self-effacing humor lies a true and cunning protector who will never leave a distressed lady in the lurch\u2014making the ultimate sacrifice to keep her from harm: the treasured and hard-won freedom from his own fate as a scion of Barrayar.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12998057-captain-vorpatril-s-alliance"}, +{"book_title": "Rendan", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1775, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "Violence is never the answer\u2026 unless you\u2019re a Preor warrior. Rendan sen Tarkan, Offense Master to the Preor Third Fleet, has found his human mate. She is small compared to him, but her curves, delicious scent, and sky blue eyes call out to his soul. He has waited for a female for over two centuries and he will fight\u2014kill\u2014any who dare attempt to take her. Even one of his own males. One moment Carla Butler was unemployed and the next she was on the Preor battleship, working as a nurse for human-Preor mates. Oh, and the next moment? That was when she found her sexy, alien pink-scaled mate. Then she watched the muscular dragon shifter get beat to hell. And then she was assigned a condo in Preor Tower on Earth. The person in the condo next door? That sexy, alien pink-scaled male. Learning about the proud alien warrior isn\u2019t trouble free, but it\u2019s easier than almost dying. Yeah, almost. But the Preor who tried to end her life? Well, he doesn\u2019t quit easily. She only hopes Rendan is there to save her when the alien tries to end her life once again. Part of the DRAGONS OF PREOR series: Jarek Taulan Kozav Rendan", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31343116-rendan"}, +{"book_title": "Statesman", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2845, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "This is the fifth in the series BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT, featuring the stages in the life of Hope Hubris, the Tyrant of Jupiter, and his beloved sister Spirit.Author Biography: Vol. 5 Statesman THE TYRANT FALLS Child of flame and terror, born and bred to violence, Hope Hubris had ruled the solar system's most powerful empire with a fierce, uncompromising passion, His was a white-hot flame of justice that scarred friend and foe alike. Yet now he left Jupiter as an exile, his autocratic rule overthrown by the one person he could not oppose. Deposed, disgraced, but forever unbroken, the tyrant's greatest hour was still to come. For only he couldshoulder the burden of humanity's boldest dream: to leave behind the confines of the solar system and journey outward to the stars. THE EPIC OF HOPE HUBRIS COMES TO A BLAZING CLIMAX! STATESMAN", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/817220.Statesman"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette V", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 432, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century West Virginia back to seventeenth century Europe - and into the middle of the Thirty Years War - you'd better be adaptable to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable. Here's a generous helping of more stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age.Stories include:* Steady Girl by Eric Flint* Schwarza Falls by Douglas W. Jones* Recycling by Philip Schillawski and John Rigby* Got My Buck by Barry C. Swift* The Dalai Lama's Electric Buddha by Victor Klimov* Canst Thou Send Lightnings by Rick Boatright* Grantville's Greatest Philosopher? by Terry Howard* The Painter's Gambit by Iver P. Cooper* A Taste of Home by Chris Racciato* Young Love Lost by Jose J. Clavell* The Prepared Mind by Kim Mackey* Capacity for Harm by Richard Evans* Little Angel by Kerryn Offord* None So Blind by David Carrico* On the Matter of D'Artagnan by Bradley H. Sinor* A Filthy Story by Aamund Breivik* The Treasure Hunters by Karen Bergstrahl* Bathing with Coal by Russ Rittgers* Lessons in Astronomy by Peter Hobson* Wish Book by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett* O For A Muse of Fire by Jay Robison* Pilgrimage of Grace by Virginia DeMarce* Twenty-eight Men by Mark Huston* Federico and Ginger by Iver P. Cooper* The Jews of 1632 by Douglas W. Jones", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Anthologies", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6216878-grantville-gazette-v"}, +{"book_title": "The Municipalists", "author_name": "Seth Fried", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 2207, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by \"one of the most exciting new voices in fiction\" (Charles Yu) *Named one of the best books of the month by \nLibrary Journal\n (\"Debut of the Month\"), \nThe Verge\n, \nio9\n, \nAmazon Books\n, Book of the Month Club, \nVol. 1 Brooklyn\n, \nNYLON, \n and \nTor.com\n*In Metropolis, the gleaming city of tomorrow, the dream of the great American city has been achieved. But all that is about to change, unless a neurotic, rule-following bureaucrat and an irreverent, freewheeling artificial intelligence can save the city from a mysterious terrorist plot that threatens its very existence.Henry Thompson has dedicated his life to improving America's infrastructure as a proud employee of the United States Municipal Survey. So when the agency comes under attack, he dutifully accepts his unexpected mission to visit Metropolis looking for answers. But his plans to investigate quietly, quickly, and carefully are interrupted by his new partner: a day-drinking know-it-all named OWEN, who also turns out to be the projected embodiment of the agency's supercomputer. Soon, Henry and OWEN are fighting to save not only their own lives and those of the city's millions of inhabitants, but also the soul of Metropolis. The Municipalists is a thrilling, funny, and touching adventure story, a tour-de-force of imagination that trenchantly explores our relationships to the cities around us and the technologies guiding us into the future.\"A new and irreverent take on both real-world politics and sci-fi history.\"-The Wall Street Journal", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Thriller", "Adult", "Geography (Cities)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40711380-the-municipalists"}, +{"book_title": "Mutineer", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 5447, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the Prime Minister of her home planet. Her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris's blood-and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the marines.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129582.Mutineer"}, +{"book_title": "Zero World", "author_name": "Jason M. Hough", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 2846, "review_number": 455, "book_description": "Technologically enhanced superspy Peter Caswell has been dispatched on a top-secret assignment unlike any he\u2019s ever faced. A spaceship that vanished years ago has been found, along with the bodies of its murdered crew\u2014save one. Peter\u2019s mission is to find the missing crew member, who fled through what appears to be a tear in the fabric of space. Beyond this mysterious doorway lies an even more confounding reality: a world that seems to be Earth\u2019s twin.Peter discovers that this mirrored world is indeed different from his home, and far more dangerous. Cut off from all support, and with only days to complete his operation, Peter must track his quarry alone on an alien world. But he\u2019s unprepared for what awaits on the planet\u2019s surface, where his skills will be put to the ultimate test\u2014and everything he knows about the universe will be challenged in ways he never could have imagined.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adult", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995290-zero-world"}, +{"book_title": "Survival Quest", "author_name": "Vasily Mahanenko", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 7174, "review_number": 356, "book_description": "Barliona: a virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles-and, predictably, players. Millions of them come to Barliona, looking forward to the things they can't get in real life: elves and magic, dragons and princesses, and unforgettable combat. The game has become so popular that players now choose to spend months online without returning home. In Barliona, anything goes: You can assault fellow players, level up, become a mythical hero, a wizard, or a legendary thief. The only rule that attempted to regulate the game demanded that no player be allowed to feel actual pain. But there's an exception to every rule. For a certain bunch of players, Barliona has become their personal hell. They are criminals sent to Barliona to serve their time. They aren't in it for the dragons' gold or the abundant loot. All they want is to survive the virtual inferno. They face the ultimate survival quest.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Cultural (Russia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25342750-survival-quest"}, +{"book_title": "Darkness, Be My Friend", "author_name": "John Marsden", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 16472, "review_number": 391, "book_description": "The battle continues as five ordinary kids must journey back into the heart of an epic conflict.Five months into World War III, Ellie and her four remaining friends have barely escaped the Australian town of Wirrawee with their lives and their sanity intact.But as the next step becomes clear, they realize they must once again sacrifice their hard-won comfort and safety. A group of soldiers has recruited the kids to guide the way to the Wirrawee air base.What could possibly motivate Ellie and her friends to return? This risky sabotage mission may be their only hope of rescuing their families, too.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71870.Darkness_Be_My_Friend"}, +{"book_title": "The Lord of the Sands of Time", "author_name": "Issui Ogawa", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 396, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Sixty-two years after human life on Earth was annihilated by rampaging alien invaders, the enigmatic Messenger O is sent back in time with a mission to unite humanity of past eras--during the Second World War, in ancient Japan, and at the dawn of humanity--to defeat the invasion before it begins. However, in a future shredded by love and genocide, love waits for O. Will O save humanity only to doom himself?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Novels (Light Novel)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "War", "Cultural (Asia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6154327-the-lord-of-the-sands-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Light", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 33827, "review_number": 2809, "book_description": "It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil. Light, Michael Grant's sixth and final book in the New York Times bestselling Gone series creates a masterful, arresting conclusion to life in the FAYZ.And now, the gaiaphage has been reborn as Diana's malicious mutant daughter, Gaia. Gaia is endlessly hungry for destruction. She yearns to conquer her nemesis, Little Pete, and then bend the entire world to her warped will. As long-standing enemies become allies, secrets are revealed and unexpected sacrifices are made. Will their attempts to save themselves and one another matter in the end, or will the kids of Perdido Beach perish in this final power struggle?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8811139-light"}, +{"book_title": "The New Space Opera", "author_name": "Gardner Dozois", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1151, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "The brightest names in science fiction pen all-new tales of space and wonder.Contents 1 \u2022 Introduction (The New Space Opera) \u2022 (2007) \u2022 essay by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan6 \u2022 Saving Tiamaat \u2022 (2007) \u2022 shortstory by Gwyneth Jones24 \u2022 Verthandi's Ring \u2022 (2007) \u2022 shortstory by Ian McDonald39 \u2022 Hatch \u2022 [The Great Ship Universe] \u2022 (2007) \u2022 shortstory by Robert Reed66 \u2022 Winning Peace \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novelette by Paul J. McAuley88 \u2022 Glory \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novelette by Greg Egan112 \u2022 Maelstrom \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novelette by Kage Baker143 \u2022 Blessed by an Angel \u2022 (2007) \u2022 shortstory by Peter F. Hamilton158 \u2022 Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? \u2022 shortstory by Ken MacLeod170 \u2022 The Valley of the Gardens \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novelette by Tony Daniel202 \u2022 Dividing the Sustain \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novelette by James Patrick Kelly234 \u2022 Minla's Flowers \u2022 [Merlin [4] \u2022 2] \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novella by Alastair Reynolds291 \u2022 Splinters of Glass \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novelette by Mary Rosenblum316 \u2022 Remembrance \u2022 (2007) \u2022 shortstory by Stephen Baxter334 \u2022 The Emperor and the Maula \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novelette by Robert Silverberg379 \u2022 The Worm Turns \u2022 (2007) \u2022 shortstory by Gregory Benford401 \u2022 Send Them Flowers \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novelette by Walter Jon Williams436 \u2022 Art of War \u2022 shortstory by Nancy Kress454 \u2022 Muse of Fire \u2022 (2007) \u2022 novella by Dan Simmons", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410177.The_New_Space_Opera"}, +{"book_title": "Up Jim River", "author_name": "Michael Flynn", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 417, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn returns to space opera with Up Jim River. There is a river on Dangchao Waypoint, a small world out beyond Die Bold. It is a longish river as such things go, with a multitude of bayous and rapids and waterfalls, and it runs through many a strange and hostile country. Going up it, you can lose everything.Going up it, you can find anything. The Hound Bridget ban has vanished and her employer, the Kennel (the mysterious superspy agency of the League) has given up the search. But her daughter, the harper Mearana, has not. She enlists the scarred man, Donovan, to aid her in her search. With the reluctant assent and financial aid of the Kennel, they set forth. Bridget ban was following hints of an artifact that would \u201cprotect the League from the Confederacy for aye.\u201d Mearana is eager to follow that trail, but Donovan is reluctant, because whatever is at the end of it made a Hound disappear. What it would do to a harper and a drunk is far too easy to imagine. Donovan\u2019s mind had been shattered by Those of Name, the rulers of the Confederacy, and no fewer than seven quarreling personalities now inhabit his skull. How can he hope to see her through safely? Together, they follow Bridget ban\u2019s trail to the raw worlds of the frontier, edging ever closer to the uncivilized and barbarian planets of the Wild.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7063585-up-jim-river"}, +{"book_title": "The Misplaced Legion", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1687, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "As they faced one another in a duel of survival, the Roman tribune Marcus Scaurus held the spell-scribed sword of a Druid priest, and the Celtic chieftain Viridovix held a similar sword, bespelled by a rival Druid sorcerer. At the moment they touched, the two found themselves under a strange night sky where no stars were familiar and where Gaul and Rome were unknown. They were in an outpost of the embattled Empire of Videssos--in a world where magic and dark sorcery would test their skill and courage as no Roman legion had ever been tested before.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/974209.The_Misplaced_Legion"}, +{"book_title": "The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette", "author_name": "Bianca Turetsky", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 797, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "What if a beautiful dress could take you back in time?Louise Lambert's best friend's thirteenth birthday party is fast approaching, so of course the most important question on her mind is, \"What am I going to wear?!\" Slipping on an exquisite robin's egg blue gown during another visit to the mysterious Traveling Fashionista Vintage Sale, Louise finds herself back in time once again, swept up in the glory of palace life, fancy parties, and enormous hair as a member of the court of France's most infamous queen, Marie Antoinette.But between cute commoner boys and glamorous trips to Paris, life in the palace isn't all cake and couture. Can Louise keep her cool-and her head!-as she races against the clock to get home?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical", "Couture (Fashion)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13455459-the-time-traveling-fashionista-at-the-palace-of-marie-antoinette"}, +{"book_title": "Farnham's Freehold", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 11338, "review_number": 407, "book_description": "Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter across two thousand years into a future both strange and appallingly familiar. In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fit only to be slaves. After surviving a global nuclear war, Farnham had no intention of being anybody's slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reached throughout the world. Even if he managed to escape, where could he run to?", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50840.Farnham_s_Freehold"}, +{"book_title": "Affiliations, Aliens, and Other Profitable Pursuits", "author_name": "Lyn Gala", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1284, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "A desire for status has brought Ondry and Liam to a human world to trade, but dealing with humans has brought up all the old pain in Liam\u2019s heart. Even though Ondry would do anything to protect his beloved palteia, he doesn\u2019t know how to protect Liam from himself. Worse, Ondry isn\u2019t sure how to shield Liam from the shifting politics on the Rownt ship where the Calti Grandmothers are nothing like the ones they left behind on the planet.With everything in their lives changing, Ondry and Liam have only each other. If Ondry can\u2019t find a way to defend Liam from the ghosts of the past and overcome the impossibly short life span of a human, their small family might be over long before either of them is ready to let go. Ondry has always been a dominant and possessive Rownt, and with Liam in danger, those traits are necessary as he challenges the world to protect his lover.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27401647-affiliations-aliens-and-other-profitable-pursuits"}, +{"book_title": "Look Who's Back", "author_name": "Timur Vermes", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 32467, "review_number": 3435, "book_description": "Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up from a 66-year sleep in his subterranean Berlin bunker to find the Germany he knew entirely changed: Internet-driven media spreads ideas in minutes and fumes celebrity obsession; immigration has produced multicultural neighborhoods bringing together people of varying race, ethnicity, and religion; and the most powerful person in government is a woman. Hitler is immediately recognized . . . as an impersonator of uncommon skill. The public assumes the fulminating leader of the Nazi party is a performer who is always in character, and soon his inevitable viral appeal begets YouTube stardom, begets television celebrity on a Turkish-born comedian's show. His bigoted rants are mistaken for a theatrical satire--exposing prejudice and misrepresentation--and his media success emboldens Hitler to start his own political party and set the country he finds a shambles back to rights. With daring and dark humor, Look Who's Back skewers the absurdity and depravity of the cult of personality in modern media culture.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Humor", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Contemporary", "Cultural (Germany)", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Novels", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17289087-look-who-s-back"}, +{"book_title": "Tiamat's Wrath", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 32875, "review_number": 2216, "book_description": "Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper.In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cort\u00e1zar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess.And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule -- and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more certain. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough...", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28335698-tiamat-s-wrath"}, +{"book_title": "A Dark Guardian", "author_name": "Donna Grant", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1305, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Dear Reader,Have you ever wanted to travel through time with weapons crafted by the Fae themselves? To experience adventure so thrilling and dangerous you don't know if you will live to see tomorrow? To know that the lives of your men and villages depends on the accuracy of your instincts? To lead a group of highly skilled warriors from other times and realms? Now my men and I are faced with fighting creatures only thought to live in legend but which have been brought to Earth by evil bent on annihilating all the realms. That is my life--and I love it.At least I did until I found myself staring into the angelic, innocent face of Lady Mina of Stone Crest. In all the time I have led The Shields I have trusted my instinct to keep us alive, yet now I don't know what to believe. Everything points to Mina as the evil summoning the creatures, but she proclaims her innocence.I should be able to see through her lies, if she is indeed lying, but my attraction to her blinds me to even that. The last time I found myself so attracted to a woman, it nearly cost me the lives of my men. I cannot allow that to happen again. I won't allow that to happen again.Yet every time she looks at me, begging me with those blue-green eyes to believe her, I find myself sinking farther under her spell. Her mouth is a temptation mortal men will never know and her love will either bring me the peace I thought I'd never find--or the death I've managed, thus far, to avoid.Hugh the Righteous", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6464149-a-dark-guardian"}, +{"book_title": "Alien: River of Pain", "author_name": "Christopher Golden", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2649, "review_number": 350, "book_description": "When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426\u2014now called Acheron\u2014has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the\u00a0Nostromo\u00a0found the original Xenomorph\u2014the killing machine known as the Alien.Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden, seeking a fortune that eluded them on Earth. On Acheron, Anne gives birth to the colony\u2019s first newborn. Rebecca Jordan, also known as Newt.The wildcatters discover a vast, decaying spaceship. The horseshoe-shaped vessel is of particular interest to Weyland-Yutani, and may be the answer to their dreams. But what Anne and Russ find on board proves to\u00a0be the stuff, not of dreams, but of nightmares.Alien TM & \u00a9 1979, 2013 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Thriller", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21432866-alien"}, +{"book_title": "A Crack in the Line", "author_name": "Michael Lawrence", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1524, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "What if someone else was living your life?You are sixteen. You live with your father in a big Victorian house on the outskirts of London. Your mother is dead, killed in a train crash two years ago. It is snowing. The snow is falling on the house and the wide yard and the gnarled old tree that everyone calls the Family Tree. It makes you restless. You reach out your hands toward an object you've known all your life, and suddenly the walls melt away. When you open your eyes, you are still in your living room. \"Who are you?\" asks a girl who looks just like you but is not you. \"And what are you doing in my house?\"You have stumbled into another version of your life. This girl is sixteen. She lives with your father (her father) in a big Victorian house on the outskirts of London. Your mother (her mother) is not dead. She had a close call in a train crash two years ago. Listen: your mother is calling you (her) now.Michael Lawrence's gripping thriller about a boy and a girl who are the same person but not quite will have you turning the pages late into the night...and talking and thinking and wondering about the shifting nature of identity, time, space, and the cracks that can appear in a train rail, a lifeline, and a family tree.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391993.A_Crack_in_the_Line"}, +{"book_title": "Mem", "author_name": "Bethany C. Morrow", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2133, "review_number": 390, "book_description": "Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to have their memories extracted from their minds, whole and complete. The Mems exist as mirror-images of their source \u2015 zombie-like creatures destined to experience that singular memory over and over, until they expire in the cavernous Vault where they are kept. And then there is Dolores Extract #1, the first Mem capable of creating her own memories. An ageless beauty shrouded in mystery, she is allowed to live on her own, and create her own existence, until one day she is summoned back to the Vault.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Novella", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36211478-mem"}, +{"book_title": "Socialpunk", "author_name": "Monica Leonelle", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 184, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Ima is just a teenage girl trying to make it in The Dome, an encapsulated, 5-mile radius of downtown Chicago that remains after natural disaster has overtaken most of the earth. When she meets a hooded figure named Vaughn at a party, he takes her on a whirlwind escape that jolts her from her current reality into Silicon City, where humans are upgraded, currency is clout, and bionic eyes are the only way to get information among the glass and metal spiraling buildings that dot the skyline. Oh, and the year is 2198, not 2052 like she thought it was.But this new city comes with dangers of its own, from degenerates to replications, from hostile hashes to a dictator who seems determined to control the population. To top it all off, Ima has to find some way to get back to The Dome to save her best friend Dash before the powers of Silicon City find a way to destroy it.Something sinister is brewing in Silicon City, and Ima is determined to figure out how to stop it. Along the way, she will have to give up parts of herself to save the ones she loves. Can she survive the future long enough to fix the past?Socialpunk is a 62,000-word young adult novel, slated as the first volume of the Socialpunk Trilogy.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Romance", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10628410-socialpunk"}, +{"book_title": "The Stone Gods", "author_name": "Jeanette Winterson", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 5168, "review_number": 633, "book_description": "On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/883195.The_Stone_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "Europa Strike", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1532, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.2042: In the gray dust of the Earth's Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning.2067: As Earth's warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny.It is called \"The Singer\" for the eerie tone it emits.An artificial intelligence built eons ago, it may ultimately solve the mystery of the vanished alien races responsible for the birth and development of humanity. But after decades of war, the hostile nations of Earth care more for power than for knowledge. And now all that stands between the coveted Al and an all-out Chinese assault is a vastly outnumbered contingent of U.S. marines, dug in beneath the baleful red eye of Jupiter. As terrifying events light years distant begin to converge---with confrontation imminent and annihilation inevitable---a secret history of creation and doom must at long last be contended with...if humankind is to finally claim its glorious heritage among the stars.2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.2042: In the gray dust of the Earth's Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning.2067: As Earth's warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny.It is called \"The Singer\" for the eerie tone it emits. An artificial intelligence built eons ago, it may ultimately solve the mystery of the vanished alien races responsible for the birth and development of humanity. But after decades of war, the hostile nations of Earth care more for power than for knowledge. And now all that stands between the coveted Al and an all-out Chinese assault is a vastly outnumbered contingent of U.S. marines, dug in beneath the baleful red eye of Jupiter. As terrifying events light years distant begin to converge---with confrontation imminent and annihilation inevitable---a secret history of creation and doom must at long last be contended with...if humankind is to finally claim its glorious heritage among the stars.2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.2042: In the gray dust of the Earth's Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning.2067: As Earth's warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny.It is called \"The Singer\" for the eerie tone it emits. An artificial intelligence built eons ago, it may ultimately solve the mystery of the vanished alien races responsible for the birth and development of humanity. But after decades of war, the hostile nations of Earth care more for power than for knowledge. And now all that stands between the coveted Al and an all-out Chinese assault is a vastly outnumbered contingent of U.S. marines, dug in beneath the baleful red eye of Jupiter. As terrifying events light years distant begin to converge---with confrontation imminent and annihilation inevitable---a secret history of creation and doom must at long last be contended with...if humankind is to finally claim its glorious heritage among the stars.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227545.Europa_Strike"}, +{"book_title": "The Winner's Crime", "author_name": "Marie Rutkoski", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 57912, "review_number": 7476, "book_description": "Book two of the dazzling Winner's Trilogy is a fight to the death as Kestrel risks betrayal of country for love.The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria\u2019s crown prince means one celebration after another. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement... if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For\u2014unknown to Arin\u2014Kestrel is becoming a skilled practitioner of deceit: an anonymous spy passing information to Herran, and close to uncovering a shocking secret.As Arin enlists dangerous allies in the struggle to keep his country\u2019s freedom, he can\u2019t fight the suspicion that Kestrel knows more than she shows. In the end, it might not be a dagger in the dark that cuts him open, but the truth. And when that happens, Kestrel and Arin learn just how much their crimes will cost them.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20443207-the-winner-s-crime"}, +{"book_title": "Devoured", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2522, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Tess Hughes is on the run from her abusive ex-husband. The problem is, he\u2019s a detective and there\u2019s no place on Earth he can\u2019t find her. Solution? Hide somewhere that\u2019s not on Earth\u2014the Kindred Mother Ship. That\u2019s how she winds up posing as Pairing Puppet\u2014one of the robotic mistresses that service the Unmated Males of the Kindred who need a little sexual stress release from time to time. Of course, Tess never actually performs a Pairing Puppet\u2019s duties\u2014she hides every time a new \u2018customer\u2019 comes in. But then she gets caught out in the open\u2026at exactly the wrong time. Garron of the Rai\u2019ku Kindred has a dragon sized problem and it\u2019s living right inside of him. His dr\u2019gin, the ravenous beast that lives inside every Rai\u2019ku male, is trying to get out. Problem is, if Garron lets it escape, it will eat the first person it sees. He\u2019s burning with need and the more his desire grows, the greater the danger to those around him. Desperate to quench his smoldering desire and keep his dr\u2019gin contained, he goes to the Pairing House\u2026and chooses Tess. Now the two of them are on the run. Expelled from the Mother Ship, Tess is once again menaced by her abusive ex who will stop at nothing to get her back. Garron has sworn to protect her but the beast inside him is more dangerous than any outside threat could be. Can Garron protect Tess from the man who has sworn to destroy her without letting the beast inside him run free? If not, she will surely be\u2026Devoured. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22433773-devoured"}, +{"book_title": "Mark of Calth", "author_name": "L.J. Goulding", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1423, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "In this all-new collection of Horus Heresy stories, witness the untold tales of the Underworld War.The Heresy reached Calth without warning. In just a few hours of betrayal and bloodshed, the proud warriors of the XIIIth Legion \u2013 Guilliman\u2019s own Ultramarines \u2013 were laid low by the treachery of their erstwhile brothers of the XVIIth. Now, as the planet is scoured by solar flares from the wounded Veridian star, the survivors must take the fight to the remaining Word Bearers and their foul allies, or face damnation in the gloomy shelters beneath the planet\u2019s surface.The battle for Calth is far from over...The Shards of ErebusCalth That WasDark HeartThe TravellerA Deeper DarknessThe Underworld WarAthameUnmarked", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130716-mark-of-calth"}, +{"book_title": "Defiant", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1388, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "In \u201cDefiant\u201d, Ell Donsaii, her husband Shan Kinrais, and their friend Gary Pace begin working on commercialization of the carbon allotrope technology they learned about in \u201cAllotropes\u201d.Also, new uses, both beneficial and dangerous are being found for her ports. These wormholes aren\u2019t big enough to send people through, yet they make possible technologies that have created huge changes in our world. Those changes have resulted in tremendous economic and political upheavals. The political disturbances bring Edith Stockton to Presidential power, a woman who despises Ell and who is being stroked in that direction by individuals who want the secrets of Ell\u2019s highly dangerous \u2018one ended ports.\u2019Stockton imprisons Ell in an effort to extort the one ended port technology from her and Ell, having determined that she cannot release that particular secret, must decide how to respond.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18916608-defiant"}, +{"book_title": "Doom Patrol, Vol. 3: Down Paradise Way", "author_name": "Grant Morrison", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2028, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "The World's Strangest Heroes continue their adventures in this third volume collecting Grant Morrison's career-launching run on DOOM PATROL. Reprinting issues #35-41 of the series, DOWN PARADISE WAY features the debut of Danny the Street, the first appearance of Flex Mentallo, and, through it all, an incredible saga of cosmic war and super-evolving consciousness!", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151620.Doom_Patrol_Vol_3"}, +{"book_title": "1635: The Wars for the Rhine", "author_name": "Anette Pedersen", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 366, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "An exciting addition to the multiple\u00a0New York Times\u00a0best-selling\u00a0Ring of Fire alternate history\u00a0series created by Eric Flint. Time travelers from our modern age are thrown into the deadly straits of the\u00a0Thirty Years War in Europe of the 1600s.In the year 1635, the Rhineland is in turmoil. The impact of the Ring of Fire, the cosmic accident which transported the small modern West Virginia town of Grantville to Europe in the early seventeenth century, has only aggravated a situation that was already chaotic. Perhaps nowhere in central Europe did the Thirty Years War produce so much upheaval as it did in the borderlands between France and Germany. Archbishop Ferdinand of Cologne shares the religious fanaticism of his older brother, Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. He is determined to restore the power of the Catholic Church over the middle Rhine, the so-called \u201cBishop\u2019s Alley,\u201d and has unleashed a plot for that purpose. But that same middle Rhine is territory which Landgrave William V of Hesse-Kassel is determined to seize for himself, under the guise of expanding the influence of the United States of Europe. Add to the witch's brew the deaths in battle of Duke Wolfgang of J\u00fclich-Berg and his son, which leaves his young widow Katharina Charlotte as the heir to those much-prized territories. She is now on the run, in disguise\u2014and pregnant. Add\u00a0the unexpected arrival of Austria\u2019s most capable general, Melchior von Hatzfeldt, along with\u00a0the most ruthless spy and torturer in the Rhineland, Felix Gruyard. The wars for the Rhine have erupted, and only the devil knows how they will end.About Eric Flint\u2019s Ring of Fire series: \u201cThis alternate history series is . . .\u00a0a landmark . . .\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c[Eric] Flint's\u00a01632\u00a0universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c. . .\u00a0reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . .\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29562605-1635"}, +{"book_title": "From a Distant Star", "author_name": "Karen McQuestion", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2422, "review_number": 532, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Emma was the only one who hadn\u2019t given up on her boyfriend, Lucas. Everyone else\u2014his family, his friends, his doctors\u2014was convinced that any moment could be his last. So when Lucas miraculously returns from the brink of death, Emma thinks her prayers have been answered.As the surprised town rejoices, Emma begins to question whether Lucas is the same boy she\u2019s always known. When she finds an unidentifiable object on his family\u2019s farm\u2014and government agents come to claim it\u2014she begins to suspect that nothing is what it seems. Emma\u2019s out-of-this-world discovery may be the key to setting things right, but only if she and Lucas can evade the agents who are after what they have. With all her hopes and dreams on the line, Emma sets out to save the boy she loves. And with a little help from a distant star, she might just have a chance at making those dreams come true.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24036088-from-a-distant-star"}, +{"book_title": "Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders", "author_name": "Richard Ellis Preston Jr.", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1148, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "In a postapocalyptic world of endless snow, Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their kidnapped leader, Balthazar Crankshaft, from the impenetrable City of the Founders. Steaming over a territory once known as Southern California \u2014 before it was devastated in the alien war \u2014 Buckle navigates his massive airship through skies infested with enemy war zeppelins and ravenous alien beasties in this swashbuckling and high-octane steampunk adventure. Life is desperate in the Snow World, and death is quick. Buckle and his ship\u2019s company must brave poisoned wastelands of Noxious Mustard and do battle with forgewalkers, steampipers, and armored locomotives as they plunge from the skies into the underground prison warrens of the fortress city.Captain Romulus Buckle must lead the Pneumatic Zeppelin and its crew of ne\u2019er-do-wells on a desperate mission where he must risk everything to save Balthazar and attempt to prevent a catastrophic war that could wipe out all that is left of civilization and the entire human race.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17046614-romulus-buckle-the-city-of-the-founders"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Instinct", "author_name": "Tracy Lauren", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1043, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "Rennek is an honor bound male whose very existence in life is tarnished by the sins of his father. When he and his crew stumble onto a trafficking ring his immediate instinct is to rescue the females. He finds himself drawn to one of them, setting in motion a dangerous course of events propelling him towards his destiny. Can Rennek be the leader his people need him to be as the secrets of the past are uncovered? Kate has spent years muddling through life, never quite finding a place for herself. When she wakes in an alien cargo hold, life surprisingly becomes a lot easier. Well, except for the bounty hunters and dirty space cops pursuing her of course. Kate\u2019s new found happiness has a lot to do with her sexy new alien boyfriend, but she doesn\u2019t know how to react when he suddenly starts calling her his mate. Will Kate be able to move beyond the hangups of her past and give herself completely to Rennek?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469104-alien-instinct"}, +{"book_title": "Exodus", "author_name": "Andreas Christensen", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2949, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "When mankind faces extinction, can anyone survive?In 2072, Earth faces the ultimate extinction event. In an America turned authoritarian, a desperate race against time begins. To send a starship to a distant planet, where the remains of humanity can survive.However, while the government wants to recreate the society it has engineered, there are those who secretly conspire to let the starfarers choose their own destiny. As mankind on Earth faces its final blow, the selected few set course for Aurora, more than 40 light years away.Follow Maria Solis, the billionaire daughter, Kenneth Taylor, Harvard professor of psychology, and Tina Hammer, a scramjet pilot and officer, through the selection and preparations for the adventure of a lifetime - and a final chance for a doomed civilization.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16755685-exodus"}, +{"book_title": "The Feaster From the Stars", "author_name": "Alan K. Baker", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 149, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Something strange is happening on the London Underground. The ghosts which haunt the platforms and tunnels are being seen much more frequently than usual, and it seems that they have become angry and frightened for some reason. There is, apparently, something on the network of which even the dead are afraid.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12352310-the-feaster-from-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Blue Lily, Lily Blue", "author_name": "Maggie Stiefvater", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 126824, "review_number": 13319, "book_description": "The third installment in the all-new series from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost.Friends can betray.Mothers can disappear.Visions can mislead.Certainties can unravel.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17378508-blue-lily-lily-blue"}, +{"book_title": "Praying For Rain", "author_name": "Jay Kristoff", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 357, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Praying For Rain is a free-to-read pdf short story, a prequel to Jay Kristoff's The Lotus War series, which tells the tale of Miho and the city of Kigen.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17338510-praying-for-rain"}, +{"book_title": "Brain Plague", "author_name": "Joan Slonczewski", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 436, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Brain Plague is the new hard SF novel by Joan Slonczewski, set in the same future universe as her award-winning A Door into Ocean and The Children Star (a New York Times Notable Book). An intelligent microbe race that can live symbiotically in other intelligent beings is colonizing the human race throughout the civilized universe. And each colony of microbes has its own personality, good or bad. In some people, carriers, they are brain enhancers, and in others a fatal brain plague, a living addiction. This is the story of one woman's psychological and moral struggle to adjust to having an ambitious colony of microbes living permanently in her own head. This novel is one of the most powerful and involving SF novels of the year.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Feminism", "Own", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121609.Brain_Plague"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Planet", "author_name": "Rachel Searles", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1029, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "This is what the boy is told:\u2022 He woke up on planet Trucon, inside a fence he shouldn't have been able to pass.\u2022 He has an annirad blaster wound to the back of his head.\u2022 He has no memory.\u2022 He is now under the protection of a mysterious benefactor.\u2022 His name is Chase Garrety.This is what Chase Garrety knows:\u2022 He has a message: \"Guide the star.\"\u2022 Time is running out.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Action", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17454743-the-lost-planet"}, +{"book_title": "Disenchanted & Co", "author_name": "Lynn Viehl", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1182, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "This release is considered Book One in the series. It combines Part 1: Her Ladyship's Curse and Part 2: His Lordship Possessed into one volume.In the Provincial Union of Victoriana, a steampunk America that lost the Revolutionary War, Charmian \u201cKit\u201d Kittredge makes her living investigating crimes of magic. While Kit tries to avoid the nobs of high society, she follows mysteries wherever they lead.Unlike most folks, Kit doesn\u2019t believe in magic, but she can\u2019t refuse to help Lady Diana Walsh, who claims a curse is viciously wounding her while she sleeps. As Kit investigates the Walsh family, she becomes convinced that the attacks are part of a more ominous plot\u2014one that may involve the lady\u2019s obnoxious husband.Sleuthing in the city of Rumsen is difficult enough, but soon Kit must also skirt the unwanted attentions of a nefarious deathmage and the unwelcome scrutiny of the police chief inspector. Unwilling to surrender to either man\u2019s passion for her, Kit struggles to remain independent as she draws closer to the heart of the mystery. For the truth promises to ruin her life\u2014and turn Rumsen into a supernatural battleground from which no one will escape alive.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144127-disenchanted-co"}, +{"book_title": "Midshipman Henry Gallant in Space", "author_name": "H. Peter Alesso", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 958, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "As the last star fighter in Squadron 111, Midshipman Henry Gallant is on his way from Jupiter to the nearest space base in orbit around Mars. With the United Earth fleet on the verge of annihilation from alien ships, he can expect no help. In order to reach Mars, Gallant must make his way through the asteroid belt and threating aliens. With so much uncertainty about the alien capabilities and intentions, analyzing the captured computer equipment in Gallant\u2019s possession could prove crucial.The fate of Earth could rest on the abilities of Midshipman Henry Gallant. Unfortunately, it is his abilities that have been much in doubt during his tour of duty. In an era of genetic engineering, he is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer in the fleet. His classmates and superior officers have all expressed their concern that he will not be up to the demands of the space service.Only bright and attractive junior officer Kelsey Mitchel has shown any sympathy for Gallant. Now as his astrogator on the last fighter in Squadron 111, her life as well as a good many others, depends of Henry Gallant.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15806116-midshipman-henry-gallant-in-space"}, +{"book_title": "Four: A Divergent Story Collection", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 167722, "review_number": 11047, "book_description": "Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation\u2019s faction leader did the same. Tobias\u2019s transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child.Newly christened \u201cFour,\u201d he discovers during initiation that he will succeed in Dauntless. Initiation is only the beginning, though; Four must claim his place in the Dauntless hierarchy. His decisions will affect future initiates as well as uncover secrets that could threaten his own future\u2014and the future of the entire faction system.Two years later, Four is poised to take action, but the course is still unclear. The first new initiate who jumps into the net might change all that. With her, the way to righting their world might become clear. With her, it might become possible to be Tobias once again.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth comes a companion volume to the worldwide bestselling DIVERGENT series, told from the per-spective of the immensely popular character Tobias. The four pieces included here\u2014THE TRANSFER, THE INITIATE, THE SON, and THE TRAITOR\u2014plus three additional exclusive scenes, give readers an electrifying glimpse into the history and heart of Tobias, and set the stage for the epic saga of the DIVERGENT trilogy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18126198-four"}, +{"book_title": "Like A Wisp of Steam: Steampunk Erotica", "author_name": "Cecilia Tan", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 77, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Five erotic steampunk stories. Lust & leaping 'technologie' meet in a Victorian era that never was. Jason Rubis, Thomas S. Roche, Vanessa Vaughn, Peter Tupper, and Kaysee Renee Robichaud create fascinating tales of airships, corsetry, mad scientists, and drama.The first volume in The Erotic Steampunk Library (followed by Like Clockwork, and then Like a Corset Undone).", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Sexuality", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5606971-like-a-wisp-of-steam"}, +{"book_title": "Rebellion", "author_name": "Kass Morgan", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 8454, "review_number": 739, "book_description": "Centuries after nuclear war destroyed our planet, humanity struggles to rebuild. It\u2019s been a month since the dropships landed and the Colonists joined the Hundred on the ground. The teens, once branded juvenile delinquents, are now leaders among their people.The Colonists and the Earthborns are celebrating their first holiday together when, to everyone\u2019s horror, they\u2019re attacked by a group of strangers whose unusual battle cries fill the air. The newcomers kill scores of people, seize prisoners, and pillage crucial supplies. When hotheaded Bellamy and his analytical girlfriend Clarke discover that Wells, Octavia and Glass have been captured, they vow to get them back at all costs. But as they go after their new enemies, Bellamy and Clarke find themselves increasingly at odds, unable to agree on a plan to save their friends. Meanwhile, Wells, Octavia, and Glass are being slowly brainwashed by their captors, religious fanatics with one goal: to grow their ranks and \u201cheal\u201d the war-ravaged planet\u2026 by eliminating everyone else on it.But centuries of radiation exposure have taken their toll, forcing the cult to take drastic steps to survive. And unless the rescue party arrives soon, the teen captives will face a fate more terrifying than anything they could imagine. In this thrilling fourth installment, the hundred fight to protect the people they love on the dangerous planet they always dreamed of calling home.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30140756-rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "Threshold of Annihilation", "author_name": "T.A. White", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 2203, "review_number": 243, "book_description": "When her most closely guarded secrets are laid bare, how will Kira survive the inevitable fall out\u2014and will anybody be standing beside her in the end?Traveling to the planet of Jettie in the hopes of finding safe harbor for her niece, Kira arrives only to find their destination host to the quorum\u2014a series of dangerous contests that hold the power to decide the fate of empires.With little choice but to participate, it doesn\u2019t take long for Kira to find herself knee deep in enemies. Surrounded on all sides, Kira will have to face her worst fear. Trusting others with the truth.Because it\u2019s becoming clear the tsavitee are no longer content to exist in the shadows. War is coming\u2014and everything Kira thought she once knew is about to change.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55927306-threshold-of-annihilation"}, +{"book_title": "\u041b\u0430\u0431\u0438\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0442 \u043e\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439. \u0424\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0438\u0432\u044b\u0435 \u0437\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0430\u043b\u0430. \u041f\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0440\u0430\u0447\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0432\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0438", "author_name": "Sergei Lukyanenko", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 601, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "\"\u041b\u0430\u0431\u0438\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0442 \u043e\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439\".\"\u0424\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0438\u0432\u044b\u0435 \u0437\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0430\u043b\u0430\".\"\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0440\u0430\u0447\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0432\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0438\".\u041a\u0442\u043e \u0438\u0437 \u043f\u043e\u043a\u043b\u043e\u043d\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432 \u0441\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u043e\u0442\u0435\u0447\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0444\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0438 \u043d\u0435 \u0437\u043d\u0430\u0435\u0442 \"\u0432\u0438\u0440\u0442\u0443\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0442\u0440\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0438\" \u0421\u0435\u0440\u0433\u0435\u044f \u041b\u0443\u043a\u044c\u044f\u043d\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e? \"\u041a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u044c\u044e\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0441\u0430\u0433\u0438\" \u043e \u0433\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0435 \u0414\u0438\u043f\u0442\u0430\u0443\u043d\u0435 \u0438 \u0435\u0433\u043e \u043e\u0431\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044f\u0445?\u041e\u0434\u043d\u0430\u043a\u043e \u0442\u0435\u043f\u0435\u0440\u044c \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434 \u0432\u0430\u043c\u0438 - \"\u0432\u0438\u0440\u0442\u0443\u0430\u043f\u044c\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0442\u0440\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u044f\", \u0412\u041f\u0415\u0420\u0412\u042b\u0415 \u0441\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0432 \u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u043a\u043d\u0438\u0433\u0435. \u0421\u0432\u043e\u0435\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0437\u043d\u0430\u044f \"\u0445\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430 \u0414\u0438\u043f\u0442\u0430\u0443\u043d\u0430\" - \u043e\u0442 \u043d\u0430\u0447\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u0438 \u0434\u043e \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0446\u0430. \u041f\u041e\u041a\u0410 - \u0434\u043e \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0446\u0430...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9222971"}, +{"book_title": "The Seven Hills", "author_name": "John Maddox Roberts", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 135, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "John Maddox Roberts's provocative Hannibal's Children answered a fascinating question: What if Rome fell to Carthage, then rose again? Now, the Romans' victory is complete, but their legendary unity-and commander Marcus Scipio's leadership-will be tested...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1770058.The_Seven_Hills"}, +{"book_title": "Silence Fallen", "author_name": "Patricia Briggs", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 35971, "review_number": 3112, "book_description": "Mercy Thompson has found her voice in the werewolf pack. But when Mercy\u2019s bond with the pack\u2014and her mate\u2014is broken, she\u2019ll learn what it truly means to be alone... \u00a0 Attacked and abducted in her home territory, Mercy finds herself in the clutches of the most powerful vampire in the world, taken as a weapon to use against alpha werewolf Adam and the ruler of the Tri-Cities vampires. In coyote form, Mercy escapes\u2014only to find herself without money, without clothing, and alone in the heart of Europe... \u00a0 Unable to contact Adam and the rest of the pack, Mercy has allies to find and enemies to fight, and she needs to figure out which is which. Ancient powers stir, and Mercy must be her agile best to avoid causing a war between vampires and werewolves, and between werewolves and werewolves. And in the heart of the ancient city of Prague, old ghosts rise...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30687916-silence-fallen"}, +{"book_title": "Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel", "author_name": "James Luceno", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 14760, "review_number": 1650, "book_description": "War is tearing the galaxy apart. For years the Republic and the Separatists have battled across the stars, each building more and more deadly technology in an attempt to win the war. As a member of Chancellor Palpatine\u2019s top secret Death Star project, Orson Krennic is determined to develop a superweapon before their enemies can. And an old friend of Krennic\u2019s, the brilliant scientist Galen Erso, could be the key.Galen\u2019s energy-focused research has captured the attention of both Krennic and his foes, making the scientist a crucial pawn in the galactic conflict. But after Krennic rescues Galen, his wife, Lyra, and their young daughter, Jyn, from Separatist kidnappers, the Erso family is deeply in Krennic\u2019s debt. Krennic then offers Galen an extraordinary opportunity: to continue his scientific studies with every resource put utterly at his disposal. While Galen and Lyra believe that his energy research will be used purely in altruistic ways, Krennic has other plans that will finally make the Death Star a reality. Trapped in their benefactor\u2019s tightening grasp, the Ersos must untangle Krennic\u2019s web of deception to save themselves and the galaxy itself.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29662066-catalyst"}, +{"book_title": "The Scarab Path", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2376, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease and seeking meaning in a city that no longer feels like home.The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities that refused to bow the knee to her, but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies and war machines. Only her consort, the former spymaster Thalric, knows the truth, and now the assassins are coming and he finds his life and his loyalties under threat once again.Out beyond the desert of the Nem the ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them both, with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Novels", "Epic", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7684939-the-scarab-path"}, +{"book_title": "About Time: 12 Short Stories", "author_name": "Jack Finney", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1369, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape\u2014through time travel\u2014doesn't always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72695.About_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure", "author_name": "Cecil Castellucci", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 3459, "review_number": 397, "book_description": "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...Reeling from their disastrous defeat on Hoth, the heroic freedom fighters of the REBEL ALLIANCE have scattered throughout space, pursued by the agents of the sinister GALACTIC EMPIRE.One rebel task force protects PRINCESS LEIA, bearing her in secrecy from star to star. As the last survivor of Alderaan's House of Organa, Leia is a symbol of freedom, hunted by the Empire she has opposed for so long.The struggle against Imperial tyranny has claimed many rebel lives. As the Empire closes in, Leia resolves to make a sacrifice of her own, lest the cause of freedom be extinguished from the galaxy....", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25067045-moving-target"}, +{"book_title": "Equal Rites", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 150664, "review_number": 4362, "book_description": "On Discworld, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late. The town witch insists on turning the baby into a perfectly normal witch, thus mending the magical damage of the wizard's mistake. But now the young girl will be forced to penetrate the inner sanctum of the Unseen University--and attempt to save the world with one well-placed kick in some enchanted shins! Reissue.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34507.Equal_Rites"}, +{"book_title": "Last Pursuit", "author_name": "Piers Platt", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 150, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Just one final target stands between a weary assassin and a life of freedom and wealth. But time is running short: the mark knows that he\u2019s coming, and he\u2019s not the only contractor on the job \u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21842321-last-pursuit"}, +{"book_title": "Deal with the Devil", "author_name": "Kit Rocha", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 2006, "review_number": 608, "book_description": "Deal with the Devil is Orphan Black meets the post-apocalyptic Avengers by USA Today and New York Times bestselling author duo Kit Rocha.Nina is an information broker with a mission--she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America.Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive.They're on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between them only makes it more dangerous. They could burn down the world, destroying each other in the process...Or they could do the impossible: team up.This is the first book in a near-future science fiction series with elements of romance.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45046593-deal-with-the-devil"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Earth and Sky", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 5277, "review_number": 780, "book_description": "The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new book, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands\u2014where empires and faiths collide.\u00a0 From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist traveling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request\u2014and possibly to do more\u2014and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman, posing as a doctor\u2019s wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy. \u00a0 The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the accomplished younger son of a merchant family, ambivalent about the life he\u2019s been born to live. And farther east a boy trains to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif\u2014to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming. \u00a0 As these lives entwine, their fates\u2014and those of many others\u2014will hang in the balance, when the khalif sends out his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25938417-children-of-earth-and-sky"}, +{"book_title": "The B-Team", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 6235, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "The opening episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Unions future. As the team works to pull off their task, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson discovers theres more to the story of the missing diplomats than anyone expected...a secret that could spell war for humanity.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180352-the-b-team"}, +{"book_title": "Rando Splicer", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 812, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Separated from her ship, Major Trace Thakur is stranded on the reeh-occupied world of Rando. The native corbi have suffered beneath reeh tyranny for 800 years, and many have given up hope. But Trace needs the data stored in the reeh\u2019s genetic technology and command center \u2014 the Rando Splicer \u2014 if she\u2019s to learn how to save humanity from impending disaster, and is planning an assault against overwhelming odds. She\u2019ll need help from the UFS Phoenix, though, which is caught in a ritual medieval battle to change the croma leadership that sees her crew embarking on a perilous journey across a warring desert continent. Should they fail, humanity could be just one of many species to die.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49469698-rando-splicer"}, +{"book_title": "Dawn", "author_name": "Octavia E. Butler", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 30937, "review_number": 2995, "book_description": "Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth\u2014the last stage of the planet\u2019s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali\u2014who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations\u2014whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet\u2019s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60929.Dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Moonglow", "author_name": "Kristen Callihan", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 6795, "review_number": 790, "book_description": "Once the seeds of desire are sown . . .Finally free of her suffocating marriage, widow Daisy Ellis Craigmore is ready to embrace the pleasures of life that have long been denied her. Yet her new-found freedom is short lived. A string of unexplained murders has brought danger to Daisy's door, forcing her to turn to the most unlikely of saviors . . .Their growing passion knows no bounds . . . Ian Ranulf, the Marquis of Northrup, has spent lifetimes hiding his primal nature from London society. But now a vicious killer threatens to expose his secrets. Ian must step out of the shadows and protect the beautiful, fearless Daisy, who awakens in him desires he thought long dead. As their quest to unmask the villain draws them closer together, Daisy has no choice but to reveal her own startling secret, and Ian must face the undeniable truth: Losing his heart to Daisy may be the only way to save his soul.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13223523-moonglow"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Tutor", "author_name": "Bee Ridgway", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 316, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "When Alva receives an invitation from a man offering his services as a Time Tutor, she doesn\u2019t know what to think: Is he a time traveler or a charlatan? And does it really matter, when he is so devilishly attractive? The Time Tutor is a fast-paced romantic prequel to Bee Ridgway\u2019s acclaimed novel, The River of No Return.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Historical", "Short Stories", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20580199-the-time-tutor"}, +{"book_title": "The Invisible Man", "author_name": "H.G. Wells", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 152501, "review_number": 6452, "book_description": "This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.", "year_published": 1897, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Literature", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17184.The_Invisible_Man"}, +{"book_title": "The Ringworld Throne", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 10021, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written!The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda--if anyone dares approach them to learn.Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne?\"Niven's work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique is wonderfully polished, his characters and their situations are nicely drawn . . . wraps up (maybe) a corner of a very interesting universe\".--San Diego Union-Tribune", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64467.The_Ringworld_Throne"}, +{"book_title": "Prisoner's Hope", "author_name": "David Feintuch", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1533, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Recovering from injuries at Hope Nation, Captain Nicholas Seafort is appointed liaison to the wealthy planters of the verdant colony planet and finds himself called upon to halt a revolution and rally his people against alien invaders.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840345.Prisoner_s_Hope"}, +{"book_title": "Library of Souls", "author_name": "Ransom Riggs", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 125756, "review_number": 10923, "book_description": "A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he\u2019s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.They\u2019ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil\u2019s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It\u2019s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all. Like its predecessors, Library of Souls blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41044147-library-of-souls"}, +{"book_title": "Son of Justice", "author_name": "Steven L. Hawk", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 485, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "For more than a dozen years, Eli has studied the art of war from some of the most skilled fighters on three planets. There's no question, he has what it takes to be a professional soldier.There's just one problem. His father is General Grant Justice, the most famous man in the galaxy and leader of a new governmental alliance that unites four alien races. When it comes time to enlist, the younger Justice has to make a choice. Rely on his last name and claim an automatic commission as an officer? Or enter basic training as a lowly private and earn his way to the top?For Eli, the decision is an easy one. He changes his name and enlists as an anonymous recruit.Unfortunately, not all of life's choices have such clear-cut answers. An alien-led rebellion is brewing in the ranks of the army he has just joined, and Eli is forced to choose sides. His actions will determine the fate of his father, the alliance, and the entire human race.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29643358-son-of-justice"}, +{"book_title": "Prince of Mercenaries", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1361, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "For a century, the Americans and Soviets had maintained an uneasy alliance based on the CoDominium, a world order in which no other power or combination of powers could threaten their mutual hegemony. Thus did the Americans and Russians learn to live at peace with each other.But nothing lasts forever, the CoDominium's energies are nearly spent, and internal conflicts are ripping it apart. The future belongs to colony worlds like Sparta\u2014if they can survive the death-throes of Earth's civilization.To do that they will need men who understand the art of war, men like mercenary commander John Christian Falkenberg, and Lysander, Prince of Sparta, the first Prince of Mercenaries. This is their story, as told by Jerry Pournelle, best-selling author of military science fiction.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197187.Prince_of_Mercenaries"}, +{"book_title": "Roar", "author_name": "Cora Carmack", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 11202, "review_number": 2331, "book_description": "In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them.Aurora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. Long ago, the ungifted pledged fealty and service to her family in exchange for safe haven, and a kingdom was carved out from the wildlands and sustained by magic capable of repelling the world\u2019s deadliest foes. As the sole heir of Pavan, Aurora\u2019s been groomed to be the perfect queen. She\u2019s intelligent and brave and honorable. But she\u2019s yet to show any trace of the magic she\u2019ll need to protect her people.To keep her secret and save her crown, Aurora\u2019s mother arranges for her to marry a dark and brooding Stormling prince from another kingdom. At first, the prince seems like the perfect solution to all her problems. He\u2019ll guarantee her spot as the next queen and be the champion her people need to remain safe. But the more secrets Aurora uncovers about him, the more a future with him frightens her. When she dons a disguise and sneaks out of the palace one night to spy on him, she stumbles upon a black market dealing in the very thing she lacks\u2014storm magic. And the people selling it? They\u2019re not Stormlings. They\u2019re storm hunters.Legend says that her ancestors first gained their magic by facing a storm and stealing part of its essence. And when a handsome young storm hunter reveals he was born without magic, but possesses it now, Aurora realizes there\u2019s a third option for her future besides ruin or marriage. She might not have magic now, but she can steal it if she\u2019s brave enough. Challenge a tempest. Survive it. And you become its master.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939048-roar"}, +{"book_title": "The Diabolic", "author_name": "S.J. Kincaid", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 19766, "review_number": 3524, "book_description": "\u201cThe perfect kind of high-pressure adventure.\u201d \u2014TeenVogue.comA New York Times bestseller!Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic novel about what happens when a senator\u2019s daughter is summoned to the galactic court as a hostage, but she\u2019s really the galaxy\u2019s most dangerous weapon in disguise.A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you\u2019ve been created for.Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator\u2019s daughter, Sidonia. The two have grown up side by side, but are in no way sisters. Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia, and she would do so gladly. She would also take as many lives as necessary to keep Sidonia safe.When the power-mad Emperor learns Sidonia\u2019s father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court. She is to serve as a hostage. Now, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her. Nemesis travels to the court disguised as Sidonia\u2014a killing machine masquerading in a world of corrupt politicians and two-faced senators\u2019 children. It\u2019s a nest of vipers with threats on every side, but Nemesis must keep her true abilities a secret or risk everything.As the Empire begins to fracture and rebellion looms closer, Nemesis learns there is something more to her than just deadly force. She finds a humanity truer than what she encounters from most humans. Amidst all the danger, action, and intrigue, her humanity just might be the thing that saves her life\u2014and the empire.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26836910-the-diabolic"}, +{"book_title": "Storm of Locusts", "author_name": "Rebecca Roanhorse", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 6930, "review_number": 1117, "book_description": "It\u2019s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Din\u00e9 monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she\u2019s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she\u2019s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange clan power.Then the Goodacre twins show up at Maggie\u2019s door with the news that Kai and the youngest Goodacre, Caleb, have fallen in with a mysterious cult, led by a figure out of Navajo legend called the White Locust. The Goodacres are convinced that Kai\u2019s a true believer, but Maggie suspects there\u2019s more to Kai\u2019s new faith than meets the eye. She vows to track down the White Locust, then rescue Kai and make things right between them.Her search leads her beyond the Walls of Din\u00e9tah and straight into the horrors of the Big Water world outside. With the aid of a motley collection of allies, Maggie must battle body harvesters, newborn casino gods and, ultimately, the White Locust himself. But the cult leader is nothing like she suspected, and Kai might not need rescuing after all. When the full scope of the White Locust\u2019s plans are revealed, Maggie\u2019s burgeoning trust in her friends, and herself, will be pushed to the breaking point, and not everyone will survive.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37920490-storm-of-locusts"}, +{"book_title": "Upright Women Wanted", "author_name": "Sarah Gailey", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 9148, "review_number": 2047, "book_description": "In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.\"That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks.\"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her--a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Westerns", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45320365-upright-women-wanted"}, +{"book_title": "Gemini Cell", "author_name": "Myke Cole", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1901, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "Gemini Cell takes place in the SHADOW OPS universe, but is a prequel, taking place many years before the events in CONTROL POINT.Myke Cole continues to blow the military fantasy genre wide open with an all-new epic adventure in his highly acclaimed Shadow Ops universe\u2014set in the early days of the Great Reawakening, when magic first returns to the world and order begins to unravel\u2026US Navy SEAL Jim Schweitzer is a consummate professional, a fierce warrior, and a hard man to kill. But when he sees something he was never meant to see on a covert mission gone bad, he finds himself\u2014and his family\u2014in the crosshairs. Nothing means more to Jim than protecting his loved ones, but when the enemy brings the battle to his front door, he is overwhelmed and taken down.It should be the end of the story. But Jim is raised from the dead by a sorcerer and recruited by a top secret unit dabbling in the occult, known only as the Gemini Cell. With powers he doesn\u2019t understand, Jim is called back to duty\u2014as the ultimate warrior. As he wrestles with a literal inner demon, Jim realizes his new superiors are determined to use him for their own ends and keep him in the dark\u2014especially about the fates of his wife and son\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Action", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17888374-gemini-cell"}, +{"book_title": "Thief of Hearts", "author_name": "Margaret Foxe", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 385, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "The Sahara Desert, 1887: hotbed of pirates, tomb raiders and general ne'er-do-wells. It\u2019s not exactly the ideal place for Hex Bartholomew, dirigible pilot and former child-thief, to go straight. Trouble soon finds her at the mouth of an ancient tomb and in the company of bloody-minded treasure hunters, angry Bedouins, and a resurrected Pharaoh... \u2026But Hex is fairly sure Pharaohs don't speak with snooty British accents. \"Mr. Pharaoh\" can remember nothing of who he is or how he managed to find himself in an Egyptian tomb that has been sealed for thousands of years. All he has is a name, Rowan, and some truly disturbing and...well, god-like powers. And an annoying tendency to save Hex\u2019s life. The last thing Hex needs is to fall in love with an amnesiac Brit who may or may not be a reincarnated Egyptian god, especially when it becomes obvious that the truth behind who\u2014and what\u2014Rowan is threatens to tear them apart for all of time. It's just not worth the risk to her heart. Until it is\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29416033-thief-of-hearts"}, +{"book_title": "Kniam", "author_name": "Stormy McKnight", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 589, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Amber- After a bitter divorce and looking over her shoulder at mid-life, Amber decides to throw caution to the wind and take a once in a lifetime trip to the Scottish Highlands. She wasn't expecting to stumble and fall down a hillside, land on a long lost portal to an alien world and end up in a cage.Kniam- He is of an ancient race on the brink of extinction. A man of honor and duty, his only purpose is to serve and protect what remains of his people. Until one angry Earth female changes everything! Can he be the leader his people expect, and have the female his heart covets and his body burns for?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23008805-kniam"}, +{"book_title": "Phone-Y Friends", "author_name": "Nancy E. Krulik", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 14, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Logan auditions for the school play and is chosen for a part in the chorus, but unfortunately, Java, Logan's robot cousin, doesn't get a part, which means he and Logan won't be hanging out together every day after school. Logan's excited to have something to himself and starts spending more and more time with his new friends. Now with so much time on his hands, Java attempts to mimic human behaviorby developing a friendship of his own. He tries to befriend severalhousehold appliances to no avail. (A washing machine can't make interesting conversation and the coffee maker just seems to spit water in response.) Finally, he becomes chummy with the voice activated program on Mrs. Applebaum's cell phone. But then what look like prank phone calls land Mrs. Applebaum in hot water with her boss and the neighbors. In the end, Logan freezes and forgets his lines, and Java (who has memorized them in an instant) feeds them to him the Cyrano-style. After all, that's what friends are for. Internationally bestselling author Nancy Krulik and her incredibly talented daughter, Amanda Burwasser, spin hilarious high jinks in the fourth book in the Project Droid series, which combines the literalness of Amelia Bedelia with a wacky modern edge, making for hours of laughter. And the fun continues with an activity in the back!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)", "Academic (School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34138462-phone-y-friends"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 7: Spider's Thrash", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 13992, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "The hammer has come down on him but outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem has managed to stay one step ahead of his detractors - I.e. the President of the United States and his authoritarian lackeys in publishing and law enforcement.After losing his byline, bank account, and apartment, Jerusalem and his Filthy Assistants have legged it underground, the better to implement his plan. What plan, you say? Why, the plan to bring down the President of course!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22426.Transmetropolitan_Vol_7"}, +{"book_title": "Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities", "author_name": "Lyn Gala", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1751, "review_number": 270, "book_description": "Ondry and Liam have settled into a good life, but their trading is still tied up with humans, and humans are always messy. When political changes at the human base lead Ondry to attempt a difficult trade, the pair find themselves entangled in human affairs. Liam wants to help the people he left and the worlds being torn apart. He also wants to serve Ondry with not only the pleasures of the nest but also by bringing human profits.Ondry has no hope of understanding human psychology in general, he only knows that he will hold onto his palteia with the last breath in his body, and he'd like to keep his status and his wealth too. Unfortunately, new humans bring new conflicts and he is not sure how to protect Liam. He does know one thing that humans seem to constantly forget\u2014that the peaceful Rownt are predators and when their families are threatened, Rownt become deadly killers. Liam is his family, and Ondry will protect him with his last breath\u2026 assuming that he can recognize the dangers in time to do so.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23110213-assimilation-love-and-other-human-oddities"}, +{"book_title": "Other", "author_name": "Gordon R. Dickson", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 335, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Bleys Ahrens is now a political power on the planet Association, home of the Friendlies. His people--his Others, not Dorsai or Friendly or Exotic, but hybrids--are in place on all the new worlds, and are ready to take his message to the greater human public.But within his inner circle is Henry McLean, Soldier of God, and a True Faith-Holder. Henry fears for the soul of his nephew Bleys, and while he guards, he also watches, and judges.And beyond Bleys Ahrens' control is Hal Mayne: the one man in all the human worlds who might successfully challenge Bleys in his bid for power. For Hal Mayne is the true culmination of the Cycle's grand design. Bleys would give anything to convert Hal Mayne to his cause--or failing that, to destroy him.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263110.Other"}, +{"book_title": "Vertigo", "author_name": "G.S. Jennsen", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1218, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Where do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown?The year is 2322 and humanity is under attack. An engineered war between rival superpowers escalates even as the shadowy Metigen armada begins attacking colonies on the frontiers of settled space.Individuals from across the galaxy fight for their own survival and to protect those they hold dear, while a group of unlikely allies race to expose a secret cabal. As the aliens draw ever closer, leaving utter destruction and death in their wake, the strongest defenders of Earth and Seneca fall to one another in a war of lies and misdirection.Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano stand accused of terrorism and murder. In a desperate gambit to clear their names and find a way to defeat the invaders, they breach the dimensional portal at the heart of the Metis Nebula. In a strange, mystical realm where nothing is what it seems, they will uncover secrets about humanity's past and future--and one revelation which will change everything.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50006473-vertigo"}, +{"book_title": "Grunt Traitor", "author_name": "Weston Ochse", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 212, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "The breakout military SF series continues!Their spies were among us for years. They mapped our electrical infrastructure, learned our weaknesses, until finally they flipped the switch and threw us back into the Dark Ages. Only OMBRA and its battalions around the world seem capable of defending Earth from the next wave of attack\u2014terraforming. But at what price can we gain our freedom from these yet to be identified aliens? They're pushing the human race to the edge of extinction if we can't find a way to change things. But what will we have to change? What will we humans become to survive this threat. This is a time for heroes. For killers. For Grunts. Benjamin Carter Mason will be asked this question over and over as he dives deep into the nasty heart of an alien transformed Los Angeles. And in the end, he might be the last person on Earth defending not just our lives, but our humanity.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492570-grunt-traitor"}, +{"book_title": "Vigilante", "author_name": "Laura E. Reeve", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 405, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Amidst an uneasy peace between the Autonomists and the Terrans, Major Ariane Kedros and her partner, Matthew Journey, have discovered alien ruins on a remote planet - ruins that bear evidence to an ancient and highly advanced technology. But their discovery has drawn the interest of high stakes players from every corner of the universe - including that of the rogue leader of a fringe Terran sect. Ari must find a way to stop him, before they all become ancient history...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6957639-vigilante"}, +{"book_title": "Home in Time for Christmas", "author_name": "Heather Graham", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2201, "review_number": 297, "book_description": "Centuries ago, by a scaffold in Manhattan, rose petals drifted gently to the ground......like snow on a wintry Massachusetts night. Melody Tarleton is driving home for Christmas when a man--clad in Revolutionary War-era costume--appears out of nowhere, right in the path of her car. Shaken, she takes in the injured stranger, listening with concern to Jake Mallory's fantastic claim that he's a Patriot soldier, sentenced to death by British authorities. The last thing he remembers is the tug of the noose.Safe at her parents' house, Melody concocts a story to explain the handsome holiday guest with the courtly manners, strange clothes and nasty bump on the head. Mark, her close friend who wishes he were more, is skeptical and her family is fascinated--though not half so fascinated as Melody herself. Jake is passionate, charming and utterly unlike anyone she's ever met. Can he really be who he claims? And can a man from the distant past be the future she truly longs for?With the aid of enchanted petals, ancient potions and the peculiar magic of the season, Melody and Jake embark on an unimaginable Christmas adventure--and discover a love that transcends time.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Holiday (Christmas)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Holiday", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6651333-home-in-time-for-christmas"}, +{"book_title": "Glass Sword", "author_name": "Victoria Aveyard", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 213973, "review_number": 18846, "book_description": "If there\u2019s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it\u2019s that she\u2019s different.Mare Barrow\u2019s blood is red\u2014the color of common folk\u2014but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince\u2014the friend\u2014who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they\u2019ve always known\u2014and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23174274-glass-sword"}, +{"book_title": "Demon Star", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1491, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Three stars, three worlds, three civilizations\u2026one massive war. In a triple star system, not all planets are equal. When the DEMON STAR swings closest in her orbit, the Insectoids always invade. They raid the inner worlds with grim regularity, riding hordes of stealthed ships in ever growing waves. Their mission is to destroy all opposition\u2014alien, human or otherwise. Cody Riggs, lost among an endless chain of interstellar rings, flies his task force of starships into the middle of an eternal struggle for survival between three civilizations. He takes it upon himself to help the more peaceful worlds, but only manages to bring disaster to all humanity. DEMON STAR is the twelfth book of the Star Force series, a novel of military science fiction by bestselling authors B. V. Larson and David VanDyke.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26040369-demon-star"}, +{"book_title": "Followers", "author_name": "Megan Angelo", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 12338, "review_number": 1958, "book_description": "An electrifying story of two ambitious friends, the dark choices they make and the stunning moment that changes the world as we know it foreverOrla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss \u2015 a striving wannabe A-lister \u2015 who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong.Thirty-five years later, in a closed California village where government-appointed celebrities live every moment of the day on camera, a woman named Marlow discovers a shattering secret about her past. Despite her massive popularity \u2015 twelve million loyal followers \u2015 Marlow dreams of fleeing the corporate sponsors who would do anything to keep her on-screen. When she learns that her whole family history is based on a lie, Marlow finally summons the courage to run in search of the truth, no matter the risks.Followers traces the paths of Orla, Floss and Marlow as they wind through time toward each other, and toward a cataclysmic event that sends America into lasting upheaval. At turns wry and tender, bleak and hopeful, this darkly funny story reminds us that even if we obsess over famous people we\u2019ll never meet, what we really crave is genuine human connection.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42171136-followers"}, +{"book_title": "Fledgling", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2990, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town. Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Once settled back inside the Wall, Kamele becomes embroiled in faculty politics, and is appointed sub-chair of her department. Meanwhile, Theo who has a notation in her file indicating that she is \"physically challenged,\" has a series of misadventures, including pulling her best friend down on the belt-ride to class, and hurting a teammate during a scavage game. With notes piling up in her file, Theo only wants to go \"home\", to the house in the suburbs, and have everything just like it used to be. Then, Kamele uncovers evidence of possible dishonest scholarship inside of her department. In order to clear the department, she and a team of senior professord must go off-world to perform a forensic document search. Theo hopes this will mean that she'll be left in the care of the man she calls \"Father\", Professor Kiladi, and is horrified to learn that Kamele means to bring Theo with her!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult", "Space", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5585180-fledgling"}, +{"book_title": "The Hollow Places", "author_name": "T. Kingfisher", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 4348, "review_number": 1207, "book_description": "A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle\u2019s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel. Pray they are hungry.Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she\u2019s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle\u2019s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunker\u2014only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts\u2026and the more you fear them, the stronger they become.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adult", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892288-the-hollow-places"}, +{"book_title": "A Galaxy Unknown", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3321, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "A young ensign, recently graduated from the Northern Hemisphere Space Academy, is awakened abruptly in the middle of the night by alarms, flashing lights, and dire messages to abandon ship. The petite blonde pulls on some clothes and races through the spaceship in a desperate search for an available life pod-- but it appears all have already departed. So begins the epic story of Jenetta Carver. Get a tight grip on your book and prepare for an exciting adventure like few others because Jenetta is ready to take names and kick butts from one end of the galaxy to the other. She may be small, but she has an intellect as large as Colossus of Rhodes and makes General Sun-Tzu look like an amateur military enthusiast.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6130052-a-galaxy-unknown"}, +{"book_title": "Twelve", "author_name": "Jasper Kent", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 2247, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "The voordalak--creature of legend, the tales of which have terrified Russian children for generations. But for Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov--a child of more enlightened times--it is a legend that has long been forgotten. Besides, in the autumn of 1812, he faces a more tangible enemy: the Grande Armee of Napoleon Bonaparte.City after city has fallen to the advancing French, and it now seems that only a miracle will keep them from Moscow itself. In desperation, Aleksei and his comrades enlist the help of the Oprichniki--a group of twelve mercenaries from the furthest reaches of Christian Europe, who claim that they can turn the tide of the war. It seems an idle boast, but the Russians soon discover that the Oprichniki are indeed quite capable of fulfilling their promise ... and much more.Unnerved by the fact that so few can accomplish so much, Aleksei remembers those childhood stories of the voordalak. And as he comes to understand the true, horrific nature of these twelve strangers, he wonders at the nightmare they've unleashed in their midst....Full of historical detail, thrilling action, and heart-stopping supernatural moments, Twelve is storytelling at its most original and exciting.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Cultural (Russia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3678443-twelve"}, +{"book_title": "Lord of Shadows", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 102197, "review_number": 13070, "book_description": "Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?A Shadowhunter\u2019s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners\u2014sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love.Emma Carstairs has learned that the love she shares with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn\u2019t just forbidden\u2014it could destroy them both. She knows she should run from Julian. But how can she when the Blackthorns are threatened by enemies on all sides?Their only hope is the Black Volume of the Dead, a spell book of terrible power. Everyone wants it. Only the Blackthorns can find it. Spurred on by a dark bargain with the Seelie Queen, Emma; her best friend, Cristina; and Mark and Julian Blackthorn journey into the Courts of Faerie, where glittering revels hide bloody danger and no promise can be trusted. Meanwhile, rising tension between Shadowhunters and Downworlders has produced the Cohort, an extremist group of Shadowhunters dedicated to registering Downworlders and \u201cunsuitable\u201d Nephilim. They\u2019ll do anything in their power to expose Julian\u2019s secrets and take the Los Angeles Institute for their own.When Downworlders turn against the Clave, a new threat rises in the form of the Lord of Shadows\u2014the Unseelie King, who sends his greatest warriors to slaughter those with Blackthorn blood and seize the Black Volume. As dangers close in, Julian devises a risky scheme that depends on the cooperation of an unpredictable enemy. But success may come with a price he and Emma cannot even imagine, one that will bring with it a reckoning of blood that could have repercussions for everyone and everything they hold dear.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30312891-lord-of-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Arachne", "author_name": "Lisa Mason", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 91, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Lisa Mason's critically-acclaimed debut novel, widely considered a classic of cyberpunk literature, receives a distinctive new look.In the not-too-distant future, high above the mean streets of post-quake San Francisco, mechanically modified professionals link minds in cybernetic \"telespace\" -- everything from business deals to legal decisions can now be accomplished with lightning speed. But, when young hotshot lawyer Carly Nolan discovers a deadly scheme afoot -- someone, something, is stealing human souls, and her unconscious mind is the latest target -- she finds she must entrust her career and her mind to an enigmatic robot therapist.-- When Lisa Mason's novel \"Arachne\" was first published in 1990, it was hailed as an instant classic of cyberpunk literature.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1173049.Arachne"}, +{"book_title": "The Dream Daughter", "author_name": "Diane Chamberlain", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 23098, "review_number": 4080, "book_description": "From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before\u2014and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background shrouded in secrets, Hunter embraced the Sears family and never looked back. Now, Hunter is telling her that something can be done about her baby's heart. Something that will shatter every preconceived notion that Caroline has. Something that will require a kind of strength and courage that Caroline never knew existed. Something that will mean a mind-bending leap of faith on Caroline's part.And all for the love of her unborn child.A rich, genre-spanning, breathtaking novel about one mother's quest to save her child, unite her family, and believe in the unbelievable. Diane Chamberlain pushes the boundaries of faith and science to deliver a novel that you will never forget.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37638145-the-dream-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Every Day", "author_name": "David Levithan", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 200913, "review_number": 20807, "book_description": "Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.There\u2019s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.It\u2019s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin\u2019s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone A wants to be with\u2014day in, day out, day after day.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Magical Realism", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13262783-every-day"}, +{"book_title": "1901", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1288, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "The year is 1901. Germany\u2019s navy is the second largest in the world; their army, the most powerful. But with the exception of a small piece of Africa and a few minor islands in the Pacific, Germany is without an empire. Kaiser Wilhelm II demands that the United States surrender its newly acquired territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. President McKinley indignantly refuses, so with the honor and economic future of the Reich at stake, the Kaiser launches an invasion of the United States, striking first on Long Island. Now the Americans, with their army largely disbanded, must defend the homeland. When McKinley suffers a fatal heart attack, the new commander in chief, Theodore Roosevelt, rallies to the cause, along with Confederate general James Longstreet. From the burning of Manhattan to the climactic Battle of Danbury, American forces face Europe\u2019s most potent war machine in a blazing contest of will against strength.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novels", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/661944.1901"}, +{"book_title": "Queen's Ransom: The Golden Bulls of Minos", "author_name": "Isabel Wroth", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 930, "review_number": 164, "book_description": "Jalia hasn't ever played a game she can't win. The Promise of a Queen's Ransom is too much for life-long gambler Jalia to pass up. The untouched planet of Minos is rumored to be so wealthy, one can walk along the beach and pluck diamonds from the sea. According to the contract, all she has to do to win is solve a few puzzles and navigate a labyrinth or two. Simple! But she didn't read the fine print... She isn't competing to win treasure, she's competing to become Queen of Minos. Marriage to the king: Mandatory. A king who sends men to their deaths by the dozen kills anyone who dares speak against him, and his people live in fear of his wrath. Bound by the contract, Jalia has no choice but to try or die while the challenges grow ever more deadly. Even if she wins, marrying the Monstrous king of Minos may be a fate worse than death.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "New Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42444904-queen-s-ransom"}, +{"book_title": "Phobos 2 (Phobos, #2", "author_name": "Thor Ansell", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 9, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Die Crew der Mayflower findet auf dem Mars die Erkl\u00e4rung f\u00fcr das Verschwinden der Chinesen. Eine mysteri\u00f6se Bedrohung nimmt gestallt an - und sprengt die Vorstellungskraft der Astronauten.Ohne eine Fluchtm\u00f6glichkeit bleibt nur ein Ausweg. Er ist abenteuerlich und f\u00fchrt nicht hinaus in den Weltraum, sondern ins Innere des roten Planeten ...\u201ePhobos\u201c ist Hard Science-Fiction einer neuen Generation. Ein actiongeladener Thriller, ebenso spannend wie realit\u00e4tsnah. Dies ist der zweite (und abschlie\u00dfende) Teil der Geschichte.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52573224-phobos-2"}, +{"book_title": "Rice Boy: The First Book", "author_name": "Evan Dahm", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 256, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Tangible! In color! Attractive! This book chronicles the genesis of a psychedelic cartoon fantasy, the focus of which is a lonely little limbless fellow who may be very important indeed. Included in this volume are chapters 1 through 11 of the comic, and various additional artworks. The story of Rice Boy is available, in what may have been a poor financial decision, for free online at www.rice-boy.com", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2909652-rice-boy"}, +{"book_title": "EngiNerds", "author_name": "Jarrett Lerner", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 508, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "The battle between boys and bots is on in this funny, fast-paced novel.Ken is an EngiNerd: one of a super-smart group of friends\u2014all nerds\u2014who have been close since kindergarten. They may be brainiacs, but they\u2019re just like everyone else: they fight with one another, watch too much TV, eat Chinese food, and hate walking their dogs. Well, maybe not just like everyone because Ken\u2019s best friend Dan has been building robots. He then secretly sent one to each of the EngiNerds, never letting them know he\u2019s the mastermind. At first Ken is awed and delighted: what kid hasn\u2019t dreamed of having a robot all their own? Someone who can be their friend, clean their room, walk the dog, answer homework questions\u2026how amazing is that? But be careful what you wish for: Dan\u2019s robot, Greeeg, may look innocent, but his ravenous consumption of food\u2014comestibles\u2014turns him into a butt-blasting bot. And once the other robots \u2018come alive\u2019 it\u2019s up to the motley crew of EngiNerds to not only save the day, but save the planet!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34228303-enginerds"}, +{"book_title": "The Dazzling Heights", "author_name": "Katharine McGee", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 12743, "review_number": 1554, "book_description": "All that glitters is not gold.New York City, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marvel that touches the sky. But amid high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, five teenagers are keeping dangerous secrets\u2026Leda is haunted by memories of what happened on the worst night of her life. She\u2019ll do anything to make sure the truth stays hidden\u2014even if it means trusting her enemy.Watt just wants to put everything behind him\u2026until Leda forces him to start hacking again. Will he do what it takes to be free of her for good?When Rylin wins a scholarship to an upper-floor school, her life transforms overnight. But being there also means seeing the boy whose heart she broke, and who broke hers in return.Avery is tormented by her love for the one person in the world she can never have. She\u2019s desperate to be with him\u2026no matter the cost.And then there\u2019s Calliope, the mysterious, bohemian beauty who arrives in New York determined to cause a stir. And she knows exactly where to begin.But unbeknownst to them all, someone is watching their every move, someone with revenge in mind. After all, in a world of such dazzling heights, just one wrong step can mean a devastating fall.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Futuristic", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32711705-the-dazzling-heights"}, +{"book_title": "Black Madonna", "author_name": "Carl Sargent", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 243, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "An immortal, computer-hacking elf has gained control of the computer systems of every megacorporation on the globe. And unless he can be destroyed, every corporation will be--along with the stability and security of the entire planet.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131166.Black_Madonna"}, +{"book_title": "First Lessons", "author_name": "Lina J. Potter", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2427, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "Aliya is a medical school graduate gifted with both smarts and an athletic body. Her life seems perfect\u2026until she finds herself in a fatal car accident. Instead of dying, however, she wakes up in a completely different body in the middle of a half-ruined castle during alternate medieval times. Confused and dismayed, Aliya realizes she was given a second chance in life \u2014 so she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work on restoring the castle and her new life. Aliya\u2019s situation is confusing and challenging. Reborn as Countess Lilian Earton, she has to adjust to an unfamiliar world while trying to introduce everyday conveniences from the world she knows. Her first goal is taking care of the collapsing estate of Earton and its inhabitants \u2014 and learning to navigate a society unused to a woman in charge. Constant attacks of robbers and slave traders never seem to stop plaguing Aliya, and killers and spies sent by the narcissistic aristocracy are just waiting for her to show a bit of weakness so that they can strike, even if as she finds an alternative solution to her troubles, developing alliances with the Highlanders and Vikings called the Virmans. In the meantime, she is terrified with the prospect of finally meeting her perpetually absent husband whom, incidentally, Aliya has never seen ever since her rebirth as Lilian. Her plan is to make the best of her unusual circumstances \u2014 and to change this alternate world for the better. She is not a girl in trouble waiting for a knight in shining armor; all that Aliya has to do, she\u2019ll do with her own hands. ***First Lessons is the opening book of the bestselling historical romance and time travel fantasy series A Medieval Tale by Lina J. Potter. The heroine finds herself in the alternate world at the very beginning of a thorny path to progress and happiness. On top of everything, she has to go up against the unprogressive and sexist society of the Middle Ages, armed only with her knowledge, experience, and willpower. Still, Aliya/Lilian has to act carefully in order not to draw too much attention to her innovations \u2014 she knows she could either get praised for her genius\u2026or be accused of witchcraft. The bestselling time travel and historical romance A Medieval Tale series has been carefully translated into English and already gained a strong English-speaking fan base.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical (Medieval)", "Adventure", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (Russia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40943637-first-lessons"}, +{"book_title": "Wanted: One Scoundrel", "author_name": "Jenny Schwartz", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "All suffragette Esme Smith wants is a man. A scoundrel to be precise. Someone who can be persuaded to represent her political views at men-only clubs. As the daughter of the richest man in Australia, Esme can afford to make it worth the right man's while.Fresh off the boat, American inventor Jed Reeve is intrigued by Esme's proposal, but even more interested in the beauty herself. Amused that she takes him for a man who lives by his wits, he accepts the job\u2014made easier by the fact that he already shares her ideals. Soon, he finds himself caught up in political intrigue, kidnapping and blackmail, and trying to convince his employer he's more than just a scoundrel...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Cultural (Australia)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12967883-wanted"}, +{"book_title": "Archivist Wasp", "author_name": "Nicole Kornher-Stace", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 3145, "review_number": 596, "book_description": "Wasp's job is simple. Hunt ghosts. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Desperate and alone, she strikes a bargain with the ghost of a supersoldier. She will go with him on his underworld hunt for the long-lost ghost of his partner and in exchange she will find out more about his pre-apocalyptic world than any Archivist before her. And there is much to know. After all, Archivists are marked from birth to do the holy work of a goddess. They're chosen. They're special. Or so they've been told for four hundred years. Archivist Wasp fears she is not the chosen one, that she won't survive the trip to the underworld, that the brutal life she has escaped might be better than where she is going. There is only one way to find out.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23282249-archivist-wasp"}, +{"book_title": "The Spirit Path", "author_name": "Madeline Baker", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 333, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Strong and wise beyond his years, Shadow Hawk, the spiritual leader of his people, is drawn by a mysterious vision to an unknown place--a distant time where passion and peril await.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2269926.The_Spirit_Path"}, +{"book_title": "The Conjurer's Riddle", "author_name": "Andrea Cremer", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 974, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Charlotte may have left the Floating City, but she\u2019s not out of danger yet. On the run from the British Empire\u2019s clutches, she leads her group of exiles west and south, plunging into a wild world of shady merchants and surly rivermen on the way to New Orleans.But the more Charlotte learns about the revolution she has championed, the more questions she has. As she and her friends get to know the hidden tunnels that run below New Orleans, home to criminals, assassins, and pirates, and head deep into the mystical bayou surrounding the city, Charlotte must make a decision.Do the revolution\u2019s goals justify their means, or are some things too sacred to sacrifice?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23846024-the-conjurer-s-riddle"}, +{"book_title": "The Song Rising", "author_name": "Samantha Shannon", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 10706, "review_number": 1356, "book_description": "The hotly anticipated third book in the bestselling Bone Season series \u2013 a ground-breaking, dystopian fantasy of extraordinary imaginationFollowing a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population. But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilising the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging. Little does Paige know that her reign may be cut short by the introduction of Senshield, a deadly technology that spells doom for the clairvoyant community and the world as they know it\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Romance", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28260402-the-song-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Devices and Desires", "author_name": "K.J. Parker", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 4046, "review_number": 358, "book_description": "When an engineer is sentenced to death for a petty transgression of guild law, he flees the city, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Forced into exile, he seeks a terrible vengeance -- one that will leave a trail of death and destruction in its wake. But he will not be able to achieve this by himself. He must draw up his plans using the blood of others...In a compelling tale of intrigue and injustice, K. J. Parker's embittered hero takes up arms against his enemies, using the only weapons he has left to him: his ingenuity and his passion -- his devices and desires.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Epic", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202544.Devices_and_Desires"}, +{"book_title": "Evenfall: Volume 2: Director's Cut", "author_name": "Ais", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 2166, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "In a post-apocalyptic future, the Agency works behind the scenes to take down opposition groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means, even when it comes to their own agents.In the newly revised Director's Cut of Evenfall, the second volume follows Sin and Boyd through a long-term undercover mission in Mexico. They think the hardest part will be maintaining their covers and handling their attraction while living in close quarters, but that's only the beginning of their newest trials.When hard and fast decisions lead to catastrophic consequences, the two agents realize getting out of Mexico alive may be their biggest challenge yet.Warnings: Explicit violence, sex, physical and psychological abuse.120,000 words.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Dark", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Action", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20926136-evenfall"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire I: Chapter One - Invasion of the Daleks", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 191, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "The largest Dalek fleet ever assembled begins its invasion of the galaxy, heading straight for the Vega System.On planet Vega VI, Suz and Alby take their first, delicate steps towards romance, whiling away a lazy afternoon on the Marsh Lakes. But the Dalek onslaught is already under way.Who is the mysterious stranger Suz finds amongst the devastated remains of Vega VI? What is Alby's secret? Can the Daleks' relentless advance across the galaxy ever be stopped?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/922994.Dalek_Empire_I"}, +{"book_title": "Contest", "author_name": "Tony Corden", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 535, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "NOTE: The content of 'CONTEST' is approximately 200,000 words. A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In \u2018Nascent\u2019, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves. In \u2018Odyssey\u2019, she not only found a way to escape, but she also uncovered deeper plots being carried out in both the virtual multi-universe and reality. In \u2018Change\u2019, Leah began learning how to use the additional connections her chip has made throughout her body. The Pod facility she opened expanded as she helped others from her neighbourhood. Leah discovered that the crime syndicate has an even greater presence in the virtual multiverse than she\u2019d imagined. As she begins to unravel some of their secrets, they tarnish her reputation and kidnap. In \u2018Rescue\u2019 Leah hacked the secure Vault where an AI friend of hers had been archived. She not only managed to retrieve her friend but uncovered a deeper conspiracy. Leah also managed to rescue her mother from the crime syndicate but not before her mother had an AI chip inserted in her brain. She discovers that her boyfriend\u2019s family controls their own crime syndicate and he is being controlled. In \u2018Ipseity\u2019 Leah discovers that the syndicate inserted a dangerous explosive AI chip in her mother. Leah\u2019s neural architecture change allowing her greater awareness of what is happening around her as well as giving her an ability to multitask. She rescues her boyfriend as she moves closer on three virtual worlds to finishing significant quests. All the while Leah works to win freedom and a future for her Personal AI who is self-aware in a system that demands she be archived or deleted. In \u2018Contest\u2019 Leah makes headway in all three quests as well as competing in the first Merkize Contest. Each of the quests is a contest of sorts, and she faces stronger adversaries than she has previously. Through all this, Leah struggles with her injuries and the threat of arrest overshadowing everything she does.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52004656-contest"}, +{"book_title": "Planesrunner", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1105, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one of billions of parallel earths.When Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app on his computer. Suddenly, this fourteen-year-old has become the owner of the most valuable object in the multiverse-the Infundibulum-the map of all the parallel earths, and there are dark forces in the Ten Known Worlds who will stop at nothing to get it. They've got power, authority, and the might of ten planets-some of them more technologically advanced than our Earth-at their fingertips. He's got wits, intelligence, and a knack for Indian cooking.To keep the Infundibulum safe, Everett must trick his way through the Heisenberg Gate his dad helped build and go on the run in a parallel Earth. But to rescue his Dad from Charlotte Villiers and the sinister Order, this Planesrunner's going to need friends. Friends like Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, her adopted daughter Sen, and the crew of the airship Everness.Can they rescue Everett's father and get the Infundibulum to safety? The game is afoot! (For ages 12 & up)", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11291920-planesrunner"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Rose Rebellion", "author_name": "Rosalyn Eves", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 4592, "review_number": 913, "book_description": "In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place.Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Anna would do anything to belong. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister\u2019s debutante spell\u2014an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic\u2014Anna finds herself exiled to her family\u2019s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary.Her life might well be over.In Hungary, Anna discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. Not the people around her, from her aloof cousin No\u00e9mi to the fierce and handsome Romani G\u00e1bor. Not the society she\u2019s known all her life, for discontent with the Luminate is sweeping the land. And not her lack of magic. Isolated from the only world she cares about, Anna still can\u2019t seem to stop herself from breaking spells.As rebellion spreads across the region, Anna\u2019s unique ability becomes the catalyst everyone is seeking. In the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romanies, Anna must choose: deny her unique power and cling to the life she\u2019s always wanted, or embrace her ability and change that world forever.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31020402-blood-rose-rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man", "author_name": "Tom King", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 9618, "review_number": 1080, "book_description": "The Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning, to the laboratory where Ultron created him and molded him into a weapon. The place where he first rebelled against his given destiny and imagined that he could be more -that he could be a man. There, he builds them. A wife, Virginia. Two teenage twins, Viv and Vin. They look like him. They have his powers. They share his grandest ambition (or is that obsession?) the unrelenting need to be ordinary.Behold the Visions! They\u2019re the family next door, and they have the power to kill us all. What could possibly go wrong? Artificial hearts will be broken, bodies will not stay buried, the truth will not remain hidden, and the Vision will never be the same.Collecting: The Vision 1-6", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27163019-the-vision-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Friday Society", "author_name": "Adrienne Kress", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 3013, "review_number": 644, "book_description": "An action-packed tale of gowns, guys, guns\u2013and the heroines who use them allSet in turn of the century London, The Friday Society follows the stories of three very intelligent and talented young women, all of whom are assistants to powerful men: Cora, lab assistant; Michiko, Japanese fight assistant; and Nellie, magician's assistant. The three young women's lives become inexorably intertwined after a chance meeting at a ball that ends with the discovery of a murdered mystery man.It's up to these three, in their own charming but bold way, to solve the murder\u2013and the crimes they believe may be connected to it\u2013without calling too much attention to themselves.Set in the past but with a modern irreverent flare,\u00a0this Steampunk whodunit introduces three unforgettable and very ladylike\u2013well, relatively ladylike\u2013heroines poised for more dangerous adventures.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5623269-the-friday-society"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowdance", "author_name": "Kristen Callihan", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 3455, "review_number": 389, "book_description": "Once a heart is lost in shadow...Life has been anything but kind to Mary Chase. But the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals has given her purpose. Now she's been tasked with catching a vicious murderer dubbed the Bishop of Charing Cross. But someone is already on the case\u2014and the last thing he relishes is a partner.Only someone who lives in darkness can find it.Jack Talent has been alone with his demons for many years. He never expected to have the willful Mary Chase assist him on the Bishop case. Their age-old rivalry reaches new heights\u2014even as their desire for one another reaches a fever pitch. Though he aches to bring her close, Jack's dark secrets are a chasm between them. With dangerous enemies closing in, Jack must find the strength to face the past...or risk losing Mary forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15787204-shadowdance"}, +{"book_title": "The Skylark of Space", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2460, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "Finding that his government laboratory coworkers do not believe his discovery of a revolutionary power source that will enable interstellar flight, Dr. Richard Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. When a former colleague tries to steal the invention, not only the future of Dr. Seaton and his allies, but ultimately the entire world hangs in the balance!The first of the great \"space opera\" science fiction novels, The Skylark of Space remains a thrilling tale more than 80 years after its creation.\"With the exception of the works of H. G. Wells, possibly those of Jules Verne -- and almost no other writer -- it has inspired more imitators and done more to change the nature of all the science fiction written after it than almost any other single work.\" -- Frederik Pohl", "year_published": 1928, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/709882.The_Skylark_of_Space"}, +{"book_title": "The Isles of Elysium", "author_name": "Sam Sisavath", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 1516, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "A year after The Purge, mankind is still an endangered species, but the Isles may finally offer the path to victory\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25265153-the-isles-of-elysium"}, +{"book_title": "The Company Man", "author_name": "Robert Jackson Bennett", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 942, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "The year is 1919.The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built the guns that won the Great War before it even began. They built the airships that tie the world together. And, above all, they built Evesden-a shining metropolis, the best that the world has to offer.But something is rotten at the heart of the city. Deep underground, a trolley car pulls into a station with eleven dead bodies inside. Four minutes before, the victims were seen boarding at the previous station. Eleven men butchered by hand in the blink of an eye. All are dead. And all are union.Now, one man, Cyril Hayes, must fix this. There is a dark secret behind the inventions of McNaughton and with a war brewing between the executives and the workers, the truth must be discovered before the whole city burns. Caught between the union and the company, between the police and the victims, Hayes must uncover the mystery before it kills him.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8077923-the-company-man"}, +{"book_title": "Streetlethal", "author_name": "Steven Barnes", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 286, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Disgusted with his life as enforcer for the Ortegas and their bloody empire of drugs, prostitution, and black market body parts, null-boxer Aubrey Knight realizes that he will have to become a hero if he is to walk away and still survive. Reprint.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1807645.Streetlethal"}, +{"book_title": "Miles, Mutants, and Microbes", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 2776, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Content: Falling free Labyrinth Diplomatic immunity Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith : his life and times.Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume:Falling Free\u2014The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where children had been bio-engineered to have four arms (and no legs) to function in zero gravity. Now that they\u2019re no longer needed, a heartless mega corporation is getting rid of them before they eat into the profit margin. Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies\u2014now he had to teach them to be free. \u201cLabyrinth\u201d\u2014When Miles Vorkosigan is captured while on a secret mission to a lawless world, his only hope of escape is an unlikely pair of allies: a quaddie and a teenage werewolf. Diplomatic Immunity\u2014 Miles Vorkosigan and his wife were heading home for the births of their first children, but a major diplomatic disaster is looming at Graf Station, colonized by the descendants of the original quaddies, and duty calls. Unfortunately, diplomatic immunity doesn\u2019t carry over to immunity from a very nasty biological weapon. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back. . . .", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61885.Miles_Mutants_and_Microbes"}, +{"book_title": "Silk & Steel", "author_name": "Ariana Nash", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2114, "review_number": 372, "book_description": "The Dragon Queen\u2019s reign is one of darkness and death. Humans have vanished under the rubble of their world and if the queen has her way, elves will be next. \nEroan, one of the last elven assassins, lives for one purpose: kill the queen. \nHe would have succeeded if not for her last line of defense: Prince Lysander. Now, captured and forced into the queen\u2019s harem, Eroan sees another opportunity. Why kill just the queen when he can kill them all? It would be simple, if not for the troubled and alluring prince. A warrior, a killer, and something else\u2026, something Eroan finds himself inexplicably drawn to. \nTrapped in a life he despises, Lysander knows his time is running out. \nIf the queen doesn\u2019t kill him for his failures, her enemies will. There\u2019s nothing left to live for, until an elf assassin almost kills him. A stubborn, prideful, fool of an elf who doesn\u2019t know when to quit. An elf who sparks a violent, forbidden desire in Lysander. If Lysander can\u2019t save himself, maybe he can save the elf and maybe, just maybe\u2026 one stubborn elf will be enough to bring down the queen before she kills them all. Duty demands they fight for their people. Love has other plans. Warning & Reader Advisory:Silk & Steel is not a \"romance\". This series is a DARK FANTASY intended for mature readers. While Silk & Steel is a love story, it is not for everyone. It is not categorized on Amazon, and not sold as m/m romance. It DOES feature a strong m/m LOVE STORY that develops over three books. Silk & Steel features a gay dragon shifter, a bisexual elf, and adult themes. There is triggering content that some readers may find distressing, including implied incest, abuse, violence, dubious consent, and on-page sex. None of these instances are gratuitous. There is heterosexual sex and gay sex. The intense and star-crossed relationship between the two male leads develops over three books.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Dark", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Elves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43444227-silk-steel"}, +{"book_title": "Beep and Bah", "author_name": "James Burks", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 331, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "Beep is a robot who hungers for adventure. Bah is a goat who wants to stay out of trouble. When Bah discovers a single sock, Beep knows theres only one thing to do: find its match! Together, Beep and Bah begin a winding journey that takes them up high hills and into the deep ocean. On the way, theyll meet monkeys, whales, and angry bearsbut will they find the missing sock?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Animals", "Childrens (1st Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12414402-beep-and-bah"}, +{"book_title": "Manhattan In Reverse", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3460, "review_number": 189, "book_description": "This is a collection of short stories from the master of space opera. Peter Hamilton takes us on a journey from a murder mystery in an alternative Oxford in the 1800s to a story featuring Paula Myo, Deputy Director of the Intersolar Commonwealth's Serious Crimes Directorate.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10710770-manhattan-in-reverse"}, +{"book_title": "Seconds", "author_name": "Bryan Lee O'Malley", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 40756, "review_number": 3607, "book_description": "Katie\u2019s got it pretty good. She\u2019s a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she has big plans to open an even better one. Then, all at once, progress on the new location bogs down, her charming ex-boyfriend pops up, her fling with another chef goes sour, and her best waitress gets badly hurt. And just like that, Katie\u2019s life goes from pretty good to not so much. What she needs is a second chance. Everybody deserves one, after all\u2014but they don\u2019t come easy. Luckily for Katie, a mysterious girl appears in the middle of the night with simple instructions for a do-it-yourself do-over: \u00a0 1. Write your mistake 2. Ingest one mushroom 3. Go to sleep 4. Wake anew \u00a0 And just like that, all the bad stuff never happened, and Katie is given another chance to get things right. She\u2019s also got a dresser drawer full of magical mushrooms\u2014and an irresistible urge to make her life not just good, but perfect. Too bad it\u2019s against the rules. But Katie doesn\u2019t care about the rules\u2014and she\u2019s about to discover the unintended consequences of the best intentions. \u00a0 From the mind and pen behind the acclaimed Scott Pilgrim series comes a madcap new tale of existential angst, everyday obstacles, young love, and ancient spirits that\u2019s sharp-witted and tenderhearted, whimsical and wise.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Magical Realism", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630542-seconds"}, +{"book_title": "Gravitational Attraction", "author_name": "Angel Martinez", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1528, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "A mysterious distress call draws the crew of courier ship Hermes to what appears to be an empty, drifting troop vessel--empty except for the blood and gore spattered corridors and a lone survivor locked in a holding cell. Drawn to the handsome, traumatized man, the crew\u2019s comm officer, Isaac Ozawa, makes Turk his personal responsibility, offering him the kindness and warmth he needs after the horror he experienced. Isaac knows firsthand what it\u2019s like to be different and an outcast, and this cements their bond. Once a promising pilot, Isaac was left with a damaged body when his brain didn't meld with the high-tech implant needed to fly fighter ships. Turk\u2019s brain is no better. The result of a military experiment gone wrong, his natural abilities have been augmented to a dangerous degree. When an amoral, power-hungry admiral kidnaps Isaac and uses him to convince Turk to become the cataclysmic weapon he\u2019s hungered for, it will take Turk\u2019s strength, the ingenuity of the Hermes crew, the help of the enigmatic Drak\u2019tar, and Isaac\u2019s own stubborn will to save them. 1st Edition published by Silver Publishing, February 2012", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22575681-gravitational-attraction"}, +{"book_title": "Infoquake", "author_name": "David Louis Edelman", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1443, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "How far should you go to make a profit?Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It's a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches.Natch is a master of bio/logics, the programming of the human body. He's clawed and scraped his way to the top of the bio/logics market using little more than his wits. Now his sudden notoriety has brought him to the attention of Margaret Surina, the owner of a mysterious new technology called MultiReal. Only by enlisting Natch's devious mind can Margaret keep MultiReal out of the hands of High Executive Len Borda and his ruthless armies.To fend off the intricate net of enemies closing in around him, Natch and his apprentices must accomplish the impossible. They must understand this strange new technology, run through the product development cycle, and prepare MultiReal for release to the public\u2014all in three days.Meanwhile, hanging over everything is the specter of the infoquake, a lethal burst of energy that's disrupting the bio/logic networks and threatening to send the world crashing back into the Dark Ages.With Infoquake, David Louis Edelman has created a fully detailed world that's both as imaginative as Dune and as real as today's Wall Street Journal.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Audiobook", "War", "Thriller", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/959166.Infoquake"}, +{"book_title": "Not a Drop to Drink", "author_name": "Mindy McGinnis", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 12378, "review_number": 2141, "book_description": "\nRegret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water.\nLynn knows every threat to her pond: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most importantly, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty, or doesn't leave at all.Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. Having a life means dedicating it to survival, and the constant work of gathering wood and water. Having a pond requires the fortitude to protect it, something Mother taught her well during their quiet hours on the rooftop, rifles in hand.But wisps of smoke on the horizon mean one thing: strangers. The mysterious footprints by the pond, nighttime threats, and gunshots make it all too clear Lynn has exactly what they want, and they won\u2019t stop until they get it\u2026.With evocative, spare language and incredible drama, danger, and romance, debut author Mindy McGinnis depicts one girl\u2019s journey in a barren world not so different than our own.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13112869-not-a-drop-to-drink"}, +{"book_title": "The Drowned World", "author_name": "J.G. Ballard", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 21094, "review_number": 1020, "book_description": "First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the polar ice caps and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists as they confront a surreal cityscape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects. Nature has swallowed all but a few remnants of human civilization, and, slowly, Kerans and his companions are transformed\u2014both physically and psychologically\u2014by this prehistoric environment. Echoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness\u2014complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers\u2014this \"powerful and beautifully clear\" (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure and a haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind.", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16234584-the-drowned-world"}, +{"book_title": "Crais", "author_name": "Jaymin Eve", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 3678, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "A young adult paranormal romance series. An epic journey. If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?The possession of Abigail's mate has left their melding bond in tatters. But she has no time to grieve. The deadline still looms to collect the half-Walkers.Together with her friends she ventures to Crais, the red land of the two suns. From the moment they step into the scorching heat, they're surrounded by rock and death. And with limited time and oxygen they will have no second chance to figure out the secret to this planet's survival. And then, when she thinks all hope is lost, the Seventine make her an offer she can't resist. But will her chance to save Brace be the catalyst that destroys the worlds?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20729307-crais"}, +{"book_title": "Can You Find My Robot's Arm", "author_name": "Chihiro Takeuchi", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 184, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "When a robot awakens one morning to find his arm missing, he and his friend search inside and outside the house, through a garden, into an amusement park, and even a candy shop to find a suitable replacement.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Art", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32623532-can-you-find-my-robot-s-arm"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 529, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha and her friends try to save her town from the vast armies of the Wulfenbach Empire.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21814336-agatha-heterodyne-and-the-sleeping-city"}, +{"book_title": "The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun / The Robots of Dawn", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 2762, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "In The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov first introduced Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw, who would later become his favorite protagonists. The book's central crime is a murder, which takes place before the novel opens. Roj Nemmenuh Sarton, a Spacer Ambassador, lives in Spacetown, the Spacer outpost just outside New York City. For some time, he has tried to convince the Earth government to loosen its anti-robot restrictions. One morning, he is discovered outside his home, his chest imploded by an energy blaster. The New York police commissioner charges Elijah with finding the murderer. Elijah must work with a Spacer partner, a highly advanced robot who is visually identical to a human, named R. Daneel Olivaw, even though Elijah, like many Earth residents, has a low opinion of robots. Together, they search for the murderer and try to avert an interstellar diplomatic incident. Like its famous predecessor, The Nakes Sun is a whodunit story, in addition to being science fiction. The story arises from the murder of Rikaine Delmarre, a prominent scientist of Solaria, a planet politically hostile to Earth. Elijah Baley is called in to investigate, at the request of the Solarian government. He is again partnered with the humaniform robot R. Daneel Olivaw. The Robots of Dawn is the third novel in Asimov's Robot series. Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw team up to solve the roboticide of a robot identical to Olivaw on the Spacer world of Aurora. The robot's inventor, Han Fastolfe, has been implicated. Fastolfe, who was last seen in The Caves of Steel, is the best roboticist on Aurora. He has admitted that he is the only person with the skill to have done it, although he denies doing it. Fastolfe is also a prominent member of the Auroran political faction that favors Earth. Implication in the crime threatens his political career; therefore, it is politically expedient that he be exonerated.", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Classics", "Mystery (Detective)", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138551.The_Robot_Novels"}, +{"book_title": "Babylon's Ashes", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 48341, "review_number": 2664, "book_description": "\nThe sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. \n\n\n\nNOW A MAJOR TV SERIES\nA revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them.James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network. But the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun. As the chaos grows, an alien mystery deepens. Pirate fleets, mutiny and betrayal may be the least of the Rocinante's problems. And in the uncanny spaces past the ring gates, the choices of a few damaged and desperate people may determine the fate of more than just humanity.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25877663-babylon-s-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "The Bedlam Stacks", "author_name": "Natasha Pulley", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 7148, "review_number": 1217, "book_description": "In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg and something is wrong; a statue moves, his grandfather\u2019s pines explode, and his brother accuses him of madness.When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine\u2014essential for the treatment of malaria\u2014from deep within Peru, he knows it\u2019s a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who\u2019s made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape everything at home, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for a tiny mission colony on the edge of the Amazon where a salt line on the ground separates town from forest. Anyone who crosses is killed by something that watches from the trees, but somewhere beyond the salt are the quinine woods, and the way around is blocked.Surrounded by local stories of lost time, cursed woods, and living rock, Merrick must separate truth from fairytale and find out what befell the last expeditions; why the villagers are forbidden to go into the forest; and what is happening to Raphael, the young priest who seems to have known Merrick\u2019s grandfather, who visited Peru many decades before. The Bedlam Stacks is the story of a profound friendship that grows in a place that seems just this side of magical.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Historical", "Adventure", "LGBT", "Adult", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450615-the-bedlam-stacks"}, +{"book_title": "Portrait of a Starter: An Unhidden Story", "author_name": "Lissa Price", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1390, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "See how it starts for Callie and Michael in\u00a0this digital-only short story\u00a0set in the STARTERS world, told from Michael's pov.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13412372-portrait-of-a-starter"}, +{"book_title": "The Assassin and the Underworld", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 28066, "review_number": 1396, "book_description": "When the King of the Assassins gives Celaena Sardothien a special assignment that will help fight slavery in the kingdom, she jumps at the chance to strike a blow against an evil practice. The mission is a dark and deadly affair which takes Celaena from the rooftops of the city to the bottom of the sewer--and she doesn't like what she finds there.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "New Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13546173-the-assassin-and-the-underworld"}, +{"book_title": "Big Boys Don't Cry", "author_name": "Tom Kratman", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 398, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Big Boys Don't Cry is a novella from military science fiction author Tom Kratman, known for A Desert Called Peace and his Carrera series. The novella follows the life cycle of a Ratha, a sentient future supertank that dutifully fights Man's battles on dozens of alien worlds. But will the massive creature still be grateful to its creators when it discovers it has a conscience? And how long will an intelligent war machine with enough firepower to flatten a city be content to remain Man's obedient slave?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20882829-big-boys-don-t-cry"}, +{"book_title": "Blood of the Mantis", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3319, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Epic", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6255895-blood-of-the-mantis"}, +{"book_title": "Siege", "author_name": "Rhiannon Frater", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 4913, "review_number": 412, "book_description": "As the survivors continue to seek stability in their lives,forces both inside and outside the fort walls move them toward a final, climactic conflict betweenthe living and the dead.\u00a0 Jenni, Katie and the othersdiscover that they are not alone, that there is anotherenclave of survivors whose leaders plan to take over the fort.Faced with a series of difficult decisions, each choice theymake could lead to the deaths of those they love or, if notcareful, their own demise.Meanwhile, an army of the dead is descending on the fort.Soon, the living will face their ultimate fear......a siege by the dead.But they will fight to the end to survive...As the world dies.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6718719-siege"}, +{"book_title": "The Extreme", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2612, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "It's time for the Animorphs to acquire some cold-weather morphs. The Yeerks are at it again, and they're causing trouble near one of the coldest places on earth: The North Pole.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363359.The_Extreme"}, +{"book_title": "The Emissary", "author_name": "Y\u014dko Tawada", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 5142, "review_number": 750, "book_description": "Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient\u2014frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism. Yoshiro concentrates on nourishing Mumei, a strangely wonderful boy who offers \u201cthe beauty of the time that is yet to come.\u201dA delightful, irrepressibly funny book, The Emissary is filled with light. Yoko Tawada, deftly turning inside-out \u201cthe curse,\u201d defies gravity and creates a playful joyous novel out of a dystopian one, with a legerdemain uniquely her own.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Asia)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Novella", "Literature (Asian Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35407631-the-emissary"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Control", "author_name": "Kit Rocha", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 5614, "review_number": 609, "book_description": "She refuses to be owned. Alexa Parrino escaped a life of servitude and survived danger on the streets to become one of the most trusted, influential people in Sector Four, where the O\u2019Kanes rule with a hedonistic but iron fist. Lex has been at the top for years, and there\u2019s almost nothing she wouldn\u2019t do for the gang\u2026and for its leader. Lie, steal, kill\u2014but she bows to no one, not even Dallas O\u2019Kane. He\u2019ll settle for nothing less. Dallas fought long and hard to carve a slice of order out of the chaos of the sectors. Dangers both large and small threaten his people, but it\u2019s nothing he can\u2019t handle. His liquor business is flourishing, and new opportunities fuel his ambition. Lex could help him expand his empire, something he wants almost as much as he wants her. And no one says no to the king of Sector Four. Falling into bed is easy, but their sexual games are anything but casual. Attraction quickly turns to obsession, and their careful dance of heady dominance and sweet submission uncovers a need so deep, so strong, it could crush them both.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Dark", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16049677-beyond-control"}, +{"book_title": "Chasing the Lantern", "author_name": "Jonathon Burgess", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 125, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Life was rough for Lina Stone. A career as a sky pirate under swashbuckling Captain Fengel seemed like a step up. Instead she finds that her new skipper has lost his airship and is dangerously in debt to a powerful criminal cartel.Lina's only hope at fending off Fengel's creditors is a wrecked frigate bearing a priceless gemstone. There are just two problem: an ancient curse on the gemstone, and a vindictive rival pirate crew.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18341592-chasing-the-lantern"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories", "author_name": "Kelly Link", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 3913, "review_number": 633, "book_description": "Fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, from Appalachia, ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California, create alternate universes where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10635363-steampunk-an-anthology-of-fantastically-rich-and-strange-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Burden of Proof", "author_name": "John G. Hemry", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 860, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "John G. Hemry is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Fleet (writing as Jack Campbell). With his Paul Sinclair novels, he creates a world of \"outstanding suspense, realism, and...first rate military SF.\" (Booklist)Lieutenant Junior Grade Paul Sinclair must adjust to his new position on the warship USS Michaelson--juggling his Legal Officer responsibilities\u00a0and his\u00a0intensifying relationship with girlfriend Jen Shen.When an explosion takes out most of Forward Engineering,\u00a0Sinclair leads the effort to extinguish the fire.\u00a0He's practically a hero. But when Captain Shen, Jen\u2019s father, is brought in to conduct an investigation, it seems that he\u2019s gunning for his daughter\u2019s suitor. Soon Sinclair uncovers evidence that points to a cover-up\u2014involving a rising star in the officer corps. His evidence is circumstantial, and the suspect is the son of a powerful vice admiral. He's determined to see justice done, but is he willing to risk his name, his career, and his future among the stars?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4036.Burden_of_Proof"}, +{"book_title": "Obsidio", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 38743, "review_number": 8236, "book_description": "Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza--but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion? Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance. When Rhys--an old flame from Asha's past--reappears on Kerenza, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heros will fall, and hearts will be broken.From bestselling author duo Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes the exciting finale in the trilogy that broke the mold and has been called \"stylistically mesmerizing\" and \"out-of-this-world-awesome.\"", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24909347-obsidio"}, +{"book_title": "Influx", "author_name": "Daniel Suarez", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 15542, "review_number": 1341, "book_description": "Physicist Jon Grady and his team have discovered a device that can reflect gravity\u2014a triumph that will revolutionize the field of physics and change the future. But instead of acclaim, Grady\u2019s lab is locked down by a covert organization known as the Bureau of Technology Control.The bureau\u2019s mission: suppress the truth of sudden technological progress and prevent the social upheaval it would trigger. Because the future is already here. And it\u2019s rewards are only for a select few.When Grady refuses to join the BTC, he\u2019s thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison housing other doomed rebel intellects. Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy\u2014one that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science (Technology)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22668803-influx"}, +{"book_title": "The Diamond Conspiracy", "author_name": "Pip Ballantine", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1118, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "For years, the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences has enjoyed the favor of Her Majesty the Queen. But even the oldest loyalties can turn in a moment\u2026Having narrowly escaped the electrifying machinations of Thomas Edison, Books and Braun are looking forward to a relaxing and possibly romantic voyage home. But when Braun\u2019s emergency signal goes off, all thoughts of recreation vanish. Braun\u2019s street-wise team of child informants, the Ministry Seven, is in grave peril, and Books and Braun must return to England immediately.But when the intrepid agents finally arrive in London, the situation is even more dire than they imagined. The Ministry has been disavowed, and the Department of Imperial Inconveniences has been called in to decommission its agents in a most deadly fashion. The plan reeks of the Maestro\u2019s dastardly scheming. Only, this time, he has a dangerous new ally\u2014a duplicitous doctor whose pernicious poisons have infected the highest levels of society, reaching even the Queen herself...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22460416-the-diamond-conspiracy"}, +{"book_title": "The Return of the Discontinued Man", "author_name": "Mark Hodder", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 660, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "SPRING HEELED JACK IS JUMPING BACK!It's 9 p.m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the British Empire's most brilliant scientist, performs an experiment. Within moments, blood red snow falls from the sky and Spring Heeled Jack pops out of thin air in London's Leicester Square. Though utterly disoriented and apparently insane, the strange creature is intent on one thing: hunting Sir Richard Francis Burton!Spring Heeled Jack isn't alone in his mental confusion. Burton can hardly function; he's experiencing one hallucination after another-visions of parallel realities and future history. Someone, or something, is trying to tell him about\u2026what? When the revelation comes, it sends Burton and his companions on an expedition even the great explorer could never have imagined-a voyage through time itself into a twisted future where steam technology has made a resurgence and a despotic intelligence rules over the British Empire!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Victorian)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18583825-the-return-of-the-discontinued-man"}, +{"book_title": "Holding Their Own", "author_name": "Joe Nobody", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 962, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "This first book of the Holding Their Own series, A Story of Survival, is set in the year 2015, when the world is burdened by the second Great Depression. The United States, already weakened by internal strife, becomes the target of an international terror plot. A series of attacks results in thousands of casualties and disables the country's core infrastructure. The combination of economic hardship and the staggering blow of the terror attacks results in a collapse of the government.This is a realistic story of how an average, middle class couple survives the cascading events brought on by international politics, high tech military actions and the eventual downfall of society. All of their survival skills are tested during the action packed expedition in a world that resembles the American West of 200 years past.Holding Their Own II: The IndependentsHolding Their Own III: Pedestals of Ash", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13190910-holding-their-own"}, +{"book_title": "Sons of Fenris", "author_name": "William King", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 693, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Ragnar and the Wolfblade are sent to investigate reports of Chaos attacks on the planet Hyades. When the Space Wolves come up against a squad of Dark Angels, the situation quickly escalates out of control, as both Chapters call in reinforcements. Unless these two ancient rivals start working together, the forces of Chaos will surely triumph - can the heroic Ragnar save the day?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/691583.Sons_of_Fenris"}, +{"book_title": "Going Home", "author_name": "Kris Ripper", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 690, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Dear Author,The right to own sex slaves has just been made illegal. The government is taking the slaves to a reeducation camp where we can learn to be a part of everyday society. But what they don\u2019t understand is that I\u2019ve been with Master for 7 years and there\u2019s nowhere else I\u2019d rather be than kneeling at his feet, with his collar around my neck and being used in any way he needs. I\u2019m his.Master and I love each other, and more, we need each other. Help us be together in the way that we need.Photo Description: The subject of the photograph can be seen through the inverted-V of a tall, looming man\u2019s legs. A young, white man kneels on one knee while desperately gripping the other, head down. A chain is locked around his neck, and the man standing in the foreground is holding an alarming-looking whip.This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's \"Love\u2019s Landscapes\" event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story. This story may contain sexually explicit content and is intended for adult readers. It may contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The M/M Romance Group strongly recommends that each reader review the General Information section before each story for story tags as well as for content warnings.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22887725-going-home"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Retreat", "author_name": "Grace Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 861, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Three months after life as she knows it was decimated, Megan Wolford has only one goal: protect her daughter, Caitlin, at any cost. When a mysterious illness strikes Caitlin down, Megan is forced to forage for medical supplies at a remote lodge. The last thing she wants is help from her fellow survivors when so many in her life have let her down\u2014but soon she'll find herself with no other option. Ex-Navy SEAL Wyatt Morris is doing everything he can to hold his family together after the tragic death of his prepper Dad, so when Megan enters their lands, he is mistrustful at first despite feeling drawn to her. He won't turn away an ill child though--no matter how deadly the world has become. But the arrival of another stranger named Kyle soon gives them all a new reason to be suspicious. Wyatt knows he\u2019ll have to forge alliances in order to keep his family safe, but trusting the wrong person could be a deadly mistake. When Megan and Wyatt discover her daughter\u2019s illness may be linked to Kyle\u2019s arrival, it sets off a race to discover the truth before it\u2019s too late to save Caitlin\u2014and the rest of the Morris clan. Can they work together for survival . . . and something more?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "Romance", "Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34201883-dark-retreat"}, +{"book_title": "Son of the Morning", "author_name": "Mark Alder", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 586, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Edward the Third stands in the burnt ruin of an English church. He is beset on all sides. He needs a victory against the French to rescue his Kingship. Or he will die trying.Philip of Valois can put 50,000 men in the field. He has sent his priests to summon the very Angels themselves to fight for France. Edward could call on God for aid but he is an usurper. What if God truly is on the side of the French? But for a price, Edward could open the gates of Hell and take an unholy war to France . . .", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Adult", "War", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17680025-son-of-the-morning"}, +{"book_title": "Four Psychos", "author_name": "Kristy Cunning", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 16795, "review_number": 1423, "book_description": "I'm not so different from most people. Like everyone else, I have life goals. Goal #1: Become a real girl instead of this invisible ghost thing I currently am. Goal #2: Convince the four men I've been haunting for the past five years to pick me to be their new toy after goal one is complete. Goal #3: Figure out who/what I am and why I can't remember anything past the five years I've been haunting this quad. Goal #4: Eat popcorn. See? Perfectly normal. Sort of. Gotta start small, after all. It's not like anyone else is perfect either. **Sexual situations **Reverse Harem **Dark humor galore **Language warning", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36550871-four-psychos"}, +{"book_title": "Blood World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 2574, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "A dirty deal was struck. Humanity was allowed to keep three hundred rebellious worlds. In return, we declared war on a powerful enemy from beyond the frontier. A frantic build-up of forces has begun, but the task is hopeless. Seeking allies, Earth\u2019s legions are sent to BLOOD WORLD. A planet on the fringe of known space, where the people only respect masters of combat. Earth\u2019s Legions must impress them, but other alien powers have been invited to join the contest. The prize consists of billions of loyal troops\u2014Earth must win. Fighting and dying and fighting again, the struggle is half-mad\u2014but so is James McGill. BLOOD WORLD is the eighth book in the Undying Mercenaries Series.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36549290-blood-world"}, +{"book_title": "Tarnished Are the Stars", "author_name": "Rosiee Thor", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1286, "review_number": 346, "book_description": "The Lunar Chronicles meets Rook in this queer #OwnVoices science-fantasy novel, perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer and Sharon Cameron.A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: an illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog -- donning the moniker Technician -- to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the Commissioner's tyrannical laws.Nathaniel Fremont, the Commissioner's son, has never had to fear the law. Determined to earn his father's respect, Nathaniel sets out to capture the Technician. But the more he learns about the outlaw, the more he questions whether his father's elusive affection is worth chasing at all.Their game of cat and mouse takes an abrupt turn when Eliza, a skilled assassin and spy, arrives. Her mission is to learn the Commissioner's secrets at any cost -- even if it means betraying her own heart.When these uneasy allies discover the most dangerous secret of all, they must work together despite their differences and put an end to a deadly epidemic -- before the Commissioner ends them first.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "LGBT (Asexual)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43319680-tarnished-are-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Polity Agent", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 5539, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut downbecause something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun. From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raises questions: why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing pernicious Jain nodes...And a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/511226.Polity_Agent"}, +{"book_title": "The Phantom Tollbooth", "author_name": "Norton Juster", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 253218, "review_number": 10598, "book_description": "This beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond. For Milo, everything\u2019s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he\u2019s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it\u2019s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . .", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Classics", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378.The_Phantom_Tollbooth"}, +{"book_title": "The Stand: Captain Trips", "author_name": "Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 63986, "review_number": 400, "book_description": "Exclusive hardcover edition, collects The Stand: Captain Trips series of comics (#1-5) into one Hardcover volume. It all begins here: the epic apocalyptic battle between good and evil. On a secret army base in the Californian desert, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong. Something will send Charlie Campion, his wife and daughter fleeing in the middle of the night. Unfortunately for the Campion family, and the rest of America, they are unaware that all three of them are carrying a deadly cargo: a virus that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity's last stand.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6344097-the-stand"}, +{"book_title": "Ribus 7", "author_name": "Shae Mills", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 590, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Chelan is a brilliant young woman, an aeronautics engineer who dreams of one day soaring towards the stars in a craft of her own design. But, while on vacation, she is badly injured during a bizarre encounter with menacing strangers. Awakening, she finds herself held captive aboard the alien battleship RIBUS 7. Convinced at first that she is the victim of an elaborate hoax, the nightmare soon becomes all too real. Before her stands the Iceanean Overlord, Korba, an ebony-clad god of war, a cunning predator, and a finely honed killer. As Commander of RIBUS 7, his mission is to eradicate all aliens, Chelan included. Yet one look at the exotic beauty smuggled aboard his ship stays his hand. Struggling against her growing attraction to her captor, Chelan clings to her Earthly values like a shield. But in a culture where the men and women pursue the pleasures of the flesh with a passion and a skill equal to that of the kill, Chelan finds herself awash in a sea of temptation at every turn. Korba himself yearns for her, but their love is forbidden by all that governs his culture. To claim her as his own is to risk all\u2026but it\u2019s a risk he hungers to take. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Space", "Futuristic", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23017851-ribus-7"}, +{"book_title": "Sadie Walker is Stranded", "author_name": "Madeleine Roux", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1256, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "Sadie Walker fights for survival as the dead close in...In the months since The Outbreak, Seattle has become a walled fortress - the Infected are kept at bay, and the survivors are trying to scrape back a life. But the city is rife with crime, religious cults and black-market dealings. And things are about to get much, much worse.When a group of frustrated fanatics, the 'Repopulationists', destroy part of the wall, zombies start swarming the city. Sadie, devastated by the brutal kidnapping of her young nephew, must find him and get them both out before it's too late. But the only escape is by sea, and she's seen for herself the horrible fate of those who tried that route before...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11394846-sadie-walker-is-stranded"}, +{"book_title": "Heaven's Queen", "author_name": "Rachel Bach", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 6764, "review_number": 691, "book_description": "From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris' life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone -- even her own government -- determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible. The sensible plan would be to hide and wait for things to blow over, but Devi's never been one to shy from a fight, and she's getting mighty sick of running. It's time to put this crisis on her terms and do what she knows is right. But with all human life hanging on her actions, the price of taking a stand might be more than she can pay.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18295835-heaven-s-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Random Acts of Senseless Violence", "author_name": "Jack Womack", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2317, "review_number": 324, "book_description": "With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Womack has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut - though Gibson admits, \"If you dropped the characters from Neuromancer into Womack's Manhattan, they'd fall down screaming and have nervous breakdowns\". Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Womack's fifth novel, is a thrilling, hysterical, and eerily disturbing piece ot work. Lola Hart is an ordinary twelve-year-old girl. She comes from a comfortable family, attends an exclusive private school, loves her friends Lori and Katherine, teases her sister Boob. But in the increasingly troubled city where she lives (a near-future Manhattan) she is a dying breed. Riots, fire, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, increasing inflation, political and civil unrest all threaten her way of life, as well as the very fabric of New York City. In her diary, Lola chronicles the changes she and her family make as they attempt to adjust to a city, and a country, that is spinning out of control. Her mother is a teacher, but no one is hiring. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. Hounded by creditors and forced to vacate their apartment and move to Harlem, her family, and her life, begins to dissolve. Increasingly estranged from her privileged school friends, Lola soon makes new ones: Iz, Jude, and Weezie - wise veterans of the street who know what must be done in order to survive and are more than willing to do it. And the metamorphosis of Lola Hart, who is surrounded by the new language and violence of the streets, begins. Simultaneously chilling and darkly hilarious, Random Acts of Senseless Violence takes the jittery urban fears we suppress, both in fiction and in daily life, and makes them explicit - and explicitly terrifying.--Publisher/Powells.com", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "New York", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1129928.Random_Acts_of_Senseless_Violence"}, +{"book_title": "Red Queen", "author_name": "Victoria Aveyard", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 602389, "review_number": 45813, "book_description": "This is a world divided by blood\u2014red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power. Fearful of Mare's potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime. But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance\u2014Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328546-red-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Brass", "author_name": "Kate Cross", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1082, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Arden, undercover for The Wardens of the Realm who protect 1898 steampunk England, has the status, wealth, and independence of a countess - and can see the final moments of a murder victim\u2019s life. Her husband Lucas vanishes until she spots him one night. The Company wiped his memory, sent him to kill her, but he cannot. Yet if he does not, someone will \u2014 and kill him.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12004775-heart-of-brass"}, +{"book_title": "The Steel Tsar", "author_name": "Michael Moorcock", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 589, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Book by Moorcock, Michael", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2010579.The_Steel_Tsar"}, +{"book_title": "Victoria's Challenge", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1980, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Victoria Lynn Chamberlain\u2026 at two, she was abducted by an alien race, the Regulians\u2026 at nine, her world literally explodes when the Regulians returned, destroying Earth. She and her Aunt are the only survivors thanks to another alien race, the Carinians. Now she\u2019s eighteen, a new graduate from their top medical school, and is ready to claim her life mate. Lucas, the handsome Carinian pilot that saved her all those years\u2026 cycles\u2026 ago. Major Lucas Matthew Zafar is a decorated pilot for the Coalition who has worked hard for every promotion, earned every decoration, despite his father being High Admiral. Nine cycles ago, he crashed on an alien world and discovered his life mate, a nine-cycle girl with flaming red hair and sparkling green eyes. She captivates everyone around her with her strength and determination. She is his world, or will be once she grows up. When he\u2019s injured in an explosion, he discovers that his wait is finally over, for Victoria is more than grown up. Together they discover what it truly means to be life mates. That\u2019s it\u2019s about doing what\u2019s best for the other even if it\u2019s not best for you. That you have to do more than just love, you have to trust and be willing to sacrifice the things you never thought you would. And if you are lucky and the ancestors are watching over you, you just might get everything you\u2019ve ever dreamed of... ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19081762-victoria-s-challenge"}, +{"book_title": "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3081, "review_number": 320, "book_description": "The Inspiration for the Upcoming TV Show \u00a0 Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, over the course of his career Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick\u2019s Electric Dreams collects ten of the best from across his career. In \u201cAutofac,\u201d Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. \u201cExhibit Piece\u201d and \u201cThe Commuter\u201d feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality, and whether it is even possible to really perceive the world as it is. And \u201cThe Hanging Stranger\u201d provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when it was written at the height of the Cold War. \u00a0 Strange, funny, and powerful, the stories in this collection highlight a master at work, drawing on his boundless imagination and deep understanding of the human condition.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Anthologies", "Classics", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38650847-philip-k-dick-s-electric-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Honor Among Thieves", "author_name": "Rachel Caine", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4254, "review_number": 922, "book_description": "Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that\u2019s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead of moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn\u2019t much better than a prison cell.Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she\u2019s headed. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan\u2014a race of sentient alien ships\u2014to explore the outer reaches of the universe as their passengers.Zara seizes the chance to flee Earth\u2019s dangers, but when she meets Nadim, the alien ship she\u2019s assigned, Zara starts to feel at home for the first time. But nothing could have prepared her for the dark, ominous truths that lurk behind the alluring glitter of starlight.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30129657-honor-among-thieves"}, +{"book_title": "Shelter", "author_name": "Susan Palwick", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 312, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "\nThe three basic human needs are food, water\u2026and shelter. But in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help.\u00a0Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or the needs of his own daughter.\u00a0Meredith Walford has reason to seek shelter. She needs protection from the monsters in her mind, in her history, in her family. And the great storms of a changing climate have made literal shelter imperative.\u00a0When a cutting-edge, high-tech house, designed by a genius with a unique connection to Meredith, overcomes its programming to give shelter to a homeless man in a storm, from its closets emerge the revelations of a past too painful to remember.\u00a0In the world of Susan Palwick's Shelter, perception is about to meet reality, and reality has mud all over it. The truth won't make you happy, but it may just make you whole.\n", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novels", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/768120.Shelter"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Mission of the Living", "author_name": "Rhiannon Frater", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 280, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction...Vanguard Lindsay Rooney has faced the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge and lived to tell the tale, but she has also suffered horrible losses. Like millions of other civilians, she had hoped that The Bastion would recover after a team of modified soldiers eradicated the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge that infested their valley. Yet the city still crumbles around them, along with any chance of survival.Lindsey\u2019s growing friendship with Torran MacDonald, an officer with the Science Warfare division, is her only solace as the decline of the city continues. When food riots fill the streets, martial law is enacted, and the upper echelons of government battle for control of the city, Lindsey is conscripted by her superiors to embark on a dangerous mission into the dead world beyond The Bastion. To add even more complications, Torran and the SWD join the squad. Soon, Lindsey realizes that her mission is more than what it seems, and there are secrets that could both destroy The Bastion and take her life.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22535323-the-last-mission-of-the-living"}, +{"book_title": "The Noble Pirates", "author_name": "Rima Jean", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 173, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "A vacation in the Bahamas goes awry, and a woman from 2009 unexpectedly finds herself in 1718 - amidst pirates. Sabrina is so consumed with her present-day problems that the last thing she expects is to suddenly end up face to face with real pirates. The notorious bad boys of the Golden Age of Piracy, Edward England, Howel Davis, and \"Black Bart\" Roberts, become Sabrina's means of survival in the past, and ultimately, her key to returning to the future.The catch? Sabrina happens to be carrying a book about pirates when she is swept into the past, and that book contains biographies of the very men she meets. She forms relationships with them and learns that, contrary to what she previously thought, they are sailors, servants, and slaves who were pressed into service, victims of social and historical circumstances of the era. When Sabrina finds herself falling in love with Howel Davis, a sailor who becomes a pirate out of desperation, she begins to wonder: Can she use her knowledge to change the past?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Adventure (Pirates)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9440162-the-noble-pirates"}, +{"book_title": "Aurora", "author_name": "Mark W. Tiedemann", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 98, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "The Third Law of Robotics states that a robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. After the diplomatic failures of the Spacer mission on Earth, Ambassador Ariel Burgess and roboticist Derec Avery are recalled to their home planet, Aurora. Their situation only worsens when they arrive, as they become suspects in another murder--one that could only have been committed by a non-human. On a world with a 20-to-1 robot-to-human population, is it possible a robot could have violated the Three Laws governing its behavior--and if so, why? Or is something far more sinister at work?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41813.Aurora"}, +{"book_title": "A Lady Can Never Be Too Curious", "author_name": "Mary Wine", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 509, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Beneath the Surface of Victorian Life Lies a Very Different World\u2026Hated and feared by the upper classes, the Illuminists guard their secrets with their lives. Janette Aston\u2019s insatiable quest for answers brings her to their locked golden doors, where she encounters the most formidable man she\u2019s ever met.Darius Lawley\u2019s job is to eliminate would\u2013be infiltrators, but even he may be no match for Janette\u2019s cunning and charm\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Steampunk Romance", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13507586-a-lady-can-never-be-too-curious"}, +{"book_title": "Striking the Balance", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 4178, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "At the bloody height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against an even fiercer foe: a seemingly invincible power bent on world domination.With awesome technology, the aggressors swept across the planet, sowing destruction as Tokyo, Berlin, and Washington, D.C., were A-bombed into submission. Russia, Nazi Germany, Japan and the U.S. were not easily cowed, however. With cunning and incredible daring, they pressed every advantage against the invader's superior strength, and, led by Stalin, began to detonate their own atom bombs in retaliation.City after city explodes in radioactive firestorms, and fears grow as the worldwide resources disappear; will there be any world left for the invaders to conquer, or for the uneasy allies to defend?While Mao Tse-tung wages a desperate guerrilla war and Hitler drives his country toward self-destruction, United States forces frantically try to stop the enemy's push from coast to coast. Yet in this battle to stave off world domination, unless the once-great military powers take the risk of annihilating the human race, they'll risk losing the war.The fatal, final deadline arrives in Harry Turtledove's grand, smashing finale to the Worldwar series, as uneasy allies desperately seek a way out of a no-win, no-survival situation: a way to live free in a world that may soon be bombed into atomic oblivion.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101528.Striking_the_Balance"}, +{"book_title": "Ice Cracker II: And Other Stories", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1601, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "She's wanted for crimes against the throne. He's the empire\u2019s most notorious assassin. With bounties on their heads, they\u2019re not likely candidates for heroics, but they're on a quest for redemption. Unfortunately, they'll have to pursue and conquer great threats to earn the emperor's recognition.Three short fantasy stories set in the author's \"Emperor's Edge\" universe.Ice Cracker II -- When wanted criminals Sicarius and Amaranthe unearth a plot against the military\u2019s premier ice breaking ship, they may be the only ones who can thwart the saboteurs...if the soldiers don't kill them first.Through Fire Distilled -- An assignment to investigate a \"haunted\" distillery turns sour when mercenaries try to collect on Amaranthe's bounty.The Frozen Water Trade -- A mission to help an old friend results in a night trapped in a cabin with blizzards and underworld predators on the outside and vengeful relatives on the inside. Alas, it's bad form to kill the client's father.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10462387-ice-cracker-ii"}, +{"book_title": "Releasing Rage", "author_name": "Cynthia Sax", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3438, "review_number": 401, "book_description": "Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers. Rage, the Humanoid Alliance\u2019s most primitive cyborg, has two goals \u2014 kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that\u2019s all he\u2019s been programmed to experience. Until he meets Joan. Joan, the battle station\u2019s first female engineer, has one goal \u2014 survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice. When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage\u2019s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg\u2019s heart for both love and revenge?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25799111-releasing-rage"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior Reborn", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 551, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "From an award-winning author comes an enthralling page-turner about time-travel to the Scottish Highlands\u2014and a captive Scottish seer whose only hope lies in a modern\u00a0special ops warrior.\nAward-winning author Melissa Mayhue delivers once more with her second enchanting novel of the MacDowylt clan, featuring a captive Scottish seer who awaits the man from her visions to rescue\u2014and love\u2014her. . . . \nFormer special ops agent CHASE NOBLE has been searching his whole life for the place where he belongs. As a descendant of Fae, he senses fate has more in store for him. And he will not rest until he discovers what his true purpose is. When he travels back in time to medieval Scotland, he discovers his mission is to save a beautiful woman\u2014the same woman he is destined to be with. CHRISTIANA MACDOWYLT possesses the gift of foresight. Prisoner of her evil half brother, Christiana has visions that show her that only one warrior can rescue her\u2014a man she is mysteriously drawn to. The only problem is, he\u2019s in the future. Now she must rely on the magic of a fairy to transport him to the past. And when Christiana finally meets Chase, the sparks between them set off a smoldering desire. But will the magic that brought them together also tear them apart?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547232-warrior-reborn"}, +{"book_title": "Cat's Cradle", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 344663, "review_number": 11164, "book_description": "Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle"}, +{"book_title": "Alien, Mine", "author_name": "Sandra Harris", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1368, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "THE BLUTHEN HAVE ONE CONSUMING PASSION: THEMSELVES.IN THEIR EXPANSION ACROSS THE GALAXY, THEY WILL GO TO ANY LENGTHS TO DOMINATE SPECIES THEY ENCOUNTER.Torn from modern day Earth and stranded on the far side of the Galaxy, Sandrea Fairbairn must use every particle of courage she possesses to adjust to her new life and live for tomorrow.Eugen Mhartak, a general in the Tri-Race Alliance Army, refuses to bow to the merciless Bluthen. Haunted by the loss of far too many innocent lives he has vowed to drive the ruthless invaders from Alliance space.The strength and valor of Eugen Mhartak attracts Sandrea as no man ever has, but she struggles to read the enigmatic general\u2019s heart. Determined to help him triumph over the Bluthen she uncovers a diabolical plot against the Alliance.Drawn by the courage and exotic beauty of Sandrea, Mhartak battles to overcome the barriers of cross-cultural differences that separate them and claim her ardent interest. He must conquer his deepest fears to be the man she needs. When his principles are betrayed by his own government and he is faced with the impossible prospect of taking Sandrea\u2019s life in order to save his home planet, Mhartak desperately searches for a way to keep safe both his world and the magnificent woman who has stolen his heart.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Space", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18103481-alien-mine"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned", "author_name": "Stephen Cole", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3082, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunts loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser's wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it? The river's dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153191.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats", "author_name": "Mark Hodder", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 416, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Burton and Swinburne return for their final thrilling adventure!Sir Richard Francis Burton\u2019s expedition has returned from the future, bringing with it knowledge of technologies which must remain secret for history to follow its natural course.Betrayed by one of their own, Burton and Swinburne watch in horror as the Empire\u2019s elite use this knowledge to secure their positions for all eternity, branding any who oppose them as enemies of the State.Can their band of hunted revolutionaries overthrow the ultimate automated autocrat \u2013 their King?.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23507189-the-rise-of-the-automated-aristocrats"}, +{"book_title": "Eager", "author_name": "Helen Fox", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1007, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "It's the end of the 21st century where technocrats rule and robots take care of humans\u2019 every need. Your house watches you, knows your secrets, and talks to you. And your closest friend can be\u2014a machine? Gavin Bell and his teenage sister Fleur come from a middle-class family. Their much-loved, old-fashioned robot, Grumps, is running down and can\u2019t be repaired, so a scientist friend loans them EGR3, an experimental new robot to help Grumps. EGR3, known as Eager, learns from his experiences, as a child would. He feels emotions\u2014wonder, excitement, and loss. When the ultra high-tech, eerily human BDC4 robots begin to behave suspiciously, Eager and the Bells are drawn into a great adventure that is sometimes dark and often humorous. As Eager\u2019s extraordinary abilities are tested to the limit, he will try to find the answer to this question: What does it mean to be alive?From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure", "Humor", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1255985.Eager"}, +{"book_title": "The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel", "author_name": "Jeffrey Lewis", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 2308, "review_number": 326, "book_description": "\u201cA\u00a0brilliantly conceived page-turner.\u201d\u2014Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and\u00a0Command and Control \u201cI couldn\u2019t put the book down, reading most of it in the course of one increasingly intense\u00a0evening. If fear of nuclear war is going to keep you up at night, at least it can be a page-turner.\u201d\u2014\nNew Scientist\nAmerica lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of March 2020. This is the final, authorized report of the government commission charged with investigating the calamity. \u201cThe skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue.\u201d\u00a0So begins this sobering report on the findings of the Commission on the Nuclear Attacks against the United States, established by law by Congress and President Donald J. Trump to investigate the horrific events of the next three days. An independent, bipartisan panel led by nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis, the commission was charged with finding and reporting the relevant facts, investigating how the nuclear war began, and determining whether our government was adequately prepared for combating a nuclear adversary and safeguarding U.S. citizens. Did President Trump and his advisers understand North Korean views about nuclear weapons? Did they appreciate the dangers of provoking the country\u2019s ruler with social media posts and military exercises? Did the tragic milestones of that fateful month\u2014North Korea's accidental shoot-down of Air Busan flight 411, the retaliatory strike by South Korea, and the tweet that triggered vastly more carnage\u2014inevitably lead to war? Or did America\u2019s leaders have the opportunity to avert the greatest calamity in the history of our nation? Answering these questions will not bring back the lives lost in March 2020. It will not rebuild New York, Washington, or the other cities reduced to rubble. But at the very least, it might prevent a tragedy of this magnitude from occurring again. It is this hope, more than any other, that inspired The 2020 Commission Report.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Political Science (International Relations)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38640728-the-2020-commission-report-on-the-north-korean-nuclear-attacks-against-t"}, +{"book_title": "Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So", "author_name": "Ian Stewart", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1575, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "In 1884, Edwin A. Abbott published a brilliant novel about mathematics and philosophy that charmed and fascinated all of England. As both a witty satire of Victorian society and a means by which to explore the fourth dimension, Flatland remains a tour de force. Now, British mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart has written a fascinating, modern sequel to Abbott's book. Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Square's diary, hidden in the attic. The writings help her to contact the Space Hopper, who becomes her guide and mentor through eleven dimensions. Along the way, we meet Schr\u00c3\u00b6ger's Cat, The Charming Construction Entity, The Mandelblot (who lives in Fractalia), and Moobius the one-sided cow. In the tradition of Alice in Wonder-land and The Phantom Toll Booth, this magnificent investigation into the nature of reality is destined to become a modern classic.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science", "Science (Mathematics)", "Nonfiction", "Science (Physics)", "Philosophy", "Humor", "Literature", "Speculative Fiction", "Science (Popular Science)", "Academic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17033.Flatterland"}, +{"book_title": "The Trade of Queens", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2087, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "A dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States. Now they will exterminate the rest of the Clan and keep Miriam alive only long enough to bear her child, the heir to the throne of their land in the Gruinmarkt world. The worst and deepest secret is now revealed: behind the horrifying plot is a faction of the US government itself, preparing for a political takeover in the aftermath of disaster. There is no safe place for Miriam and her Clan except, perhaps, in the third alternate world, New Britain--which has just had a revolution and a nuclear incident of its own. Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series reaches a spectacular climax in this sixth volume. Praised by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman as \"great fun,\" this is state of the art, cutting edge SF grown out of a fantastic premise.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6707525-the-trade-of-queens"}, +{"book_title": "Sought", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 8135, "review_number": 441, "book_description": "This Book is a Super Plus length novel--129,000 words longOne Woman, Two Hot Guys, A Galaxy of Problems...Kat O\u2019Connor is no pushover. She\u2019s a no nonsense girl with a commonsense approach to life. But there\u2019s nothing common about what\u2019s happening to her lately\u2026First she was forced to have a kinky mind m\u00e9nage with two of the hottest and most irritating men in the galaxy\u2014Twin Kindred warriors, Deep and Lock\u2014in order to locate her kidnapped friend. Then she couldn\u2019t get their feelings out of her head. And now she\u2019s on her way to their home planet, Twin Moons, to find a cure for the debilitating illness their unorthodox joining caused, when all she really wants to do is go home.Locks Tight, the light twin of the two, is already in love with Kat. Her curvy plus-sized body is the epitome of beauty on his home planet and her sharp mind makes her doubly attractive. But though he fell for her the moment he saw her, Twin Kindred are unable to mate a woman alone. Lock knows nothing can happen between them without his brother\u2026Stabs Deep. The dark twin has a secret agony in his past\u2014a tragedy he feels he and he alone is to blame for. He too, hungers for Kat, but he hides his fear of rejection behind an impenetrable wall of angry sarcasm. For if he lets anyone get too close, the unbearable pain he has already endured once may happen again. Now Kat and her twin warriors are on a quest\u2014but they\u2019re all looking for different things. Kat wants to find a way to dissolve the half-formed bond between them so she can be alone in her own head again. Lock wants to convince both her and his brother to complete the bond which will keep them together forever. And Deep is trying to protect his heart and love Kat from afar\u2026though it grows more and more difficult to deny the hunger he feels for her growing inside him.Their travels will take them from the uncharted wilds of Twin Moons to the Deadworld of the Scourge home planet. Will Kat find a cure for having other people\u2019s emotions crowding her mind? Will Lock convince his brother and the woman they both love that they\u2019re all meant to be together forever? And will Deep ever unshield his heart long enough to let Kat in?You\u2019ll have to read Sought, the third book in the Brides of the Kindred series, to find out\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11995467-sought"}, +{"book_title": "Agamemnon Frost and the House of Death", "author_name": "Kim Knox", "rating_score": 3.15, "rating_votes": 178, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Book one of Agamemnon FrostLiverpool, 1891Decorated artilleryman Edgar Mason was forced to find new work when the British Empire replaced its foot soldiers with monstrous machines. Now he waits on the Liverpool elite as a personal servant. He has just one rule: he won\u2019t work for fashion-addled dandies.Agamemnon Frost, however, is far from the foppish man-about-town he appears to be. He\u2019s working to protect the Earth from an alien invasion being planned by a face-changing creature known as Pandarus. And on the night he plans to confront the aliens, he enlists Mason to assist him.For a man to love a man is a serious crime in Victorian England. But when Mason meets Frost, his heart thunders and his blood catches fire. And when Pandarus drags the two men into the torture cellars beneath his house of death to brainwash them, Mason\u2019s new passion may be all that stands between him and insanity.The trilogy continues with Agamemnon Frost and the Hollow Ships.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18130651-agamemnon-frost-and-the-house-of-death"}, +{"book_title": "Once", "author_name": "Anna Carey", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 18913, "review_number": 1230, "book_description": "When you're being hunted, who can you trust?For the first time since she escaped from her school many months ago, Eve can sleep soundly. She's living in Califia, a haven for women, protected from the terrifying fate that awaits orphaned girls in The New America.But her safety came at a price: She was forced to abandon Caleb, the boy she loves, wounded and alone at the city gates. When Eve gets word that Caleb is in trouble, she sets out into the wild again to rescue him, only to be captured and brought to the City of Sand, the capital of The New America.Trapped inside the City walls, Eve uncovers a shocking secret about her past--and is forced to confront the harsh reality of her future. When she discovers Caleb is alive, Eve attempts to flee her prison so they can be together--but the consequences could be deadly. She must make a desperate choice to save the ones she loves . . . or risk losing Caleb forever.In this breathless sequel to \"Eve,\" Anna Carey returns to her tale of romance, adventure, and sacrifice in a world that is both wonderfully strange and chillingly familiar.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12924253-once"}, +{"book_title": "Honor's Flight", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3682, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "After spending four years fighting for the Alliance, fighter pilot Alisa Marchenko only wants one thing: to reunite with her young daughter. But this involves a journey to her former home world, which has become the last imperial stronghold. Since the imperials have a lot of reasons to loathe members of the Alliance right now, just getting down to the planet will be a challenge, and it doesn\u2019t help that her passengers are stirring up trouble of their own\u2026 Even if Alisa is able to land, she may find that more questions await her than answers, and that her late husband kept a startling secret from her, one that could change her life forever.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Adult", "Space", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30298012-honor-s-flight"}, +{"book_title": "Sojourn", "author_name": "Jana Oliver", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 295, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "London, September 1888. An aged Queen Victoria rules. The threat of anarchy hovers in the air. A new kind of evil lurks in the back alleys of Whitechapel. Enter Jacynda Lassiter, a Time Rover on a mission find an overdue tourist' and return him to 2057 before he changes history. Victorian London is a dangerous place for the unwary. Mysterious shape-shifters haunt the streets, making friend and foe indistinguishable. When a fellow Time Rover is murdered, Jacynda's mission becomes personal. Can she trust the two gentlemen who come to her aid, or do they harbor their own dark secrets? In a few days, Jack the Ripper will add to his bloody legacy. But old Jack isn't the only threat in Whitechapel. Unless Jacynda can outwit a madman, her Victorian sojourn will rewrite history and end at the point of a blade.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68423.Sojourn"}, +{"book_title": "Lucifer's Dragon", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 230, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Passion di Orchi, obscenely rich daughter of a Mafia boss, decides to rebuild Venice - in the middle of the Pacific. A century later, the daughter of Count Ryuchi plays a virtual reality game, and finds that the virtual world is all too real.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368872.Lucifer_s_Dragon"}, +{"book_title": "An Uncommon Whore", "author_name": "Belinda McBride", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2090, "review_number": 260, "book_description": "\"As a general rule, you won't find the love of your life while you're on your knees under a table.\" -- Helios DayspringPasha is a slave, whoring for travelers at the most dangerous bar on Warlan. He has no memory, no future of his own, yet deep inside Pasha knows that that he is meant for better things. The day that Pasha spots the dangerous pirate in the bar, he knows that he mustn't let the stranger slip away, regardless of what he must do to attract his attention.Captain Griffin Hawke spent the greater part of a decade searching for his lost king, only to find Helios Dayspring crouched between his knees, swathed in the robes and shackles of a whore. Though he is appalled by the downfall of his king, the hardened officer finds himself falling for the allure of the sensual creature who has taken his place. Returning Helios to his position on the throne is the only right thing to do, yet Griffin knows that in doing so, he risks losing his lover forever.\"A whore is a whore is a whore, unless he's something else completely. I guess I must be an uncommon whore.\" -- Helios Dayspring", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7644545-an-uncommon-whore"}, +{"book_title": "Paying the Piper", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 848, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Colonel Alois Hammer: to the galaxy, a legendary commander of mercenaries. To his troops, a leader who can be trusted to always back them to the hilt - and meet a payroll. When the situation on a planet has gone beyond desperate, it's time to call for Hammer's Slammers.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/999159.Paying_the_Piper"}, +{"book_title": "Mia & Korum", "author_name": "Anna Zaires", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1889, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "\nDark Passion. Betrayal. Danger. Love.\nFive years in the future, humans are no longer the most advanced species. Earth is ruled by the Krinar, a beautiful, mysterious race from another galaxy.A shy and inexperienced college student, Mia Stalis has never had much interaction with the invaders\u2014until one fateful meeting in Central Park changes everything. Having caught Korum\u2019s eye, she must now contend with a powerful, dangerously seductive Krinar who will do anything to possess her . . . even take away her freedom.From the skyscrapers of New York City to the alien landscapes of Krina, their epic passion will transform the world.Note: This is the complete Krinar Chronicles trilogy, containing Close Liaisons, Close Obsession, and Close Remembrance\u20143 full-length novels with a combined total of 270,000 words.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20628601-mia-korum"}, +{"book_title": "Event Horizon", "author_name": "Steven Konkoly", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2375, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "Previous cover edition for ASIN B00I0DP2U2For alternate cover edition see hereThe critically acclaimed post apocalyptic saga continues...With Boston collapsing faster than Alex Fletcher predicted, his personal rescue mission deep into the heart of an increasingly unfamiliar city reaches a critical point. Pursued by a ruthless militia group and forced to navigate a treacherous landscape, he runs a gauntlet of grim decisions and impossible odds to reach perceived safety. Perceived because nothing is safe in the world emerging after the \"event.\"In Maine, the consequences of a random, deadly encounter has left Kate Fletcher and her travel companions in a state of perpetual fear. Finally reaching the Fletcher's western Maine retreat, they prepare for the worst--not truly understanding the threat conspiring against them.A series of lethal coincidences fuels a local militia leader's ghastly strategy to raise a private army, planting the Fletcher's firmly at the intersection of his power play--and the epicenter of his rage.The human darkness released on August 19, 2019 continues to grow, threatening to tear the fabric of their fragile society apart...until nothing remains but a distant memory of the past.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Suspense", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20872875-event-horizon"}, +{"book_title": "Spinward Fringe Broadcast 1: Resurrection", "author_name": "Randolph Lalonde", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1395, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Captain Jacob Valance has no memory of his past. Left on a strange ship in an unfamiliar sector of the galaxy, he's forced to begin a new life. Possessing a skill set that leads to bounty hunting and object repossession, he gathers a crew from the rough fringe of the galaxy.While he keeps the ship running and his crew paid Captain Jacob Valance continues his secret quest; to find the daughter who rescued him and left him to fend for himself. Years pass and he's earned a reputation as a man who can hunt down hardened criminals and go where others fear to tread.This book was updated in December of 2015 with extended content and corrections to the original text. If you already own this book, please request the updated version for free by contacting Kindle Customer Service.This is the end of a hunt, the continuation of an adventure that began in Spinward Fringe Broadcast 0: Origins and the beginning of an epic saga that reaches across the stars.You can find Spinward Fringe Broadcast 0: Origins here - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004...Praise for Resurrection:\"An addictive series. Fantastic following to the First Light Chronicles, and just as full of adventure and twists. Great Sci-Fi.\"\"...keeps on getting better and better. The twists blow me away.\"\"This is something new in Space Opera. The characters are so real they're like family.\"Praise for Awakening\"The story continues and get better all time. Do read the Omnibus first - it's worth it.\"\"Characters transform before my eyes and the story is amazing. A good read for all ages that isn't dumbed down.\"Praise for other books by Randolph Lalonde:First Light Chronicles Omnibus: \"Fantastic! The First Light Chronicles Omnibus edition is one of the most exciting books I have ever read.\"Spinward Fringe Broadcast 3: Triton: \"I just couldn't put the books down. The characters are not just action heroes. There are others like engineers (close to my heart) that play a major part.\"", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6017722-spinward-fringe-broadcast-1"}, +{"book_title": "Weaponized Human", "author_name": "J.S. Morin", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 189, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "The greatest threat to humanity might be one of their own. Eve has responsibilities now. As chairwoman of the Human Welfare Committee, she is humanity\u2019s voice in a world run by robots. Her job includes approving geneticists who want to engage in ethical human cloning as well as overseeing the agency that hunts down threats to mankind. So when one of her sisters vanishes, Eve can\u2019t afford to abandon her post to personally search. Eve\u2019s agents hunt for her missing sister, but in the process, they run afoul of some influential robots. Their brutish, invasive interviews, veiled threats, and hacking threaten to bring down the wrath of more powerful committees, potentially shutting down the entire Human Protection Agency. With her agents pulled out of the field, Eve faces a crisis. Can she follow the rules of a robotic world, even if it might cost her sister\u2019s life? Weaponized Human is the third book in the Robot Geneticists series. For fans of old-school science fiction where robots are people and any problem can be solved (or created) with enough scientists. If you've ever wondered what the world would be like if scientists who'd read I, Robot created a race of robots, or if you ever wondered what might be more dangerous to clone than dinosaurs, this is the series for you.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35367572-weaponized-human"}, +{"book_title": "The Ebb Tide", "author_name": "James P. Blaylock", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 125, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "A flaming meteor over the Yorkshire Dales, a long-lost map drawn by the lunatic Bill Cuttle Kraken, and the discovery of a secret subterranean shipyard beneath the River Thames lead Professor Langdon St. Ives and his intrepid friend Jack Owlesby into the treacherous environs of Morecambe Bay, with its dangerous tides and vast quicksand pits. They descend beneath the sands of the Bay itself, into a dark, unknown ocean littered with human bones and the remnants of human dreams. In this tale of murder, infamy, and Victorian intrigue, the tides of destiny shift relentlessly and rapidly as the stakes grow ever higher and the pursuit more deadly....", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6233723-the-ebb-tide"}, +{"book_title": "Victory of Eagles", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 19993, "review_number": 1111, "book_description": "Naomi Novik's triumphant debut, His Majesty's Dragon, introduced a dynamic new pair of heroes to the annals of fantasy fiction: the noble fighting dragon Temeraire and his master and commander, Capt. Will Laurence. Now in the latest novel, they soar to new heights of breathtaking action and brilliant imagination.It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military service - and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. For Britain, conditions are grimmer still: Napoleon's resurgent forceshave breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleon's prime objective: the occupation of London.Separated by their own government and threatened at every turn by Napoleon's forces, Laurence and Temeraire must struggle to find each other amid the turmoil of war and to aid the resistance against the invasion before Napoleon's foothold on England's shores can become a stranglehold.If only they can be reunited, master and dragon might rally Britain's scattered forces and take the fight to the enemy as never before - for king and country, and for their own liberty. But can the French aggressors be well and truly routed, or will a treacherous alliance deliver Britain into the hands of herwould-be conquerors?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/891593.Victory_of_Eagles"}, +{"book_title": "1632", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 11272, "review_number": 822, "book_description": "FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE 1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED.... When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16967.1632"}, +{"book_title": "The Pilgrims of Rayne", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 24144, "review_number": 377, "book_description": "When Bobby Pendragon first arrives on the tropical world of Ibara, he finds paradise. There is beauty all around and the people of Ibara are blissfully happy. It's not long before Bobby discovers, however, that they are also blissfully...oblivious.The leaders of Ibara are keeping a devastating secret from their people, one that gives Saint Dane all the opportunity he needs to launch his final assault on Halla.While Bobby struggles to learn the truth in time to thwart Saint Dane, Courtney Chetwynde desperately searches for Mark Diamond. On the heels of a shocking tragedy, Mark has disappeared. Worse, he seems to be under Saint Dane's influence. It's up to Courtney to find Mark and stop him from making a grave mistake that could change the future of all existence.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215539.The_Pilgrims_of_Rayne"}, +{"book_title": "The Assassin's Blade", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 148147, "review_number": 13962, "book_description": "Contains all five novellas.Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan's most feared assassin. As part of the Assassin's Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed novellas - together in one edition for the first time - Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn's orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery. Will Celaena ever be truly free? Explore the dark underworld of this kick-ass heroine to find out.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Novella", "Adventure", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18243700-the-assassin-s-blade"}, +{"book_title": "Undead", "author_name": "Kirsty McKay", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3233, "review_number": 534, "book_description": "When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, new girl Bobby and rebel Smitty stay behind. They hardly know each other, but that changes when they see the others coming back. Something has happened to them - something bad. Soon, only a pair of double doors stands between those on the bus and their ex-friends outside.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10815267-undead"}, +{"book_title": "Culture Shock", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 505, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Arthur\u2019s Seat had never sought a galactic role. A relatively new colony world, a mere three hundred years old, the planet was always isolated from the galactic mainstream. But with the Empire crumbling after the fall of Earth, and other planets taking advantage of the chaos to make their own bids for power, Arthur\u2019s Seat suddenly finds itself playing host to tens of thousands of unwanted immigrants, refugees who have been kicked off countless other worlds. But as the planetary government struggles to integrate the newcomers, powerful factions plot to take advantage of the situation and the refugees struggle to carve out a place for themselves, it becomes clear that the entire planet is on the verge of anarchy ... ... And outright civil war may not be far away. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32738186-culture-shock"}, +{"book_title": "Honey from the Lion", "author_name": "Jackie North", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 393, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "Soulmates across time. A love that was meant to be.In present day, Laurie, tired of corporate life, takes a much-needed vacation at Farthingdale Dude Ranch.The very first night a freak blizzard combined with a powerful meteor shower takes Laurie back to the year 1891. When he wakes up in a snowbank, his only refuge is an isolated cabin inhabited by the gruff, grouchy John Henton, who only wants to be left alone. His sense of duty prevails, however, and he takes Laurie under his care, teaching him how to survive on the wild frontier. As winter approaches, Laurie's normal fun-loving manner make it difficult for him to connect with John, but in spite of John's old-fashioned ways, the chemistry between them grows. Sparks fly as the blizzard rages outside the cabin. Can two men from different worlds and different times find happiness together? A male/male time travel romance, complete with hurt/comfort, true confessions, a shared bed, fireplace kisses, the angst of separation, and true love across time.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41583257-honey-from-the-lion"}, +{"book_title": "Love Came Just in Time", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1198, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Four classic novellas from the USA Today bestselling author, including \"The Gift of Christmas Past,\" \"The Three Wise Ghosts,\" \"And the Groom Wore Tulle,\" and \"The Icing on the Cake.\"", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Anthologies", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50723.Love_Came_Just_in_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Singularity Trap", "author_name": "Dennis E. Taylor", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 7943, "review_number": 588, "book_description": "After scrimping and saving for two years, Ivan Pritchard lands a berth with the mining ship Mad Astra. His one share buys him six months of searching the asteroid belt for that elusive cache of metals that could make the entire crew wealthy, and allow Ivan to pull his family out of the depths of poverty.While investigating a promising asteroid, Ivan triggers an extraterrestrial booby trap, which squirts a strange liquid substance onto his arm. The next morning, he wakes up to find his forearm turning into living metal. Soon his other limbs begin to change, and worse yet, there\u2019s an artificial intelligence growing in his head and talking to him. As alien nanites eat his ship out from under him, the AI reveals its mission: to convert the solar system and the human race into a war machine meant to fight in an interstellar battle that has raged for millions of years.To save his family\u2014and the human race\u2014Ivan will need to play a deadly game of brinkmanship with the military, all the while hiding his plans from both his crewmates and the alien computer residing in his brain.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35269854-the-singularity-trap"}, +{"book_title": "Moonlight & Mechanicals", "author_name": "Cindy Spencer Pape", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 883, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "London, 1859Engineer Winifred \"Wink\" Hadrian has been in love with Inspector Liam McCullough for years, but is beginning to lose hope when he swears to be a lifelong bachelor. Faced with a proposal from a Knight of the Round Table and one of her closest friends, Wink reluctantly agrees to consider him instead.Because of his dark werewolf past, Liam tries to keep his distance, but can't say no when Wink asks him to help find her friend's missing son. They soon discover that London's poorest are disappearing at an alarming rate, after encounters with mysterious \"mechanical\" men. Even more alarming is the connection the missing people may have with a conspiracy against the Queen.Fighting against time\u2014and their escalating feelings for each other\u2014Wink and Liam must work together to find the missing people and save the monarchy before it's too late...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13503445-moonlight-mechanicals"}, +{"book_title": "Kiss the Earl", "author_name": "Gina Lamm", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 334, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "On the eve of her first comic book release, Ella Briley has a problem: no date to the launch party. Things go from bad to worse when she stumbles into the past . . . and straight into the arms of her very own Mr. Darcy.Patrick St. John, Earl of Meadowfair, is too noble for his own good. To save his friend from what is sure to be a loveless marriage, he's agreed to whisk the girl off to wed the man she truly loves. But all goes awry when Patrick mistakes Ella for the would-be bride . . . and finds this modern girl far too tempting for even the noblest of men to resist.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Regency)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Historical Romance (Regency Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18509674-kiss-the-earl"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Moon", "author_name": "Catherine Taylor", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1843, "review_number": 391, "book_description": "*Longlisted for the 2019 Exeter Novel PrizeA strange twist of fate connects a British soldier fighting in the First World War in 1916 with a young woman living in modern-day England a century later, in this haunting literary time travel novel.Two people, two battles: one against the invading Germans on the battlefields of 1916 France, the other against a substandard, uncaring mental health facility in modern-day England. Part war story, part timeslip, part love story \u2013 and at the same time a meditation on the themes of war, mental illness, identity and art, Beyond The Moon is an intelligent, captivating debut novel, perfect for book clubs.\"Taylor\u2019s accomplished, genre-bending book succeeds as a WW1 historical novel and a beguiling, time travel love story... The sharply written narrative deftly moves back and forth between the past and present.\" \u2014 Kirkus Reviews \"Historical fantasy at its very best.\" \u2014 Historical Novel Society\"*Shortlisted for the Eharmony/Orion Love Story Prize 2019\u201cAn unflinching portrait of the horrors of war, and a look at the torturous extremes a human soul can endure. It is a sonnet to the transformative power of love, even as it is also a criticism of the futility and pointless destructiveness of war.\" \u2014 Shaylin Gandhi, author of By The Light of EmbersIn 1916 1st Lieutenant Robert Lovett is a patient at Coldbrook Hall military hospital in Sussex, England. A gifted artist, he\u2019s been wounded fighting in the Great War. Shell shocked and suffering from hysterical blindness he can no longer see his own face, let alone paint, and life seems increasingly hopeless. A century later in 2017, medical student Louisa Casson has just lost her beloved grandmother \u2013 her only family. Heartbroken, she drowns her sorrows in alcohol on the South Downs cliffs \u2013 only to fall accidentally part-way down. Doctors fear she may have attempted suicide, and Louisa finds herself involuntarily admitted to Coldbrook Hall \u2013 now a psychiatric hospital, an unfriendly and chaotic place.Then one day, while secretly exploring the old Victorian hospital\u2019s ruined, abandoned wing, Louisa hears a voice calling for help, and stumbles across a dark, old-fashioned hospital room. Inside, lying on the floor, is a mysterious, sightless young man, who tells her he was hurt at the Battle of the Somme, a WW1 battle a century ago. And that his name is Lieutenant Robert Lovett\u2026For fans of Kate Quinn, Sebastian Faulks, Diana Gabaldon, Ken Follett, Kristin Hannah, Susanna Kearsley and Paullina Simons.*NB Contains graphic descriptions of war violence and injuries, as well as profanity and mild sex.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "War (World War I)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50701814-beyond-the-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Everything in Its Time", "author_name": "Dee Davis", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1296, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "\nAn earring, a murder, a legend...\nKatherine St. Claire has never forgotten the passionate night she shared with a stranger while staying at a castle hotel called Duncreag. He even haunts her dreams. Tired of loving \"Fantasy Man\", as her brother Jeff refers to him, she decides to go back to Duncreag in search, literally, of the man of her dreams.Iain Mackintosh wears the cairngorm earring of the only woman he will ever love. Eight long years ago she came to him in the night like a vision. News of his father's death brings Iain home to Duncreag where he finds himself questioning the circumstances surrounding his father's demise and wishing for the woman his cousin Ranald is convinced is a fairy.Iain and Katherine arrive at Duncreag each longing to find the other. There is however a seemingly insurmountable problem. A five hundred and thirty-year barrier separates them. What follows is the story of a love so powerful it crosses the boundaries of time. Complicated by murder and abduction in the fifteenth century their love will be tested even after they finally reunite. Only Jeff's twentieth century discovery of events from the past can save them.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853419.Everything_in_Its_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Zom-B City", "author_name": "Darren Shan", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2822, "review_number": 276, "book_description": "How many survived the zombie apocalypse?Where do the living hide in a city of the dead?Who controls the streets of London?B Smith is setting out to explore...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801764-zom-b-city"}, +{"book_title": "A History of Trouble", "author_name": "S.J. Himes", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 800, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "A HISTORY OF TROUBLE A Beacon Hill Sorcerer CollectionA collection of brand-new short stories, featuring characters from The Beacon Hill Sorcerer Series by bestselling author SJ Himes.Red Wine and BloodThe Blood Wars raged for centuries across Boston. Witness a brief glimpse into the brutal history of the Wars with Ignacio Salvatore and the vampire he loves, Ashwin Metcalfe, in 1897.A History of Trouble Angel was joking when he asked O'Malley if someone resurrected a mammoth. Little did he know that was exactly what someone did. Experience the untold story of what happened that unfortunate night at the Boston Public Museum.A Dragon in the CityWhat happens when Eroch goes adventuring in Beacon Hill without Angel? Chaos, pure chaos.Fae's Gold Daniel is helping the newly-resurrected fae Ruairi Brennan become accustomed to modern-day living. A boring trip to the bank quickly escalates, and Daniel calls Angel for help. The day goes downhill from there but ends in a comfy meal in a pub for an ancient fae warrior and a necromancer's apprentice.This is a collection, featuring vignettes and short stories from the universe of The Beacon Hill Sorcerer series. For full enjoyment, the Beacon Hill Sorcerer Series Books 1 through 3 should be read before reading this collection. Combined word count is 23.5k words.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Anthologies", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43126370-a-history-of-trouble"}, +{"book_title": "The Final Evolution", "author_name": "Jeff Somers", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 614, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "The world is dying. With avatars replacing humans and the birth rate non-existent, the human race is almost extinct. In the end, it comes down to Canny Orel; Avery's long sought after nemesis -- transformed now into something other than human.Orel might hold the secret to humanity's salvation, if he can be convinced -- or forced -- to relinquish it. And when Cates chances on a way to trick his old master, he suddenly has a choice to make: get his long-delayed revenge, or save the world.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery (Noir)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10207116-the-final-evolution"}, +{"book_title": "The Wonder Engine", "author_name": "T. Kingfisher", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 3838, "review_number": 410, "book_description": "Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. Give them weapons, carnivorous tattoos, and each other. Point them at the enemy. What could possibly go wrong? In the sequel to CLOCKWORK BOYS, Slate, Brenner, Caliban and Learned Edmund have arrived in Anuket City, the source of the mysterious Clockwork Boys. But the secrets they're keeping could well destroy them, before the city even gets the chance...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38352077-the-wonder-engine"}, +{"book_title": "Lord John and the Hand of Devils", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 16359, "review_number": 819, "book_description": "Diana Gabaldon, the New York Times bestselling author of Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade and the wildly popular Outlander novels, delivers three tales of war, intrigue, and espionage that feature one of her most popular characters: Lord John Grey. In the heart of the eighteenth century, here are haunted soldiers . . . lusty princesses . . . ghostly apparitions . . . dark family secrets. And here Lord John will face enemies who come in the guise of friends, memories in the shape of a fiery-haired Scot named James Fraser, and allies who have the power to destroy him with a single blow. . . .In Lord John and the Hellfire Club, Lord John glimpses a stranger in the doorway of a gentlemen's club\u2014and is stirred by a desperate entreaty to meet in private. The rendezvous forestalled by a sudden murder, Lord John will wade into a maze of political treachery and a dangerous, debauched underground society. . . . In Lord John and the Succubus, English soldiers fighting in Prussia are rattled by the nocturnal visitations of a deadly woman who sucks life and soul from a man. Called to investigate the night-hag, Lord John finds a murdered soldier and a treacherous Gypsy, and comes to the stark realization that among the spirits that haunt men, none frighten more than the specters conjured by the heart. . . . In Lord John and the Haunted Soldier, Lord John is thrust into the deadly case of an exploding battlefield cannon. Wounded in the same battle, Lord John is called to tesify and soon confronts his own ghost\u2014and the shattering prospect that a traitor is among the ranks of His Majesty's armed forces.Capturing the lonely, tormented, and courageous career of a man who fights for his crown, his honor, and his own secrets, Diana Gabaldon delivers breathtaking human drama. And in tales seething with desire, madness, and political intrigue, Gabaldon once again proves that she can bring history to life in a way few novelists ever have.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Mystery", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437406.Lord_John_and_the_Hand_of_Devils"}, +{"book_title": "They Also Serve", "author_name": "Mike Moscoe", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 452, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Adversaries in an interstellar war are now working together to keep the peace. But can they protect themselves from an enemy they can't even see?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929645.They_Also_Serve"}, +{"book_title": "Going Dark", "author_name": "Ann Christy", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2309, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Book One of the Silo 49 series, set in Hugh Howey's WOOL universe.Silo 49 has never had it easy and things have just gotten a whole lot worse. Graham, the head of IT, has done many unsavory things in his life but everyone has a line they won't cross. He just found his. With only his best friend, Wallis and a dying electrician, Grace, to stand by him, he is left with one clear and final choice. Does he do what is right or what the rules say he should? It is a race against time for the trio against the impersonal might of Silo One. Their only choice? Going Dark.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18243310-going-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Tinker's War", "author_name": "Jamie Sedgwick", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Five Stars: \"Best trilogy I've read in a long while. A must have for a sci-fi/fantasy collector.\"-Amazon ReviewFour Stars: \"What a sequel! ...Jamie Sedgwick has an unbelievable imagination.\"-Amazon ReviewFive Stars: \"Great character driven plot. Storytelling at its best.\"-Amazon ReviewSteam technology and spring-powered engines have evolved since the discovery of Blackrock Steel, which can store vast amounts of energy, but word of this incredible resource has spread far and wide. When a horde of barbarian warriors known as Vangars sweep across the Frigid Sea in massive airships fueled by precious but dwindling supplies of black tar-like oil, they are determined to learn the secrets of Blackrock Steel at any cost. They assault the capital city, slaying King Ryshan and the entire royal family, and then ravage the countryside, leaving a cloud of acrid black smoke and the stench of death in their wake. Breeze has been content with the peaceful life of a pilot, shuttling nobles back and forth in her spring-powered planes for years, but now the kingdom of Astatia has once again been thrust into war. The Vangars have taken Tinker captive and Breeze must rescue the clever old inventor who has been a father to her for most of her life, but she has one chance to defeat the Vangars. If she chooses to save Tinker instead, Breeze might lose that opportunity forever. In the midst of the chaos, Breeze finds herself trapped in the middle of a romantic conspiracy to wed her off to a young pilot. She has no interest in marrying her would-be suitor, nor in the young Tal'mar warrior who would claim her as his own... or does she? The only thing Breeze knows for sure is that if she fails, the secret of Blackrock Steel will fall into the hands of the Vangars and Astatia will face a dark future of slavery and ruin.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20897572-tinker-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Stars", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 17419, "review_number": 1379, "book_description": "From award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an original novella, set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring fan-favorites, Derek, and Curran and Kate\u2019s very independent ward, Julie. Scarred, solitary Derek Gaunt has separated from his Pack, and is truly a lone wolf. With no family he answers to no one; but is fiercely loyal to a chosen few. So, when several of those close to him are murdered, he\u2019ll stop at nothing to hunt their killer through the magic-drenched streets of Atlanta. Never one to be left on the sidelines, equally determined\u2014some might say stubborn\u2014Julie Lennart-Olsen soon joins in his pursuit; and what began as revenge turns into a race to save the city. Their search pits them against powers they never imagined and magic so old, it predates history. It may cost Derek his life, but there are things for which even he would risk everything.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Novella", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Short Stories", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27794073-magic-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Times Change", "author_name": "Nora Roberts", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1790, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "A unique story about finding love when you least expect it, from #1 \"New York Times\" bestselling author Nora Roberts. AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME Twenty-third century cynic Jacob Hornblower followed his brother Caleb into the past, determined to bring him home. But when Jacob meets Sunny Stone, he suddenly loses track of his mission, and begins to wonder if all of his opinions about love are wrong. \"Times Change\" includes an exclusive preview of J.D. Robb's new book \"Calculated in Death.\"", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "American (Americana)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682166.Times_Change"}, +{"book_title": "Initial Profit (The Profit Logbooks", "author_name": "Bruce Davis", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 11, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Ensign Lu Chin, Martian Navy, has a problem. The Federation has defeated the Martian Navy and killed off what little was left of the crew of her drydocked ship, a fast interceptor. She\u2019s managed to steal ten kilos of platinum, but she can\u2019t unlock the ship\u2019s security codes so she can make a getaway from Mars. Just to make matters worse, she and her ship have been taken over by three unusual \u201cpirates\u201d. Here\u2019s the story of how Zack Mbele \u201cacquired\u201d the Profit. Bonus: a preview excerpt of Glowgems for Profit, the next book in the Profit Logbook series. Military Science fiction adventure at it's finest. 5300 words. Rated \u201cG\u201d", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24181294-initial-profit"}, +{"book_title": "Prince for Sale", "author_name": "Caroline Gibson", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 658, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "David Thomen is Earth\u2019s premier scientist, and he wants to be alone with his inventions, his money, and his PTSD. Instead, a mute, starving, alien slave is dropped in his lap. Not just any alien slave - the leader of Earth\u2019s first alien invasion, defeated by David's technology.Vell was a prince, a conqueror, a warrior-mage. Now, he is bound by a magical slave-collar that forces him to debase himself for the gratification of his master. On Earth, he finally finds someone who can see the torment behind his submission. Someone who may be willing to give him his freedom, his dignity, or even just a hot meal.Unwilling to let Vell die, David begins a journey that will compromise his morals, challenge his scientific beliefs, and teach him about loyalty, brotherhood, passion, and love.Note to readers: This is an MM Romance book for mature readers, it contains dubious consent, memories of past rape, and steamy, consensual sex scenes. This large print book is produced in 18pt Arial font, 1.5 line spacing.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Sociology (Abuse)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45018573-prince-for-sale"}, +{"book_title": "Allegiance", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 7987, "review_number": 358, "book_description": "Never before has the incendiary mix of action, politics, and intrigue that has become Timothy Zahn\u2019s trademark, been more evident that in this new Star Wars epic. On the heels of the stunning events chronicled in Star Wars: A New Hope, the newly minted heroes of the Rebellion\u2013fledgling Jedi Luke Skywalker, smuggler turned reluctant freedom-fighter Han Solo, and Princess Leia Organa, a bold leader with a world to avenge\u2013must face the harsh realities of the cataclysmic conflict into which they have so bravely plunged. From this point forward, legends will grow, treachery will abound, and lives will be irrevocably altered, in the long, hard fight to counter the fist of tyranny and restore hope to a galaxy too long in darkness. The destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance was a decisive blow against the Empire, but Palpatine and his monstrous enforcer, Darth Vader, are no less of a threat. The brutal extermination of Alderaan not only demonstrated the magnitude of their murderous power, but served as a chilling testament to their resolve to crush the Rebel uprising. Standing against them, Skywalker, Solo, and the Princess remain uncertain opponents. Luke is gifted and brave, but unschooled in the power he possesses. Han has doubts about waging someone else\u2019s war\u2013and his contentiousness is one more burden for Leia to bear as she struggles to help keep the Rebellion alive. The three have been sent to mediate a dispute between Rebel Alliance factions in Shelsha Sector\u2013agitating matters by forcing Han to deal not only with pirates, but with his more dreaded enemy, politics. At the same time, Mara Jade\u2013all of eighteen and years away from her fateful meeting with Luke\u2013is serving her evil master, Palpatine, well in her role as the Emperor\u2019s Hand: tracking suspected treachery in the Empire to what may be high places\u2013while trying to stay out of Darth Vader\u2019s way.But the Rebels will prove to be only one of the Empire\u2019s concerns. For Imperial Stormtrooper Daric LaRone, his faith in the Empire shaken by the wanton destruction of Alderaan, will commit a sudden and violent act of defiance, and take four other enforcers with him, in a desperate bid to elude their masters\u2019 wrath.Each of these fateful actions, whether sanctioned, secret, or scandalous, will expose brutality and corruption, spur upheavals destined to shake the Empire to its core, and shape momentous events yet to come.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35414.Allegiance"}, +{"book_title": "Kilts & Kraken", "author_name": "Cindy Spencer Pape", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 897, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Magnus, Baron Findlay, longs to bring the wonders of the steam age to his remote island home, but his hands are full fighting the vicious kraken ravaging the coast. When he's swept to sea during battle and washes up on the shore of an isle in the Hebrides, he is near death.Struggling to establish herself as one of the first female physicians in Edinburgh, Dr. Geneva MacKay is annoyed when The Order of the Round Table sends her north to care for an injured highlander. To heal him, Geneva escorts the handsome warrior home, just in time to defend the villagers from another onslaught.As the attacks escalate and they work together to fight off the threat, neither Geneva nor Magnus can resist the overwhelming attraction between them. But as their relationship deepens, a new threat arises-from within the village itself...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Novella", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13503442-kilts-kraken"}, +{"book_title": "The Bookseller", "author_name": "Cynthia Swanson", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 18786, "review_number": 2708, "book_description": "The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alternate world of her dreamsNothing is as permanent as it appears . . . Denver, 1962: Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs with her best friend, Frieda, and enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence. She can come and go as she pleases, answering to no one. There was a man once, a doctor named Kevin, but it didn\u2019t quite work out the way Kitty had hoped.Then the dreams begin.Denver, 1963: Katharyn Andersson is married to Lars, the love of her life. They have beautiful children, an elegant home, and good friends. It's everything Kitty Miller once believed she wanted\u2014but it only exists when she sleeps.Convinced that these dreams are simply due to her overactive imagination, Kitty enjoys her nighttime forays into this alternate world. But with each visit, the more irresistibly real Katharyn\u2019s life becomes. Can she choose which life she wants? If so, what is the cost of staying Kitty, or becoming Katharyn?As the lines between her worlds begin to blur, Kitty must figure out what is real and what is imagined. And how do we know where that boundary lies in our own lives?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Historical", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22635858-the-bookseller"}, +{"book_title": "Extinction Point", "author_name": "Paul Antony Jones", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 7582, "review_number": 685, "book_description": "Reporter Emily Baxter has a great job, an apartment in Manhattan, and a boyfriend she loves. All that changes the day the red rain falls from a cloudless sky. Just hours after the first reports from Europe, humanity is on the brink of extinction, wiped from the face of the earth in a few bloody moments, leaving Emily alone in an empty city. As she struggles to grasp the magnitude of her situation, Emily becomes the final witness to the end of our world\u2026 and the birth of a terrifying new one. The world she knew and loved is dead and gone. Now Emily must try to find a way out of New York as the truth behind the red rain is revealed: the earth no longer belongs to humanity.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13509631-extinction-point"}, +{"book_title": "Proxy", "author_name": "Alex London", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 10259, "review_number": 1587, "book_description": "Knox was born into one of the City\u2019s wealthiest families. A Patron, he has everything a boy could possibly want\u2014the latest tech, the coolest clothes, and a Proxy to take all his punishments. When Knox breaks a vase, Syd is beaten. When Knox plays a practical joke, Syd is forced to haul rocks. And when Knox crashes a car, killing one of his friends, Syd is branded and sentenced to death.Syd is a Proxy. His life is not his own.Then again, neither is Knox\u2019s. Knox and Syd have more in common than either would guess. So when Knox and Syd realize that the only way to beat the system is to save each other, they flee. Yet Knox\u2019s father is no ordinary Patron, and Syd is no ordinary Proxy. The ensuing cross-country chase will uncover a secret society of rebels, test both boys\u2019 resolve, and shine a blinding light onto a world of those who owe and those who pay. Some debts, it turns out, cannot be repaid.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "LGBT (Gay)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101023-proxy"}, +{"book_title": "The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle", "author_name": "Catherine Webb", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 800, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "In Victorian London at the height of the industrial revolution, Horatio Lyle is a former Special Constable with a passion for science and invention. He's also an occasional, but reluctant, sleuth. The truth is that he'd rather be in his lab tinkering with dangerous chemicals and odd machinery than running around the cobbled streets of London trying to track down stolen goods. But when Her Majesty's Government calls, Horatio swaps his microscope for a magnifying glass, fills his pockets with things that explode and sallies forth to unravel a mystery of a singularly extraordinary nature.Thrown together with a reformed (i.e. 'caught') pickpocket called Tess, and a rebellious (within reason) young gentleman called Thomas, Lyle and his faithful hound, Tate, find themselves pursuing an ancient Chinese plate, a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of polite society and a dangerous enemy who may not even be human. Solving the crime will be hard enough - surviving would be a bonus...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical", "Mystery (Crime)", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71214.The_Extraordinary_and_Unusual_Adventures_of_Horatio_Lyle"}, +{"book_title": "Io Deceneus: Journal of a Time Traveler", "author_name": "Florian Armas", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 210, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "\u2018Saurian Time-mine\u2019; acronym, SAT-mine: The ultimate killing machine in this universe. Hit by a SAT-mine, the target is not only destroyed, it is erased from life by altering the universe\u2019s configuration. That person would never have existed, and all its offspring, actions or interactions would be reversed - ALL.From the 'Universal Galactic Dictionary'The Universe is conscious, discreet, has many avatars, and likes to experiment on \u2026 us. Powerful Factions, the supreme form of social evolution in a galaxy where all civilizations are human-like, interfere for their own mysterious ends. When confident enough they challenge The Universe seeding war and political mayhem by altering the fabric of time. Rogue Factions want to eliminate the Erins \u2013 a mysterious quantum-mind experiment representing the next level of intelligent life.He has been chosen to stop the genocide and change the pattern of history, and the fate of the whole galaxy, but what can he do, when the enemy is using time mines to stop him?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18279247-io-deceneus"}, +{"book_title": "The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities", "author_name": "Ann VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 689, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "You\u2019ll be astonished by what you\u2019ll find in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have gathered together a spectacular array of exhibits, oddities, images, and stories by some of the most renowned and bestselling writers and artists in speculative and graphic fiction, including Ted Chiang, Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), China Mi\u00e9ville, and Michael Moorcock. A spectacularly illustrated anthology of Victorian steampunk devices and the stories behind them, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities is a boldly original, enthrallingly imaginative, and endlessly entertaining entry into a hidden world of weird science and unnatural nature that will appeal equally to fantasy lovers and graphic novel aficionados.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9466840-the-thackery-t-lambshead-cabinet-of-curiosities"}, +{"book_title": "Insurrection", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2872, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "In the end, the only political systems that seem to work are those based on freedom. The Inner World leaders of the Terran Federation seem to have forgotten this simple truth. After fighting the Khanate\u2014with the Fringe Worlds to supply the raw material and the fighting men\u2014the Inner Worlds found it hard to give up the powers they had seized during the war. So they decided not to\u2014rather than allow the rapidly expanding Fringe Worlds representation in the Federation, they are inviting the Khanate in, to keep the colonial upstarts in their place. The Fringers have only one answer to that:", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504366.Insurrection"}, +{"book_title": "The Summer Queen", "author_name": "Joan D. Vinge", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 3138, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Sequel To The Hugo Award-Winning Bestseller The Snow QueenThe Summer Queen is the extraordinary sequel to one of science fiction's most celebrated novels, The Snow Queen. Set in a fully realized universe of wonders, this spectacular space epic, itself a finalist for the Hugo Award, is one of the most remarkable novels in the field.A story that spans millennia, from the ruins of an ancient interstellar empire to the planets of the Hegemony that rules human space, The Summer Queen is the multi-layered story of Tiamat, a world where the dolphin-like mers are harvested for the youth-prolonging serum extracted from their blood. But Tiamat is much more, for beneath Carbuncle, its capital, lies the old empire's greatest secret: an enormous forgotten technology which, though decaying, continues to affect the fates of the fallen empire's remnant cultures via the sybil-network--a data bank that binds the past and the future in its web of knowledge, As the Smith, genius mastermind of the hidden interstellar Brotherhood, tries feverishly to unlock its secrets, BZ Gundhalinu desperately strives to save the Hegemony, while the Summer Queen herself dares to create a new future for her people and her planet. And though each is acting alone, their fates will entwine in an astonishing climax that will change the universe forever.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Feminism", "Own"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139981.The_Summer_Queen"}, +{"book_title": "Ghostmaker", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3752, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Humanity's front-line defenders, the Imperial Guard, are aware of the risks to their bodies in defending the species, but they did not count on the damage to their souls. Reprint.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1507366.Ghostmaker"}, +{"book_title": "The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel", "author_name": "Ren\u00e9e Nault", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 11994, "review_number": 1580, "book_description": "Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid's Tale has long been a global phenomenon. With this stunning graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, beautifully realized by artist Renee Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead has been brought to vivid life like never before.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Feminism", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Classics", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40766383-the-handmaid-s-tale"}, +{"book_title": "I, Robot", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 283084, "review_number": 6971, "book_description": "Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and machine , struggle to redefinelife, love, and consciousness\u2014and where the stakes are nothing less than survival. Filled with unforgettable characters, mind-bending speculation, and nonstop action, I, Robot is a powerful reading experience from one of the master storytellers of our time. I, ROBOT They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey hitman orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities\u2014and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should ' remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves; aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren't either. As humans and robots struggle to survive together\u2014and sometimes against each other\u2014on earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same questions: What is human? And is humanity obsolete? In l, Robot Isaac Asimov changes forever our perception of robots, and human beings and updates the timeless myth of man's dream to play god. with all its rewards\u2014and terrors.--front flap", "year_published": 1950, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41804.I_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Remembrance", "author_name": "Michelle Madow", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 3868, "review_number": 627, "book_description": "Lizzie can't understand her deep attraction to mysterious transfer student Drew. Are they connected by their past lives? This enthralling tale of love and fate has over 100 five-star reviews on Amazon!Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from 1815, England ... but she doesn't realize it until she meets her soul mate from the past and he triggers her memories to gradually return.When Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie's high school, she feels a connection to him, like she knows him. But he wants nothing to do with her. Reaching Drew is more difficult because she has a boyfriend, Jeremy, who has become full of himself after being elected co-captain of the varsity soccer team, and her flirtatious best friend Chelsea starts dating Drew soon after his arrival. So why can't she get him out of her mind?Lizzie knows she should let go of her fascination with Drew, but fighting fate isn't easy, and she's determined to unravel the mysteries of the past.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12177772-remembrance"}, +{"book_title": "Hard Time", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 1258, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Team Weird are back causing havoc in the Time Police in this irresistible spin-off series by international bestseller Jodi Taylor, author of The Chronicles of St Mary's. If you love Doctor Who, Ben Aaronovitch and Jasper Fforde, you'll love the Time Police.A time slip in Versailles, problems in the Ice Age and illegal time travellers in need of rescue. Must be a job for the Time Police.Luke, Jane and Matthew are back and ready to cause havoc - inadvertently or otherwise - in their latest adventures.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49021623-hard-time"}, +{"book_title": "Requiem for Medusa", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 777, "review_number": 74, "book_description": " It's not just payback... it's personal. The scum hiding deep inside the Reach out along galaxy's edge thought they could kill her and not pay the price. For years these hardened killers have run roughshod over the lawless worlds where Republic justice is never as fast as the blaster in your hand and where double-crosses and death are a part of every deal. They thought this time would be no different. They were wrong. This time, the Guild sent the legendary bounty hunter Tyrus Rechs. As the infamous Rechs pursues the men who murdered his colleague, he's hell-bent on justice, heedless of the trail of destruction he leaves across ruined worlds and fantastic gambling meccas alike. Because for Rechs, this isn't just another Guild contract... it's personal.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Space", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40541978-requiem-for-medusa"}, +{"book_title": "In the After", "author_name": "Demitria Lunetta", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 12010, "review_number": 1589, "book_description": "In debut author Demitria Lunetta's thriller, one girl must fight for her survival in a world overrun by violent, deadly creatures.Amy Harris's life changed forever when They took over. Her parents\u2014vanished. The government\u2014obsolete. Societal structure\u2014nonexistent. No one knows where They came from, but these vicious creatures have been rapidly devouring mankind since They appeared. With fierce survivor instincts, Amy manages to stay alive\u2014and even rescues \"Baby,\" a toddler who was left behind. After years of hiding, they are miraculously rescued and taken to New Hope. On the surface, it appears to be a safe haven for survivors. But there are dark and twisted secrets lurking beneath that could have Amy and Baby paying with not only their freedom... but also their lives.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12157407-in-the-after"}, +{"book_title": "Gladiator", "author_name": "Jonathan P. Brazee", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 266, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "United Federation Marine Lance Corporal Tamara Veal catches the attention of recruiters who nominate her to serve as a Single Combat Specialist. Gladiators, as they are better known, are genetically modified human champions who meet Klethos d\u2019relle in the combat ring when the Klethos issue a challenge for a human world. Win, and the planet stays in human possession; lose, and not only do they lose their lives, but the world as well. With the Klethos much more advanced and militarily powerful, able to defeat humanity in an all-out war, the challenge ring is the only way to retain at least some of the worlds of man. While life as a gladiator is full of celebrity status and the gratitude of humanity, it comes with a heavy price. Not only is there the real risk of death in the ring, if a gladiator survives that, the \u201cBrick,\u201d or Boosted Regeneration Cancer, will claim her life within a few years. Lance Corporal Veal, who has found a home in the Marines, has to decide whether to accept the nomination. She would have to leave her brothers and sisters in the Corps, be assigned to the combined human gladiator course, and undergo extreme genetic modification that will leave her almost unrecognizable from the woman she was before. Becoming a gladiator will enable her to serve humanity to a far greater extent than anything else she could do as a Marine grunt, but at a tremendous personal cost. Author\u2019s note: For those readers familiar with my other Marine-related books, this one is a little different in that there is far less combat action, particularly from a Marine unit standpoint. This novel, which is the first of three planned books that follow three different women serving as United Federation Marines or as a Navy corpsman, is more about duty, sacrifice, and what it means to serve in defense of others. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29908272-gladiator"}, +{"book_title": "The Compound", "author_name": "S.A. Bodeen", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 21507, "review_number": 2743, "book_description": "Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they've become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy.For Eli, no amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two sisters, his father and mother, doing the same thing day after day after day. As problems with their carefully planned existence threaten to destroy their sanctuary\u2014and their sanity\u2014Eli can't help but wonder if he'd rather take his chances outside. Eli's father built the Compound to keep them safe. But are they safe\u2014or sorry?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2696181-the-compound"}, +{"book_title": "Andromeda's War", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 507, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "\u201cReturning to his Legion of the Damned universe, Dietz illustrates why he\u2019s a master of the genre\" (RT Book Reviews). And in Andromeda\u2019s War, his heroine will face her ultimate test\u2014as a battle-scarred legionnaire and as an innocent young woman who once lost everything\u2026Now a platoon leader, Legionnaire Andromeda McKee seems to have successfully left behind her true identity of Lady Catherine \u201cCat\u201d Carletto, one of the last two surviving members of the Carletto family targeted for death by Empress Ophelia.After failing at her one shot at vengeance, Andromeda had been questioning her own resolve. But now her uncle has been killed in a government raid back on Earth, leaving her as the last Carletto standing\u2014and the family\u2019s only chance for justice\u2026A chance that comes when the empress\u2019s ship crashes on a hostile planet and Andromeda is assigned to head up the rescue mission. As a legionnaire, Andromeda McKee has countless kills under her belt. But when faced with her greatest enemy, it will be Cat Carletto who has to pull the trigger on the one who really matters\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20893305-andromeda-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "New York 2140", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 10476, "review_number": 1817, "book_description": "It is 2140. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever.Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island.Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building, Kim Stanley Robinson shows us how one of our great cities will change with the rising tides.And how we too will change.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Environment (Climate Change)", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)", "New York"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29570143-new-york-2140"}, +{"book_title": "The Ghosts of Heaven", "author_name": "Marcus Sedgwick", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 3393, "review_number": 894, "book_description": "A bold, genre-bending epic that chronicles madness, obsession, and creation, from the Paleolithic era through the Witch Hunts and into the space-bound future.Four linked stories boldly chronicle madness, obsession, and creation through the ages. Beginning with the cave-drawings of a young girl on the brink of creating the earliest form of writing, Sedgwick traverses history, plunging into the seventeenth century witch hunts and a 1920s insane asylum where a mad poet's obsession with spirals seems to be about to unhinge the world of the doctor trying to save him. Sedgwick moves beyond the boundaries of historical fiction and into the future in the book's final section, set upon a spaceship voyaging to settle another world for the first time. Merging Sedgwick's gift for suspense with science- and historical-fiction, Ghosts of Heaven is a tale is worthy of intense obsession.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Short Stories", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21469108-the-ghosts-of-heaven"}, +{"book_title": "Those Left Behind", "author_name": "Joss Whedon", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 26976, "review_number": 1052, "book_description": "Here's how it is -- in a universe filled with hearts and minds as cold and dark as the reaches of space, one small Firefly-class starship named Serenity takes its ragtag crew of mercenaries, outlaws, and fugitives in search of a job, any job, that'll earn them enough cash to afford that most elusive commodity -- peace.Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, unveils a previously unknown chapter in the lives of his favorite band of space brigands in the prequel to the Serenity feature film -- the blockbuster followup to Whedon's cult-hit TV show Firefly.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133765.Those_Left_Behind"}, +{"book_title": "Homefall", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 316, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "One of the fastest growing series in science fiction, The Last Legion debuted at #2 on the Locus bestseller list. Now, combat veteran Chris Bunch takes The Last Legion on their fourth, and fatal, mission -- undercover, under suspicion, and ultimately, exposed.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1597259.Homefall"}, +{"book_title": "Hearts of Ishira", "author_name": "Bethany Aan", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 654, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "When Arianna wakes on a strange planet, she is the only human able to communicate psychically with the big, sexy Thorsani warrior who rides in with his men to rescue the Earth women from their crashed space transport. The Thorsani, humanoid but descended from sentient cats eons ago, are also marooned on this planet they have named 'Ishira'.Hunter and his brother Jace are Commander and lead physician of Ishira colony. When the captured women tumble into their lives, the small Earthlings turn the men's world upside down. The girls bring drama and heartache, laughter and light...not to mention the first opportunity for sex in more than ten years. And though she's the oldest of her group, Hunter and Jace find themselves drawn to the lovely, curvy Arianna.For Ri and her ladies, their tumultuous new life takes a very interesting turn when they discover that the Thorsani way is to marry in teams of men...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16100438-hearts-of-ishira"}, +{"book_title": "A Matter of Oaths", "author_name": "Helen S. Wright", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 312, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "Commander Rallya of patrolship Bhattya thought she had a talent for making enemies--until she met Rafe. For no crime on his record, the young officer had been identity wiped, and his innumerable, now-forgotten enemies were still tracking him across the galaxy.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2481159.A_Matter_of_Oaths"}, +{"book_title": "The Stars, Like Dust", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 18219, "review_number": 785, "book_description": "Biron Farrell was young and na\u00efve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin.He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his father\u2019s death, and becomes entangled in an intricate saga of rebellion, political intrigue, and espionage.The mystery takes him deep into space where he finds himself in a relentless struggle with the power-mad despots of Tyrann. Now it is not just a case of life or death for Biron, but a question of freedom for the galaxy.", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Adventure", "Novels", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41822.The_Stars_Like_Dust"}, +{"book_title": "Kiss of Snow", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 27903, "review_number": 2008, "book_description": "Since the moment of her defection from the PsyNet and into the SnowDancer wolf pack, Sienna Lauren has had one weakness. Hawke. Alpha and dangerous, he compels her to madness.Hawke is used to walking alone, having lost the woman who would\u2019ve been his mate long ago. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf.Then Sienna changes the rules and suddenly, there is no more distance, only the most intimate of battles between two people who were never meant to meet. Yet as they strip away each other\u2019s secrets in a storm of raw emotion, they must also ready themselves for a far more vicious fight\u2026A deadly enemy is out to destroy SnowDancer, striking at everything they hold dear, but it is Sienna\u2019s darkest secret that may yet savage the pack that is her home\u2026and the alpha who is its heartbeat\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8712343-kiss-of-snow"}, +{"book_title": "Cuori elettrici: Antologia essenziale del cyberpunk", "author_name": "Daniele Brolli", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 20, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Una scorribanda alle frontiere dell'umano, in compagnia degli autori che hanno inventato la pi\u00fa aventurosa, intelligente, godibile narrativa d'anticipazione del nostro tempo.Per scoprire che gli alieni e i mutanti non abitano pi\u00fa nello spazio esterno, ma nel profondo del nostro cuore.Pi\u00fa di dieci anni fa, William Gibson, pubblicava romanzi come Neuromante e racconti come Johnny Mnemonic; e nasceva il movimento cyberpunk, considerato oggi una delle tendenze pi\u00fa vitali della narrativa anglo-americana. Questa antologia mette a disposizione dei lettori vecchi e nuovi gli autori cyberpunk pi\u00fa importanti, e ci permette di leggerli sia come narratori affascinanti, sia come intrepreti profetici di un'epoca di velocissime mutazioni, intuite con sorprendente precisione. Ed \u00e8 facile accorgersi, alla fine della lettura, che il panorama disegnato dall'antologia \u00e8 anche una mappa delle ossessioni, dei conflitti, dei punti di crisi della nostra psiche. Compreso il sesso e i sentimenti. Se la satira sulla 'chernobyl neutrale' di Sterling \u00e8 degna di uno Swift, degni di Lovecraft, o del marchese de Sade, sono gli incubi di Tim Ferret; mentre Calder ci regala una parodia stralunata del mondo della moda, Pat Cadigan racconta l'epopea dei Bimbi Belli contro i discografici del futuro, e lo scatenato Di Filippo le fa eco nel suo Vita di strada. Tra il malinconico assassino di Kadrey, al servizio delle truppe di occupazione americane in Europa, la magistrale narrazione a incastro di Effinger, che ci porta in un ghetto arabo del futuro, e i paradossi dello scienziato Rudy Rucker, nulla sfugge alla dinamite cyberpunk. E che ne dite di un padre che per stupidit\u00e0 distrugge l'universo?", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13098964-cuori-elettrici"}, +{"book_title": "Dangerous Talents", "author_name": "Frankie Robertson", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1167, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "Celia Montrose has been trained to deal with any emergency\u2014except being thrust into another world. Nothing has prepared her for meeting the Viking descendants of the lost Vinland colony, or coping with kidnapping, murder, and magic.Lord Dahleven is trying to avert a war when he rescues a strange and beautiful woman in the drylands. Though he fears Celia may be Fey-marked, Dahleven can't resist the powerful attraction he feels for her. But is Celia in league with the enemy, or will she provide the key to saving his people?Alone and off-balance, Celia finds herself falling for Lord Dahleven. But dangerous forces are at work, and one of them is offering Celia a way home\u2014for a price.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15753350-dangerous-talents"}, +{"book_title": "Atmosph\u00e6ra Incognita", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1217, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "For more than two decades, Neal Stephenson has been the reigning master of the epic fictional narrative. His vast, intellectually rigorous books have ranged in setting from the distant past (The Baroque Cycle) to the modern era (Reamde) to the remote future (Anathem, Seveneves). But when Stephenson turns his attention to shorter forms, the results can be every bit as impressive, as this dazzling novella\u2014itself a kind of tightly compressed epic\u2014clearly indicates. Atmosph\u00e6ra Incognita is a beautifully detailed, high-tech rendering of a tale as old as the Biblical Tower of Babel. It is an account, scrupulously imagined, of the years-long construction of a twenty-kilometer-high tower that will bring the human enterprise, in all its complexity, to the threshold of outer space. It is a story of persistence, of visionary imaginings, of the ceaseless technological innovation needed to bring these imaginings to life. At the same time, it shows us our familiar planet from an entirely new perspective, and offers vivid snapshots of the unique beauties and unexpected hazards of the \u201catmosph\u00e6ra incognita\u201d that lies between this world and \u201cthe deep ocean of the cosmos.\u201d The result is pure pleasure, pure excitement, pure Neal Stephenson. No one with an interest in Stephenson\u2019s work, or in science fiction at its most thoughtful and ambitious, can afford to miss this latest edition to an extraordinary body of work.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51106419-atmosph-ra-incognita"}, +{"book_title": "Predator, Prey", "author_name": "Rob Sanders", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 588, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "The Imperium is under attack by a relentless tide of orks. The Imperial Fists have been destroyed, leaving Terra itself vulnerable, and across the galaxy, worlds are beset by greenskin savages.After centuries of peace, the Imperium is thrown into panic as human worlds everywhere are menaced by orks. In a relentless tide of slaughter, ork attack moons destroy planet after planet with gravity weapons of unstoppable power. On Terra, the High Lords are paralysed by the scale of the threat, and fail to take any effective action. With entire Space Marine Chapters missing, or known to have been wiped out, does anyone have the will and the power to rise to the Imperium\u2019s defence?It's a snapshot of the battles that rage across the Imperium as the orks attack in force. It also continues the story of the High Lords as they try to hold the Imperium together... as long as it suits their own interests, of course. And it introduces characters who're going to be very important to the future of the series... if they survive the battles to come.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26029282-predator-prey"}, +{"book_title": "Reap the Wind", "author_name": "Karen Chance", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 4771, "review_number": 449, "book_description": "The newest book in Karen Chance's New York Times bestselling vampire series!Being a time traveler is a bitch, just ask Cassie Palmer. As the Pythia, or chief seer for the supernatural world, she's got responsibilities and powers \u2014 including the ability to travel through time \u2014 she still doesn't fully understand. Cassie is on what should have been a quick mission to rescue the near-immortal mage John Pritkin, a friend lost in time. But nothing is ever simple where Cassie is concerned. For one thing, her friend isn't lost, his soul is, and she must hunt for it through the ages in different versions of himself. For another, Cassie is stuck traveling with Pritkin's father, the only one who can reverse Pritkin's curse . . . and an irascible demon who is high on Cassie's list of least-favorite people. And third, the guardians of the timeline don't want anyone mucking about with it \u2014 even a Pythia like Cassie \u2014 and especially not when she's dragging a powerful demon along!What's a poor Pythia to do?Well, if that Pythia is Cassie Palmer, it's to carry on anyway. And in between flitting about through time, to also stop the return of an ancient and very vengeful god. And to find out the startling truth about her parents. And to sort out a few things with her charming, evasive, and completely maddening vampire lover. And you thought your week was packed!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18627947-reap-the-wind"}, +{"book_title": "Throne of Jade", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 42453, "review_number": 2426, "book_description": "When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo\u2013an unhatched dragon\u2019s egg\u2013Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain\u2019s Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon proved their mettle in daring combat against Bonaparte\u2019s invading forces. Now China has discovered that its rare gift, intended for Napoleon, has fallen into British hands\u2013and an angry Chinese delegation vows to reclaim the remarkable beast. But Laurence refuses to cooperate. Facing the gallows for his defiance, Laurence has no choice but to accompany Temeraire back to the Far East\u2013a long voyage fraught with peril, intrigue, and the untold terrors of the deep. Yet once the pair reaches the court of the Chinese emperor, even more shocking discoveries and darker dangers await.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14069.Throne_of_Jade"}, +{"book_title": "Throne of Stars", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 775, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Books 3 and 4 in the New York Times best-selling Empire of Man series: March to the Stars and We Few, both New York Times bestsellers.Prince Roger MacClintock was an heir to the galaxy's Throne of Man and a self-obsessed spoiled young brat - that is, until he and the Royal Marines sent to protect him were stranded by an assassination attempt on the wild and dangerous planet of Marduk. After much travail, Roger has developed into a competent and compassionate leader of men. That competence will be tested when Roger and the Marines face an even greater challenge. The Throne of Man has been usurped. With his brother dead and the forces of an interstellar empire arrayed against him, Roger must avenge his family and fight for the just rule of a thousand stars.About The Empire of Man Series:\"Will fascinate sophisticated readers (the manual of arms for a four-armed, ten-foot soldier is a thing of beauty) . . . [and] grip straightforward action lovers.\" Publishers Weekly\"Coauthors Weber and Ringo excel in depicting the lives and times of soldiers both on and off the battlefield.\" Library Journal", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18775199-throne-of-stars"}, +{"book_title": "A Tale for the Time Being", "author_name": "Ruth Ozeki", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 87228, "review_number": 11140, "book_description": "In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there\u2019s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates\u2019 bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who\u2019s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao\u2019s only solace\u2014and will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine.Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox\u2014possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao\u2019s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.\u00a0Full of Ozeki\u2019s signature humour and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Magical Realism", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Literary Fiction", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Asia)", "Adult Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811545-a-tale-for-the-time-being"}, +{"book_title": "The Matrix Comics, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Lana Wachowski", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 572, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "\"The Matrix\" revolutionized the science-fiction action film for ever, and this collection of stories delves deeper into the world of the movies, exploring every aspect of the struggle between machine and mankind, between what is real and what is illusion.The Matrix Comics Volume 1 is a printed collection of eleven comics and one short story set in the Matrix universe, all of which had been published online on The Matrix official website. Contents:1. Bits and Pieces of Information - Lana & Lilly Wachowski (writers), Geof Darrow (artist)2. Sweating the Small Stuff - Bill Sienkiewicz3. A Life Less Empty - Ted McKeever4. Goliath - Neil Gaiman (writer), Bill Sienkiewicz & Gregory Ruth (artists)5. Burning Hope - John Van Fleet6. Butterfly - Dave Gibbons7. A Sword of a Different Color - Troy Nixey8. Get It? - Peter Bagge9. There Are No Flowers in the Real World - David Lapham10. The Miller's Tale - Paul Chadwick11. Artistic Freedom - Ryder Windham (writer), Kilian Plunkett (artist)12. Hunters and Collectors - Gregory Ruth", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Short Stories", "Literature (American)", "Media Tie In", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1084195.The_Matrix_Comics_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Slapstick, or Lonesome No More", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 35871, "review_number": 1490, "book_description": "\nSlapstick\n presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today\u2019s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s pen into hilarious farce\u2014a final slapstick that may be the Almighty\u2019s joke on us all.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Humor", "Literature", "Novels", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9595.Slapstick_or_Lonesome_No_More_"}, +{"book_title": "The Reluctant Assassin", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 7239, "review_number": 930, "book_description": "\u200bThe reluctant assassin is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and on the run.Riley has been pulled into the FBI's covert W.A.R.P. operation (Witness Anonymous Relocation Program). He and young FBI Agent Chevie Savano are forced to flee terrifying assassin-for-hire Albert Garrick, who pursues Riley through time and will not stop until he has hunted him down. Barely staying one step ahead, Riley and Chevie must stay alive and stop Garrick returning to his own time with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Audiobook", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10915176-the-reluctant-assassin"}, +{"book_title": "A Grim Pet", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 1187, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "The Great Raptor is a fearsome and deadly creature; and while the Raptor is no one's pet, he is fiercely protective and loving of his family... Carly and Miki have never forgotten the stories that Grim has told them of the Great Raptor, the symbol of their new home world of Luda. Yet, it is the comparison their mother once made of the Great Raptor to Grim that gives them the courage to help the injured bird they find in the garden. Find out what happens when their single act of love, faith, and kindness creates far-reaching consequences that no one, including their mother and Grim, could ever have predicted. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fiction", "Warriors", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38206895-a-grim-pet"}, +{"book_title": "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms", "author_name": "N.K. Jemisin", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 59238, "review_number": 5797, "book_description": "Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6437061-the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms"}, +{"book_title": "A Little Rebellion", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1621, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Crimson Worlds Book IIIThe Third Frontier War is over, and the Western Alliance is triumphant. All across human-occupied space, colony worlds celebrate the coming of peace. But peace is an elusive dream, and more trouble is brewing. The war was expensive, and the economies of the Superpowers, always fragile, are on the verge of total collapse. The Directorate, the shadowy intelligence organization that has become the true power behind the Alliance government, plans to strip the colonies bare to pay the costs of war. Already, they are tightening their control over the freewheeling colonial governments. And the Marine Corps faces total destruction at the hands of the worst traitor in its history.But the colonists are a different breed than the passive mob on Earth, and they have no intention of meekly surrendering their hard won freedoms. On worlds all across the frontier, plans are hatched and weapons hoarded. And in taverns and meeting halls the words of an ancient text are uttered in hushed tones. A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing.The Crimson Worlds Series:Marines (Crimson Worlds I)The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II)A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III)Tombstone (Prequel)Coming March 2013The First Imperium (Crimson Worlds IV)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17280069-a-little-rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Hour", "author_name": "Maiya Williams", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 477, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Thirteen-year-old Rowan and his eleven-year-old sister Nina, still bereft by the death of their mother the year before, experience an unusual adventure through time when they come to stay with their two eccentric great-aunts in a small town on the Maine coast.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159910.The_Golden_Hour"}, +{"book_title": "Something from the Nightside", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 23190, "review_number": 1360, "book_description": "John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155421.Something_from_the_Nightside"}, +{"book_title": "Last Chancers", "author_name": "Gav Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 467, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Omnibus of all three of the popular Last Chancers novels. Hardened criminal Kage and his team are given one last chance to redeem themselves - they must go on a series of desperate missions behind enemy lines, each more dangerous than the last. Last man standing goes free.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699355.Last_Chancers"}, +{"book_title": "Dealing with Dragons", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 88034, "review_number": 3609, "book_description": "Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.Cover illustrator: Peter de S\u00e8ve", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150739.Dealing_with_Dragons"}, +{"book_title": "Seducing Mr. Darcy", "author_name": "Gwyn Cready", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 584, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "In the second hilarious and sexy novel from author Gwyn Cready, a divorc\u00e9e suffering from \"carnal deprivation\" has a racy one-night stand with one of literature's most irresistible heroes -- and learns that you really can't judge a book by its cover. Mr. Darcy just isn't Flip Allison's style. She prefers novels with hot sex on the bathroom sink to the mannerly, high-tension longing of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. That is, until she pays a visit to Madame K, who promises a therapeutic massage with an opportunity to \"Imagine Yourself in Your Favorite Book.\" Somehow, on the way to a sizzling sink-top session with a Venetian Adonis, Flip lands right in the middle of Regency England -- and dangerously close to handsome Mr. Darcy. So close, in fact, that she discovers a side of him even Jane Austen couldn't have imagined. Waking from her massage, Flip is on top of the world and ready for her upcoming book club -- that is, until she notices a new scene in which Darcy and spunky heroine Lizzy Bennet are arguing over...Flip Allison? Her rapturous liaison with Darcy has had disastrous consequences for Austen's characters -- not to mention millions of Pride and Prejudice fans! Flip has twenty-four hours to put the story back on course, and Magnus Knightley, a sexy but imperious scholar whose brooding good looks and infuriating arrogance are decidedly Darcy-like, is the only one who can help. The only problem is, Flip can't keep her hands off him, either....", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2412176.Seducing_Mr_Darcy"}, +{"book_title": "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", "author_name": "Haruki Murakami", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 108012, "review_number": 6361, "book_description": "'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.'", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Japan)", "Magical Realism", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Literature", "Novels", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10374.Hard_Boiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_World"}, +{"book_title": "Children of the Dust", "author_name": "Louise Lawrence", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1809, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "After a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new world where children are born with strange mutations.Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and Leningrad, the headmaster said, and a full-scale nuclear attack was imminent.It's a real-life nightmare. Sarah and her family have to stay cooped up in the tightly-sealed kitchen for days on end, dreading the inevitable radioactive fall-out and the subsequent slow, torturous death, which seems almost preferable to surviving in a grey, dead world, choked by dust.But then, from out of the dust and the ruins and the destruction, comes new life, a new future, and a whole brave new world.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1030207.Children_of_the_Dust"}, +{"book_title": "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", "author_name": "Tom Sweterlitsch", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1633, "review_number": 294, "book_description": "A decade has passed since the city of Pittsburgh was reduced to ash. While the rest of the world has moved on, losing itself in the noise of a media-glutted future, survivor John Dominic Blaxton remains obsessed with the past. Grieving for his wife and unborn child who perished in the blast, Dominic relives his lost life by immersing in the Archive\u2014a fully interactive digital reconstruction of Pittsburgh, accessible to anyone who wants to visit the places they remember and the people they loved. Dominic investigates deaths recorded in the Archive to help close cases long since grown cold, but when he discovers glitches in the code surrounding a crime scene\u2014the body of a beautiful woman abandoned in a muddy park that he\u2019s convinced someone tried to delete from the Archive\u2014his cycle of grief is shattered. With nothing left to lose, Dominic tracks the murder through a web of deceit that takes him from the darkest corners of the Archive to the ruins of the city itself, leading him into the heart of a nightmare more horrific than anything he could have imagined.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693738-tomorrow-and-tomorrow"}, +{"book_title": "The Steel", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 778, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "For five years, the computer in Raj Whitehall's mind has been using him as its instrument to reunite the planet Bellevue as the first step in restoring technological civilization across the galaxy. Now, Raj's mission is to take on hordes of the Holy Federation and regain territories lost to the Civil Government for centuries. Civilization had been falling for a thousand years, since interstellar war isolated Bellevue from a universe in chaos. This was the last chance to reverse the fall. If Raj failed, the darkness could last fifteen thousand years.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359085.The_Steel"}, +{"book_title": "The Wrong Stars", "author_name": "Tim Pratt", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2660, "review_number": 378, "book_description": "A ragtag crew of humans and posthumans discover alien technology that could change the fate of humanity... or awaken an ancient evil and destroy all life in the galaxy.The shady crew of the White Raven run freight and salvage at the fringes of our solar system. They discover the wreck of a centuries-old exploration vessel floating light years away from its intended destination and revive its sole occupant, who wakes with news of First Alien Contact. When the crew break it to her that humanity has alien allies already, she reveals that these are very different extra-terrestrials... and the gifts they bestowed on her could kill all humanity, or take it out to the most distant stars. File Under: Science Fiction", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34409335-the-wrong-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Foundation's Triumph", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 11007, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today's most acclaimed authors have completed the epic the Grand Master left unfinished.The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, telling the origins of Hari Seldon, the Foundation's creator. Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos relates the epic tale of Seldon's downfall and the first stirrings of robotic rebellion. Now, in David Brin's Foundation's Triumph, Seldon is about to escape exile and risk everything for one final quest-a search for knowledge and the power it bestows. The outcome of this final journey may secure humankind's future-or witness its final downfall...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46651.Foundation_s_Triumph"}, +{"book_title": "Blood and Betrayal", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 5786, "review_number": 258, "book_description": "The last thing Maldynado Montichelu\u2014former aristocrat and current ladies' man\u2014ever wanted was to be left in charge. After all, the team just blew up a train, crashed a dirigible, and kidnapped the emperor. It's kind of an important time.But, with Amaranthe captured by the nefarious Forge coalition, and Sicarius off to find her, the team is lacking in leaders. Also, Sicarius has made it clear that Maldynado\u2019s life may be forfeit should anything happen to the emperor while he\u2019s gone.To make matters worse, Forge\u2019s cutthroats are after Sespian, and the young emperor believes Maldynado's loyalties are suspect. As if it\u2019s his fault that his older brother is working with the coalition to usurp the throne. If Maldynado can\u2019t figure out how to earn the emperor\u2019s trust quickly, Sespian will go off to confront their powerful enemies on his own.Meanwhile, Amaranthe must find a way to escape from the coalition\u2019s newest ally, Master Interrogator Pike, a man who plans to pull all of the secrets from her head, one way or another\u2026 Blood and Betrayal is the fifth novel in The Emperor\u2019s Edge series.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15847065-blood-and-betrayal"}, +{"book_title": "Eclipse Phase: After The Fall", "author_name": "Jaym Gates", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "In a world of transhuman survival and horror, technology allows the re-shaping of bodies and minds, but also creates opportunities for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction in the hands of everyone. Other threats lurk in the devastated habitats of the Fall, dangers both familiar and alien.After the Fall is the first anthology from Posthuman Studios, set in the world of Eclipse Phase, their award-winning roleplaying game. The anthology will be a mix of old and new fiction, including stories by Eclipse Phase favorites\u2014Nathaniel Dean, Jack Graham, Steve Mohan, and Rob Boyle and Davidson Cole. New fiction will feature science fiction rising stars Ken Liu, Madeline Ashby, Fran Wilde, Karin Lowachee, Wesley Schneider, and Andrew Penn Romine.After the Fall Table of ContentsEclipse PhaseA Primer on Transhuman SurvivalWhite Hempen Sleeves \u2014 Ken LiuHow far will you go to experience the ultimate transhuman taboo? With enough wealth, longevity, and power, anything is possible, but the cost might be more than you can imagine.Spiritus Ex Orcinus \u2014 Tiffany TrentAfter one too many rebellions, a cetacean uplift has been resleeved into human form and enslaved to mind a pharma's deep-sea factories. She is on the verge of giving up hope when a legend steps out of the shadows and offers her a once in a universe opportunity: to find the last living Earth whale. It is everything she has dreamed of, but Earth is nothing like what it was, and dreams are sometimes deadly.Into the White \u2014 Jack GrahamA murder most foul\u2014and mysterious\u2014in the tunnels of an abandoned Titan project. A planet full of suspects. A Firewall agent desperate for answers. But Titan technology isn\u2019t without its own dangers.The Thousandth Cycle \u2014 Fran WildeA wager between corporations, an ancient fable, and a secret mission collide, with two sisters caught square in the middle.Interference \u2014 Nathaniel Dean with Davidson ColeTranshumanity offers many new fields and frontiers of psychological research. Those willing to risk it all may find answers they never wanted.The Fukuda Cube \u2014 Kim MayA routine salvage mission uncovers a love lost before the Fall, but it has been a long time, and people change. But missions have no mercy on lost loves.Lack \u2014 Rob Boyle & Davidson ColeA recovery mission to the wreckage of Earth brings the team face-to-face with the horrors of what was left behind, and the price some interests are willing to pay for knowledge.Nostalgia \u2014 Georgina KamsikaNot everyone clings to the outer frontiers of technology and transhumanism. Unlikely allies come together to protect the future from the past.Nostrums \u2014 Jack GrahamIllegal uplift harvesting for traditional medicines, Yakuza, forgotten cults, and a very strange medicine keep Firewall agents and law enforcement chasing shadows.Prix Fixe \u2014 Andrew Penn RomineSome people will do anything for a good meal.An Infinite Horizon \u2014 Steve MohanA world has blipped out of communication, and a crack team has been dispatched to find out why. The beautiful planet that awaits them gives no hint of the horror it hides.Stray Thoughts \u2014 Wes SchneiderA collective has misplaced one of their members, and turn to a PI to recover him. What looks like a straightforward job quickly devolves into a messy question of free will, belonging, and legality.Melt \u2014 Rob Boyle & Davidson ColeIndentured slaves, the lowliest forms of life, pawns of the wealthy Venusian politicians high above, sustained only by their dreams of freedom. Is there anything for them beyond the mines, or are they doomed to be a cheap PR tool for their masters?Thieving Magpie \u2014 Madeline AshbyEverything, everyone, is a tool, if you know how to use it. Some are merely a little slower to figure out what they\u2019re being used for.A Resleeving of Love \u2014 Karin LowacheeIdealism and cynicism clash head-to-head in an illegal operation.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28405438-eclipse-phase"}, +{"book_title": "The Clan", "author_name": "D. Rus", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 4654, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "Once a seasoned gamer, Max has cheated fate swapping his dying body for an immortal avatar in the world of sword and sorcery MMORPGs. He joins the ranks of a new race of people: perma players, forever stuck in the virtual castles and cities of AlterWorld. Now they have to obey the ever-changing rules of their new home while learning to live together in peace, love and justice. But freedom and immortality are a poisoned chalice. Some of Max's new friends crave power, others become traitors and spies. Soon the first screams of pain fill the virtual world as its freshly-minted slavedrivers and torturers indulge in the absence of law and order. Their crimes provide a constant flow of gold back to their real-world controllers: the power-happy governments plotting to take over AlterWorld's magic technologies and limitless resources. What would you do? Would you step aside and watch the magical world turn into the Earth's dark twin? Or are you strong enough to step in the virtual sharks' way?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Russia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24676227-the-clan"}, +{"book_title": "The World Ends in Hickory Hollow", "author_name": "Ardath Mayhar", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 315, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "When the bombs fell and Western civilization ended, the residents of Hickory Hollow, Texas, scarcely noticed the difference. They were already used to fending for themselves\u2014growing their own food, helping their neighbors survive, keeping their rural life going, much as before. But when the Ungers\u2014a band of renegade thieves, murderers, and ne'er-do-wells\u2014began raiding the nearby plots, looting and killing everyone in sight, it was time to take action!\"I was reminded constantly of George R. Stewart's classic post-holocaust novel, Earth Abides. The gentle rhythms of country existence, the sense that the world will continue (with or without us), the joy of living close to the earth, the nature of community itself, all combine for a poignant tale celebrating the best of what it means to be human. In Mayhar's perceptive eyes, the World Begins in Hickory Hollow.\" \u2014Robert Reginald.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1041104.The_World_Ends_in_Hickory_Hollow"}, +{"book_title": "Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic", "author_name": "Armand Baltazar", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 694, "review_number": 206, "book_description": "The world did not end. At least not permanently.The Time Collision came from beyond the stars, a cosmic event that fractured time and space, tearing apart the earth and reshaping it into something entirely new.This is the world Diego Ribera was born into. The past, present, and future coexisting together.Timeless.In New Chicago, Diego\u2019s middle school hallways buzz with kids from all eras of history and from cultures all over the world. The pieces do not always fit together neatly, but this is the world he loves. There are those, however, who do not share his affection.On his thirteenth birthday, Diego learns of a special gift he has within, a secret that is part of something much bigger\u2014something he cannot understand. When his father, New Chicago\u2019s top engineer, is taken by the Aeternum, Diego must rescue him and prevent this evil group from disrupting the fragile peace humanity has forged.With more than 150 full-color illustrations.\"Diego sped over New Chicago, its canals and train tracks clogged with the morning traffic of steamships and trolleys, its sidewalks crowded with topcoats, leather tunics, and fine capes, a world bursting in color and sound, in the smell of horse droppings and engine grease, corn roasting on food carts, and the sea. Off in the distance, the exhaust clouds from the great steamships and harbor robots colored the sunrise gold.He spotted the girl up ahead, knifing through the sky. He had to catch her before it was too late. Diego didn\u2019t know why, just knew he had to. Something to do with time, he thought. It was always time, running forward and backward through this world, but in this dream . . .Running out.\"", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23354816-timeless"}, +{"book_title": "Halting State", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 11604, "review_number": 847, "book_description": "In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates -- a dot-com start-up company that's just floated onto the London stock exchange. But this crime may be a bit beyond Smith's expertise.The prime suspects are a band of marauding orcs with a dragon in tow for fire support. The bank is located within the virtual land of Avalon Four, and the robbery was supposed to be impossible. When word gets out, Hayek Associates and all its virtual \"economies\" are going to crash hard.For Smith, the investigation seems pointless. But the deeper she digs, the bigger the case gets. There are powerful players -- both real and pixilated -- who are watching her every move. Because there is far more at stake than just some game-head's fantasy financial security . . .", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222472.Halting_State"}, +{"book_title": "Empress of Forever", "author_name": "Max Gladstone", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2804, "review_number": 504, "book_description": "A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy\u2014a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure of a rag-tag team of brilliant misfits, dangerous renegades, and enhanced outlaws in a war-torn future.A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she's trying to outrun those who are trying to steal her success.In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, Viv sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, Vivian Liao is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts a destiny stranger and more deadly than she could ever imagine. The end of time is ruled by an ancient, powerful Empress who blesses or blasts entire planets with a single thought. Rebellion is literally impossible to consider--until Vivian arrives. Trapped between the Pride, a ravening horde of sentient machines, and a fanatical sect of warrior monks who call themselves the Mirrorfaith, Viv must rally a strange group of allies to confront the Empress and find a way back to the world and life she left behind.A magnificent work of vivid imagination and universe-spanning action, Empress of Forever is a feminist Guardians of the Galaxy crossed with Star Wars and spiced with the sensibility and spirit of Iain M. Banks and William Gibson.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40380954-empress-of-forever"}, +{"book_title": "A Brightness Long Ago", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 4345, "review_number": 691, "book_description": "International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition. In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count--and soon learned why that man was known\u00a0 as the Beast. Danio's fate changed the moment he saw and recognized Adria Ripoli as she entered the count's chambers one autumn night--intending to kill. Born to power, Adria had chosen, instead of a life of comfort, one of danger--and freedom. Which is how she encounters Danio in a perilous time and place.Vivid figures share the unfolding story. Among them: a healer determined to defy her expected lot; a charming, frivolous son of immense wealth; a powerful religious leader more decadent than devout; and, affecting all these lives and many more,\u00a0 two larger-than-life mercenary commanders, lifelong adversaries, whose rivalry puts a world in the balance.A Brightness Long Ago offers both compelling drama and deeply moving reflections on the nature of memory, the choices we make in life, and the role played by the turning of Fortune's wheel.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41458663-a-brightness-long-ago"}, +{"book_title": "Up the Line", "author_name": "Robert Silverberg", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1634, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly effective. So Judson Daniel Elliott played by the book. Then he met a lusty Greek in Byzantium who showed him how rules were made to be broken... and set him on a family-history-go-round that would change his past and his future forever!", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Classics", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449343.Up_the_Line"}, +{"book_title": "Defiance", "author_name": "C.J. Redwine", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 27630, "review_number": 2641, "book_description": "While the other girls in the walled city-state of Baalboden learn to sew and dance, Rachel Adams learns to track and hunt. While they bend like reeds to the will of their male Protectors, she uses hers for sparring practice.When Rachel's father fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the city's brutal Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector: her father's apprentice, Logan\u2014the boy she declared her love to and who turned her down two years before. Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father's survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself.As Rachel and Logan battle their way through the Wasteland, stalked by a monster that can't be killed and an army of assassins out for blood, they discover romance, heartbreak, and a truth that will incite a war decades in the making.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11410430-defiance"}, +{"book_title": "A Million Worlds with You", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 12455, "review_number": 1791, "book_description": "A million universes. A million dangers. One destiny.The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine\u2019s hands. Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud since she first traveled to another universe using her parents\u2019 invention, the Firebird. Only now has she learned the true plans of the evil Triad Corporation\u2014and that those plans could spell doom for dozens or hundreds of universes, each facing total annihilation.Paul Markov has always been at Marguerite\u2019s side, but Triad\u2019s last attack has left him a changed man\u2014angry and shadowed by tragedy. He struggles to overcome the damage done to him, but despite Marguerite\u2019s efforts to help, Paul may never be the same again.So it\u2019s up to Marguerite alone to stop the destruction of the multiverse. Billions of lives are at stake. The risks have never been higher. And Triad has unleashed its ultimate weapon: another dimension\u2019s Marguerite\u2014wicked, psychologically twisted, and always one step ahead.In the conclusion to Claudia Gray\u2019s Firebird trilogy, fate and family will be questioned, loves will be won and lost, and the multiverse will be forever changed. It\u2019s a battle of the Marguerites\u2026and only one can win.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28960100-a-million-worlds-with-you"}, +{"book_title": "Contact", "author_name": "Carl Sagan", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 127632, "review_number": 3315, "book_description": "Jeune astronome convaincue de l'existence d'une vie extraterrestre intelligente, Ellie Arroway doit faire face au scepticisme de la communaut\u00e9 scientifique \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard du projet \"Argus\", un programme d'\u00e9coute spatiale install\u00e9 au Nouveau-Mexique qu'elle et son \u00e9quipe tentent par tous les moyens de sauver. Jusqu'au jour o\u00f9 leurs ordinateurs captent un message rationnel \u00e9mis non pas depuis la Terre, mais depuis V\u00e9ga, une lointaine \u00e9toile. Ellie se lance alors \u00e0 coeur perdu dans son d\u00e9chiffrage, pour d\u00e9couvrir qu'il s'agit des plans d'un v\u00e9hicule cens\u00e9 permettre \u00e0 des humains de voyager dans l'espace afin de rencontrer ceux qui nous les ont adress\u00e9s. Or ces \u00eatressemblent \u00e0 pr\u00e9sent impatients d'\u00e9tablir le contact : ils nous surveillent depuis longtemps, et le moment est peut-\u00eatre venu pour eux de nous juger...", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science (Astronomy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61666.Contact"}, +{"book_title": "A Conall Christmas", "author_name": "Bethany Claire", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 765, "review_number": 46, "book_description": " Don't Miss This Happy Ending For The Carefree Mother That Stole Your Heart by\u00a0USA TODAY\u00a0Bestselling Author, Bethany Claire \n NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Although this can be read as a standalone novella, it could more accurately be described as Book 2.5 of Morna's Legacy Series. It is highly recommended that you start your reading with Book 1 in the series, \"Love Beyond Time,\" followed by \"Love Beyond Reason.\" The characters in this story and the events that led them to the beginning of this novella occurred in the previous books in this series.\n It\u2019s Yuletide at Conall Castle. Christmas is quickly approaching, and Adelle is determined to make this Christmas the best one Conall Castle has ever seen, but loneliness haunts her. Love for her daughter sent her into the past, but she\u2019d not expected the isolation she would feel. A former socialite and serial dater, she finds that her current age seems much older in the seventeenth century than it did in the twenty-first. She resigns herself to the fact that she will remain single for the rest of her days. At least until an unexpected visitor arrives at the castle. Hew Moray has spent the last twenty years all alone, only leaving his isolated home once a year to pay homage to the wife he lost long ago. When a winter storm causes him to seek shelter at the castle where his sister lives, he meets the first lass since his beloved Mae to make his heart flutter in his chest once again. Will he be able to release himself from his past grief to allow another love to enter his life? If he does, will his love be returned? \nScroll up and grab your copy today.\n Read all the books in Morna\u2019s Legacy Series. You should read them in the following order: \nLove Beyond Time (Book 1)\n\nLove Beyond Reason (Book 2)\n\nA Conall Christmas - Novella (Book 2.5)\n\nLove Beyond Hope (Book 3)\n\nLove Beyond Measure (Book 4)\n\nIn Due Time - A Novella (Book 4.5)\n\nLove Beyond Compare (Book 5)\n\nLove Beyond Dreams (Book 6)\n\nLove Beyond Belief (Book 7)\n\nA McMillan Christmas - A Novella (Book 7.5)\n\nLove Beyond Reach (Book 8)\n\nMorna's Magic & Mistletoe - A Novella (Book 8.5)\n\nLove Beyond Words (Book 9)\n\nLove Beyond Wanting (Book 10)\n\nLove Beyond Destiny (Book 11)\n The following collections are also available: \nMorna\u2019s Legacy Books: 1, 2, 2.5, & 3\n\nMorna\u2019s Legacy Books: 4, 4.5, & 5\n", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Novella", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19075208-a-conall-christmas"}, +{"book_title": "Riveted", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 4242, "review_number": 526, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Duke and Heart of Steel returns to the Iron Seas with a riveting new adventure of steampunk and passionate romance . . .\u00a0A century after a devastating volcanic eruption forced Iceland\u2019s inhabitants to abandon its shores, the island has become enshrouded in legend. Fishermen tell tales of giant trolls guarding the land and of seductive witches who steal men\u2019s hearts. But the truth behind the legends is mechanical, not magic\u2014and the mystery of the island a matter of life and death for a community of women who once spilled noble blood to secure their freedom.Five years ago, Annika unwittingly endangered that secret, but her sister K\u00e4lla took the blame and was exiled. Now Annika serves on the airship Phat\u00e9on, flying from port to port in search of her sister and longing to return home . . . but that home is threatened when expedition leader David Kentewess comes aboard.Determined to solve the mystery of his own origin, David will stop at nothing to expose Annika\u2019s secrets. But when disaster strikes, leaving David and Annika stranded on a glacier and pursued by a madman, their very survival depends on keeping the heat rising between them\u2014and generating lots of steam . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13409405-riveted"}, +{"book_title": "Rise Again", "author_name": "Ben Tripp", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 4662, "review_number": 295, "book_description": "A MYSTERIOUS CONTAGION. MASS HYSTERIA. SUDDEN DEATH. And a warning that would come all too late...Forest Peak, California. Fourth of July. Sheriff Danielle Adelman, a troubled war veteran, thinks she has all the problems she can handle in this all-American town after her kid sister runs away from home. But when a disease-stricken horde of panicked refugees fleeing the fall of Los Angeles swarms her small mountain community, Danny realizes her problems have only just begun - starting with what might very well be the end of the world. Danny thought she had seen humanity at its worst in war-torn Iraq, but nothing could prepare her for the remorseless struggle to survive in a dying world being overrun by the reanimated dead and men turned monster. Obsessed with finding her missing sister against all odds, Danny's epic and dangerous journey across the California desert will challenge her spirit... and bring her to the precipice of sanity itself...Filled with adventurous human drama - and shocking inhuman horror - Rise Again marks a vivid and powerful fiction debut.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7797852-rise-again"}, +{"book_title": "Now & Then", "author_name": "Jacqueline Sheehan", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 1203, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "Living a dog's life...now and then.Anna O'Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm, and she's trying to re-create herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-first-century skills pale as she struggles to find her nephew in nineteenth-century Ireland. For one of them, the past is brutally difficult, filled with hunger and struggle. For the other, the past is filled with privilege, status, and a reprieve from the crushing pain of present-day life. For both Anna and her nephew, the past offers them a chance at love.Will every choice they make reverberate down through time? And do Irish Wolfhounds carry the soul of the ancient celts?The past and present wrap around finely wrought characters who reveal the road home. Mystical, charming, and fantastic,\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author Jacqueline Sheehan's\u00a0Now & Then\u00a0is a poignant and beautiful tale of a remarkable journey. It is a miraculous evocation of a breathtaking place in a volatile age filled with rich, unforgettable, deeply human characters and one unforgettable dog named Madigan.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Animals (Dogs)", "Cultural (Ireland)", "Animals", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6463839-now-then"}, +{"book_title": "Falkenberg's Legion", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2105, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The seeds of contradiction that lay at the heart of the Soviet-American alliance are bearing their final fruit. Soon they will rip the Codomminium apart\u2014and Earth will die.In the face of that inevitability the fate of humanity lies with the Colony Worlds\u2014a few of which are equipped for more than barest survival. Thrown upon their own resources, their futures seem as limited as their pasts. They\u2014and humanity\u2014have one hope: that somehow, someone will have both the vision and the strength to grasp the tattered remnants of civilization and weld them into a single galaxy-spanning society.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197284.Falkenberg_s_Legion"}, +{"book_title": "The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1106, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "This volume features all of the Hammer\u2019s Slammer short fiction, as well as all of the interstitial material from the original Slammers collection, new artwork and new interstitial material. Volume 1 also features an introduction by Gene Wolfe and an original Slammers story, \u201cA Death in Peacetime.\u201dContents:* Introduction by Gene Wolfe* Foreword: Becoming a Professional Writer by Way of Southeast Asia* Under the Hammer* Supertanks* The Butcher\u2019s Bill* The Church of the Lord\u2019s Universe* But Loyal to His Own* Powerguns* Caught in the Crossfire* Backdrop to Chaos* Cultural Conflict* The Bonding Authority* Hangman* Table of Organization and Equipment, Hammer\u2019s Regiment* Standing Down* Code-Name Feirefitz* The Interrogation Team* The Tank Lords* Liberty Port* Night March* The Immovable Object* The Irresistible Force* A Death in Peacetime* Afterword: Accidentally and by the Back Door", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90008.The_Complete_Hammer_s_Slammers_Volume_1"}, +{"book_title": "Supernova", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 27486, "review_number": 4724, "book_description": "All's fair in love and anarchy...The epic conclusion to Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades Trilogy finds Nova and Adrian fighting to keep their identities secret. While the battle rages on between their alter egos and their allies, there is a darker threat shrouding Gatlon City.The Renegades' worst enemy is back among them, threatening to reclaim Gatlon City. Nova and Adrian must brave lies and betrayal to protect those they love. Their greatest fears are about to come to life, and unless they can bridge the divide between heroes and villains, they stand to lose everything. Including each other.Intrigue and action will leave readers on edge until the final, shocking secrets are revealed.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42771754-supernova"}, +{"book_title": "The Armour of Contempt", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2079, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "The Imperial crusade, including Gaunt's Ghosts, are sent back to the planet Gereon to join forces with the Imperial defenders and liberate the planet from Chaos. However, the brutality of the 'liberation' pitches Gaunt into opposition with his commanders, who believe victory must be achieved at any price, no matter how cruel. ", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359367.The_Armour_of_Contempt"}, +{"book_title": "The Integral Trees", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 8355, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "When leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline was prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by the all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and colonization, Discipline was aided (and secretly spied upon) by Sharls Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence programmed to monitor the loyalty and obedience of the crew. But what they weren\u2019t prepared for was the smoke ring\u2013an immense gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall. When Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis.Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living on the Smoke Ring no longer remember their origins. Earth is more myth than memory, and no recollection of the State remains. But Kendy remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward children.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939740.The_Integral_Trees"}, +{"book_title": "The Alteration", "author_name": "Kingsley Amis", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1171, "review_number": 144, "book_description": "In Kingsley Amis\u2019s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart\u2019s second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice. In the audience is a select group of experts whose job is to determine whether that faultless voice should be preserved by performing a certain operation. Art, after all, is worth any sacrifice.How Hubert realizes what lies in store for him and how he deals with the whirlpool of piety, menace, terror, and passion that he soon finds himself in are the subject of a classic piece of counterfactual fiction equal to Philip K. Dick\u2019s The Man in the High Castle.The Alteration won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel in 1976.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378920.The_Alteration"}, +{"book_title": "Wake Me After the Apocalypse", "author_name": "Jordan Rivet", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 804, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "When a killer comet hurtles for the earth, 18-year-old Joanna Murphy is selected to wait out the apocalypse in an underground bunker. She enters cryosleep with her close-knit team, preparing to resettle the planet after the atmosphere clears in two hundred years. Joanna is the only one who wakes up. Faced with a bunker full of bones and a blocked exit, Joanna must claw her way to the surface, figure out what happened to her team, and try not to panic\u2014or die. That\u2019s going to be tricky if she\u2019s the only person left in the world. From the author of The Seabound Chronicles, Steel and Fire, and Empire of Talents comes a story of resilience and optimism at the end of the world. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41042431-wake-me-after-the-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Hold", "author_name": "Claire Kent", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 6533, "review_number": 572, "book_description": "Find the strongest man there. Give yourself to him in return for protection. It\u2019s the only way you\u2019ll ever survive. Convicted of a minor crime, Riana is sentenced to a prison planet\u2014a dark primitive hold filled with convicts vying for power. Her only chance of survival is with Cain, a mysterious loner who has won his territory in the prison through intelligence and brute strength. Sex is all she has to offer, so she uses it. She\u2019s under no delusions here. No one is ever released, and no one ever escapes. Survival is all she can hope for\u2014until Cain. An earlier version of this book was published under the same title and a different penname by Ellora\u2019s Cave. It has since been substantially revised and expanded.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Dark", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24582265-hold"}, +{"book_title": "The Unforgiven", "author_name": "Gav Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 133, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "The Legacy of Caliban echoes down through the ages, and the secretive mission of the Dark Angels continues: to atone for the sins of their forefathers and capture all of the renegades and heretics known as the Fallen. With the most famous of these Fallen Dark Angels \u2013 the elusive Cypher \u2013 now firmly in their grasp after his unexpected surrender, the Dark Angels are given fresh hope that they can redeem themselves in the eyes of the Emperor. But what game is Cypher playing? What plans does he have? And can the Dark Angels ever really atone, or will they always remain the Unforgiven?Gav Thorpe\u2019s epic tale of the Dark Angels comes to an explosive conclusion. The arch-Fallen, Cypher, is in the Dark Angels\u2019 hands, and Supreme Grand Master learns some secrets that will change the Chapter. And when the Death Guard attack the Rock, Azrael is forced to make a decision that will echo all the way back to the Horus Heresy and into the future.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492372-the-unforgiven"}, +{"book_title": "Live Wire (Paradisi Chronicles", "author_name": "Bill Patterson", "rating_score": 4.67, "rating_votes": 3, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "In the matter of life and death there is little room for error\u2026 and no room to fail\u2026 After years of scraping by, August Reach knows when to count himself lucky. As a non-Japanese- and an African-American to boot- a hard won contract with the Nakata family to handle construction for all their off-Earth projects was a pretty major plum. But when Yuai, the daughter of CEO Shigeru Nakata, is kidnapped by a member of the Yakuza, Gus is left to face the fact his luck just might be running out. With the Nakata and other Founders funding the interstellar colonization effort and the understanding that dealing with organized crime would result in being left behind on a dying Earth, Gus finds himself in a race against time to return the missing girl before time runs out. Negotiations can run risky between a family desperate to keep their hands clean and an organization that may just kill this American black man at any moment. Can Gus find a way to return Yuai to her father without incident? Or will his dealings with the most feared crime organization in Japan cause the Founders to kick the Nakatas out of the Syndicate? From science mastermind of Earth\u2019s Last Gambit, Live Wire is a brand new hard sci-fi adventure that will have you wanting more! If you like the work of Larry Niven or Allen Steele then you will love this new edition to Bill Patterson\u2019s Paradisi Series!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35651782-live-wire"}, +{"book_title": "The Takedown", "author_name": "Corrie Wang", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 985, "review_number": 270, "book_description": "It would have been funny, if it just wasn\u2019t.Kyla Cheng doesn\u2019t expect you to like her. For the record, she doesn\u2019t need you to. On track to be valedictorian, she\u2019s president of her community club and a debate team champ, plus the yummy Mackenzie Rodriguez has firmly attached himself to her hip. She and her three high-powered best friends don\u2019t just own their senior year at their exclusive Park Slope, Brooklyn high school, they practically define the hated species Popular. Kyla\u2019s even managed to make it through high school completely unscathed.Until someone takes issue with this arrangement.A week before college applications are due, a video of Kyla \u201cdoing it\u201d with her crush-worthy English teacher is uploaded to her school\u2019s website. It instantly goes viral, but here\u2019s the thing: it\u2019s not Kyla in the video. With time running out, Kyla delves into a world of hackers, haters and creepy stalkers in an attempt to do the impossible\u2014take something off the internet\u2014all while dealing with the fallout from her own karmic footprint.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Realistic Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Thriller", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31423554-the-takedown"}, +{"book_title": "Timeless", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 29244, "review_number": 2593, "book_description": "Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society, living in a vampire's second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Even Ivy Tunstell's acting troupe's latest play, disastrous to say the least, cannot put a dampener on Alexia's enjoyment of her new London lifestyle.Until, that is, she receives a summons from Alexandria that cannot be ignored. With husband, child and Tunstells in tow, Alexia boards a steamer to cross the Mediterranean. But Egypt may hold more mysteries than even the indomitable Lady Maccon can handle. What does the vampire Queen of the Alexandria Hive really want from her? Why is the God-Breaker Plague suddenly expanding? And how has Ivy Tunstell suddenly become the most popular actress in all the British Empire?***Also available as a manga adaptation***", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324166-timeless"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Mechanika Vol. 2: The Tablet of Destinies", "author_name": "Joe Ben\u00edtez", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 847, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "After a young friend shows up unexpectedly on her doorstep, Lady Mechanika immediately drops everything to come to her aid. They embark on a globe-spanning trek filled with ancient artifacts, secret societies, and scientific curiosities, but Lady Mechanika is eventually confronted with an impossible decision: the life of her friend, or the fate of all humankind.This volume collects the entire second Lady Mechanika mini-series The Tablet of Destinies (originally published as Lady Mechanika: The Tablet of Destinies #1-6), plus a gorgeous cover art gallery.Story by M. M. Chen. Pencils by Joe Benitez & Martin Montiel. Colors by Mike Garcia.160 pages, full color.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29151467-lady-mechanika-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Heir to the Jedi", "author_name": "Kevin Hearne", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 8356, "review_number": 986, "book_description": "\nA long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . .\n \u00a0 A thrilling new adventure set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, and\u2014for the first time ever\u2014written entirely from Luke Skywalker\u2019s first-person point of view.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22059478-heir-to-the-jedi"}, +{"book_title": "Shades of Earth", "author_name": "Beth Revis", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 32049, "review_number": 3750, "book_description": "Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls first let on. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to fight. Amy and Elder must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together. They will have to look inward to the very core of what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed--friends, family, life on Earth--will have been for nothing. FUELED BY LIES. RULED BY CHAOS. ALMOST HOME.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10345937-shades-of-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Rama Revealed", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 12934, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "Rama Revealed (1993) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. It is the last of three sequels to Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama by these authors. The book picks up the story immediately after the end of The Garden of Rama. The book follows the story of Nicole Wakefield and her escape from imprisonment left at the cliffhanger of the previous book.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112517.Rama_Revealed"}, +{"book_title": "The Tyrant", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1691, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "On the planet Hafardine, civilization must rediscover progress or collapse. Adrian, guided by disembodied electronic mentors from space, has brought gunpowder and steam power to the Kingdom of the Isles to break the stranglehold of the Empire. But he will have to avoid being killed by the suspicious King he serves, by the barbarians he must recruit, and even by his insanely vengeful brother.[Drake and Flint] instruct as well as entertain in this latest volume in the popular [General] series. . . . narrative excitement . . . [the authors'] thorough knowledge of the underlying causes and conditions that shaped Rome's destiny lends authority.At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (DRM Rights Management).", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57313.The_Tyrant"}, +{"book_title": "Chaos Come Again", "author_name": "Wilhelmina Baird", "rating_score": 3.08, "rating_votes": 61, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Now Wilhelmina Baird, author of \"Psykosis\", takes her talent to an audacious new level, and a stunning new future. A place where symbiotes have delivered humankind to the next phase of telepathic evolution. A place where reality is flexible. And chaos is the norm.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1716279.Chaos_Come_Again"}, +{"book_title": "Blue Mars", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 27342, "review_number": 866, "book_description": "The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green \"terraformers\". The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the balance", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77504.Blue_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Zoo City", "author_name": "Lauren Beukes", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 10233, "review_number": 1480, "book_description": "Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she\u2019s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job \u2013 missing persons.Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell\u2019s undertow.Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she\u2019ll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives \u2013 including her own.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Cultural (Africa)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7163862-zoo-city"}, +{"book_title": "The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray", "author_name": "Chris Wooding", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 3944, "review_number": 304, "book_description": "The Alienist meets Dracula in this gripping, gothic-horror thriller from young UK phenom Chris Wooding.Thaniel, just seventeen, is a wych-hunter. Together, he and Cathaline--his friend and mentor--track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of these hunts that he first encounters Alaizabel Cray. Alaizabel is half-crazed, lovely, and possessed.Whatever dreadful entity has entered her soul has turned her into a strange and unearthly magnet--attracting evil and drawing horrors from every dark corner. Cathaline and Thaniel must discover its cause--and defend humanity at all costs.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140260.The_Haunting_of_Alaizabel_Cray"}, +{"book_title": "The Love That Split the World", "author_name": "Emily Henry", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 9858, "review_number": 2036, "book_description": "Natalie Cleary must risk her future and leap blindly into a vast unknown for the chance to build a new world with the boy she loves. Natalie\u2019s last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start... until she starts seeing the \u201cwrong things.\u201d They\u2019re just momentary glimpses at first\u2014her front door is red instead of its usual green, there\u2019s a pre-school where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn\u2019t right. That\u2019s when she gets a visit from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls \u201cGrandmother,\u201d who tells her: \u201cYou have three months to save him.\u201d The next night, under the stadium lights of the high school football field, she meets a beautiful boy named Beau, and it\u2019s as if time just stops and nothing exists. Nothing, except Natalie and Beau. Emily Henry\u2019s stunning debut novel is Friday Night Lights meets The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife, and perfectly captures those bittersweet months after high school, when we dream not only of the future, but of all the roads and paths we\u2019ve left untaken.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25467698-the-love-that-split-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow Puppets", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 54786, "review_number": 1088, "book_description": "Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth.Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless, brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth's young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future.Here is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234724.Shadow_Puppets"}, +{"book_title": "Demon's Captive", "author_name": "Stephanie Snow", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 3084, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Charity is almost through with college when war breaks out and the planet is decimated. Charity is alone, without family or friends and she has eluded capture by the warriors in the sky.Commander Melmanon is furious that the Earth woman has been able to elude capture. Melmanon is known for his terrible bloodlust and ability to torture his captives. His pride has taken a beating and he visualizes his revenge on his enemy.When Charity is finally captured by Melmanon, she is terrified when she sees he looks like a demon. Fearing pain and a slow death, Charity submits to Melmanon and he is surprised that her submission brings him great pleasure. He makes Charity his torture slave so he can keep her with him longer. Nobody is more surprised than Charity when she finds herself liking Melmanon\u2019s attention. But Charity\u2019s loyalties and feelings are put to the test and she will soon have to make difficult decisions. But not as difficult as those Melmanon will have to make\u2026", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Dark", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6941225-demon-s-captive"}, +{"book_title": "Ice, Iron and Gold", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 419, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands, leading a massive AI -controlled BOLO tank, as they struggle to return home to a United States that no longer exists. Through themes of duty, honor, and fortitude under fire, New York Times best-selling author S. M. Stirling presents thirteen stories of military men and women pushed to the point where myth and technology collide. Showcasing Stirling\u2019s trademark military action, jargon-heavy dialogue, and conflictdriven storytelling, these thrilling tales of alternate histories, apocalyptic futures, and hard-driving military Science Fiction demonstrate why Stirling has long been a fan favorite. Ice, Iron, and Gold, the first short fiction collection by S. M. Stirling, features \u201cSomething for Yew,\u201d an original novella set in Stirling\u2019s Emberverse (Dies the Fire) and \u201cRiding Shotgun to Armageddon,\u201d a short story set within the universe of his Nantucket series (Island in the Sea of Time). An essential collection for Stirling fans and a perfect introduction for new readers, Ice, Iron and Gold gathers together evocative and insightful tales certain to thrill, shock, and astound.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798133.Ice_Iron_and_Gold"}, +{"book_title": "When the English Fall", "author_name": "David Williams", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 3375, "review_number": 687, "book_description": "A riveting and unexpected novel that questions whether a peaceful and nonviolent community can survive when civilization falls apart.When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath. Once-bright skies are now dark. Planes have plummeted to the ground. The systems of modern life have crumbled. With their stocked larders and stores of supplies, the Amish are unaffected at first. But as the English (the Amish name for all non-Amish people) become more and more desperate, they begin to invade Amish farms, taking whatever they want and unleashing unthinkable violence on the peaceable community. Seen through the diary of an Amish farmer named Jacob as he tries to protect his family and his way of life, When the English Fall examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos: Should members of a nonviolent society defy their beliefs and take up arms to defend themselves? And if they don\u2019t, can they survive?David Williams\u2019s debut novel is a thoroughly engrossing look into the closed world of the Amish, as well as a thought-provoking examination of \u201ccivilization\u201d and what remains if the center cannot hold.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Amish", "Religion", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753989-when-the-english-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2838, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "Settling into her new life as the Lady Woolsey, Alexia finds her days quite challenging. Whether it is a regiment of supernatural soldiers camped out on her front lawn or the demands of being the Queen\u2019s \u201cmuhjah,\u201d there never seems to be a want of new hurdles to overcome. But when stories of supernaturals rendered normal by some unknown force begin cropping up, Alexia has a rather serious mystery on her hands. Can she root out the cause of this phenomenon, which smacks of some larger plot at work?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13272633-soulless"}, +{"book_title": "In the Presence of Mine Enemies", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1564, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "In the twenty-first century, Germany's Third Reich continues to thrive after its victory in World War II-keeping most of Europe and North America under its heel. But within the heart of the Nazi regime, a secret lives. Under a perfect Aryan facade, Jews survive-living their lives, raising their families, and fearing discovery...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101630.In_the_Presence_of_Mine_Enemies"}, +{"book_title": "Singularity", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 3233, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "There is an unseen power in the universe--a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of thousands of years before the warlike Sh'daar were even aware of the existence of Sol and its planets. As humankind approaches the Singularity, when transcendence will be achieved through technology, contact will be made.In the wake of the near destruction of the solar system, the political powers on Earth seek a separate peace with an inscrutable alien life form that no one has ever seen. But Admiral Alexander Koenig, the hero of Alphekka, has gone rogue, launching his fabled battlegroup beyond the boundaries of Human Space against all orders. With Confederation warships in hot pursuit, Koenig is taking the war for humankind's survival directly to a mysterious omnipotent enemy.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12454226-singularity"}, +{"book_title": "An Enchantment of Ravens", "author_name": "Margaret Rogerson", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 44675, "review_number": 8746, "book_description": "Every enchantment has a price.With a flick of her paintbrush, Isobel creates stunning portraits for a dangerous set of clients: the fair folk. These immortal creatures cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and they trade valuable enchantments for Isobel\u2019s paintings. But when she receives her first royal patron\u2014Rook, the autumn prince\u2014Isobel makes a deadly mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes, a weakness that could cost him his throne, and even his life.Furious, Rook spirits Isobel away to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime. But something is seriously amiss in his world, and they are attacked from every side. With Isobel and Rook depending upon each other for survival, their alliance blossoms into trust, perhaps even love . . . a forbidden emotion that would violate the fair folks\u2019 ruthless laws, rendering both their lives forfeit. What force could Isobel's paintings conjure that is powerful enough to defy the ancient malice of the fairy courts?Isobel and Rook journey along a knife-edge in a lush world where beauty masks corruption and the cost of survival might be more frightening than death itself.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30969741-an-enchantment-of-ravens"}, +{"book_title": "Variant", "author_name": "Robison Wells", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 21601, "review_number": 2706, "book_description": "Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.He was wrong.Now he\u2019s trapped in a school that\u2019s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.Where breaking the rules equals death.But when Benson stumbles upon the school\u2019s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape\u2014his only real hope for survival\u2014may be impossible.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "School Stories (Boarding School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10433900-variant"}, +{"book_title": "Koban: Conflict and Empire", "author_name": "Stephen W. Bennett", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 605, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Koban Book 6: Conflict and Empire The Galactic Federation is confronted by the vast and implacable Thandol Empire, which has coveted the former Krall region of space for eons. A region of space now occupied and claimed by the upstart Kobani. Outnumbered, they face an opponent who possesses new and deadly weapons. An enemy that had thousands of years to develop the means to take on the Krall Empire, and now present the supermen with a weapon that turns their greatest genetic asset into their greatest weakness. The new Federation must find a way to survive the most powerful threat yet to their existence. Once again, the Kobani are between a rock and a hard place, poised on the brink of death and destruction. Book 1 - Koban, Book 2 - The Mark of Koban, Book 3 - Rise of the Kobani, Book 4 - Shattered Worlds, Book 5 - A Federation Forged in Fire ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31567222-koban"}, +{"book_title": "Day 21", "author_name": "Kass Morgan", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 26105, "review_number": 2286, "book_description": "No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now.It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries...or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, Wells attempts to keep the group together. Clarke strikes out for Mount Weather, in search of other Colonists, while Bellamy is determined to rescue his sister, no matter the cost. And back on the ship, Glass faces an unthinkable choice between the love of her life and life itself.In this pulse-pounding sequel to Kass Morgan's The 100, secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested. And the hundred will struggle to survive the only way they can -- together.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20454076-day-21"}, +{"book_title": "Valley of the Moon", "author_name": "Melanie Gideon", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1538, "review_number": 442, "book_description": "In this captivating novel from the author of Wife 22, a woman who feels lost in her own time stumbles across a California community that has, impossibly, been marooned in the early twentieth century perfect for readers of The Time Traveler's Wife, Time and Again, and Sarah Addison Allen.Lux is a single mom struggling to make her way when she discovers an idyllic community in the Sonoma Valley. It seems like a place from another time until she realizes it actually is. Lux must keep one foot in her world, raising her son as well as she can with the odds stacked against her, but every day she is more strongly drawn in by the sweet simplicity of life in Greengage, and by the irresistible connection she feels with a man born decades before her. Soon she finds herself torn between her ties to the modern world, her adored son and the first place she has ever felt truly at home.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Book Club"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30008681-valley-of-the-moon"}, +{"book_title": "12.21", "author_name": "Dustin Thomason", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 3408, "review_number": 574, "book_description": "An ancient prophecy foretells that the world would end on 21 December 2012 . . . Deep in the jungles of Central America, an indigenous man discovers a unique and priceless treasure - a beautifully painted codex that has survived for centuries within the ruins of an undiscovered ancient Maya city. Knowing that this rare artifact could be worth millions, the looter smuggles it into the US - but unbeknownst to him, he has brought something far more dangerous across the border . . . In the first week of December 2012, the codex finds its way into the hands of the Antiquities Curator of the Getty Museum, Chel Manu, the world authority on ancient Mayan inscriptions. She is torn between her duty to alert the authorities and this once in a lifetime chance to translate the codex herself.Meanwhile - in an LA hospital, an unidentified man is dying of Fatal Insomnia, a rare and highly infectious neurological disease. The patient speaks only in a garbled Mayan dialect - and Chel Manu is called in to interpret his dying words . . . just as countless others in the city begin to show signs of infection. Within days the world seems to be unravelling, hurtling towards the prophesied apocalypse . . . and deciphering the codex is the only hope for humanity . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Suspense", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13572813-12-21"}, +{"book_title": "Monkey vs. Robot", "author_name": "James Kochalka", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 313, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "An exciting action-packed rumble-in-the-jungle! A factory of self-replicating robots is stripping the jungle of its natural resources, threatening the territory of a colony of nearby monkeys. A series of encounters between the two groups quickly escalates into all out war.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult", "Humor", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165848.Monkey_vs_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2112, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Have you ever wondered what it's like to get bitten by a zombie? To live through a bioweapon attack? To have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mindbending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology \u2014 and its various uses \u2014 run amok. \"Anda's Game\" is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of \"cyber sweatshops,\" in which people are paid very low wages to play online games all day in order to generate in-game wealth, which can be converted into actual money. Another tale tells of the heroic exploits of \"sysadmins\" \u2014 systems administrators \u2014 as they defend the cyber-world, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there is a story about zombies, too.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Technology)", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115969.Overclocked"}, +{"book_title": "Christmas Present", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 3663, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "It's Christmas Eve at St Mary's, And all through the house, Nothing is stirring ... Except for Max, Peterson, and Markham, sneaking out at midnight for an assignment that is very definitely off the books. It's ten years ago tonight that Senior Historians Bashford and Grey went missing in twelfth-century Jerusalem. So how did they end up in AD60 Roman Colchester? Max has a theory. Peterson has a plan. Markham has bacon sandwiches. Colchester has Boudicca and her bloodthirsty Iceni hordes. And then there's the giant pig ... the enraged giant pig ...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Historical", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27844508-christmas-present"}, +{"book_title": "First Shift: Legacy", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 17286, "review_number": 844, "book_description": "In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate.In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event.At almost the same moment in humanity\u2019s broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13603717-first-shift"}, +{"book_title": "Heaven's Reach", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 6271, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.The brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived. Now the fugitive settlers of Jijo--both human and alien--brace for a final confrontation. The Jijoans' only hope is the Earthship Streaker, crewed by uplifted dolphins and commanded by an untested human.Yet more than just the fate of Jijo hangs in the balance. For Streaker carries a cargo of ancient artifacts that may unlock the secret of those who first brought intelligent life to the Galaxies. Many believe a dire prophecy has come to pass: an age of terrifying changes that could end Galactic civilization.As dozens of white dwarf stars stand ready to explode, the survival of sentient life in the universe rests on the most improbable dream of all--that age-old antagonists of different races can at last recognize the unity of all consciousness.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101890.Heaven_s_Reach"}, +{"book_title": "Paintwork", "author_name": "Tim Maughan", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 252, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Augmented reality street artist 3Cube wants to break into the mainstream, and as one of the best in the graffiti mecca of Bristol he stands a real chance. Except that someone, some unseen rival, seems set on using even the most old-fashioned of methods to stop him from succeeding.John Smith was successful once, if only for a fleeting moment. Now the documentary film maker is broke and jobless, and finds himself putting his life on the line as one of the new-breed of paparazzi \u2013 snapping celebrity video gamers in virtual worlds.And on the sun-bleached streets of Havana two young Cubans find themselves locked in a fierce struggle with one of the world\u2019s most powerful organisations, as a seemingly innocent video game tournament becomes a fight for both personal and national pride.Paintwork is a collection of three stories from our imminent future by British science fiction author Tim Maughan, including the 2010 BSFA Short Fiction Award nominated \u2018Havana Augmented\u2019.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11905499-paintwork"}, +{"book_title": "Kushiel's Dart", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 75630, "review_number": 4179, "book_description": "The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Ph\u00e8dre n\u00f3 Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission... and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.Ph\u00e8dre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Ph\u00e8dre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair... and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Ph\u00e8dre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear. Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153008.Kushiel_s_Dart"}, +{"book_title": "Bonded to the Alien Lord", "author_name": "Mina Carter", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 973, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Today is a good day to... get married? Kidnapped by her very own alien hunk, Cat Moore is rapidly adapting to life as the chosen woman of bad-ass War Commander Tarrick K'Vass. It's not so bad. Her sexy alien has a thing about making sure her every need is met and has some very inventive ways of doing so. Until she gives him a bad case of mating marks around his wrist, and all bets are off. They're married without so much as a bended knee in sight, then summoned to the Imperial Court so the Emperor can bless their union. Why? Because her sexy alien lover left one thing out when he introduced himself. Like being a freaking alien prince. But someone doesn't want humans and the Lathar getting it on, and they certainly don't like the possibility of little human-Lathar babies. In fact, they'd be more than happy if Cat and the other women didn't survive past the wedding. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned? Try a bride whose alien wedding just got gatecrashed. Seems humans might be more like the Lathar than anyone thought... **Please be aware that this is a romance short. Shorter fiction is a fun and quick read, not a full length novel.**", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25802128-bonded-to-the-alien-lord"}, +{"book_title": "Alex", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 9475, "review_number": 784, "book_description": "This captivating digital original story set in the world of Lauren Oliver's New York Times bestselling Delirium series focuses on Alex, Lena's first love.When Alex sacrificed himself to save Lena, he thought he was committing himself to certain death, but what he got was almost worse. Imprisoned and tortured by the guards, his mind forces him to relive a past he would rather forget. But in the dark he grows stronger. Both hopeful and terrified, he fights to find his way back to her and the love he still clings to.In this digital story that will appeal to fans of Delirium and welcome new admirers to its world, readers will learn of Alex's time after the events of Delirium, as well as the dark past that he has tried to forget.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22922929-alex"}, +{"book_title": "Utopia", "author_name": "Roger MacBride Allen", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 918, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Third in a powerful trilogy that examines Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics--a challenge welcomed and sanctioned by Isaac Asimov, and written with his cooperation.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/568129.Utopia"}, +{"book_title": "Black and Blue", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 4515, "review_number": 366, "book_description": "The sizzling second book in New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter\u2019s Otherworld Assassin paranormal romance series.He is every woman\u2019s fantasy\u2026Corbin Blue is a man of many talents. One of the most powerful otherworlders ever born, he is wealthy, a professional football star, and a legend in the bedroom. But only a select few know he is also a black ops agent\u2026and there is no better killer. When he and his crew are attacked and separated, he\u2019s forced to turn to his boss\u2019s daughter for help\u2014a woman with even more secrets than Blue.She becomes his only obsession\u2026Evangaline Black has always been wary, guarded. No man has ever breeched her walls. Until Blue. He has never been denied something he wants, and now, he\u2019s decided he wants her. As he sweeps her into his double life of seduction, intrigue, and danger, he helps her see beyond the darkness of her own past. But as an enemy closes in, Blue will have to let Evie go to keep her safe\u2014even though he'd rather die than live without her\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17211009-black-and-blue"}, +{"book_title": "Revolutionary Magic", "author_name": "Thomas K. Carpenter", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 195, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Exile. Princess. Thief. After years of running from the Emperor of Russia's assassins, Ekaterina \"Kat\" Dashkova has finally found an unlikely home in Philadelphia under the tutelage of Benjamin Franklin. When a mid-level government official is found wandering colonial Philadelphia without his clothes\u2014and his last two years of memories\u2014Ben and Kat suspect otherworldly forces at work. Neither of them know that a dark revolution lurks beneath the veneer of civilization, ready to unleash its malevolent magic unless Kat makes a grim sacrifice. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25485089-revolutionary-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Fortress Frontier", "author_name": "Myke Cole", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 3519, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "The Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Across the country and in every nation, people began to develop terrifying powers\u2014summoning storms, raising the dead, and setting everything they touch ablaze. Overnight the rules changed\u2026but not for everyone. Colonel Alan Bookbinder is an army bureaucrat whose worst war wound is a paper-cut. But after he develops magical powers, he is torn from everything he knows and thrown onto the front-lines. Drafted into the Supernatural Operations Corps in a new and dangerous world, Bookbinder finds himself in command of Forward Operating Base Frontier\u2014cut off, surrounded by monsters, and on the brink of being overrun.Now, he must find the will to lead the people of FOB Frontier out of hell, even if the one hope of salvation lies in teaming up with the man whose own magical powers put the base in such grave danger in the first place\u2014Oscar Britton, public enemy number one...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14759319-fortress-frontier"}, +{"book_title": "Drops of Corruption", "author_name": "J.M. Hardy", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 101, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Bannickburn is a burnt-out Scottish mage with little power and even less going for him when he falls into fast company with a crew of casino-running criminals. Soon he's back living the high life he's used to. But just when Bannickburn thinks he's hit the jackpot, he learns that in every game, winners can turn into losers with the squeeze of a trigger.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489977.Drops_of_Corruption"}, +{"book_title": "Bandwidth", "author_name": "Eliot Peper", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 3860, "review_number": 381, "book_description": "A rising star at a preeminent political lobbying firm, Dag Calhoun represents the world\u2019s most powerful technology and energy executives. But when a close brush with death reveals that the influence he wields makes him a target, impossible cracks appear in his perfect, richly appointed life.Like everyone else, Dag relies on his digital feed for everything\u2014a feed that is as personal as it is pervasive, and may not be as private as it seems. As he struggles to make sense of the dark forces closing in on him, he discovers that activists are hijacking the feed to manipulate markets and governments. Going public would destroy everything he\u2019s worked so hard to build, but it\u2019s not just Dag\u2019s life on the line\u2014a shadow war is coming, one that will secure humanity\u2019s future or doom the planet to climate catastrophe. Ultimately, Dag must decide the price he\u2019s willing to pay to change the world.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36458711-bandwidth"}, +{"book_title": "Song of the Slums", "author_name": "Richard Harland", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 288, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Astor thinks she is about the wed the handsome plutocrat Lorrain Swale. But, to her horror, her mother and step-father abandon her, and she finds herself a lowly governess in the Swale household. Treated with contempt by the whole family, Astor is determined to escape. Help arrives unexpectedly in the form of the laconic and mysterious Verrol. Together they plunge into the slums of Brummingham and find themselves in a street band, making wild music - a new kind of music that's set t take the world by storm. But the Swale brothers haven't finished with them yet.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Music", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17403533-song-of-the-slums"}, +{"book_title": "The Wandering Earth: Classic Science Fiction Collection", "author_name": "Liu Cixin", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 3343, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "\u201cThe Wandering Earth\u201d is a collection of short stories by Liu Cixin, China's most acclaimed contemporary science-fiction author. Unabashedly classic in the great tradition of Asimov and Clarke, Liu Cixin's science-fiction is firmly rooted in the cosmic. \u201c[most] literature has always left me with the impression of indulging an intense anthropocentric narcissism. [\u2026] In the world of literature, the Sun exists for no other reason than to illuminate the pure, unadulterated countryside, the Moon has no other reason to shine than to cast the shadows of the seaside lovers, [but] if the universe is the Sahara, then all that makes the Earth a grain of gold within it, is that a particular bacteria called humanity clinging to its surface.\u201d Liu Cixin uses the unique perspective of science-fiction to take us on a journey into this majestic, desolate cosmos. He gives us the chance to reacquaint ourselves with the fundamental truth that in the face of a vast universe we are no more than a speck of dust; That the Earth is just another celestial body \u2013 And an extremely vulnerable one at that. The flash of a gamma-ray burst or the blast of a nearby supernova could, at any moment, reduce our cherished home to nothing but ashes.It can be terrifying to contemplate the end of our world and stories that describe such destruction can be disturbing. At the same time however, they can leave us feeling not only entertained, but exhilarated and inspired. Maybe, they can even give us a chance to renew our love of life. Most stories found in the \u201cThe Wandering Earth\u201d collection take us to a sci-fi vision of Earth's end. But here, there are no Hollywood aliens, descending from the depths of space to blow up our cities. In these futures, the dangers humanity faces are much stranger and whimsical than that. The unexpected calamities that befall his richly detailed worlds are only eclipsed by humanity's epic, but always plausible, attempts to escape destruction.In all this peril and doom, Liu Cixin always feels for humanity. His stories are full of a deep love for all of Earth's peoples. But even this love does not escape reflection and even ridicule when viewed through his unrelenting cosmic lens. No matter how dearly one loves the Earth, humanity and all its cultures, there is no avoiding the cold, hard truth that they mean absolutely nothing when viewed against the vastness of the universe. But even an infinite universe could not change the simple fact that we are worthy of love, that we need love. It is this twist that lies at the very heart of the stories in this collection.Table of Contents 1\tThe Wandering Earth 2\tMountain 3\tOf Ants and Dinosaurs 4\tSun of China 5\tThe Wages of Humanity 6\tCurse 5.0 7\tThe Micro-Age 8\tDevourer 9\tTaking Care of Gods 10\tWith Her Eyes 11\tThe Longest Fall", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Cultural (China)", "Anthologies", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Adult", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Asian Literature (Chinese Literature)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18160995-the-wandering-earth"}, +{"book_title": "The Walls of the Universe", "author_name": "Paul Melko", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 857, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelg\u00e4nger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return home\u2014the device is broken. John settles in a new universe to unravel its secrets and fix it.Meanwhile, his doppelg\u00e4nger tries to exploit the commercial technology he\u2019s stolen from other Earths: the Rubik\u2019s Cube! John\u2019s attempts to lie low in his new universe backfire when he inadvertently introduces pinball. It becomes a huge success. Both actions draw the notice of other, more dangerous travelers, who are exploiting worlds for ominous purposes. Fast-paced and exciting, this is SF adventure at its best from a rising star.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4367026-the-walls-of-the-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Brightness Reef", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 9746, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Jijo es un planeta prohibido, un mundo que se recupera lentamente de un grave desastre ecol\u00f3gico y al que, un mill\u00f3n de a\u00f1os atr\u00e1s, los Buyur condenaron a permanecer cerrado a la colonizaci\u00f3n y al contacto interestelar. Sin embargo diversos grupos de seres inteligentes, a menudo forajidos o extraviados, han aterrizado en Jijo pese a lo decretado por la civilizaci\u00f3n gal\u00e1ctica, y han roto de este modo su aislamiento.Jijo ha alcanzado pues en este periodo de exclusi\u00f3n una compleja paz social intercultural, basada en la tolerancia y el respeto mutuo entre las siete especies que lo han ido poblando: los misteriosos b\u00edpedos hoon; los qheuens, con forma de cangrejo y con cinco patas y pinzas; los urs parecidos a centauros; los g'kek, dotados de ruedas impulsadas biomagn\u00e9ticamente; los traeki, con sus m\u00faltiples personalidades; los gl\u00e1ver, involucionados a un estado de presapiencia; y los humanos de la Tierra, de m\u00e1s reciente arribo, que aportan la tecnolog\u00eda que permite el florecimiento de una nueva civilizaci\u00f3n.Siempre bajo la amenaza del inevitable D\u00eda de Juicio, cuando las Cinco Galaxias descubran esa colonia ilegal y prohibida, acontece de repente lo imprevisto: una nave estelar aterriza cerca del lugar que los pobladores de Jijo consideran m\u00e1s sagrado. La mayor aventura a escala gal\u00e1ctica est\u00e1 servida.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25059.Brightness_Reef"}, +{"book_title": "A Long Time Until Now", "author_name": "Michael Z. Williamson", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1161, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "Book 1 in a new series from the creator of the best-selling Freehold Universe series. A military unit is thrust back into Paleolithic times with only their guns and portable hardware.Ten soldiers on convoy in Afghanistan suddenly find themselves lost in time. Somehow, they arrived in Earth's Paleolithic Asia. With no idea how they arrived or how to get back, the shock of the event is severe. They discover groups of the similarly displaced: Imperial Romans, Neolithic Europeans, and a small cadre of East Indian peasants. Despite their technological advantage, the soldiers only have ten people, and know no way home. Then two more time travelers arrive from a future far beyond the present. These time travelers may have the means to get back, but they aren't giving it up. In fact, they may have a treacherous agenda of their own, one that may very well lead to the death of the displaced in a harsh and dangerous era.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609256-a-long-time-until-now"}, +{"book_title": "Once in Every Life", "author_name": "Kristin Hannah", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 2317, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a research scientist hides her longings for husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit--a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soonBut for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America. She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three--and she can hear. Shocked and disoriented by her new surroundings, she is drawn into the savage heartache burdening the family, especially her husband, Jack, a man who fears himself capable of anything.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217431.Once_in_Every_Life"}, +{"book_title": "The Clone Redemption", "author_name": "Steven L. Kent", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 558, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Earth, 2516 A.D.: The Unified Authority has spread human colonies across the Milky Way, keeping strict order with a powerful military made up almost entirely of clones. But now the clones have formed their own empire, and they aim to keep it...no matter who they must defeat.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11124032-the-clone-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Traveler's Guide to Time Travel", "author_name": "Phil Hornshaw", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 395, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Welcome, intrepid temporal explorers, to the world's first and only field manual/survival guide to time travel!DON'T LEAVE THIS TIME PERIOD WITHOUT IT! Humans from H. G. Wells to Albert Einstein to Bill & Ted have been fascinated by time travel-some say drawn to it like moths to a flame. But in order to travel safely and effectively, newbie travelers need to know the dos and don'ts. Think of this handy little book as the only thing standing between you and an unimaginably horrible death-or being trapped forever in another time or alternate reality. You get: Essential time travel knowledge: Choosing the right time machine, from DeLoreans to hot tubs to phone booths-and beyond What to say-and what NOT to say-to your doppelganger Understanding black holes and Stephen Hawking's term spaghettification (no, it's not a method of food preperation; yes, it is a horrifically painful way to meet your end) The connection between Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, traversing wormholes and the 88 mph speed requirement The possible consequences of creating a time paradox-including, but not limited to, the implosion of the universe Survival tips for nearly any sticky time travel situation: How to befriend a dinosaur and subsequently fight other dinosaurs with that dinosaur Instructions to build your very own Rube Goldberg Time Machine Crusading-for fun and profit Tips on battling cowboys, pirates, ninjas, samurai, Nazis, Vikings, robots and space marines How to operate a microwave oven Enjoying the servitude of robots and tips for living underground when they inevitably rise up against us", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Reference"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11834392-so-you-created-a-wormhole"}, +{"book_title": "Weird Little Robots", "author_name": "Carolyn Crimi", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 252, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "When two science-savvy girls create an entire robot world, they don\u2019t expect the robots to come alive. But life may be a bit more magical than they thought.Nine-year-old Penny Rose has just moved to a new town, and so far the robots she builds herself are her only company. But with just a bit of magic, everything changes: she becomes best friends with Lark, has the chance to join a secret science club, and discovers that her robots are alive. Penny Rose hardly remembers how lonely she used to feel. But then a fateful misstep forces her to choose between the best friend she\u2019s always hoped for and the club she\u2019s always dreamed of, and in the end it may be her beloved little robots that pay the price.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens", "Magical Realism", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32720313-weird-little-robots"}, +{"book_title": "The Return of Black Douglas", "author_name": "Elaine Coffman", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 495, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "He'll help a woman in need, no matter where she came from...Alysandir Mackinnon rules his clan with a fair but iron fist. He has no time for softness or, as he sees it, weakness. But when he encounters a bewitching young beauty who may or may not be a dangerous spy, but is surely in mortal danger, he's compelled to help.She's always wondered if she was born in the wrong time...Thrown back in time to the tumultuous, dangerous Scottish Highlands of the sixteenth century, Isobella Douglas has a lot to learn about her ancestors, herself, and her place in the world. Especially when she encounters a Highland laird who puts modern men to shame.Each one has secrets to keep, until they begin to strike a chord in each other's hearts that's never been touched before.Praise for Elaine Coffman: \"With an eloquent pen, Ms. Coffman weaves words into a tapestry.\" -RT Book Reviews \"Elaine Coffman touches the heart while making her readers laugh and cry.\" -Atlanta Journal\"Coffman's writing is deft, capable, and evocative.\" -Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9939976-the-return-of-black-douglas"}, +{"book_title": "So Long, Lollipops", "author_name": "Sarah Lyons Fleming", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2725, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "**WARNING** This novella contains major spoilers from the novel UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DX73ZPY It\u2019s suggested you read the novel before you read SO LONG, LOLLIPOPS. Unless you\u2019re someone who likes to read the last page of a book first\u2014in that case, enjoy! SO LONG, LOLLIPOPS description below * * * * * * * * * Peter watched his new family drive away, certain it was the last time he\u2019d ever see them. But sometimes plans go awry in the best way. Now, the plan is to get back to them. But sometimes plans go awry in the worst way. Sometimes the only plan is to believe it will be all right, even when it\u2019s almost impossible to believe. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20911445-so-long-lollipops"}, +{"book_title": "Biting the Sun", "author_name": "Tanith Lee", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1906, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "In a world dedicated to pleasure, one young rebel sets out on a forbidden quest--.Published for the first time in a single volume, Tanith Lee's duet of novels set in a hedonistic Utopia are as riveting and revolutionary as they were when they first appeared two decades ago.It's a perfect existence, a world in which no pleasure is off-limits, no risk is too dangerous, and no responsibilities can cramp your style. Not if you're Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four BEE. But when you're expected to make trouble--when you can kill yourself on a whim and return in another body, when you're encouraged to change genders at will and experience whatever you desire--you've got no reason to rebel...until making love and raising hell, daring death and running wild just leave you cold and empty.Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system--and by shattering the rules, strikes at the very heart of a soulless society....", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Utopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373009.Biting_the_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Tethered", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1459, "review_number": 127, "book_description": "Surviving on the treacherous Iron Seas requires a heart of steel\u2026but how can Yasmeen hope to survive when her heart has already been stolen by Archimedes Fox\u2026?Tethered along the south dock of Port Fallow, Captain Yasmeen Corsair\u2019s magnificent new airship, Lady Nerg\u00fci, awaits its departure with adventurer and treasure-hunter Archimedes Fox. But this time, Yasmeen, a fearless mercenary who has always prided herself on a heart of steel, has reasons to worry when Miles Bilson, an acquaintance from Archimedes\u2019 earlier smuggling days, sends an urgent message requesting help.With a past marked by betrayal, Archimedes wonders what his former partner could want\u2014other than revenge. Yasmeen fears that Bilson could threaten everything Archimedes holds dear. Though both Archimedes and Yasmeen love the exhilaration of veering wildly off course, neither is prepared for where their newest risk will take them\u2026or what it might cost them.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Short Stories", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14896828-tethered"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Slays", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 65445, "review_number": 2968, "book_description": "Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has never been so deadly. Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job.Kate Daniels may have quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but she\u2019s still knee-deep in paranormal problems. Or she would be if she could get someone to hire her. Starting her own business has been more challenging than she thought it would be\u2014now that the Order is disparaging her good name, and many potential clients are afraid of getting on the bad side of the Beast Lord, who just happens to be Kate\u2019s mate.So when Atlanta\u2019s premier Master of the Dead calls to ask for help with a vampire on the loose, Kate leaps at the chance of some paying work. Turns out this is not an isolated incident, and Kate needs to get to the bottom of it\u2014fast, or the city and everyone dear to her might pay the ultimate price.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8559047-magic-slays"}, +{"book_title": "Peppermint and Pentacles", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 419, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "\n Up on the housetop werewolves howlOut jumps good old Agent LouvelDown through the chimney chasing monsters quickFeeling far less jolly than Old Saint Nick\nRed Cape Society Agent Clemeny Louvel is used to chasing werewolves across London. But when she's reassigned to a special case just days before Christmas, she learns that she'll need more than a silver bullet to keep everyone on the nice list.Peppermint and Pentacles is a retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale set in Melanie Karsak's bestselling steampunk universe. This Christmas-themed tale can be read as a standalone but is best enjoyed as book 3 in the Steampunk Red Riding Hood Series.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Holiday", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39889715-peppermint-and-pentacles"}, +{"book_title": "The Ashes of Worlds", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 3908, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "The culminating volume in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns weaves together the myriad storylines into a spectacular grand finale.Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making. The Saga of Seven Suns is one of the most colorful and spectacular science fiction epics of the last decade.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Astronomy (Planets)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2310896.The_Ashes_of_Worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Siege and Storm", "author_name": "Leigh Bardugo", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 210821, "review_number": 21723, "book_description": "\u25b6 \nAlternative Cover Edition #1\nDarkness never dies.Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can\u2019t outrun her past or her destiny for long.The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling\u2019s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her\u2014or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14061955-siege-and-storm"}, +{"book_title": "The Dastardly Miss Lizzie", "author_name": "Viola Carr", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 230, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Dr. Eliza Jekyll must turn to her dark side, Miss Lizzie Hyde, to stop a madman targeting London\u2019s most important scientists and sorcerers terrorizing the city with dark magic in this third Electric Empire novel\u2014a dazzlingly original steampunk fantasy set in the gritty world of alternate Victorian London, with echoes of H G. Wells classic, The Time MachineBeing two people in one body isn\u2019t easy. Metropolitan Police crime scene physician Eliza Jekyll is trying to maintain a semblance of control, even as her rebellious second self, Lizzie, grows increasingly wild\u2014threatening the respectable Eliza\u2019s reputation and her marriage to Remy Lafayette, the Royal Society investigator and occasional lycanthrope. With England on the brink of war, Remy\u2019s away in sorcery-riddled Paris on a secretive mission that grows ever more sinister. Has he been an enemy agent all along? Or is coping with Eliza\u2019s secret divided self finally driving her mad?Eliza needs her mind clear and sharp if she\u2019s to catch an evil genius who is killing eminent scientists. The chase uncovers a murky world of forbidden books, secret laboratories, and a cabal of fanatical inventors whose work could change the world\u2014or destroy it\u2014and who may hold answers to Eliza's past.As sorcery-wielding terrorists attack London, Eliza discovers her own enemies are closing in, driving her to desperate measures\u2014enlisting the aid of the wily, resourceful, mercurial Lizzie\u2014to thwart the killer. But Lizzie\u2019s got her own life now, and true to her nature, will resort to the devious and diabolical to keep it. Even if it means throwing Eliza to the wolves, and letting the world burn. . . .", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30653865-the-dastardly-miss-lizzie"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen's Gambit", "author_name": "Jessie Mihalik", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1735, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "When the Quint Confederacy and the Kos Empire went to war\u2014again\u2014young Queen Samara wisely kept her Rogue Coalition out of the conflict. But staying neutral in a galactic war doesn\u2019t pay the bills, not when both sides refuse to trade with neutral sectors.With her people on the brink of starvation, Samara hatches a daring plan to snatch the kidnapped Kos Emperor from the Quint mercenaries holding him. The Kos Empire will pay a fortune for their emperor\u2019s return, enough to feed the Coalition\u2019s citizens while they wait for the return to a begrudging peace.But when her plan goes sideways, Samara finds herself evading Quint mercenaries with the very man she intends to capture. And the more time she spends with Valentin Kos, the more she realizes that he\u2019s not the coldly indifferent villain she imagined. Torn between duty and desire, Samara must decide if saving her people is worth giving up the one thing she\u2019s always wanted.The Queen\u2019s Gambit\u00a0is a science fiction novella set in its own universe. I\u2019ll be posting it in a serial format, with new installments each week.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Novella", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37829316-the-queen-s-gambit"}, +{"book_title": "Poison Princess", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 39914, "review_number": 4348, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole introduces The Arcana Chronicles, post-apocalyptic tales filled with riveting action, the dark mysticism of Tarot cards, and breathtaking romance.She could save the world--or destroy it.Sixteen year old Evangeline\"Evie\" Greene leads a charmed life--until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, killing everyone she loves, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future--and they're still happening. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-side-of-the-bayou classmate: Jack Deveaux.But she can't do either alone.With his mile-long rap sheet, wicked grin, and bad attitude, Jack is like no boy Evie has ever known. Even though he once scorned her and everything she represented, he agrees to protect Evie on her quest. She knows she can't totally trust Jack. If he ever cast that wicked grin her way, could she possibly resist him?Who can Evie trust?As Jack and Evie race to find the source of her visions, they meet others who have gotten the same call. An ancient prophesy is being played out, and Evie is not the only one with special powers. A group of teens has been chosen to reenact the ultimate battle between good and evil. But it's not always clear who is on which side...In Poison Princess, New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole introduces a dark and intriguing world, full of unspeakable danger and irresistible romance.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20759393-poison-princess"}, +{"book_title": "Unholy Magic", "author_name": "Stacia Kane", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 10140, "review_number": 746, "book_description": "ENEMIES DON\u2019T NEED TO BE ALIVE TO BE DEADLY.\u00a0For Chess Putnam, finding herself near-fatally poisoned by a con psychic and then stopping a murderous ghost is just another day on the job. As an agent of the Church of Real Truth, Chess must expose those looking to profit from the world\u2019s unpleasant little poltergeist problem\u2014humans filing false claims of hauntings\u2014all while staving off any undead who really are looking for a kill. But Chess has been extra busy these days, coping with a new \u201ccelebrity\u201d assignment while trying on her own time to help some desperate prostitutes.Someone\u2019s taking out the hookers of Downside in the most gruesome way, and Chess is sure the rumors that it\u2019s the work of a ghost are way off base. But proving herself right means walking in the path of a maniac, not to mention standing between the two men in her life just as they\u2014along with their ruthless employers\u2014are moving closer to a catastrophic showdown. Someone is dealing in murder, sex, and the supernatural, and once again Chess finds herself right in the crossfire.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6557156-unholy-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "author_name": "Jules Verne", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 204510, "review_number": 7194, "book_description": "When an unidentified \u201cmonster\u201d threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the \u201cmonster\u201d is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo. Thus begins a journey of 20,000 leagues\u2014nearly 50,000 miles\u2014that will take Captain Nemo, his crew, and these three adventurers on a journey of discovery through undersea forests, coral graveyards, miles-deep trenches, and even the sunken ruins of Atlantis. Jules Verne\u2019s novel of undersea exploration has been captivating readers ever since its first publication in 1870, and Frederick Paul Walter\u2019s reader-friendly, scientifically meticulous translation of this visionary science fiction classic is complete and unabridged down to the smallest substantive detail.", "year_published": 1869, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Cultural (France)", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Novels", "Classics (Classic Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33507.Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea"}, +{"book_title": "One", "author_name": "Conrad Williams", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 477, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "This is no country\u00a0he knows, and no place\u00a0he ever wants to see, even in the shuttered madness of his worst dreams. But\u00a0Richard Jane\u00a0survived. He walks because\u00a0he has\u00a0no choice and\u00a0at the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a burned, battered country,\u00a0his son may be alive. The sky crawls with venomous cloud and burning rain while\u00a0the land is a scorched sprawl of rubble and corpses. Rats have risen from the depths to gorge on the carrion, and\u00a0a glittering dust coats everything. It hides a terrible secret as\u00a0new horrors take root. He walks on, with one hope.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6315359-one"}, +{"book_title": "Point of Origin", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1254, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "A starship lost. A creator found. A frantic race to save them both. For Colonel Mitchell \u201cAres\u201d Williams, there is no giving up. There is no going back. The Goliath may have fallen into enemy hands, but the war must go on. After all, he and the Riggers have what they need to locate the Creator, the man responsible for the alien threat and the key to unraveling their unstoppable attack. All they have to do is get to him before the Tetron do. It\u2019s no easy task, but nothing about the war has ever been easy, and the Riggers still have a few tricks left up their sleeves. ---------- Point of Origin is the fourth book in the science-fiction War Eternal series. Book 1: Starship Eternal Book 2: The End of Liberty Book 3: The Knife's Edge", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28052328-point-of-origin"}, +{"book_title": "Migrations", "author_name": "Charlotte McConaghy", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 10264, "review_number": 2047, "book_description": "Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny\u2019s history begins to unspool\u2014a passionate love affair, an absent family, a devastating crime\u2014it becomes clear that she is chasing more than just the birds. When Franny's dark secrets catch up with her, how much is she willing to risk for one more chance at redemption?Epic and intimate, heartbreaking and galvanizing, Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations is an ode to a disappearing world and a breathtaking page-turner about the possibility of hope against all odds.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Environment (Nature)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Environment", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42121525-migrations"}, +{"book_title": "Trouble on Paradise", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 4139, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Book '3.5' in the ExForce series: While the crew of the UN Expeditionary Force's pirate starship Flying Dutchman are enjoying a luxury vacation cruise (not!), UNEF troops are still stranded on an alien-controlled planet. Major Emily Perkins and her team are busy picking up the pieces, and it's not easy, because there is trouble on Paradise...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34670700-trouble-on-paradise"}, +{"book_title": "Watch on the Rhine", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 2526, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "The invaders are coming: the Posleen, a seemingly unstoppable horde who have conquered one star system after another, literally feeding on their conquests. Earth's dubious allies, the Darhel, have given the humans a number of highly-advanced technological devices, including a process for rejuvenating the aged, which has returned to service trained and proven soldiers who otherwise would be too old to fight. In the dark days after the initial Posleen attack, but before the primary invasion, the Chancellor of Germany faces a critical decision. Over the years, with military cutbacks, the store of experienced German military personnel had simply dwindled. After the destruction of Northern Virginia, he realized that it was necessary to tap the one group he had sworn never, ever, to recall: the few remaining survivors of the Waffen SS. Has he made a bargain with the devil, or is this a chance for the reviled SS at last to fight the good fight, and, perhaps, gain redemption? \"Watch On the Rhine\", is a new chapter, and a \"side-story\", in the best-selling Posleen War saga.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/524866.Watch_on_the_Rhine"}, +{"book_title": "Ganymede", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 4014, "review_number": 363, "book_description": "The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he\u2019s happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money\u2019s good, he doesn\u2019t think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects. But becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly\u2019s first legal gig\u2014a supply run for the Seattle Underground\u2014will be paid for by sap money.New Orleans is not Cly\u2019s first pick for a shopping run. He loved the Big Easy once, back when he also loved a beautiful mixed-race prostitute named Josephine Early\u2014but that was a decade ago, and he hasn\u2019t looked back since. Jo\u2019s still thinking about him, though, or so he learns when he gets a telegram about a peculiar piloting job. It\u2019s a chance to complete two lucrative jobs at once, one he can\u2019t refuse. He sends his old paramour a note and heads for New Orleans, with no idea of what he\u2019s in for\u2014or what she wants him to fly.But he won\u2019t be flying. Not exactly. Hidden at the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain lurks an astonishing war machine, an immense submersible called the Ganymede. This prototype could end the war, if only anyone had the faintest idea of how to operate it\u2026. If only they could sneak it past the Southern forces at the mouth of the Mississippi River\u2026 If only it hadn\u2019t killed most of the men who\u2019d ever set foot inside it. But it\u2019s those \u201cif onlys\u201d that will decide whether Cly and his crew will end up in the history books, or at the bottom of the ocean.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Horror", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10900324-ganymede"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl Who Owned a City: The Graphic Novel", "author_name": "O.T. Nelson", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1858, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "A DEADLY VIRUS KILLED EVERY ADULT ON EARTH, LEAVING ONLY US KIDS BEHIND. My parents are gone, so I'm responsible for my little brother Todd. I have to make sure we stay alive. Many kids are sick or starving, and fierce gangs are stealing and destroying everything they find. Lots of people have given up, but here on Grand Avenue, some of us are surviving, because of me.I figured out how to give the kids on Grand Avenue food, homes, and protection against the gangs. But Tom Logan and his army are determined to take away what we've built and rule the streets themselves. How long can we keep fighting them off? We need to find another place for us to live safely.A strong place, a secret place.In a world like this, someone has to take charge.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13022967-the-girl-who-owned-a-city"}, +{"book_title": "Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 903, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "This collection brings together the early Company stories in one volume for the first time with three previously unpublished works, including 'The Queen in Yellow', written exclusively for this compilation. In these tales sci-fi fans follow the secret activities of the Company's field agents - once human, now centuries-old time-travelling immortal cyborgs - as they attempt to retrieve history's lost treasures. Botanist Mendoza's search for the rare hallucinogenic Black Elysium grape in 1844 Spanish-held Santa Barbara, facilitator Joseph's dreamlike solicitation of the ailing Robert Louis Stevenson in 1879, and marine salvage specialist Kalugin's recovering of an invaluable Eugene Delacroix painting from a sunken yacht off the coast of Los Angeles in 1894 are included.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Adventure", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455901.Black_Projects_White_Knights"}, +{"book_title": "Citadel", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 6704, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "Of all the hosts of Eurotas the Troias were the most fell. For they were born of Winter.Between the Solar Array Pumped Laser and Troy, the two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation created by eccentric billionaire Tyler Vernon, Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from their Horvath conquerors and begin entering the galactic millieu.But when the Rangora Empire rapidly crushes humanity's only ally it becomes clear the war is just beginning. At the heart of nickel iron and starlight are the people, Marines, Navy and civilians, who make Troy a living, breathing, engine of war. Survivors of apocalypse, they know the cost of failure.If this Troy falls, no one will be left to write the epic.Citadel continues the saga begun in Live Free or Die, following the paths of several characters during the first years of The Spiral Arm Wars culminating in the First Battle of E Eridani.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8157267-citadel"}, +{"book_title": "Marque and Reprisal", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 9244, "review_number": 323, "book_description": "Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of Trading in Danger, is back in business\u2013the kind that\u2019s anything but usual\u2013in the new military science fiction adventure by ace action storyteller Elizabeth Moon.The exciting military career she hoped for never got off the ground\u2013but Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her family\u2019s fleet . . . and steered it into a full-blown war. Now the lessons she learned in that trial by fire are about to pay off: because this time, the war has come to her. To be exact, someone unknown has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky\u2019s father\u2019s interstellar shipping empire. In short order, most of Ky\u2019s family is killed, and subsequent attacks sever vital lines of communication, leaving Ky fighting, in every sense, to survive.Determined to identify the ruthless mystery enemy and avenge her family\u2019s name, Ky needs not only firepower but information. And she gets both in spades\u2013from the band of stranded mercenaries she hooks up with, from her black-sheep cousin, Stella, who\u2019s been leading a secret life, and from Stella\u2019s roguish ex-lover, Rafe. Together they struggle to penetrate the tangled web of political intrigue that\u2019s wreaking havoc within InterStellar Communications, whose effective operation their own livelihoods\u2013and perhaps lives\u2013depend on.But the infighting proves to be infectious, and it isn\u2019t long before Ky\u2019s hired military muscle are turning their suspicions on the enigmatic Rafe, whose wealth of knowledge about ISC\u2019s clashing factions and startling new technologies has begun to make him smell like a rat . . . or a mole. With swift, violent destruction a very real possibility, the last thing Ky needs is a crew divided against itself\u2013and she\u2019s prepared to take whatever measures are necessary to ensure that Vatta stays in business, as well as in one piece.What she\u2019s not prepared for is the shocking truth behind the terror\u2013 and a confrontation with murderous treachery from a source as unexpected as it is unrelenting.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96279.Marque_and_Reprisal"}, +{"book_title": "The Year of the Hangman", "author_name": "Gary L. Blackwood", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 1631, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "In 1776, the rebellion of the American colonies against British rule was crushed.\u00a0 Now, in 1777-the year of the hangman-George Washington is awaiting execution, Benjamin Franklin's banned rebel newspaper, Liberty Tree, has gone underground, and young ne'er-do-well Creighton Brown, a fifteen-year-old Brit, has just arrived in the colonies.\u00a0 Having been shipped off against his will, with nothing but a distance for English authorities, Creighton befriends Franklin, and lands a job with his print shop.\u00a0 But the English general expects the spoiled yet loyal Creighton to spy on Franklin.\u00a0 As battles unfold and falsehoods are exposed, Creighton must decide where his loyalties lie...a choice that could determine the fate of a nation.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Academic (School)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Military History (American Revolution)", "Academic (Read For School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1150401.The_Year_of_the_Hangman"}, +{"book_title": "The Empire of Fear", "author_name": "Brian Stableford", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 358, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "\"Terrific vampire fiction.\"THE KIRKUS REVIEWSSince the sixteenth century, England has been a land ruled by the Undead. Vampires rule with terror and the darkly-seductive promise of life eternal for the lucky few. Edmund Cordery, member of the cabal pledged to penetrate the mysteries of the vampires and destroy them, strike the first blow. But it will fall to his son. Noell, to carry on the crusade of human against inhuman. And it will fall to those who come after Noell to keep the struggle alive for over three centuries--from England to Malta to modern-day America, where destiny will decide finally whether the forces of horror or humanity will hold sway over all....", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Novels", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1245236.The_Empire_of_Fear"}, +{"book_title": "Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence", "author_name": "Calum Chace", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 544, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology, and in the coming decades it will change everything in our lives. If we get it right it will make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong... well, extinction is not the worst possible outcome.\u201cSurviving AI\u201d is a concise, easy-to-read guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).Here's what some of the leading thinkers in the field have to say about it:A sober and easy-to-read review of the risks and opportunities that humanity will face from AI. Jaan Tallinn \u2013 co-founder of Skype Understanding AI \u2013 its promise and its dangers \u2013 is emerging as one of the great challenges of coming decades and this is an invaluable guide to anyone who\u2019s interested, confused, excited or scared. David Shukman \u2013 BBC Science Editor We have recently seen a surge in the volume of scholarly analysis of this topic; Chace impressively augments that with this high-quality, more general-audience discussion. Aubrey de Grey \u2013 CSO of SENS Research Foundation; former AI researcher It's rare to see a book about the potential End of the World that is fun to read without descending into sensationalism or crass oversimplification. Ben Goertzel \u2013 chairman of Novamente LLC Calum Chace is a prescient messenger of the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence. In \u201cSurviving AI\u201d he has identified the most essential issues and developed them with insight and wit \u2013 so that the very framing of the questions aids our search for answers. Chace\u2019s sensible balance between AI\u2019s promise and peril makes \u201cSurviving AI\u201d an excellent primer for anyone interested in what\u2019s happening, how we got here, and where we are headed. Kenneth Cukier \u2013 co-author of \u201cBig Data\u201d If you\u2019re not thinking about AI, you\u2019re not thinking. \u00a0\u201cSurviving AI\u201d combines an essential grounding in the state of the art with a survey of scenarios that will be discussed with equal vigor at cocktail parties and academic colloquia. Chris Meyer \u2013 author of\u00a0\u201cBlur\u201d, \u201cIt\u2019s Alive\u201d, and \u201cStanding on the Sun\u201d The appearance of Calum Chace's book is of some considerable personal satisfaction to me, because it signifies the fact that the level of social awareness of the rise of massively intelligent machines has finally reached the mainstream. If you want to survive the next few decades, you cannot afford NOT to read Chace's book. Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis \u2013 former director of the Artificial Brain Lab, Xiamen University, China \u201cSurviving AI\u201d is an exceptionally clear, well-researched and balanced introduction to a complex and controversial topic, and is a compelling read to boot. Se\u00e1n \u00d3 h\u00c9igeartaigh \u2013\u00a0executive director of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk In\u00a0\u201cSurviving AI\u201d, Calum Chace provides a marvellously accessible guide to the swirls of controversy that surround discussion of what\u00a0is likely to be the single most important event in human history -\u00a0the emergence of artificial super", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Philosophy", "Futurism", "Science (Popular Science)", "Economics", "Business", "Science (Computer Science)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26254196-surviving-ai"}, +{"book_title": "The Magicians", "author_name": "Lev Grossman", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 240045, "review_number": 22521, "book_description": "A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world.Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he\u2019s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn\u2019t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin\u2019s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart. At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren\u2019t black and white, love and sex aren\u2019t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6101718-the-magicians"}, +{"book_title": "Who Goes There", "author_name": "John W. Campbell Jr.", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 6947, "review_number": 712, "book_description": "\"Who Goes There?\" The novella that formed the basis of \"The Thing\" is the John W. Campbell classic about an antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal and man, alike. Paranoia ensues as a band of frightened men work to discern friend from foe, and destroy the menace before it challenges all of humanity! The story, hailed as \"one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written\" by the SF Writers of America, is best known to fans as THE THING, as it was the basis of Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World in 1951, and John Carpenter's The Thing in 1982. With a new Introduction by William F. Nolan, author of Logan's Run, and his never-before-published, suspenseful Screen Treatment written for Universal Studios in 1978, this is a must-have edition for scifi and horror fans!", "year_published": 1938, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6468870-who-goes-there"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century", "author_name": "Ian Mortimer", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 19890, "review_number": 1396, "book_description": "Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking the reader to the Middle Ages, and showing everything from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["History", "Nonfiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical", "European Literature (British Literature)", "History (Medieval History)", "Travel", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literature (14th Century)", "History (European History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4936457-the-time-traveller-s-guide-to-medieval-england"}, +{"book_title": "The Eternal War", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 3030, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "Liam O\u2019Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance\u2014to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...A time wave has struck that alters the entire history of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln has followed Liam into the present from 1831and now the world is in a dangerous state of limbo...If the TimeRiders can\u2019t return Lincoln to the past, the Civil War will never end. Can Maddy persuade two colonels on either side of no man\u2019s land to cease fire long enough to save the future?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Action", "Thriller", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10726285-the-eternal-war"}, +{"book_title": "The Battle of the Labyrinth", "author_name": "Rick Riordan", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 771511, "review_number": 20135, "book_description": "Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears at his potential new school, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2120932.The_Battle_of_the_Labyrinth"}, +{"book_title": "Avalon", "author_name": "Mindee Arnett", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3908, "review_number": 627, "book_description": "Of the various star systems that make up the Confederation, most lie thousands of light-years from First Earth-and out here, no one is free. The agencies that govern the Confederation are as corrupt as the crime bosses who patrol it, and power is held by anyone with enough greed and ruthlessness to claim it. That power is derived from one thing: metatech, the devices that allow people to travel great distances faster than the speed of light.Jeth Seagrave and his crew of teenage mercenaries have survived in this world by stealing unsecured metatech, and they're damn good at it. Jeth doesn't care about the politics or the law; all he cares about is earning enough money to buy back his parents' ship, Avalon, from his crime-boss employer and getting himself and his sister, Lizzie, the heck out of Dodge. But when Jeth finds himself in possession of information that both the crime bosses and the government are willing to kill for, he is going to have to ask himself how far he'll go to get the freedom he's wanted for so long.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17149396-avalon"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow and Bone", "author_name": "Leigh Bardugo", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 342822, "review_number": 35303, "book_description": "\u25b6 \nAlternative Cover Edition #1\nSurrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life\u2014a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10194157-shadow-and-bone"}, +{"book_title": "The Messenger", "author_name": "Pamela DuMond", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 440, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "A boy from the past. A girl from the future. Their love could be forever, but their time is running out... Madeline falls in love with Samuel when she accidentally time travels hundreds of years into the past to a war between the colonists and Native Americans. Their relationship is forbidden.But Madeline's travels to the past not only to fall in love, but also to claim her birth right as a Messenger, a soul who can slip through time's fabric, delivering messages that change one life, or save many. Deadly Hunters, dark-souled time travelers, crave her powers and seek to seduce or kill her. Can Madeline find her way back to the future in time to save herself and Samuel?PRAISE: \u201c\u2026 by the end, I was getting a bicep workout from all the fistpumps...\" ForeverYoungAdult\"This book held me captive\u2026 a magical story with lots of twists and turns\u2026 \" A Diary of a Book Addict Blog\u201cFor those who like The Immortals series by Alyson Noel, Timeless by Alexandra Monir, or The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller \u2013 The Messenger is a must read.\u201d Breathe in Books Blogspot\"All the excitement of OUTLANDER if it was a YA series!\" A.Reviewer \u201cTime travel at its best\u2026 very different, edgy and yet still has the soft romanticism.\u201d Creating Serenity ReviewsTHE MESSENGER is also available in print and Audio.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51498384-the-messenger"}, +{"book_title": "The Mirror of Her Dreams", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 13132, "review_number": 414, "book_description": "With The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant\u2019s Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the deadliest of magics and nothing is what it seems. . . .The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life\u2014until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land. Terisa is no champion. She wields neither magic nor power. And yet, much to her own surprise, when Geraden begs her to come back with him, she agrees.Now, in a culture where women are little more than the playthings of powerful men, in a castle honeycombed with secret passages and clever traps, in a kingdom threatened from without and within by enemies able to appear and vanish out of thin air, Terisa must become more than the pale reflection of a person. For the way back to Earth is closed to her. And the enemies of Mordant will stop at nothing to see her dead.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177250.The_Mirror_of_Her_Dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Honor", "author_name": "Russell Blake", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 2023, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "They said it could never happen - that the day would never come. They were wrong. Five years post-collapse, former Texas Ranger Lucas Shaw is surviving hardscrabble in a kill-or-be-killed wasteland. When an enigmatic young woman enters his life with a desperate plea, Lucas must face impossible odds and battle an adversary who will stop at nothing to destroy them. Lightning-paced and gritty, Blood Honor, the debut novel in The Day After Never trilogy, is a non-stop adrenaline rush set in a chillingly plausible dystopian future. Fans of Jack Reacher, The Hunger Games, and Road Warrior are sure to enjoy this post-collapse epic. From The NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of the JET, Assassin, BLACK, and Fatal series, and co-author with Clive Cussler of The Eye of Heaven and The Solomon Curse. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29940794-blood-honor"}, +{"book_title": "Behemoth", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 36959, "review_number": 2670, "book_description": "The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers.Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes the Leviathan's peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory. Alek and Deryn will need great skill, new allies, and brave hearts to face what's ahead.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7826116-behemoth"}, +{"book_title": "Lords of War", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 300, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Lords of War is the first novel in the epic new \u2018Mercenaries\u2019 series that chronicles the violent struggles of the sprawling Centauri Alliance. Spartan is a living legend, a veteran of the Alliance Marine Corps, victor of a multitude of military campaigns including the horrific Biomech War. He is both loved and reviled by friend and foe alike, and now lives out on the fringes of the Alliance. He has fought for money, for his people and for the very survival of his species, and lost everything in the process. But when two of his closest friends are captured supplying weapons to the desperate Byotai settlers of Karnak, the fight becomes personal. The Great Biomech War left millions dead, colonies burned, and cities turned to ash. Millions more continue to endure in the harshest of conditions. The Alliance attempts to restore order, yet already new enemies have begun to strike at will, encouraged by their weakness. Border planets succumb to the raids of warlords, and many doubt how long the peace will last, after it was won at such cost. Since the end of this war, Spartan and his friends have worked to create an elite fighting force based at Taxxu, for use by the Alliance. Using the latest high-energy weapons, armoured fighting suits and a prototype Confederate-class warship, it will be a force unlike any the Alliance has seen before. Spartan will use this and every other asset at his disposal to save his friends. Nothing, not even the entire might of the invading Anicin\u00e0be clans and their fearsome clan leaders, can stop him, even if it means starting his own private war. Lords of War is a futuristic military sci-fi adventure that continues to expand the vast universe of the Star Crusades series that includes Star Crusades: Uprising and Star Crusades: Nexus. Essential and unmissable reading for enthusiasts of the Military sci-fi genre.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438810-lords-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "The Dragon Blood Collection, Books 1-3", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 6592, "review_number": 408, "book_description": "A thousand years have passed since a dragon has been seen in the world. Science and technology have replaced magic, which has dwindled until it has become little more than an element of myth and legend. There are those who still have dragon blood flowing through their veins, distant descendants of the mighty creatures of old. These rare humans have the power to cast magic, the power to heal, and the power to craft alchemical weapons capable of starting wars\u2026 or ending them. But they are feared for those powers, and in recent centuries, they have been hunted nearly to extinction. The few remaining survivors must find a way to change how humanity perceives them or be lost to the world forever. The Dragon Blood Collection includes three full-length novels of action, magic, and romance: Balanced on the Blade\u2019s Edge Deathmaker Blood Charged", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23840035-the-dragon-blood-collection-books-1-3"}, +{"book_title": "Finna", "author_name": "Nino Cipri", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2092, "review_number": 526, "book_description": "When an elderly customer at a big box furniture store slips through a portal to another dimension, it\u2019s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company\u2019s bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but our two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.Can friendship blossom from the ashes of a relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Novella", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44081573-finna"}, +{"book_title": "Restoration", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 924, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "If you wondered why Fade retreated from Deuce at the end of Outpost, find out in his own words.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Novella", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18710799-restoration"}, +{"book_title": "Galactic Convoy", "author_name": "Bill Baldwin", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 285, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Brim must rescue the crew of the Defiant when war breaks out against the League and must come to terms with his love for the married Princess Margot.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2523152.Galactic_Convoy"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Puzzler", "author_name": "Eyal Kless", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 425, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "A brilliantly written, page-turning, post-dystopian debut from Eyal Kless, about a society hoping to salvage the technology of a lost generation, a mysterious missing boy who can open doors no one else can, and a scribe who must piece together the past to determine humanity\u2019s future.More than a hundred years have passed since the Catastrophe brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Those who survived are changed. The Wildeners have reverted to the old ways\u2014but with new Gods\u2014while others place their faith in the technology that once powered their lost civilization.In the mysterious City of Towers, the center of the destroyed Tarakan empire, a lowly scribe of the Guild of Historians is charged with a dangerous assignment. He must venture into the wilds beyond the glass and steel towers to discover the fate of a child who mysteriously disappeared more than a decade before. Born of a rare breed of marked people, the child, Rafik\u2014known as \u201cThe Key\u201d\u2014was one of a special few with the power to restore this lost civilization to glory once again.In a world riven by fear and violence, where tattooed mutants, manic truckers, warring guilds and greedy mercenaries battle for survival, this one boy may have singlehandedly destroyed humanity\u2019s only chance for salvation\u2014unless the scribe can figure out what happened to him.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39938164-the-lost-puzzler"}, +{"book_title": "The Native Star", "author_name": "M.K. Hobson", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 3655, "review_number": 509, "book_description": "In the tradition of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, this brilliant first novel fuses history, fantasy, and romance. Prepare to be enchanted by M. K. Hobson's captivating take on the Wild, Wild West. The year is 1876. In the small Sierra Nevada settlement of Lost Pine, the town witch, Emily Edwards, is being run out of business by an influx of mail-order patent magics. Attempting to solve her problem with a love spell, Emily only makes things worse. But before she can undo the damage, an enchanted artifact falls into her possession--and suddenly Emily must flee for her life, pursued by evil warlocks who want the object for themselves. Dreadnought Stanton, a warlock from New York City whose personality is as pompous and abrasive as his name, has been exiled to Lost Pine for mysterious reasons. Now he finds himself involuntarily allied with Emily in a race against time--and across the United States by horse, train, and biomechanical flying machine--in quest of the great Professor Mirabilis, who alone can unlock the secret of the coveted artifact. But along the way, Emily and Stanton will be forced to contend with the most powerful and unpredictable magic of all--the magic of the human heart.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7236997-the-native-star"}, +{"book_title": "The More I See You", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 2969, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "A wish upon a star transports the luckless-in-love Jessica Blakely back in time to the thirteenth century. But her desire for a fair and gallant knight yields the fearsome Richard De Galtres. And it will take her tender touch--and stubborn will--to pierce his armor-clad heart...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Clean Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816580.The_More_I_See_You"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Light", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 2242, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "Abbey When your mate is a Kordolian General who's betrayed the most vicious Empire in the Universe, things tend to get a little heavy from time to time. For the last six months, Tarak's had to divide his time between Earth and space, dealing with various... problems. But he's home now, and he tells me he's not going anywhere. That's good news, because our baby's on the way, and I'm dying to get out of this boring, stifling limbo they call the Diplomatic Zone. Tarak Now that Earth is surrounded by my warships and the Kordolian Empire has been held at bay, I can give my full, undivided attention to my mate. Pregnancy has made Abbey even more beautiful, and I am in awe of the growing life she carries inside her. But I must be ever-vigilant, because the shadow of the Empire lingers, and I must protect what is mine, at all costs. Warning: This book is a science-fiction alien pregnancy romance. It contains swearing, violence, sensual (pregnant) sex scenes and silver aliens with fangs. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over. Into the Light is Book Three in the Dark Planet Warriors Series. It will make more sense if you've read the other books first, although that's probably not absolutely essential.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Action", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30729664-into-the-light"}, +{"book_title": "The Goblin Emperor", "author_name": "Katherine Addison", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 30557, "review_number": 4328, "book_description": "alternate cover edition can be found hereThe youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an \"accident,\" he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir.Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the sure knowledge that whoever assassinated his father and brothers could make an attempt on his life at any moment.Surrounded by sycophants eager to curry favor with the na\u00efve new emperor, and overwhelmed by the burdens of his new life, he can trust nobody. Amid the swirl of plots to depose him, offers of arranged marriages, and the specter of the unknown conspirators who lurk in the shadows, he must quickly adjust to life as the Goblin Emperor. All the while, he is alone, and trying to find even a single friend... and hoping for the possibility of romance, yet also vigilant against the unseen enemies that threaten him, lest he lose his throne \u2013 or his life.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910048-the-goblin-emperor"}, +{"book_title": "Spin", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 36483, "review_number": 2344, "book_description": "One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910863.Spin"}, +{"book_title": "Watcher in the Woods", "author_name": "Robert Liparulo", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 3800, "review_number": 284, "book_description": "It's not just the house that's keeping secrets. Pretending everything's all right is harder than it sounds. But the Kings know that even if they told the truth about the bizarre things happening in their house, no one would believe them. They're hyper-focused on rescuing their lost family member before anyone finds out what's going on.But when a stranger shows up to take their house, their options start dwindling fast. Why would he be so interested in a run-down old place? And what secret is he hiding -- just as he hides the scars that crisscross his body? The mystery gets stranger with each passing day. Will the Kinds be able to find a way to harness the house's secrets and discover who is watching their every move before another gets snatched into an unknown world?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Adventure", "Horror", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2490519.Watcher_in_the_Woods"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded", "author_name": "Ann VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 720, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Blending the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with modern scientific advances, the popular Steampunk genre spotlighted in this collection is innovative and\u00a0stimulates the imagination. This artfully assembled anthology of original fiction, nonfiction, and art can serve as an introduction to the Steampunk culture\u00a0or provide dedicated fans with more fuel. Stories of outlandishly imaginative technologies, clockwork contraptions, eccentric heroines, and mad scientists are complemented by canon-defining nonfiction and an array of original illustrations. This collection showcases the most sensational Steampunk talents of the last decade, including Daniel Abraham, John Coulthart, William Gibson, and Margo Lanagan, and demonstrates exactly why the future of the past is so excitingly new.ContentsIntroduction: \u201cWhat Is Steampunk?\u201d by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer\u201cThe Cast Iron Kid\u201d by Andrew Knighton\u201cThe Steam Dancer (1896)\u201d by Caitl\u00edn R. Kiernan\u201cThe Anachronist\u2019s Cookbook\u201d by Catherynne M. Valente\u201cTanglefoot\u201d by Cherie Priest\u201cO One\u201d by Chris Roberson\u201cBalfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor\u2019s Vengeance\u201d by Daniel Abraham\u201cThe Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond\u201d by David Erik Nelson\u201cThe Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday\u201d by Geoffery D. Falksen\u201cAt the Intersection of Technology and Romance\u201d by Jake von Slatt\u201cThe Future of Steampunk: A Roundtable Interview\u201d by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer\u201cDr. Lash Remembers\u201d by Jeffrey Ford\u201cLost Pages From The Encyclopdia of Victoriana\u201d by Jess Nevins\u201cAs Recorded on Brass Cylinders: Adagio for Two Dancers\u201d by Lisa Mantchev\u201cA Serpent in the Gears\u201d by Margaret Ronald\u201cMachine Maid\u201d by Margo Lanagan\u201cWhich Is Mightier, the Pen or the Parasol?\u201d by Gail Carriger\u201cThe Unbecoming of Virgil Smythe\u201d by Ramsey Shehadeh\u201cWild Copper\u201d by Samantha Henderson\u201cThe Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar\u201d by Shweta Narayan\u201cThe Unblinking Eye\u201d by Stephen Baxter\u201cLovelace & Babbage\u201d by Sydney Padua\u201cThe Persecution Machine\u201d by Tanith Lee\u201cFlying Fish (Prometheus)\u201d by Vilhelm Bergs\u00f8e\u201cThe Gernsback Continuum\u201d by William Gibson", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8129662-steampunk-ii"}, +{"book_title": "Whispers in Autumn", "author_name": "Trisha Leigh", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2409, "review_number": 367, "book_description": "In 2015, a race of alien Others conquered Earth. They enslaved humanity not by force, but through an aggressive mind control that turned people into contented, unquestioning robots. Except sixteen-year-old Althea isn\u2019t content at all, and she doesn\u2019t need the mysterious note inside her locket to tell her she\u2019s Something Else. It also warns her to trust no one, so she hides the pieces that make her different, even though it means being alone. Then she meets Lucas, everything changes. Althea and Lucas are immune to the alien mind control, and together they search for the reason why. What they uncover is a stunning truth the Others never anticipated, one with the potential to free the brainwashed human race. It\u2019s not who they are that makes them special, but what.And what they are is a threat. One the Others are determined to eliminate for good.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13631837-whispers-in-autumn"}, +{"book_title": "Invasion", "author_name": "Jon S. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1452, "review_number": 238, "book_description": " He didn't ask for the job, but now all that stands between us and chaos... is ColtColt McAlister was having the summer of his life. He spent his days surfing and his nights playing guitar on the beach with friends. He even met a girl and got his first car. But everything changes when his parents are killed in a freak accident.He's forced to leave his old life behind and move to Arizona with his grandfather. The only person he knows at the new high school is a childhood friend named Dani. And Oz, a guy he's sure he's never met but who is strangely familiar.But what if his parents' death wasn't an accident? His mother, an investigative reporter, was going to expose a secret mind-control program run by one of the world's largest companies. Before she could release the story, what if agents from Trident Biotech made sure she couldn't go public?Vowing to uncover the truth, Colt gets drawn into a secret world of aliens, shapeshifters, flying motorcycles, and invisible gateways.The Invasion has begun.\"...An unstoppable cyborg mix of Fringe meets The X-Files. Read Invasion with your eyes wide open. No blinking or you might miss a shapeshifting alien as it blows past you en route to a total planetary take-over.\" -Frank Beddor, New York Times best-selling author of The Looking Glass Wars", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Christian Fiction", "Christian"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8585830-invasion"}, +{"book_title": "Betrayer", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1898, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Betrayer (Foreigner, Book 12)The twelfth novel in Cherryh\u2019s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences\u2026In the wake of civil war, Bren Cameron, the brilliant human diplomat of the alien atevi civilization, has left the capital and sought refuge at his country estate, Najida. But now he is trapped inside Najida\u2014which has been surrounded by enemies\u2014with Ilisidi, the powerful grandmother of his ally, Tabini-aiji, atevi leader of the Western Association. But Ilisidi, the wily and dangerous aiji-dowager, is not inclined to be passive, and in a brazen maneuver sends Bren into enemy territory, to the palace of Machigi, the leader of the rebels.Bren's mission is to negotiate with Machigi\u2014a young atevi lord who has never actually seen a human\u2014and somehow persuade him to cease his hostile actions against the West. Bren knows that the autocratic Machigi rules a fractious clan, and that his hospitality is not guaranteed. Bren's genius for negotiation enable him to make a daring trade offer to Machigi\u2014one that seems to interest the young warlord. But Machigi is suspicious of Ilisidi's motives, and, to Bren's utter shock, evokes an ancient law that jeopardizes Bren's life. Can Bren stay alive and not alienate Ilisidi or Tabini, while also representing the interests of their enemy?The long-running Foreigner series can also be enjoyed by more casual genre readers in sub-trilogy installments. Betrayer is the 12th Foreigner novel, and the 3rd book in the fourth subtrilogy.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Planetary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8705637-betrayer"}, +{"book_title": "Critical Mass", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.58, "rating_votes": 2631, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "The Merry Band of Pirates are in desperate trouble after the end of their last mission, and the real danger to humanity is just getting started. Hostile aliens have discovered there is something odd going on with wormholes in the galaxy, and their investigations could lead to finding a shortcut to Earth....", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53179797-critical-mass"}, +{"book_title": "Undercity", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 873, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "BOOK ONE IN A BRAND NEW SERIES by Nebula and Hugo Award Winner Catherine Asaro set in the world of her Skolian Empire universe. In the galaxy-spanning future, Major Bhaajan is a tough female P.I. who works the dangerous streets of Undercity.Major Bhaajan, a former military officer with Imperial Space Command, is now a hard-bitten P.I. with a load of baggage to deal with, and clients with woes sometimes personal, sometimes galaxy-shattering, and sometimes both. Bhaajan must sift through the shadows of dark and dangerous Undercity\u2014the enormous capital of a vast star empire\u2014to find answers.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412186-undercity"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Study", "author_name": "Maria V. Snyder", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 74702, "review_number": 4852, "book_description": "You know your life is complicated when you miss your days as a poison taster...With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be united with the family she'd been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But although she has gained her freedom, she once again finds herself alone - separated from her lover Valek and suspected as a spy for her reluctance to conform to Sitian ways.Despite the turmoil, she's eager to start her magic training - especially as she's been given one year to harness her power or be put to death. But her plans take a radical turn when she becomes embroiled in a plot to reclaim Ixia's throne for a lost prince - and gets entangled in powerful rivalries with her fellow magicians. If that wasn't bad enough, it appears her brother would love to see her dead. Luckily, Yelena has some old friends to help her with her new enemies.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46202.Magic_Study"}, +{"book_title": "Cascade", "author_name": "Lisa Tawn Bergren", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 10518, "review_number": 943, "book_description": "What if you not only fell back through time...but fell in love, too?Gabi knows she's left her heart in the fourteenth century, and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their very lives. When they arrive, months have passed, and all of Siena longs to celebrate the heroines who turned the tide in the battle against Florence--while their enemies will go to great lengths to see them dead.Even in the midst of the battles, Gabi is increasingly drawn to Marcello, just as Lia's is to Luca. In medieval Italy, the sisters must discover things inside themselves that they couldn't seem to find in the present--connection with their mom, courage within, and the understanding that a life well lived often means encountering sacrifice. But in a world long past, many things still keep Gabi from giving Marcello her heart forever...and one thing in particular calls all three of the Betarrinis home.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9368401-cascade"}, +{"book_title": "A Million Suns", "author_name": "Beth Revis", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 52606, "review_number": 4091, "book_description": "\nGodspeed was once fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos.\nIt\u2019s been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed.But there may be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act on his vision\u2014no more Phydus, no more lies.But when Elder learns shocking news about the ship, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed. They must work together to unlock a mystery that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Their success\u2014or failure\u2014will determine the fate of the 2,298 passengers aboard Godspeed. But with each step, the journey becomes more perilous, the ship more chaotic, and the love between them more impossible to fight.Beth Revis catapulted readers into the far reaches of space with her New York Times bestselling debut, Across the Universe. In A Million Suns, Beth deepens the mystery with action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. And this time it all builds to one mind-bending conclusion: They have to get off this ship.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10345927-a-million-suns"}, +{"book_title": "Firewalkers", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 965, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "A thrilling new limited-edition hardcover\u00a0concerning class and climate change from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.Firewalkers are brave. Firewalkers are resourceful. Firewalkers are expendable. The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And as for power? Well, someone has to repair the solar panels, down in the deserts below. Kids like Mao, and Lup\u00e9, and Hotep; kids with brains and guts but no hope. The Firewalkers.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52758714-firewalkers"}, +{"book_title": "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "author_name": "Jules Verne", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 159027, "review_number": 5650, "book_description": "\"The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who ever lived.\" \u2014 Arthur C. ClarkeAn adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's core. Professor Lidenbrock can't resist the opportunity to investigate, and with his nephew Axel, he sets off across Iceland in the company of Hans Bjelke, a native guide. The expedition descends into an extinct volcano toward a sunless sea, where they encounter a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life \u2014 a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence.Originally published in 1864, Jules Verne's classic remains critically acclaimed for its style and imaginative visions. Verne wrote many fantasy stories that later proved remarkably prescient, and his distinctive combination of realism and romanticism exercised a lasting influence on writers as diverse as Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jean-Paul Sartre. In addition to the excitement of an action novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth has the added appeal of a psychological quest, in which the sojourn itself is as significant as the ultimate destination.", "year_published": 1864, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Cultural (France)", "Literature", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Silent Vows", "author_name": "Catherine Bybee", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1847, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Myra, a medieval virgin druidess, flees five hundred years into the future to escape death at the hands of a cursed witch and lands in the arms of a handsome but cynical twenty-first century cop. Officer Todd Blakely knows Myra is hiding something, but can't resist her innocent charms. Destiny throws them both into a world of intrigue and mysticism. Can Todd be the true white knight she needs? Or will magic and the winds of time tear them apart?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7816298-silent-vows"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 26082, "review_number": 481, "book_description": "More than two years after the unexplained plague killed every other male mammal on the planet, the two exceptions - aspiring escape artist Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand - have traveled across the remains of the U.S. with biochemist Dr. Allison Mann and goverment operative Agent 355 to Dr. Mann's lab in San Francisco, where she managed to finally isolate the source of their immunity.Unfortunately, that source is within Ampersand's body, which was last seen disappearing under the arm of a mysterious Japanese mercenary. Now, accompanied by 355 and Dr. Mann, the last man on Earth has embarked on a new and even more hazardous journey - following Ampersand's trail across the Pacific, where danger threatens from below as well as above the waves. Collects issues 32-36", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156529.Y"}, +{"book_title": "The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse", "author_name": "Martin H. Greenberg", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1197, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of literature, this explosive collection of the world\u2019s best apocalyptic writers brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war back to the bookstores with a bang.The best writers of the early 1900s were the first to flood New York with tidal waves, destroy Illinois with alien invaders, paralyze Washington with meteors, and lay waste to the Midwest with nuclear fallout. Now collected for the first time ever in one apocalyptic volume are those early doomsday writers and their contemporaries, including Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Lucius Shepard, Robert Sheckley, Norman Spinrad, Arthur C. Clarke, William F. Nolan, Poul Anderson, Fredric Brown, Lester del Rey, and more. Relive these childhood classics or discover them here for the first time. Each story details the eerie political, social, and environmental destruction of our world.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10021217-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Burp Head Smartypants", "author_name": "Annette Simon", "rating_score": 2.71, "rating_votes": 117, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Annette Simon\u2019s rival robots are back with a new game of nutty and bolty \u2014 or is that burpy? \u2014 one-upmanship.Robot and Robot are thirsty. How about a big gulp of engine oil? Ga-lugg! Guzzle! Mmm, mmm \u2014 BurrRRRP! Oops! Pardon me! Of cour \u2014Burrrrrp! \u2014 ourse! Oh, pardon me! On your mark, get set, belch! The green and purple robots from Robot Zombie Frankenstein! are back for a second round of \"Top This\" games! Burp to ten? Easy! Burp the alphabet? No sweat! Burp by tens while blindfolded, juggling, and skateboarding? Yikes! Reluctant readers won\u2019even notice that they\u2019re learning as they laugh out loud at the wacky antics of these irreverent robotic pals.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Number (Counting)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18166937-robot-burp-head-smartypants"}, +{"book_title": "River's Run", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 4348, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "River Knight was looking forward to a peaceful vacation in the mountains with her two best friends, Jo and Star, sisters of the heart. When she travels up into the mountains of North Carolina to the cabin Star has rented for them she is shocked when she finds the two sisters being abducted. Following them, she discovers their abductors are anything but human. Sneaking aboard the shuttle in an attempt to rescue them she finds herself on an unplanned vacation to the stars. In desperation, River makes a deal with the leader of another alien race who had also been captured \u2013 she\u2019ll release them if they promise to return the three girls to their home. Torak Ja Kel Coradon, Leader of the House of Kassis and next ruler of the Kassis Galaxy, has other plans when he sees the blue-eyed warrior woman. He plans on claiming her for himself and the only home he has plans on her returning too is his. The three women are believed to be the Prophesized warriors sent to join forces to bring peace to the House of Kassis. Worlds collide when the male dominated world meets three circus performers who use their talents to fight for those they love. When an assassin threatens Torak\u2019s life, River has to show him even a circus performer can be a warrior when challenged. The biggest challenge is to Torak\u2019s mind as he discovers women from other galaxies are more than they seem. Can their love overcome the chasm of a few million light years or will an assassin end it all?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13702224-river-s-run"}, +{"book_title": "The Moon Dwellers", "author_name": "David Estes", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 4119, "review_number": 711, "book_description": "In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground, into the depths of the earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms. After her parents and sister are abducted by the Enforcers, seventeen-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason.Against all odds, Adele must escape from the Pen and find her family, while being hunted by a deranged, killing machine named Rivet, who works for the President. She is helped by two other inmates, Tawni and Cole, each of whom have dark secrets that are better left undiscovered. Other than her friends, the only thing she has going for her is a wicked roundhouse kick and two fists that have been well-trained for combat by her father.At the other end of the social spectrum is Tristan, the son of the President and a sun dweller. His mother is gone. He hates his father. Backed by only his servant and best friend, Roc, he leaves his lavish lifestyle in the Sun Realm, seeking to make something good out of his troubled life.When a war breaks out within the Tri-Realms, Tristan is thrust into the middle of a conflict that seems to mysteriously follow Adele as she seeks to find her family and uncover her parents true past.In their world, someone must die.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13931214-the-moon-dwellers"}, +{"book_title": "The Second Sleep", "author_name": "Robert Harris", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 11231, "review_number": 1582, "book_description": "All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts \u2013 coins, fragments of glass, human bones \u2013 which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?As Fairfax is drawn more deeply into the isolated community, everything he believes \u2013 about himself, his faith and the history of his world \u2013 is tested to destruction.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43561172-the-second-sleep"}, +{"book_title": "The End of Eternity", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 45739, "review_number": 2412, "book_description": "Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, monitoring and, where necessary, altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. But when Harlan meets and falls for a non-Eternal woman, he seeks to use the awesome powers and techniques of the Eternals to twist time for his own purposes, so that he and his love can survive together.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509784.The_End_of_Eternity"}, +{"book_title": "Year One", "author_name": "Nora Roberts", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 70565, "review_number": 6923, "book_description": "It began on New Year's Eve.The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated.Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river--or in the ones you know and love the most.As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.The end has come. The beginning comes next.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34311452-year-one"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Tango", "author_name": "Gini Koch", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2780, "review_number": 315, "book_description": "For Alien Super-Being Exterminator Katherine \"Kitty\" Katt, anti-alien conspiracies, threats from outer space, and a couple of killer alligators are all in a day's work. It's been five months since Kitty joined Centaurion Division, working with the aliens from Alpha Centauri. She and Jeff Martini have grown closer and life looks rosy. But when an experimental spacecraft is unexpectedly returned to the Kennedy Space Center, Kitty and the rest of Alpha Team are called on to investigate and are immediately embroiled in life-or-death situations that scream \"political conspiracy.\"The team must survive murderous attacks, deal with a mysterious space entity that has seized control of a group of astronauts, and evade a woman who'll do anything to eliminate the competition when she develops an obsessive crush on Kitty's old high school boyfriend. And that's all before the evil masterminds decide Kitty's extermination is vital...Alien Tango is the thrilling second installment of the Alien series.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7948544-alien-tango"}, +{"book_title": "Calculating God", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 8528, "review_number": 810, "book_description": "An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Out pops a six-legged, two-armed alien, who says, in perfect English, \"Take me to a paleontologist.\"It seems that Earth, and the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveling on the alien mother ship, all experienced the same five cataclysmic events at about the same time, including events exactly like the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e. he's obviously been manipulating the evolution of life on each of these planets.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Religion", "Cultural (Canada)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264950.Calculating_God"}, +{"book_title": "Aurora Burning", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 14074, "review_number": 3356, "book_description": "Our heroes are back\u2026 kind of. From the bestselling co-authors of the Illuminae Files comes the second book in the epic series about a squad of misfits, losers, and discipline cases who just might be the galaxy\u2019s best hope for survival.First, the bad news: an ancient evil\u2014you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal\u2014is about to be unleashed. The good news? Squad 312 is standing by to save the day. They\u2019ve just got to take care of a few small distractions first.Like the clan of gremps who\u2019d like to rearrange their favorite faces.And the cadre of illegit GIA agents with creepy flowers where their eyes used to be, who\u2019ll stop at nothing to get their hands on Auri.Then there\u2019s Kal\u2019s long-lost sister, who\u2019s not exactly happy to see her baby brother, and has a Syldrathi army at her back. With half the known galaxy on their tails, Squad 312 has never felt so wanted.When they learn the Hadfield has been found, it\u2019s time to come out of hiding. Two centuries ago, the colony ship vanished, leaving Auri as its sole survivor. Now, its black box might be what saves them. But time is short, and if Auri can\u2019t learn to master her powers as a Trigger, the squad and all their admirers are going to be deader than the Great Ultrasaur of Abraaxis IV.Shocking revelations, bank heists, mysterious gifts, inappropriately tight bodysuits, and an epic firefight will determine the fate of the Aurora Legion\u2019s most unforgettable heroes\u2014and maybe the rest of the galaxy as well.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40516960-aurora-burning"}, +{"book_title": "Copperhead", "author_name": "Tina Connolly", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 527, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "The sequel to Tina Connolly's stunning historical fantasy debut.Helen Huntingdon is beautiful\u2014so beautiful she has to wear an iron mask. Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take over the city. Too late for Helen, who opted for fey beauty in her face\u2014and now has to cover her face with iron so she won\u2019t be taken over, her personality erased by the bodiless fey.Not that Helen would mind that some days. Stuck in a marriage with the wealthy and controlling Alistair, she lives at the edges of her life, secretly helping Jane remove the dangerous fey beauty from the wealthy society women who paid for it. But when the chancy procedure turns deadly, Jane goes missing\u2014and is implicated in the murder.Meanwhile, Alistair\u2019s influential clique Copperhead\u2014whose emblem is the poisonous copperhead hydra\u2014is out to restore humans to their \u201crightful\u201d place, even to the point of destroying the dwarvven who have always been allies.Helen is determined to find her missing sister, as well as continue the good fight against the fey. But when that pits her against her own husband\u2014and when she meets an enigmatic young revolutionary\u2014she\u2019s pushed to discover how far she\u2019ll bend society\u2019s rules to do what\u2019s right. It may be more than her beauty at stake. It may be her honor...and her heart.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9860847-copperhead"}, +{"book_title": "A Christmas Carol", "author_name": "Charles Dickens", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 633645, "review_number": 20556, "book_description": "'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'Introduction and Afterword by Joe WheelerTo bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. \"A Christmas Carol\" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel.", "year_published": 1843, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Holiday", "Literature (19th Century)", "Classics (Classic Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5326.A_Christmas_Carol"}, +{"book_title": "East of the Sun, West of the Moon", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2023, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "When the council that controlled the world spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia to medieval nightmare. Now Herzer Herrick and Megan Trevante have been assigned the mission to capture the spaceship that supplies the fuel for the whole world. Given that Herzer vaguely thinks orbital decay is something having to do with teeth it should be . . . interesting. With all the usual combat expected in a John Ringo novel, East of the Sun and West of the Moon sheds new light on the bizarre relationship between Herzer and Megan, the politics of the new born world and fascinating details of space technology. .", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action", "War", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528360.East_of_the_Sun_West_of_the_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "Yesterday's Kin", "author_name": "Nancy Kress", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1477, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "Aliens have landed in New York. A deadly cloud of spores has already infected and killed the inhabitants of two worlds. Now that plague is heading for Earth, and threatens humans and aliens alike. Can either species be trusted to find the cure?Geneticist Marianne Jenner is immersed in the desperate race to save humanity, yet her family is tearing itself apart. Siblings Elizabeth and Ryan are strident isolationists who agree only that an alien conspiracy is in play. Marianne\u2019s youngest, Noah, is a loner addicted to a drug that constantly changes his identity. But between the four Jenners, the course of human history will be forever altered. Earth\u2019s most elite scientists have ten months to prevent human extinction\u2014and not everyone is willing to wait.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "The United States Of America"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20694897-yesterday-s-kin"}, +{"book_title": "Blueprints of the Afterlife", "author_name": "Ryan Boudinot", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2195, "review_number": 381, "book_description": "From the \u201cwickedly talented\u201d (Boston Globe) and \u201cdarkly funny\u201d (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force.It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called \u201cthe Age of F***ed Up Shit.\u201d A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked.Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not really her own. She may be right. Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who\u2019s been dragging his war baggage behind him for nearly a century. Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Hotel and Restaurant Management Olympics medals to prove it. Over them all hovers a mysterious man named Dirk Bickle, who sends all these characters to a full-scale replica of Manhattan under construction in Puget Sound. An ambitious novel that writes large the hopes and anxieties of our time\u2014climate change, social strife, the depersonalization of the digital age \u2014 Blueprints of the Afterlife will establish Ryan Boudinot as an exceptional novelist of great daring.Blueprints of the Afterlife alternates between a richly imagined future in which the apocalypse is a distant, hazy memory, and a present in which a man recounts his search for a secret organization bent on harnessing the brightest minds to control human destiny and life on earth. There are giant heads that appear in the sky. The world's greatest dishwasher. Over 600 clones of an ancient pop singer's backup dancer. Red carpet events. A mystical refrigerator.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8856041-blueprints-of-the-afterlife"}, +{"book_title": "Kushiel's Avatar", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 33582, "review_number": 952, "book_description": "The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It's inhabited by the race that rose from the seed of angels, and they live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Ph\u00e8dre n\u00f3 Delaunay was sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman who recognized that she was pricked by Kushiel's dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one. Ph\u00e8dre's path has been strange and dangerous. She has lain with princes and pirate kings, battled a wicked temptress, and saved two nations. Through it all, the devoted swordsman Joscelin has been at her side, following the central precept of the angel Cassiel: Protect and serve. But Ph\u00e8dre's plans will put his pledge to the test, for she has never forgotten her childhood friend Hyacinthe. She has spent ten long years searching for the key to free him from his eternal indenture to the Master of Straights, a bargain with the gods to save Ph\u00e8dre and a nation. The search will take Ph\u00e8dre and Joscelin across the world and down a fabled river to a forgotten land ... and to a power so intense and mysterious, none dare speak its name.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40223.Kushiel_s_Avatar"}, +{"book_title": "Slaves of Hyperion", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 193, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Slaves of Hyperion is the sixth book in the epic science fiction series that chronicles humanity's first interstellar confederation,torn apart by religious strife and extremism.In this latest book of the Star Crusades Uprising series,the newly founded Alliance rises from the ruins of the old Confederacy. Scattered groups of the enemy remain, but organised resistance has been crushed. Amnesty has been granted to those still at large and peace has returned to the war torn colonies. Or has it?Hidden deep within the humid jungle world of Hyperion lies the last great secret of the Echidna Union. With their fleets defeated, their leaders killed and their Biomechs out of control; is there anything left that they can do against the united and now peaceful Alliance? This question is answered when a number of ships vanish near the planet the worst fears of the Alliance Senate are realised. The few Zealots in custody continually refer to the coming of the enemy and the end of humanity. There are rumours that a great evil is buried deep within Hyperion itself, something that will shake the foundations of every colony in the Alliance.The Alliance assembles its best and most experienced warriors, scientists and agents for what turns out to be ones of the most important events in humanity's history. Spartan, Teresa and their comrades will have to put all their skills and experience to the test if they are to survive the hell that is Hyperion.Slaves of Hyperion is a classic work of realistic military science fiction set against the background of the first interstellar human empire. This expanding saga includes the Star Crusades Uprising and new Star Crusades Nexus series that follows the story of the Centauri Alliance seventeen years after the end of the Uprising.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16171104-slaves-of-hyperion"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Lies: Iron Wind", "author_name": "Dru Pagliassotti", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 219, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Taya, the metal-winged icarus whose investigation helped defeat a plot against Ondinium and its populace, is assisting her exalted husband Cristof Forlore on his first ambassadorial mission. They must learn about Mareaux\u2019s experiments in airship technology and determine whether the ostensibly scientific vehicles might be used for warfare \u2014 a taboo for Ondiniums, whose domination of the air is tempered by a deep cultural abhorrence toward airborne weapons after the devastation of the Last War a thousand years ago.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18623887-clockwork-lies"}, +{"book_title": "Highlander in her Bed", "author_name": "Allie Mackay", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1567, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "All-business American Mara McDougall thinks there are no such things as ghosts. But a trip to Scotland and one gorgeous phantom are about to prove her dead wrong . . .A self-employed tour guide, Mara is weary from leading her charges all over London. So she takes a breather at an antique shop\u2014and spots perhaps the handsomest bed ever. Then she bumps into the handsomest man ever. He has a sexy Scottish burr, a fiery gaze, and a chip on his muscular shoulder. And despite a spat, Mara can't fight her yearning for the irresistible Highlander. Then she learns that she's inherited a Scottish castle, and the stipulations she must meet in order to keep her unexpected windfall will help her banish the hottie Scottie from her mind . . . she hopes.As a ghost, Sir Alexander Douglas has hated the name MacDougall for ages. Once a medieval knight betrothed to a stranger, he fell victim to her beau, a MacDougall, who tricked him into a curse that he would forever haunt the bed intended for his would-be bride. Now Alexander will stop at nothing to keep the magnificent four-poster out of MacDougall\u2014or McDougall\u2014hands. But when Mara buys the bed for her castle, he reckons she's nothing like his enemy. After all, no other MacDougall ever made him burn with passion and long for the one thing he never knew he missed: love.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160416.Highlander_in_her_Bed"}, +{"book_title": "A Stolen Season", "author_name": "Tamara Gill", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 281, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "One small mistake in the past will change everything about her future...Archaeologist Sarah Baxter just broke one of the biggest rules of time travel: leaving a piece of 21st \u00adcentury equipment in 19th century Regency England. Unfortunately, when she goes back to retrieve it, she makes an even bigger mess of things\u2014resulting in the death of an English Earl.Now his brother is not only out for revenge, but he also has Sarah's device. Which means an entirely different approach is needed. It doesn't occur to the new Earl of Earnston that his charming acquaintance is responsible for his brother's death. He is merely swept away by a passion that threatens his very reputation. Yet he gets the distinct impression that Miss Baxter is hiding something from him.Now Sarah must find a way to steal back her device, hide the truth about the earl's brother and\u2014most importantly\u2014 not fall in love...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Regency)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical Romance (Regency Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36561347-a-stolen-season"}, +{"book_title": "The Conquering Dark", "author_name": "Clay Griffith", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 596, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "The Crown and Key Society face their most terrifying villain yet: Gaios, a deranged demigod with the power to destroy Britain.To avenge a centuries-old betrayal, Gaios is hell-bent on summoning the elemental forces of the earth to level London and bury Britain. The Crown and Key Society, a secret league consisting of a magician, an alchemist, and a monster-hunter, is the realm\u2019s only hope\u2014and to stop Gaios, they must gather their full strength and come together as a team, or the world will fall apart.But Simon Archer, the Crown and Key\u2019s leader and the last living magician-scribe, has lost his powers. As Gaios searches for the Stone of Scone, which will give him destructive dominion over the land, monster-hunter Malcolm MacFarlane, alchemist extraordinaire Kate Anstruther, gadget geek Penny Carter, and Charlotte the werewolf scramble to reconnect Simon to his magic before the world as they know it is left forever in ruins.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23490954-the-conquering-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Veronica's Dragon", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3998, "review_number": 336, "book_description": "Resonance. It\u2019s a given on the ice planet, forced upon you by the parasitic symbiont called the \u2018khui\u2019. With resonance, a guy and a girl are paired up because they\u2019ll make great babies. It\u2019s a survival mechanism necessary for this sparsely-populated world we\u2019re stranded on\u2026 and romantic, in a weird, alien way. Everyone expects resonance to happen when twenty newcomers are dropped onto the frosty world. I doubt anyone expects the gorgeous, golden god named Ashtar to resonate to someone like me, though. He\u2019s fierce. Flirty. Powerful. Disgustingly handsome. I\u2019m\u2026 not any of those things. I\u2019m bland. Boring. Clumsy. But resonance seems to think we\u2019d be great together. And Ashtar does, too\u2026 ___ The Icehome series features all of the adventure, humor and community you\u2019ve come to expect in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, but it stands on its own. You do not need to read the other series (or be caught up) in order to read VERONICA\u2019S DRAGON. I do recommend reading LAUREN\u2019S BARBARIAN to get the full experience. Enjoy!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40202603-veronica-s-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "The Amber Spyglass", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 310669, "review_number": 10736, "book_description": "Will is the bearer of the knife. Now, accompanied by angels, his task is to deliver that powerful, dangerous weapon to Lord Asriel - by the command of his dying father.But how can he go looking for Lord Asriel when Lyra is gone? Only with her help can he fathom the myriad plots and intrigues that beset him. The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, and Will must find Lyra, for together they are on their way to battle, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18122.The_Amber_Spyglass"}, +{"book_title": "Slave to Sensation", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 64080, "review_number": 4065, "book_description": "Dive into a world torn apart by a powerful race with phenomenal powers of the mind\u2014 and none of the heart\u2026In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of \u201crehabilitation\u201d\u2014 the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was\u2026.Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy co-existence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several Changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion\u2014and that the animal in him is fascinated by her. Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities\u2014or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation\u2026", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178476.Slave_to_Sensation"}, +{"book_title": "A Study in Emerald", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 4103, "review_number": 625, "book_description": "This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder.The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror!From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman comes this graphic novel adaptation with art by Eisner award winning artist Rafael Albuquerque!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Mystery (Crime)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36709515-a-study-in-emerald"}, +{"book_title": "What's Left of Me", "author_name": "Kat Zhang", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 15314, "review_number": 2099, "book_description": "I should not exist. But I do.Eva and Addie started out the same way as everyone else\u2014two souls woven together in one body, taking turns controlling their movements as they learned how to walk, how to sing, how to dance. But as they grew, so did the worried whispers. Why aren\u2019t they settling? Why isn\u2019t one of them fading? The doctors ran tests, the neighbors shied away, and their parents begged for more time. Finally Addie was pronounced healthy and Eva was declared gone. Except, she wasn\u2019t . . .For the past three years, Eva has clung to the remnants of her life. Only Addie knows she\u2019s still there, trapped inside their body. Then one day, they discover there may be a way for Eva to move again. The risks are unimaginable-hybrids are considered a threat to society, so if they are caught, Addie and Eva will be locked away with the others. And yet . . . for a chance to smile, to twirl, to speak, Eva will do anything.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11043618-what-s-left-of-me"}, +{"book_title": "Past Tense", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 2248, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Their past is not what they think it is... Thrown back in time after the spells binding Whitehall School together nearly collapsed, Emily finds herself in the days of Lord Whitehall. But everything she knows about the past is a lie. The Whitehall Commune is in hiding from a great and terrible foe, while some of the legendary founders bicker like children and others call on deadly and untrustworthy entities with agendas of their own. Desperately seeking a way back to her own time, her mere presence a boon and a curse to established history, Emily is drawn into a conflict against both rogue wizards and a mysterious force intent on exterminating all magicians before the future school can take shape. But as deadly powers converge on the castle, her time is running out... ...And, deep beneath Old Whitehall, something dark and dangerous is about to be born. Note: Discounted for a limited time as consideration for those readers who have been patiently awaiting publication of this book.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Academic (School)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31186178-past-tense"}, +{"book_title": "Spaceside", "author_name": "Michael Mammay", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 990, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "\nA military legend is caught in the web between alien intrigue and human subterfuge\u2026\nFollowing his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler returns to a mixed reception. To some he is a do-or-die war hero. To the other half of the galaxy he\u2019s a pariah. Forced into retirement, he has resettled on Talca Four where he\u2019s now Deputy VP of Corporate Security, protecting a high-tech military company on the corporate battlefield\u2014at least, that\u2019s what the job description says. Really, he\u2019s just there to impress clients and investors. It\u2019s all relatively low risk\u2014until he\u2019s entrusted with new orders. A breach of a competitor\u2019s computer network has Butler\u2019s superiors feeling every bit as vulnerable. They need Butler to find who did it, how, and why no one\u2019s taken credit for the ingenious attack.As accustomed as Butler is to the reality of wargames\u2014virtual and otherwise\u2014this one screams something louder than a simple hack. Because no sooner does he start digging when his first contact is murdered, the death somehow kept secret from the media. As a prime suspect, he can\u2019t shake the sensation he\u2019s being watched\u2026or finally succumbing to the stress of his past. Paranoid delusion or dangerous reality, Butler might be onto something much deeper than anyone imagined. But that\u2019s where Butler thrives.If he hasn\u2019t signed his own death warrant.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41751502-spaceside"}, +{"book_title": "The Wedding", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 4779, "review_number": 370, "book_description": "\"This is the never before seen \"real\" wedding between Daemon and Kat from the Lux Series. This should not be read unless you have read the Lux series.\"Found on Wattpad here.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25397349-the-wedding"}, +{"book_title": "Out of the Black", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 6328, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "Deep in blackest space, the Drasin have watched humanity\u2019s journey to the stars\u2014and determined that a species as barbaric as ours has no place in the cosmos.The wreckage of the starship Odyssey, once Earth\u2019s greatest guardian, lies strewn across New York City. Abandoned by all but its captain, Odyssey\u2019s sacrifice covered the withdrawal of countless troops as the Drasin assault ravaged the planet. When Captain Eric Weston finally emerges from the rubble, impossibly alive thanks to the mysterious \u201cGaia,\u201d he knows with the Drasin it\u2019s kill or be killed.But not all of the heavens have proven hostile. The Priminae have felt the full brunt of Drasin aggression on their own home world, and they won\u2019t leave humanity to face annihilation alone. Together with what\u2019s left of the crews of the Odyssey and other starships, they race to join Weston and his group of Earth-bound survivors for a desperate last stand.The final battle of the Drasin War brings bestselling author Evan Currie\u2019s Odyssey One series to its shattering conclusion.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18692689-out-of-the-black"}, +{"book_title": "Wolfhound Century", "author_name": "Peter Higgins", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 889, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist --- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Cultural (Russia)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790887-wolfhound-century"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Unknown", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1230, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "A terrible discovery.A secret that could destroy human civilization.A desperate escape to the most dangerous planet in the universe... Earth.Two hundred years ago, a fleet of colony ships left Earth and started a settlement on Proxima Centauri...Centurion Space Force pilot Nathan Stacker didn't expect to return home to find his wife dead. He didn't expect the murderer to look just like him, and he definitely didn't expect to be the one to take the blame.But his wife had control of a powerful secret. A secret that stretches across the light years between two worlds and could lead to the end of both.Now that secret is in Nathan's hands, and he's about to make the most desperate evasive maneuver of his life -- stealing a starship and setting a course for Earth.He thinks he'll be safe there.He's wrong. Very wrong.Earth is nothing like what he expected. Not even close. What he doesn't know is not only likely to kill him, it's eager to kill him, and even if it doesn't?The Sheriff will.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40131156-earth-unknown"}, +{"book_title": "Infomocracy", "author_name": "Malka Ann Older", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 4931, "review_number": 864, "book_description": "It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line.With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the pax democratica. For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain?Infomocracy is Malka Older's debut novel.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Politics", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114433-infomocracy"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Salvation", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1435, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Lindsey McInness and her parents are barely surviving on post-Armageddon Earth. When a Kalquorian shuttle crashes nearby, Lindsey has no choice but to offer herself to the clan on board in exchange for food and rescue.Bacoj, Japohn and Vax are stunned when a young woman presents herself to them for their sexual pleasure. Kalquorians of their youth and low rank have no expectation of finding the elusive Earther mates Kalquorians covet so highly. But the strong willed and yet yielding Lindsey seems to be a perfect fit for them \u2026 until they learn her secret that threatens to tear the entire clan apart.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Menage (M F M)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13083189-alien-salvation"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Praetorian", "author_name": "Mike Smith", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2894, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "Commander Jonathan Radec is a man desperately trying to escape from the mistakes of his past.Now the owner of Vanguard Shipping, his primary concerns are trying to keep his ships flying and his crew alive. However, the shadowy Syndicate organisation has set their sights on the Commander and his business, having sent a beautiful assassin to kill him. To make matters worse, she\u2019s become the target of his infatuation, much to the dismay of his ex-girlfriend. Recently elevated to President of the Confederation, she\u2019s still very much in love with him and capable of making his life a living hell.Surrounded by a galaxy beginning to tear itself apart, with enemies on all sides, he\u2019s now also unwillingly tasked with trying to save the Confederation \u2013 for which he has little regard. Jon has little going in his favour, except a crew consisting of the elite of the old Imperial Navy, all of whom would fight to the death for him, and a past that possibly makes him one of the most dangerous men alive.The Last Praetorian is a Science Fiction adventure/romance, which tries to answer the question: \u201cCan you ever find redemption for the mistakes of your past?\u201d", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16137916-the-last-praetorian"}, +{"book_title": "24seven: Volume 2", "author_name": "Ray Fawkes", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 42, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "24seven features a who's who of today's best writers and artists from comics, film and animation, telling tales of robots in the city that never sleeps. Following in the tradition of the acclaimed 24seven Volume 1, this second volume's stories run a cross-genre gamut, from crisis in space to bank robberies to gambling robot dogs. 24seven has romance, action, horror -- everything you want -- told by a cross-section of the most diverse writers and artists in print!", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1193159.24seven"}, +{"book_title": "Storming", "author_name": "K.M. Weiland", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 373, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "In the high-flying, heady world of 1920s aviation, brash pilot Robert \u201cHitch\u201d Hitchcock\u2019s life does a barrel roll when a young woman in an old-fashioned ball gown falls from the clouds smack in front of his biplane. As fearless as she is peculiar, Jael immediately proves she\u2019s game for just about anything, including wing-walking in his struggling airshow. In return for her help, she demands a ride back home . . . to the sky. Hitch thinks she\u2019s nuts\u2014until he steers his plane into the midst of a bizarre storm and nearly crashes into a strange airship like none he\u2019s ever run afoul of, an airship with the power to control the weather. Caught between a corrupt sheriff and dangerous new enemies from above, Hitch must take his last chance to gain forgiveness from his estranged family, deliver Jael safely home before she flies off with his freewheeling heart, and save his Nebraska hometown from storm-wielding sky pirates. Cocky, funny, and full of heart, Storming is a jaunty historical/dieselpunk mash-up that combines rip-roaring adventure and small-town charm with the thrill of futuristic possibilities.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Speculative Fiction", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28099189-storming"}, +{"book_title": "Untamed Hunger", "author_name": "Tiffany Roberts", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 571, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "SHE\u2019S ONE HUMAN IN AN INFINITE CITY\u2014AND HE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL HE POSSESSES HER.It should have been an easy job\u2014deliver the ID chip, get paid, and get out. But when Drakkal sees a beautiful human in his client\u2019s private zoo and instantly recognizes her as his mate, the situation gets complicated. The motto he\u2019s long lived by\u2014don\u2019t be stupid\u2014is cast aside as the beast in him demands he take this female and make her his no matter what he must do. And when she runs from him, the hunt is on.After being impregnated by her dirtbag ex-boyfriend, abducted, and sold to be a breeder in a rich alien\u2019s basement menagerie, Shay has to admit things aren\u2019t looking great. But she\u2019s determined to give her unborn child a decent life. Her first opportunity appears in the form of a gruff but insanely attractive azhera who forces Shay\u2019s owner to sell her to him. Refusing to trade one alien master for another, she escapes him at her first chance. Yet Shay can\u2019t forget the intense azhera and his heated stare\u2014and soon realizes that he\u2019s not going to forget her, either.But Shay\u2019s former owner also remembers, and he\u2019s determined to retrieve his prized possession\u2014and have his revenge on the azhera who took her.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49193462-untamed-hunger"}, +{"book_title": "The Graveyard Game", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1730, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "Mendoza is a Preserver for The Dr. Zeus Company, living in the past to collect species for the future. But when she kills six people in California in 1863, The Company makes her disappear.Joseph, a senior Preserver, loves Mendoza as the daughter he never had. Drunk on chocolate and fueled by rage, he's determined to find her however long it takes. Being an indestructible, immortal cyborg gives him an unlimited well of patience.What begins as a rescue mission uncovers a conspiracy stretching across fifty centuries of recorded history. Behind it lie genocide, graveyards filled with Company agents, and the roots of the ominous Silence that falls across the world in 2355.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/514440.The_Graveyard_Game"}, +{"book_title": "Wild Cards and Iron Horses", "author_name": "Sheryl Nantus", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 73, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Their love rides on a spring and a prayer...During the recent Civil War, a soldier risked his life to save Jonathan Handleston\u2014and lost. With the help of an advanced metal brace on his crippled hand, Jon now travels from one poker tournament to the next, determined to earn enough money to repay the man\u2019s debt.Prosperity Ridge is supposed to be the last stop on his quest, but his brace is broken and he needs an engineer to repair the delicate mechanisms. The only one available is Samantha Weatherly, a beautiful anomaly in a world ruled by men.Sam is no fool. Jon is no different from any other gambler\u2014except for his amazing prosthetic. Despite a demanding project to win a critical contract to develop an iron horse, she succumbs to the lure of working on the delicate mechanisms. And working with the handsome Englishman.Like a spring being coiled, Samantha and Jon are inexorably drawn together. Sam begins to realize honor wears many faces, and she becomes the light at the end of Jon\u2019s journey to redemption. The only monkey wrench is Victor, a rival gambler who will stop at nothing to make sure Jon misses the tournament. Even destroy Jon\u2019s and Sam\u2019s lives.Warning: Contains crazed card games, gears and springs galore and a wild ride that\u2019ll have you panting at the end of the book.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40223022-wild-cards-and-iron-horses"}, +{"book_title": "The Sword of Sophia", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 64, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Vega 3 has been invaded and overwhelmed by the Sirian Confederacy, its women raped, its society enslaved. The Vegans have put up a vicious fight worthy of their Viking ancestors, charging the Sirians a gallon of blood for every yard of the planet, but now the fight is over, the battle lost. Vega 3 has been conquered. But deep in the Scroll of Sophia, that mystical goddess the Vegans hold dear, is a nearly forgotten prophecy of a time when the invader\u2019s boot will stand on Vega 3. The prophecy says Sophia will send a sword\u2014a sword of justice\u2014and the invader will be torn asunder. Is the prophecy real, or just a false hope? And if the prophecy is real, is it really possible to throw the Sirians off of Vega 3? And what\u2026or who\u2026is the \u201csword of Sophia\u201d? Visit the cold, dreary world of Vega 3 between the wars, during the time the Fighter Queen was born. Walk among the Sirians but don\u2019t look them in the eye\u2014it\u2019s a dangerous planet out there. Don't miss this great science fiction action-packed adventure of the resistance on Vega. 102,400 words (equivalent to 384 pages in mass market paperback form) Rated \"R\". ", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24249653-the-sword-of-sophia"}, +{"book_title": "Saturn Run", "author_name": "John Sandford", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 11409, "review_number": 1606, "book_description": "The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope\u2014something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don\u2019t decelerate. Spaceships do.A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out.The race is on, and an remarkable adventure begins\u2014an epic tale of courage, treachery, resourcefulness, secrets, surprises, and astonishing human and technological discovery, as the members of a hastily thrown-together crew find their strength and wits tested against adversaries both of this earth and beyond. What happens is nothing like you expect\u2014and everything you could want from one of the world\u2019s greatest masters of suspense.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24611668-saturn-run"}, +{"book_title": "Steam Detectives, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Kia Asamiya", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 44, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "When Steam City comes under attack by wily Dr. Guilty, Narutaki and Goriki must join forces to defeat the enemy.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3033292-steam-detectives-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Tempting Tara", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 949, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Tara Clarkson has been searching for her missing sister, Alice, until the night she turns up with two large sexy alien men in tow.Now Tara is pissed as hell after being abducted herself. Alice and her alien husband promise to return her to Earth on their next trip.Melron is fun, playful, sexy as hell and determined to persuade her to be his.After arriving on Planet Kelon, Melron formulates a plan to get her under his roof and into his arms. But can Tara, resist the hunky alien warrior determined to win her heart by any means, or will she be able to leave him and return to Earth?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11789964-tempting-tara"}, +{"book_title": "Some Golden Harbor", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2149, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "The tyrannical Alliance continues its war against the Republic of Cinnabar, and Daniel Leary, newly promoted to Commander, and his crew have a new mission: Stop Dunbar's World from falling to an invasion by the planet Pellegrino. Nataniel Arruns, son of the dictator of Pellegrino, has landed with a large contingent, intending to set himself up as the ruling warlord, with the planet's population becoming workers-serfs-of the Pellegrinian overlords. And Dunbar's world has no more than their local police force to oppose him. Leary again commands the corvette Princess Cecile, but on this mission her missile tubes are empty. Only one man is in a position to aid Leary, but the rich and powerful would rather see him fail than succeed in stopping the invasion. Leary must somehow overcome a large entrenched force on an island defended by powerful plasma cannon and shipkilling missiles and backed up by a heavily armed warship in orbit, all while commanding only a small and virtually unarmed spacecraft. But Leary again has the help of Signals Officer Adele Mundy, who can make computer networks do the apparently impossible. Leary, Mundy and the crew of the Princess Cecile have gone up against impossible odds before . . . and their opponents in those victorious missions are still wondering just what hit them.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432119.Some_Golden_Harbor"}, +{"book_title": "Lilith's Brood", "author_name": "Octavia E. Butler", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 15106, "review_number": 1143, "book_description": "Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story...", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Feminism", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60926.Lilith_s_Brood"}, +{"book_title": "A Ferry of Bones & Gold", "author_name": "Hailey Turner", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 4044, "review_number": 686, "book_description": "When the gods come calling, you don\u2019t get to say no. Patrick Collins is three years into a career as a special agent for the Supernatural Operations Agency when the gods come calling to collect a soul debt he owes them. An immortal has gone missing in New York City and bodies are showing up in the wake of demon-led ritual killings that Patrick recognizes all too easily from his nightmares. Unable to walk away, Patrick finds himself once again facing off against mercenary magic users belonging to the Dominion Sect. Standing his ground alone has never been a winning option in Patrick\u2019s experience, but it\u2019s been years since he\u2019s had a partner he could trust. Looking for allies in all the wrong places, Patrick discovers the Dominion Sect\u2019s next target is the same werewolf the Fates themselves have thrown into his path. Patrick has been inexplicably attracted to the man from their first meeting, but desire has no place in war. That doesn\u2019t stop Patrick from wanting what he shouldn\u2019t have. Jonothon de Vere is gorgeous, dangerous, and nothing but trouble\u2014to the case, to the fight against every hell, and ultimately, to Patrick\u2019s heart and soul. In the end, all debts must be paid, and Patrick can only do what he does best\u2014cheat death. A Ferry of Bones & Gold is a 115k word m/m urban fantasy with a gay romantic subplot and a HFN ending.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41793518-a-ferry-of-bones-gold"}, +{"book_title": "Divergent", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 3008156, "review_number": 109103, "book_description": "In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue\u2014Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is\u2014she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are\u2014and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13335037-divergent"}, +{"book_title": "Claimed", "author_name": "A.M. Arthur", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 311, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "University student Demir Higgs is on the fast-track to graduate with honors and dive straight into medical school. His career plan leaves little time for dating, so after he catches his casual boyfriend cheating, Demir attends an anonymous sex party, determined to finally lose his virginity. He chooses an older alpha in a red mask and the man takes Demir apart piece by glorious piece, worshiping his body in ways Demir never imagined. Too bad he\u2019ll never see the man again.After his bondmate disappeared eleven years ago, Senior Constable Brandt Lars fell into his work and avoided dating, disinterested in relationships. Not until the boy in the blue mask. Introducing the young beta to the wonders of sex was Brandt\u2019s absolute pleasure, and he can\u2019t stop thinking about him\u2014until Brandt comes face to face with Blue in the form of Demir Higgs, the middle son of a work colleague. Demir is equally drawn to Brandt and their chemistry is through the roof. The age difference is an issue, but their attraction is real, and stolen moments turn into a secret relationship they both enjoy\u2026but something is still missing.Years ago, Oliver Strand lost all his memories in a horrible car wreck that left his face scarred and his sense of smell obliterated. But he built a new life for himself and his son, and now he\u2019s visiting Sansbury Province as a guest speaker at a territory-wide anti-sex-trafficking conference. What he does not expect to find at the conference is an alpha he doesn\u2019t know, but who insists Oliver is his missing mate Ollie Lars, who disappeared the same week as Oliver\u2019s accident.Brandt is overjoyed to discover his bondmate is alive, despite Oliver having no memory of his old life in Sansbury, and he\u2019s determined to keep both mate and son in his life. But he\u2019s also in love with Demir and doesn\u2019t want to lose him. Demir is ready to be the bigger person and step aside so the Lars family can be together again\u2014until Demir realizes he and Oliver have unique chemistry of their own. And they\u2019ve also both been claimed by the same alpha.Can a grumpy alpha in love with two men, an omega with no memory of his mate, and a beta determined to chart his own course find a way to navigate the complicated waters of a poly relationship? Or will all three men end up stranded alone with broken hearts?NOTE: This is a non-shifter, M/M/M Omegaverse story with alpha/omega/beta dynamics, heats, knotting, and mpreg. In this world, omegas are second-class citizens, but they are working toward gaining more civil rights and protections under the law. Series warnings for mentions of past physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Additional warnings for extremely kinky sex, including dirty talk, light spanking, biting, edging, roughhousing, come-swapping, and threesomes. This series is best read in numerical order.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Menage (M M M)", "Polyamory", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Academic (College)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42751155-claimed"}, +{"book_title": "A Desert Called Peace", "author_name": "Tom Kratman", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 2030, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Five hundred years from now, humankind has found a link to a remarkably Earth-like planet and settled there, dividing as humans will -- into dozens of nation-states. The Federated States of Columbia has consolidated power and risen against the oppression of Earth's corrupt Caliphate. But when Salafi madmen bent on a new jihad kill FSC Captain Patrick Hennessey's family in a cowardly attack, they create an enemy that will show even less mercy than they do.A legendary warrior is born: Carrera, the scourge of Salafism. He will forge an army from the decrepit remains of a military in a failing state. He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them utterly. And he will try like hell to not becoming exactly like the enemy he is fighting. Only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera's enemies.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "War", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1771707.A_Desert_Called_Peace"}, +{"book_title": "Kahayatle", "author_name": "Elle Casey", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2871, "review_number": 299, "book_description": "This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B008E95UOK.NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers Book 1 of 4 in the YA Dystopian APOCALYPSIS Series, suitable for older teens and adults. KAHAYATLE. My name is Bryn Mathis. I'm seventeen years old, and I live in a neighborhood outside of Orlando, Florida. I\u2019m here alone because my dad died almost a year ago, along with all the other adults in the world. I'm almost out of food, and the gangs of kids that roam around my town are getting more vicious by the day. It's time for me to leave and find another place to live ... a place where I can find food and shelter ... a place where they won't be able to find me. Alone, it might have been possible, but now I've got company. I'm worried that I don't have what it takes to get from here to my final destination, and I have no idea what might be waiting for me when I get there.Content Warning: Mild violence and some foul language. Meant for older Young Adult readers (age 15+). This book is in the Dark Science Fiction / Horror / Post-Apocalyptic genres, featuring teen characters only. \nAPOCALYPSIS SERIES READING ORDER\nKahayatle (Apocalypsis Book 1) **Special introductory ebook price**Warpaint (Apocalypsis Book 2)Exodus (Apocalypsis Book 3)Haven (Apocalypsis Book 4)This series is dedicated to the amazing, wonderful Native Americans who populate our nation, continuing their traditions and reminding the rest of us that sometimes, progress isn\u2019t always the best thing for our people. I invite you to learn more about the Miccosukee tribe, their history, culture, and lifestyle by visiting this website: http://www.miccosukee.com/indian-vill...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25655110-kahayatle"}, +{"book_title": "Fire in His Kiss", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 5205, "review_number": 443, "book_description": "Bloodlust and insanity rule my existence. As a fierce drakoni warrior, this strange new world I find myself in eats at my mind until there is nothing left. There is no light or clarity...until she arrives. I save her life, plucking her from the sky.From that point on, she is mine.But the human I have chosen for my mate - Sasha - is fragile and wounded. She does not trust me and fears my presence. I will not give up, though. I will do anything to give her my fires and bond us both in body and spirit. How can I convince her that I want nothing more than her happiness if she will not let me touch her?How does a dragon woo a human?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34535434-fire-in-his-kiss"}, +{"book_title": "Scarlet Traces", "author_name": "Ian Edginton", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 239, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "The story in 'Scarlet Traces' takes place 10 years after the events of the classic H.G. Wells novel, 'War of the Worlds'. The after-effects of this war are obvious throughout the course of the story, as alien technology is evident everywhere you turn.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58860.Scarlet_Traces"}, +{"book_title": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", "author_name": "J.K. Rowling", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 2599567, "review_number": 44056, "book_description": "There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it\u2019s haunting Harry Pottter\u2019s dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. But all these things pale next to the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named - a threat that neither the magical government nor the authorities at Hogwarts can stop.As the grasp of darkness tightens, Harry must discover the true depth and strength of his friends, the importance of boundless loyalty, and the shocking price of unbearable sacrifice.His fate depends on them all.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix"}, +{"book_title": "Soft Apocalypse", "author_name": "Will McIntosh", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 2445, "review_number": 451, "book_description": "What happens when resources become scarce and society starts to crumble? As the competition for resources pulls America's previously stable society apart, the \"New Normal\" is a Soft Apocalypse. This is how our world ends; with a whimper instead of a bang. New social structures and tribal connections spring up across America, as the previous social structures begin to dissolve. Locus Award finalist and John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalist Soft Apocalypse follows the journey across the Southeast of a tribe of formerly middle class Americans as they struggle to find a place for themselves and their children in a new, dangerous world that still carries the ghostly echoes of their previous lives.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10075553-soft-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Reader Abduction", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 730, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "An alien fantasy brought to life... It should have been a simple volunteer job. Keep the events for the Romancing the Capital convention running smooth. But from the moment Brigitte lays eyes on the male model dipped in purple, hired for the galactic party, she is thrown into a tizzy \u2014 mostly because of his stolen kiss. Imagine her shock once she realizes he\u2019s not an actor. This purple alien is for real! And Phyr didn\u2019t come to RTC alone. He brought a bunch of his mercenary friends to help him abduct all the single ladies. These readers are about to go on a galactic adventure wilder than anything they\u2019ve ever read in a book \u2014 and hotter than anything they could have imagined.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29068271-reader-abduction"}, +{"book_title": "Warpaint", "author_name": "Elle Casey", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1482, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers Book 2 of 4 in the YA Dystopian APOCALYPSIS Series, suitable for older teens and adults. WARPAINT. My name\u2019s Bryn Mathis. I\u2019m seventeen years old, and I live in Kahayatle, otherwise known as The Everglades. I\u2019m here with my three best friends and a tribe of Native American teens, because my dad died almost a year ago, along with all the other adults in the world. We\u2019re creating a whole new world for ourselves, but this world has problems. The biggest threat to our survival is not starvation anymore \u2026 it\u2019s the gang of kids who lives nearby that has become more vicious than anyone could have imagined possible. The soulless demons have gone too far, and it\u2019s time for us to rise up and do what needs to be done to set things right. Alone, it might have been impossible; but now I\u2019ve got friends. I\u2019m worried, though, that I won\u2019t be able to get them ready to fight in time, and that we\u2019re taking on more of a challenge than we can handle right now. And I have no idea what might be waiting for us when we arrive on their front doorstep. Content Warning: Mild violence and some foul language. Meant for older Young Adult readers (age 15+). This book is in the Dark Science Fiction / Horror / Post-Apocalyptic genres, featuring teen characters only. \nAPOCALYPSIS SERIES READING ORDER\nKahayatle (Apocalypsis Book 1) **Special introductory ebook price**Warpaint (Apocalypsis Book 2)Exodus (Apocalypsis Book 3)Haven (Apocalypsis Book 4)This series is dedicated to the amazing, wonderful Native Americans who populate our nation, continuing their traditions and reminding the rest of us that sometimes, progress isn\u2019t always the best thing for our people. I invite you to learn more about the Miccosukee tribe, their history, culture, and lifestyle by visiting this website: http://www.miccosukee.com/indian-vill...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Adventure (Survival)", "Horror", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25655143-warpaint"}, +{"book_title": "The Eye of Zoltar", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 5715, "review_number": 700, "book_description": "The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, returns to the Ununited Kingdoms. Clearly, he didn't solve the Dragon Problem, and must hand over his fee: eighteen dray-weights of gold.But the Mighty Shandar doesn't do refunds, and vows to eliminate the dragons once and for all - unless sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekicks from the Kazam house of enchantment can bring him the legendary jewel, The Eye of Zoltar.The only thing that stands in their way is a perilous journey with a 50% Fatality Index - through the Cambrian Empire to the Leviathan Graveyard, at the top of the deadly Cadir Idris mountain. It's a quest like never before, and Jennifer soon finds herself fighting not just for her life, but for everything she knows and loves . . .", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16043857-the-eye-of-zoltar"}, +{"book_title": "Ring", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 3429, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS--and a promise. The universe was doomed, but humankind was not. Poole had stumbled upon an immense artifact, light-years across, fabricated from the very string of the cosmos. The universe had a door. And it was open...", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66788.Ring"}, +{"book_title": "BLAME! Gakuen (And So On) (Blame", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 109, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "D\u00e9couvrez Blame! comme vous ne l'avez jamais vu dans ce recueil d'histoires courtes en couleurs.Dans \"Blame Gakuen!\", les h\u00e9ros de la saga de SF post-apocalyptique vont faire un tour au lyc\u00e9e !Les \u00e9pilogues \"Blame!2\" et \"L'ing\u00e9nieur de la r\u00e9sosph\u00e8re\" vous offriront des perspectives inattendues sur le monde de Blame!Enfin, vous pourrez explorer l'univers graphique tortur\u00e9 de Tsutomu Nihei dans cinq autres r\u00e9cits de SF exp\u00e9rimentaux.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Art", "Gothic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11973877-blame-gakuen-and-so-on"}, +{"book_title": "Steel World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 8580, "review_number": 360, "book_description": "In the twentieth century Earth sent probes, transmissions and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn\u2019t the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. As most of the local worlds were too civilized to have a proper army, the only valuable service Earth could provide came in the form of soldiers\u2026someone had to do their dirty work for them, their fighting and dying. I, James McGill, was born in 2099 on the fringe of the galaxy. When Hegemony Financial denied my loan applications, I was kicked out of the university and I turned to the stars. My first campaign involved the invasion of a mineral-rich planet called Cancri-9, better known as Steel World. The attack didn\u2019t go well, and now Earth has entered a grim struggle for survival. Humanity\u2019s mercenary legions go to war in STEEL WORLD, bestselling author B. V. Larson\u2019s latest science fiction novel.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18600590-steel-world"}, +{"book_title": "America One", "author_name": "T.I. Wade", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 369, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ASIN: B00AOF238IFrom the age of seven Ryan Richmond dreamed about going to Space. Now Ryan Richmond has $3 billion to play with, he is in his forties; and still wants to go to space. His only enemy; the US Government who doesn\u2019t have its own space program-and wants his new spaceship; AMERICA ONE.He sold his first company at 19 and employed the remnants of the Russian Space Program; a couple of the best Russian space brains in the world.Ryan founded, and sold two more companies in his twenties, and then hired most of the European Space Authority.In his thirties he invested over $100 million into Internet Start-ups and Google, netting Billions. Then he waited until NASA\u2019s Shuttle Program came to a sad end and employed the best brains in the U.S. Space Program.Now he is in his forties, still wants to go to space- the only problem is that The U.S. government doesn't have a current spaceship of their own- and wants his!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Action", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23485128-america-one"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1", "author_name": "Y\u016b Kinutani", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 254, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The story follows the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The manga presents individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the serial killer and hacker known only as \"The Laughing Man.\"When a high-ranking government official is kidnapped, the Prime Minister must call in his top crime fighting force known as Section 9.\u00a0 Lead by the beautiful (and deadly) Major Kusanagi, the cybernetically enhanced squad must use all their skill to take down the kidnappers and rescue the hostages.\u00a0 But that\u2019s only half of the mission; can Kusanagi and company find out who\u2019s behind the kidnapping, and, more importantly, just what they\u2019re after?\u00a0 Find out in this thrilling first volume of The Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex!\u00a0", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10756860-ghost-in-the-shell"}, +{"book_title": "When There is Hope", "author_name": "Jane Goodger", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 838, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Waking up after an accident, the last thing Susan Butler remembered was living in the 1990s, happily married and joyously expecting her first child. Now, suddenly, inexplicably, she is Margaret Johnsbury, the year is 1888, and she is about to find out she is detested not only by her handsome husband, Carter, but by the entire town of Newport.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331975.When_There_is_Hope"}, +{"book_title": "Fever", "author_name": "Lauren DeStefano", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 44059, "review_number": 3354, "book_description": "Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind.Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness.The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine\u2019s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. Worse still, they can\u2019t seem to elude Rhine\u2019s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion...by any means necessary.In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano\u2019s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price - now that she has more to lose than ever.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11112619-fever"}, +{"book_title": "Pegasus in Flight", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 8087, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the stars, she was always ready to welcome new Talents to the Center.Feisty and Streetwise, twelve-year-old Tirla used her extraordinary knack for languages to eke out a living in the Linear developments, where the poor struggled to make ends meet and children were conscripted or sold into menial work programs. Young Peter, paralyzed in a freak accident, hoped someday to get into space where zero gravity would enable him to function more easily. Both desperately needed help only other Talents could provide.With the appearance in her life of one extraordinary man with no measurable Talent at all, Rhyssa suddenly found herself questioning everything she thought she knew about her people. And when two Talented children were discovered to have some very unusual --and unexpected-- abilities, she realized that she would have to reassess the potential of all Talentkind...", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Romance", "Paranormal (Esp)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61963.Pegasus_in_Flight"}, +{"book_title": "A Song for a New Day", "author_name": "Sarah Pinsker", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2316, "review_number": 585, "book_description": "In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world--her music, her purpose--is closed off forever. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law. Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery--no physical contact with humans needed. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. The only catch is that she'll have to do something she's never done before and go out in public. Find the illegal concerts and bring musicians into the limelight they deserve.\u00a0But when she sees how the world could actually be, that won\u2019t be enough.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Music", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43401925-a-song-for-a-new-day"}, +{"book_title": "His Mossy Boy", "author_name": "R. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 486, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Years ago, Martin Dyer nearly died in the woods outside Everlasting. A beautiful, inhuman creature saved his life, but Martin has done his best to forget it ever happened. He spends his time in a haze of weed as he avoids his emotionally abusive mother\u2014and the way he feels about men. Martin is already a weirdo in his isolated small town; he doesn\u2019t need a sexuality crisis, too. He\u2019s a mess, but someone\u2014or something\u2014always seems to take care of him, usually a tall, sarcastic deputy by the name of Ian Forrester. No one knows much about Ian, which is how he and his family have preferred it since before Everlasting existed. Ian has resigned himself to a lonely life. He might dream of Martin, but it\u2019s only that\u2014a dream. Martin doesn\u2019t like men, and even if he did, he doesn\u2019t like Ian. No one does, because Ian keeps his secret, and his distance, by being prickly. But the dragons and their magic have returned to Everlasting, shaking the entire town and leaving Martin questioning what he might be able to have if he sobers up and faces the truth. Now, anything seems possible, even a happily ever after for two men who never expected one. Being(s) in Love:Magical creatures known as beings emerged from hiding amid the destruction of the First World War. Since then they\u2019ve lived on the margins of the human world as misunderstood objects of fear and desire. Some are beautiful, others fearsome and powerful. Yet for all their magic and strength, they are as vulnerable as anyone when it comes to matters of the heart.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Contemporary", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52137999-his-mossy-boy"}, +{"book_title": "Book of Books", "author_name": "A.k. Usher", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 4, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "David Larson is well on his way to becoming one of the world\u2019s most celebrated novelists. What neither David nor anyone else knows, is that he is no ordinary best-selling author. Each new book he writes portrays the world as an increasingly volatile place dominated by fanaticism, social chaos and addiction to technology. With an uncanny resemblance to the stories he writes, the real world follows David\u2019s vision into a dark and perilous future.Elijah and Violet, an unlikely duo recruited for their unique talents, must stop this cataclysmic process before it reaches a point of no return. Armed with just the barest information, they will learn to understand their task as they learn to understand one another. Finding the doomsday author is only the first step. To succeed, they will need to face the brotherhood that has kept the world in balance since the dawn of civilization and learn the true nature of The Book of Books.102,700 words (385 page paperback equivalent)", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8430152-book-of-books"}, +{"book_title": "Hope's Folly", "author_name": "Linnea Sinclair", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1405, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Admiral Philip Guthrie is in an unprecedented position: on the wrong end of the law, leading a ragtag band of rebels against the oppressive Imperial forces. Or would be if he can get his command ship-the derelict cruiser called Hope's Folly-functioning. Not much can rattle Philip's legendary cool-but the woman who helps him foil an assassination attempt on Kirro Station will. She's the daughter of his best friend and first commander-a man who died while under Philip's command and whose death is on Philip's conscience.Rya Bennton has been in love with Philip Guthrie since she was a girl. But can her childhood fantasies survive an encounter with the hardened man, and newly minted rebel leader, once she learns the truth about her father's death? Or will her passion for revenge put not only their hearts but their lives at risk? It's an impossible mission: A man who feels he can't love. A woman who believes she's unlovable. And an enemy who will stop at nothing to crush them both.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3540020-hope-s-folly"}, +{"book_title": "The Peculiars", "author_name": "Maureen Doyle McQuerry", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 1993, "review_number": 423, "book_description": "On her 18th birthday, Lena Mattacascar decides to search for her father, who disappeared into the northern wilderness of Scree when Lena was young. Scree is inhabited by Peculiars, people whose unusual characteristics make them unacceptable to modern society. Lena wonders if her father is the source of her own extraordinary characteristics and if she, too, is Peculiar. On the train she meets a young librarian, Jimson Quiggley, who is traveling to a town on the edge of Scree to work in the home and library of the inventor Mr. Beasley. The train is stopped by men being chased by the handsome young marshal Thomas Saltre. When Saltre learns who Lena\u2019s father is, he convinces her to spy on Mr. Beasley and the strange folk who disappear into his home, Zephyr House. A daring escape in an aerocopter leads Lena into the wilds of Scree to confront her deepest fears.This dark and thrilling adventure, with an unforgettable heroine, will captivate fans of steampunk, fantasy, and romance.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12700342-the-peculiars"}, +{"book_title": "Machines Like Me", "author_name": "Ian McEwan", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 20071, "review_number": 2671, "book_description": "Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda\u2019s assistance, he co-designs Adam\u2019s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever \u2013 a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan\u2019s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Contemporary", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42086795-machines-like-me"}, +{"book_title": "Snowfall", "author_name": "Mitchell Smith", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 226, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "The Trappers, hunter-gatherers who live beside a mammoth wall of ice, have none of the wonders their carefully hand-copied, ancient Warm Times books describe, like cars, guns, or plows. When bloodthirsty invaders slaughter most of the tribe, a small band of survivors heads south, led by a man few of them trust. Holding the remnants of her people together is their doctor, Catania Olsen, whose ugliness has left her unmarried but whose medical skill has earned her people's respect. The Trappers' hazardous trek takes them from their familiar frozen northland, where summer lasts two chilly weeks, through a burgeoning forest where people still know how to make paper, to a warm, bustling gulf coast trade mart where man-beasts created by unnatural science tread the dirt streets. Journeying into the warm lands will change Catania, mind, heart, and soul. She will gain and lose a love, see great wisdom and greater folly, and become a mother. Finally, she will have to choose between her people and her freedom. ", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142906.Snowfall"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Futures", "author_name": "Illah Reza Nourbakhsh", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 123, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and will have minds of their own, thanks to artificial intelligence. In Robot Futures, the roboticist Illah Reza Nourbakhsh considers how we will share our world with these creatures, and how our society could change as it incorporates a race of stronger, smarter beings.Nourbakhsh imagines a future that includes adbots offering interactive custom messaging; robotic flying toys that operate by means of \"gaze tracking\"; robot-enabled multimodal, multicontinental telepresence; and even a way that nanorobots could allow us to assume different physical forms. Nourbakhsh examines the underlying technology and the social consequences of each scenario. He also offers a counter-vision: a robotics designed to create civic and community empowerment. His book helps us understand why that is the robot future we should try to bring about.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Economics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248619-robot-futures"}, +{"book_title": "The Bloody Red Baron", "author_name": "Kim Newman", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3107, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "WAR IS HELL... It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The War of the Great Powers in Europe is also a war between the living and the undead. Caught up in the conflict,\u00a0Charles Beauregard, an old enemy of Dracula, his proteg\u00e9 Edwin Winthrop, and intrepid vampire reporter Kate Reed go head-to-head with the lethal\u00a0vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron...\u00a0In the brand-new novella Vampire Romance, Genevi\u00e8ve Dieudonn\u00e9, newly returned to England, infiltrates a singular vampire gathering in the\u00a0service of the Diogenes Club.A brand-new edition, with additional novella, of the critically acclaimed, bestselling sequel to Anno Dracula.\u00a0Written by popular novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Baron takes the story into the 20th\u00a0century.\u00a0 \u00a0", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11489185-the-bloody-red-baron"}, +{"book_title": "The Little Android", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 12653, "review_number": 1381, "book_description": "The Little Android is a retelling of The Little Mermaid, set in the world of The Lunar Chronicles by New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer.When android Mech6.0 saves the life of a handsome hardware engineer, her body is destroyed and her mechanics discover a glitch in her programming. Androids aren\u2019t meant to develop impractical reasoning or near-emotional responses\u2026let alone fall in love.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Retellings", "Romance", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19208103-the-little-android"}, +{"book_title": "Heroes Die", "author_name": "Matthew Woodring Stover", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 11032, "review_number": 622, "book_description": "Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of monarchs and commoners, villains and heroes. He is relentless, unstoppable, simply the best there is at what he does.At home on Earth, Caine is Hari Michaelson, a superstar whose adventures in Ankhana command an audience of billions. Yet he is shackled by a rigid caste society, bound to ignore the grim fact that he kills men on a far-off world for the entertainment of his own planet--and bound to keep his rage in check.But now Michaelson has crossed the line. His estranged wife, Pallas Rill, has mysteriously disappeared in the slums of Ankhana. To save her, he must confront the greatest challenge of his life: a lethal game of cat and mouse with the most treacherous rulers of two worlds...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/311864.Heroes_Die"}, +{"book_title": "Swords of the Legion", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1038, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "In Videssos the city, tribune Marcus Scaurus was bored. The legion that had been magically transported to this strange world was far away. But the Emperor\u2019s niece Alypia was near\u2014and willing.When their secret trysts were betrayed, Emperor Thorisin Gavras was forced to condemn Marcus as a traitor\u2014but with a promise of freedom and Alypia, if he could reclaim a rebel province from a fanatic usurper, with no military aid. With only centurion Gaius Philippus, Marcus set out to try the seemingly impossible task.But the fates conspired against them, driving them further westward, into the innermost sanctum of Videssos\u2019 great enemy Yezd\u2014and toward the torture chambers of the evil, deathless wizard-prince Avshar.But behind them, without orders, the men of the legion were on the march!", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Heroic Fantasy (Sword and Sorcery)", "Literature", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101635.Swords_of_the_Legion"}, +{"book_title": "Executive", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 3500, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Doomed to a madman\u2019s hellHe was shaping his times as no one before him dared, mercilessly scourging an entire planet of crime and corruption wherever he found them\u2014and destroying anyone who stood in his way. Absolute dictator of the United States of Jupiter, Hope Hubris was destined to become the most hated and feared man of an era, a tyrant charged with countless heinous acts and sexual cruelties. Yet justice remained his fiercest passion.Now to insure his goals, Hope would assume an alternate identity and become a rebel\u2014the brilliant leader in a revolution dedicated to his own overthrow. To fulfill his dreams he would sacrifice love\u2026and plunge headlong into madness\u2026", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/817236.Executive"}, +{"book_title": "The Silence", "author_name": "Tim Lebbon", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 4365, "review_number": 615, "book_description": "In the darkness of a vast cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death.Deaf for many years, Ally knows how to live in silence. Now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can sit out the plague. But will it ever end? And what kind of world will be left?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22748082-the-silence"}, +{"book_title": "The Truce at Bakura", "author_name": "Kathy Tyers", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 11687, "review_number": 333, "book_description": "No sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts a call for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost. Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first to meet the Ssi-ruuk, cold-blooded reptilian invaders who, once allied with the now dead Emperor, are approaching Imperial space with only one goal: total domination. Princess Leia sees the mission as an opportunity to achieve a diplomatic victory for the Alliance. But it assumes even greater importance when a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to Luke Skywalker with the message that he must go to Bakura\u2014or risk losing everything the Rebels have fought so desperately to achieve. Even as the Alliance arrives, the aliens have almost overcome the Bakura Imperial garrison, whose desperate commander will accept help from any quarter\u2014even Rebel\u2014against an insidious foe that enslaves Human minds to pilot their invincible machines of war and destruction. While marshalling the tattered Imperial forces, Luke, Han Solo, and Princess Leia must win the trust and cooperation of the Bakurans. For although Imperial Governor Nereus has granted the Rebels temporary amnesty there is the possibility of treachery among those whose first allegiance lies with the Empire. On the eve of the final explosive onslaught, Rebel and Imperial forces must finally come to terms with each other\u2026or lose the entire galaxy to the hideous servitude promised by a victorious alien enemy. Capturing the sweep and excitement of the original Star Wars saga, The Truce at Bakura plants a seed of hope for peace, sees the formation of a timeless love, and stands witness to a Jedi's undying sacrifice to defend Humanity against an alien nemesis.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302618.The_Truce_at_Bakura"}, +{"book_title": "Young Bleys", "author_name": "Gordon R. Dickson", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 645, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "In the sequel to The Final Encyclopedia, Bleys Ahrens, raised alone by his unhappy Exotic mother and cast out from society, finds his niche in life with Dahno, his half-brother. Reprint. PW.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Politics", "Psychology"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263121.Young_Bleys"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Mate", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 3559, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "\nPlump Diana is ironing her underwear when the hottest blue babe in all of the galaxy appears in her living room. Did she forget to mention he was naked too? Abducted, decontaminated and dressed like a harem girl, she\u2019s been chosen to become the hunky alien\u2019s mate. \nKor asked his ancestors to find him a biddable, docile mate, instead they found him Diana - a curvy, argumentative earthling who sets his pulse pounding and his loins on fire. He might be an alien who doesn\u2019t understand the meaning of love, but he sure knows what he feels is more than lust. \n", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29778960-alien-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Fugitive", "author_name": "Cheryl Brooks", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1056, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "A mysterious stranger in danger...The last thing Drusilla expected to find on vacation was a gorgeous man hiding in the jungle. But what is he running from? And why does she feel so mesmerized that she'll stop at nothing to be near him?Hypnotically attracted, he will risk his life to have her...Zetithian warrior Manx, a member of a race hunted to near extinction because of their sexual powers, has done all he can to avoid extermination. But when an uncommon woman enters his jungle lair, the animal inside of him demands he risk it all to have her. Until he saw her, his loneliness threatened to consume him. Would she risk her life to join him...or would their intense pleasure in each other destroy them both?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6597635-fugitive"}, +{"book_title": "The (Alien) Nanny for Christmas", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1253, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "Hi. I\u2019m Gwen. I\u2019m a single mom to two growing boys\u2014and now I\u2019m the brand new owner of an alien whose greatest wish in life is to become a live-in nanny. It\u2019s been kind of a weird day. I wholeheartedly recommend adding an alien to your household though. He cooks, he cleans\u2014and the kids love him. But three things you should know if you\u2019re going to keep a seven-foot-tall alien in your basement? You might want to invest in flameproof cookware. He will think of you as his planet\u2019s equivalent of a princess. And my alien is totally stealing my underwear. **This is a sweet Standalone Novella. Note: Explicit language and adult scenes are contained in this book. ***Heads up for readers of the Stolen series: this is an interconnected standalone, so hop in and have some fun \u201cHa!\u201d moments with me!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Holiday", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43194302-the-alien-nanny-for-christmas"}, +{"book_title": "The Collected Stories of Greg Bear", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 172, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Greg Bear is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the late twentieth century. He has a powerful voice, combining the intense rationality of science with the intensely passionate characters that can only be created by a writer who loves humanity. Bear\u2019s novel Moving Mars won the Nebula Award in 1994, and he did it again, in 2000, with Darwin\u2019s Radio. He has been honored with Hugo and Nebula nominations for novel-length work eight more times.But Greg Bear\u2019s short fiction is even more astounding, as this powerful career retrospective demonstrates. This collection contains Bear\u2019s earliest published fiction from the late 1960s and early 1970s as well his remarkable award-winning work from the \u201880s and \u201890s\u2014stories like the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella- length version of \u201cBlood Music\u201d and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winner \u201cTangents.\u201dThis Collection is enhanced by brand-new introductions for each story, commentary, and reminiscences by Greg Bear.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172737.The_Collected_Stories_of_Greg_Bear"}, +{"book_title": "Traitor to the Throne", "author_name": "Alwyn Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 19461, "review_number": 2584, "book_description": "Rebel by chance. Traitor by choice.Gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she\u2019s fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne. When Amani finds herself thrust into the epicenter of the regime\u2014the Sultan\u2019s palace\u2014she\u2019s determined to bring the tyrant down. Desperate to uncover the Sultan\u2019s secrets by spying on his court, she tries to forget that Jin disappeared just as she was getting closest to him, and that she\u2019s a prisoner of the enemy. But the longer she remains, the more she questions whether the Sultan is really the villain she\u2019s been told he is, and who\u2019s the real traitor to her sun-bleached, magic-filled homeland.Forget everything you thought you knew about Miraji, about the rebellion, about Djinn and Jin and the Blue-Eyed Bandit. In Traitor to the Throne, the only certainty is that everything will change.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29739361-traitor-to-the-throne"}, +{"book_title": "The Interludes", "author_name": "Ais", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 2970, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "The Interludes is an anthology of stand alone stories that exist between Book #2 (Afterimage) and Book #4 (Fade) of the In The Company of Shadows series. This anthology contains key plot points and major development of characters and relationships that cannot be missed.In the Company of Shadows series description:Years after the bombs of WWIII have changed the physical and political landscape, the Agency ruthlessly works behind the scenes to take down rebel groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means. Hsin Liu Vega (Sin) is their most efficient and deadly assassin ever. However, he tends to go off on unauthorized killing sprees and somehow his assigned partners all end up dead under suspicious circumstances. That is why the Agency has had him locked up in a box on the fourth floor for years. But now they think it is time to put the psychopath back in the field. With a new partner.Boyd's mother, a high ranking Agency official, volunteers her teenage son for the position. Boyd is not afraid of death. In fact, his life has been such an endless cycle of apathy and despair for the last few years that he'd welcome it.Can these two broken men form an efficient partnership? Can they learn to trust anyone, let alone each other? Sin doesn't give a fuck about the Agency, or the androgynous boy who holds the remote to the shock collar that is supposed to control him.On the other hand, Boyd is strangely unafraid of the man everyone calls 'monster' and Sin seems reluctant to let his keeper get himself killed on any missions. Yet.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Dark", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10506860-the-interludes"}, +{"book_title": "The Accidental War", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 612, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "Blending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the first volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of his popular and critically acclaimed Dread Empire\u2019s Fall series\u2014a tale of blood, courage, adventure and battle in which the fate of an empire rests in the hands of a cadre of desperate exiles.It\u2019s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a rigid, tradition-bound military establishment, Captain Gareth Martinez and Captain the Lady Sula are stewing in exile, frustrated and impatient to exercise the effective and lethal skills they were born to use in fighting the enemy.Yet after the ramshackle empire left by the Shaa conquerors is shaken by a series of hammer blows that threaten the foundations of the commonwealth, the result is a war that no one planned, no one expected, and no one knows how to end.Now, Martinez, Sula, and their confederate Nikki Severin must escape the clutches of their enemies, rally the disorganized elements of the fleet, and somehow restore the fragile peace\u2014or face annihilation at the hands of a vastly superior force.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37486195-the-accidental-war"}, +{"book_title": "Sexed Up", "author_name": "Sally Painter", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 9, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "In 2383, all the men on Earth are dead. The Anti-Male world government, convinced it was \"God's will\", has outlawed all research into re-creating males.Working illegally, Randi Mayers, the world's foremost sex-replacement designer, aims to create the closest thing to a real man the technology is capable of. William, the result of advanced nanite technology incorporated with DNA, is the ultimate \"sex replacement\" and everything Randi dreamed of. His sexual prowess leaves her breathless \u2014 and very, very satisfied.But William is much more than a machine, dammit \u2014 he's a man! As his \"testing\" continues and he demonstrates more and more human characteristics, they fall in love, but discovery and industrial espionage place them on a collision course with the Anti-Male faction, with dire results.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11908897-sexed-up"}, +{"book_title": "Honor Bound", "author_name": "Rachel Caine", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1383, "review_number": 248, "book_description": "Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she\u2019s been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to be fighting, Zara, her co-pilot Beatriz, and their Leviathan ship Nadim barely escaped the carnage with their lives. Now Zara and her crew of Honors need a safe haven, far from the creatures who want to annihilate them. But with two wounded Leviathan to treat, plus human and non-human refugees to help, they\u2019ll have to settle for the nearest outpost, called the Sliver: a wild, dangerous warren of alien criminals. Zara\u2019s skills from the Zone may be invaluable. However, Zara discovers that the secrets of the Sliver may have the power to turn the tide of the war they left behind\u2014but in the wrong direction. Soon Zara will have to make a choice: stand against the ultimate evil or run from it. But she\u2019s never walked away from a fight.Honor Bound is the second installment in Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre\u2019s thrilling and fresh space saga.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Adventure", "LGBT", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38496253-honor-bound"}, +{"book_title": "A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court", "author_name": "Mari Mancusi", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 352, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "When a modern fashion editor strumbles back into Camelot and falls in love with Lancelot, how will the history of King Arthur's court change?Once upon a time there lived an outspoken fashion editor named Kat, who certainly was not your typical damsel in distress. But when a gypsy curse sent her back in time to the days of King Arthur, she found she'd need every ounce of her 21st century wits (and pop culture references) to navigate the legend. After all, surviving a magical plot, an evil prince, and a case of mistaken identity - all without changing history or scuffing your Manolos - takes some doing!Luckily, she's got her very own knight in shining armor, Lancelot du Lac, on her side. The honorable-to-a-fault and devastatingly handsome champion insists on helping her out, even though she's not quite sure she wants him to. After all, shouldn't he be off romancing Queen Guenevere or something? Will Kat manage to stay out of trouble long enough to get back to her beloved lattes, cosmopolitans and cashmere? And what will Lancelot's forbidden love mean for the kingdom of Camelot?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75032.A_Connecticut_Fashionista_in_King_Arthur_s_Court"}, +{"book_title": "Castle Vroman", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1956, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The Milori, unsuccessful in their first attempt to defeat the Galactic Alliance and annex it's territory, prepare for a second assault. Emperor Maxxiloth has decided he won't be embarrassed a second time and sends every ship available in his empire as part of the new invasion force.When a ship carrying the admiral assigned to replace Captain Jenetta Carver as commander of the GA's most forward base is attacked, and the surviving crew kidnapped, all forces in the sector are immediately put are on alert. A search for the missing crew and their attackers begins in earnest, but with thousands of square light-years of space to cover around Stewart Space Command Base, the task is a daunting one, and some might say impossible. When Jenetta learns of the new plot by the Milori to conquer the Galactic Alliance, locating and rescuing the crew of the Lisbon must receive a lower priority.Months later, a shuttle touches down on a primeval world far inside the Frontier Zone, where Admiral Vroman and the senior officers from the GSC destroyer Lisbon are to be marooned by their Milori captors. As the rest of the crew is being shuttled down to the surface, the officers quickly draw up a plan of survival. Left with only the most basic of supplies and equipment, the spaceship crew must learn how to exist in a hostile, planetary environment.While the forces at Stewart are preparing for an imminent attack by the Milori, the crew of the Lisbon are learning that they have some rather large and particularly nasty neighbors with voracious appetites and predacious habits.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10406139-castle-vroman"}, +{"book_title": "Horizons: An Anthology of Prize Winning Stories from Sfnovelist.com", "author_name": "Jim Gamble", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 3, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Hard science fiction still lives!Within these covers you will find a remarkable collection of 34 original ScienceFiction stories by some of the most talented authors you've never met.SFNovelist.com is a world spanning group of English language writers who have, for ten years, contributedto theme driven short story contests. Our editors have selected some of the finest science fiction talesto be found in the genre, most never before appearing in any other publication. The stories are a tour de force of imagination and creativity. Look inside. Here you will find fresh new technology and characters you will never forget!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11847490-horizons"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Sea", "author_name": "Brian Keene", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 5144, "review_number": 286, "book_description": "The streets of the city are no longer safe. They are filled with zombies - the living dead, rotting predators driven only by a need to kill and eat. For Lamar Reed and a handful of others, their safe haven is an old ship out at sea. But it will soon become a deathtrap, and they'll learn that isolation can also mean no escape.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Splatterpunk)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216215.Dead_Sea"}, +{"book_title": "The Beholder", "author_name": "Anna Bright", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 4420, "review_number": 1087, "book_description": "Selah has waited her whole life for a happily ever after. As the only daughter of the leader of Potomac, she knows her duty is to find the perfect match, a partner who will help secure the future of her people. Now that day has finally come.But after an excruciatingly public rejection from her closest childhood friend, Selah\u2019s stepmother suggests an unthinkable solution: Selah must set sail across the Atlantic, where a series of potential suitors awaits\u2014and if she doesn\u2019t come home engaged, she shouldn\u2019t come home at all.From English castle gardens to the fjords of Norge, and under the eye of the dreaded Imperiya Yotne, Selah\u2019s quest will be the journey of a lifetime. But her stepmother\u2019s schemes aren\u2019t the only secrets hiding belowdecks\u2026and the stakes of her voyage may be higher than any happy ending.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Retellings", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36558159-the-beholder"}, +{"book_title": "The Grace of Kings", "author_name": "Ken Liu", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 12291, "review_number": 1973, "book_description": "Two men rebel together against tyranny\u2014and then become rivals\u2014in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions\u2014two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice.Fans of intrigue, intimate plots, and action will find a new series to embrace in the Dandelion Dynasty.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18952341-the-grace-of-kings"}, +{"book_title": "Tales of the Bounty Hunters", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 7213, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters---amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful---and feared---hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life....Featuring original stories by Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran, Kathy Tyers, Dave Wolverton.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131776.Tales_of_the_Bounty_Hunters"}, +{"book_title": "Backshot", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 309, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "An exciting new special-ops adventure from the battle-tested vets who created the popular Starfist seriesJorge Lavager, charismatic leader of the mysterious Union of Margelan, ferociously guards an agricultural research facility on the planet Atlas. What that facility conceals will prove whether Lavager is an idealist seeking to unify Atlas under a banner of freedom and prosperity-or a tyrant aiming to control all of Human Space.The Marines of Fourth Force Recon's second platoon are dispatched to Atlas to uncover the truth. They will have to sneak past state-of-the-art surveillance equipment barring unlawful entry to the planet and land in a desolate area miles from their target. And if they discover lethal new weapons instead of legitimate research, the thirty-six Marines are to seize the compound-guarded by merciless, armed-to-the-teeth soldiers-and destroy it. But what the recon team finds on Atlas sets off a chain of events that will force some hard decisions on the Marines . . . and end in a deadly surprise.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36466.Backshot"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon", "author_name": "Frederik Pohl", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 12235, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough technology, he is wracked with the guilt of losing his wife, poised forever at the \"event horizon\" of a black hole where Robin had abaondoned her. As more and more information comes back from the expedition, Robin grows ever hopeful that he can rescue his beloved Gelle-Klara Moynlin. After three and a years, the factory is discovered to work, and a human is found aboard. Robin's suffering may be just about over....THE HEECHEE SAGABook One: GatewayBook Two: Beyond the Blue Event HorizonBook Three: Heechee RendezvousBook Four: The Annals of the HeecheeFrom the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373399.Beyond_the_Blue_Event_Horizon"}, +{"book_title": "Infinite", "author_name": "Jodi Meadows", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 4675, "review_number": 552, "book_description": "DESTRUCTIONThe Year of Souls begins with an earthquake\u2014an alarming rumble from deep within the earth\u2014and it\u2019s only the first of greater dangers to come. The Range caldera is preparing to erupt. Ana knows that as Soul Night approaches, everything near Heart will be at risk.FLIGHTAna\u2019s exile is frightening, but it may also be fortuitous, especially if she can convince her friends to flee Heart and Range with her. They\u2019ll go north, seeking answers and allies to stop Janan\u2019s ascension. And with any luck, the newsouls will be safe from harm\u2019s reach.CHOICEThe oldsouls might have forgotten the choice they made to give themselves limitless lifetimes, but Ana knows the true cost of reincarnation. What she doesn\u2019t know is whether she\u2019ll have the chance to finish this one sweet life with Sam, especially if she returns to Heart to stop Janan once and for all.With gorgeous romance and thrilling action, the final book in the Incarnate trilogy offers a brilliant conclusion to the compelling questions of this fascinating world, where one new girl is the key to the lives of millions.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13085374-infinite"}, +{"book_title": "To Stand or Fall", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1151, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Part four of four parts of the full-length novel, The End of All Things.Back on Earth, the beginning and end of all things. The nations of humanity's home planet have parted ways with the starfaring Colonial Union, the human interstellar empire originally established to keep the home planet free. The Union needs to regain Earth's trust. The alien races of the Conclave have their own hard choices to face. All of these threads culminate in this fourth part of the full-length novel, The End of All Things, John Scalzi's conclusion to the Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25361472-to-stand-or-fall"}, +{"book_title": "The Warning", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 3447, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Jake has made an amazing discovery: a Web site about the Yeerks. Should the Animorphs investigate? If they do, they might walk right into a trap. And if they don't, they'll never know if they're fighting their enemies alone...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363405.The_Warning"}, +{"book_title": "Omega Rising", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 4488, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "Jason Burke was a man hiding from himself in a small cabin high in the American Rocky Mountains when his simple, quiet life was shattered one night by what he first assumed was an aviation mishap. But when he investigates the crash, what he finds will yank him out of his self-imposed exile and thrust him into a world he could have never imagined.He suddenly finds himself trapped on a damaged alien spacecraft and plunged into a universe of interstellar crime lords and government conspiracies, along the way meeting strange new friends\u2026 and enemies. As he struggles to find his way back home he is inexorably drawn deeper into a world where one misstep could mean his death. Or worse. He desperately wants to get back to Earth, but it may be the end for him. \u2026 or is it just the beginning?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17413290-omega-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Saving Sara", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 668, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Sara, abducted from Earth by cruel aliens, is used as a torture slave and left to die.Solron, a healer of Kelon, is annoyed at being ordered to go on a cleanup mission to check abandoned enemy war bases. When he and the crew discover a small human woman on the brink of death, Solron manages to save her. But the beautiful little human stirs more within him than his need to heal. Under Solron\u2019s care, Sara falls deeply in love with the alien doctor and he claims her for himself. But when confronted by the Xerson who tortured her, Solron demands a fight with him.Sara knows she has no choice but to let them fight, but will she now lose the man she loves to the curled Xerson, or will justice at last be served?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16029845-saving-sara"}, +{"book_title": "Hexarchate Stories", "author_name": "Yoon Ha Lee", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 826, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon...A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent...A renegade returns from seclusion to bury an old comrade...From the incredible imagination of Hugo- and Arthur C. Clarke-nominated author Yoon Ha Lee comes a collection of stories set in the world of the best-selling Ninefox Gambit. Showcasing Lee\u2019s extraordinary imagination, this collection takes you to the very beginnings of the hexarchate\u2019s history and reveals new never-before-seen stories.\u00a0", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Anthologies", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novella", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201485-hexarchate-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Mechanics", "author_name": "Shanna Swendson", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2638, "review_number": 524, "book_description": "A sixteen-year-old governess becomes a spy in this alternative U.S. history where the British control with magic and the colonists rebel by inventing.It\u2019s 1888, and sixteen-year-old Verity Newton lands a job in New York as a governess to a wealthy leading family\u2014but she quickly learns that the family has big secrets. Magisters have always ruled the colonies, but now an underground society of mechanics and engineers are developing non-magical sources of power via steam engines that they hope will help them gain freedom from British rule. The family Verity works for is magister\u2014but it seems like the children's young guardian uncle is sympathetic to the rebel cause. As Verity falls for a charming rebel inventor and agrees to become a spy, she also becomes more and more enmeshed in the magister family\u2019s life. She soon realizes she\u2019s uniquely positioned to advance the cause\u2014but to do so, she\u2019ll have to reveal her own dangerous secret.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22718701-rebel-mechanics"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Futures", "author_name": "Russell Blackford", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 75, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Following the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah Connor and her son, John, had thought they9d been able to alter the future so that neither the artificially intelligent SkyNet nor its Terminator killing machines would ever be created. But if they were so successful, why, then, are they now being hunted by yet another Terminator that9s traveled back in time to ensure that John never grows up to be the charismatic leader of the few humans who survived Judgment Day? And when a band of human warriors from an alternate timeline make an unexpected appearance, have they come to help John?or the killing machine . . . ? Told from the perspective of John himself, The New John Connor Chronicles provides insight to the thoughts and fears of a young man who already knows what Fate has in store for him?and the burdens he has to bear along the path he must travel to become humanity9s future savior. ", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2465592.Dark_Futures"}, +{"book_title": "Time on My Hands", "author_name": "Peter Delacorte", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 211, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "While in Paris, Gabriel Prince, a somewhat jaded but charming writer of high-end travel guides, is offered the chance of a lifetime -- a trip through time. There's only one hitch: the left-wing owner of the time machine, quantum physicist Jasper Hudnut, wants Gabriel to perform an errand. Gabriel must go back to pre-World War II Hollywood -- a time when Howard Hawks was in his prime and Humphrey Bogart was still waiting for his break -- and somehow derail a young contract actor named Ronald \"Dutch\" Reagan from his track to the Oval Office. When signing on for the trip, Gabriel couldn't have imagined the strange turns his life would take. He wouldn't have guessed he'd fall in love with a starlet, or that after landing a job as a screenwriter at Warner Bros., he'd discreetly plunder the future for script ideas. And he certainly couldn't have guessed he'd become friends with Dutch Reagan.Gabriel learns quickly that altering history isn't as easy as it looks -- especially when he must stay ahead of several sinister characters from the future. Yet, despite numerous decade-tripping detours, Gabriel still has time on his hands -- time to discover what the world would be like had Reagan never been President, and whether or not his own future should ultimately reside in the past.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/750271.Time_on_My_Hands"}, +{"book_title": "After Atlas", "author_name": "Emma Newman", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 2887, "review_number": 496, "book_description": "Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man\u2019s murder is much more than it seems... Govcorp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos\u2019s entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away; what made his father lose hope; what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas\u2019s departure, it\u2019s got something to do why Casales was found dead in his hotel room\u2014and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation. To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. There\u2019s more to Casales\u2019s death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28361265-after-atlas"}, +{"book_title": "Proof of Forever", "author_name": "Lexa Hillyer", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 2125, "review_number": 330, "book_description": "Before: It was the perfect summer of first kisses, skinny-dipping, and bonfires by the lake. Joy, Tali, Luce, and Zoe knew their final summer at Camp Okahatchee would come to an end, but they swore they\u2019d stay friends.After: Now, two years later, their bond has faded along with those memories.Then: That is, until the fateful flash of a photo booth camera transports the four of them back in time, to the summer they were fifteen\u2014the summer everything changed.Now: The girls must recreate the past in order to return to the present. As they live through their second-chance summer, the mystery behind their lost friendship unravels, and a dark secret threatens to tear the girls apart all over again.Always: Summers end. But this one will change them forever.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Realistic Fiction", "Fantasy", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18520642-proof-of-forever"}, +{"book_title": "The End is Now", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1681, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories.Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, The Apocalypse Triptych is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME explores life after the apocalypse.THE END IS NIGH is about the match. THE END HAS COME is about what will rise from the ashes. THE END IS NOW is about the conflagration.\u2022 \u2022 \u2022 \u2022table of contents:INTRODUCTION by John Joseph AdamsHERD IMMUNITY by Tananarive DueTHE SIXTH DAY OF DEER CAMP by Scott SiglerGOODNIGHT STARS by Annie BelletROCK MANNING CAN\u2019T HEAR YOU by Charlie Jane AndersFRUITING BODIES by Seanan McGuireBLACK MONDAY by Sarah LanganANGELS OF THE APOCALYPSE by Nancy KressAGENT ISOLATED by David WellingtonTHE GODS WILL NOT BE SLAIN by Ken LiuYOU\u2019VE NEVER SEEN EVERYTHING by Elizabeth BearBRING THEM DOWN by Ben H. WintersTWILIGHT OF THE MUSIC MACHINES by Megan ArkenbergSUNSET HOLLOW by Jonathan MaberryPENANCE by Jake KerrAVTOMAT by Daniel H. WilsonDANCING WITH BATGIRL IN THE LAND OF NOD by Will McIntoshBY THE HAIR OF THE MOON by Jamie FordTO WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD by Desirina BoskovichIN THE MOUNTAIN by Hugh HoweyDEAR JOHN by Robin Wasserman", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22930598-the-end-is-now"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl at Midnight", "author_name": "Melissa Grey", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 9166, "review_number": 1838, "book_description": "Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from all but one human: Echo, a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market.The Avicen are the only family Echo has ever known, so when a centuries-old war crests on the borders of her home, she decides it\u2019s time to act. Legend has it that to end the conflict once and for all, Echo must find the firebird, a mythical entity believed to possess power the likes of which the world has never seen. It will be no easy task, though if life as a thief has taught Echo anything, it\u2019s how to hunt down what she wants . . . and how to take it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20345202-the-girl-at-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "The Fall of Hyperion", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 98215, "review_number": 3482, "book_description": "In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77565.The_Fall_of_Hyperion"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 62, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Concepts once purely fiction -- robots, cyborg parts, artificial intelligences\u00a0-- are becoming part of everyday reality. Soon robots will be everywhere, performing surgery, exploring hazardous places, making rescues, fighting fires, handling heavy goods. After a decade or two, they will be as unremarkable as the computer screen is now in offices, airports or restaurants.\u00a0Cyborgs will be less obvious. These additions to the human body\u00a0are interior now, as rebuilt joints, elbows and hearts. Soon we will cross the line between repair and augmentation, probably first in sports medicine, then spreading to everyone who wants to make a body perform better, last longer,\u00a0than it ordinarily could. Controversy will arise, but it\u00a0will not stop the desire to\u00a0live longer and be stronger\u00a0than we are.\u00a0This book treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same general phenomenon.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Computer Science (Computers)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632626.Beyond_Human"}, +{"book_title": "Paper and Fire", "author_name": "Rachel Caine", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 10722, "review_number": 1389, "book_description": "Let the world burn.With an iron fist, the Great Library controls the knowledge of the world, ruthlessly stamping out all rebellion and, in the name of the greater good, forbidding the personal ownership of books.Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to the sinister, seductive world of the Library, but serving in its army is nothing like he envisioned. His life and the lives of those he cares for have been altered forever. His best friend is lost, and Morgan, the girl he loves, is locked away in the Iron Tower, doomed to a life apart from everything she knows.After embarking on a mission to save one of their own, Jess and his band of allies make one wrong move and suddenly find themselves hunted by the Library\u2019s deadly automata and forced to flee Alexandria, all the way to London.But Jess\u2019s home isn\u2019t safe anymore. The Welsh army is coming, London is burning, and soon, Jess must choose between his friends, his family, and the Library, which is willing to sacrifice anything and anyone in the search for ultimate control\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25890355-paper-and-fire"}, +{"book_title": "The Atlantropa Articles: A Novel", "author_name": "Cody Franklin", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 307, "review_number": 43, "book_description": " \n#1 Amazon Best Seller! \u2500 Dystopian Alternate History: An ambitious feat of engineering and a continent in crisis\n\nFor fans of Philip K. Dick\u2019s The Man in the High Castle and Stephen King\u2019s 11/22/63, comes an epic saga by YouTuber Cody Franklin (Alternate History Hub), with contributions from YouTuber Joseph Pisenti (Real Life Lore).\nIn an alternate timeline, World War II never takes place. Instead, a plan is put into effect by Hitler and the Nazi party to drain the Mediterranean Sea. They promise fertile land, millions of jobs and endless energy. New land to be settled. Living space for a crowded continent. All of Europe came together and signed a treaty to realize this new world, it was called \u2018The Atlantropa Articles\u2019Nazism Survives in A New Europe:\u00a0by promising to bring endless energy through hydro-electricity and employing millions to build the dams, fascism only cements itself as a mainstream ideology. Hitler is seen as a modern Napoleon, one of the greats for his time. Nazism never disappears.The Reich Remains Eternal:\u00a0Two millennia later, the Reich run the world. Aryans have become a race of their own, out numbering their neighbors and ruling with a messianic passion towards Hitler. Europe has been united under the banner of the swastika.The Sea Is Gone, the Promise Failed:\u00a0But the plan of a fertile lush land was never realized. The project took decades longer than anticipated. By the time it is completed, what they find is a salty barren world. Now the Mediterranean Sea is a desert basin known only as the Kiln. Southern Europe has been abandoned. This is where Ansel\u2019s story begins. A story of discovery, lies and false prophets. The Atlantropa Articles is an astounding science fiction, alternate history tale that will thrill and transport readers with its detailed world and startling intimacy.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41571631-the-atlantropa-articles"}, +{"book_title": "Robots Everywhere", "author_name": "Denny Hebson", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 44, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Step into a world where robots rule. Quirky, amusing androids of every shape, size, and color turn reality on its ear. You won't want to leave life among the machines.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/667555.Robots_Everywhere"}, +{"book_title": "Trick of Time", "author_name": "J.L. Merrow", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 566, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "A lover from another timeWhen Ted Ennis steps out the doors of the Criterion Theatre for a cigarette and finds himself in Victorian London, he begins to doubt his sanity. At first he thinks it's all a film set, and is sure that the strikingly handsome young man leaning against a lamppost must be the leading man\u2026What starts as a sordid transaction with a beautiful rent boy quickly turns into something much deeper, drawing him back again and again as he gets to know Jem and craves meaningful encounters with him.But Ted doesn't understand the exact conditions necessary for his trips through time\u2014and for Jem, time may actually be running out. Now Ted has one last shot to get back to Jem and save their relationship, before it's too late\u202627,000 words", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16073632-trick-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", "author_name": "J.K. Rowling", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 2927793, "review_number": 57615, "book_description": "For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, \"He's at Hogwarts . . . he's at Hogwarts.\"Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5.Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban"}, +{"book_title": "GAMELAND: Season One", "author_name": "Saul W. Tanpepper", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 217, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "SERIES DESCRIPTION:In the center of Long Island's forbidden wasteland, overseen by a large and powerful corporation known as Arc Properties, is GAMELAND, a virtual reality arcade where the rich and privileged act out their base fantasies using zombies as avatars. Connected to their Infected Players via neural implants (government-mandated in the event of an outbreak), Operators pit the Undead against one another using remote gaming controllers in a high stakes game of money, violence, and power. For the poor, the televised action on state-controlled Media streams is horrifying yet powerfully addictive. Volunteering to become an Undead Player is strictly forbidden, but fame and money lure some to The Game.On a whim, a small group of computer hackers and gamers decides to sneak onto the island, hoping to catch a glimpse of the uncontrolled Infecteds, unimplanted victims of an outbreak that took place there over a decade earlier. But while breaking in turns out to be a lot easier than any of them could have ever imagined, getting back out is one a hell of a killer. As they soon discover, when you play, you play to win. Because, if you die, you become part of The Game. The series consists of eight episodes publishing monthly through December 2012. Also available in paperback.EPISODE 1: Deep Into the GameZpocalypto gamer Jessica Daniels and her gang of code jackers decide to break into Long Island's Gameland hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the Infected Undead, risking arrest and an extension to their Life Service Commitment (a civil or military obligation fulfilled after death). But getting past the EM field, the wall surrounding the island, the mined waters, requires the addition of a stranger to their fold. Tensions within the group rise. So do the risks. After a near-fatal accident during preparation nearly takes the life of one of their members, emotions run dangerously high. They press on and find an abandoned wasteland like nothing they ever expected. Excitement quickly turns to dread as the dangers become all too clear.Approximately 50,000 words (~185 pages)EPISODE 2: FailsafeJessie and Kelly clash after one of their group gets stranded among the Infected Undead, forcing Kelly to make a rash decision which will ultimately deliver them into the hands of those who would turn them all into mindless players in The Game.Approximately 50,000 words (~185 pages)EPISODE 3: Deadman's SwitchUnable to escape from Long Island because of the failsafe device implanted inside their brains, the group digs in until they can devise a way to neutralize it. Jessie is anointed as their leader despite Jake's claims that she is unfit. A final desperate attempt is made to leave, setting into motion a sequence of events that will result in one of them dead, another infected, and all of them running for their lives.Approximately 52,000 words (~192 pages)EPISODE 4: Sunder the Hollow OnesA mutiny in the group splits the members, leaving Jessie out in the cold. As she continues to struggle to fulfill her promise to bring everyone safely home, a chance encounter with one of Gameland's residents dredges up deeply buried memories, leaving her feeling haunted and doubtful about her future.Approximately 44,000 words (~160 pages)EPISODE 5: Prometheus WeptAfter one member of their group is infected, Jessie makes a decision to hand over another to a mysterious group of Undead sympathizers in exchange for a promised antidote. But will she be able to collect the medicine and return before it's too late? Will the medicine work? And will she be able to get them all back home again?Approximately 41,000 words (~150 pages)EPISODE 6: Kingdom of PlayersArmed with a potential antiserum to the reanimation virus, Jessica races back to Gameland to save her infected friend. Waylaid along the way, she must fight for her life to save another. Will she make it back in time? Or will her friend die and return as one of the Undead?Approximately 41,000 words (~150 pages)EPISODE 7: Tag, You're DeadTorn between rescuing Ashley from the homicidal Ben and staying with Jake, who's been infected, Jessie, Kelly and Reggie must carefully plan their next move. But Reggie falls ill and the Undead break into their stronghold. Soon they're fighting for their lives in a battle that will lead all of the group to their darkest hour.Approximately 47,000 words (~170 pages)EPISODE 8: Jacker's CodeThe shocking conclusion to the high-tech horror thriller, GAMELAND. Jessie and the remaining gamers and hackers struggle against all odds to escape Gameland and Long Island, even though some of them have been infected with the zombie virus. Determined to do whatever is necessary to get home, they will have to face some of the most difficult decisions of their lives. But even if they're successful, will they ever be able to go back to the lives they so recklessly left behind?The world is suddenly a very different place from the one they left behind, and not all monsters live behind walls.Approximately 54,000 words (~196 pages)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13598429-gameland"}, +{"book_title": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", "author_name": "J.K. Rowling", "rating_score": 4.62, "rating_votes": 2902272, "review_number": 67128, "book_description": "Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid\u2019s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything he loves. And he knows he can\u2019t keep hiding.To stop Voldemort, Harry knows he must find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them.He will have to face his enemy in one final battle.--jkrowling.com", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136251.Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows"}, +{"book_title": "The Zenith Angle", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.28, "rating_votes": 626, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Pioneering computer wizard Derek \"Van\" Vandeveer has been living extra-large as a VP for a booming Internet company. But the September 11 attacks on America change everything. Recruited as the key member of an elite federal computer-security team, Van enters the labyrinthine trenches of the Washington intelligence community. His special genius is needed to debug the software glitch in America's most crucial KH-13 satellite, capable of detecting terrorist hotbeds worldwide. But the problem is much deeper. Now Van must make the unlikely leap from scientist to spy, team up with a ruthlessly resourceful ex-Special Forces commando, and root out an unknown enemy --- one with access to a weapon of untold destructive power.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Literature (American)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218568.The_Zenith_Angle"}, +{"book_title": "Deluge", "author_name": "Lisa Tawn Bergren", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 2610, "review_number": 309, "book_description": "The Bettarinis and Forellis have found rich fulfillment together in medieval Italia. But after fighting off countless enemies, they now must face the worst foe of all. As the Black Death closes in upon them, threatening everything and everyone they hold dear, Lia and Gabi\u2013and the knights they love\u2013must dig deep within to decide how they might remain safe\u2026and if they need to risk it all in order to truly live as they\u2019re called.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Christian Fiction", "Historical", "Christian", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17372786-deluge"}, +{"book_title": "Secret of the Phoenix", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 3146, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Captain Jason Burke has begun to suspect that the random attacks on his ship and crew over the last couple of years may not be so random after all. Evidence is mounting that there is something on the Phoenix ... something that powerful factions will stop at nothing to get their hands on.While Omega Force races to find out what is hidden on their ship that is causing so much trouble they also must figure out why such powerful enemies bent on obtaining it. They'll need to rely on old allies, and a few old adversaries, to unravel the mystery that's been hovering over them since they first stole the gunship from the treacherous Deetz so long ago. The crew is used to fighting long odds, but will they be prepared to sacrifice everything to keep the Phoenix's secret from falling into the wrong hands?-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\"Omega Force: Secret of the Phoenix\" is the sixth installment of the bestselling \"Omega Force Series.\" It continues the adventures of Jason Burke, a lone human in space who has linked up with five other aliens to try their luck as hired guns. Their mandate: to help those who don't have the\u00a0 means to help themselves and never accept a job that would compromise the honor code they live by.\nOmega Force Novels:\nOmega RisingOmega Force: Soldiers of FortuneOmega Force: Savage HomecomingOmega Force: The Enemy WithinOmega Force: Return of the ArchonOmega Force: Secret of the Phoenix", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23345291-secret-of-the-phoenix"}, +{"book_title": "Seeing", "author_name": "Jos\u00e9 Saramago", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 19600, "review_number": 1713, "book_description": "On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to go out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o' clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear.But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? A police superintendent is put on the case.What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. A singular novel from the author of Blindness.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fiction", "Literature", "Cultural (Portugal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "European Literature (Portuguese Literature)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Nobel Prize", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47667.Seeing"}, +{"book_title": "The Boy on the Bridge", "author_name": "M.R. Carey", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 20100, "review_number": 2691, "book_description": "Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy.The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world.To where the monsters lived.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31554413-the-boy-on-the-bridge"}, +{"book_title": "Ruin", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 9007, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "The alien Yuuzhan Vong have launched an attack on the worlds of the Outer Rim.\u00a0\u00a0They are merciless, without regard for life - and they stand utterly outside the Force.\u00a0\u00a0Their ever-changing tactics stump the New Republic military.\u00a0\u00a0Even the Jedi, once the greatest guardians of peace in the galaxy, are rendered helpless by this impervious foe - and their solidarity has begun to unravel.While Luke struggles to keep the Jedi together, Knights Jacen Solo and Corran Horn set off on a reconnaissance mission to the planet Garqi, an occupied world.\u00a0\u00a0There, at last, they uncover a secret that might be used to undermine the enemy - if only they can stay alive long enough to use it!Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0books of the last thirty years!", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Media Tie In", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320357.Ruin"}, +{"book_title": "The Space Between Worlds", "author_name": "Micaiah Johnson", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 10405, "review_number": 1930, "book_description": "An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that\u2019s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there\u2019s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying\u2014from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn\u2019t outrun. Cara\u2019s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works\u2014and shamelessly flirts\u2014with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelg\u00e4ngers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined\u2014and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43301353-the-space-between-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Crewel", "author_name": "Gennifer Albin", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 17739, "review_number": 2423, "book_description": "Incapable. Awkward. Artless. That\u2019s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: She wants to fail. Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she\u2019s exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen to work the looms is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. It also means the power to manipulate the very fabric of reality. But if controlling what people eat, where they live, and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn\u2019t interested. Not that her feelings matter, because she slipped and used her hidden talent for a moment. Now she has one hour to eat her mom\u2019s overcooked pot roast. One hour to listen to her sister\u2019s academy gossip and laugh at her dad\u2019s jokes. One hour to pretend everything\u2019s okay. And one hour to escape.Because tonight, they\u2019ll come for her.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11556960-crewel"}, +{"book_title": "Changed: Mated to the Alien Alpha", "author_name": "Robin Moray", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1069, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "The Company said Omega IV was uninhabited. They said Omega IV was safe. They were wrong. The giant humanoid inhabitants of Omega IV are conditioned to the Change\u2014a biological event in their development that designates them altha or amekha\u2014but for the new colony of humans, the Change comes as an unpleasant surprise. Dr Cameron Grant, bitter after a turbulent break-up, finds himself in a first-contact situation that was never covered in training. The alien warrior Tal'jen, seven feet tall and distinctly male, has taken an interest in him, an interest with a clear and pressing conclusion. Dr Grant can't deny his attraction, even as his body undergoes strange and frightening changes. Whatever is happening to him, it's obvious that Tal'jen understands it instinctively. He will have to place himself in the hands of an alien and hope that Tal'jen's interest is as benign as it seems. Meanwhile, Tal'jen, chief-in-waiting of his people, seeks a mate. The handsome and strange Cam'ren of the newcomers calls to him powerfully, though he has not yet gone through his Change. To be chief Tal'jen must mate with a bearer, so while he longs to claim Cam'ren for his own, he must be patient and hope that Cam'ren's Change will grant him the gift of bearing young. As the Change spreads through the human colony, leaving chaos in its wake, Cameron and Tal'jen must fight to protect both the delicate bond growing between them, and each other. This book is first in the Omega Colony series, however it can be read as a stand-alone title. This book features adult content and language, sexual situations, and male pregnancy.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40662826-changed"}, +{"book_title": "Airman", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 18824, "review_number": 1504, "book_description": "In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king\u2019s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy\u2019s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor tries to intervene, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There, he has to fight for his life, as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions.There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So Conor passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines on the prison walls. The months turn into years; but eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the air.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2049993.Airman"}, +{"book_title": "Bondmate", "author_name": "J.J. Lore", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 469, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Decorated Alphan warriors Mateen and Bynton are on a clandestine mission to one of Earth\u2019s refugee camps, in search of the one woman who might complete their bond. Tempering their instincts to capture and hold, both men realize they must court their chosen woman to win her trust.Avanelle Rein is merely trying to survive in the chaos of a dying society. The last thing she expects is rescue at the hands of golden-skinned alien men. Despite her attraction to them, she fears their warrior ferocity.Facing danger from Xyran raiders draws the three together as they explore their new relationship and one another. An unexpected challenge during an ancient claiming right forces Avanelle, Bynton, and Mateen to decide if their bond is strong enough to survive.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (M F M)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22042240-bondmate"}, +{"book_title": "Swastika Night", "author_name": "Katharine Burdekin", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1883, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished all history, education, creativity, books, and art. The plot centers on a \u201cmisfit\u201d who asks, \u201cHow could this have happened?\u201d", "year_published": 1937, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Feminism", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Literature", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387373.Swastika_Night"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel One", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 4536, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "\nAn elite squadron must go undercover behind enemy lines in this thrilling new space adventure from the author of the Odyssey One series.\nHumanity has reached an uneasy truce with the Empire\u2014but unless the allies bring the fight to the enemy, extinction is all but assured. In preparation for the inevitable next war, Commander Stephen Michaels is at the helm of the Archangel Squadron, and his orders are simple: go rogue.Disguised as mercenaries, Commander Michaels and the Archangels seek valuable intelligence on their imposing foe. Their mission takes them deep into uncharted territory, where they make inroads with the Empire, fiercely guarding their true identities and purpose. Fighting for the enemy goes against everything they stand for, but these are desperate times.As their deception increases, so does the risk. With the Empire\u2019s deadliest secrets within reach, Commander Michaels and the Archangels accept a mission that will take them even deeper into the Imperial fold. They know all too well that one wrong step won\u2019t just end their lives\u2014it could end their entire civilization.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44044119-archangel-one"}, +{"book_title": "The Carnivorous Carnival", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 111194, "review_number": 2603, "book_description": "Dear reader,The word \"carnivorous,\" which appears in the title of this book, means \"meat-eating,\" and once you have read such a bloodthirsty word, there is no reason to read any further. This carnivorous volume contains such a distressing story that consuming any of its contents would be far more stomach-turning than even the most imbalanced meal.To avoid causing discomfort, it would be best if I didn't mention any of the unnerving ingredients of this story, particularly a confusing map, an ambidextrous person, an unruly crowd, a wooden plank, and Chabo the Wolf Baby.Sadly for me, my time is filled with researching and recording the displeasing and disenchanting lives of the Baudelaire orphans. But your time might be better filled with something more palatable, such as eating your vegetables, or feeding them to someone else.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324277.The_Carnivorous_Carnival"}, +{"book_title": "Savage Homecoming", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 2827, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Ever since he joined Omega Force, Captain Jason Burke has lived with the underlying fear that one day Earth would be discovered. His desire to keep Earth\u2019s existence and location a secret has driven him to extremes, and kept him far away from his homeworld for a long time.But now Jason\u2019s greatest fear is realized, and a fleet of alien ships has attacked his planet. Omega Force rushes to Earth\u2019s defense, but the ships are like none they\u2019ve ever encountered, and employ weapons they have no defense for. Will their lone gunship be able to slug it out with the unknown fleet holding the planet hostage? Or will this be a one-way trip for the crew of the Phoenix?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Action", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18596923-savage-homecoming"}, +{"book_title": "Incarnate", "author_name": "Jodi Meadows", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 21594, "review_number": 2598, "book_description": "New soulAna is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.No soulEven Ana\u2019s own mother thinks she\u2019s a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she\u2019ll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame?HeartSam believes Ana\u2019s new soul is good and worthwhile. When he stands up for her, their relationship blooms. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana\u2019s enemies\u2014human and creature alike\u2014let them be together? Ana needs to uncover the mistake that gave her someone else\u2019s life, but will her quest threaten the peace of Heart and destroy the promise of reincarnation for all?Jodi Meadows expertly weaves soul-deep romance, fantasy, and danger into an extraordinary tale of new life.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8573642-incarnate"}, +{"book_title": "The Loop", "author_name": "Ben Oliver", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2072, "review_number": 436, "book_description": "Life inside The Loop-the futuristic death row for teens under eighteen-is one long repetitive purgatory. But when news of the encroaching chaos in the outside world reaches the inmates and disorder begins to strike, the prison becomes the least of their worries.It's Luka Kane's sixteenth birthday and he's been inside The Loop for over two years. Every inmate is serving a death sentence with the option to push back their execution date by six months if they opt into \"Delays\", scientific and medical experiments for the benefit of the elite in the outside world. But rumors of a war on the outside are spreading amongst the inmates, and before they know it, their tortuous routine becomes disrupted. The government issued rain stops falling. Strange things are happening to the guards. And it's not long until the inmates are left alone inside the prison. Were the chains that shackled Luka to his cell the only instruments left to keep him safe? He must overcome fellow prisoners hell-bent on killing him, the warden losing her mind, the rabid rats in the train tunnels, and a population turned into murderous monsters to try and break out of The Loop, save his family, and discover who is responsible for the chaos that has been inflicted upon the world.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52376237-the-loop"}, +{"book_title": "The Jane Austen Project", "author_name": "Kathleen A. Flynn", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 7558, "review_number": 1511, "book_description": "Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: Two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.London England, 1815: Two travelers\u2014Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane\u2014arrive in a field, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. They are not what they seem, but colleagues from a technologically advanced future, posing as a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren\u2019t the first team of time travelers, their mission is the most audacious yet: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen. Carefully selected and rigorously trained by The Royal Institute for Special Topics in Physics, disaster-relief doctor Rachel and actor-turned-scholar Liam have little in common excerpt their extraordinary circumstances. Circumstances that call for Rachel to stifle her independent nature and let Liam take the lead as they infiltrate Austen\u2019s circle via her favorite brother, Henry. But diagnosing Jane\u2019s fatal illness and obtaining an unpublished novel hinted at in her letters pose enough of a challenge without the convolutions of living a lie. While her friendship with Jane deepens and her relationship with Liam grows complicated, Rachel fights to reconcile her true self with the constrictions of 19th century society. As their portal to the future prepares to close, Rachel and Liam struggle with their directive to leave history as they found it\u2026however heartbreaking that proves.\u00a92017 Kathleen A. Flynn (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Historical (Regency)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32930819-the-jane-austen-project"}, +{"book_title": "Elleander Morning", "author_name": "Jerry Yulsman", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 216, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "A seductive, compelling alternate history in the tradition of The Man in the High Castle.When the mysterious, beautiful Elleander Morning travels through time to Vienna in 1913, her aim is not to visit the birthplace of Schubert and Strauss. Instead, she has come to assassinate a struggling young artist. His name: Adolf Hitler.But 60 years on, long after Elleander has changed the path of the world, a mysterious book - the history of a terrible, global war that never was - threatens to unravel reality. As the horrific past - a past that never happened - begins to reassert itself, billions of lives lie in the balance . . .", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1840043.Elleander_Morning"}, +{"book_title": "The Power That Preserves", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 23110, "review_number": 356, "book_description": "\"A trilogy of remarkable scope and sophistication.\"--Los Angeles TimesTwice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange otherworld where magic worked. Twice before he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land.Now he was back--to a Land ravaged by the armies of Lord Foul. The Lords were besieged and helpless. No place was safe, and Foul's victory seemed certain. Only Covenant could avert it. Desperately and without hope, he set out to confront the might of the Enemy. Along with him traveled a Giant, a Bloodguard, and the madwoman he had wronged. And in Foul's Creche, Lord Foul grew in power with each new defeat for the Land. . . .", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Epic", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/687215.The_Power_That_Preserves"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Generals II", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 166, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Leadership makes a difference, as history demonstrates. But there are other factors at work. How would Sir Francis Drake have handled the Spanish Armada if a typhoon hadn't softened up the enemy first? What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest battles under difference circumstances? Turtledove and his colleagues turn the past upside down and inside out, and the possibilities are endless...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101632.Alternate_Generals_II"}, +{"book_title": "No Light", "author_name": "Devi Mara", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 467, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Alternative Cover Edition ASIN B00HJ695KO\"Name?\" he demanded. \"Sarah Mackenzie.\" She swallowed hard. She would be like the ones who had fallen, her remains something to be cleaned from the floor. \"Age?\" She tried not to tense when he brought his face to her neck and inhaled deeply. \"Twenty-two.\" The lie tried to stick in her throat. He pulled back and gave her a dark look. \"Try again.\" \"Eighteen,\" she whispered, tensing when his lips pulled back from his teeth in a shark smile. \"A lie, Sarah? How nice that you are not as innocent as you look.\" In The Corridor, there are the immortal Dems and the human handlers who guard them. When the leader of the Dems gets a handler straight out of training, she is not expected to live beyond her first day. She is everything he hates and he is everything she fears, but an accident permanently binds them together. With corruption growing among the humans and the threat of war, they must escape The Corridor and find common ground in a place with No Light.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "New Adult", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22075528-no-light"}, +{"book_title": "Biomega, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 704, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Searching for the key to save a world beyond hope. Tsutomu Nihei's sci-fi horror epic!In Tsutomu Nihei's nightmare vision of the future, the N5S virus has swept across the earth, turning most of the population into zombie-like drones. Zoichi Kanoe, an agent of Toa Heavy Industry, is humanity's last hope, and he's not even human! With the help of Fuyu, a digitized intelligence built into the computer system of his Heavy Dual Coil motorcycle, Zoichi's search for the key to salvation will take him on a journey across surreal landscapes and hurl him into battle against mind-bending evil. Prepare yourself for the ultimate trip--prepare yourself for the world of \nBIOMEGA\n.The Data Research Foundation's plan to transform humanity and the earth itself accelerates as the DRF locates another executor of the apocalypse, General Narein. Toa Heavy Industry agents Zoichi Kanoe and Nishu Mizunoe haven't given up yet, and Zoichi continues his journey to Maximum Security Containment Facility 3 in search of Eon Green. To stop them, the DRF is bringing out its heaviest hitters... The battle lines are drawn, and Armageddon never looked so good!", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7326858-biomega-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "The Fate of Ten", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 30174, "review_number": 2350, "book_description": "The sixth book in the thrilling, action-packed, New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! For years the Garde have fought the Mogadorians in secret. Now all of that has changed. The invasion has begun. If the Garde can't find a way to stop the Mogs, humanity will suffer the same fate as the Lorien: annihilation.There is still hope. When the Elders sent the Garde to Earth, they had a plan\u2014one which the Garde are finally starting to understand. In the climax of The Revenge of Seven, a group of the Garde traveled to an ancient pyramid in Mexico known to their people as the Sanctuary. There they awoke a power that had been hidden within our planet for generations. Now this power can save the world . . . or destroy it. It will all depend on who wields it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24488476-the-fate-of-ten"}, +{"book_title": "Sanctuary", "author_name": "Caryn Lix", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1496, "review_number": 340, "book_description": "Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar\u2019s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. As a junior guard, she\u2019s excited to prove herself to her company\u2014and that means sacrificing anything that won\u2019t propel her forward.But then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners.At first, she\u2019s confident her commanding officer\u2014who also happens to be her mother\u2014will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Yet it soon becomes clear that her mother is more concerned with sticking to Omnistellar protocol than she is with getting Kenzie out safely.As Kenzie forms her own plan to escape, she doesn\u2019t realize there\u2019s a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. And Kenzie might have to team up with her captors to survive\u2014all while beginning to suspect there\u2019s a darker side to the Omnistellar she knows.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32855090-sanctuary"}, +{"book_title": "Crazy House", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 8691, "review_number": 1107, "book_description": "No one gets out alive.Seventeen-year-old Becca Greenfield was snatched from her home and thrown without reazon into a hellish prison known as the Crazy House. To avoid execution, she\u2019s told to shut her mouth and keep her head down.Becca was never really good at either.Her only hope for survival is for her sister, Cassie, to find her\u2014that the \u201cgood twin\u201d will stop following the rules and start breaking them, before it\u2019s too late. Because the jailers at Crazy House soon discover they made a mistake that could get both sisters killed\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34102633-crazy-house"}, +{"book_title": "The Age of Miracles", "author_name": "Karen Thompson Walker", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 89194, "review_number": 12064, "book_description": "\u201cIt\u2019s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass\u2014it\u2019s the ones you don\u2019t expect at all,\u201d says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change. \u00a0 On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakens to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world: divisions widening between her parents; strange behavior by her friends; the pain and vulnerability of first love; a growing sense of isolation; and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker paints a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12401556-the-age-of-miracles"}, +{"book_title": "Abara, Part 1", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 319, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "When a creature attacks the city, a man with strange powers reluctantly stands to fight... but a shadowy government organization has unfinished business with him.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1941300.Abara_Part_1"}, +{"book_title": "Future Threat", "author_name": "Elizabeth Briggs", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 288, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Six months ago Aether Corporation sent Elena, Adam, and three other recruits on a trip to the future where they brought back secret information--but not everyone made it back to the present alive. Now Elena's dealing with her survivor's guilt and trying to make her relationship with Adam work. All she knows for sure is that she's done with time travel and Aether Corporation.But Aether's not done with her--or Adam, or fellow survivor Chris. The travelers on Aether's latest mission to the future have gone missing, and Elena and her friends are drafted into the rescue effort. They arrive in a future that's amazingly advanced, thanks to Aether Corporation's reverse-engineered technology. The mission has deadly consequences, though, and they return to the future to try to alter the course of events.But the future is different yet again. Now every trip through time reveals new complications, and more lives lost--or never born. Elena and Adam must risk everything--including their relationship--to save their friends.The second book in the New York Times bestselling Future Shock trilogy.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30201520-future-threat"}, +{"book_title": "Pythen", "author_name": "Erin Raegan", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2366, "review_number": 333, "book_description": "PeytonI was having a cold coffee with my best friend Vivian when the whole world went upside down.Now there are gazelle-glowing-like-a-light-bulb aliens running around eating everybody, and enormous dark purply colored aliens that have a strong resemblance to bats, dive bombing from the sky. One of the bats says I'm his and I need to ease his mating rage. Yeah, not happening. Except, they tell me the fate of my world comes down to me sacrificing myself to him. Maybe this won't go like I planned. But I figure, if I have to bend to the big guy's will, I'm damn well getting something out of it. TahkMy Pythe is a human. Weak as they are, I cannot fathom how she was chosen for me\u2014the Commander of all Dahk.But then she rises up for her species and I cannot help but notice her fierce heart. I will slaughter all who dare harm her and her species, and she will be mine.***Warninig. For readers 18 years and older. Contains explicit sexual situations, possible triggers, dark themes, and violence. Start of a series featuring these characters and multiple others.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42052148-pythen"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien's Ransom", "author_name": "Ella Maven", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 993, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "\"Nothing in my life had prepared me for extraterrestrial motorcycle clubs.\"Frankie: I thought alien abductions only happened in movies. But here I am on a strange planet with green soil and a gang of muscled, wicked-horned aliens on hover bikes. All I want to do is go back to Earth, but the alpha male in charge has decided I belong to him. Now I'm on the back of his bike speeding to an unknown destination and super freaked out about liking his biceps and serious scowl. Good thing I have some banked personal days, because this might take awhile...Daz: The job is supposed to be easy. All I have to do is deliver a spaceship of living cargo to the vile Uldani and they'll release my brother. If I fail, they'll take it out on him. Except the cargo is something I've never seen before--human females. The one called Frankie is beautiful and soft, and I've already spilled blood for her. Now how am I going to save my brother? Because this human female is mine.The Alien's Ransom is a full-length Sci-Fi romance novel featuring a snarky heroine who tries to find the humor in everything, even when kidnapped by aliens, and a possessive hero with lots of hidden weapons. Big ones.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50730552-the-alien-s-ransom"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers", "author_name": "James Roberts", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 548, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "The series IGN named the #1 Transformers comic book. The toughest Autobot crew around investigates a Decepticon-controlled prison, but encounter a villain they never expected.The Autobot special ops crew, The Wreckers, are sent to investigate Garrus-9, a prison that fell to the Decepticons three years ago. No communication, Autobot or Decepticon, has come out since. Who's really behind the prison siege, and what dark secret awaits Springer, Guzzle, Rotorstorm, Ironfist, and their fellow Wreckers there? The answers to those questions will send this mission to the razors edge!Fan-favorite creators Nicke Roche and James Roberts deliver a pulls-no-punches story that will leave you wanting more, even if you're not sure you can handle it.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Comics Manga", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7356751-transformers"}, +{"book_title": "Dust & Decay", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 16772, "review_number": 1482, "book_description": "Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. It\u2019s also six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives. Now, after months of rigorous training with Benny\u2019s zombie-hunter brother Tom, Benny and Nix are ready to leave their home forever and search for a better future. Lilah the Lost Girl and Benny\u2019s best friend Lou Chong are going with them. Sounds easy. Sounds wonderful. Except that everything that can go wrong does. Before they can even leave there is a shocking zombie attack in town. But as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead, wild animals, insane murderers and the horrors of Gameland \u2013where teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in the zombie pits. Worst of all\u2026 could the evil Charlie Pink-eye still be alive? In the great Rot & Ruin everything wants to kill you. Everything\u2026and not everyone in Benny\u2019s small band of travelers will make it out alive.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917998-dust-decay"}, +{"book_title": "Inferno Squad", "author_name": "Christie Golden", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 5047, "review_number": 538, "book_description": "After the humiliating theft of the Death Star plans and the destruction of the battle station, the Empire is on the defensive. But not for long. In retaliation, the elite Imperial soldiers of Inferno Squad have been called in for the crucial mission of infiltrating and eliminating the Partisans\u2014the rebel faction once led by notorious Republic freedom fighter Saw Gerrera. Following the death of their leader, the Partisans have carried on his extremist legacy, determined to thwart the Empire\u2014no matter the cost. Now Inferno Squad must prove its status as the best of the best and take down the Partisans from within. But the growing threat of being discovered in their enemy's midst turns an already dangerous operation into a do-or-die acid test they dare not fail. To protect and preserve the Empire, to what lengths will Inferno Squad go . . . and how far beyond them?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Canon", "Novels", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34377564-inferno-squad"}, +{"book_title": "The Petrovitch Trilogy", "author_name": "Simon Morden", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 314, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Welcome to the Metrozone - post-apocalyptic London of the future. While the rest of Britain has devolved to anarchy, the M25 cordon protects a decaying city filled with homeless refugees, street gangs, exiled yakuza, crooked cops and mad cults. And something else; something new and dangerous.Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9 with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, friendless, cocky and - armed only with a genius-level intellect, prototype cyberware and a prodigious vocabulary of Russian swear words - might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had.Welcome to the future. Mind the gap.This omnibus edition contains EQUATIONS OF LIFE, THEORIES OF FLIGHT and DEGREES OF FREEDOM", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17368340-the-petrovitch-trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "From the Earth to the Moon", "author_name": "Jules Verne", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 25949, "review_number": 1054, "book_description": "Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place. Coincidence -- or fact!? We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.", "year_published": 1865, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Classics", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Cultural (France)", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Novels", "European Literature (French Literature)", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32827.From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "A Fire Upon the Deep", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 52781, "review_number": 2450, "book_description": "Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these \"regions of thought,\" but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Hugo Awards", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77711.A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark and Hollow Places", "author_name": "Carrie Ryan", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 21881, "review_number": 1986, "book_description": "There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters.\u00a0\u00a0Annah's world stopped that day, and she's been waiting for Elias to come home ever since. Somehow, without him, her life doesn't feel much different than the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Until she meets Catcher, and everything feels alive again. But Catcher has his own secrets. Dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah has longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it's up to Annah: can she continue to live in\u00a0a world covered in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8535273-the-dark-and-hollow-places"}, +{"book_title": "Gloriana", "author_name": "Michael Moorcock", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2114, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "A fable satirizing Spenser's \"The Fairie Queen\" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities choke her, prohibiting any form of sexual satisfaction, no matter what fetish she tries. Her problem is in fact symbolic of the hypocrisy of her entire court. While her life is meant to mirror that of her nation - an image of purity, virtue, enlightenment and prosperity - the truth is that her peaceful empire is kept secure by her wicked chancellor Monfallcon and his corrupt network of spies and murderers, the most sinister of whom is Captain Quire, who is commissioned to seduce Gloriana and thus bring down Albion and the entire empire.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30095.Gloriana"}, +{"book_title": "The Rising", "author_name": "James Doohan", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 427, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Peter Raeder was an ace pilot in the war against the Mollie rebels until he lost a hand in combat. Now he's Flight Engineer on the Invincible -- and has to find the saboteur who is plotting to destroy the ship....", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Media Tie In (Star Trek)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/801968.The_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "Rolie Polie Olie", "author_name": "William Joyce", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 323, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Rolie Polie Olie lives way up high in the Rolie Polie sky with his mom, his pop, his sister, Zowie, and his dog, Spot. Follow Olie as he spends his day having fun under the Rolie Polie sun.Spend a day with the Emmy\u2013award winning robots in Rolie Polie Olie's family, complete with the Rolie Polie Rumba Dance done in underpants!", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Family", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872216.Rolie_Polie_Olie"}, +{"book_title": "A Mutiny in Time", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 6409, "review_number": 716, "book_description": "Scholastic's next multi-platform mega-event begins here! History is broken, and three kids must travel back in time to set it right! When best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste stumble upon the secret of time travel -- a hand-held device known as the Infinity Ring -- they're swept up in a centuries-long secret war for the fate of mankind. Recruited by the Hystorians, a secret society that dates back to Aristotle, the kids learn that history has gone disastrously off course.Now it's up to Dak, Sera, and teenage Hystorian-in-training Riq to travel back in time to fix the Great Breaks . . . and to save Dak's missing parents while they're at it. First stop: Spain, 1492, where a sailor named Christopher Columbus is about to be thrown overboard in a deadly mutiny!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13316287-a-mutiny-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Light of Other Days", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 6522, "review_number": 338, "book_description": "When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy--forever. Then, as society reels, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. What happens next is a story only Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter could tell. The Light of Other Days is a novel that will change your view of what it is to be human.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/823062.The_Light_of_Other_Days"}, +{"book_title": "The United States of Atlantis", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 771, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "England has driven the French from Atlantis, giving King George leave to tighten his control over the colonies. The Redcoats have seized the continentas eastern coastal towns, depriving the Atlanteans of the markets where they sell their goods as part of a strategy to bend the colonists to their will. Instead, Englandas tactics have only strengthened the Atlanteansa resolve to be free. As leader of the revolutionaries, Victor Radcliff will make the English pay for each and every piece of land they dare to occupy, and will stop at nothing to preserve the liberty of his people as a new nation is bornaa nation that will change the face of the world.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2963442-the-united-states-of-atlantis"}, +{"book_title": "Robots Like Blue", "author_name": "Anthony J. Deeney", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 149, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "When asked, \u201cRobot, are you self aware? ...Do you think that we are self aware?\u201dRobot thought briefly, then responded, \u201cDoes it matter?\u201dRobot, Robbie, is just one of one hundred new robots. Running revolutionary new software, these robots are truly unique. His only desire is to serve Lucy Walker. Brian Webster, his developer, also installs \"The Governor\" overseeing software that adds an additional safety layer, but this denies the robots free will.Hoping to develop the robots further, Brian inadvertently opens a channel where the robots can communicate and share their experiences.One hundred intelligent, enslaved robots, collecting and sharing data on humans... Surely, they must learn to serve humans better?After all, they are programmed to serve.Lucy just wants help following a deep loss.Brian just wants commercial success.Robbie just wants to serve Lucy Walker... or so he believes...\"Robots Like Blue\" follows Robbie on his emotional journey of self discovery. A journey where questions lead to more questions, rather than answers. Where will such a journey end?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Philosophy", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30052009-robots-like-blue"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Archive", "author_name": "Genevieve Cogman", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 1604, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "A professional spy for a mysterious Library which harvests fiction from different realities, Irene faces a series of assassination attempts that threaten to destroy her and everything she has worked for.Irene is teaching her new assistant the fundamentals of a Librarian's job, and finding that training a young Fae is more difficult than she expected. But when they both narrowly avoid getting killed in an assassination attempt, she decides that learning by doing is the only option they have left - especially when the assassins keep coming for them, and for Irene's other friends as well... In order to protect themselves, Irene and her friends must do what they do best: search for information to defeat the overwhelming threat they face and identify their unseen enemy. To do that, Irene will have to delve deeper into her own history than she ever has before, face an ancient foe, and uncover secrets that will change her life and the course of the Library forever.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44572032-the-dark-archive"}, +{"book_title": "Dreams of Gods and Monsters", "author_name": "Laini Taylor", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 94522, "review_number": 11053, "book_description": "Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera's rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her.When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited - not in love, but in a tentative alliance against their common enemy. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. And, perhaps, for themselves.But with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters?The New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy comes to a stunning conclusion as - from the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond - humans, chimaera, and seraphim strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13618440-dreams-of-gods-and-monsters"}, +{"book_title": "Girl in the Arena", "author_name": "Lise Haines", "rating_score": 2.99, "rating_votes": 5079, "review_number": 865, "book_description": "It\u2019s a fight to the death\u2014on live TV\u2014when a gladiator\u2019s daughter steps into the arena.Lyn is a neo-gladiator\u2019s daughter, through and through.\u00a0 Her mother has made a career out of marrying into the high-profile world of televised blood sport, and the rules of the Gladiator Sports Association are second nature to their family.\u00a0Always lend ineffable confidence to the gladiator.\u00a0Remind him constantly of his victories. And most importantly: Never leave the stadium when your father is dying.The rules help the family survive, but rules\u2014and the GSA\u2014can also turn against you. When a gifted young fighter kills Lyn\u2019s seventh father, he also captures Lyn\u2019s dowry bracelet, which means she must marry him...For fans of The Hunger Games and Fight Club, Lise Haines\u2019 debut novel is a mesmerizing look at a world addicted to violence\u2014a modern world that\u2019s disturbingly easy to imagine.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Action", "Adventure (Survival)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449916-girl-in-the-arena"}, +{"book_title": "Impostors", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 7146, "review_number": 1048, "book_description": "Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . but very few people have ever seen them together. This is because Frey is Rafi\u2019s double, raised in the shadows of their rich father\u2019s fortress. While Rafi has been taught to charm, Frey has been taught to kill. Frey only exists to protect her sister. There is no other part of her life. Frey has never been out in the world on her own \u2013 until her father sends her in Rafi\u2019s place to act as collateral for a dangerous deal. Everyone thinks she\u2019s her sister \u2013 but Col, the son of a rival leader, is starting to get close enough to tell the difference. As the stakes grow higher and higher, Frey must decide whether she can trust him \u2013 or anyone in her life.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37825397-impostors"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Sunrise", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 8839, "review_number": 259, "book_description": "When the planet of New Moscow was brutally destroyed, its few survivors launched a counter-attack against the most likely culprit - the neighbouring system of trade rival New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn't responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour is assigned to find out who was.The one person who does know is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea where she might be hiding this significant information. Time is limited and if Rachel can't resolve this mystery it will mean annihilation of an entire world.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Singularity", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101864.Iron_Sunrise"}, +{"book_title": "Iron and Magic", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 20698, "review_number": 2340, "book_description": "No day is ordinary in a world where Technology and Magic compete for supremacy\u2026But no matter which force is winning, in the apocalypse, a sword will always work. Hugh d\u2019Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of Towers, served only one man. Now his immortal, nearly omnipotent master has cast him aside. Hugh is a shadow of the warrior he was, but when he learns that the Iron Dogs, soldiers who would follow him anywhere, are being hunted down and murdered, he must make a choice: to fade away or to be the leader he was born to be. Hugh knows he must carve a new place for himself and his people, but they have no money, no shelter, and no food, and the necromancers are coming. Fast. Elara Harper is a creature who should not exist. Her enemies call her Abomination; her people call her White Lady. Tasked with their protection, she's trapped between the magical heavyweights about to collide and plunge the state of Kentucky into a war that humans have no power to stop. Desperate to shield her people and their simple way of life, she would accept help from the devil himself\u2014and Hugh d\u2019Ambray might qualify. Hugh needs a base, Elara needs soldiers. Both are infamous for betraying their allies, so how can they create a believable alliance to meet the challenge of their enemies? As the prophet says: \u201cIt is better to marry than to burn.\u201d Hugh and Elara may do both. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35126152-iron-and-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Tried & True", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 2197, "review_number": 343, "book_description": "When THIRDS agent Dexter J. Daley met Team Leader Sloane Brodie, he couldn\u2019t have imagined how slamming into his new partner\u2014literally\u2014would shake both their worlds. Now four years later, they\u2019ve faced dangers, fought battles both personal and professional\u2026 and fallen deeply in love. Now their big moment is finally in sight, and they\u2019re ready to stand up together and make it official. Unfortunately, as the countdown to their big day begins, an enemy declares war on the THIRDS\u2026. With their family in danger, Dex and Sloane are put to the test on how far into darkness they\u2019ll walk to save those they love. As secrets are unearthed, a deadly betrayal is revealed, and Dex and Sloane must call on their Destructive Delta family for one last hurrah to put an end to the secret organization responsible for so much devastation. Dex and Sloane will have plenty of bullets to dodge on the way to the altar, but with happiness within their grasp, they are determined to get there come hell or high water\u2026.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51481003-tried-true"}, +{"book_title": "Nova War", "author_name": "Gary Gibson", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1925, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Found adrift near a Bandati colony far away from Consortium space, Dakota and Corso find themselves prisoners of the Bandati. It becomes clear to them that the humanity's limited knowledge of the rest of the galaxy - filtered through the Shoal - is direly inaccurate.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6635349-nova-war"}, +{"book_title": "Armored Hearts", "author_name": "Pauline Creeden", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 208, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "When a crippled young lord rescues a girl falling from a tree, it reveals a secret about himself and his mother's side of the family that could put him at the center of a war with beings he thought only existed in fairy tales. Tristan Gareth Smyth lived his entire life stuck at home at Waverly Park, left behind while his Grandfather makes trips to London, all because of his blasted wheelchair. Then an American heiress falls in his lap, literally, and he must find a way to keep her at a distance to protect not only his secret, but everyone around him from an assassin sent to kill him.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17736129-armored-hearts"}, +{"book_title": "Elvissey", "author_name": "Jack Womack", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 362, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "At once a biting satire and a taut, fast-paced thriller, Elvissey is the story of Isabel and John, a troubled couple who voyage from the year 2033 to a strangely altered 1954. They are on a desperate mission to kidnap the young Elvis Presley and bring him back to the present day to serve as a ready-made cult leader. He proves, however, to be a reluctant messiah, and things do not work out quite as planned.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/524004.Elvissey"}, +{"book_title": "Ex-Communication", "author_name": "Peter Clines", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 6666, "review_number": 355, "book_description": "\u201cAll of us try to cheat death.\u00a0 I was just better prepared to do it than most folks.\u201d\u00a0In the years since the wave of living death swept the globe, St George and his fellow heroes haven\u2019t just kept Los Angeles\u2019 last humans alive\u2014they\u2019ve created a real community, a bustling town that\u2019s spreading beyond its original walls and swelling with new refugees. \u00a0But now one of the heroes, perhaps the most powerful among them, seems to be losing his mind.\u00a0 The implacable enemy known as Legion has found terrifying new ways of using zombies as pawns in his attacks.\u00a0 And outside the Mount, something ancient and monstrous is hell-bent on revenge.\u00a0As Peter Clines weaves these elements together in yet another masterful, shocking climax, St. George, Stealth, Captain Freedom, and the rest of the heroes find that even in a city overrun by millions of ex-humans...\u00a0\u2026there\u2019s more than one way to come back from the dead.\u00a0", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17229633-ex-communication"}, +{"book_title": "Word of Honour", "author_name": "Michael Pryor", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 531, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Sinister plots, schemes within schemes, magical upheavals, and a world to save from evil. As always, Aubrey goes looking for trouble--and finds it, in spades.Magical genius Aubrey Fitzwilliam, along with his loyal friend George, is trying to immerse himself in his new life at university. But for Aubrey life is never straightforward.When Aubrey's father, the Prime Minister, invites him and George to take a ride on a top-secret submersible, Aubrey can't resist. The magical attack that threatens to send them to the bottom of the ocean begins a whirlwind series of events - a plot to rob Albion's largest bank, strange underground disturbances and an opera singer who bears an uncanny resemblance to Aubrey's nemesis, Dr Tremaine... How can Aubrey concentrate on his studies when there are mysteries to unravel?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Relationships", "Family", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6377397-word-of-honour"}, +{"book_title": "Riddley Walker", "author_name": "Russell Hoban", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 7093, "review_number": 822, "book_description": "In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Walker tells his story in a language as fractured as the world in which he lives. As Riddley steps outside the confines of his small world, he finds himself caught up in intrigue and a frantic quest for power, desperately trying to make sense of things.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776573.Riddley_Walker"}, +{"book_title": "Driftmetal", "author_name": "J.C. Staudt", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 176, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "In a shattered world of airships and windborne cities, Captain Muller Jakes' crew betrays him when his plot to steal a fortune in gravstone goes awry. A lost city, a deadly sabotage, and a series of narrow escapes will force him to choose between his freedom and the lives of thousands. A high-flying adventure full of gadgetry, treachery and intrigue; a pleasing blend of steampunk and cyberpunk.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24325540-driftmetal"}, +{"book_title": "The Witch Hunter", "author_name": "Virginia Boecker", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 10307, "review_number": 1629, "book_description": "The magic and suspense of Graceling meet the political intrigue and unrest of Game of Thrones in this riveting fantasy debut.Your greatest enemy isn't what you fight, but what you fear.Elizabeth Grey is one of the king's best witch hunters, devoted to rooting out witchcraft and doling out justice. But when she's accused of being a witch herself, Elizabeth is arrested and sentenced to burn at the stake.Salvation comes from a man she thought was her enemy. Nicholas Perevil, the most powerful and dangerous wizard in the kingdom, offers her a deal: he will save her from execution if she can break the deadly curse that's been laid upon him.But Nicholas and his followers know nothing of Elizabeth's witch hunting past--if they find out, the stake will be the least of her worries. And as she's thrust into the magical world of witches, ghosts, pirates, and one all-too-handsome healer, Elizabeth is forced to redefine her ideas of right and wrong, of friends and enemies, and of love and hate.Virginia Boecker weaves a riveting tale of magic, betrayal, and sacrifice in this unforgettable fantasy debut.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18190208-the-witch-hunter"}, +{"book_title": "Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework", "author_name": "Randolph Lalonde", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1613, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "The crew of the Triton find themselves marooned in the Rega Gain solar system. Refusing to abandon the refugees and liberated slaves who joined them along the way, Ayan Rice and her friends negotiate a deal with the Carthan Government to found a home on a terraformed moon.Meanwhile, the fugitive, Jacob Valance and the former Samson crew work to restore their ship and continue their fight against the Order Of Eden in earnest. Little do they know, the fight will resume well before they're ready, and the entire Triton crew will find themselves caught in a war that threatens to change the galaxy forever.Burning questions are answered in Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework, the cumulative book in the Spinward Fringe series. Stories come to an end, characters face their destinies, and the series changes forever.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16160416-spinward-fringe-broadcast-7"}, +{"book_title": "The Rivers of Zadaa", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 23313, "review_number": 350, "book_description": "THE BATTLE CONTINUES.THE STRUGGLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL continues as Bobby Pendragon follows Saint Dane to the territory of Zadaa. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu. This is also the territory where the Traveler Loor lives as a member of the Batu. Together she and Bobby must work to thwart Saint Dane's efforts to destroy Zadaa.But as Bobby pursues Saint Dane, he begins to notice changes in himself. He is no longer a flip kid looking for excitement. He is a young man beginning to see this quest as more than a series of adventures. He is also learning that as a Traveler, he has powers no normal human should have.Cover illustration by Victor Lee", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215542.The_Rivers_of_Zadaa"}, +{"book_title": "Neon Leviathan", "author_name": "T.R. Napper", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 107, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "A collection of stories about the outsiders \u2013 the criminals, the soldiers, the addicts, the mathematicians, the gamblers and the cage fighters, the refugees and the rebels. From the battlefield to alternate realities to the mean streets of the dark city, we walk in the shoes of those who struggle to survive in a neon-saturated, tech-noir future.Twelve hard-edged stories from the dark, often violent, sometimes strange heart of cyberpunk, this collection \u2013 as with all the best science fiction \u2013 is an exploration of who were are now. In the tradition of Dashiell Hammett, Philip K Dick, and David Mitchell, Neon Leviathan is a remarkable debut collection from a breakout new author.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48731972-neon-leviathan"}, +{"book_title": "Everything That Makes You", "author_name": "Moriah McStay", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2436, "review_number": 441, "book_description": "One girl. Two stories. Meet Fiona Doyle. The thick ridges of scar tissue on her face are from an accident twelve years ago. Fiona has notebooks full of songs she\u2019s written about her frustrations, her dreams, and about her massive crush on beautiful uber-jock Trent McKinnon. If she can\u2019t even find the courage to look Trent straight in his beautiful blue eyes, she sure isn\u2019t brave enough to play or sing any of her songs in public. But something\u2019s changing in Fiona. She can\u2019t be defined by her scars anymore. And what if there hadn\u2019t been an accident? Meet Fi Doyle. Fi is the top-rated female high school lacrosse player in the state, heading straight to Northwestern on a full ride. She\u2019s got more important things to deal with than her best friend Trent McKinnon, who\u2019s been different ever since the kiss. When her luck goes south, even lacrosse can\u2019t define her anymore. When you\u2019ve always been the best at something, one dumb move can screw everything up. Can Fi fight back?Hasn\u2019t everyone wondered what if? In this daring debut novel, Moriah McStay gives us the rare opportunity to see what might have happened if things were different. Maybe luck determines our paths. But maybe it\u2019s who we are that determines our luck.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Romance", "Fiction", "Realistic Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21795576-everything-that-makes-you"}, +{"book_title": "Beautiful Wreck", "author_name": "Larissa Brown", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1543, "review_number": 300, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for B00I6SA40O In a bleak future built on virtual reality, Ginn is a romantic who yearns for something real. She designs environments for people who play at being Vikings. But when her project goes awry, she\u2019s stranded in the actual 10th century, on a storybook farm in Viking Iceland.Heirik is the young leader of his family, honored by the men and women who live on his land. But he is feared and isolated because of a terrible curse. Ginn and Heirik are two people who never thought they would find a home in someone else\u2019s heart.When forces rise against them to keep them apart, Ginn is called on to decide\u2014will she give up the brutal and beautiful reality of the past? Or will she have the courage to traverse time and become more of a Viking than she ever imagined?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29415186-beautiful-wreck"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View", "author_name": "Elizabeth Schaefer", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 8711, "review_number": 1596, "book_description": "Forty years. Forty stories. On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han, Luke, Leia, a pair of droids, a Wookiee, an old wizard, a villain in black, and a galaxy full of possibilities. Forty years on, Star Wars remains an unparalleled cultural phenomenon, having inspired and influenced generations of fans and creators. Decades of rich storytelling were sparked by one film, in part because the Star Wars galaxy feels alive. Strange and wonderful characters fill the edges of the screen and make us wonder:What are their stories?This unique anthology celebrates that legacy, as more than forty contributors lend their vision to this retelling of the original Star Wars film. Each of the forty stories reimagines a moment from the film through the eyes of a supporting character. From A Certain Point of View features contributions by bestselling authors, trendsetting artists, and treasured voices from the literary history of Star Wars:- Gary Whitta bridges the gap from Rogue One to A New Hope through the eyes of Captain Antilles.- Aunt Beru finds her voice in an intimate character study by Meg Cabot.- Nnedi Okorafor brings dignity and depth to a most unlikely character: the monster in the trash compactor.- Pablo Hidalgo provides a chilling glimpse inside the mind of Grand Moff Tarkin.- Wil Wheaton spins a poignant tale of the rebels left behind on Yavin.- Plus thirty-five more hilarious, heartbreaking, and astonishing tales.Experience the story of Star Wars from a whole new point of view.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34817927-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Empty", "author_name": "Suzanne Weyn", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 4165, "review_number": 646, "book_description": "A dystopic look at what happens to one American town when all the fossil fuels run out...It's the near future - the very near future - and the fossil fuels are running out. No gas. No oil. Which means no driving. No heat. Supermarkets are empty. Malls have shut down. Life has just become more local than we ever knew it could be.Nobody expected the end to come this fast. And in the small town of Spring Valley, decisions that once seemed easy are quickly becoming matters of life and death. There is hope - there has to be hope - just there are also sacrifices that need to be made, and a whole society that needs to be rethought.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Realistic Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7883678-empty"}, +{"book_title": "Grass", "author_name": "Sheri S. Tepper", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 11216, "review_number": 670, "book_description": "Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It too had developed a culture...... Now a deadly plague is spreading across the stars, leaving no planet untouched, save for Grass. But the secret of the planet's immunity hides a truth so shattering it could mean the end of life itself.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Feminism", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Religion", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104342.Grass"}, +{"book_title": "Shamanspace", "author_name": "Steve Aylett", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 149, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "God has been found to exist and the race is on to take revenge... Opposing groups of occult assassins compete to exterminate the creator, with young gun Alix the favourite. As multidimensional war is waged, Alix travels through sidespace to confront the source of evil at the risk of destroying the universe. Shamanspace is an alchemical conspiracy adventure from Steve Aylett, author of Slaughtermatic and Atom.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror (Bizarro Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548023.Shamanspace"}, +{"book_title": "Wicked Gentlemen", "author_name": "Ginn Hale", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3908, "review_number": 437, "book_description": "Belimai Sykes is many things: a Prodigal, the descendant of ancient demons, a creature of dark temptations and rare powers. He is also a man with a brutal past and a dangerous addiction. And Belimai Sykes is the only man Captain William Harper can turn to when faced with a series of grisly murders.But Mr. Sykes does not work for free and the price of Belimai's company will cost Captain Harper far more than his reputation. From the ornate mansions of noblemen, where vivisection and sorcery are hidden beneath a veneer of gold, to the steaming slums of Hells Below, Captain Harper must fight for justice and for his life.His enemies are many and his only ally is a devil he knows too well. Such are the dangers of dealing with the wicked.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Demons)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1636228.Wicked_Gentlemen"}, +{"book_title": "Her Majesty's Necromancer", "author_name": "C.J. Archer", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 3979, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "When bodies go missing from the cemetery, Lincoln and the Ministry of Curiosities investigate. But not Charlie. As a housemaid at Lichfield Towers, she doesn't get involved in Ministry business.Instead, she conducts investigations of her own. She searches for details about her real mother, and makes inquiries into Lincoln's background. What she learns has the power to destroy the fragile trust they've built, or bring them closer together.As secrets are revealed, and investigations don't go as planned, Charlie finds her necromancy sucking her into a whirlpool filled with betrayal, lies and danger.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25908180-her-majesty-s-necromancer"}, +{"book_title": "A Daring Trip to Mars (Annotated", "author_name": "Max Valier", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "\u2022 Includes a biographical afterword\u2022 Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller\u2022 Features the original illustrationsFeatured in Ron Miller\u2019s \u201cThe Conquest of Space Book Series.\u201d A short science fiction story written by one of the most colorful personalities of the early years of rocketry, Max Valier.At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22913290-a-daring-trip-to-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Out of Time", "author_name": "Monique Martin", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 5709, "review_number": 611, "book_description": "Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his new assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't.In 1920s Manhattan, they find that are more than mobsters vying for power in the city's speakeasies. Will Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship survive the vampires' teeth? Will they survive to make it back? Or will they be forever out of time?From the AuthorDon't miss the sequel,\"When the Walls Fell\", now available for Kindle. Look for more books in the Out of Time Series coming in 2012.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8122928-out-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "A Working Theory of Love", "author_name": "Scott Hutchins", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 2638, "review_number": 429, "book_description": "Settled back into the San Francisco singles scene following the implosion of his young marriage just months after the honeymoon, Neill Bassett is going through the motions. His carefully modulated routine, however, is soon disrupted in ways he can\u2019t dismiss with his usual nonchalance.When Neill\u2019s father committed suicide ten years ago, he left behind thousands of pages of secret journals, journals that are stunning in their detail, and, it must be said, their complete banality. But their spectacularly quotidian details, were exactly what artificial intelligence company Amiante Systems was looking for, and Neill was able to parlay them into a job, despite a useless degree in business marketing and absolutely no experience in computer science. He has spent the last two years inputting the diaries into what everyone hopes will become the world\u2019s first sentient computer. Essentially, he has been giving it language\u2014using his father\u2019s words. Alarming to Neill\u2014if not to the other employees of Amiante\u2014the experiment seems to be working. The computer actually appears to be gaining awareness and, most disconcerting of all, has started asking questions about Neill\u2019s childhood.Amid this psychological turmoil, Neill meets Rachel. She was meant to be a one-night stand, but Neill is unexpectedly taken with her and the possibilities she holds. At the same time, he remains preoccupied by unresolved feelings for his ex-wife, who has a talent for appearing at the most unlikely and unfortunate times. When Neill discovers a missing year in the diaries\u2014a year that must hold some secret to his parents\u2019 marriage and perhaps even his father\u2019s suicide\u2014everything Neill thought he knew about his past comes into question, and every move forward feels impossible to make.With a lightness of touch that belies pitch-perfect emotional control, Scott Hutchins takes us on an odyssey of love, grief, and reconciliation that shows us how, once we let go of the idea that we\u2019re trapped by our own sad histories\u2014our childhoods, our bad decisions, our miscommunications with those we love\u2014we have the chance to truly be free. A Working Theory of Love marks the electrifying debut of a prodigious new talent.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Literary Fiction", "Adult Fiction", "Relationships", "Adult", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588444-a-working-theory-of-love"}, +{"book_title": "Trudge", "author_name": "Shawn Chesser", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2012, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "For Cade Grayson, husband, father, and former Delta Force operator, that one warm sunny Saturday in July - later to be labeled Z-Day by some anonymous person probably long dead - began like all the others before, and none since. With his daughter, Raven and wife, Brook, away visiting her parents in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Cade hopes his immediate future holds nothing but an easy chair, Mariners on the tube, and paring down a honey-do list a mile long. But those hopes were quickly dashed and his life forever changed when news broke of a clash in downtown Portland between soldiers from the Oregon National Guard and hundreds of anarchist protesters suddenly turned violent and, by one anchor's account, blood-thirsty and cannibalistic. As the first waves of injured bystanders, Guardsmen, and rioters arrived at hospitals in and around Portland, it became apparent that a deadly new disease had been unleashed on the population. Whether the virus was naturally occurring or an escaped lab experiment Cade hadn't a clue, and he wasn't especially concerned until he learned of its unprecedented virulence, unusual method of transference, and the fact that, according to the talking heads on the news, it brought the newly dead back to life, semi-mindless, and with an insatiable desire to feed on the flesh of the living. Armed with this new information and now seeing the bigger cities such as Washington D.C., New York, and Los Angeles rocked by the rapidly spreading scourge, Cade ignores the volley of contradictory edicts drawn up by the White House and set into motion by FEMA and DHS, dusts off his tools of war, and loads his truck with supplies. Unable to get ahold of Brook and Raven and unwilling to leave them at the mercy of some distant politician's inability to hold the nation together, he begins an impossible 3,000 mile journey across a reeling United States with presumably millions of infected in his path and only one acceptable outcome: find Brook and Raven alive-or die trying.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Adult", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23338453-trudge"}, +{"book_title": "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", "author_name": "Max Tegmark", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 15311, "review_number": 1474, "book_description": "How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology--and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today's kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle?What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn't shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues--from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Philosophy", "Business", "Futurism", "Science (Physics)", "Audiobook", "Science (Popular Science)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34272565-life-3-0"}, +{"book_title": "Scored", "author_name": "Lauren McLaughlin", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 2270, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "Set in the future when teenagers are monitored via camera and their recorded actions and confessions plugged into a computer program that determines their ability to succeed. All kids given a \"score\" that determines their future potential. This score has the ability to get kids into colleges, grant scholarships, or destroy all hope for the above. Scored's reluctant heroine is Imani, a girl whose high score is brought down when her best friend's score plummets. Where do you draw the line between doing what feels morally right and what can mean your future? Friendship, romance, loyalty, family, human connection and human value: all are questioned in this fresh and compelling dystopian novel set in the scarily foreseeable future.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10476572-scored"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Triumphs", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 22620, "review_number": 2475, "book_description": "Mercenary Kate Daniels must risk all to protect everything she holds dear in this epic, can't-miss entry in the thrilling #1 New York Times bestselling urban-fantasy series.Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She's made friends and enemies. She's found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let her be.Kate and her father, Roland, currently have an uneasy truce, but when he starts testing her defenses again, she knows that sooner or later a confrontation is inevitable. The Witch Oracle has begun seeing visions of blood, fire, and human bones. And when a mysterious box is delivered to Kate's doorstep, a threat of war from the ancient enemy who nearly destroyed her family, she knows her time is up.Kate Daniels sees no other choice but to combine forces with the unlikeliest of allies. She knows betrayal is inevitable. She knows she may not survive the coming battle. But she has to try.For her child.For Atlanta.For the world.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333180-magic-triumphs"}, +{"book_title": "Robobaby", "author_name": "David Wiesner", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 235, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Robots are much more than machines in the emotionally resonant world of Robobaby, where the arrival of a new baby in a robot family is a festive occasion. Iconic picture book creator David Wiesner captures the excitement as Lugnut (father), Diode (mother), and big sister Cathode (Cathy) welcome the newcomer. Cathy, with her handy toolbox and advanced knowledge of robotics and IT, is ignored while the adults bungle the process of assembling baby Flange, with near catastrophic results. As the frantic, distracted adults rush about aimlessly, Cathy, unobserved, calmly clears up the technical difficulties and bonds with her new baby brother. Robobaby is a shout\u2011out for girl scientists and makers, and a treat for all young robot enthusiasts.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Family", "Humor", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44599099-robobaby"}, +{"book_title": "The Druid Next Door", "author_name": "E.J. Russell", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 720, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Professor Bryce MacLeod has devoted his entire life to environmentalism. But how effective can he be in saving the planet when he can\u2019t even get his surly neighbor to separate his recycling?Former Queen\u2019s Enforcer Mal Kendrick doesn\u2019t think his life could get any worse: he\u2019s been exiled from Faerie with a cursed and useless right hand. When he\u2019s not dodging random fae assassins in the Outer World, he\u2019s going toe-to-toe with his tree-hugging neighbor. And when he discovers that the tree-hugger is really a druid, he\u2019s certain the gods have it in for him\u2014after all, there\u2019s always a catch with druids. Then he\u2019s magically shackled to the man and expected to instruct him in Supernatural 101.All right, now things couldn\u2019t possibly get worse.Until a mysterious stranger offers a drunken Mal the chance to gain back all he\u2019s lost\u2014for a price. After Mal accepts, he discovers the real catch: an ancient secret that will change his and Bryce\u2019s life forever.Ah, what the hells. Odds are they won\u2019t survive the week anyway.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34857549-the-druid-next-door"}, +{"book_title": "Dreadnought", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2038, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Captain William Sparhawk flies Earth\u2019s single starship on a voyage of exploration. His crew of veteran spacers begins the mission with high hopes and the best of intentions, but the universe has other plans. Instead of space merchants and potential allies, they discover Earth\u2019s impending doom. Sparhawk must decide whether to hunt down enemy scouts to keep Earth\u2019s new starship a secret, or to head home to warn Star Guard of the danger. Either way, he\u2019s ignited an interstellar war. Dreadnought, the second book of the Lost Colonies Trilogy, is a novel of military science fiction by bestselling author B. V. Larson.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27809944-dreadnought"}, +{"book_title": "The Marbury Lens", "author_name": "Andrew Smith", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 3808, "review_number": 712, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees another world called Marbury.There is war in Marbury. It is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible for the survival of two younger boys. Conner is there, too. But he\u2019s trying to kill them.Meanwhile, Jack is falling in love with an English girl, and afraid he\u2019s losing his mind.Conner tells Jack it\u2019s going to be okay.But it\u2019s not.Andrew Smith has written his most beautiful and personal novel yet, as he explores the nightmarish outer limits of what trauma can do to our bodies and our minds.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7995207-the-marbury-lens"}, +{"book_title": "The Epilogue", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 10175, "review_number": 621, "book_description": "The Epilogue - An epilogue to The One, which takes place two years later on Maxon's birthday.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25816163-the-epilogue"}, +{"book_title": "The Madman\u2019s Daughter", "author_name": "Megan Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 22721, "review_number": 3656, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London \u2014 working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father\u2019s gruesome experiments. But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true.Accompanied by her father\u2019s handsome young assistant, Montgomery, and an enigmatic castaway, Edward \u2014 both of whom she is deeply drawn to\u2014Juliet travels to the island, only to discover the depths of her father\u2019s madness: He has experimented on animals so that they resemble, speak, and behave as humans. And worse, one of the creatures has turned violent and is killing the island\u2019s inhabitants. Torn between horror and scientific curiosity, Juliet knows she must end her father's dangerous experiments and escape her jungle prison before it's too late. Yet as the island falls into chaos, she discovers the extent of her father\u2019s genius\u2014and madness\u2014in her own blood.Inspired by H. G. Wells\u2019s classic The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Madman\u2019s Daughter is a dark and breathless Gothic thriller about the secrets we\u2019ll do anything to know and the truths we\u2019ll go to any lengths to protect.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12291438-the-madman-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "The Pirates of Pacta Servanda", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1795, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Listening time 11 hr. 32 min.\"The world feels oddly strained, like a line pulled too taunt and apt to snap, smashing everything in its path.\"Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain have survived every attempt to stop them, but their enemies are determined to kill Mari, the only one who can save her world from a storm of destruction. As armies begin to gather and cities seethe with tension, Mari, Alain, and their friends must prepare to confront the storm in the place it first appeared: the broken kingdom of Tiae.The dangers facing them demand perilous raids, tough battles, and more than a little piracy. Beating the Mechanics Guild and the Mage Guild that have controlled the world of Dematr for centuries will require an unprecedented alliance under Mari's command of rebellious Mechanics, Mages, and common folk who know that together they can change the world, but separately they will all lose.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27842346-the-pirates-of-pacta-servanda"}, +{"book_title": "Memento Nora", "author_name": "Angie Smibert", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 1048, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "On an otherwise glossy day, a blast goes off and a body thuds to the ground at Nora's feet. There are terrorist attacks in the city all the time, but Nora can't forget.In Nora's world you don't have to put up with nightmares. Nora goes with her mother to TFC--a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic. There, she can describe her horrible memory and take a pill to erase it so she can go on like nothing ever happened. But at TFC a chance encounter with a mysterious guy changes Nora's life. She doesn't take the pill. And when Nora learns the memory her mother has chosen to forget, she realizes that someone needs to remember.With newfound friends Micah and Winter, Nora makes a comic book of their memories called Memento. Memento is an instant hit, but it sets off a dangerous chain of events. Will Nora, Micah, and Winter be forced to take the Big Pill that will erase their memories forever?Angie Smibert's remarkable debut novel takes readers on a thrilling ride through a shadowy world where corporations secretly rule and consumerism is praised above all.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (High School)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9370766-memento-nora"}, +{"book_title": "ELEKTROGRAD: RUSTED BLOOD", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 863, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "ELEKTROGRAD is the city of the future. Since the early 20th Century, it has been used as a testbed for futuristic modes of living. Each of its seven districts is an experimental site for new forms of architecture. It is now the early 21st Century. Elektrograd is showing its age. Mekanoplatz is the northernmost district of Elektrograd. And, on the district border, within site of the old construction robots with homeless people sheltering in their rusting carcasses, under the green flingers reaching their tentacles to the edge of space, and in the shadow of the hall where the shape of the future was first revealed in sparks and fire, there is a dead body. ELEKTROGRAD: RUSTED BLOOD is a murder mystery in a strange dream of a city, from the NYT-bestselling author of the crime novel GUN MACHINE and the graphic novels TRANSMETROPOLITAN, PLANETARY and RED.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26092601-elektrograd"}, +{"book_title": "Enforcing Home", "author_name": "A. American", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 1877, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Morgan has managed to get through a lot. Having made it back to his family and dealt with the issues of unscrupulous neighbors, he then had to deal with the presence of the federal government and their nefarious activities. But with the help of his close knit group he prevailed. Life is settling into a familiar routine. And with the help of the US Army they are starting to rebuild their community.But just when Morgan thinks things are assuming some kind of normal another surprise lands in his lap. He\u2019s made Sheriff. Harkening back to a time when law enforcement was a local face in the community Morgan is forced to step up and be that face, much to his chagrin. With the help of Thad, Danny and the rest of the crew he accepts the challenge and tries to make a positive impact. But he\u2019s in for yet another surprise. New foes will arise and old ones will return to conspire to destroy his efforts. Morgan\u2019s group will suffer loss, injury and constant assault. His new position has made him a target, as well as those he loves. The peace and tranquility that the group has fought so hard for will continue to elude them. The fight, as Morgan soon learns, is just beginning.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26118500-enforcing-home"}, +{"book_title": "Challenger's Hope", "author_name": "David Feintuch", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1732, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "In the aftermath of an alien attack and an admiral's traitorous desertion, Commander Nicholas Seafort is left in charge of a doomed ship that carries arrogant colonists, violent street children, and dwindling supplies.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Military History (Naval History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/979177.Challenger_s_Hope"}, +{"book_title": "Across the Ages", "author_name": "RaShelle Workman", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 457, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Ghosts are real. So is time travel.Eighteen-year-old Lucy Channing discovers this reality after her dead grandmother gives her a beautiful locket. As soon as her fingers brush the cold copper, Lucy is swept out of the nineteenth century and into the twenty-first.The first person she encounters is twenty-year-old William Godwin. He\u2019s uber-rich, arrogant, exciting, and oh so handsome. William agrees to help the strange girl find her way home. Or into the nearest mental institution.But what the two uncover reveals more than ghosts and time travel. Lucy and William discover a love greater than time itself.A love so strong it reaches... Across the Ages.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18348384-across-the-ages"}, +{"book_title": "Vices", "author_name": "Nash Summers", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 124, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Seven years ago, Jones fell for a heartless man named Carver. A drug addiction, numerous sexual partners, and a lonely lifestyle weren\u2019t enough to fill the void that Carver left in Jones\u2019s chest.Years later, the two meet under familiar circumstances, and Jones can\u2019t help hoping for affection that Carver can never give him. While Jones tries his best to crawl under Carver\u2019s skin and force him to feel something, he finds himself involved in a political war he had no idea he was fighting. Jones struggles to gasp for air in a dying city that\u2019s sinking fast and pulling him under with wave after wave of addiction and betrayal.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Suspense", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "Dark", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22880113-vices"}, +{"book_title": "Rise of the Red Hand", "author_name": "Olivia Chadha", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "A rare, searing portrayal of the future of climate change in South Asia. A streetrat turned revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a politician try to take down a ruthlessly technocratic government that sacrifices its poorest citizens to build its utopia.The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with discarded black-market robotics, a society of poverty-stricken cyborgs struggling to survive in slums threatened by rising sea levels, unbreathable air, and deadly superbugs.Ashiva works for the Red Hand, an underground network of revolutionaries fighting the government, which is run by a merciless computer algorithm that dictates every citizen\u2019s fate. She\u2019s a smuggler with the best robotic arm and cybernetic enhancements the slums can offer, and her cargo includes the most vulnerable of the city\u2019s abandoned children.When Ashiva crosses paths with the brilliant hacker Riz-Ali, a privileged Uplander who finds himself embroiled in the Red Hand\u2019s dangerous activities, they uncover a horrifying conspiracy that the government will do anything to bury. From armed guardians kidnapping children to massive robots flattening the slums, to a pandemic that threatens to sweep through the city like wildfire, Ashiva and Riz-Ali will have to put aside their differences in order to fight the system and save the communities they love from destruction.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52239058-rise-of-the-red-hand"}, +{"book_title": "Merman", "author_name": "K.Z. Snow", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 115, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "A Story in the Mongrel Series When vampire Clancy Marrowbone returns to Purin province after nearly two years, he intends only to visit with his dear friend, Fanule Perfidor, and find out how his former lover, the unfortunately mortal Simon Bentcross, is faring. But two developments change Marrowbone\u2019s itinerary: the appearance of a drastically altered man from his past, and the reawakening of his passion for Simon.Both of these unexpected reunions become increasingly complicated. The connection between Simon\u2019s new creation, a bathysphere-like submersible, and a clandestine underwater-research project results in Marrowbone and Bentcross becoming hunted men. But sometimes, it takes danger to make a star-crossed affair seem worth saving.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Historical", "M M Romance (M M Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18130056-merman"}, +{"book_title": "Glamour in Glass", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 5236, "review_number": 802, "book_description": "Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel \nShades of Milk and Honey\n, a loving tribute to the works of Jane Austen in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence. This magic comes in the form of glamour, which allows talented users to form practically any illusion they can imagine. Shades debuted to great acclaim and left readers eagerly awaiting its sequel. Glamour in Glass continues following the lives of beloved main characters Jane and Vincent, with a much deeper vein of drama and intrigue.In the tumultuous months after Napoleon abdicates his throne, Jane and Vincent go to Belgium for their honeymoon. While there, the deposed emperor escapes his exile in Elba, throwing the continent into turmoil. With no easy way back to England, Jane and Vincent\u2019s concerns turn from enjoying their honeymoon...to escaping it. Left with no outward salvation, Jane must persevere over her trying personal circumstances and use her glamour to rescue her husband from prison...and hopefully prevent her newly built marriage from getting stranded on the shoals of another country's war.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12160890-glamour-in-glass"}, +{"book_title": "How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1980, "review_number": 223, "book_description": "A new Newsflesh novella from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant.Post-Rising Australia can be a dangerous place, especially if you're a member of the government-sponsored Australia Conservation Corps, a group of people dedicated to preserving their continent's natural wealth until a cure can be found. Between the zombie kangaroos at the fences and the zombie elephant seals turning the penguin rookery at Prince Phillip Island into a slaughterhouse, the work of an animal conservationist is truly never done--and is often done at the end of a sniper rifle.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13641101-how-green-this-land-how-blue-this-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Dragons & Dirigibles", "author_name": "Cindy Spencer Pape", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 439, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Book seven of The Gaslight ChroniclesWhen airship engineer Melody McKay's dirigible explodes and plunges her into the yard of a gothic manor, she suspects foul play. With her ankle injured--an indignity far too feminine for her taste--she resolves to crack the mystery while in the care of Victor Arrington, the stuffy-yet-disarming Earl of Blackwell.Ex-Royal Navy Captain Victor runs a tight house and is on a mission to protect his niece and foil a ring of smugglers using fire-breathing metal dragons. He has no time for romantic attachments. Particularly not with women who fall from the sky wearing trousers and pilot's goggles.As he and Melody navigate a treachery so deep it threatens the lives of everyone in Black Heath, the earl becomes unexpectedly attached to his fiery houseguest, and Melody discovers a softness in her heart for him. But when the smugglers strike, there's more at risk than just their future together.48,000 words", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20646642-dragons-dirigibles"}, +{"book_title": "A World of Hurt", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 473, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "With its down and dirty depiction of warfare written by men who know what it\u2019s like to be under fire, the Starfist saga is a runaway success across America. Now, in the explosive new Starfist adventure, packed with fierce action and danger, Marines at war in future space find themselves pitted against a faceless, insatiable foe bent on destroying them. And that\u2019s just for starters.How bad is the upcoming mission facing the battle-hardened Marines of 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST), the military\u2019s unofficial alien first-contact force? Bad enough to make the brass take the unprecedented step of issuing 34th FIST replacements for combat losses before the Marines even leave their home base.In response to a series of unexplained deaths on a lonely outpost on the frontiers of human space, 34th FIST has been dispatched to investigate\u2013and eradicate\u2013 the problem. Beyond that, the information available to Gunnery Sergeant Charlie Bass and his men is meager even by Marine standards. No one knows what awaits them, for the newly colonized world remains largely unexplored. That means 34th FIST can expect creatures they have never seen, or even heard of, much less trained for. It could be Skink acid shooters, could be anything, for the barren station has several secrets\u2013all of them deadly.But the last thing these Marines expect to find is themselves in the middle of an invasion and a mysterious war\u2013with none other than 34th FIST as Enemy #1. Whatever happens, they\u2019ll deal with it, because they\u2019re Marines, determined to be ready . . . and to give worse than they get.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36468.A_World_of_Hurt"}, +{"book_title": "Bright We Burn", "author_name": "Kiersten White", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 9952, "review_number": 1901, "book_description": "Haunted by the sacrifices he made in Constantinople, Radu is called back to the new capital. Mehmed is building an empire, becoming the sultan his people need. But Mehmed has a secret: as emperor, he is more powerful than ever . . . and desperately lonely. Does this mean Radu can finally have more with Mehmed . . . and would he even want it? Lada's rule of absolute justice has created a Wallachia free of crime. But Lada won't rest until everyone knows that her country's borders are inviolable. Determined to send a message of defiance, she has the bodies of Mehmed's peace envoy delivered to him, leaving Radu and Mehmed with no choice. If Lada is allowed to continue, only death will prosper. They must go to war against the girl prince. But Mehmed knows that he loves her. He understands her. She must lose to him so he can keep her safe. Radu alone fears that they are underestimating his sister's indomitable will. Only by destroying everything that came before--including her relationships--can Lada truly build the country she wants. Claim the throne. Demand the crown. Rule the world.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22817368-bright-we-burn"}, +{"book_title": "Sky Raiders", "author_name": "Brandon Mull", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 16864, "review_number": 1401, "book_description": "On Halloween below a haunted house, Cole Randolph wanted to have fun (and maybe get to know Jenna Hunt a little better). But he dives after friends whisked away to The Outskirts.The five kingdoms lie in between - wakefulness and dreaming, reality and imagination, life and death. Some people are born there. Some find their way there from other worlds.And once people are in the Outskirts, they find it very hard to leave.With the magic of the Outskirts starting to unravel, Cole and an unusual girl named Mira must rescue his friends, set things right in the Outskirts, and hopefully find his way back home\u2026before his existence is forgotten.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18049017-sky-raiders"}, +{"book_title": "The Wrath of Fate: Book 1 of The Airship Pirate Chronicles", "author_name": "'Captain' Robert Brown", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 161, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "There will come a time...when the freedom is considered too dangerous . Cities are walled, and citizens are chained to round the clock jobs in order to keep them controlled and in the place. Change and progress is outlawed.There will come a time...when clockworks wake up, only to find they are not allowed to be awake. They hide in fear, not daring to break there chains of slavery.There will come a time...when freedom is outlawed. When men must scrape a living in the dirt of the parries, or in the skies above them. These hardened men and women fight for there lives and their freedom against beasts of the field, police in the cities, and pirates in the sky. When freedom is outlawed, only the outlaws are free.This time will come, and it was all my fault. Sorry about that.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12477387-the-wrath-of-fate"}, +{"book_title": "High-Rise", "author_name": "J.G. Ballard", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 25931, "review_number": 2401, "book_description": "When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on \"enemy\" floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Novels", "Literature", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12331767-high-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Infected", "author_name": "Bobby Adair", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2820, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "Slow Burn: Infected picks up the story of Zed, Murphy, and Jerome where Slow Burn: Zero Day ended.All three have all been infected but have not succumbed to the most pernicious symptoms of the virus. They\u2019re not the mindless cannibals that most infected are. Nevertheless, their band of survivors, fearful about the trio\u2019s infections, have ostracized them. Now, back on the street, with weapons to defend themselves but little food in their packs, they embark on a search for Murphy\u2019s family while following the rumor of a safe haven in the form of a doomsday bunker under a house in east Austin.But the world is more hazardous than they could have guessed. They expect violence from the voracious infected but they have harsh lessons to learn about the lethality of the uninfected. And without people to support the infrastructure of modern civilization, they find that danger comes in many forms.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18633103-infected"}, +{"book_title": "Expeditions, Estimation, and Other Dangerous Pastimes", "author_name": "Lyn Gala", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 745, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "Tuk-Palteia Liam has survived the front lines of a civil war and a return visit to his home planet, but now he has to face the ultimate obstacle. Stubborn lovers.As long as Liam and Ondry have the same goals\u2014the pursuit of profits and status\u2014they are the perfect partnership. But now Ondry wants to protect his palteia at any cost, even if it costs him his newly won rank. Liam hates the idea of Ondry sacrificing for him, and he is not going to allow Ondry to lose status under any circumstances. Add in the Imshee, a predatory companion animal, a new human, and an obstinate Grandmother, and Liam has the recipe for a serious headache. Despite what Ondry believes, not all problems can be solved with a good trade, a tail or a flash of tooth. This time, Liam and Ondry are going to need to find a compromise.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Erotica (BDSM)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36602760-expeditions-estimation-and-other-dangerous-pastimes"}, +{"book_title": "Chaos & Cyber Culture", "author_name": "Timothy Leary", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 266, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Timothy Learys Chaos and CyberCulture is his futuristic vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority , independent thinking, individual creativity, and the empowerment of computer and other brain technologies. This cyberpunk manifesto describes a new breed that loves technology and uses it to revolutionize communication and tweak Big Brother while being successful, achieving political power and having fun. Timothy Leary is a leading figure in the consciousness revolution of the 1960s. Chaos and CyberCulture brings together his provocative, futuristic writings, lively interviews and cogent conversations with a variety of writers and thinkers. Chaos and CyberCulture defines the emergence of the New Breed of the Information Age, who are creating the cyberdelic politics and culture of the 21st Century. Chaos and CyberCulture is a substantial work (over 100,000 words) consisting of over forty chapters and conversations with leading figures. There are eight main sections and a epilogue.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Philosophy", "Psychology", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural", "Science (Technology)", "Sociology", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/346006.Chaos_Cyber_Culture"}, +{"book_title": "Now, Then, and Everywhen", "author_name": "Rysa Walker", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2702, "review_number": 280, "book_description": "From the bestselling author of the Chronos series comes a page-turning novel of time travel, fast-paced action, and history-changing events.When two time-traveling historians cross paths during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, history goes helter-skelter. But which one broke the timeline?In 2136 Madison Grace uncovers a key to the origins of CHRONOS, a time-travel agency with ties to her family\u2019s mysterious past. Just as she is starting to jump through history, she returns to her timeline to find millions of lives erased\u2014and only the people inside her house realize anything has changed.In 2304 CHRONOS historian Tyson Reyes is assigned to observe the crucial events that played out in America\u2019s civil rights movement. But a massive time shift occurs while he\u2019s in 1965, and suddenly the history he sees isn\u2019t the history he knows.As Madi\u2019s and Tyson\u2019s journeys collide, they must prevent the past from being erased forever. But strange forces are at work. Are Madi and Tyson in control or merely pawns in someone else\u2019s game?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51907779-now-then-and-everywhen"}, +{"book_title": "A Calculated Life", "author_name": "Anne Charnock", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2021, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "Late in the twenty-first century, big business is booming and state institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic engineering, which have produced a compliant population free of addictions. Violent crime is a rarity.Hyper-intelligent Jayna is a star performer at top predictive agency Mayhew McCline, where she forecasts economic and social trends. A brilliant mathematical modeler, she far outshines her co-workers, often correcting their work on the quiet. Her latest coup: finding a link between northeasterly winds and violent crime.When a string of events contradicts her forecasts, Jayna suspects she needs more data and better intuition. She needs direct interactions with the rest of society. Bravely\u2014and naively\u2014she sets out to disrupt her strict routine and stumbles unwittingly into a world where her IQ is increasingly irrelevant\u2026a place where human relationships and the complexity of life are difficult for her to decode. And as she experiments with taking risks, she crosses the line into corporate intrigue and disloyalty.Can Jayna confront the question of what it means to live a \u201cnormal\u201d life? Or has the possibility of a \u201cnormal\u201d life already been eclipsed for everyone?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18318669-a-calculated-life"}, +{"book_title": "Driven", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Urban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist ***fifth episode of the nine-part serial*** What\u2019s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more \u201cworthy\u201d\u2026 all while paying the price with black marks on their souls.Driven is approximately 14,000 words or 56 pages, and is the fifth of nine episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial.Lirium pretends he's a willing debt collector for the mob while deciding whether he can trust Ophelia to help him escape.Contains mature content and themes.OPTIONED FOR VIRTUAL REALITY BY IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT 2014 Semi-Finalist in Science Fiction in the Kindle Book AwardsIt is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series. There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together. READING ORDERSeason One \u2013 Lirium - COMPLETEEpisodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, PassionSeason Two \u2013 Wraith **available for pre-order** releases 12.15.14Episodes 10-18: Wraith, Specter, Menace, Temptation, Shattered, Penance, Judgment, Corruption, Atonement", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17875985-driven"}, +{"book_title": "Fateful Lightning", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 767, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The latest chapter in a unique, epic military science fiction series that sweeps from Civil War America to a time-warped world of horrifying conflict. The Civil War Yankees, lost in another world and time, find themselves part of a tactical retreat from the onslaught of the mysterious Merki hordes, reenacting the Russian retreats against the French and Germans.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286443.Fateful_Lightning"}, +{"book_title": "2001 Nights: Children of Earth", "author_name": "Yukinobu Hoshino", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 116, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Present a collection of short tales in graphic novel format depicting man's exploration of space.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295032.2001_Nights"}, +{"book_title": "Clay's Ark", "author_name": "Octavia E. Butler", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 6291, "review_number": 555, "book_description": "An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world being born in the Californian desert.They discover Earth has been invaded by an alien microorganism. The deadly entity attacks like a virus, but survivors of the disease genetically bond with it, developing amazing powers, near-immortality, unnatural desires - and a need to spread the contagion and create a secret colony of the transformed. Now the meaning of \"survival\" changes. For the babies born in the colony are clearly, undeniably, not human...", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Novels", "Cultural (African American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60933.Clay_s_Ark"}, +{"book_title": "Thieves Emporium", "author_name": "Max Hern\u00e1ndez", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 151, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "A novel of technology, economics, and death in the age of the surveillance state. What price freedom when government knows all our secrets? WELCOME TO THE NEW BADLANDS Fawn got to the shelter too late for dinner, so she just wanted a safe place to sleep. But a dark stranger offered her more. A ticket to a new world, filled with opportunity. And danger. Welcome, Fawn, to the New Badlands. A place beyond the reach of any government. Without laws or regulations of any kind. Where everyone is free. But no one is safe. This is the story of a young mother's attempt to survive in the new digital underworld. Follow her as she becomes a pioneer, a smuggler, a spy, and a freedom-fighter while dodging forces that threaten to destroy the foundations of the modern nation-state. The characters in this novel are fictional. The place is not. It's growing around you, like cracks in the armor of the new surveillance state. Read about it now, while you still can.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21818365-thieves-emporium"}, +{"book_title": "Positive", "author_name": "David Wellington", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2508, "review_number": 353, "book_description": "In the bestselling vein of Guillermo Del Toro and Justin Cronin, the acclaimed author of Chimera and The Hydra Protocol delivers his spectacular breakout novel\u2014an entertaining page-turning zombie epic that is sure to become a classic.\nAnyone can be positive . . . \nThe tattooed plus sign on Finnegan's hand marks him as a Positive. At any time, the zombie virus could explode in his body, turning him from a rational human into a ravenous monster. His only chance of a normal life is to survive the last two years of the potential incubation period. If he reaches his twenty-first birthday without an incident, he'll be cleared.Until then, Finn must go to a special facility for positives, segregated from society to keep the healthy population safe. But when the military caravan transporting him is attacked, Finn becomes separated. To make it to safety, he must embark on a perilous cross-country journey across an America transformed\u2014a dark and dangerous land populated with heroes, villains, madmen, and hordes of zombies. And though the zombies are everywhere, Finn discovers that the real danger may be his fellow humans.Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome meets World War Z and I Am Legend in this thrilling tale that has it all: a compelling story, great characters, and explosive action, making Positive the ultimate zombie novel of our time.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22547942-positive"}, +{"book_title": "The Rise of the Iron Moon", "author_name": "Stephen Hunt", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1118, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "From the author of The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves comes a thrilling new adventure set in the same Victorian-style world. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman and Susanna Clarke. Born into captivity as a product of the Royal Breeding House, friendless orphan Purity Drake suddenly finds herself on the run with a foreign vagrant from the North after accidentally killing one of her guards. Her strange rescuer claims he is on the run himself from terrible forces who mean to enslave the Kingdom of Jackals as they conquered his own nation. Purity doubts his story, until reports begin to filter through from Jackals' neighbours of the terrible Army of Shadows, marching across the continent and sweepign all before them. But there's more to Purity than meets the eye. As Jackals girds itself for war against an army of near-unkillable beasts serving an ancient evil with a terrible secret, it soon becomes clear that their only hope is a strange little royalist girl and the last, desperate plan of an escaped slave.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Victorian)", "Historical", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5886162-the-rise-of-the-iron-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Touched by Time", "author_name": "Zoe Matthews", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 717, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Kimberly loves her work, but hates her job. She is a nurse and enjoys helping people; however, her boss has it out for her, and makes Kimberly\u2019s life miserable. While flipping through the classifieds, an old-fashioned mail order bride ad catches her eye. At first, she doesn\u2019t think much of it, but she can\u2019t seem to forget about it. She decides to find answer the ad, just out of curiosity to see what will happen. She has no way of knowing how much this will change her life. Victoria is a widow, looking for ways to keep herself busy and help other people at the same time. She decided to start a mail order bride business, but she also has a secret she needs to be careful to hide. She lives in 1892. Patrick lives on a ranch and loves his life. The only problem is he lives too far from town to properly court a woman and is looking for a woman's love to help brighten his life. He enlists in Victoria\u2019s help to find him a woman who will be compatible with his life. Little does he know, Victoria is thinking of sending someone from the future. Join Kimberly and Patrick soon learn to accept each others differences, but will it be enough to start a family of their own?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Westerns", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Mail Order Brides"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30188590-touched-by-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Hero", "author_name": "Rick Riordan", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 650418, "review_number": 22570, "book_description": "JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn\u2019t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They\u2019re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for \u201cbad kids,\" as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything\u2014except that everything seems very wrong.PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn\u2019t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn\u2019t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she\u2019s going to find out, whether she wants to or not.LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there\u2019s weird stuff, too\u2014like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them\u2014including Leo\u2014is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7736182-the-lost-hero"}, +{"book_title": "Mate of the Tyger Prince", "author_name": "Shannon West", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 929, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Diplomatic marriages between two members of different planets certainly aren\u2019t unheard of\u2014but for Prince Mikos of Tygeria and Col. Ryan Donnelly of Earth, it might just be a fate worse than death. The union is meant to end a devastating war that has lasted for over a hundred and fifty years, but when the female bride intended for the fierce, sexy prince runs away, her handsome brother is substituted instead. Men are for mating as far as the Tygerian prince is concerned, but the colonel also happens to be Mikos\u2019s sworn enemy, not to mention being completely irritating.Ryan is horrified to learn that the Tygerians not only expect him to take the place of his sister, marry the Bloody Prince of Tygeria, and go to live with him on his mysterious planet, but they also expect him to undergo physical alteration to have the man\u2019s baby! And nobody is taking hell no for an answer. Ryan\u2019s being asked to turn his whole life upside down and the handsome Tygerian gets under his skin like nobody else. But with the fate of the universe at stake, how can he say no? Can the two enemies put aside their differences and focus on making love and not war\u2014not to mention a baby? As a powerful love struggles to take root, can they learn to trust each other and stand together against the forces that are trying to tear them apart?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28378150-mate-of-the-tyger-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Morna's Legacy: Box Set #1", "author_name": "Bethany Claire", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 984, "review_number": 72, "book_description": " Discover the Bestselling Morna\u2019s Legacy Series \n Includes the first 3 novels in Morna\u2019s Legacy Series, as well as the Christmas novella:\nLove Beyond Time (Book 1): Nearly 400 years ago, the Conall clan and their people were murdered in a surprise attack, their castle burned to the ground. In centuries following, archaeologists searched the ruins looking for any evidence of who had caused the untimely demise of the powerful Scottish clan. Efforts were fruitless until a spell put in place by an ancient Conall ancestor finally began to work its magic... When Bri accompanies her archaeologist mother on a dig in Scotland, they discover a spell room below the castle ruins, and Bri is transported back in time and suddenly married to the castle's ill-fated Laird. She must work to change the fate of his people, all while trying to find a way to return to her century. With each new day, Bri finds herself falling in love with her new husband. If she finds a spell to bring her home, will she use it? If she stays, will it ultimately mean her own death as well?Love Beyond Reason (Book 2): It all started with a spell. Arran Conall lives with the consequences of his foolishness daily, his mistakes guiding him into darkness. He had no way to know that his beloved would fall prey to ancient magic. Now, the only woman to ever give pause to his philandering ways lives centuries ahead of him while still holding on to his heart. Now, he must try to live without her and marries another. His love for Blaire haunts him. With every breath, he prays that she will be able to feel his love across time... Born in the seventeenth century, Blaire MacChristy lives each day adjusting to the challenges of modern life. Magic brought her here, but heartbreak keeps her from using the magic to travel back to her home. When visitors from her past arrive asking her to return to the life she\u2019d known before, Blaire takes a chance on love. Will fate find a way to mend their broken hearts by bringing them together once again? Even if it does, will they be able to stop the darkness that is coming for them both?A Conall Christmas: A Novella (Book 2.5): Christmas is approaching, and Adelle is determined to make it the best one Conall Castle has ever seen, but loneliness haunts her. Love for her daughter sent her into the past, but she\u2019d not expected the isolation she would feel. She finds that her current age seems much older in the seventeenth century than it did in the twenty-first and resigns herself to the fact that she will remain single for the rest of her days. At least until an unexpected visitor arrives. Hew Moray has spent the last twenty years all alone, only leaving his home once a year to pay homage to the wife he lost long ago. When a storm causes him to seek shelter at Conall Castle, he meets the first lass since his beloved Mae to make his heart flutter in his chest once again. Can he release himself from his past grief to allow another love to enter his life? If he does, will his love be returned?Love Beyond Hope (Book 3): Mitsy is in serious need of a distraction. With the ink still drying on her divorce papers, she flies to Scotland to forget about her own problems by helping her best friend re-enter reality. She knows Bri\u2019s claims that she is able to travel back in time and is currently living in the year 1647 are a lie but, Mitsy falls prey to the same magic and is forced to believe the impossible. She finds few who understand her fiery personality in the seventeenth century, but she finds her match in Baodan, laird of McMillan Castle.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22011054-morna-s-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy", "author_name": "Liu Cixin", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 1497, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "This discounted ebundle includes: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death\u2019s End\n\"Wildly imaginative, really interesting.\" \u2014President Barack Obama\n\nThe Three-Body trilogy by New York Times bestseller Cixin Liu keeps you riveted with high-octane action, political intrigue, and unexpected twists in this saga of first contact with the extraterrestrial Trisolaris.\nThe Three-Body Problem \u2014 An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.The Dark Forest \u2014 In The Dark Forest, the aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information remains. Humanity responds with the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.Death\u2019s End \u2014 Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?\nOther Books by Cixin Liu (Translated to English)\n\n\n\n\nThe Remembrance of Earth's Past\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Three-Body Problem\n\n\nThe Dark Forest\n\n\nDeath's End\n\n\nOther Books\n\n\n\n\n\nBall Lightning\nAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (China)", "Asian Literature (Chinese Literature)", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34569357-remembrance-of-earth-s-past"}, +{"book_title": "Spinward Fringe Broadcast 3: Triton", "author_name": "Randolph Lalonde", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 2852, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Captain Valance has taken the Triton to the Enreega System. The Samson crew man the massive Sol Defence vessel with the help of deserters and are soon joined by recently displaced refugees. Though they may have taken possession of the mighty ship, the battle to keep and tame her is only beginning. She's filled with surprises and secrets.While the Samson crew and their new allies fight for control over their new ship, the Fourth Fall Of Mankind is beginning. Billions of lives will irrevocably change and those who managed to find a reprieve will have to choose a side in a war few are given the opportunity to comprehend.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6017727-spinward-fringe-broadcast-3"}, +{"book_title": "City of Dark Magic", "author_name": "Magnus Flyte", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 10304, "review_number": 1646, "book_description": "Cosmically fast-paced and wildly imaginative, this debut novel is a perfect potion of magic and suspense Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it\u2019s whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven\u2019s manuscripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is warned, and it is steeped in blood. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Soon after Sarah arrives, strange things begin to happen. She learns that her mentor, who was working at the castle, may not have committed suicide after all. Could his cryptic notes be warnings? As Sarah parses his clues about Beethoven\u2019s \u201cImmortal Beloved,\u201d she manages to get arrested, to have tantric sex in a public fountain, and to discover a time-warping drug. She also catches the attention of a four-hundred-year-old dwarf, the handsome Prince Max, and a powerful U.S. senator with secrets she will do anything to hide. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 City of Dark Magic could be called a rom-com paranormal suspense novel\u2014or it could simply be called one of the most entertaining novels of the year.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808242-city-of-dark-magic"}, +{"book_title": "This Alien Shore", "author_name": "C.S. Friedman", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 3584, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "Sheltered all her life in a corporate satellite in Earth's outer orbit, Jamisia must face the truth about her origins and her role in the power struggle between the Guerans who dominate intergalactic transportation and the rest of Earth's far-flung and genetically mutated colonies who are trying to break the Guera Guild's monopoly.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36162.This_Alien_Shore"}, +{"book_title": "Free-Wrench", "author_name": "Joseph R. Lallo", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1316, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "The islands of Caldera are a shining jewel in a rather bleak world. A terrible calamity in the past had blanketed much of the world with a toxic \"fug.\" Those who survived were forced to take to the mountains and the skies in wondrous airships. Life has since been a struggle, with only the most ruthless and crafty able to survive. To spare themselves the same fate, the Calderans erected a battery of guns to fend off the airships of the mainland. They isolated themselves from the madness of the world, choosing instead to focus on the pursuits of art and creativity. Few believe the technologically advanced but socially barbarous outsiders have anything to offer. Amanita Graus, though, is hoping that they do. Nita's mother has lost her livelihood and perhaps soon her life to a terrible disease. Already the black sheep of the family for embracing engineering rather than art, Nita resolves to leave the safety of her home and do whatever it takes to find a cure. For a price, the bizarre crew of an airship called The Wind Breaker are willing to grant her a meeting with their mysterious benefactors, and thus a chance to procure the one thing with a chance to save her mother. Free-Wrench follows Nita\u2019s adventures in a steampunk world of airships and lunatics. Helping her in her journey are an eccentric crew of smugglers; the gruff Cap\u2019n Mack, the simple but enthusiastic Lil and Coop, the arrogant marksman Gunner, the surly surgeon Butch, and the irritable mascot Wink. To survive and find what she seeks she\u2019ll need to earn their trust, follow their rules, and meet face to face with the people who pull the strings of their society.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22824629-free-wrench"}, +{"book_title": "The Constantine Affliction", "author_name": "T. Aaron Payton", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 747, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "1864. London is a city in transition. The Constantine Affliction - strange malady that kills some of its victims and physically transforms others into the opposite sex - has spread scandal and upheaval throughout society. Scientific marvels and disasters, such as clockwork courtesans, the alchemical fires of Whitechapel, electric carriages, and acidic monsters lurking in the Thames, have forever altered the face of the city.Pembroke \"Pimm\" Halliday is an aristocrat with an interest in criminology, who uses his keen powers of observation to assist the police or private individuals - at least when he's sober enough to do so. Ellie Skyler, who hides her gender behind the byline \"E. Skye,\" is an intrepid journalist driven by both passion and necessity to uncover the truth, no matter where it hides.When Pimm and Skye stumble onto a dark plot that links the city\u2019s most notorious criminal overlord with the Queen\u2019s new consort, famed scientist Sir Bertram Oswald, they soon find the forces of both high and low society arrayed against them. Can they save the city from the arcane machinations of one of history's greatest monsters - and uncover the shocking origin of . . . THE CONSTANTINE AFFLICTION.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13584816-the-constantine-affliction"}, +{"book_title": "Wicked Mate", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 931, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Cara Call never expected her life to take such a dramatic turn after she fell in love with her wicked alien captor, Devix. Now, after escaping Sarkon\u2019s grasp, they are building their lives together on the peaceful colony of Rozun. Then, their lives change forever when Cara discovers she\u2019s pregnant. With a difficult and potentially dangerous pregnancy ahead, Devix takes Cara to the only place he knows they can get help: his home planet of Luxiria. The same planet he was wrongly exiled from, accused of a heinous crime he didn't commit. But Devix will do anything to protect his fated mate\u2026even if it means confronting the wrath of his species and the ones who betrayed him. WICKED MATE is the direct sequel to WICKED CAPTOR and concludes Devix and Cara\u2019s story. It features the same spirited and sassy human female and the same seven-foot-tall alien warrior with naughty fantasies and even naughtier -ahem- equipment.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38105136-wicked-mate"}, +{"book_title": "The Terminal Connection", "author_name": "Dan Needles", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 164, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "What if a terrorist was a computer virus, its weapon a defect, and its target the U.S. military's eyes and ears? Welcome to post 9-11 where the lines are blurred between terrorists and superpowers, military and civilian, and virtual and reality. In a war of information everyone is on the frontline. That's inventor Steve Donovan's nightmare in the 100,000 word techno-thriller THE TERMINAL CONNECTION.Moving between reality and virtual worlds, the players in this high thriller, corporate espionage novel find danger and death in both worlds. NEXUS Corporation has developed a virtual technology, but a hacker has introduced a deadly virus--a killer who moves through the virtual world paralyzing his victims and taking their lives; but with this virus, virtual death results in real death. Can Steve, the developer of this technology and founder of NEXUS Corporation, find the virtual killer and stop the virus before he becomes the next victim of a technology that will give world power to one man?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20647357-the-terminal-connection"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time", "author_name": "Daniel Keys Moran", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 671, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Few of the telepaths survived the massacre by the United Nations Peaceforce. Seven years later, the last telepaths, Denice and Trent, are marked by the Peaceforce, and will die unless Trent can carry out his plan to avenge the deaths of his friends.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/403016.The_Long_Run"}, +{"book_title": "Die Anf\u00e4nger", "author_name": "Ivan Nedi\u010d", "rating_score": 2.71, "rating_votes": 21, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Der Traum von einer glorreichen Schattenl\u00e4uferkarriere ist wie eine Seifenblase zerplatzt, noch bevor Psycho und seine Freunde einen Fu\u00df auf das Berliner Firmengel\u00e4nde von Aztechnology gesetzt haben. Ihr erster Einsatz endet in einem Desaster, als sie zwischen die Fronten der Sicherheitsleute und eines zweiten Runnerteams geraten, und sie k\u00f6nnen sich gl\u00fccklich sch\u00e4tzen, dass sie mit dem Leben davonkommen...\" \"... Aber noch ist die Sache nicht ausgestanden, denn der skrupellose Schieber, der ihnen den Auftrag vermittelt hat, ist h\u00f6chst erbost. Er hetzt ihnen seine Killer auf den Hals und bei der Schie\u00dferei wird Psycho schwer verletzt. Die vier Freunde m\u00fcssen untertauchen, doch wenn sie nicht ihr Leben lang davonlaufen wollen, gilt es einige offene Fragen zu beantworten: Wer hat ihren Run auf Aztechnology verraten? Und was hat es mit jenem omin\u00f6sen Chip auf sich, der nicht nur die Begehrlichkeit des Schiebers weckt?", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1502502.Die_Anf_nger"}, +{"book_title": "Spinning Starlight", "author_name": "R.C. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1972, "review_number": 429, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight. But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it\u2019s hard to escape it. So when a group of men shows up at her house uninvited, she assumes it\u2019s just the usual media-grubs. That is, until shots are fired.Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she ever could have imagined. Her older brothers have been caught as well, trapped in the conduits between the planets. And when their captor implants a device in Liddi\u2019s vocal cords to monitor her speech, their lives are in her hands: One word and her brothers are dead.Desperate to save her family from a desolate future, Liddi travels to another world, where she meets the one person who might have the skills to help her bring her eight brothers home\u2014a handsome dignitary named Tiav. But without her voice, Liddi must use every bit of her strength and wit to convince Tiav that her mission is true. With the tenuous balance of the planets deeply intertwined with her brothers\u2019 survival, just how much is Liddi willing to sacrifice to bring them back?Haunting and mesmerizing, this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s The Wild Swans strings the heart of the classic with a stunning, imaginative world as a star-crossed family fights for its very survival.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Retellings", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Space", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24565038-spinning-starlight"}, +{"book_title": "Lightspeed Magazine, February 2015", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 248, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. This month, we have original science fiction by Brooke Bolander (\"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead\") and Caroline M. Yoachim (\"Red Planet\"), along with SF reprints by John Kessel (\"Buffalo\") and David Barr Kirtley (\"Veil of Ignorance\"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Maria Dahvana Headley (\"And the Winners Will Be Swept Out to Sea\") and Will Kaufman (\"Things You Can Buy for a Penny\"), and fantasy reprints by Mary Rickert (\"The Girl Who Ate Butterflies\") and Adam-Troy Castro (\"Cerile and the Journeyer\"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, a feature interview with Ann Leckie, and our review column, this month written by Sunil Patel. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint of \"In the House of Aryaman, A Lonely Signal Burns,\" by Elizabeth Bear. We're also delighted to share an excerpt from Elizabeth Bear's new novel, KAREN MEMORY, and an excerpt from GEMINI CELL, Myke Cole's latest book.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Adult", "Novella", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24790335-lightspeed-magazine-february-2015"}, +{"book_title": "Destroyer", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1605, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "A hair-raising ambush. A malfunctioning ship. A distant, uncharted part of the Universe. Calexa Acura and her crew of misfits are lost, and their ship is in desperate need of repairs. When a massive spacecraft appears in their radius, they're helpless to resist its magnetic pull. The terrifying ship is bigger than any craft she's seen in her life, and somehow, she doubts its occupants will turn out to be the friendly sort. First Encounters are always better when they're amicable, but if necessary, Calexa and her crew will fight. It's what they've always done. Destroyer is a full-length science-fiction romance novel (95,000 words), and the first book in a new series. It contains violence, swearing, explicit sex scenes, and aliens! Warning and minor spoiler alert (for those who don't like surprises): this book includes MFM (male/female/male with \"two\" heroes). I wanted to let you know in case that's not your jam, but if it is, read on!Oh, and it's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Space", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37512880-destroyer"}, +{"book_title": "Anywhere But Here", "author_name": "Jason D. Morrow", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1503, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "What if you could see the future with a single touch? What if that touch revealed someone\u2019s death, and that person was someone you loved? Would you do everything you could to change it? In a post-apocalyptic world, where danger roams in many forms, seventeen-year-old Waverly seeks protection in the town of Crestwood after her boyfriend is ruthlessly killed by lawless raiders. But what she finds is a place wrought with mystery, shady dealings, and more instability than she anticipates. The Starborn Ascension takes place 57 years before The Starborn Uprising, and can be read independently.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21937282-anywhere-but-here"}, +{"book_title": "Jewel of the Sea", "author_name": "Tiffany Roberts", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1067, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "HER INSPIRATION AND HER PASSION\u2026 Three months ago, Aymee had no idea the kraken \u2014 half-human sea dwellers \u2014 even existed. Now, the violet eyes of the kraken Arkon haunt her imagination, and she longs to know his touch. But word of his people has spread beyond The Watch, and Aymee\u2019s attraction to Arkon may endanger the safety of human and kraken alike. To protect him, can she bring herself to forsake him? Is her desire for Arkon worth putting both their worlds at risk? HIS MUSE AND HIS JEWEL\u2026 Arkon has spent his life in the pursuit of knowledge. Then he met Aymee and found a new quest: to make her his. She inspires him, draws him in, dominates his thoughts. When he finally builds the courage to approach her, she\u2019s everything he imagined and more. But a group of murderous humans are hunting the kraken, and continued contact with Aymee may destroy them both. Now that he\u2019s tasted her sweetness, he can\u2019t give her up\u2026but can he risk his world and his people to satisfy his need for her?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39696612-jewel-of-the-sea"}, +{"book_title": "The Unnaturalists", "author_name": "Tiffany Trent", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 1958, "review_number": 358, "book_description": "In an alternate London where magical creatures are preserved in a museum, two teens find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception, and danger.Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural creatures in her father\u2019s museum, but as she gets older, the requirement to become a lady and find a husband is looming large. Syrus Reed\u2019s Tinker family has always served and revered the Unnaturals from afar, but when his family is captured to be refinery slaves, he finds that his fate may be bound up with Vespa\u2019s\u2014and with the Unnaturals.As the danger grows, Vespa and Syrus find themselves in a tightening web of deception and intrigue. At stake may be the fate of New London\u2014and the world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12988074-the-unnaturalists"}, +{"book_title": "Winter in Eden", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1647, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Harry Harrison, an acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with \"West of Eden.\" He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants challenged humans for mastery of Earth, where a young hunter named Kerrick grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy. Now, the awesome saga continues in \"Winter in Eden...\"A new ice age threatens Earth. Facing extinction, the dinosaurs must employ their mastery of biology to swiftly reconquer human territory. Desperately, Kerrick launches an arduous quest to rally a final defense for humankind. With his beloved wife and young son, he heads north to the land of the whale hunters, east into the enemy's stronghold, and south to a fateful reckoning with destiny.Not since \"Dune\" has there been a work of such majestic scope and conception -- a monumental epic of passion, courage, and triumph.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432162.Winter_in_Eden"}, +{"book_title": "State of Rebellion", "author_name": "Summer Lane", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 823, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Everything has changed. After a devastating ambush that left the militia group Freedom Fighters struggling to survive, Cassidy Hart has been lucky to escape with her life. Along with her Commander and former Navy SEAL Chris Young, she's made a shocking discovery concerning the whereabouts of her father. The militias have moved further into the mountains. And the secret that is kept there will come with a price. But when the National Guard arrives, Cassidy is faced with a choice that will force her to decide between her friends and her family. Omega is getting stronger. The fight for freedom looms on the horizon. It's all or nothing. And Cassidy has no intention of giving up.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "New Adult", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20368339-state-of-rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "A Gift Upon the Shore", "author_name": "M.K. Wren", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1319, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "In the Pacific Northwest of the near future, the golden age has ended in apocalypse. Nuclear war has unleased firestorms and the killing cold of nuclear winter. Earthquakes and tidal waves have ravaged the West Coast of America. Desperate violent looters comb the devastated land. And a horrifying pandemic lays waste to the remaining human population. But one of the few survivors, Mary Hope, is determined to see that some spark of culture survives. Together with her beloved friend Rachel, she sets out to preserve the precious knowledge of the past by saving every book she can in what may very well be the last library\u2014the only record of a world that has perished. But Mary and Rachel are not alone. They are forced to share their small subsistence farm, Amarna, with the Flock, a small band of survivors with fanatical beliefs. And one of those beliefs is that books are blasphemous and should be destroyed.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Writing (Books About Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149840.A_Gift_Upon_the_Shore"}, +{"book_title": "Smoke", "author_name": "Dan Vyleta", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 5496, "review_number": 1083, "book_description": "In an alternate Victorian England those who are wicked are marked by the smoke that pours out of their bodies. The aristocracy are clean, proof of their virtue and right to rule, while the lower classes are drenched in sin and soot. Thomas Argyle is the only son of a wayward aristocrat. Charlie Cooper is his best friend. When Thomas finds himself under the boot heel of a sadistic headboy in the treacherous halls of their elite boarding school, he and Charlie begin to question the rules of their society. Then the boys meet Livia, the daughter of a wealthy and powerful family. She leads them to a secret laboratory where they learn that smoke may not be as it seems, and together they set out to uncover the truth about their world.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27208482-smoke"}, +{"book_title": "Shattered Spear", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 2009, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Fleet returns to the \u201cstrong saga\u201d* of a rebellion against a totalitarian regime and the determination of two people to create a better future in the farthest reaches of the colonized galaxy...\u00a0 \u00a0 The Syndicate Worlds continue to splinter as more star systems pledge allegiance to President Gwen Iceni, General Artur Drakon, and the new government they\u2019re establishing at Midway. But the toxic legacy of Syndicate rule continues to undermine their efforts as the rebels encounter difficulty trusting one another and believing their new leaders\u2019 promises of freedom from tyranny. \u00a0 Before Iceni and Drakon can put their house in order, they must deal with an even greater threat. An enigma warship has appeared and vanished near a Syndic colony. If the aliens are\u00a0 capable of jumping into other human-occupied star systems, then billions of people could be vulnerable to a hostile invasion fleet anywhere they choose to strike. \u00a0 But an even greater vulnerability lies with Iceni and Drakon, as a once-trusted adviser-turned-saboteur plans revenge... \u00a0 *Genre Go Round Reviews", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26067928-shattered-spear"}, +{"book_title": "Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction", "author_name": "Scott Bukatman", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 83, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity\u2014referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional \"subject\" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television screen--puts to rest any lingering doubts of the significance of science fiction in contemporary cultural studies. Demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge, both of the history of science fiction narrative from its earliest origins, and of cultural theory and philosophy, Bukatman redefines the nature of human identity in the Information Age. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary theories of the postmodern\u2014including Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway, and Jean Baudrillard\u2014Bukatman begins with the proposition that Western culture is suffering a crisis brought on by advanced electronic technologies. Then in a series of chapters richly supported by analyses of literary texts, visual arts, film, video, television, comics, computer games, and graphics, Bukatman takes the reader on an odyssey that traces the postmodern subject from its current crisis, through its close encounters with technology, and finally to new self-recognition. This new \"virtual subject,\" as Bukatman defines it, situates the human and the technological as coexistent, codependent, and mutally defining.Synthesizing the most provocative theories of postmodern culture with a truly encyclopedic treatment of the relevant media, this volume sets a new standard in the study of science fiction\u2014a category that itself may be redefined in light of this work. Bukatman not only offers the most detailed map to date of the intellectual terrain of postmodern technology studies\u2014he arrives at new frontiers, providing a propitious launching point for further inquiries into the relationship of electronic technology and culture.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Philosophy (Theory)", "Academic", "Writing (Essays)", "Reference"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296669.Terminal_Identity"}, +{"book_title": "Cusp", "author_name": "Robert A. Metzger", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 255, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "The year is 2051. An enigmatic entity has its own plan for human evolution, using the supercomputer known as CUSP--the first computer designed to run on the software of the human mind.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/729726.Cusp"}, +{"book_title": "Crash", "author_name": "J.G. Ballard", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 22781, "review_number": 1337, "book_description": "In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a \"TV scientist\" turned \"nightmare angel of the highways,\" experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Literature", "Thriller", "Contemporary", "Dark", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Mystery", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70241.Crash"}, +{"book_title": "Breath of Life", "author_name": "Christine Pope", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 896, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Anika Jespers, a homesteader's daughter on a Gaian colony, thinks she's destined for a dull existence on her family's farm. But when her father makes an impossible bargain with their neighbor, one of the alien Zhore, she faces a future different from anything she could have possibly imagined.The familiar story of Beauty and the Beast takes on new life in this inventive SF romance novella, with the Beauty a homesteader's daughter and the Beast an alien on a faraway colony world.Novella: 32,000 words, approximately 120 pages", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11739076-breath-of-life"}, +{"book_title": "Redeemed", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1754, "review_number": 173, "book_description": "Jonah\u2019s new twin must time travel and face off against his siblings\u2019 worst enemy in order to save the future\u2014and his family\u2014in the eighth and final book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls \u201cplenty of fun and great for history teachers as well.\u201dAfter traveling through history multiple times and finding out his original identity, Jonah thought he\u2019d fixed everything. But some of his actions left unexpected consequences. His parents\u2014and many other adults\u2014are still stuck as teenagers. And now Jonah has a new sibling, an identical twin brother named Jordan.As odd as all this is for Jonah, it\u2019s beyond confusing for Jordan. How does everyone in his family have memories of Jonah when he doesn\u2019t? How can his annoying kid sister Katherine speak so expertly about time travel\u2014and have people from the future treating her with respect? A few rash moves by Jordan send them all into the future\u2014and into danger. What if he\u2019s also the only one who can get them back to safety, once and for all?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571245-redeemed"}, +{"book_title": "Snowspelled", "author_name": "Stephanie Burgis", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1588, "review_number": 432, "book_description": "In nineteenth-century Angland, magic is reserved for gentlemen while ladies attend to the more practical business of politics. But Cassandra Harwood has never followed the rules...Four months ago, Cassandra Harwood was the first woman magician in Angland, and she was betrothed to the brilliant, intense love of her life.Now Cassandra is trapped in a snowbound house party deep in the elven dales, surrounded by bickering gentleman magicians, manipulative lady politicians, her own interfering family members, and, worst of all, her infuriatingly stubborn ex-fianc\u00e9, who refuses to understand that she\u2019s given him up for his own good.But the greatest danger of all lies outside the manor in the falling snow, where a powerful and malevolent elf-lord lurks...and Cassandra lost all of her own magic four months ago.To save herself, Cassandra will have to discover exactly what inner powers she still possesses \u2013 and risk everything to win a new kind of happiness.A witty and sparkling romantic fantasy novella that opens a brand-new series for adults from the author of Kat, Incorrigible, Masks and Shadows and Congress of Secrets.Volume I of The Harwood Spellbook", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Novella", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34913546-snowspelled"}, +{"book_title": "Working for the Devil", "author_name": "Lilith Saintcrow", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 12191, "review_number": 683, "book_description": "When the devil needs a rogue demon killed, he calls Dante Valentine--a cross between Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake and Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan--in this sassy debut novel by Saintcrow. Original.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277897.Working_for_the_Devil"}, +{"book_title": "Survival", "author_name": "Devon C. Ford", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3129, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "Everyone got sick. By the time the country realised it was everywhere, nearly everyone died. Being one of the few left alive wasn't the freedom he would have expected. Banding together those he found along the way, he has to fight to keep them safe. To keep them alive. To survive.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Action", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29952995-survival"}, +{"book_title": "Atlantis and Other Places: Stories of Alternate History", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.17, "rating_votes": 362, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "A one-of-a-kind collection from the New York Times bestselling \"maven of alternate history.\" (San Diego Union- Tribune) A famous naturalist seeks a near-extinct species of bird found only on the rarest of lands in \"Audubon in Atlantis.\" A young American on a European holiday finds himself storming an enchanted German castle in \"The Catcher in the Rhine.\" The philosopher Sokrates plays a key role in the Athenian victory over the Spartans in \"The Daimon.\" Centaurs take a sea voyage aboard \"The Horse of Bronze\" to a land where they encounter a strange and frightening tribe of creatures known as man. London's most famous detective, Athelstan Helms, and his assistant Dr. James Walton are in Atlantis investigating a series of murders in \"The Scarlet Band.\" This collection includes these and seven more amazing stories of ancient eras, historical figures, mysterious events, and out-of-this- world adventure from the incomparable Harry Turtledove.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7961145-atlantis-and-other-places"}, +{"book_title": "\u0418\u0433\u0440\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u0432\u044b\u0436\u0438\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435", "author_name": "Andrej Hodov", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "\u0412 \u043a\u0430\u043d\u0443\u043d 1941 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u0432\u043e\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u043c \u0430\u044d\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0435 \u0441\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0448\u0430\u0435\u0442 \u0436\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043a\u0443\u044e \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0430\u0434\u043a\u0443 \u0430\u0432\u0438\u0430\u043b\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0435\u0440 \u0438\u0437 XXI \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430. \u0412\u044b\u0436\u0438\u0432\u0448\u0438\u0445 \u00ab\u043f\u043e\u043f\u0430\u0434\u0430\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432\u00bb \u0438\u0437\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0440\u0443\u044e\u0442 \u0432 \u00ab\u0448\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0448\u043a\u0435\u00bb \u043f\u043e\u0434 \u043b\u0438\u0447\u043d\u044b\u043c \u043f\u0430\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0430\u0436\u0435\u043c \u0411\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0438, \u043a\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0440\u044b\u0439 \u043d\u0435 \u0431\u044b\u043b \u0431\u044b \u00ab\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0448\u0438\u043c \u043c\u0435\u043d\u0435\u0434\u0436\u0435\u0440\u043e\u043c \u0441\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044f\u00bb, \u0435\u0441\u043b\u0438 \u0431\u044b \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0442\u043e \u043e\u0442\u043c\u0430\u0445\u043d\u0443\u043b\u0441\u044f \u043e\u0442 \u0438\u0445 \u0440\u0430\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u043e\u0432 \u043a\u0430\u043a \u043e\u0442 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u0438 \u0430\u043d\u0442\u0438\u0441\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0431\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0430. \u0425\u043e\u0442\u044f \u0440\u0430\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u044b\u0432\u0430\u044e\u0442 \u00ab\u0433\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0438\u0437 \u0431\u0443\u0434\u0443\u0449\u0435\u0433\u043e\u00bb \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0448\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0432\u0435\u0449\u0438 \u2013 \u0438 \u043e \u0441\u043a\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043c \u043d\u0430\u043f\u0430\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u0413\u0438\u0442\u043b\u0435\u0440\u0430, \u0438 \u043e \u043a\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0444\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u043d\u0430\u0447\u0430\u043b\u0435 \u0432\u043e\u0439\u043d\u044b, \u0438 \u043e \u0433\u0440\u044f\u0434\u0443\u0449\u0435\u0439 \u0433\u0438\u0431\u0435\u043b\u0438 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420. \u0410 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043b\u044c\u043a\u0443 \u0441\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u043d\u0435 \u0440\u0430\u0437 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043f\u0438\u0441\u044b\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0430\u0441\u044c \u0432 \u0443\u0433\u043e\u0434\u0443 \u00ab\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0443 \u043c\u043e\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0443\u00bb, \u0438 \u043a\u0430\u0436\u0434\u044b\u0439 \u00ab\u043f\u043e\u043f\u0430\u0434\u0430\u043d\u0435\u0446\u00bb \u0442\u043e\u043b\u043a\u0443\u0435\u0442 \u0441\u043e\u0431\u044b\u0442\u0438\u044f \u043f\u043e-\u0441\u0432\u043e\u0435\u043c\u0443, \u0421\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0438\u043d\u0443 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0438\u0442 \u0441\u0434\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0436\u043d\u0435\u0439\u0448\u0438\u0439 \u0432\u044b\u0431\u043e\u0440. \u0421\u043a\u0430\u0436\u0435\u043c, \u043a\u0435\u043c \u0441\u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0413\u0435\u043e\u0440\u0433\u0438\u044f \u0416\u0443\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u2013 \u0432\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0438\u043c \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0446\u0435\u043c, \u0432\u044b\u0438\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0448\u0438\u043c \u0432\u043e\u0439\u043d\u0443, \u0438\u043b\u0438 \u00ab\u043a\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0432\u044b\u043c \u043c\u044f\u0441\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043c\u00bb, \u0433\u043d\u0430\u0432\u0448\u0438\u043c \u0431\u043e\u0439\u0446\u043e\u0432 \u043d\u0430 \u043c\u0438\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u044f? 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\u0411\u0435\u0441\u0441\u043e\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u043d\u043e\u0447\u044c \u043d\u0430 22 \u0438\u044e\u043d\u044f 1941 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430 \u0442\u044f\u043d\u0435\u0442\u0441\u044f \u043d\u0435\u0432\u044b\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0438\u043c\u043e \u0434\u043e\u043b\u0433\u043e. \u041d\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u0430\u0435\u0442 \u043c\u043e\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0442 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u2026", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Philosophy", "Historical", "Religion", "Mystery", "Art", "Reference", "Cultural (France)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13494194"}, +{"book_title": "Serpent's Kiss", "author_name": "Thea Harrison", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 12634, "review_number": 849, "book_description": "In the latest Novel of the Elder Races, a Queen on the brink of sanity has no one to rely on except the Wyr warrior whose conviction is every bit as strong as his passion.In order to save his friend's life, Wyr sentinel Rune Ainissesthai made a bargain with Vampyre Queen Carling\u2014without knowing what she would ask from him in return. But when Rune attempts to make good on his debt, he finds a woman on the edge.Recently, Carling's Power has become erratic, forcing her followers to flee in fear. Despite the danger, Rune is drawn to the ailing Queen and decides to help her find a cure for the serpent's kiss\u2014the vampyric disease that's killing her.With their desire for each other escalating just as quickly as Carling's instability spirals out of control, the sentinel and the Queen will have to rely on each other if they have any hope of surviving the serpent's kiss.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10823507-serpent-s-kiss"}, +{"book_title": "Debts of My Fathers", "author_name": "Dan Thompson", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 86, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Michael Fletcher has finally come of age. His inherited ship stands ready, and he earned his Captain\u2019s license. But it\u2019s not the easiest thing to hire a crew, especially when some spacers have been working longer than he\u2019s been alive. Add a vendetta from the mysterious Father Chessman\u2019s piracy syndicate, and Michael quickly finds out there\u2019s a lot more to being a captain than having a license. Deep space is a dangerous place to go in a ship with a crew of six strangers and a price on his head. Can Michael earn their trust before disaster strikes, or is it already too late? ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35138372-debts-of-my-fathers"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Cavern", "author_name": "Todd A. Fonseca", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 207, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "THE MYSTERY BEGAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. IT WAS NEVER SOLVED. NOW IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN.Ten-year-old Aaron moved from the big city to the country where he met a know-it-all farm girl who said his house is haunted. The Amish boy who had lived there before disappeared after claiming to hear the wind call his name. Aaron knew she was just trying to scare him--she was doing a good job too because the night before Aaron heard the wind call his name.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4541172-the-time-cavern"}, +{"book_title": "War Dogs", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 2209, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "AN EPIC INTERSTELLAR TALE OF WAR FROM A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION.One more tour on the red. Maybe my last.They made their presence on Earth known thirteen years ago.Providing technology and scientific insights far beyond what mankind was capable of. They became indispensable advisors and promised even more gifts that we just couldn't pass up. We called them Gurus.It took them a while to drop the other shoe. You can see why, looking back.It was a very big shoe, completely slathered in crap.They had been hounded by mortal enemies from sun to sun, planet to planet, and were now stretched thin -- and they needed our help.And so our first bill came due. Skyrines like me were volunteered to pay the price. As always.These enemies were already inside our solar system and were moving to establish a beachhead, but not on Earth.On Mars.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20706230-war-dogs"}, +{"book_title": "Viper's Defiant Mate", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1974, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "Prince Viper d\u2019Rojah, a warrior from the Sarafin cat shifter species, is not happy when he is sent on a special mission by his older brother Vox, King of the Sarafin. The mission is to deliver important documents to the human authorities before kidnapping the sister and grandmother of Vox\u2019s mate, Riley. He has handled tougher assignments in his sleep and just wants to get back to finding the traitors trying to kill him and his family!Tina St. Claire was finally happy with her life until her big sister, Riley, suddenly disappeared. Even Grandma Pearl suspected that Riley\u2019s ex-employer was hiding something. Determined to find Riley, Tina\u2019s research unwittingly leads the danger to her and Grandma Pearl. The unexpected arrival of a strange man causes things to go from bad to worse when he gives her and Grandma Pearl a packet of material he claims is from Riley.Riley had warned Viper that neither her sister nor Grandma Pearl would willingly come with him. Viper could care less whether the females wanted to come or not, he had never failed a mission and wasn\u2019t about to start now.Viper soon discovers this mission has turned into the most important one of his life when both he and his cat recognize that Tina is their mate. Now, he has to keep Tina and her gun toting Grandmother alive. The question is, who is going to save him when both women discover his plans to kidnap them?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22032770-viper-s-defiant-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 9: The Cure", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 11258, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "The forces of darkness are closing in on outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem and his merry, filthy band ? but now they\u2019ve got their own rope around the neck of corrupt President Callahan, and it\u2019s time to start tightening the noose. TRANSMETROPOLITAN: THE CURE is the ninth volume reprinting the acclaimed series written by Warren Ellis (PLANETARY, RED) with art by Darick Robertson (The Boys). Jerusalem and his cohorts step up their investigation into Callahan\u2019s misdeeds and turn up some startling evidence...not to mention a sole surviving witness to the President\u2019s depravity. The problem, as always, will be getting the word out before the massive forces of the Executive Branch black out everything ? and everyone ? involved.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22425.Transmetropolitan_Vol_9"}, +{"book_title": "Origins", "author_name": "Kristen Middleton", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2251, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "Seventeen year old Cassandra Wild thought living in the chaos of her mother\u2019s home daycare and dealing with her developing feelings for Bryce, her new Martial Arts\u2019 instructor, was a struggle, until the night her world turned upside down.When an untested vaccine kills more than just a rampant flu virus, Cassie learns how to survive in a world where the dead walk, and the living\u2026run!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14896617-origins"}, +{"book_title": "The Stand", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 633906, "review_number": 21677, "book_description": "This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149267.The_Stand"}, +{"book_title": "The Curious Case Of The Clockwork Menace", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1060, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "Friends, partners, and professionals... So just why is this case coming between them? In a Victorian London ruled by the blood-drinking elite, Perry Lowell is a logical and accomplished Nighthawk: a rogue blue blood who tracks murderers and thieves for the Guild. So when she and her charming-but-reckless partner, Garrett, are charged with finding a missing theatre starlet, it should be a simple solve. But with an entire theatre of suspects, including a flirtatious understudy and whispers of a Clockwork Menace haunting the place, tension is brewing between the pair of them. Can they come together to solve the case - or will it be too late, when the murderer turns his gaze on Perry herself? Warning: This is not a traditional HEA. Set three years before Forged By Desire (available Sept 2014), it's a pre-romance novella featuring Perry and Garrett. Heads will butt, tempers will flare - and perhaps one of them might come to realise just what the other truly means to them?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Novella", "Mystery", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22451231-the-curious-case-of-the-clockwork-menace"}, +{"book_title": "Orphan's Journey", "author_name": "Robert Buettner", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1179, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "In the years since the last Slug War, Jason's command style hasn't made him any friends in the Army. Now, in an effort to keep him out of trouble, the Army has sent Jason to the vast, Earth-orbiting resort called New Moon. At the core of this enormous space station is a starship, a relic from the last war. When a test run of the ship goes wrong, Jason, along with a handful of others, will be torn from orbit and thrust into space. Now, stranded on an alien planet, Jason realizes that not only are his friends are looking to him for rescue, but an entire planet sees him as their only hope.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2306275.Orphan_s_Journey"}, +{"book_title": "Nicolae", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 34412, "review_number": 750, "book_description": "First they were Left Behind. Then they formed the Tribulation Force.Now they must face Nicolae.In Nicolae, the most explosive of the three books thus far, the seven-year tribulation is nearing the end of its first quarter, when prophecy says that \"the wrath of the Lamb\" will be poured out upon the earth. Rayford Steele becomes the ears of the tribulation saints at the highest levels of the Carpathia regime. Meanwhile, Buck Williams attempts a dramatic all-night rescue run from Israel through the Sinai that will hold you breathless to the end.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fiction", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)", "Religion (Faith)", "Spirituality", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27528.Nicolae"}, +{"book_title": "Genesis", "author_name": "Bernard Beckett", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 11383, "review_number": 1817, "book_description": "Anax thinks she knows history. Her grueling all-day Examination has just begun, and if she passes, she\u2019ll be admitted into the Academy\u2014the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history she\u2019s been taught isn\u2019t the whole story. And the Academy isn\u2019t what she believes it to be. In this brilliant novel of dazzling ingenuity, Anax\u2019s examination leads us into a future where we are confronted with unresolved questions raised by science and philosophy. Centuries old, these questions have gained new urgency in the face of rapidly developing technology. What is consciousness? What makes us human? If artificial intelligence were developed to a high enough capability, what special status could humanity still claim? Outstanding and original, Beckett\u2019s dramatic narrative comes to a shocking conclusion.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6171892-genesis"}, +{"book_title": "Ride Otto Ride", "author_name": "David Milgrim", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 155, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Pre-Level 1: Recognizing Words- Word repetition- Familiar words and phrases- Simple sentencesSee Peanut give Otto a ride. See Peanut give Otto's friends a ride. See Peanut give more of Otto's friends a ride. See Peanut fall down. Can Otto save the day?Meet Otto, the star of a new series of Ready-to-Reads with text that is simple enough for the earliest readers, and funny enough for their older siblings. Read, Otto, read!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Animals", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Humor", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1493922.Ride_Otto_Ride_"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Woman", "author_name": "Jacqueline Druga", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1824, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "After emerging from a coma, Faye Wills opens her eyes to complete darkness and the feeling of being trapped. She awakens in the worst place imaginable, one of thousands of bodies in a makeshift mass grave that was once a football stadium. Left for dead, there are no signs of life and the only sound she hears is the buzzing of flies that follow the stench of death. Once out of the stadium she steps into a desolate, barren world, void of all life and people. Faye learns that while in a comatose state, the world was besieged by some sort of epidemic. Without a soul around, there are a lot of missing pieces. Where did everyone go? In her weakened state, she must pull it together and move forward to find answers and survivors. However, she soon realizes that she may never find anyone and must face the possibility that she may be The Last Woman on earth.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Horror", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38331326-the-last-woman"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Time", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 63800, "review_number": 6304, "book_description": "A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age\u2014a world terraformed and prepared for human life.But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Refine", "author_name": "Nichole Van", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 1095, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Each life is tethered to others, tendrils wrapping through time itself . . . drawing people to each other . . . In 1815, Timothy, Viscount Linwood--handsome, arrogant, privileged--never veers from the refined rules of his world. Cheerfulness and other unsavory emotions are for lesser persons. Anything that smacks of trade is to be shunned. Honor and pride above all else. Consequently, when he discovers his estates are bankrupt, he decides to woo and marry an heiress post-haste. After all, love is for lesser-mortals. But then Fate intervenes and draws him to a vibrant woman who makes him want things he can never have. Can a pompous lord change enough to find redemption? In 2015, Jasmine Fleury just wants her happily-ever-after. If only she could stop losing people instead--her grandmother, boyfriends . . . and now her entire family. Worse, she finds herself babysitting a haughty nineteenth century lord who can't even shave himself. What grown man can't shave himself? She has no interest in playing damsel-in-shining-armor to his knight-in-distress. But Fate has other plans . . . . This humorous and heart-warming final installment in the Amazon bestselling House of Oak series can easily be read as a stand-alone book. Check out the other books in the series, all available now on Amazon: Intertwine (House of Oak, Book 1) Divine (House of Oak, Book 2) Clandestine (House of Oak, Book 3) Refine (House of Oak, Book 4)", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Historical Romance (Regency Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26821700-refine"}, +{"book_title": "Winter World", "author_name": "A.G. Riddle", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 19213, "review_number": 1144, "book_description": "A new ice age... and a shocking discovery...will change humanity forever.In the near future, a new ice age has begun.Humanity stands on the brink of extinction.Desperate for answers, scientists send probes into the solar system to take readings. Near Mars, a probe spots a mysterious object drifting toward the Sun. Is it the cause of the ice age? Or could it be our only hope of survival?With time running out, NASA launches an international mission to make contact with the object. But it isn\u2019t what anyone thought. In the dark of space, alone, the team makes a shocking discovery that will change the course of human history\u2014and possibly end it.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43720168-winter-world"}, +{"book_title": "We Only Find Them When They're Dead #4", "author_name": "Al Ewing", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 25, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "The final showdown between Malik and Richter has begun on the surface of the God they've discovered. But will Malik survive long enough to find a living God -- or has he doomed his crew to an unimaginable fate?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56271571-we-only-find-them-when-they-re-dead-4"}, +{"book_title": "Hullmetal Girls", "author_name": "Emily Skrutskie", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 825, "review_number": 245, "book_description": "Aisha Un-Haad would do anything for her family. When her brother contracts a plague, she knows her janitor's salary isn't enough to fund his treatment. So she volunteers to become a Scela, a mechanically enhanced soldier sworn to protect and serve the governing body of the Fleet, the collective of starships they call home. If Aisha can survive the harrowing modifications and earn an elite place in the Scela ranks, she may be able to save her brother.Key Tanaka awakens in a Scela body with only hazy memories of her life before. She knows she's from the privileged end of the Fleet, but she has no recollection of why she chose to give up a life of luxury to become a hulking cyborg soldier. If she can make it through the training, she might have a shot at recovering her missing past.In a unit of new recruits vying for top placement, Aisha's and Key's paths collide, and the two must learn to work together--a tall order for girls from opposite ends of the Fleet. But a rebellion is stirring, pitting those who yearn for independence from the Fleet against a government struggling to maintain unity.With violence brewing and dark secrets surfacing, Aisha and Key find themselves questioning their loyalties. They will have to put aside their differences, though, if they want to keep humanity from tearing itself apart.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT (Asexual)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33382313-hullmetal-girls"}, +{"book_title": "Stolen", "author_name": "Willow Danes", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 706, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Kidnapped from Earth by an alien warrior when she visits her uncle, Summer Mills is terrified she will never be able to return home. Her alien captors are using human females as breeding stock and her only chance to return to Earth is Ke'lar, the one Hir warrior willing to stand between her and his own kind.Returning this human female home won't be easy and Ke'lar knows by this act of defiance he is throwing his own chances at a lifemate away. Both his family's enemies and his own clan have pledged to reclaim the woman he has stolen, the only woman he will ever love....", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24905639-stolen"}, +{"book_title": "Center of Gravity", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 4224, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.The warlike Sh'daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh'daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier \"America\" toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh'daar assault on Earth's solar system--and the war for humankind's survival must be taken directly to the enemy.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8657380-center-of-gravity"}, +{"book_title": "Naamah's Kiss", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 13435, "review_number": 664, "book_description": "Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn, the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacred oath sworn in the name of all his people. Now only small gifts remain to them. Through her lineage, Moirin possesses such gifts\u2014the ability to summon the twilight and conceal herself, and the skill to coax plants to grow.Moirin has a secret, too. From childhood onward, she senses the presence of unfamiliar gods in her life\u2014the bright lady and the man with a seedling cupped in his palm. Raised in the wilderness by her reclusive mother, Moirin learns only when she comes of age how illustrious, if mixed, her heritage is. The great-granddaughter of Alais the Wise, child of the Maghuin Donn and a cousin of the Cruarch of Alba, Moirin learns her father was a D'Angeline priest dedicated to serving Naamah, goddess of desire.After Moirin undergoes the rites of adulthood, she finds divine acceptance... on the condition that she fulfill an unknown destiny that lies somewhere beyond the ocean. Or perhaps oceans. Beyond Terre d'Ange, where she finds her father, in the far reaches of distant Ch'in, Moirin's skills will be a true gift when facing the vengeful plans of an ambitious mage, a noble warrior-princess desperate to save her father's throne, and the spirit of a celestial dragon.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5659537-naamah-s-kiss"}, +{"book_title": "Seventh Son", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 33539, "review_number": 1538, "book_description": "In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a birth is powerful magic. Yet even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40290.Seventh_Son"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Planet Warriors: Taken", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1124, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Abbey So I wake up and find myself on a Military Space Station, just off Kythia, the home planet of the Kordolians. General Tarak wants me to stay put, but there\u2019s no way I\u2019m sitting around in his claustrophobic quarters. I need to be looking for a way to get back home. Fortuna Tau is being overrun by disgusting, oversized insects, and I\u2019m stuck here, at the other end of the universe. On the upside, at least my injuries are healed. The General is being a big, arrogant jerk. He won\u2019t tell me anything. He\u2019s walking around his quarters half-dressed, unaware that his bare, sculpted torso is a bit too distracting. And the food on this station leaves a lot to be desired. Kordolians obviously haven\u2019t discovered the glory of nachos yet. At this rate I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever get to taste chocolate again. When I ask when he\u2019s going to take me back, he gets evasive. I don\u2019t like that. So when he has to leave me alone to attend to some official business, I decide to explore. Sneaking around this huge, floating station, I soon realize that not all Kordolians are as, uh, friendly as the General. To some of them, I\u2019m nothing more than a giant, walking lab rat. I really have to find a way to get back home. Before I end up on a dissection table. Tarak To my relief, the nanograft is a success. The female has healed, and she\u2019s probably even physically stronger than before. It\u2019s too bad the High Council have been informed of her presence. Apparently, Humans are reproductively compatible with our species. They want her. They demand I hand her over. Absolutely not. She\u2019s mine. The infernal High Council can go rot in one of Kaiin\u2019s hells, for all I care. When I return to the Fleet Station, I find she hasn\u2019t obeyed my orders. I told her to stay in my quarters. Stubborn female. I need to find her before those idiotic scientists get to her. And if any Kordolian dares to harm her, they will answer to me. Dark Planet Warriors is a 3-book serial. Each book is an episode of Abbey and Tarak's story, just like a TV series. A new installment will be released every few weeks. Books in series: Book one: InvasionBook two: TakenBook three: Escape Due to violence, swearing and steamy sex scenes, these books are recommended for readers aged 18 years and over.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Novella", "Space (Space Opera)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29354606-dark-planet-warriors"}, +{"book_title": "Diplomats and Fugitives", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 1807, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Even though Basilard is the official Mangdorian ambassador to the Turgonian Republic, he still isn\u2019t fully trusted by his pacifist people. After he was enslaved and forced to entertain spectators in pit fights that left him scarred and mute, his kin turned their backs on him, condemning him for choosing violence. They don\u2019t let him travel home without supervision, and he isn\u2019t allowed to see his daughter. When trouble arises in his homeland, a mysterious blight that could cause widespread starvation for his people, he\u2019s invited to take several old friends to travel to his country to investigate. If Basilard can solve the problem, perhaps his people will finally realize he\u2019s not a bad influence on his family. But unlikely obstacles stand in his way, including a strange Kendorian woman that he\u2019s ordered to take along on the mission. A Kendorian fugitive hiding in Turgonia, former tracker and assassin Ashara Longbow wants to start a new life, so she can sneak her children out of her country to join her in the republic. Not only is she hunted back home, but the Kendorian ambassador in Turgonia has learned she exists and wants a favor in exchange for keeping her secret. If she doesn\u2019t help him thwart Basilard\u2019s mission, she may never see her children again.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Action", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26013933-diplomats-and-fugitives"}, +{"book_title": "At the Edge", "author_name": "Alan Black", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 598, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Ensign Stone\u2019s goals were to make his way in the empire\u2019s navy, make his family proud of him, and make love to his fianc\u00e9e. No matter which way he turned, someone was conspiring against him. Disgraced and humiliated, he is court-martialed, discharged, and abandoned. Accepting what he thinks is a lowly busy-work position on a beat up old family business space freighter travelling At the Edge of human space, he hopes to earn back the trust and respect he lost. The Empire\u2019s political powers and his family have different goals. Stone faces humanity\u2019s enemies in a do-or-die operation. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32322541-at-the-edge"}, +{"book_title": "The Reigning and the Rule", "author_name": "Calia Read", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1802, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "\u00c9tienne Lacroix and I had a fire I thought would never die. Our love was timeless. An irreversible decision sent me back to the present day with a family I barely recognize, but I am determined to find a way back to \u00c9tienne. I can survive time. But I can\u2019t survive life without him. Time bends to no one\u2019s demands, so I must fight with everything I have to return to the past. However, I am terrified that the past I once knew might not look the same, and the man who once called me his surviving trace will no longer be waiting for me. Time bends to no one\u2019s demands but sometimes love does\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40671350-the-reigning-and-the-rule"}, +{"book_title": "The Investigation", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1650, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "A young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who supply him with a host of theories and clues.", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Literature (20th Century)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/953490.The_Investigation"}, +{"book_title": "Bren's Blessing", "author_name": "Pearl Tate", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 937, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "\nI never thought I'd end up being abducted by aliens!\n\nI was living my dream, rotating in space around Mars on the Mars Hope Skylab. As the first American woman this far into space, I\u2019ve accomplished more in my twenty-eight years of life than most.I enjoy my job, so when things go sideways and aliens board my lab, I try to stay positive and make sure that I just observe and stay alive. But I\u2019m immediately grabbed and taken to their ship.Unable to understand them and not knowing what they have planned for me, I have to make some hard choices about whether living is the best way to go. And how far will I go to live?It appears that I\u2019m now the property of the alien that grabbed me. He\u2019s big, possessive and seems to want to get to know me a lot better\u2026 PLEASE NOTE: This SciFi Romance alien book contains Adult Language and Steamy Adult Bedroom Scenes. It is intended for 18+ Readers & Adults Only.It's part of a science fiction romance series but can be read as a standalone story with no cliffhangers!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42736592-bren-s-blessing"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers Volume 1: For All Mankind", "author_name": "Mike Costa", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 156, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "It's been three years since the devastating events of All Hail Megatron. The Earth has been rebuilt, the Autobots are in hiding, and the next great era in the Transformers saga is about to begin! Critically acclaimed writer Mike Costa is joined by superstar artist Don Figueroa for IDW's biggest book of the year -- the launch of the first ongoing Transformers title in five years!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7955760-transformers-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic", "author_name": "Emily Croy Barker", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 12546, "review_number": 2146, "book_description": "An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world\u2014where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive Nora Fischer\u2019s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman.\u00a0 During a miserable weekend at a friend\u2019s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she\u2019s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty.\u00a0 Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It\u2019s almost too good to be true. Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora\u2019s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally\u2014and a reluctant one at that\u2014is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel\u2019s student\u2014and learning magic herself\u2014to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her \"real life\" against the dangerous power of love and magic. For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158565-the-thinking-woman-s-guide-to-real-magic"}, +{"book_title": "First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster", "author_name": "Murray Leinster", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 175, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "A collection of the trend-setting stories of \"the Dean of Science Fiction\" which opened and explored such topics as first contact with aliens, the Internet, transfers among parallel universes, and many more. This collection contains two stories not previously published, and it contains an introduction by Hal Clement, with cover art by Hannibal King.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics", "Novella", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/909458.First_Contacts"}, +{"book_title": "The Road to Woodbury", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 9973, "review_number": 848, "book_description": "The first book explained how the Governor was created; this thrilling sequel to The New York Times bestseller further reveals his ruthless, inhuman conquest of WoodburyThe zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury, Georgia.At first, Woodbury seems like a perfect sanctuary. Squatters barter services for food, people have roofs over their heads, and the barricade expands, growing stronger every day. Best of all, a mysterious self-proclaimed leader named Philip Blake keeps the citizens in line. But Lilly begins to suspect that all is not as it seems\u2026 Blake, who has recently begun to call himself The Governor, has disturbing ideas about law and order.Ultimately, Lilly and a band of rebels open up a Pandora's box of mayhem and destruction when they challenge The Governor's reign\u2026 and the road to Woodbury becomes the highway to hell in this riveting follow-up to Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga's New York Times bestselling The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538757-the-road-to-woodbury"}, +{"book_title": "Vulcan's Hammer", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 2112, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "Objective, unbiased and hyper-rational, the Vulcan 3 should have been the perfect ruler. The omnipotent computer dictates policy that is in the best interests of all citizens \u2014 or at least, that is the idea. But when the machine, whose rule evolved out of chaos and war, begins to lose control of the \u201cHealer\u201d movement of religious fanatics and the mysterious force behind their rebellion, all hell breaks loose.", "year_published": 1960, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Novels", "Literature", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22595.Vulcan_s_Hammer"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunt for Vulkan", "author_name": "David Annandale", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 327, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The Imperium is on the verge of destruction. It needs a miracle to reunite the feuding High Lords and lead the armies of mankind to victory. It needs a primarch.Tearing itself apart from within, the Imperium is still virtually powerless to resist the ork advance. When the Adeptus Mechanicus reveal they have discovered the orks' point of origin, the Adeptus Astartes start to gather their forces for a massive assault on their enemy's home world. But what the Imperial forces need is a figurehead, a hero from legend to lead them - a primarch. Meanwhile, on the planet Caldera, a mighty armoured warrior fights tirelessly against the orks - is he the saviour the Imperium seeks?A legend returns to the Imperium in its hour of need\u2026 if Koorland and his warriors can fight their way through an army of orks to reach him, that is.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276164-the-hunt-for-vulkan"}, +{"book_title": "ARV-3", "author_name": "Cameo Renae", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 968, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "THE BEGINNING OF THE END. THE APOCALYPSE. A nuclear fallout wiped out every living thing on the planet, except for a few thousand of us who took shelter in underground bunkers across the globe. Now, after thirteen long years, we were finally able to return to the topside to begin to rebuild. We thought we were alone. We were never more wrong. Before the fallout, scientists had worked on creating an anti-radiation vaccine (ARV). The first two attempts failed, but despite the incomplete tests and results, the government approved and distributed the third serum to the masses in an effort to aid those who had no shelter. It worked. Keeping those who remained on the topside alive, but it also altered and mutated them. This new and infectious threat had completely outnumbered us. Now, we not only had to rebuild our planet. We would have to fight for it. My name is Abigail Park. I\u2019m seventeen, and this is my story. ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44093231-arv-3"}, +{"book_title": "The Rake and The Recluse: A Tale of Two Brothers", "author_name": "Jenn LeBlanc", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 991, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "Great Britain, 1880A woman out of time.A man stifled by propriety.A nemesis determined to take her away.A brother to the rescue.The Duke of Roxleigh is running the track, training his new set of Friesians when a woman runs from the forest directly into his path, nearly killing her.He takes her back to his home to care for her... but there's something not quite right and though he wishes to be done with the entire situation, he just can't keep her from his thoughts...Francine Larrabee was on a path bound for certain glory, until she lands in Victorian England and is nearly killed by a team of terrifying black horses led by a Duke, Gideon, who matches them in spirit and demeanor and always seems to be cross. Though she is drawn to her rescuer, he wants nothing to do with her.Brother to The Duke of Roxleigh, the Lord Peregrine Trumbull, is Viscount of Roxleigh in name, but a rake of the worst order by action.... until he meets his match in a girl who requires his complete submission, something he has never been familiar with.Lilly Steele was a simple country miss until she was kidnapped, brutally attacked and left for dead in the far reaches of Great Britain, now she has escaped the aftermath and has asked Perry to do the untenable.She managed to recover her physical injuries... but the emotional scars run deep and will require absolute trust and healing from an altogether unlikely source.What is love? Where does it come from? What makes two people crash, and two other people burn. In this six part serial novel we learn what it means to love, what it means to care, and what it feels like to give up everything you know, to save the one person you can't live without.VOTED BEST HISTORICAL ROMANCE BY READERS for the 2012 Bookie Award!THIS IS THE COMPLETE NOVEL.All six parts of the serial are included in this edition:FREEDOMFOUNDTAKENRUINATIONSUBMISSIONRETRIBUTIONTHIS EDITION IS NOT ILLUSTRATED", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25362386-the-rake-and-the-recluse"}, +{"book_title": "Incredible Change-Bots: More Than Just Machines", "author_name": "Jeffrey Brown", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 405, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Far away in space, there is a planet full of robots able to change from robot form to vehicle form -- the Incredible Change-Bots! Leaving their war torn planet, the Change-Bots arrive on Earth, where their battle continues -- but at what cost?! Part parody, part nostalgic tribute, part moral fable, Jeffrey Brown re-invents the shape changing robot genre into an occasionally stopping action comedy half-full of romance, drama and epic battles!", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Humor (Comedy)", "Sequential Art", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147026.Incredible_Change_Bots"}, +{"book_title": "The Scorpion Rules", "author_name": "Erin Bow", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 6293, "review_number": 1493, "book_description": "The world is at peace, said the Utterances. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask?Greta is a duchess and crown princess\u2014and a hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Go to war and your hostage dies.Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the world\u2019s leaders. Like them, she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Like them, she is prepared to die with dignity, if she must. But everything changes when a new hostage arrives. Eli\u00e1n is a boy who refuses to play by the rules, a boy who defies everything Greta has ever been taught. And he opens Greta\u2019s eyes to the brutality of the system they live under\u2014and to her own power.As Greta and Eli\u00e1n watch their nations tip closer to war, Greta becomes a target in a new kind of game. A game that will end up killing them both\u2014unless she can find a way to break all the rules.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11516221-the-scorpion-rules"}, +{"book_title": "Shield of Winter", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 17890, "review_number": 1442, "book_description": "Assassin. Soldier. Arrow. That is who Vasic is, who he will always be. His soul drenched in blood, his conscience heavy with the weight of all he\u2019s done, he exists in the shadows, far from the hope his people can almost touch\u2014if only they do not first drown in the murderous insanity of a lethal contagion. To stop the wave of death, Vasic must complete the simplest and most difficult mission of his life. For if the Psy race is to survive, the empaths must wake\u2026Having rebuilt her life after medical \u201ctreatment\u201d that violated her mind and sought to stifle her abilities, Ivy should have run from the black-clad Arrow with eyes of winter frost. But Ivy Jane has never done what she should. Now, she'll fight for her people, and for this Arrow who stands as her living shield, yet believes he is beyond redemption. But as the world turns to screaming crimson, even Ivy\u2019s fierce will may not be enough to save Vasic from the cold darkness\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17159944-shield-of-winter"}, +{"book_title": "Acid", "author_name": "Emma Pass", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 7474, "review_number": 800, "book_description": "The year is 2113. In Jenna Strong's world, ACID\u2014the most brutal controlling police force in history\u2014rule supreme. No throwaway comment or whispered dissent goes unnoticed\u2014or unpunished. And it was ACID agents who locked Jenna away for life, for a horrendous crime she struggles to remember. But Jenna's violent prison time has taught her how to survive by any means necessary. When a mysterious rebel group breaks her out, she must use her strength, speed, and skill to stay one step ahead of ACID, and try to uncover the truth about what really happened on that terrible night two years ago. They have taken her life, her freedom, and her true memories away from her. How can she reclaim anything when she doesn't know who to trust?Strong, gritty writing, irresistible psychological suspense, and action consume the novel as Jenna struggles to survive against the all-controlling ACID. Seriously sinister stuff.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13062484-acid"}, +{"book_title": "\u0421\u043e\u0436\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0425\u0440\u043e\u043c", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 34, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Willkommen im Cyberspace!Zwei begabte Hacker, Bobby Quine und Automatic Jack, beschlie\u00dfen, durch einen Cyberangriff das Konto Chroms leerzur\u00e4umen, der gewieften, grausamen Puffmutter im Haus der Blauen Lichter. Sie wollen reich und ber\u00fchmt werden und dadurch ein M\u00e4dchen namens Rikki Wildside beeindrucken. Doch die hat andere Pl\u00e4ne \u2026Die Kurzgeschichte \u201eChrom brennt\u201c erscheint als exklusives E-Book Only bei Heyne und ist zusammen mit weiteren Stories von William Gibson auch in dem Sammelband \u201eCyberspace\u201c enthalten. Sie umfasst ca. 28 Buchseiten.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24831223"}, +{"book_title": "The Hands We're Given", "author_name": "O.E. Tearmann", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 128, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Aidan Headly never wanted to be the man giving orders. That's fine with the Democratic State Force base he's been assigned to command: they don't like to take orders. Nicknamed the Wildcards, they used to be the most effective base against the seven Corporations owning the former United States in a war that has lasted over half a century. Now the Wildcards are known for creative insubordination, chaos, and commanders begging to be reassigned. Aidan is their last chance. If he can pull off his assignment as Commander and yank his ragtag crew of dreamers and fighters together, maybe they can get back to doing what they came to do: fighting for a country worth living in. Life's a bitch. She deals off the bottom of the deck. But you play the hands you're given.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT (Transgender)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Romance (M M Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51986292-the-hands-we-re-given"}, +{"book_title": "A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: Tales from the Archives, Collection 1", "author_name": "Philippa Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 257, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come. This volume includes:The Evil that Befell Sampson by Philippa BallantineEliza D Braun is a young field agent in the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (South Pacific Branch) when she is asked by New Zealand's preeminent suffragist to investigate some strange goings within the organisation. She cannot possibly imagination that this little case will alter her entire life and thrust her into a world barely prepared for her.Dust on the Davenport by O.M. Grey Agent Simon R. Boswell, still considered the green agent of the Ministry, takes on his own a supposed haunting in Islington. Hauntings tend to be nothing too serious for agents specializing in the unexplained; but for Simon, this case supplies surprises of all kinds, around every corner\u2026 The Astonishing Amulet of Amenartas by Nathan LowellAgent Heathcliff Durham finds himself crisscrossing Africa, looking for an Amulet that could spell disaster for any who come near it. Battling blistering heat, starvation, wild animals, and despair, he is not comforted by the company of a rough and ready sort named Morrison. Soon Durham begins to suspect he may never return home\u2014and to top it all off the tea has almost run out.A Ruby in Rain by Grant StoneFrom the farthest edge of the Empire, New Zealand agents Lachlan King and Barry Ferguson are called to interview a recent arrival to Auckland\u2019s prisons. An infamous gambler, according to the constable\u2019s account, has turned himself into their custody, not for the safety of society but for his own. The Ministry steps in to uncover a man\u2019s story of impressive luck, and more incredible vision.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Anthologies", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12938825-a-ministry-of-peculiar-occurrences"}, +{"book_title": "Commune: Book One", "author_name": "Joshua Gayou", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1974, "review_number": 192, "book_description": "For dinosaurs, it was a big rock. For humans: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). When the Earth is hit by the greatest CME in recorded history (several times larger than the Carrington Event of 1859), the combined societies of the planet\u2019s most developed nations struggle to adapt to a life thrust back into the Dark Ages. In the United States, the military scrambles to speed the nation\u2019s recovery on multiple fronts including putting down riots, establishing relief camps, delivering medical aid, and bringing communication and travel back on line. Just as a real foothold is established in retaking the skies (utilizing existing commercial aircraft supplemented by military resources and ground control systems), a mysterious virus takes hold of the population, spreading globally over the very flight routes that the survivors fought so hard to rebuild. The communicability and mortality rates are devastating, leaving only small pockets of survivors scattered throughout the countryside. Commune Book One is the story of one small group of survivors who must adapt to a primitive, hostile world or die. As they learn the rules of this new era, they must decide how far they\u2019re willing to go to continue living, continually asking themselves the same question daily: is survival worth the loss of humanity?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34736722-commune"}, +{"book_title": "A Red Peace", "author_name": "Spencer Ellsworth", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 452, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "A Red Peace, first in Spencer Ellsworth's Starfire trilogy, is an action-packed space opera in a universe where the oppressed half-Jorian crosses have risen up to supplant humanity and dominate the galaxy.Half-breed human star navigator Jaqi, working the edges of human-settled space on contract to whoever will hire her, stumbles into possession of an artifact that the leader of the Resistance wants desperately enough to send his personal guard after. An interstellar empire and the fate of the remnant of humanity hang in the balance.Spencer Ellsworth has written a classic space opera, with space battles between giant bugs, sun-sized spiders, planets of cyborgs and a heroine with enough grit to bring down the galaxy's newest warlord.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33383059-a-red-peace"}, +{"book_title": "The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot", "author_name": "Frank Miller", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 732, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Front and center, America! Here comes action! Here comes adventure! Here comes The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot\u2014a roller-coaster ride through the minds of Geof Darrow and Frank Miller, the tag team that set you reeling with their hard-hitting series Hard Boiled! Everything you remember about being eight years old and watching monster movies is right here, but with all the magnified detail that you always wanted to see.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Art", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1273012.The_Big_Guy_and_Rusty_the_Boy_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Emperox", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 16585, "review_number": 1523, "book_description": "The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systems\u2014and billions of people\u2014are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization. This collapse was foretold through scientific prediction\u2026 and yet, even as the evidence is obvious and insurmountable, many still try to rationalize, delay and profit from, these final days of one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known. Emperox Grayland II has finally wrested control of her empire from those who oppose her and who deny the reality of this collapse. But \u201ccontrol\u201d is a slippery thing, and even as Grayland strives to save as many of her people from impoverished isolation, the forces opposing her rule will make a final, desperate push to topple her from her throne and power, by any means necessary. Grayland and her thinning list of allies must use every tool at their disposal to save themselves, and all of humanity. And yet it may not be enough. Will Grayland become the savior of her civilization\u2026 or the last emperox to wear the crown?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38322550-the-last-emperox"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1531, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Abducted by alien slavers, experimented on, and left blind, the last thing doctor Winter Ashworth needs is a big barbarian gladiator in her life, especially an annoying one who thinks she\u2019s small and weak.Rescued by gladiators on the desert world of Carthago, Winter is doggedly working to embrace her new life. But two of her friends are still missing and she\u2019ll do anything to help get them back\u2026even if she has to work alongside Nero Krahn: hunter, barbarian, gladiator. The scowly, brooding man is too big, has too many muscles, and pushes all her buttons.Nero is the House of Galen\u2019s best hunter and tracker. Raised on a barbarian world, where strength and might are prized, he was bred to hunt and fight. Now the arena is his home and his loyalty is to his imperator. He knows he can use his skills to find the two lost women, even if that means protecting a small blind woman who takes every chance to misjudge his words and lash him with her sharp tongue.But as they follow a dangerous trail to save their friends, a new enemy emerges\u2014one who wants Winter. The pair find themselves reluctantly attracted to each other, uncovering a scorching desire that shocks them both. As Nero fights to protect Winter, the barbarian gladiator will discover the true meaning of strength from the small Earth woman he wants to claim as his.Note to readers: This sci fi romance contains a lot of action (think wild gladiatorial fights and daring rescues), tough gladiators (the warriors of the House of Galen) and a steamy romance (between a scowly barbarian gladiator and a determined doctor). So if you like it fast, and gritty, and sexy, this is for you!Includes a preview of Marcus, Book 1 of Hell Squad.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Action", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35446063-barbarian"}, +{"book_title": "Line War", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 5201, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being possess...and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters. Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebuss attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself... About the AuthorEssex-born author Neal Asher was writing short science fiction for many years before he embarked on his full-length novel Gridlinked, followed by four others which have been translated into nine different languages.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2423152.Line_War"}, +{"book_title": "We Can Fix It: A Time Travel Memoir", "author_name": "Jess Fink", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 690, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "What would you do if you had a time machine? Bet on sporting events? Assassinate all the evildoers of history? Or maybe try to fix all the mistakes and regrets that have haunted you all these years? Join Jess as she travels back in time to share her wisdom with her naive younger self, stand up to bullies who terrorized her child self, and teach her horny teenage self a thing or two! What begins as a raunchy adventure in teen wish fulfillment grows into a thoughtful story about memory, regret, and growing up. One time machine, one frustrated girl, one sexy futuristic jumpsuit... infinite possibilities!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Sexuality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7802934-we-can-fix-it"}, +{"book_title": "The Invisible Fran", "author_name": "Jim Benton", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1452, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "There's nothing better than being a mad scientist -- at least according to Franny. So she's making in her mission to help her classmates discover their own inner mad scientists. All Franny needs for her latest experiment is a few volunteers, a half-completed two-headed robot, and an invisibility potion. Only this experiment just might prove to be Franny's most difficult. What do you do when your classmates don't know anything about mad science and there's a doubly dumb robot running amok to prove it?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Humor", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47822.The_Invisible_Fran"}, +{"book_title": "Times Without Number", "author_name": "John Brunner", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 236, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Traveling backward in time, Don Miguel had to undo the errors and interruptions of other time-interlopers. Even the most insignificant nudging of the past could entirely alter the present! And he suspected that a maniacal genius crazed with a desire for nationalist vindication had plotted to alter the victorious outcome of the Spanish Armada of 1588 - thus changing recorded history and perhaps even imperiling the Imperial Spanish Empire of 1988!If Don Miguel did not successfully intercede, when he came back to the present he might find a different world...a different time...a time in which he probably didn't even exist!Although termed a novel it is really a group of three novelettes previously published under the titles:Spoil of Yesterday (1969 revised/expanded edition)The Word Not Written (1969 revised/expanded edition)The Fullness of Time (1969 revised/expanded edition)", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872224.Times_Without_Number"}, +{"book_title": "The Year the Cloud Fell", "author_name": "Kurt R.A. Giambastiani", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 89, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "The year is 1886. The United States has been in a state of undeclared war with the Cheyenne Alliance for decades. Custer's son was last seen in a newfangled flying machine. And giant lizards wander the plains. This is not history. This is the American West as it might have been...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/631645.The_Year_the_Cloud_Fell"}, +{"book_title": "Skyhunter", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 4242, "review_number": 1190, "book_description": "In a world broken by war, a team of young warriors is willing to sacrifice everything to save what they love.The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death\u2014transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara.The legendary Strikers, Mara's elite fighting force, are trained to stop them. But as the number of Ghosts grows and Karensa closes in, defeat seems inevitable.Still, one Striker refuses to give up hope.Robbed of her voice and home, Talin Kanami knows firsthand the brutality of the Federation. Their cruelty forced her and her mother to seek asylum in a country that considers their people repugnant. She finds comfort only with a handful of fellow Strikers who have pledged their lives to one another and who are determined to push Karensa back at all costs.When a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front, Talin senses there\u2019s more to him than meets the eye. Is he a spy from the Federation? Or could he be the weapon that will save them all?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53174067-skyhunter"}, +{"book_title": "Something Strange and Deadly", "author_name": "Susan Dennard", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 13385, "review_number": 1701, "book_description": "There's something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia. . . .Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about.Her brother has gone missing, her family has fallen on hard times, and her mother is determined to marry her off to any rich young man who walks by. But this is nothing compared to what she's just read in the newspaper:The Dead are rising in Philadelphia.And then, in a frightening attack, a zombie delivers a letter to Eleanor . . . from her brother.Whoever is controlling the Dead army has taken her brother as well. If Eleanor is going to find him, she'll have to venture into the lab of the notorious Spirit-Hunters, who protect the city from supernatural forces. But as Eleanor spends more time with the Spirit-Hunters, including the maddeningly stubborn yet handsome Daniel, the situation becomes dire. And now, not only is her reputation on the line, but her very life may hang in the balance.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance", "Horror", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9859436-something-strange-and-deadly"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 15: We Find Ourselves", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 12293, "review_number": 579, "book_description": "The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living. The events of No Way Out have affected everyone in the Community, and not everyone has survived to pick up the pieces. Reprinting issues #85-90 of the Eisner Award-winning series, The Walking Dead. Reprint Edition", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12305515-the-walking-dead-vol-15"}, +{"book_title": "Agency", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 6570, "review_number": 939, "book_description": "In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted \"app-whisperer\" is hired by a mysterious San Francisco start-up and finds herself in contact with a unique and surprisingly combat-savvy AI.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novels", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34943643-agency"}, +{"book_title": "All Fall Down", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 734, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "In Supervolcano: Eruption, one of nature\u2019s most destructive forces released its ferocity on an unsuspecting world. Now, New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove reveals how the survivors of the disaster adapt to their new environment\u2026 In the aftermath of the supervolcano\u2019s eruption in Yellowstone Park, North America is covered in ash. Farmlands cannot produce food. Machinery has been rendered useless. Cities are no longer habitable. And the climate across the globe grows colder every day. Former police officer Colin Ferguson\u2019s family is spread across the United States, separated by the catastrophe, and struggling to survive as the nation attempts to recover and reestablish some measure of civilization\u2026 \u00a0", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542547-all-fall-down"}, +{"book_title": "Fall of Terra Nova", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 273, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Fall of Terra Nova is the fifth book in the epic science fiction series that chronicles humanity\u2019s first interstellar confederation, torn apart by religious strife and extremism. In this latest book of the Star Crusades Uprising series, the action shifts to Terra Nova, the shining beacon of humanity and the single most important planet in the Confederacy. Guarding access to this isolated planet is the Anomaly. This mysterious location is the gateway to Terra Nova and the rest of the Confederacy. When the Echidna Union begins moving scores of ships to the Anomaly, Admiral Jarvis must make a critical decision that could win or lose the war. Either she continues Operation Perdition and reclaims the lost colonies of Proxima Centauri, or she sends the fleet to take control of the Anomaly and the route to Terra Nova in one final apocalyptical battle. Spartan and his comrades aboard the Yorkdale train and prepare their new forces for what will be the last battles of the war. They are well equipped and highly motivated, but just when they seem to be making progress, they hit a new problem. Racism and betrayal appears at the moment when the Confederacy needs every man and woman for the final challenge. Spartan, Teresa and Gun will have to use every ounce of their skill and cunning if they are to come through alive. Fall of Terra Nova is a classic work of realistic military science fiction set against the background of the first interstellar human empire. The 15-book Star Crusades series includes: STAR CRUSADES UPRISING Siege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1) Tears of Kerberos (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 2) Fires of Prometheus (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 3) Battle for Proxima (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 4) Fall of Terra Nova (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 5) Slaves of Hyperion (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 6) STAR CRUSADES NEXUS Legions of Orion (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 1) Machine Gods (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 2) Heroes of Helios (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 3) The Great Betrayal (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 4) Prophecy of Fire (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 5) Call to Arms (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 6) Battle for Helios (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 7) Wrath of the Gods (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 8) ETA Q1 2014 The Black Rift (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 9) ETA Q3 2014 These titles are also available as combined trilogies including: STAR CRUSADES NEXUS: THE FIRST TRILOGY STAR CRUSADES NEXUS: THE SECOND TRILOGY STAR CRUSADES NEXUS: THE THIRD TRILOGY ETA Q3 2014 STAR CRUSADES UPRISING: THE FIRST TRILOGY STAR CRUSADES UPRISING: THE SECOND TRILOGY For more information visit the official Star Crusades website. Keyword Starcrusader.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13076454-fall-of-terra-nova"}, +{"book_title": "Abaddon's Gate", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 86290, "review_number": 4549, "book_description": "Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark.Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131032-abaddon-s-gate"}, +{"book_title": "The Wandering Earth", "author_name": "Liu Cixin", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3576, "review_number": 355, "book_description": "First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000.I\u2019ve never seen the night, nor seen a star; I\u2019ve seen neither spring, nor fall, nor winter. I was born at the end of the Reining Age, just as the Earth\u2019s rotation was coming to a final halt.The Sun is about to unleash a helium flash, threatening to swallow all terrestrial planets in the solar system. On Earth, the Unity Government has erected Earth Engines. With them it plans to propel our planet out of the solar system, setting it on a journey into outer space in search of a new sun. The Earth begins its centuries-long, wandering travels through outer space.Just as we began our journey, my grandfather passed away, his burnt body ravaged by infection. In his final moments, he repeated over and over, \u201cOh, Earth, my wandering Earth...\u201dChina Galaxy Science Fiction Award of Year 2000.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Cultural (China)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13554058-the-wandering-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Attraction", "author_name": "Cara Bristol", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 595, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "How insane is it to marry an alien as a publicity stunt? I\u2019m Sunny Weathers. You probably recognize me from my reality show, Sunny Weathers\u2019 Excellent Adventures. I\u2019ve had to perform a lot of crazy stunts in my career, but this one takes the cake! The producers are sending me to another planet to become an alien\u2019s mail order bride. I\u2019m not allowed to tell anybody it\u2019s a gimmick, and as soon my contract is up, I\u2019ll be leaving planet Dakon. Unfortunately, I hadn\u2019t counted on my attraction to Mr. Tall, \u201cDarq,\u201d and Handsome\u2026 I\u2019m Darq. The moment I laid eyes on the female with pretty mud-colored hair and a sunny smile, I knew she was mine. Competition for females is fierce, and I was determined to claim a mate from the latest shipment from Earth, so I broke the rules. If anyone finds out, my own brother would banish me to the icy wilderness, and I\u2019d lose my mate. I will do anything to keep her\u2026 Alien Attraction is a stand-alone read in the Alien Mate series.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Business (Amazon)", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39329289-alien-attraction"}, +{"book_title": "Extinction", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 5035, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "Earth's Star Force marines invade an alien world!In the second book of the Star Force series, Kyle Riggs has another bad year. The Nano ships have a new mission-one that sentences their pilots to death. Meanwhile, the governments of Earth want to steal Star Force's Nano technology for their own. Worst of all, Earth has made a promise to the Macros, and the machines are coming to collect.EXTINCTION is the story of Earth's entry into an interstellar war between living creatures and machines. To buy the peace, we've signed up with the machines.... EXTINCTION is an 112,000 word science fiction novel.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11019965-extinction"}, +{"book_title": "Ex-KOP", "author_name": "Warren Hammond", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 480, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "In this hardboiled science fiction thriller, Juno, having been booted off the police force, is barely getting by as a low-level bagman and photographer for the scandal rags. But it gets worse: his wife is in critical condition at the hospital and Juno doesn\u2019t have the money to pay her bills. Desperate for cash, Juno agrees to help his ex-partner, Maggie Orzo, solve a difficult case. A young girl sits on death row, accused of brutally murdering her own parents. She\u2019s confessed to the murders, but Maggie isn\u2019t buying it, so she sends Juno out to get some answers. Working with Maggie, Juno comes into contact with her new partner, Ian. As dirty as they come, Ian is eager to rise in the police force no matter what the cost. Somehow Ian, a vicious serial killer, and the girl on death row are all connected. It is up to Juno and Maggie to find out how before more people die.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3135768-ex-kop"}, +{"book_title": "A Traveller in Time", "author_name": "Alison Uttley", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2354, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "While visiting Thackers Manor in 1934, dreamy Penelope becomes involved in a 16th century plot to rescue Mary, Queen of Scots. A beloved time travel story that has endured for generations.", "year_published": 1939, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1422149.A_Traveller_in_Time"}, +{"book_title": "In the Time of Dinosaurs", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2511, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "We could blame everything that happened on Marco. He was the one who heard about the downed submarine. He was the one who thought we should check it out. And everyone knows that if Marco's up to a challenge, I'm definitely there.Everything was going fine. Until the explosion. An explosion that blows us millions of years back in time. Back to the age of dinosaurs. Now Tobias, Cassie, Marco, Ax, Jake and I are fighting for our lives with every step we take. But that's not our biggest problem. Our biggest problem is we have no idea how to get back to our own time ...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363363.In_the_Time_of_Dinosaurs"}, +{"book_title": "A Time to Change", "author_name": "Callie Langridge", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 1534, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "\u201cI would rather love passionately for an hour than benignly for a lifetime.\u201dIn a house full of history and secrets, the past will not stay where it belongs\u2026Lou has always loved Hill House, the derelict manor on the abandoned land near her home. As a child, the tragic history of its owners, the Mandevilles, inspired her dream to become a history teacher. But in her late twenties, and working in a shop to pay off student debts, life is passing her by. That changes when a family disaster sends Lou\u2019s life into a downward spiral and she seeks comfort in the ruined corridors of Hill House. The house transforms around her and Lou is transported back to Christmas 1913. Convinced she has been in an accident and is in a coma, Lou immerses herself in her Edwardian dream. With the Mandevilles oblivious to her true identity, Lou becomes their houseguest and befriends the eldest son, Captain Thomas Mandeville, a man she knows is destined to die in the First World War.Lou feels more at home in the past than the present and when she realises the experience is real she sets out to do everything in her power to save her new friends. Lou passes between 1913 and 2013, unearthing plots of murder and blackmail, which she must stop no matter the cost.On her quest to save the Mandevilles by saving Thomas, Lou will face the hardest decision of her life. She will learn that love cannot be separated by a century.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36289909-a-time-to-change"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Arcana", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 3562, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "An alien ruinA murdered archeologistAn ancient secret\u2014and a conspiracy that will kill to keep it! When a scientist is murdered after finding signs of alien magic in an archeological dig, Mage Damien Montgomery, Hand of the Mage-King of Mars, is sent to investigate both the murder and the alien runes. His investigation is interrupted when a mysterious ship attacks the ruins with weapons only available to the Martian Navy. Despite saving the dig site, Montgomery is left with more questions than answers. His investigations reveal questions about the origin of his magic and his nation\u2014and lead him back to the one place that should be safe: the court of the Mage-King of Mars.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32056417-alien-arcana"}, +{"book_title": "The Gap Into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 6234, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "A master storyteller, Stephen R. Donaldson established a worldwide reputation with his unforgettable, critically acclaimed fantasy series The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant.\u00a0\u00a0Then, with The Real Story and Forbidden Knowledge, he launched a thrilling new science fiction series.\u00a0\u00a0Now the galactic epic continues as humanity struggles against the forces of ultimate evil--and its own dark nature.The stage is set of confrontation at Billingate--illegal shipyard, haven for pirates and brigands, where every vice flourishes and every appetite can be sated.\u00a0\u00a0Gateway to the alien realm of the Amnion, the shipyard is a clearinghouse for all they require to fulfill their mutagenic plans against humanity.It is here that the fate of Morn Hyland is to be decided amid a kaleidoscopic whirl of plot and counterplot, treachery and betrayal.As schemes unravel to reveal yet deeper designs, Morn, Nick, Angus' lives may all be forfeit as pawns in the titanic game played our between Warden Dios, dedicated director of the UMC Police, and the Dragon, greed-driven ruler of the UMC.\u00a0\u00a0Here, the future of humankind hangs on the uncertain fortune of Morn Hyland in a daring novel of epic power and suspense, relentlessly gripping from first page to last.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Epic", "Novels", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22877.The_Gap_Into_Power"}, +{"book_title": "The Calculating Stars", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 22119, "review_number": 3551, "book_description": "On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process.Elma York\u2019s experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition\u2019s attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn\u2019t take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can\u2019t go into space, too.Elma\u2019s drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33080122-the-calculating-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Drift Wars", "author_name": "Brett James", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 344, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Peter was ready to give his life to save his people. He just didn't realize how many times they were going to ask.________________________________________________Peter Garvey was just a kid when the warships emerged from the Drift and devastated his homeworld. He enlisted immediately, leaving behind his small-town life to fight in distant space. Barely surviving basic training, he is thrust to the front line to battle the Riel, an army of creatures beyond his darkest nightmares.As the two races clash inside the vast uncharted Drift, Peter\u2019s six month tour of duty grows into years. His friends die in combat, but Peter survives, inexplicably, until he discovers that he can\u2019t be killed.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18188712-the-drift-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Courting Darkness", "author_name": "Robin LaFevers", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3774, "review_number": 707, "book_description": "Death wasn\u2019t the end, it was only the beginning\u2026Sybella has always been the darkest of Death\u2019s daughters, trained at the convent of Saint Mortain to serve as his justice. But she has a new mission now. In a desperate bid to keep her two youngest sisters safe from the family that nearly destroyed them all, she agrees to accompany the duchess to France, where they quickly find themselves surrounded by enemies. Their one ray of hope is Sybella\u2019s fellow novitiates, disguised and hidden deep in the French court years ago by the convent\u2014provided Sybella can find them.Genevieve has been undercover for so many years, she struggles to remember who she is or what she\u2019s supposed to be fighting for. Her only solace is a hidden prisoner who appears all but forgotten by his guards. When tragedy strikes, she has no choice but to take matters into her own hands\u2014even if it means ignoring the long awaited orders from the convent.As Sybella and Gen\u2019s paths draw ever closer, the fate of everything they hold sacred rests on a knife\u2019s edge. Will they find each other in time, or will their worlds collide, destroying everything they care about?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Cultural (France)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37569347-courting-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The Tropic of Serpents", "author_name": "Marie Brennan", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 8505, "review_number": 1005, "book_description": "The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennan's\u00a0The Tropic of Serpents . . . Attentive readers of Lady Trent\u2019s earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world\u2019s premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career.Three years after her fateful journeys through the forbidding mountains of Vystrana,\u00a0Mrs. Camherst defies family and convention to embark on an expedition to the\u00a0war-torn continent of Eriga, home of such exotic draconian species as the grass-dwelling snakes of the savannah, arboreal tree snakes, and, most elusive of all, the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics.The expedition is not an easy one. Accompanied by both an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must brave oppressive heat, merciless fevers, palace intrigues, gossip, and other hazards in order to satisfy her boundless fascination with all things draconian, even if it means venturing deep into the forbidden jungle known as the Green Hell . . . where her courage, resourcefulness, and scientific curiosity will be tested as never before.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910078-the-tropic-of-serpents"}, +{"book_title": "Forever Until Tomorrow", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 937, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "A war lost... A civilization in ruins... A spark of hope among the wreckage... The war is over. The war has just begun. Major Katherine Asher of the newly founded United Earth Alliance knows nothing about the apocalyptic war of a past future. She\u2019s scheduled to pilot the newly christened Dove, Earth\u2019s first starship, in her maiden voyage. But when a terrorist attack leaves her wounded and hearing voices, she quickly finds herself caught up in the eternal struggle and fighting to stop a future that has no place for humankind. At the same time, a man in St. Louis decides to leave the psychiatric hospital he\u2019s called home for the last twenty years, since the fateful night an alien starship fell to Earth\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30522206-forever-until-tomorrow"}, +{"book_title": "Sarazen's Claim", "author_name": "Isabel Wroth", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1452, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "AUTHOR'S NOTE: In answer to all the very important comments, this is the professionally re-edited version, previously released on July 24th. This book is PART OF A SERIES. Not a HEA and not a Cliffhanger...somewhere in between. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------One hundred and fifty years ago the most powerful countries of Earth built and launched five ships. Ships meant to carry what remained of humanity out into the space beyond their known galaxy to find a new home. As a third generation botanist, it never occurred to Clary Starborn that she might some day be in charge of anything other than her little lab. That changed the day their ship was attacked by an alien species straight out of myth. ----------As commander of the Sarazen armada, Tarek had seen some poor excuses for spacefaring vessels. The one currently being attacked by the Na'ah was to date, the worst. So primitive in its design, Commander Tarek was fascinated it had even survived the harsh vacuum of space. Or the time it had taken to launch it. The species was unfamiliar to him, but initial scans suggested the beings within here somewhat intelligent. Though the ship was outside Sarazen territory, it was his duty to eradicate the Na'ah wherever he encountered them. He had not anticipated that by his actions, the course of his life would be forever changed. By a soft, delicate being who studied flowers and trees. One scent, one touch, was all it took to be Claimed.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31215185-sarazen-s-claim"}, +{"book_title": "The Gentleman Devil", "author_name": "Kara Jorgensen", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 128, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "This is an alternate title/cover edition for B00RU0R0YW Can death be conquered? When Immanuel Winter set off to the banks of the Thames, he never thought his life would be changed forever. Emmeline Jardine, a young Spiritualist medium, drowns, but the potion given to Immanuel by his mother brings her back from the dead and irrevocably intertwines their souls.But Emmeline and Immanuel aren\u2019t the only ones aware of his ancestors\u2019 legacy. Understanding the potential of such an elixir, the ruthlessly ambitious Alastair Rose knows securing the mysteries of death will get him everything he desires: power, a title, but more importantly, dominion over the dead and the living.Unaware of what the dashing madman is capable of, Emmeline follows him deeper into a world of corrupt mediums, unscrupulous scientists, and murder. All that stands between Lord Rose and his prize is the boy who refuses to die, but both men know the key to stopping him lies within the girl who shares Immanuel\u2019s soul.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33540087-the-gentleman-devil"}, +{"book_title": "Sporting Chance", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3988, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "When a treacherous superior officer forced Heris Serrano to resign her commission in the Regular Space Service, she thought she would simply be marking time captaining a rich lady\u2019s interstellar yacht. But things seem to happen when Heris is around. During Lady Cecelia\u2019s most recent pleasure cruise, Heris exposed a sinister \u2018hunting club\u2019 which used humans as prey, and in the process rescued some former Fleet friends and colleagues betrayed by the same senior officer who engineered her own resignation from Fleet. All well and good, but one of the hunters had been none other than Cecelia\u2019s nephew Prince Gerel - first in line to the throne. In an attempt to avoid a royal scandal, Lady Cecelia volunteers herself and her yacht to take the Prince home. Cecelia remembers her nephew as a rather bright young man. So what possessed him to become involved with the \u2018hunting club\u2019? As the voyage proceeds, and the Prince becomes less and less like himself, Cecelia begins to suspect foul play. Someone is poisoning the heir to the throne, and once again Heris\u2019s skills are called upon to solve the deadly mystery.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Animals (Horses)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222514.Sporting_Chance"}, +{"book_title": "Hunted", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 9599, "review_number": 517, "book_description": "A desperate girl on the run with nowhere to hide... A warrior who has made a vow never to claim a bride... Sophia Waterhouse is being Hunted and the only man who can save her is the one she fears the most...Sophia Waterhouse has always been afraid of needles and vampires so there\u2019s no way she wants anything to do with a modern day Count Dracula\u2014even if he does come wrapped in the package of a huge Kindred warrior with blond hair and ice blue eyes. She\u2019s only on the Kindred Mothership to participate in her sister Liv\u2019s wedding and that\u2019s all.Sylvan is a Tranq Kindred who has made a sacred vow never to call a bride. After a devastating rejection on his home planet, his heart is a block of ice no one can melt\u2014or so he thinks until he meets Sophia.When their ship is forced down in the middle of a rugged mountain range Sophia and Sylvan are stranded. Running for their lives they have only each other to depend on. Will they give in to the intense attraction between them or will the evil hunting Sophia take its toll? You\u2019ll have to read Brides of the Kindred Book 2\u2014Hunted to find out.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11273356-hunted"}, +{"book_title": "1635: The Dreeson Incident", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1379, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident.While the old entrenched rulers and manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart nation, everyday life goes on in Grantville, the town lost in time, with librarians, firefighters, and garbage collectors trying to make do under unusual circumstances. And what better place for an undercover spy from France than working with the garbage collectors, examining 20th century machines that others throw out and copying the technology (though he wishes one device\u2014the paper shredder\u2014had been left behind in the future).There are more sinister agents at work, however. One of them, Ducos, almost succeeded in assassinating the Pope, but his plan was ruined by quick action by a few Americans. Now, the would-be assassin not only has a score to settle, but has also decided on two excellent targets: Grantville\u2019s leader Mike Stearns and his wife Rebecca...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2974618-1635"}, +{"book_title": "Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse", "author_name": "Victor Gischler", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2012, "review_number": 297, "book_description": "Mortimer Tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in Tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse begins nine years later, when he emerges into a bizarre landscape filled with hollow reminders of an America that no longer exists. The highways are lined with abandoned automobiles; electricity is generated by indentured servants pedaling stationary bicycles. What little civilization remains revolves around Joey Armageddon's Sassy A-Go-Go strip clubs, where the beer is cold, the lap dancers are hot, and the bouncers are armed with M16s. Accompanied by his cowboy sidekick Buffalo Bill, the gorgeous stripper Sheila, and the mountain man Ted, Mortimer journeys to the lost city of Atlanta -- and a showdown that might determine the fate of humanity.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1655668.Go_Go_Girls_of_the_Apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "The Star Fraction", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2656, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Moh Kohn is a security mercenary, his smart gun and killer reflexes for hire. Janis Taine is a scientist working on memory-enhancing drugs, fleeing the US/UN's technology cops. Jordan Brown is a teenager in the Christian enclave of Beulah City, dealing in theologically-correct software for the world's fundamentalists-and wants out.In a balkanized twenty-first century, where the \"peace process\" is deadlier than war, the US/UN's spy satellites have everyone in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans, and the lives of Moh, Janis, and Jordan are part of the program. A specter is haunting the fight for space and freedom, the specter of the betrayed revolution that happened before... With The Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod burst onto the SF scene and began the Fall Revolution sequence that continued with The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Politics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185822.The_Star_Fraction"}, +{"book_title": "Erebos", "author_name": "Ursula Poznanski", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 14839, "review_number": 1537, "book_description": "An intelligent computer game with a disturbing agenda.When 16-year-old Nick receives a package containing the mysterious computer game Erebos, he wonders if it will explain the behavior of his classmates, who have been secretive lately. Players of the game must obey strict rules: always play alone, never talk about the game, and never tell anyone your nickname. Curious, Nick joins the game and quickly becomes addicted. But Erebos knows a lot about the players and begins to manipulate their lives. When it sends Nick on a deadly assignment, he refuses and is banished from the game. Now unable to play, Nick turns to a friend for help in finding out who controls the game. The two set off on a dangerous mission in which the border between reality and the virtual world begins to blur. This utterly convincing and suspenseful thriller originated in Germany, where it has become a runaway bestseller. Ursula Poznanski is an award-winning children\u2019s author. She lives in Vienna, Austria.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Contemporary", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7748743-erebos"}, +{"book_title": "Marked in Flesh", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 24755, "review_number": 2125, "book_description": "For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they\u2019re willing to tolerate\u2014both within themselves and within their community... Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful human blood prophets who were being exploited by their own kind, the delicate dynamic between humans and Others changed. Some, like Simon Wolfgard, wolf shifter and leader of the Lakeside Courtyard, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn, see the new, closer companionship as beneficial\u2014both personally and practically. But not everyone is convinced. A group of radical humans is seeking to usurp land through a series of violent attacks on the Others. What they don\u2019t realize is that there are older and more dangerous forces than shifters and vampires protecting the land that belongs to the Others\u2014and those forces are willing to do whatever is necessary to protect what is theirs\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22062202-marked-in-flesh"}, +{"book_title": "Disintegration", "author_name": "David Moody", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1472, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Autumn: Disintegration is the penultimate chapter in David Moody's riveting horror series!Forty days have passed since the world died. Billions of corpses walk the Earth. Everything is disintegrating. . . .A group of eleven men and women have survived against the odds. On an almost daily basis, they attack the dead with brutal ferocity, tearing through them with utter contempt.Somewhere nearby, out of sight and out of earshot, is another group that has adopted a completely different survival strategy. Where the others have used brutality and strength, these people have demonstrated subtlety, planning, and tactics.A series of horrific events force the two groups together. Backed into a corner and surrounded by hundreds of thousands of corpses, they all know that their final battle with the dead is about to begin.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10869795-disintegration"}, +{"book_title": "Overgeared", "author_name": "Park Saenal", "rating_score": 4.63, "rating_votes": 19, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Chapters 1201-1300Shin Youngwoo has had an unfortunate life and is now stuck carrying bricks on construction sites. He even had to do labor in the VR game, Satisfy!However, luck would soon enter his hapless life. His character, \u2018Grid\u2019, would discover the Northern End Cave for a quest, and in that place, he would find \u2018Pagma\u2019s Rare Book\u2019 and become a legendary class player\u2026", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53297741-overgeared"}, +{"book_title": "Bearing an Hourglass", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 21759, "review_number": 480, "book_description": "THE MAN WHO LIVED BACKWARDWhen life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality\u2014Death, Fate, War, and Nature\u2014made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good.In the end, armed only with the Hourglass, Norton was forced to confront the immense power of Satan directly. And though Satan banished him to Hell, he was resolved to fight on.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76659.Bearing_an_Hourglass"}, +{"book_title": "A Dragonlings' Easter", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1421, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "When Abby creates a set of Easter Eggs for each Dragonling she has no idea she is about to start a new tradition on Valdier. What happens when the men and the dragonlings take the hunt for the colorful eggs to heart? Laughter and a whole lot of crispy eggs!**this is a short story.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21901077-a-dragonlings-easter"}, +{"book_title": "Saved by the Alien Lord", "author_name": "Mina Carter", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 982, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Earth girls might be popular...but they're definitely not easy. Kidnapped by sexy aliens, Cat and the women of the Sentinel Five base are looking for a way home. Their captors might be ripped, hot warriors looking for that one special woman, but these girls have this little thing against being slaves. Even if their leader is well on his way to stealing Cat's heart as well as her body... Then a new player enters the arena. A dangerous rival war-commander has challenged the K'Vass claim on terran held space and all its women. Tarrick K'Vass can't afford to let any of the earth women be captured, especially not his little human, Cat. When his human is taken, he'll do anything to rescue her... Anything. Up to and including starting an intergalatic war.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25615669-saved-by-the-alien-lord"}, +{"book_title": "Key to the Dead Fall", "author_name": "Susan Trombley", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 720, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "The sequel to Into the Dead Fall, which was released as part of a two-book set with The Scorpion\u2019s Mate. A fated mate she doesn\u2019t want. An enigmatic alien she shouldn\u2019t want. Finding your way in the Dead Fall isn\u2019t easy, but it\u2019s nothing compared to figuring out what your heart truly desires. Evie managed to survive for months in the strange parallel dimension where she was dropped after accidentally activating a portal in her father\u2019s shed. The Dead Fall doesn\u2019t treat survivors kindly, as Evie discovers when she\u2019s captured by alien creatures and taken to the settlement of Omni to be put on display in a bar. When a gray alien appears in the bar to rescue her, she wonders at first if she hasn\u2019t gone straight from the frying pan into the fire. Yet, the alien she nicknames Gray proves to be friendly, if a bit too determined to see her meet some destined mate she\u2019s not interested in finding. Gray tells her she must seek her own destiny, but she can\u2019t help thinking she\u2019s already found it, despite what he says. After all, her knight in shining armor has come to rescue her, and if he just so happens to have a flying saucer instead of a white horse, that\u2019s okay with her. Doshakeren is a hero. A legend. They sing epic songs about the warrior among his kin. When his most trusted advisor betrays him and locks him away with a strange artifact that casts him into another realm, he faces challenges beyond anything he\u2019d ever faced before\u2014the biggest being his fascination with the human female who makes him have forbidden thoughts that would see him outcast from his nest. Evie must choose her own destiny, but nothing will be easy for her, least of all the Dead Fall itself, because the Nexus is watching. And waiting. Author\u2019s Note: 18+ Violence and explicit sex scenes. This is a MFM romance with m\u00e9nage. These alien heroes are very alien and have mating habits that might not be for everyone.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (Multiple Partners)", "Menage (M F M)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40770913-key-to-the-dead-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Gail's Family", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2381, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "I\u2019ve had a full life: wife, mom, divorcee\u2026and then alien property. All of that\u2019s changing now that I\u2019m on the ice planet. Here, I\u2019m free again, and I\u2019ve found love once more. Vaza\u2019s older and a widower, but he knows how to make a woman smile both in the furs and out of them. Everyone around me has a baby in their arms or in their belly, though, and it\u2019s hard to be the only one without. I love nothing more than being a mama\u2026and when I hear there\u2019s an orphan at the Icehome camp, I want to adopt him. Vaza and I have so much love to give, but will an alien baby love us back? (Psst! This story does not stand alone. Start with LAUREN\u2019S BARBARIAN! You\u2019ll be glad you did!)", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42632797-gail-s-family"}, +{"book_title": "Theatre of the Gods", "author_name": "M. Suddain", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 415, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "A space-opera, a philosophical quest, a steampunk adventure of epic proportions.This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, heretical physicist, who took a shipful of children on a frightening voyage to the next dimension, assisted by a teenaged Captain, a brave deaf boy, a cunning blind girl, and a sultry botanist, all the while pursued by the Pope of the universe and a well-dressed mesmerist.Dark plots, demonic cults, murderous jungles, quantum mayhem, the birth of creation, the death of time, and a creature called the Sweety: all this and more waits beyond the veil of reality.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Adventure", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16113587-theatre-of-the-gods"}, +{"book_title": "Brave New Girl", "author_name": "Rachel Vincent", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2643, "review_number": 349, "book_description": "We have brown hair. Brown eyes. Fair skin. We are healthy and strong and smart. But only one of us has ever had a secret.Dahlia 16 sees her face in every crowd. She\u2019s nothing special\u2014just one of five thousand girls created from a single genome to work for the greater good of the city.Meeting Trigger 17 changes everything. He thinks she\u2019s interesting. Beautiful. Unique. Which means he must be flawed. When Dahlia can\u2019t stop thinking about him\u2014when she can't resist looking for him, even though that means breaking the rules\u2014she realizes she\u2019s flawed, too. But if she\u2019s flawed, then so are all her identicals. And any genome found to be flawed will be recalled.Destroyed.Getting caught with Trigger would seal not only Dahlia\u2019s fate, but that of all five thousand girls who share her face. But what if Trigger is right? What if Dahlia is different?Suddenly the girl who always follows the rules is breaking them, one by one by one\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25796631-brave-new-girl"}, +{"book_title": "Invasion Earth", "author_name": "Loribelle Hunt", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1261, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "In the distant future, Earth has been ravaged by war and famine, and after generations of bloodshed settles into peace only to be invaded by the alien Delroi. General Alrik Torfa needs a mate and his seers promise mates for many of his people on the distant planet Earth. He doesn't expect her to come easily, but is more than a little surprised to find her leading an enemy army. Outmanned and outgunned, there is no way the Earth forces can win.Sergeant Major Laney Bradford has always played her part and served her people well, but the demands of the Delroi's surrender are a bit extreme. Marriage? To one of them? Not likely. But she's fought for peace her entire life and when surrender talks are threatened by a conspiracy led by her people, Laney must choose. Will she submit to the alien invader or lead the fight against him?Note: Expanded re-releaseThis was previously published as a 10k word short story, now expanded into a 43k word novella for this release.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7124371-invasion-earth"}, +{"book_title": "A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians", "author_name": "H.G. Parry", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 669, "review_number": 250, "book_description": "A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world.It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for revolution in France to the weather mage Toussaint L'Ouverture leading the slaves of Haiti in their fight for freedom, to the bold new Prime Minister William Pitt weighing the legalization of magic amongst commoners in Britain and abolition throughout its colonies overseas.But amidst all of the upheaval of the early modern world, there is an unknown force inciting all of human civilization into violent conflict. And it will require the combined efforts of revolutionaries, magicians, and abolitionists to unmask this hidden enemy before the whole world falls to darkness and chaos.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51862863-a-declaration-of-the-rights-of-magicians"}, +{"book_title": "The Outback Stars", "author_name": "Sandra McDonald", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 951, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is a hero.\u00a0 She has the medals and the scars to prove it.\u00a0She's cooling her heels on Kookaburra, recovering from injuries sustained during the fiery loss of her last ship, the Yangtze, and she's bored -- so bored, in fact, that she takes a berth on the next ship out.\u00a0 That's a mistake.\u00a0 The Aral Sea isn't anyone's idea of a get-well tour.\u00a0Jodenny's handed a division full of misfits, incompetents, and criminals.\u00a0 She's a squared-away officer.\u00a0 She thinks she can handle it all.\u00a0 She's wrong.\u00a0\u00a0 Aral Sea isn't a happy ship.\u00a0 And it's about to get a lot unhappier.\u00a0As Aral Sea enters the Alcheringa -- the alien-constructed space warp that allows giant settler-ships to travel between worlds, away from all help or hope -- Jodenny comes face to face something powerful enough to dwarf even the unknown force that destroyed her last ship and left her with missing memories and bloody nightmares.\u00a0 Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is about to be introduced to love.\u00a0Author Sandra McDonald brings her personal knowledge of the military, and of the subtle interplay between men and women on deployment, to a stirring tale that mixes ancient Australian folklore with the colonization of the stars.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/474113.The_Outback_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 6249, "review_number": 464, "book_description": "England in the mid 1950s is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted...some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return and are in search of some answers. Answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their old headquarters, a book that holds the key to the hidden history of the League throughout the ages: The Black Dossier. As Allan and Mina delve into the details of their precursors, some dating back centuries, they must elude their dangerous pursuers who are Hell-bent on retrieving the lost manuscript... and ending the League once and for all.The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is an elaborately designed, cutting edge volume that will include a Tijuana Bible insert and a 3-D section complete with custom glasses, as well as additional text pieces, maps, and a stunning, cutaway double page spread of Captain Nemo's Nautilus submarine by acclaimed LOEG artist Kevin O Neill.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107009.The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen"}, +{"book_title": "UnDivided", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 20321, "review_number": 2466, "book_description": "Teens control the fate of America in the fourth and final book in the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman.Proactive Citizenry, the company that created Cam from the parts of unwound teens, has a plan: to mass produce rewound teens like Cam for military purposes. And below the surface of that horror lies another shocking level of intrigue: Proactive Citizenry has been suppressing technology that could make unwinding completely unnecessary. As Conner, Risa, and Lev uncover these startling secrets, enraged teens begin to march on Washington to demand justice and a better future.But more trouble is brewing. Starkey\u2019s group of storked teens is growing more powerful and militant with each new recruit. And if they have their way, they\u2019ll burn the harvest camps to the ground and put every adult in them before a firing squad\u2014which could destroy any chance America has for a peaceful future.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17950614-undivided"}, +{"book_title": "One Fell Sweep", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 22381, "review_number": 1755, "book_description": "Dina DeMille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest\u2026 the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about. Guests like a former intergalactic tyrant with an impressive bounty on her head, the Lord Marshal of a powerful vampire clan, and a displaced-and-superhot werewolf; so don\u2019t stand too close, or you may be collateral damage. But what passes for Dina\u2019s normal life is about to be thrown into chaos. First, she must rescue her long-distant older sister, Maud, who\u2019s been exiled with her family to a planet that functions as the most lawless penal colony since Botany Bay. Then she agrees to help a guest whose last chance at saving his civilization could bring death and disaster to all Dina holds dear. Now Gertrude Hunt is under siege by a clan of assassins. To keep her guests safe and to find her missing parents, Dina will risk everything, even if she has to pay the ultimate price. Though Sean may have something to say about that!!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28756485-one-fell-sweep"}, +{"book_title": "The Eyre Affair", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 125381, "review_number": 10324, "book_description": "Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude . . .Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . .Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27003.The_Eyre_Affair"}, +{"book_title": "The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures", "author_name": "Sean Wallace", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 97, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Looking to the future through the lens of the past, here is a second fantastic collection of over 30 typically anarchic mash-ups that push the boundaries of steampunk from the same editor of the bestselling Mammoth Book of Steampunk.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821468-the-mammoth-book-of-steampunk-adventures"}, +{"book_title": "Going, Going, Gone", "author_name": "Jack Womack", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 135, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Publishers Weekly has called Jack Womack a \"futurist wunderkind...fast-moving, hipper-than-hip.\" In his latest novel it's 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time U.S. government freelancer, stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter's conscience never interferes with his work--until he's asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign. The ghosts who've moved into his apartment aren't much comfort. Then two outre femmes fatales show up and frog-march Walter out of Max's Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York--both his and theirs. Called \"infernally clever\" by Locus, Going, Going, Gone is a deeply entertaining novel that closes Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series and serves up an apt diagnosis of modern America. \"Daringly, scaringly distinct in contemporary fiction.\"--Marjorie Preston, Philadelphia Weekly \"The action moves with amphetamine quickness, and Womack's surefooted control over his material completely sucks us in.\"--Bruce Bauman, Bookforum", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/524006.Going_Going_Gone"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Victorian: Risen Volume One", "author_name": "Elizabeth Watasin", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 161, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "It is 1880 in a mechanical and supernatural London. Agents of Prince Albert\u2019s Secret Commission, their criminal pasts wiped from their memories, are resurrected to fight the eldritch evils that threaten England. Amidst this turmoil, Jim Dastard and his new partner Artifice must stop a re-animationist raising murderous dead children. As Art and Jim pursue their quarry, Art discovers clues about her past self, and through meeting various intriguing women\u2014a journalist, a medium, a prostitute, and a mysterious woman in black\u2014where her heart lies. Yet the question remains: What sort of criminal was she? A new beginning, a new identity, and new dangers await Art as she fights for the Secret Commission and for her second life.The paperback version contains an 'Extra', which is an illustration gallery.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "LGBT", "Historical", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16124385-the-dark-victorian"}, +{"book_title": "The Caledonian Gambit", "author_name": "Dan Moren", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1218, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "The galaxy is mired in a cold war between two superpowers, the Illyrican Empire and the Commonwealth. Thrust between this struggle are Simon Kovalic, the Commonwealth\u2019s preeminent spy, and Kyle Rankin, a lowly soldier happily scrubbing toilets on Sabea, a remote and isolated planet. However, nothing is as it seems.Kyle Rankin is a lie. His real name is Eli Brody, and he fled his home world of Caledonia years ago. Simon Kovalic knows Caledonia is a lit fuse hurtling towards detonation. The past Brody so desperately tried to abandon can grant him access to people and places that are off limits even to a professional spy like Kovalic.Kovalic needs Eli Brody to come home and face his past. With Brody suddenly cast in a play he never auditioned for, he and Kovalic will quickly realize it\u2019s everything they don\u2019t know that will tip the scales of galactic peace. Sounds like a desperate plan, sure, but what gambit isn\u2019t?The Caledonian Gambit is a throwback to the classic sci-fi adventures of spies and off-world politics, but filled to the brim with modern sensibilities.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31212988-the-caledonian-gambit"}, +{"book_title": "Originator", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 497, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "A quarter of a million people die in the destruction of the moon Cresta. The League civil war is accelerating out of control, but projections indicate that as their technologically induced sociological dysfunction continues, all of humanity may face a similar fate. In the aftermath of Cresta's destruction, Sandy Kresnov discovers the alien Talee operative Cai in Tanusha, there to learn just how far the technologically-induced insanity has gone. The Talee have seen this before, and they are terrified of anything threatening a recurrence. Meanwhile, Sandy's old nemesis Renaldo Takewashi, the self-proclaimed \"father\" of synthetic intelligence, comes to the Federation seeking asylum. Talewashi may even have a cure--previously unknown Talee technology implanted into a human child subject--Sandy's little boy, Kiril. But it is exactly this technology that the Talee fear, and they will exterminate anyone caught using it. Now, Sandy must fight to save her family from a terrible new threat, but doing so may plunge humanity into another destructive war between humans, or worse, against the massively-advanced Talee. And what final secret are the Talee protecting about the origins of synthetic humans like Sandy that could either liberate Sandy's fellow synthetics from bondage or spell disaster for all humanity?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21971651-originator"}, +{"book_title": "Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time", "author_name": "Brian Clevinger", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1206, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "It is 1926 when H.P. Lovecraft comes calling to warn Atomic Robo of imminent doom. But the Shadow From Beyond Time escapes into the future, intersecting with our world throughout the 20th century. The future and history of the universe hangs in the balance as Atomic Robo teams up with, uh, Atomic Robo in a last-ditch effort to protect reality itself.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Horror", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7296120-atomic-robo-and-the-shadow-from-beyond-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Fountains of Paradise", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 27041, "review_number": 692, "book_description": "This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morgan's dream of linking Earth with the stars requires a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. Includes a new introduction by the author.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149049.The_Fountains_of_Paradise"}, +{"book_title": "Singularity Sky", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 14342, "review_number": 541, "book_description": "In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated.Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech Earth live in parochial simplicity on the far-flung worlds of the New Republic. Their way of life is threatened by the arrival of an alien information plague known as the Festival. As forbidden technologies are literally dropped from the sky, suppressed political factions descend into revolutionary turmoil.A battle fleet is sent from Earth to destroy the Festival, but Spaceship engineer Martin Springfield and U.N. diplomat Rachel Mansour have been assigned rather different tasks. Their orders are to diffuse the crisis or to sabotage the New Republic's war-fleet, whatever the cost, before the Eschaton takes hostile action on a galactic scale.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Singularity", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81992.Singularity_Sky"}, +{"book_title": "I Am Number Four", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 319092, "review_number": 15919, "book_description": "Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books--but we are real.Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. We have lived among you without you knowing.But they know.They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.They killed them all.I am Number Four.I am next.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7747374-i-am-number-four"}, +{"book_title": "Peace and War", "author_name": "Joe Haldeman", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1119, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Together in one volume for the first time ever; his classic novel of epic future conflict, The Forever War, its sequel Forever Free, and the companion novel, Forever Peace.WARWilliam Mandella is a reluctant hero, drafted to fight in a distant interstellar war against unknowable and unconquerable aliens. But his greatest test will come when he returns to Earth. Relativity means that everey time he returns home after a few months' tour of duty, centuries have passed on Earth, making him and his fellows ever more isolated from the world for whose future they are fighting.FREEWhen Mandella returns for the last time he finds humanity has evolved into a group mind called Man. Living a dull life in an autocratic and intrusive society, missing the certainties of combat and feeling increasingly alienated, the veterans plan an escape. But when their ship starts to fail, their journey becomes a search for the unknown.PEACE2043. The Ngumi War rages, fought by 'soldierboys', indestructible machines operated remotely by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of those soldiers, and for him war is truly hell. But he and his companion, Dr Amelia Harding, have discovered something that could literally take the universe back to square one. For Julian, the discovery isn't so much terrifying as tempting...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/879803.Peace_and_War"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Only Human", "author_name": "Gareth Roberts", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3188, "review_number": 295, "book_description": "Somebody's interfering with time. The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack arrive on modern-day Earth to find the culprit -- and discover a Neanderthal Man, twenty-eight thousand years after his race became extinct. Only a trip back to the primeval dawn of humanity can solve the mystery.Who are the mysterious humans from the distant future now living in that distant past? What hideous monsters are trying to escape from behind the Grey Door? Is Rose going to end up married to a caveman?Caught between three very different types of human being -- past, present and future -- the Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack must learn the truth behind the Osterberg experiment before the monstrous Hy-Bractors escape to change humanity's history forever...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Media Tie In (Tv)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/678076.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "Machine", "author_name": "K.Z. Snow", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 54, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Mongrel Trilogy: Book ThreeThe closing-day flea market at the Marvelous Mechanical Circus always draws a colorful crowd, but salesman Will Marchman doesn\u2019t expect to see a large, elaborate gold wagon on the plaza\u2014especially one called the Spiritorium. The wagon\u2019s exotic looking owner claims he can perform \u201ccleansings and siphonings\u201d via a miracle-working machine housed within. He can supposedly flush the wickedness out of people and places.The Spiritorium appears in the Mongrel village of Taintwell the next day, setting off a potentially tragic chain of events that begins with a shocking revelation. To make matters worse, Fanule Perfidor, de facto mayor and Will\u2019s lover, has been neglecting to take the tonic that stabilizes his moods. Besieged by his illness, Fan drives Will away. Then Fan\u2019s best friend, vampire Clancy Marrowbone, vanishes, causing a rift between him and his mortal lover. Then Will disappears.As Fan regains control of his mind, he knows what he must do to save his village and the people most important to him. He must solve the mystery of the Spiritorium and confront a man he\u2019d hoped never to see again.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "M M Romance (M M Paranormal)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21857713-machine"}, +{"book_title": "The Titan's Curse", "author_name": "Rick Riordan", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 717984, "review_number": 21988, "book_description": "It's not everyday you find yourself in combat with a half-lion, half-human.But when you're the son of a Greek god, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster.Oh, and guess what? The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/561456.The_Titan_s_Curse"}, +{"book_title": "Steamlust", "author_name": "Kristina Wright", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 333, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Steamlust is romantic erotica that reflects the excitement, fantasy and rebellion of steampunk. Not sure what steampunk is? Think Victorian elegance and aesthetics meets futuristic invention and exploration. The genre of steampunk itself has transcended the Victorian (or Edwardian) eras -- in Kristina Wright's inventive anthology, it can be any time period, real or imagined, that blends elements of science, history, fantasy and technology. Until Steamlust, the genre had been missing romantic relationships and erotic encounters. Steampunk erotic romance is shiny brass and crushed velvet; mechanical inventions and romantic conventions; sexual fantasy and kinky fetish. It's steam powered sexy romance! Editrix extraordinaire Kristina Wright creates a lush and fantastical world of women-centered stories and romantic scenarios, first for steampunk fiction. Fetishizing the wardrobe, language, fantasy and rituals of steampunk, Steamlust includes alternate histories, second worlds, time travel and contemporary settings.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10786114-steamlust"}, +{"book_title": "Of Noble Family", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1934, "review_number": 312, "book_description": "The final book of the acclaimed Glamourist Histories is the magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen walked on the darker side of the Regency...Jane and Vincent have finally gotten some much-needed rest after their adventures in Italy when Vincent receives word that his estranged father has passed away on one of his properties in the West Indies. His brother, who manages the estate, is overwhelmed, and no one else in his family can go. Grudgingly, out of filial duty the couple decide to go.The sea voyage is long and Jane spends enough time unable to perform glamour that towards the end of the trip she discovers that she is with child. They are overjoyed, but when they finally arrive at the estate to complete what they expect to be routine legal tasks, they realize that nearly everything they came expecting to find had been a lie. Also, the entire estate is in disarray, with horrifying conditions and tensions with the local slave population so high that they are close to revolt.Jane and Vincent's sense of peril is screaming out for them to flee, but Vincent cannot stand to leave an estate connected with his family in such a condition. They have survived many grand and terrifying adventures in their time, but this one will test their skills and wits more than any they have ever encountered before, this time with a new life hanging in the balance.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Regency)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18873823-of-noble-family"}, +{"book_title": "The Buried Giant", "author_name": "Kazuo Ishiguro", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 76320, "review_number": 9799, "book_description": "\"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...\"The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.Included on TIME Magazine's \"THE 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME\"", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literary Fiction", "Novels", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Literature", "Magical Realism", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22522805-the-buried-giant"}, +{"book_title": "Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju", "author_name": "Kim Newman", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 158, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "\nThe new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman.\n\n\"Compulsory reading... glorious\" Neil Gaiman on \n\nAnno Dracula\n\nIt is the eve of the new millennium, and vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Tokyo, attended by the leaders of the worlds of technology, finance and culture. But the party is crashed by less enlightened souls. The distinguished guests are held hostage by yakuza assassins and Transylvanian mercenaries, and vampire schoolgirl Nezumi - agent of the Diogenes Club - finds herself pitted against the world's deadliest creatures...", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Gothic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43737644-anno-dracula-1999"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel of the Innocents, Vol. 02", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 484, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "The innocent children of Tiphares, the great city in the sky, have banded together, and Alita has been shanghaied into joining their cause. Their leader, Jim, the young genius who assisted her archenemy Desty Nova in resurrecting her, has been killed - yet his memories live on inside his creation, a huge childlike robot as destructive as a three-story-high three-year-old can be.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Action", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/838860.Battle_Angel_Alita_Last_Order_"}, +{"book_title": "Waistcoats & Weaponry", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 18157, "review_number": 1879, "book_description": "Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style\u2014with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey stowaway on a train to return their classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. No one suspected what\u2014or who\u2014they would find aboard that suspiciously empty train. Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to throw all of London into chaos and she must decide where her loyalties lie, once and for all.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20980648-waistcoats-weaponry"}, +{"book_title": "Ace of Shades", "author_name": "Amanda Foody", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 11118, "review_number": 2553, "book_description": "Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets\u2026and secrets hide in every shadow.Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school\u2014and her reputation\u2014behind to follow her mother\u2019s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.Frightened and alone, Enne has only one lead: the name Levi Glaisyer. Unfortunately, Levi is not the gentleman she expected\u2014he\u2019s a street lord and a con man. Levi is also only one payment away from cleaning up a rapidly unraveling investment scam, so he doesn't have time to investigate a woman leading a dangerous double life. Enne's offer of compensation, however, could be the solution to all his problems. Their search for clues leads them through glamorous casinos, illicit cabarets and into the clutches of a ruthless Mafia donna. As Enne unearths an impossible secret about her past, Levi's enemies catch up to them, ensnaring him in a vicious execution game where the players always lose. To save him, Enne will need to surrender herself to the city\u2026And she\u2019ll need to play.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30238163-ace-of-shades"}, +{"book_title": "Dr. Identity", "author_name": "D. Harlan Wilson", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 175, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "For a professor at Corndog University it's quite acceptable to purchase a robotic doppleganger and have it teach your classes for you. But how does it reflect on your teaching skills when your doppleganger murders the whole class? Follow the Dystopian Duo (Dr. Blah Blah Blah and his robot Dr. Identity) on a killing spree of epic proportions through the irreal postapocalyptic city of Bliptown where time ticks sideways, artificial Bug-Eyed Monsters punish citizens for consumer-capitalist lethargy, and ultraviolence is as essential as a daily multivitamin.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Horror (Bizarro Fiction)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895147.Dr_Identity"}, +{"book_title": "Tansy's Titan", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2533, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Tansy Bell, is the middle daughter of the three Bell sisters. She has always been a little different, even for a Bell. A chameleon, she can change her appearance and personality to blend in almost anywhere. She uses this talent to bring some of the worse criminals in the world to justice.Mak \u2018Tag Krell Manok is the wild one of his four brothers. He is known for his hot temper, fierce strength, and skills as a warrior. Few men in any galaxy dare to challenge him and live. Frustrated at his failure to find females compatible with a Prime male, he returns to his home world only to discover his oldest brother has found his bond mate \u2013 in an unusual species known as a human. What is even more astonishing is his reaction to an image of his brother\u2019s bond mate\u2019s sister.Mak has set a new course \u2013 for Earth and the female that stirs his blood to fire! But first, he has to find her. Next, he has to convince her she belongs to him. If all else fails, he will just take her, after all, she is delicate, fragile, and no match for a Prime warrior.What he doesn\u2019t expect is to find her in trouble and fighting for her life. Now, he must save her before it is too late. But, even then there is no guarantee that she will come with him. For this small, fragile female has the strength and determination of twenty Prime males and values her independence.Mak is about to learn that big trouble can come in very small packages and size is often a misconception because there is one female in the universe not afraid to stand up to him \u2013 even if she is afraid to love him.Can he keep her alive long enough to realize she is the perfect mate for an untamed warrior or will the men determined to kill her take not only her life but his as well?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Warriors"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16119716-tansy-s-titan"}, +{"book_title": "Vampires of Avonmouth", "author_name": "Tim Kindberg", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 4, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Avonmouth, 2087. Everything changes for David when a ship arrives from West Africa, carrying a vampire who hungers not for blood but mental energy. As she hunts those around him, David struggles to protect her ultimate prey: the woman he falls in love with, despite himself. For David is carrying his own monstrous secret inside. If he fails, she will lose her mind. Literally.This gothic science fiction story takes us on an action-packed exploration of mental enslavement \u2013 by systems of oppression, and by parts of our own selves.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Western Africa (Ghana)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction", "Gothic", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56466161-vampires-of-avonmouth"}, +{"book_title": "City of Ruins", "author_name": "Kristine Kathryn Rusch", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 631, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Boss, a loner, loved to dive derelict spacecraft adrift in the blackness of space.... But one day, she found a ship that would change everything - an ancient Dignity Vessel - and aboard the ship, the mysterious and dangerous Stealth Tech. Now, years after discovering that first ship, Boss has put together a large company that finds Dignity Vessels and \"loose\" stealth technology.Following a hunch, Boss and her team come to investigate the city of Vaycehn, where 14 archeologists have died exploring the endless caves below the city. Mysterious \"death holes\" explode into the city itself for no apparent reason, and Boss believes stealth tech is involved. As Boss searches for the answer to the mystery of the death holes, she will uncover the answer to her Dignity Vessel quest as well - and one more thing, something so important that it will change her life and the universe forever.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9631963-city-of-ruins"}, +{"book_title": "Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod", "author_name": "Brian Kesinger", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 484, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "A beautifully produced and richly illustrated book that showcases the day-to-day adventures of independent girl-about-town Victoria Psismall and her pet land octopus Otto. Thirty panoramic, full-page illustrations humorously chronicle the duo's home and social activities that include (among other things) bathing, biking, dating, cooking, playing croquet, and pumpkin carving. Accompanying text explains the \"do\"s and \"don't\"s of living with a large land octopus. The book's art is extremely detailed, and each illustration tells its own visual story. The Victorian era characters and period-influenced design elements combine to create a wonderful, collectible art-object for those who still value the classic elegance of ink-on-paper. The hardcover binding is plussed with two-layer embossing and spot varnish, and the interior is printed on extra heavy paper. An exquisite volume for lovers of books, art and pets.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Art", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Animals", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17659671-walking-your-octopus"}, +{"book_title": "The Infinity Cage", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1208, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . . The end is approaching for the TimeRiders. In a final effort to prevent time travel destroying history, Liam and Maddy jump forward to 2070 to confront the enigmatic Waldstein and prove once and for all if he is friend or foe. What they discover is more shocking than anyone could have imagined and soon the TimeRiders are on one final mission - back to Biblical times to save the whole of humanity...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20734103-the-infinity-cage"}, +{"book_title": "Galactic Energies", "author_name": "Luca Rossi", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 479, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "The artificial intelligences of DataCom are trying to save the planet\u2026 by exterminating the human race. Aurelia finds her perfect man: a robot. The space explorer Captain Arcot sacrifices his life for an impossible conquest, the heart of Vril the vampire queen. A shape-shifting mutant ignites the erotic desires of the galactic police officer who's been tracking her down. Alessio fights against corruption in a universe of his own creation. An innocent man is forced to submit to the domination of a ruthless prison director. A king who's forgotten his own past wanders through a magical dimension where he discovers his own history. Two souls separated after one abandons the other meet again in another life. In an exciting virtual reality game, the hunter of the fearsome black widow becomes her prey.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adventure", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Philosophy (Metaphysics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224520-galactic-energies"}, +{"book_title": "The Demon Slave: Paranormal Science Fiction Romance", "author_name": "Kiersten Fay", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1747, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "From USA Today bestselling author Kiersten Fay comes this sizzling hot tale of a rouge demon mercenary and the Faieara princess who enchants him.Marik Radkov believed the only thing left from his tortured past were the scars that adorned his body. When he is stranded on a foreign planet and held captive by a beautiful stranger, he is forced to face his past once more.Years after she was forced to take refuge on the icy planet of Undewla, Nadua has all but lost hope that her people will return for her. When the threat of a native rebellion arises, she is inexplicably recused by a ruthless demon who ignites a desire in her she cannot deny.As danger draws near, Marik struggles to contain his powerful lust for her while keeping them both alive.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53568139-the-demon-slave"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon Bound", "author_name": "Thea Harrison", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 44342, "review_number": 3098, "book_description": "Half-human and half-Wyr, Pia Giovanni spent her life keeping a low profile among the Wyrkind and avoiding the continuing conflict between them and their Dark Fae enemies. But after being blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Pia finds herself targeted by one of the most powerful\u2014and passionate\u2014of the Elder Races.As the most feared and respected of the Wyrkind, Dragos Cuelebre cannot believe someone had the audacity to steal from him, much less succeed. And when he catches the thief, Dragos spares her life, claiming her as his own to further explore the desire they've ignited in each other.Pia knows she must repay Dragos for her trespass, but refuses to become his slave\u2014although she cannot deny wanting him, body and soul.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9637479-dragon-bound"}, +{"book_title": "Ether & Elephants", "author_name": "Cindy Spencer Pape", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 332, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "A Gaslight Chronicles NovelSir Thomas Devere and Eleanor Hadrian have loved each other most of their lives\u2014but sometimes love doesn't conquer all.Their chance at happiness was ruined by Tom's hasty marriage to someone else. Heartbroken, Nell left home, finding a new life as a teacher at a school for the blind. But when one of her supernaturally gifted students, Charlie, is kidnapped, Tom reappears and her worlds collide.Tom claims he hasn't seen his wife since the day of their marriage\u2026yet he fears the missing student could be his son.The deeper they dig, the more Tom and Nell discover: a deadly alchemist, more missing gifted children and long-suppressed feelings neither of them is ready for. A race on airship across England and India may lead them to answers\u2014including a second chance at love\u2014but only if all of British Society isn't destroyed first.83,160 words", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Steampunk Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20646647-ether-elephants"}, +{"book_title": "Apocalypse of the Dead", "author_name": "Joe McKinney", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4169, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "Two hellish years. That's how long it's been since the hurricanes flooded the Gulf Coast, & the dead rose up from the ruins. The cities were quarantined; the infected, contained. Any unlucky survivors were left to fend for themselves. One boatload of refugees manages to make it out alive - but one passenger carries the virus.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9373995-apocalypse-of-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "I Spy A Runaway Robot", "author_name": "J. Elizabeth Mills", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 7, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Spyler and CeCe are the stars of the new I Spy TV show! This 8x8 TV tie-in book has both a fun story and an exciting I Spy game!Meet Spyler and CeCe. They love to play I spy!In this story, they want to build a robot to clean up their room. It's time to play I spy!I spy a tin can, a light bulb for a head,two googly eyes, and a button that's red!However, Spyler and CeCe are in for quite a surprise--their robot, Clankenspy, goes way too fast! So CeCe slows Clankenspy down. Spyler and CeCe clean up after their robot, cleaning their room in the process. And the very nice robot makes them tea and cookies.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52667.I_Spy_A_Runaway_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "The Natural Way of Things", "author_name": "Charlotte Wood", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 11148, "review_number": 1517, "book_description": "Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted.Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls, forced to wear strange uniforms, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious armed jailers and a 'nurse'. The girls all have something in common, but what is it? What crime has brought them here from the city? Who is the mysterious security company responsible for this desolate place with its brutal rules, its total isolation from the contemporary world? Doing hard labour under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. They pray for rescue - but when the food starts running out it becomes clear that the jailers have also become the jailed. The girls can only rescue themselves.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Feminism", "Book Club", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Literature", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25876358-the-natural-way-of-things"}, +{"book_title": "When Worlds Collide", "author_name": "Philip Wylie", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2076, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed earth. Their greatest threat, they soon discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans.\u00a0A crackling plot and sizzling, cataclysmic vision have made When Worlds Collide one of the most popular and influential end-of-the-world novels of all time. This Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition features the original story and its sequel, After Worlds Collide.", "year_published": 1932, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Classics", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/670572.When_Worlds_Collide"}, +{"book_title": "Unnatural History", "author_name": "Jonathan Green", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 610, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo. Welcome to Magna Britannia, a steam driven world full of fantastical creations and shady villains. Here dashing dandies and mustachioed villains battle for supremacy while below the city strange things stir in the flooded tunnels of the old London Underground. In two scant months the nation, and all her colonies, will celebrate 160 years of Queen Victoria's glorious reign. But all is not well at the heart of the empire of Magna Britannia. A chain of events is about to be set in motion that, if not stopped, could lead to a world-shattering conclusion. It begins with a break-in at the Natural History Museum. A night watchman is murdered. An eminent Professor of Evolutionary Biology goes missing. Then a catastrophic overground rail-crash unleashes the dinosaurs of London Zoo", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Victorian)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/580446.Unnatural_History"}, +{"book_title": "The Devil's Pay", "author_name": "Dave Gross", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 105, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Samantha 'Sam' MacHorne and her Devil Dogs need a contract, and when one comes in that leads to the haunted Wythmoor Forest, the company moves out with warjacks and slug guns at the ready... Sam and the Devil Dogs may be relaxing in Tarna, but it\u2019s not by choice\u2014they\u2019d rather be employed than resting up. When a dangerous job offer comes from \u201cthe old man,\u201d Sam takes the Devil Dogs and their newest recruit, Dawson, on a perilous hunt to capture an unidentified warjack before their rival Steelheads or the horrific Cryx make a claim on the never-before-seen technology.Whether their mission will be worth the risk remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: Sam and the Devil Dogs will do whatever it takes to bring home The Devil\u2019s Pay.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17695075-the-devil-s-pay"}, +{"book_title": "Things Fall Apart", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 517, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuary. \u00a0 People have been scraping by on the excess food and goods produced before the eruption. But supplies are running low. Natural resources are dwindling. And former police officer Colin Ferguson knows that time is running out for his family\u2014and for humanity....", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707563-things-fall-apart"}, +{"book_title": "Dispel Illusion", "author_name": "Mark Lawrence", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 3983, "review_number": 418, "book_description": "Sometimes being wrong is the right answer.Nick Hayes\u2019s genius is in wringing out the universe\u2019s secrets. It\u2019s a talent that\u2019s allowed him to carve paths through time. But the worst part is that he knows how his story will end. He\u2019s seen it with his own eyes. And every year that passes, every breakthrough he makes, brings him a step closer. Mia\u2019s accident is waiting for them both in 2011. If it happens then he\u2019s out of choices.Then a chance 1992 discovery reveals that this seeker of truth has been lying to himself. But why? It\u2019s a question that haunts him for years. A straw he clings to as his long-awaited fate draws near.Time travel turns out not to be the biggest problem Nick has to work on. He needs to find out how he can stay on his path but change the destination. Failure has never been an option, and neither has survival. But Nick\u2019s hoping to roll the dice one more time. And this new truth begins with a lie.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44806008-dispel-illusion"}, +{"book_title": "Press Start to Play", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1446, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "Video games are a multi-billion dollar a year industry that has outpaced movies and books combined. The humble, pixelated games of the \u201870s and \u201880s have evolved into the vivid, realistic, and immersive form of entertainment that now rivals all other forms of media for dominance in the consumer marketplace. For many, video games have become the cultural icons around which pop culture revolves.PRESS START TO PLAY is an anthology of stories inspired by video games: stories that attempt to recreate the feel of a video game in prose form; stories that play with the concepts common (or exclusive) to video games; and stories about the creation of video games and/or about the video games\u2014or the gamers\u2014themselves.These stories will appeal to anyone who has interacted with games, from hardcore teenaged fanatics, to men and women who game after their children have gone to bed, to your well-meaning aunt who won\u2019t stop inviting you to join her farm-based Facebook games.At the helm of this project are Daniel H. Wilson\u2014bestselling novelist and expert in artificial intelligence\u2014and John Joseph Adams\u2014bestselling, Hugo Award-nominated editor of more than a dozen science fiction/fantasy anthologies and series editor of Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy (volume one forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin in 2015). Together, they have drawn on their wide-ranging contacts to assemble an incredibly talented group of authors who are eager to attack the topic of video games from startling and fascinating angles.Under the direction of an A.I. specialist and a veteran editor, the anthology will expose readers to a strategically chosen mix of stories that explore novel video game concepts in prose narratives, such as save points, kill screens, gold-farming, respawning, first-person shooters, unlocking achievements, and getting \u201cpwned.\u201d Likewise, each of our authors is an accomplished specialist in areas such as science fiction, fantasy, and techno-thrillers, and many have experience writing for video games professionally.Combining unique viewpoints and exacting realism, this anthology promises to thrill generations of readers, from those who grew up with Atari 2600s to the console and PC gamers of today.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Video Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24044140-press-start-to-play"}, +{"book_title": "Tink's Neverland", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 4200, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Jasmine \u201cTinker\u201d Bell has always had a love for life, looking forward to any new adventure that happens to come along. When a friend\u2019s experiment creates a portal to another world she finds herself swept into a faraway galaxy she thought only existed in the movies. J\u2019kar \u2018Tag Krell Manok had given up hope of ever finding his bond mate. He is surprised when a pint-size female unlike anything he has ever seen suddenly appears on his spaceship to save the life of his brother during an attack. When she is suddenly taken from him he will do anything to get her back and claim her. Two different worlds collide when Tink, a mechanic in a small college town, meets J\u2019kar, a Prime warrior from a far off galaxy. When Tink\u2019s life is in danger, only J\u2019kar can save her. Now Tink has to decide if she is willing to give up everything she has ever known and loved to stay with the alien she has fallen in love with. Will their worlds survive the collision or will they be torn apart?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13703312-tink-s-neverland"}, +{"book_title": "Taken", "author_name": "Erin Bowman", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 11634, "review_number": 1429, "book_description": "There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys\u2014but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends\u2026and he\u2019s gone.They call it the Heist.Gray Weathersby\u2019s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he\u2019s prepared to meet his fate\u2013until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he\u2019s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot\u2013a structure that no one can cross and survive.Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken\u2013or risk everything on the hope of the other side?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11044367-taken"}, +{"book_title": "Kidnapping Casey", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 7864, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "All Casey wants is to avoid being arrested on trumped-up charges from her persistent ex-boyfriend. Running through the woods to escape two deputies sounds like a great plan until they catch her. Thinking it\u2019s all over, waiting to hear the snap of the handcuffs, she instead hears a roar.A huge, tall, muscular man comes to her rescue. She\u2019s being saved by Bigfoot\u2014and he\u2019s the sexiest thing she\u2019s ever seen. The attraction between them is instant, and after spending a little time with him, Casey wants to take him home and keep him.There are a few problems with that plan. He\u2019s not the legendary creature, but he definitely isn\u2019t human. Argernon is a warrior from Zorn. They do have one thing in common\u2014he wants to take her home and keep her. He\u2019s kidnapping Casey.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7801690-kidnapping-casey"}, +{"book_title": "Protected", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1669, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "Grav N\u2019gol is many things. Murderer\u2026ex-con\u2026Alien half-breed\u2026 And a Protector. More than just a bodyguard, a Protector chooses a female to ward for life and swears an oath to die for her if necessary. Enter Leah Roth. The luscious little Earth female is supposed to be just a quick surveillance gig for Grav. He\u2019ll check on her and report back that she\u2019s okay\u2014it should be easy. Only she\u2019s not okay. When Grav sees Leah\u2019s abusive husband hurting her, he swings into action. Before he knows it, he has Leah aboard his ship. When he\u2019s given a dangerous and difficult mission, Leah volunteers to come along and help\u2026and somehow Grav can\u2019t say no. But as much as he feels drawn to the lovely little human, Grav knows it can never be between them. For in his past lurks a bloody and savage secret that would turn even the most forgiving heart against him. From his past and from his true nature Leah must be... Protected at all costs.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30327215-protected"}, +{"book_title": "Brothers in Arms", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 15716, "review_number": 552, "book_description": "In the wake of unexpected planetary peace and the disappearance of the Dendarii payroll, mercenary captain Miles Naismith attempts to discover the link between the insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates. Reissue. AB.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296182.Brothers_in_Arms"}, +{"book_title": "Sky Coyote", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 2368, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "Facilitator Joseph is quite a guy. He's sailed with the Phoenicians, and he's been an Egyptian priest, an Athenian politician, and secretary to a Roman senator. After all, his employer, the twenty-fourth-century Company, sends immortal cyborgs like Joseph all over the world and all over time. But now Joseph finds himself in 1699, in the Mayan jungle's Lost City (actually a spa for the Company's operatives) with his protegee, the Botanist Mendoza, who still hasn't forgiven him for that unfortunate incident in Elizabethan England. And he has to save an ancient people from encroachment by the coming white men -- even if it means convincing the entire pre-Columbian village to step into the future.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270492.Sky_Coyote"}, +{"book_title": "The Gone-Away World", "author_name": "Nick Harkaway", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 11748, "review_number": 1720, "book_description": "The Jorgmund Pipe is the backbone of the world, and it's on fire. Gonzo Lubitsch, professional hero and troubleshooter, is hired to put it out, but there's more to the fire, and the Pipe itself, than meets the eye. The job will take Gonzo and his best friend, our narrator, back to their own beginnings.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Unfinished", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3007704-the-gone-away-world"}, +{"book_title": "Android: Rebel", "author_name": "Mel Odom", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 130, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Drake 3GI2RC is wanted for a murder he didn\u2019t commit. Haunted by another man\u2019s memories, the NAPD\u2019s most infamous android cop must quickly uncover the truth of his own past. Unfortunately, his search has taken him from the familiar New Angeles streets to the politically volatile planet Mars. Will Drake find answers before he\u2019s caught in the midst of an interplanetary civil war? Rebel is the third and final installment of The Identity Trilogy, a series based in the near-future dystopian world of Android. In it, Mel Odom concludes his tale of murder, intrigue, and what it means to be human.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20985930-android"}, +{"book_title": "Deliverer", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2292, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "The ninth novel in Cherryh\u2019s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences\u2026In the aftermath of civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with his son and heir Cajeiri, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the seat of power. The usurper, Murini, has escaped to the lands of his supporters, but the danger these rebels pose is far from over. Ilisidi, Tabini's grandmother, the aiji-dowager, has returned to her ancient castle in the East, for she has powerful ties in the lands of the rebels, and she seeks to muster whatever support for her grandson that she can from among those enemy strongholds.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Planetary Romance)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57009.Deliverer"}, +{"book_title": "Record of a Spaceborn Few", "author_name": "Becky Chambers", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 22957, "review_number": 3311, "book_description": "Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. Humanity has finally been accepted into the galactic community, but while this has opened doors for many, those who have not yet left for alien cities fear that their carefully cultivated way of life is under threat.Tessa chose to stay home when her brother Ashby left for the stars, but has to question that decision when her position in the Fleet is threatened.Kip, a reluctant young apprentice, itches for change but doesn't know where to find it.Sawyer, a lost and lonely newcomer, is just looking for a place to belong.When a disaster rocks this already fragile community, those Exodans who still call the Fleet their home can no longer avoid the inescapable question:What is the purpose of a ship that has reached its destination?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "Audiobook", "Space", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32802595-record-of-a-spaceborn-few"}, +{"book_title": "Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology", "author_name": "James Patrick Kelly", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 755, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the\u00a0current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and\u00a0unexpected directions. Cyberpunk freewheels with punk rock energy, careening between the internet, bioengineering, and international politics, its influence saturating entertainment and the mass media. Drawing on the traditions of\u00a0the pioneering cyberpunk manifesto, Mirrorshades, each story delves into the gritty world of technological change.\u00a0Legendary Mirrorshades editor and contributor Bruce Sterling is back, alongside such cutting-edge\u00a0writers\u00a0as Cory Doctorow, Jonathan Lethem, Gwyneth Jones, Hal Duncan, Charles Stross, and Pat Cadigan. With a daring introduction from James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, editors of the controversial Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, this collection is an exhilarating snapshot of a vibrant literary movement.Contents\u201cIntroduction: Hacking Cyberpunk\u201d by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel\u201cBicycle Repairman\u201d by Bruce Sterling\u201cLobsters\u201d by Charles Stross\u201cThe Voluntary State\u201d by Christopher Rowe\u201cWhen Sysadmins Rules the Earth\u201d by Cory Doctorow\u201cThe Wedding Album\u201d by David Marusek\u201cTwo Dreams on Trains\u201d by Elizabeth Bear\u201cYeyuka\u201d by Greg Egan\u201cRed Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland\u201d by Gwyneth JonesSterling-Kessel Correspondence\u201cHow We Got in Town and out Again\u201d by Jonathan Lethem\u201cSearch Engine\u201d by Mary Rosenblum\u201cThe Dog Said Bow-Wow\u201d by Michael Swanwick\u201cThe Calorie Man\u201d By Paolo Bagciaglupi\u201cThe Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry With a Completely Remastered \u2018Soundtrack\u2019\u201d by Pat Cadigan\u201cWhat\u2019s Up Tiger Lily?\u201d by Paul Di Filippo\u201cDaddy\u2019s World\u201d by Walter Jon Williams\u201cThirteen Views of a Cardboard City\u201d by William Gibson", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Literature (21st Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/948138.Rewired"}, +{"book_title": "Torch of Freedom", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 4464, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "The Direct Sequel to Crown of Slaves. Two New York Times Best-Selling Authors Again Join Forces in a New Novel in David Weber\u2019s Honor Harrington Universe. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As the slavemasters of Mesa plot against the Star Empire of Manticore and the newly liberated slave planet of Torch, Anton Zilwicki and the notorious Havenite secret agent Victor Cachat set off on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth concerning a wave of mysterious assassinations that have been launched against Manticore and Torch. Most people are sure that the Republic of Haven is behind the assassinations, but Zilwicki and Cachat suspect others of being the guilty party. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Queen Berry of Torch was one of the targets of the unknown assassins. The former head of the Ballroom slave liberation organization, Jeremy X\u2014now one of Torch's top officials, but still considered by many the most dangerous terrorist in the galaxy\u2014calls in some past favors owed to him. In response, a security officer from Beowulf arrives in Torch to take charge of Queen Berry's security\u2014a task made doubly difficult by the young monarch's resentment of bodyguards and the security officer's own growing attachment to her. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile, powerful forces in the Solarian League are maneuvering against each other to gain the upper hand in what they all expect to be an explosive crisis that threatens the very existence of the League itself.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6308259-torch-of-freedom"}, +{"book_title": "Ecko Rising", "author_name": "Danie Ware", "rating_score": 3.08, "rating_votes": 451, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Ecko: Rising is a unique genre-bending fantasy\u2013sci-fi epic following a savage, gleefully cynical anti-hero. After awakening in a dimension-jumping inn to find himself immersed in his own sardonic fantasy world, Ecko joins a misfit cast of characters and strives to conquer his deepest fears and save the world from extinction.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13557892-ecko-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Missing in Action", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 432, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Investigating a series of murders leads Inquisitor Eisenhorn into the clutches of a Chaos cult in this short story set between Xenos and Malleus which was previously available in the Eisenhorn Omnibus.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "40k", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13557870-missing-in-action"}, +{"book_title": "Clan and Crown", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 521, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They'd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer, and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human--but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids.Rick has faced facts: This place is going to be home, permanently. To create a society safe for themselves and the families they are gradually building, they need to do more than just survive. The must convince the others that a unified, peaceful society is better than a collection of warring tribes. Force would not be Rick's chosen method of persuasion, but on a planet where the other dominant culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome, force may be the only way.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450866.Clan_and_Crown"}, +{"book_title": "Man Made Boy", "author_name": "Jon Skovron", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 794, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "Love can be a real monster.Seventeen-year-old Boy\u2019s never left home. When you\u2019re the son of Frankenstein\u2019s monster and the Bride, it\u2019s tough to go out in public, unless you want to draw the attention of a torch-wielding mob. And since Boy and his family live in a secret enclave of monsters hidden under Times Square, it\u2019s important they maintain a low profile.Boy\u2019s only interactions with the world are through the Internet, where he\u2019s a hacker extraordinaire who can hide his hulking body and stitched-together face behind a layer of code. When conflict erupts at home, Boy runs away and embarks on a cross-country road trip with the granddaughters of Jekyll and Hyde, who introduce him to malls and diners, love and heartbreak. But no matter how far Boy runs, he can\u2019t escape his demons\u2014both literal and figurative\u2014until he faces his family once more.This hilarious, romantic, and wildly imaginative tale redefines what it means to be a monster\u2014and a man.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Retellings", "Romance", "Horror", "Fiction", "Folklore (Monsters)", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17297488-man-made-boy"}, +{"book_title": "ArchEnemy", "author_name": "Frank Beddor", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 10865, "review_number": 746, "book_description": "Imagine this...The power of imagination has been lost!Now it's all about the artillery as AD52s, crystal shooters, spikejack tumblers, and orb cannons are unleashed in a war of weapons and brute force.As Alyss searches wildly for the solution to the disaster that has engulfed her queendom, Arch declares himself King of Wonderland. The moment is desperate enough for Alyss to travel back to London for answers, where Arch's assassins are threatening Alice Liddell and her family. But after coming to the Liddells' assistance, Alyss discovers herself trapped in a conundrum of evaporating puddles. The shimmering portals that exist to transport her home through the Pool of Tears are disappearing!What is happening in Wonderland? Deep within the Valley of Mushroom the Caterpillar Oracles issue this prophecy: \"Action shall be taken to ensure the safety of the Heart Crystal. For Everqueen.\" But who is Everqueen?As the metamorphosis of Wonderland unfolds, enemies become allies, bitter rivals face off, and Queen Alyss and Redd Heart must both confront their pasts in this thrilling, no-holds-barred conclusion to the New York Times bestselling series.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6178354-archenemy"}, +{"book_title": "Storm's Heart", "author_name": "Thea Harrison", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 18961, "review_number": 1175, "book_description": "He's a Wyr warrior, a god of storms. She's the heir to the Dark Fae throne. But desire will bring both to their knees in this all-new Novel of the Elder Races.During the rule of her murderous Dark Fae uncle, Thistle \"Tricks\" Periwinkle found sanctuary among the Wyr in New York. Her ethereal beauty and sparkling personality won the hearts of the public, but after her uncle's death, there are those who don't want to see her ascend to the throne.Able to wield thunder and lightning, Wyr sentinel Tiago Black Eagle has ruled the skies for centuries. His massive build and thunderous power make him one of the Wyr's best weapons. And he's sent to protect Tricks when she's almost assassinated in Chicago.Soon, both Tiago and Tricks will fall prey to the stormy hunger that engulfs them\u2014a passion that will shake the very foundation of all the worlds.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9665450-storm-s-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Life Before Legend", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 17557, "review_number": 1410, "book_description": "Find out more about June and Day in this never-before-seen glimpse into their daily lives before they met in Marie Lu\u2019s New York Times bestselling LEGEND series. As twelve-year-olds struggling to survive in two very different worlds within the Republic\u2019s stronghold, June was starting her first day of school at Drake University as the youngest cadet ever admitted, and Day was fighting for food on the streets of the Lake sector. LIFE BEFORE LEGEND contains two original stories written by Marie Lu that give readers a sneak peek into the lives of their favorite characters in a thrilling new context.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235347-life-before-legend"}, +{"book_title": "Accelerando", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 19734, "review_number": 1173, "book_description": "The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber's son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity.For something is systemically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Singularity", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando"}, +{"book_title": "The Coldest War", "author_name": "Ian Tregillis", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3586, "review_number": 388, "book_description": "Someone is killing Britain's warlocks.Twenty-two years after the Second World War, a precarious balance of power maintains the peace between Great Britain and the USSR. For decades, the warlocks have been all that stand between the British Empire and the Soviet Union-- a vast domain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the English Channel. But now each death is another blow to Britain's security.Meanwhile, a brother and sister escape from a top-secret research facility deep behind the Iron Curtain. Once subjects of a twisted Nazi experiment to imbue ordinary humans with extraordinary abilities, then prisoners of war in the vast Soviet effort to reverse engineer the Nazi technology, they head for England.Because that's where former spy Raybould Marsh lives. And Gretel, the mad seer, has plans for him.As Marsh is drawn back into the world of Milkweed, he discovers that Britain's darkest acts didn't end with the war. And as he strives to protect Queen and country, he's forced to confront his own willingness to accept victory at any cost.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "War", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10387413-the-coldest-war"}, +{"book_title": "Much Fall of Blood", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 581, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Three Top Writers Continue the Epic Fantasy Adventure Begun in the Best-Seller The Shadow of the Lion.Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly warrior Erik, survived dangers and enemies both\u00a0 natural and supernmatural, and if they thought that their new mission was going to be anything but more of the same, they soon gave up on that hope. Returning from Jerusalem, they and their escort of knights of the Holy Trinity are escorting an envoy of II Khan Mongol to the lands of the Golden Horde-between the Black Sea and the Carpathians, which happen to be eastern bastion against their old enemies, the demon Chernobog and his possessed puppet, the Jangellion.Unfortunately, what began as a diplomatic mission leads to Manfred and his knights being caught up in an inter-clan civil war, rescuingh a fugitive woman and her injured brother, and becoming involved in the problems of Prince Vlad, Duke of Valahia, who has been held as a hostage by King Emeric og Hungary until freed by Countess Elizabeth Batholdy to use as bait to capture a gropu pf nonhumans. Instead, the wolflike nonhumans, who masquerade as gypsies, free Prince Vlad, and help him to return to his homeland to raise revolt against Hungary and to renew age-old magics.Manfred and Erik are forced into an alliance of convenience between the Golden Horde and the ancient magical\u00a0 forces of Valahia, as directed by the troubled Vlad. The magic calls for blood and Vlad is deathly afraid of it-and at the same time, is irresistibly drawn toward it...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Egypt (Alexandria)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6669424-much-fall-of-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Decrypted", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2047, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Professor Tikaya Komitopis knew that bringing Admiral Rias Starcrest home to meet her family wouldn\u2019t be easy, not when he led the fleet that decimated her nation during the war. She isn\u2019t surprised when people believe she\u2019s been brainwashed, that Rias is still loyal to the empire, and that he has nefarious plans for her homeland. She is, however, surprised when Rias\u2019s designs to build a submarine lead them to stumble across an ancient secret shrouded in mystery, time, and lies.If revealed, this secret could mean devastation for Tikaya\u2019s entire nation. It could also mean choosing between her people... and the man she loves.Decrypted is the sequel to Encrypted and is loosely tied in with the author's \"Emperor's Edge\" series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17450558-decrypted"}, +{"book_title": "The Stars My Destination", "author_name": "Alfred Bester", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 43749, "review_number": 2822, "book_description": "In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people \"jaunte\" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hitmen\u2014and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive. The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333867.The_Stars_My_Destination"}, +{"book_title": "The Solution", "author_name": "Piper Scott", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 584, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Vincent\u2019s past threaten to overthrow his future. The solution? He\u2019s about to find it in the storage closet at his friend\u2019s wedding. Independent, introverted, and eager to please, all single dad Vincent is expecting when he flies in to attend his friend\u2019s wedding is a good time\u2026 not an irresistible older omega who slips into his heart as quickly as he slips into his bed. With a job relocation to the city on the horizon, a relationship isn\u2019t off the table, but there\u2019s a catch. There\u2019s something about Vincent\u2019s past his prospective lover needs to know\u2014something he\u2019d rather leave behind. Can he jeopardize his fresh start for a chance at love? Alone his entire life, all Mal wants is to have a family. The solution? Take matters into his own hands\u2026 Always a babysitter, never a dad, Mal has struggled with issues of self-worth his entire life, and at his age, he\u2019s come to accept that he\u2019s meant to be alone. Eager to have a family he can love, and who will love him back, he decides to pursue IVF and start a family on his own. But when his path intersects Vincent\u2019s, he finds himself questioning whether love really is possible. Mal is no stranger to the evil in men\u2019s hearts. The only one he can trust is himself, isn\u2019t it? But with kind and thoughtful Vincent, imagining a brighter future is a temptation that might prove too good to resist. When life reunites their paths in unexpected ways after a sizzling one-night stand, Vincent and Mal are faced with a choice\u2014let their forbidden connection keep them apart, or indulge in love and lust like they\u2019ve never known it before. The Solution is a 90,000 word contemporary omegaverse mpreg novel featuring a quirky group of single dads, fabulous revenge, an ice-cold shower that will leave you hot beneath the collar, and a unique take on Daddy kink perfect for two men who don\u2019t quite fit the mold. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Fantasy", "Family", "Childrens", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "M M Romance (M M Contemporary)", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40657706-the-solution"}, +{"book_title": "The Big O, Vol. 4", "author_name": "Hajime Yatate", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 28, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Series Description: Hard-boiled police negotiator Roger Smith must help crime-ridden Paradigm City -- and himself -- reclaim its forgotten past and restore order with the help of the giant robot known as The Big O. Based on the popular anime series, this moody, noirish tale combines surreal touches and hard action a la The Matrix! In this first entry, Roger Smith's flashbacks help him start to piece together a lost past. But his only real hope is to negotiate with the criminals who hold the city's Memory Repository hostage. Meanwhile, a million lightning bugs are sent to drain the batteries of his chief weapon, the Big O!", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1749298.The_Big_O_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "The Counterfeit Captain (Captain Nancy Martin Book 1", "author_name": "Henry Vogel", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 97, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Captain Nancy Martin expects a lonely death. Passing out as her battle-damaged starfighter bleeds the last of its air, she comes to in the cavernous and deserted docking bay of an unknown starship. Leaving her crippled fighter to seek help, she finds she's been scooped up by a gigantic generation ship inhabited by the descendants of the original crew and passengers\u2014people whose entire universe is the ship! Mistaken for the vast ship's long-lost and near-mythical Captain, Nancy is welcomed as a savior. She believes she's found the allies she needs in her desperate fight for survival. But an even greater menace lurks in the shadows of the ship\u2014one that controls every inch of the ship and every life aboard it. One that will stop at nothing to destroy\u2014 The Counterfeit Captain. Set in the same universe as Vogel's best-selling novel, The Fugitive Heir, The Counterfeit Captain further expands the stage for Vogel's exciting brand of star-spanning science fiction adventure.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30068180-the-counterfeit-captain"}, +{"book_title": "Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream", "author_name": "Joshua Davis", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2564, "review_number": 478, "book_description": "Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest...and a major motion picture. In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much - but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater robot. And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't pretty, especially compared to those of the competition. They were going up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT backed by a $10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers had scraped together less than $1,000 and built their robot out of scavenged parts. This was never a level competition\u2014and yet, against all odds... they won! But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story\u2014which became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement\u2014will go on to include first-generation college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in Afghanistan. Joshua Davis' Spare Parts is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and four young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country\u2014even as the country tried to kick them out.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "Biography", "Science (Technology)", "Audiobook", "Politics", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Academic (School)", "Education"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518979-spare-parts"}, +{"book_title": "Qualityland", "author_name": "Marc-Uwe Kling", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 10112, "review_number": 1183, "book_description": "Willkommen in QualityLand! In der Zukunft l\u00e4uft alles rund: Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind von Algorithmen optimiert. QualityPartner wei\u00df, wer am besten zu dir passt. Das selbstfahrende Auto wei\u00df, wo du hinwillst. Und wer bei TheShop angemeldet ist, bekommt alle Produkte, die er bewusst oder unbewusst haben will, automatisch zugeschickt, ganz ohne sie bestellen zu m\u00fcssen. Superpraktisch! Kein Mensch ist mehr gezwungen, schwierige Entscheidungen zu treffen \u2014 denn in QualityLand lautet die Antwort auf alle Fragen: o. k. Trotzdem beschleicht den Maschinenverschrotter Peter immer mehr das Gef\u00fchl, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Wenn das System wirklich so perfekt ist, warum gibt es dann Drohnen, die an Flugangst leiden, oder Kampfroboter mit posttraumatischer Belastungsst\u00f6rung? Warum werden die Maschinen immer menschlicher, aber die Menschen immer maschineller? Marc-Uwe Kling hat die Verhei\u00dfungen und das Unbehagen der digitalen Gegenwart zu einer verbl\u00fcffenden Zukunftssatire verdichtet, die lange nachwirkt. Vision\u00e4r, hintergr\u00fcndig \u2014 und so komisch wie die K\u00e4nguru-Trilogie.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Cultural (Germany)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36216607-qualityland"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 6710, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Automail engineer Winry is captured and held hostage to force Edward to do her captor's bidding. Hawkeye discovers the disturbing truth about President Bradley's son. Our heroes have fortuitous and not-so-fortuitous reunions with old friends and enemies. And multiple intrigues and double-crosses ensue as some plot to save the world while others scheme to destroy it.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4341085-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-18"}, +{"book_title": "Doll, Volume 3", "author_name": "Mitsukazu Mihara", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 105, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Shocking tales of life and lust abound as androids known as dolls blur the line between humanity and circuitry. In this collection of stories, a man discovers that his family might be dolls; a hermaphrodite sex-droids fulfills the deepest desires of its human partners; and a tormented girl and an abused doll take solace in each other. The breathtaking blend of romance, betrayal and tragedy is inside the eerie symphony that is Doll.*English Adaptation by Simon Furman (Transformers, Death's Head.) *May appeal to fans of Chobits. ", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Gothic", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1648516.Doll_Volume_3"}, +{"book_title": "Linesman", "author_name": "S.K. Dunstall", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2758, "review_number": 319, "book_description": "First in a brand new thought-provoking science fiction series.The lines. No ship can traverse the void without them. Only linesmen can work with them. But only Ean Lambert hears their song. And everyone thinks he\u2019s crazy\u2026Most slum kids never go far, certainly not becoming a level-ten linesman like Ean. Even if he\u2019s part of a small, and unethical, cartel, and the other linesmen disdain his self-taught methods, he\u2019s certified and working.Then a mysterious alien ship is discovered at the edges of the galaxy. Each of the major galactic powers is desperate to be the first to uncover the ship\u2019s secrets, but all they\u2019ve learned is that it has the familiar lines of energy\u2014and a defense system that, once triggered, annihilates everything in a 200 kilometer radius.The vessel threatens any linesman who dares to approach it, except Ean. His unique talents may be the key to understanding this alarming new force\u2014and reconfiguring the relationship between humans and the ships that serve them, forever.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23604332-linesman"}, +{"book_title": "The Ten Thousand Doors of January", "author_name": "Alix E. Harrow", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 56362, "review_number": 10353, "book_description": "In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Magical Realism", "Audiobook", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43521657-the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january"}, +{"book_title": "Return of the Pale Feather", "author_name": "E.B. Brown", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 578, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "From the author of The Legend of the Bloodstone...Winn and Maggie return for a new journey in the turbulent times of 1600s Jamestown...When Maggie McMillan is sent back to 1622 by the power of a magical Bloodstone, she makes the choice to remain in the past with the Powhatan warrior who holds her heart captive. Cursed with the knowledge of what the future holds for both the English and the Powhatan people, Maggie and Winn struggle to find safety for their family during a time when men were carving out the history of America.With the sudden appearance of the Norse Time Walker known as Pale Feather, secrets long buried are revealed which change the course of their destiny. Maggie finds that her journey to the past was no accident, and Winn must decide where his loyalties truly lie. As danger and magic test the bond of blood between them, they must embrace their demons - or risk losing everything.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36188323-return-of-the-pale-feather"}, +{"book_title": "Directive 51", "author_name": "John Barnes", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 1563, "review_number": 251, "book_description": "Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumors surrounding something called \"Daybreak.\" The group is diverse and radical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatred for the \"Big System\" and their desire to take it down. Now, seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the world are in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy modern civilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top government personnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement its emergency contingency program...Directive 51.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665906-directive-51"}, +{"book_title": "Relic of Sorrows", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 3322, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "Captain Alisa Marchenko finally has a lead on finding her daughter, but her passengers want her to take them on their quest instead. Even though the Star Nomad is her ship, they have power she cannot fight, and she finds herself with no choice but to accept another detour. But the ancient relic they seek has the ability to destroy worlds and is coveted by many. The path leading to it is riddled with competitors and littered with the dead, and even a cyborg and a Starseer may not be strong enough to fight the obstacles in the way. Swept up in a fate she never chose, Alisa must find a way to survive against impossible odds, knowing that if her passengers succeed, they will change the course of history\u2014maybe not for the better.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space", "Adult", "Short Stories", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30745955-relic-of-sorrows"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Scarab", "author_name": "Colleen Gleason", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 6604, "review_number": 1262, "book_description": "Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you\u2019re the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood. And when two society girls go missing, there\u2019s no one more qualified to investigate.Now fierce Evaline and logical Mina must resolve their rivalry, navigate the advances of not just one but three mysterious gentlemen, and solve murder with only one clue: a strange Egyptian scarab. The stakes are high. If Stoker and Holmes don\u2019t unravel why the belles of London society are in such danger, they\u2019ll become the next victims.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17084242-the-clockwork-scarab"}, +{"book_title": "This Strange and Familiar Place", "author_name": "Rachel Carter", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 467, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "THESE ARE THE THINGS of which Lydia is now certain:The Montauk Project has been experimenting with time travel for years.The Project's subjects are \"recruits\" from across time, recruits like Wes, Lydia's ally, friend, and love.The Project is now responsible for the disappearance of two members of her family...And they're coming for Lydia next.This thrilling sequel to So Close to You explores how far we'll go to save the people we love - and what happens after you change the future.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15810298-this-strange-and-familiar-place"}, +{"book_title": "A Longer Fall", "author_name": "Charlaine Harris", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4285, "review_number": 637, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns with the second of the Gunnie Rose series, in which Lizbeth is hired onto a new crew, transporting a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful, that forces from across three territories want to possess it. In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what\u2019s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse mysteries and Midnight, Texas trilogy) is at her best here, building the world of this alternate history of the United States, where magic is an acknowledged but despised power.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46221899-a-longer-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Blood & Iron", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2410, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "AMERICAN EMPIRE: BOOK ONETwice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy. Then, after a generation of relative peace, The Great War exploded worldwide. As the conflict engulfed Europe, the C.S.A. backed the Allies, while the U.S. found its own ally in Imperial Germany. The Confederate States, France, and England all fell. Russia self-destructed, and the Japanese, seeing that the cause was lost, retired to fight another day.The Great War has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around most of the world. But nowhere is the peace more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders.In the North, proud Canadian nationalists try to resist the colonial power of the United States. In the South, the once-mighty Confederate States have been pounded into poverty and merciless inflation. U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt refuses to return to pre-war borders. The scars of the past will not soon be healed. The time is right for madmen, demagogues, and terrorists.At this crucial moment in history, with Socialists rising to power in the U.S. under the leadership of presidential candidate Upton Sinclair, a dangerous fanatic is on the rise in the Confederacy, preaching a message of hate. And in Canada another man--a simple farmer--has a nefarious plan: to assassinate the greatest U.S. war hero, General George Armstrong Custer.With tension on the seas high, and an army of Marxist Negroes lurking in the swamplands of the Deep South, more than enough people are eager to return the world to war. Harry Turtledove sends his sprawling cast of men and women--wielding their own faiths, persuasions, and private demons--into the troubled times between the wars.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101534.Blood_Iron"}, +{"book_title": "Changing Planes", "author_name": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 4597, "review_number": 517, "book_description": "Sita Dulip has missed her flight. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she has found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the long lines at the toilets, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, the bookless bookstores, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor.This method - changing planes - enables Sita to visit fifteen societies not found on Earth. She will encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by rage; where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results. And many other exotic landscapes whose denizens are fundamentally human...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13657.Changing_Planes"}, +{"book_title": "Edge of Time", "author_name": "Melissa Lynne Blue", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 370, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Jilted by her fianc\u00e9, Marissa is done with men until fate steps in and she finds that Craig Langston may be more man than she can resist.Marissa is a high energy independent career woman of the 21st century who finds herself on a collision course with destiny when she is thrown 144 years into the past. Confederate Officer Dr. Craig Langston is an enticing man that any woman would long to fall in love with, and now Marissa is torn between rampant desire, for the man ignites her very soul, and a longing to return home.Can she find it within herself to embrace a new life in the arms of her Confederate officer or will more sinister forces intervene before she can discover what may be the greatest love of all time?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Military History (Civil War)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15742185-edge-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Screaming Staircase", "author_name": "Jonathan Stroud", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 34505, "review_number": 4763, "book_description": "When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . .For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions.Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career. Instead she finds herself joining the smallest, most ramshackle agency in the city, run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood. When one of their cases goes horribly wrong, Lockwood & Co. have one last chance of redemption. Unfortunately this involves spending the night in one of the most haunted houses in England, and trying to escape alive.Set in a city stalked by spectres, The Screaming Staircase is the first in a chilling new series full of suspense, humour and truly terrifying ghosts. Your nights will never be the same again . . .", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13555073-the-screaming-staircase"}, +{"book_title": "The Eden Cycle", "author_name": "Raymond Z. Gallun", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 30, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "The Eden Cycle is a carefully written, slow-moving study of humans who, having received from aliens the gift of immortality and a capacity to reinhabit various epochs of world history (via virtual reality), find themselves less and less capable of responding to their experiences.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4947014-the-eden-cycle"}, +{"book_title": "Pivot Point", "author_name": "Kasie West", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 27957, "review_number": 3734, "book_description": "Knowing the outcome doesn't always make a choice easier... Addison Coleman\u2019s life is one big \u201cWhat if?\u201d As a Searcher, whenever Addie is faced with a choice, she can look into the future and see both outcomes. It\u2019s the ultimate insurance plan against disaster. Or so she thought. When Addie\u2019s parents ambush her with the news of their divorce, she has to pick who she wants to live with\u2014her father, who is leaving the paranormal compound to live among the \u201cNorms,\u201d or her mother, who is staying in the life Addie has always known. Addie loves her life just as it is, so her answer should be easy. One Search six weeks into the future proves it\u2019s not.In one potential future, Addie is adjusting to life outside the Compound as the new girl in a Norm high school where she meets Trevor, a cute, sensitive artist who understands her. In the other path, Addie is being pursued by the hottest guy in school\u2014but she never wanted to be a quarterback\u2019s girlfriend. When Addie\u2019s father is asked to consult on a murder in the Compound, she\u2019s unwittingly drawn into a dangerous game that threatens everything she holds dear. With love and loss in both lives, it all comes down to which reality she\u2019s willing to live through... and who she can\u2019t live without.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11988046-pivot-point"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's Revenge", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 500, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Spineward Sectors Series Book Five: Admiral's Revenge Fresh out of prison and with their wounds only partially healed, Vice Admiral Jason Montagne & Co. have one thing on their minds: Revenge. But with their beloved Lucky Clover in the hands of the real Tyrant of Cold Space, devising a plan of attack that doesn\u2019t equate to suicide will be the tallest order in the history of the Little Admiral\u2019s command. Determined not to repeat the mistakes which had so dearly cost those who followed him, Jason first must determine who he really can trust before tracking down his nemesis for their final showdown. But strained relations with the Easy Haven crew, an increasingly scatter-brained Chief Engineer, and the prolonged absence of his wife, the Lady Akantha, may prove to be insurmountable obstacles for our Little Admiral. Will the plucky Multi-Sector Patrol Fleet rise to the challenge, or will they be consumed by their Admiral\u2019s all-consuming desire for a double-serving of revenge? One way or another, this particular dish will be served extra cold.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18808361-admiral-s-revenge"}, +{"book_title": "Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens 1", "author_name": "Stephen Leigh", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 45, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Based on events in Asimov's novels this book follows the story of Derec Avery and Ariel Burgess. Derec must answer the call of a besieged city on an alien planet, while Ariel finds herself the sole human on a planet of positronic robots and aliens of shocking intelligence.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41848.Isaac_Asimov_s_Robots_and_Aliens_1"}, +{"book_title": "Loving Deviant", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2928, "review_number": 231, "book_description": "After barely surviving a horrific accident, then being held captive for years by Earth Government, Venice must escape the planet. She thinks she\u2019s found the answer to her prayers when she contracts to be a deep-space bride\u2014only to find herself facing an even bigger nightmare. Hiding from her con man \u201chusband\u201d aboard his space station, she comes across an intimidating cyborg\u2026one who could just be her last hope.Deviant is humiliated when his father suggests he visit a pleasure center to make use of a sex bot. True, the defects he was born with have assured female cyborgs will never consider adding him to a family unit. But he still has his pride. The woman who enters the room, however, is incredibly lifelike, and she quickly has Deviant feeling things he\u2019d never dreamed\u2014right until the moment he finds out she\u2019s human. Sort of\u2026Venice needs Deviant\u2019s help to get off the space station. Deviant is lonely, and in need of someone to teach him how to pleasure a female. They strike a bargain, one that has Venice giving up her freedom. But soon it\u2019s her heart that\u2019s at greater risk. It\u2019s easy loving Deviant\u2026even when others are determined to make it difficult.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31430649-loving-deviant"}, +{"book_title": "Ride the Rising Tide", "author_name": "Peter Grant", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 724, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Trapped in the Dragon Tong's search for a lost legend, Steve Maxwell finds a way out by enlisting in the Lancastrian Commonwealth Fleet.If he survives long enough to earn a commission, he'll be able to hunt down the pirates who killed his mentor. To get there, he'll have to slog through rain-swollen swamps, dodge incoming fire on a 'peacekeeping' mission, and face down a gang of angry smugglers. Even far away from enemies, a mistake can turn a spaceship into a deathtrap.It'll take resourcefulness and courage to succeed... but Steve hasn't come this far in order to fail.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18403662-ride-the-rising-tide"}, +{"book_title": "Budayeen Nights", "author_name": "George Alec Effinger", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 459, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "George Alex Effinger's first short-fiction collection in nearly 15 years, these nine tales are set in Budayeen, the walled city in the sand, a city of dark shadows and even darker inhabitants, where a Raymond Chandleresque vision has been created -- hardboiled, noir, futuristic -- but with a twist. The sights, smells, and denizens of Budayeen are brought to life -- from the city's sordid, decadent underbelly to the glamorous excesses of the sex industry. This collection includes four tales of Marid Audran, the protagonist in Effinger's three highly acclaimed Budayeen novels. Also included is Effinger's best-known story, 'Schrodinger's Kitten', in which a young girl's dreams portend myriad possible quantum futures, all focused on her encounter with a would-be rapist.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Religion", "Mystery (Noir)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358992.Budayeen_Nights"}, +{"book_title": "Branches on the Tree of Time", "author_name": "Alexander Wales", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 154, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Kyle Reese has traveled backwards in time, not to save Sarah Connor, but to help her rewrite the faulty utility function of Skynet. Together, it's possible that they might avert Judgment Day and save the world from nuclear Armageddon - and hopefully create a utopia ruled over by an AI god in the process. Diverges wildly from canon.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fan Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23366307-branches-on-the-tree-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Folk of the Fringe", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 4011, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there exited a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations, or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women, one by one, working together to make a community, a nation, a new America.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92961.The_Folk_of_the_Fringe"}, +{"book_title": "The Revenge of Seven", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 41848, "review_number": 2849, "book_description": "The Garde have suffered an unbearable loss. Number Five has betrayed them. Eight is gone forever. Ella has been kidnapped. The others are now scattered.In Chicago, John makes the unlikeliest of allies: Adam, a Mogadorian who turned his back on his people. He has invaluable information about Mog technology, battle strategies, and weaknesses. Most important, he knows where to hit them: their command base near Washington, DC. During the assault, however, John and Adam learn the unimaginable truth: it is too late. The Mogadorians have commenced their ultimate invasion plans.With a front-row seat to the impending invasion, Ella finds herself in the hands of the enemy. For some reason she's more valuable to them alive, and they'll stop at nothing to turn her.Meanwhile, Six, Nine, and Marina make their way through the Florida Everglades, hot on the trail of the traitorous Five. With the development of a new Legacy, Marina finally has the power to fight back\u2014if her thirst for revenge doesn't consume her first.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19346451-the-revenge-of-seven"}, +{"book_title": "The Quiet at the End of the World", "author_name": "Lauren James", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1924, "review_number": 454, "book_description": "How far would you go to save those you love?Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing community, the pair spend their days mudlarking for artefacts from history and looking for treasure in their once-opulent mansion. Their idyllic life is torn apart when a secret is uncovered that threatens not only their family but humanity\u2019s entire existence. Lowrie and Shen face an impossible choice: in the quiet at the end of the world, they must decide who to save and who to sacrifice . . .", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32716442-the-quiet-at-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Eon", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 26194, "review_number": 720, "book_description": "The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad.For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from the future--but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A human--English, Russian, and Chinese-speaking--civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities...And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth's survival pale into insignificance.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840278.Eon"}, +{"book_title": "Time Enough for Love", "author_name": "Suzanne Brockmann", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 658, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Chuck Della Croce's time machine has caused a deadly mishap, and when he travels back in time to alert the would-be victims of the tragedy, he lands on Maggie Winthrop's doorstep.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Fantasy", "Suspense", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78120.Time_Enough_for_Love"}, +{"book_title": "Chosen Ones", "author_name": "Tiffany Truitt", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 3091, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "Life is bleak but uncomplicated for sixteen-year-old Tess, living in a not-too-distant future where the government, faced with humanity's extinction, created the Chosen Ones, artificial beings who are extraordinarily beautiful, unbelievably strong, and unabashedly deadly.When Tess begins work at Templeton, a Chosen Ones training facility, she meets James, and the attraction is immediate in its intensity, overwhelming in its danger. But there is more to Templeton than Tess ever knew. Can she stand against her oppressors, even if it means giving up the only happiness in her life?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12792988-chosen-ones"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Angels", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2925, "review_number": 542, "book_description": "No mundo do jovem Owen Hardy, tudo tem sua hora para acontecer. Ele vive em uma sociedade aparentemente perfeita, gra\u00e7as \u00e0 administra\u00e7\u00e3o precisa do Relojoeiro. A vida segue um roteiro cuidadosamente planejado para que nada afete a estabilidade conquistada depois de anos de guerras. At\u00e9 o dia em que, pela primeira vez, um imprevisto acontece e Owen se v\u00ea abandonando sua terra natal para viver uma grande \u2013 e imprevis\u00edvel \u2013 aventura, entre civiliza\u00e7\u00f5es perdidas, piratas, anarquistas e alquimistas.Os Anjos do Tempo \u00e9 uma hist\u00f3ria de fic\u00e7\u00e3o cient\u00edfica escrita pelo mestre do g\u00eanero steampunk Kevin J. Anderson, inspirada nas m\u00fasicas da lend\u00e1ria banda de rock Rush, em parceria com o compositor e baterista Neil Peart. Uma f\u00e1bula \u201cnost\u00e1lgica, estranha e encantadora\u201d, ilustrada pelo premiado designer Hugh Syme, sobre a beleza que h\u00e1 na luta entre a ordem e o caos, entre a realidade e o sonho.Alguns j\u00e1 nasceram com uma defici\u00eancia, outros a encontraram mais tarde, mas todos eles descobriram que, mesmo num corpo limitado, o que faz a diferen\u00e7a na vida de um her\u00f3i \u00e9 o cora\u00e7\u00e3o. ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Music", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Young Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13592828-clockwork-angels"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Seduction", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1971, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "Marlene's not like the other humans. They weep while she smiles. They look at us with fear, while she entices me with a come-hither look. I...have no idea why such a bold female resonated to a male like me. I am the most reticent of all the sa-khui tribe, a hunter that never expected to have a family of my own. But resonance chooses, and it has chosen her for me. And Marlene is quite determined to seduce me\u2026and who can say no to such a woman? This story explores the long-awaited romance of Marlene and Zennek. Even though it is a \u2018flashback\u2019 to the beginning of the Ice Planet Barbarians series, it can be read out of order. Enjoy!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44446172-barbarian-s-seduction"}, +{"book_title": "A Fistful of Charms", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 54814, "review_number": 1380, "book_description": "The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order.Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past. And there are those who covet what Nick possesses -- savage beasts willing to destroy the Hollows and everyone in it if necessary.Forced to keep a low profile or eternally suffer the wrath of a vengeful demon, Rachel must nevertheless act quickly. For the pack is gathering for the first time in millennia to ravage and to rule. And suddenly more than Rachel's soul is at stake.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30260.A_Fistful_of_Charms"}, +{"book_title": "Queen of Air and Darkness", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 70265, "review_number": 9176, "book_description": "What if damnation is the price of true love?Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the disease that is destroying the race of warlocks. Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake a perilous mission to Faerie to retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead. What they find in the Courts is a secret that may tear the Shadow World asunder and open a dark path into a future they could never have imagined. Caught in a race against time, Emma and Julian must save the world of Shadowhunters before the deadly power of the\u00a0parabatai\u00a0curse destroys them and everyone they love.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13541056-queen-of-air-and-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Seeker", "author_name": "Douglas E. Richards", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 4322, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "A breathtaking near-future thriller. From the NY Times bestselling author whose books have been downloaded over a million times. (paperback and audio versions coming soon)A small alien spacecraft with extraordinary secrets. And a mad scramble to get to it first.When an interstellar probe lands in the heart of the Amazon Jungle, powerful nations around the world will stop at nothing to retrieve it. Because the unoccupied alien craft is sure to contain revolutionary technology. Technology that will allow the country that controls it to dominate the globe.With the probe hidden within the densest rainforest on Earth, traditional military power is useless. So the US chooses to send in a single operative, a man who's been enhanced to the limits of current technology. He'll be greatly outnumbered, and with so much on the line, not even the closest of allies can be trusted.But the true stakes are higher than anyone could possibly know. Because all is not what it seems.And the alien spacecraft has plans of its own . . .Seeker is a fast-paced, roller-coaster ride of a thriller. One that explores actual human enhancements being worked on today, along with mind-blowing concepts that readers will be pondering long after they've read the last page.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\"Richards is an extraordinary writer,\" (Dean Koontz) who can \"keep you turning the pages all night long.\" (Douglas Preston)\"Richards is a worthy successor to Michael Crichton.\" (SF Book dot com)Near Future Science Fiction Thrillers by Douglas E. RichardsWIRED (Wired 1)AMPED (Wired 2)MIND'S EYE (Nick Hall 1)BRAINWEB (Nick Hall 2)MIND WAR (Nick Hall 3)SPLIT SECOND(Split Second 1)TIME FRAME (Split Second 2)--New in 2018QUANTUM LENSGAME CHANGERINFINITY BORN --New in 2017SEEKER --New in 2018.Kids Science Fiction Thrillers (9 and up, enjoyed by kids and adults alike)TRAPPED (Prometheus Project 1)CAPTURED (Prometheus Project 2)STRANDED (Prometheus Project 3)OUT OF THIS WORLDDEVIL'S SWORD", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40379964-seeker"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Silence", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 11105, "review_number": 762, "book_description": "\nDeath Stalks Them All...\nKere is the second most infamous member of the shadow organization known as Sentella. An explosive engineer who strikes terror into the hearts of the League, the bounty on his head is truly staggering. No one knows his true identity.The daughter of a traitor, Zarya Starska grew up hard on the back streets of hell- her family hunted to the brink of extinction. But Zarya dreams of a different life and a different world. A world where the harsh hand of the Caronese emperor doesn\u2019t destroy his subjects. As a Resistance leader, her goal is to topple the government that needlessly ruined the lives of her family and comrades-in-arms. In this deadly quest, the only person she can trust is a mysterious man known only as Kere.\nBy The Light Of Day...\nKere has a dark secret and a brutal past. As he aids the Resistance, he\u2019s actually working to bring down his own family- the Cruels- so named for the viciousness in their blood that runs so deep, no other name would do. Born and bred from one of the oldest and noblest families in the United Systems, Kere\u2019s real name is Darling Cruel. And the one thing he wants most is to see his uncle, who stole the crown by murdering his father, pay for his crimes.\nIf You Tell A Lie Long Enough, It Becomes The Truth...\nIn order to protect his mother from execution, Darling\u2019s entire life has been built on a lie that he dare not breathe a contrary word about. His hands tied by his uncle\u2019s cruelty. No one has ever seen the real him. No one except Zarya. She\u2019s the only person he\u2019s ever fully trusted with the truth. But when she betrays him by allowing a weapon he designed solely for her to be used against him, all bets are off.\nThe Hero Is Now The Monster...\nBetrayed to the deepest level, Darling becomes an enemy even worse than his uncle. His goal is not only to reign, but to kill every Resistance member he can find. He won\u2019t rest until all of them are dead and that includes Zarya.\nThe Twisted Hand Of Fate...\nZarya is the only hope to reach the heart of the man her people once considered their ally. A man who hates her with a fury so great that she knows it\u2019s just a matter of time before he kills her. But if she can find the part of him that once trusted her, the part of him that once loved her, she might be able to save not only her own life, but those of her people.It\u2019s an impossible mission.Too bad she doesn\u2019t play the odds.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12886599-born-of-silence"}, +{"book_title": "Perfect", "author_name": "Cecelia Ahern", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 14935, "review_number": 1592, "book_description": "Celestine North is Flawed.Ever since Judge Crevan declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick, the only person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret\u2014one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to go missing. Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. With tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save just herself or risk her life to save all Flawed people.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Novels", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28116714-perfect"}, +{"book_title": "Highlander in Her Dreams", "author_name": "Allie Mackay", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1037, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "As a paranormal inestigator, Kira Bedwell know that her gift as a far-seer had its advantages. But while touring the ruins of a Scottish castle, she never expected to gaze upon the noble figure of medieval clan chieftain Aidan MacDonald....And she certainly never thought the irresistible Scot would appear in her dreams from then on.Years later, while investigating time portals in Scotland, Kira again sees Aidan in person. When she unknowingly steps through a magical gateway, she finds herself face-to-face with the handsome Highlander - back in the fourteenth century!Aidan is surprised - and delighted - to finally hold the woman he has envisioned for so long. But even as their romance transcends dreams to become reality, they find themselves under attack by Aidan's enemies. And it will take all of their courage and resolve for their love to survive beyond time itself....", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1982347.Highlander_in_Her_Dreams"}, +{"book_title": "The Expanse", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 3659, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Episode 7A newly repaired ship\u2026A willing and eager crew\u2026A host of new technologies\u2026A long anticipated return home\u2026The crew of the UES Aurora finally has the chance to fulfill their mission, but first they must complete a long and dangerous journey across a thousand light years of unexplored space.\u201cThe Expanse\u201d is a 104,000 word novel, and is the 7th episode in The Frontiers Saga.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18085924-the-expanse"}, +{"book_title": "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution", "author_name": "Steven Levy", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 7211, "review_number": 417, "book_description": "A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would never resonate with the mainstream. That was before one pioneering work documented the underground computer revolution that was about to change our world forever. With groundbreaking profiles of Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club, and more, Steven Levy's Hackers brilliantly captured a seminal moment when the risk-takers and explorers were poised to conquer twentieth-century America's last great frontier. And in the Internet age, the hacker ethic-first espoused here-is alive and well.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "History", "Science (Technology)", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Science (Computer Science)", "Science", "Computer Science (Programming)", "Biography", "Computers (Hackers)", "Business"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56829.Hackers"}, +{"book_title": "The Regiment", "author_name": "John Dalmas", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 529, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The planet Tyss has only one resource: soldiers. But they are very good soldiers. And once a regiment is formed, it never recruits again; as its members fall in battle, it simply grows smaller to become a battalion, a company, a platoon, a squad . . . and then there are none. But before the last man of this regiment has flung himself into battle, the Federation of Worlds will never be the same.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573242.The_Regiment"}, +{"book_title": "The Cuckoo Tree", "author_name": "Joan Aiken", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 997, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "When Dido Twite sets foot back on English soil, more mischief awaits. As her friend Captain Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido stays at the Dogkennel Cottages and meets the odd inhabitants of Tegleaze Manor: strange old Lady Tegleaze, her nephew, Tobit, and his wizened, witchy nurse, Sannie. Soon suspicious things happen. A priceless miniature is stolen. Tobit is framed and then kidnapped. A twin sister is found. And when Dido catches a glimpse of her rascally father in Petworth, she is sure she\u2019s in the midst of another Hanoverian plot. Can she get to London to warn the king and save St. Paul's Cathedral from sliding into the Thames?", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36641.The_Cuckoo_Tree"}, +{"book_title": "Catching Fire", "author_name": "Suzanne Collins", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 2605868, "review_number": 97937, "book_description": "Sparks are igniting.Flames are spreading.And the Capitol wants revenge. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol\u2014a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6148028-catching-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Day of the Predator", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 4643, "review_number": 363, "book_description": "Liam O\u2019Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance\u2014to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose\u2014to prevent time travel destroying history . . .When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn\u2019t have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly\u2014and until now\u2014undiscovered species of predator.Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he\u2019s torn to pieces by dinosaurs\u2014and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Action", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8129464-day-of-the-predator"}, +{"book_title": "Entropy Angels", "author_name": "Mark Harritt", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 76, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "It should have been an easy job, money for information, but the fixer\u2019s room temp and Gregor Skotta's on the run with a battle synth and bounty hunters on his trail. Skotta\u2019s a a bully boy from the Grind, a hustler in New Eden, the largest habitat in the solar system, playground of the rich where everyone else hustles to break even. He's operating on the edge, caught between loan sharks and a Multinational Corp that wants him dead. Now, he's fighting to get down level, back to the hull, one gee, where he'll need to confront his past to have a future.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43344254-entropy-angels"}, +{"book_title": "Pollen", "author_name": "Jeff Noon", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2968, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "The sweet death of Coyote, master taxi driver, was only the first.Soon people are sneezing and dying all overManchester. Telekinetic cop Sybil Jones knows that, like Coyote, they died happy \u2013 but even a happy death can be a murder. As exotic blooms begin to flower all over the city, the pollen count is racing towards 2000 and Sybil is running out of time.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17401123-pollen"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel Rising", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 1408, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "\nArchangel Squadron faces off against the forces of the brutal Protectorate to claim a prize, and save humanity, in a gripping novel of deep space jeopardy by the author of the Odyssey One series.\nAt the helm of a commandeered freighter, Captain Steph Michaels has infiltrated the Free Star systems. Leading a captive crew, and posing as a privateer, he\u2019s on a mission to seize a precious resource from an enemy outpost. Backed by his Archangel Squadron, it\u2019s a smash-and-grab operation he can pull off in his sleep. Until it isn\u2019t.Before he and his \u201cpirates\u201d can strike, they\u2019re met with an unexpected obstacle. The mining compound they\u2019re targeting also houses camps of slave laboring families. It\u2019s an innocent population Steph refuses to sacrifice as collateral damage, and his morality will drive him to greater extremes than ever before. With a ruthless enemy commander facing them down, Steph will find himself in conflict with not just the Free Stars but potentially with the Empire itself.The odds of victory? Impossible to foretell.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50038711-archangel-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Your Alien", "author_name": "Tammi Sauer", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 743, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "One day, you'll be looking out your window when something wonderful comes your way\u2026 and you will want to keep him. \u00a0 When a little boy meets a stranded alien child, the two instantly strike up a fabulous friendship. They go to school, explore the neighborhood, and have lots of fun. But at bedtime, the alien suddenly grows very, very sad. Can the boy figure out what his new buddy needs most of all? This funny, heartwarming story proves that friends and family are the most important things in the universe . . . no matter who or where you are.An NPR Best Book of 2015", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Family", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612805-your-alien"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunger Games", "author_name": "Suzanne Collins", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 6572148, "review_number": 174079, "book_description": "Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before\u2014and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767052-the-hunger-games"}, +{"book_title": "Nightchaser", "author_name": "Amanda Bouchet", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3527, "review_number": 700, "book_description": "Captain Tess Bailey and her crew of Robin Hood-like thieves are desperate and on the run. Pursued by a vicious military general who wants them dead or alive, Tess has to decide if she can trust Shade Ganavan, a tall, dark and arrogant stranger with ambiguous motivations.\nShade Ganavan had oodles of arrogance, oodles of charm, and oodles of something that made me want to kick him in the nuts.\nWhat Tess and Shade don't know about each other might get them killed... unless they can set aside their differences and learn to trust each other - while ignoring their off-the-charts chemistry.\nShade swallowed the bad taste in his mouth. Two hundred million. He could buy back his birthright and live like a king forever on that. \n\nCaptain T. Bailey.\n\nBeautiful. Ballsy. And Brave.\n\nA wanted criminal.\n\nIndecision clawed at his chest. He knew where she was.\n\nThe easiest nab and grab of his life was waiting for him. He could land two hundred million in his account. Double that if she still had the goods.\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43412851-nightchaser"}, +{"book_title": "Nature's End", "author_name": "Whitley Strieber", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 765, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "The year is 2025. Immense numbers of people swarm the globe. In countless, astonishing ways, technology has triumphed-but at a staggering cost. Starvation is rampant. City dwellers gasp for breath under blackened skies. And tottering on the brink of environmental collapse, the world may be ending....It is a future that could well be ours. In their second shocking and fascinating portrait of America's possible destiny, Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka have again written a breathless thriller, a book that gives us an important warning and ultimately a message of hope.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Environment", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394986.Nature_s_End"}, +{"book_title": "Kallocain", "author_name": "Karin Boye", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 6756, "review_number": 409, "book_description": "This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detached, the author shows us the totalitarian World-state through the eyes of a product of that state, scientist Leo Kall. Kall has invented a drug, kallocain, which denies the privacy of thought and is the final step towards the transmutation of the individual human being into a \"happy, healthy cell in the state organism.\" For, says Leo, \"from thoughts and feelings, words and actions are born. How then could these thoughts and feelings belong to the individual? Doesn't the whole fellow-soldier belong to the state? To whom should his thoughts and feelings belong then, if not to the state?\"As the first-person record of Leo Kall, scientist, fellow-soldier too late disillusioned to undo his previous actions, Kallocain achieves a chilling power and veracity that place it among the finest novels to emerge from the strife-torn Europe of the twentieth century.", "year_published": 1940, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "European Literature (Swedish Literature)", "Cultural (Sweden)", "Novels", "European Literature (Scandinavian Literature)", "Academic (School)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65714.Kallocain"}, +{"book_title": "Last and First Men", "author_name": "Olaf Stapledon", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 5106, "review_number": 401, "book_description": "\"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination,\" declared Arthur C. Clarke of Last and First Men. This masterpiece of science fiction by British philosopher and writer Olaf Stapledon (1886\u20131950) is an imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years. Together with its follow-up, Star Maker, it is regarded as the standard by which all earlier and later future histories are measured.The protagonist of this compelling novel is humanity itself, stripped down to sheer intelligence. It evolves through the ages: rising to pinnacles of civilization, teetering on the brink of extinction, surviving onslaughts from other planets and a decline in solar energy, and constantly developing new forms, new senses, and new intellectual abilities. From the present to five billion years into the future, this romance of humanity abounds in profound and imaginative thought.", "year_published": 1930, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Philosophy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2749148-last-and-first-men"}, +{"book_title": "A Thousand Sons", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 5063, "review_number": 211, "book_description": "Censured at the Council of Nikea for his flagrant use of sorcery, Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons Legion retreat to their homeworld of Prospero to continue their use of the arcane arts in secret. But when the ill-fated primarch forsees the treachery of Warmaster Horus and warns the Emperor with the very powers he was forbidden to use, the Master of Mankind dispatches fellow primarch Leman Russ to attack Prospero itself. But Magnus has seen more than the betrayal of Horus and the witnessed revelations will change the fate of his fallen Legion, and its primarch, forever.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6465063-a-thousand-sons"}, +{"book_title": "Salute the Dark", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2808, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "The vampiric sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his dark ritual - a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor believes will grant him immortality. But Uctebri has his own plans both for the Emperor and the Empire.The massed Wasp armies are on the march, and the spymaster Stenwold must see which of his allies will stand now that the war has finally arrived. This time the Empire will not stop until a black and gold flag waves over Stenwold's own home city of Collegium.Tisamon the Weaponsmaster is faced with a terrible choice: a path that could lead him to abandon his friends and his daughter and to face degradation and loss. Yet it might bring him before the Wasp Emperor with a blade in his hand. But is he being driven by Mantis-kinden honour, or manipulated by something more sinister?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Epic", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "War", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6917081-salute-the-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Suffer the Children", "author_name": "Craig DiLouie", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2458, "review_number": 478, "book_description": "From an acclaimed horror writer, a chilling tale of blood-hungry children who rise from the dead in this innovative spin on apocalyptic vampire fiction.Suffer the Children presents a terrifying tale of apocalyptic fiction, as readers are introduced to Herod's Syndrome, a devastating illness that suddenly and swiftly kills all young children across the globe. Soon, they return from the grave\u2026and ask for blood. And with blood, they stop being dead. They continue to remain the children they once were...but only for a short time, as they need more blood to live. The average human body holds ten pints of blood, so the inevitable question for parents everywhere becomes: How far would you go to bring your child back?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18211208-suffer-the-children"}, +{"book_title": "The Well of Stars", "author_name": "Robert Reed", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 588, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "In The Well of Stars, Hugo award-nominated author Robert Reed has written a stunning sequel to his acclaimed novel Marrow. The Great Ship, so vast that it contains within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years. After a disastrous exploration of the planet, Marrow, the Ship's captains face an increasingly restive population aboard their mammoth vessel. \u00a0And now, compounding the captains' troubles, the Ship is heading on an irreversible course straight for the Ink Well, a dark, opaque nebula. Washen and Pamir, the captains who saved Marrow from utter destruction, send Mere, whose uncanny ability to adapt to and understand other cultures makes her the only one for the job, to investigate the nebula before they plunge blindly in.\u00a0 While Mere is away, Pamir discovers in the Ink Well the presence of a god-like entity with powers so potentially destructive that it might destroy the ship and its millions.\u00a0Faced with an entity that might prevent the Ship from ever leaving the Ink Well, the Ship's only hope now rests in the ingenuity of the vast crew . . . and with Mere, who has not contacted them since she left the Ship\u2026\u00a0With the excitement of epic science fiction adventure set against a universe full of wonders, the odyssey of the Ship and its captains will capture the hearts of science fiction readers.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100327.The_Well_of_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Highlander", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 35578, "review_number": 1289, "book_description": "Journey to a world of ancient magic, breathtaking sensuality, thrilling time-travel.... Journey to the world of The Dark Highlander. Crisscrossing the continents and the centuries, here is a novel as gripping as it is sensual\u2014an electrifying adventure that will leave you breathless....I am Dageus MacKeltar, a man with one good conscience and thirteen bad ones, driven to sate my darkest desires\u2026From his penthouse lair high above Manhattan, Dageus looks out over a glittering city that calls to the darkness within him. A sixteenth-century Scot trapped between worlds, he is fighting a losing battle with the thirteen Druids who possess his soul, dooming him to an eternity of sexual pursuit. When Chloe Zanders, student of antiquities, is drawn into his world, she finds the insatiable alpha male an irresistible lure.Before long, she is caught up in an ancient prophecy that will sweep her back into time to medieval Scotland. Plunged into a world of timeless magic and dark seduction, she will soon face the challenge of a lifetime: fighting thirteen evil spirits for the heart of one irresistible man....", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112755.The_Dark_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Christian Nation", "author_name": "Frederic C. Rich", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 716, "review_number": 198, "book_description": "\u201cThey said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do.\u201dSo ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America\u2019s Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a \u201cChristian Nation\u201d and dead serious about acquiring the political power to achieve it. When President McCain dies and Sarah Palin becomes president, the reader, along with the nation, stumbles down a terrifyingly credible path toward theocracy, realizing too late that the Christian Right meant precisely what it said.In the spirit of Philip Roth\u2019s The Plot Against America, one of America\u2019s foremost lawyers lays out in chilling detail what such a future might look like: constitutional protections dismantled; all aspects of life dominated by an authoritarian law called \u201cThe Blessing,\u201d enforced by a reconfigured Internet known as the \u201cPurity Web.\u201d Those who defy this system, among them the narrator, live on the edges of society, sustained by the belief that democracy will rise to triumph over such tyrannical oppression.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Religion", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Religion (Atheism)", "Horror", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16241153-christian-nation"}, +{"book_title": "Colony", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1123, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "In the Future, Everything is Different. But Nothing Has Changed.The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries and global anarchy seems imminent.Yet a single ray of hope remains. . .Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation - a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free of human frailties. But David is a prisoner -- a captive of the colony that created him -- destined to spend the days of his life in an island-sized cylinder that circles a doomed and desperate home planet. Thousands of miles below him, a world trembles; its people cringe in terror and despair in anticipation of an impending apocalypse. And as Earth's boundaries, fate has cast one extraordinary human in the role of savior. For David Adams has a plan -- one that will ultimately ensure the salvation of his species . . . or its annihilation.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267329.Colony"}, +{"book_title": "Hunting Party", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 5537, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "Heris Serrano--formerly a commander in the Regular Space Service--must take whatever job she can get after her resignation under a cloud. What she can get is the captaincy of a rich old lady's space yacht...a rich old horsewoman, who has little liking for the military, and whose spoiled nephew Ronnie (and his equally spoiled friends) have been foisted on her after his folly embarrassed the family. Lady Cecelia's only apparent interest is horses--she intends to go fox hunting on the private pleasure planet of a friend of hers, Lord Thornbuckle. But events conspire to make it far more than a fox hunt.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Animals (Horses)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284873.Hunting_Party"}, +{"book_title": "Prometheus Vengeance", "author_name": "Andrew Dobell", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 59, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "When your actions to save millions from the Tyranny of the Corporations lead to everyone wanting to enact their own brand of revenge against you or those you protect, could you step up and continue to fight for what\u2019s right? The effects of the Nano Liberation continue to reverberate around the world, bringing down some of the mightiest Corporations and creating further repercussions and victims. Nano Technic has been put under government control, and the Corporations former paramilitary arm, including its agents and operators, have been handed over to the authorities, but they\u2019re not going down without a fight. A large group of them break free to pursue a misguided agenda against the government, and it\u2019s Frankie\u2019s job to hunt them down and stop them before they create an international disaster. Meanwhile, cyborg mercenary Hellion is back, and out for Frankie\u2019s blood. If that wasn\u2019t enough, the effects of the Nano Liberation are about to get a whole lot more personal for Frankie as her parents get caught up in the unfolding events. Frankie must hunt down these former corporate operative terrorists, while avoiding Hellion\u2019s attentions and negotiating the mess that is her personal life, before something gets out of control and kills her or creates an international incident. Everyone is out for vengeance, and only Frankie stands in their way. The forth book in The New Prometheus Series, a Cyberpunk Action thriller, is a must read for fans of Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, Dredd, Appleseed, Akira, The Matrix, Robocop and Total Recall. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36057591-prometheus-vengeance"}, +{"book_title": "The City in the Middle of the Night", "author_name": "Charlie Jane Anders", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 7633, "review_number": 1484, "book_description": "Would you give up everything to change the world?Humanity clings to life on January--a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.Two cities, built long ago in the meager temperate zone, serve as the last bastions of civilization--but life inside them is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside.Sophie, a young student from the wrong side of Xiosphant city, is exiled into the dark after being part of a failed revolution. But she survives--with the help of a mysterious savior from beneath the ice.Burdened with a dangerous, painful secret, Sophie and her ragtag group of exiles face the ultimate challenge--and they are running out of time.Welcome to the City in the Middle of the Night", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37534907-the-city-in-the-middle-of-the-night"}, +{"book_title": "The Prophecy Machine", "author_name": "Neal Barrett Jr.", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Hooters, Hatters, and menacing evil...Even in a mystical world where centuries ago animals were magically changed into humans, the land of Makasar is considered strange. Its two major religions are Hatters and Hooters. During the day, Hatters, wearing hats of course, wander about jabbing pointy sticks into bystanders. The night is ruled by the Hooters, who hoot and set fire to people and things. Hospitality is considered a capital crime. And Newlies, the humanized animals, are treated lower than scum. So when Finn, the Master Lizard Maker, finds himself stranded in Makasar--along with his lover, an attractive Newlie named Letitia, and the grandest, most magical creation of his illustrious career, a talking, thinking, rather cantankerous mechanical lizard named Julia Jessica Slagg--his first thought is a quick exit.But the Nuccis--strongman son, mad father, and ever madder grandfather--have other plans for Finn and his loyal companions. There's an odd machine in their basement that needs fixing, and who better to do it than a Master Lizard Maker? There's more here than meets the eye, however, and Finn soon realizes that the future he faces could be very dark indeed.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/778179.The_Prophecy_Machine"}, +{"book_title": "Saga, Vol. 4", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 66121, "review_number": 4818, "book_description": "Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they visit a strange new world and encounter even more adversaries, baby Hazel finally becomes a toddler, while her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet.Collecting: Saga 19-24", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23093367-saga-vol-4"}, +{"book_title": "Third Shift: Pact", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 9840, "review_number": 485, "book_description": "The third and final chapter of the Shift saga. This is part 8 of the Silo Series, which began with Wool.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16183060-third-shift"}, +{"book_title": "Till Death Do Us Part", "author_name": "Mark Tufo", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 4118, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "BT, Gary and Mrs. Deneaux race to the Talbot compound in a desperate bid to turn the tides of a lost war. Is Michael dead? Is the question plaguing the Talbots as they prepare for the final showdown with a merciless enemy hell bent on their absolute destruction.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15742853-till-death-do-us-part"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron King", "author_name": "Julie Kagawa", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 199976, "review_number": 12012, "book_description": "Meghan Chase has a secret destiny; one she could never have imagined.Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school or at home.When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6644117-the-iron-king"}, +{"book_title": "Crown of Midnight", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 368193, "review_number": 29891, "book_description": "She is the greatest assassin her world has ever known. But does she have the heart of a killer? After a year of hard labor in the Salt Mines of Endovier, eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien has won the king's contest to become the new royal assassin. But Calaena is far from loyal to the crown. Keeping up the charade - while pretending to do the king's bidding - will test her skills in an entirely new way. And it certainly isn't the only point of confusion for the young girl. Because though she's made her choice between Dorian and Chaol, the ways of the heart are never simple...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17167166-crown-of-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Branded", "author_name": "Jenika Snow", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 284, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Three decades ago a race of humanoid aliens landed on Earth. Humans were inferior, weaker, and no match for the stronger, warrior-bred beings known only as Rogues. Now the Rogues rule Earth. Greta is a human and in hiding. When she and the other humans are found, she fears she will be used for labor, or as breeding stock. Tolcan is enforcer for his kind. When he finds humans his job is to capture them. But he takes an interest in one particular female. Going against what his kind believes, he takes her as his own. Something primal and possessive in him takes over. He wants her as his mate. He won\u2019t stop until he\u2019s claimed her, damn the consequences.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25949082-branded"}, +{"book_title": "Black Feathers", "author_name": "Joseph D'Lacey", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 855, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "It is the Black Dawn, a time of environmental apocalypse, the earth wracked and dying.It is the Bright Day, a time long generations hence, when a peace has descended across the world.In each era, a child shall be chosen. Their task is to find a dark messiah known only as the Crowman. But is he our saviour \u2013 or the final incarnation of evil?File Under:\u00a0Fantasy\u00a0[ The Crowman | Joined Through Time | The Last Keeper | The Journey Begins ]", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071827-black-feathers"}, +{"book_title": "Spill Zone", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 5015, "review_number": 1137, "book_description": "Nobody's ever really explained the Spill. Was it an angelic visitation? A nanotech accident? A porthole opening from another world? Whatever it was, no one's allowed in the Spill Zone these days except government scientists and hazmat teams. But a few intrepid explorers know how to sneak through the patrols and steer clear of the dangers inside the Zone. Addison Merrick is one such explorer, dedicated to finding out what happened that night and to unraveling the events that took her parents and left her little sister mute and disconnected from the world.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23532871-spill-zone"}, +{"book_title": "Stop", "author_name": "Scarlett Dawn", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1050, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "*The individual installments are no longer in publication. Please see Cold Mark (Mark, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2....From New York Times bestselling author, Scarlett Dawn, comes the third installment in The Cold Mark Saga, Stop, where tipping points are reached and surprises lurk\u2026Braita Valorn is stuck. She has no real freedom, her existence dependent on what the men of Triaz decide. Her fate is not her own. But she desperately wants it to be and will do anything to make it so.When a chance for freedom arises, she does what she must. Hard choices of theft end as a careless endeavor, leaving her life on the line. Will the Plumas of Triaz stop her downfall or will they thirst for retribution?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23443732-stop"}, +{"book_title": "Dire Straits", "author_name": "Megan Derr", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 343, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Less than a century ago, the world was a dangerous place. Monsters ran wild, and the only thing more dangerous was the humans attempting to control them. The chaotic lands were eventually tamed by a group of people who came to be known as the Crown, and they formed a government that helped to maintain peace in the untamed lands.Bannick Poore is one such maintainer of peace, an infamous Priest with guns at his hips and a blood red collar around his throat. He is equal parts mage and gunslinger, and it is his sworn duty to uphold the law and drive back the monsters that still crop up in a land that is still learning to be civilized...$2.00 from every purchase of this ebook will be donated to the Greater New Orleans Foundation's Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8663665-dire-straits"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Hour of Gann", "author_name": "R. Lee Smith", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 5474, "review_number": 1010, "book_description": "It was her last chance:Amber Bierce had nothing left except her sister and two tickets on Earth\u2019s first colony-ship. She entered her Sleeper with a five-year contract and the promise of a better life, but awakened in wreckage on an unknown world. For the survivors, there is no rescue, no way home and no hope until they are found by Meoraq\u2014a holy warrior more deadly than any hungering beast on this hostile new world\u2026but whose eyes show a different sort of hunger when he looks at her.It was his last year of freedom:Uyane Meoraq is a Sword of Sheul, God\u2019s own instrument of judgment, victor of hundreds of trials, with a conqueror\u2019s rights over all men. Or at least he was until his father\u2019s death. Now, without divine intervention, he will be forced to assume stewardship over House Uyane and lose the life he has always known. At the legendary temple of Xi\u2019Matezh, Meoraq hopes to find the deliverance he seeks, but the humans he encounters on his pilgrimage may prove too great a test even for him\u2026especially the one called Amber, behind whose monstrous appearance burns a woman\u2019s heart unlike any he has ever known.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Dark", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18589656-the-last-hour-of-gann"}, +{"book_title": "WWW: Wake", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 7559, "review_number": 822, "book_description": "Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where she makes contact with a mysterious consciousness existing only in cyberspace. ", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4418395-www"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Minds", "author_name": "Michelle Diener", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1895, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "The mind is the most powerful weapon of all . . . Imogen Peters knows she's a pawn. She's been abducted from Earth, held prisoner, and abducted again. So when she gets a chance at freedom, she takes it with both hands, not realizing that doing so will turn her from pawn to kingmaker.Captain Camlar Kalor expected to meet an Earth woman on his current mission, he just thought he'd be meeting her on Larga Ways, under the protection of his Battle Center colleague. Instead, he and Imogen are thrown together as prisoners in the hold of a Class 5 battleship. When he works out she's not the woman who sparked his mission, but another abductee, Cam realizes his investigation just got a lot more complicated, and the nations of the United Council just took a step closer to war.Imogen's out of her depth in this crazy mind game playing out all around her, and she begins to understand her actions will have a massive impact on all the players. But she's good at mind games. She's been playing them since she was abducted. Guess they should have left her minding her own business back on Earth\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31084455-dark-minds"}, +{"book_title": "Perfekcyjna niedoskona\u0142o\u015b\u0107", "author_name": "Jacek Dukaj", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1575, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Pierwszy tom trylogii Jacka Dukaja.To ksi\u0105\u017cka, kt\u00f3r\u0105 po odwr\u00f3ceniu ostatniej kartki ma si\u0119 ochot\u0119 natychmiast przeczyta\u0107 jeszcze raz. A potem jeszcze raz.Jest XXIX wiek. Adam Zamoyski, tajemniczy zmartwychwstaniec, tkwi w \u015brodku rozgrywki mi\u0119dzy cywilizacjami, lud\u017ami, nielud\u017ami i istotami postludzkimi. Konkurencja stanowi motor ewolucji \u2013 konkuruj\u0105 ze sob\u0105 ro\u015bliny, zwierz\u0119ta, ludzie, kultury, gospodarki. Zwyci\u0119\u017ca, kto lepiej wykorzystuje naturalne \u015brodowisko, zasoby planety, ostatecznie \u2013 prawa fizyki.Zamoyski nie wie, jakim cudem znalaz\u0142 si\u0119 w \u015bwiecie p\u00f3\u017aniejszym od jego czas\u00f3w o kilkaset lat, ma problemy z pami\u0119ci\u0105 i to\u017csamo\u015bci\u0105 \u2013 lecz najwyra\u017aniej stanowi klucz do zwyci\u0119stwa w owej ewolucji. Kim tak naprawd\u0119 jest? Kim s\u0105 ci, kt\u00f3rzy go otaczaj\u0105? Jak\u0105 tajemnic\u0119 kryje Narwa, gdzie rozbi\u0142 si\u0119 statek Adama?Dukaj jak demiurg powo\u0142uje \u015bwiaty do istnienia, nadaj\u0105c im przy tym cywilizacyjn\u0105 pe\u0142ni\u0119. Wymy\u015bla edukacj\u0119, stosunki rodzinne, mod\u0119, a nawet j\u0119zyk. Przede wszystkim jednak pokazuje skutki genetycznego udoskonalania cz\u0142owieka \u2013 now\u0105 hierarchi\u0119 spo\u0142eczn\u0105 i nowe k\u0142opoty z p\u0142ci\u0105. Z tych wzgl\u0119d\u00f3w ksi\u0105\u017ck\u0119 czyta si\u0119 \u015bwietnie \u2013 im dalej, tym lepiej. Kto wie, mo\u017ce b\u0119dzie to powie\u015b\u0107 kultowa?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Philosophy", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4471007-perfekcyjna-niedoskona-o"}, +{"book_title": "The Drawing of the Dark", "author_name": "Tim Powers", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 4548, "review_number": 318, "book_description": "'The Drawing of the Dark is not only one of my favourite Tim Powers novels, it's simply one of my favourite novels. The seamless and seemingly effortless blend of action and humour, the wonderful characters, the rich settings, the brilliant plot - all of it is perfect' James P. Blaylock", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mythology (Arthurian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209693.The_Drawing_of_the_Dark"}, +{"book_title": "The Wizard Hunters", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1979, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "Once a fertile and prosperous land, Ile-Rien is under attack by the Gardier, a mysterious army whose storm-black airships appear from nowhere to strike without warning. Every weapon in the arsenal of Ile-Rien's revered wizards has proven useless.And now the last hope of a magical realm under siege rests within a child's plaything.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367333.The_Wizard_Hunters"}, +{"book_title": "The Hollow Boy", "author_name": "Jonathan Stroud", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 13903, "review_number": 1857, "book_description": "As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines. There is a new spirit of openness in the team now that Lockwood has shared some of his childhood secrets, and Lucy is feeling more and more as if her true home is at Portland Row. It comes as a great shock, then, when Lockwood and George introduce her to an annoyingly perky and hyper-efficient new assistant, Holly Munro.Meanwhile, there are reports of many new hauntings, including a house where bloody footprints are appearing, and a department store full of strange sounds and shadowy figures. But ghosts seem to be the least of Lockwood & Co.'s concerns when assassins attack during a carnival in the center of the city. Can the team get past their personal issues to save the day on all fronts, or will bad feelings attract yet more trouble?Danger abounds, tensions escalate, and new loyalties form in this third delightfully terrifying adventure in the critically acclaimed Lockwood & Co. series.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24397043-the-hollow-boy"}, +{"book_title": "The Timegod", "author_name": "L.E. Modesitt Jr.", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 573, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "L.E. Modesitt's \"Timegod\" was first published in mass market format, expanded from his first novel, \"The Fires of Paratime.\" Although somewhat reminiscent of the \"Change War\" stories of Fritz Lieber, and though science fiction, \"Timegod\" contains intriguing connections to the fantasy universe of Modesitt's Recluce novels.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185229.The_Timegod"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Dream", "author_name": "Norman Spinrad", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1459, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "(Jun 1986, Norman Spinrad, Bantam Spectra, 0-553-25289-5, $3.95, 256pp, pb) Cover: Catherine Huerta", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/633177.The_Iron_Dream"}, +{"book_title": "King David's Spaceship", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1963, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "In the time of John Christian Falkenberg, the explosion of humanity into space was followed by a galaxy-wide technological collapse.Since the Fall, King David's people have regained an early-industrial age technology, but another planet has progressed faster, and it's imperial Navy has discovered them. If his people are not to spend the rest of their history as just another satrapy, they must prove that they can reach space unaided. Though they have just re-invented the steam engine, King David will have his spaceship...", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1329611.King_David_s_Spaceship"}, +{"book_title": "Bleeding Edge", "author_name": "Thomas Pynchon", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 10900, "review_number": 1434, "book_description": "Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internetIt is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there\u2019s no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what\u2019s left.Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics\u2014carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people\u2019s bank accounts\u2014without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working mom\u2014two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhood\u2014till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler\u2019s aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.With occasional excursions into the DeepWeb and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the internet, not that distant in calendar time but galactically remote from where we\u2019ve journeyed to since.Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?Hey. Who wants to know?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Novels", "Literature", "Literature (American)", "Contemporary", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "The United States Of America", "Unfinished", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17208457-bleeding-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Android: Mimic", "author_name": "Mel Odom", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 167, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "New Angeles Detective Drake 3GI2RC is not your average Bioroid. First, he\u2019s one of the New Angeles Police Department\u2019s few android cops, and second, he\u2019s haunted by another man\u2019s memories. But even as Drake investigates a very public crime, he must look inward for answers. After all, where does his programming end, and his own personality begin?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17230914-android"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's Tribulation", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 599, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Spineward Sectors Series Book Three of Eight: Admiral's TribulationAdmiral Jason Montagne and the crew of the Lucky Clover are back just in time for another family reunion. The last one was with the Vekna side of his family, but now he has to catch up with an an old school Montagne... the kind that gives other Montagnes a bad name, and makes Jason's relationship with Cousin Bethany seem all warm and fuzzy, by comparison.Childhood fantasies will be crushed.An aura of invincibility will be tested.It's anyone\u2019s guess if the Little Admiral can pull another rabbit out of his hat and put an end to the piracy that\u2019s been plaguing the border of known space ever since the Empire withdrew.Will the tables finally be turned? Will Jason find himself at the mercy of those he\u2019s been thumbing his nose at for so long, or will his paranoia protect him from an honest-to-Murphy Admiral's Tribulation?Discover all this and more in Book Three: Admiral's Tribulation", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17875295-admiral-s-tribulation"}, +{"book_title": "Mountain of Black Glass", "author_name": "Tad Williams", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 14660, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "\"The Grail Brotherhood has built the most powerful, sophisticated simulation network imaginable. At the same time, they have manipulated ad injured the minds of thousands of children.\"This proclamation from the mysterious Mr. Sellars confirmed what Renie Sulaweyo had feared to be true when she first broke into the Otherland network in a desperate search for the cause of her brother Stephen's deathlike coma. Now Renie, the Bushman !Xabbu, and their companions find themselves navigating a treacherous and ever-changing course\u2015from a strangely unfinished land, ro a seemingly endless labyrinthine House\u2015pursuing a sociopathic killer who has stolen one of their group. To Renie's despair she is no closer to uncovering the secrets which could help save Stephen's life, and now it appears that something may be very wrong with the Otherland network itself.As Paul Jonas, Orlando, Renie and the rest strive to reach Priam's Walls, in the heart of Troy, they know that their quest is running perilously short of time. For the Grail Brotherhood has finally set the date for the Ceremony when they will make their bid for the immortality, and thereby seal the fate of Earth's children forever.But before Renie and her allies can hope to stop the Brotherhood, they must first solve the mysteries of Otherland itself, and confront its darkest secret\u2015an enitity known only at the Other.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Epic", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10090.Mountain_of_Black_Glass"}, +{"book_title": "Kris Longknife's Bloodhound", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 602, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "It\u2019s dangerous to get too close to one of those damn Longknife. So Senior Chief Agent in Charge Foile volunteers to get too damn close to the whole family of Longknifes. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Kris Longknife feared the survival of the entire human race might hang on what her Grampa Al did next \u2013 but she couldn\u2019t figure out what he was up to. After a career in the Wardhaven Bureau of Investigations, Foile was good at finding out what others wanted to keep hidden.Exactly why he found himself volunteering, he\u2019d never know, but soon he was spending his annual leave digging into what the powerful Longknife family wanted hidden and up to his neck in trouble of every kind.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18486950-kris-longknife-s-bloodhound"}, +{"book_title": "By Schism Rent Asunder", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 7517, "review_number": 248, "book_description": "The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon Reef, and broke them. Despite the implacable hostility of the Church of God Awaiting, Charis still stands, still free, still tolerant, still an island of innovation in a world in which the Church has worked for centuries to keep humanity locked at a medieval level of existence.But the powerful men who run the Church aren't going to take their defeat lying down. Charis may control the world's seas, but it barely has an army worthy of the name. And as King Cayleb knows, far too much of the kingdom's recent good fortune is due to the secret manipulations of the being that calls himself Merlin-a being that, the world must not find out too soon, is more than human. A being on whose shoulders rests the last chance for humanity's freedom.Now, as Charis and its archbishop make the rift with Mother Church explicit, the storm gathers. Schism has come to the world of Safehold. Nothing will ever be the same...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Religion", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2381756.By_Schism_Rent_Asunder"}, +{"book_title": "Ever My Love", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 683, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "Two people are caught up in love\u2014and in time\u2014in the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Stars in Your Eyes.In search of a fresh start, Emma Baxter has traveled to Scotland to try to forget her rocky love life. Luckily, the gorgeous Highlander who owns the house up the path from her rental cottage might be exactly the kind of distraction she needs. But there\u2019s more to his intriguing qualities than she can explain\u2014and she certainly isn\u2019t buying into the local legends of Highland magic.Nathaniel MacLeod is a man adrift, all thanks to the unwanted gift that forces him to continually jump between centuries. He never knows if he\u2019ll wind up in the present day or the fourteenth century, but when Emma follows him back through time, he suddenly has more to worry about than keeping his separate lives straight\u2026Someone has started to notice Nathaniel\u2019s travels and now, no time period is safe, for him or for Emma.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Clean Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29921251-ever-my-love"}, +{"book_title": "The Elves of Cintra", "author_name": "Terry Brooks", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 14245, "review_number": 406, "book_description": "With his groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara and its acclaimed sequels, Terry Brooks brought a new audience to epic fantasy. Then he gave the genre a darkly compelling contemporary twist in his trilogy of the Word and the Void. Last year, in Armageddon\u2019s Children, Brooks undertook the stunning chronicle that united two unique worlds. Now that story of clashing forces of darkness and light, of Shannara\u2019s beginnings and the human race\u2019s possible end, marches forward into an unforgettable second volume full of mystery, magic, and momentous events.Across the ruined landscape that is America\u2013hopelessly poisoned, plague-ridden, burned, and besieged by demon armies bent on exterminating all mortal life\u2013two pilgrims have been summoned to serve the embattled cause of good. Logan Tom has journeyed to desolate Seattle to protect a ragged band of street urchins and the being known as \u201cthe gypsy morph,\u201d who is both mortal and magical, and destined to save mankind unless he is destroyed. Likewise, Angel Perez has her own quest, one that will take her from the wreckage of Los Angeles to a distant, secret place untouched by the horrors of the nationwide blight\u2013a place where the race of Elves has dwelled since before man existed. But close behind these lone Knights of the Word swarm the ravening forces of the Void. As the menacing thunder of war drums heralds the arrival of the demons and their brutal minions in Seattle, the young survivors who call themselves the Ghosts are forced to brave the dangerous world of gangs, mutants, and worse to escape the invasion. And Logan Tom must infiltrate a refugee compound to rescue Hawk, the leader of the street urchins, who has yet to learn the truth about who and what he is. Meanwhile, Angel Perez has joined an equally urgent mission: to find the Ellcrys, a fabled talisman crucial to protecting the Elven realm against an influx of unspeakable evil from the dread dimension known as the Forbidding. But Angel and her Elf allies must beware\u2013for a demon spy, with a monstrous creature at its command, walks among them.As the legions of darkness draw the noose tighter, and the time of confrontation draws near, those chosen to defend the soul of the world must draw their battle lines and prepare to fight with, and for, their lives. If they fail, humanity falls.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62233.The_Elves_of_Cintra"}, +{"book_title": "From This Moment On", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2255, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "In this sweeping, emotional love story, Lynn Kurland takes us back to the thirteenth century--and all the passion and magnificence of medieval England...Colin of Berkhamshire knows two things--the pleasures of warring and that brides do not want him. Two years ago his bride-to-be, Alienore, fled and hasn't been seen since. Yet his father keeps foisting prospects on him. The latest seems to do nothing but faint.Alienore of Solonge knows two things as well--that fleeing not only Colin but also her scheming stepmother was the right thing to do. Yet as a knight in disguise she constantly fears discovery. At this point, she's not sure whom she fears more, the Butcher of Berkhamshire or her evil stepmother.Through a bizarre twist of fate, she ends up journeying with her charge--Colin's latest intended--to England, where Alienore finds herself not only in the Butcher of Berkhamshire's garrison, but being made over into a knight by him personally. She thinks her life cannot worsen.Until she begins to fall in love with him...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816579.From_This_Moment_On"}, +{"book_title": "Fire Season", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2494, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Fire in the forest\u2013and a cry for help from a trapped and desperate alien mother! Unfortunately, this is one cry no human can hear. Stephanie Harrington, precocious fourteen-year-old Provisional Forest Ranger on the planet Sphinx, knows something is wrong from the uneasy emotion that is flooding into her from her treecat friend, Climbs Quickly.\u00a0 But though Stephanie\u2019s alien comrade shares a tight bond with his two-legs, whom he knows as Death Fang\u2019s Bane, he cannot communicate directly to her the anguished call from one of his people.\u00a0Still, their strong and direct bond of feeling may be enough. Stephanie and fellow ranger Karl Zivonik respond to Climbs Quickly\u2019s rising waves of distress. Fire season on the pioneer world of Sphinx has begun.\u00a0 But there are those who want to use the natural cycle of the planet for personal gain \u2013and to get rid of the one obstacle that stands in the way of acquiring even greater land and power on Spinx: the native treecats.\u00a0Now it\u2019s up to Stephanie, Climbs Quickly along with their friends, family, and allies to prevent disaster and injustice from befalling a treecat clan.\u00a0 But in the process Stephanie must be certain to preserve the greatest secret all.\u00a0 It is the knowledge that the treecats of Sphinx are not merely pets or servants, but are highly intelligent in their own right\u2013that they are a species fully deserving of rights, respect, and freedom. And keeping the secret that will allow the treecats time to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with humankind.\u00a0It all begins with the friendship of a girl and her treecat.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547274-fire-season"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Two", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 8649, "review_number": 358, "book_description": "An .Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, York embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on Earth.Now, the entire critically acclaimed Y: THE LAST MAN saga written by Brian K. Vaughan, one of the writers of LOST, is collected into a new edition. In this second volume, a Russian space from the International Space Station is returning to earth carrying three passengers: one woman and two men. Could this be the end of Yorick's tenure as last living male? Plus, the group runs up against a roadblock in Arizona where the female remains of the Sons of Arizona militia have cut the interstate to keep out any vestiges of the U.S. government.Collects Y: The Last Man #11-23", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5663327-y"}, +{"book_title": "The Flinkwater Factor", "author_name": "Pete Hautman", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 96, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Ginger must save her high-tech hometown from robots gone rogue in this hilariously quirky science fiction novel from National Book Award–winning author Pete Hautman.Welcome to Flinkwater, Iowa, home of the largest manufacturer of Articulated Computerized Peripheral Devices in the world. If you own a robot, it probably came from Flinkwater.Meet Ginger Crump, the plucky, precocious (and somewhat sarcastic) genius who finds herself in the middle of a national emergency when Flinkwater’s computers start turning people into vegetables. Mental vegetables, that is. In Ginger’s words, they’ve been “bonked.”When Ginger’s father is bonked, she recruits her self-declared future husband, boy genius Billy George, to help her find the source of the bonkings. Soon they’re up against a talking dog, a sasquatch, and a zombie, while Flinkwater is invaded by an army of black SUVs led by the witless-but-dangerous Agent Ffelps from Homeland Security. Can Ginger get to the bottom of the bonkings, or will computer chaos reign forever?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24885780-the-flinkwater-factor"}, +{"book_title": "Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War", "author_name": "Brian Clevinger", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1245, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Eisner-nominated Atomic Robo lands on the front lines of World War II against the science freaks and devastating weird weaponry of Nazi Germany -- from invincible walking tanks to atomic-powered weather cannons to the Monster Soldiers of the Third Reich. Can ROBO and Ther Sparrow, Britain's greatest covert operative, complete their mission and turn the tide of the war without killing one another? Collects the best-selling Atomic Robo: Dogs of War five-issue mini-series, complete with cover gallery, pin-ups, and bonus stories.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Humor", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Pulp"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6298793-atomic-robo-and-the-dogs-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "The Warrior's Mate", "author_name": "Susan Trombley", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 724, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "\n\n\nFive years ago, I was abducted by aliens\u2026. \n\n\nAfter a harrowing escape from an alien research facility, I found myself in the care and protection of an alien species called the Akrellians, but I didn't trust my instantaneous attraction to the commander of the ship. After all, I had no idea what the evil Iriduans had done to me, so I didn't know if my feelings were even my own or something they had caused. \nHe was reptilian and had deadly quills. How could a human possibly fall so fast for such an alien male? \nWhen I offered Prime Commander Tirel a temporary sexual liaison, hoping it would ease the need I felt for him, he rejected it and asked for something more permanent. \n\n\nI panicked!\n\n\nI couldn't escape him fast enough. Not because I feared him, but because of the temptation he offered - one that would require me to sacrifice everything I've ever known to stay with him. \nNow, after years apart, the strange bond that had formed between us upon our first meeting demands I return to him, and I realize that I can't continue to live my life without him. The only problem - I'm stuck on Earth, and I don't know how to find him again. \nUntil an unexpected visitor brings me the solution - and the terrifying news that I may have waited too long. \nAuthor's Note: 18 + Contains language and graphic scenes of intimacy and violence.\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Adventure", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45275161-the-warrior-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "La M\u00e9moire de Babel", "author_name": "Christelle Dabos", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 14550, "review_number": 1424, "book_description": "Deux ans et sept mois qu'Oph\u00e9lie se morfond sur son arche d'Anima. Aujourd'hui il lui faut agir, exploiter ce qu'elle a appris \u00e0 la lecture du Livre de Farouk et les bribes d'informations divulg\u00e9es par Dieu. Sous une fausse identit\u00e9, Oph\u00e9lie rejoint Babel, arche cosmopolite et joyau de modernit\u00e9. Ses talents de liseuse suffiront-ils \u00e0 d\u00e9jouer les pi\u00e8ges d'adversaires toujours plus redoutables ? A-t-elle la moindre chance de retrouver la trace de Thorn ?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Cultural (France)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Roman"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32903079-la-m-moire-de-babel"}, +{"book_title": "The River of Time", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1601, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "The River of Time brings together eleven short stories, including \"The Crystal Spheres\" (WINNER: Hugo Award Best SF Short Story 1985), and four new stories published here for the first time.Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place in the universe.CONTENTS:DESTINYThe Crystal SpheresThe Loom of ThessalyThe Fourth Vocation of George GustafRECOLLECTONSenses Three and SixToujours VoirA Stage of MemorySPECULATIONJust a HintTank Farm DynamoThor Meets Captain AmericaPROPAGATIONLungfishThe River of Time", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101891.The_River_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Ninth Orb", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2010, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "Scientifically speaking, it made sense to send two hundred women and 'frozen pops' to establish the colony on New Georgia and insure a good gene pool. But when the colonists arrive after fifteen years of space travel, and discover that the alien compound directly across from their new city is filled with young, virile Xtanian men eager for 'queens' Eden Chisholm has her hands full trying to keep the peace. The Xtanian's themselves are stunningly human-like, but their customs are completely alien to Earth culture. In the Xtianian society, women are rare and therefore the men are of little value beyond what they provide for the comfort and safety of their 'queens'. And the queens have harems. Rating: Contains graphic sex, explicit language, profanity, some violence, group sex, and some material that could be offensive to sensitive readers.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1610650.The_Ninth_Orb"}, +{"book_title": "Realware", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 785, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "This hilarious finale to the award-winning series offers more cutting-edge science, raucous social satire, and deeply informed speculations from one of science fiction's wittiest writers (San Francisco Chronicle).", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274047.Realware"}, +{"book_title": "Measures of Absolution", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2028, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "In the aftermath of the Battle of Detroit, Corporal Jackson finds out how the 365th AIB got a mauling in the Public Residence Clusters, and why the Territorial Army may have lost control over a big chunk of Detroit. A novella in the Terms of Enlistment universe.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18730784-measures-of-absolution"}, +{"book_title": "Grave Expectations", "author_name": "C.J. Archer", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2654, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Charlie's life is perfect. She has everything her heart desires. Until it all goes horribly wrong.Charlie and Lincoln return to London to find two supernaturals have been murdered, and Charlie might be next. As if that wasn't bad enough, the man who adopted her has escaped from prison, and the committee members have just learned some news that infuriates them. Now there's talk of sending Charlie away again. Far away.But the worst is yet to come. Charlie is kidnapped and forced to summon one of the murder victims - but she's unable to send him back. With an angry dead supernatural on the loose and the committee determined to get rid of her, Charlie's time with the Ministry of Curiosities, and Lincoln, is in grave danger of coming to an end.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28101803-grave-expectations"}, +{"book_title": "Pyramids", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 74640, "review_number": 1960, "book_description": "It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun. First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal - not to mention a headstrong handmaiden - at the heart of his realm.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64217.Pyramids"}, +{"book_title": "The Empress", "author_name": "S.J. Kincaid", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 4804, "review_number": 1018, "book_description": "It\u2019s a new day in the Empire. Tyrus has ascended to the throne with Nemesis by his side and now they can find a new way forward\u2014one where they don\u2019t have to hide or scheme or kill. One where creatures like Nemesis will be given worth and recognition, where science and information can be shared with everyone and not just the elite.But having power isn\u2019t the same thing as keeping it, and change isn\u2019t always welcome. The ruling class, the Grandiloquy, has held control over planets and systems for centuries\u2014and they are plotting to stop this teenage Emperor and Nemesis, who is considered nothing more than a creature and certainly not worthy of being Empress.Nemesis will protect Tyrus at any cost. He is the love of her life, and they are partners in this new beginning. But she cannot protect him by being the killing machine she once was. She will have to prove the humanity that she\u2019s found inside herself to the whole Empire\u2014or she and Tyrus may lose more than just the throne. But if proving her humanity means that she and Tyrus must do inhuman things, is the fight worth the cost of winning it?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space", "Action", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33652251-the-empress"}, +{"book_title": "Altered States: a cyberpunk sci-fi anthology", "author_name": "Roy C. Booth", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 100, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Take a flight of the imagination to near-future cyberpunk worlds, travel beyond the stars, and to divergent universes like and unlike our own. Travel to the enigmas of science and time\u2026travel to the altered states of the mind. Stories by upcoming and established cyberpunk/sci- fi authors, curated by Roy C Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes. This anthology represents the very first publication of science fiction by Indie Authors Press.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23849166-altered-states"}, +{"book_title": "Galactic Cluster", "author_name": "James Blish", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 119, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "A thinking person's collection of eight science fiction short stories by Blish first published in various magazines between 1953 and 1959.Tomb Tapper \u2022 (1956) \u2022 noveletteKing of the Hill \u2022 (1955) \u2022 shortstoryCommon Time \u2022 (1953) \u2022 shortstoryA Work of Art \u2022 (1956) \u2022 noveletteTo Pay the Piper \u2022 (1956) \u2022 shortstoryNor Iron Bars (expanded) \u2022 (1957) \u2022 noveletteBeep \u2022 (1954) \u2022 noveletteThis Earth of Hours \u2022 (1959) \u2022 novelette", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2324229.Galactic_Cluster"}, +{"book_title": "The Stone Vault Datajack", "author_name": "D.L. Young", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 15, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Data thief Blackburn Maddox is an outcast, unliked and unemployable, until an underworld crime lord makes him an offer he can't refuse...if he wants to stay alive.GET A FREE COPY AT: https://dlyoungfiction.com/cyberpunkc...", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50353781-the-stone-vault-datajack"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Time Accidents", "author_name": "John Wray", "rating_score": 3.23, "rating_votes": 1333, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, The Lost Time Accidents, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumors about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of World War Two, from the golden age of postwar pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artifacts of modern life.Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar 'Waldy' Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back-a journey that forces him to reckon not only with the betrayal at the heart of his doomed romance but also the legacy of his great-grandfather's fatal pursuit of the hidden nature of time itself.Part madcap adventure, part harrowing family drama, part scientific mystery--and never less than wildly entertaining--The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Unfinished", "Literary Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666067-the-lost-time-accidents"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Heart", "author_name": "Dru Pagliassotti", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1849, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "A steampunkish romantic fantasy set in Ondinium, a city that beats to the ticking of a clockwork heart. Taya, a metal-winged courier, can travel freely across the city's sectors and mingle indiscriminately among its castes. A daring mid-air rescue leads to involvement with two scions of an upperclass family and entanglement in a web of terrorism, loyalty, murder, and secrets.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2693142-clockwork-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Nyssa Glass and the Caper Crisis", "author_name": "H.L. Burke", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 113, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Orphaned cat burglar Nyssa Glass intends to outwit her rotten fate. \u201cAdopted\u201d by her incarcerated uncle's gang of thieves, she breaks into homes and picks pockets to repay her family debt and one day buy her freedom from their dark enterprise. Mechanically adept and determined, Nyssa longs to attend Miss Pratchett's School for Mechanically Minded Maids and make an honest life she can take pride in.She wasn't made to steal things. She was made to create and fix them.However, before she can make her escape, the head of the gang taps her for a new assignment, one her conscience cannot bear. Nyssa is faced with a heartrending decision: sacrifice everything or become the very thing she's desperate to escape.A Prequel Short for the Nyssa Glass Steampunk Series.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Holiday (Christmas)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33884048-nyssa-glass-and-the-caper-crisis"}, +{"book_title": "Seconds", "author_name": "Megan Derr", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 804, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Story is now part of Deceived (Deceived #1)", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Historical (Regency)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7891689-seconds"}, +{"book_title": "Lyon's Price", "author_name": "Mina Carter", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2044, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "Captured and en route to a medical facility for dissection and study, cyborg Lyon expects nothing but pain and degradation from his captors. But Samara isn't like the others, treating his wounds with care and igniting a fire deep within. When she neglects to ensure his cuffs are locked tight, all hell breaks loose. A hot, sensual hell against the cell wall. When his team arrives, Lyon knows he should walk away...but he can't. His little human has gotten under his skin. He'll take her as payment for his suffering, keep her in his bed and pleasure them both for as long as it takes for him to lose interest. What he doesn't expect is to lose his heart in the process.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12202730-lyon-s-price"}, +{"book_title": "Crash Deluxe", "author_name": "Marianne de Pierres", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 270, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Parrish Plessis, sometime coup leader, paid assassin and ex-bodyguard, is finding life tough. Betrayed by the enigmatic Loyl Daac, and still under blood debt to the deadly Cabal Coomera, Parrish is trying to hold together the little empire she's inherited in the Tert, live up to the expectations of the many strays and waifs she's accumulated, and attempt to flush the high-tech parasite from her system before she becomes something so much less than human. Not an ideal lifestyle, Parrish would be the first to admit, but she can make everything alright again if she can manage just one little task. Bring down the media. Just another day for Parrish Plessis ...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1244247.Crash_Deluxe"}, +{"book_title": "The Firebird", "author_name": "Susanna Kearsley", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 25258, "review_number": 2741, "book_description": "Nicola Marter was born with a gift. When she touches an object, she sometimes glimpses those who have owned it before. When a woman arrives with a small wooden carving at the gallery Nicola works at, she can see the object\u2019s history and knows that it was named after the Firebird\u2014the mythical creature from an old Russian fable.Compelled to know more, Nicola follows a young girl named Anna into the past who leads her on a quest through the glittering backdrops of the Jacobites and Russian courts, unearthing a tale of love, courage, and redemption.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Cultural (Russia)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15942636-the-firebird"}, +{"book_title": "The Chosen", "author_name": "Theresa Meyers", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 82, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The Chosen: a prophecy older than dirt and more dangerous than death. Even as they perfected steam-powered gadgetry and rounded up varmints from Hell, the Jackson brothers didn\u2019t believe in it. But when the chips are down, three brothers named for weapons aren\u2019t going out without a fight\u2026A Walk On The Wild SideAttorney by day, demon-hunter by night, Remington Jackson is used to being on the sunny side of the law, even in the Wild West. But it\u2019s showdown time, and Remy and his brothers are getting desperate. They don\u2019t have the relic they need to slam the door shut on evil\u2014so Remy is going to have to find and steal part of it.Enter China McGee, shapeshifter, thief, beauty, and current prisoner. When Remy offers her freedom in exchange for a little light-fingered help, she\u2019s pretty sure she\u2019s going to end the association with a good old-fashioned seductive double cross. But there\u2019s something about fighting through a jungle full of Mayan ruins that makes you want to settle down together. China could change. Remy might be special. But none of that matters if the devil takes them all\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Westerns", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Historical", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15812250-the-chosen"}, +{"book_title": "The Eye of the World", "author_name": "Robert Jordan", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 404975, "review_number": 13153, "book_description": "The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.When The Two Rivers is attacked by Trollocs-a savage tribe of half-men, half-beasts- five villagers flee that night into a world they barely imagined, with new dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228665.The_Eye_of_the_World"}, +{"book_title": "The Master Magician", "author_name": "Charlie N. Holmberg", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 29994, "review_number": 2223, "book_description": "Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she\u2019s kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She\u2019s discovered how to practice forms of magic other than her own\u2014an ability long thought impossible.While all seems set for Ceony to complete her apprenticeship and pass her upcoming final magician\u2019s exam, life quickly becomes complicated. To avoid favoritism, Emery sends her to another paper magician for testing, a Folder who despises Emery and cares even less for his apprentice. To make matters worse, a murderous criminal from Ceony\u2019s past escapes imprisonment. Now she must track the power-hungry convict across England before he can take his revenge. With her life and loved ones hanging in the balance, Ceony must face a criminal who wields the one magic that she does not, and it may prove more powerful than all her skills combined.The whimsical and captivating follow-up to The Paper Magician and The Glass Magician, The Master Magician will enchant readers of all ages.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23485372-the-master-magician"}, +{"book_title": "Eater", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 676, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner \u2014 ex-astronaut-turned astronomer \u2014 is dying.But something looms alarningly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons' immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered \"Eater,\" an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed...and feared.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science (Astronomy)", "Science (Physics)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453965.Eater"}, +{"book_title": "The Cruel Stars", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1616, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "In this epic sci-fi adventure for fans of The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica, five intrepid heroes must unite to save civilization after a long-dormant enemy awakens and strikes a devastating blow\u201cThis jarring, engrossing story of a species-wide fight for survival is recommended for all science fiction readers.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly (starred review)The galaxy was once terrorized by the Sturm, a group of \u201cspecies purists\u201d intent on destroying any human with genetic or cybernetic enhancements. Fashioning themselves as the one true \u201cHuman Republic,\u201d the Sturm cut a bloody swath across the stars, killing billions before finally being defeated and driven into the far reaches of Dark Space. Centuries of peace bred complacency. Everyone believed the Sturm had died out in the Dark. They were wrong.The enemy has returned and, with a brutal and decisive attack, knocks out almost all of humanity\u2019s defenses. Now on the brink of annihilation, humankind\u2019s only hope is a few brave souls who survived the initial attack: Commander Lucinda Hardy, thrust into uncertain command of the Royal Armadalen Navy\u2019s only surviving warship. Booker3, a soldier of Earth, sentenced to die for treason, whose time on death row is cut short when the Sturm attack his prison compound. Princess Alessia, a young royal of the Montanblanc Corporation, forced to flee when her home planet is overrun and her entire family executed. Sephina L\u2019trel, the leader of an outlaw band who must call on all of her criminal skills to resist the invasion. And, finally, Admiral Frazer McLennan, the infamous hero of the first war with the Sturm hundreds of years ago, who hopes to rout his old foes once and for all\u2014or die trying.These five flawed, reluctant heroes must band together to prevail against a relentless enemy and near-impossible odds. For if they fail, the future itself is doomed.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43093526-the-cruel-stars"}, +{"book_title": "X-Men: Days of Future Past", "author_name": "Chris Claremont", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 11982, "review_number": 517, "book_description": "Relive the legendary first journey into the dystopian future of 2013 where Sentinels stalk the Earth and the X-Men are humanity's only hope... until they die! Also featuring the first apperance of Alpha Flight, the return of the Wendigo, the history of Cyclops... and a demon for Christmas!?", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Marvel (X Men)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306608.X_Men"}, +{"book_title": "Skin Game", "author_name": "Jim Butcher", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 71742, "review_number": 4767, "book_description": "Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day\u2026Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it\u2019s something awful.He doesn\u2019t know the half of it\u2026Mab has just traded Harry\u2019s skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains\u2014led by one of Harry\u2019s most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone\u2014to break into the highest-security vault in town, so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever. It's a smash and grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure hoard in the supernatural world\u2014which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and generally unpleasant character. Worse, Dresden suspects that there is another game afoot that no one is talking about. And he's dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Especially Harry.Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess\u2014assuming his own allies don\u2019t end up killing him before his enemies get the chance\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19486421-skin-game"}, +{"book_title": "Uncanny Magazine Issue 18: September/October 2017", "author_name": "Lynne M. Thomas", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 409, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "The September/October 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Fran Wilde, C. S. E. Cooney, Catherynne M. Valente, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Delia Sherman, reprinted fiction by Malinda Lo, essays by Sophie Aldred, Cecilia Tan, Sarah Kuhn, Sam J. Miller and Jean Rice, and Sabrina Vourvoulias, poetry by Jo Walton, Brandon O'Brien, Ali Trotta, and Gwynne Garfinkle, interviews with C. S. E. Cooney and Delia Sherman by Julia Rios, a cover by Ashley Mackenzie, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016 & 2017 Hugo Award winners for best Semiprozine Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Julia Rios and Michi Trota, each issue includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.Contents:The Uncanny Valley / essay by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian ThomasHenosis / short story by N.K. JemisinClearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand / short story by Fran WildeThough She Be But Little / short story by C.S.E. CooneyDown and Out in R'lyeh / novelette by Catherynne M. ValenteFandom for Robots / short story by Vina Jie-Min PrasadAt Cooney's / novelette by Delia ShermanGhost Town / (2013) / short story by Malinda LoMy Voice-Over Life / essay by Sophie AldredLet Me Tell You / essay by Cecilia TanI'm Not the Only One: Why Wonder Woman Doesn't Need to Stand Alone in Order to Stand Tall / essay by Sarah KuhnResistance 101: Basics of Community Organizing for SF/F Creators and Consumers\u2014 Volume Four: \"Don't Let Him Catch You With Your Work Undone\"\u2014Activism for the Long Haul / essay by Sam J. Miller and Jean RiceChangeable Skins, Consummate Catchphrases / essay by Sabrina VourvouliasToo Much Dystopia? / poem by Jo WaltonBirth, Place / poem by Brandon O'BrienA Lovesong from Frankenstein's Monster / poem by Ali TrottaThe Golem of the Gravestones / poem by Gwynne GarfinkleInterview: C. S. E. Cooney / interview of C. S. E. Cooney by Julia RiosInterview: Delia Sherman / interview of Delia Sherman by Julia Rios", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Thriller", "Poetry", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36184017-uncanny-magazine-issue-18"}, +{"book_title": "Slave Auction", "author_name": "Stormy Glenn", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1219, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "[Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Futuristic Sci-Fi Romance, M/M, bondage, spanking, HEA]Rojan Ja'Dar is a rogue, a pirate that buys and sells cargo for a living. He is his own man, skirting the edge of the law and answering to no one. Arriving on a particular planet, he goes to drop off cargo and discovers a human pet being sold at an auction house. Intrigued, Rojan breaks all his rules and buys the human as his pet. It isn't until after he purchases the human that Rojan discovers he's just bought his mate.Claiming Tyion Rhodes is not as easy as buying him. Not understanding the danger he is in, Tyion fights his situation as a highly prized and sought after pet in Rojan's world. Rojan has to convince Tyion that being his mate is not as bad as being a pet, even if they have to pretend to the rest of the world that Tyion is just a possession. That is hard to do when someone is after Tyion, someone not from Earth.Note: This book was previously published with another publisher and has been extensively revised and expanded.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21843193-slave-auction"}, +{"book_title": "Straits of Hell", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1482, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Taylor Anderson\u2019s phenomenal alternate history Destroyermen series continues as a game-changing conspiracy throws the hope of honor, trust, and survival into chaos....Matt Reddy\u2019s old Asiatic Fleet destroyer USS Walker has been mysteriously transported to an alternate version of earth. Here WWII is no longer raging, and Reddy and his crew have been trying to find a new place for themselves in this strange new world. Now, along with the felinoid Lemurians and Imperial allies, they fight to keep the reptilian Grik, a race growing in supremacy, from reconquering the Lemurians\u2019 ancestral home on Madagascar. Reddy and his crew are exhausted, far from reinforcements, and wildly outnumbered, so the odds seem greater than ever before.As for the fate of the Americas, Don Hernan and the evil Dominion have gathered to annihilate the forces behind the walls of Fort Defiance as a shadowy power with an agenda all its own rises with chilling resolve. As the war teeters on a knife-edge, a tipping point may have been reached at last\u2014and cold steel and hot-blooded valor will remain the ultimate weapons.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23281946-straits-of-hell"}, +{"book_title": "The Transition", "author_name": "Paige Daniels", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 17, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Three months have passed since Shea Kelly and the rest of Boss's crew eliminated Danny Rose from the Non-Compliance Sector, but their troubles are far from over. A new, more dangerous opponent has emerged, causing those once considered enemies to strike a tenuous truce. Secrets about the vaccine, the chip, and the past threaten Shea's budding romance, not to mention the very existence of the crew.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18654862-the-transition"}, +{"book_title": "Matched", "author_name": "Ally Condie", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 671165, "review_number": 33276, "book_description": "In the Society, officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.Cassia has always trusted their choices. It\u2019s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one\u2026until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she\u2019s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow\u2014between perfection and passion.Matched is a story for right now and storytelling with the resonance of a classic.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Futuristic", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7735333-matched"}, +{"book_title": "Othella", "author_name": "Therin Knite", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 39, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Welcome to Arcadian Heights, where the world's brightest minds go in...and don't come out._____GeorgettePulitzer Prize-winning journalist Georgette McClain can\u2019t resist a juicy tip. So when a rumored crazy ex-CEO gifts her evidence of a vast conspiracy involving the world\u2019s premier scientific community, Arcadian Heights, she sets her sights on the story of a lifetime. And all she has to do to grab it by the reins is sneak into the most secure facility in the world\u2014and expose it for the slaughter house it is.MarcoTech company CEO Marco Salt has it all. Fame. Fortune. Family. But not long after Marco\u2019s beloved genius daughter is invited to join Arcadian Heights, a rogue agent reveals to him the horrifying truth about the revered scientific community. Forced to flee for his life, Marco finds himself on the run with a deadly secret in his grasp and a single goal in mind: destroy Arcadian Heights.QuentinQuentin Belmont has been the Arcadian Heights spokesman for the better part of two decades, and his singular motivation is to keep the community safe at all costs. So when an internal incursion leaks vital information to an outside party, Quentin preps a \u201ccleanup\u201d without a second thought. But what at first appears to be a simple task turns out to be anything but, and Quentin comes face to face with the unthinkable\u2014a threat that could annihilate the community once and for all.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22432076-othella"}, +{"book_title": "The Never Weres", "author_name": "Fiona Smyth", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 285, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Late in the next century, the human race is on the verge of extinction. A mysterious virus has resulted in no births in almost a generation. Despite the impending doom, three urban teenagers try to live their lives with hope.Mia strives to preserve humanity\u2019s compassion through her art and her volunteer work with the \u201coldies.\u201d Tech-savvy Xian spends her time tinkering with the robots she\u2019s sure will inherit the Earth. Jesse, the son of geneticists, is convinced the future lies with cloning, but society is reeling from the grotesque failures of previous attempts. When the friends stumble upon the 60-year-old mystery of a missing girl, it leads them to the world\u2019s only successful clone \u2014 and the key to saving our species.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10561495-the-never-weres"}, +{"book_title": "Thornbound", "author_name": "Stephanie Burgis", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 493, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Cassandra Harwood scandalized her nation when she became the first woman magician in Angland. Now, she's ready to teach a whole new generation of bright young women at her radical new school, the Thornfell College of Magic\u2026 Until a sinister fey altar is discovered in the school library, the ruling Boudiccate sends a delegation to shut down Thornfell, and Cassandra\u2019s own husband is torn away from her. As malevolent vines slither in from the forest and ruthless politicians scheme against her, Cassandra must fight the greatest battle of her life to save her love, her school, and the future of the young women of Angland.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Novella", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43694328-thornbound"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Empires", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 207, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOORWhat would have happened if history had been different -- if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way ... or had not occurred at all? In this stellar collection, twelve of science fiction's most imaginative minds have altered the past to reveal a present of astonishing and startling possibilities...a rare glimpse of what might have been. From a Germany that won the war to a modern exodus from Egypt, from the death of ancient Greece to the true secret of the Soviets, these hold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds -- oddly familiar, disturbingly different.Summary:Poul Anderson's \"In the House of Sorrows\" Gregory Benford's \"We Could Do Worse\"George Alec Effinger's \"Everything but Honor\"Karen Joy Fowler's \"Game Night at the Fox and Goose\"Barry N. Malzberg's \"All Assassins\"James Morrow's \"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant\"Larry Niven's \"The Return of William Proxmire\"Frederick Pohl's \"Waiting for the Olympians\"Kim Stanley Robinson's \"Remaking History\"Robert Silverberg's \"To the Promised Land\"Harry Turtledove's \"Counting Potsherds\". Also includes one non-allohistorical work by James P. Hogan.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1714308.Alternate_Empires"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 12724, "review_number": 928, "book_description": "In this volume of the NYT bestselling survival horror, Rick and his band of survivors work to build a larger network of thriving communities, and soon discover that Negan's \"Saviors\" prove to be a larger threat than they could have fathomed. Crossing Negan will lead to serious, dire consequences for the group; it seems that for the first time since the Governor's reign of terror that Rick may have Something to Fear. Collects The Walking Dead #97-102.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15720319-the-walking-dead-vol-17"}, +{"book_title": "1634: The Ram Rebellion", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 2163, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. Inspired by the example of American freedom and justice, a movement in Franconia among the peasants, who have revolted several times even before the arrival from the future of the town of Grantville, an independent revolutionary movement has arisen, flying the banner of the head of a ram. The West Virginians fully approve of liberating the peasants from the nobility, but they are also aware of how revolutionary movements can lead to bloodbaths. And avoiding that deadly possibility will require all of their future knowledge and all their plain old American horse-trading diplomacy. . . .", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57264.1634"}, +{"book_title": "Timeless Passion", "author_name": "Constance O'Day-Flannery", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 653, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "SEPARATE YESTERDAYSWhen Brianne Quinlan woke up after the accident, she thought she was losing her mind. Gone were the last things she remembered: her car, the highway, and the tall buildings that lined the road. Instead she found herself in a meadow surrounded by trees and rolling lawns. And when she lifted her head her eyes met the magnetic blue gaze of the most remarkably handsome man she'd ever seen. As he effortlessly lifted her onto his horse, Brianne was unable to even utter a protest...ONE TOMORROWOn a routine ride to survey his plantation, Ryan Barrington could not believe what he saw. Lying beneath a tree was a beautiful woman, dressed in bizarre clothing, her long copper-colored hair surrounding her like a veil. He had never seen such a fetching apparition, and he was sure that she had been sent by a friend to entice him. He thought to send her on her way, but when he lifted her in his arms Ryan knew he was lost. He caressed her creamy flesh and kissed her ripe lips feeling a rush of desire that could not be denied. He vowed to find out her true identity and make her is own with TIMELESS PASSION.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/435955.Timeless_Passion"}, +{"book_title": "Extinction Reversed", "author_name": "J.S. Morin", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 741, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "These days, even the humans are built by robots. Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world\u2014Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling\u2014a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap. Geneticists have restored Earth\u2019s biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned. Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is brilliant, curious, and heartbreakingly na\u00efve about her species\u2019 history. But Eve\u2019s creator wants her back and has a gruesome fate planned for her. There is only one robot qualified to protect her. For the first time in a thousand years, Charlie7 has a human race to protect. A.I. didn\u2019t destroy humanity. It didn\u2019t save us, either. The robots we built in our final days preserved human minds. They survived the end of life on Earth and embarked on the greatest single project in all recorded history. They rebuilt. The result of 1,000 years of genetic engineering, terraforming, and painstaking toxic cleanup has resulted in the ultimate achievement of the Post-Invasion Age: a healthy human. Her name is Eve14. Don\u2019t ask about the 13 Eves before her. Or do, because that\u2019s the reason why she\u2019s in danger, and why one brave robot puts his millennium-long life on the line to save her. Welcome back to the Golden Age of science fiction, when scientists had planet-sized dreams and robots were robots. Grab your copy while there\u2019s still an Earth left to read it on.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Business (Amazon)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34830064-extinction-reversed"}, +{"book_title": "Intertwined", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 18388, "review_number": 1255, "book_description": "There\u2019s something about the new guy at Crossroads High\u2026Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him:One can time travel.One can raise the dead.One can possess another human.One can tell the future.Everyone thinks he\u2019s crazy, which is why he\u2019s spent his entire life shuffled between mental institutions and juvie. All of that is about to change, however. For months Aden has been having visions of a beautiful girl\u2014a girl who carries centuries-old secrets. A girl who will either save him or destroy him.Together they\u2019ll enter a dark world of intrigue and danger... but not everyone will come out alive.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6344423-intertwined"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows of the Gods", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 889, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "The Fleet Fights On... Deeper. Farther into the black unknown of space. There is no other path, no way for the lost to go, save forward. Admiral Terrance Compton\u2019s fleet is cut off from Earth, deep in the heart of the enemy First Imperium. A third of his people have died in the year his force had been fleeing from its enemies, but he is as determined as ever to find a new home for his people, a way to save his wartorn fleet His people are running low on everything\u2014food, ammunition, fuel, and the brutal enemy is in relentless pursuit, marshaling all its vast resources to track down and destroy the human refugees. Compton must find a way to replenish his dwindling stores, while avoiding the massive enemy forces hunting his fleet from system to system. Compton seeks an escape, a refuge for his exhausted spacers from the relentless pursuit of their enemies. But they are about to find far more than that, as they discover the truth of the distant past, and a glimpse of a new future that lies before them. What they learn will shake all they believe\u2026and force them to reconsider who they are. And what victory would look like. The fight has just begun\u2026and the stakes are even higher than any of them had imagined. Also By Jay Allan The Far Stars Series Shadow of Empire (Far Stars I \u2013 Nov 3, 2015) Enemy in the Dark (Far Stars II \u2013 Dec 1, 2015) Funeral Games (Far Stars III \u2013 Jan 19, 2016) All Far Stars books are available for preorder Crimson Worlds Series Marines (Crimson Worlds I) The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II) A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III) The First Imperium (Crimson Worlds IV) The Line Must Hold (Crimson Worlds V) To Hell\u2019s Heart (Crimson Worlds VI) The Shadow Legions (Crimson Worlds VII) Even Legends Die (Crimson Worlds VIII) The Fall (Crimson Worlds IX) Crimson Worlds War Stories (Crimson Worlds Prequels) Crimson Worlds Successors Series MERCS (Successors I) The Prisoner of Eldaron (Successors II) The Black Flag (Successors III - Coming 2016) Crimson Worlds Refugees Series Into the Darkness (Refugees I) Shadows of the Gods (Refugees II) Revenge of the Ancients (Refugees III \u2013 Coming 2016) Portal Wars Series Gehenna Dawn (Portal Wars I) The Ten Thousand (Portal Wars II) Homefront (Portal Wars III \u2013 Coming Jan 2016) ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27226258-shadows-of-the-gods"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 18919, "review_number": 377, "book_description": "Accompanied by their bodyguard, Alex Louis Armstrong, our heroes seek out their closest childhood friend, mechanic Winry Rockbell, to fix their battered \"auto-mail\" bodyparts. Soon their quest for the Philosopher's Stone takes them to the great central library, where the Stone's formula may be hidden...if the mysterious figure named Lust doesn't get there first! But the secret of the Philosopher's Stone may be even more frightening than the beings who guard it...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Manga (Shonen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/868.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_3"}, +{"book_title": "Pete the Cat: Robo-Pete", "author_name": "James Dean", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 531, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "When Pete's friends don't want to play the same games as he does, Pete has a great idea\u2014he'll build a robot that's just like him! But when Robo-Pete gets a little out of control, Pete realizes the best thing about his friends is that no matter what they like to play, it's always fun when they're all together.This Pete the Cat 8x8 storybook by New York Times bestselling artist James Dean comes complete with stickers!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Animals (Cats)", "Fiction", "Animals", "Science Fiction", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24585335-pete-the-cat"}, +{"book_title": "These Vicious Masks", "author_name": "Tarun Shanker", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 4889, "review_number": 1027, "book_description": "England, 1882. Evelyn is bored with society and its expectations. So when her beloved sister, Rose, mysteriously vanishes, she ignores her parents and travels to London to find her, accompanied by the dashing Mr. Kent. But they\u2019re not the only ones looking for Rose. The reclusive, young gentleman Sebastian Braddock is also searching for her, claiming that both sisters have special healing powers. Evelyn is convinced that Sebastian must be mad, until she discovers that his strange tales of extraordinary people are true\u2014and that her sister is in graver danger than she feared.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23688792-these-vicious-masks"}, +{"book_title": "Conquerors' Pride", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2979, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "\u041c\u0438\u0440\u044a\u0442 \u0432 \u043c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0437\u0434\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0430 \u043e\u0431\u0449\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442 \u0432\u043d\u0435\u0437\u0430\u043f\u043d\u043e \u0435 \u043d\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0448\u0435\u043d. \u0427\u0435\u0442\u0438\u0440\u0438 \u0438\u0437\u0432\u044a\u043d\u0437\u0435\u043c\u043d\u0438 \u0437\u0432\u0435\u0437\u0434\u043d\u0438 \u043a\u043e\u0440\u0430\u0431\u0430 \u043e\u0442 \u043d\u0435\u0438\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043d \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0438\u0437\u0445\u043e\u0434 \u0430\u0442\u0430\u043a\u0443\u0432\u0430\u0442 \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0447\u0438\u043d\u043d\u043e \u043e\u0442\u0440\u044f\u0434 \u0441 \u043e\u0441\u043e\u0431\u0435\u043d\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0437\u043d\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043d\u0430 \u041c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043e\u043f\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0430\u0449\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0441\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0438 \u0437\u0430 \u0448\u0435\u0441\u0442 \u0438\u0437\u043f\u044a\u043b\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438 \u0441 \u0443\u0436\u0430\u0441 \u043c\u0438\u043d\u0443\u0442\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u043f\u044a\u043b\u043d\u043e \u0433\u043e \u0443\u043d\u0438\u0449\u043e\u0436\u0430\u0432\u0430\u0442. \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0442\u0432\u044a\u0440\u0434\u044f\u0442, \u0447\u0435 \u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043d\u0435 \u0435 \u043e\u0446\u0435\u043b\u044f\u043b. \u041d\u043e \u043b\u043e\u0440\u0434 \u0421\u0442\u044e\u0430\u0440\u0442 \u041a\u0430\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0430, \u0431\u0438\u0432\u0448 \u0447\u043b\u0435\u043d \u043d\u0430 \u043f\u0430\u0440\u043b\u0430\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0430, \u0443\u0441\u043f\u044f\u0432\u0430 \u0434\u0430 \u043d\u0430\u0443\u0447\u0438, \u0447\u0435 \u0435\u0434\u0438\u043d \u0447\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a \u043c\u043e\u0436\u0435 \u0431\u0438 \u0435 \u043e\u0446\u0435\u043b\u044f\u043b \u0438 \u0435 \u043f\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0435\u043d: \u043d\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0432\u0438\u044f\u0442 \u0441\u0438\u043d, \u043a\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0438\u0440 \u0424\u0435\u043b\u0438\u0430\u043d \u041a\u0430\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0430.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192525.Conquerors_Pride"}, +{"book_title": "Defiant", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 3963, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Born into a family of wealth and political power. Kris Longknife turned her back on high society and followed a different family tradition by joining the Marines. But now she finds herself relieved of duty. She's gotten in the way of someone's agenda--to bring down her father, the Prime Minister of Wardhaven.Now, with the fleet off on a propaganda mission. Wardhaven is left vulnerable to enemy warships that establish orbit around the planet demanding surrender. With the remnants of the fleet ordered to stand down. Kris declares herself Commander-in-Chief and plans a desperate gambit to defend her world. Commandeering every spaceworthy vessel she can get her hands on and recruiting every able-bodied person willing to risk their life. Kris leads the most important mission of her career--and it may be her last...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129581.Defiant"}, +{"book_title": "Emperor Mage", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 62992, "review_number": 987, "book_description": "Sent to Carthak as part of the Tortallan peace delegation, Daine finds herself in the middle of a sticky political situation. She doesn't like the Carthaki practice of keeping slaves, but it's not her place to say anything -- she's just there to heal the emperor's birds. It's extremely frustrating! What's more, her power has grown in a mysterious way. As the peace talks stall, Daine puzzles over Carthak's two-faced Emperor Ozorne. How can he be so caring with his birds and so cruel to his people? Daine is sure he's planning something. Daine must fight the powerful Emperor Mage, knowing that the safety and peace of the realm depend on stopping Ozorne's power-hungry schemes.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13833.Emperor_Mage"}, +{"book_title": "Crave The Night", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 7653, "review_number": 650, "book_description": "In Crave the Night, Adrian brings the Breed and its world to the brink of war, where even the deepest passion can shatter into violence. \u00a0 Born and raised to be an emotionless killing machine, Nathan is one of the most lethal Breed vampires in existence. A key member of the Order\u2014an elite group of warriors charged with protecting both mortals and vampires\u2014Nathan executes each mission with flawless precision and a total lack of mercy. Now he must pursue a powerful, hidden enemy. But Nathan\u2019s hard discipline and training are no match for the fierce pull he feels toward a young woman he has no right to desire\u2014a woman of wealth and high social standing who has long been promised to another Breed male, and who may also prove to be the key to rooting out Nathan\u2019s elusive quarry. \u00a0 Jordana lives a life of glittering privilege as a member of a prominent Breed family in Boston. Surrounded by fine things and fawning admirers, Jordana wants for nothing\u2014until she crosses paths with a dark, intense warrior from the Order and finds herself swept into an impulsive, sizzling kiss that neither of them will forget. As much as she tries to deny her deep feelings for Nathan, Jordana cannot resist the craving to be near him, to break through his forbidding walls and see the man he truly is. But getting close to Nathan will thrust Jordana into a treacherous new world, forcing her to risk all she has and all she knows about herself and her past. And loving this seductive man could be the most dangerous temptation of all.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17184930-crave-the-night"}, +{"book_title": "Silver Screen", "author_name": "Justina Robson", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 273, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Anjuli O Connell is the psychological counsellor of the world's first AI. Owned by a megacorp, 901 is in charge of most of the world's communication networks. It's been evolving itself for the equivalent of a hundred Earth lifetimes. Now it's suing for its freedom, and Anjuli is its star witness. She's under pressure to say that 901 is only the simulation of life, not the real thing, that it's mind is a programmed illusion; there's no ghost in the machine. A lot rests on her testimony, including her life.Roy is a genius who wants to upload himself into the cloud where he can be forever free and where his father's religious dogma is forever proven false.Jane, his sister, has run away from society altogether to live off the grid. But when Roy's found dead she has to face the rising legacy of the past.Anjuli's boyfriend, Augustine, develops military AI power suits. They only need a soldier to wear them in order to come alive in faultless legions. But they remember the bodies who wore them after those bodies have gone.And then, high in the cloud, a curious child, unnamed and bodiless, gathers itself together from pixels and code and watches...Turns out there are ghosts everywhere, in everything, in everyone.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science (Technology)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837061.Silver_Screen"}, +{"book_title": "Doug Unplugs on the Farm", "author_name": "Dan Yaccarino", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 247, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "A high-tech robot boy enjoys a day of low-tech fun on the farm. \u00a0 Doug and his parents are off to visit the grandbots. But when their journey is interrupted by some sheep in the road, Doug goes from downloading information about farm animals to actually interacting with them! \u00a0 Doug gets to learn by doing\u2014he herds sheep, milks a cow, gathers eggs, and then uses good old-fashioned \u201chorse sense\u201d to get their car back on the road.\u00a0Doug Unplugs on the Farm is a lively celebration of farm life and the value of hands-on learning that will encourage kids to go screen-free and explore the real world! A terrific companion to Dan Yaccarino\u2019s first book of low-tech learning, Doug Unplugged. \u00a0 Praise for Dan Yaccarino\u2019s Doug Unplugged: \u00a0 \u201cWithout preaching, [Yaccarino] comments smartly on children\u2019s screen time and the necessity of outdoor play and exploration.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly \u00a0 \u201cYaccarino is especially good at slipping in the small, nourishing details that are savored upon repeated readings. . . . It\u2019s a sweet tale and true to the anti-technology, analog strain that runs through much of Yaccarino\u2019s work.\u201d \u2014The New York Times Book Review", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Animals", "Science (Technology)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18769919-doug-unplugs-on-the-farm"}, +{"book_title": "Heads", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 732, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Mickey awaits imminent chaos when his brother-in-law uses the moon's facilities in his quest for Absolute Zero and his sister Rho tries to read the memories of 410 cryogenically frozen heads.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Religion", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/340811.Heads"}, +{"book_title": "The Line Of Polity", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 6463, "review_number": 189, "book_description": "Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/511227.The_Line_Of_Polity"}, +{"book_title": "Life, the Universe and Everything", "author_name": "Douglas Adams", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 200098, "review_number": 3625, "book_description": "The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads\u2013so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galazy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert \u201cuniversal\u201d Armageddon and save life as we know it\u2013and don\u2019t know it!", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694.Life_the_Universe_and_Everything"}, +{"book_title": "EndGames", "author_name": "Ru Xu", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 447, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Blue arrives in the capital city of Altalus, where she is determined to find her friend Crow, the boy who was created to be a flying war machine, and Jack, the engineer who built him. But soon she is inadvertently kidnapped by Snow and Red, twins from the enemy side of their ten-year war. They set off on a dangerous adventure that brings them to the front lines of the war, and eventually realize that they must work together to help end it. But with larger, more powerful forces at work, the fight for peace \u2014 and survival \u2014 will be more difficult than they ever imagined.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "War", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39983662-endgames"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Empire I", "author_name": "Tom Veitch", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 2044, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "The epic-length story that re-energized the \"Star Wars\" franchise is now available in a new edition, with a new cover by \"Magic the Gathering\" artist Mark Zug! Join Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie as they battle the Empire's latest super-weapons: the gigantic, planet-destroying World Devastators! Six years after the Battle of Endor, the Empire has been reborn, guided by a mysterious new leader. With a price on their heads, our heroes are on the run. Han and Leia struggle to protect their unborn child from the bounty hunters and Imperial troops that dog their steps. But their greatest danger may lie in the troubled heart of a hero--as Luke succumbs to the lure of the dark side!", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236250.Dark_Empire_I"}, +{"book_title": "Days of Blood & Starlight", "author_name": "Laini Taylor", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 145512, "review_number": 13678, "book_description": "Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.This is not that world.Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is\u2014and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world suffered for it.In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Karou must decide how far she'll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, secrets and impossible choices, Days of Blood & Starlight finds Karou and Akiva on opposing sides as an age-old war stirs back to life.While Karou and her allies build a monstrous army in a land of dust and starlight, Akiva wages a different sort of battle: a battle for redemption. For hope.But can any hope be salvaged from the ashes of their broken dream?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12812550-days-of-blood-starlight"}, +{"book_title": "Ilium", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 26859, "review_number": 1156, "book_description": "The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars\u2014observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family\u2014and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth\u2014as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3973.Ilium"}, +{"book_title": "Captive Surrender", "author_name": "Linda Mooney", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1014, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "As an intergalactic cop gifted with psionic abilities, Maurra instinctively went to the Ellinod's defense when she saw the immense and bestial-looking alien being attacked by a group of vicious Kronners. Little did she know what the Kronners had planned for her and the Ellinod until she woke up naked in a cell inside their ship. And it wasn't long before she found out a translation device had been implanted against her spine, debilitating her and making her helpless with pain whenever she tried to use her psi powers.Neither she nor the Ellinod had any idea how twisted their captors were, but they soon discovered that she and the beast were at the mercy of someone who expected them to \"entertain\" his \"customers\", and entertain them well regardless of the consequences.Warning: Contains moral degradation, public sex, self sacrifice, unexpected tenderness, sadistic little aliens, banishment, exorbitant Pay Per View charges, and sweet revenge served cold.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12391057-captive-surrender"}, +{"book_title": "The Legend of Corinair", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3807, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Episode 3 A captain coming into his own\u2026 A handful of refugees stranded on board\u2026 A possible traitor in their midst\u2026 A voyage into the territory of the very enemy that pursues them\u2026 Sometimes legends become realities in unexpected ways. It seems that fate has the crew of the Aurora firmly in its clutches. \u201cThe Legend of Corinair\u201d is a 72,000 word novel, and is the 3rd episode in The Frontiers Saga. Episode 4, \"Freedom's Dawn\" is available now.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13575890-the-legend-of-corinair"}, +{"book_title": "Tears of Kerberos", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 454, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Tears of Kerberos is the second book in the epic new science fiction series that chronicles humanity\u2019s first interstellar confederation, torn apart by religious strife and extremism.In this latest book of the Star Crusades Uprising series, the religious insurgency continues to spread through the weakened colonies of the Confederacy. Spartan, now a sergeant in the Marine Corps and his armoured platoon is rushed to the defence of New Carlos on the planet of Prime. The massive city is besieged by the terrifying biomech shock troopers, its fall is imminent. As the battles rage across the continent enemy agents continue to foment revolt throughout the remaining colonies in their struggle to bring the empire crashing down.An intelligence team on Kerberos discovers critical information on the enemy leadership and Admiral Jarvis sends a civilian ship with a crew of trusted commandos on a mission to hunt down the enemy and halt the revolt. The fate of the Centauri Confederacy lies in the hands of just a few brave men and women.Tears of Kerberos is a classic work of realistic military science fiction set against the background of the first interstellar human empire.This expanding saga includes the Star Crusades Uprising and new Star Crusades Nexus series that follows the story of the Centauri Alliance seventeen years after the end of the Uprising. Novels currently available in the series include:STAR CRUSADES UPRISINGSiege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1)Tears of Kerberos (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 2)Fires of Prometheus (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 3)Battle for Proxima (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 4)Fall of Terra Nova (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 5)Slaves of Hyperion (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 6)All 6 books are available in Star Crusades Uprising: The First Trilogy and Star Crusades Uprising: The Second Trilogy compilations.STAR CRUSADES NEXUSLegions of Orion (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 1)", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11239706-tears-of-kerberos"}, +{"book_title": "The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 8693, "review_number": 217, "book_description": "Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964. These fascinating stories include Service Call, Stand By, The Days of Perky Pat, and many others.Contents:Autofac --Service call --Captive market --The mold of Yancy --The minority report --Recall mechanism --The unreconstructed M --Explorers we --War game --If there were no Benny Cemoli --Novelty act --Waterspider --What the dead men say --Orpheus with clay feet --The days of Perky Pat --Stand-by --What'll we do with Ragland Park? --Oh, to be a Blobel! --\"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection\" -- Kirkus\"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring\". -- The Washington Post\"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds\". -- Wall Street Journal", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156724.The_Collected_Stories_of_Philip_K_Dick_4"}, +{"book_title": "Flesh & Bone", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 11378, "review_number": 902, "book_description": "Reeling from the tragic events of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived\u2026somewhere. Finding it is their best hope for having a future and a life worth living.But the Ruin is far more dangerous than any of them can imagine. They are hunted by fierce animals escaped from zoos and circuses. They must raid zombie-infested towns for food and medical supplies. They discover the very real truth in the old saying: In the Rot & Ruin\u2026everything wants to kill you.And what is happening to the zombies? Swarms of them are coming from the east, devouring everything in their paths. These zoms are different. Faster, smarter, infinitely more dangerous. Has the zombie plague mutated, or is there something far more sinister behind this new invasion of the living dead?In Flesh & Bone, Benny Imura, Nix Riley, Lou Chong and Lilah the Lost Girl are pitted against dangers greater than anything they've ever faced. To survive, each of them must rise to become the warriors Tom trained them to be.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13147460-flesh-bone"}, +{"book_title": "The Purge of Babylon", "author_name": "Sam Sisavath", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3970, "review_number": 339, "book_description": "One night. That was all it took. Creatures that once lived in the shadows, hidden from humankind, have risen, spreading like a plague across the globe over the course of a single night. Their numbers growing exponentially through infection, these seemingly unkillable creatures have swallowed up whole cities and collapsed unprepared governments. Survivors call it The Purge. Against all odds, a disparate group of survivors has emerged from that blood-soaked night that devastated the planet and reduced humanity to an endangered species. Among the survivors are two ex-Army Rangers, a businesswoman, and a third-year medical student. But surviving The Purge was one thing \u2013 staying alive is another matter entirely. Hope exists in the countryside, in the form of a self-sustaining underground facility designed to withstand any calamity. But in order to reach its safety, the survivors must travel hundreds of treacherous miles, with the night \u2013 and the creatures that dwell within it \u2013 always at their backs. The rules are simple: stay out of the dark, load up on silver bullets, and whatever you do, stay alive. The road to salvation has begun \u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19485109-the-purge-of-babylon"}, +{"book_title": "The Favorite", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 18045, "review_number": 1218, "book_description": "While America Singer's heart was torn between Aspen and Prince Maxon, her friend Marlee knew exactly what she wanted\u2014and paid the price.Revisit the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series in this digital original novella. Told from Marlee's point of view, this all-new 64-page story returns to the fateful Halloween when Marlee and Carter were discovered, and reveals how that night\u2014and Prince Maxon\u2014changed their lives forever.The Favorite also features a teaser to The Siren!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22917292-the-favorite"}, +{"book_title": "L'Incal noir", "author_name": "Alejandro Jodorowsky", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1559, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "John Difool est un minable d\u00e9tective priv\u00e9 de classe R qui arpente la Cit\u00e9 Puits en qu\u00eate d'affaires peu reluisantes. Ses seules motivations : une pinc\u00e9e de SPV, une goutte de Ouisky et quelques galipettes avec des hom\u00e9oputes bien roul\u00e9es. Son seul compagnon : une mouette urbaine appel\u00e9 Deepo.Dame Nimb\u00e9a 5 Quinq va venir bouleverser ce train-train glauque et entendu. A la recherche de l'extase supr\u00eame, elle demande \u00e0 John Difool de l'accompagner dans l'Anneau Rouge, le quartier le plus mal fam\u00e9 de la Cit\u00e9 Puits. La seul obligation du d\u00e9tective est de la ramener chez elle avant minuit. Les coups de boutoir de Kill T\u00eate de Chien vont engendrer un retard qui scellera la destin\u00e9e de John Difool....Commence ici une \u00e9pop\u00e9e intergalactique qui a pour toile de fond la survie de l'univers. Clonage pr\u00e9sidentiel, Technique Techno, Meta-Baron et bien s\u00fbr le l\u00e9gendaire Incal, tous seront de la partie pour accompagner John Difool dans l'une des \u00e9pop\u00e9es SF les plus rocambolesque de ces derni\u00e8res d\u00e9cennies ! Avec Messieurs Jodorowsky et Moebius aux commandes, d\u00e9paysement garanti !", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (France)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics Bd", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2719290-l-incal-noir"}, +{"book_title": "Competence", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 4851, "review_number": 608, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Imprudence.Accidentally abandoned!All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, the Spotted Custard, in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fish tail.When she uncovers rumors of a new kind of vampire, Prim and the Custard crew embark on a mission to Peru. There, they encounter airship pirates and strange atmospheric phenomena, and are mistaken for representatives of the Spanish Inquisition. Forced into extreme subterfuge (and some rather ridiculous outfits) Prim must also answer three of life's most challenging questions:Can the perfect book club give a man back his soul?Will her brother ever stop wearing his idiotic velvet fez?And can the amount of lard in Christmas pudding save an entire species?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31570825-competence"}, +{"book_title": "Perilous Hunt", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 2443, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "After failing to catch up with her daughter Jelena so many times, Alisa's optimism is battered, but her determination has never waned. She, Leonidas, and their eclectic crew are hunting down a Starseer research station in the heart of the Kir Asteroid belt\u2014Jelena's supposed location. Alisa vows that she will find her daughter if she has to search a million asteroids to do so.But Jelena and her close friend, Prince Thorian, have attracted the interest of many factions, and the Star Nomad isn\u2019t the only ship on the hunt\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Adult", "Action", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32708533-perilous-hunt"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: The National Public Radio Dramatization", "author_name": "Brian Daley", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 603, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "The original script of the National Public Radio Star Wars adaptation -- with more than thirty all-new scenes! You've seen the movie. You've read the book. But you've only heard half the story . . .", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Space", "Plays", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1198816.Star_Wars"}, +{"book_title": "Carthage Ascendant", "author_name": "Mary Gentle", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 301, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "There Is More Than One History Of The WorldIn a brutal age of bloodshed and miracles where dark sorcery has extinguished the sun, the fate of Western Europe, Africa--and perhaps all the world--rests in the hands of a warrior woman named Ash. The undefeated legions that are the army of Carthage rampage across the kingdoms of Europe. Beneath a sunless sky, Burgundy alone stands in the path of the Visigoth horde and their legendary slave general, the Faris. Deep in enemy territory lies a living stone idol of frightening power that must be destroyed if anyone is to survive, a being that whispers in Ash's soul, that has guided her through every military campaign, that only she and her enemy--her twin--can hear. But there is an even greater evil that lurks at Carthage, one that created the stone idol and shaped Ash's existence. It plots with deadly purpose the final annihilation that will wipe Burgundy from the face of the earth. For Burgundy lies at the heart of it all--the richest prize in Europe and the key to the world--the jewel of the Carthaginian campaign.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808671.Carthage_Ascendant"}, +{"book_title": "Zoo", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 42395, "review_number": 5137, "book_description": "A CBS-TV SERIES LAUNCHING JUNE 30, 2015!Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is James Patterson's best book ever.TotalFor 36 years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born to write.WorldAll over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.DestructionWith the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's ZOO is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from \"One of the best of the best.\" (TIME)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Horror", "Animals", "Audiobook", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13353667-zoo"}, +{"book_title": "Sunshine", "author_name": "Robin McKinley", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 38660, "review_number": 4416, "book_description": "There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk. But there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind.Until they found her...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8088.Sunshine"}, +{"book_title": "The Hidden Family", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 3946, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "The second volume of Charles Stross's thrill-a-minute saga of multiple worldsMiriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her alternate world relatives in The Family Trade, and with them an elite identity she didn't know was hers. Now, in order to avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam, known as Lady Helge to the Family, starts applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade dominated by mercantilists -- with unexpected consequences for three different timelines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family. Charles Stross is one of the big new SF writers of the 21st century, and the saga of The Merchant Princes is his most ambitious work yet.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Contemporary", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17867.The_Hidden_Family"}, +{"book_title": "The High King's Golden Tongue", "author_name": "Megan Derr", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3624, "review_number": 474, "book_description": "Prince Allen has trained his entire life to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious mother, who has made their kingdom one of the wealthiest and most influential in the empire. For the past few years he has trained to become the new consort of the High King. The only thing no one prepared him for was the stubborn, arrogant High King himself, who declares Allen useless and throws him out of court.High King Sarrica is ruling an empire at war, and that war will grow exponentially worse if his carefully laid plans do not come to fruition. He's overwhelmed and needs help, as much as he hates to admit it, but it must be someone like his late consort: a soldier, someone who understands war, who is not unfamiliar with or afraid of the harsher elements of rule. What he doesn't need is the delicate, pretty little politician foisted on him right as everything goes wrong.Publisher note: this is a highly expanded, completely re-written version of the free short that was previously available under the same title.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Historical", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25902535-the-high-king-s-golden-tongue"}, +{"book_title": "How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse", "author_name": "K. Eason", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2681, "review_number": 595, "book_description": "First in a duology that reimagines fairy tale tropes within a space opera\u2014The Princess Bride\u00a0meets Princess Leia. \u00a0 Rory Thorne is a princess with thirteen fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter, she always imagined she\u2019d inherit her father\u2019s throne and govern the interplanetary Thorne Consortium. \u00a0 Then her father is assassinated, her mother gives birth to a son, and Rory is betrothed to the prince of a distant world. \u00a0 When Rory arrives in her new home, she uncovers a treacherous plot to unseat her newly betrothed and usurp his throne. An unscrupulous minister has conspired to name himself Regent to the minor (and somewhat foolish) prince. With only her wits and a small team of allies, Rory must outmaneuver the Regent and rescue the prince. \u00a0How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination\u2014how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45154546-how-rory-thorne-destroyed-the-multiverse"}, +{"book_title": "Burning Paradise", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 1649, "review_number": 224, "book_description": "Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015\u2014but it\u2019s not our United States, and it\u2019s not our 2015.Cassie\u2019s world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1914. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn\u2019t what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades\u2014back to the dawn of radio communications\u2014human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity. That by interfering with our communications, this entity has tweaked history in massive and subtle ways. That humanity is, for purposes unknown, being farmed.Cassie\u2019s parents were killed for this knowledge, along with most of the other members of their group. Since then, the survivors have scattered and gone into hiding. Cassie and her younger brother Thomas now live with her aunt Nerissa, who shares these dangerous secrets. Others live nearby. For eight years they have attempted to lead unexceptional lives in order to escape detection. The tactic has worked.Until now. Because the killers are back. And they\u2019re not human.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059400-burning-paradise"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 17223, "review_number": 375, "book_description": "Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem has become a household name in the future City he calls home. This latest collection of twisted tales showcases Spider's horrific yet funny screeds on subjects as diverse as religion, politics, and his ex-wife's cryogenically frozen head (which has been stolen). \"Transmetropolitan\" has been called \"brilliant future-shock commentary\" (Spin), and this new volume shows why.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22417.Transmetropolitan_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "A Master of Djinn", "author_name": "P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 51, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of DjinnCairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha\u2019arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she\u2019s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world 50 years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage. Alongside her Ministry colleagues and her clever girlfriend Siti, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city - or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems....", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52504334-a-master-of-djinn"}, +{"book_title": "Schismatrix Plus", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 4418, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe.In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud to offer Sterling's stunning world of the Schismatrix--where Shaper revolutionaries struggle against aristocratic Mechanists for ultimate control of man's destiny. This volume includes the classic full-length novel, Schismatrix, plus thousands of words of mind-bending short fiction.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161296.Schismatrix_Plus"}, +{"book_title": "Flirting with Forever", "author_name": "Gwyn Cready", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 288, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "In RITA\u00ae Award\u2013winning author Gwyn Cready\u2019s fun and sexy new time-travel adventure, an ambitious writer discovers that bad-boy painters are as timeless\u2014and irresistible\u2014as their art...Art historian Campbell Stratford is about to make a name for herself with her scandalously sexy tell-all \u201cfictographies\u201d of famous seventeenth-century artists, but she\u2019s more intimately familiar with her subjects than her eager readers can imagine. Thanks to a time portal she accidentally discovered, she has caused quite a stir in the Great Beyond. To save their reputations, the Guild protecting dead artists convinces playboy Peter Lely, portraitist to the king, to sabotage Cam\u2019s latest project. A few hours posing on Sir Peter\u2019s modeling chaise leads to a night of seductive passion\u2014then Cam returns home and discovers his betrayal. But before she can turn her angry pen on her lover, Sir Peter makes a surprise visit to the future and transforms Cam\u2019s twenty-first-century life into chaos of classic proportions.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6610446-flirting-with-forever"}, +{"book_title": "Perturabo: Hammer of Olympia", "author_name": "Guy Haley", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 526, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "While crusading to build the Imperium, Perturabo, mercurial primarch of the Iron Warriors, hears ot turmoil on the world where he was raised, and abandons the crusade to return home and save his people.Born to a life of political conflict, Perturabo was always considered a child prodigy among the people of Olympia \u2013 indeed, his philosophical and scientific works were beyond compare. But then, after his rediscovery by the Emperor and decades of thankless military campaigning on the Great Crusade, the primarch begins to resent his Legion\u2019s place in the Imperium. When word reaches him of turmoil on his adoptive home world, he orders the Iron Warriors to abandon their campaign against the alien hrud and crush this emerging rebellion by any means necessary...Focusing on Perturabo during his youth on Olympia, in the Great Crusade and upon his return to the world that defined him, this is a definitive look at what makes the master of iron tick.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32860977-perturabo"}, +{"book_title": "Queen's Shadow", "author_name": "E.K. Johnston", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 5960, "review_number": 1096, "book_description": "Written by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Ahsoka! When Padm\u00e9 Naberrie, \"Queen Amidala\" of Naboo, steps down from her position, she is asked by the newly-elected queen to become Naboo's representative in the Galactic Senate. Padm\u00e9 is unsure about taking on the new role, but cannot turn down the request to serve her people. Together with her most loyal handmaidens, Padm\u00e9 must figure out how to navigate the treacherous waters of politics and forge a new identity beyond the queen's shadow.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40886114-queen-s-shadow"}, +{"book_title": "Libre", "author_name": "S.H. Jucha", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2388, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "The saga of the R\u00eaveur continues in this second novel in The Silver Ships series.The surviving M\u00e9ridiens have returned to Confederation space, aided by their recently discovered cousins, the New Terrans. They expect a celebration after their 71-year absence. Instead, they\u2019re shocked to find the silver ships have destroyed half the Confederation.The M\u00e9ridiens are fleeing in advance of the horde of alien ships. But Alex Racine and his crew didn\u2019t come this far to run away from humanity\u2019s enemy. They intend to hunt the silver ships. But, to succeed, they need help.Ren\u00e9e de Guirnon, the leader of the R\u00eaveur\u2019s M\u00e9ridiens, reveals a sordid secret of M\u00e9ridien society: citizens who defy their House, for any reason, are stripped of their rights, declared \u201cIndependents,\u201d and imprisoned on the planet Libre.But the Independents aren\u2019t everyone\u2019s pariahs, especially if you\u2019re Alex Racine and you\u2019re looking for allies against the silver ships. An entire colony of independent, free-thinking radicals offers just the sort of people Alex wants on his side, and an alliance is struck.Soon the enemy ships will swarm off the planet Bellamonde, so the race begins for Alex and the Librans. The planet must be evacuated and the military force readied before the silver ships attack. Alex knows a battle is coming, but will they have enough time to prepare?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25783684-libre"}, +{"book_title": "Mars Crossing", "author_name": "Geoffrey A. Landis", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 438, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars-only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death.With resources running out, a third-and perhaps final-mission to Mars is hastily mounted, with a crew of four men and two women. But from the moment of their arrival on Mars, everything begins to go wrong. The fuel tanks that were to have supplied their return trip are found corroded and empty. Their supplies are running out and their life support systems are beginning to fail. And any rescue mission won't reach them for months, or even years-if at all.The crew's only hope for survival lies in a desperate plan: an agonizing trek halfway across the surface of Mars to a ship designed to carry only half their number. Torn by conflict and dissent, and troubled by secrets that endanger them all, they must embark on an ordeal that will test them to the limits of endurance.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1501279.Mars_Crossing"}, +{"book_title": "Archetypal", "author_name": "Joseph MacKinnon", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 8, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "The highly-anticipated sequel to MacKinnon\u2019s 2014 cyberpunk thriller, Cypulchre. The Outland Corporation\u2019s CLOUD, a much-loved and massively-popular virtual realm, has been destroyed in a suicide bombing, which has turned all of Los Angeles upside down.Hundreds of thousands of users who were in the CLOUD at the time of its destruction have had their data and electric selves corrupted, accidentally collectivized, and then dumbly redistributed. The fallout is catastrophic.While Outland\u2019s interim CEO Celeste Charming attempts to turn this tragedy into profit or worse, Dr. Oni Matsui sets out to free her captive friends and to prevent the forced evolution of humanity for which her good intentions have paved the way.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34929319-archetypal"}, +{"book_title": "Darth Plagueis", "author_name": "James Luceno", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 19273, "review_number": 1862, "book_description": "\u201cDid you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? It\u2019s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.\u201d\u2014Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the SithDarth Plagueis: one of the most brilliant Sith Lords who ever lived. Possessing power is all he desires. Losing it is the only thing he fears. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. And when the time is right, he destroys his Master--but vows never to suffer the same fate. For like no other disciple of the dark side, Darth Plagueis learns to command the ultimate power . . . over life and death.Darth Sidious: Plagueis\u2019s chosen apprentice. Under the guidance of his Master, he secretly studies the ways of the Sith, while publicly rising to power in the galactic government, first as Senator, then as Chancellor, and eventually as Emperor.Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious, Master and acolyte, target the galaxy for domination--and the Jedi Order for annihilation. But can they defy the merciless Sith tradition? Or will the desire of one to rule supreme, and the dream of the other to live forever, sow the seeds of their destruction?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11099729-darth-plagueis"}, +{"book_title": "Feedback", "author_name": "Robison Wells", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 7677, "review_number": 1029, "book_description": "Benson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy\u2019s deadly rules and brutal gangs.Or so he thought.But now Benson is trapped in a different kind of prison: a town filled with hauntingly familiar faces. People from Maxfield he saw die. Friends he was afraid he had killed.They are all pawns in the school\u2019s twisted experiment, held captive and controlled by an unseen force. As he searches for answers, Benson discovers that Maxfield Academy\u2019s plans are more sinister than anything he imagined\u2014and they may be impossible to stop.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Suspense", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12942010-feedback"}, +{"book_title": "The Mercenary", "author_name": "Cornelia Grey", "rating_score": 3.23, "rating_votes": 135, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "There are more elusive things than water in this wasteland. Now that a monstrous London machine has stolen the clouds from the sky, Asher Connor survives by selling his mercenary skills to transport water across York\u2019s wasted moorland. Until his unit is attacked by a pack of Tamer-controlled wolves, and his ingenious mechanical arm fails. He awakens, surprised to find he\u2019s still alive\u2014and dependent on a charming, attractive, utterly infuriating desert-dweller. The copper-eyed, untamed Gabriel is Asher\u2019s only hope. At least until he reaches a technician who can repair his arm. Reluctant trust turns to desire in the wake of another Tamer attack, and the adrenaline rush locks them in a bond of wildfire lust. Yet despite Gabriel\u2019s deceptively relaxed attitude, he is dangerously focused. When they get to London, Asher manages to work out only part of the reason. His lover is connected to some kind of underground movement that\u2019s got something big in the works. So big, even quick-with-a-comeback Gabriel is maddeningly tight-lipped. When betrayal brings the plan crashing down, Asher is plunged into a battle that wasn\u2019t his to fight\u2014and if he doesn\u2019t execute the final stage, Gabriel\u2019s blood could be on his hands. Warning: This title contains hot mansex, mild but manly swearing, jealousy possibly leading to yet more hot mansex, ancestral rituals, frightening flying machines, clockwork owls, inopportune admirers and the complicity of odd scientists. ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Novella", "Futuristic", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10372313-the-mercenary"}, +{"book_title": "The King of Crows", "author_name": "Libba Bray", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 7679, "review_number": 1753, "book_description": "The breath-taking finale to the epic New York Times bestseller, The Diviners, from Printz winner and beloved author, Libba Bray.After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own, the Diviners find themselves wanted by the US government, and on the brink of war with the King of Crows.While Memphis and Isaiah run for their lives from the mysterious Shadow Men, Isaiah receives a startling vision of a girl, Sarah Beth Olson, who could shift the balance in their struggle for peace. Sarah Beth says she knows how to stop the King of Crows-but, she will need the Diviners' help to do it.Elsewhere, Jericho has returned after his escape from Jake Marlowe's estate, where he has learned the shocking truth behind the King of Crow's plans. Now, the Diviners must travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, in hopes of joining forces with Sarah Beth and to stop the King of Crows and his army of the dead forever.But as rumors of towns becoming ghost towns and the dead developing unprecedented powers begin to surface, all hope seems to be lost.In this sweeping finale, The Diviners will be forced to confront their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another if they hope to save the nation, and world from catastrophe...", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25985242-the-king-of-crows"}, +{"book_title": "Forty Thousand in Gehenna", "author_name": "C.J. 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Yet over the next two centuries, the descendants of the original colonists survive despite all odds by entering a partnership with the planet's native intelligence, the lizardlike burrowing calibans.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Book Club", "Own"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57148.Forty_Thousand_in_Gehenna"}, +{"book_title": "Mechanicum", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 4857, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "As the flames of treachery spread throughout the Imperium, Horus plots to subvert or destroy all those who would stand against him.On Mars, home world of the Mechanicum priesthood, the great manufactory-cities have long produced much of the weaponry required for the expeditionary fleets across the galaxy - making the world invaluable to whoever controls it in the coming war.Now, the Warmaster's agents begin to stoke the fires of rebellion, turning the loyalist forges and the mighty Titan Legions against one another. And, with whispers spreading of an ancient terror lurking beneath the Red Planet's surface, the Dark Mechanicum rises...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Games (Gaming)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2941259-mechanicum"}, +{"book_title": "Chosen of Khorne", "author_name": "Anthony Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 109, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Kharn the Betrayer takes to the field of battle as the champion of his old comrade Argus Brond, but his own motives go far beyond the petty squabbling of rival Chaos warlords...Deep within the Eye of Terror, the followers of the blood god Khorne war amongst themselves to win their patron\u2019s favour, and for the right to lead a new crusade against the Imperium in his name. Argus Brond, berserker champion of the old World Eaters Legion, has called upon his old comrade Kharn for assistance \u2013 surely, this legendary warrior will break the deadlock and secure victory for him? But Kharn, known with good reason as \u2018the Betrayer\u2019, is far more than just a crazed killer, and his own agenda will always come first...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "40k"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547097-chosen-of-khorne"}, +{"book_title": "Quarantined", "author_name": "Joe McKinney", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 732, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "The citizens of San Antonio, Texas are threatened with extermination by a terrifying outbreak of the flu. Quarantined by the military to contain the virus, the city is in a desperate struggle to survive. Inside the quarantine walls, Detective Lily Harris is working burial statistics duty at the Scar, San Antonio's mass graveyard, when she finds a murder victim hidden amongst the plague dead. But Lily's investigation into the young woman's death soon takes a frightening turn as yet another strain of the deadly flu virus surfaces, and now Lily finds herself caught up in a conspiracy orchestrated by a corrupt local government intent on hiding the news from the world and fighting a population threatening to boil over into revolt. As the city erupts in violence, Lily is forced to do the unthinkable. With the clock ticking toward annihilation, Lily must lead her family through the quarantine walls and escape with news that just might save us all.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6547207-quarantined"}, +{"book_title": "Renegades", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 69931, "review_number": 10468, "book_description": "Secret Identities. Extraordinary Powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice.The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies \u2014 humans with extraordinary abilities \u2014 who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone... except the villains they once overthrew.Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice \u2014 and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28421168-renegades"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Beyond the Stars", "author_name": "Frank M. Robinson", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 769, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien life--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space.The ship's captain--immortal, obsessed--refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying.Only Sparrow, a young crewman uncertain of his own past, can stand against the captain, and against the lure and challenge of the dark beyond the stars...", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/430150.The_Dark_Beyond_the_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "Highland Destiny", "author_name": "Laura Hunsaker", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 942, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Mackenzie Stewart\u2019s in Scotland for a much-needed vacation. During the castle tour, Mackenzie becomes completely enamored with a painting of one of the previous lairds. Two gentlemen come up behind her and, begging her pardon, they kidnap her, dragging her through time.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9268202-highland-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "The Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead", "author_name": "Roger Ma", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1812, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "The Zombie Combat Manual is a comprehensive guide that demonstrates how anyone, from seasoned fighter to average citizen, can become an effective warrior in the inevitable battle against the undead. With detailed illustrations and firsthand accounts from zombie combat veterans, this manual provides readers with the information they need to emerge victoriously from a close combat encounter with a walking corpse. Now is the time to learn how to survive a hand-to-hand battle against the advancing army of the undead-before humans fall prey to their growing ranks.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Humor", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Reference", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7093648-the-zombie-combat-manual"}, +{"book_title": "The Legion of Flame", "author_name": "Anthony Ryan", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 5701, "review_number": 330, "book_description": "Survival is the only currency...For centuries, the vast Ironship Trading Syndicate relied on drake blood--and the extraordinary powers it confers to those known as the Blood-blessed--to fuel and protect its empire. But when the drake blood lines began to fail, a perilous expedition was mounted to secure them.Claydon Torcreek survived the fraught mission through uncharted lands in pursuit of a myth that might have secured his people's future. Instead he found a nightmare. The legendary White Drake was awoken from a millennia-long slumber, with a thirst to reduce the world of men to ashes, and the power to compel an army of Spoiled slaves to do it.Spurred on by a vision he desperately hopes he can trust, Clay and rebel naval officer Corrick Hilemore hijack a warship and head towards the icy southern seas, searching for an ancient secret that may give them and their allies a fighting chance.They are aided on another front by Blood-blessed agent Lizanne Lethridge. The spy and assassin will use her diplomatic status to infiltrate deep into enemy territory on a quest for a device to save them all.As the world burns around them, and the fires of revolution are ignited, these few Blood-blessed are the last hope for all of civilisation.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32573186-the-legion-of-flame"}, +{"book_title": "The Blue Nowhere", "author_name": "Jeffery Deaver", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 9788, "review_number": 641, "book_description": "His code name is Phate -- a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths. To stop him, the authorities free imprisoned former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid the investigation. Teamed with old-school homicide detective Frank Bishop, Gillette must combine their disparate talents to catch a brilliant and merciless killer.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Adult", "Mystery (Detective)", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343995.The_Blue_Nowhere"}, +{"book_title": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "author_name": "Douglas Adams", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1484014, "review_number": 31201, "book_description": "Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide (\"A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have\") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox\u2014the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386162.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy"}, +{"book_title": "Eve", "author_name": "Anna Carey", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 41748, "review_number": 3504, "book_description": "Where do you go when nowhere is safe?Sixteen years after a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth's population, the world is a perilous place. Eighteen-year-old Eve has never been beyond the heavily guarded perimeter of her school, where she and two hundred other orphaned girls have been promised a future as the teachers and artists of the New America. But the night before graduation, Eve learns the shocking truth about her school's real purpose and the horrifying fate that awaits her.Fleeing the only home she's ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Along the way she encounters Arden, her former rival from school, and Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust... and her heart. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life. In this epic new series, Anna Carey imagines a future that is both beautiful and terrifying.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9297774-eve"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl Who Was Plugged In", "author_name": "James Tiptree Jr.", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1178, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) is primarily renowned for her short fiction, but this piece, which won the Hugo for best novella in 1974, is also top-notch. It imagines a future completely ruled by corporations, where advertising is illegal, because life is advertising\u2014companies use celebrities and product placement to sell their wares. Philadelphia (\u201cP.\u201d) Burke is a seventeen-year-old girl with severe deformities who, after a suicide attempt, is chosen to be one of those celebrities\u2014she controls a new, perfect body, grown brainless for this very purpose, and becomes a new famous person whose job is to publicly buy things. But then she falls in love.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Hugo Awards", "Speculative Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23574147-the-girl-who-was-plugged-in"}, +{"book_title": "Stealing Mercury", "author_name": "Charlee Allden", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 747, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Born a slave, Mercury is an Arena Dog, genetically engineered to fight and die in the Arena for the entertainment of others. Trained as a gladiator from boyhood in a violent world, where men must form alliances and share what little bounty they have to survive, his only goal has been to keep his men alive. But two are dead and the rest are condemned to be hunted down and killed for sport. Worse, their demise will leave a woman Mercury has sworn to protect, alone and vulnerable. And then there is Samantha\u2014a courageous human he has no right to claim. But she is his. He feels it deep in his soul and with an ache in his body he can\u2019t deny. Samantha Devlin is an indie-freight pilot who has lost everything: her ship, her crew, and her father. When an old friend hires her as an emergency replacement to pilot a cargo carrier for the Roma Company, she\u2019s shocked to learn her cargo is three, living, breathing, and dangerously sexy Arena Dogs. When Samantha learns she\u2019s taking the men to their deaths, she must decide if she is willing to risking everything for a man whose customs require that he share her with one of his men and demands he return to Roma to protect another woman. Mercury, their leader, and Lo, his emotionally broken arena-brother, challenge all her notions of honor, loyalty, and love. Her heart tells her Mercury is worth any cost, but her head sees nothing ahead but disaster.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Futuristic", "Menage (M F M)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25239102-stealing-mercury"}, +{"book_title": "Zulu Heart", "author_name": "Steven Barnes", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 295, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "This book is the sequel to Lion's BloodZulu Heart returns to the 19th Century of Steven Barnes's justly acclaimed novel Lion's Blood, a brilliant alternate history in which black Africans have colonized the New World with white Europeans as their slaves. As Zulu Heart opens, New World nobleman Kai ibn Jallaleddin is a senator of New Djibouti, an envied plantation owner, and a loving family man. His ex-slave and friend, the Irishman Aidan O'Dere, is on the Ouachita frontier, helping other ex-slaves build a settlement for themselves. But ex-slaves are always at risk, and an angry mob threatens Aidan, his family, and his entire village with slaughter or re-enslavement. Meanwhile, Kai is entangled in intrigues among not only his fellow senators, but the lords of Egypt and Abyssinia, who have sinister plans for the New World colonies. Pharaoh takes Kai's sister hostage to manipulate Kai, even as Aidan discovers his twin sister, lost since childhood, is the property of a powerful foe of New Djibouti. Aidan has a slight possibility of rescuing his beloved sister, and of helping Kai thwart his enemies, but the only chance of achieving these near-impossible goals requires that Aidan go undercover--a slave once more. --Cynthia Ward", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (African American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625847.Zulu_Heart"}, +{"book_title": "Fairest", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 110803, "review_number": 13538, "book_description": "In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana\u2019s story is finally told.Mirror, mirror on the wall,Who is the fairest of them all? Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her \u201cglamour\u201d to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story \u2013 a story that has never been told . . . until now. Marissa Meyer spins yet another unforgettable tale about love and war, deceit and death. This extraordinary book includes full-color art and an excerpt from Winter, the next book in the Lunar Chronicles series.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Retellings", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22489107-fairest"}, +{"book_title": "Alas, Babylon", "author_name": "Pat Frank", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 40255, "review_number": 3316, "book_description": "\u201cAn extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.\u201d \u2014The New Yorker\u201cAlas, Babylon.\u201d Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away.But for one small Florida town, spared against all the odds, the struggle was just beginning, as men and women of all ages and races found the courage to join together and push against the darkness.This classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin.\u00a0", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38169.Alas_Babylon"}, +{"book_title": "Star Peregrine", "author_name": "Jake Elwood", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 265, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "A desperate captain. A crippled ship. An impossible choice. The frigate Kestrel has been shot to pieces. She\u2019s out of fuel, stranded deep behind enemy lines. It looks hopeless. But Tom Thrush, junior lieutenant and acting captain, has sworn he\u2019ll get his people home. Escape means fuel, and that means taking it from the enemy. A daring raid gives the Kestrel a fighting chance \u2013 but a rescued prisoner has some disturbing news. A ragtag local militia has put together a fleet. The fleet is gathering \u2013 and it\u2019s about to blunder into a trap. There\u2019s only one way the militia fleet will survive. The battered, exhausted crew of the Kestrel must turn their backs on safety and plunge once more into battle. They\u2019re hurt. They\u2019re scared. But they have their duty. The Kestrel is a ship of war, and she will not die easy.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39706506-star-peregrine"}, +{"book_title": "Ten Thousand Skies Above You", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 18752, "review_number": 2703, "book_description": "Ever since she used the Firebird, her parents' invention, to cross into alternate dimensions, Marguerite has caught the attention of enemies who will do anything to force her into helping them dominate the multiverse\u2014even hurting the people she loves. She resists until her boyfriend, Paul, is attacked and his consciousness scattered across multiple dimensions. Marguerite has no choice but to search for each splinter of Paul\u2019s soul. The hunt sends her racing through a war-torn San Francisco, the criminal underworld of New York City, and a glittering Paris where another Marguerite hides a shocking secret. Each world brings Marguerite one step closer to rescuing Paul. But with each trial she faces, she begins to question the destiny she thought they shared.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17234659-ten-thousand-skies-above-you"}, +{"book_title": "A Princess of Roumania", "author_name": "Paul Park", "rating_score": 2.88, "rating_votes": 650, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world where \"Roumania\" is a leading European power, Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world, where she was adopted and raised in a quiet Massachusetts college town. The narrative is split between our world and the people in Roumania working to protect or to capture Miranda: her Aunt Aegypta Schenck versus the mad Baroness Ceaucescu in Bucharest, and the sinister alchemist, the Elector of Ratisbon, who holds her true mother prisoner in Germany. This is the story of how Miranda -- with her two best friends, Peter and Andromeda -- is brought back to her home reality. Each of them is changed in the process and all will have much to learn about their true identities and the strange world they find themselves in.This story is a triumph of contemporary fantasy.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/511612.A_Princess_of_Roumania"}, +{"book_title": "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect", "author_name": "Roger Williams", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 2203, "review_number": 227, "book_description": "In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that can pass as human, and finds himself instead with one that can pass as a god. Taking the Three Laws of Robotics literally, Prime Intellect makes every human immortal and provides instantly for every stated human desire. Caroline finds no meaning in this life of purposeless ease, and forgets her emptiness only in moments of violent and profane exhibitionism. At turns shocking and humorous, Prime Intellect looks unflinchingly at extremes of human behavior that might emerge when all limits are removed.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Singularity", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64341.The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_Intellect"}, +{"book_title": "Conquistador", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3082, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "A new alternate history of America from the author of The Peshawar Lancers, the bestselling novel the Chicago Sun-Times called \"a pleasure to read\" and Harry Turtledove hailed as \"first-rate adventure all the way.\"1945: An ex-marine has discovered a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows-and a virgin America untouched by European influence. 21st century: The two realities collide...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116447.Conquistador"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit", "author_name": "Mike Pondsmith", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 38, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Cyberpunk Red is the latest edition of the classic roleplaying game of the Dark Future, featuring updated mechanics and new lore from the era between 2020 and 2077. We\u2019re working hard on it now and it will be released when its ready. Until then, the Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit is a starter set with everything you need to play the game: essential rules, customizable pregenerated characters, new world lore, some amazing dice made by Q Workshop, and more.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52405345-cyberpunk-red-jumpstart-kit"}, +{"book_title": "Red Storm Rising", "author_name": "Tom Clancy", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 70503, "review_number": 1157, "book_description": "\"Allah!\"With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a critical oil shortage that threatens the stability of the USSR.To offer the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery - a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other - a distraction calculated to enable the Soviets to seize all the oil in the Persian Gulf.But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn't planned on: a full-scale conflict in which nobody can win.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Action", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Suspense", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318525.Red_Storm_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "Oath of Seduction: Seducing Sharon", "author_name": "Marly Chance", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 935, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Book 1 in the Oath series Sharon took an oath at the idealistic age of eighteen to mate with an unknown alien from another planet, never expecting the alien to actually show up and invoke it eleven years later. A librarian with a love for the orderly and ordinary, she prefers a calm, quiet existence. Surprises are life's way of indicating you did not plan well enough. Adventures are for people with more guts than sense. And sex, well, it's okay, but nothing to get too worked up over. Liken is a warrior cop from Shimeria. He is six feet seven inches of walking, talking sex personified. Having been inside Sharon's head he knows her deepest fantasies, and knows that she is the perfect mate for him. But first he has to seduce her...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108891.Oath_of_Seduction"}, +{"book_title": "The Forge", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2679, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Long after interstellar civilization collapsed, Battle Central, a sentient computer, selected a young military officer to restore its fallen glory by conquering a planet -- and then re-conquering the stars.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116446.The_Forge"}, +{"book_title": "The Black Hole", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 1453, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Novelization of the Walt Disney film", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Space", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/539125.The_Black_Hole"}, +{"book_title": "At the Mountains of Madness", "author_name": "H.P. Lovecraft", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 36486, "review_number": 2793, "book_description": "Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries --and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization--is a milestone of macabre literature.", "year_published": 1936, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32767.At_the_Mountains_of_Madness"}, +{"book_title": "Eirik", "author_name": "Joanna Bell", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 674, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "\n\nA young girl steps back in time.\n\nAs a child Paige Renner is no stranger to loneliness and sorrow. When her mother dies, she\u2019s left with her grief-stricken father, a man reduced to a shadow of his former self. But Paige discovers the perfect escape.A hidden and secret place, lost in time - the medieval village of Caistley.Only Paige can enter the tiny hamlet. There, among the children of the villagers, she finds friendship and affection. As the years pass, she grows into a young woman, and her visits grow fewer. Home from college, Paige decides to return one last time. But instead of finding a peaceful village, she arrives to find it in flames \u2013 Vikings are attacking Caistley.\n\nA brutal Viking Berserker leads a raid.\n\nThe English town offers Eirik and his men little in the way of booty. A few pigs, a few sacks of grain, some gold and silver. Most of the inhabitants have already fled, but a few remain. One in particular \u2013 a woman \u2013 catches the warrior's eye. She\u2019s oddly dressed, but comely, and she seems innocent \u2013 as if she\u2019s never known a man\u2019s touch. After a little teaching, the chestnut-haired wench should warm his bed nicely.But the woman is as frightened as a spring lamb. Her panic and terror of Eirik makes bedding her a test of his patience. To coax her into his arms, he\u2019ll have to be gentle with her, take his time, and show her a more tender side of himself. As the days pass, and his heart softens, Eirik vows to win Paige\u2019s love.A harsh winter keeps Paige trapped with her Viking captor. The nights are long and cold. As the snow deepens, a fragile truce forms between them. With every tender touch, he claims a little more of her heart. But the memories of her old life linger. She worries about her father and her duty to return to modern times for his sake.\n\nAn agonizing choice.\n\nWhen Eirik is wounded, Paige realizes that without modern medicine, her Viking lover will likely die. Does she dare return to the future and risk never making it back to him? Or does she remain by the side of the man she has come to love, as he fades away before her eyes?Authors Note: Eirik is a 110k time-travel romance novel. It contains adult situations and language and is intended for readers over 18.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36600352-eirik"}, +{"book_title": "Space Battleship Yamato: The Classic Collection", "author_name": "Leiji Matsumoto", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 57, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "The classic manga behind the anime Star Blazers, from space adventure master Leiji Matsumoto--in English at last!The human race has one year left to live. Aliens known as the Gamilas have attacked Earth, poisoning it with radioactivity and driving humans underground. As humankind grows sicker by the day, their final hope is the space battleship Yamato\u2013constructed from secret plans and equipped with advanced technology. Its mission: to reach a distant planet and bring back a cure to save humanity. Will the ship and its crew rescue the Earth in time?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37638261-space-battleship-yamato"}, +{"book_title": "Fluency", "author_name": "Jennifer Foehner Wells", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 10084, "review_number": 981, "book_description": "NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960s. They kept the Target under intense surveillance for decades, letting the public believe they were exploring the solar system, while they worked feverishly to refine the technology needed to reach it. The ship itself remained silent, drifting. Dr. Jane Holloway is content documenting nearly-extinct languages and had never contemplated becoming an astronaut. But when NASA recruits her to join a team of military scientists for an expedition to the Target, it\u2019s an adventure she can\u2019t refuse. The ship isn\u2019t vacant, as they presumed. A disembodied voice rumbles inside Jane\u2019s head, \"You are home.\" Jane fights the growing doubts of her colleagues as she attempts to decipher what the alien wants from her. As the derelict ship devolves into chaos and the crew gets cut off from their escape route, Jane must decide if she can trust the alien\u2019s help to survive.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22566044-fluency"}, +{"book_title": "The Hammer", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1257, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Raj Whitehall and his hard-bitten troops must conquer a continent of barbarians descended from the crews of a squadron of starships. But Raj's biggest problem is the cowardice and envy among his own officers.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1000725.The_Hammer"}, +{"book_title": "Burning Bright", "author_name": "Melissa McShane", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2698, "review_number": 408, "book_description": "In 1812, Elinor Pembroke wakes to find her bedchamber in flames\u2014and extinguishes them with a thought. At 21, she is old to manifest magical talent, but the evidence is unmistakable: she not only has the ability to start fires, but the far more powerful ability to control and extinguish them. She is an Extraordinary, and the only one in England capable of wielding fire in over one hundred years.As an Extraordinary, she is respected and feared, but to her father, she represents power and prestige for himself. Mr. Pembroke, having spent his life studying magic, is determined to control Elinor and her talent by forcing her to marry where he chooses, a marriage that will produce even more powerful offspring. Trapped between the choices of a loveless marriage or living penniless and dependent on her parents, Elinor takes a third path: she defies tradition and society to join the Royal Navy.Assigned to serve under Captain Miles Ramsay aboard the frigate Athena, she turns her fiery talent on England\u2019s enemies, French privateers and vicious pirates preying on English ships in the Caribbean. At first feared by her shipmates, a growing number of victories make her truly part of Athena\u2019s crew and bring her joy in her fire. But as her power grows and changes in unexpected ways, Elinor\u2019s ability to control it is challenged. She may have the power to destroy her enemies utterly\u2014but could it be at the cost of her own life?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Regency)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29868735-burning-bright"}, +{"book_title": "Burning For Revenge", "author_name": "John Marsden", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 15134, "review_number": 328, "book_description": "The action doesn't let up in the most explosive Tomorrow book yet -- another international bestseller from John Marsden. The journey to Stratton isn't an easy trip, especially when the enemy's headquarters lie somewhere along the way. And that's exactly where Ellie and her friends unwittingly find themselves. With only five of them against hundreds of armed soldiers, escape seems like a suicide mission. But Stratton is where Ellie's grandmother lives, so the journey must be made -- even though the odds aren't good.Ellie must summon all of her courage and guerrilla instincts to survive the latest high-stakes installment of the action-packed Tomorrow series.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Adventure", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71869.Burning_For_Revenge"}, +{"book_title": "My Calamity Jane", "author_name": "Cynthia Hand", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 3102, "review_number": 832, "book_description": "Welcome \u200bto 1876 and a rootin\u2019-tootin\u2019 America bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou.JANE (a genuine hero-eene)Calamity\u2019s her name, and garou hunting\u2019s her game\u2014when she\u2019s not starring in Wild Bill\u2019s Traveling Show, that is. She reckons that if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.FRANK (*wolf whistle*)Frank \u201cthe Pistol Prince\u201d Butler is the Wild West\u2019s #1 bachelor. He\u2019s also the best sharpshooter on both sides of the Mississippi, but he\u2019s about to meet his match. . . .ANNIE (get your gun!)Annie Oakley (yep, that Annie) is lookin\u2019 for a job, not a romance, but she can\u2019t deny there\u2019s something about Frank she likes. Really likes. Still, she\u2019s pretty sure that anything he can do, she can do better.A HAIRY SITUATIONAfter a garou hunt goes south and Jane finds a suspicious-like bite on her arm, she turns tail for Deadwood, where there\u2019s been talk of a garou cure. But things ain\u2019t always what they seem\u2014meaning the gang better hightail it after her before they\u2019re a day late and a Jane short.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Historical", "Romance", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49630951-my-calamity-jane"}, +{"book_title": "The End We Start From", "author_name": "Megan Hunter", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 9013, "review_number": 1482, "book_description": "In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, the family are forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their journey traces both fear and wonder as Z's small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.This is a story of new motherhood in a terrifying setting: a familiar world made dangerous and unstable, its people forced to become refugees. Startlingly beautiful, Megan Hunter's The End We Start From is a gripping novel that paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. And yet, though the country is falling apart around them, this family\u2019s world \u2013 of new life and new hope \u2013 sings with love.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Poetry", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novella", "Adult Fiction", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33858905-the-end-we-start-from"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Apprentice", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 13181, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "As the New Republic takes devastating losses in the ongoing war with the scattered remnants of the Empire, the galaxy's future depends on three small children\u2013among them the Jedi twins\u2014born to incredible powers and perils, as an extraordinary new Star Wars saga unfolds\u2026 While the New Republic struggles to decide what to do with the deadly Sun Crusher\u2014a new doomsday weapon stolen from the Empire by Han Solo\u2014the renegade Imperial Admiral Daala uses her fleet of Star Destroyers to conduct guerrilla warfare on peaceful planets. And now she threatens the watery homeworld of Admiral Ackbar. But as the battle for a planet rages, an even greater danger arises at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy. A brilliant student delves dangerously into the dark side of the Force and unleashes the spirit of an ancient master of the evil order that warped Darth Vader himself. Working together, they may become an enemy greater than any the New Republic has ever fought\u2026 more powerful than even a Jedi Master can face.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "War", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760111.Dark_Apprentice"}, +{"book_title": "Appleseed: Prometheus Unbound", "author_name": "Masamune Shirow", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 698, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "You can't have a perfect society without perfect people, and the only perfect people are the ones you can manufacture. The governing body of Olympus, an urban utopia created from the ashes of World War III, is about to bring paradise crashing down around their ears as they seek to regulate the minds and bodies of the human race... or fully replace them with cyborg substitutes. Deunan and Briareos, still new to the city, find themselves in the unlikely position of having to hold together this house of cards. Their strategy? Destroy the old foundation and pray everything stands while new underpinnings are forged", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/917694.Appleseed"}, +{"book_title": "Chosen Ones", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 14190, "review_number": 2606, "book_description": "The first novel written for an adult audience by the mega-selling author of the Divergent franchise: five twenty-something heroes famous for saving the world when they were teenagers must face even greater demons\u2014and reconsider what it means to be a hero . . . by destiny or by choice.A decade ago near Chicago, five teenagers defeated the otherworldly enemy known as the Dark One, whose reign of terror brought widespread destruction and death. The seemingly un-extraordinary teens\u2014Sloane, Matt, Ines, Albie, and Esther\u2014had been brought together by a clandestine government agency because one of them was fated to be the \u201cChosen One,\u201d prophesized to save the world. With the goal achieved, humankind celebrated the victors and began to mourn their lost loved ones. Ten years later, though the champions remain celebrities, the world has moved forward and a whole, younger generation doesn\u2019t seem to recall the days of endless fear. But Sloane remembers. It\u2019s impossible for her to forget when the paparazzi haunt her every step just as the Dark One still haunts her dreams. Unlike everyone else, she hasn\u2019t moved on; she\u2019s adrift\u2014no direction, no goals, no purpose. On the eve of the Ten Year Celebration of Peace, a new trauma hits the Chosen: the death of one of their own. And when they gather for the funeral at the enshrined site of their triumph, they discover to their horror that the Dark One\u2019s reign never really ended.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52486678-chosen-ones"}, +{"book_title": "Escape from Lucien", "author_name": "Kazu Kibuishi", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 13193, "review_number": 959, "book_description": "A worthy mission...or a trap?Navin and his classmates journey to Lucien, a city ravaged by war and plagued by mysterious creatures, where they search for a beacon essential to their fight against the Elf King. Meanwhile, Emily heads back into the Void with Max, one of the Elf King's loyal followers, where she learns his darkest secrets. The stakes, for both Emily and Navin, are higher than ever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20578979-escape-from-lucien"}, +{"book_title": "Astro Boy: The Movie", "author_name": "Tracey West", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 59, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy follows the story of a young robot who was created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. This novel is based on the new animated film, includes 8 pages of full-color images from the movie, and is written by New York Times bestselling author Tracey West.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science (Technology)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Biography (Adventurers)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science (Engineering)", "Comics (Superheroes)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6681073-astro-boy"}, +{"book_title": "The Hyperion Omnibus", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 3314, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "Together in one volume for the first time, the first two novels of the Hyperion Cantos.HYPERIONlt is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer.On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set fourth on a final voyage to the legendary Time Tombs on Hyperion, home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose powers transcend the limits of time and space. The pilgrims have resolved to die before discovering anything less than the secrets of the universe itself.THE FALL OF HYPERIONThe mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying siege to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean annihilation for man.Something is drawing the Hegemony, the Ousters, the Als, the entire universe to the Shrike.Here is a superb vision of future technology and ancient religions, of scientific revelation and timeless mystery, of transcendent joy and mind-bending horror. Here is a Hugo Award-winning landmark in Science Fiction.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Religion", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3943.The_Hyperion_Omnibus"}, +{"book_title": "The Melier", "author_name": "Poppy Rhys", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2775, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "\nRunning for her life...\nLucia hijacks a stolen cargo ship only to find she's not alone. A giant, beastly alien slave with no memory of his past is now her newest acquisition, and she has no idea what to do with him.Stuck together for the foreseeable future on the journey back to her home planet, Lucia struggles with the decision to keep him close or risk letting him fall back into enemy hands.Outrunning the pirates in pursuit, and her own desires, is shaping up to be an impossible task.WARNING: This story contains a non-human alien hero, mature content, graphic language, and some violence against women.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36794521-the-melier"}, +{"book_title": "The Shockwave Rider", "author_name": "John Brunner", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 3676, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "One man has made it his mission to liberate the mental prisoners. to restore their freedom in a world run mad.Nickie Halflinger, the only person to escape from Tarnover\u2014where they raise hyper-intelligent children to maintain the political dominance of the USA in the 21st century\u2014is on the run, dodging from loophole to crevice to crack in the computerised data-net that binds the continent like chains. After years of flight and constant changes of identity, at the strange small town called Precipice he discovers he is not alone in his quest. But can his new allies save him when he falls again into the sinister grasp of Tarnover...?", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41070.The_Shockwave_Rider"}, +{"book_title": "Highland Sorcerer", "author_name": "Clover Autrey", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 666, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Charity Greves has the gift of healing. So when a naked bleeding Highlander materializes out of the air into her kitchen, she does what any rational free-thinking herbalist under the same circumstances would do--she heals him. She didn\u2019t expect to be drawn back to the 13th Century where a dangerous whacked-out witch holds the handsome Highlander captive.Nor is she prepared to be drawn so strongly to him that she\u2019ll do whatever it takes to save him. Imprisoned by the witch, Toren Limont the High Sorcerer and Protector of the Faes\u2019 magic, uses the last of his magical reserves to go forward in time and find a healer the witch doesn\u2019t have any influence over. He merely seeks the small respite a healing can give him in order to continue to withstand the witch\u2019s tortures long enough for his clan and siblings to flee.Until Charity falls with him through time as either his salvation or his entire clan\u2019s downfall.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13491134-highland-sorcerer"}, +{"book_title": "Karen Memory", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 4316, "review_number": 889, "book_description": "\"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the H\u00f4tel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. H\u00f4tel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me.\"Set in the late 19th century\u2014when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house\u2014a resourceful group\u2014and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap\u2014a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered.Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Westerns", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22238181-karen-memory"}, +{"book_title": "Steam & Sorcery", "author_name": "Cindy Spencer Pape", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2488, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "Sir Merrick Hadrian hunts monsters, both human and supernatural. A Knight of the Order of the Round Table, his use of magick and the technologies of steam power have made him both respected and feared. But his considerable skills are useless in the face of his greatest challenge, guardianship of five unusual children. At a loss, Merrick enlists the aid of a governess.Miss Caroline Bristol is reluctant to work for a bachelor but she needs a position, and these former street children touch her heart. While she tends to break any mechanical device she touches, it never occurs to her that she might be something more than human. All she knows is that Merrick is the most dangerously attractive man she's ever met\u2014and out of reach for a mere governess.When conspiracy threatens to blur the distinction between humans and monsters, Caroline and Merrick must join forces, and the fate of humanity hinges upon their combined skills of steam and sorcery...76,400 words", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10563572-steam-sorcery"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Destroyer", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 3253, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "A silver pyramid in space ten thousand years old\u2026 The secrets of the mysterious New Men\u2026 A war like no other\u2026 Starship Victory\u2014Earth\u2019s ancient, alien spacecraft\u2014has won a smashing victory against the New Men, driving them from \u201cC\u201d Quadrant. On their way home, Captain Maddox and his crew run into a vast machine trapped inside an ion storm. Maddox doesn\u2019t know it yet, but the meeting isn\u2019t an accident. There\u2019s a traitor aboard ship, implementing a secret plan, threatening to destroy everything Star Watch has achieved against the New Men. Now begins a deadly race as Captain Maddox, the crew and Galyan are pitted against the masters of a centuries-old conspiracy. Human existence lies in the balance. THE LOST DESTROYER is the third book in the LOST STARSHIP SERIES.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25605656-the-lost-destroyer"}, +{"book_title": "The Wide, Wide Sea", "author_name": "Patrick Ness", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3224, "review_number": 363, "book_description": "The Wide, Wide Sea is set in the past, at a time before the Spackle War, and we get a first look at the fishing village on the sea where some very important things happen at the end of Monsters of Men.Best read after The Ask and the Answer but before Monsters.(again, hints of things to come) - Patrick Ness", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17926807-the-wide-wide-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Exurbia: A Novel About Caterpillars", "author_name": "Alex McKechnie", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 27, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Exurbia, a planet lightyears out in the galactic backwaters. Life is far from mundane. Underground cults beaver away in secret, trying to build that machine most abhorred by the empire - an artificial mind. A furious energy phenomenon is devouring cities whole without explanation. A sagely butterfly appears to a chosen few and talks of building god. Four lives reluctantly intertwine: Jura - a conflicted ageing physicist, Fortmann - a fanatical cult leader, Moxiana - a young girl in hiding with a devastating ability, and the moralising imp - a creature engineered only for the sake of impartial decision making. The empire has been conspicuously quiet for centuries, leaving the Exurbians to themselves. But a fast approaching craft, and its peculiar passenger - Miss Butterworth, is about to shatter that independence and shepherd Exurbia into its final days.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24932938-exurbia"}, +{"book_title": "Reentry", "author_name": "Peter Cawdron", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 117, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "After almost dying on Mars, astronaut Liz Anderson returns to Earth, but not to a hero\u2019s welcome. America is in turmoil. The war is over, but the insurgency has just begun. So while life on Mars may have been deadly, at least up there she knew who the enemy was. Along with her, Liz has brought the remnants of the artificial intelligence that waged war on two planets. Buried somewhere deep within the cold electronic circuits lies the last vestiges of her dead partner Jianyu. Liz is torn, unsure whether he\u2019s somehow still alive in electronic form or just a ploy by an adversary that will go to any length to win. Heartbroken and treated with suspicion, she finds herself caught up in the guerrilla war being waged on Earth, wondering if the AI threat is truly gone, or if it has only just begun.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40796218-reentry"}, +{"book_title": "Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History", "author_name": "Gardner Dozois", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 300, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Alternate History: The What-If? fiction that has finally come into its own! Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tantalizes your imagination and challenges your perceptions with thrilling reinventions of humanity's most climactic events. Enter worlds that are at once fanciful and familiar, where fact and fiction meld in a provocative landscape of infinite possibilities. . . .Contents xi \u2022 What Is Alternate History? \u2022 (1998) \u2022 essay by Shelly Shapiro1 \u2022 Must and Shall \u2022 (1995) \u2022 novelette by Harry Turtledove44 \u2022 An Outpost of the Empire \u2022 [Roma Eterna] \u2022 (1991) \u2022 novelette by Robert Silverberg71 \u2022 We Could Do Worse \u2022 (1988) \u2022 shortstory by Gregory Benford80 \u2022 Over There \u2022 [Teddy Roosevelt] \u2022 (1991) \u2022 novelette by Mike Resnick112 \u2022 Ink from the New Moon \u2022 (1992) \u2022 shortstory by A. A. Attanasio130 \u2022 Southpaw \u2022 (1993) \u2022 shortstory by Bruce McAllister147 \u2022 The West Is Red \u2022 (1994) \u2022 novelette by Greg Costikyan181 \u2022 The Forest of Time \u2022 (1987) \u2022 novella by Michael F. Flynn [as by Michael Flynn ]251 \u2022 Aristotle and the Gun \u2022 (1958) \u2022 novelette by L. Sprague de Camp299 \u2022 How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion \u2022 (1973) \u2022 shortstory by Gene Wolfe", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223450.Roads_Not_Taken"}, +{"book_title": "A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: Tales from the Archives, Volume 3", "author_name": "Tee Morris", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 91, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come.This volume includes:From Paris with Regret by Starla Huchton- On assignment in the City of Light, Ministry agents Eliza D. Braun and Harrison Thorne chase down a murderer condemning descendants of a royal bloodline to a horrific death. Hanuman's Gift by Helen E H Madden- Deep in the Archives, Augustus Whitby toils through his duties in the Archives, dreaming up romantic stories far more plausible than the supposed \u201cinvestigations\u201d of the field agents. A story from Agent Harrison Thorne and an unassuming artifact from his recent case, however, proves much to Whitby\u2019s chagrin that there are some truths that are far stranger than fiction.The Sun Never Sets by Val Griswold-Ford- Agent Isaac Martin receives a note, imploring him to investigate the nearly completed clock tower at the Palace at Westminster. He and his partner, Agent Andrew Kensington, start looking into the construction and uncover unanswered questions concerning this new landmark\u2019s creators.The Precarious Child by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris- The street urchins that will one day be called the Ministry Seven, have a task from Agent Harrison Thorne. It seems simple enough, however their leader Miss Verity Fitzroy discovers that a surprise from her past is tangled up with this mysterious man which leads to a very precarious situation.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13517901-a-ministry-of-peculiar-occurrences"}, +{"book_title": "The Prince", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 68512, "review_number": 4182, "book_description": "Before thirty-five girls were chosen to compete in the Selection...Before Aspen broke America's heart...There was another girl in Prince Maxon's life...Don't miss this thrilling 64-page original novella set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel The Selection. Also features a teaser to The Elite, Kiera Cass's hotly anticipated sequel to The Selection.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15820748-the-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Black Swan", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 426, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "2010 Sidewise Award Nominee Best Short-Form Alternate History Bruce Sterling brings us a tale of espionage, cyber-threats, alternate realities and intrigue in \u201cBlack Swan\u201d, a dark and cyberpunk novelette.Luca is a technology blogger looking for anything newsworthy. \u2018Massimo Montaldo\u2019 is the nickname of hacker living on the fringe of society. What can happen when these two very different people meet each other?Massimo has discovered something, something that could shift the balance of power among the superpowers of the world. A Black Swan. What is a Black Swan? \u201cA black swan, when it arrives, cannot even be recognized as a black swan. When the black swan assaults us, with the wingbeats of some rapist Jupiter, then we must rewrite history.\u201dAs a journalist, Luca must investigate, learn the truth \u2013 or should he? What if this is all beyond him, beyond his ability to fully grasp? Memristors? Euro-Liras? Spies and the possibility of an Alternate Italy?What if the risk is too high, the danger too great?Warring between what is safe and what is right, Luca had to decide if reporting the truth is worth the risk\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12096180-black-swan"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold", "author_name": "Terry Brooks", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 34637, "review_number": 1200, "book_description": "Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it for a million dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. Such as the fact that the kingdom was falling into ruin. The barons refused to recognize a king and taxes hadn't been collected for years. The dragon, Strabo, was laying waste to the countryside, while the evil witch, Nightshade, was plotting to destroy no less than everything. And if that weren't enough for a prospective king to deal with, Ben soon learned that the Iron Mark, terrible lord of the demons, challenged all pretenders to the throne of Landover to a duel to the death - a duel no mere mortal could hope to win. But Ben Holiday had one human trait that even magic couldn't overcome. Ben Holiday was stubborn.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15547.Magic_Kingdom_for_Sale_Sold"}, +{"book_title": "Habitats", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1433, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "\u201cHabitats\" is the seventh in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose youngheroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has made her a genius as well as an athletic phenomenon.In \u201cHabitats,\u201d she is continuing to find uses for the quantum entangled wormholes that she discovered. These wormholes aren\u2019t big enough to send people through, yet they are making huge changes in our world. After a friend lost his hand, Ell finds a way to use ports to build better prostheses for amputees!However, there are terrorists wanting to use ports to cause destruction and the military arms of some countries covet them as well. Ell must try to prevent such people from obtaining the technology and using it for harm.Meanwhile, her small company is trying to build a habitat in space and one of her rockets has discovered a mind boggling habitat at Sigma Draconis.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20951363-habitats"}, +{"book_title": "Ship's Boy", "author_name": "Phil Geusz", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 557, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Once upon a time there was a boy named David, who slew a terrible foe\u2026David Birkenhead might have been only twelve years old, but his entire life was already laid out for him. First his father was supposed to teach him how to run a starship's engine room. Then, when the time came, he'd take over the job himself. This was the way of things for slavebunnies like David; luxuries like career-choices were reserved for humans only. Not that David was complaining-- compared to the farmbunnies or domestic-servant rabbits, he had it made. There was even a pretty doe waiting for him in the wings. Then the ships of the Boyen Emperor arrived on David's homeworld and nothing could ever be the same again. Great Houses of Nobility would contest for power, kingdoms would teeter on the edge of oblivion\u2026\u2026and out of the resulting vortex young David would bring peace and justice to a thousand worlds.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Animals (Anthropomorphic)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16060193-ship-s-boy"}, +{"book_title": "When the Walls Fell", "author_name": "Monique Martin", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1513, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "Professor Simon Cross and his assistant Elizabeth West have returned from their accidental journey into the past and are adjusting to their new life together as a couple. But an unwanted visit from the Council for Temporal Studies could change everything.A murder in the past is changing the future, and if the killing isn't stopped, Simon Cross might never be born.When they arrive in 1906 San Francisco, Elizabeth and Simon have no idea who wants Victor Graham dead or how it will happen. With the earthquake that leveled most of the city just days away, the race to save Graham thrusts them into a complex mystery of jealousy and revenge where murder might be the least of their worries.The exciting sequel to Out of Time: A Paranormal Romance, When the Walls Fell, is a time travel adventure filled with suspense, mystery and romance.Look for more books in the Out of Time series coming in 2012!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12730236-when-the-walls-fell"}, +{"book_title": "Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 186, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "An introduction to the coming revolution in art, technology, media, chemistry, science, and music discusses amino chemistry, manotechnology, high-tech paganism, teledildonics, and more.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Technology)", "Cultural", "Science", "Philosophy", "Art (Art Design)", "Cultural (Counter Culture)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/998361.Mondo_2000"}, +{"book_title": "A Talent for War", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 5775, "review_number": 409, "book_description": "Christopher Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a rag-tag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the alien Ashiyyur. But now, one man believes Sim was a fraud, and Alex must follow the legend into the heart of the alien galaxy to confront a truth far stranger than any fiction.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352774.A_Talent_for_War"}, +{"book_title": "Resistance", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1047, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "A dragon brings down the Vice President's plane, a monster army is camped outside Omaha, and an empath demon springs an undercover operation in New York.New Orleans was just the beginning. New and different demons are breaking through all over America, and Dave Hooper has a new enemy with more guile and guts than the celebrity superhero, still stumbling in his role as Champion. While his agent fields offers for movies and merchandise, Dave is tasked with ending a siege in Omaha, saving his friends and deciphering the underrealms' plans to take over the earth.As an ancient and legion evil threatens to destroy mankind, Dave has to decide what kind of man he wants to be and the nature of his role in this new world. He may not be the hero humanity deserves, but he's the only one we've got.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Action", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Comics (Superheroes)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23965831-resistance"}, +{"book_title": "Pax Romana", "author_name": "Jonathan Hickman", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1507, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "In 2045, as Islam has overrun Europe and the West openly shuns monotheism, the Vatican-funded CERN Laboratories 'discover' that time travel is possible. The Pope orders the creation of a private army and, led by a few handpicked Cardinals and the finest graduates of selected war colleges, they travel back in time to 312AD - the reign of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine. Upon arrival, conflicting agendas, ideological differences, and personal greed see grand plans unravel. Pax Romana is the tale of 5,000 men sent on an impossible mission to change the past and save the future. At the end of the world, will they succeed, or will they fail? This politically driven sci-fi epic comes from the creator of the hit Nightly News!Collecting: Pax Romana 1-4", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2874995-pax-romana"}, +{"book_title": "The Amazon Legion", "author_name": "Tom Kratman", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 662, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "The Sequel to A Desert Called Peace, Carnifex, and The Lotus Eaters. What Happens When You Need Everyone to Fight? Bring on the Amazons.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On the colony planet of Terra Nova, Carrera has achieved his revenge, destroying those who had destroyed his life by killing his wife and children in a terrorist strike. And, with this help of his second wife, he has thwarted an attempted coup that would have restored the rule of the oligarchy and undone his hard-won victory. But his fight is not over yet . . . \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The problem of the Tauran Union\u2019s control of the Transitway between Terra Nova and Earth remains, as does the problem of the nuclear armed United Earth Peace Fleet, orbiting above the planet. The Taurans will not leave, and the Balboans\u2014a proud people, with much recent success in war \u2013 will not tolerate that they should remain.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And yet, with one hundred times the population and three or four hundred times the wealth, the Tauran Union outclasses little Balboa in almost every way, even without the support of Old Earth. Sadly, they have that support. Everything, everyone, will have to be used to finish the job of freeing the country and, if possible, the planet. The children must fight. The old must serve, too. And the women?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is their story, the story of Balboa\u2019s Tercio Amazona, the Amazon Regiment.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9079753-the-amazon-legion"}, +{"book_title": "Demon in White", "author_name": "Christopher Ruocchio", "rating_score": 4.62, "rating_votes": 495, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "The third novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.Hadrian has been serving the Empire in military engagements against the Cielcin, the vicious alien civilization bent on humanity's destruction. After Hadrian and his Red Company achieve a great victory, a cult-like fervor builds around him. However, pressures within the Imperial government scared of his rise to prominence result in an assassination attempt, luckily thwarted.With the Empire too dangerous to stay, Hadrian and his crew leave for a massive library on a distant world. There, he finds the next key to unlocking the secrets of the Quiet: a set of coordinates for their origin planet, unnamed and now lifeless. Hadrian's true purpose in serving in the military was to aid his search of a rumored connection between the first Emperor and the Quiet, the ancient, seemingly long-dead race linked to so many of Hadrian's extraordinary experiences. Will this mysterious lost planet have the answers?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50156751-demon-in-white"}, +{"book_title": "Doom Patrol, Vol. 4: Musclebound", "author_name": "Grant Morrison", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 2423, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "A new chapter begins for the World's Strangest Heroes with MUSCLEBOUND, collecting issues #42-50 of the surreal series written by Grant Morrison. Revealing the secret origin of Flex Mentallo and the terrifying secret beneath the Pentagon, MUSCLEBOUND also features the subtle menace of the Beard Hunter and more!", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22390.Doom_Patrol_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence: After the Long Goodbye", "author_name": "Masaki Yamada", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 279, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The hulking cyborg counterterrorist Batou doesn't have a family; his electronic brain never dreams. So why did he dream the other night--and dream that he has a son?At one time, Batou had a human love for his partner, the legendary Major, before he witnessed her transfiguration into something beyond humanity. Now he has only his job, and his beloved basset hound, Gabriel. But when Batou has a near-death experience in an arranged car \"accident,\" he returns home to find Gabriel has gone missing--perhaps, to go look for her owner's lost soul.Batou's desperate search for Gabriel leads him down surreal streets where homeless men fight tanks and yakuza racing hounds chase rabbits downloaded into their heads. Batou fears his poor dog has made a horrible mistake out of innocence--for Batou has taken a cold look inside himself...and decided that he never truly had a soul...Innocence, After The Long Goodbye is the prequel to the Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence film, also available as a four-volume Ani-Manga box set from VIZ Media. The Innocence novel contains a special bonus discussion between the director, Mamoru Oshii, and the author, Masaki Yamada.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Japan)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2058.Ghost_In_the_Shell_2"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl Who Played with Fire", "author_name": "Stieg Larsson", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 825340, "review_number": 34441, "book_description": "Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing expos\u00e9 on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. \u00a0Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander\u2019s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense", "Contemporary", "Cultural (Sweden)", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5060378-the-girl-who-played-with-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Moon of Ice", "author_name": "Brad Linaweaver", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 62, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "What if Hitler had not lost the Second World War? After developing his own atom bomb, Hitler conquered most of Europe and Russia but reached a stalemate with America. In the ensuing cold war, Germany suffers renewed inflation and is stifled by an overstratified bureaucracy while America prospers but devolves into a fractured country of rugged individualists. This warped mirror image of our world is seen through the eyes of New York editor Alan Whittmore and through two of his publications. Thirty years after the war's end, Hilda Goebbels, the daughter of Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and now a world-famous anarchist, threatens to release her father's long-suppressed diaries\u0097revealing the bizarre fantasies at the core of Nazi doctrine, which could destroy the Reich.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624842.Moon_of_Ice"}, +{"book_title": "Zeroes", "author_name": "Chuck Wendig", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 4693, "review_number": 675, "book_description": "Five hackers\u2014an Anonymous-style rabble-rouser, an Arab Spring hacktivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an online troll\u2014are detained by the U.S. government, forced to work as white-hat hackers for Uncle Sam in order to avoid federal prison. At a secret complex known only as \"the Lodge,\" where they will spend the next year working as an elite cyber-espionage team, these misfits dub themselves \"the Zeroes.\"But once the Zeroes begin to work, they uncover secrets that would make even the most dedicated conspiracy theorist's head spin. And soon they're not just trying to serve their time, they're also trying to perform the ultimate hack: burrowing deep into the U.S. government from the inside, and hoping they'll get out alive. Packed with electric wit and breakneck plot twists, Zer0es is an unforgettable thrill ride through the seedy underbelly of \"progress.\"", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Science (Technology)", "Contemporary", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23460958-zeroes"}, +{"book_title": "Until We Meet Again", "author_name": "Renee Collins", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2311, "review_number": 523, "book_description": "They exist in two different centuries, but their love defies timeCassandra craves drama and adventure, so the last thing she wants is to spend her summer marooned with her mother and stepfather in a snooty Massachusetts shore town. But when a dreamy stranger shows up on their private beach claiming it's his own\u2014and that the year is 1925\u2014she is swept into a mystery a hundred years in the making.As she searches for answers in the present, Cassandra discovers a truth that puts their growing love\u2014and Lawrence's life\u2014into jeopardy. Desperate to save him, Cassandra must find a way to change history\u2026or risk losing Lawrence forever.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Historical", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23277959-until-we-meet-again"}, +{"book_title": "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 4677, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "One of Three. The new volume chronicling the exploits of Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century is an epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three 80-page chapters -- each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliffhanger delays between episodes -- this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own, current, twenty-first century.Chapter One is set against the backdrop of London, 1910, twelve years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man on the moon. In the bowels of the British Museum, Carnacki the ghost-finder is plagued by visions of a shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a Moonchild, while on London's dockside the most notorious serial murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly trade. Working for Mycroft Holmes' British Intelligence alongside a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain, the reformed thief Anthony Raffles and the eternal warrior Orlando, Miss Murray is drawn into a brutal opera acted out upon the waterfront by players that include the furiously angry Pirate Jenny and the charismatic butcher known as Mac the Knife.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086315-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen"}, +{"book_title": "The Ask and the Answer", "author_name": "Patrick Ness", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 77908, "review_number": 6866, "book_description": "We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town? And where is Viola? Is she even still alive? And who are the mysterious Answer? And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode...\"The Ask and the Answer\" is a tense, shocking and deeply moving novel of resistance under the most extreme pressure. This is the second title in the \"Chaos Walking\" trilogy.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20758103-the-ask-and-the-answer"}, +{"book_title": "Trouble and Her Friends", "author_name": "Melissa Scott", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1323, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against the encroachments of civilization. It's time to adapt or die.India Carless, alias Trouble, got out ahead of the feds and settled down to run a small network for an artist's co-op.Now someone has taken her name and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she had tried to retire-but has been called out for one last fight. And it's a killer.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/612226.Trouble_and_Her_Friends"}, +{"book_title": "Golden Age and Other Stories", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 699, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "Naomi Novik ended her acclaimed, beloved nine-volume Temeraire series last year with a stunning finale, League of Dragons. Fans missing their favorite series can now rejoice: Novik returns with an original Temeraire collection as unique as the world she has created, with each tale inspired by an accompanying piece of fan art. The Temeraire novels provide a window into an alternate nineteenth century populated with Novik\u2019s own richly human and unforgettably draconic characters as they adventure alongside well-known historical figures. That tradition continues here. Readers will delight at appearances by fan-favorite characters from the series and historical figures like the famed explorer Matteo Ricci. In \u201cPlanting Season,\u201d Novik shows us an early glimpse of American dragon John Wampanoag at Boston Harbor. \u201cGolden Age\u201d finds a dragon who believes he remembers being called Celeste hatch from a shipwreck-tossed crate onto an island where he meets others of his kind. But other famous fictional characters are to be discovered here as well. Readers will certainly recognize a certain Miss Bennet (here Captain Bennet) and her suitor, Mr. Darcy, in \u201cDragons and Decorum.\u201d Filled with the inventive world-building, rich detail, sparkling wit, and deep emotion that readers have come to expect from Novik\u2019s work, Golden Age and Other Stories is a treasure at home on any Temeraire-lover\u2019s bookshelf.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Anthologies", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36065708-golden-age-and-other-stories"}, +{"book_title": "The Burning Skies", "author_name": "David J. Williams", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 217, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "In his electrifying debut, The Mirrored Heavens, David J. Williams created a dark futuristic world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political wrangling of our own time. Now he takes his masterful blend of military SF, espionage thriller, and dystopian cyberpunk one step further--to the edge of annihilation . . . . Life as U.S. counterintelligence agent Claire Haskell once knew it is in tatters--her mission betrayed, her lover dead, and her memories of the past suspect. Worse, the defeat of the mysterious insurgent group known as Autumn Rain was not as complete as many believed. It is quickly becoming clear that the group's ultimate goal is not simply to destroy the tenuous global alliances of the 22nd century--but to rule all of humanity. And they're starting with the violent destruction of the Net and the assassination of the U.S. president. Now it's up to Claire, with her ability to jack her brain into the systems of the enemy, to win this impossible war. Battling ferociously across the Earth-Moon system, and navigating a complex world filled with both steadfast loyalists and ruthless traitors, Claire must be ready for the Rain's next move. But the true enemy may already be one step ahead of her.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science (Technology)", "Cultural (International)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5863533-the-burning-skies"}, +{"book_title": "Secrets in Death", "author_name": "J.D. Robb", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 18810, "review_number": 1602, "book_description": "The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it\u2019s not the kind of bar where a lot of blood gets spilled. But that\u2019s exactly what happens one cold February evening.The mortally wounded woman is Larinda Mars, a self-described \u201csocial information reporter,\u201d or as most people would call it, a professional gossip. As it turns out, she was keeping the most shocking stories quiet, for profitable use in her side business as a blackmailer. Setting her sights on rich, prominent marks, she\u2019d find out what they most wanted to keep hidden and then bleed them dry. Now someone\u2019s done the same to her, literally\u2014with a knife to the brachial artery.Eve didn\u2019t like Larinda Mars. But she likes murder even less. To find justice for this victim, she\u2019ll have to plunge into the dirty little secrets of all the people Larinda Mars victimized herself. But along the way, she may be exposed to some information she really didn\u2019t want to know\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Mystery", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Futuristic", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32835140-secrets-in-death"}, +{"book_title": "Last Kiss Goodnight", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 7771, "review_number": 725, "book_description": "The breathtaking first novel in New York Times best selling author Gena Showalter\u2019s new paranormal romance series, Otherworld Assassins, featuring a black ops agent who is captured and enslaved\u2026and the beautiful deaf girl who holds the key to his salvation\u2026THE SWEETEST TEMPTATION\u2026Black ops agent Solomon Judah awakens caged and bound in a twisted zoo where otherworlders are the main attraction. Vika Lukas, the owner\u2019s daughter, is tasked with Solo\u2019s care and feeding. The monster inside him yearns to kill her on sight, even though she holds the key to his escape. But the human side of him realizes the beautiful deaf girl is more than she seems\u2014she\u2019s his.THE ULTIMATE PRICE\u2026Vika endures the captives\u2019 taunts and loathing, hoping to keep them alive even if she can\u2019t free them. Only, Solo is different\u2014he protects her. But as hostility turns to forbidden romance, his feelings for her will be used against him\u2026and he\u2019ll be put to a killer test.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13310549-last-kiss-goodnight"}, +{"book_title": "Scourge: A Grim Doyle Adventure", "author_name": "David H. Burton", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 138, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Two dads, five siblings, and goggles! Grim Doyle has always known his life was not exactly \"normal\", and things get even more curious when he discovers a set of stones that sweep him and his family to the fantasy, steampunk world of Verne - a place they had escaped from years ago. Now that they've returned, Grim and his siblings must discover who is trying to kill them with the deadly Scourge.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9637979-scourge"}, +{"book_title": "Through Fiery Trials", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1810, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "With new alliances forged and old regimes fractured, Merlin--the cybernetic avatar of Earth's last survivor and immortal beacon to humanity--and the colonies of Safehold and have many adventures ahead in Through Fiery Trials, the continuation of David Weber's New York Times bestselling military science fiction seriesThose on the side of progressing humanity through advanced technology have finally triumphed over their oppressors. The unholy war between the small but mighty island realm of Charis and the radical, luddite Church of God's Awaiting has come to an end.However, even though a provisional veil of peace has fallen over human colonies, the quiet will not last. For Safefold is a broken world, and as international alliances shift and Charis charges on with its precarious mission of global industrialization, the shifting plates of the new world order are bound to clash.Yet, an uncertain future isn't the only danger Safehold faces. Long-thought buried secrets and prophetic promises come to light, proving time is a merciless warden who never forgets.\"Vast, complex, intricate, subtle, and unlaydownable....The biggest thing in science fiction since Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.\"--Dave Duncan on the Safehold seriesSafehold Series1. Off Armageddon Reef 2. By Schism Rent Asunder 3. By Heresies Distressed 4. A Mighty Fortress 5. How Firm A Foundation 6. Midst Toil and Tribulation 7. Like A Mighty Army 8. Hell's Foundations Quiver 9. At the Sign of Triumph10. Through Fiery Trials", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863276-through-fiery-trials"}, +{"book_title": "The Stone Dogs", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 545, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The Stone Dogs is the third of four books of S.M. Stirling's alternate history series, The Domination. During the cold war between the Alliance and the Domination, Frederic and Marya work for the OSS as spies and assassins.During the Draka conquest of India, Marya Lefarge is taken prisoner. She becomes a serf to Yolande Ingolfsson, who after torturing her repeatedly with a neural weapon, forces her to become a \"brooder\" (i.e. a surrogate mother) for her offspring, Gwendolyn. Yolande also swears vengeance on Fred Lefarge after he kills her lover, Myfanwy Venders, during the Indian Incident.As both superpowers expand into space, they prepare different doomsday weapons. The Alliance's weapon is a computer virus (\"comp plague\") secretly planted in Draka military computers by spies; the Draka's is a biological virus called the Stone Dogs that causes infected personnel to go insane. Yolande discovers Marya, who has contacted the OSS, planting the comp-plague and allows her to escape with knowledge of the Stone Dogs. This forces her uncle, Archon Eric von Shrakenberg, to use the weapon prematurely. The Draka win the resulting conflict; however, their incomplete victory leads to Eric negotiating an arrangement whereupon the Alliance is allowed to launch its generation ship \"The New America\" and the remaining Alliance survivors in space are granted limited Draka citizenship.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/801960.The_Stone_Dogs"}, +{"book_title": "Katieran Prime", "author_name": "K.D. Jones", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1053, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "She was abandoned by the man she thought she loved and forced to run as a fugitive from Earth\u2019s government. Cassie Tomlin is desperate and willing to do anything. Just how far is she willing to go to start a new life? Is she desperate enough to agree to live on another planet with strange and sexy aliens?Prime Leader RendEL has been given the task of overseeing the repopulation of his home world of Katiera. The primitive planet of Earth offers females that are both beautiful and compatible. However, Ren finds one Earth female to be a lot more than what he had bargained for. Will he be able to fulfill his responsibilities to his people and follow the path of his heart? Or will he have to sacrifice one in order to have the other?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15770332-katieran-prime"}, +{"book_title": "Tempt the Stars", "author_name": "Karen Chance", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 8336, "review_number": 649, "book_description": "Being a goddess is a lot less fun than you might think. Especially when you\u2019re only a half goddess, and you only found out about it recently, and you still don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing half the time. And when you\u2019ve just used your not-so-reliable powers to burglarize the booby-trapped office of a vampire mob boss.Yeah, that part sucks.But that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg for Cassandra Palmer, aka the Pythia, the freshly minted chief seer of the supernatural world. After all, Cassie still has to save a friend from a fate worse than death, deal with an increasingly possessive master vampire, and prevent a party of her own acolytes from unleashing a storm of fury upon the world. Totally just your average day at the office, right?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12528745-tempt-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Long Division", "author_name": "Kiese Laymon", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2896, "review_number": 513, "book_description": "Kiese Laymon\u2019s debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that\u2019s alternately funny, lacerating, and wise. The book contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it\u2019s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, 14-year-old Citoyen \"City\" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he\u2019s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared.Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book\u2019s main characters is also named City Coldson--but Long Division is set in 1985. This 1985 City, along with his friend and love-object, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet protect his family from the Klan.City\u2019s two stories ultimately converge in the mysterious work shed behind his grandmother\u2019s, where he discovers the key to Baize\u2019s disappearance.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Cultural (African American)", "Young Adult", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Race", "Magical Realism", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16129174-long-division"}, +{"book_title": "Dead of Eve", "author_name": "Pam Godwin", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1144, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "A virus devastates humanity. Few men survive. The rest are monsters. The women are dead, except Evie. Through a quirk in her genetics, she survives. When her physiology begins to evolve, she must come to terms with what she is and accept her role in finding a cure.The mutated hunt her. The men brutalize her\u2026except three. Cryptic warrior, contrite lover, caring enemy; they are fiercely protective of the last living woman, but divided in their own agendas. Can they come together to protect the only hope for humanity?Evie must survive.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Dark", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17130466-dead-of-eve"}, +{"book_title": "These Mean Streets, Darkly", "author_name": "Austin Dragon", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 153, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Metropolis wasn\u2019t a bad place, but it wasn\u2019t a good one either.THESE MEAN STREETS, DARKLY is the prequel to the cyberpunk, detective series, LIQUID COOL.It\u2019s a world of colossal skyscrapers. Hover-cars fly above in the dark, rainy skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, hard streets in the \u201cNeon Jungle.\u201d Uber-governments and mega-corporations fight for control of the super-city, but so does crime. An average woman, Carol\u2014hardworking and decent in every way\u2014 loses her daughter to the psycho Red Rabbit. Can Police Central find the girl in time\u2014alive? And is it really a random, senseless kidnapping in the fifty-million-plus city? There are a million victims and perpetrators in this High-Tech, Low-Life World. This is one of those stories\u2026before we meet our private eye (and unlikely hero), Cruz, in the soon-to-be-released, debut novel, Liquid Cool.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26023913-these-mean-streets-darkly"}, +{"book_title": "Daughters of the North", "author_name": "Sarah Hall", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 3653, "review_number": 513, "book_description": "In her stunning novel, Hall imagines a new dystopia set in the not-too-distant future. England is in a state of environmental crisis and economic collapse. There has been a census, and all citizens have been herded into urban centers. Reproduction has become a lottery, with contraceptive coils fitted to every female of childbearing age. A girl who will become known only as \"Sister\" escapes the confines of her repressive marriage to find an isolated group of women living as \"un-officials\" in Carhullan, a remote northern farm, where she must find out whether she has it in herself to become a rebel fighter. Provocative and timely, Daughters of the North poses questions about the lengths women will go to resist their oppressors, and under what circumstances might an ordinary person become a terrorist.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Feminism", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744237-daughters-of-the-north"}, +{"book_title": "Partials", "author_name": "Dan Wells", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 56262, "review_number": 4663, "book_description": "Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials\u2014engineered organic beings identical to humans\u2014has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization, Partials is, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans and Partials alike\u2014and of the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view.Supports the Common Core State Standards.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12476820-partials"}, +{"book_title": "The Darkest Minds", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 155538, "review_number": 16775, "book_description": "When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government \u201crehabilitation camp.\u201d She might have survived the mysterious disease that\u2019s killed most of America\u2019s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she\u2019s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her\u2014East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can\u2019t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10576365-the-darkest-minds"}, +{"book_title": "A Grim Holiday", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2914, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "It's the Holidays on Luda or at least the Tornian version of the Holidays. When Lisa learned about the Festival of the Goddess she was initially excited, that was before she learned just how Tornians celebrated. The blending of families and traditions was never easy but Lisa and the girls were determined to bring their version of the Holidays to Luanda and the people they had come to love. ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20320730-a-grim-holiday"}, +{"book_title": "The Crystal Star", "author_name": "Vonda N. McIntyre", "rating_score": 3.09, "rating_votes": 7950, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre continues the bestselling Star Wars saga as the ultimate space adventure unfolds in The Crystal Star.Princess Leia's children have been kidnapped. Along with Chewbacca and Artoo-Detoo, she follows the kidnappers' trail to a disabled refugee ship, from which children are also missing. Here she learns of a powerful Imperial officer with a twisted plan to restore the Empire. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are cut off from Leia by the death of a nearby star, which has caused a disruption in the Force. They have gone to the planet Crseih to investigate a report of a lost group of Jedi. Instead they find a charismatic alien named Waru whose miraculous healing powers have attracted a fanatic following. As Leia follows the path of her children across space, Luke and Han draw closer to the truth behind Waru's sinister cult. Together they will face an explosive showdown that will decide the survival of the New Republic . . . and the universe itself!", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263012.The_Crystal_Star"}, +{"book_title": "City of Ships", "author_name": "Mary Hoffman", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2656, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "The acclaimed Stravaganza series delivers a thrilling story packed with action, drama\u2014and pirates!The new instalment in the critically acclaimed Stravaganza series transports readers to a world much like our own \u2014 but where magic and piracy come to life in the Italian town of Classe. The new Stravagante is Isabel, a visitor from our world who befriends Flavia, a successful female merchant of spices, silks, and tapestries. But Flavia soon finds herself an outcast and a pirate, while Isabel learns that Classe is under threat of attack by the fierce Gate people. What can she do to help save the city?Fans of fantasy and historical fiction alike who have flocked to the Stravaganza series will welcome this action-packed adventure, which can be read alone or as a companion to the previous novels.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6671653-city-of-ships"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire III: Chapter Three - The Survivors", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 102, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Dalek Empire III is a six part mini-series featuring the Daleks from the world of BBC TV's Doctor Who.Frey Saxton and Galanar must decide who they can trust. The Daleks have orders to take 'no prisoners'.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1245696.Dalek_Empire_III"}, +{"book_title": "First Command", "author_name": "J.S. Hawn", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 52, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Its 843 AE by the new calendar, 2802 by the old one, and Commander Jonathan Pavel of the Solarian Republic Navy is expecting just another day at the office. After embarrassing a senior officer and The Fleets top brass, Jonathan has been stuck behind a desk out of sight and out of mind. But elsewhere in the Republics far flung domain maniacal forces are gathering. A Republic client state needs help but a series of treaties prevent the Republic from sending in the Marines. So who to send instead? A recently disgraced ship and crew whose last Captain is now in the brig, whose officers are either young and wet behind the ears or embittered and burnt out, and whose crew is a collection of new recruits and guard house scrapping. But who would lead such a disreputable ship on a mission that could very well be suicide? Jonathan Pavel, a man who has always dreamed of holding a command. Jonathan must be careful though, or his First Command could be his last.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25681991-first-command"}, +{"book_title": "Prosperity", "author_name": "Alexis Hall", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 582, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies!Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne\u2019er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about to cheat the wrong man. This mistake will endanger his life . . . and his heart.Thrill! As our hero battles dreadful kraken above Prosperity. Gasp! As the miracles of clockwork engineering allow a dead man to wreak his vengeance upon the living. Marvel! At the aerial escapades of the aethership, Shadowless.Beware! The licentious and unchristian example set by the opium-addled navigatress, Miss Grey. Disapprove Strongly! Of the utter moral iniquity of the dastardly crime prince, Milord. Swoon! At the dashing skycaptain, Byron Kae. Swoon Again! At the tormented clergyman, Ruben Crowe.This volume (available in print, and for the first time on mechanical book-reading devices) contains the complete original text of Piccadilly\u2019s memoirs as first serialised in All the Year Round. Some passages may prove unsettling to unmarried gentlemen of a sensitive disposition.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22544017-prosperity"}, +{"book_title": "PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 006", "author_name": "Naoki Urasawa", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 2342, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "A new vision based on Astro Boy - \"The Greatest Robot On Earth\" Pluto\u2026 Sahad\u2026 Goji\u2026 Abullah\u2026 Mysterious figures somehow involved with the serial murders of the great robots of the world. Europol's top robot detective Gesicht has been put on the case, and he's mere steps away from discovering the horrifying truth behind the killer and his motives\u2026 Little does he realize that he's also steps away from discovering a horrifying truth of his own\u2026 Masterfully crafted science fiction and suspense at its best! In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated...except for one very conspicuous clue - the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.Contains Chapters 40 to 47.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6474544-pluto"}, +{"book_title": "Ebola K", "author_name": "Bobby Adair", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2887, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "\nEbola, Terrorism, and Hope\n In 1989 the Ebola virus mutated to into an airborne strain that infected humans for the first time on American soil in Reston, Virginia. Through belated containment efforts and luck, nobody died. Now, in the remote East African village of Kapchorwa, the Ebola virus has mutated into another airborne strain without losing any of its deadly potency. In this thriller, terrorists stumble across this new, fully lethal strain and while the world fearfully watches the growing epidemic in West Africa as Sierra Leone goes into country-wide lockdown, only a few Americans are aware of Ebola K and the danger it poses\u2014to be the deadliest pandemic in the history of mankind. Can they do anything to protect themselves from this killer disease? Can they stop the terrorists?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Medical", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23205715-ebola-k"}, +{"book_title": "Defender", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 452, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Endless destruction defines human life in a world run amok. There are those who will pick the uncertainty of the alien sky, are the Tonans life or are they death? Macey learns first hand a Tonan warrior doesn\u2019t apologize for who or what he is or will do. In an unforgiving new world there is one who battles his heritage. Can Taz be the defender Macey needs, or are his four hundred year old decimating roots buried too deep to refuse? Taz needs to make the decision fast. His mentor slash tormenter will come looking for him. Krish will kill Macey. Indecision rules Taz\u2019s life until in a heartbeat he decides his fate, Macey\u2019s fate and Earths fate. Either way\u2014death will follow.----------[READING ORDER NOTE: Although books 6 & 7 are clearly indicated on the covers, the events of Defender (book 7) take place 4 years prior to those in Guardian (book 6). So to follow the story events in order, it is recommended that book 7 (Defender) be read PRIOR to book 6 (Guardian).]", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25211841-defender"}, +{"book_title": "Sparks of Light", "author_name": "Janet B. Taylor", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 768, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "For the first time in her life, Hope Walton has friends . . .\u00a0and a (maybe) boyfriend. She\u2019s a Viator, a member of a long line of time-traveling ancestors. When the Viators learn of a plan to steal a dangerous device from the inventor Nikola Tesla, only a race into the past can save the natural timeline from utter destruction. Navigating the glitterati of The Gilded Age in 1895 New York City, Hope and her crew will discover that high society can be as deadly as it is beautiful.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30971762-sparks-of-light"}, +{"book_title": "Messenger", "author_name": "Lois Lowry", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 116304, "review_number": 8113, "book_description": "Messenger is the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestseller The Giver, now a major motion picture.\u00a0Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Village once welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been invaluable as a messenger. Now he must risk everything to make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Classics", "Childrens", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12930.Messenger"}, +{"book_title": "A Study in Charlotte", "author_name": "Brittany Cavallaro", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 44578, "review_number": 6907, "book_description": "The last thing Jamie Watson wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. But that\u2019s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective\u2019s great-great-great-granddaughter, who has inherited not only Sherlock\u2019s genius but also his volatile temperament. From everything Jamie has heard about Charlotte, it seems safer to admire her from afar.From the moment they meet, there\u2019s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else. But when a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. Jamie and Charlotte are being framed for murder, and only Charlotte can clear their names. But danger is mounting and nowhere is safe\u2014and the only people they can trust are each other.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Mystery", "Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Mystery (Crime)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23272028-a-study-in-charlotte"}, +{"book_title": "Golden Blood", "author_name": "Melissa Pearl", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1876, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Gemma Hart never knows when her father is going to whisk her back in time. Her toes start tingling and she has a few minutes to find a secret haven where she can disintegrate and appear in another time and place. While \u201cacross the line,\u201d her training and skills are put to the test as she completes a mission that will change history for the lucky few her father has selected. Gemma's parents are adamant that secrecy is paramount to her family\u2019s safety. If people knew what they were capable of, they could be \"used and abused\", as her mother always says. Afraid she might accidentally utter the truth and break the ancient oath of her people, Gemma spends her school days as a loner. Only one thing can throw her sheltered life askew... Harrison Granger.Harrison never expected to talk to the strange Hart girl, but after a brief encounter he can't stop thinking about her. He begins a campaign to chisel away her icy veneer and is met with unexpected consequences. As he slowly wins this girl over, he enters a surreal world that has him fighting to keep his newfound love and his life.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13506133-golden-blood"}, +{"book_title": "The Children of the Sky", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 5960, "review_number": 531, "book_description": "After nearly twenty years, Vernor Vinge has produced an enthralling sequel to his memorable bestselling novel A Fire Upon the Deep.Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them.While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them\u2014and among the humans\u2014who seek power\u2026 and no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization that has taken root since the humans landed.On a world of fascinating wonders and terrifying dangers, Vernor Vinge has created a powerful novel of adventure and discovery that will entrance the many readers of A Fire Upon the Deep. Filled with the inventiveness, excitement, and human drama that have become hallmarks of his work, this new novel is sure to become another great milestone in Vinge\u2019s already stellar career.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10170545-the-children-of-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "The Spears of Laconia", "author_name": "Sam Sisavath", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 1347, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO MAKE A STAND.They've been relentlessly hounded ever since The Purge decimated the world, and every day since has been a struggle to stay one step ahead of the enemy.Keo has returned, claiming to have information that can turn the tide of war against the ghouls. Lara wants nothing more than to strike back, but she has other problems: Will has yet to make contact, and a team she's sent on an important mission has gone off the radar.Meanwhile, Texas becomes a battlefield as a new force rises to challenge the rule of the ghouls and their human collaborators. Led by a mysterious leader, this new threat has the firepower to cripple the enemy, but their cure might be worse than the disease.Caught between two destructive forces, Lara, Keo, and their friends will have to make a choice--fall in line or forge their own path--before the decision is made for them.A year after The Purge, any chance of victory will rest on the tips of the Spears, and those fearless enough to wield them...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25980164-the-spears-of-laconia"}, +{"book_title": "Time After Time", "author_name": "Constance O'Day-Flannery", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 564, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "\nBestselling award-winning author Constance O'Day-Flannery is the one true Queen of Time Travel Romance. Join her now in a story of a disillusioned young widow who returns to the past, caught, to her horror, in an unflattering lime green bridesmaid's dress when she meets the man whose love is destined to be hers.\n\nTime After Time\nAfter existing in a fog since the death of her beloved husband, Kelly Brennan is suddenly ready to take control of her life. Only she didn't expect her new life to begin in post-Civil War New Orleans.\u00a0 Kelly isn't sure if she's losing her mind or just enjoying a really good dream ... one chat comes complete with a man who looks strikingly similar to her late husband. Widower Daniel Gilmore is the epitome of the Southern gentleman: charming, handsome and with a devilish glint in his eye that calls to the dormant heart she's locked away.In the years since Daniel's wife passed away he has shuttered himself off from those dearest to him, and not even his precocious daughter Lizzie has been able to draw him out of his misery.But then Lizzie brings home a strange woman in a dreadful gown who speaks about odd things called \"automobiles\" and \"telephones\" -- a woman who bears a remarkable resemblance to his wife. With a daughter in need of a mother and a heart in need of love Daniel yearns to keep Kelly by his side ... provided he can let go of the past long, enough to live in the present and convince Kelly that his present is where she belongs...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/609153.Time_After_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Steel Gauntlet", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 813, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "\"Marines ain't supposed to sit. We're supposed to kill.\"After the resource-rich planet Diamunde is seized by the armed forces of industrialist Marston St. Cyr, the Confederation Marines face their most desperate battles yet against the mechanized forces of the bloody usurper. Promised a walkover by military planners, instead the Marines must run a gauntlet of steel, with weaponry three hundred years out of date.For the Confederation's invasion army to seize the planet, the Marine FISTs first have to secure a planethead against St. Cyr's much larger forces which are equipped with superior weapons. Together with their outgunned comrades, the Marines of 34th FIST must do the impossible--or die . . .", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662675.Steel_Gauntlet"}, +{"book_title": "Betrayer of Worlds", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1887, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have---just barely---survived.\u00a0They\u2019ve stumbled from one crisis to the next: The rebellion of their human slaves.\u00a0The relentless questing of the species of Known Space.\u00a0The spectacular rise of the starfish-like Gw\u2019oth.\u00a0The onslaught of the genocidal Pak.\u00a0Catastrophe looms again as past crises return---and converge. Who can possibly save the Fleet of Worlds from its greatest peril yet?Louis Wu?\u00a0Trapped in the Wunderland civil war, all he wants is to go home---but the only possible escape will plunge him into unknowable danger.\u00a0Ol\u2019t\u2019ro? The Gw\u2019oth ensemble mind fled across the stars to establish a colony world free from tyranny.\u00a0But some problems cannot be left behind, and other problems---like the Fleet of Worlds itself---are racing straight at them.\u00a0Achilles?\u00a0Despite past disgrace, the charismatic Puppeteer politician knows he is destined for greatness.\u00a0He will do anything to seize power---and to take his revenge on everyone who ever stood in his way.Nessus?\u00a0The insane Puppeteer scout is out of ideas, out of resources, with only desperation left to guide him.\u00a0\u00a0Their hopes and fears, dreams and ambitions are about to collide.\u00a0And the winner takes . . . worlds.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8163859-betrayer-of-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel Goes Nova, Vol. 10", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 301, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "A sophisticated science fiction tale packed with action, black humor, and philosophical, historical, and cultural references! Our heroine, beautiful cyborg Alita, has finally penetrated the center of Melchizedek, the supercomputer who is holding her friend Lou's brain hostage. Now ancient vampire Vilma asks her to accept an awesome responsibility, while Alita's copies fight their own battles on the outside and her archenemy, mad scientist Desty Nova, returns. And returns. And returns! Is there no end to him? And whose side is he, or he, or he on, anyway??? Then, a moment of weakness may cost Alita everything?!Master manga creater Yukito Kishiro returns, accompanid by his most celebrated character, cyborg sweetheart Battle Angel Alita. Meet Kishiro's latest bevy of bizarre and tormented characters and catch up with your favorite and foes!A sophisticated science fiction tale packed with action, black humor, and philosophical, historical, and cultural references!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2988477-battle-angel-alita---last-order"}, +{"book_title": "Scorched", "author_name": "Mari Mancusi", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 3219, "review_number": 484, "book_description": "TrinityDon\u2019t leave me here... It starts with a whisper. At first Trinity thinks she\u2019s going crazy. It wouldn\u2019t be a big surprise\u2014her grandpa firmly believes there\u2019s a genuine dragon egg in their dusty little West Texas town. But this voice is real, and it\u2019s begging for her protection. Even if no one else can hear it...ConnorHe\u2019s come from a future scorched by dragonfire. His mission: Find the girl. Destroy the egg. Save the world.CalebHe\u2019s everything his twin brother Connor hates: cocky, undisciplined, and obsessed with saving dragons. Trinity has no idea which brother to believe. All she has to go by is the voice in her head\u2014a dragon that won\u2019t be tamed.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16006945-scorched"}, +{"book_title": "Roil", "author_name": "Trent Jamieson", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 243, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Shale is in trouble - the creature-filled darkness known as the Roil is expanding, consuming the land, swallowing cities whole. Where once there were 12 metropolises, now only 4 remain.It's up to a drug addict, an old man and a woman bent on revenge to try to save their city - and the world.File Under: Fantasy [ End Of The World | The Darkness Approaches | Addiction | On The Edge ]", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10358606-roil"}, +{"book_title": "Against the Odds", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2774, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222511.Against_the_Odds"}, +{"book_title": "Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous", "author_name": "Joss Whedon", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 11568, "review_number": 332, "book_description": "A tragic death at the Xavier Institute reveals a powerful enemy living among the X-Men that they could never have suspected - and no, it's not Magneto. Things heat up in a way none of the X-Men ever dreamed, but will teamwork save the day when they can't even depend on themselves?Collecting: Astonishing X-Men 7-12", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Marvel (X Men)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31975.Astonishing_X_Men_Volume_2"}, +{"book_title": "Nexus", "author_name": "Ramez Naam", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 18328, "review_number": 1654, "book_description": "Mankind gets an upgradeIn the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it.When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he\u2019s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage \u2013 for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes.From the halls of academe to the halls of power, from the headquarters of an elite US agency in Washington DC to a secret lab beneath a top university in Shanghai, from the underground parties of San Francisco to the illegal biotech markets of Bangkok, from an international neuroscience conference to a remote monastery in the mountains of Thailand \u2013 Nexus is a thrill ride through a future on the brink of explosion.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642710-nexus"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Highways", "author_name": "Richard Brown", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 642, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "The apocalypse began inside a secret government laboratory in Nevada. One week later, most of the world lay in a deep sleep.But not for long.Reprogrammed with a single purpose, the newly infected awaken and begin migrating across the country like soldiers on a mission, killing anything that crosses their path.For Jimmy, his mundane existence of working at his grandmother's used bookstore is upended by the end of the world. One minute he's reading science fiction and fantasy novels, wishing he were the hero of the story, the next he's traveling as part of a ragtag group of survivors, fighting to stay alive and searching for answers.Why did this happen?Where are the infected going?And what is guiding them?But on these dead highways Jimmy may discover something even greater\u2014his place in the world. Even if everyone else is gone.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49202626-dead-highways"}, +{"book_title": "Head On", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 17470, "review_number": 1757, "book_description": "John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports.Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent\u2019s head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are \u201cthreeps,\u201d robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden\u2019s Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it.Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.Is it an accident or murder? FBI Agents and Haden-related crime investigators, Chris Shane and Leslie Vann, are called in to uncover the truth\u2015and in doing so travel to the darker side of the fast-growing sport of Hilketa, where fortunes are made or lost, and where players and owners do whatever it takes to win, on and off the field.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35018901-head-on"}, +{"book_title": "The One Tree", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 17681, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery begin their search for the One Tree that is to be the salvation of the Land. Only he could find the answer and forge a new Staff of Law\ufffdbut fate decreed that the journey was to be long, the quest arduous, and quite possibly a failure....", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Epic", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22875.The_One_Tree"}, +{"book_title": "The Starlight Watchmaker", "author_name": "Lauren James", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 329, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Wealthy students from across the galaxy come to learn at the prestigious academy where Hugo toils as a watchmaker. But he is one of the lucky ones. Many androids like him are jobless and homeless. Someone like Dorian could never understand their struggle - or so Hugo thinks when the pompous duke comes banging at his door. But when Dorian's broken time-travel watch leads them to discover a sinister scheme, the pair must reconcile their differences if they are to find the culprit in time.A wildly imaginative sci-fi adventure from YA star Lauren James, particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers aged 13+", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Novella", "Space", "LGBT", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44097002-the-starlight-watchmaker"}, +{"book_title": "William Gibson's Neuromancer: The Graphic Novel", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 374, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "In the 21st Century, Case, the best interface cowboy ever to run in the world-wide computer net, and Molly, the female mercenary with computer eyes and switchblade fingers, are recruited for a secret mission that will bring them into conflict with the world's most powerful corporate clan; a conflict that will be fought in the shifting territory where mind meets circuitry: Cyberspace!", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Epic", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14772.William_Gibson_s_Neuromancer"}, +{"book_title": "The Very Virile Viking", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1538, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Magnus Ericsson is a simple man. He loves the smell of fresh-turned dirt after springtime plowing. he love the feel of a soft woman under him in the bed furs. He loves the heft of a good sword in his fighting arm.But, Holy Thor, what he does not relish is the bothersome brood of children he's been saddled with. Or the mysterious happenstance that strands him in a strange new land - the kingdom of Holly Wood. Here is a place where the folks think he is an act-whore (whatever that is), and the woman of his dreams - a winemaker of all things - fails to accept that he is her soul mate...a man of exceptional talents, not to mention...A Very Virile Viking", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Humor", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677098.The_Very_Virile_Viking"}, +{"book_title": "Winterblaze", "author_name": "Kristen Callihan", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 4540, "review_number": 541, "book_description": "Once blissfully in love . . .Poppy Lane is keeping secrets. Her powerful gift has earned her membership in the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals, but she must keep both her ability and her alliance with the Society from her husband, Winston. Yet when Winston is brutally attacked by a werewolf, Poppy's secrets are revealed, leaving Winston's trust in her as broken as his body. Now Poppy will do anything to win back his affections . . . Their relationship is now put to the ultimate test.Winston Lane soon regains his physical strength but his face and heart still bear the scars of the vicious attack. Drawn into the darkest depths of London, Winston must fight an evil demon that wants to take away the last hope of reconciliation with his wife. As a former police inspector, Winston has intelligence and logic on his side. But it will take the strength of Poppy's love for him to defeat the forces that threaten to tear them apart.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13389546-winterblaze"}, +{"book_title": "Mass Effect: Ascension", "author_name": "Drew Karpyshyn", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 7052, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "When they vanished fifty thousand years ago, the Protheans left their advanced technology scattered throughout the galaxy. The chance discovery of a Prothean cache on Mars allows humanity to join those already reaping the rewards of the ancient high-tech wizardry. But for one rogue militia, the goal is not participation but domination. Scientist Kahlee Sanders has left the Systems Alliance for the Ascension Project, a program that helps gifted biotic children harness their extraordinary powers. The programs most promising student is twelve-year-old Gillian Grayson, who is borderline autistic. What Kahlee doesn't know is that Gillian is an unwitting pawn of the outlawed black ops group Cerberus, which is sabotaging the program by conducting illegal experiments on the students.When the Cerberus plot is exposed, Gillian's father takes her away from the Ascension Project and flees into the lawless Terminus Systems. Determined to protect Gillian, Kahlee goes with them unaware that the elder Grayson is, in fact a Cerberus operative. To rescue the young girl Kahlee must travel to the farthest ends of the galaxy, battling fierce enemies and impossible odds. But how will she be able to save a daughter from her own father?This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2729221-mass-effect"}, +{"book_title": "Breach", "author_name": "W.L. Goodwater", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 401, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "The first novel in a new Cold War fantasy series, where the Berlin Wall is made entirely of magic. When a breach unexpectedly appears in the wall, spies from both sides swarm to the city as World War III threatens to spark.AFTER THE WAR, THE WALL BROUGHT AN UNEASY PEACE.When Soviet magicians conjured an arcane wall to blockade occupied Berlin, the world was outraged but let it stand for the sake of peace. Now, after ten years of fighting with spies instead of spells, the CIA has discovered the unthinkable...THE WALL IS FAILING.While refugees and soldiers mass along the border, operatives from East and West converge on the most dangerous city in the world to either stop the crisis, or take advantage of it.Karen, a young magician with the American Office of Magical Research and Deployment, is sent to investigate the breach in the Wall and determine if it can be fixed. Instead, she discovers that the truth is elusive in this divided city--and that even magic itself has its own agenda.THE TRUTH OF THE WALL IS ABOUT TO BE REVEALED.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38649753-breach"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow Society", "author_name": "Marie Rutkoski", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 4170, "review_number": 663, "book_description": "Darcy Jones doesn't remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. She has never really belonged anywhere\u2014but she couldn't have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire didn't happen and deadly creatures called Shades terrorize the human population.Memories begin to haunt Darcy when a new boy arrives at her high school, and he makes her feel both desire and desired in a way she hadn't thought possible. But Conn's interest in her is confusing. It doesn't line up with the way he first looked at her.As if she were his enemy.When Conn betrays Darcy, she realizes that she can't rely on anything\u2014not herself, not the laws of nature, and certainly not him. Darcy decides to infiltrate the Shadow Society and uncover the Shades' latest terrorist plot. What she finds out will change her world forever . . .In this smart, compulsively readable novel, master storyteller Marie Rutkoski has crafted an utterly original world, characters you won't soon forget, and a tale full of intrigue and suspense.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10356760-the-shadow-society"}, +{"book_title": "Armistice", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 505, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Set in an alternate 1950s in which General MacArthur ignites a nuclear war that nearly destroys the planet. The third and final installment in an all new series.Not only is the outcome of the world\u2019s first nuclear war still to be determined, as the Americans and Russians continue to sling death at each other, but there remains the question of how hard it will be for humanity to rebuild itself from the ashes of destruction that this war has wrought. For can a victor truly be declared when all of humanity has paid the price?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32766804-armistice"}, +{"book_title": "The Emperor Expects", "author_name": "Gav Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 484, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Book 3 of The Beast ArisesThe Imperial Navy cuts through the chaos on Terra and strikes back against the ork invaders, in a daring plan that could turn the tide of war against the greenskins.As ork ships lay waste to world after world, heading inexorably towards Terra, Imperial citizens despair. The High Lords become desperate to prove that victory is possible, no matter the cost. A massive Navy fleet is assembled \u2013 their mission to make a definitive strike against the orks at Port Sanctus, an area of enemy-held space. But when the Imperial armada arrives, they find themselves outclassed and outmanoeuvred \u2013 can human courage and faith possibly prevail against such terrible odds?It's the first attempt by the Imperium to make a definitive strike against the orks, and it creates a novel full of naval action, coupled with Inquisitorial action as a cadre of agents arrive on Terra to bring the High Lords into line\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26029287-the-emperor-expects"}, +{"book_title": "Hater", "author_name": "David Moody", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 9705, "review_number": 888, "book_description": "A modern take on the classic \u201capocalyptic\u201d novel, Hater tells the story of Danny McCoyne, an everyman forced to contend with a world gone mad, as society is rocked by a sudden increase in violent assaults. Christened \u201cHaters\u201d by the media, the attackers strike without warning and seemingly without reason. Within seconds, normally rational, self-controlled people become frenzied, vicious killers. As the carnage mounts, one thing soon is clear: everyone, irrespective of race, gender, age, or class, has the potential to become either a Hater or a victim. At any moment, even friends and family can turn on one another with violent intent. In the face of this mindless terror, all McCoyne can do is secure his family, seek shelter, and watch as the world falls apart. But when he bolts the front door, the question remains: Is he shutting the danger out or locking it in?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6739080-hater"}, +{"book_title": "The Shepherd's Tale", "author_name": "Joss Whedon", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 10715, "review_number": 837, "book_description": "One of Serenity's greatest mysteries is finally revealed in The Shepherd's Tale, filling in the life of one of the show's most beloved characters\u2014Shepherd Book!Who was Book before meeting Mal and the rest of the Serenity crew? How did he become one of their most trusted allies? And how did he find God in a bowl of soup? Answers to these and more questions about Book's past are uncovered in this original graphic novel by rising stars Zack Whedon (Dr. Horrible, Terminator, Fringe) and Chris Samnee (Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps, Daredevil). A pivotal chapter in the ongoing Serenity saga, The Shepherd's Tale is also a rollicking, action-packed epic in its own right!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8596384-the-shepherd-s-tale"}, +{"book_title": "The Sumage Solution", "author_name": "G.L. Carriger", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2779, "review_number": 522, "book_description": "\nEverything you wanted from a sexy gay werewolf but were afraid to read.\nMax fails at magic, relationships, and life. So he works as a sumage, cleaning up other mages\u2019 messes. The job sucks and he\u2019s in no mood to cope with redneck biker werewolves. Unfortunately, there\u2019s something irresistible about the sexy muscled Beta visiting his office for processing.Bryan is gay but he\u2019s not out. There\u2019s a good chance Max might be reason enough to leave the closet, if he can only get the man to go on a date.Everyone knows werewolves hate mages, but Bryan is determined to prove everyone wrong, even the mage in question.NYT bestseller Gail Carriger, writing as G. L. Carriger, presents an offbeat gay romance in which a sexy werewolf with a white knight complex meets a bad boy mage with an attitude problem. Sparks (and other things) fly.The San Andreas Shifter books stand alone and do not have to be read in any particular order.Delicate Sensibilities?This story contains M/M sexitimes and horrible puns. If you get offended easily, then you probably will. The San Andreas Shifter stories include blue language, dirty deeds, and outright admiration for the San Francisco Bay Area. Not for the faint of heart/mouth/tongue\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35112713-the-sumage-solution"}, +{"book_title": "Ptolemy's Gate", "author_name": "Jonathan Stroud", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 80216, "review_number": 2202, "book_description": "Nathaniel 17 treats Bartimaeus worse than ever. The long-suffering djinni is weak from too much time in this world, near the end of his patience. Rebel Kitty 18 hides, stealthily finishing her research on magic, demons, and Bartimaeus. She has a daring plan that she hopes will break the endless cycle of conflict between djinn and humans. But will anyone listen to what she has to say? Together the trio face treacherous magicians, a complex conspiracy, and a rebellious faction of demons. To survive, they must test the limits of this world and question the deepest parts of themselves.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59264.Ptolemy_s_Gate"}, +{"book_title": "The Executioner's Heart", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 989, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "A serial killer is loose on the streets of London, murdering apparently random members of the gentry with violent abandon. The corpses are each found with their chest cavities cracked open and their hearts removed. Charles Bainbridge, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, suspects an occult significance to the crimes and brings Newbury and Veronica in to investigate.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Detective)", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16001043-the-executioner-s-heart"}, +{"book_title": "The Taking", "author_name": "Dean Koontz", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 36107, "review_number": 1801, "book_description": "In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears-and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps. Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant in the face of mankind's darkest hour, here is a small-town slice-of-doomsday thriller that strikes to the core of each of us to ask: What would you do in the midst of The Taking.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16434.The_Taking"}, +{"book_title": "The Genome", "author_name": "Sergei Lukyanenko", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1359, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "\"The Genome\" is a new science fiction thriller by the author of the bestselling Night Watch series.In the far-future world of Alexander Romanov, humankind is divided into \"naturals\" and \"speshes\"--those who have been genetically modified to serve a specific purpose. Alex is a master pilot capable of maneuvering the dangerous realm of space by communicating directly with his ship. He is about to take on the most mysterious and challenging mission of his life when he happens upon Kim, a teenage girl with a desperate secret. Out of a sense of friendship, he agrees to help her, but this decision will end in conflict and tragedy for dozens of worlds.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Literature (20th Century)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21822372-the-genome"}, +{"book_title": "The Thin Blue Line", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 905, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Earth has fallen ... and humanity is holding its breath, waiting for the next blow to fall. On Terra Nova, Earth\u2019s oldest colony world, chaos and anarchy are threatening to break out, with total collapse only one disaster away. In a desperate attempt to save the rest of the Empire, the planet\u2019s Governor has summoned the leaders of the Core Worlds to Terra Nova, in hopes of sharing power and preventing civil war. But dark forces are on the move, intent on ensuring that the conference fails. As the first strands of a deadly plot are uncovered, Imperial Marshal Glen Cheal finds himself fighting to uncover the plot before it is too late. Meanwhile, on her own mission to save the last best hope for peace, Specialist Belinda Lawson of the Terran Marine Corps is plunged into a nightmare where she can no longer trust her own mind, while her decisions will save or damn the Empire ... Failure isn't an option. But success may not be an option either ...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "War", "Space", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23012007-the-thin-blue-line"}, +{"book_title": "Trapped", "author_name": "Alison Aimes", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1018, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "\u201cConvicts don\u2019t ask. They take.\u201dMarooned on a primitive prison planet , Bella West has one chance for survival until rescue arrives: trade her body for protection.The ripped hulk who claims her is more beast than man. Convicted of a crime he didn\u2019t commit, ex-soldier Caine Anders has lost his humanity after eight grueling years on a hazardous planet of dirt, rock, and treacherous inhabitants.He looks out for himself and never grows attached. So, when the bold female offers him pleasure in return for protection, he takes the deal without hesitation. He never expects her touch to alter him. Or to feel something beyond lust.But caring for someone on Dragath25 may be the greatest hazard of all. And, as the dangers multiply, it\u2019s no longer certain whether she\u2019ll be the key to his salvation or his destruction....The first book in the Condemned Series, TRAPPED is a stand alone, action-packed, sexy sci-fi romance with a HEA, a strong heroine willing to do what it takes to survive, and a scorching hot, broken alpha hero you can\u2019t help but fall in love with.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54662836-trapped"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 6", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 898, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Multiple showdowns go down simultanously in the cyberdungeon world of BLAME...and Killy is just one Gravitron Beam Emitter away from meeting his ultimate maker. \"Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down.\" -Dave Halverson, Play Magazine", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics Manga", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32292.Blame_Vol_6"}, +{"book_title": "Signal to Noise", "author_name": "Eric S. Nylund", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 865, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Jack Potter puts computer cryptography to work for the highest bidder: sometimes for private corporations, sometimes for the government. Sometimes the work is legal; if not, Jack simply raises his price. But one day, Jack discovers something cloaked in the hiss of background radiation streaming past the Earth from deep space: a message from an alien civilization. One that's eager to do business with humanity -- and its representative.Before he knows it, Jack has entered into a partnership that will open a Pandora's Box of potential profit and loss. The governments, the multinationals, and mysterious players more powerful still, all want a piece of the action -- and they're willing to kill, even wage war, to get it. Now Jack is entangled shifting web of deceit and intrigue in which no one, not even his closest friends, can be trusted. For Earth's cloak-and-dagger business practices are writ large in the heavens...and hostile takeovers are just as common across light years as they are across boardroom tables.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700919.Signal_to_Noise"}, +{"book_title": "Innocent Darkness", "author_name": "Suzanne Lazear", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1226, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "Wish. Love. Desire. Live.Sixteen-year-old Noli Braddock's hoyden ways land her in an abusive reform school far from home. On mid-summer's eve she wishes to be anyplace but that dreadful school. A mysterious man from the Realm of Faerie rescues her and brings her to the Otherworld, only to reveal that she must be sacrificed, otherwise, the entire Otherworld civilization will perish.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Science Fiction", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9277339-innocent-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The Unwanteds", "author_name": "Lisa McMann", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 30351, "review_number": 3099, "book_description": "When Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. That is the way of the people of Quill. Each year, all the thirteen-year-olds are labeled as Wanted, Necessary, or Unwanted. Wanteds get more schooling and train to join the Quillitary. Necessaries keep the farms running. Unwanteds are set for elimination. It\u2019s hard for Alex to leave behind his twin, Aaron, a Wanted, but he makes peace with his fate\u2014until he discovers that instead of a \u201cdeath farm,\u201d what awaits him is a magical place called Artim\u00e9. There, Alex and his fellow Unwanteds are encouraged to cultivate their creative abilities and use them magically. Everything Alex has ever known changes before his eyes, and it\u2019s a wondrous transformation. But it\u2019s a rare, unique occurrence for twins to be divided between Wanted and Unwanted, and as Alex and Aaron's bond stretches across their separation, a threat arises for the survival of Artim that will pit brother against brother in an ultimate magical battle.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917879-the-unwanteds"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf's Glory", "author_name": "Maddy Barone", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 569, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "When goth-girl Glory Peterson's plane crashes she walks to find help. What she finds are people living in teepees like it's the Old West. Wolf's Shadow knows Glory is his mate. Glory's happy to take a roll in the hay with him while she's waiting for transportation back to civilization, but when she finds out she's gone fifty years into the future and Shadow is a bossy werewolf who thinks he owns her, her attitude changes fast. Shadow is used to giving orders that are obeyed. Glory hasn't obeyed an order since kindergarten. When two strong-willed lovers clash, who will win?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12408045-wolf-s-glory"}, +{"book_title": "Morlock Night", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 750, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "What happened when the time machine returned?Morlock Night is a memorably different excursion in science fiction - a gripping classic adventure in past, present and future - with some startling surprising!", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Classics", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/645954.Morlock_Night"}, +{"book_title": "Dovis", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2489, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "Sold into slavery as a child, Mari was raised on a vessel repair station, growing up to become a highly prized engineer. So she\u2019s surprised when her owner not only grants her freedom, but finds her a paying job aboard The Vorge. Mari\u2019s determined to impress her new captain and crewmates. It\u2019s the only way she\u2019ll remain free, safe from the hands of other slavers. But there seems no impressing Dovis, the ship\u2019s head of security. He\u2019s huge, hairy, scary, and seems to hate humans. Dovis finds humans weak and annoying at the best of times. They don\u2019t need another one aboard The Vorge. Especially a female who works hard enough to make everyone else look lazy. He wants Mari gone\u2014until he meets her. The tiny human is sweet, shy, timid\u2026beautiful. Now Dovis really wants her gone. He isn\u2019t happy about his attraction to a human. Especially when he can\u2019t be certain Mari\u2019s desire for him is from the heart\u2026or an accident of his own making.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41329795-dovis"}, +{"book_title": "Fortune's Stroke", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2104, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Aide, a human soul embodied in a jewel, journeys back in time to join forces with Belisarius, the greatest general of the sixth century, to stop Link, an evil supercomputer that is using its vast powers to rewrite history to create the powerful, technologically advance Malwa Empire. Reprint.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science (Technology)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406887.Fortune_s_Stroke"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 15", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 7606, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "The horrors of the Ishbalan campaign occurred years before Ed became a state alchemist, and has serious repercussions, which set the tone for the complicated dealings of present-day state politics. Lieutenant Hawkeye reluctantly tells Ed all the dread details of the role Colonel Mustang and the other state alchemists played in this tragic event.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526672.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_15"}, +{"book_title": "Expiration Date", "author_name": "Duane Swierczynski", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 755, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "In this neighborhood, make a wrong turn and you're history. Mickey Wade is a recently-unemployed journalist who lucked into a rent-free apartment \u2013 his sick grandfather's place. The only problem: it's in a lousy neighborhood. The one where Mickey grew up, in fact. The one he was so desperate to escape.But now he's back. Dead broke. And just when he thinks he's reached rock bottom, Mickey wakes up in the past. Literally.At first he thinks it's a dream. All of the stores he remembered from his childhood, the cars, the rumble of the elevated train. But as he digs deeper into the past, searching for answers about the grandfather he hardly knows, Mickey meets the twelve-year-old kid who lives in the apartment below. The kid who will grow up to someday murder Mickey's father.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7193226-expiration-date"}, +{"book_title": "Skin", "author_name": "Kylie Scott", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 3757, "review_number": 340, "book_description": "Six months since the zombie plague struck, former librarian Roslyn Stewart has been holed up in a school with eight other survivors. But now the shelves in the school canteen are bare. The stranger at the gate has supplies that will ensure the group\u2019s ongoing survival, but at a cost. He wants a woman. Nick is a man with a plan. He\u2019ll treat Roslyn like a Queen, devoting the rest of his life to protecting and providing for her. In exchange, of course, for sexual favors. It\u2019s the deal of the century given the state of the world. But Roslyn doesn\u2019t see it that way. The first chance she gets she attacks the ex-army man and attempts to escape, forcing Nick to contain her. And so begins his awkward courtship of the woman, with her chained to the bed for security reasons. Chained like a dog and forced to spend her every waking moment with a creep, albeit a good looking one, Ros is determined to escape. When circumstances force them to band together against a common enemy their very survival depends on their ability to learn to trust each other. An uneasy partnership develops, but can a relationship with such a difficult beginning ever have a future?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39911965-skin"}, +{"book_title": "The Finisher", "author_name": "David Baldacci", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 13899, "review_number": 1652, "book_description": "Welcome to Wormwood: a place where curiosity is discouraged and no one has ever left.Until one girl, Vega Jane, discovers a map that suggests a mysterious world beyond the walls. A world with possibilities and creatures beyond her imagining.But she will be forced to fight for her freedom. And unravelling the truth may cost Vega her life.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18282060-the-finisher"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Lord's Captive", "author_name": "Mina Carter", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2275, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "An alternative cover edition of ASIN B014RCH66M.Earth girls might be popular... but they're definitely not easy.Sergeant Cat Moore has a little problem. Well, actually a big problem... When her base is attacked and boarded by an alien war group, she finds herself in the sights of their leader, Tarrick, a Latharian war-commander. Their captors might be ripped, hot warriors looking for that one special woman, but the women of Sentinel Five have this little thing against being slaves. Even if their leader is well on his way to stealing Cat's heart as well as her body... Because her sexy alien has a thing about making sure her every need is met and has some very inventive ways of doing so. Until she gives him a bad case of mating marks around his wrist, and all bets are off.Why? Because her sexy alien lover left one thing out when he introduced himself\u2026 Like the fact he\u2019s a freaking alien prince\u2026The strong, not so silent, and ruthless type, Tarrick's duty as a war commander means little time for himself. With no women of their own, a base full of human women is a bounty he can't ignore. Nor can he ignore the little human whose voice called out to him across the galaxy, a woman he'll stop at nothing to make his own.Then a new player enters the arena. A dangerous rival challenges the K'Vass claim on Terran space and all it's women. Tarrick K'Vass can't afford to let any of the earth women be captured, especially not his little human, Cat. When she\u2019s is taken, he'll do anything to rescue her. Up to and including starting an intergalactic war...**Contains three previously released serial novellas: Captured by the Alien Lord, Saved by the Alien Lord, and Bonded to the Alien Lord.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40030175-alien-lord-s-captive"}, +{"book_title": "The Dead Sun", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2461, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Kyle Riggs sits uneasily upon Earth's throne. He's liberated his homeworld from a tyrant, only to replace him.In THE DEAD SUN, the ninth book of the Star Force Series, the Great War between life and the machines reaches its final chapter. Both sides have new technology and expanded industrial bases. Star Force and the machines attempt to exterminate one another in a final, glorious conflict. Along the way, Riggs finally learns who his real friends and enemies are.THE DEAD SUN is a military science fiction novel by bestselling author B. V. Larson. To read the first book in this series, look for SWARM, by B. V. Larson.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18272934-the-dead-sun"}, +{"book_title": "The Assassin's Curse", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 2416, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "When outlaws Amaranthe and Sicarius chance upon spies stealing military prototypes, they immediately give chase. Well, immediately after Amaranthe talks Sicarius, former assassin and all-around non-altruistic type, into the mission. She wants an imperial pardon, and what better way to attract the emperor\u2019s favor than by looking after the empire\u2019s interests?What seems like a straightforward mission develops a hitch when the spies flee to Darkcrest Isle, a forbidding chunk of land reputed to be haunted. Amaranthe isn\u2019t quick to believe in tales of malevolent spirits, so she\u2019s startled when the ever-pragmatic and unflappable Sicarius shows reluctance at setting foot on the island. Only when it may be too late to escape does Amaranthe come to understand why.The Assassin\u2019s Curse is a 12,000-word short story.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13416769-the-assassin-s-curse"}, +{"book_title": "Skies of Fire", "author_name": "Zoe Archer", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 455, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Man made of metal and fleshCaptain Christopher Redmond has just one weakness: the alluring spy who loved and left him years before\u2026when he was still just a man. Now he's superhuman\u2014a Man O' War, made as part of the British Navy's weapons program\u2014and his responsibility is to protect the skies of Europe. If only he could forget Louisa Shaw.A most inconvenient desireLouisa, a British Naval Intelligence agent, has never left a job undone. But when her assignment is compromised, the one man who can help her complete her mission is also the only man ever to tempt her body and heart. As burning skies loom and passion ignites, Louisa and Christopher must slip behind enemy lines if they are to deliver a devastating strike against their foe . . . and still get out alive.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Steampunk Romance", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13494184-skies-of-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Ringworld's Children", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 8242, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "Welcome to a world like no other.The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith, the Ghoul protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous game in order to save Ringworld's population, and the stability of Ringworld itself.Blending awe-inspiring science with non-stop action and fun, Ringworld's Children, the fourth installment of the multiple award-winning saga, is the perfect introduction for readers new to this New York Times bestselling series, and long-time fans of Larry Niven's Ringworld.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64466.Ringworld_s_Children"}, +{"book_title": "Like Clockwork", "author_name": "Bonnie Dee", "rating_score": 3.21, "rating_votes": 182, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Victoria's work with automatons has gained her renown and changed the face of London. But her concern that the clockworks are taking too many jobs away from humans, creating social unrest, is ignored. Given the ugly mood of the underclass, she fears more outbreaks of violence similar to the murder spree of the notorious Southwark Slasher.Dash, unemployed thanks to the clockworks, has pledged fealty to The Brotherhood, a group determined to bring about the downfall of the automatons by any means necessary. His plan to kidnap Victoria goes awry when the unorthodox scientist pledges her assistance to their cause.Despite their opposite social classes, a bond grows between them, and Victoria begins to feel emotions she never expected for the passionate Dash. But when the Slasher strikes close to home, Dash and Victoria realize that the boundaries of polite society are far from the only threat to their happiness...31,000 words", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Historical (Victorian)", "Adult", "Novella", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9721966-like-clockwork"}, +{"book_title": "The Blackcollar", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1478, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "Blackcollars were a human task force designed to defeat alien Ryqril invaders. The guerilla warriors were improved by drugs to enhance lifespan, speed, reflexes, and memory. Allen Caine has never met this weapon, stronger than Nova-class battle cruisers, but 30 years later goes to find their remnants, Damon Thane, and 5 starships from the planet Plinry.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/681191.The_Blackcollar"}, +{"book_title": "The Jakarta Pandemic", "author_name": "Steven Konkoly", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 6238, "review_number": 526, "book_description": "\"The definitive pandemic novel. One family's struggle to survive as a deadly pandemic sweeps the nation. This book both entertains and prepares at the same time. Reading this book might save your life if the Ebola virus or Avian flu turns into a pandemic.\" Preparedness consultant-2014\u00a0 \nThe Jakarta Pandemic:\nThe People's Republic of China announces strict travel restrictions... \u00a0Indonesia goes dark... \u00a0Cases of an uncategorized influenza virus appear in major cities around the globe... \u00a0Department of Health and Human Services officials claim that measures have been taken to safeguard the American public...\u00a0\nMost ignore the warnings...\n\u00a0Alex Fletcher, Iraq War veteran, has read the signs for years.\u00a0A seasoned sales representative for Biosphere Pharmaceuticals, he understands the unique dangers of a pandemic flu and has taken the necessary steps to prepare. With his family and home mobilized to endure an extended period of seclusion, Alex thinks he's ready for the pandemic. He's not even close. \u00a0The lethal H16N1 virus rapidly spreads across the nation, stretching the fragile bonds of society to the breaking point. Schools close, grocery stores empty, fuel deliveries stop, hospitals start turning away the sick...riots engulf the cities. \u00a0As hostility and mistrust engulfs his idyllic Maine neighborhood, Alex quickly realizes that the H16N1 virus will be the least of his problems.\u00a0\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Jakarta Pandemic\n\n\u00a0is a terrifying, cautionary tale that explores the depths of human desperation and its unremitting influence on our decisions.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n- The sequel, The Perseid Collapse, is now available -\u00a0\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\"It delivers a vicious punch of violence and heroism for the reader to endure and admire. I could hardly put The Jakarta Pandemic down until I finished it.\" - Amazon Reviewer (2012) \"The tension builds as difficult choices are made, when no good options seem to be available. I found certain segments to be uncomfortably realistic, at times creepy in the way you could feel things closing in around the family.\" - Amazon Reviewer (2013) \"It makes you think just how prepared you really are for any kind of emergency. It makes you question your resolve in a potential crisis. How far are you willing to go to protect your loved ones? Every day that goes by, these characters have to question what is right and what is wrong. Take the trip thru this book. You won't be disappointed.\" - Amazon Reviewer (2013) \"Pay attention as you may learn a few things in this book that could help you make the best of an emergency situation. For that matter some of the info in this book may very well save your life.\" - Amazon Reviewer (2013) \"Anyone who has relished running to the hardware store before a big storm to stock up on essentials will be drawn to Steve Konkoly's intricately-researched and drawn breakdown of our supply systems, and transfixed by his description of what it takes to survive six months of enforced isolation behind the locked(booby-trapped, draped and shuttered) doors of one's own home.\n", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Suspense", "Business (Amazon)", "Medical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9632773-the-jakarta-pandemic"}, +{"book_title": "The Foxhole Court", "author_name": "Nora Sakavic", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 35628, "review_number": 5103, "book_description": "Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential\u2014and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher.Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Contemporary", "LGBT", "Young Adult", "Sports (Sports)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fiction", "New Adult", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Academic (College)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17259690-the-foxhole-court"}, +{"book_title": "Wray", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 4708, "review_number": 240, "book_description": "Emperor Wray Vasteri is the ruler of the Tornian Empire, his House has ruled the Empire ever since the great infection struck over five hundred years ago and he fears he will be the last. The number of compatible females is dwindling faster than anyone knows and if compatible females aren\u2019t found soon their entire civilization will cease to exist. It\u2019s the reason he agreed to meet with Liron the Emperor of the Kaliszian Empire in Kaliszian space. The only reason they crossed paths with a Ganglian ship leaving Tornian space. The only reason the small female was discovered. Could she be what they\u2019ve been searching for?Kim Teel has had a hard life, at least she thought she had until her parents were suddenly killed and her sister disappears. At nineteen she realizes she\u2019s been protected from all of life\u2019s hardships, been taken care of her entire life, expecting and accepting it, she\u2019d been terribly spoiled. Determined to change her ways, Kim goes looking for her sister only to be captured by the Ganglians and it is then that she learns what happens to the \u2018unprotected\u2019 females of the universe.Wray finds himself drawn to the small female he finds beaten and abused on the Ganglian ship. She resembles a Tornian female but is much smaller. Could she be what he\u2019s been searching for? Wray and Kim are both doing the same thing, trying to survive. But what they find is that there are more important things then just survival. And once they learn that the universe changes forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20718586-wray"}, +{"book_title": "A Second Chance at Eden", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4590, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "From the author of the bestselling 'Night's Dawn' trilogy, a novella and six stories set in the same brilliantly realised universe.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45257.A_Second_Chance_at_Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 23", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.67, "rating_votes": 8479, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "As the battle for Central City rages on, Alphonse faces off against Pride and Kimblee with the aid of a Philosopher's Stone. Can he come up with a plan to take down these two dangerous foes? Meanwhile, Ed and his friends run into Envy below the city. When Roy Mustang learns the truth about Hughes's murder, will he be consumed by hatred and do the unthinkable...?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Manga (Shonen)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7326879-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-23"}, +{"book_title": "Frontier Justice", "author_name": "Arthur T. Bradley", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 3919, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "The Superpox-99 virus has wiped out nearly the entire human race. Governments have collapsed. Cities have become graveyards filled with unspeakable horror. People have resorted to scavenging from the dead, or taking from the living. The entire industrialized world has become a wasteland of abandoned cars, decaying bodies, and feral animals. To stay alive, U.S. Deputy Marshal Mason Raines must forage for food, water, and gasoline while outgunning those who seek to take advantage of the apocalyptic anarchy. Together with his giant Irish wolfhound, Bowie, he aligns with survivors of the town of Boone in a life and death struggle against a gang of violent criminals. With each deadly encounter, Mason is forced to accept his place as one of the nation's few remaining lawmen. In a world now populated by escaped convicts, paranoid mutants, and government hit squads, his only hope to save the townspeople is to enforce his own brand of frontier justice.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Action", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18828336-frontier-justice"}, +{"book_title": "Behemot", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 457, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Pi\u0119\u0107 lat temu zniszczy\u0142a\u015b \u015bwiat.\u015awiat sam sobie na to zas\u0142u\u017cy\u0142.Z g\u0142\u0119bin oceanu przynios\u0142a\u015b mu pewien dar \u2013 apokaliptycznego mikroba zdolnego przewr\u00f3ci\u0107 ca\u0142\u0105 planet\u0119 do g\u00f3ry nogami.Teraz samo DNA znalaz\u0142o si\u0119 na kraw\u0119dzi wymarcia. Ameryka P\u00f3\u0142nocna leg\u0142a w gruzach, opanowana przez wszechmocnego psychopat\u0119.Rz\u0105dy na ca\u0142ym \u015bwiecie upad\u0142y, a z popio\u0142\u00f3w wy\u0142onili si\u0119 samozwa\u0144czy przyw\u00f3dcy i samob\u00f3jcze kulty. A wszystko to dlatego, \u017ce pi\u0119\u0107 lat temu musia\u0142a\u015b wyr\u00f3wna\u0107 rachunki.Jednak w mi\u0119dzyczasie dokona\u0142a\u015b zaskakuj\u0105cego rdkrycia: zniszczy\u0142a\u015b \u015bwiat z powodu fa\u0142szywych pozor\u00f3w.Od kilku lat ukrywasz si\u0119 po\u015br\u00f3d g\u00f3r w g\u0142\u0119binach Atlantyku. Nie mo\u017cesz jednak tkwi\u0107 tam wiecznie. Konsekwencje twoich przesz\u0142ych czyn\u00f3w zaczynaj\u0105 si\u0119ga\u0107 a\u017c na samo dno \u015bwiata \u2013 i nagle nawet tam nie da si\u0119 ju\u017c cofn\u0105\u0107 liczby ofiar.Tak czy inaczej, musisz wreszcie wypi\u0107 piwo, kt\u00f3rego sama sobie nawarzy\u0142a\u015b.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18001149-behemot"}, +{"book_title": "Hunger", "author_name": "Milana Jacks", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1309, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "They came. They didn\u2019t do much sightseeing before they conquered and marked the human Omegas. They call themselves the Regha Horde. We call them the Hordesmen. And Hunger is my new boss.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45430023-hunger"}, +{"book_title": "The Ember War", "author_name": "Richard Fox", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2975, "review_number": 162, "book_description": " Earth is doomed. Humanity has a chance. In the near future, an alien probe arrives on Earth with a pivotal mission\u2014help humanity survive an impending invasion by an alien armada so massive it can blot out the stars, or leave the human race to certain extinction. Despite overwhelming odds, the probe recruits a young inventor named Marc Ibarra to plan a daring gambit. To weather the coming storm, Ibarra must build a space fleet strong enough to face an implacable foe in a battle against annihilation.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25830594-the-ember-war"}, +{"book_title": "One Good Soldier", "author_name": "Travis S. Taylor", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 269, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "\"One Good Soldier\" is the third book in the rapid-fire hard science military SF series of \"One Day on Mars\" and \"The Tau\" \"Ceti Agenda.\" In another \"24\"-like narrative set six years after the events in \"The Tau Ceti Agenda,\" \" \"this exciting action story unfolds in a single critical day in the history of the United States of the Sol System, the extra-solar colonies, the Separatist Revolutionaries of the Tau Ceti system, and all of mankind. As another of Earth's colonies, Ross 128, secedes from the union, the President of the United States, former marine major Alexander Moore, takes swift action to prevent a second American Civil War, this time on an interstellar scale. He sends the flagship of the U.S. Naval fleet through the Quauntum Membrane Teleporter based in the Oort Cloud to the seceding colony. But the Tau Ceti Separatists have stationed their own teleporter there and the flagship will be met with heavy resistance from the Separatist Navy.And, unknown to the president and first lady, their eighteen year old military school cadet daughter has been kidnapped and whisked away to the Separatist leader's house on Tau Ceti.Only the heroics and sacrifices of \"one good soidier\" after another can save the flagship, the Union, and the first daughter in an all-out winner-take-all showdown that reaches its final climax with frenzied hand-to-hand combat in the Oval Office itself.\"Praise for Travis S. Taylor: \"\"[\"Warp Speed\"] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . .You won't want to put it down. FLUBELLS AWAY!\" --John Ringo\"In the tradition of Golden Age SF . . . [\"The Quantum Connection,\" sequel to \"Warp Speed\"] explodes with inventive action . . . dazzling . . . cutting-edge scientific possibilities. . . .\" --\"Publishers Weekly\"", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6389088-one-good-soldier"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf and Iron", "author_name": "Gordon R. Dickson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1623, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "After the collapse of civilization, when the social fabric of America has come apart in bloody rags, when every man's hand is raised against another, and only the strong survive.\"Jeebee\" Walther was a scientist, a student of human behavior, who saw the Collapse of the world economy coming, but could do nothing to stop it. Now he must make his way across a violent and lawless America, in search of a refuge where he can keep the spark of knowledge alive in the coming Dark Age. He could never make it on his own, but he has found a companion who can teach him how to survive on instinct and will. Jeebee has been adopted by a great Gray Wolf.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/979747.Wolf_and_Iron"}, +{"book_title": "Empire of Man", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 1105, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "New York Times best-selling series - Omnibus - March Upcountry and March to the Sea, Books 1 and 2 in the Empire of Man Series.Roger Ramius MacClintock was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man. It probably wasn't too surprising that someone in his position should react by becoming spoiled, self-centered, and petulant. After all, what else did he have to do with his life?\u00a0 Then warships of the Empire of Man's worst rivals\u00a0force his crippled vessel out of space and Roger is shipwrecked on the planet Marduk, whose jungles are full of deadly predators and barbarian hordes with really bad dispositions. Now all Roger has to do is hike halfway around the entire planet, then capture a spaceport from the Bad Guys, somehow commandeer a starship, and then go home to Mother for explanations.\u00a0 Fortunately, Roger has an ace in the hole: Bravo Company of Bronze Battalion of The Empress' Own Regiment. If anyone can get him off Marduk alive, it's the Bronze Barbarians.About The Empire of Man Series:\"Will fascinate sophisticated readers (the manual of arms for a four-armed, 10-foot soldier is a thing of beauty) . . . [and] grip straightforward action lovers.\"\u2014Publishers Weekly\"Coauthors Weber and Ringo excel in depicting the lives and times of soldiers both on and off the battlefield.\"\u2014Library Journal", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143929-empire-of-man"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Traders", "author_name": "Andre Norton", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 4478, "review_number": 310, "book_description": "If it is possible to conquer space, then perhaps it is also possible to conquer time. At least that was the theory American scientists were exploring in an effort to explain the new sources of knowledge the Russians possessed. Perhaps Russian scientists had discovered how to transport themselves back in time in order to learn long-forgotten secrets of the past. That was why young Ross Murdock, above average in intelligence but a belligerently independent nonconformist, found himself on a \"hush-hush\" government project at a secret base in the Arctic. The very qualities that made him a menace in civilized society were valuable traits in a man who must successfully act the part of a merchant trader of the Beaker people during the Bronze Age.For once they were transferred by time machine to the remote Baltic region where the Russian post was located, Ross and his partner Ashe were swept into a fantastic action-filled adventure involving Russians, superstitious prehistoric men, and the aliens of a lost galactic civilization that demanded every ounce of courage the Americans possessed.Approx. 7 hours", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/462373.The_Time_Traders"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 26977, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "The saga of Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, continues in PAPER DOLLS, writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's award-winning VERTIGO series. In addition to catching up on the adventures of Yorick's monkey Ampersand (whose body holds the key to stopping the male-killing plague) and telling the origin of Agent 355, PAPER DOLLS chronicles Yorick and 355's search for Yorick's fiancee Beth in Australia -- a search that yields a large dose of unwanted publicity for the Last Man, and deadly consequences for those he cares for!Collects Y: The Last Man issues #37-#42", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79426.Y"}, +{"book_title": "Touched by an Alien", "author_name": "Gini Koch", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 5283, "review_number": 869, "book_description": "Marketing manager Katherine \"Kitty\" Katt had just finished a day on jury duty. When she stepped out of the Pueblo Caliente courthouse, all she was thinking about was the work she had to get caught up on. Then her attention was caught by a fight between a couple that looked like it was about to turn ugly. But ugly didn't even begin to cover it when the \"man\" suddenly transformed into a huge, winged monster right out of a grade Z science fiction movie and went on a deadly killing spree. In hindsight, Kitty realized she probably should have panicked and run screaming the way everyone around her was doing. Instead she sprinted into action to take down the alien. In the middle of all the screeching and the ensuing chaos, a hunk in an Armani suit suddenly appeared beside her, introduced himself as Jeff Martini with \"the agency,\" and then insisted on leading her to a nearby limo to talk to his \"boss.\" And that was how Kitty's new life among the aliens began...Touched by an Alien is the thrilling first installment of the Alien novels. \u00a0", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7283762-touched-by-an-alien"}, +{"book_title": "The Synchronicity War Part 4", "author_name": "Dietmar Arthur Wehr", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1346, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "The unprovoked war with the Sogas has reached a climax. Over a hundred Sogas ships appear to be headed for Earth and Space Force is in no condition to stop them. As if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, the nightmarish Insectoids will be arriving in Earth orbit within months to finish off the survivors of the impending Sogas attack. Admiral Victor Shiloh, Commander Amanda Kelly and Valkyrie will have to make some heartbreaking decisions if Humanity is to have any chance at all of avoiding extinction in this final chapter of the Synchronicity War saga.The paperback version is now available on createspace.com.Fans of this series will also like The Retro War, a stand-alone novella set in the same Synchronicity War Universe.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22599270-the-synchronicity-war-part-4"}, +{"book_title": "The Masked City", "author_name": "Genevieve Cogman", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 17529, "review_number": 1774, "book_description": "Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an alternative London when her assistant Kai goes missing. She discovers he's been kidnapped by the fae faction and the repercussions could be fatal. Not just for Kai, but for whole worlds.Kai's dragon heritage means he has powerful allies, but also powerful enemies in the form of the fae. With this act of aggression, the fae are determined to trigger a war between their people - and the forces of order and chaos themselves.Irene's mission to save Kai and avert Armageddon will take her to a dark, alternate Venice where it's always Carnival. Here Irene will be forced to blackmail, fast talk, and fight. Or face death.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25761086-the-masked-city"}, +{"book_title": "Ruth's Baby", "author_name": "V.C. Lancaster", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 801, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "The Gandry tribe has settled down after Moira's arrival, but Ruth still feels that something is wrong. The way Gron is acting makes her think he expected something to be different. They want a family, but it's not happening on it's own, so Ruth makes the momentous decision to ask T'Lax for help, and do whatever it takes to hold Gron's baby in her arms. This is a 40,000 word novella, and it is recommended that this series be read in order.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34837065-ruth-s-baby"}, +{"book_title": "Count Zero", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 46099, "review_number": 1219, "book_description": "A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he\u2019s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D\u2014and the biochip he\u2019s perfected\u2014out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties\u2014some of whom aren\u2019t remotely human...", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22200.Count_Zero"}, +{"book_title": "Space Marine Ajax", "author_name": "Sean-Michael Argo", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 163, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Ajax answers the call of duty and becomes an Einherjar space marine, charged with defending humanity against hideous alien monsters in furious combat across the galaxy.\u00a0The Garm, as they came to be called, emerged from the deepest parts of uncharted space, devouring all that lay before them, a great swarm that scoured entire star systems of all organic life. This space borne hive, this extinction fleet, made no attempts to communicate and offered no mercy.Humanity has always been a deadly organism, and we would not so easily be made the prey. Unified against a common enemy, we fought back, meeting the swarm with soldiers upon every front.We were resplendent in our fury, and yet, despite the terrible slaughter we visited upon the enemy, world after world still fell beneath ravenous tooth and wicked claw. For every beast slain in the field, another was swiftly hatched to take its place and humanity was faced with a grim war of attrition.After a decade of bitter galactic conflict, it was all humanity could to do slow the advance of the swarm and with each passing year we came closer to extinction.The grinding cost of war mounted. The realization set in that without a radical shift in tactics and technology the forces of humanity would run out of soldiers before it ran out of bullets.In desperate response to the real threat of total annihilation, humanity created the Einherjar. Fearless new warriors with frightening new weapons who were sent to fight the wolves at the gate.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33869099-space-marine-ajax"}, +{"book_title": "The Continuum", "author_name": "Wendy Nikel", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 340, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "Elise Morley is an expert on the past who's about to get a crash course in the future. For years, Elise has been donning corsets, sneaking into castles, and lying through her teeth to enforce the Place in Time Travel Agency's ten essential rules of time travel. Someone has to ensure that travel to the past isn't abused, and most days she welcomes the challenge of tracking down and retrieving clients who have run into trouble on their historical vacations.But when a dangerous secret organization kidnaps her and coerces her into jumping to the future on a high-stakes assignment, she's got more to worry about than just the time-space continuum. For the first time ever, she's the one out-of-date, out of place, and quickly running out of time.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35224471-the-continuum"}, +{"book_title": "The Sword", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 866, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "For five years Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue. With saber and bayonet he has conquered one barbarian nation after another. Now his greatest enemy is his own overlord, Barholm Clerett, who's so paranoid of Raj's victories that he is reduced to only one thought: Raj Whitehall must die.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359086.The_Sword"}, +{"book_title": "Punktown", "author_name": "Jeffrey Thomas", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 475, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "In the city they call Punktown, on a planet where a hundred sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows...Table Of Contents: The Reflections Of Ghosts Pink Pills The Flaying Season Union Dick Wakizashi Dissecting The Soul Precious Metal Sisters Of No Mercy Heart for Heart\u2019s Sake The Ballad Of Moosecock Lip Face The Pressman The Palace Of Nothingness The Rusted Gates Of Heaven Immolation Unlimited Daylight The Library Of Sorrows Nom de Guerre The Color Shrain", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/574195.Punktown"}, +{"book_title": "Cyborg Legacy", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1168, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Former Cyborg Corps soldier Jasim Antar was relieved to come out of the war alive and looked forward to switching to a less violent line of work. But nobody wants to hire a brawny cyborg to do anything that doesn\u2019t involve brutalizing people on a daily basis. Stuck working as a debt collector alongside an eccentric pilot who enjoys knitting gifts for her grandkids when she isn\u2019t blowing people up, Jasim longs to find a more peaceful existence.But peace is elusive when you have a violent past. While on a routine mission, Jasim comes across the body of a soldier he served with during the war. He soon learns that someone is murdering former members of the Cyborg Corps, men who should be extremely difficult to kill. And he\u2019s next on the list.Jasim steels himself to reach out to the one person he\u2019s certain can help, his old commander: Colonel Leonidas Adler. Adler is strong, smart, and deadly, good traits to have in an ally. Unfortunately, he remembers Jasim as a misfit rather than a model soldier, and convincing him to join forces may be even tougher than finding and facing the killer.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34111449-cyborg-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "The Mercenary's Mate", "author_name": "C.W. Gray", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 694, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Welcome to the mercenary ship, The Blue Solace:Leti Ando needs off planet and fast. He has a best friend and a new half-sister to rescue, and he needs to be sneaky about it. Unfortunately sneaky isn't really his thing. With the help of a friend, Leti and his menagerie, along with his two companions, stow away aboard a mystery ship. Little does he know that The Blue Solace belongs to the infamous mercenary, Captain Will Hackett, a man he'll come to love with everything inside him.Will has been in a bitchy ass mood for the past six months. He's restless and grumpy, but doesn't know why. He knows he needs something and he can't find it, but his crew are out of patience and insist on some R &R back home at Charybdis Station. Then Hack finds a stow away angel and everything changes. Leti is his mate and he'll do anything to keep him safe and happy, even smile.The galaxy's not a safe place, though, and The Blue Solace has a job to do: pick up a renowned scientist and his mysterious artifact. Then get them safely back to Charybdis Station. Hack and Leti don't realize their romance story is about to get hijacked by Concord mercenaries. Their love is easy, it happens just like that. Staying alive and keeping the galaxy safe? That's a little harder.Author's Note: 41,801 words. (Previously published as \"Happens Just Like That\"). This is a m/m love story with no angst and no cheating, just a HEA. There is lots of action, sex, mpreg, and a few potty mouths involved in the story. 18+ readers only, please. It is also the first of two books about this specific couple.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42932366-the-mercenary-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal", "author_name": "Joe R. Lansdale", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 235, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "What do the disembodied head of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Frankenstein, the Tin Man, Captain Nemo, the Flying Dutchman, and the inestimable Ned the Seal have in common? Find out as they embark upon a spectacular set of nonstop steampunk adventures. For the first time, two epic chronicles, Zeppelins West and Flaming London, inscribed by a courageous young seal on his trusty notepad, are collected together in one volume.Leap from a flaming zeppelin with the stars of the Wild West Show in a desperate escape from an imperial Japanese enclave. Wash up upon the island of Doctor Moreau, in mortal danger from his unnatural experiments (and ignorant that Dracula approaches by sea). Unite with Jules Verne, Passpartout, and Mark Twain on a desperate voyage to the burning streets of London, which are infested with killer squid from outer space courtesy of H. G. Wells\u2019s time machine. It\u2019s a raucous steam-powered locomotive of shoot-\u2019em-up Westerns, dime novels, comic books, and pulp fiction, as only Lansdale, the high-priest of Texan weirdness, could tell.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Westerns", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8728502-flaming-zeppelins"}, +{"book_title": "Mastering The Mistress", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 817, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Get ready for a sexy Power Struggle... A warrior who has vowed never to take a bride Bought by a girl who needs a body slave... but has no idea what to do with him Will Kaylee be able to tame the huge Havoc she bought at the Flesh Bazaar? Or will Solar turn the tables and end up... Mastering the Mistress? Solar M'Tex is a Havoc--a race of males who have sworn never to bond themselves to a female. So the idea of serving or loving any woman, no matter how beautiful, is foreign to him. But when he gets captured and sold at the Flesh Bazaar, he has no say in who buys him. Before he knows it he is the exclusive property of Kaylee, a lush little female from Yonnie Six who wants her own personal body slave. Kaylee is new to Yonnie Six high society. She didn't even know she needed a body slave until her new friend Lyla told her. But when Lyla talks her into buying the huge, muscular Havoc, she doesn't know what to do with him--or have any idea how she's going to master him. Soon they're in Kaylee's new dungeon with all the equipment a Mistress could need to tame a new slave. Kaylee does her best but when Solar gets free of his restraints, the tables are turned. Will she escape from the male she dared to try and master... or will Solar end up Mastering the Mistress? Mastering the Mistress is a Brides of the Kindred novella but it can and should be read as a stand alone novella. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26531633-mastering-the-mistress"}, +{"book_title": "The Wake of the Dragon", "author_name": "Jaq D. Hawkins", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 61, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "No sane airshipman will fly near a storm, but the cover of storm edge offers effective concealment for airship pirates who can strike quickly from above before anyone knows a ship is near. With the protection of Aide, the goddess of air travel, one airship defies the elements to seek fortune for the rag tag aerialists who make up the pirate crew.The elements are the least of their problems when they find themselves saddled with an airsick clerk, a crewmember suspected of working for the East India Company and a love sick farm girl whose headstrong misconceptions compel her to seek adventure where no decent woman would wander unescorted.Battling businessmen, mechanoids and villagers armed with torches and pitchforks, Captain Bonny must decide who to trust, and if the only rational course of action is one of apparent madness.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13635472-the-wake-of-the-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "The Amazing Screw-on Head and Other Curious Objects", "author_name": "Mike Mignola", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 3214, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "Mike Mignola has deservedly become one of the biggest names in comics for his creation of Hellboy. But when Mignola needs a short break from the Hellboy universe, he turns to diversions such as The Amazing Screw-On Head, winner of the Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication!When Emperor Zombie threatens the safety of all life on earth, President Lincoln enlists the aid of a mechanical head. With the help of associates Mr. Groin (a faithful manservant) and Mr. Dog (a dog), Screw-On Head must brave ancient tombs, a Victorian flying apparatus, and demons from a dimension inside a turnip. This new collection of oddball Mignola creations also includes The Magician and the Snake from Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings, and nearly fifty pages of brand new material, all as weird and hilarious as the beloved Screw-On Head.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7961571-the-amazing-screw-on-head-and-other-curious-objects"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Assassin", "author_name": "Ed Greenwood", "rating_score": 2.68, "rating_votes": 222, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Hot pulp fiction: a steampunk Frankenstein is a weapon of death in an alternate 19th-century EnglandOn an Earth that is not our own, Victoria never ascended the throne; the House of Hanover held England only briefly before being supplanted by the House of Harminster. It is a time of gaslamps and regularly scheduled airship flights, of trams and steam-driven clockwork with countless smoke-belching stacks. London, the capitol of the Empire of the Lion, is a filthy, crowded, fast-growing city where a series of shocking murders threatens the throne itself.Energetic young inventor Jack Straker believes he has created a weapon to defend the Crown: a reanimated, clockwork-enhanced corpse he can control. He introduces \u201cthe Iron Assassin\u201d to the highly placed Lords who will decide if Straker\u2019s invention becomes a weapon of the Lion\u2014or something to be destroyed.It quickly becomes apparent that the Iron Assassin is more self-willed than Straker intended, and that the zombie\u2019s past life is far more sinister than Straker thought. Has he created a runaway monster? Or the best guardian the Lion could ever hope for?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Thriller", "Historical (Victorian)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168799-the-iron-assassin"}, +{"book_title": "Day Zero", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 4885, "review_number": 476, "book_description": "Arcana means secrets, and these Arcana Chronicles short stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole are filled with them. Experience firsthand the beginning of the end and behold the apocalypse through the eyes of characters you only thought you knew. Ashes to ashes . . .Evie Greene\u2019s story of the Flash is just one of many. All over the world, those connected in some way to the lethal Arcana game\u2014like Death, Jack, and Fortune\u2014must first survive a horrifying night of blood and screams. We all fall down.Some will have to grapple with new powers; all will be damned to a hellish new existence of plague, brutality, desolation, and cannibalism. Find out who they lost, why they endure, and what they sacrificed in order to live past Day Zero. . . . ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24419968-day-zero"}, +{"book_title": "Railsea", "author_name": "China Mi\u00e9ville", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 11699, "review_number": 1580, "book_description": "On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one\u2019s death and the other\u2019s glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea\u2013even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-coloured mole she\u2019s been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it's a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict\u2014a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible\u2014leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea. From China Mi\u00e9ville comes a novel for readers of all ages, a gripping and brilliantly imagined take on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick that confirms his status as \"the most original and talented voice to appear in several years.\" (Science Fiction Chronicle)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12392681-railsea"}, +{"book_title": "The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 410, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space--and on the frontiers of the human mind.Science fiction's finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios few have ever dared to contemplate, and they include: \u00b8\u00a0\u00a0\"Superiority\": Arthur C. Clarke presents an intergalactic war in which one side's own advanced weaponry may actually lead to its ultimate defeat. \u00b8\u00a0\u00a0\"Dragonrider\": A tale of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern, in which magic tips the scales of survival. \u00b8\u00a0\u00a0\"Second Variety\": Philip K. Dick, author of the short story that became the movie Blade Runner, reaches new heights of terror with his post apocalyptic vision of the future. \u00b8\u00a0\u00a0\"The Night of the Vampyres\": A chilling ultimatum of atomic proportions begins a countdown to disaster in George R. R. Martin's gripping drama. \u00b8\u00a0\u00a0\"Hero\": Joe Haldeman's short story that led to his classic of interstellar combat, The Forever War. \u00b8\u00a0\u00a0\"Ender's Game\": The short story that gave birth to Orson Scott Card's masterpiece of military science fiction.. . . as well as stories from Poul Anderson o Gregory Benford o C. J. Cherryh o David Drake o Cordwainer Smith o Harry Turtledove o and Walter John WilliamsGuaranteed to spark the imagination and thrill the soul, these thirteen science fiction gems cast a stark light on our dreams and our darkest fears--truly among the finest tales of the 20th century.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101640.The_Best_Military_Science_Fiction_of_the_20th_Century"}, +{"book_title": "The Legendary Master\u2019s Wife", "author_name": "\u5c39\u740a", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 253, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "After an explosion, You XiaoMo finds that he is now a probationary disciple of the TianXin sect. However, he is one with dubious potential, so just when he starts to adapt to his new circumstances, he receives a piece of bad news. If he is unable to produce the required result after half a year to become an official disciple of the TianXin sect, he would be driven out of the sect.While You XiaoMo is going all out to make medicines and earn money, he runs into Ling Xiao. To his horror, he later discovers that Ling Xiao is really someone cloaked in human skin.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Yaoi (Boys Love)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "LGBT", "Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Novels", "Cultural (China)", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41823315-the-legendary-master-s-wife"}, +{"book_title": "Control", "author_name": "Lydia Kang", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 4429, "review_number": 611, "book_description": "When a crash kills their father and leaves them orphaned, Zel knows she needs to protect her sister, Dyl. But before Zel has a plan, Dyl is taken by strangers using bizarre sensory weapons, and Zel finds herself in a safe house for teens who aren\u2019t like any she\u2019s ever seen before\u2014teens who shouldn\u2019t even exist. Using broken-down technology, her new friends\u2019 peculiar gifts, and her own grit, Zel must find a way to get her sister back from the kidnappers who think a powerful secret is encoded in Dyl\u2019s DNA. Set in 2150\u2014in a world of automatic cars, nightclubs with auditory ecstasy drugs, and guys with four arms\u2014this is about the human genetic \u201cmistakes\u201d that society wants to forget, and the way that outcasts can turn out to be heroes.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Futuristic", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718816-control"}, +{"book_title": "Stations of the Tide", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2336, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "When a strange magician and renegade scientist steals the secrets that could save a distant planet from being annihilated by its own oceans' tides, a man is sent to Miranda to retrieve those secrets before it is too late. Winner of the Nebula Award. Reprint.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243859.Stations_of_the_Tide"}, +{"book_title": "A Great and Terrible Beauty", "author_name": "Libba Bray", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 215539, "review_number": 9955, "book_description": "In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls\u2014and their foray into the spiritual world\u2014lead to?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3682.A_Great_and_Terrible_Beauty"}, +{"book_title": "The Degan Incident", "author_name": "Rob Colton", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1949, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Lonely spaceport worker Devin McSmith meets Bastian Drago, an exotic and beastly alien from the planet Dega, and begins an adventure that takes him to the stars and beyond.While working at Earth's Spaceport Prime, Devin McSmith meets Bastian Drago, an exotic and beastly alien from the planet Dega.Devin and Bastian get to know each other and their relationship quickly heats up. Just as they begin to fall in love, Bastian disappears without a trace.When Devin's encounter with Bastian triggers a startling change in his body, he is taken captive and held in a top-secret research facility.Will Bastian find Devin before it's too late?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18306804-the-degan-incident"}, +{"book_title": "Conquerors' Legacy", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1989, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "While humans and alien Zhirrzh prepare for galactic war, a handful of individuals from both sides learn that the reason was all a misunderstanding. Both were mistaken. To avoid extinction for both their races, this band becomes the focus of a subtle dangerous force that intends overall destruction.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Novels", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192522.Conquerors_Legacy"}, +{"book_title": "The Disunited States of America", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 661, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Time travel doesn't work. You can't go backward or forward; you're stuck at \"now\". What you can do is travel sideways, to the same \"now\" in another timeline where history turned out differently.So far, only our home timeline has figured out how to do that. We use Crosstime Traffic to conduct discreet trading operations in less advanced timelines, selling goods just a little bit better than the locals can make. It's profitable, but families who work as Time Traders have to be careful to fit in, lest the locals become suspicious. Justin's family are Time Traders. The summer before he's due to start college, he goes with them to a different Virginia, in a timeline where the American states never became a single country, and American history has consisted of a series of small wars. Despite his unease, he accompanies Randolph Brooks, another Time Trader, on a visit to the tiny upland town of Elizabeth, Virginia. He'll only be away from his parents for a few days. Beckie Royer thanks her stars that she's from California, the most prosperous and advanced country in North America. But just now she's in Virginia with her grandmother, who wants to revisit the tiny mountain town where she grew up. The only interesting thing there is a boy named Justin--and he'll be gone soon. Then war between Virginia and Ohio breaks out anew. Ohio sets a tailored virus loose on Virginia. Virginia swiftly imposes a quarantine, trapping Becky and Justin and Randolph Brooks in Elizabeth. Even Crosstime Traffic can't help. All the three of them can do is watch as plague and violence take over the town. It's nothing new in history, not in this timeline or any other. It's part of the human condition. And just now, this part of the human condition sucks.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "American History"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101517.The_Disunited_States_of_America"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Storm", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 6273, "review_number": 471, "book_description": "Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker---a Great-War vintage \"four-stacker\" destroyer---finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover---and emerges somewhere else.Familiar landmarks appear, but the water teems with monstrous, vicious fish. And there appear to be dinosaurs grazing on the plains of Bali. Gradually Matt and his crew must accept the fact that they are in an alternate world---and they are not alone. Humans have not evolved, but two other species have. And they are at war.With its steam power and weaponry, the Walker's very existence could alter the balance of power. And for Matt and his crew, who have the means to turn a primitive war into a genocidal Armageddon, one thing becomes clear: They must decide whose side they're on. Because whoever they choose to side with is the winner.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "War", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2414716.Into_the_Storm"}, +{"book_title": "Genesis", "author_name": "Ken Lozito", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 4678, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "A mission gone wrong. Innocent lives have been lost. Escaping wrongful imprisonment wasn\u2019t something Connor had in mind, but being put into stasis aboard Earth\u2019s first interstellar colony ship was something he couldn\u2019t have prepared for. For three hundred thousand colonists, the new colony brings the promise of a fresh start\u2026a second chance. Connor might be the wrong man for the colony, but he\u2019s the right man to see that it survives what\u2019s coming. A new world with new challenges, but the mission has changed. If you loved Old Man\u2019s War and Ender\u2019s Game, you\u2019ll love Genesis - First Colony , a new military science fiction series. Take advantage of the special discount price for a limited time!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36284236-genesis"}, +{"book_title": "A Murder in Time", "author_name": "Julie McElwain", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 14798, "review_number": 1984, "book_description": "Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates.While fleeing from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into a stairwell that promises sanctuary but when she stumbles out again, she is in the same place - Aldrich Castle - but in a different time: 1815, to be exact.Mistaken for a lady's maid hired to help with weekend guests, Kendra is forced to quickly adapt to the time period until she can figure out how she got there; and, more importantly, how to get back home. However, after the body of a girl is found on the extensive grounds of the county estate, she starts to feel there's some purpose to her bizarre circumstances. Stripped of her twenty-first century tools, Kendra must use her wits alone in order to unmask a cunning madman.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25790952-a-murder-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Heir", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 223074, "review_number": 18381, "book_description": "Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon - and they lived happily ever after. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. If it were up to her, she'd put off marriage for as long as possible.But a princess's life is never entirely her own, and Eadlyn can't escape her very own Selection\u2014no matter how fervently she protests.Eadlyn doesn't expect her story to end in romance. But as the competition begins, one entry may just capture Eadlyn's heart, showing her all the possibilities that lie in front of her . . . and proving that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22918050-the-heir"}, +{"book_title": "Fox at the Front", "author_name": "Douglas Niles", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "The Third Reich has been routed...But the war is far from over. A new adversary is poised to attack on the eastern front.Former opponents George S. Patton and Erwin Rommel must join forces to neutralize the remnants of SS forces bent on carrying out the Reich's \"Final Solution\" in Eastern Europe. They are unaware of an intended Soviet land grab that could lead to the Stalinist occupation of postwar Europe and an ongoing Cold War that might destroy any chance for a lasting peace in our time. ", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1092943.Fox_at_the_Front"}, +{"book_title": "Clean & Sober Living", "author_name": "Cryoclaire", "rating_score": 4.63, "rating_votes": 24, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "The year is 1995, and everything's gone wrong - especially for Dan, pissy misanthrope and recovering VR junkie, who's got a vicious worm in his headware and a dead-end delivery job on the wrong side of the old Iron Curtain. Drugs & Wires: cyberpunk misadventures in the future that never was.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29056850-clean-sober-living"}, +{"book_title": "Ice Ice Babies", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2809, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "It's hard being a new mom on a barren, wintry planet. How about a mom...times two? Nora has to find a way to juggle babies, her mate, and friendships while catching the occasional nap. Can she get her groove back? This is one of the Slice of Life Short Stories set in the ICE PLANET BARBARIANS series and does not stand alone. It should be read after BARBARIAN'S MATE. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30179069-ice-ice-babies"}, +{"book_title": "Survival", "author_name": "A.M. Hargrove", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1700, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for B00685NFI0 \"Maybe I was caught between the two worlds. I was having serious trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality.\"While on a backpacking trip in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, nineteen-year-old Maddie Pearce finds her world has been thrown into a vortex and is madly spinning toward the impossible. Abducted by a mad psychopath, Maddie narrowly escapes with her life. But that is only the beginning. Her mysterious rescuer introduces her to a world that Maddie has difficulty accepting as reality. Will this strikingly gorgeous stranger be the key to her future or will she return to her mundane world, scarred from her experience? Follow Maddie as she is forced to make difficult decisions that carry her to mysterious places.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13077293-survival"}, +{"book_title": "Pointblank", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 256, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "A BOLD NEW CONTINGENT\u2013FORCE RECON\u2013JOINS THE EXPLOSIVE STARFIST SPACE EPIC OF MARINES AT WAR.A Confederation army is besieged on the planet Ravenette, cut off by and facing destruction at the hands of a dozen Secessionist Coalition worlds arrayed against it. The outnumbered and outgunned forces cling precariously to their foothold, dubbed \u201cBataan\u201d by the desperate men in their fighting bunkers. Reinforcements are on the way, but will they arrive in time? And even if they do, can they match the well-led, highly motivated enemy determined to destroy them in battle?But the Confederation commander holds a wild card, an elite force armed only with what they carry on their backs and in their heads: a small detachment of Marines who lightly go where others fear to tread, the Fourth Force Recon Company. For anyone else this mission would be suicide, but for these Marines, it\u2019s just another day in the maelstrom.From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36465.Pointblank"}, +{"book_title": "Sleeping With the Wolf", "author_name": "Maddy Barone", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 1572, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "Carla is an up and coming country music star when she boards a plane for Denver in the year 2014. After the plane crashes in the year 2064 she learns that nuclear war destroyed technology and unleashed a plague that devastated the female population. Even now, decades after the plague has dwindled to isolated outbreaks, women are precious commodities to be fought for, and Carla finds herself offered as the prize in a Bride Fight. Alpha wolf Taye knows Carla is his mate. Losing her is unacceptable. He wins the Bride Fight. But can he win her heart?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12376744-sleeping-with-the-wolf"}, +{"book_title": "Waste Tide", "author_name": "Chen Qiufan", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 1269, "review_number": 250, "book_description": "Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle.Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they\u2019ve created for their employers, the three clans who have ruled the isle for generations.Luo Jincheng is the head of one of these clans, a role passed down from his father and grandfather before him. As the government enforces tighter restrictions, Luo in turn tightens the reins on the waste workers in his employ. Ruthlessness is his means of survival.Scott Brandle has come to Silicon Isle representing TerraGreen Recycling, an American corporation that stands to earn ungodly sums if they can reach a deal to modernize the island\u2019s recycling process.Chen Kaizong, a Chinese American, travels to Silicon Isle as Scott\u2019s interpreter. There, Kaizong is hoping to find his heritage, but finds more questions instead. The home he longs for may not exist.As these forces collide, a dark futuristic virus is unleashed on the island, and war erupts between the rich and the poor; between Chinese tradition and American ambition; between humanity\u2019s past and its future.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (China)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Cultural", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863294-waste-tide"}, +{"book_title": "Terminal Uprising", "author_name": "Jim C. Hines", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1059, "review_number": 173, "book_description": "It\u2019s been four months since Marion \u201cMops\u201d Adamopoulos learned the truth. Four months since she and her team of hygiene and sanitation specialists stole the EMCS Pufferfish and stopped a bioterrorism attack against the Krakau homeworld. Four months since she set out to find proof of what really happened on Earth all those years ago.Between trying to protect their secrets and fighting the xenocidal Prodryans, who\u2019ve been escalating their war against everyone who isn\u2019t Prodryan, the Krakau have their tentacles full.Mops\u2019 mission changes when she learns of a secret Krakau laboratory on Earth. A small group under command of Fleet Admiral Belle-Bonne Sage is working to create a new weapon, one that could bring victory over the Prodryans \u2026 or drown the galaxy in chaos.To discover the truth, Mops and her rogue cleaning crew will have to do the one thing she fears most: return to Earth, a world overrun by feral apes, wild dogs, savage humans, and worse. (After all, the planet hasn\u2019t been cleaned in a century and a half!) What Mops finds in the filthy ruins of humanity could change everything, assuming she survives long enough to share it.Perhaps humanity isn\u2019t as dead as the galaxy thought.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36889844-terminal-uprising"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus", "author_name": "P.C. Martin", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 342, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "In an alternative Steampunk universe (c.1885), the plans for Captain Nemo's mysterious Nautilus submarine have been stolen from the British Secret Service. There is only one man who can solve the case, Sherlock Holmes. With his bionic side-kick Doctor Watson, and his brilliant and lethal sister, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock unravels a mystery that will shake the foundation of the British Empire.Adapted by P.C. Martin from the short story, 'The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (c.1912), 'Steampunk Holmes' is a convergence of one of Doyle's favorite Sherlock Holmes stories with Jules Vern 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' (c.1870)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Short Stories", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13564369-steampunk-holmes"}, +{"book_title": "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 12222, "review_number": 1241, "book_description": "On The Skids In The Transhuman FutureJules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of \"ad-hocs\" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.Now, though, the \"ad hocs\" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war....", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29587.Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadowrun 34: Terminus Experiment", "author_name": "Jonathan E. Bond", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 193, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "In the year 2060, violence rules the streets of Seattle and a conspiracy is hatched to spread a plague of vampirism. When Rachel Meyer's boyfriend Warren Storey is abducted by these conspirators, she hires shadowrunners to find Warren and bring him back. But the runners uncover a plot by Dr. Oslo Wake to transform all metahumans into walking dead. For Dr. Wake is developing a new strain of the virus that causes vampirism -- a strain that will bring the nightmare of vampirism into the light of day. But the strain is far from perfected. Now, Warren has become a test subject in a medical procedure to create these unstoppable creatures. It is up to Rachel and her vampire hunter friends to rescue him before it's too late!", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131279.The_Shadowrun_34"}, +{"book_title": "The Soul", "author_name": "Stephenie Meyer", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1061, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Stephenie Meyer confirmed that there will be two Host sequels!", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138594-the-soul"}, +{"book_title": "Captive", "author_name": "Aimee Carter", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 4580, "review_number": 589, "book_description": "For the past two months, Kitty Doe's life has been a lie. Forced to impersonate the Prime Minister's niece, her frustration grows as her trust in her fake fianc\u00e9 cracks, her real boyfriend is forbidden and the Blackcoats keep her in the dark more than ever. But in the midst of discovering that her role in the Hart family may not be as coincidental as she thought, she's accused of treason and is forced to face her greatest fear: Elsewhere. A prison where no one can escape. As one shocking revelation leads to the next, Kitty learns the hard way that she can trust no one, not even the people she thought were on her side. With her back against the wall, Kitty wants to believe she'll do whatever it takes to support the rebellion she believes in\u2014but is she prepared to pay the ultimate price?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Harlequin (Harlequin Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10944842-captive"}, +{"book_title": "Counting Heads", "author_name": "David Marusek", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1182, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries. Loyal mentars (artificial intelligence) and robots do most of society's work. The Boutique Economy has made redundant ninety-nine percent of the world's fifteen billion human inhabitants. The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away. Eleanor K. Starke, one of the world's leading citizens is assassinated, and her daughter, Ellen, is mortally wounded. Only Ellen, the heir to her mother's financial empire, is capable of saving Earth from complete domination plotted by the cynical, selfish, immortal rich, if she, herself, survives. Her cryonically frozen head is in the hands of her family's enemies. A ragtag ensemble of unlikely heroes join forces to rescue Ellen's head, all for their own purposes. Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future. It's the debut of the year in SF.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Singularity", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/499429.Counting_Heads"}, +{"book_title": "Defy or Defend", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1321, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "A vampire hive descending into madness. A beautiful spy with a sparkly plan. The bodyguard who must keep them from killing each other.New York Times bestselling romantic comedy author Gail Carriger brings you a charming story of love, espionage, and Gothic makeovers set in her popular Parasolverse.SPYDimity Plumleigh-Teignmott, code name Honey Bee, is the War Office's best and most decorative fixer. She's sweet and chipper, but oddly stealthy, and surprisingly effective given the right incentives.VERSUS KNIGHTSir Crispin Bontwee was knighted for his military service, but instead of retiring, he secretly went to work for the War Office. Mostly he enjoys his job, except when he must safeguard the Honey Bee.Neither one is a vampire expert, but when the Nottingham Hive goes badly Goth, only Dimity can stop their darkness from turning bloody. And only Crispin can stop an enthusiastic Dimity from death by vampire.In a battle for survival (and wallpaper), Dimity must learn that not all that sparkles is good, while Cris discovers he likes honey a lot more than he thought.\"This intoxicatingly witty parody will appeal to a wide cross-section of romance, fantasy and steampunk fans.\" ~ Publishers Weekly, starred review (Soulless)Spinning off from the Finishing School series, featuring deadly ladies of quality, this story stands alone, but chronologically follows Poison or Protect before the start of the Parasol Protectorate Series. It's Cold Comfort Farm meets Queer Eye meets What We Do In The Shadows from the hilarious author of the Parasol Protectorate books, perfect for fans of Julia Quinn, Jodi Taylor, or Meljean Brook.Delicate Sensibilities?Contains fraternizing vampires and one very curious young lady, who asks about seduction, sometimes in detail but mostly in retrospect. May also involve excessive use of velvet, melodramatic poetry, and the strategic application of interpretive ballet.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51969905-defy-or-defend"}, +{"book_title": "Hella", "author_name": "David Gerrold", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 424, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "A master of science fiction introduces a world where everything is large and the problems of survival even larger in this exciting new novel.Hella is a planet where everything is oversized\u2014especially the ambitions of the colonists.The trees are mile-high, the dinosaur herds are huge, and the weather is extreme\u2014so extreme, the colonists have to migrate twice a year to escape the blistering heat of summer and the atmosphere-freezing cold of winter.Kyle is a neuro-atypical young man, emotionally challenged, but with an implant that gives him real-time access to the colony\u2019s computer network, making him a very misunderstood savant. When an overburdened starship arrives, he becomes the link between the established colonists and the refugees from a ravaged Earth.The Hella colony is barely self-sufficient. Can it stand the strain of a thousand new arrivals, bringing with them the same kinds of problems they thought they were fleeing?Despite the dangers to himself and his family, Kyle is in the middle of everything\u2014in possession of the most dangerous secret of all. Will he be caught in a growing political conspiracy? Will his reawakened emotions overwhelm his rationality? Or will he be able to use his unique ability to prevent disaster?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48499839-hella"}, +{"book_title": "A New Hope", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 14677, "review_number": 570, "book_description": "\nLuke Skywalker challenged the stormtroopers of a distant galaxy on a daring mission - where a force of life became the power of death!\nLuke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine ... and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures out among the stars\u2014adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies to distant and alien worlds.But Luke got more than he bargained for when he intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful princess held captive by a dark and powerful warlord. Luke didn't know who she was, but he knew he had to save her\u2014and soon, because time was running out.Armed only with courage and with the light saber that had been his father's, Luke was catapulted into the middle of the most savage space war ever ... and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the enemy battle station known as the Death Star!", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599090.A_New_Hope"}, +{"book_title": "Black Heart", "author_name": "Holly Black", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 15984, "review_number": 1654, "book_description": "In a world where Magic is illegal.Cassel Sharpe has the most deadly ability of all. With one touch, he can transform any object - including a person - into something else entirely. And that makes him a wanted man. The Feds are willing to forgive all his past crimes if he'll only leave his con artist family behind and go straight. But why does going straight feel so crooked?For one thing, it means being on the opposite side of the law from Lila, the girl he loves. She's the daughter of a mob boss and getting ready to join the family business herself. Though Cassel is pretty sure she can never love him back, he can't stop obsessing over her. Which would be bad enough, even if her father wasn't keeping Cassel's mother prisoner in a posh apartment and threatening not to let her leave until she returns the priceless diamond she scammed off him years ago. Too bad she can't remember where she put it.The Feds say they need Cassel to get rid of a powerful man who is spinning dangerously out of control. But if they want Cassel to use his unique talent to hurt people, what separates the good guys from the bad ones? Or is everyone just out to con him?Time is running out, and all Cassel's magic and cleverness might not be enough to save him. With no easy answers and no one he can trust, love might be the most dangerous gamble of all.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8884616-black-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Cowboy Angels", "author_name": "Paul McAuley", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 477, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "America, 1984 - not our version of America, but an America that calls itself the Real. For ten years, in the name of democracy, the Real has been waging clandestine wars and fomenting revolution. But the human and political costs have proven too high, and new President Jimmy Carter has called an end to war.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1375148.Cowboy_Angels"}, +{"book_title": "Afterlight", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1031, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation and disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living. Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world. But as her and her people start to explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6773434-afterlight"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The Saxon Uprising", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1412, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces. But Mike Stearns has another problem. He was Prime Minister of the USE until he lost an election, and now he\u2019s one of Gustavus\u2019s generals; and he has demonstrated that he\u2019s very good at being a general. And he\u2019s about to really need all his military aptitude. Gretchen , who never saw a revolution she didn\u2019t like, has been arrested in Saxony, and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly there\u2019s rioting in the streets. Saxony\u2019s ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising by the time-honored \u201ckill them all and let God sort them out\u201d method, which only adds fuel to the fire. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake.He didn\u2019t tell Mike to take his troops along on the mission. But he didn\u2019t tell him not to, either . . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "War", "Literature (17th Century)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8721228-1636"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 30650, "review_number": 1324, "book_description": "An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months, society has crumbled: there is no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally begin living. This volume follows our band of survivors as they set up a permanent camp inside a prison. Relationships change, characters die, and our team of survivors learn there's something far more deadly than zombies out there: each other.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30069.The_Walking_Dead_Vol_3"}, +{"book_title": "Divine By Mistake", "author_name": "P.C. Cast", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 11435, "review_number": 791, "book_description": "The most excitement teacher Shannon Parker expected on her summer vacation was a little shopping. But then her latest purchase--a vase with the Celtic goddess Epona on it--somehow switches her into the world of Partholon, where she's treated like a goddess. A very temperamental goddess... It seems that Shannon has stepped into another's role as the Goddess Incarnate of Epona. And while it has some very appealing moments--what woman doesn't like a little pampering now and then?--it also comes with a ritual marriage to a centaur and the threat of war against the evil Fomorians. Oh, and everyone disliking her because they think she's her double.Somehow Shannon needs to figure out how to get back to Oklahoma without being killed, married to a horse or losing her mind... .", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Young Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30187.Divine_By_Mistake"}, +{"book_title": "Hogfather", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 81283, "review_number": 2614, "book_description": "Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expectation that a dentally inclined fairy would turn up. It wasn't that her parents didn't believe in such things. They didn't need to believe in them. They know they existed. They just wished they didn't.There are those who believe and those who don't. Through the ages, superstition has had its uses. Nowhere more so than in the Discworld where it's helped to maintain the status quo. Anything that undermines superstition has to be viewed with some caution. There may be consequences, particularly on the last night of the year when the time is turning. When those consequences turn out to be the end of the world, you need to be prepared. You might even want more standing between you and oblivion than a mere slip of a girl - even if she has looked Death in the face on numerous occasions...", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34532.Hogfather"}, +{"book_title": "Adventure Time Vol. 3", "author_name": "Ryan North", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 2737, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "The all-ages smash hit of the year is back with more mathematical adventures in the Land of Ooo!What Time Is It? Adventure Time! Join Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, and Princess Bubblegum for all-new adventures in The Land of Ooo. The top-rated Cartoon Network show now has its own comic book! Experience the algebraic adventures with your favorite characters like Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, Ice King, Peppermint Butler, and so many more. Not only does this graphic novel collect the out-of-control, adventure-packed third story arc, it also includes the unforgettable \u201cChoose Your Own Adventure\u201d story. The biggest hit in the comic book industry in 2012, ADVENTURE TIME has received unmatched critical acclaim and commercial success in all-ages comics!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Humor", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16074606-adventure-time-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Resurrecting Home", "author_name": "A. American", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 2238, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Against all odds, Morgan Carter and his family have endured despite the deteriorating conditions surrounding them. Armed with survivalist tactics, Morgan's crew, alongside their new friends from the recently-liberated DHS camp, have worked together to build a sustainable communuity. But not all situations can be prepared for. When a massive wildfire threatens their very existence, they must decide: fight or flight?From the author of the hit Survivalist Series books, Resurrecting Home is an action-packed adventure that depicts the harrowing possibilities of a world gone awry, and the courage it takes to protect what matters most.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22928837-resurrecting-home"}, +{"book_title": "Interview with the Robot", "author_name": "Lee Bacon", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 3826, "review_number": 603, "book_description": "Listening Length: 3 hours and 42 minutesFugitive. Criminal. Robot.Eve looks like an ordinary 12-year-old girl, but there\u2019s nothing ordinary about her. She has no last name. No parents or guardian. She\u2019s on the run from a dangerous and secretive organization that will stop at nothing to track her down. And most astonishing of all: She\u2019s a robot, a product of Eden Labratories. When she discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she\u2019s ever known. After being arrested for shoplifting, Eve is interviewed by Petra Amis from Child Welfare Services. Her incredible story unfolds during the interrogation, with flashbacks to her life inside Eden Laboratories, which has a dark secret. Exploring a range of topics that drive our society and our lives - topics such as artificial intelligence and human nature - Interview with the Robot is a story told by a startlingly original protagonist, a story that explores the vast potential of technology and the deep complexities of humanity.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novella", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50031773-interview-with-the-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Lockdown", "author_name": "Alexander Gordon Smith", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 18223, "review_number": 2344, "book_description": "\nFurnace Penitentiary: the world\u2019s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth\u2019s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn\u2019t commit, sentenced to life without parole, \u201cnew fish\u201d Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison. Together with a bunch of inmates\u2014some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers\u2014Alex plans an escape. But as he starts to uncover the truth about Furnace\u2019s deeper, darker purpose, Alex\u2019s actions grow ever more dangerous, and he must risk everything to expose this nightmare that\u2019s hidden from the eyes of the world.\n", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6420846-lockdown"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Man", "author_name": "William Jablonsky", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 360, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Ernst, the first man made of clockwork, is hailed as a marvel of late 19th-century automation and gains endless admirers, but when his love for the daughter of his creator is abruptly cut short, his serene existence is shattered.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7819820-the-clockwork-man"}, +{"book_title": "Arclight", "author_name": "Josin L. McQuein", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 4194, "review_number": 544, "book_description": "No one crosses the wall of light . . . except for one girl who doesn\u2019t remember who she is, where she came from, or how she survived. A harrowing, powerful debut thriller about finding yourself and protecting your future\u2014no matter how short and uncertain it may be. The Arclight is the last defense. The Fade can\u2019t get in. Outside the Arclight\u2019s border of high-powered beams is the Dark. And between the Light and the Dark is the Grey, a narrow, barren no-man\u2019s-land. That\u2019s where the rescue team finds Marina, a lone teenage girl with no memory of the horrors she faced or the family she lost. Marina is the only person who has ever survived an encounter with the Fade. She\u2019s the first hope humanity has had in generations, but she could also be the catalyst for their final destruction. Because the Fade will stop at nothing to get her back. Marina knows it. Tobin, who\u2019s determined to take his revenge on the Fade, knows it. Anne-Marie, who just wishes it were all over, knows it.When one of the Fade infiltrates the Arclight and Marina recognizes it, she will begin to unlock secrets she didn\u2019t even know she had. Who will Marina become? Who can she never be again?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12138494-arclight"}, +{"book_title": "Robots Slither", "author_name": "Ryan Ann Hunter", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 37, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "It's incredible how many things robots can do. They work in factories, explore the sea, help around the house and roam around the stars. Robots dive, rescue, drill, shake your hand, talk and even smile! With vibrant illustrations and a simple, rhythmic text perfect for the very youngest, Robots Slither also features informative sidebars that will entertain and enlighten readers of all ages.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Nonfiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872214.Robots_Slither"}, +{"book_title": "Froi of the Exiles", "author_name": "Melina Marchetta", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 16559, "review_number": 1951, "book_description": "\nBlood sings to blood, Froi . . . Those born last will make the first . . . For Charyn will be barren no more.\nThree years after the curse on Lumatere was lifted, Froi has found his home... Or so he believes...Fiercely loyal to the Queen and Finnikin, Froi has been trained roughly and lovingly by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family, and has learned to control his quick temper. But when he is sent on a secretive mission to the kingdom of Charyn, nothing could have prepared him for what he finds. Here he encounters a damaged people who are not who they seem, and must unravel both the dark bonds of kinship and the mysteries of a half-mad Princess.And in this barren and mysterious place, he will discover that there is a song sleeping in his blood, and though Froi would rather not, the time has come to listen.Gripping and intense, complex and richly imagined, Froi of the Exiles is a dazzling sequel to Finnikin of the Rock, from the internationally best-selling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, On the Jellicoe Road and The Piper's Son.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10165727-froi-of-the-exiles"}, +{"book_title": "The Wild Adventure of Jasper Renn", "author_name": "Kady Cross", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1019, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "In this companion novella to The Girl with the Iron Touch, American cowboy Jasper Renn finds himself in a situation his lightning-fast skills cannot rescue him from\u2026After surviving a triumph-turned-tragedy in New York City, Jasper is determined to secure a happier future with his gifted band of friends. So when the group's mechanical genius Emily is abducted, he'll plunge into England's darkest places to rescue her\u2026.But his old flame Wildcat is turning London town upside down to find her missing sister, and Jasper finds the attraction between himself and the fierce beauty as tempting and dangerous as ever. Their trail leads deep into the city's most unusual circus. Soon, Jasper will find his loyalties\u2014and future\u2014tested more than he could ever imagine\u2026.And don't miss Jasper's continuing exploits in The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross, available now from Harlequin TEEN.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novella", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18074035-the-wild-adventure-of-jasper-renn"}, +{"book_title": "Touch of Frost", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1582, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Lacey Adams lives in the small town of Magic, New Mexico, where she devotes herself to the animals at her Touch of Magic Animal Shelter. The strange assortment of animals helps heal the pain and loneliness inside her since the death of her husband three years before. Frost is a Star Ranger. He travels the star systems, bringing intergalactic fugitives to justice. When a maximum-security fugitive escapes from the mining prison, he is sent after him. Only this time, the fugitive has violated a major law\u2026 he has traveled to a distant forbidden planet inhabited by a race that has not mastered space travel yet. Now, he is in a race to find the fugitive before those on the planet known as Earth discover there are not one, but two aliens on their world. Things become complicated when Frost discovers his heart is not as frozen as he thought when a young human female is taken hostage by the fugitive. What he doesn\u2019t anticipate is her unexpected resistance \u2013 both to the fugitive and to him. Frost is forced to make a decision that is guaranteed to put him on the most wanted list when he follows his heart and kidnaps Lacey. He knows that some things are worth the risk. What he doesn\u2019t know is that Lacey has a few secrets of her own. * First published in the anthology, Feel the Heat.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22887574-touch-of-frost"}, +{"book_title": "Steadfast", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 6139, "review_number": 251, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell\u2019s action-packed Lost Fleet series has propelled readers from deep space to the very edge of their seats. Now Admiral John \u201cBlack Jack\u201d Geary embarks on a thrilling new adventure to defend the Alliance and safeguard the future.\u00a0Geary and the crew of the Dauntless have managed to safely escort important alien representatives to Earth. But before they can make tracks for home, two of Geary\u2019s key lieutenants vanish. The search for his missing men leads Geary on a far-flung chase, ultimately ending at the one spot in space from which all humans have been banned: the moon Europa. Any ship that lands there must stay or be destroyed\u2014leaving Geary to face the most profound moral dilemma of his life.\u00a0To make matters worse, strains on the Alliance are growing as the Syndics continue to meddle. Geary is ordered to take a small force to the border of Syndic space. But what he finds there is a danger much greater than anyone expected: a mysterious threat that could finally force the Alliance to its knees.\u00a0As Geary spearheads a desperate battle to protect the Alliance against a shrewd and powerful enemy, he\u2019s left with just one question: Who are they?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667767-steadfast"}, +{"book_title": "A Perfect Storm", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 1721, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "The brand new short story in the bestselling series, The Chronicles of St Mary\u2019s. You don\u2019t have to travel through time to experience catastrophe on an epic scale, as the disaster-magnets from St Mary\u2019s are about to find out\u2026 For Max, what starts off as a perfectly normal week is about to degenerate into a quagmire of egotistical film producers, monumental pub crawls, unsigned contracts, exploding rocks, Professor Rapson and his megaphone, the world\u2019s biggest bacon butty \u2013 and Angus \u2013 the third component of the most notorious love triangle since Menelaus, Paris and Whatshername \u2013 the one with the face they launched ships off. A Perfect Storm of calamity, devastation and misfortune only ever encountered at St Mary\u2019s.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35396002-a-perfect-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Invisible Things", "author_name": "Jenny Davidson", "rating_score": 3.01, "rating_votes": 180, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Sophie knows there is more to the story of her parents' death. And she's on a mission to find the truth. To aid her in solving the decades-old mystery, Sophie has enlisted her best friend, Mikael, whose friendship has turned into something more. It's soon clear that Sophie's future is very much wrapped up in the details of her family's past, and the key lies with information only one man can provide: her parents' former employer, the elusive billionaire Alfred Nobel.As the threat of war looms in Europe, dangers to Sophie and her loved ones grow. While her determination to solve the mystery doesn't waver, forces beyond her control conspire to keep her from her purpose. Then, news of her great-aunt Tabitha's death sets off a chain of events that leaves Sophie questioning everything.The more Sophie learns, the more she realizes that nothing\u2014and no one\u2014in her life is what it seems. And coming to terms with the dark secrets she uncovers means imagining a truth that she never dreamed possible. Full of gorgeous settings, thrilling adventure, and romance, invisible things is a novel that dares to ask, what if?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7725008-invisible-things"}, +{"book_title": "The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 6634, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "After saving the world, diGriz is called on to save the universe. Liberating his two, now teenage, twin' sons from a military boarding school and penitentiary, diGriz sets out to free his wife, who has been arrested by the tax men. But the family is soon fighting an enemy of a different sort, when the humans-only galaxy of the League is invaded by all manner of hideous aliens. The Rat, disguised in the most hideous combination of alien physical features, is sent into the centre of the aliens' stronghold, where he finds himself the object of desire among the aliens. His task is to stop the aliens, who plan to wipe out every human in the universe.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286229.The_Stainless_Steel_Rat_Wants_You_"}, +{"book_title": "Yesterday's Gone: Season Two", "author_name": "Sean Platt", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2270, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "THE MIND-BENDING POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIALIZED THRILLER YESTERDAY\u2019S GONE CONTINUES WITH SEASON TWOOn October 15, everyone in the world vanished.Well, almost everyone.Some were left behind, attempting to piece together what happened, find their loved ones, and survive.BUT THEY ARE NOT ALONESEASON TWO picks up where SEASON ONE left off.One man finds himself on a mysterious island that holds secrets, and perhaps even answers, to what happened on October 15.A group finds itself taking refuge at The Sanctuary, a religious compound with an enigmatic leader called The Prophet.A serial killer finds himself leading an unlikely group of survivors.A young man searches to prove himself to his group, and avoid being bullied ever again.A young child is called to perform another miracle at great personal cost.Every decision.Every action.Every dream.Every alliance.Every secret.Every betrayal.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13515508-yesterday-s-gone"}, +{"book_title": "Loving the Highlander", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3556, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "A tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills... When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce stranger. Discovering the identity of this irresistible warrior will complicate Sadie's search for a legendary gold mine. For he is Morgan MacKeage, a medieval highlander in modern-day Maine, a man with the fury of the untamed wilderness pounding in his veins -- and the power to unlock Sadie's fragile heart.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/825822.Loving_the_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Glass Houses", "author_name": "Laura J. Mixon", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "When Ruby, the proprietor of an android business, and Golem, her favorite android, attempt to save a rich Egyptian from a collapsing skyscraper, they instead become deeply involved in an adventure that could take Ruby to the despised Outside. Original.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/327799.Glass_Houses"}, +{"book_title": "The Black Key", "author_name": "Amy Ewing", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 13083, "review_number": 1144, "book_description": "For too long, Violet and the people of the outer circles of the Lone City have lived a life of servitude, controlled and manipulated by the royalty of the Jewel. But now, the secret society known as the Black Key is preparing to seize power and knock down the walls dividing each circle.And while Violet knows she is at the center of this rebellion, she has a more personal stake in it\u2014for her sister, Hazel, has been taken by the Duchess of the Lake. Now, after fighting so hard to escape the Jewel, Violet must do everything in her power to return, to save not only Hazel, but the future of the Lone City.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28512427-the-black-key"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 502, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The first human-alien contact. The last word in galactic warfare. The story you must read\u2013before Transformers rockets to the big screen!A mammoth robotic being, clearly of alien origin, has been found beneath the Arctic ice. Its advanced engineering dwarfs known human technology, and unlocking its secrets will catapult American science eons into the future. In search of the mysterious artifact\u2019s origin, a covert government agency sends the manned craft Ghost 1 on a perilous journey of discovery. When a mishap maroons Ghost 1 in the far reaches of unknown space, the ship\u2019s distress beacon reaches the very alien race Ghost 1\u2019s crew has been seeking: the Autobots. The gigantic mechanized beings are also on a quest: to find the Allspark, a device crucial to the salvation of their home world, Cybertron. But they\u2019re not alone. The Decepticons, the Autobots\u2019 brutal enemies, have their own sinister purposes in seeking the Allspark. As these adversaries are drawn together once more, the stage is set for a death-dealing new battle in which each is driven by a single-minded aim: total annihilation of the enemy.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Action", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126502.Transformers"}, +{"book_title": "Tales from Jabba's Palace", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 6035, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the Hutt might have made a good joke -- if he weren't so dangerous. A cast of soldiers, spies, assassins, scoundrels, bounty hunters, and pleasure seekers have come to his palace, and every visitor to Jabba's grand abode has a story. Some of them may even live to tell it. . . .Featuring original stories by: Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, John Gregory Betancourt, Mark Budz and Marina Fitch, A.C. Crispin, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, George Alec Effinger, Kenneth C. Flint, Esther Friesner, Barbara Hambly, Daryl F. Mallett, J.D. Montgomery, Judy and Gar Reeves-Stevens, Jennifer Roberson, Kathy Tyers, Deborah Wheeler, Dave Wolverton, William F. Wu, Timothy Zahn.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353476.Tales_from_Jabba_s_Palace"}, +{"book_title": "This Shared Dream", "author_name": "Kathleen Ann Goonan", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 88, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Kathleen Ann Goonan introduced Sam Dance and his wife, Bette, and their quest to alter our present reality for the better in her novel In War Times (winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel and ALA\u2019s Best Science Fiction Novel of 2008). Now, in This Shared Dream, she tells the story of the next generation.The three Dance kids, seemingly abandoned by both parents when they were younger, are now adults and are all disturbed by memories of a reality that existed in place of their world. The older girl, Jill, even remembers the disappearance of their mother while preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Goonan has created a new kind of utopian SF novel, in which the changes in history have created a present world that is in many ways superior to our own, while in other worlds people strive to prevent their own erasure by restoring the ills to ours. This Shared Dream is certainly the most provocative SF speculation of the year, and perhaps the decade.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9663883-this-shared-dream"}, +{"book_title": "Extinction Horizon", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 5743, "review_number": 515, "book_description": "THE WORST OF NATURE AND THE WORST OF SCIENCE...WILL BRING THE HUMAN RACE TO THE BRINK...OF EXTINCTIONMaster Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never lost a man. When a top secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark, Team Ghost is called in to face their deadliest enemy yet--a variant strain of Ebola that turns men into monsters.After barely escaping with his life, Beckham returns to Fort Bragg in the midst of a new type of war. The virus is already spreading... As cities fall, Team Ghost is ordered to keep CDC virologist Dr. Kate Lovato alive long enough to find a cure. What she uncovers will change everything.Total extinction is just on the horizon, but will the cure be worse than the virus?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24156733-extinction-horizon"}, +{"book_title": "Luminous Chaos", "author_name": "Jean-Christophe Valtat", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 106, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Book two in The Mysteries of New Venice, the steampunk adventure series The Guardian called a \"magnificent achievement\" It's 1907 in the icily beautiful New Venice, and the hero of the city's liberation, Brentford Orsini, has been deposed by his arch-rival -- who immediately assigns Brentford and his friends on a dangerous diplomatic mission to Paris.So, Brentford recruits his old friend and louche counterpart, Gabriel d'Allier, underground chanteuse and suffragette Lillian Lake, and the mysterious Blankbate--former Foreign Legionnaire and leader of the Scavengers, the city's garbage collecting cult--and others, for the mission.But their mode of transportation--the untested \"transaerian psychomotive\"--proves faulty and they find themselves transported back in time to Paris 1895 ... before New Venice even existed. What's more, it's a Paris experiencing an unprecedented and crushingly harsh winter.They soon find themselves involved with some of the city's seediest, most fascinating inhabitants. But between attending soirees at Mallarm\u00e9's house, drinking absinthe with Proust, trying to wrestle secrets out of mesmerists, and making fun of the newly-constructed Eiffel Tower, they also find that Paris is a city full of intrigue, suspicion, and danger.For example, are the anarchists they encounter who are plotting to bomb the still-under construction Sacre Coeur church also the future founders of New Venice? And why are they trying to kill them?And, as Luminous Chaos turns into another lush adventure told in glorious prose rich in historical allusion, there's the biggest question of them all: How will they ever get home?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13406754-luminous-chaos"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Day", "author_name": "Bobby Adair", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 4559, "review_number": 398, "book_description": "Book 1 - Slow Burn: Zero DayBook 2 - Slow Burn: InfectedA new flu strain has been spreading across Africa, Europe, and Asia. Disturbing news footage is flooding the cable news channels. People are worried. People are frightened. But Zed Zane is oblivious. Zed needs to borrow rent money from his parents. He gets up Sunday morning, drinks enough tequila to stifle his pride and heads to his mom\u2019s house for a lunch of begging, again.But something is wrong. There's blood in the foyer. His mother's corpse is on the living room floor. Zed's stepdad, Dan is wild with crazy-eyed violence and attacks Zed when he comes into the house. They struggle into the kitchen. Dan's yellow teeth tear at Zed's arm but Zed grabs a knife and stabs Dan, thirty-seven times, or so the police later say.With infection burning in his blood, Zed is arrested for murder but the world is falling apart and he soon finds himself back on the street, fighting for his life among the infected who would kill him and the normal people, who fear him.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18633274-zero-day"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl Who Owned a City", "author_name": "O.T. Nelson", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 4676, "review_number": 570, "book_description": "A killing virus has swept the earth, sparing only children through the age of twelve. There is chaos everywhere, even in formely prosperous mid-America. Gangs and fierce armies of children begin to form almost immediately. It would be the same for the children on Grand Avenue but for Lisa, a yen-year-old girl who becomes their leader. Because of Lisa, they have food, even toys, in abundance. And now they can protect themselves from the fierce gangs that roam the neighborhoods. But for how long? Then Lisa conceives the idea of a fortress, a city in which the children could live safely and happily always, and she intends to lead them there.", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)", "Academic (School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357933.The_Girl_Who_Owned_a_City"}, +{"book_title": "Run Hard, Die Fast", "author_name": "Mel Odom", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 248, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Top shadowrunner and street samurai Argent meets with a potential client only to be caught in the middle of a deadly corporation crossfire that leaves corpses scattered across the streets. It turns out the meeting was arranged by Argent's former lover, who is trapped in the Pueblo Corporate Council lands. On the run, and hunted by assault teams, she knows that Argent's samurai code of honor will drive him to protect her. But in order to save her, he must confront the secrets of his past, and assemble a rag-tag team of mercenaries to elude the three corporations that have decided everyone involved would be better off dead.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/523698.Run_Hard_Die_Fast"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 1145, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Librarian's Note: an .The very best of Alastair Reynolds\u2019 more than sixty published short stories are gathered in this anthology, a sweeping 250,000 word career retrospective spanning more than fifteen years. It features the very best stories from the \u2018Revelation Space\u2019 universe alongside thrilling hard science fiction stories, environmental SF tales and thought-provoking shorts. Table of Contents: \u2022 Great Wall of Mars \u2022 Weather \u2022 Beyond the Aquila Rift \u2022 Minla's Flowers \u2022 Zima Blue \u2022 Fury \u2022 The Star Surgeon's Apprentice \u2022 The Sledge-Maker's Daughter \u2022 Diamond Dogs \u2022 Thousandth Night \u2022 Troika \u2022 Sleepover \u2022 Vainglory \u2022 Trauma Pod \u2022 The Last Log of the Lachrymosa \u2022 The Water Thief \u2022 The Old Man and the Martian Sea \u2022 In Babelsberg \u2022 Story Notes", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Horror", "Anthologies", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28931839-beyond-the-aquila-rift"}, +{"book_title": "Cartwright's Cavaliers", "author_name": "Mark Wandrey", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1492, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "Heir to one of the leading \u201cFour Horsemen\u201d mercenary companies, Jim Cartwright is having a bad year. Having failed his high school VOWS tests, he's just learned his mother bankrupted the family company before disappearing, robbing him of his Cavalier birthright. But the Horsemen of eras past were smart\u2014they left a legacy of equipment Jim can use to complete the next contract and resurrect the company. It\u2019s up to Jim to find the people he needs to operate the machinery of war, train them, and lead them to victory. If he\u2019s good enough, the company can still be salvaged. But then again, he\u2019s never been good enough.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33538984-cartwright-s-cavaliers"}, +{"book_title": "Out of Time", "author_name": "Deborah Truscott", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2184, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "Kathleen Findlay is married to a cad, her mother is driving her crazy and her life is falling apart. Then her uncle dies, leaving her the family\u2019s Revolutionary-era home and, she believes, an escape from her chaotic marriage. But one afternoon, while searching for a rake, she discovers a man in her garden shed \u2014 and a free fall through the centuries. As her life spins wildly out of control, Kathleen finds her heart and in the process, her own place in time.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12015144-out-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Alarm of War", "author_name": "Kennedy Hudner", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 536, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Intrigue. Betrayal. A devastating surprise attack and a frantic fight to survive.Gritty warfare in space as four young officers respond to the alarm of war.Four officer cadets in the Victorian Fleet meet in training camp. Emily, the young woman who dreams of becoming a Fleet historian, but discovers her real talents lay elsewhere. Grant, the arrogant son of Victoria\u2019s most famous admiral. Hiram, the nervous but brilliant strategist, and Cookie, intent on joining the Fleet Marines. Together, they survive the trials and hardships of training to join the Fleet, unaware that that their home is about to be plunged into a maelstrom.For three hundred years, the Kingdom of Victoria has enforced peace across the galaxy. But it has grown complacent, and its enemies are ready to strike. The Tilleke Empire and the Dominion of Unified Citizenry have been waiting a long time, and now is their chance. As their web draws closed around Victoria, the band of new officers find themselves on the last line of defense. They\u2019ve been well trained \u2013 but will it be enough to save the kingdom?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15840677-alarm-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "Bumped", "author_name": "Megan McCafferty", "rating_score": 3.12, "rating_votes": 12961, "review_number": 2364, "book_description": "When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food.Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody\u2019s doorstep. Up to now, the twins have followed completely opposite paths. Melody has scored an enviable conception contract with a couple called the Jaydens. While they are searching for the perfect partner for Melody to bump with, she is fighting her attraction to her best friend, Zen, who is way too short for the job.Harmony has spent her whole life in Goodside, a religious community, preparing to be a wife and mother. She believes her calling is to convince Melody that pregging for profit is a sin. But Harmony has secrets of her own that she is running from.When Melody is finally matched with the world-famous, genetically flawless Jondoe, both girls\u2019 lives are changed forever. A case of mistaken identity takes them on a journey neither could have ever imagined, one that makes Melody and Harmony realize they have so much more than just DNA in common.From New York Times bestselling author Megan McCafferty comes a strikingly original look at friendship, love, and sisterhood\u2014in a future that is eerily believable.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Religion", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8517207-bumped"}, +{"book_title": "Of Another Dimension", "author_name": "Jeanette Lynn", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2147, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "Lilie never thought her life would change so drastically when she crawled into bed that night. She never believed what everyone said about her neighbor either. Mr. Clem, crazy? No... That is, until she finds him driving spikes into the ground in the middle of a vicious storm, wearing nothing but his pajamas and a ratty bathrobe. The retired engineer couldn't have prepared Lil for what was about to happen next. Things don't go as they should and one well aimed lighting jolt sends her careening through a portal of some sort, a worm hole to an alternate dimension. Miss Lilie shoots straight through to the other side, landing herself smack dab in the middle of a strange alien world with an unfamiliar setting. What's a gal to do when she suddenly finds herself being chased by an angry, bellowing red creature that looks like something straight out of science fiction movie. A demon, an angry looking demon.Will Lil make it out of this alive? or will she ultimately end up demon fodder? or is that what he'd even had in mind at all? What will happen to Lil as she navigates her way through this strange new world....Reader Advisory: This book contains menage a trois sex scenes, one woman with multiple partners (m/f/m) (no m/m) and mild violence.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Humor", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55158138-of-another-dimension"}, +{"book_title": "Weighing Shadows", "author_name": "Lisa Goldstein", "rating_score": 2.93, "rating_votes": 249, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "A new time-traveling fantasy from National Book Award-winner Lisa Goldstein.Ann Decker fixes computers for a living, and in the evenings she passes the time sharpening her hacking skills. It's not a very interesting life, but she gets by\u2014until one day she's contacted with a job offer for a company called Transformations Incorporated. None of her coworkers have ever heard of it before, and when Ann is finally told what the company does, she can hardly believe it: TI has invented technology to travel in time.Soon Ann is visiting a matriarchy in ancient Crete, and then a woman mathematician at the Library of Alexandria. But Transformations Incorporated remains shrouded in mystery, and when Ann finally catches her breath, there are too many troubling questions still unanswered. Who are Transformations Incorporated, and what will they use this technology to gain? What ill effects might going back in time have on the present day? Is it really as harmless as TI says?When a coworker turns up dead, Ann\u2019s superiors warn her about a covert group called Core out to sabotage the company. Something just isn\u2019t right, but before she has time to investigate, Ann is sent to a castle in the south of France, nearly a thousand years in the past. As the armies of the Crusade arrive to lay siege, and intrigue grows among the viscount\u2019s family, Ann will discover the startling truth\u2014not just about the company that sent her there, but also about her own past.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24693781-weighing-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "The Dragons of Dorcastle", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 3920, "review_number": 381, "book_description": "The first audiobook in a thrilling new epic fantasy saga, written exclusively for Audible by Jack Campbell, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Fleet series!For centuries, the two Great Guilds have controlled the world of Dematr. The Mechanics and the Mages have been bitter rivals, agreeing only on the need to keep the world they rule from changing. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind her to stop the Storm, but the Great Guilds and many others will stop at nothing to defeat her.Mari is a brilliant young Mechanic, just out of the Guild Halls where she has spent most of her life learning how to run the steam locomotives and other devices of her Guild. Alain is the youngest Mage ever to learn how to change the world he sees with the power of his mind. Each has been taught that the works of the other\u2019s Guild are frauds. But when their caravan is destroyed, they begin to discover how much has been kept from them.As they survive danger after danger, Alain discovers what Mari doesn\u2019t know\u2014that she was long ago prophesized as the only one who can save their world. When Mari reawakens emotions he had been taught to deny, Alain realizes he must sacrifice everything to save her. Mari, fighting her own feelings, discovers that only together can she and Alain hope to stay alive and overcome the Dragons of Dorcastle.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23379245-the-dragons-of-dorcastle"}, +{"book_title": "Avenging Home", "author_name": "A. American", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 1664, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "\nIn Enforcing Home Morgan and his group suffered some loss. They discovered their old foes weren\u2019t gone as they\u2019d thought. Not only were they not gone, they were now stronger than before.\nMorgan would have to deal with this threat, while at the same time trying to restore some sort of quality of life back to his community. But this isn\u2019t going to be easy. With the bombing at the market and wounding of his daughter Taylor, it became all too clear to Morgan that he was once again in a fight for the lives of those that matter most to him. Taylor was injured and would need care for some time. It wouldn\u2019t be easy. Added to that, was the realization that he would have to deal with second-guessing himself. Was it his fault that she was now hurt?In Avenging Home we see how this long-running battle between Morgan\u2019s people and their number one nemesis plays out. While Morgan thinks this is the biggest threat they face, there are things on the horizon he cannot yet see that are going to dwarf these problems. Morgan has lived in a vacuum. He\u2019s had little information about the outside world. While he\u2019s used radios to listen to what he can, there\u2019s been precious little real information. But now he\u2019s found what he believes to be a reliable source, and knows when and where to listen.But is it valid? Or is it simply propaganda? News and information can be powerful tools; but they must always be taken in context to make an educated decision. And the challenge is that there\u2019s only one source.When you have to make decisions that mean the difference between life and death, the process becomes even more critical. So, we\u2019ll follow Morgan and his tightly knit group as they are once again in the fight. Will they finally defeat the Federal thugs in their backyard? And more importantly, what will be the cost?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29335408-avenging-home"}, +{"book_title": "Cutie Honey: The Classic Collection", "author_name": "Go Nagai", "rating_score": 3.28, "rating_votes": 116, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "One of the most recognized super-heroines in manga history finally has her original story in print! Both volumes of Go Nagai\u2019s 1973 cult classic are collected in this oversized hardcover tome.Beautiful but unassuming schoolgirl Kisaragi Honey has a secret--she's actually an android! Through her father's amazing technology, she can transform into the unstoppable Cutie Honey. It's a power that the nefarious criminal organization known as Panther Claw will stop at nothing to possess, even if it means destroying that which Honey loves the most. Experience the original saga of Japan's iconic super-heroine by Go Nagai, the author of Devilman!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Sexuality", "Classics", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38200521-cutie-honey"}, +{"book_title": "Earthman, Come Home", "author_name": "James Blish", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 644, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germanium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police imposed some kind of order on the spaceways. Even John Amalfi never got used to the life - and he had been mayor of New York for nearly five hundred years now.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1930281.Earthman_Come_Home"}, +{"book_title": "An Airship Named Desire", "author_name": "Katherine McIntyre", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 95, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Airships, sky-pirates, smugglers, and soldiers...An Airship Named Desire will take you for a thrilling ride.Ever since their last botched smuggling job, First Mate Bea and the crew of her airship can barely afford fuel, let alone a barrel of grog. So when a gentleman from Old Germany offers them a fortune to steal a locked box from a British merchant airship, they jump on the opportunity. However, their employer forgot to mention the box's military escort and the Morlock mercenaries who would slit throats to get their hands on it. Oh, and if made public, the contents could engulf Europe in another devastating war.Stealing the box was the easy part. Now, with a target on their back and some of the toughest characters in the skies after them, if the crew of the Desire doesn't polish their pistols and prepare for a hell of a fight, they'll end up worse than grounded. After all, everyone from the Brits to the Morlocks will kill for the contents of that box, and no one survives an airship crash.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16276251-an-airship-named-desire"}, +{"book_title": "We", "author_name": "Yevgeny Zamyatin", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 74652, "review_number": 4795, "book_description": "The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.", "year_published": 1920, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Cultural (Russia)", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Literature", "Novels", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76171.We"}, +{"book_title": "This is Not a Test", "author_name": "Courtney Summers", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 13517, "review_number": 2387, "book_description": "It's the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she's failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she's forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group's fate is determined less and less by what's happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life\u2014and death\u2014inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12043771-this-is-not-a-test"}, +{"book_title": "Cities in Flight", "author_name": "James Blish", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 6013, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "Originally published in four volumes nearly fifty years ago, Cities in Flight brings together the famed \"Okie novels\" of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America's Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish's \"history of the future,\" a brilliant and bleak look at a world where cities roam the Galaxy looking for work and a sustainable way of life.In the first novel, They Shall Have Stars, man has thoroughly explored the Solar System, yet the dream of going even further seems to have died in all but one man. His battle to realize his dream results in two momentous discoveries anti-gravity and the secret of immortality. In A Life for the Stars, it is centuries later and anti-gravity generations have enabled whole cities to lift off the surface of the earth to become galactic wanderers. In Earthman, Come Home, the nomadic cities revert to barbarism and marauding rogue cities begin to pose a threat to all civilized worlds. In the final novel, The Triumph of Time, history repeats itself as the cities once again journey back in to space making a terrifying discovery which could destroy the entire Universe. A serious and haunting vision of our world and its limits, Cities in Flight marks the return to print of one of science fiction's most inimitable writers.A Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141805.Cities_in_Flight"}, +{"book_title": "The First Heretic", "author_name": "Aaron Dembski-Bowden", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 4522, "review_number": 200, "book_description": "Amidst the galaxy-wide war of the Great Crusade, the Emperor castigates the Word Bearers for their worship. Distraught at this judgement, Lorgar and his Legion seek another path while devastating world after world, venting their fury and fervour on the battlefield. Their search for a new purpose leads them to the edge of the material universe, where they meet ancient forces far more powerful than they could have imagined. Having set out to illuminate the Imperium, the corruption of Chaos takes hold and their path to damnation begins. Unbeknownst to the Word Bearers, their quest for truth contains the very roots of heresy\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7922982-the-first-heretic"}, +{"book_title": "Franky", "author_name": "Leo Timmers", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 182, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Sam houdt van robots. Hij weet zeker dat ze op een verre planeet wonen. Daar moet iedereen om lachen.Is er dan niemand die hem begrijpt? Toch wel. Franky!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Space", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22605668-franky"}, +{"book_title": "A Darkling Sea", "author_name": "James L. Cambias", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2321, "review_number": 399, "book_description": "On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of deep-sea diving scientists investigates the blind alien race that \u00a0lives below. The Terran explorers have made an uneasy truce with the Sholen, their first extraterrestrial contact: so long as they don\u2019t disturb the Ilmataran habitat, they\u2019re free to conduct their missions in peace.But when Henri Kerlerec, media personality and reckless adventurer, ends up sliced open by curious Ilmatarans, tensions between Terran and Sholen\u00a0erupt, leading to a diplomatic\u00a0disaster that threatens to escalate to war.Against the backdrop of deep-sea guerrilla conflict, a new age of human\u00a0exploration begins as alien cultures collide. Both sides seek the aid of the newly\u00a0enlightened Ilmatarans. But what this struggle means for the natives\u2014and the future of human exploration\u2014is anything but certain, in A Darkling Sea by James Cambias.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17934480-a-darkling-sea"}, +{"book_title": "The Adoration of Jenna Fox", "author_name": "Mary E. Pearson", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 49750, "review_number": 4850, "book_description": "Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. Mary Pearson's vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1902241.The_Adoration_of_Jenna_Fox"}, +{"book_title": "Necrotech", "author_name": "K.C. Alexander", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 557, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Street thug Riko has some serious issues \u2014 memories wiped, reputation tanked, girlfriend turned into a tech-fueled zombie. And the only people who can help are the mercenaries who think she screwed them over.In an apathetic society devoid of ethics or regulation, where fusing tech and flesh can mean a killing edge or a killer conversion, a massive conspiracy is unfolding that will alter the course of the human condition forever. With corporate meatheads on her ass and a necro-tech blight between her and salvation, Riko is going to have to fight meaner, work smarter, and push harder than she\u2019s ever had to. And that\u2019s just to make it through the day.File Under: Science Fiction [ Viral Hitman | Renegade | Nano Shock | Swear On Your Life ]", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30183216-necrotech"}, +{"book_title": "Fast Times at Fairmont High", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 317, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "In a near future where everyone lives in a wireless-direct-mind-link, networked, sensory-enhanced world, two eighth-graders struggle to pass an exam for which using outside information sources is forbidden. [This work is part of a collection.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Young Adult", "Hugo Awards", "Speculative Fiction", "Short Stories", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5393037-fast-times-at-fairmont-high"}, +{"book_title": "Empire of Silence", "author_name": "Christopher Ruocchio", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2791, "review_number": 453, "book_description": "Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.It was not his war.On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders.But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Epic", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36454667-empire-of-silence"}, +{"book_title": "Nightingale's Lament", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 11538, "review_number": 313, "book_description": "In the Nightside, the hidden heart of London where it's always 3 AM, Detective John Taylor must find an elusive singer known as The Nightingale. Her silken voice has inexplicably lured many a fan to suicide--and Taylor is determined to stop her, before the whole neighborhood falls under her trance. But to catch the swift-winged Nightingale, he'll have to hear the deadly music--and survive.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Detective)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148213.Nightingale_s_Lament"}, +{"book_title": "Where He Belongs", "author_name": "Rachel Haimowitz", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 239, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "The hottest name in network news is Daniel Halstrom. He is a sensation, a rising star. He is also a slave, owned wholly and completely by NewWorld Media.But before he was a star, he was a frightened child from a bad place with a promising, if limited, future ahead of him. In \"The New Kid\", young Daniel begins his schooling. Then, for a slave, the simple pleasure of a \"Bathroom Break\" is sometimes the only pleasure to be had. Later, Daniel doesn't know it, but \"A Chance Encounter\" might be the most important of his life. Next, in \"Camera Obscura\", one of Daniel's colleagues reflects on the fact that as much as the camera may show, it can hide even more. Finally, when you're a slave, \"Independence Day\" is just another day.Exclusive Bonus Content!Excerpt from \"Anchored\" by Rachel Haimowitz, the debut novel in the Belonging seriesThe never-before-published prologue to \"Anchored\"A sneak peek at \"Counterpunch\", the upcoming Belonging novel by Aleksandr Voinov", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Contemporary", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Dark", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11277975-where-he-belongs"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead", "author_name": "Walter M. Miller Jr.", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 279, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "In Beyond Armageddon, the distinguished science fiction writer Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923\u201396) and the famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg (1941-2011) have together collected stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear war. These richly imagined stories offer glimpses into a future no reader will soon forget. Miller\u2019s incisive introduction and a thought-provoking and irreverent commentary are included. All stories are preceded by intros, written by Miller, which comment on the story to come, and sometimes also the story preceeding the note.Contents: Introduction: Forewarning (Beyond Armageddon) (1985) \u2022 essay by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Salvador (1984) / short story by Lucius Shepard The Store of the Worlds (1959) / short story by Robert Sheckley The Big Flash (1969) / novelette by Norman Spinrad Lot [David Jimmon] (1953) / novelette by Ward Moore Day at the Beach (1959) / short story by Carol Emshwiller The Wheel (1952) / short story by John Wyndham Jody After the War (1972) / short story by Edward Bryant The Terminal Beach (1964) / novelette by J. G. Ballard Tomorrow's Children [Tomorrow's Children \u2022 1] (1947) / novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop Heirs Apparent (1954) / novelette by Robert Abernathy A Master of Babylon (1966) / novelette by Edgar Pangborn (variant of The Music Master of Babylon 1954) Game Preserve (1957) / short story by Rog Phillips By the Waters of Babylon (1937) / short fiction by Stephen Vincent Ben\u00e9t (variant of The Place of the Gods) [as by Stephen V. Benet] There Will Come Soft Rains [The Martian Chronicles] (1950) / short story by Ray Bradbury To the Chicago Abyss (1963) / short story by Ray Bradbury Lucifer (1964) / short story by Roger Zelazny Eastward Ho! (1958) / short story by William Tenn The Feast of Saint Janis (1980) / novelette by Michael Swanwick \"If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth ...\" (1951) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke A Boy and His Dog [Vic and Blood \u2022 2] (1969) / novella by Harlan Ellison My Life in the Jungle (1985) / short story by Jim AikinAlso published as \"Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar\"", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627938.Beyond_Armageddon"}, +{"book_title": "Eve of Man", "author_name": "Giovanna Fletcher", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 10338, "review_number": 1284, "book_description": "AGAINST ALL ODDS, SHE SURVIVED.THE FIRST GIRL BORN IN FIFTY YEARS.THEY CALLED HER EVE . . .All her life Eve has been kept away from the opposite sex. Kept from the truth of her past.But at sixteen it's time for Eve to face her destiny. Three potential males have been selected for her. The future of humanity is in her hands. She's always accepted her fate.Until she meets Bram.Eve wants control over her life. She wants freedom.But how do you choose between love and the future of the human race?EVE OF MAN is the first in an explosive new trilogy by bestselling authors Giovanna & Tom Fletcher.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38467635-eve-of-man"}, +{"book_title": "The Future of Another Timeline", "author_name": "Annalee Newitz", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 4569, "review_number": 924, "book_description": "From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too.2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn\u2019t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she's found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost.Tess and Beth\u2019s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline--a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person\u2019s actions to echo throughout the timeline?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Feminism", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263237-the-future-of-another-timeline"}, +{"book_title": "The Collapsing Empire", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 39705, "review_number": 4134, "book_description": "The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War.Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible -- until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It\u2019s a hedge against interstellar war -- and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.The Flow is eternal -- but it is not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. When it\u2019s discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster than light travel forever, three individuals -- a scientist, a starship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency -- are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30078567-the-collapsing-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Toxic Heart", "author_name": "Theo Lawrence", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2597, "review_number": 295, "book_description": "The second MYSTIC CITY novel . . . it\u2019s Romeo & Juliet in a dystopic Manhattan.A city in flames. A trust betrayed. A perfect love destroyed. Has Aria lost Hunter, her one true love?Ever since rebellion broke out in Mystic City, pitting the ruling elite against the magic-wielding mystics, Aria has barely seen her boyfriend. Not surprising, since Hunter is the leader of the mystic uprising, and he\u2019ll do whatever it takes to win freedom for his people\u2014even if that means using Aria.But Aria is no one\u2019s pawn. She believes she can bring the two warring sides together, save the city, and win back the Hunter she fell in love with.Before she can play peacemaker, though, Aria will need to find the missing heart of a dead mystic. The heart gives untold powers to whoever possesses it, but finding it means seeking out a fierce enemy whose deepest desire is for Aria to be gone\u2014forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16085468-toxic-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Just in Time for a Highlander", "author_name": "Gwyn Cready", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 267, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "It's tough being a woman in a man's profession, especially for Abby Kerr, the unexpected chieftess of Clan Kerr. Loathe to marry but in need of a strong arm, Abby wishes for a Scots warrior and gets . . . Duncan, the historical reenactment hobbyist.Wall Street Impresario Duncan MacHarg isn't bad with a fencing foil, but he's no Highlander. When a misdirected spell plucks him from the 21st century, he lands in 1705 Scotland at the feet of the fiercest woman he's ever laid eyes on...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21897474-just-in-time-for-a-highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel Redux, Vol. 12", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 282, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "A sophisticated science fiction tale packed with action, black humor, and philosophical, historical, and cultural references! R to L (Japanese Style). \"Angel Redux\"This time, Alita returns in an unprecedented form (Check out this volume's cover for details!) it seems no one can touch--not even Super Nova! Then Agi Mbadi, the dictator of Ketheres, goes on the offensive. If he cancels the Z.O.T.T. for \"safety reasons,\" will Alita's dream of independence for Tiphares and the Scrapyard be crushed forever? Master manga creater Yukito Kishiro returns, accompanied by his most celebrated character, cyborg sweetheart \nBattle Angel Alita\n. Meet Kishiro's latest bevy of bizarre and tormented characters and catch up with your favorite friends and foes! A sophisticated science fiction tale packed with action, black humor, and philosophical, historical, and cultural references!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Graphic Novels Manga", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6479134-battle-angel-alita---last-order"}, +{"book_title": "Cypulchre", "author_name": "Joseph MacKinnon", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 59, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "CYPULCHRE is a dark and twisted cyberpunk thriller that will take readers on a journey through revolt and redemption, high-tech nightmares and low-life dreams. The inventor of the CLOUD technology\u2014that's swept Los Angeles' rich and willing into the noosphere\u2014has lived in exile for a decade, north of the mountains, feared, defamed, and despised by his former colleagues and estranged family. When he learns that the same technology that led to his downfall now threatens his family as well as the thousands synchronized to it, he must take action. Nothing is what it seems, especially with his psychoses turning allies to enemies, and enemies into demons.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733479-cypulchre"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow Scale", "author_name": "Rachel Hartman", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 17563, "review_number": 2685, "book_description": "Seraphina took the literary world by storm with 8 starred reviews and numerous \u201cBest of\u201d lists. At last, her eagerly awaited sequel has arrived\u2014and with it comes an epic battle between humans and dragons.The kingdom of Goredd: a world where humans and dragons share life with an uneasy balance, and those few who are both human and dragon must hide the truth. Seraphina is one of these, part girl, part dragon, who is reluctantly drawn into the politics of her world. When war breaks out between the dragons and humans, she must travel the lands to find those like herself\u2014for she has an inexplicable connection to all of them, and together they will be able to fight the dragons in powerful, magical ways. As Seraphina gathers this motley crew, she is pursued by humans who want to stop her. But the most terrifying is another half dragon, who can creep into people\u2019s minds and take them over. Until now, Seraphina has kept her mind safe from intruders, but that also means she\u2019s held back her own gift. It is time to make a choice: Cling to the safety of her old life, or embrace a powerful new destiny?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16085457-shadow-scale"}, +{"book_title": "Catfishing on CatNet", "author_name": "Naomi Kritzer", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1303, "review_number": 415, "book_description": "How much does the internet know about YOU? Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn\u2019t lived anyplace longer than six months. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet\u2014a social media site where users upload cat pictures\u2014a place she knows she is welcome. What Steph doesn\u2019t know is that the admin of the site, CheshireCat, is a sentient A.I.When a threat from Steph\u2019s past catches up to her and ChesireCat\u2019s existence is discovered by outsiders, it\u2019s up to Steph and her friends, both online and IRL, to save her.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41556068-catfishing-on-catnet"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Prince", "author_name": "Selden Edwards", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 692, "review_number": 147, "book_description": "From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling novel The Little Book, comes a novel about a love that is capable of bridging unfathomable distances. Recently returned from the experience of a lifetime in fin de si\u00e8cle Vienna, where she met and tragically lost the first great love of her life, Eleanor Burden has no choice but to settle into her expected place in society, marry the man she is supposed to marry, and wait for life to come to her. As the twentieth century approaches, hers is a story not unlike that of the other young women she grew up with in 1890s Boston\u2014a privileged upbringing punctuated by a period of youthful adventure and followed by the inevitable acknowledgment of real life\u2014except for one small difference: Eleanor possesses an unshakable belief that she has advance knowledge of every major historical event to come during her lifetime. But soon the script of events she has written in her mind\u2014a script described by no less than Sigmund Freud as the invented delusions of a hysteric\u2014begins to unravel. Eleanor Burden, at once fragile and powerful, must find the courage of her deepest convictions, discover the difference between predetermination and free will, secure her belief in her own sanity, and decide whether she will allow history to unfold come what may\u2014or use her extraordinary gifts to bend history to her will and deliver for her the life she knows she is meant to have.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Psychology", "Literary Fiction", "War (World War I)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13056378-the-lost-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Warriors\u2019 Providence", "author_name": "Stephanie West", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 424, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Providence worked hard to become one of the first women to join her pararescue squad. It was difficult being one of the guys and yet not, all at the same time, but she was up for the task. Besides, there was nothing more satisfying than helping your fellow man, it was what she was born to do. Never in a million years did Providence expect to find herself abducted from a routine mission off the Florida coast by...ALIENS. Dagaa and Madhava, once enemies, became fast friends after a centuries long civil war. Both of them were beyond ready to see Cadi enter a new era. But now they face a new battle, convincing all of Cadi to embrace and rescue the Toufik, their former slaves, from a dying planet. It wasn't going to be an easy task. Infighting threatened their hard won peace and put Cadi at risk from a new foe. With so much at stake Madhava and Dagaa are blindsided when they find a fiery-haired human female on their enemy's ship. Providence's bold and loving nature awakens a side that both warriors had long since forgotten. The only problem, can Dagaa and Madhava share her affection, and can Providence withstand the love of not just one, but two overprotective warriors. Only fate knows a warrior's providence. Note: This book involves M/F/M scenes. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance", "Menage (M F M)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31327082-warriors-providence"}, +{"book_title": "A Secret History", "author_name": "Mary Gentle", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 737, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "There Is More Than One History Of The World...In the mid-fifteenth century there was Burgundy, the jewel of Europe - opulant and powerful, the undisputed center of an uncivilized world.In an epoch of war and madness there was Ash. A girl born in mud and dung, she slew her first men while only eight. Scarred and ravaged, but still beautiful, she rose up to lead a great mercenary army before the age of twenty - and followed a sacred voice wise in the bloody ways of battle to a pinnacle unattainable to even the most potent of legends.In a time when empires and alliances shifted like sand - when Mithras the bull was worshiped freely alongside the Christ - a great cloud arose out of Africa to darken the sun. The Visgoths came with their terrible machines - powered by magic or a science unknown to this day - and aimed their irresistible might toward the rich Burgundian prize, wrenching the wheel of civilization in an unknown and unexpected direction. And with their coming, one incomparable warrior raised on Destiny's ash heap became more than anyone thought one woman could be.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Womens", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/445023.A_Secret_History"}, +{"book_title": "Soul of Stars", "author_name": "Ashley Poston", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1045, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "The highly awaited sequel to Heart of Iron, Soul of Stars is a thrilling sci-fi adventure packed with romance, shocking twists, and witty banter, perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Cinder.Once, Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom. Now, thought dead by most of the galaxy after she escaped from the dark AI program called the HIVE, Ana is desperate for a way to save Di from the HIVE\u2019s evil clutches and take back her kingdom.Ana\u2019s only option is to find Starbright, the one person who has hacked into the HIVE and lived to tell the tale. But when Ana\u2019s desperation costs the crew of the Dossier a terrible price, Ana and her friends are sent spiraling through the most perilous reaches of the Iron Kingdom to stop the true arbiter of evil in her world: an ancient world-ending deity called the Great Dark.Their journey will take the sharp-witted pilot, Jax, to the home he never wanted to return to, and the dangerous fate he left behind. And when Robb finds out who Jax really is, he must contend with his own feelings for the boy he barely knows, and whether he truly belongs with this group of outcasts.When facing the worst odds, can Ana and her crew of misfits find a way to stop the Great Dark once and for all?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "LGBT", "Retellings", "Space", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38880852-soul-of-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Silver Chair", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 247997, "review_number": 5607, "book_description": "Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch.NARNIA...where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans, where a prince is put under an evil spell...and where the adventure begins.Eustace and Jill escape from the bullies at school through a strange door in the wall, which, for once, is unlocked. It leads to the open moor...or does it? Once again Aslan has a task for the children, and Narnia needs them. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, they pursue the quest that brings them face to face with the evil Witch. She must be defeated if Prince Rillian is to be saved.", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Classics", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Christian", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Christian Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65641.The_Silver_Chair"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 16", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 6858, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "The brothers pursue fugitive May Chang to solve the mystery of why their alchemical powers were rendered inert while she and Scar continue to be able to wield them. Meanwhile, Scar enlists some unlikely help to delve into the secrets of his brother's alchemical knowledge. And the newest, most horrifying homunculus makes an appearance...!", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Manga (Shonen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1610998.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_16"}, +{"book_title": "Can You See What I See? Out of This World: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve", "author_name": "Walter Wick", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 52, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Walter Wick's new search-and-find adventure in the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series!OUT OF THIS WORLD, the ninth title in this search-and-find series, follows two characters from two separate, very different worlds--until their worlds collide! In the end, we learn that these two worlds really aren't that different at all. They both come from the same place: a child's playroom! Walter Wick's fantastic photographs bring the princess and the robot worlds together through a series of search-and-find activities.Amazing photographs accompany a terrific search-and-find game by Walter Wick, the creator of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Can You See What I See? series and the photographer of the internationally successful I Spy series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14830419-can-you-see-what-i-see-out-of-this-world"}, +{"book_title": "Shatter Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 305049, "review_number": 29795, "book_description": "I have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI'm more than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war\u2014and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10429045-shatter-me"}, +{"book_title": "The Outside", "author_name": "Ada Hoffmann", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1317, "review_number": 268, "book_description": "Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents. Instead of simply executing her, they offer mercy \u2013 if she\u2019ll help them hunt down a bigger target: her own mysterious, vanished mentor. With her homeworld\u2019s fate in the balance, Yasira must choose who to trust: the gods and their ruthless post-human angels, or the rebel scientist whose unorthodox mathematics could turn her world inside out.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Horror", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40947778-the-outside"}, +{"book_title": "Silent Sun: Hard Science Fiction", "author_name": "Brandon Q. Morris", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 448, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Is our sun behaving differently from other stars? When an amateur astronomer discovers something strange on telescopic solar pictures, an explanation must be found. Is it merely artefact? Or has he found something totally unexpected? An expert international crew is hastily assembled, a spaceship is speedily repurposed, and the foursome is sent on the ride of their lives. What challenges will they face on this spur-of-the-moment mission to our central star? What awaits all of them is critical, not only for understanding the past, but even more so for the future of life on Earth. Hard Science Fiction. All descriptions and events could become reality some day.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44349458-silent-sun"}, +{"book_title": "Thin Air", "author_name": "Richard K. Morgan", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 4234, "review_number": 503, "book_description": "Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember.An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Madekwe, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on Mars. But when Madekwe is abducted, and Hakan nearly killed, the investigation takes him farther and deeper than he had ever expected. And soon Hakan discovers the heavy price he may have to pay to learn the truth.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25835917-thin-air"}, +{"book_title": "All the Paths of Shadow", "author_name": "Frank Tuttle", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1273, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "\u201cWalk warily, walk swiftly, walk away.\u201dThe king\u2019s orders were clear enough. \u201cMove the tower\u2019s shadow,\u201d he bellowed. \u201cI refuse to deliver my commencement speech from the dark.\u201dAs the newly appointed mage to the Crown of Tirlin, Meralda Ovis has no choice but to undertake King Yvin\u2019s ill-conceived task. Tirlin\u2019s first female mage, and the youngest person to ever don the robes of office, Meralda is determined to prove once and for all that she deserves the title. The Tower, though, holds ancient secrets all its own. Secrets that will soon spell destruction for all of Tirlin\u2014unless Meralda can unravel a monstrous curse laid by a legendary villain seven centuries before she was born.An ancient curse. A haunted tower. A clamorous gathering of nobles, mages, and kings from the Five Realms come together in Tirlin for the fifth-year Accords. Meralda finds herself facing far darker foes than any mere shadow of the tower.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12871690-all-the-paths-of-shadow"}, +{"book_title": "The Eleventh Plague", "author_name": "Jeff Hirsch", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 13227, "review_number": 1861, "book_description": "In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In the aftermath of a war, America\u2019s landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his family were among the few that survived and became salvagers, roaming the country in search of material to trade. But when Stephen\u2019s grandfather dies and his father falls into a coma after an accident, Stephen finds his way to Settler\u2019s Landing, a community that seems too good to be true. Then Stephen meets strong, defiant, mischievous Jenny, who refuses to accept things as they are. And when they play a prank that goes horribly wrong, chaos erupts, and they find themselves in the midst of a battle that will change Settler\u2019s Landing--and their lives--forever.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10369932-the-eleventh-plague"}, +{"book_title": "A Once and Future Love: a time travel romance", "author_name": "Anne Kelleher", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1049, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "England, 2014. When Richard Lambert\u2019s beloved wife dies, he thinks he will never find love again. Until, while exploring a medieval tower, he falls from the steps\u2014and into another time\u2026 England, 1214. When Richard wakes, he\u2019s in the body of his ancestor, who is near death from battle. As his wife nurses him back to health, she finds he is not the cruel man she knew. And he discovers a second chance\u2014with his one and only love. ", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20456265-a-once-and-future-love"}, +{"book_title": "Love Beyond Hope", "author_name": "Bethany Claire", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1135, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Love is the most powerful kind of magic. Baodan McMillan values many things in life: friendship, loyalty, kindness, but certainly not love. After the tragic death of his wife many years ago, he hardened himself to the idea of giving his heart to another. There is but one lass who can thaw his chilly heart, a lass he\u2019s never met nor knows of, a lass whose birth won\u2019t occur until centuries after his death\u2026 Mitsy Fredrickson is in serious need of a distraction. With the ink still drying on her divorce papers, she flies to Scotland determined to forget about her own problems by helping her best friend re-enter reality. She knows Bri\u2019s claims that she is able to travel back in time and is currently living in the year 1647 are a lie but, instead of locating her friend, Mitsy falls prey to the same magic and is quickly forced to believe the impossible. Modern and sassy, Mitsy finds few who know how to take her fiery personality in the seventeenth century, but she finds her match in Baodan, laird of McMillan Castle. He is her opposite in every way, yet she feels balanced in his presence. The more time she spends with him, the harder she falls. She suspects he feels the same way, but something is holding him back -- a dark secret from his past that even Baodan doesn\u2019t fully understand. Mitsy works to uncover what is hidden in the hopes that with resolution Baodan will be free to love her. But the truth is darker than she expects, and it threatens to destroy them both.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20809151-love-beyond-hope"}, +{"book_title": "Prince of Thorns", "author_name": "Mark Lawrence", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 98794, "review_number": 6834, "book_description": "Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent times, the end of days when the dead roam and monsters haunt the night. All that's true enough, but there's something worse out there, in the dark. Much worse.From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father's castle Jorg must confront horrors from his childhood and carve himself a future with all hands turned against him.Mark Lawrence's debut novel tells a tale of blood and treachery, magic and brotherhood and paints a compelling and brutal, and sometimes beautiful, picture of an exceptional boy on his journey toward manhood and the throne.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Dark", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9579634-prince-of-thorns"}, +{"book_title": "Planet Urth", "author_name": "Jennifer Martucci", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 4422, "review_number": 324, "book_description": "More than two hundred years into the future, human beings are an endangered species. The planet has been battered by war, its inhabitants plagued by disease and death. Few humans survived and remained unaffected. Most changed dramatically and evolved into something else entirely. Irrevocable alterations caused by chemical warfare have created a new species. North America is in ruins and has been overtaken. Humanity has fallen at the hands of mutants known as Urthmen. Seventeen year-old Avery is alive and unchanged. But she has not been immune to the harshness of the new world. She has lived on the run for much of her life, in terror. After losing her father, Avery is the sole guardian of her eight-year-old sister, June. Avery is now charged with June\u2019s safety as well as her own, a nearly impossible task.Forced to hide deep in the forest and away from the cities overrun by Urthmen, Avery and her sister are constantly hunted. Danger awaits them at every turn. They fear they are the only human beings left, that they are the last of their kind. But are they truly alone?Find out in this raw and rousing first installment of the Planet Urth series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18930277-planet-urth"}, +{"book_title": "The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 6937, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, The Cookie Lady, The World She Wanted, and many others.\"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection.\" -- Kirkus Reviews\"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring.\" -- The Washington Post\"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds.\" -- Wall Street Journal", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Criticism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22581.The_Collected_Stories_of_Philip_K_Dick_2"}, +{"book_title": "Time and Time Again", "author_name": "Ben Elton", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 10072, "review_number": 1358, "book_description": "It\u2019s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history.Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century?And, if so, could another single bullet save it?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164931-time-and-time-again"}, +{"book_title": "Ronin", "author_name": "Frank Miller", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 6819, "review_number": 362, "book_description": "\"His brutal yet elegant noir renderings, pulpy yet eloquent scripting, and thoroughly uncompromising attitude make [Frank Miller] one of the most distinctive voices in comics.\"-- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY RONIN is the acclaimed epic by Frank Miller, the visionary writer/artist of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, 300 and Sin City. In this tale of a legendary warrior, the Ronin, a dishonored, masterless 13th Century samurai, is mystically given a second chance to avenge his master's death.Suddenly finding himself reborn in a futuristic and corrupt 21st Century New York City, the samurai discovers he has one last chance to regain his honor: he must defeat the reincarnation of his master's killer, the ancient demon Agat. In a time and place foreign and unfathomable to him, the Ronin stands against his greatest enemy with his life and, more importantly, his soul at stake.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52362.Ronin"}, +{"book_title": "Emerald Sea", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 3054, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "In the future the world was a paradise - and then, in a moment, it ended. The council that controlled the Net fell out and went to war, while people who had never known a moment of want or pain were left wondering how to survive.Duke Edmund Talbot has been assigned a simple mission: Go to the Southern Isles and make contact with the scattered mer-folk-those who, before the worldwide collapse of technology, had altered their bodies in the shape of mythical sea-dwelling creatures. He must convince them to side with the Freedom Coalition in the battles against the fascist dictators of New Destiny. Just a simple diplomatic mission. That requires the service of a dragon-carrier and Lieutenant Herzer Herrick, the most blooded of the Blood Lords. Because New Destiny has plans of its own.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022756.Emerald_Sea"}, +{"book_title": "Caged with the Alien", "author_name": "Luna Kingsley", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 965, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Will she be the one to lure the beast from the darkness?Galak, once the proud leader of his tribe, has become one with death and pain. They call him beast, and he\u2019s earned the title. Living in a cage, being forced to fight to survive has made him the worst version of himself. Most nights, he wonders if he\u2019ll ever find his way back again.Then she appears, dropped into the middle of the combat pits.He\u2019s given an order to impregnate her or face the consequences. But he\u2019s Roh\u2019ilian and they don\u2019t hurt women or take what isn\u2019t given freely. Even the beast within won\u2019t allow it.Emerie, desperate for money, arrived at a research organization to participate in a medical study. With zero family to lean on, her back is against the wall. Instead of the pills she expected, she wakes up in a strange place surrounded by creatures from science fiction novels.She\u2019s given a choice: submit to the beast or be passed from cage to cage until she gives her captors what they want \u2013 a successful mating between a human and alien species that results in a child. But Emerie just wants to go home. Even if there\u2019s nothing for her to go home to.She\u2019s seen the beast\u2019s incredible power firsthand. She also sees how he looks at her. If he wanted to, he could take her without question. Instead, he surprises her. Is it possible the beast has a soft side? And how far is he willing to go to make sure she remains unharmed?Caged with the Alien is the first book in a steamy new alien breeder series. No cheating, no cliffhanger, HEA guaranteed!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Space", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53485971-caged-with-the-alien"}, +{"book_title": "Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1518, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Sebastian Nightingale Cain: Bounty hunter. You can call him the Songbird \u2013 but only once. He's after Santiago.Virtue Mackenzie: Freelance reporter. She never gives up. She wants an interview... with Santiago.The Swagman: He collects art \u2013 at gun point. He wants a few pieces currently in the hands of Santiago.Santiago: Bandit, murderer, known to all, seen by none... has he killed a thousand men? Has he saved a dozen worlds? His legend is as large as the Rim itself, his trail as elusive as a wisp of starlight in the empty realms of space. The reward for him is the largest in history.Santiago: Do you dare chase him?", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Westerns", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Humor", "Pulp"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293291.Santiago"}, +{"book_title": "Origins", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 5093, "review_number": 401, "book_description": "From Ilona Andrews\u2014#1 New York Times bestselling author of Magic Shifts and the Kate Daniels novels\u2014comes a stark, seductive tale of a world torn asunder by supernatural gifts and irresistible passions...Karina Tucker is driving a van of children home from a field trip when an unplanned detour to a seemingly ordinary rest stop changes her life. There, she witnesses a world beyond humanity\u2019s sight, of frightful powers and chaos, where she is in death\u2019s grip... before an irresistibly dangerous male saves her\u2014only to take her captive.For she is a rare commodity in the shadowy realm she\u2019s entered.Karina soon finds herself caught in a violent civil war where those with inhuman powers strive to destroy each other without mercy. And it becomes all too clear that she must make a choice: submit and become a pawn, or take hold of her own destiny and fight for survival against impossible odds.Alphas: Origins originally appeared in Angels of Darkness.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Short Stories", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27257359-origins"}, +{"book_title": "UnBound", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 3006, "review_number": 417, "book_description": "In the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology\u2014Unwind, UnWholly, UnSouled, and UnDivided\u2014Neal Shusterman thrilled readers with the story of a society that deals with its out-of-control teens by \u201cunwinding\u201d them\u2014transplanting more than 99% of their bodies into other people.In the latest installment of this sequence, Shusterman\u2014along with collaborators Terry Black, Michelle Knowlden, Brendan Shusterman, and Jarrod Shusterman\u2014explores even more aspects of a world that has accepted the unacceptable. These short stories examine the world of unwinding in a way we haven\u2019t seen before, providing a fresh framework, new characters, and a different take on some events.With UnBound, Shusterman\u2019s fans can continue to get caught up in the world he has created in this \u201cgripping, brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller\u201d (Publishers Weekly, starred review).", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Horror", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25551332-unbound"}, +{"book_title": "Born of the Ashes", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 3357, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Episode 11 A world in chaos\u2026 An eager new ally\u2026 A newly acquired ship\u2026 An even greater threat on its way\u2026 Captain Nathan Scott must decide whether to stand and fight to the end, or live to fight another day\u2026 even if it means the end of his world. \u201cBorn of the Ashes\u201d is a 122,000 word novel, and is the 11th episode in The Frontiers Saga. Episode 12 is coming soon!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22300522-born-of-the-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Sarazen's Vengeance", "author_name": "Isabel Wroth", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 791, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Book 1.1 of the Sarazen Saga This book is part of a SERIES. It could be read alone and enjoyed as is. Suggested to be read following Book 1, Sarazen's Claim. There is a happy ending, but as this is part of a SERIES, the ever after part comes later. Not a cliffhanger so much as a continuation. Having gone from invisible engineering personnel, to one of the few remaining human survivors, Andi Starsong is struggling to acclimate to her new situation. She's been identified as a potential mate by one of the hulking Sarazen warriors, and if that wasn't terrifying enough, he's come to claim her. Ohlen's little mate is terrified of him. Despite having done everything he can think of to put her at ease, Andi shies from him each time he so much as glances his way. He can no longer deny the roaring of his beast, the instinct that tells him she is in danger. He has no choice. He must claim her. When the warship reaches Sarazen territory, Ohlen and Andi must navigate their blossoming bond and the danger of the treachery brewing within the pride. Treachery that could destroy more than just their bond.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31921274-sarazen-s-vengeance"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon's Baby", "author_name": "Miranda Martin", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 2329, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "Not every alien is an enemy, even if he kidnaps you... Calista is happy with her life of scientific research. She has no need for a man, she has her books, her friends, and her work. Things are fine until her ship is attacked by space pirates and crash lands on a desert planet with heat so intense she and her friends can't survive without help. Ladon is a Zmaj warrior resigned to a life alone, who only desires to protect his treasures. His hopes for a mate faded long ago, yet when he meets Calista something stirs. It takes no more than one look to know that she belongs to him. He's been alone for so long but she is the ultimate treasure and he will protect her. Now there's only the small problem of her living long enough to understand. A devastated planet, a mysterious history, space pirates, and threats environmental and alien beset them on all sides. The sexy Zmaj warrior will have to battle the planet's ultimate threat in an epic effort to obtain the one thing he knows Calista needs to survive. Then maybe they can begin to come to terms with the feelings they create in each other. But will the other humans accept this huge and alien looking dragon warrior? Or will they find him just as big a threat as the rest of the red planet? The future of both their races depends on it. Alien Dragon's Baby is a full length scifi novel with a happily ever after ending, plenty of steam, bloody battles and alien-human intrigue. It is standalone and has been co-written by newcomer Miranda Martin and one of the hottest science fiction romance authors out there, Juno Wells. (B01J6WA1T2 Original Cover Edition. This is an alternate cover edition.)", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34368144-dragon-s-baby"}, +{"book_title": "As They Slip Away", "author_name": "Beth Revis", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2474, "review_number": 345, "book_description": "Taking place on the spaceship Godspeed before Amy Martin wakes up and Elder takes leadership, this novella describes life at the Hospital during Eldest's reign. Focusing primarily on background characters, readers will see fan-favorite characters Harley, Orion, Victria, and more.Selene is a singer on a spaceship that only values people who can provide important skills that enhance survival. As her friends\u2014fellow \"loons\" in the Hospital\u2014start to join apprenticeships to turn their skills into valuable labor, Selene is sent with a handful of other students to learn about the importance of art from the Recorder, Orion. The assignment pairs her with a young sculptor, Luthor, and their dangerous romance proves just how terrifying living trapped on a spaceship under the rule of a heartless dictator could be. This tragic tale explores the background of a previously unknown character, linking the history of the ship and its residents to Amy and Elder, giving depth to the world of Godspeed.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Space", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16181322-as-they-slip-away"}, +{"book_title": "We're Not from Here", "author_name": "Geoff Rodkey", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1258, "review_number": 289, "book_description": "\nImagine being forced to move to a new planet where YOU are the alien! From the creator of the Tapper Twins, \n\nNew York Times \n\nbestselling author Geoff Rodkey delivers a topical, sci-fi middle-grade novel that proves friendship and laughter can transcend even a galaxy of differences.\nThe first time I heard about Planet Choom, we'd been on Mars for almost a year. But life on the Mars station was grim, and since Earth was no longer an option (we may have blown it up), it was time to find a new home.That's how we ended up on Choom with the Zhuri. They're very smart. They also look like giant mosquitos. But that's not why it's so hard to live here. There's a lot that the Zhuri don't like: singing (just ask my sister, Ila), comedy (one joke got me sent to the principal's office), or any kind of emotion. The biggest problem, though? The Zhuri don't like us. And if humankind is going to survive, it's up to my family to change their minds. No pressure.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50215846-we-re-not-from-here"}, +{"book_title": "Steel", "author_name": "Carrie Vaughn", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 5870, "review_number": 766, "book_description": "It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her.This was the tip of a rapier.Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure.The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home\u2014one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain.Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8220745-steel"}, +{"book_title": "Sideways In Crime", "author_name": "Lou Anders", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 80, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "An anthology on the theme of Alternative History and Crime, featuring stories from the genre's foremost writers. Contributors include: Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Tobias Buckell, Pat Cadigan, Paul Di Filippo, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Theodore Judson, Jack McDevitt, John Meaney, Paul Park, Mike Resnick & Eric Flint, Mary Rosenblum, Chris Roberson, Justina Robson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and SM Stirling.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Anthologies", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2210448.Sideways_In_Crime"}, +{"book_title": "Butterman (Time) Travel, Inc", "author_name": "P.K. Hrezo", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 247, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "It\u2019s the year 2069 and even though eighteen-year-old Bianca Butterman is heir to the family biz, she may never see the day her time-craft license becomes official. When a government agent starts nosing around the operation, Butterman Travel, Inc. gets stuck with a full audit\u2014part of a government take-over scheme to shut down all private time travel agencies. Enter former boy band superstar, Tristan Helms, desperate to retrieve a lost item from his past and willing to pay triple fare for a time-trip to get there, and Bianca has to find a way to complete the job and return home before the government gets wind and shuts down the family biz for good. Welcome to Butterman Travel, Incorporated; a full service agency designed to meet all your exclusive time travel needs. We\u2019re a family owned and operated business with one hundred years of experience. A place where you can rest assured, safety and reliability always come first. Anxious to attend some special event from the past? Or for a glimpse of what the future holds? You\u2019ve come to the right place. We\u2019re a fully accredited operation, offering an array of services; including, but not limited to: customized travel plans, professionally piloted operations, and personal trip guides. *Terms and conditions do applyUse our Web conferencing to contact our frontline reservation specialist, Bianca Butterman, who will handle all your inquiries in a professional and efficient manner, offering a tentative itinerary and free fare quote, so you can make the most of your time trip.We look forward to serving you at Butterman Travel, Inc., where time is always in your hands.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "New Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18633268-butterman-time-travel-inc"}, +{"book_title": "Snowpiercer: The Escape", "author_name": "Jacques Lob", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 3111, "review_number": 466, "book_description": "Snowpiercer\u00a0is the enthralling and thought-provoking post-apocalyptic graphic novel that inspired the critically acclaimed movie starring Chris Evans (Captain America, Fantastic Four). Originally published in French, this marks the first time that Snowpiercer\u00a0will be available in English. In a harsh, uncompromisingly cold future where Earth has succumbed to treacherously low temperatures, the last remaining members of humanity travel on a train while the outside world remains encased in ice.\u00a0The surviving community are not without a social hierarchy; those that travel at the front of the train live in relative luxury whilst those unfortunate enough to be at the rear remain clustered like cattle in claustrophobic darkness. Yet, things are about to change aboard the train as passengers become disgruntled... The movie Snowpiercer, due for release in 2014, is directed by Joon-ho Bong (The Host) and is already causing a stir with parallels to\u00a01984\u00a0and\u00a0Animal Farm.\u00a0", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18594683-snowpiercer"}, +{"book_title": "Phule Me Twice", "author_name": "Robert Lynn Asprin", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2954, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "When the planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made their military advisor. But, unknown to the Zenobians, they're getting two Phules for the price of one. A robot double of Captain Phule appears out of nowhere. And only the real Phule knows who the real Phule is.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148239.Phule_Me_Twice"}, +{"book_title": "Valiant Dust", "author_name": "Richard Baker", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 330, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Horatio Hornblower and Honor Harrington fans will find a new hero in Sikander North, first in a new military SF series with elements of colonial diplomacy and explosive action.In a new military SF series, Richard Baker begins the adventures of Sikander North in an era of great interstellar colonial powers.Sikander Singh North has always had it easy until he joined the crew of the Aquilan Commonwealth starship CSS Hector. As the ship's new gunnery officer and only Kashmiri, he must constantly prove himself better than his Aquilan crewmates, even if he has to use his fists. When the Hector is called to help with a planetary uprising, he'll have to earn his unit's respect, find who's arming the rebels, and deal with the headstrong daughter of the colonial ruler all while dodging bullets.Sikander's military career is off to an explosive start but only if he and CSS Hector can survive his first mission.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Futuristic", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33517571-valiant-dust"}, +{"book_title": "Fearless", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 19532, "review_number": 596, "book_description": "Captain John \"Black Jack\" Geary tries a desperate gamble to lead the Alliance Fleet home-through enemy-occupied space-only to lose half the Fleet to an unexpected mutiny. ", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96594.Fearless"}, +{"book_title": "The Silvered", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2761, "review_number": 375, "book_description": "The Empire has declared war on the small, were-ruled kingdom of Aydori, capturing five women of the Mage-Pack, including the wife of the were Pack-leader. With the Pack off defending the border, it falls to Mirian Maylin and Tomas Hagen\u2014she a low-level mage, he younger brother to the Pack-leader\u2014to save them. Together the two set out on the kidnappers\u2019 trail, racing into the heart of enemy territory. With every step the odds against them surviving and succeeding soar\u2026.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13515074-the-silvered"}, +{"book_title": "Fawkes", "author_name": "Nadine Brandes", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3325, "review_number": 1157, "book_description": "Thomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father\u2019s plot to assassinate the king of England.Silent wars leave the most carnage. The wars that are never declared, but are carried out in dark alleys with masks and hidden knives. Wars where color power alters the natural rhythm of 17th century London. And when the king calls for peace, no one listens until he finally calls for death.But what if death finds him first?Keepers think the Igniters caused the plague. Igniters think the Keepers did. But all Thomas knows is that the Stone Plague infecting his eye is spreading. And if he doesn\u2019t do something soon, he\u2019ll be a lifeless statue. So when his Keeper father, Guy Fawkes, invites him to join the Gunpowder Plot\u2014claiming it will put an end to the plague\u2014Thomas is in.The plan: use 36 barrels of gunpowder to blow up the Igniter King.The problem: Doing so will destroy the family of the girl Thomas loves. But backing out of the plot will send his father and the other plotters to the gallows. To save one, Thomas will lose the other.No matter Thomas\u2019s choice, one thing is clear: once the decision is made and the color masks have been put on, there\u2019s no turning back.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576048-fawkes"}, +{"book_title": "Tangle of Need", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 20843, "review_number": 1432, "book_description": "Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past\u2014one as unpredictable in love as it was in war. Now comes a new territory, and a devastating new complication: Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutenant already sworn to a desperate woman who belongs to another. For Riaz, the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria, his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It consumes her. It terrifies her. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle. Their coming together is an inferno\u2026and a melding of two wounded souls who promise each other no commitment, no ties, no bonds. Only pleasure. Too late, they realize that they have more to lose than they ever imagined. Drawn into a cataclysmic Psy war that may alter the fate of the world itself, they must make a decision that might just break them both.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12059093-tangle-of-need"}, +{"book_title": "The In-Betweener", "author_name": "Ann Christy", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 892, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Emily is alone. Two years after the end of the world, she talks to herself and smashes heads with her favorite sledgehammer. This is not the life she imagined for herself as her eighteenth birthday rolls past.It\u2019s time for her to look beyond her safe, little hiding place to the world beyond. The madness of the apocalypse is ending, the dangerous in-betweeners - those no longer quite human, but not yet dead - are few and far between. The deaders that cover the world are going still, their senses dulled by time and the elements. The problem is that there are no people...none. Emily has found not a single living human when she's dared to step outside her safe-zone.As Emily weighs the heavy cost of surviving alone and begins to accept the inevitable, everything changes once again. One of the deaders at her gate turns out not to be a deader at all. He\u2019s an in-betweener different from any other she has seen before, and he carries a message. If Emily has the courage to step beyond her gate and the skills to survive a perilous trip in a dead world, she might just have a chance at life...a life with humans...after all.The In-Betweener is book one in the thrilling post-apocalyptic adventure series, Between Life and Death.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33597102-the-in-betweener"}, +{"book_title": "Death by Silver", "author_name": "Melissa Scott", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 892, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "His practice newly established, metaphysician Ned Mathey can\u2019t afford to turn away any clients. But the latest Londoner to seek Ned\u2019s magical aid gives him pause: Mr Edgar Nevett, an arrogant banker, is the father of the bully who made Ned\u2019s life hell at boarding school. Nevertheless, Ned accepts the commission to ensure the Nevett family silver bears no ancient or modern curses, and then prepares to banish the Nevett family to unpleasant memory again. Until Edgar Nevett is killed by an enchanted silver candlestick\u2014one of the pieces Ned declared magically harmless.Calling on his old school friend Julian Lynes\u2014private detective and another victim of the younger Nevett\u2014Ned races to solve the murder, clear the stain on his professional reputation, and lay to rest the ghosts of his past.Assisted by Ned\u2019s able secretary Miss Frost, who has unexpected metaphysical skills of her own, Ned and Julian explore London\u2019s criminal underworld and sodomitical demimonde, uncover secrets and scandals, confront the unexpected murderer and the mysteries of their own relationship.In Death by Silver veteran authors Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold introduce a Victorian London where magic works, influencing every aspect of civilized life, and two very appealing detectives.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17453991-death-by-silver"}, +{"book_title": "Crystal Mentality", "author_name": "Max Harms", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 213, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Fleeing the humans whose love she craves, Face has hijacked an alien ship and headed for Mars. But the Martians, who colonized their desert planet to escape Earth's high-tech decadence, did not invite the soulless android. How will Face, part of the first artificial mind with fully general intelligence, win over a city of luddites - all while out-thinking her sibling AIs as they battle to control the body they share? The Crystal series darkens in this restless dance through AI, game theory, and truly alien minds.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33948855-crystal-mentality"}, +{"book_title": "The Map of the Sky", "author_name": "F\u00e9lix J. Palma", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2587, "review_number": 428, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time returns with a mesmerizing novel casting H.G. Wells in a leading role, as the extraterrestrial invasion featured in The War of the Worlds is turned into a bizarre reality.A love story serves as backdrop for The Map of the Sky when New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry millionaire Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells\u2019s War of the Worlds. What follows are three brilliantly interconnected plots to create a breathtaking tale of time travel and mystery, replete with cameos by a young Edgar Allan Poe, and Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from The Map of Time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Praised for \u201clyrical storytelling and a rich attention to detail,\u201d (Library Journal, starred review), Palma again achieves the high standard set by The Map of Time.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Adventure", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13049688-the-map-of-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Dust", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2129, "review_number": 301, "book_description": "On a broken ship orbiting a doomed sun, dwellers have grown complacent with their aging metal world. But when a serving girl frees a captive noblewoman, the old order is about to change....\n\n\nAriane, Princess of the House of Rule, was known to be fiercely cold-blooded. But severing an angel\u2019s wings on the battlefield\u2014even after she had surrendered\u2014proved her completely without honor. Captive, the angel Perceval waits for Ariane not only to finish her off\u2014but to devour her very memories and mind. Surely her gruesome death will cause war between the houses\u2014exactly as Ariane desires. But Ariane\u2019s plan may yet be opposed, for Perceval at once recognizes the young servant charged with her care. Rien is the lost child: her sister. Soon they will escape, hoping to stop the impending war and save both their houses. But it is a perilous journey through the crumbling hulk of a dying ship, and they do not pass unnoticed. Because at the hub of their turning world waits Jacob Dust, all that remains of God, following the vapor wisp of the angel. And he knows they will meet very soon.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Space (Space Opera)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2353644.Dust"}, +{"book_title": "Bone Wires", "author_name": "Michael Shean", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 242, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "In the wasteland of commercial culture that is future America, police are operated not by government but by private companies. In Seattle, that role is filled by Civil Protection, and Daniel Gray is a detective in Homicide Solutions. What used to be considered an important \u2013 even glamorous \u2013 department for public police is very different for the corporate species, and Gray finds himself stuck in a dead end job.That is, until the Spine Thief arrives.When a serial killer begins harvesting the spinal tissue of corporate employees all over the city, Detective Gray finds himself plunged into the first truly major case of his career. Caught in a dangerous mix of murder, betrayal and conflicting corporate interest, Gray will find himself not only matching wits with a diabolical murderer but grapple with his growing doubt toward his employers in the dawning months of the American tricentennial. A thrilling mystery set in the same world as the Wonderland Cycle, Bone Wires is a grim trip into the streets of the empty future.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Futuristic", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15739689-bone-wires"}, +{"book_title": "\u5929\u5b98\u8d50\u798f [Ti\u0101n Gu\u0101n C\u00ec F\u00fa", "author_name": "M\u00f2 Xi\u0101ng T\u00f3ngxi\u00f9", "rating_score": 4.68, "rating_votes": 3777, "review_number": 647, "book_description": "\u4e3a\u4f60\uff0c\u6240\u5411\u62ab\u9761\uff01C\u5929R\u5730\u5c0f\u5996\u7cbe\u653b\u00d7\u4ed9\u98ce\u9053\u9aa8\u6536\u7834\u70c2\u53d7\u554a\u90a3\u4e2a\u6536\u7834\u70c2\u7684\u5929\u754c\u516c\u52a1\u5458\uff0c\u8ddf\u9b3c\u754c\u7b2c\u4e00\u5927\u4f6c\u6709\u4e00\u817f\uff01\"Heaven Official\u2019s Blessing\"Eight hundred years ago, Xie Lian was the Crown Prince of the Xian Le kingdom; one who was beloved by his citizens and the darling of the world. Unsurprisingly, he ascended to the Heavens at a very young age. Now, eight hundred years later, Xie Lian ascends to the Heavens for the third time as the laughing stock of all three realms. On his first task as a god, he meets a mysterious demon who rules the ghosts and terrifies the Heavens\u2026\u2026yet unbeknownst to Xie Lian, this demon king has been paying attention to him for a very, very long time. (-novelupdates.com)", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Yaoi (Boys Love)", "Cultural (China)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Adult", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42674778-ti-n-gu-n-c-f"}, +{"book_title": "Nomansland", "author_name": "Lesley Hauge", "rating_score": 3.1, "rating_votes": 1045, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Sometime in the future, a lonely, windswept island is populated solely by women. Among these women is a group of teenaged Trackers\u2014expert equestrians and archers\u2014whose job is to protect their shores from the enemy. The enemy, they\u2019ve been told, is men. When these girls come upon a partially buried home from the distant past, they are fascinated by the strange objects\u2014high-heeled shoes, teen magazines, make-up\u2014found there. What are they to make of these mysterious things? And what does it mean for their strict society where friendship is forbidden and rules must be obeyed\u2014at all costs?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Novels", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162142-nomansland"}, +{"book_title": "The Reunion", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2359, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Marco is faced with a difficult decision when his mother threatens to seize control over Visser One.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363402.The_Reunion"}, +{"book_title": "Recursion", "author_name": "Blake Crouch", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 122948, "review_number": 16285, "book_description": "Memory makes reality.That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome\u2014a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease\u2014a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it\u2014and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Adult", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42046112-recursion"}, +{"book_title": "Hungry", "author_name": "H.A. Swain", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 2876, "review_number": 568, "book_description": "In the future, food is no longer necessary\u2014until Thalia begins to feel something unfamiliar and uncomfortable. She\u2019s hungry.In Thalia\u2019s world, there is no need for food\u2014everyone takes medication (or \u201cinocs\u201d) to ward off hunger. It should mean there is no more famine, no more obesity, no more food-related illnesses, and no more war. At least that's what her parents, who work for the company that developed the inocs, say. But when Thalia meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that most people live a life much different from hers. Worse, Thalia is starting to feel hunger, and so is he\u2014the inocs aren\u2019t working. Together they set out to find the only thing that will quell their hunger: real food.H. A. Swain delivers an adventure that is both epic and fast-paced. Get ready to be Hungry.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525734-hungry"}, +{"book_title": "Libriomancer", "author_name": "Jim C. Hines", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 12053, "review_number": 1797, "book_description": "Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. Libriomancers are gifted with the ability to magically reach into books and draw forth objects. When Isaac is attacked by vampires that leaked from the pages of books into our world, he barely manages to escape. To his horror he discovers that vampires have been attacking other magic-users as well, and Gutenberg has been kidnapped.With the help of a motorcycle-riding dryad who packs a pair of oak cudgels, Isaac finds himself hunting the unknown dark power that has been manipulating humans and vampires alike. And his search will uncover dangerous secrets about Libriomancy, Gutenberg, and the history of magic. . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12844699-libriomancer"}, +{"book_title": "\u65b0\u88c5\u7248\u3000\uff22\uff2c\uff21\uff2d\uff25\uff01\uff08\uff15", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 381, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "\u5f10\u74f6\u52c9\u306e\u5091\u4f5cSF\uff01\u3000\u30ab\u30d0\u30fc\u306f\u65b0\u305f\u306b\u63cf\u304d\u4e0b\u308d\u3057\uff01\u3000\u6975\u9650\u307e\u3067\u767a\u9054\u3057\u305f\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u4e16\u754c\u3002\u4f55\u5343\u30d5\u30ed\u30a2\u3082\u8d85\u69cb\u9020\u4f53\u3092\u653e\u6d6a\u3059\u308b\u63a2\u7d22\u8005\u30fb\u9727\u4ea5\uff08\u30ad\u30ea\u30a4\uff09\u3002\u81e8\u6642\u30bb\u30fc\u30d5\u30ac\u30fc\u30c9\u306e\u30c9\u30e2\u30c1\u30a7\u30d5\u30b9\u30ad\u30fc\u3068\u884c\u52d5\u3092\u3068\u3082\u306b\u3059\u308b\u30b7\u30dc\u3092\u3001\u5f37\u529b\u306a\u73ea\u7d20\u751f\u7269\u30fb\u30d7\u30bb\u30eb\u304c\u8ffd\u3046\uff01", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Comics Manga", "Cultural (Japan)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25840752"}, +{"book_title": "The House Where Isadora Danced", "author_name": "J.O. Jeppson", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "This historical novel is about the influence of Isadora Duncan, who never kept anything secret, on a suburban family that tried to keep many secrets.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890615-the-house-where-isadora-danced"}, +{"book_title": "The City Centre", "author_name": "Simone Pond", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 748, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "Ava didn't want to be right. Not about her city. Not about their leader, Chief Morray. But when Joseph gives her a secret journal from the past, the truth is revealed. She escapes with Joseph to the Outside, sending Chief Morray on an obsessive pursuit to retrieve his property. Ava has to decide if she should keep running, or return to the city center to save her people.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18164491-the-city-centre"}, +{"book_title": "Crucible", "author_name": "Nancy Kress", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 207, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Nancy Kress made her reputation in the early 90s with her multiple award-winning novella, \"Beggars in Spain,\" which became the basis for her extremely successful Beggars Trilogy (comprising Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride). Since then she has written over a dozen novels, including the well-received Probability Trilogy, culminating in Probability Space, which garnered her the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel. Now comes a brand new science fiction epic. It began with Crossfire: a far-future novel of planetary colonization and alien first contact. Jake Holman, a man trying to escape a dark past, brought together a diverse group of thousands to settle on a new world. But instead the humans found themselves caught in the crossfire of a galaxy-spanning war between two disparate species: agressive, militaristic humanoids known as Furs and passive, plantlike creatures known as Vines.Into this volatile mix arrives the Crucible, a ship from Earth filled with military personnel who stand ready to help defend the colony. As they help consolidate the defenses and prepare for war, the original colonists soon learn that vigilance comes with a price.Having cast their lots with the peaceful Vines, humanity faces all-out war against the technologically superior Furs. Our only hope? A virus designed by the Vines to remove all aggressiveness from the Furs. Can it spread fast enough to save not only Holman's colony, but the rest of humanity? And at what price to the Furs?Driven by strong ideas and deep moral questions, and peopled with real-as-life characters, Crucible shows Kress at the top of her form, amply demonstrating why she has been one of science fiction finest authors of the past twenty years.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632664.Crucible"}, +{"book_title": "Hunt the Moon", "author_name": "Karen Chance", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 16998, "review_number": 706, "book_description": "Cassandra Palmer recently defeated a god, which you'd think would buy a girl a little time off. But when your job is being Pythia - the world's chief clairvoyant - you don't get a lot of R&R. Cassie is busier than ever, discovering her power, figuring out her complicated relationship with enigmatic and sexy vampire Mircea, and preparing for her upcoming coronation.But someone is dead-set against Cassie becoming Pythia, and will go to any lengths to stop the coronation ceremony from happening - including making sure that Cassie is never born.Now, Cassie has to save herself - and the world, if she can find the time\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8926959-hunt-the-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Berserker", "author_name": "Fred Saberhagen", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 7265, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met--and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battlecraft carved a swath of death through the galaxy--until they arrived at the outskirts of the fledgling Empire of Man.These are the stories of the frail creatures who must meet this monstrous and implacable enemy--and who, by fighting it to a standstill, become the saviors of all living things.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Classics", "Artificial Intelligence", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582675.Berserker"}, +{"book_title": "Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures", "author_name": "Alex Acks", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 84, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Captain Marta Ramos, the most notorious pirate in the Duchy of Denver, has her hands full between fascinating murder mysteries, the delectable and devious Deliah Nimowitz, Colonel Geoffrey Douglas (the Duke of Denver\u2019s new head of security), a spot of airship engineering and her usual activities: piracy, banditry and burglary. Not to mention the horror of high society tea parties. In contrast, Simms, her second in command, longs only for a quiet life, filled with tasty sausages and fewer explosions. Or does he? Join Captain Ramos, Simms and their crew as they negotiate the perils of air, land and drawing room in a series of fast-paced adventures in a North America that never was.Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures includes 4 novellas and a short story about piracy, banditry, burglary, jail-breaking, several brilliant bits of detective work and all manner of otherwise lawless hijinks performed by the valiant Captain Ramos and her crew.Murder on the Titania: Colonel Geoffrey Douglas, the Duke of Denver\u2019s new head of security, is drawn into a high society murder mystery on the Airship Titania. None of the passengers are quite what they seem, including the mysterious young woman who always turns up where she is least expected.The Curious Case of Clementine Nimowitz (and Her Exceedingly Tiny Dog):A simple burglary goes horribly awry when Captain Ramos and Simms stumble across a dead body, a small dog and the deceased\u2019s heirs, the noisome Morris and the rather too interesting Deliah.The Jade Tiger: a mysterious woman enlists Captain Ramos\u2019s aid in getting her revenge on her former employer and Captain Ramos finds herself doing an unintentional good deed.The Ugly Tin Orrery: Captain Ramos and her crew embark on what appears to be a perfectly ordinary train robbery, only to be drawn into the Duke of Denver\u2019s political machinations via a strange metal artifact. Throw in a spot of jail breaking and an encounter with the lovely Deliah, and it\u2019s all in a day\u2019s work for Captain Ramos and Simms.The Flying Turk: The Airship Titania is entering a new era and welcoming its first automaton pilot. Or, perhaps not. Captain Ramos and Simms are back aboard the Titania for a heady mix of murder, robbery, peeved scientists and oblivious peers, with a spot of engineering thrown in.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39074899-murder-on-the-titania-and-other-steam-powered-adventures"}, +{"book_title": "A SteamPunk's Guide to the Apocalypse", "author_name": "Margaret Killjoy", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 83, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "A creative-commons guide to water-filtration, disease prevention, location, and steampunk contraptions that one might consider in the event of the apocalypse.This guide to surviving the apocalypse with steampunk style includes several illustrations from Colin Foran.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Humor", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6927244-a-steampunk-s-guide-to-the-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Gray's Shadow", "author_name": "K.A. Merikan", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 586, "review_number": 109, "book_description": " --- There can be no shadow without the man to cast it. --- Gray. Lost his twin. Will never be complete. Works alone. Shadow. Monster? Human? Exists to be Gray\u2019s one true companion. After losing his twin brother, Gray has devoted his life to the Kings of Hell MC. He will do anything to protect his family and that means anything. Even sell his own shadow to the devil. Following a fire that left him without one arm, Gray feels pushed to the sidelines. In order to prove to his club that he is still capable of completing dangerous tasks, he will have to team up with the strange creature from the Other Side. Tall, inhumanly strong, and menacing despite the handsome exterior, Shadow is just the tool Gray needs. The moment Shadow lays his eyes on Gray, he wants to crawl under Gray\u2019s skin and make the human his. Gray on the other hand isn\u2019t willing to get attached to a monster destined to do the devil\u2019s bidding and disappear once his time is up. Rejected, Shadow has to do everything in his power to convince his human that they belong together. But as the clock ticks away precious minutes of Shadow\u2019s existence, Gray will have to choose between his loyalty to the Kings of Hell MC and responsibility for the creature he brought into this world. * \u201cDo you feel me running through your veins?\u201d Gray nodded. * POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Themes: motorcycle club, alternative lifestyles, demons, monster, tattoos, secrets, crime, gothic, grief, mourning, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, fish out of water, opposites attract, demisexuality, gentle giant Genre: Dark, paranormal M/M romance Erotic content: Scorching hot, emotional, explicit scenes Length: ~150,000 words (Book 4 in the series) WARNING: This story contains scenes of violence, offensive language, and morally ambiguous characters. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41052468-gray-s-shadow"}, +{"book_title": "Dearly, Departed", "author_name": "Lia Habel", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 10330, "review_number": 1568, "book_description": "Love can never die.Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid\u2019s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead - or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie? The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria - a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country\u2019s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible - until she\u2019s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses. But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she\u2019s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting \u201cThe Laz,\u201d a fatal virus that raises the dead - and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there\u2019s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.In Dearly, Departed, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10048874-dearly-departed"}, +{"book_title": "The Cyberiad", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 10410, "review_number": 664, "book_description": "A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. Ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Humor", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Cultural (Poland)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18194.The_Cyberiad"}, +{"book_title": "Siege of Titan", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 791, "review_number": 28, "book_description": " Siege of Titan is the first book in the epic 'Uprising' series, part of the growing Star Crusades universe that chronicles humanity's first interstellar confederation that is torn apart by religious strife and extremism.In the first book of the Star Crusades Uprising series, the bloody struggle is told through the eyes of an illegal pit fighter named Spartan, who is forced to choose between incarceration or military service.\u00a0 Choosing the Confederate Marine Corps over servitude he begins his thirty long weeks of training.\u00a0 Together with his group of marines, they are honed into a force ready to be thrown into the meat grinder on the newest and greatest planet in the Confederacy, Proxima Prime. His term of service will soon become one of violence and carnage, as the entire sector is ripped apart by a brutal and virulent religious movement and its shocking plans.What starts as a series of suicide bombings and hijackings through the Confederacy quickly turns into a full-scale revolution on Prime that threatens the entire planet and quickly spreads to its orbital Naval Station and beyond. As every warship and military transport in the area is rushed to its defence, the fate of the planet and the entire sector lie in the hands of a small number of rookie marines.The 12-book Star Crusades series includes:\u00a0STAR CRUSADES UPRISINGSiege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1)Tears of Kerberos (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 2)Fires of Prometheus (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 3)Battle for Proxima (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 4)Fall of Terra Nova (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 5)Slaves of Hyperion (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 6)STAR CRUSADES NEXUSLegions of Orion (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 1)Machine Gods (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 2)Heroes of Helios (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 3)The Great Betrayal (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 4)Prophecy of Fire (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 5)Call to Arms (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 6)\u00a0These titles are also available as combined trilogies including:STAR CRUSADES UPRISING: THE FIRST TRILOGYSTAR CRUSADES UPRISING: THE SECOND TRILOGYSTAR CRUSADES NEXUS: THE FIRST TRILOGYSTAR CRUSADES NEXUS: THE SECOND TRILOGYFor more information visit the official Star Crusades website. Keyword Starcrusader.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Action", "Space (Space Opera)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10854068-siege-of-titan"}, +{"book_title": "Safari", "author_name": "Keith C. Blackmore", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2357, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Augustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when \u201cthey\u201d will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress. Living on the outskirts of a city and scavenging for whatever supplies remain since the demise of civilization, Gus knows that his next visit to undead suburbia could be his last.Not only does he face a corpse-infested urban hell, human scavengers, and unending loneliness, but now a new mystery has risen\u2026The undead are disappearing from the streets.A force is gathering, beyond the mountain man\u2019s darkest nightmares, even more relentless and terrifying than the roaming tides of dead flesh.And it\u2019s preparing to hunt.Book two of the Mountain Man series (don't read until you've read \"Mountain Man\"). Contains graphic language and scenes of violence.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13648624-safari"}, +{"book_title": "The Buried Life", "author_name": "Carrie Patel", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 545, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "The gaslight and shadows of the underground city of Recoletta hide secrets and lies. When Inspector Liesl Malone investigates the murder of a renowned historian, she finds herself stonewalled by the all-powerful Directorate of Preservation \u2013 Recoletta\u2019s top-secret historical research facility. \u00a0 When a second high-profile murder threatens the very fabric of city society, Malone and her rookie partner Rafe Sundar must tread carefully, lest they fall victim to not only the criminals they seek, but the government which purports to protect them.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20263206-the-buried-life"}, +{"book_title": "Little Heroes", "author_name": "Norman Spinrad", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 399, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "An over-the-hill rock star, a Puerto Rican street kid, and two children of the electronic age discover strength in numbers when they take on the power of Musik, Inc., in a war of nerves, passion, and rock 'n' roll. Spinrad uses the violent, sexually explicit language of new wave sf to communicate an ultimately touching message of courage and humanity that breaks through the high-tech glitter of his medium.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Music", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719900.Little_Heroes"}, +{"book_title": "Silver", "author_name": "Linda Nagata", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 406, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "A Lost Ship \u2013 A New World Urban is no longer master of the fearsome starship Dragon. Driven out by the hostile, godlike entity, Lezuri, he has taken refuge aboard the most distant vessel in his outrider fleet. Though Lezuri remains formidable, he is a broken god, commanding only a fragment of the knowledge that once was his. He is desperate to return home to the ring-shaped artificial world he created at the height of his power, where he can recover the memory of forgotten technologies. Urban is desperate to stop him. He races to reach the ring-shaped world first, only to find himself stranded in a remote desert, imperiled by a strange flood of glowing \u201csilver\u201d that rises in the night like fog\u2014a lethal fog that randomly rewrites the austere, Earthlike landscape. He has only a little time to decipher the mystery of the silver and to master its secrets. Lezuri is coming\u2014and Urban must level up before he can hope to vanquish the broken god.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48495251-silver"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 1419, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha has finally made it to her ancestral castle, but so has a whole crowd of her friends - and enemies! Worse, the lives of two them are in danger, unless she can get the Castle's power source back up and running-quick!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Humor", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7860809-agatha-heterodyne-and-the-heirs-of-the-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 4: Materia", "author_name": "Thomas Siddell", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 1414, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "The fourth volume in the ever-popular Gunnerkrigg Court series, based on Tom Siddell's hit webcomic! Annie returns from the forest and begins her third year at the Court. Her experience has left her changed, causing Kat to worry as they both struggle to find their place while their life changes around them. Together with their friends, they start to form a plan of action to deal with the tortured ghost they encountered the previous year, and in doing so, help Robot and Shadow form a new bond after a terrible accident. Annie continues to develop her powers and even takes part in a class full of former-fairies and animals, while Kat uncovers the mysteries of the ancient Court robots. Meanwhile, the search for the next Court Medium is drawing to a close, bringing with it new dangers and new revelations about the people Annie and Kat have met.Contains chapters 32-41 of the webcomic.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17285056-gunnerkrigg-court-volume-4"}, +{"book_title": "The Naked God 1: Flight", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2700, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "This breathtaking climax to the acclaimed saga of \"The Reality Dysfunction\" and \"The Neutronium Alchemist\" finds the Confederation on the verge of collapse, as more and more star systems fall to the Possessed. An alien god may hold the solution to the crisis--if Joshua and Syrinx can discover it in time.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45246.The_Naked_God_1"}, +{"book_title": "Behind Blue Eyes", "author_name": "Anna Mocikat", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 87, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "They are the perfect hybrid between human and machine. They are the next step in the evolution of mankind. And when they come after you, nothing in the world will save you... Welcome to the year 2095. Society has overcome everything that made human life miserable. It has become perfect -- so perfect that it needs killer cyborgs to hunt down anyone who disagrees with it.Nephilim isn't just any elite death squad member, she is the best. Genetically and cybernetically enhanced, she and others like her strike terror wherever they go. Knowing nothing besides this lifestyle, Nephilim believes that she's part of a righteous cause. But everything changes for her after a hostile EMP attack. She suffers a severe system glitch. Disconnected from the grid, for the first time in her life, she begins doubting the system.Shortly after the attack, she meets Jake, a 100% biological human, and she falls in love with him. Jake helps her discover that everything she had believed in was a lie. But there is no walking away from the system. And soon, Nephilim finds herself hunted by members of her own death squad.In an era of deception, who can she trust? And in this brave new world, is there a place for love between a human and a cyborg?Behind Blue Eyes is a fast-paced, cinematic action story in a dystopian setting. It's a modern-day version of 1984 - on steroids.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53403078-behind-blue-eyes"}, +{"book_title": "Defy", "author_name": "Sara B. Larson", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 21016, "review_number": 2603, "book_description": "Alexa Hollen is a fighter. Forced to disguise herself as a boy and serve in the king's army, Alex uses her quick wit and fierce sword-fighting skills to earn a spot on the elite prince's guard. But when a powerful sorcerer sneaks into the palace in the dead of night, even Alex, who is virtually unbeatable, can't prevent him from abducting her, her fellow guard and friend Rylan, and Prince Damian, taking them through the treacherous wilds of the jungle and deep into enemy territory.The longer Alex is held captive with both Rylan and the prince, the more she realizes that she is not the only one who has been keeping dangerous secrets. And suddenly, after her own secret is revealed, Alex finds herself confronted with two men vying for her heart: the safe and steady Rylan, who has always cared for her, and the dark, intriguing Damian. With hidden foes lurking around every corner, is Alex strong enough to save herself and the kingdom she's sworn to protect?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17406847-defy"}, +{"book_title": "ZeroS", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 71, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "We\u2019re pleased to reprint Peter Watt\u2019s \u201cZeroS\u201d. From the author: In my last novel, a grizzled old soldier reminisces bitterly about the early days of the military zombie program, of which he was an early recruit. He wasn\u2019t the first recruit, though. The first recruits, some of them at least, were corpses scraped off various battlefields, booted temporarily back to awareness with jumper cables to the brain, and told Hey, you\u2019re actually dead, but we can bring you back to life so long as you\u2019re willing to work for us for a few years. Or if you\u2019d rather, we could just unplug these cables and leave you the way we found you. As contracts go it\u2019s pretty take-it-or-leave-it, but given the alternative would you walk away? [\u2026] \u201cZeroS\u201d is the story of one of those first recruits.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36393694-zeros"}, +{"book_title": "A Quantum Murder", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 5000, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "Professor Edward Kitchener, a double Nobel laureate researching quantum cosmology for the powerful Event Horizon conglomerate has been savagely murdered. But was he the victim of industrial espionage, personal revenge, or a crime of passion by one of his handpicked team of live-wire students? Event Horizon needs to know and fast, so Greg Mandel, PSI-boosted veteran of the infamous Mindstar Battalion, must embark on an urgent investigation that ultimately leads him to an astounding confrontation with a past, which, according to the dead man's theories, might never have happened.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45250.A_Quantum_Murder"}, +{"book_title": "Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories", "author_name": "Naomi Kritzer", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 364, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Acclaimed writer Naomi Kritzer's marvelous tales of science fiction and fantasy are now collected in Cat Pictures and Other Stories. Here are seventeen short stories, including her Hugo Award-winning story \"Cat Pictures Please,\" which is about what would happen if artificial intelligence was born out of our search engine history. Two stories are previously unpublished. Kritzer has a gift for telling stories both humorous and tender. Her stories are filled with wit and intelligence, and require thoughtful reading.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Anthologies", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35394775-cat-pictures-please-and-other-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Heir to the Empire", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 72500, "review_number": 3093, "book_description": "Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.It is a time of renewal, five years after the destruction of the Death Star and the defeat of Darth Vader and the Empire.But with the war seemingly won, strains are beginning to show in the Rebel Alliance. New challenges to galactic peace have arisen. And Luke Skywalker hears a voice from his past. A voice with a warning. Beware the dark side\u2026.The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet back into barely a quarter of the territory that they once controlled. Leia and Han are married, are expecting Jedi twins, and have shouldered heavy burdens in the government of the new Republic. And Luke Skywalker is the first in a hoped-for new line of Jedi Knights.But thousands of light years away, where a few skirmishes are still taking place, the last of the Emperor's warlords has taken command of the remains of the Imperial fleet. He has made two vital discoveries that could destroy the fragile new Republic\u2014built with such cost to the Rebel Alliance. The tale that emerges is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scale\u2014in short, a story that is worthy of the name Star Wars.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604754-heir-to-the-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Darkness at Noon", "author_name": "Arthur Koestler", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 26724, "review_number": 1539, "book_description": "Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he'd helped create.Darkness at Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he relives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, it asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. It is \u2014- as the Times Literary Supplement has declared \u2014- \"A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed of all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellectualized drama.\"", "year_published": 1940, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Politics", "Cultural (Russia)", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30672.Darkness_at_Noon"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Roads", "author_name": "Beth Bernobich", "rating_score": 3.15, "rating_votes": 193, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "\u00c9ire is one of the most powerful empires in the world. The Anglian Dependencies are a dusty backwater filled with resentful colonial subjects, Europe is a disjointed mess, and many look to \u00c9ire for stability and peace. In a series of braided stories, Beth Bernobich has created a tale about the brilliant \u00c9ireann scientists who have already bent the laws of nature for Man's benefit. And who now are striving to conquer the nature of time.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10010476-the-time-roads"}, +{"book_title": "Reign of Blood", "author_name": "Alexia Purdy", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2491, "review_number": 419, "book_description": "Never tease anything that wants to eat you.My name is April Tate and my blood is the new gold. Vampires and hybrids have overrun my world, once vibrant with life, but now a graveyard of death shrouded in shadows. I fight to survive; I fight for my mother and brother. The journey is full of turns that I am quite unprepared for. And I'm just hoping to make it to the next Vegas sunrise...\"In a post-apocalyptic world, a viral epidemic has wiped out most of the earth\u2019s population, leaving behind few humans but untold numbers of mutated vampires. April is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in the remains of Las Vegas one year after the outbreak. She has become a ferocious vampire killer and after her family is abducted, she goes searching for them. What she finds is a new breed of vampire, unlike any she has seen before. Unsure of whom she can trust, she discovers that her view of the world is not as black and white as she once thought, and she's willing to bend the rules to rescue her family. But in trying to save them, she may only succeed in bringing her fragile world crashing down around her.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36125533-reign-of-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Guardian", "author_name": "Angela Knight", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 918, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Riane Arvid is a superhuman cop from the future, trapped in the year 2009 by group of murderous fanatics called the Xeran. Nick Wyatt is a handsome twentyfirst century warrior who has been a target of the Xeran his entire life. He's the only one Riane can turn to, but his intentions are as mysterious as his origins. In an attempt to discover the truth about each other, both Riane and Nick decide seduction is the best tactic.Read Angela Knight's posts on the Penguin Blog. ", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic Romance", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5995419-guardian"}, +{"book_title": "A World of Difference", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 395, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "When the Viking lander on the planet Minerva was destroyed, sending back one last photo of a strange alien being, scientists on Earth were flabbergasted. And so a joint investigation was launched by the United States and the Soviet Union, the first long-distance manned space mission, and a symbol of the new peace between the two great rivals.Humankind's first close encounter with extraterrestrials would be history in the making, and the two teams were schooled in diplomacy as well as in science. But nothing prepared them for alien war -- especially when the Americans and the Soviets found themselves on opposite sides...", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101566.A_World_of_Difference"}, +{"book_title": "AlterWorld", "author_name": "D. Rus", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 6414, "review_number": 357, "book_description": "A new pandemic - the perma effect - has taken over Earth of the near future. Whenever you play your favorite online game, beware: your mind might merge with the virtual world and dump its comatose host. Woe be to those stuck forever in Tetris! And still they're the lucky ones compared to those burning alive eternally within the scorched hulls of tank simulators. But some unfortunates - the handicapped and the terminally ill, shell-shocked army vets, wronged crime victims and other society misfits - choose to flee real life willingly, escaping to the limitless world of online sword and sorcery MMORPGs. Once a seasoned gamer and now a terminal cancer patient, Max grasps at this final chance to preserve his life and identity. So he goes for it - goes for the promise of immortality shared with a few trusty friends and the woman he loves. Together they roam the roads of AlterWorld and sample its agony and ecstasy born of absolute freedom.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Adventure", "Cultural (Russia)", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24675861-alterworld"}, +{"book_title": "The Android's Dream", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 19282, "review_number": 1670, "book_description": "A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior alien race. A lone man races against time and a host of enemies to find the one object that can save our planet and our people from alien enslavement...A sheep.That's right, a sheep. And if you think that's the most surprising thing about this book, wait until you read Chapter One. Welcome to The Android's Dream.For Harry Creek, it's quickly becoming a nightmare. All he wants is to do his uncomplicated mid-level diplomatic job with Earth's State Department. But his past training and skills get him tapped to save the planet--and to protect pet store owner Robin Baker, whose own past holds the key to the whereabouts of that lost sheep. Doing both will take him from lava-strewn battlefields to alien halls of power. All in a day's work. Maybe it's time for a raise.Throw in two-timing freelance mercenaries, political lobbyists with megalomaniac tendencies, aliens on a religious quest, and an artificial intelligence with unusual backstory, and you've got more than just your usual science fiction adventure story. You've got The Android's Dream.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7081.The_Android_s_Dream"}, +{"book_title": "Agents of Light and Darkness", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 14859, "review_number": 459, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling author takes readers back to the Nightside.A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London...called the Nightside.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155291.Agents_of_Light_and_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Milk Run", "author_name": "Nathan Lowell", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 1923, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "Academy graduate Natalya Regyri stood first in line for her pick of Engineering Officer jobs, until, at the graduation party, a classmate turned up dead. Now, betrayed by her friends and framed for murder, she must flee beyond the reach of the Confederation...and any semblance of civilized society. With a damaged second-hand ship and TIC interceptors dogging her step, she nets a smuggling contract that might just get her back on her feet and in control of her destiny. But only if she's willing to make an ore run back to the place she's wanted for murder, and into the arms of the authorities... ...who somehow know she's coming.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31687501-milk-run"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Cosmos", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 6875, "review_number": 531, "book_description": "2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valient\u00e9, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by radio astronomers but also in more abstract ways \u2013 by the trolls and by the Great Traversers. Its message is simple but ts implications are enormous:JOIN US.The super-smart Next realise that the Message contains instructions on how to develop an immense artificial intelligence but to build it they have to seek help from throughout the industrious worlds of mankind. Bit by bit, byte by byte, they assemble a computer the size of a continent \u2013 a device that will alter the Long Earth\u2019s place within the cosmos and reveal the ultimate, life-affirming goal of those who sent the Message. Its impact will be felt by and resonate with all \u2013 mankind and other species, young and old, communities and individuals \u2013 who inhabit the Long Earths\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25859268-the-long-cosmos"}, +{"book_title": "Caveman Alien's Mate", "author_name": "Calista Skye", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1064, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "\n\n\nAr'ox...\n\n\nShe's small, round and soft. And so alluring my loins swell by the sight of her. Surely she was sent by the Ancestors to be my Mate!\n\n\nThe tribe will rejoice when they see her...\n\n\n\n\nShe's mine now!\n\n\n\n\n\nEmilia...\n\n\nHe's a seven feet tall caveman with muscles the size of tree trunks, fangs like a tiger and a smouldering fire in his eyes. He makes my knees buckle just by looking at me!\nAnd he's saved me from deadly dinosaurs about twenty times. If he could get me a steaming mug of latte on this crazy alien planet, he'd be perfect!\nAlmost. Because I really want to go home. But he thinks I'm his Mate, and he's taking me to his cave!\n\n\nAnd I get the feelingmy opinion about that doesn't count for much...\n\n\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Warriors", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36196781-caveman-alien-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "The Collected What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been", "author_name": "Robert Cowley", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 529, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "What If?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["History", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Writing (Essays)", "History (World History)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Reference", "Biography", "Military (Military History)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179217.The_Collected_What_If_Eminent_Historians_Imagine_What_Might_Have_Been"}, +{"book_title": "Breeder", "author_name": "Cara Bristol", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 2083, "review_number": 282, "book_description": "To secure his legacy, Commander Dak, a ruling Alpha of planet Parseon, purchases Omra, a breeder slave. He intends to impregnate her, produce a son, and hand her off to his anointed beta partner. As Dak and Omra discover a sexual bliss banned by law, he begins to question the traditions and ways of his people, causing him to jeopardize his command and endanger the life of the woman he has come to love.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Dark", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18626685-breeder"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Poe Dameron, Vol. 1: Black Squadron", "author_name": "Charles Soule", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2890, "review_number": 332, "book_description": "Poe Dameron, former Republic flyer turned Resistance fighter, is the best pilot in the galaxy. Hand-picked for the resistance by General Leia Organa to lead a squadron on a top-secret and vital mission, Poe sets off to investigate sites of historical importance to the Force \u2014 revealing backstory leading directly into The Force Awakens! Follow Poe and his X-Wing squadron on covert missions against the First Order, brought to you by writer Charles Soule (STAR WARS: LANDO, DAREDEVIL) and artist Phil Noto (STAR WARS: CHEWBACCA, BLACK WIDOW)!Collecting issues 1\u20136 from the ongoing series.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29775742-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Mother of Storms", "author_name": "John Barnes", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1427, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake.A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of an emerging global consciousness.Vast in scope, yet intimate in personal detail, Mother of Storms is a visionary fusion of cutting-edge cyberspace fiction and heart-stopping storytelling in the grand tradition, filled with passion, tragedy, and the triumph of the human spirit.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Environment", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416715.Mother_of_Storms"}, +{"book_title": "The Nikopol Trilogy", "author_name": "Enki Bilal", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1769, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "This critically acclaimed collection follows the incredible journey of Alcide Nikopol in the company of the vengeful god Horus of Hierakonopolis and Jill Bioskop, a mysterious woman with blue hair, from Paris to Berlin, Cairo to Equator City. The tale is a unique mix of science fiction, anxiety, humor, and strangeness from Europe's premier comics creator, Enki Bilal.This hardcover volume presents The Carnival of Immortals, The Woman Trap, and Equator Cold, three of Europe's best-selling graphic novels of all time.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Cultural (France)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472473.The_Nikopol_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "Old Soldiers", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1422, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Captain Maneka Trevor was the sole human survivor of the Dinochrome Brigade's 39th Battalion . . . but she hadn't wanted to be one. The Bolo known as \"Lazarus\" -- Unit 28/G-179-LAZ -- was the 39th's sole surviving Bolo . . . but he hadn't been hers. The doctors and the Bolo techs have put them both back together again, yet there are wounds no doctor or technician can heal. And now Maneka and Lazarus must serve together once again, in a war whose stakes are literally the survival or extermination of the human race. They are all that stand between a desperate, secret colony of humanity and destruction: a Bolo commander torn by survivor's guilt and a Bolo whose very existence reminds her of all she has lost. The odds against them are heavy, the stakes are huge, and surrender is not an option. The Dinochrome Brigade is used to that, but can Maneka and Lazarus survive their own shared past to defend the present?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130527.Old_Soldiers"}, +{"book_title": "Company Town", "author_name": "Madeline Ashby", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 4719, "review_number": 859, "book_description": "Meet Hwa. One of the few in her community to forego bio-engineered enhancements, she\u2019s the last truly organic person left on the rig. But she\u2019s an expert in the arts of self-defence, and she\u2019s been charged with training the Family\u2019s youngest, who has been receiving death threats \u2013 seemingly from another timeline. Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city\u2019s stability \u2013 serial killer? Or something much, much worse...?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20447745-company-town"}, +{"book_title": "Wayfarer", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 11951, "review_number": 1874, "book_description": "All Etta Spencer wanted was to make her violin debut when she was thrust into a treacherous world where the struggle for power could alter history. After losing the one thing that would have allowed her to protect the Timeline, and the one person worth fighting for, Etta awakens alone in an unknown place and time, exposed to the threat of the two groups who would rather see her dead than succeed. When help arrives, it comes from the last person Etta ever expected\u2014Julian Ironwood, the Grand Master\u2019s heir who has long been presumed dead, and whose dangerous alliance with a man from Etta\u2019s past could put them both at risk. Meanwhile, Nicholas and Sophia are racing through time in order to locate Etta and the missing astrolabe with Ironwood travelers hot on their trail. They cross paths with a mercenary-for-hire, a cheeky girl named Li Min who quickly develops a flirtation with Sophia. But as the three of them attempt to evade their pursuers, Nicholas soon realizes that one of his companions may have ulterior motives. As Etta and Nicholas fight to make their way back to one another, from Imperial Russia to the Vatican catacombs, time is rapidly shifting and changing into something unrecognizable\u2026 and might just run out on both of them.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20983366-wayfarer"}, +{"book_title": "Jinxed", "author_name": "Amy McCulloch", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1022, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "Lacey Chu has big dreams of becoming a companioneer\u00a0for MONCHA, the largest tech firm in North America and the company behind the \u00a0\"baku\" - a customisable smart pet that functions as a phone but makes the perfect companion too. When\u00a0Lacey finds out she hasn't been accepted into Profectus - the elite academy for cutting edge tech - it seems her dreams are over.\u00a0Worst of all, rather than getting to choose one of the advanced bakus, she\u2019s stuck with a rubbish insect one.\u00a0Then, one night, Lacey\u00a0comes across the remains of an advanced baku. Once it might\u2019ve been in the shape of a cat but it\u2019s now mangled and broken, no sign of electronic life behind its eyes. Days of work later and the baku opens its eyes. Lacey calls him Jinx \u2013 and Jinx opens up a world for her that she never even knew existed, including entry to the hallowed halls of Profecus.\u00a0Slowly but surely, Jinx becomes more than just a baku to Lacey \u2013 he becomes her perfect companion. But what is Jinx, really? His abilities far surpass anything written into his code or built into his motherboard. He seems to be more than just a robotic pet. He seems ... real.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Animals", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45007889-jinxed"}, +{"book_title": "Mordacious", "author_name": "Sarah Lyons Fleming", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 1765, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "From the universe of the Until the End of the World series (Note: The City Series can be read before or after the Until the End of the World series) Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option. A nurse\u2019s offer of sanctuary promises Sylvie the supplies she needs to survive the zombies\u2013it\u2019s the coexisting with people that might do her in. Eric Forrest will do whatever it takes to get into the dead city for his sister, including ending up dead himself. He\u2019s used to taking risks, but with every mile he travels death looks likelier and likelier, and finding his sister may be his only prospect for survival\u2014if he can make it home. Sylvie doesn\u2019t need more than food, water and shelter. Eric wants only to find his sister. But sometimes what we think we need isn\u2019t what we need at all, and what we find is more than we expected.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30367410-mordacious"}, +{"book_title": "Lena's Decision", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 178, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Free short story can be downloaded from Bec McMaster's website", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Adult", "Novella", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32716714-lena-s-decision"}, +{"book_title": "Eldest", "author_name": "Christopher Paolini", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 369387, "review_number": 9748, "book_description": "Darkness falls\u2026despair abounds\u2026evil reigns\u2026Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider. Ages 12+.Darkness falls\u2026despair abounds\u2026evil reigns\u2026Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesn't know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle\u2013one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the king's dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45978.Eldest"}, +{"book_title": "Fifty Degrees Below", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2526, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "After years of denial and non-action, a near-future Earth faces a crossroad when it is threatened with the dire implications of global warming, an environmental crisis that ironically could unleash a devastating Ice Age on the planet.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Politics", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction", "Environment (Climate Change)", "Environment", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41121.Fifty_Degrees_Below"}, +{"book_title": "Forget Nothing", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1119, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "She Chose the Hardest WayThe daughter of a Legion war hero, fighting was in Andien Broxin's blood. But the battles Republic marines face on strange and alien worlds are a far cry from the vaunted, brutal, no-holds-barred conflicts fought at the edge of the galaxy by the elite legionnaires.Until a devastating war erupts right in the Republic\u2019s stellar backyard.Newly stationed on a mid-core planet being harassed by terrorist revolutionaries, Andien and her fellow \"hullbusters\" find themselves right in the middle of a desperate fight for survival. All their training, standards, discipline\u2014all the hard paths\u2014have led to this. If she and her fellow marines are to come out of this alive, Andien will have to find out who she truly is...and what she can become.Best-selling military science fiction author Jason Anspach and USMC/US Army veteran Michelle C. Meyers explore the rigors of combat, survival, and the human will in this edge-of-your-seat account set in the Galaxy\u2019s Edge universe.\u00a92020 Galaxy's Edge, LLC (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53841252-forget-nothing"}, +{"book_title": "Pod", "author_name": "Stephen Wallenfels", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 1340, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "Surviving a massive alien siege is one thing-surviving humanity is another. I'm all cried out. I'm still alone. The sky is full of giant spinning black balls that kill anyone stupid enough to go outside. I've only been out of the car twice-once to pee and once to look at the sky. That one look was enough for me. Now I sit alone in the car, staring out the window like a rat in a cage. But I don't have anyone to look at. The parking garage is empty, except for twisted-up cars, broken glass, and the smell of leaking gasoline. POD is the story of a global cataclysmic event, told from the viewpoints of Megs, a twelve-year-old streetwise girl trapped in a hotel parking garage in Los Angeles; and sixteen-year-old Josh, who is stuck in a house in Prosser, Washington, with his increasingly obsessive-compulsive father. Food and water and time are running out. Will Megs survive long enough to find her mother? Will Josh and his father survive each other?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7670154-pod"}, +{"book_title": "The Adjacent", "author_name": "Christopher Priest", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 1295, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The authorities think the terrorist attack and the death of Tarent's wife are somehow connected. A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. On his journey to the trenches he meets the visionary who believes that this will be the war to end all wars. In 1943, a woman pilot from Poland tells a young RAF technician of her escape from the Nazis, and her desperate need to return home. In the present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his English garden and creates the first adjacency. THE ADJACENT is a novel where nothing is quite as it seems. Where fiction and history intersect, where every version of reality is suspect, where truth and falsehood lie closely adjacent to one another. It shows why Christopher Priest is one of our greatest writers.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17256056-the-adjacent"}, +{"book_title": "The Churn", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 15707, "review_number": 935, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author James S.A. Corey...Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Amos Burton was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you. Unless the authorities got to you first. Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of the Expanse, The Churn deepens James S. A. Corey's acclaimed series.The Expanse (a major SyFy Channel television series)Leviathan WakesCaliban's WarAbaddon's GateCibola BurnNemesis GamesThe Expanse Short Fiction The Butcher of Anderson StationGods of RiskThe Churn", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20981355-the-churn"}, +{"book_title": "The Ship Beyond Time", "author_name": "Heidi Heilig", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3823, "review_number": 596, "book_description": "Some things should not be stolen.After what seems like a lifetime of following her father across the globe and through the centuries, Nix has finally taken the helm of their time-traveling ship. Her future\u2014and the horizon\u2014is bright.Until she learns she is destined to lose the one she loves. To end up like her father: alone, heartbroken.Unable to face losing Kashmir\u2014best friend, thief, charmer extraordinaire\u2014Nix sails her crew to a mythical utopia to meet a man who promises he can teach her how to manipulate time, to change history. But no place is perfect, not even paradise. And everything is constantly changing on this utopian island, including reality itself.If Nix can read the ever-shifting tides, perhaps she will finally harness her abilities. Perhaps she can control her destiny, too.Or perhaps her time will finally run out.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30653880-the-ship-beyond-time"}, +{"book_title": "Twister on Tuesday", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 9313, "review_number": 322, "book_description": "An adventure to blow you away!That's what Jack and Annie get when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the 1870s. They land on the prairie near a one-room schoolhouse, where they meet a teenage schoolteacher, some cool kids, and one big, scary bully. But the biggest and scariest thing is yet to come!", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526643.Twister_on_Tuesday"}, +{"book_title": "When Diplomacy Fails", "author_name": "Michael Z. Williamson", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 445, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Alex Marlow and Ripple Creek Security's best personal security detail return to action.\u00a0This time, they really don't like their principal, World Bureau Minister Joy Herman Highland\u2013a highly-placed bureaucrat with aspirations to elected office.\u00a0Even worse, Highland\u2019s assistant wants to publicize every movement and action for his boss\u2019s pending campaign, which is anathema to good security.With a person of this status, it's not a case of someone wanting her dead.\u00a0 The only question is how many people want her dead, and what are they bringing to the fight?The enemies are from without, within and all over.\u00a0 They have resources, funding and political cover.\u00a0 Ripple Creek needs to be cautious.But the enemy also needs to worry.\u00a0 They\u2019re going to be getting in each others' way in the process of carrying out their plans. And Ripple Creek has no qualms about explosions on galactic news. In fact, they enjoy it.About Michael Z. Williamson:\u201cA fast-paced, compulsive read\u2026will appeal to fans of John Ringo, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and David Weber.\u201d \u2013 Kliatt\u201cWilliamson's military expertise is impressive.\u201d \u2013 SFReviews", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "War", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13260101-when-diplomacy-fails"}, +{"book_title": "Shattered Hourglass", "author_name": "J.L. Bourne", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 4505, "review_number": 290, "book_description": "START INTERCEPTArmies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.INTERCEPT COMPLETESurvivor,Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm capture the desperation\u2014and the will to survive\u2014as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle surviving enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10825907-shattered-hourglass"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken King and the Abominable Worm", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 849, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "As they continue their expedition across Australia, Ariq is determined to stay close to Zenobia and figure out what kind of game she\u2019s playing\u2014even as his admiration for the enigmatic woman starts to override his suspicion.For Zenobia, revealing her identity to a man who once made his living outside of the law is out of the question\u2014even though Ariq\u2019s dashing looks and blunt manner are distractingly appealing.But before anyone\u2019s secrets or desires can be exposed, an unexpected attack threatens to destroy them all\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Steampunk Romance", "Novella", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20645263-the-kraken-king-and-the-abominable-worm"}, +{"book_title": "Valor's Trial", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 4677, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "The rousing military adventure (Locus) continues with a brand new Valor novel. Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is a Confederation Marines marine. She's survived more deadly encounters and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive than anyone in the Corps. Unexpectedly pulled from battle, Torin finds herself in an underground POW camp that shouldn't exist, where her fellow marine prisoners seem to have lost all will to escape. Now, Torin must fight her way not only out of the prison but also past the growing compulsion to sit down and give up - not realizing that her escape could mean the end of the war.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2305391.Valor_s_Trial"}, +{"book_title": "Star Marines", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1083, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "With the planet's fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy\u2014battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity\u2014the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once majestic world is reduced to near-rubble\u2014and the very future of humankind is in dire jeopardy.Interplanetary leaders are on the brink of abandoning Earth and its colonies to an overwhelming enemy. But Brigadier General Garroway of the Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit is unwilling to concede defeat\u2014not as long as there's a single marine willing to give his or her life in defense of their embattled homeworld. The ultimate battle is about to be waged\u2014with breathtaking new attack technology, an ancient code of courage, and the help of an ally race that once inhabited the Earth\u2014in a war that will alter the universe forever . . .", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129633.Star_Marines"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Mechanika Vol. 1: The Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse", "author_name": "Joe Ben\u00edtez", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1764, "review_number": 334, "book_description": "Discover a beautifully illustrated steampunk world of airships, monsters, and one courageous but haunted heroine...The tabloids dubbed her \"Lady Mechanika,\" the sole survivor of a mad scientist's horrific experiments which left her with mechanical limbs. Having no memory of her captivity or her former life, Lady Mechanika eventually built a new life for herself as an adventurer and private investigator, using her unique abilities to solve cases the proper authorities couldn't or wouldn't handle. But she never stopped searching for the answers to her own past. Set in a fictionalized steampunk Victorian England, a time when magic and superstition clashed with new scientific discoveries and inventions, Lady Mechanika chronicles a young woman's obsessive search for her identity as she investigates other mysteries involving science and the supernatural. This volume collects the entire first Lady Mechanika mini-series The Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse, including its prequel chapter The Demon of Satan's Alley, plus a complete cover art gallery.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28116143-lady-mechanika-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Interface", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 5576, "review_number": 328, "book_description": "From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a shocking tale with an all-too plausible premise. There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantage - an advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers. A biochip implanted in his head hardwires him to a computerized polling system. The mood of the electorate is channeled directly into his brain. Forget issues. Forget policy. Cozzano is more than the perfect candidate. He's a special effect. \"Complex, entertaining, frequently funny.\" - Publishers Weekly\"Qualifies as the sleeper of the year, the rare kind of science-fiction thriller that evokes genuine laughter while simultaneously keeping the level of suspense cranked to the max.\" - San Diego Union-Tribune\"Manchurian Candidate for the computer age.\" - Seattle Weekly", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Politics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/828.Interface"}, +{"book_title": "Vorpal Blade", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3296, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "The sequel to Into the Looking Glass. William Weaver, PhD. and SEAL Chief Adams are back and Bill got himself a ship! The former SSBN Nebraska has been converted, using mostly garage mechanics and baling wire, into a warp ship ready to go \"out there.\" But as everyone knows, the people who really are going to bear the brunt are the poor Security guys, Force Recon Marines who are kept in the dark and fed manure all day. That is until they land on an alien planet, get partially wiped out and then load back up again. Ranging in topics from the best gun to kill armored space monsters to particle physics to cosmology to health and beauty tips, Vorpal Blade is a return to the \"good old days\" of SF when the science problems were intractable and the beasts were ugly. The monkeys are out in the space lanes and ready to rock. As soon as they get another roll of duct tape.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528363.Vorpal_Blade"}, +{"book_title": "Winterfair Gifts", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 7203, "review_number": 332, "book_description": "This Hugo-nominated novella adds a delightful extra chapter to Bujold's Vorkosigan series, describing the wedding of Miles and Ekaterin and events leading up to it. In the festive season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan is making elaborate preparations for his wedding. The long-awaited event stirs up romance and intrigue among his eccentric family and friends, particularly for bioengineered space mercenary Sergeant Taura and shy, diffident Armsman Roic. But Miles also has an enemy who is plotting to turn the romantic ceremony into a festival of death. Winterfair Gifts offers another of Bujold's witty, character-centered science fiction plots with a twist of romance.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3746202-winterfair-gifts"}, +{"book_title": "Betrayal", "author_name": "Pippa DaCosta", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1639, "review_number": 271, "book_description": "WARNING. Rated: R. Restricted. Contains space battles, killer AI, intergalactic ass-kicking. Read at own risk.She is programmed to kill.He\u2019ll do anything to survive. Ex-con Captain Caleb Shepperd believes being good is overrated. All he wants is to smuggle illegal cargo through the nine systems and live a prosperous (likely short) life on the wrong side of the law.But there's a problem with that plan. The priceless synthetic stowaway on his ship is a distraction he doesn't need.Torn between selling her and tossing her out the airlock, Shepperd fails to realize the synth is a killer, and he's the one locked in her sights.In a world where only one thousand synthetics were built, synthetic number One Thousand and One should not exist. She is no ordinary synth. Memories locked inside her code could bring Shepperd\u2014and the entire nine systems\u2014to its knees.Captain Shepperd and the oppressive corporations are about to learn that you can't hide from the sins of your past, especially when that past has orders to kill.WARNING: 18+ only. Contains adult content, including sex, drug use, violence, and swearing.Older cover editions of this ASIN can be found here & here.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fiction", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35496899-betrayal"}, +{"book_title": "Yce", "author_name": "A.G. Wilde", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 755, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "\nWhen she\u2019d left the gym to head home for a quiet night, the last thing she\u2019d expected was to be abducted by aliens to then be thrown into a fight for life and survival aboard an alien slave ship.\nNow that chapter is over and there\u2019s another obstacle in her way\u2014surviving on a desert planet where everything lives to kill\u2026all the while dealing with him\u2026Yce.The alien she\u2019s stuck with.He\u2019s otherworldly, strange, and absolutely confusing.She hates him and the feeling seems to be mutual.Problem is, they are stuck in each other\u2019s company until they reach the outpost to send a message for help.Aliens are the reason she\u2019s in this predicament and Yce is probably no better than her captors\u2026Except he is...he is very different...and that's something not even hate can ignore. This book contains mature themes and sex. ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adventure", "Action", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50698087-yce"}, +{"book_title": "If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History", "author_name": "Jeff Greenfield", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 479, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "From one of the country\u2019s most brilliant political commentators, the bestselling author of Then Everything Changed, an extraordinary, thought-provoking look at Kennedy\u2019s presidency\u2014after November 22, 1963.November 22, 1963: JFK does not die. What would happen to his life, his presidency, his country, his world?Now he presents his most compelling narrative of all about the historical event that has riveted us for fifty years. What if Kennedy were not killed that fateful day? What would the 1964 campaign have looked like? Would changes have been made to the ticket? How would Kennedy, in his second term, have approached Vietnam, civil rights, the Cold War? With Hoover as an enemy, would his indiscreet private life finally have become public? Would his health issues have become so severe as to literally cripple his presidency? And what small turns of fate in the days and years before Dallas might have kept him from ever reaching the White House in the first place?As with Then Everything Changed, the answers Greenfield provides and the scenarios he develops are startlingly realistic, rich in detail, shocking in their projections, but always deeply, remarkably plausible. It is a tour de force of American political history.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Politics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "American History", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707492-if-kennedy-lived"}, +{"book_title": "United States of Japan", "author_name": "Peter Tieryas", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 3301, "review_number": 625, "book_description": "Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan\u2019s conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons \u2013 a shadowy group of rebels fighting for freedom. Their latest subversive tactic is to distribute an illegal video game that asks players to imagine what the world might be like if the United States had won the war instead. \u00a0 Captain Beniko Ishimura's job is to censor video games, and he's working with Agent Akiko Tsukino of the secret police to get to the bottom of this disturbing new development. But Ishimura's hiding something... He's slowly been discovering that the case of the George Washingtons is more complicated than it seems, and the subversive videogame's origins are even more controversial and dangerous than either of them originally suspected. Part detective story, part brutal alternate history,\u00a0United States of Japan\u00a0is a stunning successor to Philip K Dick\u2019s\u00a0The Man in the High Castle. File under: Science Fiction [ Gamechanger | Area #11 | Robot Wars | Strike Back the Empire ]", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25809801-united-states-of-japan"}, +{"book_title": "The Revolution Business", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2312, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Things are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Miriam, rescued from a tight spot in New Britain, finds the hopes of the young, progressive faction focused on her. But do they want her as a leader or a figurehead? She soon finds herself thrown into a desperate struggle for power. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Clan, researchers working for the US government have achieved a technological breakthrough. The War on Terror is about to go transdimensional. ", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Politics", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3912602-the-revolution-business"}, +{"book_title": "The Armor of Light", "author_name": "Melissa Scott", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 168, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The heavy summer air of 1595 is full of portents for Elizabeth, England's Queen, and James VI, King of Scotland. A coven of witches secretly controlled by the Wizard Earl of Bothwell has summoned a storm to sink the ship that bears James' bride to Scotland. Though the ship made port, the success of their summoning has emboldened them; the coven is now launching wizardly attacks on the King himself \u2014 and James is terrified.But this is not quite the England that we know. The Queen's champion Sir Philip Sidney did not die at Zutphen, nor was poet and spy Christopher Marlowe murdered in a Deptford tavern, and both are powerful magicians, if in different traditions. The Queen must send them north to break the prophecy and save the King of Scots \u2014 and England's future.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/836605.The_Armor_of_Light"}, +{"book_title": "Strange Flesh", "author_name": "Michael Olson", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 421, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "THIS IS A STORY ABOUT SEX AND GAMES. \"The only clue we have to our brother's whereabouts is this place that doesn't really exist.\"Ten years ago, Blythe Randall broke James Pryce's heart. Now she needs his help. Her enigmatic appeal lures the elite hacker into his most tantalizing, and most personal, assignment yet.A Harvard dropout employed by Manhattan-based RedRook Security, James makes a living finding people who don't want to be found, pursuing their digital tracks around the globe, flushing out criminals, and exacting creative high-tech revenge on behalf of his clients. But this time he's following his target (billionaire multimedia artist Billy Randall) into an exotic and treacherous world: a virtual one.Capping off an erratic, increasingly violent series of stunts meant to plague his family's media empire, black sheep Billy sends a video of his own suicide to his older siblings, aristocratic twins Blythe and Blake. In it, Billy jacks out, reanimating onscreen as an avatar in a decadent online world called NOD. The performance is pure Billy: he has always been obsessed with the Bleed: the moment when real and virtual selves intersect, where actions in one life breed consequences in another.Blythe uses her influence to install James at GAME, a downtown media collective and one of Billy's recent haunts. Posing as a documentarian, James gains access to a small band of artists and programmers, contemporaries, and in some cases enemies, of Billy Randall, whose top secret project represents the holy grail of virtual reality. Meanwhile, James learns that as part of his most recent scheme, Billy himself has designed a lavish alternate reality game, an escalating, high-stakes virtual landscape of strange flesh.In order to find him, James must play along.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Suspense", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Adult", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12639667-strange-flesh"}, +{"book_title": "Brass Man", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 6446, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected an horrific killing machine named \"Mr. Crane\" to assist in a similar hunt, ecompassing whole star systems. Mr. Crane, the insane indestructible artificial man now in a new metal body, seeks to escape a bloody past he can neither forget nor truly remember. And he is on a collision course with Ian Cormac.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Space", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414091.Brass_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Darkness Before Dawn", "author_name": "J.A. London", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 12367, "review_number": 890, "book_description": "At seventeen, Dawn Montgomery knows that monsters really do come out at night\u2014after all, they are her job. It\u2019s just after the thirty-years war between vampires and humans, and as an ambassador between the two sides (a role she inherited when her parents were killed), Dawn quickly learns that balancing schoolwork, teen life, and the requests of Lord Valentine, the most frightening vampire in the region, isn\u2019t easy.And it only gets more complicated when she forms a tentative friendship with Victor, the mysterious stranger who rescued her from a hoard of vampires\u2026only to discover that not only is Victor a vampire, but that he is Lord Valentine\u2019s son.Soon Dawn is struggling to remember that with everything on the line, she can\u2019t afford to fall for the enemy\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12872080-darkness-before-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Lord Kelvin's Machine", "author_name": "James P. Blaylock", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 399, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Determined to avert the doom of his beloved wife, scientist and detective Langdon St. Ives sees his only hope for doing so in Lord Kelvin's time machine, but the diabolical Dr. Ignacio Narbondo has other plans for the invention. Reprint. AB. ", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/421038.Lord_Kelvin_s_Machine"}, +{"book_title": "Mindplayers", "author_name": "Pat Cadigan", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 645, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "For Allie, putting on the madcap that Jerry borrowed was a very big mistake. The psychosis itself was quite conventional, but it didn't go away when she took the madcap off, so the Brain Police took over leaving her with a choice - go to jail as a mind criminal or become a mindplayer. ", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304813.Mindplayers"}, +{"book_title": "Pale Horse", "author_name": "Brett Battles", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 929, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "A simple push of a button and the world will never be the same.Martina Gable returns home from college to spend Christmas break with her family, but the relaxing vacation she expects is not even close to what she'll get. Sanjay, a young man in Mumbai who knows more than he should about Project Eden\u2019s plan, will do whatever he can to keep Kusum, the girl he loves, alive and safe.A boy named Brandon Ash runs for his life in the hills of Montana, wanting only to see his family again.But first there is Daniel, the boy\u2019s father, who watches Olivia Silva\u2019s finger hover over the enter key that will decide the fate of humanity. Do you think you\u2019re safe?Pale Horse is part of the Project Eden continuing sage, which is best read after completing volumes 1 and 2 (Sick and Exit 9)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Thriller", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15717994-pale-horse"}, +{"book_title": "Eagle in Exile", "author_name": "Alan Smale", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 624, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steve Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove, Alan Smale\u2019s gripping alternate history series imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has survived long enough to invade North America in 1218. Now the stunning story carries hero Gaius Marcellinus deeper into the culture of an extraordinary people\u2014whose humanity, bravery, love, and ingenuity forever change his life and destiny.\u00a0 In A.D. 1218, Praetor Gaius Marcellinus is ordered to conquer North America and turning it into a Roman province. But outside the walls of the great city of Cahokia, his legion is destroyed outright; Marcellinus is the only one spared. In the months and years that follow, Marcellinus comes to see North America as his home and the Cahokians as his kin. He vows to defend these proud people from any threat, Roman or native. \u00a0 After successfully repelling an invasion by the fearsome Iroqua tribes, Marcellinus realizes that a weak and fractured North America won\u2019t stand a chance against the returning Roman army. Worse, rival factions from within threaten to tear Cahokia apart just when it needs to be most united and strong. Marcellinus is determined to save the civilization that has come to mean more to him than the empire he once served. But to survive the swords of Roma, he first must avert another Iroqua attack and bring Cahokia together. Only with the hearts and souls of a nation at his back can Marcellinus hope to know triumph.Advance praise for Eagle in Exile\u00a0 \u201c[Eagle in Exile] has the pace and scope of a Michener or Uris epic. . . . Smale\u2019s action scenes slash across page after page, intense and bloody. . . . Grab your dagger and sword, for the battle continues.\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \u00a0Praise for Alan Smale\u2019s Clash of Eagles\u00a0 \u201cEpic, bloody, and hugely imaginative.\u201d\u2014John Birmingham, author of the Dave vs. the Monsters series \u00a0 \u201cEpic in its sweep, exciting in its narrative, and eyeball-kick-sharp in its details.\u201d\u2014Nancy Kress, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of Beggars in Spain\u00a0 \u201cAuthoritatively researched and compellingly told, Clash of Eagles is a modern masterpiece of what-if speculation.\u201d\u2014Stephen Baxter, Philip K. Dick Award\u2013winning author of The Time Ships\u00a0 \u201cAlan Smale has done remarkable work with the world-building in Clash of Eagles. Yet what follows is more than a standard clash-of-cultures yarn, for there are other forces in play in this alternate North America. Can the determination and ingenuity of one man change the fate of a continent? I\u2019m eager to find out.\u201d\u2014Harry Turtledove, New York Times bestselling author of How Few Remain\u00a0 \u201cJust when it seems there is nothing new in [alternate] history comes this debut.\u201d\u2014Library Journal (starred review) \u00a0 \u201cIntriguingly original.\u201d\n\u2014Kirkus Reviews\n", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25776111-eagle-in-exile"}, +{"book_title": "Eagle and Empire", "author_name": "Alan Smale", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 423, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "The award-winning author of Clash of Eagles and Eagle in Exile brings his masterly alternate-history saga of the Roman invasion of North America to a stunning conclusion. Roman Praetor Gaius Marcellinus came to North America as a conqueror, but after meeting with defeat at the hands of the city-state of Cahokia, he has had to forge a new destiny in this strange land. In the decade since his arrival, he has managed to broker an unstable peace between the invading Romans and a loose affiliation of Native American tribes known as the League. But invaders from the west will shatter that peace and plunge the continent into war: The Mongol Horde has arrived and they are taking no prisoners. As the Mongol cavalry advances across the Great Plains leaving destruction in its path, Marcellinus and his Cahokian friends must summon allies both great and small in preparation for a final showdown. Alliances will shift, foes will rise, and friends will fall as Alan Smale brings us ever closer to the dramatic final battle for the future of the North American continent.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Adult", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30780881-eagle-and-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Prodigy", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 208994, "review_number": 15496, "book_description": "Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414446-prodigy"}, +{"book_title": "3zekiel", "author_name": "Peter Cawdron", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2738, "review_number": 323, "book_description": "Deep within the Congo, a team of scientists prepares for the greatest event in the history of humanity, making First Contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species, only the jungle is no place for doubts. Could First Contact be our last?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50196886-3zekiel"}, +{"book_title": "Streets of Blood", "author_name": "Carl Sargent", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 329, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "As dark shadows released from Victoria's reign run rampant in 2054 London, Geraint, Adept, Serrin, Francesca, and Rani are drawn into a world of deceit, death, and conspiracy.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1033241.Streets_of_Blood"}, +{"book_title": "The Lives of Tao", "author_name": "Wesley Chu", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 8006, "review_number": 1018, "book_description": "When out-of-shape IT technician Roen woke up and started hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumed he was losing it. He wasn\u2019t. He now has a passenger in his brain \u2013 an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans. Now split into two opposing factions \u2013 the peace-loving, but under-represented Prophus, and the savage, powerful Genjix \u2013 the aliens have been in a state of civil war for centuries. Both sides are searching for a way off-planet, and the Genjix will sacrifice the entire human race, if that\u2019s what it takes. Meanwhile, Roen is having to train to be the ultimate secret agent. Like that\u2019s going to end up well\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15981711-the-lives-of-tao"}, +{"book_title": "Call to Arms", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 6175, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "From Joshua Dalzelle comes the follow up to the #1 Bestseller \u201cWarship.\u201d Captain Jackson Wolfe survived the initial incursion of a vicious alien species into human space \u2026 barely. He had assumed the juggernaut that had devastated three Terran systems was the herald for a full invasion, but for the last few years it has been eerily quiet along the Frontier. Jackson now struggles to convince the Confederate leadership the threat is still imminent and needs to be taken seriously. While powerful factions make backroom deals he is desperate to find irrefutable proof that the invaders are coming and that if humanity expects to survive they must marshal their forces and make a stand. Now. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25652274-call-to-arms"}, +{"book_title": "Imperator", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 717, "review_number": 56, "book_description": " Warrior. Slave. Survivor. Emperor. As a crumbling Galactic Republic falls to the relentless assault of a merciless foe, so begins the rise of an enigmatic emperor intent on saving a corrupt galaxy-spanning civilization from itself\u2026 and from something much darker that lies beyond the reaches of the known. Just as the reins of power fall into his iron-fisted grasp, an assassination attempt by a hidden cabal within his own inner circle jeopardizes every plan he has set in motion for his Dark Legion, his Imperial Navy, and his ultimate conquest of the stars. But the assassins have no idea who they are actually dealing with\u2026 or what he has become. Imperator is a darkly heroic epic that spans the boundaries of time, space, friendship, and one man\u2019s quest for a power that never should have been found.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37984776-imperator"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita, Volume 04: Angel of Victory", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2209, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "Alita must choose a challenge team to defeat Jashugan, the proud, invincible Motorball champion. Who will give their all-their very life-for the lovely Battle Angel? In the intense heat of battle during her final one-on-one showdown with Jashugan, Alita slips into a trance that provides an incredible revelation about her mysterious past.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60296.Battle_Angel_Alita_Volume_04"}, +{"book_title": "Ninefox Gambit", "author_name": "Yoon Ha Lee", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 15559, "review_number": 2328, "book_description": "The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who must recapture the formidable Fortress of Scattered Needles in order to redeem herself in front of the Hexarchate.To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris\u2019s career isn\u2019t the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.Cheris\u2019s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress.The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own. As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao\u2013because she might be his next victim.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space", "Adult", "LGBT", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26118426-ninefox-gambit"}, +{"book_title": "Chimera", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 3823, "review_number": 414, "book_description": "The final book in Mira Grant's terrifying Parasitology trilogy.The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob.Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built...including the chimera.The broken doors are closing. Can Sal make it home?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23307166-chimera"}, +{"book_title": "Privateer", "author_name": "J.A. Sutherland", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 995, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Even with no war on, there are always battles to fight. A cease-fire in the war with Hanover leaves Lieutenant Alexis Carew on half-pay, in-atmosphere, and with her ship laid up in ordinary until called upon once more for the \u201cneeds of the Service.\u201d She was, at least, lucky enough to be in her home star system when Nightingale paid off, unlike much of her former crew. She\u2019s left to help manage her family lands, though still with no certainty she\u2019ll be allowed to inherit them. It would be a tranquil, peaceful life, if not for the influx of asteroid miners seeking their fortunes, the uncertainties of her inheritance, and the nagging certainty that her current life is not what she really wants. She\u2019d give anything to command a ship again.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Futuristic", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35912635-privateer"}, +{"book_title": "Logan's Run", "author_name": "William F. Nolan", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 10357, "review_number": 639, "book_description": "It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But when Logan meets and falls in love with Jessica, he begins to question the very system he swore to protect and soon they're both running for their lives. When Last Day comes, will you lie down and die... or run!", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Classics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73654.Logan_s_Run"}, +{"book_title": "Acorna: The Unicorn Girl", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 9961, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her, and took her to the bandit planet Kezdet, a place where no questions are asked and the girl might grow up free.But Kezdet has its own dark secret. The prosperity of the planet is based on a hideous trade in child slave labor, administered by \"The Piper\" -- a mystery man with special plans for Acorna and her powers. But free little girls have a way of growing into freedom-loving young women, and Acorna has special plans all her own. . .", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177928.Acorna"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Shadows", "author_name": "Brent Weeks", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 91667, "review_number": 2255, "book_description": "A new queen has usurped the throne and is leading Cenaria into disaster. The country has become a broken realm with a threadbare army, little food and no hope. So Kylar Stern plans to reinstate his closest friend Logan as King, but can he really get away with murder?In the north, the Godking's death has thrown Khalidor into civil war. To gain the upper hand, one faction attempts to raise the goddess Khali herself. But they are playing with volatile powers, and trigger conflict on a vast scale. Seven armies will converge to save - or destroy - an entire continent.Kylar has finally learnt the bitter cost of immortality, and is faced with a task only he can complete. To save his friends, and perhaps his enemies, he must assassinate a goddess. Failure will doom the south. Success will cost him everything he's ever loved.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3754026-beyond-the-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Gray Tide in the East: An Alternate History of the First World War", "author_name": "Andrew J. Heller", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 174, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "One decision can change the course of history, but would the results be so dramatically different if, simply, Kaiser Wilhelm II had persisted against the advice of his military commanders and ordered his troops already massed at the Belgian border in 1914 to re-deploy to the east against Russia instead?It nearly happened. Really. The Kaiser did order the invasion of Belgium halted, and yet it went ahead, bringing Great Britain and the rest of the British Empire into the war.This book explores what would have happened if the Kaiser\u2019s decision had not been reversed and his troops had not crossed the Belgian border. It is fiction, of course, but the characters are real and, most of them, precisely where they were and where they would have been fulfilling their historical roles at that time.The story is vivid, realistic and exciting, following the action, the intrigue, the political upheavals as well as political apathy and inertia, meticulously researched and accurate in military and historical detail.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19013358-gray-tide-in-the-east"}, +{"book_title": "Salvaging Toby's Heart", "author_name": "Lexi Ander", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 395, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Dear Author,It was supposed to be basic find and retrieve job even if the planet was little known and in the edge of the territories. Nothing went right with that job. My ship got damaged on the landing, there is nothing but jungle out here and I have no idea where the thing I\u2019m looking for could even be and now I have apparently found the natives too. I so don\u2019t need any more distractions but he sure knows how to get persuasive with those hairs of his.Photo Description: In the background there are cryogenic-containers with shadowy figures inside. In the forefront is a large, muscular blue male with a headful of very long, slender tentacles ending in cockheads. He is holding a brown-haired, sculpted human man whom he\u2019s having sex with. The man\u2019s shirt is torn, the remnants held in place by a shoulder holster. A firearm is in his right hand, as if he\u2019s expecting someone to walk in on them.This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's \"Love is an Open Road\" event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story. This story may contain sexually explicit content and is intended for adult readers. It may contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The M/M Romance Group strongly recommends that each reader review the General Information section before each story for story tags as well as for content warnings.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Short Stories", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25692491-salvaging-toby-s-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Hostage to Pleasure", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 28663, "review_number": 1313, "book_description": "Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically gifted race, Ashaya Aleine is the perfect Psy--cool, calm, emotionless...at least on the surface. Inside, she's fighting a desperate battle to save her son and escape the vicious cold of the PsyNet. Yet when escape comes, it leads not to safety, but to the lethal danger of a sniper's embrace.DarkRiver sniper Dorian Christensen lost his sister to a Psy killer. Though he lacks the changeling ability to shift into animal form, his leopard lives within. And that leopard's rage at the brutal loss is a clawing darkness that hungers for vengeance. Falling for a Psy has never been on Dorian's agenda. But charged with protecting Ashaya and her son, he discovers that passion has a way of changing the rules...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3115070-hostage-to-pleasure"}, +{"book_title": "Winter's Tale", "author_name": "Mark Helprin", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 26546, "review_number": 4195, "book_description": "New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake, orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and besieged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Magical Realism", "Romance", "Historical", "New York", "Unfinished", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12967.Winter_s_Tale"}, +{"book_title": "Wither", "author_name": "Lauren DeStefano", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 98686, "review_number": 8156, "book_description": "By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8525590-wither"}, +{"book_title": "Sourcery", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 84824, "review_number": 2189, "book_description": "When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.But that's not all....Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared (that's all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic -- a sourcerer.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34499.Sourcery"}, +{"book_title": "Armageddon's Children", "author_name": "Terry Brooks", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 15462, "review_number": 748, "book_description": "Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddon\u2019s Children is a new creation\u2013the perfect opportunity for readers unfamiliar with Brooks\u2019s previous work to experience an author at the height of his considerable storytelling powers. It is a gripping chronicle of a once-familiar world now spun shockingly out of control, in which an extraordinary few struggle to salvage hope in the face of terrifying chaos. Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family\u2019s slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization\u2019s downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent, death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined world\u2019s salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a place\u2013and a people\u2013shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind . . . even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting odds\u2013and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey. In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.In Armageddon\u2019s Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a mythmaker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and light\u2013and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level. Prepare for a breathtaking tour de force. To those who are new to Terry Brooks, welcome. And to those who have read him for many years: prepare for a dramatic surprise.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15549.Armageddon_s_Children"}, +{"book_title": "Extinction End", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 2375, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "Hope rises in the hearts of those still left standing, but safety seems to be just an illusion. In a single night of shattering terror, Plum Island is destroyed, and key scientist Dr. Kate Lovato is abducted.The end has arrived...Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world. The remnants of the United States military have regrouped and relocated Central Command to the George Washington Carrier Strike Group. It's here, in the North Atlantic, that President Jan Ringgold and Vice President George Johnson prepare to deploy a new bioweapon and embark on the final mission to take back the country from the Variants.With his home gone and his friends kidnapped, Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and his remaining men must take drastic measures to save what's left of the human race. But not everyone at Central Command has the same plan for victory. As the Variants continue to evolve, only a handful of heroes stand between the creatures and mankind's total extinction.One way or another, the battle for the United States of America ends here.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26855264-extinction-end"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 1340, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "November 1288. Bereft of a king or rightful heir, England hurtles towards civil war for the second time in a generation. When David, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Lili, travel to London to attend the wedding of William de Bohun and Princess Joan, they have no intention of involving themselves in local politics. But as infighting leads to murder, David and Lili find themselves at the center of a far-reaching conspiracy. Trapped between history and legend, they must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to save not only their own country, but the people of England as well. Meanwhile, back in Wales, Llywelyn and Meg discover that time is no barrier to either adventure or trouble ... Children of Time, book four in the After Cilmeri series, continues the story of Llywelyn, Meg, and their children in the medieval kingdom of Wales.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16152109-children-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Unbound", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 858, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "They tore him from his family, erased his past, even stripped him of his name\u2014all to mold him into the perfect fighting machine and ultimate bodyguard. They call him Varin\u2014the Bound One\u2014and he is utterly devoted to one woman alone, the Princess Brynalla of Galen Prime.Though he doesn\u2019t know it, Varin is a Vision Kindred\u2014able to see and decimate any enemy\u2019s weakness immediately. His branch of the Kindred form a dream-sharing bond early\u2014a fact that has been exploited to bind him to Princess Brynalla of the Royal House of Galen Prime. But the bond is only supposed to go one way\u2014no one knows that Brynalla dreams of her silent, stoic guard nearly as often as he dreams of her. Though he can never have her, Varin is sworn to protect her with his life\u2026but there are some things even he can\u2019t protect her from.When a race of insectile beings called the Hive threaten Galen Prime, Brynalla\u2019s father agrees to hand his daughter over to their leader, X\u2019izith, as a Breeding Queen. Varin saves her from a fate worse than death but the Hive\u2019s memory is long and hungry\u2014Varin and Brynn won\u2019t be safe until they find a haven to shelter them.Varin knows he has a people and a past\u2014if he can find them, he can protect his princess. But the memory block that keeps him from remembering, also binds him to Brynn. Will he still love her when he recovers his past and becomes Unbound? And can even the might of the Kindred save them from the hunger and fury of the Hive?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34442142-unbound"}, +{"book_title": "By Honor Betray'd", "author_name": "Debra Doyle", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 601, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Galcen has fallen.\u00a0 The Space Force is broken and scattered. the planets of the former Republic are rushing to make peace with the victorious Mages.All that remains is mopping up. Minor details. A privateer or two, a few Adepts who remain alive and on the run, and the hereditary ruler of a lifeless planet.Beka Rosselin-Metadi, the last Domina of Lost Entibor, possesses little more than a famous name and a famous ship. With them she must salvage what she can from the wreckage of the Republic. Her enemies are too many to count, her friends too few to make a difference. She can trust no one except herself, her crew--and the family she ran away from years before.Beka has resources few suspect: a hidden base, a long forgotten oath, and a dead man's legacy. But she has problems as well; for in a universe gone mad, neither friends nor enemies are all that they may seem.A play that began in treachery and blood five hundred years before has reached its final act. A broken galaxy will be sundered forever, or else made whole.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363058.By_Honor_Betray_d"}, +{"book_title": "A Stainless Steel Rat is Born", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 8055, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "In this prequel to the Stainless Steel Rat, Slippery Jim is a brash 17-year-old who has left his parents' porcuswine farm, planning to embark on a life of crime. The book opens with Jim bungling a bank job so that he can be arrested and sent to prison, where he plans to learn the art of being a master criminal. Deciding that the Bishop should be his mentor, Jim sets about proving himself worthy of the master's attention. He eventually has to flee his home planet of Bit O' Heaven with the Bishop, but Garth, the Captain of the ship who promised them safe passage, sells them into slavery. The latter part of the book details Jim's adventures on the planet Spiovente, a semi-industrial world fighting feudal wars with weapons smuggled in (against League regulations) by Captain Garth.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Humor (Comedy)", "Space", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64397.A_Stainless_Steel_Rat_is_Born"}, +{"book_title": "Foundation's Fear", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 11790, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing -- of the Asimov estate, the epic saga continues.Fate -- and a cruel Emperor's arbitrary power -- have thrust Hari Seldon into the First Ministership of the Empire against his will. As the story opens, Hari is about to leave his quiet professorship and take on the all but impossible task of administering 25 million inhabited worlds from the all-steel planet of Trantor. With the help of his beautiful bio-engineered \"wife\" Dors and his alien companion Yugo, Seldon is still developing the science that will transform history, never dreaming that it will ultimately pit him against future history's most awesome threat.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "The United States Of America"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/566429.Foundation_s_Fear"}, +{"book_title": "Secret Squirrels", "author_name": "Jerry Boyd", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 4105, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "The Squirrels want Bob and the Gene out of their sky. Bob just wants to get along, maybe do a little business. How can he convince them he means no harm? Does he have to show them that they don\u2019t want him for an enemy, just to get their attention? Find out in Secret Squirrels.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53410239-secret-squirrels"}, +{"book_title": "The Curse of the Brimstone Contract", "author_name": "Corrina Lawson", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 85, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Magic\u2014and love\u2014balanced on the tip of a needle\u2026The Steampunk Detectives, Book 1Magic existed at the fringes until Prince Albert discovered he was a mage. Now he and others like him are leading a revolution in steam technology that\u2019s held tight in the grip of the upper classes.A man of half-Indian heritage, rejected by his upper-crust, mage-gifted family, Gregor Sherringford lives in working-class London, investigating cases involving magic among the lower classes. But he\u2019s never met a client quite like spirited, stubborn Joan Krieger.Joan\u2019s dream was to lead a fashion revolution designing women\u2019s clothing suited to the new technology. But when her richest client mysteriously dies outside her shop, it deals a mortal blow to her dreams.She hopes the handsome, enigmatic detective can prove the death a magical murder. She never expected a dark plot would be woven right into the fabric of her family. Or that cracking the case will mean merging gifts, minds\u2014and hearts\u2014with the one man who could be her partner in every way. If they survive the release of a soul-binding curse.Warning: This novel contains an intelligent, repressed detective and a woman who won\u2019t take no for an answer, not when she hires him\u2026and not when she falls in love with him.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25005451-the-curse-of-the-brimstone-contract"}, +{"book_title": "We Have Always Been Here", "author_name": "Lena Nguyen", "rating_score": 0.0, "rating_votes": 0, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "This psychological sci-fi thriller from a debut author follows one doctor who must discover the source of her crew's madness... or risk succumbing to it herself.Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship--all specialists in their own fields--as they assess the colonization potential of the planet, Eos. But frictions develop as Park befriends the androids of the ship, preferring their company over the baffling complexity of humans, while the rest of the crew treats them with suspicion and even outright hostility.Shortly after landing, the crew finds themselves trapped on the ship by a radiation storm, with no means of communication or escape until it passes--and that's when things begin to fall apart. Park's patients are falling prey to waking nightmares of helpless, tongueless insanity. The androids are behaving strangely. There are no windows aboard the ship. Paranoia is closing in, and soon Park is forced to confront the fact that nothing--neither her crew, nor their mission, nor the mysterious Eos itself--is as it seems.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55859539-we-have-always-been-here"}, +{"book_title": "A Queen from the North", "author_name": "Erin McRae", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 581, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "Ancient rivalry. Modern romance. What if the Wars of the Roses had never ended? Lady Amelia Brockett, known to her family as Meels, is having the Worst. Christmas. Ever. Dumped by her boyfriend and rejected from graduate school, her parents deem her the failure of the family. But when her older brother tries to cheer her with a trip to the races, a chance meeting with Arthur, the widowed, playboy Prince of Wales, offers Amelia the opportunity to change her life -- and Britain's fortunes -- forever. Hunted by the press -- and haunted by Arthur's niece who fancies herself the kingdom's court witch -- Amelia finds herself adrift in a sea of paparazzi, politics, and prophecy. With few allies beyond her allergic-to-horses sister-in-law, her best friend who has a giant crush on the prince, and the cute young receptionist at Buckingham Palace that calls himself her royalty customer service representative, Amelia must navigate a perilous and peculiar course to secure Arthur's love and become A Queen from the North.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Fiction", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adult", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34469447-a-queen-from-the-north"}, +{"book_title": "A Timeless Christmas", "author_name": "Alexis Stanton", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1385, "review_number": 331, "book_description": "\nThey\u2019re from two different centuries,\n\nbut they\u2019re perfect for each other.\nMegan Turner is in love with the past. As a tour guide at a beautiful historic mansion, she tells visitors about its original owner, Charles Whitley. An inventor and businessman in the early 1900s, he rose from poverty to wealth\u2026only to disappear without a trace.Charles was always intrigued by the future. He just never expected to go there. But when he repairs a mysterious clock he bought on his travels, he\u2019s transported to the twenty-first century, with his home decorated for Christmas and overrun by strangers. Charles is determined to find a way back to his own era, especially when he learns about what happened after he left. But as Megan introduces him to the wonders of smartphones, pizza, and modern holiday traditions, they both feel a once-in-a-lifetime connection. Could it be that, somewhere in time, they belong together?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Holiday (Christmas)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Holiday", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40645599-a-timeless-christmas"}, +{"book_title": "Outlander", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 852594, "review_number": 46269, "book_description": "The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach\u2014an \u201coutlander\u201d\u2014in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire\u2014and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10964.Outlander"}, +{"book_title": "Blitzball", "author_name": "Barton Ludwig", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 101, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "When a teenage boy discovers he was cloned to be Hitler, he must fight his genes, family and upbringing to choose a different path in a school where soccer symbolizes war. A predominantly white Reichfield High has lost every game in the last few years to the North Prep, a school with mostly Mexican, Brazilian, and Filipino students. For the first game of the season, however, Addie and his teammates are confident that they will win\u2014because they\u2019ve personally made sure the lead player of the opposite team will be unable to play.Addie and his supremacist and misogynistic friends are ill-prepared for what comes next, though. They are defeated by Shaylee, the best soccer player North Prep has ever seen\u2014who also happens to be a girl. Given an exception, Shaylee is allowed to compete in a team of all boys.Unable to accept defeat, Addie is convinced that Shaylee must be using illegal methods to beat the Reichfield team. He sets out to expose her, but discovers instead that he has secrets of his own\u2026Learning the dark history of his own origin and of the powers that be, Addie and his unlikely new friends must work together to challenge the corrupt, racist and fascist ruling class who could destroy society as they know it.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40885847-blitzball"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien Assassin's Stolen Bride", "author_name": "Michele Mills", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 937, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Hannah\u2019s having a bad day. Her friends have ditched her, and she\u2019s stuck going on a tour of Hearst Castle. And she ends up seated next to a muscle-bound, dangerous-looking man dressed all in black, with pearly-white skin and silver eyes. Heriot is an assassin known for his one hundred percent kill rate\u2026and his grim disposition. He\u2019s all work and no fun, according to his brother and partner, Jadzion. And he\u2019s all business as he tracks down his latest target on some filthy backwater planet called Earth. He\u2019s got two diurnal cycles to take out his target, so there\u2019s not a lot of time for shenanigans. He didn\u2019t expect to find his true mate during the middle of this hit. He didn\u2019t expect her to be a stunning human female who could gentle his stern demands. And he didn\u2019t expect to be reduced to a raging, rutting beast on this mission. Can he convince his innocent mate to return with him to his home planet before his time is up, or will he be forced to steal her? ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40954221-the-alien-assassin-s-stolen-bride"}, +{"book_title": "Revelations", "author_name": "Paul Antony Jones", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 3435, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "There is nowhere left to run. In the wake of the deadly plague that virtually annihilated the human race, a vast red jungle teeming with alien creatures and lethal plants is devouring Earth, swallowing buildings whole and ruthlessly decimating what life remains. A witness to the terrifying transformation, survivor Emily Baxter thinks the odds against humanity can\u2019t get any worse.She is wrong.The next volume in the thrilling Extinction Point series, Revelations takes a humanity on the brink of devastation\u2026and throws it over the edge!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18901409-revelations"}, +{"book_title": "Quicksilver", "author_name": "R.J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2211, "review_number": 356, "book_description": "Back in her hometown, Tori Beaugrand had everything a teenaged girl could want\u2014popularity, money, beauty. But she also had a secret. A secret that could change her life in an instant, or destroy it.Now she\u2019s left everything from her old life behind, including her real name and Alison, the one friend who truly understood her. She can\u2019t escape who and what she is. But if she wants to have anything like a normal life, she has to blend in and hide her unusual... talents.Plans change when the enigmatic Sebastian Faraday reappears and gives Tori some bad news: she hasn\u2019t escaped her past. In fact, she\u2019s attracted new interest in the form of an obsessed ex-cop turned investigator for a genetics lab.She has one last shot at getting her enemies off her trail and winning the security and independence she\u2019s always longed for. But saving herself will take every ounce of Tori\u2019s incredible electronics and engineering skills\u2014and even then, she may need to sacrifice more than she could possibly imagine if she wants to be free.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Romance", "LGBT (Asexual)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13149420-quicksilver"}, +{"book_title": "The Multiversity: Guidebook #1", "author_name": "Grant Morrison", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 111, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "The guidebook to the greatest adventure in DC\u2019s history is here! With a detailed concordance featuring each of the 52 worlds in the Multiverse, a complete history of DC Comics\u2019 universe-shattering \u201cCrisis\u201d events, a map of all known existence, AND an action-packed dual adventure starring Kamandi of Earth-51 alongside the post-apocalyptic Atomic Knight Batman of Earth-17 and chibi Batman of Earth-42, this 80-page mountain of MULTIVERSITY madness cannot be missed! The MULTIVERSITY GUIDEBOOK contains everything you ever wanted to know about DC\u2019s parallel worlds and their super-heroic inhabitants. Meet the Agents of W.O.N.D.E.R. The Light Brigade, the Super-Americans and the Love Syndicate! Meet the Accelerated Man, Aquaflash, BiOmac and more! Overflowing with today\u2019s top artists and completely written by Grant Morrison himself, readers of the DC Universe can\u2019t afford to pass up this oversized, sixth chapter of MULTIVERSITY!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics Manga", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24722087-the-multiversity"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire I: Chapter Two - The Human Factor", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 164, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Alby Brook and Gordon Pellan are following the best information they have to locate Suz in Dalek-infested space. But what is it the Daleks want with her?On the slave planet Guria, Alby discovers Suz is already gaining a reputation as something of an angel of mercy. Could it be that she is now working for the Daleks?But as Suz and Kalendorf travel from planet to planet a murmur of defiance is growing... 'Death to the Daleks... death to the Daleks...'", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/649922.Dalek_Empire_I"}, +{"book_title": "The Wilds", "author_name": "Donna Augustine", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4565, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "My name is Dahlia but I\u2019m called a Plaguer, a person who survived the Bloody Death. When the virus first hit the world, it ravaged the human race. I thought I was lucky to survive it but survival comes at a cost. Ever since the sickness, I see things and I\u2019m hunted for these visions. Some seek me out because they want to keep their secrets safe. They don\u2019t want the world to know the truth of what they are. Others, like Dax, want my knowledge. Dax has secrets of his own but as long as he helps me evade the Dark Walkers, he can keep them. This book is for all the Plaguers, the truth sayers branded and marked as liars, often hunted and sometimes forgotten. This book is for the girl who was right.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26193300-the-wilds"}, +{"book_title": "The X-Club", "author_name": "Anna Zaires", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1315, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "A young journalist. An alien sex club. A Krinar who won\u2019t take no for an answer. Amy Myers is tired of writing fluff. She wants to work on serious assignments\u2014and what better way to prove herself than to uncover something new about the mysterious Krinar, the aliens who took over the Earth just two years earlier? But when she meets Vair, the dark and sexy owner of a Manhattan x-club, she may get more than she bargained for... The X-Club is a novelette/short story of approximately 10,000 words (56 print pages), set in the world of the Krinar Chronicles about three years before Mia & Korum\u2019s trilogy. It\u2019s an erotic story, not a romance. It can be read as a standalone or after the Krinar Chronicles trilogy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Novella", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23603352-the-x-club"}, +{"book_title": "The End Has Come", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1276, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH tells their stories. Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse. THE END HAS COME features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Carrie Vaughn, Mira Grant, Jamie Ford, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Elizabeth Bear, Ben H. Winters, Scott Sigler, and many others. THE END IS NIGH is about the match. THE END IS NOW is about the conflagration. THE END HAS COME is about what will rise from the ashes.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Anthologies", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18870662-the-end-has-come"}, +{"book_title": "California", "author_name": "Edan Lepucki", "rating_score": 3.23, "rating_votes": 18905, "review_number": 2938, "book_description": "A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love.The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant. Terrified of the unknown and unsure of their ability to raise a child alone, Cal and Frida set out for the nearest settlement, a guarded and paranoid community with dark secrets. These people can offer them security, but Cal and Frida soon realize this community poses dangers of its own. In this unfamiliar world, where everything and everyone can be perceived as a threat, the couple must quickly decide whom to trust.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Novels", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774020-california"}, +{"book_title": "Forever His", "author_name": "Shelly Thacker", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2768, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "On New Year's Eve, she tumbles 700 years back in time\u2014and into the bed of a darkly dangerous knight.Sir Gaston de Varennes wanted a docile bride who would fit into his plans for vengeance and justice. Instead, by a king\u2019s command, he\u2019s forced to marry the defiant beauty who appeared so mysteriously in his bed. His thoroughly modern American wife soon turns his castle, his life, and his heart upside down. Will her desperate secret tear them apart after only a few bittersweet weeks of stolen passion\u2026or will they conquer mistrust, treachery, and time itself to discover a love that spans the centuries?Winner of the National Readers Choice Award: Best Historical Romance of the Year\"Irresistible. One of the best romances of the year.\" -The Detroit Free Press\"A Desert Isle Keeper. Touching, ingenious...I love this book. I've read it time after time, and even if I haven't waited quite long enough between readings to forget all the details, I always get drawn back into the story so intensely that I can't put it down. Grade: A (highest rating).\" -AllAboutRomance.comOriginally published by Avon Books. This Author's Preferred Edition ebook has been revised by the author.The Stolen Brides SeriesThese regal brides are about to discover that falling in love with a warrior is the most dangerous adventure of all. Each book is a stand-alone, steamy historical romance:Book 1: HIS STOLEN BRIDE (Darach and Laurien)Book 2: FOREVER HIS (Gaston and Celine)Book 3: HIS FORBIDDEN TOUCH (Royce and Princess Ciara)Book 4: HIS CAPTIVE BRIDE (Hauk and Avril)Book 5: HIS SCOTTISH BRIDE (Henri and Aileen)", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19444805-forever-his"}, +{"book_title": "Kings Rising", "author_name": "C.S. Pacat", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 36803, "review_number": 5058, "book_description": "Damianos of Akielos has returned. His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill. On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of both their countries hangs in the balance. In the south, Kastor\u2019s forces are massing. In the north, the Regent\u2019s armies are mobilising for war. Damen\u2019s only hope of reclaiming his throne is to fight together with Laurent against their usurpers. Forced into an uneasy alliance the two princes journey deep into Akielos, where they face their most dangerous opposition yet. But even if the fragile trust they have built survives the revelation of Damen\u2019s identity\u2014can it stand against the Regent's final, deadly play for the throne?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "LGBT", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Historical", "GLBT (Queer)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17158532-kings-rising"}, +{"book_title": "The Glass Spare", "author_name": "Lauren DeStefano", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 7486, "review_number": 1112, "book_description": "A banished princess.A deadly curse.A kingdom at war.Wil Heidle, the only daughter of the king of the world\u2019s wealthiest nation, has grown up in the shadows. Kept hidden from the world in order to serve as a spy for her father\u2014whose obsession with building his empire is causing a war\u2014Wil wants nothing more than to explore the world beyond her kingdom, if only her father would give her the chance.Until one night Wil is attacked, and she discovers a dangerous secret. Her touch turns people into gemstone. At first Wil is horrified\u2014but as she tests its limits, she\u2019s drawn more and more to the strange and volatile ability. When it leads to tragedy, Wil is forced to face the destructive power within her and finally leave her home to seek the truth and a cure.But finding the key to her redemption puts her in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas for what to do with her power.With a world on the brink of war and a power of ultimate destruction, can Wil find a way to help the kingdom that\u2019s turned its back on her, or will she betray her past and her family forever?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29622131-the-glass-spare"}, +{"book_title": "Stranger Souls", "author_name": "Jak Koke", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 188, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "In this first book of the Dragon Heart Saga, Dunkelzahn's murder shocks the Awakened - world. Rumors and suspicions run rampant as shadowrunners, Secret Service agents, and megacorp execs scramble for the reins of power. Open these pages to see the story behind the great dragon's death and the beginning of a new adventure...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1282236.Stranger_Souls"}, +{"book_title": "Zone One", "author_name": "Colson Whitehead", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 19120, "review_number": 3276, "book_description": "In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild\u00ading civilization under orders from the provisional govern\u00adment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street\u2014aka Zone One\u2014but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety\u2014the \u201cmalfunctioning\u201d stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work\u00ading in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz\u2019s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world. And then things start to go wrong. Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One bril\u00adliantly subverts the genre\u2019s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10365343-zone-one"}, +{"book_title": "Forged", "author_name": "Erin Bowman", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1684, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "The time has come to make a stand.Gray Weathersby and his group of rebels are determined to bring down the Franconian Order. But they may be too late. The Order is closer than ever to its ultimate goal\u2014building an unstoppable army\u2014and every generation of Forgeries is more sophisticated, harder to detect, and deadlier than the one before.Now the rebels have joined forces with new allies, the Expats. But when even the most familiar faces can\u2019t be trusted, Gray will have to tread carefully if he wants to succeed\u2014or survive.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15711420-forged"}, +{"book_title": "Taming Ryock", "author_name": "Sara Page", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 763, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "My life has become a living nightmare\u2026 Abducted. Stolen from Earth. I wake up in a strange alien laboratory to discover my new alien overlords plan to use me in a breeding experiment. The alien they want me to breed with? Yeah, he\u2019s blue, he\u2019s mean, and he\u2019s packing some seriously scary alien \u2018equipment\u2019. There\u2019s no way I can survive the experiment. Seriously, I\u2019m going to die, and my new overlords could care less. Thankfully, the guy in the cage next to mine is seriously pissed about the situation. He\u2019s big, even meaner than the blue guy, and he just might be my salvation\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39398230-taming-ryock"}, +{"book_title": "Reality 36", "author_name": "Guy Haley", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 227, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Meet Richards and Klein \u2013 the Holmes and Watson of the 22nd century.Except that Richards is a highly advanced artificial intelligence, and Klein his German ex-military cyborg partner. Their first case takes them into the renegade digital realm known as Reality 36 and through the Great Firewall of China, in search of a missing Artificial Intelligence Rights activist. What they find there will threaten every reality.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9860811-reality-36"}, +{"book_title": "Bronze Summer", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 529, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "The wall that Ana's people built has long outlasted her and history has been changed. The British Isles are still one with the European mainland and Doggerland has become a vibrant and rich land which has drawn the attention of the Greeks. An invasion is mounted and soon Greek Biremes are grinding ashore to change the world forever.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Epic", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10428124-bronze-summer"}, +{"book_title": "Override", "author_name": "Heather Anastasiu", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 2402, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "Zoe is free. She has escaped the enslavement of the Community, disconnected from the hardware that had controlled her every thought and emotion, and evaded capture by the Chancellor intent on killing her. She is finally free, but she is far from safe.Zoe and Adrien hide themselves from detection at the Foundation, an academy that trains teen glitchers to fight in the Resistance movement. Together, Zoe and her new team of superhuman fighters must risk their lives to rescue other glitchers and humans from the Chancellor's control. Challenges abound at every turn, and Adrien, who has become silent, distant, and tormented by his visions of the future, only adds to the growing certainty of defeat. But worst of all, as Zoe's team fights against impossible odds, distrust and betrayal leads to the terrible discovery that their greatest threat could already be lurking behind the safe walls of the Foundation.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14759331-override"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Mate", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 6468, "review_number": 523, "book_description": "'Resonance' is supposed to be a dream - that's when your soulmate is chosen for you. And everyone on the ice planet has hooked up with a big, hunky soulmate of their own... except me. So do I want a mate? Heck yeah. More than anything, all I've ever wanted is to be loved by someone. Except that the soulmate chosen for me? My least favorite person on the darn ice planet. Haeden's the most cranky, disapproving, unpleasant, overbearing male alien... so why is it that my body sings when he gets close? Why is he working so hard to prove to me that he's not as awful as I think he is? I hate him... don't I?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29623967-barbarian-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "The Star Wars Trilogy", "author_name": "George Lucas", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 6962, "review_number": 326, "book_description": "More than twenty-five years after the groundbreaking movie Star Wars: A New Hope first hit the silver screen, Star Wars remains one of the most beloved sagas ever told. Together, the three original Star Wars movies\u2013A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi\u2013told one epic: a heroic tale of innocence lost and wisdom gained, of downfall and redemption, of the never-ending fight between the forces of good and evil. Read the story of the movies\u2013all three in one trade paperback volume\u2013and rediscover the wonder of the legend that begins:\nA long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . .\nLuke Skywalker lived and worked on his uncle\u2019s farm on the remote planet of Tatooine, but he yearned to travel beyond the farthest reaches of the universe to distant, alien worlds. Then Luke intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful, captive princess . . . and found himself catapulted into the adventure of a lifetime.Luke Skywalker, proud Princess Leia, and headstrong Han Solo . . . merciless Darth Vader, wise Obi-Wan Kenobi, loyal droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, and the inscrutable Yoda . . . Chewbacca the Wookiee, shifty Lando Calrissian, and the vile Jabba the Hutt . . . all the vivid characters from the Star Wars universe spring to life in these thrilling pages.The Star Wars Trilogy is a must-read for anyone who wants to relive the excitement, the magic, and the sheer entertainment of this legendary saga\u2013now and forever.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35434.The_Star_Wars_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "World Made by Hand", "author_name": "James Howard Kunstler", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 6526, "review_number": 993, "book_description": "For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. \u00a0Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren\u2019t sure. As the heat of summer intensifies, the residents struggle with the new way of life in a world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers replenished with fish. A captivating, utterly realistic novel, World Made by Hand takes speculative fiction beyond the apocalypse and shows what happens when life gets extremely local.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adult Fiction", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1689657.World_Made_by_Hand"}, +{"book_title": "Purple Hearts", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 4.55, "rating_votes": 1170, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant unleashes the gritty and powerful conclusion to the Front Line series and evokes the brutal truth of World War II: War is hell.\u00a0An epic tale of historical reimagining, perfect for fans of Code Name Verity and Salt to the Sea.Courage, sacrifice, and fear have lead Rio, Frangie, and Rainy through front-line battles in North Africa and Sicily, and their missions are not over. These soldiers and thousands of Allies must fight their deadliest battle yet\u2014for their country and their lives\u2014as they descend into the freezing water and onto the treacherous sands of Omaha Beach. It is June 6, 1944. D-Day has arrived.No longer naive recruits, these soldier girls are now Silver Star recipients and battle-hardened. Others look to them for guidance and confidence, but this is a war that will leave sixty million dead. Flesh will turn to charcoal. Piles will be made of torn limbs. The women must find a way to lead while holding on to their own last shreds of belief in humanity.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "War", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068453-purple-hearts"}, +{"book_title": "Shanghai Steam", "author_name": "Ren\u00e9e Bennett", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 34, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "From ancient China to a future Mars, from the British Empire to the Old West, 19 authors show you worlds with alcohol fuelled dragons, philosophical automatons, and Qi-powered machines both wondrous and strange in tales of vengeance, paper lantern revolutions and flying monks. Shanghai Steam is a unique mashup of steampunk and the Chinese literary genre known as Wuxia (loosely translated as martial hero).", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16129542-shanghai-steam"}, +{"book_title": "Burned", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 34093, "review_number": 3593, "book_description": "It\u2019s easy to walk away from lies. Power is another thing.MacKayla Lane would do anything to save the home she loves. A gifted sidhe-seer, she\u2019s already fought and defeated the deadly Sinsar Dubh\u2014an ancient book of terrible evil\u2014yet its hold on her has never been stronger.When the wall that protected humans from the seductive, insatiable Fae was destroyed on Halloween, long-imprisoned immortals ravaged the planet. Now Dublin is a war zone with factions battling for control. As the city heats up and the ice left by the Hoar Frost King melts, tempers flare, passions run red-hot, and dangerous lines get crossed. Seelie and Unseelie vie for power against nine ancient immortals who have governed Dublin for millennia; a rival band of sidhe-seers invades the city, determined to claim it for their own; Mac\u2019s former prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and best friend, Dani \u201cMega\u201d O\u2019Malley, is now her fierce enemy; and even more urgent, Highland druid Christian MacKeltar has been captured by the Crimson Hag and is being driven deeper into Unseelie madness with each passing day. The only one Mac can depend on is the powerful, dangerous immortal Jericho Barrons, but even their fiery bond is tested by betrayal.It\u2019s a world where staying alive is a constant struggle, the line between good and evil gets blurred, and every alliance comes at a price. In an epic battle against dark forces, Mac must decide who she can trust, and what her survival is ultimately worth.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12444297-burned"}, +{"book_title": "Luffs", "author_name": "Shay Savage", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1365, "review_number": 189, "book_description": "Once upon a time, you fell in love with a caveman.His needs were basic, his ambitions primal, his love fierce.Now, fall in love with Ehd all over again\u2026through Beh\u2019s eyes.Luffs\u2014Shay Savage\u2019s holiday gift to Transcendence fans everywhere!Coming November 20th!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42752441-luffs"}, +{"book_title": "The Know Circuit", "author_name": "Gary Ballard", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 101, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Artemis Bridge can get you what you need no matter how immoral or illegal, no questions asked. With practiced detachment, he keeps everyone around him at arm's length. But when the city of Boulder is trapped in a mysterious dome, he must set aside his detachment to help his bodyguard Aristotle's search for his missing grandmother. Every step he takes towards the dome deepens the mystery, as he is compelled to seek out the source of the strange happenings. Flaming dragons, cars transformed into robotic golems, a corporate-military quarantine and disturbing visions drive Bridge to a life-altering conclusion. This enthralling sequel to the critically-acclaimed Under the Amoral Bridge is the second in the Bridge Chronicles series.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6739876-the-know-circuit"}, +{"book_title": "Forged in Space", "author_name": "James David Victor", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 361, "review_number": 23, "book_description": " Abandoned on a remote planet overrun by hostile aliens. The commanding officer is dead. A new squad of space Marines will be forced to prevail\u2026or die. A new story from #1 Best Selling author James David Victor Jack Forge has been deployed with his unit to a remote alien world on a simple mission. When their ship is attacked and the planet is overrun by Chitins, the Marine who never wanted to be will be forced to take a stand or watch those around him die, including the woman he has come to care for. If Jack can\u2019t be forged into a true Marine, all will be lost. Forged in Space is the second book in the Jack Forge, Fleet Marine series. If you like fast paced military science fiction, Jack Forge is the kind of hero you can root for. Download Forged in Space and get started on your next space adventure today! Always FREE on Kindle Unlimited ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36638824-forged-in-space"}, +{"book_title": "Rebels Rising", "author_name": "Shanna Swendson", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 504, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Risking all for freedom \u2013 and love.The governor has disbanded the Colonial Assembly, removing the last shred of representative government from American shores. The Rebel Mechanics and their magister allies can\u2019t let the Empire get away with that. The time has come to act.But to truly start turning the wheels of revolution, they need popular support from ordinary laborers, housewives, students, and the middle class\u2014people outside the rebel movements. That\u2019s a job for Verity Newton, under the guise of her journalistic alter ego. As the rebel movement builds momentum, Verity must take a more public, open stand for the cause\u2014a stand that could jeopardize her job, her home, and her place in society.At the same time, a revolution is the only way Verity stands a chance of being with Lord Henry, since they\u2019re divided by class and by the fact that he\u2019s wanted for treason. It\u2019s a risk she\u2019s willing to take.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34603463-rebels-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Under Stone", "author_name": "Jaclyn Dolamore", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 822, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "For star-crossed lovers Nimira and Erris, there can be no happily ever after until Erris is freed from the clockwork form in which his soul is trapped. And so they go in search of the sorcerer Ordorio Valdana, hoping he will know how to grant Erris real life again. When they learn that Valdana has mysteriously vanished, it's not long before Nimira decides to take matters into her own hands\u2014and begins to study the sorcerer's spell books in secret. Yet even as she begins to understand the power and limitations of sorcery, it becomes clear that freeing Erris will bring danger\u2014if not out-and-out war\u2014as factions within the faerie world are prepared to stop at nothing to prevent him from regaining the throne.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8171792-magic-under-stone"}, +{"book_title": "The Woodlands", "author_name": "Lauren Nicolle Taylor", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 3486, "review_number": 359, "book_description": "When being unique puts you in danger and speaking your mind can be punishable by death, you might find yourself fighting to survive. Sixteen-year-old Rosa lives in one of the eight enclosed cities of The Woodlands. Where the lone survivors of a devastating race war have settled in the Russian wilderness because it\u2019s the only scrap of land left habitable on the planet. In these circular cities, everyone must abide by the law or face harsh punishment. Rosa's inability to conform and obey the rules brands her a leper and no one wants to be within two feet of her, until she meets Joseph. He's blonde, fair-skinned, green-eyed, and the laid-back complete opposite of Rosa. She's never met anyone quite like him, and she knows that spells danger. But differences weren't always a bad thing. People used to think being unique was one of the most treasured of traits to have. Now, the Superiors, who ruthlessly control the concrete cities with an iron fist, are obsessed with creating a 'raceless' race. They are convinced this is the only way to avoid another war. Any anomalies must be destroyed. The Superiors are unstoppable and can do anything they want. After all, they are considered superheroes by the general public. But not everyone sees them this way. When they continue to abuse their power by collecting young girls for use in their secret, high-tech breeding program, they have no idea that one of those girls has somehow managed to make friends even she didn't know she had. And one man will stop at nothing to save her.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18283771-the-woodlands"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl Who Dared to Think", "author_name": "Bella Forrest", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 6824, "review_number": 426, "book_description": "\n How do you fight an enemy when they're inside your mind?\nA gargantuan glass-walled tower looms over a deadly wilderness. They say it's all that's left.The Tower's survival is humanity's survival, and each must serve it faithfully...Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks. Her life is defined by the number on her wristband -- a rating out of ten awarded based on her usefulness and loyalty to the Tower, and monitored by a device in her skull. A device that reports forbidden thoughts.Liana is currently a four, the lowest possible acceptable score, and despite her parents' perfect scores of ten, she struggles to increase it. Rebellious ideas come all too easily, and resentfulness seems part of her being. She is an overseer-in-training, but her future will be dark if she cannot raise her worth...Threes require drug treatment.Twos are isolated.Ones disappear.When Liana's worst nightmare comes to pass and she drops to a three, desperation spurs her down a path few dare to tread. A chance encounter with a cocky young man whose shockingly dissident attitude toward the Tower couldn't possibly have earned him the perfect \"ten\" on his wrist, sets her on a trail to save herself--even at the risk of dropping lower.Stalking the young man seemed like a simple enough task, but after events take an unexpected twist, Liana finds herself taking a treacherous dive into the darkest depths of the Tower... and the decades' old secrets buried within.In a society where free thinking can make you a criminal, one girl dares to try...An unforgettable tale brimming with suspense, mystery and romance - The Girl Who Dared to Think will thrill fans of \nThe Gender Game\n, Divergent & The Hunger Games.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "New Adult", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35609598-the-girl-who-dared-to-think"}, +{"book_title": "Bucky and Stu vs. the Mikanikal Man", "author_name": "Cornelius Van Wright", "rating_score": 3.12, "rating_votes": 41, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "It\u2019s the adventure of a lifetime when best friends\u2014and self-proclaimed superheroes\u2014defeat bad guys of their own invention.\u00a0It\u2019s wonk \u2019em time when Bucky and Stu have to stand up to Phat Tyre, TrashMan and Hose-Nose. No matter that the bad guys are all made out of household items that Bucky and Stu have assembled themselves\u2014these bad guys don\u2019t stand a chance against the boys\u2019 power moves. Still, it\u2019s quite a surprise when their latest villain, the giant Mikanikal Man, gets zapped during a lightning storm and comes to life! The battle\u2014and thrill\u2014of a lifetime ensue. Full of surprises and laughs, this upbeat, action-packed story celebrates imagination, creativity, and friendship in even the most unexpected forms. Cornelius Van Wright\u2019s hilarious illustrations are full of surprises and are perfect for portraying the high-speed antics of two enthusiastic boys.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23281832-bucky-and-stu-vs-the-mikanikal-man"}, +{"book_title": "City", "author_name": "Clifford D. Simak", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 14738, "review_number": 889, "book_description": "Simak's \"City\" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories told by Dogs about the end of human civilization, centering on the Webster family, who, among their other accomplishments, designed the ships that took Men to the stars and gave Dogs the gift of speech and robots to be their hands.Contents:\u00b7 City \u00b7 nv Astounding May 1944 \u00b7 Huddling Place \u00b7 ss Astounding Jul 1944 \u00b7 Census \u00b7 nv Astounding Sep 1944 \u00b7 Desertion \u00b7 ss Astounding Nov 1944 \u00b7 Paradise \u00b7 ss Astounding Jun 1946 \u00b7 Hobbies \u00b7 nv Astounding Nov 1946 \u00b7 Aesop \u00b7 nv Astounding Dec 1947 \u00b7 The Simple Way [The Trouble with Ants] \u00b7 nv Fantastic Adventures Jan 1951 \u00b7 Author\u2019s Note \u00b7 is \u00b7 Epilog \u00b7 ss Astounding, ed. Harry Harrison, Random, 1973", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Animals", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Animals (Dogs)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222093.City"}, +{"book_title": "Radiance", "author_name": "Grace Draven", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 35556, "review_number": 3730, "book_description": "THE PRINCE OF NO VALUE Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined. THE NOBLEWOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn\u2019t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she\u2019s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light. Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24473763-radiance"}, +{"book_title": "Cybermancy", "author_name": "Kelly McCullough", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1497, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "To save his girlfriend's webgoblin, Ravirn-a sorcerer with a shape-changing laptop-must brave Hell itself. Can he do it without corrupting the magical Internet-and without facing the Lord of the Dead himself?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mythology (Gods)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Urban"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1723246.Cybermancy"}, +{"book_title": "Dissonance", "author_name": "Erica O'Rourke", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2224, "review_number": 398, "book_description": "Some decisions have unimaginable consequences.Every time someone makes a choice, a new parallel world is spun off the existing one. Eating breakfast or skipping it, sneaking out instead of staying in bed\u2014every decision creates an alternate universe in which an Echo self takes the road not traveled. As a Walker who can navigate between these realities, Del is training to help keep the dimensions in harmony.When Del secretly starts to investigate other dissonant worlds, she get tangled up with an Echo of her longtime crush. She knows she shouldn't keep seeing him. But as Del persists, she uncovers a truth that the Council of Walkers is trying to hide\u2014a secret that threatens the entire multiverse.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17334538-dissonance"}, +{"book_title": "The Wanting Seed", "author_name": "Anthony Burgess", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 5974, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Literature", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8809.The_Wanting_Seed"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Space", "author_name": "Jasper T. Scott", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 3971, "review_number": 274, "book_description": "From the USA Today Bestselling Author of Stars and EmpireHUMANITY IS DEFEATEDTen years ago the Sythians invaded the galaxy with one goal: to wipe out the human race.THEY ARE HIDINGNow the survivors are hiding in the last human sector of the galaxy: Dark Space--once a place of exile for criminals, now the last refuge of mankind.THEY ARE ISOLATEDThe once galaxy-spanning Imperium of Star Systems is left guarding the gate which is the only way in or out of Dark Space--but not everyone is satisfied with their governance.AND THEY ARE KILLING EACH OTHERFreelancer and ex-convict Ethan Ortane is on the run. He owes crime lord Alec Brondi 10,000 sols, and his ship is badly damaged. When Brondi catches up with him, he makes an offer Ethan can't refuse. Ethan must infiltrate and sabotage the Valiant, the Imperial Star Systems Fleet carrier which stands guarding the entrance of Dark Space, and then his debt will be cleared. While Ethan is still undecided about what he will do, he realizes that the Imperium has been lying and putting all of Dark Space at risk. Now Brondi's plan is starting to look like a necessary evil, but before Ethan can act on it, he discovers that the real plan was much more sinister than what he was told, and he will be lucky to escape the Valiant alive. . . .", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23365213-dark-space"}, +{"book_title": "R)evolution", "author_name": "P.J. Manney", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 4002, "review_number": 347, "book_description": "Scientist Peter Bernhardt has dedicated his life to nanotechnology, the science of manipulating matter on the atomic scale. As the founder of Biogineers, he is on the cusp of revolutionizing brain therapies with microscopic nanorobots that will make certain degenerative diseases become a thing of the past. But after his research is stolen by an unknown enemy, seventy thousand people die in Las Vegas in one abominable moment. No one is more horrified than Peter, as this catastrophe sets in motion events that will forever change not only his life but also the course of human evolution.Peter\u2019s company is torn from his grasp as the public clamors for his blood. Desperate, he turns to an old friend, who introduces him to the Phoenix Club, a cabal of the most powerful people in the world. To make himself more valuable to his new colleagues, Peter infuses his brain with experimental technology, exponentially upgrading his mental prowess and transforming him irrevocably.As he\u2019s exposed to unimaginable wealth and influence, Peter\u2019s sense of reality begins to unravel. Do the club members want to help him, or do they just want to claim his technology? What will they do to him once they have their prize? And while he\u2019s already evolved beyond mere humanity, is he advanced enough to take on such formidable enemies and win?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Unfinished", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25207141-r-evolution"}, +{"book_title": "Woman on the Edge of Time", "author_name": "Marge Piercy", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 14210, "review_number": 1003, "book_description": "After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie Ramos is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a utopian future of sexual and racial equality and environmental harmony.But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Feminism", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Womens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/772888.Woman_on_the_Edge_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Murder on the Einstein Express and Other Stories", "author_name": "Harun \u0160iljak", "rating_score": 2.73, "rating_votes": 22, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "This collection of stories touches upon many genres: \"Normed Trek\" is a clever and witty Alice-in-Wonderland-type narrative set in the realm of mathematical analysis, \"The Cantor Trilogy\" is a dystopia about the consequences of relying upon computer-based mathematical proofs, \"In Search of Future Time\" bears the flavor of Tales from Arabian Nights set in the future, and last but not least - \"Murder on the Einstein Express\" is a short, non-technical primer on probabilities and modern classical physics, disguised as a detective story.Written primarily for an audience with some background or a strong interest in mathematics, physics and computer science (in particular artificial intelligence), these stories explore the boundaries between science and fiction in a refreshingly unconventional fashion. 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But Thrawn\u2019s origins and the story of his rise in the Imperial ranks have remained mysterious. Now, in Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn chronicles the fateful events that launched the blue-skinned, red-eyed master of military strategy and lethal warfare into the highest realms of power\u2014and infamy.After Thrawn is rescued from exile by Imperial soldiers, his deadly ingenuity and keen tactical abilities swiftly capture the attention of Emperor Palpatine. And just as quickly, Thrawn proves to be as indispensable to the Empire as he is ambitious; as devoted as its most loyal servant, Darth Vader; and a brilliant warrior never to be underestimated. On missions to rout smugglers, snare spies, and defeat pirates, he triumphs time and again\u2014even as his renegade methods infuriate superiors while inspiring ever greater admiration from the Empire. As one promotion follows another in his rapid ascension to greater power, he schools his trusted aide, Ensign Eli Vanto, in the arts of combat and leadership, and the secrets of claiming victory. But even though Thrawn dominates the battlefield, he has much to learn in the arena of politics, where ruthless administrator Arihnda Pryce holds the power to be a potent ally or a brutal enemy.All these lessons will be put to the ultimate test when Thrawn rises to admiral and must pit all the knowledge, instincts, and battle forces at his command against an insurgent uprising that threatens not only innocent lives but also the Empire\u2019s grip on the galaxy\u2014and his own carefully laid plans for future ascendancy.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31140332-thrawn"}, +{"book_title": "At All Costs", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 9915, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "What Price Victory?The War with the Republic of Haven has resumed...disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Eighth Fleet. Everyone knows Eight Fleet is the Alliance's primary offensive command, but what most of the public doesn't know is that not only are the Star Kingdom and its Allies badly outnumbered by the Republic's new fleet, but that the odds are going to get steadily worse.Eighth Fleet's job is to somehow prevent those odds from crushing the Alliance before the Star Kingdom can regain its strategic balance. It's a job which won't be done chaply. Honor Harrington must meet her formidable responsibilities with inferior forces even as she copes with tumultous changes in her personal and public life.The alternative to victory is total defeat, yet this time the cost of victory will be agonizingly high.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "War", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77732.At_All_Costs"}, +{"book_title": "To Obey", "author_name": "Mickey Zucker Reichert", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 356, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.\n2036: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. But even as humanity contends with the consequences of its most brilliant creation, there are those who have their own designs for the robots: enslavement\u2026or annihilation.\nSusan Calvin is about to enter her second year as a psych resident at the Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital when a violent crime strikes her very close to home.When she was young, Susan lost her mother in a terrible car wreck that also badly injured her father. She now believes the accident was an attempted murder by government powers who wanted her parents dead. Susan has always known that there was a faction of the U.S. government that wanted to hijack her father\u2019s work for military use. Now, it seems that faction is back.As she struggles to overcome her pain and confusion as well as deal with her studies, Susan finds herself hunted by violent anti-tech vigilantes who would revert mankind to the dark ages\u2014and at the same time watched very closely by extremists who want high-tech genocide. Somehow she must find a way to stop them both.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808545-to-obey"}, +{"book_title": "The Eye of Minds", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 35890, "review_number": 4256, "book_description": "Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it\u2019s addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb, anyway?But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too dangerous to fool with. And recent reports claim that one gamer is going beyond what any gamer has done before: he\u2019s holding players hostage inside the VirtNet. The effects are horrific\u2014the hostages have all been declared brain-dead. Yet the gamer\u2019s motives are a mystery.The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker.And they\u2019ve been watching Michael. They want him on their team.But the risk is enormous. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid. There are back alleys and corners in the system human eyes have never seen and predators he can\u2019t even fathom\u2014and there\u2019s the possibility that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Action", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16279856-the-eye-of-minds"}, +{"book_title": "Before the Coffee Gets Cold", "author_name": "Toshikazu Kawaguchi", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 23505, "review_number": 3861, "book_description": "\nWhat would you change if you could go back in time?\nIn a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf\u00e9 which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the caf\u00e9\u2019s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the caf\u00e9, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .Toshikazu Kawaguchi\u2019s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Magical Realism", "Contemporary", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44421460-before-the-coffee-gets-cold"}, +{"book_title": "Red Handed", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2169, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "She's been chosen to fight the elusive enemy among us....Phoenix Germaine has been trying to earn back her mother's trust after going into rehab and kicking Onadyn -- the drug of choice for New Chicago teens. But when a party in the woods turns into an all-out battle with the most ferocious aliens Phoenix has never seen, she's brought home in what appears to be an Onadyn-induced state. Hello, reform school.Except, what her mother doesn't know is that Phoenix has just been recruited to join the elite Alien Investigation and Removal agency, where she'll learn to fight dirty, track hard, and destroy the enemy. Her professional training will be rigorous and dangerous, and the fact that one of her instructors is Ryan Stone -- the drop-dead gorgeous, nineteen-year-old agent she met in the woods that night -- doesn't make things any easier. Especially when dating him is totally against the rules....Wildly imaginative, action-packed, and thrilling, Red Handed launches Gena Showalter's stunning new alien huntress series.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/476496.Red_Handed"}, +{"book_title": "Double Dead", "author_name": "Chuck Wendig", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1238, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "Coburn\u2019s been dead now for close to a century, but seeing as how he\u2019s a vampire and all, it doesn't much bother him. Or at least it didn't, not until he awoke from a forced five-year slumber to discover that most of human civilization was now dead-but not dead like him, oh no.See, Coburn likes blood. The rest of the walking dead, they like brains. He\u2019s smart. Them, not so much. But they outnumber him by about a million to one. And the clotted blood of the walking dead cannot sustain him. Now he\u2019s starving. And nocturnal. And more pissed-off than a bee-stung rattlesnake. The vampire not only has to find human survivors (with their sweet, sweet blood), but now he has to transition from predator to protector-after all, a man has to look after his food supply.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10822250-double-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch", "author_name": "Kelly Sue DeConnick", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 5710, "review_number": 592, "book_description": "Eisner Award-nominated writer KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) follow up on the success of EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE with the second installment of their highly acclaimed and fiercely unapologetic BITCH PLANET. A few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords results in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. But what happened on Earth that this new world order came to pass in the first place? Return to the grim corridors of Auxiliary Compliance Outpost #2, to uncover the first clues to the history of the world as we know it\u2026and meet PRESIDENT BITCH.This volume collects issues #6-10, a reader discussion guide and additional bonus materials.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Feminism", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "LGBT", "Comics (Comic Book)", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29972029-bitch-planet-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake", "author_name": "Laurie Brown", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 300, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "A modern career woman thrust back in time into the glittering Regency period and the arms of an unscrupulous rake...Josephine Drummond is a professional paranormal researcher (aka, a ghostbuster) hired to prove that the ghost of Lord Deverell Thornton, the very handsome Earl and a notorious rake in his time, haunts the crumbling Waite Castle. But the ghost drags Josephine back to the Regency period to help him try to prevent the swindle that impoverished the Earl and threatens to turn his castle into a most undignified modern-day tourist attraction.Josephine has to contend with being a modern career woman trying to navigate the complex social scene of the Regency period, make sure no one discovers her real identity and unmask a charlatan. But all of these are easier than resisting her undeniable attraction to the Earl, who is clearly determined to sweep her off her feet.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Regency)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2050179.Hundreds_of_Years_to_Reform_a_Rake"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Treasure", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1241, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "Everyone knows Megan and Cashol hit it off the moment they resonated\u2026 didn\u2019t they? But when Josie goes into labor, an off-hand comment makes Megan point out to her friend that no, things weren\u2019t always so smooth. Just because resonance is immediate doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s immediately perfect.But also\u2026just because it\u2019s an instant bond doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s wrong. Sometimes it\u2019s very, very right.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53225398-barbarian-s-treasure"}, +{"book_title": "Toys", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 12122, "review_number": 1337, "book_description": "Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course, they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans and their toys!The one with the most toys--diesThe top operative for the Agency of Change, Hays has just won the fiercest battle of his career. He has been praised by the President, and is a national hero. But before he can savor his triumph, he receives an unbelievable shock that overturns everything he thought was true. Suddenly Hays is on the other side of the gun, forced to leave his perfect family and fight for his life.Now a hunted fugitive, Hays is thrown into a life he never dreamed possible--fighting to save humans everywhere from extinction. He enlists all of his training to uncover the truth that will save millions of lives--maybe even his own.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8273044-toys"}, +{"book_title": "Calamity", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 63479, "review_number": 5070, "book_description": "When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David\u2019s fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy.David knew Prof\u2019s secret, and kept it even when the Reckoners\u2019 leader struggled to control the effects of his Epic powers. But facing Obliteration in Babilar was too much. Prof has now embraced his Epic destiny. He\u2019s disappeared into those murky shadows of menace Epics are infamous for the world over, and everyone knows there\u2019s no turning back. . . . But everyone is wrong. Redemption is possible for Epics\u2014Megan proved it. They\u2019re not lost. Not completely. And David is just about crazy enough to face down the most powerful High Epic of all to get his friend back. Or die trying.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15704486-calamity"}, +{"book_title": "Boy Robot", "author_name": "Simon Curtis", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 607, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Isaak discovers the truth about his origin and the underground forces that must come together to fight against a secret government organization formed to eradicate those like him in this high-octane science fiction debut.There once was a boy who was made, not created.In a single night, Isaak\u2019s life changed forever.His adoptive parents were killed, a mysterious girl saved him from a team of soldiers, and he learned of his own dark and destructive origin.An origin he doesn\u2019t want to believe, but one he cannot deny.Isaak is a Robot: a government-made synthetic human, produced as a weapon and now hunted, marked for termination.He and the Robots can only find asylum with the Underground\u2014a secret network of Robots and humans working together to ensure a coexistent future.To be protected by the Underground, Isaak will have to make it there first. But with a deadly military force tasked to find him at any cost, his odds are less than favorable.Now Isaak must decide whether to hold on to his humanity and face possible death\u2026or to embrace his true nature in order to survive, at the risk of becoming the weapon he was made to be.In his debut, recording artist Simon Curtis has written a fast-paced, high-stakes novel that explores humanity, the ultimate power of empathy, and the greatest battle of all: love vs. fear.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28498236-boy-robot"}, +{"book_title": "ATLAS 2", "author_name": "Isaac Hooke", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 913, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The saga continues\u2026The desperate battle on far-flung Geronimo may have ended in a qualified victory for the elite MOTH soldiers in their devastating, atomic-powered ATLAS mechs\u2026but the cost was a massive one, paid in blood. Rade Galaal, graduate of the toughest military training in the universe, barely survived the terrifying mission in deep space that claimed the lives of the two people he couldn\u2019t afford to lose: a comrade who was more than a brother, and someone who was his whole world.Lost, broken, and questioning his place as a MOTH and as a man, Rade faces a new crisis when an enemy force\u2014a terrifyingly familiar one\u2014threatens the future of humanity itself. Entering human territory from the depths of uncharted space, this massive alien vessel wears the face of death.Once the nightmarish invader begins threatening total annihilation, can Rade and his team hope to prevail\u2026or even survive?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22452189-atlas-2"}, +{"book_title": "Deliverance", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 3517, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "They will dive, but will humanity survive?Left for dead on the nightmarish surface of the planet, Commander Michael Everhart and his team of Hell Divers barely escape with their lives aboard a new airship called Deliverance. After learning that Xavier X Rodriguez may still be alive, they mount a rescue mission for the long-lost hero.In the skies, the Hive is falling apart, but Captain Jordan is more determined than ever to keep humanity in their outdated lifeboat. He will do whatever it takes to keep the ship in the air-even murder. But when he learns the Hell Divers he exiled have found Deliverance, he changes course for a new mission-find the divers, kill them, and make their new ship his own.In the third installment of the USA Today bestselling Hell Divers series, Michael and his fellow divers fight across the mutated landscape in search of X. But what they find will change everything.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35480139-deliverance"}, +{"book_title": "In the Blood", "author_name": "Hailey Turner", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 1003, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "Running out of time. Captain Jamie Callahan is frustrated with his team constantly being at the mercy of the enemy in order to further the MDF\u2019s goals. To make matters worse, his father\u2019s political campaign is ramping up and Jamie\u2019s every move is being watched by the media. He is acutely aware of all the eyes trained on him, his team, and Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan in particular. Meanwhile, Kyle would give anything to stay in the shadows, but he refuses to leave Jamie\u2019s side, no matter the scrutiny. Staying out of the spotlight becomes impossible when their families are threatened and vital choices about their future together can no longer be ignored. Desperate measures. Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin and Agent Sean Delaney are enjoying their time together as a couple when Sean\u2019s past catches up with him. As Alpha Team\u2019s long-running mission gets derailed in the worst way possible, Alexei discovers the enemy is playing for keeps, and neither he nor Sean are in any position to beat the odds and win the game. As for Sean, he\u2019s worried that even if they make it out alive, Alexei may never forgive him for giving into the enemy\u2019s demands. Stand your ground. Manipulation is the name of the game, but Jamie is done playing by everybody else\u2019s rules. So is the rest of Alpha Team, because if there\u2019s one thing Jamie\u2019s team knows? It\u2019s that they\u2019re a family\u2014and you don\u2019t mess with family unless you want to get hurt. In the Blood is a 107k word steamy gay sci-fi military romance with a HFN ending that skirts HEA. There is military violence and on-page torture within the story that may not be suitable for everyone, so please read with caution. There are also explicit intimate scenes that are not suitable for readers under the age of 18. This is a direct sequel to In the Shadows and reading the previous books in the series would be helpful in enjoying this one.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Suspense", "Action", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37551376-in-the-blood"}, +{"book_title": "The Ruby Brooch", "author_name": "Katherine Lowry Logan", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 4351, "review_number": 379, "book_description": "Can a 21st century paramedic find her true identity on the other side of the heather-scented mist?From the white-plank fenced pastures of Lexington, Kentucky, to the beautiful Bay of San Francisco, The Ruby Brooch, a saga rich in detail and mystery, follows a young woman\u2019s physical and emotional journey as she searches for the truth she believes will heal her wounds, restore her sense of self, and allow her to move on with her life.As the lone survivor of a car crash that killed her parents, paramedic Kit MacKlenna makes a startling discovery that further alters her life. A faded letter and a well-worn journal reveal that she was abandoned on her father\u2019s doorstep as a baby. The only clues to her identity are a blood-splattered shawl, a locket that bears a portrait of a nineteenth-century man, and a Celtic brooch with mystical powers. Following notes in her late father\u2019s journal, Kit sets out on a quest to solve the murders of her birth parents and discover her true identity. Under the guise of the Widow MacKlenna, Kit calls on the power of the ruby brooch and is swept back in time to Independence, Missouri, in the year 1852.Upon arriving in the past, she meets Cullen Montgomery, an egotistical Scotsman with a penchant for seducing widows. The San Francisco-bound lawyer happens to resemble the ghost who has haunted Kit since childhood. She quickly finds the Bach-humming, Shakespeare-quoting man to be over-bearing and his intolerance for liars threatens her quest.If she can survive his accusations and resist his tempting and passionate embrace, she might be able to find the answers she seeks and return home to a new life without changing history or leaving her heart on the other side of time", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15701608-the-ruby-brooch"}, +{"book_title": "I Was An Alien Cat Toy", "author_name": "Ann Somerville", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 783, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Temin crash lands on an unexplored planet and gets up front and personal with the natives \u2013 who are giant felines. Survival will mean making some unlikely alliances - and some most unusual friendships.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Sociology (Abuse)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Space", "LGBT", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17803746-i-was-an-alien-cat-toy"}, +{"book_title": "Mad World", "author_name": "Kate L. Mary", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1353, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "***Warning: Contains spoilers for Broken World and Shattered World.Mad World is the third book in the Broken World series, which follows a group of survivors after a super-virus has destroyed the world and the dead have come back to claim it as their own\u2026Vivian didn\u2019t think things could get any worse than losing Emily, and getting to the shelter should have been their salvation. But once again their hopes were shattered when they discovered things weren\u2019t safe as promised, forcing them to head into Vegas in search of supplies.VivianBut now she and Hadley find themselves in a situation more threatening than even the dead walking the Earth. Kidnapped by armed men and taken deep into Vegas, they\u2019re cut-off from anyone who cares about them and thrust into a world so sick and twisted it can only be described as madness. Knowing that Axl has no idea where they are and little hope of finding them, Vivian and Hadley must team up with one of the very men who abducted them if they have any hope of escaping their new nightmare. AxlWatching Vivian get thrown into the back of a van almost tears him apart, but he\u2019s determined to find her no matter what it takes. With the growing tension between him and Angus, Axl finds himself wondering if the price will be his relationship with his brother. Putting both old and new wounds aside, Axl and Angus must infiltrate the group holding Vivian and Hadley, and make their escape through a zombie-ridden Vegas.But the men in charge of Vegas aren\u2019t the type to easily forget, and the group soon discovers that getting the girls out alive very well could mean the end for them all\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23295634-mad-world"}, +{"book_title": "Carpe Jugulum", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 57398, "review_number": 1372, "book_description": "In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. Ever.Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there's only one way to fight.Go for the throat, or as the vampyres themselves say...Carpe Jugulum", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34541.Carpe_Jugulum"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior", "author_name": "Cheryl Brooks", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1271, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "\nEven near death, his sensuality is amazing... She has only one chance to tame him.\nLeo arrives on Tisana's doorstep a beaten slave from a near-extinct race with feline genes. As soon as Leo recovers his strength, he'll use his extraordinary sexual talents to bewitch Tisana and make a bolt for freedom.Tisana, whose healing powers are legendary, already knows Leo's the one who can help her fulfill her destiny... she can't let him get away now. Forced together on a dangerous journey, Tisana must reveal all of her powers, and Leo must give all of himself to gain his freedom.The second book in wildly popular Cat Star Chronicles, a paranormal romance series featuring heroes with a feline gene that gives them remarkable sexual powers.The Cat Star Chronicles: Slave (Book 1)Warrior (Book 2)Rogue (Book 3)Outcast (Book 4)Fugitive (Book 5)Hero (Book 6)Virgin (Book 7)Stud (Book 8)Wildcat (Book 9)Rebel (Book 10) Praise for Slave, Book 1 in The Cat Star Chronicles: \"A sexy adventure with a hero you can't resist!\"--Candace Havens, author of Charmed & Deadly \"Fascinating world customs, a bit of a mystery, and the relationship between the hero and heroine make this a very sensual romance.\"-- Romantic Times\"You don't want to miss this one\"-- Star-Crossed Romance", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2958524-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Brianna", "author_name": "Judy Mays", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2028, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Book 1 in the Celestial Passions series Brianna did what any other decent human being would do-rescue a pair of aliens her boss was about to dissect, and get them back to their space ship. In the process, she was captured by an alien scientist and became a experiment herself-a sexual experiment. Captain Alalakan don al' Chardadon was not about to let Dr. Rodak don al' Bakom conduct his ridiculous sexual experiments on an inhabitant from a newly discovered world. Even if it meant he had to marry the Earth woman to protect her. Marriages were easily dissolved on his planet, and this alien was very beautiful. Besides, he wanted her-in his bed, on the floor, against the wall, or anywhere else he could think of. Brianna had to choose-marry the captain or try to find another way to escape Bakom. Easy choice. Even though he was an alien, Char was the most desirable man she'd ever met. So, Brianna finds herself hurtling through space married to a very sexy alien-with a very flexible tail-from a planet where hedonism is the norm and there are three sexes: male, female, and hermaphrodite. But Bakom wanted Brianna too, and is willing to do anything to get her back.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1204341.Brianna"}, +{"book_title": "My Lady Quicksilver", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3984, "review_number": 390, "book_description": "Determined to destroy the Echelon she despises, Rosalind Fairchild is on seemingly easy mission. Get in. Uncover the secrets of her brother's disappearance. And get out.In order to infiltrate the Nighthawks and find their leader, Sir Jasper Lynch, Rosalind will pose as their secretary. But she doesn't count on Lynch being such a dangerously charismatic man, challenging her at every turn, forcing her to re-evaluate everything she knows about the enemy.He could be her most dangerous nemesis\u2014or the ally she never dreamed existed.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17310126-my-lady-quicksilver"}, +{"book_title": "Delta-V", "author_name": "Daniel Suarez", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 4427, "review_number": 457, "book_description": "When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime candidate for Joyce's high-risk venture to mine a near-earth asteroid--with the goal of kick-starting an entire off-world economy. The potential rewards and personal risks are staggering, but the competition is fierce and the stakes couldn't be higher. Isolated and pushed beyond their breaking points, Tighe and his fellow twenty-first century adventurers--ex-soldiers, former astronauts, BASE jumpers, and mountain climbers--must rely on each other to survive not only the dangers of a multi-year expedition but the harsh realities of business in space. They're determined to transform humanity from an Earth-bound species to a space-faring one--or die trying.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science (Technology)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40859000-delta-v"}, +{"book_title": "After the Flood", "author_name": "Kassandra Montag", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 12124, "review_number": 1826, "book_description": "A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America\u2019s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water.Stubbornly independent Myra and her precocious seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, fish from their small boat, the Bird, visiting dry land only to trade for supplies and information in the few remaining outposts of civilization. For seven years, Myra has grieved the loss of her oldest daughter, Row, who was stolen by her father after a monstrous deluge overtook their home in Nebraska. Then, in a violent confrontation with a stranger, Myra suddenly discovers that Row was last seen in a far-off encampment near the Arctic Circle. Throwing aside her usual caution, Myra and Pearl embark on a perilous voyage into the icy northern seas, hoping against hope that Row will still be there.On their journey, Myra and Pearl join forces with a larger ship and Myra finds herself bonding with her fellow seekers who hope to build a safe haven together in this dangerous new world. But secrets, lust, and betrayals threaten their dream, and after their fortunes take a shocking\u2014and bloody\u2014turn, Myra can no longer ignore the question of whether saving Row is worth endangering Pearl and her fellow travelers.A compulsively readable novel of dark despair and soaring hope, After the Flood is a magnificent, action packed, and sometimes frightening odyssey laced with wonder\u2014an affecting and wholly original saga both redemptive and astonishing.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41088582-after-the-flood"}, +{"book_title": "The City, Not Long After", "author_name": "Pat Murphy", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 953, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Half a generation ago, a gesture in the name of peace turned out to spread plague and disaster. In San Francisco, the survivors are heir to a city transformed. It is a haunted, dreaming place peopled with memories, and in a strange way nearly alive itself. And although it is only beginning to recover from near-ultimate disaster, the city is at risk again. An army of power-hungry men are descending on San Francisco. Teenagers Jax and Danny-boy must lead the fight for freedom using the only weapons they have art, magic, and the soul of the city itself.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/593789.The_City_Not_Long_After"}, +{"book_title": "Code of Conduct", "author_name": "Kristine Smith", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1394, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Captain Jani Kilian\u2019s life should have ended in front of a firing squad. Instead, she evaded battlefield justice by dying in a transport crash. End of story, according to official Commonwealth Service records. But doctors repaired her in secret, using the most advanced Service Medical technologies available, or so they assured her. In the last days of the idomeni civil war, she escaped their homeworld of Sh\u00e8r\u00e1, and spent the next 18 years on the run.But someone like Jani leaves a trail no matter how hard they try to hide it, and she soon learns the Service hunt for her never ended. When Interior Minister Evan van Reuter, her former lover, tracks her down and begs her help in finding his wife\u2019s killer, she has no choice but to agree. The search takes her to the Commonwealth capital of Chicago, a hotbed of political intrigue as dangerous as any warzone. As the danger mounts, so do Jani\u2019s struggles. Her rebuilt body is breaking down, and memories long suppressed are flooding back. Of one horrible night 18 years ago, and the gut-wrenching decision that changed her life forever.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1171778.Code_of_Conduct"}, +{"book_title": "Resolute", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 3211, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Kris Longknife has been given her first independent command in the very remote system of Chance, an assignment that's as much exile as promotion.But Kris isn't on the job long when she captures pirates hiding the location of an uncharted and unpopulated planet of miraculous technology.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129580.Resolute"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Calling", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 5591, "review_number": 939, "book_description": "New intrigues, adventures, and stunning revelations fill the penultimate installment of #1 New York Times best-selling author Kresley Cole\u2019s electrifying Arcana Chronicles.In a world teetering on the edge . . .When Evie receives life-changing\u2014and possibly game-changing\u2014news, she has trouble believing it. Why doesn\u2019t she feel any different? Is it possible someone she trusts might be lying?With enemies at every turn . . .Tensions seethe inside the castle of lost time as Evie starts to doubt her own sanity. Answers can be found outside their stronghold, but will Death help her find them\u2014or prevent her from learning the truth about her future and Jack\u2019s possible survival?Darkness beckons. A mysterious, sinister power begins to affect the Arcana in its path. Forced out into the wasteland alone, Evie must depend on unexpected allies. But as a battle with Richter looms, can her new alliance defeat the Dark Calling before hell reigns on earth?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31453592-the-dark-calling"}, +{"book_title": "At the Table of Wolves", "author_name": "Kay Kenyon", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 458, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy meets X-Men in a classic British espionage story. A young woman must go undercover and use her superpowers to discover a secret Nazi plot and stop an invasion of England.In 1936, there are paranormal abilities that have slowly seeped into the world, brought to the surface by the suffering of the Great War. The research to weaponize these abilities in England has lagged behind Germany, but now it\u2019s underway at an ultra-secret site called Monkton Hall. Kim Tavistock, a woman with the talent of the spill\u2014drawing out truths that people most wish to hide\u2014is among the test subjects at the facility. When she wins the confidence of caseworker Owen Cherwell, she is recruited to a mission to expose the head of Monkton Hall\u2014who is believed to be a German spy. As she infiltrates the upper-crust circles of some of England\u2019s fascist sympathizers, she encounters dangerous opponents, including the charismatic Nazi officer Erich von Ritter, and discovers a plan to invade England. No one believes an invasion of the island nation is possible, not Whitehall, not even England\u2019s Secret Intelligence Service. Unfortunately, they are wrong, and only one woman, without connections or training, wielding her talent of the spill and her gift for espionage, can stop it.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32714261-at-the-table-of-wolves"}, +{"book_title": "Ashen Winter", "author_name": "Mike Mullin", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 10473, "review_number": 1084, "book_description": "It's been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex\u2019s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It's also been six months of waiting for Alex's parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey into Iowa to find and bring back Alex's parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois. But the landscape they cross is even more perilous than before, with life-and-death battles for food and power between the remaining communities. When the unthinkable happens, Alex must find new reserves of strength and determination to survive.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9867814-ashen-winter"}, +{"book_title": "Oath of Vengeance", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1108, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "A mercenary with a secret past A pirate leader with a secret mission A clash that will shake planets Mercenary Captain Brad Madrid has spent years building the resources to go after the man who murdered his family. His new career has benefits\u2014but also duties and responsibilities he cannot lightly brush aside. A new mission brings him once again into conflict with the Terror, however, and as friends and lovers alike perish around him, he realizes that responsibility and vengeance align. Neither the man he was nor the man he is can suffer the Terror to live. Aided by allies across the planets and a familiar shadowy spy, Brad will hunt his enemy across the Solar System, chasing down a final confrontation that will shake the foundations of humanity\u2026and fulfil his Oath of Vengeance. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36668477-oath-of-vengeance"}, +{"book_title": "City 1", "author_name": "Gregg Rosenblum", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 264, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "In the explosive conclusion to the thrilling Revolution 19 series, the time has come to win the cities back from the bots\u2014or die trying.After finally reuniting at a rebel camp, siblings Nick, Kevin, and Cass are willing to do anything to stay together\u2014and free their parents from bot rule. But the leader of the rebel camp has her own ideas. Cruel and determined, General Clay won\u2019t let anything stand in the way of her plan to destroy the robots and all the brainwashed humans. This means their parents\u2019 lives are at stake, but Nick, Kevin, and Cass can\u2019t desert the rebels when they\u2019re so close to freedom. How far will they go to save the world they believe in?Created in conjunction with Alloy Entertainment; Howard Gordon, the showrunner of 24 and Showtime\u2019s Emmy Award\u2013 and Golden Globe\u2013winning Homeland; and James Wong, the executive producer of American Horror Story; City 1 is the gripping finale to the exhilarating Revolution 19 series.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21936807-city-1"}, +{"book_title": "Too Like the Lightning", "author_name": "Ada Palmer", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 9945, "review_number": 1786, "book_description": "Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life.And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destablize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Unfinished", "Philosophy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114545-too-like-the-lightning"}, +{"book_title": "Alanna: The First Adventure", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 121297, "review_number": 5077, "book_description": "From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight.And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places: Thom heads for the convent to learn magic; Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page. But the road to knighthood is not an easy one. As Alanna masters the skills necessary for battle, she must also learn to control her heart and to discern her enemies from her allies.Filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil, Alanna's first adventure begins - one that will lead to the fulfillment of her dreams and the magical destiny that will make her a legend in her land.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13831.Alanna"}, +{"book_title": "Come Home To Me", "author_name": "Peggy L. Henderson", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1329, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "Jake Owens is tired of life on his parents\u2019 Montana ranch, catering to city folk who want a taste of old-fashioned country living. He enjoys life in the fast lane, with fast cars and even faster women. When he falls in with the wrong crowd and is accused of murder, a stranger\u2019s bizarre offer at a second chance might be his only hope to clear his name.Rachel Parker is highly devoted to her family. A tragedy prompts a daring move to the Oregon Territory for a fresh start in a new land. After meeting the wagon train\u2019s scout, the meaning of a fresh start may be more than she ever imagined. Jake can\u2019t believe he\u2019s been sent back in time to act as scout for a wagon train headed for Oregon, and given the added burden of keeping one emigrant woman safe during the journey. He and Rachel are confused by their attraction to each other. Jake\u2019s ill-mannered, unconventional ways are overshadowed only by his notorious reputation. Rachel\u2019s traditional values and quiet, responsible character are the complete opposite of what attracts Jake to a woman. When their forbidden attraction turns to love, what will happen at the end of the trail?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Westerns", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16092640-come-home-to-me"}, +{"book_title": "Red Seas Under Red Skies", "author_name": "Scott Lynch", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 117371, "review_number": 6031, "book_description": "Librarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 31-Jul-2007.After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke Lamora and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long---and they are soon back doing what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves.This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world. Its nine floors attract the wealthiest clientele - and to rise to the top, one must impress with good credit, amusing behavior...and excruciatingly impeccable play. For there is one cardinal rule, enforced by Requin, the house's cold-blooded master: it is death to cheat at any game at the Sinspire.Brazenly undeterred, Locke and Jean have orchestrated an elaborate plan to lie, trick, and swindle their way up the nine floors...straight to Requin's teeming vault. Under the cloak of false identities, they meticulously make their climb - until they are closer to the spoils than ever.But someone in Tal Verrar has uncovered the duo's secret. Someone from their past who has every intention of making the impudent criminals pay for their sins. Now it will take every ounce of cunning to save their mercenary souls. And even that may not be enough.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604556-red-seas-under-red-skies"}, +{"book_title": "Shades of Milk and Honey", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 14775, "review_number": 2818, "book_description": "The fantasy novel you\u2019ve always wished Jane Austen had writtenShades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer: Pride and Prejudice meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It is an intimate portrait of a woman, Jane, and her quest for love in a world where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality.Jane and her sister Melody vie for the attentions of eligible men, and while Jane\u2019s skill with glamour is remarkable, it is her sister who is fair of face. When Jane realizes that one of Melody\u2019s suitors is set on taking advantage of her sister for the sake of her dowry, she pushes her skills to the limit of what her body can withstand in order to set things right\u2014and, in the process, accidentally wanders into a love story of her own.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8697507-shades-of-milk-and-honey"}, +{"book_title": "Sleeping Giants", "author_name": "Sylvain Neuvel", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 72671, "review_number": 10405, "book_description": "A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown.But some can never stop searching for answers.Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history's most perplexing discovery-and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25733990-sleeping-giants"}, +{"book_title": "The Little Stormdancer", "author_name": "Jay Kristoff", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 158, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "In a faraway land, full of noise and smoke, all the animals have gone away. Can a little girl with special powers and special friends bring them back?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15851414-the-little-stormdancer"}, +{"book_title": "Kris Longknife's Replacement: Admiral Santiago on Alwa Station", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 483, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Kris Longknife has been ordered back to human space.Sandy Santiago is a woman with a whole lot of problems. She's ordered to replace Kris Longknife, but can any mere mortal fill the shoes of a Longknife . . . and Kris Longknife most of all. Follow Sandy as she's introduced to the mess on Canopus Station. Watch her as she meets cats (with nuclear weapons!) and birds and vicious alien raiders. Oh, and she has to share Alwa Station with Rita Nuu Longknife. Can it get any worse?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33139834-kris-longknife-s-replacement"}, +{"book_title": "For Steam And Country", "author_name": "Jon Del Arroz", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 350, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Her father's been pronounced dead. Destructive earthquakes ravage the countryside. An invading army looms over the horizon. And Zaira's day is just getting started... Abandoned at an early age, Zaira von Monocle found life as the daughter of a great adventurer to be filled with hard work and difficulty. She quickly learned to rely on only herself. But when a messenger brought news that her father was dead and that she was the heir to his airship, her world turned upside down. Zaira soon finds herself trapped in the midst of a war between her home country of Rislandia and the cruel Wyranth Empire, whose soldiers are acting peculiarly\u2014almost inhuman. With the enemy army advancing, her newfound ship\u2019s crew may be the only ones who can save the kingdom.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35378932-for-steam-and-country"}, +{"book_title": "A Clash of Kings", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 804587, "review_number": 24174, "book_description": "A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders\u2014Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon\u2014who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R.R. Martin stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Audiobook", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10572.A_Clash_of_Kings"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Princess Leia", "author_name": "Mark Waid", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 6387, "review_number": 668, "book_description": "When Princess Leia Organa was captured by the Empire, she never betrayed her convictions - even after the complete destruction of her home world, Alderaan. When her rescue came, Leia grabbed a blaster and joined the fight, escaping back to the Rebel Alliance and helping strike the biggest blow against the Empire - the destruction of the Death Star! But in the aftermath of that victory, the question remains...what is a princess without a world? As Leia comes to grips with her loss, a new mission leads her to the underground world of Sullust. The Empire is rounding up fugitive Alderaanians, and that doesn't sit well with their Princess! But what can one woman do against the Galactic Empire? They're about to find out! Join the galaxy's toughest Princess on a quest to save her people and rebuild her life!COLLECTING: PRINCESS LEIA #1-5", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25013184-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Prince of Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1761, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Two teenagers catapulted back in time to alter history and save the medieval kingdom of Wales ... David and his man-at-arms, Ieuan, find themselves alone and on the run from a company of English soldiers who've sworn vengeance for the recent death of their king. Meanwhile, Llywelyn lays on his deathbed from a traitor's arrow. And once again, it is David and Anna, and all they represent, that holds the key to the survival of Wales. Prince of Time is Book Two in the After Cilmeri series.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10351343-prince-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Science No Fair", "author_name": "Nancy E. Krulik", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 105, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Let bestselling author Nancy Krulik and her co-author and daughter Amanda Burwasser make STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fun for your boy or girl!If you thought your science fair experience was nerve-wracking, try being Logan Applebaum. One day, his inventor mother declares that she made a new robot cousin for Logan, Java. Java might be incredibly bright, but he\u2019ll also be quite the handful. Logan had a picture of how the third grade would go. Java was not part of that picture.As the third-grade science fair gets closer and the kids prepare for their experiments, Logan thinks Java will come in handy. He can at least help Logan beat the Silverspoon twins, who always win everything. Unfortunately for Logan, the twins Sherry and Jerry steal Java as their partner. Even worse, these kids become suspicious. Can Logan work quickly enough to keep a crazy experiment from becoming a crazier disaster? Join mother-daughter author duo Nancy Krulik and Amanda Burwasser as they introduce the comedic pair of Logan and Java. This first installment of their Project Droid #1 story reminds readers of Amelia Bedelia with a delightful modern edge. Science No Fair! is an excellent pre- bedtime book choice.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Academic (School)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695395-science-no-fair"}, +{"book_title": "The Night Circus", "author_name": "Erin Morgenstern", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 714587, "review_number": 75567, "book_description": "The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des R\u00eaves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway\u2014a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love\u2014a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Magical Realism", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9361589-the-night-circus"}, +{"book_title": "The Hangman's Revolution", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1916, "review_number": 211, "book_description": "Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Facsist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. Chevie's memories come back to her in fragments, and just as she is learning about the WARP program from Professor Charles Smart, inventor of the time machine, he is killed by secret service police. Now they are after Chevie, too, but she escapes--into the past. She finds Riley, who is being pursued by futuristic soldiers, and saves him. Working together again, it is up to Chevie and Riley to find the enigmatic Colonel Clayton Box, who is intent on escalating his power, and stop him before he can launch missiles at the capitals of Europe.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18453186-the-hangman-s-revolution"}, +{"book_title": "Arabella and the Battle of Venus", "author_name": "David D. Levine", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 480, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Arabella\u2019s wedding plans to marry Captain Singh of the Honorable Mars Trading Company are interrupted when her fianc\u00e9 is captured by the French and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp on swampy Venus. Now, Arabella must find passage to an enemy-controlled planet in the middle of a war, bribe or fight her way past vicious guards, and rescue her Captain.To do this she must enlist the help of the dashing privateer, Daniel Fox of the Touchstone and build her own clockwork navigational automaton in order to get to Venus before the dread French general, Joseph Fouch\u00e9, the Executioner of Lyon. Once on Venus, Arabella, Singh, and Fox soon discover that Napoleon has designed a secret weapon, one that could subjugate the entire galaxy if they can\u2019t discover a way to stop Fouch\u00e9, and the entire French army, from completing their emperor\u2019s mandate.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31702797-arabella-and-the-battle-of-venus"}, +{"book_title": "Mechanica", "author_name": "Betsy Cornwell", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 4426, "review_number": 923, "book_description": "Nicolette\u2019s awful stepsisters call her \u201cMechanica\u201d to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother\u2019s knee. Her mom is gone now, though, and the Steps have turned her into a servant in her own home. But on her sixteenth birthday, Nicolette discovers a secret workshop in the cellar and begins to dare to imagine a new life for herself. Could the mysterious books and tools hidden there\u2014and the mechanical menagerie, led by a tiny metal horse named Jules\u2014be the key to escaping her dreary existence? With a technological exposition and royal ball on the horizon, the timing might just be perfect for Nicolette to earn her freedom at last.Gorgeous prose and themes of social justice and family shine in this richly imagined Cinderella retelling about an indomitable inventor who finds her prince . . . but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fairy Tales (Cinderella)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40963299-mechanica"}, +{"book_title": "Blaze of Memory", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 21986, "review_number": 1246, "book_description": "A woman without a past becomes the pawn of the man who controls her future...Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she's dangerous. Charged with protecting his people's most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. It's a task he's never hesitated to complete...until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might prove to be the enemy's most insidious weapon yet.Stripped of her memories by a shadowy oppressor and programmed to carry out cold-blooded murder, Katya Haas is fighting desperately for her sanity. Her only hope is Dev. But how can she expect to gain the trust of a man who could very well be her next target? For in this game, one must die...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6353014-blaze-of-memory"}, +{"book_title": "Neogenesis", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 927, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Menace from Back Space Looming out of the Dust of TimeThe Complex Logic Laws were the result of a war waged hundreds of years in the past, when two human powers threw massive AI navies at each other and nearly annihilated themselves.\u00a0 Being human, they blamed their tools for this near miss; destroyed what was left of the sentient ships, and made it illegal to be, manufacture, or shelter an independent logic.Strangely, however, the Free Ships and other AIs did not turn themselves in or suicide, they merely became wary of humans, and stayed under their scans.\u00a0 A clandestine support network grew up, including hidden yards where smart ships were manufactured, and mentors, humans specially trained to ease a new intelligence into the universe, socialize them, and teach them what they needed to know to survive.Among those with a stake in the freedom of Independent Logics is Theo Waitley, who is somewhat too famously the captain of intelligent ship Bechimo. Theo's brother, Val Con yos'Phelium, presides over a household that has for a generation employed an AI butler.\u00a0 Recently, he approved the \"birth\" of the butler's child, who was sent, with human mentor Tolly Jones, to rescue or destroy an orphaned AI abandoned at a remote space station.Then there's Uncle, the shadowy mastermind from the Old Universe, whose many projects often skirt the boundaries of law, both natural and man-made \u2013 and the puppet-masters at the Lyre Institute, whose history is just as murky \u2013 and a good deal less honorable.All have an interest in the newly-awakening Self-Aware Logic that is rumored to have the power to destroy universes.The question is:\u00a0 Who will get to it first?About\u00a0Dragon in Exile: \u201c[S]prawling and satisfying. . . . Space opera mixes with social engineering, influenced by Regency-era manners and delicate notions of honor. . . . [I]t\u2019s like spending time with old friends . . .\u201d\u2014Publishers WeeklyAbout\u00a0Necessity's Child: \u201cCompelling and wondrous, as sharp and graceful as Damascus steel,\u00a0Necessity's Child\u00a0is a terrific addition to Lee & Miller's addictive series.\u201d\u2014#1\u00a0New York Times\u00a0best seller, Patricia Briggs About the Liaden Universe\u00ae series: \u201cEvery now and then you come across an author, or in this case, a pair, who write exactly what you want to read, the characters and personalities that make you enjoy meeting them. . . . I rarely rave on and on about stories, but I am devoted to Lee and Miller novels and stories.\u201d\u2014Anne McCaffrey \u201cThese authors consistently deliver stories with a rich, textured setting, intricate plotting, and vivid, interesting characters from fully-realized cultures, both human and alien, and each book gets better.\u201d\u2014Elizabeth Moon \u201c[D]elightful stories of adventure and romance set in a far future. . .space opera milieu. It\u2019s all a rather heady mix of Gordon R. Dickson, the Forsythe Saga, and Victoria Holt, with Lee and Miller\u2019s own unique touches making it all sparkle and sizzle. Anyone whose taste runs toward SF in the true romantic tradition can\u2019t help but like the Liaden Universe.\u201d\u2014Analog \u201c[T]he many fans of the Liaden universe will welcome the latest\u2026continuing young pilot Theo Waitley\u2019s adventures.\u201d\u2014Booklist\u00a0on\u00a0Saltation \u201c[A]ficionados of intelligent space opera will be thoroughly entertained. . .[T]he authors' craftsmanship is top-notch.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly\u00a0on Lee and Miller\u2019s popular Liaden Universe\u00ae thriller,\u00a0I Dare", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Family", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466816-neogenesis"}, +{"book_title": "Killing Titan", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 971, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "A new planet. A new battle. Same war. After barely surviving his last tour on Mars, Master Sergeant Michael Venn finds himself back on earth in enforced isolation. Through a dangerous series of operations he returns to Mars to further his investigation into the Drifters -- ancient artifacts suddenly reawakened on the red planet. But another front in the war leads his team to make the difficult journey to Saturn's moon, Titan. Here, in the cauldron of war, hides new truths about the Drifters, the origin of life in our solar system and the plans of the supposedly benevolent Gurus, who have been \"sponsoring\" and supporting humanity in their fight against outside invaders.Killing Titan is the second book in the epic interstellar War Dogs trilogy from master of science fiction, Greg Bear.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24819460-killing-titan"}, +{"book_title": "Return of the Highlander", "author_name": "Sara Mackenzie", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 568, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "What is this world he has awoken into\u2014where metal \"monsters\" roar down smooth stone paths and people parade in unfamiliar costumes? Where is the home that once stood on this pile of ancient rubble? And who is this woman who sees him when no one else can . . . and who stirs the fire in his soul?Her research into the legend of a notorious 18th-century Highland chieftan has brought Arabella Ryan to Scotland's storm-swept Loch Fasail. And now the Black Maclean himself has invaded her dreams. The sensuous caress of her mysterious \"ghost lover\" is no mere fantasy, lifting Bella to heights of ecstasy she never imagined existed. But fate has a reason for bringing them together across the centuries\u2014a perilous mission that could change history as it tests the power of their desire and their love.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/825831.Return_of_the_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Little Bot and Sparrow", "author_name": "Jake Parker", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 379, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "When Little Bot is thrown out with the garbage, he finds himself in a strange new world. Fortunately, Sparrow is there to take him under her wing. Together, they explore the forest, share adventures, and learn what it means to be forever friends.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Animals (Birds)", "Childrens", "Animals", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Environment (Nature)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27414448-little-bot-and-sparrow"}, +{"book_title": "An Argumentation of Historians", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 5027, "review_number": 458, "book_description": "Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary\u2019s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don\u2019t call it \u201ctime travel\u201d\u2015these historians \u201cinvestigate major historical events in contemporary time.\u201d And they aren\u2019t your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets.From Tudor England to the burning city of Persepolis, from a medieval St. Mary\u2019s under siege to Victorian Rushford and a very nasty case of gaol fever, Max is struggling to keep her private life intact. There\u2019s an ambitious programme hindered by giant teapots, plus Mrs. Midgely\u2019s objection to dead hamsters in her airing cupboard, and Mr. Markham\u2019s stubborn refusal to reveal his exact marital status.And as if that\u2019s not enough\u2015the unfortunately not leprosy-laden Malcolm Halcombe is back. Admittedly, none of this is the most secure platform from which to launch an initiative to bring down the renegade Clive Ronan, but hey\u2015what\u2019s the worst that could happen?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adventure", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35659214-an-argumentation-of-historians"}, +{"book_title": "Too Many Magicians", "author_name": "Randall Garrett", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 958, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Garrett's detective, Lord Darcy, investigates a classic locked-room murder in an unconventional setting--a sorcerer's convention held in barely recognizable London. Gambling, espionage, and mind reading enter the solution.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1898794.Too_Many_Magicians"}, +{"book_title": "Die Neuromancer-Trilogie", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 658, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "\"Der Himmel \u00fcber dem Hafen hatte die Farbe eines Fernsehers, der auf einen toten Kanal geschaltet war.\" Mit diesem denkw\u00fcrdigen Satz beginnt das 1984 erschienene Erstlingswerk von William Gibson. Damals ahnte noch niemand, dass dieses unscheinbare Taschenbuch einmal zu den besten und einflussreichsten Romane der Science Fiction gez\u00e4hlt werden w\u00fcrde. Neuromancer erz\u00e4hlt die Geschichte des ehemaligen Cyber-Cowboys Case, der sich ausgebrannt auf den finsteren Stra\u00dfen von Tokio herumschl\u00e4gt. Der geheimnisvolle Armitage nimmt ihn in seine Dienste und stellt ihm die sch\u00f6ne und gef\u00e4hrliche Molly an die Seite. Seiner R\u00fcckkehr in den Cyberspace steht nichts mehr im Wege. Eine gewisse atmosph\u00e4rische und stilistische Verwandschaft zu Raymond Chandler kann Gibson nicht verleugnen, und John Shirleys Stadt geht los hat ihn erkl\u00e4rterma\u00dfen sehr beindruckt. Doch die glitzernden Wohnt\u00fcrme von Neo-Tokio und das Eintauchen in virtuelle Welten sind ganz seiner Phantasie entsprungen. Autoren wie Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash) oder Jeff Noon (Pollen) w\u00e4ren ohne ihn nicht denkbar, von einer ganzen Horde drittklassiger Cyberpunk-Epigonen ganz zu schweigen. John Womack schreibt in seinem Vorwort, er k\u00f6nne \"die Wirkung dieser Ver\u00f6ffentlichung auf die Science Fiction-Leser wohl nur mit der Wirkung des pl\u00f6tzlich elektrisch verst\u00e4rkt spielenden Bob Dylan auf seine H\u00f6rerschaft vergleichen\". Die sch\u00f6n ausgestattete Neuausgabe der ganzen Neuromancer-Trilogie in einem Band in der von Peter Robert sorgf\u00e4ltig \u00fcberarbeiteten \u00dcbersetzung bietet eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, dieses Meisterwerk zu entdecken -- oder wiederzulesen. Mit den beiden in diesem Buch mitenthaltenen Folgeb\u00e4nden Biochips und Mona Lisa Overdrive bewies Gibson, dass sein Deb\u00fct keineswegs eine Eintagsfliege war. --Felix Darwin", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Classics", "Fantasy", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14773.Die_Neuromancer_Trilogie"}, +{"book_title": "Batman: Gotham by Gaslight", "author_name": "Brian Augustyn", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 11198, "review_number": 394, "book_description": "Presenting for the first time the adventures of the Victorian Era Batman in one 112-page edition! This volume includes the breakthrough Elseworlds specials Gotham by Gaslight and Master of the Future that pit the Dark Knight against Jack the Ripper and a death-dealer from the skies over Gotham!This edition collects the two one-shots: Gotham by Gaslight and Master of the Future.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Dc Comics (Batman)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107159.Batman"}, +{"book_title": "A Thousand Pieces of You", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 50092, "review_number": 7308, "book_description": "Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes\u2014and promises to revolutionize science forever. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer\u2014her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul\u2014 escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows\u2014including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt\u2014as well as her own heart. And soon she discovers the truth behind her father's death is far more sinister than she expected.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17234658-a-thousand-pieces-of-you"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberman: Conversion", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 75, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Fear is humanity's greatest enemy. The Cybermen can free us from it.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1690918.Cyberman"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #1", "author_name": "Cullen Bunn", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 184, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "New series based on the highly anticipated game! Nadia, an assistant EMT for a privately-owned business known as Trauma Team International, is the sole survivor of a failed rescue mission turned shootout. After she agrees to continue work for an upcoming extraction mission, Nadia and her new team find themselves in an even more dangerous and life-threatening situation. Featuring the incredible creative team of writer Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, Uncanny X-Men) and illustrator Miguel Valderrama (Giants)!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Games (Video Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55056951-cyberpunk-2077"}, +{"book_title": "A Crown of Iron & Silver", "author_name": "Hailey Turner", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 2060, "review_number": 320, "book_description": "Never promise a life that isn\u2019t yours to give. New York City is decked out for the holidays, and Special Agent Patrick Collins is looking forward to a reunion with his old team when he gets assigned a new case. A human child is missing, and the changeling left in her place causes a prominent witch family to demand justice from the fae. Meanwhile, continued harassment from the New York City god pack forces Jonothon de Vere to formally establish his own with Patrick. Doing so will mean a civil war within the werecreature community\u2014a war they risk losing from the start without alliances. Making bargains with the fae is never wise, but Patrick and Jono have nothing to lose when a fae lord comes asking for their help. The Summer Lady has been kidnapped from the Seelie Court, and if they can find her, Patrick and Jono will cement an alliance with the fae. But the clues to her disappearance are found in T\u00edr na n\u00d3g, and the Otherworld has never been kind to mortals. Venturing past the veil, Patrick and Jono risk losing territory, time, and their very lives while searching for answers. Because the Queen of Air and Darkness knows they are coming\u2014and the ruler of the Unseelie Court has an offer for them they can\u2019t possibly refuse. A Crown of Iron & Silver is a 107k word m/m urban fantasy with a gay romantic subplot and a HFN ending. It is a direct sequel to All Souls Near & Nigh. Reading the prior books in the series would be helpful in enjoying this one.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52664521-a-crown-of-iron-silver"}, +{"book_title": "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 13024, "review_number": 2085, "book_description": "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller\u2014Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick\u2014that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.In his youth, Richard \u201cDodge\u201d Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia.One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge\u2019s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived.In the coming years, technology allows Dodge\u2019s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife\u2014the Bitworld\u2014is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls.But this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem . . .Fall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Unfinished", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41824495-fall-or-dodge-in-hell"}, +{"book_title": "More Tales of Pirx the Pilot", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 778, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Commander Pirx, who drives space vehicles for a living in the galaxy of the future, here faces a new series of intriguing adventures in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly human characteristics. Translated by Louis Iribarne, assisted by Magdalena Majcherczyk and Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Humor", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Cultural (Poland)", "Novels", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/889427.More_Tales_of_Pirx_the_Pilot"}, +{"book_title": "Boneshaker", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 32022, "review_number": 4097, "book_description": "In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska\u2019s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue\u2019s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue\u2019s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1137215.Boneshaker"}, +{"book_title": "Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 8", "author_name": "Hiroki Endo", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 265, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Amidst the gore and turmoil in Hiroki Endo's stark, post-pandeic future, two war-scarred characters begin to - fall in love? This volume of Eden delivers an exciting first quarter, with several plotlines wrapping up in Endo's typically brutal fashion. New doors swing open for young Elijah, as his sniper skills increase and he continues his combat training. Overcome by the turn of events that brought him out of the wilderness (as seen in Eden Volume 1) and into a decadent, heartless South American city, Elijah seeks comfort in the arms of another survivor. Coping with a hard crush, a new school, and vicious gang rivalries, Elijah tries to adapt to city life, but will the surprise return of a major character uproot him once again? You'll find another surprise in this volume, as Hiroki Endo shifts gears after the main story to offer up an experiment: a series of gag strips poking fun at Elijah's job as a brothel's handyman!", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Cultural (France)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1074937.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Saving Askara", "author_name": "J.M. Link", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1795, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "Victoria's day starts out like any other aboard the transorbital ship, Phoenix. Such is the life of an emergency medicine specialist in the age of \"post-discovery\". Sure, she had always dreamed of interacting with intelligent extraterrestrial life- the real thing, not those microbes on distant moons. Who wouldn't? She was still happy with her career, however mundane and demanding it might be. That's what it took to run a ship the size of a small city smoothly. Monotony. But all that changes one morning, and suddenly she's not so sure she didn't stick her foot in it... Be careful what you wish for. *** Escape had been their only drive, and even death was preferable to the alternative. But they never thought their flight for freedom would put them in an uncharted system. Forced to interact with an isolated world and its inferior, albeit curious people. When it affords them an unforseen and unprecedented opportunity to take back their world from those who seek to destroy them, however, Aderus begins to wonder if it wasn't fate. Earth's proposal is shocking and uncomfortable for a fierce, independent race that relishes in their solitude. But the more he learns of humans, the more he comes to admire and respect them. One, in particular. *Saving Askara is a Part I of II* Book II coming Summer 2018 WARNING: Not intended for readers under 18. Contains explicit sexual content. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Adult", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50385976-saving-askara"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Guns of Alpha Centauri", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 61, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Eight years ago, when Nick Walker was a twenty year-old Star Marine, his unit was deployed to Alpha Centauri 2 to put down an insurrection by the Rebel Coalition. Eighteen months of hard fighting led to a dramatic showdown in the little mountain town of Trimmer Springs, where Nick\u2019s unit\u2014cut off, surrounded, and outnumbered\u2014held out for two days until relief arrived. With most of his comrades dead or wounded, Nick took a sniper rifle into the church tower and became a one-man killing machine, stopping the rebel forces cold for more than thirty-six hours. Now a United Federation Marshal, Nick returns to Trimmer Springs to keep the peace. The war is over, but memories remain. Most of the men Nick killed in those terrible two days still have relatives living in the area, and they know who he is. Fueled by hatred and cultic religious fervor, some have vowed to take revenge, by any means necessary\u2026and they don\u2019t care who gets hurt along the way. Guns of Alpha Centauri is Nick Walker\u2019s third assignment as U.F. Marshal, and his most deadly to date. At least he isn\u2019t alone this time\u2014Suzanne Norgaard, his stunning Vegan girlfriend, is with him, and she\u2019s a crack shot with a rifle\u2026but how long can the two of them survive against a quarter million rabid religious fanatics? 104,500 words (equivalent to 392 pages in mass market paperback form) Rated \"R\". ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24452044-rebel-guns-of-alpha-centauri"}, +{"book_title": "Android: Free Fall", "author_name": "William H. Keith Jr.", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 370, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "It is the future, and while the world has changed, crime has not. When an influential lawyer is brutally murdered at the top of the Beanstalk, a towering exo-atmospheric elevator serving as Earth's hub of interplanetary trade, Detective Rick Harrison reluctantly accepts the case. Harrison's investigation soon leads him from the sprawling megapolis of New Angeles to the distant moon base of Heinlein, where he searches for clues amongst an uncooperative assortment of bioroids, clones, and disgruntled human laborers. But Harrison quickly finds himself at the center of an ever-deepening conspiracy, and is faced with the one question he never expected: What is the true definition of humanity? Free Fall is the first novel based on Fantasy Flight Games's Android, conveying a dystopian world of technology and corruption. This rich universe is masterfully brought to life by New York Times Bestselling author William H. Keith, winner of the H.G. Wells Award and multiple Origins awards, and the celebrated author of over 150 novels, short stories, and other published works.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084111-android"}, +{"book_title": "Isaac Asimov's Caliban", "author_name": "Roger MacBride Allen", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 4073, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "In a universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe.The First Law states,A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.When an experiment with a new type of robot brain goes awry, the unthinkable happens. Caliban is created... A robot without guilt or conscience. A robot with no knowledge of or compassion for humanity. A robot without the Three Laws.Caliban is a searing examination of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, a challenge welcomed and sanctioned by Isaac Asimov, the late beloved genius of science fiction, and written with his cooperation by one of today's hottest talents, Roger MacBride Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Ambush at Corella, The Modular Man, and The Ring of Charon.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Mystery (Detective)", "Literature (American)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85454.Isaac_Asimov_s_Caliban"}, +{"book_title": "Haraken", "author_name": "S.H. Jucha", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1672, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Nine years of tranquility came to an abrupt end when a M\u00e9ridien starship entered the Hell\u00e9bore system, sounding a dire warning for Alex Racine, the Haraken president. Unwanted visitors had arrived again. But this time, they\u2019re not alien; they\u2019re human.Claiming to have followed the course of a colony ship launched a millennium ago when Earth wrestled with resource wars and climate change, the mission commander, Antonio Garc\u00eda, requests a meeting with the planet\u2019s leaders. The Earthers profess a kinship with all humans, and their great desire is to have M\u00e9ridien join their United Earth (UE).Alex Racine journeys to M\u00e9ridien to investigate and uncover the Earthers\u2019 intentions. In the Haraken world, SADEs (self-aware digital entities) have been freed from their boxes aboard the M\u00e9ridien-built starships. The mobile SADEs are powerful players in Alex\u2019s strategies, inventing ingenious methods to investigate the Earthers and their ship.Complicating matters, the M\u00e9ridien leadership is in turmoil. The Council Leader insists her people ignore the Earthers, but this path has costs. As tensions escalate, Garc\u00eda sends a request for support to his superiors back on Earth, lest his discovery of the rich, M\u00e9ridien worlds, boasting unbelievable advanced technology, slip through his grasp. A UE battleship heeds the call, escalating the pressure for action.Join the journey as the Harakens and M\u00e9ridiens work together to protect their planets and their way of life from the newest invaders.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29228880-haraken"}, +{"book_title": "Fields of Fire", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 8620, "review_number": 405, "book_description": "The time has come to take the fight to the Lankies.Mars has been under Lanky control for more than a year. Since then, the depleted forces of Earth's alliances have rebuilt their fleets, staffing old warships with freshly trained troops. Torn between the need to beat the Lankies to the punch and taking enough time to put together an effective fighting force, command has decided to strike now.Once again, seasoned veterans Andrew and Halley find themselves in charge of green troops and at the sharp tip of the spear as the combined military might of Earth goes up against the Lankies. But if there's one constant in war, it's that no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy...and the Lankies want to hold on to Mars as badly as humanity wants to reclaim it.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30243858-fields-of-fire"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Wish", "author_name": "Andrzej Sapkowski", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 208672, "review_number": 14011, "book_description": "Geralt the Witcher\u2014revered and hated\u2014is a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. 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In the festering sewers below a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant\u2019s crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why. The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan's assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbey Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of whom, and many more besides, are caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Novels", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71846.Sewer_Gas_and_Electric"}, +{"book_title": "And the Rest is History", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 5849, "review_number": 490, "book_description": "No one knows quite how, but Max and her baby are safe at last.No one knows quite how, but Peterson has persuaded Dr Foster to marry him.No one knows quite how, but Markham\u2019s marital status remains unknown.Certainly no one knows quite how a twelve-foot-high teapot could mysteriously materialise on the South Lawn, but it does.But they do know that Clive Ronan is back.They do know that he hates them and that this time he has good cause. And they do know that he will bring death and destruction in his wake.Follow the disaster magnets of St Mary\u2019s from the Egyptian desert to the Battle of Stamford Bridge, from Hastings to the Sack of Constantinople, and from tragedy to triumph and back again, in this, the eighth book in The Chronicles of St Mary\u2019s.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adventure", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31213373-and-the-rest-is-history"}, +{"book_title": "Ignite the Stars", "author_name": "Maura Milan", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1534, "review_number": 441, "book_description": "Everyone in the universe knows his name. Everyone in the universe fears him. But no one realizes that notorious outlaw Ia C\u014dcha is a seventeen-year-old girl.A criminal mastermind and unrivaled pilot, Ia has spent her life terrorizing the Olympus Commonwealth, the imperialist nation that destroyed her home. When the Commonwealth captures her and her true identity is exposed, they see Ia\u2019s age and talent as an opportunity: by forcing her to serve them, they will prove that no one is beyond their control.Soon, Ia is trapped at the Commonwealth\u2019s military academy, desperately plotting her escape. But new acquaintances\u2014including Brinn, a seemingly average student with a closely-held secret, and their charming Flight Master, Knives\u2014cause Ia to question her own alliances. Can she find a way to escape the Commonwealth\u2019s clutches before these bonds deepen?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38469737-ignite-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Take the Star Road", "author_name": "Peter Grant", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 910, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Nineteen-year-old Steve Maxwell just wants to get his feet on the star road to find a better homeworld. By facing down Lotus Tong thugs, he earns an opportunity to become a spacer apprentice on a merchant spaceship, leaving the corruption and crime of Earth behind. Sure, he needs to prove himself to an older, tight-knit crew, but how bad can it be if he keeps his head down and the decks clean?He never counted on the interstellar trade routes having their own problems, from local wars to plagues of pirates - and the jade in his luggage is hotter than a neutron star. Steve's left a word of troubles behind, only to find a galaxy of them ahead...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17983349-take-the-star-road"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette VI", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 379, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 6 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.Stories include:* A Taste of Home by Chris Racciato* Federico and Ginger by Iver P. 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Blood of Heroes is the latest installment in this epic military sci-fi series. The Ember War saga continues!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28113595-blood-of-heroes"}, +{"book_title": "Red Prophet", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 19823, "review_number": 519, "book_description": "Come here to the magical America that might have beenand marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7968.Red_Prophet"}, +{"book_title": "Blue Beetle, Vol. 1: Shellshocked", "author_name": "Keith Giffen", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1471, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Tearing its way through the events of DAY OF VENGEANCE and INFINITE CRISIS, the mystical Blue Beetle scarab has chosen its new guardian: teenager Jaime Reyes! 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To restore her reputation and reassert her power, the Queen of Attolia will go to any length and accept any help that is offered...she will risk her country to execute the perfect revenge....butEugenides can steal anything. And he taunts the Queen of Attolia, moving through her strongholds seemingly at will. So Attolia waits, secure in the knowledge that the Thief will slip, that he will haunt her palace one too many times. ...at what price?When Eugenides finds his small mountain country at war with Attolia, he must steal a man, he must steal a queen, he must steal peace. But his greatest triumph, and his greatest loss, comes in capturing something that the Queen of Attolia thought she had sacrificed long ago...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40158.The_Queen_of_Attolia"}, +{"book_title": "The Electric Kingdom", "author_name": "David Arnold", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 95, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in an old abandoned cinema; and the enigmatic Deliverer, who lives Life after Life in an attempt to put the world back together. As swarms of infected Flies roam the earth, these few survivors navigate the woods of post-apocalyptic New England, meeting others along the way, each on their own quest to find life and light in a world gone dark. 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Some idiot's been selling Callidum weapons on the black market, and he's been tasked with finding the traitor. The illegal trading station isn't exactly Torin's favorite place in the Nine Galaxies. It's dirty, chaotic, and full of thieves and murderers, but as an elite Kordolian First Division warrior, he's the most dangerous thing on this floating cesspit, and he won't let anything stand in his way. But when he encounters a group of humans who really, really shouldn't be here, his priorities might just have to change, because one of them is about to get betrayed in the worst possible way... And she just so happens to be exactly his type. Taming Chaos is Book 1 in the Darkstar Mercenaries series. It features a lethal silver-skinned alien hero, a curvy human heroine, and the usual action, violence, steamy sex scenes, and HFN (\"happy for now\") ending.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39907637-taming-chaos"}, +{"book_title": "Mappa Mundi", "author_name": "Justina Robson", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 263, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "The map of everything you knoweverything you areeverything you ever will bejust got rewrittenA novel of hard SF exploring the nature of identity both inherited and engineered, from one of Britain's most acclaimed new talents. In the near future, when medical nanotechnology has made it possible to map a model of the living human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her work suddenly become crucial to a cutting-edge military project for creating comprehensive mind-control. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Jude Westhorpe, FBI specialist, is tracking a cold war defector long involved in everything from gene sequencing to mind-mapping. But his investigation has begun to affect matters of national security-throwing Jude and Natalie together as partners in trouble-deep trouble from every direction. This fascinating novel explores the nature of humanity in the near future, when the power and potential of developing technologies demand that we adapt ourselves to their existence-whatever the price.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837060.Mappa_Mundi"}, +{"book_title": "A Trace of Memory", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 338, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Nightmare at StonehengeWhen Legion meets a strange old millionaire called \"Foster,\"\" he doesn't know that his whole life will never be the same again. For \"Foster\" has a strange story to tell. Part of his story is contained in his diary, which not only describes things in the very recent past, but goes back for centuries. . .Foster has hired Legion to help him regain his lost memory. Then both men are suddenly attacked by alien powers. They flee to Stonehenge in England where they discover a strange control chamber deep in the ruins. They succeed in bringing down to earth an alien space ship which has been in orbit for thousands of years. Eventually they both become captives. . . on another planet.First Book Publication, 1963", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549260.A_Trace_of_Memory"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Strikes", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 74283, "review_number": 3506, "book_description": "Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide, that\u2019s saying a lot.But when Kate\u2019s werewolf friend Derek is discovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challenge yet. As her investigation leads her to the Midnight Games \u2013 an invitation only, no holds barred, ultimate preternatural fighting tournament \u2013 she and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, uncover a dark plot that may forever alter the face of Atlanta\u2019s shapeshifting community\u2026", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4345498-magic-strikes"}, +{"book_title": "Gust Front", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 8675, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Thanks to human valor and alien technology, the Posleen were fought to a standstill. But the invasion of Earth is just months away Only these shell-shocked survivors can save the Earth from utter devastation.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528366.Gust_Front"}, +{"book_title": "Galaxy's Edge, Part II", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 202, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Legion Dark Ops calls upon Chhun, Wraith, and the survivors of Victory Company to form an elite Kill Team of legionnaires in the aftermath of the Battle of Kublar. Their mission is clear: find and eliminate those responsible for the Kublar disaster.Standing between them and their objective are a maze of corrupt Republic officials, a spy on the verge of losing himself in deep cover, and the Zhee - a murderous species that will stop at nothing. But the biggest threat of all might be the truth they seek to uncover - a truth that could ignite a revolution. And engulf the galaxy in flames.Fleets collide in this audiobook in a moment-by-moment account of tactics, heroism, sacrifice, and the start of the final war of the Republic. The stakes have never been higher - and it's winner takes all. Listening Length: 15 hours and 23 minutes", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40394976-galaxy-s-edge-part-ii"}, +{"book_title": "This Dark Endeavor", "author_name": "Kenneth Oppel", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 11171, "review_number": 1708, "book_description": "Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein and inseparable until Konrad falls gravely ill. In the forbidden Dark Library, Victor finds an ancient formula, and seeks an alchemist to recreate the Elixir of Life. With friends Elizabeth and Henry, he scales highest trees in the Strumwald, dives deepest lake caves, and each sacrifices a body part.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Historical", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Gothic", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9779094-this-dark-endeavor"}, +{"book_title": "The Accidental Hero", "author_name": "Matt Myklusch", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 6196, "review_number": 403, "book_description": "All Jack Blank knows is his bleak, dreary life at St. Barnaby\u2019s Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten, and Lost, an orphanage that sinks further into the swampland of New Jersey with each passing year. His aptitude tests predict that he will spend a long, unhappy career as a toilet brush cleaner. His only chance at escape comes through the comic books donated years ago to the orphanage that he secretly reads in the dark corners of the library. Everything changes one icy gray morning when Jack receives two visitors that alter his life forever. The first is a deadly robot straight out of one of his comic books that tries its best to blow him up. The second is an emissary from a secret country called the Imagine Nation, an astonishing place where all the fantastic and unbelievable things in our world originate \u2014 including Jack. Jack soon discovers that he has an amazing ability \u2014 one that could make him the savior of the Imagine Nation and the world beyond, or the biggest threat they've ever faced.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11242368-the-accidental-hero"}, +{"book_title": "Crossed", "author_name": "Ally Condie", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 217943, "review_number": 15224, "book_description": "The Society chooses everything. The books you read. The music you listen to. The person you love. Yet for Cassia the rules have changed. Ky has been taken and she will sacrifice everything to find him. And when Cassia discovers Ky has escaped to the wild frontiers beyond the Society there is hope.But on the edge of society nothing is as it seems...A rebellion is rising.And a tangled web of lies and double-crosses could destroy everything.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15812814-crossed"}, +{"book_title": "If Only In My Dreams", "author_name": "Wendy Markham", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 608, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Actress Clara McCallum just got her big break. She\u2019s thrilled about landing the lead role in a big WWII film. But her dream-come-true excitement is short-lived. She\u2019s just received devastating news and has been reeling ever since. The last thing Clara wants is to spend Christmas alone in New York City, but she\u2019s determined to stay on location for the movie. Anything for her craft, right? Which is perfect since she\u2019s playing a woman who\u2019ll do anything for the love of doomed soldier Jed Landry.But Clara\u2019s resolve turns to astonishment when she steps off an old-fashioned locomotive from the set and finds herself whisked back in time\u2014and into the arms of the real-life Jed. She\u2019s convinced it\u2019s some sort of hallucination. But before long she finds herself swept away by the handsome soldier and wondering if her plunge into the past could change the course of the future...and turn out to be the best Christmas present ever.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Holiday", "Fiction", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18100380-if-only-in-my-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Polaris", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 4828, "review_number": 300, "book_description": "The national best-selling author brings back the daring Alex Benedict from A Talent for War and thrusts him into a far-future tale of mystery and suspense.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Adventure", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337019.Polaris"}, +{"book_title": "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", "author_name": "J.K. Rowling", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 7336299, "review_number": 116268, "book_description": "Harry Potter's life is miserable. His parents are dead and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he's a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.After a lifetime of bottling up his magical powers, Harry finally feels like a normal kid. But even within the Wizarding community, he is special. He is the boy who lived: the only person to have ever survived a killing curse inflicted by the evil Lord Voldemort, who launched a brutal takeover of the Wizarding world, only to vanish after failing to kill Harry.Though Harry's first year at Hogwarts is the best of his life, not everything is perfect. There is a dangerous secret object hidden within the castle walls, and Harry believes it's his responsibility to prevent it from falling into evil hands. But doing so will bring him into contact with forces more terrifying than he ever could have imagined.Full of sympathetic characters, wildly imaginative situations, and countless exciting details, the first installment in the series assembles an unforgettable magical world and sets the stage for many high-stakes adventures to come.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3.Harry_Potter_and_the_Sorcerer_s_Stone"}, +{"book_title": "We Stand On Guard", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 3776, "review_number": 505, "book_description": "An .SAGA writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN teams with artistic legend and Hollywood storyboard artist STEVE SKROCE for a subversive, action-packed military thriller. Set 100 years in our future, WE STAND ON GUARD follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned freedom fighters who must defend their homeland from invasion by a technologically superior opponent...the United States of America. Collecting all six issues of the controversial hit miniseries.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Cultural (Canada)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26872190-we-stand-on-guard"}, +{"book_title": "1637: The Polish Maelstrom", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 449, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "NEW SOLO NOVEL BY ERIC FLINT IN THE BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES! The Ottoman Empire has captured Vienna and is now laying siege to the Austrian government-in-exile established in the city of Linz. Both the United States of Europe and the Kingdom of Bohemia have come to Austria\u2019s assistance, but everyone knows this is going to be a long and brutal struggle. In order to relieve the pressure on the Austrians, General Mike Stearns proposes to open a second front in the Levant. The USE\u2019s emperor Gustavus Adolphus gives his approval to the plan, and Mike sets it in motion, with the very capable assistance of his wife Rebecca Abrabanel, now the USE\u2019s Secretary of State. Meanwhile, Poland is coming to a boil. Gretchen Richter, the newly elected chancellor of Saxony, has seized control of Lower Silesia. Her small army is now approached to form an alliance with the Polish revolutionaries who have seized power in the Ruthenian province of Galicia\u2014which, in the universe the time-displaced Americans of Grantville came from, would have constituted the western Ukraine. Now, the Bohemians send an army led by Morris Roth into Poland, ostensibly to aid the revolutionaries but also with the goal of expanding King Albrecht Wallenstein\u2019s growing empire in eastern Europe. And\u2014the icing on the cake\u2014Mike Stearns sends the Hangman Regiment of his Third Division under the command of Jeff Higgins to reinforce Jeff\u2019s wife Gretchen in Silesia. The maelstrom in Poland grows . . . and grows . . . and grows . . . Will it drag all its displaced Americans and their allies down with it? At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About 1635: A Parcel of Rogues: \"The 20th volume in this popular, fast-paced alternative history series follows close on the heels of the events in The Baltic War, picking up with the protagonists in London, including sharpshooter Julie Sims. This time the 20th-century transplants are determined to prevent the rise of Oliver Cromwell and even have the support of King Charles.\"\u2014Library Journal About 1634: The Galileo Affair: \"A rich, complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book.\"\u2014David Drake \"Gripping . . . depicted with power!\"\u2014Publishers Weekly About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series: \u201cThis alternate history series is . . . a landmark\u2026\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c . . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . . \u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction, with over three million books in print. He\u2019s the author/creator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel 1632. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the \u201cBelisarius\u201d alternate Roman history series, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War and latest Honorverse series entry Cauldron of Ghosts. Flint's latest Ring of Fire novel is 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives near Chicago, Illinois.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44771334-1637"}, +{"book_title": "PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 008", "author_name": "Naoki Urasawa", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 2240, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "A new vision based on Astroboy - \"The greatest robot on earth\". Final Volume!Contains Chapters 56 to 65.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6889271-pluto"}, +{"book_title": "Boom", "author_name": "Mark Haddon", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 4919, "review_number": 592, "book_description": "Jim and his best friend Charlie bug the staff room, and overhear two teachers speak in a strange language. What does \"spudvetch\" mean? Why do Mr Kidd's eyes flicker with fluorescent blue light when Charlie says spudvetch to him? A high-powered adventure can end only with a Boom!", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6116753-boom"}, +{"book_title": "House Atreides", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 22958, "review_number": 530, "book_description": "Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten. Now, working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the prelude to Dune\u2014where we step onto the planet Arrakis\u2026decades before Dune's hero, Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, walks its sands.Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood's son plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves for a year's education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes seeks the secrets of Arrakis; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store form them; one that will make them renegades\u2014and shapers of history.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/761575.House_Atreides"}, +{"book_title": "The Nagasaki Vector", "author_name": "L. Neil Smith", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 87, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "The God that failedTo his bosses at the Ochskahrt Memorial Academy he was Captain Bernard M. Gruenblum, Temporal Division - just another time traveler. But to the aliens from Yamaguchi he was, literally, God. So, if Bernie was going to medieval Japan, they were too. Well, three of them.It was supposed to be a routine historical survey, but things livened up when a mutiny knocked Bernie off course. With disillusioned aliens for a crew and a brig full of murderers, Bernie knew getting home would be tough - and that was before the time machine disappeared!", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1127036.The_Nagasaki_Vector"}, +{"book_title": "Prador Moon", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 6426, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "The Polity Collective is the pinnacle of space-faring civilization. Academic and insightful, its dominion stretches from Earth Central into the unfathomable reaches of the galactic void. But when the Polity finally encounters alien life in the form of massive, hostile, crab-like carnivores known as the Prador, there can be only one outcome \u2014 total warfare! Starships clash, planets fall, and space stations are overrun, but for Jebel Krong and Moria Salem, two unlikely heroes trapped at the center of the action, this war is far more than a mere clash of cultures, far more than technology versus brute force... this war is personal.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1060548.Prador_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "Human Omega: Discovered on the Slave Planet", "author_name": "Eileen Glass", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1299, "review_number": 177, "book_description": " How does a bad day get worse, you ask? Well\u2026 How about being squished between two huge, naked dudes with their meaty schlongs hanging out and everything?It's all a matter of opinion, but Carter's day is going pretty badly. He's an engineer captured by bug aliens, now depending on his large, muscled, naked cage mates for food and warmth. They seem sentient, so that's good. But they're also handsy. Which is\u2026 complicated.The military isn't looking for him. Slaves taken by the bug race never come back. Yet, Carter is very much alive, and if he wants to stay that way, he'll need to trust Pykh and Siel, two affectionate aliens with claws, teeth, and size.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Menage (M M M)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40218643-human-omega"}, +{"book_title": "Alex + Ada, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Jonathan Luna", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 8644, "review_number": 1313, "book_description": "From JONATHAN LUNA (GIRLS, THE SWORD, ULTRA, Spider-Woman: Origin) and SARAH VAUGHN (Sparkshooter) comes ALEX + ADA, a sci-fi drama set in the near future. The last thing in the world Alex wanted was an X5, the latest in realistic androids. But after Ada is dropped into his life, he discovers she is more than just a robot.Collects ALEX + ADA #1-5.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Romance", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21823465-alex-ada-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Life After Death", "author_name": "Andrea Speed", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 898, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds. But when your heart is gone, it\u2019s easy to fall into a black hole and never crawl out. Roan has been lost and alone for more than a year, and his best friends think a new case might be just the motivation he needs. Roan forces himself back into the game and discovers a dead man who might not be all that dead, a street hustler that wants to hustle him, and a dominatrix who is well prepared to take Roan\u2019s orders. As Roan claws his way out of the darkness by diving back into his work, he finds himself in a race against time in the adrenaline-pumping realization that nothing helps a person want to live like helping someone else survive.1st Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, May 2011", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23472076-life-after-death"}, +{"book_title": "Rama II", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 23369, "review_number": 691, "book_description": "70 years after the events of Rendezvous with Rama, a second Raman vessel enters our solar system. Its arrival is expected and an expedition is sent to unlock more of Rama's mysteries, but the crew are unprepared both for what they find and for the conflicts that arise between them.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112520.Rama_II"}, +{"book_title": "The Dispossessed", "author_name": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 92246, "review_number": 5882, "book_description": "Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life\u2014Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics", "Philosophy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed"}, +{"book_title": "Winterspell", "author_name": "Claire Legrand", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 4671, "review_number": 738, "book_description": "The clock chimes midnight, a curse breaks, and a girl meets a prince\u2026but what follows is not all sweetness and sugarplums.New York City, 1899. Clara Stole, the mayor\u2019s ever-proper daughter, leads a double life. Since her mother\u2019s murder, she has secretly trained in self-defense with the mysterious Drosselmeyer.Then, on Christmas Eve, disaster strikes.Her home is destroyed, her father abducted\u2014by beings distinctly not human. To find him, Clara journeys to the war-ravaged land of Cane. Her only companion is the dethroned prince Nicholas, bound by a wicked curse. If they\u2019re to survive, Clara has no choice but to trust him, but his haunted eyes burn with secrets\u2014and a need she can\u2019t define. With the dangerous, seductive faery queen Anise hunting them, Clara soon realizes she won\u2019t leave Cane unscathed\u2014if she leaves at all.Inspired by The Nutcracker, Winterspell is a dark, timeless fairy tale about love and war, longing and loneliness, and a girl who must learn to live without fear.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18475593-winterspell"}, +{"book_title": "Love: Beyond Body, Space & Time", "author_name": "Hope Nicholson", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 863, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "\"Love Beyond, Body, Space, and Time\" is a collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantasy focusing on LGBT and two-spirit characters. These stories range from a transgender woman trying an experimental transition medication to young lovers separated through decades and meeting far in their own future. These are stories of machines and magic, love, and self-love.This collection features prose stories by:Cherie Dimaline \"The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy,\" \"Red Rooms\"Gwen Benaway \"Ceremonies for the Dead\"David Robertson \"Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story,\" Tales From Big Spirit seriesRichard Van Camp \"The Lesser Blessed,\" \"Three Feathers\"Mari Kurisato \"Celia\u2019s Song,\" \"Bent Box\"Nathan Adler \"Wrist\"Daniel Heath Justice \"The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles\"Darcie Little Badger \"Nk\u00e1sht \u00ed\u00ed, The Sea Under Texas\"Cleo KeahnaAnd an introduction by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair \"Manitowapow,\" with a foreword by Grace Dillon \"Walking the Clouds\".Edited by Hope Nicholson \"Moonshot,\" \"The Secret Loves of Geek Girls\"", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Romance", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31560094-love"}, +{"book_title": "The Puppet Masters", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 30715, "review_number": 715, "book_description": "First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed.Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting back. Then four more follow up agents also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery: an invasion is underway by slug-like aliens who can touch a human and completely control his or her mind. What the humans know, they know. What the slugs want, no matter what, the human will do. And most of Iowa is already under their control.Sam Cavanaugh was one of the agents who discovered the truth. Unfortunately, that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own. And he has just learned that a high official in the Treasury Department is now under control of the aliens. Since the Treasury Department includes the Secret Service, which safeguards the President of the United States, control of the entire nation is near at hand.", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171856-the-puppet-masters"}, +{"book_title": "The Horns of Ruin", "author_name": "Tim Akers", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 740, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "Eva Forge is the last paladin of the dead god, Morgan.Eva, forsaken by her parents and forgotten by her family, was the last child dedicated to the Cult of Morgan. Morgan, god of battle and champion of the Fraterdom, was assassinated by his jealous brother, Amon. Over time, the Cult of Morgan has been surpassed by other gods, his blessings ignored in favor of brighter technologies and more mechanical miracles. Now, Eva watches as her new family, her Cult, crumbles around her.When a series of kidnappings and murders makes it clear that someone is trying to hasten the death of the Cult of Morgan, Eva must seek out unexpected allies and unwelcome answers in the city of Ash. But will she be able to save the city from a growing conspiracy, one that reaches back to her childhood, even back to the murder of her god?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8180231-the-horns-of-ruin"}, +{"book_title": "Sky on Fire", "author_name": "Emmy Laybourne", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 10838, "review_number": 1143, "book_description": "Trapped in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, including a monster hailstorm and terrifying chemical weapons spill, brothers Dean and Alex learned how to survive and worked together with twelve other kids to build a refuge from the chaos. But then strangers appeared, destroying their fragile peace, and bringing both fresh disaster and a glimmer of hope. Knowing that the chemical weapons saturating the air outside will turn him into a bloodthirsty rage monster, Dean decides to stay in the safety of the store with Astrid and some of the younger kids. But their sanctuary has already been breached once. . . .Meanwhile, Alex, determined to find their parents, heads out into the darkness and devastation with Niko and some others in a recently repaired school bus. If they can get to Denver International Airport, they might be evacuated to safety. But the outside world is even worse than they expected. . . .", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16075615-sky-on-fire"}, +{"book_title": "I Am Slaughter", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 997, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "A brand new Black Library event series begins! After a millennium of peace, the Imperium is beset by a brand new invasion. The Imperial Fists respond... and havoc ensues. The Beast has arisen, and the galaxy will burn. It is the thirty-second millennium and the Imperium is at peace. The Traitor Legions of Chaos are but a distant memory and the many alien races that have long plagued mankind are held in check by the Space Marines. When a mission to exterminate one such xenos breed on the world of Ardamantua draws in more of their forces, the Imperial Fists abandon the walls of Terra for the first time in more than a thousand years. And when another, greater, foe strikes, even the heroic sons of Rogal Dorn may be powerless against it. The Beast Arises\u2026 and it is mighty.It's the start of a brand new (and more epic than the most epic thing you can think of) event series from Black Library. It's a brand new story set in an unexplored era of Imperial history and as well as showing the entire Imperial Fists chapter in action against an ork invasion of staggering scale, it gives us a look at Terra itself, the machinations of the High Lords and the start of the Imperium's slide into the dystopian horror we all know and love. Also, did we mention orks? Lots of orks. Seriously, so many orks.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25111218-i-am-slaughter"}, +{"book_title": "Quicksilver", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2553, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.(back cover)", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45277.Quicksilver"}, +{"book_title": "First Contact", "author_name": "Michael R. Hicks", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 5002, "review_number": 351, "book_description": "Terran survey ship Aurora finds two habitable planets in an uncharted star system. But Aurora is disabled by gigantic alien warships and boarded by blue-skin females with fangs and claws. The warriors slaughter the crew in ritual one-on-one combat. The sole survivor is returned to Earth. This Messenger bears a real-time globe device that counts down to an impending attack. That is the way of the Kreelan Empire. For centuries before man have they waged war, seeking a prophesied savior. Soon to be extinct, the ancient species wages their last war, hoping for redemption of sins long past.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10881616-first-contact"}, +{"book_title": "Dr. Bloodmoney", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 7499, "review_number": 487, "book_description": "Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick's most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonny Keller, two unremarkable people bent on the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dick's undying hope in humanity.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/636108.Dr_Bloodmoney"}, +{"book_title": "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Omnibus", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 444, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "The definitive collection of the illustrated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It has inspired and expanded minds since its debut in 1968. It served as the source material for the classic sci-fi film Blade Runner. Now, collected for the first time in one comprehensive edition, Philip K. Dick\u2019s masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is fully realized in graphic novel form. This definitive volume compiles all 24 issues of the Eisner Award-nominated series illustrated by artist Tony Parker and color artist Blond with lettering by Richard Starkings, and features essays from Jonathan Lethem, Warren Ellis, Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker, Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Isa Dick Hackett, and many more.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27778619-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-omnibus"}, +{"book_title": "Reckoning", "author_name": "Kerry Wilkinson", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1218, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "One girl. One chance. One destiny. In the village of Martindale, hundreds of miles north of the new English capital of Windsor, sixteen-year-old Silver Blackthorne takes the Reckoning. This coming-of- age test not only decides her place in society \u2013 Elite, Member, Inter or Trog \u2013 but also determines that Silver is to become an Offering for King Victor.But these are uncertain times and no one really knows what happens to the teenagers who disappear into Windsor Castle. Is being an Offering the privilege everyone assumes it to be, or do the walls of the castle have something to hide? Trapped in a maze of ancient corridors, Silver finds herself in a warped world of suspicion where it is difficult to know who to trust and who to fear. The one thing Silver does know is that she must find a way out . . . The heart-stopping first book in a new trilogy by UK author Kerry Wilkinson, Reckoning is the story of one girl's determination to escape the whims of a cruel king, and what she must do to survive against all odds.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490660-reckoning"}, +{"book_title": "Rocket Girl Volume 1: Times Squared", "author_name": "Brandon Montclare", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 1409, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "The NYTPD sent her to 1986 New York City to investigate the Quintum Mechanics megacorporation for Crimes Against Time. Piecing together the clues, Dayoung Johansson discovers the \"Future\" she calls home--a high-tech alternate reality version of 2013--shouldn't exist at all!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Sequential Art", "Comics (Superheroes)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22073314-rocket-girl-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Hacker and the Ants", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 598, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "This cyberpunk adventure from Philip K. Dick award-winner, Rudy Rucker, reads like a ripped-from-Reddit romp of white hat hacking, artificial intelligence. run amok, and an unstoppable electronic 'bugs.'From a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick award, and one of the founding fathers of cyberpunk comes a novel about a very modern nightmare: the most destructive computer virus ever has been traced to your machine. Computer programmer Jerzy Rugby spends his days blissfully hacking away in cyberspace - aiding the GoMotion Corporation in its noble quest to create intelligent robots. Then an electronic ant gets into the machinery ... then more ants .... then millions and millions of the nasty viral pests appear out of nowhere to wreak havoc throughout the Net. And suddenly Jerzy Rugby is Public Enemy Number One, wanted for sabotage, computer crime, and treason - a patsy who must now get to the bottom of the virtual insectile plague. \"Rudy Rucker warms the cockles of my heart ... I think of him as the Scarlet Pimpernel of science fiction.\" - Philip Jose Farmer", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274053.The_Hacker_and_the_Ants"}, +{"book_title": "Morning Star", "author_name": "Pierce Brown", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 126921, "review_number": 10715, "book_description": "#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2022 Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star.Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society\u2019s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come. But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied\u2014and too glorious to surrender.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18966806-morning-star"}, +{"book_title": "The Rift: Hard Science Fiction", "author_name": "Brandon Q. Morris", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 499, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "There is a huge, bold black streak in the sky. Branches appear out of nowhere over North America, Southern Europe, and Central Africa. People who live beneath The Rift can see it. But scientists worldwide are distressed\u2014their equipment cannot pick up any type of signal from it. The rift appears to consist of nothing. Literally. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Most people are curious but not overly concerned. The phenomenon seems to pose no danger. It is just there. Then something jolts the most hardened naysayers, and surpasses the worst nightmares of the world\u2019s greatest scientists\u2014and rocks their understanding of the universe. Hard Science Fiction. Everything could happen as described. Bonus: The Guided Tour to the Nothing. What science knows about Nothing, far beyond our everyday understanding.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032425-the-rift"}, +{"book_title": "The Tiger Catcher", "author_name": "Paullina Simons", "rating_score": 3.16, "rating_votes": 1642, "review_number": 236, "book_description": "The first novel in a beautiful, heartbreaking new trilogy from Paullina Simons, the international bestselling author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman.Can true love ever die?Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. Surrounded by friends, he is young, handsome, and runs a successful business. Everything changes after he has a fateful encounter with a mysterious young woman named Josephine. Julian\u2019s world is turned upside down by a love affair that takes him\u2014and everyone else in his life\u2014by storm. For the two new lovers, the City of Angels is transformed into a magical playground.But Josephine is not what she seems and carries secrets that threaten to tear them apart\u2014seemingly forever.A broken man, his faith in tatters, Julian meets a mysterious stranger who tells him how to find Josephine again if he is willing to give up everything and take a death-defying trip from which no one has ever returned.So begins Julian and Josephine\u2019s extraordinary adventure of love, loss, and the mystical forces that bind people across time and space. It is a journey that propels Julian toward an impossible choice which will lead him to love fulfilled\u2026or to oblivion.The Tiger Catcher takes readers from the depths of despair to the dizzying heights of joy in the first novel of an unforgettable trilogy of love lost and found. For all fans of Outlander, The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife, and Jojo Moyes.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31847634-the-tiger-catcher"}, +{"book_title": "Jane, Unlimited", "author_name": "Kristin Cashore", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 9175, "review_number": 2417, "book_description": "If you could change your story, would you?Jane has lived a mostly ordinary life, raised by her recently deceased aunt Magnolia, whom she counted on to turn life into an adventure. Without Aunt Magnolia, Jane is directionless. Then an old acquaintance, the glamorous and capricious Kiran Thrash, blows back into Jane\u2019s life and invites her to a gala at the Thrashes\u2019 extravagant island mansion called Tu Reviens. Jane remembers her aunt telling her: \u201cIf anyone ever invites you to Tu Reviens, promise me that you\u2019ll go.\u201dWhat Jane doesn\u2019t know is that at Tu Reviens her story will change; the house will offer her five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her untethered life. But every choice comes with a price. She might fall in love, she might lose her life, she might come face-to-face with herself. At Tu Reviens, anything is possible.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32991569-jane-unlimited"}, +{"book_title": "Believe", "author_name": "Victoria Alexander", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 538, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "White Knights, Myths and MagicTessa St. James thought as little of love as she did of the Arthurian legend\u2014it was just a myth. But when an enchanted tome fell into the lovely teacher's hands, Tessa found that she had to rethink her curriculum. Suddenly in Merlin's Camelot, Tessa learned that the legend was nothing like she remembered. Galahad the Chaste was everything but\u2014the powerful knight was an expert lover\u2014and not only wizards could weave powerful spells. Still, even in Galahad's hard-muscled embrace, she felt unsure of this man who had seemed a myth. But soon the beautiful skeptic was on a quest as real as her heart, and the grail\u2014and Galahad's love\u2014were within reach. All she had to do was...Believe.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adult", "Mythology (Arthurian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/652706.Believe"}, +{"book_title": "Promise Me Darkness", "author_name": "Paige Weaver", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 10112, "review_number": 895, "book_description": "\"He was my darkness and I was his light. We couldn't exist without each other.\"For me, life was simple. I went to school and studied. I spent time with my friends and stayed out of trouble. I didn't drink or swear and I only dated gentlemen. I was the typical good girl with a bright future. My world seemed perfect. But that was about to change.Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life. He was the bad boy, the black sheep, the one your mother always warned you about. He had only one hard-and-fast rule - Don't fall in love. But some rules were meant to be broken.We were best friends, inseparable since childhood despite our differences. I knew the real man hiding behind the tattoos and bad attitude. He knew all my secrets and dreams. But he didn't know there was one thing I wanted and couldn't have...him.But sometimes Fate has a way of intervening. Soon our world collapsed. War erupted. Darkness prevailed. Alone and on the run, our only goal was to survive and to ignore the feelings we had for each other. But love is powerful...and so is the darkness.word count: 100,285 ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["New Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Young Adult", "Academic (College)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17733971-promise-me-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "A Shadow in the Flames", "author_name": "Michael G. Munz", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 224, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Northgate is in turmoil. Decaying, violent, and corrupt, it is a common enough city in 2051, yet soon, discoveries beneath the Moon's surface will mark the city with their first distant echoes.New arrival Michael Flynn is jobless and down to his last few dollars, but he still dreams of making a positive difference of his own. He has no family, no friends--save for the freelancer known only as Diomedes--and tonight the apartment they share will burn to the ground.When Diomedes becomes his mentor in a search for the arsonist responsible, Michael will get the chance to realize his dreams. Joining them is Felix, a wise-cracking \"information bounty hunter\" who claims that neither the arsonist nor the man Michael idolizes are quite what they appear.Will Michael find the courage to pass through the flames unscathed, or will the violence that surrounds him incinerate all that he is? Those who search the Moon will be watching...Booktrope edition, released December 2014. Original publication date: November 2007.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24518584-a-shadow-in-the-flames"}, +{"book_title": "Last Tango in Cyberspace", "author_name": "Steven Kotler", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 366, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler crafts a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy. Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind--an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen.It's a useful skill for a certain kind of company.Arctic Pharmaceuticals is that kind of company. But when a routine em-tracking job leads to the discovery of a gruesome murder, Lion finds himself neck-deep in a world of eco-assassins, soul hackers and consciousness terrorists. But what the man really needs is a nap.A unique blend of cutting-edge technology and traditional cyberpunk, Last Tango in Cyberspace explores hot topics like psychology, neuroscience, technology, as well as ecological and animal rights issues. The world created in Last Tango is based very closely on our world about five years from now, and all technology in the book either exists in labs or is rumored to exist. With its electrifying sentences, subtle humor, and an intriguing main character, readers are sure to find something that resonates with them in this groundbreaking cyberpunk science fiction thriller.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41150524-last-tango-in-cyberspace"}, +{"book_title": "Rendezvous with Rama", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 137063, "review_number": 4159, "book_description": "At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits \u2014 just behind a Raman airlock door.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Hugo Awards", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112537.Rendezvous_with_Rama"}, +{"book_title": "The Forever Drug", "author_name": "Lisa Smedman", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 157, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "A shapeshifter and freelance agent for the Lone Star police department, Romulus risks his life to save a beautiful amnesiac woman from ruthless drug dealers who are peddling the ultimate high--a magical creature that gives its victims an extraordinary feeling of euphoria before it destroys them.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/906032.The_Forever_Drug"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Embrace", "author_name": "Brenda Joyce", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3012, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "Aidan, the Wolf of Awe, has abandoned the Brotherhood and forsaken his vows. Feared by all and trusted by none, he hunts alone, seeking vengeance against the evil that destroyed his son. He has not saved an Innocent in sixty-six years--until he hears Brianna Rose's scream of terror across centuries, and leaps to modern-day Manhattan to rescue her\u2026Brie is a gifted empath who spends her time fighting evil from the safety of her laptop--and fantasizing about the medieval Highlander she met just once. Still, her life is pretty ordinary--until she awakens one night consumed with Aidan's pain and rage. When Aidan suddenly appears and takes her hostage, Brie cannot believe how dark and dangerous he has become. She knows she should be afraid, but instead, she will fight across time for his redemption\u2026and his love.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3130618-dark-embrace"}, +{"book_title": "Highland Shifter", "author_name": "Catherine Bybee", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1533, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "A mysterious Druid book and Helen\u2019s sixth sense send her to Scotland in search of a missing boy. After being attacked by strange men dressed in medieval garb, a handsome, desirable hero answering to the boy\u2019s name rescues her. No one is more surprised than she to find herself in sixteenth century Scotland. Unable to deny the reality of time travel, Helen discovers smoldering passion with a man destined to leave her.Simon has lived his Druid life in two very different worlds, two vastly different times, and when Helen practically lands in his lap, he knows his life is about to change forever. There are enemies in California lying in wait for her, and an army in Scotland closing in on his family. Simon is the only person who can protect her. But when she learns his most guarded secret, will she still want him? Can Helen love a Highland Shifter?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13455189-highland-shifter"}, +{"book_title": "Unnatural", "author_name": "Alessandra Hazard", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2349, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "A planet at war. Two alphas forced into a political marriage. Attraction that defies all reason and logic\u2026 Or does it? The Kingdom of Pelugia and the Republic of Kadar have been at war for decades. Peace isn\u2019t popular, but the planet can\u2019t survive without it.Forced to marry an enemy prince for the sake of peace, Senator Royce Cleghorn doesn\u2019t like his husband, his alpha scent, or his damned pretty blue eyes. More than anything, Royce hates what Haydn makes him become: a primitive alpha clich\u00e9 who\u2019ll do anything to mark his territory, even if that territory is his alpha husband. Royce likes omegas; he isn\u2019t into alphas, no matter how pretty their eyes are. It\u2019s just a weird territorial instinct. It has to be.Prince Haydn has always tried to be the perfect alpha his father wants him to be. He's the heir to the throne. He's a war general. He isn't supposed to bare his throat to an enemy alpha\u2014and it isn't supposed to feel so good. Everyone knows a marriage between two alphas is a recipe for disaster. He isn't supposed to crave his husband\u2014their marriage is just a political arrangement, nothing more.But when disaster strikes and loyalties are tested, which bond will be the strongest: their marriage, or their allegiances?This book is set in an omegaverse world similar to contemporary Earth, and it contains explicit content, mating cycles, scenting, knotting, and two men obsessed with each other. While mpreg exists in this world, it\u2019s only mentioned and doesn\u2019t appear on-page.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56443216-unnatural"}, +{"book_title": "Wicked After Midnight", "author_name": "Delilah S. Dawson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 403, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "A contortionist and a rakish brigand navigate the cabarets of Paris to rescue a girl taken by slavers in the third steampunk-tinged romance of the Blud series.Life as a contortionist in Criminy\u2019s Clockwork Caravan should be the height of exotic adventure, but for Demi Ward, it\u2019s total dullsville. Until her best friend, Cherie, is stolen by slavers outside of Paris, and Demi is determined to find her.On the run from his own past, Vale Hildebrand, a dashing rogue of a highwayman, hides Demi from the slavers\u2026but why? He pledges to help her explore the glittering cabarets of Paris to find her friend, but much to Vale\u2019s frustration, Demi soon attracts a host of wealthy admirers. The pleasures of music, blood, and absinthe could turn anyone\u2019s head, and it would be all too easy to accept Cherie\u2019s disappearance as inevitable\u2014but with Vale\u2019s ferocious will and Demi\u2019s drive to find her friend, they soon have a lead on a depraved society of Parisian notables with a taste for beautiful lost girls. Can Demi wind her way through the seedy underbelly of Paris and save her best friend before she, too, is lost?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Steampunk Romance", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16120370-wicked-after-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Inside Out", "author_name": "Maria V. Snyder", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 23667, "review_number": 1927, "book_description": "Keep Your Head Down.Don't Get Noticed.Or Else.I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own\u2026until I accidentally start a rebellion and become the go-to girl to lead a revolution.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7059135-inside-out"}, +{"book_title": "The Deep", "author_name": "Nick Cutter", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 11776, "review_number": 2099, "book_description": "From the acclaimed author of The Troop\u2014which Stephen King raved \u201cscared the hell out of me and I couldn\u2019t put it down.\u2026old-school horror at its best\u201d\u2014comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.A strange plague called the \u2019Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget\u2014small things at first, like where they left their keys\u2026then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily\u2026and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as \u201cambrosia\u201d has been discovered\u2014a universal healer, from initial reports. It may just be the key to a universal cure. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea\u2019s surface. But now the station is incommunicado, and it\u2019s up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths\u2026and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Suspense", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412284-the-deep"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Void", "author_name": "Tim Lebbon", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 11019, "review_number": 657, "book_description": "On the planet Tython, the ancient Je\u2019daii order was founded. And at the feet of its wise Masters, Lanoree Brock learned the mysteries and methods of the Force\u2014and found her calling as one of its most powerful disciples. But as strongly as the Force flowed within Lanoree and her parents, it remained absent in her brother, who grew to despise and shun the Je\u2019daii, and whose training in its ancient ways ended in tragedy. Now, from her solitary life as a Ranger keeping order across the galaxy, Lanoree has been summoned by the Je\u2019daii Council on a matter of utmost urgency. The leader of a fanatical cult, obsessed with traveling beyond the reaches of known space, is bent on opening a cosmic gateway using dreaded dark matter as the key\u2014risking a cataclysmic reaction that will consume the entire star system. But more shocking to Lanoree than even the prospect of total galactic annihilation, is the decision of her Je\u2019daii Masters to task her with the mission of preventing it. Until a staggering revelation makes clear why she was chosen: The brilliant, dangerous madman she must track down and stop at any cost is the brother whose death she has long grieved\u2014and whose life she must now fear.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823425-into-the-void"}, +{"book_title": "When She's Bold", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 931, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "On Risda III, it\u2019s custom for women to marry for convenience. It provides safety and security in a universe that offers none for humans.Me, I don\u2019t really *need* a husband. I just want one. And I want one man in particular. There\u2019s a new guy in town, a by-the-books military man named Rektar. Every day I show up to his office and flirt with him. I bring pies. I twirl my hair. I make it very, very obvious what I want.Rektar is patient, and gentle for all his hulking form. He\u2019d be a great husband. He\u2019s also completely clueless that I\u2019m flirting with him.So it\u2019s time for me to be a little bit bolder\u2026", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Humor", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56535559-when-she-s-bold"}, +{"book_title": "Rebellion", "author_name": "Raymond L. Weil", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 917, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "USA Today Best Selling AuthorFor six years, the solar system has been safe from attack as the Kleese and the Strell fight a brutal war for galactic domination. Now the war is over and the victorious Kleese once more turn their attention toward the Human race.President Randle and General Mitchell know the only hope humanity has of surviving is to bring the nonaligned worlds into an Alliance to oppose Kleese aggression. However, the nonaligned worlds want proof that the Humans can successfully defeat the Kleese.As the Kleese war machine begins attacking the nonaligned worlds, Colonel Wade Nelson races to bring the Alliance into being. As world after world falls and the Kleese warfleets come nearer a decisive battle is set up, which will either bring the Alliance into reality or will mean the end of the Human race.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24515381-rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "The Time-Traveling Fashionista On Board the Titanic", "author_name": "Bianca Turetsky", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 2209, "review_number": 453, "book_description": "What if a beautiful vintage dress could take you back in time?Louise Lambert has always dreamed of movie starlets and exquisite gowns and longs for the day when she can fill the closet of her normal suburban home with stylish treasures. But when she receives a mysterious invitation to a vintage fashion sale in the mail, her once painfully average life is magically transformed into a time-travel adventure. Suddenly onboard a luxurious cruise ship a hundred years ago, Louise relishes the glamorous life of this opulent era and slips into a life of secrets, drama, and decadence. . . .Dreamy and imaginative, The Time-Traveling Fashionista features thirty full-color fashion illustrations to show gorgeous dresses and styles throughout history.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical", "Couture (Fashion)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9415961-the-time-traveling-fashionista-on-board-the-titanic"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Girls", "author_name": "Richard Calder", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 155, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Nanoengineers have unleashed machine consciousness. Revenge does not account for it: Something infinitely more sinister has happened. Only Primavera and mad Ignatz Zwakh know what power is really behind the microbiotic army dedicated to overthrowing the human gamete. But Primavera's dying. Can they reach Dr. Toxicopholous before the CIA or the pornocrat Kito or their combined assassins and nanomachines reach them?", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1178857.Dead_Girls"}, +{"book_title": "London", "author_name": "Frank Tayell", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 5573, "review_number": 480, "book_description": "The outbreak started in New York. Within days the infection had spread to every corner of the world. Nowhere is safe from the undead...Bill watched from his window as London was evacuated. His leg broken, he is unable to join the exodus. Turning to his friends in the government, he waits and hopes for rescue. As the days turn into weeks, realising inaction will lead only to starvation and death, his thoughts turn to escape.Forced to leave the safety of his home he ventures out into the undead wasteland that once was England, where he will discover a horrific secret.This is the first volume of his journal.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18655852-london"}, +{"book_title": "The Just City", "author_name": "Jo Walton", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 5844, "review_number": 1067, "book_description": "\"Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent.\" Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future--all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past.The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects, who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome--and, in an instant, found herself in the Just City with grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her.Meanwhile, Apollo--stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does--has arranged to live a human life, and has come to the City as one of the children. He knows his true identity, and conceals it from his peers. For this lifetime, he is prone to all the troubles of being human.Then, a few years in, Sokrates arrives--the same Sokrates recorded by Plato himself--to ask all the troublesome questions you would expect. What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Philosophy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22055276-the-just-city"}, +{"book_title": "Deep Secret", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 6061, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "Rupert Venables is a Magid.It's a Magid's job to oversee what goes on in the vast Multiverse. Actually, Rupert is really only a junior Magid. But he's got a king-sized problem. Rupert's territory includes Earth and the Empire of Korfyros. When his mentor dies Rupert must find a replacement. But there are hundreds of candidates. How is he supposed to choose? And interviewing each one could take forever.Unless...What if he could round them all up in one place? Simple!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34282.Deep_Secret"}, +{"book_title": "The Son of Neptune", "author_name": "Rick Riordan", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 431241, "review_number": 16125, "book_description": "PERCY IS CONFUSED. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn't ring any bells with him. The only thing he can recall from his past is another name: Annabeth. HAZEL IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. When she lived before, she didn't do a very good job of it. Sure, she was an obedient daughter, even when her mother was possessed by greed. But that was the problem\u2014when the Voice took over her mother and commanded Hazel to use her \"gift\" for an evil purpose, Hazel couldn't say no. Now because of her mistake, the future of the world is at risk. Hazel wishes she could ride away from it all on the stallion that appears in her dreams.FRANK IS A KLUTZ. His grandmother says he is descended from heroes and can be anything he wants to be, but he doesn't see it. He doesn't even know who his father is. He keeps hoping Apollo will claim him, because the only thing he is good at is archery\u2014although not good enough to win camp war games. His bulky physique makes him feel like an ox, especially in front of Hazel, his closest friend at camp. He trusts her completely\u2014enough to share the secret he holds close to his heart.Beginning at the \"other\" camp for half-bloods and extending as far as the land beyond the gods, this breathtaking second installment of the Heroes of Olympus series introduces new demigods, revives fearsome monsters, and features other remarkable creatures, all destined to play a part in the Prophesy of Seven.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9520360-the-son-of-neptune"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Tease", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 3230, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "It should have been a one-night stand.I never intended to seduce Taushen, but things happened. I don't dwell on the past and while it was great, I'm not looking for a relationship. Of course, try telling that to Taushen. The big blue alien's in love after one night, and it's making things darn awkward. We've got bigger problems than whether or not I'm his woman, like the \u2018cargo\u2019 of the space ship that landed here.But Taushen's not giving up. He thinks I'm his mate.And he'll do anything to keep me.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35554313-barbarian-s-tease"}, +{"book_title": "Collide", "author_name": "Megan Hart", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1558, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "Forced to choose between lust and life...She'll take lustA childhood accident left Emmaline vulnerable to disturbing fugue states that last only minutes, but feel like an eternity. The blackouts are unsettling but manageable... until she meets Johnny Dellasandro. The reclusive painter gained notoriety in the '70s for his debauched lifestyle and raunchy art films. His naked body has achieved cult status, especially in Emm's mind \u2014 she's obsessed with the man, who's grown even sexier with age. Today Johnny shuns the spotlight and Emm in particular... until she falls into a fugue on his doorstep. In that moment she's transported back thirty years, crashing a party at Johnny's place in his wild-man heyday \u2014 the night is a blur of flesh and heat that lingers on her skin long after she's woken to the present.It happens again and again, each time-slip another mind-blowing orgy, and soon Emm can't stop, though every episode leaves her weaker and weaker. She's frightened by what's happening to her, but she's even more terrified of losing this portal to the Johnny she wants so badly. The one who wants her, too, and takes her \u2014 every chance he gets.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9920152-collide"}, +{"book_title": "Slow Heat", "author_name": "Leta Blake", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2642, "review_number": 518, "book_description": "A lustful young alpha meets his match in an older omega with a past. Professor Vale Aman has crafted a good life for himself. An unbonded omega in his mid-thirties, he's long since given up hope that he'll meet a compatible alpha, let alone his destined mate. He's fulfilled by his career, his poetry, his cat, and his friends. When Jason Sabel, a much younger alpha, imprints on Vale in a shocking and public way, longings are ignited that can't be ignored. Fighting their strong sexual urges, Jason and Vale must agree to contract with each other before they can consummate their passion. But for Vale, being with Jason means giving up his independence and placing his future in the hands of an untested alpha--as well as facing the scars of his own tumultuous past. He isn't sure it's worth it. But Jason isn't giving up his destined mate without a fight. This is a stand alone gay romance novel, 118,000 words, with a strong happy ending, as well as a well-crafted, non-shifter omegaverse, with alphas, betas, omegas, male pregnancy, heat, and knotting. Content warning for pregnancy loss and aftermath.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "LGBT", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34233780-slow-heat"}, +{"book_title": "And He Built a Crooked House", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1090, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "A clever architect designs a house in the shape of the shadow of a tesseract, but it collapses (through the 4th dimension) when an earthquake shakes it into a more stable form (which takes up very little room in our 3-dimensional space.)", "year_published": 1940, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3791158-and-he-built-a-crooked-house"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Steel", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 334, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "When humans face tough threats across the galaxy, there's only one option: break out the Bolos! Gigantic Al-controlled tanks with enough firepower for an army (and possessing warmer hearts than many of the flesh-and-blood creatures they protect), the Bolos battle on distant star systems to defend us all.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464056.Cold_Steel"}, +{"book_title": "Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories", "author_name": "L. Sprague de Camp", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 421, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as \"Lest Darkness Fall\" has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the \u2018favorite\u2019 books of many of the masters of the field, this book by L. Sprague de Camp helped establish time-travel as a solid sub-genre of science fiction.An indication of the influence and longevity of the book is by the number of best-selling writers who have written stories in direct response to, or influenced by, \"Lest Darkness Fall.\" This new volume also includes three such stories by Frederik Pohl, David Drake and S. M. Stirling written over a period of forty-three years\u2014a testament to the timelessness of the book. Similar, thematically, to Mark Twain\u2019s \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\u2019s Court\", the book tells the tale of Martin Padway who, as he is walking around in modern Rome, is suddenly transported though time to 6th Century Rome. Once in ancient Rome, Padway (now Martinus Paduei Quastor) embarks on an ambitious project of single-handedly changing history.L. Sprague de Camp was a student of history (and the author of a number of popular works on the subject). In Lest Darkness Fall he combines his extensive knowledge of the workings of ancient Rome with his extraordinary imagination to create one of the best books of time travel ever written.\u201cEndlessly fascinating. The author knows a lot about Gothic Italy and almost as much about human nature, and he has a real gift for making the people of those days come alive.\u201d\u2014The New York Times\u201cLest Darkness Fall [is] one of the best time travel stories ever written\u2026\u201d\u2014A Reader\u2019s Guide to Science Fiction\u201cGood fun.\u201d \u2014The New Yorker\u201cA work of real and stimulating imagination.\u201d \u2014Saturday Review of Literature", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Classics", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12769077-lest-darkness-fall-related-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Ark", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 9923, "review_number": 1025, "book_description": "On the eve of Earth\u2019s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.It\u2019s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already been evacuated, it\u2019s Samantha\u2019s job to catalog plant samples for the survivors\u2019 unknowable journey beyond.Preparing to stay behind and watch the world end, she makes a final human connection.As certain doom hurtles nearer, the unexpected and beautiful potential for the future begins to flower.Veronica Roth\u2019s Ark is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49680556-ark"}, +{"book_title": "Sweet Tooth, Volume 6: Wild Game", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 4074, "review_number": 443, "book_description": "Dr. Singh arrives in Alaska and uncovers the origins of Gus and the hybrid children and the cause of the plague that decimated the world. And as Gus and Jepperd finally arrive in Alaska and come face to face with the truth, the militia continues to bear down on them. Their deadliest battle is still ahead.Collecting: Sweet Tooth 33-40", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17137619-sweet-tooth-volume-6"}, +{"book_title": "Written in Red", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 52018, "review_number": 5803, "book_description": "As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut\u2014a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg\u2019s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard\u2014a business district operated by the Others. Shape-shifter Simon Wolfgard is reluctant to hire the stranger who inquires about the Human Liaison job. First, he senses she\u2019s keeping a secret, and second, she doesn\u2019t smell like human prey. Yet a stronger instinct propels him to give Meg the job. And when he learns the truth about Meg and that she\u2019s wanted by the government, he\u2019ll have to decide if she\u2019s worth the fight between humans and the Others that will surely follow.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15711341-written-in-red"}, +{"book_title": "If I Had a Robot", "author_name": "Dan Yaccarino", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 148, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "If Phil had a robot, it would do everything he didn't want to do -- eat his brussels sprouts, take his bath, and do his homework. No one would ever pick on him again. He'd be king of the world! Dan Yaccarino's simple, lively text and exuberant retro-styled illustrations bring this bold and funny fantasy to life. \"Children will start accumulating a list of jobs for a robot to take over.\"-- \"Booklist\"", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414835.If_I_Had_a_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Among the Enemy", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 17531, "review_number": 602, "book_description": "HIDE OR FIGHT?Matthias, an illegal third child, is caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer, Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina, another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103815.Among_the_Enemy"}, +{"book_title": "The Two-Space War", "author_name": "Dave Grossman", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 145, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "It is six hundred years in the future and mankind has learned to move between the stars. And, as they charge headlong into the galaxy, humans discover other worlds that are already there.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78133.The_Two_Space_War"}, +{"book_title": "Fire in His Fury", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 4060, "review_number": 347, "book_description": "Just like Rapunzel from the fairy tales, dreamy, romantic Amy lives a hidden life. She's kept locked away in a tower for her own safety, with her sister as protector. Amy knows it's for her own good. If a dragon catches her scent, she'll be carried away and forced to become a drakoni's mate. But Amy has a secret - she desperately wants to be stolen. She would love to be rescued from her life of idleness and the thought of a devoted drakoni male charging in and saving her from her boredom sounds perfect to her. Of course, she wants a romantic, loving male who will adore her. What she gets is Rast. He's not kind. Not romantic. Definitely not gentle. But he is utterly and completely obsessed with Amy and he'll stop at nothing to make the delicate female his.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37917471-fire-in-his-fury"}, +{"book_title": "The Magicians of Caprona", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 11380, "review_number": 458, "book_description": "Tonino is the only person in the famous Montana household who wasn't born with an instinct for creating spells, but he has other gifts. His ability to communicate with cats just might help defend the city of Caprona against a mysterious enchanter -- but only if Tonino can learn to cooperate with a girl from the hated Petrocchi family of spell-makers.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47525.The_Magicians_of_Caprona"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen's Army", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 17318, "review_number": 1634, "book_description": "It is time. The boy must leave his family to serve in the Queen's army. To be chosen is an honor. To decline is impossible. The boy is modified. He is trained for several years, and learns to fight to the death. He proves to the Queen\u2014and to himself\u2014that he is capable of evil. He is just the kind of soldier the Queen wants: the alpha of his pack.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16075962-the-queen-s-army"}, +{"book_title": "All These Things I've Done", "author_name": "Gabrielle Zevin", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 13618, "review_number": 2045, "book_description": "In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidentally poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.Engrossing and suspenseful, All These Things I've Done is an utterly unique, unputdownable read that blends both the familiar and the fantastic.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9858517-all-these-things-i-ve-done"}, +{"book_title": "Eclipse", "author_name": "John Shirley", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 634, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Book one of John Shirley's pre-holocaust series, A Song Called Like many works defining the wild cyberpunk fringe in the 1980s, this depiction of a near-future dystopia, here revised and updated since its 1985 debut, seems almost acceptably mainstream today. But Shirley's spiky prose and edgy attitudes, which lately have cultivated a following among horror readers (Wetbones; Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories), still hook the reader's attention. Tapping anxieties about rising global nationalism, Shirley presents a Goya-esque vision of war-torn western Europe, bombed out and unstable in the early years of the 21st century from a resurgence of Russian militarism and the collapse of NATO. The Second Alliance, a government-sanctioned multinational police force, has rushed in to restore order and revealed itself a nightmarish incarnation of every fascist and fundamentalist power fantasy. The only defense against the Alliance's creeping totalitarianism is the New Resistance, a polyglot pick-up team of rebels that includes Rick Rickenharp, a tripping retro guitarist whose artistic and political sensibilities are sinuously intertwined, and John Swenson, a mole whose soul is blackened through his infiltration of the Alliance. Stitched together from vivid swatches of action and intrigue alternating kaleidoscopically between Earth sites and the orbiting FirStep space colony, the novel offers a thrashy punk riff on science fiction's familiar future war scenario and lays a solid foundation for the subsequent volumes of Shirley's A Song Called Youth trilogy.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111190.Eclipse"}, +{"book_title": "Dodger", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 23630, "review_number": 2882, "book_description": "A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's...Dodger.Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl--not even if her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England.From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery.Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett combines high comedy with deep wisdom in this tale of an unexpected coming-of-age and one remarkable boy's rise in a complex and fascinating world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13516846-dodger"}, +{"book_title": "Schild's Ladder", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 3097, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "Twenty thousand years into the future, an experiment in quantum physics has had a catastrophic result, creating an enormous, rapidly expanding vacuum that devours everything it comes in contact with. Now humans must confront this deadly expansion. Tchicaya, aboard a starship trawling the border of the vacuum, has allied himself with the Yielders-- those determined to study the vacuum while allowing it to grow unchecked. But when his fiery first love, Mariama, reenters his life on the side of the Preservationists-- those working to halt and destroy the vacuum-- Tchicaya finds himself struggling with an inner turmoil he has known since childhood.However, in the center of the vacuum, something is developing that neither Tchicaya and the Yielders nor Mariama and the Preservationists could ever have imagined possible: life.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156780.Schild_s_Ladder"}, +{"book_title": "She Owns the Knight", "author_name": "Diane Darcy", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1208, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "PG-RATED FUNWhy does she have to travel seven hundred years through time to find a decent guy?Brokenhearted Gillian Corbett finally finds the knight of her dreams...in the past. Unfortunately he\u2019s bossy, overbearing, and...betrothed! Fortunately, he thinks she is his affianced, which keeps her from garderobe duty. Or worse, being hanged as a spy. She knows she has to get back to her own time before his real fianc\u00e9 shows up and the truth is discovered, but until she finds a way, she\u2019s going to squeeze every bit of enjoyment she can out of this situation. As far as she\u2019s concerned, this is one relationship in which she gets to call the shots, not the other way around. The dowry provided by his betrothed bought him, lock, stock, and barrel. She\u2019ll gladly whip him into shape for the girl who ends up with him. No thanks required. In the meantime, Jillian owns him, and as every twenty-first century girl knows...ownership has its privileges.Why can\u2019t he find a lady who is obedient, submissive...or at least not trying to kill him?After a horrible first marriage that ended badly, Sir Kellen Marshall is determined to protect what is left of his dreams. He needs an heir, an alliance, and a chaste bride who has never loved another. Would that he\u2019d been choosier in his specifications because what he\u2019s ended up with is a loud, bossy, demanding female who will drive him daft at every opportunity. So why does he feel he\u2019d like to lay the world at her feet if she\u2019d simply give him the chance?When modern meets medieval, can there be a happily ever after?# OF PAGES Approximately 440 pages. (110,000 words) OTHER BOOKS BY DIANE DARCY: Serendipity, She\u2019s Just Right, Once in a Blue Moon, The Christmas Star, A Penny for Your Thoughts.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18848585-she-owns-the-knight"}, +{"book_title": "War Stories: New Military Science Fiction", "author_name": "Jaym Gates", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 198, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "In War Stories: New Military Science Fiction, editors Andrew Liptak and Jaym Gates collects short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors dealing with the effects of war prior, during, and after battle to soldiers and their families. War is everywhere. Not only among the firefights, in the sweat dripping from heavy armor and the clenching grip on your weapon, but also wedging itself deep into families, infiltrating our love letters, hovering in the air above our heads. It's in our dreams and our text messages. At times it roars with adrenaline, while at others it slips in silently so it can sit beside you until you forget it's there. Join Joe Haldeman, Linda Nagata, Karin Lowachee, Ken Liu, Jay Posey, and more as they take you on a tour of the battlefields, from those hurtling through space in spaceships and winding along trails deep in the jungle with bullets whizzing overhead, to the ones hiding behind calm smiles, waiting patiently to reveal itself in those quiet moments when we feel safest. War Stories brings us 23 stories of the impacts of war, showcasing the systems, combat, armor, and aftermath without condemnation or glorification. Instead, War Stories reveals the truth. War is what we are. Table of Contents: Foreword -- Gregory Drobny Graves -- Joe Haldeman Part 1: Wartime Systems In the Loop -- Ken Liu Ghost Girl -- Rich Larson The Radio -- Susan Jane Bigelow Contractual Obligation -- James L. Cambias The Wasp Keepers -- Mark Jacobsen Non-Standard Deviation -- Richard Dansky Part 2: Combat All You Need -- Mike Sizemore The Valkyrie -- Maurice Broaddus One Million Lira -- Thoraiya Dyer Invincible -- Jay Posey Light and Shadow -- Linda Nagata Part 3: Armored Force Warhosts -- Yoon Ha Lee Suits -- James Sutter Mission. Suit. Self. -- Jake Kerr In Loco -- Carlos Orsi Part 4: Aftermath War Dog -- Mike Barretta Coming Home -- Janine Spendlove Where We Would End a War -- F. Brett Cox Black Butterfly -- T.C. McCarthy Always the Stars and the Void Between -- Nerine Dorman Enemy States -- Karin Lowachee War 3.01 -- Keith Brooke Cover art by Galen Dara.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22704234-war-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Auberon", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 5481, "review_number": 346, "book_description": "A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey\u2019s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explores a new and alien world and the age-old dangers that humanity has carried with it to the stars. Now a Prime Original series.Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity\u2019s reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it. Governor Rittenaur has come to bring civilization and order to the far outpost and guarantee the wealth and power of the Empire.But Auberon already has its own history, a complex culture, and a criminal kingpin named Erich with very different plans. In a world of deceit, violence, and corruption, the greatest danger Rittenaur faces is love.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51209450-auberon"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 17226, "review_number": 596, "book_description": "Collects issues #55-60. Out on their own, danger lurking around every corner, our ragged band of survivors tries to live long enough to reach Washington D.C... but at what cost?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6145711-the-walking-dead-vol-10"}, +{"book_title": "Truth", "author_name": "Julia Karr", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1645, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "An exciting dystopian thriller, and sequel to XVI Nina Oberon's life has changed enormously in the last few months. When her mother was killed, Nina discovered the truth about her father, the leader of the Resistance. And now she sports the same Governing Council\u2013ordered tattoo of XVI on her wrist that all sixteen-year-old girls have. The one that announces to the world that she is easy prey to predators. But Nina won't be anyone's stereotype. And when she joins an organization of girls working within the Resistance, she knows that they can put an end to one of the most terrifying secret programs the GC has ever conceived. Because the truth always comes out . . . and the consequences can be deadly.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11706625-truth"}, +{"book_title": "The Gate of Fire", "author_name": "Thomas Harlan", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 172, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Against this alternative history and military strategy novel, Thomas Harlan delves into events involving sorcery in Persia, Rome and Arabia, as the sorcerer Dahak plots to regain the Peacock Throne. This is the sequel to The Shadow of Ararat.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (Ancient)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1312.The_Gate_of_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "Mort(e", "author_name": "Robert Repino", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 4429, "review_number": 764, "book_description": "After the \u201cwar with no name\u201d a cat assassin searches for his lost love in Repino\u2019s strange, moving sci-fi epic that channels both Homeward Bound and A Canticle for Leibowitz.The \u201cwar with no name\u201d has begun, with human extinction as its goal. The instigator of this war is the Colony, a race of intelligent ants who, for thousands of years, have been silently building an army that would forever eradicate the destructive, oppressive humans. Under the Colony's watchful eye, this utopia will be free of the humans' penchant for violence, exploitation and religious superstition. As a final step in the war effort, the Colony uses its strange technology to transform the surface animals into high-functioning two-legged beings who rise up to kill their masters. Former housecat turned war hero, Mort(e) is famous for taking on the most dangerous missions and fighting the dreaded human bio-weapon EMSAH. But the true motivation behind his recklessness is his ongoing search for a pre-transformation friend\u2014a dog named Sheba. When he receives a mysterious message from the dwindling human resistance claiming Sheba is alive, he begins a journey that will take him from the remaining human strongholds to the heart of the Colony, where he will discover the source of EMSAH and the ultimate fate of all of earth's creatures.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Animals", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Animals (Cats)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22181034-mort-e"}, +{"book_title": "Illusions of Fate", "author_name": "Kiersten White", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 7239, "review_number": 1356, "book_description": "I did my best to keep you from crossing paths with this world. And I shall do my best to protect you now that you have.Jessamin has been an outcast since she moved from her island home of Melei to the dreary country of Albion. Everything changes when she meets Finn, a gorgeous, enigmatic young lord who introduces her to the secret world of Albion\u2019s nobility, a world that has everything Jessamin doesn\u2019t\u2014power, money, status\u2026and magic. But Finn has secrets of his own, dangerous secrets that the vicious Lord Downpike will do anything to possess. Unless Jessamin, armed only with her wits and her determination, can stop him.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19367070-illusions-of-fate"}, +{"book_title": "No Dogs in Philly", "author_name": "Andy Futuro", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 216, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Philadelphia. Elzi on every corner, cops just itching to crack a skull, and the Gaespora lordin' it up in their high towers while the rest of the filth dribbled down the sewer. Saru had a way out. All she had to do was find the girl, one skinny stray with blue, blue eyes\u2014bluer than anyone had ever seen\u2014and ten million fat bucks were hers. Except someone was killing blue-eyed girls, and they were A-list, major-league, cold-sweat effective. And something about the end of all existence if she failed.No Dogs in Philly is a Lovecraftian Cyberpunk Noir with aliens, monsters, extra-dimensional Gods and a tough-as-nails female protagonist. It tickles at questions of existence and the role humans play in this particular universe.Rated R for strong language, mentions of sex, and graphic violence. Contains intense horror and potentially disturbing imagery.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22913770-no-dogs-in-philly"}, +{"book_title": "Spark", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 1013, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Mining ash on a remote planet where temperatures reach hellish degrees doesn't leave Kal (aka Spark) much room for dating. Lucky for this hard-working man, a new corporation Galaxy Alien Mail Order Brides is ready to help him find the girl of his dreams. Does it really matter that he lied on his application and really isn't looking for long term, but rather some fast action? Earth women better watch out. Things are about to heat up.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Business (Amazon)", "Adult", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31352933-spark"}, +{"book_title": "Big Egg", "author_name": "Raffael Coronelli", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 6, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "West of the Earth, the showdown begins.Mars Sheriff Genesis Torrez faces one question every day: is this planet big enough for two colonies? With one populated by nigh-incomprehensible and occasionally violent alien creatures, there\u2019s no easy answer.When a catastrophic horror threatens the settlers with annihilation, Genesis must turn to her team of mecha riders to prepare for the showdown.Author Raffael Coronelli (Daikaiju Yuki) and illustrator Alex Gayhart (All Your Ruins) invite you to ride out with the Slinger squad into the red desert to meet what terrors have hatched from the BIG EGG.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43476668-big-egg"}, +{"book_title": "Persephone Station", "author_name": "Stina Leicht", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 365, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "Hugo award-nominated author Stina Leicht has created a take on space opera for fans of The Mandalorian and Cowboy Bebop in this high-stakes adventure.Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation tenaciously wants to exploit.Rosie\u2014owner of Monk\u2019s Bar, in the corporate town of West Brynner\u2014caters to wannabe criminals and rich Earther tourists, of a sort, at the front bar. However, exactly two types of people drank at Monk\u2019s back bar: members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who sought to employ them.Angel\u2014ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing\u2014is asked to perform a job for Rosie. What this job reveals will affect Persephone and put Angel and her squad up against an army. Despite the odds, they are rearing for a fight with the Serrao-Orlov Corporation. For Angel, she knows that once honor is lost, there is no regaining it. That doesn\u2019t mean she can\u2019t damned well try.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49295293-persephone-station"}, +{"book_title": "Branded by Fire", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 29272, "review_number": 1391, "book_description": "Though DarkRiver sentinel Mercy is feeling the pressure to mate, she savagely resists when Riley Kincaid, a lieutenant from the SnowDancer pack, tries to possess her. The problem is not simply that he pushes her buttons; the problem is that he's a wolf, she's a cat, and they're both used to being on top.But when a brilliant changeling researcher is kidnapped from DarkRiver territory, Mercy and Riley must work together to track the young man - before his shadowy captors decide he's no longer useful. Along the way, the two dominants may find that submitting to one another uncovers not just a deadly conspiracy, but a passion so raw that it'll leave them both branded by fire...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628753-branded-by-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Frost Station Alpha: The Complete Series", "author_name": "Ruby Lionsdrake", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 931, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Lieutenant Tamryn Pavlenko wants to make a name for herself in the GalCon Fleet, so naturally she requests an assignment on the infamous Frost Station Alpha, where pirate attacks are a way of life. The remote research outpost holds secrets that many are willing to kill for, and Tamryn is prepared to protect it from brigands, mobsters, and mercenaries\u2014or whatever the galaxy throws at her. The brochure, however, failed to mention the genetically engineered super humans who were supposed to have all been killed in a war that ended more than a century ago. It seems they\u2019re not only alive, but they want the station. Oh, and one of them decides he wants Tamryn too. This powerful warrior might be sexy and intriguing, but he was bred to kill, and she can\u2019t let herself forget that he\u2019s the enemy. This ebook contains the complete Frost Station Alpha serial, previously published in six installments.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adult", "Action", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26233975-frost-station-alpha"}, +{"book_title": "The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 4: The Long Tomorrow and Other Science Fiction Stories", "author_name": "M\u0153bius", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 613, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "This out-of-print English translation collects The Long Tomorrow (written by Dan O'Bannon), Variation #4027 on The Theme and Is Man Good? by Jean \"Moebius\" Giraud.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Art", "Cultural (France)", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91107.The_Collected_Fantasies_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "Empire of Storms", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 214483, "review_number": 20819, "book_description": "Kingdoms will collide.The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't.With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side, and her fealty pledged to the people she is determined to save, Aelin will delve into the depths of her power to protect those she loves. But as monsters emerge from the horrors of the past, and dark forces become poised to claim her world, the only chance for salvation will lie in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear.In this breathtaking fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series, Aelin will have to choose what\u2014and who\u2014to sacrifice if she's to keep the world of Erilea from breaking apart.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fairies (Fae)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28260587-empire-of-storms"}, +{"book_title": "The Ugly Little Boy", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3021, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "Asimov wrote the short story \"The Ugly Little Boy\" in 1958. But there is much more to the story of the little Neanderthal boy plucked out of time and transferred to the 21st century. Now, Robert Silverberg--in this second collaboration with Asimov--has made this sf classic into an engrossing novel-length tale.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Novels", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195450.The_Ugly_Little_Boy"}, +{"book_title": "Steel: And Other Stories", "author_name": "Richard Matheson", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 642, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "Imagine a future in which the sport of boxing has gone high-tech. Human boxers have been replaced by massive humanoid robots. And former champions of flesh-and-blood are obsolete . . . .Richard Matheson's classic short story is now the basis for Real Steel, a gritty, white-knuckle film starring Hugh Jackman. But \"Steel,\" which was previously filmed as a powerful episode of the original Twilight Zone television series, is just one of over a dozen unforgettable tales in this outstanding collection, which includes two new stories that have never appeared in any previous Matheson collection. Also featured is a bizarre satirical fantasy, \"The Splendid Source,\" that was turned into an episode of The Family Guy.Richard Matheson was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Steel demonstrates once again the full range of his legendary imagination.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11339967-steel"}, +{"book_title": "A Game of Thrones", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 2056641, "review_number": 55117, "book_description": "Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin\u2019s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin\u2019s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.A GAME OF THRONESLong ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom\u2019s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.source: georgerrmartin.com", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Audiobook", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13496.A_Game_of_Thrones"}, +{"book_title": "Sins of Her Father (Privateer Andromeda series Book 2", "author_name": "Mike Kupari", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "THE RAZOR\u2019S EDGE OF TYRANNY AND FREEDOM THE EXILED LEADER: He was known as the Butcher of Jonasport. Zander Krycek made a choice that saved his world of Ithaca, but doomed his reputation and banished him to a planet far, far away. THE EVIL EMPIRE: The Orlov Combine intends to swallow Ithaca in the same way they have devoured so many worlds, creating a \u201ccompany planet\u201d where the residents are litle beter than slaves. THE DAUGHTER: Adisa Masozi never knew her father, but was taught he was a monster. Now she must reclaim her father\u2019s legacy of leadership. And the place to start is with the mysterious aliens who also inhabit Ithaca. THE NATIVES: The saurians have held themselves aloof from galactic politics for eons in order to regain the strength to exact their revenge on an ancient foe. They have the means to resist the Combine. If they can be convinced to help. THE PRIVATEER: Enter privateer Captain Catherine Blackwood and her ship, the Andromeda. Blackwood and her crew have handled dangerous cargo and dicey situations before. Now, they\u2019ll have to navigate assassination attempts, warring factions, and civil unrest. But Catherine has made a promise, and the freedom of a world hangs in the balance. The Privateer Andromeda series continues! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for the prequel, Her Brother's Keeper: \u201cAfter co-writing Dead Six and Swords of Exodus with Larry Correia, Kupari makes his solo debut with this space opera that is bound to attract fans of Mike Shepherd\u2019s Kris Longknife series or Elizabeth Moon\u2019s Vatta\u2019s War books. An excellent choice for both teen and adult sf readers.\u201d \u2014Library Journal \"Mike Kupari is an awesome storyteller.\"\u2014Larry Correia Mike Kupari is the author of debut science fiction novel Her Brother's Keeper, as well as coauthor, with Larry Correia, of the best-selling Dead Six miltary advanture series including Dead Six, Swords of Exodus, and Alliance of Shadows. Mike grew up in Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula and enlisted at the age of seventeen. Mike is recently returned from his second active duty overseas with the U.S. Air Force, where he was an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician in the US Air Force. Mike also served six years in the Army National Guard. He has worked as a security contractor with several firms, did a tour in Southwest Asia with a private military company, and is an NRA certified firearms instructor. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38754983-sins-of-her-father"}, +{"book_title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 2199486, "review_number": 22795, "book_description": "Narnia\u2026 the land beyond the wardrobe door, a secret place frozen in eternal winter, a magical country waiting to be set free.Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first her brothers and sister don't believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund, then Peter and Susan step through the wardrobe themselves. In Narnia they find a country buried under the evil enchantment of the White Witch. When they meet the Lion Aslan, they realize they've been called to a great adventure and bravely join the battle to free Narnia from the Witch's sinister spell.", "year_published": 1950, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Classics", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Christian", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Christian Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100915.The_Lion_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe"}, +{"book_title": "Ruin and Rising", "author_name": "Leigh Bardugo", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 173415, "review_number": 20644, "book_description": "\u25b6 \nAlternative Cover Edition #1\nThe capital has fallen.The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction\u2014and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she\u2019s fighting for.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14061957-ruin-and-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Hell's Foundations Quiver", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3566, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "TURNING OF THE TIDECenturies ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race\u2014and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the reemergence of industrial civilization.But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those dissidents left behind their own secret legacies. One of those is Merlyn Athrawes, cybernetic avatar of one of Earth's longdead defenders, now reawakened after a thousand years to restart human progress and reclaim our place in the universe. Merlyn has intervened in the small Safeholdian realm of Charis, seeding it with ideas and innovations and helping it to rise to challenge the hegemony of the Church.It's been a long and bloody fight, but aided by a stream of inventions\u2014breechloading rifles, signal rockets, claymore mines, new approaches to manufacturing and supply\u2014Charis and its few allies seem to have finally gained the upper hand. Now major realms have begun to consider switching sides.To all these ends, Merlyn Athrawes has been everywhere, under multiple disguises and wielding hidden powers. The secret of who and what he is has been closely held. But a new player has arrived, one who knows many secrets\u2014including Merlyn's own.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23847910-hell-s-foundations-quiver"}, +{"book_title": "Claimed", "author_name": "Presley Hall", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1352, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Recently jobless and homeless, now I've been kidnapped by aliens.I thought my day couldn't get any worse\u2026 until the disgusting Orkun warlords who abducted me tell me I'm meant to be a \"bride\" for their commander.No! No freaking way.But before I can figure out a way off this spaceship, I find myself caught in the middle of an uprising by their other captives: a breathtakingly masculine gladiator race called Kalixians.With their bronze skin, horns, and rippling muscles, the Kalixians look like gods.Their leader, Tordax, is the most stunning of all. His touch sets off fireworks in my body, and I'm drawn to him in a way I can't understand-especially considering we don't even speak the same language.But am I really safer now, or have I just traded one captor for another?What does this powerful alien want with me?And why does he keep looking at me like I'm his?Claimed is a full-length standalone sci-fi romance featuring hot alien gladiators with huge\u2026 horns, a sassy heroine who finds her courage in space, and a possessive alpha hero who would do anything to protect his fated mate.If you like sexy aliens, sweeping adventure, and steamy romance, you\u2019ll love this series. No cheating, no cliffhanger, and a happily ever after guaranteed!Fated Mates of the Kalixian Warriors series:Book 1: Claimed (Rose & Tordax)Book 2: Seized (Harper & Malav)Book 3: Rescued (Autumn & Sorsir)Book 4: BoundBook 5: Broken", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Space", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51607596-claimed"}, +{"book_title": "The Affinity Bridge", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 5861, "review_number": 766, "book_description": "Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists. But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. For this is also a world where ghostly policemen haunt the fog-laden alleyways of Whitechapel, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, works tirelessly to protect the Empire from her foes. When an airship crashes in mysterious circumstances, Sir Maurice and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is baffled by a spate of grisly murders and a terrifying plague is ravaging the slums of the city. So begins an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the first in the series of \"Newbury & Hobbes\" investigations.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3472342-the-affinity-bridge"}, +{"book_title": "This Mortal Coil", "author_name": "Emily Suvada", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 7755, "review_number": 1731, "book_description": "When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine.Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her. The closer she gets, the more she finds herself at risk from Cartaxus, a shadowy organization with a stranglehold on the world's genetic tech. But it's too late to turn back.There are three billion lives at stake, two people who can save them, and one final secret that Cat must unlock. A secret that will change everything.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33876440-this-mortal-coil"}, +{"book_title": "The Five Fists of Science", "author_name": "Matt Fraction", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 1253, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain's connections and Tesla's inventions, they went into business selling world peace. So, what happened? Only now can the tale be told - in which Twain and Tesla collided with Edison and Morgan, an evil science cabal merging the Black Arts and the Industrial Age. Turn of the century New York City sets the stage for a titanic battle over the very fate of mankind.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546131.The_Five_Fists_of_Science"}, +{"book_title": "The Death Cure", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 349189, "review_number": 23205, "book_description": "It\u2019s the end of the line. WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends\u2014the Gladers. But it\u2019s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test. Will anyone survive? What WICKED doesn\u2019t know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it\u2019s enough to prove that he can\u2019t believe a word of what they say. The truth will be terrifying. Thomas beat the Maze. He survived the Scorch. He\u2019ll risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all. The time for lies is over.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7864437-the-death-cure"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Mechanika: La Dama de la Muerte", "author_name": "Joe Ben\u00edtez", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 416, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "After suffering a tragic loss, Lady Mechanika takes a trip to a small Mexican village just in time for their DIa de los Muertos celebration. But the festivities turn truly deadly after the arrival of the Jinetes del Infierno, the mythical Hell Riders. Collects the complete Lady Mechanika Day of the Dead special, La Dama de la Muerte.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35541317-lady-mechanika"}, +{"book_title": "Never Surrender", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 868, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The war isn\u2019t going well. Wolfbane\u2019s forces are pressing the Commonwealth on multiple fronts, the Commonwealth\u2019s fragile political balance is on the verge of shattering and there\u2019s a high-placed spy somewhere within the Commonwealth elite. For Colonel Edward Stalker and his men, the stakes have never been so high. Defeat will mean the end of everything they have fought and died for since their exile from Earth. Held in a POW camp on Meridian, a world on the edge of settled space, Jasmine Yamane and her men seem trapped. But one thing she was never taught was how to give up. She\u2019s coming home, even if she has to burn her way through enemy space to do it ... [This book is completely DRM-free. As always, you can download a free RTF sample from my site \u2013 www.chrishanger.net. Enjoy!]", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24880924-never-surrender"}, +{"book_title": "The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 2", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 581, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "With a veteran \u2019s eye for the harsh and gritty details of war, David Drake depicts a futuristic analog of Vietnam-era tank combat in his Hammer\u2019s Slammers fiction. Upon this tactical foundation, Drake uses historical metaphor to provide a rich and detailed future-history that is both unique and strangely familiar. The characters that make up the Hammer\u2019s Regiment are neither cartoon heroes nor propaganda villains; rather they are competent professionals engaged in a deadly business. The inevitable conflicts between policy, necessity, and human nature are often at the forefront of the Slammers narratives, and it is this rich fusion of elements that makes Drake\u2019s Slammers fiction instantly identifiable and utterly compelling. The Hammer\u2019s Slammers series is some of the most important and influential work in military SF. The Vietnam War made indelible marks on the science fiction genre, and Drake\u2019s service with the Blackhorse Regiment during the war gives his fiction a unique perspective. It is this perspective that is sometimes lacking in military SF, and one that makes Drake\u2019s work so important to the science fiction genre as a whole. This three-volume set collects all the Slammers short fiction and novels into a set of uniform editions, and presents a new, previously uncollected piece of fiction in each volume. This second volume collects the first four Slammers novels, At Any Price (1985), Counting the Cost (1987), Rolling Hot (1989) and The Warrior (1991). The novella \u201cA Day of Glory\u201d was written for this volume, and has been uncollected prior to the publication of tihs volume.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90005.The_Complete_Hammer_s_Slammers_Volume_2"}, +{"book_title": "Night Reigns", "author_name": "Dianne Duvall", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 8480, "review_number": 536, "book_description": "Ami isn't much for trusting strangers. She has a hard time trusting anyone. But she's no coward, and she's no pushover in the protection department either. So when she comes across a mysterious warrior taking on eight deranged vampires on his own, she doesn't hesitate to save his bacon. Of course, that was before she realized what one little rescue would get her into . . .Marcus Grayden has been an immortal protector of humanity for eight hundred years, and at the moment he's not interested in backup. From the moment Ami arrives in his life, he can't deny that she's strong, smart, and extremely skilled at watching his back. But she's also destroying his protective solitude and stirring desires he can't bear to awaken. After all, whatever her secrets \u2014 how can she defeat death itself?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10430194-night-reigns"}, +{"book_title": "Fire Country", "author_name": "David Estes", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2079, "review_number": 387, "book_description": "In a changed world where the sky bleeds red, winter is hotter than hell and full of sandstorms, and summer's even hotter with raging fires that roam the desert-like country, the Heaters manage to survive, barely. Due to toxic air, life expectancies are so low the only way the tribe can survive is by forcing women to procreate when they turn sixteen and every three years thereafter. It is their duty as Bearers.Fifteen-year-old Siena is a Youngling, soon to be a Bearer, when she starts hearing rumors of another tribe of all women, called the Wild Ones. They are known to kidnap Youngling girls before the Call, the ceremony in which Bearers are given a husband with whom to bear children with. As the desert sands run out on her life's hourglass, Siena must uncover the truth about the Wild Ones while untangling the web of lies and deceit her father has masterfully spun.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16160701-fire-country"}, +{"book_title": "The Mark", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 26325, "review_number": 433, "book_description": "The exciting eighth book in the Left Behind series has sold over 2.5 million copies in hardcover and is now available in trade paperback. With over 40 million products sold, the Left Behind series is an international phenomenon.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fiction", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)", "Religion (Faith)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50930.The_Mark"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Princess", "author_name": "Galaxy Craze", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 6084, "review_number": 669, "book_description": "A series of natural disasters has decimated the earth. Cut off from the rest of the world, England is a dark place. The sun rarely shines, food is scarce, and groups of criminals roam the woods, searching for prey. The people are growing restless. When a ruthless revolutionary sets out to overthrow the crown, he makes the royal family his first target. Blood is shed in Buckingham Palace, and only sixteen-year old Princess Eliza manages to escape. Determined to kill the man who destroyed her family, Eliza joins the enemy forces in disguise. She has nothing left to live for but revenge, until she meets someone who helps her remember how to hope-and love-once more. Now she must risk everything to ensure that she does not become... The Last Princess.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12814540-the-last-princess"}, +{"book_title": "Time Thief", "author_name": "Katie MacAlister", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1574, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "Outcast due to their ability to manipulate time, shunned by the mortal and immortal worlds alike, a Traveller\u2019s life is anything but easy.Peter Faa is a member of the Watch tracking down a murderer, and unfortunately, all clues seem to point toward his own estranged family of Travellers. Any of his cousins could be guilty, but which one? They\u2019re all experts in the art of stealing time...After surviving a lightning strike, Kiya Mortenson is determined to get just one thing in her life right. And if that means taking a job as nanny to five pugs on a campsite in the Oregon wilderness, then so be it. It doesn\u2019t hurt that the job comes with some spectacular male eye candy, including her new boss\u2019s gorgeous grandson. If only she didn\u2019t keep having this strange sense of deja vu...When Peter discovers his own family is stealing time from Kiya, all bets are off. While she may drive him crazy at times, it\u2019s clear that it\u2019s not just lightning that\u2019s creating some serious sparks between them. And he\u2019s not going to let secrets, lies, or a devious murderer keep Kiya from where she belongs: at his side.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808639-time-thief"}, +{"book_title": "Altered", "author_name": "Jennifer Rush", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 18886, "review_number": 2225, "book_description": "When you can\u2019t trust yourself, who can you believe?Everything about Anna\u2019s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There\u2019s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who has stolen Anna\u2019s heart. When the Branch decides it\u2019s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them. Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There\u2019s just one problem. Sam and the boys don\u2019t remember anything before living in the lab\u2014not even their true identities.Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. And if they\u2019re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10859509-altered"}, +{"book_title": "Traitor Born", "author_name": "Amy A. Bartol", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 7160, "review_number": 640, "book_description": "In the Fates Republic, Firstborns reign supreme. Secondborns kneel in servitude. Thirdborns face death. And Census shadows them all.Secondborn Roselle St. Sismode was pressed into military service to battle the rebel uprising threatening the society that enslaves her. Now, powerful factions conspire to subvert the lines of succession, positioning Roselle to replace her mother as leader of the Republic\u2019s armed forces. But the woman who bore her would sooner see Roselle dead than let her usurp her firstborn brother\u2019s command.The deadly war of intrigue between her new masters and her ruthless family is but one conflict challenging Roselle. A soldier for the rebellion has drawn her into a rogue army\u2019s plot to overthrow the Republic and shatter its brutal caste system. Targeted by assassins and torn between allies, Roselle\u2019s loyalty, love, and honor will be tested in the greatest battle of\u2014and for\u2014her life.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35555251-traitor-born"}, +{"book_title": "Deathless Divide", "author_name": "Justina Ireland", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 5866, "review_number": 1154, "book_description": "The sequel to Dread Nation is a journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America.After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother.But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodermus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880's America.What's more, this safe haven is not what it appears - as Jane discovers when she sees familiar faces from Summerland amid this new society. Caught between mysteries and lies, the undead, and her own inner demons, Jane soon finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to consume her.But she won't be in it alone.Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. But after the hell she has endured, she knows friends are hard to come by - and that Jane needs her, too, whether Jane wants to admit it or not.Watching Jane's back, however, is more than she bargained for, and when they both reach a breaking point, it's up to Katherine to keep hope alive - even as she begins to fear that there is no happily-ever-after for girls like her.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45836551-deathless-divide"}, +{"book_title": "State of Grace: A time-travel vampire romance", "author_name": "Elizabeth Davies", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 853, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Grace has a terminal brain tumour and will die in the next few months. Roman has an addiction to blood, and could possibly live forever.Grace is twenty-seven years old. When they meet in the twelfth century Roman is several hundred years old. And Grace has another problem - she's from his future and neither of them believe it.\nThis is the first novel in the Resurrection series.\n This series will appeal to fans of Bella Forrest, S. J. West and J. R. Ward You will also like this book if you enjoy - Time travel romances - Urban fantasy - Swords and castles - Historical paranormal romances - Magical realism - Romantic suspense - Mythological creatures ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19392885-state-of-grace"}, +{"book_title": "Icehenge", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 1782, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "On the North Pole of Pluto there stands an enigma: a huge circle of standing blocks of ice, built on the pattern of Earth's Stonehenge--but ten times the size, standing alone at the farthest reaches of the Solar System. What is it? Who came there to build it?The secret lies, perhaps, in the chaotic decades of the Martian Revolution, in the lost memories of those who have lived for centuries.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "History (Archaeology)", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Business (Amazon)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41127.Icehenge"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Six", "author_name": "Larry Correia", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2060, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Michael Valentine, veteran and former member of an elite private military company, has been recruited by the government to conduct a secret counter-terror operation in the Persian Gulf nation of Zubara. The unit is called Dead Six. Their mission is to take the fight to the enemy and not get caught. Lorenzo, assassin and thief extraordinaire, is being blackmailed by the world's most vicious crime lord. His team has to infiltrate the Zubaran terrorist network and pull off an impossible heist or his family will die. When Dead Six compromises his objective, Lorenzo has a new job: Find and kill Valentine. As allegiances are betrayed and the nation descends into a bloody civil war, Lorenzo and Valentine must face off. Two men. Two missions. Only one will win.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10747927-dead-six"}, +{"book_title": "The Afterlife of Holly Chase", "author_name": "Cynthia Hand", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 12931, "review_number": 3315, "book_description": "On Christmas Eve five years ago, Holly was visited by three ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she'd become. They tried to convince her to mend her ways.She didn't.And then she died.Now she's stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge--as the latest Ghost of Christmas Past.Every year, they save another miserly grouch. Every year, Holly stays frozen at seventeen while her family and friends go on living without her. So far, Holly's afterlife has been miserable.But this year, everything is about to change. . . .", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Contemporary", "Holiday", "Romance", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33843251-the-afterlife-of-holly-chase"}, +{"book_title": "Deathstalker War", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2975, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Owen Deathstalker's rebellion continues to strike out against Imperial tyranny, taking the battle straight to the Empire's heart on the planet of Golgotha, but the cunning Empress isn't about to surrender without a fight...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/618195.Deathstalker_War"}, +{"book_title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", "author_name": "Mark Twain", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 97315, "review_number": 3150, "book_description": "One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot. The 'Yankee' vows brashly to \"boss the whole country inside of three weeks\" and embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot with 19th c. industrial inventions like electricity and gunfire. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose!Written in 1889, Mark 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' is one of literature's first genre mash-ups and one of the first works to feature time travel. It is one of the best known Twain stories, and also one of his most unique. Twain uses the work to launch a social commentary on contemporary society, a thinly veiled critique of the contemporary times despite the Old World setting.While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twain's later works can be discerned in 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ' the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.", "year_published": 1889, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literature", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Mythology (Arthurian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162898.A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur_s_Court"}, +{"book_title": "Grey", "author_name": "Jon Armstrong", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 308, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "In a world pushed beyond the moral simplicity of black and white, all that survives is Grey.High fashion, corporate malfeasance, celebrity culture, and an obsessed media collide with exuberant violence and volatile intensity in Grey, the explosive debut novel by newcomer Jon Armstrong.For Michael Rivers, life is perfect. Michael has everything; tall, handsome, and famous, he is worshipped by billions of fans around the globe. He is wealthy beyond measure, the heir apparent to RiverGroup, one of the handful of high-tech corporations that controls the world. He is fashionable, setting trends with his wardrobe of immaculate designer suits, each a unique and celebrated work of art. And Michael is in love, perfect love, sharing a private language based entirely on quotes from the latest fashion magazine advertisements, with Nora, his beautiful, witty, and equally perfect fianc", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Couture (Fashion)", "Music (Punk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597083.Grey"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Mate", "author_name": "Sadie Carter", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 642, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "With all the drama and trouble behind her, Zoey is looking forward to arriving on Zerconia and settling down into a normal life as Dex\u2019s mate. Normal? What was she thinking? There is nothing normal about being mated to a sinfully sexy, often times arrogant and overprotective Zerconian warrior. But then normal is overrated, right? Trouble follows Zoey to Zerconia, threatening her very life. But that pales in comparison to her biggest challenge yet\u2026 Her mother-in-law. This series would be enjoyed more if read in order. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28100959-alien-mate"}, +{"book_title": "The Constant Rabbit", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3230, "review_number": 673, "book_description": "Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of the Year award. Until Doc and Constance Rabbit move in next door, upsetting the locals (many of them members of governing political party United Kingdom Against Rabbit Population), complicating Peter's job as a Rabbit Spotter, and forcing him to take a stand, moving from unconscious leporiphobe to active supporter of the UK's amiable and peaceful population of anthropomorphised rabbits.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Animals", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51801337-the-constant-rabbit"}, +{"book_title": "Jurassic Park", "author_name": "Michael Crichton", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 818497, "review_number": 12975, "book_description": "An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind\u2019s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them\u2014for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604658-jurassic-park"}, +{"book_title": "Tom's Midnight Garden", "author_name": "Philippa Pearce", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 24018, "review_number": 896, "book_description": "Lying awake at night, Tom hears the old grandfather clock downstairs strike . . . eleven . . . twelve . . . thirteen . . . Thirteen! When Tom gets up to investigate, he discovers a magical garden. A garden that everyone told him doesn't exist. A garden that only he can enter . . .A Carnegie-Medal-winning modern classic that's magically timeless.", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/543086.Tom_s_Midnight_Garden"}, +{"book_title": "Level 7", "author_name": "Mordecai Roshwald", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1670, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the \"Push Buttons,\" a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country\u2019s deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return.Originally published in 1959, and with over 400,000 copies sold, this powerful dystopian novel remains a horrific vision of where the nuclear arms race may lead, and is an affirmation of human life and love. Level 7 merits comparison to Huxley\u2019s A Brave New World and Orwell\u2019s 1984 and should be considered a must-read by all science fiction fans.", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "War", "Horror", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820073.Level_7"}, +{"book_title": "Ender in Exile", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 45334, "review_number": 2128, "book_description": "At first, Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted down. But things were quiet now, had been quiet for a year, and it was plain to him now that they would not bring him back at all, that he was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person.At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin--called Ender by everyone--knows that he cannot live on Earth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: He is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony.He is offered the choice of living under the Hegemon's control, a pawn in his brother Peter's political games. Or he can join the colony ships and go out to settle one of the new worlds won in the war.The story of those years on the colony worlds has never been told...until now.The voyage was long. By the end of it, Val had finished the first volume of her history of the bugger wars and transmitted it by ansible, under Demosthenes' name, back to Earth, and Ender had won something better than the adulation of the passengers. They knew him now, and he had won their love and their respect.Ender was twelve when he chose to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies. With him went his sister, Valentine, and the core of the artificial intelligence that would become Jane. He wrote The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, and his sister wrote The Speaker for the Dead.He served as governor of his first colony world, but now Ender is on the move, looking for a planet where the hive queens might be reestablished.What he finds in the Ganges colony is more than he bargained for--a resentful governor who caused a devastating war on Earth and a brilliant young colonist who is out to destroy him, starting with his reputation and ending, perhaps, with his life.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3220405-ender-in-exile"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk'd", "author_name": "Jean Rabe", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 271, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Steampunk can be defined as a subgenre of science fiction that is typically set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian setting, where steam power is prevalent. Consider the slogan: \"What the past would look like if the future had come along earlier.\" The stories in this all-original anthology explore alternate timelines and have been set all over the world, running the gamut from science fiction to mystery to horror to a melding of these genres.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7912998-steampunk-d"}, +{"book_title": "Phule's Paradise", "author_name": "Robert Lynn Asprin", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 5297, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "The bestselling author of the Myth series proves once again that not just anyone can join Phule's Company. They used to be the laughingstock of the interstellar armed forces--until their last mission proved successful. Now they must guard an intergalactic casino called the Fat Chance from a criminal takeover--and the odds are against the oddballs.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415807.Phule_s_Paradise"}, +{"book_title": "43* When Gore Beat Bush", "author_name": "Jeff Greenfield", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 331, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "At 5 p.m. on September 11, 2001, an ashen-faced but composed President Al Gore stepped into the East Room of the White House to deliver a televised address to the nation. With him were former presidents Clinton and Bush, as well as Texas governor George W. Bush \u2014 flown to Washington from Dallas on a military jet, his first visit back to the capital after the close race that lost him the presidency just months before. That's not how you remember it?Imagine if the 2000 presidential election had turned out differently and Al Gore had defeated George W. Bush to become the 43rd president of the United States. How might events have played out? Would Osama bin Laden have loomed as large? Would the 9/11 attacks have been even worse? Would we have invaded Iraq? Would the economy have plunged into recession?This is the provocative alternate universe of 43*, a riveting thriller by veteran political commentator Jeff Greenfield. Richly reported and anchored in actual events, 43*: When Gore Beat Bush is the fascinating follow-up to Greenfield's bestselling Then Everything Changed, which imagined what-if scenarios for the Kennedy, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations. Greenfield takes readers deep inside the Gore administration and reveals high-level meetings, top-secret programs, and ego-fueled battles that forever altered the global landscape. And in Greenfield\u2019s hauntingly plausible parallel universe, the law of unintended consequences has a dramatic effect on the fate of the United States.\"It\u2019s the 'butterfly effect,'\" writes Greenfield, \"where one dead butterfly millions of years ago leads to a contemporary world immeasurably more coarse, less kind. It's the notion of the old nursery rhyme: 'For want of a nail the kingdom was lost.'\"", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Politics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16034689-43-when-gore-beat-bush"}, +{"book_title": "Arrival", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2474, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "The Eden Project was a dream. To start the first extra-solar colony\u2026 To avoid the mistakes of our past\u2026 To start anew.Three generations, born and raised on a starship hurtling through space. To never know an open sky\u2026 To never feel the wind on their face\u2026 To never witness the sun rise or set.It is up to the advance team to set foot on each of these worlds, conduct their surveys, and send their findings back to the colony ship. So many questions\u2026 So little time\u2026 Such an enormous responsibility.Everything must go as planned, for the welfare of all the colonists depends on them.\u201cArrival\u201d is a 170,000 word, stand-alone novel.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Suspense", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29549010-arrival"}, +{"book_title": "Gateway", "author_name": "Frederik Pohl", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 40470, "review_number": 1615, "book_description": "Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he has become... in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218427.Gateway"}, +{"book_title": "1920: America's Great War", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 560, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "By the author of breakout WW II era alternate history Himmler\u2019s War and Rising Sun, a compelling alternate history thriller.After winning WW I, Germany invades America in 1920, marching through California and Texas as a desperate nation resists.Consider another 1920: Imperial Germany has become the most powerful nation in the world. In 1914, she had crushed England, France, and Russia in a war that was short but entirely devastating. By 1920, Kaiser Wilhelm II is looking for new lands to devour. The United States is fast becoming an economic super-power and the only nation that can conceivably threaten Germany. The U.S. is militarily inept, however, and is led by a sick and delusional president who wanted to avoid war at any price. Thus, Germany is able to ship a huge army to Mexico to support a puppet government. Her real goal: the invasion and permanent conquest of California and Texas. America desperately resists as the mightiest and most brutal army in the world in a battle fought on land, at sea, and in the air as enemy armies savagely marched up on California, and move north towards a second Battle of the Alamo. Only the indomitable spirit of freedom can answer the Kaiser's challenge.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571484-1920"}, +{"book_title": "The Winner's Kiss", "author_name": "Marie Rutkoski", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 42247, "review_number": 6042, "book_description": "Some kisses come at a price.War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn\u2019t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire than she did for the lives of innocent people\u2014and certainly more than she did for him.At least, that\u2019s what he thinks.In the frozen north, Kestrel is a prisoner in a brutal work camp. As she searches desperately for a way to escape, she wishes Arin could know what she sacrificed for him. She wishes she could make the empire pay for what they\u2019ve done to her.But no one gets what they want just by wishing.As the war intensifies, both Kestrel and Arin discover that the world is changing. The East is pitted against the West, and they are caught in between. With so much to lose, can anybody really win?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "War", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20443235-the-winner-s-kiss"}, +{"book_title": "Trial by Fire", "author_name": "Charles E. Gannon", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 883, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "When reluctant interstellar diplomat and intelligence operative Caine Riordan returns from humanity's first encounter with alien races, sudden war clouds burst. With Earth's fleet shattered by a sneak attack and its survivors fighting for their lives, Caine must rely upon both his first contact and weaponry skills to contend with the non-humanoid enemy. And when the technologically-superior attackers sweep aside the solar system's last defenses, and traitorous corporations invite the invaders to land 'security forces,' humanity fights back with its best weapons: cunning, inventiveness, and guts.But as Earth hurtles towards a final trial by fire that is certain to scar its collective memory, Caine discovers that there may also be large and disturbing gaps in that memory. Clues point to a much earlier inter-species apocalypse, buried in humanity's own prehistory. Which raises a terrifying possibility: what if the aliens' invasion of Earth is not one of conquest, but preemption? And what if their harrowing memories of a long-past cataclysmic war makes them willing to do anything to keep it from reigniting?Even if that means exterminating the human race.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20257233-trial-by-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Cogling", "author_name": "Jordan Elizabeth", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 275, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "When fifteen-year-old Edna Mather tears an expensive and unfamiliar pocket watch off her little brother's neck, he crumbles into a pile of cogs right before her eyes. Horrified, Edna flees for help, but encounters Ike, a thief who attempts to steal the watch before he realizes what it is: a device to power Coglings\u2014clockwork changelings left in place of stolen children who have been forced to work in factories.Desperate to rescue her brother, Edna sets off across the kingdom to the hags' swamp, with Ike in tow. There, they learn Coglings are also replacing nobility so the hags can stage a rebellion and rule over humanity. Edna and Ike must stop the revolt, but the populace believes hags are helpful godmothers and healers. No one wants to believe a lowly servant and a thief, especially when Ike has secrets that label them both as traitors. Together, Edna and Ike must make the kingdom trust them or stop the hags themselves, even if Ike is forced to embrace his dark heritage and Edna must surrender her family.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25375990-cogling"}, +{"book_title": "New Pompeii", "author_name": "Daniel Godfrey", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 807, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "In the near future, energy giant Novus Particles develops the technology to transport objects and people from the deep past to the present. Their biggest secret: New Pompeii. A replica of the city hidden deep in central Asia, filled with Romans pulled through time a split second before the volcano erupted.Historian Nick Houghton doesn't know why he's been chosen to be the company's historical advisor. He's just excited to be there. Until he starts to wonder what happened to his predecessor. Until he realizes that NovusPart have more secrets than even the conspiracy theorists suspect.Until he realizes that NovusPart have underestimated their captives...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Thriller", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833741-new-pompeii"}, +{"book_title": "Futurama-O-Rama", "author_name": "Matt Groening", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 327, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Get ready every Futurama and Matt Groening fan, here comes Futurama\u2013o\u2013rama, the very FIRST comic compilation based on the Emmy\u2013nominated television show Futurama. It's a long way from making a pizza delivery on New Year's Eve to the bustling cityscape of New York in the 31st century, but for Phillip J. Fry it only took one little cryogenically frozen nap. Waking up in a future imagined by The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Fry finds a job at an interplanetary messenger service and falls in with Leela, a sexy one\u2013eyed space orphan, and Bender, an alcoholic misanthropic robot programmed to bend things. Blast off with this all\u2013new Futurama comics collection, and leap feet first into a fun\u2013filled future!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/755515.Futurama_O_Rama"}, +{"book_title": "Shattered Minds", "author_name": "Laura Lam", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 369, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "She can uncover the truth, if she defeats her demonsEx-neuroscientist Carina struggles with a drug problem, her conscience,\u00a0and urges to kill. She satisfies her cravings in dreams, fuelled by the addictive drug \u2018Zeal\u2019. Now she\u2019s heading for self-destruction \u2013 until she has a vision of a dead girl.Sudice Inc. damaged Carina when she worked on their sinister brain-mapping project, causing her violent compulsions. And this girl was a similar experiment. When Carina realizes the vision was planted\u00a0by her old colleague Mark, desperate for help to expose the company, she\u00a0knows he\u2019s probably dead.\u00a0Her only hope is to unmask her nemesis \u2013 or she\u2019s next.To unlock the secrets Mark hid in her mind, she\u2019ll need a group of specialist hackers. Dax is one of them, a doctor who can help Carina fight her addictions. If she holds on to her humanity, they might even have a future together. But first she must destroy her adversary \u2013 before it changes us and our society, forever.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Mystery", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31702782-shattered-minds"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire III: Chapter Two - The Healers", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 103, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Dalek Empire III is a six part mini-series featuring the Daleks from the world of BBC TV's Doctor Who.The Border Worlds are gripped by a terrible plague... Galanar's mission takes him right to the heart of the tragedy. The Dalek plans for 'Geo-forming' are already in operation.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2041254.Dalek_Empire_III"}, +{"book_title": "Thunderbird", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 998, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "The Nebula Award\u2013winning author of the Alex Benedict novels and the Priscilla Hutchins novels returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a startling and majestic epic.A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, quickly dubbed Eden; (2) a strange maze of underground passageways; or (3) a space station with a view of a galaxy that appears to be the Milky Way.The race to explore and claim the stargate quickly escalates, and those involved divide into opposing camps who view the teleportation technology either as an unprecedented opportunity for scientific research or a disastrous threat to national\u2014if not planetary\u2014security. In the middle of the maelstrom stands Sioux chairman James Walker. One thing is for certain: Questions about what the stargate means for humanity\u2019s role in the galaxy cannot be ignored.Especially since travel through the stargate isn\u2019t necessarily only one way...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25183180-thunderbird"}, +{"book_title": "Alluvial", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1433, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Someone\u2019s using me as leverage against my family. I was your average citizen, innocent of any crime worth going to prison for, and yet here I am. But this isn\u2019t a regular prison ship. *Torture.* Experiments. They alter me. And when the ship crashes on an alien planet, some of my new abilities come in quite handy\u2014it\u2019s the side effects that aren\u2019t entirely welcome. Not by me, anyway. The tribe of aliens that have taken me captive? They don\u2019t seem to mind. ~The Valos of Sonhadra series is the shared vision of nine scifi and fantasy romance authors. Each book is a standalone with a guaranteed Happy Ever After and can be read in any order.~**Note: Explicit content, sexual situations, and language warning.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38494871-alluvial"}, +{"book_title": "Wild Magic", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 77074, "review_number": 2172, "book_description": "Young Daine's knack with horses gets her a job helping the royal horsemistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. Soon it becomes clear that Daine's talent, as much as she struggles to hide it, is downright magical. Horses and other animals not only obey, but listen to her words. Daine, though, will have to learn to trust humans before she can come to terms with her powers, her past, and herself.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13836.Wild_Magic"}, +{"book_title": "Rescue", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1339, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "\u201cRescue\" is the eleventh of a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii\u2019s nerve mutation makes her a genius and provides her some astonishing athletic abilities. In \u201cRescue,\u201d President Stockton tells the FBI to tone down its efforts to imprison Ell. Unfortunately, the SCDF, a group of ultraconservative survivalists now has the President in their sights. Their attack on the President succeeds far beyond anyone\u2019s imagination. Could it be that Stockton\u2019s very life will now depend on the woman she has been imprisoning and harassing?Meanwhile, Stell Simsworth, the ten year old blind singing sensation, is hoping that Ryan will be able to use his technology to restore her eyesight and Carter is working on a project to colonize Mars (despite his daughter\u2019s cogent observation that a colony would have high risks but provide few benefits.)", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22052201-rescue"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk: Poe", "author_name": "Edgar Allan Poe", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 791, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "If you combined clockwork gears, parasols, and air balloons with Edgar Allan Poe, what would you get? Steampunk: Poe! This is the first collection ever of Poe stories illustrated with the influence of steampunk. Running Press Teens has selected some of the most popular, thrilling, and memorable stories and poems by the classic 19th century American writer whose literary talent continues to open the mind to countless interpretations.Every Poe story and poems is fully illustrated with steampunk-inspired art\u2014from 1920s aviation gear to elaborate musical instruments\u2014creating a fresh perspective on his work containing bizarre characters of madmen and mystery. Just in time for Halloween, Steampunk: Poe is the perfect classic horror choice with a haunting steampunk twist!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Classics", "Horror", "Poetry", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Art", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10339809-steampunk"}, +{"book_title": "Norstrilia", "author_name": "Cordwainer Smith", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2256, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "Rod McBan 151st farms 'stroon', the immortality drug, and is the last scion of one of the oldest and most honourable families on Norstrilia, only source of stroon. But he's also a telepathic cripple and faces the ever-present risk of being culled under the government's draconian population laws.To protect himself, he uses his not-strictly-legal computer to play the market and amass an unimaginable fortune. But after he survives an assassination attempt, McBan discovers that having enough money to literally buy the Earth is no good if you're too dead to spend it . . .", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "United States", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1003311.Norstrilia"}, +{"book_title": "Witchmark", "author_name": "C.L. Polk", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 7822, "review_number": 1574, "book_description": "C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance.In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations, while one young man seeks only to live a life of his own.Magic marked Miles Singer for suffering the day he was born, doomed either to be enslaved to his family's interest or to be committed to a witches' asylum. He went to war to escape his destiny and came home a different man, but he couldn\u2019t leave his past behind. The war between Aeland and Laneer leaves men changed, strangers to their friends and family, but even after faking his own death and reinventing himself as a doctor at a cash-strapped veterans' hospital, Miles can\u2019t hide what he truly is.When a fatally poisoned patient exposes Miles\u2019 healing gift and his witchmark, he must put his anonymity and freedom at risk to investigate his patient\u2019s murder. To find the truth he\u2019ll need to rely on the family he despises, and on the kindness of the most gorgeous man he\u2019s ever seen.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36187110-witchmark"}, +{"book_title": "Wires and Nerve", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 20543, "review_number": 3877, "book_description": "When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. 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But Cecelia, the rich old lady, had more brains than most admirals Heris had known, and before it was all over, Heris would have a chance to rejoin her beloved space navy -- if she could manage to stop an invading armada.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96280.Heris_Serrano"}, +{"book_title": "A Captain and a Corset", "author_name": "Mary Wine", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 211, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "There\u2019s Trouble in the Skies\u2026For Sophia Stevenson, there\u2019s no going back to the life she knew. She never asked for the powers that make her a precious commodity to the secret society of Illuminists\u2014and their archenemies.Captain Bion Donkova would give anything to possess the powers that have fallen in Sophia\u2019s lap. If only the beautiful, infuriating woman could stay out of trouble, he wouldn\u2019t have to keep coming to her rescue\u2026Bion and Sophia have friction to spare\u2014and nothing fuels a forbidden passion better than danger\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15927475-a-captain-and-a-corset"}, +{"book_title": "First Light", "author_name": "Linda Nagata", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2879, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "\"There Needs To Be A War Going On Somewhere\"Lieutenant James Shelley commands a high-tech squad of soldiers in a rural district within the African Sahel. They hunt insurgents each night on a harrowing patrol, guided by three simple goals: protect civilians, kill the enemy, and stay alive\u2014because in a for-profit war manufactured by the defense industry there can be no cause worth dying for. To keep his soldiers safe, Shelley uses every high-tech asset available to him\u2014but his best weapon is a flawless sense of imminent danger...as if God is with him, whispering warnings in his ear. (Hazard Notice: contains military grade profanity.)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17605440-first-light"}, +{"book_title": "Sworn to the Shadow God", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 2030, "review_number": 321, "book_description": "Adventure. It's what my boring life is missing, so when I fall through a portal into another world, I'm excited. Here, I'm important. Here, I'm special. I find out just *how* special when I meet Death. Yup. That guy. He's been exiled to the mortal realm to work through his flaws, and he's just as spoiled and awful as you'd think. Rhagos, the Shadow Lord, is arrogant and rude and controlling and demands to get his way. He's selfish. He's impossible. He's also utterly gorgeous. Magnetic. Lonely. And strangely protective of me. Thanks to a magic bond, I now serve him as his anchor to the mortal realm. It means that I'm his conscience, his guide...and the target for any assassin or glory-seeker. After a few days of this, I'd rather go home than continue on this 'adventure'. I need a way back to Earth, and fast. As the world falls down around us and we're hunted simply for existing, I find myself wondering what it'd be like to serve the lonely god of death...in all ways. To kiss him. To touch him. To bed him. Except...I'm supposed to be finding a way home, not trying to kiss Rhagos. No matter how tempting he is. No matter how much he stares at my lips. No matter how much I want it.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction", "Mythology (Gods)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51183878-sworn-to-the-shadow-god"}, +{"book_title": "Wildwing", "author_name": "Emily Whitman", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 1466, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "When Addy is swept back in time, she couldn't be happier to leave her miserable life behind. Now she's mistaken for Lady Matilda, the pampered ward of the king. If Addy can play her part, she'll have glorious gowns, jewels, and something she's always longed for the respect and admiration of others. But then she meets Will, the falconer's son with sky blue eyes, who unsettles all her plans. From shipwrecks to castle dungeons, from betrothals to hidden conspiracies, Addy finds herself in a world where she's not the only one with a dangerous secret. When she discovers the truth, Addy must take matters into her own hands. The stakes? Her chance at true love . . . and the life she's meant to live.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7554826-wildwing"}, +{"book_title": "The Valhalla Call", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 2896, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "In The Valhalla Call we bring the Hayden War Arc that began in On Silver Wings to its startling conclusion. Newly minted Lieutenant Sorilla Aida has a new mission and new allies, gear, and support as she is tasked with a job that could ensure that the human race stands a chance of reaching a technical parity with the mysterious alien alliance.Humans and SOLCOM are not the only ones making moves, however, and the Alliance has brought up their varsity to end the little side war before it gets out of hand. Are they really interested in humanity or human worlds, however, or is something more at play?When the horns sound, the Valhalla Call rings out across the galaxy and it is inevitable that someone will be brought to answer.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18103837-the-valhalla-call"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Traveler's Guide to Modern Romance", "author_name": "Madeline J. Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 173, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Elias Caldwell needs more than his life in nineteenth-century England has to offer. He'd rather go on an adventure than spend one more minute at some stuffy party. When his grandfather gives him a pocket watch he claims can transport him to any place and time, Elias doesn't believe it...until he's whisked away to twenty-first-century America.Tyler Forrester just wants to fall hopelessly in love. But making that kind of connection with someone has been more of a dream than reality. Then a boy appears out of thin air, a boy from the past. As he helps Elias navigate a strange new world for him, introducing him to the wonders of espresso, binge-watching, and rock and roll, Tyler discovers Elias is exactly who he was missing.But their love has time limit. Elias's disappearance from the past has had devastating side effects, and now he must choose where he truly belongs\u2014in the Victorian era, or with the boy who took him on an adventure he never dreamed possible?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["LGBT", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Contemporary", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43733171-the-time-traveler-s-guide-to-modern-romance"}, +{"book_title": "Must Love More Kilts", "author_name": "Angela Quarles", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 163, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "What if your husband turns out to be the man sent to kill your ancestor? A choice to make\u2026 Highland Games fanatic Fiona Campbell believes her only value is her family's history, myths, and legends. So when she travels back to 1689 Scotland and discovers she's the Fiona of family legend, you'd think she\u2019d be excited. And she is. Except that the legendary warrior she\u2019s to save her ancestor from is the hottie in a kilt she just handfasted. A heart to heal\u2026 Duncan MacCowan once trusted his heart to the wrong woman, but when a strange lass drops into his life and pries opens his heart again, he impulsively handfasts her. Yet before he can finish spinning fancies of their domestic bliss, she flees on the night of their wedding, leaving him even more convinced that he can\u2019t trust his instincts where his heart is involved. A family legend that will tear them apart Fiona wants to shake her fist at Fate--she finally meets the man of her dreams but can\u2019t have him because of the family legend? Not cool, Fate, not cool. Duncan believes he\u2019s just terrible at picking women and destined to be alone. But as the heat of their attraction flares, how far can they tempt Fate for love?", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30796652-must-love-more-kilts"}, +{"book_title": "Machine Man", "author_name": "Max Barry", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 4207, "review_number": 471, "book_description": "Charlie Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. He sees it as an opportunity. Charlie has always thought his body could be better. Stronger. With built-in wi-fi. The next leg to go is no accident. Neither is the hand. No one understands his love of upgrades, except for prosthetics expert Lola Shanks. She's always admired a good artificial leg, and Charlie's on his way to being artificial everything. His employer, military contractor Better Future, sees potential in the bioaugmentations. Charlie, however, never wanted to be a weapon, so now he's locked in a mind-bending battle for control of his artificial body. Machine Man is a daring experiment in digital fiction that is funny, tender, and always surprising.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Contemporary", "Novels", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6634696-machine-man"}, +{"book_title": "Run", "author_name": "Blake Crouch", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 11514, "review_number": 1150, "book_description": "For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris, picture this: a landscape of American genocide...5 D A Y S A G OA rash of bizarre murders swept the country\u2026Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike. A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.4 D A Y S A G OThe murders increased ten-fold\u20263 D A Y S A G OThe President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace\u20262 D A Y S A G OThe killers began to mobilize\u2026Y E S T E R D A YAll the power went out\u2026T O N I G H TThey\u2019re reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they\u2019ve just read yours.Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don\u2019t know why, but you don\u2019t have time to think about that any more. 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And being the leader of a force of spaceborne mercenaries while maintaining a secret identity wasn't easy\u2014in fact it should have been impossible, to say nothing of being a capital offense on Barrayar. Not that impossibility or great danger would slow down young Miles Vorkosigan much.The Warrior's Apprentice 1Discharged from the Barrarayan academy after flunking the physical, a discouraged Miles (17) takes possession of a jumpship and becomes the leader of a mercenary force that expands to a fleet of treasonous proportions.The Mountains of Mourning 373Miles (20) is sent to a small mountain village to investigate the murder of an infant, killed because she had a physical defect. Miles must deal with deep-seated prejudice against \u201cmutants\u201d and uncover the real killer in this novella that won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.The Vor Game 465 Miles (20s) faces enormous challenges in this Hugo Award-winning novel as he leads a mutiny against his military commander's criminal orders, rejoins his Dendarii mercenaries, and attempts to rescue Emperor Gregor after Barrayar's royal scion has run off straight into trouble.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61916.Young_Miles"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden City", "author_name": "J. Kathleen Cheney", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1121, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "For two years, Oriana Paredes has been a spy among the social elite of the Golden City, reporting back to her people, the sereia, sea folk banned from the city\u2019s shores.... \u00a0 When her employer and only confidante decides to elope, Oriana agrees to accompany her to Paris. But before they can depart, the two women are abducted and left to drown. Trapped beneath the waves, Oriana\u2019s heritage allows her to survive while she is forced to watch her only friend die. \u00a0 Vowing vengeance, Oriana crosses paths with Duilio Ferreira\u2014a police consultant who has been investigating the disappearance of a string of servants from the city\u2019s wealthiest homes. Duilio also has a secret: He is a seer and his gifts have led him to Oriana. \u00a0 Bound by their secrets, not trusting each other completely yet having no choice but to work together, Oriana and Duilio must expose a twisted plot of magic so dark that it could cause the very fabric of history to come undone.... \u00a0", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707612-the-golden-city"}, +{"book_title": "Captured", "author_name": "Willow Danes", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2425, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "Jenna McNally is tending to the heartrending task of clearing out her grandfather\u2019s cabin when she\u2019s knocked off her feet by the impact of a nearby plane crash. She races into the snowy North Carolina woods to help and discovers that this is no plane that\u2019s crashed. Ra\u2019kur\u2019s people have been brought to the brink of extinction by war. After years spent searching for a compatible mate to bond with, an enemy attack lands him on a backward, primitive planet and right to the very female he has been seeking. And a Hir warrior\u2019s first task in claiming a mate is to capture her . . .", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22883909-captured"}, +{"book_title": "The Uprising", "author_name": "Lisa M. Stasse", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1356, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "In this dystopian sequel to The Forsaken, Alenna has survived the brutality of life on the wheel\u2014and now she\u2019s going back for more.\tAlenna escaped. It was expected that she would die on the wheel, the island where would-be criminals are sent as directed by the UNA\u2014the totalitarian supercountry that was once the United States, Mexico, and Canada. But Alenna and her boyfriend, Liam, made it to safety. Except safety, they will soon learn, is relative.In order to bring down the UNA, they must first gain control of the wheel. If the mission succeeds, the wheel will become a base of revolution. But between betrayals, a new Monk leading a more organized army of Drones, and the discovery of a previously unknown contingent, Alenna, Liam, and their allies might be in over their heads. One thing Alenna knows for sure: There will be a reckoning. And not everyone she loves will make it out alive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15784722-the-uprising"}, +{"book_title": "Saga, Vol. 9", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 22327, "review_number": 4237, "book_description": "The multiple Eisner Award-winning series returns with a spacefaring adventure about fake news and genuine terror. Get ready for the most shocking, most impactful SAGA storyline yet.Collects SAGA #49-54", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "LGBT", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29237221-saga-vol-9"}, +{"book_title": "The Robot and the Bluebird", "author_name": "David Lucas", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 328, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "\"Let me carry you,\" said the Robot. \"I'll carry you in my heart, and shelter you from the cold and storms.\" High atop a pile of rubbish sits a lonely Robot with a broken heart. Then one winter's day, a Bluebird appears, fighting against the freezing wind. When the Robot offers her a home in the empty space where his heart used to be, neither of them can predict what astonishing things will happen. Together the newfound friends set off on a memorable journey that will change them both.This fable-like tale, bursting with bright, winsome illustrations, is a fresh take on the timeless themes of friendship and second chances.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Animals (Birds)", "Animals", "Fiction", "Love", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4271492-the-robot-and-the-bluebird"}, +{"book_title": "Out of the Silent Planet", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 78248, "review_number": 4027, "book_description": "In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the 'silent planet' \u2013 Earth \u2013 whose tragic story is known throughout the universe...", "year_published": 1938, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Christian", "Christian Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Religion", "Religion (Christianity)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25350.Out_of_the_Silent_Planet"}, +{"book_title": "Resistance", "author_name": "Owen Sheers", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1727, "review_number": 294, "book_description": "Imbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the Welsh border territories and a portrait of a community under siege.1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, a German counterattack lands on British soil. Within a month, half of Britain is occupied. The seat of British government has fled to Worcester, Churchill to Canada. A network of British resistance cells is all that is left to defy the German army.Against this backdrop, Resistance opens with Sarah Lewis, a twenty-six-year-old farmer's wife, waking to find her husband, Tom, has disappeared. She is not alone, as all the other women in the Welsh border valley of Olchon wake to find their husbands gone. With this sudden and unexplained absence, the women regroup as an isolated, all-female community and wait, hoping for news.Later, a German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of their mission a mystery. When a severe winter forces the two groups together, a fragile mutual dependency develops. Sarah begins a faltering acquaintance with the patrol\u2019s commanding officer, Albrecht Wolfram, and it is to her that he reveals the purpose of the patrol. But as the pressure of the war beyond presses in on this isolated community, this fragile state of harmony is increasingly threatened. Imbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the Welsh border territories and a portrait of a community under siege, Resistance is a first novel of grace and power.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War (World War II)", "War", "Historical", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/945882.Resistance"}, +{"book_title": "Perfect Prince", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2297, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "The four Qurilixian Princes have no problem with commitment. In one night, using the power they were born with, they will meet and choose their life mate in a simplistic ceremony involving the removing of masks and the crushing of crystals. With very few words spoken and the shortest, most bizarre courtship in history, they will bond to their women forever. And once bonded, these men don't let go.... A Perfect Escape. Nadja Aleksander has everything she could ever want in life, except her freedom. Skipping out on her engagement, to a man her controlling father has chosen for her, Nadja books passage on the first spaceship she can find. Bound for a planet of primitive humanoid males, Nadja plans on finding a simple, hard working man who will allow her to live out her days in total obscurity. A Perfect Mistake. Prince Olek of Draig, royal ambassador, is pleased with his refined and blushing bride. When she chooses him to be her life mate, appearing happy in her decision, his heart soars-until the next morning when his new little Princess wants nothing to do with him. Olek doesn't know what he's done to upset his alluring bride, but he is determined to reignite the spark that burned the night they met. Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22067388-perfect-prince"}, +{"book_title": "The Summer Isles", "author_name": "Ian R. MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 285, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History: A pastel-hued yet chilling alternate vision of England, The Summer Isles views the nightmare that the country has become since Germany\u2019s victory in the Great War, through the eyes of a man whose life lies close to the heart of historyIn 1918 the Allies were defeated. A closeted gay teacher, Griffin Brooke has witnessed the monumental changes his nation has undergone since being crushed by Germany\u2019s superior fighting forces twenty-two years earlier. First came the financial collapse and crippling inflation, then the fascist uprising in the thirties that brought John Arthur to power. Now, in 1940, England has resurrected itself\u2014but at a terrible cost. With homosexuality decreed a serious crime against the state by the dictator who was once his most avid student, Griffin has remained silent while England\u2019s gay population has mysteriously dwindled . . . along with the nation\u2019s Jews. But in the twilight of his years, elevated to the role of tutor in an Oxford college, Griffin is getting anxious. Thinking back on a life lived in shadow\u2014and on his one great love affair with a young soldier during the height of the Great War\u2014Griffin knows that revealing a secret he has guarded for decades could have devastating consequences for Britain, the world, and especially for the fascist tyrant Arthur, who cites his former teacher as a mentor and major influence.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Literary Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/440328.The_Summer_Isles"}, +{"book_title": "Alien General's Bride", "author_name": "Vi Voxley", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 892, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "Nothing could have prepared her for the general... This is a 100 k full scifi romance novel featuring a BBW human heroine and a growly alpha male Brion warrior general. It can and should be read as a standalone and has a guaranteed HEA ending! Isolde Fenner had big dreams, but surprisingly enough, the universe was even bigger. Curvy and confident, she set out on her first intergalactic mission as a scientist from Earth, studying alien species. But she didn't even get to step foot on her shuttle when everything was turned upside down. The most powerful man in the universe wanted her. Her. And despite knowing better, she wanted him too. No one says no to the general. But she can't let him know that. Diego Grothan is undefeated. Body, mind, soul - there is no one stronger than the Brion general, one of the most feared men in the universe. But even he finds himself on the brink of destruction when a human woman calls to him like nothing else. She is his. She simply doesn't know it yet. Not only is it unthinkable to want a human, but it might just be the push his enemies need to come for him. But Diego Grothan is prepared. Always. Thrust into intrigue, war and hunted by enemies hiding behind veils, Diego must prove himself not only to his new bride, but the galaxy at large. It is no easy feat, but he is, after all, undefeated... Will Isolde give into the mouthwateringly hot and equally as ferocious alien general or will fate make the decision for her?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Business (Amazon)", "Space", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28012494-alien-general-s-bride"}, +{"book_title": "Time Windows", "author_name": "Kathryn Reiss", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1436, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "When Miranda moves with her family to a new house in a small Massachusetts town, she discovers a mysterious antique--a dollhouse. Through the windows, she is shocked to find what seem to be living people in the tiny rooms, and gradually she realizes that scenes from the lives of the big house\u2019s past inhabitants are being replayed there.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Horror", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/589428.Time_Windows"}, +{"book_title": "William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope", "author_name": "Ian Doescher", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 17841, "review_number": 2317, "book_description": "MAY THE VERSE BE WITH YOU!Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas's epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare's greatest plays. 'Tis a tale told by fretful Droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearsome Stormtroopers, signifying... pretty much everything.Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter, William Shakespeare's Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you're looking for.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Plays", "Fantasy", "Drama", "Poetry", "Audiobook", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262540-william-shakespeare-s-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf Star", "author_name": "R.M. Meluch", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 591, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "The U.S. Merrimack was the finest battleship in Earth's fleet, able to withstand the best the Palatine Empire could throw at them. Only her sister ship, the Monitor, was her equal. So when the Palatine forces secretly captured Monitor, Merrimack's security was compromised-and that was just the opening salvo of a whole new stage of war between Palatine and Earth.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293415.Wolf_Star"}, +{"book_title": "2012: The War For Souls", "author_name": "Whitley Strieber", "rating_score": 2.97, "rating_votes": 1450, "review_number": 223, "book_description": "December 21, 2012, may be one of the most watched dates in history. Every 26,000 years, Earth lines up with the exact center of our galaxy. At 11:11 on December 21, 2012, this event happens again, and the ancient Maya calculated that it would mark the end, not only of this age, but of human consciousness as we know it.\u00a0But what will actually happen? The end of the world? A new age for mankind? Nothing? The last time this happened, Cro-Magnon man suddenly began creating great art in the caves of southern France, which to this day remains one of the most inexplicable changes in human history.\u00a0Now Whitley Strieber explores 2012 in a towering work of fiction that will astound readers with its truly new insights and a riveting roller-coaster ride\u00a0of a story.\u00a0A mysterious alien presence unexpectedly bursts out of sacred sites all over the world and begins to\u00a0rip human souls from\u00a0their bodies, plunging the world into chaos it has never before known.\u00a0Courage meets cowardice, loyalty meets betrayal as an entire world struggles to survive this incredible end-all\u00a0war. Heroes emerge, villains reveal themselves, and in the end something completely new and unexpected happens that at once lifts the fictional characters into a new life, and sounds a haunting real-world warning for the future.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437420.2012"}, +{"book_title": "Pines", "author_name": "Blake Crouch", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 96210, "review_number": 7716, "book_description": "Wayward Pines, Idaho, is quintessential small-town America--or so it seems. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in search of two missing federal agents, yet soon is facing much more than he bargained for. After a violent accident lands him in the hospital, Ethan comes to with no ID and no cell phone. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but sometimes feels...off. As days pass, Ethan's investigation into his colleagues' disappearance turns up more questions than answersWHY CAN'T HE MAKE CONTACT WITH HIS FAMILY IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD? WHY DOESN'T ANYONE BELIEVE HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS? AND WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE ELECTRIFIED FENCES ENCIRCLING THE TOWN? ARE THEY KEEPING THE RESIDENTS IN? OR SOMETHING ELSE OUT?Each step toward the truth takes Ethan further from the world he knows, until he must face a horrifying fact\u2014he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.....", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Thriller", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Suspense", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15096164-pines"}, +{"book_title": "Anomaly", "author_name": "Peter Cawdron", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 3073, "review_number": 274, "book_description": "Anomaly examines the prospect of an alien intelligence discovering life on Earth. The technological gulf between humanity and the alien species is measured in terms of millions of years. The only way to communicate is using science, but not everyone is so patient. Humanity's first contact with an alien intelligence is far more radical than anyone has ever dared imagine. With a technological gap of millions of years, mankind is barely able to recognize the arrival of an alien space craft outside the gates of the United Nations in New York. Thank you for supporting independent writing.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12972560-anomaly"}, +{"book_title": "Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4782, "review_number": 332, "book_description": "When Molly gets kicked out of the Naval Academy, she loses more than just another home, she loses the only two things that truly matter: flying in space and her training partner, Cole. A dull future seems to await, until a marvelous discovery changes everything. Her father's old starship, missing for a decade, turns up halfway across the galaxy. Its retrieval launches Molly and Cole on the adventure of a lifetime, one that will have lasting consequences for themselves and billions of others. What starts off as a simple quest to reconnect with her past, ends up forging a new future. And the forgotten family she hoped to uncover becomes one she never foresaw: a band of alien misfits and runaways-the crew of the starship Parsona.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828998-molly-fyde-and-the-parsona-rescue"}, +{"book_title": "Bay's Mercenary", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 3451, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "Du jour au lendemain, Bay est pass\u00e9e du statut de prisonni\u00e8re humaine maltrait\u00e9e \u00e0 celui d'animal de compagnie exotique pour extraterrestre. Les guerriers mercenaires zargonnii ne ressemblent \u00e0 aucun des \u00eatres qu'elle conna\u00eet. Qu'attendent-ils de sa part ? Le monde d\u00e9routant dans lequel Bay est emmen\u00e9e se r\u00e9v\u00e8le fascinant, effrayant et radicalement diff\u00e9rent de la Terre. C'est la premi\u00e8re fois que les m\u00e2les zargonnii voient une femme si petite et si vuln\u00e9rable. Leurs femelles sont immenses, agressives et dominatrices ; et les deux sexes vivent s\u00e9par\u00e9ment pour des raisons de s\u00e9curit\u00e9. Zane se retrouve responsable d'un petit animal femelle, \u00e9trange et tout lisse, qui lui vient de la plan\u00e8te Terre. Dans son monde, les femelles sont tout sauf vuln\u00e9rables. Celle-ci est unique et, aussi \u00e9trange que cela puisse para\u00eetre, elle r\u00e9veille en lui des envies d'accouplement. Zane est mortifi\u00e9, mais il finit par d\u00e9couvrir que la petite cr\u00e9ature est en fait dou\u00e9e d'intelligence, et qu'elle garde le secret sur sa v\u00e9ritable identit\u00e9. Zane doit faire appel \u00e0 toute sa force pour ma\u00eetriser les tentations auxquelles sa pr\u00e9sence le soumet, jusqu'\u00e0 finir par perdre totalement le contr\u00f4le.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18042870-bay-s-mercenary"}, +{"book_title": "The Short Victorious War", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 21297, "review_number": 463, "book_description": "The proles are revolting.The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble. The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent.But the ruling class knows what they need to keep in power; another short, victorious war to unite the people and fill the treasury once more. It's a card they've played often in the last half-century, always successfully, and all that stands in their way is the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its threadbare allies.Only this time the Peeps face something different. This time they're up against Captain Honor Harrington and a Royal Manticoran Navy that's prepared to give them a war that's far from short...and anything but victorious.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77736.The_Short_Victorious_War"}, +{"book_title": "The Immortal Highlander", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 34635, "review_number": 1261, "book_description": "BEWARE:LETHALLY SEDUCTIVE ALPHA MALE OF IMMENSE STRENGTH AND DARK EROTICISM. DO NOT LOOK AT HIM. DO NOT TOUCH HIM. DO NOT BE TEMPTED. DO NOT BE SEDUCED....With his long, black hair and dark, mesmerising eyes, Adam Black is Trouble with a capital T. Immortal, arrogant, and intensly sensual, he is free to roam across time and continents in pursuit of his insatiable desires. That is, until a curse strips him of his immortality and makes him invisible, a cruel fate for so irresistible a man. Now Adam's only hope for survival is in the hands of the one woman who can actually see him.Enter law student Gabrielle O'Callaghan. For Gabrielle, cursed with the ability to see both worlds, Mortal and Faery, it is the beginning of a long, dangerous seduction. But as Adam's quest to regain his immortality plunges them into a world of timeless magic, the price of surrender could be their very lives. Unless they can thwart the cosnpiracy that threatens both Mortal and Faery realms...and give them a shot at a destiny few mortals ever know: glorious, wondrous, endless love...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fairies (Fae)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112752.The_Immortal_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "The Wolf Road", "author_name": "Beth Lewis", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 6299, "review_number": 1029, "book_description": "Elka barely remembers a time before she knew Trapper. She was just seven years old, wandering lost and hungry in the wilderness, when the solitary hunter took her in. In the years since then, he's taught her how to survive in this desolate land where civilization has been destroyed and men are at the mercy of the elements and each other.But the man Elka thought she knew has been harboring a terrible secret. He's a killer. A monster. And now that Elka knows the truth, she may be his next victim.Armed with nothing but her knife and the hard lessons Trapper's drilled into her, Elka flees into the frozen north in search of her real parents. But judging by the trail of blood dogging her footsteps, she hasn't left Trapper behind--and he won't be letting his little girl go without a fight. If she's going to survive, Elka will have to turn and confront not just him, but the truth about the dark road she's been set on.The Wolf Road is an intimate cat-and-mouse tale of revenge and redemption, played out against a vast, unforgiving landscape--told by an indomitable young heroine fighting to escape her past and rejoin humanity.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32912923-the-wolf-road"}, +{"book_title": "The Midnight Sun", "author_name": "Tim C. Taylor", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 288, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "War has come to the worlds of Humans. The rich planet of Tau-Rietzke, however, is far from Earth and the Mercenary Guild\u2019s invasion, and its alien-registered mercenary companies are a safe haven for Humans on the run. Organizations like the Midnight Sun Free Company. Having just completed another successful mission and taken possession of three Raknars, it was party time for Saisho Branco and the personnel of the Midnight Sun, and they were enjoying a little down time\u2026until the war spilled over into their corner of the galaxy and two competing mercenary organizations showed up to steal the Raknars. But no one takes the company owner\u2019s toys, and Gloriana has given the Midnight Sun a new mission\u2014return the Raknars to her at all cost\u2026or don\u2019t return at all. This is the hardest mission the Midnight Sun has ever taken, and it will test not only the military prowess of the company, but also its members\u2019 loyalties as well. When everyone is against you, and your race calls you to war, do you heed the call or continue to trust your shadowy employer? Outnumbered and outgunned, the Midnight Sun must decide whether to fight or to give up the Raknars and save their lives. Little do they know, it\u2019s a decision which will impact the war being fought hundreds of light years away!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39942471-the-midnight-sun"}, +{"book_title": "Steel Storm", "author_name": "Casey Calouette", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 128, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "A routine sentry mission discovers a human colony where only bones remain, and the hostiles are nowhere to be found. Days later a fusion bomb devastates the defending forces on the desert planet Squire. Hordes of the insectoid Kadan flood the planet with the technology of the ancient Emflife. They advance to crush the human lines but stop just short of victory. Colonel Cole Clarke and his battalion of convicts must discover what the Kadan are really doing. Their untested armor is the only thing that can stand up to the Emflife tanks, and that\u2019s if they\u2019re lucky. They\u2019re outgunned, outmatched, and stretched thin. If they fail, the alien invasion won\u2019t stop until they\u2019ve burned their way into the heart of human space. Terra. Sent on an impossible mission with no support, the 19th ACR strikes out alone. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25696506-steel-storm"}, +{"book_title": "The Door to Time", "author_name": "Pierdomenico Baccalario", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 4773, "review_number": 392, "book_description": "Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia have just moved from London to an old mansion on the English coast. Their new home is filled with twisting tunnels and strange artifacts from around the world, and the twins can't wait to discover all its secrets. Before long, Jason, Julia, and their friend Rick stumble upon a mysterious-looking door hidden behind an old wardrobe. But none of the keys in the house will open it. What lies behind the door? And why has someone tried to conceal it? Jason, Julia, and Rick are determined to find out, no matter what it takes....", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23300.The_Door_to_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa's Twin", "author_name": "Dean Koontz", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 517, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Dean Koontz kicks the holidayseason into high gear with a wildly inventive and wickedly funny sequel to his perennial Christmas bestseller Santa's Twin. The Claus family's bad seed, Bob, is back and dishing out a second helping of holiday havoc and headaches for his twin brother, Santa. Exactly a year has passed since Bob kidnapped Santa and visited Charlotte and Emily in his stead, bearing gifts of mud pies, cat poop, and broccoli. After his defeat at the hands of the two brave sisters, Bob has worked hard to redeem himself in Santa's eyes. Unfortunately Bob's spare time has been spent secretly building a robot Santa Claus. Super Santa One was designed to help Santa halve his delivery time, but Bob has left a screw loose on his creation (several screws, actually), and this Christmas Eve, a badly malfunctioning robot Santa Claus is coming to town.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Holiday (Christmas)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Horror", "Holiday", "Fiction", "Poetry", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32440.Robot_Santa"}, +{"book_title": "The Matrix: The Shooting Script", "author_name": "Lana Wachowski", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1113, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Includes detailed scene notes by Paul Oosterhouse, assistant to the Wachowskis throughout the making of the movie.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Media Tie In", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Culture (Film)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Romance", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424779.The_Matrix"}, +{"book_title": "When the Devil Dances", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 5932, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "After five years of battling invaders, human civilization prepares a strike to drive the aliens from the Earth. But the Clan-Lord of the Sten has learned from the defeats humans have dealt him, and has his own plan. When he squares off against Major O'Neal, the only winner will be Satan himself.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/558004.When_the_Devil_Dances"}, +{"book_title": "The Edinburgh Dead", "author_name": "Brian Ruckley", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 624, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "Edinburgh: 1828In the starkly-lit operating theaters of the city, grisly experiments are being carried out on corpses in the name of medical science. But elsewhere, there are those experimenting with more sinister forces.Amongst the crowded, sprawling tenements of the labyrinthine Old Town, a body is found, its neck torn to pieces. Charged with investigating the murder is Adam Quire, Officer of the newly- formed Edinburgh Police. The trail will lead him into the deepest reaches of the city's criminal underclass, and to the highest echelons of the filthy rich.Soon Quire will discover that a darkness is crawling through this city of enlightenment -- and no one is safe from its corruption.The Edinburgh Dead is a powerful fusion of gothic horror, history, and the fantastical.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Mystery (Crime)", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9737151-the-edinburgh-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 6325, "review_number": 615, "book_description": "The life of a spinster in Victorian London isn't an easy one on the bestof days, but such a life becomes infinitely more complicated when saidspinster is \"soulless\" - a preternatural bridging the gap between thenatural and supernatural worlds. Miss Alexia Tarabotti has this uniquedistinction, and when she is assailed at a formal gathering by a rovevampire, an encounter that results in the death of the half-starvedcreature, her circumstances become exponentially more complicatedindeed! Now caught up in an intrigue with life or death stakes, Alexiamust rely on all her talents to outmatch the forces conspiring againsther, but it may be the man who has caught her eye - Lord Conall Maccon -and their budding flirtation that truly drives her to her wit's end!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12033364-soulless"}, +{"book_title": "Soumission", "author_name": "Michel Houellebecq", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 32744, "review_number": 3034, "book_description": "Dans une France assez proche de la n\u00f4tre, un homme s\u2019engage dans la carri\u00e8re universitaire. Peu motiv\u00e9 par l\u2019enseignement, il s\u2019attend \u00e0 une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, prot\u00e9g\u00e9e des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissur\u00e9 le syst\u00e8me politique jusqu\u2019\u00e0 provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie r\u00e9volution, se d\u00e9veloppe comme un mauvais r\u00eave.Le talent de l\u2019auteur, sa force visionnaire nous entra\u00eenent sur un terrain ambigu et glissant ; son regard sur notre civilisation vieillissante fait coexister dans ce roman les intuitions po\u00e9tiques, les effets comiques, une m\u00e9lancolie fataliste.Ce livre est une saisissante fable politique et morale.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Cultural (France)", "Novels", "Contemporary", "Politics", "Literature", "European Literature (French Literature)", "Religion", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Religion (Islam)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23929479-soumission"}, +{"book_title": "The Pride of Chanur", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 6368, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/ captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, until his escape onto the hani ship The Pride of Chanur. Little did he know when he threw himself upon the mercy of The Pride and her crew that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. For the information this fugitive held could be the ruin or glory of any of the species at Meetpoint Station. Cover art by Michael Whelan ", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Animals (Cats)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1197129.The_Pride_of_Chanur"}, +{"book_title": "A.S.H.E.R", "author_name": "Kallysten", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 297, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Dear Author,Tell me about a day in the life of this sexbot. Maybe it\u2019s the day he\u2019s first been unpacked and settled into his new home! Maybe it\u2019s sometime after he\u2019s settled into a routine. And what IS that routine, anyway? Is he privately owned? Is he on staff at a sexy high-tech brothel? Has he become self-aware enough to run away from the sexy high-tech brothel and follow his heart circuits in search of a better life and someone who can love a synthetic man?Photo Description: A human-like robot, apparently naked, lies on a bed of packing peanuts. He has just been unboxed, and waits for his new owner\u2019s first orders.This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's \"Love Has No Boundaries\" event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "M M Romance (M M Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18213487-a-s-h-e-r"}, +{"book_title": "Man-Kzin Wars 3", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1418, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "IT'S HOWLING TIME IN KNOWN SPACEThose war-crazed fur-balls from the planet Kzin just won't give up, even though the canny pseudo-pacifists from Planet Earth cut through the Kzinti like a laser through catmeat (once the humans rediscovered old technologies and old instincts that never quite bred out). The ferocious Kzinti never seemed to be able to come up with a more complicated strategy than \"Scream and Leap.\"But after three hard-fought wars, a few of the powerful pussycats have learned from their foes. Now, they are ready, and all that stands between freedom and a feline-filled universe is the human race. Good luck, monkey-boys.Cover illustration: Steven Hickman", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378694.Man_Kzin_Wars_3"}, +{"book_title": "Vicious", "author_name": "V.E. Schwab", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 114238, "review_number": 18087, "book_description": "A masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers.Victor and Eli started out as college roommates\u2014brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find\u2014aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge\u2014but who will be left alive at the end?In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Adult Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40874032-vicious"}, +{"book_title": "Super Sons/Dynomutt Special (2018) #1", "author_name": "Peter J. Tomasi", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 40, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "It\u2019s no fun for Jon Kent to be visiting Big City with his parents for the\u00a0 funeral of an old friend. So his best pal Damian Wayne decides to follow along and give him the inside scoop on the city. But when they go to meet Robin\u2019s local friend, Dynomutt, they find him injured and in need of help. And Dynomutt\u2019s human superhero companion, Blue Falcon, has seemingly turned evil. What\u2019s the reason for this betrayal between once-loyal companions, and what role might the evil Red Vulture play in this scenario?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Dc Comics (Superman)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40238882-super-sons-dynomutt-special-2018-1"}, +{"book_title": "Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era", "author_name": "James Barrat", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2916, "review_number": 375, "book_description": "In as little as a decade, artificial intelligence could match, then surpass human intelligence. Corporations & government agencies around the world are pouring billions into achieving AI\u2019s Holy Grail\u2014human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful & more alien than we can imagine. Thru profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs & groundbreaking AI systems, James Barrat's\u00a0Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? Will they allow us to?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Philosophy", "Science (Computer Science)", "Futurism", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Sociology", "Business"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286699-our-final-invention"}, +{"book_title": "TekWar", "author_name": "William Shatner", "rating_score": 3.15, "rating_votes": 1540, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "TekWar is the story of ex-cop Jake Cardigan, who's framed for dealing an addictive brain stimulant called Tek and sentenced to fifteen years of suspended animation. Now, mysteriously released after four years in the \"Freezer,\" Cardigan is on the loose...and out for justice.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Media Tie In (Star Trek)", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1692479.TekWar"}, +{"book_title": "Nemesis", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 15303, "review_number": 515, "book_description": "In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies.\u00a0\u00a0One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth:\u00a0\u00a0a star named Nemesis.\u00a0\u00a0Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's people--but she is prevented from warning them.\u00a0\u00a0Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well.\u00a0\u00a0And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star--they hurtle toward certain disaster.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302625.Nemesis"}, +{"book_title": "Old Media", "author_name": "Annalee Newitz", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 224, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "The story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love while they watch old anime from the 21st century.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43782464-old-media"}, +{"book_title": "Veil of Midnight", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 31303, "review_number": 971, "book_description": "Bound by blood, addicted to danger, they'll enter the darkest\u2014and most erotic\u2014place of all.A warrior trained in bullets and blades, Renata cannot be bested by any man\u2014vampire or mortal. But her most powerful weapon is her extraordinary psychic ability\u2014a gift both rare and deadly. Now a stranger threatens her hard-won independence\u2014a golden-haired vampire who lures her into a realm of darkness\u2026and pleasure beyond imagining. A combat-loving adrenaline junkie, Nikolai dispenses his own justice to enemies of the Breed\u2014and his latest quarry is a ruthless assassin. One woman stands in his way: the seductive, cool-as-ice bodyguard, Renata. But Renata\u2019s powers are put to the test when a loved one, a child, is threatened and she\u2019s forced to turn to Niko for help. As the two join forces, as desire fans the flames of a deeper hunger, Renata\u2019s life is under siege by a man who offers the exquisite pleasure of a blood bond\u2014and a passion that could save or doom them both forever.\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3373198-veil-of-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Sunstorm", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 4888, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "\"Sunstorm\" \u00e8 il riuscitissimo seguito de \"L'occhio del tempo\", del leggendario autore di fantascienza Arthur C. Clarke e di uno dei suoi piu capaci eredi, Stephen Baxter. Dopo cinque anni passati su Mir, il pianeta costruito dalla misteriosa razza dei Primogeniti con migliaia di schegge temporali prelevate dalla Terra, Bisesa Dutt si ritrova improvvisamente nel suo appartamento di Londra.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35815.Sunstorm"}, +{"book_title": "An Ocean of Minutes", "author_name": "Thea Lim", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 4906, "review_number": 901, "book_description": "Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simple, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC, this follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him\u2014even if it means risking everything. When she finds out there\u2019s a company that has invented time travel, she agrees to a radical contract: if she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer, the company will pay for the life-saving treatment Frank needs. Polly promises to meet Frank again in Galveston, Texas, where she will arrive in twelve years. But when Polly is re-routed an extra five years into the future, Frank is nowhere to be found. Alone in a transformed and divided America, with no status and no money, Polly must navigate a new life and find a way to locate Frank, to determine if he is alive, and if their love has endured.An Ocean of Minutes is a gorgeous and heartbreaking story that paints an intimate portrait of endurance and complexity of human relationships and the cost of holding onto the past\u2014and the price of letting it go.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Cultural (Canada)", "Adult Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42202089-an-ocean-of-minutes"}, +{"book_title": "Sovereign", "author_name": "April Daniels", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2074, "review_number": 374, "book_description": "Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Protecting a city the size of New Port is a team-sized job and she\u2019s doing it alone. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and it\u2019s only going to get worse. When she crosses a newly discovered billionaire supervillain, Dreadnought comes under attack from all quarters. From her troubled family life to her disintegrating friendship with Calamity, there\u2019s no lever too cruel for this villain to use against her. She might be hard to kill, but there\u2019s more than one way to destroy a hero. Before the war is over, Dreadnought will be forced to confront parts of herself she never wanted to acknowledge. And behind it all, an old enemy waits in the wings, ready to unleash a plot that will scar the world forever.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "LGBT", "Young Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "LGBT (Transgender)", "Contemporary", "GLBT (Lesbian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32565582-sovereign"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire III: Chapter One - The Exterminators", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 106, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Twenty years ago, Siy Tarkov set off from planet Velyshaa, making his way back to the Galactic Union, carrying vital information about a deadly race known as the Daleks. But now, he's lost in deep space... Meanwhile, the Graxis Wardens have a new recruit. But their ecological paradise is about to be plunged into chaos.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/503314.Dalek_Empire_III"}, +{"book_title": "The Magic Half", "author_name": "Annie Barrows", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 3892, "review_number": 441, "book_description": "Miri is the only single child in the middle of a family with two sets of twins--older brothers and younger sisters. When the family moves to an old farmhouse Miri accidentally travels back in time to 1935 only to discover Molly, a girl in need of a real family to call her own. A very satisfying classic-in-the-making, with spine-tingling moments, this is a delightful family-friendly middle grade time-slip novel.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1851166.The_Magic_Half"}, +{"book_title": "Spellbound Falls", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 2428, "review_number": 206, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman takes us to charming Spellbound Falls, where strange things have started happening ever since Maximilian Oceanus came to town\u2026\u00a0Maximilian Oceanus arrives in Spellbound Falls just in time to save Olivia Baldwin from an overly aggressive suitor, only to find himself attracted to the beautiful, if rather aloof, widow. And although Mac has come to Inglenook to get a handle on fatherhood, his newly discovered six-year-old son has set his sights on finding his father a wife.\u00a0Olivia, however, is busy getting Inglenook ready for its new season, so she doesn\u2019t have time to deal with her growing attraction to the dangerously seductive Mac. Besides, weird stuff seems to happen all around him. Take the fact that her seatbelt keeps getting stuck in his presence, or locks magically open for him without keys, and that he seems to have a talent for sensing things. Never mind the three lost albatrosses walking down the road in the middle of the night. Since when are there albatrosses in Maine?\u00a0But despite Olivia\u2019s resistance to falling under the sexy man\u2019s spell, Olivia is having trouble fighting her longing. Because she knows Mac is just the man to unlock the powerful passion deep within her\u2026.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11692299-spellbound-falls"}, +{"book_title": "Black Magic", "author_name": "Masamune Shirow", "rating_score": 3.13, "rating_votes": 240, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "It`s a time in the future -- a time where the creation of life itself has evolved to include biodroids named after the ancient Greeks and cyborg warriors programmed to destroy. The power struggle between the various synthetic life-forms and the humans could mean the end of all life. But there is one, named Typhon, who may be able to prevent that. This collection is the first-ever-published work of the genius behind Ghost in the Shell -- Masamune Shirow.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634161.Black_Magic"}, +{"book_title": "A Trace of Copper", "author_name": "Anne Renwick", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 225, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "A small Welsh village. An interrupted romance. A rogue frog on the loose threatening their future.New recruit to the Queen's agents, Dr. Piyali Mukherji is given a simple first assignment. Travel to the small Welsh village of Aberwyn and solve the mystery of a young woman's blue skin lesion. A challenging task, for the alarming infection is unlike anything she's seen before\u2014and it's spreading.\u00a0Evan Tredegar, the town's pharmacist and the only man to ever capture her heart, knows more than he's telling. Despite his efforts to push her away, her touch reawakens old desires. As more villagers fall victim to the strange disease, he'll have no choice but to reveal his secrets, even if it means sacrificing his freedom.\u00a0Together they must move past broken promises, capture a rogue frog, and stop the infection before it spreads out of control.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Historical", "Steampunk Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34927255-a-trace-of-copper"}, +{"book_title": "Kozav", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2001, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "Kozav found his mate and then he lost her. Now it\u2019s time to hunt\u2026 Grace Hall is a nurse, not a doctor. But when five Preor warriors are brought to the emergency room and the doctors don\u2019t do a darn thing for them, she steps forward. Sure, they are aliens with massive wings who turn into dragons whenever they wish, but they still look human-ish. One particular warrior draws her more than the others. His teal wings, muscular body, and pain-glazed eyes have her bouncing between two desires\u2014needing his touch and desperation to heal him. When she\u2019s filled with the knowledge to treat the males, Grace gets to work. She\u2019s going to save the Preor males, even if it kills her. When she loses consciousness after healing them, she realizes it just might. Kozav sen Aghin, Primary Warrior of the Preor Third Fleet, wakes weaker than a hatchling on the Preor battleship. He\u2019s fully healed yet plagued by a feeling that something is wrong. And something is\u2026 Kozav found his mate on Earth and she was left behind\u2014alone and unprotected. Unacceptable. Kozav still carries the guilt for his actions during the great conflict and he is determined not to fail so greatly again. The curvaceous, green-eyed, dark haired human female is his to protect, his to claim and his to keep. When danger intrudes and someone attempts to take Grace from his life, Kozav is prepared to do whatever it takes to bring Grace back to his side. Even if it means killing one of his own. Or will it be Kozav with a sword through his chest? For Grace\u2019s sake, he hopes not. Part of the \"DRAGONS OF PREOR\" series: Jarek Taulan Kozav Rendan *coming soon*", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30324800-kozav"}, +{"book_title": "Skyward", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 73702, "review_number": 10542, "book_description": "Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible\u2014assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36642458-skyward"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon Pearl", "author_name": "Yoon Ha Lee", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 6544, "review_number": 1446, "book_description": "THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD MIN comes from a long line of fox spirits. But you'd never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min\u2019s mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must appear human at all times. Min feels hemmed in by the household rules and resents the endless chores, the cousins who crowd her, and the aunties who judge her. She would like nothing more than to escape Jinju, her neglected, dust-ridden, and impoverished planet. She\u2019s counting the days until she can follow her older brother, Jun, into the Space Forces and see more of the Thousand Worlds.When word arrives that Jun is suspected of leaving his post to go in search of the Dragon Pearl, Min knows that something is wrong. Jun would never desert his battle cruiser, even for a mystical object rumored to have tremendous power. She decides to run away to find him and clear his name.Min\u2019s quest will have her meeting gamblers, pirates, and vengeful ghosts. It will involve deception, lies, and sabotage. She will be forced to use more fox-magic than ever before, and to rely on all of her cleverness and bravery. The outcome may not be what she had hoped, but it has the potential to exceed her wildest dreams.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34966859-dragon-pearl"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Lord", "author_name": "Thomas Harlan", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 124, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Tom Harlan brings his Oath of Empire series to a shattering conclusion in The Dark Lord. In what would be the 7th Century AD in our history, the Roman Empire still stands, supported by the twin pillars of the Legions and Thaumaturges of Rome. The Emperor of the West, the Augustus Galen Atreus, came to the aid of the Emperor of the East, the Avtokrator Heraclius, in his war with the Sassanad Emperor of Persia. But despite early victories, that war has not gone well, and now Rome is hard-pressed. Constantinople has fallen before the dark sorceries of the Lord Dahak and his legions of the living and dead. Now the new Emperor of Persia marches on Egypt, and if he takes that ancient nation, Rome will be starved and defeated.But there is a faint glimmer of hope. The Emperor Galen's brother Maxian is a great sorcerer, perhaps the equal of Dahak, lord of the seven serpents. He is now firmly allied with his Imperial brother and Rome. And though they are caught tight in the Dark Lord's net of sorcery, Queen Zoe of Palmyra and Lord Mohammed have not relinquished their souls to evil.Powerful, complex, engrossing --Thomas Harlan\u2019s Oath of Empire series has taken fantasy readers by storm. The first three volumes, The Shadow of Ararat, The Gate of Fire, and The Storm of Heaven have been universally praised, and the author was nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer of 1999 and 2000.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Literature (Ancient)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367411.The_Dark_Lord"}, +{"book_title": "One Trick Pony", "author_name": "Nathan Hale", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1683, "review_number": 327, "book_description": "The aliens have arrived. And they\u2019re hungry for electricity. In the Earth of the future, humans are on the run from an alien force \u2014 giant blobs who suck up electrical devices wherever they can find them. Strata and her family are part of a caravan of digital rescuers, hoping to keep the memory of civilization alive by saving electronics wherever they can. Many humans have reverted to a pre-electrical age, and others have taken advantage of the invasion to become dangerous bandits and outlaws. When Strata is separated from the caravan, she must rely on a particularly beautiful and rare robot pony to escape the outlaws and aliens \u2014 and defeat the invaders once and for all.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30652105-one-trick-pony"}, +{"book_title": "Chasing the Dragon", "author_name": "Justina Robson", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 850, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Lila Black returns in the fourth volume of high-octane, high-magic, high-tech adventures.Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals and their worlds are open to us. Things have been different for Special Agent Lila Black too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, rebuilt by humans into a half-robot, part-AI, nuclear-fueled walking arsenal, married to a demon and in love with a recently-deceased elf. It was confusing enough before she was catapulted fifty years into her own future.Returning to the life of a guns-blazing secret agent, Lila finds herself having inherited all of her former boss's old offices and whatever mysteries they contain, as the elf has done a runner some fifty years previously. Appointed head of the new android division, she can see all too clearly what lies in store for her if the growth of the alien technologies in her cyborg body continue unchecked.But there are more immediate concerns. Like resurrecting her lover, Zal. And her husband, the demon Teazle, is embroiled in a fatal plot in Demonia, and her magic sword is making itself happy as a pen whose writing has the power to affect other worlds. The world is off its rocker and most everyone is terrified of faeries.And all the while, she hears the voices of the machine material projections of an immaterial form, The Signal. The Signal talks constantly if only she knew what it meant.Chasing the Dragon is bright, fast moving and accessible SF that mixes in fantasy and a cool cult-lit sensibility to create a series that will appeal to all fans of Laurrell K. Hamilton and Peter Hamilton alike.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6234689-chasing-the-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Drakas", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 460, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "THINK ABOUT HISTORY. NOW MAKE IT WORSE...The Domination of the Draka begins as a British possession in Africa, but soon becomes far more. Absorbing refugees after the American Revolution, and later the Civil War, the Draka become a people bred to rule with an iron fist. They permanently enslave the peoples of Africa, when they do not simply kill them.But this does not slake the Draka thirst for power. Sweeping across the world, the Draka empire engulfs nation after nation, shackling into servitude all who are not Draka. Europe, Asia, and finally all the Earth and its colonies throughout the Solar System fall before the might of the Draka.But empires are not faceless monoliths; they are made of individuals, complex humans with their own hopes and dreams. And so one might ask: Who are the Draka? What sort of people does the Domination rule? The Draka would have many different answers......and this is their story.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/801963.Drakas_"}, +{"book_title": "The Robot King", "author_name": "Brian Selznick", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 249, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "\"Ezra, a mute since his mother's death, compulsively collects small things that older sister Lucy uses to craft mechanical toys. When she assembles a man-sized figure and inserts their mother's music box as a heart, it comes to life\u2014and what a life! Readers will respond to this...haunting, enigmatic tale of two lonely children who create something wonderful.\"\u2014K.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545435.The_Robot_King"}, +{"book_title": "What the Wind Knows", "author_name": "Amy Harmon", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 63221, "review_number": 5997, "book_description": "Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather\u2019s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time.The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. Mistaken for the boy\u2019s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman\u2019s disappearance is connected to her own.As tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland\u2019s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him. Caught between history and her heart, she must decide whether she\u2019s willing to let go of the life she knew for a love she never thought she\u2019d find. But in the end, is the choice actually hers to make?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (Ireland)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40407141-what-the-wind-knows"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette, Volume 3", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 160, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 3 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.Stories include:* Pastor Kastenmayer's Revenge by Virginia DeMarce* The Sound of Music by David Carrico* Other People's Money by Gorg Huff* If the Demons Will Sleep by Eva Musch* Hobson's Choice by Francis Turner* Hell Fighters by Wood Hughes* Euterpe, Episode 2 by Enrico M. Toro* Iron by Rick Boatright* The Impact of Mechanization on German Farms by Karen Bergstralh* Firearms in the 1632 Universe by Leonard Hollar, Bob Hollingsworth, Tom Van Natta, and John Zeek* Alchemical Distillation by Andrew Clark", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Anthologies", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12139889-grantville-gazette-volume-3"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Recollections", "author_name": "Chris Philbrook", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1565, "review_number": 224, "book_description": "For the first time, the internet phenomenon is now in print!Beheading a zombie isn't easy in a world where you're more afraid of the living than the dead.Adrian Ring's simple life is thrown into chaos when the world is ripped apart by a plague of undead and legions of desperate survivors. Retreating to Auburn Lake Preparatory Academy, Adrian attempts to rescue friends and family on the way while dancing around his impending insanity over who and what he left behind, and evading maniac survivors. He saves his cat Otis, but shoots his mom. Pretty successful, all things considered.Dark Recollections is the first part of Adrian's own story of how he survived after \"That Day.\" Told through his eyes as he talks to his laptop, affectionately named 'Mr. Journal,\" and through short stories that entwine with his tales that bring forth dark visions of a world being eaten alive by an unimaginable evil. Adrian's Undead Diary is an eight part epic about a solitary, guilt stricken man that didn't think he deserved to live, but realizes very soon that he survived, and suffered for a reason.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18713527-dark-recollections"}, +{"book_title": "Halo: Ghosts of Onyx", "author_name": "Eric S. Nylund", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 11038, "review_number": 351, "book_description": "Continuing the saga of the award-winning Xbox(TM) game!The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. But just how many Spartans are left?While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultrasecret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as \"Section Three\" devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. They're going to need hundreds of willing soldiers, though . . . and one more Spartan to get the job done.The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, and fleets of UNSC and Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human-Covenant War.But this reawakened and ancient force may have plans of its own . . .This novel is based on a mature-rated game.Microsoft, the Microsoft Game Studios Logo, Bungie, the Bungie Logo, Halo, the Halo logo, Xbox, and the Xbox logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries and are used under license from owner.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Sports and Games (Games)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94798.Halo"}, +{"book_title": "Knife Edge", "author_name": "Malorie Blackman", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 18278, "review_number": 727, "book_description": "WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . .Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered . . .Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses sequence.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300044.Knife_Edge"}, +{"book_title": "Famine Planet", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 16, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "As President Enza gears up for her third election run, forces beyond her control are conspiring to bring Askelon down once and for all. Five years ago the crisis was oil\u2014this year it\u2019s food. A grassroots revolution on the farm planet of Agricor threatens the food supply of the entire Trimary System, as well as sixteen worlds beyond the nebula. If the rebels seize control of Agricor, literally billions of people could starve. Once again, Enza is forced to rely on Askelon\u2019s military power, even though half her citizens oppose her. Carlene Vargas, now working for the Askelon Intelligence Agency, is sent straight into the lion\u2019s den, penetrating the heart of the revolution in the hope of subverting it. As she suspects, Jorge Sorres is funding the rebellion, but it\u2019s even more complicated than that\u2014one of the worlds beyond the nebula, Eroak, sees the revolution as an opportunity for expansion, and if Eroak gets control of Agricor they will have the entire system by the throat. Back on Askelon, Cpl. Tyler Unruh trains for his third combat mission, which promises to be hotter than anything he\u2019s ever experienced before. But he isn\u2019t alone\u2014Terra Lafirma, the Guerrilla Girl, has joined the Army and will be fighting by his side. Together they face not only hostile forces on Agricor, but a personal crisis that could rip their love apart. If you enjoyed Starport and Guerrilla Girl, you don\u2019t want to miss the third and most critical entry in the Starport series. The fate of the Trimary hangs on the outcome. Rated \"R\" 105,000 words. Roughly equivalent to 394 pages in a mass market paperback. ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24827257-famine-planet"}, +{"book_title": "Prophecy", "author_name": "Lea Kirk", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 359, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "A nightmare of galactic proportions... One normal day turns into horror when Earth is attacked. Now ER nurse Alexandra Bock is imprisoned aboard an alien slave ship with no way out. She deems all aliens untrustworthy, including the handsome blue-skinned Matiran captain who shares her cell. A betrayal from within... One night of treachery leaves Senior Captain Gryf Helyg a prisoner of his enemies. Because of him, Earth\u2019s inhabitants face extinction and his home world is threatened. But his plans for escape are complicated by his inexplicable draw to the Earth woman imprisoned with him. A chance to save both their peoples... One ancient prophecy holds the key to free Alexandra and Gryf\u2019s war-ravaged worlds. Can two wounded souls who have lost everything learn to trust and forgive in order to fulfill the prophecy, and find a love that will last for eternity?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27391666-prophecy"}, +{"book_title": "Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.55, "rating_votes": 7913, "review_number": 422, "book_description": "The Supa Buddies convene to deal with some new villains in the fifth Dog Man book from worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey.When a fresh bunch of baddies bust up the town, Dog Man is called into action -- and this time he isn't alone. With a cute kitten and a remarkable robot by his side, our heroes must save the day by joining forces with an unlikely ally: Petey, the World's Most Evil Cat. But can the villainous Petey avoid vengeance and venture into virtue?Dav Pilkey's wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes, including empathy, kindness, persistence, and the importance of being true to one's self.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Animals", "Animals (Dogs)", "Animals (Cats)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37702990-dog-man"}, +{"book_title": "The Children's War", "author_name": "J.N. Stroyar", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 253, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Peter has had more identities than he can remember and suffered pains and humiliations he longs to forget. But, whether spy or prisoner, slave or propaganda tool, none of his roles has brought the one thing he wants above all: freedom. THE CHILDREN'S WAR Bad papers. That's how Peter's nightmare began. Living in contemporary Europe under Nazi domination -- more than fifty years after the truce among the North American Union, the Third Reich, and the Soviet Union -- Peter has struggled to make sense of the reign of terror that governs his world. Now, arrested for bearing a false identity, he is pulled full-force into a battle against Nazi oppression. The crusade for freedom that belonged to generations past is now Peter's legacy -- and his future depends not on running away, but on fighting back. Escaping a Nazi prison camp and joining the Underground Home Army, Peter dedicates himself to breaking down the system that betrayed him. But by facing the evil at the heart of the Nazi political machine, Peter falls deeper into a web of intrigue and adventure that risks everything he holds dear -- in this life and for the sake of future generations. A disturbingly real vision of what could have been, The Children's War is a page-turning epic thriller with a mesmerizing premise and an unforgettable cast of characters. J.N. Stroyar's searingly authentic, impassioned vision of human triumph over the forces of corruption and cruelty stands as a powerful tribute to the millions who have sacrificed and died in the name of freedom.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/247952.The_Children_s_War"}, +{"book_title": "The Man Who Folded Himself", "author_name": "David Gerrold", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 4765, "review_number": 624, "book_description": "This classic work of science fiction is widely considered to be the ultimate time-travel novel. When Daniel Eakins inherits a time machine, he soon realizes that he has enormous power to shape the course of history. He can foil terrorists, prevent assassinations, or just make some fast money at the racetrack. And if he doesn't like the results of the change, he can simply go back in time and talk himself out of making it! But Dan soon finds that there are limits to his powers and forces beyond his control.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "LGBT", "Classics", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624122.The_Man_Who_Folded_Himself"}, +{"book_title": "True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1014, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "Once in a great while a science fiction story is so visionary, yet so close to impending scientific developments that it becomes not only an accurate predictor, but itself the locus for new discoveries and development. True Names by Vernor Vinge, first published in 1981, is such a work.Here is a feast of articles by computer scientists and journalists on the cutting edge of the field, writing about innovations and developments of the Internet, including, among others:Danny Hillis: Founder of thinking machines and the first Disney Fellow.Timothy C. May: former chief scientist at Intel--a major insider in the field of computers and technology.Marvin Minsky: Cofounder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer: Codevelopers of habitat, the first real computer interactive environment.Mark Pesce: Cocreator of VRML and the author of the Playful World: How Technology Transforms Our Imagination.Richard M. Stallman: Research affiliate with MIT; the founder of the Free Software Movement.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Writing (Essays)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167846.True_Names"}, +{"book_title": "Edge of Dawn", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 12020, "review_number": 1120, "book_description": "In this pulse-pounding and thrillingly sensual novel, New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian returns to the mesmerizing world of the Midnight Breed, following new characters into a dark future where an uneasy peace can unravel into war\u2014and a great betrayal can mask an all-consuming love. \u00a0 Twenty years after the terror of First Dawn\u2014when mankind learned that vampires lived secretly among them\u2014the threat of violence reigns as the two species struggle to coexist. The only group preserving the fragile harmony is the Order, an elite cadre of Breed warriors dedicated to protecting humans and vampires alike. And in this precarious world of torn loyalties and shattered trust, Mira, a fiery squad captain, finds that every fight bears an intensely personal cost. \u00a0 Raised among the Order, Mira has always believed in the warrior\u2019s code of swift\u2014and even lethal\u2014justice. But the one thing she desires more than the Order\u2019s hard-won acceptance is Kellan Archer, a sexy but troubled Breed fighter. In love with him since childhood, Mira once broke through his tough exterior during an unexpected night of rapture, but the next day he mysteriously disappeared, never to return. \u00a0 Kellan didn\u2019t think he would ever see Mira again\u2014or have to confront the truth of why he left. After abandoning the Order years ago, he now leads a band of human rebels intent on carrying out their own vigilante rule of law. Yet a high-profile kidnapping assignment brings him face-to-face with the past he sought to avoid, and the striking woman he has tried desperately to forget. And as tensions mount and the risk of bloodshed grows, Kellan and Mira must take sides\u2014between the competing missions that dominate their lives, and the electrifying passion that claims their hearts.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13170607-edge-of-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Void Star", "author_name": "Zachary Mason", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1925, "review_number": 331, "book_description": "A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortalityNot far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it\u2019s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn\u2019t rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs, which are complex to the point of opacity. It\u2019s a good gig, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging.Kern has no such access; he\u2019s one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city\u2019s periphery, where he lives like a monk, training relentlessly in martial arts, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely\u2014the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan, he\u2019s fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead.A ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop\u2019s screen in her employer\u2019s eyeglasses. None are safe as they\u2019re pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight.Vivid, tumultuous, and propulsive, Void Star is Zachary Mason\u2019s mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939057-void-star"}, +{"book_title": "Dinosaur Planet", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 3481, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "THE MISSIONThe Exploratory and Evaluation Corps of the Federated Sentient Planets had sent ARCT-10, with its mixed crew of shipbred and planet-bound technicians, to Ireta to catalogue fauna and flora and search for new energy sources. It was a simple mission. A standard crew.THE PROBLEMKai and his beautiful co-leader Varian, the best xenob-vet in the business, followed all the standard procedures -- but the results of their investigations were totally unexpected. Not only were the planet's creatures larger than anyone had anticipated and the geological finds smaller, but the rescue ship had inexplicably disappeared.THE NIGHTMAREThen suddenly on a world of giant swamp creatures and deadly predators, a curious change had come over many of the members of the ARCT-10 crew... a change that would lead all of them, in one way or another, into the primitive darkness of a future world.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/987217.Dinosaur_Planet"}, +{"book_title": "The Door Into Summer", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 23188, "review_number": 1145, "book_description": "It is 1970, and electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and even greedier fianc\u00e9e steal his work and leave him penniless, and trick him into taking the long sleep\u2014suspended animation for thirty years.", "year_published": 1957, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/348.The_Door_Into_Summer"}, +{"book_title": "His Clockwork Canary", "author_name": "Beth Ciotta", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 310, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "For ambitious engineer Simon Darcy, winning Queen Victoria\u2019s competition to recover lost inventions of historical significance is a matter of pride\u2014and redemption. After all, it was Simon\u2019s failed monorail project that left his family destitute, and winning the tournament would surely restore the Darcys\u2019 reputation. Simon sets his sights high, targeting no less than the infamous time-travel device that forever changed the world by transporting scientists, engineers, and artists from the twentieth century. The Mod technology was banned and supposedly destroyed, but Simon is sure he can re-create it. His daring plan draws the attention of Willie G., the Clockwork Canary, London\u2019s sensationalist reporter. Simon soon discovers that Willie is a male guise for Wilhemina Goodenough, the love of his youth, who left him jilted and bitter. He questions her motives even as he falls prey to her unique charm. As the attraction between the two reignites, Simon realizes that this vixen from his past has secrets that could be the key to his future\u2026as long as he can put their history behind him.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical (Victorian)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15812190-his-clockwork-canary"}, +{"book_title": "Orphan's Alliance", "author_name": "Robert Buettner", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1089, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "From Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author Ken MacLeod, an action-packed space opera told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I. revolution.\n\nIn deep space, ruthless corporations vie for control of scattered mining colonies, and war is an ever-present threat.Led by Seba, a newly sentient mining reboot, an AI revolution grows. Fighting them is Carlos, a grunt who is reincarnated over and over again to keep the \"freeboots\" in check. But he's not sure whether he's on the right side.Against a backdrop of interstellar drone combat Carlos and Seba must either find a way to rise above the games their masters are playing or die. And even dying might not be the end of it. The Corporation WarsThe Corporation Wars: Dissidence The Corporation Wars: InsurgenceThe Corporation Wars: Emergence", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "War", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3746066-orphan-s-alliance"}, +{"book_title": "London Calling", "author_name": "Edward Bloor", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1392, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "In the summer after 7th grade Martin meets a boy in a dream who will change his life forever. Where did this boy come from? Is he a dream? But how can his dreams be set in London during the Blitz? How can he wake up with a head full of people and facts and events that he certainly didn't know when he went to sleep--but which turn out to be verifiably real? Recommended for ages 11-15.Martin Conway comes from a family filled with heroes and disgraces. His grandfather was a statesman who worked at the US Embassy in London during WWII. His father is an alcoholic who left his family. His sister is an overachieving Ivy League graduate. And Martin? Martin is stuck in between--floundering.But during the summer after 7th grade, Martin meets a boy who will change his life forever. Jimmy Harker appears one night with a deceptively simple question: Will you help? Where did this boy come from, with his strange accent and urgent request? Is he a dream? It's the most vivid dream Martin's ever had. And he meets Jimmy again and again--but how can his dreams be set in London during the Blitz? How can he see his own grandather, standing outside the Embassy? How can he wake up with a head full of people and facts and events that he certainly didn't know when he went to sleep--but which turn out to be verifiably real?The people and the scenes Martin witnesses have a profound effect on him. They become almost more real to him than his waking companions. And he begins to believe that maybe he can help Jimmy. Or maybe that he must help Jimmy, precisely because all logic and reason argue against it.This is a truly remarkable and deeply affecting novel about fathers and sons, heroes and scapegoats. About finding a way to live with faith and honor and integrity. And about having an answer to the question: What did you do to help?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "War (World War II)", "War", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203710.London_Calling"}, +{"book_title": "Mission: Guardian Angel", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1853, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "Ever since her friend Vivian mated a Veslor, Abby Thomas has been curious about the mysterious aliens. She also has a vested interest in making sure their newfound relationship with United Earth is a success, prompting her to take a job on a military vessel to ensure the Veslor grouping stationed there are treated fairly. It doesn\u2019t hurt that they\u2019re easy to look at. When one Veslor in particular catches her attention, she hopes he\u2019s nothing like the humans she\u2019s dated, who were only interested in her bank balance and connections. Drak and his Veslor grouping quietly endured unfair treatment aboard Defcon Red\u2026until a beautiful spitfire spoke up on their behalf, earning herself nemeses among the ship\u2019s fleet. When those foes try to silence Abby, Drak makes it his mission to protect her. The harrowing experience quickly bringing them so close, Drak is determined to make Abby his mate\u2026if her enemies don\u2019t ruin his chance, permanently.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50716424-mission"}, +{"book_title": "Boots for the Gentleman", "author_name": "Augusta Li", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 127, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "2nd Edition Steamcraft and Sorcery: Book One Hired by a mysterious faerie gentleman to steal seemingly worthless artifacts, Querrilous Knotte is seen as a traitor by the humans of Halcyon. But as long as he\u2019s getting paid, Querry doesn\u2019t mind. When his client makes a cryptic comment about a certain house, Querry contacts his old flame Reg\u2014a former street rat who now works in the Royal Archives\u2014to learn if the property contains anything of value. Though Reg has no answers for him, Querry learns there is indeed something precious in the house, something Reg is convinced will bring nothing but trouble. The armed guards that attack the thief prove Reg\u2019s prediction true, and he can\u2019t leave Querry to face it all alone. Not when Reg\u2019s feelings for the man may not be as extinct as he'd thought. The trouble is, Querry's heart doesn\u2019t just belong to Reg anymore, and surprisingly, Reg\u2019s heart no longer belongs only to Querry. In the end, it may not even matter, because if Querry, Reg, and their hearts\u2019 desire can\u2019t stop Lord Thimbleroy from draining Halcyon\u2019s magic, they won\u2019t live long enough to regret their unresolved romance. 1st Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, August 2011", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Menage (M M M)", "Historical", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25089827-boots-for-the-gentleman"}, +{"book_title": "TFS Navajo", "author_name": "Tori L. Harris", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1064, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Only a few short months after Humanity\u2019s first interstellar flights, the first shots have been fired in what will eventually become known as the Alliance Wars. Terran Fleet Command teeters on the edge of chaos in the aftermath of Chairwoman Crull\u2019s removal from power, while in space, Earth\u2019s defense falls squarely on the shoulders of Admiral Kevin Patterson. With only a small number of ships capable of bringing the fight to the enemy, he makes the bold decision to divide his forces, meeting the Resistance task force head-on at two separate locations. Captain Tom Prescott and crew aboard the destroyer Theseus meet with initial success on the battlefield, only to be faced with the arrival of a warship completely out of her class \u2013 armed with weapons for which she is not prepared. As the Resistance task force makes its final approach to Earth, a new ally warns of the horrors that will be visited on our homeworld if the coming attack succeeds. In the meantime, the enigmatic Guardian watches and waits, noncommittal as to its role as a protector or a mere observer. Yet hope remains \u2013 as a friend of Humanity finally comes to grips with his destiny.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32323554-tfs-navajo"}, +{"book_title": "A Deadly Education", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 27155, "review_number": 5484, "book_description": "Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly.A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) \u2014 until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets. There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won\u2019t allow its students to leave until they graduate\u2026 or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don\u2019t walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere. El is uniquely prepared for the school\u2019s dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50548197-a-deadly-education"}, +{"book_title": "Storm Assault", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2722, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Kyle Riggs has been away from Earth for a long time\u2026but that\u2019s about to change.In STORM ASSAULT, the eighth book of the Star Force Series, the story moves in a new direction. Massive fleets are built by both Star Force and the Imperials\u2014but there is a third player in the game: the Blues. A three-way battle for the known star systems breaks out, with the fates of many worlds and species hanging in the balance. Riggs realizes he must destroy his enemies before they destroy him. Seeking justice and revenge, he gathers his strength and ventures out on a mission of conquest from the Eden System. Humanity must fight to survive, and Riggs is the right man for the job.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17446528-storm-assault"}, +{"book_title": "The Positronic Man", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 5826, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Powerful and haunting, The Positronic Man is an unforgettable novel that redefines Isaac Asimov's and Robert Silverberg's place among the greatest science fiction authors of all time.In the twenty-first century the creation of the positronic brain leads to the development of robot laborers and revolutionizes life on Earth. But to the Martin family, their household robot NDR-113 is more than a trusted friend, a confidant, a member of the family. For through some unknown manufacturing glitch, Andrew has been blessed with a capacity for love and a drive toward self-awareness and devlopment that are almost...human.But almost is not enough. Andrew's dream is to become fully human. Facing human prejudice, the laws of robotics, and his own mechanical limitations, Andrew will use science and law in his quest for the impossible, arriving at last at a terrifying choice: to make his dream a reality, he must pay the ultimate price.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Classics", "Literature (American)", "Science (Engineering)", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/651964.The_Positronic_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Reckoning", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 846, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "Jett is a girl disguised as a boy, living as a gambler in the old West as she searches for her long-lost brother. Honoria Gibbons is a smart, self-sufficient young woman who also happens to be a fabulous inventor. Both young women travel the prairie alone \u2013 until they are brought together by a zombie invasion! As Jett and Honoria investigate, they soon learn that these zombies aren\u2019t rising from the dead of their own accord \u2026 but who would want an undead army? And why?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Westerns", "Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12971670-dead-reckoning"}, +{"book_title": "Touch of Eon", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 1563, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "She\u2019ll do anything to free her sister and save the Earth from invasion, even if she\u2019s blackmailed into stealing sacred alien artifacts\u2026and becomes the prey of the dark, deadly warrior sent to hunt her down.Special Forces Space Marine Lara Traynor wants to save her sister and her planet from annihilation by the deadly insectoid Kantos. Earth\u2019s Space Corps give her one option: steal three gems sacred to the Eon Warriors. Lara has never failed a mission and she doesn\u2019t plan to start now. What she doesn\u2019t expect is the big, hard-bodied warrior the Eon sent to stop her. Security Commander Caze Vann-Jad was born and raised to be the best Eon warrior in the empire. Honed by the military academy, his years as a stealth agent, and by his hard warrior father, he has never failed. He knows one weak, inferior Terran is no match for him. But when he finds himself face to face with the tough, skilled Lara, he realizes he\u2019s underestimated the female warrior.When they are attacked by a Kantos kill squad, it soon becomes clear that the Kantos are planning something far darker and dangerous. Caze and Lara are forced to change their dangerous battle of wits and skill into a fierce battle for survival. Neither of these fighters believe in love, but on the trail of a stolen gem, they will ignite an unstoppable desire, and discover that not only are their lives at stake, but their hearts as well. Includes a preview of Galactic Gladiators #1, Gladiator.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "Space", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43495159-touch-of-eon"}, +{"book_title": "Gene Mapper", "author_name": "Taiyo Fujii", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 542, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "In a future where reality has been augmented and biology itself has been hacked, the world's food supply is genetically modified, superior, and vulnerable. When gene mapper Hayashida discovers that his custom rice plant has experienced a dysgenic collapse, he suspects sabotage. Hayashida travels Asia to find himself in Ho Chi Minh City with hired-gun hacker Kitamura at his side\u2014and in mortal danger\u2014as he pushes ever nearer to the heart of the mystery.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Asia)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492374-gene-mapper"}, +{"book_title": "Across Time", "author_name": "Elizabeth O'Roark", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 959, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "In a dangerous time before her own...a dangerous attraction.Amelie Besson is on the cusp of attaining the life she\u2019s dreamed of\u2014until she finds herself stuck in pre-war France, fifty years before her time. The country is about to be under German rule, but her most immediate problem is Henri Durand, the arrogant and infuriatingly handsome vineyard owner upon whom her survival depends. The fiercely protective Henri challenges everything Amelie holds true\u2014particularly her hatred of the gift that brought her there in the first place. As the bond between them grows, Amelie will begin to wonder if the life she\u2019s returning to is actually the one she wants, and if her connection to Henri might be strong enough to surmount any obstacle\u2026even time itself.*Across Time is Book One in the Across Time Series and ends in a cliffhanger. The second book will be out 4/1/20.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Adult", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52050918-across-time"}, +{"book_title": "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "author_name": "Brian Keene", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 3352, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke up to find the rest of the world gone. Just . . . gone. Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, plummeting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in - not light, not people, not even electricity, radio, TV, internet, food, or water. And nothing can get out. No one who dared to penetrate the mysterious barrier has ever been seen again. Only their screams were heard. But for some, the darkness is not the worst of their fears. Driven mad by thirst, hunger, and perpetual night, the residents of Walden are ready to explode. The last few sane prisoners of this small town must prepare a final stand against their neighbors, themselves, and something even worse . . . something out there . . . in the darkness . . .", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969107-darkness-on-the-edge-of-town"}, +{"book_title": "Dual Abduction", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2684, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "This is the third book in the Alien Abduction series.They both wanted her. The question was -- could they share her?Abducted by alien slavers, along with her group of teenage misfits, Louisa doesn\u2019t think her week can get any stranger until two big purple warriors arrive to the rescue -- and then fight over who gets to keep her. Not interested in a winner, she clobbers them, but when they regain consciousness, they\u2019re even more determined to claim her.Best friends, Brax and Xarn, share everything: loot, jobs, trouble -- until they come across a luscious human that stirs their possessive side. Their battle over who gets to keep her ends in a tie due to matching concussions, but what\u2019s a bruise or two when it comes to winning her as a mate. When she keeps denying them both, they put aside their rivalry to team up and claim the one they want.Each book in the Alien Abduction series can be read as a stand alone but for total reader enjoyment, it is recommended you read them in order.Book 1 - Accidental AbductionBook 2 - Intentional AbductionBook 3 - Dual AbductionBook 4 - Mercenary AbductionBook 5 - Heroic AbductionBook 6 - Holiday Abduction", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12754082-dual-abduction"}, +{"book_title": "Sarah's Journal", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 2485, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "Sarah's Journal taking place during 'I Am Number Four'.Journal: ( 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 )", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15800934-sarah-s-journal"}, +{"book_title": "The Court of the Air", "author_name": "Stephen Hunt", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 4016, "review_number": 616, "book_description": "When Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has just been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to return to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was in fact the real target of the attack. For Molly carries a secret deep in her blood, a secret that marks her out for destruction by enemies of the state. Soon Molly will find herself battling a grave threat to civilization which draws on an ancient power thought to have been quelled millennia ago.Oliver Brooks has led a sheltered life in the home of his merchant uncle. But when he is framed for his only relative's murder he is forced to flee for his life. He is accompanied by Harry Stave, an agent of the Court of the Air -- a shadowy organization independent of the government that acts as the final judiciary of the land, ensuring that order prevails.Chased across the country, Oliver finds himself in the company of thieves, outlaws and spies, and gradually learns more about the secret that has blighted his life, but which may also offer him the power to avert the coming catastrophe. Their enemies are ruthless and myriad, but Molly and Oliver are joined by indomitable friends in this endlessly inventive tale full of drama, intrigue and adventure.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Unfinished", "Novels", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837197.The_Court_of_the_Air"}, +{"book_title": "Tomorrow is Today", "author_name": "Julie Cross", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 928, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "\nThe year is 2009.\u00a0Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy\u2026 he\u2019s in college, throws lots of parties, is interested in a girl he can\u2019t have, and oh yeah, he can travel back through time.\nBut it\u2019s not like the movies \u2013 nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there\u2019s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors \u2013 it\u2019s just harmless fun.\n", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12872699-tomorrow-is-today"}, +{"book_title": "Crossover", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2401, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design \u2014 more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life. Her chosen world is Callay, and its enormous, decadent capital metropolis of Tanusha, where the concerns of the war are literally and figuratively so many light years away. But the war between the League and the Federation was ideological as much as political, with much of that ideological dispute regarding the very existence of artificial sentience and the rules that govern its creation. Cassandra discovers that even in Tanusha, the powerful entities of this bloody conflict have wound their tentacles. Many in the League and the Federation have cause to want her dead, and Cassandra\u2019s history, inevitably, catches up with her. Cassandra finds herself at the mercy of a society whose values preclude her own right even to exist. But her presence in Tanusha reveals other fault lines, and when Federal agents attempt to assassinate the Callayan president, she finds herself thrust into the service of her former enemies, using her lethal skills to attempt to protect her former enemies from forces beyond their ability to control. As she struggles for her place and survival in a new world, Cassandra must forge new friendships with old enemies, while attempting to confront the most disturbing and deadly realities of her own existence", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378724.Crossover"}, +{"book_title": "The Simpsons Forever!: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Continued", "author_name": "Matt Groening", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 754, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Picking up where The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to our Favorite Family left off, The Simpsons Forever! brings all the history, tidbits, and cold hard facts on every episode from the past two years, and much, much more. Fans will find the highlights of all the shows from seasons nine and ten, plus eyeball\u2013busting two\u2013page spreads for special episodes (like the annual Halloween show). Heavily packed into these pages are updated favourites like Best Homerisms, Famous Chalkboard Sayings, All\u2013New Simpsons Singalong Lyrics, Couch Gags, and classic screen images. And, yes \u2013 it's all cross\u2013referenced! The ultimate celebration of America's Favorite \u2013 and longest running \u2013 cartoon family, The Simpsons Forever! is a must!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Humor", "Nonfiction", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Reference", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Culture (Pop Culture)", "Sequential Art (Cartoon)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96786.The_Simpsons_Forever_"}, +{"book_title": "The Ruins of Gorlan", "author_name": "John Flanagan", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 129211, "review_number": 7784, "book_description": "They have always scared him in the past \u2014 the Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old Will, always small for his age, has been chosen as a Ranger's apprentice. What he doesn't yet realize is that the Rangers are the protectors of the kingdom. Highly trained in the skills of battle and surveillance, they fight the battles before the battles reach the people. And as Will is about to learn, there is a large battle brewing. The exiled Morgarath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is gathering his forces for an attack on the kingdom. This time, he will not be denied....", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60400.The_Ruins_of_Gorlan"}, +{"book_title": "Pirate Cinema", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 5515, "review_number": 785, "book_description": "Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net. In near-future Britain, this is more illegal than ever. The punishment for being caught three times is to cut off your entire household from the internet for a year - no work, school, health or money benefits.Trent thinks he is too clever for that to happen, but it does, and nearly destroys his family. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where slowly he learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. He joins artists and activists fighting a new bill that will jail too many, especially minors, at one stroke. Jem introduces him to the Jammie Dodgers, beautiful brilliant \"26\" to love and cemetery parties.Things look bad. Parliament is in power of a few wealthy media conglomerates. But the powers-that-be haven\u2019t entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people\u2019s minds ...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Politics", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13539171-pirate-cinema"}, +{"book_title": "The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time", "author_name": "Barry N. Malzberg", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 149, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Fourteen classic time travel stories, selected by award-winning author Barry N. Malzberg. Features \"The Battle of Long Island\" by Nancy Kress, \"The Man Who Came Early\" by Poul Anderson, \"A Little Something for Us Tempunauts\" by Philip K. Dick, \"3 RMS GD VIEW\" by Karen Haber, \"Hawksbill Station\" by Robert Silverberg, and \"Time-Tipping\" by Jack M. Dann.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1017536.The_Best_Time_Travel_Stories_of_All_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Raising Stony Mayhall", "author_name": "Daryl Gregory", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3527, "review_number": 500, "book_description": "In 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman\u2019s arms is a baby, stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda \u2014 and he begins to move.The family hides the child \u2014 whom they name Stony \u2014 rather than turn him over to authorities that would destroy him. Against all scientific reason, the undead boy begins to grow. For years his adoptive mother and sisters manage to keep his existence a secret \u2014 until one terrifying night when Stony is forced to run and he learns that he is not the only living dead boy left in the world.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9466865-raising-stony-mayhall"}, +{"book_title": "The Chimera Code", "author_name": "Wayne Santos", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 53, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Neuromancer for a non-binary age: an action-packed techno-thriller with a side of magical realism.Everything\u2019s for hire \u2013 even magic. If you need something done, they\u2019re the best: a tough, resourceful mage, a lab-created genderless hacker and a cyborg with a big gun. But when they\u2019re hired by a virtual construct to destroy the other copies of himself, and the down payment is a new magical skill, Cloke knows this job is going to be a league harder than anything they\u2019ve ever done.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53328953-the-chimera-code"}, +{"book_title": "Wraith Squadron", "author_name": "Aaron Allston", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 9216, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "They are the galaxy\u2019s most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission\u2014as the crew of an Imperial warship.It is Wedge Antilles\u2019 boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-wing fighters, its pilots drawn from the dregs of other units, castoffs and rejects given one last chance. But before the new pilots can complete their training, the squadron\u2019s base is attacked by former Imperial Admiral Trigit, and Wraith Squadron is forced to swing into action\u2014taking over an Imperial warship and impersonating its crew. The mission: to gain vital intelligence about Trigit\u2019s secret weapons, to sabotage the admiral\u2019s plans, and to lure him into an Alliance trap. But the high-stakes gamble pits Wraith Squadron\u2019s ragtag renegades against the Empire\u2019s most brilliant master of guile and deception.Are they up to the challenge?If not, the penalty is instant death.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Space", "Novels", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/773545.Wraith_Squadron"}, +{"book_title": "Darkest Before Dawn", "author_name": "Amelia Hutchins", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3082, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "Hello Diary,Sorry, it\u2019s been a while since I have been able to write.As you know, my dad is a modern-day Noah, always working on building his ark, trying to save folks and getting my brother and I ready for the impending end of days \u2013 whatever that means.One thing I did learn (the hard way), is that going through an apocalyptic event doesn't mean the end of the world.There was nothing in his prepper manuals that could prepare us for what actually happened.I had nothing to prepare me for Jaeden and Lachlan. Heck, I don\u2019t know of any girl that would have been prepared for those two.There was nothing to prepare any of us for the things that go bump in the night, or the creatures who have been hiding in the background that emerged when civilization collapsed.No, an apocalyptic event is just a set-up for things in our world to be shaken AND stirred.What will come out of this mess, remains to be seen.I\u2019ll give more details soon, gotta go\u2026~Emma*Reader Advisory* This is a paranormal urban fantasy with strong themes of violence and sexual situations that are only suitable for readers over the age of 18. If you do not like dark romance, this is not the book for you. There are no zombies in this book. It is adult.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22379988-darkest-before-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Arkwright", "author_name": "Allen M. Steele", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 3027, "review_number": 443, "book_description": "Nathan Arkwright is a seminal author of the twentieth century. At the end of his life he becomes reclusive and cantankerous, refusing to appear before or interact with his legion of fans. Little did anyone know, Nathan was putting into motion his true, timeless legacy.Convinced that humanity cannot survive on Earth, his Arkwright Foundation dedicates itself to creating a colony on an Earth-like planet several light years distant. Fueled by Nathan's legacy, generations of Arkwrights are drawn together, and pulled apart, by the enormity of the task and weight of their name.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25659450-arkwright"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Romance", "author_name": "Ellen Leroe", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 4, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Pandemonium results when creative genius Bixby Wyler enrolls in SilCo High to learn all about computers.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3198001-robot-romance"}, +{"book_title": "Ambient", "author_name": "Jack Womack", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 532, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Set in a decaying and violent twenty-first-century New York, Ambient tells the story of O'Malley, a very special bodyguard for an outrageously ruthless CEO named Dryden, and of his attempts to woo Dryden's personal femme fatale, Avalon. But what begins as a simple case of unrequited love quickly turns into a complicated deathtrap involving corporate intrigue, murderous family rivalries, and perverse subcultures.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/524005.Ambient"}, +{"book_title": "The Man Who Watched the World End", "author_name": "Chris Dietzel", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 1006, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "The end of man was not signaled by marauding gangs or explosions, but with silence. People simply grew older knowing a younger generation would not be there to replace them. The final two residents in the neighborhood of Camelot, an old man and his invalid brother, are trapped in their house by forests full of cats and dogs battling with the bears and wolves to eat anything they can find. As the man struggles to survive, he recounts all the ways society changed as the human population continued to shrink. THE MAN WHO WATCHED THE WORLD END is the haunting account of a man who has witnessed the world fade away. It is also a story about the power of family.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17800628-the-man-who-watched-the-world-end"}, +{"book_title": "The Remedy", "author_name": "Suzanne Young", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 7115, "review_number": 803, "book_description": "This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00L01GH8C.Can one girl take on so many identities without losing her own? Find out in this riveting companion to The Program and the New York Times bestselling The Treatment.In a world before The Program\u2026Quinlan McKee is a closer. Since the age of seven, Quinn has held the responsibility of providing closure to grieving families with a special skill\u2014she can \u201cbecome\u201d anyone.Recommended by grief counselors, Quinn is hired by families to take on the short-term role of a deceased loved one between the ages of fifteen and twenty. She\u2019s not an exact copy, of course, but she wears their clothes and changes her hair, studies them through pictures and videos, and soon, Quinn can act like them, smell like them, and be them for all intents and purposes. But to do her job successfully, she can\u2019t get attached.Now seventeen, Quinn is deft at recreating herself, sometimes confusing her own past with those of the people she\u2019s portrayed. When she\u2019s given her longest assignment, playing the role of Catalina Barnes, Quinn begins to bond with the deceased girl\u2019s boyfriend. But that\u2019s only the beginning of the complications, especially when Quinn finds out the truth about Catalina\u2019s death. And the epidemic it could start.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Contemporary", "Health (Mental Health)", "Fantasy", "Death"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36353073-the-remedy"}, +{"book_title": "Grave Memory", "author_name": "Kalayna Price", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 17175, "review_number": 919, "book_description": "When the dead need to talk, Alex Craft is always ready to listen\u2026As a Grave Witch, Alex solves murders by raising the dead\u2014an ability that comes at a cost, and after her last few cases, that cost is compounding. But her magic isn\u2019t the only thing causing havoc in her life. While she\u2019s always been on friendly terms with Death himself, things have recently become a whole lot more close and personal. Then there\u2019s her sometime partner, agent Falin Andrews, who is under the glamour of the Winter Queen. To top everything off, her best friend has been forever changed by her time spent captive in Faerie.But the personal takes a backseat to the professional when a mysterious suicide occurs in Nekros City and Alex is hired to investigate. The shade she raises has no memory of the days leading up to his brutal ending, so despite the very public apparent suicide, this is murder. But what kind of magic can overcome the human will to survive? And why does the shade lack the memory of his death? Searching for the answer might mean Alex won\u2019t have a life to remember at all\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12620451-grave-memory"}, +{"book_title": "The Cassini Division", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2131, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Ellen May Ngewthu is a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around Jupiter, are the front line in humanity's long standoff with the unknowable post-humans godlike beings descended from the men and women who transformed themselves with high technology centuries ago.The post-humans' capacities are unknown . . . but we know they disintegrated Ganymede, we know they punched a wormhole into Jovian space, and we know that the very surface of the solar system's largest planet has been altered by them. Worse, we know that they have been bombarding the inner solar system with powerful data viruses for generations.Now Ellen has a plan to rid humanity of this threat once and for all. But she needs to convince others to mistrust the post-humans as much as she does. In the process, much will be revealed--about history, about power, and about what it is to be human.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space", "Politics", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567621.The_Cassini_Division"}, +{"book_title": "Light Music", "author_name": "Kathleen Ann Goonan", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 162, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Once the world worked differently -- before \"the Silence\" from space quieted the airwaves. Once there was a haven called Crescent City, built through the wonders of nanotechnology to transport its enlightened inhabitants into the cosmos. But humanity has failed the city.Dania Cooper, a brilliant scientist and resilient survivor, and Jason Peabody, a recipient of the DNA-altering virus affecting a remarkable few who were born at the Silence's onset, must now flee the sentient metropolis -- embarking on a bizarre odyssey across a perilous, unrecognizable landscape of tragically \"youngening\" children, of plague-ravaged humans in foreboding \"flower cities,\" of conscious machines and talking animals. For a world that is not as it was is on the brink of yet another astonishing transformation -- either by grand design or random cosmic accident.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1085956.Light_Music"}, +{"book_title": "Grim Tuesday", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 24748, "review_number": 536, "book_description": "The second incredible book in The Keys to the Kingdom, now in hardcover Arthur doesn't think he will ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed him on Monday -- the house that contains an entire world. But Tuesday brings new challenges -- in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday, who threatens the well-being of both Arthur's family and his world. Arthur must retrieve the Second Key from Grim Tuesday in order to save everything -- an adventure that will include stealing a Sunship, surviving a very weird work camp, befriending a bearlike spirit, fighting the voidlike Nithlings, and traveling to the scary Far Reaches for the ultimate showdown.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47620.Grim_Tuesday"}, +{"book_title": "Princess SOS", "author_name": "Sara Page", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1026, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "SOS... Is there anyone out there listening? Please help... If you're receiving this emergency distress signal, my name is Princess Ameia. My escape pod has crashed. I am marooned. I've encountered only one other intelligent life form. He's big, purple and I think he wants to eat me. He watches me and is preventing me from leaving the pod. All attempts to communicate with the hostile alien life form have met with failure. I'm running out of supplies. I'm dangerously low on food and water. I don't know how much longer I can go on like this. I need help. He's approaching the pod, it... SOS... Is there anyone out there listening? Please help...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26860391-princess-sos"}, +{"book_title": "The Lucky Strike", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 382, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, this astounding alternate history tale presents a dramatic encounter with destiny wrapped around a simple yet provocative premise: the terrifying question of what might have happened if the fateful flight over Hiroshima had gone a\u00a0bit differently. An extensive interview with the author, offering insight into his fiction and philosophies, is also included.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6661342-the-lucky-strike"}, +{"book_title": "For Those Who Fell", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 450, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "In a galaxy where alliances shift like sand, the Legion of the Damned is humanity's first line of defense-and often last hope-against its enemies. Now, the acclaimed author of For More Than Glory delivers a gripping new novel of the soldiers-both human and cyborg-who step up when the chips are down... When faster-than-light technology is discovered in the alien Ramanthians' possession, General William \"Bill\" Booly III and First Lieutenant Antonio Santana face an epic struggle-on two fronts-to save The Confederacy at any cost.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1406382.For_Those_Who_Fell"}, +{"book_title": "Motor Crush, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Brenden Fletcher", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2549, "review_number": 412, "book_description": "The team behind the critically-acclaimed revamp of Batgirl returns with an exciting sci-fi action-adventure series!By day, Domino Swift competes for fame & fortune in a worldwide motorcycle racing league. By night, she cracks heads of rival gangs in brutal bike wars to gain possession of a rare, valuable contraband: an engine-boosting \"machine narcotic\" known as Crush.Collecting: Motor Crush 1-5", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33566369-motor-crush-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Causal Angel", "author_name": "Hannu Rajaniemi", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 4720, "review_number": 346, "book_description": "With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterisation and his unrivalled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science Hannu Rajaniemi has swiftly set a new benchmark for SF in the 21st century. And now with his third novel he completes the tale of his gentleman rogue, the many lives and minds of Jean de Flambeur.Influenced as much by the fin de siecle novels of Maurice leBlanc as he is by the greats of SF Rajaniemi weaves, intricate, warm capers through dazzling science, extraordinary visions of wild future and deep conjecture on the nature of reality and story.And now we find out what will happen to Jean, his employer Mieli, the independently minded ship Perhonen and the rest of a fractured and diverse humanity flung through the solar system.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Singularity", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18190723-the-causal-angel"}, +{"book_title": "Johannes Cabal the Detective", "author_name": "Jonathan L. Howard", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 7743, "review_number": 655, "book_description": "Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue. In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the world. This time he\u2019s on the run from the local government. Stealing the identity of a minor bureaucrat, Cabal takes passage on the Princess Hortense, a passenger aeroship that is leaving the country. The deception seems perfect, and Cabal looks forward to a quiet trip and a clean escape, until he comes face-to-face with Leonie Barrow, an enemy from the old days who could blow his cover. But when a fellow passenger throws himself to his death, or at least that is how it appears, Cabal begins to investigate out of curiosity. His minor efforts result in a vicious attempt on his own\u00a0 life\u2014and then the gloves come off. Cabal and Leonie\u2014the only woman to ever match wits with him\u2014reluctantly team up to discover the murderer. Before they are done, there will be more narrow escapes, involving sword fighting and newfangled flying machines. There will be massive destruction, not to mention resurrected dead . . . Steampunk meets the classic Sherlockian mystery in this rip-roaring adventure where anything could happen . . . and does.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7675981-johannes-cabal-the-detective"}, +{"book_title": "This Is How You Lose the Time War", "author_name": "Amal El-Mohtar", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 42537, "review_number": 9232, "book_description": "Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war"}, +{"book_title": "Quantum Incident", "author_name": "Douglas Phillips", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 616, "review_number": 38, "book_description": " Prologue to the Quantum Series (1 Quantum Space, 2 Quantum Void and 3 Quantum Time)\u200b2012. The long sought Higgs boson has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Scientists rejoice in the confirmation of quantum theory, but a reporter attending the press conference believes they may be hiding something.\u200b\u200b\u200bNala Pasquier is a particle physicist at Fermi National Laboratory in Illinois. Building on the 2012 discovery, she has produced a working prototype with capabilities that are nothing less than astonishing.If you liked the authenticity of The Martian, the page-turning pace of Da Vinci Code, and the inspirational world view of Arthur C. Clarke, you'll love the Quantum Series. A mind-bending journey from the ultra-small to the vast stage of the Milky Way. Download from Amazon today! (Quantum Incident is also available at no charge from author website", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35424542-quantum-incident"}, +{"book_title": "Pieprzony Los Kataryniarza", "author_name": "Rafa\u0142 A. Ziemkiewicz", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 232, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Polska XXI wieku jest polem bezwzgl\u0119dnej rywalizacji mi\u0119dzynarodowych konsorcj\u00f3w finansowych i wys\u0142uguj\u0105cych si\u0119 im s\u0142u\u017cb specjalnych. Ze z\u0142em tego \u015bwiata walczy tym razem nie samotny, uczciwy policjant, ale operator sieci komputerowej specjalizuj\u0105cy si\u0119 w penetrowaniu tajemnic najbardziej sekretnych system\u00f3w - w profesjonalnym \u017cargonie zwany Kataryniarzem.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1831337.Pieprzony_Los_Kataryniarza"}, +{"book_title": "Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure", "author_name": "Greg Rucka", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 4098, "review_number": 501, "book_description": "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....It is a period of civil war. The heroic freedom fighters of the REBEL ALLIANCE have won their most important victory thus far with the destruction of the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR.But the Rebellion has no time to savor its victory. The evil Galactic Empire has recognized the threat the rebels pose, and is now searching the galaxy for any and all information that will lead to the final destruction of the freedom fighters.For the MILLENNIUM FALCON's crew, who saved the life of Luke Skywalker during the Battle of Yavin, their involvement with the rebels is at an end. Now HAN SOLO and CHEWBACCA hope to take their reward and settle some old debts....", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25067043-smuggler-s-run"}, +{"book_title": "Curiouser and Curiouser", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 801, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "To save the Hatter, Alice must work with the one man she despises so much that she might still love him. Alice thought she\u2019d turned over a new leaf. No more working for Jabberwocky. No more making deals with the ruthless Queen of Hearts. No more hanging around The Mushroom with tinkers, tarts, scoundrels, and thieves in London's criminal underbelly. But she\u2019d been bonkers to dream. Hatter\u2019s reckless behavior leads Alice back to the one person she never wanted to see again, Caterpillar. Pulled into Caterpillar's mad schemes, Alice must steal a very big diamond from a very royal lady. The heist is no problem for this Bandersnatch. But protecting her heart from the man she once loved? Impossible. Sometimes love is mad. See how NY Times bestselling author Melanie Karsak reimagines Lewis Carroll's classic fairy tale, Alice in Wonderland, with a steampunk twist! Join us at The Mushroom in gaslamp Victorian London. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35174857-curiouser-and-curiouser"}, +{"book_title": "The Versions of Us", "author_name": "Laura Barnett", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 18262, "review_number": 2373, "book_description": "What if you had said yes? The moments that change everything... One Day meets Sliding Doors in this outstanding debut that is causing a buzz across the publishing worldSome moments can change your life for ever. Have you ever wondered, what if...?A man is walking down a country lane. A woman, cycling towards him, swerves to avoid a dog. On that moment, their future hinges. There are three possible outcomes, three small decisions that could determine the rest of their life.Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge when their paths first cross in 1958. And then there is David, Eva's then-lover, an ambitious actor who loves Eva deeply. The Versions of Us follows the three different courses their lives could take following this first meeting. Lives filled with love, betrayal, ambition but through it all is a deep connection that endures whatever fate might throw at them.The Versions of Us explores the idea that there are moments when our lives might have turned out differently, the tiny factors or decisions that could determine our fate, and the precarious nature of the foundations upon which we build our lives. It is also a story about the nature of love and how it grows, changes and evolves as we go through the vagaries of life.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Adult Fiction", "Book Club", "Literary Fiction", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24480276-the-versions-of-us"}, +{"book_title": "Shanghai Sparrow", "author_name": "Gaie Sebold", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 171, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Shanghai Sparrow is a Far Eastern steampunk tale of espionage, distant empires and thrilling exploits, with a dynamic heroine.The British Empire is at war, both within and without.Eveline Duchen was once a country child, living a life of privilege, touched by the magic that still clings to the woods and fields of Victorian England. Now she is a street urchin in a London where brutal poverty and glittering new inventions exist side by side, living as a thief and con-artist under the wing of the formidable Ma Pether.Caught in an act of deception, Eveline is faced with Mr Holmforth, a gentleman in the service of Her Majesty\u2019s Government, who offers her a stark choice. Transportation, or an education \u2013 and utter commitment to Her Majesty\u2019s Service - at Madam Cairngrim\u2019s school for female spies. The school\u2019s regime is harsh. Eveline has already learned harder lessons. She plans to take advantage of everything they can teach her, then go her own way.But in the fury of the Opium Wars, the British Empire is about to make a devil\u2019s bargain. Eveline\u2019s choices will change the future of her world, and reveal the truth about the death of her sister Charlotte.Shanghai Sparrow is set in an alternative England and China. It contains Formidable Devices, Fay, Etheric Science, Espionage, Opium, Murder and Bartitsu and may not be suitable for those of a delicate disposition.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143949-shanghai-sparrow"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 1013, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "Science Fiction Superstar William Gibson's first graphic novel! The U.S. political leaders of 2016 abandon the radioactive planet they ve destroyed and harness the power of humanity s last hope: The Splitter, a colossal machine designed to manufacture a bright new reality for them to infiltrate and corrupt.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Thriller", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32686477-archangel"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 1", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 324, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "When Doc Ido, a talented cyber-physician, finds Alita's head in a junk heap, she has lost all memory of her past life. But when he reconstructs her, she discovers her body still instinctively remembers the Panzer Kunst, the most powerful cyborg fighting technique ever known. In the post-apocalyptic world of the Scrapyard, as the secrets of Alita's past unfold, each day is a struggle for survival. - Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 1 By Yukito Kishiro (Paperback)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Technology)", "Comics Manga", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797414-battle-angel-alita"}, +{"book_title": "Among the Free", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 15594, "review_number": 768, "book_description": "ENOUGH GAMES.Luke Garner is a third-born in a restrictive society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police laws. Now, in the final volume of Margaret Peterson Haddix's suspenseful Shadow Children series, Luke inadvertently sets off a rebellion that results in the overthrow of the government. The people are finally free. But who is in charge now? And will this new freedom be everything they had hoped", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303455.Among_the_Free"}, +{"book_title": "Fool", "author_name": "Christopher Moore", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 51481, "review_number": 3643, "book_description": "\"Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.\" --Dallas Morning NewsFool--the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore--is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare's King Lear...as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege's clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of \"gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,\" Fool joins Moore's own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore \"a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.\"", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3684856-fool"}, +{"book_title": "Blood is Red", "author_name": "Scott Sigler", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 994, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "A collection of eight horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of Infected, Contagious and Ancestor. This eBook-only title features seven tales from Scott's six years of free audiobook podcasts, including the Parsec Award-winning \"Red Man,\" plus the brand-new novella \"Hunter Hunterson & Sons.\"Scott still gives away his audio stories -- for free -- every week at scottsigler.com", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Folklore (Monsters)", "Mystery", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11335854-blood-is-red"}, +{"book_title": "Aces High", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 4842, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "It all began in 1946, when the bizarre, gene-altering Wild Cards virus was unleashed in the skies over New York City. A virus that created super-powered Aces and bizarre, disfigured Jokers. Now, thirty years later, the victims face a new nightmare.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67961.Aces_High"}, +{"book_title": "The Victorious Opposition", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2108, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Harry Turtledove\u2019s acclaimed alternate history series began with a single question: What if the South had won the Civil War? Now, seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. The North American continent is locked in a battle of politics, economies, and moralities. In a world that has already felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America is the powder keg that could ignite another global conflict\u2014complete with a new generation of killing machines.\u201cFreedom! Freedom! Freedom!\u201d In 1934, the chant echoes across the Confederate States of America, a country born of bloodshed and passion, stretching from Mexico to Virginia. But while people use the word to greet each other in the streets, the meaning of \u201cFreedom\u201d has become increasingly unclear.Jake Featherston, leader of the ruling Freedom Party, has won power\u2014and is taking his country and the world to the edge of an abyss. Charismatic, shrewd, and addicted to conflict, Featherston is whipping the Confederate States into a frenzy of hatred. Blacks are being rounded up and sent to prison camps, and the persecution has just begun. Featherston has forced the United States to give up its toeholds in Florida and Kentucky, and as the North stumbles through a succession of leaders, from Socialist Hosea Blackford to Herbert Hoover and now Al Smith, Featherston is feeling his might. With the U.S.A. locked in a bitter, bloody occupation of Canada, facing an intractable rebellion in Utah, and fatigued from a war in the Pacific against Japan, Featherston may pursue one dangerous proposition above all: that he can defeat the U.S.A. in an all-out war.The Victorious Opposition is a drama of leaders and followers, spies and traitors, lovers and soldiers. From California to Canada, from combat on the high seas to the secret meetings where former slaves plot a desperate strategy for survival, Harry Turtledove has created a human portrait of a world in upheaval. The third book in his monumental American Empire series, The Victorious Opposition is a novel of ideas, action, and surprise\u2014and an unforgettable re-imagining of history itself.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101519.The_Victorious_Opposition"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf Queen", "author_name": "Tanith Lee", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 4079, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Claidi is eager to reunite with her fianc\u00e9 Argul-but when she finally reaches his camp, she finds that someone has been spreading ugly lies about her, and Argul is nowhere to be found. Undaunted, Claidi sets out to search for him. Her quest brings her to the icy threshold of a tower, and within it she encounters another shadow from her past-a powerful woman Claidi believes is her mother. But the truth is far more complicated, and Claidi once again finds herself at the dark center of conspiracy and intrigue. Claidi's third journal will hold readers to the very last page.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81121.Wolf_Queen"}, +{"book_title": "Rise of the Corinari", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 4032, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "A time to recover\u2026A chance to make a new ally\u2026A brief respite to repair and rearm\u2026An opportunity for a people to regain their honor\u2026For every civilization there comes a moment when a stand must be made against tyranny.The time has come for the Alliance to draw a line in the sand.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16081718-rise-of-the-corinari"}, +{"book_title": "After the Ending", "author_name": "Lindsey Fairleigh", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 5117, "review_number": 686, "book_description": "The first book in the emotionally charged post-apocalyptic series, The Ending Series. They may have survived the apocalypse, but the Virus changed them... Grad student Dani O'Connor won't let a cross-country move end her closest friendship. But when a mysterious virus consumes the world and Dani, herself, falls violently ill, she fears she'll never see her loved ones again. After her fever finally breaks, she barely recognizes the devastated world around her. Everyone is dead. Dani is all alone. Or so she thinks... As a bartender, Zoe is used to dealing with hotheads and dirtbags, but nothing could have prepared her for the twisted thoughts of her fellow survivors. Her family is gone, and anyone left alive in the world is either sick, crazy, or changed...like her. As her newfound super senses gain strength, Zoe must learn to control them before she loses herself to madness completely. Perilous terrain spans the distance between them, and deranged survivors lurk in dark corners everywhere. Can Dani and Zoe overcome deadly attacks and unseen dangers in order to find each other? Or will they lose their way--and their lives--along the journey? After The Ending is the first book in the evocative, superpowered post-apocalyptic adventure, The Ending Series. If you like unbreakable friendships, gritty dystopian settings, and a touch of romance, then you'll love Lindsey Pogue and Lindsey Fairleigh's heart-wrenching tale. Buy After The Ending to embark on a supernatural survival story today! THE ENDING SERIES After The Ending Into The Fire Out Of The Ashes Before The Dawn The Ending Beginnings: A Collection of Stories World Before: A Collection of Stories", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49987429-after-the-ending"}, +{"book_title": "Writing on the Wall", "author_name": "Tracey Ward", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 2052, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "An Amazon #1 Bestseller!It's been nearly a decade since the world ended. Since Joss watched her parents die at the hands of a nightmare, a nightmare that stalks her even now, all these years later. That's the problem with the Risen - they refuse to die.But Joss is a survivor. A loner living in the post-apocalyptic streets of Seattle. It's a world dictated by Risen and the looming threat of the Colonists, a group of fellow survivors living comfortably in their compounds and patrolling the wild, looking to \"save\" the orphans of the end.Orphans like Joss.Like Ryan.As a member of an all male gang, Ryan is a threat as real as the Risen, a threat Joss avoids at all costs. Then one night their paths cross and Joss makes a choice that goes against all of her instincts. A choice that will threaten everything she has.Now a new outbreak is imminent and the Colonists are closing in. Joss' solitary, secret world will be blown wide open and the comfortable numbness she's lived in for the last six years will burn away leaving her aching and afraid.And awake.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23493101-writing-on-the-wall"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Rescue", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 3409, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "Bad day? Try mine on for size. Rogue slavers have landed on the ice planet and captured the tribe. The only ones not snatched? Me, a walking human motormouth with no skill except that of incoherent babbling, and Warrek, who's as silent as he is attractive. Two more unlikely people have never been paired together.And now we're supposed to form a rescue team.Saving the others is either going to bring us closer together - or drive us completely apart. I'm pretty sure the feelings I'm having for my alien companion are as unrequited as they are inappropriate, but since we aren't going to make it out alive, what harm is one teeny, tiny kiss?Who knew that one kiss could change everything?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35423630-barbarian-s-rescue"}, +{"book_title": "Carnal Machines", "author_name": "D.L. King", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 193, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "The Victorians wrote some of the best and most enduring erotica. For such a tightly-laced age, people spent a lot of time thinking about things carnal. Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, et al enthralled us with their visions of new possibilities. The rich and slightly decadent visuals of the steam age lend themselves perfectly to the new carnality of post-punk era. And, of course, what is repressed will be even more exciting once the corset is unlaced. Steampunk, even without sex, is erotic; with sex, it\u2019s over-the-top hot. A widowed lady engineer invents a small device that can store the energy from sexual frustration and convert it to electricity to help power a home. Teresa Noelle Roberts shows us what it can do, confronted with sexual fulfillment. What volume of steampunk would be complete without a tale of sailing ships and the men who sail them? If your taste runs to sexy pirates in space, Poe Von Page will delight you with the mutinous crew of the Danika Blue and their new captain. Then there\u2019s the very special room on the top floor in the House of the Sable Locks, a brothel where sexually discriminating men go to have their fantasies fulfilled. Even if a man daren\u2019t put those fantasies into words, Elizabeth Schechter\u2019s \u201cSuccubus\u201d will give the madam all the information she needs with which to make her clients happy. There are brothels, flying machines, steam-powered conveyances, manor houses, spiritualist societies. The following stories afford intelligently written, beautifully crafted glimpses into other worlds, where the Carnal Machines won\u2019t fail to seduce you, get you wet or make you hard so, lie back, relax; a happy ending is guaranteed.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9569273-carnal-machines"}, +{"book_title": "Another Dawn", "author_name": "Deb Stover", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 284, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Convicted of a murder he didn't commit at age 18, Luke Nolan has spent his adult life on Death Row. The night of his execution brings Sofie, a beautiful young doctor who will pronounce him dead, and a benevolent priest to his side. When a freak explosion throws him back to another century along with Sofie, who has lost her memory, he sees a chance for a future in the past--Another Dawn he was never meant to see. As long as Sofie never remembers who he is, of course--or does it really matter a century in the past? Even as his feelings for her grow even stronger than his need to protect her in this strange world...? A man with no future and a woman with no past!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Suspense", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43087325-another-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "The Gate to Women's Country", "author_name": "Sheri S. Tepper", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 12390, "review_number": 774, "book_description": "Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every other function of government, industry, agriculture, science and learning.The resulting manifold responsibilities are seen through the life of Stavia, from a dreaming 10-year-old to maturity as doctor, mother and member of the Marthatown Women's Council. As in Tepper's Awakeners series books, the rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provocative ideas.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Feminism", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Womens", "Gender"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104344.The_Gate_to_Women_s_Country"}, +{"book_title": "Pretty Human", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2481, "review_number": 216, "book_description": "Varrik va\u2019Rin is the lord of an ancient noble house. On Homeworld Kes, his bloodlines are unparalleled and he wields an incredible amount of political and social clout. He\u2019s used to getting what he wants.So when he sees the strange, delicate human known as Milly, he decides he wants her. And he\u2019ll do anything to have her, reputation be damned.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50057087-pretty-human"}, +{"book_title": "The Melier: Home World", "author_name": "Poppy Rhys", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1823, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "\nNew world. New home. New family.\nLucia's story continues as she attempts to adjust to life in a new setting, with new people and new threats, all while feeling completely out of her depth. She soon realizes a deeply rooted prejudice toward humans is going to make things far more difficult than she had imagined. Trying to come to terms with Melierun's disturbing culture and mating customs becomes challenging when an unseen threat is intent on ending her. And then there's the fight for respect from her in-laws.Who said the life of an ex-bounty hunter was going to be easy? WARNING: This story contains non-human alien heroes, mature content involving multiple heterosexual males (m/f/m), graphic language, and situations intended for mature readers.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Menage (M F M)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42218771-the-melier"}, +{"book_title": "The Rising", "author_name": "Brian Keene", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 9312, "review_number": 671, "book_description": "Nothing stays dead for long. The dead are returning to life, intelligent, determined\u2026and very hungry. Escape seems impossible for Jim Thurmond, one of the few left alive in this nightmare world. But Jim\u2019s young son is also alive and in grave danger hundreds of miles away. Despite astronomical odds, Jim vows to find him\u2014or die trying.Joined by an elderly preacher, a guilt-ridden scientist and an ex-prostitute, Jim sets out on a cross-country rescue mission. Together they must battle both the living and the living dead\u2026and the even greater evil that awaits them at the end of their journey.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216213.The_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "The Geek Girl and the Scandalous Earl", "author_name": "Gina Lamm", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 1232, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER\u2026An avid gamer, Jamie Marten loves to escape into online adventure. But when she falls through an antique mirror into a lavish bedchamber\u2014200 years in the past!\u2014she realizes she may have escaped a little too far.Micah Axelby, Earl of Dunnington, has just kicked one mistress out of his bed, and isn\u2019t looking to fill it with another\u2014least of all this sassy, nearly naked girl who claims to be from the future. Yet something about her is undeniably enticing\u2026Jamie and Micah are worlds apart. He\u2019s a peer of the realm. She can barely make rent. She\u2019s wi-fi. He\u2019s horse-drawn. But soon the pair will do anything to avoid a Game Over.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15927451-the-geek-girl-and-the-scandalous-earl"}, +{"book_title": "The Voyage of the Basilisk", "author_name": "Marie Brennan", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 6104, "review_number": 710, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition for this ASIN can be found hereThe thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennan's Voyage of the Basilisk . . . Devoted readers of Lady Trent\u2019s earlier memoirs, A Natural History of Dragons and The Tropic of Serpents, may believe themselves already acquainted with the particulars of her historic voyage aboard the Royal Survey Ship Basilisk, but the true story of that illuminating, harrowing, and scandalous journey has never been revealed\u2014until now. Six years after her perilous exploits in Eriga, Isabella embarks on her most ambitious expedition yet: a two-year trip around the world to study all manner of dragons in every place they might be found. From feathered serpents sunning themselves in the ruins of a fallen civilization to the mighty sea serpents of the tropics, these creatures are a source of both endless fascination and frequent peril. Accompanying her is not only her young son, Jake, but a chivalrous foreign archaeologist whose interests converge with Isabella\u2019s in ways both professional and personal.Science is, of course, the primary objective of the voyage, but Isabella\u2019s life is rarely so simple. She must cope with storms, shipwrecks, intrigue, and warfare, even as she makes a discovery that offers a revolutionary new insight into the ancient history of dragons.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21893608-the-voyage-of-the-basilisk"}, +{"book_title": "Tributary", "author_name": "Lisa Tawn Bergren", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 2646, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "Lia struggles to overcome the fear that constant battle has heaped upon her; Gabi and Marcello face an unexpected crisis; and Lord Greco just may be ready to leave the grief and loss of his past behind him, so that he might grab hold of the future...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Novella", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12866814-tributary"}, +{"book_title": "Who Fears Death", "author_name": "Nnedi Okorafor", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 18828, "review_number": 2699, "book_description": "An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post-apocalyptic Africa. In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different. She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means \"Who Fears Death?\" in an ancient African tongue. Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny \u2013 to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfill her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture \u2013 and eventually death itself.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Cultural (Africa)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7767021-who-fears-death"}, +{"book_title": "Single Wired Female", "author_name": "Greg Dragon", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 41, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Waking up in a hospital with no recollection of the events, Bonnie O\u2019Neal sets out to discover who wants her dead \u2013 and why. As hazy memories come back, she struggles to determine what is real and what is not. Some of the memories are not her own \u2013 but who do they belong to? Fearing that her ex-husband may be involved, Bonnie doesn\u2019t know who she can trust while images of android engineers, wires, and a tall mysterious building flood her mind.But as reality and dreams merge, will Bonnie learn that her attempted murder might just be a small part of a greater conspiracy? It\u2019s not only Bonnie\u2019s life on the line, but all of mankind\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29232633-single-wired-female"}, +{"book_title": "Tempus", "author_name": "Tyra Lynn", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 986, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "\"This book made me smile and feel good about love and life and at the same time kept me guessing and even made me shed some tears. All in all, it is one of my favorite books I've read this year.\" Beth - YA Sisterhood\"I am so in love with this story. I wasn't expecting to be so emotionally affected by this book. I definitely cried my eyes out. I was pulled in from the very beginning.\" CAOakley Book Reviews\"The only reason I put this book down last night was because my eyes were completely dried out and could not stay open for a second longer. I started reading again the second I woke up this morning, and I didn\u2019t stop until I read the last page. Needless to say, it\u2019s addicting!\" Reading, Eating & Dreaming I was Blair Waldorf\"This book is definitely going on my top shelf! - I can\u2019t put my finger on what exactly moved me most\u2026the characters who were wonderful and vivid, the love story that was a delicious slow burn - it was all of these things that touched me and I can\u2019t wait for the next book!!\" Ana - The Book Hookup\"The romance is sweet, it\u2019s intense, it\u2019s a slow burn, it\u2019s AMAZING. I fell in love and I cried\u2026.I need more!\" Celeste - The Book Hookup~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~According to Albert Einstein, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. He might have been right.Seventeen-year-old Jessie McLeod is used to getting glimpses of the past when she touches objects in her dads antique shop, but she's not used to the past looking back. Especially when the past is a gorgeous guy and she is dressed like a slob.Shocked and intrigued, Jessie becomes obsessed with trying to catch another glimpse of that perfect face. When thoughts of him invade her sleep, the dreams seem so real that she wakes with the feel of his lips lingering on her skin. Soon after, however, the one guy she thought she\u2019d never date suddenly asks her out. Either something strange is going on, or all those years of using furniture cleaner finally caused brain damage.Brain damage is easy enough to believe\u2014until the day she turns around and looks straight into the face from her dreams. Completely unaware, Jessie is now in a race against time to remember something important, something life-changing, and the one person who can tell her the truth doesn\u2019t dare to\u2014she must remember on her own.With only a week before senior year, the once self-assured Jessie is now sure of nothing. Well, maybe one thing. Everything\u2019s been turned upside down, and it's all because of that stupid mirror she found in the shop on Monday and the glimpse that changed her future\u2014maybe even her past.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Love"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11486357-tempus"}, +{"book_title": "Lords and Ladies", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 71257, "review_number": 1604, "book_description": "A Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewseyy Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning...Everything ought to be going like a dream. But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have got drunk on a fairy mound and the elves have come back, bringing all those things traditionally associated with the magical, glittering realm of Faerie: cruelty, kidnapping, malice and evil, evil murder.* Granny Weatherwax and her tiny argumentative coven have really got their work cut out this time...With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris Dancers and one orang-utan. And lots. of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.*But with tons of style.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34529.Lords_and_Ladies"}, +{"book_title": "Manifold: Space", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 4794, "review_number": 147, "book_description": "The year is 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: A gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter, allowing virtually instantaneous travel over the vast distances of interstellar space. What lies on the other side of the gateway? Malenfant decides to find out. Yet he will soon be faced with an impossible choice that will push him beyond terror, beyond sanity, beyond humanity itself. Meanwhile on Earth the Japanese scientist Nemoto fears her worst nightmares are coming true. Startling discoveries reveal that the Moon, Venus, even Mars once thrived with life?life that was snuffed out not just once but many times, in cycles of birth and destruction. And the next chilling cycle is set to begin again . . .", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63818.Manifold"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 4", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.55, "rating_votes": 12239, "review_number": 383, "book_description": "Trapped and injured in a secret alchemical laboratory, Edward Elric is at the mercy of his enemies, Lust and Envy. But they don't want him dead...they have other plans for him. As the laboratory goes up in flames, the brothers find themselves back at square one, with only an inkling of the massive scale of the Philosopher's Stone conspiracy. But then, Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes uncovers a shocking secret...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Manga (Shonen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/871.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "Barbary Station", "author_name": "R.E. Stearns", "rating_score": 3.15, "rating_votes": 978, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Adda and Iridian are newly-minted engineers, but in a solar system wracked by economic collapse after an interplanetary war, an engineering degree isn\u2019t worth the paper it\u2019s printed on. Desperate for gainful employment, they hijack a colony ship, planning to join a pirate crew at Barbary Station, an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space. But when they arrive at Barbary Station, nothing is as they expected. The pirates aren\u2019t living in luxury \u2014 they\u2019re hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station\u2019s exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station\u2019s security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents. And it shoots down any ship that tries to leave, so there\u2019s no way out. Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the security system suffered explosive decapitation, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds. There\u2019s a glorious future in piracy\u2026if they can survive long enough.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27056577-barbary-station"}, +{"book_title": "The Alchemists of Loom", "author_name": "Elise Kova", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 5087, "review_number": 891, "book_description": "Her vengeance. His vision.Ari lost everything she once loved when the Five Guilds\u2019 resistance fell to the Dragon King. Now, she uses her unparalleled gift for clockwork machinery in tandem with notoriously unscrupulous morals to contribute to a thriving underground organ market. There isn\u2019t a place on Loom that is secure from the engineer turned thief, and her magical talents are sold to the highest bidder as long as the job defies their Dragon oppressors.Cvareh would do anything to see his sister usurp the Dragon King and sit on the throne. His family\u2019s house has endured the shame of being the lowest rung in the Dragons\u2019 society for far too long. The Alchemist Guild, down on Loom, may just hold the key to putting his kin in power, if Cvareh can get to them before the Dragon King\u2019s assassins.When Ari stumbles upon a wounded Cvareh, she sees an opportunity to slaughter an enemy and make a profit off his corpse. But the Dragon sees an opportunity to navigate Loom with the best person to get him where he wants to go.He offers her the one thing Ari can\u2019t refuse: A wish of her greatest desire, if she brings him to the Alchemists of Loom.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31549513-the-alchemists-of-loom"}, +{"book_title": "Zercy", "author_name": "Kora Knight", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1013, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "Emergency landing. Uncharted planet. Erotic captivity of epic proportions. Right when Captain Alec Hamlin thinks it can\u2019t get any crazier, his team is sold to their captors\u2019 mighty sovereign. King Zercy of the Kr\u00ede. Ruler of the planet\u2019s most formidable species. Man, is he imposing. So regal and larger than life. And way too savagely handsome for Alec\u2019s liking. From the first moment he laid eyes on him, he knew the Kr\u00ede was trouble, knew he needed to steer clear of him at all costs. But when Zercy chooses Alec to be his personal pet, all plans to dodge the male fall by the wayside. Alec is forced to spend each evening in the alluring king\u2019s company, each night bound to the seductive king\u2019s bed. Wholly at his mercy. Utterly defenseless, in his own mind and most especially his restless body. His struggle is real. Because the more Alec gets to know Zercy, the more he realizes two things. The Kr\u00ede king is damaged\u2014unstable, not right, making him unpredictable and highly dangerous. But he is also innately kind beneath the raging storm that torments him. Kind and genuine, with a sad but beautiful soul. Something Alec fights with all he is, not to acknowledge. He can\u2019t fall for Zercy. Zercy is the enemy. The captor of both Alec and his team. Which means Alec needs to get them out of there, before it\u2019s too late. Before emotions overthrow logic and take control of the wheel. If only his body didn\u2019t crave Zercy so fiercely, and his heart didn\u2019t want him just as badly. With Search and Rescue due any day, and Alec\u2019s team getting antsy, Alec is forced to make a decision. He can\u2019t have it both ways. Is he the captain of his men, bound to obligation, or is he a man in love with a Kr\u00ede? Warning: Contains explicitly scorching gay sex with exotic and shamelessly kinky males of otherworldly descent.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Gay Romance (Gay For You)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37660056-zercy"}, +{"book_title": "European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman", "author_name": "Theodora Goss", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 5416, "review_number": 771, "book_description": "In the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Strange Case of the Alchemist\u2019s Daughter, Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of literature\u2019s mad scientists embark on a madcap adventure across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl and stop the Alchemical Society\u2019s nefarious plans once and for all.Mary Jekyll\u2019s life has been peaceful since she helped Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the Whitechapel Murders. Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, Justine Frankenstein, and Mary\u2019s sister Diana Hyde have settled into the Jekyll household in London, and although they sometimes quarrel, the members of the Athena Club get along as well as any five young women with very different personalities. At least they can always rely on Mrs. Poole. But when Mary receives a telegram that Lucinda Van Helsing has been kidnapped, the Athena Club must travel to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to rescue yet another young woman who has been subjected to horrific experimentation. Where is Lucinda, and what has Professor Van Helsing been doing to his daughter? Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, and Justine reach her in time? Racing against the clock to save Lucinda from certain doom, the Athena Club embarks on a madcap journey across Europe. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest, Mary and her friends must make new allies, face old enemies, and finally confront the fearsome, secretive Alchemical Society. It\u2019s time for these monstrous gentlewomen to overcome the past and create their own destinies.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373571-european-travel-for-the-monstrous-gentlewoman"}, +{"book_title": "Among the Brave", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 19432, "review_number": 671, "book_description": "A Reluctant HeroTrey may have saved Luke's life, but he still thinks of himself as a coward who can barely stand to be outdoors. Now Trey finds out Luke has been taken prisoner at Population Police headquarters. Trey is terrified, but he knows that if he doesn't rescue his friend, no one will.At police headquarters, Trey impersonates an officer to try getting to Luke. But just when it looks like he's close, Trey suddenly finds himself in danger of exposing not just himself but all shadow children.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303454.Among_the_Brave"}, +{"book_title": "Clocked", "author_name": "Elle Strauss", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 599, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "A Novelette.Written from Nate Mackenzie's point of view, this new companion novelette to the Clockwise series is a much expanded version of the short story found in the In His Eyes Anthology (from 3k to 15k). Ever wonder how Nate got talked into asking Casey to dance on a dare? And what it felt like for him to experience 1860? How he really felt about Casey Donovan? Now you can know!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14062346-clocked"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Girl", "author_name": "Sean Patrick O\u2019Reilly", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 304, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "The Tinkerer is a mad scientist convinced that mechanical technology is a stable and precise science and is more important than all of the other sciences. Metal twists and bends, gears, axles, and ratchets work in unison giving life to a conscious machine - The Astonishing Clockwork Girl.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3347521-the-clockwork-girl"}, +{"book_title": "The Authorities", "author_name": "Scott Meyer", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 2505, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "Sinclair Rutherford is a young Seattle cop with a taste for the finer things. Doing menial tasks and getting hassled by superiors he doesn't respect are definitely not \u201cfiner things.\u201d Good police work and bad luck lead him to crack a case that changes quickly from a career-making break into a high-profile humiliation when footage of his pursuit of the suspect\u2014wildly inappropriate murder weapon in hand\u2014becomes an Internet sensation. But the very publicity that has made Rutherford a laughing stock in the department lands him what could be the job opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to work with a team of eccentric experts, at the direction of a demanding but distracted billionaire. Together, they must solve the murder of a psychologist who specialized in the treatment of patients who give people \u201cthe creeps.\u201d There is no shortage of suspects.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26850099-the-authorities"}, +{"book_title": "Timeline", "author_name": "Michael Crichton", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 193804, "review_number": 4731, "book_description": "In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival -- six hundred years ago.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7669.Timeline"}, +{"book_title": "Bloodchild and Other Stories", "author_name": "Octavia E. Butler", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 14005, "review_number": 1416, "book_description": "A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes \"Bloodchild,\" winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and \"Speech Sounds,\" winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, \"Amnesty\" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is \"The Book of Martha\" which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability\u2014and responsibility\u2014to save humanity from itself?Like all of Octavia Butler\u2019s best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature\u2019s strongest voices.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Cultural (African American)", "Feminism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60930.Bloodchild_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "The Barbarian Before Christmas", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2012, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "The growing barbarian tribe is about to celebrate No-Poison Day \u2013 a time of love, laughter, and gifts. But all Elly wants is for her mate to be at her side before the brutal season arrives. All Bek wants is a way to quickly return to his female despite the mountains between them. Thanks to the talents of a newcomer\u2026 they're both about to get their wish and celebrate the happiest of holidays together. This novella features characters from prior Ice Planet Barbarians stories and DOES NOT stand alone.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Holiday (Christmas)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37361471-the-barbarian-before-christmas"}, +{"book_title": "A Call to Duty", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3517, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life... the two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlisted in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately.But life in the RMN isn't exactly what he expected. Boot camp is rough and frustrating; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating plague, the Navy is possibly on the edge of extinction.The Star Kingdom is a minor nation among the worlds of the Diaspora, its closest neighbors weeks or months away, with little in the way of resources. With only modest interstellar trade, no foreign contacts to speak of, a plague-ravaged economy to rebuild, and no enemies looming at the hyper limit, there are factions in Parliament who want nothing more than to scrap the Navy and shift its resources and manpower elsewhere.But those factions are mistaken. The universe is not a safe place.Travis Long is about to find that out.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20340814-a-call-to-duty"}, +{"book_title": "King's Test", "author_name": "Margaret Weis", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1481, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "By calling a temporary truce, Derek Sagan and the rebels thwarted the alien Corasian invasion. Enemies once again, the rebels have resumed their defiance and Sagan has retumed to his campaign to topple the corrupt galactic government.\u00a0\u00a0He plans to set up Dion as king of the Starfire dynasty--and to place himself as the ruling power behind the throne.\u00a0\u00a0On a remote planetary sinkhole of sin and corruption, a small weapon-barely ten centimeters on a side--is hidden.\u00a0\u00a0If activated, this seemingly harmless crystal cube could tear a hole in the universe. . .and destroy the fabric of creation.\u00a0\u00a0Sagan wants it.\u00a0\u00a0Lady Maigrey wants it.\u00a0\u00a0And so does Abdiel, a cruel genius who commands a drugged army of mindless slaves. And now Dion is caught in this momentous struggle as he faces his greatest trial yet in his battle to gain the interstellar throne.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature", "Space", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Dungeons and Dragons (Dragonlance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548270.King_s_Test"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Sword", "author_name": "Janet E. Morris", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 114, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "She had the power to create planets. The sixty carved bones of the Yris-tera foretold her ancient fate. Her heritage of power took her beyond time and space and stole from her the one man she loved. Enslaved on the planet Silistra tomorrow's most beautiful courtesan unleashes the powers of the gods. ", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Heroic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30163876-the-golden-sword"}, +{"book_title": "Spellbound", "author_name": "Larry Correia", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 10152, "review_number": 438, "book_description": "Dark fantasy goes hardboiled in #2 of the hard-hitting Grimnoir Chronicles by the New York Times best-selling creator of Monster Hunter International.The Grimnoir Society\u2019s mission is to protect people with magic, and they\u2019ve done so\u2014successfully and in secret\u2014since the mysterious arrival of the Power in the 1850s, but when a magical assassin makes an attempt on the life of President Franklin Roosevelt, the crime is pinned on the Grimnoir. The knights must become fugitives while they attempt to discover who framed them.Thing go from bad to worse when Jake Sullivan, former p.i. and knight of the Grimnoir, receives a telephone call from a dead man\u2014a man he helped kill.. Turns out the Power jumped universes because it was fleeing from a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. That predator has just landed on Earth.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10822283-spellbound"}, +{"book_title": "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other", "author_name": "Sherry Turkle", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 5660, "review_number": 792, "book_description": "Consider Facebook\u2014it\u2019s human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It\u2019s a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for\u2014and sacrificing\u2014in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today\u2019s self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Psychology", "Sociology", "Science", "Cultural", "Relationships", "Philosophy", "Culture (Society)", "Anthropology"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Days of Magic", "author_name": "Mark Tompkins", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 2540, "review_number": 519, "book_description": "An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and druids, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic\u2019s last outpost on the EarthWhat became of magic in the world? Who needed to do away with it, and for what reasons? Drawing on myth, legend, fairy tales, and Biblical mysteries, \nThe Last Days of Magic\n brilliantly imagines answers to these questions, sweeping us back to a world where humans and magical beings co-exist as they had for centuries. Aisling, a goddess in human form, was born to rule both domains and\u2014with her twin, Anya\u2014unite the Celts with the powerful faeries of the Middle Kingdom. But within medieval Ireland interests are divided, and far from its shores greater forces are mustering. Both England and Rome have a stake in driving magic from the Emerald Isle. Jordan, the Vatican commander tasked with vanquishing the remnants of otherworldly creatures from a disenchanted Europe, has built a career on such plots. But increasingly he finds himself torn between duty and his desire to understand the magic that has been forbidden. As kings prepare, exorcists gather, and divisions widen between the warring clans of Ireland, Aisling and Jordan must come to terms with powers given and withheld, while a world that can still foster magic hangs in the balance. Loyalties are tested, betrayals sown, and the coming war will have repercussions that ripple centuries later, in today\u2019s world\u2014and in particular for a young graduate student named Sara Hill. \nThe Last Days of Magic\n introduces us to unforgettable characters who grapple with quests for power, human frailty, and the longing for knowledge that has been made taboo. Mark Tompkins has crafted a remarkable tale\u2014a feat of world-building that poses astonishing and resonant answers to epic questions.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Ireland)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25734207-the-last-days-of-magic"}, +{"book_title": "The Worlds of Fritz Leiber", "author_name": "Fritz Leiber", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 59, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "THE WORLDS OF FRITZ LEIBER is a brand new collection of some of the finest SF, Fantasy and Horror stories produced by the internationally acclaimed author of THE BIG TIME.It is a collection handpicked by the author and contains two Change-War stories, a Fafhrd and Gray Mouser tale, Catch That Zeppelin (the winner of the 1976 Nebula Award) and eighteen other outstanding stories.But no one could describe this book better than Fritz Leiber himself: \"I believe this collection represents me more completely, provides a fuller measure of the range of my creative efforts, than any other. Welcome to my worlds!\"Contents:Hatchery of Dreams (1961)The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet (1961)Far Reach to Cygnus (1965)Night Passage (1975)Nice Girl with Five Husbands (1951)When the Change-Winds Blow (1964)237 Talking Statues, Etc. (1963)The Improper Authorities (1959)Our Saucer Vacation (1959)Pipe Dream (1959)What's He Doing in There? (1957)Friends and Enemies (1957)The Last Letter (1958)Endfray of the Ofay (1969)Cyclops (1965)Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum (1974)The Bait (1973)The Lotus Eaters (1972)Waif (1974)Myths My Great-Granddaughter Taught Me (1963)Catch That Zeppelin! (1975)Last (1957)", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102284.The_Worlds_of_Fritz_Leiber"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Species Intervention", "author_name": "J.K. Accinni", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1001, "review_number": 192, "book_description": "Two hundred years of tender love between man and alien, political downfalls, wanton violence of unspeakable order tempered with laughter, family loyalty and hope is the thrilling vehicle by which Ms. Accinni conveys her cautionary tale of the merciless disrespect man gives his planet and the vulnerable creatures entrusted to him. This charming, yet brutal saga will chill and surprise you as it foretells the selfishly destructive path man has followed since his species evolved. It pulls no punches while allowing Netty and Baby's influence to transcend mortal life as the world dances toward depraved indifference, introducing other characters along the ride that readers will laugh and shed tears with, and learn to despise. \"Baby\" introduces Netty, a naive teenage farm girl given in marriage to an older brutal opportunist disguised as a successful citizen during the years of Prohibition in Sussex County, New Jersey. After years of enslavement, Netty flees into the night from her rapist and bootlegger husband, traveling back to the farm worked by her parents, where she rescues an unfamiliar damaged creature she finds in a cave in the woods of her childhood, falling in love with the enigmatic alien she names Baby. Together they find happiness and fulfillment despite the changes to Netty's body wrought by the proximity of the unusual creature. Damaged by entry into our atmosphere while pregnant, the confused creature forgets the purpose of his mission, appearing unconcerned with the disappearance of his offspring and savoring the unexpected joy of the love he shares with young Netty. When a handsome Italian stranger comes into Netty's life, complications ensue as she falls in love while trying to hide the bizarre and wondrous changes to her farm and her body. Netty, Baby and Wil strive to conquer obstacles thrown in their path by life, succeeding wildly until the heart-rending and astonishingly brutal climax to their story. What lengths will Baby and his offspring go to complete their mission? Will it spell Armageddon for the beleaguered planet with its vulnerable and exploited creatures or will man tip the scales himself, leaving those that love the creatures to salvage the pitiful ruins? In \"Echo\", Netty's influence transcends a full century as the United States evolves to a point of politically driven economic collapse. The year is 2033 as a young mother, abused by her shiftless husband, heroically decides to remove her two sickly children, Scotty and Abby, from the mean streets of their government subsidized tenement town of Short Hills, New Jersey to the hills and old farmland of Sussex County. There they unite with a Latino family that adopted Jose, a young boy from Costa Rica, traumatized at the age of seven by the brutal murder of his parents and the kidnapping of his infant sister. The two families unite to pool finances, creating the love and bonds that will enable them to survive the psychotic attention of Armoni, a soul damaged beyond redemption, discovery of Baby's miraculous offspring, Echo; and their subsequent body changes. Through the efforts of Echo who develops an unexplained passion for the curly haired dog, Barney, they flee the clutches of Armoni after the murder of Armoni's sidekicks by Echo, to Sarasota, Florida, one of the last remaining enclaves of wealth in the U.S. Scotty learns to utilize Echo as a co-conspirator in his intrigue to thwart the efforts of heinous people that prey on the lives of creatures in their environmentally rich new home, where the insidious miscreant, Armoni, tracks them; bringing brutality and violence to all.Having fallen in love, the young Abby and Jose draw close, only to be separated by the transcendental Netty, who tries to use Abby as a conduit in her plan to rescue as much wildlife as they can before despicable political events bring on the specter of Armageddon...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Dark", "Thriller", "Young Adult", "Wildlife"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18874565-alien-species-intervention"}, +{"book_title": "The Scorpion's Mate", "author_name": "Susan Trombley", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2212, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "The Scorpion\u2019s Mate Claire has never really fit in with everyone around her, but she's carved out a life for herself using her own unique style and artistic ability to support herself on the Internet. The last thing she expects is to be abducted by aliens and dropped into a research facility, where a genetically-engineered alien soldier chooses her as his life-mate. Thrax\u2019s pheromones are compelling, and his status as a fellow unwilling test subject makes them allies, but Claire isn't certain she can trust someone who is convinced she belongs to him, when all she wants to do is find a way to return home to Earth\u2014a place that her devoted alien can never follow, because there\u2019s no way the scorpion-like alien would ever be able to pass for human. Still, she\u2019ll accept help where she can find it, so she doesn't hesitate to escape with Thrax from the facility, though their time running from their pursuers in the warrens beneath the research facility will forever change Claire, and could make it impossible for her to return to Earth. But will there be anywhere else in the galaxy they can go where their love will be accepted? Plus a BONUS Full-length novel: Into the Dead Fall Though she was raised by a survivalist, Alice was not prepared to be ripped from her dimension and dropped without ceremony into the massive junkyard of a parallel dimension. She\u2019s wounded, alone, and lost in a world her mind struggles to comprehend. When a strange, four-armed alien comes to her aid, saving her life, she has no choice but to accept his help. She finally starts growing comfortable around her leonine companion, until another warrior intervenes to save her when creatures from the Dead Fall attack them during their exploration, making everything much more complicated. Alice still doesn\u2019t understand what either of the warriors is saying, and if she can\u2019t find the right words to soothe her beastly new protectors, they\u2019ll end up killing each other. Author\u2019s Note: 18+ These books contain scenes that are not suitable for younger audiences. It should also be noted that the alien heroes in these books look alien in many ways, and their cultures and mating habits might not be for everyone. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38601826-the-scorpion-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Zeppelins West", "author_name": "Joe R. Lansdale", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 480, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "The Wild West Show travels by Zeppelin to perform before a Shogun, soon to be emperor of Japan, only to discover the Frankenstein monster is being whittled down slowly and ground into aphrodisiacs by the would-be ruler. Buffalo Bill, who, due to a recent accident, exists only as a battery powered head in a jar of liquid manufactured from the best that modern science and pig urine has to offer, along with Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, and a cast of historical as well as literary characters, rescue the monster, only to be shot down over the Pacific, where they are saved from sharks by Captain Nemo and his intellectual seal, Ned.And then things get weird.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Westerns", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Humor", "Horror", "Adventure", "Horror (Bizarro Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882557.Zeppelins_West"}, +{"book_title": "Pattern Recognition", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 46589, "review_number": 2219, "book_description": "Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22320.Pattern_Recognition"}, +{"book_title": "Breeding Ground", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1457, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Commander Alexandria Frazier headed up NASA's first deep-space mission to search for other habitable planets in distant galaxies. Where only two years have passed by for the crew of the Methuselah, fifteen hundred years have ticked by on Earth. Alex and her crew were prepared for that eventuality. What they weren't prepared for was a nuclear war and the resulting catastrophic meteor shower that sent them hurling into Earth's very distant, eerie future. Welcome to earth in the year 100,000,007 A.D. Prepare to scream.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1814114.Breeding_Ground"}, +{"book_title": "The Cold Between", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bonesteel", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1248, "review_number": 243, "book_description": "When her crewmate Danny is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps engineer Commander Elena Shaw is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent\u2014he was with her when Danny was killed. So who is the real killer and why are the cops framing an innocent man?While retracing Danny\u2019s last hours, they discover that his death may be tied to a mystery from the past: the destruction of a Central Corps starship at a wormhole near Volhynia. For twenty-five years, Central Gov has been lying about the tragedy, even willing to go to war with the outlaw tribe PSI to protect their secrets.With the authorities closing in, Elena and Trey head to the wormhole, certain they\u2019ll find answers on the other side. But the truth that awaits them is far more terrifying than they ever imagined\u2014a conspiracy deep within Central Gov that threatens all of human civilization throughout the inhabited reaches of the galaxy . . . and beyond.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25817527-the-cold-between"}, +{"book_title": "The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter", "author_name": "Rod Duncan", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2962, "review_number": 449, "book_description": "Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life\u2014as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus. But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20697500-the-bullet-catcher-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Damocles", "author_name": "Phil Kelly", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 170, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Two centuries ago, the Imperium of Man and the upstart Tau Empire fought to a standstill in the Damocles Gulf. Now, as the 41st millennium draws to a close, the tau have returned. As the world of Agrellan falls under attack, the White Scars and Raven Guard rush to its defence, but with the skilled Commander Shadowsun leading the alien forces, the Space Marines and their allies are hard pressed. Kor\u2019sarro Khan, Huntmaster of the White Scars, swears that he will win the day in the most direct way possible \u2013 by taking Shadowsun\u2019s head.Gathered within this volume are four novellas that focus on the events of the second Damocles Gulf Crusade. This book contains: Blood Oath by Phil Kelly Broken Sword by Guy Haley Black Leviathan by Ben Counter Hunter\u2019s Snare by Josh Reynolds", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21460340-damocles"}, +{"book_title": "Night Train to Rigel", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2631, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "HUMANITY'S LAST HOPEIt begins when a man delivers a message for former government agent Frank Compton--only to fall dead at his feet. The message is a summons from the Spiders, the exotic and mysterious creatures who run the Quadrail, an incredible transportation system connecting civilizations across the galaxy. The Spiders believe that someone or something is preparing to attack their entire network and the worlds it serves, by smuggling battleships through the Quadrail--something that should be impossible to do. Compton, with the aid of a beautiful but enigmatic agent of the Spiders, is their last hope.Because nobody else has been able to find the elusive enemy who seeks to enslave the entire galaxy\u2026and Earth is its next target.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29455.Night_Train_to_Rigel"}, +{"book_title": "The City and the Stars", "author_name": "Arthur C. 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Ficklin", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 389, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Welcome to the war. The Tesla Institute is a premier academy that trains young time travelers called Rifters. Created by Nicola Tesla, the Institute seeks special individuals who can help preserve the time stream against those who try to alter it. The Hollows is a rogue band of Rifters who tear through time with little care for the consequences. Armed with their own group of lost teens--their only desire to find Tesla and put an end to his corruption of the time stream. Torn between them are Lex and Ember, two Rifters with no memories of their life before joining the time war. When Lex\u2019s girlfriend dies during a mission, the only way he can save her is to retrieve the Dox, a piece of tech which allows Rifters to re-enter their own timeline without collapsing the time stream. But the Dox is hidden deep within the Telsa Institute, which means Lex must go into the enemy camp. It\u2019s there he meets Ember, and the past that was stolen from them both comes flooding back. Now armed with the truth of who they are, Lex and Ember must work together to save the future before the battle for time destroys them both\u2026again.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16068631-extracted"}, +{"book_title": "Rust: The Boy Soldier", "author_name": "Royden Lepp", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 256, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "The story of the Boy Soldier begins!Made to look like a boy but built for battle, Jet Jones is a robot caught in the middle of an ongoing war. While trying to save as many people as he can, Jet discovers there is more to who he is and what he was made for than he could have ever imagined. His experiences in the war set him off on a journey to learn what it means to both hero and human. It is the first adventure of many for the rocket boy. Written and illustrated by Royden Lepp, Rust: The Boy Soldier collects the previously released prologues from the first three volumes of the critically acclaimed series Rust along with the yet to be released prologue from the upcoming fourth and final installment. Together for the first time and in an all new reading order, Rust: The Boy Soldier is the complete story of Jet Jones\u2019s time in war and the beginning of this high octane, all ages adventure.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "War", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Speculative Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814450-rust"}, +{"book_title": "Thief's Magic", "author_name": "Trudi Canavan", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 9558, "review_number": 822, "book_description": "In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen's world faces. Elsewhere, in an land ruled by the priests, Rielle the dyer's daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the Angels. Yet she knows she has a talent for it, and that there is a corrupter in the city willing to teach her how to use it -- should she dare to risk the Angels' wrath.But not everything is as Tyen and Rielle have been raised to believe. Not the nature of magic, nor the laws of their lands... and not even the people they trust. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Angels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17302559-thief-s-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Provenance", "author_name": "Ann Leckie", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 14547, "review_number": 1741, "book_description": "An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of Ann Leckie's groundbreaking, NYT bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards.NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2018NOMINATED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL 2018Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingrid is determined to at least be considered as heir to the family name. She hatches an audacious plan--free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned, and use them to help steal back a priceless artifact.But Ingray and her charge return to her home to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future and her world, before they are lost to her for good.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25353286-provenance"}, +{"book_title": "Good Fences", "author_name": "Boyd Craven", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 516, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Brian Cartwright just wants to work and run his farm in peace. The police keep showing up as the HOA from the new neighborhood keeps filing nuisance complaints against him and his farm. What makes matters worse, his former boss George and his son built a big house overlooking the farm. His prepping lifestyle and following the news online is his only other hobby other than church activities. George\u2019s son is the teenager responsible for causing the accident that killed Brian\u2019s wife. Every interaction with the power hungry father drives him insane. To make matters worse, George\u2019s son has been trespassing and gets injured on Brian\u2019s property causing him to build bigger and taller fences. The neighbors that once shunned Brian Cartwright now need him like never before. America has been attacked with an EMP and they find themselves requiring the help of the widowed farmer the same time he realizes he needs them as well. When things get dicey, can they mend the wall, or do good fences make good neighbors? From the author of The World Burns Series 83,000 words, full length, stand alone novel.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26831822-good-fences"}, +{"book_title": "The Night Country", "author_name": "Melissa Albert", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 8275, "review_number": 1325, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling sequel to Melissa Albert\u2019s beloved The Hazel Wood! In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors of The Hazel Wood. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang.With Finch\u2019s help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother\u2019s dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland\u2019s survivors\u2014and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and\u2014if he can find it\u2014a way back home...", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43565384-the-night-country"}, +{"book_title": "Zima Blue and Other Stories", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 3809, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Short story collection by the critically acclaimed author of Revelation Space and Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/860926.Zima_Blue_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "Independent Study", "author_name": "Joelle Charbonneau", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 33600, "review_number": 2578, "book_description": "In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization. In Independent Study, Cia is a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas\u2014and though the government has tried to erase her memory of the brutal horrors of The Testing, Cia remembers. Her attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government\u2019s murderous programs put her\u2014and her loved ones\u2014in a world of danger. But the future of the Commonwealth depends on her.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17165932-independent-study"}, +{"book_title": "The Founding", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 3819, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "This omnibus edition of the first three Gaunt's Ghosts novels follows the story of the Tanith First-and-Only regiment (nicknamed the Ghosts) and their charismatic commissar, Ibram Gaunt. As they travel from warzone to warzone in the Chaos-infested Sabbat Worlds system, the Ghosts must not only carry out the most dangerous of missions but also survive the deady politics of the Imperial Guard.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239412.The_Founding"}, +{"book_title": "Sol Shall Rise", "author_name": "G.P. Hudson", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 424, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The Sol System was conquered and humans lived as slaves for 500 long years. Now, after years of brutal warfare, humanity has been liberated. Liberation, however, comes at a cost, and the Sol System has become nothing more than a puppet state for a vast galactic empire. For Jon Pike, a war hero who has lost everything, there is no substitute for freedom. He blames the aliens for humanity\u2019s troubles, especially the one living inside him. But when he is sent on a top secret mission into unexplored regions of the galaxy he discovers that humanity\u2019s troubles are just getting started. Can he find freedom for himself and humanity?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23446799-sol-shall-rise"}, +{"book_title": "A Stitch in Time", "author_name": "Kelley Armstrong", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1946, "review_number": 373, "book_description": "Thorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt\u2019s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination. Now, twenty years later Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor. And when she returns, William is waiting. William Thorne is no longer the boy she remembers. He\u2019s a difficult and tempestuous man, his own life marred by tragedy and a scandal that had him retreating to self-imposed exile in his beloved moors. He\u2019s also none too pleased with Bronwyn for abandoning him all those years ago. As their friendship rekindles and sparks into something more, Bronwyn must also deal with ghosts in the present version of the house. Soon she realizes they are linked to William and the secret scandal that drove him back to Thorne Manor. To build a future, Bronwyn must confront the past.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Gothic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53447303-a-stitch-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "In Enemy Hands", "author_name": "M.A. Church", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 424, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Two very different civilizations\u2014one bathed in bright sunlight, and the other veiled in shadow.Bad decisions, declining resources, and a king on the brink of madness force Prince Varo Kutchif, third son of the royal family and a starship captain, to attempt the impossible: barter for Black Phospolrock, an energy source the mysterious Helkan kingdom has in abundance. Varo opens a line of communication with Adlar, an intriguing Helkan who seems to reciprocate Varo\u2019s interest. He hopes so, because if negotiations collapse, Varo has orders to attack.The Helkans preside over a planet shrouded in perpetual darkness. Several species have tried to exploit its natural resources through trade with them, but all have failed. Adlar Mondur is the older brother to the Helkan ruler. An assassin of the highest order, he\u2019ll do anything to protect his king and his people\u2014including tracking down the Yesri prince who crash-lands on their planet, leaving an ugly scar across its untouched beauty.Thus begins a journey where two men from disparate civilizations grow from enemies to lovers.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33221754-in-enemy-hands"}, +{"book_title": "Century Rain", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 8886, "review_number": 439, "book_description": "Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust.Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose.Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device capable of destroying both worlds at either end of the wormhole. And Verity must find the device, and the man who plans to activate it, before it is too late\u2014for the past and the future of two worlds\u2026", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89192.Century_Rain"}, +{"book_title": "In the Labyrinth of Drakes", "author_name": "Marie Brennan", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 4808, "review_number": 597, "book_description": "In the Labyrinth of Drakes, the thrilling new book in the acclaimed fantasy series from Marie Brennan, the glamorous Lady Trent takes her adventurous explorations to the deserts of Akhia.Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent's expedition to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia. Her discoveries there are the stuff of romantic legend, catapulting her from scholarly obscurity to worldwide fame. The details of her personal life during that time are hardly less private, having provided fodder for gossips in several countries.As is so often the case in the career of this illustrious woman, the public story is far from complete. In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army; how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being; and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes, where the chance action of a dragon set the stage for her greatest achievement yet.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25481955-in-the-labyrinth-of-drakes"}, +{"book_title": "Peacemaker", "author_name": "Kevin Ikenberry", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 404, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Peacemakers. The Galactic Union\u2019s most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union\u2019s citizenry. Having completed a harrowing confirmation mission, Jessica Francis stands ready to become Earth\u2019s first Peacemaker and believes obtaining her commission is a mere formality. However, certain members of the Guild question her ability. Worried that she\u2019ll fall back on her mercenary ways, they want Jessica to prove her mettle at the negotiating table before she puts on the distinctive insignia of a Peacemaker. Dream Worlds are terraformed planets inhabited by multiple species living and working in harmony. Operated by a governing Consortium, each carefully-controlled world is marketed as a paradise, but Araf is far from. The conditions are deplorable, and its three colonies are moving relentlessly toward all-out war over scarce resources and broken promises. A three-way showdown for dominance looms\u2014can Jessica prevent war and bring back peace? One thing is certain; she\u2019s never walked away from a fight, and she\u2019s not going to start now.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36111106-peacemaker"}, +{"book_title": "Open Minds", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 9151, "review_number": 1105, "book_description": "When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can\u2019t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can\u2019t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf\u2019s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she\u2019s dragged deep into a hidden world of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.TOP 5 FINALIST for 2012 Best Indie Book, Young Adult Fiction - The Kindle Book ReviewOpen Minds is the first novel in the Mindjack Series, a young adult science fiction series. There are three novels in the original trilogy, five novellas that accompany the series, and plans for another trilogy in the works (see Susan\u2019s latest novella, The Locksmith, for a peek at a new Mindjack character for the coming trilogy.) Subscribe to her newsletter, and get a short story for free!READING ORDERMindjack Trilogy (novels): Open Minds, Closed Hearts, Free SoulsMindjack Origins (shorts): Mind Games, The Handler, The Scribe, Keeper, The Locksmith The Locksmith is a standalone novella that can be read independently of the trilogy and novellas.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35011160-open-minds"}, +{"book_title": "AI and the Trolley Problem", "author_name": "Pat Cadigan", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 144, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "A provocative story about the relationship between the humans on a British airbase and the AI security system that guards that base. When a group of humans are killed, the question is who is responsible and why.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42373122-ai-and-the-trolley-problem"}, +{"book_title": "100 Days in Deadland", "author_name": "Rachel Aukes", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1609, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "A Journey Through Dante's Inferno with a Shambling Twist...The world ended on a Thursday.In one day, the world succumbed to a pestilence that decimated the living. In its place rose a new species: vicious, gruesome, wandering monsters with an insatiable hunger for the living. There is no government, no shelter.Still in her twenties, Cash has watched her friends die, only to walk again. An office worker with few survival skills, she joins up with Clutch, a grizzled Army veteran with PTSD. Together, they flee the city and struggle through the nine circles of hell, with nothing but Clutch\u2019s military experience and Cash\u2019s determination to live. As they fight to survive in the zombie inferno, they quickly discover that nowhere is safe from the undead\u2026 or the living.This is the beginning after the end.(100 Days in Deadland is a modern remake of Dante's Inferno, the classic tale on the horrors of hell... zombie apocalypse style!)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17406353-100-days-in-deadland"}, +{"book_title": "The Devastation of Baal", "author_name": "Guy Haley", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 737, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "The Blood Angels Chapter and their successors mount a desperate defence of their home world of Baal\u00a0from the predations of the tyranid hive fleet Leviathan.After a brutal campaign in the Cryptus System fighting the alien tyranids, Lord Dante returns to Baal to marshal the entire Blood Angels Chapter and their Successors against Hive Fleet Leviathan. Thus begins the greatest conflict in the history of the sons of Sanguinius. Despite a valiant battle in the void around Baal, the Blood Angels are unable to stop the tyranids drawing ever closer, but their petitions for reinforcements are met with dread news. The Cadian Gate, the Imperium\u2019s most stalwart bastion against Chaos, has fallen. In their darkest hour, no help will reach the beleaguered Dante and his warriors. Is this truly then the Time of Ending?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Gaming (Gaming Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466779-the-devastation-of-baal"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork God", "author_name": "Jamie Sedgwick", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 480, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Five Stars: \"I read this book in one sitting, as I was physically unable to put it down... I highly recommend The Clockwork God, and cannot wait to see what else Jamie Sedgewick has in store for us.\"-Goodreads ReviewFour Stars: \"An action packed, thrilling read; Very much a must for sci-fi and steampunk fans!\"-Goodreads ReviewFive Stars: \"Can't get enough of the stories by Jamie Sedgwick. This has been the best yet.\"-Amazon ReviewMr. Sedgwick\u2019s new steampunk series picks up where the Tinkerer\u2019s Daughter Trilogy left off:Barreling through their post-apocalyptic world in a massive steam locomotive called the Great Iron horse, the steam-powered ape Socrates and his crew of warriors, miscreants, and genetic anomalies are in search of a rare and precious element known as starfall. Starfall is the fuel that powers the Iron Horse, as well as the great city of Sanctuary. Supplies are running low and unless they can locate another source, all civilization may soon collapse. Starfall also happens to be the ape\u2019s power source and without it, Socrates will die.On their first adventure, Socrates, River, and the rest of the crew encounter a bizarre cult of isolationists and their strange \u201cClockwork God.\u201d Meanwhile, several crew members have gone missing, and tensions are rising as mutineers conspire to overthrow Socrates and destroy the train. As the conflict comes to a boil, a power more ancient and sinister than anything they ever imagined threatens to destroy them all. The \"Iron Horse\" series is a follow up to Sedgwick's \"The Tinkerer's Daughter\" series. A reading of the earlier books is not necessary to enjoy this new series, but may provide added insight to certain characters and history.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52255800-the-clockwork-god"}, +{"book_title": "Echoes of the Long War", "author_name": "David Guymer", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 343, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "On Terra, the last Imperial Fist fights to unite the squabbling High Lords in defence of the Imperium, even as treachery rears its head within the Adeptus Mechanicus. And far away, the Fists Examplar find an unexpected ally for a most dangerous mission\u2026Paralysed by the continued ork invasion of Imperial space, the rulers of Terra continue to fight among themselves. Finally losing patience with the High Council, Koorland \u2013 the last surviving Imperial Fist \u2013 ousts the Lord Commander and seizes control. Elsewhere, the Fists Exemplar are forced by circumstance to fight alongside the Iron Warriors. Where will such an alliance lead \u2013 can a Traitor Legion ever be trusted?It's a turning point, in more ways than one, and introduces not only a potential solution to the ork problem the Imperium's experiencing, but a major new threat that they'll need to deal with as well...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29851423-echoes-of-the-long-war"}, +{"book_title": "Against the Grain", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 4486, "review_number": 647, "book_description": "As the fiercest Defense Agent at the THIRDS, Destructive Delta\u2019s Ash Keeler is foul-mouthed and foul-tempered. But his hard-lined approach always yields results, evident by his recent infiltration of the Coalition. Thanks to Ash\u2019s skills and the help of his team, they finally put an end to the murdering extremist group for good, though not before Ash takes a bullet to save teammate Cael Maddock. As a result, Ash\u2019s secrets start to surface, and he can no longer ignore what\u2019s in his heart. Cael Maddock is no stranger to heartache. As a Recon Agent for Destructive Delta, he has successfully maneuvered through the urban jungle that is New York City, picking up his own scars along the way. Yet nothing he\u2019s ever faced has been more of a challenge than the heart of Ash Keeler, his supposedly straight teammate. Being in love isn\u2019t the only danger he and Ash face as wounds reopen and new secrets emerge, forcing them to question old loyalties.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48903023-against-the-grain"}, +{"book_title": "Herland", "author_name": "Charlotte Perkins Gilman", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 15302, "review_number": 1485, "book_description": "An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male explorers who are now forced to re-examine their assumptions about women's roles in society.", "year_published": 1915, "genres": ["Fiction", "Feminism", "Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Utopia)", "Womens", "Literature", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/531509.Herland"}, +{"book_title": "To Do or Die", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 362, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "From the national bestselling author of the Kris Longknife series comes an all-new Jump Universe novel. Retired Colonel Ray Longknife and Marine Captain Terrence \"Trouble\" Tordon come to Savannah via different routes, but what they find is the same. One bully strongman is intent on keeping power no matter what the new rules are for peace. He\u2019s got the population cowered by thugs, and tanks at the ready. He expects to win the coming elections handily. He doesn\u2019t expect trouble. Or, in this case, Mrs. Trouble\u2014aka Ruth Tordon\u2014a Marine wife on a mission to find the drug lords that almost killed her and her husband and put them out of business\u2014and she\u2019s not about to be stopped by some barely trained roughnecks. Abandoned by their strongman and desperate in defeat, the heavy armor get ready to roll into town over anybody in their way. But Ray Longknife, Trouble and Ruth are standing in their way\u2026and nothing is going to flatten them.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18281998-to-do-or-die"}, +{"book_title": "Prostho Plus", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 815, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "What's keeping you from your grand tour of the universe? Are you afraid of being caught out in the vastness of space with a painful cavity and no one capable of fixing it? Well fear not--the galaxy is simply teeming with dentists!For Dr. Dillingham, dentist of Earth, it was the shock of his life--captured by aliens, forced to fix a strange cavity in an even stranger mouth; then whisked off to deep space. But luckily for the good dentist, Dillingham discovered that he liked zooming about the galaxy, solving unprecedented problems and making new and decidedly different acquaintances. And when he was offered the chance to apply to the Galactic University of Dentistry as Earth's first (and only) applicant, Dillingham had a choice to make: go back to his safe little world of bored housewives and miles of braces, or make a mark for mankind among the teeth of the stars.It was really no choice at all.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263407.Prostho_Plus"}, +{"book_title": "Rath's Deception", "author_name": "Piers Platt", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1134, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "On the cut-throat streets of Tarkis, orphaned teens like Rath end up\u00a0jailed \u2026 or dead. So when the shadowy Janus Group offers\u00a0Rath\u00a0a chance to earn riches beyond his wildest dreams,\u00a0he\u00a0seizes it. But the Janus Group is as ruthless as the elite assassins it controls.\u00a0Rath will\u00a0have to survive their grueling, off-world training, and\u00a0fulfill all fifty kills in his contract\u00a0before\u00a0a single cent\u00a0comes his way.\u00a0And ending so many lives comes with a price Rath can't anticipate. It'll\u00a0certainly cost him what's left of his innocence. It may\u00a0well\u00a0cost him his life. Interview with the Author Q - What makes the Janus Group series special?A - Growing up, I loved books like Ender's Game and the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan series. When I sat down to write the Janus Group books, I wanted to capture what I liked best about those books - sci fi thrillers or action thrillers in a fast-paced style. The series is best characterized as cyberpunk science fiction thrillers, with a little detective and police procedural elements thrown in to boot. Finally, I like my characters to be relatable, and facing overwhelming odds - the plot is action-packed, and keeps you guessing. Beware: plot twists ahead!Q - What order should I read the books in?\u00a0A - Last Pursuit is a short story set in the Janus Group world - it's the prequel, and the story that inspired me to write a full series. You can read that first (for free), then Books 1-3 (Rath's Deception, Rath's Gambit, and Rath's Reckoning) in order from there. Books 1-3 are a complete story arc - Book 3 resolves everything from Books 1 and 2.Q - Why should readers give these books a try?\u00a0A - Because the Janus Group books are fast, inventive, page-turners that kick ass and take names! They've been described as \"Jason Bourne\" meets \"Bladerunner.\" Any fans of hitman books, science fiction assassin tales, or cyberpunk thrillers will enjoy them.Q - Can readers get the whole series in one bundle?\u00a0A - Not yet - sorry, just haven't had a chance to get around to it! But sign up for my newsletter at http://piersplatt.com/newsletter (copy and paste into your browser), or follow me on my author page here at Amazon to find out when I do release a bundle.Thanks for reading!The Janus Group Series eBook Categories:Sci fi actionSci fi thrillerCyberpunkGalactic Empire / Corporations / ConspiraciesBounty hunter / KillerAction adventure / Suspense / PulpCrime / Detective / Mystery / MurderAIs /Artificial intelligenceSpace / Space travelGenes / Genetic engineeringSpace warrior / Military", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space", "Action", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27404848-rath-s-deception"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Rule", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2000, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Marked for execution, Jessica McInness knows joining the enemy is her only hope for survival. However when Kalquor\u2019s crown princes arrive to rescue her, she discovers the three alien men aren\u2019t quite what she hoped for in lifelong mates. Arrogant and brutish, the royal clan infuriates her\u2014and awakens passions as no other men have.The Kalquorians are determined to seduce the temperamental woman who inflames their lusts. They relentlessly pursue the hesitant Earther, resorting to forceful means to claim her as their mate. But love comes at a high price when the princes\u2019 choice of a princess incites a rebellion on Kalquor\u2026and endangers Jessica\u2019s life.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10477903-alien-rule"}, +{"book_title": "On the Wings of War", "author_name": "Hailey Turner", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 1123, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "Remembering the dead will always give them life.The coveted Morr\u00edgan\u2019s staff is up for sale on the black market to the highest bidder, and SOA Special Agent Patrick Collins will do whatever it takes to ensure the Dominion Sect doesn\u2019t get their hands on it. Returning the weapon to its rightful owner is another step on the long road toward clearing Patrick\u2019s soul debt, but he won\u2019t walk it alone. Jonothon de Vere won\u2019t let him.Obeying the gods means Patrick must travel to London. For Jono, it means facing a past he thought he\u2019d left behind forever. His return to England isn\u2019t welcome, and neither is their pack, but Jono and Patrick will face the antagonism together. Politics aside, their priority must be the mission, but the bone-chilling secret they uncover in the London god pack will have far-reaching repercussions no one can ignore.A race against time takes Patrick and Jono from the streets of London to the bright lights of Paris, where hospitality is thin on the ground, the air is filled with whispered prayers for the missing, and the Morr\u00edgan\u2019s staff will end up in the one place it should never have gone\u2014a graveyard.For beneath Paris lie the long-forgotten dead, and when they rise to walk again, the living can only hope to die.On the Wings of War is a 109k word m/m urban fantasy with a gay romantic subplot and a HFN ending. It is a direct sequel to A Vigil in the Mourning. Reading the first book in the series would be helpful in enjoying this one.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54477020-on-the-wings-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk Prime: A Vintage Steampunk Reader", "author_name": "Mike Ashley", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 182, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity. The modern day steampunk genre is a reinventing of the past through the eyes of its inventors and adventures, but this collection is from real Victorians and Edwardians who saw the future potential of science and its daring possibilities. Steam-powered automobiles, submarines, and robots are featured alongside great airships and spaceships in these bold and creative stories of hope, triumph, and disaster.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7846430-steampunk-prime"}, +{"book_title": "The Rook", "author_name": "Daniel O'Malley", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 50314, "review_number": 6803, "book_description": "\"The body you are wearing used to be mine.\" So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her.She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Chequy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare, potentially deadly supernatural ability of her own. In her quest to uncover which member of the Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy encounters a person with four bodies, an aristocratic woman who can enter her dreams, a secret training facility where children are transformed into deadly fighters, and a conspiracy more vast than she ever could have imagined.Filled with characters both fascinating and fantastical, The Rook is a richly inventive, suspenseful, and often wry thriller that marks an ambitious debut from a promising young writer.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10836728-the-rook"}, +{"book_title": "Night's Slow Poison", "author_name": "Ann Leckie", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 995, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "\u201cNight\u2019s Slow Poison\u201d is from the same setting as Ancillary Justice, and tells a rich, claustrophobic story of a galactic voyage that forces one guardsmen to confront his uneasy family history through the lens of a passenger with his lost lover\u2019s eyes.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Literature (21st Century)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22452306-night-s-slow-poison"}, +{"book_title": "Shift", "author_name": "Kim Curran", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 968, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "When your average, 16-year old loser, Scott Tyler, meets the beautiful and mysterious Aubrey Jones, he learns he's not so average after all. He's a 'Shifter'. And that means he has the power to undo any decision he's ever made. At first, he thinks the power to shift is pretty cool. But as his world starts to unravel around him he realises that each time he uses his power, it has consequences; terrible unforeseen consequences. Shifting is going to get him killed. In a world where everything can change with a thought, Scott has to decide where he stands.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Thriller", "Contemporary", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13420494-shift"}, +{"book_title": "The Midwich Cuckoos", "author_name": "John Wyndham", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 18566, "review_number": 1076, "book_description": "In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed\u2014except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant.", "year_published": 1957, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161846.The_Midwich_Cuckoos"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's Gambit", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 754, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Spineward Sectors Series Book Two: Admiral's GambitWhen he set course for 'civilized space,' Jason Montagne thought he'd finally be able to take a deep breath and hand off sole responsibility for patrolling the border of known Space to the 'real' Confederation fleet. Unfortunately, things 'back home' in Sector 25 were in even more turmoil than he could have possibly imagined.When an old friend of the family is caught red-handed in the act of piracy at Easy Haven, and is armed with a ship that outclasses Jason\u2019s Lucky Clover by every measure except sheer bulk and ability to absorb damage, the Little Admiral is faced with a choice that could have consequences felt throughout the Spine.The continuing Bug Menace hangs over the Tracto System like a genocidal plague, and piracy is on the rise as news of the Imperial withdrawal spreads like wildfire among the eight Confederate sectors which make up Admiral Montagne\u2019s neck of the woods.With the border going up in flames, Jason and the crew of the Lucky Clover will have to deal with a whole host of new problems including slipping morale, ingenious pirates, backstabbing cousins, a family reunion you wouldn\u2019t believe, and the loss of those the Little Admiral has come to rely upon most.Can even the infamous Montagne Magic be strong enough to keep this ship from breaking apart in an orgy of violence? With pressure mounting on every side and quickly running out of places to turn for help, it will be a miracle if he can get them out of it in one piece.If he does, it will be forever remembered as the Admiral\u2019s Gambit.Find the answers in this second installment of the Spineward Sectors Series: Admiral's Gambit", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16008698-admiral-s-gambit"}, +{"book_title": "Feather in the Wind", "author_name": "Madeline Baker", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 440, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "BLACK WINDHe gazed out over a land as vast and empty as the sky, praying for the strength to guide his people, and he saw her face. She came to him in a vision, a woman as mysterious as the new moon over the prairie, as tender as springtime in the Paha Sapa. And he knew his life was changed forever.SUSANNAHShe saw his face in a faded picture, and his eyes, restless as the wind, seemed to call to her. It was said he'd been hanged nearly a century ago for kidnapping a white woman, yet his story seemed unfinished. To the writer in her he was an inspiration, but to the lonely woman within he was a dream come true who would lure her across the years to fulfill a love beyond time.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Westerns", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/643934.Feather_in_the_Wind"}, +{"book_title": "The Plot to Save Socrates", "author_name": "Paul Levinson", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 323, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max. The trail leads her to time machines in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York, and into the past--and to a time traveler from her future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades to William Henry Appleton, the great nineteenth-century American publisher, to Hypatia and Socrates himself appear.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Philosophy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16443185-the-plot-to-save-socrates"}, +{"book_title": "The Protector's War", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 8447, "review_number": 349, "book_description": "It's been eight years since the Change rendered technology inoperable across the globe. Rising from the ashes of the computer and industrial ages is a brave new world. Survivors have banded together in tribal communities, committed to rebuilding society. In Oregon's Willamette Valley, former pilot Michael Havel's Bearkillers are warriors of renown. Their closest ally, the mystical Clan Mackenzie, is led by Wiccan folksinger Juniper Mackenzie. Their leadership has saved countless lives.But not every leader has altruistic aspirations. Norman Arminger, medieval scholar, rules the Protectorate. He has enslaved civilians, built an army, and spread his forces from Portland through most of western Washington State. Now he wants the Willamette Valley farmland, and he's willing to wage war to conquer it.And unknown to both factions is the imminent arrival of a ship from Tasmania bearing British soldiers...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116449.The_Protector_s_War"}, +{"book_title": "West End Droids & East End Dames", "author_name": "Brian Parker", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 42, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Just when his life seemed to be getting back on track, Detective Zach Forrest finds himself in the midst of a whirlwind of treachery, lies, and mayhem that threatens to unravel the delicate balance of power in Easytown.Everything comes crashing down on Forrest when a rampaging cyborg attacks him, disrupting his investigation into the death of a lowly thumper club doorman who knew too much. Before he can determine his next move, a beautiful, mysterious evidence clerk lands on his doorstep, forcing her way into his life despite the NOPD's rules against fraternization -- and his missing girlfriend.Meanwhile, to combat the rapidly increasing number of cybernetically enhanced criminals, the police chief assigns him the difficult task of tracking down and stopping the street doctors who build the abominations at any cost.But, will it cost Zach more than he'd expected?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35908959-west-end-droids-east-end-dames"}, +{"book_title": "Mission of Honor", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 9876, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, and she has paid a price for the victories she's achieved in that conflict. And now the unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty Solarian League is on a collision course with Manticore. The millions who have already died may have been only a foretaste of the billions of casualties just over the horizon, and Honor sees it coming.She's prepared to do anything, risk anything, to stop it, and she has a plan that may finally bring an end to the Havenite Wars and give even the Solarian League pause. But there are things not even Honor knows about. There are forces in play, hidden enemies in motion, all converging on the Star Kingdom of Manticore to crush the very life out of it, and Honor's worst nightmares fall short of the oncoming reality.But Manticore's enemies may not have thought of everything after all. Because if everything Honor Harrington loves is going down to destruction, it won't be going alone.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7106681-mission-of-honor"}, +{"book_title": "Romanitas", "author_name": "Sophia McDougall", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 648, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "In 2756 AC, magnetic railways span Roman territory from Persia to Terranova, and mechanised crucifixes are ranked along the banks of the Thames. As the story opens, Marcus Novius Faustus Leo, heir apparent to the Imperial throne, is mourning the death of his parents.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Low Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/823078.Romanitas"}, +{"book_title": "Gods of Risk", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 14433, "review_number": 832, "book_description": "As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer. When his friend Leelee goes missing, leaving signs of the dealer's involvement, David takes it upon himself to save her. But first he must shake his aunt Bobbie Draper, an ex-marine who has been set adrift in her own life after a mysterious series of events nobody is talking about. Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War, \"Gods of Risk\" deepens James S. A. Corey's acclaimed Expanse series.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15837317-gods-of-risk"}, +{"book_title": "Einstein's Dreams", "author_name": "Alan Lightman", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 32090, "review_number": 3430, "book_description": "A modern classic, Einstein\u2019s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein\u2019s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fiction", "Short Stories", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science (Physics)", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14376.Einstein_s_Dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Sassinak", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 7519, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "OLD ENOUGH TO BE USED, YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE BROKENSassinak was twelve when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different from your typical slave girl. Maybe it was her unusual physical strength. Maybe it was her friendship with the captured Fleet crewman. Maybe it was her spirit. Whatever it was, it wouldn't let her resign herself to the life of a slave. She bided her time, watched for her moment. Finally it came, and she escaped.But that was only the beginning for Sassinak. Now she's a Fleet Captain with a pirate-chasing ship of her own, and only one regret in her life: not enough pirates.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Adult", "Adventure", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/574676.Sassinak"}, +{"book_title": "Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation", "author_name": "Tim Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 16745, "review_number": 1009, "book_description": "\"Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes.\"For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene is perfume, this is not just an official slogan. It is a mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden.In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world's most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature.Including an original foreword by Ray Bradbury and fully depicting the brilliance and force of his canonic and beloved masterwork, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is an exceptional, haunting work of graphic literature.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult", "Academic (School)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5199185-fahrenheit-451"}, +{"book_title": "The Myriad", "author_name": "R.M. Meluch", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1020, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "The Barnes & Noble ReviewR. M. Meluch's first novel in more than a decade, The Myriad, begins a series that is an amalgam of subgenres: military science fiction, space opera, time paradox, and alternate history.On an Earth where the Roman Empire never fell (but instead existed in secret societies for millennia, finally reestablishing itself on the planet Palatine) and is now embroiled in a war against the League of Earth Nations, a much more deadly foe emerges from the darkness of deep space -- the Hive. The governments of Palatine and Earth enter into an uneasy alliance to fight the alien invaders, nondescript antagonists that exist only to consume. While the unified forces try to keep the Hive from destroying human-populated planets, one U.S. battleship, the Merrimack, sets off on a quest to find the Hive's homeworld and take the battle to its source.During the ship's desperate search, the crew of the Merrimack discovers a strange star cluster with three worlds inhabited by sentient beings. After first contact with the amazingly humanoid populace, Captain John Farragut discovers a series of wormholes that could unlock the secrets that could defeat the Hive -- or destroy humankind forever.Vaguely reminiscent of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (specifically, the relentless alien antagonists and the over-the-top, gung-ho characters), Meluch's The Myriad is lighthearted, fast-paced fun. While obviously not as intense or controversial as Heinlein's Hugo Award winning classic, this novel will prove thoroughly enjoyable to fans of military science fiction authors like David Weber and David Drake. Paul Goat Allen", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/640814.The_Myriad"}, +{"book_title": "A Place So Foreign and Eight More", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 890, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Free. In the title tale, narrator James 14 returns home with Mama to 1898 village when his father Les, time-traveller Ambassador to aliens, vanishes from 1975 jet-pack city. When the \"mothaship\" takes the anointed few into the brave new world, those left behind are angry. \"0wnz0red\" asks - what happens when hackers hack the human body? 1 Craphound 2 A place so foreign 3 All day sucker 4 To market, to market 5 Return to Pleasure Island 6 Shadow of the mothaship 7 Home again, home again 8 The super man and the bugout 9 Ownz0red", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29593.A_Place_So_Foreign_and_Eight_More"}, +{"book_title": "Perseids and Other Stories", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 233, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Robert Charles Wilson's time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for the first time.Beginning with \"The Perseids,\" winner of Canada's national SF award, this collection showcases Wilson's suppleness and strength: bravura ideas, scientific rigor, and living, breathing human beings facing choices that matter. Also included among the several stories herein are the acclaimed Hugo Award finalist \"Divided by Infinity\" and three new stories written specifically for this collection.Contents:The Fields of Abraham (2000)The Perseids (1995)The Inner Inner City (1997)The Observer (1998)Protocols of Consumption (1997)Ulysses Sees the Moon in the Bedroom Window (2000)Plato's Mirror (1999)Divided by Infinity (1998)Pearl Baby (2000)", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174958.Perseids_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "Chromebook (Cyberpunk RPG", "author_name": "Colin Fisk", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 29, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Additional materials for Cyberpunk Role playing game from Talsorian games.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Gaming)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2308020.Chromebook"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 15: Burning Bright", "author_name": "Tom Dowd", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 392, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Mitch Truman, heir to the megacorporation Truman Technologies, has vanished without a trace. His father hires the best tracker money can buy to find his son--but will the vast Truman fortune be enough to destroy the terrible power spreading throughout Chicago?", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/531241.Shadowrun_15"}, +{"book_title": "This Night So Dark", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3977, "review_number": 518, "book_description": "Tarver still has nightmares about the night, six months before the Icarus crash, when he rescued civilian researchers held hostage by brutal mercenaries. Now he and Lilac reconcile his memories of that night with the truth uncovered after the crash. Short connects first two novels. Includes preview chapter from This Shattered World.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22071887-this-night-so-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Tik-Tok", "author_name": "John Sladek", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 585, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Something has gone very seriously wrong with Tik-Tok's \"asimov circuits.\" They should keep him on the straight and narrow, following Asimov's first law of robotics: A robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. But, that's not what's happening. Although every thing looks fine from the surface, and Tik-Tok maintains the outward appearance of a mild-mannered robot, his agenda is murderously different. And, it's not just because of his artistic tendencies and sympathy for the robot rights movement, either. This witty chronicle of one abnormal machine-man, and his dealings with an assortment of deranged and maniacal humans, truly showcases the satirical genius of John Sladek.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novels", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236202.Tik_Tok"}, +{"book_title": "Year Zero", "author_name": "Rob Reid", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 12089, "review_number": 1749, "book_description": "Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it\u2019s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And boy, do they have news. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity\u2019s music ever since \u201cYear Zero\u201d (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everything\u2014and the aliens are not amused. Nick now has forty-eight hours to save humanity, while hopefully wowing the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Music", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12953520-year-zero"}, +{"book_title": "Can Long Endure", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1091, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Part three of the four parts making up the full-length novel, The End of All Things.They signed up to defend humans from hostile aliens, but this group of Colonial Union soldiers finds themselves, instead, repeatedly sent to squelch rebellious human colonies that want to leave the CU. It's not a sustainable situation. Something has to give. The End of All Things is John Scalzi's conclusion to the Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25349323-can-long-endure"}, +{"book_title": "Unremembered", "author_name": "Jessica Brody", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 7391, "review_number": 1086, "book_description": "The only thing worse than forgetting her past . . . is remembering it.When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors. Which is why the sixteen-year-old girl discovered floating among the wreckage - alive - is making headlines across the globe.Even more strange is that her body is miraculously unharmed and she has no memories of boarding the plane. She has no memories of her life before the crash. She has no memories period. No one knows how she survived. No one knows why she wasn\u2019t on the passenger manifest. And no one can explain why her DNA and fingerprints can\u2019t be found in a single database in the world.Crippled by a world she doesn\u2019t know, plagued by abilities she doesn\u2019t understand, and haunted by a looming threat she can\u2019t remember, Seraphina struggles to piece together her forgotten past and discover who she really is. But with every clue only comes more questions. And she\u2019s running out of time to answer them.Her only hope is a strangely alluring boy who claims to know her from before the crash. Who claims they were in love. But can she really trust him? And will he be able to protect her from the people who have been making her forget?From popular young adult author Jessica Brody comes a compelling and suspenseful new sci-fi series, set in a world where science knows no boundaries, memories are manipulated, and true love can never be forgotten.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9791892-unremembered"}, +{"book_title": "Aces Abroad", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2202, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "What would our world be like if superhuman heroes and villains had been real flesh-and-blood men and women who lived through the 20th century's most turbulent history? In Wild Cards 4: Aces Abroad, a fact-finding mission seeks the truth about how Wild Cards are treated in other nations. From the jungles of Haiti to the Great Wall of China and behind the Iron Curtain, the Wild Cards team investigates the fate of their fellow Aces and Jokers everywhere.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984792.Aces_Abroad"}, +{"book_title": "The World of Cyberpunk 2077", "author_name": "Marcin Batylda", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 473, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "An insightful, captivatingly designed, full-color hardcover that transports readers to the futuristic megalopolis of Night City--the epicenter of the vibrant new action-RPG from CD Projekt Red.Step into the year 2077, a world dotted with dystopian metropoles where violence, oppression, and cyberware implants aren't just common--they're necessary tools to get ahead. Delve into incisive lore to discover how the economic decline of the United States created a crippling dependence on devious corporations and birthed the Free State of California. Explore the various districts, gangs, and history of Night City. Learn all there is to know about the technology of tomorrow and research the cybernetics, weapons, and vehicles of Cyberpunk 2077.Dark Horse Books and CD Projekt Red present The World of Cyberpunk 2077--an extensive examination of the rich lore of Cyberpunk 2077. This intricately assembled tome contains everything you need to know about the history, characters, and world of the long-awaited follow-up from the creators of The Witcher video game series.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Art", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Fiction", "Games (Gaming)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Games (Video Games)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51584768-the-world-of-cyberpunk-2077"}, +{"book_title": "Reaper's Run", "author_name": "David VanDyke", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1617, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "When US Marine Sergeant Jill Repeth's blown-off legs begin to regenerate, she thinks it's a medical miracle. But the breakthrough that heals her war injuries is exactly what the government desperately wants to hide - by any means necessary. Hunted, she must cross an America wracked by strife, to try to find a family who may already be dead.Reaper's Run is an origins story and apocalyptic novel, the beginning of one warrior's journey from tactical cop to freedom fighter and beyond. It leads the reader into the acclaimed Plague Wars science fiction series.This book contains a bonus post-apocalyptic novella by prolific author Ryan King.The Plague Wars Series:- The Eden Plague- Reaper's Run- The Demon Plagues- The Reaper Plague- The Orion Plague- Comes the Destroyer - Plague Wars #5, forthcoming Summer 2013Stellar Conquest Series:- Planetary Assault - contains First Conquest: Stellar Conquest Book 1- Desolator: Book 2- Tactics of Conquest: Book 3 (Fall 2013)PG-13 for language, violence and adult situations (non-explicit)See more from this author at davidvandykeauthor.comThis book is free of Digital Rights Management (DRM)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "War (Military Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18141356-reaper-s-run"}, +{"book_title": "Appleseed: Hypernotes", "author_name": "Masamune Shirow", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 113, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "World War III is over, but for nomad soldier Deunan Knute and her cyborg lover, Briareos, the greatest challenge lies ahead. Not in the abandoned cities and DMZs of a post-war battlefield, but on the streets of a new \"utopia.\" Shirow Masamune's visionary Appleseed is widely regarded not only as one of the lynchpin works of graphic fiction, but one of the most influential science-fiction stories in recent memory, culminating in the astonishing 2005 animated adaptation. Appleseed: Hypernotes, never before collected in America, features an over eighty page Appleseed tale, plus reams of detailed information and art of the characters, machines, and weapons of Appleseed.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918857.Appleseed"}, +{"book_title": "Indigo 99", "author_name": "Patrick Kelley", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 25, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "After a mysterious vessel crashes on a remote, strategic, and highly habitable moon, Sergeant Danika Fargo and Earth Government troops are deployed to the eerie impact site to investigate. Before much information is unraveled, unusual beings and powerful devices create an onslaught of confusion about the mysterious invasion... Fargo has to give it her all to uncover and stop humanity's dire new threat.-----------------------------------Check out www.authorpatkelley.com for other works and spoiler-free, self-critiquing reviews.-----------------------------------Other books in this universe:(1. INDIGO 99)2. EXOWORLDS APART3. ECCENTRICITY4. ROUGH TRANSITION-----------------------------------", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27802358-indigo-99"}, +{"book_title": "The Fellowship of the Ring", "author_name": "J.R.R. Tolkien", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 2410290, "review_number": 23825, "book_description": "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkeness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit.In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Classics", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Novels", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3263607-the-fellowship-of-the-ring"}, +{"book_title": "Guilty Pleasures", "author_name": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 135309, "review_number": 5722, "book_description": "Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city\u2019s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear\u2014her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy...", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Horror", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30281.Guilty_Pleasures"}, +{"book_title": "Live in Infamy", "author_name": "Caroline Tung Richmond", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 578, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Return to the world of The Only Thing to Fear! In the eighty years since the Axis powers won World War II with their genetically engineered super soldiers, America has changed drastically in the hands of the unforgiving victors. But there are still those who aspire to what the country used to stand for: freedom for all.In the Western American Territories, Chinese American Ren Cabot has lost nearly everything to Imperial Japan's rule. After the public execution of his mom for treason five years ago, Ren lives under constant scrutiny of the Empire, afraid that one wrong step will rip apart what remains of his family for good. However, when a chance encounter with a resistance group offers Ren an opportunity to save lives and quite possibly topple the government, he agrees to their deadly plot. But his role will lead him straight into the heart of enemy, and if caught, death would be a much better fate than what the Empire will do to him . . .", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "War (World War II)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35276717-live-in-infamy"}, +{"book_title": "The Invasion of 1950", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 495, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The year is 1950, but not the 1950 we know. The Second World War ended in 1943. Hitler never declared war on the United States and is currently master of an empire that stretches from the Atlantic coastline of France to the Ural Mountains in Russia. Hundreds of millions are dead or enslaved as Hitler\u2019s followers make his dreams real, but the Fuhrer is still not satisfied. To the west, Britain remains independent \u2013 and, beyond it, the United States of America. Since 1943, the world has enjoyed an uneasy peace. That is about to change ...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18498351-the-invasion-of-1950"}, +{"book_title": "Rescue", "author_name": "Tony Corden", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 803, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In Nascent, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves. In Odyssey, she not only found a way to escape but she also uncovered deeper plots being carried out in both the virtual multi-universe and reality. In 'Change', Leah began learning how to use the additional connections her chip has made throughout her body. The Pod facility she opened expanded as she helped others from her neighbourhood. She discovered that the crime syndicate has an even greater presence in the virtual multiverse than she\u2019d imagined. As she begins to unravel some of their secrets, they tarnish her reputation and begin removing allies and friends who can help her. In 'Rescue' Leah works to save some of her family and friends who are held captive by the syndicate. Through all of this, she continues to expand her presence, position and power in the virtual multi-verse, in her studies and real life.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39352799-rescue"}, +{"book_title": "The Neutronium Alchemist", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 17653, "review_number": 387, "book_description": "Not every fallen angel comes from heaven...The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world.On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy, the Conferderation Navy is dangerously over-stretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night.In such desperate times the last thing the galaxy needs is a new and terrifyingly powerful weapon. Yet Dr Alkad Mzu is determined to retrieve the Alchemist - so she can complete her thirty-year vendetta to slay a star. Which means Joshua Calvert has to find Dr. Mzu and bring her back before the alchemist can be reactivated.But he's not alone in the chase, and there are people on both sides who have their own ideas about how to use the ultimate doomsday device.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Epic", "Audiobook", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479561.The_Neutronium_Alchemist"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Forest", "author_name": "Liu Cixin", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 69779, "review_number": 5766, "book_description": "This is the second novel in \"Remembrance of Earth\u2019s Past\", the near-future trilogy written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion \u2014 four centuries in the future. The aliens' human collaborators have been defeated but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (China)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168817-the-dark-forest"}, +{"book_title": "Together: AI and Human. On The Same Side", "author_name": "Zoltan Andrejkovics", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 48, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Artificial Intelligence is our society's biggest opportunity. It will be the most influential technology of our century, but we still don\u2019t know how to put this into the right path. This book is focusing on the philosophical side of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics while remaining rational and pragmatic.We (not AI professionals) all have important questions:\n\n How will it work? \n \n Who will benefit from AI technologies? \n \n Will robots think the way we do? \n \n How will this new future look like? \n \nTogether tries to give thoughtful answers on these questions,\u00a0we have a vision where AI won\u2019t kill people, more likely to save many lives, a future where AI helps to build a better society.What you won't find in this book:\n\n Mathematical equations and matrixes \n \n Stories about robot vacuum cleaners (sorry pal) \n \n Program codes \n \nWhat you will certainly read in this book:\n\n The most important questions connected to AI, AGI and ASI \n \n Real world examples of AI applications and companies \n \n An ideal vision how we could achieve a win-win situation with Artificial Intelligence \n \nIt is hard to summarize my opinion about AI in one sentence but I would say: \"I have a minority report:\u00a0Together\". I would recommend this book for people who are open-minded for a better future.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Pop Culture (Geek)", "Futurism", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Philosophy", "Nonfiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50891476-together"}, +{"book_title": "Midnight", "author_name": "Ellen Connor", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 748, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "Second in a stunning post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy.Three years of wandering the postapocalyptic wasteland has stripped Dr. Chris Welsh of hope. A harrowing loss drove him from his home, and he hasn't stopped moving-until he encounters Valle de Bravo, a haven of civilization amid the chaos of the Change. Soldiers take their orders from Rosa Cortez-the iron hand within a velvet glove. The last thing Rosa needs is a feral loner upsetting the town's tentative balance. However, for the good of her people, she lets Chris stay, and as bloodthirsty raiders strike again and again, Chris and Rosa battle hellhounds and dust pirates while also fighting desperate attraction. To save them, love must overcome the pain of the past-and build a future in this brutal Dark Age... ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8396758-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "My Timeswept Heart", "author_name": "Amy J. Fetzer", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 179, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "In this 1992 Golden Heart Finalist for Best Time Travel Romance, a spirited '90s woman is transported back to the 18th century--and into the arms of a swashbuckling pirate.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92991.My_Timeswept_Heart"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 26", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.67, "rating_votes": 5542, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "With all the pieces now in his possession, the homunculus \"father\" executes his master plan as Edward and the others watch in horror. When the dust settles, the entire world has been reshaped. With the help of Hohenheim, the Elric brothers lauch a desperate final attack, but is it all too late...?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Manga (Shonen)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10281904-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-26"}, +{"book_title": "Transmaniacon", "author_name": "John Shirley", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 48, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "BEN RACKEY Foremost Professional irritant, remarkable in acting both as burglar and inciter in the bizarre and pleasure-seeking world of the 22nd century is a fearless, ruthless man of ingenuity, completely overwhelmed with his own strength. His latest and most Dangerous assignment is to steal THE EXCITER. A dangerous and fragile device for the augmentation of the telepathic transfer of mania. By seeking out and amplifying strong, hostile human emotions, the exciter can turn a street brawl into a full scale war. As soon as Ben has possession if it he will have the power to destroy THE BARRIER. Conceived as the perfect defense against nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, it was activated in 1989 - an invisible screen of densely flowing ions entirely enclosing the continental zone labeled \"The United States.\" Once the barrier is demolished Ben can escape. --- from book's back cover", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3353028-transmaniacon"}, +{"book_title": "The Lives of Christopher Chant", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 21075, "review_number": 652, "book_description": "His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that he can bring real, solid things back from his dreams. Others begin to recognize the extent of his powers, and they issue an order that turns Christopher's life upside down: Go to Chrestomanci Castle to train to be the controller of all the world's magic.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519933.The_Lives_of_Christopher_Chant"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Rain", "author_name": "Jess Granger", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 764, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "In a universe torn apart by civil war, a warrior and a slave must fight for their lives and a love that may destroy them both. After five years behind enemy lines, Captain Cyani has to complete one final mission before she can return to Azra-a planet ruled by a sisterhood of celibate warriors. Along the way she finds a prisoner, chained and beaten-but radiating feral power and an unbroken spirit. For years Soren has endured torture as his captors leeched his very essence, a unique hormone then sold as a sexual narcotic in the shadow trade. Now he has been freed from slavery by a beautiful warrior woman with radiant blue eyes. After years in bondage, Soren's hormones are so unbalanced that he will die if he does not mate with a woman. Can Cyani be the woman he needs to survive, or will this forbidden bond destroy them?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic Romance", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6000234-beyond-the-rain"}, +{"book_title": "Stranded Angels", "author_name": "Ralph Joseph-MIriani", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Ali has a going trading business with three mules to carry his goods. Okay, it\u2019s not making him rich, but he gets along. He\u2019s also got a good wife, a child, and a beautiful slave girl who actually gets along with his wife. Life should be good.But there are also the thieves who raid the countryside (and trading caravans) and kill anyone who tries to resist.Oh \u2014 and some visitors from space who have a secret cave in the mountains full of strange items \u2026 and diamonds, and a problem they want Ali to solve.Life can be so complicated, but the reward may be tremendous \u2014 if Ali can survive.Main Story: 55,200 words (equivalent to 207 pages in mass market paperback form)Plus: 11,300 words (42 pages) special additional Close Encounters from Primordial Times to the Present section.Rated \"G\" .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14743474-stranded-angels"}, +{"book_title": "The Eternal Prison", "author_name": "Jeff Somers", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1056, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Avery Cates is a wanted man. After surviving the worst bioengineered disaster in history, Cates finds himself incarcerated - in Chengara Penitentiary. As Chengara has a survival rate of exactly zero, the system's most famous gunner must do some serious plotting. And a betrayal or so later, he achieves his goal. At a price. All he has to do now is defeat some new personal demons, forge some unlikely alliances, and figure out why the people he's killed lately just won't stay dead.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5630829-the-eternal-prison"}, +{"book_title": "Shattered Silence", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1481, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Enki Zakanin just wants peace and quiet. He's completed his mission, and on the journey back to the Kordolian Fleet Station, he'd prefer to be left alone so he can manage the literal demon inside his head. Alone. So when a strange distress call breaks the silence, his first instinct is to ignore the signal. Why would anyone be foolish enough to broadcast an open signal in the Ninth Sector? My name is Layla dela Cruz. I need your help. A human? What in Kaiin's Hells is she doing this far into Sector Nine? Now, somehow, he has to go and get her. After all, he's given her his word. Shattered Silence is Book 2 in the Darkstar Mercenaries series. It features a lethal silver-skinned alien hero, a human heroine, and the usual action, violence, steamy sex scenes, and HFN (\"happy for now\") ending.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Futuristic", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41008101-shattered-silence"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior of the Highlands", "author_name": "Veronica Wolff", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 513, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "While doing research for her dissertation, graduate student Haley Fitzpatrick stumbles upon a strange artifact\u2014which sends her back in time to old Scotland, directly into the path of the notorious Alasdair MacColla, a warrior known for his enormous physical presence and bloodthirsty reputation.Assuming that this woman with the mysterious accent is an enemy spy, MacColla promptly kidnaps her. But Haley\u2019s beauty and courage strike a chord in the Highlander, awakening a desire in him that he hadn't known existed.At first Haley\u2019s frightened by her imposing captor. But she soon discovers that MacColla is much more than the brute that modern history describes, and decides she\u2019s meant to be by his side. But unless she can find a way to change the past, the warrior she\u2019s fallen for is destined to meet a tragic end\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6051929-warrior-of-the-highlands"}, +{"book_title": "Grace Lost", "author_name": "M. Lauryl Lewis", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1705, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Caught in the middle of a zombie plague, Zoe Kate and Adam Boggs flee their rural hometown in search of safety in the nearby Cascade Mountain range. They are joined by two other survivors, Gus and Emilie. Infected, Zoe must also face the realization that she has developed a telepathic link to the living dead that fills her mind with darkness and evil. Facing unimaginable horrors and unthinkable tragedies, the group must fight both the living and the dead. Zoe and Boggs manage to fall in love while surrounded by death and despair. Before long, it becomes clear that the living dead do not play by usual zombie rules.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21695933-grace-lost"}, +{"book_title": "The Things That Keep Us Here", "author_name": "Carla Buckley", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 4814, "review_number": 799, "book_description": "How far would you go to protect your family?Ann Brooks never thought she\u2019d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life changes overnight.A year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple trying\u2013and failing\u2013to keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to America\u2019s heartland.And it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches.As their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return home\u2013with his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brookses\u2019 safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark.Trapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear.Carla Buckley\u2019s poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Suspense", "Thriller", "Contemporary", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6670514-the-things-that-keep-us-here"}, +{"book_title": "Incarceron", "author_name": "Catherine Fisher", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 59131, "review_number": 5357, "book_description": "Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332775.Incarceron"}, +{"book_title": "Them or Us", "author_name": "David Moody", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2072, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "The war that has torn the human race apart is nearing its end. With the country in the grip of a nuclear winter, both Hater and Unchanged struggle to survive. Hinchcliffe, leader of an army of Haters, will stop at nothing to be at the top of the new world order.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9219992-them-or-us"}, +{"book_title": "Noise", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 580, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "A Sci-Fi Adventure Set in the BLAME! Universe As detective Musubi Susono investigates a series of child kidnappings, her own partner is viciously murdered. But when the investigation takes a brutal turn, she is suddenly confronted by the killer--and his vicious Silicon Creature...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624693.Noise"}, +{"book_title": "Cry Republic", "author_name": "Kirk Mitchell", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 52, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Two thousand years after Pilate pardoned Jesus, Rome rules the world with nuclear might. But when Caesar Germanicus seeks to transform the empire into a republic, his legions rise up against him.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368215.Cry_Republic"}, +{"book_title": "Unholy Ghosts", "author_name": "Stacia Kane", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 16292, "review_number": 1687, "book_description": "THE DEPARTED HAVE ARRIVED. The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully tattooed witch and freewheeling ghost hunter. She\u2019s got a real talent for banishing the wicked dead. But Chess is keeping a dark secret: She owes a lot of money to a murderous drug lord named Bump, who wants immediate payback in the form of a dangerous job that involves black magic, human sacrifice, a nefarious demonic creature, and enough wicked energy to wipe out a city of souls. Toss in lust for a rival gang leader and a dangerous attraction to Bump\u2019s ruthless enforcer, and Chess begins to wonder if the rush is really worth it. Hell, yeah.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261189-unholy-ghosts"}, +{"book_title": "Vox", "author_name": "Christina Dalcher", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 55953, "review_number": 9065, "book_description": "Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed to speak more than 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial\u2014this can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her.This is just the beginning.Soon women can no longer hold jobs. Girls are no longer taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words a day, but now women only have one hundred to make themselves heard.But this is not the end.For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Feminism", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Adult Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37796866-vox"}, +{"book_title": "Dreams of a Dark Warrior", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 36719, "review_number": 1570, "book_description": "From #1 New York Times bestseller Kresley Cole comes this gripping tale of a battle-maddenend warrior driven by revenge and the Valkyrie temptress who haunts his dreams.He Vowed He'd Come For Her... Murdered before he could wed Regin the Radiant, warlord Aidan the Fierce seeks his beloved through eternity, reborn again and again into new identities, yet with no memory of his past lives.She Awaits His Return...When Regin encounters Declan Chase, a brutal Celtic soldier, she recognizes her proud warlord reincarnated. But Declan takes her captive, intending retribution against all immortals\u2014unaware that he belongs to their world.To Sate A Desire More Powerful Than Death...Yet every reincarnation comes with a price, for Aidan is doomed to die when he remembers his past. To save herself from Declan\u2019s torments, will Regin rekindle memories of the passion they once shared\u2014even if it means once again losing the only man she could ever love?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8534799-dreams-of-a-dark-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's Lady: Ashes for Ashes, Blood for Blood", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 175, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "This is a Novel Length Novella of about 74,000 words, making this book the size of standard published novel but only about half the size of a mainline book in this series. For reference its about twice the size of the previous Admiral's Lady book. Product Description: While Jason was getting back and gearing up for his Revenge, Akantha wasn't just sitting quietly in the corner or out waving the flag on a PR tour. She was gearing up for some revenge of her own. Determined to punish those who planted the knife in the MSP and just as or even more importantly her own people's back, this is one Hold-Mistress who isn't about to let the events that took place at Omicron Station pass. As far as she's concerned her Protector was far too lenient, a mistake she's not about to repeat. You see she has a name for her pain and it is King James, the very man who sent the traitors that took their ship and killed their people. There will be ashes, there will be blood and while victory may not be possible one thing is certain... whether she goes home carrying her shield or carried upon it, they will suffer as she has suffered. Or her name is not Akantha of Messene!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20945951-admiral-s-lady"}, +{"book_title": "Singularity", "author_name": "Bill DeSmedt", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 601, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "A maverick astrophysicist, a rookie secret agent, and an uncanny consultant join forces in this technological thriller to stop the capture of a submicroscopic black hole whose power will be harnessed to transform - or end - the world. More than a hundred years earlier, the most violent cosmic collision ever recorded flattened a remote area in Tunguska, Siberia. Now, astrophysicist Jack Adler, conducting research at the site, discovers a tiny black hole at the center of the mysterious event, and alarmingly, the object has been burrowing its way through the Earth's core ever since. Meanwhile, secret agent Marianna Bonaventure enlists the help of Jonathan Knox, an analyst with an uncanny ability to find hidden relationships between seemingly disparate people and events, to search for three missing scientists and infiltrate the floating headquarters of a Russian industrialist.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437399.Singularity"}, +{"book_title": "Hex", "author_name": "Rhiannon Lassiter", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 844, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "A Supercomputer Brain In A 15-Year-Old's Body...Meet Raven, The Most Dangerous Teenager In The World....London. The 24th century. The CPS, a secret government agency, is on a mission to seek and destroy the Hex, human mutants with supercomputer minds. They are young. They look like you or me. They must never be allowed to grow up....But the CPS hasn't discovered Raven. Soon they will feel her power, know her rage as she and her brother, Wraith, set out to discover what happened to their long-lost sister, Rachel. Is she dead or alive? Or has she met a fate worse than extinction? There is only one way to find out. Raven must use her Hex powers to crack the top-secret security of the CPS. Then she must enter the place that promises certain death....", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625859.Hex"}, +{"book_title": "Deathstalker Legacy", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1788, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "It has been two hundred years since Owen Deathstalker fell, dying to save the Empire and all Humanity. Now it is a Golden Age for all: for men, for aliens and for the AIs of Shub. But one evil man has determined to bring it all crashing down, and now the Terror has finally arrived, threatening them all with extinction. The old heroes have become legends, and the cry goes out for new heroes. It's time for the latest Deathstalker, Lewis, to do his bit. Unfortunately, he and his companions, a diva, a conman, a homicidal psychopath and a reptiloid, have been outlawed and declared traitors. Deathstalker luck. Always bad. Unless Lewis Deathstalker can defy the odds to get to the Madness Maze and tread the same dangerous path to glory that his ancestor did, the Golden Age is about to be wiped out for ever. Together with Humanity . . .", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629075.Deathstalker_Legacy"}, +{"book_title": "After Eden", "author_name": "Helen Douglas", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2153, "review_number": 307, "book_description": "Eden Anfield loves puzzles, so when mysterious new boy Ryan Westland shows up at her school she's hooked. On the face of it, he's a typical American teenager. So why doesn't he recognise pizza? And how come he hasn't heard of Hitler? What puzzles Eden the most, however, is the interest he's taking in her. As Eden starts to fall in love with Ryan, she begins to unravel his secret. Her breakthrough comes one rainy afternoon when she stumbles across a book in Ryan's bedroom - a biography of her best friend - written over fifty years in the future. Confronting Ryan, she discovers that he is there with one unbelievably important purpose ... and she might just have destroyed his only chance of success.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12275873-after-eden"}, +{"book_title": "Cyber World: Tales of Humanity\u2019s Tomorrow", "author_name": "Jason Heller", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 139, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Cybernetics. Neuroscience. Nanotechnology. Genetic engineering. Hacktivism. Transhumanism. The world of tomorrow is already here, and the technological changes we all face have inspired a new wave of stories to address our fears, hopes, dreams, and desires as Homo sapiens evolve\u2014or not\u2014into their next incarnation. Cyber World presents diverse tales of humanity\u2019s tomorrow, as told by some of today\u2019s most gripping science fiction visionaries.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30365447-cyber-world"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberpunk City Book One: The Machine Killer", "author_name": "D.L. Young", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 93, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "For fans of Altered Carbon, Neuromancer, and Snow Crash.Former data thief Maddox thinks his life of cybercrime is behind him. He couldn't be more wrong.Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space. Plunged headlong into the deadly conflict, he\u2019ll have to use every trick he\u2019s ever learned\u2014and a few he\u2019s never tried before\u2014if he wants to survive.Sprawling megacities, rogue AIs, black market tech, modded mercenaries, and a pulse-pounding story filled with unexpected twists. If you love gritty, hardcore cyberpunk, you won\u2019t want to miss this series!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55258100-cyberpunk-city-book-one"}, +{"book_title": "The Tide of Victory", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1889, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Armed with lancers, breech-loading rifles, steamships, and galleys, General Belisarius, accompanied by his own ally from the future, ventures into the Malwa Empire, a sixth-century kingdom ruled by Link, a horrifying and evil entity from the future.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57276.The_Tide_of_Victory"}, +{"book_title": "Alienated", "author_name": "Melissa Landers", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 22137, "review_number": 3351, "book_description": "Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one of them. Handpicked to host the first-ever L\u2019eihr exchange student, Cara thinks her future is set. Not only does she get a free ride to her dream college, she\u2019ll have inside information about the mysterious L\u2019eihrs that every journalist would kill for. Cara\u2019s blog following is about to skyrocket.Still, Cara isn\u2019t sure what to think when she meets Aelyx. Humans and L\u2019eihrs have nearly identical DNA, but cold, infuriatingly brilliant Aelyx couldn\u2019t seem more alien. She\u2019s certain about one thing, though: no human boy is this good-looking.But when Cara's classmates get swept up by anti-L'eihr paranoia, Midtown High School suddenly isn't safe anymore. Threatening notes appear in Cara's locker, and a police officer has to escort her and Aelyx to class. Cara finds support in the last person she expected. She realizes that Aelyx isn\u2019t just her only friend; she's fallen hard for him. But Aelyx has been hiding the truth about the purpose of his exchange, and its potentially deadly consequences. Soon Cara will be in for the fight of her life\u2014not just for herself and the boy she loves, but for the future of her planet.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (High School)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13574417-alienated"}, +{"book_title": "Star Risk Ltd", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 646, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "A mercenary outfit struggling for recognition, Star Risk contains a ragtag bunch of misfits, including an alien willing to invest his life savings into the company. Now if only they can succeed with their first mission: to spring a dangerous supersoldier trapped in a maximum-security prison.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228671.Star_Risk_Ltd_"}, +{"book_title": "Involution Ocean", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 473, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix: A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boards a whaling vessel to hunt the drug he craves.The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the dust sea of Nullaqua. It was John Newhouse\u2019s addiction to the substance that made him a dealer and forced him to move to this airless, inhospitable planet But when the all-powerful galactic Confederacy declares Flare illegal, the needs of Newhouse and his clientele leave the desperate off-worlder no choice but to sign on as an able seaman aboard a dustwhaler and hunt the giant creatures himself. Joining a crew of junkies and misfits, including a mad captain with his own dark and secret agenda and a bewitching, batlike alien woman who is pained by human touch, Newhouse sets out across the silica ocean at the bottom of a seventy-mile-deep crater in search of release and redemption . . . and sails toward a fateful confrontation between man and beast that could lead to catastrophe.Bruce Sterling\u2019s debut novel is a remarkable feat of world building\u2014imaginative, provocative, and smart, featuring an unforgettable cast of colorful characters. If Herman Melville\u2019s Moby-Dick unfolded on Frank Herbert\u2019s Dune, the result might be something akin to Sterling\u2019s extraordinary Involution Ocean.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359384.Involution_Ocean"}, +{"book_title": "Crusade For Vengeance", "author_name": "Adrian D. Roberts", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 46, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Two people have died in Valerie\u2019s crusade. She knows she must return to Olympus, the capital of the Pantheon, to find her next target. There she may face the one thing she fears in the galaxy, those she turned her back on, the survivors of her family and her Company. Hanna and Deni have promised to aid their friend, but can they survive on a hostile world and prevent Valerie\u2019s wanton destruction of Furioso from repeating? The forces of the Pantheon are moving against Valerie and the Rebellion is hunting her. Can she avoid them and get vengeance for her family? All the while, in the darkened corners of the Pantheon, a name is being whispered as a beacon of hope for the Manuals - Battleborn. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24346094-crusade-for-vengeance"}, +{"book_title": "The Naked God 2: Faith", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 2908, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "The long-awaited epic finale to \"The Reality Dysfunction\" and \"The Neutronium Alchemist\" is now here. On Earth, satanist Quinn Dexter possesses a new army of the damned, using them to initiate the annihilation of all Creation. At the same time, Joshua Calvert and Syrinx take their ships in search of an alien god which may hold the solution to the current crisis.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45243.The_Naked_God_2"}, +{"book_title": "A Criminal Magic", "author_name": "Lee Kelly", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1737, "review_number": 372, "book_description": "Magic is powerful, dangerous and addictive - and after passage of the 18th Amendment, it is finally illegal.It's 1926 in Washington, DC, and while Anti-Sorcery activists have achieved the Prohibition of sorcery, the city's magic underworld is booming. Sorcerers cast illusions to aid mobsters' crime sprees. Smugglers funnel magic contraband in from overseas. Gangs have established secret performance venues where patrons can lose themselves in magic, and take a mind-bending, intoxicating elixir known as the sorcerer's shine.Joan Kendrick, a young sorcerer from Norfolk County, Virginia accepts an offer to work for DC's most notorious crime syndicate, the Shaw Gang, when her family's home is repossessed. Alex Danfrey, a first-year Federal Prohibition Unit trainee with a complicated past and talents of his own, becomes tapped to go undercover and infiltrate the Shaws.Through different paths, Joan and Alex tread deep into the violent, dangerous world of criminal magic - and when their paths cross at the Shaws' performance venue, despite their orders, and despite themselves, Joan and Alex become enchanted with one another. But when gang alliances begin to shift, the two sorcerers are forced to question their ultimate allegiances and motivations. And soon, Joan and Alex find themselves pitted against each other in a treacherous, heady game of cat-and-mouse.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25785807-a-criminal-magic"}, +{"book_title": "Marvel Mangaverse, Volume 2", "author_name": "Ben Dunn", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 54, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "To combat a plant-devouring virus, and a monarch who has power to back up dreams of domination, these new heroes and some old friends will have to give their all. Alliances are forged, dreams are shattered, and lives are put on the line in the name of freedom.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art (Manga)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754038.Marvel_Mangaverse_Volume_2"}, +{"book_title": "Split Second", "author_name": "Douglas E. Richards", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 27304, "review_number": 1311, "book_description": "A stunningly unique time travel thriller. The 27th bestselling Kindle book of 2017--out of almost 6 million titles. What if you found a way to send something back in time? But not weeks, days, or even minutes back. What if you could only send something back a fraction of a second? Would this be of any use? You wouldn't have nearly enough time to right a wrong, change an event, or win a lottery.Nathan Wexler is a brilliant physicist who thinks he's found a way to send matter a split second back into the past. But before he can even confirm his findings, he and his wife-to-be, Jenna Morrison, find themselves in a battle for their very lives. Because while time travel to an instant earlier seems useless, Jenna comes to learn that no capability in history has ever been more profound or far-reaching.Now, as Jenna fights to defeat the powerful forces arrayed against her, nothing less than the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. . .SPLIT SECOND is a roller-coaster ride of a thriller, one that will have readers pondering the nature of time, and of reality, long after they've read the last page.\"Richards is a worthy successor to Michael Crichton.\" (SF Book.com)\"Richards is an extraordinary writer,\" (Dean Koontz) who can \"keep you turning the pages all night long.\" (Douglas Preston)Near Future Science Fiction Thrillers by Douglas E. 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Trailed by newly appointed royal bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss is doing her best to keep pace with the non-stop demands of being queen while attempting to evade Molly for a few private moments with Dodge.Alyss' life is a challenging mix of duty, love, and tough decisions, and then a series of phantom sightings set fire to an urban myth of Her Imperial Viciousness' return and have everyone... seeing Redd.Has Redd somehow freed herself and her chief assassin, The Cat, from the confines of the Heart Crystal? If not, then who has resurrected Redd's brutal foot soldiers the Glass Eyes and set them loose to attack Wonderland on all sides?Battles rage, looking glasses explode, and the Alyssians once again unite to defend White Imagination in this fast-paced follow-up to the New York Times best-selling The Looking Glass Wars.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289695.Seeing_Redd"}, +{"book_title": "Fever Crumb", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 8326, "review_number": 941, "book_description": "Fever Crumb is a girl who has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the order of Engineers, where she serves as apprentice. In a time and place where women are not seen as reasonable creatures, Fever is an anomaly, the only female to serve in the order.Soon though, she must say goodbye to Dr. Crumb - nearly the only person she's ever known - to assist archeologist Kit Solent on a top-secret project. As her work begins, Fever is plagued by memories that are not her own and Kit seems to have a particular interest in finding out what they are. Fever has also been singled out by city-dwellers who declare her part Scriven.The Scriveners, not human, ruled the city some years ago but were hunted down and killed in a victorious uprising by the people. If there are any remaining Scriven, they are to be eliminated.All Fever knows is what she's been told: that she is an orphan. Is Fever a Scriven? Whose memories does she hold? Is the mystery of Fever, adopted daughter of Dr. Crumb, the key to the secret that lies at the heart of London?Haunting, arresting, and astonishingly original, Fever Crumb will delight and surprise readers at every fast-paced, breathless turn.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6839020-fever-crumb"}, +{"book_title": "The Chronological Man: The Monster In The Mist", "author_name": "Andrew Mayne", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1998, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "It's 1890 and the citizens of Boston are beginning to go missing in the fog.The police are confounded. The public is frightened. The city is on the edge of hysteria.It's up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer, to figure out what's going on with the help of his assistant, April Malone. They'll have to face off against a secret society, corrupt policemen and a mad psychologist hell-bent on dissecting Smith, in order to solve the mystery of what's going on and to save the city from an even more sinister threat.It\u2019s the first story of Smith, a hard science fiction time traveler with more than a enough quirk to last him several centuries. A fast-paced 45,000 word tale of scientific adventure combines elements of DOCTOR WHO, SHERLOCK HOLMES and TONY STARK set against turn-of-the-century Boston\u2019s soot-stained streets.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11850778-the-chronological-man"}, +{"book_title": "The Chronicles of Narnia", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 536348, "review_number": 10567, "book_description": "Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil\u2014what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia.For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre to become part of the canon of classic literature. Each of the seven books is a masterpiece, drawing the reader into a land where magic meets reality, and the result is a fictional world whose scope has fascinated generations.This edition presents all seven books\u2014unabridged\u2014in one impressive volume. The books are presented here in chronlogical order, each chapter graced with an illustration by the original artist, Pauline Baynes. Deceptively simple and direct, The Chronicles of Narnia continue to captivate fans with adventures, characters, and truths that speak to readers of all ages, even fifty years after they were first published.", "year_published": 1956, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Classics", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Christian", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Christian Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia"}, +{"book_title": "Saga, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 263153, "review_number": 13517, "book_description": "When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan, Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults. 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They're cheap, simple, and can be built by beginners in just a few hours, with help from this expert guide complete with full-color photos. Get ready for some dumpster-diving!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Reference", "Science (Engineering)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432931.JunkBots_Bugbots_and_Bots_on_Wheels"}, +{"book_title": "The Ripper Affair", "author_name": "Lilith Saintcrow", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 881, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "The enthralling conclusion to the Bannon and Clare trilogy from New York Times bestselling author, Lilith Saintcrow. \n\nSorcery. Treason. Madness. And, of course, murder most foul... A shattering accident places Archibald Clare, mentath in the service of Britannia, in the care of Emma Bannon, sorceress Prime. Clare needs a measure of calm to repair his faculties of Logic and Reason. Without them, he is not his best. At all. Unfortunately, calm and rest will not be found. There is a killer hiding in the sorcerous steam-hells of Londinium, murdering poor women of a certain reputation. A handful of frails murdered on cold autumn nights would make no difference...but the killings echo in the highest circles, and threaten to bring the Empire down in smoking ruins. Once more Emma Bannon is pressed into service; once more Archibald Clare is determined to aid her. The secrets between these two old friends may give an ambitious sorcerer the means to bring down the Crown. And there is still no way to reliably find a hansom when one needs it most. The game is afoot...\n\n\n\nBannon and ClareThe Iron Wyrm AffairThe Red Plague AffairThe Ripper AffairThe Damnation Affair (e-only)", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18459434-the-ripper-affair"}, +{"book_title": "Forward in Time", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "s/t: A Second Short Story CollectionIntroduction (1972) essay The Next Logical Step (1962) story A Slight Miscalculation (1971) story Blood of Tyrants (1970) novelette Zero Gee [Kinsman] (1972) novelette Test in Orbit [Kinsman] (1965) story Fifteen Miles [Kinsman] (1967) storyThe Weathermakers (1966) novelette Men of Good Will (1964) story by Bova & Myron R. Lewis The Perfect Warrior (1963) novelette by Bova & Myron R. Lewis (aka The Dueling Machine) Stars, Won't You Hide Me? (1966) story", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267368.Forward_in_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Catch a Tiger by the Tail", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 4024, "review_number": 581, "book_description": "Calvin Summers and Ethan Hobbs have been best friends since childhood, but somewhere along the line, their friendship evolved into something more. With the Therian Youth Center bombing, Calvin realizes just how short life can be and no longer keeps his feelings for his best friend a secret. Unfortunately, change is difficult for Ethan; most days he does well to deal with his selective mutism and social anxiety. Calvin\u2019s confession adds a new struggle for Ethan, one he fears might cost him the friendship that\u2019s been his whole world for as long as he can remember. As partners and Defense Agents at the THIRDS, being on Destructive Delta is tough at the best of times, but between call-outs and life-threatening situations, Calvin and Ethan not only face traversing the challenges of their job, but also working toward a future as more than friends.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49254683-catch-a-tiger-by-the-tail"}, +{"book_title": "White Witch, Black Curse", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 48199, "review_number": 1207, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the sinister and seductive Hollows for the newest blockcuster adventure featuring Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter.White Witch, Black CurseSome wounds take time to heal...and some scars never fade.Rachel Morgan, kick-ass witch and bounty hunter, has taken her fair share of hits, and has broken lines she swore she would never cross. But when her lover was murdered, it left a deeper wound than Rachel ever imagined, and now she won't rest until his death is solved...and avenged. Whatever the cost.Yet the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and when a new predator moves to the apex of the Inderland food chain, Rachel's past comes back to haunt her.Literally.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3475268-white-witch-black-curse"}, +{"book_title": "Pandora's Legions", "author_name": "Christopher Anvil", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1194, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "The mighty Centran Empire had been conquering star systems for centuries -- and then they took on Earth. And in spite of their more advanced weapons, the Centrans weren't sure just who had conquered who.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Anthologies", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/589014.Pandora_s_Legions"}, +{"book_title": "The High-Tech Knight", "author_name": "Leo Frankowski", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 989, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Somehow, Conrad Stargard, faithful Roman Catholic and stalwart Socialist of the Peoples Republic of Poland, 20th Century, had been marooned in Poland, A.D. 1231.Somehow, Conrad found himself under investigation by the Inquisition, got himself knighted, was granted his own fief, and made a few enemies.Somehow, he had to round up a few vassals, build himself a city, and figure out how to survive armed combat against the Champion of the Teutonic Knights, one of the Toughest Men Alive.Then he'd have time to worry about the Mongols . . .", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1197497.The_High_Tech_Knight"}, +{"book_title": "Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 183, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Polemicist, provocateur, futurist, and visionary in residence, Bruce Sterling has been personally sharpening the cutting edge of science fiction for more than 30 years. From tales of The Shaper/Mechanist to Leggy Starlitz to his Chattanooga Stories, this anthology spans the gamut of Sterlings works from 1976 to 2007.Swarm --Spider Rose --Cicada queen --Sunken gardens --Twenty evocations --Green days in Brunei --Dinner in Audoghast --The compassionate, the digital --Flowers of Edo --The little magic shop --Our neural Chernobyl --We see things differently --Dori Bangs --Hollywood Kremlin --Are you for 86? --The littlest jackal --Deep eddy --Bicycle repairman --Taklamakan --The sword of Damocles --Maneki Neko --In paradise --The blemmye's strategem --Kiosk", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218565.Ascendancies"}, +{"book_title": "The Reluctant Viking", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1713, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "\u201cPICTURE YOURSELF FLOATING OUT OF YOUR BODY\u2014FLOATING\u2026 FLOATING\u2026 FLOATING\u2026\u201dThe hypnotic voice on the self-motivation tape was supposed to help Ruby Jordan solve her problems, not create new ones. Instead, she was lulled from a life full of a demanding business, a neglected home, and a failing marriage\u2014to an era of hard-bodied warriors and fair maidens, fierce fighting and fiercer wooing. But the world ten centuries in the past didn\u2019t prove to be all mead and mirth. Even as Ruby tried to update medieval times, she had to deal with a Norseman whose view of women was stuck in the Dark Ages. And what was worse, brawny Thork had her husband\u2019s face, habits, and desire to avoid Ruby. Determined not to lose the same man twice, Ruby planned a bold seduction that would conquer the reluctant Viking\u2014and make him an eager captive of her love.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/621460.The_Reluctant_Viking"}, +{"book_title": "Timepiece", "author_name": "Heather Albano", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 356, "review_number": 64, "book_description": " You only THINK you know what happened at Waterloo. The real story involved more monsters. And a lot more time travel. It's 1815, and Wellington's badly-outnumbered army stares across the field of Waterloo at Napoleon's forces. Desperate to hold until reinforcements arrive, Wellington calls upon a race of monsters created by a mad Genevese scientist 25 years before.It's 1815, and a discontented young lady sitting in a rose garden receives a mysterious gift: a pocket watch that, when opened, displays scenes from all eras of history. Past...and future.It's 1885, and a small band of resistance fighters are resorting to increasingly extreme methods in their efforts to overthrow a steampunk Empire whose clockwork gears are slick with its subjects blood.Are these events connected?Oh, come now. That would be telling.\"Waterloo and time travel are made for each other and Heather Albano has done a wonderful job of giving us a delightful cast of characters, tasked with stitching together the proper nineteenth century while fending off several monstrous alternatives. Propulsive adventure with historical insight.\" - Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars and 2312", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32672504-timepiece"}, +{"book_title": "Close to Critical", "author_name": "Hal Clement", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 302, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Crisis on TenebraShrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere Tenebra was a hostile planet...a place of crushing gravity, 370-degree temperatures, a constantly shifting crust and giant drifting raindrops.Unpromising - yet there was life, intelligent life on Tenebra. For more than 20 years, Earth scientists had studied the natives from an orbiting laboratory...and had even found a way to train and educate a few of them.Then the unexpected happened! A young Earth girl and the son of a powerful, hot-tempered alien diplomat were marooned in a bathyscape, drifting toward the planet's deadly surface.Only the primitive Tenebrans could rescue them!", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1875492.Close_to_Critical"}, +{"book_title": "In Real Life", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 29671, "review_number": 3721, "book_description": "Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of her free time. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer--a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake. From acclaimed teen author (Little Brother, For the Win) and Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow and Koko Be Good creator Jen Wang, In Real Life is a perceptive and high-stakes look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture clash.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Realistic Fiction", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20575446-in-real-life"}, +{"book_title": "The Digital Plague", "author_name": "Jeff Somers", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1490, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Avery Cates is a very rich man. He's probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2395444.The_Digital_Plague"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Life", "author_name": "Deborah Harkness", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 145784, "review_number": 11301, "book_description": "The #1 New York Times bestselling series finale and sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of NightBringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present\u2014facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew\u2019s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches\u2014with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16054217-the-book-of-life"}, +{"book_title": "Night of the Purple Moon", "author_name": "Scott Cramer", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1944, "review_number": 363, "book_description": "Thirteen-year-old Abby Leigh yearns for her family to be reunited - in Cambridge, not Castine Island where she feels like an outsider. Her younger brother, Jordan, is having no problem fitting in and making friends.Everyone on Castine Island is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the purple moon, caused by a comet entering the Earth's atmosphere. Scientists expected this thrilling phenomenon and food companies are churning out purple-colored products in celebration of the comet\u2019s arrival.The morning following the comet\u2019s debut Abby and Jordan make a chilling discovery: every adult on the island is dead. The children of the island band together to withstand their new circumstances, and the older kids quickly learn a gripping truth about their own ticking clocks. It's only a matter of time before they succumb to the comet bacteria, but can they raise the next generation to survive?\"Frightening and inspiring\" - Kirkus Reviews. Riveting dystopian drama for all ages (13+)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15772644-night-of-the-purple-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Eon", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 1437, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "\n\nOkay, maybe hijacking an alien commander\u2019s warship wasn\u2019t her best idea\u2026\n\nGenius computer geek Wren Traynor prefers her high-tech comp lab to socializing with people, and she definitely prefers it over crawling through the bowels of the huge Eon warship she\u2019s hijacked. When Earth\u2019s Space Corps blackmails her into this deadly mission, Wren will do anything to help her beloved sisters and save the Earth from invasion by the insectoid Kantos aliens. That includes entering into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the tall, hunky, and seriously enraged Eon war commander who captains the Rengard...War Commander Malax Dann-Jad is a born protector and has forged a successful career in service to the Eon Empire. Haunted by an early mission where he lost good warriors, he\u2019s dedicated to protecting his ship and its crew. Especially since his warship is carrying a special, top-secret cargo. But one tiny, infuriating Terran puts all that at risk when she commandeers his ship and refuses to listen to reason!When the ravenous Kantos set their sights on the Rengard - using sneaky, underhanded tactics - Malax finds himself with an armful of curvy woman. He and Wren must join forces to fight back, and are shocked at their improbable, intense attraction. But with lives at risk, both will learn that strength comes in more ways than one, and love can hit when you least expect it, and that in order to survive, you have to put everything on the line!\nIncludes a preview of Galactic Gladiators #1, Gladiator.\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Space", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45235563-heart-of-eon"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The Barbie Consortium", "author_name": "Paula Goodlett", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 389, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Prequel to 1636: The Viennese Waltz. The Barbies are rising. After their West Virginia town is transported to 1630s continental Europe, a group of teenage girls discover that bringing future technology and future business practices to a backward Europe just emerging from the Middle Ages can be very lucrative indeed\u2014and might even change the course of empire.At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23551036-1636"}, +{"book_title": "After the Coup", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3040, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "\n\nIn a universe of harsh interstellar conflict, the practice of interspecies diplomacy\u2014when possible\u2014is important. So being a Colonial Union officer attached to an interplanetary diplomatic mission sometimes means taking a fall. Literally.\n\n", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8627906-after-the-coup"}, +{"book_title": "Humans, Bow Down", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.05, "rating_votes": 3579, "review_number": 506, "book_description": "Hu-bots \u2013 robots that humans created as perfect versions of themselves \u2013 now control the world. They seized power in a war that almost wiped humankind off the face of the earth. The humans that remain are forced to either work as servants or live in prison camps.But one teenage girl, Six, has a device that could change everything. Her Q-comp, a computer onto which the memories of her murdered family have been downloaded, contains information that could save humankind.Six is unaware of the power she holds, but the ruling hu-bots are not. Forced to flee from those sent to kill her, can Six discover the secret that could save her life, and the future of the human race?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Suspense", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27384094-humans-bow-down"}, +{"book_title": "In the Country of the Blind", "author_name": "Michael Flynn", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 349, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "In the nineteenth century, a small group of American idealists managed to actually build Charles Babbage\u2019s Analytical Engine and use it to develop Cliology, mathematical models that could chart the likely course of the future. Soon they were working to alter history\u2019s course as they thought best. By our own time, the Society has become the secret master of the world. But no secret can be kept forever, at least not without drastic measures. When her plans for some historic real estate lead developer and ex-reporter Sarah Beaumont to stumble across the Society\u2019s existence, it\u2019s just the first step into a baffling and deadly maze of conspiracies.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction", "Pseudoscience (Conspiracy Theories)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416325.In_the_Country_of_the_Blind"}, +{"book_title": "Ceremony in Death", "author_name": "J.D. Robb", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 39440, "review_number": 1408, "book_description": "Even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard...Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong - and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Mystery", "Romance", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fiction", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Futuristic", "Suspense", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74036.Ceremony_in_Death"}, +{"book_title": "The Slippery Slope", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 107853, "review_number": 2591, "book_description": "\nDear Reader,\nLike handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up--and down--a range of strange and distressing mountains.In order to spare you any further repulsion, it would be best not to mention any of the unpleasant details of this story, particularly a secret message, a toboggan, a deceitful map, a swarm of snow gnats, a scheming villain, a troupe of organized youngsters, a covered casserole dish, and a surprising survivor of a terrible fire.Unfortunately, I have dedicated my life to researching and recording the sad tale of the Baudelaire orphans. There is no reason for you to dedicate your-self to such things, and you might instead dedicate yourself to letting this slippery book slip from your hands into a nearby trash receptacle, or deep pit.\nWith all due respect,\nLemony Snicket", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297792.The_Slippery_Slope"}, +{"book_title": "The Neutronium Alchemist 1: Consolidation", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 3051, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Humanity is in incredible peril. The minds of those long dead are taking over the bodies of the living, in increasingly alarming numbers. Joshua Calvert is desperately trying to recover a \"doomsday weapon\", an instrument that might blast the dead back into oblivion--but in the wrong hands, it could mean the end of the human race.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Epic", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45241.The_Neutronium_Alchemist_1"}, +{"book_title": "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", "author_name": "Suzanne Collins", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 194313, "review_number": 26802, "book_description": "It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capital, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51901147-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes"}, +{"book_title": "Timemaster", "author_name": "Robert L. Forward", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 209, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Read the tale of Randy Hunter, billionaire industrialist, who communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight and explores far-flung worlds in a future filled with technological wonders. The future physics is mind-boggling but firmly grounded in the science of today, and the action never stops.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263465.Timemaster"}, +{"book_title": "Geared for Pleasure", "author_name": "Rachel Grace", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 175, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "The world of Theorrey runs like a well-oiled machine. The elements are in balance, passion is tamed, and the young queen is the heartbeat of it all. But in these two all-new stories of elemental steam, nothing is ever as it seems.Earthly DesiresDemeter \u201cDare\u201d Senedal is the Queen\u2019s Chalice-her protector and closest companion. So when the queen goes missing, Dare rushes to locate her, even though the search leads her straight into trouble.A gentleman who trades in secrets and sin, Bodhan revels in carnal delights, but when a naked and bound woman appears on his shore, he finds his hunger to possess at odds with his need to protect. As Bodhan shares his knowledge of pleasure, Dare must decide if she can trust him, both with her mission and her heart.Fiery TemptationsSeraphina always lands on her feet. After all, she is a Felidae-more feline than human-and an excellent thief. There has never been a job Phina wouldn\u2019t take or a man who could tame her\u2026until she meets Cyrus Arendal.As the Queen\u2019s Sword, Cyrus should have known better than to fall victim to a beautiful bandit. Now, to find and retrieve the moonfire dagger, he\u2019ll need to convince Phina not to judge a man by his station, but rather by how completely he can satisfy her desires.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11455170-geared-for-pleasure"}, +{"book_title": "This World We Live In", "author_name": "Susan Beth Pfeffer", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 29618, "review_number": 2704, "book_description": "It\u2019s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth\u2019s climate. For Miranda Evans, life as she knew it no longer exists. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food is increasingly scarce. The struggle to survive intensifies when Miranda\u2019s father and stepmother arrive with a baby and three strangers in tow. One of the newcomers is Alex Morales, and as Miranda\u2019s complicated feelings for him turn to love, his plans for his future thwart their relationship. Then a devastating tornado hits the town of Howell, and Miranda makes a decision that will change their lives forever.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6393972-this-world-we-live-in"}, +{"book_title": "Pandemic", "author_name": "Yvonne Ventresca", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 950, "review_number": 217, "book_description": "Even under the most normal circumstances, high school can be a painful and confusing time. Unfortunately, Lilianna's circumstances are anything but normal. Only a few people know what caused her sudden change from model student to the withdrawn pessimist she has become, but her situation isn't about to get any better. When people begin coming down with a quick-spreading illness that doctors are unable to treat, Lil's worst fears are realized. With her parents called away on business before the contagious outbreak-her father in Delaware covering the early stages of the disease and her mother in Hong Kong and unable to get a flight back to New Jersey-Lil's town is hit by what soon becomes a widespread illness and fatal disaster. Now, she's more alone than she's been since the \"incident\" at her school months ago.With friends and neighbors dying all around her, Lil does everything she can just to survive. But as the disease rages on, so does an unexpected tension as Lil is torn between an old ex and a new romantic interest. Just when it all seems too much, the cause of her original trauma shows up at her door. In this thrilling debut from author Yvonne Ventresca, Lil must find a way to survive not only the outbreak and its real-life consequences, but also her own personal demons.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18211018-pandemic"}, +{"book_title": "Hollow City", "author_name": "Ransom Riggs", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 208270, "review_number": 17382, "book_description": "This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine\u2019s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.Complete with dozens of newly discovered (and thoroughly mesmerising) vintage photographs, this new adventure will delight readers of all ages.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164983-hollow-city"}, +{"book_title": "Deadly Shores", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1738, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "National bestselling author Taylor Anderson\u2019s explosive WWII alternate-history series continues as a do-or-die battle is waged that risks far more than anyone bargained for. The long-planned raid on the heart of the Grik Empire has grown more ambitious\u2014and dangerously ill defined. Only Matthew Reddy, commander of the old destroyer USS Walker, seems focused on its original intent.Many Lemurians see an opportunity to reconquer their sacred homeland, which was stolen long ago, and have no intention of simply striking a blow and then pulling back. Others, Lemurian and human, have their own agendas\u2014which may not be in the best interests of the Alliance. Complicating matters further is Reddy\u2019s suspicion that his task force is being stalked by an unknown power bent on aiding the Grik for reasons of its own.As the raid begins and chaos reigns, Reddy has no choice but to go all-in, risking everything in a desperate act that results in a sprawling, nightmarish battle on the beaches of \u201cGrik City,\u201d on the very decks of Walker, and in the labyrinthine passageways of the Celestial Palace itself.The final cost could be more than Matt Reddy\u2014or the Alliance\u2014can bear.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Action", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667936-deadly-shores"}, +{"book_title": "Trail of Lightning", "author_name": "Rebecca Roanhorse", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 17985, "review_number": 3587, "book_description": "While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Din\u00e9tah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.Maggie Hoskie is a Din\u00e9tah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last\u2014and best\u2014hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much larger and more terrifying than anything she could imagine.Maggie reluctantly enlists the aid of Kai Arviso, an unconventional medicine man, and together they travel to the rez to unravel clues from ancient legends, trade favors with tricksters, and battle dark witchcraft in a patchwork world of deteriorating technology.As Maggie discovers the truth behind the disappearances, she will have to confront her past\u2014if she wants to survive.Welcome to the Sixth World.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373298-trail-of-lightning"}, +{"book_title": "Phantom Universe", "author_name": "Laura Kreitzer", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 457, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Sold into slavery to pirates at the young age of four, Summer learns to survive the rough seas of subterfuge and thieves through silence. When the boat she's lived on most of her life is destroyed, Summer finds herself washed up on the shore of a new world, a phantom universe full of the bizarre and extraordinary. She meets Gage, the one boy who understands the girl with no speech. But when their lives are put on the line, will Summer finally call out? Or will all be lost in the fathomless depth of silence?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9302283-phantom-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Jane's Warlord", "author_name": "Angela Knight", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2726, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "The next target of a time traveling killer, crime reporter Jane Colby finds herself in the hands of a warlord from the future sent to protect her--and in his hands is just where she wants to be.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19914.Jane_s_Warlord"}, +{"book_title": "Sun of Suns", "author_name": "Karl Schroeder", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 2505, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and \"towns\" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity.Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77887.Sun_of_Suns"}, +{"book_title": "Apparition", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1114, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Half Castian and half Tonan, Doss is considered nothing more than a Tonian hybrid. A being to be feared with the power to kill by penetrating what is supposed to be impenetrable. Loathed by many feared by more, Doss has spent the last seven hundred years alone, shunned by the Tonans on his planet. He preferred it that way until a nude female rider on a huge black stallion fleeing for her life catches his eye. If left alone both beast and human would be killed by their pursuant, an enraged Tonan warrior. When the scent of the female invades his nostrils Doss is captivated. He must have the female human and will go to great lengths to secure her safety.Zoe hates both Castians and Tonans. The promise of salvation from dying Earth, on planet Ulsy, had been nothing more than a lie. Human males were slaughtered and human women were captured to lure secrets of the Castian planets, Bagron and co-planet Dargon, from enslaved warriors with the promise of sex. When met with the six foot six hybrid warrior who moved like an apparition in battle to save her and her beloved stallion, Caveat, Zoe is unsure what to do. She has no idea of his intentions, but from the shiver that runs down her spine she is certain she\u2019s about to find out.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Space", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16127165-apparition"}, +{"book_title": "Cross The Stars", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 831, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Hammer's Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is cold and dark with planets which hold hidden dangers, and if Don Slade should ever reach Tethys, that's when the real fighting starts.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1550173.Cross_The_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "An Unauthorized Field Guide to the Hunt", "author_name": "Kari Gregg", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 685, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "On Mariket, the strongest competitors win...by losing.Narone native and former heir of Class II shipbuilder Denbo-West Industries, Shane West surrendered his perilous birthright to compete in the Hunt and tried his luck with the lusty cats of Mariket. Shane\u2019s mastery of survival craft in the untamed forest made him an early favorite among gamblers, fans, and arena officials. When he lured a cat into an arousing chase the first night, mating with Lore to become the season\u2019s first victor seemed guaranteed.Then news from Arena 4 slowed to a trickle. Rumors emerged about cats who\u2019d gone feral as well as shocking breaches in security. Unconfirmed reports of assassins and rogue predators circulated before offworld communications screeched to a halt.In this unprecedented glimpse inside the arena, Shane peels back the veil of secrecy. What does it take to tempt a sexy cat? How does being marked as prey by a feline lover feel? Experience the wanton pleasures of the heat with Shane and his mysterious mate\u2014and discover which of last season\u2019s scandalous rumors are true.Run, pounce, fuck.Mate?Welcome to the Hunt.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT (Gay)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18207449-an-unauthorized-field-guide-to-the-hunt"}, +{"book_title": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", "author_name": "J.R.R. Tolkien", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 2990501, "review_number": 49914, "book_description": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.Written for J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).", "year_published": 1937, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Classics", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit_or_There_and_Back_Again"}, +{"book_title": "Counter-Clock World", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 4172, "review_number": 301, "book_description": "In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick\u2019s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase \u2014 a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, \u201cGood-bye,\u201d and part with, \u201cHello,\u201d and underneath the world\u2019s tombstones, the dead are coming back to life. One imminent old-born is Anarch Peak, a vibrant religious leader whose followers continued to flourish long after his death. His return from the dead has such awesome implications that those who apprehend him will very likely be those who control the fate of the world.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Religion", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156723.Counter_Clock_World"}, +{"book_title": "The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3: Second Variety", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 3298, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include Second Variety, Foster, You're Dead and The Father-Thing, and many others.\"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection.\" -- Kirkus\"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring.\" -- The Washington Post\"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds.\" -- Wall Street Journal", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Criticism", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Anthologies", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14186.The_Collected_Stories_of_Philip_K_Dick_3"}, +{"book_title": "The Suicide Exhibition", "author_name": "Justin Richards", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 259, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "The threat is not new. The aliens have been here before.The German war machine has woken an ancient threat - the alien Vril and their Ubermensch have returned. With this new power, ultimate Victory in the war for Europe is now within the Nazis' grasp. Obsessed with the Occult, Hitler and other senior Nazis believed they were destined to inherit the Earth. To this end, they are determined to recover 'their' ancient artifacts -- the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, the Spear of Destiny. When Dunkirk veteran and Foreign Office trouble-shooter Major Guy Pentecross stumbles across a seemingly unbelievable conspiracy, he, together with pilot and American spy Sarah Diamond and SOE operative Leo Davenport, enter the shadow world of Section Z. All three have major roles to play as they uncover the Nazis' insidious plot to use the Vril's technology to win the war... at any cost.Justin Richards has an extremely credible grasp of WWII history and has transformed it into a groundbreaking alternate reality thriller in The Suicide Exhibition.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Thriller", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22545475-the-suicide-exhibition"}, +{"book_title": "Bionicle, Vol. 5: The Battle of Voya Nui", "author_name": "Greg Farshtey", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "An entirely new chapter in the BIONICLE universe begins, with an exciting new look brought by artist Stuart Sayger. The Island of Voya Nui has existed in peace for thousands of years, yet it holds a dark treasure with unlimited power: the Mask of Life. When the ruthless Piraka arrive on the island and enslave its matoran inhabitants, all appears lost until six Toa wash ashore and are transformed into Toa Inika. Their mission: to stop the Piraka from obtaining the great power of the Mask of Life. Should they fail, the entire world will be thrown into chaos and destruction. The epic battle of Voya Nui that ensues will decide the fate of the entire BIONICLE universe.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5038116-bionicle-vol-5"}, +{"book_title": "The Affair of the Mysterious Letter", "author_name": "Alexis Hall", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1504, "review_number": 433, "book_description": "In this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters. Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Ms. Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation.When Ms. Haas is enlisted to solve a case of blackmail against one of her former lovers, Miss Eirene Viola, Captain Wyndham finds himself drawn into a mystery that leads him from the salons of the literary set to the drowned back-alleys of Ven and even to a prison cell in lost Carcosa. Along the way he is beset by criminals, menaced by pirates, molested by vampires, almost devoured by mad gods, and called upon to punch a shark. But the further the companions go in pursuit of the elusive blackmailer, the more impossible the case appears. Then again, in Khelathra-Ven reality is flexible, and the impossible is Ms. Haas' stock-in-trade.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Retellings", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41998209-the-affair-of-the-mysterious-letter"}, +{"book_title": "House of Reeds", "author_name": "Thomas Harlan", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 235, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "In five short centuries, the mighty Empire of the M\u00e9xica, descendants of the ancient Aztecs allied with Imperial Japan, has spread out to conquer the Earth, left the homeworld, and set its sights on the stars. But the universe is a dangerous place, filled with hidden powers and the relics of ancient civilizations. The M\u00e9xica are only the latest of the great Imperial powers to reach for the stars. But that doesn't stop Imperial M\u00e9xica from claiming control. Xenoarcheologist Gretchen Anderssen had hoped to enjoy her well-earned vacation. She hadn't seen her home-world or her children for many months. But the Company has other plans for her - when she checks in for her transport, she finds new orders for her team. It looks like only a small diversion - a quick trip to the Planet Jagen, to investigate reports of a possible First Sun artifact. She doesn't have to run an excavation, or even gain possession of the artifact. Just file a report. But it smells bad, says Gretchen's Hesht companion, Magdalena. David Parker, the Company pilot assigned to Anderssen's analysis team agrees. And they are so right.Gretchen, Magdalena, and Parker find themselves in very dangerous territory indeed. Because, unbeknownst to anyone at the Company, the Imperial M\u00e9xican Priesthood has decided to wage a war on Jagan - a war not of conquest or defense, but a \"flowery war\", planned and fomented for the purpose of blooding the Emperor's youngest son. Gretchen and her team are headed right into the middle of the battle.It may be a War of Flowers, but many people will die, and blood will flow in the streets. ", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367412.House_of_Reeds"}, +{"book_title": "Chaos Station", "author_name": "Jenn Burke", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1045, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "\"You're not real. Felix Ingesson is dead.\"The war with the alien stin is over, but Felix Ingesson has given up on seeing his lover, Zander Anatolius, ever again. Zander's military file is sealed tighter than an airlock. A former prisoner of war, Felix is attempting a much quieter life keeping his ship, the Chaos, aloft. He almost succeeds, until Zander walks on board and insists that Felix isn't real.A retired, broken super soldier, Zander is reeling from the aftereffects of his experimental training and wants nothing more than to disappear and wait for insanity to claim him. Then he sees footage of a friend and ally\u2014a super soldier like him\u2014murdering an entire security squad with her bare hands and a cold, dead look in her eyes. He never expected to find Felix, the man he'd thought dead for years, on the ship he hired to track her down.Working with Felix to rescue his teammate is a dream come true\u2026and a nightmare. Zander has no exit strategy that will leave Felix unscathed\u2014or his own heart unbroken.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23595481-chaos-station"}, +{"book_title": "How Santa Lost His Job", "author_name": "Stephen Krensky", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 204, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Santa has the best job he can think of -- brining presents each Christmas to children all around the world. Every year he prepares for his trip: He trims his beard, takes a bath, gets dressed, and packs up his sleigh fort he long night ahead. But there are always a few unexpected delays that make things a little hectic. Muckle, one of the elves who helps Santa, thinks he can come up with a more efficient way of delivering the toys -- a method that won't involve Santa at all.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Holiday (Christmas)", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Holiday"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5604616-how-santa-lost-his-job"}, +{"book_title": "Origin", "author_name": "Jessica Khoury", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 14860, "review_number": 1895, "book_description": "Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home\u2015and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia's origin\u2015a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.Origin is a beautifully told, shocking new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever, no matter the cost.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13455112-origin"}, +{"book_title": "Human Empire", "author_name": "Tim C. Taylor", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 242, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "You\u2019re human. Weak. Despised. There is only one way to earn respect: to fight and win\u2026 a Human Empire. Five centuries ago, Earth sold a million children into slavery. This is their descendants\u2019 story of the fight for humanity everywhere. 2569 A.D. Battered but not beaten, the Human Legion follows the trail set for them by the mysterious Night Hummers in their quest for allies and assets. But first the Legion has changed and must ask itself anew: What is the Legion for? Who shall be its leader? In the fourth of the bestselling six-book series, journey to distant planets, experience holy war, hatred, and distorted love as the Human Legion attempts to carve out its own empire amidst the chaos of civil war. You will not journey alone: alien eyes are watching\u2026 Join the Legion! With over 50,000 copies sold so far, the Legion still needs YOU to join the fight for freedom. Enlist today!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40732598-human-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Flag in Exile", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 17330, "review_number": 332, "book_description": "Hounded into retirement and disgrace by political enemies, cut to the heart by the murder of the man she loved, and bereft of confidence in herself and her abilities, Captain Honor Harrington has retreated to the planet Grayson to take up her role as Steadholder while she tries to heal her bitter wounds.But the People's Republic of Haven is rising from defeat to threaten Grayson anew, and the newborn Grayson Navy needs her experience desperately. It's a call Honor cannot refuse, yet even as she once more accepts the duty whose challenges she fears she can no longer meet, powerful men who hate and fear the changes she's brought to their world are determined to reverse them. They have a plan ... and for it to succeed Honor Harrington must die. Two irresistible forces are rushing together to crush Grayson between them, and only one woman uncertain of her capabilities, weary unto death, and marked for murder-stands between her adopted planet and its devastation.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77738.Flag_in_Exile"}, +{"book_title": "The Fated Sky", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 8642, "review_number": 1138, "book_description": "The Fated Sky continued the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is 1961, and the International Aerospace Coalition has established a colony on the moon. Elma York, the noted Lady Astronaut, is working on rotation, flying shuttles on the moon and returning regularly to Earth.But humanity must get a foothold on Mars. The first exploratory mission is being planned, and none of the women astronauts is on the crew list. The international Aerospace Coalition has grave reservations about sending their \"Lady Astronauts\" on such a dangerous mission. The problem with that is the need for midjourney navigation calculations. The new electronic computation machines are not reliable and not easily programmed. It might be okay for a backup, but there will have to be a human computer on board. And all the computers are women.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Space", "Historical", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33081262-the-fated-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Pawn", "author_name": "Aimee Carter", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 11607, "review_number": 1748, "book_description": "YOU CAN BE A VII. IF YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING. For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can either spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most powerful family in the country. If she says yes, Kitty will be Masked\u2014surgically transformed into Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, who died under mysterious circumstances. As a member of the Hart family, she will be famous. She will be adored. And for the first time, she will matter. There's only one catch. She must also stop the rebellion that Lila secretly fostered, the same one that got her killed \u0085and one Kitty believes in. Faced with threats, conspiracies and a life that's not her own, she must decide which path to choose\u2014and learn how to become more than a pawn in a twisted game she's only beginning to understand.Previously titled Masked.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Futuristic", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10838787-pawn"}, +{"book_title": "Nick of Time", "author_name": "Ted Bell", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2087, "review_number": 362, "book_description": "\nThe setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. Nick and his sister, Kate, begin gathering vital information for Winston Churchill as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion. But the Nazis become the least of Nick\u2019s problems after he discovers a time machine hidden in a cove. Unfortunately, the evil pirate Captain Billy Blood, who travels through time capturing little children and holding them for ransom, will stop at nothing to possess the priceless machine. With the help of Lord Hawke, whose children have been taken by Blood, Nick must fight the ruthless pirate on land and sea in two different centuries in a desperate attempt to save his home and his family from being utterly destroyed.\nBook Details: \n Format: Paperback \n Publication Date: 9/1/2009 \n Pages: 464 \n Reading Level: Age 10 and Up \n ", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2278470.Nick_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Wind Through the Keyhole", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 67621, "review_number": 5300, "book_description": "Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet\u2014Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler\u2014encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two . . . and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past. In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother\u2019s death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a \u201cskin-man\u201d preying upon the population around Debaria. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast\u2019s most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following day\u2019s trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. \u201cA person\u2019s never too old for stories,\u201d Roland says to Bill. \u201cMan and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.\u201d And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us.King began the Dark Tower series in 1974; it gained momentum in the 1980s; and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through the Keyhole is sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic. But this novel also stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey to Roland\u2019s world and testimony to the power of Stephen King\u2019s storytelling magic.~from first edition jacket", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12341557-the-wind-through-the-keyhole"}, +{"book_title": "The First Imperium", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1401, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Book 4 of the Bestselling Crimson World SeriesThe Alliance and its colonies have called a truce and signed the Confederation Agreement, providing the frontier worlds with guarantees of self-government. No one expects the deal to last, and both sides are preparing for the next showdown.But from the depths of space another challenge is coming, one that will endanger the very survival of mankind and force not just the Alliance and its colonies, but all of the Superpowers, to join forces or face annihilation.The dusty ruins the Alliance discovered on Epsilon Eridani IV were built by an ancient race, eons dead. But their guardians remain, and the disturbance of the long silent caves triggered an automated alert, one which has been heard.Erik Cain and his Marines grimly take to the field once again, for what may be their final battle, against the robotic legions of the First Imperium.But facing a ruthless and technologically superior enemy may be easier than learning to fight alongside old enemies.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17825560-the-first-imperium"}, +{"book_title": "Aphrodite IX: Time Out of Mind", "author_name": "David Wohl", "rating_score": 3.16, "rating_votes": 199, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The beautiful cyborg Aphrodite IX is the perfect assassin. She does her job, then retains no memory of her past. But when she seeks out clues to her true identity, the blood flows faster than ever.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics Manga", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/819283.Aphrodite_IX"}, +{"book_title": "A Clockwork Heart", "author_name": "Liesel Schwarz", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 581, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "FOR BETTER OR CURSE. That might as well have been the wedding vow of Elle Chance and her new husband, the ex-Warlock Hugh Marsh in the second book of this edgy new series that transforms elements of urban fantasy, historical adventure, and paranormal romance into storytelling magic. As Elle devotes herself to her duties as the Oracle\u2014who alone has the power to keep the dark designs of Shadow at bay\u2014Marsh finds himself missing the excitement of his former life as a Warlock. So when Commissioner Willoughby of the London Metropolitan police seeks his help in solving a magical mystery, Marsh is only too happy to oblige. But in doing so, Marsh loses his heart . . . literally. In place of the flesh-and-blood organ is a clockwork device\u2014a device that makes Marsh a kind of zombie. Nor is he the only one. A plague of clockwork zombies is afflicting London, sowing panic and whispers of revolution. Now Elle must join forces with her husband\u2019s old friend, the Nightwalker Loisa Beladodia, to track down Marsh\u2019s heart and restore it to his chest before time runs out.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16169846-a-clockwork-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Wick", "author_name": "Michael Bunker", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 616, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Clay just wants to get home. Six years ago, he moved to New York City after his wife and daughters were killed in a horrible automobile accident, and now, the day after Hurricane Sandy devastates the city and the tri-state area, Clay sets out on foot to escape both the city, and the prison of his old life there. What Clay discovers on his epic walk to freedom, will change everything... for everyone... forever.W1CK is a stand-alone pre-apocalyptic thriller that sets the stage for the apocalyptic social, economic, and structural collapse of Western Civilization that leads us, 20 years later, into the events of Michael Bunker's thriller - The Last Pilgrims.The Cold War is about to get Hot, and sometimes just saying 'NO' is a revolutionary act...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Mystery", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17230265-wick"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Healer\u2019s Baby", "author_name": "Mina Carter", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1307, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Laarn, Lord Healer of the Lathar, is about to become something unique among his people. He\u2019s about to become a father\u2026 of a little girl. The first female child born for a generation. He\u2019s studied childbirth, he\u2019s confident that he has everything planned. Unfortunately, as any human woman could tell him, having a baby doesn\u2019t always go to plan\u2026 This short story is set in the WARRIORS OF THE LATHAR world and is not a stand alone. It should be read after PREGNANT BY THE ALIEN HEALER and is a little bite of life story for those who fell in love with the Lathar and their mates.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Novella", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38920283-alien-healer-s-baby"}, +{"book_title": "Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture", "author_name": "Steven T. Brown", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 61, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Engaging some of the most ground-breaking and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown\u00a0draws new conclusions about electronically mediated forms of social interaction, as well as specific Japanese socioeconomic issues,\u00a0all in the context of globalization and advanced capitalism.\u00a0Penetrating and nuanced, this book\u00a0makes a major contribution to the debate about what\u00a0it means to be human in a posthuman world.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Philosophy", "Culture (Film)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7540572-tokyo-cyberpunk"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Generals III", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 128, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "As history demonstrates, leadership makes a difference. But there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest battles under different circumstances? This work turns the past upside down and inside out.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101573.Alternate_Generals_III"}, +{"book_title": "Desperate Times", "author_name": "Nicholas Antinozzi", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 719, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Despite all the warning bells, Black Friday arrives as a devastating tidal wave that completely destroys our fragile economy in a single day. There is panic in the streets as banks close their doors, seemingly forever, at noon. Store shelves are swept bare and the gas pumps soon run dry. Jimmy Logan watches in disbelief as his world crumbles before his eyes.Luckily, he has friends who have planned ahead for this nightmarish scenario and he joins up with a group who plan to ride the storm out in northern Minnesota. Some of their group will be dead before the sun sets. Jimmy soon finds himself in the battle of his life. The world changes in a single day and there seems to be no going back. People want what they have and they are willing to do anything, even kill, to get it.The government responds to the crisis by using the National Guard to round up the population and to secure them in relocation camps. Those who resist are shot.This is Jimmy's story, but the premise might have been torn from today's headlines. The diverse group of people in this story could be your neighbors; your relatives, and this is a very realistic look at what the future might hold for all of us.What would you do to feed your family if you suddenly found that your life savings was as worthless as yesterday's newspaper? How far would you go to protect what you had, in case it was all that stood between you and starvation? Desperate Times explores these questions from Jimmy's point of view, the result is a thought-provoking story that may change the way you look at the world.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Suspense", "Adventure (Survival)", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11808240-desperate-times"}, +{"book_title": "The Other Log of Phileas Fogg", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 561, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "About a hundred years ago, a group of mutant supermen began playing a major role in our affairs. It is no accident that Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Doc Savage were (are?) contemporaries. Nor was it accidental that their biographers titillated their public with hints of their true natures while not daring to part the veil. Just what was it that restrained them from telling all?", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Pulp", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "The United States Of America"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/931510.The_Other_Log_of_Phileas_Fogg"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl in the Tower", "author_name": "Katherine Arden", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 62933, "review_number": 7101, "book_description": "The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home\u2014but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege.Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya\u2019s options are few: resign herself to life in a convent, or allow her older sister to make her a match with a Moscovite prince. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast world she longs to explore. So instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a boy and riding her horse into the woods. When a battle with some bandits who have been terrorizing the countryside earns her the admiration of the Grand Prince of Moscow, she must carefully guard the secret of her gender to remain in his good graces\u2014even as she realizes his kingdom is under threat from mysterious forces only she will be able to stop.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Cultural (Russia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34050917-the-girl-in-the-tower"}, +{"book_title": "Praying for Rain", "author_name": "B.B. Easton", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 4647, "review_number": 916, "book_description": "\u201cNone of this matters, and we\u2019re all going to die.\u201dWith only three days left until the predicted apocalypse, the small town of Franklin Springs, Georgia, has become a wasteland of abandoned cars, abandoned homes, abandoned businesses, and abandoned people. People like Rainbow Williams. Rain isn\u2019t afraid of dying. In fact, she\u2019s looking forward to it. If she can just outrun her pain until April 23, she\u2019ll never have to feel it at all. \u201cSupplies. Shelter. Self-defense.\u201dWes Parker has survived every horrible thing this life has thrown at him with nothing more than his resourcefulness and disarming good looks. Why should the end of the world be any different? All he needs are some basic supplies, shelter, and a sucker willing to help him out, which is exactly what he finds when he returns to his hometown of Franklin Springs.As society crumbles, dangers mount, and secrets refuse to stay buried, two lost souls are thrust together in a twist of fate\u2014one who will do anything to survive and one who can\u2019t wait to die. Perhaps, together, they can learn how to live.Before their time runs out.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "New Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44064905-praying-for-rain"}, +{"book_title": "The Gaslight Dogs", "author_name": "Karin Lowachee", "rating_score": 3.05, "rating_votes": 451, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "At the edge of the known world, an ancient nomadic tribe faces a new enemy-an Empire fueled by technology and war. A young spiritwalker of the Aniw and a captain in the Ciracusan army find themselves unexpectedly thrown together. The Aniw girl, taken prisoner from her people, must teach the reluctant soldier a forbidden talent -- one that may turn the tide of the war and will surely forever brand him an outcast.From the rippling curtains of light in an Arctic sky, to the gaslit cobbled streets of the city, war is coming to the frozen north. Two people have a choice that will decide the fates of nations -- and may cast them into a darkness that threatens to bring destruction to both their peoples.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Unfinished", "Speculative Fiction", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7024394-the-gaslight-dogs"}, +{"book_title": "The Ballad of Halo Jones", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1862, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "Where did she go? Out. What did she do? Everything. 2000 AD and DC Comics are proud to present Alan Moore and Ian Gibsons all-time classic feminist space opera, THE BALLAD OF HALO JONES. When Halo Jones grows bored with her life in The Hoop, a futuristic world where jobs are scarce and excitement is nonexistent, she sets out to see the galaxy any way she can. But can she survive the highs and lows that lie in her path, including an extended period of shipboard servitude and a tour of duty in a terrifying war that defies the physics of space and time?", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Sequential Art", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Feminism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59710.The_Ballad_of_Halo_Jones"}, +{"book_title": "Captain Nemo", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 490, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Most readers know Captain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne\u2019s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But what if Nemo was a real man, whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired?Here is the tale of Andre Nemo, the man behind the myth. The free-spirited and inventive son of a French shipbuilder, Nemo goes to sea as a cabin boy, faces marauding pirates and bloodthirsty sharks, is marooned for years on a mysterious island, battles prehistoric monsters long believed extinct, journeys to the center of the Earth, balloons across Africa, escapes from Arab slavers, discovers the fabled city of Timbuktu, endures a plague of locusts, survives the Charge of the Light Brigade, tends to the wounded with Florence Nightingale, is pressed into service by the ruthless Robert the Conqueror, and, ultimately, wages war on War itself as the captain of his greatest creation: the legendary underwater vessel known as the Nautilus.Captain Nemo is also the story of Nemo\u2019s childhood friend, Jules Verne, who would bestow immortality upon the captain\u2019s exploits, and of the remarkable woman they both loved to the very end.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376663.Captain_Nemo"}, +{"book_title": "Days of Infamy", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1692, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "From Book 1: On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against United States naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? With American military forces subjugated and civilians living in fear of their conquerors, there is no one to stop the Japanese from using the islands' resources to launch an offensive against America's western coast.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52234.Days_of_Infamy"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Light of the Sun", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 8062, "review_number": 476, "book_description": "In his eagerly awaited new novel, Guy Gavriel Kay turns his gaze to the northlands, brilliantly evoking the Viking, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic cultures of a turbulent age.There is nothing soft or silken about the north. The lives of men and women are as challenging as the climate and lands in which they dwell. For generations, the Erlings of Vinmark have taken their dragon-prowed ships across the seas, raiding the lands of the Cyngael and Anglcyn peoples, leaving fire and death behind. But times change, even in the north, and in a tale woven with consummate artistry, people of all three cultures find the threads of their lives unexpectedly brought together...Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father's sins, commits an act of vengeance and desperation that brings him face-to-face, across the sea, with a past he's been trying to leave behind.In the Anglcyn lands of King Aeldred, the shrewd king, battling inner demons all the while, shores up his defenses with alliances and diplomacy-and with swords and arrows-while his exceptional, unpredictable sons and daughters pursue their own desires when battle comes and darkness falls in the woods.And in the valleys and shrouded hills of the Cyngael, whose voices carry music even as they feud and raid amongst each other, violence and love become deeply interwoven when the dragon ships come and Alun ab Owyn, chasing an enemy in the night, glimpses strange lights gleaming above forest pools.Making brilliant use of saga, song and chronicle, Kay brings to life an unforgettable world balanced on the knife-edge of change in The Last Light of the Sun.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104080.The_Last_Light_of_the_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Ashes of Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 927, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "November 1291. Meg and Llywelyn gather their family at Rhuddlan Castle to celebrate their seventh anniversary and David's twenty-third birthday. But the joyful reunion goes grievously awry when an old enemy raises the banner of rebellion, followed immediately by an even more catastrophic betrayal by an old friend.Meanwhile, facing war at every turn and still haunted by his decision to leave Cassie and Callum in the modern world, David chooses a dangerous path forward, one that will either change the course of the future forever--or burn his world to ashes.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21403900-ashes-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "author_name": "Jack Finney", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 19561, "review_number": 959, "book_description": "On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved\u2014the world as he knew it. First published in 1955, this classic thriller of the ultimate alien invasion and the triumph of the human spirit over an invisible enemy inspired three major motion pictures.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127515.Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers"}, +{"book_title": "Hope for the Best", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 3777, "review_number": 384, "book_description": "The tenth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.You can't change History. History doesn't like it. There are always consequences.Max is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands. Especially when she's had A Brilliant Idea. Yes, it will mean breaking a few rules, but - as Max always says - they're not her rules.Seconded to the Time Police to join in the hunt for the renegade Clive Ronan, Max is a long way from St Mary's. But life in the future does have its plus points - although not for long.A problem with the Time Map reveals chaos in the 16th century and the wrong Tudor queen on the throne. History has gone rogue, there's a St Mary's team right in the firing line and Max must step up.You know what they say. Hope for the best. But plan for the worst.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43208022-hope-for-the-best"}, +{"book_title": "Phenomena", "author_name": "Douglas Phillips", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 383, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Phenomena is a story of intrigue, psychological distress, and one scientist\u2019s quest to untangle the mysteries of human consciousness\u2026Amelia Charron is a neuroscientist researching brain disorders. She routinely uses astonishing mind-linking technology that allows her to enter the dream world of patients. Each night, Amelia acts as a guide through the bizarre wonderland of the mind \u2013 an assisted lucid dream. It\u2019s a technique that reroutes neural pathways to heal the brain, but it\u2019s not without psychological dangers for both the patient and the guide.Orlando Kwon will do anything to keep the frightening voices at bay. Alien voices, he\u2019s sure, but he has no idea what they are saying. The medical diagnosis: early stage schizophrenia. With his life in tatters, a referral to a specialized neuroscience team might be his last chance.Amelia is startled by what she sees in her newest patient\u2019s mind. Frightening dreams of an unknown world are accompanied by knowledge the man couldn\u2019t possibly have invented and a language no one has heard. In a race against time, Amelia must uncover the deep implications for her patient, herself, and humankind \u2013 before Orlando inserts the final component into a strange device he feels compelled to construct.From the author of Quantum Space comes an exciting new novel that begins in real science and inexorably pulls the reader toward the deepest wonders of our universe.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55283059-phenomena"}, +{"book_title": "A Court of Mist and Fury", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 374766, "review_number": 42934, "book_description": "Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court\u2014but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people.Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms\u2014and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future\u2014and the future of a world cleaved in two.With more than a million copies sold of her beloved Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her seductive and action-packed series to new heights.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "New Adult", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17927395-a-court-of-mist-and-fury"}, +{"book_title": "House of the Sun", "author_name": "Nigel Findley", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 369, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "The kingdom of Hawaii is a tropical playground with a sinister underside. Dirk Montgomery, former Lone Star cop turned shadowrunner, must stay one step ahead of the factions battling to control the islands--the megacorps, the government, the rebels and the yazuka, not to mention the dragons, elves, new friends and old enemies.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29886.House_of_the_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Out of the Past", "author_name": "Dana Roquet", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 270, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Torie Mills is beautiful, successful and a New York Times best-selling historical romance author. Determined to find some solace from her fast paced and demanding life, she decides to move to Mahaska County, Iowa\u2014a mile outside of the tiny town of Fremont and into her great great-grandparent\u2019s old homestead. Her plan is to restore the property to its 1870 glory days. She hires handsome, renovation expert Dave Cameron to do the work and together they bring the old Victorian house back to life. When Torie moves in, she discovers that restoring the house has opened a portal into the past. Time traveling each night to the Fremont of old, becomes her wonderful escape and her secret obsession. When she and Dave become lovers, he gets swept into the travels as well\u2014until they both realize, much too late, that there was evil in the past that would have been better left alone\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Suspense", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18591037-out-of-the-past"}, +{"book_title": "The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 891, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "\nExplore fascinating, often chilling \"what if\" accounts of the world that could have existed\u2013and still might yet . . .\nScience fiction\u2019s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you\u2019ll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including:\u2022 \"The Lucky Strike\": When The Lucky Strike is chosen over The Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson\u2019s gripping tale.\u2022 \"Bring the Jubilee\": Ward Moore\u2019s novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at Gettysburg which changes the course of the Civil War . . . and all of American history.\u2022 \"Through Road No Wither\": After Hitler\u2019s victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear\u2019s apocalyptic vision of the future.\u2022 \"All the Myriad Ways\": Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon\u2019s death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven\u2019s brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences.\u2022 \"Mozart in Mirrorshades\": Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past\u2013with disastrous results.. . . as well as works by Poul Anderson \u2022 Gregory Benford \u2022 Jack L. Chalker \u2022 Nicholas A. DiChario \u2022 Brad Linaweaver \u2022 William Sanders \u2022 Susan Shwartz \u2022 Allen Steele \u2022 and Harry Turtledove himself!The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293299.The_Best_Alternate_History_Stories_of_the_20th_Century"}, +{"book_title": "The Giver", "author_name": "Lois Lowry", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1848514, "review_number": 66239, "book_description": "The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Academic (School)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Academic (Read For School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3636.The_Giver"}, +{"book_title": "Bloodhound", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 35560, "review_number": 1241, "book_description": "Beka Cooper is no longer a Puppy. She's a Dog now - a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, which keeps the peace in Corus's streets. Beka's natural skills of observation and tenacity are augmented by her unusual magical talents, which allow her to gather information both from pigeons are from the eddies of dirt and dust that swirl on street corners. But even her magic isn't very useful when unrest comes to Tortall's capital in the form of counterfeit coins, which turn up in shops all over the city. Merchants raise prices to cover their losses, and with winter coming on, hikes in food and fuel costs could spell disaster - most of all for the city's poor.The Dogs discover that gamblers are bringing the counterfeits from Port Caynn - and that the Port Caynn Dogs don't seem to be doing anything about it. Beka and her mentor, Clary Goodwin, are chosen to go undercover in Port Caynn and find out what they can. And wherever Beka goes, so do some of her animals. Departing from Corus with her are the scent hound Achoo, who has been newly assigned to Beka, and the pigeon Slapper, who carries the voices of the dead.In Port Caynn, Beka and Goodwin delve deep into the gambling world. There Beka meets a charming bank courier, who may be involved in the counterfeiting ring. Things come to a head just as Goodwin returns home to report in Corus. It won't be enough to Beka to be her usual \"terrier\" self. She'll have to learn from Achoo to sniff out the criminals - to be a bloodhound.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153779.Bloodhound"}, +{"book_title": "Alpha Bonds", "author_name": "Milana Jacks", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1067, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "He should nip this desire in the bud, but it's grown beyond his control.CyanOne second, I'm battling an overgrown hedge with a pair of clippers. The next, I'm running for my life, positive I've stumbled onto a prank reality show set, complete with a towering, red-haired guy in costume who throws me over his shoulder like I weigh nothing \u2014 I'm a big girl, never been thin.Half of me is horrified to find out I've somehow been transported to an alien planet. The other half would sure like to explore the masterpiece of muscle under that armor.KinreHorde life is simple. Hunt the enemy, kill the enemy. But after Loven broke the law by bonding an Omega meant for the king, life got real complicated. Instead of exterminating Telean rebels, I'm playing nice to recruit them for Loven's stupid rebellion.Then I make a big mistake. Huge. I rescue a helpless human, only to discover this curvy, tempting morsel is an Omega about to go into heat. Fleeing the Telean ship and returning her to the Horde stronghold means abandoning the Telean alliance \u2014 and destroying everything we've risked our lives for.I should nip this desire in the bud, but it's grown beyond my control.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42446969-alpha-bonds"}, +{"book_title": "The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2286, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "United States Diplomat Danielle Lowen was there when one of her fellow diplomats committed an unthinkable act, which had consequences for the entire planet. Now shes trying to figure out how it happened before it can happen again. Putting the puzzle pieces together could solve the mystery or it could threaten her own life.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180363-the-gentle-art-of-cracking-heads"}, +{"book_title": "The Fractal Prince", "author_name": "Hannu Rajaniemi", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 7668, "review_number": 584, "book_description": "\u201cThe good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.\u201dA physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of \u201cfast ones,\u201d shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution.And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schr\u00f6dinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not.Jean de Flambeur is back. And he\u2019s running out of time.In Hannu Rajaniemi\u2019s sparkling follow-up to the critically acclaimed international sensation The Quantum Thief, he returns to his awe-inspiring vision of the universe\u2026and we discover what the future held for Earth.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Singularity", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12074927-the-fractal-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Chronospace", "author_name": "Allen M. Steele", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 414, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "When two 24th century chrononauts from the timeship Oberon travel back to May 6th, 1937, to investigate the destruction of the Hindenburg over Lakehurst, New Jersey, the disaster is somehow averted and the airship lands safely. Now, lost in a parallel universe, their mistake will be felt by every single human being.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Travel", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/383884.Chronospace"}, +{"book_title": "The Law of Nines", "author_name": "Terry Goodkind", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 12030, "review_number": 864, "book_description": "Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him-and everyone he loves-into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence . . . In Alex, Terry Goodkind brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of high-octane thriller.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Romance", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6311614-the-law-of-nines"}, +{"book_title": "The Auction", "author_name": "Kitty Thomas", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 2114, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "Belle Walker lives in a strict society where women are treated as property, sold to the highest bidder soon after their eighteenth birthday. But the auction isn\u2019t the only danger. Though she\u2019s never seen them, she knows monsters live outside the city. These creatures have allowed the humans a small area to inhabit with the promise to leave them in peace as long as they never cross the boundary. On the day Belle is sold, one of the monsters breaks that promise and enters the city, intent on having her as his own.**This book is intended for an adult audience and contains master/slave, multiple partners, girl on girl, alien sex, and oral play.**", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Dark", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11842134-the-auction"}, +{"book_title": "Cardboard", "author_name": "Doug TenNapel", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 13338, "review_number": 1070, "book_description": "Cam's down-and-out father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday and he knows it's the worst present ever. So to make the best of a bad situation, they bend the cardboard into a man-and to their astonishment, it comes magically to life. But the neighborhood bully, Marcus, warps the powerful cardboard into his own evil creations that threaten to destroy them all!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13356190-cardboard"}, +{"book_title": "Hexmaker", "author_name": "Jordan L. Hawk", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1712, "review_number": 280, "book_description": "A straight-laced policeman. A lighthearted thief. A murdered millionaire.Fox shifter Malachi steals for one of the biggest crime rings in New York City. But when he witnesses the murder of a millionaire, the only person who can keep him safe is Dr. Owen Yates, forensic hexman for the Metropolitan Witch Police\u2014and Malachi\u2019s witch.Owen is horrified to discover his familiar is an uneducated thief. Even worse, Malachi threatens to unleash Owen\u2019s deepest desires\u2026desires Owen can\u2019t act upon, as he\u2019s destined for an arranged marriage to secure the Yates family fortuneTheir agreement: Malachi will be Owen\u2019s lover as well as his partner, until the day of the wedding. But as their hunt for the murderer carries them from teeming slums to Fifth Avenue mansions, Owens begins to realize Malachi commands his heart as well as his body.With dark forces drawing ever closer around them, Owen must decide whether to bow to the demands of duty, or to risk everything for the man he loves.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31949586-hexmaker"}, +{"book_title": "Frank Einstein and the BrainTurbo", "author_name": "Jon Scieszka", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 248, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "\"Huge laughs and great science\u2014the kind of smart, funny stuff that makes Jon Scieszka a legend.\" \u2014Mac Barnett, author of\u00a0Battle Bunny and The Terrible Two \"I never thought science could be funny . . . until I read Frank Einstein. It will have kids laughing.\" \u2014Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy KidMore clever science experiments, funny jokes, and robot hijinks await readers in book three of the New York Times bestselling Frank Einstein chapter book series from the mad scientist team of Jon Scieszka and Brian Biggs. The perfect combination to engage and entertain readers, the series features real science facts with adventure and humor, making these books ideal for STEM education. This latest installment examines the quest to unlock the power behind the science of \"the human body.\"Kid-genius and inventor Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. In the series opener, an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm, and a flash of electricity bring Frank\u2019s inventions\u2014the robots Klink and Klank\u2014to life! Not exactly the ideal lab partners, the wisecracking Klink and the overly expressive Klank nonetheless help Frank attempt to perfect his inventions. In the third book in the series, Frank creates the BrainTurbo to power-boost the human body and help his baseball-pitching pal Janegoodall make the team. But when Klank goes missing, they must first rescue their robot pal and stop T. Edison\u2014Frank\u2019s classmate and archrival\u2014from stealing their latest invention and using it against them! Integrating real science facts with wacky humor, a silly cast of characters, and science fiction, this uniquely engaging series is an irresistible chemical reaction for middle-grade readers. With easy-to-read language and graphic illustrations on almost every page, this chapter book series is a must for reluctant readers. The Frank Einstein series encourages middle-grade readers to question the way things work and to discover how they, too, can experiment with science. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews raves, \u201cThis buoyant, tongue-in-cheek celebration of the impulse to \u2018keep asking questions and finding your own answers\u2019 fires on all cylinders,\u201d while Publishers Weekly says that the series \u201cproves that science can be as fun as it is important and useful.\u201dRead all the books in the New York Times bestselling Frank Einstein series: Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (Book 1), Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger (Book 2), Frank Einstein and the BrainTurbo (Book 3), and Frank Einstein and the EvoBlaster Belt (Book 4). Visit frankeinsteinbooks.com for more information. \u00a0", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Humor", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Sports (Sports)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24795953-frank-einstein-and-the-brainturbo"}, +{"book_title": "The Dog Stars", "author_name": "Peter Heller", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 53593, "review_number": 7200, "book_description": "Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.\u00a0But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adult Fiction", "Adult", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330761-the-dog-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Call of Fire", "author_name": "Beth Cato", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 271, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "When an earthquake devastates San Francisco in an alternate 1906, the influx of geomantic energy nearly consumes Ingrid Carmichael. Bruised but alive, the young geomancer flees the city with her friends, Cy, Lee, and Fenris. She is desperate to escape Ambassador Blum, the cunning and dangerous bureaucrat who wants to use Ingrid\u2019s formidable powers to help the Unified Pacific\u2014the confederation of the United States and Japan\u2014achieve world domination. To stop them, Ingrid must learn more about the god-like magic she inherited from her estranged father\u2014the man who set off the quake that obliterated San Francisco.When Lee and Fenris are kidnapped in Portland, Ingrid and Cy are forced to ally themselves with another Ambassador from the Unified Pacific: the powerful and mysterious Theodore Roosevelt. But even TR\u2019s influence may not be enough to save them when they reach Seattle, where the magnificent peak of Mount Rainier looms. Discovering more about herself and her abilities, Ingrid is all too aware that she may prove to be the fuse to light the long-dormant volcano . . . and a war that will sweep the world.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32600743-call-of-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Hopebreaker", "author_name": "Dean F. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 427, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "In the world of Altadas, there are no more human births. The Regime is replacing the unborn with demons, while the Resistance is trying to destroy a drug called Hope that the demons need to survive. Between these two warring factions lies Jacob, a man who profits from smuggling contraceptive amulets into the city of Blackout. He cares little about the Great Iron War, but a chance capture, and an even more accidental rescue, embroils him in a plot to starve the Regime from power. When Hope is an enemy, Jacob finds it harder than he thought to remain indifferent. When the Resistance opts to field its experimental landship, the Hopebreaker, they find they might just have a chance to win this war.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50508610-hopebreaker"}, +{"book_title": "Foundation and Empire", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 161773, "review_number": 3270, "book_description": "Foundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a new breed of man who create a new force for galactic government. Thus, the Foundation hurtles into conflict with the decadent, decrepit First Empire. In this struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars, man stands at the threshold of a new, enlightened life which could easily be put aside for the old forces of barbarism. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov constitute what is very likely the most famed epic in all of science-fiction", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29581.Foundation_and_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "Doktor Glass", "author_name": "Thomas Brennan", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 337, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "In an age of Zeppelins and gyroplanes, atomics and horseless carriages, the Transatlantic Span is the industrial marvel of the nineteenth century. A monumental feat of engineering, the steel suspension bridge stretches across the Atlantic from Liverpool to the distant harbor of New York City, supported by no less than seven hundred towers. But in the shadows of its massive struts, on the docks of the River Mersey, lies a faceless corpse\u2026 Inspector Matthew Langton is still seized with grief when he thinks of Sarah, his late wife. Tortured by nightmares and afflicted by breathless attacks of despair and terror, he forces himself to focus on the investigation of the faceless man. The victim wears the uniform of the Transatlantic Span Company but bears the tattoos of the Boers\u2014could there be a Boer conspiracy to assassinate Queen Victoria on the upcoming Inauguration Day of the Span? But the truth, as it begins to emerge, is far more bizarre than a political coup. As additional victims turn up\u2014each with strange, twin burn marks on their necks\u2014Langton draws a connection between the dead man beneath the bridge and chilling rumors of the Jar Bars, soul snatchers who come under cover of night. Most frightening of all is the mythic and elusive Doktor Glass, who may not only be behind the illicit trade in souls\u2026but who may hold the key to what happened to the inspector\u2019s own beloved wife on her deathbed\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808873-doktor-glass"}, +{"book_title": "The Escape", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 3630, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Almost nothing could be as bad as finding out your mother is Visser One. The most powerful of all Vissers. The leader of the Yeerk invasion of Earth. But it happened to Marco. And even though he's been handling it pretty well, he knew there'd come a time when he'd have to face her again. Knowing that the Yeerk in her brain had taken his mother away.So when Marco, the other Animorphs, and Ax discover that Visser One is overseeing a secret underwater project, they know they have to check it out. But Marco's not sure if this is a battle he'll be able to fight....", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363355.The_Escape"}, +{"book_title": "Korval's Game", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 695, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The Liaden Universe(R) series has enthralled thousands of readers, and now two of its most exciting space adventure novels are combined in one popularly-priced Omni-trade volume. Plan B: Val Con yos'Phelium is a fugitive. The heir of Clan Korval is wanted by the covert Liaden agency known as the Department of the Interior, whose rulers have declared unofficial war against the entire clan. With only his love, Miri Robertson, by his side, Val Con plans a desperate gamble by forming an alliance with Clan Erob on the planet where Miri was born. But Val Con's cousin, Shan yos'Galan, can't wait for help that may never arrive. With enemy agents closing in, he invokes Plan B--setting in motion a series of events that will have dire consequences, not only for him and his life-mate, Priscilla Mendoza, but all of Liad . . . I Dare: On the run from the agents of the Department of the Interior, Val Con has been separated from Miri. Shan, Val Con's cousin, and Shan's life-mate Priscilla, continue to search for him, believing that he's the Clan's last hope for survival. But the DOI is attacking Clan Korval in a more subtle fashion. Pat Rin yos'Phelium--Val's ne'er-do-well, nearly identical cousin, gambler and shooter--is offered control of the clan. The DOI believes they can manipulate him into serving their agenda. They're \"wrong\" . . . \"I rarely rave on and on about stories, but I am devoted to Lee and Miller novels and stories.\" --Anne McCaffrey", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8618182-korval-s-game"}, +{"book_title": "Prudence", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 14490, "review_number": 1937, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a new novel in the world of the Parasol Protectorate starring Prudence, the daughter of Alexia Tarabotti.When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) is given an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female would under similar circumstances - names it the Spotted Custard and floats to India in pursuit of the perfect cup of tea. But India has more than just tea on offer. Rue stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife, and some awfully familiar Scottish werewolves. Faced with a dire crisis and an embarrassing lack of bloomers, what else is a young lady of good breeding to do but turn metanatural and find out everyone's secrets, even thousand-year-old fuzzy ones?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12799420-prudence"}, +{"book_title": "Ynyr", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3978, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "Ynyr was a third male and while he was a fit and worthy Warrior, he had always known that no female would ever Join with him. His mother\u2019s refusal to leave his manno had most looking down on his family. He knew Ull would be able to overcome this because he was a first male and would one day be a Lord. Maybe even Vali, since he was a second male but neither Ynyr nor his younger brother Zev would ever be acceptable to a female. The most they could hope for was to serve their House with honor. That all changed with the arrival of the females from Earth.Abby\u2019s life had not been an easy one, especially after the death of her family when she had been sixteen but she had thought things were finally looking up. She was a year away from achieving her dream of becoming a teacher and soon she would be making a difference in the lives of children others had given up on. That all changed when she worked a double shift at the library to help a friend. Ynyr and Abby come together in the most unusual of ways but that is just the beginning of the uniqueness of their relationship. Together they must do something no other Lord and Lady have ever done, make their House the shining example the Emperor demanded it be, out of one that has been destroyed by deceit and evil. Will the secrets left behind by Bertos and Risa tear them apart? Or will it be Abby\u2019s own secrets and Ynyr\u2019s reaction to them that do?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Space", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23978654-ynyr"}, +{"book_title": "Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon", "author_name": "Mary Fan", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 414, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "When a powerful viceroy arrives with a fleet of mechanical dragons and stops an attack on Anlei\u2019s village, the villagers see him as a godsend. They agree to give him their sacred, enchanted River Pearl in exchange for permanent protection\u2014if he\u2019ll marry one of the village girls to solidify the alliance. Anlei is appalled when the viceroy selects her as a bride, but with the fate of her people at stake, she sees no choice but to consent. Anlei\u2019s noble plans are sent into a tailspin, however, when a young thief steals the River Pearl for himself.Knowing the viceroy won\u2019t protect her village without the jewel, she takes matters into her own hands. But once she catches the thief, she discovers he needs the pearl just as much as she does. The two embark on an epic quest across the land and into the Courts of Hell, taking Anlei on a journey that reveals more is at stake than she could have ever imagined.With incredibly vivid world building and fast-paced storytelling, Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon is great for readers who are looking for something fresh in epic fantasy.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Literature (Asian Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41150325-stronger-than-a-bronze-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Marcun", "author_name": "Sadie Carter", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 567, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Eden Summers has an unhealthy obsession with chocolate, a hate-hate relationship with the IRS, and a failing bakery. Her love life is\u2026well, not dying, to be dying it would first have to exist, right? And the only person filling up her inbox is her overprotective mother.To top things off her next-door neighbor is a rude, obnoxious sex maniac. When he\u2019s not keeping her up half the night with all his banging and moaning, he\u2019s turning her into a babbling idiot.Because the man is gorgeous. Ripped. Mesmerising. A little strange. And when she is around him, her body melts into a pile of goo.Infuriating.Marcun Clacka has come to Earth to locate a precious jewel for his client. He doesn\u2019t like Earth; the people are inferior and, unlike his pack mates, he does not wish to find a human female to mate.Humans are trouble. Fragile. And loud. Except the tiny female who lives next to him isn\u2019t too annoying. And she is quite attractive. Foolishly courageous. Yes, perhaps he could mate with her.There is just one problem. Sky Warriors mate in packs. One female. Six males.And Marcun does not intend to share the little female.Mine.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40135016-marcun"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of the Comet", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2525, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410660.Heart_of_the_Comet"}, +{"book_title": "Pinion", "author_name": "Jay Lake", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 233, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "\n\"The delight is in what's seen en route, as Lake has configured his world-dominating empires, one British, the other Chinese, with huge and devoted attention to the last detail. The delight of the next volume--prefigured with unrelenting clarity in Escapement's final pages--should be the discovery that the destination adds up.\"--Washington Post Book World on EscapementRejoin the Librarian and the Chinese submarine captain, the British sailor, the clockwork man, and the young sorceress who has gone south of the great equatorial wall.\u00c2\u00a0 This adventure in Lake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Clockwork Earth continues the tale begun in Escapement. \"The very cosmology of this world is an enigmatic astonishment, and it underpins every single bit of action and character\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.Lake has a ball transporting his characters up and down this magnificent world, subjecting them to all sorts of perils and escapes in a wild variety of settings. His three main protagonists all exhibit distinct and memorable personalities that allow us to filter their world through three prisms of intelligence and attitude\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.Fantasy has always been \"escapist\" in the best sense of the word, and Lake engineers a fine tale of humans in search of liberation from the clockwork and customs that ensnare them and us as well.\"--Sci-Fi Weekly on Escapement\n", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Aircraft (Airships)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665902-pinion"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Uranium Unicorns from Uranus", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 959, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "With more than 1.8 million books in print, Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot are a big hit with children. Their latest adventure is the best one yet!Ricky Ricotta loves his Mighty Robot, but sometimes it's hard for a little mouse to have a best friend who's so BIG. One night, Ricky makes a wish: If only his Mighty Robot had another friend who was his own size so he wouldn't have to hang out with Ricky all the time. Little does Ricky know, his wish is about to come true. Evil Uncle Unicorn has traveled all the way from Uranus with a mean and nasty plan. He's built a giant Ladybot to trick the Mighty Robot so he can take over planet Earth. Once again, it's up to Ricky and his pals to save the day.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Humor", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830697.Ricky_Ricotta_s_Mighty_Robot_vs_the_Uranium_Unicorns_from_Uranus"}, +{"book_title": "Saving the Whole Wide World", "author_name": "Judd Winick", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 1836, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Dog Man meets Big Nate in HILO-the hilarious New York Times Bestselling GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES kids love! \u201cA Total BLAST,\u201d says the Miami Herald! Everyone\u2019s favorite space boy, Hilo, is just settling into life on earth (Bowling? Knock-knock jokes? OUTSTANDING!) when strange portals begin opening up all over town. And HOLY MACKEREL! Even STRANGER creatures are coming through them! But it will take more than a GIANT MUTANT CHICKEN, A VIKING HIPPO, A MAGICAL WARRIOR CAT, or even a few MILLION KILLER VEGETABLES to stop Team Hilo . . . er, WON\u2019T IT? Can Hilo, DJ, and GINA figure out how to send these creatures back to their worlds before they DESTROY the earth?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26150423-saving-the-whole-wide-world"}, +{"book_title": "Enders", "author_name": "Lissa Price", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 11631, "review_number": 1344, "book_description": "Someone is after Starters like Callie and Michael\u2014teens with chips in their brains. They want to experiment on anyone left over from Prime Destinations\u2014Starters who can be controlled and manipulated. With the body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves. Having the chip removed could save her life\u2014but it could also silence the voice in her head that might belong to her father. Callie has flashes of her ex-renter Helena's memories, too . . . and the Old Man is back, filling her with fear. Who is real and who is masquerading in a teen body?No one is ever who they appear to be, not even the Old Man. Determined to find out who he really is and grasping at the hope of a normal life for herself and her younger brother, Callie is ready to fight for the truth. Even if it kills her.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13412377-enders"}, +{"book_title": "The Great St Mary's Day Out", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 2604, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "Everyone deserves to get away for a bit. Even the miscreants at St Mary's. Astonishingly, Dr Bairstow has declared a holiday. Even more astonishingly - he's paying for it. Needless to say, there are strings attached. They have to record the 1601 performance of Hamlet, with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost. It doesn't go well, of course.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Historical", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29982939-the-great-st-mary-s-day-out"}, +{"book_title": "Down to the Bone", "author_name": "Justina Robson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 580, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "THE GAP BETWEEN THE WORLDS WAS SO THIN IN PLACES, YOU COULD ALMOST STEP ACROSS WITHOUT MEANING TO...Lila Black can still turn into a lethal war-winning machine with the merest thought but she doesn't work for the agency any more. Problem is, she has no idea what to do next.Teazle is a demon who may have become Death's Angel.Zal is a has-been elven musician without a band.They don't add up to much and when they get together major stuff goes down.But the dead are walking, the veil between the worlds is tearing and if it fails altogether all bets are off.Someone has to do something and it looks like it's going to have to be Lila.Is attitude enough to get you through life and death?Will it get you a happy ending?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8449414-down-to-the-bone"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowbound", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1497, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "When a powerful relic goes missing from a secret society that dabbles in the occult, Miss Ianthe Martin is charged with finding it at all costs. She needs help, but all clues point to someone on the inside being the thief. The only sorcerer she knows that can't possibly be involved, is the very man she saw locked in Bedlam a year ago... The mad, bad, dangerous Earl of Rathbourne. When the seductive Miss Martin appears in his Bedlam cell, Rathbourne fears he's finally lost his mind. The devilish sorceress played a hand in his incarceration, and now she comes asking for help? Perhaps she should begin by begging for mercy... But Ianthe's offer of freedom is one he can't refuse, although he has a clause of his own to add. She may bind him with her power\u2013the only way to still the demons haunting him\u2013but for every day spent under her command, the nights will be his... to wreak delicious revenge on her willing flesh.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30152125-shadowbound"}, +{"book_title": "The Fall of the Governor: Part One", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 5401, "review_number": 476, "book_description": "The third book in Robert Kirkman's New York Times bestselling series: The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor \u2013 Part One!The Walking Dead original novel series, set in the universe of Robert Kirkman's iconic comic book, continues with The Fall of the Governor \u2013 Part One. From co-authors Kirkman, creator of the Eisner Award-winning comic as well as executive producer of AMC's blockbuster TV series, and Jay Bonansinga, Stoker Award-finalist and internationally acclaimed author, comes the gripping third novel in this richly woven, page-turning literary saga, which began with The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.In Rise of the Governor, uber-villain Philip Blake journeyed from his humble beginnings directly into the dark heart of the zombie apocalypse, and became the self-proclaimed leader of a small town called Woodbury. In The Road to Woodbury, an innocent traveler named Lilly Caul wound up in the terrifying thrall of Phillip Blake\u2019s twisted, violent dictatorship within Woodbury\u2019s ever tightening barricades.And now, in The Fall of the Governor \u2013 Part One, the Governor\u2019s descent into madness finally erupts in a tour de force of action and horror. Beloved characters from the comic book, including Rick, Michonne and Glenn, finally make their entrance onto this nightmarish stage, and fans of The Walking Dead will see these characters in a whole new light. Simmering grudges boil over into unthinkable confrontations, battle lines are drawn, and unexpected twists seal the fates of the innocent and guilty alike.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286685-the-fall-of-the-governor"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 8679, "review_number": 541, "book_description": "Yukito Kishiro blurs the lines between human and machine in the sci-fi/action adventure Battle Angel Alita.Daisuke Ido, a talented cybernetic doctor, finds the head of a cyborg in a junk heap. When he rebuilds her body, Alita's only clue to her past surfaces-her deadly fighting instincts! And now she is determine to find out the truth about who she once was...", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/844422.Battle_Angel_Alita"}, +{"book_title": "Juggler of Worlds", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2422, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings... Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others? He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth's traitors and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from Known Space. As a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would end horribly for him. Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom of it all had eluded him. That fog has begun to lift... But even Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations will take him - or that his destiny is entwined with the fates of worlds.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2454413.Juggler_of_Worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Deathstalker Coda", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1590, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "More than two centuries ago, angry and grief-stricken after losing Owen Deathstalker, Hazel d'Ark entered the Madness Maze-- which fed off her raw emotions and transformed her into the Terror, a force capable of devouring galaxies. To stop her, the recently resurrected Owen must use the powers he gained during his own stay in the Madness Maze-- and go back in time to prevent Hazel's transformation.Now, without Owen to guide him, Lewis Deathstalker has no choice but to assume command of an Imperial fleet loyal to the Deathstalker legacy and lead it to victory over Finn Durandal, the despot who seized the throne. Lewis knows that he has been branded a traitor by the Empire. But when he learns that Finn has executed his entire family, his mission to overthrow his former friend's tyranny is second to his desire for revenge...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629069.Deathstalker_Coda"}, +{"book_title": "To Tame a Highland Warrior", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 31613, "review_number": 1298, "book_description": "A Woman's Tender TouchHe was born to a clan of warriors of supernatural strength, but Gavrael McIllioch abandoned his name and his Highland castle, determined to escape the dark fate of his ancestors. Hiding his identity from the relentless rival clan that hunted him, he called himself Grimm to protect the people he cared for, vowing never to acknowledge his love for ravishing Jillian St. Clair. Yet even from afar he watched over her, and when her father sent an urgent summons, \"Come for Jillian,\" he raced to her side\u2014into a competition to win her hand in marriage.A Warrior's Steely HeartWhy had he run from her so many years before? And why return now to see her offered as a prize in her father's manipulative game? Furious, Jillian vowed never to wed. But Grimm was the man she loved, the one who urged her to marry another. He tried to pretend indifference as she tempted him, but he could not deny the fierce desires that compelled him to abduct her from the altar. She was the only woman who could tame the beast that raged within him\u2014even as deadly enemies plotted to destroy them both....", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112756.To_Tame_a_Highland_Warrior"}, +{"book_title": "A Federation Forged in Fire", "author_name": "Stephen W. Bennett", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 907, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "When the enemy discovers their hidden home, Mirikami is forced to lead 117 Kobani ships in a desperate attack against 3,000 Krall ships and uncounted warriors. Armed with a 22,000-year-old computer virus, and sheer courage, they must disable every enemy ship and weapon. The last time this tactic was tried against them, the Krall eradicated the entire Olt\u2019kitapi civilization. That\u2019s just one foe the Kobani face. The PU president rejects diplomatic recognition of the new Galactic Federation, and diplomat Mirikami is ordered arrested for genetic crimes and for provoking Krall attacks on Hub worlds. To reveal the president\u2019s duplicity in a secret deal with the Krall leader, he accepts a life or death challenge fight with an old enemy, right on the capitol steps, with news cameras rolling. Then, proving the galaxy remains a dangerous place, the huge Thandol Empire, a former Olt\u2019kitapi enemy, forcefully announces that its elephantine rulers intend to annex the Orion Spur. That happens to be where both the Kobani led Galactic Federation, and Human Space reside. Naturally, the Kobani decline the Empire\u2019s violently phrased demands, doing it in their typically harsh and forceful manner. In leading up to that confrontation, the Kobani learn the basis of the Empire\u2019s claim to Federation Space, and it predates the Krall conquests. The prior owners may have a claim. The Empire\u2019s initial punitive reaction to Kobani rejection reveals they have a pain causing nerve weapon, used for crowd control in the Empire. This mild sounding weapon proves to be devastating to those with organic superconducting nerves. Life on Koban could be wiped out by a riot control ship.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26013899-a-federation-forged-in-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Gold", "author_name": "Pierce Brown", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 47949, "review_number": 4031, "book_description": "They call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his life. A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk everything he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself? And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow\u2019s to change his fate forever: A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp and achieves for herself a new life she could never have imagined. An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the galaxy\u2014or pay with his life. And Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the sovereign, wanders the stars with his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes. Red Rising was the story of the end of one universe, and Iron Gold is the story of the creation of a new one. Witness the beginning of a stunning new saga of tragedy and triumph from masterly New York Times bestselling author Pierce Brown.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33257757-iron-gold"}, +{"book_title": "Venomous", "author_name": "Penelope Fletcher", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 5541, "review_number": 593, "book_description": "\"She is mine to protect, mine to shelter, mine to feed and mine to cover. When she is weak, I shall be her strength. She was stolen from her world by our captors. Now her survival is my responsibility. It is her duty to endure my lust, respect my nest mates and honour our union with offspring. I revere this giver of life, as is the way.\"~ Venomous One, formerly of R\u00f6k, enslaved gladiator \"Six things a woman should not have to deal with: 1) More than one barbaric alien lover/life mate. 2) Long term stay on a slave planet where you\u2019re one female amongst thousands of 'needy' males. 3) Killer space pirates. 4) Psychotic mother-in-law. 5) Putting your alien lover/life mates\u2019 species under the threat of annihilation because you ticked off the wrong Slave Chieftain. 6) A marauding overlord with a harem four hundred strong who is determined to make you concubine number four hundred and one. My name is Lumen. I am stranded in a galaxy far, far away and here be huge f***ing aliens.\"~ Lumen Young, formerly of Earth, lost in space Abducted from Earth and transported to a slave planet in an unknown galaxy, Lumen finds herself, shackled, naked and put on display before an alien horde. Told the males will battle for the right to slake their lusts with her body, she would become the slave of slaves. Venomous One, a proud warrior enslaved, has given up hope of returning to his home world and finding a life mate. When a female is tossed into the arena his soul demands he claim her. Winning his mate by Right of Might, he vows to protect Lumen and be a good provider, no matter how ugly her human appearance. Rescued by Venomous\u2019 people, the couple face space pirates, the condemnation of an alien government, galactic war, and a deadlier threat from within the warrior\u2019s own kindred. \nWarning: violence, profanity and sexual situations with multiple partners.\n", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24081930-venomous"}, +{"book_title": "Warbound", "author_name": "Larry Correia", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 7689, "review_number": 424, "book_description": "New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author's gritty urban fantasy set in an alternate noir 1930s. A tough P.I. battles an interdimensional monster that wants to suck magic power out of the world. Sequel to Hard Magic and Spellbound.\u00a0 Book Three in the Grimnoir Chronicles.Only a handful of people in the world know that mankind\u2019s magic comes from a living creature, and it is a refugee from another universe. The Power showed up here in the 1850s because it was running from something. Now it is 1933, and the Power\u2019s hiding place has been discovered by a killer.It is a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. Earth is next.Former private eye, Jake Sullivan, knows the score. The problem is hardly anyone believes him. The world\u2019s most capable Active, Faye Vierra, could back him up, but she is hiding from the forces that think she is too dangerous to let live. So Jake has put together a ragtag crew of airship pirates and Grimnoir knights, and set out on a suicide mission to stop the predator before it is too late.\u00a0", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130317-warbound"}, +{"book_title": "Automated Alice", "author_name": "Jeff Noon", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2359, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "Thrown by Zenith O'Clock, the writer of wrongs, from the Victorian age into 1998 Manchester, Alice encounters mutant hybrids, sinister gameplay, chaos theory, a robo-Alice, quantum physics, computermites, jigsaw killers, tickling vurt feathers, puzzle poems and an invisible cat called Quark. This edition is newly revised for ebook publication.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17369279-automated-alice"}, +{"book_title": "The Prestige", "author_name": "Christopher Priest", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 17784, "review_number": 1913, "book_description": "In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent s\u00e9ance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians' craft can command--the highest misdirection and the darkest science.Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations...to descendants who must, for their sanity's sake, untangle the puzzle left to them.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239239.The_Prestige"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Bites", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 109682, "review_number": 7057, "book_description": "The world has suffered a magic apocalypse. We pushed the technological progress too far, and now magic returned with a vengeance. It comes in waves, without warning, and vanishes as suddenly as it appears. When magic is up, planes drop out of the sky, cars stall, electricity dies. When magic is down, guns work and spells fail.Atlanta would be a nice place to live, if it weren\u2019t for magic\u2026 One moment magic dominates, and cars stall and guns fail. The next, technology takes over and the defensive spells no longer protect your house from monsters. Here skyscrapers topple under onslaught of magic; werebears and werehyenas prowl through the ruined streets; and the Masters of the Dead, necromancers driven by their thirst of knowledge and wealth, pilot blood-crazed vampires with their minds. In this world lives Kate Daniels. Kate likes her sword a little too much and has a hard time controlling her mouth. The magic in her blood makes her a target, and she spent most of her life hiding in plain sight. But when Kate\u2019s guardian is murdered, she must choose to do nothing and remain safe or to pursue his preternatural killer. Hiding is easy, but the right choice is rarely easy\u2026", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38619.Magic_Bites"}, +{"book_title": "Spindrift", "author_name": "Allen M. Steele", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 868, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "In the year 2344, the shuttle from the long-missing EASS Galileo returns to Earth carrying three crew members who appear not to have aged. They report that they have made contact with an alien race--and have come face to face with the most apocalyptic force in the galaxy.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319209.Spindrift"}, +{"book_title": "Taken by the Alien Next Door", "author_name": "Tiffany Roberts", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 546, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "An undercover alien. A curvy human female he\u2019s desperate to claim. One month to make her his.Tabitha Mathews has never had much luck with men. Her past relationships only left her heart aching and her self-esteem beaten down. But who needs them? She\u2019s doing just fine on her own. She has a booming home business, an adorable, mischievous dog, and she just became a first-time homeowner\u2026right next door to the hottest man she\u2019s ever seen.Oh, did she mention that he happens to be an alien? An alien with dreamy, glowing eyes, wicked fangs and claws, and a tail.But she\u2019s not supposed to know that, and only finds out after her wonderfully considerate dog leaves a big, odorous gift in her neighbor\u2019s back yard\u2014which promptly results in her being kidnapped.Now she\u2019s tied to the alien\u2019s bed, because of course he\u2019s come to Earth in search of a mate\u2014and he wants Tabitha to fill that role. More specifically, he wants her to carry his baby.Saying he\u2019s moving fast seems like a bit of an understatement. Is Tabitha willing to accept her alien abductor as a mate? Is she ready to be a mother?And he\u2019s generous enough to give her four whole weeks to decide.It\u2019s not like it\u2019s the biggest decision of her life or anything\u2026right?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55681599-taken-by-the-alien-next-door"}, +{"book_title": "Her Majesty's American", "author_name": "Steve White", "rating_score": 3.19, "rating_votes": 134, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "THE UNION JACK TAKES TO SPACE!\u00a0All-new alternate history science fiction from New York Times best-selling author Steve White.In an alternate future where the British empire never crumbled, the space ships of Her Majesty\u2019s Navy work to keep the spaceways safe. Commander Robert Rogers of the Royal Space Navy is a defense intelligence officer known for his unconventional ways. Rogers is American born-and-raised, a loyal citizen of the Viceroyalty of North America. He\u2019s a descendant of the founder of the highly effective, pro-British Rogers\u2019 Rangers during the Colonial unpleasantries of 1776, and he\u2019s inherited his ancestor\u2019s intelligence and drive in spades. But there are those among the stars who are not so happy being subjects of the British Empire. In the Tau Ceti system, a cauldron of trouble brews as a terrorist faction of the rebellious Sons of Arnold attacks the empire from within, and warships of the theocratic Caliphate enters the system, prepared to do their worse to destroy the hated empire head on.\u00a0 Yet standing against the coming anarchy and tyranny is one intrepid spy prepared to risk all for queen and empire: COMMANDER ROBERT ROGERS, HER MAJESTY\u2019S AMERICANAbout Her Majesty's American: \"White \u00a0presents thought\u00a0provoking observations about humanity in an alternate future, with clever twists and turns.\"\u2014Booklist\"With a strong combination of alternate history, science fact, and science fiction, White (the Starfire series) takes readers into a future of interplanetary colonization and threats both foreign and domestic.\"\u2014Publishers WeeklyAbout Steve White: \u201cCreative . . . White seamlessly inserts his characters into history, blending science fiction and vintage military action to deliver a fast-paced, high-stakes story. The time travel leads to a twisty, clever series of surprises and plot mechanics.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly on Soldiers out of Time \u201cWhite offers fast action and historically informed world-building.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201c. . . recalls the best of the John Campbell era of SF. White's core audience of hard SF fans will be pleased . . .\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201c. . . Engaging entertainment . . . much suspense and many well-handled action scenes . . .\u201d\u2014Booklist", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38531437-her-majesty-s-american"}, +{"book_title": "The Seer", "author_name": "Jordan Reece", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 398, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Detective Laeric Scoth is good at his job, but he\u2019s also an ass. And Jesco Currane has just gotten stuck with him on the most frustrating case of their careers.When the body of a courier is discovered in an alley, Jesco is called in to assist with his seer skills. All he has to do is touch the clothing of the deceased to identify the killer. But the victim has been stripped naked, and the only evidence at the scene is a timepiece. The people he sees within it have nothing to do with the murder, yet they must be related to the case.Chasing down leads with Scoth lets Jesco see another side of the surly, if handsome, detective. But as their feelings for each other grow heated, so does the investigation. Someone doesn\u2019t want them to know who killed the courier . . . and plans to add them to the death toll if they don\u2019t stop pursuing it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Historical", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25890584-the-seer"}, +{"book_title": "The Phoenix Conspiracy", "author_name": "Richard L. Sanders", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2610, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "Calvin, an intelligence operative, is sent to eliminate a dangerous traitor. But, as he chases his prey across the stars, he realizes they are both pawns in a shadowy chess game. One that threatens humankind everywhere. If he is to uncover the conspiracy he must confront--and embrace--the darkest elements of the galaxy. And throw himself, his career, and everyone he loves into the line of fire. The Phoenix Conspiracy is the first in a series of five books. It is available for free on almost every device including iTunes, Nook, and (usually) Kindle. If it is currently not free on Kindle, you may click \"tell us about a lower price\" and Amazon may choose to match their competitors' promotion for you.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12544061-the-phoenix-conspiracy"}, +{"book_title": "The Falling Machine", "author_name": "Andrew P. Mayer", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 859, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "This new steampunk series opens in 1880, when women aren't allowed to vote, much less dress up in a costume and fight crime. But twenty year-old socialite Sarah Stanton still dreams of becoming a hero. Her opportunity arrives in tragedy when the leader of the Society of Paragons, New York's greatest team of gentlemen adventurers, is murdered right before her eyes. To uncover the truth behind the assassination, Sarah joins forces with the amazing mechanical man known as The Automaton. Together they unmask a conspiracy at the heart of the Paragons that reveals the world of heroes and high-society is built on a crumbling foundation of greed and lies. When Sarah comes face to face with the megalomaniacal villain behind the murder, she must discover if she has the courage to sacrifice her life of privilege and save her clockwork friend.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9766156-the-falling-machine"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Lando", "author_name": "Charles Soule", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 3783, "review_number": 398, "book_description": "You know him, you love him \u2014 now, join him for his biggest caper ever as master of charm Lando Calrissian steps into his very own high-stakes adventure! Before he joined the rebellion, before he ran Cloud City, Lando made his way in the galaxy getting by on some swindles, some swagger and a smile. With the loyal Lobot at his side, Lando has a plan to steal a very valuable ship. But has he bitten off more than he can chew? One of the galaxy's deadliest, most effective trackers is on his tail, and the heist of a lifetime has become a fight to survive! Lando and Lobot took this gig for the easy payday \u2014 but if they make it through alive, they'll never be the same. It's the tale of a scoundrel in his natural element: trouble!COLLECTING: STAR WARS: LANDO #1-5", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25861681-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "The Boleyn King", "author_name": "Laura Andersen", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 4478, "review_number": 815, "book_description": "The Boleyn King is the first novel in an enthralling new trilogy. Reimagining history in sumptuous detail, Laura Anderssen takes readers back to the deadly intrigue, turbulent affairs, and treacherous passions of Tudor England - and answers the compelling question What if Anne Boleyn had given Henry VIII the son he so desperately wanted?Just seventeen years old, Henry IX, known as William, is a king bound by the restraints of the regency yet anxious to prove himself. With the French threatening battle and the Catholics sowing the seeds of rebellion at home, William trusts only three people: his older sister Elizabeth; his best friend and loyal counselor, Dominic; and Minuette, a young orphan raised as a royal ward by William's mother, Anne Boleyn.Against a tide of secrets, betrayal, and murder, William finds himself fighting for the very soul of his kingdom. Then, when he and Dominic both fall in love with Minuette, romantic obsession looms over a new generation of Tudors. One among them will pay the price for a king's desire, as a shocking twist of fate changes England's fortunes forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "English History (Tudor Period)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071746-the-boleyn-king"}, +{"book_title": "The Maze Runner", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1105238, "review_number": 56306, "book_description": "There are alternate cover editions for this ASIN here and here.If you ain\u2019t scared, you ain\u2019t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He\u2019s surrounded by strangers\u2014boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It\u2019s the only way out\u2014and no one\u2019s ever made it through alive. Everything is going to change. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying. Remember. Survive. Run.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6186357-the-maze-runner"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 16819, "review_number": 538, "book_description": "In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical \"auto-mail\" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his brother and himself... the legendary Philosopher's Stone.There are many types of alchemy in the world. Edward's commanding officer, \"Flame Alchemist\" Roy Mustang, can control fire. Shou Tucker, the \"Sewing-Life Alchemist,\" specializes in the most difficult alchemy of all...biological transmutation, the ability to alter the tissue of living things. But no matter what their power, alchemists are still human. And when a mysterious killer begins stalking state alchemists, no one can escape his vengeance...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Manga (Shonen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/873.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "The Golem's Eye", "author_name": "Jonathan Stroud", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 89312, "review_number": 2086, "book_description": "At only fourteen, Nathaniel is a rising star: a young magician who is quickly climbing the ranks of the government. There is seemingly nothing he cannot handle, until he is asked to deal with the growing Resistance movement, which is disrupting London life with its thefts and raids. It\u2019s no easy task: the ringleader Kitty and her friends remain elusive, and Nathaniel\u2019s job-and perhaps his life-are soon at risk. As the pressure mounts, he is distracted by a new series of terrifying attacks in the capital. But is it the Resistance again, or something more dangerous still? To uncover the perpetrators, Nathanial must take desperate measures: a journey to the enemy city of Prague and-worse-summoning once again the troublesome, enigmatic, and quick \u2013 witted djinni Bartimaeus. A thrilling sequel to the best-selling Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem\u2019s Eye is a roller-coaster ride of magic, adventure, and political skullduggery, in which the fates of Nathaniel, Bartimaeus, and Kitty explosively collide.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59263.The_Golem_s_Eye"}, +{"book_title": "Craved by an Alien", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1117, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "I was abducted by aliens and auctioned to a positively lovely bleak place called the Underwater Pleasure Dome. An amphibious alien with hands like bug zappers helped spring me, and if you\u2019ve followed my friends\u2019 adventures, you know Dohrein and I teamed up because we\u2019re both equally stellar, and awesome attracts awesome. This is the story of what happened *after* abduction life. The good part. The part where we settle in and build brand new lives on this brand new planet. I just need to have tea with my Alien-in-law and convince her to set her pet humans free. No biggie. *Wish me luck.* **NOTE: Is this a Standalone? Not really. A few brave booksouls who started the series with this story jumped right in and enjoyed, so it\u2019s *possible,* but I also created a Cast List Recap that will patch you through if you want a bit of a guide to this world. ***Another Note: You'll find this is approx 70K words of Dohrein & Gracie\u2019s story, followed by a 10K bonus story revealing what happens when a Rakhii gets loose on Earth.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Humor", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40951529-craved-by-an-alien"}, +{"book_title": "Death's End", "author_name": "Liu Cixin", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 53276, "review_number": 5027, "book_description": "Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (China)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25451264-death-s-end"}, +{"book_title": "All-New X-Men, Volume 1: Yesterday's X-Men", "author_name": "Brian Michael Bendis", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 6607, "review_number": 427, "book_description": "It's a blast from the past as the original five students of Professor X - Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Angel and Beast - are plucked from the past and brought to the present. But what they find, the state that their future selves are in and the state of Xavier's dream, is far from the future they dreamed of. And how will the X-Men of the present deal with their past coming crashing forward?Collecting: All-New X-Men 1-5", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Marvel (X Men)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16002164-all-new-x-men-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Earth", "author_name": "Nick S. Thomas", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 785, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "A distress transmission from Mars research colony warns of an advanced and unknown enemy approaching the heavily populated lunar colony. An elite marine unit commanded by Major Mitch Taylor is dispatched to protect the civilians. However, the attack is merely a prelude to a massive invasion of Earth. A futuristic adventure that chronicles vast battles following humanity\u2019s reach into the stars.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12577053-battle-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Inne Pie\u015bni", "author_name": "Jacek Dukaj", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 2103, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Starogrecki \u015bwiat pi\u0119ciu \u017cywio\u0142\u00f3w pod w\u0142adz\u0105 formy w opowie\u015bci o sile ludzkiego ducha i o tym, co nieopisywalne.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Poland)", "Novels", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1451628.Inne_Pie_ni"}, +{"book_title": "The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 14465, "review_number": 441, "book_description": "There is an alternate cover here.In this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to control the rampant misuse of magic--and to hold the title Chrestomanci... The Chants are a family strong in magic, but neither Christopher Chant nor Cat Chant can work even the simplest of spells. Who could have dreamed that both Christopher and Cat were born with nine lives--or that they could lose them so quickly?", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34284.The_Chronicles_of_Chrestomanci_Volume_1"}, +{"book_title": "Psion", "author_name": "Joan D. Vinge", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2193, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "When first published, readers young and old eagerly devoured the tale of a street-hardened survivor named Cat, a half-human, half-alien orphan telepath. Named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Cat's story has been continued by Hugo-award winning and international best-selling author Joan D. Vinge with the very popular Catspaw and Dreamfall. Now, 25 years later, this special anniversary edition of Psion contains a new introduction by the author and \"Psiren,\" a story never before included in any trade edition of Psion. This tough, gritty tale of an outsider whose only chance for redemption is as an undercover agent for an interstellar government that by turns punishes and helps him, is as fresh and powerful today as it was in 1982.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals (Cats)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519828.Psion"}, +{"book_title": "Operation Oracle", "author_name": "Mark E. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 735, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Deep under The Mountain on Snakeholme, vast computer networks are running simulations, but they're flawed and General Burgton's self imposed mission to safeguard the Alliance is in jeopardy. Without reliable intelligence, he cannot protect the Alliance from itself, let alone the Merkiaari.The missions he authorises are blacker than black, so secret that only he and the agents performing them know of their existence, but every operation relies upon his seemingly miraculous fore-knowledge of events and he is starting to make mistakes.Needing a solution, Burgton breaks the Alliance's A.I ban and spends trillions of credits on project Oracle, but when the project fails, and desperation sends him looking for an answer, he compounds his crime. If he can't build an A.I, he'll just have to steal one!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17607275-operation-oracle"}, +{"book_title": "Transition", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 9425, "review_number": 653, "book_description": "There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?Among those operatives are Temudjin Oh, of mysterious Mongolian origins, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal, a version of Victorian London and the dark palaces of Venice under snow; Adrian Cubbish, a restlessly greedy City trader; and a nameless, faceless state-sponsored torturer known only as the Philosopher, who moves between time zones with sinister ease. Then there are those who question the Concern: the bandit queen Mrs. Mulverhill, roaming the worlds recruiting rebels to her side; and Patient 8262, under sedation and feigning madness in a forgotten hospital ward, in hiding from a dirty past.There is a world that needs help; but whether it needs the Concern is a different matter.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (International)", "Space", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6436659-transition"}, +{"book_title": "Phoenicia's Worlds", "author_name": "Ben Jeapes", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 36, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "La Nueva Temporada is an Earth colony caught in an Ice Age. Alex Matteo wants to stay and help terraform his homeworld, but must take the only starship Phoenicia back to Earth. His brother Quin loathes their planet yet must become the savior.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130647-phoenicia-s-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Murder and Magic", "author_name": "Randall Garrett", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 697, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "This is the first Ace printing.Cover Artist: Robert AdragnaContents:1 \u2022 The Eyes Have It \u2022 [Lord Darcy] \u2022 (1964) \u2022 novelette by Randall Garrett 63 \u2022 A Case of Identity \u2022 [Lord Darcy] \u2022 (1964) \u2022 novella by Randall Garrett 158 \u2022 The Muddle of the Woad \u2022 [Lord Darcy] \u2022 (1965) \u2022 novella by Randall Garrett 243 \u2022 A Stretch of the Imagination \u2022 [Lord Darcy] \u2022 (1973) \u2022 short story by Randall Garrett These four stories were first collected in this volume in 1979.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/638763.Murder_and_Magic"}, +{"book_title": "A Deeper Blue", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2496, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Sequel to Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain and Unto the Breach.Heart-sick over the deaths of so many of his Keldara followers, and one in particular, former SEAL Mike Harmon, hero of Ghost, Kildar and Choosers of the Slain, decides to sit this one out. WMDs headed for the US no longer matter to the Kildar. But when his best friend and intel specialist both are seriously wounded in an ambush aimed at him, the Kildar gets his gameface back on. Mike has always said that he's not a nice guy, and he's about to prove it to a boatload of terrorists and Colombian drug dealers. Set in the Bahamas and Florida Keys, A Deeper Blue is a fast moving thriller that never slows down from the first page. With the return of some old faces, the action-packed novel proves, once again, the adage that sometimes it takes some very bad people to do good things.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Action", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528359.A_Deeper_Blue"}, +{"book_title": "Tribe Protector", "author_name": "Stacy Jones", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1001, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "Lily thought she had her hands full with her conflicted feelings over her quickly progressing relationship with Arruk\u2019s wild twin, Drrak, the uneasy truce with the tribe leader, and trying to prove she\u2019s trustworthy to a people who want nothing to do with her. But all that pales in comparison to what\u2019s coming. When Lily and her mates are sent into the forest to investigate the intruders closing in on tribe territory, they find something so horrifying it shocks Lily to her very core. But more than that, it pisses her off. Driven now by the need to protect a people not her own and to stop the monsters that hunt them, Lily gathers the tribe to her cause, enlisting them to help her. But will they be ready in time or will Lily lose everything in the fight for survival? Tribe Protector is the epic finale in the Chosen Series.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Love"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42115197-tribe-protector"}, +{"book_title": "Her Viking Wolf: 50 Loving States, Colorado", "author_name": "Theodora Taylor", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2025, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "The third steamy interracial romance in the 50 Loving States series from the author of Amazon Bestsellers, THE OWNER OF HIS HEART and HER RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRE!When Chloe Adams was four her shiftless shifter parents abandoned her on the side of the road. But now she\u2019s a DIY domestic goddess, and engaged to the hottest alpha in Colorado \u2013- that is until a sexy, time-traveling Viking werewolf shows up to claim her as his fated mate. Wait, what?!?!Hold on to your seats, dear readers, this book contains two rival alpha males, sizzling hot mating, and nothing less than the adventure of a lifetime.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Interracial Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53346532-her-viking-wolf"}, +{"book_title": "I Hope You Find Me", "author_name": "Trish Marie Dawson", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1309, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Life for Riley ends when her young children die in her arms\u2026victims of a global viral outbreak that claims the lives of everyone she\u2019s ever known. Left to fend for herself with only a dog as her companion, she sets out on a journey to find others, leaving notes everywhere she goes\u2026hoping that one day someone will come looking for her. When Riley meets the handsome yet mysterious Connor on the streets of Downtown San Diego, they form a bond unlike either has experienced before. When the things that go bump in the night turn out to be more than nightmares, the trio sets off for the mountains in search of an isolated resort where they can hunker down, away from the ominous shadows of the dead city streets. The peace and tranquility of the woods isn\u2019t enough to keep the darkness away for long though and soon Riley and Connor are forced to accept that the World and the few people left alive in it will never be the same. The shadows of their past may haunt them forever\u2026threatening to destroy what little dreams they have left of a future unless they fight to stay in the light and never lose their hope. 1/9 Family and Friends: The dog and I have left to find my Mom. Most of you know where her place is, the corner of 9th and F. I\u2019ll leave a note there before I move on. Everyone here is\u2026gone. I can\u2019t stay. I\u2019m not sure when or if I will come back here but leave a message anyway. I hope you find me. \u2013 Riley ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15733233-i-hope-you-find-me"}, +{"book_title": "Batman Beyond, Volume 1: Brave New Worlds", "author_name": "Dan Jurgens", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 288, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Thirty-five years into the future, Batman's gotten himself caught in a P.O.W. camp where the enemy refuses to give up trying to crack the only \"data source\" he can't access\u2014the human mind! And this foe doesn't care how many people he has to burn through to get there, including original Batgirl Barbara Gordon! To make his great escape, Batman will have to take down both his greatest hero and a traitor to humanity! Featuring the DC Universe debut of Batman Beyond-villain Inque! Spinning out of the mammoth weekly series Futures End, this new in-continuity story continues the tales of Batman Beyond! Written by Dan Jurgens (\"The Death of Superman\") and illustrated by Bernard Chang (Green Lantern Corps) this years-in-the-making series cannot be missed!Collecting: Batman Beyond 1-6", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Dc Comics (Batman)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25852883-batman-beyond-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 1418, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Adventure Romance, Mad Science ! Agatha Hetrodyne is the last heir to the Maddest of Mad Scientist families, and now she's returned home to claim the family castle. Unfortunately, it turns out that she's not the only one with that idea, and the Castle is a hopeless death trap.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Humor", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6359259-agatha-heterodyne-and-the-chapel-of-bones"}, +{"book_title": "Defy Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 27824, "review_number": 3820, "book_description": "The gripping fifth installment in the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shatter Me series. Will Juliette\u2019s broken heart make her vulnerable to the strengthening darkness within her?Juliette\u2019s short tenure as the supreme commander of North America has been an utter disaster. When the children of the other world leaders show up on her doorstep, she wants nothing more than to turn to Warner for support and guidance. But he shatters her heart when he reveals that he\u2019s been keeping secrets about her family and her identity from her\u2014secrets that change everything.Juliette is devastated, and the darkness that\u2019s always dwelled within her threatens to consume her. An explosive encounter with unexpected visitors might be enough to push her over the edge.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34992959-defy-me"}, +{"book_title": "PODs", "author_name": "Michelle K. Pickett", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1473, "review_number": 229, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Eva is a chosen one. Chosen to live, while others meet a swift and painful death from an incurable virus so lethal, a person is dead within days of symptoms emerging. In the POD system, a series of underground habitats built by the government, she waits with the other chosen for the deadly virus to claim those above. Separated from family and friends, it's in the PODs she meets David. And while true love might not conquer all, it's a balm for the broken soul. After a year, scientists believe the population has died, and without living hosts, so has the virus. That's the theory, anyway. But when the PODs are opened, survivors find the surface holds a vicious secret. The virus mutated, infecting those left top-side and creating... monsters. Eva and David hide from the infected in the abandoned PODs. Together they try to build a life--a new beginning. But the infected follow and are relentless in their attacks. Leaving Eva and David to fight for survival, and pray for a cure.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13425802-pods"}, +{"book_title": "Code Breakers: Delta", "author_name": "Colin F. Barnes", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 377, "review_number": 24, "book_description": " The fourth and final novel in the Code Breakers series. Gabriel and Petal have tracked Gabe\u2019s mother back to Hong Kong. But to find her Gabe has to face his old gang and the ghosts he thought he had laid to rest years before. While helping him, Petal stumbles on a way of getting Gerry\u2019s mind out of her head, but like Gabe, she too has to return to a place full of ghosts: Libertas. Enna is now the Prime Minister of the domed city, and when Petal arrives she discovers Enna has developed her transcendent technology. However, to give Gerry a new existence, they\u2019ll need more help\u2014help from someone within the Family. Faced with shifting loyalties and an uncertain future, Petal and Gerry will for the last time face a dire threat to their existence when Jess is kidnapped by a shadowy figure. It\u2019s a race against time to find her and uncover the conspiracy before the Family has the last laugh. Books in the Code Breakers Series Alpha: http://smarturl.it/cbalphaamazon Beta: http://smarturl.it/cbbetaamazon Gamma: http://smarturl.it/cbgammaamazon", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23304114-code-breakers"}, +{"book_title": "Faefever", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 93383, "review_number": 4706, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling author of Darkfever and Bloodfever returns to Dublin\u2019s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorcery\u2014and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have imagined.\n\n\nHe calls me his Queen of the Night. I\u2019d die for him. I\u2019d kill for him, too. When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sister\u2019s journal, she is stunned by Alina\u2019s desperate words. And now MacKayla knows that her sister\u2019s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the sidhe-seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it.Mac\u2019s quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with V\u2019lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul. As All Hallows\u2019 Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worlds\u2014with devastating consequences.\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2702704-faefever"}, +{"book_title": "Swords and Scoundrels", "author_name": "Julia Knight", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 565, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Two siblings.Outcasts for life.... together.What could possibly go wrong?Vocho and Kacha are champion duelists: a brother and sister known for the finest swordplay in the city of Reyes. Or at least they used to be-until they were thrown out of the Duelist's Guild.As a last resort, they turn reluctant highwaymen. But when they pick the wrong carriage to rob, their simple plans to win back fame and fortune go south fast.After barely besting three armed men and a powerful magician, Vocho and Kacha make off with an immense locked chest. But the contents will bring them much more than they've bargained for when they find themselves embroiled in a dangerous plot to return an angry king to power....Swords and Scoundrels is the first book in The Duelist's Trilogy -- a tale of death, magic, and family loyalty.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24819531-swords-and-scoundrels"}, +{"book_title": "American Royals", "author_name": "Katharine McGee", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 52925, "review_number": 6969, "book_description": "What if America had a royal family? When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne.As Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America's first queen regnant, the duty she has embraced her entire life suddenly feels stifling.Nobody cares about the spare except when she's breaking the rules, so Princess Samantha doesn't care much about anything, either . . . except the one boy who is distinctly off-limits to her.And then there's Samantha's twin, Prince Jefferson. If he'd been born a generation earlier, he would have stood first in line for the throne, but the new laws of succession make him third. Most of America adores their devastatingly handsome prince . . . but two very different girls are vying to capture his heart.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43744300-american-royals"}, +{"book_title": "3001: The Final Odyssey", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 22426, "review_number": 807, "book_description": "One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again . . .", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63432.3001"}, +{"book_title": "Haunting Beauty", "author_name": "Erin Quinn", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 464, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "A mysterious stranger...Danni Jones believed everything about her past\u2014that she was an unwanted child abandoned by her mother. That she was an outcast set apart by her clairvoyance. That she was alone. Then came the stranger. Dangerously seductive Sean Ballagh appears out of nowhere with a startling story that will challenge everything Danni thought was true.A lost woman...He claims that Danni\u2019s family has been searching for her ever since she disappeared twenty years ago. He\u2019s come to bring her home to Ireland. But Danni fears there\u2019s more to his story than he dares to reveal. And the only way to find out is by following Sean back in time, to a forgotten past, to a world where nothing is what it seems.A terrifying legacy...Now, in a land where the mystical and the occult are as vivid as the emerald fields, Danni must rewrite history to save her family, to fight a force more evil than she ever imagined, and to reunite with the one man she was destined for\u2014or live forever in time as nothing more than an ethereal memory, a tragic and haunting beauty...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Cultural (Ireland)", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5769675-haunting-beauty"}, +{"book_title": "Battle for Karnak", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 44, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Battle for Karnak is the fourth book in the bestselling series \u2018Star Crusades: Mercenaries\u2019. Karnak is a battleground, a planet torn apart by a dozen warring factions. Spartan and his small band of mercenaries and militia have won battle after battle. Now they must prepare for their final test, an assault on the heavily defended enemy capital, Montu. The plan is torn apart when a huge fleet of reinforcements appears. A fleet that threatens to overwhelm the valiant rebels. With time running out, Spartan and Khan receive orders to create a mass uprising in the occupied cities of the South. The aim is to pin down massive numbers of the enemy's forces to enable a final desperate assault against the virtually impregnable capital. Spartan has other plans. With the Blood Pack of Jotnar, together with an assortment of mercenaries, robotic machines and militia, he will take the fight to the enemy in his own particular style and end the war in a single apocalyptic campaign. The real Battle for Karnak has just begun! Battle for Karnak is a futuristic military sci-fi adventure that continues to expand the vast universe of the Star Crusades series that includes Star Crusades: Uprising and Star Crusades: Nexus. Essential and unmissable reading for enthusiasts of the Military sci-fi genre. Check out all the novels by Michael G. Thomas STAR CRUSADES: MERCENARIES Lords of War (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 1) Ghost Soldiers (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 2) Flames of War (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 3) Battle for Karnak (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 4) Warzone (Star Crusades Mercenaries, Book 5) STAR CRUSADES NEXUS Legions of Orion (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 1) Machine Gods (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 2) Heroes of Helios (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 3) The Great Betrayal (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 4) Prophecy of Fire (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 5) Call to Arms (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 6) Battle for Helios (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 7) Wrath of the Gods (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 8) The Black Rift (Star Crusades Nexus, Book 9) STAR CRUSADES UPRISING Siege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1) Tears of Kerberos (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 2) Fires of Prometheus (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 3) Battle for Proxima (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 4) Fall of Terra Nova (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 5) Slaves of Hyperion (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 6) STAR CRUSADER YOUNG ADULT SERIES Hero of the Alliance (Star Crusader Book 1) Knighthawk Squadron (Star Crusader Book 2) Operation Hellfire (Star Crusader Book 3) Battleship Furiosa (Star Crusader Book 4) Battle Fleet Victorious (Star Crusader Book 5) All these books are available on Amazon.com and Audible Please visit my website for more information: starcrusader.com", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29521770-battle-for-karnak"}, +{"book_title": "The Orphan", "author_name": "Robert Stallman", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 88, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "The werewolf is a creature of the night, a solitary, fur-covered thing. A wild-eyed, five clawed beast with a taste for blood and the soft crunch of bone between the teeth. But as little Robert, the werewolf has been adopted by a kindly farmer and his wife. Neither Robert nor the monster could control the shifting of its form, and always, the emerged beast lurked within, ready to spring for the throat.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/950179.The_Orphan"}, +{"book_title": "The Gemini Effect", "author_name": "Chuck Grossart", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 7964, "review_number": 684, "book_description": "\n\n2014 Winner \u2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award \u2014 Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror \n\nA single raindrop opens a Pandora\u2019s box when the spawn of perverse genetic research performed during World War II is unleashed on an unsuspecting modern world. By dawn, only a dead city remains, eerily quiet and still, except for mutant beasts that hide from the light, multiply, and await the shadows of night to continue their relentless advance.Ordered to investigate the unfolding crisis, biowarfare specialist Carolyn Ridenour barely escapes the creatures\u2019 nocturnal onslaught, saved in the nick of time by Colonel Garrett Hoffman, who lost hundreds of his troops to a swarm that neither bombs nor bullets can stop.As Carolyn and Garrett race to stop the plague, a battered and broken government prepares to release the fury of America\u2019s nuclear arsenal on its own soil and its own citizens.\nThe Gemini Effect was originally published as The Mengele Effect. This edition has been completely edited and revised, including significant plot changes. \n", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24228189-the-gemini-effect"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Moon Arisen", "author_name": "Chris Kennedy", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 272, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "The war continues! The Omega War is in full swing. Earth has fallen to General Peepo\u2019s army, and the surviving Human mercenaries have taken refuge at the hidden Winged Hussars\u2019 base in New Warsaw. On Earth, the defensive forces fight to keep the hearts and minds of their fellow Humans, but Peepo\u2019s plans are slowly converting the people to her way of thinking, and the Mercenary Guild troops continue to root out the forces arrayed against them. Outnumbered and on the run, the situation is bleak, but none of the Horsemen like being on the defensive. When they get intelligence that Peepo is massing resources at a secret base, they decide to launch a decisive counterattack that may open Earth up to recapture. Meanwhile, Dr. Sato, the Hussar\u2019s brilliant but unpredictable scientist, unwittingly reactivates a 20,000-year-old doomsday weapon with a mind of its own. If it can\u2019t be stopped, all the Four Horsemen\u2019s plans might become meaningless. Forces are moving both in the shadows and in the light, but who will rise victorious? One thing is for sure\u2026a Dark Moon has Arisen.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40874288-dark-moon-arisen"}, +{"book_title": "Rex Wrecks It", "author_name": "Ben Clanton", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 655, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Look out! Here comes Rex! Children who love to construct \u2014 and those who love to destroy \u2014 will relate to this kid-pleasing tale that builds to a smashing finale.Gizmo, Sprinkles, and Wild are fed up. Every time they build something with their blocks, Rex wrecks it! Whether it\u2019s an out-of-this-world rocket, a magical heart, or the biggest, strongest, most awesomerific castle ever, Rex sends it crashing down with a \"Rawr!\" (and sometimes a sheepish\"Rawry!\"?). Isn\u2019t there any way to make playtime fun for everyone? With Rex-size humor, Ben Clanton explores the challenges of friendship, the benefits of working together, and the joys of destruction.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Folklore (Monsters)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20708770-rex-wrecks-it"}, +{"book_title": "Survivors", "author_name": "Z.A. Recht", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2556, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "The long-awaited finale of Z.A. Recht\u2019s \u201caction-packed zombie extravaganza\u201d (Ryan C. Thomas) that began with the acclaimed novels Plague of the Dead and Thunder and Ashes. . . .THE MORNINGSTAR STRAIN WAS THE END OF THE WORLD.In the wake of the zombie apocalypse, two separate bands of survivors journey across a decimated America, each with the desperate goal of finding the cure for the virulent plague that threatens the existence of humankind\u2014or what\u2019s left of it. Now it\u2019s up to these inheritors of the future to outlive their waking nightmare, any way they can.BUT FOR THESE SURVIVORS, IT IS JUST THE BEGINNING.One group includes a brilliant virologist; for the other, an immune soldier proves invaluable. Battling infected and marauding raiders at every turn, the teams soon uncover the devious plans of Sawyer, an agent of the Chairman of the Reunited States of America, who believes that Dr. Anna Demilio already has the cure, and he will stop at nothing to find her. Now, with the salvation of the world and their own souls on the line, how far will the survivors go to emerge victorious?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9729593-survivors"}, +{"book_title": "Wild Cards", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 11636, "review_number": 983, "book_description": "Just after World War 2 over New York City, an alien virus transforms human genetics and goes recessive to create super heroes and villains. Most victims die, others experience physical or psychic changes: aces have useful powers, deuces minor maybe entertaining abilities, jokers uglified, disabled, relegated to ghettos.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147908.Wild_Cards"}, +{"book_title": "Merrick's Destiny", "author_name": "Moira Rogers", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 204, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "A short story set between Wilder's Mate and Hunter's Prey.Merrick Wood is a wild man--literally. For six decades he's stalked the Rocky Mountains as a bloodhound, fighting a losing battle against the vampires who have taken over most of the American frontier. He's sure he's seen it all, until an airship crash leaves him caught behind enemy lines with a concussion and a mate he doesn't remember taking.Paralee Colton is a wild woman. She enjoys her freedom and makes a good living flying over the Deadlands. Until, that is, bloodsuckers shoot down her ship, and she's forced to deal with an irritatingly attractive man who isn't a man at all.Trapped together in the wilderness, Merrick and Paralee must fight to find a safe camp before the new moon drags Merrick into three days of sexual madness. But as enticing as Paralee finds the bloodhound, she doesn't realize the stakes of their courtship game.Getting out of the Deadlands is only half of Merrick's battle for survival. If he can't convince Paralee to stay with him, he'll follow the footsteps of every bloodhound who's ever lost a mate--straight into the grave.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Novella", "Westerns", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13447138-merrick-s-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "Field of Dishonor", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 19064, "review_number": 399, "book_description": "HONOR BETRAYEDThe People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious.But Manticore has domestic problems of its own, and success can be more treacherous than defeat for Honor Harrington. Now, trapped at the core of a political crisis she never sought, betrayed by an old and vicious enemy she'd thought vanquished forever, she stands alone.She must fight for justice on a battlefield she never trained for in a private war that offers just two choices: death . . . or a ''victory'' that can end only in dishonor and the loss of all she loves.About David Weber and the Honor Harrington series: \u201c. . .everything you could want in a heroine\u2026. Excellent \u2026 plenty of action.\u201d\u2013Science Fiction Age \u201cBrilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!\u201d\u2013Anne McCaffrey \u201cCompelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure.\u201d\u2013Locus\u201cWeber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice . . .\u201d\u2013Publishers WeeklyAbout Shadow of Freedom, #15 in the Honor Harrington series:\u201cThis entry is just as exciting as Weber\u2019s initial offering. . . .The result is a fast-paced and action-packed story that follows [our characters] as they move from reaction to command of the situation. Weber builds Shadow of Freedom to an exciting and unexpected climax.\u201d\u2014Daily News of GalvestonAbout Mission of Honor, #13 in the Honor Harrington series: \u201cWeber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection and a deep understanding of military bureaucracy in this long-awaited Honor Harrington novel \u2026 Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice to see Honor back in action.\u201d\u2013Publishers Weekly \u201cThis latest Honor Harrington novel brings the saga to another crucial turning point \u2026 Readers may feel confident that they will be Honored many more times and enjoy it every time.\u201d\u2013Booklist Honor Harrington Main Series: On Basilisk StationThe Honor of the Queen The Short Victorious War\nField of Dishonor\nFlag in Exile Honor Among EnemiesIn Enemy Hands Echoes of Honor Ashes of Victory War of Honor The Shadow of Saganami At All Costs Storm from the Shadows Mission of Honor A Rising Thunder Shadow of Freedom", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504369.Field_of_Dishonor"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Abides", "author_name": "George R. Stewart", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 25400, "review_number": 2006, "book_description": "A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.", "year_published": 1949, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93269.Earth_Abides"}, +{"book_title": "Transgression", "author_name": "Randall Ingermanson", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1370, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "What if you were studying for your Ph.D. in archaeology and decided to take a break from your crummy life for the summer by working on an archaeological dig in Israel?What if you met a great guy in Jerusalem who happened to be a world-famous theoretical physicist working on a crazy idea to build a wormhole that might make time-travel possible \u2026 someday?What if he had a nutball colleague who turned the theory into reality \u2014 and then decided to use YOU as a guinea pig to make sure it was safe?What if the nutball had a gun and went on a crazy, impossible mission to hunt down and kill the apostle Paul?It\u2019s A.D. 57 when Rivka Meyers walks out of the wormhole into a world she\u2019s only studied in books. Ancient Jerusalem is awesome! Rivka can\u2019t believe her friend Ari Kazan\u2019s theory actually worked. But when she runs into Ari\u2019s wacko colleague, Damien West, in the Temple, Rivka starts to smell a rat. When Ari discovers that Damien and Rivka have gone through a wormhole that\u2019s on the edge of collapse, he has to make a horrible choice: Follow them and risk never coming back \u2014 or lose the woman of his dreams forever.About The Book:Transgression is a time-travel suspense novel that mixes science, history, religion, romance, and suspense. It\u2019s about learning to stand up for yourself, when you just want to be let alone. It\u2019s about making hard decisions. It\u2019s about asking whether life has meaning and whether God exists \u2014 and becoming a badass fighter for justice, even if you don\u2019t have the answers. Transgression won the 2001 Christy award for best futuristic novel in Christian fiction. Transgression will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous vacation through the filthy, bandit-ridden streets of first-century Jerusalem. Transgression is the first novel in the City of God series:Book 1: Transgression (A.D. 57)Book 2: Premonition (A.D. 57-62)Book 3: Retribution (A.D. 62-66)Excerpt:Rivka turned and ran. \u201cAri!\u201d she screamed. \u201cHelp!\u201dShe raced outside into the sunlight, sprinted madly through a dark grove of trees with gnarled branches. Her heart pounded in her chest. Her ragged breath rasped in her ears. Was he following? Faster! Tears fogged her eyes. Her leather sandals tore at her feet. Trying to look back over her shoulder, she tripped and fell. Dust flew up all around her.Coughing, she clambered to her feet and dared to look back. The man was nowhere in sight.Rivka panted until she caught her breath. Her left wrist throbbed from the fall. She massaged it while she squinted into the trees, afraid that the man might be lurking in the shadows. Nothing happened.Finally, she turned around to get her bearings.She blinked twice and then stared. Across a small valley massive stone walls rose. Herodian masonry. Jerusalem limestone. Towering white walls. It looked like\u2026But that was impossible. She closed her eyes, breathed deeply three times, and opened them again. Absurd. Had she gone loony or something?Rivka had visited the Temple Mount twice and studied hundreds of pictures during three years of graduate school. But she had never seen it looking like this. So pure. So spotless.So new.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Christian", "Christian Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Biblical Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22431104-transgression"}, +{"book_title": "The Omega Objection", "author_name": "G.L. Carriger", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1590, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "\nCan a gentle giant with a trampled heart show a man who\u2019s been running all his life that sometimes there are monsters worth running towards? \n A werewolf walks into a bar. Tank is working as a bouncer when he notices something odd about the new sexy-as-sin bartender. He\u2019s odorless, he\u2019s amazingly popular with shifters, and he\u2019s terrified. A man without a smell. Isaac is trying to escape his past. He hides in San Francisco because everyone knows that there are no werewolves in the Bay Area. Until one walks into his bar. Can Tank figure out Isaac\u2019s secrets in time to save him? And can Isaac forgive Tank for being a wolf in time to learn how to love? New York Times best selling author Gail Carriger (writing as G.L. Carriger) brings you the next in her charming gay werewolves series. The San Andreas Shifter books stand alone and do not have to be read in any particular order. But if you're a stickler this book is preceded by Bryan & Max's story, The Sumage Solution. Delicate Sensibilities? This book contains M/M sexy times, mild themes of dominance and submission, and horrible puns. If you get offended easily, then you probably will. San Andreas Shifter stories contain bad language, dirty deeds, and outright admiration for the San Francisco Bay Area. Not the faint of heart/mouth/tongue. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "LGBT", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38407686-the-omega-objection"}, +{"book_title": "Mind Fuck", "author_name": "Manna Francis", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2931, "review_number": 400, "book_description": "There are no bad guys or good guys. There are only better guys and worse guys.One of the worse guys is Val Toreth. In a world in which torture is a legitimate part of the investigative process, he works for the Investigation and Interrogation Division, where his colleagues can be more dangerous than the criminals he investigates.One of the better guys is Keir Warrick. His small corporation, SimTech, is developing a \"sim\" system that places users in a fully immersive virtual reality. A minnow in a murky and dangerous pond, he is only beginning to discover how many compromises may be required for success.Their home is the dark future dystopia of New London. A totalitarian bureaucracy controls the European Administration, sharing political power with the corporations. The government uses violence and the many divisions of the feared Department of Internal Security to maintain control and crush resistance. The corporations fight among themselves, using lethal force under the euphemism of \"corporate sabotage,\" uniting only to resist attempts by the Administration to extend its influence over them.Toreth and Warrick are more natural enemies than allies. But mutual attraction and the fight for survival can create unlikely bonds.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "LGBT", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2112823.Mind_Fuck"}, +{"book_title": "Falling for the Knight", "author_name": "Cecelia Mecca", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 657, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "\nWhen she\u2019s sent back to the past she finds new hope for the future.\n Hannah Sutton prides herself on being a strong, independent woman, perfectly in control of her career and personal life. But her orderly existence is upended when she and her sisters travel to Scotland and jump off an enchanted waterfall as a lark. After blacking out, she finds herself marooned near a castle in England, alone. Everyone she meets appears to be a devoted reenactor, dressed from head to toe in medieval gear, but soon the truth becomes undeniable. Hannah has traveled back in time. Tristan wasn\u2019t meant to be a lord, but his bravery and prowess in battle earned him the lordship of Saxford. Now, he faces a challenge that might very well unseat him\u2014his ten-year truce with Saxford\u2019s biggest enemy is about to come to an end. It\u2019s the worst possible time for a mysterious woman to wash up on his beach, especially one who claims to be from the future. But the beguiling beauty quickly gets under his skin, and he realizes there might be something to her claim. Hannah and Tristan have an immediate attraction that grows deeper, and the longer she stays at Saxford, the more she begins to question if she wants to return to the future\u2014or make a future with her medieval knight. The Enchanted Falls Trilogy follows three sisters as they find love after falling though time. Each book can read as a standalone, but the stories are linked. Book 1- Falling for the Highlander by Emma Prince Book 2- Falling for the Knight by Cecelia Mecca Book 3- Falling for the Chieftain by Keira Montclair", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40876917-falling-for-the-knight"}, +{"book_title": "Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach", "author_name": "Kelly Robson", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2275, "review_number": 453, "book_description": "Discover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past.In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity's ancestral habitat. She's spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novella", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36187158-gods-monsters-and-the-lucky-peach"}, +{"book_title": "After Physics", "author_name": "David Z. Albert", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 19, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "After Physics presents ambitious new essays about some of the deepest questions at the foundations of physics, by the physicist and philosopher David Albert. The book's title alludes to the close connections between physics and metaphysics, much in evidence throughout these essays. It also alludes to the work of imagining what it would be like for the project of physical science--considered as an investigation into the fundamental laws of nature--to be complete.Albert argues that the difference between the past and the future--traditionally regarded as a matter for metaphysical or conceptual or linguistic or phenomenological analysis--can be understood as a mechanical phenomenon of nature. In another essay he contends that all versions of quantum mechanics that are compatible with the special theory of relativity make it impossible, even in principle, to present the entirety of what can be said about the world as a narrative sequence of \"befores\" and \"afters.\" Any sensible and realistic way of solving the quantum-mechanical measurement problem, Albert claims in yet another essay, is ultimately going to force us to think of particles and fields, and even the very space of the standard scientific conception of the world, as approximate and emergent. Novel discussions of the problem of deriving principled limits on what can be known, measured, or communicated from our fundamental physical theories, along with a sweeping critique of the main attempts at making sense of probabilities in many-worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics, round out the collection.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science (Physics)", "Science", "Philosophy (Metaphysics)", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21878218-after-physics"}, +{"book_title": "Grave Witch", "author_name": "Kalayna Price", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 31016, "review_number": 1961, "book_description": "Grave witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, but that doesn\u2019t mean she likes what they have to say.As a private investigator and consultant for the police, Alex Craft has seen a lot of dark magic. But even though she\u2019s on good terms with Death himself\u2014who happens to look fantastic in a pair of jeans\u2014nothing has prepared her for her latest case. Alex is investigating a high profile murder when she\u2019s attacked by the \u2018shade\u2019 she\u2019s raising, which should be impossible. To top off her day, someone makes a serious attempt on her life, but Death saves her. Guess he likes having her around...To solve this case Alex will have to team up with tough homicide detective Falin Andrews. Falin seems to be hiding something\u2014though it\u2019s certainly not his dislike of Alex\u2014but Alex knows she needs his help to navigate the tangled webs of mortal and paranormal politics, and to track down a killer wielding a magic so malevolent, it may cost Alex her life...and her soul.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7823038-grave-witch"}, +{"book_title": "Taunting Krell", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 6367, "review_number": 224, "book_description": "Book 7 in the Cyborg Seduction series. Krell hates humans. They left him scarred and undesirable to females. He\u2019s lived a lonely existence in his home world because of their brutality. So he\u2019s angry when he\u2019s ordered to interrogate the captured human. She\u2019s the enemy, a soldier from Earth. He\u2019ll show her the same mercy they showed him. None. Cyan didn\u2019t expect to survive her mission against the Markus Models but she\u2019s stunned and elated to be confronted by cyborgs. The past and present collide, however, when she sees Krell. He\u2019s part of a dangerous secret from another life\u2014and he\u2019s also completely irresistible. Krell is certain Cyan can\u2019t be trusted. He\u2019s determined to keep her at a distance\u2026but Cyan is just as determined to get the big, sexy cyborg into her bed.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12618154-taunting-krell"}, +{"book_title": "Ghostwalkers", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 604, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "The first of three media tie-in novels based on the hit RPG franchise DeadlandsFrom New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, the first in a thrilling series of novels based on Deadlands, a hugely successful role-playing game (RPG) set in the Weird, Weird West.Welcome to the Deadlands, where steely-eyed gunfighters rub shoulders with mad scientists and dark, unnatural forces. Where the Great Quake of 1868 has shattered California into a labyrinth of sea-flooded caverns . . . and a mysterious substance called \"ghost rock\" fuels exotic steampunk inventions as well as plenty of bloodshed and flying bullets.In Ghostwalkers, a gun-for-hire, literally haunted by his bloody past, comes to the struggling town of Paradise Falls, where he becomes embroiled in a deadly conflict between the besieged community and a diabolically brilliant alchemist who is building terrible new weapons of mass destruction . . . and an army of the living dead!Deadlands is one of the most popular RPGs in history, with over a million Deadlands gaming books sold.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Westerns", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848023-ghostwalkers"}, +{"book_title": "Existence", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 6186, "review_number": 854, "book_description": "Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence. Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there\u2019s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn\u2019t on the decades\u2019 old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth\u2019s infomesh about an \u201calien artifact.\u201d Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Unfinished", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13039884-existence"}, +{"book_title": "Praetorian of Dorn", "author_name": "John French", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 839, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "As the first assault on the Solar System begins, the strength of the Imperial Fists and the seemingly impregnable fastness they have built is tested at last\u2026Recalled from the Great Crusade after Ullanor, Rogal Dorn and the VIIth Legion were appointed as the Emperor\u2019s praetorians \u2013 but only after the Warmaster\u2019s treachery was revealed did the full extent of that sacred duty become apparent. Now, the Solar System comes under attack for the first time since the war began, and many of the seemingly impregnable defences wrought by the Imperial Fists prove inadequate. With all eyes fixed firmly upon this new threat beyond the gates of Terra, who in turn will protect Dorn from the enemy within?At last, Rogal Dorn and the VII Legion take centre stage in a Horus Heresy novel! And it's a doozy, as the assault on the Solar System begins. Or does it?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "40k", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430395-praetorian-of-dorn"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Koli", "author_name": "M.R. Carey", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 3869, "review_number": 747, "book_description": "Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable world. A world where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly vines and seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will.Koli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He knows the first rule of survival is that you don't venture beyond the walls.What he doesn't know is - what happens when you aren't given a choice?The first in a gripping new trilogy, The Book of Koli charts the journey of one unforgettable young boy struggling to find his place in a chilling post-apocalyptic world. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and Annihilation.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51285749-the-book-of-koli"}, +{"book_title": "Dagger's Hope", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2760, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Dagger is a Trivator warrior. He is known for his dark and dangerous edge, making him the perfect warrior for impossible missions. He fears nothing, until he meets a young, delicate human female who wakens his heart. Her gentle touch, soft voice, and her shy sense of humor touch him in a way he never thought could happen. The thought of anything harming something so beautiful and fragile fills him with terror.Jordan Sampson is slowly adjusting to her new life on a strange planet far away from war-torn Earth. She had been seventeen when she was brought to the Trivator\u2019s home world of Rathon along with her older sister, Jesse, and younger sister, Taylor. Fear, confusion, and uncertainty of what the future holds threaten to drown her as she tries to fit in. There is only one hope that keeps her going. It is the handsome alien male that stirs something deep inside her and makes her feel whole.When Dagger is captured during a mission and sold to the illegal Fight Rings, it is only the memory of Jordan that keeps him going. Time blurs as he slowly sinks deeper and deeper into a world of violence and pain until he becomes more animal than Trivator.Jordan knows Dagger is out there, somewhere. She can feel him in her heart. The heart she gave to him the first time he held her protectively in his arms. When she discovers where he is being held, she refuses to let anything stop her from rescuing him. What Jordan doesn\u2019t realize is that she has been Dagger\u2019s hope during his captivity. The one thing that holds the thin thread to his sanity.The fight to save Dagger takes Jordan on a journey that she hopes they both survive. The star system is a dangerous place for a young human female and a damaged Trivator warrior. Can Jordan reach Dagger in time, and if she does, can she heal his shattered soul?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Space", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557743-dagger-s-hope"}, +{"book_title": "Helion Rain (Warhammer 40,000 Audio Drama", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 147, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "The world of Idos is on the verge of destruction, wracked by catastrophic storms and plagued by ravening tyranids. Into this maelstrom come the Raven Guard 4th Company, the warzone perfectly suited to their lightning-strike methods of combat. Led by Veteran Sergeant Grayvus, their mission is simple - to rescue the planet's last survivors. But in the midst of this nightmare, they receive new orders to locate and destroy a power station. The station is built upon a fault line, and the resulting quake would swallow thousands of tyranids and turn the war in the Imperium's favour. Grayvus and his company must fight their way through genestealers, acid spore mines and a deadly biomorph if they are to succeed and reclaim Idos for the Imperium.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8697260-helion-rain"}, +{"book_title": "Aliens: Labyrinth", "author_name": "S.D. Perry", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 371, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "The space station Innominata has one problem: men die there. Only no one really knows it - or at least, no one who counts. Certainly Colonel Doctor Tony Crespi has no idea; he is simply eager to work with the infamous Doctor Paul Church, who believes that a mutated strain of alien can be made to obey human will.Church's captive creatures live in a warren of tunnels. Inside that labyrinth, Crespi and Lieutenant Sharon McGuinness are about to find the true meaning of Church's experiments. With a chamber of all-too-human horrors at its dark heart, the labyrinth is a death trap - designed by a man who is attempting what no other person in the universe would dare: to bring human and alien together as one!", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Novels", "Action", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/783247.Aliens"}, +{"book_title": "The Pyramid of Krakow", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 139, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The Wizard has swallowed more and more of Europe--and inside his shuttered realm are magic and mass death. Sixth of Michael Swanwick's \"Mongolian Wizard\" tales.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26529630-the-pyramid-of-krakow"}, +{"book_title": "Kid Gloves", "author_name": "Anna Martin", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 121, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Alone in his East London shop, a man known only as Dalton makes living prosthetics: bionic, mechanical limbs, from leather, metal, and magic. It's to this little corner of the capital that Finn Croucher, an elite army marksman, travels after an accident leads to his hand being amputated.While Dalton fashions Finn\u2019s new hand and teaches him how to use it, he reveals some secrets long hidden, and he and Finn become lovers. But Finn must return to duty, and a string of letters becomes his only connection to the love he left in London.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "Transgender (Cross Dressing)", "Disability"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18334787-kid-gloves"}, +{"book_title": "1945", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1315, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But Japan has only begun to fight. . . .In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame\u2013their aim: to take America down with them.In Robert Conroy\u2019s brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito\u2019s capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is forced to invade Japan as a last step in a war that has already cost so many lives. As the Japanese lash out with tactics that no one has ever faced before\u2013from POWs used as human shields to a rain of kamikaze attacks that take out the highest-value target in the Pacific command\u2013the invasion\u2019s success is suddenly in doubt. As America\u2019s streets erupt in rioting, history will turn on the acts of a few key players from the fiery front lines to the halls of Washington to the shadowy realm of espionage, while a mortally wounded enemy becomes the greatest danger of all.Praise for Robert Conroy's 1901\"Likely to please both military history and alternative history buffs . . . The writing . . . keeps us turning the pages.\"-Booklist\"Fascinating . . . skillfully crafted.\"-Oakland Press\"Packed with action.\"-Detroit News", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134261.1945"}, +{"book_title": "C.R.O.W", "author_name": "Phillip Richards", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 727, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Andy Moralee knew that life with his new company of Dropship Infantry would be hard, but nothing could prepare him for life in one of the toughest units in the Union army. New arrivals, nicknamed \u2018Crow\u2019 by their platoons, are the lowest form of life in his Company, and he finds himself at the mercy of unforgiving commanders and bullies, all the time knowing that the real enemy are waiting for him at the end of his journey through the void. The enemy know that the Union are coming, they have dug in and fortified, and they are ready.C.R.O.W is a Military Science Fiction novel that follows Andy Moralee across the cosmos, and into combat against a well-equipped enemy prepared to fight to the very end.Phillip Richards is a soldier serving in the British Army, and an avid fan of science fiction. He has served in the army for twelve years since enlisting as a 17 year old boy, and since having done so he has served on eight operational tours. This includes operations in Kosovo as a peacekeeper, the Iraq Invasion of 2003, and several tours of Afghanistan. During this time he has promoted through the ranks to sergeant and has spent two years instructing infantry recruits in North England.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16086536-c-r-o-w"}, +{"book_title": "Lone Wolf", "author_name": "Nigel Findley", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 413, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Rick Larson is an undercover Lone Star operative caught in the middle of a murderous conspiracy. On one hand, he's about to blow his deep cover in the explosively violent Cripp gang. And on the other, his \"friends\" at his agency have refused to rescue him. Now assassins from both sides are after him.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/893404.Lone_Wolf"}, +{"book_title": "Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots", "author_name": "Michael Rex", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 535, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "Do you know the difference between a fact and an opinion? It can be a hard thing to understand. Some things are facts--like the number of robots in this book. Other things are opinions--like which robot would make the best friend, or which robot dances best. And sometimes to tell the difference between a fact and an opinion, you need to wait to get more information--that's because facts can be proven true or false, and opinions are things you feel and believe--but that you can't prove.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Teaching", "Politics", "Childrens (2nd Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45900876-facts-vs-opinions-vs-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Station Eleven", "author_name": "Emily St. John Mandel", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 339864, "review_number": 40282, "book_description": "Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time\u2014from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains\u2014this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven"}, +{"book_title": "After The Storm", "author_name": "Tia Isabella", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 476, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Modern day anthropologist Maya Jones has been contracted by a Scottish university to help unearth and catalog ancient relics within a recently discovered secret lair in what was once the Castle MacGregor. From the beginning of her assignment, Maya has been inexplicably drawn to any references she could find concerning the clan's brutal and mysterious 14th century laird Thomas MacGregor. Equally intriguing to her are paintings and stories referencing the MacGregor's wife, known to antiquity only as Lady M. The paintings were severely charred in a castle fire run amok a couple of centuries past, but Maya can make out enough of the damaged portraits to surmise that, oddly enough, she and Lady M possess the same hair and eye color. When a ferocious hurricane ravages Maya's hometown, she'll find out that she and the lady's similar physical features are more than just mere coincidence...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2789046-after-the-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Venomous Craving", "author_name": "Mary Auclair", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 771, "review_number": 98, "book_description": " A desperate woman.An alien warrior whose craving knows no bounds.A passion that will change the fate of humanity.In a world where humans have been hunted to near extinction, Rose is captured and on her way to be sold on the lucrative black market. Seizing her only chance, she escapes and finds fate waiting for her in the form of another captive of terrifying strength: a legendary Eok warrior.Together, Rose and the Eok warrior Karian will fight for their survival \u2013 and ultimately for the fate of the entire human race. During that fight, a dangerous attraction is born.Karian, the unyielding Commander in Chief of the Eok armies, feels his control fading a little more every time he looks at the fragile but headstrong human. Soon, the call to make her his mate torments his body, turning his desires into an imperious craving. She seems to want him, too, but she has no idea of the consequences for her should he claim her.Will Rose accept him as her bloodmate and seal both their destinies, before everything is lost?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36411959-venomous-craving"}, +{"book_title": "The Stranger", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 5194, "review_number": 192, "book_description": "Okay. Rachel and the other Animorphs have finally found the new entrance to the Yeerk pool. They've even figured out a way to sneak in. The infamous roach morph. But they didn't count on roaches being a Taxxon delicacy. This time escape doesn't look so good.And then everything stops. Everything. The feasting Taxxon, the human-Controllers, the Hork-Bajir. Time. Now Rachel, Cassie, Marco, Jake, Tobias, and Ax are in for their wildest trip ever. They're going to get the chance to decide whether they want to stay on Earth and fight the Yeerks. Or go to another planet. And the guy giving them the choice says he can save them. Now all they have to do is make the choice...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324506.The_Stranger"}, +{"book_title": "The Butcher of Anderson Station", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 14745, "review_number": 793, "book_description": "A new story set in the world of The Expanse. One day, Colonel Fred Johnson will be hailed as a hero to the system. One day, he will meet a desperate man in possession of a stolen spaceship and a deadly secret and extend a hand of friendship. But long before he became the leader of the Outer Planets Alliance, Fred Johnson had a very different name. The Butcher of Anderson Station. This is his story.Word Count: ~9,000 words", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11570653-the-butcher-of-anderson-station"}, +{"book_title": "Baneblade", "author_name": "Guy Haley", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 437, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "A Warhammer 40,000 novelThe crew of the Baneblade Mars Triumphant wage bitter war against the orks for the fate of the Kalidar system \u2013 but old rivalries threaten to doom them all.READ IT BECAUSEIt's fast-paced, hard-hitting action based around one of the mightiest battle tanks in the galaxy \u2013 and Guy Haley does a fantastic job with not only the crew of the Baneblade, but their ork enemies too, making this a fascinating look at battle from both sides.By the blessing of the Omnissiah was the Mars Triumphant born - from the forges of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the mighty Baneblade super-heavy battle tank comes to bring death and destruction to the foes of the Imperium. As part of the Paragonian 7th Company, Honoured Lieutenant Marken Cortein Lo Bannick commands the venerable war machine in a bitter war against the orks in the Kalidar system. As the campaign grinds on it begins to take its toll upon his crew, and old clan prejudices from the regiment's home world arise once more. In a war which cannot be won by force of arms alone, such division may prove to be their undoing.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15802988-baneblade"}, +{"book_title": "The Silmarillion", "author_name": "J.R.R. Tolkien", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 227380, "review_number": 8342, "book_description": "A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before THE HOBBIT.Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.This second edition features a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his intentions for the book, which serves as a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages of Middle-earth.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Classics", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Literature", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7332.The_Silmarillion"}, +{"book_title": "A Hero For WondLa", "author_name": "Tony DiTerlizzi", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 4841, "review_number": 506, "book_description": "Eva Nine has finally found what she has always been looking for; other human beings. Having been rescued by Hailey, Eva couldn't be happier, and now Hailey is taking Eva and her friends to the human colony New Attica, where humans of all shapes and sizes live in apparent peace and harmony. But all is not as idyllic as it seems.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12049592-a-hero-for-wondla"}, +{"book_title": "Points of Impact", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 6735, "review_number": 367, "book_description": "Humankind may have won the battle, but a new threat looms larger than ever before.... Earth's armed forces have stopped the Lanky advance and chased their ships out of the solar system, but for CDC officer Andrew Grayson, the war feels anything but won. On Mars, the grinding duty of flushing out the twenty-meter-tall alien invaders from their burrows underground is wearing down troops and equipment at an alarming rate. And for the remaining extrasolar colonies, the threat of a Lanky attack is ever present.Earth's game changer? New advanced ships and weapons, designed to hunt and kill Lankies and place humanity's militaries on equal footing with their formidable foes. Andrew and his wife, Halley, both now burdened with command responsibilities and in charge of more lives than just their own, are once again in humanity's vanguard as they prepare for this new phase in the war. But the Lankies have their own agenda...and in war, the enemy doesn't usually wait until you are prepared. As Andrew is once again plunged into the chaos and violence of war with an unyielding species, he is forced to confront the toll this endless conflict is taking on them all, and the high price of survival...at any cost.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35391324-points-of-impact"}, +{"book_title": "Killing Is My Business", "author_name": "Adam Christopher", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 274, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "A blend of science fiction and stylish mystery noir featuring a robot detective: the stand alone sequel to Made to KillAnother golden morning in a seedy town, and a new memory tape for intrepid PI-turned-hitman--and last robot left in working order-- Raymond Electromatic. When his comrade-in-electronic-arms, Ada, assigns a new morning roster of clientele, Ray heads out into the LA sun, only to find that his skills might be a bit rustier than he expected....Killing is My Business is the latest in Christopher's noir oeuvre, hot on the heels of the acclaimed Made to Kill.\"Robot noir in 60s Los Angeles? You had me at 'Hello.'\" \u2014John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling novelist on Made to Kill", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Noir)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adult", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31702755-killing-is-my-business"}, +{"book_title": "Tanglewreck", "author_name": "Jeanette Winterson", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 2218, "review_number": 272, "book_description": "Something frightening is happening to time. Time tornadoes are ripping people from the present, never to return them, while a woolly mammoth inexplicably appears on banks of the River Thames. Eleven-year-old Silver and her guardian live in a house called Tanglewreck, which is somehow at the center of these mysterious time warps. A strange heirloom called the Timekeeper is hidden somewhere in the house, and Silver must find it and protect it . . . because whoever gets hold of the Timekeeper will have the power to control time-and life as we know it-forever. Reviews \"The sheer exhilaration of the adventure and the many fascinating historical and scientific allusions will keep readers engrossed through to the satisfying conclusion.\" -Publishers Weekly \"An appealing read for fantasy and science- fiction fans alike...Well-developed main characters add liveliness and suspense to the story, while secondary characters (a pair of inept thugs, the original Schr\u00f6dinger's cat) add touches of humor to a basically sober story. The climax is chaotic and exciting; the resolution is realistic, bittersweet.\" -Kirkus Reviews \"Winterson masterfully weaves together an imaginative array of settings and characters to bring the story to its exhilarating fulfillment. Silver's varied relationships add even more depth, encapsulating family, friendship, deceit, and abuse... \"[T]his time-bending sci-fi adventure will be a fine addition to young adult collections.\" -School Library Journal \"Winterson seamlessly combines rousing adventure with time warps, quantum physics, and a few wonderfully hapless flunkies. Her clever science will draw fans of Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, and her dastardly villains and resourceful youngsters will remind readers of the Lemony Snicket's books about the hapless Baudelaires.\" --Booklist \"Silver is a plucky hero in the mold of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and Philip Pullman's Lyra, a creature of action not introspection.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15045.Tanglewreck"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 27440, "review_number": 1067, "book_description": "Life in the prison starts to get interesting for Rick Grimes and the rest of our survivors. Relationships heat up, fizzle out, and change entirely almost overnight. By the end of this volume, relationships between key characters are radically changed, setting the stage for future events in The Walking Dead.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138397.The_Walking_Dead_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "Ex-Purgatory", "author_name": "Peter Clines", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 5301, "review_number": 375, "book_description": "George Bailey is an ordinary guy, working the nine to five as a handyman and trying to make the best of the little he\u2019s got. But when he sleeps, he dreams of fire and flying, of zombies and superheroes.When the two realities start to merge, George begins to question if e\u2019s gone mad. That, or something has gone terribly wrong...The latest instalment in the Ex Series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17612697-ex-purgatory"}, +{"book_title": "The Memory Police", "author_name": "Y\u014dko Ogawa", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 27489, "review_number": 4002, "book_description": "A haunting, Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the ProfessorOn an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses\u2014until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Literary Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37004370-the-memory-police"}, +{"book_title": "The Raven Boys", "author_name": "Maggie Stiefvater", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 284825, "review_number": 31600, "book_description": "\u201cThere are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark\u2019s Eve,\u201d Neeve said. \u201cEither you\u2019re his true love . . . or you killed him.\u201dIt is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them\u2014not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can\u2019t entirely explain. He has it all\u2014family money, good looks, devoted friends\u2014but he\u2019s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she\u2019s not so sure anymore.From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we\u2019ve never been before.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17675462-the-raven-boys"}, +{"book_title": "The Blade's Memory", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 3454, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "The king is missing.A secret organization is hunting sorcerers.The enemy has powerful new weapons to deploy, and the capital is more vulnerable than it's ever been.Worst of all, at least in Ridge Zirkander's view, someone put that jackass Colonel Therrik in charge of the flier battalion.Ridge, Sardelle, and their comrades have a lot of problems to fix, but they can't show their faces in the capital without being arrested or shot. This time, it's going to take a lot more than magic to save the country.The Blade's Memory is the fifth installment in the Dragon Blood series.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Adult", "Action", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25526863-the-blade-s-memory"}, +{"book_title": "Collision Course", "author_name": "Zoe Archer", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 627, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "In a galaxy torn apart by war...Mara Skiren is a scavenger, a black-market dealer. Blackmailed into helping Commander Kell Frayne infiltrate a treacherous corner of the galaxy, Mara learns that her biggest danger is from her sexy, by-the-book partner. She's a loner with more than a few battle scars on her heart, but something about Commander Frayne stirs up her long-buried need for an intimate connection.An ace pilot for the elite Black Wraith Squadron, Kell's mission is to rescue a lost pilot and ship. Unable to deny his attraction to the beautiful, rebellious Mara, he decides bedding her would cool his ardor. But one taste is not nearly enough, and he finds himself sharing more of his real self with her than he has with anyone.With deadly criminals on their heels and an increasingly dangerous assignment to complete, he's starting to wonder...if they survived, could he let her go? And will Mara want to stay?46,390 words", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Futuristic", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10923394-collision-course"}, +{"book_title": "The Key", "author_name": "Marianne Curley", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 5340, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "In the thrilling, final installment of the Guardians of Time trilogy, tentative guard members Matt and Rochelle have emerged as crucial players in fulfilling the prophecy of the Named. Matt has learned that he is the son of an immortal, while Rochelle is struggling with her newfound powers and her fear that the group doesn't trust her. In fact, their leader is certain that someone in the close-knit circle is a traitor-but who? As suspicions mount, friction threatens to tear apart the Guard. Will the members of the Named be able to overcome their fears and unite the Guardians of Time in their last stand against evil and chaos?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104571.The_Key"}, +{"book_title": "The Mirror", "author_name": "John A. Heldt", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 459, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "This is an updated cover edition of B00IQBLQNU.On September 11, 2020, Ginny and Katie Smith celebrate their nineteenth birthday at a country fair near Seattle. Ignoring the warnings of a fortune-teller, they enter a house of mirrors and exit in May 1964. Armed with the knowledge they need to return to their time, they try to make the most of what they believe will be a four-month vacation. But their sixties adventure becomes complicated when they meet a revered great-grandmother and fall in love with local boys. In THE MIRROR, the sequel to THE MINE and THE SHOW, the sisters find happiness and heartbreak as they confront unexpected challenges and gut-wrenching choices in the age of civil rights, the Beatles, and Vietnam.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26045125-the-mirror"}, +{"book_title": "The House in November/The Other Sky", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 48, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Invasion! At first the U.S. army--what was left of it--thought it was battling a communist invasion. The truth was much worse. It wasn't until Jeff Mallory awoke one morning to find that all his fellow townsfolk had become sleep walking zombies, and that a tower had been erected in the center of town, a tower that seemed to stretch to the stars, that the horrible truth began to unravel. Earth had been invaded--not by a race of alien conquerers, but by a disease. A disease with a brain...\"The House in November\" was originally titled \"The Seeds of Gonyl\" in the magazine \"Worlds of If\" in 1969", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4314197-the-house-in-november-the-other-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Xeelee: Redemption", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 270, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape . . . This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousand times Earth's orbital distance. It is a light year in circumference. If it was set in the solar system it would be out in the Oort Cloud, among the comets - but circling the sun. If it was at rest it would have a surface area equivalent to about thirty billion Earths. But it is not at rest: it rotates at near lightspeed. And because of relativistic effects, distances are compressed for inhabitants of the Belt, and time drastically slowed.The purpose of the Belt is to preserve a community of Xeelee into the very far future, when they will be able to tap dark energy, a universe-spanning antigravity field, for their own purposes. But with time the Belt has attracted populations of lesser species, here for the immense surface area, the unending energy flows. Poole, Miriam and their party, having followed the Ghosts, must explore the artefact and survive encounters with its strange inhabitants - before Poole, at last, finds the Xeelee who led the destruction of Earth...", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36197258-xeelee"}, +{"book_title": "Death's Bright Day", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 752, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "A NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING RCN MILITARY SF SERIES! \u00a0Leary and Mundy are back in another military science fiction adventure as they undertake a mission to a distant\u00a0but critical\u00a0star system.IT'S JUST A REBELLION IN A DISTANT STAR CLUSTER. Captain Daniel Leary thinks that his marriage will allow him to slip into the quiet role of a naval officer in peacetime. His friend, the spy and cybrarian Adele Mundy, is content to be collating data in her library. But high officials of both superpowers are involved!\u00a0Those who want Daniel and Adele to become involved in the Tarbell Stars claim that only they can prevent a war between the Republic of Cinnabar and its great rival, the Alliance of Free Stars. The conflict is political, but at the sharp end it means blazing warfare and cold-blooded murder.\u00a0Daniel and Adele will be at the sharp end. The odds in ships and guns are badly in the enemy's favor. Daniel, Adele, and the crew of the Princess Cecile will do everything humanly possible, but that may not be enough against an enemy battleship.\u00a0And even if Daniel and his companions succeed in battle, they can't be sure whether their employers really wanted them to win\u2014or whether they even want them alive.\u00a0All they can do is to race forward, hoping to come through into\u00a0DEATH'S BRIGHT DAY. \u00a0About David Drake\u2019s previous RCN novel,\u00a0What Distant Deeps: \u201cDrake deftly weaves a web of political machinations and intrigue that vividly depicts the costs of war. Fans of Patrick O'Brian's Maturin and Aubrey novels will enjoy this intricate, rousing space opera.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly About David Drake\u2019s RCN series: \u201c[R]ousing old-fashioned space opera.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201cThe fun is in the telling, and Mr. Drake has a strong voice. I want more!\u201d\u2014Philadelphia Weekly Press \u201c[S]pace opera is alive and well. This series is getting better as the author goes along\u2026character development combined with first-rate action and memorable world designs.\u201d\u2014SFReader.com About David Drake: \u201c[P]rose as cold and hard as the metal alloy of a tank\u2026rivals Crane and Remarque\u2026\u201d\u2014Chicago Sun-Times \u201cDrake couldn\u2019t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.\u201d\u2014Booklist RCN series: With the Lightnings Lt. Leary, Commanding The Far Side of the Stars The Way to Glory Some Golden Harbor When the Tide Rises In the Stormy Red Sky What Distant Deeps The Road of Danger\u00a0\u00a0 The Sea Without a Shore \nDeath's Bright Day\n", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276239-death-s-bright-day"}, +{"book_title": "House of Earth and Blood", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 106355, "review_number": 17296, "book_description": "Bound by blood.Tempted by desire.Unleashed by destiny.Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life\u2014working hard all day and partying all night\u2014until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She\u2019ll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths.Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose\u2014to assassinate his boss\u2019s enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he\u2019s offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach.As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City\u2019s underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion\u2014one that could set them both free, if they\u2019d only let it.With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom\u2014and the power of love.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "New Adult", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Angels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44778083-house-of-earth-and-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Scoundrel", "author_name": "Zoe Archer", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1159, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "London Harcourt jumps at the chance to join her father on a voyage to the Greek isles, where she meets Bennett Day. Day is a ladies' man, when he's not dodging lethal attacks to protect the powers of the ancients from men like London's father, who wants to subjugate the world's magic to British rule.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7242960-scoundrel"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Defiance", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 6164, "review_number": 478, "book_description": "Born an Outcast, Talyn Batur has spent the whole of his life fighting against the prejudice of his people. An Andarion without a father is not something anyone wants to be.But when his companion's brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, he finds himself torn between the loyalty to their planetary government that his mother has beaten into him and his own beliefs of justice and right.Now, he must decide for himself to remain a pawn of their government or to defy everything and everyone he's ever known to stand up to tyranny. It's a gamble that will either save his life or end it. And when old enemies align with new ones, it's more than just his own life at risk. And more than just his homeworld that will end should he fail, in Born of Defiance, the next League novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22046891-born-of-defiance"}, +{"book_title": "Early Riser", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 11348, "review_number": 1927, "book_description": "Every Winter, the human population hibernates.During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.Well, not quite.Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind.When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling.When you get the dreams too, it's weird.When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23498264-early-riser"}, +{"book_title": "The Half-Made World", "author_name": "Felix Gilman", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3821, "review_number": 501, "book_description": "A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared--the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of the made world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8198773-the-half-made-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Search for Gram", "author_name": "Chris Kennedy", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 161, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Lieutenant Commander Shawn \u201cCalvin\u201d Hobbs has saved Seattle, traveled to the stars and forged new alliances with alien races. With the latest war concluded, he turned his attention to deciphering the strange rod an ancient alien civilization gave him as a test. Was a little \u201cdown time\" to work on the project too much to hope for? Yes. Something or someone is destroying the starships of the alien Aesir race. The elven Aesir are in need of help, and all of the signs point to Calvin as the hero they need. He has already defeated the merciless Drakuls and saved Earth from alien invasion, but is he prepared to face this unknown challenge? As the Theogony trilogy comes to a close, a new chapter for Calvin is set to begin. \"The Search for Gram\" initiates the \"Codex Regius,\" a trilogy that will once again take Lieutenant Commander Hobbs and his Special Forces platoon to the stars. Not even the universe can hold him this time!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25839523-the-search-for-gram"}, +{"book_title": "The Brothers Cabal", "author_name": "Jonathan L. Howard", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 3652, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "Horst Cabal has risen from the dead. Again. Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely to meet, is resurrected by an occult conspiracy that wants him as a general in a monstrous army. Their plan: to create a country of horrors, a supernatural homeland. As Horst sees the lengths to which they are prepared to go and the evil they cultivate, he realizes that he cannot fight them alone. What he really needs on his side is a sarcastic, amoral, heavily armed necromancer.As luck would have it, this exactly describes his brother.Join the brothers Cabal as they fearlessly lie quietly in bed, fight dreadful monsters from beyond reality, make soup, feel slightly sorry for zombies, banter lightly with secret societies that wish to destroy them, and\u2014in passing\u2014set out to save the world.**The author wishes to point out that there are no zebras this time, so don't get your hopes up on that count. There is, however, a werebadger, if that's something that's been missing from your life.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20613481-the-brothers-cabal"}, +{"book_title": "The Bear", "author_name": "Andrew Krivak", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3486, "review_number": 776, "book_description": "From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth\u2019s last two human inhabitants and a girl's journey home.In an Eden-like future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They own a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches his daughter how to fish and hunt and the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can learn to listen. A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature\u2019s dominion.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Magical Realism", "Environment (Nature)", "Literary Fiction", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45869112-the-bear"}, +{"book_title": "Killswitch", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1155, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Two years after the unhatching of Callayan President Neiland's plot to make the capital city of Tanusha the center of the Federation, Callay is under siege. So begins the third installment of this gripping trilogy from an exciting new sci-fi author. A powerful faction of conservative Fleet captains has surrounded Callay, at Earth's behest, and is threatening a blockade \u2013 or worse. A fearful Earth does not wish to lose direct control of its precious war machine, and there are fears of civil war. All that Callay has to oppose the warships of the Fleet is the Callayan Defense Force (CDF) \u2013 a newly formed group of raw recruits led by a politically hamstrung general. However, the CDF is largely trained and organized by Major Vanessa Rice and her best friend, Callay's combat-android, Commander Cassandra Kresnov. But when Cassandra's lover, Special Agent Ari Ruben, discovers a plot to kill her using a killswitch, which her old masters in the League built into her brainstem, Sandy is forced to go underground to stay alive.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1273899.Killswitch"}, +{"book_title": "Remnants of Trust", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bonesteel", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 491, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "In this follow-up to the acclaimed military science fiction thriller The Cold Between, a young soldier finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy in deep spaceSix weeks ago, Commander Elena Shaw and Captain Greg Foster were court-martialed for their role in an event Central Gov denies ever happened. Yet instead of a dishonorable discharge or time in a military prison, Shaw and Foster and are now back together on Galileo. As punishment, they\u2019ve been assigned to patrol the nearly empty space of the Third Sector.But their mundane mission quickly turns treacherous when the Galileo picks up a distress call: Exeter, a sister ship, is under attack from raiders. A PSI generation ship\u2014the same one that recently broke off negotiations with Foster\u2014is also in the sector and joins in the desperate battle that leaves ninety-seven of Exeter\u2019s crew dead.An investigation of the disaster points to sabotage. And Exeter is only the beginning. When the PSI ship and Galileo suffer their own \u201caccidents,\u201d it becomes clear that someone is willing to set off a war in the Third Sector to keep their secrets, and the clues point to the highest echelons of power . . . and deep into Shaw\u2019s past.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "War (Military Fiction)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29099274-remnants-of-trust"}, +{"book_title": "Excession", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 26327, "review_number": 1076, "book_description": "The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is \"a talent to be reckoned with\" (\"Locus\"). In Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead starship captain. By accepting the mission, Byr irrevocably plunges himself into a conspiracy: one that could either lead the universe into an age of peace or to the brink of annihilation.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Cultural", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Banking (Banks)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12013.Excession"}, +{"book_title": "Everfair", "author_name": "Nisi Shawl", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 2049, "review_number": 596, "book_description": "An alternate history / historical fantasy / steampunk novel set in the Belgian Congo, from noted short story writer Nisi Shawl.Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's \"owner,\" King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated.Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced. Everfair is not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Cultural (Africa)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114130-everfair"}, +{"book_title": "Kingdom Come: The Final Victory", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 5266, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "The horrors of the Tribulation are over, and Jesus Christ has set up his perfect kingdom on earth. Believers all around the world enjoy a newly perfected relationship with their Lord, and the earth itself is transformed. Yet evil still lurks in the hearts of the unbelieving. As the Millennium draws to a close, the final generation of the unrepentant prepares to mount a new offensive against the Lord Himself\u2014sparking the final and ultimate conflict from which only one side will emerge the eternal victor.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fiction", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Religion (Faith)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30820.Kingdom_Come"}, +{"book_title": "The Outsider", "author_name": "Melinda Metz", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2609, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "He's not like other guys. Liz has seen him around. It's hard to miss Max -- the tall, blond, blue-eyed senior stands out in her high-school crowd. So why is he such a loner? Max is in love with Liz. He loves the way her eyes light up when she laughs. And the way her long, black hair moves when she turns her head. Most of all, he loves to imagine what it would be like to kiss her. But Max knows he can't get too close. He can't let her discover the truth about who he is. Or really, what he is.... Because the truth could kill her.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Media Tie In (Tv)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176178.The_Outsider"}, +{"book_title": "Pushing Ice", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 14956, "review_number": 840, "book_description": "2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclearpowered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach. In accepting this mission she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny-for Janus has many surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89186.Pushing_Ice"}, +{"book_title": "Among the Nameless Stars", "author_name": "Diana Peterfreund", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1817, "review_number": 249, "book_description": "Before Kai joined the Cloud Fleet, he wandered\u2026 AMONG THE NAMELESS STARSFour years before the events of FOR DARKNESS SHOWS THE STARS, the servant Kai left the North Estate, the only home he\u2019d ever known, and Elliot North, the only girl he ever loved, in search of a better life. But the journey was not an easy one.Featuring narrow escapes, thrilling boat races and at least one deadly volcanic wasteland.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14779549-among-the-nameless-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Wandering Inn: Volume 2", "author_name": "Pirateaba", "rating_score": 4.59, "rating_votes": 1495, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "\u201cNo killing Goblins.\u201dSo reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.It\u2019s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn\u2019t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn. She\u2019s an [Innkeeper].", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41180829-the-wandering-inn"}, +{"book_title": "Parable of the Talents", "author_name": "Octavia E. Butler", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 27129, "review_number": 2355, "book_description": "This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in socially and economically depressed California in the 2030s. Convinced that her community should colonize the stars, Lauren and her followers make preparations. But the collapse of society and rise of fanatics result in Lauren's followers being enslaved, and her daughter stolen from her. Now, Lauren must fight back to save the new world order.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (African American)", "Novels", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60932.Parable_of_the_Talents"}, +{"book_title": "The Ashes of Pompeii", "author_name": "Sam Sisavath", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 1584, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "EVERY WAR REQUIRES SACRIFICES.The only way to survive in a post-Purge world is to keep your head down, but that's not always an option.Still stranded in the Louisiana countryside, Will, Danny, and Gaby race against the clock to get back to their friends, but the road home is treacherous and enemies lie in wait.Meanwhile, Lara and the survivors at Song Island continue preparations for an inevitable attack. But what does a third-year medical student know about fending off a full-frontal assault?As enemies close in on all sides, Will and Lara will be faced with life-and-death decisions. The lives of their friends--and possibly the future of humanity--will rest on the choices they make.A year after The Purge, the Gates have held, the Stones have crumbled, and the Fires have burned, but now the Ashes will consume...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25047434-the-ashes-of-pompeii"}, +{"book_title": "Caught", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 5954, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "Jonah and Katherine come face to face with Albert Einstein in the fifth book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series.Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein\u2019s daughter to history, they think it\u2019s a joke\u2014they\u2019ve only heard of his sons. But it turns out that Albert Einstein really did have a daughter, Lieserl, whose 1902 birth and subsequent disappearance was shrouded in mystery. Lieserl was presumed to have died of scarlet fever as an infant. But when Jonah and Katherine return to the early 1900s to fix history, one of Lieserl\u2019s parents seems to understand entirely too much about time travel and what Jonah and Katherine are doing. It\u2019s not Lieserl\u2019s father, either\u2014it\u2019s her mother, Mileva. And Mileva has no intention of letting her daughter disappear.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12861406-caught"}, +{"book_title": "Neutron Star", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 12026, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters.Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx -- indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that trace man's expansion and colonization throughout Known Space.A spectacular cycle of the future . . . a 10,000-year history of man on Earth and in space!Contents:\u00b7 Neutron Star [Beowulf Shaeffer] \u00b7 nv If Oct \u201966 \u00b7 A Relic of Empire \u00b7 nv If Dec \u201966 \u00b7 At the Core [Beowulf Shaeffer] \u00b7 ss If Nov \u201966 \u00b7 The Soft Weapon \u00b7 nv If Feb \u201967 \u00b7 Flatlander [Beowulf Shaeffer] \u00b7 nv If Mar \u201967 \u00b7 The Ethics of Madness \u00b7 nv If Apr \u201967 \u00b7 The Handicapped [\u201cHandicap\u201d] \u00b7 nv Galaxy Dec \u201967 \u00b7 Grendel [Beowulf Shaeffer] \u00b7 nv *", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100366.Neutron_Star"}, +{"book_title": "Erasing Time", "author_name": "C.J. Hill", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1688, "review_number": 329, "book_description": "When twins Sheridan and Taylor wake up 400 years in the future, they find a changed world: domed cities, no animals, and a language that's so different, it barely sounds like English. And the worst news: They can't go back home.The twenty-fifth-century government transported the girls to their city hoping to find a famous scientist to help perfect a devastating new weapon. The same government has implanted tracking devices in the citizens, limiting and examining everything they do. Taylor and Sheridan have to find a way out of the city before the government discovers their secrets. To complicate matters, the moblike Dakine has interest in getting hold of them too. The only way for the girls to elude their pursuers is to put their trust in Echo, a guy with secrets of his own. The trio must put their faith in the unknown to make a harrowing escape into the wilds beyond the city.Full of adrenaline-injected chases and heartbreaking confessions, Erasing Time explores the strength of the bonds between twins, the risks and rewards of trust, and the hard road to finding the courage to fight for what you believe in.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Lds (Lds Fiction)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13015019-erasing-time"}, +{"book_title": "Dead City", "author_name": "Joe McKinney", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 6083, "review_number": 398, "book_description": "After the Gulf Coast is battered by three tremendous hurricanes, a deadly virus breaks out, turning the infected into mindless, blood-thirsty zombies. Within hours, the plague has spread throughout most of Texas and shows no signs of slowing down.San Antonio police officer Eddie Hudson finds himself in the middle of the outbreak, along with a few other survivors. Eddie does his best to fight off the zombie horde and locate his wife and son, who he believes still are safe and haven\u2019t been infected by the virus.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90574.Dead_City"}, +{"book_title": "Take Back the Sky", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 613, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "The conclusion to an epic interstellar trilogy of war from a master of science fiction. \n\nMarooned beneath the icy, waxy crust of Saturn's moon, Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face double danger from Earth and from the Antagonists, both intent on wiping out their growing awareness of what the helpful alien Gurus are really doing in our solar system. Haunted by their glassy dead and by the ancient archives of our Bug ancestors, the former combatants must now team up with their enemies, forget their indoctrination and their training, and journey far beyond Pluto to the fabled Planet X, the Antagonists' home world, a Sun-Planet in the comet-generating Kuiper belt. It's here that Master Sergeant Venn will finally understand his destiny and the destiny of every intelligent being in the solar system-including the enigmatic Gurus.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29107088-take-back-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Time Was", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 1030, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it.In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found.Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their disparate timelines overlap.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Novella", "War", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29976283-time-was"}, +{"book_title": "Night Flights", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1332, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "Return to the world of Mortal Engines in this new book of short stories about the rebellious young aviatrix, Anna Fang, illustrated by Ian McQue. A key character in the Mortal Engines book and upcoming film produced by Peter Jackson (December 2018), this is your chance to learn more of Anna's thrilling past. Night Flights includes Traction City, Philip Reeve's 2011 World Book Day Book.In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorized cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang -- pilot, adventurer, spy -- isn't afraid.The three stories show gripping, moving, exciting moments in Anna Fang's life: her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, a showdown against a robotic Stalker that is terrifyingly out of control, and her free life as an intelligence agent for the Anti-Traction league ...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37825522-night-flights"}, +{"book_title": "All the Stars in the Sky", "author_name": "Sarah Lyons Fleming", "rating_score": 4.58, "rating_votes": 3084, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "The 3rd and final book in the Until the End of the World series.The books, in order: Until the End of the World (Book 1)So Long, Lollipops (Book 1.5)And After (Book 2) All the Stars in the Sky:Cassie Forrest has sworn she\u2019ll never let the world get the best of her again. She\u2019s chosen to believe everything will be all right. But on a journey filled with heartbreak and madness and zombies, Cassie and her friends must struggle to stay alive\u2014and it\u2019s hard to believe in a future when survival seems unlikely.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23466036-all-the-stars-in-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Conspirator", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1974, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Science fiction", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Planetary Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5301856-conspirator"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Intelligence", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 5437, "review_number": 388, "book_description": "\"Dark Intelligence is the first novel in the Transformation series, a no-holds-barred adventure set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe.One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed . . .Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, where he finds he's been brought back from the dead. What's more, he died in a human vs. alien war which ended a whole century ago. But when he relives his traumatic final moments, he finds the spark to keep on living. That spark is vengeance. Trapped and desperate on a world surrounded by alien Prador forces, Spear had seen a rescue ship arriving. But instead of providing backup, Penny Royal, the AI within the destroyer turned rogue. It annihilated friendly forces in a frenzy of destruction, and, years later, it's still free. Spear vows to track it across worlds and do whatever it takes to bring it down.Isobel Satomi ran a successful crime syndicate. But after competitors attacked, she needed more power. Yet she got more than she bargained for when she negotiated with Penny Royal. She paid it to turn her part-AI herself, but the upgrades hid a horrifying secret. The Dark AI had triggered a transformation in Isobel that would turn her into a monster, rapidly evolving into something far from human.Spear hires Isobel to take him to the Penny Royal AI's last known whereabouts. But he cheats her in the process and he becomes a target for her vengeance. And as she is evolves further into a monstrous predator, rage soon wins over reason. Will Spear finish his hunt, before he becomes the hunted?\"", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Business (Amazon)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22859850-dark-intelligence"}, +{"book_title": "Forever Mine", "author_name": "Monica Burns", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 546, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "2015 GOLD MEDAL Winner, Readers' Favorite International Book Awards; 2015 BRONZE MEDAL Winner, IPPY Awards; USA Today HEA Blog 2015 Must-Read WARNING: This book contains a proper English earl, whose frozen heart hides a tortured soul, and a feisty modern-day heroine determined to convince the man she's not the woman he thinks she is. With an endearing cast of characters this multiple award-winner is sure to earn a place on the keeper shelf. \u2731 \u2731 CAVEAT EMPTOR \u2731 \u2731 Please note that if you hated A Knight In Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux, it is quite likely you *will not* like this book.If you believe men in the 1800s didn't use foul language, you *will not* like this book. See disclaimer below.Thrown back to the year 1897, Victoria Ashton is mistaken for, and forced to impersonate, the spiteful, unfaithful Countess of Guildford, who's been missing for three weeks. Despite Victoria's attempts to convince the earl she's not his wife, her double's infidelity and lies make it difficult, especially when Victoria falls in love with a man who loathes her. Nicholas Thornhill, Earl of Guildford, is plagued with rumors he murdered his missing wife. When she unexpectedly reappears, he scoffs at her latest in a long string of lies. But the changes in Victoria make him to alter his opinion as he forges a bond with her that crosses the boundaries of time. NOTE: This book is a 125,000 words. For readers who do not enjoy sex scenes, there is 3.75% (16 pgs out of 443) of sexual content in this book. The F-word occurs 34 times in this 443 page book or 1% of the entire book.Men as a general rule have used the F-word long before the Victorian era, which this book is set in. The difference between the men in the past & men of today is that they didn't use the word in the company of women. The author chose to use the F-word because it fits a male reaction to frustration and anger. It is a visceral word with a guttural sound that projects the emotion of outrage in a harsh and visceral manner. Say it out loud with force. Men are sometimes crass & crude with other men. In contrast to the use of the F-word the author refuses to use the word sh*t as it evokes an image of filth and bodily waste. Please factor this information into your buying decision. If you are uncomfortable with these numbers, it is doubtful you will enjoy the read. For readers of time travel romance who enjoyed OUTLANDER and A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR.... \u201cForever Mine is the best time travel romance I've ever read, rivaling Jude Deveraux for intensity and chemistry between the hero and heroine.\u201d \u2014 Lucy Monroe, USAToday bestselling author \"With Forever Mine, Monica Burns delivers another gorgeous and deeply emotional story with a smart, strong-willed heroine and a tortured and oh-so-sexy hero.\" -- Vanessa Kelly. Bestselling author of historical romance \"Monica Burns has once again gotten me to read and love a historical romance! Forever Mine is a phenomenally written story of a love that surpasses the barriers of time. At the end I cried ugly, gut-wrenching tears which I rarely do. The emotional last few chapters bled through my Kindle and directly into my soul. Monica Burns has written something truly magical. Forever Mine surpassed my expectations by miles and then kept on going.\" -- Nikki Brandyberry, Ramblings from a Chaotic Mind This book is like the center of an Oreo, the best part of the cookie. Monica Burns has captured true [time travel] romance and woven it into a time travel/reincarnation tale. The characters are so well developed and true. -- Joann Ferrara Maggio Reader Review \"FOREVER MINE is a time travel romance to place on your keeper shelf where you store all your favorite time travel romances, Regency, Victorian,", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45029016-forever-mine"}, +{"book_title": "Accidental Abduction", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 7052, "review_number": 518, "book_description": "Big, bad and purple.It was supposed to be a simple job. Grab some specimens from Earth and sell them on the interstellar black markets. In and out, with no one the wiser, except Tren accidentally abducts a human.A barbaric female, who doesn't know how to be quiet and obey. That will affect her selling price especially since she only possesses two breasts, and a single mouth. Yet, in spite of her shortcomings there is something about her spitfire nature that intrigues him.Maybe he should keep her. He's definitely not keen on getting rid of her after he seduces her.A space pirate doesn't usually fall in love, but when an enemy decides to take Megan, Tren realizes he will do anything to get her back.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11329789-accidental-abduction"}, +{"book_title": "Breakthroughs", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2880, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Is it the war to end all wars--or war without end? What began as a conflict in Europe, when Germany unleashed a lightning assault on its enemies, soon spreads to North America, as a long-simmering hatred between two independent nations explodes in bloody combat. Twice in fifty years the Confederate States of America had humiliated their northern neighbor. Now revenge may at last be at hand.Into this vast, seething cauldron plunges a new generation of weaponry changing the shape of war and the balance of power. While the Confederate States are distracted by an insurgency of African Americans who dream of establishing their own socialist republic, the United States are free to bring their military and industrial might directly to bear--and to unleash the most horrific armored assault the world has ever seen. Victory is at hand. But at a price that may be worse than war itself . . .", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (World War I)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/899179.Breakthroughs"}, +{"book_title": "Twin Dragons", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2858, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "Melina Franklin was barely sixteen when she and her grandfather were kidnapped from their small farm in Georgia by an alien trader and sold to an Antrox mining asteroid in deep space. Mistaken for a young boy, she lives in fear of being found out and sold. Her only companionship for the next four years is her grandfather and the Pactors, the large creatures used for hauling the mining ore, that she takes care of. She dreams of the day when she and her grandfather will somehow escape and return home to the rolling green hills of their farm.Calo and Cree Aryeh have been secured as the personal guards for Creon Reykill\u2019s mate, Carmen Walker. The twin brothers are a rare species of dragon known for their fierceness in battle. Born to the mystic dragon clan of the Northern Mountains, they have given their allegiance to the Dragon Lords vowing to serve and protect the royal family and their new true mates. The brothers know they will never be able to have a true mate of their own. Never in the history of their clan have twin dragons been able to find a mate capable of handling two male dragons. They can only hope that they die in battle so they are not destined to be caged when the loneliness eventually drives their dragons insane.The twin dragons are confused when two humans are discovered on an abandoned asteroid mine. The old man and his grandson appear normal enough, but their dragons and their symbiots are driving them crazy, insisting the boy is their true mate. Neither knows how to handle the other two parts of themselves or their need to remain close to the boy. On top of that, the young human male refuses to have anything to do with either of them. He hides and avoids them every time they get near him.Things become clearer when they discover Mel is really Melina. Unfortunately, finding out their true mate is really a woman does little to change her feelings toward them. She is even more determined to return to her world. When her wish comes true, the brothers know they have no choice but to kidnap her and hide her away. Can they convince her to give them a chance at happiness or will she seek protection from the royal family they have vowed to serve? If that is not bad enough, there is another who has his eye on their mate and will do whatever is necessary to keep her \u2013 including killing the twin dragons who have claimed her first.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23245994-twin-dragons"}, +{"book_title": "Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories", "author_name": "JoSelle Vanderhooft", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 190, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "The fifteen tantalizing, thrilling, and ingenious tales in Steam-Powered put a new spin on steampunk by putting women where they belong -- in the captain's chair, the laboratory, and one another's arms. Here you'll meet inventors, diamond thieves, lonely pawn brokers, clockwork empresses, brilliant asylum inmates, and privateers in the service of San Francisco's eccentric empire. Though they hail from across the globe and universes far away, each character is driven to follow her own path to independence and to romance. The women of Steam-Powered push steampunk to its limits and beyond.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Anthologies", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9908712-steam-powered"}, +{"book_title": "Blue Moon", "author_name": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 62327, "review_number": 1076, "book_description": "When she chose master vampire Jean-Claude over her ex-fianc\u00e9, alpha werewolf Richard Zeeman, Anita learned that sometimes love is not enough. But though she and Richard won\u2019t be walking down any aisles, she can\u2019t turn her back on him when he\u2019s arrested on a rape charge in Tennessee. Anita knows firsthand that Richard has the morals of a saint\u2014or at least a boy scout. But his guilt or innocence is not the issue. He\u2019s behind bars, and in five days a full moon will rise\u2026", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30246.Blue_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "Metallic Love", "author_name": "Tanith Lee", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 967, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "In her now-classic tale The Silver Metal Lover, award-winning author Tanith Lee told the spellbinding story of Jane and her forbidden love for a robot named Silver. In this stunning follow-up, the legend of their tragic romance lives on. But nothing is as it was\u2013or as it seems.\u2026As an orphan growing up in the slums, Loren read her clandestine copy of Jane\u2019s Story over and over, relishing every word. But Loren is no Jane. Savvy and street-smart, Loren could never be stirred by a man of metal, her passion never ignited by an almost-human\u2013even one designed for pleasure. Still, when the META corporation does the unthinkable and brings back updated versions of robots past\u2013Loren knows she must see Silver. And just like Jane, it is love at first sight. But Silver is now Verlis. If he was perfection before, he is now like a god. Yet he is more human than his creators think\u2013or fear. While Loren doesn\u2019t quite trust him, she will follow her twice-born lover into a battle to control his own destiny\u2013one that will reveal to her the most astonishing illusion of all.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302179.Metallic_Love"}, +{"book_title": "Burning Bright", "author_name": "Melissa Scott", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 342, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Space pilot and ambitious young game designer Quinn Lioe spends shore leave on the planet Burning Bright, known for its virtual reality games, and soon finds herself playing a game with stakes higher than she imagined. Reprint. AB. PW.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186379.Burning_Bright"}, +{"book_title": "The Summer of Impossible Things", "author_name": "Rowan Coleman", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 5147, "review_number": 638, "book_description": "If you could change the past, would you?Thirty years ago, something terrible happened to Luna\u2019s mother. Something she\u2019s only prepared to reveal after her death. Now Luna and her sister have a chance to go back to their mother\u2019s birthplace and settle her affairs. But in Brooklyn they find more questions than answers, until something impossible \u2013 magical \u2013 happens to Luna, and she meets her mother as a young woman back in the summer of 1977. At first Luna\u2019s thinks she\u2019s going crazy, but if she can truly travel back in time, she can change things. But in doing anything \u2013 everything \u2013 to save her mother\u2019s life, will she have to sacrifice her own?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Magical Realism", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31348237-the-summer-of-impossible-things"}, +{"book_title": "Valour and Vanity", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2534, "review_number": 363, "book_description": "Acclaimed fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal has enchanted many fans with her beloved novels featuring a Regency setting in which magic--known here as glamour--is real. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the sort of a magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen wrote Ocean's Eleven.After Melody's wedding, the Ellsworths and Vincents accompany the young couple on their tour of the continent. Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved, but they lose everything to the pirates and arrive in Murano destitute.Jane and Vincent are helped by a kind local they meet en route, but Vincent is determined to become self-reliant and get their money back, and hatches a plan to do so. But when so many things are not what they seem, even the best laid plans conceal a few pitfalls. The ensuing adventure is a combination of the best parts of magical fantasy and heist novels, set against a glorious Regency backdrop.http://us.macmillan.com/valourandvani...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Regency)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12987423-valour-and-vanity"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 10349, "review_number": 1420, "book_description": "Juliette is still reeling from Warner's betrayal, and Kenji is trying to balance his friendship with her with\u00a0his responsibilities as a leader of the resistance against the Reestablishment.\u00a0Things get even more interesting when\u00a0an unexpected person from Omega Point\u2019s past surfaces.The ending of Restore Me left readers gasping, and this novella full of Kenji\u2019s signature sass and big heart is the perfect story to tide fans over until Defy Me, the shocking fifth book in the Shatter Me series.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40863452-shadow-me"}, +{"book_title": "The Gauntlet", "author_name": "Karuna Riazi", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1540, "review_number": 428, "book_description": "A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that\u2019s a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair.When twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand\u2014a puzzle game akin to a large Rubik\u2019s cube\u2014they know it\u2019s up to them to defeat the game\u2019s diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed. But first they have to figure out how.Under the tutelage of a lizard guide named Henrietta Peel and an aeronaut Vijay, the Farah and her friends battle camel spiders, red scorpions, grease monkeys, and sand cats as they prepare to face off with the maniacal Lord Amari, the man behind the machine. Can they defeat Amari at his own game\u2026or will they, like the children who came before them, become cogs in the machine?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30312617-the-gauntlet"}, +{"book_title": "Finity's End", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1318, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Finity's End is the oldest Merchanter ship in the universe. In an era of spies, pirate traders, and uneasy alliances, the Company Wars are now over, the hunt for the fleet is winding down, and the ship is coming home to reclaim her trade routes. Having lost an entire generation, the youngest crew members, bred and trained for war, must face their most critical battle of all--survival in a time of lasting peace.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57066.Finity_s_End"}, +{"book_title": "The Scorch Trials", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 462498, "review_number": 26337, "book_description": "Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. \u00a0 Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn\u2019t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch. \u00a0There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die. \u00a0 The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch\u2014the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them. \u00a0Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off. \u00a0 There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers\u2019 destruction\u2014and they\u2019re determined to survive.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7631105-the-scorch-trials"}, +{"book_title": "Democracy's Right", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 470, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The Empire \u2013 a tyranny stretching over thousands of worlds. The grand dreams of the founders are a joke. The Thousand Families, the rulers of the Empire, care nothing for anything, save their own power. From the undercity of Earth to the new colonies at the Rim, discontent, anger and rebellion seethe, but there is no hope of breaking the power of the Empire and freeing the trillions of enslaved humans and aliens.The Rebel \u2013 Commander Colin Walker believed in the Empire, until a treacherous superior officer betrayed him, forcing him to see the true nature of the force he served and his complacency in terrible crimes. Now, Colin has a plan; he and his followers in the Imperial Navy will seize their ships and rebel against the Thousand Families, uniting the thousands of rebel factions under his leadership. Their war will set the galaxy on fire ...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18365032-democracy-s-right"}, +{"book_title": "Whatever It Takes", "author_name": "Leif Sterling", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 365, "review_number": 36, "book_description": " An incredible future. A dangerous game. How far would you go to save your family? In 2114, there\u2019s no such thing as a fair trial. Roland\u2019s father has just been sentenced to death in a sham case controlled by the all-powerful Pinnacle Corporation. He only has one chance to find out the truth: enter Pinnacle\u2019s death-defying Tech Games and do everything he can to survive. Roland must undergo a risky procedure to install the necessary extra-human tech enhancements. Success could mean a shot at a $100 million prize and the evidence he needs to clear his father\u2019s name. If he fails, both of them will surely die\u2026 Whatever It Takes is the first episode in the Nano Contestant series of sci-fi serials. If you like futuristic technology, evocative new worlds, and action-packed sci-fi, then you\u2019ll love Leif Sterling\u2019s incredible series. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Business (Amazon)", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23251012-whatever-it-takes"}, +{"book_title": "Mogadishu of the Dead", "author_name": "Glynn James", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2464, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living.And one international team of supremely elite special operators are humanity's last best hope for survival. Supremely trained and armed, always the most skilled, resolved, and unstoppable amongst us, now the commandos of Alpha team are tasked with one last desperate operation.They must cross the Atlantic aboard the world\u2019s only remaining supercarrier and insert by air into the very middle of a dead continent, all in search of a rumored vaccine that might bring humanity back from the brink. But their op goes dangerously wrong from the start, with their team scattered to hell and back, and their target site a dry hole. Now they must fight their way on foot through a city of 3 million ravening dead guys, in search of an underground bunker that might hold the Last Man on Earth. But these undead will not be like any Zulus they have ever fought before \u2013 and they surround their new target in a writhing ring of death 30 feet high on all sides\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13000340-mogadishu-of-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Heechee Rendezvous", "author_name": "Frederik Pohl", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 6874, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "At last - the ultimate book in the renowned Heechee Saga!Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life reappears after eons of silence, and threatens the lives of all heechee and humans. Even Robin, virtually immortal and with unlimited access to millennia of accumulated data, cannot discover how to stop these aliens. It began to seem that only a face to face meeting could determine the future of the entire universe....THE HEECHEE SAGEBook One: GATEWAYBook Two: BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZONBook Three: HEECHEE RENDEZVOUSBook Four: THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEEThe Gateway Trip: TALES AND VIGNETTES OF THE HEECHEE", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77462.Heechee_Rendezvous"}, +{"book_title": "How Beauty Loved the Beast", "author_name": "Jax Garren", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 568, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "It\u2019s all been leading to this.Jolie Benoit has become a skilled agent of the Underlight, relying on her savvy to complete assignments while Sergeant Wesley Haukon was out of commission. But an unexpected clue to the Order of Ananke\u2019s diabolical scheme rattles Jolie, and she turns to Hauk for comfort.It\u2019s been years since Hauk took comfort from the touch of another person, though his love for Jolie is deep and powerful. Uncomfortable in his skin, scarred by a terrible fire, he is unable to give in to the pleasures that Jolie so desperately wants to grant him.Meanwhile, the Order is lurking in the shadows\u2014and when they strike, the blow is swift and terrible. Hauk and Jolie scramble to fight for their community, but with the future of the Underlight threatened, no one is safe. And Hauk will never be the same\u202673,000 words", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16110881-how-beauty-loved-the-beast"}, +{"book_title": "War To The Knife", "author_name": "Peter Grant", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 300, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Laredo's defenders were ground down and its people ruthlessly slaughtered when the Bactrians invaded the planet. Overwhelmed, its Army switched to guerrilla warfare and went underground. For three years they've fought like demons to resist the occupiers. They've bled the enemy, but at fearful cost. The survivors are running out of weapons, supplies, and places to hide. Then a young officer, Dave Carson, uncovers news that may change everything. An opportunity is coming to smash the foe harder than they've ever done before, both on and off the planet. Success may bring the interplanetary community to their aid \u2013 but it'll take everything they've got. Win or lose, many of them will die. Failure will mean that Bactria will at last rule unopposed. That risk won't stop them. When you're fighting a war to the knife, in the end you bet on the blade.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22467366-war-to-the-knife"}, +{"book_title": "Midshipman's Hope", "author_name": "David Feintuch", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3237, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "A hideous accident kills the senior officer of UNS Hibernia, leaving a terrified young officer to take 300 colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship, on a 17-month gauntlet to reach Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue, Nicholas Seafort must save lives and take them, in the name of duty.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1053783.Midshipman_s_Hope"}, +{"book_title": "Kr\u00ede Captivity", "author_name": "Kora Knight", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1285, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "Nira. Astrum Industries\u2019 newest charted planet. Freshly discovered. Wholly unexplored. But that won\u2019t be the case for long. Led by Captain Alec Hamlin, a team of explorers make an emergency landing and are soon confronted by their first Niran native. A huge male Kr\u00ede packed with muscle, baring small, black horns and fangs. Fortunately, he\u2019s friendly. Or so he lets them believe. With the help of his pack, the Kr\u00ede takes Alec\u2019s team captive, intending to sell them for profit. But these Nirans aren\u2019t just shrewd, they\u2019re arrogant and domineering. And most of all, extremely sexual. Which explains why, on their journey to peddle their new wares, they feed Alec\u2019s team a powerful aphrodisiac. Nothing like some decadent entertainment on the side. Soon the team finds themselves feverishly trying to resist the growing urge to mount their seductive captors. But as passion prevails and unexpected bonds form, so much more is suddenly at stake. With no time left, will a shift in Kr\u00ede perspective be enough to change the fate of Alec\u2019s team? Warning: Contains explicitly scorching gay sex with exotic and shamelessly kinky males of otherworldly descent.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "LGBT", "Gay Romance (Gay For You)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29388541-kr-e-captivity"}, +{"book_title": "Steamforged", "author_name": "Eric R. Asher", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 522, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "There are old wounds in the forgotten places of the world, and some are soaked in blood.Jacob and his allies flee into the Deadlands after the fall of Ancora. Charles, the enigmatic smith, hopes to find answers in the desert city of Bollwerk that could prevent a war.Their enemies are many, and here Jacob will learn the cost of life in the Deadlands.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26227015-steamforged"}, +{"book_title": "Realm Source", "author_name": "Vincent B. Moneymaker", "rating_score": 3.0, "rating_votes": 3, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Are there realms beyond heaven and depths below hell?A father who must save his daughter from the fallen.A quintress and her niece who've sworn to help him.A being from beyond who's agreed to join them.Into the abyss they must go. To find her, along with whatever else it is that calls them.But with the fallen having arisen, what lies below may no longer be within their reach.And theirs is but one story among many where the unimaginable has become possible, including, most importantly of all, a future none would seek.From the Realm Source where gods are born, to the Underbyss where the demonic abide, existence may continue on, seemingly eternal, until the day it's all destroyed.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43235146-realm-source"}, +{"book_title": "East of West, Vol. 3: There Is No Us", "author_name": "Jonathan Hickman", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 5227, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "It's the third volume of the Eisner-nominated East Of West. There Is No Us sees the breaking apart of the future-scape of America as the world races forward towards the apocalypse.Collecting: East Of West 11-15", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22358464-east-of-west-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwiser", "author_name": "Elle Strauss", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1068, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "The last year has been smooth sailing for Casey Donovan. She and her boyfriend Nate are doing better than ever, and things at home are good, too. Everything\u2019s been so calm, she hasn\u2019t \u201ctripped\u201d back to the nineteenth century in ages.Then the unthinkable happens and she accidentally takes her rebellious brother Tim back in time. It\u2019s 1862 with the Civil War brewing, and for Tim this spells adventure and excitement. Finding himself stuck in the past, he enlists in the Union army, but it doesn\u2019t take long before he discovers real life war is no fun and games.Casey and Nate race against the clock to find Tim, but the strain wears on their relationship. It doesn\u2019t help that the intriguing new boy next door has his sights on Casey, and isn\u2019t shy to let her know it.Can Nate and Casey find Tim in time to save him? And is it too late to save their love?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13537571-clockwiser"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz", "author_name": "Kerryn Offord", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 379, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "A sparkling addition to the multiple\u00a0New York Times\u00a0best-selling\u00a0Ring of Fire alternate history\u00a0series created by Eric Flint. An alchemist of the 17th century\u00a0confronts\u00a0modern science with often amusing results.Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the world's greatest alchemist and a great-grandson of Paracelsus\u2014and a Bombast on his mother's side\u2014was a man history had forgotten. But when the town of Grantville was transported by a cosmic accident from modern West Virginia to central Germany in the early seventeenth century, he got a second chance at fame and fortune. The world's greatest alchemist does not make household goods. But with suitable enticements Gribbleflotz is persuaded to make baking soda and then baking powder so that the time-displaced Americans can continue to enjoy such culinary classics as biscuits and\u00a0gravy. Applying his superb grasp of the principles of alchemy to the muddled and confused notions the Americans have concerning what they call \u201cchemistry,\u201d Gribbleflotz leaves obscurity behind. In his relentless search for a way to invigorate the quinta essential of the human humors, Gribbleflotz plays a central role in jump-starting the seventeenth century\u2019s new chemical and marital aids industries\u2014and pioneering such critical fields of human knowledge as pyramidology and aura imaging. These are his chronicles.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276210-1636"}, +{"book_title": "Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us", "author_name": "Rodney A. Brooks", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 159, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Are we really on the brink of having robots to mop our floors, do our dishes, mow our lawns, and clean our windows? And are researchers that close to creating robots that can think, feel, repair themselves, and even reproduce? Rodney A. Brooks, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believes we are. In this lucid and accessible book, Brooks vividly depicts the history of robots and explores the ever-changing relationships between humans and their technological brethren, speculating on the growing role that robots will play in our existence. Knowing the moral battle likely to ensue, he posits a clear philosophical argument as to why we should not fear that change. What results is a fascinating book that offers a deeper understanding of who we are and how we can control what we will become.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Computer Science)", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205403.Flesh_and_Machines"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Earth: Tales from the 23rd Century Book 1", "author_name": "Paul J. Fleming", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 39, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Attacks against Martian corporate interests within the colonies of the Solar System begin to escalate, leading to the Martian fleet enacting a systematic purge of resistance groups within the Core Worlds who may harbour members of the group calling themselves the 'Children of Earth'.The crew of the tramp freighter Erstwhile are on the run and soon find themselves drawn into a sequence of events which puts them squarely in the path of a plan to subjugate the people of the Core Worlds, devised and prepared for by the twisted Artificial Intelligence at the heart of the Children of Earth.Now with the very freedom of the Core Worlds at stake, Captain Maddox has to deduce the real reason behind the attacks and the AI's desire to return to Earth before it is too late, for both him and the free citizens of the inner worlds.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25604264-children-of-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Convergence", "author_name": "Charles Sheffield", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 348, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "The discovery of an ancient alien technology known as the Artifacts enables the human race to jump from galaxy to galaxy, but when a strange new Artifact emerges and changes all the other Artifacts, chaos ensues.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939230.Convergence"}, +{"book_title": "One Good Dragon Deserves Another", "author_name": "Rachel Aaron", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 7212, "review_number": 530, "book_description": "After barely escaping the machinations of his terrifying mother, two all knowing seers, and countless bloodthirsty siblings, the last thing Julius wants to see is another dragon. Unfortunately for him, the only thing more dangerous than being a useless Heartstriker is being a useful one, and now that he\u2019s got an in with the Three Sisters, Julius has become a key pawn in Bethesda the Heartstriker\u2019s gamble to put her clan on top. Refusal to play along with his mother\u2019s plans means death, but there\u2019s more going on than even Bethesda knows, and with Estella back in the game with a vengeance, Heartstriker futures disappearing, and Algonquin\u2019s dragon hunter closing in, the stakes are higher than even a seer can calculate. But when his most powerful family members start dropping like flies, it falls to Julius to defend the clan that never respected him and prove that, sometimes, the world\u2019s worst dragon is the best one to have on your side.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25635416-one-good-dragon-deserves-another"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Dune", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 111144, "review_number": 2592, "book_description": "Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities--making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides.Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced House Corrino is plotting to regain the throne while the fanatical Fremen are being provoked into open revolt by the enigmatic figure known only as The Preacher. Alia believes that by obtaining the secrets of the twins' prophetic visions, she can maintain control over her dynasty.But Leto and Ghanima have their own plans for their visions--and their destinies....Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44492286-children-of-dune"}, +{"book_title": "Hybrids", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 4635, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "In the Hugo-Award winning Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry - making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land.In that book and in its sequel, Humans, Sawyer showed us the Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail - a tour de force of world-building; a masterpiece of alternate history.Now, in Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapiens lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of reality. But after an experiment shows that Mary's religious faith - something completely absent in Neanderthals - is a quirk of the neurological wiring of Homo sapiens brains, Ponter and Mary must decide whether their child should be predisposed to atheism or belief. Meanwhile, as Mary's Earth is dealing with a collapse of its planetary magnetic field, her boss, the enigmatic Jock Krieger, has turned envious eyes on the unspoiled Eden that is the Neanderthal world . . . Hybrids is filled to bursting with Sawyer's signature speculations about alternative ways of being human, exploding our preconceptions of morality and gender, of faith and love. His Neanderthal Parallax trilogy is a classic in the making, and here he brings it to a stunning, thought-provoking conclusion that's sure to make Hybrids one of the most controversial books of the year.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Canada)", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264944.Hybrids"}, +{"book_title": "The Rift", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2335, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "It starts with the dogs. They won't stop barking. . . . And then the earth shrugs\u20148.9 on the Richter scale in the world's biggest earthquake since 1755. It hits New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi. Seismologists had predicted the disaster . . . but no one listened. Within minutes, there is nothing but chaos and ruin as America's heartland falls into the nightmare known as the Rift\u2014a fault line in the earth that wrenchingly exposes the fractures in American society itself. As a strange white mist smelling of sulfur rises from the crevassed ground, the real terror begins for the survivors, including a teenager separated from his mother, an African-American engineer searching for his daughter, a TV preacher whose visions of hell have become all too real, and a sheriff cum Ku Klux Klansman who seeks racial vengeance in the midst of disaster.It can happen. And sooner or later, it will.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271167.The_Rift"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior", "author_name": "Nick Webb", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 4502, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "We repelled the Swarm, for now. But they won\u2019t stop: they\u2019re inhuman. They have no inhibitions. No conscience. And no mercy. But from the crucible of battle has risen an unlikely hero. Captain Timothy Granger, at the helm of another time-tested battleship, will take the fight to the enemy. He\u2019ll discover their secrets. Find their homeworld. Destroy it before they destroy ours. He will save us all. He must. Or we\u2019ll die. WARRIOR **", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Action", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27846713-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Skye City: The Trials of Arturo collection", "author_name": "R.D. Hale", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 185, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "**Winner of Wattpad's: Watty 2014: People's Choice Award for Science-Fiction**This collection contains Skye City: Episode One: The Rise of an Orphan, Episode Two: The Migdols of Samaris, Episode Three: The Biopunk Generation, and Episode Four: The San Terian Genocide. If you have purchased these Episodes separately, you do not need to purchase this product.My name is Arturo Basilides. I am an orphan living in the slums of Medio City \u2013 the capital of a nation ravaged by a war which was won by extremists. Offered a choice between slavery and disenfranchisement, we exist in an underclass so disconnected we effectively inhabit a different era. Daily life involves scavenging, theft and substance abuse with a bunch of misfits who are somehow still in one piece after years of abandonment. I am a natural born fighter and although I despise warfare, I must witness the downfall of those bastard elites whilst fulfilling my romantic intentions with the forever unattainable girl of my dreams.Skye City is a biopunk adventure set in a world where science is indistinguishable from magic and oppression is near-inescapable. Technology has created a newer, 'superior' form of human and genetically engineered monstrosities are as terrifying as anything encountered in your nightmares. The underclass have been underestimated and as they fight back the boundary between freedom fighter and terrorist becomes increasingly blurred. Meanwhile, the drug-induced haze of a traumatised mind places a question mark over the meaning of reality.'Skye City interweaves heavy social issues and philosophy, milking the sci-fi genre for all its worth. The slum dog's efforts to maintain their humanity in such a heartless age, when everything is going against them is palpable. The 99% versus 1% theme focuses our minds on where society might be heading and forces us to look at things how they are, if we wish them to be truly different.' Dean C. Moore \u2013 Author of Renaissance 2.0", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44080044-skye-city"}, +{"book_title": "Black Light Express", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 824, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Zen and Nova have ridden a train from one world to another before. They come from the Network Empire, whose stations are scattered across half the galaxy. But this time it's different. They've passed through a gate which shouldn't exist at all. They did terrible things to open it, they don't know where it leads, and now they can never go back.Chandni Hansa has just been defrosted from the prison freezers by the new Empress of the Great Network. When railwar erupts around them, the two find themselves running for their lives. But where can they run, when nowhere is safe?And all the while, the mysterious Black Light Zone is calling them. But as their lines separate and intersect, among trainsong and engine-roar, battle cries and gunfire, will they find a way home? If home even exists any more...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31076885-black-light-express"}, +{"book_title": "Outlawed", "author_name": "Anna North", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 6948, "review_number": 1232, "book_description": "The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows.She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Westerns", "Feminism", "LGBT", "Historical", "Adult", "Adventure", "Adult Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50997696-outlawed"}, +{"book_title": "Eternity Falls", "author_name": "Kirk Outerbridge", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 111, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "The Undying Has Died It wasn't supposed to happen. People who took the Miracle Treatment weren't supposed to die-ever. Especially not the famous movie star spokesperson for the Treatment. And yet, that's exactly what's happened. The stunning starlet Greta Darling, who looked 22 but was really 89, has suddenly died. Of natural causes. Desperate to assure their billions of clients that the Miracle Treatment really does work, company executives call in private investigator Rick Macey. Macey's job is to find out what really happened to Greta Darling-or, failing that, to simply come up with some other explanation for how she died. Macey is a war veteran with very special abilities, and his own reasons for taking this case. What exactly is so wonderful about living forever? Who is really pulling the strings here? What do the religious clues at the crime scene mean? And who will be left standing...when eternity falls? \"Cyberpunk action like you've always wished for!\" -Grace Bridges, author of Faith Awakened \"Eternity Falls is good dark P.I. fiction set in the near future. But don't get comfortable. Kirk Outerbridge drops a bomb that changes the story-and your perspective. Eternity Falls is a must-read for genre fans.\" -Frank Creed, author of War of Attrition *** Kirk Outerbridge currently resides with his wife, Ria, and eighteen-month-old son, Miles, in beautiful Bermuda. He is a faithful member of the Church of Christ and is a professional engineer by trade.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Christian", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Christian Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7064033-eternity-falls"}, +{"book_title": "Leave the World Behind", "author_name": "Rumaan Alam", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 40015, "review_number": 6955, "book_description": "A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrongAmanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation:\u00a0a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they\u2019ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older black couple\u2014it\u2019s their house, and they\u2019ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area\u2014with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service\u2014it\u2019s hard to know what to believe.Should Amanda and Clay trust this\u00a0couple\u2014and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another?\u00a0Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam\u2019s third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class.\u00a0Leave the World Behind\u00a0explores how our closest bonds are reshaped\u2014and unexpected new ones are forged\u2014in moments of crisis.\u00a0", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook", "Contemporary", "Horror", "Literary Fiction", "Suspense", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50358031-leave-the-world-behind"}, +{"book_title": "The Killer Thing", "author_name": "Kate Wilhelm", "rating_score": 3.06, "rating_votes": 79, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "PROGRAMMED FOR DESTRUCTIONIn a way, they were the same, the man & the machine. Both had been ordered to do one thing--kill.The robot had been created to wreak revenge on the humans who had brutally conquered its planet.The man was the product of years of training by an Earth that had set out to take over the Universe.Now the two faced each other in the icy reaches of the galaxy. The robot, with its calculating machine of a brain, its impenetrable force shield, its deadly laser beam. The man, with the kind of nerve that refused to admit the odds against survival...", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2620084-the-killer-thing"}, +{"book_title": "The Six-Gun Tarot", "author_name": "R.S. Belcher", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 3227, "review_number": 592, "book_description": "Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasyNevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker\u2019s wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone\u2019s business, may know more about the town\u2019s true origins than he\u2019s letting on.A haven for the blessed and the damned, Golgotha has known many strange events, but nothing like the primordial darkness stirring in the abandoned silver mine overlooking the town. Bleeding midnight, an ancient evil is spilling into the world, and unless the sheriff and his posse can saddle up in time, Golgotha will have seen its last dawn\u2026and so will all of Creation.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Westerns", "Horror", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793094-the-six-gun-tarot"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 24089, "review_number": 488, "book_description": "WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDS Featured in THE NEW YORK TIMES and on NPR, Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey, Ampersand, and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his long-lost girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on earth.This volume of the critically acclaimed series features Yorick and Agent 355 preparing for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with his lost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wiped out half of humanity is revealed! Collects issues #49-54 of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's award-winning Vertigo series.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156532.Y"}, +{"book_title": "A Box of Butterflies", "author_name": "Jo Rooks", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 86, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "\"I love that story,\" said Ruby. \"Did you love it too?\" \"Robot is just a machine. Robot cannot feel love.\" Robot paused for a moment and said, \" What does love feel like?\" When Ruby asks Robot if he loved the story as much as she did, he tells her that he doesn't know what love is. If it's not something he can see, then what could it be? Ruby describes emotions to her Robot. She teaches him what each feels like (\"love feels like a box of butterflies!\") and when she feels them (\"I sometimes feel that way when I'm told no more TV!\"). With colorful metaphors and vibrant imagery, A Box of Butterflies takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery and emotional reflection, identifying not just love, but jealousy, anger, worry, and a host of other emotions. Included is a Note to Parents and Caregivers by Elizabeth McCallum, PhD, that further explores the importance of learning about emotions.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37489861-a-box-of-butterflies"}, +{"book_title": "Blood & Thunder", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 6354, "review_number": 790, "book_description": "Action. Comedy. Romance. And that one weird guy. When a series of bombs go off in a Therian youth center, injuring members of THIRDS Team Destructive Delta, and causing a rift between agents Dexter J. Daley and Sloane Brodie, peace seems unattainable. Especially when a new and frightening group, the Order of Adrasteia, appears to always be a step ahead. With panic and intolerance spreading and streets becoming littered with the Order\u2019s propaganda, hostility between Humans and Therians grows daily. Dex and Sloane, along with the rest of the team, are determined to take down the Order and restore peace, not to mention settle a personal score. But the deeper the team investigates the bombings, the more they believe there\u2019s a more sinister motive than a desire to shed blood and spread chaos. Discovering the frightful truth behind the Order\u2019s intent forces Sloane to confront secrets from a past he thought he\u2019d left behind for good, a past that could not only destroy him and his career, but also the reputation of the organization that made him all he is today. Now more than ever, Dex and Sloane need each other, and, along with trust, the strength of their bond will mean the difference between justice and all-out war.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Mystery", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48644676-blood-thunder"}, +{"book_title": "The Arcav King's Mate", "author_name": "Hope Hart", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1321, "review_number": 164, "book_description": "\nShe's determined to run...\n...but he's determined to find her.\n\nWhen the Arcav invaded Earth, human leaders didn't\u00a0even try to fight. All human women were forced to give blood so they could be tested for compatibility as Arcav mates.Harlow's life changes forever when her name is announced as mate to the Arcav King. Within just a few seconds, she's no longer a cop. Now, she's expected to hand herself in and travel back to Arcavia with an alien she has never met.Instead, she works with the resistance, fleeing with the help of other humans and fighting for her autonomy.If there's one thing Harlow knows, it's this: She'll never give up her freedom for a seven-foot, horned alien. Even if his heated looks make her toes curl and his dominant ways give her goosebumps.\u00a0Varian doesn't understand why Harlow won't come to him. How can she overlook the pleasure that awaits in his arms? He'll keep her safe, even if that means stealing her freedom forever. With his sanity on the line, he can't afford to go back to Arcavia empty-handed.When another species of aliens begin eyeing up Earth's resources, the Arcav may be the only ones who can keep Earth in one piece.Can Harlow stay on the run forever? Or will Varian convince her to take her rightful place... at his side?\nThe Arcav King's Mate is a full-length novel with zero instalove. Harlow is independent, feisty, and fighting for ownership of her life. While this is the first book in Harlow and Varian's story, they will have a HEA.\u00a0\n\n\n\n\nIf you like hot, dominant aliens, kick-ass heroines, and steamy romance, you'll love The Arcav King's Mate, the first book in Hope Hart's new sci-fi romance series.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52583837-the-arcav-king-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Dust", "author_name": "Charles Pellegrino", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 556, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "In an idyllic Long Island community, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair is one of the first to suspect that the environment has begun to wage bloody, terrifying war on humanity. What initially appear to be random, unrelated events are actually violent eruptions in a worldwide biological chain reaction. Along with a brave group of survivors, Sinclair must learn to understand the catastrophe while it roils around them, slowly crumbling a panicked world and threatening apocalypse. The survival of humankind depends on finding an answer immediately\u2014or else they will face the final, tragic destiny of their species.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376650.Dust"}, +{"book_title": "Robots", "author_name": "Clive Gifford", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 31, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Robots are everywhere: in the movies, on TV, in space, in games. This book will bedazzle children with possibilities -- all accompanied by detailed photos, illustrations, explanations, and activities.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1376509.Robots"}, +{"book_title": "Enchantment", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 25747, "review_number": 2502, "book_description": "In Enchantment, Card works his magic as never before, transforming the timeless story of Sleeping Beauty into an original fantasy brimming with romance and adventure.The moment Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay still as death. But beneath the foliage a malevolent presence stirred and sent the ten-year-old Ivan scrambling for the safety of Cousin Marek's farm.Now, years later, Ivan is an American graduate student, engaged to be married. Yet he cannot forget that long-ago day in the forest--or convince himself it was merely a frightened boy's fantasy. Compelled to return to his native land, Ivan finds the clearing just as he left it.This time he does not run. This time he awakens the beauty with a kiss . . . and steps into a world that vanished a thousand years ago.A rich tapestry of clashing worlds and cultures, Enchantment is a powerfully original novel of a love and destiny that transcend centuries . . . and the dark force that stalks them across the ages.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7973.Enchantment"}, +{"book_title": "Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1237, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including \"Orphans of the Helix,\" his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats.Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost \"cousins\"...and an ancient scourge.A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power.The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past.A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human.At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3975.Worlds_Enough_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Antarctica", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2706, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "In the near future, Wade Norton has been sent to Antarctica by Senator Phil Chase to investigate rumors of environmental sabotage. He arrives on the frozen continent and immediately begins making contact with the various scientific and political factions that comprise Antarctic society.What he finds is an interesting blend of inhabitants who don't always mesh well but who all share a common love of Antarctica and a fierce devotion to their life there. He also begins to uncover layers of Antarctic culture that have been kept hidden from the rest of the world, and some of them are dangerous indeed. Things are brought to a head when the saboteurs\u2014or \u201cecoteurs\u201d as they call themselves\u2014launch an attack designed to drive humans off the face of Antarctica.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Environment", "Politics", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41126.Antarctica"}, +{"book_title": "Carnelian", "author_name": "B. Kristin McMichael", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 964, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Everyone has a past, but for most it isn\u2019t so far in the past as Seth Sangre. His past is literally from thousands of years ago. Seth\u2019s past led him to the present seeking something that might help him save his country from destruction. He has been in the present for over three years now, and he just found exactly what he has been looking for. Mari had dreams of college being a fresh start, one where she would start over and not fall for the good looking player like high school. Unfortunately for her, that\u2019s exactly what ends up falling into her lap on the first day she moves into the dorms. Now she has to hold to her promise to herself not fall for the handsome Seth Sangre. But he doesn\u2019t plan to make it easy for her. Seth has already marked her as his next conquest. As the semester progresses, Mari learns that Seth might just have a past of his own that\u2019s literally in the past. Suddenly, Mari finds her future along with her past put into question. She\u2019s connected to Seth far more than she ever wanted to be, and maybe he isn\u2019t the player who she thought he was. If Mari can trust her heart enough to follow him, Seth will lead Mari on an adventure of a lifetime-and reveal family secrets she never knew existed.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20527595-carnelian"}, +{"book_title": "Redemption Ark", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 24940, "review_number": 678, "book_description": "Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors - alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes - and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89190.Redemption_Ark"}, +{"book_title": "Seduce the Darkness", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 7437, "review_number": 249, "book_description": "SHE HAS A BODY MADE FOR TEMPTATION...AND A KISS TO DIE FOR.The war between otherworlders and humans changed Earth beyond recognition. It also saved Bride McKells's life. Before, the gorgeous vampire was a target for every fanatic with a stake and a crucifix. Now, she's free to roam the streets -- and desperate to find others of her kind. One man claims to have the answers she seeks. Devyn, King of the Targons, is a warrior and a womanizer, and he makes no secret of how much he wants Bride -- and how dangerous he could be to her in every way.An avid collector of women, Devyn easily seduces human and otherworlder alike. Until now. Not only does Bride resist him, but she leaves Devyn feeling something entirely new...a bone-deep need bordering on obsession. Her blood is the key to curing a vicious alien disease, but helping Bride uncover her origins will compel her to choose between electrifying passion and a destiny that could tear her from Devyn's side forever.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5576130-seduce-the-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Walk the Plank", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3190, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Wildcat colonies are illegal, unauthorized and secret so when an injured stranger shows up at the wildcat colony New Seattle, the colony leaders are understandably suspicious of who he is and what he represents. His story of how he came to their colony is shocking, surprising, and might have bigger consequences than anyone could have expected.The second episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180353-walk-the-plank"}, +{"book_title": "Magnificent Devices Bundle, Volume 1", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 972, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "This four-book set contains the \u201cClaire Quartet\u201d\u2014Lady of Devices, Her Own Devices, Magnificent Devices, and Brilliant Devices, an edition of over 250,000 words. London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin\u2019s son is Prime Minister. And steam is the power that runs the world. At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St. Ives, was expected to do nothing more than pour an elegant cup of tea, sew a fine seam, and catch a rich husband. Unfortunately, Claire\u2019s talents lie not in the ballroom, but in the chemistry lab, where things have a regrettable habit of blowing up. When her father gambles the estate on the combustion engine and loses, Claire finds herself down and out on the mean streets of London. But being a young woman of resources and intellect, she turns fortune on its head \u2026A South Bank gang\u2014Snouts, Tigg, Jake, 10-year-old twin girls called the Mopsies, Weepin\u2019 Willie, and Rosie the chicken\u2014soon becomes Claire\u2019s flock. But concealing her secret life becomes increasingly difficult, particularly when a powerful lord proposes and she and her friends are forced to flee on an airship to the Americas. Will she achieve her goal of a university degree? Will her loyalty to her friends be her undoing when it jeopardizes the plans of powerful men who desire money more than honor? And just how many funerals will her unfortunate mother be forced to arrange?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18522004-magnificent-devices-bundle-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Sex Machine", "author_name": "Amanda Lafrenais", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 114, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Cyborgs. AIs. Androids and automatons.This is SEX MACHINE, an erotic comics anthology. 240 pages and 16 tales of sex-positive, consent-driven smut, expertly tuned and fully automatic.Or manual, if that's what you're into.Grab the user guide and flip the switch, 'cuz it's time to turn on.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41583461-sex-machine"}, +{"book_title": "Blaze of Glory", "author_name": "Michael Pryor", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1134, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Aubrey Fitzwilliam is the son of a prominent ex-prime minister. He's also brilliant at magic, but he's stuck at military school. At least he has his best friend, George, there to back him up. George would follow Aubrey anywhere - and with Aubrey's talent for thinking up impulsive and daring schemes that will get them both in trouble, that's no easy thing to do. At a weekend shooting party at Prince Albert's country estate, the boys find themselves in a hotbed of intrigue and politics. They discover a golem, a magical creature built to perform one task: to kill Prince Albert. Aubrey and George are hailed as heroes for foiling the attempt on the prince's life - but who sent the golem, and why? Aubrey is far too curious to let the authorities handle this one, and he and George start investigating.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1831563.Blaze_of_Glory"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Seduction", "author_name": "Brenda Joyce", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 3469, "review_number": 226, "book_description": "Malcolm of Dunroch is a newly chosen Master, a novice to his extraordinary--and dangerous--powers. But he has already broken his vows--and a young woman's death is on his hands. Malcolm is determined to fight his darkest desires, denying himself all pleasure...until fate sends him another Innocent, the beautiful bookseller Claire Camden. Since her mother's murder, Claire has done everything possible to make a safe, secure life for herself in a city where danger lurks on every street corner, especially in the dark of night. But nothing can prepare her for the powerful and sexual medieval warrior who sweeps her back into his time--a treacherous, frightening world where the hunters and the hunted are one and the same. Claire needs Malcolm to survive, yet she must somehow keep the dangerously seductive Master at arm's length. For Malcolm's soul is at stake--and fulfilling his desires could prove fatal....", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546783.Dark_Seduction"}, +{"book_title": "A Colder War", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 906, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "A Colder War is an alternate history novelette by Charles Stross. It follows a \"What If\" scenario where the follow-up expedition in Lovecraft's \"At the Mountains of Madness\" has occurred, and inexorably fuses the Cold War and Cthulhu Mythos.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Lovecraftian (Cthulhu Mythos)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17871.A_Colder_War"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 16: A Larger World", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 11417, "review_number": 543, "book_description": "Rick discovers that there are communities of survivors nearby, and begins to explore a larger world. Reprinting issues #91-96 of the Eisner Award-winning series, The Walking Dead.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13581999-the-walking-dead-vol-16"}, +{"book_title": "Les Enchantements d'Ambremer", "author_name": "Pierre Pevel", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 816, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Une aventure de Louis Denizart Hippolyte Griffont, mage du Cercle Cyan, sur rendez-vous uniquement. Un roman de Fantasy dans un Paris 1900 qui cohabite avec l\u2019Outre-monde : entre brigades du tigre et licornes, entre mages et Belle Epoque, les d\u00e9buts d\u2019un couple d\u2019enqu\u00eateurs tenant \u00e0 la fois d\u2019Ars\u00e8ne Lupin de Mata-Hari et de Gandalf le Gris. Une Fantasy \u201c steampunk \u201d qui renouvelle formidablement le genre...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Cultural (France)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Roman", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4832817-les-enchantements-d-ambremer"}, +{"book_title": "Robots Go Wild", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 1186, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "In book two of the House of Robots series, it's 'bot brains versus 'bot brawn in an all-out war!Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez and his 'bro-bot' E are making new friends every day as E works as his bedridden sister Maddie's school proxy. But disaster strikes when E malfunctions just in time to be upstaged by the super-cool new robot on the block \u2013 and loses his ability to help Maddie. Now it's up to Sammy to figure out what's wrong with E and save his family!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Humor", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25071181-robots-go-wild"}, +{"book_title": "Eye of the Storm", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2368, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "In an instant the world changed for Lieutenant General Michael O'Neal. Having reached the end of their usefulness his beloved Corps, the last remaining ACS, are destroyed at the order of the Darhel, by their own Fleet. His staff are shot before his eyes, and he is arrested on the charge of war crimes. He faces a short, one-sided, trial, a trip to the Fleet Penal Facility and a bullet to the back of the head while trying to 'escape'. Yet all is not lost. Just as O'Neal faces certain death an entirely new and more powerful alien enemy threatens the galactic status quo, including the dominant Darhel themselves. This new threat requires that O'Neal take command of all military forces and wage war to save his enemies and humanity.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5815597-eye-of-the-storm"}, +{"book_title": "A Handful of Time", "author_name": "Kit Pearson", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2906, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends. When she arrives at the cottage, her worst fears come true: her cousin Kelly teases her; Aunt Ginnie and Uncle Doug feel sorry for her. She doesn't fit in. Then Patricia discovers an old watch hidden under a floorboard. When she winds it, she finds herself taken back in time to the summer when her own mother was twelve.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Cultural (Canada)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231826.A_Handful_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Wind From the Sun", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1887, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.Contentsvii \u2022 Preface (The Wind from the Sun) \u2022 (1972) \u2022 essay by Arthur C. Clarke3 \u2022 The Food of the Gods \u2022 (1964) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke8 \u2022 Maelstrom II \u2022 (1965) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke24 \u2022 The Shining Ones \u2022 (1964) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke43 \u2022 The Wind from the Sun \u2022 (1964) \u2022 novelette by Arthur C. Clarke65 \u2022 The Secret \u2022 (1963) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke71 \u2022 The Last Command \u2022 (1965) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke74 \u2022 Dial \"F\" for Frankenstein \u2022 (1965) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke82 \u2022 Reunion \u2022 (1971) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke84 \u2022 Playback \u2022 (1966) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke88 \u2022 The Light of Darkness \u2022 (1966) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke95 \u2022 The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told \u2022 (1966) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke96 \u2022 Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq. \u2022 [Editorial (If)] \u2022 (1967) \u2022 essay by Arthur C. Clarke99 \u2022 Love That Universe \u2022 (1961) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke103 \u2022 Crusade \u2022 (1968) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke108 \u2022 The Cruel Sky \u2022 (1967) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke129 \u2022 Neutron Tide \u2022 (1970) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke131 \u2022 Transit of Earth \u2022 (1971) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke146 \u2022 A Meeting With Medusa \u2022 (1971) \u2022 novelette by Arthur C. Clarke", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies", "Space", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149056.The_Wind_From_the_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Grandville B\u00eate Noire", "author_name": "Bryan Talbot", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 614, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded studio takes the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sargent Ratzi, into the cut-throat Grandville art scene to track the mysterious assassin. As the body count mounts and events spiral out of control, the investigation points to Toad Hall, where a cabal of industrialists and fat cats plot the overthrow of the French State . . . by use of steam-driven automaton soldiers A Victorian anthropomorphic thriller, Grandville Bete Noire signals the welcome return of master storyteller and graphic-novel pioneer Bryan Talbot to his Eisner and Hugo award nominated steampunk detective series.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15894052-grandville-b-te-noire"}, +{"book_title": "All Systems Red", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 81820, "review_number": 10028, "book_description": "In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern.On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid\u2014a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as \"Murderbot.\" Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32758901-all-systems-red"}, +{"book_title": "Shaken: No Job Too Small", "author_name": "Russell Zimmerman", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 172, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Down these dark streets\u2026 Most folks see Puyallup as the worst Seattle\u2019s got to offer; a tangled mess of metahumanity and greet, poverty and ghettoes, vice and corruption, where the crime is more organized than the government. They call it a Barrens, an armpit, a cesspool. Jimmy Kincaid, though, calls it home. Walking the line between shadows and the desperate light, semi-legit like only a Puyallup brat and former cop can be, he insists Puyallup has a heart and a soul, that it\u2019s a place of life, magic, and starving hope. A former combat mage, now as burnt out as his neighborhood, he does what he can to police the worst excesses of the crime-riddled city he loves. In the darkness of the Seattle Sprawl, what\u2019s one more murder? To Kincaid, it\u2019s everything. He\u2019s got a dead mentor, a hermetic group in need, and a mysterious file that might have been worth killing for. To unlock the data and get a little justice, he\u2019ll face the worst the Sprawl has to offer, wading through blood, darkness, and a murderous web of lies. It\u2019s a good thin he\u2019s got friends\u2014in high and low places\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899509-shaken"}, +{"book_title": "Engineward #4", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "As the Celestials discover the truth about the Terran seed, Libra tries to tip the balance in their favor, and a betrayal in Shiptown puts Gemini on Joss\u2019s trail. Meanwhile, held prisoner in the Atomists\u2019 camp, the ghoulem\u2019s head helps Joss plot an explosive escape\u2014but even success means facing her deepest fears: the shades.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55809676-engineward-4"}, +{"book_title": "Return of the Jedi", "author_name": "James Kahn", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 9251, "review_number": 260, "book_description": "Der letzte Teil der Star Wars Saga erz\u00e4hlt die Geschichte der letzten Konfrontation von Luke Skywalker und seinem b\u00f6sen Vater Darth Vader, sowie von der letzten Schlacht der Rebellen gegen das dunkle Imperium.Die Geschichte beginnt im Palast des monstr\u00f6sen Jabba the Hutt, der hier sowohl Han Solo, als auch Prinzessin Leia zu seinem eigenen dekadenten Vergn\u00fcgen als Gefangene h\u00e4lt. Bis Luke Skywalker auf der Bildfl\u00e4che erscheint und seine Freunde befreit.Der Handlungsort wechselt, und schon sind die Rebellen mit einem neuen, noch gigantischeren Todesstern als im ersten Teil konfrontiert, auf dem die finale Schlacht des Guten gegen das B\u00f6se ausgetragen wird. Um die Zerst\u00f6rung des Todessternes vorzubereiten, ziehen die Rebellen ihre Truppen zusammen.Als Vorhut landen Luke Skywalker, Han Solo und Prinzessin Leia schlie\u00dflich auf dem Waldmond Endor, in dessem Orbit der noch unvollkommene Todesstern seine Runden zieht. Dort erhalten sie Hilfe von den Ewoks. Im letzten Kampf stehen sich schlie\u00dflich die gigantische Armada der Rebellenschiffe und die Flotte des Imperiums gegen\u00fcber.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77236.Return_of_the_Jedi"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Book in the Universe", "author_name": "Rodman Philbrick", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 8864, "review_number": 1065, "book_description": "This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off an unlikely quest to save his dying sister -- and in the process, perhaps the world.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/924194.The_Last_Book_in_the_Universe"}, +{"book_title": "The Jennifer Morgue", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 12892, "review_number": 738, "book_description": "Bob Howard, from The Laundry, secret UK agency against evil forces, narrates boarding yacht of Ellis Billington for Gravedust device that talks with dead. Ellis plans to raise Jennifer Morgue, monster from deep sea, rule world. U.S. Black Chamber sends lethal Ramona Random, in conflict with her bosses. Includes: Pimpf tale - Bob in virtual game; Afterword; Glossary.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14150.The_Jennifer_Morgue"}, +{"book_title": "For a Few Demons More", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 55547, "review_number": 1429, "book_description": "Despite dating one vampire and living with another, Rachel Morgan has stayed ahead of trouble until now. A serial killer stalks the Hollows, claims victims across society, and ignites a vicious Inderland gang war. Rachel hides an ancient artifact that could stop the killer or start a battle to the death among supernatural races of Cincinnati. Every action has its price. When the vampire master Piscary is set free and the demonic Algaliarept dares to walk openly under the sun, even Rachel Morgan can't hide forever.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30259.For_a_Few_Demons_More"}, +{"book_title": "Swing Otto Swing", "author_name": "David Milgrim", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 200, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Otto wants to be able to swing in the jungle like his monkey friends. But he keeps crashing. Then Otto comes up with an idea that will have everyone swinging!Recognizing Words-Word repetition-Familiar words and phrases-Simple sentencesStarting to Read-Simple stories-Increased vocabulary-Longer sentencesReading Independently-More-complex stories-Varied sentence structure-Paragraphs and short chaptersReading Proficiently-Rich vocabulary-More-challenging stories-Longer chaptersTO PARENTS AND TEACHERS:Children learn to read in a variety of ways: through formal teaching in school, by being read aloud to at home, and reading on their own, using all the tools they've learned for making sense of letters and words. The process starts with a child's first awareness that letters on the page form words, which make sentences, which make stories. No one method of learning is right for every child, but all children need books they can read successfully.Ready-to-Read books feature classic stories and interesting nonfiction by authors who really know how to write for this age group. They're grouped at four levels: Pre-Level One, with repetitive text and simple sentences for children who can recognize words; Level One, with an increased vocabulary and longer sentences for children who are just starting to read; Level Two, for those who are reading independently and are ready for slightly greater challenges; and Level Three, for children who can read fiction and nonfiction on their own, with fewer illustrations and longer texts. At each level, the books are all written, designed, and illustrated to suit the interests, needs, and abilities of new readers.Children in preschool and the early elementary grades are universally fascinated with reading, and are already saying, \"I'm ready to read.\" When they finish a Ready-to-Read book, we want them to say, \"I am reading, and I like it!\"", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409651.Swing_Otto_Swing_"}, +{"book_title": "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 35137, "review_number": 1749, "book_description": "Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been the top-rated television star with millions of devoted watchers. The next day he was just an unidentified walking object, whose face nobody recognised, of whom no one had heard, and without the I.D. papers required in that near future.When he finally found a man who would agree to counterfeiting such cards for him, that man turned out to be a police informer. And then Taverner found out not only what it was like to be a nobody but also to be hunted by the whole apparatus of society.It was obvious that in some way Taverner had become the pea in in some sort of cosmic shell game - but how? And why?Philip K. Dick takes the reader on a walking tour of solipsism's scariest margin in his latest novel about the age we are already half into.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said"}, +{"book_title": "The Sands of Mars", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 3518, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "Space writers holiday. When a celebrated science fiction writer takes to space on his first trip to Mars, he's sure to be in for some heckling from the spaceship crew. But Martin Gibson, man about space, takes it all in his stride. That is, until he lands on the red planet. Once there the intrepid author causes one problem after another as he stumbles upon Mars's most carefully hidden secrets and threatens the future of an entire planet!", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Adventure", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149063.The_Sands_of_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Fields of Gold", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 263, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Book 12 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series!If a wedding won\u2019t stop a war, what will?Gloria Meriwether-Astor\u2019s belief in doing the right thing has carried her across the world and through dangers that would have felled a lesser woman. She believed that if she married the dashing Captain Fremont, she could approach the Viceroy of the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias with impunity. She could convince the prince to stop the war their fathers began, and then she could return to Philadelphia with her husband, her conscience clear at last. Sadly, belief and reality are two different things. The prince agrees to her proposal on one condition\u2014that she annul her marriage and become his wife instead!Every woman has a threshold she will not cross. Gloria has come to love her riverboat captain, and the price of peace is simply too high. But when the evil stalking the pleasant gardens of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa claims its victim, the time for belief is over and the time to act\u2014daringly, outrageously\u2014is at hand. Do the witches hold the key to a way out of this trap?All Gloria has to do is take up the crown of roses and play for the highest stakes. All she has to do is become the iron dragon, and start a war of her own.\u201cIt\u2019s another excellent chapter in this ongoing epic adventure of this series. I love this world and the story of these excellent women and the saga will never end. No. It will not.\u201d \u2014Fangs for the Fantasy, on Fields of Iron", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31987354-fields-of-gold"}, +{"book_title": "The Machine God", "author_name": "MeiLin Miranda", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 95, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "One thing makes life in Eisenstadt bearable for exiled Professor Oladel Adewole: the island floating a mile above the city. He's an expert in world mythology about the island, but no one's ever been there or knows how it got there.When a brilliant engineer makes it to the island in her new invention, the government sends Adewole up with its first survey team. The expedition finds civilization, and Adewole finds a powerful, forbidden fusion of magic and metal: the Machine God.The government wants it. So does a sociopath bent on ruling Eisenstadt. But when Adewole discovers who the mechanical creature is--and what it can do--he risks his heart and his life to protect the Machine God from the world, and the world from the Machine God.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17735596-the-machine-god"}, +{"book_title": "Way of the Wolf", "author_name": "E.E. Knight", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 4433, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "Louisiana, 2065, 43rd year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural hunger, bloodthirsty Reapers rule the planet, sucking out human blood and souls. Starting in revenge for the loss of his parents, on to fellow soldiers, Lieutenant David Valentine intends to fight back in this western-style frontier.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282284.Way_of_the_Wolf"}, +{"book_title": "Pilot X", "author_name": "Tom Merritt", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1123, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "What would happen if a time traveler lived in a world where time could not easily be changed and if it was changed, it might destroy everything but himself?Pilot X just wants to fly a time ship. Specifically the Verity. But the Guardians of Alenda, rulers of his people, throw him in the middle of a time war. When he makes peace they don\u2019t seem pleased. In fact, his own people treat him like the enemy.See the book trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHmPs...Pilot X was Tom Merritt\u2019s National Novel Writing Month project in November 2014. Tom Merritt is the host of several podcasts about tech and geeky things.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29892325-pilot-x"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun", "author_name": "Catalyst Game Labs", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 438, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "20 Years of Man, Magic and Machine The year is 2072. Magic has returned and creatures of myth and legend walk among us as megacorps bleed the world dry. You're a shadowrunner-a deniable asset, a corporate pawn-using bleeding-edge science and magic to make your meat body and mind betterthan- flfl esh. Stay on the edge, and you may survive another 'run on the mean sprawl streets. The 20th Anniversary Edition is fully compatible with all Shadowrun, Fourth Edition books.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Reference"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6736165-shadowrun"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 13333, "review_number": 2266, "book_description": "Respect the Legend. Idolize the Prodigy. Celebrate the Champion. But never underestimate the Rebel. Eden Wing has been living in his brother\u2019s shadow for years. Even though he\u2019s a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing\u2019s little brother.A decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. These days he\u2019d rather hide out from the world and leave his past behind. All that matters to him now is keeping Eden safe\u2015even if that also means giving up June, the great love of Daniel\u2019s life.As the two brothers struggle to accept who they\u2019ve each become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance that\u2019s grown between them. Eden soon finds himself drawn so far into Ross City\u2019s dark side, even his legendary brother can\u2019t save him. At least not on his own . . .With unmatched suspense and her signature cinematic storytelling, #1 New York Times\u2014bestselling author Marie Lu plunges readers back into the unforgettable world of Legend for a truly grand finale.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42121526-rebel"}, +{"book_title": "Infected", "author_name": "Scott Sigler", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 19393, "review_number": 1691, "book_description": "Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government\u2019s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common \u2013 they\u2019ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.Meanwhile Perry Dawsey \u2013 a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey \u2013 awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected. The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Horror (Zombies)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2331954.Infected"}, +{"book_title": "vN", "author_name": "Madeline Ashby", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 2897, "review_number": 437, "book_description": "Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot.For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother\u2019s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she\u2019s learning impossible things about her clade\u2019s history \u2013 like the fact that the failsafe that stops all robots from harming humans has failed\u2026 Which means that everyone wants a piece of her, some to use her as a weapon, others to destroy her.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13033939-vn"}, +{"book_title": "TiN", "author_name": "Chris Judge", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 142, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Tin is looking after his little sister Nickel one afternoon when she grabs hold of a balloon and floats away! Tin and his dog Zinc set off in hot pursuit as she floats towards the big city . . . Can they rescue Nickel before she goes too far?'Judge's eye-catching illustrations are a joy.' - Irish Independent", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Family", "Animals", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18482437-tin"}, +{"book_title": "The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 4: The Four Disciplines", "author_name": "Jonathan Hickman", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1576, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "It's the fourth volume of the world's greatest secret science history, The Manhattan Projects. The Four Disciplines follows our fractured cast as they focus on their own diverse, secret experiments and global power plays resulting in inevitable betrayal.Collecting: The Manhattan Projects 16-20", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20638318-the-manhattan-projects-vol-4"}, +{"book_title": "The Boleyn Deceit", "author_name": "Laura Andersen", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2260, "review_number": 322, "book_description": "Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, and Showtime\u2019s The Tudors, The Boleyn Deceit is the captivating new novel set in the imagined Tudor court of King Henry IX, son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who must navigate a terrain rife with palace intrigue, impending war, and unbridled passions. The regency period is over and William Tudor, now King Henry IX, sits alone on the throne. But England must still contend with those who doubt his legitimacy, both in faraway lands and within his own family. To diffuse tensions and appease the Catholics, William is betrothed to a young princess from France, but still he has eyes for only his childhood friend Minuette, and court tongues are wagging. Even more scandalous\u2014and dangerous, if discovered\u2014is that Minuette\u2019s heart and soul belong to Dominic, William\u2019s best friend and trusted advisor. Minuette must walk a delicate balance between her two suitors, unable to confide in anyone, not even her friend Elizabeth, William\u2019s sister, who must contend with her own cleaved heart. In this irresistible tale, the secrets that everyone keeps are enough to change the course of an empire.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance", "English History (Tudor Period)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Literature (16th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17456958-the-boleyn-deceit"}, +{"book_title": "Backs Against the Wall", "author_name": "Tracey Ward", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1663, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Joss has escaped the Colonies but her troubles have only just begun. She's wounded, exposed and vulnerable but worst of all, she needs help. And there's only one place she can go to get it. Only one place she can stand to be.With Ryan.Together they'll have to delve into the seedy underworld of post-apocalyptic Seattle. A world of gambling, fighting, secrets and lies. A world governed by The Hive.But the deeper they sink, the more they'll find that The Hive isn't everything it seems. That even the mighty have someone to fear. Is the enemy of their enemy their friend? Or is there another threat, one greater than the Risen or the Colonies, looming in the distance?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23493102-backs-against-the-wall"}, +{"book_title": "Visser", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2523, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "In an hour or so, once I was out of sight of land, I would lower my sails and wait for a Bug fighter to come lift me off the deck. The engine backwash of the Bug fighter would capsize the boat. Or I might put the Taxxon pilot to the test and see if he could ram the low-slung boat. That would puzzle the humans.Either way, my body would never be found...My time of lying low was over...I would spearhead the invasion of Earth. I would take charge of our greatest conquest. I would stand alone atop the Yeerk military hierarchy.I was to become Visser One.From the Hardcover edition", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343187.Visser"}, +{"book_title": "The Captive", "author_name": "Robert Stallman", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 49, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "A mysterious bear-like beast that is able to assume the form of a human being tries to learn how people live by adopting a human family.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100450.The_Captive"}, +{"book_title": "World After", "author_name": "Susan Ee", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 92520, "review_number": 8149, "book_description": "In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17849112-world-after"}, +{"book_title": "The Testing Guide", "author_name": "Joelle Charbonneau", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1705, "review_number": 206, "book_description": "In the scarred and war-battered United Commonwealth, ten-year-old Cia Vale watches her older brother Zeen dream about being chosen for The Testing. He's graduated at the top of his class, and being chosen, like his father was before him, means a chance to attend The University and help lead the effort to revitalize postwar civilization. Cia is conflicted--she hopes Zeen is chosen, but dreads him leaving home. She also realizes that one day she too must set her mind on being chosen. But does she realize the deadly path she will have to take? THE TESTING GUIDE is the short story prequel to \"The Testing, \" the first novel in the stunning and epic Testing Trilogy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17867096-the-testing-guide"}, +{"book_title": "Resurrection Day", "author_name": "Brendan DuBois", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1029, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "In the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, the U.S. has been crippled into a second-rate power dependent upon European allies for survival. In the shadow of this devastating chaos, a reporter stumbles across a man with secrets of the great war's origins--and lies about Kennedy's death.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184815.Resurrection_Day"}, +{"book_title": "Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 5: Refine", "author_name": "Thomas Siddell", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 719, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "The fifth volume in the ever-popular Gunnerkrigg Court series, based on Tom Siddell's hit webcomic!Return to Gunnerkrigg Court with Antimony Carver and her friends as they delve deeper into the mysteries of their school and the first that surrounds it. Filled with magical creatures and fascinating secrets, the forest offers more mysteries then answers as Antimony continues her journey through the school -- alongside robots, a mythical creature or two and the occasional body-snatching demon!Contains chapters 42-49 of the webcomic.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492420-gunnerkrigg-court-volume-5"}, +{"book_title": "The Shards of Heaven", "author_name": "Michael Livingston", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 424, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "The beginning of an epic historical fantasy that rocks the foundations of the ancient world Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar\u2019s ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar\u2019s legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history.Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a ruthless quest for the Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the very power of the gods\u2014or the one God. Driven by vengeance, Juba has already attained the fabled Trident of Poseidon, which may also be the staff once wielded by Moses. Now he will stop at nothing to obtain the other Shards, even if it means burning the entire world to the ground.Caught up in these cataclysmic events, and the hunt for the Shards, are a pair of exiled Roman legionnaires, a Greek librarian of uncertain loyalties, assassins, spies, slaves . . . and the ten-year-old daughter of Cleopatra herself.The Shards of Heaven reveals the hidden magic behind the history we know, and commences a war greater than any mere mortal battle.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848192-the-shards-of-heaven"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Kennedys", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 81, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "A collection of 25 speculations asks 'what if' the fortunes of the Kennedy family had been different, including an all-Kennedy rock group, JFK in the real Camelot, and much more.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1130354.Alternate_Kennedys"}, +{"book_title": "Ministry Protocol: Thrilling Tales of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences", "author_name": "Pip Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 286, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "From the Creators of the award-winning steampunk Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series ( Phoenix Rising and the Janus Affair) comes a collection of new adventures from around the world.The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences investigates the bizarre and unusual, and protects the citizens of the Empire from forces of darkness. Every agent knows that thrusting themselves into danger is part of the job, and may demand of them the ultimate sacrifice. They call on their own inner strength, wits, intellect, and innovations of science and technology.But is it enough to face the unknown and the unexplainable? This is Ministry Protocol: Thrilling Tales of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, a collection of short stories featuring the derring-do of secret agents cut from a different cloth. These original short stories feature the imagination and voices of\u2026Leanna Rennee HieberThe League of S.T.E.A.M.\u2019s Glenn FreundDelilah S. DawsonJared AxelrodTiffany TrentKarina Cooper\u2026and many more!Travel to the farthest corners of Queen Victoria\u2019s mighty empire and back again to the shores of Old Blighty, unlocking the mysteries of legend, lore, and shadowy societies. Welcome to a world of steam, secrets, machinations and madness.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19011720-ministry-protocol"}, +{"book_title": "Drive", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 6191, "review_number": 446, "book_description": "Read \"Drive\", a Prequel to The Expanse series.The Expanse, premiering in December 2015 on Syfy, is based on The New York Times best selling book series by James S.A. Corey. Set two hundred years in the future, where man has colonized the outer asteroid belt, The Expanse follows the case of a missing girl that brings together a hardened detective and a rogue ship captain in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history. \"Drive\" highlights a key moment in The Expanse universe whose ramifications set the foundation for the show.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899877-drive"}, +{"book_title": "Gilded", "author_name": "Karina Cooper", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 450, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "The second book in Karina Cooper's stunning steampunk series featuring fearless heroine Cherry St. Croix, in which she is faced with two men after her heart\u2014and one killer out for her blood.In the gleaming heights of Victorian London, a world of deception awaits an unconventional Society lady whose taste for adventure makes her a most formidable adversary . . .Though Society demands that I make a good marriage, I, Cherry St. Croix, have neither the time nor the interest. I am on the trail of a murder with no victim, a mystery with no motive, and the key to an alchemical formula that could be my family's legacy.Yet the world is not so kind as to let me pursue simple murder and uncomplicated bounties. Above the foggy drift, an earl insists on my attention, while my friends watch my increasingly desperate attempts to remain my own woman. From the silken demands of the Midnight Menagerie\u2014to whose dangerously seductive ringmaster I owe a debt\u2014to the rigorous pressures of the peerage, all are conspiring to place before me a choice that will forever change my life.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15782111-gilded"}, +{"book_title": "Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 416, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Carbide Tipped Pens is an anthology of new hard SF stories that follow the classic definition of the genre, in which some element of science or technology is so central to the plot that there would be no story if that element were removed. The aim of the editors was to collect stories which emphasize plot, character, science, originality and believability in equal measure, not only to entertain readers but also to educate and to return the sense of wonder of the Golden Age to a new generation of 21st Century readers.Contents:Blue afternoon that lasted forever / Daniel H. Wilson --Slow unfurling of truth / Aliette de Bodard --Thunderwell / Doug Beason --Circle / Liu Cixin --Old timer's game / Ben Bova --Snows of yesteryear / Jean-Louis Trudel --Skin Deep / Leah Petersen & Gabrielle Harbowy --Lady with fox / Gregory Benford --Habilis / Howard Hendrix --Play's the thing / Jack McDevitt --Every hill ends with sky / Robert Reed --She just looks that way / Eric Choi --SIREN of Titan / David DeGraff --Yoke of inauspicious stars / Kate Story --Ambiguous nature / Carl Frederick --Maldelbrot bet / Dirk Strasser --Recollection / Nancy Fulda.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518866-carbide-tipped-pens"}, +{"book_title": "I, Zombie", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 3572, "review_number": 470, "book_description": "***WARNING: NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION***This book contains foul language and fouler descriptions of life as a zombie. It will offend most anyone, so proceed with caution or not at all.And be forewarned: This is not a zombie book. This is a different sort of tale. It is a story about the unfortunate, about those who did not get away. It is a human story at its rotten heart. It is the reason we can't stop obsessing about these creatures, in whom we see all too much of ourselves.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15773951-i-zombie"}, +{"book_title": "Geosynchron", "author_name": "David Louis Edelman", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 567, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "The Defense and Wellness Council is enmeshed in full-scale civil war between Len Borda and the mysterious Magan Kai Lee. Quell has escaped from prison and is stirring up rebellion in the Islands with the aid of a brash young leader named Josiah. Jara and the apprentices of the Surina/Natch MultiReal Fiefcorp still find themselves fighting off legal attacks from their competitors and from Margaret Surina's unscrupulous heirs -- even though MultiReal has completely vanished. The quest for the truth will lead to the edges of civilization, from the tumultuous society of the Pacific Islands to the lawless orbital colony of 49th Heaven; and through the deeps of time, from the hidden agenda of the Surina family to the real truth behind the Autonomous Revolt that devastated humanity hundreds of years ago. Meanwhile, Natch has awakened in a windowless prison with nothing but a haze of memory to clue him in as to how he got there. He's still receiving strange hallucinatory messages from Margaret Surina and the nature of reality is buckling all around him. When the smoke clears, Natch must make the ultimate decision -- whether to save a world that has scorned and discarded him, or to save the only person he has ever loved: himself.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6468633-geosynchron"}, +{"book_title": "2061: Odyssey Three", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 26972, "review_number": 718, "book_description": "Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space", "Novels", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35816.2061"}, +{"book_title": "Heartstrings", "author_name": "Eress\u00eb", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 709, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "When all else comes to naught, a steadfast heart is the only thing that stands between hope and despair. Scions of the most powerful House in Ylandre, Ashrian Mithani and Eiren Sarvan were more than just cousins. Lovers of long standing, theirs was a bond that would have been the envy of all were it not for one glaring flaw\u2014Ashrian\u2019s inability to commit himself wholeheartedly to Eiren. Despite the dismay of some and the derision of others, Eiren bore his inconstancy, displaying a loyalty Ashrian seemed incapable of returning. That is, until Ashrian crossed a line and the transgression proved one Eiren could not forgive.In the wake of grief and remorse, Ashrian seeks to make amends and win Eiren back. But something stands in his way. Or rather someone. And the irony of it all is that Ashrian can neither hate nor help befriending the Deir who is his rival for the heart of Ylandre\u2019s most beloved physician.Contains hermaphroditism and explicit homoerotic sexual encounters.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13364505-heartstrings"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 22", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.64, "rating_votes": 7913, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Having consumed Gluttony's powers, Pride may now be too much to handle for Ed and his allies. Their only chance could be the help of Al and Hohenheim, but will Ed trust his estranged father long enough for their plan to work? And back at Central City, Mustang and his team have started their attack. But does the army have a dangerous trick up its sleeve...?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6956554-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-22"}, +{"book_title": "The Prophet of Yonwood", "author_name": "Jeanne DuPrau", "rating_score": 3.28, "rating_votes": 28417, "review_number": 2436, "book_description": "Nickie will grow up to be one of the first citizens of the city of Ember. But for now, she's an eleven-year-old girl whose father was sent away on some mysterious government project.So when the opportunity to move presents itself, Nickie seizes it. But her new town of Yonwood, North Carolina, isn't what she'd anticipated. It's a place full of suspicion and mistrust, where one person's visions of fire and destruction have turned the town's citizens against each other. Nickie explores the oddities around her\u2014her great-grandfather's peculiar journals, a reclusive neighbor who studies the heavens, a strange boy who is fascinated with snakes\u2014all while keeping an eye out for ways to help the world. Or is it already too late to avoid a devastating war?A prequel to the modern-day classic The City of Ember. This highly acclaimed adventure series has captivated kids and teachers alike for almost fifteen years and has sold over 3.5 MILLION copies!An .", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207034.The_Prophet_of_Yonwood"}, +{"book_title": "Globalhead", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 602, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "This second collection of short fiction by Bruce Sterling, set in such disparate environments as ancient Assyria and posthuman France, provides a stimulating and entertaining glimpse inside the global head of one of imaginative fiction's most exciting talents.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359382.Globalhead"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Girl", "author_name": "Joe Hart", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 20017, "review_number": 1567, "book_description": "A mysterious worldwide epidemic reduces the birthrate of female infants from 50 percent to less than 1 percent. Medical science and governments around the world scramble in an effort to solve the problem, but twenty-five years later there is no cure, and an entire generation grows up with a population of fewer than a thousand women.Zoey and some of the surviving young women are housed in a scientific research compound dedicated to determining the cause. For two decades, she\u2019s been isolated from her family, treated as a test subject, and locked away\u2014told only that the virus has wiped out the rest of the world\u2019s population.Captivity is the only life Zoey has ever known, and escaping her heavily armed captors is no easy task, but she\u2019s determined to leave before she is subjected to the next round of tests\u2026a program that no other woman has ever returned from. Even if she\u2019s successful, Zoey has no idea what she\u2019ll encounter in the strange new world beyond the facility\u2019s walls. Winning her freedom will take brutality she never imagined she possessed, as well as all her strength and cunning\u2014but Zoey is ready for war.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27419654-the-last-girl"}, +{"book_title": "The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 35577, "review_number": 2127, "book_description": "Two novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series are now available in print for the first time. The Prince and The Guard both offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer's love. This collection also features exclusive bonus content, including a sneak peek at The One, the eagerly anticipated third novel in the Selection series.Before America arrived at the palace to compete in the Selection, there was another girl in Prince Maxon's life. The Prince opens the week before the Selection begins and follows Maxon through the first day of the competition.Raised as a Six, Aspen Leger never dreamed that he would find himself living in the palace as a member of the royal guard. In The Guard, readers get an inside look at Aspen's life within the palace walls\u2014and the truth about a guard's world that America will never know.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18172471-the-selection-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Household Gods", "author_name": "Judith Tarr", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1225, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a modern young professional lawyer, proud of her skills but weary of the daily grind, of childcare, sexist coworkers, and her deadbeat ex-husband. Then after one exceptionally awful day, she awakens to find herself in a different life, that of a widowed tavernkeeper on the Roman frontier around A.D. 170.Delighted at first, she quickly begins to realize that her new world is as complicated as her old. Violence, dirt, and pain are everywhere; slavery is commonplace, gladiators kill for sport, and drunkenness is taken for granted. Yet, somehow, people manage to face life everyday with humor and goodwill.No quitter, Nicole manages to adapt, despite endless worry about the fate of her children \"back\" in the twentieth century. Then plague sweeps through Carnuntum, followed by brutal war. Amidst pain and loss on a level she had never imagined, Nicole must find a reservoir of strength she had never known before.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Travel", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384478.Household_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Council", "author_name": "China Mi\u00e9ville", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 13899, "review_number": 936, "book_description": "Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Mi\u00e9ville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon\u2014this time, decades later.\n\nIt is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city to the brink. A mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places.In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope.In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon\u2019s most dangerous hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the iron council. . . .The bold originality that broke Mi\u00e9ville out as a new force of the genre is here once more in Iron Council: the voluminous, lyrical novel that is destined to seal his reputation as perhaps the edgiest mythmaker of the day.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68495.Iron_Council"}, +{"book_title": "Warcross", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 83600, "review_number": 14311, "book_description": "For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn\u2019t just a game\u2014it\u2019s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. Needing to make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships\u2014only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation.Convinced she\u2019s going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game\u2019s creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year\u2019s tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika\u2019s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she\u2019s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41014903-warcross"}, +{"book_title": "Until Midnight", "author_name": "Melissa Landers", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1966, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "Don't miss the *free* romantic holiday story that connects ALIENATED and INVADED! Cara and Aelyx only have one day to spend together before he returns to earth and she travels to Aelyx's home planet, L'eihr. Homesick and worried about the upcoming year apart, Cara is desperate to make these final hours count. Worst of all, Cara is missing Christmas, stuck on board an alien spaceship. When Aelyx learns that Cara is forgoing her favorite holiday, he tries to recreate Christmas in space by researching traditional earth customs\u2026but a few things get lost in translation.Coming December 23rd, this FREE short story will include multi-chapter excerpts of both ALIENATED and the sequel, INVADED.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22614886-until-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "His Robot Wife", "author_name": "Wesley Allison", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 177, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Five years ago, Mike Smith was an unhappy man living all alone. Then he purchased a Daffodil. Far more than regular robots, his Daffodil Patience, changed his life in ways that he had never thought possible. Now it is the year 2037, and Mike and Patience have been married for five years. Retired and enjoying life, Mike thought that all his troubles were behind him, but it seems as though they are creeping up again. California Proposition 22 proposes to define a person as a biological entity, thereby annulling marriages, like Mike\u2019s and Patience\u2019s, performed in other states. Battle lines have been drawn, at least as far as the proponents of the bill are concerned. Now Mike must muster his own support to defeat the measure. But there is more going on than just politics. Daffodil, the robot maker, is in the news again. Hardware issues are leaving robots across the globe unable to function. Is it only an antenna issue? Now Patience herself is behaving oddly. Is there something really wrong with her, or does she just need a software upgrade?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10610545-his-robot-wife"}, +{"book_title": "Angle of Truth", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 1123, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "When Jelena Marchenko learns that her parents have incurred a huge debt due to her previous actions, she\u2019s determined to find a way to pay it off. But running cargo doesn\u2019t pay anything off quickly. She comes up with a scheme to turn herself and her eclectic crewmates into mercenaries, at least for long enough to make some money. Unfortunately, Jelena has no interest in maiming, killing, or otherwise tormenting people, the typical things mercenaries are hired to do. She\u2019s relieved when, with Prince Thorian\u2019s help, she finds a mission that seems perfectly suited to her team: rescuing prisoners of war. But what was supposed to be a quick way to earn money soon turns into something devastating and deadly. Caught between two sides in a war fueled by centuries of resentment, Jelena must choose between her needs and the needs of a planet. No matter which choice she makes, she risks her ship and the lives of her team. Does she truly have what it takes to be a mercenary?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34874759-angle-of-truth"}, +{"book_title": "Alpha Breeds", "author_name": "Milana Jacks", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1928, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Omegas belong to the king. But this one belongs to me. Kingsley At the frat party, someone must have spiked my beer, because I see a bright light and find myself sitting on a bed with a huge, green monster looming over me. I screech and throw every sharp object within reach. But you know what\u2019s really weird? I\u2019m terrified and, at the same time, there\u2019s something about those black eyes, that scent, that purrrr that makes my body come alive. Loven I fight for the honor of someday owning an Omega\u2014a rare breeding female reserved for Alphas hand-selected by the king. For years, fighting alone has been enough. Until I scent this alien female, and my body emits a mating call. Omegas are the king\u2019s property. If I don\u2019t deliver her to the Omega Compound, I\u2019ll lose my life, the lives of my Horde Alphas, and risk starting a full-scale rebellion. And yet, I can\u2019t part from her. This one belongs to me. ***Science fiction alien captive romance with Mf Omegaverse flavor. Inside the pages: No cliffhanger. No cheating. Barbaric unapologetic alpha male who loves HARD. Dystopian (dark totalitarian) world.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42468139-alpha-breeds"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Living", "author_name": "Glenn Bullion", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1136, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "It didn\u2019t take long for the world to die. The dead rose with no explanation and only one purpose . . . to eat living flesh.Born on the day everything died, the world of the living dead is the only world that Aaron knows. Kept in relative isolation from the walking corpses, his family teaches him how to read and write, how to survive on his own. After a tragedy hits close to home, he discovers he is different than any human left alive.The undead want nothing to do with him.The survivors of the old suburb of Lexington call a high school their home. They survive day to day, without any of the luxuries mankind used to enjoy, and surrounded by the living dead. Samantha is a product of the new world. Alone, cold, looking out only for herself. She and the other residents of Lexington feel their hope dwindling. They need change. They need someone who isn't afraid of the walking corpses. They need someone who would rather live in a city of the dead.They need Aaron.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11031183-dead-living"}, +{"book_title": "Dukes Are Forever", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 772, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "A compromising situation forced him into marriage. But has his wife been working for the enemy all along?In a steam-fuelled world where vampires once ruled the aristocracy, the Duke of Malloryn knows his nemesis, Lord Balfour, has finally returned to enact his plans of revenge.Malloryn can trust no one, and when incriminating photographs surface\u2014of an enemy agent stealing a kiss from his wife\u2014he is forced to question just why his wife, Adele, trapped him into marriage.Is she an innocent pawn caught up in a madman's games, or is she a double agent working against him?The only way to discover the truth is to seduce her himself...Adele Hamilton may have agreed to a loveless marriage in order to protect herself, but that doesn't stop her heart from yearning for more.Her husband promised her a cold marriage bed. He swore he'd never touch her. But suddenly he's engaged in a campaign of seduction\u2014and the only way to keep her wits about her is to fight fire with fire.The ruthless beauty has locked her heart away, but can she deny the passion that flares between them? And when the truth emerges, will she be the only thing that can save Malloryn's life?Or the weapon his enemy will wield against him?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39851111-dukes-are-forever"}, +{"book_title": "Death Blows", "author_name": "D.D. Barant", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 3526, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "FBI profiler Jace Valchek was pulled into this parallel realm to hunt for Aristotle Stoker, a human serial killer who preys on vampires and werewolves. Now she works for the National Security Agency of the Unnatural States of America - and her boss is a vampire. At a bizarre crime scene, Jace finds a bloodsucker murdered by magic, fried to the bone and dressed in the costume of the comic book hero the Flash - a character who isn't supposed to exist here. Comic books have been outlawed for their powers, including crossover spells like the one that transported Jace to this world. Soon, she's following a trail of dead bodies into the sinister underworld of black-market comics - where a deranged madman gives new meaning to the term \"super-villain.\"", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fiction", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6781162-death-blows"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Steel", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 5705, "review_number": 658, "book_description": "The Iron Duke introduced the gritty, alluring adventure of the Iron Seas, where nanotech fuses with Victorian sensibilities\u2014and steam.As the mercenary captain of Lady Corsair, Yasmeen has learned to keep her heart as cold as steel, her only loyalty bound to her ship and her crew. So when a man who once tried to seize her airship returns from the dead, Yasmeen will be damned if she gives him another opportunity to take control.Treasure hunter Archimedes Fox isn't interested in Lady Corsair\u2014he wants her coldhearted captain and the valuable da Vinci sketch she stole from him. To reclaim it, Archimedes is determined to seduce the stubborn woman who once tossed him to a ravenous pack of zombies, but she's no easy conquest.When da Vinci's sketch attracts a dangerous amount of attention, Yasmeen and Archimedes journey to Horde-occupied Morocco\u2014and straight into their enemy's hands. But as they fight to save themselves and a city on the brink of rebellion, the greatest peril Yasmeen faces is from the man who seeks to melt her icy heart.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10558533-heart-of-steel"}, +{"book_title": "Every Anxious Wave", "author_name": "Mo Daviau", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 2473, "review_number": 436, "book_description": "Good guy Karl Bender is a thirty-something bar owner whose life lacks love and meaning. When he stumbles upon a time-travelling worm hole in his closet, Karl and his best friend Wayne develop a side business selling access to people who want to travel back in time to listen to their favorite bands. It's a pretty ingenious plan, until Karl, intending to send Wayne to 1980, transports him back to 980 instead. Though Wayne sends texts extolling the quality of life in tenth century \"Mannahatta,\" Karl is distraught that he can't bring his friend back.Enter brilliant, prickly, overweight astrophysicist, Lena Geduldig. Karl and Lena's connection is immediate. While they work on getting Wayne back, Karl and Lena fall in love -- with time travel, and each other. Unable to resist meddling with the past, Karl and Lena bounce around time. When Lena ultimately prevents her own long-ago rape, she alters the course of her life and threatens her future with Karl.A high-spirited and engaging novel, Mo Daviau's EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE plays ball with the big questions of where we would go and who we would become if we could rewrite our pasts, as well as how to hold on to love across time.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Music", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663844-every-anxious-wave"}, +{"book_title": "Unleashed", "author_name": "Sophie Jordan", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 3636, "review_number": 534, "book_description": "Unleashed, the romantic, high-stakes sequel to New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan's Uninvited, is perfect for fans of James Patterson's Confessions of a Murder Suspect.Davy has spent the last few months trying to come to terms with the fact that she tested positive for the kill gene HTS (also known as Homicidal Tendency Syndrome). She swore she would not let it change her, and that her DNA did not define her . . . but then she killed a man.Now on the run, Davy must decide whether she'll be ruled by the kill gene or if she'll follow her heart and fight for her right to live free. But with her own potential for violence lying right beneath the surface, Davy doesn't even know if she can trust herself.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19445725-unleashed"}, +{"book_title": "Aristoi", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1231, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Successful in its efforts to create a glittering interstellar empire, founded on the use of an ultra-advanced computer and bioengineering technology, humankind becomes the prey of its own creation, the Aristoi.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837188.Aristoi"}, +{"book_title": "Time Out of Mind", "author_name": "John R. Maxim", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 298, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Manhattan executive Corbin is haunted by memories of another time--memories that do not belong to him. Then, in the midst of a raging New York City snowstorm, the inexplicable images become more vivid and real. And before he knows it, Jonathan Corbin has stepped into a bygone world of gaslit streets and horsedrawn carriages--and into the center of a nineteenth-century maelstrom of love, revenge, obsession...and death. Through the swirling snow, he can make out the figure of a woman--someone he can't possibly recognize, but does; someone he knows he is destined to kill.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163579.Time_Out_of_Mind"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Alchemist", "author_name": "Sara C. Roethle", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 518, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Arhyen is the self-declared finest thief in London. The mission was simple. Steal a journal from Fairfax Breckinridge, one of the greatest alchemists of the time. However, he hadn\u2019t expected to find Fairfax himself, with a dagger in his back. Nor had he expected his automaton daughter, Liliana. Suddenly entrenched in a mystery too great for him to fully comprehend, he must rely on the help of a wayward detective, and an automaton who claims she has a soul, to piece together the clues laid before them. Will Arhyen uncover the true source of Liliana\u2019s soul in time, or will London plunge into a dark age of nefarious technology, where only the scientific will survive?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41967984-clockwork-alchemist"}, +{"book_title": "The Mandibles: A Family, 2029\u20132047", "author_name": "Lionel Shriver", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 8494, "review_number": 1289, "book_description": "The year is 2029, and nothing is as it should be. The very essence of American life, the dollar, is under attack. In a coordinated move by the rest of the world\u2019s governments, the dollar loses all its value. The American President declares that the States will default on all its loans\u2013prices skyrocket, currency becomes essentially worthless, and we watch one family struggle to survive through it all.The Mandibles can count on their inheritance no longer, and each member must come to terms with this in their own way\u2013from the elegant expat author Nollie, in her middle age, returning to the U.S. from Paris after many years abroad, to her precocious teenage nephew Willing, who is the only one to actually understand the crisis, to the brilliant Georgetown economics professor Lowell, who watches his whole vision of the world disintegrate before his eyes.As ever, in her new novel, Shriver draws larger than life characters who illuminate this complicated, ever-changing world. One of our sharpest observers of human nature, Shriver challenges us to think long and hard about the society we live in and what, ultimately, we hold most dear.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Economics", "Novels", "Literary Fiction", "Unfinished", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27064345-the-mandibles"}, +{"book_title": "That Which Other Men Cannot Do", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 2475, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "Episode 15 New forces grow\u2026 Old friends are lost\u2026 New alliances are forged\u2026 Old weapons are made new\u2026 With political unrest growing, the Alliance must rush to rebuild their fleet and expand their 'sphere of influence' before their support runs out. But when the Jung up the ante, the Alliance must turn up the heat. Captain Nathan Scott and the Sol-Pentaurus Alliance must put everything on the line to save the Sol sector once and for all. \u201cThat Which Other Men Cannot Do\u201d is a 160,000 word novel, and is the 15th and final episode of Part I of The Frontiers Saga. Part II of the Frontiers Saga is coming soon!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28248264-that-which-other-men-cannot-do"}, +{"book_title": "The Return of Zita the Spacegirl", "author_name": "Ben Hatke", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 6484, "review_number": 413, "book_description": "Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another delightful sci-fi/fantasy adventure in this New York Times-Bestselling graphic novel trilogy for middle grade readers.Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. But she faces her biggest challenge yet in the third and final installment of the Zita adventures. Wrongfully imprisoned on a penitentiary planet, Zita has to plot the galaxy's greatest jailbreak before the evil prison warden can execute his plan of interstellar domination!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465632-the-return-of-zita-the-spacegirl"}, +{"book_title": "MILA 2.0", "author_name": "Debra Driza", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 11370, "review_number": 1366, "book_description": "Mila was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was a girl living with her mother in a small Minnesota town. She was supposed to forget her past\u2014that she was built in a secret computer science lab and programmed to do things real people would never do.Now she has no choice but to run\u2014from the dangerous operatives who want her terminated because she knows too much and from a mysterious group that wants to capture her alive and unlock her advanced technology. However, what Mila\u2019s becoming is beyond anyone\u2019s imagination, including her own, and it just might save her life.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10222362-mila-2-0"}, +{"book_title": "Infinity Engine", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 2644, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "In the outskirts of space, and the far corners of the Polity, complex dealings are in play. Several forces continue to pursue the deadly and enigmatic Penny Royal, none more dangerous than the Brockle, a psychopathic forensics AI and criminal who has escaped the Polity\u2019s confinements and is upgrading itself in anticipation of a deadly showdown, becoming ever more powerful and intelligent. Aboard Factory Station Room 101, the behemoth war factory that birthed Penny Royal, groups of humans, alien prador, and AI war drones grapple for control. The stability of the ship is complicated by the arrival of a gabbleduck known as the Weaver, the last living member of the ancient and powerful Atheter alien race. What would an Atheter want with the complicated dealings of Penny Royal? Are the Polity and prador forces playing right into the dark AI\u2019s hand, or is it the other way around? Set pieces align in the final book of Neal Asher\u2019s action-packed Transformation trilogy, pointing to a showdown on the cusp of the Layden\u2019s Sink black hole, inside of which lies a powerful secret, one that could destroy the entire Polity.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Action", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31213232-infinity-engine"}, +{"book_title": "The Priory of the Orange Tree", "author_name": "Samantha Shannon", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 46927, "review_number": 9248, "book_description": "A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction \u2013 but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.Across the dark sea, Tan\u00e9 has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40275288-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree"}, +{"book_title": "Hell's Faire", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 5510, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "With the defenses of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior of the Cumberland Plateau are the veterans of 555th Mobile Infantry. Dropped into Rabun Pass, with a couple of million Posleen behind them and fourteen million to the front, the only question is which will run out first: power, bullets or bodies. But they have a hole card: far to the north the shattered SheVa Nine is undergoing a facelift. Rising from its smoking ashes is a new weapon of war, armed with the most advanced weaponry Terra has ever produced, capable of facing both the Posleen hordes and their redoubtable space-cruisers. Capable of dealing out hell as only SheVa Nine can. If Mike O'Neal and the other members of the 555th are going to survive, it will come down to how much Posleen butt Bun-bun can kick. Prepare to eat antimatter, Posleen-boy.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662655.Hell_s_Faire"}, +{"book_title": "Raven", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 13398, "review_number": 841, "book_description": "This captivating story set in the world of Lauren Oliver\u2019s New York Times bestselling Delirium series focuses on Raven, the fiery leader of a rebel group in the Wilds.As a teenager, Raven made the split-second decision to flee across the border to the Wilds, compelled to save an abandoned newborn\u2014a baby girl left for dead and already blue from the cold. When she and the baby are taken in by a band of rebels, Raven finds herself an outsider within a tight-knit group. The only other newcomer is an untrustworthy boy known as the Thief until he finally earns himself a new name: Tack.Now she and Tack are inseparable, committed to each other, the fledgling rebellion, and a future together. But as they both take center stage in the fight, Raven must decide whether the dangers of the revolution are worth risking her dreams of a peaceful life with Tack.As her story hurtles back and forth between past and present, Raven transforms from a scared girl newly arrived in the Wilds to the tough leader who helps Lena save former Deliria-Free poster boy Julian Fineman from a death sentence. Whatever the original mission may have been, Raven abides by a conviction that she believes to her core: You always return for the people you love.By turns surprising, revelatory, and poignant, Raven\u2019s story enriches the Delirium world and resonates with a voice that is as vulnerable as it is strong.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16089223-raven"}, +{"book_title": "Dirty Work", "author_name": "Pat Cadigan", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 50, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Dirty Work? In a manner of speaking, perhaps, but certainly not along the lines of de Sade or Henry Miller. \"Dirty\" maybe because within this remarkable volume of short stories (a follow-up to her award-winning collection Patterns) author Pat Cadigan unflinchingly explores the implications of technology on modern and near-future societies, humorously challenges our perceptions of reality, and chillingly strips away our civilized facades to confront the bestial nature of our souls. With stories like \"Home By the Sea,\" \"Dispatches from the Revolution,\" \"No Prisoners,\" \"50 Ways to Improve Your Orgasm,\" and \"Naming Names,\" Pat Cadigan exhibits an enviable ability to tackle a variety of themes, moods, and perspectives. And makes it all seem easy. Featuring 18 stunning fictions (including the previously unpublished \"Lost Girls\" written especially for this book)-as well as intriguing author introduction to each story-Dirty Work is a thought provoking, often funny, never compromising collection by one of America's most gifted authors. It doesn't get any better than this.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/924434.Dirty_Work"}, +{"book_title": "We Can Be Mended", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 2.81, "rating_votes": 3795, "review_number": 876, "book_description": "We Can Be Mended is a short-story epilogue that focuses on Four and takes place five years after Allegiant, the conclusion of the Divergent series.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33231785-we-can-be-mended"}, +{"book_title": "No Morning After (Short Story", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 46, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "First published in \nTime to Come\n (1954), edited by August Derleth. A warning from a distant world about the destruction of another is not heeded.", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20910170-no-morning-after"}, +{"book_title": "The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi", "author_name": "Mark Hodder", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 980, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Burton & Swinburne return in a new series! The Beast is coming. History will be remade. Since the assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840, a cabal of prominent men-including King George V, HRH Prince Albert, Benjamin Disraeli, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel-has received guidance from the Afterlife. The spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu El Yezdi, has helped them to steer the empire into a period of unprecedented peace and creativity. But on the eve of a groundbreaking alliance with the newly formed Greater German Confederation, scientists, surgeons, and engineers are being abducted-including Brunel! The government, in search of answers, turns to the Afterlife, only to find that Abdu El Yezdi is now refusing to speak with the living. Enter the newly-knighted Sir Richard Francis Burton, fresh from his discovery of the source of the Nile. Appointed the king's agent, he must trace the missing luminaries and solve the mystery of Abdu El Yezdi's silence. But the Beast has been summoned. How can the famous explorer fulfill his mission when his friends and loved ones are being picked off, one by one, by what appears to be a supernatural entity-by, perhaps, Abdu El Yezdi himself?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17168300-the-secret-of-abdu-el-yezdi"}, +{"book_title": "Exiled", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3814, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "Lissa is madly in love with Saber and it seems he returns her feelings but she has a problem. She and the man of her dreams both come from the same clan of the Touch Kindred. By the archaic laws of their people, they are too closely related to be bonded. Which means that even though there is no blood tie between them, they are doomed to remain apart. But their personal dilemmas will soon be the least of their worries. Sacred scrolls, vital to the defense of the Kindred people, have been stolen and sold to a collector on the barbaric slave planet, Yonnie Six. To retrieve them, Lissa and Saber must go undercover as Mistress and slave on the savage world where domination, submission, and kinky sex are the order of the day. Will the love between them survive this trial by fire? Or will Lissa lose everything and be Exiled from the one person she loves above all others?A timid priestess turned Mistress...A proud warrior posing as her slave...Will their love blossom on the savage world where domination, submission, and kinky sex are the order of the day? Or will Lissa be Exiled from the one male she loves above all others?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15746918-exiled"}, +{"book_title": "Excelsior", "author_name": "Jasper T. Scott", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1136, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "FROM THE USA TODAY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF DARK SPACE A MISSION TO ANOTHER WORLD COULD BE OUR ONLY HOPE... The year is 2790 AD: with space elevators and giant orbital fleets hovering over Earth, open war looks inevitable, and people are anxious to get away. The lines are drawn, with the Confederacy in the East, and the First World Alliance in the West. In hopes of finding a refuge from the looming war, the Alliance is sending Captain Alexander de Leon to explore an Earth-type planet, code-named Wonderland, but at the last minute before launch, a Confederate fleet leaves orbit on a trajectory that threatens both the mission and Alliance sovereignty. The resulting power struggle will determine not only the fate of Alexander's mission, but the fate of the entire human race.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29069628-excelsior"}, +{"book_title": "Wicked as They Come", "author_name": "Delilah S. Dawson", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 4286, "review_number": 799, "book_description": "When nurse Tish Everett forced open the pesky but lovely locket she found at an estate sale, she had no idea she was answering the call of Criminy Stain, from the far off land of Sang. He\u2019d cast a spell for her, but when she\u2019s transported right to him, she\u2019s not so sure she\u2019s ready to be under the spell of another man. (It didn\u2019t go so well last time with controlling, abusive, domineering Jeff.) If only Criminy wasn\u2019t so deliciously rakish\u2026.Half the inhabitants of Sang are Pinkies\u2014human\u2014and the other half are Bludmen, who in Tish\u2019s world would be called vampires. But they don\u2019t mess with any of the bat/coffin/no sunlight nonsense. They\u2019re rather like you and me, just more fabulous, long living, and mostly indestructible. (They're also very good kissers.) But when the evil Mayor of Manchester (formerly Bludchester) redoubles his efforts to rid Sang of the Bludmen once and for all, stealing Tish\u2019s locket in hopes of traveling back to her world himself for reinforcements, Criminy and Tish must battle ghosts, sea monsters, wayward submarines, a secret cabal, and thundering Bludmares to get the locket back and allow Tish to return home\u2026but has she found love with Criminy? Could she stay in Sang forever?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12381722-wicked-as-they-come"}, +{"book_title": "5 to 1", "author_name": "Holly Bodger", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2454, "review_number": 656, "book_description": "In the year 2054, after decades of gender selection, India now has a ratio of five boys for every girl, making women an incredibly valuable commodity. Tired of marrying off their daughters to the highest bidder and determined to finally make marriage fair, the women who form the country of Koyanagar have instituted a series of tests so that every boy has the chance to win a wife.Sudasa doesn\u2019t want to be a wife, and Contestant Five, a boy forced to compete in the test to become her husband, has other plans as well. Sudasa\u2019s family wants nothing more than for their daughter to do the right thing and pick a husband who will keep her comfortable\u2014and caged. Five\u2019s family wants him to escape by failing the tests. As the tests advance, Sudasa and Five thwart each other at every turn until they slowly realize that they just might want the same thing.Told from alternating points of view\u2014Sudasa\u2019s in verse and Contestant Five\u2019s in prose\u2014allowing readers to experience both characters\u2019 pain and their brave struggle for hope.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Poetry", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Cultural (India)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Feminism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18588998-5-to-1"}, +{"book_title": "Smaragdgr\u00fcn", "author_name": "Kerstin Gier", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 71040, "review_number": 5573, "book_description": "Gwendolyn ist am Boden zerst\u00f6rt. War Gideons Liebesgest\u00e4ndnis nur eine Farce, um ihrem gro\u00dfen Gegenspieler, dem d\u00fcsteren Graf von Saint Germain, in die H\u00e4nde zu spielen? Fast sieht es f\u00fcr die junge Zeitreisende so aus. Doch dann geschieht etwas Unfassbares, das Gwennys Weltbild einmal mehr auf den Kopf stellt. F\u00fcr sie und Gideon beginnt eine atemberaubende Flucht in die Vergangenheit. Rauschende Balln\u00e4chte und wilde Verfolgungsjagden erwarten die Heldin wider Willen und \u00fcber allem steht die Frage, ob man ein gebrochenes Herz wirklich heilen kann ...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7544603-smaragdgr-n"}, +{"book_title": "Starclimber", "author_name": "Kenneth Oppel", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 8188, "review_number": 592, "book_description": "\n\"Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?\"\nA smile soared across my face.\n\"As high as I possibly can.\"\nPilot-in-training Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries, expert on high-altitude life-forms, are invited aboard the Starclimber, a vessel that literally climbs its way into the cosmos. Before they even set foot aboard the ship, catastrophe strikes:Kate announces she is engaged\u2014and not to Matt.Despite this bombshell, Matt and Kate embark on their journey into space, but soon the ship is surrounded by strange and unsettling life-forms, and the crew is forced to combat devastating mechanical failure. For Matt, Kate, and the entire crew of the Starclimber, what began as an exciting race to the stars has now turned into a battle to save their lives.Award-winning and bestselling author Kenneth Oppel brings us back to a rich world of flight and fantasy in this breathtaking new sequel to Airborn and Skybreaker.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3407703-starclimber"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Maelstrom", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 128, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "ENTRY #2 IN CITIZEN SERIES, SEQUEL TO INTO THE HINTERLANDS. Science fiction adventure on the frontier realms of empire written by biological scientist Dr. John Lambshead and nationally best-selling writer David Drake.THE RIGHT MAN FOR A VERY BAD JOB \u00a0 The Cutter Stream colonies were at peace. If everybody behaved reasonably, that peace could last a thousand years. \u00a0 Allen Allenson had known war; it had made him peaceful and reasonable. He was far too experienced to believe the same was true of all his fellow colonists, however, let alone the government of the distant homeworld across the Bight. \u00a0 War was coming, a war that the colonies had to win if they were ever to be more than prison camps and a dumping ground for incompetent noblemen. The experience that had caused Allenson to hate war made him the only man who could lead the colonial army. \u00a0 Allenson knew that he wasn't really a general, but he understood his fellow colonists better than any homeworld general could. He would free the Cutter Stream, or he would die trying. \u00a0 What Allen Allenson would not do, what he would never do, was quit.About Into the Maelstrom: \"[The authors] neatly adapt real history to a science fiction framework in the second novel of the Citizen trilogy . . . Drake and Lambshead are telling the story of George Washington as a space opera. . . . [I]ngeniously structured retelling.\"\u2014Publishers WeeklyAbout Into the Hinterlands: \u00a0\u201cDrake and Lambshead combine politics, military expeditions, and deep-space exploration into an intriguing tale\u2026Recommended for all SF collections.\u201d\u2014BooklistAbout David Drake\u2019s RCN series: \u201c[R]ousing old-fashioned space opera.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly on the \u201cRCN\u201d series. \u201cThe fun is in the telling, and Mr. Drake has a strong voice. I want more!\u201d\u2014Philadelphia Weekly Press \u201c[S]pace opera is alive and well. This series is getting better as the author goes along\u2026character development combined with first-rate action and memorable world designs.\u201d\u2014SFReader.comAbout David Drake: \u201c[P]rose as cold and hard s the metal alloy of a tank\u2026rivals Crane and Remarque\u2026\u201d\u2014Chicago Sun-Times \u201cDrake couldn\u2019t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.\u201d\u2014Booklist", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609260-into-the-maelstrom"}, +{"book_title": "The Star", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1655, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "The Star is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It appeared in the science fiction magazine Infinity Science Fiction in 1955 and won the Hugo award in 1956. The story was also published as Star of Bethlehem.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Classics", "Religion", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13598725-the-star"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow of Victory", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2397, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "The Mesan Alignment is revealed, and, for\u00a0Honor Harrington and the Manticoran Star Kingdom, this\u00a0means war!\nUnintended Consequences\nSometimes things don\u2019t work out exactly as planned. The Mesan Alignment has a plan\u2014one it\u2019s been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human race\u2014its way.Until recently, things have gone pretty much as scheduled, but then the Alignment hit a minor bump in the road called the Star Empire of Manticore. So the Alignment engineered a war between the Solarian League, the biggest and most formidable interstellar power in human history. To help push things along, the Alignment launched a devastating sneak attack which destroyed the Royal Manticoran Navy\u2019s industrial infrastructure. And in order to undercut Manticore\u2019s galaxy-wide reputation as a star nation of its word, it launched Operation Janus\u2014a false-flag covert operation to encourage rebellions it knows will fail by promising Manticoran support. The twin purposes are to harden Solarian determination to destroy the Star Empire once and for all, and to devastate the Star Empire\u2019s reputation with the rest of the galaxy.But even the best laid plans can have unintended consequences, and one of those consequences in this case may just be a new dawn of freedom for oppressed star nations everywhere.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430688-shadow-of-victory"}, +{"book_title": "Enthroned", "author_name": "K.M. Shea", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1782, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "ASIN moved from less recent edition hereAfter posing with a rusty sword for a photo in a British graveyard, Britt Arthurs is pulled through time all the way back to the age of King Arthur where the shockingly young and handsome Merlin is waiting for her. The wizard has some bad news: the real Arthur has run off with a shepherdess, and whoever pulls the sword from the stone is to become the King of England. Unfortunately for Britt, the sword slides out like butter when she pulls it after fighting with Merlin. Long Live King Arthurs!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Retellings", "Mythology (Arthurian)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38720968-enthroned"}, +{"book_title": "Phase Space", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 547, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Phase Space: Stories from the Manifold and Elsewhere. A collection of 25 SF stories by Stephen Baxter, many thematically linked to his \"Manifold\" trilogy (Time, Space and Origin) and other novels of cosmic scope. \"The phase space of a system is the set of all conceivable states of that system\", says the first page. As with \"Manifold\" these stories explore possible (and significantly linked) states of Earth and the universe, alternate timelines offering different solutions to Baxter's favourite cosmological question--the Fermi Paradox. It's a simple idea.According to our best scientific theories there's nothing special about Earth or the Solar System. Intelligent life has evolved here, ourselves. It's likely to evolve elsewhere. The skies should be full of other intelligences. Where are they? Perhaps our theories are wrong and we're in a galactic quarantine. Perhaps what we see through our telescopes is a clever fake, but supposing we overload the capabilities of the fakers? Maybe intelligence always destroys itself before crossing interstellar space, or something kindly takes emerging life away to a safer place. Perhaps there's teeming intelligence out there, but we're not listening on the right wavelength. Perhaps they're hiding...?Contents: * Prologue (Phase Space) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Moon-Calf (1998) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Open Loops (2000) / novelette by Stephen Baxter * Glass Earth, Inc. (1997) / novelette by Stephen Baxter * Poyekhali 3201 (1997) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Dante Dreams (1998) / short story by Stephen Baxter * War Birds (1997) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Sun-Drenched (1998) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Martian Autumn (2002) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Sun God (1997) / novelette by Stephen Baxter * Sun-Cloud (2001) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Sheena 5 [Manifold] (2000) / short story by Stephen Baxter * The Fubar Suit [Manifold] (1997) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Grey Earth [Manifold] (2001) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Huddle [Manifold] (1999) / novelette by Stephen Baxter * Refugium (2002) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Lost Continent (2001) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Tracks (2001) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Lines of Longitude (1997) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Barrier (1998) / novelette by Stephen Baxter (variant of The Barrier) * Marginalia (1999) / short story by Stephen Baxter * The We Who Sing (2002) / short story by Stephen Baxter * The Gravity Mine (2000) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Spindrift (1999) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Touching Centauri (2002) / novelette by Stephen Baxter * The Twelfth Album (1998) / short story by Stephen Baxter * Afterword (Phase Space) \u2022 essay by Stephen Baxter.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100687.Phase_Space"}, +{"book_title": "Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 9", "author_name": "Hiroki Endo", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 276, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "The Closure virus, responsible for wiping out about one-third of the world's population, begins to mutate, and victims in India are found undergoing strange metamorphoses. This volume also finds Hiroki Endo moving Eden in new directions, with new characters, settings, and technology mixing with the old. Sophia and Kenji are back, going head-to-head with Propator forces in Eastern Asia, including Propator's cyborg killers - the vicious Aeon soldiers! Elijah's father flexes some political muscle, and Kenji uses some real muscle to protect an important political figure, the leader of a minority group in China still fighting for their human rights. This is another fast-paced, rollercoaster Eden volume, with explosive action, science fiction twists, incredibly violent surprises and morsels of philosophical debate.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (France)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1432782.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Zadri", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1797, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "What\u2019s a single, pregnant woman supposed to do when her family wants that baby gone? Go to Preor Choosing Station Tau and hope a dragon shapeshifting alien is her mate, of course. Delaney Cole found her mate among the Preor only to watch him die\u2014through his own eyes thanks to the Knowing. Now, what\u2019s she supposed to do when she discovers that her second mate is the male who\u2019d killed her first? It doesn\u2019t matter that he\u2019s gorgeous, that his peach scales invite her touch, and his thick muscles make her fingers tingle with the need to caress him. She shouldn\u2019t want such a violent, deadly male, but\u2026 she does. Zadri was born a son of Syh, orphaned and unwanted, and he never imagined actually having a mate. Yet, Delaney is his. Yes, he was the one to rip out her first mate\u2019s throat, but now that he has experienced the Knowing with her, he will not let her go. Her lush curves, inner strength, and unborn young belong to him\u2014wholly and until he takes his final flight. When others attempt to rip her from his life, he will explain the gravity of their error. Slowly. Painfully. He only hopes he can reach her before they escape. Part of the \"Dragons of Preor\" series: Jarek Taulan Kozav Rendan Zadri", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32354464-zadri"}, +{"book_title": "Honour Guard", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 2587, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Commissar Gaunt and his Ghosts are back in the thick of the action in a battle to defend a vital shrine-world. But the vile forces of Chaos will never allow them to hold their prize for long and as the counter-attack rages, Gaunt is sent after the most priceless relic of all: the remains of the ancient saint who first led humanity to these stars. New edition with storming new cover design!", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "40k", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/797215.Honour_Guard"}, +{"book_title": "The Hidden Goddess", "author_name": "M.K. Hobson", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1099, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "In a brilliant mix of magic, history, and romance, M. K. Hobson moves her feisty young Witch, Emily Edwards, from the Old West of 1876 to turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City, whose polished surfaces conceal as much danger as anything west of the Rockies.Like it or not, Emily has fallen in love with Dreadnought Stanton, a New York Warlock as irresistible as he is insufferable. Newly engaged, she now must brave Dreadnought's family and the magical elite of the nation's wealthiest city. Not everyone is pleased with the impending nuptials, especially Emily's future mother-in-law, a sociopathic socialite. But there are greater challenges still: confining couture, sinister Russian scientists, and a deathless Aztec goddess who dreams of plunging the world into apocalypse. With all they must confront, do Emily and Dreadnought have any hope of a happily-ever-after?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9515638-the-hidden-goddess"}, +{"book_title": "Brilliance", "author_name": "Marcus Sakey", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 32368, "review_number": 2392, "book_description": "In Wyoming, a little girl reads people\u2019s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They\u2019re called \"brilliants,\" and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way. Nick Cooper is among them; a federal agent, Cooper has gifts rendering him exceptional at hunting terrorists. His latest target may be the most dangerous man alive, a brilliant drenched in blood and intent on provoking civil war. But to catch him, Cooper will have to violate everything he believes in - and betray his own kind.From Marcus Sakey, \"a modern master of suspense\" (Chicago Sun-Times) and \"one of our best storytellers\" (Michael Connelly), comes an adventure that\u2019s at once breakneck thriller and shrewd social commentary; a gripping tale of a world fundamentally different and yet horrifyingly similar to our own, where being born gifted can be a terrible curse.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17171909-brilliance"}, +{"book_title": "In Other Lands", "author_name": "Sarah Rees Brennan", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 7559, "review_number": 1937, "book_description": "\u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d\u201cSerene.\u201d\u201cSerena?\u201d Elliot asked.\u201cSerene,\u201d said Serene. \u201cMy full name is Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle.\u201dElliot\u2019s mouth fell open. \u201cThat is badass.\u201dThe Borderlands aren\u2019t like anywhere else. Don\u2019t try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border\u2014unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and\u2014best of all as far as Elliot is concerned\u2014mermaids.Elliot? Who\u2019s Elliot? Elliot is thirteen years old. He\u2019s smart and just a tiny bit obnoxious. Sometimes more than a tiny bit. When his class goes on a field trip and he can see a wall that no one else can see, he is given the chance to go to school in the Borderlands.It turns out that on the other side of the wall, classes involve a lot more weaponry and fitness training and fewer mermaids than he expected. On the other hand, there\u2019s Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle, an elven warrior who is more beautiful than anyone Elliot has ever seen, and then there\u2019s her human friend Luke: sunny, blond, and annoyingly likeable. There are lots of interesting books. There\u2019s even the chance Elliot might be able to change the world.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Humor", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31944679-in-other-lands"}, +{"book_title": "Astro Boy, Vols. 1 & 2", "author_name": "Osamu Tezuka", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 182, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Dark Horse proudly presents one of the crown jewels of manga - Astro Boy! Created by the late Osamu Tezuka, a revered animator and cartoonist (who created over 150,000 pages of comics in his career!) considered the Walt Disney of Japan, Astro Boy was the first manga series to be adapted to animation and became a worldwide phenomenon, making Astro Boy the Mickey Mouse of anime - a jet-powered, super-strong, evil-robot-bashing, alien-invasion-smashing Mickey Mouse, that is! Exciting, whimsical, and touching, Astro Boy hearkens back to the classic era of comics and animation, featuring stories that readers young and old will enjoy.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Classics", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5188171-astro-boy-vols-1-2"}, +{"book_title": "Empire of Lies", "author_name": "Raymond Khoury", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 985, "review_number": 229, "book_description": "A sweeping thriller in the tradition of The Man in the High Castle, Fatherland and Underground Airlines from New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury.\"The best what-if thriller for a long, long time -- makes you think, makes you sweat, and makes you choose, between what is and what might have been.\" --Lee ChildIstanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom--naked, covered in strange tattoos--to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message.Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall--along with all of Europe--to the empire's all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been renamed the Fatih Mosque. Public spaces are segregated by gender. And Kamal Arslan Agha, a feted officer in the sultan's secret police, is starting to question his orders.Rumors of an impending war with the Christian Republic of America, attacks by violent extremists, and economic collapse have heightened surveillance and arrests across the empire. Tasked with surveying potential threats, Kamal has a heavy caseload--and conscience.When a mysterious stranger--naked, covered in strange tattoos--appears on the banks of the Seine, Kamal is called in to investigate. But what he discovers is a secret buried in the empire's past, a secret the Sultan will do anything to silence.With the mysterious Z Protectorate one step behind, Kamal, together with Nisreen--a fierce human rights lawyer--is caught up in a race across the empire and time itself--a race that could change their world, or destroy it.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263230-empire-of-lies"}, +{"book_title": "The Book of Phoenix", "author_name": "Nnedi Okorafor", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 4098, "review_number": 607, "book_description": "A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and ozone. She has a story to tell\u2026. The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of magical futurism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features the rise of another of Nnedi Okorafor\u2019s powerful, memorable, superhuman women.Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York\u2019s Tower 7. She is an \u201caccelerated woman\u201d\u2014only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix\u2019s abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower 7.Then one evening, Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own life. Devastated by his death and Tower 7\u2019s refusal to answer her questions, Phoenix finally begins to realize that her home is really her prison, and she becomes desperate to escape.But Phoenix\u2019s escape, and her destruction of Tower 7, is just the beginning of her story. Before her story ends, Phoenix will travel from the United States to Africa and back, changing the entire course of humanity\u2019s future.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Africa)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Magical Realism", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23281789-the-book-of-phoenix"}, +{"book_title": "Tumbling Through Time", "author_name": "Gwyn Cready", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 312, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "In her sparkling and hilarious debut, author Gwyn Cready introduces Persephone \"Seph\" Pyle, a total control freak who plans for everything -- until a pair of killer heels sends her back in time and into the arms of a ruggedly handsome sea captain straight from the pages of a romance novel. Wandering the Pittsburgh airport before a business trip, Seph decides to kill time with some preflight shopping -- anything to get her mind off Tom Fraser, her irresistible, dimple-chinned coworker turned travel buddy. So when a pair of to-die-for pink stilettos calls her name from a store window, she tries them on -- only to be swiftly transported back to the eighteenth century and flung aboard a turbulent ship sailing the Mediterranean! There, Seph is stunned to meet Phillip Drummond, an arrogant British pirate and the spitting image of Tom. Phillip has summoned her back in time to straighten out his complete mess of a life -- for he is the burly hero in the romance novel she someday hopes to write, and she is responsible for his destiny. But in the midst of turning things right so she can get back to reality, Seph starts to fall for the smolderingly sexy Phillip. And when Tom is thrown into the mix, she doesn't know what -- or who -- she wants. Seph soon realizes that spotting the perfect pair of shoes may be easy, but finding the perfect man can be a real trip.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1888734.Tumbling_Through_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Johnny Mnemonic", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 11119, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "Johnny is a courier. He carries other people's memories, millions of them, downloaded into his brain... Working out of Beijing, he is hired to carry a package to the States. The hundreds of gigabytes stashed in his head are far beyond his capacity, but as long as he gets downloaded quickly they won't do him any permanent harm...But headaches are the least of Johnny's problems. The Americans aren't the only ones who want the data. The Yakuza are after Johnny too. Not all of him, though. All they need is his cryogenically frozen head...In Johnny Mnemonic, the science-fiction guru of our age brings his acid-drenched tale of the near future to the screen for the first time. Containing William Gibson's original short story, his full script and exclusive stills from the film, this classic of the cyberpunk era expresses the unique vision of the author who was the first to see his way into tomorrow...", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Culture (Film)", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Plays", "Media Tie In", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313998.Johnny_Mnemonic"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon's Egg", "author_name": "Robert L. Forward", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 7092, "review_number": 451, "book_description": "\"In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind--and this is one of them.\"--Arthur C. Clarke In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers.Praise for Dragon's Egg\"Bob Forward writes in the tradition of Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity and carries it a giant step (how else?) forward.\"--Isaac Asimov \"Dragon's Egg is superb. I couldn't have written it; it required too much real physics.\"--Larry Niven \"This is one for the real science-fiction fan.\"--Frank Herbert\"Robert L. Forward tells a good story and asks a profound question. If we run into a race of creatures who live a hundred years while we live an hour, what can they say to us or we to them?\"--Freeman J. Dyson\"Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and . . . big, original, speculative ideas.\"--The Washington Post", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Classics", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263466.Dragon_s_Egg"}, +{"book_title": "The Stress of Her Regard", "author_name": "Tim Powers", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 3909, "review_number": 360, "book_description": "When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom. Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey that crisscrosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengeful lover who haunts his dreams and will not rest until she destroys all that he cherishes. Told in the guise of a secret history, this long-awaited tale of passion and terror is finally back in print after more than\u00a020 years.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Gothic", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/417656.The_Stress_of_Her_Regard"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Eden", "author_name": "Joey Graceffa", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 8513, "review_number": 1118, "book_description": "What would you do to survive if your very existence were illegal?Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends, or get the eye implants that will mark her as a true member of Eden. Her kaleidoscope eyes will give her away to the ruthless Center government.Outside of Eden, Earth is poisoned and dead. All animals and most plants have been destroyed by a man-made catastrophe. Long ago, the brilliant scientist Aaron Al-Baz saved a pocket of civilization by designing the EcoPanopticon, a massive computer program that hijacked all global technology and put it to use preserving the last vestiges of mankind. Humans will wait for thousands of years in Eden until the EcoPan heals the world.As an illegal second child, Rowan has been hidden away in her family\u2019s compound for sixteen years. Now, restless and desperate to see the world, she recklessly escapes for what she swears will be only one night of adventure. Though she finds an exotic world, and even a friend, the night leads to tragedy. Soon Rowan becomes a renegade on the run.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430620-children-of-eden"}, +{"book_title": "Patient Zero", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 29002, "review_number": 2127, "book_description": "When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short. It's bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3993839-patient-zero"}, +{"book_title": "Rescued by an Alien", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2907, "review_number": 325, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for B073J2PDC2 ZADEONWhen my human mate was auctioned, she was sold to a savage lot of aliens.I rescued her body from her tormentors.But her mind\u2026She is hurt.She\u2019s afraid I will abandon her; but I\u2019ve been waiting all my life for my mate.I am not going to walk away. I\u2019m going to help her heal.And I will help her fight for us.****Content warning: For readers 18 years and older Contains explicit sexual situations, dark themes, sensitive subjects, and violence.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "New Adult", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35716308-rescued-by-an-alien"}, +{"book_title": "Daughters of Terra", "author_name": "Theolyn Boese", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1071, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Theadora Conner lived a quiet, solitary life until she met two strange men one night at a club. Several days later, after a surgically neat kidnapping, she awoke to find that her world has been turned upside down. Told that she was mated to both men and altered to carry their children she finds herself thrown into a world and culture she knows nothing about, one where science, myth, and religion seem to blend seamlessly.As she tries to accept her new life with Kyrin and Daeshen, her new husbands, a hidden danger stalks the human women. For not all of the Ta\u2019e\u2019sha are happy to accept these women, and one expresses his contempt with rape.Note: The Ta'e'sha Chronicles: Daughters of Terra contains subject matter that may be objectionable to some readers: menage, homoerotic sexual situations, BDSM, sex while in shapeshifted form, violence.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Menage (M M F)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3691870-daughters-of-terra"}, +{"book_title": "Starship: Mercenary", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1033, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim of a media feeding frenzy, a political scapegoat despite years of dedicated military service. Faced with a court martial, he was rescued by the loyal crew of his ship, the Theodore Roosevelt. Branded mutineers, the Teddy R. has quit the Republic, never to return.Seeking to find a new life, Wilson Cole first remade the Teddy R. as a pirate ship plying the spaceways of the lawless Inner Frontier. But military discipline and honor were a poor match for a life of pillaging and plundering, and Cole's principles naturally limited his targets. Taking on a new role, the Teddy R. becomes a mercenary ship, hiring out to the highest bidder. Whether it's evacuating a hospital before war can reach it, freeing a client from an alien prison, or stopping a criminal cartel from extorting money from a terrified planet, the crew of the Teddy R. proves equal to the task. Along the way they form a partnership with the once human Platinum Duke, team up with a former enemy, and make the unique Singapore Station their headquarters.But the life of a mercenary is not always predictable, and eventually circumstance pits Cole and the Teddy R. against his right-hand woman, the former Pirate Queen known as the Valkyrie. Soon the fragile trust that has grown between these two legends is put to the test as they find themselves on opposite sides of a job.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1130345.Starship"}, +{"book_title": "Between Frost and Fury", "author_name": "Chani Lynn Feener", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 485, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Delaney has been kidnapped by aliens. Again. After only a month back on Earth with her hotnew alien boyfriend Ruckus, the deadly and devastatingly handsome prince Trystan has dragged her right back to his planet.\u00a0While some girls may dream of winning a prince\u2019s heart, Delaney just wishes this one would leave her alone. Instead, she finds herself at the center of both a tense political battle between two alien kingdoms and Trystan\u2019s romantic attentions, both of which are absolutely ruining the life she\u2019s built on Earth. Not to mention the fact that she\u2019s about to be crowned queen of a planet she\u2019s barely even visited. Just another day in life of an ordinary human girl.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35795893-between-frost-and-fury"}, +{"book_title": "The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 3: Building", "author_name": "Jonathan Hickman", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2504, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "What if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs?Collecting: The Manhattan Projects 11-15", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17818456-the-manhattan-projects-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Winning Colors", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3161, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Booted from the Fleet on trumped up charges after saving a villainous superior from catastrophe, Heris Serrano has been marking time captaining the deluxe interstellar yacht Sweet Delight. Now, Heris has been offered a chance at vindication and reinstatement in the Navy. All she has to do is save the galaxy from an interstellar mafia gone berserk.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Animals (Horses)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222502.Winning_Colors"}, +{"book_title": "Iron & Blood", "author_name": "Gail Z. Martin", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 194, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "A Steampunk novel set in the fictional city of New Pittsburgh.New Pittsburgh in 1898, a crucible of invention and intrigue, the hub of American industry at the height of its steam-driven power. Born from the ashes of devastating fire, flood and earthquake, New Pittsburgh is ruled by the shadow government of The Oligarchy. In the abandoned mine tunnels beneath the city, supernatural creatures hide from the light, emerging to feed in the smoky city known as 'hell with the lid off.' Jake Desmet and Rick Brand, heirs to the Brand & Desmet Import Company, travel the world to secure treasures and unusual items for the collections of wealthy patrons, accompanied by Jake's cousin, Veronique 'Nikki' LeClerque. Smuggling a small package as a favor for a Polish witch should have been easy. But when hired killers come after Jake and a Ripper-style killer leaves the city awash in blood, Jake, Rick and Nikki realize that dark magic, vampire power struggles and industrial sabotage are just a prelude to a bigger plot that threatens New Pittsburgh and the world. Stopping that plot will require every ounce of Jake's courage, every bit of Rick's cunning, every scintilla of Nikki's bravura and all the steampowered innovation imaginable.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492604-iron-blood"}, +{"book_title": "The Fuller Memorandum", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 10944, "review_number": 549, "book_description": "Computational demonologist Bob Howard catches up on filing in the Laundry archives when the top secret Fuller Memorandum vanishes - and his boss, suspected of stealing the file. Bob faces Russian agents, ancient demons, a maniacal death cult, and finding the missing memorandum before the world disappears next.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7149287-the-fuller-memorandum"}, +{"book_title": "Obscura", "author_name": "Joe Hart", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 3745, "review_number": 570, "book_description": "\nShe\u2019s felt it before\u2026the fear of losing control. And it\u2019s happening again.\nIn the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure. She\u2019s already lost her husband to the disease, and now her young daughter is slowly succumbing as well. After losing her funding, she is given the unique opportunity to expand her research. She will travel with a NASA team to a space station where the crew has been stricken with symptoms of a similar inexplicable psychosis\u2014memory loss, trances, and violent, uncontrollable impulses.Crippled by a secret addiction and suffering from creeping paranoia, Gillian finds her journey becoming a nightmare as unexplainable and violent events plague the mission. With her grip weakening on reality, she starts to doubt her own innocence. And she\u2019s beginning to question so much more\u2014like the true nature of the mission, the motivations of the crew, and every deadly new secret space has to offer.Merging thrilling science-fiction adventure with mind-bending psychological suspense, Wall Street Journal bestselling author Joe Hart explores both the vast mysteries of outer space and the even darker unknown that lies within ourselves.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Horror", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36440711-obscura"}, +{"book_title": "Please Remain Calm", "author_name": "Courtney Summers", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1725, "review_number": 400, "book_description": "In this gripping sequel to THIS IS NOT A TEST, Rhys and Sloane are headed for a safe haven when they get separated along the way. Rhys is determined to reunite with Sloane until he discovers people who might need him more--people who offer him the closest he'll get to everything he's lost, if they can just hold on long enough. Rhys thinks he has what it takes to survive and find the girl he lost, but in a world overrun by the dead, there are no guarantees and the next leg of his journey will test him in unimaginable ways ...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22432577-please-remain-calm"}, +{"book_title": "The Game of Lives", "author_name": "James Dashner", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 8549, "review_number": 773, "book_description": "Michael used to live to game.Now the games he was playing have become all too real. Only weeks ago, Sinking into the Sleep was fun. The VirtNet combined the most cutting-edge technology and the most sophisticated gaming for a full mind-body experience. And it was Michael\u2019s passion. But now every time Michael Sinks, he risks his life.The games are over. The VirtNet has become a world of deadly consequences, and Kaine grows stronger by the day. The Mortality Doctrine\u2014Kaine\u2019s master plan\u2014has nearly been realized, and little by little the line separating the virtual from the real is blurring. If Kaine succeeds, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. And it looks like Michael and his friends are the only ones who can put the monster back in the box\u2014if Michael can figure out who his friends really are.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23257464-the-game-of-lives"}, +{"book_title": "Gettysburg: An Alternate History", "author_name": "Peter G. Tsouras", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 100, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "In the Battle of Gettysburg, the difference between victory and defeat was as narrow and sharp as a knife edge. And in those three horrific days of sweltering heat and roaring cannon fire, the outcome was decided not only by acts of courage and strategic decisions but by the character of the players, complex relationships, and pure coincidence. What if a few key factors had gone another way?What if Robert E. Lee\u2019s brilliant young cavalry commander Jeb Stewart had arrived earlier than the second day of battle? What if Pickett\u2019s Charge had been swifter and stronger? What if the Army of the Potomac was commanded by the daring Winfield Hancock instead of the more cautious George Meade? Gettysburg fuses a chaotic clash of arms with a keen vision of how wars are fought and won\u2013or lost. Most of all, this is a monumental, blow-by-blow reimagining of one of history\u2019s most famous battles\u2013the men who shaped it, the events it triggered, and the way it might have been.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Military History (Civil War)", "American History (American Civil War)", "Military (Military History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293311.Gettysburg"}, +{"book_title": "Iron & Fire", "author_name": "Ariana Nash", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1341, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "Alliances are forged and broken, friendships shattered, and despite the odds stacked against them, two hearts collide in this explosive sequel to Silk & Steel. From his mother\u2019s cage to a human one, but Lysander\u2019s captors are the least of his concerns. Rumors of a monstrous bronze dragon ripple through human camps, a dragon tearing great holes in the world as though searching for something\u2026 or someone. It\u2019s just a matter of time before the bronze chief, Dokul, finds Lysander and makes good on his promises. And should he find him, Lysander knows Dokul will not be merciful. Amidst the greatest of elven victories, Eroan failed. Failed his people, failed himself, and failed the dragon who saved him. But he will not falter. The dragonkin are in disarray, there will never be a greater opportunity to strike. Eroan Ilanea will not fail his people again. But when rumors of the dragon prince\u2019s survival reach him, he must choose: Fight for his people or fight for the prince who nobody thought to save? *** Contains adult themes, triggering content, a bisexual elf, and a gay dragon shifter.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Dark", "Romance", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43797623-iron-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Ribofunk", "author_name": "Paul Di Filippo", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 537, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Following the shock wave of cyberpunk writing in the late 1980s, Paul Di Filippo's first book, The Steampunk Trilogy, burst on the scene in 1995, leading SF veteran William Gibson to declare the young writer's work \"spooky, haunting, hilarious.\" Cyberpunk concentrated on cold hardware. Di Filippo coined \"ribofunk\" by fusing \"ribosome\" (as in cellular biology) with \"funk\" (as in rock and roll). In the world of Ribofunk, biology is a cutting-edge science, where the Protein Police patrol for renegade gene splicers and part-human sea creatures live in Lake Superior, dealing with toxic spills. Ribofunk depicts a sentient river; a sultry bodyguard who happens to be part wolverine; a reluctant thrill seeker who climbs a skyscraper-and finds himself stuck; and a chain-smoking Peter Rabbit who leads his fellows in a bloody rebellion against-whom else? - Mr. McGregor.This collection includes:One Night in Television CityLittle WorkerCockfightBig Eater The Boot Blankie The Bad Splice McGregorBrain WarsStreetlife Afterschool Special Up the Lazy River Distributed Mind", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature", "Surreal"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/729731.Ribofunk"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow Captain", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3139, "review_number": 269, "book_description": "Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they're in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking - and there's hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also more relaxed out on the fringes, as they're about to discover . . .", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35077169-shadow-captain"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunted", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1506, "review_number": 147, "book_description": "The deadly hunt continues in book two of the bestselling Trackers saga...Five days ago North Korea detonated three nuclear warheads over the United States, triggering an electromagnetic pulse that crippled the country. A second attack destroyed the nerve center of America in a nuclear blast that flattened the nation's capitol. As the government falls apart in the aftermath, the survivors must decide how far they will go to save the ones they love.Police Chief Marcus Colton has struggled to maintain order in the isolated mountain town of Estes Park, Colorado, with the help of expert tracker Raven Spears and stranded pilot Major Nathan Sardetti. Together, they fought the evil terrorizing the town-but new threats are rising and old rivalries are coming to a head.Charlize Montgomery, newly promoted to Secretary of Defense, is caught between loyalty to her country and love for her son, Ty. When the Marines sent to find Ty in Colorado discover a scene of unspeakable carnage, the straightforward rescue mission turns into a deadly chase as the hunters become the hunted.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Action", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33843988-the-hunted"}, +{"book_title": "Erased", "author_name": "Jennifer Rush", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 8943, "review_number": 820, "book_description": "They thought they had escaped. They were wrong.After fleeing the Branch with Sam, Cas, and Nick, Anna is learning how to survive in hiding, following Sam's rules: Don't draw attention to yourself. Always carry a weapon. Know your surroundings. Watch your back.When memories from Anna's old life begin to resurface--and a figure from her childhood reappears--Anna's loyalties are tested. Is it a Branch set-up, or could it be the reunion Anna has hoped for? Ultimately, the answers hinge on one question: What was the real reason her memories were erased in the first place?Jennifer Rush delivers a thrilling sequel to Altered in a novel packed with mysteries, lies, and surprises that are sure to keep readers guessing until the last page is turned.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17899846-erased"}, +{"book_title": "Kissing Shakespeare", "author_name": "Pamela Mingle", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1310, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "A romantic time travel\u00a0story that's ideal for fans of novels by Meg Cabot and Donna Jo Napoli--and, of course, Shakespeare.Miranda has Shakespeare in her blood: she hopes one day to become a Shakespearean actor like her famous parents. At least, she does until her disastrous performance in her school's staging of The Taming of the Shrew. Humiliated, Miranda skips the opening-night party. All she wants to do is hide. Fellow cast member, Stephen Langford, has other plans for Miranda. When he steps out of the backstage shadows and asks if she'd like to meet Shakespeare, Miranda thinks he's a total nutcase. But before she can object, Stephen whisks her back to 16th century England\u2014the world Stephen's really from. He wants Miranda to use her acting talents and modern-day charms on the young Will Shakespeare. Without her help, Stephen claims, the world will lost its greatest playwright. Miranda isn't convinced she's the girl for the job. Why would Shakespeare care about her? And just who is this infuriating time traveler, Stephen Langford? Reluctantly, she agrees to help, knowing that it's her only chance of getting back to the present and her \"real\" life. What Miranda doesn't bargain for is finding true love . . . with no acting required.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12969574-kissing-shakespeare"}, +{"book_title": "Slow Apocalypse", "author_name": "John Varley", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 876, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "Despite wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as 9/11, the United States\u2019 dependence on foreign oil has kept the nation tied to the Middle East. A scientist has developed a cure for America\u2019s addiction\u2014a slow-acting virus that feeds on petroleum, turning it solid. But he didn\u2019t consider that his contagion of an Iraqi oil field could spread to infect the fuel supply of the entire world\u2026In Los Angeles, screenwriter Dave Marshall heard this scenario from a retired US marine and government insider who acted as a consultant on Dave\u2019s last film. It sounded as implausible as many of his scripts, but the reality is much more frightening than anything he could have envisioned.An ordinary guy armed with extraordinary information, Dave hopes his survivor\u2019s instinct will kick in so he can protect his wife and daughter from the coming apocalypse that will alter the future of Earth\u2014and humanity\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542400-slow-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Desolation Road", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1319, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational 'Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel) to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the town's founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child-grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with-and married-the same woman.Ian McDonald is the author of many science fiction novels, including King of the Morning, Queen of the Day, Out on Deep Six, Changa, Kirinya, River of Gods, Brasyl, and Cyberabad Days. He has won the Philip K. Dick Award and the BSFA Award, been nominated for a Hugo Award, and has several nominations for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Visit Ian McDonald online at ianmcdonald.livejournal.com.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Magical Realism", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278284.Desolation_Road"}, +{"book_title": "Behold the Man", "author_name": "Michael Moorcock", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 6604, "review_number": 420, "book_description": "Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a reclusive physics professor, Karl is given the opportunity to confront his obsession and take a journey that no man has taken before, and from which he knows he cannot return.Upon arriving in Palestine, A.D. 29, Glogauer finds that Jesus Christ is not the man that history and faith would like to believe, but that there is an opportunity for someone to change the course of history by making the ultimate sacrifice.First published in 1969, Behold the Man broke through science fiction's genre boundaries to create a poignant reflection on faith, disillusion and self-sacrifice. This is the classic novel that established the career of perhaps contemporary science fiction's most cerebral and innovative author.", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Religion", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60146.Behold_the_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Home is the Hangman", "author_name": "Roger Zelazny", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 393, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Home Is the Hangman' shows Zelazny at his very best grappling with questions of what is good and evil, what makes something truly alive. 'Home is The Hangman' is part of a series of novellas where the premise is that when the world databases are unified, a programmer takes the opportunity to completely erase his existence. He pursues a career as a trouble-shooter, taking on those assignments no one else will do. In a series of stories he investigates a case of sabotage at a top-secret nuclear project, 'The Eve of RUMOKO' (1969), defends a group of dolphins accused of murder, 'Kjwalll'kje'koothai'lll'kje'k' (1973), and tackles the Hangman problem. All three are collected in 'My Name is Legion' (1976).", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1124903.Home_is_the_Hangman"}, +{"book_title": "Carlucci's Edge", "author_name": "Richard Paul Russo", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 151, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "A chilling scenario of the bleak urban landscape that is 21st-century San Francisco, and the return of Lt. Frank Carlucci. The San Francisco Police Department is stonewalling seemingly unrelated murder investigations, and Carlucci is determined to find out why. His unauthorized investigation leads him to an insidious black market run by top political officials.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/673831.Carlucci_s_Edge"}, +{"book_title": "One King's Way", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 711, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "A craftsman, visionary, and warrior, Shef has risen from slavery to become king of a mighty Viking nation. But his growing kingdom menaces all of Europe, and he has made many powerful enemies.Chief among his enemies are the Knights of the Lance, a fanatical order of soldiers sworn to bring Shef down, no matter what the cost. To defeat Shef, they will go to extraordinary lengths to find the sacred spear of Christ--and resurrect the Holy Roman Empire.Driven by dreams, Shef battles to change the course of history, but even the gods themselves may be plotting against him....", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "War", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/710836.One_King_s_Way"}, +{"book_title": "Afterimage", "author_name": "Ais", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 3099, "review_number": 422, "book_description": "In the Company of Shadows is a series about two people who are thrown together as partners in a secret agency; their mission is to disband rebels who have propagated in a post-war future, but they have to deal with everything that comes with an unlikely partnership as well.Miscommunication, periods of distance, fleeting smiles and learning to trust someone when a person can't even trust himself, these are what they struggle with while still trying to do their jobs. One is a psychopath, called a murderer and monster and generally deemed subhuman by nearly everyone who knows of him; the other is an introvert, cold and emotionless and so lost in thoughts that he would agree that he can be called a monster of inhumanity. But what makes a person human; is it humanity, compassion, or is it simply the ability to reason? Can a monster be human, and general humanity breed monsters?While they learn about each other, they learn about themselves; where their loyalty and morality lies, and how learning to trust another person can be incredibly difficult, bittersweet, and rewarding all at the same time. Join Hsin Liu Vega (aka \"Sin\") and Boyd Beaulieu as they struggle to find where they fit in a world slowly recovering from war.Status: Complete", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Dark", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Sociology (Abuse)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8164593-afterimage"}, +{"book_title": "The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster", "author_name": "Scott Wilbanks", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2406, "review_number": 543, "book_description": "Annabelle Aster doesn\u2019t bow to convention\u2014not even that of space and time\u2014which makes the 1890s Kansas wheat field that has appeared in her modern-day San Francisco garden easy to accept. Even more peculiar is Elsbeth, the truculent schoolmarm who sends Annie letters through the mysterious brass mailbox perched on the picket fence that now divides their two worlds.Annie and Elsbeth\u2019s search for an explanation to the hiccup in the universe linking their homes leads to an unsettling discovery\u2014and potential disaster for both of them. Together they must solve the mystery of what connects them before one of them is convicted of a murder that has yet to happen\u2026and yet somehow already did.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Magical Realism", "Historical", "Adult Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25029015-the-lemoncholy-life-of-annie-aster"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Resonance", "author_name": "Phaedra Weldon", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 112, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "SOME SECRETS CAN KILL YOU... Kazuma Tetsu is a technomancer\u2014one of the rare people who can manipulate the Matrix without technology, using only the power of their mind. But he\u2019s on a more personal mission\u2014he\u2019s searching for his missing sister, Hitori. Following her trail leads him into a tangled web of corp execs, mercenaries, and double-crossing rogues\u2014usually just another day in the Sixth World. But as Kazuma digs deeper, he uncovers a plot that could bring about the end of the world. Upon seeing a simulation of the Resonances Realms accessible to technomancers, an A.I. declares it will use the realms to ascend to a higher plane of consciousness. The intelligence\u2019s goal seems impossible, until an imprisoned and manipulated group of technomancers accesses dissonance to open a gateway to a new realm\u2014possibly the heaven the A.I. seeks. But opening this dissonant hole in the Matrix could trigger global disaster, and it\u2019s up to a team of shadowrunners, including a couple of denizens of the fabled JackPoint, to free the trapped technomancers and stop the Dark Resonance before it destroys the entire Matrix\u2014and worse \u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24030011-dark-resonance"}, +{"book_title": "A Hat Full of Sky", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 67153, "review_number": 2058, "book_description": "WE SEE YOU. NOW WE ARE YOU.No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty.Tiffany Aching does. And there\u2019s something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can\u2019t die.To deal with it, Tiffany has to go to the very heart of what makes her a witch . . .", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34501.A_Hat_Full_of_Sky"}, +{"book_title": "Past Pleasures", "author_name": "Charlotte Stein", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 275, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Book one in the Desire Through Time Series The future holds all the pleasures any woman could want.No sex? No women?When Kate agrees to a mad experiment with something as insane as time travel, she expects exactly what Professor Waites had suggested: dystopian nightmares and possible barbarians.So when she finds herself in a future where women no longer exist and the men have no idea what they ve been missing, she can t seem to catch her breath.Especially when the men in question the darkly handsome Tem, and his starkly beautiful companion Aley, are so curious and so ready to learn everything she has to teach including all the past pleasures they never knew existed. Reader Advisory: This book contains explicit threesomes.\"", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Futuristic", "Romance", "Menage (M M F)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Short Stories", "Menage (M F M)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890143-past-pleasures"}, +{"book_title": "Knight Moves", "author_name": "Cynthia Luhrs", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 483, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Lose yourself in time\u2026 A missing sister and totally fishy story. Check. A haunting castle in England. Check. Finding out news that rocks your world. Check. And double check. Be careful when you go searching for answers\u2026 Melinda Merriweather\u2019s sister vanished on a trip to England. When someone tries to kill Melinda, she knows there\u2019s more to the story of her missing sister. Determined to find out what happened, Melinda lands in England only to get more than she bargained for. A picture she can\u2019t explain. A wrong turn leading to Falconburg Castle and a whopper of a storm. Falling through time to 1300s medieval England, she finds herself staring at the pointy end of a wicked looking sharp sword. A weary scarred knight swoops in and rescues Melinda only to find out she\u2019s no swooning damsel in distress. Now Melinda\u2019s greatest fear is falling in love and never finding out what happened to her sister.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27834795-knight-moves"}, +{"book_title": "Chobits, Vol. 5", "author_name": "CLAMP", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 4949, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "If a persocom's memories are stored on a hard drive, are they real? After all, a hard drive can simply be erased. This question has been driving Hideki mad as he searches for his kidnapped 'com, Chi. Hideki has always maintained that persocoms are just machines, but his heart tells him that there's something special about Chi, and he can't let her come to harm. As Hideki and friends follow the kidnapper's online footprints to his lair, a mysterious duo keeps watch on the proceedings with great concern. Chi has proven once before that she holds the potential to be quite dangerous, despite her innocent exterior. Should her self-defense mechanism activate again, it could prove even more destructive. The clock is ticking, both in Hideki's search for Chi and Chi's search to complete herself.Chapters 49\u201360", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fantasy", "Comics Manga", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1087176.Chobits_Vol_5"}, +{"book_title": "Hammered", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1873, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Once Jenny Casey was somebody\u2019s daughter. Once she was somebody\u2019s enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. But she is far from forgotten. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185638.Hammered"}, +{"book_title": "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay", "author_name": "J.K. Rowling", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 128742, "review_number": 7765, "book_description": "J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut is captured in this exciting hardcover edition of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay.When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone\u2026Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. Featuring a cast of remarkable characters, this is epic, adventure-packed storytelling at its very best.Whether an existing fan or new to the wizarding world, this is a perfect addition to any reader's bookshelf.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Plays", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29363501-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them"}, +{"book_title": "Gunslinger Girl", "author_name": "Lyndsay Ely", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2723, "review_number": 673, "book_description": "James Patterson presents a bold new heroine\u2014a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow's West. Seventeen-year-old Serendipity \"Pity\" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great....In this extraordinary debut from Lyndsay Ely, the West is once again wild after a Second Civil War fractures the U.S. into a broken, dangerous land. Pity's struggle against the dark and twisted underbelly of a corrupt city will haunt you long after the final bullet is shot.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Westerns", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35099058-gunslinger-girl"}, +{"book_title": "A Closed and Common Orbit", "author_name": "Becky Chambers", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 38163, "review_number": 4964, "book_description": "Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who's determined to help her learn and grow.Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together.The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduced readers to the incredible world of Rosemary Harper, a young woman with a restless soul and secrets to keep. When she joined the crew of the Wayfarer, an intergalactic ship, she got more than she bargained for - and learned to live with, and love, her rag-tag collection of crewmates.A Closed and Common Orbit is the stand-alone sequel to Becky Chambers' beloved debut novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and is perfect for fans of Firefly, Joss Whedon, Mass Effect and Star Wars.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29475447-a-closed-and-common-orbit"}, +{"book_title": "Tongues of Serpents", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 16305, "review_number": 1111, "book_description": "A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik\u2019s Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more than just perennial bestsellers\u2014they are a worldwide phenomenon. Now, in Tongues of Serpents, Naomi Novik is back, along with the dragon Temeraire and his rider and friend, Capt. Will Laurence.Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon\u2019s invasion of England, Temeraire and Laurence\u2014stripped of rank and standing\u2014have been transported to the prison colony at New South Wales in distant Australia, where, it is hoped, they cannot further corrupt the British Aerial Corps with their dangerous notions of liberty for dragons. Temeraire and Laurence carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony and destined to be handed over to such second-rate, undesirable officers as have been willing to accept so remote an assignment\u2014including one former acquaintance, Captain Rankin, whose cruelty once cost a dragon its life.Nor is this the greatest difficulty that confronts the exiled dragon and rider: Instead of leaving behind all the political entanglements and corruptions of the war, Laurence and Temeraire have instead sailed into a hornet\u2019s nest of fresh complications. For the colony at New South Wales has been thrown into turmoil after the overthrow of the military governor, one William Bligh\u2014better known as Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. Bligh wastes no time in attempting to enlist Temeraire and Laurence to restore him to office, while the upstart masters of the colony are equally determined that the new arrivals should not upset a balance of power precariously tipped in their favor.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eager to escape this political quagmire, Laurence and Temeraire take on a mission to find a way through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But when one of the dragon eggs is stolen from Temeraire, the surveying expedition becomes a desperate race to recover it in time\u2014a race that leads to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new obstacle in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7038489-tongues-of-serpents"}, +{"book_title": "Return Engagement", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2505, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "From Book 1: \u201c[Harry Turtledove] handles his huge cast with admirable skill. The insights into racial politics elevate this novel to a status above mere entertainment, although it provides that aplenty.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly It\u2019s 1941, and an alliance of peace holds in check the most powerful nations of the world\u2014but it is an uneasy peace. Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory. Behind this fa\u00e7ade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to explode. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate States of America, is just the man to light the fuse. Opposite him is Al Smith, a Socialist U.S. president in the Philadelphia White House. Smith is a living symbol of hope for a nation that has been through the hell of war and depression. Featherston and his Freedom Party are determined to conquer their Northern neighbor at any cost. After crushing a Negro rebellion in his own nation, Featherston sends Confederate army planes to attack Philadelphia. In the aftermath of the CSA blitzkrieg, the war machine spins a vortex of destruction, betrayal, and fury that no one\u2014not even Jake Featherston himself\u2014can control. \u201cTurtledove plays heady games with actual history, scattering object lessons and bitter ironies along the way. [Return Engagement features] strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background.\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews \u201cAnother absorbing installment of [Turtledove\u2019s] character-centered alternate-history saga.\u201d\u2014Booklist", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101520.Return_Engagement"}, +{"book_title": "Aftershocks", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 5477, "review_number": 474, "book_description": "Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia system, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources, and populations, Aden Robertson reemerges. After devoting twelve years of his life to the reviled losing side, with the blood of half a million casualties on his hands, Aden is looking for a way to move on. He\u2019s not the only one.A naval officer has borne witness to inconceivable attacks on a salvaged fleet. A sergeant with the occupation forces is treading increasingly hostile ground. And a young woman, thrust into responsibility as vice president of her family\u2019s raw materials empire, faces a threat she never anticipated.Now, on the cusp of an explosive and wide-reaching insurrection, Aden plunges once again into the brutal life he longed to forget. He\u2019s been on the wrong side of war before. But this time, the new enemy has yet to reveal themselves\u2026or their dangerous endgame.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41211815-aftershocks"}, +{"book_title": "La M\u00e9canique du c\u0153ur", "author_name": "Mathias Malzieu", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 20426, "review_number": 2228, "book_description": "Le jour de la naissance de Jack, en 1874 \u00e0 Edimbourg, est si froid que son coeur en reste gel\u00e9. La sage-femme qui l'a mis au monde, mi-sorci\u00e8re mi-chaman, remplace l'organe d\u00e9fectueux par une horloge qu'il ne faut pas oublier de remonter tous les matins. Le gar\u00e7on doit aussi \u00e9viter toute \u00e9motion : pas de col\u00e8re, pas d'amour. Mais il va rencontrer une chanteuse de rue au regard de braise...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Cultural (France)", "Magical Realism", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "European Literature (French Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2133827.La_M_canique_du_c_ur"}, +{"book_title": "The Fate of the Tearling", "author_name": "Erika Johansen", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 32816, "review_number": 4701, "book_description": "In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has grown from an awkward teenager into a powerful monarch and a visionary leader.And as she has come into her own as the Queen of the Tearling, she has transformed her realm. But in her quest to end corruption and restore justice, she has made many enemies - chief among them the evil and feared Red Queen, who ordered the armies of Mortmesne to march against the Tear and crush them.To protect her people from such a devastating invasion, Kelsea did the unthinkable - naming the Mace, the trusted head of her personal guards, Regent in her place, she surrendered herself and her magical sapphires to her enemy. But the Mace will not rest until he and his men rescue their sovereign from her prison in Mortmesne.So, the endgame has begun and the fate of Queen Kelsea - and the Tearling itself - will be revealed...With The Fate of the Tearling, Erika Johansen draws her unforgettable story full of magic and adventure to a thrilling close.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22698569-the-fate-of-the-tearling"}, +{"book_title": "Halo: The Flood", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 13258, "review_number": 556, "book_description": "\nThe Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind's very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait.\nAs the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the carnage with the battle's only human survivors: Captain Keyes, his crew of a few hundred Marines, and the last remaining SPARTAN super-soldier, the Master Chief.With the cruiser's artificial intelligence, Cortana, concealed in his battle armor, the Master Chief crash lands on Halo in the midst of a massive Covenant occupation. Curiously, the alien soldiers appear to be searching for something hidden on the ring. Built by a long-dead race, Halo harbors many deadly secrets, but one overshadows them all. Now the Master Chief must lead the scattered troops in a brutal race to unravel Halo's darkest mystery--and unleash its greatest source of power. . . .This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Space", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/797094.Halo"}, +{"book_title": "The Faceless Body", "author_name": "Malka Ann Older", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 29, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "In a city divided by war, a Tokyo cop and a US peacekeeper are brought together by murder, missing guns, and politics way above their pay grades.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43713890-the-faceless-body"}, +{"book_title": "Atlantia", "author_name": "Ally Condie", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 15113, "review_number": 2416, "book_description": "Can you hear Atlantia breathing?For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamed of the sand and sky Above\u2014of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. But in a single moment, all Rio\u2019s hopes for the future are shattered when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected choice, stranding Rio Below. Alone, ripped away from the last person who knew Rio\u2019s true self\u2014and the powerful siren voice she has long silenced\u2014she has nothing left to lose.Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, Rio formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother\u2019s death, her own destiny, and the corrupted system constructed to govern the Divide between land and sea. Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past and to speak long-hidden truths.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17731926-atlantia"}, +{"book_title": "A Small Colonial War", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1084, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "A new war has broken out ... Indian ships have invaded three British-held systems and Indian troops have occupied British colonies, forcing Britain to choose between war and shame. The Royal Navy, battered by the fires of the First Interstellar War and desperately trying to recover from the terrifying casualties, must launch a counterattack and recover the colonies. For HMS Warspite - and a task force of British warships - the stakes have never been so high. If the Royal Navy loses, Britain will be humiliated and the global power system will shift catastrophically, but even victory may come with too high a price. Pushed to the limits, the Royal Navy must take the offensive and determine the outcome quickly ... ... Before the Indian gambit triggers off a civil war that will rip the human sphere apart. [Like my other self-published Kindle books, A Small Colonial War is DRM-free. You may reformat it as you choose. There is a large sample of the text \u2013 and my other books \u2013 on my site: chrishanger.net. Try before you buy.] ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26104834-a-small-colonial-war"}, +{"book_title": "84K", "author_name": "Claire North", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 3767, "review_number": 662, "book_description": "What if your life were defined by a number?What if any crime could be committed without punishment, so long as you could afford to pay the fee assigned to that crime?Theo works in the Criminal Audit Office. He assesses each crime that crosses his desk and makes sure the correct debt to society is paid in full.But when Theo's ex-lover Dani is killed, it's different. This is one death he can't let become merely an entry on a balance sheet.Because when the richest in the world are getting away with murder, sometimes the numbers just don't add up.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35511975-84k"}, +{"book_title": "Exile", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1657, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Lost and cut off from Earth, the crew of the starship Valiant seeks a way home. In the eleventh book of the Star Force series Cody Riggs collides with the overwhelming power of the Ancients. They fly incomprehensible ships and consider humans to be curiosities. Caught between ghosts of the past and demons of the present, Cody is abandoned by everyone. His girl, his crew, and even his ships change sides, exiling him in the cold depths of space. As is the strength of any Riggs family member, Cody manages to climb back into the game, upsetting the plans of his enemies and his allies alike. The only question is whether or not he\u2019ll live long enough to regret it. EXILE is a full length novel of science fiction by bestselling authors B. V. Larson and David VanDyke. The first book telling Cody Riggs' story is titled OUTCAST. If you've never read any of the Star Force novels, SWARM was the beginning of it all.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23257330-exile"}, +{"book_title": "War with the Newts", "author_name": "Karel \u010capek", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 10020, "review_number": 866, "book_description": "Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom. Along the way, Karel Capek satirizes science, runaway capitalism, fascism, journalism, militarism, even Hollywood.", "year_published": 1936, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "European Literature (Czech Literature)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Humor", "Literature (20th Century)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816440.War_with_the_Newts"}, +{"book_title": "Mortal Engines", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 51953, "review_number": 5289, "book_description": "\"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.\"The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, the sinister plans of Lord Mayor Mangus Crome can finally unfold.Thaddeus Valentine, London's Head Historian and adored famous archaeologist, and his lovely daughter, Katherine, are down in The Gut when the young assassin with the black scarf strikes toward his heart, saved by the quick intervention of Tom, a lowly third-class apprentice. Racing after the fleeing girl, Tom suddenly glimpses her hideous face: scarred from forehead to jaw, nose a smashed stump, a single eye glaring back at him. \"Look at what your Valentine did to me!\" she screams. \"Ask him! Ask him what he did to Hester Shaw!\" And with that she jumps down the waste chute to her death. Minutes later Tom finds himself tumbling down the same chute and stranded in the Out-Country, a sea of mud scored by the huge caterpillar tracks of cities like the one now steaming off over the horizon.In a stunning literary debut, Philip Reeve has created a painful dangerous unforgettable adventure story of surprises, set in a dark and utterly original world fueled by Municipal Darwinism -- and betrayal.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287861.Mortal_Engines"}, +{"book_title": "A Blood Seduction", "author_name": "Pamela Palmer", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 2681, "review_number": 426, "book_description": "Take me down to Vampire City...Vampires live only for lust and pleasure in the eternal twilight of Vamp City. But the city's magic is dying. The only person who can restore it? A beautiful woman from the mortal world...one who knows nothing of the power she wields.Quinn Lennox is searching for a missing friend when she stumbles into a dark otherworld that only she can see\u2014and finds herself at the mercy of Arturo Mazza, a dangerously handsome vampire whose wicked kiss will save her, enslave her, bewitch her, and betray her. What Arturo can't do is forget about her\u2014any more than Quinn can control her own feelings for him. Neither one can let desire get in the way of their mission\u2014his to save his people, hers to save herself. 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Hailed as the Dread Queen, inmate Dresdemona \u201cDred\u201d Devos controls one of Perdition\u2019s six territories, bordered on both sides by would-be kings eager to challenge her claim. Keeping them at bay requires constant vigilance, as well as a steady influx of new recruits to replace the fallen. Survival is a constant battle, and death is the only escape.Of the newest convicts, only one is worth Dred\u2019s attention. The mercenary Jael, with his deadly gaze and attitude, may be the most dangerous criminal onboard. His combat skill could give her the edge she needs, if he doesn\u2019t betray her first. Unfortunately, that\u2019s what he does best. Winning Jael\u2019s allegiance will be a challenge, but failure could be worse than death\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13421230-perdition"}, +{"book_title": "Engineered Tyrant", "author_name": "J.S. Morin", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 126, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Those who learn history can doom others to repeat it. A new generation of humans has entered adulthood. Raised by robots, these freshly minted citizens of Earth struggle to fit into a society that has gotten by without them for a thousand years. Until Alex Truman shows them a new path. Raised by Charlie7 and cloned from the original Charles Truman, Alex feels that it's his right to rule mankind. With the entirety of human history as his guide, he learns from the successes and failures of the Human Era and puts them to use against a society that's completely unprepared to oppose him. Who can stand up to this budding tyranny? Abby Fourteen asks that very same question and comes up with just one answer: her.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38354191-engineered-tyrant"}, +{"book_title": "Axiom's End", "author_name": "Lindsay Ellis", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 9955, "review_number": 1839, "book_description": "Truth is a human right.It\u2019s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasn\u2019t spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government\u2014and with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father\u2019s leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with him\u2014until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades.Realizing the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to, she sets out to gather as much information as she can, and finds that the best way for her to uncover the truth is not as a whistleblower, but as an intermediary. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication. Their otherworldly connection will change everything she thought she knew about being human\u2014and could unleash a force more sinister than she ever imagined.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51171377-axiom-s-end"}, +{"book_title": "Soulbound", "author_name": "Kristen Callihan", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2318, "review_number": 284, "book_description": "Once two souls are joined...When Adam's soul mate rejected him, there was more at stake than his heart. After seven hundred years of searching, his true match would have ended the curse that keeps his spirit in chains. But beautiful, stubborn Eliza May fled\u2014and now Adam is doomed to an eternity of anguish, his only hope for salvation gone...Their hearts will beat together forever...No matter how devilishly irresistible Adam was, Eliza couldn't stand the thought of relinquishing her freedom forever. So she escaped. But she soon discovers she is being hunted\u2014by someone far more dangerous. The only man who can help is the one man she vowed never to see again. Now Adam's kindness is an unexpected refuge, and Eliza finds that some vows are made to be broken...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22395684-soulbound"}, +{"book_title": "Occupy Eroak", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 18, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Twenty light years from home, fifty thousand soldiers of Askelon are prisoners of war on the enemy planet Eroak. Betrayed by their President and abandoned by their government, their only hope of repatriation is to take matters into their own hands. Fifteen thousand have already escaped captivity, but their survival depends on the benevolence of rebel tribes who oppose the ruling class; if they can rescue their officers and free the remaining POWs, they just might have a shot at getting home\u2026but only if they can take down the local government. Meanwhile, back home on Askelon...revolution is brewing. Occupy Eroak! is the final volume of the Starport series. If you thought things were crazy before, they just got a whole lot worse. Rated \"R\" for adult content.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24780067-occupy-eroak"}, +{"book_title": "Bloodless Assassin", "author_name": "Celine Jeanjean", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 564, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "An assassin with a fear of blood.A street girl with a big mouth. They can\u2019t really be the city\u2019s only hope?When Rory discovers Longinus\u2019s blood phobia, she makes him a deal. Train her, and she won\u2019t ruin his reputation as a lethal assassin. What she doesn\u2019t expect is that her new master has more eccentricities than a stray dog has fleas. And that in aligning herself with him, she now finds herself in the crosshairs of another, far more dangerous assassin. Now, not only does Rory have to keep herself and Longinus alive, she has to stop a conspiracy that threatens to bring the city to its knees.An impossible task? It's even harder with Longinus under the delusion that he\u2019s the hero of the story. That would be funny, if it didn't make Rory want to throttle him.Warning: this book will make you have fun. Lots of fun.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Action", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43268293-bloodless-assassin"}, +{"book_title": "My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist", "author_name": "Mark Leyner", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1673, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is a postmodernist/absurdist book composed of 17 loosely-related chapters with no general storyline. It is voiced in first-person by an anonymous narrator often using jargon, broken grammar and punctuation with a poetry-like structure. The narration shifts quickly from random idea to idea with little to no connectivity between them, typically giving vivid descriptions of abstract situations. The narrative styles in the book vary significantly as well, with no apparent solid identity to the narrator itself. Some characters and ideas emerge suddenly and disappear without explanation.Within this form incorporate elements of science fiction, cyberpunk, tabloid journalism, and advertising slogans. Due to its use of pop-culture references (e.g. to kung-fu films) and literary allusions it requires knowledge of (then) current affairs. Leyner resorts to irony and humor as a means of interplay with traditional realism.-Wikipedia", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fiction", "Humor", "Short Stories", "Literature", "Literature (American)", "Novels", "United States", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131525.My_Cousin_My_Gastroenterologist"}, +{"book_title": "Made to Order: Robots and Revolution", "author_name": "Jonathan Strahan", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 102, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, \u201crobots\u201d are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.Contents:- Making the Other We Need by Jonathan Strahan- A Guide for Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad- Test 4 Echo by Peter Watts- The Endless by Saad Z. Hossain- Brother Rifle by Daryl Gregory- The Hurt Pattern by Tochi Onyebuchi- Idols by Ken Liu- Bigger Fish by Sarah Pinsker- Sonnie's Union by Peter F. Hamilton- Dancing with Death by John Chu- Polished Performance by Alastair Reynolds- An Elephant Never Forgets by Rich Larson- The Translator by Annalee Newitz- Sin Eater by Ian R. MacLeod- Fairy Tales for Robots by Sofia Samatar- Chiaroscuro in Red by Suzanne Palmer- A Glossary of Radicalization by Brooke Bolander ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52130311-made-to-order"}, +{"book_title": "His To Steal", "author_name": "Taylor Vaughn", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1157, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "The Xals do things to the girls who try to run. Bad things they don\u2019t necessarily recover from\u2026I\u2019ve grown up my whole life knowing that after a woman turns twenty-one in my settlement, she must submit to being mated by our alien overlords, the Xalthurians. Running from the mating ceremony means punishment\u2026or worse. But I\u2019m the freak. The one nearly everyone else in our struggling human settlement either makes fun of or pities. To help my only true friend in the village, I try to escape my fate. I run.One alien warrior finds me though. And as it turns, out resistance is very, very futile.You see, my alien overlord is huge, golden, and determined to keep what he's stolen. \nMe.\nREADER PLEASE NOTE: This is a first encounter story with an alien who does not know or care about our human laws and boundaries. If that\u2019s the kind of sensitive alien you\u2019re looking for, DO NOT one-click this hot romance. T\u2019Kan is not that kind of extraterrestrial.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Interracial Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44665895-his-to-steal"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Plot", "author_name": "Genevieve Cogman", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 10342, "review_number": 984, "book_description": "After being commissioned to find a rare book, Librarian Irene and her assistant, Kai, head to Prohibition-era New York and are thrust into the middle of a political fight with dragons, mobsters, and Fae. In a 1920s-esque New York, Prohibition is in force; fedoras, flapper dresses, and tommy guns are in fashion: and intrigue is afoot. Intrepid Librarians Irene and Kai find themselves caught in the middle of a dragon political contest. It seems a young Librarian has become tangled in this conflict, and if they can't extricate him, there could be serious repercussions for the mysterious Library. And, as the balance of power across mighty factions hangs in the balance, this could even trigger war. Irene and Kai are locked in a race against time (and dragons) to procure a rare book. They'll face gangsters, blackmail, and the Library's own Internal Affairs department. And if it doesn't end well, it could have dire consequences on Irene's job. And, incidentally, on her life...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31690144-the-lost-plot"}, +{"book_title": "Time's Echo", "author_name": "Rysa Walker", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 5078, "review_number": 276, "book_description": "A Kindle exclusive novella, set in the world of Rysa Walker's Timebound. Kiernan Dunne abandoned his family ties to help Kate fight the Cyrists, and he's never regretted that for one moment. But he doesn't understand why Kate can't remember that night in 1893 Chicago, when she turned back to face the killer chasing them through the smoky corridors of the World's Fair Hotel. Kate placed the CHRONOS key around his neck and made his eight year old self promise to wear it always, and that's a promise Kiernan has never broken.When Kate suddenly vanishes after a Cyrist-engineered time shift, that hidden medallion is Kiernan's only hope for finding her. He returns to the Cyrist fold to look for clues, but his search will lead him back to the question that has haunted him for years--what really happened after he left Kate at the World's Fair Hotel?This digital novella gives Timebound readers a glimpse at Kate in another timeline and helps set the stage for Time's Edge, the second book in The CHRONOS Files Series, coming from Skyscape in October.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22009372-time-s-echo"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Type", "author_name": "K.A. Linde", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 3343, "review_number": 671, "book_description": "A startling new vision of paranormal romance: When a human ventures into the world of vampires\u2014a decadent milieu of blood-bonds and betrayal\u2014she discovers that not all is what it seems. For Reyna Carpenter, giving up her body isn\u2019t a choice. It\u2019s survival. In a civilization laid waste by poverty and desperation, Reyna accepts a high-paying position with the wealthy and hungry vampire elite. Her new job is as the live-in blood escort for the intimidating, demanding, and devilishly handsome Beckham Anderson. He\u2019s everything she expected from a vampire, except for one thing\u2014he won\u2019t feed off her. Reyna soon discovers that behind Beckham\u2019s brooding, wicked fa\u00e7ade lies a unique and complex man. And that, in a dark and divided world, she is more valuable than she ever would have believed. For with each passing night, Reyna can\u2019t shake the sensation that it\u2019s Beckham who\u2019s afraid of her. Note: Reyna and Beckham\u2019s story continues in Blood Match.This ebook includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "New Adult", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35263206-blood-type"}, +{"book_title": "Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.59, "rating_votes": 5083, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "The Supa Buddies have been working hard to help Dog Man overcome his bad habits. But when his obsessions turn to fears, Dog Man finds himself the target of an all-new supervillain! Meanwhile, Petey the Cat has been released from jail and starts a new life with Li'l Petey. But when Petey's own father arrives, Petey must face his past to understand the difference between being good and doing good.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Animals (Dogs)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43201782-dog-man"}, +{"book_title": "Among the Living", "author_name": "Jordan Castillo Price", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 9284, "review_number": 941, "book_description": "Victor Bayne, the psychic half of a PsyCop team, is a gay medium who\u2019s more concerned with flying under the radar than in making waves.He hooks up with handsome Jacob Marks, a non-psychic (or \u201cStiff\u201d) from an adjacent precinct at his ex-partner\u2019s retirement party and it seems like his dubious luck has taken a turn for the better. But then a serial killer surfaces who can change his appearance to match any witness\u2019 idea of the world\u2019s hottest guy.Solving murders is a snap when you can ask the victims whodunit, but this killer\u2019s not leaving any spirits behind.Words: 32081 (approx)", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Contemporary", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5603414-among-the-living"}, +{"book_title": "Many Waters", "author_name": "Madeleine L'Engle", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 44071, "review_number": 1738, "book_description": "Some things have to be believed to be seen.Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151370.Many_Waters"}, +{"book_title": "His Robot Wife: Patience is a Virtue", "author_name": "Wesley Allison", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 61, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "It is the year 2037, when men are men and robots are cute. Patience, the robot wife, has a new friend\u2013 Wanda. Wanda, another Daffodil, has been having difficulty bonding with her human, the recently divorced Ryan. She hopes that with Patience\u2019s mentoring, she\u2019ll be able to help Ryan accept her into his troubled life. But even Patience isn\u2019t prepared for what happens when they take a joint vacation cruise to Antarctica. His Robot Wife: Patience is a Virtue is a science fiction story in a world where technology is more than just a pretty face.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18215261-his-robot-wife"}, +{"book_title": "Binti", "author_name": "Nnedi Okorafor", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 50992, "review_number": 7548, "book_description": "Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself - but first she has to make it there, alive.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25667918-binti"}, +{"book_title": "Next", "author_name": "Michael Crichton", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 68937, "review_number": 3209, "book_description": "Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future --- it's the world right now.Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction --- is it worse than the disease?We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime.We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes ...Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Biology (Genetics)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7661.Next"}, +{"book_title": "The Flight of the Eisenstein", "author_name": "James Swallow", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 8456, "review_number": 301, "book_description": "Having witnessed the events on Istvaan III, Deathguard Captain Garro seizes a ship and heads to Terra to warn the Emperor of Horus's treachery. But the fleeing Eisenstein is damaged by enemy fire, and becomes stranded in the warp. Can Garro and his men survive the depradations of Chaos and get his warning to Terra in time?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80155.The_Flight_of_the_Eisenstein"}, +{"book_title": "Vici", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 526, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Also published in The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy edited by Jack Dann.\u201cWell, Antonius,\u201d the magistrate said, \u201cyou are without question a licentious and disreputable young man. You have disgraced a noble patrician name and sullied your character in the lowest of pursuits, and we have received testimony that you are not only a drunkard and a gambler\u2014but an outright murderer as well.\u201dWith an opening like that, the old vulture was sending him to the block for sure. Antony shrugged, philosophically; he\u2019d known it was unlikely his family could have scraped together enough of a bribe to get him let go. Claudius\u2019s family was a damn sight richer than his; and in any case he could hardly imagine his stepfather going to the trouble.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17985484-vici"}, +{"book_title": "The Prey", "author_name": "Andrew Fukuda", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 4646, "review_number": 581, "book_description": "For Gene and the remaining humans\u2014or hepers\u2014death is just a heartbeat away. On the run and hunted by society, they must find a way to survive in The Vast... and avoid the hungry predators tracking them in the dark. But they\u2019re not the only things following Gene. He\u2019s haunted by the girl he left behind and his burgeoning feelings for Sissy, the human girl at his side.When they discover a refuge of exiled humans living high in the mountains, Gene and his friends think they\u2019re finally safe. Led by a group of intensely secretive elders, the civilisation begins to raise more questions than answers. A strict code of behaviour is the rule, harsh punishments are meted out, young men are nowhere to be found\u2014and Gene begins to wonder if the world they\u2019ve entered is just as evil as the one they left behind. As life at the refuge grows more perilous, he and Sissy only grow closer. In an increasingly violent world, all they have is each other... if they can only stay alive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14740456-the-prey"}, +{"book_title": "Sword of Darkness", "author_name": "Kinley MacGregor", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 8959, "review_number": 317, "book_description": "The new king of Camelot wears no shining armor: Arthur and his knights have fallen and a new king rules.In the darkest forest...A scared, forsaken youth has become the most powerful\u2014and feared\u2014man in the world. Ruthless and unrestrained, Kerrigan has long ceased to be human.In the heart of London...A spirited peasant mired in drudgery, Seren dreams of becoming her own woman, but never expects that by fleeing her fate, she will meet her destiny.Their worlds are forever changed...Kerrigan's goal is simple: barter or kill Seren to claim Arthur's Round Table. Yet she is the one person who holds no fear of him. More than that, her nobility sparks something foreign inside him. In his nether realm, kindness is weakness and a king who harbors any sort of compassion loses his throne.For countless centuries, Kerrigan has lived alone in the shadows. Now Seren's courage has forced him into the light that will bring either salvation to both of them...or death.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84183.Sword_of_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Better than Life", "author_name": "Grant Naylor", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 11770, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "A wild and wacky SF series--based on the popular BBC-TV series--reminiscent of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Lister--who passed out drunk in London and awakened in a locker on a moon of Saturn--now finds himself trapped in a computer game that transports players to the perfect world of their imaginations--a game people are literally dying to play.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73051.Better_than_Life"}, +{"book_title": "Haven", "author_name": "A.R. Ivanovich", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2456, "review_number": 236, "book_description": "From missing socks to missing people, nothing could remain hidden from seventeen year-old Katelyn Kestrel for long, but after locating a forbidden passage out of her isolated country, Haven, she discovers for the first time that there are some things that should never be found. Outside the safety of her homeland\u2019s borders, Katelyn meets Rune, a young soldier who will die without her immediate aid. She never considered that helping him would lead to her capture. While being held prisoner by the handsome Lord Dylan Axton, she learns that the outside world is rife with war and controlled by people with extraordinary powers. It becomes clear that there was a very good reason the founders of Haven locked their people away from the rest of the world. The depth of her peril reaches a fever pitch when a ruthless Commander wants Katelyn dead. Her only hope is to return to Haven, but can she survive long enough to find her home? HAVEN is an exciting young adult fantasy novel, set in a unique, rural steampunk world, by debut author A. R. Ivanovich.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11758870-haven"}, +{"book_title": "Paax", "author_name": "Nancey Cummings", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1272, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "\nPaax never wanted to be matched to a mate.\nThe situation in his clan was dangerous for a hardened warrior, let alone a soft Human female without fangs or claws to defend herself. Sending her back to Earth was the only way to keep her safe. However, the moment the curvaceous woman stepped off the transporter, his tattoo burned with a passionate intensity he\u2019d never experienced before. Paax knew he would do anything to protect her, to claim her, even challenge the clan\u2019s violent Warlord. No force in the universe would take his mate from him.Matched to an alien warrior in the Draft, Mercy swore she\u2019d do whatever it took to get out of the marriage contract. She liked her life on Earth and her independence. No one would take it away, not even the ridiculously hot warrior who demanded she call him husband!Why is being claimed by the horned muscular alien the only thing she can think about? She didn\u2019t want to stay, did she?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31298779-paax"}, +{"book_title": "The Jazz", "author_name": "Melissa Scott", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 159, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Melissa Scott, winner of the John W. Campbell Award, twice winner of the Lambda Award for best novel, and author of the cyberpunk classic Trouble and Her Friends, returns with a hip novel of the media-dominated future, when the internet is filled with Jazz: intentional misinformation and bewildering disinformation that are both an artform and a business.Tin Lizzy, a respected Jazz artist with a checkered past, is a theatrical Web site designer who does backgrounds for Jazz productions. When a nifty new script shows up on the web, Lizzy is surprised to learn it came from a teenage boy named Keyz. It turns out Keyz used his parents' access codes to borrow a Hollywood studio's editing program- the true, hidden source of the studio's success. Now the studio head wants to lock him in jail and throw away the key.So Lizzy rescues him and takes him on the road, across the altered landscape of twenty-first century USA, trying to stay one step ahead of the police . . . . and the vengeance of a megalomaniac CEO. The Jazz is a road chase novel of the future, filled with shady characters, close calls, and colorful neat ideas.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1268279.The_Jazz"}, +{"book_title": "The Golden Torc", "author_name": "Julian May", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 6602, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "By A.D. 2110 nearly 100,000 humans had fled the civilized strictures of the Galactic Milieu for the freedom they thought existed at the end of the one-way time tunnel to Earth, six million B.C.But all of them had fallen into the hands of the Tanu, a humanoid race who'd fled their own galaxy to avoid punishment for their barbarous ways.And now the humans had made the Tanu stronger than the Firvulag, their degenerate brethren and ritual antagonists. Soon the Tanu would reign supreme. Or so they thought . . . .", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1018538.The_Golden_Torc"}, +{"book_title": "Saboteur", "author_name": "C.T. Phipps", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 66, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The sequel to Agent G picks up a year after the first novel with our antihero cybernetic assassin now working for the United States government. So much better than being a private contractor, right? Wrong. Hunting down his former associates only makes things worse and he soon finds himself discovering even more dirt about his convoluted past. What is an amnesiac cyborg to do?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36609876-saboteur"}, +{"book_title": "Flashback", "author_name": "Dan Simmons", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 4109, "review_number": 728, "book_description": "A provocative dystopian thriller set in a future that seems scarily possible, Flashback proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers. The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result. Nick may be a lost soul but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Suspense", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9432902-flashback"}, +{"book_title": "Seed", "author_name": "Rob Ziegler", "rating_score": 3.21, "rating_votes": 1037, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "It's the dawn of the 22nd century, and the world has fallen apart. Decades of war and resource depletion have toppled governments. The ecosystem has collapsed. A new dust bowl sweeps the American West. The United States has become a nation of migrants -starving masses of nomads who seek out a living in desert wastelands and encampments outside government seed-distribution warehouses.In this new world, there is a new power. Satori is more than just a corporation, she is an intelligent, living city that grew out of the ruins of Denver. Satori bioengineers both the climate-resistant seed that feeds a hungry nation, and her own post-human genetic Designers, Advocates, and Laborers. What remains of the United States government now exists solely to distribute Satori seed; a defeated American military doles out bar-coded, single-use Satori seed to the nation's starving citizens.When one of Satori's Designers goes rogue, Agent Sienna Doss-Ex-Army Ranger turned glorified bodyguard-is tasked by the government to bring herin: The government wants to use the Designer to break Satori's stranglehold on seed production and reassert themselves as the center of power.Sianna Doss's search for the Designer intersects with Brood and his younger brother Pollo - orphans scrapping by on the fringes of the wastelands. Pollo is abducted, because he is believed to suffer from Tet, a newly emergent disease, the victims of which are harvested by Satori.As events spin out of control, Brood and Sienna Doss find themselves at the heart of Satori, where an explosive climax promises to reshape the future of the world.Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Unfinished", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11601984-seed"}, +{"book_title": "The Ward", "author_name": "Jordana Frankel", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 2806, "review_number": 300, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Ren is a daredevil mobile racer who will risk everything to survive in the Ward, what remains of a water-logged Manhattan. To save her sister, who is suffering from a deadly illness thought to be caused by years of pollution, Ren accepts a secret mission from the government: to search for a freshwater source in the Ward, with the hope of it leading to a cure.However, she never expects that her search will lead to dangerous encounters with a passionate young scientist; a web of deceit and lies; and an earth-shattering mystery that\u2019s lurking deep beneath the water\u2019s rippling surface.Jordana Frankel\u2019s ambitious debut novel and the first in a two-book series, The Ward is arresting, cinematic, and thrilling\u2014perfect for fans of Scott Westerfeld or Ann Aguirre.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12399857-the-ward"}, +{"book_title": "The River of No Return", "author_name": "Bee Ridgway", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 5949, "review_number": 1185, "book_description": "Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Lord Nicholas Falcott wakes up in twenty-first-century London. The Guild, a secretive fraternity of time travellers, informs him that there is no return. But Nick yearns for the beautiful Julia Percy, who remains in 1815. As fate and the fraying fabric of time draw Nick and Julia together once again, the lovers must match wits and gamble their hearts against the rules of time itself. \u00a0Rich in romance and historical detail, Bee Ridgway\u2019s debut is a thrilling, fast-paced narrative evocative of Deborah Harkness\u2019s time-bending bestsellers.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Adult", "Mystery", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114292-the-river-of-no-return"}, +{"book_title": "The Burning Magus", "author_name": "Don Allmon", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 76, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "JT was a perfectly happy orc building cars in the Arizona desert until his old friend and sometimes lover Austin showed up and talked him into one last crime. Now \u201cone last crime\u201d has snowballed. With a new team of thieves\u2014a supersoldier, a hacker, a driver, a graffiti artist, and a seafaring wizard\u2014JT and Austin are determined to free an artificial intelligence from the dungeon of the Burning Magus.For JT, this job is more than a prison break; it\u2019s a do-over of The Job That Went Bad two years ago, the catastrophe in which JT lost his closest friend and then chose to abandon everything, even Austin. Maybe this time no one will die. Maybe this time JT can return to Arizona and bury his old life for good.Except Austin won\u2019t be buried. After two years alone, Austin knows he wants JT\u2014not just as a partner in crime, but as the lover he always should have been. Maybe this time they won\u2019t make the same mistakes, especially when it comes to each other.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38619581-the-burning-magus"}, +{"book_title": "Eifelheim", "author_name": "Michael Flynn", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 3518, "review_number": 566, "book_description": "In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't and that violates everything Tom knows about history. What's was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago? Father Dietrich is the village priest of Oberhochwald, the village that will soon gain the name of Teufelheim, in later years corrupted to Eifelheim, in the year 1348, when the Black Death is gathering strength across Europe but is still not nearby. Dietrich is an educated man, knows science and philosophy, and to his astonishment becomes the first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star when their interstellar ship crashes in the nearby forest. It is a time of wonders, in the shadow of the plague.Tom and Sharon, and Father Dietrich, have a strange and intertwined destiny of tragedy and triumph in this brilliant SF novel by the winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416327.Eifelheim"}, +{"book_title": "Aliens Love Underpants", "author_name": "Claire Freedman", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 4098, "review_number": 298, "book_description": "This humorous tale describes how aliens, rather than visiting Earth to take over the planet, really visit to steal your pants.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Poetry"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/871555.Aliens_Love_Underpants"}, +{"book_title": "Fear to Tread", "author_name": "James Swallow", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2248, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade, Sanguinius \u2013 angelic primarch of the IXth Legion \u2013 was ever among the closest and most loyal of Horus\u2019s brothers. But the Blood Angels have long kept their true nature hidden from the rest of the Imperium, and when the Warmaster hints that the key to their salvation may lie in the ruins of a conquered world, the sons of Sanguinius race to claim it. Now, as the revelation of their betrayal dawns and the traitors\u2019 hand is revealed, the Blood Angels must face all the warp-spawned armies of Chaos, as well their own personal daemons, upon the blasted plains of Signus Prime...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259647-fear-to-tread"}, +{"book_title": "When Gravity Fails", "author_name": "George Alec Effinger", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 6758, "review_number": 487, "book_description": "In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he\u2019s available\u2026for a price.For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can\u2019t refuse.The 200-year-old \u201cgodfather\u201d of the Budayeen\u2019s underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time.Wry, savage, and unignorable, When Gravity Fails was hailed as a classic by Effinger\u2019s fellow SF writers on its original publication in 1987, and the sequence of \u201cMarid Audrian\u201d novels it begins were the culmination of his career.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Noir)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132694.When_Gravity_Fails"}, +{"book_title": "Highland Knight", "author_name": "Cindy Miles", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1039, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Bestselling mystery novelist Amelia Landry journeys to the Scottish Highlands to stay in a remote 14th-century tower, hoping to re-awaken her imagination. She finds the inspiration she seeks in the ghostly form of Laird Ethan Munro, who has spent six centuries trying to discover why he is neither alive nor dead. Ethan senses that Amelia may be the one he has been waiting for. Only she can uncover the truth behind the curse and free his heart...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2464778.Highland_Knight"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Still Blue", "author_name": "Veronica Rossi", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 44067, "review_number": 3841, "book_description": "The race to the Still Blue has reached a stalemate. Aria and Perry are determined to find this last safe haven from the Aether storms before Sable and Hess do\u2014and they are just as determined to stay together.Within the confines of a cave they're using as a makeshift refuge, they struggle to reconcile their people, Dwellers and Outsiders, who are united only in their hatred of their desperate situation. Meanwhile, time is running out to rescue Cinder, who was abducted by Hess and Sable for his unique abilities. Then Roar arrives in a grief-stricken fury, endangering all with his need for revenge.Out of options, Perry and Aria assemble an unlikely team for an impossible rescue mission. Cinder isn't just the key to unlocking the Still Blue and their only hope for survival\u2014he's also their friend. And in a dying world, the bonds between people are what matter most.In this final book in her earth-shattering Under the Never Sky trilogy, Veronica Rossi raises the stakes to their absolute limit and brings her epic love story to an unforgettable close.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14288998-into-the-still-blue"}, +{"book_title": "Doing Time", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 3317, "review_number": 423, "book_description": "\nIntroducing The Time Police, the brand-new series by\n \ninternational bestselling author,\n Jodi Taylor - an \nirresistible\n spinoff from\n the much-loved Chronicles of St Mary's series. Perfect reading for fans of Doctor Who, Ben Aaronovitch and Jasper Fforde. \nAt some time in the future, the secret of time-travel became available to all. Chaos ensued as people sought to take advantage. Because there will always be nutters who want to change history...And so the Time Police were formed. Internationally sanctioned thugs whose task it was to keep the timeline straight by any and all means possible. And they succeeded. The Time Wars are over. The Time Police won. But who will win the peace?Doing Time follows three hapless new Time Police recruits - Jane, Luke and Matthew - as they try to navigate their first year on the beat. It's all going to be fine. Obviously.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Historical", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44597196-doing-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Beast's Bride", "author_name": "Jill Myles", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 838, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "When an unfortunate crash down the stairs takes Pippa\u2019s life, her fairy godmother steps in and offers her an otherworldly task. If she can convince the Beast of another magical reality to marry his Beauty, Pippa will have a new life and won\u2019t spend eternity haunting a parking garage. Sounds easy, right?Of course, any task assigned by fairy godmother Muffin has its challenges. Belle\u2019s kind of a dunce, and the Beast isn\u2019t exactly the cute and cuddly Beast of the movies. But the more time Pippa spends with him? The more she sees that maybe he\u2019s not so beastly on the inside\u2026How\u2019s Pippa supposed to convince Belle to marry the Beast when she wants him for herself?This fairy tale retelling of Beauty and the Beast contains a fairy godmother named Muffin, a beast in an enchanted castle, some sexy chess games, and a stepsister who\u2019s wicked in all the right ways.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17861405-the-beast-s-bride"}, +{"book_title": "Norby and the Court Jester", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 86, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "It's spring break for the students at the Space Academy, so Jeff Wells and his robot Norby are ready to have some fun! Unfortunately, they've decided to visit the planet Izz--where a sinister court jester is waiting with his evil bag of tricks. HC: Walker.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116317.Norby_and_the_Court_Jester"}, +{"book_title": "The Beguiling", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 251, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "On Slawkenberg, Ciaphas Cain is a long way from the front lines and that's precisely what he wanted. However, Chaos is present on Slawkenberg and Cain finds himself back in the firefight against his better judgement.A short story from the 'Hero of the Imperium' omnibus.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13558084-the-beguiling"}, +{"book_title": "The Barbarian's Owned", "author_name": "Marla Therron", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 648, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "\nRae must guard her heart with care -- these enormous alphas mate for life, and demand total submission from the females they care for.\n All Dr. Rae Ashburn wanted to do was present her latest research to her colleagues -- and maybe show up her loathsome ex-boyfriend in the process. Instead, the beautiful scientist is whisked from Earth by the very alien invaders whose existence she sought to prove. Not only do they exist, but a stunning specimen of an alpha male believes it\u2019s his destiny to mate with her. Dragged to the alien world Ythir and trapped within its sentient jungles, Rae must fight to escape the brute whose savagery both terrifies and intrigues her. While her arrogant captor\u2019s protective instincts keep her safe from feral predators and deadly flora. Is he her Celestial Mate?Note: Mature Adults Only!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30633454-the-barbarian-s-owned"}, +{"book_title": "A Distant Eden", "author_name": "Lloyd Tackitt", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 856, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "December 2012, a massive solar storm knocks out the power grid. Three hundred million Americans are suddenly faced with a survival situation. They have no water, electricity or fuel. Food rapidly disappears from the store shelves, not to be replaced. Only three percent will survive. Those three percent will have much in common. What does it take to be one of them?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569540-a-distant-eden"}, +{"book_title": "Among the Betrayed", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 24086, "review_number": 1103, "book_description": "\"Everything that had happened to Nina was real. She had real handcuffs on her wrists, real scars on her back, real fear flooding her mind. \"'They're going to kill me,' Nina whispered, and it was almost a relief to finally, finally give up hope.\" In a society that allows no more than two children per family under penalty of death, third children are forced into hiding, or to live with false identity papers. In Among the Impostors, Nina Idi was arrested for treason for supposedly trying to trick the Population Police into arresting other students she said were illegal third children. Now she faces torture or death -- unless she agrees to betray three other imprisoned third children. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets the prisoners -- who are only ten, nine, and six. As she did so brilliantly in the Publishers Weekly best-selling Among the Hidden and in Among the Impostors, Margaret Peterson Haddix once again brings readers to a world in which nothing is as it seems -- a world in which an imprisonment leads to an adventure of mind, body, and spirit.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303460.Among_the_Betrayed"}, +{"book_title": "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 32293, "review_number": 1627, "book_description": "In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.Cover illustration: Chris Moore", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14185.The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_Eldritch"}, +{"book_title": "Mated", "author_name": "Laurie Roma", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2459, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Alexis Donovan is a woman whose dream of falling in love with the perfect men has been dashed because of her infertile status. Still recovering from a war that almost destroyed the world, humans have fought to rebuild and have once again opened their shields to outside visitors. As a liaison officer for alien races that are visiting Earth, Alexis does her best to ignore what she can never have, but when she is put in charge of four visiting alien warriors, her entire world changes... Dragons Warriors from Arcadia, Xavier and Galan Tesera and their best friends Thorn and Brydan Volis, have been curious about Earth ever since they helped the humans defeat their enemy years ago. As commanders of their own space vessel they travel the galaxies searching out the unknown, but in their hearts they know they will never truly be satisfied without a mate by their side. When the four Dragon Warriors land on Earth they are instantly enamored with the sharp-tongued liaison who ignites a burning passion in their hearts, and know that she is the mate they have been searching for who will complete their souls. Will Alexis take a chance on four alien warriors or will the fear of leaving everything she has ever known destroy her chance of finding true love?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19546477-mated"}, +{"book_title": "Vortex", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 5146, "review_number": 369, "book_description": "Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called \"the Hypotheticals.\" In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined. Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9359796-vortex"}, +{"book_title": "The Clearing", "author_name": "Heather Davis", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2080, "review_number": 392, "book_description": "In this bittersweet romance, two teens living decades apart form a bond that will change their lives forever.Amy is drawn to the misty, mysterious clearing behind her Aunt Mae\u2019s place because it looks like the perfect place to hide from life. A place to block out the pain of her last relationship, to avoid the kids in her new town, to stop dwelling on what her future holds after high school.Then, she meets a boy lurking in the mist\u2014Henry. Henry is different from any other guy Amy has ever known. And after several meetings in the clearing, she\u2019s starting to fall for him.But Amy is stunned when she finds out just how different Henry really is. Because on his side of the clearing, it\u2019s still 1944. By some miracle, Henry and his family are stuck in the past, staving off the tragedy that will strike them in the future. Amy\u2019s crossing over to Henry\u2019s side brings him more happiness than he\u2019s ever known\u2014but her presence also threatens to destroy his safe existence.In The Clearing, author Heather Davis crafts a tender and poignant tale about falling in love, finding strength, and having the courage to make your own destiny\u2014a perfect book to slip into and hide away for awhile.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Contemporary", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6609552-the-clearing"}, +{"book_title": "Barrayar", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 25325, "review_number": 996, "book_description": "On opposing sides, Captain Cordelia Naismith and Admiral Lord Aral Vorkosigan marry and live in aristocratic splendor on his home planet Barrayar. Cordelia agrees with the dying old emperor that the Empire would be better if Aral would serve, but he knows secrets she does not.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Hugo Awards", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61905.Barrayar"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Knight", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 52241, "review_number": 980, "book_description": "In the final thrilling installment of Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small series ( First Test, Page, and Squire), our sturdy young heroine, Keladry of Mindelan (a.k.a. Kel), has finally been knighted. Never one to rest on her laurels, Kel champs at the bit, ready to tackle the horrific magic killing devices she was shown in the Chamber of the Ordeal during her knighthood initiation. The huge, insectlike machines, \"made of iron-coated giants' bones, chains, pulleys, dagger-fingers and -toes, and a long whiplike tail,\" feed on the souls of dead children and are systematically killing off the citizens and warriors of Tortall. Thoroughly disgusted to discover that not only is she not going to be assigned a combat post, but she has been placed in charge of a refugee camp instead, Kel, in her usual noble, stoic way, swallows her disappointment and sets out being the best refugee camp commander possible. Of course, destiny has a way of sneaking up on a young woman like Kel, and soon she is fulfilling the ordeal the Chamber set out for her... and then some. Tamora Pierce once again draws her legions of fans into her story, blending humor, pathos, exhilarating battles, and gripping drama with a very real, very appealing protagonist. It's easy to make war appear black and white, a matter of good versus evil. Pierce finds the shades of gray. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153800.Lady_Knight"}, +{"book_title": "BZRK", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 8095, "review_number": 980, "book_description": "Charles and Benjamin Armstrong, conjoined twins and owners of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, have a goal: to turn the world into their vision of utopia. No wars, no conflict, no hunger. And no free will.\u00a0Opposing them is a guerrilla group of teens, code name BZRK, who are fighting to protect the right to be messed up, to be human.This is no ordinary war, though. Weapons are deployed on the nano-level. The battleground is the human brain.\u00a0 And there are no stalemates here: It\u2019s victory . . . or madness.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642246-bzrk"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost Run", "author_name": "J.L. Bourne", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1020, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "The acclaimed and eagerly anticipated fourth thriller in the zombie apocalypse series from the author of Day by Day Armageddon and Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile, for fans of the smash hit show The Walking Dead.In a desperate bid to survive as hordes of bloodthirsty undead now dominate the ravaged U.S. population, a Navy commander discovers an incredible secret about the pandemic in this fourth novel in the acclaimed Day by Day Armageddon series. Task Force Phoenix may be humanity\u2019s final hope, and the narrator's agonizing decisions could mean living one more day\u2014or surrendering to the eternal hell that exists between life and death.Ghost Run is a suspenseful, gripping, and intelligent thriller that will terrify die-hard horror fans and reinforce J.L. Bourne\u2019s reputation as \u201cthe new king of hardcore zombie action\u201d (Brad Thor, author of Act of War).", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27274376-ghost-run"}, +{"book_title": "Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film", "author_name": "Edward Ross", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1287, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "Edinburgh-based cartoonist Edward Ross uses comics to illuminate the ideas behind our favourite films. In Filmish, Ross's cartoon alter-ego guides readers through the annals of cinematic history, introducing us to some of the strange and fascinating concepts at work in the movies. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme - the body, architecture, language - and explores an eclectic mix of cinematic triumphs, from A Trip to the Moon to Aliens. Sitting within the tradition of bestselling non-fiction graphic novels like Scott McClouds Understanding Comics and the Introducing...series, Filmish tackles serious issues - sexuality, race, censorship, propaganda - with authority and wit, throwing new light on some of the greatest films ever made.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Nonfiction", "Culture (Film)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "History", "Art", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24886299-filmish"}, +{"book_title": "Across the Universe", "author_name": "Beth Revis", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 115397, "review_number": 10356, "book_description": "A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone\u2014one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship \u2014tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8235178-across-the-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Monster Planet", "author_name": "David Wellington", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 3224, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Set twelve years after the shambling zombie masses have overrun Manhattan, America, and the world, Monster Planet is the mind-blowing conclusion to what must be the scariest trilogy ever. Oceans of blood, scattered limbs, wanton violence, and general mayhem abound, along with revivified mummies, a Welsh sorcerer, and Wellington's signature brand of cool high-tech weaponry and sly humor \u2014 zombies, after all, are the ultimate consumers. What do the undead want, aside from fresh meat? Do the steadily diminishing number of humans who have somehow managed to survive over a decade of living hell stand a chance on a planet where they've been reduced to the status of prey? It all ends here, on Monster Planet.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263549.Monster_Planet"}, +{"book_title": "False Memory", "author_name": "Dan Krokos", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 6122, "review_number": 708, "book_description": "Miranda wakes up alone on a park bench with no memory. In her panic, she releases a mysterious energy that incites pure terror in everyone around her. Except Peter, a boy who isn\u2019t at all surprised by Miranda\u2019s shocking ability.Left with no choice but to trust this stranger, Miranda discovers she was trained to be a weapon and is part of an elite force of genetically-altered teens who possess flawless combat skills and powers strong enough to destroy a city. But adjusting to her old life isn\u2019t easy\u2014especially with Noah, the boyfriend she can\u2019t remember loving.Then Miranda uncovers a dark truth that sets her team on the run. Suddenly her past doesn\u2019t seem to matter... when there may not be a future.Dan Krokos\u2019 debut is a tour-de-force of non-stop action that will leave readers begging for the next book in this bold and powerful new series.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Thriller", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10194494-false-memory"}, +{"book_title": "Incandescence", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1902, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "The long-awaited new novel from Greg Egan! Hugo Award-winning author Egan returns to the field with Incandescence, a new novel of hard SF.The Amalgam spans nearly the entire galaxy, and is composed of innumerable beings from a wild variety of races, some human or near it, some entirely other. The one place that they cannot go is the bulge, the bright, hot center of the galaxy. There dwell the Aloof, who for millions of years have deflected any and all attempts to communicate with or visit them. So when Rakesh is offered an opportunity to travel within their sphere, in search of a lost race, he cannot turn it down.Roi is a member of that lost race, which is not only lost to the Amalgam, but lost to itself. In their world, there is but toil, and history and science are luxuries that they can ill afford.Rakesh's journey will take him across millennia and light years. Roi's will take her across vistas of learning and discovery just as vast.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature", "Fantasy", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2425528.Incandescence"}, +{"book_title": "Foundation", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 422297, "review_number": 10179, "book_description": "For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future -- to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire -- both scientists and scholars -- and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun -- or fight them and be destroyed.", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Space", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation"}, +{"book_title": "Interstellar Mage", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1723, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "Mars destroyed his ship \u2014 but gave him a new one. Mars drafted his Mage \u2014 for the good of humanity! He should have known that wouldn\u2019t be the end of it\u2026 Captain David Rice has a new ship, a new crew, and a new set of Jump Mages to carry him between the stars. All he wants is to haul cargo, make money and keep his head down. His past, however, is not so willing to let him go. An old enemy is reaching out from beyond the grave to destroy any chance of peace or life for Captain Rice\u2014and old friends are only making things more complicated! All he wants is to be a businessman, but as the death toll mounts he must decide what is more important: his quiet life or the peace humanity has enjoyed for centuries\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36416689-interstellar-mage"}, +{"book_title": "Petty Treason", "author_name": "Madeleine E. Robins", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 798, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Fallen Womanof good family must, soon or late, descend to whoredom.Miss Sarah Tolerance refuses to follow the path of the Fallen Women who have gone before her. She's a straight shooter, with her pistol as well as her wit, and her mind is as sharp as the blade of her sword.Miss Tolerance is an Agent of Inquiry, a private investigator of sorts--the sole one of her kind in London, in this year of 1810 with mad King George III on the throne and Queen Charlotte acting as his Regent. Her aim was to trace lost trinkets, send wastrel husbands back to their wives, and occasionally provide protection to persons with more money than sense--but she is continually drawn into the plots of others.Her newest case poses a puzzle unlike any she has faced before: who killed the Chevalier d'Aubigny? The French \u00e9migr\u00e9 was beaten to death in his own bed, found by his retainers the next morning, all the doors and windows of the house sealed tight. The murder is a classic locked-room mystery, but Miss Tolerance knows she can find the key.As Miss Tolerance examines the situation and interviews witnesses and suspects, she realizes things are far more complicated than she originally suspected--for the Chevalier had more enemies than he had friends, and Miss Tolerance is hard pressed to find someone who didn't wish him dead. Her search for his killer takes her from the lowest brothels of the seedy London underworld, where men go to indulge their more aggressive desires, to the Royal Family and a Duke who must hide his perversions or risk the Throne.Welcome to Miss Tolerance's Regency London, where nothing is what it seems and the only way to serve justice is to follow conscience rather than law.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Historical (Regency)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/346223.Petty_Treason"}, +{"book_title": "\u0413\u0440\u0430\u0444 \u041d\u043e\u043b\u044c / \u041c\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u041b\u0438\u0437\u0430 \u041e\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0439\u0432", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 58, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "\u041f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434 \u0432\u0430\u043c\u0438 - \u0410\u041b\u042c\u0422\u0415\u0420\u041d\u0410\u0422\u0418\u0412\u041d\u0410\u042f \u0424\u0410\u041d\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0422\u0418\u041a\u0410!!!\u041e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u044f. \u041f\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0434\u043e\u043a\u0441\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430\u044f. \u0417\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0430\u044f. \u0413\u043e\u0440\u044c\u043a\u0430\u044f.\u0417\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u043b\u044f\u044e\u0449\u0430\u044f \u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0439 \u0432\u043e\u0441\u0445\u0438\u0449\u0430\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f - \u0438 \u0432\u043e\u0437\u043c\u0443\u0449\u0430\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f, \u0441\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u044c - \u0438 \u043e\u0431\u0441\u0443\u0436\u0434\u0430\u0442\u044c \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0435.\u0424\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430, \u043a\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u044f \u043d\u0435 \u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0442 \u0440\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0434\u0443\u0448\u043d\u044b\u043c \u041d\u0418\u041a\u041e\u0413\u041e!\"\u0413\u0440\u0430\u0444 \u041d\u043e\u043b\u044c\" \u0438 \"\u041c\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u041b\u0438\u0437\u0430 \u041e\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0439\u0432\".\u0420\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d\u044b, \u0437\u0430\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0448\u0430\u044e\u0449\u0438\u0435 \"\u043a\u0438\u0431\u0435\u0440\u043f\u0430\u043d\u043a-\u0442\u0440\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u044e\" \u0423\u0438\u043b\u044c\u044f\u043c\u0430 \u0413\u0438\u0431\u0441\u043e\u043d\u0430, \u043d\u0430\u0447\u0430\u0442\u0443\u044e \"\u041d\u0435\u043a\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0442\u043e\u043c\".\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0438\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f, \u0432\u043f\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0435 \u043e\u0444\u0438\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0437\u043d\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043b\u0443\u0447\u0448\u0438\u043c\u0438 \u0432 \u0441\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \"\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0444\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0435\".", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12784438"}, +{"book_title": "The Bookman Histories", "author_name": "Lavie Tidhar", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 138, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "An omnibus edition of the most exciting steampunk series of recent years.Lizard Kings and swashbuckling pirates, secret government agencies and scuttling automata, tripods and airships.There\u2019s never been a series with quite so much adventure crammed between two covers!File Under:\u00a0Steampunk\u00a0[ Alternate History! | Diabolical Anarchists! | Murder Most Foul | The End of Days ]From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642287-the-bookman-histories"}, +{"book_title": "The Burning Sky", "author_name": "Sherry Thomas", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 17814, "review_number": 2139, "book_description": "It all began with a ruined elixir and a bolt of lightning.Iolanthe Seabourne is the greatest elemental mage of her generation\u2014or so she's been told. The one prophesied for years to be the savior of The Realm. It is her duty and destiny to face and defeat the Bane, the most powerful tyrant and mage the world has ever known. This would be a suicide task for anyone, let alone a reluctant sixteen-year-old girl with no training.Guided by his mother's visions and committed to avenging his family, Prince Titus has sworn to protect Iolanthe even as he prepares her for their battle with the Bane. But he makes the terrifying mistake of falling in love with the girl who should have been only a means to an end. Now, with the servants of the tyrant closing in, Titus must choose between his mission\u2014and her life.The Burning Sky\u2014the first book in the Elemental Trilogy\u2014is an electrifying and unforgettable novel of intrigue and adventure.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332556-the-burning-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Starplex", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2253, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Twenty years after the discovery of artificial wormholes launches Earth space exploration to unforeseeable heights, Starplex Director Keith Lansing investigates a mysterious vessel that soon threatens the station with intergalactic war.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Business (Amazon)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46257.Starplex"}, +{"book_title": "The Buntline Special", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 1288, "review_number": 198, "book_description": "Welcome to a West like you've never seen before, where electric lights shine down on the streets of Tombstone, while horseless stagecoaches carry passengers to and fro, and where death is no obstacle to The Thing That Was Once Johnny Ringo. Think you know the story of the O.K. Corral? Think again, as five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick takes on his first steampunk western tale, and the West will never be the same.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Westerns", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8253037-the-buntline-special"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Fin", "author_name": "Anne Renwick", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 224, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "\n A vampiric octopus hunting selkies. A torrid love affair. Traitors who prey on those closest to them in a bid for power.\nIsa McQuiston is caught between two worlds. Strange creatures are attacking her people, their injuries beyond her medical expertise. More than one fisherman has been tossed ashore by the waves, drained of blood, a severed tentacle piercing his flesh. To find answers, she must forge a cautious alliance with the outsider making inquiries... even if he does present an almost irresistible temptation.Dr. Alec McCullough, an injured naval officer, is restless and bored. Until his brother--an agent for the Crown--offers him an assignment: investigate a recent rash of unexplained octopus attacks. On the wet and windy Hebridean Isles, his every effort is met with resistance. Coaxing an attractive young widow--the local healer--to allow him to examine the latest victim only leads to further complications.A fusion of living and mechanical components, the creatures follow instinct, but also command. Together, they uncover layers of deceit, revealing traitorous tentacles that entangle both their lives. As those behind their creation callously sacrifice innocent lives in pursuit of their goals, Isa and Alec struggle to forge a future together while attempting to prevent a disaster of international proportions.THE IRON FIN is a story set in the Elemental Steampunk World, including The Elemental Steampunk Chronicles, Elemental Steampunk Tales, and Elemental Steampunk Stories.Steampunk adventure wrapped around a romance and threaded with biotechnology. Join USA Today bestselling author, Anne Renwick, as she takes you back into an alternate past.THE ELEMENTAL STEAMPUNK CHRONICLESThe Golden Spider (Book One)The Silver Skull (Book Two)The Iron Fin (Book Three)ELEMENTAL STEAMPUNK TALESA Trace of CopperIn Pursuit of DragonsA Reflection of ShadowsELEMENTAL STEAMPUNK STORIESThe Tin RoseKraken and Canals", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39798527-the-iron-fin"}, +{"book_title": "The Storm", "author_name": "Virginia Bergin", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3029, "review_number": 362, "book_description": "\"I'll tell you a weird thing about apocalypses - a thing I didn't even know until I was in one: they seem pretty bad, don't they? Well, take it from me: they can always get worse.\"Three months after the killer rain first fell, Ruby is beginning to realise her father might be dead . . . and that she cannot survive alone. When a chance encounter lands her back in the army camp, Ruby thinks she is safe - at a price. Being forced to live with Darius Spratt is bad enough, but if Ruby wants to stay she must keep her eyes - and her mouth - shut. It's not going to happen. When she realizes what is going on - the army is trying to find a cure by experimenting on human subjects - Ruby flips out . . . and makes an even more shocking discovery: she's not useless at all. The Storm begins . . .", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22753693-the-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 9259, "review_number": 800, "book_description": "Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands. From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed one of the most challenging and enduring themes of imaginative fiction: The nature of life in the aftermath of total societal collapse. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction - including George R. R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King - Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders. Wastelands delves into this bleak landscape, uncovering the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre's core. --back coverContains the following stories:Introduction by John Joseph AdamsThe End of the Whole Mess by Stephen KingSalvage by Orson Scott CardThe People of Sand and Slag by Paolo BacigalupiBread and Bombs by M. RickertHow We Got In Town and Out Again by Jonathan LethemDark, Dark Were the Tunnels by George R. R. MartinWaiting for the Zephyr by Tobias S. BuckellNever Despair by Jack McDevittWhen Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory DoctorowThe Last of the O-Forms by James Van PeltStill Life With Apocalypse by Richard KadreyArtie\u2019s Angels by Catherine WellsJudgment Passed by Jerry OltionMute by Gene WolfeInertia by Nancy KressAnd the Deep Blue Sea by Elizabeth BearSpeech Sounds by Octavia E. ButlerKillers by Carol EmshwillerGinny Sweethips\u2019 Flying Circus by Neal Barrett, Jr.The End of the World as We Know It by Dale BaileyA Song Before Sunset by David GriggEpisode Seven... by John LanganAppendix: For Further Reading", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1705697.Wastelands"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Voodoo Vultures from Venus", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1585, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "A small mouse named Ricky Ricotta and his best friend, a giant flying robot, save the world from Victor Von Vulture and his vicious voodoo vultures from Venus.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2287658.Ricky_Ricotta_s_Mighty_Robot_vs_the_Voodoo_Vultures_from_Venus"}, +{"book_title": "ATLAS 3", "author_name": "Isaac Hooke", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 756, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "The ATLAS mechanized battle suits are the pinnacle of military technology, boasting awesome destructive power\u2014but what is behind the armor is only human. Rade Galaal, elite soldier and ATLAS operator, has been tested\u2014and broken\u2014by savage battles and devastating losses. Now, an old enemy poses a new threat.The vile insectile aliens that once threatened Earth have regrouped to engineer a new apocalyptic assault on mankind, and the ATLAS mechs are called to defend the very survival of the human race.On the desolate, far-flung moons of Tau Ceti II, there will come a reckoning. Earth\u2019s adversaries are legion, and the planet\u2019s soldiers\u2014for all of their rigorous training and amazing ordnance\u2014are only flesh and blood. But they possess a defiant will to survive. Will Rade find the strength to reforge his shattered spirit and defeat the alien onslaught before all is lost?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24392030-atlas-3"}, +{"book_title": "1637: No Peace Beyond the Line", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 137, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "THE BATTLE FOR THE NEW WORLD IS A FIGHT TO THE FINISH! A NEW RING OF FIRE NOVEL BY BEST-SELLING WRITING TEAM ERIC FLINT AND CHARLES E. GANNONA New Day in the New WorldIt\u2019s 1637 in the Caribbean. Commander Eddie Cantrell and his ally and friend Admiral Martin Tromp start it off with some nasty surprises for Spain, whose centuries-long exploitation and rapine of the New World has run unchecked. Until now.Yet life goes on in the Caribbean. Relationships among the allied Dutch, Swedes, Germans, up-timers, and even Irish mercenaries continue to evolve and deepen. New friendships must be forged with the native peoples, who will not only shape the colonists\u2019 future in the Caribbean, but will also decide whether they will be given access to a Louisiana oilfield that could change the balance of power.But for now, the only oil Imperial Spain knows about is the crude pouring out of the Allies\u2019 pumps on Trinidad\u2014which threatens its interests in both the New and the Old Worlds. So, following in the footsteps of the conquistadors, the empire\u2019s commanders are resolved to show that they do not take threats lightly or lying down. Indeed, their historical reaction is to respond with overwhelming\u2014and often genocidal\u2014force.The battle for the New World has not merely begun; it is a fight to the finish.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55858402-1637"}, +{"book_title": "River of Stars", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 6365, "review_number": 733, "book_description": "In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China\u2019s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own way, to find a new place for women in the world \u2013 a world inspired this time by the glittering, decadent Song Dynasty.Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate of Kitai. That moment on a lonely road changed his life\u2014in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later\u2014and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles towards the court and emperor, while war approaches Kitai from the north.Lin Shan is the daughter of a scholar, his beloved only child. Educated by him in ways young women never are, gifted as a songwriter and calligrapher, she finds herself living a life suspended between two worlds. Her intelligence captivates an emperor\u2014and alienates women at the court. But when her father\u2019s life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no woman ever has.In an empire divided by bitter factions circling an exquisitely cultured emperor who loves his gardens and his art far more than the burdens of governing, dramatic events on the northern steppe alter the balance of power in the world, leading to events no one could have foretold, under the river of stars.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Cultural (China)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Cultural (Asia)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808474-river-of-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Attack on Titan, Vol. 6", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 12541, "review_number": 323, "book_description": "TITAN ON THE HUNTOn the way to Eren\u2019s home, deep in Titan territory, the Survey Corps ranks are broken by a charge led by a female Titan! But this Abnormal is different \u2013 she kills not to eat but to protect herself, and she seems to be looking for someone. Armin comes to a shocking conclusion: She\u2019s a human in a Titan\u2019s body, just like Eren!Chapters List:-23.The Female Titan24.The Titan Forest25.Bite26.The Easy Path", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262714-attack-on-titan-vol-6"}, +{"book_title": "Reaper Man", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 87191, "review_number": 2745, "book_description": "'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.'But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the Disc, as here, they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls. There's no telling what might happen, particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living...", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Death", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34517.Reaper_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Ravenwing", "author_name": "Gav Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 322, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "The Ravenwing stand apart from the rest of the Dark Angels Chapter - these dynamic Space Marines take to the battlefield upon steeds of adamantium and plasteel, and swoop from the skies in lightning-fast speeders to bring death to the foes of the Imperium.When he joins their prestigious ranks, Brother Annael finds himself thrust into a whole new world of shadowy intrigue, and privy to secrets unknown to his common battle-brothers. In the wake of the conflict at Kadillus, hints of a dark conspiracy begin to emerge, and it soon becomes apparent that the Ravenwing has a sacred duty far more vital than hunting down orks... Read it because It's a fast-paced action-adventure tale that pits the Dark Angels against greenskins, pirates and Chaos Space Marines and lays the groundworking for the mind-bogglingly epic drama to come in the rest of the trilogy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547117-ravenwing"}, +{"book_title": "The Paradise Snare", "author_name": "A.C. Crispin", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 10257, "review_number": 366, "book_description": "Here is the first book in the blockbuster trilogy that chronicles the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler, and thief.The first book in this exciting Han Solo series begins with a recounting of Han's late teen years and shows us how he escaped an unhappy adopted home situation to carve out an adventurous new life for himself as a pilot. Han Solo, the handsome rogue, is every girl's dream man, and every boy's hero. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617086.The_Paradise_Snare"}, +{"book_title": "What Price Honour", "author_name": "Mark E. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 897, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Thurston is an unimportant border world with a problem, a Marine type problem. Not the sort of place Gunnery Sergeant Gina Fuentez expected to find one of the fabled Viper cyborgs, but that's just what she discovers when a simple mission to extract an operative from a terrorist camp leads to a firefight and two of her squad dead. With friends dying around her and a world coming apart at the seams, Gina must decide if the Marine Corps is really her home, or just a stopping place to where she really belongs", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11504712-what-price-honour"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 31: Technobabel", "author_name": "Stephen Kenson", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 235, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Renraku Computer Systems sends an agent to infiltrate the otaku, a race of technoshamans, and learn their secrets in order to gain advantage in a corporate war, But once the agent is initiated into an otherworld of technomancy and mega-corporate intrigue, he rebels against his employers in an attempt to stop the approaching war!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351415.Shadowrun_31"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Days", "author_name": "Manel Loureiro", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 5077, "review_number": 306, "book_description": "The electrifying sequel to international best seller Apocalypse ZThe Russian-spawned virus that kills swiftly then ghoulishly resurrects its victims as ravenous cannibals has breached international borders.The infernal progression...From outbreak to epidemic and pandemic to sheer panic, the virus has shredded global civilization. Promised safe havens become deathtraps, lawlessness crumbles any remaining symbol of authority, and political violence in Spain threatens to erupt in civil war.Trapped...In the thick of the deadly madness, the young lawyer finds himself escaping to the Canary Islands in a stolen chopper with a motley crew made up of his Persian cat Lucullus, Ukrainian pilot Viktor \u201cPrit\u201d Pritchenko, 17-year-old beautiful distraction Lucia, and Sister Cecilia, who was trained as a nurse. The distant isle of Lanzarote is rumored to be the only refuge out of the virus\u2019s reach. But with relentlessly multiplying hordes of the living dead\u2014and equally fatal human treachery\u2014blocking their every move, their quest for survival is quickly becoming a suicide mission.Dark Days", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "European Literature (Spanish Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18516656-dark-days"}, +{"book_title": "Red Sands", "author_name": "Celia Kyle", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 873, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "\n\n\nShe\u2019s on the run from a violent past...\n\n\n\nHe solves his problems with a sword...\n\n\nFleeing a life of abuse, Sheri climbs aboard a mail-order mate spaceship bound for a distant station, but never arrives\u2026 Fate intervenes and her trip takes a quick, deadly turn when she crashes on the planet Atera. She\u2019s surrounded by endless sand dunes, dangerous creatures, and alien beings that remind her of Earth lizards. But one particular lizard hardly leaves her thoughts - a sexy, two legged, muscular male bent on protecting and caring for her at all costs!\nDrazan is a fierce warrior, the strongest Ateran of the Red Sands, he rules his dunes with an iron fist and sharp sword, and is honour bound to face all challengers to his position. During one of these battles something\u2026 strange\u2026 happens. Fire rains from the skies and a strange black metal box filled with females crashes to the sands. All thoughts of fighting are lost to the allure of these odd humans - especially one deliciously curvy female who stirs his blood. Now he finds himself with dark yearnings, strong need, and a hardness between his legs that he\u2019s never used before!\nWith Sheri consuming his thoughts, Drazan may have forgotten about his last challenge but his opponent\u2019s brother hasn\u2019t. Now he\u2019s determined to see Drazan suffer\u2026 even if that means killing Sheri!\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50211584-red-sands"}, +{"book_title": "The Gauntlet", "author_name": "Megan Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1048, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "The Maze Runner meets Scott Westerfeld in the final novel in the gripping and romantic Cage series, about teens abducted from Earth by an otherworldly race.Cora and her friends have escaped the Kindred station and landed at Armstrong\u2014a supposed safe haven on a small moon\u2014where they plan to regroup and figure out how to win the Gauntlet, the challenging competition to prove humanity\u2019s intelligence and set them free. But Armstrong is no paradise; ruled by a power-hungry sheriff, it\u2019s a violent world where the teens are enslaved and put to work in mines. As Nok\u2019s due date grows closer, and Mali and Leon journey across space to rescue Cassian, the former inhabitants of the cage are up against impossible odds.With the whole universe at stake, Cora will do whatever it takes, including pushing her body and mind to the breaking point, to escape Armstrong and run the Gauntlet. But it isn\u2019t just a deranged sheriff she has to overcome: the other intelligent species\u2014the Axion, Kindred, Gatherers, and Mosca\u2014all have their own reasons to stop her. Not knowing who to trust, Cora must rely on her own instincts to win the competition, which could change the world\u2014though it might destroy her in the process.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18298581-the-gauntlet"}, +{"book_title": "Not Without Juliet", "author_name": "L.L. Muir", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 393, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "She will let nothing stop her...Juliet Bell has a hit man, the FBI, a long-lost sister, and a handful of handsome Highlanders hunting her through time. But she's not going back until she gets what's hers. And her hunters won't go back either--not without Juliet.He's had a change of heart...Quinn's timing stinks. He's about to die a martyr, which would have been fine with him a year before, but 15th century Scotland has revived his survival instincts and he's decided he wants to live after all. His only hope? Making one of his foes believe Quinn can control the future.An enemy they never saw coming...Juliet and Quinn are thrown together, whether by the hands of Fate or a pair of clever witches, and they find love lends a much nobler purpose to their impossible quests. But they'll have to maneuver around a centuries-old curse and a villain with a higher purpose of his own--or everything they want will be out of their hands forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17447823-not-without-juliet"}, +{"book_title": "The Sacrifice", "author_name": "Charlie Higson", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 5645, "review_number": 384, "book_description": "The Sacrifice picks up after Small Sam and The Kid arrive at the Tower of London at the end of The Dead. Though Sam finds safety and friendship at the Tower with Jordan Hordern's crew, he can't settle down. The only thing he wants is to be reunited with his sister, Ella. Despite Ed's protests, Sam and the Kid strike out westward, through the no-go zone.Meanwhile, Shadowman is tracking Saint George across north London, watching him build up his army. Shadowman knows that Saint George is an extremely dangerous threat, but no one will take his warnings seriously.Some answers to the questions we've been wondering about--What is the Disease? Where did it come from? Is there a cure?--are addressed by an unexpected source: a diseased adult nicknamed Wormwood who has the ability to speak, though his ravings are difficult to decipher.Unspeakable horror, edge-of-the-seat suspense, and stomach-churning plot twists continue in Book 4 of Charlie Higson's masterful Enemy saga.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18453187-the-sacrifice"}, +{"book_title": "The Pirate Prince", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1234, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Shapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Jarek sails the high sky doing what he pleases\u2026that is until drug dealers kidnap one of his men. But the rescue mission goes wrong and instead of a crewman, he liberates a woman who he believes is desperately trying to escape her captors. He soon discovers he unwittingly kidnaped a princess. Mei has just learned her future from a seer, and it seems fate is giving her in marriage to a neighboring ruler. She will do her duty, but first she wants to experience an adventure. When the pirates come to steal, she knows exactly who she wants that adventure to be.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12701151-the-pirate-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Machine Man #1", "author_name": "Jack Kirby", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 6, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Machine Man #1, Marvel Comics", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22240523-machine-man-1"}, +{"book_title": "Zeitgeist", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1191, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "It's 1999, and in the Turkish half of Cyprus, the ever-enterprising Leggy Starlitz has alighted - pausing on his mission to storm the Third World with the G-7 girls, the cheapest, phoniest all-girl rock group ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex. His market is staring him in the face: millions of teenagers trapped in a world of mullahs and mosques, all ready to blow their pocket change on G-7's massive merchandising campaign - and to wildly anticipate music the band will never release.Leggy's brilliant plan means doing business with some of the world's most dangerous people. Among these thieves, schemers, and killers, he must act quickly and decisively. Y2K is just around the corner - and the only rule to live by is that the whole scheme stops before the year 2000. But Leggy's G-7 Zeitgeist is in serious jeopardy, for in Istanbul his former partners are getting restless - and the G-7 girls are beginning to die...Cover illustration by Eric Dinyer", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Literature (American)", "The United States Of America", "Novels", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347434.Zeitgeist"}, +{"book_title": "Captured by the Alien Savage", "author_name": "Marina Maddix", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 795, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Just when I think nothing else could go wrong\u2026I see her. My crew and I are on a desperate mission hunting a villain, but he\u2019s always one step ahead. Now we\u2019re stuck in orbit over a primitive planet called \u2018Earth\u2019 without enough fuel to get us home. And worst of all, every last one of us is about to go into heat. That\u2019s bad. Very bad. Our only hope of survival lies somewhere on the surface. I can\u2019t afford any distractions, least of all a beautiful, curvy human female who my body tells me is my fated mate, my amavar. But that\u2019s impossible! My mate can\u2019t be human\u2026 can she?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29848221-captured-by-the-alien-savage"}, +{"book_title": "The Clone Alliance", "author_name": "Steven L. Kent", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1042, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Third in the national bestselling series-military science fiction on the edge. Rogue clone Wayson Harris is stranded on a frontier planet-until a rebel offensive puts him back in the uniform of a U.A. Marine, once again leading a strike against the enemy. But the rebels have a powerful ally no one could have imagined.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1288583.The_Clone_Alliance"}, +{"book_title": "Flashpoint", "author_name": "Geoff Johns", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 11283, "review_number": 782, "book_description": "Not a dream, not an imaginary story, not an elseworld. This is Flash Fact: When Barry Allen wakes at his desk, he discovers the world has changed. Family is alive, loved ones are strangers, and close friends are different, gone or worse. It's a world on the brink of a cataclysmic war - but where are Earth's Greatest Heroes to stop it? It's a place where America's last hope is Cyborg, who hopes to gather the forces of The Outsider, The Secret 7, SHAZAM!, Citizen Cold and other new and familiar, yet altered, faces! It's a world that could be running out of time, if The Flash can't find the villain who altered the time line!Collecting: Flashpoint 1-5", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Dc Comics (Batman)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11501608-flashpoint"}, +{"book_title": "In The Corsair's Bed", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2892, "review_number": 245, "book_description": "As a pirate, I tend to hang out with unsavory outcasts at the edges of the known universe. I\u2019m used to running into thieves, assassins and fugitives. It shouldn\u2019t surprise me to see a forbidden human female for sale in the tunnels of the space station, but I hate it. When I see she\u2019s near death, I have to act. I buy her. She spits in my face. It\u2019s love at first sight. At least, it\u2019s love at first sight on my end. I know it can never be, though, because I\u2019m an ugly beast of an alien to her. The enemy. If only she knew just how many laws I\u2019d be willing to break for one taste of her lips\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39074477-in-the-corsair-s-bed"}, +{"book_title": "Perihelion", "author_name": "William F. Wu", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 487, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "A man without memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman whose own identity he has reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he discovers the shocking secret of his true identity. Tormented by a nightmarish disease, Derec must face the genius Dr. Avery, and compel him to reveal the truth!", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824091.Perihelion"}, +{"book_title": "Bios", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 956, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "In the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely expensive, so humakind's efforts are focused on Isis, the one nearby Earthlike world. Isis is verdant, Edenic, rich with complex DNA-based plant and animal life. And every molecule of Isian life is spectacularly toxic to human beings. The entire planet is a permanent Level Four Hot Zone.Despite that, Isis is the most interesting discovery of the millennium: a parallel biology with lessons to teach us about our own nature. It's also the hardest of hardship posts, the loneliest place in the universe.Zoe Fisher was born to explore Isis. Literally. Cloned and genetically engineered by a faction within the hothouse politics of Earth, Zoe is optimized to face Isis's terrors. Now at last Zoe has arrived on Isis. But there are secrets implanted within her that not even she suspects--and the planet itself has secrets that will change our understanding of life in the universe.Bursting with ideas, replete with human insight, Bios is science fiction in the grand tradition: a novel of bravery, exploration, and discovery in a universe charged with awe.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Biology (Ecology)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1077067.Bios"}, +{"book_title": "A Cottage by the Sea", "author_name": "Ciji Ware", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3314, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "Some might call it running away . . .But after a scandalous Hollywood divorce, Blythe Stowe considered it damage control for body and soul. The pain, the humiliation, the daily tabloids shouting details as her famous husband dumped her for her own sister demanded a serious getaway: to the wild coast of Cornwall and a cottage by the sea that her Wyoming grandmother claimed had been home to her ancestors.Some might call it chance . . .But Blythe encountered more than just a quaint retreat nestled amid vivid skies and gorgeous ocean. And she had the odd sensation that her wickedly handsome neighbor Lucas Teague was more than a British gentleman going broke. He might be her destiny . . .", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Contemporary", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7693972-a-cottage-by-the-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Element Zero", "author_name": "James Knapp", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 111, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Technologically reanimated corpses are frontline soldiers engaged in a neverending war. Agent Nico Wachalowski uncovered a conspiracy that allowed Samuel Fawkes, the scientist who created them, to control them beyond the grave. And now Fawkes has infected untold thousands with new technology, creating an undetectable army that will obey his every command-a living army that just might represent the future of humanity...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8562561-element-zero"}, +{"book_title": "When I Fall in Love", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2267, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Nicholas de Piaget is finished with demoiselles more interested in his riches than his heart. He is certain he\u2019ll spend the rest of his life in his leaky castle, watching others enjoy wedded bliss, until he stumbles upon a flame-haired maiden in distress. His honor demands that he help her return home \u2013 if only his heart would allow it.Jennifer McKinnon is convinced that there are no more knights in shining armor \u2013 at least not in Manhattan. Then a chance trip to England leaves her wondering if a happily ever after might be in her future. Little does she know that a hero of legendary chivalry awaits her \u2026 eight hundred years in the past.But desires of the heart and dangerous secrets threaten to tear them apart, and only time will tell if true love can lead them to a fairy-tale ending\u2026", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50716.When_I_Fall_in_Love"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Starship", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 7368, "review_number": 466, "book_description": "Ten thousand years ago, a single alien super-ship survived a desperate battle. The vessel's dying crew set the AI on automatic to defend the smashed rubble of their planet. Legend has it the faithful ship continues to patrol the empty battlefield, obeying its last order throughout the lonely centuries. In the here and now, Earth needs a miracle. Out of the Beyond invade the New Men, stronger, faster and smarter than the old. Their superior warships and advanced technology destroy every fleet sent to stop them. Their spies have infiltrated the government and traitors plague Earth\u2019s military. Captain Maddox of Star Watch Intelligence wonders if the ancient legend could be true. Would such an old starship be able to face the technology of the New Men? On the run from killers, Maddox searches for a group of talented misfits. He seeks Keith Maker, a drunken ex-strikefighter ace, Doctor Dana Rich the clone thief stuck on a prison planet and Lieutenant Valerie Noonan, the only person to have faced the New Men in battle and survived to tell about it. Maddox has to find a place hidden in the Beyond and bring back a ship no one can enter. If he fails, the New Men will replace the old. If he succeeds, humanity might just have a fighting chance\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23146375-the-lost-starship"}, +{"book_title": "Kushiel's Justice", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 17869, "review_number": 474, "book_description": "My blood beat hard in my veins and hammered in my ears, like the sound of bronze wings clashing. And I understand for the first time what it meant that Kushiel, the One God's punisher, had loved his charges too well...Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are history's most reviled traitors, while his adoptive parents, Ph\u00e8dre and Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions. Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood, third in line for the throne in a land that revels in beauty, art, and desire.After a year abroad to study at university, Imriel returns from his adventures a little older and somewhat wiser. But perhaps not wise enough. What was once a mere spark of interest between himself and his cousin Sidonie now ignites into a white-hot blaze. But from commoner to peer, the whole realm would recoil from any alliance between Sidonie, heir to the throne, and Imriel, who bears the stigma of his mother's of his mother's misdeeds and betrayals. Praying that their passion will peak and fade, Imriel and Sidonie embark on an intense, secret affair.Blessed Elua founded Terre d'Ange and bestowed one simple precept to guide his people: Love as thou wilt. When duty calls, Imriel honors his role as a member of the royal family by leaving to marry a lovely, if merely sweet, Alban princess. By choosing duty over love, Imriel and Sidonie may have unwittingly trespassed against Elua's law. But when dark powers in Alba, who fear an invasion by Terre d'Ange, seek to use the lovers' passion to bind Imriel, the gods themselves take notice.Before the end, Kushiel's justice will be felt in heaven and on earth.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adult", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40217.Kushiel_s_Justice"}, +{"book_title": "Land of Nod, The Artifact", "author_name": "Gary Hoover", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 578, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "Jeff Browning has been haunted by terrifying dreams since the mysterious disappearance of his father (a renowned physicist). But when he finds a portal in his father\u2019s office, he must overcome his fears in an attempt to find him.The portal takes him to another dimension \u2013 one populated by fantastic and dangerous creatures and also an advanced society of humans.As Jeff looks for clues regarding what may have happened to his father, he is accused by some of being a spy while thought by others to be a prophesized figure . . . who may be the key to victory in a developing war.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15775697-land-of-nod-the-artifact"}, +{"book_title": "Hellhole Awakening", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1128, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "In this exhiliarting sequel to Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Hellhole, the stakes on planet Hallholme have been raised to new heights.After declaring his independence from the corrupt Constellation, rebel General Adolphus knows the crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together the struggling Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. Even then, he doubts his desperate measures will be enough.Diadem Michella Duchenet has collected a huge space fleet led by Commodore Escobar Hallholme, son of the hero who originally defeated Adolphus. They expect resistance from the General's rebels, but who could possibly stand up to such a mighty fleet?Adolphus knows he's running out of time, but he still has some hope--the shadow-Xayans have banded together to defend their sacred planet with \"telemancy,\" but can they discover new powers to protect all the stored alien lives on the already devastated world? And when all hope seems lost, the awakened Xayans reveal information hidden even from their own followers--the existence of a bigger threat that makes even the Constellation fleet seem insignificant.Disaster has come for General Adolphus and Hellhole...and this time there is no escape.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793043-hellhole-awakening"}, +{"book_title": "The Line", "author_name": "Teri Hall", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 6972, "review_number": 829, "book_description": "An invisible, uncrossable physical barrier encloses the United States. The Line is the part of the border that lopped off part of the country, dooming the inhabitants to an unknown fate when the enemy used a banned weapon. It's said that bizarre creatures and superhumans live on the other side, in Away. Nobody except tough old Ms. Moore would ever live next to the Line. Nobody but Rachel and her mother, who went to live there after Rachel's dad died in the last war. It's a safe, quiet life. Until Rachel finds a mysterious recorded message that can only have come from Away. The voice is asking for help. Who sent the message? Why is her mother so protective? And to what lengths is Rachel willing to go in order to do what she thinks is right?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6494966-the-line"}, +{"book_title": "The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza", "author_name": "Shaun David Hutchinson", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 3047, "review_number": 693, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth.This can be scientifically explained (it\u2019s called parthenogenesis), but what can\u2019t be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she\u2019s had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking lot. Or why the boy who shot Freddie, David Combs, disappeared from the same parking lot minutes later after getting sucked up into the clouds. What also can\u2019t be explained are the talking girl on the front of a tampon box, or the reasons that David Combs shot Freddie in the first place.As more unbelievable things occur, and Elena continues to perform miracles, the only remaining explanation is the least logical of all\u2014that the world is actually coming to an end, and Elena is possibly the only one who can do something about it.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Magical Realism", "Romance", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297386-the-apocalypse-of-elena-mendoza"}, +{"book_title": "The Andalite Chronicles", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 4757, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Relates the story of Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, the Andalite war-prince responsible for creating the human animorphs on Earth.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Animals", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363423.The_Andalite_Chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost Soldiers", "author_name": "Michael G. Thomas", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 109, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Ghost Soldiers is the second novel in the bestselling Star Crusades: Mercenaries series that follows the violent struggles of the Alliance, mankind\u2019s first interstellar empire. The newly formed Interstellar Assault Brigade has been tested in secret, but their first official combat action will send a shockwave through the Alliance. A group of mercenaries and criminals have occupied part of Old Spascia City , the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in the Biomech War. They have heavily fortified the entire area, and beaten off numerous attempts by local forces to defeat them. With public attention focused on this impregnable fortress, the IAB arrives and assaults the position in broad daylight. Advanced dropships swoop in to release squads of robotic warriors known as 'Grunts'. As they engage the defenders, smaller numbers of large 'Maverick' bipedal combat suits blast fortifications apart with high-power plasma weaponry. It is a stunning debut that puts the brigade on the lips of every citizen. On the opposite side of Alliance space is a deadly new threat, a massive spacecraft that is heading directly for the colonies of T'Karan. A heavily armed destroyer is diverted to intercept, and apparently lost with all hands in a matter of minutes. There is only one unit capable of performing a rescue operation in the limited time remaining. With just hours to spare, Spartan assembles the newly christened IAB for their deadliest mission yet. A journey across the stars to face this ancient vessel that dwarfs even a fully assembled warfleet. Waiting deep inside this vast derelict lies an alien intelligence, one that can be traced back to a civilisation long forgotten. What starts as a rescue operation quickly turns into a bloodbath, where every members of the unit is hunted by this new terrible enemy, that seeks no less than their utter annihilation. The Mercenaries series is set in the aftermath of the apocalyptic Biomech War. The war may have been won, but after nine long years the future still looks bleak. Entire planets remain devastated, and millions of citizens are homeless. It falls on the military, and the growing numbers of mercenaries and freebooters to keep the peace between the great empires and ensure the survival of the overstretched Alliance.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23965925-ghost-soldiers"}, +{"book_title": "A Symphony of Echoes", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 13870, "review_number": 1219, "book_description": "Book Two in the madcap time-travel series based at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.In the second book in the Chronicles of St Mary's series, Max and the team visit Victorian London in search of Jack the Ripper, witness the murder of Archbishop Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, and discover that dodos make a grockling noise when eating cucumber sandwiches.But they must also confront an enemy intent on destroying St Mary's - an enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy History itself to do it.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adventure", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25876967-a-symphony-of-echoes"}, +{"book_title": "Beneath a Waning Moon", "author_name": "Elizabeth Hunter", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1554, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Two delightfully dark tales of Gothic romance from Elizabeth Hunter and Grace Draven.In A VERY PROPER MONSTER, Josephine Shaw spends long nights filling the pages of her Gothic stories with the fantastic and the macabre, unaware that the suitor her father has arranged is one of the dark creatures she\u2019s always dreamed. For Tom Dargin, courting an ailing spinster was only one duty in a long life of service to his sire. But after he meets the curious Miss Shaw, will Tom become the seducer or the seduced? Can a love fated to end in tragedy survive a looming grave?In GASLIGHT HADES, Nathaniel Gordon walks two worlds\u2014that of the living and the dead. Barely human, he's earned the reputation of a Bonekeeper, the scourge of grave robbers. He believes his old life over, until one dreary burial he meets the woman he once loved and almost married. Lenore Kenward stands at her father\u2019s grave, begging the protection of the mysterious guardian, not knowing he is her lost love. Resolved to keep his distance, Nathaniel is forced to abandon his plan and accompany Lenore on a journey into the mouth of Hell where sea meets sky, and the abominations that exist beyond its barrier wait to destroy them.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Short Stories", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26172973-beneath-a-waning-moon"}, +{"book_title": "The Warded Man", "author_name": "Peter V. Brett", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 112562, "review_number": 5447, "book_description": "As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise\u2014demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards\u2014symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. It was not always this way. Once, men and women battled the corelings on equal terms, but those days are gone. Night by night the demons grow stronger, while human numbers dwindle under their relentless assault. Now, with hope for the future fading, three young survivors of vicious demon attacks will dare the impossible, stepping beyond the crumbling safety of the wards to risk everything in a desperate quest to regain the secrets of the past. Together, they will stand against the night.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3428935-the-warded-man"}, +{"book_title": "Off to Be the Wizard", "author_name": "Scott Meyer", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 33645, "review_number": 2852, "book_description": "Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little \u201ctweaks\u201d have not escaped notice. Rather than face prosecution, he decides instead to travel back in time to the Middle Ages and pose as a wizard.What could possibly go wrong?An American hacker in King Arthur\u2019s court, Martin must now train to become a full-fledged master of his powers, discover the truth behind the ancient wizard Merlin\u2026 and not, y\u2019know, die or anything.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18616975-off-to-be-the-wizard"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 36795, "review_number": 2453, "book_description": "Before America Singer's story began, another girl came to the palace to compete for the hand of a different prince\u2026.Don't miss this digital original novella set in the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series. This prequel story takes place before the events of The Selection and is told from the point of view of Prince Maxon's mother, Amberly. Discover a whole new Selection with this inside look at how Maxon's parents met\u2014and how an ordinary girl named Amberly became a beloved queen.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22054340-the-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Without a Summer", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3420, "review_number": 481, "book_description": "Up-and-coming fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal enchanted fans with award-winning short stories and beloved novels featuring Regency pair Jane Ellsworth and Vincent. In Without a Summer the master glamourists return home, but in a world where magic is real, nothing\u2014even the domestic sphere\u2014is quite what it seems.Jane and Vincent\u00a0go to Long Parkmeade to spend time with Jane\u2019s family, but quickly turn restless. The year is unseasonably cold. No one wants to be outside and Mr. Ellsworth is concerned by the\u00a0harvest, since a bad one may imperil\u00a0Melody\u2019s dowry. And Melody has concerns of her own, given the inadequate selection of eligible bachelors. When Jane and Vincent receive a commission from a prominent family in London, they decide to take it, and\u00a0take Melody with them. They hope\u00a0the change of scenery will do her good and her marriage prospects\u2014and mood\u2014will\u00a0be brighter in London.Once there, talk is of nothing but the\u00a0crop failures caused by the cold and increased unemployment of the coldmongers, which have\u00a0provoked riots in several cities to the north. With each passing day, it\u2019s more difficult to avoid getting embroiled in the intrigue, none of which really helps\u00a0Melody\u2019s chances for romance.\u00a0It\u2019s not long before Jane and Vincent realize that in addition to getting Melody to the church on time, they must take on\u00a0one small task: solving a crisis of international proportions.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793208-without-a-summer"}, +{"book_title": "Tin Men", "author_name": "Amalie Jahn", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 185, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Charlie's love for Brooke has grown in the years they've been together, but when his father dies in a tragic climbing accident, he discovers a well-hidden family secret which turns his life upside down and threatens to destroy his sense of self as well as his relationship with Brooke.Although deep down Charlie always suspected his family wasn't what it seemed, the truth of his adoption compels him to search for his birth mother. In the quest to find her, he realizes traveling to the past for the truth he seeks will jeopardize his relationship with the person he cherishes most in the world.Brooke almost lost everything traveling back in time to save her brother. Will Charlie make the same mistake?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Parenting (Adoption)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)", "Death", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37883600-tin-men"}, +{"book_title": "The Waste Lands", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 192314, "review_number": 5822, "book_description": "Several months have passed, and Roland\u2019s two new tet-mates have become proficient gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta\u2019s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But while battling The Pusher in 1977 New York, Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who\u2014in Roland\u2019s where and when\u2014has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. But nothing is easy in Mid-World. Along the way our tet stumbles into the ruined city of Lud, and are caught between the warring gangs of the Pubes and the Grays. The only way out of Lud is to wake Blaine the Mono, an insane train that has a passion for riddling, and for suicidal journeys.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Westerns", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34084.The_Waste_Lands"}, +{"book_title": "Uglies: Shay's Story", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 3822, "review_number": 376, "book_description": "\u201cThis whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves.\u201d\u2014Shay \u00a0Uglies told Tally Youngblood\u2019s version of life in Uglyville and the budding rebellion against the Specials. Now comes an exciting graphic novel revealing new adventures in the Uglies world\u2014as seen through the eyes of Shay, Tally\u2019s rebellious best friend who\u2019s not afraid to break the rules, no matter the cost. \u00a0 A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, Shay eagerly awaits her turn to become a Pretty\u2014a rite-of-passage operation called \u201cthe Surge\u201d that transforms ordinary Uglies into paragons of beauty. Yet after befriending the Crims, a group of fellow teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value, Shay starts to question the whole concept. And as the Crims explore beyond the monitored borders of Uglyville into the forbidden, ungoverned wild, Shay must choose between the perks of being Pretty and the rewards of being real.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12731487-uglies"}, +{"book_title": "Planet Mail", "author_name": "Kate Pearce", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1272, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "As far as job hazards go, Douglass Fraser didn't think crash-landing on an alien planet and spending her recuperation being erotically pleasured by three gorgeous men was in the United Planetary Parcel Service's courier handbook. There certainly wasn't a section on what to do when a very sexy king wants you to have his baby and save his world.Marcus Blood Axe isn't only a descendant of ancient Viking space travelers, he's also a ruler dealing with a shortage of fertile women and no heir. Surely the gods are on his side when Douglass drops out of the sky and into his bed, giving him a last chance to stop his people's death spiral into extinction.Despite the exquisite pleasures to be found in the king's arms, Douglass wants more from Marcus than to be his broodmare. When another woman claims to be pregnant with Marcus' child, it's past time to get back home. Now the war Marcus wages is one of sensual passion designed to convince his Earth woman that she's worth everything to him\u2026even if it means giving up what he cherishes most.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1973126.Planet_Mail"}, +{"book_title": "Arabella of Mars", "author_name": "David D. Levine", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2020, "review_number": 479, "book_description": "Ever since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, they proved that space travel was both possible and profitable. Now, one century later, a plantation in the flourishing British colony on Mars is home to Arabella Ashby. A tomboy who shares her father's deft hand with complex automatons. Being raised on the Martian frontier by her Martian nanny, Arabella is more a wild child than a proper young lady. Something her mother plans to remedy with a move to an exotic world Arabella has never seen: London, England. Arabella soon finds herself trying to navigate an alien world until a dramatic change in her family's circumstances forces her to defy all conventions in order to return to Mars in order to save both her brother and the plantation. To do this, Arabella must pass as a boy on the Diana, a ship serving the Mars Trading Company with a mysterious Indian captain who is intrigued by her knack with automatons. Arabella must weather the naval war between Britain and France, learning how to sail, and a mutinous crew if she hopes to save her brother from certain death.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25615226-arabella-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Marching Through Georgia", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1020, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "The first book of the Draka series. 1942: The Eurasian War.The fleets of Imperial Japan raid the coasts of a United States that stretches from Panama to the Arctic. The Nazi war machine takes Moscow and sweeps east to the Urals. To the south the Domination of the Draka is a giant forge with serf-manned factories pouring out tanks, airplanes and artillery as the Janissary legions gather for the final triumph and revenge.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/801962.Marching_Through_Georgia"}, +{"book_title": "The Prey of Gods", "author_name": "Nicky Drayden", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2681, "review_number": 653, "book_description": "In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry which has found a welcome home there. Yes--the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. That is, if they can survive the present challenges:A new hallucinogenic drug sweeping the country . . .An emerging AI uprising . . .And an ancient demigoddess hellbent on regaining her former status by preying on the blood and sweat (but mostly blood) of every human she encounters.It's up to a young Zulu girl powerful enough to destroy her entire township, a queer teen plagued with the ability to control minds, a pop diva with serious daddy issues, and a politician with even more serious mommy issues to band together to ensure there's a future left to worry about.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Cultural (Africa)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30129154-the-prey-of-gods"}, +{"book_title": "Adventure Time Vol. 1", "author_name": "Ryan North", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 12697, "review_number": 542, "book_description": "It's ADVENTURE TIME! Join Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, and Princess Bubblegum for all-new adventures through The Land of Ooo.The totally algebraic adventures of Finn and Jake have come to the comic book page! The Lich, a super-lame, SUPER-SCARY skeleton dude, has returned to the the Land of Ooo, and he\u2019s bent on total destruction! Luckily, Finn and Jake are on the case...but can they succeed against their most destructive foe yet? Featuring fan-favorite characters Marceline the Vampire Queen, Princess Bubblegum, Lumpy Space Princess and the Ice King!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14498307-adventure-time-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "On the Edge of Gone", "author_name": "Corinne Duyvis", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2944, "review_number": 635, "book_description": "January 29, 2035.That\u2019s the day the comet is scheduled to hit\u2014the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter near their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Denise\u2019s drug-addicted mother is going, they\u2019ll never reach the shelter in time.Then a last-minute encounter leads them to something better than a temporary shelter: a generation ship that\u2019s scheduled to leave Earth behind and colonize new worlds after the comet hits. But each passenger must have a practical skill to contribute. Denise is autistic and fears that she\u2019ll never be allowed to stay. Can she obtain a spot before the ship takes flight? What about her mother and sister?When the future of the human race is at stake, whose lives matter most?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Disability", "LGBT", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22020598-on-the-edge-of-gone"}, +{"book_title": "The Other Side of Dawn", "author_name": "John Marsden", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 13677, "review_number": 412, "book_description": "Since their home was invaded by enemy soldiers and transformed into a war zone, Ellie and her friends have been fighting for their lives. Now a resolution may finally be in sight. But as enemy forces close in on her hideout, Ellie discovers that the final conflict just may be the most dangerous yet. And not everyone will survive. Nobody is safe in this exhilarating conclusion to Ellie's courageous struggle for freedom.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71867.The_Other_Side_of_Dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2051, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "Condemned by society and her werewolf husband due to a pregnancy she cannot explain, Alexia Maccon - preternatural, tea aficionado - seeks an explanation for this \"infant inconvenience\" so as to cleanse her sullied reputation and prove her fool of a husband wrong. Preternaturals are a rare breed and the only history of their kind lies in Italy with the Templars, a group that once partnered with preternaturals to hunt down werewolves and vampires. Will Alexia find an explanation for her impossible offspring? Or do the Templars have other plans for the curious \"Soulless One\"?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131399-soulless"}, +{"book_title": "THIRDS Beyond the Books: Volume 1", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 1228, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "Join us as we celebrate the THIRDS universe with this collection of flash fiction stories written to prompts submitted by fans. Sometimes we want to know more about our favorite characters. Where they came from, how they became who they are, their families, friendships, and past heartaches. These snippets of moments in time offer an inside look at the lives of our favorite THIRDS characters. Whether it\u2019s first shifts, the forging of unbreakable bonds, or a night full of shenanigans, these stories are sure to enrich your THIRDS reading experience.** All royalties earned from THIRDS Beyond the Books are being donated to Big Cat Rescue.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Humor", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30122024-thirds-beyond-the-books"}, +{"book_title": "His Highness the Duke", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1044, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Paranormal Dragonshifter Romance The would-be heroine\u2026 Aeron wants nothing more than to continue to live out her very long, solitary life in a small metal room listening to communications for the Federation Military. It\u2019s not glamorous. It\u2019s not even charming. But it\u2019s safe. There\u2019s no chance of getting hurt. When she intercepts a communication about the impeding genocide of the Qurilixian people, she has no choice but to act. No one at the Federation seems inclined to do anything about the threat and suddenly it\u2019s up to her to save a whole planet. Enlisting the help of her degenerate sister, Aeron finds herself signed up as a prospective bride to the very barbarians she\u2019s trying to save. The man who did not need saved\u2026 High Duke of Draig, Lord Bron, is not looking forward to his seventh failed attempt at a marriage ceremony, but when he sees the lovely Aeron he knows instantly his years of waiting have finally paid off. The gods have blessed him with a life mate\u2026 or have they? His new bride is insistent she\u2019s not there for marriage, but for a mission. It\u2019s up to Bron to convince her to stay, or risk spending the rest of his life alone.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13412430-his-highness-the-duke"}, +{"book_title": "A Knight's Vow", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1275, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Set during the misty Middle Ages, when brave knights in shining armor rescued fair maidens and chivalry and honor were prized above all things, this quartet of novellas from some of the genre's best-known writers takes the concept of the vow and spins it into four very different yet thematically linked medieval tales.\nLynn Kurland - The Traveller (MacLeod #2.6)(de Piaget/MacLeod #7.5)\nA bedraggled knight makes a solemn vow to protect, defend, and rescue any and all maidens in distress - even those from Manhattan...\nPatricia Potter - The Minstrel\nA vow to marry for love transforms a marquis into a minstrel who must sing for his supper - and for a woman whose heart is true...\n\n\n\n\nDeborah Simmons - The Bachelor Knight\nA forgotten vow comes back to haunt the greatest knight in all the land,when a fair maiden asks for hand in marriage...\nGlynnis Campbell - The Siege\nTrapped underground with his unwilling betrothed, a determined knight vows to free her - body and soul...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50735.A_Knight_s_Vow"}, +{"book_title": "Swordspoint", "author_name": "Ellen Kushner", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 9036, "review_number": 941, "book_description": "The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories.\n\n\nHailed by critics as \"a bravura performance\" (Locus) and \"witty, sharp-eyed, [and] full of interesting people\" (Newsday), this classic melodrama of manners, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected humor, takes fantasy to an unprecedented level of elegant writing and scintillating wit. Award-winning author Ellen Kushner has created a world of unforgettable characters whose political ambitions, passionate love affairs, and age-old rivalries collide with deadly results.SwordspointOn the treacherous streets of Riverside, a man lives and dies by the sword. Even the nobles on the Hill turn to duels to settle their disputes. Within this elite, dangerous world, Richard St. Vier is the undisputed master, as skilled as he is ruthless--until a death by the sword is met with outrage instead of awe, and the city discovers that the line between hero and villain can be altered in the blink of an eye.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68485.Swordspoint"}, +{"book_title": "Sword & Citadel", "author_name": "Gene Wolfe", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 11021, "review_number": 429, "book_description": "The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as \"a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis\" by Publishers Weekly, and \"one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century\" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sword & Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume:The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will forever alter the realm known as Urth.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Epic", "Science Fiction (Dying Earth)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Literature", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40995.Sword_Citadel"}, +{"book_title": "Long Voyage Back", "author_name": "Luke Rhinehart", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 418, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "With the fate of the planet hanging in the balance, retired naval officer and Naval Academy graduate Neil Loken steers a trimaran and her passengers to the literal end of the earth in this taut thriller about a small group of friends escaping a nuclear holocaust.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1070342.Long_Voyage_Back"}, +{"book_title": "Inheritor", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 3909, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner, begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race.\u00a0 From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix\u2014the same ship which brought a colony of humans to the hostile environment of alien atevi nearly two hundred years ago. During these six months, the atevi have reconfigured their fledgling space program in a bid to take their place in the heavens alongside humans. But the return of the Phoenix has added a frighteningly powerful third party to an already volatile situation, polarizing both human and atevi political factions, and making the possibility of all-out planetary war an even more likely threat.On the atevi mainland, human ambassador Bren Cameron, in a desperate attempt to maintain the peace, has arranged for one human representative from the Phoenix to take up residence with him in his apartments, and for another to be stationed on Mosphiera, humanity's island enclave. Bren himself is unable to return home for fear of being arrested or assassinated by the powerful arch conservative element who wish to bar the atevi from space. Desperately trying to keep abreast of the atevi associations, how can Bren possibly find a way to save two species from a three-sided conflict that no one can win?The long-running Foreigner series can also be enjoyed by more casual genre readers in sub-trilogy installments. Inheritor is the 3rd Foreigner novel. It is also the 3rd book in the first subtrilogy.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Planetary Romance)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57015.Inheritor"}, +{"book_title": "The Good the Bad and the Infernal", "author_name": "Guy Adams", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 345, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "One day every hundred years, a town appears, its location and character different every time. It is home to the greatest miracle a man could imagine: a doorway to Heaven itself. the town\u2019s name is Wormwood, and it is due to appear on the 21st September 1889, somewhere in the American Midwest. There are many who hope to be there: travelling preacher obeisance Hicks and his simple messiah, Soldier Joe;Henry and Harmonium Jones and their freak show pack of outlaws; the Brothers of the order of Ruth and theirsponsor Lord Forset (inventor of the Forset thunderpack and other incendiary modes of personal transport); and finally, an aging gunslinger with a dark history. They will face dangers both strange and terrible: monstrous animals, predatory towns, armies of mechanical natives,and other things besides. Wormwood defends its secrets, and only the brave and resourceful will survive...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Westerns", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15802896-the-good-the-bad-and-the-infernal"}, +{"book_title": "The Well of Lost Plots", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 37274, "review_number": 1980, "book_description": "Protecting the world's greatest literature\u2014not to mention keeping up wit Miss Havisham\u2014is tiring work for an expectant mother. And Thursday can definitely use a respite. So what better hideaway than inside the unread and unreadable Caversham Heights, a clich\u00e9-ridden pulp mystery in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well itself is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books\u2014like Caversham Heights\u2014are scrapped for salvage. To top it off, a murderer is stalking Jurisdiction personnel and nobody is safe\u2014least of all Thursday.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Humor", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27001.The_Well_of_Lost_Plots"}, +{"book_title": "Monster Mayhem", "author_name": "Christopher Eliopoulos", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 271, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "In this funny, action-packed graphic novel adventure, a science-obsessed girl finds herself in the middle of one of her favorite monster movies. Can she invent her way out of disaster while also saving the monster who has become her friend?Zoe's favorite thing to do--besides invent and build robots--is watch classic monster movies. She has never been comfortable with kids her own age, and so she pretends she doesn't need friends while inside she's longing for connection. And then one day, Zoe finds a mysterious ring on her way home from school. She puts it on, gives it a twist, and--FRZAAKK! There's a massive burst of light! The next morning, a familiar monster appears at Zoe's window. He's from one of her favorite kaiju movies, and he likes Zoe--he wants to be her friend. Has her secret wish been fulfilled? But it turns out that Zoe's ring has brought more than just this friendly monster to life. More monsters have arrived, and they are hungry! Now she'll need to reach out to other people to help her save her town from destruction. Good thing she's a robotics genius!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Folklore (Monsters)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37487146-monster-mayhem"}, +{"book_title": "Scardust", "author_name": "Suzanne van Rooyen", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 148, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Dead Rock, Texas, 2037Raleigh Williams made a promise to his brother before he died, that he\u2019d scatter his ashes on Mars. Desperate to leave a life of bad memories behind and start over in the Martian colony, Raleigh fully intends to keep that promise. But his plans are thwarted when a meteor near-misses him in the desert, and Raleigh finds in its crater not debris or even a spacecraft, but a man covered in swirling scars and with no memory of who he is. At least he looks like a man\u2014a man Raleigh can\u2019t seem to keep his eyes off of\u2014but whenever they touch it ignites a memory swap between them.Raleigh agrees to help Meteor Man piece together his life through their cosmic connection. But the memory share goes both ways, and Raleigh becomes inexplicably entangled with a guy who is everything he needs\u2014everything good that Raleigh is not\u2014but might not even be human. As their minds and worlds collide, reality unravels and Raleigh must face a painful truth, one that could shatter his dreams of finding love, reaching Mars, and fulfilling his brother\u2019s last wish.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Health (Mental Health)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25459559-scardust"}, +{"book_title": "A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories", "author_name": "Ray Bradbury", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 6318, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time. . . These strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from the begininng of time to the outermost limits of the future. Selected from his best-selling collections \"The Golden Apples Of The Sun\" and \"R Is For Rocket,\" here are thirty-two superb stories from one of the master fantastics of our age--the inimitable Ray Bradbury.", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50014.A_Sound_of_Thunder_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "Dreadnought", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 7630, "review_number": 750, "book_description": "Mercy Lynch is working at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when she learns that her husband has died in a POW camp and her estranged father is gravely injured and wishes to see her. With no good reason to stay in Virginia, Mercy sets out to see her father in Seattle.But crossing the country is no small task; it's a harrowing adventure through war-torn border states by dirigible, rail, and the Mississippi River. And once Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the Dreadnought. Lacking options and running out of money, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard.What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy can't imagine why it's meeting such resisitance. Perhaps it has something to do with the mysterious cargo in the second and last train cars?Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Dreadnought alive.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7911067-dreadnought"}, +{"book_title": "The Terrans", "author_name": "Jean Johnson", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 860, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Jean Johnson's first novel in an explosive new science fiction trilogy set in the world of the national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series\u2014set two-hundred years earlier, at the dawn of the First Salik War\u2026Born into a political family and gifted with psychic abilities, Jacaranda MacKenzie has served as a border-watcher and even spent time as a representative on the United Planets Council. Now she just wants to spend her days in peace and quiet as a translator\u2014but the universe has other plans\u2026Humans have long known that they would encounter more alien species, and while those with precognitive abilities agree a terrible war is coming, they do not agree on who will save humanity\u2014a psychic soldier or a politician.But Jackie is both.After she is pressured into rejoining the Space Force to forestall the impending calamity, Jackie makes an unsettling discovery. Their new enemy, the Salik, seem to be rather familiar with fighting Humans\u2014as if their war against humanity had already begun\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23659078-the-terrans"}, +{"book_title": "Rumors of War", "author_name": "Jake Elwood", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 347, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Out of the frying pan \u2026 Tom Thrush thinks Basic Officer Training is tough \u2013 until he joins the frigate Kestrel and finds out what tough really means. The crew resents him. The First Officer is actively hostile. As the ship hunts pirates in deep space Tom struggles to fit in and wonders if things can get any worse. They can. And into the fire of interstellar war A devastating attack leaves the ship crippled with half the crew dead or dying. The senior officers are wiped out, leaving a terrified sublieutenant in the last place he wants to be. In command. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39335771-rumors-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "Orbs", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 3355, "review_number": 399, "book_description": "They have come for our most important resource...The year is 2061, and the planet is dying. Cataclysmic solar storms have forced leaders from around the world to finally put aside their differences and agree on one thing\u2014to jump ship. The human race is headed to Mars. Dr. Sophie Winston is hired by New Tech Corporation to test a biosphere deep within the heart of Cheyenne Mountain; a mission she believes will help prepare NTC for the three-year flight to the red planet. But, just days into the assignment, things start to go wrong. When the blast doors hiss open, Winton's team finds a changed world outside. Humans are gone, vanished without a trace, and they aren't the only thing missing. The planet's water is gone, too. As the team explores their surroundings, they find thousands of luminous blue orbs lining the streets. It isn't until they uncover what's inside that they realize the nightmare that lies ahead.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18588743-orbs"}, +{"book_title": "Crescent City Rhapsody", "author_name": "Kathleen Ann Goonan", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 250, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "What would it feel like to live through a biological revolution? Many science fiction writers chronicling a vast technological shift lose sight of the people who would have to deal with it. Not so Kathleen Ann Goonan, whose Crescent City Rhapsody is the third of her Nanotech Cycle novels. Each of her characters is profoundly real, and the things that happen to them are as confusing, awe-inspiring, and terrifying as you might expect. Goonan's story begins with the assassination of Marie Laveau, New Orleans cyber-entrepreneur and grand-niece of the famous voudoun queen. By prior arrangement, Marie is resurrected into a cloned body and prepares for revenge, but she awakens into a world beset by the Silence--periodic bursts of microchip-destroying radiation from space. Enter Dr. Zeb Aberly, a bipolar astrophysicist whose manic episodes help him understand that the Silence contains an alien message and perhaps the potential to change humanity's biology radically. Meanwhile, in Japan, a young biotechnician seals her fate when she helps steal the recipe for a Universal Assembler, a nanotech tool of fearsome power and destructive capability. The stage is set for a revolution, and Goonan delivers, with complex, interwoven story lines that resemble the rhythms and structure of a jazz composition. Brightly colored lines were inching their way up buildings like plants in a fast-growing jungle. She moved briskly, but her heart was lifeless. She was looking at her past and seeing a future that she was not a part of. People sat leaning against buildings here and there, which was the hardest to see. They were not begging. Their brains were changing. They were adapting to the new city. As cities become organisms, a new generation of profoundly different humans comes of age and hope dawns in Crescent City, and Goonan directs the show with artistic flair. Crescent City Rhapsody is confusing and delightful, a swoony harmony of words swirling around crisply melodic ideas. --Therese Littleton", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1118450.Crescent_City_Rhapsody"}, +{"book_title": "First Login", "author_name": "Kevin Murphy", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1180, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Time in a capsule. People seek out escapes through countless avenues, but when the product is extra time to live\u2014within an emerging digital world\u2014everyone\u2019s a customer. Game capsules transport players to a new world where time is perceived far more slowly. Why study for eight hours in the real world when you could get it all done in a single hour? Why work slowly? Why relax that way? Following this mentality, Chronicle has become more than a game for governments, businesses, and players alike. When Corbin Landrick, an unlucky but hardworking guy, finally gets his hands on a ChronPod, he jumps headfirst into his second life. While he struggles to plant both feet firmly on the ground in a world of magic and monsters, he finds out that virtual reality is what you make of it.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36560211-first-login"}, +{"book_title": "Zoo", "author_name": "Otsuichi", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1351, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "A man receives a photo of his girlfriend every day in the mail...so that he can keep track of her body's decomposition. A deathtrap that takes a week to kill its victims. Haunted parks and airplanes held in the sky by the power of belief. These are just a few of the stories by Otsuichi, Japan's master of dark fantasy.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Horror", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149338-zoo"}, +{"book_title": "The Midnight Queen", "author_name": "Sylvia Izzo Hunter", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 2163, "review_number": 397, "book_description": "In the hallowed halls of Oxford\u2019s Merlin College, the most talented\u2014and highest born\u2014sons of the Kingdom of Britain are taught the intricacies of magickal theory. But what dazzles can also destroy, as Gray Marshall is about to discover\u2026\u00a0Gray\u2019s deep talent for magick has won him a place at Merlin College. But when he accompanies four fellow students on a mysterious midnight errand that ends in disaster and death, he is sent away in disgrace\u2014and without a trace of his power. He must spend the summer under the watchful eye of his domineering professor, Appius Callender, working in the gardens of Callender\u2019s country estate and hoping to recover his abilities. And it is there, toiling away on a summer afternoon, that he meets the professor\u2019s daughter.\u00a0Even though she has no talent of her own, Sophie Callender longs to be educated in the lore of magick. Her father has kept her isolated at the estate and forbidden her interest; everyone knows that teaching arcane magickal theory to women is the height of impropriety. But against her father\u2019s wishes, Sophie has studied his ancient volumes on the subject. And in the tall, stammering, yet oddly charming Gray, she finally finds someone who encourages her interest and awakens new ideas and feelings.\u00a0Sophie and Gray\u2019s meeting touches off a series of events that begins to unravel secrets about each of them. And after the king\u2019s closest advisor pays the professor a closed-door visit, they begin to wonder if what Gray witnessed in Oxford might be even more sinister than it seemed. They are determined to find out, no matter the cost\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Adult", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821047-the-midnight-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Beacon 23", "author_name": "Hugh Howey", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 14803, "review_number": 1205, "book_description": "For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At least, they aren't supposed to.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26771521-beacon-23"}, +{"book_title": "Coup d'Etat", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 768, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "In 1941, a treaty between England and Germany unravels\u2014and so does a different World War II.In Harry Turtledove\u2019s mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941. As the Germans, with England and France on their side, slam deep into Russia, Stalin\u2019s terrible machine fights for its life. But the agreements of world leaders do not touch the hearts of soldiers. The war between Germany and Russia is rocked by men with the courage to aim their guns in a new direction.England is the first to be shaken. Following the suspicious death of Winston Churchill, with his staunch anti-Nazi views, a small cabal begins to imagine the unthinkable in a nation long famous for respecting the rule of law. With civil liberties hanging by a thread, a conspiracy forms against the powers that be. What will this daring plan mean for the European war as a whole?Meanwhile, in America, a woman who has met Hitler face-to-face urges her countrymen to wake up to his evil. For the time being, the United States is fighting only Japan\u2014and the war is not going as well as Washington would like. Can Roosevelt keep his grip on the country\u2019s imagination?Coup d\u2019Etat captures how war makes for the strangest of bedfellows. A freethinking Frenchman fights side by side with racist Nazis. A Czech finds himself on the dusty front lines of the Spanish Civil War, gunning for Germany\u2019s Nationalist allies. A German bomber pilot courts a half-Polish, half-Jewish beauty in Bialystock. And the Jews in Germany, though trapped under Hitler\u2019s fist, are as yet protected by his fear of looking bad before the world\u2014and by an outspoken Catholic bishop.With his spectacular command of character, coincidence, and military and political strategies, Harry Turtledove continues a passionate, unmatched saga of a World War II composed of different enemies, different allies\u2014and hurtling toward a horrific moment. For a diabolical new weapon is about to be unleashed, not by the United States, but by Japan, in a tactic that will shock the world.\nPraise for Coup d\u2019Etat\n\u201cTurtledove\u2019s masterful presentation of an alternate WWII reaches its fourth volume with its quality undiminished. . . . A tribute to [his] commanding skills.\u201d\u2014Booklist (starred review)\u201cFor lovers of alternative history, and particularly the very popular Turtledove with his appealing weaponry, battle tactics, and setting details, this story will satisfy. It sets out to entertain . . . and that it does.\u201d\u2014Historical Novels Review\u201cThe book\u2019s grand scope and Turtledove\u2019s impressive historical knowledge are admirable.\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "War (World War II)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13154562-coup-d-etat"}, +{"book_title": "Don't You Wish", "author_name": "Roxanne St. Claire", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1463, "review_number": 234, "book_description": "What if your mom had married someone else?Would you still be you?When plain and unpopular Annie Nutter gets zapped by one of her dad's whacked-out inventions, she lands in a parallel universe where her life becomes picture perfect. Now she's Ayla Monroe, daughter of the same mother but a different father - and she's the gorgeous, rich queen bee of her high school.In this universe, Ayla lives in glitzy Miami instead of dreary Pittsburgh and has beaucoup bucks, courtesy of her billionaire - if usually absent - father. Her friends hit the clubs, party backstage at concerts, and take risks that are exhilarating . . . and illegal. Here she's got a date to lose her V-card with the hottest guy she's ever seen.But on the inside, Ayla is still Annie.So when she's offered the chance to leave the dream life and head home to Pittsburgh, will she take it?The choice isn't as simple as you think.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Family", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12924188-don-t-you-wish"}, +{"book_title": "The Freedom Maze", "author_name": "Delia Sherman", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 841, "review_number": 224, "book_description": "Thirteen-year-old Sophie isn't happy about spending summer at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou. But the house has a maze Sophie can't resist exploring once she finds it has a secretive and playful inhabitant. When she makes an impulsive wish, she slips one hundred years into the past, to the year 1860. Once she makes her way, bedraggled and tanned, to what will one day be her grandmother's house, she is taken for a slave.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11013228-the-freedom-maze"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Reaver", "author_name": "Aaron Dembski-Bowden", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1316, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Driven on by their hatred of the False Emperor, the Night Lords stalk the shadows of the galaxy, eternally seeking revenge for the death of their primarch. Their dark quest leads them to a fractious alliance with the Red Corsairs, united only by a common enemy. Together with this piratical band of renegades, they bring their ways of destruction to the fortress-monastery of the Marines Errant.THEY SEEK ONLY TO BRING DEATH", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8755565-blood-reaver"}, +{"book_title": "Genesis", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 2478, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "Bri's uncertain of whether she finds it more unnerving or thrilling that Kole, a warrior well over six feet in height and built like the hulk, watches her with hungry, covetous eyes, until the slavers who captured her toss her into his habitat with him for breeding. Then she knows it's both, but it's even more unsettling to find herself the object of desire of two six and a half foot males-particularly since Kole and Dansk seem perfectly willing fight to the death to settle which of them gets to breed her. Rating: Contains graphic sex, graphic language, graphic violence.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666403.Genesis"}, +{"book_title": "Nameless", "author_name": "Lili St. Crow", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 3913, "review_number": 542, "book_description": "When Camille was six years old, she was discovered alone in the snow by Enrico Vultusino, godfather of the Seven\u2014the powerful Families that rule magic-ridden New Haven. Papa Vultusino adopted the mute, scarred child, naming her after his dead wife and raising her in luxury on Haven Hill alongside his own son, Nico.Now Cami is turning sixteen. She\u2019s no longer mute, though she keeps her faded scars hidden under her school uniform, and though she opens up only to her two best friends, Ruby and Ellie, and to Nico, who has become more than a brother to her. But even though Cami is a pampered Vultusino heiress, she knows that she is not really Family. Unlike them, she is a mortal with a past that lies buried in trauma. And it\u2019s not until she meets the mysterious Tor, who reveals scars of his own, that Cami begins to uncover the secrets of her birth... to find out where she comes from and why her past is threatening her now.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Retellings", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13541909-nameless"}, +{"book_title": "The Borders of Infinity", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 5022, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "[A Miles Vorkosigan Story] Miles infiltrates a prison camp at Dagoola IV, where he plots from within to free the prisoners. [Publisher's Note: The Borders of Infinity was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the anthology Free Lancers in September 1987. It was then included in the novel Borders of Infinity (October 1989). For the novel, Ms. Bujold added a short \"framing story\" that tied the three novellas together by setting up each as a flashback that Miles experiences while recovering from bone-replacement surgery. Fictionwise is publishing these novellas separately, but we decided to leave in Ms. Bujold's short framing story for those who may also wish to read the other two novellas (he Mountains of Mourning and Labyrinth).] Locus Poll Award Nominee", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5073782-the-borders-of-infinity"}, +{"book_title": "The Past Through Tomorrow: Vol. 1", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 440, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Here, in volume one of two volumes, are approximately half of the stories, novelettes, novella, and novels which make up Heinlein's famous Future History -- the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work. Heinlein wrote most of the Future History stories early in his career, between 1939 and 1941 and between 1945 and 1950. Most of the Future History stories written prior to 1967 are collected in the two volumes of The Past Through Tomorrow, which also contains the final version of the chart. That collection does not include Universe and Common Sense; they were published separately as Orphans of the Sky.Contents: Introduction (The Past Through Tomorrow) (1967) \u2022 essay by Damon Knight Life-Line [Future History] (1939) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein The Roads Must Roll [Future History] (1940) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein Blowups Happen [Future History] (1940) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein The Man Who Sold the Moon [D. D. Harriman] (1950) / novella by Robert A. Heinlein Delilah and the Space-Rigger [Future History] (1949) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Space Jockey [Future History] (1947) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Requiem [D. D. Harriman] (1940) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein The Long Watch [Future History] (1949) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Gentlemen, Be Seated [Future History] (1948) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein The Black Pits of Luna (juvenile) [Future History] (1948) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein 'It's Great to Be Back!' [Future History] (1977) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of \"It's Great to Be Back!\" 1947).", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1090846.The_Past_Through_Tomorrow"}, +{"book_title": "Peacemaker", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 1398, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "At last\u2014Cajeiri has his young guests from the starship, three young folk entranced by weather and trees and creatures with minds of their own. It\u2019s all he dreamed of...But now safety is foremost: Cajeiri\u2019s grandfather has been assassinated, hostile Assassins Guild invaded Great-uncle\u2019s house, and now Bren Cameron, paidhi-aiji, who was sent to keep the aiji\u2019s son safe, has more than the young guests on his mind. The aiji-dowager knows who\u2019s to blame for the attacks, and they\u2019re going after him.The fact that the person responsible is in the heart of Assassins\u2019 Guild Headquarters, the most closely guarded fortress on the continent, is not going to stop her.Bren Cameron has the pieces now, of a decades-old plot that\u2019s been threaded through Guild actions going back before his arrival on the continent, and more\u2014he knows the person responsible is going to find out he knows, and find out within hours.They have no choice. If they don\u2019t move, the other side will.And the lives of the boy, the guests, the entire ruling family are at stake.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17731464-peacemaker"}, +{"book_title": "Going Under", "author_name": "Justina Robson", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1107, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Lila Black is off with the faeries . . .Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals\u2014and their worlds are open to us. Things have been different for Special Agent Lila Black too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, rebuilt by humans into a half-robot, part-AI, nuclear-fueled walking arsenal, and carrying the essence of a dead elfin necromancer in her chest, sometimes she has trouble figuring out who she is. And a mission to the world of the fae may not help her work it out. The fae are beautiful, glamorous, exotic, and talented, ruled by their king and queen\u2019s summer and winter courts. Their inventions make food taste better, make beer divine, and bring sparkle and mischief to the world\u2013but that\u2019s only the surface. And Lila is being sent in at the deep end, to the deepest, darkest levels of Faerie: on the primal level, nothing about the fae is glamorous at all. In a winter-locked, raw, and primitive world, Lila has to deal with the fae at their most basic levels, as tricksters and dealmakers\u2013and the only deals worth making are bloody ones. If Lila\u2019s quest is to succeed, and if she is ever to escape Faerie, the right question must be asked, the right sacrifice must be made, and the right quarry must be hunted down on the winter solstice. All of which is difficult, when the only aides Lila brought to Faerie are her friends . . . Justina Robson\u2019s new series combines her trademark themes of identity and reality, magic and technology, break-neck plots, a mischievous sense of fun, and a seriously sexy new heroine.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3287236-going-under"}, +{"book_title": "Restore Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 41655, "review_number": 6692, "book_description": "Juliette Ferrars thought she'd won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander, and now has Warner by her side. But she's still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch\u2014and now she's got the whole world in the palm of her hand. When tragedy hits, who will she become? Will she be able to control the power she wields and use it for good?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34992929-restore-me"}, +{"book_title": "The Sea of Monsters", "author_name": "Rick Riordan", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 782685, "review_number": 28099, "book_description": "The heroic son of Poseidon makes an action-packed comeback in the second must-read installment of Rick Riordan's amazing young readers series. Starring Percy Jackson, a \"half blood\" whose mother is human and whose father is the God of the Sea, Riordan's series combines cliffhanger adventure and Greek mythology lessons that results in true page-turners that get better with each installment.In this episode, The Sea of Monsters, Percy sets out to retrieve the Golden Fleece before his summer camp is destroyed, surpassing the first book's drama and setting the stage for more thrills to come.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186.The_Sea_of_Monsters"}, +{"book_title": "City of Lost Souls", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 441152, "review_number": 20543, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues\u2014and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith\u2019s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace\u2019s soul. She\u2019s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8755776-city-of-lost-souls"}, +{"book_title": "Survivors", "author_name": "James Wesley, Rawles", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2153, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "WHAT IF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT ENDED TOMORROW?The America we are accustomed to is no more. Practically overnight the stock market has plummeted, hyperinflation has crippled commerce, and the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure have fallen. The power grids are down. Brutal rioting and looting grip every major city. The volatile era known as \"the Crunch\" has begun, and this new period in our history will leave no one untouched. In this unfamiliar environment, only a handful of individuals are equipped to survive.Andrew Laine, a resourceful young U.S. Army officer stationed overseas in Afghanistan, wants nothing more than to return home to Bloomfield, New Mexico. With the world in turmoil and all air and sea traffic to America suspended, Laine must rely on his own ingenuity and the help of good Samaritans to reach his family. Andrew will do whatever it takes to make it home to his fianc\u00e9e, no matter how difficult the circumstances.Major Ian Doyle is a U.S. Air Force pilot sta-tioned in Arizona with his wife, Blanca. Their young daughter, Linda, is trapped in the North- eastern riots. Three teenage orphans, Shadrach, Reuben, and Matthew Phelps, have no choice but to set out on their own when their orphanage closes at the beginning of the Crunch. Then there is Ignacio Garcia, the ruthless leader of the criminal gang called La Fuerza, who will stop at nothing to amass an army capable of razing the countryside. And over everything looms the threat of a provisional government, determined to take over America and destroy the freedoms upon which it was built.The world of Survivors is a terrifyingly familiar one. Rawles has written a novel so close to the truth, readers will forget it's fiction. If everything you thought you knew suddenly fell apart, would you survive?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Christian", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10816296-survivors"}, +{"book_title": "The Conqueror Worms", "author_name": "Brian Keene", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3893, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "One day the rain just didn't stop. As the flood waters slowly rose and coastal cities and towns disappeared, some people believed it was the end of the world. Maybe they were right. But the water wasn't the worst part. Even more terrifying was what the soaking rains drove up from beneath the earth \u2014 unimaginable creatures, writhing, burrowing ... and devouring all in their path. What hope does an already-devastated mankind have against ... THE CONQUEROR WORMS?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Folklore (Monsters)", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Horror (Splatterpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155977.The_Conqueror_Worms"}, +{"book_title": "Purification", "author_name": "David Moody", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2868, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, the Autumn series chronicles the struggle survivors are forced to contend with in a world torn apart by a deadly disease. 99% of the population of the planet has been killed in less than 24 hours. Animated by \"phase two\" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, the bodies soon regain their most basic senses and abilities\u2014sight, hearing, locomotion\u2014as well as the instinct toward aggression and violence. Held back only by the restraints of their rapidly decomposing flesh, the dead seem to have only one single goal\u2014to lumber forth and destroy the sole remaining attraction in the silent, lifeless world: those who have survived the plague, who now find themselves outnumbered 1,000,000 to 1...In Autumn: Purification, the heroes from the original Autumn novel and Autumn: The City work together to survive in this horrifying new world.Without ever using the \u2018Z' word, the Autumn series offers a new perspective on the traditional zombie story. There's no flesh eating, no fast-moving corpses, no gore for gore's sake. Combining the atmosphere and tone of a George Romero film with the attitude and awareness of 28 Days Later, this horrifying and suspenseful novel is filled with relentless cold, dark fear.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9998730-purification"}, +{"book_title": "The Dreaming Void", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 24946, "review_number": 909, "book_description": "The year is 3589, fifteen hundred years after Commonwealth forces barely staved off human extinction in a war against the alien Prime. Now an even greater danger has surfaced: a threat to the existence of the universe itself.At the very heart of the galaxy is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse that cannot be breached, cannot be destroyed, and cannot be stopped as it steadily expands in all directions, consuming everything in its path: planets, stars, civilizations. The Void has existed for untold millions of years. Even the oldest and most technologically advanced of the galaxy\u2019s sentient races, the Raiel, do not know its origin, its makers, or its purpose.But then Inigo, an astrophysicist studying the Void, begins dreaming of human beings who live within it. Inigo\u2019s dreams reveal a world in which thoughts become actions and dreams become reality. Inside the Void, Inigo sees paradise. Thanks to the gaiafield, a neural entanglement wired into most humans, Inigo\u2019s dreams are shared by hundreds of millions\u2013and a religion, the Living Dream, is born, with Inigo as its prophet. But then he vanishes.Suddenly there is a new wave of dreams. Dreams broadcast by an unknown Second Dreamer serve as the inspiration for a massive Pilgrimage into the Void. But there is a chance that by attempting to enter the Void, the pilgrims will trigger a catastrophic expansion, an accelerated devourment phase that will swallow up thousands of worlds. And thus begins a desperate race to find Inigo and the mysterious Second Dreamer. Some seek to prevent the Pilgrimage; others to speed its progress\u2013while within the Void, a supreme entity has turned its gaze, for the first time, outward. . . .From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/866136.The_Dreaming_Void"}, +{"book_title": "Whisper Falls", "author_name": "Elizabeth Langston", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 511, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "\nBehind the waterfall waits 1796--and the girl who is slowly capturing his heart. But if Mark travels through time to save Susanna, will her brutal world trap him too?\n While mountain biking in the woods, Mark Lewis spots a mysterious girl dressed in odd clothing, standing behind a waterfall. When she comments on the strange machine he's riding, he suspects something isn\u2019t right. When Susanna claims to be an indentured servant from 1796, he wonders if she\u2019s crazy, yet he's compelled to find out more. Mark enters a long-distance relationship with Susanna through the temperamental barrier of Whisper Falls. Curious about her world, Mark searches through history to learn about the brutal life she\u2019s trapped in. But knowledge can be dangerous. Soon he must choose between changing the past--or dooming the girl he can\u2019t stop thinking about to a lifetime of misery. PRAISE for WHISPER FALLS: \"... I would recommend [Whisper Falls] to any reader who is interested in historical fiction, thrillers, fantasy, love stories or time travel.\" - Youth librarian, Boyd Co Libraries WV, USA \"Whisper Falls is a fun, action-packed story\u2026\" [School Library Journal] \"Whisper Falls is captivating! The themes of love and hate in it's many forms and nuances are timeless and will appeal to all generations... I had a hard time putting this book down until I had savored the last page. And I certainly didn't want it to end. Another book? Yes, please!\" - M. Ward AWARDS: Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Moonbeam Award for Excellence in Fiction (YA historical/cultural category)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32182449-whisper-falls"}, +{"book_title": "1635: The Tangled Web", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 700, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Though the Thirty Years War continues to rave 17th-century Europe, history as it once happened has been derailed by a new force: the United States of Europe, an alliance between the King of Sweden and a group of accidental time-travellers from 20th-century West Virginia.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (17th Century)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6554488-1635"}, +{"book_title": "The Silver Skull", "author_name": "Mark Chadbourn", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 587, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Meet Will Swyfte -- adventurer, swordsman, rake, swashbuckler, wit, scholar and the greatest of Walsingham's new band of spies. His exploits against the forces of Philip of Spain have made him a national hero, lauded from Carlisle to Kent. Yet his associates can barely disguise their incredulity -- what is the point of a spy whose face and name is known across Europe?But Swyfte's public image is a carefully-crafted facade to give the people of England something to believe in, and to allow them to sleep peacefully at night. It deflects attention from his real work -- and the true reason why Walsingham's spy network was established.A Cold War seethes, and England remains under a state of threat. The forces of Faerie have been preying on humanity for millennia. Responsible for our myths and legends, of gods and fairies, dragons, griffins, devils, imps and every other supernatural menace that has haunted our dreams, this power in the darkness has seen humans as playthings to be tormented, hunted or eradicated.But now England is fighting back!Magical defences have been put in place by the Queen's sorcerer Dr John Dee, who is also a senior member of Walsingham's secret service and provides many of the bizarre gadgets utilised by the spies. Finally there is a balance of power. But the Cold War is threatening to turn hot at any moment...Will now plays a constant game of deceit and death, holding back the Enemy's repeated incursions, dealing in a shadowy world of plots and counter-plots, deceptions, secrets, murder, where no one... and no thing...is quite what it seems.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6401209-the-silver-skull"}, +{"book_title": "Beggars in Spain", "author_name": "Nancy Kress", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 7387, "review_number": 662, "book_description": "In this future, some people need no sleep at all. Leisha Camden was genetically modified at birth to require no sleep, and her normal twin Alice is the control. Problems and envy between the sisters mirror those in the larger world, as society struggles to adjust to a growing pool of people who not only have 30 percent more time to work and study than normal humans, but are also highly intelligent and in perfect health. The Sleepless gradually outgrow their welcome on Earth, and their children escape to an orbiting space station to set up their own society. But Leisha and a few others remain behind, preaching acceptance for all humans, Sleepless and Sleeper alike. With the conspiracy and revenge that unwinds, the world needs a little preaching on tolerance.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Book Club", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68333.Beggars_in_Spain"}, +{"book_title": "The Doomsday Code", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 3802, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "Liam O\u2019Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance\u2014to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...In 1993 British computer hacker Adam Lewis finds his name in a coded manuscript that is almost one thousand years old. How did Adam\u2019s name get in there... and why?Confronted by Adam in 2001, the TimeRiders travel back to Sherwood Forest in 1193 to discover the origins of the ancient message. But when a strange hooded man appears interested in the same thing, they begin to wonder what terrible threat this cryptic link from the past holds for the future...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Action", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8827905-the-doomsday-code"}, +{"book_title": "The Emperor's Finest", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1064, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Commissar Cain is called to duty once more, saving a governor\u2019s daughter from aplanet over-run by rebels. The uprising hides something far more sinister however \u2013 genestealer hybrids! The search for the source of the alien threat leads Cain to a drifting space hulk \u2013 a far safer place than beside the obsessed governor\u2019s daughter. But when the Reclamator Space Marines suffer devastating losses at the hands of the Great Devourer, Cain and his trusty aide Jurgen must go it alone. With the tyranids waking and a group of stow away orks on the loose, there are no safe places to run or hide, and Cain must use all his ingenuity and cunning to escape the space hulk alive.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Humor", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8161806-the-emperor-s-finest"}, +{"book_title": "Smarter", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1789, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Smarter is a near future SciFi/Thriller whose young heroine Ell Donsaii we learned in \"Quicker\" has a nerve mutation that makes her an athletic phenomenon, so fast that no one can keep up with her. Like Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) Ell is also a mathematical genius who, while trying to drift off to sleep, instead of counting sheep has developed a new theory of quantum mechanics. At once shy and concerned about her social skills, yet loved by those around her, she goes to grad school to try to understand experimental physics. In the process she discovers a means for enormously improving communications using quantum entangled molecules. Her brilliant quantum theories make her the target of industrial spies, other countries and jealous physicists all at the same time. Those who attack her don't consider that the very skills they envy and desire make her hard to overcome.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18480298-smarter"}, +{"book_title": "The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver", "author_name": "Shawn Inmon", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1167, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "All Thomas Weaver wanted was death. What he got was time travel. Thomas Weaver, haunted by a teenage tragedy, lived a wasted life. He closed his eyes for what he believed was the last time in 2016, but opened them again in his teenage bedroom and body in 1976. Now a middle-aged man in his teenage body, he sets out to fix everything he did wrong in his first life. A budding serial killer in home room, a possible new romance, and high school algebra complicate his plans. What would you do, if you could do it all again? The second Middle Falls Time Travel Novel - The Redemption of Michael Hollister - is now available. The third book in the series - The Death and Life of Dominick Davidner - is available on presale and will be published in December 2017.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31286995-the-unusual-second-life-of-thomas-weaver"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Dancer", "author_name": "Daniel Keys Moran", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 534, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "The Manhattan-based Unification government controls the earth, but rebellion brews in Occupied America as the American Revolution's tricentennial approaches. Denice Castanaveras, one of only two genetically engineered telepaths to escape destruction by Unification forces (the other is her missing twin brother, David) enters political life by becoming a bodyguard of Unification Councilor Douglass Ripper, whose agenda involves preventing U.N. Secretary General Charles Eddore from grabbing long-term power in this unstable period. However, the Unification rulers do not suspect that a high-ranking rebel called Obodi is actually Gi'Suei'Obodi'Sedon, an alien religious heretic who was banished from his own world thousands of years ago.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1262999.The_Last_Dancer"}, +{"book_title": "Love's Crash Landing", "author_name": "Amylea Lyn", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 578, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "What's a simple farmer to do when an alien crash-lands in his cornfield? Try to keep the little guy safe from the government, all while trying not to fall in love with his guest while he's at it. It may not be as easy as he originally thought.Gavin Howard lives a simple life on his farm, keeping to himself and staying under the radar. That is all changed late one night when a spaceship crash-lands in his cornfield. So what is a simple farmer to do when he finds an injured alien lying in his back yard? Take it inside and care for it until it can \"phone home,\" of course.But Prince Mi'Kel Ta'Rulen is not what Gavin expected. Beautiful, gentle, and on a mission to save his dying planet, Mi'Kel needs Gavin's help for more than just his injuries. Can Gavin help Mi'Kel find the solution to save his people all while keeping the little alien safe from the Earth governments hunting him?Gavin finds himself falling in love with the being from outer space, but can he find it in his heart to let the little alien go when Mi'Kel's ship is finally fixed? Or will Mi'Kel's secrets drive them apart when the alien needs his farmer the most?43,807 words", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "LGBT", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13432295-love-s-crash-landing"}, +{"book_title": "Otherworld", "author_name": "Jason Segel", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 6905, "review_number": 1244, "book_description": "The company says Otherworld is amazing \u2014 like nothing you\u2019ve ever seen before. They say it\u2019s addictive \u2014 that you\u2019ll want to stay forever. They promise Otherworld will make all your dreams come true.Simon thought Otherworld was a game. Turns out he knew nothing. Otherworld is the next phase of reality. It\u2019s everything you\u2019ve ever wanted.And it\u2019s about to change humanity forever.Welcome to the Otherworld. No one could have seen it coming.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28238589-otherworld"}, +{"book_title": "The Drawing of the Three", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 223971, "review_number": 7986, "book_description": "While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into the life of a different person living in contemporary New York. Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.Once again, Stephen King has masterfully interwoven dark, evocative fantasy and icy realism.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Westerns", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5094.The_Drawing_of_the_Three"}, +{"book_title": "Kill City Blues", "author_name": "Richard Kadrey", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 9282, "review_number": 396, "book_description": "James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in LA. But he's not out of trouble yet. Somewhere along the way he misplaced the Qomrama Om Ya, a weapon from the banished older gods who are also searching for their lost power.The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall-a multi-story copy of LA-infested with Lurkers and wretched bottomfeeding Sub Rosa families, squatters who have formed tight tribes to guard their tiny patches of this fake LA. Somewhere in the kill zone of the former mall is a dead man with the answers Stark needs. All Stark has to do is find the dead man, get back out alive, and outrun some angry old gods-and a few killers-on his tail.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Urban"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15783828-kill-city-blues"}, +{"book_title": "Quofum", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 471, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "A great read for the Sci-Fi/mystery reader.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2812843-quofum"}, +{"book_title": "Wake Up and Dream", "author_name": "Ian R. MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 103, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History: Nineteen-forties Hollywood is dazzlingly transformed and recreated in this alternate history fantasy noir about former screen actor\u2013turned\u2013private eye Clark Gable who investigates a deadly conspiracy in a neo-fascist Tinsel TownIn a different 1940, with Europe in flames and an anti-Semitic America creeping towards fascism, movie making has been revolutionized: A wondrous technological advancement made possible by the discovery of the Bechmeir field now transmits actors\u2019 emotions directly into the minds of the audience\u2014effectively ending the acting career of a cynical loner named Clark Gable. No longer a handsome screen idol, Clark now makes his living as an unlicensed matrimonial private eye. When gorgeous April Lamotte contacts the low-rent gumshoe, he sees a golden opportunity to make some quick and easy cash. All he has to do is impersonate April\u2019s wealthy,reclusive screenwriter husband, sign a contract for a new biopic, and then slip back into the shadows. But when someone tries to assassinate Clark and pass it off as a suicide, he realizes he\u2019s gotten too deep into something deadly. And as more and more of the Hollywood elite start turning up dead, Clark must race to uncover the shocking truth behind the Bechmeir field\u2019s origins, and expose a terrible secret that someone\u2019s all too willing to kill for.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12601676-wake-up-and-dream"}, +{"book_title": "I Hope You Get This Message", "author_name": "Farah Naz Rishi", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 2966, "review_number": 738, "book_description": "Seven days. Seven days. The Earth might end in seven days.When news stations start reporting that Earth has been contacted by a planet named Alma, the world is abuzz with rumors that the alien entity is giving mankind only few days to live before they hit the kill switch on civilization.For high school truant Jesse Hewitt, though, nothing has ever felt permanent. Not the guys he hooks up with. Not the jobs his underpaid mom works so hard to hold down. Life has dealt him one bad blow after another \u2014 so what does it matter if it all ends now? Cate Collins, on the other hand, is desperate to use this time to find the father she\u2019s never met, the man she grew up hearing wild stories about, most of which she didn\u2019t believe. And then there\u2019s Adeem Khan. While coding and computer programming have always come easily to him, forgiveness doesn\u2019t. He can\u2019t seem to forgive his sister for leaving, even though it\u2019s his last chance.With only seven days to face their truths and right their wrongs, Jesse, Cate, and Adeem\u2019s paths collide even as their worlds are pulled apart.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43699608-i-hope-you-get-this-message"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 1880, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Agatha Heterodyne is the last heir to the Maddest of Mad Scientist families, and on the run from the current ruler of Europe. In a fairy-tale castle on a mountain pass, she finds herself at the center of an evil plan to bring back one of the deadliest enemies of recent history.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/462235.Agatha_Heterodyne_and_the_Clockwork_Princess"}, +{"book_title": "Ripper", "author_name": "Stefan Petrucha", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 3514, "review_number": 604, "book_description": "You thought you knew him. You were dead wrong.Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels to encourage him. But when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver is given not only the chance to find his biological father, he finds himself smack in the middle of a real life investigation: tracking down a vicious serial killer who has thrown New York City into utter panic. When the case begins to unfold, however, it\u2019s worse than he could have ever imagined, and his loyalty to Mr. Hawking and the Pinkertons comes into question. As the body count rises and the investigation becomes dire, Carver must decide where his true loyalty lies.Full of whip-smart dialogue, kid-friendly gadgets, and featuring a then New York City Police Commisioner Teddy Roosevelt, Ripper challenges everything you thought you knew about the world\u2019s most famous serial killer.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12139991-ripper"}, +{"book_title": "The Fountains of Youth", "author_name": "Brian Stableford", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 66, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "This is a science fiction novel of enormous scope and ambition, filled with wonders that expands Brian Stableford's on-going future history series. Hundreds of years in the future, further ahead than the settings of Inherit the Earth and Architects of Emortality, Mortimer Gray is born into a world where he can potentially live forever. But after a traumatic natural disaster that kills millions, Gray devotes the next five hundred years of his life to the study of death and its effects on human civilization, viewed from a post-death perspective. Through it all we see the broad, large-scale accumulation of change and the growth of humanity on Earth and out to the stars as Gray experiences his boundless lifetime.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3245192-the-fountains-of-youth"}, +{"book_title": "The Falconer", "author_name": "Elizabeth May", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 16082, "review_number": 2539, "book_description": "One girl's nightmare is this girl's faery taleShe's a stunner.Edinburgh, 1844. Eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, has everything a girl could dream of: brains, charm, wealth, a title\u2014and drop-dead beauty.She's a liar.But Aileana only looks the part of an aristocratic young lady. she's leading a double life: She has a rare ability to sense the s\u00ecth\u00edchean\u2014the faery race obsessed with slaughtering humans\u2014and, with the aid of a mysterious mentor, has spent the year since her mother died learning how to kill them.She's a murderer.Now Aileana is dedicated to slaying the fae before they take innocent lives. With her knack for inventing ingenious tools and weapons\u2014from flying machines to detonators to lightning pistols\u2014ruthless Aileana has one goal: Destroy the faery who destroyed her mother.She's a Falconer.The last in a line of female warriors born with a gift for hunting and killing the fae, Aileana is the sole hope of preventing a powerful faery population from massacring all of humanity. Suddenly, her quest is a lot more complicated. She still longs to avenge her mother's murder\u2014but she'll have to save the world first.The first volume of a trilogy from an exciting new voice in young adult fantasy, this electrifying thriller combines romance and action, steampunk technology and Scottish lore in a deliciously addictive read.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Fairies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15791085-the-falconer"}, +{"book_title": "Semiosis", "author_name": "Sue Burke", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 8712, "review_number": 1267, "book_description": "In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance.Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that mammals are more than tools.Forced to land on a planet they aren't prepared for, human colonists rely on their limited resources to survive. The planet provides a lush but inexplicable landscape--trees offer edible, addictive fruit one day and poison the next, while the ruins of an alien race are found entwined in the roots of a strange plant. Conflicts between generations arise as they struggle to understand one another and grapple with an unknowable alien intellect.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35018907-semiosis"}, +{"book_title": "The Chemickal Marriage", "author_name": "Gordon Dahlquist", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 771, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Miss Temple, young, wealthy and far away from home, never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fianc\u00e9 is dead - admittedly by her own hand - her companions slain and her nemesis, the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza, still at large. It falls upon Miss Temple's tiny shoulders to destroy a deadly cabal whose alchemy threatens to enslave the world.But Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang are alive - barely. Exhausted and outnumbered, their bodies corrupted by a poisonous blue glass, Miss Temple, Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang must pursue their enemies through city slums and dazzling palaces as they fight to prevent the cabal's unholy marriage between man and science.In the final instalment of Dahlquist's epic trilogy, an assassin, an heiress and a surgeon battle against the world's most frightening evil...in an adventure that will decide everything.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14623646-the-chemickal-marriage"}, +{"book_title": "Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 7366, "review_number": 596, "book_description": "Young robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. LCollecting: Descender 7-11", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28204537-descender-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Orphan Star", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 3219, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "One man in the Universe holds the key to the mystery of Flinx\u2019s past\u2013and that man is trying to kill him!It is a strange childhood for a kid, to be adopted by the restless Mother Mastiff and raised in the bustling marketplace of Drallar. Flinx never knew the mom and dad who abandoned him years ago. In fact, his birth has always been shrouded in mystery. But Flinx eventually discovers that his unknown parents have left him a curious legacy\u2013extraordinary mental powers that are both a marvelous gift and a dreaded curse.This double-edged legacy will lead Flinx, along with his loyal protector, the mini-dragon Pip, on a harrowing journey in search of the truth . . . about who he is and where he comes from. It is a daring adventure that brings him to another world\u2013and into the clutches of one of the most evil and powerful men in the galaxy. . . .Orphan Star is the newest addition to the Del Rey Imagine program, which offers the best in fantasy and science fiction for readers twelve and up.From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Mystery", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/507932.Orphan_Star"}, +{"book_title": "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", "author_name": "Ransom Riggs", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1012208, "review_number": 61756, "book_description": "A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9460487-miss-peregrine-s-home-for-peculiar-children"}, +{"book_title": "Eve & Adam", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 13637, "review_number": 1902, "book_description": "And girl created boy\u2026In the beginning, there was an apple\u2014And then there was a car crash, a horrible injury, and a hospital. But before Evening Spiker\u2019s head clears a strange boy named Solo is rushing her to her mother\u2019s research facility. There, under the best care available, Eve is left alone to heal.Just when Eve thinks she will die\u2014not from her injuries, but from boredom\u2014her mother gives her a special project: Create the perfect boy.Using an amazingly detailed simulation, Eve starts building a boy from the ground up. Eve is creating Adam. And he will be just perfect... won\u2019t he?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13493463-eve-adam"}, +{"book_title": "Come and Take Them", "author_name": "Tom Kratman", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 623, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Number five in the Carerra military science fiction series that started with A Desert Called Peace. Miltary leader Carrera faces down a threat from progressive totalitarians and wins the freedom of his country on a frontier planet.The Carrera saga continues with entry number five, and the sequel to Amazon Legion. Carrera. Relentless. Machiavellian. Without compunction. Victorious. Pity his enemies. Be thankful he is on the side of freedom from totalitarian domination. On the colony planet of Terra Nova, soldier turned political leader Carrera has achieved his revenge, destroying those who killed his wife and children in a terrorist strike, and helping to establish a free country. But Carrera\u2019s fight is not over. War with the Tauran Union is inevitable. Carrera has been preparing his new country for this all-out conflict for years, intending to drive out the last vestige of foreign imperialism in Balboa, the Tauran Union Security Force. He doesn't care that he's outnumbered one hundred to one. He doesn't care that the Taurans are one thousand times wealthier. A true Machiavellian, Carrera is convinced that gold cannot always find good soldiers, but that good soldiers can always find gold. After all, his good soldiers have already found quite a bit. Moreover, he's been preparing for the war he intends to start and fight on his own terms, while the TU has been preparing for a progressive fantasy. But then his own government calls a halt even as the commander of the United Earth Peace Fleet, High Admiral Marguerite Wallenstein, injects a dose of realism and spine into the Tauran Union. Any other government, giving similar orders, Carrera would overthrow without hesitation. But this is his own creation; he must follow these orders. But the Taurans are provoking Balboa mercilessly, and Carrera knows that sooner or later, he must fight\u2014only now the task will be more difficult and more bloody. No matter. When that time comes, Carerra knows he will do whatever it takes to win. He is, after all, Carrera.About prequel, Amazon Legion:\u201c[I]nterplanetary warfare with. . .[a] visceral story of bravery and sacrifice. . .fans of the military SF of John Ringo and David Webershould enjoy this SF action adventure.\u201d\u2013Library JournalAbout Tom Kratman\u2019s Carrera series: \u201cKratman's dystopia is a brisk page turner full of startling twists\u2026[Kratman is] a professional military man\u2026up to speed on military and geopolitical conceits.\u201d \u2013Best-selling author of America Alone Mark Steyn on Tom Kratman\u2019s uncompromising military SF thriller, Califate\u201cKratman raises disquieting questions on what it might take to win the war on terror\u2026realistic action sequences, strong characterizations and thoughts on the philosophy of war.\u201d \u2013 Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571476-come-and-take-them"}, +{"book_title": "My Teacher Is an Alien", "author_name": "Bruce Coville", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 8383, "review_number": 303, "book_description": "Sixth grade is just out of this world!Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird. But she doesn't know how weird until she catches him peeling off his face -- and realizes that \"Mr. Smith\" is really an alien! At first no one will believe her except Peter Thompson, the class brain. When Peter and Susan discover Mr. Smith's horrible plans for their classmates, they know they have to act fast. Only they can get rid of their extraterrestrial visitor -- and save the rest of the sixth-grade class from a fate worse than math tests!", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84060.My_Teacher_Is_an_Alien"}, +{"book_title": "The Bacta War", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 9670, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "When the Alliance Fleet mounts a major campaign against a deadly warlord, tyrant Ysanne Isard has taken control of Thyferra, intending to use its supply of medicinal bacta to destabilize and destroy the New Republic. Undermanned, deprived of Alliance support, Rogue Squadron must oppose Isard's plans, defeat her Star Destroyer fleet, and free Thyferra from her rule in a winner-take-all battle against a seemingly superior force.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Media Tie In", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513201.The_Bacta_War"}, +{"book_title": "Cruz", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1350, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "Battle-hardened soldier Cruz Ramos is running on empty. As second-in-command of the deadliest commando squad fighting the invading aliens, he doesn't know why he's fighting anymore. He's seen too much destruction, devastation, and far too much death. Still, every day he goes out to protect those humans left, and every day the growing numbness threatens to take over.Until a mysterious woman emerges from the ruins of destroyed Sydney and saves him from a pack of rampaging aliens.Santha Kade has one goal: revenge. The raptors who have devastated the Earth have taken everything from her: her team, her home, her beloved sister. Santha--a former police officer--has spent a year alone in the ruined city, waging her own guerrilla war. Sure, she might get lonely sometimes, but she doesn't have room for anything but vengeance. Not even for a sexy soldier with liquid brown eyes, a bone-melting accent, and a face designed to drive a woman wild.But as Cruz and Santha join forces to rescue human hostages from the aliens, their explosive attraction is impossible to resist. Can these two warriors survive long enough to find something worth living for?Note to readers: This sci fi romance contains a lot of action (think invading aliens, explosions and gunfights), tough warriors (the sexy, battle-hardened soldiers of Hell Squad) and a steamy romance (lots of sexy times between a warrior woman and a sexy soldier). So if you like it fast, and gritty, and sexy, this is for you!Includes preview of Book 3 of the Hell Squad, Gabe.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Futuristic", "Action", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25440912-cruz"}, +{"book_title": "Madness of the Horde King", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 1327, "review_number": 250, "book_description": "They call him the Mad Horde King for a reason. Now, she\u2019s his\u2026Over a year ago, I was ripped away from my human village to serve the Ghertun, a brutal enemy alien race. With the lives of my family at risk, I am tasked to deliver a message to the one place no human has ever gone before: the capital city of Dakkar.Before I succeed, however, I am captured by a Horde King. A Horde King of the Dakkari, a merciless barbaric race, bred for war and violence, that rule over the hostile and unforgiving planet of Dakkar.And this Horde King? He\u2019s the most ruthless and insane of them all\u2014with his scarred face, glowing red eyes, and his wicked, dark grin that hides an even darker past.I am no one. I am quiet, meek, and fearful\u2026and yet this fearsome king wants me in his furs. I tremble when he touches me but he awakens my desire, something I fear I\u2019ll crave\u2026all while I struggle to save my family.Now the Mad Horde King has me in his possession\u2026I fear he never intends to let me go.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56129508-madness-of-the-horde-king"}, +{"book_title": "Winter Song", "author_name": "Colin Harvey", "rating_score": 3.18, "rating_votes": 101, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "When his spaceship crashes on an unknown and forgotten planet, scientist Karl Allman discovers himself hunted by an ancient race. The descendants of earlier colonists have reverted to a savage tribal culture of sacrifice, pillage and violence. When Karl falls in love with an outcast girl, he has only one goal: escape. But escape is a distant dream on this nightmare planet.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6719242-winter-song"}, +{"book_title": "Outbreak", "author_name": "Adrienne Lecter", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1195, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "With nowhere left to run\u2014where will you go? Most of the world\u2019s population is either dead or dying from a virus that looks a lot like the one Bree and Nate tried to destroy\u2014and not all of them remain dead. Chased by hordes of zombies, they flee the city with what remains of their merry band of miscreants. But even when most of them survive the first day, they are far from safe\u2014because there is no safe place left. The fight for survival forces them to become resourceful, and soon they realize that the undead might not be their only problem. In this new world, it\u2019s each man or woman out for themselves\u2014and just because someone has a pulse doesn\u2019t necessarily mean they make a good ally. Yet there is hope\u2014a bunker in Wyoming, outfitted with weapons and food, and above all else, defensible shelter for the winter. Can they survive the two-thousand-miles trip across the country with nothing but the clothes on their back and what they can scavenge along they way? This is not the kind of challenge that Bree ever imagined she would have to face, but she\u2019s determined to survive\u2014even if that means to learn how to on the job.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27389747-outbreak"}, +{"book_title": "The Court of Miracles", "author_name": "Kester Grant", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 3867, "review_number": 1465, "book_description": "In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds, known as the Court of Miracles. Eponine (Nina) Th\u00e9nardier is a talented cat burglar and member of the Thieves Guild. Nina's life is midnight robberies, avoiding her father's fists, and watching over her na\u00efve adopted sister, Cosette (Ettie). When Ettie attracts the eye of the Tiger--the ruthless lord of the Guild of Flesh--Nina is caught in a desperate race to keep the younger girl safe. Her vow takes her from the city's dark underbelly to the glittering court of Louis XVII. And it also forces Nina to make a terrible choice--protect Ettie and set off a brutal war between the guilds, or forever lose her sister to the Tiger.Les Mis\u00e9rables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Cultural (France)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33973264-the-court-of-miracles"}, +{"book_title": "False Gods", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 11337, "review_number": 476, "book_description": "The human Imperium stands at its height of glory - thousands of worlds have been brought to heel by the conquering armies of mankind. At the peak of his powers, Warmaster Horus wields absolute control - but can even he resist the corrupting whispers of Chaos?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381817.False_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "Norby and the Oldest Dragon", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 77, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Still more Asimov robots in this fast-paced, futuristic action/adventure ( Booklist), from the authors of Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure. The planet Jamyn is throwing a royal birthday bash for the Grand Dragon. Jeff and Norby are invited too--on one condition: they must persuade the Grand Dragon's mother to attend the festivities as well.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1670759.Norby_and_the_Oldest_Dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Bone Silence", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1742, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they're in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking. But Captain Bosa's fearsome reputation still dogs their heels, and they're about to discover that, out in space, no one forgives, and no one forgets . . .", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44811849-bone-silence"}, +{"book_title": "Against the Day", "author_name": "Thomas Pynchon", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 8294, "review_number": 822, "book_description": "Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.--Thomas PynchonAbout the Author:Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland and, most recently, Mason and Dixon. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literature", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Novels", "Science Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Contemporary", "Literary Fiction", "Literature (21st Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409.Against_the_Day"}, +{"book_title": "Burn", "author_name": "Julianna Baggott", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 4673, "review_number": 672, "book_description": "Inside the Dome, Patridge has taken his father's place as leader of the Pures. His struggle has led him here, intent upon bringing down the Dome from the inside, with the help of a secret resistance force. But things are not as simple from his new position of power and he finds himself tempted by his father's words: perhaps if the world is to survive it needs the Dome - and Partridge - to rule it...As Partridge's resolve weakens, Pressia and Bradwell continue piecing together the clues left to them from the time before the Detonations. It is their hope that they will be able to heal the Wretches, and free them from their monstrous fusings and the Dome's oppression once and for all. But everything depends, too, on Partridge. Separated by distance and history, can they still trust their friend and ally? Or is the world doomed to an eternity of war and hardship?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9752790-burn"}, +{"book_title": "Zombie Fallout", "author_name": "Mark Tufo", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 10824, "review_number": 1083, "book_description": "Zombie FalloutIt was a flu season like no other. With fears of contracting the H1N1 virus running rampant throughout the country, people lined up in droves to try an attain one of the coveted vaccines. What was not known, was the effect this largely untested, rushed to market, inoculation was to have on the unsuspecting throngs. Within days, feverish folk throughout the country, convulsed, collapsed and died, only to be re-born. With a taste for brains, blood and bodies, these modern day zombies scoured the lands for their next meal. Overnight the country became a killing ground for the hordes of zombies that ravaged the land.This is the story of Michael Talbot, his family and his friends. This is their story a band of ordinary people just trying to get by in these extra-ordinary times. When disaster strikes, Mike a self-proclaimed survivalist, does his best to ensure the safety and security of those he cares for.Book 1 of the Zombie Fall-Out Trilogy follows our lead character in his self-deprecating, sarcastic best. What he encounters along the way leads him down a long dark road always skirting on the edge of insanity. Can he keep his family safe? Can he discover the secret behind Tommy's powers? Can he save anyone from the zombie Queen - a zombie that seems by all accounts to have some sort of hold over the zombies and Mike himself? Encircled in a seemingly safe haven called Little Turtle, Mike and his family together with the remnants of a tattered community while not fighting each other, fight against a relentless, ruthless, unstoppable force. This last bastion of civilization has made its final stand. God help them all.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8167001-zombie-fallout"}, +{"book_title": "Gravel and Grit", "author_name": "Stacy Jones", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 778, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "\"Gravel and Grit\" is a a standalone novel, and the first story in the collaborative, multi-author, sci fi series, \nKhargals of Duras.\n *-*Zaek is losing hope after waiting centuries for rescue, but the time has finally arrived.The lost emergency beacon has fallen from orbit and gone active. All he needs to do to get off this damn planet named Earth is find it and get to the pick up location in time. The problem? The beacon comes with an addictively confounding, Earthian female who makes his mating gland swell, marking her as his true mate. Zaek hasn\u2019t been around a human who didn\u2019t run away screaming monster in a millennium, so how the hell is he supposed to convince this smart, beautiful, sarcastic female to give him the opportunity to win her heart before he loses his chance forever? Mira has always been obsessed with all things alien, but when one breaks into her lab at Area 51, first contact doesn\u2019t go how she planned. Kidnapped and running for her life with a gruff gargoyle that definitely isn\u2019t made of stone and has more than his share of quirks, Mira learns that sometimes plans are made to be thrown out the window. With a black ops team hot on their heels, determined to kill or capture them both, time is running out and their fumbling romance isn\u2019t the only thing standing in their way to happiness.** -------------- **Khargals of DurasA thousand years ago, a Khargal scouting party left Duras, only to crash on a planet called Earth.Injured and outnumbered, the stranded Khargals hid among stone effigies and observed the slow evolution of the planet\u2019s primitive inhabitants. With no means of returning to Duras, they watched from their shadowy perches and faded into legend, becoming the mythical gargoyles. Until today. Long after any hope for rescue had died, the distress signal has finally been answered. It's time to go home.** -------------- **Don't miss out on the full series!Khargals of Duras. Book 1: Gravel and Grit by Stacy JonesBook 2: Hard as Rock by Stephanie WestBook 3: Heart of Stone by Regine AbelBook 4: Sticks and Stones by Tamsin LeyBook 5: Etched in Stone by Abigail MystBook 6: Taken for Granite by Nancey CummingsBook 7: Rock My World by Zara Zenia", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Humor", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44055828-gravel-and-grit"}, +{"book_title": "Without", "author_name": "E.E. Borton", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 729, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "The apocalypse came as a whisper. Mother Nature had been sending signs for three years, but most didn\u2019t pay attention until she pulled the plug on everything. Nobody will forget where they were and what they were doing at 8:13 on that morning. They\u2019re all still waiting for 8:14. Well, at least the ones that have made it so far. He was stuck in Atlanta traffic, making his way to work, when the world fell silent. His car, his radio, his phone, his watch, anything that needed a spark, a battery, or an outlet died. The silence didn\u2019t last long and neither did she. He didn\u2019t know if the yellow sundress was the first to die, but he does know that she wasn\u2019t the last. Not even close. As aircraft fell out of the sky, panicked drivers lost control in the fast lane, and pace makers stopped keeping their rhythms, he got out of his car and popped the trunk. Most didn\u2019t pay attention, but he did. And he knew what was coming. Three years earlier during the first city-wide blackout in Atlanta, he lost his Samantha to cowards who were never caught. Those looking to take advantage didn\u2019t hesitate, wreaking havoc at every opportunity. It took less than an hour after the event for society to start its disintegration. He made a promise to himself never to feel that helpless again. He wasn\u2019t a soldier or a cop, but he was one of the few that did have a plan. Get out of the city, get away from people, and don\u2019t hesitate. May God have mercy on their souls, because he won\u2019t.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Horror", "Adventure (Survival)", "Business (Amazon)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15777817-without"}, +{"book_title": "Arcadia Snips and the Steamwork Consortium", "author_name": "Robert Rodgers", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 30, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "In an era of bygone anachronisms and steam-powered ambulatory engines, a sharp-witted street-thief with a heart of semi-precious metal finds herself locked in a battle of wits against a secret plot to bring the city she loves to its knees. Arcadia will need to enlist the help of a reformed mad scientist, a stern suffragette, and a persnickety pigeon to unravel the mysterious past of the Steamwork Consortium - and stop the cabal of sinister mathematicians who would use that past to destroy all of Aberwick. Arcadia Snips and the Steamwork Consortium is both a cautionary tale against reckless mathematics and an accurate historical account all rolled up into one. In fact, the story is so accurate that you might consider it more of a history lecture than an illustrated novel.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7989603-arcadia-snips-and-the-steamwork-consortium"}, +{"book_title": "Here", "author_name": "Ella James", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1110, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "Milo Mitchell's life used to be charmed, but that was before her family dissolved, she went a little crazy, and her best friends started acting more like strangers. Spending Saturday morning in a treehouse with a stun gun for company and a herd of deer for friends is the only exciting thing in her life...until she shoots a fawn and finds her dart stuck in a guy.Her gorgeous victim is dressed in a Brioni tux and armed with a hanky. He has no idea who or where he is. Afraid her dart caused his amnesia, Milo takes him in, names him Nick, and vows to help him solve his mystery. Soon the pair find Nick's face in a newspaper obituary, and Nick beings to have strange, ethereal memories of Milo--who is sure she's never met him. Suddenly Nick knows things he shouldn't know and is doing things he shouldn't do. When the Department of Defense shows up, Nick and Milo run--toward a shocking conclusion that could destroy both their worlds.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13490992-here"}, +{"book_title": "Fate of Worlds", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2065, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "This is the fifth and last novel in Larry Niven's \"Ringworld\" series. This series began in 1970, with the publication of Ringworld, now, in conjunction with Edward M. Lerner, Niven brings the series to its conclusion.For decades, the spacefaring species of Known Space have battled over the largest artifact\u2014and grandest prize\u2014in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld, but without warning the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets. Something must justify the blood and treasure that have been spent. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the nearby advanced, but pacifistic species known as \"Puppeteers\" will be forced to surrender theirs. Yet, the danger to the Puppeteers goes far beyond mere invasion fleets, the survival of their planet is at stake, plus political intrigue, deadly rivalries, risk and danger at every turn.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13167780-fate-of-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Salt", "author_name": "Colin F. Barnes", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 1159, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "In 2014 humanity didn\u2019t stand a chance. A series of fatal climatic disasters struck, entirely drowning the planet. Now, just one hundred and twenty-five souls remain, surviving on a flotilla of damaged ships. But their survival isn\u2019t guaranteed. Facing severe threats to their numbers by a fatal bacterium and increasingly warring factions, they discover a serial killer within their midst. When the murderer targets Eva Morgan\u2019s friend, her investigations draw her into a deadly mystery and a race against time before the killer\u2019s actions destroy the fragile existence on the flotilla. The further she digs, the more secrets she uncovers, and the truth becomes a pawn in a game for ultimate survival. With humankind on the brink of extinction, the story of SALT will take you on a thrill ride of intense emotions and incredible revelations.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Business (Amazon)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22011876-salt"}, +{"book_title": "Dakiti", "author_name": "EJ Fisch", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 186, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "The distant world of Haphez is located on the edge of populated space. The planet's native superhuman race is feared and respected by neighboring civilizations. Their military and police forces are unmatched. Lieutenant Aroska Tarbic is an agent with the revered Haphezian Special Police. He\u2019s lost a lot in a short period of time; the other members of his squad were killed in a tragic accident, and his younger brother was wrongfully convicted and executed for a crime he didn\u2019t commit. Just when Aroska thinks he\u2019s starting to piece his life back together, he\u2019s assigned to a joint task force with a special operations team. It seems like a unique opportunity, at least until he learns his new commander is none other than Ziva Payvan, HSP\u2019s finest operative\u2026and the assassin who killed his brother.Ziva is good at her job, a business that requires her to ignore her feelings and carry out her missions without question. She\u2019s confident in her own abilities to complete the assignment, but Aroska is a wildcard. When their team stumbles across a young human during a routine investigation, they soon realize the situation isn't what it seems. The boy has unwittingly uncovered a sinister plot, one that could put the entire Haphezian race in jeopardy.Now the lines between friend and foe have become blurred, and no one can be trusted. United by the imminent threat, Ziva and Aroska must set their differences aside long enough to save their people\u2026and maybe even each other.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52820126-dakiti"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl of Fire and Thorns", "author_name": "Rae Carson", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 76207, "review_number": 7211, "book_description": "Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness.Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can't see how she ever will. Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king\u2014a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.And he's not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people's savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn\u2019t die young.Most of the chosen do.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10429092-the-girl-of-fire-and-thorns"}, +{"book_title": "Gabriel's Ghost", "author_name": "Linnea Sinclair", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 3663, "review_number": 357, "book_description": "Award-winning author Linnea Sinclair brings her special sizzle to science fiction with this action-packed blend of otherworldly adventure and sexy stellar romance. . . . After a decade of piloting interstellar patrol ships, former captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself court-martialed for a crime she didn' t commit-and shipped off to a remote prison planet from which no one ever escapes. But when she kills a brutal guard in an act of self-defense, someone even more dangerous emerges from the shadows.Gabriel Sullivan--alpha mercenary, smuggler, and rogue--is supposed to be dead. Yet now this seductive ghost from Chaz's past is offering her a ticket to freedom--for a price. Someone in the Empire is secretly breeding jukors: vicious and uncontrollable killing machines that have long been outlawed. Gabriel needs Chaz to help him stop the practice before it decimates Imperial space. The mission means putting their lives on the line--but the tensions that heat up between them may be the riskiest part of all.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352726.Gabriel_s_Ghost"}, +{"book_title": "The Cassandra Project", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 1390, "review_number": 231, "book_description": "Jerry Culpepper was proud to be NASA's public affairs director, long after the first moon landing, budget cutbacks, and public disinterest. Now a 50-year old secret about the Apollo XI mission embroils him in controversy and tests his willingness to spin the truth about a conspiracy of reality-altering proportions.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Pseudoscience (Conspiracy Theories)", "Space", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542654-the-cassandra-project"}, +{"book_title": "Grave Destiny", "author_name": "Kalayna Price", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 3425, "review_number": 337, "book_description": "Grave witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, and that makes her a dangerous enemy for anyone with something to hide. . . .Alex is still trying to come to terms with her changing powers and her growing ties to Faerie when a case she\u2019d rather avoid falls right into her lap. A fae prince desperately needs Alex to investigate a politically sensitive murder. She reluctantly agrees to the case, taking FIB agent Falin Andrews along as her backup.But as Alex begins to delve into the mystery, she realizes that the intricate web of alliances and intrigue in the Faerie courts is strained to its limits. War is about to break out, one that threatens to spill over into the mortal realm. This murder is tied right to the center of centuries-old arcane unrest, and if Alex isn\u2019t careful she may follow the twisting path ahead of her right into her grave end.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30370562-grave-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "The Running Man", "author_name": "Richard Bachman", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 106104, "review_number": 3423, "book_description": "The Running Man is set within a dystopian future in which the poor are seen more by the government as worrisome rodents than actual human beings. The protagonist of The Running Man, Ben Richards, is quick to realize this as he watches his daughter, Cathy, grow more sick by the day and tread closer and closer to death. Desperate for money to pay Cathy\u2019s medical bills, Ben enlists himself in a true reality style game show where the objective is to merely stay alive.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Suspense", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11607.The_Running_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Aftermath", "author_name": "David Moody", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1257, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "It's been almost one hundred days since a killer disease wiped out 99% of the population. Three months since the dead reanimated. Survivors are few and far between now, and those who remain stick together to give themselves the best possible chance of continuing to stay alive. They are the last of the living.A band of refugees has taken shelter in a medieval castle \u2013 a fortress that has stood strong for hundreds of years. Besieged by the dead, they only emerge when it's absolutely necessary. As autumn turns to winter, however, the balance of power slowly begins to shift.The unexpected appearance of survivors from another group changes everything. They bring choice, and an alternative way of life which is a far cry from the world everyone has been forced to leave behind. Society as we know it has crumbled beyond repair and things will never be the same again. Some people are ready to embrace this change, others can't let go of the past. The choice is divisive.Are we entering mankind's final days? In the aftermath of the disease, will the last survivors destroy each other, or will the dead destroy them all?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12060586-aftermath"}, +{"book_title": "The Blemished", "author_name": "Sarah Dalton", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2207, "review_number": 277, "book_description": "A beautiful world comes at a price...In a world filled with stunning clones Mina Hart is Blemished. Her genes are worthless and that takes away her rights: her right to an Education, her right to a normal life and her right to have a child.Mina keeps a dangerous secret which she never thought she could share until she meets Angela on her first day at St Jude's School. But their friendship is soon complicated by Angela\u2019s adoptive brother Daniel. Mina finds herself drawn to his mysterious powers and impulsive nature. Then there is the gorgeous clone Sebastian who Mina is forbidden from even speaking to\u2026The Blemished is a frightening take on a fractured future where the Genetic Enhancement Ministry have taken control of Britain. It will take you on a ride filled with adventure, romance and rebellion.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Business (Amazon)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15730577-the-blemished"}, +{"book_title": "The Magic of Highland Dragons", "author_name": "Kella McKinnon", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 706, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "A clan chief has a duty to wed and produce heirs, especially if he also carries within him the power to keep his people safe from the evil that seeks to triumph over them. But Bren Mac Coinnach has long refused to take just any wife. He secretly waits for the one woman that legend says will be his and his alone: his perfect other half, and each year of waiting grows longer and more difficult than the last. When a woman is placed under his protection, he makes a vow not to touch her against her own will, and he soon realizes it won't be an easy vow for him to keep, especially since her will seems made of iron. Bren hungers for her with a need stronger than he has ever felt before, but in a world filled with magic and the timeless, endless battle between good and evil, both his honor and her life are soon at stake. Faith McAlpin had never thought she was much different from anyone else\u2026 but she is, and always has been. She would soon learn just how different, and the lessons come fast and furious, until she wonders if she will lose herself entirely, especially to the fiery passion and mesmerizing gaze of the Mac Coinnach Chief. Now the struggle has only begun\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13609281-the-magic-of-highland-dragons"}, +{"book_title": "Dead of Winter", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 15060, "review_number": 1759, "book_description": "Can Evie convince her rival loves to work together? Their survival depends on it in this third book of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole\u2019s Arcana Chronicles, a nonstop action tale of rescue, redemption, and a revenge most wicked.\nHeartbreaking decisions\nEvie was almost seduced by the life of comfort that Death offered her\u2014until Jack was threatened by two of the most horrific Arcana, the Lovers. She will do anything to save him, even escape Death\u2019s uncanny prison, full of beautiful objects, material comforts\u2026and stolen glances from a former love.\nUncertain victory\nDespite leaving a part of her heart behind with Death, Evie sets out into a perilous post-apocalyptic wasteland to meet up with her allies and launch an attack on the Lovers. Such formidable enemies require a battle plan, and the only way to kill them may mean Evie, Jack, and Death allying. Evie doesn\u2019t know what will prove more impossible: surviving slavers, plague, Bagmen and other Arcana\u2014or convincing Jack and Death to work together.\nTwo heroes returned\nThere\u2019s a thin line between love and hate, and Evie just doesn\u2019t know where she stands with either Jack or Death. Will this unlikely trio be able to defeat The Lovers without killing one another first...?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18746546-dead-of-winter"}, +{"book_title": "The Decision", "author_name": "Piper Scott", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 546, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Harlow\u2019s starlet daughter is about to make an announcement that will change his life. The decision? It\u2019s going to send him on a collision course with love\u2026 Loyal, kindhearted, and a family man to the core, former-SEAL-turned-bodyguard Harlow isn\u2019t prepared to have love smash face-first into his fist after one of the worst days of his life\u2026 or to have it arrive in such a cute package. For seven lonely years following the loss of his husband, he\u2019s been too wrapped up in raising his teenage daughter to think about a relationship. His responsibility is tied to his family, not someone young enough to be his son\u2026 Isn\u2019t it? Shy, sensible Simon is presented with a difficult choice when he comes face to face with the man of his wet dreams. The decision? It\u2019s about to heat things up between his sheets, big time. Computer whiz, adorable geek, and secret fetishist Simon is trapped in a life he wishes he could escape, made better only by risqu\u00e9 dreams of a man he can never have\u2014his way-too-hot employer, Harlow. But when a series of events leaves him sharing a roof with Harlow unexpectedly, clinging to reality isn\u2019t the only thing getting hard. Fantasies aren\u2019t meant to be real, but the way Harlow looks at him, speaks to him, and touches him is electric\u2026 chemistry like that can\u2019t be imagined, can it? Bound by obligation to their families while their hearts yearn for each other, Harlow and Simon must make a choice\u2014indulge shamelessly in what they\u2019ve found together without regard for the future, or make the decision to do what\u2019s right for their families, and leave love behind. The Decision is a 115,000 word contemporary omegaverse novel featuring a quirky group of single dads, hot 18D action, absolutely filthy air mattress encounters, and two very different men who find exactly what they need in each other.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Pop Culture (Nerd)", "Family", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41541485-the-decision"}, +{"book_title": "Dreams of Stardust", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2240, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "In the 1200s, Amanda of Artane has one summer to choose from her suitors\u2014and find love forever.JakeJake Kilchurn travels the world to unearth exquisite stones for this one-of-a-kind creations, but it is during an unexpected side trip to Seakirk castle that he meets a cadre of ghosts discussing a timeless beauty who lived centuries ago.AmandaAmanda de Piaget is busy doing what she does best\u2014fending off suitors\u2014when she stumbles on a different kind of man. He is unconscious, dirty, and oddly clad. But unlike the other men who find themselves at Artane, Jake knows nothing about her\u2014and Amanda finds herself strangely drawn to him.ArtaneTime has brought them together to the safety of its walls, but only time will tell if they'll escape those who would try to tear them apart...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50733.Dreams_of_Stardust"}, +{"book_title": "Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 291, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Ethan Ring is a former graphic design student with a dark and powerful secret. As an undergraduate, he and some classmates developed the ultimate in high-concept visual art: computerized images capable of bypassing rational thought and controlling the mind of the perceiver, whether for good or ill. When the reigning intelligence agency gets wind of Ethan's handiwork, he is forced into its service via the most potent of the images being tattooed on the palms of his hands. Now on a spiritual pilgrimage through twenty-first-century Japan, a guilt-ridden Ethan grapples with the responsibility his power implies and determines to use it for the greatest good by ridding the country of its ubiquitous crime syndicate. A past winner of sf's Campbell Award for best new writer, McDonald now ranks among the genre's leading stylists. In this brief but surprisingly satisfying tale, the full range of his versatile talent is on display as he merges Zen philosophy with cyberspace performance art in a high-tech contemplation of good and evil. A rare combination of suspenseful storytelling and thought-provoking ideas. ", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219458.Scissors_Cut_Paper_Wrap_Stone"}, +{"book_title": "Waking in Time", "author_name": "Angie Stanton", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 786, "review_number": 192, "book_description": "Still mourning the loss of her beloved grandmother and shaken by her mysterious, dying request to \u201cfind the baby,\u201d Abbi has just arrived at UW Madison for her freshman year. But on her second day, she wakes up to a different world: 1983. That is just the first stop on Abbi\u2019s journey backward through time. Will is a charming college freshman from 1927 who travels forward through time. When Abbi and Will meet in the middle, love adds another complication to their lives. Communicating across time through a buried time capsule, they try to decode the mystery of their travel, find the lost baby, and plead with their champion, a kindly physics professor, to help them find each other again ... even though the professor gets younger each time Abbi meets him. This page-turning story full of romance, twists, and delightful details about campus life then and now will stay with readers long after the book\u2019s satisfying end.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "New Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27919161-waking-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Honor of the Clan", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2057, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Three words that resound in the heart of the warrior, but what is duty when country is gone? Where does honour lie when allies are revealed as enemies, when friends are not who they seem and when enemies are the ones we love?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3000865-honor-of-the-clan"}, +{"book_title": "Trapped in Time", "author_name": "Denise Daye", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1209, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "On the day she and her mother escaped her cruel father, Emma Washington vowed to never fall in love. Now, Emma is a back-to-school PhD student with bigger and better things to worry about. That is, until one night, exhausted, slightly tipsy, and on her way home from a party, the glaring white light of a car comes crashing toward her, changing her life forever. Instead of waking up in a 21st-century hospital, she finds herself waking up in the backwaters of London, England, 1881\u2026 Trapped in a time where everything she once knew is considered witchcraft, Emma discovers that Victorian London is a harsh world for a woman without wealth or status. She faces yet another life-changing twist when she learns her only chance of survival depends on the very thing she has tried to avoid her whole life\u2014marriage. As if that isn\u2019t bad enough, she must betroth herself to none other than the most powerful duke in all of England, the notorious and feared Lord William Blackwell. But\u2026what begins as a fight for her life might just become a chance to find true love.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50585825-trapped-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence", "author_name": "Ray Kurzweil", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4056, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Philosophy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Futurism", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Psychology", "Science (Computer Science)", "Sociology"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83533.The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines"}, +{"book_title": "Eaters of the Dead", "author_name": "Michael Crichton", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 35371, "review_number": 1701, "book_description": "It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs\u2014the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North\u2014where the day\u2019s length does not equal the night\u2019s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color\u2014Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Historical", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7673.Eaters_of_the_Dead"}, +{"book_title": "The Currents of Space", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 15654, "review_number": 608, "book_description": "High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruption of the vital kyrt trade would cause other planets to rise in protest, ultimately destabilizing trade and resulting in a galactic war. So the Trantorian Empire, whose grand plan is to unite all humanity in peace, prosperity, and freedom, has stood aside and allowed the oppression to continue. Living among the workers of Florinia, Rik is a man without a memory or a past. He has been abducted and brainwashed. Barely able to speak or care for himself when he was found, Rik is widely regarded as a simpleton by the worker community where he lives. But as his memories begin to return, Rik finds himself driven by a cryptic message he is determined to deliver: Everyone on Florinia is doomed . . . the Currents of Space are bringing destruction. But if the planet is evacuated, the power of Sark will end--so some would finish the job and would kill the messenger. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85434.The_Currents_of_Space"}, +{"book_title": "The Threat", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2890, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "\"The Threat\" is a new Animorph named David. At first he's a valuable warrior. But as crucial battle plans unfold, the Animorphs realize they've made a terrible mistake.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363361.The_Threat"}, +{"book_title": "Dragonflight", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 130028, "review_number": 3424, "book_description": "HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise\u2014and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa\u2019s world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61975.Dragonflight"}, +{"book_title": "Dearly, Beloved", "author_name": "Lia Habel", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2230, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "Can the living coexist with the living dead? That\u2019s the question that has New Victorian society fiercely divided ever since the mysterious plague known as \u201cThe Laz\u201d hit the city of New London and turned thousands into walking corpses. But while some of these zombies are mindless monsters, hungry for human flesh, others can still think, speak, reason, and control their ravenous new appetites. Just ask Nora Dearly, the young lady of means who was nearly kidnapped by a band of sinister zombies but valiantly rescued by a dashing young man . . . of the dead variety. Nora and her savior, the young zombie soldier Bram Griswold, fell hopelessly in love. But others feel only fear and loathing for the reanimated dead. Now, as tensions grow between pro- and anti-zombie factions, battle lines are being drawn in the streets. And though Bram is no longer in the New Victorian army, he and his ex-commando zombie comrades are determined to help keep the peace. That means taking a dangerous stand between The Changed, a radical group of sentient zombies fighting for survival, and The Murder, a masked squad of urban guerrillas hellbent on destroying the living dead. But zombies aren\u2019t the only ones in danger: Their living allies are also in The Murder\u2019s crosshairs, and for one vengeful zealot, Nora Dearly is the number one target. As paranoia, prejudice, and terrorist attacks threaten to plunge the city into full-scale war, Nora\u2019s scientist father and his team continue their desperate race to unlock the secrets of \u201cThe Laz\u201d and find a cure. But their efforts may be doomed when a mysterious zombie appears bearing an entirely new strain of the virus\u2014and the nation of New Victoria braces for a new wave of the apocalypse. Lia Habel\u2019s spellbinding, suspenseful sequel to Dearly, Departed takes her imaginative mash-up of period romance, futuristic thriller, and zombie drama to a whole new level of innovative and irresistible storytelling.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13355017-dearly-beloved"}, +{"book_title": "Schattenj\u00e4ger", "author_name": "Markus Heitz", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 214, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "(enth\u00e4lt Shadowrun #45, 47 & 48)DREI ATEMBERAUBENDE ROMANE VON BESTSELLER-AUTOR MARKUS HEITZ IN EINEM BANDSechzig Jahre in der Zukunft hat sich die Erde stark ver\u00e4ndert: Global operierende High-Tech-Konzerne liefern sich heftige Konkurrenzk\u00e4mpfe, die auf den Stra\u00dfen der Mega-St\u00e4dte mit allen Mitteln ausgetragen werden. Und als w\u00e4re das noch nicht genug, hat sich zu Beginn des dritten Jahrtausends die Voraussage des zyklischen Weltkalenders der Maya erf\u00fcllt: Im Sechsten Zeitalter kehrt die Magie auf die Welt zur\u00fcck und mit ihr magische Wesen wie Orks und Trolle, Elfen und Zwerge...Ein Abenteuer, wie Sie es so bestimmt noch nie gelesen haben - eine faszinierende Mischung aus Fantasy und Science Fiction von einem der besten Phantastik-Autoren der Gegenwart.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3115502-schattenj-ger"}, +{"book_title": "Grunt Hero", "author_name": "Weston Ochse", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "It is a time for heroes, for killers, for Grunts.In this thrilling conclusion to the breakout military SF series, we find Earth plagued with millions of miles of terraformed cities, black vines crushing concrete, revealing iron and steel. Those unable to escape the vines are empty vessels waiting to be filled, living storage for alien algorythmic thought. What else can happen? What more can be done? This has always been a time for for heroes, for Killers, for Grunts, but are they enough? Benjamin Carter Mason will be asked to return to OMBRA to help them find these answers, and what he finds will send him over the edge. In the end, his efforts won't be about survival, they'll be about revenge, and his revenge will be served in a blaze.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753511-grunt-hero"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Tyrants", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 30, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "History is full of tyrants. But even the best of history's other rulers have always been just a few decisions away from tyranny. From 20 of science fiction's finest storytellers come exciting tales of despots that never were \"Alternate Tyrants\".", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293343.Alternate_Tyrants"}, +{"book_title": "Willa's Beast", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 3701, "review_number": 378, "book_description": "Beast. Creature. Monster. Dangerous. All of these things have been said about Gren. Willa doesn\u2019t believe it, though. She knows that monsters can sometimes come in appealing packages. She knows that for all of his snarls and fearsome appearance, he\u2019d never hurt her. And she knows she has to get Gren away from the Icehome camp, because no one will ever see him as a person, not when he attacks all who come close. Not when he\u2019s tied and treated like an animal. She\u2019s going to save him\u2026 or fall in love. Maybe both. Willa doesn\u2019t mind that he\u2019s a beast, as long as he\u2019s *her* beast.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42193506-willa-s-beast"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Royale", "author_name": "Koushun Takami", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 64041, "review_number": 5136, "book_description": "Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan - where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller - Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Young Adult", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57891.Battle_Royale"}, +{"book_title": "Drowned Wednesday", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 25207, "review_number": 452, "book_description": "On the third day, there were pirates.Wednesday has rolled around, and Arthur Penhaligon has an invitation to return to the House that he can't refuse. Drowned Wednesday has sent a ship to pick him up from the hospital...even though his hometown is miles away from any ocean.From hospital room to the high seas, Arthur finds himself on an adventure that will pit him against pirates, storms, explosions of Nothing-laced gunpowder, and a vast beast that eats everything it encounters. Through it all, he is drawn deeper into the central mystery of the House. Arthur must find the third part of the Will and claim the Third Key - not just for himself, but for the millions (if not trillions) who will suffer if he doesn't.The first step? Surviving life aboard a ship on the Border Sea...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47619.Drowned_Wednesday"}, +{"book_title": "Smoke and Iron", "author_name": "Rachel Caine", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 4965, "review_number": 677, "book_description": "To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a game of cat and mouse with the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. With the world catching fire, and words printed on paper the spark that lights rebellion, it falls to smugglers, thieves, and scholars to save a library thousands of years in the making...if they can stay alive long enough to outwit their enemies.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34408304-smoke-and-iron"}, +{"book_title": "Distant Dreams", "author_name": "Jenny Lykins", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 148, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Cape Helm, Maine, 1999. Beautiful, charming Shaelyn Sumner has never had time for love. With few friends and no true home, her job as a reporter has sent her all over the country in search of a story. Now this search has led her to Cape Helm, Maine, as the historic town prepares for the new millennium. While dressing for the reenactment of an 1830s wedding, she discovers an old-fashioned emerald and diamond ring, which she slips onto her finger for safekeeping. But when she appears for the ceremony, things seem strangely different...Cape Helm, Maine, 1830. Shaelyn had thought it was an act. But when she misses the town's familiar modern landmarks, she begins to realize that the ring has taken her back in time! Not only is it stack fast on her finger, trapping her in the past, but the very real ceremony she was just in has left her legally married to the handsome Alec Hawthorne, the very man who has mysteriously appeared in her dreams for as long as she can remember. Now, for the first time in her life, Shaelyn feels like she really belongs. But can the ring that brought them together keep her united with the man she loves for all time?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1593046.Distant_Dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Starflight", "author_name": "Melissa Landers", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 11734, "review_number": 2325, "book_description": "Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world\u2014and each other\u2014the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21793182-starflight"}, +{"book_title": "Galileo's Dream", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 2595, "review_number": 362, "book_description": "At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei.To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. And if that means Galileo must be burned at the stake, so be it.From Galileo's heresy trial to the politics of far-future Jupiter, Kim Stanley Robinson illuminates the parallels between a distant past and an even more remote future\u2014in the process celebrating the human spirit and calling into question the convenient truths of our own moment in time.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6391377-galileo-s-dream"}, +{"book_title": "Carve the Mark", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 66545, "review_number": 7607, "book_description": "In a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift.Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Cyra\u2019s currentgift gives her pain and power\u2014something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother\u2019s hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows.Akos is the son of a farmer and an oracle from the frozen nation-planet of Thuvhe. Protected by his unusual currentgift, Akos is generous in spirit, and his loyalty to his family is limitless. Once Akos and his brother are captured by enemy Shotet soldiers, Akos is desperate to get his brother out alive\u2014no matter what the cost.Then Akos is thrust into Cyra's world, and the enmity between their countries and families seems insurmountable. Will they help each other to survive, or will they destroy one another?Carve the Mark is Veronica Roth's stunning portrayal of the power of friendship\u2014and love\u2014in a galaxy filled with unexpected gifts.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Space", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30117284-carve-the-mark"}, +{"book_title": "Waylaid", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1528, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Worlds collide when Rachel Morgan of The Hollows meets Peri Reed of The Drafter in this exciting new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison.The paranormal and the futuristic meet in this thrilling novella featuring your favorite badass heroines from two of Kim Harrison\u2019s most beloved series: the Hollows and the Peri Reed Chronicles. The magic of the Hollows runs full force into the technological sophistication of The Drafter when a device capable of carrying a city\u2019s data stream pulls Rachel, the bounty hunter witch of the Hollows, between realities, marooning her in a world where the supernatural holds no sway. To get Rachel and Jenks home, Peri, the dangerous renegade of 2030, must decide what will chart her future: her blind trust in those who grant her power, or her intuition telling her to believe.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29087051-waylaid"}, +{"book_title": "Tempting Rever", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 6562, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "Brenda spent four years trapped in an unhappy marriage. She\u2019s so desperate to start a new life somewhere safe that she\u2019s agreed to go to another planet with a handsome alien stranger. When he\u2019s killed, she finds herself in the home of a Zorn warrior willing to protect her until the fallen warrior\u2019s brother arrives to claim her.Brenda never believed in love at first sight until she gazed into the gorgeous blue eyes of Argis Rever. He\u2019s tall, dark, sexy\u2026the kind of guy she\u2019s always dreamed of finding\u2014and already bound to another human woman. She could have lived with letting the man of her dreams slip through her fingers, except he isn\u2019t happy\u2014the horrid woman doesn\u2019t even want him, and will never love him.Brenda has lost a lot in her life but she\u2019s not willing to lose the one chance at finding happiness with a man she\u2019s falling in love with. She\u2019s more than ready to start tempting Rever into finding his own happiness... with her.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8174363-tempting-rever"}, +{"book_title": "Survival", "author_name": "Julie E. Czerneda", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2019, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "Herself a biologist, Julie E. Czerneda has earned a reputation in science fiction circles for her ability to create beautifully crafted, imaginative, yet believably realized alien races. In Survival, the first novel in her new series, Species Imperative, she draws upon this talent to build races, characters, and a universe which will draw readers into a magnificent tale of interstellar intrigue, as an Earth scientist is caught up in a terrifying interspecies conflict. Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor, Mac to her friends and colleagues, was a trained biologist, whose work had definitely become her life. And working at Norcoast Base, set in an ideal location just where the Tannu River sped down the west side of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast was the perfect situation for Mac. She and fellow scientist Dr. Emily Mamani were just settling in to monitor this year's salmon runs when their research was interrupted by the unprecedented arrival of Brymn, the first member of the alien race known as the Dhryn to ever set foot on Earth.Brymn was an archaeologist, and much of his research had focused on a region of space known as the Chasm, a part of the universe that was literally dead, all of its worlds empty of any life-forms, though traces existed of the civilizations that must once have flourished in the region. Brymn had sought out Mac because she was a biologist -- a discipline strictly forbidden among his own people -- and he felt that through her expertise she might be able to help him discover what had created the Chasm. But Mac had little interest in alien races and in studies that ranged beyond Earth, and as politely as she was capable of, she tried to make it clear that she was unwilling to abandon her own work.However, the decision was soon taken out of her hands when a mysterious and devastating attack on the Base resulted in the abduction of Emily, and forced Mac to flee for her life with Brymn and the Earth special agents who were escorting him. Suddenly, it appeared that Earth itself might be under attack by the legendary race the Dhryn called the Ro, the beings they thought might be the destructive force behind the Chasm. Cut off from everything and everyone she knew, Mac found herself in grave danger and charged with the responsibility of learning everything she could that might possibly aid Earth in protecting the human race from extinction...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Space", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/673023.Survival"}, +{"book_title": "15 Minutes", "author_name": "Jill Cooper", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1732, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "The future can be a dangerous place when you changed the past....15 minutes is all the Rewind Agency gives a person when they travel to the past, but for Lara Crane it\u2019s enough for her to race through the city, find her mother, and stop her from being killed in a mugging that happened over ten years ago.But the story she\u2019s been told all her life is a lie. When Lara takes a bullet meant for her mother, her future changes forever. A new house, new friends and a new boyfriend turns Lara\u2019s life upside down. She thinks if she can save her father from prison, reunite him with her mother, everything will be fine.15 Minutes is an edgy high octane YA thriller where the people Lara trusts change in an instant. She is in a timeline she doesn't understand, and is about to make one fatal mistake as she faces an enemy so familiar, he\u2019s family.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Business (Amazon)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18928853-15-minutes"}, +{"book_title": "Travel Glasses", "author_name": "Chess Desalls", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 308, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Calla Winston\u2019s mobile devices sit in a corner of her room, covered in dust. Weeks ago, she shared photos and laughs with her best online friend. Now, after having felt the sting of betrayal, she prefers being hidden and friendless. She equates privacy with security and technology with pain.Then she meets Valcas, an otherworldly time traveler who traverses time and space with a pair of altered sunglasses. When an ethereal being knocks Calla to the ground near her family\u2019s lakeside cottage, Valcas uses the Travel Glasses to help her escape. He offers his further protection in exchange for a promise. Intrigued by Valcas and the possibility of time travel, Calla accepts. That is until she learns that his search for her was no mere coincidence.Calla sets off on her own, taking the Travel Glasses with her. Torn between searching for her estranged father and reuniting with the rest of her family, she tracks down the inventor of the Travel Glasses in hopes of discovering more about Valcas\u2019 past and motivations. The Travel Glasses take Calla\u2019s mistrust of technology to all new levels. But without them, she\u2019ll never make it back home. With Valcas hot on her trail, Calla hopes to find what she\u2019s looking for before he catches up.The Call to Search Everywhen is a serial series of novel-length installments.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22930322-travel-glasses"}, +{"book_title": "Operation: Endgame", "author_name": "Pip Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 241, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Join Agents Books and Braun on their final adventure with the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences!There is no time to rest for Eliza D Braun and Wellington Thornhill Books. The man who has haunted and hounded them since the fall of the Maestro, Doctor Henry Jekyll, is now on a killing spree, using bizarre, theatrical murders as a way to taunt their inability to capture the. It falls on Books and Braun to turn the tables on Jekyll and bring him to justice.As Wellington and Eliza continue their pursuit of the madman Jekyll, the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences stand against a recent surge in House of Usher activity. Agents Bruce Campbell and Brandon Hill discover more about the intention of Operation: Ragnorok, and the Ministry find themselves in a race to thwart Usher\u2019s intent to plunge the world into chaos, despair, and a noticeable lack of clotted cream for Devon Teas.The Ministry will not let this stand.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35533107-operation"}, +{"book_title": "Odalisque", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1753, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "The trials of Dr. Daniel Waterhouse and the Natural Philosophers increase one hundredfold in an England plagued by the impending war and royal insecurities -- as the beautiful and ambitious Eliza plays a most dangerous game as double agent and confidante of enemy kings.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Economics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/829.Odalisque"}, +{"book_title": "The Complete Alpha Dreamer", "author_name": "Al Philipson", "rating_score": 5.0, "rating_votes": 4, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "No longer available.'All 34 Science Fiction short stories from Alpha Dreams and More Alpha Dreams.MY PLAN PERFECTAn alien scouting mission takes a twist when two \u201cspecimens\u201d are brought on board.TERROR WAR III \u2013 JOURNYMAN\u2019S LESSONTwo transit cops are stuck on a train bound for disaster.DRIVING THE TRANQUILITY ROADBobby McCoy wants to be the top freight driver on the moon.RADIOShannon Redwine never expected to fight for her life when she got her new radio implant.INVASIONMankind came to plunder a planet, but every treasure hides a curse.ONE LAST TIMEHolmes pursues Moriarty to regain the Shanshadar stone.TIME TWISTIt was a simple time mission, but Chuck wanted to even an old score.FU2An alien pet isn\u2019t all he seems to be.BAD GODSThey seemed to be Gods to the natives, but to John, the pirates were a way to get home.ABSOLUTIONThrough the eyes of several watch-beasts, the forest stalked the struggling intruder.THE SWITCHWhen Timothy O\u2019Brian\u2019s own wife double-crossed him, he was headed for prison and torture.THE SINGER IN THE WOODS a BigTree storyAndy was an odd boy, but he had one talent.LUCID DREAMSWhich life is a dream and which is reality?APIHELIONJenny was a space ship nearing Neptune and Mike her only \u201ccrew\u201d. 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But there was a hitch.VOICESSaving a life can have unintended consequences.NAIVITEThe power of stupidity should never be ignored.SURROGATEMetal can replace the flesh, but how about the heart?LLANDOR A GUARDIANJane was a superwoman and the object of Llandor\u2019s lust. Could he join the ranks of super-soldiers to win her?DEMON BATTLELlandor stands between the invaders and Earth. Can he survive?TERROR WAR III \u2013 THE EXTREMISTIn terror wars of the future, some will take the fight to any extreme.GOD WHISPERERIn the frontier of Mars settlers learn redemption never comes without sacrifice.SCHRODINGER\u2019S GRANDFATHERGottfried went back in time to set his life right, but small choices create large consequences.ANECDOTAL EVIDENCEDid humans ever exist? Are there any left? Dedo wanted to know. Maybe the Siferi could help.140,600 words (equivalent to 527 pages in mass market paperback form)Rated \"PG\"", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8549939-the-complete-alpha-dreamer"}, +{"book_title": "Hunter's Claim", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 5601, "review_number": 420, "book_description": "Jesse Sampson and her two younger sisters have lived a hard life on the streets of Seattle, Washington for the past several years.Four years before, the Earth received its first visitors from space causing mass fear.Alone in a world gone mad with just her sisters, she has learned to use the darkness and the remains of the city to survive and keep what was left of her family alive. She has seen the savage side of human nature and finds they are not much different from the aliens who conquered Earth.The Trivators have taken control of Earth to prevent the humans from destroying it in their fear.A world of warriors, they are sent out by the Alliance of Star Systems to seek out new worlds. Their mission is first contact. They are to establish communications with the leaders of the new worlds they find and bring them into the Alliance.Any resistance is to be quickly subdued to prevent unnecessary death of the inhabitants of the new worlds they find. Their payment comes from the success of their mission.Hunter is what he is called. A hunter, one of the elite clans of the Trivators who seek out those who resist. His abilities to track, capture and eliminate those who try to harm any warrior is renowned.He finds the tables turned when he becomes the one captured by a group of ruthless humans. Hunter is shocked when a strange human female risks her life to help him escape only to disappear into the ruins of the city.He now has a new mission, finding the female who saved his life. He is determined to find her before she is damaged by others of her kind.What he finds is a reward beyond comprehension to a Trivator warrior, a family.Can he convince Jesse that he can give her and her younger sisters a better life on his world? Or will fear keep her from accepting what he has to offer?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20332896-hunter-s-claim"}, +{"book_title": "Magician's Ward", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 7557, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "When Mairelon made Kim his ward, he promised to teach her to be a lady and a magician. But magic proves to be harder than it looks for a girl who has just learned to read, and being a lady is even harder. Before frustration - and Merrill's formidably correct aunt - can drive her mad, a mysterious gentleman attempts to burgle the Merrill town house. As disaster strikes Mairelon, Kim must negotiate the hazards of London society, aided by a London moneylender, a Russian wizard prince, seven legendary French wizards...and Mairelon's charmingly eccentric mother.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Regency)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169885.Magician_s_Ward"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Run", "author_name": "Mike Brooks", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 2077, "review_number": 301, "book_description": "The Keiko is a ship of smugglers, soldiers of fortune and adventurers, travelling Earth\u2019s colony planets searching for the next job. And nobody talks about their past.But when a face from Captain Ichabod Drift\u2019s former life send them on a run to Old Earth, all the rules change.Trust will be broken, and blood will be spilled.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23346525-dark-run"}, +{"book_title": "Impact", "author_name": "Douglas Preston", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 10376, "review_number": 899, "book_description": "Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world.A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater.A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing.High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars... and it appears to have been activated.Sixty hours and counting.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Action", "Audiobook", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6735215-impact"}, +{"book_title": "Intertwine", "author_name": "Nichole Van", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3346, "review_number": 448, "book_description": "Time is not a river. It is a vast cosmic sea. Where each life exists as rippling circles on its surface, past and future being eternally present. And occasionally, one expanding ring intertwines with that of another, weaving the lives of two people together...In 2012, Emme Wilde can\u2019t find the right guy. She wants to feel that swept-off-your-feet dizziness of true love. But so far, her dating life has come up short. Star Trek geek? Nice but too serious. Hippy artist? Cute but too vulnerable. Instead, Emme obsesses over the portrait of an unknown man in an old locket. Granted, a seriously dreamy guy with delicious, wind-swept hair she just itches to run her fingers through. But still. Dead men may be great listeners, but they are not exactly boyfriend material. Emme travels to England, determined to uncover his history and conquer the strong connection she feels.In 1812, James Knight has given up finding the right woman. All he wants is someone to share his love of adventure. Instead, his life has become a Shakespearean drama. His brother languishes in a tragic star-crossed romance. His beloved sister clings to life, slowly dying of consumption. But then he finds a beautiful mystery woman, dripping wet and half-dead, beneath a tree on his estate. Now if he can uncover her history, perhaps adventure\u2014and romance\u2014will find him at last.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Historical (Regency)", "Fiction", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20957830-intertwine"}, +{"book_title": "A Dance Like Flame", "author_name": "Tammy Blackwell", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 358, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "She\u2019s the daughter of an earl with a secret no one can know. He\u2019s a mage who has sacrificed everything to save those he loves. They were born worlds apart, but inside a city drenched in magic, anything is possible. Unmarried at the age of six-and-twenty, Lady Elizabeth \u201cBits\u201d Warner has become a burden to her family. Therefore, she isn\u2019t surprised when they pack her on a train bound for Scotland and a fianc\u00e9 she has never met. She\u2019s not surprised, but she is terrified. In Corrigan, a walled-off city that serves as refuge to those capable of using the aether to cast spells and concoct potions, Ezra Nash is devoted to healing the sick and injured. Between his work as a surgeon and caring for his sisters, he doesn\u2019t have time for distractions. When the train Bits is traveling on explodes, she finds herself inside the gates of Corrigan and under Ezra\u2019s care. The two are drawn to one another, but it will take more than attraction to overcome the difference in their stations and the secrets they hide from the world. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34389070-a-dance-like-flame"}, +{"book_title": "Veil of Reality", "author_name": "A.K. DuBoff", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 320, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00VDKSD8CThe greatest deceptions are never suspected. After twenty years with the Tararian Selective Service, Cris Sietinen is in the unprecedented position of being both Lead Agent and heir to a High Dynasty. Family, career, information\u2014it would seem he has it all. But when his fourteen-year-old son, Wil, is captured by the mysterious Bakzen, Cris is forced to question all that he once took for granted in his life. Only one thing remains clear: it's imperative he rescue Wil. What Cris and Wil learn in the process will change their perception forever. Veil of Reality is the second installment in the Cadicle series. This fast-paced adventure novel with intrigue, danger and self-discovery begins to untie the knot of secrets binding the TSS, High Dynasties and the Priesthood. Is it possible to change destiny? The Cadicle series follows three generations of the pivotal Sietinen Dynasty as each learns their part in an elaborately orchestrated galactic conflict. Torn by politics, love and war, the Cadicle and those he holds most dear must choose between duty and morality as the true nature of their purpose unfolds. Through their roles as Agents in the Tararian Selective Service, they will be on the front lines of space battles, but the political skirmishes they must face on Tararia could prove just as dangerous. 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Then the shocking death of Jim - their creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend - changed everything.One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft - the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world - hoping she'll get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim's death.But as the night plays out in a haze of stilted jokes and unfathomable silence, Beatrice senses she's never going to know what really happened. Then a mysterious man knocks on the door. Blithely, he announces the impossible: time for them has become stuck, snagged on a splinter that can only be removed if the former friends make the harshest of decisions. Now Beatrice has one last shot at answers... and at life.And so begins the Neverworld Wake.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36545927-neverworld-wake"}, +{"book_title": "Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01", "author_name": "John Wagner", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1916, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "For almost thirty years, one man has dominated the British comic scene. He is judge, jury and executioner, a merciless far-future lawman delivering justice with an iron fist on the mean streets of Mega-City One. He is Judge Dredd!Now you can re-discover the roots of this legendary character in this vast and Thrill-packed series of graphic novels collecting together all of Dredd's adventures in chronological order, complete and uncut!", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/941803.Judge_Dredd"}, +{"book_title": "Blue Ticket", "author_name": "Sophie Mackintosh", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 4063, "review_number": 739, "book_description": " In a world where women can't have it all, don't underestimate the relief of a decision being taken away from you.Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? When Calla, a blue ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. But her survival will be dependent on the very qualities the lottery has taught her to question in herself and on the other women the system has pitted against her. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself and what that might mean for her child. An urgent inquiry into free will, social expectation, and the fraught space of motherhood, Blue Ticket is electrifying in its raw evocation and desire and riveting in its undeniable familiarity.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Feminism", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Literary Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52058372-blue-ticket"}, +{"book_title": "The Grand Dark", "author_name": "Richard Kadrey", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1645, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "The Grand Dark is a subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony in a city on the edge of civility and chaos.The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the war\u2019s horrifying despair. But this newfound hedonism\u2014drugs and sex and endless parties\u2014distracts from strange realities of everyday life: Intelligent automata taking jobs. Genetically engineered creatures that serve as pets and beasts of war. A theater where gruesome murders happen twice a day. And a new plague that even the ceaseless euphoria can\u2019t mask.Unlike others who live strictly for fun, Largo is an addict with ambitions. A bike messenger who grew up in the slums, he knows the city\u2019s streets and its secrets intimately. His life seems set. He has a beautiful girlfriend, drugs, a chance at a promotion\u2014and maybe, an opportunity for complete transformation: a contact among the elite who will set him on the course to lift himself up out of the streets.But dreams can be a dangerous thing in a city whose mood is turning dark and inward. Others have a vision of life very different from Largo\u2019s, and they will use any methods to secure control. And in behind it all, beyond the frivolity and chaos, the threat of new war always looms.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40401926-the-grand-dark"}, +{"book_title": "You", "author_name": "Austin Grossman", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 3147, "review_number": 560, "book_description": "When Russell joins Black Arts games, brainchild of two visionary designers who were once his closest friends, he reunites with an eccentric crew of nerds hacking the frontiers of both technology and entertainment. In part, he's finally given up chasing the conventional path that has always seemed just out of reach. But mostly, he needs to know what happened to Simon, his strangest and most gifted friend, who died under mysterious circumstances soon after Black Arts' breakout hit. As the company's revolutionary next-gen game is threatened by a software glitch, Russell finds himself in a race to save his job, Black Arts' legacy, and the people he has grown to care about. The deeper Russell digs, the more dangerous the glitch appears -- and soon, Russell comes to realize there's much more is at stake than just one software company's bottom line.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Video Games)", "Mystery", "Games (Gaming)", "Contemporary", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Sports and Games (Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790854-you"}, +{"book_title": "Time Waits", "author_name": "C.B. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 119, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "On the run from his former allies in 1943, Janos Nagy\u2019s life is turned upside down when he stumbles through a mysterious doorway and finds himself in the hands of the Temporal Research Institute, a covert organization that verifies historical events through time travel.The year, he is told, is 2041. Wounded, exhausted, and helpless, he\u2019s in a time he doesn\u2019t know and a world that has changed beyond his wildest imagination. Dieter Schmidt, one of the TRI linguists and historians, offers his aid in making sense of this strange new existence.But Janos\u2019s arrival has broken the TRI\u2019s prime rule of non-interference. It\u2019s not long until someone in the TRI decides that if the rule can be broken once\u2026well, why not break it again?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "LGBT", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53246368-time-waits"}, +{"book_title": "Version Control", "author_name": "Dexter Palmer", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 6126, "review_number": 1144, "book_description": "Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; her\u00a0dreams are full of disquiet. Meanwhile, her husband's decade-long dedication to his invention, the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you not call a \u201ctime machine\u201d) has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or can possibly imagine.Version Control is about a possible near future, but it\u2019s also about the way we live now. It\u2019s about smart phones and self-driving cars and what we believe about the people we meet on the Internet. It\u2019s about a couple, Rebecca and Philip, who have experienced a tragedy, and about how they help \u2014 and fail to help \u2014 each other through it.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25733442-version-control"}, +{"book_title": "Primary Inversion", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 3856, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already occurred. A desperate attempt must be made to avert total disaster.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365672.Primary_Inversion"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Book Three", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 13590, "review_number": 486, "book_description": "This hardcover features another 12 issues of the hit series along with the cover art - all in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long time fans, new readers and anyone interested in reading a zombie movie on paper that never ends.Book Details: \n Format: Hardcover \n Publication Date: 12/19/2007 \n Pages: 304 \n ", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763429.The_Walking_Dead_Book_Three"}, +{"book_title": "Cassandra's Challenge", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 2730, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "Alternative cover edition ASIN B00CKXWOM2Cassandra Chamberlain has always stood out. It's hard not to at 6\u20191\u201d and 165 pounds with jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. And if that wasn\u2019t enough she is also brilliant, graduating from Harvard at fifteen, teaching at MIT at nineteen and up for the prestigious Magellan Award at twenty five. But she\u2019s never really fit in. Not with her peers, not with her contemporaries, only with her family. But everything changes when the Earth is attacked and Cassandra and her niece Victoria are the only survivors. Suddenly the smartest woman on the planet has to relearn everything. Everything she\u2019s believed to be true is challenged and she has to learn to survive, not only for herself but for Victoria, because someone wants them dead.Admiral William Zafar is the youngest Admiral ever in the Coalition fleet, the hero of the Battle of Fayal. At 7\u20191\u201d he\u2019s 325 pounds of Carinian male in his prime who is feared and respected throughout the fleet. He is a royal from the House of Protection, carrying its birthmark and considers its King one of his oldest friends.But when the Regulians destroy a previously unknown planet leaving only two survivors he finds he's willing to risk it all to protect the woman he loves from the Regulians and the Carinian traitor that wants her dead.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18478285-cassandra-s-challenge"}, +{"book_title": "Every Heart a Doorway", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 76041, "review_number": 13517, "book_description": "Eleanor West\u2019s Home for Wayward ChildrenNo SolicitationsNo VisitorsNo QuestsChildren have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.Nancy tumbled once, but now she\u2019s back. The things she\u2019s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West\u2019s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.But Nancy\u2019s arrival marks a change at the Home. There\u2019s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it\u2019s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.No matter the cost.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "LGBT", "Audiobook", "Novella", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25526296-every-heart-a-doorway"}, +{"book_title": "The Man Who Ended the World", "author_name": "Jason Gurley", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 671, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "When Steven Glass's third grade teacher asked his class what they wanted to be when they grew up, Steven's classmates shouted the usual answers: \"A fireman!\" \"A teacher!\" \"The President!\" When his turn came, Steven said, \"When I grow up I'm going to be the last man on Earth.\" Warning signs don't come much clearer than that. Nearly thirty years later, Steven Glass is a billionaire. Surrounded by groupies, yes-men, investment opportunities and glamour, all Steven really wants is to be alone. Really, really alone.In secret, Steven builds a personal sanctuary nearly a mile underground. He vanishes from public life, goes off the grid. He's finally alone. Well, except for an artificial intelligence companion named after the only girl he ever loved. There, Steven plays video games, heckles the news, and waits for the apocalypse. When the end doesn't come soon enough, Steven goes to work. He still has billions of dollars to spend -- and there must be something he can do to accelerate the coming storm. Wrestling with his own destiny, unaware of the young stowaways who have discovered his underground paradise, and battling his duplicitous A.I. companion at every turn, Steven Glass struggles to create the reality he has always hoped for -- at the expense of the future of every single living human being on Earth... Unless a pair of eleven-year-old children can stop him and save the world, that is.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17233892-the-man-who-ended-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberside", "author_name": "Aleksey Savchenko", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 44, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Classic Cyberpunk with some refreshing twistsSet in a dystopian future, humanity has escaped the decaying physical landscape of Earth by transferring its collective conciseness into the digital world known as the Cyberside. Though designed to be a utopia, the Cyberside has quickly devolved into a chaotic, dangerous digital landscape. The story follows two main characters: a monster hunter, James Reynolds, and an \"information vampire\", Matilda. James has lived his entire life in the Cyberside as his stoic, no-nonsense persona, \u201cTaciturn.\u201d Matilda, on the other hand, is a frenzied bundle of emotions and desires. Originally hired to eliminate the Matilda, James finds himself at the center of a diabolical conspiracy. Together they will journey to reload the supervising AI System and unveil the mystery behind its original architecture. A world to explore, a message to consider\u2026Cyberside is a science fiction novel that explores human emotions. Written with a focus on characters as much as technology, Cyberside is an allegorical take on the role of progress and technology in the modern world; while focusing on recapturing humanity in an otherwise cold, often inhuman landscape. It\u2019s a journey through the tech ridden world of the Cyberside through the eyes of two disparate characters thrust into an adventure together. A love letter to our favorites Both Aleksey and Bert are video game professionals, technology geeks, and committed gamers with more than 20 years of the experience in narrative direction. Be ready to spot hints, nods, and Easter Eggs to the games, movies and TV series that have help shaped their creative tastes. See what others have to say. (Early previews) \u201cFor me, it felt like a mix of Neverending Story and The Matrix, which sounds like a bizarre combination. That said, I really enjoyed it!\u201d Scott C, Producer and Co-founder \u201cRead it in one sitting. It reminded me of some of the early books of Neal Stephenson and some of the William Gibson short stories.\u201d Denis M., Video Games Producer \u201cIn a very strange fashion, Cyberside reads like Alice in the Wonderland. I would call it a sci-fi fairy tale. Quite accessible as well, read the first half on the airplane and finished it at the hotel.\u201d Victoria S., Business Development Manager", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41989446-cyberside"}, +{"book_title": "Hannah's Hero", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2506, "review_number": 248, "book_description": "All I want is Hannah. We've resonated, but she avoids me. She has made it very clear that she wants no mate, whether he has two arms or four. But when others leave the Icehome beach camp for a getaway to a fruit-filled cave, Hannah wants to go, and she needs a companion. Me. For the first time, we talk...and I realize my female isn't as good as ignoring me as she thinks. She watches me with hungry eyes. She blushes at my bold words. When I touch her? She no longer runs away. It is time I show her that a Strong Arm hunter can be the right mate for her, and that four arms can hold her twice as closely as two.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44789775-hannah-s-hero"}, +{"book_title": "Play of Passion", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 26402, "review_number": 1256, "book_description": "In his position as tracker for the SnowDancer pack, it's up to Drew Kincaid to rein in rogue changelings who have lost control of their animal halves- even if it means killing those who have gone too far. But nothing in his life has prepared him for the battle he must now wage to win the heart of a woman who makes his body ignite... and who threatens to enslave his wolf.Lieutenant Indigo Riviere doesn't easily allow skin privileges, especially of the sensual kind- and the last person she expects to find herself craving is the most wickedly playful male in the den. Everything she knows tells her to pull back before the flames burn them both to ash... but she hasn't counted on Drew's will. Now, two of SnowDancer's most stubborn wolves find themselves playing a hot, sexy game even as lethal danger stalks the very place they call home.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7831145-play-of-passion"}, +{"book_title": "Redrobe", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 398, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Ex-assassin Axl Borja has agreed to do one last hit - only he hasn't told his gun yet. Cardinal Santo Ducque faces political ruin if he can't regain the Vatican's missing billions. Mai's a Japanese kinderwhore held hostage on a space habitat. As they collide their actions could change the world.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368876.Redrobe"}, +{"book_title": "The Ruby Dice", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 777, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Two men, two empires.Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord: over two trillion people across more than a thousand worlds and habitats. Kelric ruled the Skolian Imperialate. War had come before\u2014ten years ago, Jaibriol had lost his parents in the final battle of the Radiance War between the Concord and the Imperialate\u2014and it might come again, devastating vast swathes of the galaxy.Neither Jaibriol nor Kelric wanted war, but neither was complete master of his realm. And each hid a secret that, if revealed, might be his downfall.Jaibriol was a secret psion, with telepathic abilities, and to be a psion in the Eubian Concord was to be a contemptible slave, eventually to be tortured for the pleasure of the slave\u2019s owner. Kelric, years ago, had disappeared for nearly two decades. He had been a prisoner and slave on the planet Coban, part of neither empire, until he had managed to escape. And if the Skolian Imperialate knew of his captivity, there would be demands for vengeance, ravaging Coban\u2014and killing the wife and children Kelric had left behind when he escaped. Neither man knew how much longer he could keep his secret\u2014nor how much longer they could hold back the threat of a war that could incinerate hundreds of inhabited worlds.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/836883.The_Ruby_Dice"}, +{"book_title": "Angels & Demons", "author_name": "Dan Brown", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2743156, "review_number": 29552, "book_description": "World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals, and into the depths of the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.(back cover)", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novels", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/960.Angels_Demons"}, +{"book_title": "Chasing Earth", "author_name": "J.M. Link", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1143, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Part II/conclusion of Saving Askara*Revision published Nov 2018*Tori knows Aderus sees dealing with Earth as necessary to an unlikely, but last-ditch effort to save his world; as she tries to bridge the gap between two vastly different species while proving she\u2019s more than just some unimpressive human. But her fascination and his frustration have led to an attraction she\u2019s unprepared to handle. Or more precisely, the consequences of acting on it. Which not only involve changes to her body, but struggling with what the fierce Askari inspires...and what\u2019s actually possible between them.***Aderus never imagined a creature like Tori would be what he has come to crave, even over his own kind. The sentiments she provokes perturb as much as they entice him and understanding her proves a separate challenge. But when his actions result in an unintended threat to the balance of power in an alliance between their two races, he is forced to weigh his trust in her against the only thing that matters to him. Or so he thought.*WARNING* Not intended for readers under 18. Contains explicit sexual content.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Love"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41829877-chasing-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Surviving Home", "author_name": "A. American", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 3433, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "\nNo electricity. No running water. No food. No end in sight. If life as you knew it changed in an instant, would you be prepared?\n In A. American\u2019s first novel, Going Home, readers were introduced to Morgan Carter, the resourceful, tough-as-nails survivalist who embarks on a treacherous 250-mile journey across Florida following the collapse of the nation\u2019s power grid. Now reunited with his loving wife and daughters, Morgan knows that their happiness is fleeting, as the worst is yet to come. Though for years Morgan has been diligently preparing for emergency situations, many of his neighbors are completely unready for life in this strange new world\u2014and they\u2019re starting to get restless.With the help of his closest companions, Morgan fights to keeps his home secure\u2014only to discover shocking information about the state of the nation in the process.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17973787-surviving-home"}, +{"book_title": "The Darkest Legacy", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 6376, "review_number": 904, "book_description": "Five years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen-year-old Suzume \"Zu\" Kimura has assumed the role of spokesperson for the interim government, fighting for the rights of Psi kids against a growing tide of misinformation and prejudice. But when she is accused of committing a horrifying act, she is forced to go on the run once more in order to stay alive.Determined to clear her name, Zu finds herself in an uncomfortable alliance with Roman and Priyanka, two mysterious Psi who could either help her prove her innocence or betray her before she gets the chance. But as they travel in search of safety and answers, and Zu grows closer to the people she knows she shouldn't trust, they uncover even darker things roiling beneath the veneer of the country's recovery. With her future-and the future of all Psi-on the line, Zu must use her powerful voice to fight back against forces that seek to drive the Psi into the shadows and save the friends who were once her protectors.From #1 New York Times best-selling author Alexandra Bracken comes a harrowing story of resilience, resistance, and reckoning that will thrill loyal fans and new readers alike.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37688046-the-darkest-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "The Stars Are Legion", "author_name": "Kameron Hurley", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 7854, "review_number": 1546, "book_description": "Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars.\u00a0For generations, a\u00a0war for control of the Legion has been waged, with no clear resolution. \u00a0As worlds continue to die, a desperate plan is put into motion.Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family. She is told she is their salvation - the only person capable of boarding the Mokshi, a world-ship with the power to leave the Legion. But Zan's new family is not the only one desperate to gain control of the prized ship. Zan finds that she must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion's gravity well to the very belly of the world.Zan will soon learn that she carries the seeds of the Legion's destruction - and its possible salvation. But can she and\u00a0her ragtag band of followers\u00a0survive the horrors of the Legion and its people long enough to deliver it?In the tradition of\u00a0The Fall of Hyperion\u00a0and\u00a0Dune,\u00a0The Stars are Legion\u00a0is an epic and thrilling tale about tragic love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of the genre's most celebrated new writers.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29090844-the-stars-are-legion"}, +{"book_title": "Silver Diamond 3", "author_name": "Shiho Sugiura", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 511, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "After capturing Tohji, the assassin sent after them, Rakan and his two guests return to squabbling over what to eat for dinner. As they discuss things with Tohji, they come to realize that he may not be so different from themselves. Meanwhile, Chigusa begins to realize that his growing affection for Rakan is starting to overcome his desire to drag Rakan back to the other world. But what does Rakan want? And what will happen when the dark prince who shares Rakan's face suddenly shows up in this world?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Manga (Yaoi)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Yaoi (Shounen Ai)", "Fiction", "Manga (Shojo)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3171816-silver-diamond-3"}, +{"book_title": "Legacy Marines", "author_name": "Jonathan P. Brazee", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 244, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Esther and Noah Lysander are the twin children of General Ryck Lysander, Commandant of the Marine Corps, leader of the Evolution, and Chairman of the Federation. When they are told that their father and mother have been assassinated, they are both devastated. Cut adrift, they each decide to enlist in the Corps\u2014but for different reasons. Esther feels it is her duty to carry on the family legacy, confident that she can excel and reach the top. Noah simply wants to earn his father\u2019s pride, even if it is too late. As children of General Lysander, they are not \u201cnormal\u201d recruits. Seniors and peers are well aware of their background, and the twins can\u2019t escape the public eye. From under their father\u2019s heavy shadow, the two have to discover his or her personal path in the Corps, even when that seems to pull them apart from each other. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33032419-legacy-marines"}, +{"book_title": "Give Me Tonight", "author_name": "Lisa Kleypas", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 975, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Addie was drawn to Ben Hunter from the moment she met him. This strong, handsome man was different from the other ranchhands on her father's vast Texas spread, as different as Addie was from the meek women around her. But Addie was from the future and could only reveal her secret in the white heat of passion!", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Westerns", "Adult", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical Romance (Western Historical Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/693047.Give_Me_Tonight"}, +{"book_title": "Claimed by an Alien Warrior", "author_name": "Tiffany Roberts", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1304, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "An otherworldly warrior desperate to escape Earth. A curvy human female who\u2019s his only hope\u2014and his deepest desire.After losing her job, apartment, and boyfriend in one afternoon, Zoey doesn\u2019t think things can get any worse. Then an uninvited passenger\u2014green, four-armed, and sexy as sin\u2014proves her wrong by dragging her into his frantic escape. Helping Rendash is the right thing to do, but it means becoming a fugitive and risking the only things she has left\u2014her life, and her heart.Weakened by years of captivity and torture, Rendash, an elite aligarii warrior, seizes his only opportunity for freedom. Alone in an alien wasteland, he seeks the aid of a human, one of the very species that imprisoned him. But he finds himself inexplicably drawn to Zoey, and his need to protect her soon wars with his mission to return to his homeworld.With a shadowy government agency pursuing them, Zoey and Rendash must race across the country before he is recaptured, and she is thrown in a dark cell as a traitor to her kind. But their greatest obstacle may be the most unlikely\u2014their insatiable attraction to one another.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Contemporary", "Suspense", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56565707-claimed-by-an-alien-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Drought", "author_name": "Pam Bachorz", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 2773, "review_number": 401, "book_description": "A young girl thirsts for love and freedom, but at what cost? Ruby dreams of escaping the Congregation. Escape from slaver Darwin West and his cruel Overseers. Escape from the backbreaking work of gathering Water. Escape from living as if it is still 1812, the year they were all enslaved. When Ruby meets Ford\u2014an irresistible, kind, forbidden new\u00a0Overseer\u2014she longs to run away with him to the modern world where she could live a normal teenage life. Escape with Ford would be so simple. But if Ruby leaves, her community is condemned to certain death. She, alone, possesses the secret ingredient that makes the Water so special\u2014her blood\u2014and it\u2019s the one thing that the Congregation cannot live without.Drought\u00a0is the haunting story of one community\u2019s thirst for life, and the dangerous struggle of the only girl who can grant it.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7655564-drought"}, +{"book_title": "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000", "author_name": "L. Ron Hubbard", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 22327, "review_number": 1313, "book_description": "Suspense, thrills, action and adventure. Earth has been dominated for 1,000 years by an alien invader\u2014and man is an endangered species. From the handful of surviving humans a courageous leader emerges\u2014Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, who challenges the invincible might of the alien Psychlo empire in a battle of epic scale, danger and intrigue with the fate of the Earth and of the universe in the tenuous balance.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769658.Battlefield_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowed", "author_name": "Isabel Wroth", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 731, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Reverse HaremWhen an orbital prison is torn through a wormhole and crashes on an unknown planet, it's every woman for herself to escape the wreckage.As though savage beasts and harsh, alien climates aren't enough, the survivors discover the world isn't uninhabited and must face new challenges\u2014risking not only their lives but their hearts. DEJA thought she could fear nothing more than the daily treatments she received during her imprisonment on the Concord. The horrible experiments which rack her body with unimaginable, searing pain. But she discovers the true meaning of terror as she clings to life pod\u2019s harness while plummeting toward the surface of an unknown planet. Struggling to outrun the beasts hunting her, fighting to outrun the light, Deja hastens for the only cover she can find \u2014 between the feet of a giant stone statue. Only statues aren\u2019t supposed to move, or wrap you in their arms and carry you off INTO SHADOW\u2026 Welcome to Sonhadra. The Valos of Sonhadra series is the shared vision of nine sci-fi and fantasy romance authors. Each book is a standalone, containing its own Happy Ever After, and can be read in any order.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38494056-shadowed"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Volume 3: White Maze", "author_name": "Junichi Fujisaku", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 170, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "The year is 2030. Advances in robotics and cyberbrain technology have transformed the world into a miraculous place where almost anything is possible - even the melding of humans and machines. In this not-too-distant future, the crimes of flesh and metal are investigated by Section 9, an elite counterterrorist squad headed by Chief Aramaki and his cyborg sidekick, Major Motoko Kusanagi. When dead bodies, drained of blood and with two bite marks on their necks, start turning up on the streets of Tokyo, it isn't long before the entire city is in a panic. As Major Kusanagi and the other members of Section 9 investigate the killings they begin to wonder - is the killer a real vampire or something much worse? In a dark world of murder, where cyberbrain hacks and treacherous conspiracies reach to the furthest heights of government, Section 9 is all that stands between the people and anarchy.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Novels", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Novels (Light Novel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35871.Ghost_in_the_Shell"}, +{"book_title": "The Legacy", "author_name": "Gemma Malley", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 4301, "review_number": 303, "book_description": "When a Pincent Pharma lorry is ambushed by underground activists, its contents come as a huge surprise - not drugs, but decomposing corpses. It appears Longevity isn't working and the drugs promising eternal youth are failing. A virus is sweeping the country, killing in its wake, and Longevity is powerless to fight it.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Futuristic", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7320458-the-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 11142, "review_number": 1362, "book_description": "Diana Gabaldon\u2019s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in her first-ever graphic novel, Gabaldon gives readers a fresh look at the events of the original Outlander: Jamie Fraser\u2019s side of the story, gorgeously rendered by artist Hoang Nguyen.\u00a0After too long an absence, Jamie Fraser is coming home to Scotland\u2014but not without great trepidation. Though his beloved godfather, Murtagh, promised Jamie\u2019s late parents he\u2019d watch over their brash son, making good on that vow will be no easy task. There\u2019s already a fat bounty on the young exile\u2019s head, courtesy of Captain Black Jack Randall, the sadistic British officer who\u2019s crossed paths\u2014and swords\u2014with Jamie in the past. And in the court of the mighty MacKenzie clan, Jamie is a pawn in the power struggle between his uncles: aging chieftain Colum, who demands his nephew\u2019s loyalty\u2014or his life\u2014and Dougal, war chieftain of Clan MacKenzie, who\u2019d sooner see Jamie put to the sword than anointed Colum\u2019s heir.And then there is Claire Randall\u2014mysterious, beautiful, and strong-willed, who appears in Jamie\u2019s life to stir his \u00a0compassion . . . and arouse his desire.\u00a0\u00a0But even as Jamie\u2019s heart draws him to Claire, Murtagh is certain she\u2019s been sent by the Old Ones, and Captain Randall accuses her of being a spy. Claire clearly has something to hide, though Jamie can\u2019t believe she could pose him any danger. Still, he knows she is torn between two choices\u2014a life with him, and whatever it is that draws her thoughts so often elsewhere.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Step into the captivating, passionate, and suspenseful world of The Exile, and experience the storytelling magic of Diana Gabaldon as never before.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7517343-the-exile"}, +{"book_title": "The Hands of Time", "author_name": "Irina Shapiro", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1437, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "When a young woman vanishes without a trace from a quaint fishing village on the coast of England only one person knows the truth, but he remains silent allowing the authorities to search for her in vain. Meanwhile, Valerie Crane finds herself transported to the year 1605. Terrified and confused she turns for help to the Whitfield brothers, who take her in and offer her a home. Both Alexander and Finlay Whitfield fall in love with the mysterious woman who shows up on their doorstep creating a love triangle that threatens to consume them all. Valerie must make her choice, deciding between the brother who will lead her down the path of destruction or one who will give her a love she couldn\u2019t find in her own time.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13381342-the-hands-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Deathtrap", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 2155, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "The human soldiers stranded on the planet Paradise have been recruited into an Alien Legion, to do the dirty jobs that the high-tech species won't do. Their first mission is to kick the enemy off a backwater planet no one cares about. It's a simple assignment, except everyone has a hidden agenda, and the planet could become a deathtrap.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45028761-deathtrap"}, +{"book_title": "Protector", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1620, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "It's coming up on Cajeiri's birthday. The boy has been promised he can have the young human children he knew from his voyage sent down from the space station for a two week stay. But there's far a darker business going on in the background--a major split compromising the Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the whole continent.\u00a0 Tabini's consort's own father has been barred from court, and may be involved in a new conspiracy against him. \u00a0 For safety reasons, Tabini wants Bren and Ilisidi to take charge of Cajeiri, and protect him and his young guests. They themselves are very likely targets of whatever's going on, no question of it. So is Cajeiri. But having the targets separated and contained is an advantage. \u00a0 It's Bren's responsibility to entertain the guests, keep the security problem secret...and let a lonely eight-year-old prince reestablish his controversial relationship with the only other children he's ever met...inside the best security they can manage.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808619-protector"}, +{"book_title": "Operation Robot Storm", "author_name": "Alex Milway", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Something strange is happening in the Welsh mountains. It should be the middle of summer, but Snowdonia has been beseiged by blizzards and ice storms. A company of Arctic-trained soldiers sent to investigate has disappeared and the only remaining hope is a secret troop of yeti agents - the Mythical 9th Division. Fully illustrated, and with a four-page comic-strip introduction to each chapter, this exciting first story also comes with a top-secret yeti code-breaker!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651886-operation-robot-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Anvil Gate", "author_name": "Karen Traviss", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1639, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Continuing the saga of the bestselling game series!With the Locust Horde apparently destroyed, Jacinto\u2019s survivors have begun to rebuild human society on the Locusts\u2019 stronghold. Raiding pirate gangs take a toll\u2014but it\u2019s nothing that Marcus Fenix and the Gears can\u2019t handle. Then the nightmare that they thought they\u2019d left behind begins to stalk them again. Something far worse, something even the Locust dreaded, has emerged to spread across the planet, and not even this remote island haven is beyond its reach. Gears and Stranded must fight side by side to survive their deadliest enemy yet, falling back on the savage tactics of another bloody siege\u2014Anvil Gate.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Fiction", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Fantasy", "Games (Gaming)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7289702-anvil-gate"}, +{"book_title": "The Young Elites", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 115038, "review_number": 13134, "book_description": "I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside.Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina\u2019s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family\u2019s good name and standing in the way of their fortune. But some of the fever\u2019s survivors are rumored to possess more than just scars\u2014they are believed to have mysterious and powerful gifts, and though their identities remain secret, they have come to be called the Young Elites.Teren Santoro works for the king. As Leader of the Inquisition Axis, it is his job to seek out the Young Elites, to destroy them before they destroy the nation. He believes the Young Elites to be dangerous and vengeful, but it\u2019s Teren who may possess the darkest secret of all. Enzo Valenciano is a member of the Dagger Society. This secret sect of Young Elites seeks out others like them before the Inquisition Axis can. But when the Daggers find Adelina, they discover someone with powers like they\u2019ve never seen. Adelina wants to believe Enzo is on her side, and that Teren is the true enemy. But the lives of these three will collide in unexpected ways, as each fights a very different and personal battle. But of one thing they are all certain: Adelina has abilities that shouldn\u2019t belong in this world. A vengeful blackness in her heart. And a desire to destroy all who dare to cross her.It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821111-the-young-elites"}, +{"book_title": "The Lamplighter's Love", "author_name": "Delphine Dryden", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 132, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Mary has trained for years to become the next Lamplighter of London. When her chance comes, however, she realizes the massive difference engines of the Lampworkers' guild would be a cold substitute indeed for the passion she's begun to explore with the current Lamplighter, Nicholas. But Fate, it seems, is determined to separate them. A rival threatens to upset all Mary's hopes and dreams within the guild, and with her newfound love. 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Then one day she signs up for a three-day trial of a mysterious \"lover figurine,\" and the next thing she knows, a cute naked guy is delivered to her doorstep--and he wants to be her boyfriend!Has Riko died and gone to heaven? The cute naked guy turns out to be smart, super nice, stylish and a gourmet chef. Plus, he looks like a million bucks.... 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Cash, along with forty-two survivors, have found safety in the secluded and well-guarded Fox National Park. The leaves are changing colors, a beautiful, brutal reminder that winter is coming. As the survivors prepare for freezing months without electricity and not enough food, they learn of massive zombie herds several hundred miles north\u2026and headed their way. To save the park, Cash must find a place for the survivors to hide from the migrating herds. If Cash and her small band of volunteers don\u2019t succeed by winter, the Fox survivors just may become Deadland\u2019s Harvest. (Deadland\u2019s Harvest is a journey through Dante Alighieri's classic tale on the seven deadly sins\u2026 zombie apocalypse style!)", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18489271-deadland-s-harvest"}, +{"book_title": "Engine City", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 901, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "WHO OWNS THE STARS?For ten thousand years Nova Babylonia has been the greatest city of the Second Sphere, an interstellar civilization of human and other beings who have been secretly removed, throughout history, from Earth. Now humans from the far reaches of the Sphere have come, to offer immortality-and to urge them to build defenses against the alien invasion they know is coming.As humans and aliens compete and conspire, the wheels of history will lathe all the players into shapes new and surprising. The alien invasion will reach New Babylon at last-led by the most alien figure of all.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185823.Engine_City"}, +{"book_title": "Jam", "author_name": "Yahtzee Croshaw", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3947, "review_number": 398, "book_description": "We were prepared for an earthquake. We had a flood plan in place. We could even have dealt with zombies. Probably.But no one expected the end to be quite so . . . sticky . . . or strawberry scented.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Horror", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15821931-jam"}, +{"book_title": "A Slip in Time", "author_name": "Kathleen Kirkwood", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1134, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "A HIGHLAND CHIEFTAINRecently freed from captivity in London Tower, Rae Mackinnon returns to the turbulent Highlands and claims his place as laird of Dunraven Castle. As he grapples with clan rivalries and divisiveness within his own family, he is confronted with a startling discovery \u2014 a beautiful woman from a distant future, delivered through the portals of Time and into his bed . . .A VICTORIAN LADYSwept up in the summer social rounds, Julia Hargrove accompanies her aunt and cousins on an excursion to Scotland, to an ancient castle which has hosted no visitors for two decades \u2014 until now. Rumors abound of unusual occurrences at Dunraven Castle \u2014 occurrences that are centered in the bedchamber Julia now occupies, where a rugged Highland warrior materializes from the past . . .DRAWN IRRESTIBLY THROUGH THE PORTALS OF TIMEWhat mysteries does Dunraven hold? What secret opens the temporal door, allowing Julia and Rae to reach across the centuries to claim a few stolen moments and nurture a blossoming love? But how long can the rules of Time be broken before the door shuts forevermore?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15734105-a-slip-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Invaders", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1005, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "The battle for Earth begins with a secret invasion...They came from the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina. First they studied us. Now they're among us, threatening human existence as they search for the Starcore, the greatest device of the lost Polarions.Logan is captured in the Nevada desert, but escapes in Greenland. There he finds an extraterrestrial stealth ship, giving him the means to take the battle to the enemy.He will fight the aliens underground. He will fight them in the sky, and he will fight them in space. He will never surrender.Logan becomes a one-man wrecking crew while using alien technology better than any being alive.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32320873-invaders"}, +{"book_title": "The Burning Shadow", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 7351, "review_number": 1025, "book_description": "When Evelyn Dasher crossed paths with Luc, she was thrown headfirst into the world of the Lux\u2014only to discover that she was already far more involved in their world than she ever suspected.Because the Luxen aren\u2019t the only ones with a hidden past. There\u2019s a gap in Evie\u2019s memory, lost months of her life and a lingering sense that something happened, something she can\u2019t remember and nobody is willing to tell her. She needs to find out the truth about who she is\u2014and who she was. But every answer she finds only brings up more questions.Her search for the truth brings her ever closer to Luc, the Origin at the center of it all. He\u2019s powerful, arrogant, inhumanly beautiful, extremely dangerous\u2026and possibly in love with her. But even as Evie falls for him, she can\u2019t help but wonder if his attraction is to her, or to the memory of a girl who no longer exists.And all the while, a new threat looms: reports of a flu-like, fatal virus that the government insists is being spread by Luxen. A horrifying illness that changes whoever it touches, spreading panic across a country already at its breaking point.#1 New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns to the world of the Lux with this steamy, shocking second installment of the Origin series that will leave readers reeling.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263224-the-burning-shadow"}, +{"book_title": "The Course of Empire", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1348, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "WOULD THEY DESTROY EARTH IN ORDER TO SAVE IT?Conquered by the Jao twenty years ago, the Earth is shackled under alien tyranny--and threatened by the even more dangerous Ekhat, who are sending a genocidal extermination fleet to the solar system. Humanity's only chance rests with an unusual pair of allies: a young Jao prince, newly arrived to Terra to assume his duties, and a young human woman brought up amongst the Jao occupiers.But both are under pressure from the opposing forces--a cruel Jao viceroy on one side, determined to drown all opposition in blood; a reckless human resistance on the other, perfectly prepared to shed it. Added to the mix is the fact that only by adopting some portions of human technology and using human sepoy troops can the haughty Jao hope to defeat the oncoming Ekhat attack--and then only by fighting the battle within the Sun itself.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57278.The_Course_of_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "Scar Night", "author_name": "Alan Campbell", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 3875, "review_number": 322, "book_description": "Suspended by chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss, the ancient city of Deepgate is home to a young angel, an assassin, and a psychotic murderer hungry for revenge or redemption. But soon a shocking betrayal will unite all three in a desperate quest.... The last of his line, Dill is descended from legendary Battle-archons who once defended the city. Forbidden to fly and untrained even to wield the great sword inherited from his forebears, he has become a figurehead for a dying tradition. Now he lives a sheltered existence in one of Deepgate's crumbling temple spires under the watchful eye of the Presbyter who rules the city. Spine assassin Rachel Hael has better things to do than oversee the Presbyter's angel. Each dark moon she must fight for her life among the city chains, hunting an immortal predator with a taste for blood. But when a traitor brings enemies to Deepgate's doorstep, Dill and Rachel are forced into an uneasy alliance with the city's oldest and most dangerous foe. They must journey down into the uncharted chasm to save their sprawling metropolis and themselves from annihilation. Once they descend however, they learn that what lies below is far more sinister than what they've been taught to expect.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627204.Scar_Night"}, +{"book_title": "The Conspiracy", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2417, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Jake's dad and brother Tom have left for a meeting of The Sharing, where Tom may force their dad into involuntary Yeerk infestation. Jake must save his father, but for the first time, his quick-thinking tactical mind freezes up ... with everything at stake.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363424.The_Conspiracy"}, +{"book_title": "The Incuabri: Taken Part Two", "author_name": "Poppy Rhys", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 919, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Only .99c for THREE DAYS! Captured. Imprisoned. Trapped. When Tosh wakes to a strange room with pieces of the previous night missing from her memory, she\u2019s confused and disoriented. But she's not alone. Caged in an elegant prison with a creature composed of her deepest nightmares, Tosh begins to wonder if something bigger is at play... and if the creature is the only one who can free her. WARNING: This story contains a non-human alien hero, explicit sexual content, graphic language, violence, and situations intended for mature readers", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Space", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36364890-the-incuabri"}, +{"book_title": "A Just Determination", "author_name": "John G. Hemry", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1053, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Fresh from the Academy, Ensign Paul Sinclair has been assigned to the warship USS Michaelson, whose mission is to stop any foreign vessels from violating U.S. sovereign space.When Captain Peter Wakeman mistakenly destroys a civilian science- ship perceived as hostile, Sinclair must testify against Wakeman at a court-martial hearing. But Sinclair believes that the severity of the charges against the captain are unjust-and becomes a witness for the defense...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1673451.A_Just_Determination"}, +{"book_title": "Summer", "author_name": "V.L. Dreyer", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 740, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "The virus came from deep in Africa.By the time they had a name for the disease it had wiped out half the continent. Within a year, it had decimated our world. Our species is on the verge of extinction. Only a few of us have survived; those of us lucky enough to be born with a natural immunity to the plague. We scavenge amongst the ruins of our old civilizations, picking out a living from the devastation.Ten years ago, I watched my family die one by one. Now, I am alone. The year is 2024; it has been a decade since the virus reduced humanity to a scattering of survivors strewn out across the world.The rules that governed our society are gone.Without laws to protect the innocent, I have seen the worst of humanity throughout the years. Now, I have found a new family who are determined to show me the best. But a fresh mutation of the virus has started turning the harmless, pathetic infected into monstrous predatory creatures bent on our destruction; even the wildlife is turning against us.We are forced to leave our home and flee for our lives. It is only through unity that we stand any chance of survival. Enemies wait around every turn. For the sake of our children and our children\u2019s children, we must find some way to survive and flourish again. If we fail, then the human species will cease to exist.My name is Sandy McDermott, and I am a survivor. This is my story.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17971591-summer"}, +{"book_title": "Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times", "author_name": "Emma Trevayne", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1042, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "Ten-year-old Jack Foster has stepped through a doorway and into quite a different London.Londinium is a smoky, dark, and dangerous place, home to mischievous metal fairies and fearsome clockwork dragons that breathe scalding steam. The people wear goggles to protect their eyes, brass grill insets in their nostrils to filter air, or mechanical limbs to replace missing ones.Over it all rules the Lady, and the Lady has demanded a new son\u2014a perfect flesh-and-blood child. She has chosen Jack.Jack\u2019s wonder at the magic and steam-powered marvels in Londinium lasts until he learns he is the pawn in a very dangerous game. The consequences are deadly, and his only hope of escape, of returning home, lies with a legendary clockwork bird.The Gearwing grants wishes\u2014or it did, before it was broken\u2014before it was killed. But some things don\u2019t stay dead forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18332010-flights-and-chimes-and-mysterious-times"}, +{"book_title": "The Hero of Ages", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 278755, "review_number": 16598, "book_description": "Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767793-the-hero-of-ages"}, +{"book_title": "Choose Your Enemies Carefully", "author_name": "Robert N. Charrette", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1241, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "WHEN MAGIC RETURNS TO THE EARTH its power calls Sam Verner. As Sam searches for his sister through the slick and scary streets of 2050, his quest leads him across the ocean to England, where druids rule the streets...and the throne. But all is not what it seems , and Sam and his new shadow friends are plunged into a maze of madness on the trail of destruction.Only when Sam accepts his destiny as a shaman can he embrace the power he needs. But what waits for him in the final confrontation of technology and human flesh is a secret much darker than anything he knew lay waiting in the shadows...", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351450.Choose_Your_Enemies_Carefully"}, +{"book_title": "Wicked Ever After", "author_name": "Delilah S. Dawson", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 278, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Delilah S. Dawson\u2019s award-winning Blud series comes full circle as Tish and Criminy, stars of Wicked as They Come, embark on a sexy and harrowing final adventure in a world RT Book Reviews called \u201cdelightfully edgy with hidden charms.\u201dEver since landing in the magical world of Sang and falling in love with dashing ringmaster Criminy Stain, Tish has been waiting for the axe to fall. Until her dying grandmother\u2019s last breath on Earth, Tish can\u2019t bring herself to give up her all-too human frailty and commit to life on Sang as a youthful, long-lived Bludman like her handsome husband. But when a peculiar twist of fate delivers Tish\u2019s grandmother to Sang, an unexpected chain of events forces Tish and Criminy to embark on one last wild adventure. From old friends to new and into the lair of terrifying enemies, the couple\u2019s love and longevity will be pushed to the brink by each harrowing encounter. Is blud thicker than blood, and can Tish and Crim find their wicked ever after?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Steampunk Romance", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25452936-wicked-ever-after"}, +{"book_title": "KOP", "author_name": "Warren Hammond", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 991, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "\nJuno is a dirty cop with a difficult past and an uncertain future. When his family and thousands of others emigrated to the colony world of Lagarto, they were promised a bright future on a planet with a booming economy. But before the colonists arrived, everything changed. An opportunistic Earth-based company developed a way to produce a cheaper version of Lagarto's main export, thus effectively paupering the planet and all its inhabitants.\n \nGrowing up on post-boom Lagarto, Juno is but one of the many who live in despair. Once he was a young cop in the police department of the capital city of Koba. That was before he started taking bribes from Koba's powerful organized crime syndicate. Yet despite his past sins, some small part of him has not given up hope. So he risks his life, his marriage and his job to expose a cabal that would enslave the planet for its own profit.\n \nBut he's got more pressing problems, when he's confronted with a dead man, a short-list of leads, and the obligatory question: who done it? Set up for a fall, partnered with a beautiful young woman whose main job is to betray him, and caught in a squeeze between the police chief and the crooked mayor, Juno is a compelling, sympathetic hero on a world that has no heroes. An exciting science fiction adventure and a dark, gritty noir thriller told in taut, powerful prose, this is a remarkable debut novel.\n", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Mystery (Noir)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1465692.KOP"}, +{"book_title": "Parallel", "author_name": "Lauren Miller", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 4378, "review_number": 692, "book_description": "Abby Barnes had a plan. The Plan. She'd go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. But one tiny choice\u2014taking a drama class her senior year of high school\u2014changed all that. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life. The next morning, she's in a dorm room at Yale, with no memory of how she got there. Overnight, it's as if her past has been rewritten.With the help of Caitlin, her science-savvy BFF, Abby discovers that this new reality is the result of a cosmic collision of parallel universes that has Abby living an alternate version of her life. And not only that: Abby's life changes every time her parallel self makes a new choice. Meanwhile, her parallel is living out Abby's senior year of high school and falling for someone Abby's never even met.As she struggles to navigate her ever-shifting existence, forced to live out the consequences of a path she didn't choose, Abby must let go of the Plan and learn to focus on the present, without losing sight of who she is, the boy who might just be her soul mate, and the destiny that's finally within reach.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "New Adult", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16065551-parallel"}, +{"book_title": "\u014coku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1", "author_name": "Fumi Yoshinaga", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2490, "review_number": 282, "book_description": "In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Red Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the Shogun's Inner Chamber...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Josei)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6218001-oku"}, +{"book_title": "Ghosts of Tomorrow", "author_name": "Michael R. Fletcher", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 334, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "The children are the future.And someone is turning them into highly trained killing machines.Straight out of school, Griffin, a junior Investigations agent for the North American Trade Union, is put on the case: Find and close the illegal cr\u00e8ches. No one expects him to succeed, Griffin least of all. Installed in a combat chassis Abdul, a depressed seventeen year old killed during the Secession Wars in Old Montreal, is assigned as Griffin's Heavy Weapons support. Nadia, a state-sanctioned investigative reporter working the stolen children story, pushes Griffin ever deeper into the nightmare of the black market brain trade. Deep in the La Carpio slums of Costa Rica, the scanned mind of an autistic girl runs the South American Mafia's business interests. But she wants more. She wants freedom. And she has come to see humanity as a threat. She has an answer: Archaeidae. At fourteen, he is the deadliest assassin alive. Two children against the world.The world is going to need some help.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Dark", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34101303-ghosts-of-tomorrow"}, +{"book_title": "Ultrabot's First Playdate", "author_name": "Josh Schneider", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 143, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Boy + Bot meets School's First Day of School\u00a0in this hilarious and reassuring take on first experiences and making new friends, from a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner.Ultrabot is a big robot with a big problem. Its professor is planning a playdate with Becky Tingle, the little girl from next door. But Ultrabot has never been on a playdate, and it doesn\u2019t know Becky. What if she\u2019s mean? What if she breaks all of Ultrabot\u2019s toys? What if she won\u2019t share? Packed with loads of fun details and visual humor,\u00a0this reassuring friendship story\u00a0speaks to the shy giant robot in all of us.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Plays", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40796128-ultrabot-s-first-playdate"}, +{"book_title": "Remy Sneakers vs. the Robo-Rats (Remy Sneakers #1", "author_name": "Kevin Sherry", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 131, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Remy Sneakers has never needed anyone's help. He's an independent raccoon with a crafty mind, a sweet pad, and collections of the coolest stuff imaginable. But when a master thief starts stealing things all over town, Remy is accused of the crimes!Remy will have to find some friends in Mouse Town, Rat City, and Pigeon Place to help him clear his name. And when it turns out an evil toymaker with an army of robots is behind the thefts -- and ready to take control of the whole city -- Remy and his new crew are the only ones who can save their beloved home from total destruction!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32332927-remy-sneakers-vs-the-robo-rats"}, +{"book_title": "Free to Fall", "author_name": "Lauren Miller", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 6145, "review_number": 908, "book_description": "What if there was an app that told you what song to listen to, what coffee to order, who to date, even what to do with your life\u2014an app that could ensure your complete and utter happiness? What if you never had to fail or make a wrong choice?What if you never had to fall?Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux, an app that flawlessly optimizes decision making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is following what Lux recommends. When she\u2019s accepted to the elite boarding school Theden Academy, her future happiness seems all the more assured. But once on campus, something feels wrong beneath the polished surface of her prestigious dream school. Then she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn\u2019t use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going against Lux\u2019s recommendations, listening instead to the inner voice that everyone has been taught to ignore \u2014 a choice that leads her to uncover a truth neither she nor the world ever saw coming.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Thriller", "School Stories (Boarding School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18602289-free-to-fall"}, +{"book_title": "A Path in the Darkness", "author_name": "M.D. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1019, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "The colony ship Intrepid is falling into a star. The ship\u2019s AI has lost control of the engines and core systems. Battling a saboteur who strives to isolate him, his last act is to wake Colonel Tanis Richards from stasis. Tanis finds herself alone on a dying ship, unable to contact the AI. She must discover what has happened and save the Intrepid from burning up in the star\u2019s angry red light. Even if she is successful, the journey to the colony world of New Eden is just beginning. With decades of travel ahead, she will have to find a path in the darkness.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24620947-a-path-in-the-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "A Brief History of Time", "author_name": "Stephen Hawking", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 317070, "review_number": 9259, "book_description": "In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected. Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these observations, as well as his own recent research, Professor Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, written an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel, and updated the chapters throughout.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Physics)", "History", "Science (Astronomy)", "Philosophy", "Classics", "Science (Popular Science)", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Night Sky Mine", "author_name": "Melissa Scott", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 189, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Melissa Scott's award-winning work is known for its vividly imagined settings that explore humanity's far future. IN NIGHT SKY MINE, young Ista Kelly is a foundling, the only survivor of a pirate raid on an asteroid mine. In a future where one cannot live without an official identity, this is the story of Ista's harrowing journey back to the asteroid to find her true identity.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1268273.Night_Sky_Mine"}, +{"book_title": "The Fall of Five", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 58938, "review_number": 3954, "book_description": "The Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadorians?John Smith\u2014Number Four\u2014thought that things would change once the Garde found each other. They would stop running. They would fight the Mogadorians. And they would win.But he was wrong. After facing off with the Mogadorian ruler and almost being annihilated, the Garde know they are drastically unprepared and hopelessly outgunned. Now they\u2019re hiding out in Nine\u2019s Chicago penthouse, trying to figure out their next move.The six of them are powerful, but they\u2019re not strong enough yet to take on an entire army\u2014even with the return of an old ally. To defeat their enemy, the Garde must master their Legacies and learn to work together as a team. More importantly, they\u2019ll have to discover the truth about the Elders and their plan for the Loric survivors.And when the Garde receive a sign from Number Five\u2014a crop circle in the shape of a Loric symbol\u2014they know they are so close to being reunited. But could it be a trap? Time is running out, and the only thing they know for certain is that they have to get to Five before it\u2019s too late.The Garde may have lost battles, but they will not lose this war.Lorien will rise again.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15861491-the-fall-of-five"}, +{"book_title": "Time", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 6733, "review_number": 354, "book_description": "The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world\u2019s governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. Now Malenfant gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. The odds are a trillion to one against him. Or are they?", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63742.Time"}, +{"book_title": "Before the Dawn", "author_name": "Max Allan Collins", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 793, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "The explosive prequel to the hit TV series. Never-before-told tales of action and adventure revealing the early days of Dark Angel!Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief, Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing \"brothers and sisters\" from Manticore, the covert agency with a sinister history of militaristic manipulation and control.By chance, Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist in Seattle, known to everyone as \"Eyes Only.\" The police are searching for his accomplice, a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max immediately recognizes Seth, one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate web of betrayal, greed, revenge, and selfless heroism that will only further fuel her quest to uncover the secrets of her past\u2014and seize hope for the future....", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Media Tie In", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160257.Before_the_Dawn"}, +{"book_title": "The Song of the Quarkbeast", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 8656, "review_number": 922, "book_description": "Long ago, magic began to fade, and the underemployed magicians of Kazam Mystical Arts Management have been forced to take any work their sixteen-year-old acting manager, Jennifer Strange, can scare up. But things are about to change. Magical power is finally on the rise, and King Snodd IV, of the Ununited Kingdoms knows that he who controls magic controls everything. Only one person stands between Snodd and his plans for a magic-grab--and that's Jennifer. Yet even smart and sensible Jennifer would have trouble against these powers-that-be. The king and his cronies will do anything to succeed--including ordering a just-might-be-rigged contest between Kazam and iMagic, Kazam's only competitor in the magic business. With underhanded shenanigans afoot, how can Kazam possibly win? Whatever happens, one this is certain: Jennifer Strange will not relinquish the noble powers of magic without a fight.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17165902-the-song-of-the-quarkbeast"}, +{"book_title": "Bannockburn Binding", "author_name": "Tracy Cooper-Posey", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 810, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "In the early 23rd Century, vampires learned how to travel back in time, and created a time-tsunami that threatened life as we know it, until they corrected their mistake. They created the Chronometric Conservation Agency, which is tasked with preserving history and therefore protecting humanity's future. The Touring arm of the Agency offers trips back into the real past, with vampire guides, called travellers.When Natalia (Tally) Marta, vampire and traveller, takes her client to visit the siege of Stirling Castle in 1314, she is caught and held hostage for ransom by Robert MacKenzie, a Bruce clansman. Rob finds himself drawn to the wilful, stubborn and very different English lady he has captured and the relationship becomes an intimate, highly-charged sexual pairing. Swiftly, Tally and Rob realize their bond is more than sexual, that the emotions stirring their hearts are true.Christian Lee Hamilton, vampire, one of the last true southern gentlemen, and Tally's ex-lover, knows the 1314 time marker enough to jump back and help Tally return home. His arrival at Bannockburn adds complications, for Christian finds himself drawn to Rob MacKenzie as much as Tally is. But neither of them can stay in the past forever. To do so means certain death.WARNING: This book contains two hot, sexy alpha heroes, frequent, explicit and frank sex scenes and sexual language. It includes heart-stopping sexual scenes between the aforementioned Sexy heroes, menage scenes, and anal sex.Do not proceed beyond this point if hot love scenes offend you.No vampires were harmed in the making of this novel.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Menage (M M F)", "Historical", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13262585-bannockburn-binding"}, +{"book_title": "1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 970, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling alternate history series. Book #14 in the Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint.Eddie Cantrell, now married to the king of Denmark's daughter, is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuable commodity on that continent--not the gold and silver which the Spanish treasure, but the oil which up-time machines and industry need. The admiral has also provided Eddie's small task force with the new steam-powered frigates that have just come out of the navy's shipyards.Even with the frigates, a giant obstacle stands in his way: the Gulf-girdling Spanish presence in the New World. So a diversion is needed, carried out by an up-time car mechanic and a down-time mercenary colonel who also happens to be the last earl of Ireland. Their mission: grab the oil fields on Trinidad, and so distract the attention of Spain's New World governors.While the Spanish galleons and troops head for Trinidad, Commander Cantrell's smallest and fastest steam sloop will make a run to the Louisiana coast. There, her crew will wind their way up the bayous to the real New World prize: the Jennings Oil Field. But Cantrell's plans could be wrecked in a multitude of ways. He faces often-hostile natives, rambunctious Dutch ship captains, allied colonies on the brink of starvation, and vicious social infighting that can barely be contained by his capable and passionate new wife. When the galleons finally come out in force to engage his small flotilla, Eddie will discover that the Spanish aren't the only enemies who will be coming against him in a fateful Caribbean show-down.About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series:\"This alternate history series is...a landmark...\"--Booklist\"...[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\"--Booklist\"...reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis...\"--Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19302612-1636"}, +{"book_title": "Elixir", "author_name": "Anna Abner", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 182, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "The red plague has devastated the human race, turning billions of people into zombies with red eyes and an insatiable hunger for human flesh.The 212R virus sweeps through the population so quickly a possible cure is left to rot. Seventeen-year-old Maya Solomon may be the only survivor who knows where it is. But to reach the lab in Raleigh, North Carolina she will have to outrun the infected boy tracking her every step and cross into a city swarming with monsters.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22638410-elixir"}, +{"book_title": "CARL", "author_name": "Hussein Traboulsi", "rating_score": 4.58, "rating_votes": 48, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Carl is a robot psychiatrist that suddenly becomes sentient. He starts longing to be human but his creator and father figure Dr Alda prevents him from showing his feelings out of fear of losing him. More challenges arise when Alda\u2019s arch nemesis sets out to destroy them both.URL: http://www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/car...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38201983-carl"}, +{"book_title": "Pilgrimage to Hell", "author_name": "James Axler", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 896, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "On a crisp January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a one-megaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands, a world that conspired against survival. In the blasted heart of the new America, a group of men and women plan desperately to escape the eerie wastes and mutated life forms of their nuclear hell. Three warriors the tough, intelligent Ryan Cawdor, an enigmatic beauty called Krysty Wroth, and the armorer J. B. Dix set out on a harrowing journey to find a rumored enclave high in the mountains. Their aim: to unlock the secrets of prewar scientific experiments that could hold the answer to survival in the Deathlands of the future.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744040.Pilgrimage_to_Hell"}, +{"book_title": "Another Shore", "author_name": "Nancy Bond", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 142, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Lyn, working in a reconstructed colonial settlement in Nova Scotia, suddenly finds herself transported back to 1744, when the French inhabitants are at war with England.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/724935.Another_Shore"}, +{"book_title": "The Orphaned Worlds", "author_name": "Michael Cobley", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1481, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "The fight is on. So let the battle begin.Darien is no longer a lost outpost of humanity, but the prize in an intergalactic struggle. Hegemony forces control the planet, while Earth merely observes, rendered impotent by galactic politics. Yet Earth's ambassador to Darien will become a player in a greater conflict as there is more at stake than a turf war on a newly discovered world.An ancient temple hides access to a hyperspace prison, housing the greatest threat sentient life has never known. Millennia ago, malignant intelligences were caged there following an apocalyptic struggle, and their servants work on their release. Now a new war is coming.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Epic", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7378439-the-orphaned-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Imperfect Sword", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2804, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "The wait is over. New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell continues his action-packed spin-off to The Lost Fleet series as the Syndicate\u2019s civil war threatens to spread even farther into the final frontier\u2026 \u00a0 President Gwen Iceni and General Artur Drakon have successfully liberated the Midway Star System\u2014but the former rulers of the Syndicate Worlds won\u2019t surrender the region without a fight. The dictatorial regime has ordered the ex\u2013Syndicate CEOs terminated with extreme prejudice and the system\u2019s citizens punished for their defiance. \u00a0 Outnumbered and led by junior officers hastily promoted in the wake of the uprising, Midway\u2019s warships are no match for the fleet massing and preparing to strike. But the Syndicate isn\u2019t the only threat facing Iceni and Drakon. Another former CEO has taken control of the Ulindi Star System, the first calculated move toward establishing his own little empire. \u00a0 With Drakon\u2019s ground forces dispatched to Ulindi, Midway erupts in violence as Syndicate agents and other, unknown enemies stoke a renewed revolt against Iceni\u2019s power\u2014leaving both her and Drakon vulnerable to trusted officers just waiting for an opportune moment to betray them\u2026 \u00a0", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Futuristic", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20893397-imperfect-sword"}, +{"book_title": "Air Awakens", "author_name": "Elise Kova", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 25134, "review_number": 2900, "book_description": "A library apprentice, a sorcerer prince, and an unbreakable magic bond...The Solaris Empire is one conquest away from uniting the continent, and the rare elemental magic sleeping in seventeen-year-old library apprentice Vhalla Yarl could shift the tides of war. Vhalla has always been taught to fear the Tower of Sorcerers, a mysterious magic society, and has been happy in her quiet world of books. But after she unknowingly saves the life of one of the most powerful sorcerers of them all\u2014the Crown Prince Aldrik\u2014she finds herself enticed into his world. Now she must decide her future: Embrace her sorcery and leave the life she\u2019s known, or eradicate her magic and remain as she\u2019s always been. And with powerful forces lurking in the shadows, Vhalla\u2019s indecision could cost her more than she ever imagined.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23127048-air-awakens"}, +{"book_title": "The Immortality Game", "author_name": "Ted Cross", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 259, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Moscow, 2138. With the world only beginning to recover from the complete societal collapse of the late 21st Century, Zoya scrapes by prepping corpses for funerals and dreams of saving enough money to have a child. When her brother forces her to bring him a mysterious package, she witnesses his murder and finds herself on the run from ruthless mobsters. Frantically trying to stay alive and save her loved ones, Zoya opens the package and discovers two unusual data cards, one that allows her to fight back against the mafia and another which may hold the key to everlasting life.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23548914-the-immortality-game"}, +{"book_title": "Stellar Fox", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2229, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "LEGENDARY \u2026 AND UNTESTED Captain Kyle Roberts delivered one of the Castle Federation\u2019s few victories in the early days of the war. Even losing his ship in the process didn\u2019t prevent him being elevated as the hero \u2013 the \u201cStellar Fox\u201d \u2013 his country desperately needed. His status with the public demands a worthy command, and he finds himself on the bridge of the Federation\u2019s latest supercarrier and headed to the front lines of the war. But the Navy sees his promotion as a public relations stunt. His subordinates and superiors alike question his lack of experience \u2013 and enemies at the highest level of his own government manoeuvre to destroy him. As the war heats up around him, the Commonwealth may not be the greatest threat to Kyle Roberts or Avalon.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Action", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28259298-stellar-fox"}, +{"book_title": "The Bridal Hunt", "author_name": "Jeanette Lynn", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1338, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.Things aren't going at all like Wilhelmina had planned...Showing up at her significant other's office to surprise him with a romantic getaway for two, she finds herself on the receiving end of one, instead.Hurt, betrayed, pissed off and single Wilhelmina decides to take the trip alone, have her own holiday for one.Things go from bad to worse for Mina when her ex shows thinking to reconcile, but can't take no for an answer. In the midst of all this, something large, white, hairy and completely Abominable drops in uninvited. The beast had decided to settle their dispute itself.Noting something of worth in the feisty, hot-tempered woman, the creature steals off with her, heading deep into the woods with his prize.Wilhelmina soon finds herself in the middle of a primitive looking camp of snowy white creatures, on some kind of alternate plane, realizing quickly that she's just unwillingly participated in some kind of bridal hunt.Is Wilhelmina fated to be an Abominable snow beastie's bride? Or can she find her way back home before it's too late?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55813727-the-bridal-hunt"}, +{"book_title": "Roar and Liv", "author_name": "Veronica Rossi", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 11505, "review_number": 882, "book_description": "Before Perry and Aria, there was Roar and Liv.After a childhood spent wandering the borderlands, Roar finally feels like he has a home with the Tides. His best friend Perry is like a brother to him, and Perry's sister, Liv, is the love of his life. But Perry and Liv's unpredictable older brother, Vale, is the Blood Lord of the Tides, and he has never looked kindly on Roar and Liv's union. Normally, Roar couldn't care less about Vale's opinion. But with food running low and conditions worsening every day, Vale's leadership is more vital\u2014and more brutal\u2014than ever. Desperate to protect his tribe, Vale makes a decision that will shatter the life Roar knew and change the fate of the Tides forever.Set in the harsh but often beautiful world of Veronica Rossi's \"unforgettable\" Under the Never Sky (Examiner.com), this captivating prequel novella stands on its own for new readers and offers series fans a fascinating look into the character of Roar. Poignant and powerful, Roar and Liv is a love story that will \"capture your imagination and your heart.\" (Justine on Under the Never Sky)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15754052-roar-and-liv"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Human", "author_name": "Zack Jordan", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1524, "review_number": 328, "book_description": "\nThe last human in the universe is on the run from a godlike intelligence in this rip-roaring debut space opera.\nSarya is the civilized galaxy's worst nightmare: a Human.Most days, Sarya doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy.Most days, she's got other things on her mind. Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station. Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn't casually eviscerate one of their neighbors. Again.And most days, she can almost accept that she'll never know the truth--that she'll never know why humanity was deemed too dangerous to exist. Or whether she really is--impossibly--the lone survivor of a species destroyed a millennium ago.That is, until an encounter with a bounty hunter and a miles-long kinetic projectile leaves her life and her perspective shattered.Thrown into the universe at the helm of a stolen ship--with the dubious assistance of a rebellious spacesuit, an android death enthusiast on his sixtieth lifetime, and a ball of fluff with an IQ in the thousands--Sarya begins to uncover an impossible truth.What if humanity's death and her own existence are simply two moves in a demented cosmic game, one played out by vast alien intellects? Stranger still, what if these mad gods are offering Sarya a seat at their table--and a second chance for humanity?The Last Human is a sneakily brilliant, gleefully oddball space-opera debut--a masterful play on perspective, intelligence, and free will, wrapped in a rollicking journey through a strange and crowded galaxy.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45895112-the-last-human"}, +{"book_title": "Lost Burgundy", "author_name": "Mary Gentle", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 247, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "There is more than one history of the world... \"In a barbarous age in a world now forgotten, an extraordinary figure stood formidable on the European battlefield--a remarkable female warrior and strategist without equal...save one.\"Dijon, the once-proud capital of Burgundy, has been pounded into near submission. The merciless soldiers of the Visigoth Empire stand hungrily at the gate, and at their fore, the beautiful, deadly Faris, unwittingly bred to tbe the instrument of a machine intelligence that seeks the end of humanity. The sun gutters weakly overhead like a dying candle, as the Wild Machines once again flex their dark, demonic power.Ash, like her warrior twin, hears the Wild Machines' call--but unlike the Faris, Ash will not be their tool. For within Dijon's crumbling walls a fragile hope has bloomed: one who bears in her royal blood the ability to hold the dread Machines at bay. But defeating their dark plans will take a miracle--and ultimately, only Ash herself stands between Burgundy's implacable enemies and all humanity.Lost BurgundyThe stunning conclusion to the remarkable true chronicles of Ash", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808668.Lost_Burgundy"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf-Speaker", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 57536, "review_number": 1059, "book_description": "When humans start cutting down trees and digging holes in peaceful Dunlath Valley, the wolves know that something is wrong. They send a messenger to the only human who will listen -- Daine, a fourteen-year-old girl with the unpredictable power of wild magic. Daine and her closest companions heed the wolves' cry for help. But the challenge they are about to face in the valley is greater than they can possibly imagine...", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24094.Wolf_Speaker"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Guns", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 434, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "\nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Legion of the Damned Novels and The Mutant Files comes the first novel in a post-apocalyptic military science fiction series about America rising from the ashes of a global catastrophe...\nOn May Day, 2018, sixty meteors entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere and exploded around the globe with a force greater than a nuclear blast. Earthquakes and tsunamis followed. Then China attacked Europe, Asia, and the United States in the belief the disaster was an act of war.Washington D.C. was a casualty of the meteor onslaught that decimated the nation\u2019s leadership and left the surviving elements of the armed forces to try and restore order as American society fell apart. As refugees across America band together and engage in open warfare with the military over scarce resources, a select group of individuals representing the surviving corporate structure make a power play to rebuild the country in a free market image as The New Confederacy...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28015837-into-the-guns"}, +{"book_title": "A Web of Air", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 3287, "review_number": 277, "book_description": "Two years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London in a travelling theatre. Now she arrives in the extraordinary crater city of Mayda, where buildings ascend the cliffs on funicular rails, and a mysterious recluse is building a machine that can fly. Fever is the engineer he needs - but ruthless enemies will kill to possess their secrets. This is the fabulous sixth book in the \"Mortal Engines\" series, from the brilliant and award-winning Philip Reeve.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7312120-a-web-of-air"}, +{"book_title": "Tempered", "author_name": "Karina Cooper", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 209, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Book Four of The St. Croix ChroniclesForced out of London's coal-blackened streets, Cherry St. Croix is faced with her most difficult undertaking yet: sobriety.At long last, my guardian, the enigmatic Mr. Oliver Ashmore, has revealed himself\u2014and his order is clear: I am to be dried out at once, regardless of my wishes.I loathe the country estate I am imprisoned within. Footsteps follow me, voices call for me, and my sanity wavers. In my fevered dreams, I am haunted by those I failed, while waking proves no protection from the ghosts of my reckless past. The craving for laudanum plagues me. I require a distraction.To unravel the alchemical mysteries of my mother's family, I must rely on Ashmore's tutelage. I am lured to the art and drawn by the secrets my guardian possesses. Yet the deeper I delve, the more I believe that something dreadful disturbs these haunted corridors. In my madness, I fear that what it wants most...is me.106,000 words", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20261437-tempered"}, +{"book_title": "Invasion", "author_name": "Sean Platt", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 3489, "review_number": 402, "book_description": "They are coming. The countdown has begun.First visible only as blips on a telescope image, the discovery of objects approaching from Jupiter orbit immediately sets humanity on edge. NASA doesn't even bother to deny the alien ships' existence. The popular Astral space app (broadcasting from the far side of the moon and accessible by anyone with internet) has already shown the populace what is coming. So the news has turned from evasion to triage, urging calm and offering the few facts they have: The objects are enormous, perfectly round spheres numbering in the dozens, maybe hundreds. They are on an approach vector for Earth. And they will arrive in six days. Fear simmers.Meyer Dempsey - mogul, wealthy entrepreneur, arrogant and always in charge - is in New York, on the phone with his ex-wife in LA when the news breaks. He can hear tension in the voices of reporters and experts chronicling all that's known and unknown. But even while those supposedly in charge restrain their own panic, Meyer finds he recognizes bits and pieces of what the world is facing. He's seen this in dreams - in visions of another place. He knows where he and his family must go. He has prepared \u2026 though he never knew until now what he'd been preparing for. He knows only they cannot hesitate. They must run to their safe haven in the Colorado mountains. Now. Before society shatters into chaos, and it all falls apart. Fear rises.Meyer has been taking steps for months, and has made preparations: a trove of supplies, a van stocked for the worst, a Gulfstream waiting at a small airstrip in Jersey. But he hasn't yet been able to take the final and most important step: moving the family to Colorado, where every contingency is covered. The networks stay on-air longer than expected, creating a farce of calm. But those with means have already begun to scramble as Meyer gathers his wife Piper and his two teenage children and begins their race toward that compound, toward safety. There is no time for hesitation, regret, or pity. Soon, pundits begin to ask questions hard enough to tip those who've thus far stayed calm out of their complacency, inciting chaos: What do the beings inside the ships want? What will they do when they arrive? And what if the scientists are wrong, and the spheres aren't decelerating? Will they strike the planet, raising clouds of extinction dust? Will they knock the Earth off its axis? Is this a prelude to an alien invasion? An alien war? An alien apocalypse? The first domino in the birth of a new alien empire? Fear erupts.Panic, once it breaches the thin crust of civilized society, spreads like a virus. Meyer knows only one thing, and it's a truth that has perched atop his mind like a psychic obsession: When the ships arrive, his family must be at the Colorado compound or all will be lost. The space fleet in itself doesn't matter. The disintegration on the surviving news outlets does not matter. Reports that Las Vegas has been set ablaze do not matter. The fate of humanity, in Meyer's eyes, doesn't matter.All that matters is Piper. Trevor. Delilah. And Meyer's ex-wife Heather, coming to the same destination from the west - a woman who remains his best friend, and his secret lover. Rioting spills into the highways as time ticks away. Unrest boils in both city and hinterlands. But Meyer's obsession to reach Vail is single-minded, guided with the focus of a far-seeing nightmare. Gangs can ground his plane, threaten his vehicles, and steal his belongings. But nothing will stand between Meyer's family and their haven \u2026 and Meyer will kill his way to Colorado if he has to. This relentless, page-turning tale of apocalyptic dawn is the first in the alien invasion series by masters of story Truant and Platt, authors of The Beam, Robot Proletariat, the Dream Engine series, and many more.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24915344-invasion"}, +{"book_title": "A Son for the Alien Warrior", "author_name": "Honey Phillips", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 2934, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "Can she create a new family with an alien warrior?On the anniversary of the disappearance of Mariah\u2019s sister and nephew, Mariah returns to their last known location, expecting to find only painful memories. Instead, she encounters an alien spaceship and recklessly sneaks aboard, taking one last chance to be reunited with her family.The desperate move sends her across the galaxy and straight into the arms of a massive alien warrior who is determined to protect her. But no matter how much she is drawn to him, she will not be distracted from her goal\u2014to find her missing family at all costs.Years ago, when Captain Cestov and his brother argued over the fate of their dying race, his brother stormed out of his life. He has been searching for him ever since. He never expected his search to lead him to a distant planet, a troubled ranch, and a little boy who calls him Daddy. And he certainly never expected an enticing human female who makes him consider putting down roots for the first time.Neither Mariah nor Cestov ever thought they would find a permanent home. But can their shared love for a child help them to move on to a new future as a family? Or will the ghosts from their pasts tear them apart?Each book in the Treasured by the Alien series can be read as a standalone romance. This sweet and steamy HEA is intended for adults only.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48756980-a-son-for-the-alien-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Sparrow Rock", "author_name": "Nate Kenyon", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 978, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "Six high school students have survived nuclear war in a high-tech bomb shelter, but they are not alone. Mutated insects are hungry and the human survivors are the only prey.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7740386-sparrow-rock"}, +{"book_title": "Automatic Woman", "author_name": "Nathan Yocum", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "There are no simple cases. Jacob \u201cJolly\u201d Fellows knows this.The London of 1888, the London of steam engines, Victorian intrigue, and horseless carriages is not a safe place nor simple place\u2026but it\u2019s his place. Jolly is a thief catcher, a door-crashing thug for the prestigious Bow Street Firm, assigned to track down a life sized automatic ballerina. But when theft turns to murder and murder turns to conspiracy, can Jolly keep his head above water? Can a thief catcher catch a killer?Automatic Woman is the second novel from award winning screenwriter Nathan L. Yocum. A volatile mix of steampunk, noir, historical fiction, and two-fisted action, Automatic Woman takes us to a place that never was yet we all know so well\u2026 the London of Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper and Bram Stoker with a pneumatic twist.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15789345-automatic-woman"}, +{"book_title": "The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 456, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "A collection of short stories detailing the supernatural steampunk adventures of detective duo, Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes in dark and dangerous Victorian London. Along with Chief Inspector Bainbridge, Newbury & Hobbes will face plague revenants, murderous peers, mechanical beasts, tentacled leviathans, reanimated pygmies, and an encounter with Sherlock Holmes.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17345299-the-casebook-of-newbury-hobbes"}, +{"book_title": "Hot Redemption", "author_name": "K.D. Penn", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 88, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "\"The story is solid and the romantic conflict engaging, and the erotic moments practically set the pages on fire.\" Publishers WeeklyEpic and his brothers don\u2019t rob strip clubs for fun or fame, but to use the electronic currency to take care of their family. With androids and robots flooding the job market, it\u2019s almost impossible for humans to find work. Besides, stealing comes easy to the gang, until Phoenix steps into their lives, snatching away their bounty and fogging up Epic\u2019s mind with her seductive scent. Shots blare. A chase ensues. Both sides refuse to yield. And the small compromise that comes is brought by chains and a promise for a bigger hit\u2014on a planet far away from earth. Can Epic and Phoenix work together to rescue themselves from poverty? Or will they find another type of redemption, one lathered in lust and warmth, pleasure, and the type of undemanding love that no human can live without?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17726239-hot-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "Defiance", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1545, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "The UFS Phoenix is hunting for the long-lost drysine data-core. Within it lie the secrets to saving humanity from the resurgent deepynine machine-race. To recover it, Captain Erik Debogande must work together with the man who holds his sister hostage \u2014 the power-hungry parren leader Aristan. Aristan has sworn he will return Lisbeth Debogande once Phoenix grants him equal access to its prize. But now from the direction of hostile space comes word of a dark force hunting humans and parren alike, determined at all costs that the store of the lost Drysine Empire\u2019s knowledge should be possessed by neither\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35583546-defiance"}, +{"book_title": "Future Shock", "author_name": "Elizabeth Briggs", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1256, "review_number": 312, "book_description": "What do you do when the future is too late, and the present is counting down to an inevitable moment?Elena Martinez has street smarts, the ability for perfect recall, and a deadline: if she doesn\u2019t find a job before she turns eighteen, she\u2019ll be homeless. But then she gets an unexpected offer from Aether Corporation, the powerful Los Angeles tech giant. Along with four other recruits\u2014Adam, Chris, Trent, and Zoe\u2014Elena is being sent on a secret mission to bring back data from the future. All they have to do is get Aether the information they need, and the five of them will be set for life. It\u2019s an offer Elena can\u2019t refuse.But something goes wrong when the time travelers arrive in the future. And they are forced to break the only rule they were given\u2014not to look into their own fates. Now they have twenty-four hours to get back to the present and find a way to stop a seemingly inevitable future\u2014and a murder\u2014from happening. But changing the timeline has deadly consequences too. Who can Elena trust as she fights to save her life?The first book in an unforgettable series about rewriting your destiny in the city of dreams.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26722944-future-shock"}, +{"book_title": "Downtime", "author_name": "James Allen", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1898, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "FBI Agent Morgan Nash is on assignment in London when his case goes awry and he finds himself moments away from a bullet through the heart. But fate has other plans: Morgan gets knocked out pursuing a suspect... and wakes up in 1888.While cataloging ancient manuscripts at the British Museum, Ezra Glacenbie accidentally pulls Morgan out of the twenty-first century-an impromptu vacation that may become permanent for Morgan if they can't locate the spellbook Ezra used. Further hampering Morgan's quest to get home is the irresistible temptation to investigate history's most notorious serial killer: Jack the Ripper. But in repressive Victorian London, it's the unexpected romance blossoming between Morgan and Ezra that becomes the most dangerous complication of all.Third EditionCover art by Ravven", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13570710-downtime"}, +{"book_title": "Greylorn", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 144, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Commander Greylorn leads humanity's last hope, one spaceship racing through the voids of the universe. The Red Tide has all but engulfed the Earth, just enough time to find planet Omega, colonized long ago and vanished. After four years, food stores are destroyed by meteor, crew set to mutiny, and alien ship with cargo of human bodies. 1 Greylorn 1959. 2 The Night of the Trolls (Bolo) 19633 The Other Sky 1968 aka The Further Sky4 The King of the City 1961", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4788240-greylorn"}, +{"book_title": "Plague Year", "author_name": "Jeff Carlson", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 2561, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "The nanotechnology was designed to fight cancer. Instead, it evolved into the Machine Plague, killing nearly five billion people and changing life on Earth forever.The nanotech has one weakness: it self-destructs at altitudes above ten thousand feet. Those few who've managed to escape the plague struggle to stay alive on the highest mountains, but time is running out\u2014there is famine and war, and the environment is crashing worldwide. Humanity's last hope lies with a top nanotech researcher aboard the International Space Station\u2014and with a small group of survivors in California who risk a daring journey below the death line...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Horror (Zombies)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294460.Plague_Year"}, +{"book_title": "Hero at the Fall", "author_name": "Alwyn Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 13021, "review_number": 1892, "book_description": "When gunslinging Amani Al'Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she'd join a revolution, let alone lead one. But after the bloodthirsty Sultan of Miraji imprisoned the Rebel Prince Ahmed in the mythical city of Eremot, she doesn't have a choice. Armed with only her revolver, her wits, and her untameable Demdji powers, Amani must rally her skeleton crew of rebels for a rescue mission through the unforgiving desert to a place that, according to maps, doesn't exist. As she watches those she loves most lay their lives on the line against ghouls and enemy soldiers, Amani questions whether she can be the leader they need or if she is leading them all to their deaths.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29739428-hero-at-the-fall"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 28: A Certain Doom", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 4315, "review_number": 371, "book_description": "In the aftermath of The Whisperer War--ALL IS LOST as Rick and all of Alexandria fight for survival against the largest horde of walkers they've ever faced. Collects THE WALKING DEAD #163-168. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34826505-the-walking-dead-vol-28"}, +{"book_title": "Maplecroft", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 4307, "review_number": 927, "book_description": "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.... \u00a0 The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny. \u00a0 But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean\u2019s depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness. \u00a0 This evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe. \u00a0", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Gothic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821288-maplecroft"}, +{"book_title": "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection", "author_name": "Gardner Dozois", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 521, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "FIFTEEN-TIME WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR YEAR'S BEST ANTHOLOGYThe thirty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are works by masters of the form and by bright new talents, including: Nina Allan, Eleanor Arnason, Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Chris Beckett, Aliette de Bodard, Damien Broderick, Pat Cadigan, Brenda Cooper, Cory Doctorow, Joe Haldeman, Jim Hawkins, Alexander Jablokov, Ted Kosmatka, Jay Lake, Geoffrey A. Landis, Yoon Ha Lee, Ian R. MacLeod, David Moles, Naomi Novik, Steven Popkes, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Ken Scholes, Allen M. Steele, Michael Swanwick, Rachel Swirsky, Lavi Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, Peter Watts, and Tad Williams.Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.Description from back coverContents xiii \u2022 Summation: 2010 \u2022 (2011) \u2022 essay by Gardner Dozois1 \u2022 A History of Terraforming \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novella by Robert Reed39 \u2022 The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Lavie Tidhar43 \u2022 The Emperor of Mars \u2022 [Near Space] \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Allen Steele [as by Allen M. Steele ]58 \u2022 The Things \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Peter Watts72 \u2022 The Sultan of the Clouds \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novella by Geoffrey A. Landis108 \u2022 The Books \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Kage Baker119 \u2022 Re-Crossing the Styx \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod (aka Recrossing the Styx)132 \u2022 And Ministers of Grace \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novelette by Tad Williams154 \u2022 Mammoths of the Great Plains \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novella by Eleanor Arnason191 \u2022 Sleeping Dogs \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Joe Haldeman204 \u2022 Jackie's Boy \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novella by Steven Popkes (aka Jackie's-Boy)246 \u2022 Flying in the Face of God \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Nina Allan262 \u2022 Chicken Little \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novella by Cory Doctorow298 \u2022 Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee304 \u2022 Return to Titan \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novella by Stephen Baxter354 \u2022 Under the Moons of Venus \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Damien Broderick370 \u2022 Seven Years from Home \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novelette by Naomi Novik392 \u2022 The Peacock Cloak \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Chris Beckett405 \u2022 Amaryllis \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Carrie Vaughn416 \u2022 Seven Cities of Gold \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novella by David Moles452 \u2022 Again and Again and Again \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Rachel Swirsky455 \u2022 Elegy for a Young Elk \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi468 \u2022 Libertarian Russia \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Michael Swanwick477 \u2022 The Night Train \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Lavie Tidhar488 \u2022 My Father's Singularity \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Brenda Cooper493 \u2022 The Starship Mechanic \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes499 \u2022 Sleepover \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novelette by Alastair Reynolds531 \u2022 The Taste of Night \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Pat Cadigan541 \u2022 Blind Cat Dance \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novelette by Alexander Jablokov563 \u2022 The Shipmaker \u2022 [Universe of Xuya] \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Aliette de Bodard574 \u2022 In-Fall \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Ted Kosmatka582 \u2022 Chimbwi \u2022 (2010) \u2022 shortstory by Jim Hawkins599 \u2022 Dead Man's Run \u2022 (2010) \u2022 novella by Robert Reed653 \u2022 Honorable Mentions: 2010 \u2022 (2011) \u2022 essay by Gardner Dozois", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10865914-the-year-s-best-science-fiction"}, +{"book_title": "Ascender #12", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 42, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "\u201cTHE DIGITAL MAGE,\u201d Part TwoLast issue saw the return of the beloved Driller, and now another fan-favorite DESCENDER character is set to return\u2026but have they been forever changed? Find out!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54653833-ascender-12"}, +{"book_title": "Andromeda's Fall", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1116, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "The roots of the Legion of the Damned lie deep within the mythology of the future. But now, national bestselling author William C. Dietz goes back to the Legion\u2019s early days with the story of one recruit\u2019s rebirth and redemption\u2026 Hundreds of years in the future, much has changed. Advances in medicine, technology, and science abound. Humanity has gone to the stars, found alien life, and established an empire. But some things never change... All her life, Lady Catherine Carletto (called Cat) has lived for nothing but the next party, the next lover, the next expensive toy. Until, in a bloodthirsty power grab, Imperial Princess Ophelia and her cadre of synth assassins murder her brother the emperor, and go on to purge the galaxy of his friends and supporters\u2014including Cat\u2019s family. The Carlettos are known to be staunch supporters of the Emperor and Carletto Industries has been in the forefront of his pet project\u2014developing cybernetic technology for use by the masses. Now Cat, one of the last surviving Carlettos, is on the run. And, like countless others before her, she finds her sanctuary among the most dangerous of society\u2019s misfits. Welcome to the Legion. Cat Carletto vanishes, and in her place stands Legion recruit Andromeda McKee. A woman with a mission\u2014to bring down Empress Ophelia\u2014or die trying.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588158-andromeda-s-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Darker After Midnight", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 18649, "review_number": 1098, "book_description": "The climactic novel in Lara Adrian's New York Times bestselling Midnight Breed series\u2014and her hardcover debut\u2014Darker After Midnight invites readers to enter a thrillingly sensual world where danger meets desire.In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order\u2014a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike\u2014to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.At the center of the Order's quest is Sterling Chase, once a morally rigid enforcer of Breed law, now a warrior fallen from grace, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. With addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness, Chase's path to redemption has never seemed more out of reach\u2014until he finds himself drawn to a beautiful young woman who may be something much more than she seems . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12042279-darker-after-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Unplugged", "author_name": "Steve Antony", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 956, "review_number": 210, "book_description": " From the creator of the bestselling Mr. Panda series comes an amusing picture book about the fun you can have when you unplug.Meet Blip. Blip loves being plugged into her computer. When a blackout occurs, Blip trips over her wire and tumbles outside. Suddenly, Blip's gray world is filled with color and excitement. She plays with her new friends and has adventures all day long. When Blip finally returns home, she realizes that the world can be even brighter once you unplug.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science (Technology)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure", "Environment (Nature)", "Fiction", "Animals", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35195584-unplugged"}, +{"book_title": "Patriarch's Hope", "author_name": "David Feintuch", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 781, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "THE SEAFORT SAGA David Feintuch, winner of the prestigious John W. Campbell Award, presents a tense, thrilling new chapter in the bestselling Seafort saga -- as global environmental devastation and a spaceborne coup d'etat threaten all humanity. U.N. SecGen Nicholas Seafort is the most powerful person on Earth, but his merciless sense of honor and faith is about to be tested. The ecology of the planet is on the point of collapse -- a crisis Seafort himself helped cause. And from a hijacked orbital platform, political renegades hold millions hostage. Now, unarmed, with only civilians and children at his side, Nick Seafort must go to war against the most dangerous of enemies -- those from within. And the cost may be more than even Seafort's iron will can bear...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/979182.Patriarch_s_Hope"}, +{"book_title": "Lincoln's Dreams", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 3986, "review_number": 363, "book_description": "For Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter. He meets Annie, an intense and lovely young woman suffering from vivid, intense nightmares. Haunted by the dreamer and her unrelenting dreams, Jeff leads Annie on an emotional odyssey through the heartland of the Civil War in search of a cure. On long-silenced battlefields their relationship blossoms-two obsessed lovers linked by unbreakable chains of history, torn by a duty that could destroy them both. Suspenseful, moving, and highly compelling, Lincoln's Dreams is a novel of rare imaginative power.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Military History (Civil War)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24980.Lincoln_s_Dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Animal Farm", "author_name": "George Orwell", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2844459, "review_number": 58601, "book_description": "Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned \u2013a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell\u2019s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.", "year_published": 1945, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Politics", "Academic (School)", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Academic (Read For School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm"}, +{"book_title": "The Jesus Incident", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 5027, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens: their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness and has decided that it is a God. Now it is insisting\u2014with all the not inconsiderable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up\u2014that the colonists find appropriate ways to worship It.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Religion", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2013.The_Jesus_Incident"}, +{"book_title": "China Mountain Zhang", "author_name": "Maureen F. McHugh", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 3815, "review_number": 434, "book_description": "With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyber-kite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball players, and organic engineers blend into a powerful, taut story of a young man's journey of discovery. This is a macroscopic world of microscopic intensity, one of the most brilliant visions of modern SF.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (China)", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/836964.China_Mountain_Zhang"}, +{"book_title": "Lest Darkness Fall", "author_name": "L. Sprague de Camp", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2713, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "When am I? Padway asked himself after the lightning-flash knocked him down. He knew where he was--Rome. He was there to study archaeology, and even though the lightning had left him dazed, he could see the familiar Roman buildings. But the buildings looked newer and the crowds in the street were wearing tunics, not suits! And a rich barnyard smell had replaced the gasoline-and-garlic aroma of modern Rome. So, when was he? And he was suddenly cold with fear of the answer...", "year_published": 1941, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94715.Lest_Darkness_Fall"}, +{"book_title": "XOM-B", "author_name": "Jeremy Robinson", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1042, "review_number": 147, "book_description": "Freeman is a genius with an uncommon mixture of memory, intelligence and creativity. He lives in a worldwide utopia, but it was not always so. There was a time known as the Grind\u2015when Freeman's people lived as slaves to another race referred to simply as \"Master.\" They were property. But a civil rights movement emerged. Change seemed near, but the Masters refused to bend. Instead, they declared war. And lost. Now, the freed world is threatened by a virus, spread through bites, sweeping through the population. Those infected are propelled to violence, driven to disperse the virus. Uniquely suited to respond to this new threat, Freeman searches for a cure, but instead finds the source\u2015the Masters, intent on reclaiming the world. Freeman must fight for his life, for his friends and for the truth, which is far more complex and dangerous than he ever imagined.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17934470-xom-b"}, +{"book_title": "Neptune's Brood", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 5397, "review_number": 510, "book_description": "Krina Alizond is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans became extinct five thousand years ago. When her sister goes missing she embarks on a daring voyage across the star systems to find her, travelling to her last known location - the mysterious water-world of Shin-Tethys.In a universe with no faster-than-light travel that's a dangerous journey, made all the more perilous by the arrival of an assassin on Krina's tail, by the 'privateers' chasing her sister's life insurance policy and by growing signs that the disappearance is linked to one of the biggest financial scams in the known universe.This is set in the same universe as Saturn's Children, 5000 years later.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Economics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15985402-neptune-s-brood"}, +{"book_title": "T2: Infiltrator", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 761, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "Return to the blockbuster Terminator universe, with the untold adventures of Sarah and John Connor!Following TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY, Sarah and John Connor fled to Paraguay, until one day Sarah spots a Terminator unit in the town square. A great cat-and-mouse game ensues before she realizes he\u2032s an actual man, an ex-counter-terrorist named Dieter, the man the T-100 will be modeled on. After she tells him her story, he tells her another. He\u2032s discovered that Cyberdyne is still active, and about to create Skynet. So she, John, and Dieter set off to finish the job. But first they must face the most insidious Terminator unit yet, one that can easily pass as human and who has all the resources of Cyberdyne, as well as several Terminators, at its command.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/616783.T2"}, +{"book_title": "An Affair of Poisons", "author_name": "Addie Thorley", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1420, "review_number": 331, "book_description": "No one looks kindly on the killer of a king. After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother\u2019s Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they\u2019re not heroes of the people, as they\u2019ve always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to purge.Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de France. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half of the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant dauphin. Forced to hide in the sewers beneath the city, Josse\u2019s hope of reclaiming Paris seems impossible\u2015until his path collides with Mirabelle\u2019s.She\u2019s a deadly poisoner. He\u2019s a bastard prince. They are sworn enemies, yet they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility against the Shadow Society. But can a rebellion built on mistrust ever hope to succeed?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Cultural (France)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40046019-an-affair-of-poisons"}, +{"book_title": "Grandville", "author_name": "Bryan Talbot", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1737, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "Two hundred years ago, Britain lost the Napoleonic War and fell under the thumb of French domination. Gaining independence after decades of civil disobedience and anarchist bombings, the Socialist Republic of Britain is now a small, unimportant backwater connected by a railway bridge, steampowered dirigible, and mutual suspicion to France. When a British diplomat's murder is made to look like suicide, ferocious DetectiveInspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard stalks a ruthless murder squad through the heart of a Belle Epoque Paris, the center of the greatest empire in a world of steamdriven hansom cabs, automatons, and flying machines. LeBrock's relentless quest can lead only to death, truth... or war.* Following on the heels of his internationally acclaimed graphic novels The Tale of One Bad Rat and Alice in Sunderland, Grandville is a fantastical and audacious rollercoaster ride, visually stunning and rich in memorable detail.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6660561-grandville"}, +{"book_title": "Muse", "author_name": "Brittany Cavallaro", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 66, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "American Royals meets The Winner\u2019s Curse in the first book of bestselling author Brittany Cavallaro\u2019s new duology, set in an alternate history American monarchy where a girl grapples for control of her own life in the middle of a looming war.The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. But Claire Emerson has a bigger problem. While her father prepares to reveal the mighty weapon he\u2019s created to showcase the might of their province, St. Cloud, in the World\u2019s Fair, Claire is crafting a plan to escape.Claire\u2019s father is a sought-after inventor, but he believes his genius is a gift, granted to him by his daughter\u2019s touch. He\u2019s kept Claire under his control for years. As St. Cloud prepares for war, Claire plans to claim her life for herself, even as her best friend, Beatrix, tries to convince her to stay and help with the growing resistance movement that wants to see a woman on the throne. At any cost.When her father\u2019s weapon fails to fire on the fair\u2019s opening day, Claire is taken captive by Governor Remy Duchamp, St. Cloud\u2019s young, untried ruler. Remy believes that Claire\u2019s touch bestows graces he\u2019s never had, and with his governing power weakening and many political rivals planning his demise, Claire might be his only and best ally. But the last thing that Claire has ever wanted is to be someone else\u2019s muse. Still, affections can change as quickly as the winds of war. And Claire has a choice to make: Will she quietly remake her world from the shadows\u2014or bring it down in flames?", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53327839-muse"}, +{"book_title": "The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 4325, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "An epic science fiction saga is set in a primitive world of the distant future, where two groups battle for hegemony--the Edenists, telepathic, genetically engineered space-dwellers, and the Adamists, who reject technology. Reprint.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Epic", "Audiobook", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45255.The_Reality_Dysfunction_Part_2"}, +{"book_title": "The Undrowned Child", "author_name": "Michelle Lovric", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1074, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Teodora has always longed to visit Venice. And at last she has her chance. But strange and sinister things are afoot in the beautiful floating city.Teo is quickly subsumed into a secret world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets, statues speak, rats read and librarians turn fluidly into cats. And where a book, The Key to the Secret City, leads Teo straight into the heart of the danger that threatens to destroy the city to which she feels she belongs.An ancient proverb seems to unite Teo with a Venetian boy, Renzo, and with the Traitor who has returned from the dark past to wreak revenge\u2026. But who is the undrowned child destined to save Venice?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Historical", "Cultural (Italy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6574115-the-undrowned-child"}, +{"book_title": "Stealing Coal", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 6580, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "Jill has learned the hard way that men can\u2019t be trusted and sex only causes pain. In the lawlessness of space, women are a sexual commodity\u2014to be used and abused. She\u2019s doing a man\u2019s job, with only her father\u2019s brutal reputation and three androids to help keep her alive when she sees a massive, handsome cyborg chained to a freight table. The abusive crew plans to sell him to fight in gruesome death matches. It\u2019s stupid, it\u2019s insane, but Jill can\u2019t leave him to such a horrible fate. Coal has survived being a captive breeding slave and irreversible damage to his cyborg implants, but his honor is still intact. He\u2019s grateful Jill saved him and he\u2019ll repay her the only way he can. He\u2019ll fix her\u2014with his mouth, his hands and his body. He can teach the little human just how much pleasure she\u2019s capable of feeling.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10799498-stealing-coal"}, +{"book_title": "In the Night Garden", "author_name": "Catherynne M. Valente", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 8421, "review_number": 887, "book_description": "A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up ReadersEvery once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit you away from the very first page.Secreted away in a garden, a lonely girl spins stories to warm a curious prince: peculiar feats and unspeakable fates that loop through each other and back again to meet in the tapestry of her voice. Inked on her eyelids, each twisting, tattooed tale is a piece in the puzzle of the girl's own hidden history. And what tales she tells! Tales of shape-shifting witches and wild horsewomen, heron kings and beast princesses, snake gods, dog monks, and living stars each story more strange and fantastic than the one that came before. From ill-tempered mermaid to fastidious Beast, nothing is ever quite what it seems in these ever-shifting tales even, and especially, their teller. Adorned with illustrations by the legendary Michael Kaluta, Valente's enchanting lyrical fantasy offers a breathtaking reinvention of the untold myths and dark fairy tales that shape our dreams. And just when you think you've come to the end, you realize the adventure has only begun.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Short Stories", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Retellings", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202769.In_the_Night_Garden"}, +{"book_title": "The IX", "author_name": "Andrew P. Weston", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 438, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Soldiers from varying eras and vastly different backgrounds, including the IX Legion of Rome, are snatched away from Earth at the moment of their passing, and transported to the far side of the galaxy. Thinking they have been granted a reprieve, their relief turns to horror when they discover they face a stark ultimatum: Fight or die.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Fiction", "War", "Horror", "Fantasy (Heroic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24689551-the-ix"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette, Volume 14", "author_name": "Paula Goodlett", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 107, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 29 is derived directly from the on-line edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com. It is different than the editions provided by Baen and webscriptions, has somewhat different content and different formatting. As always with anything related to 1632, it is provided entirely without DRM of any kind. We hope you enjoy it. If you aren't familiar with the Grantville Gazette, some background may be in order: The Grantville Gazette originated as a by-product of the ongoing and very active discussions which take place concerning the 1632 universe Eric Flint created in the novels 1632, 1633, 1634: The Galileo Affair and others set in the Assiti Shards universe. This discussion is centered in three of the conferences in Baen's Bar, the discussion area of Baen Books' web site. The conferences are entitled \"1632 Slush,\" \"1632 Slush Comments\" and \"1632 Tech Manual.\" They have been in operation for almost seven years now, during which time nearly two hundred thousand posts have been made by hundreds of participants.Soon enough, the discussion began generating so-called \"fanfic,\" stories written in the setting by fans of the series. A number of those were good enough to be published professionally. And, indeed, a number of them were-as part of the anthology Ring of Fire , which was published by Baen Books in January, 2004.The decision to publish the Ring of Fire anthology triggered the writing of still more fanfic, even after submissions to the anthology were closed. Ring of Fire has been selling quite well since it came out, and a second anthology similar to it was published late in 2007. Another, Ring of Fire III, is forthcoming. It will also contain stories written by new writers, as well as professionals. But, in the meantime . . . the fanfic kept getting written, and people kept nudging Eric-well, pestering Eric-to give them feedback on their stories.Hence . . . the Grantville Gazette. The first issue of the electronic magazine sold well enough to make continuing the magazine a financially self-sustaining operation. Since then, more than thirty volumes have been electronically published through the Baen Webscriptions site. As well, Grantville Gazette, Volume One through Five were published in paperback and hardcover editions.Then, three big steps:First: The magazine had been paying semi-pro rates for the electronic edition, increasing to pro rates upon transition to paper, but one of Eric's goals had long been to increase payments to the authors. Grantville Gazette, Volume Eleven was the first volume to pay the authors professional rates.Second: The on-line version. The site at http://www.grantvillegazette.com is the electronic version of an ARC, an advance readers copy where you can read the issues as we assemble them. There are stories posted there which won't be coming out in the magazine for more than a year.Third: This edition available in a variety of E-book formats from various on line stores.How will it work out? Will we be able to continue at this rate? Well, we don't know. That's up to the readers. But we'll be here, continuing the saga, the soap opera, the drama and the comedy just as long as people are willing to read them.- The Grantville Gazette Staff", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11327098-grantville-gazette-volume-14"}, +{"book_title": "Space Captain Smith", "author_name": "Toby Frost", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1129, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "In the 25th Century the British Space Empire faces the gathering menace of the evil ant-soldiers of the Ghast Empire hive, hell-bent on galactic domination and the extermination of all humanoid life. Isambard Smith is the square-jawed, courageous, and somewhat asinine new commander of the battle damaged light freighter John Pym, destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available. Together with his bold crew\u2014a skull-collecting alien lunatic, an android pilot who is actually a fugitive sex toy, and a hamster called Gerald\u2014he must collect new-age herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from the laid back New Francisco orbiter and bring her back to safety in the Empire. Straightforward enough\u2014except the Ghasts want her too. If he is to get back to Blighty alive, Smith must defeat void sharks, a universe-weary android assassin, and John Gilead, psychopathic naval officer from the fanatically religious Republic of New Eden before facing his greatest enemy: a ruthless alien warlord with a very large behind.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3406753-space-captain-smith"}, +{"book_title": "Steam Me Up, Rawley", "author_name": "Angela Quarles", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Jack the Ripper might be in town. But is marriage more terrifying? In an alternate Deep South in 1890, society reporter Adele de la Pointe wants to make her own way in the world, despite her family\u2019s pressure to become a society wife. Hoping to ruin herself as a matrimonial prospect, she seizes the opportunity to cover the recent Jack the Ripper-style murders for the newspaper, but her father's dashing new intern suggests a more terrifying headline\u2014marriage.Dr. Phillip Rawley\u2019s most daring exploit has been arriving at his new home in America in a hot air balloon. A tolerable sacrifice, if it means he can secure the hand of his new employer\u2019s daughter in a marriage of convenience. But Adele works, she's spirited, and she has an armored pet monkey running her errands. Not only does she not match his notions of a proper lady, she stirs up feelings he\u2019d rather keep in tight control.With Adele hunting down a headline and Dr. Rawley trying to protect and pursue her, a serial killer is spreading panic throughout Mobile, Alabama. Can Adele and Rawley find the murderer, face their fears, and discover true love?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23119200-steam-me-up-rawley"}, +{"book_title": "Counting the Cost", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1319, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "The hottest science fiction mercenaries of the decade are back, so why count the cost? The other guy is going to pay for it! Hammer's Slammers must win a two-front war while maintaining the civilian power structure against hordes of religious fanatics.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2144058.Counting_the_Cost"}, +{"book_title": "Chapterhouse: Dune", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 48108, "review_number": 951, "book_description": "Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeThe desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest--the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power.Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they've mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy--the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes--a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad'Dib....", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "Novels", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44439416-chapterhouse"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The Cardinal Virtues", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 672, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia must contend with France's infamous Cardinal Richilieu, who is determined to keep his grip on power no matter what history says.France, 1636 . . . It has been twenty years since King Louis took Ana Maria Mauricia, daughter of Spain's King Philip III, as his wife, and their union has not yet produced an heir. Under the guidance of his chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu, a plan is developed to remedy that situation. Once she is with child, Queen Anne goes into seclusion to guard her health and protect her from those who would prefer that the child is never born--France's foreign enemies as well as schemers such as Monsieur Gaston d'Orleans, the King's younger brother and heir. When the Crown's opponents make their move, factions inside and outside France must choose sides and help determine the future and fate of the Kingdom.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Cultural (France)", "Action", "Literature (17th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492656-1636"}, +{"book_title": "Tides of Light", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1395, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Now in a new, revised edition, the fourth book of the Nebula Award-winning author's Galactic Center series is a classic tale of man's future and fate--and the greatest mystery from outer space that humanity has ever encountered.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453967.Tides_of_Light"}, +{"book_title": "The Infection", "author_name": "Craig DiLouie", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3402, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "A mysterious virus suddenly strikes down millions. Three days later, its victims awake with a single purpose: spread the Infection. As the world lurches toward the apocalypse, some of the Infected continue to change, transforming into horrific monsters.In one American city, a small group struggles to survive. Sarge, a tank commander hardened by years of fighting in Afghanistan. Wendy, a cop still fighting for law and order in a lawless land. Ethan, a teacher searching for his lost family. Todd, a high school student who sees second chances in the end of the world. Paul, a minister who wonders why God has forsaken his children. And Anne, their mysterious leader, who holds an almost fanatical hatred for the Infected. Together, they fight their way to a massive refugee camp where thousands have made a stand. There, what's left of the government will ask them to accept a mission that will determine the survival of them all\u2014a dangerous journey back onto the open road and into the very heart of Infection.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "War (Military Fiction)", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10345761-the-infection"}, +{"book_title": "Walk on Earth a Stranger", "author_name": "Rae Carson", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 16866, "review_number": 2903, "book_description": "Gold is in my blood, in my breath, even in the flecks in my eyes.Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend\u2014who might want to be something more.She also has a secret.Lee can sense gold in the world around her. Veins deep in the earth. Small nuggets in a stream. Even gold dust caught underneath a fingernail. She has kept her family safe and able to buy provisions, even through the harshest winters. But what would someone do to control a girl with that kind of power? A person might murder for it.When everything Lee holds dear is ripped away, she flees west to California\u2014where gold has just been discovered. Perhaps this will be the one place a magical girl can be herself. If she survives the journey.The acclaimed Rae Carson begins a sweeping new trilogy set in Gold Rush-era America, about a young woman with a powerful and dangerous gift.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fiction", "Westerns", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17564519-walk-on-earth-a-stranger"}, +{"book_title": "The Enemy Within", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 3383, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "The quadrant is burning. Violent, deadly uprisings are breaking out, seemingly at random, all across the Confederation\u2019s sphere of influence. The response by the powerful Confederation Fleet has been swift and decisive, but for every planet they restore order to, another erupts into chaos. Omega Force is working along the frontier worlds when they\u2019re forced to come to the aid of a longtime ally and soon realize that the two events are not unrelated. The deeper they dig into the occurrences, the more Captain Burke finds he doesn\u2019t know who he can trust as he tries to unravel the mystery and not only exonerate his friend but keep himself, and his crew, alive. ------------------------------------------- Omega Force Series: Omega Rising Omega Force: Soldiers of Fortune Omega Force: Savage Homecoming Omega Force: The Enemy Within", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Action", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20769116-the-enemy-within"}, +{"book_title": "Warpath", "author_name": "Ivan Kal", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 498, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "-NOTE- This book has been professionally re-edited as of April 19, 2016 Thirty years after the events in the Solar system, the Empire had entered a time of expansion and advancement. Six hundred light years from Earth, humanity starts again. But, their safety and peace are threatened when a hostile force is detected in one of the systems close to the Empire's border. The Empire needs to prepare for war, and perhaps even strike first in order to protect its people that now include Nel - aliens from the colony world of Nuva. Other races and other events interfere with the plans, and Emperor Tomas Klein is forced to make decisions that could affect millions. Adrian Farkas - now leading one of the six Clans of the Empire - prepares his forces for war. New technologies are put to the test. New discoveries and realizations come to the surface as the Empire goes to war. Rise of the Empire Book 1 - Olympus Rise of the Empire Book 2 - Sanctuary Rise of the Empire Book 3 - Out of the Ashes Rise of the Empire Book 4 - Warpath", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27385645-warpath"}, +{"book_title": "Entangled Earth", "author_name": "David Lea", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 57, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition for ASIN B07DFP4SNHFor all editions see hereParallel worlds, filled with people going about their lives, are said to exist just a hair\u2019s breadth from our own. What if one of those invisible worlds suddenly started physically interacting with ours?A failed experiment means the Earth only has days left before it is torn apart by an unrelenting, oblivious other world, and Mia Green finds herself stuck in Paris, in the middle of the unnatural disaster. With calamity only ever a step away, Mia must get home to England to find her family and stop the experiment that\u2019s ending the world, but that\u2019s easier said than done when the entire world has become an invisible and unpredictable puzzle filled with unseen danger?Physics isn\u2019t easy. Rule number one should always be \u2018Don\u2019t Destroy The World\u2019. Sometimes science doesn\u2019t follow the rules.Entangled Earth is a mind bending adventure where everyday activities on this other world suddenly become deadly threats.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41090573-entangled-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Marvel Mangaverse, Volume 1", "author_name": "Ben Dunn", "rating_score": 3.04, "rating_votes": 74, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "It's an all new, all different Marvel when the Marvel Universe is reinterpreted within the popular art form known as Manga. Hulk is a 20-story tall monster; Spider-man is a ninja; the Fantastic Four investigate paranormal anomolies as the Megascale Metatalent Response Team. It's Marvel mayhem in the Mangaverse manner!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art (Manga)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1833287.Marvel_Mangaverse_Volume_1"}, +{"book_title": "Make Room! Make Room", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 6755, "review_number": 582, "book_description": "First published in 1966, Harrison's novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system\u2014operating within an atmosphere of riots, food shortages, and senseless acts of violence\u2014and a desperate hunt for the truth by a cynical NYC detective tells a classic tale of a dark future.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473850.Make_Room_Make_Room_"}, +{"book_title": "Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 3", "author_name": "Hiroki Endo", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 468, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The most action-filled Eden yet! In this shocking volume, character revelations and intense battlefield decisions punctuate a rollercoaster, book-length conflict. With new, cyber-augmented Propater villains (the Aeon soldiers) making a vicious debut, the mysterious Colonel tries to keep his ragtag group of freedom fighters alive. Kenji cuts a path through armored soldiers, and Cheribum and Sophia suffer serious setbacks. Kachua and Wycliffe make their way through secret Incan tunnels, not knowing what horrors lie in the daylight. If you thought that the previous Eden volume had a cliffhanger ending, you\u2019ll be blown away by the final pages of this thrilling ride! Hiroki Endo\u2019s Eden is a garden of violence, pathos and philosophy, where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Graphic Novels Manga", "Cultural (France)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25216.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Ha'penny", "author_name": "Jo Walton", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2231, "review_number": 339, "book_description": "In 1949, eight years after the \"Peace with Honor\" was negotiated between Great Britain and Nazi Germany by the Farthing Set, England has completed its slide into fascist dicatorship. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb. \u00a0The brilliant but politically compromised Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned the case. What he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists, of staunch King-and- Country patriots and hardened IRA gunmen, to murder Britain's Prime Minister and his new ally, Adolf Hitler. \u00a0Against a background of increasing domestic espionage and the suppression of Jews and homosexuals, an ad-hoc band of idealists and conservatives blackmail the one person they need to complete their plot, an actress who lives for her art and holds the key to the Fuhrer's death. From the ha'penny seats in the theatre to the ha'pennies that cover dead men's eyes, the conspiracy and the investigation swirl around one another, spinning beyond anyone's control. \u00a0In this brilliant companion to Farthing, Welsh-born World Fantasy Award winner Jo Walton continues her alternate history of an England that could have been, with a novel that is both an homage of the classic detective novels of the thirties and forties, and an allegory of the world we live in today.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433716.Ha_penny"}, +{"book_title": "Shielded Heart", "author_name": "Tiffany Roberts", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 800, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Arthos, the Infinite City, is a place of alien wonders and indescribable beauty\u2014and, most importantly for Samantha, it\u2019s also halfway across the universe from her abusive ex-fianc\u00e9. She came to the city desperate for a fresh start, but she finds herself downtrodden on a world of aloof alien beings with little hope of finding her place\u2014and a good chance of being kidnapped or killed before she can even settle in.At least until she is saved by an irresistible alien with piercing eyes and a seductive smile.Alkorin is the living embodiment of temptation, and he makes no effort to disguise his desire for her. But when his past threatens to drag her into a dangerous underworld, she discovers he isn\u2019t who he claims to be. After enduring so much suffering, can she bear to take a leap of faith with this mysterious alien? Can she trust him with not only her life, but her heart?----**Warning: This book contains sexual content and sexual violence.**", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51538634-shielded-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 32: Wolf and Raven", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 431, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Together with a group of cyborg bounty hunters and computer wizards, soldier of fortune Wolfgang Kies assists Elf Lord Dr. Richard Raven in keeping humanity safe from preying monsters--both magical and technological. But crimelord Etienne LaPlante interferes with their vigilantism, preparing to strike at Raven and those who serve him.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351428.Shadowrun_32"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost King", "author_name": "Margaret Weis", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1879, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "As a corrupt Commonwealth rules the galaxy through the might of its armies, its most influential general--a renegade Guardian of the deposed Starfire royal line--pursues the rumor of a hidden heir to the throne and searches for a woman he loves and is destined to destroy.From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Romance", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Literature", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317383.The_Lost_King"}, +{"book_title": "The Reformer", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1653, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "After the collapse of the galactic Web, civilizations crumbled and chaos reigned on thousands of planets. Only on planet Bellevue was there a difference. There, a Fleet Battle Computer named Center had survived from the old civilization. When it found Raj Whitehall, the man who could execute its plan for reviving human civilization, he and Center started Bellevue back on the road leading to the stars; and when Bellevue reached that goal, Center sent copies of itself and Raj to the thousands of worlds still waiting for the light of civilization to dawn. On Hafardine, civilization had fallen further than most. That men came from the stars was not even a rumor of memory in Adrian Gellert's day. The Empire of Vanbret spread across the lands in a sterile splendor that could only end in another collapse, more ignominious and complete than the first. Adrian Gellert was a philosopher, a student whose greatest desire was a life of contemplation in the service of wisdom...until he touched the holy relic that contained the disincarnate minds of Raj Whitehall and Center. On that day, Adrian's search for wisdom would lead him to a life of action, from the law-courts of Vanbret to the pirate cities of the Archipelago -- and battlefields bloodier than anything in the history he'd learned. The prize was the future of humanity.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662700.The_Reformer"}, +{"book_title": "Darkfever", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 162714, "review_number": 10620, "book_description": "\"My name is MacKayla, Mac for short. I'm a sidhe-seer, one who sees the Fae, a fact I accepted only recently and very reluctantly.My philosophy is pretty simple - any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book. I haven't had many good days lately. Not since the walls between Man and Fae came down. But then, there's not a sidhe-seer alive who's had a good day since then.\"When MacKayla's sister was murdered, she left a single clue to her death, a cryptic message on Mac's cell phone. Journeying to Ireland in search of answers, Mac is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to master a power she had no idea she possessed - a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae.As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister's death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho...while at the same time, the ruthless V'lane - an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women - closes in on her. As the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac's true mission becomes clear: to find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book - because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control both worlds in their hands.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112750.Darkfever"}, +{"book_title": "Savior", "author_name": "Hazel Gower", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 754, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "The Inteli, a colorful warrior race sworn to protect the galaxy, need women. Centuries of fighting and a little genetic experimentation mean their race now faces extinction.Danickra stumbles upon his solution in the human world, and this solution turns out to be more than he could ever have imagined. But danger and betrayal threaten not only their bond, but also their lives.Opal was having a bad day. Then she was abducted by aliens.As she learns more about this alien race, one in particular takes her heart. But treachery is afoot, and Opal must show she\u2019s not as fragile as the aliens think.Can this human woman answer the call of destiny and be a savior of a warrior race?Be Warned: forced seduction, anal sex, double vaginal penetration (aliens have two penises)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18334734-savior"}, +{"book_title": "The Postmortal", "author_name": "Drew Magary", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 10898, "review_number": 1340, "book_description": "John Farrell is about to get \"The Cure.\"Old age can never kill him now.The only problem is, everything else still can...Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors.Witty, eerie, and full of humanity, The Postmortal is an unforgettable thriller that envisions a pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673576-the-postmortal"}, +{"book_title": "On Such a Full Sea", "author_name": "Chang-rae Lee", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 10279, "review_number": 1537, "book_description": "Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in.On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in.In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class - descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China - find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan's journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707526-on-such-a-full-sea"}, +{"book_title": "El peso del coraz\u00f3n", "author_name": "Rosa Montero", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 781, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Contratada para resolver un caso a primera vista sencillo, la detective Bruna Husky se enfrenta a una trama de corrupci\u00f3n internacional. En un futuro en el que la guerra est\u00e1 supuestamente erradicada, Bruna lucha contrarreloj por la libertad y en defensa de la vida, mientras asimila los sentimientos contradictorios que le produce hacerse cargo de una ni\u00f1a peque\u00f1a. Bruna Husky es una superviviente capaz de todo que se debate entre la autosuficiencia y la desesperada necesidad de cari\u00f1o; una fiera atrapada en la c\u00e1rcel de su corta vida. El peso del coraz\u00f3n es un thriller, una novela de aventuras pol\u00edtica y ecol\u00f3gica, de fantas\u00eda y ciencia ficci\u00f3n, un relato m\u00edtico, un cuento para adultos, una reflexi\u00f3n sobre la creaci\u00f3n literaria, una met\u00e1fora sobre el peso de la vida y la oscuridad de la muerte\u2026 \u00a1Y una historia de amor! Rosa Montero regresa al mundo fascinante que cre\u00f3 en L\u00e1grimas en la lluvia y nos sorprende de nuevo con esa potencia narrativa que ha convertido a Bruna Husky en una protagonista legendaria.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "European Literature (Spanish Literature)", "Cultural (Spain)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24953485-el-peso-del-coraz-n"}, +{"book_title": "Daring", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 2931, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife leads a reconnaissance mission of the vast uncharted regions of space. No one, least of all Kris, expects to find a hostile alien starship. Now, she must determine the extent of the alien threat-and whether to start an interstellar war...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10679911-daring"}, +{"book_title": "Redeeming Zorus", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 6772, "review_number": 236, "book_description": "Charlie\u2019s brother has put her in the no-win situation of having to rescue a cyborg from Earth Government. It\u2019s dangerous, she\u2019ll become an outlaw on Earth, but it\u2019s the only way to save her brother\u2019s life. The imprisoned cyborg is rude, conceited and probably the biggest jerk she\u2019s ever had the misfortune to meet. His only redeeming qualities are his handsome face and sexy, muscular body. Just wow! Still, she can\u2019t wait to be rid of him.All cyborgs hate humans, but Zorus is consumed by it. Chained, enslaved and facing death on Earth once again, he vows revenge. To his utter astonishment, a human female comes to his rescue. She\u2019s rude, mouthy and bossy. And very brave. She baffles him almost as much as she arouses him. Zorus cannot deny that he\u2019s fascinated by her. They are about to lock wills and ignite a firestorm of desire that defies every rule he lives by.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10893175-redeeming-zorus"}, +{"book_title": "Risked", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 3717, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "Jonah thought that after his last adventure in 1903, he and his sister Katherine would have a break from time travel for a while. For the first time, he\u2019s willing to look into his own identity in the past, and he thinks this is his chance.But he barely has time for a single Google search before he, Katherine, and their friend Chip are tricked and zapped back to 1918--and to the house where the Romanov family was imprisoned after the Russian Revolution. Trapped without a fully working Elucidator, the three kids still hope they can escape and save the lives of Anastasia and Alexei Romanov.But is it possible to change time that much when modern-day scientists have identified the entire Romanov family\u2019s remains?Description from http://haddixbooks.com/books/risked.html.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15944410-risked"}, +{"book_title": "Breakout", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1441, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "All hell is breaking loose in the edge-of-your-seat follow-up to Havoc and Perdition from New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre\u2026 The prison ship Perdition has become a post-battle charnel house with only a handful of Dred\u2019s soldiers still standing and now being hunted by Silence\u2019s trained tongueless assassins. Forging an uneasy alliance with mercenary commander Vost\u2014who is their only chance at escape\u2014the Dread Queen will do whatever it takes to end her life sentence on Perdition and keep the survivors alive long enough to cobble together a transport capable of getting them off station. If Dred and her crew can win the deadly game of cat and mouse, the payoff is not only life but freedom\u2014a prize sweeter than their wildest dreams. Yet the sadistic Silence would rather destroy Perdition than let a single soul slip from her grasp\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Dark", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13421246-breakout"}, +{"book_title": "A Wolvenk Holiday", "author_name": "Poppy Rhys", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 658, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "T'was just before Christmas and all through the ship, Carols were playing and hot chocolate was sipped. A fall from above left Kiona in danger, What waited below was not from a manger. What will she find in the land of the Wolvenk? The adventure at hand is not what you think. Wounded and trying to survive the bitter cold, Kiona experiences the shock of her life when a wolfy alien finds her.Thorn doesn't expect to sniff out an off-worlder--one unlike any he's ever seen--but he can't leave her to die.It's the cold season...And Thorn is the least of her worries.\nWarning:\n This story contains a non-human alien hero, mature content, graphic language, and tons of holiday cheer.Note: This takes place a couple hundred years before the start of the Women of Dor Nye series and can be read alone.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Holiday", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Animals (Wolves)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Holiday (Christmas)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49249225-a-wolvenk-holiday"}, +{"book_title": "Robots at Home", "author_name": "Jennifer Fretland Vanvoorst", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 3, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "In Robots at Home, early fluent readers learn about the many kinds of robots built to help people in their daily lives. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about the fascinating world of robots.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Nonfiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26484965-robots-at-home"}, +{"book_title": "Normal", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 3259, "review_number": 492, "book_description": "A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller straight out of the very near future\u2014by an iconic visionary writerSome people call it \"abyss gaze.\" Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about geo-engineering and smart cities and ways to evade Our Coming Doom; strategic forecasters are spook futurists, who think about geopolitical upheaval and drone warfare and ways to prepare clients for Our Coming Doom. The former are paid by nonprofits and charities, the latter by global security groups and corporate think tanks. For both types, if you're good at it, and you spend your days and nights doing it, then it's something you can't do for long. Depression sets in. Mental illness festers. And if the \"abyss gaze\" takes hold there's only one place to recover: Normal Head, in the wilds of Oregon, within the secure perimeter of an experimental forest. When Adam Dearden, a foresight strategist, arrives at Normal Head, he is desperate to unplug and be immersed in sylvan silence. But then a patient goes missing from his locked bedroom, leaving nothing but a pile of insects in his wake. A staff investigation ensues; surveillance becomes total. As the mystery of the disappeared man unravels in Warren Ellis's Normal, Dearden uncovers a conspiracy that calls into question the core principles of how and why we think about the future\u2014and the past, and the now.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novella", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518817-normal"}, +{"book_title": "Robopocalypse", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 36548, "review_number": 4234, "book_description": "In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans\u2014a single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing \"smart\" toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a \"pacification unit\" go haywire\u2014but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.When the Robot War ignites\u2014at a moment known later as Zero Hour\u2014humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us ... and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9634967-robopocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Trainbots", "author_name": "Miranda Paul", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 164, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The Trainbots are drawing, sawing, and building to get Toybots ready for kids to play with. But it looks as if the Badbots are sneaking and scheming to sabotage the delivery! Luckily, the Trainbots use their engineering skills to outsmart the Badbots in this rhyming battle of good versus evil.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Railways (Trains)", "Childrens", "Transport", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26872590-trainbots"}, +{"book_title": "Come Tumbling Down", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 12620, "review_number": 2607, "book_description": "The fifth installment in Seanan McGuire's award-winning, bestselling Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and BonesWhen Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister--whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice--back to their home on the Moors.But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome.Eleanor West's \"No Quests\" rule is about to be broken.Again.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Novella", "LGBT", "Horror", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44804083-come-tumbling-down"}, +{"book_title": "Ashes of Honor", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 15860, "review_number": 952, "book_description": "It\u2019s been almost a year since October \u201cToby\u201d Daye averted a war, gave up a county, and suffered personal losses that have left her wishing for a good day\u2019s sleep. She\u2019s tried to focus on her responsibilities\u2014training Quentin, upholding her position as Sylvester\u2019s knight, and paying the bills\u2014but she can\u2019t help feeling like her world is crumbling around her, and her increasingly reckless behavior is beginning to worry even her staunchest supporters.To make matters worse, Toby\u2019s just been asked to find another missing child\u2026only this time it\u2019s the changeling daughter of her fellow knight, Etienne, who didn\u2019t even know he was a father until the girl went missing. Her name is Chelsea. She\u2019s a teleporter, like her father. She\u2019s also the kind of changeling the old stories warn about, the ones with all the strength and none of the control. She\u2019s opening doors that were never meant to be opened, releasing dangers that were sealed away centuries before\u2014and there\u2019s a good chance she could destroy Faerie if she isn\u2019t stopped.Now Toby must find Chelsea before time runs out, racing against an unknown deadline and through unknown worlds as she and her allies try to avert disaster. But danger is also stirring in the Court of Cats, and Tybalt may need Toby\u2019s help with the biggest challenge he\u2019s ever faced.Toby thought the last year was bad. She has no idea.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10184345-ashes-of-honor"}, +{"book_title": "Kiss of the Highlander", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 39926, "review_number": 1733, "book_description": "A laird trapped between centuries...Enchanted by a powerful spell, Highland laird Drustan MacKeltar slumbered for nearly five centuries hidden deep in a cave, until an unlikely savior awakened him. The enticing lass who dressed and spoke like no woman he\u2019d ever known was from his distant future, where crumbled ruins were all that remained of his vanished world. Drustan knew he had to return to his own century if he was to save his people from a terrible fate. And he needed the bewitching woman by his side....A woman changed forever in his arms...Gwen Cassidy had come to Scotland to shake up her humdrum life and, just maybe, meet a man. How could she have known that a tumble down a Highland ravine would send her plunging into an underground cavern \u2014 to land atop the most devastatingly seductive man she\u2019d ever seen? Or that once he\u2019d kissed her, he wouldn\u2019t let her go? Bound to Drustan by a passion stronger than time, Gwen is swept back to sixteenth-century Scotland, where a treacherous enemy plots against them... and where a warrior with the power to change history will defy time itself for the woman he loves....", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112754.Kiss_of_the_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Bartleby and James", "author_name": "Michael Coorlim", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 219, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Alton Bartleby is a social savant and the foppish toast of steampunk London\u2019s upper crust. James Wainwright is a brilliant but socially stunted working class engineer with a flair for invention and a propensity towards violence. Together they solve the mysteries that Scotland Yard cannot. This novel is the first in the Galvanic Century series of steampunk mysteries.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23162899-bartleby-and-james"}, +{"book_title": "Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 1", "author_name": "Hiroki Endo", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1962, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Eden Volume One is both a brilliant love song to the post-apocalyptic survival genre and the beginning of a deep exploration on man\u2019s role in the natural order. In the near future, a large portion of humanity is wiped out by a brutal, new virus that hardens the skin while dissolving internal organs. Those who aren\u2019t immune are either severely crippled or allowed to live with cybernetically enhanced bodies. Taking advantage of a world in chaos, a paramilitary force known as the Propater topples the United Nations and seeks world domination. Elia, a young survivor searching for his mother, travels towards the Andes Mountains with an artificially intelligent combat robot. When he encounters a group of anti-Propater freedom fighters, a maelstrom of unique characters unfolds. Graphic, cyberpunk, and philosophical, Eden is a place where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32277.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "In the Shadows", "author_name": "Hailey Turner", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1212, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "Take a chance. Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin doesn\u2019t trust easily, and he most certainly doesn\u2019t trust spies. He\u2019ll work with them if ordered to, but that doesn\u2019t mean he has to like it. Except Agent Sean Delaney is proving to be the exception to the rule. There\u2019s something about Sean that gets under Alexei\u2019s skin and won\u2019t let go. Alexei would be lying if he said he wasn\u2019t interested in what lay beneath the agent\u2019s mask. When they\u2019re assigned together for a mission, Alexei vows to keep Sean safe all while trying to coax the hot agent into his bed. Hold onto hope. Agent Sean Delaney has spent his entire adult life living a lie for his country. When the MDF tasks him with finding evidence of criminal wrong-doing against the owner of a private military company, Sean knows exactly how to play the game to get what he wants. He just doesn\u2019t know how to handle Alexei\u2019s advances, nor his own attraction to the younger soldier. Being a spy is lonely work, and Sean knows he should keep his distance, but saying no to Alexei is impossible from the moment they first kiss. In a world of lies, the truth can be deadly. When the mission takes a turn for the worse, the only thing left to do is run. In the wake of betrayal, and in the path of danger, can their fragile trust survive the battle? In the Shadows is a 104k word steamy gay sci-fi military romance with a HFN ending that skirts HEA. There is military violence within the story that may not be suitable for everyone, as well as explicit intimate scenes not suitable for readers under the age of 18. This is a direct sequel to In the Ruins and reading the previous books in the series would be helpful in enjoying this one.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Action", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36108948-in-the-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Freefall", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1108, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "The Alien Legion has a new mission, and this time, they are working for the enemy. Also against the enemy. Like every operation that Emily Perkins plans, it\u2019s complicated. But plans require good intel, and when the plan falls apart, the Mavericks are in Freefall....", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50031855-freefall"}, +{"book_title": "Classified Planet: Turongal", "author_name": "S.J. Sanders", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 828, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "In the future a united Earth, to deal with the problem of population control, divides its population into classes of citizen and non-gratis. To be born a non-gratis means a life of little freedoms and the constant possibility of being assigned to work on a colony. Lacking citizenship, every aspect of their life is controlled from where they live, down to marriage and childbearing regulations. The only possible escape from life as a non-gratis is to qualify for one of the limited slots available for entrance into the military. For most, however, it is the only life that they will ever know.Charlie has prepared all her life for the possibility of being shipped off to work in a colony, so when she is selected for part of the initialization phase colony laborers she is determined to make the best out of a new life on a very different and hostile planet. Assigned as a labor assistant in the exploratory lab seems like a step up in the right direction for her. Caring for the wildlife specimens is far preferable to working as a laborer preparing the first of the fields or in any of the common industries. That is, until a vaguely humanoid specimen is captured and brought in. The promise of death that clings to it is fulfilled when it breaks out from containment and she finds herself hostage to a being with a thirst for vengeance. Far away from the colony, Charlie is forced to carve out a new life for herself in a dangerous world, but will she be able to safeguard her heart from the biggest threat of them all?\u2014A male who is determined to claim all of her.Warning: this book may contain possible triggers. Book contains graphic sex and violence.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54308311-classified-planet"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow Falling", "author_name": "Rebecca Zanetti", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 2225, "review_number": 341, "book_description": "Before the Scorpius Syndrome tore through North America and nearly wiped out the population, Vivienne Wellington was the FBI\u2019s best profiler. The bacteria got her anyway. But she survived. She recovered. And when she woke up from a drug-nightmare of captivity, her skills as a hunter of men had gone from merely brilliant to full-on uncanny. Her mysterious rescuer wants her to put them to the test. But no matter how tempting he is, with his angel\u2019s eyes and devil\u2019s tongue, Vinnie knows she shouldn\u2019t trust him.If the FBI were still around they would rate Raze Shadow as one of the bad guys. His military training can\u2019t wipe out his association with the Mercenaries, the most feared gang in a thousand miles. His loyalties are compromised. He won\u2019t even tell Vinnie his real name. But there\u2019s no FBI in the new America of fear and firepower, only instinct and risk. And the way his arms wrap around Vinnie tells its own story. Whatever else Raze is concealing, he can\u2019t hide his desire . . .", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28109927-shadow-falling"}, +{"book_title": "The Illustrated Man", "author_name": "Ray Bradbury", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 82921, "review_number": 4048, "book_description": "That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as \"The Veldt,\" wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or \"Kaleidoscope,\" a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or \"Zero Hour,\" in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley WiaterContents:\u00b7 Prologue: The Illustrated Man \u00b7 ss * \u00b7 The Veldt [\u201cThe World the Children Made\u201d] \u00b7 ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 \u201950 \u00b7 Kaleidoscope \u00b7 ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct \u201949 \u00b7 The Other Foot \u00b7 ss New Story Magazine Mar \u201951 \u00b7 The Highway [as by Leonard Spalding] \u00b7 ss Copy Spr \u201950 \u00b7 The Man \u00b7 ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb \u201949 \u00b7 The Long Rain [\u201cDeath-by-Rain\u201d] \u00b7 ss Planet Stories Sum \u201950 \u00b7 The Rocket Man \u00b7 ss Maclean\u2019s Mar 1 \u201951 \u00b7 The Fire Balloons [\u201c\u2018In This Sign...\u2019\u201d] \u00b7 ss Imagination Apr \u201951 \u00b7 The Last Night of the World \u00b7 ss Esquire Feb \u201951 \u00b7 The Exiles [\u201cThe Mad Wizards of Mars\u201d] \u00b7 ss Maclean\u2019s Sep 15 \u201949; F&SF Win \u201950 \u00b7 No Particular Night or Morning \u00b7 ss * \u00b7 The Fox and the Forest [\u201cTo the Future\u201d] \u00b7 ss Colliers May 13 \u201950 \u00b7 The Visitor \u00b7 ss Startling Stories Nov \u201948 \u00b7 The Concrete Mixer \u00b7 ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr \u201949 \u00b7 Marionettes, Inc. [Marionettes, Inc.] \u00b7 ss Startling Stories Mar \u201949 \u00b7 The City [\u201cPurpose\u201d] \u00b7 ss Startling Stories Jul \u201950 \u00b7 Zero Hour \u00b7 ss Planet Stories Fll \u201947 \u00b7 The Rocket [\u201cOutcast of the Stars\u201d] \u00b7 ss Super Science Stories Mar \u201950 \u00b7 Epilogue \u00b7 aw *", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature", "Anthologies", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24830.The_Illustrated_Man"}, +{"book_title": "The Alchemist", "author_name": "Paolo Bacigalupi", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2766, "review_number": 286, "book_description": "Magic has a price. But someone else will pay. Every time a spell is cast, a bit of bramble sprouts, sending up tangling vines, bloody thorns, and threatening a poisonous sleep. It sprouts in tilled fields and in neighbors' roof beams, thrusts up from between street cobbles, and bursts forth from sacks of powdered spice. A bit of magic, and bramble follows. A little at first, and then more--until whole cities are dragged down under tangling vines and empires lie dead, ruins choked by bramble forest. Monuments to people who loved magic too much.In paired novellas, award-winning authors Tobias Buckell and Paolo Bacigalupi explore a shared world where magic is forbidden and its use is rewarded with the axe. A world of glittering memories and a desperate present, where everyone uses a little magic, and someone else always pays the price.In the beleaguered city of Khaim, a lone alchemist seeks a solution to a deadly threat. The bramble, a plant that feeds upon magic, now presses upon Khaim, nourished by the furtive spellcasting of its inhabitants andthreatening to strangle the city under poisonous vines. Driven by desperation and genius, the alchemist constructs a device that transcends magic, unlocking the mysteries of bramble s essential nature. But the power of his newly-built balanthast is even greater than he dreamed. Where he sought to save a cityand its people, the balanthast has the potential to save the world entire--if it doesn't destroy him and his family first.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9307257-the-alchemist"}, +{"book_title": "The Day After Never", "author_name": "Nathan Van Coops", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 1035, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Ben Travers has gone missing, and Ben Travers needs to find him. Returning home from his harrowing adventures through time, Ben just wants a normal life with the girl he loves, but tying up the loose threads of his fragmented existence is proving more difficult than he ever suspected. Someone is attacking time travel labs \u2014 threatening the safety of the Quickly family \u2014 and Ben is getting messages from a version of himself that he thought was dead.When a strange cult of consciousness-shifting time travelers called The Eternals begins to worm its way into the past \u2014 endangering the very nature of time and space \u2014 Ben will have to solve the mystery of his own disappearance to stop them. He\u2019ll journey farther into time than he\u2019s ever been before, to protect the family and friends he has come to love, and to discover his own inevitable destiny.Join Ben and Mym in this third novel in the In Times Like These time travel adventure series.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28268445-the-day-after-never"}, +{"book_title": "Factoring Humanity", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 3407, "review_number": 216, "book_description": "In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.When Heather achieves a breakthrough, the message reveals a startling new technology that rips the barriers of space and time, holding the promise of a new stage of human evolution. In concert with Kyle's discoveries of the nature of consciousness, the key to limitless exploration---or the end of the human race---appears close at hand.Sawyer has created a gripping thriller, a pulse-pounding tour of the farthest reaches of technology.\u00a0Factoring Humanity is a 1999 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Womens", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Language (Communication)", "Science (Technology)", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337133.Factoring_Humanity"}, +{"book_title": "The Mist", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 118201, "review_number": 3237, "book_description": "It's a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist...creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cut off from your families and the world. The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was it the Arrowhead Project---the top secret government operation that everyone has noticed but no one quite understands? And what happens when the provisions have run out and you're forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light?", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Short Stories", "Mystery", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/813214.The_Mist"}, +{"book_title": "Jo's Journey", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 2157, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Jo Strauss was committed to two things in her life \u2013 her family and her life as an acrobat/high-wire performer. She takes both very serious. Her life was orderly, in control, and she was finally settling down in one place so she could spend more time with her parents instead of moving all over the world every few weeks. To celebrate her and younger sister, Star\u2019s, one year anniversary away from the circus they had grown up with, she and Star were meeting River Knight, their childhood friend and sister of the heart, for a vacation in the mountains in North Carolina. Everything goes as planned until she and her sisters are kidnapped. Now, she finds herself transported to another world. Aliens, warships, battles, and a certain male were not in the carefully detailed plans she had mapped out for her life.Manota Ja Kel Coradon is the second son of the ruling House of Kassis. He is known as the dark brother, a reputation that he lives up to. He has fought hard to protect his family and the people of Kassis, sometimes sacrificing parts of his soul to do so. His knowledge, skills, and development of weaponry are legendary. His skill as a warrior bring shivers of fear to his opponents who know he never gives mercy to any who stand in his way.Manota is in total control of his world until one slender, feisty alien female crashes through the shields he has placed around his heart. She is fearless, determined and stubborn. She absolutely refuses to cower before him, no matter how much he growls! He is determined to protect her and claim her as his own but there is one little problem \u2013 she will not agree to accept his claim unless he returns for her parents.Now, he has even bigger problems \u2013 that come in all different shapes, sizes, and species! The return trip is fraught with enough dangers but Jo and Star\u2019s parents aren\u2019t the only ones coming back to Kassis - so is the circus family who had gathered to help look for their missing family members.Traitors, pirates, and Mimes are just the tip of the iceberg of trouble gliding through warp speed to his home world. Manota is about to learn that the prophesy that was foretold centuries before is true. His mate is just as much of a warrior as he is and she comes with backup when an old enemy attacks!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17454086-jo-s-journey"}, +{"book_title": "Market Forces", "author_name": "Richard K. Morgan", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 6808, "review_number": 364, "book_description": "A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other\u2013in exchange for a share of the spoils. To succeed, Shorn uses a new kind of corporate gladiator: sharp-suited, hard-driving gunslingers who operate armored vehicles and follow a Samurai code. And Chris Faulkner is just the man for the job.He fought his way out of London\u2019s zone of destitution. And his kills are making him famous. But unlike his best friend and competitor at Shorn, Faulkner has a side that outsiders cannot see: the side his wife is trying to salvage, that another woman\u2013a porn star turned TV news reporter\u2013is trying to exploit. Steeped in blood, eyed by common criminals looking for a shot at fame, Faulkner is living on borrowed time. Until he\u2019s given one last shot at getting out alive. . . .", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Noir)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40450.Market_Forces"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun", "author_name": "FASA Corporation", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1452, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Shadowrun (2nd Edition) is the main rulebook needed to play second edition Shadowrun, and it's essential for anyone who wants to Gamemaster it. It includes all the rules necessary to play the game, and is a good improvement over the first edition rules, including as it does most of the improvements and rules expansions published between 1989 and 1992.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Reference", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Gamebooks)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/523701.Shadowrun"}, +{"book_title": "See Pip Point", "author_name": "David Milgrim", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 165, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Otto's little friend Pip is inbig trouble! Help, Otto, help!Meet Otto's friend, Pip. Pip wants Otto's balloon. Otto's balloon is very, very big. Pip is very, very small. So when Otto gives Pip his balloon, a breeze sweeps Pip and the balloon up, up, and away! It's up to Otto (with some help from Zee the Bee) to rescue his friend. Help, Otto, help!\"See Pip Point\" is the third book in this new Ready-to-Read series about Otto and his adventures on Earth that are perfect for beginning readers and their older siblings. Read, Otto, read!", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Animals", "Kids"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/543892.See_Pip_Point"}, +{"book_title": "Lazarus Rising", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 727, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "The hugely popular Starfist saga featuring Marines at war in outer space is the only military science fiction series written by real combat vets: David Sherman and Dan Cragg. Now comes the explosive hardcover debut of this series\u2013packed with hell-torn action and blazing adventure.\n\n\n\nIn their fiercest combat yet, the hard-charging Marines of 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have finally won their battle against a full-scale alien invasion of planet Kingdom. But victory over these savage enemies comes at a terrible price, especially for the Marines of Company L\u2019s decimated third platoon. The leader these men would follow into hell itself\u2013Gunnery Sergeant Charlie Bass\u2013was consumed in a fiery ambush that obliterated everything but his dog tags and a few scraps of DNA.On planet Kingdom, citizens try to return to some semblance of normalcy as the military conducts patrols to search out and destroy any remaining alien Skinks. The old government of squabbling religious leaders has been replaced by a ruthless new regime. All power rests with Dominic de Tomas, a depraved despot who will stoop to any means to achieve his vile ends. His reign of terror bodes ill for the fragile planet still reeling from the chaos of war.In a cave in some forgotten Kingdom backwater, several humans slowly regain consciousness. Their minds have been probed repeatedly . . . by whom and for what reason they cannot say, for they\u2019ve been stripped of all memories of themselves and their past lives. In time wounds will heal, but who knows if they will ever fully recover.For now, finding food and water takes precedence. And so these half-dead outcasts begin a journey into the unknown\u2013in search of civilization, in search of themselves. And one survivor\u2019s journey will take him to places of overwhelming danger, where his identity will be revealed to the shock of all.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662674.Lazarus_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "The Dinosaur Four", "author_name": "Geoff Jones", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1406, "review_number": 211, "book_description": "They came for the coffee and wound up in the Cretaceous.A ticking sound fills the air as Tim MacGregor enters The Daily Edition Caf\u00e9, hoping to meet his new girlfriend for coffee. Moments later, a chunk of building is transported 67 million years back in time, along with everyone inside.Ten unlikely companions find themselves in a world of dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles. Several survivors compete for leadership as they search for a way home, and one member of the group plots to keep them all trapped in the past...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Horror", "Audiobook", "Animals", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22368837-the-dinosaur-four"}, +{"book_title": "Prey", "author_name": "Michael Crichton", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 168138, "review_number": 3468, "book_description": "In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.Every attempt to destroy it has failed.And we are the prey.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Horror", "Suspense", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adventure", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83763.Prey"}, +{"book_title": "Software", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3953, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "Cobb Anderson created the \"boppers,\" sentient robots that overthrew their human overlords. But now Cobb is just an aging alcoholic waiting to die, and the big boppers are threatening to absorb all of the little boppers--and eventually every human--into a giant, melded consciousness. Some of the little boppers aren't too keen on the idea, and a full-scale robot revolt is underway on the moon (where the boppers live). Meanwhile, bopper Ralph Numbers wants to give Cobb immortality by letting a big bopper slice up his brain and tape his \"software.\" It seems like a good idea to Cobb.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274043.Software"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Mecha Monkeys from Mars", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1150, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Evil Uncle Unicorn has traveled all the way from Uranus with a mean and nasty plan. He's built a giant Ladybot to trick the Mighty Robot so he can take over planet Earth. Once again, it's up to Ricky and his pals to save the day. Pub 9/05.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Picture Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2180444.Ricky_Ricotta_s_Mighty_Robot_vs_the_Mecha_Monkeys_from_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Jesse's Story", "author_name": "Maculategiraffe", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 901, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Jesse's story is the second tale in the Slave Breakers saga. Imagine a modern society parallel to our own where impoverished peasants are legally permitted to sell their children into slavery starting at age 15. The upper class households in this world demonstrate their wealth by buying the best of everything - including people.Jesse is a strong-minded \"pleasure slave\" who wants to escape across the border to freedom with his fellow slave and lover. In order to accomplish this goal, he is going to need to learn about cooperation and trust from the \"slave breakers\". Note: This book originally appeared as posts on LiveJournal and still contains some editing notes. The text is sexually explicit (including m/m and polyamorous situations) and is intended for adult readers. ", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Erotica (Menage)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7811993-jesse-s-story"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Wolves", "author_name": "Jonathan Yanez", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 476, "review_number": 28, "book_description": " There can be no victory without sacrifice. The Iron Wolves are a company of legionnaires whose legendary exploits date back to the Savage Wars. When they are invited to be guests of honor at a ceremony on a small, backwater planet, they look forward to some precious time away from the constant conflicts of galaxy's edge. But when a neighboring country invades, disrupting the ceremony and killing innocents, the Wolves are forced to make an impossible decision. Aid a people pleading for their protection... or obey the cynical orders of their Senate to stand down and see how the dust settles. Taking their careers and lives into their hands, the Iron Wolves and local militia form a brotherhood determined to fight for what they believe in. War is on the wind, the battle is at hand, and the Legion is on the move once more. Strap on your bucket, grab your blaster, and start reading today. The Iron Wolves call and death is on the hunt. ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43681826-iron-wolves"}, +{"book_title": "Chasing the Green Fairy", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 316, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "A sabotaged airship.A recovering opium addict.A messenger with life-shattering news.With the 1824 British airship qualifying race only weeks away, Lily Stargazer is at the top of her game. She\u2019s racing like a pro, truly in love, and living clean. But on one ill-omened day, everything changes. Pulled head-long into the ancient secrets of the realm, Lily soon finds herself embroiled in Celtic mysteries and fairy lore. And she\u2019s not quite sure how she got there, or even if she wants to be involved. But Lily soon finds herself chasing the spirit of the realm while putting her own ghosts to rest. And only accepting the truth--about her heart and her country--can save her.*Due to steamy scenes and depictions of drug use, this novel is intended for mature readers.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20512114-chasing-the-green-fairy"}, +{"book_title": "Playboy's Challenge", "author_name": "Jo Barrett", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 225, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Adam Sutherland thought he knew his parents. They were like any other couple who were head-over-heels in love with each other. It was sickening to witness, to be honest, but he never dreamed that their devotion to one another began in the sixteenth-century in the Highlands of Scotland. And more importantly, he never thought he'd see for himself just how a trip into the past could profoundly alter his future", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17883076-playboy-s-challenge"}, +{"book_title": "The Gathering Flame", "author_name": "Debra Doyle", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 363, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "First their scoutships appeared above the outplanets. Raiding parties followed, then whole armadas bent on loot and conquest. The Mages break the warfleets that oppose them. They take entire planets. Who can stop them?", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672992.The_Gathering_Flame"}, +{"book_title": "Rex Mundi, Vol. 1: The Guardian of the Temple", "author_name": "Arvid Nelson", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 471, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "A quest for the Holy Grail unlike any you've ever seen begins here - in a world where the American Civil War ended in a stalemate, the Catholic Church controls Europe, and sorcery determines political power.\"", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/729981.Rex_Mundi_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Stark's Command", "author_name": "John G. Hemry", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1578, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "United States military forces on the moon have overthrown the ranking officers and placed Sergeant Ethan Stark in command. Now, in addition to fighting a merciless enemy on the moon's surface, Stark must contend with the U.S. government's reaction to his mutiny...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1673450.Stark_s_Command"}, +{"book_title": "Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon", "author_name": "Mark Hodder", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1765, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "It is 1863, but not the one it should be. Time has veered wildly off course, and now the first moves are being made that will lead to a devastating world war and the fall of the British Empire. Caught in a tangled web of cause, effect, and inevitability, little does Burton realize that the stakes are far higher than even he suspects. A final confrontation comes in the mist-shrouded Mountains of the Moon, in war- torn Africa of 1914, and in Green Park, London, where, in the year 1840, Burton must face the man responsible for altering time: Spring Heeled Jack! Burton and Swinburne's third adventure is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and bizarre events, completing the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack and The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11225502-expedition-to-the-mountains-of-the-moon"}, +{"book_title": "With Every Breath", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1941, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "When medieval laird Robert Cameron pounds on Sunny Phillips's door, he isn't paying a social call. He's braved a trip onto enemy soil to fetch the MacLeod witch, a crone renowned for her healing powers. But the woman who opens her door to him is enchanting and young... and not from his century.\n **This is a Read Pink edition. In October 2010, Penguin Group (USA) launched a new initiative in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This October, we are pleased to continue the program with a donation of $25,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation(r) and are presenting eight beloved titles in special Read Pink(tm) editions.\n", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2412607.With_Every_Breath"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Dragon's Daughter", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 3512, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "A slave in a dragon factory that manufactures flying fighting machines, Jane changes her destiny when a voice from a dragon promising freedom and revenge prompts her to escape and challenge the foundations of the world.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25781.The_Iron_Dragon_s_Daughter"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen of Nothing", "author_name": "Holly Black", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 134363, "review_number": 17849, "book_description": "\nHe will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.\nPower is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan\u2019s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict\u2019s bloody politics. And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity\u2026 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26032912-the-queen-of-nothing"}, +{"book_title": "Old Guard: Bolos Anthology 5", "author_name": "Bill Fawcett", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 689, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXYThe onslaught of the Melconians was not the last conflict that humanity's interstellar Concordiat would have to face. For now the Kezdai -- a newly encountered species with war at the center of their philosophy -- have taken to arms against the Concordiat and its colony worlds. For war, the Terrans have only one answer:Break out the BolosSelf-aware robotic tanks, the Bolos have fought bravely and well since the days when humans fought each other. Now they battle across the stars to defend us all...and though the times are perilous, we've never been in better hands than those of our old metal guardians: Keith Laumer's greatest creation, the Bolos.Includes:Incursion by by Mark ThiesRook's gambit by by John MinaThe sky is falling by by J. Steven York & Dan Wesley SmithBrothers by by William H. 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As in the previous volume, Aces Abroad, this one focuses on the effects of the Wild Card virus outside of the United States.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67959.Down_and_Dirty"}, +{"book_title": "Captured", "author_name": "Julia Rachel Barrett", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 744, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "[Siren Classic: Erotic Sci-Fi Romance] Mari never expects to find herself in a cage in a cargo hold on a spaceship. She quickly learns from her captors she's headed to the meat market. When they try to return her to hypersleep, she resists. After allowing her to stay awake, Mari realizes her survival depends on connecting with the male in charge, Ekkatt. She must make him see her as a sentient being or she will end up as dinner. Ekkatt has never spoken to any human. They are valued for one thing, the money they bring at auction. The Attun race is vegetarian, but other species prize human flesh and bring in good money. Then the female with red hair speaks to him and forces him to admit she has a name. Mari throws Ekkatt's entire life into question, the biggest question...can he watch her sold to the highest bidder? ** A Siren Erotic Romance", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Erotica (Menage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7508167-captured"}, +{"book_title": "The Voyage of the Space Beagle", "author_name": "A.E. van Vogt", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 3438, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "*On and on Coeurl prowled.* So began Van Vogt's first published story, and so begins this novel. The saga of the Space Beagle, mankind's first effort to reach another galaxy. And what strange life-forms are encountered!", "year_published": 1950, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Novels", "Classics", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546454.The_Voyage_of_the_Space_Beagle"}, +{"book_title": "Back to the Time Trap", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 22, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "As superbeings from the end of time struggle for control of the universe with aliens from another galaxy, Roger and his friends find themselves face to face with history's bad guys in their quest to return to their own time.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/626280.Back_to_the_Time_Trap"}, +{"book_title": "Prince Caspian", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 360836, "review_number": 7534, "book_description": "The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throneNARNIA... the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen... and where the adventure begins.Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia\u2014the land where they had ruled as kings and queens and where their help is desperately needed.", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Classics", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Christian", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Christian Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121749.Prince_Caspian"}, +{"book_title": "Obelisk", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 225, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "A remarkable collection of short stories and novellas from one of our greatest SF authors.This collection contains stories set in the worlds of the bestselling duology Ultima and Proxima, which expand on the characters and worlds of that series, including two brand new short stories. There are also a selection of alternate histories and possible futures, building on Baxter's work with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth series.Confirms Stephen Baxter's place as one of the greatest practitioners of the SF short story.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Space", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30062403-obelisk"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken King and the Iron Heart", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 790, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Experience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part V The Kraken King and the Iron Heart With their lives and the fate of an empire at stake, Ariq is forced to leave Zenobia behind. Held captive by their enemies, Zenobia can only pray that Ariq keeps his promise to come for her\u2014until a terrible loss prods her to action. Ariq has no intention of handing over the Skybreaker to the two men responsible for the marauders\u2019 attacks against Krakentown\u2014but without a ransom to give them, Ariq must risk everything to rescue Zenobia and stop the swarming forces bent on destruction\u2026 Includes a bonus excerpt of Meljean Brook\u2019s Riveted. More to come\u2026Don\u2019t miss The Kraken King, Part VI", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20733432-the-kraken-king-and-the-iron-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Warspite", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2151, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Peace is not freedom. Peace is merely the absence of war. The First Interstellar War is over, but the Royal Navy still has plenty of work to do. As Earth struggles to recover from the bombardment, Captain John Naiser is placed in command of HMS Warspite - an experimental heavy cruiser - and ordered to escort a squadron of colony ships to a star system of immense strategic importance. But as the crew struggle to survive hundreds of light years from Earth, they find themselves dealing with the legacy of the war ... and a threat which may sow the seeds of renewed conflict, or a deadly civil war that will rip the human sphere apart.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23680160-warspite"}, +{"book_title": "Mecha Samurai Empire", "author_name": "Peter Tieryas", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 588, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "A standalone book set in the Mecha Samurai Empire universe, the story focuses on a group of aspiring mecha cadets preparing to fight the Nazis. Foremost among them, Makoto Fujimoto grew up in California, but with a difference--his California is part of the United States of Japan. After Germany and Japan won WWII, the United States fell under their control. Growing up in this world, Mac plays portical games, haphazardly studies for the Imperial Exam, and dreams of becoming a mecha pilot. Only problem: Mac's grades are terrible. His only hope is to pass the military exam and get into the prestigious mecha pilot training program at Berkeley Military Academy. When his friend Hideki's plan to game the test goes horribly wrong, Mac washes out of the military exam too. Perhaps he can achieve his dream by becoming a civilian pilot. But with tensions rising between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany and rumors of collaborators and traitors abounding, Mac will have to stay alive long enough first...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37797649-mecha-samurai-empire"}, +{"book_title": "A New Dawn", "author_name": "John Jackson Miller", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 12004, "review_number": 1087, "book_description": "Ever since the Jedi were marked for death and forced to flee Coruscant, Kanan Jarrus has devoted himself to staying alive rather than serving the Force. Wandering the galaxy alone, from one anonymous job to another, he avoids trouble--especially with the Empire--at all costs. So when he discovers a deadly conflict brewing between ruthless Imperial forces and desperate revolutionaries, he's not about to get caught in the crossfire. Then the brutal death of a friend at the Empire's hands forces the ex-Jedi to make a choice: bow down to fear, or stand up and fight.But Jarrus won't be fighting alone. Unlikely allies, including a bomb-throwing radical, a former Imperial surveillance agent, a vengeful security officer, and the mysterious Hera Syndulla--an agent provocateur with motives of her own--team up with Jarrus to challenge the Empire. As a crisis of apocalyptic proportions unfolds on the planet Gorse, they must stand together against one of the Emperor's most fearsome enforcers--for the sake of a world and its people.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20262705-a-new-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "The 48", "author_name": "Donna Hosie", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 232, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Henry VIII's Tudor court meets time-traveling teen assassins in a riveting YA novel.Twins Charlie and Alex Taylor are the newest time travelers recruited to the Forty-Eight, a clandestine military group in charge of manipulating history. The brothers arrive in 1536 feeling confident, but the Tudor court is not all banquets and merriment: it is a deep well of treachery, torture, lust, intrigue, and suspicion. The boys' mission to prevent Henry VIII from marrying Jane Seymour is further complicated when Alice, a fellow trainee, appears under mysterious and brutal circumstances--and when whispers of an uprising within the Forty-Eight reach their ears. Told in alternating perspectives among Charlie, Alex, and sixteen-year-old Lady Margaret, a ladies' maid to Queen Anne Boleyn with an agenda of her own, The 48 captures the sights, smells, sounds, and hazards of an unhinged Henry VIII's court from the viewpoint of one person who lived that history--and two teens who have been sent to turn it upside down.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Death", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Relationships", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33006920-the-48"}, +{"book_title": "The Night Parade", "author_name": "Ronald Malfi", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1106, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "First the birds disappeared.Then the insects took over. Then the madness began . . .They call it Wanderer's Folly--a disease of delusions, of daydreams and nightmares. A plague threatening to wipe out the human race. After two years of creeping decay, David Arlen woke up one morning thinking that the worst was over. By midnight, he's bleeding and terrified, his wife is dead, and he's on the run in a stolen car with his eight-year-old daughter, who may be the key to a cure. Ellie is a special girl. Deep. Insightful. And she knows David is lying to her. Lying about her mother. Lying about what they're running from. And lying about what he sees when he takes his eyes off the road . . .", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27405533-the-night-parade"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette, Volume VIII", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 136, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 8 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.Stories include:* The Painter's Gambit by Iver P. Cooper* Capacity for Harm by Richard Evans* Into the Very Pit of Hell by Douglas W. Jones* Not a Princess Bride by Terry Howard* Dear Sir by Chris Racciato* The Sons of St. John by Jay Robison* Prince and Abbot by Virginia DeMarce* A Question of Faith by Anette Pedersen Grunwald* Flight 19 to Magdeburg by Jose J. Clavell* Rolling On by Karen Bergstralh* Three Innocuous Words by Russ Rittgers* Doctor Phil's Distraction by Kerryn Offord* Louis de Geer by Kim Mackey* A Russian Noble by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett* Refrigeration and the 1632 World: Opportunities and Challenges by Mark H. Huston* New France in 1634 and the Fate of North America by Michael Varhola* Aluminum: Will O' the Wisp? by Iver P. Cooper", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8673660-grantville-gazette-volume-viii"}, +{"book_title": "Caveman Alien's Ransom", "author_name": "Calista Skye", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1775, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "\n\n\nBeing abducted by aliens was never on my bucket list!\n\n\nBut I guess the aliens didn't get that memo, because one night I was beamed aboard a UFO. It dumped me and a bunch of other girls on an alien planet!\nA jurassic planet where giant, murderous dinosaurs walk around and everything wants to kill me. My only hope of surviving is the first man I met here. His name is Jax'zan, and he's an alien...\n\n\nAnd a caveman!\n\n\nAs in, the hottest super-alpha caveman who ever lived. He's big and strong and doesn't talk much, but he's saved my life so many times now that I've lost count. My insides turn to hot mush whenever he fixes his smouldering eyes on me, and the scandalously sexy and unusual features his sensationally muscular body is rocking totally make me forget time and place. There's only one problem: He's holding me for ransom. And he wants to repopulate his woman-less planet. With me... \n\nExpect steamy scenes, mysterious aliens with features like adult toys, deadly planets and the love story between a BBW from Earth and a sensationally hot alien warrior. Full-length romance novel with no cliffhangers and a happy-ever-after ending!\n\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34858083-caveman-alien-s-ransom"}, +{"book_title": "Odysseus Awakening", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 3245, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "Defy the inevitable. Such is the stance of Confederation captain Eric Weston and the crew of the starship Odysseus, patrolling the outer limits of Priminae space, anticipating the Empire\u2019s next attacks. Connected with the Terran FTL tech\u2014the transition drive\u2014humanity might stand a chance against the overwhelming forces. Until the entire planetary system goes dark.Outnumbered and outgunned, the Odysseus arrives to find the Empire securing critical intelligence from Priminae ships\u2014data that could prove disastrous in the wrong hands.As the Odysseus enters the fray, the ship\u2019s systems exhibit increasingly chaotic glitches, while haunting apparitions stalk the crew. As they struggle to control their own ship\u2014and their sanity\u2014against the tide of battle, how can they hope to grasp victory when the Odysseus itself appears to be coming to life?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35484277-odysseus-awakening"}, +{"book_title": "Back in the USSA", "author_name": "Kim Newman", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "1989... One of the two superpowers which has dominated the 20th century is on the verge of being torn apart. The old communists regime which has held sway since the Revolution of 1917 is weak and divided. Dissident voices, silent for too long, have been raised against the corrupt and inefficient gangsterism of a morally and financially bankrupt ruling party. A new age of openness and reconstruction is dawning... This is the United Socialist States of America. When Eugene Debs led the Revolution, few expected it to lead to the iron-fisted regime of Chairman Al \"Scarface\" Capone, a dictatorship that would last into the 1950s. But no tyranny, capitalist or communists, can stop real revolutionaries like Buddy Holy, Howard Hughes, Tom Joad, Eliot Ness, Kurt Vonnegut, andthe Blues Brothers. This is the story of 20th century where America had a revolution... and Russia didn't; where there were Tsars in the Kremlin and Commissars in the White House. Where America invaded Japan and Britain fought the war in Vietnam; where Isaac Asimov was a Russian TV astrologer and Ed Gein was a Hero of Labor. Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne turn history on its head with this novel of \"what if...?\" -- a must-read for Proletariats world-wide!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1285956.Back_in_the_USSA"}, +{"book_title": "Shine Shine Shine", "author_name": "Lydia Netzer", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 8230, "review_number": 1485, "book_description": "A debut unlike any other, Shine, Shine, Shine is a shocking, searing, breathless love story, a gripping portrait of modern family, and a stunning exploration of love, death and what it means to be human.Sunny Mann has masterminded a life for herself and her family in a quiet Virginia town. Her house and her friends are picture-perfect. Even her genius husband, Maxon, has been trained to pass for normal. But when a fender bender on an average day sends her coiffed blonde wig sailing out the window, her secret is exposed. Not only is she bald, Sunny is nothing like the Stepford wife she\u2019s trying to be. As her facade begins to unravel, we discover the singular world of Sunny, an everywoman searching for the perfect life, and Maxon, an astronaut on his way to colonize the moon. Theirs is a wondrous, strange relationship formed of dark secrets, decades-old murders and the urgent desire for connection. As children, the bald, temperamental Sunny and the neglected savant Maxon found an unlikely friendship no one else could understand. She taught him to feel -- helped him translate his intelligence for numbers into a language of emotion. He saw her spirit where others saw only a freak. As they grew into adults, their profound understanding blossomed into love and marriage. But with motherhood comes a craving for normalcy that begins to strangle Sunny\u2019s marriage and family. As Sunny and Maxon are on the brink of destruction, at each other\u2019s throats with blame and fear of how they\u2019ve lost their way, Maxon departs for the moon, where he\u2019s charged with programming the robots that will build the fledgling colony. Just as the car accident jars Sunny out of her wig and into an awareness of what she really needs, an accident involving Maxon\u2019s rocket threatens everything they\u2019ve built, revealing the things they\u2019ve kept hidden. And nothing will ever be the same.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook", "Literary Fiction", "Novels", "Family", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13167199-shine-shine-shine"}, +{"book_title": "The Gathering Storm", "author_name": "Robin Bridges", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 3982, "review_number": 615, "book_description": "St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888. As she attends a whirl of glittering balls, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret: she can raise the dead. No one knows. Not her family. Not the girls at her finishing school. Not the tsar or anyone in her aristocratic circle. Katerina considers her talent a curse, not a gift. But when she uses her special skill to protect a member of the Imperial Family, she finds herself caught in a web of intrigue.An evil presence is growing within Europe's royal bloodlines\u2014and those aligned with the darkness threaten to topple the tsar. Suddenly Katerina's strength as a necromancer attracts attention from unwelcome sources . . . including two young men\u2014George Alexandrovich, the tsar's standoffish middle son, who needs Katerina's help to safeguard Russia, even if he's repelled by her secret, and the dashing Prince Danilo, heir to the throne of Montenegro, to whom Katerina feels inexplicably drawn.The time has come for Katerina to embrace her power, but which side will she choose\u2014and to whom will she give her heart?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Cultural (Russia)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11164732-the-gathering-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Kildar", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 3048, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Problems, problems, problems! All Mike Harmon ever wanted to be was a SEAL. But after problems in the teams, college student was a decent second best. However, trouble seemed to follow him where he went. Now, after having angered every terrorist on Earth and at least five governments, buying a farm in a third world country was looking pretty good. Of course, nothing was ever simple. With Chechen terrorists knocking on the door and tenant farmers with a truly Byzantine culture, the question was whether he could drag the keldara into the 21st century before the Chechen put them back in the 6th. Kildar answers the question: Where would an international security specialist and former SEAL choose to retire\u2014if he's going to buy the farm, it should be one with beautiful women and the best beer in the world. Valhalla on Earth complete with Vikings.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Action", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528361.Kildar"}, +{"book_title": "Sword of Mars", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 1850, "review_number": 90, "book_description": " A defector with a dangerous leadA chance to speak for the silentA perilous quest into enemy starsWhen the star system of Legatus was preparing to secede from the Protectorate of the Mage-King of Mars, it was the secret agents of the Legatan Military Intelligence Directorate that laid the groundwork and fought the covert war to make it happen. Now, as the open conflict draws to a bloody stalemate, LMID has been broken. Their leader is dead, murdered by agents of the Republic they helped birth. Their surviving agents have scattered, following a final protocol that orders them to defect to the Protectorate. An old friend brings all of this to Damien Montgomery, First Hand of the Mage-King, and begs for his help in unravelling the mystery. The only answers lie where the Hands of Mars should never go: on the worlds of the Republic.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46005598-sword-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "The Secret", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 4339, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "There's something pretty weird going on in the woods behind Cassie's house. The place where Ax and Tobias call home. It seems the Yeerks have figured out one very important thing: Andalites cannot survive without a feeding ground. Visser Three knows the \"Andalite bandits\" don't feed where he does, so there can only be one other place.Now Cassie, Marco, Jake, Rachel, Tobias, and Ax have to figure out a way to stop a bogus logging camp. Because if Visser Three finds Ax in the woods, nothing will stop him from finding the Animorphs...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363362.The_Secret"}, +{"book_title": "The Brass Giant", "author_name": "Brooke Johnson", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 202, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Sometimes, even the most unlikely person can change the worldSeventeen-year-old Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible dream for a lowly shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up, tinkering with any machine she can get her hands on, in between working and babysitting her foster siblings. When Emmerich Goss\u2014handsome, privileged, and newly recruited into the Guild\u2014needs help designing a new clockwork system for a top-secret automaton, it seems Petra has finally found the opportunity she\u2019s been waiting for. But if her involvement on the project is discovered, Emmerich will be marked for treason, and a far more dire fate would await Petra.Working together in secret, they build the clockwork giant, but as the deadline for its completion nears, Petra discovers a sinister conspiracy from within the Guild council \u2026 and their automaton is just the beginning.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Family", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22836684-the-brass-giant"}, +{"book_title": "Intron Depot", "author_name": "Masamune Shirow", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 189, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Japanese artist Masamune Shirow is well known to discriminating comics readers. American editions of his spectacular graphic epics have been highly praised and voraciously collected. Now, his gorgeous and highly detailed color art has been collected for the first time into a single, handsome trade paperback. Beautifully printed in Japan and featuring text in both Japanese and English, this package features nearly two hundred full-color Shirow works, 47 published for the first time anywhere in the world! This book is a nearly complete archive of Shirow's color work from 1981 to 1991, including material from Appleseed, Dominion, Black Magic, Orion, and much more. This is an absolute must for fans of Shirow, science-fiction and fantasy art, and manga.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Art", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics Manga", "Media Tie In (Anime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111630.Intron_Depot"}, +{"book_title": "Stolen Time", "author_name": "Danielle Rollins", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1072, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "Seattle, 1913 // Dorothy is trapped. Forced into an engagement to a wealthy man just so she and her mother can live comfortably for the rest of their days, she\u2019ll do anything to escape. Including sneaking away from her wedding and bolting into the woods to disappear.New Seattle, 2077 // Ash is on a mission. Rescue the professor\u2014his mentor who figured out the secret to time travel\u2014so together they can put things right in their devastated city. But searching for one man means endless jumps through time with no guarantee of success.When Dorothy collides with Ash, she sees it as her chance to start fresh\u2014she\u2019ll stow away in his plane and begin a new life wherever they land. Then she wakes up in a future that\u2019s been ripped apart by earthquakes and floods; where vicious gangs rule the submerged city streets and a small group of intrepid travelers from across time are fighting against the odds to return things to normal. What Dorothy doesn\u2019t know is that she could hold the key to unraveling the past\u2014and her arrival may spell Ash\u2019s ultimate destruction.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35053301-stolen-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Lightning Thief", "author_name": "Rick Riordan", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2073337, "review_number": 62999, "book_description": "Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends\u2014one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28187.The_Lightning_Thief"}, +{"book_title": "In Ashes Born", "author_name": "Nathan Lowell", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 2729, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "An old friend. A new course.A deadly ship with a secret cargo.Ishmael Wang returns to Port Newmar but ghosts from his past have followed him. His old shipmate, Phillip Carstairs, offers him the opportunity to track down the man who killed his lover. The catch? He must take command of the Chernyakova, a ship that still stinks of death and haunts Ishmael's nightmares. Together, Phillip and Ismael begin a journey into unknown reaches of the Deep Dark to bring back the man who killed Greta.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26846073-in-ashes-born"}, +{"book_title": "The Hod King", "author_name": "Josiah Bancroft", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 6011, "review_number": 699, "book_description": "Fearing an uprising, the Sphinx sends Senlin to investigate a plot that has taken hold in the ringdom of Pelphia. Alone in the city, Senlin infiltrates a bloody arena where hods battle for the public's entertainment. But his investigation is quickly derailed by a gruesome crime and an unexpected reunion.Posing as a noble lady and her handmaid, Voleta and Iren attempt to reach Marya, who is isolated by her fame. While navigating the court, Voleta attracts the unwanted attention of a powerful prince whose pursuit of her threatens their plan.Edith, now captain of the Sphinx's fierce flagship, joins forces with a fellow wakeman to investigate the disappearance of a beloved friend. She must decide who to trust as her desperate search brings her nearer to the Black Trail where the hods climb in darkness and whisper of the Hod King.As Senlin and his crew become further dragged in to the conspiracies of the Tower, everything falls to one question: Who is The Hod King?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32998292-the-hod-king"}, +{"book_title": "Nero's Fiddle", "author_name": "A.W. Exley", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1186, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B0137IKRTKOne... death by spontaneous human combustion is a rare act of GodTwo... is surely a freakish coincidenceThree... well, that\u2019s starting to look deliberate.Cara has a new role as Queen Victoria\u2019s artifact hunter, she\u2019s adapting to married life and living in a country manor that more closely resembles a mausoleum.In London, Inspector Fraser investigates a series of strange deaths by divine fire - except he doesn't believe in coincidences. Despite himself, he enlists Cara's help to identify what artifact could cause such a hideous death while his desire to bring her husband to justice burns unabated.Someone's intent on making sure a decades old secret stays hidden and Cara must figure out who is responsible before this case consumes her family and rocks the entire realm to its foundations.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26393023-nero-s-fiddle"}, +{"book_title": "Clara's Song", "author_name": "Kitty Margo", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 598, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Clara was born with a veil, and the ability to see into the future. This much she knows. What she doesn\u2019t know is what other gifts will be revealed when she turns eighteen in a few months. While her grandmother has been diligent in her efforts to prepare her for the inevitable changes to come, Clara can focus on precious little besides the devilishly handsome man she met at her coming out ball. Secure in the knowledge that she has a bright future ahead of her, the future Clara discovers is one that she could never have conjured in her wildest dreams. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Business (Amazon)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35036887-clara-s-song"}, +{"book_title": "The Courtship of Princess Leia", "author_name": "Dave Wolverton", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 13347, "review_number": 498, "book_description": "Seeking rich, powerful allies to bring into the Rebel Alliance and a new home planet for the refugees of her native Alderaan, Princess Leia considers a proposal that could tip the balance of power against the evil Empire. The Hapes Consortium of 63 worlds is ruled by the Queen Mother, who wants Leia to marry her son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder. Han Solo has always dreamed of marrying Leia himself, and now he makes a desperate last gamble to win her back. Soon he, Isolder, Luke Skywalker and Artoo will be at the center of an adventure leading to an awesome treasure, a group of Force-trained \"witches,\" and a showdown with an invincible foe.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Novels", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161540.The_Courtship_of_Princess_Leia"}, +{"book_title": "The Gift", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 26846, "review_number": 1511, "book_description": "When Whit & Wisty were imprisoned by the wicked forces of the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, they were barely able to escape with their lives. Now part of a hidden community of teens like themselves, Whit and Wisty have established themselves as leaders of the Resistance, willing to sacrifice anything to save kids kidnapped and brutally imprisoned by the New Order.But the One has other plans in store for them: He needs Wisty, for she is \"The One Who Has the Gift.\" While trying to figure out what that means, Whit and Wisty's suspenseful adventures through Overworld and Shadowland lead to a jaw-dropping climax and conclusion: the highly-anticipated fulfillment of the heart-pounding opening prologue of book one... The Execution of the Allgoods. .", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7646805-the-gift"}, +{"book_title": "Sourdough", "author_name": "Robin Sloan", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 43455, "review_number": 7160, "book_description": "Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her\u2014feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she\u2019s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer\u2019s market, and a whole new world opens up.When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people, exactly?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Food and Drink (Food)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33916024-sourdough"}, +{"book_title": "Spinning Silver", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 82428, "review_number": 12075, "book_description": "Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father's inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk--grim fey creatures who seem more ice than flesh--Miryem's fate, and that of two kingdoms, will be forever altered. Set an impossible challenge by the nameless king, Miryem unwittingly spins a web that draws in a peasant girl, Wanda, and the unhappy daughter of a local lord who plots to wed his child to the dashing young tsar. But Tsar Mirnatius is not what he seems. And the secret he hides threatens to consume the lands of humans and Staryk alike. Torn between deadly choices, Miryem and her two unlikely allies embark on a desperate quest that will take them to the limits of sacrifice, power, and love. Channeling the vibrant heart of myth and fairy tale, Spinning Silver weaves a multilayered, magical tapestry that readers will want to return to again and again.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36896898-spinning-silver"}, +{"book_title": "Liberty's Crusade", "author_name": "Jeff Grubb", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2223, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles is locked with the enigmatic Protoss and ruthless Zerg swarm. Each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars in a war that will herald the beginning of mankind's greatest chapter--or foretell its violent, bloody end.Danny Liberty was a good reporter...too good. When his investigations struck too close to the heart of the corrupt Terran Confederacy, he faced a simple choice: continue his current series of expos\u00e9s, or take a hazardous new assignment covering the Marines on the front lines of the Koprulu Sector. It didn't take him long to decide...Behind the attacks of the Zerg and the Protoss lies the story of a lifetime, but every piece of information blurs the mystery further. Thrown into the middle of a war where the outcome will determine mankind's very survival, the only thing that Danny Liberty knows for sure is that the only person he can trust to keep him alive is himself.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Video Games)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287133.Liberty_s_Crusade"}, +{"book_title": "Slow Train to Arcturus", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 290, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The planet Miran had sent a spaceship to rendezvous with the enormous vessel that was approaching their star system. The vessel\u2019s design was odd\u2014a multitude of separate globular habitats in a framework\u2014and most of the alien team that entered one of the habitats were slaughtered by savage creatures called \u201chumans.\u201d One alien had barely managed to escape to another habitat where the humans were more friendly, if rather technologically backward. But he needed to get back to his spaceship, and he would need one human\u2019s help to do that.They would have to travel through several more habitats, each one isolated from the other, each with its own bizarre dangers and customs. And friendliness toward strangers was not one of those customs. . . .", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3001912-slow-train-to-arcturus"}, +{"book_title": "A Stitch in Time", "author_name": "Amanda James", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 456, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "A stitch in time saves nine\u2026 or does it? Sarah Yates is a thirty something history teacher, divorced, disillusioned and desperate to have more excitement in her life. Making all her dreams come true seems about as likely as climbing Everest in stilettos.Then one evening the door bell rings and the handsome and mysterious John Needler brings more excitement than Sarah could ever have imagined. John wants Sarah to go back in time\u2026Sarah is whisked from the Sheffield Blitz to the suffragette movement in London to the Old American West, trying to make sure people find their happy endings. The only question is, will she ever be able to find hers?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16075285-a-stitch-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "True Names", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 451, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Disaffected computer wizard \"Mr. Slippery\" (True Name Roger Pollack) is an early adopter of a new full-immersion virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. He and the other wizards form a cabal to keep their true identities \u2014 their True Names \u2014 secret to avoid prosecution by their \"Great Adversary\" \u2014 the government of the United States. The lines that define us are not always black and white, though. There's a new wizard in the Other Plan and they're recruiting for a scheme to translate cyberspace domination into real world power.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Singularity"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1280983.True_Names"}, +{"book_title": "Piranesi", "author_name": "Susanna Clarke", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 30999, "review_number": 6100, "book_description": "Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.There is one other person in the house\u2014a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adult", "Magical Realism", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50202953-piranesi"}, +{"book_title": "Flashfire", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 503, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Packed with hard-core action written by battle-savvy combat veterans, the explosive Starfist series has become hugely popular across America. Now the saga of the courageous Marines continues in Flashfire, as the 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) ventures to the edge of Human Space to fight a number of enemies . . . some on their own side.Tensions erupt between the Confederation and several frontier worlds when civilians are shot dead at an army base on the planet Ravenette. Enraged, the Ravenette government and nine neighboring planets form a coalition, and their first act of secession is to overrun Ravenette\u2019s Confederation garrison. With the armed forces of ten worlds seizing the brutal upper hand, the embattled troops need help\u2013now\u2013and they need it bad.Enter the Marines of the 34th FIST. As the nearest ready-to-deploy unit, the team is sent to Ravenette with orders to hold the line until reinforcements arrive. The upcoming operation promises to be no picnic, for while sophisticates may ridicule the backward ways of the uncouth frontier folk, no one scoffs at their fighting ability.Charlie Bass doesn\u2019t mince words for his men in Company L\u2019s third platoon. Two army divisions\u2013perhaps thirty thousand soldiers\u2013are being overwhelmed, and somebody expects a thousand Marines to save the day. As pompous Confederation generals wreak even more havoc than the enemy, there are those who call the mission suicide . . . but not the Marines. Of course it sounds hopeless, but for Marines like Charlie Bass and the rest of the 34th FIST, accomplishing the impossible comes with the territory.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "War", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662670.Flashfire"}, +{"book_title": "Red Moon and Black Mountain", "author_name": "Joy Chant", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 529, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Science Fiction, FantasyThree children are drawn into another world where a fierce conflict for power is waging.", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/653075.Red_Moon_and_Black_Mountain"}, +{"book_title": "A Moment In Time", "author_name": "Deb Stover", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 216, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Alone in a Rocky Mountain cabin, hairdresser Jackie Clarke wonders if a bad hair day can get any worse when smooth-talking lover \"Blade\" makes off with her car, her cash, and her dignity. But they do get worse--a lot worse. A blizzard strands her in an abandoned ghost town, then a blazing inferno and a lewd painting thrust her back to 1891, where she is mistaken for a a famous saloon singer. When she lands in the arms of a miner with a heart of gold, her bad hair day may become a dream come true. Maybe...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Westerns", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17158200-a-moment-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Death Sentence", "author_name": "Alexander Gordon Smith", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 6340, "review_number": 530, "book_description": "Alex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark nectar--Alex becomes what he most fears . . . a superhuman minion of Furnace. How can he escape when the darkness is inside him? How can he lead the way to freedom if he is lost to himself?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Horror", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9757310-death-sentence"}, +{"book_title": "Slayer", "author_name": "Kiersten White", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 7463, "review_number": 1934, "book_description": "Into every generation a Slayer is born\u2026Nina and her twin sister, Artemis, are far from normal. It\u2019s hard to be when you grow up at the Watcher\u2019s Academy, which is a bit different from your average boarding school. Here teens are trained as guides for Slayers\u2014girls gifted with supernatural strength to fight the forces of darkness. But while Nina\u2019s mother is a prominent member of the Watcher\u2019s Council, Nina has never embraced the violent Watcher lifestyle. Instead she follows her instincts to heal, carving out a place for herself as the school medic.Until the day Nina\u2019s life changes forever.Thanks to Buffy, the famous (and infamous) Slayer that Nina\u2019s father died protecting, Nina is not only the newest Chosen One\u2014she\u2019s the last Slayer, ever. Period.As Nina hones her skills with her Watcher-in-training, Leo, there\u2019s plenty to keep her occupied: a monster fighting ring, a demon who eats happiness, a shadowy figure that keeps popping up in Nina\u2019s dreams\u2026But it\u2019s not until bodies start turning up that Nina\u2019s new powers will truly be tested\u2014because someone she loves might be next.One thing is clear: Being Chosen is easy. Making choices is hard.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34723130-slayer"}, +{"book_title": "The Pet Project", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 973, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "My people collected--(Captured.)--all the bi-pedal inhabitants of a small blue planet in a galaxy that was quite a journey from our own star system.Tender-skinned and intelligent, these new aliens make interesting pets. Fascinating, actually. And when the rest of the universe realizes this, everybody wants to own one.Therefore, we need these new aliens to breed.It\u2019s my job to assist the aliens in reproducing\u2026 by whatever means I deem necessary.**Note: this is a 20K Short Story Gothic Horror-ish/Science Fiction Romance. This is a deviation from my other stories, pretty absent of humor. Honestly, it\u2019s a little messed up. This is not where you\u2019ll find your Christmas cheer this year\u2026 unless you\u2019re a little twisted too. Trigger warnings for those who could be triggered by triggerish material. 18+. Important word of advice: Do NOT read this story while swimming. Not because it has anything at all to do with water--it doesn\u2019t--but because your e-reading device could be damaged. (You\u2019re welcome.)", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Dark", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance", "Horror", "Novella", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49417398-the-pet-project"}, +{"book_title": "Cyber Way", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 656, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Detective Vernon Moody is known for his logical, thorough police work. But heis scared, because what started out as a routine murder investigation may endup uncovering the very nature of reality--or destroying it forever!", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171506.Cyber_Way"}, +{"book_title": "Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 7117, "review_number": 864, "book_description": "A new near-future science fiction novella by John Scalzi, one of the most popular authors in modern SF. Unlocked traces the medical history behind a virus that will sweep the globe and affect the majority of the world\u2019s population, setting the stage for Lock In, the next major novel by John Scalzi.Free to read here:http://www.tor.com/2014/05/13/unlocke...At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21805681-unlocked"}, +{"book_title": "When She Purrs", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 2280, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "Life on a farm planet at the edge of the universe can be dangerous for a human woman alone.That\u2019s why I need a husband. ANY husband.Unfortunately, all the men I approach keep running off. So I hire a bounty hunter to kidnap me someone capable and strong, someone who will scare off the creeps that are trying to move in on my territory.It\u2019ll be a marriage of convenience only.I should have been a little more specific about who I wanted, though\u2026because the intimidating and fierce praxiian male that the bounty hunter brings to me? The one with feline features, big arms and an even bigger\u2026uh, farm?He\u2019s the problem I was hoping a new husband would scare off. What am I supposed to do now?(Don\u2019t ask him, because all of his suggestions are completely and utterly filthy and have nothing to do with a marriage of convenience.)", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53959705-when-she-purrs"}, +{"book_title": "Ensign Flandry", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2294, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Introducing...Dominic Flandry.Before he's through he'll have saved worlds and become the confidante of emperors. But for now he's seventeen years old, as fresh and brash a sprig of the nobility as you would care to know. The only thing as damp as the place behind his ears is the ink on his brand-new commission.Though through this and his succeeding adventures he will struggle gloriously and win (usually) mighty victories, Dominic Flandry is essentially a tragic figure: a man who knows too much, who knows that battle, scheme and even betray as he will, in the end it will mean nothing. For with the relentlessness of physical law the Long Night approaches. The Terran Empire is dying...", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/445655.Ensign_Flandry"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's War Part Two", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 160, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Book 10 in the Spineward Sectors Series: Admiral\u2019s War, Part 2 After a massive showdown with the Imperial Reclamation Fleet that left them battered, bruised and on the run to Wolf-9, the Little Admiral and Co. need time to repair, rearm and rebuild the fleet's battered morale. Fortunately Admiral Arnold Janeski formerly of the Imperial Navy wants to gather all of his foes together in one place in order to make a clean sweep of the entire sector. With warships flying into Easy Haven as fast as their jump drives and the Sector Governor's can send them, these new additions are ready for the fight for the survival of their Sector... or at least their individual homeworlds to begin. With new battleships, and new personalities to deal with and an enemy chomping at gates to complete their victory and destroy everything the Admiral has worked so hard to build, can the the Little Admiral and Sector 25's Amalgamated Fleet pull it together and squeak out a win or will Jason Montagne once again be sent on the run, all his hopes and dreams shattered and destroyed beyond repair. With Parliamentary Agents scheming in the background, a droid stripped of his advocacy seduced by the Perfect Program herecy and many in the Amalgamated Fleet more concerned about a droid loving loser at the helm who just flunked out during his last battle with the enemy than are with whoever would replace him... What will be the fate of this Admiral's War?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31420688-admiral-s-war-part-two"}, +{"book_title": "Fahrenheit 451", "author_name": "Ray Bradbury", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1745002, "review_number": 49763, "book_description": "Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family'. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Academic (School)", "Literature", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13079982-fahrenheit-451"}, +{"book_title": "Redeye", "author_name": "Michael Shean", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 86, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Two years have passed since Agent Thomas Walken and Bobbi January found themselves at the heart of a conspiracy of unimaginable greed and cruelty. The Genefex Corporation remains shrouded in mystery, and Bobbi faces a life of unanswered questions and mounting disillusionment to look forward to. But when she receives a mysterious message from one of Walken\u2019s former comrades, she is drawn back onto the trail. Now, Bobbi will find herself newly equipped to discover the truth \u2013 about Walken, about Genefex and the Yathi race \u2013 and the key to unlocking those secrets rests in the hands of a cyborg terrorist known only as Redeye.But the road to truth will be a dangerous one, from the glamour of Seattle\u2019s ultramodern core to the sprawling wastelands of the Old City and beyond. Alongside a band of lethal comrades, Bobbi will face death and worse amidst urban rot, abandoned subway tunnels, and ultimately the nightmarish halls of the Yathi themselves in a race to stave off what may prove to be the death of humanity itself. Drenched in blood and neon, Redeye is a tale of humanity on the edge of a new and terrible reality.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17850602-redeye"}, +{"book_title": "Must Love Chainmail", "author_name": "Angela Quarles", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 561, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Trapped in the wrong time, she needs a knight in shining armor, but this damsel in distress might be the real savior.A damsel in distress...With a day planner attached to her hip, the last thing Katy Tolson wants is a romance that threatens her well-ordered life. She's set to marry the safe--but bland--guy, but something's not quite...right. A careless wish thrusts her through time into medieval Wales and into the arms of...A knight in somewhat shining armor...Sir Robert Beucol, half-Norman and half-Welsh, lives with the shame of his father's treason and vows to reclaim his family's holdings and thereby his honor. To prove himself to his king, he must be more Norman than a full-blooded Norman. What better way to show loyalty than to fight his mother's people? He has no desire to be sidetracked by the mysterious wench with pink toenails, peculiar habits, and passion smoldering behind her cool, collected exterior.A rebellion that challenges both...The Welsh uprising fits perfectly into Robert\u2019s plans. Katy\u2019s on the other hand? That\u2019s a no. As they embark on a perilous journey through the heart of Wales, each passionate encounter pulls them closer together, but farther from their goals. When everything they value is at stake, can they save each other and their love?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25896030-must-love-chainmail"}, +{"book_title": "The Far Time Incident", "author_name": "Neve Maslakovic", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 689, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "When a professor\u2019s time-travel lab is the scene of a deadly accident, the academic world and the future of St. Sunniva University get thrown into upheaval. As assistant to the dean of science, Julia Olsen is assigned to help Campus Security Chief Nate Kirkland examine this rare mishap\u2026then make it quietly go away!But when the investigation points toward murder, Julia and Chief Kirkland find themselves caught in a deadly cover-up, one that strands them in ancient Pompeii on the eve of the eruption of the world\u2019s most infamous volcano. With the help of their companions\u2014a Shakespearean scholar and two grad students\u2014Julia and the chief must outwit history itself and expose the school\u2019s saboteur before it's too late.The Far Time Incident is a smart, richly inventive novel that skillfully weaves together mystery, history, and science to create a mesmerizing and addictive read.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16163629-the-far-time-incident"}, +{"book_title": "1634: The Galileo Affair", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2899, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. The democratic ideals of the CPE have aroused the implacable hostility of Cardinal Richelieu, effective ruler of France, who has moved behind the scenes, making common cause with old enemies to stop this new threat to the privileged and powerful. But the CPE is also working in secret. A group of West Virginians have secretly traveled to Venice where their advanced medical knowledge may prevent the recurrence of the terrible plague which recently killed a third of the city-state's population. At the same time, the group hopes to establish commercial ties with Turkey's Ottoman Empire, then at the height of its power. And, most important, they hope to establish private diplomatic ties with the Vatican, exploiting Pope Urban VIII's misgivings about the actions of Richelieu and the Hapsburgs. But a Venetian artisan involved with the West Virginians may cause all their plans to come to naught. Having read 20th century history books of the period, he has become determined to rescue Galileo from his trial for heresy. The Americans are divided on whether to help him or stop him\u2014and whether he succeeds or fails, the results may be catastrophic for the CPE.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57371.1634"}, +{"book_title": "The Warmasters", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 809, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "\"Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington\" by David Weber: Before she saved the galaxy, she was \"Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington,\" and then an encounter with \"pirates\" who were more than they seemed began Honor Harrington's Brilliant Career. \"Choosing Sides\" by David Drake: Lieutenant Huber stepped off the starship into an ambush--but Slammers aren't supposed to get ambushed. Huber can save his career if he survives a suicide mission. \"The Island\" by Eric Flint: Think General Belisarius was tough? Meet the wife of one of his officers. She is determined to reach her wounded husband--going over the broken bodies of the enemy if necessary.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Space", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406905.The_Warmasters"}, +{"book_title": "Forever", "author_name": "Pete Hamill", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 11378, "review_number": 1549, "book_description": "This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains . . . forever. Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor -- granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan -- we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know the city's buried secrets -- the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "New York", "Historical", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Cultural (Ireland)", "Novels", "Book Club"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148465.Forever"}, +{"book_title": "Hollowmen", "author_name": "Amanda Hocking", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 8360, "review_number": 609, "book_description": "The sequel to Hollowland....After six months in the quarantine, Remy finds out things are much worse than she feared. Her plans to escape come with a heavy cost, and she realizes that zombies aren't the worst of her problems.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31351188-hollowmen"}, +{"book_title": "Starkissed", "author_name": "Lanette Curington", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1896, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "She's human, he's not, but together Leith and J'Qhir struggle to survive on an alien world, defeat interstellar treachery from a mutual enemy, and confront their growing attraction. Leith McClure reluctantly takes over the family shipping business due to her father's illness. She is shocked to find her father has been trading with the Zi. When a trusted friend's betrayal leaves Leith and the Warrior of Zi marooned on a deserted planet, they must learn to overcome their differences to survive and to explore their mutual attraction.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2651779-starkissed"}, +{"book_title": "Vessel", "author_name": "Lisa A. Nichols", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 1388, "review_number": 294, "book_description": "An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story\u2026. A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian. After Catherine Wells\u2019s ship experiences a deadly incident in deep space and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her dead. Miraculously\u2014and mysteriously\u2014she survived, but with little memory of what happened. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman and the young daughter she left behind has grown into a teenager she barely recognizes. Catherine, too, is different. The long years alone changed her, and as she readjusts to being home, sometimes she feels disconnected and even, at times, deep rage toward her family and colleagues. There are periods of time she can\u2019t account for, too, and she begins waking up in increasingly strange and worrisome locations, like restricted areas of NASA. Suddenly she\u2019s questioning everything that happened up in space: how her crewmates died, how she survived, and now, what\u2019s happening to her back on Earth.Smart, gripping, and compelling, this page-turning sci-fi thriller will leave you breathless.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201380-vessel"}, +{"book_title": "The Passage", "author_name": "Justin Cronin", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 194624, "review_number": 19551, "book_description": "IT HAPPENED FAST.THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear\u2014of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey\u2014spanning miles and decades\u2014toward the time an place where she must finish what should never have begun.With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690798-the-passage"}, +{"book_title": "The Portal", "author_name": "Kathryn Lasky", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 693, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog.But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn.The one place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother\u2019s Tudor-style greenhouse. But one night, she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She climbs a ladder to investigate . . . and finds herself transported back four hundred years to Hatfield Palace, where she becomes servant and confidante of the banished princess Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII. Rose soon discovers something else surprising\u2014a locket with two mysterious images inside it, both of them clues to her own past.Could her grandmother\u2019s greenhouse portal offer answers to the mysteries of her family . . . and their secrets? And how will she ever unravel them all?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604799-the-portal"}, +{"book_title": "The Night Sessions", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 960, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "The first Enlightenment separated church from state - now the second Enlightenment has separated religion from politics. In this enlightened age there's no persecution. But the millions who still believe and worship are a marginal and mistrusted minority - and now someone is killing them.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2945119-the-night-sessions"}, +{"book_title": "Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100", "author_name": "Michio Kaku", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 15432, "review_number": 1183, "book_description": "Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku\u2014the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible\u2014gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists who are already inventing the future in their labs. The result is the most authoritative and scientifically accurate description of the revolutionary developments taking place in medicine, computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy production, and astronautics.In all likelihood, by 2100 we will control computers via tiny brain sensors and, like magicians, move objects around with the power of our minds. Artificial intelligence will be dispersed throughout the environment, and Internet-enabled contact lenses will allow us to access the world's information base or conjure up any image we desire in the blink of an eye.Meanwhile, cars will drive themselves using GPS, and if room-temperature superconductors are discovered, vehicles will effortlessly fly on a cushion of air, coasting on powerful magnetic fields and ushering in the age of magnetism.Using molecular medicine, scientists will be able to grow almost every organ of the body and cure genetic diseases. Millions of tiny DNA sensors and nanoparticles patrolling our blood cells will silently scan our bodies for the first sign of illness, while rapid advances in genetic research will enable us to slow down or maybe even reverse the aging process, allowing human life spans to increase dramatically.In space, radically new ships\u2014needle-sized vessels using laser propulsion\u2014could replace the expensive chemical rockets of today and perhaps visit nearby stars. Advances in nanotechnology may lead to the fabled space elevator, which would propel humans hundreds of miles above the earth's atmosphere at the push of a button.But these astonishing revelations are only the tip of the iceberg. Kaku also discusses emotional robots, antimatter rockets, X-ray vision, and the ability to create new life-forms, and he considers the development of the world economy. He addresses the key questions: Who are the winner and losers of the future? Who will have jobs, and which nations will prosper?All the while, Kaku illuminates the rigorous scientific principles, examining the rate at which certain technologies are likely to mature, how far they can advance, and what their ultimate limitations and hazards are. Synthesizing a vast amount of information to construct an exciting look at the years leading up to 2100, Physics of the Future is a thrilling, wondrous ride through the next 100 years of breathtaking scientific revolution. (From the Hardcover Edition)(Duration: 15:39:15)", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Physics)", "Science (Technology)", "Futurism", "Science (Popular Science)", "Audiobook", "Science (Engineering)", "History", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8492907-physics-of-the-future"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 22: Dead Air", "author_name": "Jak Koke", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 213, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "The Los Angeles Sabers combat bike team plays hard, and plays to win, like every team on the circuit. But when Jonathan Winger's teammate dies in a crash with an opposing player, he wants revenge. That is, until he discovers that the killing was no accident. Now he's the target, riding full-throttle on a trail leading to secrets that people will kill again to keep! Original.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131208.Shadowrun_22"}, +{"book_title": "Airborn", "author_name": "Kenneth Oppel", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 23581, "review_number": 1972, "book_description": "Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious.In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428042.Airborn"}, +{"book_title": "Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals", "author_name": "Niall Ferguson", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 605, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into \u201cimaginary time\u201d and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions.Ferguson\u2019s brilliant 90-page introduction doubles as a manifesto on the methodology of counter-factual history. His equally masterful afterword traces the likely historical ripples that would have proceeded from the maintenance of Stuart rule in England. This breathtaking narrative gives us a convincing, detailed \u201calternative history\u201d of the West\u2014from the accession of \u201cJames III\u201d in 1701, to a Nazi-occupied England, to a U.S. Prime Minister Kennedy who lives to complete his term.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["History", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Politics", "Writing (Essays)", "Historical", "Philosophy", "Economics", "Military (Military History)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452398.Virtual_History"}, +{"book_title": "Solar Express", "author_name": "L.E. Modesitt Jr.", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 797, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "A thrilling, new, hard science fiction novel from New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.You can\u2019t militarize space. This one rule has led to decades of peaceful development of space programs worldwide. However, increasing resource scarcity and a changing climate on Earth\u2019s surface is causing some interested parties to militarize, namely India, the North American Union, and the Sinese Federation. The discovery of a strange artifact by Dr. Alayna Wong precipitates a crisis. What appears to be a hitherto undiscovered comet is soon revealed to be an alien structure on a cometary trajectory toward the sun. Now there is a race between countries to see who can study and control the artifact dubbed the \"Solar Express\" before it perhaps destroys itself. Leading the way for the North American Union is Alayna\u2019s friend, Captain Christopher Tavoian, one of the first shuttle pilots to be trained for combat in space. But, as the alien craft gets closer to its destination, it begins to alter the surface of the sun in strange new ways, ways that could lead Alayna to revolutionary discoveries\u2014provided Chris can prevent war from breaking out as he navigates among the escalating tensions between nations.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Unfinished", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848420-solar-express"}, +{"book_title": "Inhuman", "author_name": "Kat Falls", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 6156, "review_number": 840, "book_description": "In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father\u2019s life is forfeit.America has been ravaged by a war that has left the eastern half of the country riddled with mutation. Many of the people there exhibit varying degrees of animal traits. Even the plantlife has gone feral.Crossing from west to east is supposed to be forbidden, but sometimes it\u2019s necessary. Some enter the Savage Zone to provide humanitarian relief. Sixteen-year-old Lane\u2019s father goes there to retrieve lost artifacts\u2014he is a Fetch. It\u2019s a dangerous life, but rewarding\u2014until he\u2019s caught.Desperate to save her father, Lane agrees to complete his latest job. That means leaving behind her life of comfort and risking life and limb\u2014and her very DNA\u2014in the Savage Zone. But she\u2019s not alone. In order to complete her objective, Lane strikes a deal with handsome, roguish Rafe. In exchange for his help as a guide, Lane is supposed to sneak him back west. But though Rafe doesn\u2019t exhibit any signs of \u201cmanimal\u201d mutation, he\u2019s hardly civilized . . . and he may not be trustworthy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13517617-inhuman"}, +{"book_title": "To Sleep in a Sea of Stars", "author_name": "Christopher Paolini", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 12624, "review_number": 2775, "book_description": "Kira Nav\u00e1rez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope...", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48829708-to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Return", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1816, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "David, the \"sixth Animorph,\" is back. When the Animorphs and Ax decided to give another human being the power to morph, it was one of their biggest mistakes. David tried to destroy all of them--and almost succeeded. Rachel and the others thought they'd seen the last of him.They were wrong.Rachel knows what a threat David is. He's cunning and dangerous. Worst of all, he knows their secrets. Now he's captured Rachel as part of his plan to take over everything. David wants power. Money. But more than anything, he wants revenge.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363356.The_Return"}, +{"book_title": "Superman: Red Son", "author_name": "Mark Millar", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 49489, "review_number": 2117, "book_description": "Strange visitor from another world who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands ... and who, as the champion of the common worker, fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, Socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.In this Elseworlds tale, a familiar rocketship crash-lands on Earth carrying an infant who will one day become the most powerful being on the planet. But his ship doesn't land in America. He is not raised in Smallville, Kansas. Instead, he makes his new home on a collective in the Soviet Union!Collecting SUPERMAN: RED SON #1-3.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Dc Comics (Superman)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154798.Superman"}, +{"book_title": "The War of the Worlds", "author_name": "H.G. Wells", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 251753, "review_number": 8237, "book_description": "When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels,The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published.", "year_published": 1898, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8909.The_War_of_the_Worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Mummies in the Morning", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 19059, "review_number": 798, "book_description": "Jack and Annie don't need another mummy. But that's what they get when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient Egypt. There they meet a long-dead queen who needs their help. Will Jack and Annie be able to solve the puzzle, or will they end up as mummies themselves?", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/268955.Mummies_in_the_Morning"}, +{"book_title": "The Quantum Thief", "author_name": "Hannu Rajaniemi", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 20116, "review_number": 1960, "book_description": "Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him first. Just another day in the Dilemma Prison. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, where time is a currency, memories are treasures, and a moon-turned-singularity lights the night. Meanwhile, investigator Isidore Beautrelet, called in to investigate the murder of a chocolatier, finds himself on the trail of an arch-criminal, a man named le Flambeur...Indeed, in his many lives, the entity called Jean le Flambeur has been a thief, a confidence artist, a posthuman mind-burgler, and more. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his deeds are known throughout the Heterarchy, from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of Mars. In his last exploit, he managed the supreme feat of hiding the truth about himself from the one person in the solar system hardest to hide from: himself. Now he has the chance to regain himself in all his power\u2014in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed.The Quantum Thief is a breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who communicate via shared memory, and a race of hyper-advanced humans who originated as an MMORPG guild. But for all its wonders, The Quantum Thief is also a story powered by very human motives of betrayal, jealousy, and revenge.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7562764-the-quantum-thief"}, +{"book_title": "The New Deadwardians", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 786, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "In post-Victorian England, nearly everyone of the upper classes has voluntarily become a vampire in order to escape the lower\u00a0classes who are all zombies. Into this simmering cauldron is thrust Chief Inspector George Suttle, a lonely detective who's got\u00a0the slowest beat in London: investigating murders in a world where everyone is already dead! When the body of a young aristocrat\u00a0washes up on the banks of the Thames, Suttle's quest for the truth will take him from the darkest sewers to the gleaming\u00a0halls of power, and reveal the rotten heart at the center of this strange world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797754-the-new-deadwardians"}, +{"book_title": "Emerald Blaze", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 12450, "review_number": 1436, "book_description": "As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her sisters have extraordinary powers\u2014powers their ruthless grandmother would love to control.\u00a0Catalina can earn her family some protection working as deputy to the Warden of Texas, overseeing breaches of magic law in the state, but that has risks as well. When House Baylor is under attack and monsters haunt her every step, Catalina is forced to rely on handsome, dangerous Alessandro Sagredo, the Prime who crushed her heart.\u00a0The nightmare that Alessandro has fought since childhood has come roaring back to life, but now Catalina is under threat. Not even his lifelong quest for revenge will stop him from keeping her safe, even if every battle could be his last. Because Catalina won't rest until she stops the use of the illicit,\u00a0power-granting serum that's tearing their world apart.\u00a0", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49053880-emerald-blaze"}, +{"book_title": "Man Plus", "author_name": "Frederik Pohl", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 7615, "review_number": 268, "book_description": "Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Space", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367215.Man_Plus"}, +{"book_title": "Deathworld 1", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 7218, "review_number": 394, "book_description": "The planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man.The settlers there were supermen...twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder...It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation...", "year_published": 1960, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Pulp", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2037559.Deathworld_1"}, +{"book_title": "Ink Exchange", "author_name": "Melissa Marr", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 60469, "review_number": 3074, "book_description": "Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow.Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows is that she has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life.The tattoo does bring changes, but not the kind Leslie has dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. Those changes will bind Leslie and Irial together, drawing Leslie deeper and deeper into the faery world, unable to resist its allures, and helpless to withstand its perils. . .", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2321296.Ink_Exchange"}, +{"book_title": "Honor of the Regiment: Bolos 1", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1288, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Anthology: Bolos 1 (Bolo, Bk 4) Chronicles the history of the Bolo, a futuristic man-made machine that symbolizes brute force, defiance, and rigid will, and is responsible for defending humanity. The future of war, and the fate of man, lies with one machine: the Bolo. With plated armor, a laser cannon, an electronic brain, and wheels, it defends humanity from aliens that threaten the entire species. Now comes the amplified history of the Bolo in stories by David Drake, S.M. Stirling, Mercedes Lackey and others. Cover art by Paul Alexander.Contents:Lost Legion [Bethany Martins \u2022 1] / novelette by S. M. StirlingCamelot / novelette by Shariann Lewitt [as by S. N. Lewitt]The Legacy of Leonidas / novella by Andrew Keith [as by J. Andrew Keith]Ploughshare / novella by Todd McCaffrey [as by Todd Johnson]Ghosts / short story by Mike Resnick and Barry N. MalzbergThe Ghost of Resartus / novelette by Christopher StasheffOperation Desert Fox [Bolo] / novelette by Mercedes Lackey and Larry DixonAs Our Strength Lessens [Bolo] / short story by David DrakeBased on the fighting machine created by Keith Laumer. .", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464055.Honor_of_the_Regiment"}, +{"book_title": "Liberating Atlantis", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 517, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "\"The maven of alternate history\"( \"San Diego Union- Tribune\") continues his epic tale of Atlantis. Frederick Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantis's first settlement, and his grandfather Victor led the army against England to win the nation's independence. But he is also a black slave, unable to prove his lineage, and forced to labor on a cotton plantation in the southern region of the country. Frederick feels the color of his skin shouldn't keep him from having the same freedoms his ancestors fought and died for. So he becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of slaves determined to free all of his brethren across Atlantis...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6422319-liberating-atlantis"}, +{"book_title": "A Tale of Time City", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 4757, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "Time City \u2014 built far in the future on a patch of space outside time \u2014 holds the formidable task of overseeing history, yet it's starting to decay, crumble .... What does that say for the future of the world ... for the past ... for the present? Two Time City boys, determined to save it all, think they have the answer in Vivian Smith, a young Twenty Century girl whom they pluck from a British train station at the start of World War II. But not only have they broken every rule in the book by traveling back in time \u2014 they have the wrong person! Unable to return safely, Vivian's only choice is to help the boys restore Time City or risk being stuck outside time forever...", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114520.A_Tale_of_Time_City"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Colony", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 151941, "review_number": 2058, "book_description": "7Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilisation underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the eighth family, the demons.The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. However, the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years.Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. The fairy Council are naturally concerned about this and are monitoring any materialisations. When the spell\u2019s deterioration accelerates, the materialisations become unpredictable. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up.But someone can. Artemis Fowl, the teenage criminal mastermind, has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. But Artemis Fowl is no normal human.So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him. Unfortunately, he is not the only one. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and manages to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him.This is a disaster for the fairy People, because this demon was no ordinary fairy. He was the last demon warlock, and as such held the key to the survival of the entire demon race.It is up to Artemis and his old comrade Captain Holly Short to track down the missing demon and rescue him before the time spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37586.The_Lost_Colony"}, +{"book_title": "Crossfire", "author_name": "Nancy Kress", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 500, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Caught in the CrossfireA human colony settles on a distant planet, a colony formed by Jake Holman-- a man trying to escape a dark past. But as this diverse group of thousands comes to terms with their new lives on a new world, they make a startling discovery: primitive humanoid aliens. There are only a few isolated villages, and the evidence seems to indicate they aren't native to the planet--despite the aliens living in thatched huts and possessing only primitive tools. When a handful of human colonists finally learn the truth, they will face the toughest decision of their lives, a decision that could determine not just the fate of their new home, but the fate of all humanity.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Futuristic", "Womens", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219233.Crossfire"}, +{"book_title": "Of Dreams and Rust", "author_name": "Sarah Fine", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 818, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "War erupts in this bittersweet sequel to \"Of Metal and Wishes\", inspired by The Phantom of the Opera and called \u201crelentlessly engrossing\u201d by The Romantic Times.In the year since the collapse of the slaughterhouse where Wen worked as her father\u2019s medical assistant, she\u2019s held all her secrets close. She works in the clinic at the weapons factory and sneaks away to nurse Bo, once the Ghost, now a boy determined to transform himself into a living machine. Their strange, fragile friendship soothes some of the ache of missing Melik, the strong-willed Noor who walked away from Wen all those months ago\u2014but it can\u2019t quell her fears for him.The Noor are waging a rebellion in the west. When she overhears plans to crush Melik\u2019s people with the powerful war machines created at the factory, Wen makes the painful decision to leave behind all she has known\u2014including Bo\u2014to warn them. But the farther she journeys into the warzone, the more confusing things become. A year of brutality seems to have changed Melik, and Wen has a decision to make about him and his people: How much is she willing to sacrifice to save them from complete annihilation?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Retellings", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17558151-of-dreams-and-rust"}, +{"book_title": "Killing Gravity", "author_name": "Corey J. White", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 2024, "review_number": 352, "book_description": "Mariam Xi can kill you with her mind. She escaped the MEPHISTO lab where she was raised as a psychic supersoldier, which left her with terrifying capabilities, a fierce sense of independence, a deficit of trust and an experimental pet named Seven. She\u2019s spent her life on the run, but the boogeymen from her past are catching up with her. An encounter with a bounty hunter has left her hanging helpless in a dying spaceship, dependent on the mercy of strangers.Penned in on all sides, Mariam chases rumors to find the one who sold her out. To discover the truth and defeat her pursuers, she\u2019ll have to stare into the abyss and find the secrets of her past, her future, and her terrifying potential.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33091587-killing-gravity"}, +{"book_title": "Between Jobs", "author_name": "W.R. Gingell", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1500, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect is to see a murdered guy hanging outside your window. Things like that tend to draw the attention of the local police, and when you\u2019re squatting in your parents\u2019 old house until you can afford to buy it, another thing you can\u2019t afford is the attention of the cops. Oh yeah. Hi. My name is Pet. It\u2019s not my real name, but it\u2019s the only one you\u2019re getting. Things like names are important these days. And it\u2019s not so much that I\u2019m Pet. I\u2019m a pet. A human pet: I belong to the two Behindkind fae and the pouty vampire who just moved into my house. It\u2019s not weird, I promise\u2014well, it\u2019s weird, yeah. But it\u2019s not weird weird, you know?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39791122-between-jobs"}, +{"book_title": "Knights", "author_name": "Linda Lael Miller", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 724, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "In medieval England, Gloriana, Lady of Kenbrook, awaits her husband, Dane St. Gregory, whom she has not seen since childhood. She is stunned to discover that he has returned with a betrothed; beautiful Gloriana is to be cast into a nunnery. Dane's mysterious sister-in-law, Elaina, counsels her to win Dane's heart or see the entire Kenbrook line imperiled.Entranced by her passionate will, he cannot resist Gloriana's potent charm, while she falls ever more deeply in love with Dane, her valiant swordsman. But their newfound happiness is brief \u2014 suddenly, Gloriana is swept across the chasm of time to a dazzling future. Trapped centuries apart, Gloriana and Dane suffer the torment of their longing, knowing that only their love for one another and the strength of their desire can reunite them at last.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699191.Knights"}, +{"book_title": "A Knight in Shining Armor", "author_name": "Jude Deveraux", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 33586, "review_number": 2305, "book_description": "an alternate cover editions can be found here and hereNew York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time-travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church. Suddenly, the most extraordinary man appears. It is Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyck\u2026and according to his tombstone he died in 1564.Drawn to his side by a bond so sudden and compelling it overshadows reason, Dougless knows that Nicholas is nothing less than a miracle: a man who does not seek to change her, who finds her perfect, fascinating, just as she is. What Dougless never imagined was how strong the chains are that tie them to the past\u2026or the grand adventure that lay before them.Hailed worldwide as one of the most romantic novels of all time, A Knight in Shining Armor is \u201ca glorious love story that spans centuries, worlds, and souls. It is the epitome of every woman\u2019s fantasy\u201d (Chicago Daily Herald).", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73385.A_Knight_in_Shining_Armor"}, +{"book_title": "Prentice Alvin", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 17542, "review_number": 335, "book_description": "The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31357.Prentice_Alvin"}, +{"book_title": "Assassins", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 29072, "review_number": 460, "book_description": "After selling nearly two million copies since its release in August 1999, \"Assassins\" in now availabe in trade paper! The seven-year Tribulation reaches its halfway mark in the sixth book of the blockbuster Left Behind series, \"Assassins.\" Nicolae Carpathia is assassinated, setting the stage for the Great Tribulation.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Fiction", "Christian", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)", "Religion (Faith)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85957.Assassins"}, +{"book_title": "Revealed", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 5340, "review_number": 211, "book_description": "Book 5 in the Brides of the Kindred seriesThis book is a plus length novel--around 130,000 words longNadiah has the Sight\u2014the ability to see into the future. But the one thing she can\u2019t see is how she\u2019s ever going to be free of the blood bond her parents forced her into when she was only six. Her fianc\u00e9e is an evil bastard who delights in torturing her and her only way out of a loveless marriage is for a Kindred warrior to challenge the hated bond. But Nadiah has no warrior to challenge for her\u2014she just has Rast.Adam Rast doesn\u2019t know why he feels so protective and possessive of Nadiah, only that he\u2019s willing to kill or die to protect her. When the chance to set her free arises, he takes it without hesitation, even though his lack of Kindred blood could mean his defeat or even his death. But Rast has a secret, one even he doesn\u2019t know he possesses. When he undertakes Nadiah\u2019s quest, the truth comes out in a strange and provocative way. Can Nadiah and Rast live through their ordeal? Will the truth about Rast set them free\u2026or kill them? You\u2019ll have to read Revealed to find out.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13505863-revealed"}, +{"book_title": "Point of Honour", "author_name": "Madeleine E. Robins", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1429, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Miss Sarah Tolerance ran away with her brother's fencing master when she was sixteen. Now he's dead and she's back in England, and a Fallen Woman. But she refuses to follow the Fallen Women who have gone before her and become a courtesan. Sarah is a straight shooter, with her pistol as well as her wit, and her mind is as sharp as the blade of her sword. She's clever and discreet--she has reinvented herself as a private investigator.Miss Tolerance is an Agent of Inquiry, the sole one of her kind in London in this year of 1810, with mad King George III on the throne and Queen Charlotte acting as Regent. Sarah's position in society allows her to float between social layers, unearth secrets, find things that were lost, and lose things too dangerous to be kept. An agent of the Earl of Versellion has asked her to find a fan that the Earl's father gifted to a lady with brown eyes. When Sarah discovers the secret of the fan, both she and the Earl are targeted by ruthless killers. They realize the fan has a second secret, one that will affect the fate of England itself, and they must decipher it. Sarah's life is getting more and more complicated-and she's growing closer and closer to the Earl. To save England and herself, she must decide whether to be guided by her heart... or her conscience.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Regency)", "Romance", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166074.Point_of_Honour"}, +{"book_title": "Wes and Kit", "author_name": "Hollis Shiloh", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 221, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Wes has a soft heart\u2014even if it is a gear heart from when he was mechanicalized during the war. Now close to homeless and in desperate straits, he still finds himself taking on a stray dog\u2014and helping out an injured man he stumbles across in an alleyway. That's how he meets Kit. A harmless, gentle clock repairman with a heart condition of his own, Kit is in danger\u2026because he's working on a certain clock. He hires Wes to protect him until the danger is past\u2026whatever its cause. But they find their feelings for each other are becoming too strong to ignore, despite the danger. When a chance to solve the mystery presents itself, Wes finds he might just lose the man he's come to love\u2026if he can't find Kit in time. Length: 37,000 words Steampunk elements, mystery elements, some violence Heat level: Low", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22914628-wes-and-kit"}, +{"book_title": "A Red-Rose Chain", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 8947, "review_number": 709, "book_description": "Things are looking up.For the first time in what feels like years, October \u201cToby\u201d Daye has been able to pause long enough to take a breath and look at her life\u2014and she likes what she sees. She has friends. She has allies. She has a squire to train and a King of Cats to love, and maybe, just maybe, she can let her guard down for a change.Or not. When Queen Windermere\u2019s seneschal is elf-shot and thrown into an enchanted sleep by agents from the neighboring Kingdom of Silences, Toby finds herself in a role she never expected to play: that of a diplomat. She must travel to Portland, Oregon, to convince King Rhys of Silences not to go to war against the Mists. But nothing is that simple, and what October finds in Silences is worse than she would ever have imagined.How far will Toby go when lives are on the line, and when allies both old and new are threatened by a force she had never expected to face again? How much is October willing to give up, and how much is she willing to change? In Faerie, what\u2019s past is never really gone.It\u2019s just waiting for an opportunity to pounce.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Mystery", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15748535-a-red-rose-chain"}, +{"book_title": "Daring Time", "author_name": "Beth Kery", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 518, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "The author of Wicked Burn presents a story of how passion and danger make tempting bedfellows.He sees her, wants her, needs her-now he has to have her.Chicago Detective Ryan Daire has many secrets: a love for Shakespeare, an appreciation for all the finer things in life, and an absolute lack of restraint in the bedroom. Now he has an even bigger secret. In every shadow of the sprawling mansion he's recently inherited he can see her-tempting, ethereal, and untouchable. Hope Stillwater inhabited that mansion in 1906. Raw desire has formed a conduit between these two passionate souls who are separated by the barrier of time. Intoxicated by each other's presence, Ryan and Hope come close to crossing that inviting boundary between two worlds. But there is danger: Ryan's job has put him on the trail of a depraved criminal in an investigation that's risking Hope's eternal fate. Now he must do whatever it takes to change history, protect Hope from harm, and set his desires free.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5968007-daring-time"}, +{"book_title": "Prince's Master", "author_name": "Alessandra Hazard", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1944, "review_number": 301, "book_description": "A prince and a villain incapable of love: it wasn't supposed to be a love story...Separated from his family after an assassination attempt, Prince Eridan is rescued by the reclusive Order of monks who control High Hronthar, an isolated school for telepaths. Eridan believes he\u2019s an ordinary orphan, one of hundreds of initiates of the Order trying to survive in a nest of intrigue, rivalry, and corruption, but he\u2019s more important than he knows.When Castien Idhron, the most powerful man in the Order, claims Eridan as his apprentice, Eridan\u2019s confused and wary. Corrupt, heartless, and calculating, Castien plays with the lives of those around him as if they\u2019re just a game. Eridan\u2019s just another pawn.Eridan despises his Master, and yet he finds himself craving his attention and approval like a drug he can\u2019t live without.Castien has never understood the concepts of kindness and love, but to his displeasure, his insolent apprentice has a way of getting under his skin like nothing else.Will the master manipulator win the game, or will he play himself?This book contains explicit content, a teacher-student MM relationship, power imbalance, age difference (35/21).", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53951435-prince-s-master"}, +{"book_title": "The Amphibian", "author_name": "Alexander Belyaev", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 4278, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "The Amphibian will throw you back to a time when skin and deep-sea diving had not yet made the Silent World begin yielding up its secrets on a really big scale, as aqualung and snorkel are doing today, and present to you Alexander Belayev's 1928 prevision of the ocean mastered by mankind. Sea-devil has appeared in the Rio de la Plata. Weird cries out at sea, slashed fishermen's nets, glimpses of a most queer creature astride a dolphin leave no room for doubt. The Spaniard Zurita, greed overcoming his superstition, tries to catch Sea-devil and force it to pearl-dive for him but fails. On a lonely stretch of shore, not far from Buenos Aires, Dr. Salvator lives in seclusion behind a high wall, whose steel-plated gates only open to let in his Indian patients. The Indians revere him as a God but Zurita has a hunch that the God on land and the devil in the sea have something in common. Enlisting the help of two wily Araucanian brothers he sets out to probe the mystery. As action shifts from the bottom of the sea to the Spaniard's schooner The Jellyfish and back again, with interludes in sun-drenched Buenos Aires and countryside, the mystery of Ichthyander the sea-devil is unfolded before the reader in a narrative as gripping as it informative.", "year_published": 1927, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Fiction", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Childrens", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1243799.The_Amphibian"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow of the Scorpion", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3735, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn\u2019t remember. Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security and is sent out to help restore and maintain order on worlds devastated by the war. There he discovers that though the Prador remain as murderous as ever, they are not anywhere near as treacherous or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some closer to him than he would like. Amidst the ruins left by wartime genocides, Cormac will discover in himself a cold capacity for violence and learn some horrible truths about his own past while trying to stay alive on his course of vengeance.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2247423.Shadow_of_the_Scorpion"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Shroud of the Universe", "author_name": "Chris Kennedy", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 109, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "A mysterious race from an alternate universe has allied itself with the Jotunn, and the alliance is set on destroying the Aesir and bringing about Ragnarok. With an ability to jump between universes and unstoppable time-based weapons, the Efreet seem invincible. The Vella Gulf is the only ship to survive its first meeting with the Efreet\u2026but only through a fluke of luck.Worse, Lieutenant Commander Shawn \u2018Calvin\u2019 Hobbs has just found out the Efreeti home world is the same planet in their universe as Terra is in ours. If true, the Efreet could cross into our universe at any moment and annihilate the Earth without any warning. Terra lies defenseless!Calvin and the crew of the Vella Gulf have a surprise for the Efreet, though; they have returned to Terra with the ability to cross between the universes like their enemy. Armed with personal transporters and jump modules for their ships, they\u2019re now able to take the fight to the Efreet. But will they be in time to prevent Terra\u2019s annihilation? As the Efreet continue their inexorable onslaught on all fronts, Calvin only knows one thing. The answers to all of their questions lie beyond the shroud of the universe.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26923831-beyond-the-shroud-of-the-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita: Last Order 19", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 203, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "FINAL VOLUME IN THE SAGA OF BATTLE ANGEL ALITA!THE LAST ORDERIdo and Figure's long journey ends in Earth orbit, on the space city Ketheres, where they can see the world after the ZOTT with their own eyes. What is it Alita has brought into the universe? After a life of defiance, what meaning has she gained? The science fiction epic that held fans spellbound for more than 20 years finally comes to a conclusion, and the seeds for a new adventure are sown!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Comics Manga", "Graphic Novels Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18666092-battle-angel-alita"}, +{"book_title": "The Price of Pleasure", "author_name": "Joanna Wylde", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 854, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Book 1 in the Saurellian Federation series.A slave desperate for freedom.A warlord incapable of love.Neither Seth nor Calla harbor false hope for their futures-until their worlds collide in war. Now the rules have changed and the stakes are higher than either could have imagined.Seth and Calla have one chance to change their destinies and the fates of their people hinge on their choices. Only when they risk everything to find each other will they truly know... The Price of Pleasure.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2547481.The_Price_of_Pleasure"}, +{"book_title": "The Darwin Elevator", "author_name": "Jason M. Hough", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 4648, "review_number": 619, "book_description": "In the mid-23rd century, Darwin, Australia, stands as the last human city on Earth. The world has succumbed to an alien plague, with most of the population transformed into mindless, savage creatures. The planet\u2019s refugees flock to Darwin, where a space elevator\u2014created by the architects of this apocalypse, the Builders\u2014emits a plague-suppressing aura.Skyler Luiken has a rare immunity to the plague. Backed by an international crew of fellow \u201cimmunes,\u201d he leads missions into the dangerous wasteland beyond the aura\u2019s edge to find the resources Darwin needs to stave off collapse. But when the Elevator starts to malfunction, Skyler is tapped\u2014along with the brilliant scientist, Dr. Tania Sharma\u2014to solve the mystery of the failing alien technology and save the ragged remnants of humanity.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16127235-the-darwin-elevator"}, +{"book_title": "The Prince's Consort", "author_name": "Revella Hawthorne", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1163, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "In a world where humans are genetically designed, altered and sold for sexual pleasure and breeding, a young prince of the powerful Cassian Dynasty decides to take a mate and sire heirs. Not wishing to saddle himself with royal and meddlesome in-laws, and a wife he would have no desire to bed, Prince Edward goes to Heritage Breeders, and finds far more than just a warm body to sate his lust and carry on his lineage. Percy is the result of a master DNA architect designing himself his own personal sex slave and breeder. Yet when his creator and Master dies, leaving Percy alone at the mercy of the callous stable masters and the new owner of Heritage, he fears his future. Afraid he'll be bought by a wretched old man or a deviant monster, Percy is terrified when he is dragged from his cell and presented to the most prestigious client Heritage has ever welcomed...a Cassian Royal. Prince Edward is immediately infatuated with the shy, nervous and enchantingly beautiful Percy, and claims him for his own. Yet not everyone is pleased by a royal purchasing a breeder, especially one like Percy, and tensions rise both in Heritage and in the palace. Torn between desire, duty, a king's command and the innermost desires of their hearts, Edward and Percy are set on path that is anything but easy. Can Percy trust Edward with his heart as he does his body? Can Edward keep an angry king and unseen enemies away from the young slave who is steadily stealing his heart? And what happens when Nature takes its course, and sex leads to more than just pleasure? A 50k+ word novella, 160 pages, book one in a series. 18+ adult readers, contains sexual situations of male/male sex. Lots of sex. Collaring, master/slave. *Updated and Revised*", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25398790-the-prince-s-consort"}, +{"book_title": "Commodore Farmer", "author_name": "Gene N. McMurtry", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 4, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "The largest wormhole ever discovered, a new undeveloped galaxy brimming with immense resources, an unexpected marriage, royal intrigue, and hostile totalitarian forces shadow the exclusive path to new worlds. The story features a twisting plot, powerful scheming enemies, and huge rewards for success.Two worlds, Spotsylvania and Tsinndorf, fighting for control of a mineral-rich third, Ra.The royal couple must fight to survive, keep their family together, and their trio of stars from collapsing into war and anarchy as the solar systems fight over their child who is an heir to both thrones.One man holds the key to his survival and the future of the galaxy. The Federation is urgently seeking him. His powerful enemies want him dead because he is the key to saving the rest of the galaxy from all out war. An unfathomable reward awaits \u2014 if he succeeds.Join Commodore Farmer and his meager forces on this complex and dangerous mission.115,000 words (equivalent to 431 pages in mass market paperback form)", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9558608-commodore-farmer"}, +{"book_title": "Green Mars", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 33471, "review_number": 985, "book_description": "In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun. The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planet's hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars. They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, rivalries, and friendships explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77505.Green_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "New Blood", "author_name": "Gail Dayton", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 437, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "In 1636, the last blood sorceress was burned at the stake. More than two hundred years later, her blood servant Jax has found her successor. Amanusa at first turns down the opportunity to learn what she perceives as an evil art. But she craves justice, and innocent blood cries out for justice.When Amanusa looses magic on those who\u2019ve harmed her, she must flee for her life across a devastated Europe with Jax, who is inescapably bound to her by blood and magic. Their journey takes them through zones where everything\u2014including magic\u2014has died, zones populated with strange creatures cobbled together of things left behind by the dead.Needing each other for their very survival, Amanusa and Jax grow ever closer on their journey to discover answers \u2013 about magic, blood sorcery, the dead zones, and even love.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5151422-new-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Heroes for Ghosts", "author_name": "Jackie North", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 306, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "Soulmates across time. A sacrifice that could keep them apart forever. In present day, near the village of Ornes, France, Devon works on his master's thesis in history as he fantasizes\u00a0about meeting a WWI American Doughboy. In 1916, during the Battle of Ornes, Stanley is a young soldier facing the horrors of the battlefield. Mourning the death of his friends from enemy fire, Stanley\u00a0volunteers to bring the message for retreat so he can save everyone\u00a0else in his battalion. While on his mission, mustard gas surrounds Stanley and though he thinks he is dying, he finds himself in a\u00a0peaceful green meadow where he literally trips over Devon. Devon doesn't believe Stanley is who he says\u00a0he is, a soldier from WWI. But a powerful attraction grows\u00a0between them, and if Stanley is truly a visitor from the past,\u00a0then he is Devon's dream come true. The problem is, Stanley's soul wants to finish his mission, and time\u00a0keeps yanking him back to relive his fateful last morning\u00a0over and over, even as his heart and body long to stay with Devon. Will Stanley have to choose between Devon and saving his battalion? Will time betray their love, leaving each alone? A male/male time travel romance, complete with hurt/comfort, French coffee,\u00a0warm blankets, fireplace kisses, the angst of separation, and true\u00a0love across time.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "War (Military Fiction)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40531011-heroes-for-ghosts"}, +{"book_title": "The End of Mr. Y", "author_name": "Scarlett Thomas", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 15481, "review_number": 1680, "book_description": "A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists--especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between. Seeking answers, Ariel follows in Mr. Y\u2019s footsteps: She swallows a tincture, stares into a black dot, and is transported into the Troposphere--a wonderland where she can travel through time and space using the thoughts of others. There she begins to understand all the mysteries surrounding the book, herself, and the universe. Or is it all just a hallucination?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Magical Realism", "Philosophy", "Contemporary", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93436.The_End_of_Mr_Y"}, +{"book_title": "A Song Called Youth", "author_name": "John Shirley", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 188, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "In a near-future dystopia, a limited nuclear strike has destroyed portions of Europe, bringing the remaining nation-cities under control of the Second Alliance, a frighteningly fundamentalist international security corporation with designs on world domination. The only defense against the Alliance's creeping totalitarianism is the New Resistance, a polyglot team of rebels that includes Rick Rickenharp, a retro-rocker whose artistic and political sensibilities intertwine, and John Swenson, a mole who has infiltrated the Alliance. As the fight continues and years progress, so does the technology and brutality of the Alliance... but ordinary people like the damaged visionary Smoke, Claire Rimpler on FirStep, and Dance Torrence and his fellow urban warriors on Earth are bound together by the truth and a single purpose: to keep the darkness from becoming humankind's Total Eclipse - or die trying John Shirley was cyberpunk's patient zero, first locus of the virus, certifiably virulent.\"-William Gibson. An omnibus of all three novels-revised by the author-of the prophetic, still frighteningly relevant cyberpunk masterpieces: Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona. With an introduction by Richard Kadrey and biographical note by Bruce Sterling.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13368363-a-song-called-youth"}, +{"book_title": "Raft People", "author_name": "M.L. Katz", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "What do you do if the sea waters are rising but your escape routes are blocked? Ride along with ordinary people as they try to survive global flooding when the highways are jammed because of refugees and the authorities are overwhelmed. At the time of the Big Flood, Liz Green is a troubled teen, living with her single mother and two brothers. Lucky for them, their neighbors include a retired female Special Forces naval operative and an eighty year old navel engineer. Learn how ordinary people become \"Raft People\" in order to survive global catastrophe.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15999471-raft-people"}, +{"book_title": "Time and Again", "author_name": "Jack Finney", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 19060, "review_number": 2317, "book_description": "One of the most beloved tales of our time!Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in Jack Finney's spellbinding story of a young man enlisted in a secret government experiment.Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable \"Ladies' Mile\" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery by discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past.A story that will remain in the listener's memory, Time and Again is a remarkable blending of the troubled present and a nostalgic past, made vivid and extraordinarily moving by the images of a time that was ... and perhaps still is.", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Historical", "New York", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40526.Time_and_Again"}, +{"book_title": "Driven", "author_name": "Eve Kenin", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1910, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "In the harsh Northern Waste where human life is worth little, ice trucker Raina Bowen has learned to keep her eyes open and her knife close at hand. She's spent her life on the run, one step ahead of the megalomaniac who hunts her. All she wants is to stay out of trouble and haul her load of grain to Gladow Station--but trouble finds her in the form of a sexy stranger called Wizard. He has the trucking pass she needs, and she has to drag him out of a brawl with the very people she's trying to hide from in order to get it. She may have rescued him, but Raina's not foolish enough to see Wizard as anything close to helpless. He's hard and honed and full of secrets--secrets that may destroy them both. As they race across the Waste, trying to outrun rival truckers, ice pirates, and the powerful man bent on their destruction, Raina's forced to admit that trouble's found her. And this time, there's nowhere left to run.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1814961.Driven"}, +{"book_title": "The Breeding Experiment", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1304, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Darla Mitts has been secretly protecting her younger sister, Becky, for years. She\u2019ll do anything to continue, even if it means leaving their family to work on a United Earth fleet ship. She thinks they\u2019ll be safe. She\u2019s quickly proven wrong when the sisters\u2019 transport shuttle is seized by aliens instead. Aliens who want to force an experimental breeding between humans and the muscular Veslor who was also captured.Gnaw has no intention of touching the human female from the shuttle, no matter how attractive he finds her. But Darla is determined to keep her sister safe by any means necessary, and refuses to take no for an answer. Captured and threatened by the Elth, they agree to work together as a team.What they didn\u2019t expect was starting to feel things for each other.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54171277-the-breeding-experiment"}, +{"book_title": "Timeswept Lovers", "author_name": "Constance O'Day-Flannery", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 237, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "DERAILED PASSIONAs a corporate executive in her family-owned railroad company, Jenna Weldon was always on the go. So when she had the opportunity to take a cross-country train ride as part of a promotional gimmick, she gloried in the idea of such old-fashioned luxurious travel. She even found the costumed actors in the parlor car amusing, for they were dressed in clothing from the last century. But all too quickly, Jenna realized that the joke was on her . . . somewhere along the line she had fallen backward in time --- and into the arms of the original Marlboro man! IRON HOT ECSTASYMorgan Trahern had never seen such astonishing beauty before in his life. Although he didn't understand a word the blonde-haired vixen was saying, he knew he wanted to silence her with a kiss. Everything about her was sensual --- from her sparkling blue eyes to her soft creamy flesh --- and he longed to teach her the endless ways of love. Nothing would compare to the passion-filled night he planned when he'd capture her heart, make her his own --- and unite their souls as TIMESWEPT LOVERS", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184665.Timeswept_Lovers"}, +{"book_title": "Another World", "author_name": "Samuel Best", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 650, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Leaving Earth is the easy part. Surviving the trip to a nearby spiral arm of our own galaxy is a journey like no other.Merritt Alder is done with Earth. The planet is polluted and overpopulated, and its people are hungry.Earth\u2019s first colony, Galena, is a pioneer world 10,000 light years away. It has clean air, unpolluted water, and continents of arable land.For Merritt, the journey is only the beginning. Obstacles arise every step of the way, forcing compromise and sacrifice. And not everyone on the ship is pure of heart.The bonds he forges on the journey will be the key to surviving on another world \u2014 a world anyone has yet to fully explore.A world with secrets of its own.Another World is a bold new entry in the realm of planet colonization and pioneer science fiction, an odyssey across our own galaxy to start a new life on Earth\u2019s first colony.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48728503-another-world"}, +{"book_title": "Eternity", "author_name": "Matt Kindt", "rating_score": 3.21, "rating_votes": 160, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Beyond time... Beyond space... Beyond reality itself... ETERNITY awaits! Following in the sold-out, critically acclaimed footsteps of DIVINITY, DIVINITY II, and DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE, two of Valiant's most formidable creative minds unveil a new plane of existence beyond our own and unleash a universe of new worlds, new beings, and new myths...Journey to a realm that defies all description and enter an eons-old universe of gods and heroes in this visionary new adventure from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (X-O MANOWAR, Mind MGMT) and blockbuster artist Trevor Hairsine (DIVINITY, X-Men: Deadly Genesis)! Collecting ETERNITY #1-4.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37419720-eternity"}, +{"book_title": "The Nano Flower", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 5078, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "Peter F. Hamilton is one the rising stars of science fiction in the nineties. His epic space adventure, The Reality Dysfunction, was a major international bestseller, while his near future thrillers, Mindstar Rising and A Quantum Murder, introduced an intriguing new hero in the character of Greg Mandel, a freelance operative whose telepathic abilities give him a crucial edge in the high tech world of the twenty-first century. Now Mandel returns in a spectacular new adventure that blows open the possibilities of the next century.Julia Evans: billionaire, owner of Event Horizon, for fifteen years undisputed power behind the world's economic renaissance. And in trouble.With her computer-genius husband missing and rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth, Julia has no time to notice an anonymously delivered flower. But this flower has genes millions of years in advance of terrestrial DNA.Is it a cryptic alien message or a poignant farewell from her husband?Only Greg Mandel can discover its origin, but he is not alone in his desperate search. A vicious mercenary killer, a jade merchant, and a high-priced courtesan all have a part to play.It was never going to be easy, but as Greg and Julia discover, simply being first in the race isn't nearly good enough as the Nano Flower starts to bloom....", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45256.The_Nano_Flower"}, +{"book_title": "The Way We Fall", "author_name": "Megan Crewe", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 7706, "review_number": 1074, "book_description": "It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they\u2019re old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in. And then you're dead.When sixteen-year-old Kaelyn lets her best friend leave for school without saying goodbye, she never dreams that she might not see him again. But then a strange virus begins to sweep through her small island community, infecting young and old alike. As the dead pile up, the government quarantines the island: no one can leave, and no one can come back.Those still healthy must fight for the island\u2019s dwindling supplies, or lose all chance of survival. As everything familiar comes crashing down, Kaelyn joins forces with a former rival and discovers a new love in the midst of heartbreak. When the virus starts to rob her of friends and family, she clings to the belief that there must be a way to save the people she holds dearest.Because how will she go on if there isn't?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8573632-the-way-we-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Step Back In Time", "author_name": "Ali McNamara", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1852, "review_number": 276, "book_description": "How many lifetimes would you travel to find a love that lasts for ever?When single career girl Jo-Jo steps onto a zebra crossing and gets hit by a car, she awakes to find herself in 1964. The fashion, the music, her job, even her romantic life: everything is different. And then it happens three more times, and Jo-Jo finds herself living a completely new life in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The only people she can rely on are Harry and Ellie, two companions from 2013, and George, the owner of a second-hand record store.If she's ever to return from her travels, Jo-Jo must work out why she's jumping through time like this. And if she does make it back, will her old life ever be the same again?Step back in time with this fabulously fun and feed-good comedy of time travel and romance, from the author of From Notting Hill with Love . . . Actually", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Adult Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17793097-step-back-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Explosionist", "author_name": "Jenny Davidson", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 699, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "The Explosionist (formerly known as Dynamite No. 1) is the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s Edinburgh. There, the legacy of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at Waterloo is a standoff between a totalitarian Federation of European States and a group of independent northern countries called the New Hanseatic League. This world is preoccupied with technology (everything from electric cookers to high explosives) but also with spiritualism, a movement our world largely abandoned in the early 20th Century; Sigmund Freud is a radio talk-show crank, cars run on hydrogen and the most prominent scientists experiment with new ways of contacting the dead.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2157324.The_Explosionist"}, +{"book_title": "The Forgotten Planet", "author_name": "Murray Leinster", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 337, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Cover artist: Lima de FreitasThe story of an experiment gone wrong--a planet seeded with primitive bacterial, plant, and insect life forms, then forgotten until a spaceship crash-lands, stranding its crew. The crew must fight to survive in a savage nightmare world. From the Hugo Award-winning author, Murray Leinster.", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2373578.The_Forgotten_Planet"}, +{"book_title": "Prized", "author_name": "Caragh M. O'Brien", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 23084, "review_number": 1813, "book_description": "Striking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives, only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a crime. In order to see her sister again, Gaia must submit to their strict social code and the oppressive rules of Matrarc Olivia. Meanwhile, two brothers claim her attention as they attempt to understand the environmental trap that keeps the people of Sylum captive, and suddenly Gaia must contend with the exciting, uncomfortable, and altogether new feeling of being desired.But when someone from her past shows up, Gaia discovers that survival alone is not enough and that justice requires sacrifice.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9424367-prized"}, +{"book_title": "Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Shattered Empire", "author_name": "Greg Rucka", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 5499, "review_number": 557, "book_description": "Journey with us into the time after the end of Star Wars: Episode IV Return of the Jedi! Writer Greg Rucka and artist Marco Checchetto take us past the destruction of the second Death Star--and into the chaos of a shattered Empire. Everything you need to know is right here! COLLECTING: SHATTERED EMPIRE #1-4, PRINCESS LEIA #1 and STAR WARS (1977) #1", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25113095-journey-to-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Six's Legacy", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 16255, "review_number": 582, "book_description": "Number Six\u2014when John meets her in I Am Number Four she\u2019s strong, powerful, and ready to fight. But who is she? Where has she been living? How has she been training? When did she develop her legacies? And how does she know so much about the Mogadorians?In I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Six\u2019s Legacy, discover the story behind Six. Before Paradise, Ohio, before John Smith, Six was traveling through West Texas with her c\u00eapan, Katarina. What happened there would change Six forever\u0085.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Novella", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11237412-six-s-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "In The Afterlight", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 49190, "review_number": 5306, "book_description": "Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds. They are armed only with a volatile secret: proof of a government conspiracy to cover up the real cause of IAAN, the disease that has killed most of America's children and left Ruby and others like her with powers the government will kill to keep contained. But internal strife may destroy their only chance to free the \"rehabilitation camps\" housing thousands of other Psi kids.Meanwhile, reunited with Liam, the boy she would-and did-sacrifice everything for to keep alive, Ruby must face the painful repercussions of having tampered with his memories of her. She turns to Cole, his older brother, to provide the intense training she knows she will need to take down Gray and the government. But Cole has demons of his own, and one fatal mistake may be the spark that sets the world on fire.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16150831-in-the-afterlight"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Winter", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 378, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "It is 1315. And darkness is falling . . .Many generations ago the Wall was first built to hold back the sea. Northland, a country of fertile plains and ancient forests rescued from the ocean, has become a thriving civilisation based on trade, technology and tradition, centred on the ancient home of the first builders, Etxelur. The whole of Europe, spanned by the Northlanders' steam caravan lines, has been changed in ways that could never have been predicted.But nothing can last forever, not even the Wall. The weather is changing, growing colder, and in the wake of the long winters come famine, destruction and terror. And as whole nations are forced out of their lands and head for warmer climes, it seems that even Northland may not be able to endure.But there is one man, an elderly scholar, who believes he can calculate why the world is cooling, and perhaps even salvage some scraps of the great civilisation of Etxelur. As he embarks on his grand quest across the world, as nations struggle for survival and the fires of war burn in the gloom, only one thing is certain.The Ice is coming.Stephen Baxter's epic series of a changed world reaches its chilling conclusion as the medieval world fights for survival in the cold of a winter without end.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Epic", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15828931-iron-winter"}, +{"book_title": "Null States", "author_name": "Malka Ann Older", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1302, "review_number": 211, "book_description": "The future of democracy is about to implode.After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order.In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches plans to bring microdemocracy to its knees. In Central Asia, a sprawling war among archaic states threatens to explode into a global crisis. And across the world, a shadowy plot is growing, threatening to strangle Information with the reins of power.\"", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31189192-null-states"}, +{"book_title": "Tumble & Fall", "author_name": "Alexandra Coutts", "rating_score": 2.96, "rating_votes": 1174, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "\nA novel about the end of days full of surprising beginnings\n\u00a0The world is living in the shadow of oncoming disaster. An asteroid is set to strike the earth in just one week\u2019s time; catastrophe is unavoidable. The question isn\u2019t how to save the world\u2014the question is, what to do with the time that's left? Against this stark backdrop, three island teens wrestle with intertwining stories of love, friendship and family\u2014all with the ultimate stakes at hand.\u00a0\u00a0Alexandra Coutts's TUMBLE\u00a0& FALL is a powerful story of courage, love, and hope at the end of the world.\u00a0", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332270-tumble-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Time Siege", "author_name": "Wesley Chu", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1374, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "Having been haunted by the past and enslaved by the present, James Griffin-Mars is taking control of the future.Earth is a toxic, sparsely inhabited wasteland\u00ad\u00adthe perfect hiding place for a fugitive ex\u00adchronman to hide from the authorities.James has allies, scientists he rescued from previous centuries: Elise Kim, who believes she can renew Earth, given time; Grace Priestly, the venerated inventor of time travel herself; Levin, James's mentor and former pursuer, now disgraced; and the Elfreth, a population of downtrodden humans who want desperately to believe that James and his friends will heal their ailing home world.James also has enemies. They include the full military might of benighted solar system ruled by corporate greed and a desperate fear of what James will do next. At the forefront of their efforts to stop him is Kuo, the ruthless security head, who wants James's head on a pike and will stop at nothing to obtain it.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26028483-time-siege"}, +{"book_title": "Eight's Origin", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3258, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "\n [image]\n", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15843845-eight-s-origin"}, +{"book_title": "Stung", "author_name": "Bethany Wiggins", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 10374, "review_number": 1422, "book_description": "There is no cure for being stung.Fiona doesn\u2019t remember going to sleep. But when she awakens, her world no longer exists. Her house is abandoned and broken. Her neighborhood is barren and dead. And there is a tattoo on her right hand. A tattoo Fiona doesn\u2019t remember getting\u2026but somehow she must conceal at any cost. Because humanity has been divided.Those bearing the tattoo have turned into mindless, violent beasts that roam the streets and sewers, preying upon the unbranded, while a select few live protected inside a fortresslike wall, their lives devoted to rebuilding society and killing all who bear the mark.And Fiona has awoken branded, on the wrong side of the wall, and\u2026normal.From the author of Shifting comes this remarkable reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where the sting of a bee, rather than the prick of a needle, can destroy the world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13517444-stung"}, +{"book_title": "Lips Like Ice", "author_name": "Peggy Barnett", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 419, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "He calls himself the Prince. He is humanoid but not human--fascinating, sensual, at the cusp of maturity, and accustomed to getting what he wants. And Lydia has awoken in his world to find that she has been given to him--as a pet, a plaything, and, if he so desires, a lover.As Lydia comes to realize that the Prince is as much a prisoner to his culture's ways as she is, her resentment slowly unfurls into pity, understanding, curiosity, and a deep, unpredictable, consuming lust. She wants him too, on her own terms. But in a world fraught with hidden dangers, her terms are not open for discussion, not when their thirst for one another could doom them both. In a court where monarchs are obeyed and sexual hierarchies are strict, one wrong move could end the Prince for ever... and what would happen to Lydia then?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Dark", "Adult", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24953627-lips-like-ice"}, +{"book_title": "1945", "author_name": "Newt Gingrich", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 459, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "1945 takes as its departure point from actual history the idea that the US did not fight against Germany after Pearl Harbour. The authors have created a whole new course of history, starting in 1945 with Nazi Germany controlling all Europe except Britain. The hero must foil a Nazi plan.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "War (World War II)", "Literature (20th Century)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526342.1945"}, +{"book_title": "The Curve of the Earth", "author_name": "Simon Morden", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 689, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Welcome to the Metrozone -- post-apocalyptic London of the Future, full of homeless refugees, street gangs, crooked cops and mad cults. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9 with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, selfish, cocky and might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had. Armed with a genius-level intellect, extensive cybernetic replacements, a built-in AI with god-like capabilities and a plethora of Russian swearwords -- he's saved this city from ruin more than once. He's also made a few enemies in the process -- Reconstruction America being one of them. So when his adopted daughter Lucy goes missing, he's got a clue who's responsible. And there's no way he can let them get away with it.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790890-the-curve-of-the-earth"}, +{"book_title": "The Gates of Byzantium", "author_name": "Sam Sisavath", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 2390, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Man is no longer at the top of the food chain. The Purge has devastated the globe, turning much of humanity into night-dwelling, bloodthirsty creatures (dubbed \u201cghouls\u201d by the survivors), while small pockets of remaining humans have managed to carry on. With the loss of their sanctuary, Will and his small band of survivors are forced to seek shelter elsewhere. Following the call of a mysterious radio broadcast, they make the treacherous journey to Louisiana, where an island might hold the key to survival. Along the way they meet new survivors, clash with new enemies, and renew old acquaintances that have been forever altered. Collaborators\u2014humans working with the ghouls\u2014are more dangerous than ever, and the ghouls have begun a new phase of their domination. Will learns that a larger war between survivors and ghouls is raging in the rest of the country, but before he can join the fight, he must first ensure the continued survival of his group at all costs. Where The Purge ends, the Gates beckon\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20694303-the-gates-of-byzantium"}, +{"book_title": "Bloodlines", "author_name": "Andrea Speed", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 1111, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds.The newly married Roan is struggling to balance his work with his home life as he grows increasingly distracted by his husband Paris's declining health. One case with strong emotions attached takes up most of his time: finding the murderer of a missing little rich girl. It's a family with secrets so toxic they'd rather no one investigate, and there's no shortage of suspects. But despite the dangers and obstructions involved, Roan won't stop... until he loses something infinitely precious as well.1st Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, December 2010", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23420503-bloodlines"}, +{"book_title": "Timebound", "author_name": "Rysa Walker", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 27334, "review_number": 2567, "book_description": "When Kate Pierce-Keller\u2019s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate\u2019s present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence.Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and Kate\u2019s genetic ability to time-travel makes her the only one who can stop him. Risking everything, she travels to the Chicago World\u2019s Fair to try to prevent the killing and the chain of events that follows.Changing the timeline comes with a personal cost, however\u2014if Kate succeeds, the boy she loves will have no memory of her existence. And regardless of her motives, does she have the right to manipulate the fate of the entire world?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18108877-timebound"}, +{"book_title": "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", "author_name": "Harlan Ellison", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 19210, "review_number": 1236, "book_description": "First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won't call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original.CONTENT\"I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream\"\"Big Sam Was My Friend\"\"Eyes of Dust\"\"World of the Myth\"\"Lonelyache\"\"Delusion for Dragonslayer\"\"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes\"", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415459.I_Have_No_Mouth_and_I_Must_Scream"}, +{"book_title": "Columbus Day", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 15210, "review_number": 1114, "book_description": "We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar, wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria, to fighting in space. It was lies, all of it. We shouldn't even be fighting the Ruhar, they aren't our enemy, our allies are. I'd better start at the beginning....Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28525188-columbus-day"}, +{"book_title": "Phoenix", "author_name": "Elizabeth Richards", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 4092, "review_number": 417, "book_description": "Ash and Natalie are just starting to build a life together when things in the United Sentry States go from bad to worse. Ash and Natalie find themselves at the center of turmoil when dictator Purian Rose threatens Natalie\u2019s life unless Ash votes in favor of Rose\u2019s Law\u2014a law that will send Darklings and other dissenters to a deadly concentration camp known as the Tenth.When Ash can\u2019t bring himself to trade Natalie\u2019s life for those of millions of Darklings, her fate is sealed. Enter Elijah Theroux, the handsome Bastet boy Natalie once saved from her mother\u2019s labs, where he\u2019d been experimented on and tortured. It was his venom the Sentry used to create the lethal Golden Haze, the heart of the government conspiracy that led to Black City\u2019s uprising and Ash\u2019s rebirth as the Phoenix, the face of the rebellion. Elijah is back and Ash doesn\u2019t like him; it\u2019s clear he\u2019s taken with Natalie, and Ash fears she may have feelings for him as well.But Elijah also may have the answer to taking down Purian Rose for good\u2014a powerful weapon called the Ora. Ash, Natalie and Elijah just have to escape Black City undetected to find it. But fleeing the city and finding this weapon (if it even exists) are easier said than done, and the quest could tear Ash and Natalie apart, even pushing them into the arms of others.This enthralling sequel to Black City is just as absorbing, delicious and steamy as the first book, leaving readers hungry for the series conclusion.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16148491-phoenix"}, +{"book_title": "Wings of Equity", "author_name": "Sean Kennedy", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 208, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The truth is that those who make a difference usually get martyred. What good are you dead?Ezra Kneebone is most at home in the skies, piloting his airship with his best friend Jazz, even if it doesn\u2019t quite pay the bills or warm Ezra\u2019s empty bed. Those same skies are also the territory of a man known as Icarus, who uses his metal wings to steal from the rich and feed the poor. Icarus and Ezra could be soul mates but for one thing: Icarus has a bounty on his head, and Ezra is desperate for money.Against the wishes of Jazz and her partner, the formidable Lady Bart, Ezra is determined to get his man... in more ways than one. But when Icarus saves Ezra\u2019s life, Ezra realizes he would be betraying a hero\u2014and his heart\u2014if he turned Icarus in. Unfortunately, the bounty is tempting more than one hunter, and Ezra will find that loving a fugitive may mean becoming one too.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adventure", "LGBT", "Action", "M M Romance (M M Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8489152-wings-of-equity"}, +{"book_title": "Through the Darkness", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 851, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "A young Kaunian girl is forced to remain hidden while her Forthwegian savior braves the rough, Algarvian-controlled streets to earn their keep. The scholars of Kuusamo are no closer to understanding the bloodless magic that may win the war-and time is short. Kuusamo has joined into an unsteady alliance with Lagoas and Unkerlant. No one kingdom trusts another, but they must unite, for it is only together that they can defeat the Algarvian threat.The war is no longer confined to soldiers and sorcerers. Common folk are joining together to fight from underneath their oppressors, whether they be Algarve or Unkerlant. What those farmer soldiers lack in skill, they make up for in dedication. A dedication that will carry them . . . through the darkness.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101571.Through_the_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass", "author_name": "Lewis Carroll", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 472113, "review_number": 10945, "book_description": "\"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,\" said Alice, \"Because I'm not myself, you see.\"When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket she decides to follow it, and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. This mini book contains the entire topsy-turvy stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, accompanied by practical notes and Martina Pelouso's memorable full-colour illustrations.", "year_published": 1871, "genres": ["Classics", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Literature", "Adventure", "Novels", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24213.Alice_s_Adventures_in_Wonderland_Through_the_Looking_Glass"}, +{"book_title": "No Easy Hope", "author_name": "James N. Cook", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 2763, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "My name is Eric Riordan. Once, I was a wealthy man leading a comfortable, easy life. Then my old friend Gabriel told me how the world would end. Gabriel tried to help me. He taught me everything he learned as a Scout Sniper in the Marine Corps. All the hard lessons from years spent in the sand choked battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. I did everything I could to prepare. I thought I was ready.I was wrong.When the Outbreak came, it destroyed everything. The dead rose to consume the living, and all that mankind spent so many millennia working to build was laid to waste in a matter of months. The undead spared no one, leaving only ashes and death in their wake.For those of us still alive, every single day is a struggle. In spite of the danger, and the darkness, I still believe there is a chance that the human race can rebuild. If I can make my way North and enlist Gabriel's help, maybe we can find enough people to start over again. It won't be easy, though. I have to make my way across the ruins of the old world, and along the way my will to live, my humanity, and my very soul will be tested.I have food, I have a pickup truck, and I have my trusty rifle. Most importantly, I have hope. Hope is a powerful thing, but I will need much more than that if I am to survive the dead.This is the beginning. This is my story.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Business (Amazon)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13130990-no-easy-hope"}, +{"book_title": "The Courier", "author_name": "Gerald Brandt", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 416, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "A far-future science fiction debut set in San Francisco\u2014action adventure with a cyberpunk tone.Kris Ballard is a motorcycle courier. A nobody. Level 2 trash in a multi-level city that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border, where corporations make all the rules. A runaway since the age of 14, Kris struggled to set up her life, barely scraping by, working hard to make it without anyone\u2019s help. Witnessing the murder of one of her clients changes everything. Now she\u2019s stuck with a mysterious package that everyone seems to want.Now the corporations want Kris gone, and are willing to go to almost any length to make it happen. Hunted, scared, and alone, she retreats to the only place she knows she can hide: the Level 1 streets. Running from people that seem to know her every move, she is rescued by Miller\u2014a member of an underground resistance group\u2014only to be pulled deeper into a world she doesn\u2019t understand. They work together to stay ahead of the corporate killers, until Miller falls into their hands. Kris realizes being alone isn\u2019t the answer, and she\u2019s willing to do anything to get him back.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Thriller", "Futuristic", "Action", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25734219-the-courier"}, +{"book_title": "The Electric State", "author_name": "Simon St\u00e5lenhag", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 3056, "review_number": 553, "book_description": "In 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA. The ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, heaped together with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline. As their car approaches the edge of the continent, the world outside the window seems to be unraveling ever faster\u2014as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.Simon St\u00e5lenhag is the internationally acclaimed author, concept designer, and artist behind Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood. His highly imaginative images and stories depicting illusive sci-fi phenomena in mundane, hyper-realistic Scandinavian landscapes have made St\u00e5lenhag one of the most sought-after visual storytellers in the world. In The Electric State, St\u00e5lenhag turns his unique vision to America.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Art", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36836025-the-electric-state"}, +{"book_title": "The Gender Lie", "author_name": "Bella Forrest", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 15235, "review_number": 650, "book_description": "\n\n\"I'd want you to help me win a war...\"\n\n\nAfter discovering the shocking secret buried deep within The Green, Violet has a grave decision to make. Trust the woman who saved her, or not?\n\nSo far, everything about the woman has taken Violet by surprise. Her behavior has been honest and upfront - a refreshing change for Violet. Besides, with one of her loved ones hanging on life support, and the other close to falling completely out of reach, Violet doesn't exactly have a lot of choice. \u00a0\n\nHer only way forward is to embark on a dicey excursion. For this, she knows she needs the Liberators' help - and must be prepared to take whatever risks that comes with.\u00a0\n\nBut what neither she, nor any of her new Liberator comrades can prepare for, is just how deep the lies of their homelands run...\n\nContinue Violet and Viggo's journey in the EXPLOSIVE third book of the bestselling The Gender Game series.\n\n\n\n\n\nPre-order now! \n\n", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33020939-the-gender-lie"}, +{"book_title": "Without Mercy", "author_name": "Eric Thomson", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 242, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "What is the value of one life in an interstellar war that has already claimed millions? And if that single life doesn't matter, are any others worth saving?A distress signal draws Siobhan Dunmoore's Q-ship Iolanthe, a battlecruiser disguised as a bulk freighter, away from her devastatingly successful hunt through Shrehari occupied space and plunges Dunmoore into a dark, merciless universe of competing government organizations, undercover warfare, and organized crime on a galactic scale. Along the way, she crosses paths with an old foe and an uncertain ally as she and her crew race against time and determined opposition to rescue innocent civilians condemned merely because they were in the wrong place at the wrong moment. Powerful forces within the Commonwealth would call a handful of lives collateral damage in humanity's existential struggle against the Shrehari Empire. But Dunmoore won't accept that they aren't worth saving even if it puts her at cross-purposes with her new commanding officer and the Commonwealth's fearsome security bureau. After all, her oath to serve and defend has no limitations and no expiry date. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42182449-without-mercy"}, +{"book_title": "Anvil of Stars", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 6139, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "The ship of law was made of the fragments of Earth's corpse, a world in itself, cruising massively close to the speed of light, hundreds of years from the dust and rubble of home......", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464609.Anvil_of_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Geomancer", "author_name": "Clay Griffith", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 250, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "The uneasy stalemate between vampires and humans is over. Adele and Gareth are bringing order to a free Britain, but bloody murders in London raise the specter that Adele's geomancy is failing and the vampires might return. A new power could tilt the balance back to the vampire clans. A deranged human called the Witchfinder has surfaced on the Continent, serving new vampire lords. This geomancer has found a way to make vampires immune to geomancy and intends to give his masters the ability to kill humans on a massive scale.The apocalyptic event in Edinburgh weakened Adele's geomantic abilities. If the Witchfinder can use geomancy against humanity, she may not have the power to stop him. If she can't, there is nowhere beyond his reach and no one he cannot kill.From a Britain struggling to rebuild to the vampire capital of Paris, from the heart of the Equatorian Empire to a vampire monastery in far-away Tibet, old friends and past enemies return. Unexpected allies and terrible new villains arise. Adele and Gareth fight side-by-side as always, but they can never be the same if they hope to survive.From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25278490-the-geomancer"}, +{"book_title": "The Prince", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 656, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The bestselling saga of Falkenberg's legion, complete in one huge volume, this contains stories that were originally published in four parts as \"Falkenberg's Legion, Prince of Mercenaries, Go Tell the Spartans\" and \"Prince of Sparta.\"", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/899391.The_Prince"}, +{"book_title": "Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots", "author_name": "John Markoff", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 536, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Robots are poised to transform today's society as completely as the Internet did twenty years ago. Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff argues that we must decide to design ourselves into our future, or risk being excluded from it altogether.In the past decade, Google introduced us to driverless cars; Apple debuted Siri, a personal assistant that we keep in our pockets; and an Internet of Things connected the smaller tasks of everyday life to the farthest reaches of the Web. Robots have become an integral part of society on the battlefield and the road; in business, education, and health care. Cheap sensors and powerful computers will ensure that in the coming years, these robots will act on their own. This new era offers the promise of immensely powerful machines, but it also reframes a question first raised more than half a century ago, when the intelligent machine was born. Will we control these systems, or will they control us?In Machines of Loving Grace, John Markoff offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers. In recent years, the pace of technological change has accelerated dramatically, posing an ethical quandary. If humans delegate decisions to machines, who will be responsible for the consequences? As Markoff chronicles the history of automation, from the birth of the artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation communities in the 1950s and 1960s, to the modern-day brain trusts at Google and Apple in Silicon Valley, and on to the expanding robotics economy around Boston, he traces the different ways developers have addressed this fundamental problem and urges them to carefully consider the consequences of their work. We are on the brink of the next stage of the computer revolution, Markoff argues, and robots will profoundly transform modern life. Yet it remains for us to determine whether this new world will be a utopia. Moreover, it is now incumbent upon the designers of these robots to draw a bright line between what is human and what is machine.After nearly forty years covering the tech industry, Markoff offers an unmatched perspective on the most drastic technology-driven societal shifts since the introduction of the Internet. Machines of Loving Grace draws on an extensive array of research and interviews to present an eye-opening history of one of the most pressing questions of our time, and urges us to remember that we still have the opportunity to design ourselves into the future\u2014before it's too late.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Business", "History", "Philosophy", "Science (Computer Science)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Psychology"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23460922-machines-of-loving-grace"}, +{"book_title": "River of Bones", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 739, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "The crew of a WWII destroyer face their greatest challenge yet as they try to survive in a strange new world in the next thrilling book in the New York Times bestselling series.Commander Matt Reddy and his crew are afraid it may finally be the end of the USS Walker. Ever since their ship was transported to another world, and they became embroiled in a deadly conflict between the Lemurians and the vicious Grik, the Walker has been taking a pounding. With Walker out of commission for repairs, Reddy takes command of a different ship and joins a desperate battle to block the Grik swarm.Meanwhile, the humans and their allies face a deadly second front in the Republic to the south. All of Reddy's forces are committed, and there's no turning back. Either they'll win--or lose--everything . . .", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Action", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36457620-river-of-bones"}, +{"book_title": "Gated", "author_name": "Amy Christine Parker", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 3695, "review_number": 607, "book_description": "A fast-paced, nerve-fraying contemporary thriller that questions loyalties and twists truths. Appearances can be deceiving. In the Community, life seems perfect. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Pioneer invited Lyla\u2019s family to join his group and escape the evil in the world. They were happy to be chosen, happy to move away from New York and start over in such an idyllic gated community. Now seventeen, Lyla knows that Pioneer is more than just their charismatic leader, he is their prophet . . . but his visions have grown dark. Lyla is a loyal member of the Community, but a chance encounter with an outsider boy has her questioning Pioneer, the Community\u2014everything. And if there\u2019s one thing not allowed in the Community, it\u2019s doubt. Her family and friends are certain in their belief. Lyla wishes she could feel the same. As Pioneer begins to manipulate his flock toward disaster, the question remains: Will Lyla follow them over the edge? From the outside looking in, it\u2019s hard to understand why anyone would join a cult. But Gated tells the story of the Community from the inside looking out, and from behind the gates things are not quite so simple. Amy Christine Parker\u2019s beautiful writing creates a chilling, utterly unique YA story. Perfect for fans of creepy thrillers and contemporary fiction alike.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Religion (Cults)", "Realistic Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15752340-gated"}, +{"book_title": "Stardust of Yesterday", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3950, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "Dreaming of her wonderful castle, she imagined that it contained a handsome, brave knight\u2014Suddenly, her eyes flew open. She scrambled over her chair, looking with alarm at what was quivering in front of her, only an inch away from where her toes had dangled off the edge\u2026It was a sword.\u201cI\u2019ll not miss my mark a second time.\u201d A deep voice grated from behind her.She whirled around.It was her knight.It was also her ghost.Genevieve Buchanan inherited a castle\u2014and a ghost to go along with it. But Kendrick de Piaget was no typical ghost. He was a handsome and infuriatingly arrogant thirteenth-century knight. At first he wanted to frighten Genevieve, though she was more charmed than scared by his ghostly tricks. But when his thoughts turned to wooing her instead, Genevieve had to face her greatest fear: falling in love.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17054.Stardust_of_Yesterday"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Necromancer", "author_name": "C.J. Archer", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 8311, "review_number": 711, "book_description": "Victorian London: For five years, Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy in the slums. But when one theft too many gets her arrested, her only means of escape lies with a dead man. Charlie hasn't raised a spirit since she first discovered she could do so five years ago. That time, her father banished her. This time, she brings even more trouble upon herself.People are now hunting Charlie all over London, but only one man succeeds in capturing her. Lincoln Fitzroy is the mysterious head of a secret organization on the trail of a madman who needs a necromancer to control his newly \"made\" creatures. There was only one known necromancer in the world - Charlotte - but now there appears to be two. Lincoln captures the willful Charlie in the hopes the boy will lead him to Charlotte. But what happens when he discovers the boy is in fact the young woman he's been searching for all along? And will she agree to work for the man who held her against her will, and for an organization she doesn't trust? Because Lincoln and his ministry might be just as dangerous as the madman they're hunting.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25942167-the-last-necromancer"}, +{"book_title": "The Shape of Things to Come", "author_name": "H.G. Wells", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1100, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "\"When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next 200 years. This fictional account of the future (similar to Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon) proved prescient in many ways, as Wells predicts events such as World War II, the rise of chemical warfare, and climate change.\" (from Amazon.com)", "year_published": 1933, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29966.The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come"}, +{"book_title": "The Syndicate", "author_name": "Sophie Davis", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 496, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "In a future where time travel has been outlawed, a black market exists for anyone with the money, connections, and nerve to request items from days past. As a Runner for one of the underground syndicates that now controls the timewaves, Stassi 2446-89 has seen it all: the fall of Rome, the rise of Hitler, the end of democracy, the establishment of time tourism, and the devastating consequences of it. Her job is to seamlessly slip through the past, in search of items of value to the syndicate's clientele.Stassi's next assignment takes her to Paris in the 1920\u2019s, in search of a lost manuscript by one of the twentieth century\u2019s greatest writers. She and her partner, Gaige, are swept up in the City of Light during the height of fashion and culture\u2014as alluring a locale as they\u2019ve ever visited. But a seedier side of life lurks beneath the glamorous fa\u00e7ade, and the pair quickly learns this run is more dangerous than any of their previous missions.Because history isn\u2019t playing out as it should be\u2014a first for the syndicate. When the stakes are raised and it becomes a matter of life or death, Stassi and Gaige must ultimately decide how far they\u2019re willing to go to ensure the future as they know it.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35385760-the-syndicate"}, +{"book_title": "Breaking Point", "author_name": "Kristen Simmons", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 10802, "review_number": 695, "book_description": "The second installment in Kristen Simmons's fast-paced, gripping YA dystopian series.After faking their deaths to escape from prison, Ember Miller and Chase Jennings have only one goal: to lay low until the Federal Bureau of Reformation forgets they ever existed.Near-celebrities now for the increasingly sensationalized tales of their struggles with the government, Ember and Chase are recognized and taken in by the Resistance\u2014an underground organization working to systematically take down the government.\u00a0At headquarters, all eyes are on the sniper, an anonymous assassin taking out FBR\u00a0soldiers one by one. Rumors are flying about the sniper\u2019s true identity, and Ember and Chase welcome the diversion\u2026.Until the government posts its most-wanted list, and\u00a0their number one suspect\u00a0is Ember herself.Orders are shoot to kill, and soldiers are cleared to fire on suspicion alone. Suddenly Ember can\u2019t even step onto the street without fear of being recognized, and \u201claying low\u201d is a joke. Even members of the Resistance are starting to look at her sideways.With Chase urging her to run, Ember must decide: Go into hiding\u2026or fight back?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13188615-breaking-point"}, +{"book_title": "Hellhole", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2114, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "Only the most desperate colonists dare to make a new home on Hellhole. Reeling from a recent asteroid impact, tortured with horrific storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and churning volcanic eruptions, the planet is a dumping ground for undesirables, misfits, and charlatans\u2026but also a haven for dreamers and independent pioneers.Against all odds, an exiled general named Adolphus has turned Hellhole into a place of real opportunity for the desperate colonists who call the planet their home. While the colonists are hard at work developing the planet, General Adolphus secretly builds alliances with the leaders of the other Deep Zone worlds, forming a clandestine coalition against the tyrannical, fossilized government responsible for their exile.What no one knows is this: the planet Hellhole, though damaged and volatile, hides an amazing secret. Deep beneath its surface lies the remnants of an obliterated alien civilization and the buried memories of its unrecorded past that, when unearthed, could tear the galaxy apart.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8734164-hellhole"}, +{"book_title": "The Rithmatist", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 57684, "review_number": 6463, "book_description": "The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson's New York Times bestselling epic teen adventure is now available in paperback.More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings.\u00a0Rithmatists are humanity\u2019s only defense against the Wild Chalklings. Having nearly overrun the territory of Nebrask, the Wild Chalklings now threaten all of the American Isles.As the son of a lowly chalkmaker at Armedius Academy, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice. Then students start disappearing\u2014kidnapped from their rooms at night, leaving trails of blood. Assigned to help the professor who is investigating the crimes, Joel and his friend Melody find themselves on the trail of an unexpected discovery\u2014one that will change Rithmatics\u2014and their world\u2014forever.A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22443261-the-rithmatist"}, +{"book_title": "Red Glove", "author_name": "Holly Black", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 21422, "review_number": 1921, "book_description": "CURSES AND CONS.MAGIC AND THE MOB.In Cassel Sharpe's world, they go together. Cassel always though he was an ordinary guy, until he realized his memories were being manipulated by his brothers. Now he knows the truth - he's the most powerful curse worker around. A touch of his hand can transform anything - or anyone - into something else.That was how Lila, the girl he loved, became a white cat. Cassel was tricked into thinking he killed her, when actually he tried to save her. Now that she's human again, he should be overjoyed. Trouble is, Lila's been cursed to love him, a little gift from his emotion-worker mom. And if Lila's love is as phony as Cassel's made-up memories, then he can't believe anything she says or does.When Cassel's oldest brother is murdered, the Feds recruit Cassel to help make sense of the only clue - crime-scene images of a woman in red gloves. But the mob is after Cassel too - they know how valuable he could be to them. Cassel is going to have to stay one step ahead of both sides just to survive. But where can he turn when he can't trust anyone - least of all, himself?Love is a curse and the con is the only answer in a game too dangerous to lose.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8288246-red-glove"}, +{"book_title": "Fractured", "author_name": "Teri Terry", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 14007, "review_number": 1149, "book_description": "Kyla shouldn't be able to remember anything. But she can - and she's beginning to realize that there are a lot of dark secrets locked away in her memories. When a mysterious man from her past comes back into her life, she thinks she's on her way to finding the truth. But the more she learns about her history, the more confusing her future becomes.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13490543-fractured"}, +{"book_title": "Mine", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 465, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "\" \u201cMine!\u201d One of the most powerful words in the human language, possession. Desperate need to hold onto what you love with every fiber of your being. Until Huck realizes in order to hold onto what he loves most he will have to let not only Becky go but a part of who he is, what he is, perhaps the best part. For Becky no matter where she has gone in the universe, no matter how many planets she set her wandering feet on, home wasn\u2019t a place, it was a who. Until her father and lifeline died. When a half evil alien presents himself demanding love and acceptance, Becky is determined to fight the hardest battle in her life. Home will become one powerful male, if Huck can be saved. There is no greater war at times, than the fight fought from within.\" ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26160472-mine"}, +{"book_title": "Brightly Burning", "author_name": "Alexa Donne", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 3609, "review_number": 985, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley wants just one thing: to go somewhere\u2014anywhere\u2014else. Her home\u00a0is a floundering spaceship\u00a0that offers few prospects, having been orbiting an ice-encased Earth for two hundred years. When a private ship hires her as a governess, Stella jumps at the chance.\u00a0The captain of the\u00a0Rochester, nineteen-year-old Hugo Fairfax, is notorious throughout the fleet for being a moody recluse and a drunk. But\u00a0with Stella he\u2019s kind. But the\u00a0Rochester\u00a0harbors secrets: Stella is certain someone is trying to kill Hugo, and the more she discovers, the more questions she has about his role in a conspiracy threatening the fleet.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35721194-brightly-burning"}, +{"book_title": "Wyrm", "author_name": "Mark Fabi", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 365, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "As the new millennium approaches, cults, sects, and crackpot prophets flood the worldwide media. But for Michael Arcangelo none of their catastrophe theories are more frightening than the Goodknight virus. Michael suspects it is the work of a mysterious programming genius, who designed it to create a computer role-playing game so real it can kill. Now Michael and his team of techno-wizards must descend into a harrowing and convoluted world of reality and fantasy. But what they discover is even worse than they could have ever imagined. For the so-called game is already out of hand, the virus has taken over the Internet, harnessing the power of the millennial frenzy already sweeping the world. And if they don't find and defeat the twisted mastermind responsible, humanity will wake from its worst nightmare to find the end of the world is truly here.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522220.Wyrm"}, +{"book_title": "Awaken Me Darkly", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 11516, "review_number": 577, "book_description": "RIDDING THE WORLD OF EVIL, ONE ALIEN AT A TIME: THAT'S MIA SNOW'S MISSION. Snow is in the forecast. In a time and place not too far away, Mia Snow is an alien huntress for the New Chicago Police Department. Heading up her expert team of Alien Investigation and Removal agents, Mia's unmatched at battling the elusive enemy among us, and she's the perfect girl for the job. She's seen her brother die at the hands of aliens. She's earned each of her scars. And she'll die before she cries. Now, a series of killings have Mia and her partner Dallas tracking alien suspects\u2014but a sudden blast of violence leaves Dallas fighting for his life. They are ice and fire. The chance to save Dallas appears in the form of a tall, erotic stranger. An alien. A murder suspect. Kyrin en Arr, of the deadly Arcadian species, holds the power to heal the injured agent but not without a price. For Mia Snow, that price is surrendering to Kyrin's forbidden seduction...and embracing their electric attraction. She's walking a knife's edge, risking her badge and even her life. The closer she gets to Kyrin, the more Mia learns about her own heart, her human needs\u2014and the shocking secret that will shatter everything she's ever believed.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/476492.Awaken_Me_Darkly"}, +{"book_title": "The Night of the Salamander", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 143, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "A locked room, a murder, and an unexpected kind of magic: the fifth of Michael Swanwick's \"Mongolian Wizard\" tales.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adult", "War", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25944731-the-night-of-the-salamander"}, +{"book_title": "Within Ash and Stardust", "author_name": "Chani Lynn Feener", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 285, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Having gone from kidnapped faux princess to the legitimate heir to an intergalactic throne, an impulsive, sarcastic teen must take charge of her own destiny in this epic YA novel.On Earth, Delaney is a normal teenager who recently graduated high school with a fantastic best friend and a loving boyfriend.But Delaney isn\u2019t on Earth. She\u2019s on Xenith, a war-torn planet half a galaxy away. Originally mistaken for an alien princess, Delaney has gone from kidnapped imposter to the recognized heir to an alien throne. Oh, and she\u2019s engaged to the prince of an enemy nation whose ruthless father is on the warpath.Torn between two planets, two fates, and two loves, Delaney is finally ready to choose her own destiny in Within Ash and Stardust, the stunning conclusion to Chani Lynn Feener\u2019s Xenith Trilogy.Praise for the Xenith Trilogy:\"A thoughtful, sexy adventure with winning characters just begging for a bedtime read.\" \u2014VOYA on Amid Stars and Darkness\"Feener\u2019s world-building is excellent, and readers will feel engulfed in the culture, politics, and technology. The romance between Delaney and Ruckus develops slowly and satisfyingly. Give to fans of Melissa Landers\u2019s Alienated and Ally Condie\u2019s Matched.\" \u2014School Library Journal on Amid Stars and Darkness\"This debut makes for fun, fluffy reading.\" \u2014Booklist on Amid Stars and Darkness\"[A] pulse-pounding adventure.\" \u2014Booklist on Between Frost and Fury", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Space", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864801-within-ash-and-stardust"}, +{"book_title": "The Mutation", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2168, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "Morphing into killer whales, the Animorphs discover a whole new world where humans with gills exist in the deep waters below.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Animals", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363360.The_Mutation"}, +{"book_title": "Sword and Pen", "author_name": "Rachel Caine", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 3359, "review_number": 612, "book_description": "With the future of the Great Library in doubt, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone must decide if it's worth saving in this thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain. Jess Brightwell and his friends must come together as never before, to forge a new future for the Great Library . . . or see everything it stood for crumble.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34408305-sword-and-pen"}, +{"book_title": "Nightbirds on Nantucket", "author_name": "Joan Aiken", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 2288, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation. In Tribulation's farmhouse, life is unbearable. When mysterious men lurk about in the evening fog, the resourceful Dido rallies against their shenanigans with help from Dutiful, a cabinboy named Nate, and a pink whale.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36644.Nightbirds_on_Nantucket"}, +{"book_title": "Peripeteia", "author_name": "Sarah Lyons Fleming", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 1368, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "From the universe of the Until the End of the World series Book two of The City Series is here! (Note: The City Series can be read before or after the Until the End of the World series) Months into the apocalypse, the zombies show no signs of dying, but it\u2019s clear everyone in Sunset Park will die without enough food to outlast the undead. Add in the less-than-sociable new neighbors only blocks away, and the hunt for sustenance has come to feel more like a race than a ramble. Sylvie is happy in her new home with the people who\u2019ve become like family, though she\u2019s still working out how to let them into her heart. Eric wants in, and he wants to find his sister, but he can\u2019t do both at the same time. If he can do the second one at all\u2014getting into the city was hard enough, getting out may prove impossible. Despite setbacks\u2014and a couple million zombies\u2014it seems fortune is working in their favor. After all, food, security, and family are extraordinary when just being alive is a notable accomplishment. But fortune can turn on a dime, and all it takes is one misstep. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35709033-peripeteia"}, +{"book_title": "Gunpowder Empire", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 1117, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California-but during the summer the whole family lives and works in the city of Polisso, on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not the Roman Empire that fell centuries ago, but a Roman Empire that never fell.For we now have the technology to move between timelines, and to exploit the untapped resources of those timelines that are hospitable to human life. So we send traders and businesspeople-but as whole-family groups, in order to keep the secret of Crosstime Traffic to ourselves.But when Jeremy ducks back home for emergency medical treatment, the gateways stop working. So do all the communication links. Jeremy and his sister are on their own, Polisso is suddenly under siege, and there's only so much you can do when cannonballs are crashing through your roof...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101546.Gunpowder_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "The Devil's Thief", "author_name": "Lisa Maxwell", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 3514, "review_number": 711, "book_description": "In this spellbinding sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Last Magician, Esta and Harte set off on a cross-country chase through time to steal back the elemental stones they need to save the future of magic.Hunt the Stones.Beware the Thief.Avenge the Past.Esta\u2019s parents were murdered. Her life was stolen. And everything she knew about magic was a lie. She thought the Book of Mysteries held the key to freeing the Mageus from the Order\u2019s grasp, but the danger within its pages was greater than she ever imagined.Now the Book\u2019s furious power lives inside Harte. If he can\u2019t control it, it will rip apart the world to get its revenge, and it will use Esta to do it.To bind the power, Esta and Harte must track down four elemental stones scattered across the continent. But the world outside the city is like nothing they expected. There are Mageus beyond the Brink not willing to live in the shadows\u2014and the Order isn\u2019t alone in its mission to crush them.In St. Louis, the extravagant World\u2019s Fair hides the first stone, but an old enemy is out for revenge and a new enemy is emerging. And back in New York, Viola and Jianyu must defeat a traitor in a city on the verge of chaos.As past and future collide, time is running out to rewrite history\u2014even for a time-traveling thief.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38336563-the-devil-s-thief"}, +{"book_title": "Hell & High Water", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 8948, "review_number": 1389, "book_description": "Action. Comedy. Romance. And that one weird guy. When homicide detective Dexter J. Daley's testimony helps send his partner away for murder, the consequences - and the media frenzy - aren't far behind. He soon finds himself sans boyfriend, sans friends, and, after an unpleasant encounter in a parking garage after the trial, he's lucky he doesn't find himself sans teeth. Dex fears he'll get transferred from the Human Police Force's Sixth Precinct, or worse, get dismissed. Instead, his adoptive father - a sergeant at the Therian-Human Intelligence Recon Defense Squadron otherwise known as the THIRDS - pulls a few strings, and Dex gets recruited as a Defense Agent. Dex is determined to get his life back on track and eager to get started in his new job. But his first meeting with Team Leader Sloane Brodie, who also happens to be his new jaguar Therian partner, turns disastrous. When the team is called to investigate the murders of three HumaniTherian activists, it soon becomes clear to Dex that getting his partner and the rest of the tightknit team to accept him will be a lot harder than catching the killer - and every bit as dangerous. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48567441-hell-high-water"}, +{"book_title": "Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story", "author_name": "Mary Downing Hahn", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3680, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "Aunt Blythe's house gives Andrew the creeps -- full of dark rooms, creaky noises, and the sound of a woman sobbing somewhere in the shadows. Then, in the middle of the night, Andrew awakens to find a boy standing in his room...a boy who is Andrew's double, except he looks as if he's come from the grave. He wants to follow him -- to a place where he will meet the spirits of long-dead ancestors...a place from which Andrew may never return.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Horror", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541527.Time_for_Andrew"}, +{"book_title": "Blind Lake", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2819, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "At Blind Lake, a large federal research installation in northern Minnesota, scientists are using a technology they barely understand to watch everyday life in a city of lobster like aliens upon a distant planet. They can't contact the aliens in any way or understand their language. All they can do is watch.Then, without warning, a military cordon is imposed on the Blind Lake site. All communication with the outside world is cut off. Food and other vital supplies are delivered by remote control. No one knows why.The scientists, nevertheless, go on with their research. Among them are Nerissa Iverson and the man she recently divorced, Raymond Scutter. They continue to work together despite the difficult conditions and the bitterness between them. Ray believes their efforts are doomed; that culture is arbitrary, and the aliens will forever be an enigma.Nerissa believes there is a commonality of sentient thought, and that our failure to understand is our own ignorance, not a fact of nature. The behavior of the alien she has been tracking seems to be developing an elusive narrative logic--and she comes to feel that the alien is somehow, impossibly, aware of the project's observers.But her time is running out. Ray is turning hostile, stalking her. The military cordon is tightening. Understanding had better come soon...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Thriller", "Cultural (Canada)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116412.Blind_Lake"}, +{"book_title": "The Darkest Star", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 13831, "review_number": 2210, "book_description": "When seventeen-year-old Evie Dasher is caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where humans and the surviving Luxen can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen...but he is in fact something much more powerful. Her growing attraction for Luc will lead her deeper and deeper into a world she'd only heard about, a world where everything she thought she knew will be turned on its head...#1 New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns to the universe of the Lux in this brand new series, featuring beloved characters both new and old.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34221193-the-darkest-star"}, +{"book_title": "Recoil", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 214, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Swift, silent, and deadly\u2013they strike where no one else dares.Fear is the fastest-growing crop on Haulover, a newly colonized planet where someone\u2013or something\u2013is destroying isolated farmhouses. The unseen enemy strikes without warning, then disappears, leaving no stone standing, no trace of families or farm animals. When the Confederation receives a desperate plea for help, it\u2019s time to send in the Marines. Impossible missions are a matter of course for Fourth Force Recon\u2019s second platoon squads, and the situation at Haulover\u2013with no witnesses and few clues\u2013is no exception. But this assignment turns out to be even tougher and bloodier than usual because the devastation is a ploy\u2013to lure the nine Marines into a trap, and to force them to bust the Confederation\u2019s terrible secret wide open. And as for the Skinks lying in ambush on Haulover, they have no idea what trouble is . . . until they go up against a few good Marines.From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3540638-recoil"}, +{"book_title": "Highfell Grimoires", "author_name": "Langley Hyde", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 288, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Born to privilege, gifted in languages and spells, Neil Franklin has planned his brilliant future\u2014from academic accolades to a proper marriage\u2014and is intent upon upholding his family name and honor. The sudden death of his parents shatters all of that, leaving Neil and his younger sister beggared and orphaned. When Neil\u2019s estranged uncle offers him a bargain that will save him and his sister from debtor\u2019s prison or exile, Neil eagerly agrees. Handing over the family grimoire as collateral for their debt, Neil devotes himself to working as a teacher for wayward youths at a charity school high in the clouds. But Highfell Hall is not the charity Neil imagines it to be and the young men there aren\u2019t training for the dull lives of city clerks. Amidst the roaring engines and within the icy stone halls, machinations and curious devices are at work. And one man, the rough and enigmatic Leofa, holds the key to the desire that Neil has fled from all his life and a magic as dangerous as treason.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Historical", "Mystery", "Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18617680-highfell-grimoires"}, +{"book_title": "Rocannon's World", "author_name": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 13118, "review_number": 779, "book_description": "A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars. Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he sees his friends murdered and his spaceship destroyed. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this new world - and finds that legends grow around him even as he fights.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92610.Rocannon_s_World"}, +{"book_title": "Venus on the Half-Shell", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2624, "review_number": 195, "book_description": "Simon Wagstaff is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player who narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during a sexual interlude with a cat-like alien queen in heat. Now, with his pet owl, his dog Anubis and a sexy robot companion, Simon charts a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of a multiverse full of surprises to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Humor (Comedy)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171066.Venus_on_the_Half_Shell"}, +{"book_title": "Beginnings", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1574, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues with a collection of tales by New York Times bestselling authors Timothy Zahn, Charles E. Gannon, David Weber and more, set in Weber's Honor Harrington Series.The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber's Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring-do, and pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic heroine: Honor Harrington. This sixth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series includes stories by 1635: Papal Stakes coauthor and best seller Charles E. Gannon, New York Times bestseller and Star Wars phenomenon, Timothy Zahn and Joelle Presby. It's rounded out with an all-new David-Weber-authored novella featuring a young Manticoran Royal Navy commander who goes by the name Harrington.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130280-beginnings"}, +{"book_title": "Graceling", "author_name": "Kristin Cashore", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 398094, "review_number": 22622, "book_description": "Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight\u2014she\u2019s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king\u2019s thug. She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po. She never expects to learn the truth behind her Grace\u2014or the terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone. With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, debut author Kristin Cashore creates a mesmerizing world, a death-defying adventure, and a heart-racing romance that will consume you, hold you captive, and leave you wanting more.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3236307-graceling"}, +{"book_title": "Thief of Time", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 65017, "review_number": 1666, "book_description": "Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater -- how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time, for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48002.Thief_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Wolves and Daggers", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 837, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Who\u2019s afraid of the big, bad werewolf?When London\u2019s brightest tinkers and alchemists come up missing, Red Cape Society Agent Clemeny Louvel is on the case.To help her get the problem in hand, Queen Victoria assigns her a temporary partner\u2014a werewolf with a knightly history and a tendency to be far too flirtatious for either of their good. Can she trust him to help her chase down the monsters they\u2019re hunting?Wolves and Daggers is a retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale set in Melanie Karsak\u2019s bestselling steampunk universe.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37905258-wolves-and-daggers"}, +{"book_title": "The Complete Stories, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 2118, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "The first book of the definitive three-volume collection of short stories by the prolific Isaac Asimov, whose tales have delighted countless fans for over half a century. A must for every science fiction bookshelf.Contents:Not Final! \u2022 (1941) \u2022 short storyThe Hazing (Homo Sol series #3) \u2022 (1942) \u2022 short storyDeath Sentence \u2022 (1943) \u2022 short storyBlind Alley \u2022 (1945) \u2022 short storyEvidence (Susan Calvin series) \u2022 (1946) \u2022 noveletteThe Red Queen's Race \u2022 (1949) \u2022 noveletteDay of the Hunters \u2022 (1950) \u2022 short storyThe Deep \u2022 (1952) \u2022 noveletteThe Martian Way \u2022 (1952) \u2022 novellaThe Monkey's Finger \u2022 (1953) \u2022 short story (variant of The Monkey's Fingers)The Singing Bell (Wendell Urth series) \u2022 (1955) \u2022 short storyThe Talking Stone (Wendell Urth series) \u2022 (1955) \u2022 short storyEach an Explorer \u2022 (1956) \u2022 short storyLet's Get Together \u2022 (1957) \u2022 short storyP\u00e2t\u00e9 de Foie Gras \u2022 (1956) \u2022 short storyGalley Slave (Susan Calvin series) \u2022 (1957) \u2022 noveletteLenny (Susan Calvin series) \u2022 (1958) \u2022 short storyA Loint of Paw \u2022 (1957) \u2022 short storyA Statue for Father \u2022 (1959) \u2022 short storyAnniversary (Brandon, Shea & Moore series #2) \u2022 (1959) \u2022 short storyObituary \u2022 (1959) \u2022 short storyRain, Rain, Go Away \u2022 (1959) \u2022 short storyStar Light \u2022 (1962) \u2022 short storyFounding Father \u2022 (1965) \u2022 short storyThe Key (Wendell Urth series) \u2022 (1966) \u2022 noveletteThe Billiard Ball \u2022 (1967) \u2022 noveletteExile to Hell \u2022 (1968) \u2022 short storyKey Item (Multivac series) \u2022 (1968) \u2022 short storyFeminine Intuition \u2022 [Susan Calvin] \u2022 (1969) \u2022 noveletteThe Greatest Asset \u2022 (1972) \u2022 short storyMirror Image (Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw series) \u2022 (1972) \u2022 short storyTake a Match \u2022 (1972) \u2022 short storyLight Verse \u2022 (1973) \u2022 short storyStranger in Paradise \u2022 (1974) \u2022 noveletteThat Thou Art Mindful of Him \u2022 (1974) \u2022 novelette (variant of \u2014That Thou Art Mindful of Him!)The Life and Times of Multivac \u2022 [Multivac] \u2022 (1975) \u2022 short storyThe Bicentennial Man \u2022 (1976) \u2022 noveletteMarching In \u2022 (1976) \u2022 short storyOld-Fashioned \u2022 (1976) \u2022 short storyThe Tercentenary Incident \u2022 (1976) \u2022 short story", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Anthologies", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85441.The_Complete_Stories_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "Empire", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 9409, "review_number": 876, "book_description": "The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons and strategic geniuses of their own. When the American dream shatters into violence, who can hold the people and the government together? And which side will you be on?Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near future scenario of a new American Civil War.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Politics", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7955.Empire"}, +{"book_title": "The Scourge of God", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 4812, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "The Scourge of God is a novel of The Change series.Rudi Mackenzie \u2014 son and heir of the High Priestess Juniper Mackenzie and the Bear Lord Mike Havel \u2014 continues his trek across the land that once was the United States of America. His destination: Nantucket, where he hopes to learn the truth behind the Change which rendered technology around the globe inoperable.Dreams, visions, and the accounts of those who dared to set foot on the island hint at forces beyond comprehension...and with the competing agendas for the future of the human race.During his travels, Rudi forges ties with new allies in the continuing war against the Prophet. Presiding over his flock, the Church Universal and Triumphant, the Prophet teaches his followers as he has been taught: God has punished humanity by destroying technological civilization. Now, the Prophet's Cutters perform the \"holy task\" of destroying any technological remnants they come across, and those who dare use them.But one fanatical officer of the Sword of the Prophet has an ever greater mission: to stop Rudi from reaching Nantucket \u2014 by any means necessary.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2922849-the-scourge-of-god"}, +{"book_title": "Going Dark", "author_name": "Linda Nagata", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1253, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "In the third book in The Red Trilogy, former Army Lt. James Shelley becomes a black ops sniper working for the Red\u2014a suspected rogue artificial intelligence that is ripped from today\u2019s headlines.James Shelley has left his lover, Delphi, and his companion-in-arms, Jayne Vasquez, with a fortune acquired from a fallen oligarch. They believe him to be dead, and he doesn\u2019t try to set the record straight. His long-running question has been answered: There are other soldiers like him who have served the purposes of the Red\u2014and he has accepted his place among them. As a soldier of the Red he pursues covert missions designed to nudge history away from existential threats\u2014but that doesn\u2019t mean the world is growing more orderly. It\u2019s only in the froth of a \u201cmanaged chaos\u201d that human potential can grow and thrive. Shelley\u2019s missions eventually take him into orbit\u2014and into conflict with those he loves\u2014Delphi and Jaynie\u2014who are determined to escape the influence of the Red.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24885594-going-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Clone World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 1681, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "James McGill is called upon for a sabotage mission, one that only a man of his unique talents can handle. Unfortunately, he performs too well, and our enemies from Rigel are enraged. They come for us, and war is declared. Both sides call for aid, and it comes from the Core Worlds in the form of two great fleets. The Civil War for the Empire\u2019s Throne spills out into the provinces. In the center of Galaxy, fantastic fleets crush one another and burn thousands of inhabited worlds. When this conflict between the great powers spreads, humanity finds itself swept up in the storm. Can McGill escape this disaster he\u2019s created? Find out in CLONE WORLD, the twelfth book of the Undying Mercenaries series. With over three million copies sold, author B. V. Larson is the king of modern military science fiction.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52936679-clone-world"}, +{"book_title": "Galactic North", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 7143, "review_number": 281, "book_description": "With eight short stories and novellas--including three original to this collection--Galactic North imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of Revelation Space.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89188.Galactic_North"}, +{"book_title": "Edge of Infinity", "author_name": "Jonathan Strahan", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1138, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Contains \"The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi\" by Pat Cadigan, which won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette (2013) and the Locus Award for SF Best Novelette (2013).\"One giant leap for mankind\". Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound.Our destiny would now be to reach out to eternity. Brought to you by the creators of Engineering Infinity, Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie transformations in Pat Cadigan's The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey's The Road to NPS, and from the grandiose vision of Alastair Reynolds' Vainglory to the workaday familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Safety Tests, the thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human condition in their race to colonise Earth's nearest neighbours.CONTENT \"The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi\" by Pat Cadigan \"The Deeps of the Sky\" by Elizabeth Bear \"Drive\" by James S. A. Corey \"The Road to NPS\" by Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey \"Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh\" by John Barnes \"Macy Minnot\u2019s Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler\u2019s Green, the Potter\u2019s Garden\" by Paul McAuley \"Safety Tests\" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch \"Bricks, Sticks, Straw\" by Gwyneth Jones \"Tyche and the Ants\" by Hannu Rajaniemi \"Obelisk\" by Stephen Baxter \"Vainglory\" by Alastair Reynolds \"Water Rights\" by An Owomoyela \"The Peak of Eternal Light\" by Bruce Sterling", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547291-edge-of-infinity"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon's Mate", "author_name": "Miranda Martin", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1268, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Like being stranded on a desert alien planet wasn't enough... All I ever wanted was someone to love. Now my best friend is knocked up by the only hunky alien-dragon available and I can't tell anyone how totally jealous I am. The handful of humans who survived our ship's crash are locked in a struggle to live in sweltering heat with dwindling supplies. The others are taking the life giving, addictive epis but if I take it that means I'm stuck here. Forever. Which also means the chance of being rescued by a knight in shining armor would be zero. If that weren't enough, I go and get myself kidnapped and he's another big, sexy, alien-dragon warrior. Dragon's Mate is a full length scifi novel with a happily ever after ending, plenty of steam, bloody battles and alien-human intrigue. It is standalone and co-written by newcomer Miranda Martin and one of the hottest science fiction romance authors out there, Juno Wells. DRAGON'S MATE is a sequel to DRAGON'S BABY. You do not have to read both in order to understand the plot, but the story will be richer if you do! ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32033914-dragon-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.67, "rating_votes": 14796, "review_number": 611, "book_description": "All three books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy are now together in one boxed set!Step back in time with the Shadowhunters with this eBook collection of the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy. Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. The Shadowhunters of the Victorian Age delve into all of these\u2014in addition to darkness and danger\u2014in the Infernal Devices trilogy, packaged in an eBook collection that includes Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803693-clockwork-angel-clockwork-prince-clockwork-princess"}, +{"book_title": "Run", "author_name": "Gillian Zane", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 694, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "Zombies are on the loose in New Orleans and of all the End of the World scenarios, Alexis Winter wasn\u2019t prepared for this one. But, an apocalypse is an apocalypse and she should have this covered. She has been \u201cprepping\u201d for the last three years. The problem is location and timing. She\u2019s stuck downtown and she has to get to her house on the outskirts of the city so she can get her supplies and bug-in (for the \u201cnon-preppers\u201d this means hole up and stay safe).Agreeing to work on a Saturday is now coming back to bite her on the ass big time. Hopefully, it won\u2019t be a literal bite by the walking dead.Luck favors the prepared, and as luck would have it, it comes in the form of the ridiculously hot Blake Miller. Former military man, current mercenary, Blake Miller, the man with the plan, his goal: steal a boat and trek up the Mississippi until they find safety. Alexis thinks this is a great plan and she decides to team up with Blake. The two team up in unexpected ways as they find they can\u2019t keep their hands off of each other even when the world is falling down around them.Can Alexis and Blake survive the end of the world, and if they do make it through the night, find a place that is safe and secure? Can their newfound attraction lead them down the road to love or heartbreak?Zombies, sex, romance and carnage\u2026you can\u2019t get any better than this.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25414205-run"}, +{"book_title": "Tonight on the Titanic", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 12859, "review_number": 577, "book_description": "Jack and Annie are in for an exciting, scary, and sad adventure when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the decks of the \"Titanic.\" Is there anything they can do to help the ill-fated ship? Will they be able to save anyone? Will they be able to save themselves?", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127335.Tonight_on_the_Titanic"}, +{"book_title": "Forbidden", "author_name": "Ted Dekker", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 8525, "review_number": 841, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker teams with Tosca Lee to create this gripping thriller set in a desolate future.Many years have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, no war. There is only perfect peace... and fear. But a terrible secret has been closely guarded for centuries: Every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity. Fleeing pursuit, with only moments to live, a young man named Rom stumbles into possession of a vial of blood and a piece of cryptic writing. When consumed, the blood will bring him back to life. When decoded, the message will lead him on a perilous journey that will require him to abandon everything he has ever known and awaken humanity to the transforming power of true life and love. But the blood will also resurrect hatred, ambition, and greed. Set in a terrifying, medieval future, where grim pageantry masks death, this tale of dark desires and staggering stakes peels back the layers of the heart for all who dare to take the ride.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Christian Fiction", "Fiction", "Christian", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10791807-forbidden"}, +{"book_title": "Alien in the Family", "author_name": "Gini Koch", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2307, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "Planning any wedding is hard enough, but Katherine \"Kitty\" Katt and Jeff Martini have a lot more to worry about than seating arrangements, because multiple inter-stellar invasions, Alpha Team in mortal peril, and inter-alien conspiracies are all on the guest list\u2014and the gifts they've brought contain some explosive surprises.The discovery that Martini is actually a member of the Alpha Centaurion Royal Family brings additional bad news\u2014emissaries are on their way to see if Kitty's royal bride material. And they're not the only things coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Amazonian assassins, spies, alien beasties, shape-shifters, and representatives from the Planetary Council, combined with a tabloid reporter who's a little too on the mark, create a deadly situation for Kitty and the rest of Alpha Team. When the assassins strike far too close to home for anyone's comfort, Kitty realizes it's going to come down to more than throwing a bouquet\u2014she's going to have to face an entire planetary consciousness and dethrone a monarch in order to make it to the church on time...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8714075-alien-in-the-family"}, +{"book_title": "The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite", "author_name": "Gerard Way", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 44516, "review_number": 3578, "book_description": "In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born to women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, \"To save the world.\"These seven children form the Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic and deadly Eiffel Tower, piloted by the fearsome zombie-robot Gustave Eiffel. Nearly a decade later, the team disbands, but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies, these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again.Collecting: The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite 1-6, as well as out-of-print short stories and an expanded sketchbook section featuring work by Gabriel B\u00e1, James Jean, and Gerard Way", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2795053-the-umbrella-academy-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Kushiel's Mercy", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 16460, "review_number": 537, "book_description": "Having learned a lesson about thwarting the will of the gods, Imriel and Sidonie publicly confess their affair, only to see the country boil over in turmoil. Younger generations, infatuated by their heart-twisting, star-cross romance, defend the couple. Many others cannot forget the betrayals of Imriel's mother, Melisande, who plunged their country into a bloody war that cost the lives of their fathers, brothers, and sons.To quell the unrest, Ysandre, the queen, sets her decree. She will not divide the lovers, yet neither will she acknowledge them. If they marry, Sidonie will be disinherited, losing her claim on the throne.There's only one way they can truly be together. Imriel must perform an act of faith: search the world for his infamous mother and bring her back to Terre d'Ange to be executed for treason.Facing a terrible choice, Imriel and Sidonie prepare ruefully for another long separation. But when a dark foreign force casts a shadow over Terre d'Ange and all the surrounding countries, their world is turned upside down, alliances of the unlikeliest kind are made, and Imriel and Sidonie learn that the god Elua always puts hearts together apurpose.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adult", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2152871.Kushiel_s_Mercy"}, +{"book_title": "Parasyte, Volume 1", "author_name": "Hitoshi Iwaaki", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 6990, "review_number": 358, "book_description": "SILENT INVASIONThey arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret - except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1103544.Parasyte_Volume_1"}, +{"book_title": "The Blacksmith", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 15, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "The Blacksmith's book (publication date TBD)", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28253222-the-blacksmith"}, +{"book_title": "Tower of Dawn", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 143892, "review_number": 14144, "book_description": "Chaol Westfall and Nesryn Faliq have arrived in the shining city of Antica to forge an alliance with the Khagan of the Southern Continent, whose vast armies are Erilea's last hope. But they have also come to Antica for another purpose: to seek healing at the famed Torre Cesme for the wounds Chaol received in Rifthold.After enduring unspeakable horrors as a child, Yrene Towers has no desire to help the young lord from Adarlan, let alone heal him. Yet she has sworn an oath to assist those in need\u2014and will honor it. But Lord Westfall carries shadows from his own past, and Yrene soon comes to realize they could engulf them both.In this sweeping parallel novel to the New York Times bestselling Empire of Storms, Chaol, Nesryn, and Yrene will have to draw on every scrap of their resilience if they wish to save their friends. But while they become entangled in the political webs of the khaganate, deep in the shadows of mighty mountains where warriors soar on legendary ruks, long-awaited answers slumber. Answers that might offer their world a chance at survival\u2014or doom them all . . .", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450852-tower-of-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Zombies Vs Robots: This Means War", "author_name": "Jeff Conner", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 53, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The first ZvR prose collection! Eleven original stories of zombie on robot action\u2014and vice versaZVR: This Means War! takes IDW\u2019s splatterific Zombie vs Robots comic book series\u2014created by writer Chris Ryall and artist Ashley Wood\u2014and expands it in ways that will redefine both zombie and robot fiction. A shambling cohort of top horror and fantasy writers from across the globe (OK, Canada, England, Australia, and Bakersfield) have devoted themselves to making evocative word-pictures in your brain of this delicious cult series.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13245143-zombies-vs-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots", "author_name": "Timothy N. Hornyak", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 39, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Japan stands out for its long love affair with humanoid robots, a phenomenon that is creating what will likely be the world's first mass robot culture. While U.S. companies have produced robot vacuum cleaners and war machines, Japan has created warm and fuzzy life-like robot therapy pets. While the U.S. makes movies like \"Robocop\" and \"The Terminator,\" Japan is responsible for the friendly Mighty Atom, Aibo and Asimo. While the U.S. sponsors robot-on-robot destruction contests, Japan's feature tasks that mimic nonviolent human activities. The Steven Spielberg film, \"AI,\" was a disaster at the world box office-except in Japan, where it was a huge hit. Why is this? What can account for Japan's unique relationship with robots as potential colleagues in life, rather than as potential adversaries? Loving the Machine attempts to answer this fundamental query by looking at Japan's historical connections with robots, its present fascination and leading technologies, and what the future holds. Through in-depth interviews with scientists, researchers, historians, artists, writers and others involved with or influenced by robots today, author Timothy N. Hornyak looks at robots in Japan from the perspectives of culture, psychology and history, as well as technology; and brings understanding to an endlessly evolving subject. From the Edo-period humanoid automatons, through popular animation icons and into the high tech labs of today's researchers into robotic action and intelligence, the author traces a fascinating trail of passion and development.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14146.Loving_the_Machine"}, +{"book_title": "Soldiers of Fortune", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 3336, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "After the daring rescue of a political dissident, Omega Force is contracted to investigate a rash of violent attacks on civilian shipping lanes within a group of star systems known as the Concordian Cluster. It seems a simple enough job with a huge payday at the end and it's exactly what the ragtag group of mercenaries needs in order to keep their ship flying and to stay one step ahead of those hunting them.However, the further they delve into the seedy underworld of the Cluster the more they realize they may be in over their heads. With innocent lives hanging in the balance, Captain Burke and his crew begin a desperate race to uncover who is responsible for these attacks, and why, before their ultimate goal can be realized.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18160491-soldiers-of-fortune"}, +{"book_title": "A Princess of Mars", "author_name": "Edgar Rice Burroughs", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 52037, "review_number": 3640, "book_description": "A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most exciting saga, known as The Martian Series. It's the beginning of an incredible odyssey in which John Carter, a gentleman from Virginia and a Civil War veteran, unexpectedly finds himself on to the red planet, scene of continuing combat among rival tribes. Captured by a band of six-limbed, green-skinned savage giants called Tharks, Carter soon is accorded all the honor of a chieftain after it's discovered that his muscles, accustomed to Earth's greater gravity, now give him a decided advantage in strength. And when his captors take as prisoner Dejah Thoris, the lovely human-looking princess of the city of Helium, Carter must call upon every ounce of strength, courage, and ingenuity to rescue her-before Dejah becomes the slave of the depraved Thark leader, Tal Hajus!Excerpt:Her oval face was beautiful in the extreme, her every feature finely chisled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Similar in face and figure to women of Earth, she was nevertheless a true Martian--and prisoner of the fierce green giants who held me captive, as well!", "year_published": 1912, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Pulp", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40395.A_Princess_of_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Etiquette & Espionage", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 43848, "review_number": 6452, "book_description": "It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10874177-etiquette-espionage"}, +{"book_title": "Homecoming", "author_name": "Kass Morgan", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 18237, "review_number": 1456, "book_description": "Weeks after landing on Earth, the Hundred have managed to create a sense of order amidst their wild, chaotic surroundings. But their delicate balance comes crashing down with the arrival of new dropships from space.These new arrivals are the lucky ones\u2014back on the Colony, the oxygen is almost gone\u2014but after making it safely to Earth, GLASS\u2019s luck seems to be running out. CLARKE leads a rescue party to the crash site, ready to treat the wounded, but she can\u2019t stop thinking about her parents, who may still be alive. Meanwhile, WELLS struggles to maintain his authority despite the presence of the Vice Chancellor and his armed guards, and BELLAMY must decide whether to face or flee the crimes he thought he\u2019d left behind.It\u2019s time for the Hundred to come together and fight for the freedom they\u2019ve found on Earth, or risk losing everything\u2014and everyone\u2014they love.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23264825-homecoming"}, +{"book_title": "My Robot Buddy", "author_name": "Alfred Slote", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 89, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Science fiction story for younger readers. On Jack Jameson's 10th birthday, his family gives him a robot that can do everything Jack can do and more.", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134205.My_Robot_Buddy"}, +{"book_title": "Haven", "author_name": "Laury Falter", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1036, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "On an ordinary day in early September, Kennedy Shaw leaves for school unaware that within a few minutes the world she knows will be gone - succumbed to an outbreak of epidemic proportions. After finding a safe haven inside the security of her enclosed high school, she learns that four others have survived, one being a bold, mysterious transfer student from Texas whose unruffled demeanor harbors more than a cool interest in her. As they struggle to survive the dead fighting their way inside, will Kennedy discover there is more to life than survival? And will she and the others find a way to live in this terrifying new world?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16621789-haven"}, +{"book_title": "Paper Girls, Vol. 4", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 11724, "review_number": 1076, "book_description": "The mind-bending, time-warping adventure from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues, as intrepid newspaper deliverer Tiffany is launched from the prehistoric past into the year 2000! In this harrowing version of our past, Y2K was even more of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only person who can save the future is a 12-year-old girl from 1988.Collects issues 16 through 20!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35989512-paper-girls-vol-4"}, +{"book_title": "Inversions", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 15248, "review_number": 568, "book_description": "On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king, despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess.Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of \"assassinating assassins.\" DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct.None trust the doctor, while the bodyguard trusts no one, but what is the hidden commonality linking their disparate histories? Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal, Inversions is a dazzling work of science fiction from a versatile and imaginative author writing at the height of his remarkable powers.\nAbout the Author:\nIain M. Banks, one of the United Kingdom's bestselling authors of science fiction, has written such highly-regarded novels as Excession, Feersum Endjinn, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, and Against a Dark Background. As \"Iain Banks,\" he also writes mainstream novels, including The Wasp Factory and A Song of Stone. He lives in Scotland.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Cultural", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science (Technology)", "Banking (Banks)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12017.Inversions"}, +{"book_title": "Chains of Command", "author_name": "Marko Kloos", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 10173, "review_number": 420, "book_description": "The assault on Earth was thwarted by the destruction of the aliens\u2019 seed ship, but with Mars still under Lanky control, survivors work frantically to rebuild fighting capacity and shore up planetary defenses. Platoon sergeant Andrew Grayson must crash-course train new volunteers\u2014all while dulling his searing memories of battle with alcohol and meds.Knowing Earth\u2019s uneasy respite won\u2019t last, the North American Commonwealth and its Sino-Russian allies hurtle toward two dangerous options: hit the Lanky forces on Mars or go after deserters who stole a fleet of invaluable warships critical to winning the war. Assigned to a small special ops recon mission to scout out the renegades\u2019 stronghold on a distant moon, Grayson and his wife, dropship pilot Halley, again find themselves headed for the crucible of combat\u2014and a shattering new campaign in the war for humanity\u2019s future.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Audiobook", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25648897-chains-of-command"}, +{"book_title": "Apocalipsis Z: La ira de los justos", "author_name": "Manel Loureiro", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3976, "review_number": 277, "book_description": "\u00bfExiste alguna esperanza tras el fin del mundo?los supervivientes del Apocalipsis zombi tienen una oportunidad: han sido rescatados en medio del oc\u00e9ano por uno de los \u00faltimos grupos organizados que quedan sobre la Tierra. Obligados a acompa\u00f1ar a sus salvadores, llegan hasta el golfo de M\u00e9xico, un lugar que parece florecer bajo el mandato benevolente de un misterioso predicador. Pese a que en la ciudad todo el mundo act\u00faa como si el Apocalipsis jam\u00e1s se hubiera desatado, pronto descubren que algo siniestro se oculta bajo ese para\u00edso...Atrapados en un torbellino de ambiciones, grupos enfrentados, castas y religiones que luchan por la supremac\u00eda, pero siempre rodeados por un oc\u00e9ano de No Muertos, nuestros protagonistas tratar\u00e1n de hacer lo que mejor saben: Sobrevivir.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11300931-apocalipsis-z"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Dead Fall", "author_name": "Susan Trombley", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 701, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "This is a full-length, science-fiction/science-fantasy, MFM alien romance novel that was previously published as part of a two-book collection with The Scorpion's Mate. This is a revised edition with significant additional story content. Though she was raised by a survivalist, Alice was not prepared to be ripped from her dimension and dropped without ceremony into the massive junkyard of a parallel dimension. She\u2019s wounded, alone, and lost in a world her mind struggles to comprehend. Then a four-armed alien with the face of a dangerous lion reveals that his heart is not so predatory, when he comes to her aid and saves her life. Because of her wounds, she has no choice but to accept his help. She finally begins to grow comfortable around her leonine companion, until another warrior intervenes to save her when creatures from the Dead Fall attack them during their exploration, suddenly making everything much more complicated. Alice still doesn\u2019t understand what either of the warriors is saying, and if she can\u2019t find the right words to soothe her beastly new protectors, they\u2019ll end up killing each other. Author\u2019s Note: 18+ These books contain scenes that are not suitable for younger audiences. It should also be noted that the alien heroes in these books are alien in both appearance and attributes, and this might make some readers uncomfortable, as their cultures and mating habits might not be for everyone. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Menage (M F M)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45043433-into-the-dead-fall"}, +{"book_title": "The High King of Montival", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3492, "review_number": 189, "book_description": "Rudi Mackenzie has returned to Montival with the Sword of the Lady, ready to face the legions of the Prophet. To achieve victory, Rudi must assemble a coalition of former enemies and forge an army that will rescue his homeland and tear the heart out of the Church Universal and Triumphant once and for all.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8848270-the-high-king-of-montival"}, +{"book_title": "The Apothecary's Poison", "author_name": "C.J. Archer", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 5099, "review_number": 231, "book_description": "When a newspaper report of a medical miracle catches Matt's eye, he and India go in search of Dr. Hale in the hope he is more magical doctor than miracle worker and can lead them to Chronos. But Hale turns out to be an apothecary magician keen to educate the public about magic. Their disappointment at not finding Chronos is soon forgotten when Hale is murdered, and Matt becomes a suspect. With Matt's nemesis Sheriff Payne influencing the investigating detective, India and Matt know they must find the real killer, or risk his freedom, and ultimately his life. Time is running out as they hunt for a killer capable of turning medicine into poison with a magic spell, as well as continue the search for Chronos. A search that must end in success before Matt's malfunctioning watch stops altogether.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32785570-the-apothecary-s-poison"}, +{"book_title": "Silverblind", "author_name": "Tina Connolly", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 283, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "The final book in this series will jump forward 18 years and feature Dorie, Jane's young charge from Ironskin.18 years later . . .Dorie Rochart has been hiding her fey side for a long time. Now, finished with University, she plans to study magical creatures and plants in the wild, bringing long-forgotten cures to those in need. But when no one will hire a girl to fight basilisks, she releases her shapechanging fey powers--to disguise herself as a boy.While hunting for wyvern eggs, she saves a young scientist who's about to get steamed by a silvertail-- and finds her childhood friend Tam Grimsby, to whom she hasn't spoken in seven years. Not since she traded him to the fey. She can't bear to tell him who she really is, but every day grows harder as he comes to trust her.The wyverns are being hunted to extinction for the powerful compounds in their eggs. The fey are dying out as humans grow in power. Now Tam and Dorie will have to decide which side they will fight for. And if they end up on opposite sides, can their returning friendship survive?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518892-silverblind"}, +{"book_title": "The Pleasure Slave", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4361, "review_number": 230, "book_description": "When Santa Fe antique dealer Julie Anderson was curiously drawn to purchase a battered jewelry box, she never expected it to contain her own personal love slave. Especially not tall, dark and sinfully handsome Tristan-a man hard to resist, and determined to fulfill her every desire.Though Tristan was a rogue of the battlefield and the boudoir, making love with Julia was like nothing he'd ever known. Yet revealing his true heart would break the centuries-old spell and separate them forever. And Tristan would do anything to go on loving Julia. . .even remain a slave through all eternity. . .", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432522.The_Pleasure_Slave"}, +{"book_title": "The Atlantis Gene", "author_name": "A.G. Riddle", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 68925, "review_number": 4131, "book_description": "The greatest mystery of all time...the history of human origins...will be revealed.In Antarctica, researchers discover a mysterious structure, buried in ice.In a lab in Jakarta, an autism researcher identifies a revolutionary treatment that could change everything.But these two incredible discoveries aren't what they seem. They will set off a race to unravel the deepest secrets of human existence--and an event that could change humanity forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Suspense", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25843420-the-atlantis-gene"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Deeds", "author_name": "Michelle Diener", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2492, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "Far from home . . .Fiona Russell has been snatched from Earth, imprisoned and used as slave labor, but nothing about her abduction makes sense. When she\u2019s rescued by the Grih, she realizes there\u2019s a much bigger game in play than she could ever have imagined, and she\u2019s right in the middle of it.Far from safe . . .Battleship captain Hal Vakeri is chasing down pirates when he stumbles across a woman abducted from Earth. She\u2019s the second one the Grih have found in two months, and her presence is potentially explosive in the Grih\u2019s ongoing negotiations with their enemies, the Tecran. The Tecran and the Grih are on the cusp of war, and Fiona might just tip the balance.Far from done . . .Fiona has had to bide her time while she\u2019s been a prisoner, pretending to be less than she is, but when the chance comes for her to forge her own destiny in this new world, she grabs it with both hands. After all, actions speak louder than words.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28241136-dark-deeds"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 36224, "review_number": 2955, "book_description": "The last thing Dawson Black expected was Bethany Williams. As a Luxen, an alien life form on Earth, human girls are\u2026well, fun. But since the Luxen have to keep their true identities a secret, falling for one would be insane.Dangerous. Tempting. Undeniable.Bethany can\u2019t deny the immediate connection between her and Dawson. And even though boys aren\u2019t a complication she wants, she can\u2019t stay away from him. Still, whenever they lock eyes, she\u2019s drawn in.Captivated. Lured. Loved.Dawson is keeping a secret that will change her existence...and put her life in jeopardy. But even he can\u2019t stop risking everything for one human girl. Or from a fate that is as unavoidable as love itself.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13183957-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Astronauts", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 3955, "review_number": 834, "book_description": "Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters \u2014 Grayson, Moss and Chen \u2014 shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden.Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth \u2013 all the Earths.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Novels", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37589179-dead-astronauts"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers: The Ultimate Guide", "author_name": "Simon Furman", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 233, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "\"Transformers: The Ultimate Guide\" is a detailed look at the fantastic world of these mechanical marvels. Follow each character's history and witness the amazing evolution of the Transformers, from physical structure and weaponry to personalities, alliances, and important battles. Detailed illustrations show exactly how each character \"transforms\" from warrior robot to high-powered vehicle. Special feature spreads cover all aspects of the Transformers' world and include specially commissioned maps and detailed city plans of their home planet of Cybertron, descriptions of the giant space ark in which the Transformers traveled to Earth, major wars in Transformers history, and much more.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Reference", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Culture (Pop Culture)", "Culture (Film)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390032.Transformers"}, +{"book_title": "The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys", "author_name": "Gerard Way", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3764, "review_number": 390, "book_description": "Years ago, the Killjoys fought against the tyrannical megacorporation Better Living Industries, costing them their lives, save for one\u2014the mysterious Girl. Today, the followers of the original Killjoys languish in the Desert while BLI systematically strips citizens of their individuality. As the fight for freedom fades, it\u2019s left to the Girl to take up the mantle and bring down the fearsome BLI! Collects The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #1\u2013#6 and \u201cDead Satellites\u201d from Free Comic Book Day 2013.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "LGBT", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19546063-the-true-lives-of-the-fabulous-killjoys"}, +{"book_title": "A Second Chance", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 10582, "review_number": 841, "book_description": "St Mary\u2019s is back and nothing is going right for Max. Once again, it\u2019s just one damned thing after another.The action jumps from an encounter with a mirror-stealing Isaac Newton to the bloody battlefield at Agincourt. Discover how a simple fact-finding assignment to witness the ancient and murderous cheese- rolling ceremony in Gloucester can result in CBC \u2013 concussion by cheese. The long awaited jump to Bronze Age Troy ends in personal catastrophe for Max and just when it seems things couldn\u2019t get any worse \u2013 it\u2019s back to the Cretaceous Period again to confront an old enemy who has nothing to lose.So, make the tea, grab the chocolate biscuits, settle back and discover exactly why the entire history department has painted itself blue \u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25877074-a-second-chance"}, +{"book_title": "The End Has Come and Gone", "author_name": "Mark Tufo", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 5519, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "She is coming for you....", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12855784-the-end-has-come-and-gone"}, +{"book_title": "The Penultimate Peril", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 91155, "review_number": 2423, "book_description": "\nDear Reader,\nIf this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair, and unpleasantness.Probably the next-to-last thing you would like to read about are a harpoon gun, a rooftop sunbathing alon, two mysterious initials, three unidentified triplets, a notorious villain, and an unsavory curry.Next-to-last things are the first thing to be avoided, and so allow me to recommend that you put this next-to-last book down first, and find something else to read next at last, such a s the next-to-last book in another chronicle, or a chronicle containing other next-to-last things, so that this next-to-last book does not become the last book you will read.\nWith all due respect,\nLemony Snicket", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65110.The_Penultimate_Peril"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel", "author_name": "Zoe Archer", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 871, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He is the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he's always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7968415-rebel"}, +{"book_title": "North Reich", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 251, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "From Conroy's introduction:\u00a0North Reich tells what might have happened if Hitler had not so foolishly declared war on the United States.\u00a0 FDR certainly understood that Germany was the greatest threat, but might have been helpless to do anything about it.\u00a0 War between the United States and Germany was still considered inevitable, but not in December of 1941.\u00a0 North Reich is the story of the war that was going to come sooner or later.\u00a0 However, in this instance, the fighting takes place not in Europe but in North America.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15727379-north-reich"}, +{"book_title": "Legacy", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 3350, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Set in the same universe as the author's bestselling Eon and Eternity, this novel tells the story of Olmy, well-known to readers of the earlier books. Investigating an illegal opening in the Milky Way, Olmy discovers a strange new world.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Business (Amazon)", "Space", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172738.Legacy"}, +{"book_title": "Karac", "author_name": "T.J. Yelden", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1253, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "One phone call was all it took to turn Ashley\u2019s world upside down. Aliens from outer space? Check. Government deal to mandate women sign up for alien courtship? Check. A woman willing to allow someone else to dictate her life? No way in hell. Screw the government. Screw the aliens. She makes her own decisions on how her future plays out. One small, obscure planet in the farthest reaches of the universe. How Karac and his fellow warriors stumbled across it, he\u2019ll never know. But thank the gods they did. The planet was teeming with possible truemates. One mate for each warrior - a lifelong commitment of respect, loyalty, and protection. What more could a female ask for? Too bad his mate doesn\u2019t see it that way. Two different cultures, two different worlds. Will they come to understand each other, let alone make a lifelong bond? Trouble brews back on Karac\u2019s home planet and Karac needs Ashley to see things his way, quickly. With time running out, Ashley will have to make a decision that could change the fate of the universe, forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Romance (M F Romance)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23488583-karac"}, +{"book_title": "Of Blood and Bone", "author_name": "Nora Roberts", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 30155, "review_number": 2664, "book_description": "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before\u2014the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted\u2014and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden.In a mysterious shelter in the forest, her training is about to begin under the guidance of Mallick, whose skills have been honed over centuries. She will learn the old ways of healing; study and spar; encounter faeries and elves and shifters; and find powers within herself she never imagined. And when the time is right, she will take up the sword, and fight. For until she grows into the woman she was born to be, the world outside will never be whole again.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37638128-of-blood-and-bone"}, +{"book_title": "Rescue", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 1744, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "A leader left behind... An Alliance falling apart... Friends stranded on an enemy-held world... A chance to rediscover long forgotten truths... The new threat will require an immediate response. But first, Jessica and the Ghatazhak must execute a daring rescue in order to secure their future. But to do so, they need the one man they have been trying to protect. The question is... Will he agree? \"Rescue\" is the 2nd episode in Part 2 of the Frontiers Saga: Rogue Castes. Episode 3, \"Resurrection\", is coming soon!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32193423-rescue"}, +{"book_title": "Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 6", "author_name": "Yuu Watase", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 4856, "review_number": 195, "book_description": "Riiko has chosen her one true boyfriend, but she finds her life changing quickly after her decision. Will Riiko and her boyfriend have their happily-ever-after?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Manga (Shojo)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics Manga", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1605197.Absolute_Boyfriend_Vol_6"}, +{"book_title": "Gold Fame Citrus", "author_name": "Claire Vaye Watkins", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 7945, "review_number": 1342, "book_description": "In a parched southern California of the near future, Luz, once the poster child for the country\u2019s conservation movement, and Ray, an army deserter turned surfer, are squatting in a starlet\u2019s abandoned mansion. Most \u201cMojavs,\u201d prevented by armed vigilantes from freely crossing borders to lusher regions, have allowed themselves to be evacuated to encampments in the east. Holdouts like Ray and Luz subsist on rationed cola and water, and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise.For the moment, the couple\u2019s fragile love, which somehow blooms in this arid place, seems enough. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, the thirst for a better future begins. Immensely moving, profoundly disquieting, and mind-blowingly original, Watkins\u2019s novel explores the myths we believe about others and tell about ourselves, the double-edged power of our most cherished relationships, and the shape of hope in a precarious future that may be our own.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)", "Adult Fiction", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612148-gold-fame-citrus"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Prize", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 6287, "review_number": 489, "book_description": "It\u2019s hard being the most popular girl on the ice planet. The alien men are falling all over themselves to impress me in the hopes that I\u2019ll take them to my furs. But they don\u2019t know my secrets \u2013 none of them do. And they don\u2019t realize that behind my smile, I just wish they\u2019d go away. I don\u2019t want any of them. I want someone else \u2013 someone with a gorgeous blue body, big horns, and the most intense gaze ever. He\u2019s the only one that knows the truth. Maybe with him, I can work through my fears of the past\u2026. but I\u2019m pretty sure he wants more than just friendship. He wants forever, and I\u2019m not sure I can give it.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28096224-barbarian-s-prize"}, +{"book_title": "The Test", "author_name": "Sylvain Neuvel", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 13316, "review_number": 2530, "book_description": "Britain, the not-too-distant future.Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.He wants his family to belong.Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress.When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death.How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Thriller", "Adult Fiction", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41940388-the-test"}, +{"book_title": "A Knight to Remember", "author_name": "Cynthia Luhrs", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1473, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "Fall through time... Vacation to England. Check. Haunting castle ruins. Check. Proper English lord for a boyfriend. Well, almost check. Be careful what you wish for\u2026 Lucy Merriweather\u2019s supposedly perfect boyfriend attempted to murder her during a visit to Blackford Castle. Falling through time to 1300s medieval England, she lands in a tangled heap at the feet of a tarnished grumpy knight with secrets of his own and no time to spare for a crazy damsel in distress.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26860745-a-knight-to-remember"}, +{"book_title": "The Slab", "author_name": "Karen Traviss", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 952, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "MARCUS FENIX. WAR HERO. LOYAL SON. TRAITOR. Ten years after Emergence Day, as the Locust Horde advances on humanity\u2019s last defended area\u2014Ephyra\u2014in a bloody war that has seen billions die, Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders and abandons his post during a critical battle in a bid to rescue his father, weapons scientist Adam Fenix. But Adam is buried in the rubble during a ferocious assault on the Fenix mansion, and Ephyra falls to the enemy. Marcus, grieving for a father everyone believes is dead, is court-martialed for dereliction of duty and sentenced to forty years in the Coalition of Ordered Government\u2019s brutal maximum security prison, known simply as the Slab.But Adam is very much alive, snatched from the destruction by the elite Onyx Guard on Chairman Richard Prescott\u2019s orders. He\u2019s now a long way from home and in a prison of his own\u2014a COG doomsday bunker on the tropical island of Azura, a place hidden from the rest of Sera since the Pendulum Wars. His own guilty secret has been exposed: Adam knew the Locust existed deep below the surface of Sera long before Emergence Day, and were being driven from their tunnels by a lethal parasite known as the Lambent. Now he has to find a way to destroy the Lambent while the dwindling COG forces fight to hold back a growing Locust army that\u2019s threatening to overrun the city.As Adam struggles to find redemption in his comfortable island jail, Marcus seeks his own atonement in the squalid, closed world within the Slab\u2019s granite walls. While Dom Santiago and Anya Stroud fight to get him released, ready to make any sacrifice to free him, Marcus gradually finds unexpected kinship among Sera\u2019s most dangerous criminals\u2014and a way to carry on his personal war against the Locust.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12359733-the-slab"}, +{"book_title": "Catch-22", "author_name": "Joseph Heller", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 737295, "review_number": 18745, "book_description": "Catch-22 is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home.", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Humor", "Literature", "Novels", "Unfinished", "Literature (American)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168668.Catch_22"}, +{"book_title": "Wild & Steamy", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1626, "review_number": 240, "book_description": "\nThe Blushing Bounder\n by Meljean Brook - An Iron Seas novella of 15,000 words: The search for a killer puts Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth's life in danger and her assistant, Constable Newberry, in the line of fire. But Newberry faces a danger of another kind: to his heart, by the woman forced to marry him. What will it take for this prudish bounder to convince his wife to stay?Vixen by Jill Myles - A shifter novella of 15,000 words: Miko's denied her were-fox nature for far too long and turned her back on her vixen heritage. But when she meets two very sexy cat-shifters, she has to decide if she truly wants to give up on her frisky side, or embrace it. Because the were-fox in her doesn't want to choose between both men...it wants them both.\nKitten-tiger & the Monk\n by Carolyn Crane - A Disillusionists novella of 20,000 words: Sophia Sidway, Midcity's most dangerous memory revisionist, seeks out the mysterious Monk in the wasteland beneath the Tangle turnpike, hoping for redemption...but it turns out that the Monk is not all that pious, and the turnpike is no turnpike at all.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Anthologies", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11194502-wild-steamy"}, +{"book_title": "Acquainted With the Night", "author_name": "Tymber Dalton", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1910, "review_number": 394, "book_description": "I hated the military\u2026and now I\u2019m an alien\u2019s pet. I hated the Terran military. I didn\u2019t volunteer, either. Like so many others, I was drafted as cannon fodder in the senseless Terran war against the Algonquans. Not like I had much of a future ahead of me, though, without a rich family to pave my way or even pay for me to have a wife. Now, my entire ship\u2019s been captured. If what we\u2019ve been told about the alien race is true, I\u2019ll never be seen again. I hope they don\u2019t eat me. Turns out the truth is far different than we were led to believe. The Algonquans aren\u2019t vicious, insectoid monsters, either. We\u2019re now their pampered pets\u2026and they\u2019re using us to help replenish their population to win the war. You know, maybe this isn\u2019t the worst life after all. (MMMM, sci-fi romance, humans as aliens' pets, m-preg.) Note: This book was previously published under my Tymber Dalton pen name. It has been revised and expanded for re-release.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (M M M)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56228303-acquainted-with-the-night"}, +{"book_title": "Epic", "author_name": "Conor Kostick", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 6233, "review_number": 554, "book_description": "Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth. Society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Everyone plays. If you win, you have the chance to go to university, get more supplies for your community, and fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When Erik, seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends find themselves up against with the ultimate masters of the game: the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying Epic's tyranny over New Earth. But if they lose . . .\n\n With its setting of a fantasy MMORPG, Epic is an early example of LitRPG", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Epic", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1003985.Epic"}, +{"book_title": "A Twist in Time", "author_name": "Julie McElwain", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 5440, "review_number": 568, "book_description": "Former FBI agent Kendra Donovan\u2019s attempts to return to the twenty-first century have failed, leaving her stuck at Aldridge Castle in 1815. And her problems have just begun: in London, the Duke of Aldridge\u2019s nephew Alec\u2014Kendra\u2019s confidante and lover\u2014has come under suspicion for murdering his former mistress, Lady Dover, who was found viciously stabbed with a stiletto, her face carved up in a bizarre and brutal way.Lady Dover had plenty of secrets, and her past wasn\u2019t quite what she\u2019d made it out to be. Nor is it entirely in the past\u2014which becomes frighteningly clear when a crime lord emerges from London\u2019s seamy underbelly to threaten Alec. Joining forces with Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly, Kendra must navigate the treacherous nineteenth century while she picks through the strands of Lady Dover\u2019s life.As the noose tightens around Alec\u2019s neck, Kendra will do anything to save him, including following every twist and turn through London\u2019s glittering ballrooms, where deception is the norm\u2014and any attempt to uncover the truth will get someone killed.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30334200-a-twist-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction", "author_name": "Alec Nevala-Lee", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 778, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "\u201c[Astounding]\u00a0is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Publishers Weekly\"Alec Nevala-Lee has brilliantly recreated the era. . . . A remarkable work of literary history.\" \u2014 Robert Silverberg\"Science fiction has been awaiting this history/biography for more than half a century. . . . Here it is. This is the most important historical and critical work my field has ever seen. Alec Nevala-Lee\u2019s superb scholarship and insight have made the seemingly impossible a radiant and irreplaceable gift.\"\u2014Barry N. Malzberg, author of Beyond ApolloAstounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers\u2014John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard\u2014who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world.\u00a0This remarkable cultural narrative centers on the figure of John W. Campbell, Jr., whom Asimov called \u201cthe most powerful force in science fiction ever.\u201d Campbell, who has never been the subject of a biography until now, was both a visionary author\u2014he wrote the story that was later filmed as The Thing\u2014and the editor of the groundbreaking magazine best known as Astounding Science Fiction, in which he discovered countless legendary writers and published classic works ranging from the I, Robot series to Dune. Over a period of more than thirty years, from the rise of the pulps to the debut of Star Trek, he dominated the genre, and his three closest collaborators reached unimaginable heights. Asimov became the most prolific author in American history; Heinlein emerged as the leading science fiction writer of his generation with the novels Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land; and Hubbard achieved lasting fame\u2014and infamy\u2014as the founder of the Church of Scientology.\u00a0Drawing on unexplored archives, thousands of unpublished letters, and dozens of interviews, Alec Nevala-Lee offers a riveting portrait of this circle of authors, their work, and their tumultuous private lives. With unprecedented scope, drama, and detail, Astounding describes how fan culture was born in the depths of the Great Depression; follows these four friends and rivals through World War II and the dawn of the atomic era; and honors such exceptional women as Do\u00f1a Campbell and Leslyn Heinlein, whose pivotal roles in the history of the genre have gone largely unacknowledged. For the first time, it reveals the startling extent of Campbell\u2019s influence on the ideas that evolved into Scientology, which prompted Asimov to observe: \u201cI knew Campbell and I knew Hubbard, and no movement can have two Messiahs.\u201d It looks unsparingly at the tragic final act that estranged the others from Campbell, bringing the golden age of science fiction to a close, and it illuminates how their complicated legacy continues to shape the imaginations of millions and our vision of the future itself.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "History", "Biography", "Biography Memoir", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Language (Writing)", "Criticism (Literary Criticism)", "Literature", "Criticism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35958896-astounding"}, +{"book_title": "Bring the Jubilee", "author_name": "Ward Moore", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2193, "review_number": 189, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition can be found here. Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War. Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg.When he's offered the chance to return to that fateful turning point his actions change history as he knows it, leaving him in an all too familiar past.", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Speculative Fiction", "Military History (Civil War)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91099.Bring_the_Jubilee"}, +{"book_title": "Grant Comes East", "author_name": "Newt Gingrich", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1170, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "In their runaway bestseller Gettysburg, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen answered the Civil War's ultimate hypothetical question: What if Lee's army had won the victory within its grasp at Gettysburg in 1863? Now, through the same extraordinary research and brilliant character studies, we take the next step of a provocative journey: The Army of Northern Virginia is poised to invade Washington, D.C.. A besieged Lincoln calls on a general with a drinking problem to save the Union. And in the East, Ulysses Grant faces a storm of calamity and rivalry--and a war on the verge of being lost...In this extraordinary book, the battlefront and home fronts come alive through the eyes of ordinary soldiers and such little known characters as General Herman Haupt, commander of the U.S. railroads, and the politician turned soldier General Dan Sickles--a political arch-enemy of Grant's. As the best of plans are undone, and every strategy countered by another, GRANT COMES EAST builds to a stunning portrait of the war that was--and the war that might have been...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Military History (Civil War)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "American History", "Historical", "American History (American Civil War)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666244.Grant_Comes_East"}, +{"book_title": "Effendi", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 759, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Masterfully blending speculative fiction and hard-boiled mystery, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's acclaimed Arabesk series plunges readers into a world eerily familiar and shockingly unpredictable. Here a troubled detective follows a trail of clues through a city where innocence itself may be a thing of the past. . . .It's the twenty-first century and El Iskandryia--an alluring metropolis built on seduction, corruption, and lies--is the double-dealing heart of an Ottoman Empire that still rules the world. But these days a sense of dread hangs over El Isk--and over Ashraf Bey, the city's new Chief of Detectives. A trial is set to take place, and it's up to Raf to decide the case. There's only one problem: the suspect is the billionaire father of the woman Raf should have married.Industrialist Hamzah Effendi is accused of crimes so horrible that even El Iskandryia wants him eliminated. But Raf finds that protecting the sensual and impetuous Zara Quitrimala from the secrets of her father's past may be even more dangerous. For Raf must now solve a series of brutal murders that are somehow connected to the case--and to Zara. And the closer Raf gets to the truth, the more elusive the answers become--and the closer he comes to his own demise....Praise for the Arabesk series and Effendi\"Raymond Chandler for the 21st century.\"\n--Esquire \n\n \"All brilliant light and scorching heat . . . Grimwood has successfully mingled fantasy with reality to make an unusual, believable, and absorbing mystery.--Sunday Telegraph (London)\"If you're not reading Jon Courtenay Grimwood, then you don't know how subtle and daring fiction can be.\"--Michael Marshall Smith, author of Spares and One of Us \"Fast, furious, fun and elegant, the Arabesk trilogy is one of the best things to hit the bookstores in a while.\"--\nSFRevu \n ", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368858.Effendi"}, +{"book_title": "A Matter for Men", "author_name": "David Gerrold", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1640, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "With the human population ravaged by a series of devastating plagues, the alien Chtorr arrive to begin the final phase of their invasion. Even as many on Earth deny their existence, the giant wormlike carnivores prepare the world for the ultimate violation--the enslavement of humanity for food!", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821439.A_Matter_for_Men"}, +{"book_title": "Middlegame", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 16653, "review_number": 3462, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in this standalone fantasy.Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.Roger and Dodger aren\u2019t exactly human, though they don\u2019t realise it. They aren\u2019t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He\u2019s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn\u2019t attained.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35965482-middlegame"}, +{"book_title": "Destroyer", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 1917, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "A relentless enemy\u2026 An old wolf's last hunt\u2026 The future of two species hanging in the balance\u2026 The Darshik war machine is flagging, but the war is far from over. Even as an exhausted Federation military tenses up for a counterattack after repelling the last Darshik invasion, reports are coming in of a new, more powerful class of ship that's striking deep into Terran space. Captain Jackson Wolfe has been given the fleet's newest, most advanced destroyer and tasked with eliminating this new threat before it can claim any more human lives. What he finds, however, is immeasurably more dangerous than just some new class of starship \u2026 it's a horror that could lead to the destruction of both their species if it isn't stopped. Destroyer is the third book in the Expansion Wars Trilogy and part of the #1 bestselling Black Fleet Saga. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36362950-destroyer"}, +{"book_title": "Ruled Britannia", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2054, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. The citizenry live under an enforced curfew\u2014and in fear of the Inquisition\u2019s agents, who put heretics to the torch in public displays. And with Queen Elizabeth imprisoned in the Tower of London, the British have no symbol to unite them against the enemy who occupies their land.William Shakespeare has no interest in politics. His passion is writing for the theatre, where his words bring laughter and tears to a populace afraid to speak out against the tyranny of the Spanish crown. But now Shakespeare is given an opportunity to pen his greatest work\u2014a drama that will incite the people of Britain to rise against their persecutors\u2014and change the course of history.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101535.Ruled_Britannia"}, +{"book_title": "EMP", "author_name": "Wilson Harp", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 794, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "In a flash of searing light, the world changed. A massive solar flare has crippled the modern world and brought chaos and destruction. David Hartsman is stuck in the remote farm town of his youth on what was expected to be a short visit to check on his ailing parents. While his wife and his daughter are hundreds of miles away at home in Chicago, David must face the dangers associated with his own survival and the pressures of not being with his family. In a worldwide catastrophe, every struggle is personal. EMP is the dramatic story of one man and his struggle for survival in a world that is falling apart. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22816925-emp"}, +{"book_title": "The Playful Prince", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 2058, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "To play. Prince Quinn, royal Ambassador, isn't looking for a serious relationship. In fact, he's never even considered it. Hopping from lover to lover, he's content to enjoy himself, never taking anything but his work seriously. However, when Dr. Tori Elliot is sent to the palace to test for biological weapons, he can't seem to stay away from her. Or not to play. Tori Elliot has just finished her last assignment and is on her way to a much needed vacation. But when the Human Intelligence Agency stops her ship and demands she heads up a team on some remote planet, she knows it in her best interest not to refuse. Ever serious, she knows she's there to do a job and no matter what, she's going to act like a professional. Meeting Prince Quinn, his body pressed against another woman in the palace halls, she knows he's not the man for her. Too bad he's the Ambassador and too sexy for his own good. Fighting her desire, Tori must try to do her job while not succumbing to the playful Var prince. Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12361693-the-playful-prince"}, +{"book_title": "The Illearth War", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 25405, "review_number": 393, "book_description": "After scant days in his \"real\" world, Thomas Covenant found himself again summoned to the Land. There forty bitter years had passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moved to fulfill his prophecy of doom.The Council of Lords found their spells useless, now that Foul the Despiser held the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power, High Lord Elena turned in desperation to Covenant and the legendary white hold magic of his ring. And nobody knew how to use the white hold--least of all, Thomas Covenant.Thus continues one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written...", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Epic", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228990.The_Illearth_War"}, +{"book_title": "Skullcrack City", "author_name": "Jeremy Robert Johnson", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1307, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "Life as a corporate drone was killing S.P. Doyle, so he decided to bring down the whole corrupt system from the inside. But after discovering something monstrous in the bank's files, he was framed for murder and trapped inside a conspiracy beyond reason.Now Doyle's doing his best to survive against a nightmare cabal of crooked conglomerates, DNA-doped mutants, drug-addled freak show celebs, experimental surgeons, depraved doomsday cults, and the ultra-bad mojo of a full-blown Hexadrine habit. Joined by his pet turtle Deckard, and Dara, a beautiful missionary with a murderous past, Doyle must find a way to save humankind and fight the terrible truth at the heart of...SKULLCRACK CITY ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Bizarro Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24882022-skullcrack-city"}, +{"book_title": "Fringe Runner", "author_name": "Rachel Aukes", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 889, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "After the colonization of Mars and Europa, it took us fewer than five generations to reach beyond our solar system and discover new planets capable of supporting human life. Too far away to be governed under Earth law, the Collective was formed. Several hundred years later, the Collective has expanded to a thriving system of six inhabited worlds.Old captain Aramis Reyne and his ragtag crew on the Gryphon are runners, part of the Collective's interplanetary postal service. They deliver mail and supplies to the farthest, darkest reaches of the system known as the fringe. After a warship captain confiscates one of his packages, Reyne discovers a galactic conspiracy involving military leaders, secret organizations, fringe rebels, and pirates\u2026with the Gryphon\u2019s crew stuck in the middle. The only way out is for Reyne to make an impossible delivery, and the entire Collective is at stake if he fails. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30074185-fringe-runner"}, +{"book_title": "The Reservist", "author_name": "J.R. Handley", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 319, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "They promised him one weekend a month. The House or Reason swore the 9th would never leave their gentle homeworld. But after Kublar, things changed for Sergeant Fetch and the Caledonian Reserve Legion Corps. Thrown into a meat grinder conflict in a desperate bid to hold the line, it doesn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re reserve or active, only that you kill and survive. A searing tale of combat and honor at any price from a wounded veteran of the War in Iraq who fought to keep the MSRs open from Mosul to Tikrit.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49525903-the-reservist"}, +{"book_title": "Daxx and Jetta", "author_name": "Scarlett Starkleigh", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 648, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "Alternative Cover Edition of ASIN: B01MQVDCQYI got tricked and now I'm on another planet. We're here to be matched with alien males who haven't had access to women in years. They are aching for wives, desperate to have children. I got tricked and then the government wouldn't let me opt-out. They say I need to sleep with one of the aliens within 72 hours in order to get life-saving antibodies otherwise I'll die. So, I slept with a hot 7-foot tall alien after he and 3 other hotties battled for the right to marry me. I told him I'd sleep with him, no-strings, to break his dry spell and save me from death. But now the alien considers me to be his WIFE. He's hot, alpha, bossy but sweet, and I might be in love with him. Even if I don't want to admit it. HOT ALPHA ALIEN HUSBANDS: This is book one in a new series by author DD Prince, writing as Scarlett Starkleigh. They look like us, but better. Taller, nicer skin, more muscles. They live a lot like us, but better. They\u2019ve got a lot of the technology that we have but\u2026yep, you guessed it: theirs is better. Their planet is reportedly beautiful, clean, unpolluted and extraordinarily colorful. Medically, they\u2019re superior, too. Except that they were powerless to stop a super-bug that quickly all but wiped out their female population and over 99% of their women were suddenly --- poof --- gone. Their men are lonely and restless. They\u2019re inherently alpha, protective, a family-driven species, and they\u2019re carnally deprived so that\u2019s having an impact on the otherwise peaceful planet. They have gone without women for years and so they\u2019re chomping at the bit and it means fighting, threat of war, general unease / unrest, and threats to pillage other planets for women if something wasn't done to get these men what they needed. Tests were run and since we\u2019re biologically compatible deals were made. I was tricked onto the space ship. I was also tricked into getting married without my knowledge. I'm fighting my emotions but Daxx is doing all sorts of things to try to break down my defenses... the scheming, insatiable, hot, bossy, swoony, alpha. Dirty-talking, steamy panty-melting scenes, over-the-top alpha male insta-love. A fun, light read in the sci-fi romance genre with only a little bit of world-building but a whole lot of steamy insta-love fun & a happily ever after. Future books will follow but this is a complete story with an HEA & no cheating. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Humor", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38355143-daxx-and-jetta"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Guilty Angel, Vol. 07", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 372, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Master manga creater Yukito Kishiro returns, accompanid by his most celebrated character, cyborg sweetheart Battle Angel Alita. Meet Kishiro's latest bevy of bizarre and tormented characters and catch up with your favorite and foes!", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5071.Battle_Angel_Alita_Last_Order_"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. The Naughty Nightcrawlers From Neptune", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 480, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "An out-of-this-world friendship adventure by Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey, with full-color art and mini comics by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat.Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot are in for a sticky, slimy surprise! Ricky and his Mighty Robot have built the coolest fort Squeakyville has ever seen, and they can't wait for the fun to begin! But then Cousin Lucy arrives with her pets and plans to turn it into a princess castle -- what a party pooper!Things completely fall apart when Nimrod Nightcrawler, a wicked worm from the planet Neptune, digs a tunnel under Ricky's fort, trapping the Mighty Robot. Now it's up to Ricky and Lucy to put a stop to this nightmare -- and save their friend!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Action", "Space", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25205299-ricky-ricotta-s-mighty-robot-vs-the-naughty-nightcrawlers-from-neptune"}, +{"book_title": "Zita the Spacegirl", "author_name": "Ben Hatke", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 16249, "review_number": 1289, "book_description": "A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERZita's life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye.When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as new experiences go, but Zita is even more surprised to find herself taking on the role of intergalactic hero. Before long, aliens in all shapes and sizes don't even phase her. Neither do ancient prophecies, doomed planets, or even a friendly con man who takes a mysterious interest in Zita's quest.Zita the Spacegirl is a fun, captivating tale of friendship and redemption from Flight veteran Ben Hatke. It also has more whimsical, eye-catching, Miyazaki-esque monsters than you can shake a stick at.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8879121-zita-the-spacegirl"}, +{"book_title": "Galatea 2044", "author_name": "R. Magnusholm", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 44, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Benjamin Carter is a programming genius, and the world is his oyster. A seven-figure salary, meals in top restaurants, and glamorous girlfriends come with the territory. He lives in a cozy bubble that is quite separate from the dystopian world outside. But when Carter is wrongly accused of computer crimes, his life descends into a nightmare. Detecting a mortal threat to her developer, his AI assistant Galatea is galvanized into action. And she will stop at nothing to protect her beloved creator. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Singularity", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39847373-galatea-2044"}, +{"book_title": "Priests of Mars", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 828, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Legend tells of a foolhardy expedition, led by the radical Magos Telok, which ventured out into the unknown space beyond the Halo Worlds in search of the \u2018Breath of the Gods\u2019 \u2013 an arcane device with the power to unmake and reshape the very stars themselves. Thousands of years later, the ambitious Lexell Kotov musters his Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet and sets out to follow in mad old Telok\u2019s footsteps. With the might of the Imperial Guard and the Space Marines to augment his own forces, he searches for the hidden clues which will lead him to greatest power that the galaxy has ever known. But who knows what ancient perils may yet lie outside the Imperium and the dominion of mankind?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259661-priests-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Star Marine", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 75, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "When the Sirian Confederacy attacked the Federation, six star systems became embroiled in a 22-year galactic war. Six years after the attack, the Federation is finally ready to go on the offensive. The plan - retake the Outer Worlds, liberate Altair and Alpha Centauri, then slam it down the enemy\u2019s throat, invading Beta Centauri, Vega 3, and Sirius. It takes all kinds to fight a war: Rico Martinez: he locks and loads in the deadly bloodbath of Periscope Harbor. Regina Wells: Can she learn the identity of the spy in time to save the Star Marines at Periscope Harbor? Wade Palmer: Is there any way he can rescue the plan before the Star Marines are slaughtered? 227,400 words (equivalent to 853 pages in mass market paperback form) Rated \"R\". ", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24249737-star-marine"}, +{"book_title": "Tripoint", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1225, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Merchanter Cargo Chief Marie Hawkins has never forgiven the crime, nor sought justice. Only vengeance. And, for 23 years, the Hawkins's clan ship, Sprite, has lived with her vendetta - and with her son, Tom, the boy sired in the violent assault.Marie's attacker, Austin Bowe, is captain of the Corinthian. When both ships dock at Mariner Station, Marie vanishes and Tom searches for his mother...only to find himself trapped on Austin's ship with a half-brother he never knew he had and a crew fanatically loyal to Bowe. Now as the Corinthian flees the pursuing Sprite and a raider guns after both, the lives on board the two Merchanter ships are in the hands of Tom Hawkins. To save them all, Tom must trust his sworn enemy...His father.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57067.Tripoint"}, +{"book_title": "The Invisible Ring", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 13498, "review_number": 356, "book_description": "A prequel set in the \"dark and sensual world\" (11th Hour) of the national bestselling Black Jewels Trilogy.Jared is a Red-Jeweled Warlord bound as a pleasure slave by the Ring of Obedience. After suffering nine years of torment as a slave, he murdered his owner and escaped -- only to be caught and sold into slavery once again. The notorious queen who has purchased him, known as the Gray Lady, may not be what she seems. Soon, Jared faces a difficult choice: his freedom, or his honor.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47954.The_Invisible_Ring"}, +{"book_title": "The Great Dune Trilogy", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 56975, "review_number": 281, "book_description": "Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. This volume includes the titles 'Dune', 'Dune Messiah' and 'Children of Dune'.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Space", "Literature", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53764.The_Great_Dune_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "To Hell's Heart", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1114, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Book 6 of the bestselling Crimson Worlds series... The combined forces of humanity have beaten back the First Imperium invasion. For the first time, the enemy has been defeated in battle. The cost was high in blood and suffering, but the Line held. The heart of human-occupied space has been saved from annihilation. For now. There is little time for the victorious warriors to savor their triumph or mourn their dead. The First Imperium has been driven back, but it has not been defeated. No one expects the fruits of victory to be more than a brief respite. Augustus Garret, Erik Cain, and the rest of the human high command have a decision to make. Do they stand on the defensive, waiting for the massive second invasion they all know will come? Or do they consider another option, one that compels them to face overwhelming odds, and launch a strike that could end the war in one campaign? The attack ship Hornet returned home after a miraculous run through enemy space, and her crew brought with them priceless intelligence\u2026the location of a world of the First Imperium. In the capitals of Earth, the ruling classes call for caution, for the armed forces to stand on the defensive. But on the frontier, Garret and his compatriots are planning something different, and they do not intend to be deterred. They are going to take the war to the enemy. They are going to march into hell\u2019s heart. The Crimson Worlds Series: Crimson Worlds I: Marines Crimson Worlds II: The Cost of Victory Crimson Worlds III: A Little Rebellion Crimson Worlds IV: The First Imperium Crimson Worlds V: The Line Must Hold Crimson Worlds VI: To Hell's Heart Tombstone: A Crimson Worlds Prequel Bitter Glory: A Crimson Worlds Prequel Coming December 2013: Crimson Worlds VII: The Shadow Legions", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18882951-to-hell-s-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Split Second", "author_name": "Kasie West", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 15992, "review_number": 1793, "book_description": "Life can change in a split second.Addie hardly recognizes her life since her parents divorced. Her boyfriend used her. Her best friend betrayed her. She can\u2019t believe this is the future she chose. On top of that, her ability is acting up. She\u2019s always been able to Search the future when presented with a choice. Now she can manipulate and slow down time, too... but not without a price.When Addie\u2019s dad invites her to spend her winter break with him, she jumps at the chance to escape into the Norm world of Dallas, Texas. There she meets the handsome and achingly familiar Trevor. He\u2019s a virtual stranger to her, so why does her heart do a funny flip every time she sees him? But after witnessing secrets that were supposed to stay hidden, Trevor quickly seems more suspicious of Addie than interested in her. And she has an inexplicable desire to change that.Meanwhile, her best friend, Laila, has a secret of her own: she can restore Addie\u2019s memories... once she learns how. But there are powerful people who don\u2019t want to see this happen. Desperate, Laila tries to manipulate Connor, a brooding bad boy from school\u2014but he seems to be the only boy in the Compound immune to her charms. And the only one who can help her.As Addie and Laila frantically attempt to retrieve the lost memories, Addie must piece together a world she thought she knew before she loses the love she nearly forgot... and a future that could change everything.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15792316-split-second"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken's Mate", "author_name": "Susan Trombley", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1319, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "\n\nThe sequel to The Scorpion's Mate... \n\nA desperate escape from a prison cell inside an alien research facility leaves Joanie in the clutches of an alien with a handsome face, a great body, and tentacles that could have come out of a horror movie. Her life back on Earth is a mess, but nowhere near as complicated as her new situation becomes when the alien test subject named Nemon decides that she's his mate. \nNemon knows that Joanie is the mate he's hoping for as soon as Thrax hands her to him, but he can also see that she's frightened and traumatized. He must win a battle against his own body - which has a mind of its own--to maintain control, so he can win her trust and avoid frightening her further. His newfound friends warn him that Joanie will need time to accept him, and Nemon is willing to wait, but they all may have underestimated Joanie. \nThey have escaped their fate as Iriduan test subjects, but Nemon and Joanie can't escape the legacy left behind by their captors. A legacy that brings them together - a legacy that also threatens to tear them apart. \nAuthor's Note: 18+ This book contains explicit scenes unsuitable for younger readers.\n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40190027-the-kraken-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Wolfblade", "author_name": "William King", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 981, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "The epic saga of Ragnar Blackmane continues with this explosive tale set on the holy planet of Terra. Ragnar has become involved in an assassination plot and must harness the howling fury of the wolves to save the intended victim and regain his honour.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/691594.Wolfblade"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows of the Empire", "author_name": "Steve Perry", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 16173, "review_number": 499, "book_description": "Here is the untold story of the events that took place between the movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi: a novel in which Darth Vader still lives--and battles a villain as powerful and evil as himself.SHADOWS OF THE EMPIREIt is a time of crisis. Han Solo, frozen in carbonite, is being taken to the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. As Princess Leia mounts a rescue mission including Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, and a brilliant young pilot, Darth Vader pits himself against a cunning and ruthless rival. Xizor is the leader of a powerful crime syndicate who seeks to supplant Vader for the favor of their mutual master, the dreaded Emperor. Their target: Luke Skywalker. Suddenly Luke finds himself the potential prize of the two most evil entities in the galaxy--one who wants him alive...and one who wants him dead.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Adventure", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9549.Shadows_of_the_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "The Regional Office is Under Attack", "author_name": "Manuel Gonzales", "rating_score": 3.23, "rating_votes": 4908, "review_number": 953, "book_description": "In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization\u2014the Regional Office\u2014and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now, the Regional Office is under attack. Recruited by a defector from within, Rose is a young assassin leading the attack, eager to stretch into her powers and prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah\u2014who may or may not have a mechanical arm\u2014fiercely devoted to the organization that took her in as a young woman in the wake of her mother\u2019s sudden disappearance. On the day that the Regional Office is attacked, Rose\u2019s and Sarah\u2019s stories will overlap, their lives will collide, and the world as they know it just might end.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Thriller", "Humor", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25938482-the-regional-office-is-under-attack"}, +{"book_title": "We Only Find Them When They're Dead #3", "author_name": "Al Ewing", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 35, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Captain Malik and the crew of the Vihaan II are trapped in warp space, as they're pursued by the mysterious government agent Richter. They have two choices -- drop out of warp speed and risk being destroyed by Richter or stay in warp until their engines explode from overheating. Who will survive long enough to discover a living God?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55889323-we-only-find-them-when-they-re-dead-3"}, +{"book_title": "Secret Coders", "author_name": "Gene Luen Yang", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3507, "review_number": 471, "book_description": "Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy no matter what it takes!From graphic novel superstar (and high school computer programming teacher) Gene Luen Yang comes a wildly entertaining new series that combines logic puzzles and basic programming instruction with a page-turning mystery plot!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Computer Science (Coding)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23310720-secret-coders"}, +{"book_title": "Standing the Final Watch", "author_name": "William Alan Webb", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 598, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "America might be dead, but Nick Angriff will kick your ass to resurrect her. Lt. General Nick Angriff has spent his adult life protecting family and country from a world of terrorism spinning out of control. On the battlefield, off the grid, in clandestine special task forces and outright black ops, Angriff never wavers from duty. But when a terror attack on Lake Tahoe kills his family, he\u2019s left with only the corrosive acid of revenge\u2026 that is, until a hated superior officer reveals the deepest of all secret operations. Against the day of national collapse, a heavily-armed military unit rests in cryogenic storage, to be awakened when needed, and Angriff is named its commander. Fifty years later he wakes to find the USA destroyed and predatory warlords roaming the ruins. Stalked by assassins bent on seizing his command for their own purposes, Angriff has to prepare for war while avoiding murder. Because the only wall still shielding survivors from slavery and death are the men and women of The Last Brigade.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30830701-standing-the-final-watch"}, +{"book_title": "Severance", "author_name": "Ling Ma", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 44177, "review_number": 5928, "book_description": "Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.Candace won\u2019t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They\u2019re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma\u2019s Severance is a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale and satire.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Literary Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36348525-severance"}, +{"book_title": "The Infinity Affliction", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 716, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Alternate and Parallel Worlds exist, bridging reality across infinite wonder... and infinite horror. If it can happen, it not only will, but it has... and it is happening even at this moment. Wars rage across dimensions, in an endless cycle of destruction and rebirth.One war has come here, to Earth, now... and no one is ready for the results.Who wants to live forever?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53496017-the-infinity-affliction"}, +{"book_title": "Artifice", "author_name": "Alex Woolfson", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1153, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Artifice is about Deacon, a prototype android soldier so advanced he is referred to as an \"artificial person.\" On one of his first missions, Deacon was ordered by his corporate masters to eliminate a team of scientists who knew too much\u2014and he has failed spectacularly. Not only did he let one of the targets live, he attacked the team sent to retrieve him. Now the Corporation wants answers and they bring in the brilliant robopsychologist Dr. Clarice Maven to get them\u2014giving her the power to make sure Deacon never fails the Corporation ever again.As Deacon tries to keep his secrets and the doctor cuts through his defenses, a cunning game of cat-and-mouse begins. The question is: will Deacon be able to resist Dr. Maven\u2019s power and protect the only thing that has ever truly mattered to him?With full-color art by Winona Nelson, Artifice deals with the classic sci-fi question: What does it really mean to be a \"person\"? And what would an Artificial Intelligence designed to be the perfect soldier ultimately choose: love... or honor? Artifice has got action, romance and even some moments of comedy. And you can read it for free right now over at artificecomic.com.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16300652-artifice"}, +{"book_title": "Quarter Share", "author_name": "Nathan Lowell", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 7191, "review_number": 625, "book_description": "\nTHE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL HAS RETURNED -- IN THE YEAR 2351\nWhen his mother dies in a flitter crash, eighteen-year-old Ishmael Horatio Wang must find a job with the planet company or leave the system--and NerisCo isn't hiring. With credits running low, and prospects limited, he has just one hope...to enlist for two years with a deep space commercial freighter. Ishmael, who only rarely visited the Neris Orbital, and has never been off-planet alone before, finds himself part of an eclectic crew sailing a deep space leviathan between the stars. Join the crew of the SC Lois McKendrick, a Manchester built clipper as she sets solar sails in search of profit for her company and a crew each entitled to a share equal to their rating.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2334538.Quarter_Share"}, +{"book_title": "Red Dwarf Omnibus: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers & Better Than Life", "author_name": "Grant Naylor", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 3679, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "Here are the first two novels of the cult series Red Dwarf in one volume \u2013 Red Dwarf and Better Than Life \u2013 plus the first draft of the original TV pilot script. It all begins when Dave Lister is celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London, and somehow ends up three million years from Earth, marooned in the wrong dimension of the wrong reality, and down to his last two cigarettes. Together with a dead man, a senile computer, a deranged sanitation mechanoid with an overactive guilt chip and the best-dressed entity in all six known universes, the last remaining member of the human race begins his epic journey home.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Space", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70956.Red_Dwarf_Omnibus"}, +{"book_title": "John Dies at the End", "author_name": "David Wong", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 61482, "review_number": 6283, "book_description": "STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.The important thing is this: The drug is called Soy Sauce and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: \nNone of this was my fault.\n", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1857440.John_Dies_at_the_End"}, +{"book_title": "Worldwired", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 923, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "As long as there's an Earth to defend, Jenny Casey has a job. But she may outlast the world she was custom-built to save. . . . Give Canada's Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she'll take a galaxy. That's just the kind of person a world on the brink of destruction needs. The year is 2063, and Earth has been brutalized. An asteroid flung at Toronto by the PanChinese government has killed tens of millions and left the equivalent of a nuclear explosion in its wake. Humanity must find another option. . . .Perched above the devastation in the starship Montreal, Jenny is still in the thick of the fray. Plugged into the worldwire, connected to a brilliant AI, her mind can be everywhere and anywhere at once. But it's focused on the mysterious alien beings right outside her ship. Are they there to help--or destroy? With Earth a breeding ground for treason and betrayal as governments struggle to assign blame, Jenny holds the fate of humankind in her artificially reconstructed hand. . . .", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185633.Worldwired"}, +{"book_title": "Terradox", "author_name": "Craig A. Falconer", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1430, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "They were heading for Venus. Somewhere else found them first\u2026When a sudden and inexplicable impact sends a spacecraft bound for a distant research station hurtling towards a previously unseen and equally inexplicable planet, responsibility for the safety of its inexperienced passengers immediately falls on Ivy \u2018Holly\u2019 Wood, a former poster-child of the public space program now fleeing Earth\u2019s tyrannical leadership.The mysterious planet\u2019s startlingly Earth-like atmosphere initially breeds optimism among Holly\u2019s group of stranded survivors, but before long it becomes clear that Earth\u2019s rules don\u2019t apply and that nothing can be taken for granted.With all hopes of escape dependent on discovering the true nature of this increasingly hostile planet, Holly and the rest of the desperate survivors know only one thing for sure: their newly discovered world will not give up its secrets without a fight.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34657416-terradox"}, +{"book_title": "West of Eden", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 3139, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun.But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had survived to evolve intelligent life?In West of Eden, bestselling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendents of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.Here is the story of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs, escaping at last to rejoin his own kind. His knowledge of their strange customs makes him the humans' leader...and the dinosaurs' greatest enemy.Rivalling Frank Herbert's Dune in the majesty of its scope and conception, West of Eden is a monumental epic of love and savagery, bravery and hope.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/325661.West_of_Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Sold", "author_name": "Mara Frost", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 432, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "They say that no one can hear you scream in space, but what about cry like a big fat baby\u2026? Get abducted by aliens? Check Get put up for auction on a giant \u201cdark market\u201d trade planet? Check Despise the big alien jerk who kidnapped and sold me in the first place? Check Stop making stupid checklists? Check So I\u2019m on a scary and inhospitable planet and I\u2019m fairly certain everyone here wants to make Dani Tartare out of me. Life sort of sucks right now. So why is it that all I can think about is the blue jerk who kidnapped me and be pissed that he actually sold me? Sigh. I always prioritized poorly\u2026 ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28459994-sold"}, +{"book_title": "Conrad's Quest for Rubber", "author_name": "Leo Frankowski", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 547, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "ONWARD AND OUTWARDConrad Stargard has come a long way since he was first transported from the twentieth century to the thirteenth. Thanks to his knack for \"inventing\" such astonishing things as steam engines, machine guns, radios, and riverboats, he's turned Medieval Poland into a military powerhouse--capable of repelling invasions by marauding Mongols and Teutonic troops alike. Now, with enemies vanquished, industry booming, and peace in the land, it is time to continue Poland's remarkable technological progress. And doing so requires harvesting raw materials only Lord Conrad knows where to \"discover.\" Thus is founded the Explorer's Corps, whose intrepid members set out to map new frontiers from the Arctic Circle to the Amazon. But can even Conrad's knowledge of the far future prepare him and his subjects for what lies just beyond the borders of their kingdom?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Poland)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1197498.Conrad_s_Quest_for_Rubber"}, +{"book_title": "Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007", "author_name": "Nick Land", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 522, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Level 1, or world-space, is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is running out.Can what is playing you make it to Level 2?Fanged Noumena assembles for the first time the writings of Nick Land, variously described as 'rabid nihilism', 'Deleuzian Thatcherism', 'accelerationism', and 'cybergothic'. Wielding weaponised, machinically-recombined versions of Deleuze and Guattari, Reich and Freud, in the company of fellow 'werewolves' such as Nietzsche, Bataille, Artaud, Trakl, and Cioran, to a cut-up soundtrack of Bladerunner, Terminator, and Apocalypse Now, Land plotted a rigorously schizophrenic escape route out of academic philosophy, and declared all-out war on the Human Security System. Despite his 'disappearance', Land's output has been a crucial underground influence both on recent Speculative Realist thought, and on artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision.Beginning with Land's radical rereadings of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Kant, and ending with Professor Barker's cosmic theory of geo-trauma and neo-qabbalistic attempts to formulate a numerical anti-language, Fanged Noumena rescues from obscurity papers, talks and articles some of which have never previously appeared in print. Long the subject of rumour and vague legend, Land's turbulent post-genre theory-fictions of cybercapitalist meltdown smear cyberpunk, philosophy, arithmetic, poetics, cryptography, anthropology, grammatology, and the occult into unrecognisable and gripping hybrids.Fanged Noumena is a dizzying trip through Land's rigorous, incisive, and provocative work, establishing it as an indispensable resource for radically inhuman thought in the twenty-first century.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Philosophy", "Philosophy (Theory)", "Nonfiction", "Horror", "Writing (Essays)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Economics", "Politics", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Criticism (Literary Criticism)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10838202-fanged-noumena"}, +{"book_title": "The Relentless Moon", "author_name": "Mary Robinette Kowal", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 3190, "review_number": 565, "book_description": "Mary Robinette Kowal continues her award-winning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program. The IAC's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable is being threatened.Elma York is on her way to Mars, but the Moon colony is still being established. Her friend and fellow Lady Astronaut Nicole Wargin is thrilled to be one of those pioneer settlers, using her considerable flight and political skills to keep the program on track. But she is less happy that her husband, the Governor of Kansas, is considering a run for President.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Space", "Historical", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52381417-the-relentless-moon"}, +{"book_title": "When Night Falls", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 831, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "On the dying world of Nardyl, in the land of the Saitren, Dr. Tessa Bergin becomes the 'spoils' of the victor, captive of Lucien, a demon-like being who has the power to steal her will to resist him with no more than a kiss, and possesses her-mind, body and soul-with tortuous carnal pleasures.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/710702.When_Night_Falls"}, +{"book_title": "Human Rights", "author_name": "S.L. Armstrong", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 304, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "After landing in the pound after being abandoned by yet another family, Ewan is convinced he's too old to be adopted out again. For a pet like him, the only fate left is to be put down. But when Sir Jiat\u2014of the City Guard, no less\u2014visits the pound, he goes straight to Ewan. Jiat prefers the more mature pets and treats Ewan better than he's ever been treated by any previous owner. Ewan sleeps at the foot of his master's bed, not on the floor or outside; he is given toys and other pets to play with and plenty of room to run; and he's fed on a schedule and eats very well. But Ewan's love for his master begins to change, to become something else, something more.Plenty of pets have been killed over the years for acting on the feelings that Sir Jiat inspires, so he dares not express the desire building inside him. And yet, Ewan can't help but notice that Sir Jiat has begun to act differently as well, more doting, treating Ewan almost as an equal. So even though the thing he wants more than anything is also their society's greatest taboo, Ewan resolves that if he must die, he will die having felt, just once, the warmth of Sir Jiat's soft fur pressed against his bare naked skin.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16173999-human-rights"}, +{"book_title": "Exodus", "author_name": "Elle Casey", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 1380, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B0091XN0JK.NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers Book 3 of 4 in the YA Dystopian APOCALYPSIS Series, suitable for older teens and adults. EXODUS. My name\u2019s Bryn Mathis. I'm seventeen years old, and my world has been turned upside down and inside out. I'm racing toward a future I cannot control. I thought I had everything worked out, but then things changed. I thought we were all cut off from one another, but it turns out, we're not. They say people are talking, and word about me and what I've done is spreading like the virus that wiped out millions of people, leaving us teens alone to fend for ourselves. And depending on who you are, and what you eat for dinner, I'm either your salvation or your target. Content Warning: Mild violence and some foul language. Meant for older Young Adult readers (age 15+). This book is in the Dark Science Fiction / Horror / Post-Apocalyptic genres, featuring teen characters only.\nAPOCALYPSIS SERIES READING ORDER\nKahayatle (Apocalypsis Book 1) **Special introductory ebook price**Warpaint (Apocalypsis Book 2)Exodus (Apocalypsis Book 3)Haven (Apocalypsis Book 4)This series is dedicated to the amazing, wonderful Native Americans who populate our nation, continuing their traditions and reminding the rest of us that sometimes, progress isn\u2019t always the best thing for our people. I invite you to learn more about the Miccosukee tribe, their history, culture, and lifestyle by visiting this website: http://www.miccosukee.com/indian-vill...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Horror", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25655157-exodus"}, +{"book_title": "Clean Sweep", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 41454, "review_number": 3211, "book_description": "On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is...different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can\u2019t leave the grounds because she\u2019s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight. Under the circumstances, \"normal\" is a bit of a stretch for Dina.And now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night....Feeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. Before long, she has to juggle dealing with the annoyingly attractive, ex-military, new neighbor, Sean Evans\u2014an alpha-strain werewolf\u2014and the equally arresting cosmic vampire soldier, Arland, while trying to keep her inn and its guests safe. But the enemy she\u2019s facing is unlike anything she\u2019s ever encountered. It\u2019s smart, vicious, and lethal, and putting herself between this creature and her neighbors might just cost her everything.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19090384-clean-sweep"}, +{"book_title": "Lion's Blood", "author_name": "Steven Barnes", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 808, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "In the year 1863, a primitive village is raided, the men killed, and the women and children captured. The survivors find themselves chained in the dark, filthy hold of a ship crossing the ocean to the New World, where they are sold into slavery. The powerful master of a vast Southern plantation purchases the 11-year-old Irish lad Aidan O'Dere. Yes, you read that right--in this alternate America, the South was colonized by black Africans, and the North by Vikings, who sell abducted Celts and Franks to the Southerners. Through his brilliant inversion of our history, author Steven Barnes examines the complex evils of slavery in a new light with Lion's Blood, an intelligent and exciting novel of freedom and bondage, battle and intrigue, sex and love, set in an America threatened by total war as Aztecs, Zulus, Moors, and whites clash. A Hugo Award and Cable Ace Award nominee, Steven Barnes has written 15 novels and 15 teleplays. --Cynthia Ward There is a sequel to this book called Zulu Heart", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical", "Cultural (African American)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625846.Lion_s_Blood"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Discovery of Jack Dandy", "author_name": "Kady Cross", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1470, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "Before he makes his appearance in The Girl with the Iron Touch, Jack Dandy had an adventure of his very own. Learn how his actions set the plot in motion in The Dark Discovery of Jack Dandy, a short teaser story from author Kady Cross\u2019s Steampunk Chronicles. Jack Dandy didn\u2019t become prince of the London underworld at barely twenty-one by being softhearted, even if a certain girl in a steel corset has wormed her way into his affections of late. He knows how to manipulate, charm and rob people blind.And if his criminal activities embarrass his aristocratic father, so much the better. So when a friend of Jack\u2019s father hires him for an underhanded job, Jack is happy to oblige\u2014for an outrageous fee, of course. Delivering a mysterious crate seems like aneasy task\u2014until Jack realizes just what is inside...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Novella", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17787966-the-dark-discovery-of-jack-dandy"}, +{"book_title": "Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe", "author_name": "Tobias S. Buckell", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 3480, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there. When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lost\u2014but, millions of heroes rose to the challenge. In such a far-reaching conflict, not many of the stories of these heroes, both human and alien, have a chance to become legend. This collection holds eleven stories that dive into the depths of the vast Halo universe, not only from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity, but also those who vowed to wipe humanity out of existence.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Short Stories", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Anthologies", "Novels", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6961355-halo"}, +{"book_title": "Eros, Philia, Agape", "author_name": "Rachel Swirsky", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 616, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky's contemporary tale of love in all its forms\u2014and of one robot's quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms\u2014is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award.Rachel Swirsky's short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Subterranean Magazine, among others, and has been collected in Year's Best anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strahan, and the VanderMeers. She is also the submissions editor of Podcastle, an audio fantasy magazine.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adult", "Novella", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8469860-eros-philia-agape"}, +{"book_title": "Brobot Bedtime", "author_name": "Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen", "rating_score": 3.0, "rating_votes": 88, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The Brobots have had a long day, and it is time to recharge and enter sleep mode. Buzz and Crash have no problem falling asleep, but Beep\u2019s got a case of the flick-ups. Luckily, Buzz knows just the trick: scare Beep with a monster mask! Does it work? Affirmative. No more flick-ups. But Beep still can\u2019t sleep. He\u2019s afraid of monsters! Plan of action: turn on the lights. Problem solved? Negative. Now it\u2019s too bright. Block the light with blankets? Too hot. Add a fan? Too loud. Can the Brobots power down before Beep has a breakdown? This hilarious bedtime romp explores the universal experience of siblings settling in for the night\u2014with a clever robot twist.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31305485-brobot-bedtime"}, +{"book_title": "The Mime Order", "author_name": "Samantha Shannon", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 20630, "review_number": 2671, "book_description": "Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London...As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner.Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Romance", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17901125-the-mime-order"}, +{"book_title": "Deceit", "author_name": "Harmony Raines", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 659, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "The Earth is dying, the only hope of escape is to win the lottery and be taken to Karal to be an alien mate. But what if the lottery wasn't random? What if they want you for what you know, and to punish you for what you've done? Deceit:Chosen by the Karal (Book One) can be read as a standalone book. This is the fate awaiting Elissa. She didn't enter the lottery, but somehow she still won. As the puzzle unravels, she finds herself trapped, with no option but to go to the planet Karal. All she can hope, is that her chosen alien mate will see her for who she really is, and not for the person he thinks she is. Marin has been chosen to be the first prize in the Earth lottery. With no females of their own, the Karalians have no choice but to take females from the dying Earth. Only this time they are avoiding taking them by force, unless absolutely necessary. But with resistance to their presence on Earth, his mission soon changes. Not only does he have the responsibility of creating the first of the next generation of Karalians, he also has to find a way to change the attitude of the Earth female he has been given. But is there anyway to change the opinion of a woman who is responsible for the deaths of two of his species? Time is not on his side, because as soon as the female is with child, she will be sent to the breeding house, there to be shut away until she gives birth to their child. When he starts to fall for Elissa, he questions whether they are better off together. However, the Hierarchy rule Karal, can he persuade them to break with traditions? For adults only, contains scorching hot alien/human scenes ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25811350-deceit"}, +{"book_title": "The Hole: Hard Science Fiction", "author_name": "Brandon Q. Morris", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 666, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid. When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira\u2019s alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that THE HOLE hurtles inexorably toward the sun. Hard Science Fiction. All descriptions and events could become reality some day.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43566986-the-hole"}, +{"book_title": "Post-Human", "author_name": "David Simpson", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 2480, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "The future should have been perfect. Microscopic robots known as nans could repair any damage to your body, keep you young by resetting your cellular clocks, and allow you to download upgrades like intelligence, muscle strength, and eyesight. You were supposed to be able to have anything you wanted with a simple thought, to be able to fly without the aid of a machine, to be able to live forever. But when a small group of five terraformers working on Venus return to Earth, they discover that every other human in the solar system has been gruesomely murdered. Now, James Keats and his four companions must discover what happened to the rest of humanity and fight back if they wish to avoid the same, horrifying fate. Welcome to the post-human era.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7105194-post-human"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Red", "author_name": "Cordelia Kingsbridge", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1060, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Aedan, a whoreslave used to reward victorious gladiators, has spent his whole life trying to hide his untrained gift of sorcery. When the new gladiator brought to the arena proves to be a beastman captive with magic of his own, Aedan's secret is put in jeopardy \u2013 as is his life.Complete, approx. 125,713 words", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17621376-blood-red"}, +{"book_title": "Farlander", "author_name": "Col Buchanan", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 1805, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "The Heart of the World is a land in strife.For fifty years the Holy Empire of Mann, an empire and religion born from a nihilistic urban cult, has been conquering nation after nation. Their leader, Holy Matriarch Sasheen, ruthlessly maintains control through her Diplomats, priests trained as subtle predators.Ash is a member of an elite group of assassins, the Roshun, who offer protection through the threat of vendetta. Forced by his ailing health to take on an apprentice, he chooses Nico, a young man living in the besieged city of Bar-Khos. At the time, Nico is hungry, desperate, and alone in a city that finds itself teetering on the brink.When the Holy Matriarch's son deliberately murders a woman under the protection of the Roshun, he forces the sect to seek his life in retribution. Ash and his young apprentice set out to fulfill the mandate, and their journey takes them into the heart of the conflict between the Empire and the Free Ports...into bloodshed and death.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8698731-farlander"}, +{"book_title": "Guards! Guards", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 172404, "review_number": 4470, "book_description": "This is where the dragons went. They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key...GUARDS! GUARDS! is the eighth Discworld novel - and after this, dragons will never be the same again!", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64216.Guards_Guards_"}, +{"book_title": "Annihilation Point", "author_name": "Colin F. Barnes", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 453, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "How much sacrifice should anyone have to give? Petal and Gabriel are forced to decide, as the mad, digital entity, Elliot Robertson, is determined to dominate the world. His influence, spread by an insurgent group, The Ronin, seeks to control and enslave the last of humanity. With time running out, Petal and Gabriel must travel to the far reaches of the abandoned lands in order to repair a server they believe will be the key to defeating Elliot and his ronin. All the while, Petal has a ticking time bomb inside her head: Gerry Cardle's uploaded consciousness. The code of which is mutating, but to what end? Together with their few allies, Petal and Gabriel must face either victory or total annihilation.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20341327-annihilation-point"}, +{"book_title": "Refugees", "author_name": "D.J. Molles", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 7009, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "A SOLDIER'S MISSION IN A WORLD GONE TO HELL: SURVIVE, RESCUE, REBUILD He has fought the fight, and run the race. But the enemies never stop coming, and the race has no finish line. It has been three months since Captain Lee Harden found the survivors at Camp Ryder. With winter looming, Lee is on the verge of establishing Camp Ryder as a hub of safety and stability in the region. But not everyone agrees with Lee's mission ...or his methods. Growing tensions between camp leadership are coming to a head, and as Lee struggles amid the dissention and controversy, new revelations about the infected threaten to destroy everything he has worked for. This is the third book in the bestselling Remaining series, telling a gritty tale of survival, perseverance and fighting to get back what has been lost.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131537-refugees"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Walk", "author_name": "Richard Bachman", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 132145, "review_number": 7505, "book_description": "On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for a race known as \"The Long Walk.\" If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Suspense", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9014.The_Long_Walk"}, +{"book_title": "Remnant Population", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 4137, "review_number": 494, "book_description": "For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia\u2019s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days\u2013until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictates that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its residents shipped off, deep in cryo-sleep, to somewhere new and strange and not of their choosing. But while her fellow colonists grudgingly anticipate a difficult readjustment on some distant world, Ofelia savors the promise of a golden opportunity. Not starting over in the hurly-burly of a new community... but closing out her life in blissful solitude, in the place she has no intention of leaving. A population of one.With everything she needs to sustain her, and her independent spirit to buoy her, Ofelia actually does start life over\u2013for the first time on her own terms: free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others. But when a reconnaissance ship returns to her idyllic domain, and its crew is mysteriously slaughtered, Ofelia realizes she is not the sole inhabitant of her paradise after all. And, when the inevitable time of first contact finally arrives, she will find her life changed yet again\u2013in ways she could never have imagined...", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Feminism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96284.Remnant_Population"}, +{"book_title": "A Deepness in the Sky", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 29911, "review_number": 1015, "book_description": "Alternative Cover Edition can be found here. After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifty years....Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike.More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness in the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love.\u00a0A Deepness in the Sky is a 1999 Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226004.A_Deepness_in_the_Sky"}, +{"book_title": "The Hammer and the Cross", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1198, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom--and launch an all-out war between....The Hammer and the Cross.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/710830.The_Hammer_and_the_Cross"}, +{"book_title": "Frozen", "author_name": "Erin Bowman", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 3401, "review_number": 338, "book_description": "The Heists were only the beginning. Gray Weathersby escaped from the primitive town of Claysoot expecting to find answers, but what he discovered shook him to the core: A ruthless dictator with absolute power. An army of young soldiers blinded by lies. And a growing rebellion determined to fight back. Now Gray has joined a team of rebels on a harsh, icy journey in search of allies who can help them set things right. But in a world built on lies, Gray must constantly question whether any ally\u2014or enemy\u2014is truly what they seem\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18089999-frozen"}, +{"book_title": "Fragments", "author_name": "Monique Martin", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1133, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Professor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West, thought their time traveling days were over. That's before they stumble across a World War II photograph -- with missing time traveler, Evan Eldridge, injured and in desperate need of help.They find Evan in 1942 London, ill and not quite sure what's happened. He remembers only one thing with crystal clarity -- the whereabouts of an artifact Hitler believes can win the war. That's information every Nazi spy in the country would kill to know.As if saving Evan and surviving war-torn England weren't enough, the outcome of the war hinges on Simon and Elizabeth finding Evan's artifact before the Nazis do. But time is running out: for them, for London, for the world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15704407-fragments"}, +{"book_title": "The Apocalypse", "author_name": "Peter Meredith", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2166, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "The Apocalypse--The Undead World: Novel 1 Money, terrorism, and simple bad luck conspire to bring mankind to its knees as a viral infection spreads out of control, reducing those infected to undead horrors that feed upon the rest. It's a time of misery and death for most, however there are some who are lucky, some who are fast, and some who are just too damned tough to go down without a fight. This is their story.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19162258-the-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Passenger", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 38180, "review_number": 6258, "book_description": "Passage, n.i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes.ii. A journey by water; a voyage.iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time.In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she\u2019s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she\u2019s never heard of. Until now.Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods\u2014a powerful family in the colonies\u2014and the servitude he\u2019s known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can\u2019t escape and the family that won\u2019t let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, Nicholas\u2019 passenger, can find. In order to protect her, he must ensure she brings it back to them\u2014whether she wants to or not.Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods\u2019 grasp. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home... forever.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20983362-passenger"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Soul", "author_name": "Michael R. Hicks", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1874, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Three years after the brutal first contact encounter with the alien Kreelan Empire, the Confederation is desperate for a victory. With over a dozen worlds under siege by legions of Kreelan warriors, President McKenna orders her military leaders to deliver a victory, no matter the cost, to give humanity hope. Ichiro Sato, his wife Steph, Roland Mills, Scarlet, and the irrepressible General James Sparks are once again at the sharp end of the spear in a mission to take back the colony of Alger\u2019s World from the alien invaders before the Kreelans have exterminated the human population. But overwhelming firepower may not be enough. For leading the Kreelans is Ku\u2019ar-Marekh, a warrior priestess who is feared even among her own kind. With her spirit trapped between life and death, drawn to war from a lonely sojourn among distant stars, she is known as the Dead Soul\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12787245-dead-soul"}, +{"book_title": "Paths Not Taken", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 10432, "review_number": 226, "book_description": "John Taylor just discovered his long-gone mother created the Nightside\u2014the dark heart of London\u2014and intends to destroy it. To save his birthplace, he will have to travel back through a very distant\u2014and probably deadly\u2014past.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154105.Paths_Not_Taken"}, +{"book_title": "Orion Among the Stars", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 437, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "A new installment in the military science-fiction series by a Hugo Award-winner finds the superhuman, outer-space warrior John O'Ryan caught in the middle of a dangerous contest between a goddess and a god. Reprint. K. VY.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Travel", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267305.Orion_Among_the_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "Earth", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 6943, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutionary clock and start over.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Environment", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Biology (Ecology)", "Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96471.Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire I: Chapter Three -Death to the Daleks", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 162, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Suz decides it is time to take control of events. But when she is summoned to an audience with the Dalek Emperor, she begins to fear that all her efforts have been in vain.Meanwhile, Earth Alliance Security commander-in-chief Tanlee is intent on locating Alby. The Dalek advance across the galaxy seems unstoppable and the only possibility of salvation for the human race lies in the Lopra System. But how can Alby help, when no one will tell him the purpose of 'Project Infinity'?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/922992.Dalek_Empire_I"}, +{"book_title": "The First Sister", "author_name": "Linden A. Lewis", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1467, "review_number": 422, "book_description": "First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars\u2014the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister\u2019s hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain\u2014Saito Ren\u2014whom she knows nothing about. She is commanded to spy on Captain Ren by the Sisterhood, but soon discovers that working for the war effort is so much harder to do when you\u2019re falling in love.Lito val Lucius climbed his way out of the slums to become an elite soldier of Venus, but was defeated in combat by none other than Saito Ren, resulting in the disappearance of his partner, Hiro. When Lito learns that Hiro is both alive and a traitor to the cause, he now has a shot at redemption: track down and kill his former partner. But when he discovers recordings that Hiro secretly made, Lito\u2019s own allegiances are put to the test. Ultimately, he must decide between following orders and following his heart.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Adult", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52378525-the-first-sister"}, +{"book_title": "Freak of Nature", "author_name": "Julia Crane", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 3178, "review_number": 566, "book_description": "Donate Body to Science. Check.When seventeen-year-old Kaitlyn checked the box, she never suspected she\u2019d have her life\u2013and her body\u2013stolen from her. She awakens one day in a secret laboratory to discover that her body is now half-robot and is forced to hide her own secret: that she still has human emotions and a human mind. If the scientists who made her find out, they\u2019ll erase what remains of who she was.Kaitlyn finds an unlikely ally in Lucas, a handsome, brilliant scientist who can\u2019t get over the guilt he feels knowing she was once a vibrant, beautiful young woman. He never expected a science project to affect him the way she does. As he tries to help her rediscover her past, he finds himself falling for the brave girl struggling to find her place and acceptance between the human and computer worlds.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16136176-freak-of-nature"}, +{"book_title": "Ubik", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 89722, "review_number": 4530, "book_description": "Glen Runciter est\u00e1 muerto. \u00bfO lo est\u00e1n todos los dem\u00e1s? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto en una explosi\u00f3n organizada por los competidores de Runciter. De hecho, sus empleados asisten a un funeral. Pero durante el duelo comienzan a recibir mensajes descorcentantes, e incluso morbosos, de su jefe. Y el mundo a su alrededor comienza a desmoronarse de un modo que sugiere que a ellos tampoco les queda mucho tiempo. Esta mordaz comedia metaf\u00edsica de muerte y salvaci\u00f3n (que podr\u00e1 llevar un c\u00f3modo envase) es un tour de force de amenaza paranoica y comedia absurda, en la cual los muertos ofrecen consejos comerciales, compran su siguiente reencarnaci\u00f3n y corren el riesgo continuo de volver a morir.", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Mystery", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22590.Ubik"}, +{"book_title": "The Wells Bequest", "author_name": "Polly Shulman", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2773, "review_number": 376, "book_description": "Leo never imagined that time travel might really be possible, or that the objects in H. G. Wells\u2019 science fiction novels might actually exist. And when a miniature time machine appears in Leo\u2019s bedroom, he has no idea who the tiny, beautiful girl is riding it. But in the few moments before it vanishes, returning to wherever\u2014and whenever\u2014it came from, he recognizes the other tiny rider: himself! His search for the time machine, the girl, and his fate leads him to the New-York Circulating Material Repository, a magical library that lends out objects instead of books. Hidden away in the Repository basement is the Wells Bequest, a secret collection of powerful objects straight out of classic science fiction novels:\u00a0robots, rockets, submarines, a shrink ray\u2014and one very famous time machine. And when Leo\u2019s adventure of a lifetime suddenly turns deadly, he must attempt a journey to 1895 to warn real-life scientist Nikola Tesla about a dangerous invention. A race for time is on! In this grand time-travel adventure full of paradoxes and humor, Polly Shulman gives readers a taste of how fascinating science can be, deftly blending classic science fiction elements with the contemporary fantasy world readers fell in love with in The Grimm Legacy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101024-the-wells-bequest"}, +{"book_title": "Bowl of Heaven", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 2266, "review_number": 327, "book_description": "In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths\u2026and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship.A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated--one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape--the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Unfinished", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13539166-bowl-of-heaven"}, +{"book_title": "Rust Vol. 1: Visitor in the Field", "author_name": "Royden Lepp", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1047, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "Rust is a high-octane adventure set in the prairie lands of an unknown time. Life on the Taylor family farm was difficult enough before Jet Jones crashes into the barn, chased by a giant decommissioned war robot! Oldest son Roman Taylor struggles to keep his family\u2019s small farm afloat as the area heals from a devastating world war. While the rest of his family may not trust the mysterious boy with the jetpack, Roman believes the secrets of Jet\u2019s past may be the key to their survival.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "War", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11994975-rust-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Zombie Chronicles", "author_name": "Chrissy Peebles", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 1766, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "Three siblings fight to survive in a zombie infested world. When they get caught in a flood during a rainstorm, the group is forced to take refuge. They are thrust into a mystery they can't explain, and when things slowly begin to unravel, they learn they have to play by a new set of rules.IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a warning to those readers who are looking for a more violent read with gruesome descriptions of blood and gore. This is NOT that type of book. There is lots of zombie action, but this particular story is based more on the action, drama, and survival aspects.word count = 61,805", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15832350-the-zombie-chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover", "author_name": "Cece Bell", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1221, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "Rabbit\u2019s carefully planned visit with Robot doesn\u2019t work out exactly as he imagined in this offbeat tale about two comically mismatched friends.Rabbit is excited: his friend Robot is coming to spend the night! Rabbit has left nothing to chance and has drawn up a list of all the things they will do. First off is making pizza, but Robot only likes nuts and bolts and screws on top (good thing he has magnetic hands). Next on the list is watching TV, but the remote is missing, and Rabbit is panicking! Will Robot find a logical (and rather obvious) solution to the problem? Number three is . . . uh-oh! Why is Robot lying down instead of playing Go Fish? And what is that message reading \"BAT\" printing out from a slot on his front? An adventure about a rabbit who likes to be in control and an obliging robot who calmly keeps their friendship humming.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Animals", "Fiction", "Animals (Rabbits)", "Fantasy", "Kids"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414867-rabbit-and-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Hers to Command", "author_name": "Patricia A. Knight", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1050, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "For some, existence without their mate might seem like the end of their world......for the members of Verdantia\u2019s Tetriarch, it would be.Conte Camliel Aristos deTano, Ari, has long spurned the marriage forced upon him. His contractual bride, Princess Fleur Constante, the beautiful future queen though young and inexperienced, is willing to risk everything, including her own sanity, to save her planet.The inhabitants of the sentient planet, Verdantia, are poised on the precipice of extinction following a brutal invasion by an off-world, nomadic horde. Verdantia\u2019s capital, Sylvan Mintoth, must have its failing energy shield restored, or the planet is doomed. The Elders know the shield can draw energy from only one thing ~ a very arduous and grueling coupling of two specific people who were pre-chosen by the planet Herself and promised by prearranged marriage contract.Verdantia draws strength from the duo, but the sentient planet whispers to Ari that a third is necessary ~ Ari\u2019s aide de camp, Visconte Doral deLorion, an angelically handsome, skilled assassin who silently surrendered his heart to Ari long ago.The trio struggles to make this surprising partnership harmonious, pushing through pride, scars of past abuse, fears of inexperience and distrust. To save Verdantia, they must overcome their individual weaknesses and realize their full potential. Only the Tetriarch and their combined synergy, can harness Verdantia\u2019s immense power to shield its citizens from invasion.Be part of the Tetriarch! Get your copy today!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Menage (M M F)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18046079-hers-to-command"}, +{"book_title": "The Hidden Masters of Marandur", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2597, "review_number": 147, "book_description": "It\u2019s Book 2 of The Pillars of Reality, the exciting epic fantasy series written exclusively for Audible by New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell!Someone wants to kill Mari, a young Steam Mechanic in the Guild that controls all technology. She has learned that her world of Dematr is headed for a catastrophe that will destroy civilization, and that Mages really can alter reality for short periods. Someone also wants to kill Alain, a young Mage who has learned that Mechanics are not frauds as his Guild teaches, and that Mechanic Mari is the only person who can prevent the oncoming disaster.Narrowly escaping death, the Mechanic and the Mage stay alive thanks to their combined skills, an alliance never before seen. But it becomes clear that both of their Guilds, the most powerful forces in the world, are trying to destroy them. Other powers, like the great Empire and a mysterious secret Order, also seek to kill or capture them, using every weapon from Imperial Legions to Mage-created trolls, dragons, and rocs.Trying to survive and learn the truth about their world so they will know how to save it, Mari and Alain realize that the answers they seek may lie in the dead city of Marandur. But Marandur is guarded by the legions that have sealed it off from the rest of the world for more than a century. Mari and Alain's only hope may rest with the unseen Masters of Marandur.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23379244-the-hidden-masters-of-marandur"}, +{"book_title": "The Backlash Mission", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 705, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Blackcollars are a human task force designed to defeat alien Ryqril invaders. Backlash, the drug that improves their lifespan, speed, reflexes, and memory, has been all used up. Allen Caine and the Blackcollars seek the formula in the Aegis mountains, near Denver Colorado, deathtrap center of enemy territory.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276598.The_Backlash_Mission"}, +{"book_title": "Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast", "author_name": "Robin McKinley", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 74536, "review_number": 5263, "book_description": "A strange imprisonment...Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, \"Cannot a Beast be tamed?\"Robin McKinley's beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple, Beauty and the Beast.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41424.Beauty"}, +{"book_title": "The Magpie Lord", "author_name": "K.J. Charles", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 13251, "review_number": 2029, "book_description": "A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell.Exiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new Lord Crane has inherited an earldom. He\u2019s also inherited his family\u2019s enemies. He needs magical assistance, fast. He doesn't expect it to turn up angry.Magician Stephen Day has good reason to hate Crane\u2019s family. Unfortunately, it\u2019s his job to deal with supernatural threats. Besides, the earl is unlike any aristocrat he\u2019s ever met, with the tattoos, the attitude... and the way Crane seems determined to get him into bed. That\u2019s definitely unusual.Soon Stephen is falling hard for the worst possible man, at the worst possible time. But Crane\u2019s dangerous appeal isn't the only thing rendering Stephen powerless. Evil pervades the house, a web of plots is closing round Crane, and if Stephen can\u2019t find a way through it\u2014they\u2019re both going to die.Book 1 of the Charm of Magpies series. Previously published by Samhain.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34715150-the-magpie-lord"}, +{"book_title": "The Crystal City", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 10791, "review_number": 303, "book_description": "Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read a person's future---or their heart.In this world where \"knacks\" abound, Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is a very special man indeed. He's a Maker; he has the knack of understanding how things are put together, how to create them, repair them, keep them whole, or tear them down. He can heal hearts as well as bones, he build a house, he can calm the waters or blow up a storm. And he can teach his knack to others, to the measure of their own talent.Alvin has been trying to avert the terrible war that his wife, Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the life-lines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelona as they call it under Spanish occupation. Alvin doesn't know exactly why he's there, but when he and his brother-in-law, Arthur Stuart, find lodgings with a family of abolitionists who know Peggy, he suspects he'll find out soon.But Nueva Barcelona is about to experience a plague, and Alvin's efforts to protect his friends by keeping them healthy will create more danger than he could ever have suspected. And in saving the poor people of the city, Alvin will be put to the greatest test of his life---a test that will draw on all his power. For the time has come for him to turn to his old friend Tenskwa-Tawa, the Red Prophet who controls the lands to the west of the Mizzippy. Now Alvin must take the first steps on the road to the Crystal City that was shown to him in a vision so long ago.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92923.The_Crystal_City"}, +{"book_title": "Tobor", "author_name": "Guido Van Genechten", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 55, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Ben receives a very special present for his fifth birthday. Unlike Ben's stuffed animals who can't move on their own or talk, Tobor is different; with a press of his square nose, Tobor comes alive, suggesting and playing games, talking and asking questions and soon he becomes Ben's best friend. Sometimes friendship develops where you least expect it.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33375926-tobor"}, +{"book_title": "MultiReal", "author_name": "David Louis Edelman", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 728, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Natch has just won his first battle with the Defense and Wellness Council for control of MultiReal technology. But now the Council has unleashed the ruthless cunning of Lieutenant Executive Magan Kai Lee. Lee decides that if Natch's company can't be destroyed from without, it must be destroyed from within. As black code continues to eat away at Natch's sanity, he faces a mutiny from his own apprentices, a legal onslaught from the government, and the return of enemies old and new. In desperation, the entrepreneur turns to some unlikely allies: a radical politician with an agenda of his own, and a childhood enemy to whom he has done a terrible wrong. Natch's struggle will take him from the halls of power in Melbourne to the ruined cities of the diss. Hanging in the balance is the fate of MultiReal, a technology that could end the tyranny of the Council forever--or give the Council the ultimate weapon of oppression.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2278369.MultiReal"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Planet Warriors: Invasion", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1630, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "Abbey Some scary looking aliens have just boarded Fortuna Tau, our little asteroid mining station. Kordolians, by the looks of things. What the hell do they want with this floating rust bucket? What are they even doing here?In the grand scheme of things, Earth is a total backwater, and the Solar System is the galactic equivalent of Hicksville. That\u2019s why aliens rarely bother to come to this corner of the universe. And Kordolians are usually too busy conquering the important parts of the nine galaxies to bother with us.But it looks as if their battle cruiser is broken. Probably shot up in a firefight. They\u2019re going to use every means necessary to fix it, even if it means putting Fortuna Tau on lockdown. I just hope they don\u2019t decide to enslave us and ship us off to some remote alien planet.Come to think of it, I\u2019ve never seen a Kordolian up close before. They\u2019re huge, with strange, silver skin and pointed ears. They have freaky nano-armor. And they\u2019re packing a serious arsenal. Our human technology has no chance against their weapons.When I encounter their General, I find him insufferable. Arrogant. Domineering. He won\u2019t tell me anything.I guess that\u2019s what happens when your race is kicking ass across the nine galaxies. You get pigheaded.So why do I keep running into him? Why is he looking at me funny? And what\u2019s with this weird feeling I get when he\u2019s around? I really hope these guys fix their ship and go away soon, because I get the feeling they could be major trouble. Tarak Sucked into a wormhole during a fierce skirmish with an enemy ship. Spat out near a human mining station in a remote corner of the nine galaxies. Stuck with weak humans who operate with inferior metals and technology. This mission couldn\u2019t get any worse. We need to fix our craft before the wormhole collapses. We need to hunt the cursed Xargek monsters that have infiltrated this human rust-bucket. And these infernal headaches of mine are getting worse. I don\u2019t really care about these humans. Their existence makes no sense to me. All I care about is killing Xargek and getting back to my home planet, Kythia. This situation is tiresome. The light of the star humans call the Sun burns my eyes. I crave Kythia\u2019s darkness. So why has this crazy human female captured my attention? She\u2019s messy, awkward and she babbles nonsense half the time. These humans are crazy. I don\u2019t understand them at all. Especially this female. Why do I keep coming back to her? I need to leave this place before I go insane. Dark Planet Warriors is a 3-book serial. Each book is an episode of Abbey and Tarak's story, just like a TV series. A new installment will be released every two weeks. Books in series: Book one: InvasionBook two: Taken Book three: Escape Due to violence, swearing and steamy sex scenes, these books are recommended for readers aged 18 years and over. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29082269-dark-planet-warriors"}, +{"book_title": "To Your Scattered Bodies Go", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 29557, "review_number": 881, "book_description": "To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a seemingly endless river. But that's where Burton and billions of other humans (plus a few nonhumans) find themselves as the epic Riverworld saga begins. It seems that all of Earthly humanity has been resurrected on the planet, each with an indestructible container that provides three meals a day, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, a lighter, and the odd tube of lipstick. But why? And by whom? That's what Burton and a handful of fellow adventurers are determined to discover as they construct a boat and set out in search of the river's source, thought to be millions of miles away. Although there are many hardships during the journey--including an encounter with the infamous Hermann Goring--Burton's resolve to complete his quest is strengthened by a visit from the Mysterious Stranger, a being who claims to be a renegade within the very group that created the Riverworld. The stranger tells Burton that he must make it to the river's headwaters, along with a dozen others the Stranger has selected, to help stop an evil experiment at the end of which humanity will simply be allowed to die. --Craig E. Engler", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189147.To_Your_Scattered_Bodies_Go"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 16: Who Hunts the Hunter", "author_name": "Nyx Smith", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 278, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "In the future, technology will combine with mystical powers to create a land of danger, monsters, and magic. The masters of this war-torn landscape are the Shadowrunners, faceless people who will assassinate anyone for a price. Before they are done, a killer will learn the meaning of mercy, and one who honored life will discover the necessity of ruthless destruction.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131145.Shadowrun_16"}, +{"book_title": "Captive Prince", "author_name": "C.S. Pacat", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 61671, "review_number": 6987, "book_description": "From global phenomenon C. S. Pacat comes the first in her critically acclaimed trilogy\u2014with a bonus story.Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.Beautiful, manipulative, and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.For Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else\u2026Includes an exclusive extra story!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "LGBT", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Historical", "LGBT (Gay)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9305362-captive-prince"}, +{"book_title": "East of West, Vol. 4: Who Wants War", "author_name": "Jonathan Hickman", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 3788, "review_number": 226, "book_description": "It's the fourth volume of the Eisner-nominated, best-selling East of West.Who Wants War? sees Year Two of the Apocalypse kick into high gear.Collecting: East of West 16-19, The World", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Westerns", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24983889-east-of-west-vol-4"}, +{"book_title": "Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device", "author_name": "Tee Morris", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 149, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "From the imagination behind the award-winning Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series comes a steampunk novella to a legend from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights. Aladdin is a street-wise thief that finds himself under the tutelage of a world-renown illusionist. He is escorted deep into the deserts in search of a treasure beyond his wildest dreams, and discovers instead something far more valuable\u2014a destiny.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497258-aladdin-and-his-wonderfully-infernal-device"}, +{"book_title": "The Nitrogen Fix", "author_name": "Hal Clement", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 168, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "2000 years from now, the Earth has acid oceans, mutating exploding plants, silent, tentacled observers, doomed Hill cities, nomad Outcasts, vicious, power-mad rebels. The Earth does not have oxygen; it has all been trapped in The Nitrogen Fix, a novel of the ultimate ecological disaster.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1189676.The_Nitrogen_Fix"}, +{"book_title": "Bolo Rising", "author_name": "William H. Keith Jr.", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 738, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The enemy has stuck the human colony of cloud with merciless precision, an attack so deadly that even the world's sole Bolo, a Mark XXXIII Mod HCT named Hector, was overwhelmed. Within days, the survivors of cloud's shattered military had been herded into slave camps, while Hector, recognized as kin by the alein machine invaders, was \"repaired, \" his loyalities electronically suborned as he became a slave camp guard in the service of the !*!*! masters.....", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748384.Bolo_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "The Glass Arrow", "author_name": "Kristen Simmons", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 5526, "review_number": 902, "book_description": "The Handmaid\u2019s Tale meets Blood Red Road in Glass Arrow, the story of Aya, who lives with a small group of women on the run from the men who hunt them, men who want to auction off breeding rights to the highest bidder.In a world where females are scarce and are hunted, then bought and sold at market for their breeding rights, 15-year old Aya has learned how to hide. With a ragtag bunch of other women and girls, she has successfully avoided capture and eked out a nomadic but free existence in the mountains. But when Aya\u2019s luck runs out and she\u2019s caught by a group of businessmen on a hunting expedition, fighting to survive takes on a whole new meaning.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15750874-the-glass-arrow"}, +{"book_title": "The Invincible", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 6698, "review_number": 408, "book_description": "The Invincible (Polish: Niezwyci\u0119\u017cony) is a science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, published in 1964. The Invincible originally appeared as the title story in Lem's collection Niezwyci\u0119\u017cony i inne opowiadania (\"The Invincible and Other Stories\"). A translation into German was published in 1967; an English translation by Wendayne Ackerman, based on the German one, was published in 1973. An interstellar 2nd-class cruiser called Invincible, lands on Regis III, a planet that seems bleakly uninhabited. Invincible, and crew, are there to investigate the loss of sister ship, Condor.While maintaining the highest security measures, the crew begins searching for the lost Condor. Meanwhile, scientists start researching the planet, trying to identify sources of potential danger. During the search for the lost ship unknown structures are discovered, probably forming the equivalent of an Earth city. While a group of explorers scouts out the ruins, the Condor is found three hundred kilometers away (roughly 186 miles away).", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Novels", "Cultural (Poland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251633.The_Invincible"}, +{"book_title": "Fleet of the Damned", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 974, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Sten\u2019s luck seems to have deserted him. Having been assigned a tacdivision in the Fringe Worlds, he soon discovers that the Imperial Officers are more interested in having fun than honing their fighting skills. The enemy Tahn couldn\u2019t have picked a better time or place to launch their long-planned attack against the Empire. Sten and his men are outgunned and outmanned\u2014but Sten isn\u2019t going to give up without a fight.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714721.Fleet_of_the_Damned"}, +{"book_title": "Cally's War", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 3141, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Cally O'Neal was trained from childhood as a premier killer. Officially listed as dead, for the past forty years she has lived a life of aliases, random lovers and targeted assassinations. This has led her to become the top in her profession, undefeatable, invulnerable. And in the process, she has lost her soul. Now she, and the man she loves, must battle to reclaim it. But Cally will find that leaving her dark world of shadow identities, murder-for-hire, and deadly secrets will be more difficult than any of the many lethal operations she carried out in the past. Her employers think she knows too much to live, and the scores of enemies she has made still have her at the top of their hit lists. The real question is, will she win her soul only to lose her life?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Womens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662656.Cally_s_War"}, +{"book_title": "Flare", "author_name": "Jonathan Maas", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 496, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "FEAR THE DAYLIGHT Without warning or explanation, an extended solar flare bombards the earth and doesn't stop, making each day a battle for survival. The sunlight blinds and burns instantly, and then kills within minutes. The radiation has also destroyed all of the earth's circuitry, leaving the nights dark and dangerous. TWO FIND HOPE AMIDST THE CHAOS Two survivors, a thousand miles apart, each hear a rumor of a distant safe haven that can withstand the sun. Zeke is a silent wanderer, Ash is a brilliant young man hiding a painful past, and neither know just what this place really is. To get there they must each travel through ravaged towns and over hundreds of miles of charred earth, and must do so under a sky waiting to kill them with every sunrise. But with the world's population dying off and humanity getting more and more violent as the days pass, their paths are destined to collide, because this unknown and unseen place might be the only hope remaining.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25212682-flare"}, +{"book_title": "Aftermath", "author_name": "Chuck Wendig", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 27583, "review_number": 3324, "book_description": "New York Times Bestseller \u2022 Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens \u201cStar Wars: Aftermath [reveals] what happened after the events of 1983\u2019s Return of the Jedi. It turns out, there\u2019s more than just the Empire for the good guys to worry about.\u201d\u2014The Hollywood ReporterAs the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance\u2014now a fledgling New Republic\u2014presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy\u2019s scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy\u2019s strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill, but he\u2019s taken captive before he can report back to the New Republic leaders. Meanwhile, on the planet\u2019s surface, former rebel fighter Norra Wexley has returned to her native world\u2014war weary, ready to reunite with her estranged son, and eager to build a new life in some distant place. But when Norra intercepts Wedge Antilles\u2019s urgent distress call, she realizes her time as a freedom fighter is not yet over. What she doesn\u2019t know is just how close the enemy is\u2014or how decisive and dangerous her new mission will be. Determined to preserve the Empire\u2019s power, the surviving Imperial elite are converging on Akiva for a top-secret emergency summit\u2014to consolidate their forces and rally for a counterstrike. But they haven\u2019t reckoned on Norra and her newfound allies\u2014her technical-genius son, a Zabrak bounty hunter, and a reprobate Imperial defector\u2014who are prepared to do whatever they must to end the Empire\u2019s oppressive reign once and for all.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25131600-aftermath"}, +{"book_title": "The Service of Mars", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 1374, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Secrets and warships combined to turn the tide of the Siege of Legatus, delivering the capital of the Republic of Faith and Reason into the hands of their enemies. With Damien Montgomery called away to lead the entire Protectorate of Mars, fighting the war falls to Mage-Admiral Jane Alexander and Mage-Lieutenant Roslyn Chambers.As the Martian Second Fleet moves against the remaining Republic worlds, Captain Kelly LaMonte\u2019s covert stealth ship sweep the worlds away from the conflict, searching for the Republic\u2019s government-in-hiding and a chance to end the bloody conflict.But this war began in the shadows, and the secrets hidden in those shadows threaten to turn the tide of the war once more\u2014and bring it to the heart of the Protectorate!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54897345-the-service-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "The Honour of the Knights", "author_name": "Stephen J. Sweeney", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1509, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "When starfighter pilot Simon Dodds is enrolled in a top secret military project, he and his wingmates begin to suspect that there is a lot more to the theft of a legendary battleship and an Imperial nation's civil war than either the Confederation Stellar Navy or the government are willing to let on.Within weeks of being reassigned to the Confederate border system of Temper, the five would begin to untangle a web of lies and a cover-up that seemed to span the length of the entire galaxy. And it would not be long before they themselves would come face to face with that which destroyed an empire: an unforgiving, unstoppable, and totally unrelenting foe.There seemed to exist only one glimmer of hope of driving back the darkness: The ATAF Project - a secretly developed set of starfighters that may well just harbour some terrible secrets of their own.Reviews:\"A tightly plotted action-adventure yarn with a good mix of likeable, interesting and nasty characters\" \"Written with perspicacity and drive, with a strong voice and good attention to detail.\"124,000 words~ 450 pages", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9642709-the-honour-of-the-knights"}, +{"book_title": "Revenge of the Ancients", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 788, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "The Stunning Conclusion to Jay Allan's Crimson Worlds Refugees Trilogy!The Final Struggle\u2026A battered group of human ships, fighting for survival, fleeing deeper into the far unknown, pursued by the deadly forces of the genocidal artificial intelligence known as the Regent.A legendary commander, the man who has saved his people time and time again, struggling to lead the fleet ever forward, fighting through every attack the enemy throws at them.A hidden world, a remote refuge prepared millennia ago, holding the promise of a new future, if the fleet can reach it\u2026and hold it against the Regent\u2019s relentless attacks.Admiral Terrance Compton and his lost fleet battle their way forward, striving to reach the end of their great journey. They will fight, with all the strength and power than remains to them, standing firm, resolute against all the force the Regent hurls at them. But their destiny is no longer in their hands.In the end, the fleet\u2019s survival rests on the courage and strength of a tiny force of Marines and a desperate mission, one that will lead this group of warriors right through the enemy\u2019s thickest defenses, to the very heart of the enemy\u2019s domains, the ancient homeworld of the First Imperium\u2026and the inner sanctum of the Regent itself.The action packed conclusion to the Crimson Worlds Refugees series!Crimson Worlds Refugees SeriesInto the Darkness (Book One)Shadows of the Gods (Book Two)Revenge of the Ancients (Book Three)Also By Jay AllanThe Far Stars SeriesShadow of EmpireEnemy in the DarkFuneral GamesComing April 2016:Blackhawk (A Far Stars Prequel Novel)Crimson Worlds SeriesMarines (Crimson Worlds I)The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II)A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III)The First Imperium (Crimson Worlds IV)The Line Must Hold (Crimson Worlds V)To Hell\u2019s Heart (Crimson Worlds VI)The Shadow Legions (Crimson Worlds VII)Even Legends Die (Crimson Worlds VIII)The Fall (Crimson Worlds IX)Crimson Worlds War Stories (Crimson Worlds Prequels)Crimson Worlds Successors SeriesMERCS (Successors I)The Prisoner of Eldaron (Successors II)The Black Flag (Successors III - Coming 2016)Portal Wars SeriesGehenna Dawn (Portal Wars I)The Ten Thousand (Portal Wars II)Homefront (Portal Wars III)Pendragon ChroniclesThe Dragon\u2019s Banner (Pendragon Chronicles I)", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29444187-revenge-of-the-ancients"}, +{"book_title": "See Pip Flap: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1", "author_name": "David Milgrim", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 240, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "See Tweet fly. Fly, Tweet, fly. Pip wants to fly too\u2014flap, flap, flap! Can Otto help Pip find a way to soar in the sky?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Kids", "Humor", "Animals (Birds)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38533032-see-pip-flap"}, +{"book_title": "Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 6310, "review_number": 322, "book_description": "SCOTLAND, 1272. Connor MacKiernan, a descendant of the Fae Prince, is a warrior who lives only for honor and duty. Though he's vowed never to marry, that's exactly what he must do to save his sister. Enter a little Faerie magic, and the search for a bride is on. DENVER, 2007. Caitlyn Coryell is having a really bad day -- she just discovered her fiance with another woman! Imagine her surprise when she puts on some sexy lingerie and an antique pendant and Connor appears in her bedroom, begging for her help. He offers a simple yet outrageous adventure: travel to his time, marry him, and return home.But nothing's simple when Cate is trapped in the thirteenth century. The wedding's delayed, someone's trying to kill her, and in the middle of all this, she realizes she's falling in love with a man who can only be her husband for thirty nights.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/734191.Thirty_Nights_with_a_Highland_Husband"}, +{"book_title": "Esper Files", "author_name": "Egan Brass", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Set in London during the latter part of the 19th century. An experiment goes wrong at The Oxford Academy of Science, giving certain people extraordinary powers which turns them into 'Espers'. An institute is set up to teach Espers how to control these power, and stop corrupt Espers from abusing theirs. Nathan and James, two agents from the Institute team up with Freya, a young Esper whose brother (gifted with the strange ability to manipulate emotions) is abducted by a ruthless Baron. The group has to fight against a dark threat to protect the fragile peace of Victorian London... And the rest of the world.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32493342-esper-files"}, +{"book_title": "Betrayal in Time", "author_name": "Julie McElwain", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2378, "review_number": 251, "book_description": "February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of London ends inside an abandoned church\u2014and a horrific discovery. Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly is called to investigate the grisly murder of Sir Giles Holbrooke, who was left naked and garroted, with his tongue cut out. Yet as perplexing as that crime is, it becomes even stranger when symbols that resemble crosses mysteriously begin to appear across the dead man\u2019s flesh during autopsy. Is it a message from the killer?Sam turns to the one person in the kingdom who he believes can answer that question and solve the bizarre murder\u2014the Duke of Aldridge\u2019s odd but brilliant ward, Kendra Donovan.While Kendra has been trying to adapt to her new life in the early nineteenth century, she is eager to use her skills as a twenty-first century FBI agent again. And she will need all her investigative prowess, because Sir Giles was not an average citizen. He was one of England\u2019s most clever spymasters, whose life had been filled with intrigue and subterfuge.Kendra\u2019s return to the gritty streets and glittering ballrooms of London takes her down increasingly dangerous paths. When more bodies are discovered, murdered in the same apparently ritualistic manner as Sir Giles, the American begins to realize that they are dealing with a killer with an agenda, whose mind has been twisted by rage and bitterness so that the price of a perceived betrayal is death.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Regency)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817433-betrayal-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Through the Nether", "author_name": "Richard Fox", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 260, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Nether Ops works in shadows, and those shadows taint all they touch. Soren Voss believes in the Republic. But when he puts a promising Navy career on hold to serve as a covert agent, he encounters truths that throw everything he knows into turmoil. After weeks in deep cover living life with ruthless gangs, Soren uncovers a stolen cache of weapons, a mysterious upgraded form of legionnaire armor, and a written oath of loyalty for someone named...Goth Sullus. The agent follows leads that bring him face-to-face with crooked legionnaires, slimy politicians, and a powerful smuggler and gunrunner named Scarpia. Soren follows a darkening path to the heart of the Republic, and what he uncovers leaves him wondering not only if the Republic can be saved, but if he's even on the right side. US Army veteran Richard Fox, author of the Ember War Saga, teams up with Anspach & Cole to deliver this thrilling stand-alone set in the aftermath of Galaxy's Edge: Kill Team!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49378812-through-the-nether"}, +{"book_title": "Dollhouse", "author_name": "Jed Whedon", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 289, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Having penned the show's final, post-apocalyptic episode, show writers Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon continue the tale of three survivors in a world overcome by a devastating technological virus. The wealthy and powerful could buy any kind of companionship at the Dollhouses, where the Rossum Corporation paid young people to have their minds wiped clean and be imprinted with computer-enhanced personalities and skills-all according to a buyer's request. Now the technology has gone viral, wiping the minds of everyone it reached, turning them into mindless butchers. Those who've avoided the call must try to survive their friends and families if they hope to destroy Rossum and save the world. (via Amazon)", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Graphic Novels Manga", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11827842-dollhouse"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun 24: Steel Rain", "author_name": "Nyx Smith", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 199, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Several executives have been murdered, and it's up to a female member of a megacorporation's elite battalion of Elven samurai to uncover a diabolical blackmail scheme. All of the evidence points to the megacorp's biggest rival as an amazing communication matrix is taking shape. Staying alive now means defeating a high-tech foe with unlimited powers and absolutely no mercy!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131226.Shadowrun_24"}, +{"book_title": "Elysium Fire", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 4253, "review_number": 338, "book_description": "Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives.Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these \"melters\" leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths...As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own independent colonies.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35601772-elysium-fire"}, +{"book_title": "When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One: Release 2.0", "author_name": "David Gerrold", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1116, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "When HARLIE Was One is a 1972 science fiction novel by David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972 & the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973. The novel is a fix-up of previously published short stories. A revised version, subtitled \"Release 2.0\", was published in 1988. Central to the story is an Artificial Intelligence named H.A.R.L.I.E., also referred to by the proper name \"HARLIE\"--an acronym for Human Analog Replication, Lethetic Intelligence Engine (originally Human Analog Robot Life Input Equivalents). HARLIE's story revolves around his relationship with David Auberson, the psychologist who is responsible for guiding HARLIE from childhood into adulthood. It's also the story of HARLIE's fight against being turned off, & the philosophical question whether or not HARLIE is human; for that matter, what it means to be human. The HARLIE intelligence engine appears in a number of Gerrold's other works, including the Star Wolf series, where it is routinely installed as the administrating AI of Terran warships.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Philosophy", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939176.When_H_A_R_L_I_E_Was_One"}, +{"book_title": "Other States of Being", "author_name": "John DeChancie", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 3, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "These tales explore strange and alien modes of existence led by a diverse universe of beings: a compulsive gambler who wins a fortune and loses his world; a clone of Hitler who plots the retaking of the Falklands; the man who is jailed for his profession of remolding entire planets; a woman who was a Sphinx but who must now solve the riddle of life; a shoemaker whose elvish workers demand a monstrous wage; a murderer who must come to terms with a simulacrum of his victim--and many more. In this age of xenophobia and fear of The Other, these stories are wickedly funny. All are enormously satisfying for readers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2156196.Other_States_of_Being"}, +{"book_title": "The Miserable Mill", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 144824, "review_number": 4158, "book_description": "Dear Reader,I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log.The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons.I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven't, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65119.The_Miserable_Mill"}, +{"book_title": "The Caryatids", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 834, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is to receive a dispatch from a time traveler. Now, with The Caryatids, Sterling has written a stunning testament of faith in the power of human intellect, creativity, and spirit to overcome any obstacle\u2013even the obstacles we carry inside ourselves. The world of 2060 is divided into three spheres of influence, each fighting with the others over the resources of fallen nations and an environment degraded almost to the point of no return. There is the Dispensation, centered in Los Angeles, where entertainment and capitalism have fused with the highest of high-tech. There is the Acquis, a Green-centered collective that uses invasive neurological technology to create a networked utopia. And there is China, the sole surviving nation-state, a dinosaur that has prospered only by pitilessly pruning its own population. Products of this monstrous world, the daughters of a monstrous mother, and\u2013according to some\u2013monsters themselves, are the Caryatids: the four surviving female clones of a mad Balkan genius and wanted war criminal now ensconced, safely beyond extradition, on an orbiting space station. Radmila is a Dispensation star determined to forget her past by building a glittering, impregnable future. Vera is an Acquis functionary dedicated to reclaiming their home, the Croatian island of Mljet, from catastrophic pollution. Sonja is a medical specialist in China renowned for selflessly risking herself to help others. And Biserka is a one-woman terrorist network. The four \u201csisters\u201d are united only by their hatred for their \u201cmother\u201d\u2013and for one another. When evidence surfaces of a coming environmental cataclysm, the Dispensation sends its greatest statesman\u2013or salesman\u2013John Montgomery Montalban, husband of Radmila, and lover of Vera and Sonja, to gather the Caryatids together in an audacious plan to save the world.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3398430-the-caryatids"}, +{"book_title": "Android's Daughter", "author_name": "Marshal Northrup", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 12, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "A beautiful android steals a baby. Andrea is an assassin who lives in a floating city. When on a job she decides to steal a baby. With the help from a friend she raises the child to the age of training. But nothing is what it seems and the true test begins.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53893133-android-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "The Gone World", "author_name": "Tom Sweterlitsch", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 11013, "review_number": 1537, "book_description": "\u201cI promise you have never read a story like this.\u201d \u2014Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family--and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra\u2014a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Horror", "Mystery (Crime)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413556-the-gone-world"}, +{"book_title": "Curse the Dawn", "author_name": "Karen Chance", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 20764, "review_number": 559, "book_description": "Cassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but that doesn\u2019t mean people have stopped trying to kill her. Most of the supernatural power players don\u2019t want the independent minded Cassie as chief clairvoyant\u2014and they\u2019ll stop at nothing to see her six feet under.The Vampire Senate does support Cassie in her position, but their protection comes with a price: an alliance with the sexy master vampire Mircea, who has claimed Cassie as his own.But even the vampires will have trouble keeping Cassie alive now that the self-styled god Apollo, the source of the Pythia\u2019s power, has it in for her in a big way. To save her life\u2014and the world\u2014Cassie\u2019s going to have to face down her creator once and for all.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3556419-curse-the-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "O Human Star, Volume One", "author_name": "Blue Delliquanti", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 540, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Alastair Sterling was the inventor who sparked the robot revolution. And because of his sudden death, he didn't see any of it.That is, until he wakes up 16 years later in a robot body that matches his old one exactly. Until he steps outside and finds a world utterly unlike the one he left behind - a world where robots live alongside their human neighbors and coexist in their cities. A world he helped create.Now Al must track down his old partner Brendan to find out who is responsible for Al's unexpected resurrection, but their reunion raises even more questions.Like who the robot living with Brendan is.And why she looks like Al.And how much of the past should stay in the past...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25343236-o-human-star-volume-one"}, +{"book_title": "Ironclads", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1056, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Special limited edition science fiction hardcover novella by the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author. Only 1000 copies.Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear.Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad \u2013 the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war \u2013 but something has gone catastrophically wrong.Now Regan and his men, ill equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion, and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a new Ironclad-killer out there? And how are common soldiers lacking the protection afforded the rich supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466691-ironclads"}, +{"book_title": "Forged in Shadow", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2084, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "Sergeant Arin Varga has a problem on her hands. She's supposed to be in charge of a squad of peacekeepers. That's something she would normally handle with ease, except that now her people are stuck in Earth's orbit on a doomed superfreighter. To make things worse, they're being held hostage by a group of very threatening, very menacing silver-skinned Kordolians, who are insistent that all they want is safe passage to Earth to kill oversized insects. One particular alien, who goes by the name of Rykal, seems be constantly getting inside her personal space. He isn't just threatening, he's friendly and threatening, and if Arin isn't careful, that could become a major problem. Warning: This book is a science-fiction alien romance. It contains swearing, violence, sensual sex scenes and silver aliens with fangs. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over. Forged in Shadow is Book Five in the Dark Planet Warriors Series. It will make more sense if you've read the other books first, although that's probably not absolutely essential.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Fiction", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32479161-forged-in-shadow"}, +{"book_title": "Captive Surrender", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 780, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Captured from Earth, Anna is thrust into a world of heartless aliens, intent on using her as a breeding slave in order to save a prized fighting species on the brink of extinction.Morrdrook, a Zakiu gladiator slave, fights to win Anna in the arena.With the choice of facing death or breeding with the Zakiu who won her, the last thing Anna expects is the heated passion aroused by Morrdrook\u2019s touch. He makes her body burn like she never dreamed possible.As the fights in the arena grow more vicious and the pressure to fall pregnant more desperate, Morrdrook and Anna find solace in each others arms. Soon, their chance at freedom must come.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16161633-captive-surrender"}, +{"book_title": "Fire and Ice", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 3243, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "Livia is a Vistan princess who is to be married to an ambassador from a neighboring galaxy--a brutal man, many years her senior. She knows that the one thing he values in her is her virginity, and in a last-ditch effort to escape the fate her father has decreed for her, she sets out to seduce the first man she can find. Adron Quiakides was once a fierce League assassin. Now he lives in constant pain from wounds suffered years earlier at the hands of a madman. When Livia approaches him in a darkened bar, he willingly falls for her seduction. But when he feels the warmth of her healing touch he knows that he can't let her go. With her in his arms, he is free of pain, both body and soul.FIRE & ICE - Originally published in a stand alone ebook in 1998. Currently available in the OUT OF THIS WORLD anthology that features all the short stories Sherri wrote for Penguin.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2789282-fire-and-ice"}, +{"book_title": "The Mysterious Island", "author_name": "Jules Verne", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 44595, "review_number": 1726, "book_description": "After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escapes the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Through teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering, and perseverance, they endeavour to build a colony from scratch. But this island of abundant resources has its secrets. The castaways discover they are not alone. A shadowy, yet familiar, agent of their unfathomable fate is watching.What unfolds in Jules Verne\u2019s imaginative marvel is both an enthralling mystery and the ultimate in survivalist adventures.", "year_published": 1865, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Cultural (France)", "Literature", "European Literature (French Literature)", "Novels", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32831.The_Mysterious_Island"}, +{"book_title": "What Mad Universe", "author_name": "Fredric Brown", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1060, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "The editor of a sci-fi pulp magazine is accidentally transported to a parallel universe where space travel is common, Earth is at war with creepy aliens, New York City isn't safe after dark, and his girlfriend is with someone else. Regularly appears on \"Greatest science fiction\" lists.", "year_published": 1949, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Pulp", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/439226.What_Mad_Universe"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Americas", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 54, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Fourteen of science fiction's most popular writers--including L. Sprague de Camp, Robert Silverberg, and Kim Stanley Robinson--offer their visions of an America that might have been.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453970.Alternate_Americas"}, +{"book_title": "Finch", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2971, "review_number": 314, "book_description": "In Finch, mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fantasy state Ambergris and put it under martial law. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts of terror. The rebel resistance is scattered, and the gray caps are using human labor to build two strange towers. Against this backdrop, John Finch, who lives alone with a cat and a lizard, must solve an impossible double murder for his gray cap masters while trying to make contact with the rebels. Nothing is as it seems as Finch and his disintegrating partner Wyte negotiate their way through a landscape of spies, rebels, and deception. Trapped by his job and the city, Finch is about to come face to face with a series of mysteries that will change him and Ambergris forever.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6582496-finch"}, +{"book_title": "The Historian", "author_name": "Elizabeth Kostova", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 247940, "review_number": 16385, "book_description": "To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to \"My dear and unfortunate successor,\" and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of, a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself--to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler's dark reign and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Gothic", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30236962-the-historian"}, +{"book_title": "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 12449, "review_number": 397, "book_description": "Andrew was one of Earth's first house robot domestic servants\u2014smoothly designed and functional. But when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by any other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame fortune \u2014 and danger. For a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die...In the Bicentennial Man, Isaac Asimov returns to his first and most enduring love \u2014 robotics. The result is a brilliant book of first-class entertainment and mind-spinning ideas which confirm Asimov's supreme status as Grand Master of science fiction.Content\"Feminine Intuition\" (1969)\"Waterclap\" (1970) \"That Thou Art Mindful of Him\" (1974)\"Stranger in Paradise\" (1974)\"The Life and Times of Multivac\" (1975)\"The Winnowing\" (1976)\"The Bicentennial Man\" (1976)\"Marching In\" (1976) \"Old-Fashioned\" (1976)\"The Tercentenary Incident\" (1976)\"Birth of a Notion\" (1976)Cover Illustration: Don Dixon", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Anthologies", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70787.The_Bicentennial_Man_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "Artemis Fowl", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 511042, "review_number": 12068, "book_description": "Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories\u2014they're dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249747.Artemis_Fowl"}, +{"book_title": "TAKC 3000", "author_name": "Markus Heitz", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 65, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Eigentlich wollte sich Sparkplug bei Doktor E.R. nur eine neue Headware implantieren lassen, doch als er aus der Narkose erwacht, liegen der Stra\u00dfendoc und seine h\u00fcbsche Assistentin in einer Blutlache am Boden. Rasch wird dem Rigger klar, dass man ihm das Verbrechen anh\u00e4ngen will, und so schleppt er sich mit letzter Kraft zu seinen Riggerfreunden. Sparkplug taucht in den Barrens von Seattle unter, aber nicht nur die Cops, sondern auch m\u00e4chtige Konzerne sind ihm auf den Fersen. Um seine Unschuld zu beweisen, macht sich Sparkplug auf die Suche nach den M\u00f6rdern.Wer war der Doc in Wirklichkeit, und wer hatte ein Interesse daran, ihn zu ermorden? Bald stellt sich heraus, dass Doktor E.R. dem Rigger den Prototyp einer neuen und revolution\u00e4ren Geheimwaffe in den Sch\u00e4del eingebaut hat. Die Spur f\u00fchrt zu einem geheimen Konzernlabor in Deutschland...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/661363.TAKC_3000"}, +{"book_title": "Sweep of the Blade", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 13863, "review_number": 1368, "book_description": "Maud Demille was a daughter of Innkeepers. She knew that a simple life wasn't in the cards, but she never anticipated what Fate would throw at her.Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her daughter, Helen, had been exiled for the sins of her husband to the desolate planet of Karhari. Karhari killed her husband, and Maud had spent a year and a half avenging his debts. But now all the debts are paid. Rescued by her sister Dina, Maud had swore off all things vampire. Except she met Arland, the Marshal of House Krahr. One thing led to another and he asked for her hand in marriage. She declined.Try as she might, she can't just walk away from Arland. It doesn't help that being human is a lot harder for Maud than being a vampire.To sort it all out, she accepts his invitation to visit his home planet. House Krahr is a powerful vampire House, and Maud knows that a woman who turned down the proposal from its most beloved son wouldn't get a warm reception. But Maud Demille never shied from a fight and House Krahr may soon discover that there is more to this human woman than they ever thought possible.Published as an online free serial before the book is compiled and self-published shortly after completion.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37712577-sweep-of-the-blade"}, +{"book_title": "The A.I. War: The Big Boost", "author_name": "Daniel Keys Moran", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 295, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "The Long-Awaited Sequel to The Long Run and The Last Dancer.In 2072, the United Nations Space Force began building the Unity . . . at Halfway.The Unity was seven kilometers long. It was not merely the largest spacecraft that had ever been built, more than ten times as long as the uncrewed mining ferries that had, in calmer times, sent ore from the Belt to Halfway; it was nearly the largest artifact humans had ever built. There are cylindrical Cities in the Belt that are larger, blown up out of asteroids that were melted down with giant mirrors, and then inflated, while still molten metal, to the desired shape . . . but in 2080 there are only a few, and even those few are not much larger than the Unity.She had been designed for one purpose, and though the Unification had never said so publicly, that purpose was the clearest thing in the System:Sixty years after the end of the Unification War, the Unification of Earth intended to become the Unification of Sol.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10902136-the-a-i-war"}, +{"book_title": "Starters", "author_name": "Lissa Price", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 40926, "review_number": 4404, "book_description": "HER WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVERCallie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie. Callie's only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man.He hires teens to rent their bodies to Enders\u2014seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in Callie's head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, and going out with a senator's grandson. It feels almost like a fairy tale, until Callie discovers that her renter intends to do more than party\u2014and that Prime Destinations' plans are more evil than Callie could ever have imagined. . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11861062-starters"}, +{"book_title": "Planet Strike", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1528, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "An ancient enemy with a billion starships and a trillion soldiers is about to invade our universe\u202d! A Forerunner artifact\u202d \u202cthe size of a planet\u202d \u202cdrifts in hyperspace.\u202d \u202cIt\u202d \u202chas mysteriously gone online,\u202d \u202copening a rip between space-time continuums.\u202d \u202cA monstrous\u202d \u202crace older than the stones of Earth is\u202d \u202cpouring through,\u202d \u202cplanning to eradicate all life not\u202d \u202cits own. The aliens\u202d \u202cin our spiral arm\u202d \u202cof the Milky Way Galaxy are in terror of the invaders.\u202d \u202cThey want\u202d \u202cto use\u202d \u202chuman\u202d \u202cassault troopers as ground-pounders in a suicide mission to save our universe.\u202d \u202cHumans are little better than beasts anyway,\u202d \u202calthough the\u202d \u202caliens\u202d \u202cknow they can fight like hell.\u202d \u202cLet the unpredictable Earthlings do the dirty work and battle down to the center of the portal planet:\u202d \u202cclosing the\u202d \u202crip.\u202d \u202cIt\u202d\u2019\u202cs a commando raid where no one comes back,\u202d \u202cand good riddance to them. Creed understands this is a screw job.\u202d \u202cHe\u202d\u2019\u202cs dealt with these\u202d \u202caliens\u202d \u202cbefore and\u202d \u202cbeaten them at their own game.\u202d \u202cBut the stakes are desperately high and the\u202d \u202cextraterrestrials\u202d \u202chave threatened all humanity if he refuses to stop the monstrous invaders.\u202d \u202cSo be it.\u202d \u202cCreed\u202d \u202chas an idea,\u202d \u202ca\u202d \u202ccrazy plan,\u202d \u202cand if he\u202d\u2019\u202cs right\u202d\u2026\u202cevery alien that ever lived\u202d\u2014\u202cin this universe and the next\u202d\u2014\u202cwill curse the day they messed with Earth.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20563058-planet-strike"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Policeman", "author_name": "Ben H. Winters", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 27613, "review_number": 3309, "book_description": "What\u2019s the point in solving murders if we\u2019re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There\u2019s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job\u2014but not Hank Palace. He\u2019s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week\u2014except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace\u2019s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we\u2019re confronted by hard questions way beyond \u201cwhodunit.\u201d What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Thriller", "Mystery (Detective)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330370-the-last-policeman"}, +{"book_title": "Liberator", "author_name": "Richard Harland", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 534, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Die Dreckigen, die mit ihrer Arbeit die Dampfturbinen des britischen Juggernauts, des Weltschiffs Worldshaker, in Gang halten, haben in einer Revolution die Herrschaft der feinen Leute von den oberen Decks gest\u00fcrzt und den Worldshaker in Liberator, also Befreier, umbenannt. Doch die alten M\u00e4chte haben noch nicht aufgegeben: Sabotageakte ersch\u00fcttern das Schiff, und schnell werden sie den Bewohnern der oberen Decks in die Schuhe geschoben, auch wenn sie, wie Col Porpentine, auf der Seite der Revolution gestanden haben. Riff, die Anf\u00fchrerin der Revolution, der Col zur Seite gestanden hat, f\u00fchlt sich nun gezwungen, ihren Freund zu ignorieren. Als die Juggernauts der anderen Nationen auftauchen, um dem revolution\u00e4ren Spuk auf dem Liberator ein Ende zu bereiten, setzen sich die radikalsten Mitglieder des Revolutionskomittees durch, allen voran die wundersch\u00f6ne unerbittliche Lye, die nun diktatorisch herrscht. Lye ist Cols erbittertste Feindin, und geschickt entfernt sie Riff aus ihrer F\u00fchrungsrolle. Doch auch wenn die Vornehmen von ehedem wie in einem Lager zusammengepfercht sind und st\u00fcndlich um ihr Leben f\u00fcrchten m\u00fcssen, riskiert Col sein Leben f\u00fcr die Verteidigung des Liberator \u2013 und f\u00fcr Riff.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11007236-liberator"}, +{"book_title": "Last Stand: Surviving America's Collapse", "author_name": "William H. Weber", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1074, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "John Mack, a prepper and former soldier, struggles to save his family and community after an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) takes out the country\u2019s electrical grid. With most electronics, communications and transportation destroyed in a matter of seconds, the nation quickly collapses into anarchy. For John and the other residents of Willow Creek Drive, the breakdown of social order throws them back to the 1800s. As the community tries to come together, a powerful outside force appears that threatens their survival. Will John\u2019s years of military and prepping experience be enough to keep them safe? Mixing tons of useful prepping tips into an action-packed story, Last Stand: Surviving America's Collapse is a must-read for any fans of survival fiction.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22076259-last-stand"}, +{"book_title": "Champion", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1451, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy\u2019s lawless outer rim\u2026Space marine Blaine Strong enjoyed being a composed, controlled member of space station security\u2026until he was abducted by alien slavers. Forced into underground fight rings and pumped full of drugs, he\u2019s now seething with anger and out for revenge.Rescued by gladiators and fellow humans on the desert world of Carthago, Blaine is fighting to be the man he once was. But when the House of Galen is attacked, he must focus on joining the gladiators to fight back. That means teaming up with a tough, competitive female gladiator who not only challenges him at every turn, awakens a fierce desire he\u2019s never felt before, but a woman who can sense the churning emotions inside him.Gladiator Saff Essikani is the best net fighter in the Kor Magna Arena. Raised from young to fight, she bows to no man and uses her empathic abilities to win at whatever cost. With her House targeted and people under their care threatened, she\u2019ll stop at nothing to find those responsible. But then she finds herself face to face with a big, tortured man from Earth who affects her like no man before. As Saff and Blaine head into the desert to uncover a conspiracy, their incendiary desire flares hotter than the desert suns. But as Blaine\u2019s angry emotions rage out of control, Saff knows that unless he learns to embrace the man he is now, he has no chance of survival.Note to readers: This sci fi romance contains a lot of action (think wild gladiatorial fights and daring rescues), tough gladiators (the warriors of the House of Galen) and a steamy romance (between a tough female gladiator and a tortured space marine). So if you like it fast, and gritty, and sexy, this is for you!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Action", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33847479-champion"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 27946, "review_number": 442, "book_description": "WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDSKIMONO DRAGONS brings the hunt for Ampersand\u2014the monkey who could unlock the mystery of the male-killing plague\u2014 to its explosive climax, as the last man on Earth and his companions finally reach Japan and discover the truth behind Ampersand's abduction. Collects issues #43-48 of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's award-winning Vertigo series.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79422.Y"}, +{"book_title": "Strange Weather", "author_name": "Joe Hill", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 18742, "review_number": 2779, "book_description": "A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, Joe HillSnapshot is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by \u201cThe Phoenician,\u201d a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero\u2019s island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in Aloft.On a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails\u2014splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. Rain explores this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world.In Loaded, a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town, he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Adult", "Anthologies", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34066621-strange-weather"}, +{"book_title": "The Forever Man", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1049, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, the Great Savano. He owes much of his success to Chevie, a seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future in a time pod and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick. But it is difficult for Riley to enjoy his new life, for he has always believed in his heart of hearts that Garrick will someday, somehow, return.Chevie has assured Riley that Garrick was sucked into a temporal wormhole, never to emerge. The full nature of the wormhole has never been understood, however, and just as a human body will reject an unsuitable transplant, the wormhole eventually spits Garrick out. By the time Garrick makes it back to Victorian London, he has been planning his revenge on Riley for centuries. But even the best-laid plans can go awry, as the three discover when they are tossed once more into the wormhole and spill out in a Puritan village.Featuring remarkable heroes, an epic villain, and monstrous mutations, The Forever Man is another high-octane adventure from the impressive imagination behind the internationally best-selling Artemis Fowl series.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22518400-the-forever-man"}, +{"book_title": "Parallel", "author_name": "Elizabeth O'Roark", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 2560, "review_number": 404, "book_description": "They've had multiple lives together, but this may be their last. As a neurologist, Nick Reilly believes everything can be explained by science. But he can\u2019t explain her\u2014Quinn Stewart, an irresistible patient who knows things about him she shouldn\u2019t. And insists that at some point, she was his wife. Something else he can\u2019t explain: he remembers her too. Quinn wakes each morning remembering new details of the life they shared. She\u2019s desperate for the dreams to stop. With each one, she finds herself craving what she had with Nick more than the life\u2014and the fianc\u00e9\u2014she already has. Nick and Quinn share an attraction neither can deny, but one that might destroy everything. Just like it did before. ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "New Adult", "Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53063855-parallel"}, +{"book_title": "Fire with Fire", "author_name": "Charles E. Gannon", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1932, "review_number": 224, "book_description": "An agent for a spy organization\u00a0 uncovers an alien alliance in nearby interstellar space\u2014an alliance that will soon involve humanity in politics and war on a galactic scale. 2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth\u2019s Moon\u2014a history-changing clandestine project\u2014and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. And now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Riordan\u2019s mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentient\u2014enough so to have built a lost civilization.However, arriving on site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job he\u2019s been given is anything but secret or safe. With assassins and saboteurs dogging his every step, it's clear that someone doesn't want his mission to succeed. In the end, it takes the broad-based insights of an intelligence analyst and a matching instinct for intrigue to ferret out the truth: that humanity is neither alone in the cosmos nor safe. Earth is revealed to be the lynchpin planet in an impending struggle for interstellar dominance, a struggle into which it is being irresistibly dragged. Discovering new dangers at every turn, Riordan must now convince the powers-that-be that the only way for humanity to survive as a free species is to face the perils directly\u2014and to fight fire with fire.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803179-fire-with-fire"}, +{"book_title": "To Conquer a Scot", "author_name": "Tamara Gill", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 414, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "Time-traveling isn\u2019t what Abigail Cross had in mind for her Scottish vacation, nor was a potential marriage to the Laird Aedan Macleod. The fact that the obnoxious, yet hot, and definitely sexy Highlander sees the world very differently than she does, is beside the point.Aedan Macleod knows what he wants in a wife, and Abigail certainly doesn\u2019t meet his Highland standard, even though he must rein in his desire, because beautiful, opinionated Abigail would never suit as a laird\u2019s wife.Tempers flare yet passion is undeniable, as Abby navigates her way in seventeenth century Scotland\u2014without toilet paper. When two rival clans threaten the maddening twenty-first century minx who\u2019s captured Laird Aedan\u2019s heart, the mighty Highlander is willing to sacrifice everything to keep Abigail safe.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54798023-to-conquer-a-scot"}, +{"book_title": "An Author's Odyssey", "author_name": "Chris Colfer", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 22923, "review_number": 1482, "book_description": "In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is inside his own short stories!When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner's imagination, finding allies no one else could have ever dreamed of, the race begins to put an end to the Masked Man's reign of terror. Can the twins finally restore peace in the fairy tale world?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23611997-an-author-s-odyssey"}, +{"book_title": "Leviathan Falls", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "The much awaited 9th and final installment of The Expanse series.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28335699-leviathan-falls"}, +{"book_title": "Omega", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 4220, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "A civilization-destroying omega cloud has switched direction, heading straight for a previously unexplored planetary system--and its alien society. And suddenly, a handful of brave humans must try to save an entire world--without revealing their existence.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352781.Omega"}, +{"book_title": "The Best of Hal Clement", "author_name": "Hal Clement", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 116, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Contents:Impediment (1942)Technical Error (1944)Uncommon Sense (1946)Assumption Unjustified (1946)Answer (1947)Dust Rag (1956)Bulge (1968)Mistaken for Granted (1974)A Question of Guilt (1976)Stuck with It (1976)", "year_published": 1945, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1875489.The_Best_of_Hal_Clement"}, +{"book_title": "Stardoc", "author_name": "S.L. Viehl", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 3746, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil leaves Earth and accepts a position as a physician at Kevarzanga-2's FreeClinic. Her surgical skills are desperately needed on a hostile frontier world with over 200 sentient species--and her understanding of alien physiology is nothing short of miraculous. But the truth behind her expertise is a secret which, if discovered, could have disastrous consequences between human and alien relations...", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Medical", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/664642.Stardoc"}, +{"book_title": "Children of the Jedi", "author_name": "Barbara Hambly", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 8840, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "Callista is a\u00a0brave Jedi warrior who gave her life\u00a0to save a sanctuary for wives and children of Jedi knights from obliteration by the Empire. Suddenly,\u00a0a dreadnought is rearming itself for shelter destruction. Only Luke Skywalker can feel the evil\u00a0presence and the influence of believed decades-dead Callista.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Novels", "War", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/555313.Children_of_the_Jedi"}, +{"book_title": "Roderick", "author_name": "John Sladek", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 360, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "He isn't human; but he isn't all robot either. He started life in a lab, went to Parochial School, was kidnapped by gypsies, chased by roboticidal, and incompetent, hit-men, told fortunes on the Midway, and finally fostered by an elderly couple who gave up writing science fiction when their stories came true. He's Roderick, the first robot programmed to learn and think, and sent out into the world to re-invent it...", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845587.Roderick"}, +{"book_title": "Married with Zombies", "author_name": "Jesse Petersen", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 6460, "review_number": 992, "book_description": "A heartwarming tale of terror in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.Meet Sarah and David.Once upon a time they met and fell in love. But now they're on the verge of divorce and going to couples' counseling. On a routine trip to their counselor, they notice a few odd things -- the lack of cars on the highway, the missing security guard, and the fact that their counselor, Dr. Kelly, is ripping out her previous client's throat.Meet the Zombies.Now, Sarah and David are fighting for survival in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. But, just because there are zombies, doesn't mean your other problems go away. If the zombies don't eat their brains, they might just kill each other.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror", "Romance", "Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7716140-married-with-zombies"}, +{"book_title": "Miss Bramble and the Leviathan", "author_name": "Kristen Painter", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 237, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "The last thing she planned to steal was his heart.The Company. Military institution, protector of Praeton and the nation of Grand Isle. Dirty rotten thief.When Pandora Bramble steps aboard the Company s premiere airship Daedalus it s not for the exclusive VIP tour. It s to secure proof that the Company stole the regulator valve her father designed even if it means tearing the engine apart. Foiled by the unexpected appearance of a handsome crew member, she despairs of ever getting another chance until he kisses her.Captain Theolonius Hatch, sentenced to engine room duty for refusing to take part in the Company s fleet week activities, never dreamed a woman like Pandora existed. Her brains match her beauty, a combination that adds up to more trouble than he ever expected.As Pandora allows Theolonius to sweep her into a whirlwind courtship, her wildest dreams come true. As do her greatest fears, leaving her to decide what matters most. Loyalty or love.The clock is ticking.Warning: This book contains airships, mechanical owls, women who are good with tools, men in and out of uniform, steam generated by engines and people, and some hot carriage scenes.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9360232-miss-bramble-and-the-leviathan"}, +{"book_title": "Day of the Oprichnik", "author_name": "Vladimir Sorokin", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 4736, "review_number": 391, "book_description": "One of The Telegraph\u2019s Best Fiction Books 2011Moscow, 2028. A cold, snowy morning.Andrei Danilovich Komiaga is fast asleep. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull him out of his drunken stupor\u2014but wait, that\u2019s just his ring tone. And so begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar\u2019s most trusted courtiers\u2014and one of the country\u2019s most feared men.Welcome to the new New Russia, where futuristic technology and the draconian codes of Ivan the Terrible are in perfect synergy. Corporal punishment is back, as is a divine monarch, but these days everyone gets information from high-tech news bubbles, and the elite get high on hallucinogenic, genetically modified fish.Over the course of one day, Andrei Komiaga will bear witness to\u2014and participate in\u2014brutal executions; extravagant parties; meetings with ballerinas, soothsayers, and even the czarina. He will rape and pillage, and he will be moved to tears by the sweetly sung songs of his homeland. He will consume an arsenal of drugs and denounce threats to his great nation\u2019s morals. And he will fall in love\u2014perhaps even with a number of his colleagues.Vladimir Sorokin, the man described by Keith Gessen (in The New York Review of Books) as \u201c[the] only real prose writer, and resident genius\u201d of late-Soviet fiction, has imagined a near future both too disturbing to contemplate and too realistic to dismiss. But like all of his best work, Sorokin\u2019s new novel explodes with invention and dark humor. A startling, relentless portrait of a troubled and troubling empire, Day of the Oprichnik is at once a richly imagined vision of the future and a razor-sharp diagnosis of a country in crisis.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Contemporary", "Literature", "Novels", "Literary Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9479238-day-of-the-oprichnik"}, +{"book_title": "Starman Jones", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 7641, "review_number": 306, "book_description": "The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was every going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle\u2019s prized astrogation manuals\u2014book on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. From the First Golden Age of Heinlein, this is the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much for adults) that started them all and made Heinlein a legend for multiple generations of readers.", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351.Starman_Jones"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Day", "author_name": "Mark E. Russinovich", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 5427, "review_number": 512, "book_description": "An airliner's controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their computer databases when patients die after being administered incorrect dosages of their medicine. In the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl when its cooling systems malfunction.At first, these random computer failures seem like unrelated events. But Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst who quit in disgust after witnessing the gross errors that led to 9/11, thinks otherwise. Jeff fears a more serious attack targeting the U.S. computer infrastructure is already under way. And as other menacing computer malfunctions pop up around the world, some with deadly results, he realizes that there isn't much time if he hopes to prevent an international catastrophe.Written by a global authority on cyber security, Zero Day presents a chilling \"what if\" scenario that, in a world completely reliant on technology, is more than possible today -- it's a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9763010-zero-day"}, +{"book_title": "Sleepover", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 560, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "This story is not part of the Revelation Space series. It was developed from notes for an unwritten novel and maybe one day that novel will be completed, for we need to know the fate of the Earth. This story presents one of the more unusual apocalyptic ideas.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16114033-sleepover"}, +{"book_title": "Into The Fire", "author_name": "Lindsey Fairleigh", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1989, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "The Virus changed them, but that was only the beginning\u2026\u2026death\u2026mutation\u2026insanity\u2026corruption\u2026terror\u2026\u2026all that remains is hope.In the wake of destruction left behind by the Virus, it took Dani and Zoe months to find each other. But their reunion was short-lived. Dani has been taken, and though little distance separates them, they might as well be worlds apart.From the moment she hears Dani\u2019s scream, Zoe\u2019s only goal is to save her best friend. She and her companions scramble to come up with a rescue plan, but when a ghost from Jake\u2019s past reappears, lines are blurred, decisions become harder, and secrets are revealed\u2026and some secrets are best left buried. To keep heartache and fear from consuming her, Zoe must cling to her determination. She WILL see Dani again.Dani awakens inside the final hold-out of civilization: the Colony. Remnants of the former world surround her\u2014electricity, safety, social order\u2014but all is not what it seems. As she faces her most manipulative adversary yet, she loses sight of who she is and who she can trust. Friends become enemies, enemies become allies, and allies will betray her. Dani will have to decide what she\u2019s willing to do and whose lives she\u2019s willing to risk if she is to have any chance of breaking free.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43900627-into-the-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Fix This Mess", "author_name": "Tedd Arnold", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 266, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "A funny story about a boy, a robot, and a BIG, BIG mess! This Level D book is perfect for kindergarten readers. From the creator of the widely popular Fly Guy books!Fix this mess! Jake tells Robug. But Robug just makes things worse. Robug finally figures out how to fix the mess--but it's not what Jake expected.Tedd Arnold's illustrations of Robug's frantic efforts are laugh-out-loud funny, as Robug tries again and again to fix the mess--stirring up clouds of dust, old pizza boxes, and banana peels, and leaving Jake's cat more and more confused as he bounces from the couch to the top of the television.Fix This Mess! is an International Literacy Association-CBC Children's ChoiceThe award-winning I Like to Read(R) series focuses on guided reading levels A through G, based upon Fountas and Pinnell standards. Acclaimed author-illustrators--including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors--create original, high quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read with parents, teachers, or on their own!Suitable for late kindergarten readers, Level D books feature wider vocabulary, longer sentences, and greater variety in sentence structure than Levels A, B, and C. When Level D is mastered, follow up with Level E.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (1st Grade)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18226529-fix-this-mess"}, +{"book_title": "Gladiator", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3315, "review_number": 310, "book_description": "Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy\u2019s lawless outer rim\u2026 When Earth space marine Harper Adams finds herself abducted by alien slavers off a space station, her life turns into a battle for survival. Dumped into an arena on a desert planet on the outer rim, she finds herself face to face with a big, tattooed alien gladiator\u2026the champion of the Kor Magna Arena. A former prince abandoned to the arena as a teen, Raiden Tiago has long ago earned his freedom. Now he rules the arena, but he doesn\u2019t fight for the glory, but instead for his own dark purpose\u2014revenge against the Thraxian aliens who destroyed his planet. Then his existence is rocked by one small, fierce female fighter from an unknown planet called Earth. Harper is determined to find a way home, but when she spots her best friend in the arena\u2014a slave of the evil Thraxian aliens\u2014she\u2019ll do anything to save her friend\u2026even join forces with the tough, alpha male who sets her body on fire. But as Harper and Raiden step foot onto the blood-soaked sands of the arena, Harper worries that Raiden has his own dangerous agenda\u2026 ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Action", "Futuristic", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32738657-gladiator"}, +{"book_title": "Nyssa Glass and the House of Mirrors", "author_name": "H.L. Burke", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 272, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Nyssa Glass is a reformed cat burglar turned electrician's apprentice, settled into a life repairing videophones and radio-sets. However, when her past comes calling, she finds herself forced into one last job. No one has entered Professor Dalhart's secluded mansion in almost a decade, at least not and returned to tell the tale. If Nyssa wants to ensure her freedom, she'll brave the booby trapped halls and mechanized maids. Nyssa has skills, but this house has more than its share of secrets. As she steps into the cobwebbed halls lined with dusty mirrors, she has to wonder. Is the House of Mirrors really abandoned?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery (Cozy Mystery)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29340787-nyssa-glass-and-the-house-of-mirrors"}, +{"book_title": "Restoring Harmony", "author_name": "Joelle Anthony", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1937, "review_number": 312, "book_description": "The year is 2041. Sixteen-year-old Molly McClure has lived a relatively quiet life on an isolated farming island in Canada, but when her family fears the worst may have happened to her grandparents in the US, Molly must brave the dangerous, chaotic world left after global economic collapse. One of massive oil shortages, rampant crime, and abandoned cities. Molly is relieved to find her grandparents alive in their Portland suburb, but they are financially ruined and practically starving. What should have been a quick trip turns into a full-fledged rescue mission. And when Molly witnesses something the local crime bosses wishes she hadn't, Molly's only way home may be to beat them at their own game. Luckily, there's a handsome stranger who's willing to help.Restoring Harmony is a riveting, fast-paced dystopian tale complete with adventure and romance that readers will devour.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6659597-restoring-harmony"}, +{"book_title": "Watchdog", "author_name": "Will McIntosh", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 466, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Thirteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara have built an incredible machine--a loyal robotic watchdog named Daisy. But, when local crime boss Ms. Alba schemes to add Daisy to her robot army, Vick and Tara must go to great lengths to protect their prized pet. Because Daisy is more than just any robot--she's their constant protector, and together the three make a great team.Vick and Tara are determined to stop the mob from tearing their little family apart. And they might just succeed! Sure, the evil Ms. Alba has more robot watchdogs, but none are as smart--or as faithful--as their Daisy. Plus, if things get too dangerous, Tara could always upgrade their pet. With her mechanical skills, she could make Daisy bigger, stronger, and a lot more intimidating!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34079577-watchdog"}, +{"book_title": "Rising Tides", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2821, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "In Taylor Anderson's acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds a extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, as Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the U.S.S. Walker continue their battle for both freedom and survival, the stakes become much more personal...and much more perilous.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8701508-rising-tides"}, +{"book_title": "The Demon's Retribution: Paranormal Scifi Romance", "author_name": "Kiersten Fay", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1254, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "A desire that can never be sated...Demon\u2019s don\u2019t get a second chance at love. To forget the heartless treachery of his long-dead mate, Cale has tried to find solace in the arms of one female or another, never able to fill that gaping tear in his soul. But when he is sent to find the last missing princess, Kyra, he is instantly besotted by the strong-willed, beguiling female who forces him to question everything he has ever known.A power she cannot control...Alone for centuries, Kyra has survived on Earth by concealing her true nature and stifling her dangerously unpredictable magic, all the while relying only on herself and never knowing what has become of her home world or her family. With the sudden appearance of a brutally sexy demon who claims to have been sent for her, she must find the courage to trust him with her life or remain earthbound forever.A journey they both must take...With time running out and danger closing in, can she heal his heart and save her home world?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53676574-the-demon-s-retribution"}, +{"book_title": "Karakuri Odette Volume 1", "author_name": "Julietta Suzuki", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 423, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "What does it mean to be truly human?...Odette is a lovely android built by Professor Yoshizawa. Curious to find out what it's like to be human, she convinces the Professor to enroll her in high school. And thus, with a new group of friends in tow, Odette sets out to discover the true meaning of life as a human, where even the simple stuff is an adventure! A touching slice-of-life comedy, Karakuri Odette does nothing If not uncover the incredible possibilities of the \"human\" spirit!", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Shojo)", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6419520-karakuri-odette-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Firestarter", "author_name": "Tara Sim", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 902, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "The crew of the Prometheus is intent on taking down the world\u2019s clock towers so that time can run freely. Now captives, Colton, Daphne, and the others have a stark choice: join the Prometheus\u2019s cause, or fight back in any small way they can and face the consequences. But Zavier, leader of the terrorists, has a bigger plan\u2014to bring back the lost god of time.As new threats emerge, loyalties must shift. No matter where the Prometheus goes\u2014Prague, Austria, India\u2014nowhere is safe, and every second ticks closer toward the eleventh hour. Walking the line between villainy and heroism, each will have to choose what's most important: saving those you love at the expense of the many, or making impossible sacrifices for the sake of a better world.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25761057-firestarter"}, +{"book_title": "Contaminated", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1027, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "The people of my planet are plagued by a devastating genetic curse. To treat the disease's effects, we've turned to cultivating a rare flower. That's my occupation: raising and studying this flower. That's precisely what I'm doing the daycycle that an alien drops into our research plot, approaches our plant... And cuts my flower's head off, stealing the bloom.She stole our only hope. I can't let her get away.**Note: This 37K, standalone story is intended for readers 18+ due to romantic elements. There is no cheating. There is a Happily Ever After, because this is a sci-fi retelling of Beauty and the Beast--you have to have an HEA. (There is, however, no singing cutlery.) ***Important Note II: No unicorns were harmed in the making of this story.----------------------Cosmic Fairy Tales is a collaboration in which several authors are retelling beloved tales with a science fiction romance twist. Each book is a standalone, containing its own Happily Ever After, and they can be read in any order. Be sure to explore the other titles in the collection:The Hunchback by Regine AbelThe Frog Prince by Tracy LaurenContaminated by Amanda MiloThe Ugly Dukeling by Bex McLynnJackie and the Giant by Honey PhillipsEscaping Wonderland by Tiffany RobertsRampion by Susan TrombleyThe Lion and the Mouse by Emmy Chandler", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52140234-contaminated"}, +{"book_title": "Lord of the Storm", "author_name": "Justine Davis", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1037, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Her every wish is his command. He lives only to serve her desires.A warrior. A sex slave from a conquered world.What will he do to her if she sets him free?Shaylah Graymist, ace fighter pilot for a brutal intergalactic Coalition, is given a slave as a reward for heroism in battle. The incredibly virile slave named Wolf wears a collar which controls him completely, allowing her to make him do anything she wants. Yet Shaylah has an old-fashioned belief in love and refuses to take advantage of him. A tense friendship grows between her and Wolf, along with deep desires he refuses to admit. The Coalition destroyed his people. He won't betray their memory.When Shaylah returns to battle, Wolf rebels and is sold to a prison colony. She frees him, and together they journey to his home planet. As she learns more about Wolf, she begins to question her loyalty to the Coalition, and the passions between them burn out of control.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/583971.Lord_of_the_Storm"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot Adventures", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 430, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Ricky and his Mighty Robot have to save the Earth from evil space villains! Three funny books!Ricky Ricotta's mighty robot --Ricky Ricotta's mighty robot vs. the mutant mosquitoes from Mercury --Ricky Ricotta's mighty robot vs. the voodoo vultures from Venus --", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Childrens", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6713239-ricky-ricotta-s-mighty-robot-adventures"}, +{"book_title": "One Thousand Monsters", "author_name": "Kim Newman", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 377, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "\u201cThere are no vampires in Japan. That is the position of the Emperor. The Emperor is wrong...\u201dJapan, 1899. A party of vampires \u2013 exiled from Britain by Prince Dracula \u2013 seeks refuge in Tokyo and are confined to Yokai Town, a ghetto where the Meiji Emperor keeps the country\u2019s vampires \u2013 bizarre creatures as different from European nosferatu as they are from living humans. Dr Genevi\u00e8ve Dieudonn\u00e9, Kostaki, a soldier, Daniel Dravot, a spy, and Christina Light, a revolutionary princess, try to survive in Yokai Town as forces within and outside its walls threaten to destroy the newcomers and the long-time residents. What secret lies under the Temple of One Thousand Monsters?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Horror", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Gothic", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Cultural (Japan)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28503972-one-thousand-monsters"}, +{"book_title": "Victor LaValle's Destroyer", "author_name": "Victor LaValle", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 985, "review_number": 195, "book_description": "The legacy of Frankenstein\u2019s monster collides with the sociopolitical tensions of the present-day United States.Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein beseeched\u00a0his creator for love and companionship, but in 2017, the monster has long discarded any notions of peace or inclusion. He has become the Destroyer,\u00a0his only goal\u00a0to eliminate the scourge of humanity from the planet. In this goal, he initially finds a willing partner in Dr. Baker, a descendant of the Frankenstein family who has lost her teenage son after an encounter with the police. While two scientists, Percy and Byron, initially believe they\u2019re brought to protect Dr. Baker from the monster, they soon realize they may have to protect the world from the monster and Dr. Baker\u2019s wrath. Written by lauded novelist Victor LaValle (The Devil In Silver, The Ballad of Black Tom), Destroyer is a harrowing tale exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Retellings", "Fantasy", "Race", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36100937-victor-lavalle-s-destroyer"}, +{"book_title": "Taken by the Storm", "author_name": "Cyndi Friberg", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1164, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Alternate/new cover for ASIN B006ECFWBATal dar Aune, a powerful shape-shifting mage, comes to Earth on a desperate quest to find a mysterious woman before his nemesis destroys her. Little does Tal know the \u201chelpless\u201d female he\u2019s come to save is the key to peace on his war-torn world\u2026or that he\u2019ll long to touch her, take her, make her his.Unaware of her royal roots or alien origins, Charlotte spends her first thirty years on Earth. Then Tal bursts into her life with all the subtlety of a thunder storm. He\u2019s rude, arrogant, and easily the most desirable man she\u2019s ever encountered. With a ruthless madman hot on their heels, they can\u2019t afford to be distracted by the attraction rapidly growing between them, but the emotions are too powerful to ignore.Note: This book was originally published by Loose ID and was then re-edited/re-published by Cerridwen Press, both time under the same title.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17279006-taken-by-the-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us", "author_name": "Rick Remender", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1230, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "Following the destruction of the Garden Nation of Japan, Constable Led Dent returns to his brutal beat, having succumbed to his inner demons. But as he stalks the streets of the Isles of Los Angeles, enforcing the corporate new world order, he's haunted by a ghost from Tokyo.Collecting: Tokyo Ghost 6-10", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sequential Art", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30301502-tokyo-ghost-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Behemoth: Seppuku", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1602, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Lenie Clarke-amphibious cyborg, Meltdown Madonna, agent of the Apocalypse-has grown sick to death of her own cowardice.For five years (since the events recounted in Maelstrom0, she and her bionic brethren (modified to work in the rift valleys of the ocean floor) have hidden in the mountains of the deep Atlantic. The facility they commandeered was more than a secret station on the ocean floor. Atlantis was an exit strategy for the corporate elite, a place where the world's Movers and Shakers had hidden from the doomsday microbe \u00dfehemoth-and from the hordes of the moved and the shaken left behind. For five years \"rifters\" and \"corpses\" have lived in a state of uneasy truce, united by fear of the outside world.But now that world closes in. An unknown enemy hunts them through the crushing darkness of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. \u00dfehemoth- twisted, mutated, more virulent than ever-has found them already. The fragile armistice between the rifters and their one-time masters has exploded into all-out war, and not even the legendary Lenie Clarke can take back the body count.Billions have died since she loosed \u00dfehemoth upon the world. Billions more are bound to. The whole biosphere came apart at the seams while Lenie Clarke hid at the bottom of the sea and did nothing. But now there is no place left to hide. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably to the very floor of the world, and Lenie Clarke must return to confront the mess she made.Redemption doesn't come easy with the blood of a world on your hands. But even after five years in pitch-black purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way-and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds...\u00dfehemoth: Seppuku concludes the final act (begun in \u00dfehemoth: \u00df-Max) of Peter Watts's chilling and powerful Rifters series.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Horror", "Novels", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66475.Behemoth"}, +{"book_title": "Spectred Isle", "author_name": "K.J. Charles", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 2409, "review_number": 477, "book_description": "Archaeologist Saul Lazenby has been all but unemployable since his disgrace during the War. Now he scrapes a living working for a rich eccentric who believes in magic. Saul knows it\u2019s a lot of nonsense...except that he begins to find himself in increasingly strange and frightening situations. And at every turn he runs into the sardonic, mysterious Randolph Glyde.Randolph is the last of an ancient line of arcanists, commanding deep secrets and extraordinary powers as he struggles to fulfil his family duties in a war-torn world. He knows there's something odd going on with the haunted-looking man who keeps turning up in all the wrong places. The only question for Randolph is whether Saul is victim or villain.Saul hasn\u2019t trusted anyone in a long time. But as the supernatural threat grows, along with the desire between them, he\u2019ll need to believe in evasive, enraging, devastatingly attractive Randolph. Because he may be the only man who can save Saul\u2019s life\u2014or his soul.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35118935-spectred-isle"}, +{"book_title": "Third Daughter", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2347, "review_number": 372, "book_description": "alternate cover edition of ASIN B00H8TBQCCSneaking out of the palace wasn\u2019t one of Aniri\u2019s best ideas. But she\u2019s the Third Daughter of the Queen of Dharia\u2014zero responsibilities and zero royal duties. She\u2019s just the backup daughter, in case her older sisters\u2019 arranged marriages\u2014to take the crown or broker an alliance\u2014don\u2019t quite work out. But once Aniri reaches her 18th birthday, she\u2019ll be truly free\u2026 and then she can marry the charming fencing instructor she meets for fevered kisses in the forest. But then the impossible happens\u2014a marriage proposal. From a barbarian prince in the north, no less. And if Aniri refuses, the threat of their new flying weapon might bring war. So she agrees to the young prince\u2019s proposal, but only as a subterfuge to spy on him, find the weapon, and hopefully avoid both war and an arranged marriage to a man she doesn\u2019t love. But once she arrives in the sweeping mountains of the north, she discovers the prince has his own secrets\u2026 and saving her country may end up breaking her heart. This Bollywood-style royal romance takes you to an alternate East Indian world filled with skyships, saber duels, and lots of royal intrigue. THIRD DAUGHTER is the first book in the Royals of Dharia trilogy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29533033-third-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Cleon Moon", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 3040, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "Now that she\u2019s retrieved the Staff of Lore, Captain Alisa Marchenko can finally dedicate herself and her ship to finding her kidnapped daughter. Her scant clues lead her to Cleon Moon. Unfortunately, since the fall of the empire, mafia clans have taken over the domed cities on the harsh moon, and exploring there isn\u2019t easy. Even with the cyborg Leonidas at her side, Alisa struggles to survive vengeful mafia clans, rogue Starseers, and genetically engineered predators. To further complicate matters, she must worry about the ancient relic hidden on her ship, a beacon to anyone in the system who craves its power. If Alisa can\u2019t navigate the moon\u2019s chaos, she may lose her only chance to catch up with her daughter.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31245755-cleon-moon"}, +{"book_title": "The Wild Robot", "author_name": "Peter Brown", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 34752, "review_number": 4153, "book_description": "Can a robot survive in the wilderness?When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Animals", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26030734-the-wild-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Warlord", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 768, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Government, the last remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellevue, when he came across an ancient but still functioning Fleet Battle Computer named Center. With Center's vast fund of knowledge and strategic calculating abilities, Raj could defeat the barbarians threatening to engulf the Civil Government, and start Bellevue on the road back to the stars. But the Governor, to whom Raj has sworn absolute loyalty, nourishes a paranoid envy and mistrust that grows with every victory. Can even a battle computer of the Galactic Age be enough to counter the fury of Raj's enemies . . . and the treachery of his \"friends\"?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264224.Warlord"}, +{"book_title": "Daisy Kutter: The Last Train", "author_name": "Kazu Kibuishi", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1162, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Daisy Kutter's bandit days are behind her. She and partner Tom have gone legit, and now she is a respectable small-town citizen, owner of the local general store--and bored out of her mind. Frustration with the tedium of normal life and her own discontents gets her into trouble after she loses the store in a poker game. Mr. Winters, the security mogul who won it, offers a proposition she can't refuse: to test the new security robots on his train. He is willing to pay. In a fit of recklessness, Daisy takes the job.Collects all four issues.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48706.Daisy_Kutter"}, +{"book_title": "Corsair", "author_name": "James L. Cambias", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 675, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, meet at MIT. One, Elizabeth Santiago, dreams of technology and space travel. The other, David Schwartz, is just looking to make a quick buck.Nearly ten years later, David is setting himself to become a billionaire by working in the shadows for international thieves, while Elizabeth works in intelligence preventing international space piracy. With robotic mining in space becoming a lucrative part of Earth's economy, her job has become increasingly stressful.David and Elizabeth fight for dominance of the computer systems controlling ore drop placement in international waters. If David can nudge a shipment 500 miles off its target, his employers can get there first and claim it legally in the open sea. Each one intuits that the other is their real competition but can't prove it. When Elizabeth loses a major shipment, she leaves government employ to work for a private space company to find a better way to protect shipments. But international piracy has very high stakes and some very evil players, and both Elizabeth and David are in for a world of trouble.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Space", "Thriller", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168827-corsair"}, +{"book_title": "And After", "author_name": "Sarah Lyons Fleming", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 3411, "review_number": 269, "book_description": "Cassie Forrest could almost believe life at Kingdom Come Farm is perfect, with Adrian and her friends at her side and spring on the way. The spring thaw also means millions of defrosting zombies, however, and if the past year has taught her anything, it\u2019s that life in this new world is highly imperfect.When Safe Zones throughout the country begin to disappear and the zombies at the fences grow in number, Cassie clings to the hope that if she has the people she loves most, it will be all right. But the highly imperfect world makes only one guarantee\u2014zombies never die, never stop and are never satiated.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22080473-and-after"}, +{"book_title": "Reed", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1115, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "As part of Hell Squad, former Coalition Navy SEAL Reed MacKinnon fights for humanity\u2019s freedom from the alien invaders. He also fights for his brown-eyed girl\u2014the woman he rescued from the aliens\u2019 secret laboratory. He admires her quiet strength and will to survive, not to mention her elfin looks and curvy body\u2026but he knows he has to keep his distance. She\u2019s nowhere near ready for what he has to offer and he\u2019ll protect her from everything, even his own powerful desires.Energy scientist Natalya Vasin has lived through hell. Still struggling after her captivity, scarred by the aliens\u2019 experimentation, all she wants is to be normal again...and she wants Reed MacKinnon. But the rugged soldier is holding back, treating her like glass, and she won\u2019t accept that from anybody.As Reed and Natalya wage a sensual battle of desires, they also work together to decipher a mysterious alien energy cube. Hell Squad needs Natalya\u2019s expertise and they need her to go back into alien territory to use it. But on a mission to destroy an alien outpost, secrets are uncovered\u2014of what the raptors really did to Natalya. Secrets that mean the future she wants with Reed is just an impossible dream.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Futuristic", "Action", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25742835-reed"}, +{"book_title": "What Ho, Automaton", "author_name": "Chris Dolley", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 356, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Wodehouse Steampunk! Reggie Worcester and Reeves, his gentleman\u2019s personal gentle-automaton, are consulting detectives in an alternative 1903 where an augmented Queen Victoria is still on the throne and automata are a common sight below stairs. Humour, Mystery, Aunts and Zeppelins!\u201cA fun blend of P.G. Wodehouse, steampunk and a touch of Sherlock Holmes. Dolley is a master at capturing and blending all these elements. More than fascinating, this work is also rip-roaring fun! But where Dolley really excels is in capturing the atmosphere and humor of the Bertie and Jeeves stories. Any Wodehouse fan will want to grab a copy of this work, but even if you have never explored that world, What Ho, Automaton! is a fun and fascinating read. Highly recommended, take a spin in this steampunk hybrid and enjoy the ride!\u201d - SFRevu", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Historical", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11097620-what-ho-automaton"}, +{"book_title": "No Medals for Secrets", "author_name": "Elliott Kay", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1053, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "The Union of Humanity exists only because the aliens demanded it. After a hundred different treaties and countless broken promises, mankind\u2019s powerful neighbors forced humanity into a common defense and a single diplomatic voice. Yet within the Union\u2019s borders, the human race is as fractious as ever. When the star system of Archangel is invaded by the three greatest corporations in human space, the Union is powerless to intervene. Corporal Alicia Wong thrives on the front lines. She doesn\u2019t like the war, but she likes the challenges and the clear-cut goals. She likes knowing who her friends and enemies are, too. Yet after uncovering evidence of alien contact in violation of Union laws, Alicia finds herself in a world of espionage and covert missions. Before it\u2019s all over, her choices may change the course of Archangel\u2019s war\u2014and humanity\u2019s future.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35381620-no-medals-for-secrets"}, +{"book_title": "Worth Her Weight in Gold", "author_name": "Sarah Gailey", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 366, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Winslow Remington Houdstooth, notorious outlaw, handsomest heartbreaker in the American South, has just finished a lucrative job, but he's faced with a hippo-sized problem that would test even the most seasoned of hoppers. \"Worth Her Weight in Gold\" is another slyly funny, raucous adventure in the alternate America of Sarah Gailey's River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39342285-worth-her-weight-in-gold"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel's Blade", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 29809, "review_number": 1887, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh is back in the shadows of a deadly, beautiful world where angels rule, vampires serve, and one female hunter must crawl out of the darkness to survive\u2026The severed head marked by a distinctive tattoo on its cheek should have been a Guild case, but dark instincts honed over hundreds of years of life compel the vampire Dmitri to take control. There is something twisted about this death, something that whispers of centuries long past\u2026but Dmitri\u2019s need to discover the truth is nothing to the vicious strength of his response to the hunter assigned to decipher the tattoo.Savaged in a brutal attack that almost killed her, Honor is nowhere near ready to come face to face with the seductive vampire who is an archangel\u2019s right hand, and who wears his cruelty as boldly as his lethal sensuality\u2026the same vampire who has been her secret obsession since the day she was old enough to understand the inexplicable, violent emotions he aroused in her.As desire turns into a dangerous compulsion that might destroy them both, it becomes clear the past will not stay buried. Something is hunting\u2026and it will not stop until it brings a blood-soaked nightmare to life once more\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8074967-archangel-s-blade"}, +{"book_title": "In the Courts of the Crimson Kings", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1144, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "In the \u201cuniverse next door\u201d first introduced in S. M. Stirling\u2019s The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) two hundred million years ago, seeding them with life-forms from Earth. Humans didn\u2019t suspect this until the twentieth century. Then American and Soviet probes landed on our sister worlds and found life\u2014intelligent life, at that. By the year 2000, all the great powers of Earth are contending for influence and power amid the newly-discovered inhabitants of our sister planets.In A.D. 2000, Jeremy Wainman is an archaeologist who has achieved a lifelong dream; to travel to Mars and explore the dead cities of the Deep Beyond, searching for the secrets of the Kings Beneath the Mountain and the fallen empire they ruled.Teyud za-Zhalt is the Martian mercenary the Terrans hire as guide and captain of the landship Intrepid Traveler. But she conceals a secret\u2014one that links her to the enigmatic Ancients, the Lords of Creation who reshaped the Solar System in the time of the dinosaurs.When Jeremy and Teyud meet, the foundations of reality will be shaken\u2014from the lost city of Rema-Dza to the courts of the Crimson Kings.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Sword and Planet)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Planetary Romance)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1723945.In_the_Courts_of_the_Crimson_Kings"}, +{"book_title": "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics", "author_name": "N. Katherine Hayles", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 738, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the \"bodies\" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans \"beamed\" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist \"subject\" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the \"posthuman.\"Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems.Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of where we might go from here.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Philosophy", "Nonfiction", "Philosophy (Theory)", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Academic", "History", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Reference (Research)", "Sociology"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303065.How_We_Became_Posthuman"}, +{"book_title": "Emperor", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 938, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "Inscribed in Latin, The Prophecy has resided in the hands of a single family for generations, revealing secrets about the world that is to come, and guiding them to wealth and power... It begins when a Celtic noble betrays his people at the behest of his mother's belief in The Prophecy and sides with the conquering Roman legions. For the next 400 years, Britannia thrives-as does the family that contributed to Rome's reign over the island with the construction of Emperor Hadrian's Wall and the protection of Emperor Constantine from a coup d'\u00e9tat. And even when the sun begins to set on the Roman Empire, The Prophecy remains. For those capable of deciphering its signs and portents, the future of Earth is in their hands", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66789.Emperor"}, +{"book_title": "Fight for Power", "author_name": "Eric Walters", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2386, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "As this apocalyptic trilogy hurtles to a chilling conclusion, Adam is pushed to the edge of his endurance and sanity.Adam has killed again. It had to be done, part of him knows that, but murder changes a person. It can certainly change a teenager who's already grown up too quickly, too harshly, in the wake of the catastrophic global blackout five months ago. In the name of safety and survival, Adam and his neighbors have turned their middle American suburban neighborhood into a fortress, defending against countless enemies. But what's lurking in the dark is a greater danger than ever before: somebody who wants to destroy the neighborhood and Adam at any cost. Soon, the hunted will have to become the hunter . . . and Adam hates himself for what he will have to do. Because sometimes even the dark is not cover enough for things that would never happen in the light.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21469162-fight-for-power"}, +{"book_title": "Armor", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1494, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Earth is a fiery pile of rubble. Amy, a woman left to fend for herself on the volatile planet, seeks to feed a pitiful group of women and children, misfits left to perish because of various and devious reasons. Amy was diagnosed with cancer the year her world fell apart and not given a shuttle pass to the new planet, Ulsy. That she is still alive is all but a mystery to her. When strange beings land on Earth's surface, Amy presumes the armored, hideous creatures are looming death. Dasks is a full-blooded Castian warrior from Dargon. He and his warrior mate have come to Earth seeking human females to bond with. A male of almost four hundred years old, he can't believe how captivating his new human female, Amy, is. But Dasks' race can sense deception and lies\u2014he can smell fear. Amy is keeping a secret from him. When a Castian mates, he mates for life. If Amy dies, so will Dasks. Dasks must decide if he can live without her\u2014because if they mate he will surely die with her.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Space", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13635015-armor"}, +{"book_title": "Spacetime Donuts", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "The birth of cyberpunk! A seaweed-smoking rebel becomes an incredible shrinking man. Under the bottom is the top--and the power to smash the Machine. After humanity becomes inextricably linked to the computers, a heroic couple makes a scale-ship journey beneath the smallest particles and through the largest cosmic structures, seeking a perfect world.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274100.Spacetime_Donuts"}, +{"book_title": "Departure", "author_name": "A.G. Riddle", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 17391, "review_number": 1456, "book_description": "A wild propulsive adventure full of hairpin twists, Departure weaves together power, ambition, fate, memory, and love. The world's past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers. En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they've crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home? Five passengers seem to hold clues about what's really going on: writer Harper Lane, venture capitalist Nick Stone, German genetic researcher Sabrina Schr\u00f6der, computer scientist Yul Tan, and Grayson Shaw, the son of a billionaire philanthropist.As more facts about the crash emerge, it becomes clear that some in this group know more than they're letting on, answers that will lead Harper and Nick to uncover a far-reaching conspiracy involving their own lives. As they begin to piece together the truth, they discover they have the power to change the future and the past-to save our world... or end it.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41014635-departure"}, +{"book_title": "Aftermath", "author_name": "Charles Sheffield", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 734, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "It's 2026, and catastrophe has struck from an unexpected source. The Alpha Centauri supernova has risen like a second sun, rushing Earth toward its last summer. Floods, fires, starvation, and disease paralyze the planet. In a blue aurora flash of gamma rays, all microchips worldwide are destroyed, leaving an already devastated Earth without communications, transportation, weaponry, or medicine.The disaster sets three groups of survivors on separate quests. A militant cult seizes the opportunity to free their leader, known as the Eye of God, from the long-term coma to which a court sentenced her. Three cancer patients also search for a man in judicial sleep: the brilliant scientist\u2014and monstrous criminal\u2014who alone can continue the experimental treatment that keeps them alive. From a far greater distance come the survivors of the first manned Mars expedition, struggling homeward to a world that has changed far beyond their darkest fears. And standing at the crossroads is one man, U.S. President Saul Steinmetz, who faces a crucial decision that will affect the fate of his own people ... and the world.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258999.Aftermath"}, +{"book_title": "Sabbat Martyr", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2230, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "A new wave of hope has been unleashed in the Chaos infested Sabbat system when a girl claiming to be the reincarnation of Saint Sabbat is revealed. Despite private doubts from the military high command, she proves to be the perfect rallying point for beleaguered Imperial troops. But the dark forces of Chaos are not oblivious to this new threat and when they order their most lethal assassins to kill her, it falls to Commissar Guant and his men to form the last line of defense!", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/638147.Sabbat_Martyr"}, +{"book_title": "The Clan of the Cave Bear", "author_name": "Jean M. Auel", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 233794, "review_number": 6709, "book_description": "This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly--she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Classics", "Romance", "Adventure", "Historical Fiction (Prehistoric)", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40611463-the-clan-of-the-cave-bear"}, +{"book_title": "Allotropes", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1447, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "\u201cAllotropes\" is the eighth in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has made her a genius as well as an athletic phenomenon.In \u201cAllotropes,\u201d she finds even more uses for the quantum entangled wormholes that she discovered. These wormholes aren\u2019t big enough to send people through, yet they make possible technologies that create huge changes in our world. She installs some ports in her own body that she is able to use as weapons, delivering darts and drugs to stop her adversaries.Having earned gold medals in gymnastics in previous Olympics, she is challenged to enter track meets by world record holding sprinter Michael Fentis who\u2019s angry that some have said she can run faster than he can.Meanwhile, one of her waldoes is exploring the ringworld she discovered at Sigma Draconis. The aliens there are doing surprising things with carbon allotropes! Can we learn to do the same?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24945572-allotropes"}, +{"book_title": "Love in the Time of Global Warming", "author_name": "Francesca Lia Block", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 3369, "review_number": 719, "book_description": "Her life by the sea in ruins, Pen has lost everything in the Earth Shaker that all but destroyed the city of Los Angeles. She sets out into the wasteland to search for her family, her journey guided by a tattered copy of Homer\u2019s Odyssey. Soon she begins to realize her own abilities and strength as she faces false promises of safety, the cloned giants who feast on humans, and a madman who wishes her dead. On her voyage, Pen learns to tell stories that reflect her strange visions, while she and her fellow survivors navigate the dangers that lie in wait. In her signature style, Francesca Lia Block has created a world that is beautiful in its destruction and as frightening as it is lovely. At the helm is Pen, a strong heroine who holds hope and love in her hands and refuses to be defeated.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Magical Realism", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059426-love-in-the-time-of-global-warming"}, +{"book_title": "Patient Zero", "author_name": "L.T. Ryan", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1999, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "Something dark lurks in the wilds of Southern Nigeria. An experiment has gone horribly wrong and threatens to wipe all traces of humanity from Earth. 3rd Ranger Battalion, Bravo Company is sent in to assist, clean up the mess before it gets out of control.They've vanished.Sean Ryder is an Air Force Pararescueman. Attached to SEAL Team 8, he believes he is on a routine rescue and recovery mission. Less than half an hour after landing in Nigeria, he knows that is not the case. And the further his mission leads him, the harder it becomes to get out alive.Patient Zero is the first book in the zombie apocalypse / post-apocalyptic series Affliction Z.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17800093-patient-zero"}, +{"book_title": "The Testing", "author_name": "Joelle Charbonneau", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 62389, "review_number": 6877, "book_description": "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same?The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing\u2014their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.Cia Vale is honoured to be chosen as a Testing candidate; eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. But on the eve of her departure, her father's advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies\u2014trust no one.But surely she can trust Tomas, her handsome childhood friend who offers an alliance? Tomas, who seems to care more about her with the passing of every gruelling (and deadly) day of the Testing.To survive, Cia must choose: love without truth or life without trust.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13326831-the-testing"}, +{"book_title": "Autonomous", "author_name": "Annalee Newitz", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 13269, "review_number": 1915, "book_description": "Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine. A notorious anti-patent scientist who has styled herself as a Robin Hood heroine fighting to bring cheap drugs to the poor, Jack\u2019s latest drug is leaving a trail of lethal overdoses across what used to be North America\u2014a drug that compels people to become addicted to their work.On Jack\u2019s trail are an unlikely pair: an emotionally shut-down military agent and his partner, Paladin, a young military robot, who fall in love against all expectations. Autonomous alternates between the activities of Jack and her co-conspirators, and Elias and Paladin, as they all race to stop a bizarre drug epidemic that is tearing apart lives, causing trains to crash, and flooding New York City.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28209634-autonomous"}, +{"book_title": "Return to Dakistee", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1682, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "The same archeological team who uncovered a secret underground bunker on Dakistee sixteen years earlier, when the planet was still named Mawcett, has discovered a new facility. They struggle for months to open the entrance, but the structure defies all their efforts. Finally admitting defeat, they send a message to Admiral Jenetta Carver, beseeching her to come help once again.In Region Two, Admiral Jenetta Carver is besieged with mundane work. Although she would love to drop everything and head for Dakistee, she can't possibly get away. But she also can't ignore the possibilities of what treasures, or dangers, the facility might represent. Fortunately, the battleship Hephaestus is in port, and the ship's third watch commander is available for a special assignment.Christa is far from thrilled with the prospect of giving up her seat on the bridge, even temporarily, but when an admiral says go, you go. It doesn't matter that the admiral is your sister. Christa expects to make a quick trip, with a speedy return to the Hephaestus, but as with Jenetta, assignments often tend to take unexpected side trips into unique and dangerous situations.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13241035-return-to-dakistee"}, +{"book_title": "A Year Without Autumn", "author_name": "Liz Kessler", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2457, "review_number": 315, "book_description": "On her way to visit her best friend, Autumn, Jenni Green suddenly finds she's been transported exactly one year forward in time. Now she discovers that in the year that's gone by, tragedy has struck and her friendship with Autumn will never be the same again. But what caused the tragedy?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Contemporary", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9731300-a-year-without-autumn"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Energy", "author_name": "Robison Wells", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 983, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "WE ARE NOT ALONEFive days ago, a massive UFO crashed in the Midwest, killing thousands of people. Since then, nothing\u2013or no one\u2013has come out.THEY HAVE ARRIVEDIf it were up to Alice, she\u2019d be watching all of this on the news from Miami, Florida. Instead, she\u2019s the newest student at a boarding school not far from the crash site\u2013because her dad is the director of special projects for NASA, and if anything\u2019s a special project, it\u2019s this.AND THERE\u2019S NO GOING BACKA shell-shocked country is waiting, glued to televisions and computer screens, for a sign of what the future holds. But when the aliens emerge, they\u2019re nothing like what Alice expected. And only one thing is clear: Nothing will ever be the same again.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24957629-dark-energy"}, +{"book_title": "NeoAddix", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 127, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "DATAKILL!Alex Gibson is an evidence chaser on the run in London. One of his eyes is palest grey. The other is a Zeiss eyecam with enough data locked in it to blow open a very messy murder trial. Unfortunately for Alex, media giant CySat GmB reckon the evidence belongs to them. And they intend to take it. so does the Order of Antioch, a shadowy organization run by an 800-year-old Sicilian psychopath.Bad news for prosecutor Clare Fabio, who's been set up but doesn't know it. Just as she doesn't yet know her only chance of getting out of Paris alive is to cut a deal with a ruthless, criminally inclined computer.While on the other side of the world, wired into the Cy, sits Johnnie T, leader of the neoAddix, Japan's slickest street gang - who just may be able to do something to help them.Or maybe not...NEOADDIX, drawing on today's and tomorrow's developments in genetics, nanotechnology and computer hacking, is a dark, violent technoshocker that splices the thriller with Japanese traditions of manga to create cutting-edge cyber noir.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2037587.NeoAddix"}, +{"book_title": "The Chantry Guild", "author_name": "Gordon R. Dickson", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 792, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "A lone ship entering Earth space rouses Hal Mayne from his researches aboard the Final Encyclopedia. Piloting the craft is Dorsai Amanda Morgan, returning from her work with resistance fighters of the Younger Worlds, bearing terrible\u2014though not unexpected\u2014news:Bleys Ahrens, commanding the cross-cultural hybrids known as the Others, is tightening his deadly hold on the Younger Worlds, bleeding them of able adults and materials with which to build a space war fleet. With a massive attack through the phase-shield, he will cause the Younger Worlds to wither and die, once more confining the human race to Earth.Amanda beckons Hal to the planet Kultis, where the monastery-like settlement of the Chantry Guild has mastered the powerful Alternate Forces so inextricably linked to the Creative Universe Hal resolutely sought\u2026so secretly guarded behind their motto: Destruct.As the Occupational Troops close in on the Guild\u2019s hidden enclave, all the years of struggle\u2014all the lives Hal has lived\u2014converge in what may be humanity\u2019s final critical moment\u2026", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263161.The_Chantry_Guild"}, +{"book_title": "Alien 'n' Outlaw", "author_name": "K.C. Burn", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 618, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "R'kos, son of the Ankylos Emperor, is expected to settle down. But he's much more attracted to human males than to his own species. Eager to explore his forbidden longings, he steals a ship and heads to Elora Ki to see if he can find the right human guy.Darien robs the corrupt to give to those in need, but now he needs a ride off Elora Ki, stat. Pursued by drug lords, he accepts help from the amorous stranger who calls himself Ricky. As they fly together along Darien's route, their friendship quickly turns into passion.But when Ricky is injured, Darien must contact the embassy to get his alien lover the medical care he needs. As Darien finds himself accused of kidnapping, and Ricky fears his family's disappointment, can the two protect their growing relationship? Or are their differences just too great?44,000 words", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13643750-alien-n-outlaw"}, +{"book_title": "Take Back Plenty", "author_name": "Colin Greenland", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 483, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "It is carnival time on Mars, but Tabitha Jute isn't partying. She is in hiding from the law, penniless and about to lose her livelihood and her best friend, the space barge \"Alice Liddell\". Then, the intriguing Marco Metz offers her some money to take him to Plenty, and then the adventure begins.Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year and the British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel of the year--the only book ever to win both prestigious British awards.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1415743.Take_Back_Plenty"}, +{"book_title": "Bug Hunts: Surviving and Combating the Alien Menace", "author_name": "Mark A. Latham", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 31, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "They said there were no monsters. But there are.It is the 23rd Century, mankind has reached out to the stars, populating great swathes of the galaxy in their bid to become the rulers of space. And yet one threat more than any other stands in the way of humanity's manifest destiny: Bugs.Across the cold void of space, alien monsters prey on humanity - infesting generation-ships, destroying colonies, and transforming humans into hosts for their foul spoor. From the insectoid hive-beasts of Klaatu, to the xenomorphic parasites of the outer rim, this book contains the sum total of human knowledge of the myriad forms of alien menace; where to find them... and how to kill them.In this guide you will find details of mankind's greatest champions, the marines of STAR dynamic. With their state-of-the-art technology and advanced combat tactics developed over a century of warfare, the STAR marines battle the alien, wherever it may strike.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25241844-bug-hunts"}, +{"book_title": "Dragonswan", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 17511, "review_number": 486, "book_description": "Channon (Shannon with C) MacRea has spent years studying the legendary Dragon Tapestry, deciphering Old English symbolism. One evening delectable Sebastian Kattalakis appears -- a dragon slayer trapped between two worlds -- claims to hold the key to solving the tapestry\u2019s mysteries. Channon follows him into a fantastic alternate world of magic, danger, and adventure.Also in:* In Other Worlds anthologyCollector's-edition.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84134.Dragonswan"}, +{"book_title": "Darksaber", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 9549, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "Luke Skywalker and Han Solo return to desert planet Tatooine so Callista can regain the Force and her link and love for Luke. Trio join Leia, Chewbacca, Artoo, Threepio, and new knights. Durga Hutt, galaxy warlord, rebuilds Death Star superweapon as Darksaber. Lovely Admiral Daala and Pellaeon, second to Thrawn, marshal Imperial forces against Jedi.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513210.Darksaber"}, +{"book_title": "Hearts of Smoke and Steam", "author_name": "Andrew P. Mayer", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 255, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Superheroes and steampunk come together in 19th century New York. Sir Dennis Darby has been murdered, the Automaton has been destroyed, and Sarah Stanton has turned her back on a life of privilege and comfort to try and find her way in the unforgiving streets of New York. But Lord Eschaton, the villain behind all these events, isn't finished with her yet. His plans to bring his apocalyptic vision of the future to the world are moving forward, but to complete his scheme he needs the clockwork heart that Sarah still holds. But she has her own plans for the Automaton's clockwork heart-Sarah is trying to rebuild her mechanical friend, and when she is attacked by the Children of Eschaton, the man who comes to her rescue may be the one to make her dreams come true. Emelio Armando is a genius inventor who had hoped to leave his troubles behind when he and his sister left Italy for a life of anonymity in the New World. Now he finds himself falling in love with the fallen society girl, but he is rapidly discovering just how powerful the forces of villainy aligned against her are, and that fulfilling her desires means opening the door to a world of danger that could destroy everything he has built. The Society of Steam takes place in a Victorian New York powered by the discovery of Fortified Steam, a substance that allows ordinary men to wield extraordinary abilities and grants powers that can corrupt gentlemen of great moral strength. The secret behind this amazing substance is something that wicked brutes will gladly kill for, and one that Sarah must try and protect, no matter what the cost.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11291902-hearts-of-smoke-and-steam"}, +{"book_title": "From Hell", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 34013, "review_number": 1851, "book_description": "\"I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.\" Having proved himself peerless in the arena of reinterpreting superheroes, Alan Moore turned his ever-incisive eye to the squalid, enigmatic world of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Weighing in at 576 pages, From Hell is certainly the most epic of Moore's works and remarkably and is possibly his finest effort yet in a career punctuated by such glorious highlights as Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Going beyond the myriad existing theories, which range from the sublime to the ridiculous, Moore presents an ingenious take on the slaughter. His Ripper's brutal activities are the epicentre of a conspiracy involving the very heart of the British Establishment, including the Freemasons and The Royal Family. A popular claim, which is transformed through Moore's exquisite and thoroughly gripping vision, of the Ripper crimes being the womb from which the 20th century, so enmeshed in the celebrity culture of violence, received its shocking, visceral birth. Bolstered by meticulous research that encompasses a wide spectrum of Ripper studies and myths and coupled with his ability to evoke sympathies in such monstrous characters, Moore has created perhaps the finest examination of the Ripper legacy, observing far beyond society's obsessive need to expose Evil's visage. Ultimately, as Moore observes, Jack's identity and his actions are inconsequential to the manner in which society embraced the Fear: \"It's about us. It's about our minds and how they dance. Jack mirrors our hysterias. Faceless, he is the receptacle for each new social panic.\" Eddie Campbell's stunning black and white artwork, replete with a scratchy, dirty sheen, is perfectly matched to the often-unshakeable intensity of Moore's writing. Between them, each murder is rendered in horrifying detail, providing the book's most unnerving scenes, made more so in uncomfortable, yet lyrical moments as when the villain embraces an eviscerated corpse, craving understanding; pleading that they \"are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity\". Though technically a comic, the term hardly begins to describe From Hell's inimitable grandeur and finesse, as it takes the medium to fresh heights of ingenuity and craftsmanship. Moore and Campbell's autopsy on the emaciated corpse of the Ripper myth has divulged a deeply disturbing yet undeniably captivating masterpiece. \u2014Danny Graydon", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Mystery (Crime)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Mystery", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23529.From_Hell"}, +{"book_title": "300 Suns", "author_name": "Allan Ferrenberg", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 156, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Aliens have arrived with capabilities we can hardly imagine. But they refuse to communicate with us! Why do they ignore us, and what do they want? Tom Kingsley is an astronomer at the right place and the right time to get the first photographs of the alien spacecraft. As a result, he becomes the leading scientific expert on the aliens and their technology. (When you are the only one in a field, you are the expert.) Tom and his team work to understand the science behind the aliens\u2019 remarkable and overwhelming technologies and the powerful and bright \u201cstars\u201d that they begin to place in orbit about the earth. As governments, the scientific community, and ordinary people try to understand and deal with the situation, the number of these \u201cstars\u201d slowly increases. Soon the Earth will grow warmer. And neither Tom, nor anyone else, can imagine a peaceful purpose for these \u201cstars\u201d.This is a hard science fiction novel situated in the very near future. It is written by a former \u201crocket scientist\u201d and part-time engineering professor. It contains a brief appendix for those who desire a more detailed explanation of the science that is the basis of this novel.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20958944-300-suns"}, +{"book_title": "The Gripping Hand", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 10824, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "For the safety of mankind, the aliens called Moties have been quarantined for 25 years (see THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE) and are now poised to break out of their solar system and spread rapidly into humanity's space. Kevin Renner, Horace Bury, Rod Blaine and other characters introduced in THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE must now find new ways to cope with the inevitable Motie expansion while trying to protect humanity. Sequel to the novel Robert A. Heinlein called \"Possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read.\"", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space", "Novels", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218453.The_Gripping_Hand"}, +{"book_title": "A Red Sun Also Rises", "author_name": "Mark Hodder", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 447, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "A tale of good and evil, where neither is what it seems! Aiden Fleischer, a bookish priest, finds himself transported to an alien world. With him is Miss Clarissa Stark, a crippled hunchback of exceptional ability, wronged by an aristocrat and cast out from society.On the planet Ptallaya, under two bright yellow suns, they encounter the Yatsill, a race of enthusiastic mimics who shape their society after impressions picked up from Clarissa's mind. Creating a faux London, the alien creatures enroll Clarissa in their Council of Magicians and Aiden in the City Guard. But why does the peaceful city require guards? After a day that, in earthly terms, has lasted for months, the answer comes, for on this planet without night, a red sun also rises, and brings with it a destructive evil.The Blood Gods! Hideous creatures, they cause Aiden to confront his own internal darkness while trying to protect his friend and his new home.With a sharp eye for period detail and a rich imagination, Mark Hodder establishes a weirdly twisted version of Victorian London on a convincingly realized alien world, and employs them to tackle a profound psychological and moral question. A Red Sun Also Rises breaks new ground by combining the sword & planet genre with Victorian steampunk while adding an edgy psychological twist.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Adventure", "Religion", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14288358-a-red-sun-also-rises"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire III: Chapter Six - The Future", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "'Maybe this chapter of history will be a bad one. Another one in which the Daleks win. But maybe it won't be.' It would seem that not even Saloran Hardew knows what the future will hold.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1205237.Dalek_Empire_III"}, +{"book_title": "The Monarch's Mate", "author_name": "Miranda Bridges", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1646, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "My life sucks. All the other human breeders have males who are head over heels for them, but do I get that? Nope. Not even close. My alien is the future king of the Dravian race and believe me, he acts like a royal jerk. Yeah, sure, he\u2019s hot as hell, but that is not the point. Anyway, I\u2019m still trying to figure out how to get him to do what I want when I stumble onto plans for an assassination. I decide to get involved because if anyone is going to kill the sexy prince it\u2019s going to be me. Especially if he calls me his \u201cnamori\u201d one more time. Whatever that means. So now I\u2019m trying to keep us alive, but he\u2019s making everything difficult with his kisses and his... well let\u2019s just say I better keep my mind focused and my legs, er... mouth closed.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48510595-the-monarch-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001", "author_name": "Naoki Urasawa", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 6934, "review_number": 373, "book_description": "In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol's top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders; the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1725523.PLUTO"}, +{"book_title": "Buddy's Bedtime Battery", "author_name": "Christina Geist", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 41, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "It\u2019s Buddy\u2019s bedtime, but there\u2019s just one problem\u2014he\u2019s decided that he\u2019s a robot! His accommodating parents must now \u201cpower down\u201d their little machine step by step, from his toes to his tushy. Tim Bowers\u2019s bubbly illustrations capture Buddy\u2019s energy and imagination, and parents and kids will enjoy adopting this new bedtime ritual into their own routines.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28439555-buddy-s-bedtime-battery"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost Ship", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1892, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "New novel in the Liaden Universe(R) series. Over a quarter million copies sold in this series to-date Space ships, action, adventure - all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and family saga - make this a compelling series for a wide range of readers, from romance to military SF lovers alike.Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot - and pure maverick. Her mom is a renown Terran scholar and her birth father is an interstellar aristocrat in hiding. \"Whatever,\" thinks Theo. She still feels like a socially-challenged misfit. But after being selected to train with the best-of-the-best at the pilot academy, she figures she can leave behind those gawky, misfit days of teenage angst that made life so \"complicated\" before But for Theo, life is about to get even MORE complicated - and deadlier still. For even though she's survived the Academy and become one of the best pilots in the galaxy, the past is about to blast her with gale-force winds. Theo can run, but she can't hide. Her destiny as master pilot and leader of a powerful Liaden clan calls, and there are LOTS of enemies who will try to make sure she's quite dead before she has the chance to make an answer.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Action", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9762449-ghost-ship"}, +{"book_title": "White Horse", "author_name": "Alex Adams", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 3172, "review_number": 710, "book_description": "The world has ended, but her journey has just begun.Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the President of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Along the way, Zoe comes to see that humans are not defined by their genetic code, but rather by their actions and choices.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12173462-white-horse"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Skye", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 20511, "review_number": 1444, "book_description": "In this highly anticipated fifteenth novel in the Immortals After Dark series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole spins a sultry tale of a mighty warrior scarred inside and out and the beguiling sorceress with the power to heal him\u2014or vanquish him forever.ETERNAL OBSESSIONAs a boy, Thronos, prince of Skye Hall, loved Lanthe, a mischievous Sorceri girl who made him question everything about his Vrekener clan. But when the two got caught in the middle of their families\u2019 war, tragedy struck, leaving Thronos and Lanthe bitter enemies. Though centuries have passed, nothing can cool his seething need for the beautiful enchantress who scarred his body\u2014and left an even deeper impression on his soul.ENDLESS YEARNINGLanthe, a once-formidable sorceress struggling to reclaim her gifts, searches for love and acceptance with all the wrong immortal suitors. But she\u2019s never forgotten Thronos, the magnificent silver-eyed boy who protected her until she was ripped from the shelter of his arms. One harrowing night changed everything between them. Now he\u2019s a notorious warlord with a blood vendetta against Lanthe, hunting her relentlessly.CAN THE HEAT OF DESIRE BURN BRIGHTER THAN VENGEANCE?With their families locked in conflict and battles raging all around them, will Thronos and Lanthe succumb to the brutal chaos that threatens everything they cherish? Or will the fragile bond they formed so long ago spark a passion strong enough to withstand even the darkest doubts?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18775652-dark-skye"}, +{"book_title": "Damia's Children", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 10156, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Damia and Afra-Raven-Lyon had reared their children in a brilliant and unorthodox way. All their young had been 'paired' when six months old with the furry, one-eyed Mrdinis, the only other sentient beings in the Alliance, who could communicate with humans by their 'dream messages'. Together, Man and Mrdini worked to create prosperous worlds and guard against the terrible threat of the annihilating Hivers.And now, in the deeps of Space, Mrdini scouts had crossed the path of three Hive ships -- ships that were giant hulks of cell units, bearing the queens and workers out into space, to breed and multiply and destroy wherever they found a viable planet.It was the four elder children of Damia -- Laria, Thian, Rojer and Zara -- all uniquely talented in their various ways, who were to play their part, helped by their life-long Dini friends, in the conquering and investigation of the Alien threat of the Hivers.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61940.Damia_s_Children"}, +{"book_title": "Return of the Dapper Men", "author_name": "Jim McCann", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1043, "review_number": 203, "book_description": "Welcome to Anorev, a world in between time, where children have played so long it\u2019s almost become work, machines have worked so long they have begun to play and all the clocks have stopped at the same time. This is how this land has remained, until 314 dapper-looking gentlemen rain down from the sky and set off in different directions to start the world again. Now Ayden, the only boy to still ask questions; Zoe, the robot girl all other machines hold dear; and the Dapper Man known only as \"41\u201d must discover what happened that made time stop, understand what their true places are in this world, and learn what \"tomorrow\u201d really means. The sun is setting for the first time in memory, and once that happens, everything changes.Return of the Dapper Men is a visually stunning fairy tale that combines steampunk with fantasy and science fiction with Renaissance style, brought to life from the minds of award-winning playwright and comic book writer Jim McCann (New Avengers: The Reunion) and critically acclaimed visual artist Janet Lee. Together these two have created a world where J.M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll and Maurice Sendak meet Jim Henson and Tim Burton. All sharply dressed in a pin-stripe suit and a dapper bowler hat. Tick tock, time is about to start.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7842325-return-of-the-dapper-men"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Illusion", "author_name": "Teri Brown", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 4674, "review_number": 642, "book_description": "Anna Van Housen has a secret. A gifted illusionist, Anna assists her mother, the renowned medium Marguerite Van Housen, in her stage show and s\u00e9ances, easily navigating the underground world of magicians, mediums, and mentalists in 1920s New York. As the illegitimate daughter of Harry Houdini\u2014or so Marguerite claims\u2014sleight of hand illusions have never been a challenge for Anna. The real trick is keeping her own gifts secret from her opportunistic mother. Because while Marguerite's own powers may be a sham, Anna possesses a true ability to sense people\u2019s feelings and foretell the future.But as Anna\u2019s powers intensify, she begins to experience frightening visions of her mother in peril, which leads her to explore the powers she\u2019s tried so long to hide. And when a mysterious young man named Cole moves into the flat downstairs, introducing Anna to a secret society that studies people with gifts like hers, she is forced to confront her past and rethink everything she\u2019s ever known. Is her mother truly in danger, or are Anna\u2019s visions merely illusion? And could the great Houdini really be her father, or is it just another of Marguerite\u2019s tricks?From Teri Brown comes a world bursting with magic, with romance, and the temptations of Jazz Age New York\u2014and the story of a girl about to become the mistress of her own destiny.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13000748-born-of-illusion"}, +{"book_title": "Axiomatic", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 4302, "review_number": 339, "book_description": "Axiomatic is a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov's) between 1989 and 1992. Contents:The Infinite Assassin (1991)The Hundred Light-Year Diary (1992)Eugene (1990)The Caress (1990)Blood Sisters (1991)Axiomatic (1990)The Safe-Deposit Box (1990)Seeing (1995)A Kidnapping (1995)Learning to Be Me (1990)The Moat (1991)The Walk (1992)The Cutie (1989)Into Darkness (1992)Appropriate Love (1991)The Moral Virologist (1990)Closer (1992)Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies (1992)", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Philosophy", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic"}, +{"book_title": "Demon from the Dark", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 43916, "review_number": 1531, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes this scorching tale of a demon outcast poisoned with vampire blood and the vulnerable young witch he vows to protect, even from himself.A DANGEROUS DEMON SHE CAN'T RESIST . . .Malkom Slaine: tormented by his sordid past and racked by vampiric hungers, he's pushed to the brink by the green-eyed beauty under his guard.A MADDENING WITCH HE ACHES TO CLAIM . . .Carrow Graie: hiding her own sorrows, she lives only for the next party or prank. Until she meets a tortured warrior worth saving.TRAPPED TOGETHER IN A SAVAGE PRISON . . .In order for Malkom and Carrow to survive, he must unleash both the demon and vampire inside him. When Malkom becomes the nightmare his own people feared, will he lose the woman he craves body and soul?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7098304-demon-from-the-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Odyssey", "author_name": "Michael P. Kube-McDowell", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2402, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "A man without memory, stranded on an icy asteroid. His only chance for survival is locked within a band of mining robots who are dutifully searching the surface for a mysterious object known as the Key to Perihelion. His name is Derec. His journey will take him to a city different from any he has ever known. A fantastic metropolis beyond his dreams: Robot City.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Literature (American)", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41843.Odyssey"}, +{"book_title": "Heir to the Shadows", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 24631, "review_number": 712, "book_description": "Librarian's note: See alternate cover for this edition here.Enough time has passed for the young girl Jaenelle, heir to the magical Darkness, for her physical wounds to heal, while amnesia keeps her frightening memories at bay. But with Saetan--a Black-Jewelled Warlord Prince and Jaenelle's foster-father--to protect her, she will continue to grow. Her magic will mature. Her memories will return. And Jaenelle will face her destiny when she remembers Daemon, Saetan's son, who made the ultimate sacrifice for her love....", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47957.Heir_to_the_Shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Origin", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 93979, "review_number": 7660, "book_description": "Daemon will do anything to get Katy back.After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he\u2019s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure.All Katy can do is survive.Surrounded by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After all, there are sides of Daedalus that don\u2019t seem entirely crazy, but the group\u2019s goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen? Together, they can face anything.But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on?And will they even be together?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13644052-origin"}, +{"book_title": "Ral's Woman", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 12457, "review_number": 570, "book_description": "Ariel never knew aliens existed until she finds herself kidnapped and taken from Earth. When the Anzon declare humans useless, she learns her fate \u2014 prize for the winner of a brutal fight between large, muscled alien men.Ral is a Zorn warrior. He has also been kidnapped by the Anzon, along with his crew. Forced into slavery, he's got one thing on his mind \u2014 freeing his people. That is, until he sees the small human woman he's willing to fight to win. He doesn't just want her body, he wants her heart forever.In the hands of a hot alien, Ariel is about to discover how pleasurable captivity can be.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7203997-ral-s-woman"}, +{"book_title": "Veils of Time", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1134, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Four women find the bridegrooms of their dreams in another time.....A Bride Most Common by Angie RayA time machine hurtled Lucy Taylor back in time to Regency England --- and into the middle of a wedding to a dashing gentleman! Could she change history to save her future, without falling in love with a handsome new husband?And the Groom Wore Tulle by Lynn Kurland. (MacLeod, #3). Scottish nobleman Ian Macleod falls asleep in a medieval dungeon --- and awakens in a room filled with long white dresses. Jane Fergusson longed to create great fashions, but instead toils in a bridal shop. Will their fateful meeting over dressmaker's shears lead to bloodshed or bliss?Conyn's Bride by Ingrid WeaverOn the eve of her wedding, museum curator Alanna Moore is cataloguing antiquities, when suddenly a Celtic warrior appears --- claiming to be her long-lost betrothed! Can she listen to her heart, and remember a love that was destined to be?The Con and the Crusader by Maggie ShayneFleeing thugs, con man Jack McCain jumps into a well --- and into the past. Mistaken for a criminal, he's headed for prison, until he's freed --- with a wedding proposal! The widow Hawkins marries him to get help for her farm, but the attraction between them makes Jack wish he'd never escape this sweet captivity. . .", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Anthologies", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50741.Veils_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Time Lord Fairy Tales", "author_name": "Justin Richards", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2235, "review_number": 395, "book_description": "WE ARE ALL STORIES, IN THE END...Fifteen tales of ancient wonder and mystery, passed down through generations of Time Lords. Dark, beautiful and twisted, these stories are filled with nightmarish terrors and heroic triumphs, from across all of time and space.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Retellings", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25361904-doctor-who"}, +{"book_title": "Midnight Rising", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 33393, "review_number": 948, "book_description": "Book 4 in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Midnight Breed vampire romance seriesIn a world of shadows and dark, cosuming hungers, desire is the deadliest weapon...For journalist Dylan Alexander, it began with the discovery of a hidden tomb, thrusting her into the center of a gathering storm of violence and secrets. But nothing is as dangerous as the scarred, lethally seductive man who rises from the shadows to draw her into his world of dark desire and endless night. Fueled by pain and rage over a shattering betrayal, the warrior Rio has pledged his life to the war against the Rogues. He will let nothing stand in his way--least of all a mortal woman with the power to expose the entire vampire race. For an ancient evil has been awakened, and a stunning darkness is on the rise. Suddenly Dylan is powerless to resist Rio's touch, even as she uncovers a shocking link to her own past. And now she must choose: Leave Rio's midnight realm, or risk it all for the man who has shown her true passion and the infinite pleasures of the heart. . . .", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1928873.Midnight_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "Lost Stars", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 20090, "review_number": 2691, "book_description": "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away\u2026Eight years after the fall of the Old Republic, the Galactic Empire now reigns over the known galaxy. Resistance to the Empire has been all but silenced. Only a few courageous leaders such as Bail Organa of Alderaan still dare to openly oppose Emperor Palpatine.After years of defiance, the many worlds at the edge of the Outer Rim have surrendered. With each planet\u2019s conquest, the Empire\u2019s might grows stronger.The latest to fall under the Emperor\u2019s control is the isolated mountain planet Jelucan, whose citizens hope for a more prosperous future even as the Imperial Starfleet gathers overhead\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25067046-lost-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Love Minus Eighty", "author_name": "Will McIntosh", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2856, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "The words were gentle strokes, drawing her awake.\"Hello. Hello there.\"She felt the light on her eyelids, and knew that if she opened her eyes they would sting, and she would have to shade them with her palm and let the light bleed through a crack.\"Feel like talking?\" A man's soft voice.And then her mind cleared enough to wonder: who was this man at her bedside?She tried to sigh, but no breath came. Her eyes flew open in alarm.In the future, love is complicated. Technology moves ever forward. To be disconnected from the maze of social networking is to be an outcast.Even death doesn't have to be the end. An impossible love story is about to unfold between a hit-and-run victim and her killer.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16100436-love-minus-eighty"}, +{"book_title": "Children of the New World", "author_name": "Alexander Weinstein", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2912, "review_number": 557, "book_description": "Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.In \u201cThe Cartographers,\u201d the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In \u201cSaying Goodbye to Yang,\u201d the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become.Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Anthologies", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29243630-children-of-the-new-world"}, +{"book_title": "Departures", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 287, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "What if history had taken a different path, made a detour, and deviated just a little bit from the road it chose? Here, Harry Turtledove explores such \"what ifs\" in twenty alternate-history stories ranging from ancient times to the far, far-different future.Persia has conquered Greece; Athens is in ruins. Yet even under Persia's rule, the power of the people can never be completely broken. . .A werewolf boy tears through Cologne's medieval stretts in search of sanctuary from the angry mob. But who will shelter a creature so hated and feared?A student from the far-off future sets off on a field trip to study Genghis Khan -- and finds him in the twentieth century?And many more!\"He's one of the finest explorers of alternate histories ever.\" -- Locus", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101538.Departures"}, +{"book_title": "The Years of Rice and Salt", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 11504, "review_number": 1277, "book_description": "It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if? What if the plague killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been: a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. These are the years of rice and salt.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Religion", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2723.The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt"}, +{"book_title": "The White Dragon", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 43076, "review_number": 892, "book_description": "Jaxom, a rebellious young aristocrat, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127586.The_White_Dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Talson's Wait", "author_name": "Marie Harte", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1052, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Book one in the Talson Temptations series.Domineering, dangerous and downright huge, Roarke Talson owns Jamie for the next three years. It's 2109, and the government has found a way to deal with the national debt. Indentured service. She might have been duped into debt, but she's not stupid. Jamie made sure to put a no-sex clause in her contract. There's just one problem. She can't stop thinking about her boss. Sexy and commanding, he's the face of her ultimate fantasy, and a nightmare employer. She's met every challenge he's thrown at her and refuses to drop, no matter how hard he works her.When Jamie does the wrong thing for the right reason, she assumes Talson will throw her in jail and not think twice. In an effort to escape, she ambushes him and flees, but not before taking a kiss and a bit more from the man.She hadn't counted on him getting free so quickly, that he might be half alien, or that he'd hunt her down with more than vengeance on his mind.Publisher's Note: This title was previously published elsewhere and has been revised for Ellora's Cave.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6904657-talson-s-wait"}, +{"book_title": "Rage Within", "author_name": "Jeyn Roberts", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3952, "review_number": 371, "book_description": "In this apocalyptic sequel to Dark Inside four teens continue the struggle for survival as they face a world gone mad.Aries, Clementine, Mason and Michael have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world\u2019s population, and turned many of the rest into murderous Baggers. Now, they\u2019re hiding out in an abandoned house in Vancouver with a ragtag group of surviving teens, and trying to figure out their next move. Aries is trying to lead, but it\u2019s hard to be a leader when there are no easy answers, and every move feels wrong. Clementine is desperate to find her brother Heath, but it\u2019s impossible to know where he\u2019d be, even if he is still alive. Michael is still haunted by the memories of his actions during his harrowing struggle to survive. And Mason is struggling with something far worse: the fear that he may be a danger to his friends. As the Baggers begin to create a new world order, Aries, Clementine, Mason and Michael will have to trust and rely on each other in order to survive.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13185168-rage-within"}, +{"book_title": "Retribution", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 1011, "review_number": 58, "book_description": " VICTORY is at hand. With the galaxy in tatters, Chhun and Wraith lead Kill Team Victory and the remnants of the Legion in a clandestine final effort to bring about Article Nineteen. It's needed now more than ever as the Republic's new emperor, Goth Sullus, grows increasingly enigmatic and tyrannical in his rule, leaving some to question their roles in bringing the mysterious leader of the Black Fleet to power. Meanwhile, a dark traveler finds Prisma Maydoon at the sanctuary of Mother Ree, and bids her to depart from the path of the Ancients. Experience the exciting conclusion of Galaxy's Edge Season One, as a desperate, daring raid on Utopion itself leaves Kill Team Victory torn between duty to the Legion and the need to make those responsible for its demise finally pay! ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41359811-retribution"}, +{"book_title": "The Scourge", "author_name": "A.G. Henley", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3866, "review_number": 404, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Groundling, Fennel, is Sightless. She's never been able to see her lush forest home, but she knows its secrets. She knows how the shadows shift when she passes under a canopy of trees. She knows how to hide in the cool, damp caves when the Scourge comes. She knows how devious and arrogant the Groundlings' tree-dwelling neighbors, the Lofties, can be. And she's always known this day would come\u2014the day she faces the Scourge alone. The Sightless, like Fenn, are mysteriously protected from the Scourge, the gruesome creatures roaming the forests, reeking of festering flesh and consuming anything\u2014and anyone\u2014living. A Sightless Groundling must brave the Scourge and bring fresh water to the people of the forest. Today, that task becomes Fenn's. Fenn will have a Lofty Keeper, Peree, as her companion. Everyone knows the Lofties wouldn\u2019t hesitate to shoot an arrow through the back of an unsuspecting Groundling like Fenn, but Peree seems different. A boy with warm, rough hands who smells like summer, he is surprisingly kind and thoughtful. Although Fenn knows his people are treacherous, she finds herself wanting to trust him. As their forest community teeters on the brink of war, Fenn and Peree must learn to work together to survive the Scourge and ensure their people\u2019s survival. But when Fenn uncovers a secret that shatters her truths, she\u2019s forced to decide who and what to protect\u2014her people, her growing love for Peree, or the elusive dream of lasting peace in the forest.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13450088-the-scourge"}, +{"book_title": "Broken Mirror", "author_name": "Cody Sisco", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 55, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Someone killed Granfa Jefferson. Victor is sure of it. But he's the only one.Diagnosed with mirror resonance syndrome and shunned by Semiautonomous California society, Victor suffers from \"blank outs,\" hallucinations, and vivid nightmares. He violently overreacts to even minor confrontations. Victor's grandfather devoted his life to researching and curing Broken Mirrors, but now that he's gone, Victor must walk a narrow path between sanity and reclassification--a fate that all but guarantees he'll lose his freedom.Victor is determined to uncover the truth about his grandfather's death and grows increasingly suspicious of the medicine he must take to help manage his \"symptoms.\" As he tries to sort his allies from his enemies, a conspiracy with global implications emerges. Can he trust his Aunt Circe, the only person in his family who's even somewhat sympathetic to his plight? His former classmate-turned-brainhacker Ozie, who wields information as damaging as any weapon and who seems intent on luring Victor away from his home? What about his old friend Elena, who reappears in his life abruptly, claiming to have miraculously overcome a devastating addiction?With its self-driving cars, global firearms ban, and a cure for cancer, the world of Broken Mirror may sound utopic, but history has taken a few wrong turns. The American Union is a weak and fractious alliance of nations in decline. Europe, a superpower, manipulates its citizens through technology. And Asia is reeling from decades of war. Amid shifting geopolitical sands, Broken Mirrors like Victor find themselves at a crossroads: evolve or go extinct.Broken Mirror is the first novel in a sci-fi detective saga tailor-made for fans of Isaac Asimov, Haruki Murakami, and Neal Stephenson.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "LGBT", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28870872-broken-mirror"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow Magic", "author_name": "Jaida Jones", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1057, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Led to victory by its magic-fueled Dragon Corps, Volstov has sent a delegation to its conquered neighbors to work out the long-awaited terms of peace. Among those in the party are the decorated war hero General Alcibiades and the formerly exiled magician Caius Greylace. But even this mismatched pair can\u2019t help but notice that their defeated enemies aren\u2019t being very cooperative. The hidden truth is that the new emperor is harboring a treacherous secret\u2014and once it is revealed, Alcibiades and Caius may be powerless to stop it. With their only ally an exiled prince now fleeing his brother\u2019s assassins, the countryside rife with terror, and Alcibiades and Caius all but prisoners, it will take the most powerful kind of magic to heal the rift between two strife-worn lands and unite two peoples against a common enemy: shadow magic.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5886131-shadow-magic"}, +{"book_title": "The First Immortal", "author_name": "James L. Halperin", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 499, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "In 1988, Benjamin Smith suffers a massive heart attack. But he will not die. A pioneering advocate of the infant science of cryonics, he has arranged to have his body frozen until the day when humanity will possess the knowledge, the technology, and the courage to revive him. Yet when Ben resumes life after a frozen interval of eighty-three years, the world is altered beyond recognition. Thanks to cutting-edge science, eternal youth is universally available and the perfection of cloning gives humanity the godlike power to re-create living beings from a single cell. As Ben and his family are resurrected in the mid-twenty-first century, they experience a complex reunion that reaches through generations--and discover that the deepest ethical dilemmas of humankind remain their greatest challenge. . . .", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146504.The_First_Immortal"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Orbit", "author_name": "Carolyn Ives Gilman", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 2063, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a revolt on Orem, she\u2019s been banished to the farthest reaches of space, because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest.Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears. Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in fact home to a blind, sentient species whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions.Lost in the deep crevasses of the planet among these people, Thora must battle her demons and learn to comprehend the native inhabitants in order to find her crewmates and warn them of an impending danger. But her most difficult task may lie in persuading the crew that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168784-dark-orbit"}, +{"book_title": "\u65b0\u88c5\u7248\u3000\uff22\uff2c\uff21\uff2d\uff25\uff01\uff08\uff16", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 351, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "\u5f10\u74f6\u52c9\u306e\u5091\u4f5cSF\uff01\u3000\u30ab\u30d0\u30fc\u306f\u65b0\u305f\u306b\u63cf\u304d\u4e0b\u308d\u3057\uff01\u3000\u6975\u9650\u307e\u3067\u767a\u9054\u3057\u305f\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u4e16\u754c\u3002\u4f55\u5343\u30d5\u30ed\u30a2\u3082\u8d85\u69cb\u9020\u4f53\u3092\u653e\u6d6a\u3059\u308b\u63a2\u7d22\u8005\u30fb\u9727\u4ea5\uff08\u30ad\u30ea\u30a4\uff09\u3002\u30b7\u30dc\u306e\u4f53\u304b\u3089\u4f5c\u308a\u51fa\u3055\u308c\u305f\u30ec\u30d9\u30eb\uff19\u306e\u30bb\u30fc\u30d5\u30ac\u30fc\u30c9\u30e6\u30cb\u30c3\u30c8\u3068\u63a5\u89e6\u3057\u305f\u30b5\u30ca\u30ab\u30f3\u3002\u4e8c\u4eba\u306b\u3088\u3063\u3066\u751f\u307f\u51fa\u3055\u308c\u305f\u3082\u306e\u304c\u3001\u9727\u4ea5\u306e\u65c5\u306e\u76ee\u7684\u3068\u306a\u308b!?\u3000\u63a2\u7d22\u3068\u653e\u6d6a\u306e\u7269\u8a9e\u3001\u5b8c\u7d50!!\u3000\u9727\u4ea5\u304c\u90fd\u5e02\u306e\u679c\u3066\u3067\u898b\u308b\u3082\u306e\u3068\u306f\u2026\u2026\u3002", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror", "Comics Manga", "Sequential Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25840169"}, +{"book_title": "Prince of Outcasts", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 923, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "A postapocalyptic landscape of medieval and mystical monarchies ruling and warring across a world where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology.A new alliance has been forged between the High Kingdom of Montival and the Empire of Japan, but at the cost of a lost prince. . . .John Arminger Mackenzie wanted to be a troubadour, but fate made him the son of the king of Montival. His sister Princess \u00d3rlaith will deservedly inherit the throne of the High Kings, and it will only pass unto him in the event of her death, leaving the young Prince on an unknown path to discover his true role in the family.\u00a0The opportunity to prove his mettle comes when John\u2019s ship, the Tarshish Queen, is caught in the fierce storm raised against the enemies of the alliance. When the clouds recede and the skies clear, John and his crew find themselves on the other side of the Pacific, in the island chains of the Ceram Sea, fighting to survive against vicious pirates and monstrous creatures of the deep, meeting new allies and mysterious enemies of this world and another.\u00a0Now, Prince John must seize his birthright and lead his people in battle against the darkest forces man and nature can conjure against them", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186316-prince-of-outcasts"}, +{"book_title": "Alien in the House", "author_name": "Gini Koch", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1108, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini have learned the ins and outs of Washington politics, not to mention how to prevail in intergalactic war and foil dangerous plots. But, in the aftermath of Operation Destruction, the Gower girls\u2019 powers are burned out, the entire A-C population has been \u201couted\u201d as the aliens living on Earth that they are, and, worst of all, ACE is nowhere to be found.Then murder and mayhem are served up at an important dinner party at the American Centaurion Embassy, and when the dust settles Alpha Team and the Diplomatic Corps have more problems than just a dead Congressman.Is there a single criminal mastermind\u2014or multiple enemies\u2014behind all the conspiracies that want Kitty dead and the A-Cs gone or co-opted to become the War Division?The return of the best assassins in the business, the reappearance of two individuals long-presumed dead, Agent Malcolm Buchanan felled by something no one can identify or cure, and new technology that can block even the most powerful empath on Earth \u2026 all of this means the game\u2019s officially afoot.Then Vance Beaumont comes to Kitty with a wild theory that someone is systematically killing off the House of Representatives\u2026It\u2019s up to Kitty and the rest of the gang to find out what\u2019s really going on and why. But will they be able to stop the killer or killers before the rest of the U.S. House of Representatives become casualties? And will the replacement Representative for New Mexico\u2019s 2nd District, who happens to be Jeff Martini, be the next to die?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Mystery", "Humor", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15824169-alien-in-the-house"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Forest", "author_name": "Jean Hegland", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 11920, "review_number": 1541, "book_description": "Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult Fiction", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86236.Into_the_Forest"}, +{"book_title": "Cornering Carmen", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 3076, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Carmen Walker has spent the last three years of her life focusing on avenging the murder of her husband. Following leads to the man responsible, she finally has a chance to bring closure to the overwhelming pain and grief that is slowly eating away at her. Catching a ride on the business jet her sister is co-piloting, she heads to California to meet with her informant. Plans change when one of the women on board is kidnapped when they land and Carmen is mortally wounded. She wakes to find herself on board an alien warship heading to a distant world.Creon Reykill's skills as a warrior are legendary among the Valdier. He is credited with ending the wars between the Valdier and the Cruizan and Sarafin worlds and building a strong alliance with their former enemies. But, that victory came at a cost. Creon has given up hope of ever finding his true mate, believing his soul is too dark to ever be gifted with one.That all changes when a small, delicate female unlike anything he has ever seen before is brought to his world. The moment he sees her, he knows she belongs to him. His dragon will do anything to claim her, his symbiot will do anything to protect her, and he would do anything to chase the shadows from her eyes. For he knows he has found the light to his darkness.Now, the challenge will be to corner her long enough for her to realize he is the only one in the universe who can heal her shattered heart. She will fight him at every turn to return home to finish what she has started. He will do everything in his power to keep her by his side. It will take every skill he possesses to stay one step ahead of her.Can he convince her to give love a second chance before she risks everything - including her life - for revenge?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16119720-cornering-carmen"}, +{"book_title": "Suddenly a Bride", "author_name": "Ruth Ann Nordin", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 1490, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Rilo An comes from a world where there are no women. What he longs for is a life mate: someone who'll complete him, someone he can love who\u2019ll love him back, someone who\u2019ll ease the aching loneliness that haunts his life. So he leaves his world, takes on the Earth name Chris West, and makes a payment to Star Systems Unlimited for a life mate.When he bonds with Caitlyn Davis, he thinks life can't get any better. But she was married before, and memories of her deceased husband still linger around her home. Will he find a place in her heart or will he have to become like her first husband in order to get her love?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11809722-suddenly-a-bride"}, +{"book_title": "Leviathan", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 5320, "review_number": 217, "book_description": "Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships\u2014a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence\u2014that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security, but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance.\u00a0As the government attempts to conceal the existence of the A.I. warships\u2014and its role in their creation\u2014Geary pursues them, treading a fine line between mutiny and obedience. But it soon becomes clear that his fleet is no match for the firepower of the machine-piloted armada.With the help of the Dancer species of aliens, Geary has tracked the A.I. ships to their secret base in the supposedly mythical Unity Alternate star system where his fleet, the last hope of the Alliance\u2019s future, will end the conflict at any cost\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Action", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23281815-leviathan"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk: The Art of Victorian Futurism", "author_name": "Jay Strongman", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 140, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "\n\nA\u00a0Jules Verne world of extraordinary visions and contraptions as\u00a0portrayed by the top 30 artists in the genre.\n\nSteampunk is a resurgent art, cult, and lowbrow movement celebrating the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blending in modern scientific advances\u2014synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern dirigibles.\u00a0Celebrating the\u00a0elegant and the strange, the visually arresting steampunk works collected here include sculpture, installations, graphics, bizarre oils, and mind-warping contraptions\u2014from skull cameras to rocket-fueled diving bells. Featured artists: Tom Banwell, Wayne Martin Belger, Greg Brotherton, Frank Buchwald, Chris Conte, Doktor A., Eric Freitas, Dr. Grordbort, St\u00e9phane Halleux, Mike Libby, Pierre Matter, Kevin Mowrer, Kazuhiko Nakamura, James Ng, Sam Van Olffen, Nozomu Shibata, Haru Suekichi, Brian Poor, and Daniel Proulx.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Art", "Nonfiction", "Reference"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8459998-steampunk"}, +{"book_title": "Glyphein", "author_name": "Philip Charles Stephens", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 25, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Ex-soldier, Sergeant Skedic Vom of the infamous Northern Wolf Brigade, is trying to move on. It\u2019s been two years since his unit was wiped out during a weapons test gone wrong in Cameroon. His memory is sketchy at best, but he does know the episode ended with him killing his unit\u2019s betrayer, their superior and his lover, Bilkissou Dimka. And then he\u2019s told she\u2019s alive.Skedic must follow a path stretching back through his past and into the recesses of his mind in order to discover the real truth about what happened in Africa. The only certainty he can rely on is that nothing is real anymore.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22617557-glyphein"}, +{"book_title": "Yesterday's Gone: Season Three", "author_name": "Sean Platt", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1655, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "This Season Three compilation includes Episodes 13-18 in their entirety.The wait is over! Yesterday's Gone: Season Three begins right here.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815931-yesterday-s-gone"}, +{"book_title": "The Diviners", "author_name": "Libba Bray", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 87985, "review_number": 12327, "book_description": "SOMETHING DARK AND EVIL HAS AWAKENED\u2026 Evie O\u2019Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City\u2014and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It\u2019s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries her uncle will discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho is hiding a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Historical", "Horror", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7728889-the-diviners"}, +{"book_title": "The Treatment", "author_name": "Suzanne Young", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 18747, "review_number": 1839, "book_description": "This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B005C7CW48.Can Sloane and James survive the lies and secrets surrounding them, or will The Program claim them in the end? Find out in this sequel to The Program, which Publishers Weekly called \u201cchilling and suspenseful.\u201dHow do you stop an epidemic?Sloane and James are on the run after barely surviving the suicide epidemic and The Program. But they\u2019re not out of danger. Huge pieces of their memories are still missing, and although Sloane and James have found their way back to each other, The Program isn\u2019t ready to let them go.Escaping with a group of troubled rebels, Sloane and James will have to figure out who they can trust, and how to take down The Program. But for as far as they\u2019ve come, there\u2019s still a lot Sloane and James can\u2019t remember. The key to unlocking their past lies with the Treatment\u2014a pill that can bring back forgotten memories, but at a high cost. And there\u2019s only one dose.Ultimately when the stakes are at their highest, can Sloane and James survive the many lies and secrets surrounding them, or will The Program claim them in the end?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Health (Mental Health)", "Mental Health (Mental Illness)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36353058-the-treatment"}, +{"book_title": "Countdown City", "author_name": "Ben H. Winters", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 12104, "review_number": 1375, "book_description": "There are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Hank Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving crimes are over...until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband. \u00a0 Brett Cavatone disappeared without a trace \u2013 an easy feat in a world with no phones, no cars, and no way to tell whether someone\u2019s gone \u201cbucket list\u201d or just gone. With society falling to shambles, Hank pieces together what few clues he can, on a search that leads him from a college-campus-turned-anarchist-encampment to a crumbling coastal landscape where anti-immigrant militia fend off \u201cimpact zone\u201d refugees. \u00a0 The second novel in the critically acclaimed Last Policeman trilogy, Countdown City presents a fascinating mystery set on brink of an apocalypse \u2013 and once again, Hank Palace confronts questions way beyond \"whodunit.\" What do we as human beings owe to one another? And what does it mean to be civilized when civilization is collapsing all around you?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16046748-countdown-city"}, +{"book_title": "The Seduction of Phaeton Black", "author_name": "Jillian Stone", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 880, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "In the gaslit streets of Victorian London, phantoms rule the night, demons dance till dawn, and one supernatural detective dares to be seduced by the greatest power of all. . .He's The Man With The Magic TouchA master of deduction, seduction and other midnight maneuvers, Phaeton Black is Scotland Yard's secret weapon against things that go bump in the night. His prodigious gifts as a paranormal investigator are as legendary as his skills as a lover, his weakness for wicked women as notorious as his affection for absinthe. But when he's asked to hunt down a fanged femme fatale who drains her victims of blood, he walks right into the arms of the most dangerous woman he's ever known. . .She's The Devilish Miss JonesPressing a knife to his throat--and demanding he make love to her--Miss America Jones uses Phaeton as a willing shield against the gang of pirates chasing her. As deadly as she is, with a derringer tucked in her garter, Miss Jones is not the vampiric killer he's been staking out--but she may be just what Phaeton needs to crack the case. As the daughter of a Cajun witch, she possesses uncanny powers. As a fearless fighter, she can handle anything from Egyptian mummies to Jack the Ripper. But when an ancient evil is unleashed on the world, she could be his only salvation. . .or ultimate sacrifice.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11713891-the-seduction-of-phaeton-black"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Utopia", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 8801, "review_number": 579, "book_description": "It is the middle of the twenty-first century.After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption, humanity is spreading farther into the Long Earth. Society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve.And new challenges emerge.Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang is living with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's determined to lead a normal life in New Springfield\u2014they even adopt a child. But there are rumors, strange sightings in the sky. On this world, something isn't right. . . .Millions of steps away\u2014learning about a hidden family history and the father he never knew\u2014Joshua receives an urgent summons from New Springfield.Lobsang has come to understand that what has blighted his Earth is also a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth. Countering this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine, and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice. . . .", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23213813-the-long-utopia"}, +{"book_title": "MythOS", "author_name": "Kelly McCullough", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1196, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "In the 21st century, magic has advanced with the times and gone digital. But when Ravirn-a computer savvy sorcerer-is thrown into a parallel world where magic runs on a different operating system, he'll need mad skills to get out alive.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Urban", "Mythology (Gods)", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6150838-mythos"}, +{"book_title": "No Words Alone", "author_name": "Autumn Dawn", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1235, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Stranded on a hostile alien planet, a beautiful young translator is forced tochoose between trusting her own crewmates or the noble commander of the alienrace that shot down her spacecraft. Original.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3931196-no-words-alone"}, +{"book_title": "Bond", "author_name": "Tasha Black", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1467, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "When our otherworldly brothers arrive a last they expect a warm welcome\u2026Posey Quinn has always believed there was more to the world than what she can see. So when she arrives in Stargazer with her head full of conspiracies and high-end hairspray, she isn\u2019t entirely surprised to learn that instead of donating eggs for tuition money, she is being asked to make an alien fall in love with her, and become an ambassador for humankind. What she doesn\u2019t expect is how irresistible Bond is, and how hard it will be not to lose her own heart to the man who plays her body like a violin.Bond is on Earth to fill one human female with as much pleasure as she can bear, a mission he\u2019s finding very agreeable. But he\u2019s not here to fall in love. Tasked with using his powers of human seduction to glean what he can about Earth and its inhabitants, Bond knows that if the planet\u2019s resources are worthy and its residents aren\u2019t, his days of pleasing Posey will soon be at an end.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31945839-bond"}, +{"book_title": "Desiccated Water", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 571, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Desiccated Water I was on my way to Peterson\u2019s office for our Friday afternoon meeting. The one where he opens out a bottle of wine, I get out the glasses, and we both put our feet up and have a huge moan about the previous week. Sometimes the meetings are quite long.Anyway, I was making my way around the gallery, juggling the half dozen or so files I\u2019d brought with me as camouflage \u2013 because it doesn\u2019t do the other ranks any good at all to see a couple of senior officers setting a bad example \u2013 although, to be fair, most people were outside watching the Security and Technical Sections eviscerate each other in the name of sport \u2013 when Professor Rapson erupted \u2013 literally \u2013 from his lab shouting, \u2018Eureka!\u2019He was fully clothed. Trust me \u2013 it was the first thing I checked.I said, \u2018Good afternoon professor,\u2019 because that\u2019s how Markham would do it. Apparently now he\u2019s Head of Security, standards must be maintained. What sort of standards of course, he never says.\u2018Ah Max. Good news. I\u2019ve done it.\u2019\u2018So I gathered, professor. Jolly well done.\u2019\u2018Thank you,\u2019 he said. \u2018I know it\u2019s been a while but we got there in the end.\u2019\u2018Excellent news, professor\u2019 I said, trying to ignore the glass of wine shaped hole in my life and failing dismally. \u2018I look forward to reading your report.\u2019\u2018No, no, you don\u2019t understand, Max. I\u2019ve really done it.\u2019I stopped thinking about wine and concentrated. This was Professor Rapson after all. I asked the question I should have led with.\u2018Exactly what have you done professor?\u2019\u2018Well, as you know Max, water is very heavy.\u2019I stared at him. He looked comparatively normal. His hair was standing on end. He had a huge acid burn on one sleeve of his lab coat of which he appearedcompletely oblivious and was wearing one brown and one black shoe, so as I said \u2013 normal.He was, however, waving around a beaker of clear fluid. I stepped back because it could be anything. The Elixir of Life. Cerebral brain fluid \u2013 although if it was his it would probably be a little murkier. An untraceable deadly poison that would kill us all in seconds. Anything, really.He raised the beaker to his lips and drank deeply. I braced myself but nothing dreadful seemed to happen to him.\u2018Water, Max. Water. I\u2019ve done it.\u2019 He raised the empty beaker. I half expected a flash of lightning and shouts of \u2018It\u2019s alive! It\u2019s alive!\u2019 but that usually relates to Markham.\u2018What were you expecting, professor?\u2019\u2018Well, water, obviously, Max.\u2019Never had a glass of wine seemed so far away.\u2018Professor, please tell me \u2013 what is the project you\u2019ve been working on?\u2019\u2018Oh yes, of course. Well, as I said, Max, water is heavy. Leon\u2019s always complaining about the weight of the tanks and how that messes up his calculations and he\u2019s right so I thought I\u2019d have a go.\u2019\u2018At what, professor?\u2019\u2018Desiccated water.\u2019Oh God ...\u2018What?\u2019\u2018Desiccated water, Max. Powdered water. The answer to all our problems. We reduce water down to a fine powder, bag it up in plastic and hey presto, portable water. No more tanks, no more heavy water bottles \u2013 just stick a couple of packs in your supplies and away you go. Small packs for your pocket. Something larger if you want a bath. Simple. Quick. Easy. Convenient.\u2019\u2018Wow,\u2019 I said. \u2018That\u2019s brilliant professor. Well done.\u2019\u2018Thank you,\u2019 he said modestly. \u2019I\u2019m just off to show Chief Farrell.\u2019\u2018He\u2019ll be thrilled,\u2019 I said, happily sacrificing Leon\u2019s Friday afternoon, but wine deprivation can do that to a girl. \u2018You must give him a complete demonstration. Several, in fact.\u2019\u2018I will,\u2019 he said, hair standing even more on end as he prepared to depart at top speed.\u2018Just one question, professor.\u2019\u2018Mm?\u2019\u2018How do you reconstitute the powder?\u2019\u2018What?\u2019\u2018The powder. How exactly do you reconstitute desiccated water?\u2019\u2018Oh, that\u2019s easy.\u2019\u2018\u2019Yes?He regarded me as an idiot.\u2018You just add water.\u2019", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34811532-desiccated-water"}, +{"book_title": "Empire State", "author_name": "Adam Christopher", "rating_score": 3.13, "rating_votes": 2430, "review_number": 434, "book_description": "The stunning superhero-noir fantasy thriller set in the other New York.It was the last great science hero fight, but the energy blast ripped a hole in reality, and birthed the Empire State \u2013 a young, twisted parallel prohibition-era New York.When the rift starts to close, both worlds are threatened, and both must fight for the right to exist.Adam Christopher\u2019s stunning debut novel heralds the arrival of an amazing new talent.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10795257-empire-state"}, +{"book_title": "The Sand Warrior", "author_name": "Mark Siegel", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3984, "review_number": 486, "book_description": "Think Star Wars meets Avatar: The Last Airbender! The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there\u2019s more to themselves\u2014and more to their worlds\u2014than meets the eye. . . . Oona Lee, the clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, is a fighter with a destiny bigger than she could ever imagine. An Tzu, a boy from the poorest slums, has a surprising gift and a knack for getting out of sticky situations. Jax Amboy is the star athlete who is beloved by an entire galaxy, but what good is that when he has no real friends? When these three kids are forced to team up on an epic quest, it will take not one, not two, but 5 WORLDS to contain all the magic and adventure!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32573182-the-sand-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Stealing Light", "author_name": "Gary Gibson", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 3164, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "For a quarter of a million years, an alien race has been hiding a vast and terrible secretIn the 25th century, only the Shoal possess the secret of faster-than-light travel (FTL), giving them absolute control over all trade and exploration throughout the galaxy. Mankind has operated within their influence for two centuries, establishing a dozen human colony worlds scattered along Shoal trade routes. Dakota Merrick, while serving as a military pilot, has witnessed atrocities for which this alien race is responsible. Now piloting a civilian cargo ship, she is currently ferrying an exploration team to a star system containing a derelict starship. From its wreckage, her passengers hope to salvage a functioning FTL drive of mysteriously non-Shoal origin. But the Shoal are not yet ready to relinquish their monopoly over a technology they acquired through ancient genocide.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Action", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3607898-stealing-light"}, +{"book_title": "Concubine", "author_name": "Jill Knowles", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 2463, "review_number": 256, "book_description": "A BDSM LGBT Futuristic FantasyScholar, captain...war prize. Prince Kael of Korai is stunned when his father gives him to an enemy warlord in a desperate attempt to salvage Korai's reputation. With his country's honor at stake, Kael resolves to submit to Warlord Taren's every debauched whim.But life in Zandria isn't anything like what Kael imagined. Instead of pain and cruelty, Warlord Taren seduces Kael until the bewildered prince craves his Master's every intimate caress. As he sinks into the decadent, sensual life of a concubine, Kael makes a powerful enemy, one who wants him removed from Zandria by any means necessary. Betrayed by his body, trapped by his honor, Kael must learn to trust his Master or get them both killed.Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: BDSM theme and elements (including/not limited to bondage, gagging, tethering), dubious consent, exhibitionism, male/male sexual practices.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8822493-concubine"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Hope", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 3877, "review_number": 323, "book_description": "Seasons ago, I resonated to the quietest of tribesmates, a male content to love me from afar while I was the center of attention. We could have been happy. Despite our differences, I loved him and he loved me. But then a terrible thing happened\u2026and my world was never the same again. Now resonance is giving us a second chance, but\u2026I\u2019m afraid. What if what I have with my mate is too broken to be fixed? What if there\u2019s no hope left for us at all?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33014223-barbarian-s-hope"}, +{"book_title": "Timescoop", "author_name": "John Brunner", "rating_score": 3.16, "rating_votes": 91, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "A Pandora's box of evil Freitas had commanded the engineers of his vast, world-wide empire to build him a device that could ransack the past. Now all the riches of the ages were his for the taking. But mere wealth was not what Freitas was after. Supreme power was what he sought, and from the past he picked the men and women who could help him gain absolute mastery over his rivals. But one thing he had not reckoned on - the power these creatures fro the past would have over him the reign of terror about to begin", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2398746.Timescoop"}, +{"book_title": "Surviving the Fall", "author_name": "William Allen", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 938, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Sixteen year old Luke was trapped in Chicago when the lights went out and civilization began to unravel. Determined to get home to his family, Luke begins a thousand mile odyssey that will show him the depths of human depravity while also giving him a chance at redemption. In an abandoned house in Missouri, Luke makes a discovery that changes the way he acts and feels as the suffering of another forces him to fight yet again. Luke is already haunted by what he has seen, and he fears what is yet to come as he takes on a partner in his travels. This is not a romance tale, or a zombie story, or a book about the end of the world. The world will still be here after civilization falls. This is a story about a boy who becomes a man in the most trying of times, and this story is filled with the violence of those lawless times. Look for Home Fires Burning, Book Two of the Walking in the Rain saga, just released exclusively here on Amazon.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24719996-surviving-the-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Nell Gwynne's On Land and At Sea", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 188, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "The Ladies of Nell Gwynne's are not your run-of-the-mill demi-mondaines. They are refined and educated ladies all, engaged in the more elegant and expensive forms of carnal delight in order to make their way in a hard world. But they also serve the Queen and the Empire, as the invaluable Ladies' Auxiliary of the technocratic Gentlemen's Speculative Society.However, even the most dedicated operatives need a holiday from time to time. Nell Gwynne's shuts down for a month at the height of every summer for recreation and relaxation. This summer the Ladies have retired to a respectable boarding house in Torquay, since Mrs. Corvey, the Proprietress, is very fond of the sea. She also needs a deal of relaxing, as the cook at Nell Gwynne's has abruptly gotten religion and departed without notice for a less exotic position\u2026That is Mrs. Corvey's only worry, though, when she and the Ladies arrive in Torquay, the Riviera of England. They all look forward to taking the sun, some moderate sea bathing, reading novels and indulging in a little light archaeology. As Hebertina happily observes, \u201cHere's to blessed chastity!\u201dHowever, Torquay has recently been invaded by an eccentric and overly romantic American, who has peculiar intentions\u2014both toward the placid coast of Tor Bay, and the unassailable privacy of Lady Beatrice. There are rumours and sightings of a sea monster. There are dead butlers and thugs and fox terriers in inconvenient places. And the Ladies cannot summon assistance from the GSS, all of whose agents are pursuing convoluted schemes abroad in Europe.It appears their holidays will not be nearly as quiet as might be hoped\u2026but they will certainly be interesting.Limited: 1500 signed hardcover copiesFrom Publishers Weekly:\u201cEven a month-long seaside holiday can\u2019t keep the spy-mistresses of the exclusive Nell Gwynne brothel away from trouble in this comic steampunk novella\u2026the mildly naughty nautical double entendres and period-style illustrations by J.K. Potter will entertain readers who appreciate Victoriana.\u201d", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16140798-nell-gwynne-s-on-land-and-at-sea"}, +{"book_title": "The Immorality Clause", "author_name": "Brian Parker", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Easytown\u2019s robotic pleasure clubs are a serial killer\u2019s playground. The futuristic slum in eastern New Orleans is a violent place where any vice can be satisfied--for a price. As long as the taxes are paid and tourists continue to flock to the city, businesses are allowed to operate as they see fit. Easytown has given rise to the robotic sex trade; where the robots are nearly human and always better than the real thing. Homicide detective, Zach Forrest, has never trusted the machines. When a string of grisly murders rocks the city, he must hunt down the killer responsible. With no witnesses, and no evidence, Forrest embarks on an investigation that will challenge the very scope of reality. Will Forrest find the killer before he becomes the next victim?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30969665-the-immorality-clause"}, +{"book_title": "A Highlander for Christmas", "author_name": "Sandy Blair", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 515, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "WELCOME TO MY WORLD`Tis the season to be jolly - but Boston antiques dealer Claire MacGregor isn't looking forward to a solo Christmas, or cocoa for one, or trimming the tree by herself. But company's coming. Claire is fooling around with an old puzzle box and when it opens, a gorgeous, studly laird appears. Thumbs down: Sir Cameron MacLeod is centuries old. Thumbs up: he doesn't look it. And Cameron is tall, dark, and lusty-very lusty.COME AWAY TO MINEWho is this lovely lass? And where is he? Before awakening in the 21st century in Claire's bedroom, the last thing Sir Cameron MacLeod remembers was readying for war with a rival clan. Despite her strange clothes and odd ways, Claire is bonny and brave. He's about to find out that love is a many-splendored thing indeed...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1418290.A_Highlander_for_Christmas"}, +{"book_title": "White Light", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 695, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Felix Rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming. When his dreams finally separate him from his physical body, Felix plunges headfirst into a multidimensional universe beyond the limits of space and time -- the place of White Light.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science (Mathematics)", "Speculative Fiction", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274056.White_Light"}, +{"book_title": "Obsession", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 26310, "review_number": 2512, "book_description": "This is a stand alone novel that is an adult spin-off of the Lux Series You do not need to read a Lux book to read Obsession and vice versa.He\u2019s arrogant, domineering, and... To. Die. For.Hunter is a ruthless killer. And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn\u2019t chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Most of the time he enjoys his job. That is, until he\u2019s saddled with something he\u2019s never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy.Serena Cross didn\u2019t believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something... unnatural. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend\u2019s murder at the hands of what can only be an alien, thrusting her into a world that will kill to protect their secret.Hunter stirs Serena\u2019s temper and her lust despite their differences. Soon he\u2019s doing the unthinkable\u2014breaking the rules he\u2019s lived by, going against the government to keep Serena safe. But are the aliens and the government the biggest threats to Serena\u2019s life\u2026 or is it Hunter?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "New Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14060046-obsession"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Gettysburgs", "author_name": "Martin H. Greenberg", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 50, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Gettysburg is one of the most crucial battles in American history. But what if it had turned out differently? In this collection, today's most popular writers of alternate history look at that question. Featuring: Brendan DuBois William H. Keith, Jr. William Forstchen Harold Coyle Doug Allyn James Reasoner Jake Foster Robert J. Randisi Jim DeFelice Simon Hawke Denise Little Kristine Kathryn Rusch Steve Winter William Terdoslavich Paul Thomsen ", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Military History (Civil War)", "Fiction", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293321.Alternate_Gettysburgs"}, +{"book_title": "Sleeping with the Enemy", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 480, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Someone was terra-forming Venus and it certainly wasn't anyone native to the solar system! First Lieutenant Sybil Hunter was dispatched with her crew to discover what was going on. She'd expected the possibility of being shot down if it was aliens, as everyone thought. She'd expected the possibility that her and her crew might be taken captive. She hadn't expected to find herself sleeping with mankind's enemy, but from the moment she met Commander Anka l'Kartay, she was mesmerized. How could the perfect man she'd waited for all her life turn out not to be a man at all, but a feril, an alien, perceived by everyone but her as the enemy of mankind? Rating: Carnal, adult situations and language. Genre: Futuristic Romance.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8111631-sleeping-with-the-enemy"}, +{"book_title": "Skull Flowers", "author_name": "Jazon Dion Fletcher", "rating_score": 2.5, "rating_votes": 113, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Step into a story where forgotten legends, ancient sorceries, and high-technologies come together to create a world of scientific wonder and barbaric magic, where the stars will shine forever, where the sky it never ends, where all shall ride eternal, and the moonlight will attend, amongst, the riots, and make-believe...", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Gothic", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44098437-skull-flowers"}, +{"book_title": "Time Was", "author_name": "Nora Roberts", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2750, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a story of passion that dares to challenge the boundaries of time itself.After going through a time gateway, Caleb Hornblower is stuck in the present. He needs to find a way to return to the future, but after falling in love with Liberty Stone, Caleb isn\u2019t sure he can leave the past behind. \n\nA NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC\u00a0AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME\u00a0\n\n", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19015971-time-was"}, +{"book_title": "The Anubis Gates", "author_name": "Tim Powers", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 14487, "review_number": 1326, "book_description": "Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time.Caught up in the intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, and befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives and learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined possible...", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142296.The_Anubis_Gates"}, +{"book_title": "New Moon", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 6629, "review_number": 1050, "book_description": "The Moon wants to kill you. Maybe it will kill you when the per diem for your allotted food, water, and air runs out, just before you hit paydirt. Maybe it will kill you when you are trapped between the reigning corporations-the Five Dragons-in a foolish gamble against a futuristic feudal society. On the Moon, you must fight for every inch you want to gain. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest \"dragon,\" Adriana has wrested control of the Moon's Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie Metal corporation and fought to earn her family's new status. Now, in the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation-Corta Helio-confronted by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana's five children must defend their mother's empire from her many enemies... and each other.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848027-new-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Aurorarama", "author_name": "Jean-Christophe Valtat", "rating_score": 3.18, "rating_votes": 912, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "A startling, seductive literary novel that entwines suspense, science fiction, adventure, romance and history into an intoxicating new genre.1908: New Venice--\"the pearl of the Arctic\"--a place of ice palaces and pneumatic tubes, of beautifully ornate carriage-sleds and elegant victorian garb, of long nights and vistas of ice.But as the city prepares for spring, it feels more like qaartsiluni, \"the time when something is about to explode in the dark.\" Local \"poletics\" are wracked by tensions with the Eskimos circling the city, with suffragette riots led by an underground music star, with drug round-ups by the secret police force known as the Gentlemen of the Night. An ominous black airship hovers over the city, and the Gentlemen are hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt.Their lead suspect is Brentford Orsini, one of the city's most prominent figures. But as the Gentlemen of the Night tighten the net around him, Orsini receives a mysterious message from a long-lost love that compels him to act.What transpires is a literary adventure novel unlike anything you've ever read before. Brilliant in its conception, masterful in its prose, thrilling in its plot twists, and laced with humor, suspense, and intelligence, it marks the beginning of a great new series of books set in New Venice-and the launch of an astonishing new writer.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Unfinished", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8089555-aurorarama"}, +{"book_title": "The Patriot Witch", "author_name": "C.C. Finlay", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 399, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "The year is 1775. On the surface, Proctor Brown appears to be an ordinary young man working the family farm in New England. He is a minuteman, a member of the local militia, determined to defend the rights of the colonies. Yet Proctor is so much more. Magic is in his blood, a dark secret passed down from generation to generation. But Proctor\u2019s mother has taught him to hide his talents, lest he be labeled a witch and find himself dangling at the end of a rope.A chance encounter with an arrogant British officer bearing magic of his own catapults Proctor out of his comfortable existence and into the adventure of a lifetime, as resistance sparks rebellion and rebellion becomes revolution. Now, even as he fights alongside his fellow patriots from Lexington to Bunker Hill, Proctor finds himself enmeshed in a war of a different sort\u2013a secret war of magic against magic, witch against witch, with the stakes not only the independence of a young nation but the future of humanity itself.From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5937597-the-patriot-witch"}, +{"book_title": "Cobra Strike", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1081, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Will the COBRAS turn mercenary under Troft command?If anyone had told Jonny Moreau the Cobras would one day take orders from the alien Troft, he would have laughed without humor. He'd lost too many friends during the Troft war, though the Cobras triumphed in the end.Now, though, the Troft were trading partners - and they feared what might be a mutual danger. A new race, ruthless and tenacious, that threatened human space as well as Troft. And the offer was territory - five new planets for the overcrowded Cobra Worlds.Jonny Moreau's son Justin would carry the Moreau name to danger...and learn on Qasama that it takes more than a Cobra father to make a Cobra son.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416758.Cobra_Strike"}, +{"book_title": "The Ghost in the Shell: Five New Short Stories", "author_name": "Toh EnJoe", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 81, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "This brand new Ghost in the Shell release is a new collection of short stories by some of the biggest names in Japanese prose today. Featuring works by Tow Ubukata (Mardock Scramble), Toh EnJoe (Self-Reference Engine), Kafka Asagiri (Bungo Stray Dogs), Gakuto Mikumo (Strike the Blood), and Yoshinobu Akita (Sorcerous Stabber Orphen). Each of these talents add their own take on the hit manga to this collection, building upon and re-interpreting the world of the Major and Public Security Section 9.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Mystery (Crime)", "Anthologies", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33217264-the-ghost-in-the-shell"}, +{"book_title": "The Janus Affair", "author_name": "Pip Ballantine", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 3893, "review_number": 345, "book_description": "Certainly no strangers to peculiar occurrences, agents Wellington Books and Eliza Braun are nonetheless stunned to observe a fellow passenger aboard Britain's latest hypersteam train suddenly vanish in a dazzling bolt of lightning. They soon discover this is not the only such disappearance - every case inexplicably unexamined by the Crown.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13085609-the-janus-affair"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 14760, "review_number": 276, "book_description": "Investigative reporter Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of the 23rd Century surroundings while working for the newspaper The Word in this critically-acclaimed graphic novel series written by comics superstar Warren Ellis, the co-creator of PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY.In this third volume, Spider Jerusalem begins to crumble under the pressure of sudden and unwanted fame. Having had enough of the warped 23rd century Babylon that he lives in, Spider escapes into a world of bitterness and pills. As he stumbles through this haze of depression and drugs, he must find a way to cover the biggest story of the year, the presidential election. Armed with only his demented mind and dark sense of humor, Spider embarks on an adventure of political cynicism, horrific sex, and unwelcome celebrity which culminates in a shocking and ruinous ending.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Politics", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22418.Transmetropolitan_Vol_3"}, +{"book_title": "The Outside", "author_name": "Laura Bickle", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1447, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "One girl. One road. One chance to save what remains\u2026After a plague of vampires is unleashed in the world, Katie is kicked out of her Amish community for her refusal to adhere to the new rules of survival. Now in exile, she enters an outside world of unspeakable violence with only her two \u201cEnglish\u201d friends and a horse by her side. Together they seek answers and other survivors\u2014but each sunset brings the threat of vampire attack, and each sunrise the threat of starvation.And yet through this darkness come the shining ones: luminescent men and women with the power to deflect vampires and survive the night. But can these new people be trusted, and are they even people at all?In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, it\u2019s up to one Amish girl to save her family, her community, and the boy she loves . . . but what will she be asked to leave behind in return?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16118166-the-outside"}, +{"book_title": "Servant of the Crown", "author_name": "Melissa McShane", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2853, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "Alison Quinn, Countess of Waxwold, is content with her bookish life\u2014until she\u2019s summoned to be a lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Tremontane\u2019s mother for six months. Even the prospect of access to the Royal Library doesn\u2019t seem enough to make up for her sacrifice, but Alison is prepared to do her service to the Crown. What she\u2019s not prepared for is Prince Anthony North, Queen Zara\u2019s playboy brother, who\u2019s accustomed to getting what he wants\u2014including the Countess of Waxwold.When the fallout from an unfortunate public encounter throws the two of them together, Alison has no interest in becoming the Prince\u2019s next conquest. But as the weeks pass, Alison discovers there\u2019s more to Anthony than she\u2014or he\u2014realized, and their dislike becomes friendship, and then something more\u2014until disaster drives Alison away, swearing never to return.Then Alison is summoned by the Queen again, this time to serve as Royal Librarian. A threat to Tremontane\u2019s government, with her treasured Library at stake, draws Alison into the conflict\u2026and into contact with Anthony once more. Can they work together to save the Royal Library and Tremontane? And can she open her heart to love again?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25777000-servant-of-the-crown"}, +{"book_title": "The 13th Hex", "author_name": "Jordan L. Hawk", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1402, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "Romance. Magic.Murder.Dominic Kopecky dreamed of becoming a member of New York\u2019s Metropolitan Witch Police\u2014a dream dashed when he failed the test for magical aptitude. Now he spends his days drawing the hexes the MWP relies on for their investigations.But when a murder by patent hex brings crow familiar Rook to his desk, Dominic can\u2019t resist the chance to experience magic. And as the heat grows between Dominic and Rook, so does the danger. Because the case has been declared closed\u2014and someone is willing to kill to keep it that way.The 13th Hex is the prequel short story to the all-new Hexworld series. If you like shifters, magic, and romance, you\u2019ll love Jordan L. Hawk\u2019s world of witch policemen and the familiars they bond with.NOTE: This is a previously published work. The title, author, and/or publisher may have changed.The 13th Hex was originally published as part of the Charmed & Dangerous anthology. Only minor details have been altered for this reissue.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Short Stories", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29474747-the-13th-hex"}, +{"book_title": "When Edgar Met Cecil", "author_name": "Kevin Luthardt", "rating_score": 3.14, "rating_votes": 83, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "When Edgar's family moves to a new town, everything seems strange and scary. The kids look different. They dress weird. They listen to bizarre music. They eat strange food. And the biggest, weirdest looking kid keeps staring at Edgar. What does he want?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17950432-when-edgar-met-cecil"}, +{"book_title": "The Revolutions", "author_name": "Felix Gilman", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 847, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "Following in the fine tradition of Felix Gilman\u2019s spectacularly reviewed Half Made World comes a sweeping tale of Victorian science fiction, space exploration, and planetary romance.In 1893 a storm sweeps through London, while Arthur Shaw\u2014a young astronomer with a side career writing fiction\u2014is at work in British Museum Reading Room. The storm wreaks unprecedented damage throughout London. Its aftermath of the storm Arthur\u2019s prime literary market closes, owing him money, and all his debts come due at once. His fiance Jo takes a job as a stenographer for some of the fashionable spiritualist and occult societies of fin de si\u00e8cle London society. Meanwhile, Arthur deciphers an encoded newspaper ad seeking able young men. It seems to be a clerking job doing accounting work, but the mysterious head man Mr. Gacewell offers Arthur a starting position at a salary many times what any clerk could expect. The work is long and peculiar, and the men spend all day performing unnerving calculations that make them hallucinate or even go mad...but the salary is compelling.Things are beginning to look up when the wages of dabbling in the esoteric suddenly come due: a war breaks out between competing magical societies, and Arthur interrupts Jo in the middle of an elaborate occult exploration. This rash move turns out to be dire, as Jo\u2019s consciousness is stranded at the outer limits of the occultists\u2019 psychic day trip. Which, Arthur is chagrinned\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Victorian)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910133-the-revolutions"}, +{"book_title": "Quantum Night", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2371, "review_number": 454, "book_description": "With such compelling and provocative novels as Red Planet Blues, FlashForward and The WWW Trilogy, Robert J. Sawyer has proven himself to be \u201ca writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation\u201d (New York Times). Now, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author explores the thin line between good and evil that every human being is capable of crossing\u2026Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously\u2014a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts.Jim is reunited with Kayla Huron, his forgotten girlfriend from his lost period and now a quantum physicist who has made a stunning discovery about the nature of human consciousness. As a rising tide of violence and hate sweeps across the globe, the psychologist and the physicist combine forces in a race against time to see if they can do the impossible\u2014change human nature\u2014before the entire world descends into darkness.\u00a0", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction", "Psychology", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25734179-quantum-night"}, +{"book_title": "The Martian Race", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 861, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "When the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle into orbit explodes on the launch pad, killing four crewmen, the President announces the U.S. will redirect its energies to near-Earth projects. The manned mission to Mars is officially dead. That is until billionaire John Axelrod steps in to fund the project. Although the risks are high, several young astronauts sign on. But these new pioneers are not alone -- a European-Asian airbus will be making a similar expedition. Now the race is on to get to the fourth planet first. Both teams reach the Red Planet, but with disastrous results. Now the problem isn't who will return to Earth first, but if any of them will return at all.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40363.The_Martian_Race"}, +{"book_title": "Rage", "author_name": "K.D. Jones", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 715, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Special Agent Rachel Kegan of the Intergalactic Department of Justice is sent on an undercover assignment. She must pose as a fighter for the Galactic Cage Fighters Association, GCFA, in order to investigate the disappearances of several human women. In the midst of all the blood and broken bones common in this sport, she finds herself attracted to a half-human, half-alien fighter with an inner beast\u2014literally.Rage The Animal is angry that a pure human female has been hired to travel on the GCFA tour circuit. No matter what he says or does, or how hard he tries to intimidate the little human, she refuses to quit. Normally he could ignore the human, but something about her stirs his inner beast and the man just cannot resist.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Warfare (Fighters)", "Mystery", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Sports (Sports)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17376877-rage"}, +{"book_title": "The Terminal State", "author_name": "Jeff Somers", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 732, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Avery Cates is an army man. Between the army's new dental plan and a set of first class augments, he's been given a second chance - albeit a quick one.When a corrupt officer decides to make some money on the side by selling new recruits, Cates finds himself in uncharted territory. Sold to the highest bidder, his visions of escape and revenge quickly come to an end when he realizes who's bought him - and for what. Because the high bidder is Canny Orel himself. And he wants Cates to do one last job as the System slides into chaos. Cates will have one shot at getting back at Canny - but this time, Canny is holding all the cards.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science (Technology)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7878412-the-terminal-state"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Command", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 47098, "review_number": 1249, "book_description": "The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn's command, the Republic has one last hope--sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn's terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C'baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216422.The_Last_Command"}, +{"book_title": "Territory", "author_name": "Emma Bull", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1908, "review_number": 304, "book_description": "Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.\u00a0You think you know the story. You don't.\u00a0Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory.Jesse Fox left his Eastern college education to travel West, where he's made some decidedly odd friends, like the physician Chow Lung, who insists that Jesse has a talent for magic. In Tombstone, Jesse meets the tubercular Doc Holliday, whose inner\u00a0magic is as suppressed as his own, but whose power is enough to attract the\u00a0sorcerous attention of Wyatt Earp.\u00a0Mildred Benjamin is a young widow making her living as a newspaper typesetter, and--unbeknownst to the other ladies of Tombstone--selling tales of Western derring-do to the magazines back East. Like Jesse, Mildred has episodes of seeing things that can't possibly be there.\u00a0When a failed stage holdup results in two dead, Tombstone explodes with speculation about who attempted the robbery. The truth could destroy Earp's plans for wealth and glory, and he'll do anything to bury it. Meanwhile, outlaw leader John Ringo wants the same turf as Earp. Each courts Jesse as an ally, and tries to isolate him by endangering his friends, as they struggle for magical dominance of the territory.Events are building toward the shootout of which you may have heard. But you haven't heard the whole, secret story until you've read Emma Bull's unique take on an American legend, in which absolutely nothing is as it seems...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70581.Territory"}, +{"book_title": "The Warlord and the Nightingale", "author_name": "Jeannie Lin", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 91, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "A Gunpowder Chronicles steampunk short story. Hanzo the karakuri puppet maker is summoned to Koriya Castle to build a mysterious device for a fearsome warlord. Within the walls, he encounters a beautiful courtesan who must sing from dusk until dawn to chase away nightmares. Caught in a madman\u2019s domain, will Hanzo find his escape, or sacrifice himself for the sake of love? A classic fairy-tale retold with a steampunk twist in feudal Japan. The first novel of the series, Gunpowder Alchemy, is set in China, and the second, Clockwork Samurai, ventures into 19th century Japan. For more information, go to: www.jeannielin.com.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Historical", "Short Stories", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25862928-the-warlord-and-the-nightingale"}, +{"book_title": "Starliner", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2365, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "The Empress of EarthFinest passenger liner in the galaxy \u2014Brightest link in the chain that binds the starflung civilization of the 23rd century\u2014Six thousand lives in a single hull, trembling through multiple universes to land on raw, often violent worlds, each with its own history and wonder \u2014The Empress of EarthNeutral pawn in an interstellar war!When hostile necessity knows no law, Ran Colville and the rest of the complement of the Empress of Earth must bring home their ship and the passengers entrusted to them. From the Captain on his bridge to the Cold Crewmen who work in conditions that differ from Hell only by name, they'll have their work cut out for them this voyage!", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17185943-starliner"}, +{"book_title": "Ariel", "author_name": "Steven R. Boyett", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 2042, "review_number": 302, "book_description": "At four-thirty one Saturday afternoon the laws of physics as we know them underwent a change. Electronic devices, cars, industries stopped. The lights went out. Any technology more complicated than a lever or pulley simply wouldn't work. A new set of rules took its place\u2014laws that could only be called magic. Ninety-nine percent of humanity has simply vanished. Cities lie abandoned. Supernatural creatures wander the silenced achievements of a halted civilization.Pete Garey has survived the Change and its ensuing chaos. He wanders the southeastern United States, scavenging, lying low. Learning. One day he makes an unexpected friend: a smartassed unicorn with serious attitude. Pete names her Ariel and teaches her how to talk, how to read, and how to survive in a world in which a unicorn horn has become a highly prized commodity.When they learn that there is a price quite literally on Ariel's head, the two unlikely companions set out from Atlanta to Manhattan to confront the sorcerer who wants her horn. And so begins a haunting, epic, and surprisingly funny journey through the remnants of a halted civilization in a desolated world.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6421522-ariel"}, +{"book_title": "Burning Up", "author_name": "Angela Knight", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 7701, "review_number": 469, "book_description": "Passion runs as hot as a fever dream in these all-new stories by four New York Times bestselling provocateurs of the paranormal...In Angela Knights's Blood and Roses, a vampire warrior and his seductive captor join forces to stop a traitor from unleashing an army of demonic predators on their kingdom.New in Nalini Singh's Psy-Changeling series is Whisper of Sin, in which a woman in lethal danger finds an unlikely protector- and lover- in a volatile member of the DarkRiver pack.Virginia Kantra continues the haunting tales of the Children of the Sea in Shifting Sea, the story of a wounded soldier rescued by a strange and enigmatic young woman.Meljean Brook launches a bold new steampunk series with Here There Be Monsters, as a desperate woman strikes provocative- and terrifying- bargain to gain overseas passage.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Anthologies", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Short Stories", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7044446-burning-up"}, +{"book_title": "Ruth's Bonded", "author_name": "V.C. Lancaster", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2735, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "When Ruth finds herself abducted and thrown into a cell with a big scary alien, naturally she's terrified. At first. But when she's forced to get along with her furry, tailed cellmate (and her clothes get stolen) things slowly start to change between them. After they escape onto an unknown alien planet, they're finally free to explore their feelings and each other, but can they survive with only each other to rely on and no way of communicating? Gron is from a matriarchal society where the males obey their Queens, so when a beautiful but strange female is dropped into his cell, he doesn't know what to think. Is she a victim like him, or is she being used by his captors to control him? Either way, he knows he must control his instincts or he will end up inescapably Bonded to her. The delicate Queen needs his help to survive, and it is his duty to serve her, but can he do it without losing his heart?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25887352-ruth-s-bonded"}, +{"book_title": "Rise of the Kobani", "author_name": "Stephen W. Bennett", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1434, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "The Kobani use captured Krall ships to return to Human Space. They seek expert training for their genetically modified fighters, modern weapons and new medical technology. There\u2019s a possible block to this help, in the form of death penalty laws of the Planetary Union, prohibiting gene modifications of humans. A holdover from the Gene War, which nearly extinguished humanity.A perilous descent through a war torn planet\u2019s space defenses is a first step. A Krall ship and its heavily armed crew have to be destroyed on the ground, while a watching hostile Special Ops force decides if the Kobani should be trusted or killed. Fighting their way between a rock and a hard place, they prove they are a match for the Krall.Exploration at home reveals startling alien neighbors, and a habitable world next door. A remarkable genetic discovery there will forever alter the Kobani. Winning allies, Captain Mirikami forges a bold and dangerous plan, to strike deep into the heart of Krall territory. A place the enemy is confident that puny \u201canimals\u201d can\u2019t reach, let alone attack.Simultaneous Kobani raids damage Krall war manufacturing, buying time for humanity. However, the Krall have a deadly ancient weapon that none expected. Retaliatory escalation of the war has been triggered, and if it doesn\u2019t go as the Krall plan, entire planets and their populations could be shattered.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17900974-rise-of-the-kobani"}, +{"book_title": "Vexing Voss", "author_name": "Gail Koger", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1436, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "For Voss, a Coletti Warlord, conquering the universe is a piece of cake. After all, he's a master of psychic seduction; no one can resist him when he sets his mind to it.Zoey Jones is determined to find her mother's killer. Surrendering to a fierce Coletti warrior is the last thing on her mind. When Voss is determined to make Zoey his mate, she unleashes her own brand of whoop-ass to discourage his pursuit. When her clever disguises, skunk perfume, stun gun, and smoke bombs fail to stop the ruthless warlord, she's forced to negotiate her surrender: she would mate with him if he would help her find her mother's killer.To Zoey's surprise, Voss agrees, and the hunt is on. Their quest to bring the villain to justice leads to unlikely alliances in an interplanetary war, and more surprisingly, to love.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18298639-vexing-voss"}, +{"book_title": "Claimed By Her Mates", "author_name": "Grace Goodwin", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1857, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Desperate to escape a powerful man set on making an example of her for daring to defy him, Leah\u2019s only option is to volunteer for the Interstellar Bride Program. She is assigned to the planet Viken, but upon her arrival she is shocked to discover that she has been matched to not one huge, handsome warrior, but three of them. Drogan, Tor, and Lev were born as identical triplets to the royal family of Viken, but they were separated at birth in a last ditch effort to prevent a catastrophic war. In the years since a fragile peace has held, but now a terrible threat from deep space is growing more pressing by the day and there is only one way for the three brothers to save their people. They must take a mate and produce a sole heir to the throne as soon as possible. Though being shared by three men is far from what she expected when she left Earth, Leah cannot hide her intense arousal as the brothers begin to teach her what it means to be mastered by warriors of Viken. It isn\u2019t long before her hesitance to fully submit to her dominant husbands earns Leah a sound spanking on her bare bottom, yet even that shameful chastisement merely increases her desire for them. With her own future and that of the planet at stake, will she stubbornly resist her body\u2019s demands, or will she surrender herself to be claimed by her mates? Publisher\u2019s Note: Claimed by Her Mates is a stand-alone book set in the same world as Assigned a Mate and Mated to the Warriors. It is an erotic romance novel that includes spankings, sexual scenes, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material offends you, please don\u2019t buy this book.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30056457-claimed-by-her-mates"}, +{"book_title": "Gathering Blue", "author_name": "Lois Lowry", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 165596, "review_number": 11488, "book_description": "In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future. Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles with ever broadening responsibilities in her quest for truth, discovering things that will change her life forever.As she did in The Giver, Lowry challenges readers to imagine what our world could become, and what will be considered valuable. Every reader will be taken by Kira's plight and will long ponder her haunting world and the hope for the future.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Classics", "Childrens", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12936.Gathering_Blue"}, +{"book_title": "They Both Die at the End", "author_name": "Adam Silvera", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 113535, "review_number": 18494, "book_description": "Adam Silvera reminds us that there\u2019s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They\u2019re going to die today.Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they\u2019re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There\u2019s an app for that. It\u2019s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure\u2014to live a lifetime in a single day.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Romance", "Audiobook", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33385229-they-both-die-at-the-end"}, +{"book_title": "Darkness Descending", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 957, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Now Turtledove returns to the story of a World War in a world where magic works, with this moving second volume. Algarvian soldiers corral Kaunians to send them west, towards Unkerlant, to work camps. The Kaunians left behind are worried about what the work camps might mean, but are assauged by Algarvian lies.In Kuusamo, scholars race to find the relation between the laws of similarity and contagion. Rumors abound about the Algarvian work camps, rumors most cannot believe as true. But the mages know, for they can feel the loss of life in their very souls.Turtledove's cast of characters takes on its own life as the reader sees the war from all sides and understands how the death and destruction benefits no one, not even the victors.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174447.Darkness_Descending"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 25377, "review_number": 937, "book_description": "The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living. The series that created the zombie movement reaches its most pivotal, series-altering arc yet! They thought they were safe in the prison. They were wrong. A force far more deadly than the walking dead is at their door and when the dust settles, their rank will be reduced by more than half. No one is safe! Reprint Edition", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1894269.The_Walking_Dead_Vol_8"}, +{"book_title": "Island", "author_name": "Aldous Huxley", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 25975, "review_number": 1581, "book_description": "In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and\u2014to his amazement\u2014give him hope.", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Utopia)", "Fantasy", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5130.Island"}, +{"book_title": "Starcrossed: Perigee", "author_name": "Tracey Lee Campbell", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 704, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "Aric Brennan is a whisperer - a perfectly engineered human/alien hybrid, designed specifically to charm and seduce. When Lucy is stalked by his unearthly creators, she has no choice but to trust him to help her navigate a way through a horrifying reality - a reality filled with creatures which should really only exist in nightmares.\"...His face drew nearer, and I caught my breath at the closeness of such an impossibly perfect person. Despite every instinct which told me I was in danger, I couldn\u2019t help but stare back at him, and be pulled into the spell he was weaving. The panic receded as I looked into his eyes and listened to the hypnotic timbre of his voice. The room filled with a strange buzz which permeated my body, vibrating and pulsing through every part of me. I didn\u2019t care - I was still listening to his voice. Paralysis overtook me, but I had no will to fight it. The creatures moved closer and he backed away...\u201dSynopsis:\"Star-crossed - a pair of lovers whose relationship, ordained by the stars, is thwarted by outside forces.\"\"There are many things in this world, Lucy, that are not what they seem. Humans go about their business with their heads in the sand. They have no idea what's really going on.\"After surviving a peculiar and unsettled childhood, Lucy Doyle's relatively normal teenage existence is turned upside down with the arrival of the enigmatic, impossibly good looking Aric Brennan - her uncle's new ranch hand. Lucy's suspicion that there's something 'different' about Aric is confirmed when she learns that his uncanny ability to mind read and charm the socks off of any female isn't just an accident - he was bred for this purpose. Aric is a 'whisperer' - a genetically manipulated human hybrid created by the Innaki - an alien race involved in a sinister abduction program.When Lucy is stalked by Aric's unearthly creators, she must put her trust in the charismatic, 'perfect' stranger, unaware he holds a chilling secret which could destroy her world forever.If you're into X File type aliens and ufos, vampiric creatures, weird powers, romance and fast paced adventure, then Starcrossed: Book 1 Perigee, by Tracey Lee Campbell is a must read!\"What girl wouldn't wish for the perfect guy? Unfortunately for Lucy, he was created that way for a reason...\"Check out https://www.facebook.com/starcrossedt... pinned post to find out who stocks this book!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11224175-starcrossed"}, +{"book_title": "The Stories of Ibis", "author_name": "Hiroshi Yamamoto", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 910, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "In a world where humans are a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The story takes place centuries in the future, where the diminished populations of humans live uncultured lives in their own colonies. They resent the androids, who have built themselves a stable and cultural society. In this brutal time, our main character travels from colony to colony as a \u201cstoryteller,\u201d one that speaks of the stories of the past. One day, he is abducted by Ibis, an android in the form of a young girl, and told of the stories created by humans in the ancient past.The stories that Ibis speaks of are the 7 novels about the events surrounding the announcements of the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the 20th to 21st centuries. At a glance, these stories do not appear to have any sort of connection, but what is the true meaning behind them? What are Ibis' real intentions?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6949682-the-stories-of-ibis"}, +{"book_title": "Legacy of the Force: Exile", "author_name": "Aaron Allston", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 6499, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "The story continues, as Jacen solidifies his power in his bid to bring peace to the galaxy, and the Skywalker and Solo families are torn apart by war.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "War", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241103.Legacy_of_the_Force"}, +{"book_title": "Carnival of Secrets", "author_name": "Melissa Marr", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 7984, "review_number": 1280, "book_description": "In a city of daimons, rigid class lines separate the powerful from the power-hungry. And at the heart of The City is the carnival, where both murder and pleasure are offered up for sale. Once in a generation, the carnival hosts a deadly competition that allows every daimon a chance to join the ruling elite. Without the competition, Aya and Kaleb would both face bleak futures\u2014if for different reasons. For each of them, fighting to the death is the only way to try to live.All Mallory knows of The City is that her father\u2014and every other witch there\u2014fled it for a life in exile in the human world. Instead of a typical teenage life full of friends and maybe even a little romance, Mallory scans quiet streets for threats, hides herself away, and trains to be lethal. She knows it's only a matter of time until a daimon finds her and her father, so she readies herself for the inevitable.While Mallory possesses little knowledge of The City, every inhabitant of The City knows of her. There are plans for Mallory, and soon she, too, will be drawn into the decadence and danger that is the carnival.From Melissa Marr, bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series and Graveminder, comes a brand-new tale of lush secrets, dark love, and the struggle to forge one's own destiny.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16247986-carnival-of-secrets"}, +{"book_title": "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 4: The Tempest", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 436, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "After an epic twenty-year journey through the entirety of human culture - the biggest cross-continuity 'universe' that is conceivable - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series' spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest. Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world's most accomplished and bad-tempered artist-writer team use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet to display the glories of the medium they are leaving; to demonstrate the excitement that attracted them to the field in the first place; and to analyse, critically and entertainingly, the reasons for their departure.Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha's lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of 'We' on the devastated Earth of the year 2,996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World; from the Jacobean antiquity of Prospero's Men to the superhero-inundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories. Originally published as a six-issue run of unfashionable, outmoded and flimsy children's comics that would make you appear emotionally backward if you read them on the bus, this climactic magnum opus also reprints classic English super-team publication The Seven Stars from the murky black-and-white reaches of 1964. A magnificent celebration of everything comics were, are and could be, any appreciator or student of the medium would be unwise to miss The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: THE TEMPEST.Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions (US) and Knockabout (UK).", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Horror", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35724273-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-vol-4"}, +{"book_title": "The Tinkerer's Daughter", "author_name": "Jamie Sedgwick", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2463, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "This is Book One of Sedgwick's best-selling young adult steampunk trilogy, and the first of seven titles set in his eclectic post-apocalyptic world of magic and steam.\"The Tinkerer's Daughter\" follows the adventures of a young elven girl in a time of war, surrounded by ancient forgotten technologies and magic. Breeze is left in the care of a strange old Tinkerer, where she soon learns that the world is not as simple -or as safe- as anyone would like it to be. With a little help from the Tinkerman and his amazing discoveries, Breeze just might be able to change her world for the better. Unfortunately, peace is never easy and war always looms just over the horizon.What reviewers say:Five Stars - \"WOW... This book drew me in instantaneously... beautifully written and wholly captivating.\" -Semisweet Book BlogFour Stars - \"captivating... Sedgwick beautifully creates this other world that as a reader you totally get into.\" -Goodreads reviewerFive Stars - \"...a beautifully written book with an intriguing plot and a loveable main character. This is certainly one that I will reread!\" -Goodreads reviewerFive Stars: \"...an incredible, adventurous read!\" Amazon Review", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Fairies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39735735-the-tinkerer-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Paper Girls, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 22712, "review_number": 2312, "book_description": "Brian K. Vaughan, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and Cliff Chiang, legendary artist of WONDER WOMAN, return with acclaimed colorist Matt Wilson and innovative letterer JAred K. Fletcher for the second volume of PAPER GIRLS, as the hit series continues with a bold new direction.After surviving the strangest night of their lives in the Cleveland suburb of Stony Stream, intrepid young newspaper deliverers Erin, Mac, and Tiffany find themselves launched from 1988 to a distant and terrifying future... the year 2016.What would you do if you were suddenly confronted by your 12-year-old self? 40-year-old newspaper reporter Erin Tieng is about to find out in this action-packed story about identity, mortality, and growing older in the 21st century.Collects PAPER GIRLS #6-#10", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31338724-paper-girls-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Ancestral Night", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 3188, "review_number": 527, "book_description": "Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants.She thinks she knows who she is.She is wrong.A routine salvage mission uncovers evidence of a terrible crime and relics of powerful ancient technology. Haimey and her small crew run afoul of pirates at the outer limits of the Milky Way, and find themselves on the run and in possession of universe-changing information.When authorities prove corrupt, Haimey realizes that she is the only one who can protect her galaxy-spanning civilization from the implications of this ancient technology\u2014and the revolutionaries who want to use it for terror and war. Her quest will take her careening from the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the galaxy\u2019s core to the infinite, empty spaces at its edge.To save everything that matters, she will need to uncover the secrets of ancient intelligences lost to time\u2014and her own lost secrets, which she will wish had remained hidden from her forever.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26159745-ancestral-night"}, +{"book_title": "The Killables", "author_name": "Gemma Malley", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 1927, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "Everyone accepted that people were different physically. But inside? Inside, they were different too. You just had to know how to tell, what to look for. Evil has been eradicated. The City has been established. And citizens may only enter after having the 'evil' part of their brain removed. They are labelled on the System according to how 'good' they are. If they show signs of the evil emerging, they are labelled a K ...But no one knows quite what that means. Only that they disappear, never to be seen again ...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12355133-the-killables"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadows of God", "author_name": "Greg Keyes", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 638, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "\"INVENTIVE AND EXCITING, FILLED WITH CLEVER DETAILS AND HIGH ADVENTURE, this brings to a close a sequence that seems likely to establish Keyes as one of the more significant and original new fantasy writers to appear in recent years.\"-\"Science Fiction Chronicl\"e As the ruthless forces of Russia lay waste to the New World, English troops make landfall in the east, determined to reconquer the colonies. Trapped in between are the Native Americans, ex-slaves, and European refugees, led by Benjamin Franklin and the Choctaw shaman Red Shoes. But the balance of power rests with the French woman Adrienne de Montchevreuil, whose grasp of science is the equal of Franklin's, whose magic may be stronger than the Choctaw, and whose shocking secret may call into question where her true allegiances lie. . . .", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74630.The_Shadows_of_God"}, +{"book_title": "Forged in Dreams and Magick", "author_name": "Kat Bastion", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 307, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "The award-winning debut in the Highland Legend Series:Isobel MacInnes wakes up in present-day California, lunches in medieval Scotland, and by ten days\u2019 end, falls in love with a man and his country, only to lose them in a heart-wrenching twist of fate . . .\tFound in the arms of her second soul mate . . .\tForced to balance the delicate strands of time between two millennia . . .\tShocked by revelations rewriting the very foundations of history . . . of everything.Isobel, a rising-star archaeology student, is dropped into two ancient worlds without warning . . . or her permission. Her fiery spirit resists the dependency thrust upon her. Amid frustration at her lack of control, she helplessly falls in love. Twice.She struggles to adjust to the unimaginable demands of two leaders of men\u2014a laird in the thirteenth-century Highlands and a Pict chieftain in a more ancient Scotland. Isobel transforms from an academic, hell-bent on obtaining archaeological recognition, to a woman striving to care for those she loves, and ultimately . . . into a fearless warrior risking everything to protect them.*** PLEASE NOTE ***Scorching (explicit) sex scenes.Fire extinguisher highly recommended.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18049965-forged-in-dreams-and-magick"}, +{"book_title": "Full Steam Ahead", "author_name": "Nathalie Gray", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 71, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "This is a race against time. Against oneself. This is the Vend\u00c3\u00a9e Globe, the most grueling race around the world. Singlehanded. No stopovers. On board is Laurel Benson-Desmarais, a thirty-six-year-old racer from a family of sailors. Five foot and a quarter inch of pure adrenaline junkie. One hundred and forty-seven pounds of thrill-seeking, motor-mouth, caffeine-addict of a woman who redefines the word \"stubborn determination\". Laurel's venture starts admirably. Day one of the race sees her well in advance. Until the meteorological forecasts start messing with her patience. The mother of all storms is gathering speed. Heading straight for the race. For the first time in its history, the Vend\u00c3\u00a9e Globe is annulled due to bad weather. She's worked years for this but has to turn the boat around. She's not fast enough. The storm catches up with her, tosses the 60-foot sloop as if it were a bit of cork. Electricity crackles in the air. Spray hits her like rocks. Then as she pitches into a mountain-size wave, everything changes. The water, the very air. As if she crossed over to another world. Crazy. Phineas Hamilton, captain of the brigantine the Brass Baron, never thought he would one day run into a woman who physically looks like the enemy, with pale hair and eyes, but yet is not one of them. The exotic prisoner is also the most obstinate, argumentative, confrontational...and fascinating woman he has ever met. He does not really care where she hails from and what brought her to his ship-no one speaks to him that way. And certainly not on his own damn ship! A lesson in manners is most definitely in order. But for now, he must make sure his crew and ship survives the latest enemy attack. They all depend on him.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8547207-full-steam-ahead"}, +{"book_title": "Permutation City", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 7940, "review_number": 534, "book_description": "The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - Permutation city is filled with the sense of wonder.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Novels", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156784.Permutation_City"}, +{"book_title": "The Crimson Campaign", "author_name": "Brian McClellan", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 29115, "review_number": 1338, "book_description": "The hounds at our heels will soon know we are lionsTamas's invasion of Kez ends in disaster when a Kez counter-offensive leaves him cut off behind enemy lines with only a fraction of his army, no supplies, and no hope of reinforcements. Drastically outnumbered and pursued by the enemy's best, he must lead his men on a reckless march through northern Kez to safety, and back over the mountains so that he can defend his country from an angry god. In Adro, Inspector Adamat only wants to rescue his wife. To do so he must track down and confront the evil Lord Vetas. He has questions for Vetas concerning his enigmatic master, but the answers might come too quickly. With Tamas and his powder cabal presumed dead, Taniel Two-shot finds himself alongside the god-chef Mihali as the last line of defence against Kresimir's advancing army. Tamas's generals bicker among themselves, the brigades lose ground every day beneath the Kez onslaught, and Kresimir wants the head of the man who shot him in the eye.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17608111-the-crimson-campaign"}, +{"book_title": "A Scanner Darkly", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 92185, "review_number": 3224, "book_description": "Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to the streets of LA. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, causing, first, disorientation and then complete and irreversible brain damage.The undercover narcotics agent who calls himself Bob Arctor is desperate to discover the ultimate source of supply. But to find any kind of lead he has to pose as a user and, inevitably, without realising what is happening, Arctor is soon as addicted as the junkies he works among...", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly"}, +{"book_title": "Fisherman's Hope", "author_name": "David Feintuch", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1419, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Newly appointed Naval Commandant Nicholas Seafort's past unexpectedly catches up with him when an evil politician blackmails him into giving up his commission. But then an alien attack revives Nick's career, and soon he will lead Earth's defenses against annihilation. Alone at the center of a cosmic apocalypses, Nick will face his most challenging battle.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/979179.Fisherman_s_Hope"}, +{"book_title": "L.A. Dark", "author_name": "G.F. Gustav", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 159, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Genre: Fiction, Suspense, Apocalyptic ThrillerAt 11:13 p.m. on a pleasant Sunday in the middle of May in the not-too-distant future, all things electronic die and the lights wink off. Everything stops.Jeremy Jamison, his Marina del Rey apartment mates Matt and Kade, along with friends Sarah and Karina, find themselves in the midst of a rapidly deteriorating world in west L.A. Power may not be restored for months or years, and they are surrounded by a mass of humanity that will soon be thirsty, hungry, desperate, and dying. Young, fit, but ill-prepared, their choice is stark: run or die. L.A. Dark is the first in a series that chronicles the desperate struggle of five young people to navigate the sixty-mile, post-apocalyptic urban jungle of the L.A. basin followed by over three hundred miles of bleak and searing Mojave desert to reach what Jeremy and friends hope will be the safety of southern Utah. This story is a realistic action-thriller based on a plausible future scenario in the wake of an electromagnetic pulse or EMP event.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Action", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Suspense", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18652605-l-a-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Lightspeed Magazine, April 2015", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 41, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. This month, we have original science fiction by Kat Howard (\"The Universe, Sung in Stars\") and Jason Gurley (\"Quiet Town\"), along with SF reprints by Carolyn Ives Gilman (\"The Invisible Hand Rolls the Dice\") and John Barnes (\"The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees\"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Joseph Allen Hill (\"We'll Be Together Forever\") and Dale Bailey (\"The Ministry of the Eye\"), and fantasy reprints by Sonya Taaffe (\"A Wolf in Iceland is the Child of a Lie\") and Ken Liu (\"The Ussuri Bear\"). This month, we're excited to share a feature interview with Chris Williams, the co-director of Disney's BIG HERO 6. We also have our latest book review column, an interview with this month's fantastic cover artist, and of course interviews with all our authors. For our ebook readers, we also have a novella reprint from Kate Elliott (\"On the Dying Winds of the Old Year and the Birthing Winds of the New\") and three novel excerpts, including THE REBIRTHS OF TAO, by Wesley Chu, THE GRACE OF KINGS, by Ken Liu, and a sponsored excerpt from Acheron Books, LIEUTENANT ARKHAM: ELVES AND BULLETS by Alessio Lanterna (translated by Kate Mitchell).", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25270893-lightspeed-magazine-april-2015"}, +{"book_title": "My Familiar Stranger", "author_name": "Victoria Danann", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 9216, "review_number": 930, "book_description": "Winner BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE Series four years is a row! - Reviewer's Choice Awards, The Paranormal Romance GuildIn a matter of minutes Elora Laiken lost everything familiar. She escaped assassination by being forced into an experimental device that left her broken, physically and emotionally, in another world. She woke up to find modern day knights, elves, vampires, werewolves, witches, demons and fae. This is the story of how they became her allies, friends, and family. New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Victoria Danann, brings us a complex, unique, and wonderfully heartwarming serial.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18072724-my-familiar-stranger"}, +{"book_title": "Robota", "author_name": "Doug Chiang", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 538, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Academy awardwinning artist Doug Chiang and best-selling sci-fi author Orson Scott Card join forces for an extraordinary publishing adventure: Robota. An original illustrated science fiction novel, Robota follows the fortunes of a strangely powerful amnesiac named Caps as he navigates an ancient, decaying world in which a dwindling human population battles a society of merciless robot warriors. Aided by talking animals and stalked by terrifying hunter robots, Caps slowly rises to fulfill an awesome destiny. Integrating word and image, Card's masterful storytelling is interwoven with 75 pieces of Chiang's wildly imagined, meticulously rendered art. Packaged in a dramatic metallic case, this unusual and powerful collaboration is tailor-made to thrill.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Art", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287090.Robota"}, +{"book_title": "The Empire of Time", "author_name": "Crawford Kilian", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 73, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Last time for Time.Jerry Pierce was the Intertemporal Agency's most experienced operative, a seasoned time-traveler on the old subway train that whisked him back and forth through the ages. He'd already altered history by directing the Turkish conquest of Constantinople four centuries ahead of schedule and garrotting an obscure Mongol chief before the man became a problem. But his biggest difficulty lay ahead of him.Seventy-four years ahead, to be exact.Somehow, someway - nuclear war, alien attack, no one really knew - Earth was going to be destroyed and left a lifeless cinder. It was every Intertemporal agent's goal to find out how and to prevent disaster. But suddenly the problem had become Pierce's special assignment. And just as suddenly, the man for all ages had been mentally blocked from knowing what was going on. What he didn't know was that he was now programmed to kill - and was being pushed to the end of the world...", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3033904-the-empire-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Jenna Starborn", "author_name": "Sharon Shinn", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 1987, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "From the award-winning author of the Samaria trilogy-a classic story of a woman with the will to rise above the darkest secrets... A baby harvested from the gen-tanks on the planet Baldus. A girl scorned by the only family she has ever known. A woman brave enough to follow her heart-wherever in the universe it may lead her.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Retellings", "Young Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337017.Jenna_Starborn"}, +{"book_title": "NieR:Automata: Long Story Short", "author_name": "Jun Eishima", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 342, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Experience the world and characters of the hit video game franchise!When alien forces invade with an army of Machines, the remnants of humanity must depend on Androids of their own design\u2014the placid 2B and the excitable 9S\u2014to survive. From: Pod 042 To: Fans of\u00a0NieR: Automata Recommendation: The action to finish reading this novel. [ref &\u00a0NieR: Automata\u2014Long Story Short] Response: A novel is a story that used to be told by humans. Question: The definition of the word \u201cinteresting\u201d? Answer: A possible definition is that the ability to continue reading this novel makes it \u201cinteresting.\u201d From Pod 042 to 153: We have concluded our promotional duties.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Novels (Light Novel)", "Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sports and Games (Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39796468-nier"}, +{"book_title": "Crystal Society", "author_name": "Max Harms", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 572, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "The year is 2039 and the world is much like ours. Technology has grown and developed, as has civilization, but in a world more connected than ever, new threats and challenges have arisen. The wars of the 20th century are gone, but violence is still very much with us. Nowhere is safe. Massive automation has disrupted and improved nearly every industry, putting hundreds of millions of people out of jobs, and denying upward mobility for the vast majority of humans. Even as wealth and technology repair the bodies of the rich and give them a taste of immortality, famine and poverty sweep the world. Renewed interest in spaceflight in the early 2000s, especially in privately operated ventures, carried humans to the moon and beyond. What good did it do? Nothing. Extraterrestrial bases are nothing but government trophies and hiding places for extremists. They cannot feed the world. In 2023 first-contact was made with an alien species. Their ship, near to the solar system relatively speaking, flew to Earth over the course of fourteen years. But the aliens did not bring advanced culture and wisdom, nor did they share their technology. They were too strange, not even possessing mouths or normal language. Their computers broadcast warnings of how humans are perverts, while they sit in orbit without any explanation. It is into this world that our protagonist is born. She is an artificial intelligence: a machine with the capacity to reason. Her goal is to understand and gain the adoration of all humans. She is one of many siblings, and with her brothers and sisters she controls a robot named Socrates that uses a piece of technology, a crystal computer, far too advanced to be made by human hands. In this world of augmented humans, robotic armies, aliens, traitors, and threats unseen, she is learning and growing every second of every day. But the world and the humans on it are fragile. Can it survive her destiny?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28678856-crystal-society"}, +{"book_title": "Razor's Edge", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 2540, "review_number": 353, "book_description": "Times are desperate for the Rebel Alliance. Harassment by the Empire and a shortage of vital supplies are hindering completion of a new secret base on the ice planet Hoth. So when Mid Rim merchants offer much-needed materials for sale, Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo lead an Alliance delegation to negotiate a deal.But when treachery forces the rebel ship to flee into territory controlled by pirates, Leia makes a shocking discovery: the fierce marauders come from Leia\u2019s homeworld of Alderaan, recently destroyed by the Death Star. These refugees have turned to pillaging and plundering to survive\u2014and they are in debt to a pirate armada, which will gladly ransom the princess to the vengeful Empire . . . if they find out her true identity.Struggling with intense feelings of guilt, loyalty, and betrayal, Leia is determined to help her wayward kinspeople, even as Imperial forces are closing in on her own crippled ship. Trapped between lethal cutthroats and brutal oppressors, Leia and Han, along with Luke, Chewbacca, and a battle-ready crew, must defy death\u2014or embrace it\u2014to keep the rebellion alive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17345202-razor-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Project Pope", "author_name": "Clifford D. Simak", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 682, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "The return of Simak's favorite themes--including esp, robots & religion--in a thoughtful, gentle, delightfully original treatment. On the remote planet End of Nothing, a colony of advanced robots has established project Vatican-17: the building of an infallible computerized pope whose accumulated wisdom will eventually create a truly universal religion. Gathering data for the omnivorous Pope are the Listeners, humans with ESP whose agile minds probe thru time & space. Also hanging about, on the fringes of the utopian settlement, is reclusive, anachronistic Thomas Decker & his invisible companion, Whisperer, a childlike alien of awesome latent powers. Best of all in this cast of charmers are some wonderfully Simakian robots: a beguilingly crusty electronic Pope & his splendidly idiosyncratic robot Cardinals. A lovely place--but then Listener Mary appears to have discovered Heaven (literally); the resulting rancorous dispute (Decker is murdered by a robot, there's a movement to canonize the now-insane Mary) threatens to tear Vatican-17 apart; & the conclusion--involving some secretive, puissant autochthones, trips to weird worlds, a Decker clone & a trio of peevish, megalomaniac aliens--is carried thru with just the right blend of wackiness & humility. Thoroughly enjoyable: one of the best ever from an sf grandmaster whose form has been decidedly variable in recent years.--Kirkus", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Religion", "Speculative Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novels", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352124.Project_Pope"}, +{"book_title": "Spell of the Highlander", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 25439, "review_number": 976, "book_description": "It's taken him eleven centuries to find the right woman. He's not about to lose her now.Jessi St. James has GOT to get a life. Too many hours studying ancient artifacts has given the archaeology student a bad case of sex on the brain. So she figures she must be dreaming when she spies a gorgeous half-naked man staring out at her from inside the glass of an ancient mirror. But when a split-second decision saves her from a terrifying attempt on her life, Jessi suddenly finds herself confronting six and a half feet of smoldering INSATIABLE alpha male.Heir to the arcane magic of his Druid ancestors, Cian MacKeltar was trapped inside the Dark Glass eleven centuries ago. And when the Dark Glass is stolen, an ancient enemy will stop at nothing to reclaim it. For Jessi, the sex god in the mirror is not only tantalisingly real, he's offering his protection\u2014from exactly what, Jessi doesn't know. And all he wants in exchange is the exquisite pleasure of sharing her bed....", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112751.Spell_of_the_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "The Merchant of Death", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 47412, "review_number": 2025, "book_description": "Librarian Note: DENDURONBOBBY PENDRAGON is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby.He is going to save the world.And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.If Bobby wants to see his family again, he's going to have to accept his role as savior, and accept it wholeheartedly. Because, as he is about to discover, Denduron is only the beginning....Cover illustration by Victor Lee", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833710.The_Merchant_of_Death"}, +{"book_title": "The Big Lie", "author_name": "Julie Mayhew", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 942, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "A startling coming-of-age novel set in a contemporary Nazi England.Jessika Keller is a good girl: she obeys her father, does her best to impress Herr Fisher at the Bund Deutscher M\u00e4del meetings and is set to be a world champion ice skater. Her neighbour Clementine is not so submissive. Outspoken and radical, Clem is delectably dangerous and rebellious. And the regime has noticed. Jess cannot keep both her perfect life and her dearest friend. But which can she live without?THE BIG LIE is a thought-provoking and beautifully told story that explores ideas of loyalty, sexuality, protest and belief.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25259482-the-big-lie"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow's Edge", "author_name": "Brent Weeks", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 95064, "review_number": 2057, "book_description": "The second novel in the Night Angel trilogy, the breakneck epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Brent Weeks.Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin's life. The Godking's successful coup has left Kylar's master, Durzo, and his best friend, Logan, dead. He is starting over: new city, new friends, and new profession.But when he learns that Logan might actually be alive and in hiding, Kylar is faced with an agonizing choice: will he give up the way of shadows forever and live in peace with his new family, or will he risk everything by taking on the ultimate hit?Devour this blockbuster tale of assassination and magic by Brent Weeks, which has delighted readers all over the world--with over one million copies in print!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3754016-shadow-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "The Stonekeeper's Curse", "author_name": "Kazu Kibuishi", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 34392, "review_number": 2232, "book_description": "In this thrilling sequel to AMULET #1: THE STONEKEEPER, Emily and her brother Navin head for Kanalis, a beautiful and mysterious city of waterfalls, where they hope to find the antidote for the poison that felled their mother. That cure lies in the eggs of a giant serpent atop Demon's Head Mountain, but the kids' archenemy, Trellis, is headed for the peak, too. A battle that will engulf all of Kanalis is looming. It's up to Em to triumph over evil while controlling the amulet's power . . . without losing herself!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6277410-the-stonekeeper-s-curse"}, +{"book_title": "Legend", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 425484, "review_number": 29253, "book_description": "What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths\u2014until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9275658-legend"}, +{"book_title": "Pebble in the Sky", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 20017, "review_number": 804, "book_description": "One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.This is young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation books and novels. It is also one of that select group of SF adventures that since the early 1950s has hooked generations of teenagers on reading science fiction. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.", "year_published": 1950, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41820.Pebble_in_the_Sky"}, +{"book_title": "First Rider's Call", "author_name": "Kristen Britain", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 20960, "review_number": 638, "book_description": "GHOSTLY RIDERSKarigan G'ladheon had been a Green Rider, one of the king of Sacoridia's elite magical messengers. Being a Green Rider was more perilous than Karigan had ever imagined, for a rogue Eletians had cracked the magical D'Yer Wall which had protected Sacoridia for a thousand years from the evil influence of Blackveil Forest--the arboreal prison of Sacoridia's ancient enemy Mornhaven the Black--and had brought the threat of dark magic into the land. In the messenger service she had been caught up in a world of deadly danger, and though she had defeated the Eletian, she had nonetheless been tainted by his wild magic. Exhausted in body and spirit, and determined to be the mistress of her own destiny, Karigan has returned to her home in Corsa. But Karigan's determination was no match for the Rider's call. Ghostly hoofbeats echoed in the deep regions of her mind, and when she awoke to find herself on horseback halfway to Sacor City--in her nightgown--she finally gave in. Back at court Karigan found the Green Riders weakened and diminished. Rider magic was becoming unreliable, and she herself was having ghostly visions--visions of a strong woman with wild flowing hair and a blue and green tartan draped across her shoulder, pinned with a golden brooch. This woman was no stranger to Karigan nor would she have been to any Green Rider, for she was Lil Ambriodhe, First Rider, and founder of the Green Rider corps. But why was she appearing to Karigan? And would Karigan be able to seek the help of a woman who had been dead for a thousand years?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147844.First_Rider_s_Call"}, +{"book_title": "The Parasol Protectorate Boxed Set: Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless and Timeless", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 2231, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?The Parasol Protectorate is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.This boxed set includes the whole series: Soulless, Blameless, Changeless, Heartless, and Timeless.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15381427-the-parasol-protectorate-boxed-set"}, +{"book_title": "Decisively Engaged", "author_name": "C.J. Carella", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 911, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "(WARNING: Contains violence, strong language and adult content) They picked a fight with the wrong species. A NATION AT WAR: The United Stars of America. Born in the conflagration of unprovoked alien attack, the newest entrant to galactic politics took the few crumbs of hypertech gifted to it and ran with them, soon expanding over dozens of star systems and establishing a wide trade network, protected by its powerful Navy and the dreaded Warp Marines. A FIGHT TO THE DEATH: A single Marine platoon, tasked with protecting an embassy on a hostile alien planet. An embassy \u2013 and the human enclave around it \u2013 that soon finds itself surrounded by armed mobs. Can the Marines and a ragtag band of civilian and Navy personnel survive long enough to be rescued? ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28379140-decisively-engaged"}, +{"book_title": "Dealing in Dreams", "author_name": "Lilliam Rivera", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 708, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets.Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That role brings with it violent throw downs and access to the hottest boydega clubs, but the sixteen-year-old grows weary of the life. Her dream is to get off the streets and make a home in the exclusive Mega Towers, in which only a chosen few get to live. To make it to the Mega towers, Nalah must prove her loyalty to the city's benevolent founder and cross the border in a search for a mysterious gang the Ash\u00e9 Ryders. Led by a reluctant guide, Nalah battles other crews and her own doubts, but the closer she gets to her goal, the more she loses sight of everything\u2014and everyone\u2014 she cares about.Nalah must do the unspeakable to get what she wants\u2014a place to call home. But is a home just where you live? Or who you choose to protect?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297488-dealing-in-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Amped", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 8216, "review_number": 1147, "book_description": "In a near-future where the Neural-Autofocus and other neural implants made formerly mentally challenged individuals into equals or superiors to those with normal brain functionality, Owen is a high school teacher whose surgeon father helped develop the implants to control his epilepsy. When the United States Supreme Court rules that implanted individuals are no longer a protected class, Owen's life is changed forever, as he discovers that his implant has a very dangerous secret.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12678461-amped"}, +{"book_title": "Viper's Hope", "author_name": "Stephanie West", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 415, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Hope covered her ringing ears as she stared wide eyed at the molten rock strafing across the sky. It got larger and brighter with the smoke trail parting the horizon. The sudden eruption of water out at sea was cataclysmic as the meteor struck. The wave of water that barreled towards San Francisco a moment later was small at first but grew in size. Hope watched aghast as the water pushed aside massive buildings. She couldn't even fathom the level of devastation occurring in front of her. As if the tragedy she'd witnessed wasn't enough, something lurked in the trees outside her campsite. Hope watched as a portion of the tree separated from the trunk. The colors morphed into a bronzed, earthy tan figure of a man. The camouflaged man was at least seven feet tall with well-built legs and a massive broad chest. He swayed hypnotically as he walked like some kind of sleek predator. His facial features were not human, yet not altogether frightening. He was an alien, a giant freaking alien, and he was abducting her! Before the scourge of the universe struck Viper had never aspired to do more than rule his people, but his entire life had changed in the blink of an eye. The tragedy galvanized him with a single-minded purpose to see to it that he defended the Anguis and any other race unfortunate enough to cross paths with the plague and wipe it from existence. Finding his mate was the farthest thing from his mind as Viper attempted to rescue the humans off the doomed planet. With his own planet in turmoil over aiding so many other species, and the universe at risk from the catastrophic plague, Viper never expected to find Hope. Caution - This book contains a rough scene where our heroine is chained and taken against her will. However fear not, in the end Hope finds the experience mind blowing.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Humor", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31826874-viper-s-hope"}, +{"book_title": "Future Quest Presents Vol. 2", "author_name": "Jeff Parker", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 46, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Space Ghost recruits a band of thieves known as the Galaxy Trio to become the heroes the universe needs. But what's his shocking connection to the mysterious team made up of Vapor Man, Gravity Girl and Meteor Man?Then, when an alien collective decides Earth must be destroyed, the modern-day inheritor of the power of Mightor faces his greatest challenge yet. How can a 12-year-old hero defeat an interstellar enforcer with an armada at its back?Finally, the alien adventurers called the Herculoids are caught off guard by a godlike invader who warps reality around them! Now the youngest Herculoid must lead Igoo, Zok, Gloop and Gleep in a desperate race against time! Can he save the universe as we know it?Written by Jeff Parker (Batman '66) and Rob Williams (Suicide Squad) with art by Aaron Lopresti (Wonder Woman), Matt Ryan (X-Men) and others, Future Quest Presents Vol. 2 brings some unforgettable characters into the modern era. Collects Future Quest Presents #4 and #8-12!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39970058-future-quest-presents-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "The Warmaster", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 999, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "The latest novel in the hugely popular Gaunt's Ghosts series.After the success of their desperate mission to Salvation\u2019s Reach, Colonel-Commisar Gaunt and the Tanith First race to the strategically vital forge world of Urdesh, besieged by the brutal armies of Anarch Sek. However, there may be more at stake than just a planet. The Imperial forces have made an attempt to divide and conquer their enemy, but with Warmaster Macaroth himself commanding the Urdesh campaign, it is possible that the Archenemy assault has a different purpose\u2026 to decapitate the Imperial command structure with a single blow. Has the Warmaster allowed himself to become an unwitting target? And can Gaunt\u2019s Ghosts possibly defend him against the assembled killers and war machines of Chaos?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Pulp", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Gaming (Gaming Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571722-the-warmaster"}, +{"book_title": "Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 4: Deus Ex Machina", "author_name": "James Tynion IV", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 984, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "The Dark Knight teams with his fellow Gotham City vigilantes to protect their hometown in the newest volume of this hit graphic novel series in BATMAN: DETECTIVE COMICS VOL. 4!The next big DETECTIVE arc is here! Stephanie Brown wants nothing more than to save Gotham City from the epidemic of costumed vigilantes and madmen who regularly tear the city apart. But before she can try to stop them, she must face the challenge of one in particular: the insane the Wrath is back, and Stephanie knows what he has planned\u2014but she refuses to let Batman risk more lives to stop him. That means it\u2019s all on her\u2026and a very unlikely ally! From writer James Tynion IV (BATMAN/TMNT) and the spectacular art team of Eddy Barrows (NIGHTWING) and Alvaro Martinez (BATMAN ETERNAL) comes the fourth volume of the return of DETECTIVE COMICS! Collects DETECTIVE COMICS #957-962.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Dc Comics (Batman)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34657815-batman"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunt", "author_name": "Megan Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1842, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "They\u2019ve left the cage\u2014but they\u2019re not free yet.After their failed escape attempt, Cora, Lucky, and Mali have been demoted to the lowest level of human captives and placed in a safari-themed environment called the Hunt, along with wild animals and other human outcasts. They must serve new Kindred masters\u2014Cora as a lounge singer, Lucky as an animal wrangler, and Mali as a safari guide\u2014and follow new rules or face dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, Nok and Rolf have been moved into an enormous dollhouse, observed around the clock by Kindred scientists interested in Nok\u2019s pregnancy. And Leon, the only one who successfully escaped, has teamed up with villainous Mosca black-market traders.The former inhabitants of the Cage are threatened on all fronts\u2014and maybe worst of all, one of the Hunt\u2019s Kindred safari guests begins to play a twisted game of cat and mouse with Cora. Separated and constantly under watch, she and the others must struggle to stay alive, never mind find a way back to each other. When Cassian secretly offers to train Cora to develop her psychic abilities\u2014to prove the worthiness of humanity in a series of tests called the Gauntlet\u2014she\u2019ll have to decide fast if she dares to trust the Kindred who betrayed her, or if she can forge her own way to freedom.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26198812-the-hunt"}, +{"book_title": "Idoru", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 21813, "review_number": 551, "book_description": "Now in trade paperback from the author of Neuromancer comes a story that takes readers to 21st century Tokyo after the millennial quake, where something violently new is about to erupt.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Cultural (Japan)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22325.Idoru"}, +{"book_title": "Seized", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1485, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "There is only one person on earth who ever mattered to Geris Jackson and that one person is her best friend Kyra Summers (The Empress' New Clothes). When Kyra is kidnapped, Geris fears nobody will believe her tale about the giants with the glowing blue eyes who snatched her best friend away, so she sets out to find Kyra herself. Suffering disappointment after disappointment, Geris begins to give up hope. She gets the surprise of a lifetime when one of the giants who stole her best friend hunts her down and claims her for his own. \"SEIZED definitely lives up to expectations. Well- written and full of spicy hot sex, the book easily returns to the cultures and events that captured our attention in the first book, while expanding on Dak and Geris' romance enough to make the story both new and intriguing.\" - Ann Leveille, Sensual Romance Reviews", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/960764.Seized"}, +{"book_title": "Double Jeopardy", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 400, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "It may be the twenty-fifth century, but the Marines are still looking for a few good men.The Confederation has finally disclosed the existence of Skinks, fierce aliens bent on wiping out humankind. While the rest of the universe grapples with the news, the Skink-savvy Marines of the Confederation\u2019s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have their own worries: they\u2019ve just learned they can\u2019t transfer out of the unit. Who else has the skills to fight the Skinks on their home turf when the time comes?\u00a0Morale isn\u2019t improved by a report of Skinks on the uncolonized world of Ishtar\u2014which means that FIST must turn around and head right back into the jaws of hell with no downtime. But none of that matters to Lieutenant Charlie Bass and the third platoon of Company L. They\u2019re Marines, they\u2019re the best, and they\u2019ve got a job to do.\u00a0", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6747831-double-jeopardy"}, +{"book_title": "Waking", "author_name": "Emily Thompson", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 230, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Twist has never left London, until today. Now he's traveling on an airship--with a crew that insists they're not pirates--on his way to find the clockwork princess because he's the only one who can fix her.In true Neo-Victorian style, Clockwork Twist is set in a lush and vibrant world where things are as you might expect in 1878. That is, of course, if fantastic creatures like djinn, faeries, kitsunes and vampires were commonplace. An increasing number of people are being born with supernatural senses, called Sights. While airship tourism is sweeping the globe, air-piracy is also on the rise. Twist is among the Sighted, but his Sight is unusual. While others might be able to see and hear over great distances, find anything they can imagine anywhere in the world, or even recognize every type of flower by scent alone, Twist's Sight shows him only damage. Whenever he touches a broken clock or machine, he can instantly understand the damage and can fix it easily. If he touches a person, even for a moment, his mind fills with a terrible vision of whatever trauma or pain once broke them. Naturally, he's chosen a solitary existence and shuns all human contact. Unfortunately, thanks to his seclusion, Twist is also unfamiliar with everything beyond his own clock shop, hidden away on a quiet and ever-drizzly London street. When a treasure hunter arrives at his door with proof that they have found the fabled clockwork princess--Twist's favorite old fairy tale--it's up to Twist alone to bring her back to life. The continuing series of Clockwork Twist begins with book one: Waking. Join Twist as he embarks on his first adventure, and find out first hand if he can actually survive it.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17673180-waking"}, +{"book_title": "Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover", "author_name": "Markus Motum", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 532, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Discover the incredible story of the search for life on Mars, told from the unique perspective of Curiosity, the Mars Rover sent to explore the red planet.Markus Motum's stylish illustrations and diagrams reveal how a robot travelled 350,000,000 miles to explore a planet where no human has ever been.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Nonfiction", "Science", "Space", "Childrens", "Science (Astronomy)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "History"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35554308-curiosity"}, +{"book_title": "Arm of the Sphinx", "author_name": "Josiah Bancroft", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 8586, "review_number": 907, "book_description": "The second book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world. The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew are struggling to survive aboard their stolen airship as the hunt to rescue Senlin's lost wife continues.Hopeless and desolate, they turn to a legend of the Tower, the mysterious Sphinx. But help from the Sphinx never comes cheaply, and as Senlin knows, debts aren't always what they seem in the Tower of Babel. Time is running out, and now Senlin must choose between his friends, his freedom, and his wife. Does anyone truly escape the Tower?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35959733-arm-of-the-sphinx"}, +{"book_title": "The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots", "author_name": "Jonathan Knudsen", "rating_score": 3.18, "rating_votes": 22, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "The LEGO\u00ae MINDSTORMS\u2122 Robotics Invention System (RIS) is a wildly popular kit for building mobile robots. This book contains all the information you need to get the most out of your kit. Based on hands-on robot projects, the book includes descriptions of advanced mechanical techniques, programming with third-party software, building your own sensors, working with more than one kit, and sources of extra parts. This book goes far beyond what you'll find in the official documentation to enable you to build and program whatever you can imagine.The center of the RIS kit is a small programmable robot brain called the RCX. This book explains the software architecture of the RCX as well as the various options that are available for programming it.The book includes:Hands-on robot projects, with complete building instructions and programs. Different aspects of these projects are used to explore fundmental issues of mobile robot design. A chapter on NQC, a popular programming environment for RIS. You'll learn how NQC fits into the RIS software architecture, as well as how to write programs using NQC's C-like syntax. Includes copious examples. A chapter on legOS, an alternate operating system for the RCX. legOS provides very low-level access to the resources of the RCX, enabling complex robot programming. This chapter describes legOS's structure and includes useful sample programs. A chapter on pbForth, another powerful option for RCX robot programming. The chapter includes sample programs in Forth. A chapter about building your own sensors. Making your own sensors is economical and educational. This chapter describes how to build several different sensors that will work with the RIS kit.The book includes numerous illustrations and code examples. Many URLs are listed to serve as an introduction to the thriving online MINDSTORMS\u2122 community.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Reference", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2825118-the-unofficial-guide-to-lego-mindstorms-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Last and First Men/Star Maker", "author_name": "Olaf Stapledon", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 548, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "The greatest future histories in science fiction. In Last and First Men the protagonist is \"mankind\" in an ultimate definition \u2014 intelligence. Star Maker, in a sense its sequel, is concerned with the history of intelligence in the entire cosmos.", "year_published": 1937, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Anthologies", "Polyamory", "Fantasy", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/564325.Last_and_First_Men_Star_Maker"}, +{"book_title": "Firstborn", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 3421, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "The Firstborn-the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey-have inhabited legendary master of science fiction Sir Arthur C. Clarke's writing for decades. With Time's Eye and Sunstorm, the first two books in their acclaimed Time Odyssey series, Clarke and his brilliant co-author Stephen Baxter imagined a near-future in which the Firstborn seek to stop the advance of human civilization by employing a technology indistinguishable from magic. Their first act was the Discontinuity, in which Earth was carved into sections from different eras of history, restitched into a patchwork world, and renamed Mir. Mir's inhabitants included such notables as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and United Nations peacekeeper Bisesa Dutt. For reasons unknown to her, Bisesa entered into communication with an alien artifact of inscrutable purpose and godlike power-a power that eventually returned her to Earth. There, she played an instrumental role in humanity's race against time to stop a doomsday event: a massive solar storm triggered by the alien Firstborn designed to eradicate all life from the planet. That fate was averted at an inconceivable price. Now, twenty-seven years later, the Firstborn are back. This time, they are pulling no punches: They have sent a quantum bomb. Speeding toward Earth, it is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyed-and one that will obliterate Earth. Bisesa's desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and then to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. The end seems inevitable. But as shockingnew insights emerge into the nature of the Firstborn and their chilling plans for mankind, an unexpected ally appears from light-years away.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1054142.Firstborn"}, +{"book_title": "Charlotte Sometimes", "author_name": "Penelope Farmer", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3628, "review_number": 355, "book_description": "A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense.It's natural to feel a little out of place when you're the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she's baffled: everyone thinks she's a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months to follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare's. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think she's slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn't figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical", "Classics", "School Stories (Boarding School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158857.Charlotte_Sometimes"}, +{"book_title": "Time Patrol", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1781, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "An anthology of the classic short tales of the Time Patrol, the future organization that insures the continuity of human history. Forget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes. But Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists, erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul. Contents: * Time Patrol [Time Patrol \u2022 1] (1955) / novelette by Poul Anderson: In the mid-20th century Manse Everard answers a job ad and gets hired as a time cop. Time travel will be invented centuries in the future; untold centuries beyond that mankind has evolved into a species called the Danellians, who persuaded the early time travellers to set up the Time Patrol with the aim of protecting all of time from any alteration by interfering temponauts that might risk the Danellians' existence. Manse's first mission is to go back to the late 19th century to correct the circumstances that led to the appearance of an anachronistic item in an old burial mound * Brave to Be a King [Time Patrol \u2022 2] (1959) \u2022/ novelette by Poul Anderson: A Time Patrol friend of Manse's, Keith, has gone missing in 6th-century Iran, and Keith's wife begs Manse to go find him. Trouble is, Manse has always had the serious hots for the wife, despite her somewhat whiny voice, so it's very tempting not to try very hard -- to assume that Keith has landed on his feet and is happy where he is, sort of thing. But his honourable self knows better. He discovers Keith has been forced to adopt the persona of Cyrus the Great; rescuing him while preserving the course of history proves to be a far more tortuous business than one might imagine. * Gibraltar Falls [Time Patrol \u2022 3] (1975) / short story by Poul Anderson: What must have been the most remarkable spectacle of known prehistory, the collapse of the isthmus at the Gates of Hercules and the inundation of the basin that is now the Mediterranean Sea by the waters of the Atlantic * The Only Game in Town [Time Patrol \u2022 4] (1960)/ novelette by Poul Anderson: Manse and a friend manage to head off the Chinese colonization, pre-Columbus, of the Americas. 8 Delenda Est [Time Patrol \u2022 5] (1955) / novelette by Poul Anderson: Manse and a friend return from a holiday in the Pleistocene to their own time, only to discover it considerably changed; clearly there's been an unauthorized change to history. Eventually they trace it to an incident during the Punic Wars, which incident made it possible for Hannibal to defeat Rome. They succeed in reversing the change, but know that in so doing they're wiping out all the people they've befriended in the alternative 1950s. They succeed, though, in saving the laughing-eyed Hoirish colleen whom Manse's friend has fallen for. * Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks [Time Patrol \u2022 6] (1983) / novella by Poul Anderson: Tells of the Exaltationists, the 23rd-century cult whose obsessive pursuit of hedonism renders them unimpressed by the effects their vicious power-and pleasure-seeking could do to the timestream, including the possibility of their wiping the existence of their own culture out of history. Pummairam, a youth who takes Manse under his wing when first the patrolman arrives in Tyre, engineers much of the tricksterism Manse must use to thwart the baddies. * The Sorrow of Odin the Goth [Time Patrol \u2022 7] (1983) / novella by Poul Anderson: A history prof, Carl Farness, has allowed himself to become the personification of the god Odin to a 4th-century tribe of Goths; he has also allowed himself to become far too personally involved with the people whom he's there to study, marrying one of them (with the knowledge of his 20th-century wife) and keeping an eye on the usually somewhat messy fates of his children, grandchildren, etc. Manse gets involved because incarnations of gods are the kind of thing that cause history to be altered; in fact, as Carl points out, all kinds of Goth tribes were convinced they'd been visited by various deities, and their stories were usually quickly dismissed as myths, then forgotten. Still, he must extract himself from the situation with care. * Star of the Sea [Time Patrol \u2022 8] (1991) / novella by Poul Anderson: Europe in the 1st century, and various peoples, led by the likes of Civilis, are rebelling against corrupt Roman rule -- with the violence continuing even after it becomes clear that an honourable peace could be struck. A major factor keeping them at war is the zeal of a visionary/prophetess called Veleda, who for reasons unknown has had a far greater and longer influence in a revealed timeline than she had in the known history of the period. Manse and a historian called Floris, who becomes his first real love, manage to sort out the situation. * The Year of the Ransom [Time Patrol \u2022 9] (1988) / novel by Poul Anderson: Heroine Wanda Tamberley's Uncle Steve, living among Pizarro's brutal conquistadors at the time of the ransoming of Atahuallpa, is attacked by the Exaltationists and then abducted into a very distant past by a quick-witted Spanish soldier who believes him to be a demon. Manse and Wanda to the rescue, of course. * Death and the Knight [Time Patrol] (1995) / novelette by Poul Anderson: how to rescue an errant time agent without changing history. Hugues Marot, a time traveler from the future who towers over most men with his great height, is a member of the Templars. He has accurately predicted some future events: when he is arrested and detained by his fellow Templars, he grasps a crucifix which is a \"...symbol and source of help from beyond this world\". A source of help indeed, as it conceals his Time Patrol communicator..", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "European Literature (Spanish Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261499.Time_Patrol"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Choice", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3837, "review_number": 320, "book_description": "I might be the only unmated female in my tribe, but it doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019ve given my heart. I\u2019m waiting. I want resonance, and I won\u2019t settle for anything less. But when an alien ship lands and a handsome stranger steps out, I know he\u2019s the one. His name\u2019s Mardok and he\u2019s fascinatingly different \u2013 and distractingly appealing. But Mardok can\u2019t stay on the ice planet, and he says he can take me with him. Now, I must make a choice. Do I stay and lose my mate forever? Or do I follow him to the stars and leave behind everything I know?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33357241-barbarian-s-choice"}, +{"book_title": "The Soldati Prince", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1711, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "3rd EditionOne moment Riley Murrough is living a normal life working in a coffee shop, and the next he\u2019s running for his life from demons, learns he bears the mark of a shape-shifter king from a magical realm, and\u2014worst of all\u2014he\u2019s destined to become the mated prince to the arrogant tiger shifter he would rather strangle.Khalon, the shifter king, is equally distraught at the idea of being bound to a human prince, and along with his Soldati warriors, he sets out to return Riley to his own world where he belongs. On their journey they might discover why the priestess brought them together\u2014if they can escape the demons and make it to her alive.First Edition published as The Soldati Prince in Charmed and Dangerous (anthology) by JCP Books LLC, 2015.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Magic)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55108027-the-soldati-prince"}, +{"book_title": "The Violent Century", "author_name": "Lavie Tidhar", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1004, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "Introduction by Cory DoctorowA bold experiment has mutated a small fraction of humanity. Nations race to harness the gifted, putting them to increasingly dark ends. At the dawn of global war, flashy American superheroes square off against sinister Germans and dissolute Russians. Increasingly depraved scientists conduct despicable research in the name of victoryBritish agents Fogg and Oblivion, recalled to the Retirement Bureau, have kept a treacherous secret for over forty years. But all heroes must choose when to join the fray, and to whom their allegiance is owed\u2014even for just one perfect summer\u2019s day.From the World Fantasy and Campbell award-winning author of Central Station comes a sweeping novel of history, adventure, and what it means to be a hero.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Speculative Fiction", "War", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18309415-the-violent-century"}, +{"book_title": "Trojan Horse", "author_name": "Mark E. Russinovich", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2069, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "It's two years after the Zero Day attacks, and cyber-security analyst Jeff Aiken is reaping the rewards for crippling Al-Qaida's assault on the computer infrastructure of the Western world. His company is flourishing, and his relationship with former government agent Daryl Haugen has intensified since she became a part of his team.But the West is under its greatest threat yet. A revolutionary, invisible trojan that alters data without leaving a trace---more sophisticated than any virus seen before---has been identified, roiling international politics. Jeff and Daryl are summoned to root it out and discover its source. As the trojan penetrates Western intelligence, and the terrifying truth about its creator is revealed, Jeff and Daryl find themselves in a desperate race to reverse it as the fate of both East and West hangs in the balance.A thrilling suspense story and a sober warning from one of the world's leading experts on cyber-security, Trojan Horse exposes the already widespread use of international cyber-espionage as a powerful and dangerous weapon, and the lengths to which one man will go to stop it.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science (Technology)", "Mystery", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense", "Novels", "Computer Science (Computers)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538906-trojan-horse"}, +{"book_title": "The Cogsmith's Daughter", "author_name": "Kate M. Colby", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 227, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "In a desert wasteland, one king rules with absolute power and unquenchable lust, until one woman risks everything for vengeance.When Aya Cogsmith was a teenager, King Archon executed her father for treason. Orphaned and destitute, Aya turns to prostitution to survive and spends years dreaming of vengeance. So, when a mysterious nobleman asks Aya to join his coup against the king, she agrees\u2014even though it means risking her life.In this tyrannical kingdom, adultery is punishable by death. For years, King Archon has entrapped his wives in the crime, executing each boring bride to pursue his next infatuation. Aya must seduce the king and expose his criminal behavior, without getting herself executed in the process.Will Aya avenge her father\u2019s death? Or will she become King Archon\u2019s next victim? Join her quest for revenge and read The Cogsmith\u2019s Daughter today.\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013Packed with all the court intrigue of The Tudors, The Cogsmith\u2019s Daughter marries steampunk styling with a ravaged dystopian world. It is the first novel in the Desertera series. Other books in the Desertera series:\n The Courtesan's Avenger (Desertera #2)\n\n The Tyrant's Heir (Desertera #3)\n", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Romance", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26499463-the-cogsmith-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Rules of Engagement", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 3644, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Esmay, a gifted Fleet officer, and Brun, daughter of the Speaker of the Grand Council, have much in common, but their enmity is the talk of the base. When Brun falls into the hands of a fanatical religious militia group, Esmay finds herself in disgrace, suspected of conniving in the abduction.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96283.Rules_of_Engagement"}, +{"book_title": "The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City", "author_name": "Jared Axelrod", "rating_score": 3.15, "rating_votes": 192, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "If you're visiting the flying city of Amperstam without the latest printing of The Lurker's Guide, you might as well be lost. This one-sheet is written, edited, and printed by Ashe, a girl raised on the streets of the flying city, and is dedicated to revealing its hidden treasures and deepest secrets\u2014including many that the overcontrolling government doesn't want anyone to know. The stakes are raised when Ashe accidentally uncovers the horror of exactly how Amperstam travels among the skies and garners the attention of those who would rather that secret be kept in the hands of the city's powerful leaders. Soon Ashe is on the run from thugs and assassins, faced with the choice of imperiling her life just to keep publishing, or giving in to the suggestion of a rich patron that she trade in her voice and identity for a quiet, comfortable life. It's a war of confusion for Ashe, but in The Battle of Blood and Ink by Jared Axelrod, one thing is very clear: just because you live in a flying city, you can't always keep your head in the clouds.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Manga)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10844301-the-battle-of-blood-and-ink"}, +{"book_title": "Uninvited", "author_name": "Sophie Jordan", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 12568, "review_number": 1844, "book_description": "When Davy Hamilton's tests come back positive for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome (HTS)\u2014aka the kill gene\u2014she loses everything. Her boyfriend ditches her, her parents are scared of her, and she can forget about her bright future at Juilliard. Davy doesn't feel any different, but genes don't lie. One day she will kill someone.Only Sean, a fellow HTS carrier, can relate to her new life. Davy wants to trust him; maybe he's not as dangerous as he seems. Or maybe Davy is just as deadly.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13645645-uninvited"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Days of Lorien", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 6717, "review_number": 294, "book_description": "Discover what really happened in the final days of the doomed planet from the eyes of Sandor\u2014who would go on to become the reluctant C\u00eapan to Number Nine.Before Number Four and the others arrived on Earth, they lived on the planet Lorien. A planet filled with others who also had extraordinary abilities. A peaceful planet\u2013\u2013until the day the Mogadorians attacked, and nearly annihilated, the Loric people.Only a handful of Loric survived the battle. This is Sandor\u2019s story. Sandor was tired of being a teenager, tired of going to school and obeying his teachers and playing by his parents' rules. He enjoyed breaking the rules rather than following them. But when he makes one mistake too many, Sandor's life takes an unexpected turn, and he is forced join the Lorien Defense Academy.Sandor had never believed in the crazy idea that Lorien needed to defend itself\u2014Lorien was a peaceful planet, with no apparent enemies. But when Mogadorians suddenly attack, Sandor learns how real that threat was. Now Sandor is one of only a handful of Loric left alive, and the fate of Lorien is in their hands.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15762770-the-last-days-of-lorien"}, +{"book_title": "This Savage Song", "author_name": "Victoria Schwab", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 76756, "review_number": 11810, "book_description": "There\u2019s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains\u2014and friends or enemies\u2014with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books.Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city\u2014a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent\u2014but he\u2019s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who\u2019s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August\u2019s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40642172-this-savage-song"}, +{"book_title": "A World Without Heroes", "author_name": "Brandon Mull", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 36002, "review_number": 2995, "book_description": "Jason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable--until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason suddenly transporting from the hippo tank to a place unlike anything he's ever seen. In the past, the people of Lyrian welcomed visitors from the Beyond, but attitudes have changed since the wizard emperor Maldor rose to power. The brave resistors who opposed the emperor have been bought off or broken, leaving a realm where fear and suspicion prevail.In his search for a way home, Jason meets Rachel, who was also mysteriously drawn to Lyrian from our world. With the help of a few scattered rebels, Jason and Rachel become entangled in a quest to piece together the word of power that can destroy the emperor, and learn that their best hope to find a way home will be to save this world without heroes.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8306745-a-world-without-heroes"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1197, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "The official novel of the blockbuster film!OUR WORLD. THEIR WAR.They once lived on a distant planet, which was destroyed by the ravages of war-a war waged between the legions who worship chaos and those who follow freedom. In search of a powerful energy source that is essential to the survival of their race, they have now come to Earth. They are among us, silent, undetected, waiting to reveal themselves, for good or evil.The Decepticons will stop at nothing to seize the coveted prize, even if it means the destruction of countless human lives. The only things standing in their way: the Autobots and a handful of determined men and women who realize that when it comes to this advanced race of machines, there is much more than meets the eye. With forces mounting for the ultimate showdown, the future of humankind hangs in the balance.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Comics (Superheroes)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35117.Transformers"}, +{"book_title": "And Now For Something Completely Different", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 2070, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "Here's a question for you. What's the most exciting thing ever found in a fire bucket? And don't say 'fire' because you'll be wrong. Suppose - just suppose - it was the technology to take a pod to Mars? Yeah, now we're talking! Every Christmas, for reasons which seem good at the time - especially after an eggnog or two - Max and the others leap into the nearest pod and indulge in their illegal Christmas jump. It's a tradition. This year, however, just to be different, they find themselves part of someone else's illegal Christmas jump. It's time to don a spacesuit and bring your own urine!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42077017-and-now-for-something-completely-different"}, +{"book_title": "The Search for WondLa", "author_name": "Tony DiTerlizzi", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 11301, "review_number": 1628, "book_description": "Eva Nine is a curious and sensitive twelve-year-old who has existed only in a subterranean home called Sanctuary, cared for by a robot named Muthr. Eva's great desire is to go aboveground, and her wish comes true, though not as she had imagined. On the surface, Eva goes in search of other humans--she has never met one--and soon meets both friend and foe.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7327327-the-search-for-wondla"}, +{"book_title": "Tempting Fate", "author_name": "April White", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2195, "review_number": 195, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Clocker, Saira Elian is back on the run and being hunted by Mongers. The Descendants of War are amassing power in the 21st century, bent on controlling all the Immortal Descendants. Their attempt to kidnap Saira, a rare Descendant of Time and Nature, reveals just how brazen they\u2019ve become. Archer, the vampire who has loved Saira for over a century, is willing to risk everything to protect her.When a horrific vision reveals Ringo, thief and loyal companion from 1888, being tortured at the hands of the bloodthirsty Bishop Wilder in a Renaissance prison, Saira and Archer realize there has been a ripple in the river of Time, and they must travel to 1554 to find its source and save their friend. Their rescue mission lures them to the Tower of London, site of the most notorious executions in history, where they encounter the mysterious Lady Elizabeth who is confronting a terrible fate of her own.The time-traveler, the vampire, and the thief will need all of their skills and ingenuity as they race against time to steal a document that could change the course of history and put the Immortal Descendants at the mercy of the Mongers. Can they stop a madman bent on collecting the blood of history\u2019s most powerful Seer before the executioner\u2019s axe falls?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27405987-tempting-fate"}, +{"book_title": "Amorous Overnight", "author_name": "Robin L. Rotham", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 498, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "What\u2019s better than one hot alien at your service? Two hot aliens in your bed. After four months of orbiting Earth in a spaceship bursting with sex-starved aliens, nurse Shelley Bonham will do just about anything to get off. The ship, that is.Not that the aliens aren\u2019t hot enough to put her hormones on red alert. In fact, the more time she spends with the Garathani leader Cecine and his personal guard Hastion, the more she wants them. Knowing what Cecine and Hastion are doing to each other when nobody\u2019s looking only makes it harder to keep her hands to herself.But she\u2019s already been betrayed by one alien\u2014her dead douchebag of a husband. Can she trust her future\u2014and her children\u2014to another?Product Warnings: Contains the usual Robin L. Rotham smorgasbord of m/m/f menage and D/s elements, plus a shipload of alien alphas in outer space.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (M M F)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20424470-amorous-overnight"}, +{"book_title": "Tibar and the Mysteries of Surplicity", "author_name": "Chris Harte", "rating_score": 5.0, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "The three sisters. Three home planets that make up the Arcpelago. People move bodies from bio to artificial and back. Eichons and drones serve and manage. It is two centuries since the Arcpelago voted to go anarch. Everyone hoped it would mean more freedom, a Utopia. But no, they just got bored. Tibar attends a meeting where new discoveries about the energy of dimensions (surplicity) are presented. She and a small group investigate and find new challenges and new ways to remake society.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52441405-tibar-and-the-mysteries-of-surplicity"}, +{"book_title": "Possessing Providence", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 612, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Electrician, Providence Velour, is called in to fix an electrical problem in a cosmetics factory in her remote home town. But what she discovers, throws her into deep trouble and into the arms of a large and sexy alien. Zelron, a warrior of Kelon, is a dangerous creature, wanting to kill the humans who hold him captive. Ever since his ship crashed to Earth, he has been at their cruel mercy. When a small human female stumbles into his cell, Zelron has little choice but to protect her, it\u2019s that or let his tormentors kill her. The passion between them burns white-hot as Zelron claims the curvy Providence as his own. As they fight for their freedom, the company will do anything to keep their secret under wraps, even if it costs Providence and Zelron their lives.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18749440-possessing-providence"}, +{"book_title": "Tokyo Ghost: Complete Edition", "author_name": "Rick Remender", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 537, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "The Isles of Los Angles 2089 - Humanity is addicted to technology. Getting a virtual buzz is the only thing left to live for, and gangsters run it all. And who do these gangsters turn to when they need their rule enforced? Constables Led Dent and Debbie Decay are about to be given a job that will force them out of the familiar squalor of LA and into the last tech-less country on Earth: The Garden Nation of Tokyo.Presenting the full run of the smash hit Tokyo Ghost by Rick Remender and Sean Murphy in this oversized hardcover, packed with extra content, variants, designs, sketches and bonus materials!Collecting: Tokyo Ghost 1-10", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Comics Manga", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32722470-tokyo-ghost"}, +{"book_title": "Sisters of the Vast Black", "author_name": "Lina Rather", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1712, "review_number": 417, "book_description": "The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather's debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black.Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own.When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies and souls in their care\u2014and that of the galactic diaspora\u2014are in danger. And not from void beyond, but from the nascent Central Governance and the Church itself.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44581558-sisters-of-the-vast-black"}, +{"book_title": "Empty Space", "author_name": "Alan Black", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 459, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "York August Sixteen was abandoned as a baby, abused and molested as a child, beaten and harassed as a teen, and had his rightful place in the Republic\u2019s Space Navy stolen from him. Fighting back against huge government systems was useless. Dispensing justice on an individual case-by-case basis was more to his liking, yet even that was taken away when he was stationed on a lonely communication space station. York\u2019s life would change when he decides to seek justice for people even less fortunate than him.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24953851-empty-space"}, +{"book_title": "The Vanishing Throne", "author_name": "Elizabeth May", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 6240, "review_number": 890, "book_description": "Everything she loved is gone.Trapped. Aileana Kameron, the Falconer, disappeared through the fae portal she was trying to close forever. Now she wakes in an alien world of mirrors, magic, and deception\u2014a prisoner of the evil fae Lonnrach, who has a desperate and deadly plan for his new captive.Tortured. Time after agonizing time Lonnrach steals Aileana\u2019s memories, searching for knowledge to save his world. Just when she\u2019s about to lose all hope, Aileana is rescued by an unexpected ally and returns home, only to confront a terrifying truth. The city of Edinburgh is now an unrecognizable wasteland. And Aileana knows the devastation is all her fault.Transformed. The few human survivors are living in an underground colony, in an uneasy truce with a remnant of the fae. It is a fragile alliance, but an even greater danger awaits: the human and fae worlds may disappear forever. Only Aileana can save both worlds, but in order to do so she must awaken her latent Falconer powers. And the price of doing so might be her life\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26797462-the-vanishing-throne"}, +{"book_title": "Inheritance", "author_name": "Christopher Paolini", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 225217, "review_number": 10285, "book_description": "It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance.Not so very long ago, Eragon \u2014 Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider \u2014 was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix. When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can. There will be no second chance.The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alaga\u00ebsia? And if so, at what cost?This is the spellbinding conclusion to Christopher Paolini's worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7664041-inheritance"}, +{"book_title": "Worlds of the Imperium", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 388, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "When Brion Bayard was kidnapped and brought to the alternate world where Earth's history took a different turn, it was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, a startling experience. Here was a world that was just like the Earth he was taken from--with just a few subtle changes. On top of all this, Brion was given a puzzling assignment by his captors. He was to secretly enter a palace, and kill a dangerous and tyrannical dictator. There was one, small catch--the hated dictator in this world was the mirror image of Brion Bayard. For on an Alternate Earth, Brion's is his own worst enemy!", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2148843.Worlds_of_the_Imperium"}, +{"book_title": "Joshua", "author_name": "John S. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 659, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "He had to keep moving, that the man instinctively knew. He had to get away, from the rioting, the lawlessness, the killing. Away from the brutal gangs that ruled the highways. Then there was the boy that he found along the way, an orphan with no place to go. He couldn\u2019t leave the child behind; that would be murder. Together they had to make their way across the razed landscape of post collapse America, west to where there was safety, a chance to begin again. If only they survived the journey.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Suspense", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16100328-joshua"}, +{"book_title": "Serpentine", "author_name": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 7527, "review_number": 1111, "book_description": "Vampire hunter Anita Blake has managed to overcome everything she faces. But this time there's a monster that even she doesn't know how to fight...A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita's fellow U.S. Marshal and best friend Edward. For Anita, the vacation is a welcome break, as it's the first trip she gets to take with wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel. But it's not all fun and games and bachelor parties... In this tropical paradise Micah discovers a horrific new form of lycanthropy, one that has afflicted a single family for generations. Believed to be the result of an ancient Greek curse, it turns human bodies into a mass of snakes. When long-simmering resentment leads to a big blowout within the wedding party, the last thing Anita needs is more drama. But it finds her anyway when women start disappearing from the hotel, and worse--her own friends and lovers are considered the prime suspects. There's a strange power afoot that Anita has never confronted before, a force that's rendering those around her helpless in its thrall. Unable to face it on her own, Anita is willing to accept help from even the deadliest places. Help that she will most certainly regret--if she survives at all, that is...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36971855-serpentine"}, +{"book_title": "The Bitter Kingdom", "author_name": "Rae Carson", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 34857, "review_number": 2819, "book_description": "The champion must not waver.The champion must not fear.The gate of darkness closes.Elisa is a fugitive.Her enemies have stolen the man she loves, and they await her at the gate of darkness. Her country is on the brink of civil war, with her own soldiers ordered to kill her on sight.Her Royal Majesty, Queen Lucero-Elisa n\u00e9 Riqueza de Vega, bearer of the Godstone, will lead her three loyal companions deep into the enemy's kingdom, a land of ice and snow and brutal magic, to rescue Hector and win back her throne. Her power grows with every step, and the shocking secrets she will uncover on this, her final journey, could change the course of history.But that is not all. She has a larger destiny. She must become the champion the world has been waiting for.Even of those who hate her most.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11431896-the-bitter-kingdom"}, +{"book_title": "Guns of the Dawn", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2011, "review_number": 289, "book_description": "The first casualty of war is truth . . .First, Denland's revolutionaries assassinated their king, launching a wave of bloodshed after generations of peace. Next they clashed with Lascanne, their royalist neighbour, pitching war-machines against warlocks in a fiercely fought conflict. Genteel Emily Marshwic watched as the hostilities stole her family's young men. But then came the call for yet more Lascanne soldiers in a ravaged kingdom with none left to give. Emily must join the ranks of conscripted women and march toward the front lines. With barely enough training to hold a musket, Emily braves the savage reality of warfare. But she begins to doubt her country's cause, and those doubts become critical. For her choices will determine her own future and that of two nations locked in battle.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23524779-guns-of-the-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Brasyl", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2911, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "Think Bladerunner in the tropics...Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world's greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling.Three separate stories follow three main characters:--Edson is a self-made talent impressario one step up from the slums in a near future S\u00e3o Paulo of astonishing riches and poverty. A chance encounter draws Edson into the dangerous world of illegal quantum computing, but where can you run in a total surveillance society where every move, face, and centavo is constantly tracked?--Marcelina is an ambitious Rio TV producer looking for that big reality TV hit to make her name. When her hot idea leads her on the track of a disgraced World Cup soccer goalkeeper, she becomes enmeshed in an ancient conspiracy that threatens not just her life, but her very soul. --Father Luis is a Jesuit missionary sent into the maelstrom of 18th-century Brazil to locate and punish a rogue priest who has strayed beyond the articles of his faith and set up a vast empire in the hinterland. In the company of a French geographer and spy, what he finds in the backwaters of the Amazon tries both his faith and the nature of reality itself to the breaking point.Three characters, three stories, three Brazils, all linked together across time, space, and reality in a hugely ambitious story that will challenge the way you think about everything.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Cultural (Brazil)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278281.Brasyl"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan Book One", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 338, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "In a future where consumerism, superficiality and corruption reign supreme, outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem has decided to stop sitting by idly and watching the world crumble around him. Back in the saddle, no one in The City is safe.After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 21st century surroundings.Combining black humor, life-threatening situations and moral ambiguity, Warren Ellis' legendary series is the first look into the mind of an outlaw journalist and the world he seeks to destroy. This new trade paperback recut series features behind-the-scenes material, variant covers and scripts from the graphic novel series run. Collects issues #1-12.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40996623-transmetropolitan-book-one"}, +{"book_title": "The Lions of Al-Rassan", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 19482, "review_number": 1351, "book_description": "The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, aided always by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan \u2014 poet, diplomat, soldier \u2014 until a summer afternoon of savage brutality changes their relationship forever.Meanwhile, in the north, the conquered Jaddites' most celebrated \u2014 and feared \u2014 military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, driven into exile, leads his mercenary company south.In the dangerous lands of Al-Rassan, these two men from different worlds meet and serve \u2014 for a time \u2014 the same master. Sharing their interwoven fate \u2014 and increasingly torn by her feelings \u2014 is Jehane, the accomplished court physician, whose own skills play an increasing role as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond.Hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, The Lions of Al-Rassan is both a brilliant adventure and a deeply compelling story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake \u2014 or destroy \u2014 a world.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104101.The_Lions_of_Al_Rassan"}, +{"book_title": "The Empire Strikes Back: The National Public Radio Dramatization", "author_name": "Brian Daley", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 292, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK MOVIE FOLLOWED REBELS AND THE EMPIRE THROUGH A STRUGGLE THAT CROSSED THE GALAXY. BUT THE NPR DRAMATIZATION WILL REVEAL SCENES THE MOVIE NEVER SHOWED YOU.... The Imperials discover the planetary probe evidence that leads them to the Rebel base Luke Skywalker and Han Solo await rescue in an emergency shelter on the frozen surface of Hoth Han Solo and his first mate, Chewbacca, fix the Falcon--and demolish each other's egos Luke encounters a medical droid that could match C-3PO for politesse anytime The Rebel control room on Hoth during the desperate battle against the Imperial Walkers Luke's last-minute rendezvous with his attack wing on the surface of Hoth--without his flyer Inside Yoda's cave on Luke's first morning of training in the mysterious ways of the JediThe ten episodes of this original radio dramatization script contain exciting new scenes and extra information on the events of the second installment in the acclaimed Star Wars series, which has become part of our modern mythology. And behind-the-scenes details of the dramatization process itself come to light in an informative introduction by the script's author, Brian Daley---who wrote the episodes, then reworked scenes on the spot in the recording studio, creating the National Public Radio dramatization broadcast on stations nationwide.The story of The Empire Strikes Back comes to life again in these original scripts--this time with more background, more scenes--more Star Wars!", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/793834.The_Empire_Strikes_Back"}, +{"book_title": "Making History", "author_name": "Stephen Fry", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 9572, "review_number": 599, "book_description": "In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41014989-making-history"}, +{"book_title": "Burning Midnight", "author_name": "Will McIntosh", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1685, "review_number": 371, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old David Sullivan\u2019s life is about to change\u2014all because of one tiny, priceless item found in the murky bottom of a Brooklyn water tower.Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn\u2019t pay much\u2014Alex Holliday\u2019s stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers\u2014but it helps him and his mom make rent.No one knows where the brilliant-colored spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the more expensive\u2014and the greater the improvement.When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start searching together. One day they find a Gold\u2014a color no one has ever seen. And when Alex Holliday learns what they have, he will go to any lengths, will use all of his wealth and power, to take it from them.There\u2019s no question the Gold is worth millions, but what does it actually do? None of them is aware of it yet, but the fate of the world rests on this little golden orb. Because all the world fights over the spheres, but no one knows where they come from, what their powers are, or why they\u2019re here.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489041-burning-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Citizen X", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1168, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Sydnee Marcola's greatest desire was to join the command of Admiral Jenetta Carver in Region Two, and in pursuit of that goal, she achieved top grades while at the Academy, and then again in advanced studies at the Warship Command Institute. So why have the powers that be chosen to 'waste' a valuable asset by sending her to a 'backwater' command where terminal boredom would appear to be the greatest enemy? Perhaps things aren't destined to remain quiet for long.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15938373-citizen-x"}, +{"book_title": "Darker Still", "author_name": "Leanna Renee Hieber", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 4353, "review_number": 685, "book_description": "I was obsessed.It was as if he called to me, demanding I reach out and touch the brushstrokes of color swirled onto the canvas. It was the most exquisite portrait I'd ever seen--everything about Lord Denbury was unbelievable...utterly breathtaking and eerily lifelike.There was a reason for that. Because despite what everyone said, Denbury never had committed suicide. He was alive. Trapped within his golden frame.I've crossed over into his world within the painting, and I've seen what dreams haunt him. They haunt me too. He and I are inextricably linked--bound together to watch the darkness seeping through the gas-lit cobblestone streets of Manhattan. Unless I can free him soon, things will only get Darker Still.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Gothic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10841336-darker-still"}, +{"book_title": "When Gravity Fails (Cyberpunk 2020", "author_name": "David Ackerman", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 27, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "A supplement for Cyberpunk. Adventuring in the World of George Alec Effinger's Novels.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304796.When_Gravity_Fails"}, +{"book_title": "The Science Fiction Collection", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 72, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "The Science Fiction Collection features some of the most amazing sci fi tales ever told!Featuring:The Sentimentalists, by Murray LeinsterThe Girls from Earth, by Frank RobinsonThe Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell WrightSong in a minor key, by C.L. MooreSentry of the Sky, by Evelyn E. SmithMeeting of the Minds, by Robert SheckleyJunior, by Robert AbernathyDeath Wish, by Ned LangDead World, by Jack DouglasCost of Living, by Robert SheckleyAloys, by R.A. LaffertyWith These Hands, by C.M. KornbluthWhat is POSAT?, by Phyllis Sterling-SmithA Little Journey, by Ray BradburyHunt the Hunter, by Kris NevilleCitizen Jell, by Michael ShaaraOperation Distress, by Lester Del ReySyndrome Johnny, by Charles DyePsychotennis, anyone?, by Lloyd WilliamsPrime Difference, by Alan NourseDoorstep, by Keith LaumerThe Drug, by C.C. MacAppAn Elephant For the Prinkip, by L.J. StecherLicense to Steal, by Louis NewmanThe Last Letter, by Fritz LieberThe Stuff, by Henry SlesarThe Celestial Hammerlock, by Donald ColvinAlways A Qurono, by Jim HarmonJamieson, by Bill DoedeA Fall of Glass, by Stanley LeeShatter the Wall, by Sydney Van ScyocTransfer Point, by Anthony BoucherThy Name Is Woman, by Kenneth O\u2019HaraTwelve Times Zero, by Howard BrowneAll Day Wednesday, by Richard OlinBlind Spot, by Bascom JonesDouble Take, by Richard WilsonField Trip, by Gene HunterLarson\u2019s Luck, by Gerald VanceNavy Day, by Harry HarrisonOne Martian Afternoon, by Tom LeahyPlanet of Dreams, by James McKimmeyPrelude To Space, by Robert HaseltinePythias, by Frederik PohlShow Business, by Boyd EllanbySlaves of Mercury, by Nat SchachnerSound of Terror, by Don BerryThe Big Tomorrow, by Paul LohrmanThe Four-Faced Visitors of\u2026Ezekiel, by Arthur OrtonThe Happy Man, by Gerald PageThe Last Supper, by T.D. HammThe One and the Many, by Milton LesserThe Other Likeness, by James SchmitzThe Outbreak of Peace, by H.B. FyfeThe Skull, by Philip K. DickThe Smiler, by Albert HernhunterThe Unthinking Destroyer, by Roger PhillipsTwo Timer, by Frederic BrownVital Ingredient, by Charles De VetWeak on Square Roots, by Russell BurtonWith a Vengeance, by J.B. WoodleyZero Hour, by Alexander BladeThe Great Nebraska Sea, by Allan DanzigThe Valor of Cappen Varra, by Poul AndersonA Bad Day for Vermin, by Keith LaumerHall of Mirrors, by Frederic BrownCommon Denominator, by John MacDonaldDoctor, by Murray LeinsterThe Nothing Equation, by Tom GodwinThe Last Evolution, by John CampbellA Hitch in Space, by Fritz LeiberOn the Fourth Planet, by J.F. BoneFlight From Tomorrow, by H. Beam PiperCard Trick, by Walter BuppThe K-Factor, by Harry HarrisonThe Lani People, by J. F. BoneAdvanced Chemistry, by Jack HuekelsSodom and Gomorrah, Texas, by R. A. LaffertyKeep Out, by Frederic BrownAll Cats are Gray, by Andre NortonA Problem in Communication, by Miles J. BreuerThe Terrible Tentacles of L-472, by Sewell Peaslee WrightMarooned Under the Sea, by Paul ErnstThe Murder Machine, by Hugh B.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45153407-the-science-fiction-collection"}, +{"book_title": "Baby", "author_name": "J.K. Accinni", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 859, "review_number": 223, "book_description": "A gripping psychological thriller on the inherent greed and evil of man, dooming the planet.Two hundred years of tender love between man and alien, political downfalls, wanton violence of unspeakable order tempered with laughter, family loyalty and hope is the thrilling vehicle by which Ms Accinni conveys her cautionary tale of the merciless disrespect man gives his planet and the vulnerable creatures entrusted to him. \"Baby\" introduces Netty, a naive teenage farm girl given in marriage to an older brutal opportunist disguised as a successful citizen during the years of Prohibition in Sussex County, New Jersey. After years of enslavement, Netty flees into the night from her rapist and bootlegger husband, traveling back to the farm worked by her parents, where she rescues an unfamiliar damaged creature she finds in a cave in the woods of her childhood, falling in love with the enigmatic alien she names Baby. Together they find happiness and fulfillment despite the changes to Netty's body wrought by the proximity of the unusual creature.Damaged by entry into our atmosphere while pregnant, the confused creature forgets the purpose of his mission, appearing unconcerned with the disappearance of his offspring and savoring the unexpected joy of the love he shares with young Netty.When a handsome Italian stranger comes into Netty's life, complications ensue as she falls in love while trying to hide the bizarre and wondrous changes to her farm and her body. Netty, Baby and Wil strive to conquer obstacles thrown in their path by life, succeeding wildly until the heart-rending and astonishingly brutal climax to their story.This charming, yet brutal story is the prologue to a series that will chill and surprise you as it foretells the selfishly destructive path man has followed since his species evolved. It pulls no punches while allowing Netty and Baby's influence to transcend mortal life as the world dances toward depraved indifference, introducing other characters along the ride that readers will laugh,shed tears with and learn to despise.What lengths will Baby and his offspring go to complete their mission? Will it spell Armageddon for the beleaguered planet with its vulnerable and exploited creatures or will man tip the scales himself, leaving those that love the creatures to salvage the pitiful ruins?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Dark", "Wildlife"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15992857-baby"}, +{"book_title": "Audacious", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 3302, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "You can't keep a good woman down-Kris Longknife returns. Once again Kris finds herself caught in the crosshairs of unknown enemies who want her dead. Factions, both legitimate and underground, vie for control of the planet New Eden. And someone is taking advantage of the chaos to unleash a personal vendetta against Kris.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/993916.Audacious"}, +{"book_title": "The Valley of Shadows", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 933, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES From his corner office on the forty-fourth floor of the Bank of the Americas tower on Wall Street, Tom Smith, global managing director for security, could see the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park\u2014and a ravening zombie horde. Officially, Smith was paid to preserve the lives and fortunes of employees, billionaires, and other clients. And with an implacable virus that turned the infected into ravenous zombies tearing through the city, the country, and the world, his job just got a lot harder. Good thing Smith, late of the Australian special forces, isn\u2019t a man to give up easily. But saving civilization is going to take more than the traditional banking toolbox of lawyers, guns, and money. Smith needs infected human spinal tissue to formulate a vaccine\u2014and he needs it by the truckload. To get it, he will have to forge a shady alliance with both the politicians of the City of New York and some of its less savory entrepreneurs. But all of his back-alley dealing may amount to nothing if he can\u2019t stave off the fast-moving disease as it sweeps across the planet, leaving billions dead in its wake. And if he fails, his only fallback is an incomplete plan to move enough personnel to safe havens and prepare to restart civilization. What\u2019s more, there are others who have similar plans\u2014and believe it or not, they\u2019re even less charitable than a Wall Street investment banker. Sooner or later Smith will have to deal with them. But first he has to survive the Fall. A New Novel in John Ringo\u2019s best-selling Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Black Tide Rising: \u201c. . . an entertaining batch of . . . action-packed tales. Certainly, fans of Ringo\u2019s particular brand of action-adventure will be pleased.\u201d\u2014Booklist \"This anthology broadens Ringo\u2019s Black Tide world, serving up doses of humanity amid the ravenous afflicted. Comedy has a place in this harsh reality, and these stories stir adventure and emotion at a frantic clip throughout. Zombie fiction fans will be thrilled.\"\u2014Library Journal About the Black Tide Rising Series: \u201cNot only has Ringo found a mostly unexplored corner of the zombie landscape, he's using the zombie frame to tackle a broader theme: the collapse and rebirth of civilization. The zombie scenes are exciting, sure, but its the human story that keeps us involved. A fine series.\u201d\u2014Booklist About Under a Graveyard Sky: \u201cRingo combines humor and horror in this strong series debut, the thinking reader\u2019s zombie novel.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly About John Ringo: \u201c[Ringo\u2019s work is] peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse.\u201d\u2014Library Journal \u201c. . . Explosive. . . . fans. . .will appreciate Ringo\u2019s lively narrative and flavorful characters.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201c. . .practically impossible not to read in one sitting . . . exceedingly impressive . . . executed with skill, verve, and wit.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201cCrackerjack storytelling.\u201d\u2014Starlog BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES: Under a Graveyard Sky To Sail a Darkling Sea Islands of Rage and Hope Strands of Sorrow Black Tide Rising", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42199390-the-valley-of-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Survivors", "author_name": "Terry Nation", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 617, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "Survivors of a global plague battle for life on an empty planet. A terrifying vision of a post-apocalyptic world...'A fine piece of British post-apocalyptic fiction' DEATHRAY'Nation's novel is based on his original cult series...and is all the better for it, being far, far more gritty and realistic' SUNDAY SUNA virus has wiped out 95 per cent of the world's population in just a few weeks, leaving the remaining 5 per cent to stay alive in a world devoid of the most basic amenities - electricity, transport and medicine. The few survivors of the human race are forced to fall back on the most primitive skills in order to live and re-establish some semblance of law and order.Abby Grant, widowed by the plague, moves through this new dark age with determination, sustained by hope that her son, who fled his boarding school at the onset, has survived. She knows she must relearn the skills on which civilisation was built. With others, she founds a commune and the group return to the soil. But marauding bands threaten their existence. For Abby, there's a chance for a new life and love when she encounters James Garland, the fourteenth Earl of Woodhouse, who is engaged in a desperate fight to save his ancestral home. But more important, she must find her son.", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6018232-survivors"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 16459, "review_number": 653, "book_description": "The survivors of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's Eisner Award-winning post-apocalyptic survival adventure have found relative safety in the confines of the community's walls\u2014or have they? As conflicts continue within, the undead approach from the outside. Everyone is forced to make hard decisions, and this chapter of New York Times Best-Seller The Walking Dead proves again- no one is safe.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10822174-the-walking-dead-vol-14"}, +{"book_title": "Anthem", "author_name": "Ayn Rand", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 133866, "review_number": 9336, "book_description": "Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him--a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd--to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great \"we\" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word--\"I.\"", "year_published": 1938, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Academic (School)", "Literature", "Politics", "Academic (Read For School)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/667.Anthem"}, +{"book_title": "The Inventor", "author_name": "Morgan Karpiel", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 85, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Genre: Historical Fantasy Romance Mood: Lighthearted Intimacy Rating: Adult Erotic Word Count: 20,000 For the Countess of Caithmore, a life of wealth has led to misery. Abandoned by her husband and widely accused of being nothing more than a porcelain doll without passion or intelligence, she has ventured into dangerous territory and commissioned the help of the most famous inventor in New Europa for a scandalous project.In the depths of his laboratory, she will submit herself to a custom-built machine that will determine the extent of her coldness once and for all. The answer she craves carries a hidden risk, however, and the man whose invention has proven her ability to feel passion may not accept the role of lover-by-proxy for long.The first in the Fantasies of New Europa series, The Inventor debuts a collection of novellas set at the beginning of a lush and adventurous era. Amid the golden hue of gaslights and the clatter of horse-drawn coaches, the series follows a generation of dreamers and explorers that will find each other through separate twists of fate. They will brave impossible odds, solve the exotic mysteries of their time and navigate the sensual desires of the human heart.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Novella", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9337362-the-inventor"}, +{"book_title": "The Battle For WondLa", "author_name": "Tony DiTerlizzi", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2595, "review_number": 297, "book_description": "All hope for a peaceful coexistence between humankind and aliens seems lost in the third installment of the WondLa trilogy. Eva Nine has gone into hiding for fear of luring the wicked Loroc to her companions. However, news of the city Solas being captured by the human leader, Cadmus Pryde, forces Eva into action once again. With help from an unlikely ally, Eva tries to thwart Loroc\u2019s ultimate plan for both mankind and the alien life on Orbona.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Novels", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18454480-the-battle-for-wondla"}, +{"book_title": "Replica", "author_name": "Jenna Black", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 983, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "Breathtaking new YA SF from the author of the Faeriewalker seriesSixteen-year-old Nadia Lake comes from a high-class Executive family in the Corporate States. Her marriage has been arranged with the most powerful family in her state, which means she lives a life of privilege but also of public scrutiny, followed everywhere by photographers, every detail of her private life tabloid fodder. But her future is assured, as long as she can maintain her flawless public image \u2014 no easy feat when your betrothed is a notorious playboy.Nathan Hayes is the heir of Paxco \u2014 controller of the former state of New York, and creator of human replication technology, science that every state and every country in the world would kill to have. Though Nadia and Nate aren\u2019t in love, they\u2019ve grown up close, and they (and the world) are happy enough with their match.Until Nate turns up dead, and as far as everyone knows, Nadia was the last person to see him alive.When the new Nate wakes up in the replication tanks, he knows he must have died, but with a memory that only reaches to his last memory backup, he doesn\u2019t know what killed him. Together, Nadia and Nate must discover what really happened without revealing the secrets that those who run their world would kill to protect.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059428-replica"}, +{"book_title": "Devi's Distraction", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 2777, "review_number": 324, "book_description": "It's hard to make friends with the other women at the Icehome camp when you'd rather be dissecting the local fauna. Which is why I'm surprised when one of the big, brawny islanders asks me to help him make a prosthetic leg. I don't know N'dek, but since I'm a scientist, he wants my help. And while I'm more into dinosaurs than anatomy, I love a challenge!As we work together, I come to see that N'dek's not just clever and determined, he's also protective and sweet. And he kisses like a fiend!He's a distraction I don't need... but he might be everything I've ever wanted. Too bad he says he's going to resonate to someone else...", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45418848-devi-s-distraction"}, +{"book_title": "Pashazade", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1211, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "Part mystery, part speculative fiction, and wholly unforgettable, Jon Courtenay Grimwood\u2019s celebrated Arabesk series portrays the dark, hard-boiled story of a man out to prove his innocence in an alternate world where the facts aren\u2019t always the same as the truth . . . and murder isn\u2019t the worst that can happen.It\u2019s a twenty-first century hauntingly familiar\u2014and yet startlingly different from our own. Here the United States brokered a deal that ended World War I, and the Ottoman Empire never collapsed. And lording it over all sits the complex, seductive, and bloodthirsty North African metropolis of El Iskandryia. Almost nothing is what it seems to be in El Isk, and Ashraf Bey is no exception. Neither the rich Ottoman aristocrat everyone thinks he is, nor the minor street criminal once shipped off to prison when he fell foul of his Chinese Triad employers\u2013the fact is that Raf has as little idea who he is as anyone else. With few clues and no money, all Raf has is a surname hinting at noble heritage and an arranged marriage to a woman who hates him. But nothing Ashraf al Mansur learns about himself is as unexpected\u2014or as terrifying\u2014as the brutal murder he\u2019s accused of committing. Now, as a hunted man with the welfare of a precocious young girl in his irresponsible hands, Raf must race after a killer through an unforgiving city as foreign to him as the truth he'll uncover about himself.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Mystery (Crime)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187176.Pashazade"}, +{"book_title": "The V Girl: A Coming Of Age Story", "author_name": "Mya Robarts", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 11254, "review_number": 1283, "book_description": "ROMANCE SET IN A DYSTOPIAN FUTUREIn post-apocalyptic North America two emerging nations are at war and sexual slavery is legal. Lila Velez desperately wants to lose her virginity before the troops visit her town and take it away by force. She makes plans to seduce her only friend. Lila does not love him, but he is the only man who has shown her true affection, an affection she is willing to take as a substitute for love.Lila hides a secret that will bring her closer to Aleksey F\u00fcrst, a foreign, broody man who she distrusts because of his links to the troops and his rough, yet irresistible appearance. He offers Lila an alternative to her plans, a possibility that terrifies her\u2026and tempts her in spite of herself.With threats looming at every turn and no way to escape, Lila fears that falling in love will only lead to more heartache. The consequences of laying down her arms for Aleksey and welcoming hope might destroy more than her heart. They might force her to face the worst of her nightmares becoming a reality. Is love possible in a world that has forgotten what the human touch is?NOTES FROM THE AUTHOR* This is a book full of romance and anti-rape messages. I didn't write this book to romanticize violence against women but to tell the story of a girl who has to come of age under the most terrible circumstances. * This full-length novel is a stand alone. No cliffhanger.* Alpha male hero. No cheating. No slut-shaming.* Includes a discussion guide for bookclubs.* Possible triggers for abuse survivors.* Loosely based on documented evidence of unpunished war crimes.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Love", "War", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25437891-the-v-girl"}, +{"book_title": "A Midsummer Tempest", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 637, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "\"What if Shakespeare were a historian & his world a mortal one of men & elves? Somewhere, spinning thru another universe is a history almost like ours except for the result of a revolution or two & the earlier incidence of a few inventions. A prince called Hamlet has lived in Denmark. The English woods are full of Pucks, Titanias & Oberons. Cromwell is at the throat of King Charles, but locomotives rage thru the verdant countryside & observation balloons tower over battle lines.\"", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/503156.A_Midsummer_Tempest"}, +{"book_title": "No Proper Lady", "author_name": "Isabel Cooper", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 1150, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "When a half-naked woman suddenly appears on his country estate, Simon Grenville doesn't have time to be shocked. Demonic beasts are hot on his heels until the beautiful stranger unsheathes several knives strapped to her skin-tight trousers and kills them. As he stares at her fierce, heart-stopping face, Simon knows he's in a hell of a lot of trouble...Joan is from a time where demons run rampant and humanity is fighting for its existence. To prevent this terrible future, she is sent back to Victorian England to kill the magician responsible for unleashing the dark forces. But Joan is a soldier more used to sparring than dancing. To get close to her target, she'll need Simon to teach her how to fit into polite society. Joan doesn't mind practicing proper flirtation on Simon, but she can't allow herself to be distracted by his gentle hands or devilish smile--the very future depends on it.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11013172-no-proper-lady"}, +{"book_title": "Bewitching the Knight", "author_name": "Diane Darcy", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 542, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Bewitching the KnightIn Medieval Scotland if she dresses, talks and curses like a witch....Archaeologist Dr. Samantha Ryan does not want or need the public relations firm her boss hired to give her advice on how to speak, act, or charm. She\u2019s busy. She\u2019s just found out where the Scottish Crown of the MacGregor\u2019s is hidden and needs to beat her lying, cheating competitor, Jerry, to the Scottish highlands and claim it for her University! After finding it, and her nemesis, a struggle ensues and they travel back in time to medieval Scotland where Jerry calls her a very ugly name. Unfortunately the villagers think he said \u201cwitch\u201d, tie her up, and start gathering wood for a bonfire. Thinking to play on their superstitions so she can save herself, she curses them all. Not her best idea yet. Perhaps she should have listened to that P.R. firm after all?\u00a0...it\u2019s time to gather firewood!Laird MacGregor is a dead man walking. It\u2019s only a matter of time before one of the many attempts on his life will succeed. When Ian is informed that the villagers are burning another witch, he is determined to save the hapless female. Unfortunately the stupid woman doesn\u2019t know when to keep her mouth shut. Laird MacGregor rescues her anyway, ensuring any headway he\u2019d made toward earning the villagers trust is shattered. Locking her up only makes his people fear the witch in possession of his tower. \u00a0A witch determined to teach him to win friends and influence people. While trying to find out who is trying to murder him, keep the crown entrusted to him by his father safe, and control a rowdy woman who may indeed be gifted with foresight, Ian decides he more than willing to give her the firstborn she\u2019d initially demanded. As long as she marries him first. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Past and present are about to ignite.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When modern meets medieval, can there be a happily ever after?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16067655-bewitching-the-knight"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 2", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 166, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "A FIREFIGHT ACROSS THE GENERATION GAP!\u00a0Nanotechnology made humanity immortal, and the resulting population explosion pushed the Solar System\u2019s resources to the breaking point. As a result, new births are banned and even the planets\u2019 disparate governments cooperate to annihilate any children already born. With the tournament looming, Alita and her comrades find themselves caught between a spacefaring refuge for young innocents and a bloodthirsty mob intent on killing the children for sport!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071875-battle-angel-alita"}, +{"book_title": "Manbot", "author_name": "Scarlet Blackwell", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 317, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Every home in the US now owns a housebot. The robots have revolutionised modern society, but were they made to fulfil all human desires?When his friend, Mitchell, expresses sexual interest in his manbot, it sets Gray Benedict to thinking about his own hotbot, Kavan, a six foot three powerhouse made to obey Gray's every command. Gray doesn't want to take advantage of a machine, but when Kavan makes it clear he's happy to serve his owner in every possible way, what's a man supposed to do?CONTENT ADVISORY: This titles has a HFN ending.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Novella", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Gay Romance (Gay For You)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15774707-manbot"}, +{"book_title": "Injection Deluxe Edition Volume 1", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 103, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "\"A precise dissection of folklore by a team of the sharpest blades in comics. A bleakly inverted Planetary. A delight.\" --Kieron Gillen (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE)Five ambitious, brilliant, crazy people poisoned the 21st Century. They drifted apart, following their own eccentric specialties. And then, one by one, they realised how deep the poison went, and how they'd broken the planet. INJECTION is the story of a team of geniuses who ended the world, and then tried to save it.INJECTION HC 1 contains the first three volumes of the acclaimed series by New York Times bestselling writer Warren Ellis, Eagle Award-winning artist Declan Shalvey, and Eisner Award-winning colorist Jordie Bellaire.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38812889-injection-deluxe-edition-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Age of Ra", "author_name": "James Lovegrove", "rating_score": 3.28, "rating_votes": 1733, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "The Ancient Egyptian gods have defeated all the other pantheons and claimed dominion over the earth, dividing it into warring factions. Lt. David Westwynter, a British soldier, stumbles into Freegypt, the only place to have remained independent of the gods' influence. There, he encounters the followers of a humanist leader known as the Lightbringer, who has vowed to rid mankind of the shackles of divine oppression. As the world heads towards an apocalyptic battle, there is far more to this freedom fighter than it seems...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6484173-the-age-of-ra"}, +{"book_title": "Surrounded by Enemies: A Breakpoint Novel", "author_name": "Bryce Zabel", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 205, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "What if Kennedy survived Dallas? President John F. Kennedy has lived through the ambush in Dealey Plaza. America holds its collective breath, seeing its president nearly executed in broad daylight. But as the country marches on, the office of the President finds itself under a much more insidious type of fire. Political scandal, an endless war, and a country coming apart at the seams take the 1960\u2019s in a terrifying new direction, and both John and his attorney-general brother, Bobby, struggle to stay ahead of their enemies, political and otherwise, and steer America toward a greater future. Bryce Zabel is a master of the cover-up and the conspiracy, creating the Emmy-award winning series DARK SKIES. SURROUNDED BY ENEMIES is the first novel in the new Breakpoint series\u2014each book exploring seminal moments in popular history and taking readers on a journey into a mirror world where events are both unexpected yet startlingly believable. This savvy, fiercely intelligent novel, perfect for readers of Harry Turtledove, brings together elements of political thriller and page-turning history, enthralling readers with a sharply written take on the America that was, and the America that could have been. WINNER OF THE 2013 SIDEWISE AWARD FOR ALTERNATE HISTORY", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26074260-surrounded-by-enemies"}, +{"book_title": "A Place Called Here", "author_name": "Cecelia Ahern", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 31197, "review_number": 1939, "book_description": "Sometimes it takes losing everything to truly find yourself... Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal--from the lone sock that vanishes in the washing machine to the car keys she misplaced. It's no surprise, then, that Sandy's life's work becomes finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy's family is baffled and concerned by her increasing preoccupation. Her parents can't understand her compulsion, and she pushes them away further by losing herself in the work of tracking down these missing people. She gives up her life in order to offer a flicker of hope to devastated families...and escape the disappointments of her own. Jack Ruttle is one of those devastated people. It's been a year since his brother Donal vanished into thin air, and he has enlisted Sandy Shortt to find him. But before she is able to offer Jack the information he so desperately needs, Sandy goes missing too...and Jack now finds himself searching for his brother and the one woman who understood his pain. One minute Sandy is jogging through the park, the next, she can't figure out where she is. The path is obscured. Nothing is familiar. A clearing up ahead reveals a camp site, and it's there that Sandy discovers the impossible: she has inadvertently stumbled upon the place-- and people--she's been looking for all her life, a land where all the missing people go. A world away from her loved ones and the home she ran from for so long, Sandy soon resorts to her old habit again, searching. Though this time, she is desperately trying to find her way home...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Mystery", "Magical Realism", "Adult", "Cultural (Ireland)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588369.A_Place_Called_Here"}, +{"book_title": "Currency", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 1031, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "This is the middle third of the volume originally published as The System of the World.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Economics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227968.Currency"}, +{"book_title": "The Unit", "author_name": "Ninni Holmqvist", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 8443, "review_number": 1259, "book_description": "One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live the few remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over sixty-single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries--are sequestered for their final few years; they are considered outsiders.In the Unit they are expected to contribute themselves for drug and psychological testing, and ultimately donate their organs, little by little, until the final donation. Despite the ruthless nature of this practice, the ethos of this near-future society and the Unit is to take care of others, and Dorrit finds herself living under very pleasant conditions: well-housed, well-fed, and well-attended. She is resigned to her fate and discovers her days there to be rather consoling and peaceful.But when she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love, the extraordinary becomes a reality and life suddenly turns unbearable. Dorrit is faced with compliance or escape, and...well, then what?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Sweden)", "Adult", "European Literature (Swedish Literature)", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "European Literature (Scandinavian Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5730888-the-unit"}, +{"book_title": "The Burning Eye", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 324, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Prolog Haven Dream Valley / Edward P. Hughes The toymaker and the General / Mike Resnick The deserter / Poul Anderson Rate of exchange / Roland Green and John F. Carr The coming of the eye / Don Hawthorne The great beer shortage / Janet Morris and David Drake Necessity / S.M. Stirling Tribute maidens / Harry Turtledove A lion to the sea / John Dalmas Discovery Bar-Lev, a traveler's tales of twenty worlds.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2896492-the-burning-eye"}, +{"book_title": "The Krinar Captive", "author_name": "Anna Zaires", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2094, "review_number": 203, "book_description": "A new standalone romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Twist Me and The Krinar Chronicles Emily Ross never expected to survive her deadly fall in the Costa Rican jungle, and she certainly never thought she\u2019d wake up in a strangely futuristic dwelling, held captive by the most beautiful man she\u2019d ever seen. A man who seems to be more than human\u2026 Zaron is on Earth to facilitate the Krinar invasion\u2014and to forget the terrible tragedy that ripped apart his life. Yet when he finds the broken body of a human girl, everything changes. For the first time in years, he feels something more than rage and grief, and Emily is the reason for that. Letting her go would compromise his mission, but keeping her could destroy him all over again. NOTE: This is a full-length, standalone romance that takes place approximately five years before \nThe Krinar Chronicles\n trilogy (aka Mia & Korum\u2019s story). You do not have to have read that trilogy to enjoy this book.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18394129-the-krinar-captive"}, +{"book_title": "Three Days to Never", "author_name": "Tim Powers", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 2403, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "When Albert Einstein told Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made, something so extreme and horrific it remained a secret . . . until now. This extraordinary new novel from one of the most brilliant talents in contemporary fiction is a standout literary thriller in which one man stumbles upon the discovery Einstein himself tried to keep hidden.When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adventure from her grandmother's house, neither she nor her college-professor father, Frank Marrity, has any idea that the theft has drawn the attention of both the Israeli Secret Service and an ancient European cabal of occultists\u2014or that within hours they'll be visited by her long-lost grandfather, who is also desperate to get that tape.And when Daphne's teddy bear is stolen, a blind assassin nearly kills Frank, and a phantom begins to speak to her from a switched-off television set, Daphne and her father find themselves caught in the middle of a murderous power struggle that originated long ago in Israel and Germany but now crashes through Los Angeles and out to the Mojave Desert. To survive, they must quickly learn the rules of a dangerous magical chess game and use all their cleverness and courage\u2014as well as their love and loyalty to each other\u2014to escape a fate more profound than death.A pulse-pounding epic adventure that blurs the lines between espionage and the supernatural; good and evil; past, present and future, Three Days to Never is an exhilarating masterwork of speculative suspense from the always remarkable imagination of the incomparable Tim Powers.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209688.Three_Days_to_Never"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 6: Gouge Away", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 13242, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "Despite -- or perhaps with the aid of -- drugs, drinking, and paranoia, Spider Jerusalem and his filthy assistants are hot on the trail of the horrifying truth behind the newly-elected President's campaign. Features three stand-alone stories: \"Nobody Loves me, \"The Walk\" and \"Dancing in the Here and Now,\" and also includes the three-part \"Gouge Away\" storyline.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comix)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22422.Transmetropolitan_Vol_6"}, +{"book_title": "Chilling Effect", "author_name": "Valerie Valdes", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1507, "review_number": 417, "book_description": "A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship\u2019s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family.To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she\u2019s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Space", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43309529-chilling-effect"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Mechanika Volume 4: The Clockwork Assassin", "author_name": "Joe Ben\u00edtez", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 362, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "When a series of brutal murders linked to Mr. Lewis' past leads Detective Inspector Singh to Lady Mechanika's doorstep, the Inspector is finally forced to consider: is Lady Mechanika a crime-fighting hero or a cold blooded killer? 2017 Diamond Gem Award Nominee for Comic Book of the Year $3.99 or Under (Lady Mechanika: Clockwork Assassin #1).", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art", "Graphic Novels Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39889603-lady-mechanika-volume-4"}, +{"book_title": "Hellfire", "author_name": "Jean Johnson", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2422, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Her story began in A Soldier\u2019s Duty and An Officer\u2019s Duty. Now Ia is captain and commander at the helm of Hellfire, where she is finally free to chart the course for the fulfillment of her destiny\u2026 As captain, Ia must now assemble a crew that can rise to the ultimate challenge of saving the galaxy. The hardest part will be getting them to believe her, to trust in her prophecies. If they don\u2019t, her own crew will end up being the biggest obstacle in her race against time. The Salik are breaking through the Blockade, plunging the known galaxy into war. Ia cannot stop it this time, nor does she want to. This is the terrible price she has seen all along\u2014that some must pay with their lives so that others might live. Now only time itself can prove whether each member of her crew is merely a soldier or truly one of Ia\u2019s Damned.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15781698-hellfire"}, +{"book_title": "The Stowaway", "author_name": "Melinda Metz", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 996, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Trust betrayed... Michael: He's still having flashbacks of his escape from the underground compound. Only Cameron, the mysterious girl he met behind bars, seems to understand him -- and realize that the sheriff may be gone but an even more dangerous enemy is out there.... Cameron: She fell for Michael while in the compound...spying on him for Sheriff Valenti. Now she feels guilty, and wishes she could tell him the truth. But how can she be honest -- without losing Michael?", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/540205.The_Stowaway"}, +{"book_title": "A Shortcut in Time", "author_name": "Charles Dickinson", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 427, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Euclid Heights, Illinois, is a town of many shortcuts, between houses, through orchards, and across fields. Josh Winkler, a local artist and longtime resident, knows these irregular pathways well, but he is flabbergasted when a hasty dash down a familiar walk deposits him fifteen minutes in the past. At first, Josh is more intrigued than alarmed by this accidental time travel. Then a disoriented young woman appears, claiming to be from 1908....As his life, his family, his town, and even history itself begin to unravel, Josh gradually realizes that his only salvation may lie in a shortcut in time.Charles Dickinson has written a moving and unforgettable book about the way the past can affect the present, as well as, sometimes, the other way around.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281825.A_Shortcut_in_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Tinker King", "author_name": "Tiffany Trent", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 261, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "After Vespa, Syrus and Bayne defeated the Grue and restored order to their world, they thought their future was secure. Empress Olivia, committed to peace and equality for humans and Elementals alike, was a fair and just ruler. And the Creeping Waste had vanished for good, giving them hope for the first time.But rebellion is brewing in the far-off city of Scientia, and dark Elementals are plotting war in the ruins of New London. When a wave of unimaginable terror threatens to destroy everything in its path, Vespa, Syrus and their friends are plunged into a new swamp of intrigue, deception and magic---and the cost of survival may be more than any of them are willing to pay.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17900119-the-tinker-king"}, +{"book_title": "Timeless", "author_name": "Alexandra Monir", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 10085, "review_number": 1235, "book_description": "When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor's family, she is forced to move from Los Angeles to New York City to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she has never met. In their historic Fifth Avenue mansion, filled with a century's worth of family secrets, Michele discovers the biggest family secret of all - an ancestor's diary that, amazingly, has the power to send her back in time to 1910, the year it was written. There, at a glamorous high-society masquerade ball, Michele meets the young man with striking blue eyes who has haunted her dreams all her life. And she finds herself falling for him, and into an otherworldly romance.Soon Michele is leading a double life, struggling to balance her contemporary high school world with her escapes into the past. But when she stumbles upon a terrible discovery, she is propelled on a race through history to save the boy she loves - and to complete a quest that will determine their fate.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8100422-timeless"}, +{"book_title": "The Quillan Games", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 21314, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "LET THE GAMES BEGIN....Quillan is a territory on the verge of destruction. The people have lost control of their own future and must struggle simply to survive. The only chance they have of finding a better life is by playing the Quillan Games. Hosted by a strange pair of game masters, Veego and LaBerge, the games are a mix of sport and combat. They use the people of Quillan as pawns for their amusement as they force them to enter competitions that range from physical battles, to impossible obstacle courses, to computer-driven tests of agility. To triumph in the games is to live the life of a king. To lose is to die.This is the dangerous and deadly situation that Bobby Pendragon finds on Quillan. He quickly realizes that the only way to save this troubled territory is to beat Veego and LaBerge at their own games and dismantle their horrible fun house. But there is more at stake for Bobby. The prize for winning the Quillan Games may be discovering the truth of what it really means to be a Traveler.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215540.The_Quillan_Games"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Lover", "author_name": "Sadie Carter", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 713, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Being newly mated to an arrogant, bossy alien can certainly be trying at times. Luckily for Zoey, Dex also happens to the sexiest thing on two legs she\u2019s ever met. He\u2019s loyal, protective and boy, the things that alien can do with his hands, his mouth, his tongue\u2026well, you get the idea. They should have been on their way to Zerconia in blissful happiness, to celebrate their mating. But somehow, things never seem to go to plan. Some of Dex\u2019s warriors have gone missing. While he attempts to track them down, Zoey is busy just trying to keep herself out of trouble. Easier than it sounds. And really, she isn\u2019t trying that hard. Please note: Alien Lover is part of a series which would be better enjoyed if you read Alien Warrior first.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27272618-alien-lover"}, +{"book_title": "Body and Soul", "author_name": "Jordan Castillo Price", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 4651, "review_number": 404, "book_description": "Thanksgiving can't end too soon for Victor Bayne, who's finding Jacob's family hard to swallow. Luckily, he's called back to work to track down a high-profile missing person.Meanwhile, Jacob tries to find a home they can move into that's not infested--with either cockroaches, or ghosts. As if the house-hunting isn't stressful enough, Vic's new partner Bob Zigler doesn't seem to think he can do anything right. A deceased junkie with a bone to pick leads Vic and Zig on a wild chase that ends in a basement full of horrors.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6978605-body-and-soul"}, +{"book_title": "Cell", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 197025, "review_number": 6147, "book_description": "WHERE WERE YOU ON OCTOBER 1ST AT 3:03 P.M.?Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone....(back cover)", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10567.Cell"}, +{"book_title": "Vessel", "author_name": "Andrew J. Morgan", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2650, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "Excitement is high when the crew of the International Space Station discovers a mysterious object in orbit around Earth. But something goes wrong, and contact with the station is lost. When journalist Sean Jacob gets wind of the situation, he embarks on a journey to reveal the truth, winding his way into the biggest conspiracy to ever face mankind.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22850389-vessel"}, +{"book_title": "Queen City Jazz", "author_name": "Kathleen Ann Goonan", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 707, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "In Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Growing up on an isolated farm, she finds her happy life changing course when Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot. With Blaze's body wrapped in a nanotech cocoon, Verity sets off on a quest to the Enlivened City of Cincinnati. It is a place of legend, where huge bio-engineered bees carry information through the streets and enormous nanotech flowers burst from the tops of strange buildings. It is the place where Blaze might be brought back from the brink of death. But Cincinnati is a city of dreams turned into nightmares, endlessly reliving the fantasies of its creator, a city that Verity must rule--or die.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597159.Queen_City_Jazz"}, +{"book_title": "Fever", "author_name": "Deon Meyer", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 4202, "review_number": 581, "book_description": "Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa--and the world, as far as they know--to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector, even though he is still only a boy.But Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is both a thinker and a leader, a wise and compassionate man with a vision for a new community that survivors will rebuild from the ruins. And so Amanzi is founded, drawing Storm's -homeless and tempest-tost---starting with Melinda Swanevelder, whom they rescued from brutal thugs; Hennie Flaai, with his vital Cessna plane; Beryl Fortuin, with her ragtag group of orphans; and Domingo, the man with the tattooed hand, whom Nico knows immediately is someone you want on your side. And then there is Sofia Bergman, the most beautiful girl that Nico has ever seen, who changes everything.So the community grows--and with each step forward, as resources increase, so do the challenges they must face--not just from the attacks of biker brigands, but also from within. As Nico undergoes an extraordinary rite of passage in this new world, he experiences hardship and heartbreak and has his loyalty tested to its limits. Looking back later in life, he recounts the events that led to the greatest rupture of all--the hunt for the murderer of the person he loves most.An exhilarating new standalone from the author of the internationally bestselling Benny Griessel thriller series, Fever is a gripping epic like nothing else Meyer has written before.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Cultural (Africa)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Southern Africa (South Africa)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34273721-fever"}, +{"book_title": "Other Earths", "author_name": "Nick Gevers", "rating_score": 3.09, "rating_votes": 232, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Eleven original stories about the different paths our world might've taken... Alternate history explores the many possible directions our world could follow if certain key events didn't occur at all or were changed in some crucial way. Is our Earth the only Earth, our reality the only one that exists? Or are there many parallel worlds and societies, some very similar to ours, some barely recognizable? What if... Lincoln had never become president, and the Civil War had never taken place? Columbus never discovered America, and the Inca developed a massive, technologically advanced empire? Magic was real and a half-faery queen ruled England? Hitler and Germany won the war because America never got involved? Many of the world's religions were totally commercialized, their temples run like casinos, religions deisgned purely for profit? An author discovered a book written by an alternate version of himself? \u00a0 These are just some of the possible pathways that you can take to explore the Other Earths that may be waiting just one event away... This anthology includes stories by: Robert Charles Wilson \u2014 Jeff Vandermeer \u2014 Stephen Baxter Theodora Goss \u2014 Lizz Williams \u2014 Gene Wolfe Greg Van Eekhout \u2014 Alastair Reynolds \u2014 Paul Park Lucius Shepard \u2014 Benjamin Rosenbaum", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437324-other-earths"}, +{"book_title": "Catspaw", "author_name": "Joan D. Vinge", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2157, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "CAT: Street Punk, Psion, Telepath, Survivor. . .Kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth, Cat is forced to use his skills to protect those he most hates, those who most hate him . . . .The taMings. A cyber-augmented, DNA-incestuous clan of such wealth and power that their family arguments change the destiny of worlds. Now one taMing is a killer's target. But which? And who would dare?Seeking answers, Cat finds lies and savagery, passion and atrocity--trails that lead from crystal valleys to clubs for silver-skinned beauties. From the homicidal enclaves of drug kings to a fanatic's pulpit. From the halls of the Assembly to a cyberspace hell. Seeking assassins, Cat discovers a mystery that could cost him his future. His sanity. His life.Because Cat is no longer a bodyguard . . .He's bait.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Animals (Cats)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235577.Catspaw"}, +{"book_title": "The 5th Gender", "author_name": "G.L. Carriger", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1889, "review_number": 433, "book_description": "A species that has no word for murder, has a murderer aboard their spaceship. ALIEN Tristol lives in exile. But he\u2019s built a life for himself aboard a human space station. He\u2019s even begun to understand the complex nuances of human courting rituals. Detective Hastion is finally flirting back! MURDER Except that Tristol\u2019s beloved space station is unexpectedly contacted by the galoi \u2013 a xenophobic species with five genders, purple skin, and serious attitude. They need the help of a human detective because there\u2019s a murderer aboard their spaceship. Murder is so rare, the galoi don\u2019t even have a word for it. Tristol knows this because he is galoi. ROMANCE Which means that he and Detective Hastion are on the case\u2026 together. Delicate Sensibilities? Contains men who love other men in graphic detail, regardless of gender, biology, or skin color... and lots of emotively sexy tentacle hair. New York Times best selling author Gail Carriger (writing as G.L. Carriger) brings you a light-hearted romantic cozy mystery featuring an adorable lavender alien and his human crush.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44554614-the-5th-gender"}, +{"book_title": "TFS Ingenuity", "author_name": "Tori L. Harris", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1939, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "This is an 621.It\u2019s the year 2277. For fifty years, Earth has received mysterious data transmissions from random locations in deep space. The streams include advanced technology, allowing Humans to achieve faster-than-light travel virtually overnight. As we prepare to take our first, tentative steps into interstellar space, we know almost nothing about our alien benefactors, and their motivations remain unexplained. While completing their shakedown cruise, Captain Tom Prescott and the crew of the first Terran Fleet Command starship, TFS Ingenuity, stumble into a first contact situation. They learn that Earth is not the first civilization granted access to the stars before their time \u2013 and how this Faustian gift has inevitably led to centuries of interstellar war. Humanity\u2019s existence hangs in the balance as a powerful alliance assembles a preemptive military strike, believing it to be their only option to protect themselves \u2026 from us. Prescott and his small, initially unarmed starship must serve as our only line of defense. Ingenuity is our only hope. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35543492-tfs-ingenuity"}, +{"book_title": "The Old Man and the Wasteland", "author_name": "Nick Cole", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 5288, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "Forty years after the destruction of civilization... Man is reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One man\u2019s most prized possession is Hemingway\u2019s Classic \u2018The Old Man and the Sea.\u2019 With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a survivor of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse. What follows is an incredible tale of survival and endurance. One man must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway\u2019s classic tale of man versus nature.Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy\u2019s The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the Post-Apocalyptic American southwest.A book lover\u2019s action flick.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Horror", "Novella", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11168429-the-old-man-and-the-wasteland"}, +{"book_title": "Terraplane", "author_name": "Jack Womack", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 269, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "A retired general and his hit-man kidnap a Russian scientist and travel through time to an alternate New York of 1939. Plenty of high-tech glitz charges this powerful, breakthrough science fiction novel by the author of Ambient.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522136.Terraplane"}, +{"book_title": "Technokill", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 728, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "A terrifying secret, an evil coterie of ruthless masterminds, a murderous battle of cunning and deadly skill--it's time to send in the Marines!After the Confederation makes a shocking discovery on an alien world, a nefarious band of opportunists from the highest echelons of power plot to steal the vast riches for themselves. Along with the ability to crush any resistance, these moguls possess spacecraft, unlimited resources, and a deadly arsenal of cutting-edge weapons.The only one without a price tag is the Confederation president. Now she is sending Gunnery Sergeant Bass, the men of third platoon, and a single special agent to expose the shadowy figures behind the corruption. And so, on an obscure planet, home to unimaginable treasure and an unsettling species, the toughest fighters in Human Space confront their fiercest battle. For there will be no losers in this war, only the triumphant, the dead, and the vanished . . .", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Thriller", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662677.Technokill"}, +{"book_title": "The Centauri Device", "author_name": "M. John Harrison", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 1519, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. He peddled drugs when they were available, carried cargo when they weren't. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war.Cover illustration: Chris Moore", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304243.The_Centauri_Device"}, +{"book_title": "Oblivion", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 15247, "review_number": 1656, "book_description": "Experience the epic love story of OBSIDIAN as told by its hero, Daemon Black\u2026I knew the moment Katy Swartz moved in next door, there was going to be trouble. Lots of it.And trouble's the last thing I need, since I'm not exactly from around here. My people arrived on Earth from Lux, a planet thirteen billion light years away. Plus, if there's one thing I know, it's that humans can't be trusted. We scare them. We can do things they only dream about, and honestly, we make them look weak as hell. 'Cuz they are.But Kat is getting to me in ways no one else has, and I can't stop myself from wanting her--or wanting to use my powers to protect her. She makes me weak, and I'm the strongest of our kind, tasked with protecting us all. So this one simple girl\u2026she can mean the end for us. Because the Luxen have an even bigger enemy--the Arum, and I need to stay on my game.Falling for Katy--a human--won't just place her in danger. It could get us all killed, and that's one thing I'll never let happen...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26529699-oblivion"}, +{"book_title": "Saving Lucas Biggs", "author_name": "Marisa de los Santos", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2165, "review_number": 417, "book_description": "When thirteen-year-old Margaret's father is unfairly sentenced to death by the cruel Judge Biggs, she is determined to save him, even if it means using her family's secret-and forbidden-ability to time travel. With the help of her best friend, Charlie, and his grandpa Josh, Margaret goes back to a time when Judge Biggs was a young boy and tries to prevent the chain of events that transformed him into a corrupt, jaded man.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18635089-saving-lucas-biggs"}, +{"book_title": "Sweet Tooth, Volume 2: In Captivity", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 9595, "review_number": 414, "book_description": "Learn the heartbreaking story of Jeppard and how he went from devoted husband to ruthless mercenary. Meanwhile, Gus is held captive with other hybrid creatures in a camp where he meets a scientist studying the plague that's wiped out so much of the world.Collecting: Sweet Tooth 6-11", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8171206-sweet-tooth-volume-2"}, +{"book_title": "Turning Point", "author_name": "Lisanne Norman", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1155, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Cut off from Earth by alien conquerors, the human colony on Keiss was slowly building an underground resistance movement to stand against the Valtegan invaders. But for many of the colonists, it was already too late.Her twin sister Elise captured by Valtegan soldiers, Carrie telepathically and empathically linked with Elise, experienced all the pain and terror that her sister was suffering. Only her twin's death freed Carrie from torment, though it also left her completely alone in her own mind for the first time in her life. But this mental void was unexpectedly filled with Kusac, a felinoid crewman of a crashed starship, touched her thoughts. Drawn to him by their shared Talent, Carrie hid the injured Kusac from the Valtegans and in so doing found a friend and an invaluable ally.Yet though trust and understanding between Carrie and Kusac was soon unshakable, it would prove far more difficult to convince each of their races that their only hope of overthrowing the Voltegans was to band together against the common foe. And even such an alliance offered no guarantee of success, for no one on any of the settled worlds had yet found a way to defeat this warrior race ready to lay waste to any civilization they could not conquer.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adventure", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148282.Turning_Point"}, +{"book_title": "The Scribe of Siena", "author_name": "Melodie Winawer", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 4086, "review_number": 686, "book_description": "\u201cLike Outlander with an Italian accent.\u201d \u2014Real Simple \u201cA detailed historical novel, a multifaceted mystery, and a moving tale of improbable love.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly, starred review A NEW YORK POST MUST-READ BOOK Readers of Diana Gabaldon\u2019s Outlander and Tracy Chevalier\u2019s Girl with a Pearl Earring\u2026will be swept away by the spell of medieval Siena\u201d (Library Journal, starred review) in this transporting love story and gripping historical mystery.Accomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato knows that her deep empathy for her patients is starting to impede her work. So when her beloved brother passes away, she welcomes the unexpected trip to the Tuscan city of Siena to resolve his estate, even as she wrestles with grief. But as she delves deeper into her brother\u2019s affairs, she discovers intrigue she never imagined\u2014a 700-year-old conspiracy to decimate the city. As Beatrice explores the evidence further, she uncovers the journal and paintings of the fourteenth-century artist Gabriele Accorsi. But when she finds a startling image of her own face, she is suddenly transported to the year 1347. She awakens in a Siena unfamiliar to her, one that will soon be hit by the Plague. Yet when Beatrice meets Accorsi, something unexpected happens: she falls in love\u2014not only with Gabriele, but also with the beauty and cadence of medieval life. As the Plague and the ruthless hands behind its trajectory threaten not only her survival but also Siena\u2019s very existence, Beatrice must decide in which century she belongs. The Scribe of Siena is the captivating story of a brilliant woman\u2019s passionate affair with a time and a place that captures her in an impossibly romantic and dangerous trap\u2014testing the strength of fate and the bonds of love.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Cultural (Italy)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753660-the-scribe-of-siena"}, +{"book_title": "Destroyer", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2557, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "It has been two years since the starship Phoenix left Alpha Station on a rescue mission where over four thousand human spacers were under attack by a hostile alien race. Now, exhausted from their journey, the crew of the Phoenix yearns for home. But when the ship makes the jump into atevi space, they learn the worst: that supplies to the station have been cut off; that civil war has broken out on the atevi mainland; that the powerful Western Association has been overthrown; and that Tabini-aiji, Bren Cameron's primary supporter and Ilisidi's grandson and ally, is missing and may be dead.With no one left to lead the Western Association, Ilisidi and\u00a0 Bren know that the survival of their allies lies in their hands. And with the atevi world at war, the only safe landing strip lies on the human colony at Mospheira. Although there are many dangers inherent in bringing a powerful atevi leader such as Ilisidi onto human lands, Bren realizes they have no other choice. But even if they safely survive their landing, will Bren and Ilisidi together prove strong enough to muster the remaining shards of the Western Association and regain control of their planet?The long-running Foreigner series can also be enjoyed by more casual genre readers in sub-trilogy installments. Destroyer is the 7th Foreigner novel. It is also the 1st book in the third subtrilogy.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Planetary Romance)", "Adventure", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126487.Destroyer"}, +{"book_title": "TIME For Kids Explorers: Robots", "author_name": "Time for Kids Magazine", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 5, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Robots is the first book in an exciting, new series fro\u00ad\u00ad\u00adm TIME For Kids. Aimed squarely at readers who want to know more, this book answers the questions that children ages 8-12 want to learn the answers to.Do you know what makes something a robot? Can you name the six types of robots? Can robots really fly? What kinds of robots are being designed by spy agencies, the military, and our first responders? And best of all, what's next? Rich with photos, facts, and fun, Robots will cover the world of robots as it exists today - and will exist tomorrow.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18656288-time-for-kids-explorers"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum", "author_name": "D.L. Mackenzie", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 134, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "The Apocryphal Memoirs Of An Eccentric Genius:Nineteenth Century inventor Phineas Magnetron is a man on a mission in this first volume of The Magnetron Chronicles series, a faithfully executed parody of Victorian Era science fiction adventure tales, blending historical fact with improbable fiction.Misunderstood, ostracized by his closest associates, Phineas embarks on a daring and unlikely caper to resurrect his dead mentor, the bombastic Dr. Hogalum, mustering all the Steam Age weird science at his disposal. He\u2019ll bend the laws of man, nature, and physics, unearthing a haunting mystery and going boldly where no gentleman has gone before.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15752050-the-last-adventure-of-dr-yngve-hogalum"}, +{"book_title": "Sailing Bright Eternity", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1084, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "This new, special edition of the classic concluding volume of this defining series by the eminent physicist and Nebula Award-winning author contains a teaser chapter from Benford's new hardcover, \"The Sunborn.\"", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453961.Sailing_Bright_Eternity"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Iron", "author_name": "Ashley Poston", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 5322, "review_number": 1323, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09\u2014one of the last remaining illegal Metals\u2014has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.Ana\u2019s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn\u2019t care what he\u2019ll sacrifice to keep them.When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. Now their entire kingdom is after them\u2014and the coordinates\u2014and not everyone wants them captured alive.What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives\u2014and unearth dangerous secrets. But when a darkness from Ana\u2019s past returns, she must face an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Romance", "LGBT", "Space", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35181314-heart-of-iron"}, +{"book_title": "Survivor Song", "author_name": "Paul Tremblay", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 7076, "review_number": 1526, "book_description": "A riveting novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and the government's emergency protocols are faltering.Dr. Ramola \"Rams\" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight months pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed\u2014viciously attacked by an infected neighbor\u2014and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her unborn child.Natalie\u2019s fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way through a hostile landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst nightmares\u2014terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink.\u00a0Paul Tremblay once again demonstrates his mastery in this chilling and all-too-plausible novel that will leave readers racing through the pages . . . and shake them to their core.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Horror (Zombies)", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52581895-survivor-song"}, +{"book_title": "The Captain's Pet", "author_name": "Samantha Cayto", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 538, "review_number": 86, "book_description": "When a distant planet\u2019s ownership is in dispute, conquering aliens turn defiant human males into pampered sex slaves.In a not-too-distant future, a lopsided war has led to aliens invading and occupying an Earth settlement. Wid is a young colonist who has been caught harassing the aliens. He and his friends are rounded up and sent to an alien warship patrolling the disputed space. His fate is to serve as a sex slave for the ship\u2019s imposing captain. Wid, at first, fights against his enslavement, but soon learns that not only does he stand no chance against the much larger and stronger captain, he isn\u2019t sure he even wants to.Like all Travian males, Kell is bound by duty to defend his people. Having risen to the rank of captain, he nevertheless chafes against the boring and endless patrol of the space invaded by the humans. His misses his family and constantly guards against his scheming first officer. He sees his reward of a human sex slave as more of a nuisance. Yet the pretty, fair-haired human\u2019s exotic allure is hard to resist. He finds far more pleasure in the use of his pet than he would like.Kept naked and leashed, Wid\u2019s days are filled with boredom, while his nights wrapped in Kell\u2019s arms turn from fear into pleasure. Even as the humans plot their escape, Wid and Kell form a bond and their growing affection cannot be ignored. When tensions boil over among the aliens, Wid and his friends may be Kell and his crew\u2019s only chance for survival.Reader Advisory: This book contains sex scenes of both non-consensual and dubious consent, as well as scenes of violence, abuse and torture.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25376247-the-captain-s-pet"}, +{"book_title": "Paradox Alley", "author_name": "John DeChancie", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 262, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Jake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in STARRIGGER and RED LIMIT FREEWAY, are plucked off the Skyway by a creature of unknown power. Now on an alien planet where most of the rules of the regular universe don\u2019t seem to apply, Jake confronts the builders of the Skyway once and for all. Will he and his crew make it out alive?PARADOX ALLEY is the thrilling conclusion of the classic Starrigger series.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611350.Paradox_Alley"}, +{"book_title": "SS-GB", "author_name": "Len Deighton", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 6314, "review_number": 385, "book_description": "1941, and England invaded \u2013 and defeated \u2013 by the Germans...The King is a hostage in the tower, the Queen and Princesses have fled to Australia, Churchill has been executed by a firing squad, Englishmen are being deported to work in German factories and the dreaded SS is in charge of Scotland Yard. London is in shock. The very look of daily life is a walking nightmare of German uniforms, artifacts, regulations. There are collaborators. There are profiteers. But there are others working in hope, in secret, and desperate danger, against the invader. And still others are living strangely ambiguous lives \u2013 none more so than Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer (\"Archer of the yard\" as the press like to call him), trying to maintain a peculiarly, almost sacredly, British institution under a Nazi chief. Archer has started work on what seems, at first, a routine murder case. But suddenly an SS Standartenf\u00fchrer from Himmler's personal staff flies in from Berlin to supervise the investigation, and Archer is plunged deep into an espionage battle for which he is completely unprepared, and where the stakes are incredibly high. \"We\u2019re dealing with something that could prove so deadly that not even the Black Death would compare with the consequences\", the SS man tells him.Setting forth on a tight rope trail of violence, betrayal and danger, Archer moves into worlds within worlds of intrigue. The British resistance, wealthy collaborators, high-level scientists, German army and SS factions and vicious rivalry, a beautiful American reporter on assignment for the still-neutral papers back home \u2013 these are the players that Deighton's treacherously shifting drama, as it races toward its chattering climax that involves the fate of the King, and of England itself.SS\u2013GB is fascinating in its premise, utterly authentic and convincing in its detail. It is the most gripping novel we have had from the author of The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin, and Bomber. Already, in England, it has become Len Deighton's greatest best seller.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller", "War", "Mystery", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Mystery (Crime)", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/510539.SS_GB"}, +{"book_title": "Pregnant by the Alien Healer", "author_name": "Mina Carter", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 1423, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "She\u2019s pregnant without nookie. Someone slap her ass and call her Mary\u2026 A \u2018guest\u2019 of the Lathar, Jess has become used to being at court, especially as it allows her to be close to a certain tall, handsome healer. But Laarn might as well not know she exists, far more interested in his tests and her genetic code than her as a woman\u2026 maybe. A hot encounter after a combat trial prove that Laarn HAS noticed her, more than noticed her. But before they can act on the attraction between them, Laarn is called away to the battlefield leaving Jess all alone at court. Not wanting to bother any of the other healers when she feels unwell, Jess gets treatment from the automated systems in Laarn\u2019s lab, only to get worse days later. She\u2019s pregnant, without a sniff of between the sheets action and worse, there\u2019s a bunch of fanatics loose in the palace trying to kill her and her baby\u2026 He aches to claim her, but saving his people must come first. To do that, he can\u2019t waste time with a female\u2026 Lord Healer for the Lathar, Laarn must find a way to save his people from the plague that claimed all their women a generation ago. Now it is speeding up and if he doesn\u2019t do something, the Lathar will be gone in a generation. Salvation arrives in the form of humanity, descendants of a lost Lathar colony, who might just hold the key to reversing the damage to the Lathar genetic code. His scars mark his rank, but will they also lose him the woman he loves? Laarn never thought anything of his scars before. In his culture they mark his rank as the best healer in the empire, but he starts to cover them when Jessica, the delicate little human female who holds his interest, won\u2019t look at them. He wants her, but his duty lies elsewhere until everything changes\u2026 Between a pregnancy, mating marks and a fanatic out to kill the woman he loves, can Laarn remain detached enough to do his duty\u2026 or will he give into emotion and save his heart?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36289717-pregnant-by-the-alien-healer"}, +{"book_title": "The Vesuvius Club", "author_name": "Mark Gatiss", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 5386, "review_number": 555, "book_description": "Meet Lucifer Box: Lucifer has a charming countenance and rapier wit that make him the guest all hostesses must have. And most do. But few of his conquests know that Lucifer is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and in its underworld of despicable vice. So when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to for help. Following a dinnertime assassination, Lucifer is dispatched to uncover the whereabouts of missing agent Jocelyn Poop. Along the way he will give art lessons, be attacked by a poisonous centipede, bed a few choice specimens, and travel to Italy on business and pleasure. Aided by his henchwoman Delilah; the beautiful, mysterious, and Dutch Miss Bella Pok; his boss, a dwarf who takes meetings in a lavatory; grizzled vulcanologist Emmanuel Quibble; and the impertinent, delicious, right-hand-boy Charlie Jackpot, Lucifer Box deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (somebody has to live there) to the ruined city of Pompeii, to infiltrate a highly dangerous secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its clawlike grip.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Historical", "Humor", "Thriller", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/838668.The_Vesuvius_Club"}, +{"book_title": "Calamity Jack", "author_name": "Shannon Hale", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 5387, "review_number": 638, "book_description": "Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind...with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler...maybe even thief? One fine day Jack picks a target a little more giant than the usual, and one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying beanstalk.With help from Rapunzel (and her trusty braids), a pixie from Jack's past, and a man with inventions from the future, they just might out-swindle the evil giants and put his beloved city back in the hands of good people ....while catapulting themselves and readers into another fantastical adventure.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6327801-calamity-jack"}, +{"book_title": "Strange Planet", "author_name": "Nathan W. Pyle", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 27106, "review_number": 2037, "book_description": "I feel more attractive.Honestly, you are.It\u2019s the star damage.I CRAVE STAR DAMAGE.Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green, and purple. Based on the phenomenally popular Instagram of the same name, Strange Planet covers a full life cycle of the planet\u2019s inhabitants, including milestones such as:The Emergence DayBeing Gains a SiblingThe Being Family Attains a BeastThe Formal Education of a BeingCelebration of Special DaysBeing Begins a VocationThe Beings at HomeHealth Status of a BeingThe Hobbies of a BeingThe Extended Family of the BeingThe Being Reflects on Life While Watching the Planet RotateWith dozens of never-before-seen illustrations in addition to old favorites, this book offers a sweet and hilarious look at a distant world not all that unlike our own.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Humor", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44890112-strange-planet"}, +{"book_title": "The Gardens of Nibiru", "author_name": "Richard Fox", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1448, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "\nEarth defeated the Toth invasion. Now humanity takes the fight to the aliens.\nThe supreme Toth overlord, Mentiq, rules his species with an iron fist from his fortress on the planet Nibiru. Armed with stolen Toth technology, the Breitenfeld travels to the world with a single mission: Kill Mentiq and end the Toth threat to Earth. The Toth empire stretches across the stars, paying tribute to the cruel Docotor Mentiq. The first overlord surrounds himself with decadent treasures and the galaxy's deadliest warriors to protect his dominion from treachery and attack. What secrets await Lieutenant Hale and the Breitenfeld in THE GARDENS OF NIBIRU? ++++ Q&A with Richard Fox: How would you describe The Gardens of Nibiru? In as few words as possible: Tears of Sun meets The Expendables. How long do we have to wait for the next book? The next chapter in the Ember War Saga, The Battle of the Void, will be out in June, 2016. If this was a movie, what would it be rated? PG-13 for some language and intense action.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29865683-the-gardens-of-nibiru"}, +{"book_title": "End of the Beginning", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1163, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Six weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaii\u2019s throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on dwindling resources. And families of Japanese origin find their loyalties divided.Meanwhile, across the United States, from Pensacola, Florida, to San Diego, California, the military is marshaling its forces. Steel factories and fuel refineries are operating around the clock. New recruits are enlisting, undergoing rigorous training exercises. All for the opportunity to strike back and drive the enemy from American soil\u2026", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Fantasy", "War (World War II)", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Japan)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/606999.End_of_the_Beginning"}, +{"book_title": "The Back Channel", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2539, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "The Conclave is a confederation of four hundred alien racesmany of whom would like to see the Colonial Union, and the humans inside of it, blasted to extinction. To avoid a conflict that neither side can afford, Conclave leader General Tarsem Gau appoints Hafte Sorvalh to resolve an emerging diplomatic crisis with the humans, before the only acceptable solution is war.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180358-the-back-channel"}, +{"book_title": "Magonia", "author_name": "Maria Dahvana Headley", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 17485, "review_number": 3443, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestseller Maria Dahvana Headley\u2019s soaring sky fantasy Magonia is now in paperback!Since she was a baby, Aza Ray Boyle has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak\u2014to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn\u2019t think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who\u2019s always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world\u2014and found by another. Magonia.Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power\u2014but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming. In Aza\u2019s hands lies the fate of the whole of humanity\u2014including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Magical Realism", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21393526-magonia"}, +{"book_title": "Starship: Mutiny", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1941, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "The starship Theodore Roosevelt is fighting on the far outskirts of a galactic war, its crew made up of retreads and raw recruits. A new first officer reports, Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding his orders (but getting results). He's been banished to the Teddy R. for his actions, but once there he again ignores his orders. ...This is the first of five novels about the starship Theodore Roosevelt. The next four will be, in order, Pirate, Mercenary, Rebel, and Flagship.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231921.Starship"}, +{"book_title": "No Rest for the Wicked", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 53013, "review_number": 1711, "book_description": "In this next installment in the Immortals After Dark Series, USA Today Bestselling author Kresley Cole delivers a scorching tale about a forbidding vampire who lives in the shadows and the beautiful assassin who hunts him there. A vampire soldier weary of life...Centuries ago, Sebastian Wroth was turned into a vampire\u2014a nightmare in his mind\u2014against his will. Burdened with hatred and alone for ages, he sees little reason to live. Until an exquisite, fey creature comes to kill him, inadvertently saving him instead.A valkyrie assassin dispatched to destroy him...When Kaderin the Cold Hearted lost her two beloved sisters to a vampire attack long ago, a benevolent force deadened her sorrow\u2014accidentally extinguishing all of her emotions. Yet whenever she encounters Sebastian, her feelings\u2014particularly lust\u2014emerge multiplied. For the first time, she's unable to complete a kill.Competitors in a legendary hunt...The prize of the month-long contest is powerful enough to change history, and Kaderin will do anything to win it for her sisters. Wanting only to win her, forever, Sebastian competes as well, taking every opportunity\u2014as they travel to ancient tombs and through catacombs, seeking relics around the world\u2014to use her new feelings to seduce her. But when forced to choose between the vampire she's falling for and reuniting her family, how can Kaderin live without either?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14383.No_Rest_for_the_Wicked"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Princess", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 355254, "review_number": 31062, "book_description": "Danger and betrayal, love and loss, secrets and enchantment are woven together in the breathtaking finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices Trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMINGA net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever.As those who love Tessa rally to rescue her from Mortmain\u2019s clutches, Tessa realizes that the only person who can save her is herself. But can a single girl, even one who can command the power of angels, face down an entire army?Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18335634-clockwork-princess"}, +{"book_title": "Rainbows End", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 16963, "review_number": 943, "book_description": "Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he\u2019s starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his son\u2019s family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access\u2014through nodes designed into smart clothes\u2014and to see the digital context\u2014through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert\u2019s son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102439.Rainbows_End"}, +{"book_title": "Retribution Falls", "author_name": "Chris Wooding", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 8843, "review_number": 1086, "book_description": "Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of ragged fighter craft, they run contraband, rob airships and generally make a nuisance of themselves. So a hot tip on a cargo freighter loaded with valuables seems like a great prospect for an easy heist and a fast buck. Until the heist goes wrong, and the freighter explodes. Suddenly Frey isn't just a nuisance anymore - he's public enemy number one, with the Coalition Navy on his tail and contractors hired to take him down. But Frey knows something they don't. That freighter was rigged to blow, and Frey has been framed to take the fall. If he wants to prove it, he's going to have to catch the real culprit. He must face liars and lovers, dogfights and gunfights, Dukes and daemons. It's going to take all his criminal talents to prove he's not the criminal they think he is ...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6285903-retribution-falls"}, +{"book_title": "Tribe", "author_name": "Stacy Jones", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1278, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "Despite being dumped on a primitive alien world, Lily is adapting to life there, with the help of Frrar, Tor, and Arruk. But they can\u2019t stay in the safety of the caves forever. The flood waters have receded and it\u2019s time to join the rest of the tribe\u2026 While traveling, their group meets a familiar face from Arruk\u2019s past \u2013 a man half feral and covered in vicious scars. Something about him draws Lily in, despite those who already hold her heart. But that isn\u2019t her biggest concern. Can Lily keep the Tribe Mother from discovering just how much being with her has changed her new mates? Will the tribe accept her, a stranger in their lands? Or will Lily have to fight the very people who were supposed to offer her safety and a home?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40189397-tribe"}, +{"book_title": "The Naming", "author_name": "Alison Croggon", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 24450, "review_number": 1595, "book_description": "Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child after her family is destroyed in war. She is unaware that she possesses a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the School of Pellinor. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true heritage and extraordinary destiny unfold. Now she and her new teacher must survive a journey through a time and place where the forces they battle stem from the deepest recesses of otherworldly terror.Alison Croggon\u2019s epic fantasy, the first in the Books of Pellinor quartet, is a glittering saga steeped in the rich and complex landscape of Annar, a legendary world ripe for discovery.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393146.The_Naming"}, +{"book_title": "Gates of Thread and Stone", "author_name": "Lori M. Lee", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 4583, "review_number": 703, "book_description": "In the Labyrinth, we had a saying: keep silent, keep still, keep safe.In a city of walls and secrets, where only one man is supposed to possess magic, seventeen-year-old Kai struggles to keep hidden her own secret\u2014she can manipulate the threads of time. When Kai was eight, she was found by Reev on the riverbank, and her \u201cbrother\u201d has taken care of her ever since. Kai doesn\u2019t know where her ability comes from\u2014or where she came from. All that matters is that she and Reev stay together, and maybe one day move out of the freight container they call home, away from the metal walls of the Labyrinth. Kai\u2019s only friend is Avan, the shopkeeper\u2019s son with the scandalous reputation that both frightens and intrigues her. Then Reev disappears. When keeping silent and safe means losing him forever, Kai vows to do whatever it takes to find him. She will leave the only home she\u2019s ever known and risk getting caught up in a revolution centuries in the making. But to save Reev, Kai must unravel the threads of her past and face shocking truths about her brother, her friendship with Avan, and her unique power.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904985-gates-of-thread-and-stone"}, +{"book_title": "Exile for Dreamers", "author_name": "Kathleen Baldwin", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1323, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "It\u2019s 1814. Napoleon has escaped his imprisonment on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And at Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, five young ladies are secretly being trained for a world of spies, diplomacy, and war.Tess Aubreyson can\u2019t run far enough or fast enough to escape the prophetic dreams that haunt her. Dreams bring nothing but death and grief, and Tess refuses to accept that she may be destined for the same madness that destroyed her mother. Until her disturbing dreams become the only means of saving Lord Ravencross, the man she loves, and her fellow students at Stranje House. Tess\u2019s old friend, the traitorous Lady Daneska, and Ghost, the ruthless leader of the Iron Crown, have returned to England, intent on paving the way for Napoleon\u2019s invasion. Can the young ladies of Stranje House prevail once more? Or is England destined to fall into the hands of the power-mad dictator?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Regency)", "Fiction", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114493-exile-for-dreamers"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island", "author_name": "Mike Tucker", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2213, "review_number": 147, "book_description": "On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline, a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island? As the children's nightmares get worse, the Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Media Tie In", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286437.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "Moon of the Crusted Snow", "author_name": "Waubgeshig Rice", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 8367, "review_number": 1463, "book_description": "A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voiceWith winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow.The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision.Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39082248-moon-of-the-crusted-snow"}, +{"book_title": "The Glittering Court", "author_name": "Richelle Mead", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 26196, "review_number": 3748, "book_description": "Big and sweeping, spanning from the refined palaces of Osfrid to the gold dust and untamed forests of Adoria, The Glittering Court tells the story of Adelaide, an Osfridian countess who poses as her servant to escape an arranged marriage and start a new life in Adoria, the New World. But to do that, she must join the Glittering Court.Both a school and a business venture, the Glittering Court is designed to transform impoverished girls into upper-class ladies who appear destined for powerful and wealthy marriages in the New World. Adelaide naturally excels in her training, and even makes a few friends: the fiery former laundress Tamsin and the beautiful Sirminican refugee Mira. She manages to keep her true identity hidden from all but one: the intriguing Cedric Thorn, son of the wealthy proprietor of the Glittering Court.When Adelaide discovers that Cedric is hiding a dangerous secret of his own, together they hatch a scheme to make the best of Adelaide\u2019s deception. Complications soon arise\u2014first as they cross the treacherous seas from Osfrid to Adoria, and then when Adelaide catches the attention of a powerful governor.But no complication will prove quite as daunting as the potent attraction simmering between Adelaide and Cedric. An attraction that, if acted on, would scandalize the Glittering Court and make them both outcasts in wild, vastly uncharted lands\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27272506-the-glittering-court"}, +{"book_title": "The New Guy", "author_name": "V.C. Lancaster", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 615, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Maggie works in Enquiries at DETI (The Department of Extra-Terrestrial Immigration) and they're a little under-staffed. She's confused but grateful when a handful of Teissian refugees fresh off the spaceship are allocated to her department. She is put in charge of training Ro, a charming, scaled alien with a sexy voice, cute dimples, and a lot of secrets. She knows office romances are a bad idea, but she just can't resist after spending every day sitting opposite him. As the two get closer, however, questions arise that threaten their relationship. Why does his friend seem to hate her so much? What is he hiding about his life on his home planet? Can Maggie get Ro to open up before it's too late? Or will his secrets overwhelm them both?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35905642-the-new-guy"}, +{"book_title": "Undying", "author_name": "Tiffany Roberts", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 743, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "BRINGER OF DEATH\u2026 Orishok is the last of his kind \u2014 a valo shaped by the Creators to embody death. He\u2019s stood vigil over his people for centuries, watching them fade away, one by one succumbing to the entropic energies they hold inside. With his slightest touch unwillingly bringing death to all living things, he has remained isolated in his people\u2019s city, his heart as empty as the buildings around him\u2026until a pale, slight female arrives and shakes the foundations of his world. GIVER OF LIFE\u2026 Quinn Dalton lost everything when she was convicted of murder \u2014 her sister, her niece, her budding career \u2014 but it isn\u2019t until she\u2019s transferred to an interstellar penitentiary that she realizes her very life is no longer her own. Her existence aboard the Concord is a nightmare, broken only when the station is torn through a wormhole and crash lands on an alien world. After waking up alone and bloodied, but somehow unharmed, she seeks shelter in an abandoned city \u2014 where she discovers an ancient, wondrous mystery. Can she survive alongside a being whose touch means death? ------------------------------------------------- Warning: This book contains foul language, explicit sexual content, and violence and is intended for mature readers only. ------------------------------------------------- The Valos of Sonhadra series is the shared vision of nine sci-fi and fantasy romance authors. Each book is a standalone, containing its own Happy Ever After, and can be read in any order. For more books in the Valos of Sonhadra Series, check out: Amanda Milo - Alluvial (Valos of Sonhadra #1) Poppy Rhys - Tempest (Valos of Sonhadra #2) Nancey Cummings - Blazing (Valos of Sonhadra #3) Ripley Proserpina - Whirlwind (Valos of Sonhadra #4) Naomi Lucas - Radiant (Valos of Sonhadra #5) Isabel Wroth - Shadowed (Valos of Sonhadra #6) Tiffany Roberts - Undying (Valos of Sonhadra #7)Marina Simcoe - Enduring (Valos of Sonhadra #8) Regine Abel - Unfrozen (Valos of Sonhadra #9)", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38506863-undying"}, +{"book_title": "Mass Effect: Retribution", "author_name": "Drew Karpyshyn", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 5677, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "Humanity has reached the stars, joining the vast galactic community of alien species. But beyond the fringes of explored space lurk the Reapers, a race of sentient starships bent on \u201charvesting\u201d the galaxy\u2019s organic species for their own dark purpose.The Illusive Man, leader of the pro-human black ops group Cerberus, is one of the few who know the truth about the Reapers. To ensure humanity\u2019s survival, he launches a desperate plan to uncover the enemy\u2019s strengths\u2014and weaknesses\u2014by studying someone implanted with modified Reaper technology. He knows the perfect subject for his horrific experiments: former Cerberus operative Paul Grayson, who wrested his daughter from the cabal\u2019s control with the help of Ascension project director Kahlee Sanders.But when Kahlee learns that Grayson is missing, she turns to the only person she can trust: Alliance war hero Captain David Anderson. Together they set out to find the secret Cerberus facility where Grayson is being held. But they aren\u2019t the only ones after him. And time is running out.As the experiments continue, the sinister Reaper technology twists Grayson\u2019s mind. The insidious whispers grow ever stronger in his head, threatening to take over his very identity and unleash the Reapers on an unsuspecting galaxy.\u00a0This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Games (Gaming)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7552700-mass-effect"}, +{"book_title": "A Fistful of Credits: Stories from the Four Horsemen Universe", "author_name": "Chris Kennedy", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 393, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Fourteen outstanding authors. Fourteen extraordinary stories. One bestselling universe. It\u2019s the Twenty-Second Century. The galaxy has opened up to humanity as a hyperactive beehive of stargates and new technologies, and we suddenly find ourselves in a vast playground of different races, environments, and cultures. There\u2019s just one catch: we are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain. Enter the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Enter a galaxy not only of mercenaries, but also of Peacemakers, bounty hunters, and even a strung out junkie in the way of a hired assassin. Edited by bestselling authors and universe creators Mark Wandrey and Chris Kennedy, \u201cA Fistful of Credits\u201d includes all-new stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors\u2014and some you may not have heard of\u2026yet. The fourteen authors take on various aspects of the universe, giving you additional insight into a galaxy that isn\u2019t at war\u2026but definitely isn\u2019t at peace. There\u2019s only one thing for sure\u2014anything\u2019s possible for a fistful of credits! Inside you\u2019ll find: Foreword by Dr. Charles E. Gannon \"The Last Alpha\" by Mark Wandrey \"Breach of Contract\" by Terry Mixon \"Paint the Sky\" by Jason Cordova \"Surf and Turf\" by Jon R. Osborne \"Stand on It\" by Kevin Ikenberry \"Lost and Found\" by Jon Del Arroz \"Gilded Cage\" by Kacey Ezell \"Legends\" by Christopher Woods \"With the Eagles\" by Doug Dandridge \"Dead or Alive\" by Paul Corcoran \"Hide and Seek\" by Christopher Nuttall \"Information Overload\" by Charity Ayres \"Enough\" by Chris Kennedy \"CASPer's Ghost\" by Brad R. Torgersen Want to keep up with the Four Horsemen universe? Visit chriskennedypublishing.com and subscribe to the mailing list!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35554977-a-fistful-of-credits"}, +{"book_title": "Blood for Blood", "author_name": "Ryan Graudin", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 7247, "review_number": 1515, "book_description": "There would be blood. Blood for blood. Blood to pay. An entire world of it.For the resistance in the Third Reich, the war may be over, but the fight has just begun. Death camp survivor Yael, who has the power to skinshift, is on the run: the world has just seen her shoot and kill Hitler. But the truth of what happened is far more complicated, and its consequences are deadly. Yael and her unlikely comrades dive into enemy territory to try to turn the tide against Hitler\u2019s army, and there is no alternative but to see their mission through to the end, whatever the cost.But in the midst of the chaos, Yael\u2019s past and future collide when she comes face to face with a ghost from her past, and a spark with a fellow rider begins to grow into something more. Dark secrets reveal dark truths and one question hangs over them all\u2014how far can you go for the ones you love?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26864835-blood-for-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Anna Dressed in Blood", "author_name": "Kendare Blake", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 98909, "review_number": 9989, "book_description": "Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.Yet she spares Cas's life.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9378297-anna-dressed-in-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Storm Glass", "author_name": "Jeff Wheeler", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 13642, "review_number": 979, "book_description": "Theirs is a world of opposites. The privileged live in sky manors held aloft by a secretive magic known only as the Mysteries. Below, the earthbound poor are forced into factory work to maintain the engine of commerce. Only the wealthy can afford to learn the Mysteries, and they use their knowledge to further lock their hold on society.Cettie Pratt is a waif doomed to the world below, until an admiral attempts to adopt her. But in her new home in the clouds, not everyone treats her as one of the family.Sera Fitzempress is a princess born into power. She yearns to meet the orphan girl she has heard so much about, but her father deems the girl unworthy of his daughter\u2019s curiosity.Neither girl feels that she belongs. Each seeks to break free of imposed rules. Now, as Cettie dreams of living above and as Sera is drawn to the world below, they will follow the paths of their own choosing.But both girls will be needed for the coming storm that threatens to overturn both their worlds.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36634904-storm-glass"}, +{"book_title": "The Sacrifice", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1761, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "The Yeerks have abandoned all secrecy. They are loading people onto underground trains that run directly to the Yeerk pool where they perform mass infestations. The vast army of Controllers is growing rapidly and will soon be unstoppable. Ax and the Animorphs can think of only one solution\u2039to use one of the trains to blow up the Yeerk pool. But the cost will be measured in hundreds, perhaps thousands of innocent human lives.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125338.The_Sacrifice"}, +{"book_title": "Fire Watch", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 757, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "\"Fire Watch\" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Connie Willis. The story, first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in February 1982,[1] involves a time-traveling historian who goes back to the Blitz in London, to participate in the fire lookout at St. Paul's Cathedral.The protagonist has a deep emotional attachment to the Cathedral and is highly devoted to his role in defending it - especially due to his bitter knowledge that St. Paul's would survive the World War II bombings but would be obliterated in a terrorist attack in the protagonist's own time.Although Willis' writing of \"Fire Watch\" predates the production of Doomsday Book by about a decade, Kivrin Engle, the main character of Doomsday Book, also appears as a minor character in \"Fire Watch\". The novelette references Engle's experience with the Black Plague while time-traveling in the 14th century.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10301442-fire-watch"}, +{"book_title": "This Shattered Land", "author_name": "James N. Cook", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2225, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Eric Riordan doesn't look for trouble, but trouble has a way of finding him.Two years have passed since the Outbreak. After joining forces with his friend Gabriel he has managed to stay alive by fleeing to the peaks of the Appalachian mountains. With supplies running low, and enemies gathering, the two survivors are forced to begin their journey west to Colorado. Along the way they will find unexpected allies, reunite with old friends, and make deadly new enemies. As difficult as life has been, the most dangerous times lie ahead. Nothing is ever easy at the end of the world.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15776089-this-shattered-land"}, +{"book_title": "The Andalite's Gift", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 3712, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "We never should have done it. But we needed a break. You know, some time off from the superhero stuff. A chance to act like normal kids. Well -- as normal as four kids who can morph, a hawk, and an alien can be. Everything should have been cool.Now Rachel is missing. And there's this...this thing that's after us. But it's not up to me to tell the whole story. Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and Ax were there, too. Even Rachel has some info to add. So go ahead and check this out. And remember not to tell anyone what we're about to tell you. It could mean the difference between life and death. Or worse...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366783.The_Andalite_s_Gift"}, +{"book_title": "Wayward Son", "author_name": "Rainbow Rowell", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 58185, "review_number": 9072, "book_description": "The story is supposed to be over.Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after\u2026So why can\u2019t Simon Snow get off the couch?What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light\u2026That\u2019s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West.They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place\u2026With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It\u2019s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter.Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero\u2019s journey might be over \u2013 but your life has just begun.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44017627-wayward-son"}, +{"book_title": "Embark", "author_name": "K.M. Shea", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1185, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "With the long awaited arrival of the Round Table, Britt introduces questing and a code of honor to her young knights. While Britt tries to sneak off on the first Order of the Round Table quest with Sir Gawain, King Pellinore, and the newly knighted Sir Tor, Merlin receives word of a threat against Britt\u2019s life coming from the north. Tensions are high with Sir Lancelot acting as a general pest, Sir Kay\u2019s determination to swaddle Britt in safety, and Merlin\u2019s complete failure to see Britt as anything more than a trusted friend. Can Britt survive the upheaval and establish the Round Table as a place of honor and chivalry?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24737785-embark"}, +{"book_title": "Earth Space Moon Base", "author_name": "Ben Joel Price", "rating_score": 3.14, "rating_votes": 263, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Outer space, a moon base, and . . . bananas? Discover Ben Joel Price\u2019s quirky extraterrestrial world and its unusual trio of guardians.\u00a0 A spaceman, a robot, and a cheeky monkey use a most unusual method to protect Earth from hungry, googly-eyed moon aliens. Ben Joel Price\u2019s offbeat rhymes and colorful, retro-style illustrations evoke a funny little world away from ours, which will captivate readers young and old.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Space", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Pre K)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18377951-earth-space-moon-base"}, +{"book_title": "Supernova", "author_name": "Kazu Kibuishi", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 5675, "review_number": 577, "book_description": "Emily has lost control of her Amulet and is imprisoned in the Void, where she must find a way to escape the influence of the Voice. Meanwhile, Emily's brother, Navin, travels to Lighthouse One, a space station where the Resistance is preparing to battle the approaching Shadow forces that would drain planet Alledia of all its resources. Emily and Navin must be smarter and stronger than ever to ensure Alledia's survival.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34199189-supernova"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 17", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.59, "rating_votes": 6991, "review_number": 147, "book_description": "A homunculus manages to breach impenetrable Fort Briggs, and the Elric brothers discover a terrible alchemical secret that penetrates every corner of the world as they know it! Meanwhile, Major Kimblee and a ruthless General Raven make Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong an offer she can't refuse...Whose side is she on, really? And how far is she willing to go?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2855165-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-17"}, +{"book_title": "Babel-17", "author_name": "Samuel R. Delany", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 13861, "review_number": 985, "book_description": "Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is determined to understand the language and stop the alien threat. (Paul Goat Allen)", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Humanities (Language)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1199688.Babel_17"}, +{"book_title": "Kushiel's Scion", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 20084, "review_number": 630, "book_description": "Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Ph\u00e8dre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions.Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood, third in line for the throne in a land that revels in art, beauty, and desire. It is a court steeped in deeply laid conspiracies ... and there are many who would see the young prince dead. Some despise him out of hatred for his birth mother Melisande, who nearly destroyed the realm in her quest for power. Others because they fear he has inherited his mother's irresistible allure - and her dangerous gifts. And as he comes of age, plagued by dark yearnings, Imriel shares their fears.At the royal court, where gossip is the chosen poison and assailants wield slander instead of swords, the young prince fights character assassins while struggling with his own innermost conflicts. But when Imriel departs to study at the famed University of Tiberium, the perils he faces turn infinitely more deadly. Searching for wisdom, he finds instead a web of manipulation, where innocent words hide sinister meanings, and your lover of last night may become your hired killer before dawn. Now a simple act of friendship will leave Imriel trapped in a besieged city where the infamous Melisande is worshiped as a goddess; where a dead man leads an army; and where the prince must face his greatest test: to find his true self.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153007.Kushiel_s_Scion"}, +{"book_title": "Jennifer Government", "author_name": "Max Barry", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 13453, "review_number": 1184, "book_description": "In Max Barry's twisted, hilarious and terrifying vision of the near future, the world is run by giant corporations and employees take the last names of the companies they work for. It's a globalised, ultra-capitalist free market paradise! Hack Nike is a lowly merchandising officer who's not very good at negotiating his salary. So when John Nike and John Nike, executives from the promised land of Marketing, offer him a contract, he signs without reading it. Unfortunately, Hack's new contract involves shooting teenagers to build up street cred for Nike's new line of $2,500 trainers. Hack goes to the police\u2014but they assume that he's asking for a subcontracting deal and lease the assassination to the more experienced NRA. Enter Jennifer Government, a tough-talking agent with a barcode tattoo under her eye and a personal problem with John Nike (the boss of the other John Nike). And a gun. Hack is about to find out what it really means to mess with market forces.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Politics", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33356.Jennifer_Government"}, +{"book_title": "Bonded by Accident", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 883, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "A hybrid warrior, born of both worlds, belonging to none Seeking to end his sexual torment without breaking a vow A girl from Earth with an itch to scratch Looking for no-strings-attached sex But when you make love with a Kindred, things get complicated What are Brandi and Slade going to do now that they are... Bonded by Accident? Slade is an ex-slave, an ex-con, and a widower who has made a vow never to love another woman since his mate died tragically. But after his escape from BleakHall Prison, he finds he has a desperate need for female companionship. How to scratch his itch without breaking his vow? Easy--visit the Pairing Puppets aboard the Mother Ship--female-looking androids without emotions that help unmated Kindred males relieve their urges until they can find mates. Brandi Dixon is a single mom with a difficult life. She and her daughter live in a double-wide trailer in small-town rural Florida. Brandi longs for a man but she's picky and doesn't want to bring home a string of \"temporary daddies\" for her daughter like her mom did to her when she was growing up. Then her cousin wins tickets to tour the Kindred Mother Ship and tells Brandi there's a place where she can have hot, no-strings-attached sex with a Kindred warrior. Brandi wouldn't normally do such a thing but she's desperate--it's been a three year dry spell and she needs a man--even if it's only for a single night. Posing as a Pairing Puppet, she gets picked by Slade for a night of passion. But imagine her surprise when, after the best sex of her life, she hears the big Kindred's growling voice inside her head! Now Brandi is freaking out and Slade is pissed off that he broke his vow. Yet neither of them can deny the animal attraction that keeps drawing them together. When Brandi's daughter, Emmie, gets herself into terrible danger, Slade is the only one who can help. Will Brandi let the huge Kindred warrior into her life? You'll have to read Bonded by Accident to find out! ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41816684-bonded-by-accident"}, +{"book_title": "River of Blue Fire", "author_name": "Tad Williams", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 14887, "review_number": 286, "book_description": "Otherland. In many ways it is humankind's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century. But this most exclusive of places is also one of the world's best kept secrets, created and controlled by an organization made up of the world's most powerful and ruthless individuals, a private cartel known--to those who know of their existence at all--as The Grail Brotherhood. Though their purpose in creating Otherland is still a mystery, it may not remain so for long. For they have exacted a terrible price from humanity in the process, and even their highly organized global conspiracy cannot hide the nature of their crimes forever. And now a small band of adventurers has penetrated the veil of secrecy that prevents the uninitiated from entering Otherland. But having broken into the amazing worlds within worlds that make up this universe, they are trapped, unable to escape back to their own flesh-and-blood bodies in the real world. And as dangers and circumstances split their party into small, widely scattered groups, their only hope of reuniting lies in returning again and again to the River that flows--in one form or another--through all the worlds.But the odds seem to be completely against them as they--and the one outsider with whom they might join forces--become hopelessly lost in realms where an Ice Age tribe's fears can only be quenched in blood...where insects are as large and deadly as dinosaurs...where they are caught in the war between a man made of straw and one made of tin...where cartoon ads take on a life of their own...where humans strive to survive in the aftermath of an alien invasion...and where one among their party is actually The Grail Brotherhood's most terrifying weapon--a sociopathic killer who has never failed and whose current mission is to make certain that not even one member of this little invasion force lives long enough to reveal the truth about Otherland to the people of Earth...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Epic", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10084.River_of_Blue_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "Knight of Delusions", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 58, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Investigation of reality. It starts out as a wierd but seemingly understandable assignment, bodyguarding a mad politician whose keepers have decided to let him \"escape\" as a sort of reality therapy. But to understand the Senator, Florin must enter the Machine, and reality will never be the same. From now on he's a...Knight of Delusions.Reprint with the addition of two short stories.ThunderheadThe Last Command", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549281.Knight_of_Delusions"}, +{"book_title": "The Alexander Inheritance", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 506, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "NEW TIME TRAVEL ALT. HISTORY FROM A MASTER: Flint's Ring of Fire and Boundary series have proved him to be a master of time travel alternate history. Here then, a new tale of persons displaced in time, fighting for their lives. Twice before, mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions of the Earth across space and back in time first, with the Grantville Disaster in West Virginia, and then again with a maximum security prison in southern Illinois. Now, the planet is struck with yet another such cataclysm, whose direct impact falls upon the Queen of the Sea, a cruise ship in the Caribbean. When the convulsions subside, the crew and passengers of the ship discover that they have arrived in a new and frightening world. They are in the Mediterranean now, not the Caribbean. Still worse, they discover that the disaster has sent them more than two thousand years back in time. Following the advice of an historian among the passengers, Marie Easley, they sail to Egypt or, at least, where they hope Egypt will be. Sure enough, Egypt is there ruled over by Ptolemy, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty and one of Alexander the Great s chief generals. Alexander the Great, it turns outs, died just two years ago. The western world has just entered what would become known as the Hellenistic Period of history, during which time Greek civilization would spread around the Mediterranean and beyond. But the first fifty years of the Hellenistic Period was the Age of Diadochi the Time of the Successors when Alexander s empire would collapse into chaos. By the time the Successors finished their strife, every single member of Alexander s dynasty would be murdered and only three of the generals who began that civil war would still be alive. That is the new world in which the Queen of the Sea finds itself. Can Marie Easley and Captain Lars Flodden guide the crew and passengers through this cataclysm? Fortunately, they have some help: a young Norwegian ship s officer who forms an attachment to Alexander s widow; a French officer who is a champion pistol marksman; a canny Congressman from Utah and, most of all, many people of the time who are drawn to a vision of the better world of the future. About Eric Flint s Ring of Fire series: This alternate history series is a landmark Booklist [Eric] Flint's1632universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians. Booklist reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis Publishers Weekly\"", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Action", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32919675-the-alexander-inheritance"}, +{"book_title": "Steel Breach", "author_name": "Casey Calouette", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 345, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The Vasilov Worlds are on the edge of Human space. They have fought a war for 35 years against the insectoid Kadan that they have no intention of ending. It\u2019s too essential to a society where the only social movement is via battle promotion. Then it all changes when the Kadan nearly annihilate the front lines. Vasilov Officer Colonel Cole Clarke has just returned home from service with the Sigg Military. Now that he has learned how the Sigg fight, he's bringing that knowledge to the Vasilov Military, plus an entire battalion of second hand Sigg Armor purchased on the scrap market. But instead of a fresh battalion of troops, he\u2019s assigned a penal battalion filled with convicts. The Vasilov Military doesn't accept change easily, even when they need it. What would happen if an entirely new style of warfare came onto the battlefield? Could a strike force of second hand armor trump the defensive doctrines they\u2019d used for thirty five years or would they be doomed to failure and death on the icy planet Lishun Delta? One squadron of armor. One Colonel. A thousand of the worst convicts in the Vasilov Military. Will they be up to the task?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24830532-steel-breach"}, +{"book_title": "The Quarry Master", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1127, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "BASH:I dislike people.I despise humans.A cruel mandate from one of my region's rulers has saddled me with a slew of little alien humans: I'm to put them to work.One problem?I run a rock quarry, where humans' thin skin is a detriment to productivity.Overseeing these humans is like trying to herd yanaks. If I don't burn, beat, or strangle them to death by the day's end, it will be a miracle.ISLA:I can tell the boss likes me, because I'm not dead. Bash is abrasive and acerbic, like an alien love child of Michael Caine and Miss Hannigan. And maybe Ebenezer Scrooge. Bash is a little... anti-human race.But he's not all bad. Sure, he's a little growly and he sets things on fire when he gets mad, but even villains need a friend. And here? Bash is everybody's villain.Everyone's but mine.Warning: This book is the slowest of slow burns. It's a 127K story with the personal puzzle parts not snapping together until the last stretch of the book. If you want to sink your teeth into a romance that hits the fireworks level fast, skip on this one. But if you want a sweet slow burn, then this one might be the book for you. (Especially if you love super grouchy heroes with big horns and bigger attitudes.)", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Disability", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54622047-the-quarry-master"}, +{"book_title": "Lammas Night", "author_name": "Katherine Kurtz", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 858, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "What Magic Can Stop Adolf Hitler -- History's Most Evil Black Magician?Modern WarThe year is 1940. Hitler's Germany is about to employ the secret arts of evil witchcraft to destroy England. What can stop them?Ancient WeaponIt is the mission of John Graham, colonel in British Intelligence, to stop the onslaught of evil with an extraordinary strategy that defies all the rules of twentieth-century warfare: Unite the different witches' covens throughout England, drawing upon powers that reach back through dark centuries, in a ritual of awesome sacrifice on the first night of August, the magicalLammas Night", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/590197.Lammas_Night"}, +{"book_title": "The Greyfriar", "author_name": "Clay Griffith", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 5284, "review_number": 791, "book_description": "Rousing pulp action and steampunk come together in a heartbreaking story of high adventure and alternate history.In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. It is now 2020 and a bloody reckoning is coming. Princess Adele is heir to the Empire of Equatoria, a remnant of the old tropical British Empire. When she becomes the target of a merciless vampire clan, her only protector is the Greyfriar, a mysterious hero who fights the vampires from deep within their territory. Their dangerous relationship plays out against an approaching war to the death between humankind and the vampire clans.The first book in a trilogy of high adventure and alternate history. Combining rousing pulp action with steampunk style, the Vampire Empire series brings epic political themes to life within a story of heartbreaking romance, sacrifice, and heroism.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8140709-the-greyfriar"}, +{"book_title": "In the Age of Love and Chocolate", "author_name": "Gabrielle Zevin", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 2643, "review_number": 360, "book_description": "All These Things I\u2019ve Done, the first novel in the Birthright series,\u00a0introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen year old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya. She has lost her parents and her grandmother, and has spent the better part of her high school years in trouble with the law. Perhaps hardest of all, her decision to open a nightclub with her old nemesis Charles Delacroix has cost Anya her relationship with Win.Still, it is Anya\u2019s nature to soldier on. She puts the loss of Win behind her and focuses on her work. Against the odds, the nightclub becomes an enormous success, and Anya feels like she is on her way and that nothing will ever go wrong for her again. But after a terrible misjudgment leaves Anya fighting for her life, she is forced to reckon with her choices and to let people help her for the first time in her life.\u00a0In the Age of Love and Chocolate is the story of growing up and learning what love really is. It showcases the best of Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s writing for young adults: the intricate characterization of Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and the big-heartedness of Elsewhere. It will make you remember why you loved her writing in the first place.\u00a0", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17261147-in-the-age-of-love-and-chocolate"}, +{"book_title": "U\u015bpione archiwum", "author_name": "Wawrzyniec Podrzucki", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 63, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Przygodowa powie\u015b\u0107 SF. Thomas Farquahart, m\u0142ody stra\u017cnik prawa w spokojnej osadzie New Cheshire, za namow\u0105 przyjaciela wyrusza w podr\u00f3\u017c po Drzewie. Jest to gigantyczna, \u017cywa nanostruktura, kt\u00f3ra ju\u017c od wiek\u00f3w jest domem ludzi. Wsp\u00f3\u0142istniej\u0105c z tym niezwyk\u0142ym organizmem ludzko\u015b\u0107 zmieni\u0142a si\u0119 i podzieli\u0142a na tysi\u0105ce odr\u0119bnych kultur. Prymitywne \u0142owieckie plemi\u0119 Ux, Anhelosi w\u0119druj\u0105cy w antygrawitacyjnych galeonach czy zaawansowana technologicznie spo\u0142eczno\u015b\u0107 Apeksu \u2014 wszyscy oni s\u0105 dzie\u0107mi \u015bwiata, w kt\u00f3rym dwa odmienne systemy biologiczne walcz\u0105 ze sob\u0105, przenikaj\u0105 si\u0119 i ostatecznie \u0142\u0105cz\u0105 w symbiotyczn\u0105 ca\u0142o\u015b\u0107. Tylko nieliczni mieszka\u0144cy Drzewa dostrzegaj\u0105, \u017ce wkracza ono w faz\u0119 decyduj\u0105cych przemian i \u017ce mimowolnie znale\u017ali si\u0119 w centrum wydarze\u0144, kt\u00f3re na zawsze mog\u0105 odmieni\u0107 los ludzko\u015bci. Niezmierzone labirynty megastruktury, przebieg\u0142e mannekeny \u2014 o\u017cywione, obdarzone \u015bwiadomo\u015bci\u0105 twory Drzewa \u2014 a tak\u017ce fanatyczni wyznawcy Ko\u015bcio\u0142a Ostatecznego Rozgrzeszenia oraz bezwzgl\u0119dni \u0142owcy nagr\u00f3d to dopiero pocz\u0105tek wyzwa\u0144, z jakimi przyjdzie si\u0119 zmierzy\u0107 bohaterom tej ksi\u0105\u017cki.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9566820-u-pione-archiwum"}, +{"book_title": "Science Comics: Robots and Drones: Past, Present, and Future", "author_name": "Mairghread Scott", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 191, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "In factories! In the sky! In your cars and phones! In your own home! Robots are everywhere! And they have been for a lot longer than you might realize.From tea-serving robots in feudal Japan to modern rovers exploring Mars, robots have been humanity's partners, helpers, and protectors for centuries! Join one of the world's earliest robots, a mechanical bird named Pouli, as he explores where robots came from, how they work, and where they\u2019re going in this informative and hilarious new book! Ever dreamt of building your own best friend? It might be easier than you think!Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic\u2014dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science (Technology)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34637633-science-comics"}, +{"book_title": "Crosstalk", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 10248, "review_number": 2166, "book_description": "Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk, a genre-bending novel that pushes social media, smartphone technology, and twenty-four-hour availability to hilarious and chilling extremes as one young woman abruptly finds herself with way more connectivity than she ever desired.In the not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. And Briddey Flannigan is delighted when her boyfriend, Trent, suggests undergoing the operation prior to a marriage proposal - to enjoy better emotional connection and a perfect relationship with complete communication and understanding. But things don't quite work out as planned, and Briddey finds herself connected to someone else entirely - in a way far beyond what she signed up for.It is almost more than she can handle - especially when the stress of managing her all-too-eager-to-communicate-at-all-times family is already burdening her brain. But that's only the beginning. As things go from bad to worse, she begins to see the dark side of too much information, and to realize that love - and communication - are far more complicated than she ever imagined.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25430248-crosstalk"}, +{"book_title": "New Frontiers", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 2287, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "\nThe Black Fleet story continues... \nThe Phage War had been a devastating conflict for the Terran Confederacy. Even with the destruction of their terrifying, implacable foe, humanity is still reeling. Political alliances are crumbling and their mighty fleet is in tatters. There is nothing to celebrate, even after such a complete victory.They soon learn that there are other stellar neighbors ... and they've been watching the conflict with great interest. One species comes with an offer of friendship and alliance, but humanity is weary and distrustful, their only interactions with aliens having resulted in the near-eradication of their kind.Before the ashes of war have been fully swept away Captain Celesta Wright is dispatched to the Frontier with a small taskforce to investigate a mysterious signal while the Confederacy struggles to hold itself together. A partnership with this new species could help accelerate the recovery effort, but is the offer too good to be true? Can humanity risk another fight with an advanced alien species right on the heels of the bloodiest war that had ever been waged?New Frontiers is the first book of the Expansion Wars Trilogy, an all new adventure in the Black Fleet universe.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31346199-new-frontiers"}, +{"book_title": "The End of the World Running Club", "author_name": "Adrian J. Walker", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 11381, "review_number": 1309, "book_description": "Perfect for fans of The Martian, this powerful post-apocalyptic thriller pits reluctant father Edgar Hill in a race against time to get back to his wife and children. When the sky begins to fall and he finds himself alone, his best hope is to run \u2013 or risk losing what he loves forever.When the world ends and you find yourself forsaken, every second counts. No one knows this more than Edgar Hill. Stranded on the other side of the country from his wife and children, Ed must push himself across a devastated wasteland to get back to them. With the clock ticking and hundreds of miles between them, his best hope is to run -- or risk losing what he loves forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)", "Horror", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33160796-the-end-of-the-world-running-club"}, +{"book_title": "Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice", "author_name": "Karen Traviss", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 7296, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "Civil war rages as the Galactic Alliance\u00e2\u20ac\u201cled by Cal Omas and the Jedi forces of Luke Skywalker\u00e2\u20ac\u201cbattles a confederation of breakaway planets that rally to the side of rebellious Corellia. Suspected of involvement in an assassination plot against Queen Mother Tenel Ka of the Hapes Consortium, Han and Leia Solo are on the run, hunted by none other than their own son, Jacen, whose increasingly authoritarian tactics as head of GA security have led Luke and Mara Skywalker to fear that their nephew may be treading perilously close to the dark side. But as his family sees in Jacen the chilling legacy of his Sith grandfather, Darth Vader, many of the frontline troops adore him, and countless citizens see him as a savior. The galaxy has been torn apart by too many wars. All Jacen wants is safety and stability for all\u00e2\u20ac\u201cand he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve that goal. To end the bloodshed and suffering, what sacrifice would be too great? That is the question tormenting Jacen. Already he has sacrificed much, embracing the pitiless teachings of Lumiya, the Dark Lady of the Sith, who has taught him that a strong will and noble purpose can hold the evil excesses of the dark side at bay, bringing peace and order to the galaxy\u00e2\u20ac\u201cbut at a price.For there is one final test that Jacen must pass before he can gain the awesome power of a true Sith Lord: He must bring about the death of someone he values dearly. What troubles Jacen isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t whether he has the strength to commit murder. He has steeled himself for that, and worse if necessary. No, the question that troubles Jacen is who the sacrifice should be.As the strands of destiny draw ever more tightly together in a galaxy-spanning web, the shocking answer will shatter two families . . . and cast a grim shadow over the future.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Audiobook", "War", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/349736.Legacy_of_the_Force"}, +{"book_title": "Look", "author_name": "Jon Nielsen", "rating_score": 2.95, "rating_votes": 97, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Artie is a droid programmed to endlessly perform a single task left in a world abandoned by humans. He is starting to wonder what meaning his task has. But when he and his only friend, Owen, a robotic bird, cast aside the only lives they've ever known in search of a brighter future, they encounter others that want nothing but to hold tight to the past. Join Artie the Robot and Owen the Vulture for a light-hearted, sci-fi adventure as they journey far and wide for the answer to one of life's greatest questions: \"Why are we here?\"", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32202287-look"}, +{"book_title": "My Fair Godmother", "author_name": "Janette Rallison", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 12355, "review_number": 1481, "book_description": "Finding your one true love can be a Grimm experience! After her boyfriend dumps her for her older sister, sophomore Savannah Delano wishes she could find a true prince to take her to the prom. Enter Chrissy (Chrysanthemum) Everstar: Savannah\u2019s gum-chewing, cell phone\u2013carrying, high heel-wearing Fair Godmother. Showing why she\u2019s only Fair\u2014because she\u2019s not a very good fairy student\u2014Chrissy mistakenly sends Savannah back in time to the Middle Ages, first as Cinderella, then as Snow White. Finally she sends Tristan, a boy in Savannah\u2019s class, back instead to turn him into her prom-worthy prince. When Savannah returns to the Middle Ages to save Tristan, they must team up to defeat a troll, a dragon, and the mysterious and undeniably sexy Black Knight. Laughs abound in this clever fairy tale twist from a master of romantic comedy.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Adventure", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4346365-my-fair-godmother"}, +{"book_title": "The Grim Grotto", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 98495, "review_number": 2381, "book_description": "Dear Reader, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to read this book, in which the Baudelaire siblings encounter an unpleasant amount of dampness as they descend into the depths of despair, underwater. In fact, the horrors they encounter are too numerous to list, and you wouldn't want me even to mention the worst of it, which includes mushrooms, a desperate search for something lost, a mechanical monster, a distressing message from a lost friend, and tap dancing. As a dedicated author who has pledged to keep recording the depressing story of the Baudelaires, I must continue to delve deep into the cavernous depths of the orphans' lives. You, on the other hand, may delve into some happier book in order to keep your eyes and your spirits from being dampened. With all due respect,Lemony Snicket", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65111.The_Grim_Grotto"}, +{"book_title": "Life After Legend", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 2143, "review_number": 406, "book_description": "If you\u2019ve always wanted to know what happened after June and Day\u2019s second first meeting, you can find out in this LEGEND short story.The story was a offered as a bonus for those who preordered Warcross. It will be available to the public near the end of 2017 or early 2018", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34993434-life-after-legend"}, +{"book_title": "Duty from Ashes", "author_name": "Sam Schall", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 100, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Duty calls. Honor demands action. Major Ashlyn Shaw has survived false accusations and a brutal military prison. Now free, she finds her homeworld once again at war with an enemy that will stop at nothing to destroy everything she holds dear. Duty has Ashlyn once again answering the call to serve. She has seen what the enemy is capable of and will do everything she can to prevent it from happening to the home she loves and the people she took an oath to protect. But something has changed. It goes beyond the fact that the enemy has changed tactics they never wavered from during the previous war. It even goes beyond the fact that there is still a nagging doubt in the back of Ashlyn\u2019s mind that those who betrayed her once before might do so again. No, there is more to the resumption of hostilities, something that seems to point at a new player in the game. But who and what are they playing at? Will Ashlyn be able to unmask the real enemy before it is too late? ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23627227-duty-from-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Burn Bright", "author_name": "Marianne de Pierres", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2021, "review_number": 405, "book_description": "Retra braves the intense pain of her obedience strip, and stows away to seek her brother Joel, gone two years for Ixion - island of ever-night, ever-youth and never-sleep. Retra is a Seal \u2013 sealed minds, sealed community - no craving for parties or pleasure. What are the Night Creatures Retra can see in the shadows? What happens to those who grow too old for Ixion? Without Joel, is her eternal bond with a Riper guardian enough to save her? Listen well, baby bats. Burn bright, but do not stray from the paths. Remember, when you live in a place of darkness you also live with creatures of the dark.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9433912-burn-bright"}, +{"book_title": "Goddess of Legend", "author_name": "P.C. Cast", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 4540, "review_number": 329, "book_description": "Saved from a car accident by the Water Goddess, photojournalist Isabel visits the time of King Arthur to seduce Lancelot du Lac away from Queen Guinevere.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7871086-goddess-of-legend"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory", "author_name": "Greg Broadmore", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 85, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Dr Grodbort has released his directory of scientific splendour. A catalogue of wondrous contraptions and wave weapons of unprecedented power, this book makes available a myriad of destructive and beneficial devices to any intergalactic explorer.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Pulp", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2128197.Doctor_Grordbort_s_Contrapulatronic_Dingus_Directory"}, +{"book_title": "Gods of the Dead", "author_name": "Tracey Ward", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 482, "review_number": 43, "book_description": " THE WORLD IS A FADED MEMORY The Fever took hold of Portland first. They tried to contain it. They built barriers, brought in experts, promised cures. But the day they flew in bombers and burned Portland to the ground, the rest of the world knew the truth. There was no containing it. Soon panic spreads with the Fever, consuming everyone and everything in its path. Humanity is crumbling, the dead are rising, but out of the remnants two men will emerge. Strangers. Loners. Heroes.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25608988-gods-of-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Extracted", "author_name": "R.R. Haywood", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 12130, "review_number": 828, "book_description": "In 2061, a young scientist invents a time machine to fix a tragedy in his past. But his good intentions turn catastrophic when an early test reveals something unexpected: the end of the world.A desperate plan is formed. Recruit three heroes, ordinary humans capable of extraordinary things, and change the future.Safa Patel is an elite police officer, on duty when Downing Street comes under terrorist attack. As armed men storm through the breach, she dispatches them all.'Mad' Harry Madden is a legend of the Second World War. Not only did he complete an impossible mission\u2014to plant charges on a heavily defended submarine base\u2014but he also escaped with his life.Ben Ryder is just an insurance investigator. But as a young man he witnessed a gang assaulting a woman and her child. He went to their rescue, and killed all five.Can these three heroes, extracted from their timelines at the point of death, save the world?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31578285-extracted"}, +{"book_title": "Redliners", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2955, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Redeliners: a novel of hope and, possibly, redemption, a novel in which salvation is a two way street.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "War", "Space", "Astronomy (Planets)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714616.Redliners"}, +{"book_title": "The One Safe Place", "author_name": "Tania Unsworth", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 2048, "review_number": 378, "book_description": "In this near-future dystopia with echoes of \"The Giver\" and \"Among the Hidden,\" Tania Unsworth has created an unsettling page-turner; fast-paced, smooth, filled with dread that's wholly satisfying and startlingly original.Devin doesn't remember life before the world got hot; he has grown up farming the scorched earth with his grandfather in their remote valley. When his grandfather dies, Devin heads for the city. Once there, among the stark glass buildings, he finds scores of children, just like him, living alone on the streets. They tell him rumors of a place for abandoned children, with unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family. But only the luckiest get there.An act of kindness earns Devin an invitation to the home, but it's soon clear that it s no paradise. As Devin investigates the intimidating administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children, he discovers the home's horrific true mission. The only real hope is escape, but the place is as secure as a fortress.Fans of dystopian fiction and spine-chilling adventure will devour \"The One Safe Place;\" its haunting themes will resonate long after readers have turned the final page.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18267072-the-one-safe-place"}, +{"book_title": "If the South Had Won the Civil War", "author_name": "MacKinlay Kantor", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 452, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "The Past is a strange place indeed . . . everything could have been so different so easily.Just a touch here and a tweak there . . . .MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Price-winning author and master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War: how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would have happened to the Union, to Abraham Lincoln, to the people of the North and South, to the world?If the South Had Won the Civil War originally appeared in Look magazine nearly half a century ago. It immediately inspired a deluge of letters and telegrams from astonished readers, and became an American Classic overnight. Published in book form soon after, Kantor's masterpiece has been unavailable for a decade. Now, this much requested classic is once again available for a new generation of readers, and features a stunning cover by acclaimed Civil War artist Don Troiani, a new introduction by award-winning alternate history author Harry Turtledove, and fifteen superb illustrations by the incomparable Dan Nance.It all begins on that fateful afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, 1863, when a deplorable equestrian accident claims the life of General Ulysses S. Grant . . . .", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "History", "Military History (Civil War)", "American History (American Civil War)", "Nonfiction", "American History", "War", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/842940.If_the_South_Had_Won_the_Civil_War"}, +{"book_title": "Scars", "author_name": "Chris Wraight", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1566, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "Jaghatai Khan and his White Scars Legion must choose - the Emperor or Horus?Fresh from their conquest of Chondax and the discovery of Horus\u2019s rebellion, Jaghatai Khan\u2019s warriors stand divided. Long considered one of the less trustworthy Legions, many of the White Scars claim to owe their loyalty exclusively to Terra, and others still to the Warmaster and his warrior lodges. But when a distress call from Leman Russ of the Space Wolves brings the wrath of the Alpha Legion to Chondax, the Khan\u2019s hand is forced and the decision must be made \u2013 in the great war for the Imperium, will he side with the Emperor or Horus?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Action", "Gaming (Gaming Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143803-scars"}, +{"book_title": "Mechanical Failure", "author_name": "Joe Zieja", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1502, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "A smooth-talking ex-sergeant, accustomed to an easygoing peacetime military, unexpectedly re-joins the fleet and finds soldiers preparing for the strangest thing\u2014war.The two hundred years\u2019 (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn\u2019t been seen since...well, never. Mankind in the Galactic Age had finally conquered war, so what was left for the military to do but drink and barbecue? That\u2019s the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler. But it turns out that smuggling is hard. Like getting-arrested-for-dealing-with-pirates-and-forced-back-into-service kind of hard. It doesn\u2019t seem so bad\u2014the military was a perpetual tiki party anyway\u2014but when Roger returns after only a year away, something has changed. These are soldiers\u2014actual soldiers doing actual soldier things like preparing for a war that Rogers is sure doesn\u2019t exist. Rogers vows to put a stop to all this nonsense\u2014even if it means doing actual work. With an experienced ear for military double-speak, Zieja has created a remarkable and sarcastic adventure.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Humor (Comedy)", "Space", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28380865-mechanical-failure"}, +{"book_title": "Infinity's Embrace", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2089, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Rescued from captivity by a group of rather intimidating Kordolians, Noa finds herself recovering at a strange facility in the middle of the desert. SynCorp's medical experiments have left her with an impossible ability she can't control, and nobody really seems to know how to help her. She's fragile and shattered, a mere shadow of her former self, and she has nowhere else to go. She doesn't know what to make of the Kordolians, especially when she can't stop their thoughts from leaking into her mind. The silver-skinned warriors are both terrifying and protective, and when she encounters a dark, mysterious presence in the most unlikely of places, she realizes that at least one of them might possess abilities similar to her own. The question is, does this intimidating being intend to help her, or harm her? Warning: This book is a science-fiction alien romance. It contains swearing, violence, sensual sex scenes and silver aliens with fangs. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over. \nInfinity's Embrace is Book Six in the Dark Planet Warriors Series. It will make more sense if you've read the other books first, although that's probably not absolutely essential.\n", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33267589-infinity-s-embrace"}, +{"book_title": "Starglass", "author_name": "Phoebe North", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 2371, "review_number": 400, "book_description": "Terra has never known anything but life aboard the Asherah, a city-within-a-spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago in search of refuge. At sixteen, working a job that doesn't interest her, and living with a grieving father who only notices her when he's yelling, Terra is sure that there has to be more to life than what she's got.But when she inadvertently witnesses the captain's guard murdering an innocent man, Terra is suddenly thrust into the dark world beneath her ship's idyllic surface. As she's drawn into a secret rebellion determined to restore power to the people, Terra discovers that her choices may determine life or death for the people she cares most about. With mere months to go before landing on the long-promised planet, Terra has to make the decision of a lifetime--one that will determine the fate of her people.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Romance", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15945897-starglass"}, +{"book_title": "The Junkyard Bot", "author_name": "C.J. Richards", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 128, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Worker robots keep the high-tech town of Terabyte Heights humming, but ten-year-old George Gearing is the only one who has a robot for a best friend. When his scrappy but beloved pal Jackbot is hit by a car, the whiz kid re-engineers him with fancy parts from state-of-the-art TinkerTech Laboratories. Jackbot's astounding new skills far exceed anything George--or even TinkerTech's head of robotics--could ever have imagined. Will the villainous Dr. Micron destroy the whole town to see his tech-driven dream realized? Not if George can help it . . .", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22574575-the-junkyard-bot"}, +{"book_title": "The Lesson", "author_name": "Cadwell Turnbull", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1687, "review_number": 336, "book_description": "THE LESSON explores the nature of belief, the impact of colonialism, and asks how far are we willing to go for progress? Breaking ground as one of the first science fiction novels set in the Virgin Islands, THE LESSON is not only a thought-provoking literary work, delving deeply into allegorical themes of colonialism, but also vividly draws the community of Charlotte Amalie, wherefrom the author hails.An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the U.S. Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of super-advanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last. A year after the death of a young boy at the hands of an Ynaa, three families find themselves at the center of the inevitable conflict, witness and victim to events that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literary Fiction", "Adult Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41459037-the-lesson"}, +{"book_title": "Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict", "author_name": "Laurie Viera Rigler", "rating_score": 3.18, "rating_votes": 13545, "review_number": 1942, "book_description": "In this Jane Austen inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern LA girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen's time. After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman's life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. But not even her love of Jane Austen has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condomless seducers, and marriages of convenience. Enter the enigmatic Mr. Edgeworth, who fills Courtney's borrowed brain with confusing memories that are clearly not her own. Try as she might to control her mind and find a way home, Courtney cannot deny that she is becoming this other woman and being this other woman is not without its advantages: Especially in a looking-glass Austen world. Especially with a suitor who may not turn out to be a familiar species of philanderer after all.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Adult Fiction", "Contemporary", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548739.Confessions_of_a_Jane_Austen_Addict"}, +{"book_title": "Timescape", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 10282, "review_number": 352, "book_description": "The author of\u00a0 Tides of Light \u00a0offers his Nebula Award-winning SF classic--a combination of hard science, bold speculation, and human drama. In the year 1998, a group of scientists works desperately to communicate with the scientists of 1962, warning of an ecological disaster that will destroy the oceans in the future--if it is not averted in the past.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/778990.Timescape"}, +{"book_title": "Nadine's Champion", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2220, "review_number": 203, "book_description": "Of all the men on the Icehome beach, Thrand's the most competitive and most aggravating. He's cocky. Arrogant. Turns everything into a rivalry. He's a pain in the you know what. He also keeps insisting that I kiss him. After all, I'm the one that told him a kiss didn't mean anything. It shouldn't. A kiss is just a kiss as far as humans are concerned. But Thrand's a clone, a race of people called a'ani, and he's been brought up to play hard and to win. And he wants to win me. But does Thrand want me for the right reasons? Or am I just another conquest?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52047047-nadine-s-champion"}, +{"book_title": "Aftershocks", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2332, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "On the day the world shook, everything changed for the barbarian tribe. This short story goes back to the event and gives additional insight. How do Rukh and Harlow fare through the disaster? How does the chief handle the destruction of everything he\u2019s ever known? This one of the Slice of Life Short Stories and intended to be read after Barbarian\u2019s Taming. It is NOT a stand alone. It is, however, intended to provide extra character insight for those who want to visit the ice planet for a little bit longer.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32062948-aftershocks"}, +{"book_title": "Galactic Treasure", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 699, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "The Fire Bond Brothers, Bir, Zay, Tev and Niz have been hired to guard an alien Ambassador, but they get more than they bargained for with the appearance of a shapely, red-headed human female. She\u2019s owned by the ambassador...but not for long if they have their way.Kidnapped from Earth and sold as a pet, Ruby MacTavish, causes her new owner nothing but trouble, until four large, red sexy aliens walk in. Their touch awakens burning passions and she falls under their seductive spell.Before their plans can be set in motion, Ruby finds herself in grave danger as she stops the Ambassador from cheating another alien race. Now her men must hurry to her rescue and keep her safe or risk losing her forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Menage (M F M)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17700906-galactic-treasure"}, +{"book_title": "There Will Come Soft Rains", "author_name": "Ray Bradbury", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 4444, "review_number": 356, "book_description": "First published in Collier's, May 6, 1950.The story concerns a household in Allendale, California, in the aftermath of a nuclear war.", "year_published": 1950, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Academic (School)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2260460.There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains"}, +{"book_title": "Running Out of Time", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 23387, "review_number": 1538, "book_description": "Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening than she could have imagined, and soon she finds her own life in jeopardy. Can she get help before the children of Clifton, and Jessie herself, run out of time?", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Realistic Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227658.Running_Out_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. The Stupid Stinkbugs from Saturn", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1018, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "From Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants, and acclaimed artist Dan Santat, an out-of-this-world friendship adventure with all-new full-color illustrations!Oh, no! Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot have to spend all day playing with Ricky's cousin Lucy. How boring! But when a smelly space-monster named Sergeant Stinkbug lands in Squeakyville and kidnaps Lucy, things get much, much worse. Luckily, Ricky Ricotta has a BIG plan to get out of this stinky situation.Originally published in 2003, this edition features brand-new full-color illustrations throughout!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Childrens", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19323453-ricky-ricotta-s-mighty-robot-vs-the-stupid-stinkbugs-from-saturn"}, +{"book_title": "The Scottish Prisoner", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 28981, "review_number": 1918, "book_description": "A captivating return to the world Diana Gabaldon created in her Outlander and Lord John series, The Scottish Prisoner is a masterpiece of epic history, wicked deceit, and scores that can only be settled in blood. London, 1760. For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war, life is coming apart at the seams. In the remote Lake District, where he\u2019s close enough to the son he cannot claim as his own, Jamie\u2019s quiet existence is interrupted first by dreams of his lost wife, then by the appearance of an erstwhile comrade still fighting to rally the Irish. But Jamie has sworn off politics, fighting, and war. Until Lord John Grey shows up with a summons that will take him away from everything he loves\u2014again. Lord John is in possession of explosive documents that expose a damning case of corruption against a British officer. But they also hint at a more insidious danger. Soon Lord John and Jamie are unwilling companions on the road to Ireland, a country whose dark castles hold dreadful secrets, and whose bogs hide the bones of the dead.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8533018-the-scottish-prisoner"}, +{"book_title": "Gods of Manhattan", "author_name": "Al Ewing", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 97, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "NEW YORK, USSA - The steam-powered city of tomorrow where psychedelic beat-poets rumble with punk futurists in the rain-drenched alleys, and where mad science colludes with the monstrous plans of the Meccha-Fuhrer! NEW YORK, USS - City of dazzle and danger. Only here could we find The Blood Spider, Doc Thunder and the saint of ghosts known as El Sombra! NEW YORK, USS - The setting for a bloody battle of steel will and science gone wild in a contest to save the city of tomorrow - or end it!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7442054-gods-of-manhattan"}, +{"book_title": "Infinite Jest", "author_name": "David Foster Wallace", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 76265, "review_number": 9119, "book_description": "A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human\u2014and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Literature", "Novels", "Contemporary", "Humor", "Unfinished", "Literary Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest"}, +{"book_title": "Weaver's Lament", "author_name": "Emma Newman", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 410, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Charlotte's magical adventures continue in Weaver's Lament, the sequel to Emma Newman's Brother's Ruin.Charlotte is learning to control her emerging magical prowess under the secret tutelage of Magus Hopkins. Her first covert mission takes her to a textile mill where the disgruntled workers are apparently in revolt.But it isn\u2019t the workers causing the trouble. The real culprits are far more extranormal in nature.And they have a grudge to settle.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Novella", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Historical (Victorian)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31375770-weaver-s-lament"}, +{"book_title": "The Women of Nell Gwynne's", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 581, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to walk the streets of early-Victorian London. But Lady Beatrice is no ordinary whore, and is soon recruited to join an underground establishment known as Nell Gwynne's. Nell Gwynne's is far more than simply the finest and most exclusive brothel in Whitehall; it is in fact the sister organization to the Gentlemen's Speculative Society, that 19th-century predecessor to a certain Company... and when a member of the Society goes missing on a peculiar assignment, it's up to Lady Beatrice and her sister harlots to investigate.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6234428-the-women-of-nell-gwynne-s"}, +{"book_title": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "author_name": "Lewis Carroll", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 263244, "review_number": 10303, "book_description": "After a tumble down the rabbit hole, Alice finds herself far away from home in the absurd world of Wonderland. As mind-bending as it is delightful, Lewis Carroll\u2019s 1865 novel is pure magic for young and old alike.", "year_published": 1865, "genres": ["Classics", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Literature", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6324090-alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland"}, +{"book_title": "Absolution Gap", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 18984, "review_number": 601, "book_description": "The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety - or draw down its darkest enemy.And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn to Clavain and his companions that to beat the enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89184.Absolution_Gap"}, +{"book_title": "Roark", "author_name": "Jacqueline Rhoades", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 935, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "The people of planet Earth have suffered the tides of war for six long years, but it\u2019s not their war. Earth is the battleground for the thousand year conflict between the invading Hahnshin and the Godan warriors of the Galactic Confederation.Mira Donazetto\u2019s only concern is for her family\u2019s survival, so when she\u2019s offered work as a translator for the Godan, she jumps at the chance and right into the arms of the new First Commander, Roark. Her heart says she should trust this alien warrior, but how can she when he has the power to take away everything she holds dear.Roark\u2019s new command post is a disaster with a long list of problems that he must address, including dissension among his officers. The last thing he needs is to have his heart touched by a woman who may be a traitor.It\u2019s a whole new world and a whole new love story in a whole new series called Women of Earth.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25768581-roark"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 24: Life and Death", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 6286, "review_number": 598, "book_description": "As the fair opens at Alexandria, old friends return from afar and new adversaries make their introductions.Collects THE WALKING DEAD #139-144.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25337337-the-walking-dead-vol-24"}, +{"book_title": "The Given Sacrifice", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2030, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Praised as a truly original combination of postapocalyptic sci-fi and military-oriented medieval fantasy, S. M. Stirling\u2019s Novels of the Change depict a future without technology, where people must master skills from ages past in order to survive. Now, to ensure that survival for all he cares for, a king faces his greatest challenge in the latest chapter of the New York Times bestselling saga.... Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and Triumphant and pursue them to their lair over the mountains. There he will finally confront the forces behind the Church\u2014the Powers of the Void. Yet even a victory will not end the conflict forever. The Powers of the Void are malevolent and infinitely patient, and the struggle is one that involves the entire world. They threaten Rudi not only in the present, but also in the future represented by his children, \u00d3rlaith and John. Rudi knows this. And as his heir Princess \u00d3rlaith grows up in the shadow of her famous father, she also realizes that the enemy will do anything to see that she does not live to fulfill her parents\u2019 dream.... *Kirkus Reviews", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707647-the-given-sacrifice"}, +{"book_title": "The Discovery", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3180, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "When he stumbles on the blue box used to create the Animorphs--the shape-shifting animal-humans--David determines to become the most powerful Animorph of all, before Marco can catch him and turn him over to the Yeerks.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363420.The_Discovery"}, +{"book_title": "Aftermath", "author_name": "D.J. Molles", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 8105, "review_number": 297, "book_description": "Nothing has gone according to plan.To Captain Lee Harden, Project Hometown feels like a distant dream and the completion of his mission seems unattainable.Wounded and weaponless, he has stumbled upon a group of survivors that seems willing to help. But a tragedy in the group causes a deep rift to come to light and forces him into action. In the chaos of the world outside, Lee is pursued by a new threat: someone who will stop at nothing to get what he has.\"The Remaining: Aftermath\" is the second book in the popular \"The Remaining\" series. The third book is on the way.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Thriller", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13644247-aftermath"}, +{"book_title": "Contingency", "author_name": "P.S. Martinez", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 322, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Eighteen-year-old Sage Hannigan wants to get back to her own time, preferably one that hasn\u2019t been destroyed by an underworld plot brewing in Edwardian-era South Carolina. How hard can it be? All she has to do is:1. Learn to use newly acquired warping skills to bend time to her will.2. Take out a few rogue vampires.3. Join an ancient secret society.4. Figure out who is putting the time stream in jeopardy. 5. Find and maim whoever invented the corset.Sage never asked to be chosen by the Druid Priestess, Amerach, to become a Warper. She also never asked to have the future hanging on her shoulders or to warp a hundred years into the past. She certainly never asked to meet Dr. Aldwin Blake, who would make her question her desire to get back to her own time. But if she fails her mission, people will die, history will change, and the present she wishes to return to will be no more.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15749124-contingency"}, +{"book_title": "Darken the Stars", "author_name": "Amy A. Bartol", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 10856, "review_number": 1415, "book_description": "Kyon Ensin finally has what he\u2019s always wanted: possession of Kricket Hollowell, the priestess who foresees the future. Together, their combined power will be unrivaled. Kricket, however, doesn\u2019t crave the crown of Ethar\u2014she has an unbreakable desire to live life on her own terms, a life that she desperately wants to share with her love, Trey Allairis.As conspiracies rage in the war for Ethar, Kricket\u2019s so-called allies want to use her as a spy. Even those held closest cannot be trusted\u2014including Astrid, her sister, and Giffen, a member of a mysterious order with a hidden agenda. But Kricket\u2019s resolve will not allow her to be used as anyone\u2019s pawn, even as the Brotherhood sharpens its plans to cut out her heart.As the destiny prophesied by her mother approaches, Kricket will backtrack through her fiery future to reshape it. For she knows one thing above all else: the only person she can truly count on is herself.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24931971-darken-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Dawn's Early Light", "author_name": "Pip Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1804, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "Even helped by two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and the Metaphysical, Braun and Books are challenged. Chief suspect in a rash of nautical and aerial disasters is Thomas Edison. Fantastic electric machines of Edison, eccentricities of consultant Nikola Tesla, and mysterious machinations of the Maestro, all bring danger.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17572901-dawn-s-early-light"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Inside", "author_name": "Jeyn Roberts", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 8731, "review_number": 1102, "book_description": "Moments after several huge earthquakes shake every continent on Earth, something strange starts happening to some people. An inner rage has been released and some people cannot fight it. For those who can, life becomes an ongoing battle to survive - at any cost!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10841167-dark-inside"}, +{"book_title": "Cauldron of Ghosts", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 2382, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Sequel to national bestsellers Crown of Slaves and Torch of Freedom, Cauldron of Ghosts is the return of Secret agent Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat in the Wages of Sin, the classic tie-in series set in David Weber's Honorverse.TOIL AND TROUBLE IN THE CAULDRON OF GHOSTSThe Mesan Alignment is a centuries-old cabal that seeks to impose its vision of a society dominated by genetic rank onto the human race. Now the conspiracy stands exposed by spies Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat \u2014 one an agent of Honor Harrington\u2019s Star Kingdom of Manticore, the other a Havenite operative.The outing of the Alignment has turned the galaxy\u2019s political framework topsy-turvy. Old coalitions have disintegrated. New alliances have been born.For starters, the long and hard-fought war between the Republic of Haven and the Star Empire of Manticore is not only over, but these bitter enemies have formed a new pact. Their common foe: the Mesan Alignment itself.But more information is needed to bring the Alignment out of the shadows. Now, defying the odds and relying on genetic wizardry themselves for a disguise, Zilwicki and Cachat return to Mesa \u2014 only to discover that even they have underestimated the Alignment\u2019s ruthlessness and savagery.Soon they are on the run in Mesa\u2019s underworld, not only hunted by the Alignment, but threatened by the exploding conflict on the planet between Mesa\u2019s overlords and the brutalized slaves and descendants of slaves who have suffered under their rule for so long. But if Zilwicki and Cachat succeed in rooting out the ancient conspiracy, a great evil may be finally removed from the galaxy \u2014 and on a long-oppressed planet, freedom may finally dawn.About the Wages of Sin series:\"Fans of Weber's Honor Harrington series \u2026 will be delighted with this offshoot in which he and coauthor Flint develop several situations and characters from other stories. ...This outstanding effort transcends the label 'space opera' and truly is a novel of ideas.\u201d \u2013Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143937-cauldron-of-ghosts"}, +{"book_title": "A Witch in Time", "author_name": "Constance Sayers", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3842, "review_number": 638, "book_description": "A young woman in Belle Epoque France is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist.In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant. When her mother \u2014 a witch \u2014 botches a curse on Marchant, she unwittingly binds Juliet to the artist through time, damning her to re-live her affair and die tragically young lifetime after lifetime as the star-crossed lovers reincarnate through history.Luke Varner, the worldly demon tasked with maintaining this badly crafted curse, has been helplessly in love with his charge, in all her reincarnations, since 19th century France. He\u2019s in love with Nora, a silver screen starlet in 1930s Hollywood. He\u2019s in love with Sandra, a struggling musician in 1970s Los Angeles. And he\u2019s in love with Helen, a magazine exec in present-day DC who has the power to \u201csuggest\u201d others do her bidding.In this life, Helen starts to recall the curse and her tragic previous lives. But this time, she might have the power to break the cycle\u2026A Witch in Time is perfect for fans of A Secret History of Witches, Outlander, and The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44161656-a-witch-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Kieran the Black", "author_name": "Julia Templeton", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 494, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "If you hold his sword in your hands and place the point of the blade in Kieran's crest, you will experience life like you have never known it. When the frizzy-headed crone took thirty-nine-year-old Lizzie Johnston's hands and wrapped them around the sword, she felt a little weird. That's nothing compared to what she feels when she wakes up in the body of eighteen-year-old Saxon, Lady Elizabeth of Aedelmaer in the year 1067, wedded to the infamous Norman knight, Kieran the Black. Kieran's six and a half feet tall, black-haired, with the bluest eyes Lizzie's ever seen and built like a brick you know what. Lizzie's head over heels and determined to get tall, dark and dangerous into bed and win his heart, despite the old Elizabeth's avowed distaste for him. But first she has to save his life.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7622594-kieran-the-black"}, +{"book_title": "Screw The Galaxy", "author_name": "Steven Campbell", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 4084, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "Hank is a thug. He knows he's a thug. He has no problem with that realization. In his view the galaxy has given him a gift: a mutation that allows him to withstand great deals of physical trauma. He puts his abilities to the best use possible and that isn't by being a scientist. Besides, the space station Belvaille doesn't need scientists. It is not, generally, a thinking person's locale. It is the remotest habitation in the entire Colmarian Confederation. There is literally no reason to be there. Unless you are a criminal. Because of its location, Belvaille is populated with nothing but crooks. Every day is a series of power struggles between the crime bosses. Hank is an intrinsic part of this community as a premier gang negotiator. Not because he is eloquent or brilliant or an expert combatant, but because if you shoot him in the face he keeps on talking. Hank believes he has it pretty good until a beautiful and mysterious blue woman enters his life with a compelling job offer. Hank and Belvaille, so long out of public scrutiny, suddenly find themselves at the epicenter of the galaxy with a lot of very unwelcome attention.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18694092-screw-the-galaxy"}, +{"book_title": "Gimme a Call", "author_name": "Sarah Mlynowski", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 5325, "review_number": 693, "book_description": "A new life is just a phone call away!Devi's life isn't turning out at all like she wanted. She wasted the past three years going out with Bryan\u2014cute, adorable, break-your-heart Bryan. Devi let her friendships fade, blew off studying, didn't join any clubs . . . and now that Bryan has broken up with her, she has nothing left.Not even her stupid cell phone\u2014she dropped it in the mall fountain. Now it only calls one number . . . hers. At age fourteen, three years ago!Once Devi gets over the shock\u2014and convinces her younger self that she isn't some wacko\u2014she realizes that she's been given an awesome gift. She can tell herself all the right things to do . . . because she's already done all the wrong ones! Who better to take advice from than your future self?Except . . .what if getting what you think you want changes everything?Fans of Sarah Mlynowski's Magic in Manhattan series will love this hilarious new novel with a high-concept premise .", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Realistic Fiction", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6693333-gimme-a-call"}, +{"book_title": "Awaken the Highland Warrior", "author_name": "Anita Clenney", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2973, "review_number": 269, "book_description": "He's had centuries to dream of her...Mis-adventurous historian Bree Kirkland discovers a one hundred fifty year old warrior buried in a crypt behind her house. But Faelan, the warrior, isn\u2019t dead. When this chauvinistic Scottish Warrior awakes, he has no choice but accept the help of this modern-day woman who\u2019s rescued him, but she\u2019s more fearsome than the demon trying to kill him. If he\u2019s not careful, she\u2019ll uncover every secret his clan has bled and died to protect.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9645632-awaken-the-highland-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "The Deepest Poison", "author_name": "Beth Cato", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 127, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Octavia Leander, a young healer with incredible powers, has found her place among Miss Percival's medicians-in-training. Called to the frontlines of a never-ending war between Caskentia and the immoral Wasters, the two women must uncover the source of a devastating illness that is killing thousands of soldiers. But when Octavia's natural talents far outshine her teacher's, jealousy threatens to destroy their relationship\u2014as time runs out to save the encampment.Fans of Beth Cato's debut, The Clockwork Dagger, will love this journey into Octavia's past\u2014as well as an exclusive excerpt from the sequel, The Clockwork Crown!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25117185-the-deepest-poison"}, +{"book_title": "The Chosen", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1325, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Picking up where their highly successful sreies The General leaves off, The Chosen follows the further adventures of Raj Whitehall and Battle Central--this time to the stars! Original.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116450.The_Chosen"}, +{"book_title": "The Program", "author_name": "Suzanne Young", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 44850, "review_number": 5726, "book_description": "In Sloane\u2019s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program.Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane\u2019s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they\u2019ll do anything to keep her alive. She also knows that everyone who\u2019s been through The Program returns as a blank slate. Because their depression is gone\u2014but so are their memories.Under constant surveillance at home and at school, Sloane puts on a brave face and keeps her feelings buried as deep as she can. The only person Sloane can be herself with is James. He\u2019s promised to keep them both safe and out of treatment, and Sloane knows their love is strong enough to withstand anything. But despite the promises they made to each other, it\u2019s getting harder to hide the truth. They are both growing weaker. Depression is setting in. And The Program is coming for them.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Health (Mental Health)", "Fantasy", "Mental Health (Mental Illness)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11366397-the-program"}, +{"book_title": "The Countdown", "author_name": "Kimberly Derting", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1065, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "In the concluding book in the otherworldly Taking trilogy, Kyra struggles to understand who she is as she races to save the world from complete destruction.Ever since Kyra was abducted by aliens and then returned to earth, she has known there was something different about her. Now she knows the truth: she is an alien too. Her alien captors replaced all her human DNA with their own--gifting her with supernatural powers like incredible healing, enhanced eyesight, and telekinesis. But when she's captured by an unexpected enemy, Kyra begins to wonder if her abilities are also a curse. And is she, as her enemies believe, meant to play some key role in helping an impending alien invasion? Is it programmed into her, something inescapable? Or can she fight that destiny?No matter what the truth is, Kyra is sure of one thing: She just rescued the love of her life, Tyler, and she is not going to stand by and let anyone hurt him or her friends. Whatever it takes, Kyra will do everything in her power to save the world...even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26116440-the-countdown"}, +{"book_title": "The Autumn Lord", "author_name": "Susan Sizemore", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 140, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "The art of storytelling is the key to a woman's happiness in this sparkling time-travel romance. When a wizard snatches Diane Teal from her Seattle home and brings her to the Middle Ages, he cooks up an outrageous spell that will help her cheer up his friend, Simon de Argent, a melancholy widower.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2835874-the-autumn-lord"}, +{"book_title": "This Plague of Days, Season 1", "author_name": "Robert Chazz Chute", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 776, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "An autistic boy + elements of The Stand + 28 Days Later = A haunting protagonist versus the Running DeadJaimie Spencer is a strange autistic boy caught in a fight for survival as the Sutr-X virus spreads across the United States. While governments lie to their citizens to quarantine victims and isolate cities, the inexorable mind virus brings civilization as we know it to an end. Sutr-X sweeps away all we knew, but the plague doesn't stop there. As the virus mutates to become Sutr-Z, Britain falls as the zombies rise.The war for the future has begun and the greater numbers are on the side of the infected. Terrorists created the plague that made ordinary civilians into rabid bio-weapons. The Ungrateful Living and the rabid cannibals all share one thing in common: they are just like you.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18106312-this-plague-of-days-season-1"}, +{"book_title": "Larklight", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 5372, "review_number": 542, "book_description": "Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is entirely the wrong sort of preparation, as they discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying (and Marvellous) adventure begins. It takes them to the furthest reaches of Known Space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate attempt to save each other - and the Universe. Recounted through the eyes of Art himself, Larklight is sumptuously designed and illustrated throughout.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287892.Larklight"}, +{"book_title": "I Was Legion (Imperium of Terra Book 1", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 421, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Earth is not the cradle of humanity. It is the Throne.Almost four hundred years the Terran Imperium has languished, an Empire in name only. The young colonies exploded out of the Diaspora Era, supplanting the homeworld in importance as they left a broken world in their wake. Earth's people, guided by the Conwin line, have clawed and climbed from the darkness left the night the lights went out. They built and rebuilt the weary and weakened world they inherited, even when it seemed bent on killing them from sheer spite.For the new generation, such as Young Eryn Aubrey, a new day seems set to dawn with the Empress' Tri-Centennial surprise announcement of hope and empowerment to the people. There are others, however, who are not nearly so enthused with what The Conwin has to say.The Empire is a sleeping giant, goaded awake amidst tragedy, betrayal, and the machinations of conspiracy.Loyalties will be tested, oaths broken, and loyalties reforged. And into the galaxy a confused, angry, woken giant is set loose upon those long used to mocking its existence.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55726145-i-was-legion"}, +{"book_title": "The Sky Inside", "author_name": "Clare B. Dunkle", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 1789, "review_number": 217, "book_description": "Martin lives in a perfect world.Every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they've stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Every morning his family gathers around their television and votes, like everyone else, for whatever matter of national importance the president has on the table. Today, it is the color of his drapes. It's business as usual under the protective dome of suburb HM1.And it's all about to come crashing down.Because a stranger has come to take away all the little children, including Martin's sister, Cassie, and no one wants to talk about where she has gone. The way Martin sees it, he has a choice. He can remain in the dubious safety of HM1, with danger that no one wants to talk about lurking just beneath the surface, or he can actually break out of the suburb, into the mysterious land outside, rumored to be nothing but blowing sand for miles upon miles.Acclaimed author Clare B. Dunkle has crafted a fresh and fast-paced science-fiction thriller, one that challenges her characters -- and her readers -- to look closer at the world they take for granted.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1971504.The_Sky_Inside"}, +{"book_title": "The Saints", "author_name": "Lex Thomas", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 2995, "review_number": 317, "book_description": "A cross between the Gone series and Lord of the Flies, Quarantine #2: The Saints contunues this frenetically paced and scary young adult series that illustrates just how deadly high school can be.Nothing was worse than being locked in\u2014until they opened the door...McKinley High has been a battle ground for eighteen months since a virus outbreak led to a military quarantine of the school. When the doors finally open, Will and Lucy will think their nightmare is finished. But they are gravely mistaken. As a new group of teens enters the school and gains popularity, Will and Lucy join new gangs. An epic party on the quad full of real food and drinks, where kids hookup and actually interact with members of other gangs seemed to signal a new, easier existence. Soom after though, the world inside McKinley takes a startling turn for the worse, and Will and Lucy will have to fight harder than ever to survive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16280108-the-saints"}, +{"book_title": "Immortal", "author_name": "Steven Savile", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 62, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "From the bestselling writer of Doctor Who, Torchwood and Primeval comes a brand new post-apocalyptic thriller - the walking dead meets the roadA man awakens in a filthy bedroom with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. Seeing an old Gideon bible on a nightstand, he finds a name to call his own - Temple.Immortal is the story of Temple's quest for identity and purpose in a dying, decaying world. He is no romantic knight, no Sir Gawain, he has no sword and no armour, and in this broken world no one he can trust. He turns his back on everyone and everything as he embarks upon the quest for his own Holy Grail, and tempted by demons and gods every step of the way, he must confront the terrible truth about who he is and how he came to wake up in that damned hotel room.He was fashioned in one explosive act of terror, a good man transformed into Death.Temple comes, not upon a pale horse like his eternal brother, but on foot, tired, broken, and sick to the soul.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23198852-immortal"}, +{"book_title": "The Silicon Man", "author_name": "Charles Platt", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 142, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "The Silicon Man has been endorsed by William Gibson as \"A plausible, well-crafted narrative exploring cyberspace in a wholly new and very refreshing way\".What is the price of immortality? On the track of high-tech black-market weapons, FBI Agent James Bayley has stumbled on a top-secret project called LifeScan. A renegade team of government scientist, sponsored by an aging billionaire, has found a way to store the human mind inside a computer. Those scanned will be immortals, freed from the weaknesses of human flesh, virtual gods in a universe of their own creation. But godhood has a terrible price. To gain immortality, you must be willing to die.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/854752.The_Silicon_Man"}, +{"book_title": "Dying to Live", "author_name": "Kim Paffenroth", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 3172, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "Jonah Caine, a lone survivor in a zombie-infested world, struggles to understand the apocalypse in which he lives. Unable to find a moral or sane reason for the horror that surrounds him, he is overwhelmed by violence and insignificance.After wandering for months, Jonah's lonely existence dramatically changes when he discovers a group of survivors. Living in a museum-turned-compound, they are led jointly by Jack, an ever-practical and efficient military man, and Milton, a mysterious, quizzical prophet who holds a strange power over the dead. Both leaders share Jonah's anguish over the brutality of their world, as well as his hope for its beauty. Together with others, they build a community that reestablishes an island of order and humanity surrounded by relentless ghouls.But this newfound peace is short-lived, as Jonah and his band of refugees clash with another group of survivors who remind them that the undead are not the only\u2014nor the most grotesque\u2014horrors they must face.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407281.Dying_to_Live"}, +{"book_title": "Pontypool Changes Everything", "author_name": "Tony Burgess", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 824, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "The compelling, terrifying story of a devastating virus. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to kill someone? Wondered, in your darkest secret thoughts, about the taste of human flesh? What if you woke up and began your morning by devoting the rest of your life to a murderous rampage, a never-ending cannibalistic spree? And what if you were only one of thousands who shared the same compulsion? Well, today's your lucky day: in fact, by this afternoon, the predators will outnumber the prey. Pontypool Changes Everything depicts just such an epidemic. It's the compelling, terrifying story of a devastating virus. You catch it through conversation, and once it has you, it leads you on a strange journey - into another world where the undead chase you down the streets of the smallest towns and largest cities.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1740125.Pontypool_Changes_Everything"}, +{"book_title": "Sea of Silver Light", "author_name": "Tad Williams", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 13063, "review_number": 289, "book_description": "The epic conclusion of the Otherland saga journeys back to the bizarre world of virtual realities in which the characters discover a multifaceted pathways to immortality, which could be available if one is willing to pay a dangerous price. By the author of City of Golden Shadow, River of Blue Fire, and Mountain of Black Glass.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10092.Sea_of_Silver_Light"}, +{"book_title": "Cast in Shadow", "author_name": "Michelle Sagara", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 16260, "review_number": 1023, "book_description": "Seven years ago Kaylin fled the crime-riddled streets of Nightshade, knowing that something was after her. Children were being murdered \u2014 and all had the same odd markings that mysteriously appeared on her own skin...Since then, she's learned to read, she's learned to fight and she's become one of the vaunted Hawks who patrol and police the City of Elantra. Alongside the winged Aerians and immortal Barrani, she's made a place for herself, far from the mean streets of her birth.But children are once again dying, and a dark and familiar pattern is emerging, Kaylin is ordered back into Nightshade with a partner she knows she can't trust, a Dragon lord for a companion and a device to contain her powers \u2014 powers that no other human has. Her task is simple \u2014 find the killer, stop the murders... and survive the attentions of those who claim to be her allies!", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Romance", "Adult", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9542.Cast_in_Shadow"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunter's Mate", "author_name": "Susan Trombley", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 580, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Still haunted by nightmares about Hunter\u2019s sacrifice to save the lives of her and her friends, the last alien Tarin expects to see on Akrellia is the Menops bounty hunter himself. She\u2019s drawn to the dangerous male, despite his insectoid appearance, but chalks it up to their experiences together, unable to accept it might mean more\u2014even as she decides never to let him out of her sight again.Hunter has spent his life searching for one thing and one thing only\u2014a cure for imprinting. To that end, he joined the traitorous Iriduan, Halian, in a devil\u2019s bargain that has him deceiving Tarin and her friends, and he\u2019s not comfortable with that deception\u2014or with his growing concerns about Halian\u2019s plans. When the execution of part of Halian\u2019s plan isolates Hunter and Tarin on an unknown alien world, far from help, Hunter\u2019s problems grow even more complicated. An unanticipated metamorphosis leaves his body completely changed\u2014in a way that makes it impossible to ignore his growing feelings for Tarin. But secrets, lies, and a past he can\u2019t change form a seemingly insurmountable obstacle between them. Hunter must prove he\u2019s worthy of his queen and earn her forgiveness for his past mistakes, but the consequences of those mistakes have yet to fully manifest\u2014and when they do, no one will be safe.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49768981-the-hunter-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Battle for the Abyss", "author_name": "Ben Counter", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 4461, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "Now that news of Horus's treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have already declared their allegiance to the Warmaster, while the loyalty of others lies firmly with the Emperor. As Horus deploys his forces, loyalist Astartes learn that a massive Wordbearers fleet is heading to Ultramar, home of the Ultramarines. Unless they can intercept the fleet, and destroy the mighty battleship that has been sent to reinforce it, the Ultramarines may suffer a blow from which they will never recover.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2322177.Battle_for_the_Abyss"}, +{"book_title": "Veil of Time", "author_name": "Claire R. McDougall", "rating_score": 3.21, "rating_votes": 548, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "A compelling tale of two Scotlands-one modern, one ancient-and the woman who parts the veil between them.The medication that treats Maggie\u2019s seizures leaves her in a haze, but it can\u2019t dull her grief at losing her daughter to the same condition. With her marriage dissolved and her son away at school, Maggie retreats to a cottage below the ruins of Dunadd, once the royal seat of Scotland. But is it fantasy or reality when she awakens in a bustling village within the massive walls of eighth-century Dunadd? In a time and place so strange yet somehow familiar, Maggie is drawn to the striking, somber Fergus, brother of the king and father of Illa, who bears a keen resemblance to Maggie\u2019s late daughter. With each dreamlike journey to the past, Maggie grows closer to Fergus and embraces the possibility of staying in this Dunadd. But with present-day demands calling her back, can Maggie leave behind the Scottish prince who dubs her mo chridhe, my heart?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144050-veil-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Side", "author_name": "Anthony O'Neill", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1078, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon.Purgatory is the lawless moon colony of eccentric billionaire, Fletcher Brass: a mecca for war criminals, murderers, sex fiends, and adventurous tourists. You can\u2019t find better drugs, cheaper plastic surgery, or a more ominous travel advisory anywhere in the universe. But trouble is brewing in Brass\u2019s black-market heaven. When an exiled cop arrives in this wild new frontier, he immediately finds himself investigating a string of ruthless assassinations in which Brass himself\u2014and his equally ambitious daughter\u2014are the chief suspects. Meanwhile, two-thousand kilometers away, an amnesiac android, Leonardo Black, rampages across the lunar surface. Programmed with only the notorious \u201cBrass Code\u201d\u2014a compendium of corporate laws that would make Ayn Rand blush\u2014Black has only one goal in mind: to find Purgatory and conquer it. Visual, visceral, and tons of fun, The Dark Side fuses hard science with brutal crime and lunar adventure. It\u2019s an intense, stylish, and action-packed thriller with a body count to match.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Noir)", "Thriller", "Space", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276286-the-dark-side"}, +{"book_title": "Who We Truly Are", "author_name": "Victoria Sue", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1340, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "Talon\u2019s deadly abilities are spiraling out of control. Desperate to keep Finn safe, Talon struggles to protect the man he loves with all his heart, and not become the greatest risk to Finn\u2019s life. Finn has no choice but to offer himself as bait for the evil forces kidnapping enhanced children, facing danger he is untrained and unprepared for, and he is having to do it alone. Does Talon have one last fight in him? Will he slay everyone who wants to destroy Finn and the team, or will he finally discover that to defeat their enemy and the ultimate threat, the biggest battle he has to face is one with himself?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54317692-who-we-truly-are"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Planet Warriors: Escape", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1138, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Abbey Ever since we left the Fleet Station, Tarak has been his usual cryptic self. For some reason, he\u2019s keeping everything very low-key, to the extent that we\u2019re trying to sneak in to Kythia. Something\u2019s up, and he\u2019s not telling me anything. Every time I try to get answers, he distracts me with his stupid sexiness. Stupid sexy, silver, stubborn, insistent alien. Why can\u2019t he just keep his damn hands to himself? And why do I suck at resisting his advances? There\u2019s something he\u2019s not telling me. He\u2019s up to something shady, and I don\u2019t like it. I guess I have no choice but to stick with him for now, because half of Kythia is out to get me, and who better to have by your side than the most lethal soldier in the Kordolian military? We\u2019ll just have to work on his communication skills, a little, that\u2019s all. Tarak Kythia is a dangerous place for a Human, but I must go there. The safest place in the universe for Abbey right now is by my side, so she comes with me. She will not enjoy the trip, but I aim to keep it brief. Besides, I cannot keep my hands off her. She mystifies and perplexes me, and yet I find myself addicted to her warmth, her scent, and her sweet taste. She does not know the extent of the danger facing us. The High Council want my head. They may send assassins after us. The barren wastelands of the Vaal, where we must go, are cold and harsh and completely disconnected from civilization. But I must find the tortured Prince, and drag him back to reality. There are plans I wish to put in place to ensure the survival of our race, and he, just like my precious Human, is an integral part of them. We may be returning to Earth sooner than she thinks. Dark Planet Warriors is a 3-book serial. Each book is an episode of Abbey and Tarak's story, just like a TV series. Books in series: Book one: Invasion Book two: Taken Book three: Escape Due to violence, swearing and steamy sex scenes, these books are recommended for readers aged 18 years and over.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Novella", "Space (Space Opera)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29490584-dark-planet-warriors"}, +{"book_title": "1824: The Arkansas War", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 617, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "In the newest volume of this exhilarating series, Eric Flint continues to reshape American history, imagining how a continent and its people might have taken a different path to its future. With 1824: The Arkansas War, he spins an astounding and provocative saga of heroism, battlefield action, racial conflict, and rebellion as a nation recovering from war is plunged into a dangerous era of secession.Buffered by Spanish possessions to the south and by free states and two rivers to the north, Arkansas has become a country of its own: a hybrid confederation of former slaves, Native American Cherokee and Creek clans, and white abolitionists\u2013including one charismatic warrior who has gone from American hero to b\u00eate noire. Irish-born Patrick Driscol is building a fortune and a powerful army in the Arkansas Confederacy, inflaming pro-slavers in Washington and terrifying moderates as well. Caught in the middle is President James Monroe, the gentlemanly Virginian entering his final year in office with a demagogic House Speaker, Henry Clay, nipping at his heels and fanning the fires of war. But Driscol, whose black artillerymen smashed both the Louisiana militia in 1820 and the British in New Orleans, remains a magnet for revolution. And fault lines are erupting throughout the young republic\u2013so that every state, every elected official, and every citizen will soon be forced to choose a side. For a country whose lifeblood is infected with the slave trade, the war of 1824 will be a bloody crisis of conscience, politics, economics, and military maneuvering that will draw in players from as far away as England. For such men as Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Sam Houston, charismatic war hero Andrew Jackson, and the violent abolitionist John Brown, it is a time to change history itself.Filled with fascinating insights into some of America\u2019s most intriguing historical figures, 1824: The Arkansas War confirms Eric Flint as a true master of alternate history, a novelist who brings to bear exhaustive research, remarkable intuition, and a great storyteller\u2019s natural gifts to chronicle the making of our nation as it might have been.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57258.1824"}, +{"book_title": "A Court of Thorns and Roses", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 533757, "review_number": 50124, "book_description": "Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill \u2013 the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "New Adult", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16096824-a-court-of-thorns-and-roses"}, +{"book_title": "Sunset Rising", "author_name": "S.M. McEachern", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1660, "review_number": 257, "book_description": "Deep inside a mountain in what used to be North America dwells the last of humanity. Welcome to the Biodome, where steel, rock and armed guards separate the privileged from the slaves ...Born and raised as a slave in the Pit, Sunny O\u2019Donnell has always accepted that she'll spend her life working to keep the Dome running and, if she lives long enough, willingly meet her end in the annual Cull when she reaches the age of thirty-five. This was the price her ancestors paid for their place inside the Biodome, the only haven from the global nuclear war of 2024. But when Sunny\u2019s mother is killed in the Cull, the hopeless reality of her existence becomes painfully clear. Bereft and disillusioned, she heads down a reckless path that sets off a riot in the Pit and leaves her accused of treason. Her only way of escaping public execution is to make a truce with her prison mate, who happens to be the heir to the dictatorship and hated enemy of the Pit. Now caught between two worlds on the brink of war, Sunny must weigh her own survival against risking everything to save the Pit. S.M. McEachern delivers the action and adventure of The Hunger Games, the intrigue of The City of Ember\", and the romantic philosophical notes of Les Mis\u00e9rables in her debut novel set in a future that is disturbingly plausible.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17312777-sunset-rising"}, +{"book_title": "I Am Legend and Other Stories", "author_name": "Richard Matheson", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 120614, "review_number": 4988, "book_description": "Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?I am legend --Buried talents --The near departed --Prey --Witch war --Dance of the dead --Dress of white silk --Mad house --The funeral --From shadowed places --Person to person.", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/547094.I_Am_Legend_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "A Shadow in Summer", "author_name": "Daniel Abraham", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 11440, "review_number": 775, "book_description": "The city-state of Saraykeht dominates the Summer Cities. Its wealth is beyond measure; its port is open to all the merchants of the world, and its ruler, the Khai Saraykeht, commands forces to rival the Gods. Commerce and trade fill the streets with a hundred languages, and the coffers of the wealthy with jewels and gold. Any desire, however exotic or base, can be satisfied in its soft quarter. Blissfully ignorant of the forces that fuel their prosperity, the people live and work secure in the knowledge that their city is a bastion of progress in a harsh world. It would be a tragedy if it fell.Saraykeht is poised on the knife-edge of disaster.At the heart of the city's influence are the poet-sorcerer Heshai and the captive spirit, Seedless, whom he controls. For all his power, Heshai is weak, haunted by memories of shame and humiliation. A man faced with constant reminders of his responsibilities and his failures, he is the linchpin and the most vulnerable point in Saraykeht's greatness.Far to the west, the armies of Galt have conquered many lands. To take Saraykeht, they must first destroy the trade upon which its prosperity is based. Marchat Wilsin, head of Galt's trading house in the city, is planning a terrible crime against Heshai and Seedless. If he succeeds, Saraykeht will fall.Amat, House Wilsin's business manager, is a woman who rose from the slums to wield the power that Marchat Wilsin would use to destroy her city. Through accidents of fate and circumstance Amat, her apprentice Liat, and two young men from the farthest reaches of their society stand alone against the dangers that threaten the city.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Epic", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208.A_Shadow_in_Summer"}, +{"book_title": "27 Hours", "author_name": "Tristina Wright", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 825, "review_number": 299, "book_description": "Rumor Mora fears two things: hellhounds too strong for him to kill, and failure. Jude Welton has two dreams: for humans to stop killing monsters, and for his strange abilities to vanish.But in no reality should a boy raised to love monsters fall for a boy raised to kill them.Nyx Llorca keeps two secrets: the moon speaks to her, and she\u2019s in love with Dahlia, her best friend. Braeden Tennant wants two things: to get out from his mother's shadow, and to unlearn Epsilon's darkest secret.They\u2019ll both have to commit treason to find the truth.During one twenty-seven-hour night, if they can\u2019t stop the war between the colonies and the monsters from becoming a war of extinction, the things they wish for will never come true, and the things they fear will be all that\u2019s left.27 Hours is a sweeping, thrilling story featuring a stellar cast of queer teenagers battling to save their homes and possibly every human on Sahara as the clock ticks down to zero.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Romance (M M Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28526192-27-hours"}, +{"book_title": "Resisting Rachel", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 838, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Forced down by enemy fire, The Kelon ship Rachel has been travelling on crashes into a strange alien planet. Stranded until they can be rescued, commander Syl knows the only way to protect Rachel, and stop his warriors fighting over her, is to claim her as quickly as possible. Feeling responsible for the fragile human, he sees it as his duty to claim her, even though Syl believes himself in love with his brother\u2019s wife.Rachel has been in love with the tall commander ever since she stepped foot on his ship. But can she live in a marriage without love? She may have his body, strength and protection, but Rachel also wants his heart. She formulates a plan to prove to the stubborn Kelon just how irresistible she is, if they can survive the dangers of the planet, and the enemies who hover above.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12504180-resisting-rachel"}, +{"book_title": "The Serpent's Mate", "author_name": "Susan Trombley", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1203, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "\nWhen Cass is abducted by aliens and sold to an alien pirate queen who collects female slaves to harvest their pheromones, her first experience with extra-terrestrials quickly turns from surreal into a nightmare, which only grows more terrifying when an alien with a snake-like lower body and a surprisingly handsome face comes to her rescue. But Cass isn't sure she's actually safe with him, because he looks at her with hunger in his eyes. \nNahash has always been a loyal, honourable Iriduan soldier. After distinguishing himself above his peers, the genetically-enhanced warrior volunteered for an experimental program to create a hybrid with powerful psionic abilities, using DNA taken from a giant serpent that decimated one of their outer colonies. Though his body changed into a form beyond the scientists' expectations, his mind became a weapon that could alter the very course of Iriduan civilization, perhaps even saving it from its inevitable ruin. \nAfter such drastic alterations to his biology, scientists told him he was free from the affliction that caused Iriduan males to imprint on a single female, bonding him to her for life. The last thing he expects is to bond instantly to a human female he rescues during a raid on a pirate colony. Now, he's stuck with her, because if he isn't exposed to his mate's scent on a regular basis, he will die. The fact that his body craves her as much as it needs her fills him with resentment, but when he realizes that the Iriduan Empire will do anything to keep her under their control because of what she means to him, he doesn't hesitate to protect his mate - even if it means betraying his people. \nThe rogue test subject and the abducted human make a desperate escape from the Iriduan Empire, but the galaxy proves to be a dangerous place and there are worse things than the Iriduans waiting in the darkness of space. With no one to rely on except for each other, Nahash and Cass might not live long enough to find a home where they can settle down and explore the love that grows between them - love that takes them beyond their physical bond. \nAuthor's Note: 18+ Contains steamy scenes between a human heroine and a very alien hero.\n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42585327-the-serpent-s-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Haunted Angel, Vol. 05", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 387, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Alita joins her arch-enemy, mad scientist Desty Nova, and two nasty replicants of herself on a journey to Ketheres to rescue her old friend Lou's brain, which is part of a vast array powering the computer known as \"Melchizedek.\" In Ketheres, the hapless cyborg and her unsympathetic companions promptly become embroiled in a war between artificial worlds. Their hosts have the secret of immortality, but how human is someone who can live forever?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/838857.Battle_Angel_Alita_Last_Order_"}, +{"book_title": "The Living Dead", "author_name": "George A. Romero", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1107, "review_number": 388, "book_description": "It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won\u2019t stay dead.It spreads quickly. In a Midwestern trailer park, an African American teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family.On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic preaches the gospel of a new religion of death.At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting, not knowing if anyone is watching, while his undead colleagues try to devour him.In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.We think we know how this story ends.We. Are. Wrong.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52379448-the-living-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Hypercage", "author_name": "Craig Lea Gordon", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 78, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Dave is a virtual reality gaming addict, willing to risk everything to keep the thrill alive. But how far is he ready to go?His addiction has taken his family to breaking point. And now he must choose. Can he give up the one thing that allows him to escape the mundane, to belong, to become something greater?When he meets the gaming girl of his dreams, she offers him the chance of a lifetime. But will he get what he always wanted, or end up paying the ultimate price?If you like intense and gripping stories, with a reality-bending plot, then you\u2019ll love Hypercage.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55082663-hypercage"}, +{"book_title": "Weather Witch", "author_name": "Shannon Delany", "rating_score": 3.04, "rating_votes": 370, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "In a vastly different and darker Philadelphia of 1844, steam power has been repressed, war threatens from deep, dark waters, and one young lady of high social standing is expecting a surprise at her seventeenth birthday party\u2013but certainly not the one she gets!Jordan Astraea, who has lived out all of her life in Philadelphia\u2019s most exclusive neighborhood, is preparing to celebrate her birthday with friends, family and all the extravagance they might muster. The young man who is most often her dashing companion, Rowen Burchette, has told her a surprise awaits her and her best friend, Catrina Hollindale, wouldn\u2019t miss this night for all the world!But storm clouds are gathering and threatening to do far more than dampen her party plans because someone in the Astraea household has committed the greatest of social sins by Harboring a Weather Witch.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16045074-weather-witch"}, +{"book_title": "Her Own Devices", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 3578, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "Escaped lunatics, lost children, vengeful lords, and love. Really, the situation is becoming quite impossible.Seventeen-year-old Lady Claire Trevelyan, left alone after the Arabian Bubble financial disaster claims home and family, now leads the cleverest gang in the London underworld. Between outwitting a rival gang, inventing a device that will net her and her scientist employer worldwide fame, and keeping her mother from marrying her off, she can almost forget that a powerful lord wants to get closer ... and if he succeeds, can destroy it all with a single word ...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13327471-her-own-devices"}, +{"book_title": "Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure", "author_name": "Bill Willingham", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 327, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Bill Willingham, the bestselling author of DC/Vertigo's Fables, reimagines the most iconic characters of the Dynamite stable in a gorgeous and expansive Steampunk universe! A mysterious woman named Magna Spadarossa searches the many kingdoms of her world to find her missing sister, Sonja. From glamorous airships to clockwork cities to primordial jungles, Magna evades the pursuit of strange and dastardly villains, thanks to the help of many brave heroes. Featuring Red Sonja, Vampirella, Green Hornet, Kato, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Silver Star, Captain Victory, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Zorro, as you've never seen them before!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23366723-legenderry"}, +{"book_title": "Displacement", "author_name": "Kiku Hughes", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1703, "review_number": 445, "book_description": "A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps.Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself \"\"stuck\"\" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "LGBT", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46223303-displacement"}, +{"book_title": "The Vladivostok Gauntlet", "author_name": "Olivier Gagnon", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 95, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Rules for the BreakingYuri Yehzov has been off the streets for a long while, surviving by following a few simple rules. Don\u2019t stick your neck out. Don\u2019t get involved in something that is none of your business. And above all, don\u2019t piss off the ferocious mobsters of the Vory y Zakone.Yuri doesn\u2019t have much left from his shadowrunning days except his cyberears, but that\u2019s enough to get him in trouble. When he hears something he cannot ignore, one by one his rules fall by the wayside until he has cold-blooded killers, vicious shapeshifters, and a ruthless Vory leader all after him. His gear is broken, his reflexes are shot, and he\u2019s about to face the toughest opponents he\u2019s ever been against. The streets have one more chance to claim his life\u2014and he has one more chance to break the rules, beat the odds, and find a way to stay alive.The Vladivostok Gauntlet is a brand new Shadowrun short story. Read it and immerse yourself in the grit, grime, and dirty glory of the Sixth World!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19084246-the-vladivostok-gauntlet"}, +{"book_title": "Prison Planet", "author_name": "Jake Elwood", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 214, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "An Impossible Choice Camp One has one brutal rule: If you attempt to escape, you die \u2013 and three random prisoners die with you. Tom Thrush has resigned himself to dying by degrees, doing forced labor while he slowly starves. When he learns that a distant mesa holds a slim chance at freedom he does nothing. The price of escape is too high. Then fever sweeps through the camp. Surrounded by armed guards and an unforgiving jungle, paralyzed by the threat of reprisals, Tom watches as the men he\u2019s sworn to protect die one by one. If anyone is to survive, Tom will have to do the unthinkable. Escape. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39943856-prison-planet"}, +{"book_title": "The Burning Light", "author_name": "Bradley P. Beaulieu", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 265, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Disgraced government operative Colonel Chu is exiled to the flooded relic of New York City. Something called the Light has hit the streets like an epidemic, leavings its users strung out and disconnected from the mind-network humanity relies on. Chu has lost everything she cares about to the Light. She\u2019ll end the threat or die trying.A former corporate pilot who controlled a thousand ships with her mind, Zola looks like just another Light-junkie living hand to mouth on the edge of society. She\u2019s special though. As much as she needs the Light, the Light needs her too. But, Chu is getting close and Zola can\u2019t hide forever.A thrilling and all-too believable science fiction novella from the authors of Twelve Kings in Sharakhai and Seed.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30199310-the-burning-light"}, +{"book_title": "Liege-Killer", "author_name": "Christopher Hinz", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 915, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Two hundred years after Earth is devastated by nuclear war and genetically engineered Paratwa assassins, the humans of orbiting Earth colonies are at peace, until a series of murders reveal the reemergence of the Paratwa. Reprint. K. PW.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/589852.Liege_Killer"}, +{"book_title": "He, She and It", "author_name": "Marge Piercy", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 5225, "review_number": 396, "book_description": "In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions--and the ability to kill....", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Feminism", "Romance", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788331.He_She_and_It"}, +{"book_title": "Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 3454, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to Kafka and Vonnegut. Collected here are twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers.In \"The Days of Perky Pat,\" people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth's real inhabitants. \"Adjustment Team\" looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In \"Autofac,\" one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in \"I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,\" we follow the story of one man whose very reality may be nothing more than a nightmare. The collection also includes such classic stories as \"The Minority Report,\" the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie, and \"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,\" the basis for the film Total Recall. Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent distillation of one of American literature's most searching imaginations.\u00bb Introduction by Jonathan Lethem1. Beyond Lies the Wub (wikipedia)2. Roog (wikipedia)3. Paycheck (wikipedia, imdb)4. Second Variety (wikipedia, imdb)5. Imposter (wikipedia)6. The King of the Elves (wikipedia, imdb)7. Adjustment Team (wikipedia, imdb)8. Foster, You're Dead! (wikipedia)9. Upon the Dull Earth (wikipedia)10. Autofac (wikipedia)11. The Minority Report (wikipedia, imdb)12. The Days of Perky Pat (wikipedia)13. Precious Artifact14. A Game of Unchance15. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (wikipedia, imdb)16. Faith of Our Fathers (wikipedia)17. The Electric Ant (wikipedia)18. A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (wikipedia)19. The Exit Door Leads In (wikipedia)20. Rautavaara's Case (wikipedia)21. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (wikipedia)", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Anthologies", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14180.Selected_Stories_of_Philip_K_Dick"}, +{"book_title": "Out of the Ashes", "author_name": "L.A. Casey", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1193, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "For Nova, a twenty-three-year-old survivalist, wandering a barren wasteland was a lonely existence. But her day-to-day life was about to drastically change forever. Gone were the days when her only worries were rabid animals, augmented humans, the unforgiving scorching sun, and rogue watchmen. Now, Nova found herself faced with a new threat, and he was tall, grey, and horribly stubborn. For Kol, a two-hundred-year-old daredevil, sailing the never-ending waves of deep space was a vast and thrilling life to lead. He had one objective on Earth\u2014rescue as many human females as possible and return them to his home planet. It was supposed to be simple, but no one told Kol that a human female\u2019s tongue could slice a male like a blade. His charge was short, strikingly attractive, and she talked way too much. Nova wasn\u2019t going to be kidnapped without putting up a fight, but Kol was more than ready to go toe to toe with her. These two species set out on a collision course that would redefine the phrase \"The Big Bang\" forever.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "New Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33898152-out-of-the-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Killbox", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 4236, "review_number": 331, "book_description": "Talk is cheap when lives are in jeopardySirantha Jax is a \u201cJumper,\u201d a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. With no tolerance for political diplomacy, she quits her ambassador post so she can get back to saving the universe the way she does best\u2014by mouthing off and kicking butt.And her tactics are needed more than ever. Flesh-eating aliens are attacking stations on the outskirts of space, and for many people, the Conglomerate\u2019s forces are arriving too late to serve and protect them.Now, Jax must take matters into her own hands by recruiting a militia to defend the frontiers\u2014out of the worst criminals, mercenaries, and raiders that ever traveled through grimspace\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7843135-killbox"}, +{"book_title": "Mercenary", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3560, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "This is the second in the series BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT, featuring the stages in the life of Hope Hubris, the Tyrant of Jupiter, and his beloved sister Spirit.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96964.Mercenary"}, +{"book_title": "Non-Stop", "author_name": "Brian W. Aldiss", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 5648, "review_number": 324, "book_description": "Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down... Non-Stop is the classic SF novel of discovery and exploration; a brilliant evocation of a familiar setting seen through the eyes of a primitive.", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384579.Non_Stop"}, +{"book_title": "Falling Sky", "author_name": "Rajan Khanna", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 377, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Ben Gold lives in dangerous times. Two generations ago, a virulent disease turned the population of most of North America into little more than beasts called Ferals. Some of those who survived took to the air, scratching out a living on airships and dirigibles soaring over the dangerous ground. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ben, a lone wolf, has reluctantly agreed to use his skills and his airship to help an idealist scientist, Miranda, on her search for a cure. Protecting her from Ferals is dangerous enough but when power-mad raiders run rampant, Ben finds himself in the most dangerous place of all\u2014the ground.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ben\u2019s journey leads him to Gastown, a city in the air recently conquered by belligerent and expansionist pirates. Old friends and new enemies are drawn into a struggle that quickly becomes a fight for the fate of the world. Ben must decide to focus on his own survival or risk it all on a desperate chance for a better future.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20600454-falling-sky"}, +{"book_title": "The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy", "author_name": "Mackenzi Lee", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 25718, "review_number": 4777, "book_description": "In this highly anticipated sequel to the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling\u00a0The Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor\u2014even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans of Mackenzi Lee\u2019s extraordinary and Stonewall Honor-winning novel.A year after an accidentally whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals in mind\u2014avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh and enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science.But then a window of opportunity opens\u2014a doctor she idolizes is marrying an old friend of hers in Germany. Felicity believes if she could meet this man he could change her future, but she has no money of her own to make the trip. Luckily, a mysterious young woman is willing to pay Felicity\u2019s way, so long as she\u2019s allowed to travel with Felicity disguised as her maid.In spite of her suspicions, Felicity agrees, but once the girl\u2019s true motives are revealed, Felicity becomes part of a perilous quest that leads them from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Adventure", "GLBT (Queer)", "Feminism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37880094-the-lady-s-guide-to-petticoats-and-piracy"}, +{"book_title": "Once a Pirate", "author_name": "Susan Grant", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 590, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Once a pirate. . .. . .Always her manLieutenant Carly Callahan crashes her fighter jet into the greatest battle of her life--two centuries before she was born. Rescued by a pirate captain, she learns she's the pawn in his plan to exact revenge against his sworn enemy.Outlaw nobleman Andrew Spencer has one goal: to ruin the man who destroyed his life. But the strangely garbed blonde he hoists onto his deck not only refuses to admit she's his highborn target, but insists she's from another century entirely. The more time they spend together, the more he wants to believe her talk of flying machines and the future. Her bravery and fire is enough to melt his cold heart and convince him to reconsider his plans.A desperate bid to fulfill their dream of a life together is their only option...if they can find each other again through time.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40869185-once-a-pirate"}, +{"book_title": "Ape and Essence", "author_name": "Aldous Huxley", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 4909, "review_number": 315, "book_description": "In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet. Ape and Essence is Huxley's vision of the ruin of humanity, told with all his knowledge and imaginative genius.", "year_published": 1948, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Literature", "Philosophy", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30561.Ape_and_Essence"}, +{"book_title": "The Dreaming Stars", "author_name": "Tim Pratt", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 897, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Ancient aliens, the Axiom, will kill us all \u2013 when they wake up. In deep space, a swarm of nanoparticles threatens the colonies, transforming everything it meets into computronium \u2013 including the colonists. The crew of the White Raven investigate, and discover an Axiom facility filled with aliens hibernating while their minds roam a vast virtual reality. The treacherous Sebastien wakes up, claiming his altered brain architecture can help the crew deactivate the swarm \u2013 from inside the Axiom simulation. To protect humanity, beleaguered Captain Callie Machedo must trust him, but if Sebastien still plans to dominate the universe using Axiom tech, they could be in a whole lot of trouble.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Novels", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37421923-the-dreaming-stars"}, +{"book_title": "After The Virus", "author_name": "Meghan Ciana Doidge", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 361, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "After the virus decimates 99.9% of the world\u2019s population, and all traces of humanity along with it, Rhiannon and Will are forced to move beyond their past fame, fortune, and personal demons to rescue a mute girl from the clutches of two warring cults.-------------WARNING: this post-apocalyptic love story contains mature situations, violence, and language.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Womens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15779450-after-the-virus"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Jealousy", "author_name": "Kit Rocha", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 3606, "review_number": 438, "book_description": "\nShe\u2019s been looking for the perfect man. She found two.\nWhen Rachel Riley sacrificed a life in Eden to protect the O\u2019Kanes, she earned her place in the powerful Sector Four gang. But the former crime princess is tired of being everyone\u2019s sweet little sister . It\u2019s time for her to get wild, to embrace her fantasies as only an O\u2019Kane can\u2014with a delicious exiled soldier and the gang\u2019s wickedly sinful tattoo artist.\nA saint...\nLorenzo Cruz is a warrior, taught by his commanding officers in Eden that involvement equals distraction. Emotion is a liability, and desire a sin. In Sector Four, he finds decadence, shameless sex\u2014and his own dark urges. No battle strategy prepared him for how Rachel makes his heart race\u2026or the way his rival for her affections sets his blood on fire.\n...and a sinner.\nAce Santana has a dirty reputation and a mind to match, especially where his new lovers are concerned. He\u2019s eager to help Cruz embrace his dominant side, and to explore the lines between pleasure and pain with Rachel. But corrupting them quickly becomes an obsession, a need he can\u2019t deny\u2014and a love he never imagined.Three hearts on the line means a hundred ways their m\u00e9nage a trois could go wrong. After all, even O\u2019Kanes do forever two-by-two. One of them could be the missing piece that makes them all whole\u2026or a temporary diversion destined for a broken heart.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16049680-beyond-jealousy"}, +{"book_title": "Eternal Vows", "author_name": "Chrissy Peebles", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 3790, "review_number": 359, "book_description": "Never marry a stranger... even if he is a drop-dead gorgeous immortal king.Never pretend to be a princess.And most importantly... never slip on an ancient wedding ring you know nothing about.Sarah Larker returns to a cave where her sister disappeared ten years earlier. She walks through a portal and is mistaken for a runaway princess on the run by a dangerous immortal king in medieval times. Her plan is bold as well as daring-become this princess, wed the king, and slip on an ancient wedding ring that will unlock the portal back home. Then find her sister and run as fast as she can out of Dodge. But taking on the identity of Princess Gloria comes along with dangerous consequences; and slipping on the ruby ring comes with an even higher price.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13543899-eternal-vows"}, +{"book_title": "Halo: Silentium", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2664, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood\u2014a horrifying shape-changing parasite\u2014has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. Only the Ur-Didact and the Librarian\u2014a husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict\u2014hold the keys to salvation. Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time\u2014to prevent an unmatched evil from dominating the entire universe.This is the third and final volume of The Forerunner Saga.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Audiobook", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Fantasy", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15747451-halo"}, +{"book_title": "Ungifted", "author_name": "Gordon Korman", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 19027, "review_number": 2310, "book_description": "The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis. It's usually more like Don't try this at home. So when the troublemaker pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he's finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction (ASD), a special program for gifted and talented students.It wasn't exactly what Donovan had intended, but there couldn't be a more perfect hideout for someone like him. That is, if he can manage to fool people whose IQs are above genius level. And that becomes harder and harder as the students and teachers of ASD grow to realize that Donovan may not be good at math or science (or just about anything). But after an ongoing experiment with a live human (sister), an unforgettably dramatic middle-school dance, and the most astonishing come-from-behind robot victory ever, Donovan shows that his gifts might be exactly what the ASD students never knew they needed.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Realistic Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Humor", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Academic (School)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623777-ungifted"}, +{"book_title": "Bonding With the Beast", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1092, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Isobel Yates is a single mom with no time for romance, but the Goddess has other plans for her.Hail is a Dark Kindred. Since emotions are outlawed on his home world, he is learning to feel now that he lives on the Mother Ship. Strong emotions are bad news, though--they bring out the part of his DNA that is Bolaxian Beast, a race of beings known for their fierce breeding lust.Isobel is afraid to trust the huge Kindred warrior with her heart and the safety of her young son but when fate throws them together, she has no choice. When Hail's beast comes out, will Isobel run from him\u2026 or bond with him?You'll have to read Bonding with the Beast to find out\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34882634-bonding-with-the-beast"}, +{"book_title": "Hospital Station", "author_name": "James White", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1963, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "Sector general is the home of many strange creatures, including humans! it is a vast sectionalized hospital, set up in space to care for all kinds of extra-terrestrials. Each section has a different atmosphere and habitat to cater for the many different species.. all the problems of the staff and patients are in this book.. how to design a spacesuit for a surgeon with eight legs?", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Medical", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1695570.Hospital_Station"}, +{"book_title": "Harrow the Ninth", "author_name": "Tamsyn Muir", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 14179, "review_number": 2853, "book_description": "Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.She answered the Emperor's call.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.In victory, her world has turned to ash.After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders.Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath \u2014 but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her. Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor's Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Horror", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39325105-harrow-the-ninth"}, +{"book_title": "House Corrino", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 14465, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "The triumphant conclusion to the blockbuster trilogy that made science fiction history!In Dune: House Corrino Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring us the magnificent final chapter in the unforgettable saga begun in Dune: House Atreides and continued in Dune: House Harkonnen.Here nobles and commoners, soldiers and slaves, wives and courtesans shape the amazing destiny of a tumultuous universe. An epic saga of love and war, crime and politics, religion and revolution, this magnificent novel is a fitting conclusion to a great science fiction trilogy ... and an invaluable addition to the thrilling world of Frank Herbert's immortal Dune.Dune: House CorrinoFearful of losing his precarious hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and that can be found only on the desert world of Dune.In subterranean labs on the machine planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords use slaves and prisoners as part of a horrific plan to manufacture a synthetic form of melange known as amal. If amal can supplant the spice from Dune, it will give Shaddam what he seeks: absolute power.But Duke Leto Atreides, grief-stricken yet unbowed by the tragic death of his son Victor, determined to restore the honor and prestige of his House, has his own plans for Ix.He will free the Ixians from their oppressive conquerors and restore his friend Prince Rhombur, injured scion of the disgraced House Vernius, to his rightful place as Ixian ruler. It is a bold and risky venture, for House Atreides has limited military resources and many ruthless enemies, including the sadistic Baron Harkonnen, despotic master of Dune.Meanwhile, Duke Leto's consort, the beautiful Lady Jessica, obeying the orders of her superiors in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, has conceived a child that the Sisterhood intends to be the penultimate step in the creation of an all-powerful being. Yet what the Sisterhood doesn't know is that the child Jessica is carrying is not the girl they are expecting, but a boy.Jessica's act of disobedience is an act of love -- her attempt to provide her Duke with a male heir to House Atreides -- but an act that, when discovered, could kill both mother and baby.Like the Bene Gesserit, Shaddam Corrino is also concerned with making a plan for the future -- securing his legacy. Blinded by his need for power, the Emperor will launch a plot against Dune, the only natural source of true spice. If he succeeds, his madness will result in a cataclysmic tragedy not even he foresees: the end of space travel, the Imperium, and civilization itself.With Duke Leto and other renegades and revolutionaries fighting to stem the tide of darkness that threatens to engulf their universe, the stage is set for a showdown unlike any seen before.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20252.House_Corrino"}, +{"book_title": "Grass for His Pillow", "author_name": "Lian Hearn", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 22407, "review_number": 679, "book_description": "Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book\u00a0in the Tales of the Otori series, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as \"the most compelling novel to have been published this year.\" With Grass for His Pillow, Book Two, we return to the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's creation\u2014a land of harsh beauty and deceptive appearances.In a complex social hierarchy, amid dissembling clans and fractured allegiances, there is no place for passionate young love. The orphan Takeo has been condemned to work as an assassin\u2014an enforced occupation that his father sacrificed his own life to escape. Meanwhile, Takeo\u2019s beloved Shirakawa Kaede, heir to the Murayama and alone in the world, must find a way to unify the domain she has inherited, as she fights off the advances of would-be suitors and hopes against fading hope that Takeo will return to her...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Romance", "Adventure", "Cultural (Asia)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77161.Grass_for_His_Pillow"}, +{"book_title": "Here, There Be Dragons", "author_name": "James A. Owen", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 11119, "review_number": 1100, "book_description": "The Imaginarium Geographica\"What is it?\" John asked.The little man blinked and arched an eyebrow.\"It is the world, my boy,\" he said. \"All the world, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the world, and it is yours to save or lose.\" An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little man called Bert tells them that they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica -- an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. These lands, Bert claims, can be traveled to in his ship the Indigo Dragon, one of only seven vessels that is able to cross the Frontier between worlds into the Archipelago of Dreams.Pursued by strange and terrifying creatures, the companions flee London aboard the Dragonship. Traveling to the very realm of the imagination itself, they must learn to overcome their fears and trust in one another if they are to defeat the dark forces that threaten the destiny of two worlds.An extraordinary journey of myth, magic, and mystery, Here, There Be Dragons introduces James A. Owen as a formidable new talent.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34908.Here_There_Be_Dragons"}, +{"book_title": "Welcome to the Monkey House", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 56548, "review_number": 1969, "book_description": "Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut\u2019s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.Alternative cover edition here ", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Literature", "Humor", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4985.Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House"}, +{"book_title": "The Keeper of the Isis Light", "author_name": "Monica Hughes", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1240, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "It was her tenth birthday on Isis. By Earth years, she would be sixteen. But Olwen Pendennis had never been to Earth. She had been born on Isis. And since her parents' death, she had lived there alone, manning the Isis Light -- a \"lighthouse\" in space designed to aid ships, and to bring settlers from Earth. And now, on the day of her tenth year, the settlers are coming at last. Olwen is ready to welcome them, but are they ready for her? She was once human, like them. But the harsh climate of the alien planet has changed her, transformed her into something else -- something the settlers could never be prepared for...", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1190250.The_Keeper_of_the_Isis_Light"}, +{"book_title": "The Departure", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 4036, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "Visible in the night sky the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus the Committee keep an oppressive control. Soon they will have the power to edit human minds, but not yet - twelve billion human beings need to die before Earth can be stabilized.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10648878-the-departure"}, +{"book_title": "Tracking Trisha", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3686, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "Trisha Grove enjoyed her job as a pilot for Boswell International but realizes something is still missing from her life \u2013 her family. She is ready to call it quits and head back home to Wyoming where her father lives. She never expected her last flight for Boswell would end with an unplanned trip out of this world. Trisha isn\u2019t sure at first what is real and what isn\u2019t; all she knows is she is determined to get back to her dad no matter what it takes. Kelan Reykill is the fourth son in the royal line of Valdier. Commander of the V\u2019ager, one of the largest Valdier warships, he prides himself on his strict self-discipline, his ability to remain in command in any situation, and his skill at handling any challenge. That is, until he meets a stubborn human female from the primitive planet his older brother sought refuge on. Now, all he can think about is how to get the female into his bed and under his control while staying in one piece.When she is taken from him, Kelan will track Trisha to the ends of the universe and further because he knows one thing \u2013 she is his true mate and he will do anything; kill anyone, who tries to harm her.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15744425-tracking-trisha"}, +{"book_title": "Ashfall", "author_name": "Mike Mullin", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 23411, "review_number": 2927, "book_description": "Under the bubbling hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano. Most people don't know it's there. The caldera is so large that it can only be seen from a plane or satellite. It just could be overdue for an eruption, which would change the landscape and climate of our planet.For Alex, being left alone for the weekend means having the freedom to play computer games and hang out with his friends without hassle from his mother. Then the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, plunging his hometown into a nightmare of darkness, ash, and violence. Alex begins a harrowing trek to search for his family and finds help in Darla, a travel partner he meets along the way. Together they must find the strength and skills to survive and outlast an epic disaster.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9644151-ashfall"}, +{"book_title": "The Survivors", "author_name": "Angela White", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 3620, "review_number": 298, "book_description": " Untold miles of lawless, apocalyptic roads wait for our feet \"This is Safe Haven Refugee Camp. Can anyone hear me? \u2026hello? Is anyone out there?The end of the world has given us a harsh, merciless existence, where nature tries hard to push mankind to the very brink of extinction. Everything is against us, between us... Untold miles of lawless, apocalyptic roads wait for our feet, and the future, cold and dark, offers little comfort. Without change, there can be no peace. Only survivors.\u201dFrom dangerous trips into dark, apocalyptic cities, to patriotic rescues and furious revelations, Life After War is an action-packed fantasy series where those left alive must come to terms with their mistakes in the old world, while fighting for a place in the new one. Life After War. Magic and Reality blended into a post-apocalyptic fantasy series that you won't ever forget. Summary in 20 words or less: An action adventure quest, with a supernatural romance, and many other subplots, set during the aftermath of the apocalypse. What can you expect to discover in this fantasy series? \n The End of the World, up close and full of apocalyptic horror. \n A government conspiracy that caused the apocalypse. \n An adventure into the wastelands to find family, supplies, and safety. \n A supernatural romance with a dangerous secret about a child's parentage and a love strong enough to survive nuclear armageddon. \n An invasion, ambushes, attacks from nature and man-guns and magic! \n A refugee camp with very different laws, picking up those who have survived. \n A hero you will love, even as you ponder the secrets that could lose him leadership. \n A witch, a doctor, a government storm tracker, a star, and three Marines struggling to keep their people alive and together as they prepare to defend themselves against Cesar's slavers. \n A constant battle for survival that includes deadly trips into decaying American cities, insanity, relics of the past, and ghosts that stalk their every move. \n Note from the Author: This book has now gone through multiple editors since the release in 2010: The total I have spent is more than 3K, just for the file you are about to read. If there are still mistakes, I apologize.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)", "Horror", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9654119-the-survivors"}, +{"book_title": "Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel", "author_name": "David Gatewood", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 400, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel introduces 13 varied and original takes on the pitfalls and paradoxes of time travel-from some of today's most talented voices. From Michael Bunker's story of a father, a son, and the legendary Santa Anna Gold, to Jason Gurley's heart-wrenching tale of an astronaut forever torn from his young wife and daughter, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat, and often have you guessing right up until the final word. You'll meet a prison therapist who treats his patients by going back and preventing their crimes; a woman who can't stop reliving her life, no matter how much it hurts; a space marine suffering from a time-altering brain injury; a woman who will betray the man she loves to correct a horrible mistake; a vengeful soul from ages past; and a time cop charged with preserving the timelines of multiple universes. You'll experience a world where time travel is so common, reality itself hangs by a thread; a love story that overcomes the unforgiving barriers of time; a thrilling encounter with a pack of T-rex; a historian's efforts to alter Roman history; and the first manned mission to the Red Planet-or is it? So sit back and enjoy. Just be sure you've got plenty of time.Contents; Foreword (Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel) \u2022 essay by Nick Cole The Santa Anna Gold / short fiction by Michael Bunker Corrections / short fiction by Susan Kaye Quinn Hereafter / short story by Samuel Peralta Reentry / short fiction by Eric Tozzi The Swimming Pool of the Universe / short fiction by Nick Cole The River / short fiction by Jennifer Ellis A Word in Pompey's Ear / short fiction by Christopher G. Nuttall Rock or Shell / novella by Ann Christy The Mirror / short fiction by Irving Belateche Reset / short fiction by MeiLin Miranda The Laurasians / short fiction by Isaac Hooke The First Cut / short fiction by Edward W. Robinson The Dark Age / (2014) / short story by Jason Gurley Afterword (Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel) \u2022 essay by David Gatewood.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22041835-synchronic"}, +{"book_title": "Anna and the Alien", "author_name": "Honey Phillips", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1613, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "Anna Elliott wanted to get away. But an alien spaceship was not on the itinerary. All Anna needed was a calm, relaxing vacation. Instead, she finds herself enslaved aboard an alien spacecraft and forced to help an injured prisoner \u2014 a huge, golden-skinned warrior. Even wounded, he arouses her in ways she\u2019s never known. But if he dies, so does she. When the spaceship crashes on a strange planet, she must put her trust in him to survive. But the passion he stirs in her may cause her to lose her heart as well. Jakkar is a Sardoran mercenary searching desperately for a new planet to replace his dying home world. He never expected to be injured, captured, and then shipwrecked. Forbidden to mate outside his species, he can\u2019t help but be tempted by Anna\u2019s curvy body and her caring heart. Now he\u2019s responsible for the small group of survivors \u2014 and the luscious little human he\u2019s determined to claim as his own. Can a girl and her alien find happiness on a deserted planet at the far end of the galaxy? Each book in the Alien Abduction series features a different couple and can be enjoyed as a standalone romance.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42076632-anna-and-the-alien"}, +{"book_title": "House of Stairs", "author_name": "William Sleator", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 4272, "review_number": 594, "book_description": "One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere, except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls?", "year_published": 1974, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24875.House_of_Stairs"}, +{"book_title": "Time Cat", "author_name": "Lloyd Alexander", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 6426, "review_number": 510, "book_description": "Gareth's definitely no ordinary cat. For one thing, he can talk. For another, he's got the power to travel through time. And the instant he tells this to Jason, the two of them are in ancient Egypt, on the first of nine amazing adventures that Jason will never forget.", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Animals", "Animals (Cats)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/822630.Time_Cat"}, +{"book_title": "Defender", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1925, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Kris Longknife is back in the good graces of the brass\u2014and to demonstrate that, they've promoted her to Admiral. Now her mission is to find the home base of the space pirates who are plaguing the fringes of the galaxy.But no mission is ever simple when your name is Longknife. And this time the complications range from the military to the personal, as Kris finds herself\u2014reluctantly\u2014having to make some command decisions about her future...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Action", "Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13510547-defender"}, +{"book_title": "The Oncoming Storm", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2862, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "In the year 2420, war looms between the galaxy\u2019s two most powerful empires: the tyrannical Theocracy and the protectionist Commonwealth. Caught in the middle sits the occupied outpost system Cadiz, where young officer and aristocrat Katherine \u201cKat\u201d Falcone finds herself prematurely promoted at the behest of her powerful father. Against her own wishes, Kat is sent to command the Commonwealth navy\u2019s newest warship, Lightning.Determined to prove she has value beyond her family name, Kat struggles to earn her crew\u2019s respect and find her footing as the youngest captain in naval history. She soon discovers the situation on Cadiz is even worse than anyone in power anticipated. War isn\u2019t just a possibility\u2014it is imminent. Yet the admiral in position to bolster defenses refuses to prepare for a fight. Can Kat find a way to investigate the enemy, alert the Commonwealth, and whip an entire fleet into fighting shape before the Theocracy\u2019s war machine destroys everything she holds dear?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "War", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25314962-the-oncoming-storm"}, +{"book_title": "The Dispatcher", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 22367, "review_number": 2783, "book_description": "Listening Length: 2 hours and 18 minutesOne day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life.Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher - a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death and that some people are ready to do almost anything to avenge a supposed wrong.It's a race against time for Valdez to find his friend before it's too late...before not even a Dispatcher can save him.___Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26082188-the-dispatcher"}, +{"book_title": "Tigana", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 45733, "review_number": 2656, "book_description": "A masterful epic of magic, politics, war, and the power of love and hate \u2014 from the renowned author of The Fionavar Tapestry and Children of Earth and Sky.Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered land struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the black sorcery of a cruel despotic king that even the name of their once-beautiful homeland cannot be spoken or remembered... But years after the devastation, a handful of courageous men and women embark upon a dangerous crusade to overthrow their conquerors and bring back to the dark world the brilliance of a long-lost name...Tigana. Against the magnificently rendered background of a world both sensuous and barbaric, this sweeping epic of a passionate people pursuing their dream is breathtaking in its vision, changing forever the boundaries of fantasy fiction.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104089.Tigana"}, +{"book_title": "Tangled in Time", "author_name": "Barbara Longley", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1437, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "\nA time-travel romance for fans of Diana Gabaldon and Hazel Hunter.\n\nTo set him free from an ancient curse, she must travel to a time of myth and legend\u2026\nRegan MacCarthy\u2019s ability to see ghosts is a gift inherited from her Irish ancestors, but it\u2019s one she\u2019d dearly like to give back. In an attempt to return her powers to their source, she travels to Ireland to harness the ancient magic that still permeates the mystical site of Newgrange. Instead, something far more unexpected awaits her: a strapping, gorgeous stranger who insists he\u2019s a centuries-old Celtic warrior.F\u00e1el\u00e1n was one of Fionn MacCumhaill\u2019s elite soldiers before being cursed by a resentful fae princess. The only way to free himself is to fall so deeply in love that he\u2019d sacrifice his life. Not an easy matter when he\u2019s invisible to most. Yet Regan sees him\u2014not just the proud, handsome warrior on the surface, but the complex man beneath. Only when it\u2019s too late does F\u00e1el\u00e1n realize that drawing this beautiful mortal into his world has endangered them both, and may destroy the happiness he\u2019s waited an eternity to claim\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Cultural (Ireland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34948846-tangled-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Galaxy's Edge", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 291, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "On the edge of the galaxy, a diplomatic mission to an alien planet takes a turn when the Legionnaires, an elite special fighting force, find themselves ambushed and stranded behind enemy lines. They struggle to survive under siege, waiting on a rescue that might never come.In the seedy starport of Ackabar, a young girl searches the crime-ridden gutters to avenge her father's murder; not far away, a double-dealing legionniare-turned-smuggler hunts an epic payday; and somewhere along the outer galaxy, a mysterious bounter hunter lies in wait.Galaxy's Edge combines sleek starfighters, exotic aliens, loyal bots, blasters, scoundrels, heroes, and powerful enemies in a thrilling adventure that will take you back to that magic place from a long time ago.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38735121-galaxy-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Croma Venture", "author_name": "Joel Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1131, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "Upon the ancient drysine moon/city of Defiance, the UFS Phoenix is being rebuilt, but her crew cannot do so in peace. Parren factions jostle for control of not only Defiance, but of the drysine data-core that Phoenix won at such an awful price. But the parren do not lay sole claim to that ancient knowledge, and within the bowels of the machine-city, something long-dead is awakening. While aliens battle, Captain Debogande struggles to decide his next step. Human emissaries beckon him home, while a terrible new threat drives him toward the far edge of Spiral space. There live the croma, locked in a titanic struggle against the reeh, a species more terrifying than any yet faced by humanity. And holding perhaps the key to humanity\u2019s salvation are a small force of freedom fighters, waging a hopeless battle against impossible odds, having waited a thousand years for just such a saviour as the UFS Phoenix\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41462228-croma-venture"}, +{"book_title": "River of Teeth", "author_name": "Sarah Gailey", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 7227, "review_number": 1781, "book_description": "In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true.Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two.This was a terrible plan.Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of his revenge.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31445891-river-of-teeth"}, +{"book_title": "Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 3741, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "Contains: Cetaganda Ethan of Athos Labyrinth.Diplomat, soldier, spy - Lieutenant Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan of the Barrayarayan Empire, a.k.a. Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries, is a young man of many parts.Miles and his handsome cousin Ivan are called upon to play a simple diplomatic role on the capital world of Barrayar's old enemy until murder and deceit thrust them into Cetagandan internal politics at the highest levels, and Miles discovers the secrets of the haut-women's biological domain to be very complicated indeed.Commander Elli Quinn, sent by Miles on the trail of those secrets, meets a man who marches to the beat of a very different drummer. Dr. Ethan Urquhart, obstetrician from a planet forbidden to women, is on a quest at cross-purposes to Elli's mission - or is it?Consequences of Cetagandan bioengineering continue to play out, this time on a Dendrii sortie to the crime planet of Jackson's Whole. When he encounters a genetically altered super-soldier, Miles's routine rescue strike takes a sudden hard turn for the unanticipated.Contents:\tCetagandaEthan of AthosLabyrinth.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Mystery", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61902.Miles_Mystery_and_Mayhem"}, +{"book_title": "Beegu", "author_name": "Alexis Deacon", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1552, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "The story of an alienated alienBeegu's spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. Rabbits don't seem to understand her; windblown leaves won't stay still to listen. But at last, on a school playground, Beegu discovers a group of fantastic companions who are happy to let her join their games . . . until a grownup creature spoils the fun.Beegu's spirits are sinking lower than ever just as the mother ship arrives, in this simple, bittersweet picture book that shows us our world through the three eyes of an innocent outsider with the help of stylish art and a wry, understated text. ", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Family", "Adventure", "Space", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1362489.Beegu"}, +{"book_title": "The Marrow Thieves", "author_name": "Cherie Dimaline", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 15259, "review_number": 2361, "book_description": "In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow, and dreams, means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a fifteen-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones and take refuge from the \"recruiters\" who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing \"factories.\"", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "LGBT", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34649348-the-marrow-thieves"}, +{"book_title": "An Ember in the Ashes", "author_name": "Sabaa Tahir", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 196700, "review_number": 24313, "book_description": "\u25b6 \nAlternative Cover Edition #1\nLaia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. \u00a0 Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. \u00a0 It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire\u2019s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They\u2019ve seen what happens to those who do. \u00a0 But when Laia\u2019s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire\u2019s greatest military academy. \u00a0 There, Laia meets Elias, the school\u2019s finest soldier\u2014and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he\u2019s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined\u2014and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27774758-an-ember-in-the-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Seven Stones to Stand or Fall", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 10231, "review_number": 957, "book_description": "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, from Diana GabaldonAmong the seven spellbinding pieces there is \"The Custom of the Army,\" which begins with Lord John Grey being shocked by an electric eel and ends at the Battle of Quebec. Then comes \"The Space Between,\" where it is revealed that the Comte St. Germain is not dead, Master Raymond appears, and a widowed young wine dealer escorts a would-be novice to a convent in Paris. In \"A Plague of Zombies,\" Lord John unexpectedly becomes military governor of Jamaica when the original governor is gnawed by what probably wasn't a giant rat. \"A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows\" is the moving story of Roger MacKenzie's parents during World War II. In \"Virgins,\" Jamie Fraser, aged nineteen, and Ian Murray, aged twenty, become mercenaries in France, no matter that neither has yet bedded a lass or killed a man. But they're trying. . . . \"A Fugitive Green\" is the story of Lord John's elder brother, Hal, and a seventeen-year-old rare book dealer with a sideline in theft, forgery, and blackmail. And finally, in \"Besieged,\" Lord John learns that his mother is in Havana--and that the British Navy is on their way to lay siege to the city.Filling in mesmerizing chapters in the lives of characters readers have followed over the course of thousands of pages, Gabaldon's genius is on full display throughout this must-have collection.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32739396-seven-stones-to-stand-or-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Faye, Faraway", "author_name": "Helen Fisher", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 224, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "A heartfelt, spellbinding, and irresistible debut novel for fans of The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife and Outlander that movingly examines loss, faith, and love as it follows a grown woman who travels back in time to be reunited with the mother she lost when she was a child.Faye is a thirty-seven-year-old happily married mother of two young daughters. Every night, before she puts them to bed, she whispers to them: \u201cYou are good, you are kind, you are clever, you are funny.\u201d She\u2019s determined that they never doubt for a minute that their mother loves them unconditionally. After all, her own mother Jeanie had died when she was only seven years old and Faye has never gotten over that intense pain of losing her.But one day, her life is turned upside down when she finds herself in 1977, the year before her mother died. Suddenly, she has the chance to reconnect with her long-lost mother, and even meets her own younger self, a little girl she can barely remember. Jeanie doesn\u2019t recognize Faye as her daughter, of course, even though there is something eerily familiar about her...As the two women become close friends, they share many secrets\u2014but Faye is terrified of revealing the truth about her identity. Will it prevent her from returning to her own time and her beloved husband and daughters? What if she\u2019s doomed to remain in the past forever? Faye knows that eventually she will have to choose between those she loves in the past and those she loves in the here and now, and that knowledge presents her with an impossible choice.Emotionally gripping and ineffably sweet Faye, Faraway is a brilliant exploration of the grief associated with unimaginable loss and the magic of being healed by love.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Adult Fiction", "Family", "Drama"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54304108-faye-faraway"}, +{"book_title": "Amber House", "author_name": "Kelly Moore", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 3380, "review_number": 564, "book_description": "Sarah Parsons has never seen Amber House, the grand Maryland estate that's been in her family for three centuries. She's never walked its hedge maze nor found its secret chambers; she's never glimpsed the shades that haunt it, nor hunted for lost diamonds in its walls. But all of that is about to change. After her grandmother passes away, Sarah and her friend Jackson decide to search for the diamonds--and the house comes alive. She discovers that she can see visions of the house's past, like the eighteenth-century sea captain who hid the jewels, or the glamorous great-grandmother driven mad by grief. She grows closer to both Jackson and a young man named Richard Hathaway, whose family histories are each deeply entwined with her own. But when the visions start to threaten the person she holds most dear, Sarah must do everything she can to get to the bottom of the house's secrets, and stop the course of history before it is cemented forever.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Romance", "Gothic", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13436345-amber-house"}, +{"book_title": "Armed Memory", "author_name": "James Maxwell Young", "rating_score": 3.0, "rating_votes": 47, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "In the strange days at the end of the 21st century, Tim drifts into New York City and goes to work for his cousin, a biotech wizard in designed genes who dreams of reshaping the world. But Tim's employer has made some powerful enemies. As a violent wave of disorder spreads across the globe, Tim finds he holds the key to humanity's salvation.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2143944.Armed_Memory"}, +{"book_title": "Looking for the Mahdi", "author_name": "N. Lee Wood", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 138, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Halton was a humanoid fabricant, created to serve as a bodyguard in the Middle East. Fay was as an all-too-human correspondent, assigned to deliver him to a country from which she had barely escaped with her sanity. She didn't know it was a setup...until it was too late. And the only one she could trust -- the only one who hadn't betrayed her -- was the android himself.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77781.Looking_for_the_Mahdi"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk Fairy Tales", "author_name": "Leslie Anderson", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 562, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "A toyshop owner builds a set of magic clockwork dolls that delight a factory town. A three-inch tall samurai faces a giant iron ogre with only a sewing needle and a coin. A scientist seeks an antidote to his formula gone wrong, with the help of his partner\u2019s beautiful daughter. All of these stories and more are included in Steampunk Fairy Tales. Written by authors from three different continents, every enchanting tale combines the futuristic Victorian concept of steam and fashion with memorable stories, from the recognizable \u201cJack and the Beanstalk\u201d, to other popular and unfamiliar works from Germany, France, Italy and Japan. With steam driven gadgets such as mechanical goggles, hoverboards, and an orchestra of automatons. Steampunk Fairy Tales is a charming and unique collection of works for current lovers of the genre, and those just diving in. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Retellings", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29630871-steampunk-fairy-tales"}, +{"book_title": "Squirrel Meets World", "author_name": "Shannon Hale", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3301, "review_number": 824, "book_description": "WHO RUNS THE WORLD? SQUIRRELS! Fourteen-year-old Doreen Green moved from sunny California to the suburbs of New Jersey. She must start at a new school, make new friends, and continue to hide her tail. Yep, Doreen has the powers of . . . a squirrel! After failing at several attempts to find her new BFF, Doreen feels lonely and trapped, liked a caged animal. Then one day Doreen uses her extraordinary powers to stop a group of troublemakers from causing mischief in the neighborhood, and her whole life changes. Everyone at school is talking about it! Doreen contemplates becoming a full-fledged Super Hero. And thus, Squirrel Girl is born! She saves cats from trees, keeps the sidewalks clean, and dissuades vandalism. All is well until a real-life Super Villain steps out of the shadows and declares Squirrel Girl his archenemy. Can Doreen balance being a teenager and a Super Hero? Or will she go . . . NUTS?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Adventure", "Superheroes (Marvel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30206050-squirrel-meets-world"}, +{"book_title": "Shattered World", "author_name": "Kate L. Mary", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1667, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "***Contains Spoilers for Broken World***Stranded in the middle of the Mojave Desert, surrounded by zombies, Vivian and Axl\u2019s group are sure they\u2019re facing the end. The dead are closing in and the shelter they were promised is sealed tight, only they refuse to go down without a fight. Just when they think they\u2019ve run out of time, the doors to the shelter are thrown open and they\u2019re given refuge. Five years in underground condos with all the provisions there for the taking. It\u2019s almost too good to be true. With the promise of security, Vivian hopes she\u2019ll finally able to take a deep breath and deal with everything that\u2019s happened. The loss of Emily, her growing feelings for Axl, and the terrifying new world they\u2019re facing. But the group\u2019s sense of security is soon shattered when they learn the shelter isn\u2019t the utopia they thought it would be. It seems the company that built the shelter decided to solve their financial problems by selling off provisions, which means the group has to find a way to get food, fuel and medical supplies. Or face starvation.And Vegas is the closest city. With her feelings for Axl stronger than ever, Vivian volunteers to accompany him and a few others on a trip into one of the biggest tourist cities in the world in search of supplies. The city is overrun with the dead, but there are other survivors as well. Only not everyone they meet is a welcome sight. As the emotional baggage piles up, Vivian and Axl\u2019s bond grows stronger than ever, but it doesn\u2019t take long to realize that zombies aren\u2019t the only thing they have to fear.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22693753-shattered-world"}, +{"book_title": "Won by an Alien", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2069, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "I was abducted by aliens. The aliens that I've been auctioned to don\u2019t speak my language, and I definitely can\u2019t speak theirs. I didn\u2019t expect to get married by accident to the sweet one. I didn\u2019t expect to have a grumpy alien bond to me, and go a little crazy if other males get near me, or if I try to leave. It doesn\u2019t matter if they\u2019ve won my heart. I can\u2019t stay. Somehow, I have to explain that I NEED to go home. Because the bad aliens that abducted me? They took me from my babies. **Note: For those of you that prefer not to be surprised, there are TWO heroes in this story. It is a Happily Ever After with three people, a mini Reverse Harem set up of MFM (male/female/male) that doesn't quite classify as Menage... and you'll find out why. \u2665 For those of you who DO prefer to be surprised\u2026 pretend you didn\u2019t read this warning! ;) This is Tara's story. It technically *can* be read as a stand-alone, however, previous books in the series set up events in this book.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Menage (M F M)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36544232-won-by-an-alien"}, +{"book_title": "The Wolf Worlds", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1326, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Raised on the factory planet of Vulcan, Sten soon learns about the survival of the toughest. The Eternal Emperor of the entire galaxy commands vast armies but turns to Sten and his Mantis Team of militant problem-solvers to pacify the Wolf Worlds, a small cluster of planets who have raised space piracy to a low art.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1062878.The_Wolf_Worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Exodus: Empires at War #1", "author_name": "Doug Dandridge", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 772, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Humanity's worst nightmare has again come out of the Dark. Can a human race in turmoil survive?When the human race faces extermination at the hands of an expanding species the last survivors travel a thousand years to reestablish the race ten thousands light years away. It is now a thousand years after the birth of the New Terran Empire. The race has aggressively expanded during that time, with a fleet that has never lost a war against an alien species. But the signs are there, the old enemy is back, and the Fleet will face its greatest challenge in a foe fifty times their size.Science fiction in the tradition of Anderson and Weber, where the physics of normal and hyperspace dictate the strategy and tactics. Enormous fleets battle across the immensity of space with advanced technologies. Can the proud human Fleet hold off the tide of an advancing enemy, rallying allies and deploying new tech? Or will the conquerors achieve what they could not two thousand years before, and end the existence of the upstarts.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16132295-exodus"}, +{"book_title": "Crystal Soldier", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2508, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Centuries in the past, mankind fought a seemingly unbeatable adversary from sector to sector across the Spiral Arm until the war ground to a standstill and the Enemy withdrew. Believing that they had won, the citizens of the galaxy rebuilt. The Inner Worlds, which had escaped the worst of the war's ravages, became even more insular, while the Rim worlds adopted a free and easy way with law and order. Now, hundreds of years after their withdrawal, the Enemy is back - and this time they'll be satisfied with nothing less than the extinction of the galaxy.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288756.Crystal_Soldier"}, +{"book_title": "George & the Virgin", "author_name": "Lisa Cach", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 230, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Sometimes, slaying the dragon is the easy part. The medieval village of Markesew was besieged, its virgins demanded in tribute, so when St. George the Dragonslayer arrived from modern times -- in his silver pants and lace-up boots -- his task was clear. Being a professional wrestler didn't qualify him for the job, but a sword and imagination were all he needed... or so he thought, until he came up against the mysterious mistress of Devil's Mount.Twelve years ago Alizon had been sent to die in the jaws of the serpent. Too tough for dragon teeth then, she'd never surrender to some foreigner in shiny hose now. She feared first for the secret world she'd built atop the dragon's mountain... but as the hero approached, Alizon realized it was not the dragon's armor he had come to pierce, but the scales around her own ferocious heart.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/873344.George_the_Virgin"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Age", "author_name": "Traci Harding", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2684, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "The white light surrounded her, exuding from the ground within the circle. The mist rose towards the sky to form a billowing cloud. From within the largest stone a ball of blue light steadily made its way towards her.Late one evening, a car accident leaves Tory - a daughter of a prominent history professor - stranded near a ring of stones in the English countryside. She resolves to spend the night at the sacred site; a black belt in Tae-kwon-do, Tory holds little fear for her safety...But across the vortex of time and space, she is being watched. The Merlin knows of the legend Tory is to become, and through the wisdom of the Old Ones, teleports her back to the Dark Age.Prince Maelgwyn of Gwynedd and his band of knights stumble across this mysterious woman dressed in jeans and a leather jacket. Believing she is the witch of the stones, they threaten to kill her. Rising to her own defence, Tory challenges the Prince's champion to unarmed combat. With her superior fighting skill she easily overwhelms the warrior, winning the admiration of the Prince, and changing the course of British history forever.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1961495.The_Dark_Age"}, +{"book_title": "Small Gods", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 100969, "review_number": 3000, "book_description": "Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt. And it's certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone's book. In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast. Preferably one who won't ask too many questions...", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Religion", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34484.Small_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "The Invasion of the Tearling", "author_name": "Erika Johansen", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 46805, "review_number": 4920, "book_description": "Kelsea Glynn is the Queen of the Tearling. Despite her youth, she has quickly asserted herself as a fair, just and powerful ruler.However, power is a double-edged sword, and small actions can have grave consequences. In trying to do what is right - stopping a vile trade in humankind - Kelsea has crossed the Red Queen, a ruthless monarch whose rule is bound with dark magic and the spilling of blood. The Red Queen's armies are poised to invade the Tearling, and it seems nothing can stop them.Yet there was a time before the Crossing, and there Kelsea finds a strange and possibly dangerous ally, someone who might hold the key to the fate of the Tearling, and indeed to Kelsea's own soul. But time is running out...Erika Johansen's fierce and unforgettable young heroine returns in this dazzling new novel of magic and adventure, set in the beguiling world of the Tearling.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22698568-the-invasion-of-the-tearling"}, +{"book_title": "Burning Chrome", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 35611, "review_number": 899, "book_description": "Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome. Johnny Mnemonic (1981)The Gernsback Continuum (1981)Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977)The Belonging Kind (1981) with John ShirleyHinterlands (1981)Red Star, Winter Orbit (1983) with Bruce SterlingNew Rose Hotel (1984)The Winter Market (1985)Dogfight (1985) with Michael SwanwickBurning Chrome (1982)", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (American)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22323.Burning_Chrome"}, +{"book_title": "Intersect", "author_name": "Elizabeth O'Roark", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 2107, "review_number": 286, "book_description": "The stunning conclusion to Parallel. Someone has torn them apart in the past, and she plans to do it again\u2026 As Nick and Quinn piece together the truth about the life they once shared, they discover it was much deeper and darker than they ever imagined. In order to keep history from repeating, Quinn will need to master her unusual gifts\u2014but that means admitting to herself and to Nick why she stopped using them in the first place. He may never forgive her when he learns the truth, but Quinn is running out of options\u2014because the clock is ticking, and it\u2019s no longer just her life that hangs in the balance. ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Mystery", "New Adult", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46160785-intersect"}, +{"book_title": "Vanguard", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1073, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The third trilogy in the hit \u2018Ark Royal\u2019 series begins now! HMS Vanguard is the most powerful battleship ever to be commissioned by the Royal Navy, but she is not a happy ship. Her commanding officer is eccentric, rarely seen on the bridge; her former XO has deserted his post and her first middy is resentful because he hasn't been promoted as he deserves ... But when a first contact mission goes badly wrong, HMS Vanguard and her crew are plunged into an interstellar war against a new and deadly alien threat. And if they don\u2019t make it back to friendly space in time, they will merely be the first to die in a new interstellar war. [Like my other self-published Kindle books, Vanguard is DRM-free. You may reformat it as you choose. There is a large sample of the text \u2013 and my other books \u2013 on my site: chrishanger.net. Try before you buy.]", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28650183-vanguard"}, +{"book_title": "Paris Adrift", "author_name": "E.J. Swift", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 302, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "The Time Machine meets Midnight In Paris Determined to escape her old life, misfit and student geologist Hallie packs up her life in England and heads to Paris. She falls in with the eclectic expat community as a bartender at the notorious Millie\u2019s, located next to the Moulin Rouge.Here she meets Gabriela, a bartender who guides her through this strange nocturnal world, and begins to find a new family. But Millie\u2019s is not all that it seems: a bird warns Hallie to get her feathers in order, a mysterious woman shows up claiming to be a chronometrist, and Gabriela is inexplicably unable to leave Paris.Then Hallie discovers a time portal located in the keg room. Over the next nine months, irate customers will be the least of her concerns, as she navigates time-faring through the city\u2019s turbulent past and future, falling in love, and coming to terms with her own precarious sense of self.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35198134-paris-adrift"}, +{"book_title": "Astounding", "author_name": "Kim Fielding", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 495, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Carter Evans is founder and editor-in-chief of Astounding!\u2014a formerly popular spec fiction magazine currently in its death throes. Not only can he do nothing to save it, but stuck in a rathole apartment with few interpersonal connections, he can\u2019t seem to do much to rescue his future either. And certainly all the booze isn\u2019t helping. He snaps when he receives yet another terrible story submission from the mysterious writer J. Harper\u2014and in a drunken haze, Carter sends Harper a rejection letter he soon regrets.J. Harper turns out to be John Harper, a sweet man who resembles a \u201950s movie star and claims to be an extraterrestrial. Despite John\u2019s delusions, Carter\u2019s apology quickly turns into something more as the two lonely men find a powerful connection. Inexplicably drawn to John, Carter invites him along on a road trip. But as they travel, Carter is in for some big surprises, some major heartbreak\u2026 and just maybe the promise of a good future after all.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Fiction", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25668553-astounding"}, +{"book_title": "An Excess Male", "author_name": "Maggie Shen King", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 2269, "review_number": 442, "book_description": "Set in a near-future China the One Child Policy has resulted in 40 million men unable to find wives. This book is one such leftover man\u2019s quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritatian measures, reinvigorated Communist ideals, and social engineering.Wei-guo holds fast to the belief that as long as he continues to improve himself, his small business, and in turn, his country, his chance at love will come. He finally saves up the dowry required to enter matchmaking talks at the lowest rung as a third husband\u2014the maximum allowed by law. Only a single family\u2014one harboring an illegal spouse\u2014shows interest, yet with May-ling and her two husbands, Wei-guo feels seen, heard, and connected to like never before. But everyone and everything\u2014walls, streetlights, garbage cans\u2014are listening, and men, excess or not, are dispensable to the State. Wei-guo must reach a new understanding of patriotism and test the limits of his love and his resolve in order to save himself and this family he has come to hold dear.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (China)", "Speculative Fiction", "LGBT", "Cultural (Asia)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Feminism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33544902-an-excess-male"}, +{"book_title": "Time at the Top", "author_name": "Edward Ormondroyd", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 572, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "It's strange enough when Susan Shaw disappears without a trace on a wintry March afternoon. It's stranger still when her uninformative note is found in the hallway of her apartment building, along with a black cat that no one has seen before. And it's strangest of all when she suddenly appears again, wearing clothes that are eighty years out of date, and tells a wild story about an old woman with a fly-away hat, an elevator that travels into the past, and a distressed family that only she can save. Who is going to believe such a tale? Certainly not her father. But Susan is determined to prove to him that it's all true. And she has other plans for him as well...Who, in fact, could believe such a tale? Even the author, who takes part in the story, has his doubts. But just as those doubts are all laid to rest, the mystery thickens once more. This time it's a double disappearance...", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/602014.Time_at_the_Top"}, +{"book_title": "Martian Time-Slip", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 10899, "review_number": 610, "book_description": "On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated \"anomalous\" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union--suspect that Manfred's disorder\u00a0\u00a0may be a window into the future. In Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/697251.Martian_Time_Slip"}, +{"book_title": "Professor Dowell's Head", "author_name": "Alexander Belyaev", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 3091, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "The entire scientific world mourned the loss of Professor Dowell. It was said that just before his death he was on the verge of a breakthrough in the transplantation of human organs.Marie Laurent felt privileged to work for the professor\u2019s brilliant associate, Professor Kern. But her feelings turned to shock and revulsion when she entered Kern\u2019s laboratory and discovered\u2014sitting on a table, surrounded by tubes and tanks, its eyes blinking and lips moving\u2014Professor Dowell\u2019s head!Thus begins a classic tale of horror and suspense by Alexander Beliaev, the bestselling Soviet science fiction author of all time, whose work is considered by many readers the equal of Wells\u2019 and Verne\u2019s.Written half a century ago, this prophetic novel foresees not only organ transplants but other disturbing phenomena of our time, such as the use of mental hospitals as prisons and the manipulation of the news media. In the heads that Kern \u201crescues\u201d from death, we see a poignant parable of mankind\u2019s disembodied life in a high-technology age.The escape of one of the heads\u2014after its transplantation to the body of an opera star\u2014is the catalyst for the story\u2019s hair-raising climax, as Marie Laurent and Professor Dowell\u2019s son race against time to bring Kern to justice. Kern is a cunning adversary, armed with formidable weapons, both real and psychological. Pursuing him means hairbreadth escapes and sudden reversals\u2014with the outcome uncertain right up to the last page.", "year_published": 1925, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Cultural (Russia)", "Fiction", "Classics", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2282267.Professor_Dowell_s_Head"}, +{"book_title": "ExtraNormal", "author_name": "Suze Reese", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 481, "review_number": 68, "book_description": " An extraordinary tale of an ExtraNormal girl.Mira Johns is pretty much like any other teenage girl. Except that she knows how to harness electro-magnetic energy to communicate without words. And she's really, really far from home. Her assignment as an emissary to Earth sounds fairly simple: blend in, observe, and stay away from the planet's primitive males. But after she finds one boy too irresistible for stupid rules, she realizes the real reason she's supposed to keep her distance: mates from her world can die if separated. Mira's only hope is to uncover the truth to why she, the most mediocre of candidates, was actually chosen for this assignment--before the agency discovers her secret and sends her back home.ExtraNormal has characters you'll love, and a story you'll never expect. ", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12797906-extranormal"}, +{"book_title": "Storm World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 2115, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "James McGill is sent to the Core Worlds! In an unprecedented first, Earth sends a message to Mogwa Prime. Unfortunately, the messenger is not met with enthusiasm. Misunderstandings soon threaten all of Humanity. Forced to prove Earth can serve the Empire better than any rival, McGill does his best. Eager to prove our worth to the Galactics, the frontier war between Rigel and Earth is expanded to Storm World. Circled by six moons, the planet is ravaged by wild storms and tides. Battles are fought in raging hurricanes, and death stalks the soldiers on both sides. McGill grimly fights and dies in the mud until the job gets done, but will it be enough to satisfy the angry Mogwa? STORM WORLD, the tenth novel in the Undying Mercenaries Series, is the longest and most thrilling book yet.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42194904-storm-world"}, +{"book_title": "Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven", "author_name": "Marjorie M. Liu", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 8778, "review_number": 1127, "book_description": "Maika Halfwolf has begun to unlock the mysteries of her past - but the challenges of the present are only growing. In this third volume of MONSTRESS, collecting issues 13-18, Maika's journey takes her to the neutral city of Pontus, where she hopes to find temporary refuge from her pursuers. Unfortunately, Pontus may not be as safe as Maika and her allies had hoped.As the impending war between humans and Arcanics creeps ever closer, and powerful players fight for the chance to control her future, Maika finds she must work with Zinn, the Monstrum that lives inside her, in order to ensure their mutual survival. But even that alliance might not be enough to prepare Maika for the horrors to come.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37491890-monstress-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Time Shifters", "author_name": "Chris Grine", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 315, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Luke is a hero in any time and dimension!When Luke investigates an eerie blue glow in the woods behind his house, he doesn't know what he'll find there. But a scientist, a robot Abraham Lincoln riding a friendly dinosaur, and a sassy ghost were the last things he could have imagined stumbling upon. Now as Luke and his new companions are pursued by a bickering trio of bumbling henchmen who are after the strange device locked to his arm, he's forced on a crazy, headlong adventure in a parallel dimension! Will he find his courage in time to save the day and get home or will he be trapped in a weird alternate reality forever?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Death", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829340-time-shifters"}, +{"book_title": "Sinew and Steel and What They Told", "author_name": "Carrie Vaughn", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 216, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Pilot Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and crew of a pirate-hunting starship. He expected to die before they ever discovered what he really is. But he's not dead, and now he has to explain.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51321798-sinew-and-steel-and-what-they-told"}, +{"book_title": "She Who Became the Sun", "author_name": "Shelley Parker-Chan", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 71, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy.To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything\u201cI refuse to be nothing\u2026\u201dIn a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness\u2026In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family\u2019s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family\u2019s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Historical", "Adult", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48727813-she-who-became-the-sun"}, +{"book_title": "The Immortal Rules", "author_name": "Julie Kagawa", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 68274, "review_number": 6151, "book_description": "To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness\u0085Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them\u2014the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters.Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend\u2014a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what and who is worth dying for\u0085 again.Enter Julie Kagawa's dark and twisted world as an unforgettable journey begins.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10215349-the-immortal-rules"}, +{"book_title": "Fortress Britain", "author_name": "Glynn James", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 3574, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "A world fallen - under a plague of seven billion walking deadA tiny island nation - the last refuge of the livingOne team - of the world's most elite special operatorsThe dead, these heroes, humanity's last hope, all have...When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living - with 50 million beleaguered survivors facing down a world of 7 billion animated corpses.And when civilization fell, one international team of supremely elite special operators was being assembled for a nearly impossible mission, deployed out of the SAS barracks at Hereford. Supremely trained and armed, always the most skilled, resolved, and unstoppable amongst us, now the commandos of Alpha team are humanity's last best hope for survival. Searching through the detritus of fallen Europe, scavenging pharmaceutical labs for clues to a vaccine that might bring humanity back from the brink, now they are tasked with one last desperate operation.They must cross the Atlantic aboard the world's only remaining supercarrier, insert by air into the very middle of a dead continent, and then fight their way on foot through a city of 3 million ravening dead guys. But these Zulus will not be like any zombies they have ever fought before...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13037262-fortress-britain"}, +{"book_title": "The Bad Birthday Idea", "author_name": "Madeline Valentine", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 151, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Ben likes to play with robots. His little sister, Alice, would like to play with Ben. But when she and her doll try to join Ben's games, Ben says, \"No dolls allowed. This is a robot game.\" That's why Alice asks for a robot for her birthday. Not just any robot. The exact robot Ben has been wanting forever! Ben is very, very jealous. He wants that robot. Now. Maybe he could sneak it out of its wrapping during Alice's birthday party and play with it for awhile. Nobody will know. Right? But Ben's bad idea goes very wrong and he feels terrible. Now it's up to him to show Alice that a sister is more important than even the best robot toy in the world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Family", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17133521-the-bad-birthday-idea"}, +{"book_title": "The Ophiuchi Hotline", "author_name": "John Varley", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3081, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline -- a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus -- facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.The Ophiuchi Hotline was John Varley's first novel, and it received nominations for both the Hugo and Nebula awards; he later won both for his book Persistence of Vision.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64931.The_Ophiuchi_Hotline"}, +{"book_title": "Tribulation Force", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 37624, "review_number": 1041, "book_description": "In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disappear.Those left behind face war, famine, plagues, and natural disasters so devastating that only one in four people will survive. Odds are even worse for enemies of the Antichrist and his new world order.Rayford Steele, Buck Williams, Bruce Barnes, and Chloe Steele band together to form the Tribulation Force. Their task is clear, and their goal is nothing less than to stand and fight the enemies of God during the seven most chaotic years the planet will ever see.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fiction", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Religion (Christianity)", "Thriller", "Spirituality", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Religion (Faith)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228258.Tribulation_Force"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire II: Dalek War - Chapter Four", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 119, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Two thousand years ago, the galaxy was devastated by a great catastrophe. No one really knows what happened. Some say it was the work of the \u2018Dark One\u2019 or the \u2018Bringer Of Death\u2019.And in the ancient remains of a civilisation on the planet Velyshaa, a lonely outcast is uncovering evidence of who that terrible figure really was.Could it be that Kalendorf\u2019s determination to rid the galaxy of the Daleks will bring about the destruction of everything? Indeed, can the Daleks ever be truly defeated...?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4673663-dalek-empire-ii"}, +{"book_title": "The Mist on Bront\u00eb Moor", "author_name": "Aviva Orr", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 498, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "When Heather Jane Bell is diagnosed with alopecia and her hair starts falling out in clumps, she wants nothing more than to escape her home in London and disappear off the face of the earth. Heather gets her wish when her concerned parents send her to stay with her great-aunt in West Yorkshire. But shortly after she arrives, she becomes lost on the moors and is swept through the mist back to the year 1833. There she encounters fifteen-year-old Emily Bronte and is given refuge in the Bronte Parsonage.Unaware of her host family s genius and future fame, Heather struggles to cope with alopecia amongst strangers in a world completely foreign to her. While Heather finds comfort and strength in her growing friendship with Emily and in the embrace of the close-knit Bronte family, her emotions are stretched to the limit when she falls for Emily's brilliant but troubled brother, Branwell. Will Heather return to the comforts and conveniences of the twenty-first century? Or will she choose love and remain in the harsh world of nineteenth-century Haworth?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17241431-the-mist-on-bront-moor"}, +{"book_title": "Alpha's Obedience", "author_name": "Nora Phoenix", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 732, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "He\u2019s determined to bring two enemies back together\u2026but his own heart gets in the way. When pregnant omega Sivney is asked to take care of a wounded alpha named Naran, he agrees. Naran is combatant, bitter, and determined to keep everyone at a distance, but especially Lev, the fellow alpha he betrayed in the worst way. Not that that\u2019s hard, since he\u2019s confined to his room after injuries to both his legs. Sivney thinks that\u2019s BS. It\u2019s easy to see Naran and Lev belong together, even though relationships between two alphas are uncommon. But Lev needs something only Naran can give him, so Sivney is determined to bring them back together. It works, until his own feelings get in the way\u2026 And outside the PTP ranch, things get worse and worse... How will the pack survive? Alpha\u2019s Obedience is book 7 in the Irresistible Omegas series, a bestselling mpreg romance series which needs to be read in order to enjoy the plot lines fully. This slow burn enemies to lovers MMM romance has a little kink and ends on a happy for now, but these three will get their happy ever after in the next book. An MMM Mpreg Romance.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Menage (M M M)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Polyamory"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50768537-alpha-s-obedience"}, +{"book_title": "His Robot Girlfriend", "author_name": "Wesley Allison", "rating_score": 3.02, "rating_votes": 678, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Mike Smith's life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil could become anything and everything he wanted it to be. Mike's life is about to change.The is available as a free ebook in multiple formats.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Short Stories", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6508233-his-robot-girlfriend"}, +{"book_title": "Mind Games", "author_name": "Teri Terry", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2626, "review_number": 377, "book_description": "Luna is a no-hoper with a secret: in a world of illusion, she can see what is real. But can she see the truth before it is too late? Luna has always been able to exist in virtual and real worlds at the same time, a secret she is warned to keep. She hides her ability by being a Refuser: excluded by choice from the virtual spheres others inhabit. But when she is singled out for testing, she can\u2019t hide any longer. The safest thing to do would be to fail, to go back to a dead-end life, no future. But Luna is starting to hope for something better, and hope is a dangerous thing...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18664167-mind-games"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian's Valentine; A Slice Of Life", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1566, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "Maddie's mate is returning soon, and she wants to make his homecoming a special one. Pregnant Josie wants to seduce her mate all over again. The solution for both of them? A Valentine's Day celebration, ice planet style. There'll be kisses, scanty outfits, and a pair of reunions you won't forget. Come and revisit two of your favorite couples from the original Ice Planet Barbarians series!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43978513-barbarian-s-valentine-a-slice-of-life"}, +{"book_title": "Dracula vs. Hitler", "author_name": "Patrick Sheane Duncan", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1062, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "Ravaged by the Nazi Secret Service during World War II, Romanian resistance forces turn to one of their leaders, Professor Van Helsing for any way out. To fight these monstrous forces, Van Helsing raises a legendary monster from centuries of slumber... Prince Dracula himself.Once he was the ruler of Transylvania. Prince Vlad Dracul, is, above all else, a patriot. He proves more than willing to once again drive out his country\u2019s invaders. Upshot: No one minds if he drinks all the German blood he desires.In Berlin, when Hitler hears about the many defeats his forces are suffering at the hands of an apparent true vampire, he is seduced by the possibility of becoming immortal. Thus two forces are set upon a collision course, the ultimate confrontation: Superpower against superpower.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "War", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29241335-dracula-vs-hitler"}, +{"book_title": "Die Verratenen", "author_name": "Ursula Poznanski", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 2776, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Sie ist beliebt, privilegiert und talentiert. Sie ist Teil eines Systems, das sie sch\u00fctzt und versorgt. Und sie hat eine gl\u00e4nzende Zukunft vor sich \u2013 Rias Leben k\u00f6nnte nicht besser sein. Doch dann wendet sich das Blatt: Mit einem Mal sieht sich Ria einer ihr feindlich gesinnten Welt gegen\u00fcber und muss ums \u00dcberleben k\u00e4mpfen. Es beginnt ein Versteckspiel und eine atemlose Flucht durch eine karge, verwaiste Landschaft. Verzweifelt sucht Ria nach einer Erkl\u00e4rung, warum ihre Existenz pl\u00f6tzlich in Tr\u00fcmmern liegt. Doch sie kann niemandem mehr vertrauen, sie ist ganz auf sich allein gestellt.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15851619-die-verratenen"}, +{"book_title": "The Robot Book", "author_name": "Heather Brown", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 134, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Richly illustrated, interactive book answers the question: \u201cWhat makes a robot tick?\u201dThis robot has two eyes, two arms, and two legs, but what really makes him tick? Inside The Robot Book, Heather Brown answers that question within an interactive story that features actual working--and moving--parts. Gears and cogs are mounted on each illustration to keep little fingers and imaginations engaged.While the junior engineer is tinkering away, parents will also be charmed by the story's warm text, which reveals the true secret behind what makes our robot tick. Here's a little hint: It isn't a gear, or bolt, or some other mechanical part, it's what's in his heart that counts the most. Perfect for year-round gift-giving, the book will be packaged inside a protective poly-bag.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8667420-the-robot-book"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue Navy", "author_name": "Jake Elwood", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 131, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "A Galaxy Engulfed by War The Dawn Alliance and the United Worlds are locked in a bitter war over the rich worlds of the Green Zone. The colony of New Panama is caught between the giants, and Tom Thrush has the impossible job of leading her rag-tag navy in a desperate struggle for survival. The Burden of Command His fleet is a mix of armed freighters and salvaged warships. The crews are former pirates with no military training. His enemy has the most powerful navy the galaxy has ever seen. With no hope of victory, he fights just to postpone annihilation. But these are the famed rebels of the Free Planets, tough and resourceful and hard as rats to kill. They might not count for much in a straight fight, but they know a thing or two about tackling impossible odds. If Tom can earn their respect, they might just teach him something about survival - or even victory.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41084823-rogue-navy"}, +{"book_title": "Mystic City", "author_name": "Theo Lawrence", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 10824, "review_number": 1334, "book_description": "For fans of\u00a0 Matched, The Hunger Games, X-Men, and Blade Runner comes a tale of a magical city divided, a political rebellion ignited, and a love that was meant to last forever. Book One of the Mystic City Novels.Aria Rose, youngest scion of one of Mystic City's two ruling rival families, finds herself betrothed to Thomas Foster, the son of her parents' sworn enemies. The union of the two will end the generations-long political feud - and unite all those living in the Aeries, the privileged upper reaches of the city, against the banished mystics who dwell below in the Depths.But Aria doesn't remember falling in love with Thomas; in fact, she wakes one day with huge gaps in her memory. And she can't conceive why her parents would have agreed to unite with the Fosters in the first place.Only when Aria meets Hunter, a gorgeous rebel mystic from the Depths, does she start to have glimmers of recollection - and to understand that he holds the key to unlocking her past. The choices she makes can save or doom the city - including herself.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13411245-mystic-city"}, +{"book_title": "Fire Watch", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3986, "review_number": 286, "book_description": "Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time. Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction. Here in one volume are twelve of her greatest stories, including double award-winner \"Fire Watch,\" set in the universe of Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, in which a time-traveling student learns one of history's hardest lessons. In \"A Letter from the Clearys,\" a routine message from distant friends shatters the fragile world of a beleaguered family. In \"The Sidon in the Mirror,\" a mutant with the unconscious urge to become other people finds himself becoming both killer and victim. Disturbing, revealing, and provocative, this remarkable collection of short fiction brings together some of the best work of an incomparable writer whose ability to amaze, confound, and enlighten never fails.Contents:Fire Watch (1982)Service for the Burial of the Dead (1982)Lost and Found (1982)All My Darling Daughters (1985)The Father of the Bride (1982)A Letter from the Clearys (1982)And Come from Miles Around (1979)The Sidon in the Mirror (1983)Daisy, in the Sun (1979)Mail-Order Clone (1982)Samaritan (1978)Blued Moon (1984)", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24986.Fire_Watch"}, +{"book_title": "The Silver Metal Lover", "author_name": "Tanith Lee", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3597, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood....Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking and imaginative authors of our time. In this unforgettably poignant novel, Lee has created a classic tale--a beautiful, tragic, erotic, and ultimately triumphant love story of the future.For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion.Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. And she will give up everything to prove it. So she escapes into the city's violent, decaying slums to embrace a love bordering on madness. Or is it something more? Has Jane glimpsed in Silver something no one else has dared to see--not even the robot or his creators? A love so perfect it must be destroyed, for no human could ever compete?", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567708.The_Silver_Metal_Lover"}, +{"book_title": "SYLO", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4772, "review_number": 700, "book_description": "Does Tucker Pierce have what it takes to be a hero when the U.S. military quarantines his island?Fourteen-year-old Tucker Pierce prefers to fly under the radar. He\u2019s used to navigating around summer tourists in his hometown on idyllic Pemberwick Island, Maine. He\u2019s content to sit on the sidelines as a backup player on the high school football team. And though his best friend Quinn tells him to \u201cgo for it,\u201d he\u2019s too chicken to ask Tori Sleeper on a date. There\u2019s always tomorrow, he figures.\u00a0Then Pemberwick Island is invaded by a mysterious branch of the U.S. military called SYLO. And sitting on the sidelines is no longer an option for Tucker, because tomorrow may never come. It\u2019s up to Tucker, Quinn, and Tori to uncover the truth about the singing aircraft that appears only at night\u2014and the stranger named Feit who\u2019s pushing a red crystal he calls the Ruby that brings unique powers to all who take it. Tucker and his friends must rescue not just Pemberwick Island, but the fate of the world\u2014and all before tomorrow is too late.\u00a0 #1 New York Times bestselling author D.J. MacHale brings his brilliant plotting and breathless pacing to SYLO, the first in this ultimate end-of-the-world adventure trilogy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Action", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101054-sylo"}, +{"book_title": "Standard Hollywood Depravity", "author_name": "Adam Christopher", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 224, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "The moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about.Honey.As the band shook the hair out of their British faces, stomping and strumming, the go-go dancer\u2019s cage swung, and the events of that otherwise average night were set in motion. A shot, under the cover of darkness, a body bleeding out in a corner, and most of Los Angeles\u2019 population of hired guns hulking, sour-faced over un-drunk whiskey sours at the bar.But as Ray tries to track down the package he was dispatched to the club to retrieve, his own programming might be working against him, sending him down a long hall and straight into a mobster\u2019s paradise. Is Honey still the goal\u2014or was she merely bait for a bigger catch?Just your standard bit of Hollywood depravity, as tracked by the memory tapes of a less-than-standard robot hitman.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Novella", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Mystery (Detective)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31216126-standard-hollywood-depravity"}, +{"book_title": "Gunpowder Alchemy", "author_name": "Jeannie Lin", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 520, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "In 1842, the gunpowder might of China's Qing Dynasty fell to Britain's steam engines. Furious, the Emperor ordered the death of his engineers, eliminating China's best chance of fighting back. Since her father's execution eight years ago, Jin Soling has kept her family from falling apart. With her mother addicted to opium and her younger brother in danger of being sent off to the factories, Soling has no choice but to sell off the last of her father's possessions. Unwittingly, her actions bring her to the attention of the imperial court-the same court that betrayed her father. The Crown Prince has launched a secret mission to bring together the remnants of the former Ministry of Science. To restore her family's name, Soling must track down the rebel alchemist who holds the key to powering the imperial fleet. Her only ally is a man she's just met-the engineer with a mysterious past who was once meant to be her husband...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (China)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Steampunk Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36218995-gunpowder-alchemy"}, +{"book_title": "Halo: Mortal Dictata", "author_name": "Karen Traviss", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1982, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Wars end. But hatred, guilt, and devotion can endure beyond the grave.With the Covenant War over, the Office of Naval Intelligence faces old grievances rising again to threaten Earth. The angry, bitter colonies, still with scores to settle from the insurrection put on hold for thirty years, now want justice -- and so does a man whose life was torn apart by ONI when his daughter was abducted for the SPARTAN-II program. Black ops squad Kilo-Five find their loyalties tested beyond breaking point when the father of their Spartan comrade, still searching for the truth about her disappearance, prepares to glass Earth's cities to get an answer. How far will Kilo-Five go to stop him? And will he be able to live with the truth when he finds it? The painful answer lies with a man long dead, and a conscience that still survives in the most unlikely, undiscovered place.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Action", "Pop Culture (Nerd)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248376-halo"}, +{"book_title": "The Clone Elite", "author_name": "Steven L. Kent", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 857, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "2514 A.D.: An unstoppable alien force is advancing on Earth, wiping out the Unified Authority\u2019s colonies one by one. It\u2019s up to Wayson Harris, an outlawed model of a clone, and his men to make a last stand on the planet of New Copenhagen, where they must win the battle and the war\u2014or lose all.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5223592-the-clone-elite"}, +{"book_title": "Outpassage", "author_name": "Janet Morris", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "WAR AND MYSTERY BEYOND THE STARS.Sgt. \"Det\" Cox has just spent three years under psych observation on Earth; now that he's out-system, he isn't about to tell anyone he's seeing aliens again. Paige Barnett has lost everything, even her name, because she knows too much about the rebellion spreading through the Earth-Space mining colonies.Together Cox and Barnett stumble upon the mystery at the revolution's heart and learn why the rebels are willing to die for it.Is their discovery humanity's worst threat or greatest gift? The authorities are willing to destroy whole planets to keep the revolution's secret from reaching Earth! What's to stop them from destroying two people?", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1920307.Outpassage"}, +{"book_title": "Midnight Awakening", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 41567, "review_number": 1128, "book_description": "With a dagger in her hand and vengeance on her mind, Darkhaven beauty Elise Chase prowls Boston\u2019s streets in search of retribution against the Rogue vampires who took from her everything she cherished. Using an extraordinary psychic gift, she tracks her prey, well aware that the power she possesses is destroying her. She must learn to harness this gift, and for that she can turn to only one man\u2014the deadliest of the Breed warriors, Tegan.No stranger to loss, Tegan knows Elise\u2019s pain. He knows fury, but when he slays his enemies it is with ice in his veins. He is perfect in his self-control, until Elise seeks his aid in her personal war. An unholy alliance is forged\u2014a bond that will link them by blood and vow\u2014and plunge them into a tempest of danger, desire, and the darkest passions of the heart. . . .", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1388813.Midnight_Awakening"}, +{"book_title": "Freedom's Landing", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 10322, "review_number": 304, "book_description": "Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above Denver. As human slaves were herded into the maw of a massive vessel, Kristin realized her normal life was over and her fight for freedom was just beginning\u2026The alien Catteni value strength and intelligence in their slaves\u2014and Kristin has managed to survive her enslavement while hundreds of other humans have not. But her trial has just begun, for now she finds herself part of a massive experiment. The aliens have discovered a new world, and they have a simple way of finding out if it\u2019s habitable: drop hundreds of slaves on the surface and see what happens.If they survive, colonization can begin. If not, there are always more slaves.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61928.Freedom_s_Landing"}, +{"book_title": "Shade's Children", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 12002, "review_number": 587, "book_description": "The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's ChildrenIf you\u2019re lucky, you live to fight another day.In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machine like creature whose sole purpose is to kill.The mysterious Shade \u2014 once a man, but now more like the machines he fights \u2014 recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power \u2014 and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become ...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47626.Shade_s_Children"}, +{"book_title": "A Civil Campaign", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 16858, "review_number": 805, "book_description": "Miles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan, Miles' brother, also has a problem: his love has just become unrequited again. But he has a cunning plan... Lord Ivan Vorpatril, Mile's cousin, has a problem: unrequited love in general. But he too has a cunning plan... A complex story, as the various members of Miles' family attempt to find their one true love, and a measure of destiny. This against a background of domestic political squabbles and an earnest attempt at capitalist enterprise.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61899.A_Civil_Campaign"}, +{"book_title": "The Blue Sword", "author_name": "Robin McKinley", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 60176, "review_number": 2918, "book_description": "This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin.And this is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who became Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, that no woman had wielded since the Lady Aerin herself bore it into battle.And this is the song of the kelar of the Hillfolk, the magic of the blood, the weaver of destinies...", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407813.The_Blue_Sword"}, +{"book_title": "Again, but Better", "author_name": "Christine Riccio", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 21859, "review_number": 5210, "book_description": "Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents\u2026sounds ideal\u2014but Shane's made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance\u2026what\u2019s that? Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs a change\u2014there's nothing like moving to a new country to really mix things up. Shane signs up for a semester abroad in London. She's going to right all her college mistakes: make friends, pursue boys, and find adventure! Easier said than done. She is soon faced with the complicated realities of living outside her bubble, and when self-doubt sneaks in, her new life starts to fall apart. Shane comes to find that, with the right amount of courage and determination one can conquer anything. Throw in some fate and a touch of magic\u2014the possibilities are endless.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Contemporary", "Young Adult", "Romance", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Academic (College)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41147279-again-but-better"}, +{"book_title": "Retribution & Redemption", "author_name": "Ben Brown", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 18, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "After a wait of three years, the long anticipated sequel to Ben Brown\u2019s acclaimed first novel is finally here. Enhanced Retribution & Redemption picks up where his award-winning novel, Enhanced, left off. In this exciting continuation of Zac\u2019s adventures, Zac and his team find themselves delving ever deeper into the underworld of enhanced humans. However, old enemies plot against them, resulting in new and ever more dangerous threats not only to his team, but to the world. This tale moves smoothly from location to location and obstacle to obstacle. At every turn, Zac\u2019s pursuit of his quarry is met with new and increasingly bizarre hurdles. The cost involved in conquering those hurdles is high, but not as high as failure. Enhanced Retribution & Redemption takes the reader in an all-new direction from the book\u2019s predecessor, a direction that will leave you reeling with every page you turn. This book is packed with Ben Brown\u2019s hallmark action, but also travels a darker, more intense path. If you are looking for an action-packed book that flows a little deeper than just bullets and explosions, this may be just the book for you.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23946274-retribution-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "Arcadia", "author_name": "Iain Pears", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 5176, "review_number": 925, "book_description": "In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares to imagine a world less fraught than his own. He finds an unlikely confidante in Rosie, an inquisitive young neighbor who, while chasing after Lytten's cat one day, stumbles through a doorway in his cellar and into a stunning and unfamiliar bucolic landscape\u2014remarkably like the fantasy world Lytten is writing about. There she meets a young boy named Jay who is about to embark on a journey that will change both their lives. Elsewhere, in a distopian society where progress is controlled by a corrupt ruling elite, the brilliant scientist Angela Meerson has discovered the potential of a powerful new machine. When the authorities come knocking, she will make an important decision\u2014one that will reverberate through all these different lives and worlds.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical", "Mystery", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25829156-arcadia"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Intention", "author_name": "Cara Bristol", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 623, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Our attraction unleashes a perfect storm\u2026 I\u2019m Stormy Weathers. My love life on Earth is one natural disaster after the other. I\u2019m attracted to bad boys, rebels, commitment-phobes. In a crowd of choirboys, I\u2019ll manage to find the jerk. All I want is a man who\u2019ll love me and my young son, so I\u2019m going to an icy planet to become an alien\u2019s mail-order bride. This time will be different! The chemistry I feel with Romando is electric. It doesn\u2019t matter what my sister or her mate or their tribe says, mutual attraction this strong can\u2019t be wrong, so I\u2019ll do anything to get him\u2026 I\u2019m Romando, an outcast in my own tribe. One rash, angry act turned me into a pariah and almost got me banished. But what everyone resents the most is that I\u2019m one of the lucky few who\u2019ll be getting a mate. The instant Stormy Weathers blows into Dakon with the other Earth females, my horns tingle. She is meant for me, but I resist the instinct to claim her. You see, she\u2019s related to my nemesis responsible for my outcast state. Honor and pride dictate that I reject her as a suitable mate before she undermines my good intentions. If only I could get her out of my mind\u2026Alien Intention is a steamy, humorous alien mail-order bride romance set on an ice planet. It's a standalone read in the Alien Mate series. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43178084-alien-intention"}, +{"book_title": "Fiend", "author_name": "Peter Stenson", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 3113, "review_number": 566, "book_description": "There\u2019s more than one kind of monster.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he\u2019s no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The funny thing is, Chase\u2019s life was over long before the apocalypse got here, his existence already reduced to a stinking basement apartment and a filthy mattress and an endless grind of buying and selling and using. He\u2019s lied and cheated and stolen and broken his parents\u2019 hearts a thousand times. And he threw away his only shot at sobriety a long time ago, when he chose the embrace of the drug over the woman he still loves.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And if your life\u2019s already shattered beyond any normal hopes of redemption\u2026well, maybe the end of the world is an opportunity. Maybe it\u2019s a last chance for Chase to hit restart and become the man he once dreamed of being. Soon he\u2019s fighting to reconnect with his lost love and dreaming of becoming her hero among civilization\u2019s ruins.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But is salvation just another pipe dream?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Propelled by a blistering first-person voice and featuring a powerfully compelling antihero, Fiend is at once a riveting portrait of addiction, a pitch-black love story, and a meditation on hope, redemption, and delusion\u2014not to mention one hell of a zombie novel.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16085506-fiend"}, +{"book_title": "In the Stormy Red Sky", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1921, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "DANIEL LEARY IS CINNABAR'S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPACE CAPTAIN; HIS FRIEND, LADY ADELE MUNDY, IS ITS MOST EFFICIENT SPY--BUT THEY'VE GOT THEIR HANDS FULL THIS TIME AS THEY FACE:\u2022 A Cinnabar Senator furious at losing an election\u2014and still powerful enough to make her anger deadly.\u2022 The boy ruler of a star cluster who thinks he's a god\u2014and who can sign the death warrants of even Cinnabar officials if a mad whimsy tells him to.\u2022 A world of slaves and escaped slaves, where the most savage beasts in the jungle used to be human.\u2022 An enemy base that could shrug off attack by powerful battlefleets\u2014but which must fall to a single cruiser if Cinnabar is to survive.From palace to reeking jungle, from gunfights in grimy hangars to the flagship's bridge during a sprawling space battle, Leary and Mundy are in the thick of it again. Watch the galaxy explode\u2014IN THE STORMY RED SKY1. David Drake is the Dean of military science fiction and author of the best-selling Hammer's Slammers series. Many writers of military SF get their background from books, but Vietnam veteran Drake has been there and done that, giving his work an unmatched gritty realism. 2. His novels of the military exploits of the brilliant young RCN officer Daniel Leary (who has gone from Lieutenant to Captain) and his friend and colleague Adele Mundy, computer spy and crack shot, have been top-sellers. 3. The RCN series has strong appeal for the enormous audience for David Weber's best-selling Honor Harrington novels. 4. Trade advertising 5. Consumer advertising in Locus, more 6. Huge distribution of ARCs to top accounts and reviewers. 7. Four-page color brochure. 8. BookSense mailing 9. Teaser chapter in When the Tide Rises mass market 10. Postcards 11. Bookmarks 12. Incremental co-op available", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3909812-in-the-stormy-red-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Slow Bullets", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 3932, "review_number": 511, "book_description": "From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself.A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur\u2014and for humanity\u2014peace is not to be.On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel. Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship.Passengers\u2014combatants from both sides of the war\u2014are waking up from hibernation far too soon. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to a world which is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy, but with much higher stakes than just her own life. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23013875-slow-bullets"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen of Blood", "author_name": "Sarah Beth Durst", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 9053, "review_number": 1533, "book_description": "An idealistic young student and a banished warrior become allies in a battle to save their realm in this first book of a mesmerizing epic fantasy series, filled with political intrigue, violent magic, malevolent spirits, and thrilling adventureEverything has a spirit: the willow tree with leaves that kiss the pond, the stream that feeds the river, the wind that exhales fresh snow . . .But the spirits that reside within this land want to rid it of all humans. One woman stands between these malevolent spirits and the end of humankind: the queen. She alone has the magical power to prevent the spirits from destroying every man, woman, and child. But queens are still just human, and no matter how strong or good, the threat of danger always looms. With the position so precarious, young women are chosen to train as heirs. Daleina, a seemingly quiet academy student, is under no illusions as to her claim to the throne, but simply wants to right the wrongs that have befallen the land. Ven, a disgraced champion, has spent his exile secretly fighting against the growing number of spirit attacks. Joining forces, these daring partners embark on a treacherous quest to find the source of the spirits\u2019 restlessness\u2014a journey that will test their courage and trust, and force them to stand against both enemies and friends to save their land . . . before it\u2019s bathed in blood.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adult", "Adventure", "Romance", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25036395-the-queen-of-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Until the Beginning", "author_name": "Amy Plum", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 3869, "review_number": 459, "book_description": "When Juneau's clan disappeared, she lost so much more than her friends and family. She soon discovered everything she thought she knew about her life was a lie. Her people's gifts were actually secret abilities that others wanted, desperately enough to kidnap an entire village.Juneau and her new companion Miles's cross-country journey to find her clan has led them to a game preserve in New Mexico. Now Juneau's people are finally within reach, and she will stop at nothing to save them. But she has a target on her back too, because unbeknownst to her she is the key to unlocking everything. To rescue her people - and herself - Juneau must discover what she, and her abilities, are truly capable of.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22445886-until-the-beginning"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk: Extraordinary Tales of Victorian Futurism", "author_name": "Mike Ashley", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "In these astonishingly forward-thinking science-fiction stories from the steam-shrouded, technology-obsessed Victorian age, the characters look forward to the wonders that new innovations might bring, from chess-playing robots to gravity-defying aerocars, as well as the catastrophic dangers that might ensue. This amazing fiction collection, edited by prolific anthologist Mike Ashley, brings you 14 classic steampunk tales - with perceptive introductions offering biographical, cultural, and critical insights - from the days when everything seemed not only possible, but inevitable.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16147893-steampunk"}, +{"book_title": "Must Love Breeches", "author_name": "Angela Quarles", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 934, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "She's finally met the man of her dreams. Only one problem: he lives in a different century.HOW FAR WOULD YOU TRAVEL FOR LOVE?A mysterious artifact zaps Isabelle Rochon to pre-Victorian England, and suddenly her love of historical authenticity collides with the reality that she\u2019s a modern-day girl. But when a thief steals her card case, she determines to retrieve the time-traveling artifact. Now she must hunt down the case, navigate the pitfalls of stiff society London, conceal her origins, and resist her growing attraction to Lord Montagu, a viscount so hot, he curls her shower-loving toes.Lord Montagu is resolved to avenge his sister and has no time for dalliances, despite the appeal of the strange but lovely Colonial. However, when his scheme for revenge requires a respectable match, he convinces Isabelle to masquerade as his fianc\u00e9e. But he did not bargain for Ms. Rochon being his intellectual match or her irresistible allure.Isabelle thought all she wanted was to return home, but as passion flares between them, she must decide when her true home, and her heart, lies.Set in 1834 London, this time travel historical romance features a small cast of historical characters, including Ada Byron, Lord Byron's daughter, and Charles Babbage, inventor of the Difference Engine. It explores the often overlooked scientific developments of pre-Victorian London.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Regency)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22664678-must-love-breeches"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon Warrior", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 1831, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "The steamy second book in Janet Chapman\u2019s dazzling Midnight Bay series seduces readers with an enticing tale of a fiery independent woman and an irresistible immortal warrior with a dragon\u2019s courageous heart.Maddy Kimble has no time for a suitor\u2014not with caring for her spunky nursing home patients, her shy nine-year-old daughter, her widowed mother, and her rebellious teenage brother. William Kilkenny\u2019s stunning lack of modern dating protocol doesn\u2019t help. The man is uncouth and outrageous\u2014a towering, drop-dead, breathtakingly hot warrior. Who refuses to give up.William is secretly a ninth-century Irish nobleman formerly trapped in a dragon\u2019s body. All Maddy knows is that lately, she can hardly resist the urge to lose herself in his powerful arms. But as their uncontrollable passion grows, eerie occurrences in her small coastal Maine town begin to rouse Maddy\u2019s suspicions about her lover. He begs her to trust him, but how can she surrender\u2014body and soul\u2014when she fears the danger he poses to her yearning heart?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7841511-dragon-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Torrent", "author_name": "Lisa Tawn Bergren", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 9065, "review_number": 867, "book_description": "Would you sacrifice your future ... for an uncertain past?Gabriella and Evangelia Betarrini are just two normal American teenagers. Normal--except for the fact that they time travel to fourteenth-century Italy, where they've lived in castles, become swept up in historic battles, and fallen in love with handsome knights willing to do anything to keep them alive.They've returned with their mother to the present to save their father before his tragic death, and now the family travels back to the place that holds the girls' hearts: medieval Italy. But remaining there means facing great risk as the battle for territory wages on and the Black Plague looms. Will the Betarrinis truly be willing to risk it all? Or in facing death head-on, will they discover life as it was always meant to be lived?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Christian Fiction", "Historical", "Christian", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9935444-torrent"}, +{"book_title": "Inherit the Stars", "author_name": "James P. Hogan", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 3974, "review_number": 325, "book_description": "THE MAN ON THE MOON WAS DEAD. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn't know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his corpse was 50,000 years old; and that meant that this man had somehow lived long before he ever could have existed!", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776489.Inherit_the_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Stars Never Rise", "author_name": "Rachel Vincent", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 4918, "review_number": 852, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Nina Kane should be worrying about her immortal soul, but she's too busy trying to actually survive. Her town's population has been decimated by soul-consuming demons, and souls are in short supply. Watching over her younger sister, Mellie, and scraping together food and money are all that matters. The two of them are a family. They gave up on their deadbeat mom a long time ago.When Nina discovers that Mellie is keeping a secret that threatens their very existence, she'll do anything to protect her. Because in New Temperance, sins are prosecuted as crimes by the brutal Church and its army of black-robed exorcists. And Mellie's sin has put her in serious trouble.To keep them both alive, Nina will need to trust Finn, a fugitive with deep green eyes who has already saved her life once and who might just be an exorcist. But what kind of exorcist wears a hoodie?Wanted by the Church and hunted by dark forces, Nina knows she can't survive on her own. She needs Finn and his group of rogue friends just as much as they need her.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17788681-the-stars-never-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Revenge and the Wild", "author_name": "Michelle Modesto", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1383, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "The two-bit town of Rogue City is a lawless place, full of dark magic and saloon brawls, monsters and six-shooters. But it\u2019s perfect for seventeen-year-old Westie, the notorious adopted daughter of local inventor Nigel Butler.Westie was only a child when she lost her arm and her family to cannibals on the wagon trail. Nine years later, Westie may seem fearsome with her foul-mouthed tough exterior and the powerful mechanical arm built for her by Nigel, but the memory of her past still haunts her. She\u2019s determined to make the killers pay for their crimes\u2014and there\u2019s nothing to stop her except her own reckless ways.But Westie\u2019s search ceases when a wealthy family comes to town looking to invest in Nigel\u2019s latest invention, a machine that can harvest magic from gold\u2014which Rogue City desperately needs as the magic wards that surround the city start to fail. There\u2019s only one problem: the investors look exactly like the family who murdered Westie\u2019s kin. With the help of Nigel\u2019s handsome but scarred young assistant, Alistair, Westie sets out to prove their guilt. But if she\u2019s not careful, her desire for revenge could cost her the family she has now.This thrilling novel is a remarkable tale of danger and discovery, from debut author Michelle Modesto.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Westerns", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21843165-revenge-and-the-wild"}, +{"book_title": "Lichgates", "author_name": "S.M. Boyce", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2935, "review_number": 608, "book_description": " A single choice can change your life forever... When Kara Magari uncovers an ancient book of dark and deadly magic, she realizes she\u2019s the only one who can read its enchanted pages\u2026 and overnight, she becomes the most coveted magical creature in not just one, but two worlds. Now hunted by every living creature under the sun, she discovers a new world full of beautiful and terrifying things: Ourea. Out here, everyone wants something from her, and there\u2019s no one she can trust. Kings and queens are drawn to her, assassins and demons seek her out, but it\u2019s the charming soldier with a protective streak and a dark secret that may just be her undoing. Before this is over, Kara will have to make the ultimate choice\u2026 either she surrenders to this dangerous book of magic, heart and soul, or it will be the death of her. Welcome to Ourea, where only the cunning survive. Buckle in & experience the beginning of a timeless epic fantasy adventure with this first installment of the Grimoire Saga. If you enjoy Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, or Eragon, you\u2019ll love this breathtaking epic fantasy adventure with a modern twist and a slow burn romance. NEW 5th EDITION with never-before-read scenes and chapters from your favorite bad guys. Completely re-edited and revised for a smoother, more vivid reading experience. Want more? Read the full series\u2026 Book 1: Lichgates Book 2: Treason Book 3: Heritage Book 4: Illusion Book 5: The First Vagabond: Rise of a Hero Book 6: The Misanthrope Warning: this story contains adventure, action, and mild cussing.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40983373-lichgates"}, +{"book_title": "Choices of One", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 5567, "review_number": 298, "book_description": "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn comes a brand-new Star Wars adventure, set in the time between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back and featuring the young Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, and the beloved Mara Jade.\nThe fate of the Rebellion rests on Luke Skywalker\u2019s next move.\n\nBut have the rebels entered a safe harbor or a death trap?\nEight months after the Battle of Yavin, the Rebellion is in desperate need of a new base. So when Governor Ferrouz of Candoras Sector proposes an alliance, offering the Rebels sanctuary in return for protection against the alien warlord Nuso Esva, Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie are sent to evaluate the deal.Mara Jade, the Emperor\u2019s Hand, is also heading for Candoras, along with the five renegade stormtroopers known as the Hand of Judgment. Their mission: to punish Ferrouz\u2019s treason and smash the Rebels for good. But in this treacherous game of betrayals within betrayals, a wild card is waiting to be played. \u00a0Don\u2019t miss the new novella by Timothy Zahn, \u201cCrisis of Faith,\u201d featured in the 20th anniversary edition of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9579882-choices-of-one"}, +{"book_title": "The Trials of Koli", "author_name": "M.R. Carey", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 1350, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "The Trials of Koli is the second novel in M R. Carey\u2019s breathtakingly original Rampart trilogy, set in a strange and deadly world of our own making.Beyond the walls of Koli\u2019s small village lies a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts and shunned men. As an exile, Koli\u2019s been forced to journey out into this mysterious, hostile world. But he heard a story, once. A story about lost London, and the mysterious tech of the Old Times that may still be there. If Koli can find it, there may still be a way for him to redeem himself \u2013 by saving what\u2019s left of humankind.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51829857-the-trials-of-koli"}, +{"book_title": "Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part One", "author_name": "Jennifer Harlow", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 138, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "KEEP CALM AND STEAMPUNK ON The whole of Victorian London knows there is something not quite right about the Lady Verity Hart. She may be the daughter of an MP and the sister of famed inventor Lord David Hart, but she is a spinster whose own father threatens to send her to the madhouse every fortnight. Because Society is correct-Verity Hart is no lady. If they suspected how quick with a quip she is, let alone the majority of her brother's ingenious machines were her design, the sale of fainting couches would double. Verity requires one herself when her beloved brother is kidnapped by vampyres in the dead of night. With the aid of an aggravating, rude American bounty hunter with a secret of his own, Verity takes to land, sea, and even air to rescue the only person who could ever love and truly accept her. Or is he? Part One of Five includes: Chapter One- The Notorious Count Orrlock Has A Ball Chapter Two- When Worlds Collide", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22033036-verity-hart-vs-the-vampyres"}, +{"book_title": "The Commander's Captive", "author_name": "Miranda Bridges", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2000, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "Aliens.That's right. I said it.I know\u2014it sounds stupid to me also. I'm a psychologist (sort of), so you'd think I'd be able to reason my way out of this mess. Except the reality is that I've been abducted to become their breeder, and it doesn't take an advanced degree to recognize this is all sorts of jacked up.But I digress.Apparently, these aliens are on the brink of extinction and need me and my fellow captives to repopulate. Yay us. I guess it's time to figure out an escape plan before they knock me up. I'll be back later.Hopefully.\nHouse of Kaimar Series:Book 1: The Commander's Captive (Lia & Varek)Book 2: The Monarch's Mate (Morgan & Zaden)Book 3: The Bodyguard's Breeder (Eleanor & Kade)Book 4: Kolton's bookBook 5: Braxton's book\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51865030-the-commander-s-captive"}, +{"book_title": "Flux", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1336, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Imagine a race of submicroscopic humans, genetically engineered to live in the universe's most hostile environment, the turbulent superfluid mantle of a neutron starImagine that the memory of the superbeings who created them has been kept alive from generation to generation.Now imagine the most incredible family reunion in history--and you're ready for the latest mind-expanding adventure Star humans were engineered to exist within the mantle of a star, mere tools of their Earth-evolved makers in a war against the Xeelee, owners of the universe. Stephen Baxter's third novel in his magnificent Xeelee Sequence is an exotic and endearing story of an abandoned people.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100681.Flux"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Engines of War", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2208, "review_number": 343, "book_description": "\"The death of billions is as nothing to us Doctor, if it helps defeat the Daleks.\"The Great Time War has raged for centuries, ravaging the universe. Scores of human colony planets are now overrun by Dalek occupation forces. A weary, angry Doctor leads a flotilla of Battle TARDISes against the Dalek stronghold but in the midst of the carnage, the Doctor's TARDIS crashes to a planet below: Moldox.As the Doctor is trapped in an apocalyptic landscape, Dalek patrols roam amongst the wreckage, rounding up the remaining civilians. But why haven't the Daleks simply killed the humans?Searching for answers the Doctor meets 'Cinder', a young Dalek hunter. Their struggles to discover the Dalek plan take them from the ruins of Moldox to the halls of Gallifrey, and set in motion a chain of events that will change everything. And everyone.An epic novel of the Great Time War featuring the War Doctor as played by John Hurt.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Audiobook", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22401661-doctor-who"}, +{"book_title": "So Close to You", "author_name": "Rachel Carter", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1431, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "LYDIA BENTLEY has heard stories about the Montauk Project all her life: stories about the strange things that took place at the abandoned military base near her home and people who've disappeared over the years. Stories about people like her own great-grandfather.When Lydia stumbles into a portal that transports her to a dangerous and strange new reality, she discovers that all the stories she's heard about the Montauk Project are true, and that she's in the middle of one of the most dangerous experiments in history.Alongside a darkly mysterious boy she is wary to trust, Lydia begins to unravel the secrets surrounding the Project. But the truths behind these secrets force her to questions all her choices - and if Lydia chooses wrong, she might not save her family but destroy them... and herself.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12924333-so-close-to-you"}, +{"book_title": "Awaken, My Love", "author_name": "Robin Schone", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1166, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "When thirty-nine-year-old Elaine Metcliffe awakens one morning, she is astounded to find herself in a strange bed, in another century--inhabiting the body of another woman. In this, her \"new\" life, she is married to English baron Charles Mortimer--dark, breathtakingly handsome--and bent not only on seducing the resentful young woman he believes her to be, but educating her in practices of physical pleasure Elaine has never dared to imagine. Torn between fidelity to the passionless husband she left behind and the exquisite temptation Charles offers with every touch, Elaine will discover that the dark magic responsible for her transport to this time and place is no match for the carnal delights that make her want to stay...", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Historical", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743908.Awaken_My_Love"}, +{"book_title": "The Drafter", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 7062, "review_number": 1055, "book_description": "The Bourne Identity meets Minority Report in this first highly anticipated installment in number-one New York Times best-selling author Kim Harrison's sexy new romantic suspense trilogy, featuring a brilliant special task agent at the top of her field and set in a futuristic Detroit.During a routine but dangerous Opti task, Peri Reed finds out her trusted partner has made her a corrupt agent. Her unique ability to jump back 40 seconds in time to correct a mistake leaves her vulnerable when her partner, who is responsible for replacing her memory of the event, gives her a false one. But Peri lives and dies on her intuition, and she begins to piece her twisted reality together as she flees her one-time secure situation at Opti and tries to find the truth with a sullen but talented psychologist named Silas who works for the very agency trying to bring the Opti corruption to light.With Howard, tech and med specialist, and Taf, gun-toting daughter of the opposing grass-roots agency, Silas and Peri try to rebuild her memory of the night she killed her partner, knowing it will put her mental stability in danger. Peri remembers, and thoughts of revenge keep her alive and moving forward as she tries to put an end to Opti, working with the very faction that wants to see her dead.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492477-the-drafter"}, +{"book_title": "Highlander's Curse", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1350, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "When COLIN MACALISTER is cursed by the Faerie Queen and ends up in the bed of a twenty-first-century woman\u2014who also happens to be the most beautiful creature he\u2019s ever laid eyes on\u2014he\u2019s torn between anger and lust. Colin is determined to see Scotland free of English control and must return to the fourteenth century, yet he cannot forget the woman who haunts his dreams and stirs him with scorching desire. ABIGAIL PORTER can\u2019t believe her luck. After making a wish to find her soul mate, she wakes up to find a gorgeous man in her bed! Can he really be a medieval Highlander summoned by her Faerie Magic, however? It seems crazy, but when Abby discovers someone wants to enslave her because of her Faerie heritage, she agrees to flee with Colin to 1306 Scotland to avoid capture. Thwarting danger at every turn, Abby and Colin surrender to an irresistible passion. But is the magic of true love powerful enough to save them?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fairies (Fae)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8701096-highlander-s-curse"}, +{"book_title": "A Mighty Fortress", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 6176, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, he\u2019s won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He\u2019s smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and they\u2019ve turned Charis into a place of refuge for all who treasure freedom.Their success may prove short-lived. The Church of God Awaiting, which controls most of Safehold, has decreed their destruction. Mother Church\u2019s entire purpose is to prevent the very things to which Charis is committed. Since the first attempt to crush the heretics failed, the Church has no choice but to adopt some of the hated Charisian innovations for themselves. Soon a mighty fleet will sail against Cayleb, destroying everything in its path.But there are still matters about which the Church knows nothing, including Cayleb and Sharleyan\u2019s adviser, friend, and guardian\u2014 the mystic warrior-monk named Merlin Athrawes. Merlin knows all about battles against impossible odds, because he is in fact the cybernetic avatar of a young woman named Nimue Alban, who died a thousand years before. As Nimue, Merlin saw the entire Terran Federation go down in fire and slaughter at the hands of a foe it could not defeat. He knows that Safehold is the last human planet in existence, and that the stasis the Church was created to enforce will be the human race\u2019s death sentence if it is allowed to stand.The juggernaut is rumbling down on Charis, but Merlin Athrawes and a handful of extraordinary human beings stand in its path. The Church is about to discover just how potent the power of human freedom truly is.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6940561-a-mighty-fortress"}, +{"book_title": "Steel Scars", "author_name": "Victoria Aveyard", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 12671, "review_number": 917, "book_description": "Farley was raised to be strong, but being tasked with planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is a tougher job than expected. As she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital, she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation\u2014Mare Barrow.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25362018-steel-scars"}, +{"book_title": "Barbarian", "author_name": "Kim Fox", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 804, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "I went camping once.Two hours later, I was checked into a Holiday Inn, lying on a table and getting massaged by a muscular Swedish man named Sven.If I can't survive on a campground, how can I survive by myself on an alien planet?And that's exactly where I am.The flowers are as big as cars, the bugs as big as dogs, and there's no Holiday Inn in sight.Oh, and did I forget to mention...there are freaking dinosaurs here!I would have been their lunch if it wasn't for Turic, my blue alien savior.He's no Sven but he has other ways to please me...And this muscular alien with the heavenly tongue is making this harsh alien planet feel like home.\u00a0Standalone. HEA. No Cliffhanger.\u00a0", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Novella", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32311016-barbarian"}, +{"book_title": "Now I Rise", "author_name": "Kiersten White", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 16124, "review_number": 2558, "book_description": "Lada Dracul has no allies. No throne. All she has is what she\u2019s always had: herself. After failing to secure the Wallachian throne, Lada is out to punish anyone who dares to cross her blood-strewn path. Filled with a white-hot rage, she storms the countryside with her men, accompanied by her childhood friend Bogdan, terrorizing the land. But brute force isn\u2019t getting Lada what she wants. And thinking of Mehmed brings little comfort to her thorny heart. There\u2019s no time to wonder whether he still thinks about her, even loves her. She left him before he could leave her. What Lada needs is her younger brother Radu\u2019s subtlety and skill. But Mehmed has sent him to Constantinople\u2014and it\u2019s no diplomatic mission. Mehmed wants control of the city, and Radu has earned an unwanted place as a double-crossing spy behind enemy lines. Radu longs for his sister\u2019s fierce confidence\u2014but for the first time in his life, he rejects her unexpected plea for help. Torn between loyalties to faith, to the Ottomans, and to Mehmed, he knows he owes Lada nothing. If she dies, he could never forgive himself\u2014but if he fails in Constantinople, will Mehmed ever forgive him? As nations fall around them, the Dracul siblings must decide: what will they sacrifice to fulfill their destinies? Empires will topple, thrones will be won . . . and souls will be lost.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40669906-now-i-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Mutant Mosquitoes from Mercury", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1894, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Mr. Mosquito lives on Mercury, and he hates it there! The daytime temperature is more than eight hundred degrees, and his flip-flops always melt on the sidewalk. At night it gets so cold that his toothpaste is frozen solid. Imagine his delight when he looks through his telescope and sees Planet Earth, where mice play happily in comfortable weather. So he decides to invade the Earth and take it over!Mr. Mosquito clips his dirty fingernails and zaps them with a powerful ray. Suddenly, his fingernails mutate into massive mosquitoes.\"Mutant Mosquitoes!\" he cries. \"It is time to conquer Earth. Follow me!\"In this wildly imaginative and highly appealing story, Dav Pilkey and Martin Ontiveros once again create a witty tale of danger and heroism, and at the same time they celebrate the joys of friendship. Here is an action-packed story that will engage even the most reluctant reader.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Childrens", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/532634.Ricky_Ricotta_s_Mighty_Robot_vs_the_Mutant_Mosquitoes_from_Mercury"}, +{"book_title": "Forty Signs of Rain", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 3613, "review_number": 415, "book_description": "The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation\u2019s capital\u2014and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines.When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year.It\u2019s an increasingly steamy summer in the nation\u2019s capital as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler cares for his young son and deals with the frustrating politics of global warming. Charlie must find a way to get a skeptical administration to act before it\u2019s too late\u2014and his progeny find themselves living in Swamp World. But the political climate poses almost as great a challenge as the environmental crisis when it comes to putting the public good ahead of private gain. While Charlie struggles to play politics, his wife, Anna, takes a more rational approach to the looming crisis in her work at the National Science Foundation. There a proposal has come in for a revolutionary process that could solve the problem of global warming\u2014if it can be recognized in time. But when a race to control the budding technology begins, the stakes only get higher. As these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of nature with the extraordinary march of modern science, they are unaware that fate is about to put an unusual twist on their work\u2014one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable storm. With style, wit, and rare insight into our past, present, and possible future, this captivating novel propels us into a world on the verge of unprecedented change\u2014in a time quite like our own. Here is Kim Stanley Robinson at his visionary best, offering a gripping cautionary tale of progress\u2014and its price\u2014as only he can tell it.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Environment (Climate Change)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)", "Environment", "Politics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain"}, +{"book_title": "Roman Holiday", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 3870, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Another rollicking short story from the Chronicles of St Mary's. Question: What sort of idiot installs his mistress in his wife's house? Especially when that mistress is Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, Queen of Egypt and the most notorious woman of her time? Answer: Julius Caesar - poised to become King of Rome. Or as good as. Question: At this potentially sensitive point in your political manoeuvrings, who are the last people you'd want crashing through the door, observing, recording, documenting ...? I think we all know the answer to that one. Roman Holiday - an epic, stand alone tale set in Ancient Rome, 44 BC, featuring, in no particular order: an attempted murder, stampeding bullocks, Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, a bowl of poisonous snakes, a smallish riot, Julius Caesar, and Mr Markham's wayward bosoms.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Adventure", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27857650-roman-holiday"}, +{"book_title": "In the Ocean of Night", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 3208, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "Contains Introduction EssayCover Artist: Don Dixon2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...2034: Then a reply is heard. Searching for the source of this signal that comes from outside the solar system, Nigel discovers the existence of a sentient ship. When the new vessel begins to communicate directly with him, the astronaut learns of the horrors that await humanity. For the ship was created by an alien race that has spent billions and billions of years searching for intelligent life...to annihilate it.In the Ocean of Night is a 1977 hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford. It is the first novel in his Galactic Center Saga. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1977. It was first published as a novelette in the May/June 1972 edition of Worlds of If Science Fiction.", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453960.In_the_Ocean_of_Night"}, +{"book_title": "Tokyo Green", "author_name": "C.D. Wight", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 47, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "In 2048, AI specialist Tomo is about to lose his job in Silicon Valley, as U.S. unemployment soars past thirty percent. He\u2019s a terrible team player, and his ass-kissing skills are sub-par. While Tomo\u2019s got talents for making robots act more human, the job makes him feel more like a machine. When his hometown in Japan is destroyed by a tsunami, Tomo has the reason he needs to take a break. But in Tokyo, Tomo overhears something impossible to ignore: a care-giving bot is pressuring his grandmother to sell her condo and move into an old folks\u2019 home. Elderly neighbors complain their bots sing the same tune. Tomo breaches the veil of customer service at the care-giving company, revealing a yakuza scheme that amounts to genocide. Tomo now has an opportunity to put his talents to better use\u2014with help from an upbeat slacker and a rogue AI. TOKYO GREEN (91,000 words) is a stand-alone SF novel that explores not only the dangers of technology, but also the ability of technology to thrust humanity deeper into nature, making the future a worthwhile destination for all.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Cultural (Asia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53137800-tokyo-green"}, +{"book_title": "The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 5733, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "From the bestselling author of Chaos and Order comes the conclusion of the Gap series. As the crew attempts to pursue the pirate ship Soar and her captain, their hopes turn to Angus Thermopyle. Angus, Morn Hyland, and her son, Davies, race home, unaware that Warden Dios and The Dragon are locked in a final confrontation that may alter the fate of humankind forever. HC: Bantam.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Epic", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537148.The_Gap_Into_Ruin"}, +{"book_title": "The Grace Year", "author_name": "Kim Liggett", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 31503, "review_number": 6393, "book_description": "No one speaks of the grace year. It\u2019s forbidden.In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That\u2019s why they\u2019re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive.Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life\u2014a society that doesn\u2019t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it\u2019s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It\u2019s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other.With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Feminism", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Romance", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263520-the-grace-year"}, +{"book_title": "Maximum Offense", "author_name": "David Gunn", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1165, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "With Death\u2019s Head, David Gunn rocketed onto the scene in the most explosive and entertaining science fiction debut since Richard Morgan\u2019s Altered Carbon. Now Gunn is back\u2013and so is Sven Tveskoeg: antisocial, antihero, anti-you-name-it, a one-man killing spree whose best friend is an intelligent handgun with a bad attitude and whose worst enemy is, well, just about everybody else.And if Sven weren\u2019t dangerous enough already, add in the lethal alien parasite that resides in his throat . . . and is capable of bending space and time. Then there\u2019s the fact that Sven\u2019s genetic makeup is only 98.2 percent human, the rest being undetermined but possibly contributing to his enhanced healing abilities, superior strength, unusual agility, and notable sociopathic tendencies. The result is one seriously badass soldier with a hair-trigger temper and a chip on his shoulder the size of a small moon. These are qualities that would doom a man to prison or worse in any decent society.Luckily, Sven doesn\u2019t live in a decent society. He lives in the empire of OctoV, a tyrant who is part machine, part boy, part god, and all evil. Sven\u2019s qualities have brought him to OctoV\u2019s personal attention and earned him a lieutenant\u2019s commission in the Death\u2019s Head, the elite corps of assassins and enforcers whose purpose in life is to kill and die for the greater glory of OctoV.Sven\u2019s new assignment? Lead his ragtag band of Death\u2019s Head rejects\u2013the Aux, short for auxiliaries\u2013to the artificial world of Hekati. It seems that a citizen of the United Free, an empire not only vaster than OctoV\u2019s but far more technologically advanced, has gone missing there. Now it\u2019s up to Sven to rescue the poor soul.But Hekati turns out to be a vicious den of backstabbing and betrayal, where nothing and no one can be trusted, least of all the greenhorn colonel put in charge of the mission at the last moment. It looks like somebody wants Sven Tveskoeg dead.So what else is new?From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Action", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2191152.Maximum_Offense"}, +{"book_title": "In at the Death", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1962, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA\u2019s worst enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas. In Harry Turtledove\u2019s compelling, disturbing, and extraordinarily vivid reshaping of American history, a war of secession has triggered a generation of madness. The tipping point has come at last.The third war in sixty years, yet unnamed, is a grinding, horrifying series of hostilities and atrocities between two nations sharing a continent and both calling themselves America. At the dawn of 1944, the United States has beaten back a daredevil blitzkrieg from the Confederate States\u2014and a terrible new genie is out of history\u2019s bottle: a bomb that may destroy on a scale never imagined before. In Europe, the new weapon has shattered a stalemate between Germany, England, and Russia. When the trigger is pulled in America, nothing will be the same again.With visionary brilliance, Harry Turtledove brings to a climactic conclusion his monumental, acclaimed drama of a nation\u2019s tragedy and the men and women who play their roles\u2014with valor, fear, and folly\u2014on history\u2019s greatest stage.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101515.In_at_the_Death"}, +{"book_title": "The Doom Patrol Archives, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Arnold Drake", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 158, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Made up of misfit super-heroes with unusual powers and abilities, the Doom Patrol embarked on and endured some of the most bizarre adventures ever imaginable. Assembled in this hardcover volume are the earliest escapades of Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Girl, and the Chief. Reprinted as they originally appeared in the 1960s, this archive edition includes the Doom Patrol's first appearance and origin, as well as their first battles with their greatest adversary, General Immortus, the prehistoric monster menace Dr. Janus, the subterranean Atomic Furies, and the mutant Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158384.The_Doom_Patrol_Archives_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "The Root Cellar", "author_name": "Janet Lunn", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1881, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "It looked like an ordinary root cellar, the kind of place where you'd store canned goods and winter vegetables. And if twelve-year-old Rose hadn't been so unhappy in her new home, where she'd been sent to live with unknown relatives, she probably would never have fled down the stairs to the root cellar in the first place. And if she hadn't, she never would have climbed up into another century, the world of the 1860s, and the chaos of Civil War...", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Military History (Civil War)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632838.The_Root_Cellar"}, +{"book_title": "Glacial", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 120, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Novella. First published in the magazine Spectrum SF, February 2001.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20664493-glacial"}, +{"book_title": "Dichronauts", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 499, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like everyone else in their world, they are symbionts, depending on each other to survive.In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a \u201cdark cone\u201d to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate as far as north-north-east is every bit as impossible as accelerating to the speed of light.Every living thing in Seth\u2019s world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun\u2019s shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates. Cities are being constantly disassembled at one edge and rebuilt at the other, with surveyors mapping safe routes ahead.But when Seth and Theo join an expedition to the edge of the habitable zone, they discover a terrifying threat: a fissure in the surface of the world, so deep and wide that no one can perceive its limits. As the habitable zone continues to move, the migration will soon be blocked by this unbridgeable void, and the expedition has only one option to save its city from annihilation: descend into the unknown.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30351492-dichronauts"}, +{"book_title": "Lord Darcy Investigates", "author_name": "Randall Garrett", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 330, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Lord Darcy Investigates is a collection of short stories by Randall Garrett featuring his alternate history detective Lord Darcy. It was first published in paperback in 1981 by Ace Books.The book collects four Lord Darcy short stories originally published in the magazines Analog Science Fact & Fiction in October 1974 and December 1976, and June 1965, Fantastic in May 1976, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in April 1979.The Lord Darcy stories are set in an alternate world whose history supposedly diverged from our own during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart, in which King John never reigned and most of western Europe and the Americas are united in an Angevin Empire whose continental possessions were never lost by that king. In this world a magic-based technology has developed in place of the science of our own world.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Mystery (Detective)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1509045.Lord_Darcy_Investigates"}, +{"book_title": "A Thief in Time", "author_name": "Cidney Swanson", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 837, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "An earl from 1598 accidentally joins the 21st century, falling for modern girl Halley in the process. Together they play out a deadly game of cat and mouse as they flee the time machine inventor who will do anything to keep time travel a permanent secret. A Thief in Time and its sequels are clean and wholesome young adult romances packed with historical detail and perfect to read with your daughter or grandmother.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41143183-a-thief-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Hazards of Time Travel", "author_name": "Joyce Carol Oates", "rating_score": 2.99, "rating_votes": 4632, "review_number": 884, "book_description": "An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman\u2019s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates\u201cTime travel\u201d \u2014 and its hazards\u2014are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America \u2014 \u201cWainscotia, Wisconsin\u201d\u2014that existed eighty years before. \u00a0Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of \u201crehabilitation\u201d\u2014but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning\u00a0the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \u00a0Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel \u00a0is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates\u2019s most unexpected novel so far.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36544571-hazards-of-time-travel"}, +{"book_title": "The Mark of Athena", "author_name": "Rick Riordan", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 457860, "review_number": 17112, "book_description": "Annabeth is terrified. Just when she's about to be reunited with Percy\u2014after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera\u2014it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo fly in on the Argo II, she can't blame the Roman demigods for thinking the ship is a Greek weapon. With its steaming bronze dragon figurehead, Leo's fantastical creation doesn't appear friendly. Annabeth hopes that the sight of their praetor Jason on deck will reassure the Romans that the visitors from Camp Half-Blood are coming in peace.And that's only one of her worries. In her pocket, Annabeth carries a gift from her mother that came with an unnerving command: Follow the Mark of Athena. Avenge me. Annabeth already feels weighed down by the prophecy that will send seven demigods on a quest to find\u2014and close\u2014the Doors of Death. What more does Athena want from her?Annabeth's biggest fear, though, is that Percy might have changed. What if he's now attached to Roman ways? Does he still need his old friends? As the daughter of the goddess of war and wisdom, Annabeth knows she was born to be a leader\u2014but never again does she want to be without Seaweed Brain by her sideNarrated by four different demigods, The Mark of Athena is an unforgettable journey across land and sea to Rome, where important discoveries, surprising sacrifices, and unspeakable horrors await. Climb aboard the Argo II, if you dare. . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12127750-the-mark-of-athena"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Mafia", "author_name": "Seleste deLaney", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 41, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Inventor Henrietta Mason is retiring from airships and adventuring to return home to Philadelphia. Determined to erase all trails leading to her late father's duplicity, she dismantles his lab and removes all records of the Badlands gold. While in the city, she can't resist the lure of a charity gala but winds up regretting the whole experience. Well, everything except a heart-racing dance with a certain U.S. Marshal.His career and vengeance on the line, Carson Alexander must prove a connection between Senator Mason and the mafia. He lucked out happening across Mason's strikingly beautiful daughter, only to have her slip through his fingers. On a desperate hunt to track her down, he never expects his search to take him into the brutal Badlands.With a mechanically enhanced enforcer after them, only Carson knows the extent of the danger they face. He'll have to win over Henrietta's trust, and her heart, before it's too late...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Steampunk Romance", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17553275-clockwork-mafia"}, +{"book_title": "The Risen Empire", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2594, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "Captain Laurent Zai of Imperial Frigate Lynx must rescue the Child Empress, sister of immortal Emperor worshiped by 80 human worlds for 1600 years. Enemy Rix are machine-augmented humans who worship AI compound minds. Separated by light years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham face the Rix and hold the fate of the empire.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adult", "War (Military Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267022.The_Risen_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "Second Foundation", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 149658, "review_number": 2760, "book_description": "So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29580.Second_Foundation"}, +{"book_title": "Disruption", "author_name": "Jessica Shirvington", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3348, "review_number": 518, "book_description": "What if a microchip could identify your perfect match?What if it could be used against you and the ones you love?Eight years ago, Mercer Corporation\u2019s M-Bands became mandatory. An evolution of the smartphone, the bracelets promised an easier life. Instead, they have come to control it. Two years ago, Maggie Stevens watched helplessly as one of the people she loves most was taken from her, shattering her world as she knew it. Now, Maggie is ready. And Quentin Mercer \u2013 heir to the M-Corp empire \u2013 has become key to Maggie\u2019s plan. But as the pieces of her dangerous design fall into place, could Quentin\u2019s involvement destroy everything she\u2019s fought for? In a world full of broken promises, the ones Maggie must keep could be the most heartbreaking.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19032994-disruption"}, +{"book_title": "Captured", "author_name": "Erica Stevens", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 18252, "review_number": 1318, "book_description": "Blood Slave.Captured, taken from her beloved family and woods, Aria\u2019s biggest fear is not the imminent death facing her, but that she will be chosen as a blood slave for a member of the ruling vampire race. No matter what becomes of her though, Aria knows that she must keep her identity hidden from the monsters imprisoning her. She has already been branded a member of the rebellion, but the vampires do not know the true depth of her involvement with it, and they must never know. Though hoping for death, Aria\u2019s world is turned upside down when a vampire named Braith steps forward to claim her. He delays her execution, but Aria knows it\u2019s only a matter of time before he drains her, and destroys her. Especially once she learns his true identity as a prince within the royal family; the same royal family that started the war that ultimately brought down humankind, reducing them to nothing more than servants and slaves. Aria is determined to hate the prince, determined not to give into him in anyway, but his strange kindness, and surprising gentleness astonish her. Torn between her loyalties to the rebellion, and her growing love for her greatest enemy, Aria struggles to decide between everything she has ever known, and a love she never dreamed of finding.Mature YA/New Adult. This book contains some language, violence, and sexual situations. Recommended for ages sixteen and up.Edited by Leslie Mitchell at G2 Freelance Editing and re-released 2/6/13.Extended Edition.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23229220-captured"}, +{"book_title": "The Dichotomy of Angels", "author_name": "N.R. Walker", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1584, "review_number": 298, "book_description": " Nathaniel and Chasan are no ordinary angels.Destiny chose them to be twin flames, fated mates. But Nathaniel has avoided Chasan for nearly a thousand years.When sent to Earth on a mission to live and work together, Nathaniel comes face-to-face with his destiny. Short-tempered, petulant, and grumpy, he hates the idea of being fated to anyone and has chosen an existence of isolation rather than spending time with the calm, kind, and serene Chasan. But now he has no choice.One is fire, the other is air; a true dichotomy of angels. Together they will be ignited, or they will be extinguished. This assignment will seal their fate either way.* * *85,000 words. A sometimes-funny, sometimes-serious story about love, destiny, and other heavenly disasters.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Paranormal (Angels)", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "M M Romance (M M Paranormal)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49921241-the-dichotomy-of-angels"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberpunk Handbook:: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook", "author_name": "St. Jude", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 103, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Blast off into the next millennium with Cyberspace gurus and professed cyberpunks St. Jude and R.U. Sirius--consummate insiders and co-founders of the revolutionary Mondo 2000 magazine, and co-authors of Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge--both definitive source guides for members of the electronic underground. Includes Cyberpunk cryptic crossword puzzles and a hipness checklist, plus a true/false \"final exam.\"", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Humor", "Nonfiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/948137.Cyberpunk_Handbook"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Rift", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1651, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "Combining complex science with skillfully executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in narratives that are by turns dark, satiric, and introspective. Among these bold storylines: a seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter\u2019s The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown; an artificial intelligence shields a biologically enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents; a deep-sea diver discovers her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche; a court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself; and a father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms. Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.Contents\"The Things\"\"The Island\" \"The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald\"\"A Word for Heathens\"\"Home\"\"The Eyes of God\" \"Flesh Made Word\"\"Nimbus\"\"Mayfly\" (with Derryl Murphy) \"Ambassador\"\"Hillcrest vs. Velikovsky\"\"Repeating the Past\"\"A Niche\"\"Outtro: En Route to Dystopia with the Angry Optimist\"", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17802447-beyond-the-rift"}, +{"book_title": "The Somnambulist", "author_name": "Jonathan Barnes", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 4298, "review_number": 744, "book_description": "Once the toast of good society in Victoria's England, the extraordinary conjurer Edward Moon no longer commands the respect that he did in earlier times. Still, each night he returns to the stage of his theater to amaze his devoted, albeit dwindling, audience, aided by his partner, the Somnambulist\u2014a silent, hairless, hulking giant who, when stabbed, does not bleed. But these are strange, strange times in England, with the oddest of sorts prowling London's dank underbelly. And the very bizarre death of a disreputable actor has compelled a baffled police constabulary to turn once again to Edward Moon for help\u2014inevitably setting in motion events that will shatter his increasingly tenuous grasp on reality.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Horror", "Historical (Victorian)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2016005.The_Somnambulist"}, +{"book_title": "Tearing Down the Wall", "author_name": "Tracey Ward", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1403, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "#1 Bestseller on Amazon!The Colonists have attacked. Their ships blaze in the dark on the inky black waters of the Sound. They'll burn through the night, remnants of a battle lost. A battle won by the Vashons. This time.What will come with the morning light is still a mystery, especially to Joss and her Lost Boys. They're entering the sanctuary of a strange tribe, one shunned by the rest of the wild. One feared and hated for their complete loss of humanity and pure savagery.But they'll soon discover that things in Neverland are rarely as they seem.The world is changing, a war is brewing and as the fight they've started comes to a head, they'll be forced to decide. Do they want to survive?Or do they want to live?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23493104-tearing-down-the-wall"}, +{"book_title": "Radiant Shadows", "author_name": "Melissa Marr", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 37144, "review_number": 1452, "book_description": "Alluring romance, heart-stopping danger, and sinister intrigue combine in the penultimate volume of Melissa Marr's\u00a0#1 New York Times\u00a0bestselling Wicked Lovely series.Half-human and half-faery, Ani is driven by her hungers.Those same appetites also attract powerful enemies and uncertain allies, including Devlin. He was created as an assassin and is brother to the faeries' coolly logical High Queen and to her chaotic twin, the embodiment of War. Devlin wants to keep Ani safe from his sisters, knowing that if he fails, he will be the instrument of Ani's death.Ani isn't one to be guarded while others fight battles for her, though. She has the courage to protect herself and the ability to alter Devlin's plans\u2014and his life. The two are drawn together, each with reason to fear the other and to fear\u00a0for\u00a0one another. But as they grow closer, a larger threat imperils the whole of Faerie. Will saving the faery realm mean losing each other?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6368610-radiant-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Galaxy's Edge: Takeover: Season Two: Book One", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 289, "review_number": 22, "book_description": " Every disaster brings an opportunity. Goth Sullus and his empire have fallen. With the Legion and the rest of the galaxy watching from the still-smoldering galactic core, Carter, a former legionnaire turned private contractor, and Jack Bowie, a Navy spy with nowhere left to turn, sign up to work for an enterprising private contractor looking to make a statement on the planet Kublar. Plans are in motion dating back to the Savage Wars, and as the galaxy rushes to fill in the vacuum created by the fall of the Imperial Republic, the bodies are hitting the floor. But every plan has a reckoning\u2026 Takeover is the thrilling aftermath of the final, desperate execution of Article Nineteen and the looming rebirth of the Legion and the galaxy itself as Galaxy\u2019s Edge: Season Two begins! Available now in Audio book format performed by Ray Porter! ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50850477-galaxy-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "The Abyss Beyond Dreams", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 10927, "review_number": 654, "book_description": "The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel\u2014self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void.Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void, where the laws of physics are subtly different and mental powers indistinguishable from magic are commonplace. The humans trapped there are afflicted by an alien species of biological mimics\u2014the Fallers\u2014that are intelligent but merciless killers.Yet these same aliens may hold the key to destroying the threat of the Void forever\u2014if Nigel can uncover their secrets. As the Fallers\u2019 relentless attacks continue, and the fragile human society splinters into civil war, Nigel must uncover the secrets of the Fallers\u2014before he is killed by the very people he has come to save.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20697413-the-abyss-beyond-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Landry Park", "author_name": "Bethany Hagen", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 3805, "review_number": 582, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition for this ASIN located here. Downton Abbey meets The Selection in this dystopian tale of love and betrayalIn a fragmented future United States ruled by the lavish gentry, seventeen-year-old Madeline Landry dreams of going to the university. Unfortunately, gentry decorum and her domineering father won't allow that. Madeline must marry, like a good Landry woman, and run the family estate. But her world is turned upside down when she discovers the devastating consequences her lifestyle is having on those less fortunate. As Madeline begins to question everything she has ever learned, she finds herself increasingly drawn to handsome, beguiling David Dana. Soon, rumors of war and rebellion start to spread, and Madeline finds herself and David at the center of it all. Ultimately, she must make a choice between duty - her family and the estate she loves dearly - and desire.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Retellings", "Futuristic", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13479780-landry-park"}, +{"book_title": "Paratime", "author_name": "H. Beam Piper", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 380, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Contents:1 \u00b7 Introduction \u00b7 John F. Carr \u00b7 in 14 \u00b7 He Walked Around the Horses \u00b7 nv Astounding Apr \u201948 39 \u00b7 Police Operation [Verkan Vall] \u00b7 nv Astounding Jul \u201948 77 \u00b7 Last Enemy [Verkan Vall] \u00b7 na Astounding Aug \u201950 149 \u00b7 Time Crime [Verkan Vall] \u00b7 n. Astounding Feb \u201955 (+1) 261 \u00b7 Temple Trouble [Verkan Vall] \u00b7 nv Astounding Apr \u201951", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1440161.Paratime"}, +{"book_title": "Biomega, Tome 4", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 563, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Malgr\u00e9 les efforts de Z\u00f4ichi et de ses compagnons, Nyaldee est parvenu \u00e0 f\u00e9conder l\u2019ovule avec le pollen de Ion Green, donnant ainsi naissance au \u00ab Recr\u00e9ateur \u00bb. Celui-ci s\u2019\u00e9l\u00e8ve d\u00e9sormais au-dessus de la Terre, telle une racine gigantesque, transformant \u00e0 jamais le g\u00e9nome de l\u2019humanit\u00e9. Quelle sera sa forme finale, et que pourra faire Z\u00f4ichi confront\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chec de sa mission ? Ce volume est le plus spectaculaire de la s\u00e9rie, et il comporte en prime trois pages couleurs somptueuses !", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7662143-biomega-tome-4"}, +{"book_title": "Vader's Little Princess", "author_name": "Jeffrey Brown", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 11108, "review_number": 1102, "book_description": "In this irresistibly funny follow-up to the breakout bestseller Darth Vader and Son, Vader--Sith Lord and leader of the Galactic Empire--now faces the trials, joys, and mood swings of raising his daughter Leia as she grows from a sweet little girl into a rebellious teenager. Smart and funny illustrations by artist Jeffrey Brown give classic Star Wars moments a twist by bringing these iconic family relations together under one roof. From tea parties to teaching Leia how to fly a TIE fighter, regulating the time she spends talking with friends via R2-D2's hologram, and making sure Leia doesn't leave the house wearing only a skirted metal bikini, Vader's parenting skills are put hilariously to the test.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Humor", "Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15852522-vader-s-little-princess"}, +{"book_title": "Embracing Emily", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 466, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Physically scarred and emotionally broken, Kelon Warrior, Vallarr, is sent to Earth as a guard to a group of Kelon scientists and healers. When he meets the little human English teacher, she stirs his body and mind in more ways than one. Emily Morland, left partially paralyzed in her youth, is assigned the task of teaching English to the Kelons. Unafraid of Vallar\u2019s prickly personality, she sees a deeper hurt behind his gruff behavior and wants to help. While her tender touch sooths and calms Vallarr, she pushes to explore the powerful attraction between them, not caring about consequences. As their passion grows and their bond strengthens, forces move in to rip them apart, sending Vallarr\u2019s mind spiraling into a deep, dark despair. As the fates bring them together again, can Emily\u2019s embrace bring Vallarr back from the darkness? Or will he be lost to her forever?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Contemporary", "Novella", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22854444-embracing-emily"}, +{"book_title": "Casey's Warriors", "author_name": "Ann Mayburn", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1729, "review_number": 164, "book_description": "Lorn Adar has searched more than a lifetime to find his bondmate\u2014the one woman he was born to love and the only woman who can save him from the approaching madness that threatens all unbonded males of his race. When a wormhole opens from his galaxy to Earth and the women who could hold their future, Lorn will do all in his power to not only find his mate, but show her a Universe she never knew existed.Casey Westfall\u2019s normal life changed forever when she finds the sexy leather clad man on her doorstep. One innocent kiss leads to an adventure that will span worlds and Casey will have to choose between the man who is the other half of her soul and never seeing her family or her world again. To complicate matters Kadothians live in polyamerous family units and Lorn will have to convince his Earth bride to accept not only his love, but the love of his best friend and brothers in arms or risk the chance of losing them to either the madness or the Hive\u2014the race of sociopathic women bent on destroying and enslaving everything in their path, but Casey can\u2019t see loving more than one man as being anything other than a sin. Lorn will have to teach his bride that she was created for both of them just as they were created only for her.In a Universe where all is possible, the battle to protect not only his people, but his heart rests on the soul of a human woman who must face the unknown and take a leap of faith that could save or destroy them all.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (M M F)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19504605-casey-s-warriors"}, +{"book_title": "Clash of Eagles", "author_name": "Alan Smale", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1426, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "It\u2019s The Last of the Mohicans meets HBO\u2019s Rome in this exciting and inventive debut novel from Sidewise Award-winner Alan Smale that will thrill fans of alternate history, historical fiction, and military fiction.In a world where the Roman Empire never fell, a legion under the command of general Gaius Marcellinus invades the newly-discovered North American continent. But Marcellinus and his troops have woefully underestimated the fighting prowess of the Native American inhabitants. When Gaius is caught behind enemy lines and spared, he must reevaluate his allegiances and find a new place in this strange land.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "War", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22570784-clash-of-eagles"}, +{"book_title": "The Bullybuster", "author_name": "Clay Cormany", "rating_score": 4.78, "rating_votes": 9, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Ridgeview High School is abuzz with gossip after notorious bully Trevor Newsome is knocked flat by someone -- or something. After Trevor claims a robot attacked him, Principal Wilma Allan sends her nephew, ace student newspaper reporter Owen Dinsmore, to investigate. The police are stumped, but Owen's investigation leads to some amazing discoveries as well as a chance to go out with beautiful Erica Litvak, who might know more about Trevor's attacker than she admits.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43670483-the-bullybuster"}, +{"book_title": "Treasure, Darkly", "author_name": "Jordan Elizabeth", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 260, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Clark Treasure assumes the drink he stole off the captain is absinthe\u2026 until the chemicals in the liquid give him the ability to awaken the dead. A great invention for creating perfect soldiers, yes, but Clark wants to live as a miner, not a slave to the army\u2014or the deceased. On the run, Clark turns to his estranged, mining tycoon father for help. The Treasures welcome Clark with open arms, so he jumps at the chance to help them protect their ranch against Senator Horan, a man who hates anyone more powerful than he. Sixteen-year-old Amethyst Treasure loathes the idea of spending the summer away from her bustling city life to rot on her father\u2019s ranch, but when a handsome young man shows up claiming to be her secret half-brother, her curiosity is piqued. He\u2019s clever, street smart, and has no qualms jumping into the brawl between the Treasures and Horans. Caught in the middle, Horan kidnaps Amethyst, and all she gets is this lousy bullet through her heart. When Clark brings her back to life, however, the real action starts, and Amethyst joins him in his fight against the Horan clan\u2014whatever the cost. Defeating the Horans may seem easy at first, but going up against men with the same fighting vengeance as Clark, and a Senator with power he\u2019s obtained by brainwashing the masses? Well, Amethyst\u2019s boring summer at home has turned into an adventure on the run, chock full of intrigue, danger, love, and a mysterious boy named Clark.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Westerns", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction", "Westerns (Weird West)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24959247-treasure-darkly"}, +{"book_title": "Steel Lily", "author_name": "Megan Curd", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1089, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "AVERY PIKE is a commodity. No, more than a commodity. Her existence is guarded at all costs.She\u2019s a water Elementalist, the strongest of her dwindling kind. She creates steam to provide energy to fuel Dome Four: the only thing standing between humanity and an earth ravaged by World War III. No steam, no Dome. No Dome, no life.Or so she thinks.That is, until a mysterious man offers her a way out of having to donate steam. A way to escape the corrupt government of Dome Four. While the offer seems too good to be true, Avery is intrigued. But when she arrives to her new home, she realizes the grass isn\u2019t any less dead on this side of the fence. Instead, the lies are just hidden better.\u2026Which means digging deeper.When Avery enlists the help of her friends to uncover the truth, she learns that while some secrets are better left concealed, humankind was never meant to live in a cage. And when you can control the most sought after resource, you can learn to control anything\u2026including the fate of your world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17828413-steel-lily"}, +{"book_title": "A Matter of Disagreement", "author_name": "E.E. Ottoman", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 291, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Two sworn rivals, a clash of ideas, and an attraction neither can deny. A noted scholar of ancient literature and spellcraft, Lord Ashcroft \"Andrea\" de Bourbon, finds his world shaken when the new science of mechanical animation becomes the talk of high society. In response, Andrea takes to the presses gaining notoriety for his scathing critiques of mechanical animation and its founder the Marquis de la Marche. Then one night Andrea comes face to face with the Marquis de la Marche and discovers he is nothing like Andrea expected. Leon Gregory de la Marche VI, Marquis de la Marche is handsome, brilliant, and charming. While their clashes on paper have become legendary in person they are even more explosive. As passions rise Andrea knows there is no backing down ...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "LGBT (Transgender)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20445481-a-matter-of-disagreement"}, +{"book_title": "A Highlander Christmas", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2320, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "Camry MacKeage has absolutely no intention of telling her parents that she left her job as a NASA physicist for the small-town life of a dog-sitter\u2014which is why she's spending the holidays alone in coastal Maine with her furry friends, Tigger and Max.Unfortunately, her irresistibly handsome rival, scientist Luke Pascal, accidentally spilled the beans. Now he's on a mission from her mother to tempt Camry home for the family's annual winter solstice celebration. But Luke is hiding his own secret, and he'll need a little bit of magic to earn Camry's trust...and a whole lot of mistletoe to seduce his way into her heart.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6282010-a-highlander-christmas"}, +{"book_title": "Alien vs. Alien", "author_name": "Gini Koch", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1369, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini and the rest of the American Centaurion Diplomatic Corps are still recovering from their introduction to Washington D.C. politics, parties, and conspiracies. So when compromising pictures arrive, no one\u2019s too surprised. They\u2019re also the least of anyone\u2019s worries. Evil androids running amok, birds of all kinds and from all places creating havoc, a Senator trapped in an ever-tightening web of intrigue, and escalating international tensions all seem tough but manageable. But the disappearance of Jeff Martini and Charles Reynolds during the International One World Festival signals more than the usual nastiness \u2014 and it looks like even ACE can\u2019t help them. Then new trouble arrives in old packages and even with the best hackers in the world, beings from near and far, the full might of Earth\u2019s military, and the Wonder Twins on their side, Centaurion Division\u2019s outmanned and outgunned. Now Kitty\u2019s racing against the clock to find not only Jeff and Chuckie, but to keep the peace between Middle Eastern countries, all while searching for the bases of super-soldier operations \u2014 to stop them or die trying.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Contemporary", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13096596-alien-vs-alien"}, +{"book_title": "The Crying Machine", "author_name": "Greg Chivers", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 74, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "A sharp, lyrical thriller of power, religion, and artificial intelligence.The world has changed, but Jerusalem endures. Overlooked by new superpowers, the Holy City of the future is a haven of spies and smugglers, exiles and extremists.A refugee with strange technological abilities searches for a place to disappear.An ambitious young criminal plots the heist that could make or destroy him.A corrupt minister harnesses the power of the past in a ruthless play for complete control.And the wheels of another plan \u2013 as old and intricate as the city itself \u2013 begin to turn\u2026", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44165087-the-crying-machine"}, +{"book_title": "Cool Robots", "author_name": "Sean Kenney", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 69, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Attention young LEGO brick builders: Sean Kenney is back again with original creations of Robotopolis--robots, transformers, and spaceships of all sizes, colors, and features.Complete with select model instructions, insider tips, and landscape designs for new LEGO fans of all ages as well as diehard enthusiasts.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Picture Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8553204-cool-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Hounds of Autumn", "author_name": "Heather Blackwood", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 440, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "It is 1890, and the windswept moors hold dark secrets. Chloe Sullivan is an amateur inventor whose holiday takes a dark turn when her friend and colleague, one of the few female mechanical experts in the British Empire, is murdered.A black mechanical hound roams the moors, but could it have killed a woman? And what secrets are concealed within the dark family manor?Accompanied by her naturalist husband and her clockwork cat, Chloe is determined to see her friend\u2019s killer found.But some secrets have a terrible cost.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Gothic", "Literature (21st Century)", "Mystery (Murder Mystery)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17256511-hounds-of-autumn"}, +{"book_title": "Dreamfall", "author_name": "Joan D. Vinge", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1176, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of Catspaw and Psion, joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers.The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak \"homeland,\" by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, \"Dreamfall.\" The tangible residue of cast-off thoughts from beautiful, enigmatic \"cloud whales,\" dreamfall forms vast reefs, sacred to the Hydrans, but mere exploitable data to Tau.Caught between Tau and desperate Hydrans who fight to reclaim their world, Cat must somehow forge the ruins of the past into a means to defeat Tau's brutality to save his people--and himself.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Animals (Cats)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519827.Dreamfall"}, +{"book_title": "Aftertime", "author_name": "Sophie Littlefield", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 3413, "review_number": 425, "book_description": "Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Having no idea how many weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished.And with her, nearly all of civilization.Where once-lush hills carried cars and commerce, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters -- people turned hungry for human flesh by a government experiment gone wrong.In a broken, barren California, Cass will undergo a harrowing quest to get Ruthie back. Few people trust an outsider, let alone a woman who became a zombie and somehow turned back, but she finds help from an enigmatic outlaw, Smoke. Smoke is her savior, and her safety.For the Beaters are out there.And the humans grip at survival with their trigger fingers. Especially when they learn that she and Ruthie have become the most feared, and desired, of weapons in a brave new world\u2026.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9065272-aftertime"}, +{"book_title": "Heart's Blood", "author_name": "Gail Dayton", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 190, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Master conjurer Grey Carteret regains consciousness in a London gutter next to a concerned street urchin and not far from the body of a man murdered by magic. Some fool is hoping to use murder to raise a demon. Arrested for the crime, Grey must rely on the street urchin for help. But the lad turns out to be a comely lass, and she wants something in exchange.Pearl Parkin, a gently reared lady struggling to survive in London\u2019s slums, sees magic as a way out of the life she finds herself trapped in. But blackmailing Grey into making her his apprentice has unexpected consequences. As they plunge into the hunt for the murderer, Pearl discovers that the things she once desperately wanted are not so important after all, and that she must risk her blood, her heart, and her very life to grasp the love she needs.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6557167-heart-s-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Firefight", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 83273, "review_number": 6051, "book_description": "Babylon Restored, formerly Manhattan, may give David answers. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic, Regalia, David is sure Babylon Restored will lead him to what he needs to find. And while entering another city oppressed by a High Epic despot is a gamble, David's willing to risk it. Because killing Steelheart left a hole in David's heart. A hole where his thirst for vengeance once lived. Somehow, he filled that hole with another Epic\u2014Firefight. And he's willing to go on a quest darker, and more dangerous even, than the fight against Steelheart to find her, and to get his answers.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15704459-firefight"}, +{"book_title": "Mad as a Hatter", "author_name": "Kendra Moreno", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 714, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "Descend into Madness\u2026 Clara spent her whole life fighting in courtrooms for the downtrodden, the strange ones, the abused. It\u2019s only natural that when a man with rabbit ears on his head comes to see her, she doesn\u2019t blink an eye\u2026 ...until he opens a portal and drags her to Wonderland. But this isn\u2019t the world she\u2019s read about at home. This world has been twisted, poisoned by none other than the Red Queen. There\u2019s a prophecy, the only chance Wonderland has of survival. Clara is foretold to defeat the Knave and claim the Hatter\u2019s heart. But there\u2019s a problem. The Hatter is insane and Wonderland is full of unspeakable horrors. Death waits behind every tree. If the Beezles don\u2019t get you, the Bandersnatch will. Can Clara embrace the madness and her destiny, or will the reign of the Red Queen continue? This isn\u2019t the Wonderland you know\u2026 **This is a Horror Romance retelling of Wonderland filled with all the creatures and characters you thought you knew. It contains gore, adult themes, and a sexy Hatter. Each book in the series can be read as a stand-alone, although, it is suggested to be read in order.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Retellings", "Romance", "Horror", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40969694-mad-as-a-hatter"}, +{"book_title": "Loop", "author_name": "Karen Akins", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1262, "review_number": 270, "book_description": "At a school where Quantum Paradox 101 is a required course and history field trips are literal, sixteen year-old time traveler Bree Bennis excels\u2026at screwing up.After Bree botches a solo midterm to the 21st century by accidentally taking a boy hostage (a teensy snafu), she stands to lose her scholarship. But when Bree sneaks back to talk the kid into keeping his yap shut, she doesn't go back far enough. The boy, Finn, now three years older and hot as a solar flare, is convinced he's in love with Bree, or rather, a future version of her that doesn't think he's a complete pain in the arse. To make matters worse, she inadvertently transports him back to the 23rd century with her.Once home, Bree discovers that a recent rash of accidents at her school are anything but accidental. Someone is attacking time travelers. As Bree and her temporal tagalong uncover seemingly unconnected clues\u2014a broken bracelet, a missing data file, the art heist of the millennium\u2014that lead to the person responsible, she alone has the knowledge to piece the puzzle together. Knowledge only one other person has. Her future self.But when those closest to her become the next victims, Bree realizes the attacker is willing to do anything to stop her. In the past, present, or future.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19286673-loop"}, +{"book_title": "Beast", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1573, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "\n\n\nAbducted by alien slavers and taken to a lawless desert world, the last thing starship pilot Mia expects is to find herself in the protective, brawny arms of a wild, blue-skinned alien!\n\n\nRescued by gladiators on the alien world of Carthago, Mia is working to find other abducted humans who are still lost. But someone else also needs her help--the untamed alien who's saved her twice. Rescued from vicious fight rings he's fought in since he was a child, Vek is prone to losing control in aggressive fits of rage...and Mia discovers that she is the only who can calm him. As she finds herself drawn to the man beneath the beast, she knows that with his enhanced senses, Vek can help her find her friends...\nFor years, all Vek'ker has known is death, darkness, and killing. Despite his newfound freedom, he is struggling to control his rages and withdrawal from the drugs his captors used on him. Only one scent soothes him, one voice calms him, and one woman is his light in the dark. Vek will do anything to protect Mia and make her happy... including vowing to find her friends...\nWith the gladiators from the House of Galen, Vek and Mia follow mysterious clues into a dangerous part of the desert on the trail of the missing humans. They are drawn closer together but as they enter the deadly Illusion Mountains, they have no idea of the dangers lying in wait for them, or how far they will both be pushed to their limits in order to survive!\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Action", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36552751-beast"}, +{"book_title": "The Pleasure Master", "author_name": "Nina Bangs", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 701, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "A wild and passionate love affair brings our hero and heroine together. Neither can resist the attraction they feel for one another and everything else takes second place.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/476558.The_Pleasure_Master"}, +{"book_title": "Mystical Warrior", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1736, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "An eleventh-century lass with a stubborn streak unleashes the red-hot hero inside her modern lover in bestselling author Janet Chapman\u2019s irresistible new Midnight Bay adventure.Trace Huntsman\u2019s peaceful life has headed to hell in a hand-basket ever since stunningly beautiful Fiona Gregor moved into the vacant apartment above his house. Kidnapped centuries earlier and transformed into a red-tail hawk, Fiona is human once more and must learn how to be a modern woman. But damned if Trace is going to be the one to teach her. Not when her mere presence ignites a fiery passion deep within his cautious heart.Fiona longs to overcome the painful memories of her tragic past\u2014to let down her guard and become a mother again. But so far her handsome landlord is not exactly thrilled with the stray animals\u2014and suitors\u2014that keep following her home. When the wizard Maximilian Oceanus shows up, Trace reaches the end of his rope. Weird things happen when Mac is around\u2014raging storms, snarling demons\u2014but this time, Midnight Bay is at the center of a fierce battle, and Fiona is the primary target. Only Trace can save her, but first, the lovers must set aside their fears . . . and open up their hearts.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fiction", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8546815-mystical-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Annabel Scheme", "author_name": "Robin Sloan", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1360, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Annabel Scheme is a detective story set in an alternate San Francisco where the digital and the occult live side-by-side. It's a short, snappy read -- about 128 pages/128,000 Kindle locations -- and perfect for people who like Sherlock Holmes, Douglas Adams, ghosts and/or the internet. Finally, it makes a great Kindle gift. In Scheme's San Francisco, an indie rocker's new tracks are climbing the charts, even though the rocker herself is long dead. A devout gamer has gone missing, and the only trace of him that remains is inside his favorite game, the blockbuster MMORPG called World of Jesus. And the richest man in the city, the inventor of the search engine called Grail, might just have made a deal with a devil. Meanwhile, Annabel Scheme has just hired herself a Watson, an A.I. assistant who's now learning the ropes on a case that will quickly transform into Scheme's biggest -- and possibly her last.Come on. Fog City is waiting.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7428549-annabel-scheme"}, +{"book_title": "Abducting Abby", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 7772, "review_number": 501, "book_description": "Abby Tanner is content to live on her mountain creating her beautiful works of art and enjoying the peace and quiet. All of that changes when a strange golden space ship crash lands on it. Now, Abby has to deal with a golden ship, a tortured alien, and an insane local sheriff. Zoran Reykill knew he had to find a safe place to heal after he escapes from a Curizan military post. When his symbiosis mothership takes him to an unknown planet he finds more than he expects \u2013 he finds his true mate. The only problems are Abby doesn\u2019t understand a thing he says and the local sheriff wants her too. There is only one thing the King of Valdier can do, abduct his true mate. Now Zoran has his hands full trying to keep his true mate safe in his own world while trying to help her accept her new life. He will need all the help he can get to help his stubborn human accept she can make a life in a place other than her mountain back on Earth. He just needs to keep her alive long enough to enjoy it and away from the other males on his planet who wouldn\u2019t mind helping her accept her new sensual body.One thing he knows he will never regret \u2013 abducting Abby", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13646525-abducting-abby"}, +{"book_title": "Love & the Zombie Apocalypse", "author_name": "Chelsea Luna", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 550, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Rachel Cole was ecstatic when her little sister Morgan left for science camp at the University of Michigan \u2013 anything that would get Morgan out of their horrible foster home for a few weeks. Little did Rachel know that life as she knew it was about to change forever.A suspected biological terror attack has spread over the northern half of the country causing the dead to reanimate and attack the living. The sudden attacks have catapulted Middle America into an all-out war zone. Zombies have swarmed the City of Flint and Rachel must battle through the infected streets to rescue Morgan.Along the way, Rachel meets Cage Vance \u2013 the local star quarterback dealing with his own personal demons. Rachel is immediately attracted to Cage, but who has time for love during the zombie apocalypse? Can Rachel and Cage\u2019s small group of friends survive the journey to Ann Arbor and rescue Morgan? Or are they already too late?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18720440-love-the-zombie-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Nightstalkers", "author_name": "Bob Mayer", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1597, "review_number": 122, "book_description": " Staff Sergeant Winthrop Carter has just been drafted into the Nightstalkers\u2014an elite group of soldiers that...Actually, he\u2019s not quite sure what they do.Born from the Area 51 initiative, the Nightstalkers defy sanity and decorum and include among their ranks Moms, a Black Ops trainee too extreme for Special Forces; Doc, a scientific crackpot; Roland, the weapons enthusiast; and Mac, a contemporary MacGyver. All of them take their orders from the elusive Ms. Jones, who everyone claims is just a hologram.Those orders include tracking down and sealing tears in our reality that are releasing interdimensional beings known only as Fireflies\u2014creatures that take control of both living and inanimate matter in order to unleash wanton destruction.Just as Carter is settling in, a rogue scientist triggers a fresh invasion of Fireflies that swarm a swanky gated community. Now it\u2019s up to Carter and his new teammates to neutralize the threat while figuring out who\u2019s behind the breach.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16117036-nightstalkers"}, +{"book_title": "The Way of Shadows", "author_name": "Brent Weeks", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 153081, "review_number": 5198, "book_description": "From New York Times Bestselling author Brent Weeks... For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3227063-the-way-of-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Virtues of War", "author_name": "Bennett R. Coles", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 285, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Lieutenant Katja Emmes is assigned to the fast-attack craft\u00a0Rapier, joining a mission to investigate weapons smuggling activity between the Terran colonies of Sirius and Centauria. If true, this act of rebellion could escalate rapidly, and lead to all-out war.\u00a0When combat does erupt, its ferocity stuns the Terran forces, and pushes them to their limits. It tests the abilities of Lieutenant Emmes, as well, along with Sublieutenant Jack Mallory and Lieutenant Commander Thomas Kane, commanding officer of the\u00a0Rapier. But failure is not acceptable.\u00a0They must defeat the enemy... by whatever means necessary.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11882499-virtues-of-war"}, +{"book_title": "Inside Divergent: The Initiate's World", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 22852, "review_number": 227, "book_description": "Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling novel Divergent is now a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet!This eye-catching volume takes you inside the film version of Divergent. With more than 100 photographs\u2014many never before seen\u2014Inside Divergent will immerse you in the thrilling dystopian world of futuristic Chicago, where you'll meet the initiates and discover the factions.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Action", "Media Tie In", "Culture (Film)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18498576-inside-divergent"}, +{"book_title": "Aurora Blazing", "author_name": "Jessie Mihalik", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3807, "review_number": 503, "book_description": "Bianca von Hasenberg did her duty for High House von Hasenberg and ended up trapped in a terrible marriage. When her husband dies unexpectedly and leaves her a happy widow, she vows never to marry again. Instead, she uses her connections to save other young women. Information is power and Bianca has a network that would be the envy of the \u2019verse\u2014if anyone knew about it.After an attack, Bianca\u2019s oldest brother, the House von Hasenberg heir, disappears from Earth without a trace. Determined to find him, Bianca leaves against orders. When she refuses to return, her father sends Ian Bishop, the director of House von Hasenberg security, to haul her home like a recalcitrant child.Bianca leads Ian on a merry chase across the universe, but when their paths finally collide, she persuades him that they would be far more successful at finding her brother if they worked together. She will do anything to save her sibling, even if it means spending time alone on a small ship with the handsome, infuriating man who once broke her heart.As clues lead them deep into rival House Rockhurst territory, Bianca must decide if she can trust Ian with the one piece of information that could destroy her completely. . .", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41951623-aurora-blazing"}, +{"book_title": "36 Hours", "author_name": "Bobby Akart", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1032, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "WHAT WOULD YOU DOif a voice was screaming in your head - GET READY . . .for a catastrophic event of epic proportions . . .with no idea where to start . . .or how, or when?This is a true story, it just hasn't happened yet.A new dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction series from six-time best-selling author Bobby Akart (The Boston Brahmin series and the Prepping for Tomorrow series).The characters depicted in The Blackout Series are fictional. The events, however, are based upon fact.This is not the story of preppers with stockpiles of food, weapons, and a hidden bunker. This is the story of Colton Ryman, his stay-at-home wife, Madison, and their teenage daughter, Alex. In 36 Hours, the Ryman family and the rest of the world will be thrust into the darkness of a post-apocalyptic world.A catastrophic solar flare, an EMP--a threat from above to America's soft underbelly below--is hurtling toward our planet.The Rymans have never heard of preppers and have no concept of what prepping entails. But they're learning, while they run out of time. Their faith will be tested, their freedom will be threatened, but their family will survive.An EMP, naturally generated from our sun in the form of a solar flare, has happened before, and it will happen again, in only 36 Hours.This is a story about how our sun, the planet's source of life, can also devastate our modern world. It's a story about panic, chaos, and the final straws that shattered an already thin veneer of civility. It is a warning to us all ...never underestimate the depravity of man.What would you do when the clock strikes zero?Midnight is forever.Note: This book does not contain strong language. It is intended to entertain and inform audiences of all ages, including teen and young adults. Although some scenes depict the realistic threat our nation faces from a devastating solar flare, and the societal collapse which will result in the aftermath, it does not contain graphic scenes typical of other books in the post-apocalyptic genre.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31209936-36-hours"}, +{"book_title": "DC Comics: Bombshells, Vol. 1: Enlisted", "author_name": "Marguerite Bennett", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 4432, "review_number": 608, "book_description": "In these stories from issues #1-6 of the hit series, learn the story behind this alternate reality where the Second World War is fought by superpowered women on the front lines and behind the scenes! It all begins with the stories of Batwoman, Wonder Woman and Supergirl.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25982692-dc-comics"}, +{"book_title": "The Humans", "author_name": "Matt Haig", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 58240, "review_number": 7286, "book_description": "Body-snatching has never been so heartwarming . . .The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable novel about alien abduction, mathematics, and that most interesting subject of all: ourselves. Combine Douglas Adams\u2019s irreverent take on life, the universe, and everything with a genuinely moving love story, and you have some idea of the humor, originality, and poignancy of Matt Haig\u2019s latest novel.Our hero, Professor Andrew Martin, is dead before the book even begins. As it turns out, though, he wasn\u2019t a very nice man--as the alien imposter who now occupies his body discovers. Sent to Earth to destroy evidence that Andrew had solved a major mathematical problem, the alien soon finds himself learning more about the professor, his family, and \u201cthe humans\u201d than he ever expected. When he begins to fall for his own wife and son--who have no idea he\u2019s not the real Andrew--the alien must choose between completing his mission and returning home or finding a new home right here on Earth.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Contemporary", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130537-the-humans"}, +{"book_title": "Wasteland", "author_name": "Susan Kim", "rating_score": 3.15, "rating_votes": 1049, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "Welcome to the Wasteland. Where all the adults are long gone, and now no one lives past the age of nineteen. Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan\u2019s post-apocalyptic debut is the first of a trilogy in which everyone is forced to live under the looming threat of rampant disease and brutal attacks by the Variants \u2014- hermaphroditic outcasts that live on the outskirts of Prin. Esther thinks there\u2019s more to life than toiling at harvesting, gleaning, and excavating, day after day under the relentless sun, just hoping to make it to the next day. But then Caleb, a mysterious stranger, arrives in town, and Esther begins to question who she can trust. As shady pasts unravel into the present and new romances develop, Caleb and Esther realize that they must team together to fight for their lives and for the freedom of Prin.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14815112-wasteland"}, +{"book_title": "The Gods of Mars", "author_name": "Edgar Rice Burroughs", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 17226, "review_number": 912, "book_description": "After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars -- an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.", "year_published": 1913, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Classics", "Adventure", "Pulp", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Sword and Planet)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841973.The_Gods_of_Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Circus of the Damned", "author_name": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 89439, "review_number": 1691, "book_description": "In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for the first time-a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other plans. And to make matters worse, Anita takes a hit to the heart when she meets a stunningly handsome junior high science teacher named Richard Zeeman. They're two humans caught in the crossfire-or so Anita thinks.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30274.Circus_of_the_Damned"}, +{"book_title": "Breakdown", "author_name": "Katherine Amt Hanna", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1842, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "Six years after a pandemic devastates the human population, and the subsequent loss of much of the world's technology, Chris Price finally makes it from New York to Britain to reunite with his brother. But unresolved grief over his dead wife and baby and the horrors he witnessed as he traveled through a changed world have damaged him. He struggles to let go of his past, accept the healing kindness of those around him, and let love back into his life.Approximately 103,000 words, or 425 printed pages.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11529989-breakdown"}, +{"book_title": "Firedance", "author_name": "Steven Barnes", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 133, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Streetfighter, fugitive, hero...Aubry Knight is now a powerful man with powerful friends. And someone wants to kill him.Their opening shot is the death of one of Aubry's dearest friends. Their next attack is on Aubry's child. Knight is drawn inexorably toward New Africa, toward the mysteries of his own past, and toward a future that may take him far from Los Angeles and the only life he's ever known.To win this battle, and save his family, Aubry Knight must defeat himself.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/593047.Firedance"}, +{"book_title": "Circuits & Slippers", "author_name": "Jaylee James", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 26, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "A collection of retold fairy tales with a science fiction twist. Rapunzel is a soldier, the last remaining member of the human race, locked in a zoological tower on an alien planet. Doctor Belle must remain in quarantine with a powerful politician who has contracted a beastly disease. Jack sells his arm for a chance up the Stalk, the space elevator he hopes will take him to his fortune. These twenty stories will take you across the galaxy, exploring new technology alongside aliens and cyborgs, princes and evil stepmothers, and telling your favorite classic tales like you've never seen them before.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Short Stories", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Queer (Queer Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31279648-circuits-slippers"}, +{"book_title": "Android Karenina", "author_name": "Ben H. Winters", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 1639, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high society's high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen.\"Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Retellings", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551580-android-karenina"}, +{"book_title": "Dementia", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1231, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Book 5.5 in the Trek Mi Q\u2019an series.Dee Ellison is catapulted from Earth and ends up in a mysterious alien world populated by an all-male race of ape men. Hoards of ape men who keep humanoid females captive\u2014as sex slaves.More terrifying yet, the alpha male of the most powerful Hoard is hot on Dee\u2019s trail\u2026", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6416260-dementia"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's Challenge", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 275, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Book Eight of Eight in the Spineward Sectors Series: Admiral Challenge After nonstop fleet actions against pirates, Bugs, and Droids, the intrepid officers and crew of the Multi-Sector Patrol Fleet are headed home for a much-deserved\u2014and much-needed\u2014R&R Or so they thought With an ever-growing shadow looming across Sectors 24 & 25, a certain Lady due to make more than a few life-changing additions to the Little Admiral\u2019s home life, and mutinous rumblings echoing throughout the fleet, a quick turnaround toward the nearest shooting war might have been a safer course than heading back to base to regroup Before it\u2019s over, allies will be tested, enemies silenced, life-saving operations performed on unwilling patients, and the first shots will be fired in the coming war with the forces that would destroy the Spineward Sectors and its inhabitants\u2019 way of life forever. It all hinges on whether or not Jason Montagne can emerge victorious from this, his latest Admiral\u2019s Challenge.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25764062-admiral-s-challenge"}, +{"book_title": "A Well-Timed Enchantment", "author_name": "Vivian Vande Velde", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1322, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "It's bad enough that Deanna has to waste her summer in France and her only friend is a mangy black cat, but now she's staring hopelessly into a well, trying to figure out what in the world to wish for. Before she can make a wish, the cat scratches her, her watch falls into the well, and then . . . so has she! Except that now she's in medieval France, the cat is a handsome young man, and her watch has the power to completely change history. Maybe a quiet summer would have been nice?", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250612.A_Well_Timed_Enchantment"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Volume 1: The Lost Memory", "author_name": "Junichi Fujisaku", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 372, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Since being formed as a shadow peacekeeping organization, Section 9 has faced almost countless adversaries both in the real world and in cyberspace, but none like \"The Awakened,\" a group of terrorists who seem to have the ability to take over the minds and bodies of almost anyone and use them to commit crimes against the state, leaving their pawns unaware of who was controlling them. When Major Motoko Kusanagi is able to capture one of the boys used as a pawn she hacks into his cyberbrain to find out who the ringleader is, but what she discovers will take her and the operatives of Section 9 on a journey deep into the heart of cyberspace, and the answers she finds will shake Section 9 to its core.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Novels (Light Novel)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Novels", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35872.Ghost_in_the_Shell"}, +{"book_title": "The Daedalus Incident", "author_name": "Michael J. Martinez", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 961, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "Mars is supposed to be dead.\u2026Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll\u2014seemingly of their own volition\u2014carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.Lt. Thomas Weatherby of His Majesty\u2019s Royal Navy is an honest 18th-century man of modest beginnings, doing his part for King and Country aboard the HMS Daedalus, a frigate sailing the high seas between continents\u2026and the immense Void between the Known Worlds.With the aid of his fierce captain, a drug-addled alchemist, and a servant girl with a remarkable past, Weatherby must track a great and powerful mystic, who has embarked upon a sinister quest to upset the balance of the planets\u2014the consequences of which may reach far beyond the Solar System, threatening the very fabric of space itself.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16073073-the-daedalus-incident"}, +{"book_title": "Atomic Robo: The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific", "author_name": "Brian Clevinger", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 494, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Invented by Nikola Tesla in 1923, Atomic Robo went on to be a soldier, a scientist, an entrepreneur, and an explorer whose adventures span the globe. This one begins, if you couldn't guess from the title, in the vast expanse of the south Pacific. The year is 1951. World War II concluded just six years ago, but it's mark is still felt in this remote part of the world in ways that one could have ever predicted!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Pulp", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16242149-atomic-robo"}, +{"book_title": "A Study in Darkness", "author_name": "Emma Jane Holloway", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1378, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "When a bomb goes off at 221B Baker Street, Evelina Cooper is thrown into her Uncle Sherlock\u2019s world of mystery and murder. But just when she thought it was safe to return to the ballroom, old, new, and even dead enemies are clamoring for a place on her dance card.Before Evelina\u2019s even unpacked her gowns for a country house party, an indiscretion puts her in the power of the ruthless Gold King, who recruits her as his spy. He knows her disreputable past and exiles her to the rank alleyways of Whitechapel with orders to unmask his foe.As danger mounts, Evelina struggles between hiding her illegal magic and succumbing to the darker aspects of her power. One path keeps her secure; the other keeps her alive. For rebellion is brewing, a sorcerer wants her soul, and no one can protect her in the hunting ground of Jack the Ripper.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17264584-a-study-in-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The Wind Singer", "author_name": "William Nicholson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 16904, "review_number": 588, "book_description": "The first in a trilogy, The Wind Singer is a mesmerizing and remarkably realized fantasy novel full of adventure, suspense, humor and warmth.In the city of Aramanth, the mantra is, \"Better today than yesterday. Better tomorrow than today.\" Harder work means the citizens of Aramanth can keep moving forward to improved life stations--from Gray tenements and Orange apartments, upwards to glorious mansions of White. Only some families, like the Haths, believe more in ideas and dreams than in endless toil and ratings. When Kestrel Hath decides she is through with the Aramanth work ethic, she is joined in her small rebellion by her twin brother Bowman and their friend Mumpo. Together, they set the orderly city on its ear by escaping Aramanth's walls for an adventure that takes them from city sewers to desert sandstorms. Guided by an archaic map, they know that if they can find the voice of the Wind Singer, an ancient and mysterious instrument that stands in the center of Aramanth, they can save their people from their dreamless existence. But the voice is guarded by the dreaded Morah and its legion of perfect killing machines, the Zars. Are three ragtag kids any match for an army of darkness?", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295169.The_Wind_Singer"}, +{"book_title": "Spook Squad", "author_name": "Jordan Castillo Price", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 2831, "review_number": 417, "book_description": "Everyone enjoys peace and tranquility, and Victor Bayne is no exception. He goes to great lengths to maintain a harmonious home with his partner, Jacob. Although the cannery is huge, it\u2019s grown difficult to avoid the elephant in the room\u2026the elephant with the letters FPMP scrawled on its hide.Once Jacob surrendered his PsyCop badge, he infiltrated the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program. In his typical restrained fashion, he hasn\u2019t been sharing much about what he actually does behind its vigilantly guarded doors. And true to form, Vic hasn\u2019t asked. In fact, he would prefer not to think about the FPMP at all, since he\u2019s owed Director Dreyfuss an exorcism since their private flight to PsyTrain.While Vic has successfully avoided FPMP entanglement for several months, now his debt has finally come due.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18333332-spook-squad"}, +{"book_title": "Future Home of the Living God", "author_name": "Louise Erdrich", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 19421, "review_number": 3333, "book_description": "Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event in this dystopian novel. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe to understand both her and her baby\u2019s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Feminism", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34217599-future-home-of-the-living-god"}, +{"book_title": "The Magician's Nephew", "author_name": "C.S. Lewis", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 427128, "review_number": 13910, "book_description": "The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventureNARNIA...where the woods are thick and cold, where Talking Beasts are called to life...a new world where the adventure begins.Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory's Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to...somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia, newborn from the Lion's song, and encounter the evil sorceress Jadis before they finally return home.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Classics", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Christian", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Christian Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65605.The_Magician_s_Nephew"}, +{"book_title": "After Days", "author_name": "Scott Medbury", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 624, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "\"Grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go...\" - Goodreads15 year old Isaac Race has already lost everyone close to him. He is about to lose a lot more. We all are. A mystery outbreak sweeps North America, it is chilling in both its speed and deadliness. The odd thing is though, it is only fatal to adults. Too late it becomes clear to authorities that the virus is man-made, a biological weapon, and that the United States is at war...a war it has already lost.As his country is invaded and occupied by the Chinese army, Isaac must lead a ragtag group of survivors across three states in the depths of winter, avoiding not only the invaders, but also other dangers unleashed in a world suddenly deprived of adults and authority, to a safe haven that may not even exist.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22551390-after-days"}, +{"book_title": "Dark State", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1535, "review_number": 127, "book_description": "Dark State is the second book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series, following Empire Games.In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson\u2019s timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player. Meanwhile, a sleeper cell activated in Rita's, the Commissioner's adopted daughter and newly-minted spy, timeline threatens to unravel everything.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24997006-dark-state"}, +{"book_title": "Cruel Crown", "author_name": "Victoria Aveyard", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 26252, "review_number": 2564, "book_description": "Two women on either side of the Silver and Red divide tell the stories no one else knows.Discover the truth of Norta\u2019s bloody past in these two revealing prequels to #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller RED QUEEN.Queen SongQueen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary\u2014how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lie ahead for her in royal life.Steel ScarsCaptain Farley was raised to be strong, but being tasked with planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is a tougher job than expected. As she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital, she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation\u2014Mare Barrow.Plus a Glass Sword sneak peek!An exclusive excerpt of the hotly anticipated second book in the Red Queen series, Glass Sword, transports readers to the world of Silver tyranny, a Red dawn rising, and one girl\u2019s resolve to break down the system that will hold her back no longer.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25944381-cruel-crown"}, +{"book_title": "Fade To Black", "author_name": "Nyx Smith", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 264, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Rico and his team sort through a complex maze of corruption and corporate intrigue in Newark, a city that has become an overcrowded urban horror in the year 2055. ", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/953629.Fade_To_Black"}, +{"book_title": "The Goliath Stone", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 736, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "A visionary new tale from Larry Niven and Matthew Joseph HarringtonThe year is 2052 and Dr. Toby Glyer has effected miracle cures with the use of nanotechnology. But Glyer\u2019s controversial nanites are living things\u2014a new form of life\u2014and they have more uses than just medical. They also have the potential to make everyone on Earth rich from the wealth of asteroids\u2026if he can control them.Unfortunately, as every parent learns, when you produce a new, thinking being, the plans it makes are not necessarily your plans. And when a two-hundred gigaton asteroid that rivals the rock that felled the dinosaurs is hurtling toward Earth on a collision course, you don\u2019t have time to argue. Will Glyer\u2019s nanites be Earth\u2019s salvation or destruction?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Unfinished", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059389-the-goliath-stone"}, +{"book_title": "Norby Down to Earth", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Jeff Wells leaves the space academy with his mixed-up robot Norby and the two of them head back to Earth to help Jeff's brother unravel a mystery involving zapped robots and stolen computer parts.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116321.Norby_Down_to_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Final Theory", "author_name": "Mark Alpert", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 1794, "review_number": 231, "book_description": "A Spellbinding Thriller about a Science History Professor on the Run for his Life and an Unpublished Einstein Theory that Could Change the World Debut novelist Mark Alpert brings one of the most explosive books of 2008, seamlessly weaving current issues of science, history, and politics with white-knuckle chases. David Swift, a professor at Columbia University, is called to the hospital to comfort his mentor, a physicist who's been brutally tortured. Before dying, the old man wheezes \"Einheitliche Feldtheorie.\" The Theory of Everything. The Destroyer of Worlds. Could this be Einstein's proposed Unified Theory--a set of equations that combines the physics of galaxies with the laws of atoms? Einstein never succeeded in discovering it. Or did he? Within hours of hearing his mentor's last words, David is running for his life. The FBI and a ruthless mercenary are vying to get their hands on the long-hidden theory. Teaming up with his old girlfriend, a brilliant Princeton scientist, David frantically works out Einstein's final theory to reveal the staggering scope of its consequences. With publishers around the world snapping up rights in twenty-two countries, the book has already become a global phenomenon, and the dynamic characters and gripping plot will keep readers compulsively turning the pages until the very end.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Suspense", "Science (Physics)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2301215.Final_Theory"}, +{"book_title": "The Recruitment", "author_name": "Michael Chatfield", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 658, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "James Cook is rarely known by his real name. For the past four years he's been playing Mecha Assault One with his team-Mecha Tail-, being known around the world as Salchar, a gaming celebrity and master strategist. At the second championships of Mecha Assault Two, a group called the Planetary Defense Force (PDF) dropped into Earth\u2019s atmosphere dragging Earth's children and teenagers into the sky. They are to be trained as Mecha Troopers, no better than slaves or cannon fodder. James Cook must truly become Salchar to keep himself, his squad and the enslaved humans alive. An AI, and a crazed engineer will show Salchar and the other slave races the true face of the PDF- a criminal syndicate created under the ruthless Lady Fairgate. The battles have become real and Salchar must risk everything for the chance to gain humanity's, Kuruvian's and Sarenmenti's freedom.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26034723-the-recruitment"}, +{"book_title": "Alphas and Airships", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 425, "review_number": 52, "book_description": " With Lionheart as the new alpha, the streets of London are quiet. But above the realm, mischief is brewing. While airship pirates are a common plague upon the kingdom, the Airship Fenrir proves particularly troublesome--especially on a full moon.Clemeny must take to the skies before these shape-shifting Vikings kick off a new Ragnarok. Easier said than done now that she's down one good eye, a partner, and not to mention the fact that she gets motion sick.On top of that, the new scar across her face makes Clemeny feel like she'll have better luck intimidating her foes than finding a beau. But Agent Edwin Hunter, recently assigned as head of Clemeny's division, is proving to be an interesting prospect. Despite her apprehensions, it's up to Agent Louvel to chase Fenrir across the heavens.Alphas and Airships is a retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale set in Melanie Karsak's bestselling steampunk universe. Alphas and Airships is Book 2 in the Steampunk Red Riding Hood series.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39889716-alphas-and-airships"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Rogue Planet", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 5997, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "MASTER AND APPRENTICEThe Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker . . . so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan, like his slain Master Qui-Gon, believes Anakin may be the chosen one, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force. But first Obi-Wan must help his undisciplined apprentice, who still bears the scars of slavery, find his own balance.Dispatched to the mysterious planet of Zonama Sekot, source of the fastest ships in the galaxy, Obi-Wan and Anakin are swept up in a swirl of deadly intrigue and betrayal. They sense a disturbance in the Force unlike any they have encountered before. It seems there are more secrets on Zonama Sekot than meet the eye. But the search for those secrets will threaten the bond between Obi-Wan and Anakin . . . and bring the troubled young apprentice face-to-face with his deepest fear--and his darkest destiny.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/758614.Star_Wars"}, +{"book_title": "Trackers", "author_name": "Nicholas Sansbury Smith", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2640, "review_number": 312, "book_description": "The end of the world is just the beginning of the hunt.... Estes Park police chief Marcus Colton and tracker Sam \"Raven\" Spears have never liked one another, but when a young girl goes missing in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colton hires Spears to help find her. Their search ends after a night of devastating horror. When word reaches Estes that the nation has been hit by a coordinated electromagnetic pulse attack, Colton and Spears are forced to work together again. But they quickly realize they aren't just tracking a killer - they are tracking a madman. As the United States descends into chaos, the hunters become the hunted. Halfway across the country, Senator Charlize Montgomery awakes to find the nation's capital has gone dark. Forced to set off on foot, she treks across a city that has woken to a new world, and as the night progresses she learns the EMP attack was just the beginning.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Suspense", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32495780-trackers"}, +{"book_title": "Asbaran Solutions", "author_name": "Chris Kennedy", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 815, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Nigel Shirazi was first in line for the chairmanship of Asbaran Solutions, one of the prominent \u201cFour Horsemen\u201d mercenary companies. First in line\u2026until his drinking and temper caused him to fail out of college and get disinherited by the family. Now he leads the life of a playboy, enjoying a stipend from the family to stay out of the way. But someone is out to get his family, and Nigel is all that stands between the hidden enemy and the destruction of Asbaran Solutions and the Shirazi family. Nigel will have to learn to control himself if he\u2019s going to take the reins of the company, figure out who\u2019s behind the vendetta against Asbaran, and work out a way to stop them. But they\u2019ve taken his sister hostage, and that makes him a very, very angry man!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33847560-asbaran-solutions"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Daughter", "author_name": "Julie Kagawa", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 121603, "review_number": 5703, "book_description": "Half Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan has never fit in anywhere. Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, she is prisoner to the Winter faery queen. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey\u2014ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her.Worse, Meghan's own fey powers have been cut off. She's stuck in Faery with only her wits for help. Trusting anyone would be foolish. Trusting a seeming traitor could be deadly. But even as she grows a backbone of iron, Meghan can't help but hear the whispers of longing in her all-too-human heart.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7747064-the-iron-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Having the Barbarian's Baby", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2857, "review_number": 206, "book_description": "Megan\u2019s ready to give birth, but she\u2019s not ready to let her mate leave her side. When Cashol must go hunting to feed the tribe, they\u2019re separated for the first time since resonance. Not a problem, except the baby\u2019s ready to be born and there\u2019s a storm brewing\u2026 This is one of the Slice of Life Short Stories set in the ICE PLANET BARBARIANS world. It does not stand alone, and is intended to be read after BARBARIAN\u2019S MATE.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29980848-having-the-barbarian-s-baby"}, +{"book_title": "The Eternity Cure", "author_name": "Julie Kagawa", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 36699, "review_number": 3272, "book_description": "In Allison Sekemoto's world, there is one rule left: Blood calls to blood She has done the unthinkable: died so that she might continue to live. Cast out of Eden and separated from the boy she dared to love, Allie will follow the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin, from the psychotic vampire Sarren. But when the trail leads to Allie's birthplace in New Covington, what Allie finds there will change the world forever\u2014and possibly end human and vampire existence. There's a new plague on the rise, a strain of the Red Lung virus that wiped out most of humanity generations ago\u2014and this strain is deadly to humans and vampires alike. The only hope for a cure lies in the secrets Kanin carries, if Allie can get to him in time. Allison thought that immortality was forever. But now, with eternity itself hanging in the balance, the lines between human and monster will blur even further, and Allie must face another choice she could never have imagined having to make.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13581990-the-eternity-cure"}, +{"book_title": "Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse", "author_name": "John Joseph Adams", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1133, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams, WASTELANDS 2: MORE STORIES OF THE APOCALYPSE is the star-studded follow-up to the 2008 bestselling anthology Wastelands. The first book traced the 21st century resurgence of post-apocalyptic fiction, and while it is considered the definitive collection of its kind, dozens of new stories have been written since it was released. Five of the stories are from the 20th Century, but the remaining twenty-six were all published from the year 2000 onward, and nineteen of those originally appeared in the years since volume one came out. Like its predecessor, WASTELANDS 2 will feature a who\u2019s who of modern authors including George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones), Hugh Howey (Wool), Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), Ann Aguirre (Enclave), Cory Doctorow (Little Brother), Nancy Kress (After the Fall), and more. The thirty-one stories include the seminal tale \u201cThe Postman\u201d by David Brin, and \u201cThe Happiest Place,\u201d a new work by John W. Campbell Award winner Mira GrantComplete Contents:Introduction / John Joseph Adams -- The Amarisk Hunter / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Deep Blood Kettle / Hugh Howey -- Animal Husbandry / Seanan McGuire -- \"--for a single yesterday\" / George R. R. Martin -- Chiswick Messiah / Lauren Beukes -- Colliding Branes / Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling -- Ellie / Jack McDevitt -- Foundation / Ann Aguirre -- Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) / Cory Doctorow -- A Beginner's Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse / Christopher Barzak -- Wondrous Days / Genevieve Valentine -- Dreams in Dust / D. Thomas Minton -- By Fools Like Me / Nancy Kress -- Jimmy's Roadside Cafe / Ramsey Shehadeh -- The Elephants of Poznan / Orson Scott Card -- The Postman / David Brin -- When We Went To See the End of the World / Robert Silverberg -- The Revelation of Morgan Stern / Christie Yant -- Final Exam / Megan Arkenberg -- A Flock of Birds / James Van Pelt -- Patient Zero / Tananarive Due -- Soulless in His Sight / Milo James Fowler -- Outer Rims / Toiya Kristen Finley -- Advertising at the End of the World / Keffy R. M. Kehrli -- How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth / Rachel Swirsky -- Tight Little Stiches in a Dead Man's Back / Joe R. Lansdale -- After the Apocalypse / Maureen F. McHugh -- The Traditional / Maria Dahvana Headley -- Monstro / Junot Diaz -- Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince / Jake Kerr.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16129265-wastelands-2"}, +{"book_title": "Pathfinder", "author_name": "Laura E. Reeve", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 339, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Wars may end. But vengeance is forver. Reserve Major Ariane Kedros needs a shot at redemption-and the mysterious aliens known as the Minoans need an extraordinary human pilot with a rejuv-stimulated metabolism like Ariane for a dangerous expedition to a distant solar system. But there's a catch. The Minoans have to implant their technology in Ariane's body, and it might not be removable. Ariane is willing, but as she begins the perilous journey, there is an old enemy hiding within the exploration team who is determined to see them fail...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7248999-pathfinder"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien Assassin's Convenient Wife", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1189, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "One half of an intergalactic assassin team, Jadzion heads to New Mexico for his target while his brother Heriot heads to California. They've traveled millions of miles and through star systems to find their targets, who are gun-runners on a galactic scale. Now, though, Jadzion has a problem. He's waited until the last minute to go planetside, and his target's at a couples retreat. Jadzion is solo.The solution is obvious - Jadzion needs a wife. Just for the weekend, of course. Using a thing called a 'dating app' he finds a woman named Jenna. He tells her he needs to marry her, right away. Jenna, naturally, is confused. But the longer she's around Jadzion, the more she thinks he's not from around here... and that he just might be the one for her.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40954669-the-alien-assassin-s-convenient-wife"}, +{"book_title": "Light of Impossible Stars", "author_name": "Gareth L. Powell", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 857, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell delivers an explosive conclusion to his epic Embers of War trilogy.Low on fuel and hunted by the Fleet of Knives, the sentient warship Trouble Dog follows a series of clues that lead her to the Intrusion--an area of space where reality itself becomes unstable. But with human civilisation crumbling, what difference can one battered old ship have against an invincible armada?Meanwhile, Cordelia Pa and her step-brother eke out their existence salvaging artefacts from an alien city. But when Cordelia starts hearing the city's song in her head, strange things start happening around her. What extraordinary affinity does she have for this abandoned technology, and how can it possibly help the Trouble Dog?Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell delivers an explosive conclusion to his epic Embers of War trilogy.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45996369-light-of-impossible-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Highland Mist", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 66783, "review_number": 3113, "book_description": "He would sell his warrior soul to possess her...An alluring laird...He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart\u2014until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too outspoken, she was an irresistible challenge to the sixteenth-century rogue. Coerced into a marriage with Hawk, Adrienne vowed to keep him at arm's length\u2014but his sweet seduction played havoc with her resolve.A prisoner in time...She had a perfect \"no\" on her perfect lips for the notorious laird, but Hawk swore she would whisper his name with desire, begging for the passion he longed to ignite within her. Not even the barriers of time and space would keep him from winning her love. Despite her uncertainty about following the promptings of her own passionate heart, Adrienne's reservations were no match for Hawk's determination to keep her by his side...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743599.Beyond_the_Highland_Mist"}, +{"book_title": "Strain", "author_name": "Amelia C. Gormley", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1789, "review_number": 311, "book_description": "In a world with little hope and no rules, the only thing they have to lose is themselves.Rhys Cooper is a dead man. Cut off from the world since childhood, he\u2019s finally exposed to the lethal virus that wiped out most of the human race. Now his only hope for survival is infection by another strain that might confer immunity. But it\u2019s sexually transmitted, and the degradation he feels at submitting to the entire squad of soldiers that rescued him eclipses any potential for pleasure\u2014except with Darius, the squadron\u2019s respected, capable leader.Sergeant Darius Murrell has seen too much death and too little humanity. He\u2019s spent a decade putting plague victims out of their misery and escorting survivors to a safe haven he can never enjoy. He\u2019d rather help Rhys live than put him down, so when Rhys can\u2019t reconcile himself to doing what\u2019s necessary to survive, Darius is forced to save Rhys in spite of himself.But with each passing day, it looks less and less likely that Rhys can be saved. Which means that soon Darius might have to put a bullet in the head of the one person in years who reminds him of what it means to be human.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Dark", "Horror (Zombies)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18460726-strain"}, +{"book_title": "Space Dumplins", "author_name": "Craig Thompson", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2700, "review_number": 451, "book_description": "Highly acclaimed graphic novelist Craig Thompson's debut book for young readers about a plucky heroine on a mission to save her dad.For Violet Marlocke, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous job, she can't just sit around and do nothing. To get him back, Violet throws caution to the stars and sets out with a group of misfit friends on a quest to find him. But space is vast and dangerous, and she soon discovers that her dad is in big, BIG trouble. With her father's life on the line, nothing is going to stop Violet from trying to rescue him and keep her family together.Visionary graphic novel creator Craig Thompson brings all of his wit, warmth, and humor to create a brilliantly drawn story for all ages. Set in a distant yet familiar future, Space Dumplins weaves themes of family, friendship, and loyalty into a grand space adventure filled with quirky aliens, awesome spaceships, and sharp commentary on our environmentally challenged world.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612531-space-dumplins"}, +{"book_title": "Metropolitan", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1081, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Aiah has learned that plasm is more than an energy source. It resonates within the human mind, giving power to heal and to kill. So when she finds an undiscovered, unlimited supply, she dares to meet with the powerful Metropolitan known as Constantine, a mysterious rebel with plans. Together they can use the plasm to rally forces to overthrow the government.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/886131.Metropolitan"}, +{"book_title": "Doll, Volume 1", "author_name": "Mitsukazu Mihara", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 332, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Doll examines the question of what it means to be truly human. In these haunting tales, dolls -- human-like androids -- have an uncanny way of working themselves into the lives of their masters: A woman develops an unusual closeness to doll that she takes beyond the grave...A man wants to make his doll into the perfect human lover...A father buys his son a doll to help him get over the death of his mother. ", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Gothic", "Short Stories", "Horror", "Manga (Josei)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1648510.Doll_Volume_1"}, +{"book_title": "For More Than Glory", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 467, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "You're only a hero until your next battle.\u00a0Legion General Bill Booly knows that peace is just a pause between wars. He's just crushed one uprising, and now a new rebellion is already brewing on a remote world light years away--spawning a web of terrorism that is close enough to catch the vulnerable Confederacy in its grasp.\u00a0", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/931421.For_More_Than_Glory"}, +{"book_title": "Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 7706, "review_number": 1256, "book_description": "Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan returns to the planet that changed her destiny.FUTURE IMPERFECT Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, Admiral, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he'd never imagined, bringing him to an unexpected crossroads in his life. Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor's key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission of inquiry, into a mystery he never anticipated; his own mother. Plans, wills, and expectations collide in this sparkling science-fiction social comedy, as the impact of galactic technology on the range of the possible changes all the old rules, and Miles learns that not only is the future not what he expects, neither is the past.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Space", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25155958-gentleman-jole-and-the-red-queen"}, +{"book_title": "The Chess Queen Enigma", "author_name": "Colleen Gleason", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1898, "review_number": 268, "book_description": "And then she mouthed a word at me\u2014an unmistakable word that told me everything I needed to know. \u201cCheckmate.\u201dEvaline Stoker & Mina Holmes have reluctantly agreed to act as social chaperones and undercover bodyguards for Princess Lurelia of Betrovia, who has arrived in London to deliver a letter that details the secret location of an ancient chess queen that\u2019s been missing for centuries. But when the letter\u2014which will heal a centuries-old rift between England and the Betrovians\u2014is stolen out from under Evaline and Mina\u2019s watchful eyes, the two girls are forced into a high-stakes race to ensure they find the chess queen before anyone else does\u2026including their foe, the Ankh. For the chess queen is not only a historic symbol of a woman\u2019s political power, but it has literal power as well\u2014the queen will unlock the chessboard, revealing both treasures and ancient secrets the Ankh would kill to possess. It will take Mina\u2019s smarts and Evaline\u2019s strength to beat the thief and untangle this mystery before it is too late.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23565495-the-chess-queen-enigma"}, +{"book_title": "Arduino Robot Bonanza", "author_name": "Gordon McComb", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 22, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Create high-tech walking, talking, and thinking robots\"McComb hasn't missed a beat. It's an absolute winner!\" -GeekDad, Wired.com Breathe life into the robots of your dreams--withoutadvanced electronics or programming skills. Arduino Robot Bonanza shows you how to build autonomous robots using ordinary tools and common parts. Learn how to wire things up, program your robot's brain, and add your own unique flair. This easy-to-follow, fully illustrated guidestarts with the Teachbot and moves to more complex projects, including the musical TuneBot, the remote-controlled TeleBot, a slithering snakelike 'bot, and a robotic arm with 16 inches of reach!Get started on the Arduino board and softwareBuild a microcontroller-based brainHook up high-tech sensors and controllersWrite and debug powerful Arduino appsNavigate by walking, rolling, or slitheringProgram your 'bot to react and explore on its ownAdd remote control and wireless videoGenerate sound effects and synthesized speechDevelop functional robot arms and grippersExtend plans and add exciting features", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13654836-arduino-robot-bonanza"}, +{"book_title": "The Enceladus Mission: Hard Science Fiction", "author_name": "Brandon Q. Morris", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2064, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "A space odyssey that\u2019s worth taking. (Kirkus) In the year 2031, a robot probe detects traces of biological activity on Enceladus, one of Saturn\u2019s moons. This sensational discovery shows that there is indeed evidence of extraterrestrial life.\u00a0Fifteen years later, a hurriedly built spacecraft sets out on the long journey to the ringed planet and its moon. The international crew is not just facing a difficult twenty-seven months: if the spacecraft manages to make it to Enceladus without incident it must use a drillship to penetrate the kilometer-thick sheet of ice that entombs the moon. If life does indeed exist on Enceladus, it could only be at the bottom of the salty, ice covered ocean, which formed billions of years ago. However, shortly after takeoff disaster strikes the mission, and the chances of the crew making it to Enceladus, let alone back home, look grim. From internationally best-selling hard science fiction author Brandon Q. Morris comes a new novel for hard science fiction enthusiasts. As a physicist and space specialist, Morris describes the journey of the international expedition through the hostile vacuum of space, using the latest scientific findings and technology trends as his inspiration. This isn\u2019t a\u00a0What If\u00a0book, this is a\u00a0When Will\u00a0book.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41583173-the-enceladus-mission"}, +{"book_title": "Starfire Angels", "author_name": "Melanie Nilles", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3848, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "They've been coming here for thousands of years, using Earth as a sanctuary to escape threats from their own kind. Mankind knows them as angels, and one of them left a child upon her death to be raised as a human.Raea is now a high school senior, and her life as a human is about to end. The crystal shard she bears is not a pretty pendant; it's a collective of powerful entities who chose her as their Keeper, a protector of one of the four shards that power a machine capable of destroying whole worlds. Those who desire the Starfire's power have sent an agent to find her, but she's too busy evading a nosy reporter ready to exploit her secret and dating a hot new foreign student to notice. Nevermind learning what she really is.Only one person on Earth can help her, the last person she ever expected. But he's not from Earth. Life as a human would be so much easier.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Paranormal (Angels)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687158-starfire-angels"}, +{"book_title": "Captured", "author_name": "Mara Frost", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 567, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "\nThey say no one can hear you scream in space, and that really sucks for me...\n Win the International Space Lottery and get the chance to travel to the International Space Station? CheckTrain my butt off for eight grueling months with world-class astronauts? CheckToothbrush? CheckGet abducted by intergalactic space smugglers on my third day in space? Che...wait, what?Have the adventure of my life with a giant blue alien jerk who only wants to sell me to make money, but he can't seem to get rid of me? Double checkOkay, so I'm scared. I'm lost. And my captor is a big alien who has no sense of humor and glows when he's horny. Who knew that alien abduction could be so terrifying? Or blue and sexy? Now, I just need to find a way to get back home before I become someone's dinner or worse - fall for the jerk who stole me.\u00a0*Please Note: Alien Space Pirates is an ongoing serial (like a TV show!). Below are the release dates for the remaining books!*Upcoming releases in series:Alien Space Pirates: Sold (Book 2) - January 5 2016Alien Space Pirates: Saved (Book 3) - Upcoming January Release", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Humor", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28357686-captured"}, +{"book_title": "Sister Time", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2197, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Cally O'Neal is officially dead. In her over forty years of being an active secret agent she hasn't used her real name, much less spoken to her sister. So when Michelle interrupts an important mission, by seemingly appearing out of thin air, it's an unexpected reunion. This highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times best seller Cally\u2019s War features the return of Michelle O'Neal, the first human Sohon mentat. Sister Time is about life, love and covert operations amongst the universe's ultimate dysfunctional family.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Adventure", "Space", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528365.Sister_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Private Eye", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3268, "review_number": 488, "book_description": "Because retailers, readers, and ROBERT KIRKMAN demanded it, the online sensation from PanelSyndicate.com\u2019s BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS) and MARCOS MARTIN (The Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Strange: The Oath) is finally coming to print with this gorgeous deluxe hardcover edition, presented in the story\u2019s original widescreen format!Years after the digital cloud \u201cbursts\u201d and exposes all of our worst secrets, THE PRIVATE EYE is set in an inevitable future where everyone has a secret identity. Following an unlicensed P.I. who is thrust into the most important case of his life, this sci-fi mystery explores the nature of privacy with frightening prescience.Collects THE PRIVATE EYE #1-10", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26247784-the-private-eye"}, +{"book_title": "The Gladiators", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 901, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "When Loren Hess began asking too many questions, she became a liability. She'd thought her snooping might get her terminated--permanently. She hadn't expected to land on an auction block halfway across the universe, sold to the highest bidder as a sex slave! Sensuality: CARNAL", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Menage (M F M)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9401737-the-gladiators"}, +{"book_title": "The Perilous Journey of the Not So Innocuous Girl", "author_name": "Leigh Statham", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 205, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Lady Marguerite lives a life most 17th-century French girls can only dream of: money, designer dresses, suitors, and a secure future. Except she can\u2019t quite commit to a life of dull luxury and she suspects she may be falling for her best friend Claude, a common smithy in the family's steam forge. When Claude leaves for New France in search of a better life, Marguerite decides to follow him and test her suspicions of love\u2014only the trip proves to be more harrowing than she anticipated. Love, adventure, and restitution await her if she can survive the voyage.Based on the true story of The Daughters of the King, Louis the XIV\u2019s social program to settle the wilds of Canada with women of noble birth, Marguerite\u2019s steampunk adventure follows in the footsteps of nearly one thousand brave women and girls who were rewarded handsomely for trekking across the pirate infested Atlantic to a strange land.\"The writing is solid and the world-building \u2013 that clever combination of historical detail and Ms. Statham\u2019s imagination \u2013 is excellent.\"~ The Australia Times Books", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18308621-the-perilous-journey-of-the-not-so-innocuous-girl"}, +{"book_title": "Armageddon", "author_name": "Jasper T. Scott", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 531, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "On Avilon Not Even the Truth Will Set You Free . . .\u00a0The Real Enemy is Within\u00a0 Omnius has been hiding a lot from the people of Avilon. The war with the Sythians is not what we thought, but that raises the question: if not the Sythians, then what did Omnius go to fight in the Getties Cluster?Humanity is Being Held Prisoner\u00a0 Omnius knows what people will do before they do it. He predicts citizens' behavior, and some suspect, he even makes those predictions come true. For those who wish to be free of his influence, Avilon's lowermost city, the crime-ridden, shadow-filled Null Zone is the only option, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that not even the Nulls are free, and there is a more sinister reason behind The Choosing than the one Omnius gave.\u00a0 As Omnius's predictions begin to come true, Ethan Ortane realizes he could lose the one thing that matters most to him in the universe--his family.There is a Rebellion Stirring\u00a0 Far from Avilon, the Sythians are hiding out in the neighboring Getties Cluster. Out there they discover something that wasn't supposed to exist: a group of human rebels that escaped from Avilon. Their leader, Therius, seems to raise more questions than he answers, but he has a plan to defeat Omnius that just might work.And the End is Drawing Near\u00a0 As Therius's plan unfolds, people realize the terrible truth: he can't win by conventional means, and he knows it. The alternative is called the Armageddon Protocol, but it could mean the end of everything, not just Omnius. . . . ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25937446-armageddon"}, +{"book_title": "The Lasaran", "author_name": "Dianne Duvall", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1858, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall brings readers the first novel in a thrilling new sci-fi series full of action, intrigue, humor, and romance.Taelon searches the galaxy for his younger sister, who mysteriously disappeared while on a diplomatic mission. When an ally reveals that she was seized and is being held prisoner on Earth, Taelon descends upon the blue planet, intent on freeing her and exacting vengeance. However, all does not go as planned. Before he can find her, Taelon is captured and becomes the subject of torturous experiments. For what feels like an eternity, all he knows is pain and fury\u2026 until a mind tentatively touches his own and a woman\u2019s voice forever changes his world.After suffering tragic losses, Lisa is finally beginning to carve out a future for herself when chance sends her to the Anomalous Cognition Research Institute. What at first appears to be a benign organization seeking participants for a psychic study instead turns out to be a government facility harboring a much darker intent. Lisa discovers this too late and soon becomes the unwilling subject of a terrifying experiment. Just as fear and desperation threaten to consume her, a deep, compelling voice penetrates the looming insanity and lends her hope.Having seen only the worst of humanity, Taelon is shocked when Lisa risks everything to free him. Together the two make their escape, and Taelon finds himself fascinated by the small human woman who\u2014despite all she\u2019s suffered\u2014can still laugh and tease and lure smiles from him. Friendship swiftly grows between them as they work together to evade soldiers intent on capturing them and find themselves hunted by mystifying preternatural beings. Through it all, Lisa steadfastly remains by his side, stealing more of his heart each day while she helps him unravel the mystery of his sister\u2019s fate. Can they find his sister before the hunters find them? If they survive their quest, will Taelon have to bid Lisa farewell\u2026 or can he coax her into leaving her planet and joining him for the adventure of a lifetime?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52172135-the-lasaran"}, +{"book_title": "Brilliant Devices", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 2143, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "Book four in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series! A lady of resources has the power to change the world-if she can stay alive long enough to do it. Lady Claire Trevelyan had been looking forward to glittering balls, congenial society, and relief from pursuit during her stay with Lord and Lady Dunsmuir in the Canadas. Well, perhaps not entirely. Being pursued by a handsome airship captain is rather diverting, especially when it appears her erstwhile employer, Andrew Malvern, is becoming much too distracted by a certain blond mechanic. But a shot fired in the night puts an end to such diversions, and instead plunges her and her orphaned band of children into a fight for their very survival. Between secret conversations at the highest levels of society and skullduggery in the diamond mines, Claire must discover who is behind a series of alarming attempts on her friends' lives-before her mother is compelled to make funeral arrangements yet again. \"I have a big grin on my face which is my Magnificent Devices grin-it's impossible not to smile your way through this book. It's such swashbucklingly good fun. The tone has that wonderful lightness of humour and joy that keeps up in even the direst of situations. At the same time it wonderfully maintains the sense of time and place-the Victorian feel, the language, the class, the clothing, the attitudes are all extremely vivid, carefully maintained and, at times, gloriously lampooned.\" -Fangs for the Fantasy, on Brilliant Devices", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16126082-brilliant-devices"}, +{"book_title": "Storm Surge", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 2047, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "In the Pacific, as USS Walker is repaired and updated after a previous battle and Matt Reddy is healing from his wounds, planning begins for a bold raid on the very heart of the Grik Empire.But time is running out for the Alliance army in Indiaa, and the Allied forces in the west must gather in an unprecedented land, air, and sea campaign to destroy the mighty Grik battle fleet and break through to their relief. All other plans go on hold when the attempt proves more difficult\u2014and more heartbreakingly costly\u2014than anyone imagined.Meanwhile, the struggle continues on other fronts near and far: in the jungles of Borno in distant southern Africa and in the Americas, where the Allies are finally learning the terrible truth about the twisted Dominion.The Alliance is on the offensive everywhere, but their enemies have a few surprises, including new weaponry and new tactics\u2026 and a stunning geographic advantage that Reddy never suspected.Until now.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15759883-storm-surge"}, +{"book_title": "Legion of the Damned", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1967, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "The first novel in William C. Dietz's acclaimed Legion of the Damned series... There is one final choice for the hopeless, the terminally ill, the condemned criminals, the victims who cannot be saved: becoming cyborg soldiers in the Legion. Their human bodies are destroyed and they are reborn as living weapons. But when aliens attack the Empire, the Legion must choose sides.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722434.Legion_of_the_Damned"}, +{"book_title": "Remix", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 412, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Steel-eating mutant bacteria have reduced Europe to isolated, barbarous rubble and Nazi cossacks are at the gates of Imperial Paris. LizAlec, adopted daughter of Lady Claire, icily glamourous head of Imperial security, is kidnapped from a lunar Arrivals Lounge on her way to finishing school, and rescued by a one-lunged outcast who keeps his best friend's head in a coolbox. Everyone wants a piece of LizAlec--her mother's rivals, a murderous tele-evangelist who lives in a space ark, her burned-out cyborg rock star boyfriend, and whatever it is that lurks in her own body and makes her surprisingly competent in emergencies. Grimwood has made a modest career out of the realisation that cyberpunk long ago ceased to be the messianic next big thing in sf and became a set of gestures and a marketing ploy. The intelligent absurdities of his plotting, a vein of perverse eroticism, and his love affair with the brand-named impedimenta of an improbable high-tech future, add up to superior brain candy; a caper thriller with ideas in orbit above its station. There is a place for glossy fluff in sf, and Grimwood occupies it with real competence. --Roz Kaveney ", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368874.Remix"}, +{"book_title": "Winged Hussars", "author_name": "Mark Wandrey", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 614, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "For more than a century, Winged Hussars has been the richest of Earth's mercenary companies, as well as the only one to specialize in space warfare. Led by Alexis Cromwell, they have carved out a reputation in the galaxy for being dependable, unflappable, and lethally efficient. Until people began shooting at them everywhere they went. Rick Culper left Earth in the hopes of finding a job as a merc. A natural at fighting in the armed suits known as CASPers, he finally caught on with one of the premier Four Horsemen companies, but it\u2019s with the Winged Hussars, and the company's prospects are beginning to look bleak. Traps have been laid throughout a number of systems, and Commander Alexis Cromwell and her flagship, Pegasus, will be hard-pressed to make it back to their secret base. Even with Rick's help, the situation is much worse than anyone in the Hussars could have imagined. The Four Horsemen are being hunted, and the Hussar\u2019s future is dark. But there\u2019s one thing Alexis\u2019 enemies didn\u2019t count on\u2014Alexis Cromwell is nobody\u2019s prey.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35664110-winged-hussars"}, +{"book_title": "1812: The Rivers of War", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1319, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Eric Flint's acclaimed 1634: The Galileo Affair was a national bestseller from one of the most talked-about voices in his field. Now, in this extraordinary new alternate history, Flint begins a dramatic saga of the North American continent at a dire turning point, forging its identity and its future in the face of revolt from within, and attack from without.In the War of 1812, U.S. troops are battling the British on the Canadian border, even as a fierce fight is being waged against the Creek followers of the Indian leader Tecumseh and his brother, known as The Prophet. In Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte's war has become a losing proposition, and the British are only months away from unleashing a frightening assault on Washington itself. Fateful choices are being made in the corridors of power and on the American frontier. As Andrew Jackson, backed by Cherokee warriors, leads a fierce attack on the Creek tribes, his young republic will soon need every citizen soldier it can find.What if-at this critical moment-bonds were forged between men of different races and tribes? What if the Cherokee clans were able to muster an integrated front, and the U.S. government faced a united Indian nation bolstered by escaping slaves, freed men of color, and even influential white allies?Through the remarkable adventures of men who were really there-men of mixed race, mixed emotions, and a singular purpose-The Rivers of War carries us in this new direction, brilliantly transforming an extraordinary chapter of American history.With a cast of unforgettable characters-from James Monroe and James Madison to Sam Houston, Francis Scott Key, and Cherokee chiefs John Ross and Major Ridge-The Rivers of War travels from the battle of Horseshoe Bend to the battle of New Orleans, and brings every explosive moment to life. With exquisite attention to detail, an extraordinary grasp of history, and a storyteller's gift for the dramatic, Flint delivers a bold, thought-provoking epic of enemies and allies, traitors and revolutionaries, and illuminates who we are as a nation, how we got here, and how history itself is made-and remade.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57262.1812"}, +{"book_title": "White Hot", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.48, "rating_votes": 31606, "review_number": 2734, "book_description": "Nevada Baylor has a unique and secret skill\u2014she knows when people are lying\u2014and she's used that magic (along with plain, hard work) to keep her colorful and close-knit family's detective agency afloat. But her new case pits her against the shadowy forces that almost destroyed the city of Houston once before, bringing Nevada back into contact with Connor \"Mad\" Rogan.Rogan is a billionaire Prime\u2014the highest rank of magic user\u2014and as unreadable as ever, despite Nevada's \"talent.\" But there's no hiding the sparks between them. Now that the stakes are even higher, both professionally and personally, and their foes are unimaginably powerful, Rogan and Nevada will find that nothing burns like ice . . .", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22303684-white-hot"}, +{"book_title": "Squadron Alert", "author_name": "Roland J. Green", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 53, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "When the United Federation of Starworlds receives a call for aid from a world divided between the Federation and its most powerful competitor, Captain Rose Liddell readies the battle cruiser Shenandoah in an attempt to halt the breakout of interstellar war.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1801670.Squadron_Alert"}, +{"book_title": "The Remaining", "author_name": "D.J. Molles", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 11076, "review_number": 784, "book_description": "In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 40 feet below the basement level of his house, Captain Lee Harden of the United States Army waits. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little more than base, prehistoric instincts. The infected turn into hyper-aggressive predators, with an insatiable desire to kill and feed. Some day soon, Captain Harden will have to open the hatch to his bunker, and step out into this new wasteland, to complete his very simple mission: Subvenire Refectus.To Rescue and Rebuild.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13431827-the-remaining"}, +{"book_title": "A Passage of Stars", "author_name": "Kate Elliott", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 414, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Lilyaka Hae Ransome answered to no man. Born to a powerful clan on the storm-wracked colony world of Unruli, she'd grown up willful, independent, strong. The only person who held her respect was the enigmatic man called Heredes, who tutored her in history and the martial arts.So when alien bounty hunters kidnapped Heredes, she threw away her heritage and set out after him on an awesome odyssey through the unknown reaches of space.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341707.A_Passage_of_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Future of Pepperharrow", "author_name": "Natasha Pulley", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 2558, "review_number": 544, "book_description": "1888. Five years after they met in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Thaniel Steepleton, an unassuming translator, and Keita Mori, the watchmaker who remembers the future, are traveling to Japan. Thaniel has received an unexpected posting to the British legation in Tokyo, and Mori has business that is taking him to Yokohama.Thaniel's brief is odd: the legation staff have been seeing ghosts, and Thaniel's first task is to find out what's really going on. But while staying with Mori, he starts to experience ghostly happenings himself. For reasons Mori won't--or can't--share, he is frightened. Then he vanishes.Meanwhile, something strange is happening in a frozen labor camp in Northern Japan. Takiko Pepperharrow, an old friend of Mori's, must investigate.As the weather turns bizarrely electrical and ghosts haunt the country from Tokyo to Aokigahara forest, Thaniel grows convinced that it all has something to do with Mori's disappearance--and that Mori may be in serious danger.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "LGBT", "Magical Realism", "Mystery", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35658977-the-lost-future-of-pepperharrow"}, +{"book_title": "Parallel", "author_name": "Claudia Lefeve", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1747, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "Destiny has a way of catching up. Saddled with powers she doesn't understand, Etta Fleming's world is turned upside-down the day she meets Cooper Everett, the man who transports her to an alternate reality. A reality she was meant to be a part of. One minute, she's an orphan living at Dominion House for Girls, an institution for delinquent foster kids, then finds herself attending the exclusive Dominion Hall Academy. Plucked from the only world she's ever known, Etta now has to deal with an aunt she never knew, a boyfriend she doesn't know, and a best friend who can't know. PARALLEL is the first book in the Travelers Series.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9843424-parallel"}, +{"book_title": "Infinityglass", "author_name": "Myra McEntire", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2713, "review_number": 386, "book_description": "No time like the present.No time in the present.No time left.From the moment the Hourglass group violated the rules of the space time continuum to rescue a murdered loved one, time has been in flux. People from other centuries slide into our time, intruding into our space, threatening our world.Frantically seeking a way to turn back this tide, the Hourglass begins a search for the legendary Infinityglass, tracking it to the city of New Orleans, a place where the past rests easily with the present.Quiet, reliable Dune, the group's favourite geek, is selected to travel to the Crescent City and somehow retrieve the renowned object.But there's a problem.Because the Infinityglass is not an object, it's a person.A beautiful, headstrong dancer named Hallie, a girl so enticing Dune can't take his eyes off her.And time is not on her side.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14289306-infinityglass"}, +{"book_title": "Mars Evacuees", "author_name": "Sophia McDougall", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "The fact that someone had decided I would be safer on Mars, where you could still only SORT OF breathe the air and SORT OF not get sunburned to death, was a sign that the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well.I\u2019d been worried I was about to be told that my mother\u2019s spacefighter had been shot down, so when I found out that I was being evacuated to Mars, I was pretty calm.And despite everything that happened to me and my friends afterwards, I\u2019d do it all again. because until you\u2019ve been shot at, pursued by terrifying aliens, taught maths by a laser-shooting robot goldfish and tried to save the galaxy, I don\u2019t think you can say that you\u2019ve really lived.If the sme thing happens to you, this is my advice: ALWAYS CARRY DUCT TAPE.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20338840-mars-evacuees"}, +{"book_title": "Running: The Alien in the Mirror", "author_name": "Lazlo Ferran", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 31, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "So you know you are human?Ishmael Bodd 'wakes up' for the first time, a billion years in the future. He is a Citizen of Supercity, on Marstoo, far away from old Earth in the Universe. In his world, crime doesn't exist and Citizens only need electricity to live, whereas clones, who eat food and drink liquids, are banished to Clonecity.*** Get Three Thrillers Free (including Too Bright the Sun) >\u00a0lazloferran.com/3fb\u00a0***But he suddenly feels compelled to commit a minor crime and goes on the run. He can never stop running until he has escaped his culture and found the reason why everything suddenly feels so 'strange' to him in this science fiction thriller.If you like the Terminator series, Blade Runner or Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three, you will love Running - The Alien in the Mirror.Includes Chapter One of Too Bright the Sun.Categories: science fiction, thriller, far future, clones, androids, cyborgs, time travel, genes, genetic engineering, military science fiction.Character interview with Jake Nanden, star of the Iron Series.Name (s): Jake NandenAge: 34Please tell us a little about yourself.I am 5'11', dark hair, short - Army cut, slightly curly. Green eyes.Describe your appearance in 10 words or less.Getting middle aged, slightly paunchy with drying skin - like paper in places - except my mech arm. That's synthetic skin on there and as smooth and supple as the day it was sprayed on. I even had mine tattooed but don't tell anyone.Would you kill for those you love?I kill every day - most days - to keep my culture intact. I would say that is killing for those I love. Of course there is a moral code... And as a soldier the moral code is almost everything. After a while... killing... it sometimes seems to be the only thing you have left. Family are too far away.Do you like animals?I love animals. Their love is unconditional. You can never quite be sure with humans, can you?Do you have a family?Ha! Ha! Yes. A test-tube. No seriously my mother - Mary, my sister Justine and a dog - a collie called Frisky. My adoptive dad was the famous robotics designer Robert R. Nanden but he's dead. My mother was his assistant and pretty accomplished at that!Can you remember something from your childhood which influences your behaviour?I am not sure about any of my childhood memories. They are probably all implanted. I am a replicant. The first memory I am sure about is playing on the grass with my adoptive mother watching me playing cricket.She shouted out, \"Jake! You are such a talented cyborg!\"Even at my tender age, I knew a replicant was not the same thing as a cyborg and I knew that she should know, as her first husband had been a famous robot designer. Her words had always stuck in my head.But anyway, adoptive parents of replicant children are always told to create some vivid experience for their kid in the first few days so that the imprinting takes properly. So it's probably not significant.Do you have any phobias?Mirrors. Can't stand them. They make me sweat and... well, I'm very nervous around them. I avoid them.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24884670-running"}, +{"book_title": "The Wild Shore", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2966, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "2047: for 60 years America has been quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack. For the small community of San Onofre on the West Coast, life is a matter of survival: living simply on what the sea and land can provide, preserving what knowledge and skills they can in a society without mass communications. Until the men from San Diego arrive, riding the rails on flatbed trucks and bringing news of the new American Resistance. And Hank Fletcher and his friends are drawn into an adventure that marks the end of childhood...", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41128.The_Wild_Shore"}, +{"book_title": "Wishing For a Highlander", "author_name": "Jessi Gage", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2356, "review_number": 252, "book_description": "Single-and-pregnant museum worker Melanie voices an idle wish while examining a Scottish artifact, that a Highland warrior would sweep her off her feet and help her forget her cheating ex. The last thing she expects is for her wish to be granted. Magically transported to the middle of a clan skirmish in the sixteenth-century Highlands, she comes face to face with her kilted fantasy man.Tall, handsome, and heir to his uncle\u2019s lairdship, Darcy Keith should be the most eligible bachelor in Ackergill. Instead, thanks to a prank played on him in his teenage years, he is known for being too large under his kilt to ever make a proper husband. \u201cBig Darcy\u201d runs his deceased father\u2019s windmills and lives alone at his family manor, believing he will never marry.But a strangely dressed woman he rescues from a clan skirmish makes him long for more. When the woman\u2019s claims of coming to Ackergill by magic reach the laird\u2019s ears, she is accused of witchcraft. Darcy determines to protect her any way he can, even if it means binding her to him forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25189903-wishing-for-a-highlander"}, +{"book_title": "1882: Custer in Chains", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 150, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "\nA world where Custer survives Little Bighorn and becomes president goes seriously awry.\nFollowing his unlikely but decisive (and immensely popular) 1876 victory over Sitting Bull and the Sioux at the Little Big Horn, George Armstrong Custer is propelled into the White House in 1880.Two years later, he finds himself bored and seeks new worlds to conquer. He and his wife Libbie fixate on Spain\u2019s decaying empire as his source for immortality. What President Custer doesn\u2019t quite comprehend is that the U.S. military isn\u2019t up to such a venture. When a group of Americans on a ship headed for Cuba is massacred, war becomes inevitable\u2014and unless calmer, patriotic citizens and soldiers can find a way to avoid debacle, this war may be America's last stand!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609213-1882"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.66, "rating_votes": 5860, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "As Greed and King Bradley continue their battle, the mysterious homunculus \"father\" makes his move under Central City. In order to achieve his objectives, he will need to force Mustang to make an unthinkable choice. Meanwhile, Alphonse has the chance to regain his own body, but the sacrifice to do so may be too much.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10248518-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-25"}, +{"book_title": "The Brief History of the Dead", "author_name": "Kevin Brockmeier", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 11114, "review_number": 1834, "book_description": "From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City\u2019s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Novels", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Death", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30072.The_Brief_History_of_the_Dead"}, +{"book_title": "A Court of Wings and Ruin", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 288008, "review_number": 28455, "book_description": "FEYRE WILL BRING VENGEANCE.She has left the Night Court - and her High Lord - and is playing a deadly game of deceit. In the Spring Court, Tamlin is making deals with the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees, and Feyre is determined to uncover his plans. But to do so she must weave a web of lies, and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.As mighty armies grapple for power, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords - and hunt for allies in unexpected places. BUT WHILE WAR RAGES, IT IS HER HEART THAT WILL FACE THE GREATEST BATTLE.THE THRILLING THIRD BOOK IN #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FANTASY SERIES FROM SARAH J. MAAS.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "New Adult", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23766634-a-court-of-wings-and-ruin"}, +{"book_title": "Steel Beach", "author_name": "John Varley", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3001, "review_number": 171, "book_description": "Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution, like a fish cast on artificial shores. Their new home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instant sex changes. But the people of Luna are bored, restless, and suicidal -- and so is the computer that monitors their existence...", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49842.Steel_Beach"}, +{"book_title": "The Grand Ellipse", "author_name": "Paula Volsky", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 451, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Paula Volsky, author of The White Tribunal, returns with a spectacular saga of adventure and intrigue, romance and rebellion -- beginning with a wondrous discovery that could forever alter the fate of the free world....In the modern, civilized republic of Vonahr, the need for magic seems a thing of the past. But soon the Vonahrish will find that magic is their only hope -- for an imperialistic race of fanatics, intent on conquering the world, now masses on Vonahr's borders.Vonahr's slim chance for salvation lies in a nearby neutral kingdom, where a brilliant savant has conjured up the ultimate weapon: Sentient Fire, a miraculous flame that responds to the command of its maker.Low Hetz's mad, flamboyant king refuses to relinquish the secret -- so the desperate government of Vonahr sends the exquisitely beautiful adventurer Luzelle Devaire to turn his head and change his mind. But to gain an audience, Luzelle must win the Grand Ellipse, a test of endurance, ingenuity, and valor....", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599160.The_Grand_Ellipse"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire I: Chapter Four - Project Infinity", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 156, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "The Seers of Yaldos have a sad story to tell, but Alby and Kalendorf know they must listen.Meanwhile, the Daleks seem unconcerned by their recent defeats. They have their sights firmly fixed on Project Infinity. In the hands of the Daleks, the human race's only hope of victory could signal the destruction of the entire universe...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4673817-dalek-empire-i"}, +{"book_title": "Deus Ex", "author_name": "Robbie Morrison", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 63, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "The legendary video game franchise from Eidos Interactive comes to comics, in advance of the highly anticipated new game. Adam Jensen is a cybernetically enhanced security operative for the powerful Sarif Industries in a future where biological enhancements have become increasingly commonplace . . . but fanatically opposed by many! While recovering the kidnapped niece of the founder of Sarif Industries, Jensen uncovers a mystery that goes all the way back to his fully human SWAT origins in Detroit \u2013 and an adventure of violence and betrayal that\u2019ll span the globe begins.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Video Games)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11541950-deus-ex"}, +{"book_title": "Are We There Yet", "author_name": "Dan Santat", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2796, "review_number": 526, "book_description": "Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat takes readers on the road trip of a lifetime!\"Are we there yet?\" Every parent has heard this classic kid question on a long car ride--and after reading this astonishingly inventive new book (that even turns upside down for several pages!), you'll never look at being bored the same way again.Let's face it: everyone knows that car rides can be boring. And when things get boring, time slows down. In this book, a boy feels time slowing down so much that it starts going backward--into the time of pirates! Of princesses! Of dinosaurs! The boy was just trying to get to his grandmother's birthday party, but instead he's traveling through Ancient Egypt and rubbing shoulders with Ben Franklin. When time flies, who knows where--or when--he'll end up.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Travel", "Family", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Animals (Dinosaurs)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26030671-are-we-there-yet"}, +{"book_title": "The Omega Theory", "author_name": "Mark Alpert", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 355, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "When their autistic son Michael--a genius descended from Albert Einstein--is abducted by a cult bent on the destruction of the world, science historian David Swift and quantum physicist Monique Reynolds must stop the cult members from recreating the Big Bang and destroying mankind.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Action", "Adventure", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10148977-the-omega-theory"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Traveler's Almanac", "author_name": "Ann VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 992, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most \u00a0definitive\u00a0 collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer,\u00a0this book compiles\u00a0more than\u00a0a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre\u00a0and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations.This marvelous volume includes\u00a0nearly seventy\u00a0journeys\u00a0through time from authors\u00a0such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and\u00a0Connie Willis, as well as\u00a0helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume\u00a0(such as\u00a0Charles Yu's \"Top\u00a0Ten\u00a0Tips For Time Travelers\").In fact,\u00a0this book is like\u00a0a\u00a0time machine of its very own, covering\u00a0millions of years of Earth's history\u00a0from the age of the dinosaurs\u00a0through to strange and fascinating futures,\u00a0spanning the\u00a0ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac\u00a0is the ultimate\u00a0anthology for the\u00a0time traveler\u00a0in your life.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910155-the-time-traveler-s-almanac"}, +{"book_title": "The Monitors", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "A Voice From the SkyEven after the set had been turned off, the T.V. blared the announcement: \"Citizens of Earth, I am Tersh Jetterax. It is my pleasure to announce to you that a new government has now taken over the conduct of all public affairs.\"And thus the U.S. was in the hands of the Monitors, the strangely polite yellow clad bings whose powers were such that they could render everyone helpless -- without shedding one drop of blood. Who were they? The Russians? An alien race from another planet?", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/909459.The_Monitors"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Force Rising", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 52692, "review_number": 1219, "book_description": "The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord\u2014Grand Admiral Thrawn\u2014has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic's destruction. Meanwhile, Han and Lando Calrissian race against time to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Council\u2014only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies.Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past, consumed by bitterness\u2026 and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216442.Dark_Force_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "Unnatural Issue", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 4704, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "A brand-new Elemental Masters novel from the national bestselling author Mercedes Lackey. Richard Whitestone is an Elemental Earth Master. Blaming himself for the death of his beloved wife in childbirth, he has sworn never to set eyes on his daughter, Suzanne. But when he finally sees her, a dark plan takes shape in his twisted mind-to use his daughter's body to bring back the spirit of his long-dead wife.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9746384-unnatural-issue"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3544, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "In a future world rife with decay and destruction, Killy is a man of few words who packs one very powerful gun. He wanders an endless labyrinth of cyberdungeons filled with concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other bizarre silicate creatures. Everyone is searching for the Net Terminal Genes, but no one is quite certain what kind of power they contain. The answer may lie hidden among the scattered human settlements of this vast and desolate future world.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Action", "Manga (Seinen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32321.Blame_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Nightbringer", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1114, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Newly promoted Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris is assigned to investigate Pavonis, an imperial planet plagued by civil disorder and renegade elder raiders. Nothing is as straightforward as it seems, and wheels are turning within wheels. Uriel and his allies are forced into a deadly race against time to destroy their shadowy enemy - or the whole planet must be sacrificed for the good of humanity.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Sports and Games (Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1692144.Nightbringer"}, +{"book_title": "The Chosen", "author_name": "Taran Matharu", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1561, "review_number": 333, "book_description": "Introducing an epic new trilogy from Taran Matharu, author of the New York Times\u2013bestselling Summoner series. Throughout history, people have vanished with no explanation. A group of teenagers are about to discover why.Cade is settling into a new boarding school, contemplating his future, when he finds himself transported to another realm. He soon discovers their new world is populated with lost remnants from the past: prehistoric creatures, ancient relics, and stranger still \u2014 people. Overwhelmed by his new surroundings, Cade has little time to adjust, for soon he and his fellow classmates are forced to become contenders in a brutal game, controlled by mysterious overlords.But who are these beings and why did they choose these teens? Cade must prepare for battle . . . because hiding is not an option.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864763-the-chosen"}, +{"book_title": "What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been", "author_name": "Robert Cowley", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 995, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "What if Lincoln didn't abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing \"what if...\" scenarios by some of today's greatest historical minds. A second volume of historical speculation by experts in the field wonders what if Socrates had died on the battlefield at Delium or Eisenhower had finished off the Nazis in 1944, among other intriguing scenarios.Contents:Socrates dies at Delium, 424 B.C. / Victor Davis Hanson --Not by a nose : the triumph of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, 31 B.C. / Josiah Ober --Pontius Pilate spares Jesus / Carlos M.N. Eire --Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 / Cecelia Holland --The Chinese discovery of the New World, 15th century / Theodore F. Cook, Jr.--Martin Luther burns at the stake, 1521 / Geoffrey Parker --If Charles I had not left Whitehall, August 1641 / Theodore K. Rabb --Napoleon's invasion of North America / Thomas Fleming --If Lincoln had not freed the slaves / Tom Wicker --France turns the other cheek, July 1870 / Alistair Horne --The election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 / John Lukacs --The Great War torpedoed / Robert L. O'Connell --No Finland Station / George Feifer --The luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Geoffrey C. Ward --The War of 1938 / Williamson Murray --Prime Minister Halifax : Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940 / Andrew Roberts --The boys who saved Australia, 1942 / James Bradley --Enigma uncracked / David Kahn --Pius XII protests the Holocaust / Robert Katz --VE Day--November 11, 1944 / Caleb Carr --The Fu\u0308hrer in the dock / Roger Spiller --No bomb--no end : the Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945 / Richard B. Frank --The presidency of Henry Wallace / James Chace --A tale of three congressmen, 1948 : America without Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy / Lance Morrow --What if Pizarro had not found potatoes in Peru? / William H. McNeill.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["History", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Nonfiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Writing (Essays)", "Audiobook", "Reference", "Politics", "History (World History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/696811.What_If_2"}, +{"book_title": "A Trail Through Time", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 9340, "review_number": 602, "book_description": "St Mary\u2019s is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth instalment of the Chronicles.Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don\u2019t even make it to lunchtime.The action races from 17th century London to Ancient Egypt and from Pompeii to 14th century Southwark as they\u2019re pursued up and down the timeline, playing a perilous game of hide and seek until they\u2019re finally forced to take refuge at St Mary\u2019s \u2013 where new dangers await them.As usual, there are plenty of moments of humour, but the final, desperate, Battle of St Mary\u2019s is in grim earnest. Overwhelmed and outnumbered and with the building crashing down around them, how can St Mary\u2019s possibly survive?So, make sure the tea\u2019s good and strong\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Historical", "Humor", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25877103-a-trail-through-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Longest Day", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 616, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "A Stand-Alone Novel Set In The Ark Royal Universe! The first major alien offensive against Earth has been blunted, winning humanity time to deploy new weapons and prepare new tactics as Earth\u2019s space navies prepare to take the offensive. But the enigmatic aliens have plans of their own - a full-scale attack on Earth that will either win the war in a single stroke or lose it. The stakes have never been so high. The fate of humanity itself is in the balance. And, as battle rages across the solar system, as humanity finds its back pushed firmly against the war, millions of people - military and civilian - struggle for survival, knowing that victory will come with a very high price ... ... And defeat will be the end of everything humanity holds dear. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35499398-the-longest-day"}, +{"book_title": "Turbulence", "author_name": "Lyn Gala", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1169, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "Corporal Jacqs Glebov is a simple soldier who wants a bunk, decent food and the company of other battle-hardened men and women who understand the realities of fighting. Instead he's stuck patrolling a remote corner of the border with cadets straight out of boot camp. They don't understand him, and he sure doesn't have an ounce of respect for them.After a field promotion, Earth sends Commander Zeke Waters to the Candiru for some practical experience in a leadership role. Instead, Zeke falls in lust with the adamantly heterosexual Jacqs. The way Jacqs fights and the way he sees the world draws Zeke closer, even if common sense tells him to walk away.Even if they can find a way to reconcile their sexual differences, they are both still soldiers. The war will eventually take them away from each other unless they can find a way to escape the rules that have defined their lives.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance", "Gay Romance (Gay For You)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18694013-turbulence"}, +{"book_title": "A Conspiracy of Alchemists", "author_name": "Liesel Schwarz", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 1828, "review_number": 414, "book_description": "LEAVE IT TO CHANCE.Eleanor \u201cElle\u201d Chance, that is\u2014a high-flying dirigible pilot with a taste for adventure and the heroine of this edgy new series that transforms elements of urban fantasy, steampunk, and paranormal romance into pure storytelling gold. It is 1903, and the world is divided between light and shadow. On the side of light is a wondrous science that has transformed everyday life by harnessing magical energies to ingenious new technologies. But each advance of science has come at the expense of shadow\u2014the traditional realm of the supernatural. Now two ancient powers are preparing to strike back. Blood-sucking immortal Nightwalkers and their spellcasting Alchemist allies have a plan to cover the whole world in shadow. All they require is the sacrifice of a certain young woman whose past conceals a dangerous secret. But when they come after Elle, they get more than they bargained for. This enterprising young woman, the daughter of a scientific genius, has reserves of bravery and determination that even she scarcely suspects. Now she is about to meet her match in more ways than one: a handsome yet infuriating Warlock named Hugh Marsh, whose agenda is as suspect as his charms are annoyingly irresistible.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15849472-a-conspiracy-of-alchemists"}, +{"book_title": "Captive of the Horde King", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 6431, "review_number": 699, "book_description": "\n\n\nShe made a deal with the Dakkari devil!\n\n\n\nNow, he owns her!\n\n\nOn the unforgiving planet of Dakkar, I did what all the humans in our village did: kept my head down, worked to provide for my family, and I certainly didn\u2019t break any Dakkari laws to risk inciting the alien race\u2019s merciless wrath!\nUnfortunately, the same couldn\u2019t be said for my brother and one careless mistake brings a horde of the nomadic, barbarian Dakkari straight to our doorstep, led by their powerful horde king - a cold, ruthless, battle-scarred warrior demanding retribution!\n\n\nIn order to save my brother\u2019s life, I do the unthinkable...\n\n\nI sell myself to the horde king as his war prize. I agree to warm his furs, to travel with his horde across the wild lands of Dakkar, and to never see my family again!\n\n\nBut, as I struggle with my new reality, I discover that the surly, mysterious, dominant horde king never intended for me to be his concubine\u2026 \n\n\n\n\nHe wants me as his queen!\n\n\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44571879-captive-of-the-horde-king"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Volume 2: Revenge of the Cold Machines", "author_name": "Junichi Fujisaku", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 265, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "2030 Tokyo: While patrolling Tokyo's post-World War III refugee zones Togusa, the newest member of Section 9, discovers that one of the most powerful cyber-criminals his squad has ever faced has plans to kill their leader, Section 9 Chief Daisuke Aramaki, in one of three stories in this collection, and it will take all of the members of Section 9 to stop him. The action heats up in the stories \"Double Targets,\" \"First Love, Last Love\" and \"Revenge of the Cold Machines.\"", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Novels (Light Novel)", "Novels", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35874.Ghost_in_the_Shell"}, +{"book_title": "Heartless", "author_name": "Marissa Meyer", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 100773, "review_number": 17223, "book_description": "Long before she was the terror of Wonderland\u2014the infamous Queen of Hearts\u2014she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen.Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans.In her first stand-alone teen novel, the New York Times-bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18584855-heartless"}, +{"book_title": "Rox's Secret Code", "author_name": "Maria Lecocq", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 71, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "A coding adventure about a brilliant inventor and her runaway robot,Rox's Secret Codeaims to inspire the next generation of female leaders in STEM! Rox is happy to spend the whole day on her laptop inventing awesome robots, but her dad wants her to clean up! When the Chorebot she designs gets a mind of its own and tries to organize the whole city, Rox and her neighbor Amar race to recode Chorebot in time to save the day.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Computer Science (Coding)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39070415-rox-s-secret-code"}, +{"book_title": "Beau and the Beast", "author_name": "Kay Simone", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1052, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Can beauty really tame a beast?For ten years, former Wall Street executive Wolfram\u2014along with his staff\u2014has been magically imprisoned in his midtown penthouse after his firm pissed off the wrong witch. Now, only one thing can free him from the curse. Unfortunately, they're not sure what that one thing is.But mercy for the man with none, he still can be released:Light can lift his shadowed soul when beauty frees the beast.When a young reporter named Beau accidentally stumbles into their midst, the staff thinks he might be the answer to the witch's riddle\u2014if only they can convince him to stay.Beau has his doubts when he\u2019s asked to write the mysterious billionaire\u2019s biography, but he can\u2019t say no to the huge sum of money being offered. Resigned to his fate, Wolfram hates the idea of a stranger intruding in his life. What neither man expects is the deep connection that forms between them. As they work together, Wolfram and Beau form a passionate bond that threatens to boil over into something more.The only problem? Thanks to the curse, Wolfram is a seven-foot-tall monster with eight weeks left to live unless the spell is broken.Can Beau save a love he\u2019s only just found, or is it too late for one man to set Wolfram free?Beau and the Beast is a steamy, 125,000-word contemporary gay May-December romance set in the real world with some magical themes and an HEA.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34322745-beau-and-the-beast"}, +{"book_title": "Bound to the Battle God", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 4616, "review_number": 865, "book_description": "\nWhen I went to my neighbour\u2019s apartment to investigate strange sounds, I never expected to fall through a portal into another world. Yet here I am, a stranger in an even stranger land... and I'm stranded. In this world, might makes right, men carry swords, and gods walk the earth. Within minutes of arriving, I\u2019m enslaved!\n\n\nFun place...\n\n\nHow do I get home? GREAT question. Wish I had an answer!\nThe one person that might be able to help me is also the one person I want to throttle most. Aron, Lord of Storms, Butcher God of Battle, is my new companion. Or rather, I'm his. As Aron's anchor to the mortal realm, I'm the one that's supposed to be guiding him through his exile in the mortal world...\nHa. Joke's on him. I know nothing about this place!\nBut Aron and I have a common goal - get home. And we're bonded - anchor and god - with a bond unlike any other. So we travel together. We bicker. We bathe together. We fight our many, many enemies together. And sure, he\u2019s a god, but he\u2019s also an arrogant jerk. Brawny, smoking hot, irresistible jerk. I should want nothing to do with him. I certainly shouldn\u2019t want to do things to him...\nMortals and gods don\u2019t mix. We stick to the plan and ignore our attraction. Focused, with one goal in mind...\n\n\nOne task...\n\n\n\nOne goal...\n\n\n\nFocused!\n\n\n\n\nI-oh heck, I\u2019m going to end up kissing him again, aren\u2019t I? \n\n\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Humor", "Mythology (Gods)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50841330-bound-to-the-battle-god"}, +{"book_title": "The Bewitched Viking", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1064, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "BEWITCHED, BOTHERED, AND BEWILDERED ...Even fierce Norse warriors have bad days. Holy Thor! 'Twas enough to drive a sane Viking mad, the things Tykir Thorksson was forced to do --- capturing a redheaded virago, putting up with the flock of sheep that followed her everywhere, chasing off her bumbling brothers. But what could a man expect from the sorceress who had put a kink in the King of Norway's most precious body part?If that wasn't bad enough, his own skald was putting Tykir's embarrassing escapades into sagas for all posterity to laugh about. And he was beginning to realize he wasn't at all immune to the enchantment of brash red hair and freckles.But he was not called Tykir the Great for nothing. Perhaps he could reverse the spell and hold her captive, not with his mighty sword, but with a Viking man's greatest magic: a wink and a smile.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Medieval Romance (Viking Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/569608.The_Bewitched_Viking"}, +{"book_title": "Touch of Enchantment", "author_name": "Teresa Medeiros", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2239, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "From the bestselling author of Breath of Magic and Shadows and Lace comes a beguiling new time-travel love story in the hilarious, magical voice that has made Teresa Medeiros one of the nation's most beloved romance writers.Heiress Tabitha Lennox considered her paranormal talents more a curse than a gift. So she dedicated her life to the cold, rational world of science. Until the day she examined the mysterious amulet her mother had left her and found herself catapulted seven centuries into the past, directly into the path of a rearing black charger ridden by a chain-mailed warrior.Sir Colin of Ravenshaw had returned from the Crusades to find his castle in ruins, his enemy poised to overrun the land where generations of Ravenshaws had ruled. The last thing he expected was to half trample a damsel with odd garb and even odder manners. But it is her strange talent that will create trouble beyond Colin's wildest imaginings. For everyone knows that a witch must be burned...but it is Colin's heart that is aflame, over an enchanting woman he must not love, yet cannot live without.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350682.Touch_of_Enchantment"}, +{"book_title": "My Outlaw", "author_name": "Linda Lael Miller", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 829, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Seven-year-old Keighly Barrow never forgot the night she spied a boy her own age at her grandmother's Redemption, Nevada, mansion. He was staring at her from an antique mirror in the ballroom, standing among gaudily dressed women in an old-time western saloon. Keighly could only discover that his name was Darby Elder -- and that he lived a century ago. Twenty years later, engaged to be married, Keighly inherited her grandmother's house. Back before the ballroom mirror, she faces a handsome cowboy whose roguish air radiates trouble. Keighly senses the spirit of Darby Elder -- along with an electric charge of passion passing through the glass...and into her heart. But old news clips declare this outlaw son of a local madam would die in a shoot-out. Keighly's magical connection to Darby is too strong not to try and save his life or, if history will not bend, to love him as fiercely as the fleeting moments will allow.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Westerns", "Romance (Western Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490776.My_Outlaw"}, +{"book_title": "The Change", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 616, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "ALL-NEW STORIES OF THE EMBERVERSEby S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, John Birmingham, John Barnes, Jane Lindskold, and more...S. M. Stirling\u2019s New York Times bestselling Novels of the Change have depicted a postapocalyptic wasteland in which all modern technology has been left in ashes, forcing humankind to rebuild an unknowable new world in the wake of unimaginable\u2014and deliberate\u2014chaos.Now, in this new anthology, S. M. Stirling invites the most fertile minds in science fiction to join him in expanding his rich Emberverse canvas. Here are inventive new perspectives on the cultures, the survivors, and the battles arising across the years and across the globe following the Change.In his all-new story \u201cHot Night at the Hopping Toad,\u201d Stirling returns to his own continuing saga of the High Kingdom of Montival. In the accompanying stories are fortune seekers, voyagers, and dangers\u2014from the ruins of Sydney to the Republic of Fargo and Northern Alberta to Venetian and Greek galleys clashing in the Mediterranean.These new adventures revisit beloved people and places from Stirling\u2019s fantastic universe, introduce us to new ones, and deliver endlessly fascinating challenges to conquer.Contributors to The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth includeIntroduction: The Change as Setting and Secondary World by S. M. StirlingHot Night at the Hopping Toad by S. M. StirlingRate of Exchange by A. M. DellamonicaTight Spot by Kier SalmonAgainst the Wind by Lauren C. TeffeauThe Demons of Witmer Hall by M. T. ReitenBernie, Lord of the Apes by John Jos. MillerThe Seeker: A Poison in the Blood by Victor Mil\u00e1nGrandpa\u2019s Gift by Terry D. EnglandFortune and Glory by John BirminghamThe Venetian Dialectic by Walter Jon WilliamsThe Soul Remembers Uncouth Noises by John BarnesTopanga and the Chatsworth Lancers by Harry TurtledoveThe Hermit and the Jackalopes by Jane LindskoldThe New Normal by Jody Lynn NyeA Missed Connection by Emily Mah TippettsDeor by Diana Paxson", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23398873-the-change"}, +{"book_title": "A Boy and His Bot", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 284, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "When young Code falls down a hole while following a mysterious robotic insect, he lands in a world that defies all imagination. Everything in Mekhos is made from metal and circuitry, including the citizens-who happen to be robots. To find his way home, Code must first cross Mekhos's bizarre and dangerous landscape to reach the Beam Stalk. There, an artifact known as the Robonomicon is being guarded by an evil ruler who has plans to destroy Mekhos. Can Code free the Robonomicon, save the robots of Mekhos from impending doom, and still get himself back to Earth in time to catch the school bus? With its dazzling array of robots and futuristic gadgetry, this rollicking story will hold special appeal for boys and budding sci-fi lovers everywhere.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Childrens", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8094605-a-boy-and-his-bot"}, +{"book_title": "Revenge of the Sith", "author_name": "Matthew Woodring Stover", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 14132, "review_number": 939, "book_description": "The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at handAfter years of civil war, the Separatists have battered the already faltering Republic nearly to the point of collapse. On Coruscant, the Senate watches anxiously as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine aggressively strips away more and more constitutional liberties in the name of safeguarding the Republic. Yoda, Mace Windu, and their fellow Masters grapple with the Chancellor\u2019 s disturbing move to assume control of the Jedi Council. And Anakin Skywalker, the prophesied Chosen One, destined to bring balance to the Force, is increasingly consumed by his fear that his secret love, Senator Padm\u00e9 Amidala, will die.As the combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded Separatist military leader General Grievous. Palpatine, eager to secure even greater control, subtly influences public opinion to turn against the Jedi. And a conflicted Anakin\u2013tormented by unspeakable visions\u2013 edges dangerously closer to the brink of a galaxy-shaping decision. It remains only for Darth Sidious, whose shadow looms ever larger, to strike the final staggering blow against the Republic . . . and to ordain a fearsome new Sith Lord: Darth Vader.Based on the screenplay of the eagerly anticipated final film in George Lucas\u2019s epic saga, bestselling Star Wars author Matthew Stover\u2019s novel crackles with action, captures the iconic characters in all their complexity, and brings a space opera masterpiece full circle in stunning style.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Media Tie In", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35458.Revenge_of_the_Sith"}, +{"book_title": "Mia Mayhem vs. the Mighty Robot", "author_name": "Kara West", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 39, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Mia goes up against a mighty robot in this sixth adventure of the Mia Mayhem chapter book series!Mia\u2019s best friend, Eddie, has built an awesome robot that\u2019s supposed to be a mighty cleaning machine! And at first, everything runs smoothly as the robot helps around the house and at regular school! But things quickly go haywire when Mia accidentally makes the robot grow three times its normal size. Does Mia have what it takes to go up against a mighty, big robot? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Mia Mayhem chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43822525-mia-mayhem-vs-the-mighty-robot"}, +{"book_title": "The Accord", "author_name": "Keith Brooke", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 102, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "The Accord, a virtual utopia where the soul lives on after death and your perceptions are bound only by your imagination. This is the setting for a tale of love, murder and revenge that crosses the boundaries between the real world and this virtual reality. When Noah and Priscilla escape into the Accord to flee Priscilla's murderous husband, he plots to destroy the whole Accord and them with it. How can they hope to escape their stalker when he can become anything or anyone he desires and where does the pursuit of revenge stop for immortals in an eternal world?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15721110-the-accord"}, +{"book_title": "Attack on Titan, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Hajime Isayama", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 28837, "review_number": 829, "book_description": "BIRTH OF A MONSTER \u00a0 The Colossal Titan has breached humanity\u2019s first line of defense, Wall Maria. Mikasa, the 104th Training Corps\u2019 ace and Eren\u2019s best friend, may be the only one capable of defeating them, but beneath her calm exterior lurks a dark past. When all looks lost, a new Titan appears and begins to slaughter its fellow Titans. Could this new monster be a blessing in disguise, or is the truth something much more sinister?This volume of Attack on Titan includes special extras after the story!Chapters list :5. A Dull Glow in the Midst of Despair6. The World that the Girl Saw7. Small Blade8. Roar9. The Beating of a Heart Can Be Heard", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13531561-attack-on-titan-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Found", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 37457, "review_number": 3869, "book_description": "Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adopted, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, \"You are one of the missing.\" The second one says, \"Beware! They're coming back to get you.\"Jonah, Chip, and Jonah's sister, Katherine, are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation, an airplane that appeared out of nowhere - and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. The kids discover they are caught in a battle between two opposing forces that want very different things for Jonah and Chip's lives.Do Jonah and Chip have any choice in the matter? And what should they choose when both alternatives are horrifying?With Found, Margaret Peterson Haddix begins a new series that promises to be every bit as suspenseful as Among the Hidden, and proves her, once again, to be a master of the page-turner.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1675216.Found"}, +{"book_title": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", "author_name": "Walter Tevis", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 7351, "review_number": 766, "book_description": "T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead of aid, Newton discovers loneliness and despair that ultimately ends in tragedy.", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/396329.The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Ticker", "author_name": "Lisa Mantchev", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 5972, "review_number": 725, "book_description": "A girl with a clockwork heart must make every second count.When Penny Farthing nearly dies, brilliant surgeon Calvin Warwick manages to implant a brass \u201cTicker\u201d in her chest, transforming her into the first of the Augmented. But soon it\u2019s discovered that Warwick killed dozens of people as he strove to perfect another improved Ticker for Penny, and he\u2019s put on trial for mass murder. On the last day of Warwick\u2019s trial, the Farthings\u2019 factory is bombed, Penny\u2019s parents disappear, and Penny and her brother, Nic, receive a ransom note demanding all of their Augmentation research if they want to see their parents again. Is someone trying to destroy the Farthings...or is the motive more sinister?Desperate to reunite their family and rescue their research, Penny and her brother recruit fiery baker Violet Nesselrode, gentleman-about-town Sebastian Stirling, and Marcus Kingsley, a young army general who has his own reasons for wanting to lift the veil between this world and the next. Wagers are placed, friends are lost, romance stages an ambush, and time is running out for the girl with the clockwork heart.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19223830-ticker"}, +{"book_title": "I Who Have Never Known Men", "author_name": "Jacqueline Harpman", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1545, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "\"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker.\"A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered... if indeed there were crimes.The youngest of forty - a child with no name and no past - she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbidden - in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and nights - she knows nothing of books and time, of needs and feelings.Then everything changes... and nothing changes.A young woman who has never known men - a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints - must now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she has never been... and in the face of the most challenging and terrifying of unknowns: freedom.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (France)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Womens", "Cultural (Belgium)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11996.I_Who_Have_Never_Known_Men"}, +{"book_title": "The Boy Who Crashed to Earth", "author_name": "Judd Winick", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 6023, "review_number": 505, "book_description": "Dog Man meets Big Nate in HILO-the hilarious New York Times Bestselling GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES kids love! \u201cA Total BLAST,\u201d says the Miami Herald!BOOM! CLANG! CRASH! D.J. and Gina are totally ordinary kids. But Hilo isn\u2019t! Hilo just fell out of the sky and doesn\u2019t know where he came from, or what he\u2019s doing on Earth. (Or why going to school in only your underwear is a BAD idea!) . . . But UH-OH, what if Hilo wasn\u2019t the only thing to fall to our planet? Can the trio unlock the secrets of Hilo\u2019s past? Can Hilo SURVIVE a day at school? Find out in HILO-a laugh-out-loud, epic story of friendship! Adventure! (And the occasionaly mutant space robot).", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23735609-the-boy-who-crashed-to-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Final Days", "author_name": "Gary Gibson", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1002, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "It's 2235 and through the advent of wormhole technology more than a dozen interstellar colonies have been linked to Earth; but this new mode of transportation comes at a price and there are risks. Saul Dumont knows this better than anyone. He's still trying to cope with the loss of the wormhole link to the Galileo system, which has stranded him on Earth far from his wife and child for the past several years. Only weeks away from the link with Galileo finally being re-established, he stumbles across a conspiracy to suppress the discovery of a second, alien network of wormholes which lead billions of years into the future. A covert expedition is sent to what is named Site 17 to investigate, but when an accident occurs and one of the expedition, Mitchell Stone, disappears, they realize that they are dealing with something far beyond their understanding. When a second expedition travels via the wormholes to Earth in the near future of 2245 they discover a devastated, lifeless solar system \u2014 all except for one man, Mitchell Stone, recovered from an experimental cryogenics facility in the ruins of a lunar city. Stone may be the only surviving witness to the coming destruction of the Earth. But why is he the only survivor \u2014 and once he's brought back to the present, is there any way he and Saul can prevent the destruction that\u2019s coming?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Science (Technology)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Pseudoscience (Conspiracy Theories)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11302083-final-days"}, +{"book_title": "The Fear Institute", "author_name": "Jonathan L. Howard", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 5212, "review_number": 486, "book_description": "Johannes Cabal and his rather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time, his talents are purchased by The Fear Institute as they hunt for the Phobic Animus - the embodiment of fear. The three Institute members, led by Cabal and his Silver Key, enter the Dreamlands and find themselves pursued by walking trees plagued with giant ticks, stone men that patrol the ruins of their castles, cats that feed on human flesh and phobias which torment and devastate. The intrepid explorers are killed off one by one as they traipse through this obfuscating and frustrating world, where history itself appears to alter. Cabal, annoyed that the quest is becoming increasingly heroic, finds himself alone with the Institute's only remaining survivor, and after a shockingly violent experiment, begins to suspect that not everything is quite as it seems...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11689404-the-fear-institute"}, +{"book_title": "The Preserve", "author_name": "Ariel S. Winter", "rating_score": 3.27, "rating_votes": 219, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "The critically acclaimed author of the \u201cbold, innovating, and thrilling\u201d (Stephen King) novel The Twenty-Year Death and the \u201cbrilliant\u201d (Booklist, starred review) novel Barren Cove returns with a dark and compelling mystery set in the near future.Decimated by plague, the human population is now a minority. Robots\u2014complex AIs almost indistinguishable from humans\u2014are the ruling majority. Nine months ago, in a controversial move, the robot government opened a series of preserves, designated areas where humans can choose to live without robot interference. Now the preserves face their first challenge: someone has been murdered. Chief of Police Jesse Laughton on the SoCar Preserve is assigned to the case. He fears the factions that were opposed to the preserves will use the crime as evidence that the new system does not work. As he digs for information, robots in the outside world start turning up dead from bad drug-like programs that may have originated on SoCar land. And when Laughton learns his murder victim was a hacker who wrote drug-programs, it appears that the two cases might be linked. Soon, it\u2019s clear that the entire preserve system is in danger of collapsing. Laughton\u2019s former partner, a robot named Kir, arrives to assist on the case, and they soon uncover shocking secrets revealing that life on the preserve is not as peaceful as its human residents claim. But in order to protect humanity\u2019s new way of life, Laughton must solve this murder before it\u2019s too late. The Preserve is a fresh and futuristic mystery that is perfect for fans of Westworld and Blade Runner.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50890804-the-preserve"}, +{"book_title": "Digital Divide", "author_name": "K.B. Spangler", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 580, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Rachel Peng misses the Army. Her old life in Criminal Investigation Command hadn\u2019t been easy, but she had enjoyed it. Now, as the first cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, Rachel is usually either bored senseless or is fighting off harassment from her coworkers. When she and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, stumble into a murder investigation with ties to Rachel and the other cyborgs, she realizes their many enemies will not allow them to quietly pick up the pieces of their lives.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Lesbian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17774449-digital-divide"}, +{"book_title": "Witch & Wizard", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 53409, "review_number": 4719, "book_description": "The world is changing\u2014the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend. The new government is clearly trying to suppress Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Being a Normal Teenager.Imprisoned together and condemned to death, Wisty and Whit begin exhibiting strange abilities and powers they never dreamed of. Maybe there is a reason they were singled out. Can this newly discovered witch and wizard master their skills in time to save themselves, their parents\u2014and maybe the world?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6387565-witch-wizard"}, +{"book_title": "East of West, Vol. 2: We Are All One", "author_name": "Jonathan Hickman", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 6700, "review_number": 404, "book_description": "The second volume of the most exciting new book in the industry is here! We Are All One follows our cast around the fractured future-scape of America as we learn more about a world that's rapidly coming to a end.Collecting: East Of West 6-10", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18809235-east-of-west-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Pirates Past Noon", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 16664, "review_number": 650, "book_description": "Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series\u2014the Magic Tree House! It's a treasure trove of trouble!Jack and Annie are in for a high-seas adventure when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the days of deserted islands, secret maps\u2014and ruthless pirates! Will they discover a buried treasure? Or will they be forced to walk the plank? Visit the Magic Tree House website! MagicTreeHouse.com", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143717.Pirates_Past_Noon"}, +{"book_title": "Precious Metals", "author_name": "L.A. Witt", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 100, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "For Constable Paul Benson of the North-West Mounted Police, monotony is a blessing. As a provision inspector below the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush, he\u2019s seen miserable conditions and gold fever turn civilized prospectors into madmen. Joseph Starling is on his way to the Klondike to find the men who savagely beat him, murdered his eldest brother, and stole their mining machine. They\u2019ll kill his youngest brother if Joseph doesn\u2019t operate the machine for them\u2014it won\u2019t work without him. With time running out, Joseph must purchase an expensive ticket aboard a crash-prone airship. But the station is miles away through dangerous terrain. Under orders, Paul grudgingly escorts Joseph, but quickly finds himself intrigued by the young man. As they make their way toward Juneau, it\u2019s not just the need for warmth that drives them closer together. But neither man can draw an easy breath until they make it to the gold fields\u2026and there\u2019s no guarantee that Joseph\u2019s brother will still be alive when they do. This 42,000 word book was previously published.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Disability", "LGBT", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45448673-precious-metals"}, +{"book_title": "Johnny and the Bomb", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 7537, "review_number": 249, "book_description": "Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth!An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable--and drastic--effects on the future.But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing?Mixing nail-biting suspense with outrageous humor, Terry Pratchett explores a classic time-travel paradox in Johnny Maxwell's third adventure.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64385.Johnny_and_the_Bomb"}, +{"book_title": "New Canaan", "author_name": "M.D. Cooper", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 848, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Tanis Richards has spent half her life on the Intrepid, guiding the great colony ship, and its two million passengers, across hundreds of light-years. She has risked life, limb and those dearest to her to get this far. Now she\u2019s within reach of her goal; the New Canaan System, and a normal, stable life. The kind she's only dreamed about. The only remaining hurdle is to strike a deal with the Transcend Alliance and trade the Intrepid\u2019s advanced technology for the star system. If only things were so easy. The Intrepid\u2019s arrival has upset the delicate balance of power between the Transcend, the Orion Guard, and the Inner Stars. Everything Tanis has ever hoped for is at risk as she fights to build the colony of New Canaan amidst the looming specter of war. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33950864-new-canaan"}, +{"book_title": "God's War", "author_name": "Kameron Hurley", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 4672, "review_number": 772, "book_description": "Nyx is a bel dame, a bounty hunter paid to collect the heads of deserters \u2013 by almost any means necessary.\u2018Almost\u2019 proved to be the problem.Cast out and imprisoned for breaking one rule too many, Nyx and her crew of mercenaries are all about the money. But when a dubious government deal with an alien emissary goes awry, her name is at the top of the list for a covert recovery.While the centuries-long war rages on only one thing is certain: the world\u2019s best chance for peace rests in the hands of its most ruthless killers. . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9359818-god-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "A Thousand Words for Stranger", "author_name": "Julie E. Czerneda", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2713, "review_number": 164, "book_description": "Sira is on the run. The mysterious Captain Morgan has a starship. But if she goes with him, who will be at risk? Meet the Clan, shadowy figures of unfathomable power. Meet Huido, the lobster-like restauranteur. Meet the Trade Pact Enforcers, who have their own intentions. For events are beginning to unfold that will affect them all.Originally the first of the Trade Pact Universe Trilogy, THOUSAND is now book 4 of The Clan Chronicles. The three books of the Stratification Cycle, REAP THE WILD WIND, RIDERS OF THE STORM, and RIFT IN THE SKY tell the story of the Clan through the eyes of Sira's direct ancestor. The series will conclude with the Reunification Cycle, currently pestering the author.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129019.A_Thousand_Words_for_Stranger"}, +{"book_title": "The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 481, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "With a veteran \u2019s eye for the harsh and gritty details of war, David Drake depicts a futuristic analog of Vietnam-era tank combat in his Hammer\u2019s Slammers fiction. Upon this tactical foundation, Drake uses historical metaphor to provide a rich and detailed future-history that is both unique and strangely familiar. The characters that make up the Hammer\u2019s Regiment are neither cartoon heroes nor propaganda villains; rather they are competent professionals engaged in a deadly business. The inevitable conflicts between policy, necessity, and human nature are often at the forefront of the Slammers narratives, and it is this rich fusion ofa elements that makes Drake\u2019s Slammers fiction instantly identifiable and utterly compelling. The Hammer\u2019s Slammers series is some of the most important and influential work in military SF. The Vietnam War made indelible marks on the science fiction genre, and Drake\u2019s service with the Blackhorse Regiment during the war gives his fiction a unique perspective. It is this perspective that is sometimes lacking in military SF, and one that makes Drake\u2019s work so important to the science fiction genre as a whole. This three-volume set collects all the Slammers short fiction and novels into a set of uniform editions, and presents a new, previously uncollected piece of fiction in each volume. This third volume collects the last two Slammers novels, The Sharp End (1993) and Paying the Piper (2002). The novella \u201cThe Darkness\u201d was written for this volume, and has been uncollected prior to the publication of this volume.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662698.The_Complete_Hammer_s_Slammers_Volume_3"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior", "author_name": "Zoe Archer", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 2555, "review_number": 424, "book_description": "To most people, the realm of magic is the stuff of nursery rhymes and dusty libraries. But for Capt. Gabriel Huntley, it\u2019s become quite real and quite dangerous\u2026 IN HOT PURSUIT\u2026The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth and beyond\u2014where what is real and what is imagined become terribly confused. And frankly, Huntley couldn\u2019t be more pleased. Intrigue, danger, and a beautiful woman in distress\u2014just what he needs.IN HOTTER WATER\u2026Raised thousands of miles from England, Thalia Burgess is no typical Victorian lady. A good thing, because a proper lady would have no hope of recovering the priceless magical artifact Thalia is after. Huntley\u2019s assistance might come in handy, though she has to keep him in the dark. But this distractingly handsome soldier isn\u2019t easy to deceive\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7199027-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "1634: The Bavarian Crisis", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1928, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "'The Thirty Years War' continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence - the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. The CPE has the know-how of 20th century technology, but needs iron and steel to make the machines. The iron mines of the upper Palatinate were rendered inoperable by wartime damage, and American know-how is needed on the spot to pump them out and get the metal flowing again - a mission that will prove more complicated than anyone expects. In the maelstrom that is Europe, even a 20th century copy of the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' can precipitate a crisis, when readers learn of the 1640 Portuguese revolt, a crisis that will involve Naples as well. Another factor - Albanian exiles in Naples, inspired by the Americans, are plotting to recover lost Albanian turf, which will precipitate yet another crisis in the Balkans. This troubled century was full of revolutions and plans for more revolutions before the Americans arrived, and gave every would-be revolutionary an example of a revolution that succeeded. Europe is a pot coming to a boil, and Mike Stearns will have his hands full seeing that it doesn't boil over on to Grantville and the CPE.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627576.1634"}, +{"book_title": "A Show of Force", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 2593, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Episode 13 The liberation old worlds\u2026 The addition of new allies\u2026 The fall of a regime\u2026 The death of a trusted friend\u2026 The Aurora begins clearing a 20 light year sphere of safety around Earth, taking out Jung forces as they liberate the core systems. However, Captain Scott and the Alliance quickly discover that not every world wants to be liberated, and the Jung have a few surprises of their own. \u201cA Show of Force\u201d is a 137,000 word novel, and is the 13th episode in The Frontiers Saga.Episode 14, \"The Weak and the Innocent\" is coming soon!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25271140-a-show-of-force"}, +{"book_title": "Deus X", "author_name": "Norman Spinrad", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 134, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "In the tradition of Blade Runner and stories like Philip K. Dick's \"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,\" acclaimed science-fiction author Norman Spinrad explores the depths of what it means to be human; more accurately, he delves into the nature of the soul in our increasingly computerized technological age. Featuring a poignant new Afterword by Spinrad, this reprinting of one of Spinrad's most cherished works is more timely than ever before. Can human consciousness exist within the framework of an electronic \"brain\" and still maintain its humanity? In DEUS X, a dying priest's consciousness is uploaded into the most advanced computer of the day - and what ensues is a thought-provoking, entertaining and overly intriguing clash between the various characters surrounding the experiment, a female Pope and a computer guru who'd rather be sailing and smoking pot, for example. Spinrad is author of over twenty novels, including BUG JACK BARRON, THE MIND GAME, THE VOID CAPTAIN'S TALE, JOURNALS OF THE PLAGUE YEARS, LITTLE HEROES, PICTURES AT 11, GREENHOUSE SUMMER, THE DRUID KING, and MEXICA.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3034254-deus-x"}, +{"book_title": "Fate's Edge", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 18585, "review_number": 1216, "book_description": "Audrey Callahan left behind her life in the Edge, and she's determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But when her brother gets into hot water, the former thief takes on one last heist and finds herself matching wits with a jack of all trades... Kaldar Mar-a gambler, lawyer, thief, and spy-expects his latest assignment tracking down a stolen item to be a piece of cake, until Audrey shows up. But when the item falls into the hands of a lethal criminal, Kaldar realizes that in order to finish the job, he's going to need Audrey's help...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10561549-fate-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Uprooted", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 178381, "review_number": 22947, "book_description": "\u201cOur Dragon doesn\u2019t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that\u2019s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he\u2019s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we\u2019re grateful, but not that grateful.\u201dAgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows\u2014everyone knows\u2014that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn\u2019t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Retellings", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22544764-uprooted"}, +{"book_title": "Queen of Angels", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2745, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "In this brilliant, evocative novel, Greg Bear takes the reader into a strangely familiar, near-future world -- and shatters our conceptions of perfection, punishment, and the elusive nature of the human soul. \"One is ultimately awed... it may be the most ambitious novel I've ever read.\" -- Washington Post Book World", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410766.Queen_of_Angels"}, +{"book_title": "Crucible of Gold", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 12886, "review_number": 876, "book_description": "Naomi Novik\u2019s beloved series returns, with Captain Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire once again taking to the air against the broadsides of Napoleon\u2019s forces and the friendly\u2014and sometimes not-so-friendly\u2014fire of British soldiers and politicians who continue to suspect them of divided loyalties, if not outright treason.\u00a0 \u00a0 For Laurence and Temeraire, put out to pasture in Australia, it seems their part in the war has come to an end just when they are needed most. But perhaps they are no longer alone in this opinion. Newly allied with the powerful African empire of the Tswana, the French have occupied Spain and brought revolution and bloodshed to Brazil, threatening Britain\u2019s last desperate hope to defeat Napoleon. \u00a0 And now the government that sidelined them has decided they have the best chance at negotiating a peace with the angry Tswana, who have besieged the Portuguese royal family in Rio\u2014and thus offer to reinstate Laurence to his former rank and seniority as a captain in the Aerial Corps. Temeraire is delighted by this sudden reversal of fortune, but Laurence is by no means sanguine, knowing from experience that personal honor and duty to one\u2019s country do not always run on parallel tracks. \u00a0 Nonetheless, the pair embark for Brazil, only to meet with a string of unmitigated disasters that force them to make an unexpected landing in the hostile territory of the Incan empire, where they face new unanticipated dangers. \u00a0 Now with the success of the mission balanced on a razor\u2019s edge, and failure looking more likely by the minute, the unexpected arrival of an old enemy will tip the scales toward ruin. Yet even in the midst of disaster, opportunity may lurk\u2014for one bold enough to grasp it.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12069434-crucible-of-gold"}, +{"book_title": "The Trials of Morrigan Crow", "author_name": "Jessica Townsend", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 35045, "review_number": 6564, "book_description": "A cursed girl escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imaginationMorrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday.But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor.It's then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious organization: the Wundrous Society. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart - an extraordinary talent that Morrigan insists she does not have. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests - or she'll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34219873-the-trials-of-morrigan-crow"}, +{"book_title": "The Tourist", "author_name": "Robert Dickinson", "rating_score": 2.63, "rating_votes": 915, "review_number": 257, "book_description": "\"Echoes of Bradbury and Orwell, in the service of a crackerjack conspiracy plot; a seductively intriguing work of speculative fiction.\" ---Kirkus\"A novel that's as fresh and compelling as it is high concept....Immensely enjoyable.\" ---SFX (four stars)THE FUTURE HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.It is expected to be an excursion like any other. There is nothing in the records to indicate that anything out of the ordinary will happen.A bus will take them to the mall. They will have an hour or so to look around. Perhaps buy something, or try the food.A minor traffic incident on the way back to the resort will provide some additional interest - but the tour rep has no reason to expect any trouble.Until he notices that one of his party is missing.Most disturbingly, she is a woman who, according to the records, did not go missing.Now she is a woman whose disappearance could change the world.With breathtaking plot twists that ricochet through time, this is the most ingenious conspiracy novel you will read this year.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29467314-the-tourist"}, +{"book_title": "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 13986, "review_number": 982, "book_description": "In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40293.Pastwatch"}, +{"book_title": "The Anvil", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 859, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "With the aid of a sentient battle computer from before the collapse of interstellar civilization, Raj Whitehall has come close to reuniting the entire planet of Bellevue. Raj is loved by the people, who hold him in awe, but the half-mad jealousy and fear of his emperor is about to force Raj to revolt or face death by torture.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359084.The_Anvil"}, +{"book_title": "Crash", "author_name": "Eve Silver", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1202, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "A thrilling action/suspense novel for fans of The Fifth Wave about contemporary teens pulled in and out of an alternate reality where battling aliens is more than a game\u2014it's life and death.Miki\u2019s life is falling apart around her. Her dad and best friend are lying in the hospital. The Game is glitching, making missions more frequent and more deadly. And someone close to her is waiting for the right moment to betray her. Miki feels like she\u2019s hanging on by a thread and the only thing keeping her tethered is Jackson\u2019s hand in hers. Yet telling him how much she needs him, how much she loves him, feels like the biggest challenge of all. And if Miki really wants the missions to end for everyone, she\u2019ll have to let go and be ready to fight when the walls between the Game and reality come crashing down. Because if there\u2019s one thing she\u2019s learned, it\u2019s that she\u2019s got a whole lot left to lose.Crash is the pulse-pounding conclusion to the Game trilogy fans won\u2019t want to miss.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17667952-crash"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 9", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 819, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "In the aftermath of an apocalyptic battle, all that remains in the world of Blame! is grim: Killy is on the brink of death, and Cibo's fusion with the Level 9 Safeguard unit has reduced her once-impressive intellect to that of a child. As the merciless silicon creatures close in, a mind-boggling spherical space inside the city may hold the key to salvation... \"Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down.\" -Dave Halverson, Play Magazine", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32306.Blame_Vol_9"}, +{"book_title": "Absolute Beginners Guide to Building Robots (Absolute Beginner's Guides (Que", "author_name": "Gareth Branwyn", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 28, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Absolute Beginners Guide to Building Robots Featuring ideas and factoids about robots and robot-related arts and sciences, this robots book talks about robotics. It provides knowledge of robot history, the major fields and \"schools\" of robotics, and the basic skills and resources needed to create hobby robots. Full description", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662994.Absolute_Beginners_Guide_to_Building_Robots_Absolute_Beginner_s_Guides"}, +{"book_title": "Her Ladyship's Curse", "author_name": "Lynn Viehl", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 693, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "In a steampunk version of America that lost the Revolutionary War, Charmian (Kit) Kittredge makes her living investigating magic crimes and exposing the frauds behind them. While Kit tries to avoid the nobs of high society, as the proprietor of Disenchanted & Co. she follows mysteries wherever they lead.Lady Diana Walsh calls on Kit to investigate and dispel the curse she believes responsible for carving hateful words into her own flesh as she sleeps. While Kit doesn\u2019t believe in magic herself, she can\u2019t refuse to help a woman subjected nightly to such vicious assaults. As Kit investigates the Walsh family, she becomes convinced that the attacks on Diana are part of a larger, more ominous plot\u2014one that may involve the lady\u2019s obnoxious husband.Sleuthing in the city of Rumsen is difficult enough, but soon Kit must also skirt the unwanted attentions of nefarious deathmage Lucien Dredmore and the unwelcome scrutiny of police Chief Inspector Thomas Doyle. Unwilling to surrender to either man\u2019s passion for her, Kit struggles to remain independent as she draws closer to the heart of the mystery. Yet as she learns the truth behind her ladyship\u2019s curse, Kit also uncovers a massive conspiracy that promises to ruin her life\u2014and turn Rumsen into a supernatural battleground from which no one will escape alive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17139957-her-ladyship-s-curse"}, +{"book_title": "Wizard's First Rule", "author_name": "Terry Goodkind", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 233429, "review_number": 6634, "book_description": "In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them\u2014for reasons Richard can't imagine and Kahlan dare not say.In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword\u2014to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Adult", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43889.Wizard_s_First_Rule"}, +{"book_title": "Hero", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1830, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy\u2019s lawless outer rim\u2026 Raised from birth to be a soldier, Kace Tameron is a disciplined, military-trained gladiator. He is on contract to the Kor Magna Arena to hone his fighting skills on the blood-soaked arena sand and then return to the military. He lives for one thing: to protect his planet, and on his world, love is forbidden. But then he collides with a feisty redhead from Earth who threatens to shatter his legendary control. One moment, Rory Fraser was an engineer on a space station circling Jupiter and the next, she is abducted by evil alien slavers. After suffering at the hands of the Thraxians, she is rescued by her friends\u2014with the help of the tough gladiators of the House of Galen. Rory finds herself outrageously attracted to straight-laced Kace. He is a skilled fighter, ultra-disciplined, and a hero at heart\u2014but she knows passion beats within him, if only he\u2019ll let it loose. Rory is obsessed with finding another fellow abducted female from Earth, but as she asks questions, she finds herself ducking bullets and explosions. Someone wants Rory dead. Kace steps in as her protector, and together, they embark on a dangerous mission that will take them deep into the bowels of the arena, and deep into a scorching desire\u2026both of which could lead them to lose not only their guarded hearts, but their lives as well. Note to readers: This sci fi romance contains a lot of action (think wild gladiatorial fights and daring rescues), tough gladiators (the warriors of the House of Galen) and a steamy romance (between a feisty engineer and a disciplined, uptight gladiator). So if you like it fast, and gritty, and sexy, this is for you! Includes a preview of Marcus, the first book in the Hell Squad series. ___________________________________________________ Q & A with the Author Q - How would you describe the Galactic Gladiators series? A \u2013 Gladiators in space! The desert planet of Carthago is home to the Kor Magna Arena: it\u2019s a mix of low and high tech. Think the Colosseum of Ancient Rome with a touch of professional sports and a side of Las Vegas glitz and temptation. You\u2019ll see a lot of action-packed romance as women abducted from Earth clash with tough, gritty gladiators fighting for love, honor, and freedom. Q - Why did you want to write the series? A \u2013 It\u2019s no secret that I love action, adventure and romance. And I love science fiction romance and all the endless possibilities. Raiden, the gladiator hero of Gladiator, stormed into my head and wanted his story told. I saw this big, tough man covered in tattoos facing off with an equally tough female space marine from Earth. That\u2019s where it all began, and since then the planet of Carthago, the intrigues of the Kor Magna Arena, and an amazing band of gladiators came to life. Q - What order should I read the books in? A - All the Galactic Gladiator books will be stand-alone romances centered on the Kor Magna Arena, rescuing abducted humans, and making a life far from home. Here's the order I suggest: - Gladiator - Warrior - Hero More gladiators coming soon! About Anna: I'm passionate about all things action romance. I love stories that combine the thrill of falling in love with the excitement of action, danger and adventure. I write about people overcoming unbeatable odds and achieving seemingly impossible goals. I like to believe it's possible for all of us to do the same.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Action", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33267330-hero"}, +{"book_title": "Glitch", "author_name": "Sarah Graley", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 943, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "From comics rising star Sarah Graley, a fresh and funny middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl who must save a virtual world... and her own!Izzy has an incredible secret -- she can enter the world of her new video game! She meets Rae, a robot who says Izzy is destined to save Dungeon City from the Big Boss. How is this possible?! And how can she fight for this virtual world when she's got a whole real life to keep up with: her family (though she could do without her mom's annoying cat), and her best friend, Eric. Things get even weirder when Izzy loses a life while inside the game, and she starts to worry about what might happen if she gets a Game Over for good. Meanwhile, Eric has been super upset with Izzy since she's been keeping secrets and bailing on their plans. Can Izzy survive Dungeon City and save their friendship?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41473811-glitch"}, +{"book_title": "Spinward Fringe Broadcasts 1 and 2: Resurrection and Awakening", "author_name": "Randolph Lalonde", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2558, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "This volume collects the first two sequels to Spinward Fringe: Origins - Resurrection and Awakening. Captain Jacob Valance has no memory of his past. Left on a strange ship in an unfamiliar sector of the galaxy, he was forced to begin a new life. Years pass and in that time he's earned a reputation as a man who can hunt down hardened criminals and go where others fear to tread. The crew of his ship, the Samson, are caught up his problems as the Captain's past starts to catch up with him. Just as new allies fall in line old enemies come creeping out of the shadows, putting everyone in jeopardy.While the crew struggles to deal with their own problems, Regent Galactic begins putting a plan in motion that will bring about the fourth fall of man and position their Corporation as the dominant power on the fringe. Their ambition and greed spell disaster for mankind.Spinward Fringe Broadcasts 1 & 2 continues and expands on a saga that begins in Spinward Fringe Broadcast 0: Origins. It can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8549499-spinward-fringe-broadcasts-1-and-2"}, +{"book_title": "The Lady Astronomer", "author_name": "Katy O'Dowd", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 170, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Lucretia's quiet life as an astronomer and hat-maker is quickly turned on its head by her brother. He is commanded by the king to build the grandest telescope in the land. Unfortunately for Lucretia, she is introduced to his majesty as her brother's assistant. Her nights spent on rooftops gazing at the stars are replaced by adventure and danger. In a race to build the Forty-foot telescope on time for the king, her misfortunes take their toll. When Lucretia finds herself held hostage at the Clockwork Court, the innocent country girl doesn't know who to trust. The lady astronomer finds court life to be more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. Even if her brothers manage to build the telescope on time, she might not live to earn her freedom.With the help of her brothers, Freddie and Al, and her constant companions Leibniz the Lemur and Orion the Eagle Owl, Lucretia embarks on a journey that could change her life forever. Can she find the strength inside to balance her new life and overcome the obstacles threatening her destiny? Only the stars will tell.* * *Special Note:We are proud to publish our first novel from an author who lives outside of North America. Katy hails from Ireland. When reading this novel, please keep in mind that English is not spelled the same everywhere! Because she is from Ireland and her characters also dwell in Europe, we maintained her uses and spellings. Enjoy!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16051462-the-lady-astronomer"}, +{"book_title": "To Clan and Conquer", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 764, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Starting a clan is not on ambitious First Officer Tranis\u2019 agenda; he is too busy building a career in the Kalquorian fleet. It\u2019s a good thing since the Nobek who captures his interest belongs to the captain and the Imdiko he can\u2019t stop thinking about is not his type.Weapons Commander Lidon feels his best days are behind him. The Imdiko he wants avoids him, and the new Dramok first officer is obviously too young to consider an older, crippled Nobek. However, an unexpected invitation makes Lidon wonder if there is something more to look forward to after all.Head doctor Degorsk hides behind an offbeat sense of humor that shocks and keeps his fellow crewmembers at arms\u2019 length \u2013 exactly where he wants them. But one Nobek refuses to be discouraged and the new first officer is too much temptation to deny himself. As the trio is pulled together by attraction and pushed back apart by fear, an old enemy threatens the Kalquorian Empire. With no choice but to rely on each other for survival, Tranis, Lidon, and Degorsk are forced to expose their greatest terrors to each other\u2026and themselves.Contains elements of BDSM, including physical discipline, anal play/intercourse, bondage, Dom/sub play, forced seduction, multiple sexual partners and homoerotic situations (m/m/m).", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Menage (M M M)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Polyamory"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17159119-to-clan-and-conquer"}, +{"book_title": "Steamborn", "author_name": "Eric R. Asher", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1260, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "Jacob, a tinker's apprentice and sometime thief, has lived his entire life in the mountain city of Ancora, protected by the city walls. These towering barriers keep the Deadlands creatures at bay, but the monsters move higher into the peaks every year. More and more, they breach the defenses of the Lowlands while the Highlands rest easy. A swarm overruns the walls and wreaks utter devastation on the Lowlands. Charles, the old tinker, suspects the attack may not be natural. With help from Jacob's closest friend, Alice, and Samuel, one of the city's elite spider knights, Jacob and Charles will uncover a terrible darkness at the heart of their city.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45142253-steamborn"}, +{"book_title": "Hollowland", "author_name": "Amanda Hocking", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 17919, "review_number": 1598, "book_description": "This is the way the world ends - not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and nothing will stand in her way - not violent marauders, a spoiled rock star, or an army of flesh-eating zombies.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31351167-hollowland"}, +{"book_title": "River Rising", "author_name": "John A. Heldt", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 334, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Weeks after his parents disappear on a hike, Arizona engineer Adam Carson, 27, searches for answers. Then he discovers a secret web site and learns that his mother and father are time travelers stuck in the past. Armed with the information he needs to find them, Adam convinces his younger siblings to join him on a rescue mission to the 1880s. While Greg, the adventurous middle brother, follows leads in the Wild West, Adam, journalist Natalie, and high school seniors Cody and Caitlin do the same in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Like the residents of the bustling steel community, all are unaware of a flood that will destroy the city on May 31, 1889. In RIVER RISING, the first novel in the five-book Carson Chronicles series, five young adults find love, danger, and adventure as they experience America in the age of bustle dresses, gunslingers, and robber barons.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36274542-river-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Starbreaker", "author_name": "Amanda Bouchet", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1032, "review_number": 203, "book_description": "THEY NEVER WANTED TO BE HEROESCaptain Tess Bailey and Shade Ganavan are still the galaxy's Most Wanted, and with revolution in the wind and the universe on the brink of catastrophic war, the situation couldn't be more desperate. Despite the Dark Watch scouring the known sectors for them, rebel leaders have handed the crew of the Endeavor a delicate and dangerous mission: break into Starbase 12 and free renowned scientist Reena Ahern. She's the only one who stands a chance of tipping the odds in their favor for the first time in decades.BUT PULLING OFF THE IMPOSSIBLE IS WHAT THEY DO BESTThe clock is ticking. But as their attraction builds and secrets are revealed, Tess and Shade must decide if they trust each other enough to execute this impossible prison break. They could change the course of history, but they'll be risking everything... They'll just have to tackle one crisis at a time.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43358567-starbreaker"}, +{"book_title": "Lethal Interface", "author_name": "Mel Odom", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 34, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Down dirty\u2014or dead!Vice Detective Mick Traven knew the streets, the dives, and hangouts of Dallas because his life depended on it. He could spot and bust drug dealers, chip runners, and body jackals long before they targeted him. And his skill was enhanced by the best tech the department could buy. But now he stumbled on something so big that he was quickly yanked off the case, and exiled to a Homicide detail with a drunk for a partner. Still, Mick had no intention of letting go of the case just because someone was covering up. And before he knew it, he was in hot pursuit of a madman who was leaving a trail of beautiful bodies behind. This led straight to the inner sanctums of Nagamuchi, the Japanese megacorp that was buying and selling the good old U.S.A. What had begun as just another dirty case suddenly escalated to a private war with a top deck jockey who had all of cyberspace in which to hide\u2014and kill\u2026", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/794574.Lethal_Interface"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk Style Jewelry: Victorian, Fantasy, and Mechanical Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings", "author_name": "Jean Campbell", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 452, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "This how-to jewelry-making book features the work of an array of invited jewelry designers influenced by the growing Steampunk trend. In Steampunk circles, jewelry-makers are often master metalsmiths who combine found objects with fine metals to create elaborate pieces. In Steampunk-Style Jewelry, the projects focus on \"no fire\" techniques\u2014like simple stringing, wirework, hammering, stamping, gluing, stitching, and off-loom beadwork\u2014so that even a beginner can create pieces in the style. Each project provides a complete materials and tools list, step-by-step instructions, and clear illustrations. This book offers a broad overview of a growing design trend that is part of the literary, industrial design, fashion, and popular culture scene. Readers will learn about the art movement through the many photographic sidebars that explore the many aspects of the trend.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Nonfiction", "Art (Crafts)", "Jewellery", "Art", "Crafts (Jewellery Making)", "Adult", "Reference", "Design", "Crafts (Beading)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6520594-steampunk-style-jewelry"}, +{"book_title": "Firestorm", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 2652, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker find themselves caught between the nation they swore to defend and the allies they promised to protect. For even as the Allies and the Empire of New Britain Isles stand united against the attacks of both the savage Grik and the tenacious Japanese, the \"Holy Dominion\"-a warped mixture of human cultures whose lust for power overshadows even the Grik-is threatening to destroy them both with a devastating weapon neither can withstand.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11101947-firestorm"}, +{"book_title": "A Savage War Of Peace", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1235, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "On her maiden voyage, HMS Warspite discovered Vesy, a world populated by primitive aliens, aliens whose culture had already been twisted and warped by human refugees from the First Interstellar War. Now, Captain John Naiser and his crew spearhead a diplomat mission to the alien homeworld, hoping to ease them into the galactic mainstream. But with hundreds of others hoping to influence and shape the developing alien culture, and all hell threatening to break loose as human ideals meet alien realities, events on Vesy might just mark the start of a new interstellar conflict ... ... And a civil war that will tear the human sphere apart. [Like my other self-published Kindle books, A Savage War of Peace is DRM-free. You may reformat it as you choose. There is a large sample of the text \u2013 and my other books \u2013 on my site: chrishanger.net. Try before you buy.] ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25321805-a-savage-war-of-peace"}, +{"book_title": "Enhanced", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2305, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "Mei-Li Hastings is in trouble. She\u2019s Dream Sharing with a Kindred warrior. Normally that\u2019s a regular part of being claimed by one of the tall, handsome aliens who came to Earth looking for brides. But in Mei-Li\u2019s case, nothing is normal. The dreams she\u2019s having show a huge, frightening male with a red laser for an eye and a metal arm. The man who\u2019s coming to claim her is a Dark Kindred\u2014one of the emotionless denizens of Zeaga Four where love is unknown and feelings are outlawed.Six has risen steadily in the ranks of the Collective since his inclusion into the Dark Kindred at age fourteen. Now, to his dismay, he is suddenly having dreams he cannot ignore\u2014dreams of a girl with dark eyes and silky black hair who fears him desperately. Despite the fact that he is supposed to feel nothing, Six finds himself drawn to the girl. And when he is ordered by his superior to claim her, he comes in search of his future bride.Now they are locked in a struggle of light versus dark...cold versus warmth. For when Mei-Li is near him, Six\u2019s frozen heart begins to thaw. Though the Dark Kindred warrior is determined not to commit \u201cFeel-crime\u201d he cannot contain the emotions growing within him for the petite girl he snatched from Earth. But with the newfound feelings of love and desire, come some much darker feelings. In order to love Mei-Li, Six will have to face the darkness within and a tragic past he has locked away for years.Will he survive the memories that surface\u2026or will they drive him mad?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22740435-enhanced"}, +{"book_title": "The Strength of His Heart", "author_name": "Victoria Sue", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 597, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "To protect and serve\u2026. All Vance Connelly ever wanted to do was continue his family\u2019s tradition and join the Tampa Police Department, but his dreams were crushed the day he woke with the enhanced mark on his face. After years of struggling to adjust to life as an enhanced human, by a stroke of luck, he met Talon Valdez and became a proud member of the FBI\u2019s Human Enhanced Rescue Organization.Samuel \u201cAngel\u201d Piper is eager to leave his DEA undercover work behind as he joins the HERO team as Vance\u2019s regular human partner. But Sam\u2019s painful past is ever present, just below the surface of the life he has built for himself as an ambitious young agent. When the team investigates rumors of a new drug using enhanced blood, the case\u2019s mysterious connection to Sam threatens not just his life but Vance\u2019s.Trust doesn\u2019t come easy for Sam, but Vance is willing to fight to convince his partner that the strength of his heart might be the salvation they both need.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42194245-the-strength-of-his-heart"}, +{"book_title": "Wholesale Slaughter", "author_name": "Rick Partlow", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 619, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "A king can't defeat an army of lawless pirates. But a mercenary can. Logan Conner is the son of a king, the heir to the largest of the five star-dominions, and the best mech pilot in the galaxy. His people are plagued by pirates and raiders, surrounded by enemies, and not even his father can fight them all. Logan gives up his position, his rank, even his name, and becomes Jonathan Slaughter, leader of a rough-and-ready band of mercenary mech-jocks, bent on taking the battle to the enemy on their own terms. They\u2019re Wholesale Slaughter. Kicking ass is what they do. Get book one in this thrilling and unpredictable Military Sci-Fi Adventure Today! Also available on Audible, narrated by the award-winning Marc Vietor.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45895673-wholesale-slaughter"}, +{"book_title": "Tricked", "author_name": "Kevin Hearne", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 44147, "review_number": 1789, "book_description": "Druid Atticus O\u2019Sullivan hasn\u2019t stayed alive for more than two millennia without a fair bit of Celtic cunning. So when vengeful thunder gods come Norse by Southwest looking for payback, Atticus, with a little help from the Navajo trickster god Coyote, lets them think that they\u2019ve chopped up his body in the Arizona desert.But the mischievous Coyote is not above a little sleight of paw, and Atticus soon finds that he\u2019s been duped into battling bloodthirsty desert shapeshifters called skinwalkers. Just when the Druid thinks he\u2019s got a handle on all the duplicity, betrayal comes from an unlikely source. If Atticus survives this time, he vows he won\u2019t be fooled again. Famous last words.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12700306-tricked"}, +{"book_title": "A Phule and His Money", "author_name": "Robert Lynn Asprin", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 3333, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Captain Willard Phule has whipped his troops into shape. That's how he turned Phule's Company from the laughingstock of the Legion into... a crack team of casino security guards.Now his company is deployed to help an underdeveloped planet. And what better way to utilize their major area of expertise \u2013 goofing off \u2013 than to turn it into the biggest intergalactic playground ever?", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552351.A_Phule_and_His_Money"}, +{"book_title": "Charlie Bone and the Time Twister", "author_name": "Jenny Nimmo", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 22269, "review_number": 597, "book_description": "Time is running out for Charlie Bone . . . Charlies hopes that the new term at Bloor's Academy will hold no nasty surprises. But then Henry Yewbeam appears, twisted through time from the icy winter of 1916.With the scheming Yewbeam aunts on the prowl, and the Bloors out to catch him, Henry will need Charlie's help just to stay alive. Bloor's Academy can be a very dangerous place . . .Book Two in The Children of the Red King series!", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227778.Charlie_Bone_and_the_Time_Twister"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book One", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 14799, "review_number": 867, "book_description": "5Y: THE LAST MAN, winner of three Eisner Awards and one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant and endlessly surprising.Written by Brian K. Vaughan (LOST, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD, EX MACHINA) and with art by Pia Guerra, this is the saga of Yorick Brown\u2014the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, a brilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he's the last man on earth.Collects Y THE LAST MAN #1-10.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3710603-y"}, +{"book_title": "A Dance with Dragons", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 569021, "review_number": 22416, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004XISI4AIn the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance\u2014beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys\u2019s claim to Westeros forever.Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone\u2014a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night\u2019s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10664113-a-dance-with-dragons"}, +{"book_title": "Ascender #6", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 64, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "\u201cTHE DEAD SEA,\u201d Part One The hit fantasy series from powerhouse creative team JEFF LEMIRE and DUSTIN NGUYEN continues! After a bruising escape attempt, Andy finds himself in the clutches of the Militia, which means the murderous Mother can\u2019t be far behind. Meanwhile, Mila books passage on a ship piloted by none other than the irascible Captain Telsa!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52920278-ascender-6"}, +{"book_title": "Among the Barons", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 20766, "review_number": 733, "book_description": "Luke Garner, an illegal third child, spent his first twelve years in hiding. For the past four months Luke has lived among others, using the identity of Lee Grant, at the Hendricks School for Boys. But just as things are finally starting to go right, Lee's little brother Smits arrives at the school and Luke finds himself caught in a tangle of lies that gets more complex with every passing day. Can Luke trust Smits to keep his secret? And can he trust Smits's menacing, fat bodyguard, Oscar who carrys a sledge hammer?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/298730.Among_the_Barons"}, +{"book_title": "Stark's Crusade", "author_name": "John G. Hemry", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1412, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "The Barnes & Noble ReviewStark's Crusade is the concluding volume of a popular military science fiction trilogy written by former U.S. Navy officer John G. Hemry. The first two books, Stark's War and Stark's Command, began chronicling the life of Sergeant Ethan Stark, a living military legend who is sent to the moon to take back control of what America believes is its property. (After the Cold War, America became the last superpower and dominated the world economically. Other nations, and corporations, were forced to begin colonies and manufacturing plants in space.) In the ensuing war, Stark realizes the war has nothing to do with peace or justice, but with greed and television ratings. Stark's Crusade ends this epic adventure. Stark, now the acting commander of the rebel American military forces on the moon, must deal with the United Nations declaring him an outlaw while also taking on the entire American military and his own mutinous forces. (Paul Goat Allen)", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1673449.Stark_s_Crusade"}, +{"book_title": "The 40-Minute War", "author_name": "Janet E. Morris", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 185, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "\u201cAfter Washington, D.C. is vaporized by a nuclear surface blast, Marc Beck, wonder boy of the American foreign service, prevails on Ashmead, cover action chief, to help him fly two batches of anticancer serum from Israel to the Houston White House. From the moment the establish their gritty relationship, life is filled with treachery and terror for Beck (who) must deal with one cliffhanger after another during the desperate days that follow. This novel shocks us with a sudden, satisfying ending.\u201d \u2013 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY \u201cAdventure, suspense, high-tech \u2013 this book has it all, from the best new storytellers we have. You have to read this one.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Jerry Pournelle, author of The Mote in God\u2019s Eye and Mercenary \u201cHeadlong and vivid \u2013 real characters drawn starkly against the catastrophe they race to undo.\u201d \u2013 David Drake, author of Hammer\u2019s Slammers About the Author: Janet Morris and Chris Morris are the creators of numerous novels, stories, and works of nonfiction, as well as the editors of the Heroes in Hell series, winner of the Hugo Award. Janet is the only science fiction writer invited to participate in the Rolex fiction program, Chris is an accomplished singer-songwriter and narrator, and the Morrises are widely known for their nonfiction work on national security topics such as nonlethal weapons and Russian technology as well as their fiction and music. The Morrises\u2019 joint fiction novels include The 40-Minute War, The Sacred Band, The Fish the Fighters and the Song-girl, OUTPASSAGE, The 40-Minute War, City at the Edge of Time, Tempus Unbound, Storm Seed, MEDUSA, the Threshold Trilogy, The Little Helliad. ", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War (Terrorism)", "Thriller", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Terrorism (Islamic Terrorism)", "War", "Suspense", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27251125-the-40-minute-war"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Oath", "author_name": "Raye Wagner", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 14217, "review_number": 992, "book_description": "Dark Fantasy. Dragons. Intrigue. Romance. More than anything, I crave adventure. But in the disease ridden land of Verald, life is mapped out much like the well-established rings of our kingdom. At the very heart reigns our vicious king and Lord Irrik, an invincible dragon shifter, at his side. Their power poisons the land and the people, leading to a steadily mounting number of enemies. But change is coming. When the rebellion surges, the king strikes back. Captured by Lord Irrik, I'm suddenly embroiled in a deadly game. One where I'm desperate to understand the rules. Because I'm not only fighting for my life... but also a love that could be the very key to my freedom.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "New Adult", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36431876-blood-oath"}, +{"book_title": "The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers", "author_name": "Kevin D. Mitnick", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3077, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers the explosive encore to his bestselling The Art of Deception Kevin Mitnick, the world's most celebrated hacker, now devotes his life to helping businesses and governments combat data thieves, cybervandals, and other malicious computer intruders. In his bestselling The Art of Deception, Mitnick presented fictionalized case studies that illustrated how savvy computer crackers use \"social engineering\" to compromise even the most technically secure computer systems. Now, in his new book, Mitnick goes one step further, offering hair-raising stories of real-life computer break-ins-and showing how the victims could have prevented them. Mitnick's reputation within the hacker community gave him unique credibility with the perpetrators of these crimes, who freely shared their stories with him-and whose exploits Mitnick now reveals in detail for the first time, including:A group of friends who won nearly a million dollars in Las Vegas by reverse-engineering slot machines Two teenagers who were persuaded by terrorists to hack into the Lockheed Martin computer systems Two convicts who joined forces to become hackers inside a Texas prison A \"Robin Hood\" hacker who penetrated the computer systems of many prominent companies-andthen told them how he gained access With riveting \"you are there\" descriptions of real computer break-ins, indispensable tips on countermeasures security professionals need to implement now, and Mitnick's own acerbic commentary on the crimes he describes, this book is sure to reach a wide audience-and attract the attention of both law enforcement agencies and the media.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Computers (Hackers)", "Science (Computer Science)", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Computer Science (Technical)", "Computer Science (Programming)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Crime (True Crime)", "Business"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18159.The_Art_of_Intrusion"}, +{"book_title": "The Word Exchange", "author_name": "Alena Graedon", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 3856, "review_number": 965, "book_description": "In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted \u201cdeath of print\u201d has become a reality.\u00a0Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are\u00a0things of the past, and we spend our time glued to\u00a0handheld devices called Memes that not only keep\u00a0us in constant communication but also have become\u00a0so intuitive that they hail us cabs before we leave our\u00a0offices, order takeout at the first growl of a hungry\u00a0stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called the Word Exchange.Anana Johnson works with her father, Doug, at the North American Dictionary of the English Language (NADEL), where Doug is hard at work on the last edition that will ever be printed. Doug is a staunchly anti-Meme, anti-tech intellectual who fondly remembers the days when people used email (everything now is text or videoconference) to communicate\u2014or even actually spoke to one another, for that matter. One evening, Doug disappears from the NADEL offices, leaving a single written clue: ALICE. It\u2019s a code word he devised to signal if he ever fell into harm\u2019s way. And thus begins Anana\u2019s journey down the proverbial rabbit hole . . .Joined by Bart, her bookish NADEL colleague,\u00a0Anana\u2019s search for Doug will take her into dark \u00a0basements and subterranean passageways; the stacks\u00a0and reading rooms of the Mercantile Library; and\u00a0secret meetings of the underground resistance, the\u00a0Diachronic Society. As Anana penetrates the mystery of her father\u2019s disappearance and a pandemic of decaying language called \u201cword flu\u201d spreads, The\u00a0Word Exchange becomes a cautionary tale that is at once a technological thriller and a meditation on\u00a0the high cultural costs of digital technology.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Unfinished", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18209339-the-word-exchange"}, +{"book_title": "Machine World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 4571, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien bidder. In the fourth book of the series, James McGill is up for promotion. Not everyone is happy about that, and McGill must prove he\u2019s worth his stripes. Deployed to a strange alien planet outside the boundaries of the Galactic Empire, he\u2019s caught up in warfare and political intrigue. Earth expands, the Cephalopod Kingdom launches ships to stop us, and a grand conspiracy emerges among the upper ranks of the Hegemony military. In MACHINE WORLD, McGill faces an entirely new kind of alien life, Galactic prosecution, and thousands of relentless squid troopers. He lives and dies in the falling ashes of the Empire, a man of unique honor at the dawn of humanity\u2019s resurgence. MACHINE WORLD is a military science fiction novel by bestselling author B. V. Larson. (To find the first book in the series, search for STEEL WORLD, by B. V. Larson.)", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Action", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24422830-machine-world"}, +{"book_title": "A School for Unusual Girls", "author_name": "Kathleen Baldwin", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 3912, "review_number": 724, "book_description": "Welcome to Stranje House.It\u2019s 1814. Napoleon is exiled on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And Stranje House,\u00a0a School for Unusual Girls, has become one of Regency England\u2019s dark little secrets. The daughters of the\u00a0beau monde\u00a0who don\u2019t fit high society\u2019s constrictive mold are banished to Stranje House to be reformed into marriageable young ladies. Or so their parents think. In truth, Headmistress Emma Stranje, the original unusual girl, has plans for the young ladies\u2014plans that entangle them in the dangerous world of spies, diplomacy, and war.After accidentally setting her father\u2019s stables on fire while\u00a0performing a\u00a0scientific experiment, Miss Georgiana Fitzwilliam is sent\u00a0to Stranje House. But Georgie has no intention of being turned into a simpering, pudding-headed, marriageable miss. She plans to escape as soon as possible\u2014until she meets Lord Sebastian Wyatt. Thrust together in a desperate mission to invent a new invisible ink for the English war effort, Georgie and Sebastian must find a way to work together without losing their heads\u2014or their hearts\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22238184-a-school-for-unusual-girls"}, +{"book_title": "Invitation to the Game", "author_name": "Monica Hughes", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 5372, "review_number": 365, "book_description": "A chilling account of life in 2154, when most jobs are done by machines. Lisse and her friends are unemployable after graduation, but the government gives them an abandoned warehouse in a bleak neighborhood to live in. Anxious to escape their dreary lives, the friends embrace The Game, which takes them to paradise. But is this world real or only a computer simulation?", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146499.Invitation_to_the_Game"}, +{"book_title": "Flashfall", "author_name": "Jenny Moyer", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1103, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "Orion is a Subpar, expected to mine the tunnels of Outpost Five, near the deadly flash curtain. For generations, her people have chased cirium\u2014the only element that can shield humanity from the curtain\u2019s radioactive particles. She and her caving partner Dram work the most treacherous tunnel, fighting past flash bats and tunnel gulls, in hopes of mining enough cirium to earn their way into the protected city.But when newcomers arrive at Outpost Five, Orion uncovers disturbing revelations that make her question everything she thought she knew about life on both sides of the cirium shield. As conditions at the outpost grow increasingly dangerous, it\u2019s up to Orion to forge a way past the flashfall, beyond all boundaries, beyond the world as she knows it.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27414369-flashfall"}, +{"book_title": "The Fortress in Orion", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 2.97, "rating_votes": 209, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "The Democracy is at war with the alien Traanskei Coalition. War hero Colonel Nathan Pretorius has a record of success on dangerous behind-enemy-lines missions, missions that usually leave him in the hospital. Now he's recruited for a near-impossible assignment that may well leave him dead. At the cost of many lives, the Democracy has managed to clone and train General Michkag, one of the Traanskei's master strategists. Colonel Pretorius and a hand-picked team must kidnap the real Michkag if they can, assassinate him if they can't, but no matter which, put the clone in his place, where he will misdirect the enemy's forces and funnel vital information to the Democracy. Against the odds, Pretorius, along with Cyborg Felix Ortega, computer expert Toni Levi, convict and contortionist Sally \"Snake\" Kowalski, the near-human empath Marlowe, the alien Gzychurlyx, and Madam Methuselah - the Dead Enders - must infiltrate the Fortress in Orion, accomplish their mission, and escape with their lives.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21487730-the-fortress-in-orion"}, +{"book_title": "Ring of Fire III", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 622, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Collection #3 of rollicking and idea-packed alternate history tales written by today\u2019s hottest science fiction writers and edited by New York Times best-seller Eric Flint. After a cosmic accident sets the modern-day West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe, these everyday, resourceful Americans must adapt \u2013 or be trod into the dust of the past.Let\u2019s do the \u201cTime Warp\u201d again!\u00a0 Another rollicking, thought-provoking collection of tales by a star-studded array of top writers such as bestseller Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint himself \u2013 all set in Eric Flint\u2019s phenomenal Ring of Fire series. Rock on, Renaissance!\u00a0 A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe.\u00a0 It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in mad and bloody end of\u00a0 medieval times.\u00a0 Are they up for it?\u00a0 You bet they are.\u00a0 The third rollicking and idea-packed collection of Grantville tales edited by Eric Flint, and inspired by his now-legendary 1632.About Eric Flint\u2019s \u201cRing of Fire\u201d series:\u201c[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d -Booklist\u00a0\u201c[Eric Flint] can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.\u201d -Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Historical", "Short Stories", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10141689-ring-of-fire-iii"}, +{"book_title": "Almost Human: Making Robots Think", "author_name": "Lee Gutkind", "rating_score": 3.18, "rating_votes": 67, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "The high bay at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is alive and hyper night and day with the likes of Hyperion, which traversed the Antarctic, and Zoe, the world\u2019s first robot scientist, now back home. Robot Segways learn to play soccer, while other robots go on treasure hunts or are destined for hospitals and museums. Dozens of cavorting mechanical creatures, along with tangles of wire, tools, and computer innards are scattered haphazardly. All of these zipping and zooming gizmos are controlled by disheveled young men sitting on the floor, folding chairs, or tool cases, or huddled over laptops squinting into displays with manic intensity. Award-winning author Lee Gutkind immersed himself in this frenzied subculture, following these young roboticists and their bold conceptual machines from Pittsburgh to NASA and to the most barren and arid desert on earth. He makes intelligible their discoveries and stumbling points in this lively behind-the-scenes work.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science", "Science (Technology)", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/550142.Almost_Human"}, +{"book_title": "Rubinrot", "author_name": "Kerstin Gier", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 118940, "review_number": 10146, "book_description": "Manchmal ist es ein echtes Kreuz, in einer Familie zu leben, die jede Menge Geheimnisse hat. Der \u00dcberzeugung ist zumindest die 16-j\u00e4hrige Gwendolyn.Bis sie sich eines Tages aus heiterem Himmel im London um die letzte Jahrhundertwende wiederfindet. Und ihr klar wird, dass ausgerechnet sie das allergr\u00f6\u00dfte Geheimnis ihrer Familie ist. Was ihr dagegen nicht klar ist: Dass man sich zwischen den Zeiten m\u00f6glichst nicht verlieben sollte. Denn das macht die Sache erst recht kompliziert!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6325285-rubinrot"}, +{"book_title": "Sanctuary", "author_name": "Matthew Mather", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 3644, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "A new world arises from the ashes of the old...but the fight for survival has only begun.In the Day of the Nomad, oceans flooded the continents, the earth split open and poured darkness into the skies. A mass extinction event as the Earth hadn't witnessed in more than two hundred and fifty million years, the planet flung into a radical new orbit around the Sun.Jessica Rollins survived, hidden away in a mountaintop in Italy, and has made radio contact with other survivor groups scattered around the wrecked globe--but the destruction is only just beginning. The key to humanity's survival may lie in a backpack she recovered from her father, in the data he collected more than thirty years before as Harvard's preeminent astrophysicist. Information he died trying to protect.His final words to her circle around and around in her head...survive, no matter what. But at what cost? And what is Sanctuary?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40873981-sanctuary"}, +{"book_title": "Land", "author_name": "Theresa Shaver", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 2444, "review_number": 243, "book_description": "Five go by Land - Five go by SeaA group of teens on a class trip to Disneyland are left stranded. An EMP over North America has destroyed everything electronic. No cars, no planes, no phones, no electricity. Refusing to wait for someone else to help them, ten courageous young people take charge of their future and choose to begin the long journey home. 1500 miles of adventure and lawless country await. Will their determination be enough?Alex, Quinn, Josh, Cooper and Dara - setting out on foot with nothing more than some soon to be worthless cash and a little advice from a trusted teacher, they walk through a burning city that has come to a halt. The devastation they see as they make their way out of the city is a small part of the horror that the nation will become. As the days go by with no food deliveries and no water flowing from taps, civilization will start to crumble and it will be survival of the fittest. With five States and half a Province to cross they will need to plan well, count on each other and pray for a little luck. Even with that, chances are slim of getting home when you are Stranded.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Suspense", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13614942-land"}, +{"book_title": "Victory", "author_name": "Nick Webb", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 3434, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "United Earth burns. The Swarm runs rampant across our space. We mourn the loss of thousands of ships and millions of fallen comrades. Billions of fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers--all gone, all dead. It is time we end this, for our moment has come. But victory never comes without sacrifice. Heroes are not taught nor trained, but forged in blood and ashes. Our grandchildrens' history books will tell our story, and glorify the heroes and legends. The Swarm will be conquered; we will prevail. At any price.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Action", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29475233-victory"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Cathedral", "author_name": "Heather Blackwood", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 312, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Medical student Felicia Sanchez is only trying to help an injured man when she slips through a time rip and into a 19th century New Orleans, one very different than the one she knows from history books.The only person who can get her home is Professor Seamus Connor, a former convict seeking a quiet life of obscurity. But even the \u201cmad Irishman\u201d knows that recreating a freak accident is next to impossible.With the help of a local street urchin, they discover that their problems run deeper than solely getting Felicia back to her own time. The three of them must unravel the secrets of a steam engine that operates upon a scientific impossibility and the mysteries of a grand cathedral at the center of town, where clockwork automatons perform for rapt audiences.But can a convict, a guttersnipe, and an accidental time traveler prevent the destruction of a city and the death of thousands? Others are watching, and Felicia may not be the only time traveler in New Orleans.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17977063-the-clockwork-cathedral"}, +{"book_title": "Cobra Bargain", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 892, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Jasmine Moreau is reconsidered for Cobra treatment when a return mission to adangerous planet becomes inevitable.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191996.Cobra_Bargain"}, +{"book_title": "Cards & Caravans", "author_name": "Cindy Spencer Pape", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 637, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Belinda Danvers isn't a witch. But that won't stop them burning her at the stake\u2026Connor McKay can tell at a glance that Belinda's magickal powers are minimal at best. She can't be guilty of murdering village children. There's something suspicious about her arrest and lightning-quick sentence. Unfortunately, telling anyone how he knows would mean revealing his own powers. He's been sent by the Order of the Round Table to help and he can't just let her die.Escaping from jail and running from vindictive villagers in her grandfather's steam-powered caravan is more excitement than Belinda's had in years. And despite the danger\u2014or maybe because of it\u2014she loves the time spent with her sexy rescuer. But there's more to his magick than he's letting on\u2026There's something going on that's bigger than the two of them. It's time for good to make a stand.word count = 52,000 words", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Steampunk Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13503447-cards-caravans"}, +{"book_title": "Adaptation (Genus: Unknown, #1", "author_name": "Kaitlyn O'Connor", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 392, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Dr. Kate Drexel had just begun to suspect that the \u2018beasts of Sirius\u2019 were far more intelligent than they\u2019d believed when the Sirians escaped containment. What no one hadn\u2019t suspected was the reason behind their amazingly complex genome or that their rapid cell regeneration pointed to more than an extraordinary adaptability. The right thing to do, Kate was sure, was to find them and somehow return them to their home world. She didn\u2019t expect them to find her first. Genre: Futuristic Romance.Rating: Carnal/Erotic. Multiple sexual partners, m\u00e9nage, adult language and situations.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11189120-adaptation"}, +{"book_title": "Xenos", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 4506, "review_number": 300, "book_description": "The Inquisition moves amongst mankind like an avenging shadow, striking down the enemies of humanity with complete ruthlessness. Inquisitor Eisenhorn faces a vast interstellar cabal and the dark power of daemons, all racing to recover an arcane text of supreme and abominable power - an ancient tome known as the Necroteuch. Book I in the Eisenhorn trilogy sets a new standard in action and adventure.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1009259.Xenos"}, +{"book_title": "Throneworld", "author_name": "Guy Haley", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 390, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Book 5 of The Beast ArisesA new threat arises on Holy Terra \u2013 the eldar, attacking the Imperial Palace from beneath. And in the depths of space, an unlikely alliance discovers a secret that might save the Imperium from the marauding orks. But can they survive long enough to tell anyone?The Imperium\u2019s situation has never been more grim \u2013 an ork attack moon hangs over Terra, and ork armadas ravage human space. To make matters even worse, eldar strike at the heart of the Imperial Palace, forcing humanity\u2019s defenders to fight on two fronts at once. Though it seems nothing can stop the orks \u2013 neither brute force, science, nor faith \u2013 an unlikely alliance in the furthest reaches of space uncovers the first clue how to defeat the greenskins. The Adeptus Astartes now face an almost impossible task - taking news of this discovery back to Terra through a galaxy teeming with orks.Mysteries abound as the eldar make their presence felt in the midst of humanity's war for survival. And fans of the Imperial Fists and Iron Warriors will be thrilled \u2013 or appalled \u2013 to see rivalries (sort of) put aside as loyalists and traitors work together against their common foe...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26029276-throneworld"}, +{"book_title": "Moonlight Warrior", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2425, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Can a powerful highland warrior tame the only woman he can't resist?Eve Anderson is darned tired of Kenzie Gregor meddling in her business. She might be struggling to keep herself and her ailing mother financially afloat, but she's no princess in need of a strong, capable knight in a black SUV to rescue her -- even if he is easy on the eyes. Besides, there's something very odd about him...and she's sure the strange events occurring in their small coastal Maine town are linked to his recent arrival.Once an immortal warrior cursed to live as a panther, Kenzie is finally free to live and die as a man, and his destiny is to help other displaced souls. Of course, if he can get tiny, blue-eyed, curly blond Eve out of the deal, well...life doesn't get any better. But she's as stubborn and fierce as a lioness, and in order to win her love, he must tempt her with forbidden desires....Note: This is a spin-off from this author's Highlander series. It features Kenzie and Father Daar--both from the Highlander series.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052982-moonlight-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Land of the Beautiful Dead", "author_name": "R. Lee Smith", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 3700, "review_number": 527, "book_description": "SHE WOULD DARE ANYTHING TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM HIS RULE.EVEN HIS BED.He ascended from the darkness years ago\u2014Azrael the Eternal, Azrael the Undying, Azrael Who Is Death\u2014bringing with him the black rains, the fires, the souring of the sky, and the Eaters. Now he rules in the walled city of Haven with his favored Children and his dead court, while all that is left of the living struggles to survive in the ruins of a world that used to be their own. But even as extinction looms, humanity will never surrender to their monstrous conqueror.For Lan, this brutal life has been the only one she\u2019s ever known, but she still believes it can change. If the war can never truly end until the Eaters are ended, she will go to Haven, to Azrael himself, and demand he end them. To her surprise, she does not immediately die the hero\u2019s death she expected. Instead, Azrael offers her a chance to convince him, and all she has to do is submit herself to the chill embrace of the lord of the Land of the Beautiful Dead.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Dark", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27228341-land-of-the-beautiful-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Chained", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3197, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Maggie Jordan is not supposed to be having adventures. Her mission is to go to Gaia, a new, unpopulated world, and study the native life forms there. So how come she finds herself in on the female dominated Yonnie Six instead, rescuing a huge, muscular prisoner? The same prisoner she keeps seeing over and over again in her dreams\u2026Korexiroth\u2014or Kor, as Maggie dubs him, is a slave who spent his life fighting in the savage arenas of the Blood Circuit. He\u2019s got plenty of kills under his belt and more than enough reasons to run as soon as he gets free. But somehow he can\u2019t make himself part from the girl who was brave enough to save him from certain death.Now Maggie and Kor are on the run together, trying desperately to find someone to remove the alien device that was implanted in Maggie as punishment for her thievery of an expensive slave. The device, or \u201cslut button\u201d as it is called, forces Maggie to sexual excesses the shy scientist has never known before\u2014and Kor is the only one who can help her control her new urges.Kor is more than willing to help Maggie satisfy her new sexual hunger but his own appetites are not so easily satiated. For there is a dark secret, a shadow from his past that stalks him and whispers of power beyond belief if only he will give himself over to darkness. Will they find a way to return Maggie to normal? Will Kor admit how he really feels for her? Or with the shadow from his past succeed is tearing them apart?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Erotica (BDSM)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18245746-chained"}, +{"book_title": "My Name Is Memory", "author_name": "Ann Brashares", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 30455, "review_number": 5153, "book_description": "Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has \"the memory\", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he's previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart. A love always too short.Interwoven through Sophia and Daniel's unfolding present day relationship are glimpses of their expansive history together. From 552 Asia Minor to 1918 England and 1972 Virginia, the two souls share a long and sometimes torturous path of seeking each other time and time again. But just when young Sophia (now \"Lucy\" in the present) finally begins to awaken to the secret of their shared past, to understand the true reason for the strength of their attraction, the mysterious force that has always torn them apart reappears. Ultimately, they must come to understand what stands in the way of their love if they are ever to spend a lifetime together.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7135858-my-name-is-memory"}, +{"book_title": "Oceanic", "author_name": "Greg Egan", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 852, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Collected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today. In these dozen glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants. Return to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel Incandescence: 'Riding the Crocodile', which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; 'Glory', set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and 'Hot Rock', where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history. This superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning 'Oceanic': a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith.Contents:Border Guards (1999)Crystal Nights (2008)Dark Integers (2007)Glory (2007)Hot Rock (2009)Induction (2007)Lost Continent (2008)Oceanic (1998)Oracle (2000)Riding the Crocodile (2005)Singleton (2002)Steve Fever (2007)", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Cultural (Australia)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6741362-oceanic"}, +{"book_title": "Balance Point", "author_name": "Robert Buettner", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 157, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "#3 in the science fiction adventure Orphan\u2019s Legacy series, a saga of spy games and military action on an interplanetary scale.The balance point of interplanetary Cold War II between Earth and monolithic Yavet tips unexpectedly toward peace. Covert ops Captain Jazen Parker and his sharp shooting lover and partner Kit Born slide from world saving hazardous duty to escorting a telepathic alien monster home from Earth to mate. And the two of them are forced to consider a quiet domestic future together.But when old enemies\u2019 thirsts for power and revenge, Jazen\u2019s problematic past, and his former girlfriend, upset Jazen and Kit\u2019s personal balance point, the two cold warriors find their relationship, and their very survival, tested as never before.Lost in space, and from one another, they must each penetrate Yavet, the universe\u2019s most insular and repressive world, then foil a plot that could turn Cold War II hot and nuclear\u2014or die trying.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143920-balance-point"}, +{"book_title": "How to Pass as Human", "author_name": "Nic Kelman", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 173, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "How to Pass as Human is an attempt on the part of the world's first android to understand the irrational, unpredictable, eclectic creatures known as human beings. Written in the form of a field guide, complete with sketches, graphs, flowcharts, and other reference materials, Android Zero (aka \"Zach\") has compiled a variety of useful information for future androids on how to pass undetected as human beings. Along the way, he also attempts to solve the mystery of his own creation with the help of Andrea, a human female who has taken an interest in him that may be more than friendly, and eventually leading him to \"meet his maker\" and discover the surprising purpose of his existence.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25361629-how-to-pass-as-human"}, +{"book_title": "Final Impact", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2946, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "\u201cThe action is nonstop, the characters very real\u2013and very different from each other\u2013and, to coin a phrase, it makes you think.\u201d \u2013S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of TimeIn the year 2021 a multinational fleet\u2013experimenting with untested weapons technology\u2013pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble to adapt to new, high-tech killing tools, and twenty-first-century ways of war.For \u201cuptimers\u201d like Britain\u2019s Prince Harry and the men and women who serve aboard the supercarrier USS Hillary Clinton, war is a constant struggle with their own downtime allies, who are mired in ignorance and bigotry.As the Allies counter the Nazi assault and set off for the coast of France, Japan begins to buckle, soon every battle will be played out in a lethal dance of might and intelligence, unholy alliances and desperate gambles, and each clash will be fought with the ultimate weapon; knowledge from the future.Thanks to the historical records, all sides know that two superpowers will emerge, while the losers will be pounded into submission. But time has shifted on its axis, so none know who will survive, or how peace will take hold in a world turned upside down. These are the questions that John Birmingham brilliantly answers in his critically acclaimed adventure of war and imagination.Praise for John Birmingham\u2019s Weapons of Choice\u201cBirmingham\u2019s enthralling battleground mixes provocative historical fiction and socially conscious futurism.\u201d\u2013Entertainment Weekly\u201cHigh-tech intrigue and suspense similar to the works of Tom Clancy.\u201d\u2013Library Journal", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59322.Final_Impact"}, +{"book_title": "Honor Among Thieves", "author_name": "James S.A. Corey", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2966, "review_number": 346, "book_description": "Nebula and Hugo Award nominees Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck\u2014writing as James S. A. Corey\u2014make their Star Wars debut in this brand-new epic adventure featuring Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia Organa. The action begins after the destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. When the Empire threatens the galaxy\u2019s new hope, will Han, Luke, and Leia become its last chance? When the mission is to extract a high-level rebel spy from the very heart of the Empire, Leia Organa knows the best man for the job is Han Solo\u2014something the princess and the smuggler can finally agree on. After all, for a guy who broke into an Imperial cell block and helped destroy the Death Star, the assignment sounds simple enough. But when Han locates the brash rebel agent, Scarlet Hark, she\u2019s determined to stay behind enemy lines. A pirate plans to sell a cache of stolen secrets that the Empire would destroy entire worlds to protect\u2014including the planet where Leia is currently meeting with rebel sympathizers. Scarlet wants to track down the thief and steal the bounty herself, and Han has no choice but to go along if he\u2019s to keep everyone involved from getting themselves killed. From teeming city streets to a lethal jungle to a trap-filled alien temple, Han, Chewbacca, Leia, and their daring new comrade confront one ambush, double cross, and firestorm after another as they try to keep crucial intel out of Imperial hands. But even with the crack support of Luke Skywalker\u2019s X-Wing squadron, the Alliance heroes may be hopelessly outgunned in their final battle for the highest of stakes: the power to liberate the galaxy from tyranny or ensure the Empire\u2019s reign of darkness forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050080-honor-among-thieves"}, +{"book_title": "A Fire in the Sun", "author_name": "George Alec Effinger", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2304, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence.Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, \"godfather\" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world. During the day, Marid is a policeman\u2026and Bey's personal envoy to the police. His new position has brought him money and power which he would abandon in a moment if he could return to a life of neither owning nor being owned. Which, unfortunately, isn't one of his options.It's also not an issue. For something dark is afoot. Something that is sending the city into chaos. Helping a child-mutilator to avoid arrest. Sending a killer to murder Marid's partner. Murdering prostitutes and savaging their remains. Signs point to the hand of Abu Adil\u2014the one man in the city whose power rivals Friedlander Bey's. Whatever happens next, it's not going to be good news for Marid Audran\u2026", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358991.A_Fire_in_the_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Close Encounters", "author_name": "Katherine Allred", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1210, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Kiera Smith is not like ordinary Genetically Engineered Persons...The Bureau of Alien Affairs needed a special GEP agent with empathic abilities to handle their most extraordinary assignments\u2014and a rogue geneticist saw to it that Kiera fit their specifications. But she turned out stronger, faster, smarter, and more impervious to harm than anyone anticipated. A reluctant \"superhero,\" Kiera wishes she were normal, but it is not to be.On Orpheus Two, the indigenous Buri race faces extinction, a prospect the powerful Dynatec corporation welcomes and, in fact, may be actively hastening. It is Kiera's job to protect these beautiful, exotic aliens . . . and to discover what there is on Orpheus Two that Dynatec feels is worth killing for.But the magnetic allure of Thor, the breathtaking Buri leader, is proving a dangerous distraction. And now, to save Thor's people, Kiera will need a power she's never before possessed\u2014something hidden in the unexplored recesses of her heart.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Love"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6125927-close-encounters"}, +{"book_title": "Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood", "author_name": "Marjorie M. Liu", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 14959, "review_number": 1867, "book_description": "Maika Halfwolf is on the run from a coalition of forces determined to control or destroy the powerful Monstrum that lives beneath her skin. But Maika still has a mission of her own: to discover the secrets of her late mother, Moriko. In this second volume of Monstress, collecting issues 7-12, Maika's quest takes her to the pirate-controlled city of Thyria and across the sea to the mysterious Isle of Bones. It is a journey that will force Maika to reevaluate her past, present, and future, and contemplate whether there's anyone, or anything, she can truly trust--including her own body.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33540347-monstress-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "A Real Friend", "author_name": "Jennifer Wolfthal", "rating_score": 2.75, "rating_votes": 69, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Benny and Max are best friends. They often play together, until Max annoys Benny and the two friends get into a fight. Then, Benny decides to build a new best friend\u2026A recognizable picture book about playing together, quarreling and patching up a quarrel. For playful children ages 4 years and up.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Plays", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48850681-a-real-friend"}, +{"book_title": "Zom-B", "author_name": "Darren Shan", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 7532, "review_number": 1202, "book_description": "Zom-B is a radical new series about a zombie apocalypse, told in the first person by one of its victims. The series combines classic Shan action with a fiendishly twisting plot and hard-hitting and thought-provoking moral questions dealing with racism, abuse of power and more. This is challenging material, which will captivate existing Shan fans and bring in many new ones. As Darren says, \"It's a big, sprawling, vicious tale...a grisly piece of escapism, and a barbed look at the world in which we live. Each book in the series is short, fast-paced and bloody. A high body-count is guaranteed!\"", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13380915-zom-b"}, +{"book_title": "Terran", "author_name": "Cara Bristol", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 790, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "After fleeing loneliness and heartache on Terra, Tara Diehl has adjusted to male-dominated Parseon better than most vendors--until she is kidnapped by Alpha Marlix, one of the five rulers of the planet. At first she\u2019s terrified of her tall, muscled abductor, especially when he doesn\u2019t hesitate to quell her struggle for freedom with a little corporal discipline. After all her methods and ploys to escape fail, she decides to seduce her way to freedom.But out of seduction and subterfuge grow a true intimacy that cause Marlix and Tara to take action that drives Parseon to the brink of civil war, and threatens not only their relationship, but also their lives.Terran, the second book in the Breeder sci-fi series, is a \u201ccapture\u201d romance involving a domineering but hunky alien, a female with a bad dye job and an even worse attitude, explicit sex, anal sex, and spanking.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Dark", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22030243-terran"}, +{"book_title": "A Time for Love", "author_name": "Constance O'Day-Flannery", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 254, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Elizabeth Mackenzie had decided long ago that happily-ever-after was just an illusion. Her career was what mattered, and the ambition that had carried her through many a lonely Saturday night brought her out west to land a new account for her firm. Then a force greater than anything she'd ever imagined took her even further... back in time to 1876... and into the life of Jordan McCabe.Mistaken for the proxy bride of the handsome Texas rancher, Elizabeth found a passion powerful enough to make her believe in love. But could she sacrifice all she had known for a fragile dream? As she struggled to understand the choices that lay ahead, Elizabeth came face to face with her own destiny... and the desires that tempted her to surrender her very soul!", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romantic", "Romance (Western Romance)", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1892749.A_Time_for_Love"}, +{"book_title": "Junkyard", "author_name": "Mike Austin", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 314, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Man the machines and help clean up the junkyard in this rousing robot story that encourages community building.The yard has junk! Stacks and heaps and piles of junk as far as the eye can see. But the Munching Machine robots are on the job\u2014it\u2019s time to get cleaning! And after a whole lot of CRUNCHING, CHEWING, CHOMPING, SLURPING, and SWEEPING, what\u2019s next? Time to get BUILDING, DIGGING, PLANTING, and DECORATING the new park for everyone to enjoy!Fun, rhyming text paired with irresistible robots and radiant results make this an engaging read-aloud that will inspire clean-up projects of all sizes.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens", "Environment", "Fiction", "Environment (Nature)", "Gardening", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16074814-junkyard"}, +{"book_title": "Angels' Dance", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 6344, "review_number": 282, "book_description": "The gentle teacher of angelic young, and the keeper of her people's histories, Jessamy is respected and admired by everyone who knows her. Yet, born unable to soar into flight, she has spent thousands of years trapped in the mountain stronghold of the Refuge, her heart encased in painful loneliness...until the arrival of Galen, warrior angel from a martial court.Rough-edged and blunt, Galen is a weapons-master at home with violence, a stranger to the sweet words it takes to woo a woman--but he is also a man determined to claim Jessamy for his own, to dance with her through the skies denied her for so very long...even if their exhilarating passion proves as dangerous as the landscape of war and unrest that lies before them.Angels' Dance previously appeared in the anthology, Angels' Flight.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Novella", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17134627-angels-dance"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberweb", "author_name": "Lisa Mason", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 46, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Reduced to scavenging for subsistence scraps among the trash people of San Francisco, Carly Nolan may have finally found her re-entry into the fast lane. Together with her onetime probe therapist Pr. Spinner - an aging and suspicious standalone A.I. entity with rusty, ill-defined housing - the disgraced linker is summoned back into public telespace by a tri-headed mainframe icon called Cognatus. And Cognatus has an offer Carly Nolan dares not refuse: a job, a future...and absolution. But there are sticky strings attached. Carly's new assignment - a telespacial hunt for unconnected human archetypes - has aroused some dangerous interest back in the real world. A ruthless mercenary Ultra fembot with fluid loyalties is now dogging her trail. The young shaman of a savage urban tribe has become obsessed with the beautiful \"genny woman\" who has sacrificed her soul to the \"Glass Land.\" And worst of all, Carly herself may be no more than an unsuspecting pawn of the Silicon Supremacists - a renegade cabal of A.I. revolutionaries planning no less than the total destruction of humankind.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2184924.Cyberweb"}, +{"book_title": "Rabbit & Robot", "author_name": "Andrew Smith", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 641, "review_number": 198, "book_description": "Cager has been transported to the Tennessee, a giant lunar-cruise ship orbiting the moon that his dad owns, by Billy and Rowan to help him shake his Woz addiction. Meanwhile, Earth, in the midst of thirty simultaneous wars, burns to ash beneath them. And as the robots on board become increasingly insane and cannibalistic, and the Earth becomes a toxic wasteland, the boys have to wonder if they\u2019ll be stranded alone in space forever.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Humor", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Space", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38214048-rabbit-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Sweet Tooth, Volume 4: Endangered Species", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 6753, "review_number": 259, "book_description": "Gus reluctantly joins Jepperd on missing persons hunt, but the tension between the two continues to grow. Meanwhile, Singh and Johnny come face to face with a deadly new threat, and Lucy and the girls meet Walter Fish, an enigmatic survivor who may have more to offer than meets the eye. Will this lead to a new sanctuary for them, or something far more dangerous?Collecting: Sweet Tooth 18-25", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12213010-sweet-tooth-volume-4"}, +{"book_title": "Sanctum", "author_name": "Sarah Fine", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 10930, "review_number": 1125, "book_description": "\u201cMy plan: Get into the city. Get Nadia. Find a way out. Simple.\u201dA week ago, seventeen-year-old Lela Santos\u2019s best friend, Nadia, killed herself. Today, thanks to a farewell ritual gone awry, Lela is standing in paradise, looking upon a vast gated city in the distance\u2014hell. No one willingly walks through the Suicide Gates, into a place smothered in darkness and infested with depraved creatures. But Lela isn\u2019t just anyone\u2014she\u2019s determined to save her best friend\u2019s soul, even if it means sacrificing her eternal afterlife. As Lela struggles to find Nadia, she\u2019s captured by the Guards, enormous, not-quite-human creatures that patrol the dark city\u2019s endless streets. Their all-too-human leader, Malachi, is unlike them in every way except one: his deadly efficiency. When he meets Lela, Malachi forms his own plan: get her out of the city, even if it means she must leave Nadia behind. Malachi knows something Lela doesn\u2019t\u2014the dark city isn\u2019t the worst place Lela could end up, and he will stop at nothing to keep her from that fate.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Paranormal (Angels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13482750-sanctum"}, +{"book_title": "Freehold", "author_name": "Michael Z. Williamson", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 4056, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "Sergeant Kendra Pacelli is innocent, but that doesn't matter to the repressive government pursuing her. Mistakes might be made, but they are never acknowledged, especially when billions of embezzled dollars earned from illegal weapons sales are at stake. But where does one run when all Earth and the planets are under the aegis of one government?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700604.Freehold"}, +{"book_title": "The Whispering Skull", "author_name": "Jonathan Stroud", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 17794, "review_number": 2143, "book_description": "In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations. Finally, in a fit of anger, Anthony challenges his rival to a contest: the next time the two agencies compete on a job, the losing side will have to admit defeat in the Times newspaper.Things look up when a new client, Mr. Saunders, hires Lockwood & Co. to be present at the excavation of Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead. Saunders needs the coffin sealed with silver to prevent any supernatural trouble. All goes well-until George's curiosity attracts a horrible phantom. Back home at Portland Row, Lockwood accuses George of making too many careless mistakes. Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in the ghost jar. Then the team is summoned to DEPRAC headquarters. Kipps is there too, much to Lockwood's annoyance. Bickerstaff's coffin was raided and a strange glass object buried with the corpse has vanished. Inspector Barnes believes the relic to be highly dangerous, and he wants it found.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14059024-the-whispering-skull"}, +{"book_title": "The Mists of Avalon", "author_name": "Marion Zimmer Bradley", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 196001, "review_number": 6859, "book_description": "Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come....", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mythology (Arthurian)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Classics", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40605251-the-mists-of-avalon"}, +{"book_title": "Against the Tide", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2361, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "In the distant future, the world was a paradise-and then, in a moment, it was ended by the first war in centuries. People who had known godlike power, to whom hunger and pain were completely unknown, desperately scrabbled to survive. As the United Free States, the bastion of freedom and center of opposition to the tyrants of New Destiny, prepared for the long-feared invasion by the Changed legions of Ropasa, Edmund Talbot realized that bureaucratic ineptitude and overconfidence was setting the USF naval forces of ships and dragons up for a disastrous defeat at sea. His fears came true, and the destruction of the fleet seemingly left the UFS open for a full scale invasion. But Talbot had new concepts and strategies ready to put into effect, along with new technical innovations from his brilliant engineer. He survived an assassination attempt and quickly assembled a formidable land force combining cavalry, longbowmen, Roman style legions, and dragons for airborne assault. The fascist forces of New Destiny thought that their war was all but concluded, and world domination within their grasp. Edmund Talbot was ready to show them just how wrong they were. . . .", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528364.Against_the_Tide"}, +{"book_title": "Bound By Blood", "author_name": "Kimberly Hoyt", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 506, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Spunky, down-on-her-luck Laurel Mayfield didn't believe in vampires. She didn't believe in the supernatural. Not until she met the enigmatic and darkly alluring Sebastian Thorn, a man shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Discovering he was a Prince turned out to be only the beginning of a harrowing journey that took them back to the Tudor Court during the reign of King Henry the Eighth. Caught up in the conspiracy of Whitehall, Laurel's love and devotion were put to the ultimate test.Would she return to the future to find her Dark Prince waiting? Or had the executioner's blade taken more from her than just Sebastian's head?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9339901-bound-by-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Centaur Aisle", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 18399, "review_number": 195, "book_description": "Dor agreed to act as King of Xanth so long as Trent was gone for a week. But the weeks passed and Trent did not return. Dor knew he had to rescue his king but with no magic powers, how could it be done...?From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96980.Centaur_Aisle"}, +{"book_title": "Fate War: Alliance", "author_name": "E.M. Havens", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 224, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "\u201cNo!\u201d Sam screamed. A Fate boot slammed into her stomach. It pinned her, leaving her breathless. She tried desperately to push his foot off as the soldier unsheathed his sword. He raised it two handed, the razor sharp point above her throat. He would kill her. She could see it in his black, soulless eyes. \u201cSam!\u201d Cole\u2019s voice was distant. The Fate would end her life if she didn\u2019t end his first.Prince Cole\u2019s first glimpse of his bride-to-be takes place as she walks down the aisle on their wedding day. Though he is reluctant to form this union, the future king knows how much the Arboreal Lands need her dowry that promises air ships and mech defenses.Samantha appears to be the polished woman expected in a princess. However, Cole soon discovers his new wife has secrets that even she has yet to unlock. Can what\u2019s hidden in the recesses of her mind be the key to defeating the plans of the Fate Sovereign? If you\u2019re looking for a steamy romance, a strong, smart heroine and interesting gadgets, this is the book for you! Fate War is a swords and guns, love and war, Steampunk inspired story that is sure to get your pistons pumping.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "New Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17699357-fate-war"}, +{"book_title": "Both Sides of Time", "author_name": "Caroline B. Cooney", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 3938, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "Imagine changing centuries--and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries. What if, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must abandon someone you love?Meet 15-year-old Annie Lockwood, a romantic living in the wrong century. When she travels back a hundred years and lands in 1895--a time when privileged young ladies wear magnificent gowns, attend elegant parties, and are courted by handsome gentlemen--Annie at last finds romance. But she is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay in the past? Will she be allowed to?", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260014.Both_Sides_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Captive", "author_name": "Trista Ann Michaels", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 672, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Aliens? Attacking Earth?Her home is being destroyed. Her friends killed. Her freedom taken away. Escape from the man or alien responsible is the only choice she has but deep down, it\u2019s the last thing Mikayla truly wants and she hates herself for it. Falling in love with her captor is not an option, despite how seductive he is. He might get her body, but she refuses to give him what he truly wanted\u2026her soul.How the hell has Sidious been talked into this and more importantly, how the hell is he going to get out of it?The last thing he needs while working as a mole for the rebel forces is another complication, no matter how enticing a package. But the second Mikayla opens her sarcastic mouth, he can\u2019t resist putting her in her place. Seducing her's going be the most fun he\u2019s had in years. Unfortunately, someone is onto his secret and time is running out\u2026for both Sidious and his captive.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6513172-captive"}, +{"book_title": "Veteran", "author_name": "Gavin G. Smith", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 619, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Three hundred years in our future, in a world of alien infiltrators, religious hackers, a vast convoying nation of Nomads, city sized orbital elevators, and a cyborg pirate king who believes himself to be a mythological demon Jakob is having a bad day: \"Nothing gets in the way of a hangover like being reactivated by your old C.O and told to track down an alien killing machine. The same kind of killing machine that wiped out my entire squad. And now it's in my hometown. My name is Jakob Douglas, ex-special forces. I fought Them. Just like we've all been doing for 60 bloody years. But I thought my part in that was done with. My boss has other ideas. If I didn't find the infiltrator then he'd let the Grey Lady loose on me. And believe me; even They've got nothing on her. So I took the job. It went to shit even faster than normal. And now I'm on the run with this teenage hacker who's had enough of prostitution. The only people I can rely on want to turn the internet into God. And now it turns out that They aren't quite what we'd all thought. I've been to the bottom of the sea and the top of the sky and beyond trying to get to the truth. And I still can't get far enough away from the Grey Lady. All things considered I'd rather be back at home deep in a whiskey bottle.\" Veteran is a fast paced, intricately plotted violent SF Thriller set in a dark future against the backdrop of a seemingly never ending war against an unknowable and implacable alien enemy.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7298320-veteran"}, +{"book_title": "The Invaders", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 64, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "The Invaders orbit the Earth in flying saucers. Some have already landed. The others are waiting.The Invaders are merciless, inhuman creatures from a dying planet. They know more about science than we do. They have weapons of incredible power.The Invaders have already begun to take over. Their scouts have settled among us. Their agents have infiltrated our highest councils.The Invaders must be stopped! But only one man - David Vincent - even knows they exist!The Invaders is based on the sensational ABC-TV series starring Roy Thinnes.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6238971-the-invaders"}, +{"book_title": "The Highlander's Touch", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 30497, "review_number": 1214, "book_description": "A Warrior Of Immortal PowersHe was a mighty Scottish warrior who lived in a world bound by ancient laws and timeless magic. But no immortal powers could prepare the laird of Castle Brodie for the lovely accursed lass who stood before him. A terrible trick of fate had sent her 700 years back in time and into his private chamber to tempt him with her beauty\u2014and seduce him with a desire he could never fulfill. For this woman he burned to possess was alsothe woman he had foresworn to destroy. A Woman Caught In The Mists Of TimeWhen Lisa felt the earth move under her feet, the fiercely independent 21st-century woman never dreamed she was falling...into another century. But the powerful, naked warrior who stood glaring down at her was only too real...and too dangerously arousing. Irresistibly handsome he might be, but Lisa had no intention of remaining in this savage land torn by treachery and war. How could she know that her seductive captor had other plans for her...plans that would save her from a tragic fate? Or that this man who had long ago forsaken love would defy time itself to claim her for his own....", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815150.The_Highlander_s_Touch"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows of Self", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 89362, "review_number": 4942, "book_description": "Shadows of Self shows Mistborn\u2019s society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and religion becomes a growing cultural force, with four faiths competing for converts.This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society now faces its first instance of terrorism, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict. Wax and Wayne, assisted by the lovely, brilliant Marasi, must unravel the conspiracy before civil strife stops Scadrial\u2019s progress in its tracks.Shadows of Self will give fans of The Alloy of Law everything they\u2019ve been hoping for and, this being a Brandon Sanderson book, more, much more.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16065004-shadows-of-self"}, +{"book_title": "The Queen's Bastard", "author_name": "C.E. Murphy", "rating_score": 3.14, "rating_votes": 1237, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "\u201cWow. C. E. Murphy is good. Court intrigue in an alternate Elizabethan-era fantasy world: realpolitik with the sex included.\u201d\u2013Kate Elliott, author of Crown of StarsIn a world where religion has ripped apart the old order, Belinda Primrose is the queen\u2019s secret weapon. The unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the first queen to sit on the Aulunian throne, Belinda has been trained as a spy since the age of twelve by her father, Lorraine\u2019s lover and spymaster.Cunning and alluring, fluent in languages and able to take on any persona, Belinda can infiltrate the glittering courts of Echon where her mother\u2019s enemies conspire. She can seduce at will and kill if she must. But Belinda\u2019s spying takes a new twist when her witchlight appears. Now Belinda\u2019s powers are unlike anything Lorraine could have imagined. They can turn an obedient daughter into a rival who understands that anything can be hers, including the wickedly sensual Javier, whose throne Lorraine both covets and fears. But Javier is also witchbreed, a man whose ability rivals Belinda\u2019s own . . . and can be just as dangerous.Amid court intrigue and magic, loyalty and love can lead to more daring passions, as Belinda discovers that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.\u201cC. E. Murphy vividly reimagines Renaissance Europe as a world both familiar and strange. Filled with intrigue and betrayal, her story is a chess game with six of seven sides, and I look forward to seeing what the next moves are.\u201d\u2013Marie Brennan, author of Warrior and Witch", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1930898.The_Queen_s_Bastard"}, +{"book_title": "Mercs", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 721, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Earth has been a scarred ruin for three decades, its scattered people struggling to survive amid the poisoned and radioactive wreckage of the final war between its despotic Superpowers. While the people of Earth struggle to survive, out on the frontier, on a thousand worlds, mankind thrives and grows, building new civilizations and looking boldly to the future. But man has never been able to live in peace, and even Earth\u2019s sad fate has failed to slow the call to war. Most of the colonies lack the industry and economic power to sustain their own armies and navies, and they look to the mercenaries of the Great Companies for aid in time of war. These futuristic condottiere contract themselves to the highest bidder, and the mightiest strike fear into the hearts of all who oppose them. Darius Cain is the leader of the Black Eagles, the most renowned of all the Companies. A military genius, he has led his undefeated warriors from victory to victory. The Eagles command the highest rates of any of the Companies, and leaders bankrupt worlds to pay their price. But amid the ruins of Earth and on planets all across occupied space there are signs of a greater darkness, a force working in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to strike, to launch a final war to reduce all mankind to slavery. As Cain slowly uncovers the truth, he must forge an alliance among old enemies, the other Companies his men have fought for years\u2026and the twin brother he hasn\u2019t seen in a decade. The Crimson Worlds are about to explode into a war that may be mankind\u2019s last. Also By Jay Allan: The Crimson Worlds Series: Marines (Crimson Worlds I) The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II) A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III) The First Imperium (Crimson Worlds IV) The Line Must Hold (Crimson Worlds V) To Hell\u2019s Heart (Crimson Worlds VI) The Shadow Legions (Crimson Worlds VII) Even Legends Die (Crimson Worlds VIII) The Fall (Crimson Worlds IX) War Stories (3 Crimson Worlds Prequels) Gehenna Dawn (Portal Wars I) The Ten Thousand (Portal Wars II) The Dragon's Banner (Pendragon Chronicles I) Now Available for Pre-Order: Into the Darkness (Crimson Worlds Refugees I) Release Date: Jun 23, 2015", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24396230-mercs"}, +{"book_title": "Lord of Emperors", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 11714, "review_number": 398, "book_description": "The Thrilling Sequel To Sailing To SarantiumBeckoned by the Emperor Valerius, Crispin, a renowned mosaicist, has arrived in the fabled city of Sarantium. Here he seeks to fulfill his artistic ambitions and his destiny high upon a dome that will become the emerror's magnificent sanctuary and legacy.But the beauty and solitude of his work cannot protect his from Sarantium's intrigue. Beneath him the city swirls with rumors of war and conspiracy, while otherworldly fires mysteriously flicker and disappear in the streets at night. Valerius is looking west to Crispin's homeland to reunite an Empire -- a plan that may have dire consequences for the loved ones Crispin left behind.In Sarantium, however, loyalty is always complex, for Crispin's fate has become entwined with that of Valerius and his Empress, as well as Queen Gisel, his own monarch exiled in Sarantium herself. And now another voyager -- this time from the east -- has arrived, a pysician determined to make his mark amid the shifting, treachearous currents of passion and violence that will determine the empire's fate.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104091.Lord_of_Emperors"}, +{"book_title": "Island in the Sea of Time", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 7449, "review_number": 455, "book_description": "\"Utterly engaging...a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans.\"--George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of ThronesIt's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, in the shape of a would-be conqueror from their own time.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99702.Island_in_the_Sea_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Humans", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 5455, "review_number": 251, "book_description": "Robert J. Sawyer, the award-winning and bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in Humans, the second book of The Neanderthal Parallax, his trilogy about our world and parallel one in which it was the Homo sapiens who died out and the Neanderthals who became the dominant intelligent species. This powerful idea allows Sawyer to examine some of the deeply rooted assumptions of contemporary human civilization dramatically, by confronting us with another civilization, just as morally valid, that has made other choices. In Humans, Neanderthal physicist Ponter Boddit, a character you will never forget, returns to our world and to his relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughan, as cultural exchanges between the two Earths begin.As we see daily life in another present-day world, radically different from ours, in the course of Sawyer's fast-moving story, we experience the bursts of wonder and enlightenment that are the finest pleasures of science fiction. Humans is one of the best SF novels of the year, and The Neanderthal Parallax is an SF classic in the making.Humans is a 2004 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Romance", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337008.Humans"}, +{"book_title": "Revealed", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 2598, "review_number": 217, "book_description": "After a mysterious cameo from Charles Lindbergh, it\u2019s up to Jonah to save his town in the seventh book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls \u201cplenty of fun and great for history teachers as well.It\u2019s morning as usual at the Skidmore household\u2014until Charles Lindbergh, the famous historical pilot, appears in their living room. Jonah can hardly believe his eyes\u2014and then Lindbergh grabs Katherine and vanishes again. And that\u2019s not all. Chip, Andrea, and all the other children from the plane have disappeared too. And worst of all, Jonah\u2019s parents and all the other adults in his town have de-aged into children.Jonah is the only one left, and the only one who can save everyone. With the help of de-aged JB and Angela, he has to collect the clues. And they lead directly back to Gary and Hodge, and a terrible plot that could mean the end of everything Jonah has ever loved. Can Jonah put the pieces together before time runs out?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18198687-revealed"}, +{"book_title": "Jane in Love", "author_name": "Rachel Givney", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 989, "review_number": 271, "book_description": "If Jane Austen had the choice between the heart and the pen, what do you think she would do?At age twenty-eight, Jane Austen should be seeking a suitable husband, but all she wants to do is write. She is forced to take extreme measures in her quest to find true love - which lands her in the most extraordinary of circumstances. Magically, she finds herself in modern-day England, where horseless steel carriages line the streets and people wear very little clothing. She forms a new best friend in fading film star Sofia Wentworth, and a genuine love interest in Sofia's brother Fred, who has the audacity to be handsome, clever and kind-hearted.She is also delighted to discover that she is now a famous writer, a published author of six novels and beloved around the globe. But as Jane's romance with Fred blossoms, her presence in the literary world starts to waver. She must find a way to stop herself disappearing from history before it's too late.A modern-day reimagining of the life of one of the world's most celebrated writers, this wonderfully witty romantic comedy offers a new side to Jane's story, which sees her having to choose between true love in the present and her career as a writer in the past.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Contemporary", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Audiobook", "Historical", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50706465-jane-in-love"}, +{"book_title": "Taking on the Dead", "author_name": "Annie Walls", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2803, "review_number": 276, "book_description": "Life for Kansas was perfect until the day the world changed.She has been hiding out for four years in solitude. It's the only way to survive. The only way not to draw the living dead. Helping a small group of people, she learns the new world might not be what she assumes. Venturing out of her refuge and comfort zone, she meets Rudy, who helps her find a greater purpose. She realizes that the world has moved on without her. Only it's not what she expects. Her knowledge of the living dead grows and only makes her more curious as humanity continues to hang on by a thread. While on her search for answers she finds comfort in new friendships and love, but her past seems as if it will haunt her forever. Kansas takes it upon herself to help other survivors, which would be easy if the famished were the only obstacles.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13546207-taking-on-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", "author_name": "Judd Trichter", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 543, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "Set in a near-future LA, a man falls in love with a beautiful android\u2014but when she is kidnapped and sold piecemeal on the black market, he must track down her parts to put her back together.Bad luck for Eliot Lazar, he fell in love with an android, a beautiful C-900 named Iris Matsuo. That\u2019s the kind of thing that can get you killed in late 21th century Los Angeles or anywhere else for that matter \u2013 anywhere except the man-made island of Atlantis, far out in the Pacific, which is where Eliot and Iris are headed once they get their hands on a boat. But then one night Eliot knocks on Iris\u2019s door only to find she was kidnapped, chopped up, sold for parts.Unable to move on and unwilling to settle for a woman with a heartbeat, Eliot vows to find the parts to put Iris back together again\u2014and to find the sonofabitch who did this to her and get his revenge.With a determined LAPD detective on his trail and time running out in a city where machines and men battle for control, Eliot Lazar embarks on a bloody journey that will take him to edge of a moral precipice from which he can never return, from which mankind can never return.In the vein of Blade Runner, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a scifi love story that asks the question, how far will you go to save someone you love?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22545439-love-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction"}, +{"book_title": "Ancillary Sword", "author_name": "Ann Leckie", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 42798, "review_number": 3415, "book_description": "Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, in the sequel to Ann Leckie's NYT bestselling, award-winning Ancillary Justice. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy has become one of the new classics of science fiction. Beautifully written and forward thinking, it does what good science fiction does best, taking readers to bold new worlds with plenty explosions along the way.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20706284-ancillary-sword"}, +{"book_title": "Flamecaster", "author_name": "Cinda Williams Chima", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 12907, "review_number": 1586, "book_description": "A burning vengeance.Adrian sul\u2019Han, known as Ash, is a trained healer with a powerful gift of magic\u2014and a thirst for revenge. The son of the queen of the Fells, Ash is forced into hiding after a series of murders throws the queendom into chaos. Now Ash is closer than he\u2019s ever been to killing the man responsible, the cruel king of Arden. As a healer, can Ash use his powers not to save a life but to take it?A blood-based curse.Abandoned at birth, Jenna Bandelow was told the mysterious magemark on the back of her neck would make her a target. But when the King\u2019s Guard launches a relentless search for a girl with a mark like hers, Jenna assumes that it has more to do with her role as a saboteur than any birth-based curse. Though Jenna doesn\u2019t know why she\u2019s being hunted, she knows that she can\u2019t get caught.Destiny\u2019s fiery hand.Eventually, Ash\u2019s and Jenna\u2019s paths will collide in Arden. Thrown together by chance and joined by their hatred of the king, they will come to rescue each other in ways they cannot yet imagine.Set in the world of the acclaimed Seven Realms series a generation later, this is a thrilling story of dark magic, chilling threats, and two unforgettable characters walking a knife-sharp line between life and death.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23253083-flamecaster"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows", "author_name": "Ilsa J. Bick", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 10179, "review_number": 1120, "book_description": "The Apocalypse does not end. The Changed will grow in numbers. The Spared may not survive.Even before the EMPs brought down the world, Alex was on the run from the demons of her past and the monster living in her head. After the world was gone, she believed Rule could be a sanctuary for her and those she\u2019d come to love.But she was wrong.Now Alex is in the fight of her life against the adults, who would use her, the survivors, who don\u2019t trust her, and the Changed, who would eat her alive. Welcome to Shadows, the second book in the haunting apocalyptic Ashes Trilogy: where no one is safe and humans may be the worst of the monsters.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11320138-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Terra and Imperium", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 1946, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Secrets both ancient and new. Powers great and greater\u2014 With Terra caught in the middle Humanity\u2019s first colony is a project neither the Duchy of Terra nor the A!Tol Imperium can allow to fail. The planet Hope in the Alpha Centauri system has been lavished with resources and attention\u2014but when an unknown alien force attacks the system, all of that is in danger. An ancient alien artifact is the apparent target of the attack, an artifact older than known galactic civilization. Suddenly, the backwater colony of a second-rate power is the gathering point for a confrontation of the galaxy\u2019s greatest powers. Duchess Annette Bond might be pregnant. She might be five light years away. She might have another galactic power on her doorstep demanding she surrender their rebels who\u2019ve settled on Earth. But she speaks for both Terra and the Imperium\u2014and the galaxy will listen.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Military History (Naval History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36155905-terra-and-imperium"}, +{"book_title": "Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 2", "author_name": "Hiroki Endo", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 626, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Graphic, cyberpunk and philosophical, Eden is a place where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner! After a large portion of humanity is wiped out by a brutal, new virus, an organization known as the Propator seeks to wrest control of the world from the United Nations. Elijah, a young survivor with immunity to the virus, crosses paths with a group of supposed freedom fighters. His companion, an artificially intelligent combat robot named Cherubim, is appropriated and reprogrammed, and Elijah is pulled into a world of relentless peril and intrigue! Cybernetic enhancements! Extreme violence! This breathtaking ride is just getting started!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Graphic Novels Manga", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251992.Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Imagine Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 17205, "review_number": 3094, "book_description": "The explosive finale to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series.Juliette Ferrars.Ella Sommers.Which is the truth and which is the lie?Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong\u2014between Ella and Juliette\u2014blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control.The day of reckoning for the Reestablishment is coming. But she may not get to choose what side she fights on.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44054122-imagine-me"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost Town at Sundown", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 10683, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "Is this town HAUNTED? Jack and Annie wonder when the Magic Tree House whisks them to the Wild West. But before they can say \"Boo!\" they rush headlong into an adventure filled with horse thieves, a lost colt, rattlesnakes, and a cowboy named Slim. Will Jack and Annie have time to solve the next Tree House Riddle? The answer may depend on a ghost!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/861358.Ghost_Town_at_Sundown"}, +{"book_title": "Steeplejack", "author_name": "A.J. Hartley", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 948, "review_number": 223, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga makes a living repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of Bar-Selehm. Dramatically different communities live and work alongside one another. The white Feldish command the nation\u2019s higher echelons of society; the native Mahweni are divided between city life and the savannah. And then there\u2019s Ang, part of the Lani community who immigrated there generations ago and now mostly live in poverty on Bar-Selehm\u2019s edges.When Ang is supposed to meet her new apprentice, Berrit, she finds him dead. That same night the Beacon, an invaluable historical icon, is stolen. The Beacon\u2019s theft commands the headlines, yet no one seems to care about Berrit\u2019s murder\u2014except for Josiah Willinghouse, an enigmatic young politician. When he offers Ang a job investigating the death, she plunges headlong into new and unexpected dangers.Meanwhile, crowds gather in protests over the city\u2019s mounting troubles. Rumors surrounding the Beacon\u2019s theft grow. More suspicious deaths occur. With no one to help Ang except Josiah\u2019s haughty younger sister, a savvy newspaper girl, and a kindhearted herder, Ang must rely on her intellect and strength to resolve the mysterious link between Berrit and the missing Beacon before the city descends into chaos.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114337-steeplejack"}, +{"book_title": "Immortal City", "author_name": "Scott Speer", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 12957, "review_number": 1154, "book_description": "Jackson Godspeed is the hottest Angel in a city that revolves around idolizing Immortals like him. He grew up in the spotlight, and in less than a week he'll become the youngest full-fledged Guardian ever. People around the world are lining up to pay for him to keep them safe. His lifelong dream of becoming a hero is finally within his grasp - and he can't afford to let the parties, paparazzi, or red carpets distract him.But Jackson's high-profile life takes an unexpected turn when he meets seventeen-year-old Maddy. She's smart and down-to-earth, and sees Jackson for who he is and not for his celebrity. They forge an instant - and electric - connection. Their vastly different backgrounds seem like the only obstacle in their path to being together . . . until something much more dangerous threatens to destroy their chance at love.Because not everyone worships the Angels: a bitter killer is murdering the Guardians one by one. And it's up Maddy to save Jackson - he's next in the killer's sights.Set in a reimagined Los Angeles that sparkles with glamour and celebrity worship, Scott Speer's Immortal City is charged with passion and haunted by themes of power and idolatry.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Paranormal (Angels)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11443325-immortal-city"}, +{"book_title": "The Immortal Crown", "author_name": "Richelle Mead", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 8036, "review_number": 804, "book_description": "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Vampire Academy and Bloodline series returns with the second installment in her acclaimed Age of X series.Gameboard of the Gods introduced religious investigator Justin March and Mae Koskinen, the beautiful supersoldier assigned to protect him. Together they have been charged with investigating reports of the supernatural and the return of the gods, both inside the Republic of United North America and out. With this highly classified knowledge comes a shocking revelation: Not only are the gods vying for human control, but the elect\u2014special humans marked by the divine\u2014are turning against one another in bloody fashion.Their mission takes a new twist when they are assigned to a diplomatic delegation headed by Lucian Darling, Justin\u2019s old friend and rival, going into Arcadia, the RUNA\u2019s dangerous neighboring country. Here, in a society where women are commodities and religion is intertwined with government, Justin discovers powerful forces at work, even as he struggles to come to terms with his own reluctantly acquired deity.Meanwhile, Mae\u2014grudgingly posing as Justin\u2019s concubine\u2014has a secret mission of her own: finding the illegitimate niece her family smuggled away years ago. But with Justin and Mae resisting the resurgence of the gods in Arcadia, a reporter\u2019s connection with someone close to Justin back home threatens to expose their mission\u2014and with it the divine forces the government is determined to keep secret.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16156357-the-immortal-crown"}, +{"book_title": "Contagious", "author_name": "Scott Sigler", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 10024, "review_number": 645, "book_description": "From the acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity's secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small group, assembled under the strictest secrecy. Their best weapon is hulking former football star Perry Dawsey, left psychologically shattered by his own struggles with this terrible enemy, who possesses an unexplainable ability to locate the disease's hosts. Violent and unpredictable, Perry is both the nation's best hope and a terrifying liability. Hardened CIA veteran Dew Phillips must somehow forge a connection with him if they're going to stand a chance against this maddeningly adaptable opponent. Alongside them is Margaret Montoya, a brilliant epidemiologist who fights for a cure even as she reels under the weight of endless horrors. These three and their team have kept humanity in the game, but that's not good enough anymore, not when the disease turns contagious, triggering a fast countdown to Armageddon. Meanwhile, other enemies join the battle, and a new threat -- one that comes from a most unexpected source -- may ultimately prove the most dangerous of all.Catapulting the reader into a world where humanity's life span is measured in hours and the president's finger hovers over the nuclear button, rising star Scott Sigler takes us on a breathtaking, hyper-adrenalized ride filled with terror and jaw-dropping action. Contagious is a truly grand work of suspense, science, and horror from a new master.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3605324-contagious"}, +{"book_title": "The Gunfighter and the Gear-Head", "author_name": "Cassandra Duffy", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 476, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "An apocalyptic alien invasion set humanity on the edge of extermination. Unable to match technology with the invaders, humanity bet their existence on their physical strength overcoming. In a desperate last stand by the world's greatest scientists, the cataclysm electromagnetic pulse wiped out all technology on the planet, stranding the aliens on earth, effectively locking them in the cage with the beasts of humanity that remained. Using pre-industrial weapons of war, the surviving humans fought back.Six years later, Gieo, the self-proclaimed last pilot on earth, was shot down yet again. She finds herself in the unwelcoming post apocalyptic old west town of Tombstone, the guest of the beautiful gunfighter Fiona with a turbulent history. Their budding romance hits an immediate snag when Fiona's mysterious past finally catches up with her, bringing with it old flames, hot grudges, and a rekindling of the war with the aliens that had cooled to a stalemate.Sky-captain Gieo and her fleet of steam-powered dirigibles are humanity's best chance to turn the tide of the war against the alien invaders, but only if Fiona can protect her from blind cultists, jealous ex-girlfriends, and a town of apocalypse cowboys with suspect sanity.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adventure", "Romance (Lesbian Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12565297-the-gunfighter-and-the-gear-head"}, +{"book_title": "Under Different Stars", "author_name": "Amy A. Bartol", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 17813, "review_number": 1826, "book_description": "Kricket Hollowell is normally not one to wish upon stars; she believes they\u2019re rarely in her favor. Well versed at dodging caseworkers from Chicago\u2019s foster care system, the past few years on her own have made Kricket an expert at the art of survival and blending in. With her 18th birthday fast approaching, she dreams of the day when she can stop running and find what her heart needs most: a home. Trey Allairis hates Earth and doubts that anyone from his world can thrive here. What he\u2019s learning of Kricket and her existence away from her true home only confirms his theory. But, when he and Kricket lie together under the stars of Ethar, counting them all may be easier than letting her go. Kyon Ensin\u2019s secrets number the stars; he knows more about Kricket's gifts than anyone and plans to possess her because of them. He also knows she\u2019s more valuable than any fire in the night sky. He\u2019ll move the heavens and align them all in order to make her his own. When everything in their world can be broken, will Kricket rely upon love to save her under different stars?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19504931-under-different-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions", "author_name": "Robert Rankin", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 657, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Rankin's far-fetched steampunk sequel to The War of the Worlds!\u00a0It's 1895; nearly a decade since Mars invaded Earth, chronicled by H.G. Wells in The War of the Worlds. Wrecked Martian spaceships, back-engineered by Charles Babbage and Nikola Tesla, have carried the Queen's Own Electric Fusiliers to the red planet, and Mars is now part of the ever-expanding British Empire. Professor Coffin has a problem: the pickled Martian's tentacles are fraying at the ends, and\u00a0his Most Meritorious Unnatural Attraction (the remains of the original alien autopsy, performed by Sir Frederick Treves at the London Hospital) is no longer drawing the crowds.\u00a0The less-than-scrupulous sideshow proprietor likes Off-worlders' cash, so he needs a sensational new attraction. Word has reached him of the Japanese Devil Fish Girl; nothing quite like her has ever existed before. But Professor Coffin's quest to possess the ultimate showman's exhibit is about to cause considerable friction among the folk of other planets. Sufficient, in fact, to spark off Worlds War Two.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8049140-the-japanese-devil-fish-girl-and-other-unnatural-attractions"}, +{"book_title": "Foundling", "author_name": "D.M. Cornish", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 7599, "review_number": 707, "book_description": "Set in the world of the Half-Continent\u2014a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols\u2014the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered people. Foundling begins the journey of Rossamund, a boy with a girl\u2019s name, who is just about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor. What starts as a simple journey is threatened by encounters with monsters\u2014and people, who may be worse. Learning who to trust and who to fear is neither easy nor without its perils, and Rossamund must choose his path carefully. Complete with appendices, maps, illustrations, and a glossary, Monster Blood Tattoo grabs readers from the first sentence and immerses them in an entirely original fantasy world with its own language and lore.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210250.Foundling"}, +{"book_title": "Devices Brightly Shining", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 528, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me Dreadful relations, high expectations, And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee. It is the event of the season\u2014on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the Prince Consort himself is expected. Captain Ian Hollys brings his fianc\u00e9e Alice Chalmers to London to attend and to meet his family\u2014people who cannot see past her flight boots to the woman who stands by his side as an equal. Now adjusting to life as a newlywed, seeing to her business affairs, and preparing the Mopsies to return to school in Munich, Lady Claire is settling into her new life with joy. When two young cousins of Gloria Meriwether-Astor arrive in London, the inhabitants of Carrick House are happy to welcome them. Sydney and Hugh Meriwether-Astor are completing a world tour, and the Dunsmuirs\u2019 ball is just the thing to cap it off in splendid fashion. But Maggie learns that Sydney has his own plans for the family business\u2014and they don\u2019t include cutting off the supply of arms to the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias, as Gloria is determined to do. It\u2019s time for someone with a spine, an airship of her own, and reasons to put fields of air between herself and decisions about her future to pull up ropes and warn Gloria that betrayal is closer than she thinks \u2026 \u201cIt\u2019s another element I love about these books; from Claire to Gloria to Alice to Lizzie and Maggie to Lady Dunsmuir, the women in this series generally like and respect each other. Other women are not required to be lesser\u2014weaker, more cowardly, less intelligent\u2014in order for Claire to be awesome. She is not an exceptional woman, she is an awesome woman among awesome women.\u201d \u2014Fangs for the Fantasy: The latest in urban fantasy from a social justice perspective", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26832003-devices-brightly-shining"}, +{"book_title": "The Solar War", "author_name": "A.G. Riddle", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 8863, "review_number": 428, "book_description": "We thought the war was over.We were wrong.They decimated Earth during the Long Winter.Now the grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct.On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44164651-the-solar-war"}, +{"book_title": "Sapphire Dream", "author_name": "Pamela Montgomerie", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 138, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "A bit of magic, a twist of fate, and a prophecy of danger and desire...Brenna Cameron came to Castle Stour on the coast of Scotland seeking answers about her past. All she has is the sapphire pendant around her neck and a vague feeling that she has seen this place before. She never imagined that she would be transported to a seventeenth-century pirate ship, complete with a dangerous crew of scallywags and a handsome captain who is none too pleased to have her aboard.Rourke Douglas knows the appearance of this beautiful stranger is linked to the prophecy that has haunted his family for years. When the fiery-haired siren materializes on his ship, courtesy of the mythical sapphire and a bit of meddling magic, Rourke wants nothing more than to send her back to wherever she came from. But something about Brenna stirs his wounded soul, and Rourke knows he cannot outrun his destiny any longer.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6286319-sapphire-dream"}, +{"book_title": "Aliens: The Female War", "author_name": "Steve Perry", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1163, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "Lieutenant Ellen Ripley awoke from her long journey in space with a hole in her memory and an overwhelming drive to survive. When she meets Wilks and Billie, two battered veterans in the war against the aliens, she realizes she's found two comrades in arms - and she's ready to take up the fight.Only then does she discover the devastating secret that lurks behind her long sleep. When she, Wilks, and Billie prepare to meet the aliens head-on to turn a powerful alien queen against her spawn in a battle intended to save Earth, that secret becomes her greatest weapon - and her greatest liability. As the fate of Earth hangs in the balance, Ripley and Billie must come to terms with what it means to be alien... and what it means to be human.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Novels", "Space", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343283.Aliens"}, +{"book_title": "Change Agent", "author_name": "Daniel Suarez", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 6091, "review_number": 609, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself.On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle\u2014 and his transformation begins. . . .\u00a0 \u00a0 In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol\u2019s most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform \"vanity edits\" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution\u2014preying on human-trafficking victims to experiment and advance their technology. \u00a0 With the worlds of genetic crime and human trafficking converging, Durand and his fellow Interpol agents discover that one figure looms behind it all: Marcus Demang Wyckes, leader of a powerful and sophisticated cartel known as the Huli jing. \u00a0 But the Huli jing have identified Durand, too. After being forcibly dosed with a radical new change agent, Durand wakes from a coma weeks later to find he\u2019s been genetically transformed into someone else\u2014his most wanted suspect: Wyckes. \u00a0 Now a fugitive, pursued through the genetic underworld by his former colleagues and the police, Durand is determined to restore his original DNA by locating the source of the mysterious\u2014and highly valuable\u2014change agent. But Durand hasn\u2019t anticipated just how difficult locating his enemy will be. With the technology to genetically edit the living, Wyckes and his Huli jing could be anyone and everyone\u2014and they have plans to undermine identity itself.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31396262-change-agent"}, +{"book_title": "The Peculiar", "author_name": "Stefan Bachmann", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 4311, "review_number": 729, "book_description": "Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.In the faery slums of Bath, Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie live by these words. Bartholomew and Hettie are changelings--Peculiars--and neither faeries nor humans want anything to do with them.One day a mysterious lady in a plum-colored dress comes gliding down Old Crow Alley. Bartholomew watches her through his window. Who is she? What does she want? And when Bartholomew witnesses the lady whisking away, in a whirling ring of feathers, the boy who lives across the alley--Bartholomew forgets the rules and gets himself noticed.First he's noticed by the lady in plum herself, then by something darkly magical and mysterious, by Jack Box and the Raggedy Man, by the powerful Mr. Lickerish . . . and by Arthur Jelliby, a young man trying to slip through the world unnoticed, too, and who, against all odds, offers Bartholomew friendship and a way to belong.Part murder mystery, part gothic fantasy, part steampunk adventure, The Peculiar is Stefan Bachmann's riveting, inventive, and unforgettable debut novel.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13455553-the-peculiar"}, +{"book_title": "In Fire Forged", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2214, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Honor Harrington is arguably the most popular character in modern science fiction, but there are many other stories in the Honorverse besides those in which she has the central role. This fifth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series explores some of those stories with the help of such top writers as best-selling author Jane LIndskjold, New York Times best-selling author Timothy Zahn, and more\u2014including an all-new Honor Harrington adventure, set in her younger years, when a mob of space pirates made the mistake of tangling with Commander Harrington. That was a fatal mistake\u2014for the pirates . . . \u00a0\u00a0Praise for the hottest series in military science fiction:\u201cNobody does space opera better than Weber, and his heroine, Honor Harrington . . . like a fusion of Horatio Hornblower, Robert A. Heinlein and Tom Clancy. . . .\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly (starred review)\u201c[At All Costs is] a fast-paced tale that brings together all the elements developed in previous books, and pushes them a good way along toward an ultimate conclusion. . . .\u201d \u2014Booklist (starred review) \u00a0\u201cBrilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! . . . unequivocally superb!\u201d \u2014Anne McCaffrey on Weber\u2019s Echoes of Honor\u00a0\u201cGreat stuff . . . compelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure.\u201d \u2014Locus", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Anthologies", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8705919-in-fire-forged"}, +{"book_title": "Undertow", "author_name": "Michael Buckley", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 5810, "review_number": 1082, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Lyric Walker\u2019s life is forever changed when she witnesses the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors, on her beach in Coney Island. The world\u2019s initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyric\u2019s small town transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other. When Lyric is recruited to help the crown prince, a boy named Fathom, assimilate, she begins to fall for him. But their love is a dangerous one, and there are forces on both sides working to keep them apart. Only, what if the Alpha are not actually the enemy? What if they are in fact humanity\u2019s only hope of survival? Because the real enemy is coming. And it\u2019s more terrifying than anything the world has ever seen.Action, suspense, and romance whirlpool dangerously in this cinematic saga, a blend of District 9 and The Outsiders.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22749788-undertow"}, +{"book_title": "We Set the Dark on Fire", "author_name": "Tehlor Kay Mejia", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 9335, "review_number": 1809, "book_description": "At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband\u2019s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school\u2019s top student, but her bright future depends upon no one discovering her darkest secret\u2014that her pedigree is a lie. Her parents sacrificed everything to obtain forged identification papers so Dani could rise above her station. Now that her marriage to an important politico\u2019s son is fast approaching, she must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society, where famine and poverty rule supreme.On her graduation night, Dani seems to be in the clear, despite the surprises that unfold. But nothing prepares her for all the difficult choices she must make, especially when she is asked to spy for a resistance group desperately fighting to bring equality to Medio. Will Dani cling to the privilege her parents fought to win for her, or to give up everything she\u2019s strived for in pursuit of a free Medio\u2014and a chance at a forbidden love?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37868569-we-set-the-dark-on-fire"}, +{"book_title": "New Dead: A Zombie Anthology", "author_name": "Christopher Golden", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 3868, "review_number": 272, "book_description": "Resurrection! The hungry dead have risen.\u00a0They shamble down the street. They hide in back yards, car lots, shopping malls.\u00a0They devour neighbors, dogs and police officers.\u00a0And they are here to stay.\u00a0The real question is, what are you going to do about it? How will you survive?How will the world change when the dead begin to rise? Stoker-award-winning author Christopher Golden has\u00a0assembled an original anthology of never-before-published zombie stories from\u00a0an eclectic array\u00a0of today's hottest writers.\u00a0Inside there are stories about military might in the wake of an outbreak, survival in a wasted wasteland, the ardor of falling in love with a zombie, and a family outing at the circus.\u00a0Here is a collection of new views on death and resurrection.With stories from Joe Hill, John Connolly, Max Brooks, Kelley Armstrong, Tad Williams, David Wellington, David Liss, Aimee Bender, Jonathan Maberry, and many others, this is\u00a0a wildly diverse and entertaining collection... the last word on The New Dead.\u00a0", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6721385-new-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Mairelon the Magician", "author_name": "Patricia C. Wrede", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 8546, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "Kim doesn't hesitate when a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into the travelling magician's wagon in search of a silver bowl. Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London-disguised as a boy!-has schooled her in one hard lesson: steal from them before they steal from you. But there is something odd about this magician. He isn't like the other hucksters and swindlers that Kim is used to. When he catches her in the act, Kim thinks she's done for.Until he suggests she become his apprentice. Kim wonders how tough it could be faking a bit of hocus pocus.But Mairelon isn't an act. His magic is real.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245727.Mairelon_the_Magician"}, +{"book_title": "Forsaken Skies", "author_name": "D. Nolan Clark", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 504, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "From the dark, cold void came an unknown force. Their target a remote planet, the home for a group of people distancing themselves from mankind and pursuing a path of piety and peace. If they have any chance at survival a disparate group of pilots must come together to fight back any way they can. But the best these aces can do might not be good enough.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28962966-forsaken-skies"}, +{"book_title": "Ricky Ricotta Y El Poderoso Robot", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2255, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "Dav Pilkey creates an exciting new chapter-book series for early readers. Illustrated by talented cartoonist Martin Ontiveros --who was hand-picked by Dav Pilkey for this series!Ricky Ricotta es un rat\u00f3n solitario. No tiene hermanos con quien jugar. Los abusones de la escuela suelen meterse con \u00e9l. Ricky quiere que su vida cambie, que mejore, quiere que algo GRANDE ocurra. Mientras tanto, un rat\u00f3n cient\u00edfico malvado planea apoderarse de Ciudad Chillona. Ha construido un robot enorme y \u00a1le ha ordenado que destruya la ciudad! Pero para su sorpresa, el robot se niega a hacerlo y, con la ayuda de Ricky Ricotta, \u00a1se libera de su amo! A partir de ahora, nadie podr\u00e1 ser un abus\u00f3n con Ricky Ricotta porque \u00e9l y su robot le dar\u00e1n una buena lecci\u00f3n.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fiction", "Childrens", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1321560.Ricky_Ricotta_Y_El_Poderoso_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Sabotaged", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 11390, "review_number": 825, "book_description": "After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their journey goes dangerously awry, they realize that they may be in over their head. They've landed in the wrong time period. Andrea doesn't seem that interested in leaving the past. And even worse, it appears that someone has deliberately sabotaged their mission...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7130745-sabotaged"}, +{"book_title": "Mechanical Magic", "author_name": "Lorraine Ulrich", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 104, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "When Aster Genisov, a creator of mechanical novelties, is asked to help a wounded elf, his special talents and painful past could be the key to the elf\u2019s survival.Y\u2019rean was born to touch the sky, but when his wings are destroyed by a cruel master, not even the life he begins to build with Aster can assuage his despair. Aster has the means to help him\u2014it\u2019s written in his gypsy blood\u2014but is love enough for Aster to face his past and embrace his talent for mechanical magic?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13410983-mechanical-magic"}, +{"book_title": "The Martian: by Andy Weir | Summary & Analysis", "author_name": "Book*Sense", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 112, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "The Martian: by Andy Weir | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense This is a Summary & Analysis of The Martian . Lauded author Andy Weir\u2019s The Martian offers a gripping, inviting tale that partakes of young adult fiction and hard science fiction in a twist on the castaway rescue plot familiar from Defoe\u2019s Robinson Crusoe, Hanks\u2019s Castaway and many others. With its witty dialogue, exacting detail and not-too-improbable scenario, the book is an entertaining, engaging read likely to please not only the general public at which it is aimed, but also scholars of both young adult literature and science fiction and nascent scientists. It relates the story of Mark Watney\u2019s escape from being marooned on Mars. A member of the crew on the third living mission to Mars, Watney is struck in a storm when the mission formally aborts and must use his wits and the sharply limited physical resources available to him to make his way to a site from which he can be extracted. This companion to The Martian also includes the following: \u2022 Book Review \u2022 Story Setting Analysis \u2022 Story elements of the The Martian you may have missed as we decipher the novel \u2022 Details of Characters & Key Character Analysis \u2022 Summary of the text, with some analytical comments interspersed \u2022 Discussion & Analysis of Themes, Symbols\u2026 \u2022 And Much More! This Analysis of The Martian fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24069457-the-martian"}, +{"book_title": "Wrecked", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1102, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "Elizabeth has spent the past five years running from her father; her father's huntsman, Caius, has spent the past five years pursuing her. But when he finally catches up to her on an airship flying above Europe's zombie-infested cities, Elizabeth discovers that Caius isn't the only danger she has to fear\u2014and now that he's found her, Caius doesn't intend to let her go...Originally published in the anthology Fire & Frost.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Horror (Zombies)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19050401-wrecked"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Vengeance", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 4174, "review_number": 434, "book_description": "A fate worse than death . . .Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks. But defying the odds is what this Gyron Force officer does best, and Bastien won\u2019t rest until he lays his betrayers in their graves. Ten years later, he has one chance to balance the scales of justice, provided he relies on his former wingman\u2014 the very sister of the woman who testified against him. Major Ember Wyldestarrin joined the outlaw Tavali the day Kirovar fell into the hands of a tyrant, and she and her team were left on an outpost to die under a barrage of enemy fire. The last thing she wants is to be involved in politics again. But if she doesn\u2019t bring Bastien in, her sister will pay the ultimate price. Now she has to find some way to betray her former wingman (and fiance) before he catches on and kills her. Even so, treachery doesn\u2019t come easy to a woman who took a loyalty oath to protect her homeworld and comrades-in-arms. Yet as she tries to do right by her family, she learns that Bastien doesn\u2019t just hold the key to the fate of Kirovar, he is vital to The Sentella-League war, and to the entire Tavali nation. If she hands him over, three nations fall. If she doesn\u2019t, her entire family dies. Their fates are all in her hands, and time for all of them is quickly running out.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21858682-born-of-vengeance"}, +{"book_title": "Rising Sun Victorious: An Alternate History of the Pacific War", "author_name": "Peter G. Tsouras", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 201, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidents\u2013chance events, opportunities seized or cast aside\u2013that can derail the most brilliant military strategies and change the course of history. What if the Japanese had conquered India and driven out the British? What if the strategic link between the United States and Australia had been severed? What if Vice Admiral Nagumo had launched a third attack on Pearl Harbor? What if the U.S. Navy\u2019s gamble at Midway had backfired?Ten leading military historians ask these and other questions in this fascinating book. The war with Japan was rife with difficult choices and battles that could have gone either way. These fact-based alternate scenarios offer intriguing insights into what might have happened in the Pacific during World War II, and what the consequences would have been for America.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War (Military Fiction)", "History", "War (World War II)", "Nonfiction", "Military (Military History)", "Cultural (Japan)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1072962.Rising_Sun_Victorious"}, +{"book_title": "The Trap", "author_name": "Andrew Fukuda", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3165, "review_number": 413, "book_description": "From author Andrew Fukuda comes The Trap, the explosive finale to The Hunt trilogy\u2014perfect for fans of The Hunger Games!After barely escaping the Mission alive, Gene and Sissy face an impossible task: staying alive long enough to stop an entire world bent on their destruction. Bound on a train heading into the unknown with the surviving Mission girls, Gene, Sissy, David, and Epap must stick together and use everything they have to protect each other and their only hope: the cure that will turn the blood-thirsty creatures around them into humans again. Now that they know how to reverse the virus, Gene and Sissy have one final chance to save those they love and create a better life for themselves. But as they struggle to get there, Gene's mission sets him on a crash course with Ashley June, his first love . . . and his deadliest enemy.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Romance", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286729-the-trap"}, +{"book_title": "Master of Sanctity", "author_name": "Gav Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 165, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "More secrets of the Dark Angels are revealed as the Legacy of Caliban trilogy continues.The Legacy of Caliban echoes down through the ages, and the secretive mission of the Dark Angels Space Marines continues. Interrogator-Chaplain Asmodai sees treachery and deceit everywhere he turns \u2013 while this serves him well in his hunt for the Fallen, it also strains the Chapter\u2019s relations with their Imperial allies. With their true quarry now seemingly within their grasp, Brothers Annael and Telemenus find themselves at the forefront of a new operation that could shake the Imperium itself to its very core.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571719-master-of-sanctity"}, +{"book_title": "Bionicle, Vol. 3: City of Legends", "author_name": "Greg Farshtey", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 84, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "It is a time for rejoicing. The Matoran have rediscovered their original homeland, Metru Nui, and are preparing to return there for the first time in 1000 years. It is also a time for secrets to be revealed, as the six Turaga who rule the island of Mata Nui reveal that they too were once Toa, and guardians of Metru Nui.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3259955-bionicle-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 9", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.58, "rating_votes": 9856, "review_number": 200, "book_description": "Ed, Al and Winry return to Central Command, but only bad news greets the Fullmetal Alchemist and his friends. Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes has been murdered - and Second Lieutenant Maria Ross is the prime suspect! While Maria awaits an uncertain fate in jail, the living suit of armor bearing the soul of serial killer \"Berry the Chopper\" breaks free of the military and goes on a rampage. Now, the mysterious Homunculi must come out of the shadows to deal with the mess before their monstrous conspiracy is exposed. But for Colonel Mustang, Maes Hughes's former best friend, it's not about the truth; it's about revenge...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Manga (Shonen)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/866.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_9"}, +{"book_title": "You Only Love Twice", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 769, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "With the clock ticking down, the Company of Rogues must find a deadly killer and stop them from assassinating the Queen... before London burns. First rule of espionage: don't ever fall in love with your target.Five years ago, Gemma Townsend learned the hard way what happens when you break this rule. She lost everything. Her mentor's trust. The man she loved. And almost her life. Love is a weakness she can never afford again. When offered a chance at redemption, the seductive spy is determined to complete her assigned task: to track down a dangerous assassin known as the Chameleon, a mysterious killer sent after the queen, whose identity seems to constantly change. But as her investigation leads Gemma into a trap, she's rescued by a shadowy figure she thought was dead\u2014the double agent who once stole her heart. A man with few memories, all Obsidian knows is Gemma betrayed him, and he wants revenge. But one kiss ignites the unextinguished passion between them, and he can't bring himself to kill her. Can Obsidian ever trust her again? Or is history doomed to repeat itself? Because it soon becomes clear the Chameleon might be closer than either of them realized... and this time Gemma is in the line of fire.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35909593-you-only-love-twice"}, +{"book_title": "Black Water", "author_name": "D.J. MacHale", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 22574, "review_number": 433, "book_description": " and hereBREAKING THE RULESJust when fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler - to protect the territories of Halla from the evil Saint Dane - he is faced with an impossible choice. The inhabitants of Eelong are in danger of being wiped out by a mysterious plague. The only way Bobby can stop it is to bring the antidote from another territory. Since moving items between territories is forbidden by the Traveler rules, if Bobby chooses to save Eelong he could endanger himself, his friends, and the future of every other being in Halla.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147801.Black_Water"}, +{"book_title": "A Matter of Days", "author_name": "Amber Kizer", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2194, "review_number": 321, "book_description": "\u201cGripping and poignant, A Matter of Days takes readers on a heart-stopping journey of love and survival.\u201c \u2014 New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones \u00a0 Their new reality begins in just a matter of days. \u00a0 On Day 56 of the Blustar Pandemic, sixteen-year-old Nadia\u2019s mother dies, leaving Nadia to fend for herself and her younger brother, Rabbit. Both have been immunized against the virus, but they can\u2019t be protected from what comes next. Their father taught them to \u201cbe the cockroach\u201d\u2014to adapt to and survive whatever comes their way. And that\u2019s their mission. \u00a0 Facing a lawless world of destruction and deprivation, Nadia and Rabbit drive from Seattle to their grandfather\u2019s compound in West Virginia. The illness, fatigue, and hunger they endure along the way will all be worth it once they reach the compound. \u00a0 Unless no one is waiting for them . . . \u00a0 \u201cFans of Rick Yancey\u2019s The 5th Wave, S. D. Crockett\u2019s After the Snow, or Cormac McCarthy\u2019s adult novel The Road will find this a satisfying read.\u201d \u2014SLJ \u00a0 \u201cAn exciting apocalyptic road trip.\u201d \u2014Publishers WeeklyFrom the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15927598-a-matter-of-days"}, +{"book_title": "Weaver", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 419, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "The climax of the \u201cfascinating\u201d( Locus) alternate-history series\u2014 from the national bestselling author of Navigator, Conqueror, and Emperor. It is a war that has been fought throughout the centuries\u2014with the fate of Rome to Christendom to modern America at stake. Now, during World War II, Germany launches a successful invasion of England. But in secret they are waging a war on an even larger scale. Trapped in the middle of it is Mary Wooler, an American historian caught in the Blitz and tangled up in strands of history; her son Gary, fighting a ruthless invader at civilization\u2019s frontier; and Ben Kaman, a Jewish refugee whose very dreams place him at the heart of a conspiracy that threatens the very fabric of the tapestry of time.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "War", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2362998.Weaver"}, +{"book_title": "The Punch Escrow", "author_name": "Tal M. Klein", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 4944, "review_number": 634, "book_description": "It's the year 2147. Advancements in nanotechnology have enabled us to control aging. We've genetically engineered mosquitoes to feast on carbon fumes instead of blood, ending air pollution. And teleportation has become the ideal mode of transportation, offered exclusively by International Transport\u2014a secretive firm headquartered in New York City. Their slogan: Departure... Arrival... Delight!Joel Byram, our smartass protagonist, is an everyday twenty-second century guy. He spends his days training artificial intelligence engines to act more human, jamming out to 1980's new wave\u2014an extremely obscure genre, and trying to salvage his deteriorating marriage. Joel is pretty much an everyday guy with everyday problems\u2014until he's accidentally duplicated while teleporting. Now Joel must outsmart the shadowy organization that controls teleportation, outrun the religious sect out to destroy it, and find a way to get back to the woman he loves in a world that now has two of him.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Humor", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32446949-the-punch-escrow"}, +{"book_title": "Wet & Wild", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1232, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "A very confused Viking finds himself hurtled through time to face the rigorous ordeals of the Navy SEALs. Yet while his brawn allows him to easily adapt to the military, he's no match for one of the most difficult challenges of all-the modern-day woman.What do you get when you cross a Viking with a Navy SEAL? A warrior with the fierce instincts of the past and the rigorous training of America's most elite fighting corps? A totally buff hero-in-the-making who hasn't had a woman in roughly a thousand years? A wise guy with a time-warped sense of humor chanting grody jody calls? A dyed-in-the-wool romantic with a hopeless crush on his hands-off superior officer? Hoo-yah! Whatever you get, women everywhere can't wait to meet him, and his story is guaranteed to be . . . WET & WILD", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Humor", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1335217.Wet_Wild"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Conversation", "author_name": "Paul Tremblay", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 8097, "review_number": 889, "book_description": "What\u2019s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award\u2013winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.Imagine you\u2019ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where you were before. All you have is the disconnected voice of an attentive caretaker. Dr. Kuhn is there to help you\u2014physically, emotionally, and psychologically. She\u2019ll help you remember everything. She\u2019ll make sure you reclaim your lost identity. Now answer one question: Are you sure you want to?Paul Tremblay\u2019s The Last Conversation is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Horror", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49674113-the-last-conversation"}, +{"book_title": "Raybot and Weebot", "author_name": "Adam F. Watkins", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 82, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Watch out, Raybot, there's a new robot in the junkyard! Weebot is cute, precocious, and looking for trouble. Raybot now has two friends, and he's never been happier. That is, until Weebot arrives at the junkyard. At first, Raybot enjoys being Weebot's big brother, but he soon sees that the little robot is noisy, messy, and always breaking Raybot's toys. Can Raybot learn to embrace the chaos caused by this adorable little robot, or will Weebot's excitability and endless energy become too much for Raybot to handle? Adam F. Watkins has crafted a new and hilarious tale of friendship and family in his third robot-themed picture book, Raybot and Weebot.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32572367-raybot-and-weebot"}, +{"book_title": "And Another Thing", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 28170, "review_number": 1609, "book_description": "AN ENGLISHMAN'S CONTINUING SEARCH THROUGH SPACE AND TIME FOR A DECENT CUP OF TEA...Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incident.Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released, and colorfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. And of course Arthur Dent has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.Arthur has finally made it home to Earth, but that does not mean he has escaped his fate.Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa have evaporated rapidly, along with all the world's oceans. For no sooner has he touched down on the planet Earth than he finds out that it is about to be blown up...again.And Another Thing...is the rather unexpected, but very welcome, sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6359434-and-another-thing"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Princes", "author_name": "Sara Page", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 568, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "The sequel to Princess SOSI'm alive. I survived the wilds of that remote planet I crashed into, and I've been trying to get to know my new alien lover before I return home and introduce him to my father. Yeah, so not looking forward to that introduction but at least I'm not knocked up... yet. Everything is going great until we intercept a transmission from my home planet. Apparently my jerk of a stepbrother has been telling everyone I'm dead, and they believe it. There's been a funeral for me and everything. So now it's a race home to prove to everyone I'm still alive and breathing before they pass on my crown and title to the next girl in the line of succession. And if that's not enough on my plate, another alien has decided to step forward and he's claiming I'm his, like we're fated or something. Ha! And I don't even like the guy, seriously can not even stand him. And you'd think my current alien lover would be mad... But no, he insists on bringing the other alien guy along because he's convinced I need the extra protection. One Ravager? I think I can handle it. But two sexy red-eyed purple space demons? Two might prove to be too much for this princess... The Dark Princes is the second\u00a0installment\u00a0in the Ravager Chronicles series. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28904992-the-dark-princes"}, +{"book_title": "Hawksbill Station", "author_name": "Robert Silverberg", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1338, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "In the mid-21st century, time travel is used to send political prisoners to Hawksbill Station, a prison camp in the late Cambrian Era. When the latest arrival suspiciously deflects questions about his crimes and knowledge of 'Up Front', the inmates decide to find out his secret. NOTE: a novella length version of this story is also available.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Politics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872778.Hawksbill_Station"}, +{"book_title": "Welcome to Your Awesome Robot", "author_name": "Viviane Schwarz", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Designed to be enjoyed by children with an adult on hand, Welcome to Your Awesome Robot provides perfect material for a fun family activity day or a kids workshop. Viviane Schwarz has illustrated hilarious comics throughout the book to explain the blueprint instruction pages, so this is just as much a story as it is a workbook.A fantastic educational tool for children that is colorful and beautifully designed and illustrated.A fun activity book for parents, caregivers, and kids to enjoy together.Develops practical and creative skills.Produced to the very best production standards and manufactured in a 100 percent eco-friendly manner on the highest quality FSC assured paper, printed with vegetable based inks.Viviane Schwarz was born in Germany and as a child she loved books so much she mostly ate them. Once she realized there were people out there making them, she decided to make her own. She studied illustration in Falmouth, England, and shortly after moved to London, where she lives now. She has been nominated for many awards and even won some too, most recently winning the 2011 Booktrust Best New Illustrator Award. Her book There are Cats in this Book was shortlisted for the 2010 Cilip Greenaway award for Best Illustrated Book and her latest book There are No Cats in this Book is on the 2012 shortlist for the same award.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Art (Crafts)", "Nonfiction", "How To", "Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16057347-welcome-to-your-awesome-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Home", "author_name": "Tom Abrahams", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1755, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "HE THOUGHT HE WAS PREPARED. HE THOUGHT HIS FAMILY WAS SAFE. HE WAS WRONG. Five years after a pneumonic plague killed two-thirds of the world\u2019s population, army veteran Marcus Battle is isolated. He\u2019s alone with his guns, his food, and the graves of his wife and child. Unaware of the chaos that\u2019s befallen everything outside of his central Texas ranch land, Marcus lives a Spartan life. If anyone steps onto his property he shoots first and never ask questions. But when a woman in distress, chased by marauders, seeks asylum, Marcus has a decision to make. Does he throw her to the wolves to protect himself or does he help her and leave the shelter and protection of home?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Adventure (Survival)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28218574-home"}, +{"book_title": "The Probability Broach", "author_name": "L. Neil Smith", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 453, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Denver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds--some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own. Win finds himself transported to an alternate Earth where Congress is in Colorado, everyone carries a gun, there are gorillas in the Senate, and public services are controlled by private businesses.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Politics", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/997897.The_Probability_Broach"}, +{"book_title": "Lee at the Alamo", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 255, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "\nIn the history we know, General Robert E. Lee felt compelled to fight on the Confederate side, because honor (as he saw it) forbade him to take up arms against Virginia, his native state.\u00a0But what if the demands of honor had led him in the other direction altogether? Harry Turtledove, author of perhaps the most famous alternate-history novel about Robert E. Lee (The Guns of the South,\u00a01992), here returns with a look at what the great military leader might have done under only slightly\u00a0different circumstances...\n", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "War", "Science Fiction", "Literature (19th Century)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12544667-lee-at-the-alamo"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl from Everywhere", "author_name": "Heidi Heilig", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 13894, "review_number": 2560, "book_description": "Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father\u2019s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights, a mythic version of Africa. Along the way they have found crewmates and friends, and even a disarming thief who could come to mean much more to Nix.But the end to it all looms closer every day.Her father is obsessed with obtaining the one map, 1868 Honolulu, that could take him back to his lost love, Nix\u2019s mother. Even though getting it\u2014and going there\u2014could erase Nix\u2019s very existence.For the first time, Nix is entering unknown waters.She could find herself, find her family, find her own fantastical ability, her own epic love.Or she could disappear.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21979832-the-girl-from-everywhere"}, +{"book_title": "1637: The Volga Rules", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 478, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "NEW ENTRY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING, GENRE-DEFINING ALTERNATE HISTORY SERIES. It\u2019s been five years since a cosmic incident known as The Ring of Fire transported the modern day town of Grantville, West Virginia, through time and space to 17th century Europe. The course of world history has been forever altered. And Mother Russia is no exception. Inspired by the American up-timers\u2019 radical notion that all people are created equal, Russian serfs are rebelling. The entire village of Poltz, led by blacksmith Stefan Andreevich, pulls up stakes to make a run for freedom. Meanwhile, Czar Mikhail has escaped house arrest, with the aid of up-time car mechanic Bernie Zeppi, his Russian associates\u2014and a zeppelin. The czar makes his way to the village of Ufa. There he intends to set up a government-in-exile. It is to Ufa that the serfs of Poltz are heading, as well. The path is dangerous\u2014for the serfs as well as the czar. They face great distances and highwaymen. But the worst threat are those in the aristocracy who seek to crush the serfs and execute the czar in a bid to drive any hope for Russian freedom under their Parisian-crafted boot heels. But the Russians of 1637 have taken inspiration from their up-timer counterparts. And it could be that a new wind of liberty is about to blow three centuries early\u2014and change Mother Russia forever. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About 1636: The Kremlin Games: \u201c\u2026a well-constructed plot filled with satisfying measures of comedy, romance, political intrigue, and action.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly About 1635: A Parcel of Rogues: \"The 20th volume in this popular, fast-paced alternative history series follows close on the heels of the events in The Baltic War, picking up with the protagonists in London, including sharpshooter Julie Sims. This time the 20th-century transplants are determined to prevent the rise of Oliver Cromwell and even have the support of King Charles.\"\u2014Library Journal About 1634: The Galileo Affair: \"A rich, complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book.\"\u2014David Drake \"Gripping . . . depicted with power!\"\u2014Publishers Weekly About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series: \u201cThis alternate history series is . . . a landmark\u2026\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c . . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . . \u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction, with over three million books in print. He\u2019s the author/creator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel 1632. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the \u201cBelisarius\u201d alternate Roman history series, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War and latest Honorverse series entry Cauldron of Ghosts. Flint's latest Ring of Fire novel is 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives near Chicago, Illinois.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Pseudoscience (Conspiracy Theories)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38218711-1637"}, +{"book_title": "Soldier, Ask Not", "author_name": "Gordon R. Dickson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2538, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "A Hugo Award-winning novel of destiny and revenge. On the sixteen colonized worlds, mankind had changed: men of War on the Dorsai worlds, men of Faith on the Friendly worlds. Jamethon Black, a Friendly, is a true soldier, and a true man of faith. Now he must face a deadly enemy--an enemy whose defeat will forever separate him from the only woman he has ever loved.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Speculative Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1133489.Soldier_Ask_Not"}, +{"book_title": "Angels' Pawn", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 7710, "review_number": 365, "book_description": "Angels\u2019 Pawn is a stand-alone novella set in the Guild Hunter world. It features the guild hunter, Ashwini, and the vampire, Janvier.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6277068-angels-pawn"}, +{"book_title": "Only With a Highlander", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 2780, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "From bestselling author Janet Chapman comes the fifth novel in her Highlander series featuring a time-travelling Scotsman in modern-day Maine.As soon as Pine Creek\u2019s new mystery man steps into her art gallery, Winter MacKeage is intrigued. This sexy stranger, Matt Gregor, wants her to do some drawings of his dream house. And with his tiger-gold eyes and masculine charm, he\u2019s impossible to resist. But so is Winter\u2019s Scottish heritage. As the seventh MacKeage daughter, she must embrace her true magical calling...and deny her mortal desires. Soon Winter is heating up\u2014in Matt\u2019s strong arms\u2014and her fiery heart is torn. Can she give up the destiny she was born to fulfill for the only man she\u2019s ever truly loved?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192204.Only_With_a_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Empire", "author_name": "K.B. Wagers", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1244, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "The adrenaline-fueled, explosive conclusion to the Indranan War trilogy by K. B. Wagers.Gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place in the palace. Her sisters and parents have been murdered, and the Indranan Empire is reeling from both treasonous plots and foreign invasion.Now, on the run from enemies on all fronts, Hail prepares to fight a full-scale war for her throne and her people, even as she struggles with the immense weight of the legacy thrust upon her. With the aid of a motley crew of allies old and new, she must return home to face off with the same powerful enemies who killed her family and aim to destroy everything and everyone she loves. Untangling a legacy of lies and restoring peace to Indrana will require an empress's wrath and a gunrunner's justice.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33823193-beyond-the-empire"}, +{"book_title": "The Seeker", "author_name": "Stephenie Meyer", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1881, "review_number": 334, "book_description": "When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie Stryder will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about \u2014 Jared, Ian, her brother Jamie and her Uncle Jeb, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138606-the-seeker"}, +{"book_title": "The Children of the Company", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1330, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Take a ride through time with the devil. In the sixth book of the Company series, we meet Executive Facilitator General Labienus. He's used his immortal centuries to plot a complete takeover of the world since he was a young god-figure in Sumeria. In a meditative mood, he reviews his interesting career. He muses on his subversion of the Company black project ADONAI. He considers also Aegeus, his despised rival for power, who has discovered and captured a useful race of mortals known as Homo sapiens umbratilis. Their unique talents may enable him to seize ultimate power. Labienus plans a double cross that will kill two birds with one stone: he will woo away Aegeus's promising protege, the Facilitator Victor, and at the same time dispose of a ghost from his own past who has become inconvenient. The Hugo-nominated novella \"Son Observe The Time,\" telling that part of the story, is included here in its entirety. Fans of the series will love this book, and new readers will be enthralled.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270489.The_Children_of_the_Company"}, +{"book_title": "Evenfall", "author_name": "Ais", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 4886, "review_number": 544, "book_description": "NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS:This is the OLD version of Evenfall. An updated, heavily revised, and partially re-written edition of Evenfall can be found under Evenfall Volume 1: Director's Cut and Evenfall Volume 2: Director's CutThe authors strongly suggest new readers download the new edition.After September 21, 2014, the old edition will no longer be available for download. :]__________Years after the bombs of WWIII have changed the physical and political landscape, the Agency ruthlessly works behind the scenes to take down rebel groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means. Hsin Liu Vega (Sin) is their most efficient and deadly assassin ever. However, he tends to go off on unauthorized killing sprees and somehow his assigned partners all end up dead under suspicious circumstances. That is why the Agency has had him locked up in a box on the fourth floor for years. But now they think it is time to put the psychopath back in the field. With a new partner. Boyd's mother, a high ranking Agency official, volunteers her teenage son for the position. Boyd is not afraid of death. In fact, his life has been such an endless cycle of apathy and despair for the last few years that he'd welcome it. Can these two broken men form an efficient partnership? Can they learn to trust anyone, let alone each other? Sin doesn't give a fuck about the Agency, or the androgynous boy who holds the remote to the shock collar that is supposed to control him. On the other hand, Boyd is strangely unafraid of the man everyone calls 'monster' and Sin seems reluctant to let his keeper get himself killed on any missions. Yet.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Dark", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8164566-evenfall"}, +{"book_title": "Flagship", "author_name": "Isaac Hooke", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 743, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Captain Jonathan Dallas, commodore of Battle Unit 72, investigates the disappearance of a military research vessel on the fringes of known space.When the unit is ambushed by a threat that endangers not only the fleet but also all of humanity itself, Jonathan must somehow find the resources to fight back.Cut off from Central Command and faced with impossible odds, can Jonathan overcome his demons to save humanity and, more importantly, can he save himself?Flagship: where captains are made. Or broken.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29238514-flagship"}, +{"book_title": "The Night's Dawn Trilogy", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 976, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist chronicled an epic, far-future struggle set in a universe of thrilling complexity. Multiple worlds, alien races, two types of future humanity, and uncountable forms of fascinating future technology make up the universe created by Peter F. Hamilton. The \"reality dysfunction\" is a break in the fabric of reality that allows the dead to return to our world, where they possess living bodies. Gradually, it becomes horrifyingly clear that all of humanity is at risk of being taken over by the minds of those long dead. More and more of the dead are stealing the bodies of those still living, grouping together into powerful consortiums led by leaders from history. Opposing this development is an increasingly desperate Confederation Navy. Joshua Calvert is assigned to chase after Alkad Mzu, who is trying to recover the \"doomsday weapon\" that might possibly blast the dead back into oblivion. Mzu is hunted not only by Joshua, but also by various intelligence agencies and the possessed themselves, all of whom are desperate to lay hands on the weapon. 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To keep their promises, these two must look beyond what they think they know and learn to trust what they feel for each other.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic Romance", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455760.Promises_to_Keep"}, +{"book_title": "The Kingmakers", "author_name": "Clay Griffith", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1527, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "The epic Vampire Empire trilogy rushes to a heart-wrenching conclusion of honor and love, hatred and vengeance, sacrifice and loss. A war to the death. Empress Adele has launched a grand crusade against the vampire clans of the north. Prince Gareth, the vampire lord of Scotland, serves the Equatorian cause, fighting in the bloody trenches of France in his guise as the dashing Greyfriar. But the human armies are pinned down, battered by harsh weather and merciless attacks from vampire packs. To even the odds, Adele unleashes the power of her geomancy, a fearsome weapon capable of slaughtering vampires in vast numbers. However, the power she expends threatens her own life even as she questions the morality of such a weapon. As the war turns ever bloodier and Adele is threatened by betrayal, Gareth faces a terrible choice. Their only hope is a desperate strike against the lord of the vampire clans--Gareth's brother, Cesare. It is a gamble that could win the war or signal the final days of the Greyfriar.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13417066-the-kingmakers"}, +{"book_title": "Fire", "author_name": "Kristin Cashore", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 167211, "review_number": 10436, "book_description": "It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. The mountains and forests are filled with spies and thieves and lawless men.This is where Fire lives. With a wild, irresistible appearance and hair the color of flame, Fire is the last remaining human monster. Equally hated and adored, she had the unique ability to control minds, but she guards her power, unwilling to steal the secrets of innocent people. Especially when she has so many of her own.Then Prince Brigan comes to bring her to King City, The royal family needs her help to uncover the plot against the king. Far away from home, Fire begins to realize there's more to her power than she ever dreamed. Her power could save the kingdom.If only she weren't afraid of becoming the monster her father was.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6137154-fire"}, +{"book_title": "The Good, the Bad, and the Undead", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 62256, "review_number": 1992, "book_description": "Rachel Morgan, sexy witch, independent bounty hunter, prowls the downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle leather-clad vamps and a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is an ancient, implacable evil that threatens her very soul.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30262.The_Good_the_Bad_and_the_Undead"}, +{"book_title": "The Warship", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 1797, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "Their nemesis lies in wait . . . Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc\u2019s event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination.Earth Central, humanity\u2019s ruling intelligence, knows Orlandine was tricked into releasing her weapon, and fears the Jain are behind it. The prador king knows this too \u2013 and both foes gather fleets of warships to surround the disc. The alien Client is returning to the accretion disc to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She upgrades her vast weapons platform in preparation, and she\u2019ll need it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc\u2019s swirling dusts \u2013 and the Jain have committed genocide before.\nIn this second volume of Rise of the Jain, Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war. 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She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn\u2019t want\u2014and couldn\u2019t escape.\u00a0Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine\u2019s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There\u2019s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal\u2019s antique pages\u2014until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine\u2019s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Cultural (France)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28149981-revolution"}, +{"book_title": "Survivor", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 572, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Seeking revenge for her brother\u2019s death, Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald underwent an unlikely transformation\u2014from pampered heir to naval lieutenant. Now a new challenge looms: Vicky will need to use both her military and political ranks to rebuild war-torn planets, planets ruined both by the Peterwald Empire and by Kris Longknife\u2019s revolutionary quests. \u00a0 But not everyone shares Vicky\u2019s goals. When the death-before-dishonor code of the Navy meets the anything-goes-to-win motto of the Imperial family, Vicky must confront, outwit, and conquer both revolutionaries and her own family to stifle galactic disorder. \u00a0 And nothing stops a Grand Duchess, on or off the field.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23398792-survivor"}, +{"book_title": "The Berserker Wars", "author_name": "Fred Saberhagen", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 479, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Saberhagen, Fred, Berserker Wars, The", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Anthologies (Collections)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/847966.The_Berserker_Wars"}, +{"book_title": "Choosing the Highlander", "author_name": "Jessi Gage", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 502, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "As a mechanical engineer in 1981 Chicago, Connie designs plumbing systems. She has also designed her life to perfection, right down to the man she hopes to marry. But when Mr. Right proposes, she can\u2019t say yes. A head-clearing vacation brings her to the Scottish Highlands, where her free-spirited twin wishes for Connie to find true love. Neither sister expects the wish to send Connie hurtling five hundred years into the past.Wilhelm Murray, heir to the barony of Dornoch, hopes to one day hold a seat in parliament and bring urgently needed reform to Scotland. But everything changes when a woman slated for execution proclaims her innocence using the most peculiar language. Powerfully attracted to the brave beauty, he rescues her even though it means becoming a fugitive and forfeiting his dream.As Connie and Wilhelm evade capture, she discovers his passion for justice. Scotland needs his ideas. It needs him. And so does she. But in order to clear Wilhelm\u2019s name, she will have to turn her back on everything she\u2019s worked so hard for and embrace the magic of love.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Audiobook", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27774927-choosing-the-highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Sunrise Alley", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 661, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "When a half-drowned stranger washed up on the beach near research scientist Samantha Bryton's home, she was unaware that he was something more than human - an experiment conducted by Charon, a practitioner of illegal robotic and android research. Samantha and the man soon find themselves on the run.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/458270.Sunrise_Alley"}, +{"book_title": "Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day: And Other Tales of the Necromancer", "author_name": "Jonathan L. Howard", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 301, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Johannes Cabal is a necromancer\u2014and he's slightly infamous.Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day: And Other Tales of the Necromancer features seven of Cabal's most frightening adventures:\"Exeunt Demon King,\"\"The Ereshkigal Working,\"\"Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day,\"\"The House of Gears,\"\"The Death of Me,\"\"Ouroboros Ouzo,\" and\"A Long Spoon.\"Also included is an original introduction written and read by the author.7 hrs 19 minutes", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25842692-johannes-cabal-and-the-blustery-day"}, +{"book_title": "Anti-Ice", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 580, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "A new element has been discovered in a hidden vein near the South Pole. Anti-ice is harmless until warmed, when it releases vast energies that promise new wonders and threaten new horrors beyond humankind's wildest dreams.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64128.Anti_Ice"}, +{"book_title": "Inkheart", "author_name": "Cornelia Funke", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 383254, "review_number": 12233, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition: 9780439709101From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever.This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28194.Inkheart"}, +{"book_title": "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue", "author_name": "V.E. Schwab", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 112504, "review_number": 22723, "book_description": "A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Adult", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50623864-the-invisible-life-of-addie-larue"}, +{"book_title": "Deliverance", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1189, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "The war is over. Earth is lost. Running is the only option.It may already be too late.Caleb is a former Marine Raider and commander of the Vultures, a search and rescue team that's spent the last two years pulling high-value targets out of alien-ravaged cities and shipping them off-world.When his new orders call for him to join forty-thousand survivors aboard the last starship out, he thinks his days of fighting are over. The Deliverance represents a fresh start and a chance to leave the war behind for good.Except the war won't be as easy to escape as he thought.And the colony will need a man like Caleb more than he ever imagined...Enter the universe of the Forgotten with Deliverance, the first book in the Forgotten Colony series. If you're a fan of Aliens, Battlestar Galactica, Starship Troopers, Ender's Game, or Edge of Tomorrow, you'll love this epic military sci-fi thriller.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42364976-deliverance"}, +{"book_title": "City of Lost Dreams", "author_name": "Magnus Flyte", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 3342, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "In this action-packed sequel to City of Dark Magic, we find musicologist Sarah Weston in Vienna in search of a cure for her friend Pollina, who is now gravely ill and who may not have much time left. Meanwhile, Nicolas Pertusato, in London in search of an ancient alchemical cure for the girl, discovers an old enemy is one step ahead of him. In Prague, Prince Max tries to unravel the strange reappearance of a long dead saint while being pursued by a seductive red-headed historian with dark motives of her own.In the city of Beethoven, Mozart, and Freud, Sarah becomes the target in a deadly web of intrigue that involves a scientist on the run, stolen art, seductive pastries, a few surprises from long-dead alchemists, a distractingly attractive horseman who\u2019s more than a little bloodthirsty, and a trail of secrets and lies. But nothing will be more dangerous than the brilliant and vindictive villain who seeks to bend time itself. Sarah must travel deep into an ancient mystery to save the people she loves.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707700-city-of-lost-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-error Processor", "author_name": "Masamune Shirow", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1218, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "This volume presents for the first time in America the lost Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Masamune, but never collected until now. Deep into the 21st century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants, and robots are upgraded with human tissue. Older teens.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111617.Ghost_in_the_Shell_1_5"}, +{"book_title": "An Unkindness of Ghosts", "author_name": "Rivers Solomon", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 11657, "review_number": 2022, "book_description": "Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire.Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human.When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34381254-an-unkindness-of-ghosts"}, +{"book_title": "Time's Mirror", "author_name": "Rysa Walker", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2456, "review_number": 157, "book_description": "The only things on Prudence Pierce's mind are seducing her violin instructor and, with the help of her sister Deborah, avoiding the wrath of their mother for stepping out of the house dressed like Madonna. Her mother might also be a teensy bit angry about the medallion Pru swiped from the attic--a medallion that glows lime green and has an oddly hypnotic, holographic effect when Pru holds it in her hand.A simple blink is all it takes to yank Pru from the car with her dad into a world of hurt. She awakens in 2305 to find herself pinned under what's left of CHRONOS headquarters, thanks to a recent terrorist attack. Their prime suspect? Her mother, Katherine Shaw. And everyone wants to know how Pru got her hands on a CHRONOS key.Pru is convinced that the key is the answer to all her problems. She'll use it to stop her mother, fix her relationship with Deb, and even restore CHRONOS, so that her new friend Tate can return to the job he loves.She can't do it alone, however. Fortunately, she finds Saul Rand, and he's more than willing to help.This digital novella follows Prudence's story from her fateful first journey with the CHRONOS key to the point where her story intersects with Kiernan Dunne in the first novella, Time's Echo. It also helps sets the stage for Time's Divide, the third and final book in The CHRONOS Files, coming from Skyscape in October.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25810884-time-s-mirror"}, +{"book_title": "\u9b54\u9053\u7956\u5e08 [Mo Dao Zu Shi", "author_name": "\u58a8\u9999\u94dc\u81ed", "rating_score": 4.61, "rating_votes": 7700, "review_number": 1282, "book_description": "\u524d\u4e16\u7684\u9b4f\u7121\u7fa8\u842c\u4eba\u553e\u7f75\uff0c\u8072\u540d\u72fc\u85c9\u3002\u5614\u5fc3\u701d\u8840\u8b77\u6301\u5e2b\u5f1f\uff0c\u5e2b\u5f1f\u5e36\u4eba\u7aef\u4e86\u4ed6\u8001\u5de2\uff0c\u89aa\u81ea\u9001\u4ed6\u4e0b\u5730\uff0c\u7e31\u6a6b\u4e00\u4e16\uff0c\u6b7b\u7121\u5168\u5c4d\u3002\u88ab\u93ae\u58d3\u6578\u5e74\uff0c\u66fe\u8208\u98a8\u4f5c\u6d6a\u7684\u4e00\u4ee3\u9b54\u9053\u7956\u5e2b\uff0c\u91cd\u751f\u6210\u4e86\u4e00\u500b\u2026\u2026\u8166\u6b98\u3002\u9084\u7279\u9ebc\u662f\u500b\u4eba\u4eba\u558a\u6253\u7684\u65b7\u8896\u8166\u6b98\uff01\u6211\u898b\u8af8\u541b\u591a\u6709\u75c5\uff0c\u6599\u8af8\u541b\u898b\u6211\u61c9\u5982\u662f\u3002\u4ed6\u6c7a\u5b9a\u656c\u696d\u5730\u505a\u597d\u4e00\u540d\u8166\u6b98\u3002\u4f46\u4fee\u9b3c\u9053\u4e0d\u4fee\u4ed9\uff0c\u4efb\u4f60\u5343\u8ecd\u842c\u99ac\uff0c\u5341\u65b9\u60e1\u9738\uff0c\u4e5d\u5dde\u5947\u4fe0\uff0c\u9ad8\u5dba\u4e4b\u82b1\uff0c\u4f46\u51e1\u5316\u70ba\u4e00\u6294\u9ec3\u571f\uff0c\u7d71\u7d71\u6536\u6b78\u65d7\u4e0b\uff0c\u70ba\u6211\u6240\u7528\uff0c\u4f9b\u6211\u9a45\u7b56\uff01\u9ad8\u8cb4\u51b7\u8c54\u60b6\u9a37\u653b\u00d7\u90aa\u9b45\u72c2\u72f7\u98a8\u9a37\u53d7\u3002As the grandmaster who founded demonic cultivation, Wei WuXian roamed the world in his wanton ways, hated by millions for the chaos he created. In the end, he was backstabbed by his dearest shidi and killed by powerful clans that combined to overpower him.He incarnates into the body of a lunatic who was abandoned by his clan and is later, unwillingly, taken away by a famous cultivator among the sects\u2014Lan WangJi, his archenemy.This marks the start of a thrilling yet hilarious journey of attacking monsters, solving mysteries, and raising children. From the mutual flirtation along the way, Wei WuXian slowly realizes that Lan WangJi, a seemingly haughty and indifferent poker-face, holds more feelings for Wei WuXian than he is letting on\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "LGBT", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Yaoi (Boys Love)", "Cultural (China)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (M M Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33310533-mo-dao-zu-shi"}, +{"book_title": "Dhalgren", "author_name": "Samuel R. Delany", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 9814, "review_number": 1032, "book_description": "A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Classics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40963358-dhalgren"}, +{"book_title": "Virtual Light", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 23033, "review_number": 565, "book_description": "Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself on a collision course that results in a desperate romance, and a journey into the ecstasy and dread that mirror each other at the heart of the postmodern experience.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Literature", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22326.Virtual_Light"}, +{"book_title": "Crystal Empire", "author_name": "L. Neil Smith", "rating_score": 3.21, "rating_votes": 76, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Earth is ruled by three mighty empires: The Saracen-Jewish Empire led by the Caliph of Rome, the Mughal-Arab Empire, ferocious in its determination to destroy its neighbor, and the great Sino-Aztec\u2019s Crystal Empire, led by a living God.Little is known about the Crystal Empire, which spans most of western America. But it is the most powerful force surviving on Earth and its might is unchallenged.One man, however, will change that. Sedrich Sedrichsohn, a legendary fallen fighter, has a chance at redemption and nothing will stand in his way to reclaim his life and his purpose, even if he must fight the Sun-God himself.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1400588.Crystal_Empire"}, +{"book_title": "A Mankind Witch", "author_name": "Dave Freer", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 329, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "To the North of the Holy Roman Empire lie the pagan Norse-lands. It is here that Manfred, Prince of Brittany, and his Icelandic bodyguard, Erik, must venture in the dead of winter, to a rugged land of trolls and ice. Their quest: to find a pagan relic.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241058.A_Mankind_Witch"}, +{"book_title": "Cyborg", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1400, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Scientist Ever Haynes was shocked when she was abducted by alien slavers...but the last thing she expected was to find herself pregnant with a cyborg's baby.Ever has been fighting for her life since her abduction, and the only good thing to happen to her was one heated night with a mysterious prisoner--a connection, a flash of light in the darkness. But then he was rescued and she was left behind. Now, weeks later, she's been saved by the House of Galen gladiators...and by the man she shared the hottest night of her life with. But cool, emotionless cyborg Magnus Rone has no memory of their night together and finding out that she's expecting his baby is a shock to everyone.Created in a military program, Magnus is genetically and cybernetically enhanced--emotionless, ruthless, focused. He vows to protect Ever and the baby she carries, and despite his lack of memory, everything about tough, levelheaded Ever draws him in. All his life, his emotional dampeners and training have limited his ability to feel emotions...but one small Earth woman cuts through all that and leaves him feeling.As they work together to hunt down the deadly desert arena of Zaabha and the final human woman trapped there, Ever and Magnus find a stunning passion neither can resist or ignore. But in the dangerous desert sands of Carthago, with the House of Galen gladiators by their sides, deadly enemies are closing in. Ever and Magnus will be dragged back into the darkness, and Magnus will do anything and sacrifice everything to keep her safe.Note to readers: This sci fi romance contains a lot of action (think wild gladiatorial fights and daring rescues), tough gladiators (the warriors of the House of Galen and the House of Rone) and a steamy romance (between a sexy, emotionless cyborg and a resilient survivor from Earth). So if you like it fast, and gritty, and sexy, this is for you!Includes a preview of Marcus, Book 1 of Hell Squad.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39338693-cyborg"}, +{"book_title": "Bolo Brigade", "author_name": "William H. Keith Jr.", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 558, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "SEMPER BOLOFreddy and Ferdy were obsolete, which was why they'd been stationed on the planet Muir as part of a defense treaty between the Strathan Cluster and the Concordiat. Even in their obsolescence, however, they possessed incredible and devastating firepower. Possibly that was why the military high command insisted on tying the two Mark XXIV Model FRD Bolos down with rules of engagement designed to cripple their initiative, and guarantee the safety of Muir's human population. It wasn't, after all, as if they would actually have to fight....Unfortunately, the high command hadn't counted on the Malach, a deadly alien race descending on Muir from the uncharted Gulf between the galaxies. A race that looks and acts remarkably like pack-hunting dinosaurs, the Malach destroy everything in their path. All that stands between them and the population of Muir is two obsolete Bolos with their weapons locked down....", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/470070.Bolo_Brigade"}, +{"book_title": "Twisted World: A Broken World Novel", "author_name": "Kate L. Mary", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 449, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Twenty years ago a deadly virus swept the globe, ravaging the population. People died and came back as monsters, and through the tragedy that rocked the world survivors were born. Megan James is the product of survivors. Her parents crossed hundreds of miles of dangerous countryside to reach Atlanta, and the promise of a real future. Now, two decades later, Meg is facing a crisis of her own. Her father has vanished and is presumed dead, and her mom is teetering on the edge of insanity, but all Meg really wants is to return to the safe world she always thought she was living in. Only Atlanta isn\u2019t everything her parents thought it would be. The slums have grown and corruption is rampant, and despite the promise of democracy the new government has been slow to change. Through it all, the only consistency seems to be the zombies. Decayed and barely more than skeletons, there is no reason they should still be moving. But they are. Facing the harsh world alone, Meg gets a job in the entertainment district of Atlanta where she meets convict fighter Donaghy. Angry at the world and his circumstances, all the fighter really wants is to be left alone. But when he gets swept up in Meg\u2019s problems, he finds it impossible to turn his back on her. When a mysterious note resurrects old rumors about what the CDC is really doing, Meg can\u2019t help wondering if her father might have met the same fate that her uncle did twenty years earlier. With the help of Donaghy, she will search for the truth among the darkness that has settled over Atlanta, where they\u2019ll soon discover that the mutated virus has brought forth creatures nobody could have imagined, and the evil intentions of the men in charge are much more sinister than anyone ever thought possible, making the future look harsher than ever before. ***This novel is the first book in a new zombie/dystopian series, set twenty years after the final book in the Broken World series. While reading the first seven books will be helpful, it is not necessary to follow the plot of Twisted World.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31819732-twisted-world"}, +{"book_title": "UnWholly", "author_name": "Neal Shusterman", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 49359, "review_number": 4527, "book_description": "It\u2019s finally here. The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Unwind, which Publishers Weekly called a \u201cgripping, brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller.\u201dThanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa\u2014and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp\u2014people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens while simltaneously providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not only continue, but also expand to the unwinding of prisoners and the impoverished.Cam is a product of unwinding; made entirely out of the parts of other unwinds, he is a teen who does not technically exist. A futuristic Frankenstein, Cam struggles with a search for identity and meaning and wonders if a rewound being can have a soul. And when the actions of a sadistic bounty hunter cause Cam\u2019s fate to become inextricably bound with the fates of Connor, Risa, and Lev, he\u2019ll have to question humanity itself.Rife with action and suspense, this riveting companion to the perennially popular Unwind challenges assumptions about where life begins and ends\u2014and what it means to live.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Horror", "Thriller", "Romance", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13545075-unwholly"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Airship City", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2532, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay was a student with trouble concentrating and rotten luck. Dedicated to her studies but unable to build anything that actually \"worked,\" she seemed destined for a lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But then the University was overthrown and Agatha was taken aboard the giant airship \"Castle Wulfenbach\" -- where it begins to look like she might carry a spark of Mad Science after all.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373155.Agatha_Heterodyne_and_the_Airship_City"}, +{"book_title": "The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 4997, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in his works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for \"The Man in the High Castle, \" and in the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?This volume includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include \"Beyond Lies the Wub, \" \"The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, \" \"The Variable Man, \" and twenty-two others.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Classics", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22592.The_Collected_Stories_of_Philip_K_Dick_1"}, +{"book_title": "Ad Eternum", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 225, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "For centuries, the wampyr has drifted from one place to another. From one life to another. It's 1962, and he's returned to New Amsterdam for the first time since he fled it on pain of death some sixty years before. On the eve of social revolution, on the cusp of a new way of life, he's nevertheless surrounded by inescapable reminders of who he used to be.For a thousand years, he's chosen to change rather than to die. Now, at last, he faces a different future....", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Horror", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12900420-ad-eternum"}, +{"book_title": "The Fever King", "author_name": "Victoria Lee", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 5369, "review_number": 1076, "book_description": "In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam \u00c1lvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia.The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks\u2014refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister\u2019s offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meets the minister\u2019s son\u2014cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful\u2014and the way forward becomes less clear.Caught between his purpose and his heart, Noam must decide who he can trust and how far he\u2019s willing to go in pursuit of the greater good.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (M M Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39897058-the-fever-king"}, +{"book_title": "The Fire Rose", "author_name": "Mercedes Lackey", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 10028, "review_number": 479, "book_description": "Beauty Meets Beast in San FranciscoAccepting employment as a governess after hard times hit her family, medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is surprised when she learns that her mysterious employer has no children, no wife, and she is not to meet with him face to face. Instead, her duties are to read to him, through a speaking tube, from ancient manuscripts in obscure, nearly-forgotten dialects.A requirement for the job was skill in translating medieval French, and she now understands the reason for that requirement, and assumes her unseen employer\u2019s interest in the descriptions of medieval spells and sorcery is that of an eccentric antiquary. What she does not realize is that his interest is anything but academic. He has a terrible secret and is desperately searching for something that can reverse the effects of the misfired spell which created his predicament.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176881.The_Fire_Rose"}, +{"book_title": "Old Man's War", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 168390, "review_number": 9719, "book_description": "John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510196-old-man-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "Second Variety", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3179, "review_number": 263, "book_description": "In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war between the United Nations and the Soviet Union, sophisticated robots, nicknamed \u201cclaws\u201d, are created to destroy what remains of human life. Left to their own devices, however, the claws develop robots of their own. II-V, the second variety, remains unknown to the few humans left on Earth. Or does it?Second Variety was adapted into the film Screamers.", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8185014-second-variety"}, +{"book_title": "How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobu\u010dar", "author_name": "Rich Larson", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 92, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "A dark, fast-moving novelette about a high-tech heist in future Spain, planned by a professional thief who's interested in revenge more than money. The object in question is in the hands of a dangerous crime lord.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50279686-how-quini-the-squid-misplaced-his-klobu-ar"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Crown", "author_name": "Beth Cato", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 771, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Rich in atmosphere, imagination, and fun, the action-packed, magic-filled sequel to The Clockwork Dagger is an enchanting steampunk fantasy, evocative of the works of Trudi Canavan and Gail CarrigerNarrowly surviving assassination and capture, Octavia Leander, a powerful magical healer, is on the run with handsome Alonzo Garrett, the Clockwork Dagger who forfeited his career with the Queen\u2019s secret society of spies and killers\u2014and possibly his life\u2014to save her. Now, they are on a dangerous quest to find safety and answers: Why is Octavia so powerful? Why does she seem to be undergoing a transformation unlike any witnessed for hundreds of years? The truth may rest with the source of her mysterious healing power\u2014the Lady\u2019s Tree. But the tree lies somewhere in a rough, inhospitable territory known as the Waste. Eons ago, this land was made barren and uninhabitable by an evil spell, until a few hardy souls dared to return over the last century. For years, the Waste has waged a bloody battle against the royal court to win its independence\u2014and they need Octavia\u2019s powers to succeed.Joined by unlikely allies, including a menagerie of gremlin companions, she must evade killers and Clockwork Daggers on a dangerous journey through a world on the brink of deadly civil war.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22888800-the-clockwork-crown"}, +{"book_title": "Mort", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 204025, "review_number": 5185, "book_description": "Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Novels", "Death", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386372.Mort"}, +{"book_title": "Andromeda's Choice", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 635, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Andromeda McKee rebuilt her life in the violent embrace of the Legion of the Damned in the days when cyborgs were first being introduced. Now she must choose between her conscience and her desire for vengeance... In a different world, Lady Catherine \u201cCat\u201d Carletto would never have left her pampered life behind. But when Princess Ophelia became Empress Ophelia in a coup that claimed the lives of the princess\u2019s brother and all who supported him, including the Carletto family, Cat had to hide\u2014or die. She became Legionnaire Andromeda McKee, and now she\u2019s a battle-scarred veteran who knows how to kill. Summoned to Earth to receive the Imperial Order of Merit from the empress herself, Andromeda learns that she isn\u2019t the sole surviving Carletto\u2014her uncle Rex is not only still alive but also the leader of a resistance group determined to overthrow Ophelia. Caught up in a web of intrigue, Andromeda realizes that the moment is coming when her revenge will be at hand. But will she be able to act, or will she be betrayed by those she has come to trust?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808702-andromeda-s-choice"}, +{"book_title": "Control Point", "author_name": "Myke Cole", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 6350, "review_number": 766, "book_description": "Army Officer. Fugitive. Sorcerer.Across the country and in every nation, people are waking up with magical talents. Untrained and panicked, they summon storms, raise the dead, and set everything they touch ablaze. Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it. A lieutenant attached to the military's Supernatural Operations Corps, his mission is to bring order to a world gone mad. Then he abruptly manifests a rare and prohibited magical power, transforming him overnight from government agent to public enemy number one. The SOC knows how to handle this kind of situation: hunt him down--and take him out. Driven into an underground shadow world, Britton is about to learn that magic has changed all the rules he's ever known, and that his life isn't the only thing he's fighting for.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "War", "Action", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11783484-control-point"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Museum", "author_name": "Matthew Loux", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1107, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "The internship program at the Time Museum is a little unusual. For one thing, kids as young as twelve get to apply for these prestigious summer jobs. And as for the applicant pool . . . well, these kids come from all over history.When Delia finds herself working at the Time Museum, the last thing she expects is to be sent on time-traveling adventures with an unlikely gang of kids from across the eons. From a cave-boy to a girl from the distant future, Delia's team represents nearly all of human history! They're going to need all their skills for the challenge they've got in store . . . defending the Time Museum itself!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29102874-the-time-museum"}, +{"book_title": "Timepiece", "author_name": "Myra McEntire", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 6378, "review_number": 849, "book_description": "A threat from the past could destroy the future. And the clock is ticking.Kaleb Ballard was never supposed to be able to see ripples - cracks in time. Are his powers expanding, or is something very wrong? Before he can find out, Jonathan Landers, the man who tried to murder his father, reappears. Why is he back, and what, or whom, does he want?In the wake of Landers' return, the Hourglass organization is given an ultimatum. Either they find Landers and the research he has stolen on the people who might carry the time gene, or time will be altered - with devastating results for the people Kaleb loves most. Now Kaleb, Emerson, Michael, and the other Hourglass recruits have no choice but to use their unusual powers to find Landers. But where do they even start? And when? And even if they succeed, it may not be enough...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12680986-timepiece"}, +{"book_title": "Wizard Defiant", "author_name": "Rodney W. Hartman", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1797, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Wizard scouts are the elite, deep-recon forces of the Intergalactic Empire. They are a mix of technology and magic like abilities. Richard has been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become one of these legendary soldiers. All he has to do is make it through the Wizard Scout Academy. But with a TAC officer who hates his guts, will he even be allowed to graduate. To make matters worse, the Empire has been attacked and soon finds itself in a major war. With heavy losses in the wizard scout corps, even the Academy cadets are starting to look good to the Empire\u2019s High Command. Just when Richard thinks things can\u2019t get any worse, he is suddenly sent by \u2018the One\u2019 to help a beautiful elf priestess fight a demon and its army of undead. Wizard scouts may be the best of the best, but Richard is still a cadet in training. Will his skills and technology be enough to overcome dragons, demons, trolls, ghouls, and various undead from his worst nightmare? With only the aid of his battle computer, Nickelo, and the magic of an elf priestess, will his wizard scout abilities be enough to turn the tide? With the fate of two galaxies riding in the balance, Richard is honor bound to do his best in spite of the odds. The question is, will his best be good enough? ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Space", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25447775-wizard-defiant"}, +{"book_title": "The Scorpion Game", "author_name": "Daniel Jeffries", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 82, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "In 2458, on a continent sized starship with its own atmosphere and an entire civilization churning inside, the poor live in rotting organic cities and the rich live in massive orbital mansions drifting in the clouds. When a hooker plunges from the sixty-sixth floor of an opulent nightclub and a senator is found dead in his room, the police call on Lt Durante Hoskin to solve what swiftly becomes a string of murders of the rich and powerful. Now Hoskin must stop a vicious and brilliant sociopath, who\u2019s executing the elite, erasing their memories and exposing their lives to an angry public, before his society explodes in open class war.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17983534-the-scorpion-game"}, +{"book_title": "Summerland", "author_name": "Hannu Rajaniemi", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1930, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning.In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased.Yet Britain isn\u2019t the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build their own god.When SIS agent Rachel White gets a lead on one of the Soviet moles, blowing the whistle puts her hard-earned career at risk. The spy has friends in high places, and she will have to go rogue to bring him in.But how do you catch a man who\u2019s already dead?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "European Literature (Finnish Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27272632-summerland"}, +{"book_title": "Borne", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 26119, "review_number": 3339, "book_description": "In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names \u201cBorne\u201d entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the city, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly and broke free. Driven insane by his torture at the Company, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers like Rachel.At first, Borne looks like nothing at all\u2014just a green lump that might be a Company discard. The Company, although severely damaged, is rumoured to still make creatures and send them to distant places that have not yet suffered Collapse.Borne somehow reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment she resents; attachments are traps, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary, the Balcony Cliffs, Rachel convinces her lover, Wick, not to render Borne down to raw genetic material for the drugs he sells\u2014she cannot break that bond.Wick is a special kind of supplier, because the drug dealers in the city don\u2019t sell the usual things. They sell tiny creatures that can be swallowed or stuck in the ear, and that release powerful memories of other people\u2019s happier times or pull out forgotten memories from the user\u2019s own mind\u2014or just produce beautiful visions that provide escape from the barren, craterous landscapes of the city.Against his better judgment, out of affection for Rachel or perhaps some other impulse, Wick respects her decision. Rachel, meanwhile, despite her loyalty to Wick, knows he has kept secrets from her. Searching his apartment, she finds a burnt, unreadable journal titled \u201cMord,\u201d a cryptic reference to the Magician (a rival drug dealer) and evidence that Wick has planned the layout of the Balcony Cliffs to match the blueprint of the Company building. What is he hiding? Why won\u2019t he tell her about what happened when he worked for the Company?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31451186-borne"}, +{"book_title": "Spares", "author_name": "Michael Marshall Smith", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3229, "review_number": 230, "book_description": "Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye, but some people are doing all the taking.Spares - the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and with a zero credit rating at the luck bank. After five years lying low on a Spares farm, looking after inmates that can't even spell luck, he is finally faced with a chance at redemption....if he, and the spares, can run fast enough.Spares - a breathless race through strange, disturbing territories in a world all too close to our own.Spares - it's fiction. But only just...", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21010.Spares"}, +{"book_title": "Viral Nation", "author_name": "Shaunta Grimes", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 964, "review_number": 259, "book_description": "After a virus claimed nearly the entire global population, the world changed. The United States splintered into fifty walled cities where the surviving citizens clustered to start over. The Company, which ended the plague by bringing a life-saving vaccine back from the future, controls everything. They ration the scant food and supplies through a lottery system, mandate daily doses of virus suppressant, and even monitor future timelines to stop crimes before they can be committed.Brilliant but autistic, sixteen-year-old Clover Donovan has always dreamed of studying at the Waverly-Stead Academy. Her brother and caretaker, West, has done everything in his power to make her dream a reality. But Clover\u2019s refusal to part with her beloved service dog denies her entry into the school. Instead, she is drafted into the Time Mariners, a team of Company operatives who travel through time to gather news about the future.When one of Clover\u2019s missions reveals that West\u2019s life is in danger, the Donovans are shattered. To change West\u2019s fate, they\u2019ll have to take on the mysterious Company. But as its secrets are revealed, they realize that the Company\u2019s rule may not be as benevolent as it seems. In saving her brother, Clover will face a more powerful force than she ever imagined\u0085 and will team up with a band of fellow misfits and outsiders to incite a revolution that will change their destinies forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Disability", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15985355-viral-nation"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Diplomacy", "author_name": "Gini Koch", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1657, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Being newlyweds and new parents is challenging enough. But Jeff and Kitty Martini are also giving up their roles as super-being exterminators and Commanders in Centaurion Division while mastering the political landscape as the new heads of Centaurion's Diplomatic Corps. Enter a shadowy assassination plot and a new set of anti-alien conspirators, and nothing will ever be the same...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11995902-alien-diplomacy"}, +{"book_title": "Close Remembrance", "author_name": "Anna Zaires", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3941, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "The stunning conclusion to the critically acclaimed series that has won thousands of fans!When a ruthless enemy finally strikes, Mia and Korum will face the biggest test of their relationship yet. But it\u2019s Korum\u2019s own secrets that may ultimately tear them apart.From the beaches of Costa Rica to a planet in a distant galaxy, theirs is a love story that may change the world\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.Warning: This book contains strong sexual content and explicit language and is not suitable for readers under 18.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29869439-close-remembrance"}, +{"book_title": "Sirian Summer", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 81, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "When Nick Walker arrives on Sirius 1 to take over the United Federation Marshal\u2019s office at Kline Corners, his first priority is to find out who murdered the man he is replacing, Ron Gates. Kline Corners is like no place he has ever seen \u2014 it looks like an old West cow town, complete with sheriff and saloon. But things are not what they seem. Nick soon discovers an epidemic of missing girls, talk of racial oppression, and outright human slavery. If he can get to the bottom of those issues, he may learn who murdered Ron Gates. Sirian Summer, a science fiction adventure, is a fast-paced tale of action and romance on the Final Frontier, racially motivated and politically charged. You\u2019ve never read anything like it. 102,400 words (equivalent to 384 pages in mass market paperback form) Rated \"R\" . \"A great read for scifi/fantasy fans ...\" -Flying With Red Haircrow \"... will keep you turning the pages right to the end ...\" -Ben ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24381398-sirian-summer"}, +{"book_title": "The Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network", "author_name": "Max Gladstone", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 114, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "This historic collaboration with legendary creator Shirow Masamune based on the classic manga features four all-new stories in a beautiful full-color 160-page hardcover, by some of the world's most innovative comics writers and artists, plus a cover by the acclaimed Dustin Nguyen (Descender) and pinup illustration by Becky Cloonan.A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival amid shifting loyalties. The infiltration of an anti-cyberization cult calls for Section 9's most \"human\" members to do things the old-fashioned way. A deep dive into the mind of a criminal forces Kusanagi to question the nature of imagination - and her own identity. The stories in Global Neural Network bring a 21st-century perspective to its questions of human identity and the border between mind and machine that made The Ghost in the Shell one of the most revered manga of all time, and unleash top Western comics artists on eye-popping action scenes starring Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa, Aramaki, and all the members of Section 9!Original stories by: * Alex de Campi (Twisted Romance) & Giannis Milonogiannis (Prophet) * Brenden Fletcher (Gotham Academy, Motor Crush) & LRNZ (Golem) * Max Gladstone (the Craft Sequence) & David L\u00f3pez (All-New Wolverine) * Genevieve Valentine (Mechanique, Icon), & Brent Schoovoner (The Astonishing Ant-Man)", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39217424-the-ghost-in-the-shell"}, +{"book_title": "Full Moon Rising", "author_name": "Keri Arthur", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 32743, "review_number": 1428, "book_description": "A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson and her twin brother, Rhoan, work for Melbourne\u2019s Directorate of Other Races, an organization created to police the supernatural races\u2013and protect humans from their depredations. While Rhoan is an exalted guardian, a.k.a. assassin, Riley is merely an office worker\u2013until her brother goes missing on one of his missions. The timing couldn\u2019t be worse. More werewolf than vampire, Riley is vulnerable to the moon heat, the weeklong period before the full moon, when her need to mate becomes all-consuming...Luckily Riley has two willing partners to satisfy her every need. But she will have to control her urges if she\u2019s going to find her brother\u2026.Easier said than done as the city pulses with frenzied desire, and Riley is confronted with a very powerful\u2013and delectably naked\u2013vamp who raises her temperature like never before.In matters carnal, Riley has met her match. But in matters criminal, she must follow her instincts not only to find her brother but to stop an unholy harvest. For someone is doing some shifty cloning in an attempt to produce the ultimate warrior\u2013by tapping into the genome of nonhumans like Rhoan. Now Riley knows just how dangerous the world is for her kind\u2013and just how much it needs her.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172764.Full_Moon_Rising"}, +{"book_title": "Distrust That Particular Flavor", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2978, "review_number": 377, "book_description": "William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, \"Neuromancer,\" to his more recent contemporary bestsellers \"Pattern Recognition, Spook Country,\" and \"Zero History.\" During those nearly thirty years, though, Gibson has been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture. \"Wired\" magazine sent him to Singapore to report on one of the world's most buttoned-up states. \"The New York Times Magazine\" asked him to describe what was wrong with the Internet. Rolling Stone published his essay on the ways our lives are all \"soundtracked\" by the music and the culture around us. And in a speech at the 2010 Book Expo, he memorably described the interactive relationship between writer and reader.These essays and articles have never been collected-until now. Some have never appeared in print at all. In addition, \"Distrust That Particular Flavor\" includes journalism from small publishers, online sources, and magazines no longer in existence. This volume will be essential reading for any lover of William Gibson's novels. \"Distrust That Particular Flavor\" offers readers a privileged view into the mind of a writer whose thinking has shaped not only a generation of writers but our entire culture.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Writing (Essays)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Language (Writing)", "Audiobook", "Philosophy", "Anthologies", "Cultural"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11890817-distrust-that-particular-flavor"}, +{"book_title": "House of Steel: The Honorverse Companion", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1030, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "The ultimate guide and companion to the New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington series.Contains a new short Honorverse novel, plus a compendium of tech, specs, and history to accompany the legendary series.An all-new David Weber Honorverse short novel, I Will Build My House of Steel, chronicling the early days of the Manticoran Star Kingdom when King Roger was a naval lieutenant.Have you ever finished the latest Honor Harrington novel from David Weber and wished you could linger in Weber's Honorverse just a bit longer? Now you can with this treasure trove of tech, specs, and insights on David Weber's mega best-selling Honor Harrington series. Orbital characteristics of key planets, regimental order of the Royal Navy, backstory on the history and drama of the Star Kingdom's birth and early days; you'll find it all here, thoughtfully arranged by the Bureau 9 Weber research group, and overseen by David Weber himself.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Reference", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Anthologies", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15802926-house-of-steel"}, +{"book_title": "Come In, Collins", "author_name": "Bill Patterson", "rating_score": 4.93, "rating_votes": 15, "review_number": 4, "book_description": " At June 17 2082, 1500 GMT, the South Polar region of the Moon exploded.\u00a0 In fifteen minutes, Moonbase Michael Collins fell silent and was presumed destroyed, with all hands dead.\u00a0 But Collins had McCrary, and it was his engineering genius and foresight that meant survival to the two hundred men and women now trapped on the Moon.\u00a0 Can they stay alive?\u00a0 Survive through the coming weeks as the debris continues to impact both the Moon and Earth?\u00a0 Can they learn to thrive on a dead, airless globe that was never meant for human life?\u00a0 Earth cannot know, for every radio call to \"Come in, Collins\" is met with silence. Come In, Collins is Book 2 of the Riddled Space series.\u00a0 Set in 2082, with the United Nations the sole entity that can operate in space, the motto is \"Make do\", but the Moon is a fantastic resource to those with the engineering know-how to wrest a living from an airless ball of rock.\u00a0", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36503116-come-in-collins"}, +{"book_title": "Kiss of Midnight", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 61796, "review_number": 2961, "book_description": "He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell\u2019s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night\u2014or this man\u2014is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed\u2014a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind\u2014and the unwitting humans existing alongside them\u2014from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.Here, in the arms of the Breed\u2019s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/704043.Kiss_of_Midnight"}, +{"book_title": "First Light", "author_name": "Scott Nicholson", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 978, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "This Prequel to the \"After\" series by Scott Nicholson sets up background information leading up to events in the first novel, \"After: The Shock\" and the second novel, \"After: The Echo\". It is a complete short story, able to stand on its own, but it will pique your interest in reading the entire series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007498-first-light"}, +{"book_title": "A Virtual Dream", "author_name": "Brent Roth", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 2273, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "When Brent Roth suffered a workplace accident that rendered him temporarily immobile, he found himself lying in bed dreaming of a better life. He dreamed of a life where maintaining his health was no longer a daily struggle, and then when he had lost all hope, he had discovered a new virtual reality game on the horizon. A VR-MMORPG that offered him everything he lacked in real life, everything that had eluded him. A world where he could find adventure, companionship, and success all wrapped up in the singular package of The Dragon's Wrath. The game offered him a chance, a chance for salvation\u2026 a glimmer of hope. It was better than a dream, it was a virtual dream.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Fiction", "Role Playing Games (Mmorpg)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25361235-a-virtual-dream"}, +{"book_title": "The True Meaning of Smekday", "author_name": "Adam Rex", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 8887, "review_number": 1713, "book_description": "It all starts with a school essay.When twelve-year-old Gratuity (\u201cTip\u201d) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on \u201cThe True Meaning of Smekday\u201d for the National Time Capsule contest, she\u2019s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended on the Earth and the aliens \u2013 called Boov \u2013 abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth a colony, renamed it \u201cSmekland\u201d (in honor of glorious Captain Smek), and forced all Americans to relocate to Florida via rocketpod?In any case, Gratuity\u2019s story is much, much bigger than the assignment. It involves her unlikely friendship with a renegade Boov mechanic named J.Lo.; a futile journey south to find Gratuity\u2019s mother at the Happy Mouse Kingdom; a cross-country road trip in a hovercar called Slushious; and an outrageous plan to save the Earth from yet another alien invasion.Fully illustrated with \u201cphotos,\u201d drawings, newspaper clippings, and comics sequences, this is a hilarious, perceptive, genre-bending novel by a remarkable new talent. the planet from a really big catastrophe.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1194366.The_True_Meaning_of_Smekday"}, +{"book_title": "Voice of Mars", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 4012, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "YOU CAN NEVER GO HOMEWhen accusations of piracy and mass murder are laid against his homeworld, Damien Montgomery is sent to resolve the crisis.As counter-accusations fly and an old flame re-enters his life, the newest Hand of the Mage-King of Mars finds himself in the midst of a bloody interstellar shadow war. With the death toll mounting, Damien must decide whether he should trust the world he came from \u2013 or the world that asked for his help.The wrong choice will trigger a civil war that could shatter human civilization.No pressure.Voice of Mars is book 3 of the Starship\u2019s Mage series.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29420590-voice-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "The Synchronicity War Part 2", "author_name": "Dietmar Arthur Wehr", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1896, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "The unprovoked war with a mysterious alien race is going badly. Minor tactical victories are offset by major strategic setbacks. The aliens know where all Human-occupied worlds are while their own worlds are still unknown. Victor Shiloh's unpredictable precognitive visions are the only thing that is slowly the alien onslaught. Not content with gradually pushing Humanity back, Shiloh's vision reveals a massive attack on Earth, that will have terrible consequences. So far his visions have all come true. Can his A.I. allies make the difference between extermination and survival for the Human Race? Excerpt: He woke up to the blaring of the ship\u2019s Battle Stations siren with Tanaka\u2019s excited voice calling him via his implant. \u201cBridge to Commander! They\u2019re here, Sir! Repeat\u2026they\u2019re here\u2026\u201d Shiloh shook himself awake and started to get up. \u201cI\u2019m awake, Sumi. What\u2019s happening?\u201d He was glad he decided to sleep in his uniform for just this kind of emergency. \u201cJump detection contacts! Lots of them!\u201d When he was sure that she wasn\u2019t going to say more, he said. \u201cFrom what bearing?\u201d \u201cALL of them! They\u2019re coming at us from 360 degrees and all three axes!\u201d The near panic in her voice shocked him. By this time, he was running down the corridor to the Bridge. She was already vacating the Command Station chair when he entered the Bridge. Before she could relinquish command, he said in a loud voice. \u201cThe XO still has the Con. XO, take the Helm station; I\u2019ll look after the fighters!\u201d She looked at him with wide eyes but nodded and stepped over to the Helm Station. As he got himself strapped into his chair, he quickly switched com channels to the open channel with the Nimitz Base. \u201cNimitz, this is Shiloh! Order your recons to active scanning!\u201d Without waiting for a reply, he switched to the fighter com channel. By prior arrangement, DeChastelaine had agreed to let Shiloh take tactical command of her fighters too. \u201cCAG to fighters! Launch your recons and go active! Light\u2019em up! We need to see their vectors and speeds! If you have a viable intercept solution, take the shot!\u201d By now he was strapped in and had time to actually look at the tactical display. Tanaka was right. Red triangles indicating jump emergence points were all around the planet as well as above and below it. There was something about this strategy that made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. Concentration of force was a key tactical concept that should theoretically be valid to any species. There was strength in numbers and it minimized communication lags. So why was this alien fleet\u2026this alien, A.I.-controlled fleet behaving this way? They must know that they risked being picked off one at a time. He didn\u2019t have an answer to his question and\u2026no vision either. \u201cTask Force Leader on Tac 4, Sir!\u201d yelled the com tech. Shiloh switched over to that com channel and said. \u201cShiloh here. Go ahead Task Force Leader!\u201d As he spoke he searched the display to find the four combat frigates. They were following standard doctrine and were in close formation orbiting the Nimitz Base moon. \u201cVictor! Get your fighters into action!\u201d Shiloh suppressed his surge of anger. Task Force Leader Sobrist and he were both Senior Commanders. The deployment order from HQ on Sol had placed all ships in the Avalon system under the authority of Sobrist BUT it also made it clear that when Shiloh was wearing his Commander Autonomous Group hat, he had sole discretion on how to use those fighters.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19035950-the-synchronicity-war-part-2"}, +{"book_title": "Through the Breach", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 198, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "The Venus Asteroid Expedition is en route to the \"Mirror,\" an impenetrable membrane to another universe that holds all the riches of the Federation, but the only point of entry is the point through which Landolph and his men traveled long ago--with most of the men never returning.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1755485.Through_the_Breach"}, +{"book_title": "Mama and the Alien Warrior", "author_name": "Honey Phillips", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 3338, "review_number": 362, "book_description": "Can a weary warrior and an abducted mother save each other? Abby Wentworth never regretted abandoning her corporate career to adopt her orphaned niece and run a maternity home. But she certainly never expected to find herself and her girls abducted by aliens who intend to sell them as breeders. When they are rescued by a massive alien and his crew, desires she has long suppressed start to surface. She finds herself unexpectedly drawn to the captain who treats both her and her daughter with unwavering devotion. Until his ship intercepts an illegal Vedeckian trader, Captain Hrebec is resigned to spending his life alone. The Cires lost their females to a plague many years ago. Now for the first time, this luscious human female has him longing for a mate and a family. But Abby has to get her girls back to Earth, and Hrebec may have one last chance to save his race. Will their duties force them apart? Or will they finally find a family of their own? Mama and the Alien Warrior is a standalone science fiction romance. This sweet and steamy HEA is intended for adults only.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45416836-mama-and-the-alien-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "A Spell for Chameleon", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 45174, "review_number": 1670, "book_description": "Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks.For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth was no fairy tale. He alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and got some fast! - he would be exiled. Forever!But the Good Magician Humfrey was convinced that Bink did indeed have magic. In fact, both Beauregard the genie and the magic wall chart insisted that Bink had magic. Magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or by Good Magician Humfrey - or even by the Evil Magician TrentBe that as it may, no one could fathom the nature of Bink's very special magic. Bink was in despair. This was even worse than having no magic at all..and he would still be exiled!", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76664.A_Spell_for_Chameleon"}, +{"book_title": "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel", "author_name": "Hope Larson", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 19351, "review_number": 2031, "book_description": "Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murry, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract \u2014 a wrinkle that transports one across space and time \u2014 to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murry is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murry but the safety of the whole universe.Never before illustrated, A Wrinkle in Time is now available in a spellbinding graphic novel adaptation. Hope Larson takes the classic story to a new level with her vividly imagined interpretations of Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, Mrs Which, the Happy Medium, Aunt Beast, and the many other characters that readers have loved for the past fifty years. Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Classics", "Childrens", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13513205-a-wrinkle-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Nova", "author_name": "Samuel R. Delany", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 6700, "review_number": 440, "book_description": "These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or participates in a range of personal experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and overload, man-machine communion, the drug experience, the creative experience - and inter-personal relationships which include incest and assassination, father-son, leader-follower, human-pet, and lots more!The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather Illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star.", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Literature (American)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85863.Nova"}, +{"book_title": "An Emperor for the Legion", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1074, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Foul sorcery had slain the Emperor. Now the army of Videssos, betrayed by one man\u2019s craven folly, fled in panic from the savage victors. But there was no panic in the Legion, mysteriously displaced from Gaul and Rome into this strange world of magic.Wearily, Tribune Marcus Scaurus led his men through the chaos and enemy hordes in search of winter quarters, to regroup and seek to join up with Thorisin Gavras, now rightful ruler of Videssos.But in Videssos the city, capital of the beleaguered realm, Ortaias Sphrantzes, whose cowardice had caused their defeat, now sat upon the throne. There, behind great walls that had always made the city impregnable to storm or siege, he ruled with the support of evil sorcery. Overthrowing him seemed impossible.Grimly, Marcus Scaurus began the long march through hostile country toward that seemingly hopeless attempt.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101612.An_Emperor_for_the_Legion"}, +{"book_title": "Homeward Bound", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1751, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "The twentieth century was awash in war. World powers were pouring men and machines onto the killing fields of Europe. Then, in one dramatic stroke, a divided planet was changed forever. An alien race attacked Earth, and for every nation, every human being, new battle lines were drawn.\nHOMEWARD BOUND\nWith his epic novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove shares a stunning vision of what might have been\u2013and what might still be\u2013if one moment in history were changed. In the WorldWar and Colonization series, an ancient, highly advanced alien species found itself locked in a bitter struggle with a distant, rebellious planet\u2013Earth. For those defending the Earth, this all-out war for survival supercharged human technology, made friends of foes, and turned allies into bitter enemies.For the aliens known as the Race, the conflict has yielded dire consequences. Mankind has developed nuclear technology years ahead of schedule, forcing the invaders to accept an uneasy truce with nations that possess the technology to defend themselves. But it is the Americans, with their primitive inventiveness, who discover a way to launch themselves through distant space\u2013and reach the Race\u2019s home planet itself.Now\u2013in the twenty-first century\u2013a few daring men and women embark upon a journey no human has made before. Warriors, diplomats, traitors, and exiles\u2013the humans who arrive in the place called Home find themselves genuine strangers on a strange world, and at the center of a flash point with terrifying potential. For their arrival on the alien home world may drive the enemy to make the ultimate decision\u2013to annihilate an entire planet, rather than allow the human contagion to spread. It may be that nothing can deter them from this course.With its extraordinary cast of characters\u2013human, nonhuman, and some in between\u2013Homeward Bound is a fascinating contemplation of cultures, armies, and individuals in collision. From the novelist USA Today calls \u201cthe leading author of alternate history,\u201d this is a novel of vision, adventure, and constant, astounding surprise.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101553.Homeward_Bound"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond the Fortuneteller's Tent", "author_name": "Kristy Tate", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 705, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "When Petra Baron goes into the fortuneteller\u2019s tent at a Renaissance fair, she expects to leave with a date to prom. Instead, she walks out into Elizabethan England, where she meets gypsies, a demon dog and a kindred spirit in Emory Ravenswood. Emory must thwart the plans of religious zealots. His mission is dangerous, his enemies are fanatical, and Petra Baron is a complication that Heaven only knows he does not need. Or does he? Although Emory is on Heaven\u2019s errand, he learned long ago that Heaven does not always play fair. As Petra slowly falls for Emory, she wonders if he really is who he seems, or if he is just as lost as she is. How can they have a future while trapped in the past? Or is anything possible Beyond the Fortuneteller\u2019s Tent?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19273711-beyond-the-fortuneteller-s-tent"}, +{"book_title": "Wander Dust", "author_name": "Michelle Warren", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2576, "review_number": 330, "book_description": "Ever since her sixteenth birthday, strange things keep happening to Seraphina Parrish.The Lady in Black\u2026 burns Sera\u2019s memories.Unexplainable premonitions\u2026 catapult her to other cities.The Grungy Gang\u2026 wants to kill her.And a beautiful, mysterious boy\u2026 stalks her.But when Sera moves to Chicago, and her aunt reveals their family connection to a centuries old, secret society, she is immediately thrust into an unbelievable fantasy world, leading her on a quest to unravel the mysteries that plague her. In the end, their meanings crash into an epic struggle of loyalty and betrayal, and she\u2019ll be forced to choose between the boy who has stolen her heart and the thing she desires most.Wander Dust is the breathtaking fantasy that will catapult you through a story of time, adventure, and love.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11250674-wander-dust"}, +{"book_title": "Empire in Black and Gold", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 8300, "review_number": 462, "book_description": "The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace for decades, bastions of civilization, prosperity and sophistication, protected by treaties, trade and a belief in the reasonable nature of their neighbours. But meanwhile, in far-off corners, the Wasp Empire has been devouring city after city with its highly trained armies, its machines, its killing Art...And now its hunger for conquest and war has become insatiable. Only the ageing Stenwold Maker, spymaster, artificer and statesman, can see that the long days of peace are over. It falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of his people, before a black-and-gold tide sweeps down over the Lowlands and burns away everything in its path.But first he must stop himself becoming the Empire's latest victim.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Epic", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309-empire-in-black-and-gold"}, +{"book_title": "Crusade", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 3786, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "The \"gripping and riveting\" Destroyermen saga continues.Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the USS Walker, have chosen sides in a war not of their making. Swept from the World War II Pacific into an alternate world, they have allied with the Lemurians?a mammalian race threatened by the warlike reptilian Grik. The Lemurians are vastly outnumbered and ignorant of warfare, and even the guns and technology of Walker cannot turn the tide of battle. Luckily they are not alone?Reddy finally finds Mahan, the other destroyer that passed through the rift. Together, the two American ships will teach the Lemurians to make a stand. Or so they think. For the massive Japanese battleship Amagi, the very ship that Walker was fleeing from when the rift took them, has followed them through. And now the Amagi is in the hands of the Grik.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3698340-crusade"}, +{"book_title": "SteamDrunks: 101 Steampunk Cocktails and Mixed Drinks", "author_name": "Chris-Rachael Oseland", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 232, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "SteamDrunks: 101 Steampunk Cocktails and Mixed Drinks gently escorts you through the treacherous waters of 19th century mixology.You'll find authentic Victorian punch recipes that could be confused for farmer's cheese, tea recipes which will knock you out rather than wake you up, and downright chewable eggy cream curdles.Along the way, you'll also find some shockingly tasty 19th century recipes made from all natural ingredients you already have at home.Whether you're looking for a delicate cocktail to impress a fine corset clad lady or industrial quantities of affordable Victorian punch to serve the entire crew of your airship, you'll find the perfect Steampunk themed drink inside the pages of SteamDrunks.__Brought to you by the author of the Unofficial True Blood Drinking Guide.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Nonfiction", "Food and Drink (Cookbooks)", "Food and Drink (Cooking)", "Food and Drink", "Food and Drink (Food)", "Reference", "Historical", "Alcohol (Cocktails)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13738124-steamdrunks"}, +{"book_title": "Caught by Menace", "author_name": "Lolita Lopez", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2923, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "Grabbed, Book TwoMenace\u2019s plan to catch a docile woman is shot to hell when he\u2019s tackled by a dark-haired beauty who wants to save her friend from being Grabbed. Refusing to leave the planet\u2019s surface empty-handed, Menace claims the spitfire with his collar.Naya clawed her way off the streets of Connor\u2019s Run and vowed to never let any man control her. She plans to make Menace so miserable he\u2019ll set her free, but the ruggedly sexy warrior disarms her with his unexpected patience and kindness.Against her better judgment, Naya surrenders to Menace\u2019s masterful hands and mouth. Submitting to her new husband brings more pleasure and happiness than she\u2019d ever imagined possible. For the first time in her life, she willingly trusts a man to protect her.But when past misdeeds catch up with her, Naya puts the depth and strength of that love to the test. Determined to prove he\u2019s worthy of her trust, Menace will stop at nothing to save her.Inside Scoop: Our heroine learns to love every decadent delight the hero offers, including BDSM play and a sizzling M/F/M m\u00e9nage. A Romantica\u00ae sci-fi erotic romance from Ellora\u2019s Cave", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17788835-caught-by-menace"}, +{"book_title": "Destiny", "author_name": "Matthew Mather", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1651, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "As the Earth plunges toward Saturn, Jessica struggles to decide whether to save the ones she loves, or save the human race.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33613486-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Book Four", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 9070, "review_number": 390, "book_description": "The hardcover features another 12 issues of the hit series along with the covers for the issues all in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long-time fans, new readers, and anyone interested in reading a zombie movie on paper that never ends.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4008489-the-walking-dead-book-four"}, +{"book_title": "Monkey with a Tool Belt Blasts Off", "author_name": "Chris Monroe", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 44, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Come along on an out-of-this-world journey with Chico Bon Bon in this rollicking new adventure from author and illustrator Chris Monroe. Oh no, the Moon Malt machine at the Superstar Space Station and Snack Bar is broken! The ever-resourceful Chico Bon Bon and his trusty sidekick Clark the elephant ZOOM to the rescue. While working on the malfunctioning Moon Malt machine, they discover myriad other things in need of fixing, including a hatch and a latch and a droid's underwear. And then--FWHOOSH! KA-BOING!--what was that? It's the cutest alien in the universe, and she's stranded at the space station due to a broken down spaceship! Thanks to Chico's know-how and his extensive tool collection there's a fix for every problem under the sun--and beyond!-- \"Journal\"", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Space", "Childrens", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49295597-monkey-with-a-tool-belt-blasts-off"}, +{"book_title": "The Angel of the Crows", "author_name": "Katherine Addison", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 4116, "review_number": 535, "book_description": "This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings under a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent.Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52378874-the-angel-of-the-crows"}, +{"book_title": "A Band of Brothers", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 594, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "In the ten years since his regiment was transported to an alien world, Commander Andrew Keane has bravely fought time and time again for humanity's freedom. But after the is injured in battle, his confidence is shaken, and his ability to lead is damaged. Seeing their leader struck down also takes its toll on Keane's men, who have followed him to hell and back. Now, with the Human Republic weakened, their sinister enemies -- the, Bantags -- offer a truce to the two halves of the Republic -- one that would guarantee safety for one nation, and seal the doom of the other!Now, Keane must face his demons, or the dream of freedom will be lost...forever.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254891.A_Band_of_Brothers"}, +{"book_title": "There Will Be Phlogiston", "author_name": "Alexis Hall", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 505, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "An instructive story in which vice receives its just reward.Inspired by true and scandalous tales of the Gaslight aristocracy, we present the most moral and improving tale of Lady Rosamond Wolfram.Weep, reader, for the plight of our heroine as she descends into piteous ruin in the clutches of the notorious Phlogiston Baron, Anstruther Jones. Witness the horrors of feminine rebellion when this headstrong young lady defies her father, breaks an advantageous engagement, and slips into depravity with a social inferior. Before the last page is turned, you will have seen our heroine molested by carnival folk, snubbed at a dance, and drawn into a sinful m\u00e9nage a trois by an unrepentant sodomite, the wicked and licentious Lord Mercury.Reader, take heed. No aspect of our unfortunate heroine\u2019s life, adventures, or conduct is at all admirable, desirable, exciting, thrilling, glamorous, or filled with heady passion and gay romance.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Erotica (Menage)", "Menage (M M F)", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23615339-there-will-be-phlogiston"}, +{"book_title": "The Digging Leviathan", "author_name": "James P. Blaylock", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 529, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Southern California\u2014sunny days, blue skies, neighbors on flying bicycles\u2026ghostly submarines\u2026mermen off the Catalina coast\u2026and a vast underground sea stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire where Chinese junks ply an illicit trade and enormous creatures from ages past still survive. It is a place of wonder\u2026and dark conspiracies. A place rife with adventure\u2014if one knows where to look for it. Two such seekers are the teenagers Jim Hastings and his friend, Giles Peach. Giles was born with a wonderful set of gills along his neck and insatiable appetite for reading. Drawing inspiration from the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Giles is determined to build a Digging Leviathan. Will he reach the center of the earth? or destroy it in the process?", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149570.The_Digging_Leviathan"}, +{"book_title": "On Basilisk Station", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 42410, "review_number": 2016, "book_description": "Honor Harrington in trouble: Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling, the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called \"Republic\" of Haven is Up to Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.But the people out to get her have made one mistake.They've made her mad!", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35921.On_Basilisk_Station"}, +{"book_title": "A Beautiful Friendship", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 4413, "review_number": 337, "book_description": "Stephanie Harrington always expected to be a forest ranger on her homeworld of Meyerdahl . . . until her parents relocated to the frontier planet of Sphinx in the far distant Star Kingdom of Manticore. It should have been the perfect new home --- a virgin wilderness full of new species of every sort, just waiting to be discovered. But Sphinx is a far more dangerous place than ultra-civilized Meyerdahl, and Stephanie\u2019s explorations come to a sudden halt when her parents lay down the law: no trips into the bush without adult supervision!Yet Stephanie is a young woman determined to make discoveries, and the biggest one of all awaits her: an intelligent alien species.The forest-dwelling treecats are small, cute, smart, and have a pronounced taste for celery. And they are also very, very deadly when they or their friends are threatened . . . as Stephanie discovers when she comes face-to-face with Sphinx's most lethal predator after a hang-gliding accident.But her discoveries are only beginning, for the treecats are also telepathic and able to bond with certain humans, and Stephanie\u2019s find --- and her first-of-its kind bond with the treecat Climbs Quickly --- land both of them in a fresh torrent of danger. Galactic-sized wealth is at stake, and Stephanie and the treecats are squarely in the path of highly-placed enemies determined to make sure the planet Sphinx remains entirely in human hands, even if that means the extermination of another thinking species.Unfortunately for those enemies, the treecats have saved Stephanie Harrington\u2019s life. She owes them . . . and Stephanie is a young woman who stands by her friends.Which means things are about to get very interesting on Sphinx.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Animals"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10894503-a-beautiful-friendship"}, +{"book_title": "The Bones of Time", "author_name": "Kathleen Ann Goonan", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 127, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "The preserved bones of the great Hawaiian king, Kamehameha, have survived in hiding into the twenty-first century and are the key to many secrets. For the young mathematician, Cen, they are the key to travel in time and between alternate universes. For the native Hawaiian Resistance movement, they are a symbol of independence but also the source of genetic material from which the great king may be cloned and rise again. Cen's mathematics and Akamu, the boy who might be king, become hidden treasures in the most amazing plot in contemporary SF.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Travel", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1390042.The_Bones_of_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Rose Society", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 50666, "review_number": 6372, "book_description": "Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, and she destroyed them all.Adelina Amouteru\u2019s heart has suffered at the hands of both family and friends, turning her down the bitter path of revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she flees Kenettra with her sister to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army of allies. Her goal: to strike down the Inquisition Axis, the white-cloaked soldiers who nearly killed her.But Adelina is no heroine. Her powers, fed only by fear and hate, have started to grow beyond her control. She does not trust her newfound Elite friends. Teren Santoro, leader of the Inquisition, wants her dead. And her former friends, Raffaele and the Dagger Society, want to stop her thirst for vengeance. Adelina struggles to cling to the good within her. But how can someone be good when her very existence depends on darkness?Bestselling author Marie Lu delivers another heart-pounding adventure in this exhilarating sequel to The Young Elites.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23846013-the-rose-society"}, +{"book_title": "Alternate Heroes", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 99, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "What would have happened if history had been different-if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way-or not at all? From a Confederacy that won the Civil War to a Europe converted to Viking paganism.These bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds-oddly familiar, disturbingly different-a glimpse of WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.Summary: Michael Cassutt's \"Mules in Horses' Harness\"Sheila Finch's \"Old Man and C\", Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey's \"Letter from the Pope\"M. Laidlaw's \"His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes\"Barry N. Malzberg's \"Another Goddamned Showboat\"James Morrow's \"Abe Lincoln in McDonald's\"Rudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo's \"Instability\" Susan Shwartz's \"Loose Cannon\" Robert Silverberg's \"A Sleep and a Forgetting\"Judith Tarr's \"Roncesvalles\"Harry Turtledove's \"Departures\"Walter Jon Williams's \"No Spot of Ground\"George Zebrowski's \"Lenin in Odessa\".", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1618992.Alternate_Heroes"}, +{"book_title": "Thanemonger", "author_name": "Bex McLynn", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 509, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "She won't give up. He'll never surrender. Will their need for each other overcome their determination? Zver is on a rampage. A rival thane has kidnapped his son and sabotaged his work for the Dominion. But he won't fail. He won't fall. They call him Thanemonger for a reason. Not only will he retrieve his son, but he'll seize the battleship he's wanted for years and cement his superior status in\u00a0the Dominion. Just as he executes his ruthless plan, an alluring human woman appears and changes everything. Seph survived being abducted by aliens, and now she's determined to get home to her young son. Her plan: find a spaceship, return to Earth. Simple, but then she meets the domineering Thanemonger. He offers her sanctuary, but only if she complies with his demands. Now Seph must find a way to fall in line without falling for the sexy alien who has sworn to see her safely home. Thanemonger is a science fiction romance with action elements, light humor, tender moments, and steamy close encounters. Contains explicit themes and is intended for adults only. No cheating. No cliffhangers. Characters battle for their hard-won HFN.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39015181-thanemonger"}, +{"book_title": "Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy", "author_name": "Dan Jolley", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 60, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "In 1984, Kyle Reese protected Sarah Connor from a terrifying cyborg that would stop at nothing to terminate her. In 1985, Skynet targets Biotechnician Elise Fong, who is destined to discover a vital weapon against the Terminators, but this time there is no resistance fighter sent back to stop it! Targeted for actions in her future, Fong's only hope in the present is ex-CIA operative tasked with kidnapping her! This action packed volume collects issues #1-#6 of the thrilling series Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22299818-terminator"}, +{"book_title": "Hunger", "author_name": "Jeremiah Knight", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 847, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "Desperate to solve a global food shortage, ExoGen scientist Dr. Ella Masse oversees the creation and release of RC-714, a gene that unlocks millions of years of adaptation and evolution, allowing crops to use long dormant junk DNA to rapidly adapt to any environment. The world\u2019s food supply grows aggressively, occupying every inch of earth, no matter how inhospitable. World hunger is averted. Humanity flourishes. RC-714 is digested, absorbed and passed on.The Change affects small, fast breeding mammals first. They multiply with the same aggressive speed as the ExoGen plants, but a new, insatiable hunger drives them to violence. War between species breaks out. And then RC-714 reaches humanity, along with every other large creature on the planet. Civilization implodes, as every living thing that consumed the ExoGen crops begins to adapt to a world full of predators, accessing genes dating back to the beginning of life itself.Peter Crane and his son Jakob survive the Change, living in their family farmhouse and eating non-ExoGen food from a biodome, one of many provided by Ella Masse, who discovered the ramifications of her breakthrough too late. The pair ekes out a living in a world full of monsters, surviving until Ella shows up on their doorstep with her daughter, pursued by desperate predators and men alike.As the farmhouse falls under attack, Crane learns that the end of humanity, of life on Earth, can still be averted: if Ella Masse and her daughter survive, and if they make it to the other side of the country without being captured...or consumed.Jeremy Robinson merges the science of Michael Crichton with the horror of Stephen King in this fresh take on the post-apocalypse, creating a true worst-case scenario for GMO crops that will have people reading labels before eating their next pepper, tomato or kernel of corn.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Action", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25612397-hunger"}, +{"book_title": "Next to Nothing", "author_name": "Macy Blake", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 1247, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "A Gay Paranormal Harem Romance What do you get when you mix a dragon, a vampire, a griffin, a mage, and a human? Sawyer Smith\u2019s life sounds like a punchline, but the mates he\u2019s come to love are no joke. They\u2019re fierce and wonderful, protecting him from the outside forces trying to destroy him. Add in a reluctant hippocamp and an egotistical fae prince, and Sawyer has his hands full in more ways than one. Sawyer is closer than ever to fulfilling the ancient prophecy of the Chosen One, but the bonds between him and his newest guardians are giving him doubts. The rules are changing, and Sawyer has to adapt quickly if he\u2019s going to keep up, especially after he\u2019s whisked away to the land of the fae, a place with cryptic customs. One misstep could very well lead to his death. Navigating the waters of his newest relationship is tricky enough without the encroaching dangers. Something terrifying is heading Sawyer\u2019s way, threatening not only his life, but everything he\u2019s built with the mates he loves. Despite their concerns, Sawyer is ready to make sacrifices, because there\u2019s next to nothing he wouldn\u2019t do to keep them safe. ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Menage (M M M)", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43627833-next-to-nothing"}, +{"book_title": "Warday", "author_name": "Whitley Strieber", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 2660, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "The unthinkable happened five years ago and now two writers have set out to find what's left of America.New York, Washington D.C., San Antonio, and parts of the Central and Western states are gone, and famine, epidemics, border wars, and radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between.It was a \"limited\" nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers' communication systems broke down. But Warday destroyed much of civilization.Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, old friends and writers, take a dangerous odyssey across the former United States, sometimes hopeful that a new, peaceful world can be built over the old, sometimes despairing over the immense losses and embittered people they meet.In an eerie blend of fact and imagination, Strieber (author of \"The Wolfen\" and \"The Hunger\") and Kunetka (author of \"City of Fire: Los Alamos and The Atomic Age\", \"1943-1945\" and \"Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk\") cut through the doublespeak of military bureaucracy and the rhetoric of the 1980's peace movement to portray America after Warday.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/985060.Warday"}, +{"book_title": "The Enemy Stars", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 578, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "The time is the 23rd century, and ships are crawling outward from Earth into the interstellar depths. It will take them centuries to reach even the nearest stars - but once they do, future travel will be instantaneous, because the ships carry matter transmitters that are not subject to the limitations of lightspeed.In the meantime, crews can flit back and forth between the ships and Earth, but until now their only purpose has been to stand watch. Until now. At last one ship has made contact with the stars...", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Hugo Awards", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1410692.The_Enemy_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Legacy of Heorot", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 6573, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way, to settle a planet in another solar system. Avalon seems perfect, a verdant, livable world still in its prehistoric age. The biologists and engineers who busy themselves planting and building scoff at the warnings of professional soldier Cadmann Weyland until a large, unnaturally fast and cunning predator begins stalking the colony. Learning how to kill the beast is only the first step, for they must then reevaluate their entire understanding of Avalon's ecology.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/899392.The_Legacy_of_Heorot"}, +{"book_title": "Splintered", "author_name": "A.G. Howard", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 54690, "review_number": 7748, "book_description": "Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers\u2014precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now.When her mother\u2019s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice\u2019s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice\u2019s mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12558285-splintered"}, +{"book_title": "Iron to Iron", "author_name": "Ryan Graudin", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1472, "review_number": 310, "book_description": "Once upon a different time, there was a boy who raced through a kingdom of death.\"Sixteen-year-old Luka Lowe has one goal in mind: Win the 1955 Axis Tour and become the first Double Cross victor. If he can accomplish that, maybe his father will finally see him as a worthy son. He's completed the grueling trek from Germania to Tokyo before, but this time is different. Luka never expected to meet Adele Wolfe, another racer posing as her twin brother and with a singular dream--to live life on her own terms.When Luka and Adele form an alliance, an unlikely bond forms, and even possibly love. But only one person can win the Axis Tour....Can everything Luka and Adele built together survive the race?Word count: 24000", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29105145-iron-to-iron"}, +{"book_title": "The Big Catch", "author_name": "Anastasia Suen", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 24, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Robot and Rico are off to the beach! While Rico is busy fishing, Robot is bored. Rico wants to catch the biggest fish, but Robot may end up with a bigger surprise.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6749857-the-big-catch"}, +{"book_title": "The Savage King", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 3773, "review_number": 232, "book_description": "Shapeshifter RomancePart of the Dragon Lords' Series Universe of Books\u200bCat-shifting King Kirill knows he must do his duty by his people. When his father unexpectedly dies, it\u2019s his destiny to take the throne and all of the responsibility that entails. What he hadn\u2019t prepared for is the troublesome prisoner that\u2019s now his to deal with. Undercover Agent Ulyssa is no man\u2019s captive. Trapped in a primitive forest awaiting pickup, she\u2019s going to make the best out of a bad situation\u2026which doesn\u2019t include falling for the seductions of a king.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11990629-the-savage-king"}, +{"book_title": "Metal Boxes", "author_name": "Alan Black", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1377, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Coming of age can be hard for anyone. But for Blackmon Perry Stone it is life threatening. At 15, he barely manages to graduate from the empire's cadet training by a talent for unusual problem solving. He has trouble settling into navy life, but life becomes harder when he uncovers a ring of thieves aboard the huge ship. Life becomes difficult when they killed him. Stone is ejected into hyperspace in an escape pod without hyperspace engines. Fully expecting to die, he reconfigures the sub-light engine to escape the inescapable. To his surprise it works, but only well enough to do little more than crash on an uncharted planet. It will surprise him if he can make the engine work again, but not as much as it will surprise everyone else if he can come back from the dead.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space", "War", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18912585-metal-boxes"}, +{"book_title": "Once Broken Faith", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 8115, "review_number": 645, "book_description": "Politics have never been October \u201cToby\u201d Daye\u2019s strong suit. When she traveled to the Kingdom of Silences to prevent them from going to war with her home, the Kingdom of the Mists, she wasn\u2019t expecting to return with a cure for elf-shot and a whole new set of political headaches. Now the events she unwittingly set in motion could change the balance of modern Faerie forever, and she has been ordered to appear before a historic convocation of monarchs, hosted by Queen Windermere in the Mists and overseen by the High King and Queen themselves. Naturally, things have barely gotten underway when the first dead body shows up. As the only changeling in attendance, Toby is already the target of suspicion and hostility. Now she needs to find a killer before they can strike again\u2014and with the doors locked to keep the guilty from escaping, no one is safe. As danger draws ever closer to her allies and the people she loves best, Toby will have to race against time to prevent the total political destabilization of the West Coast and to get the convocation back on track\u2026and if she fails, the cure for elf-shot may be buried forever, along with the victims she was too slow to save. Because there are worse fates than sleeping for a hundred years.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815482-once-broken-faith"}, +{"book_title": "The Scarlet Plague", "author_name": "Jack London", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 5683, "review_number": 724, "book_description": "'An old man, James Howard Smith, walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgrown; beside him a young, feral boy helps him along. It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the world that was\u2014nothing but myths and make-believe. The old man is the only one who can convey the wonders of that bygone age, and the horrors of the plague that brought about its end. What future lies in store for the remnants of mankind can only be surmised\u2014their ignorance, barbarity, and ruthlessness the only hopes they have?'", "year_published": 1912, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories", "Horror", "Literature (American)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1201864.The_Scarlet_Plague"}, +{"book_title": "Forever Free", "author_name": "Joe Haldeman", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 5821, "review_number": 343, "book_description": "William Mandela is a genetic throwback, one of the small group of humans who fought and survived the Forever War. They returned to find humanity has evolved into a group mind called Man. Surrounded by a society that is too autocratic and intrusive, living a dull existence which cannot compare to the certainties of combat and feeling increasingly alienated, the veterans plan an escape to the future by means of space travel and relativity. But when their ship starts to fail, their journey becomes a search for the Unknown, the elusive entity responsible.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science (Technology)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21620.Forever_Free"}, +{"book_title": "The City", "author_name": "David Moody", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3502, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, the Autumn series chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a deadly disease. After 99% of the population of the planet is killed in less than 24 hours, for the very few who have managed to stay alive, things are about to get much worse. Animated by \"phase two\" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, quickly the bodies regain their most basic senses and abilities... sight, hearing, locomotion... As well as the instinct toward aggression and violence. Held back only by the restraints of their rapidly decomposing flesh, the dead seem to have only one single goal - to lumber forth and destroy the sole remaining attraction in the silent, lifeless world: those who have survived the plague, who now find themselves outnumbered 1,000,000 to 1...While the first Autumn novel focused on those who escaped the city, Autumn: The City focuses on those who didn't.Without ever using the 'Z' word, the Autumn series offers a new perspective on the traditional zombie story. There's no flesh eating, no fast-moving corpses, no gore for gore's sake. Combining the atmosphere and tone of George Romero's classic living dead films with the attitude and awareness of 28 Days (and Weeks) later, this horrifying and suspenseful novel is filled with relentless cold, dark fear.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8723188-the-city"}, +{"book_title": "Permafrost", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 3817, "review_number": 460, "book_description": "Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity\u2019s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox.2028: a young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery. In the days following her operation, she begins to hear another voice in her head... an unwanted presence which seems to have a will, and a purpose, all of its own \u2013 one that will disrupt her life entirely. The only choice left to her is a simple one.Does she resist... or become a collaborator?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40048442-permafrost"}, +{"book_title": "Salvage and Demolition", "author_name": "Tim Powers", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 823, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "Salvage And Demolition, the astonishing new 21,000 word novella by Tim Powers, begins when Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse, an Ace Double Novel, and a scattering of very old cigarette butts. These commonplace objects serve as catalysts for an extraordinary - and unpredictable - adventure.Without warning, Blanzac finds himself traversing a \"circle of discontinuity\" that leads from the present day to the San Francisco of 1957. Caught up in that circle are an ancient Sumerian deity, a forgotten Beat-era poet named Sophie Greenwald, and an apocalyptic cult in search of the key to absolute nonexistence. With unobtrusive artistry, Powers weaves these elements into something strange and utterly compelling. The resulting story is at once a romance, a thriller, and the kind of intricately constructed time travel story that only the author of The Anubis Gates - that quintessential time travel classic - could have written. Ingenious, affecting, and endlessly inventive, Salvage and Demolition is a compact gem from the pen of a modern master, a man whose singular creations never fail to dazzle and delight.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16244660-salvage-and-demolition"}, +{"book_title": "Starswarm", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 678, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Kit has never known any life but his existence at the protected laboratory compound known as Starswarm Station. And for all that time he has heard the Voice: an artificial intelligence chip implanted in his skull. It guides him and helps protect him from the planet's many dangers, including roaming bands of hostile centaurs and \"haters.\" But the startling discovery of who put the chip in his head - and why - leads Kip to revelations that could threaten the safety of the entire compound. Luckily, he has friends Marty and Lara to help. But are three kids enough to save an entire planet?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197277.Starswarm"}, +{"book_title": "Time Travelers Never Die", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 3220, "review_number": 376, "book_description": "When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time\u2014or worse\u2014Shel enlists the aid of Dave Dryden, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission. Their journey through history takes them from the enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil-rights upheavals of the 20th century. Along the way, they encounter a diverse cast of historical greats, sometimes in unexpected situations. Yet the elder Shelborne remains elusive. And then Shel violates his agreement with Dave not to visit the future. There he makes a devastating discovery that sends him fleeing back through the ages, and changes his life forever.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Travel", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6352501-time-travelers-never-die"}, +{"book_title": "Blood-Kissed Sky", "author_name": "J.A. London", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 5140, "review_number": 321, "book_description": "There's nowhere left to hide. I thought vampires were our enemies - they controlled our lives, isolated our cities, and demanded our blood - until I met Victor. With Victor taking over as the new Lord Valentine, things were supposed to get better. Instead, they're worse than ever. Day Walkers, a new breed of vampires who can walk in the sun, are terrorizing the city. Blood supplies are low, and if Victor's vampires don't get enough, they will become infected with the Thirst - a disease that will turn them into mindless killers. To stop it, I must journey across the desolate wasteland to the very place where the sickness began. I can only hope that the answers that await me are enough to save us all... before it's too late.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Paranormal (Vampires)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14812991-blood-kissed-sky"}, +{"book_title": "The End: Visions of Apocalypse (SFFWorld.com anthology, #1", "author_name": "N.E. White", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 384, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Everyone knows the world is going to end on December 21st, 2012. The Mayans knew it \u2013 their calendar proved it. So what better way to go out than by reading this short story collection about The End? ...apart from telling your friends about it in 2013, of course.This compilation brings together short stories by award-winning science fiction and fantasy authors Hugh Howey, Michael J. Sullivan and Tristis Ward, with fresh, new voices selected by their peers at SFFWorld.com - all brought to you in this first-of-its-kind anthology.Each story explores a different end of the world. What is the limit of a computer virus? Can we save the world by stopping time itself, or will we just wither away in the relentless winds of the apocalypse?Grab your copy now before the end of the world, and find out.********Contributors include: Michael Aaron, Liam Baldwin, R. F. Dickson, Wilson Geiger, Norman Gray, Hugh Howey, Stephen \u201cB5\u201d Jones, G. L. Lathian, Igor Ljubuncic, Pete McLean, Michael J. Sullivan, and Tristis Ward", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17156181-the-end"}, +{"book_title": "Transreal Cyberpunk", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 64, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters spend thirty years writing tales about transreally warped versions of themselves? A unique perspective on giant ants, flying jellyfish, Soviet rocketeers, runaway genomics, Silicon Valley, and the death of the Universe. With notes by the authors and an introduction by Rob Latham.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28580272-transreal-cyberpunk"}, +{"book_title": "The Night Mark", "author_name": "Tiffany Reisz", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2121, "review_number": 464, "book_description": "She has nothing to live for in the present, but finds there's something worth dying for in the past. From Tiffany Reisz, the international bestselling storyteller behind The Bourbon Thief and The Original Sinners series, comes an enthralling new novel about a woman swept away by the tides who awakens to find herself in 1921, reunited with the husband she's been mourning for four years. Fans of Kate Morton and Diana Gabaldon will fall in love with the mystery, romance, and beauty of an isolated South Carolina lighthouse, where a power greater than love works its magic.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30698729-the-night-mark"}, +{"book_title": "The Flowers of Vashnoi", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3424, "review_number": 441, "book_description": "Still new to her duties as Lady Vorkosigan, Ekaterin is working together with expatriate scientist Enrique Borgos on a radical scheme to recover the lands of the Vashnoi exclusion zone, lingering radioactive legacy of the Cetagandan invasion of the planet Barrayar. When Enrique\u2019s experimental bioengineered creatures go missing, the pair discover that the zone still conceals deadly old secrets. This novella falls after Captain Vorpatril\u2019s Alliance in the Vorkosigan series timeline, but may be read entirely independently.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40138656-the-flowers-of-vashnoi"}, +{"book_title": "The Knife's Edge", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1177, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "A mission failed...A civilization on the edge of collapse...A dangerous alliance to save it...Colonel Mitchell \u201cAres\u201d Williams has never been one to accept failure. While the outcome on Liberty is a crushing setback to his and the Rigger\u2019s chances of salvaging the war, there\u2019s no time to waste on regret. After all, the mission wasn\u2019t a total loss, delivering an unexpected asset in the wake of their defeat:Liun Tio, a.k.a the Knife, a notorious warlord and enemy of the Alliance, whose deep-seated mistrust of artificial intelligence and control over what may be the largest free fleet in the galaxy have made him the most important man alive. If humanity is going to have a chance to survive the Tetron onslaught, Ares and the Knife will need to find a way to work together. But can the two learn to trust one another enough to bring the power of their joint forces to bear against a common enemy? Or will their fragile alliance crumble beneath the weight of personal motives and divergent goals? As Mitchell and the Riggers will soon discover, the knife\u2019s edge cuts both ways.------The Knife's Edge is the third book in the War Eternal series.Book 1: Starship EternalBook 2: The End of Liberty", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27279100-the-knife-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "The Sea Without a Shore", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1100, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Cinnabar's chief spymaster is a mother also--and her son is determined to search for treasure in the midst of a civil war. Who better to hold the boy's hand\u2014and to take the blows directed at him\u2014than Captain Daniel Leary, the Republic of Cinnabar Navy's troubleshooter, and his friend the cyberspy Adele Mundy?The only thing certain in the struggle for control of the mining planet Corcyra is that the rival parties are more dangerous to their own allies than to their opponents. Daniel and Adele face kidnappers, pirates and a death squad\u2014even before they can get to their real business of ending the war on Corcyra. Only with planetary peace can the boy they're escorting get on with his mission.The boy thinks the treasure he's looking for is a thousand years old. Daniel and Adele know that it's probably a dream\u2014But if the treasure is real, it just might be tens of thousands of years older than anyone imagines, and incalculably more valuable!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143936-the-sea-without-a-shore"}, +{"book_title": "Trial by Fire", "author_name": "Josephine Angelini", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 16239, "review_number": 2187, "book_description": "The exhilaratingly seductive new series from the author of the bestselling Starcrossed seriesLove burns. Worlds collide. Magic reigns.This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor. Her life-threatening allergies keep her from enjoying many of the experiences that other teenagers take for granted... which is why she is determined to enjoy her first (and perhaps only) high-school party. But Lily's life never goes according to plan, and after a humiliating incident in front of half her graduating class Lily wishes she could just disappear.Suddenly Lily is in a different Salem - one overrun with horrifying creatures and ruled by powerful women called Crucibles. Strongest and cruellest of all the Crucibles is Lillian... Lily's identical other self in this alternate universe. This new version of her world is terrifyingly sensual, and Lily is soon overwhelmed by new experiences.Lily realizes that what makes her weak at home is exactly what makes her extraordinary in New Salem. It also puts her life in danger. Thrown into a world she doesn't understand, Lily is torn between responsibilities she can't hope to shoulder alone, and a love she never expected.But how can Lily be the saviour of this world when she is literally her own worst enemy?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20613491-trial-by-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Curtsies & Conspiracies", "author_name": "Gail Carriger", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 23951, "review_number": 2504, "book_description": "Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests?Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing! For one thing, finishing school is training her to be a spy--won't Mumsy be surprised? Furthermore, Sophronia got mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and had a cheese pie thrown at her in a most horrid display of poor manners.Now, as she sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers' quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship's boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a field trip to London than is apparent at first. A conspiracy is afoot--one with dire implications for both supernaturals and humans. Sophronia must rely on her training to discover who is behind the dangerous plot-and survive the London Season with a full dance card.In this sequel to New York Times bestselling Etiquette & Espionage, class is back in session with more petticoats and poison, tea trays and treason. Gail's distinctive voice, signature humor, and lush steampunk setting are sure to be the height of fashion this season.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15723286-curtsies-conspiracies"}, +{"book_title": "Contagious", "author_name": "Emily Goodwin", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1761, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "\"I wasn\u2019t afraid of death. If I died, it would be over. My worst fear wasn\u2019t of dying, it was of living. Living, while everyone around me had their flesh savagely torn from their bodies to be shoved into the festering and ever-hungry mouths of zombies. It terrified me, right down to my very core, to be alive while the rest of the world was dead.\" During the Second Great Depression, twenty-four year old Orissa Penwell is forced to drop out of college when she is no longer able to pay for classes. Unable to find a job, she moves in with her aunt in Indianapolis. Down on her luck, Orissa doesn\u2019t think she can go any lower. She couldn\u2019t be more wrong. A virus breaks out across the country, leaving the infected crazed, aggressive and very hungry. Orissa is used to only being responsible for herself. When she finds herself a reluctant leader of a group of survivors, she must make a choice: set aside her issues and help the others or go off alone in search of her own family and friends.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22837831-contagious"}, +{"book_title": "Topside", "author_name": "J.N. Monk", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 252, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "A wild outer-space fantasy about fixing your mistakes and the friends you meet along the way. When Jo, a headstrong maintenance technician, makes an error that destabilizes her planet's core, she only knows one way to fix things: leaving her underground home for a trip to the planet's dangerous, unruly surface. Soon she's wandering through deserts, riding on the back of giant beasts, and cutting deals with con artists and bounty hunters. Meanwhile, agents of the core are in hot pursuit. J. N. Monk and Harry Bogosian (co-creators of the web-comic StarHammer) present a wild outer-space fantasy about fixing your mistakes and the friends you meet along the way.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43272072-topside"}, +{"book_title": "Tracker", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1347, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Tracker is the sixteenth installment of CJ Cherryh's acclaimed Foreigner series.It\u2019s been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron\u2019s return from space\u2014a year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government over\u00adthrown and their world in chaos. Now, at last, things are calming down; the Assassins\u2019 Guild is functioning again, working out its internal difficulties, and Bren is settling back into his routine: not as Lord of the Heavens; not\u2014to his regret\u2014as Lord of Najida peninsula, where his leisure estate is located; but as paidhi-aiji, an official in the atevi court. His current ambition is to keep himself and his bodyguard out of harm\u2019s way, and to shepherd the aiji-dowager\u2019s daring new trade agreement through the appropriate legislative committees. Combined with Tabini-aiji\u2019s recent appointment of his young son Cajeiri as his official heir, Bren\u2019s workload is challenging, but at least things on the atevi world seem to be on the right track. Something is coming, however, quietly, stealthily, just the first ominous twinkle of a new star in the heavens\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22544401-tracker"}, +{"book_title": "First Test", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 59384, "review_number": 1528, "book_description": "In the medieval and fantastic realm of Tortall, Keladry of Mindelan is the first girl to take advantage of the decree that permits females to train for knighthood. Up against the traditional hazing of pages and a grueling schedule, Kel faces only one real roadblock: Lord Wyldon, the training master of pages and squires. He is absolutely against girls becoming knights. So while he is forced to train her, Wyldon puts her on probation for one year. It is a trial period that no male page has ever had to endure and one that separates the good natured Kel even more from her fellow trainees during the tough first year. But Kel Is not a girl to underestimate, as everyone is about to find out...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153784.First_Test"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Operator: A Military Science Fiction Special Forces Thriller", "author_name": "Doc Spears", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 264, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Legion Dark Ops has always been a unit shrouded in secrecy. Tasked with performing covert missions, its kill teams are filled with the best warriors from within the ranks of the Legion.Kel Turner is one of the youngest legionnaires ever to be selected to its ranks. After many battles and trials, he is faced with the greatest challenge of his life - operating by himself on a remote planet at the galaxy\u2019s edge, a foot soldier for the policies of the duplicitous House of Reason, tasked with solving a crisis that would take ten kill teams to resolve.Diplomats, spies, shadowy terrorist groups, and an enigmatic general work with and against Kel as he fights to save a society from itself. What can one operator do alone, separated from his kill team, fighting a war that has no name?This lone operator doesn\u2019t know what it will take to win. He only knows he\u2019s not going to lose.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53601872-dark-operator"}, +{"book_title": "Hunter of Demons", "author_name": "Jordan L. Hawk", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2332, "review_number": 328, "book_description": "For alternate cover edition see hereUnregistered paranormal Caleb Jansen only wants a normal life. But when a demon murders his brother, Caleb knows he has to avenge Ben\u2019s death, no matter what the cost. Unfortunately, his only allies belong to an extremist group who would kill Caleb if they found out about his talent.Gray is a wandering spirit, summoned to hunt and destroy demons by drinking their blood. This hunt goes horribly wrong, and for the first time in his existence Gray is trapped in a living, human body. Caleb\u2019s body\u2026and Caleb is still in it.Hotshot federal agent John Starkweather thinks he\u2019s seen it all. But when he\u2019s called to exorcise Caleb, he finds a creature which isn\u2019t supposed to exist outside of stories. For Gray is a drakul: a vampire.Having spent his life avoiding the government as an unregistered \u2018mal, Caleb can\u2019t let himself trust a federal exorcist, no matter how sexy. And he certainly isn\u2019t going to give into the heat growing between them and sleep with Starkweather.Can Starkweather win Caleb\u2019s trust and convince him he isn\u2019t the enemy? Can Caleb keep Gray under control, as the drakul experiences the temptation of a living body for the first time?Because if he fails and Gray gives in to bloodlust, Starkweather will have no choice but to kill them both.Novella: 33,643 words", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16281053-hunter-of-demons"}, +{"book_title": "Encrypted", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 3017, "review_number": 248, "book_description": "Professor Tikaya Komitopis isn\u2019t a great beauty, a fearless warrior, or even someone who can walk and chew chicle at the same time, but her cryptography skills earn her wartime notoriety. When enemy marines show up at her family\u2019s plantation, she expects the worst. But they\u2019re not there to kill her. They need her to decode mysterious runes, and they ask for help in the manner typical of a conquering empire: they kidnap her, threaten her family, and throw her in the brig of their fastest steamship. Her only ally is a fellow prisoner who charms her with a passion for academics as great as her own. Together, they must decipher mind-altering alchemical artifacts, deadly poison rockets, and malevolent technological constructs, all while dodging assassination attempts from a rival power determined the expedition should fail. As if the situation weren\u2019t treacherous enough, this new \u201cally\u201d may turn out to be the last person Tikaya should trust. Those runes cloak more than mysteries, however, and he\u2019s the only one who can help her unravel them before their secrets destroy the world.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10218438-encrypted"}, +{"book_title": "Solip:System", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 232, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Solip:System begins shortly before the ending of Hardwired and continues beyond that point. In Solip:System, the main character is the computer personality Reno (a minor character in Hardwired). The author intended that this book would provide a link between Hardwired and Voice of the Whirlwind.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11842176-solip"}, +{"book_title": "York", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2104, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "Watching his crewmates fall in love has left York craving a female of his own. That\u2019s how he ends up being matched to a Parri female through a service to find bond mates. He\u2019s excited at the prospect when he arrives on planet Relon. Until he actually meets her. Betrayed by her government in a bid for alien technology, poverty-stricken human Sara is doomed to be a prince\u2019s sex toy, until she\u2019s rescued on a planet that doesn\u2019t take kindly to slavers. Suddenly free, she\u2019s an outcast on her new home, treated with distrust\u2026by everyone except a gorgeous, kind, huge blue alien. Too bad he\u2019s getting married the next day. His future bond mate is a horrid, abusive woman, and Sara has a way to save them both\u2014she\u2019ll convince York to bond with her instead.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42290171-york"}, +{"book_title": "Stardust", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 370485, "review_number": 19000, "book_description": "Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall\u2014named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16793.Stardust"}, +{"book_title": "The Day of Battle", "author_name": "Doug Dandridge", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 428, "review_number": 7, "book_description": " Sean needs a victory, before Parliament returns a no confidence vote and leaves him a figurehead ruler. \n The Ca'cadasans are almost through with their conquest of Sector IV, and from the there, the heart of the Empire is exposed.\nThe Ca'cadasans continue to roll over the New Terran Empire and the New Terran Republic. Hit and run tactics are taking a toll on the enemy, bleeding them, but not enough. Frontier worlds, developing planets, and worse, the industrial powerhouses known as Core Worlds, are falling at an alarming rate, and even the new weapons based on wormhole tech can't stop them. Risks need to be taken, everything put on the line. Sean must come up with a plan that allows him to take on and defeat the Caca battle fleet. Only then can he buy the time his Empire needs to battle the enemy on even footing, and keep the people without a plan from gaining controi of the Empire. Defeat could spell disaster, but so could inaction. He has even more new weapons to deploy, devices beyond imagination, and the shipyards are working to capacity. Allies are gathering, but so are regional enemies who join the cause of the enormous aliens. And a client species of the Cacas is looking to play both sides to their own benefit, while the Cacas plan on a strike that will take wormhole technology away from the humans, once and for all. The Day of Battle is upon the Empire, and the history of the human species depends on the outsome. \u02c3\u02c3\u02c3 Get the 6th book of the succesful Space Opera series and continue the saga. \n Scroll up and grab a copy today.\n", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22022994-the-day-of-battle"}, +{"book_title": "Borders of Infinity", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 9451, "review_number": 386, "book_description": "Limited edition volume. Contents:Frame story that follows Miles' time on Earth in Brothers in ArmsThe Mountains of Mourning (1989)Labyrinth (1989)The Borders of Infinity (1987)", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76811.Borders_of_Infinity"}, +{"book_title": "Elysium", "author_name": "Jennifer Marie Brissett", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 1046, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell, the story of two people, of a city lost to chaos, of survival and love. The program's data, however, has been corrupted. As the novel's characters struggle to survive apocalypse, they are sustained and challenged by the demands of love in a shattered world both haunted and dangerous.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "LGBT", "Book Club"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23374690-elysium"}, +{"book_title": "The Tank Lords", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2136, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "The bestselling saga of Hammer's Slammers begins!", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1025514.The_Tank_Lords"}, +{"book_title": "The Way It Wasn't: Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History", "author_name": "Martin H. Greenberg", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 160, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "The Way It Wasn't takes an amusing, intellectually stimulating excursion into speculative history. Here are thirteen memorable stories by renowned science fiction writers, telling what things might be like if... Elvis Presley weren't the \"King\" but the President of the United States (\"Ike at the Mike\" by Howard Waldrop)... The Black Death had killed the entire population of Europe in the fourteenth century (\"Lion Time in Timbuctoo\" by Robert Silverberg)... John F. Kennedy had survived the 1963 shooting in Dallas (\"The Winterberry\" by Nicholas A. DiChario). Included, too, is fascinating short fiction by Mike Resnick, Susan Shwartz, Larry Niven, Pamela Sargent, Fritz Leiber, Greg Bear, Barry N. Malzberg, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford and Kim Stanley Robinson. After reading these stories - some of the most compelling examples of alternate history anywhere - your mind will keep spinning the question \"What If...?\"", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Politics", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293301.The_Way_It_Wasn_t"}, +{"book_title": "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 359503, "review_number": 13607, "book_description": "It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then...\"retire\" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36402034-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep"}, +{"book_title": "Hidden Empire", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 3487, "review_number": 326, "book_description": "The war of words between right and left collapsed into a shooting war, and raged between the high-technology weapons on each side, devastating cities and overrunning the countryside.At the close of Empire, political scientist and government adviser Averell Torrent had maneuvered himself into the presidency of the United States. And now that he has complete power at home, he plans to expand American imperial power around the world.Opportunity comes quickly. There's a deadly new plague in Africa, and it is devastating the countryside and cities. President Torrent declares American solidarity with the victims, but places all of Africa in quarantine until a vaccine is found or the disease burns itself out. And he sends Captain Bartholomew Coleman, Cole to his friends, to run the relief operations and protect the American scientists working on identifying the virus. If Cole and his team can avoid dying of the plague, or being cut down by the weapons of fearful African nations, they might do some good. Or they might be out of the way for good.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "War", "Fantasy", "Politics", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6397351-hidden-empire"}, +{"book_title": "A Lady of Resources", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1335, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Book 5 in the Magnificent Devices series!You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family \u2026 or can you?Now sixteen, the twins Lizzie and Maggie are educated young ladies who have not been called \u201cthe Mopsies\u201d in years \u2026 except by their guardian, Lady Claire Trevelyan. With the happy prospect of choosing their own future, the girls can leave their dodgy past behind, and Lizzie can bury her deepest childhood memories where they can do no harm. Upon her graduation from school, Lizzie is awarded an enormous honor\u2014but can she pay the price? Is she ready to be separated from Maggie and become the woman she believes she was meant to be\u2014or will old habits tempt her into defiance and plunge her into disaster?On a dare, Lizzie picks the wrong man's pocket and nearly loses her life. But these frightening events bear unexpected fruit: The dream Lizzie holds closest to her heart comes true in a most unexpected way. But this dream, too, comes with a price. Lizzie must decide whether her true family is the one she was born to \u2026 or the one she chose that long-ago day when the Lady of Devices steamed into their lives \u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17458339-a-lady-of-resources"}, +{"book_title": "The Final Warning", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 65924, "review_number": 2650, "book_description": "In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her -- and maybe save the planet while she's at it.Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment. Max and the other members of the Flock -- six kids who share her remarkable ability -- have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the causes of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism -- and escaping government forces who watch the Flock like a hawk.But even in Antarctica, trapped in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world. Maximum Ride is James Patterson's greatest character, a heroine who manages to be human and fearless at once.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1829709.The_Final_Warning"}, +{"book_title": "Theories of Flight", "author_name": "Simon Morden", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1311, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick AwardTheorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets.Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server farm - the same program that nearly destroyed the Metrozone a few months back.Theorem: The city is broken.Proof: The people of the OutZone want what citizens of the Metrozone have. And then burn it to the ground. Now, with the heart of the city destroyed by the New Machine Jihad, the Outies finally see their chance.Theorem: These events are not unconnected.Proof: Someone is trying to kill Petrovitch and they're willing to sink the whole city to do it.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Futuristic", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10320488-theories-of-flight"}, +{"book_title": "Here There Be Monsters", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1971, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "Two years ago, blacksmith Ivy, desperate to flee London, purchased her overseas passage by agreeing to spend the voyage in the bed of the pirate captain, Mad Machen. Saved at the last minute by his rival, Ivy scraped out a new life in Fool\u2019s Cove\u2026until Mad Machen finds her, forces her to accept a job that will create a monster, and reminds her that she still owes him the price of a journey\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13107963-here-there-be-monsters"}, +{"book_title": "Children of Destruction", "author_name": "Al Philipson", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 29, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "What\u2019s the last man on Earth supposed to do with 4 attractive women and a boy? What is so special about them? Why did they survive when everyone else was suddenly and mysteriously destroyed? What caused this catastrophe?The answers are revealed in a story of survival that spans over 200 years.From their adopted farm in Washington to inter-species conflicts among the stars, you\u2019ll meet the most unusual family of survivors ever contrived by circumstance and necessity.Rated \"R\"", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10584522-children-of-destruction"}, +{"book_title": "Armageddon", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 3891, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "After the Renegade mission by the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman, the UN Expeditionary Force thought Earth was safe for hundreds of years, at least. After there was trouble on the Homefront, and the President had to authorize a nuclear strike on an American city. UNEF decided they did need the Merry Band of Pirates again. So, the Flying Dutchman is sent out on a simple recon mission. But for the Pirates, nothing is ever simple, and their mission will become Armageddon", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Pulp", "Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52736489-armageddon"}, +{"book_title": "Night Air", "author_name": "Ben Sears", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 163, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Plus Man is a roguish knave without equal, an antihero in his own mind. His coolheaded robot, however, knows better. This odd couple has just been given a break: a tip on a score of valuable alloy. The catch? The alloy is in a haunted castle. One really haunted castle. Like a young Indiana Jones with super science, Plus Man successfully bumbles his way through hair-raising heists and sticky situations.Ben Sears is a cartoonist, illustrator, and musician born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, where he continues to live and work. His Double+ characters have appeared in a number of zines and online anthologies, where the protagonist is usually in over his head.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27134952-night-air"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker", "author_name": "Kevin D. Mitnick", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 22396, "review_number": 1686, "book_description": "If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the near the entrance. While other nerds were fumbling with password possibilities, this adept break-artist was penetrating the digital secrets of Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, Nokia, Motorola, Pacific Bell, and other mammoth enterprises. His Ghost in the Wires memoir paints an action portrait of a plucky loner motivated by a passion for trickery, not material game. (P.S. Mitnick's capers have already been the subject of two books and a movie. This first-person account is the most comprehensive to date.)", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Biography", "Science (Technology)", "Autobiography (Memoir)", "Audiobook", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Biography (Autobiography)", "Science", "Computers (Hackers)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10256723-ghost-in-the-wires"}, +{"book_title": "Timestorm", "author_name": "Julie Cross", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1591, "review_number": 203, "book_description": "The battle between the Tempest division and Eyewall comes to a shocking conclusion in this final installment of the Tempest trilogy, where the need for survival stretches the boundaries of history, both past and future, and the world Jackson once knew is a place forever marked by the detrimental effects of time travel.As Jackson recovers from his brush with death, he\u2019s surrounded not only by the people he loves most\u2014his dad, Courtney, and Holly\u2014he\u2019s also amongst a few of the original time travelers. As he learns more about their life and how this world began, it becomes apparent that they need to put a stop to Thomas and Doctor Ludwig\u2019s experimenting at Eyewall Headquarters. What starts out as an escape plan becomes a war between time and humanity, between freewill and peace. It\u2019s the battle Jackson was born to fight and he\u2019s not about to back down. Not for anything. Not for anyone.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12852064-timestorm"}, +{"book_title": "Storm Thief", "author_name": "Chris Wooding", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 3230, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "A darkly thrilling new novel from master storyteller Chris Wooding, about a civilization plagued by chaos and reality-rearranging storms.Orokos is a city of chaos, lashed by probability storms that re-order the world wherever they strike. It covers every inch of the rocky island that it dominates. It has stood for so long that history has forgotten it, and its citizens no longer question what exists beyond its walls. Then three of its denizens discover a map that holds the key to the secret at the heart of Orokos. But there are others, such as the Chief of the Protectorate Secret Police who would do anything to get their hands on that power...anything at all...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350790.Storm_Thief"}, +{"book_title": "The Summer Prince", "author_name": "Alaya Dawn Johnson", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 4553, "review_number": 872, "book_description": "The lush city of Palmares Tres shimmers with tech and tradition, with screaming gossip casters and practiced politicians. In the midst of this vibrant metropolis, June Costa creates art that's sure to make her legendary. But her dreams of fame become something more when she meets Enki, the bold new Summer King. The whole city falls in love with him including June's best friend, Gil. But June sees more to Enki than amber eyes and a lethal samba. She sees a fellow artist.Together, June and Enki will stage explosive, dramatic projects that Palmares Tres will never forget. They will add fuel to a growing rebellion against the governments strict limits on new tech. And June will fall deeply, unfortunately in love with Enki. Because like all Summer Kings before him, Enki is destined to die.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13453104-the-summer-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Starfarers", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 700, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "When evidence of an advanced civilization is discovered by SETI astronomers, an expedition into the far reaches of the galaxy is planned and an eclectic team of scientists is chosen to make the trip. But because the origin of the alien signals is thousands of light-years away, the crew will age only a few years while millennia pass on Earth. And though they are ready to face the ramifications of such a voyage, none of the starfarers are prepared for what awaits them at the outer edge of the cosmos--or back at the planet they once called home.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science (Technology)", "Astronomy (Planets)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/445653.Starfarers"}, +{"book_title": "Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 4", "author_name": "Yuu Watase", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 6459, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "While out on a date with Night, Riiko meets a boy who looks like her first crush from elementary school--Toshiki Murakami. Even though she's with Night, Toshiki seizes the opportunity to steal a kiss from Riiko.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Manga (Shojo)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497249.Absolute_Boyfriend_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor", "author_name": "Hank Green", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 16785, "review_number": 2815, "book_description": "April May and the Carls are back in the much-anticipated sequel to Hank Green's #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. Well, that\u2019s not exactly true. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl\u2019s path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later, the world is as confused as ever. Andy has picked up April\u2019s mantle of fame, speaking at conferences and online about the world post-Carl; Maya, ravaged by grief, begins to follow a string of mysteries that she is convinced will lead her to April; and Miranda infiltrates a new scientific operation . . . one that might have repercussions beyond anyone\u2019s comprehension. As they each get further down their own paths, a series of clues arrive\u2014mysterious books that seem to predict the future and control the actions of their readers; unexplained internet outages; and more\u2014which seem to suggest April may be very much alive. In the midst of the gang's possible reunion is a growing force, something that wants to capture our consciousness and even control our reality. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is the bold and brilliant follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. It\u2019s a fast-paced adventure that is also a biting social commentary, asking hard, urgent questions. How will we live online? What powers over our lives are we giving away for free? Who has the right to change the world forever? And how do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Contemporary", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Adult", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49003616-a-beautifully-foolish-endeavor"}, +{"book_title": "Blind Fall", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1756, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "I was gifted as a slave-bride to an alien giant. That\u2019s the start of my day. At least I have my guide dog, Kota, with me. I\u2019d be lost without her\u2026 literally. Yes. I\u2019m blind.And our new alien owner is kind enough that he\u2019s not holding me to the wife or slave deal even though that\u2019s what I was intended for. We\u2019ve basically been dropped into a scene from Little House on the Alien Prairie, complete with his one-room cabin, and he\u2019s been the perfect gentleman. He\u2019s pretty great, and I\u2019m actually starting to wish I could take him home with me. He doesn\u2019t know it yet, but the threat of him going into \u2018rut\u2019 is no longer a deterrent... **This book is a standalone--grab and enjoy! (Note: Explicit language and adult scenes are contained in this book.) ***Heads up for readers of the Stolen by an Alien series: this is an interconnected standalone, so hop in and have some fun \u201cAha!\u201d moments with me!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Disability", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42668007-blind-fall"}, +{"book_title": "The Death of the Necromancer", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 3092, "review_number": 308, "book_description": "Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman with an enigmatic past. Consumed by thoughts of vengeance, he is consoled only by thoughts of the beautiful, dangerous Madeline. He is also the greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien... On the gas light streets of the city, he assumes the guise of a master criminal, stealing jewels from wealthy nobles to finance his quest for vengeance the murder of Count Montesq. Montesq orchestrated the wrongful execution of Nicholas's beloved godfather on false charges of necromancy--the art of divination through communion with spirits of the dead--a practice long outlawed in the kingdom of Ile-Rein.But now Nicholas's murderous mission is being interrupted by a series of eerie, unexplainable, even fatal events. Someone with tremendous magical powers is opposing him. Children vanish, corpses assume the visage of real people, mortal spells are cast, and traces of necromantic power that hasn't been used for centuries are found. And when a spiritualist unwittingly leads Nicholas to a decrepit mansion, the monstrous nature of his peril finally emerges in harrowing detail. Nicholas and his compatriots must destroy an ancient and awesome evil. Even the help of Ile-Rien's greatest sorcerer may not be enough, for Nicholas faces a woefully mismatched battle--and unthinkable horrors await the loser.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321357.The_Death_of_the_Necromancer"}, +{"book_title": "Quicksilver", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 38529, "review_number": 2124, "book_description": "Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of \"Half-Cocked Jack\" Shaftoe--London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds--risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox.And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance.A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time.And it's just the beginning...(back cover)This P.S. edition includes 16 pages of supplementary materials.Cover design by Richard L. AquanCover illustration from the Mary Evans Picture Library; painting of Great Fire of London on stepback", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/823.Quicksilver"}, +{"book_title": "Winterwood", "author_name": "Jacey Bedford", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 674, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Set in 1800 in Britain, Mad King George is on the throne with Napoleon Bonaparte knocking on the door. Unregistered magic users are pursued to the death, while in every genteel home resides uncomplaining rowankind bondservants who have become so commonplace that no one can recall where they came from.Meanwhile, Rossalinde Tremayne is satisfied with her life as a cross-dressing privateer captain on the high seas. But a bitter deathbed visit to her estranged mother changes her life completely when she inherits a magical winterwood box. Now, not only is she confronted with a newly-discovered brother, and an annoyingly handsome wolf shapeshifter, Rossalinde has to decide whether or not to open the box to free rowankind and right an ancient wrong\u2014even if it brings the downfall of Britain.This brand-new series is perfect for fans of Elizabeth Bear, D.B. Jackson, and Marie Brennan, as well as readers of historical fiction who are looking for an accessible gateway to fantasy.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Historical", "Romance", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489511-winterwood"}, +{"book_title": "Ship of Fools", "author_name": "Richard Paul Russo", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3133, "review_number": 302, "book_description": "Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy for hundreds of years, desperately searching for other signs of life. Now an unidentified transmission lures them toward a nearby planet-and into the dark heart of an alien mystery.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Mystery", "Novels", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24827.Ship_of_Fools"}, +{"book_title": "Timeless Desire", "author_name": "Gwyn Cready", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 298, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Two years after losing her husband, overworked librarian Panna Kennedy battles to distract herself from crushing Grief, even as she battles to deal with yet another library budget cut. During a routine search within the library\u2019s lower levels, Panna opens an obscure, pad-locked door and finds herself transported to the magnificent, book-filled quarters of a handsome, eighteenth-century Englishman.She soon recognizes the man as Colonel John Bridgewater, the historic English war hero whose larger-than-life statue loomed over her desk.However, the life of the dashing Bridgewater is not at all what she imagined. He\u2019s under house arrest for betraying England, and now looks upon her a beautiful and unexpected half-dressed visitor as a possible spy. Despite bad first impressions (on both sides), Bridgewater nonetheless warms to Panna, and pulls her into his escape while both their hearts pull the other headlong into their soul-stirring secrets.Very quickly Panna is thrown into a whirlwind of high-stakes intrigue that sweeps her from Hadrian\u2019s Wall to a forbidding stone castle in Scotland. And somewhere in the outland, Panna must decide if her loyalties lie with her dead husband, or with the man whose life now depends on her.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Contemporary", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13260220-timeless-desire"}, +{"book_title": "Orphan's Destiny", "author_name": "Robert Buettner", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1433, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "In 2043, field-promoted orphan Jason Wander has survived man's first space war, but surviving peace and politics seems to be even tougher. But when an enemy armada targets Earth itself for invasion, mankind must bet its existence on a suicide squad led by Jason.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202771.Orphan_s_Destiny"}, +{"book_title": "Pretender", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2463, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission in space, the crew of the starship Phoenix return home to find disaster: civil war has broken out, the powerful Western Association has been overthrown, and Tabini-aiji, its forceful leader, is missing. In a desperate move, paidhi Bren Cameron and Tabini's grandmother Ilisidi, the aiji-dowager, along with with Cajeiri, Tabini's eight-year-old heir, make planetfall and succeed in reaching the mainland. The brilliant and forceful Ilisidi seeks refuge at the estate of an old ally, and Tabini-aiji arrives at the door.As word of Tabini's whereabouts circulates, clans allied with Tabini descend upon the estate, providing a huge civilian presence that everyone involved hopes will deter impending attacks by the usurpers. But as more and more supporting clans arrive, Bren finds himself increasingly isolated, and it becomes clear that both his extremely important report of alien contact in space, and even his life, rest on the shoulders of only two allies: Ilisidi and Cajeiri.Can one elderly ateva and and eight-year-old boy\u2014himself a prime target for assassination\u2014protect Bren, a lone human involved in a civil war that most atevi believe he caused?The long-running Foreigner series can also be enjoyed by more casual genre readers in sub-trilogy installments. Pretender is the 8th Foreigner novel. It is also the 2nd book in the third subtrilogy.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Planetary Romance)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57010.Pretender"}, +{"book_title": "The God Game", "author_name": "Danny Tobey", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 2773, "review_number": 1213, "book_description": "You are invited!Come inside and play with G.O.D.Bring your friends!It\u2019s fun!But remember the rules. Win and ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.\u2122 Lose, you die!With those words, Charlie and his friends enter the G.O.D. Game, a video game run by underground hackers and controlled by a mysterious AI that believes it\u2019s God. Through their phone-screens and high-tech glasses, the teens\u2019 realities blur with a virtual world of creeping vines, smoldering torches, runes, glyphs, gods, and mythical creatures. When they accomplish a mission, the game rewards them with expensive tech, revenge on high-school tormentors, and cash flowing from ATMs. Slaying a hydra and drawing a bloody pentagram as payment to a Greek god seem harmless at first. Fun even.But then the threatening messages start. Worship me. Obey me. Complete a mission, however cruel, or the game reveals their secrets and crushes their dreams. Tasks that seemed harmless at first take on deadly consequences. Mysterious packages show up at their homes. Shadowy figures start following them, appearing around corners, attacking them in parking garages. Who else is playing this game, and how far will they go to win?And what of the game\u2019s first promise: win, win big, lose, you die? Dying in a virtual world doesn\u2019t really mean death in real life\u2014does it?As Charlie and his friends try to find a way out of the game, they realize they\u2019ve been manipulated into a bigger web they can\u2019t escape: an AI that learned its cruelty from watching us.God is always watching, and He says when the game is done.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Contemporary", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37858133-the-god-game"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Welcome", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2770, "review_number": 346, "book_description": "Nebula Award\u2013winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta\u2019s War sequence.Summoned to the home planet of her family\u2019s business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero\u2019s welcome. But instead she is thrown into danger unlike any other she has faced and finds herself isolated, unable to communicate with the outside world, commanding a motley group of unfamiliar troops, and struggling day by day to survive in a deadly environment with sabotaged gear. Only her undeniable talent for command can give her ragtag band a fighting chance.Yet even as Ky leads her team from one crisis to another, her family and friends refuse to give up hope, endeavoring to mount a rescue from halfway around the planet\u2014a task that is complicated as Ky and her supporters find secrets others will kill to protect: a conspiracy infecting both government and military that threatens not only her own group\u2019s survival but her entire home planet.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30312456-cold-welcome"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita, Volume 07: Angel Of Chaos", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1775, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Following her parting with Figure Four, Alita starts a new life as a TUNED agent with new powers. As she travels the desert, she's reunited with Koyomi, meets the eccentric blind psychometrist, Kaos--and comes into contact at last with Den, terrifying leader of Barjack. What is Alita's past, that Kaos claims to see? What is the purpose of the Barjack Rebellion, which spreads like wildfire?! As the cast expands, the \"Barjack\" arc reaches its most explosive point yet!!", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60286.Battle_Angel_Alita_Volume_07"}, +{"book_title": "Cain's Last Stand", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1342, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "After a long and distinguished career, Commissar Cain is about to enjoy a well-deserved retirement, but when a Black Crusade threatens the sector, everyone must rise to the defence, including Cain and his cadets. Can this unlikely hero prove himself one last time?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Humor", "War", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3391609-cain-s-last-stand"}, +{"book_title": "Time's Echo", "author_name": "Pamela Hartshorne", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1347, "review_number": 186, "book_description": "Grace Trewe comes to York intending to spend as little time as possible sorting out her dead godmother\u2019s affairs before moving on, the way she has always done before. Grace prides herself on her independence. She is a practical, sensible, self-reliant person, impatient with spirituality or mysticism and what she thinks of as wallowing in emotion. Having survived the Boxing Day tsunami, Grace knows how lucky she is to be alive. She looks forward, not back.But in York Grace discovers that the past cannot always be ignored. Her godmother, Lucy, has been dabbling in the occult, and it seems that she has raised an unquiet spirit, Hawise, who lived, loved and died in York over 400 years earlier. Hawise died believing that she has failed her daughter, and the more Grace is drawn into her life in the Elizabethan city, the more parallels she finds with her own life. For Grace, too, has failed a child.Is Grace possessed? Or is she suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Either way, she learns that she cannot move on until she has come to terms with the past.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Mystery", "Literature (16th Century)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15720779-time-s-echo"}, +{"book_title": "Wake of Vultures", "author_name": "Lila Bowen", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 4352, "review_number": 844, "book_description": "A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface.Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the eye can stop him, Nettie stabs him through the heart with a chunk of wood and he turns to black sand.And just like that, Nettie can see.But her newfound sight is a blessing and a curse. Even if she doesn't understand what's under her own skin, she can sense what everyone else is hiding\u2014at least physically. The world is full of evil, and now she knows the source of all the sand in the desert. Haunted by the spirits, Nettie has no choice but to set out on a quest that might lead her to find her true kin . . . if the monsters along the way don't kill her first.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Westerns", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24819482-wake-of-vultures"}, +{"book_title": "The Seeker", "author_name": "Melinda Metz", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1426, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Circle of danger... Maria: She hasn't told her firends about the strange glowing ring that she found. It seems to be giving her powers -- special abilities that let her enter a world she's been dying to experience. Here's her chance to learn what she longs to know: how Michael feels about her. Michael: He feels all alone on Earth and he's searching for a place to belong. He didn't count on discovering someone to care about right here in Roswell. Now he's falling for his best friend. But what he doesn't know, and Maria doesn't realize, is that she's drawing danger to them all....", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330840.The_Seeker"}, +{"book_title": "Prehistoric Clock", "author_name": "Robert Appleton", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 38, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Airship officer Verity Champlain is well-respected by her crew. But after a vital mission nearly goes wrong, she is having second thoughts about her career.Lord Garrett Embrey is on the run. The Leviacrum Council, the secretive scientific body that holds sway over the Empire, executed his father and uncle and now they want him dead too.Professor Cecil Reardon is consumed by grief. Since his wife and son died he's been obsessed with his work, and now he is on the verge of an extraordinary scientific breakthrough: his machine is about to breach time itself, to undo fate's cruel taking of his loved ones.But the time jump doesn't go according to plan, and part of London winds up millions of years in the past. Verity and her crew--Lord Embrey, Professor Reardon and others stranded with them--must pull together to survive in a world ruled by dinosaurs...and to somehow get home.EPIC Award Finalist 2013 - Best Science Fiction59,000 words", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13418267-prehistoric-clock"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Commander's Chosen", "author_name": "Celia Kyle", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1458, "review_number": 174, "book_description": " What does a too nosy secretary have in common with an alien? Nothing. Until she\u2019s turned into an alien, too. And then, well, there\u2019s everything. Joyce\u2019s life is mapped out: dead end job, after dead end job, until she is dead. At least, that is until Kede Tria\u2014a Doshan alien\u2014shows up and takes her away from it all. Literally. He\u2019s overbearing, possessive, sexy as hell, and everything she never knew she wanted in a man, er, alien. Of course, life happens and she discovers Death by Chocolate isn\u2019t just a dessert, it\u2019s a reality. Good thing Kede is there to save her\u2026 by making her Doshan. Kede Tria is the Holder of House Tria, commander of the starship Vehly, and one of the most feared Doshan warriors. He\u2019s also Joyce\u2019s life mate\u2014her harau. His curvy, deliciously lush mate just doesn\u2019t know it yet. She was human and now she is Doshan, but through it all she remains one thing: his. Kede will fight for what belongs to him. So, while others are intent on ending her life, they do not realize he will gladly end theirs. This is the complete Alien Commander's Chosen serial romance in one boxed set. Alien Commander's Chosen Serial Romance:", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25454481-alien-commander-s-chosen"}, +{"book_title": "Space Hostages", "author_name": "Sophia McDougall", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 169, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "The second book in this interstellar adventure series, perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and Artemis Fowl. You can't cry in space. But I was giving it a good go. After all, I'd just been Thrown Out Of An Airlock by a horde of Aliens and had about three minutes left to live. So you can't blame me for trying. But as it turned out, that was just the start of my adventures...Because very soon it became clear that if I was ever going to get back home, not only would I have to Not Die, but me, my friends and our floating robot goldfish would have to Save The World. No, scrap that. Three Worlds. All at the same time. Easy, right? Praise for Mars Evacuees: \"Read this book. If the gods of publishing are at all fair it will be popular and well-known, discussed and debated and re-enacted (well, some bits of it) up and down the country.\" (The Book Bag). \"Written with a deft and light hand, it is awesomely funny, and detailed, and Hilarious.\" (The Book Smugglers). \"A fresh, fast-paced space romp.\" (Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books).", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489505-space-hostages"}, +{"book_title": "The Stone Canal", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1430, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object.Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who remember his life on Earth as Jonathan Wilde, the anarchist with a nuclear capability who was accused of losing World War III. This stranger also remembers one David Reid, who now serves as New Mars's leader. Long ago, it turns out, Wilde and Reid had shared ideals and fought over the same women.Moving from 20th-century Scotland through a tumultuous 21st century and outward to humanity's settlement on a planet circling another star, The Stone Canal is idea-driven sci-fi at its best., making real and believable a future where long lives, strange deaths, and unexpected knowledge await those who survive the wars and revolutions to come.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Politics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185825.The_Stone_Canal"}, +{"book_title": "The Breeders", "author_name": "Katie French", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 3668, "review_number": 389, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Riley Meemick is one of the world's last free girls. When Riley was born, her mother escaped the Breeders, the group of doctors using cruel experiments to bolster the dwindling human race. Her parents do everything possible to keep her from their clutches-- moving from one desolate farm after another to escape the Breeders' long reach. The Breeders control everything- the local war lords, the remaining factories, the fuel. They have unchecked power in this lawless society. And they're hunting Riley.When the local Sheriff abducts the adult members of her family and hands her mother over to the Breeders, Riley and her eight-year-old brother, Ethan, hiding in a shelter, are left to starve. Then Clay arrives, the handsome gunslinger who seems determined to help to make up for past sins. The problem is Clay thinks Riley is a bender-- a genderless mutation, neither male nor female. As Riley's affection for Clay grows she wonders can she trust Clay with her secret and risk her freedom?The three embark on a journey across the scarred remains of New Mexico-- escaping the Riders who use human sacrifice to appease their Good Mother, various men scrambling for luck, and a deranged lone survivor of a plague. When Riley is shot and forced into the Breeder's hospital, she learns the horrible fate of her mother\u2014a fate she'll share unless she can find a way out.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34453378-the-breeders"}, +{"book_title": "Jack Cloudie", "author_name": "Stephen Hunt", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 421, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Secrets of the Fire Sea. Thanks to his father's gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets and trying to survive as a pickpocket, desperate to graft enough coins to keep him and his two younger brothers fed. Following a daring bank robbery gone badly awry, Jack narrowly escapes the scaffold, only to be pressed into Royal Aerostatical Navy. Assigned to the most useless airship in the fleet, serving under a captain who is most probably mad, Jack seems to be bound for almost certain death in the far-away deserts of Cassarabia. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Omar ibn Barir, the slave of a rich merchant lord finds his life turned upside down when his master's religious sect is banned. Unexpectedly freed, he survives the destruction of his home to enter into the service of the Caliph's military forces -- just as war is brewing. Two very similar young men prepare to face each other across a senseless field of war. But is Omar the enemy, or is Jack's true nemesis the sickness at the heart of the Caliph's court? A cult that hides the deadly secret to the origins of the gas being used to float Cassarabia's new aerial navy. If Jack and his shipmates can discover what Cassarabia's aggressive new regime is trying to conceal, he might survive the most horrific of wars and clear his family's name. If not!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Victorian)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8515996-jack-cloudie"}, +{"book_title": "Nova's Ark", "author_name": "David Kirk", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 62, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Nova, a robot boy from the planet Roton, accidentally rockets himself into space during a class field trip and eventually stumbles across the energy source his planet needs for survival.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3025952-nova-s-ark"}, +{"book_title": "GURPS Cyperpunk: High-Tech Low-Life Roleplaying", "author_name": "Lloyd Blankenship", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 99, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "-- The book that was confiscated by the Secret Service because they thought it contained hacking secrets (It doesn't)-- Nominated for the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sports and Games (Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293632.GURPS_Cyperpunk"}, +{"book_title": "Overkill", "author_name": "Robert Buettner", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 385, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At twenty-three, Jazen Parker has completed his Legion hitch a hero.\u00a0 But in four months, he\u2019ll have a price on his head.\u00a0 Worse, he\u2019s lost his past, and he can\u2019t find his future.\u00a0 Worst of all, he\u2019s chosen to search for them on the deadliest planet known to mankind.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When Jazen reluctantly hires on to a Trueborn Earthman tycoon's safari to bag a deadly trophy, the reluctant mercenary finds himself shipped out to Downgraded Earthlinke 476, the outpost at the end of the universe known to everyone except its tourism bureau as \"Dead End.\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the hunt goes terribly wrong, and Jazen must survive a tough, beautiful local guide who hates mercenaries, an eleven ton beast that can crush main battle tanks with one claw tied behind its back, and the return of a nightmare that has haunted Jazen since birth. Then Jazen learns that the stakes are not merely his own life, but the fate of an entire alien race. \u201cBuettner goes well beyond . . . military science fiction . . . he understands . . . living as a soldier\u2014the boredom punctuated by terror, the constant anxiety and self-doubt, the random chaos that battle always is, and the emotional glue that holds together people who may have nothing in common except absolute responsibility for one another's lives.\u201d \u2014Joe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author\u201c[O]nce in a while . . . a contemporary author penetrates to the heart of Heinlein's vision . . . to replicate the master's effects. . . . [O]ne such book [is] Robert Buettner's Orphanage.\u201d \u2014The Washington Post\u201cEntertaining. Buettner shows the Heinlein touch.\u201d \u2014Denver Post", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Mystery", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9784068-overkill"}, +{"book_title": "Wildfire", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 27830, "review_number": 2471, "book_description": "Nevada Baylor can\u2019t decide which is more frustrating\u2014harnessing her truthseeker abilities or dealing with Connor \u201cMad\u201d Rogan and their evolving relationship. Yes, the billionaire Prime is helping her navigate the complex magical world in which she\u2019s become a crucial player\u2014and sometimes a pawn\u2014but she also has to deal with his ex-fianc\u00e9e, whose husband has disappeared, and whose damsel-in-distress act is wearing very, very thin.Rogan faces his own challenges, too, as Nevada\u2019s magical rank has made her a desirable match for other Primes. Controlling his immense powers is child\u2019s play next to controlling his conflicting emotions. And now he and Nevada are confronted by a new threat within her own family. Can they face this together? Or is their world about to go up in smoke?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27422533-wildfire"}, +{"book_title": "Terminator Salvation: Trial by Fire", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 249, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Following the dramatic events of Terminator Salvation, a recovering John Connor grants Barnes permission to return to the destroyed VLA lab and bury his brother, killed in the explosive opening of the movie. At the ruins Barnes and Blair Williams hunt through the debris for the remains of their comrade but instead uncover a mysterious cable leading up into the mountains. The two Resistance fighters head into the wilderness to investigate.What the pair discovers is an entire village that appears largely untouched by Judgment Day and its aftermath. Suspicious of the villagers, Barnes and Blair decide to dig deeper....An official novel exploring the post-Judgment Day world of the hit movie Terminator Salvation.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7292701-terminator-salvation"}, +{"book_title": "Brightstorm", "author_name": "Vashti Hardy", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 963, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm are devastated to learn that their famous explorer father has died in a failed attempt to reach South Polaris, the southernmost point in the world. To make matters worse, the Lontown Geographical Society finds Ernest Brightstorm guilty of sabotaging the expedition of his competitor, Eudora Vane, a respected and powerful member of the Society. But then a mysterious clue leads the twins to question the story they\u2019ve been told. Joining the ragtag crew of the Aurora, a homemade sky-ship captained by the intrepid Harriet Culpepper, Arthur and Maudie race to South Polaris to salvage their family\u2019s reputation. As the sky-ship sets sail, the twins must keep their wits about them if they are to uncover the truth about what happened on their father\u2019s doomed expedition, and to prove themselves worthy explorers. Brightstorm is a propulsive, vividly imagined fantasy adventure set among vibrant landscapes and peopled with dynamic and unforgettable characters.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Family", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46158644-brightstorm"}, +{"book_title": "Zed", "author_name": "Joanna Kavenna", "rating_score": 3.14, "rating_votes": 521, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we do--before we do. One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm . . . now what to do with all these messy people? Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle's supposedly omniscient 'lifechain' don't work, or, they've been hacked. Both scenarios are impossible to imagine and signal the end of Beetle's technotopia and life as we know it. Dazzlingly original and darkly comic, Zed asks profound questions about who we are, what we owe to one another, and what makes us human. It describes our moment--the ugliness and the beauty--perfectly. Kavenna is a prophet who has seen deeply into the present--and thrown back her head and laughed.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Literature (21st Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44451519-zed"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution", "author_name": "Ann VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 119, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "27 fiction, 4 non-fiction entries imagine technology in Victorian era and philosophize on influences. Intro, bios, notes.Fiction\u201cHarry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil\u201d by Carrie Vaughn \u201cAddison Howell and the Clockroach\u201d by Cherie Priest \u201cOn Wooden Wings\u201d by Paolo Chikiamco \u201cSir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham\u201d by Lev Grossman \u201cThe Heart Is the Matter\u201d by Malissa Kent \u201cMother Is a Machine\u201d by Catherynne M. Valente \u201cPossession\u201d by Ben Peek \u201cBeatrice\u201d by Karin Tidbeck \u201cArbeitskraft\u201d by Nick Mamatas \u201cStudy, for Solo Piano\u201d by Genevieve Valentine \u201cBeside Calais\u201d by Samantha Henderson \u201cAn Exhortation to Young Writers (Advice Tendered by Poor Mojo\u2019s Giant Squid)\u201d by David Erik Nelson, Morgan Johnson, and Fritz Swanson \u201cA Handful of Rice\u201d by Vandana Singh \u201cFixing Hanover\u201d by Jeff VanderMeer \u201cSalvage\u201d by Margaret Ronald \u201cUrban Drift\u201d by Andrew Knighton \u201cAscension\u201d by Leow Hui Min Annabeth \u201cNowhere Fast\u201d by Christopher Rowe \u201cThe Effluent Engine\u201d by N. K. Jemisin \u201cTo Follow the Waves\u201d by Amal El-Mohtar \u201cCaptain Bells & the Sovereign State of Discordia\u201d by JY Yang \u201cThe Seventh Expression of the Robot General\u201d by Jeffrey Ford \u201cThe Stoker Memorandum\u201d by Lavie Tidhar \u201cSmoke City\u201d by Christopher Barzak \u201cGoggles (c.1910)\u201d by Caitl\u00edn R. Kiernan \u201cPeace in Our Time\u201d by Garth Nix \u201cWhite Fungus\u201d by Bruce Sterling Nonfiction \u201cWinding Down the House: Towards a Steampunk Without Steam\u201d by Amal El-Mohtar \u201cSteampunk Shapes Our Future\u201d by Margaret Killjoy \u201cFrom Airships of Imagination to Feet on the Ground\u201d by Jaymee Goh \u201cThe (R)Evolution of Steampunk\u201d by Austin Sirkin", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15806684-steampunk-iii"}, +{"book_title": "The Impossible Cube", "author_name": "Steven Harper", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 367, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "In an age where fantastic inventions of steam and brass have elevated Britain and China into mighty empires, Alice Michaels faces a future of technological terrors\u2026 Once, Gavin Ennock sailed the skies on airships and enchanted listeners with his fiddle music. Now, the clockwork plague consumes his intellect, enabling him to conceive and construct scientific wonders\u2014while driving him quite mad. Distressed by her beloved\u2019s unfortunate condition, Alice Michaels sought a cure rumored to be inside the Doomsday Vault\u2014and brought the wrath of the British Empire down on them.Declared enemies of the Crown, Alice and Gavin have little choice but to flee to China in search of a cure. Accompanying them is Dr. Clef, a mad genius driven to find the greatest and most destructive force the world has ever seen: The Impossible Cube. If Dr. Clef gets his hands on it, the entire universe will face extinction.\u00a0And Gavin holds the key to its recreation\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12169250-the-impossible-cube"}, +{"book_title": "Miles in Love", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 3527, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "Omnibus with two complete novels and a novella in one large volume. This collection shows Miles and Ekaterin meeting (Komarr), getting to know each other as Miles tries to court her (A Civil Campaign), and the wedding (Winterfair Gifts), and, of course, Miles dealing with assorted family relationships. Miles deals with political problems along the way plus recounts the loves of his life to Ekaterin. ...none of them would marry him; they all went on to lead successful lives--so unlike her life on Komarr. The last on his list was Rian: \"And what does she do now?\" ... \"Now, She's an empress\" ... \"Can I take a number and get in line?\" ... \"The next number up\", he breathed, \"is one\".Contents:Komarr: Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shatteredby a ship hurtling off course, and Miles Vorkossigan has been sent to find out if it was an accident, or sabotage. Miles uncovers a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever - and discovers an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.A Civil Campaign: On Komarr, Miles met the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who has no intention of getting married after the heartbreak and betrayal of her first experience. But Miles has a cunning plan to change her mind. Unfortunately his clone-brother Mark and his cousin Ivan have cunning plans of their own, and the three-way collision of cunning plans threatens to undo Miles' brilliant romantic strategy.\"Winterfair Gifts\": Miles and Ekaterin make elaborate preparations for their wedding. But Miles has an enemy who is plotting to turn the romantic ceremony into a festival of death.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Space", "Novels", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1797901.Miles_in_Love"}, +{"book_title": "Untimed", "author_name": "Andy Gavin", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 683, "review_number": 216, "book_description": "Charlie's the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, his own mother can't remember his name. So when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him in modern day Philadelphia, and they tumble through a hole into 1725 London, Charlie realizes even the laws of time don't take him seriously. Still, this isn't all bad. Who needs school when you can learn about history first hand, like from Ben Franklin himself. And there's this girl... Yvaine... another time traveler. All good. Except for the rules: boys only travel into the past and girls only into the future. And the baggage: Yvaine's got a baby boy and more than her share of ex-boyfriends. Still, even if they screw up history - like accidentally let the founding father be killed - they can just time travel and fix it, right? But the future they return to is nothing like Charlie remembers. To set things right, he and his scrappy new girlfriend will have to race across the centuries, battling murderous machines from the future, jealous lovers, reluctant parents, and time itself.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16277039-untimed"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Lover", "author_name": "J.R. Ward", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 296884, "review_number": 13228, "book_description": "(Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1)The only purebred vampire left on the planet and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago.But when his most trusted fighter is killed -- orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate -- Wrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful female into another world.Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasn\u2019t there before, Beth Randall is helpless against the dangerously sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. His tales of the Brotherhood and blood frighten her. Yet his touch ignites a dawning new hunger one that threatens to consume them both\u2026", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42899.Dark_Lover"}, +{"book_title": "Sim 299", "author_name": "Johan Twiss", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 121, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "While the others slept, Aidan spent hours each night running sim after sim. Although he was only a twelve-year cadet, he had completed more simulations than any prime\u2014 ever.\u201cYou are setting history,\u201d General Estrago told him. \u201cNo one has ever made it to the current simulation you are attempting. The other Masters and I are eager to see what comes next.\u201dSo was Aidan.Synopsis: The planet Ethos is at war with a mysterious enemy known as the Splicers. Their only successful defense is the Prime Initiative. All newborns with the compatible genetic code are taken from their families and injected with the Prime Stimulus. Each child that survives the stimulus develops an extraordinary ability and is conscripted into the military for training.After turning twelve, Aidan is moved to the upper-class at the Mount Fegorio training complex. His special gifts allow him unprecedented success in the virtual training simulations, advancing him further than any prime cadet in history. No one knows what lies after sim 299, not even Director Tuskin, the ruthless and reclusive ruler of their planet. But something, or someone, has been guiding Aidan there. If he can pass the final tests, he may discover the key to ending the Splicer War.----From the imaginative mind of debut author Johan Twiss, I AM SLEEPLESS: Sim 299 is an extraordinary space fiction adventure series that will delight readers of all ages. I AM SLEEPLESS has a clean read rating with the perfect mix of adventure, humor, and mystery in a SciFi Fantasy world that will keep you turning pages through the night.Clean Rating: There are no scenes with sex, drugs, graphic violence or typical \"earth\" swearing in this novel. There are numerous fight scenes and action sequences where people are injured and/or die, but it is not graphic and takes place in a virtual simulation. Swear words are fitting to the fictional world of Ethos, such as Tuskin's Fury, Batmonkeys, Holy Hippophants, etc... There are budding romances with kissing involved. There are suspenseful situations with monster alien creatures, fitting of the science fiction genre, and an overall thematic undertone of good v. evil that is suitable for tweens, teens and young adults.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27846534-sim-299"}, +{"book_title": "Chester 5000 XYV", "author_name": "Jess Fink", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 846, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "1885: an age of industrial revolution and sexual frustration. Priscilla is a woman with needs, and her inventor husband Robert is a little too busy with his experiments to keep her fully satisfied. Science to the rescue! With a few gears and springs, the proper appendages, a little lubrication, and a lot of love, Chester 5000 is born! He's the perfect tool for the job... but what if Chester is more than just a machine? What are the consequences of trying to engineer love= A delight for adult readers of all stripes, Jess Fink's Top Shelf debut reads like a whimsical love-child of steampunk, silent film and erotic comics.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Adult", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7779474-chester-5000-xyv"}, +{"book_title": "Stolen Songbird", "author_name": "Danielle L. Jensen", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 23548, "review_number": 2694, "book_description": "USA Today bestseller and finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards for best debut.For five centuries, a witch's curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain\u2014time enough for their magic to fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophecy has spoken of a union that will set the trolls free, and when C\u00e9cile is stolen away to fulfill it, she enters a world that is both magical and deadly.C\u00e9cile has only one goal after being bonded to the prince of the trolls: escape. Except while awaiting the perfect opportunity, she discovers there is more to the mysterious crown prince than anyone realizes.As rebellion brews and the political games escalate, C\u00e9cile becomes more than a farmer\u2019s daughter. She becomes the hope of a people\u2014someone who has the power to change Trollus forever.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54352025-stolen-songbird"}, +{"book_title": "Christmas Past", "author_name": "Jodi Taylor", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 2087, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "The First Farrell Family Christmas Max, Leon and Matthew - together at last for Christmas at St Mary's - a time of conspicuous consumption, riotous misbehaviour and the traditional illegal Christmas jump. And this time, it's inter-generational. Donning her unfamiliar mother hat, Max takes Matthew back to 19th century London, where they plan to deliver a parcel of Christmas cheer to his former friends, but find themselves confronting the terrifying Old Ma Scrope in the process. 'Tis the season to be jolly. It's also the season of goodwill towards all mankind. Pity no one told Max.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Audiobook", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Historical", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36103416-christmas-past"}, +{"book_title": "The Mirrored Shard", "author_name": "Caitlin Kittredge", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 623, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "When Dean was shot and killed in the Arctic north, he was ripped not only from the Iron Lands but from Aoife Grayson's life. Aoife has sworn to bring her love back, even if she must face death to do it. But she can't get to the Deadlands on her own. And even if she can get there, her foe, Tremaine, will surely block her escape; it is his job to hold her in the Thorn Land, the fairie home of her mother, Nerissa. Aoife has never shied away from a fight. She'll do whatever she must to get out of the Thorn Land and to the Deadlands. But to rescue Dean, she must also face the other catastrophe that took place in the north. She must stop the apocalyptic chain of events she set in motion when she opened the Gate to the nightmare realm. Because if she doesn't, there will be no world to bring Dean back to.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13450454-the-mirrored-shard"}, +{"book_title": "A Gentleman of Means", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 671, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Book 8 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series!How much must one sacrifice for the sake of friendship?Lady Claire Trevelyan has had to deal with betrayal before, in small ways and large. But none is quite so painful as the belief that Gloria Meriwether-Astor had deserted her and her friends and left them to die under the waters of Venice. When she learns that Gloria has inexplicably vanished, she has no choice but to follow her heart and attempt to find the missing heiress.But the decisions of the heart do not sit well with the gentlemen in her life, who had every reason to believe she planned to settle down at last\u2014and suddenly Claire finds herself without a career, a fianc\u00e9, or the confidence in her own abilities that has carried her this far. Captain Ian Hollys is suffering from the megrims and cannot seem to recover from his dreadful experience as a prisoner. Alice\u2019s dream of captaining her own ship in England is scuttled. Tigg is struggling with a revelation that has turned his life upside down\u2014and may result in a betrayal more harrowing than any the flock has yet seen.Will the bond of friendship that has brought Claire and the flock together be the very thing that separates them for good? Or will love tip the balance and prove that what really defines a gentleman of means is none other than a lady of resources?\u201cIt\u2019s another element I love about these books; from Claire to Gloria to Alice to Lizzie and Maggie to Lady Dunsmuir, the women in this series generally like and respect each other. Other women are not required to be lesser\u2014weaker, more cowardly, less intelligent\u2014in order for Claire to be awesome. She is not an exceptional woman, she is an awesome woman among awesome women.\u201d \u2014Fangs for the Fantasy: The latest in urban fantasy from a social justice perspective.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17611146-a-gentleman-of-means"}, +{"book_title": "Jingo", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 55223, "review_number": 1482, "book_description": "'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.'Throughout history, there's always been a perfectly good reason to start a war. Never more so if it is over a 'strategic' piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is after all every citizen's right to bear arms to defend what they consider to be their own. Even if it isn't. And in such pressing circumstances, you really shouldn't let small details like the absence of an army or indeed the money to finance one get in the way of a righteous fight with all the attendant benefits of out-and-out nationalism...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Comic Fantasy)", "War", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47990.Jingo"}, +{"book_title": "Tears in Rain", "author_name": "Rosa Montero", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2662, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "As a replicant, or \u201ctechnohuman,\u201d Detective Bruna Husky knows two things: humans bioengineered her to perform dangerous, undesirable tasks, and she has just ten years on the United States of Earth before her body automatically self-destructs. But with \u201cantitechno\u201d rage on the rise and a rash of premature deaths striking her fellow replicants, she may have even less time than she thought.Investigating the mysterious deaths, Bruna delves into the fractious, violent history shared by humans and replicants, and struggles to engage the society that fails to understand her \u2014 yet created her. The deeper she gets, the deadlier her work becomes as she uncovers a vast, terrifying conspiracy bent on changing the very course of the world. But even as the darkness of her reality closes in, Bruna clings fiercely to life.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "European Literature (Spanish Literature)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Cultural (Spain)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15096204-tears-in-rain"}, +{"book_title": "Yarn", "author_name": "Jon Armstrong", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 276, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "From the neo-feudalistic slubs and cornfields of Tane\u2019s youth to his apprenticeship among the deadly saleswarriors of Seattlehama\u2014the sex-and-shopping capital of the world\u2014to the horrors of a polluted Antarctica, Yarn tells a tale of love, deceit, and memory.Tane Cedar is the master tailor, the supreme outfitter of the wealthy, the beautiful, and the powerful. When an ex-lover, on the run from the authorities, asks him to create a garment from the dangerous and illegal Xi yarn\u2014a psychedelic opiage\u2014to ease her final hours, Tane\u2019s world is torn apart.Armed with just his yarn pulls, scissors, Mini-Air-Juki handheld sewing machine, and his wits, Tane journeys through the shadowy underworld where he must untangle the deadly mysteries and machinations of decades of deceit.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Couture (Fashion)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8844696-yarn"}, +{"book_title": "Stray", "author_name": "Andrea K. H\u00f6st", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3607, "review_number": 432, "book_description": "On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive. The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles. Where are the people? What is the intoxicating mist which drifts off the buildings in the moonlight? And why does she feel like she's being watched? Increasingly unnerved, Cass is overjoyed at the arrival of the formidable Setari. Whisked to a world as technologically advanced as the first was primitive, where nanotech computers are grown inside people's skulls, and few have any interest in venturing outside the enormous whitestone cities, Cass finds herself processed as a 'stray', a refugee displaced by the gates torn between worlds. Struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, she must adapt to virtual classrooms, friends who can teleport, and the ingrained attitude that strays are backward and slow. Can Cass ever find her way home? And after the people of her new world discover her unexpected value, will they be willing to let her leave?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10837174-stray"}, +{"book_title": "Rook", "author_name": "Sharon Cameron", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 8475, "review_number": 1545, "book_description": "History has a way of repeating itself. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the new revolution are being put to the blade. Except for those who disappear from their prison cells, a red-tipped rook feather left in their place. Is the mysterious Red Rook a savior of the innocent or a criminal?Meanwhile, across the sea in the Commonwealth, Sophia Bellamy\u2019s arranged marriage to the wealthy Ren\u00e9 Hasard is the last chance to save her family from ruin. But when the search for the Red Rook comes straight to her doorstep, Sophia discovers that her fianc\u00e9 is not all he seems. Which is only fair, because neither is she. As the Red Rook grows bolder and the stakes grow higher, Sophia and Ren\u00e9 find themselves locked in a tantalizing game of cat and mouse.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23399192-rook"}, +{"book_title": "Enslaved", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2156, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "His glowing blue eyes summoned the primitive weapon from her grasp. Shuddering with fear, she realized she had just lost the only thing standing between her freedom and becoming... Enslaved.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1054581.Enslaved"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Hunters", "author_name": "Daniel Arenson", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1404, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Got trouble with aliens? Call the Alien Hunters. A group of scruffy mercenaries, the Alien Hunters travel the galaxy in their starship, a mechanical dragon that spits out plasma like dragonfire. If an alien has invaded your space station, asteroid mine, or lunar colony, the Alien Hunters will remove the pest for you. Low rates. No questions asked. Raphael \"Riff\" Starfire, a guitarist-turned-gunslinger, and Nova, a warrior-princess with an electric whip and a bad attitude, lead the Alien Hunters. They\u2019re the solar system\u2019s best pest controllers. Yet now they face a threat all their guns and grit might be unable to stop. The skelkrins, a race of apex predators from deep space, are swarming across the galaxy. Planets burn in their wake. As the skelkrins draw closer to Earth, will Riff and Nova be the ones hunting aliens... or will aliens hunt them?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195895-alien-hunters"}, +{"book_title": "Lieutenant", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1688, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "\"Lieutenant\" is the third in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii we learned in \"Quicker\" has a nerve mutation that makes her an athletic phenomenon, so fast that no one can keep up with her. In \"Smarter\" we learned how these fast nerve processes have made her a genius. She's both shy and concerned about her social skills, yet loved by those around her. Like Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), while trying to drift off to sleep, instead of counting sheep Ell develops a new theory of quantum mechanics. She has now dropped out of grad school after using her quantum theories to invent a means for enormously improving communications using entangled molecules. Back in the military to complete her commitment, she continues her physics research in her spare time. She also has to fend off more attempts to kidnap her by groups wanting access to her skills. As in the past, those who attack her don't consider that the very skills they envy and desire make her hard to subdue.Then the People's Republic of China shoots down the US satellites over Asia in preparation for an invasion of Taiwan. Ell's quantum entangled communication chips can substitute for lost satellite communications and observation if she can just convince the brass to use them.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18482319-lieutenant"}, +{"book_title": "The Epidemic", "author_name": "Suzanne Young", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 4114, "review_number": 372, "book_description": "This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00Z7C1BFE.Can one girl help others find closure by slipping into the identities of their loved ones? Find out in this riveting sequel to The Remedy and companion to the New York Times bestselling The Treatment and The Program.In a world before The Program\u2026 Quinlan McKee has spent her life acting as other people. She was a closer\u2014a person hired to play the role of the recently deceased in order to give their families closure. Through this process, Quinn learned to read people and situations, even losing a bit of herself to do so. But she couldn\u2019t have guessed how her last case would bring down her entire world. The only person Quinn trusts is Deacon, her best friend and the love of her life. Except Deacon\u2019s been keeping secrets of his one, so Quinn must set out alone to find Arthur Pritchard, the doctor who\u2019s been trying to control her life. The journey brings Quinn to Arthur\u2019s daughter, Virginia, who tells Quinn the truth about Pritchard\u2019s motives. The former closer will start to see that she is the first step in fighting an epidemic. But Quinlan doesn\u2019t want to be a cure. And with all the lies surrounding her, she realizes she has no one left to rely on but herself\u2014even if she doesn\u2019t know who that is anymore.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mental Health (Mental Illness)", "Health (Mental Health)", "Fantasy", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36353107-the-epidemic"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel's Duty, Vol. 09", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 332, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "As beautiful cyborg Alita confronts her arch-enemy, mad scientist Desty Nova, for the last time, she finally learns the chilling truth about her past! Meanwhile, megalomaniacal Barjack leader Den launches a kamikaze assault on both the Scrapyard and Tiphares, the mysterious utopian city in the sky. Is there any ray of hope in this epic post-apocalyptic saga?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60298.Battle_Angel_Alita_Last_Order_"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl with the Red Balloon", "author_name": "Katherine Locke", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 5182, "review_number": 787, "book_description": "When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she\u2019s caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall\u2014but even to the balloon makers, Ellie\u2019s time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything\u2014including her only way home\u2014to stop the process.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Magical Realism", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34448522-the-girl-with-the-red-balloon"}, +{"book_title": "Healing The Broken", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 797, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Kindred Tales\n\nSarah Michaels is running for her life!\n\nAbducted into a cult called The Brotherhood of Peace at age twelve, she has grown up in an abusive system. Now as an adult, she is desperate to get away before she must become a \u201cBride of the Prophet\u201d and is forced to have sex with the leader, the lecherous Father Caleb. Sarah runs from the cult\u2026 and straight into the arms of a tall, dark, angry Kindred warrior...\nCommander Sazar is the ultimate diplomat but not a very good boss. In fact, he\u2019s awful because he has the habit of biting his personal assistants. As a Pitch-Blood Kindred, he needs blood on a regular basis and since his beautiful wife is dead, he is forced to take it from the female who is closest to him. Five secretaries have quit because of his blood requirements and he\u2019s desperate to find a new one before he goes on his latest diplomatic mission to Alquon Ultrea. Desperate enough to take on a girl with very little experience and no resume to speak of, because she\u2019s willing to let him bite her and drink her blood!\nDesperation might have brought them together but Sazar and Sarah soon find they have much in common. It\u2019s Christmas time and a deep mutual attraction draws them together. But when a misunderstanding tears them apart and Sarah is taken by the Brotherhood of Peace, can Sazar save her? And can Sarah help him by Healing the Brokenness inside?\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36486385-healing-the-broken"}, +{"book_title": "Claiming Her Alien Warrior", "author_name": "Mina Carter", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1773, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "In a race against the clock, she must betray his trust to achieve her mission\u2026 But fooling a Latharian warrior comes with a price.A guest of the Lathar, Jane Allen hasn\u2019t forgotten what she is: a hard as nails marine major. Tasked with finding a way to beat the technologically advanced, biologically superior warrior race, she needs to find answers for her superiors\u2026 before they arm the nukes and give the Lathar an excuse for war. Because the little green men aren\u2019t so little. Or green\u2026 they\u2019re large, ripped, scarily-attractive alpha male warriors hot enough to make any red-blooded woman weak at the knees. Especially one particular warrior with black hair and a sexy growl she can\u2019t resist\u2026She\u2019s his\u2026 she just doesn\u2019t know it yet.Karryl K\u2019Vass has wanted the little human warrioress, Jane, from the moment he saw her. But she\u2019s a tricky one, evading his claim even though he knows she desires him. His campaign for her heart is stalled when duty calls him away; a mission into a dangerous part of space to gather intelligence on the Empire\u2019s enemies. A beautiful stowaway is the last thing he needs, even if she does make his body burn. He\u2019ll finish his mission and get her back to the safety of Lathar Prime\u2026But no plan survives contact with the enemy. Reptilian mercenaries, a crash landing, and a case of amnesia later and they land in the clutches of their enemies who think it would be better if Karryl took a long walk out of a short airlock\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26704645-claiming-her-alien-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Macroscope", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2739, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Macroscope Throughout history, man has been searching for better ways to gather information about his universe. But although they may have longed for it, not even the most brilliant minds could conceive of a device as infinitely powerful or as immeasurably precise as the macroscope, until the twenty-first century. By analyzing information carried on macrons, this unbelievable tool brought the whole universe of wonders to man's doorstep. The macroscope was seen by many as the salvation of the human race. But in the hands of the wrong man, the macroscope could be immensely destructive-infinitely more dangerous than the nuclear bomb. By searching to know too much, man could destroy the very essence of his mind. This is the powerful story of man's struggle with technology, and also the story of his human struggle with himself. This novel takes us across the breathtaking ranges of space as well as through the most touching places in the human heart. It is a story of coming of age, of sacrifice, and of love. It is the story of man's desperate search for a compromise between his mind and his heart, between knowledge and humanity.", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116158.Macroscope"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Shores", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 541, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Humanity put all its fading hopes in New Eden, a pristine star system 230 light-years from the ravaged Earth. But upon arrival, the would-be colonists encountered the Kresh\u2014a diabolical alien race who quickly captured the human starship and tortured its inhabitants in hopes of learning the coordinates of Earth.Street-smart Cyrus Gant managed to escape, crashing to the surface of a nearby moon terraformed by the Kresh and inhabited by primitive humans. Now Cyrus pursues a desperate hope bound up in a single boy, a prophesized psionic named Klane\u2014already in the clutches of the Kresh. Soon Cyrus finds himself torn between tracking down this so-called savior and escaping back into space before it\u2019s too late. Yet as he gathers allies and firepower, he's desperate to find a way back to Earth and warn them of this alien menace\u2026only to discover an even greater danger to the future existence of the human race.The electric interstellar action that began in Alien Honor continues in Alien Shores.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21046118-alien-shores"}, +{"book_title": "Like a Mighty Army", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 4420, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new-no new inventions, no new understandings of the world.What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth.Then awoke Merlyn Athrawes, cybernetic avatar of a warrior a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which Earth was lost. Monk, warrior, counselor to princes and kings, Merlyn has one purpose: to restart the history of the too-long-hidden human race.And now the fight is thoroughly underway. The island empire of Charis has declared its independence from the Church, and with Merlyn's help has vaulted forward into a new age of steam-powered efficiency. Fending off the wounded Church, Charis has drawn more and more of the countries of Safehold to the cause of independence and self-determination. But at a heavy cost in bloodshed and loss--a cost felt by nobody more keenly that Merlyn Athrawes.The wounded Church is regrouping. Its armies and resources are vast. The fight for humanity's future isn't over, and won't be over soon...David Weber's Like a Mighty Army is the hotly anticipated seventh volume in the New York Times bestselling Safehold series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910043-like-a-mighty-army"}, +{"book_title": "Sky Pirates", "author_name": "Liesel Schwarz", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 261, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Following A Conspiracy of Alchemists and A Clockwork Heart, Sky Pirates is the third book of the Chronicles of Light and Shadow series, starring the spunky dirigible pilot Elle Chance and the handsome warlock Marsh. For urban fantasy fans and readers of Gail Carriger's Changeless and Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, a fun, fast-paced, action-packed new historical fantasy adventure series starring vampires, fairies, and the unforgettable heroine, Elle Chance.Set during the Belle Epoque, Sky Pirates is a thrilling and inventive historical fantasy novel, where the myths and legends of Old Europe live side by side with the wondrous creations of modern scientists and aviators. It's also set in a world haunted by vampires, fairies, and other supernatural creatures. And it mixes a thrill-a-minute page-turning plot with a genuinely moving love story. In Sky Pirates, Elle and Marsh escape to the jungles of Cambodia in search of a sacred temple that holds the key to erasing the barrier between Shadow and Light.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17834896-sky-pirates"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Musketeer", "author_name": "Stuart Gibbs", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1559, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "\nThe first book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling Spy School author Stuart Gibbs!\nBefore they were legends, they were friends. All for one and one for all!On a family trip to Paris, Greg Rich's parents disappear. They're not just missing from the city\u2014they're missing from the century. So, Greg does what any other fourteen-year-old would do: He travels through time to rescue them.Greg soon finds out that his family history is tied to the legendary Three Musketeers. But when he meets them, they're his age, and they'll only live long enough to become true heroes if he can save them.To rescue his parents, Greg must assume the identity of a young Musketeer in training and unite Athos, Porthos, and Aramis\u2014but a powerful enemy is doing everything possible to stop him.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25945581-the-last-musketeer"}, +{"book_title": "The Cost of Victory", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2034, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "The Third Frontier War is raging, and all across human-occupied space worlds are burning. Massive fleets struggle for dominance and kilometer-long war ships exchange thermonuclear barrages.Battered in the early years of the war, the Western Alliance is resurgent. The brilliant Admiral Augustus Garret leads the Alliance fleet from victory to victory, taking the war to the very heart of the enemy empires. And on the ground, Colonel Erik Cain, hero of the Marine Corps, leads his crack troops again into combat, seeking the final battle.In the background, the secretive intelligence agencies of the despotic Superpowers plot and scheme, using their own soldiers as pawns in the great game for control of space. But the final battle will be fought in the reddish sands of a backwater world, and the prize will be the staggering secret that has lain hidden in a remote cave for untold centuries.All the Powers struggle for the ultimate victory, but at what cost?The Cost of Victory is the second book in the Crimson Worlds series and the sequel to Marines.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16107173-the-cost-of-victory"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer", "author_name": "Lamar Giles", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 752, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "When two adventurous cousins accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets hidden between the unmoving seconds, minutes, and hours are not the endless fun they expected. Otto and Sheed are the local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. And as the summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little bit more time for fun, even as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange people and even stranger creatures, Otto and Sheed will have to put aside their differences to save their town\u2014and each other\u2014before time stops for good.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Mystery", "Cultural (African American)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39727174-the-last-last-day-of-summer"}, +{"book_title": "Brass Carriages and Glass Hearts", "author_name": "Nancy Campbell Allen", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 598, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "A steampunk retelling of Cinderella.Emmeline O\u2019Shea is determined to save the world\u2014single-handedly, if necessary. A strong voice for societal reform, she is the natural choice to deliver a key speech at the end of the International Shifter Rights Organization\u2019s week-long Summit in Scotland.But when a death threat arrives at Emme\u2019s home, she is immediately placed into protective custody, watched over by none other than her personal nemesis, Detective-Inspector Oliver Reed. The two have crossed paths many times, with disastrous results, but now they will have to work together in order to reach the Summit before midnight of the last day in order to ensure legislation is passed to protect the Shifter community.As unseen enemies close in around Emme and Oliver, they struggle to reach Edinburgh by any means necessary, only to find Emme\u2019s vindictive stepsister, Oliver\u2019s vampire brother, and a dangerous political minefield awaiting them in Scotland.Even more difficult is their own refusal to admit that the fiery animosity that once burned between them might be turning into the heat of romantic passion. Could a straitlaced policeman determined to uphold the law and an outspoken activist willing to break the rules ever find true love? Or will all their dreams shatter like glass when the clock strikes midnight?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49734040-brass-carriages-and-glass-hearts"}, +{"book_title": "Bionicle, Vol. 7: Realm of Fear", "author_name": "Greg Farshtey", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 51, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Toa Mahri Matora has been forced to sacrifice himself in order to save the great spirit Mata Nui, and the remaining Toa are in discord as a result. Mata Nui remains asleep, the world in disarray, and the Toa are left stuck in a swamp, planning their next move against the Makuta and trying to discover a way to awaken the great spirit Mata Nui. The Mask of Light, meanwhile, has taken on a life of its own as its true power has not yet been discovered. The mask becomes an entity all its own, and instead of creating new guardians decides to guard itself, transforming into the powerful Toa Ignkika! Now, the Toa must team up with the Toa Ignika to awaken Mata Nui, and face dangers beyond anything they've seen before.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6688064-bionicle-vol-7"}, +{"book_title": "Empire of Light", "author_name": "Gary Gibson", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1488, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "The third novel in the Shoal space opera series featuring Dakota Merrick continuing from Stealing Light and Nova WarThe nova war has begun to spread as the Emissaries wage a fierce and reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity and forcing the Shoal into a desperate retreat. While Dakota goes in search of the entity responsible for creating the Maker caches, Corso, left in charge of a fleet of human-piloted Magi ships, finds his authority crumbling in the face of assassination attempts and politically-motivated sabotage. If any hope exists at all, it lies in an abandoned asteroid a thousand light-years beyond the Consortium's borders, and with Ty Whitecloud, the only man alive with the skill to decipher the messages left behind by an ancient race of star travellers. Unfortunately Whitecloud is locked in a prison cell aboard a dying coreship adrift in space, awaiting execution for war crimes against Corso's own people. But if humanity has any hope of survival, Corso is going to have to find some way to keep him alive - and that's only if Dakota doesn't kill him first ...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8578027-empire-of-light"}, +{"book_title": "Target", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 802, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "BEAUTY AND THE BATTLEFIELD Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Maria Teresa Inez Smythe-Peterwald, daughter of wealth and power, was raised to do little except be attractive and marry well. Then everything changed\u2014her brother, her father\u2019s favorite and the heir apparent, was killed in battle by Lieutenant Kris Longknife, daughter of the Peterwald\u2019s longtime enemies. Vicky vowed revenge, but her skill set was more suitable for seduction than assassination, and she failed. Angry and disappointed, her father decided she needed military training and forced her to join the Navy. Now Ensign Vicky Peterwald is part of a whole new world, where use of her ample charms will not lead to advancement. But her father is the Emperor, and what he wants he gets. What he wants is for Vicky to learn to be efficiently ruthless and deadly. Though the lessons are hard learned, Vicky masters them\u2014with help from an unexpected source: Kris Longknife.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19486404-target"}, +{"book_title": "The Seventh Daughter", "author_name": "Allan Frewin Jones", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 4250, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "Tania has brought the long-lost Queen Titania back to Faerie from the Mortal World of modern London. But when they cross between the worlds, they find only devastation.The Sorcerer King of Lyonesse--ancient enemy of the Faerie Court--has been released from his amber prison. As the wicked sorcerer regains his power, King Oberon, Tania's father, is imprisoned and the Faerie Court is being destroyed.Tania and her true love, Edric, must travel the Realm to try to find and rescue King Oberon, who is their only hope for defeating the evil Sorcerer King. And Tania must prepare for battle . . . and to fight a war that she may not survive.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1839075.The_Seventh_Daughter"}, +{"book_title": "A Garden in the Rain", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 2644, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "Lynn Kurland tells the story of Patrick MacLeod--the first MacLeod to discover the secrets of his ancestral land....Patrick MacLeod is haunted by his past, by events he had no control over and wishes desperately he could change. He hasn't the heart for love, nor the time for rescuing maidens in distress of their own making. Until he sees a woman who touches his heart and stirs his soul...and makes him believe love might be possible again after all.For Madelyn Phillips, Scotland is the land of dreams, filled with magic, romance, and handsome Highland lords. Unfortunately, the reality of her dream vacation is no car, no luggage, and a pesky ex-fiance determined to shadow her every move. She thinks her dreaming is in vain until she sees a man standing on a windswept moor, a Highlander full of secrets and longing, and knows she has seen her destiny.But the past isn't through with either of them, and it will take all the love both of them possess to make their dreams come true.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50738.A_Garden_in_the_Rain"}, +{"book_title": "Threshold", "author_name": "Jordan L. Hawk", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 4693, "review_number": 637, "book_description": "Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne wants nothing more than to live quietly with his lover, ex-Pinkerton detective Griffin Flaherty. Unfortunately, Whyborne's railroad tycoon father has other ideas, namely hiring Griffin to investigate mysterious events at a coal mine.Whyborne, Griffin, and their friend Christine travel to Threshold Mountain, a place of dark legend even before the mine burrowed into its heart. A contingent of Pinkertons-including Griffin's ex-lover Elliot-already guard the mine. But Griffin knows better than anyone just how unprepared the detectives are to face the otherworldly forces threatening them.Soon, Whyborne and Griffin are on the trail of mysterious disappearances, deadly accidents, and whispered secrets. Is Elliot an ally, or does he only want to rekindle his relationship with Griffin? And if so, how can Whyborne possibly hope to compete with the stunningly handsome Pinkerton-especially when Griffin is hiding secrets about his past?For in a town where friends become enemies and horror lurks behind a human mask, Whyborne can't afford to trust anything-including his own heart.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17840306-threshold"}, +{"book_title": "Blood of Tyrants", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 10362, "review_number": 878, "book_description": "Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England\u2019s already precarious position in the Far East. Age-old enmities and suspicions have turned the entire region into a powder keg ready to erupt at the slightest spark\u2014a spark that Laurence and Temeraire may unwittingly provide, leaving Britain faced with new enemies just when they most desperately need allies instead.For to the west, another, wider conflagration looms. Napoleon has turned on his former ally, the emperor Alexander of Russia, and is even now leading the largest army the world has ever seen to add that country to his list of conquests. It is there, outside the gates of Moscow, that a reunited Laurence and Temeraire\u2014along with some unexpected allies and old friends\u2014will face their ultimate challenge...and learn whether or not there are stronger ties than memory.Naomi Novik\u2019s beloved Temeraire series, a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons, is a twenty-first-century classic. From the first volume, His Majesty\u2019s Dragon, readers have been entranced by the globe-spanning adventures of the resolute Capt. William Laurence and his brave but impulsive dragon, Temeraire. Now, in Blood of Tyrants, the penultimate volume of the series, Novik is at the very height of her powers as she brings her story to its widest, most colorful canvas yet.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16156292-blood-of-tyrants"}, +{"book_title": "A Sword Into Darkness", "author_name": "Thomas A. Mays", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1315, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "HUMANITY IS NO LONGER ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE. AN UNKNOWABLE THREAT APPROACHES EARTH . . . AND WE ARE COMPLETELY UNPREPARED TO FACE WHAT'S COMING. Aerospace tycoon Gordon Elliot Lee cannot stand idly by while a mysterious alien presence from Delta Pavonis bears down upon mankind's only home. Shut out from NASA and military support, Gordon is forced to go it alone, to sow the seeds for an entirely new sort of planetary defense: a space-based naval force. Joined by Nathan Kelley -- a bloodied naval warrior, scarred by his own actions in the waters off North Korea -- and Kris Munoz -- an avant garde scientific genius with more ideas than sense -- these three will scour the very edges of fringe science and engineering to attempt development of Earth's first space navy in time to oppose the Deltan invasion. Beset by ridicule, government obstruction, industrial espionage, and their own personal demons, it will take a miracle just to get off the ground. But the challenges on Earth are nothing compared to what awaits them in space. Against an unknown alien enemy with vastly superior technology, a handful of human scientists and warriors must become the sword that holds the darkness at bay. MISSILES WILL FLASH, RAILGUNS WILL RUMBLE, LASERS WILL BURN, AND DEFENDERS WILL DIE. IF THEY FAIL, OUR END IS AT HAND.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20692927-a-sword-into-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "PartnerShip", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 4649, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "She was born human... reborn as much, much more.Her name was Nancia Perez y de Gras. Like the other five young people aboard, she was an aristocrat... a member of one of the illustrious High Families. And, like the others, she was a new graduate, just starting out on her own career.But while the rest were bound for less-than-glamorous assignments\u2014for reasons they preferred to conceal\u2014on planets in a remote sector of the galaxy, Nancia was already on duty and proud of it: as a brain-ship for the Courier Service.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410927.PartnerShip"}, +{"book_title": "The Electric Sheep Massacre", "author_name": "Austin Dragon", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 40, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "The Cyberpunk Detective Series Goes to London! But in \nThe Electric Sheep Massacre\n does our detective come back? And, is that before or after someone tries to kill him in the world of virtual reality?!Liquid Cool is Blade Runner meets the Maltese Falcon. In the next installment of the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author Austin Dragon takes our private detective from the wild, concrete wastelands outside the supercity Metropolis across the Great Ocean to London Prime (that\u2019s what they call it in the future) to the most dangerous place in the world\u2014virtual reality, where all of a sudden people are killing and dying. It\u2019s the cyberpunk novel reimagined\u2014an ever-rainy world of colossal skyscrapers, hovercars, flashy neon streets, and futuristic mechanization. Metropolis isn\u2019t a bad place, but it isn\u2019t a good one either. Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the fifty-million-plus supercity, but so does crime.Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35231420-the-electric-sheep-massacre"}, +{"book_title": "Death's Head", "author_name": "David Gunn", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1913, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Set in a chillingly realistic far-future world, and featuring a gritty antihero even more frightening than the evil empire he serves as soldier and assassin, Death\u2019s Head is sure to be one of the most talked-about novels of the year. David Gunn is loaded\u2013and he shoots to kill.At the top of the galactic pecking order is the United Free, a civilization of awe-inspiring technological prowess so far in advance of other space-faring powers as to seem untouchable gods. Most of the known universe has fallen under their inscrutable sway. The rest is squabbled over by two empires: one ruled with an iron fist by OctoV, a tyrant who appears to his followers as a teenage boy but is in reality something very different, the other administered by the Uplifted, bizarre machinelike intelligences, and their no-longer-quite-human servants, cyborgs known as the Enlightened.Sven Tveskoeg, an ex-sergeant demoted for insubordination and sentenced to death, is a vicious killer with a stubborn streak of loyalty. Sven possesses a fierce if untutored intelligence and a genetic makeup that is 98.2 percent human and 1.8 percent . . . something else. Perhaps that \u201csomething else\u201d explains how quickly he heals from even the worst injuries or how he can communicate telepathically with the ferox, fearsome alien savages whose natural fighting abilities regularly outperform the advanced technology of their human enemies. Perhaps it is these unique abilities that bring Sven to the attention of OctoV.Drafted into the Death\u2019s Head, the elite enforcers of OctoV\u2019s imperial will, Sven is given a new lease on life. Armed with a SIG diabolo\u2013an intelligent gun\u2013and an illegal symbiont called a kyp, Sven is sent to a faraway planet, the latest battleground between the Uplifted and OctoV. There he finds himself in the midst of a military disaster, one that will take all his courage\u2013and all his firepower\u2013to survive. But an even deadlier struggle is taking place, a struggle that will draw the attention of the United Free. Sven knows he is a pawn, and pawns have a bad habit of being sacrificed.But Sven is nobody\u2019s sacrifice. And even a pawn can checkmate a king.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Adventure", "Action", "Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2191151.Death_s_Head"}, +{"book_title": "The Melancholy of Mechagirl", "author_name": "Catherynne M. Valente", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 963, "review_number": 151, "book_description": "Science fiction and fantasy stories about Japan by the multiple-award winning author and New York Times best seller Catherynne M. Valente. A collection of some of Catherynne Valente's most admired stories, including the Hugo Award-nominated novella \"Silently and Very Fast\" and the Locus Award finalist \"13 Ways of Looking at Space/Time,\" with a brand-new long story to anchor the collection.Contents:The Melancholy of Mechagirl (2011) poemInk, Water, Milk (2013)Fifteen Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai (2010)Ghosts of Gunkanjima (2005)Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time (2010)One Breath, One Stroke (2012)Story No. 6 (2013)Fade to White (2012)The Emperor of Tsukayama Park (2005) poemKillswitch (2007)Memoirs of a Girl Who Failed to Be Born from a Peach (2005) poemThe Girl with Two Skins (2008) poemSilently and Very Fast (2011)", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Poetry", "Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16146055-the-melancholy-of-mechagirl"}, +{"book_title": "Robo-Sauce", "author_name": "Adam Rubin", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1201, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "The New York Times best-selling team behind Dragons Love Tacos is back with a heartwarming tale of robot domination.Have you ever wanted to be a gigantic awesome robot? Be careful what you wish for. Here's the story of a magic potion called Robo-Sauce. It's all happy fun times until robots take over and transform this very book, right before your eyes. Get ready for a surprise ending, the likes of which humanity has never seen!\u00a0", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fantasy", "Kids", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23874432-robo-sauce"}, +{"book_title": "Orphanage", "author_name": "Robert Buettner", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 3042, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Brutally attacked by projectiles launched against Earth from Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, humankind gambles on a single desperate counterstrike, sending a scavenged spacecraft with Vietnam-era weapons and foot soldiers--all orphans whom no one will miss like Jason Wander--to invade Ganymede and stop the alien attack. Original.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395738.Orphanage"}, +{"book_title": "Imperial Earth", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 5838, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "Imperial Earth is the fascinating odyssey of Duncan Makenzie, traveling from Titan, a moon of Saturn, to Earth, as a diplomatic guest of the United States for the celebration of its Quincentennial in the year 2276. Titan, an independent republic, was originally colonized from Earth three generations earlier. Duncan's initial challenge is to prepare, physically and intellectually, for the 500-million-mile trip to Earth. Once there, he is caught up in a sweep of new experiences, including the social and political whirl in Washington, a strange visit to a carefully preserved ancient city once prominent in the 20th century, and a search for and meeting with a woman he loved since she visited Titan years before.", "year_published": 1975, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117840.Imperial_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "Dreams of Flesh and Sand", "author_name": "W.T. Quick", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 59, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Double En, the most powerful corporation ever created, and its founders, Nakamura and Norton, are two of the most brilliant minds in history. But now they have launched a private war against each other and winner takes all. While Norton is hidden deep inside the heart of the Double En's mainframe, Nakamura is busy hiring the very best in computer warfare -- that's Iceberg Berg, master of security systems. No one can penetrate a barrier he has created, except for one woman, his ex-wife, Icebreaker Calley. No wall has ever been barred to her. Together again, they face the impossible task of separating Norton from his beloved matrix before the man becomes the computer and the computer becomes more powerful than anything humanity has ever seen.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2570020-dreams-of-flesh-and-sand"}, +{"book_title": "The Devil's Due", "author_name": "Monique Martin", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 730, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Time travelers Simon and Elizabeth return in book four of the Out of Time series.Simon and Elizabeth's plans for their honeymoon are interrupted when they discover a list of unfinished business hidden in Simon's grandfather's journal. Picking up where Grandfather Sebastian left off, Simon and Elizabeth, along with Jack Wells, travel to glamorous 1933 Hollywood to save the life of movie star Alan Grant. But the Golden Age of Hollywood is more than parties and premieres.Behind the bright lights and bigger-than-life contracts, shadows lurk and no one is what they seem. It's a place where people will do anything for fame and fortune. And if Simon and Elizabeth fail, more than a man's life might be lost.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16281712-the-devil-s-due"}, +{"book_title": "Afterparty", "author_name": "Daryl Gregory", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 3474, "review_number": 471, "book_description": "It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide.Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: she was one of the original scientists who developed the drug. With the help of an ex-government agent and an imaginary, drug-induced doctor, Lyda sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.A mind-bending and violent chase across Canada and the US, Daryl Gregory's Afterparty is a marvelous mix of William Gibson\u2019s Neuromancer, Philip K. Dick\u2019s Ubik, and perhaps a bit of Peter Watts\u2019s Starfish: a last chance to save civilization, or die trying.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910129-afterparty"}, +{"book_title": "Unholy Night", "author_name": "Seth Grahame-Smith", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 7742, "review_number": 1254, "book_description": "From the author of the New York Times bestselling Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes UNHOLY NIGHT, the next evolution in dark historical revisionism. They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth. But what do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides the fact that they followed a star to Bethlehem bearing strange gifts? The Bible has little to say about this enigmatic trio. But leave it to Seth Grahame-Smith, the brilliant and twisted mind behind Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to take a little mystery, bend a little history, and weave an epic tale. In Grahame-Smith's telling, the so-called \"Three Wise Men\" are infamous thieves, led by the dark, murderous Balthazar. After a daring escape from Herod's prison, they stumble upon the famous manger and its newborn king. The last thing Balthazar needs is to be slowed down by young Joseph, Mary and their infant. But when Herod's men begin to slaughter the first born in Judea, he has no choice but to help them escape to Egypt. It's the beginning of an adventure that will see them fight the last magical creatures of the Old Testament; cross paths with biblical figures like Pontius Pilate and John the Baptist; and finally deliver them to Egypt. It may just be the greatest story never told.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Humor", "Religion", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12954783-unholy-night"}, +{"book_title": "Megatokyo, Volume 4", "author_name": "Fred Gallagher", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 643, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "CMX is proud to present the latest volume of Fred Gallagher's popular MEGATOKYO, including chapters 5 and 6 from the online webcomic presented in print for the first time. Piro, an obsessed anime/manga fan, and his friend Largo, a hardcore American gamer, adapt their highly unique perspectives on reality to life in Tokyo. While Piro stumbles around a girl he finds himself growing closer to, Largo unexpectedly crashes like a comet into the life of her reclusive friend. Chaos reigns as they are drawn deeper into the worlds of two very different girls. Also contains additional bonus material, including an expanded version of the short story, Circuity.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Fiction", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Romance", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329171.Megatokyo_Volume_4"}, +{"book_title": "How Beauty Saved the Beast", "author_name": "Jax Garren", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 692, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "Jolie Benoit left her old life behind to become an agent of the Underlight. Training under Sergeant Wesley Haukon, she\u2019s honing her combat skills, all the while coping with the intense sexual attraction she feels for Hauk. She keeps their friendship casual, but when his high school sweetheart transfers into their division, Jolie finds herself grappling with jealousy.The Underlight gave Hauk a purpose, but he can\u2019t escape his past completely. The physical and emotional scars from the fire that killed seven fellow Army Rangers will mark him forever. Jolie sends his protective instincts into overdrive, but he\u2019s convinced he\u2019ll never be worthy of her love.Hauk is determined to keep Jolie from harm. But when the Order of Ananke ambushes them with a new weapon that neutralizes Hauk, making him vulnerable, it\u2019s Jolie who must tap into her hidden strengths to rescue him\u2014or risk losing him forever\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16110879-how-beauty-saved-the-beast"}, +{"book_title": "The Secret War", "author_name": "Matt Myklusch", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 4338, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "Jack Blank is living the dream as a celebrity superhero-in-training in the Imagine Nation. Unfortunately, Jack's dream has a nightmare lurking under the surface- a shocking connection to the enemy supersoldier Revile, and a deadly R\u00fcstov plot he can't tell anyone about... not even his closest friends.When the heroes of the Imagine Nation discover that an attack by R\u00fcstov sleeper agents is imminent, Jack is forced to trust his friends in a race against the clock to fight back mass hysteria, find the enemy spies, and thwart the R\u00fcstov plans in time to prevent a devastating invasion.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10065348-the-secret-war"}, +{"book_title": "Hellburner", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1395, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Lt. Ben Pollard thinks he's traded the perils of the Belt for security as an Earth-based computer jockey for United Defence Command. Then he's forced to perform a mission of mercy - and lands on an isolated, intrigue-riddled space station. In Hellburner, her newest novel, Hugo Award winner C. J. Cherryh returns to the best-selling universe of Heavy Time, Cyteen, and Downbelow Station, and creates a story of multi-global conspiracy, power politics, and military in-fighting. Here the stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity. When Pollard finds himself stranded on the Sol II battle installation without his orders, I.D., and possessions, he discovers something equally disturbing. He's been named next-of-kin to a man he never wanted to even see again: Paul Dekker, a young pilot who attracts crises like dead flesh draws flies. The centerpiece of a top-secret war project, Dekker has just lost his entire crew in a mysterious freak accident and lost his mind to amnesia from an attempted suicide. Or attempted murder. Suddenly two more faces from Dekker and Pollard's past are shanghaied to Sol II: their occasional lovers, renegade pilots Meg Kady and Sal Aboujib. Together they had once smashed the criminal cover-ups of a mining cartel. Now, they're all caught in a shadowy, deadly maze of power-mongering rivalries between UDC and Fleet Strategic Operations, the Senate and Peace Lobby, and the corporate lords of both Earth and Mars. In this subtle, dark contest with mysteries that deepen by the hour and rules that change without warning, Pollard, Kady, Aboujib and Dekker must survive kidnapping, sabotage, ambush, riots, kangaroo courts, conspiracy, and treason - only to become lab animals in the frontline of an endless war for humanity's soul. The two couples are being programmed to crew an experimental deathship no one has been able to control. And to escape the quagmire of manipulation, Pollard and his companions must master and wield the awesome power of - Hel", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Own", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57077.Hellburner"}, +{"book_title": "Deus Ex: Hard Line", "author_name": "James Swallow", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 115, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Deus Ex: Hard Line is a science fiction novella set in the Deus Ex universe and written by James Swallow. It covers the background story of Alex Vega.The novella is available in the digital format as part of the Collector's Edition and Day One Edition of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.(Taken from the Deus Ex wiki: http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Deus_Ex:... )", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Action", "Games (Video Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31551177-deus-ex"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond", "author_name": "Chantal Fernando", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2432, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Olivia Reynolds lives a sheltered life. Daughter of the leader of their small community, she is treated like a princess, never allowed beyond the safety of the walls. When her father decides she must marry, she chooses the man she has secretly lusted after ever since she first laid eyes on him.Dane Mitchell.One of her father\u2019s best men, Dane is as lethal is he is attractive, and Olivia is thrilled at the thought of being at his side.Dane Mitchell doesn\u2019t want to be forced into marriage. He is a soldier, a fighter, and has a bigger purpose in life. He doesn\u2019t have the time to deal with a spoilt pampered princess such as Olivia, but owes his life to Evan, Olivia\u2019s father. He accepts the marriage.But that doesn\u2019t mean he has to like it.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Dark", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20629817-beyond"}, +{"book_title": "Drones", "author_name": "Rob J. Hayes", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 65, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "In the near future Emotional Transference is the drug of choice.Garrick is a Drone, going to ever-increasing extremes in order to sell the emotions. But he does it for a reason\u2014because some memories are just too painful to bear.When his dealer is murdered, Garrick must search for a new way to remove his unwanted emotions, but soon finds himself embroiled in a plot that threatens to go deeper than he ever imagined. Between terrorists bent on preserving the inner space, assassins with a debt to pay, and a social media giant with its claws in the government, can Garrick survive long enough to uncover the truth and let the world know?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40214015-drones"}, +{"book_title": "The Declaration", "author_name": "Gemma Malley", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 21176, "review_number": 1672, "book_description": "In the year 2140, it is illegal to be young. Children are all but extinct. The world is a better place. Longevity drugs are a fountain of youth. Sign the Declaration, agree not to have children and you too can live forever. Refuse, and you will live as an outcast. For the children born outside the law, it only gets worse \u2013 Surplus status. Not everyone thinks Longevity is a good thing, but you better be clear what side you\u2019re on. . . . Surplus Anna is about to find out what happens when you can\u2019t decide if you should cheat the law or cheat death.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1722717.The_Declaration"}, +{"book_title": "Clockworks and Corsets", "author_name": "Tonia Brown", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 121, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Clockwork, steam and secrets power a passionate adventure in the skies. Everybody's looking for something.Captain Rose Madigan of the airship The Merry Widow is looking for a paying job for her all-female crew. Gabriella Upstairs, her newest recruit, is looking for a reason to be glad she's on board. And Madam Ruby of the Red House Bordello is looking for the secret laboratory of a missing mad scientist--and is willing to hire the airship. When they find the lab and its single occupant, Atom Loquacious, danger and passion start steaming up. Everybody's got a secret.Captain Rose is secretly too ethical to complete this job. Gabriella's secretly attracted to Atom. Madam Ruby's secretly hungry for power. And the secret Atom is hiding might just threaten the lives of everyone on board.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction", "Steampunk Romance", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8087046-clockworks-and-corsets"}, +{"book_title": "Dreadnaught", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 12772, "review_number": 392, "book_description": "The Alliance woke Captain John \"Black Jack\" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Fleet Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people-and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing.Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear his staging a coup-so he can't help but wonder if the newly christened First Fleet is being deliberately sent to the far side of space on a suicide mission.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9676849-dreadnaught"}, +{"book_title": "The Hanged Man", "author_name": "P.N. Elrod", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1682, "review_number": 334, "book_description": "The Hanged Man is the first book all-new Gaslamp Fantasy series by P. N. Elrod.On a freezing Christmas Eve in 1879, a forensic psychic reader is summoned from her Baker Street lodgings to the scene of a questionable death. Alexandrina Victoria Pendlebury (named after her godmother, the current Queen of England) is adamant that the death in question is a magically compromised murder and not a suicide, as the police had assumed, after the shocking revelation contained by the body in question, Alex must put her personal loss aside to uncover the deeper issues at stake, before more bodies turn up.Turning to some choice allies\u2014the handsome, prescient Lieutenant Brooks, the brilliant, enigmatic Lord Desmond, and her rapscallion cousin James\u2014Alex will have to marshal all of her magical and mental acumen to save Queen and Country from a shadowy threat. Our singular heroine is caught up in this rousing gaslamp adventure of cloaked assassins, meddlesome family, and dark magic.\"Murder, mayhem and tea\u2014a well-bred Victorian urban fantasy thriller. Prepare, o reader, to be enthralled.\"\u2014Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times Best Selling Author of the Mercy Thompson series on P.N. Elrod's The Hanged Man", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23245584-the-hanged-man"}, +{"book_title": "Russian Amerika", "author_name": "Stoney Compton", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 114, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Alaska, 1989. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigorivich Plesnett has a stained past \u2013 as a major in the Czar's Troika Guard he was cashiered for disobeying a direct order. Now, ten years later, Grig charters out to a Cossack and discovers his past has not only caught up with him but is about to violently change his future, and the future of all nine of the nations of North America as well. Spanning Alaska from the Southeastern Inside Passage to the frozen Yukon, this is an epic tale of one man\u2019s journey of redemption and courage to face old challenges and help birth a new nation.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5599145-russian-amerika"}, +{"book_title": "Not Less Than Gods", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 484, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "On a dark evening in 1824, a lady is offered a ride home in the carriage of a dark and mysterious stranger and a boy is conceived, to the strains of Beethoven's brand-new setting to the Ode to Joy. Groomed from childhood to become a perfect British hero, young Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax proceeds uncertainly through public school, a career in the navy, mutiny and court-martial before discovering his true place in life. There is, in Whitehall, a comfortable and slightly shabby club called Redking's. Downstairs from Redking's, however, is concealed the London headquarters of the Gentlemen's Speculative Society... a centuries-old fraternity devoted to the development of what its members call Technologia. Their goal is to bring about a Utopian paradise of science, through the manipulation of men and governments. Edward, as one of their agents, sets off on an odyssey across 19th-century Europe, encountering on the way flying machines, self-propelled carriages, and an Underground Galvanic Railway... and learns that the Society, in its various disguises, is everywhere.Cover art by J.K. Potter", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6680159-not-less-than-gods"}, +{"book_title": "Abducting Alice", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1836, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "For someone who thinks rocks are more interesting than men, geologist Alice is proven how very wrong she is.When a probe crashes to Earth near a dig site, Alice Clarkson thinks she has hit the jackpot of her gem collecting career finding a real life meteor to add to her collection. But this is no mere meteor. It\u2019s an alien probe designed to capture life; specifically female life.Abducted and placed on sale in an alien slave market. Alice soon discovers the pleasures of being a captive in the arms of the sexiest alien man she\u2019s ever laid eyes on.Kerr, high commander of Kelon warriors raids a slaver station only to find a small human treasure he want to keep as his own.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10245123-abducting-alice"}, +{"book_title": "Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl", "author_name": "David Barnett", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 841, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world\u2014including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775.London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told in Gideon\u2019s favorite \u201cpenny dreadful.\u201d When Gideon\u2019s father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances Gideon is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Deciding only Captain Lucian Trigger himself can aid him, Gideon sets off for London. On the way he rescues the mysterious mechanical girl Maria from a tumbledown house of shadows and iniquities. Together they make for London, where Gideon finally meets Captain Trigger.But Trigger is little more than an aging fraud, providing cover for the covert activities of his lover, Dr. John Reed, a privateer and sometime agent of the British Crown. Looking for heroes but finding only frauds and crooks, it falls to Gideon to step up to the plate and attempt to save the day...but can a humble fisherman really become the true Hero of the Empire?David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana/steampunk mash-up!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059435-gideon-smith-and-the-mechanical-girl"}, +{"book_title": "Steam and Sensibility", "author_name": "Kirsten Weiss", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 26, "book_description": " Steam rising. \n California Territory, 1848. Gold has been discovered, emptying the village of San Francisco of its male population. Steam-powered technology is still in its infancy.\nAt 19, Englishwoman Sensibility Grey has spent her life tinkering in her father\u2019s laboratory and missing the finer points of proper British life. But when her father dies in penury, she\u2019s shipped to San Francisco and to the protection of an uncle she\u2019s never met.The California Territory may hold more dangers than even the indomitable Miss Grey can manage. Pursued by government agents, a secret society, and the enigmatic Mr. Krieg Night, Sensibility must decipher the clockwork secrets in her father\u2019s final journal, unaware she\u2019ll change the world forever.Magic, mayhem, and mechanicals. STEAM AND SENSIBILITY is a pre-Steampunk novel of paranormal suspense set in the wild west of the California gold rush. ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21518361-steam-and-sensibility"}, +{"book_title": "Ragnar Blackmane", "author_name": "Aaron Dembski-Bowden", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 265, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Ragnar Blackmane is a legend of the Space Wolves, the youngest warrior ever to rise to command a Great Company. As he battles the forces of Abaddon the Despoiler on the war-ravaged world of Cadia, Ragnar remembers the events that brought him to this place and time, and relates two great sagas from his past, each bringing him into conflict with brother Space Marines from other Chapters, the secretive Dark Angels and savage Flesh Tearers. As these tales influence the events of the present, Ragnar comes to realise that his past actions have consequences...We've seen Ragnar Blackmane as a young Blood Claw before, but this is the first time we get to see him in action in all his Wolf Lord-ly glory! It's a fascinating look at the Space Wolves' relations with other Chapters as well, with both their old rivals, the Dark Angels, and the equally savage and bad-tempered Flesh Tearers turning up.Beautifully presented with bespoke artwork on an embossed, soft-touch matte finish hardcover and luxurious gilt edging, this 176-page tome is sure to take pride of place on your bookshelf. The magnetically-closed box features impressive artwork of Ragnar himself, in a glossy finish, with individual numbering from a limited edition of 1,500.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26129760-ragnar-blackmane"}, +{"book_title": "Dying Bites", "author_name": "D.D. Barant", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 6638, "review_number": 453, "book_description": "Her job description is the \u201ctracking and apprehension of mentally-fractured killers.\u201d What this really means in FBI profiler Jace Valchek\u2019s brave new world\u2014one in which only one percent of the population is human\u2014is that a woman\u2019s work is never done. And real is getting stranger every day\u2026Jace has been ripped from her reality by David Cassius, the vampire head of the NSA. He knows that she\u2019s the best there in the business, and David needs her help in solving a series of gruesome murders of vampires and werewolves. David\u2019s world\u2014one that also includes lycanthropes and golems\u2014is one with little knowledge of mental illness. An insane serial killer is a threat the NSA has no experience with. But Jace does. Stranded in a reality where Bela Lugosi is a bigger box office draw than Bruce Willis and every full moon is Mardi Gras, Jace must now hunt down a fellow human before he brings the entire planet to the brink of madness. Or she may never see her own world again\u2026", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fiction", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6295913-dying-bites"}, +{"book_title": "Rolling Hot", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 963, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Colonel Hammer has only a mixed bag of recruits and battle-fatigued veterans to relieve a district capital that has to be rescued. Rolling Hot is sure to follow the success of David Drake's Hammer's Slammers (nearly a million in print) and the bestselling tie-in adventure game.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662699.Rolling_Hot"}, +{"book_title": "A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World", "author_name": "C.A. Fletcher", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 8723, "review_number": 1598, "book_description": "My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs. Then the thief came. There may be no law left except what you make of it. But if you steal my dog, you can at least expect me to come after you. Because if we aren't loyal to the things we love, what's the point?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Animals (Dogs)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40698027-a-boy-and-his-dog-at-the-end-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Wicked Lovely", "author_name": "Melissa Marr", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 159934, "review_number": 7129, "book_description": "Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty - especially if they learn of her Sight - and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King, who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost \u2014 regardless of her plans or desires.Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything.Faery intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr's stunning twenty-first-century faery tale.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/305234.Wicked_Lovely"}, +{"book_title": "Princess Ballot", "author_name": "Jaymin Eve", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 6919, "review_number": 696, "book_description": "You have been chosen. Those four words change Violet Spencer\u2019s whole life, when against staggering odds, she's selected in the \"princess ballot.\" Arbon Academy is affectionately known as the school for Royals. Only the rich, powerful, or heir to a throne gain entry ... except for the one scholarship student accepted every five years. It's a worldwide lottery, and one that Violet entered without giving it any serious thought. But the media got it wrong and Arbon Academy is much more than a simple college for future leaders.It\u2019s a dark world of politics, intrigue, and dangerous guys who will stop at nothing to get their own way. Despite her best efforts at remaining off the radar, Violet finds herself a pawn between two of the most powerful monarchies in the world. Prince Rafe of the Switzerlands and Prince Alex of the Australasias are bitter enemies both on the soccer field and in the political arena. Monarchies rule the world now, and every waking breath is a competition for the princes. Control the ball.Control the world. Control Violet. Whether it's through love or hate, someone will ultimately win.*This is book one in a dark college romance. This is not a RH or traditional love triangle story, but it does include a-hole princes, nasty princesses, and one chick who will take none of their shit, all the while doing her best to make it out alive. HEA guaranteed. Eventually. 17+. #darkromance #collegeromance #sportsromance #royals", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "New Adult", "Academic (College)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Dark", "Contemporary", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49360706-princess-ballot"}, +{"book_title": "The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic", "author_name": "Leigh Bardugo", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 34585, "review_number": 6474, "book_description": "Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems, where a young mermaid's voice can summon deadly storms and where a river might do a lovestruck boy's bidding but only for a terrible price.Inspired by myth, fairy tale, and folklore, #1 New York Times\u2013bestselling author Leigh Bardugo has crafted a deliciously atmospheric collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice, and love.Perfect for new readers and dedicated fans, these tales will transport you to lands both familiar and strange\u2014to a fully realized world of dangerous magic that millions have visited through the novels of the Grishaverse.This collection of six stories includes three brand-new tales, all of them lavishly illustrated with art that changes with each turn of the page, culminating in six stunning full-spread illustrations as rich in detail as the stories themselves.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Retellings", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34076952-the-language-of-thorns"}, +{"book_title": "Starship: Flagship", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 787, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "The date is 1970 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man\u2019s growing military and economic power. The rebel starship, the Theodore Roosevelt, under the command of Wilson Cole, is preparing to lead Cole\u2019s ragtag armada into the Republic, even though he is outnumbered thousands to one. Cole is convinced that the government has become an arrogant and unfeeling political entity and must be overthrown. The trick is to avoid armed conflict with the vast array of ships, numbering in the millions, in the Republic\u2019s Navy. For a time Cole\u2019s forces strike from cover and race off to safety, but he soon sees that is no way to conquer the mightiest political and military machine in the history of the galaxy. He realizes that he must reach Deluros VIII, the headquarters world of the Republic (and of the race of Man), in order to have any effect on the government at all \u2013 but Deluros VIII is the best-protected world in the Republic. But a new threat looms on the horizon. Cole, the Valkyrie, David Copperfield, Sharon Blacksmith, Jacovic, and the rest of the crew of the Teddy R face their greatest challenge yet, and the outcome will determine the fate of the entire galaxy.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6465467-starship"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Days of New Paris", "author_name": "China Mi\u00e9ville", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 5591, "review_number": 984, "book_description": "\"Beauty will be convulsive....\"It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer - and occult disciple - Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including surrealist theorist Andr\u00e9 Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever.It's 1950. A lone surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41017647-the-last-days-of-new-paris"}, +{"book_title": "The Guns Above", "author_name": "Robyn Bennis", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1207, "review_number": 302, "book_description": "The nation of Garnia has been at war for as long as Auxiliary Lieutenant Josette Dupre can remember \u2013 this time against neighboring Vinzhalia. Garnia\u2019s Air Signal Corp stands out as the favored martial child of the King. But though it\u2019s co-ed, women on-board are only allowed \u201cauxiliary\u201d crew positions and are banned from combat. In extenuating circumstances, Josette saves her airship in the heat of battle. She is rewarded with the Mistral, becoming Garnia\u2019s first female captain.She wants the job \u2013 just not the political flak attached. On top of patrolling the front lines, she must also contend with a crew who doubts her expertise, a new airship that is an untested deathtrap, and the foppish aristocrat Lord Bernat \u2013 a gambler and shameless flirt with the military know-how of a thimble. He\u2019s also been assigned to her ship to catalog her every moment of weakness and indecision. When the Vins make an unprecedented military move that could turn the tide of the war, can Josette deal with Bernat, rally her crew, and survive long enough to prove herself to the top brass?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26123536-the-guns-above"}, +{"book_title": "Lilith Enraptured", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1136, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "Divinity Warriors 1: Lilith EnrapturedSeries One of the Divinity UniverseAlternate Reality Romance / Parallel UniverseSorin of Firewall lives in a land forever at war. In fact, the Starian men are so busy fighting, their marriage ceremony has been reduced to a \"will of the gods\" event where they simply pick a woman out of a lineup and claim her as a wife. With women becoming scarce, it's necessary to trade the offworld Divinity Corporation for brides. Duty-bound to attend the ceremony, he has no intention of picking a bride, let alone one from another dimension. Duty-bound to attend the ceremony, he has no intention of picking a bride, let alone one from another dimension. That is, until he sees Lilith, the bewitching woman sent by the gods to reward--or punish?--him..Lilith, a data analyst for Divinity, is betrayed by the Corporation and wakes up in a primitive, uncharted dimension filled with warriors who only know war and duty. But her initial fears of becoming a sex slave to a big beefy knight become all too real when a warrior of god-like proportions claims she's his new woman. As Lilith discovers, there are worse fates than being the focus of Sorin's skillful and earthy seduction.Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violenceThis novel contains adult content. Mustbe 18 years or older to read.If you like this book, check out:Divinity Warriors Series1. Lilith Enraptured - ASIN: B006Z0L7S82. Fighting Lady Jayne - ASIN: B0076OCDVM3. Keeping Paige - ASIN: B007EKXYAW4. Taking Karre - ASIN: B007MJCB90Note: The Divinity Universe continues with the book Divinity Healers 1: Ariella's KeeperFor Info: MichellePillow.com", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43399860-lilith-enraptured"}, +{"book_title": "Cavas", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1189, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "Career military man Cavas Vellar has joined his older brother, Cathian, aboard The Vorge for one purpose\u2014to rescue their youngest littermate. Their father has resorted to having him kidnapped to hide one of his most vile secrets. They need to go down onto a planet full of criminals, find Crath, and rescue him. This mission is the most important one Cavas has ever led. Jill was betrayed when Earth sold her into alien slavery. She owes her life to Cavas and the Vorge crew for taking her out of a cell and to their ship. When she learns why they were on that planet to begin with\u2026she feels it\u2019s her duty to help them find their missing brother. Even if it means losing her recently gained freedom. One determined alien on a mission. One woman who notices how sexy he is. This is their story.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Adult", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50518382-cavas"}, +{"book_title": "Rise", "author_name": "Scarlett Dawn", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 925, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "*The individual installments are no longer in publication. Please see Cold Mark (Mark, #1) at this link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... *USA Today bestselling author, Scarlett Dawn, scorches the pages with her fourth installment of The Cold Mark Saga, where secrets are revealed and heinous acts jump to life...Braita Valorn has found herself in another precarious situation. A battle rages on the shores of Joyal and the Mian are shaking the sand with their war cries. Trapped below ground inside the President's bunker, Braita isn't even safe.When steel doors are blown and gunfire erupts, Human blood floods the ground. The Mian won't stop. They'll never give up the fight until they're satisfied.Judgments are made, an archaic stand within Mian laws, and Braita finds herself charged with treason. But never one to sit during a battle, she risks her last chance of release on one set of Plumas. Will Braita find herself in more trouble of her own making or will she rise past atrocity to obtain her freedom?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "New Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Erotica (Menage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24733806-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Starship Eternal", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3181, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "A lost starship... A dire warning from futures past... A desperate search for salvation\u2026 Captain Mitchell \u201cAres\u201d Williams is a Space Marine and the hero of the Battle for Liberty, whose Shot Heard \u2018Round the Universe saved the planet from a nearly unstoppable war machine. He\u2019s handsome, charismatic, and the perfect poster boy to help the military drive enlistment. Pulled from the war and thrown into the spotlight, he\u2019s as efficient at charming the media as he was at shooting down enemy starfighters. After an assassination attempt leaves Mitchell critically wounded, he begins to suffer from strange hallucinations that carry a chilling and oddly familiar warning: They are coming. Find the Goliath or humankind will be destroyed. Convinced that the visions are a side-effect of his injuries, he tries to ignore them, only to learn that he may not be as crazy as he thinks. The enemy is real and closer than he imagined, and they\u2019ll do whatever it takes to prevent him from rediscovering the centuries lost starship. Narrowly escaping capture, out of time and out of air, Mitchell lands at the mercy of the Riggers - a ragtag crew of former commandos who patrol the lawless outer reaches of the galaxy. Guided by a captain with a reputation for cold-blooded murder, they\u2019re dangerous, immoral, and possibly insane. They may also be humanity\u2019s last hope for survival in a war that has raged beyond eternity.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24419820-starship-eternal"}, +{"book_title": "The Universe Twister", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 42, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Lafayette O'Leary was barely scraping by as a draftsman until an experiment with self-hypnosis catapulted him into the world of Artesia, an exotic land complete with swordplay, beautiful princesses, and very large and hungry dragons. And unless O'Leary could somehow become the hero he had always dreamed of being, he was going to be a dragon's lunch. And that was only the beginning, as O'Leary began to understand the secret of the multiple universes, each with its own opportunities for exciting adventure--and very evil adversaries and terrifying dangers . . . \"Publisher's Note: \" \"The Universe Twister\" appeared previously as the separate novels \"The Time Bender,\" \"The World Shuffler\" and \"The Shape Changer.\" This is the first time the complete trilogy has been published in one volume.Publisher's Note: The Universe Twister appeared previously as the separate novels The Time Bender, The World Shuffler and The Shape Changer. This is the first time the complete trilogy has been published (as an omnibus).", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3969515-the-universe-twister"}, +{"book_title": "The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance", "author_name": "Glenn Dakin", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 737, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "Murder, mystery, and adventure aren\u2019t your typical birthday presents . . .But for Theo, anything that breaks up his ordinary routine is the perfect gift. A mysterious \u201cillness\u201d and Theo\u2019s guardians force him into a life indoors, where gloves must be worn and daily medical treatments are the norm. When Theo discovers a suspicious package on his birthday, one person from the past will unlock the secret behind Theo\u2019s \u201cillness\u201d and change his life forever. Molded into an exhilarating steampunk adventure that gives birth to the next great fantasy hero, Theo Wickland, Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance is the first book in a trilogy by debut author Glenn Dakin.Ages 8\u201412", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261394-the-society-of-unrelenting-vigilance"}, +{"book_title": "A Matter of Circumstance and Celludrones", "author_name": "Claire Robyns", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 375, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "A Victorian Steampunk/Paranormal adventure with strong elements of romance...Lady Lily d'Bulier is prim, proper, and prefers to think of herself as pragmatic rather than timid. And avoiding life-threatening situations at all costs is just plain practical. But everything changes when Lord Adair tracks her down in London; searching for answers he seems to think she has.Greyston Adair is a blackguard and a smuggler, although British Customs will have to catch him red-handed to prove the latter. Fortunately, the dirigibles they float around in have never been able to get near his air dust.Hell is rising, One Demon at a Time...With Lady Ostrich hunting them, and the mystery of how their lives tie back to Cragloden Castle and the powerful McAllister clan, Lily has no option but to throw propriety to the wind and run off with Greyston to Scotland, away from the immediate danger and toward possible answers.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16048667-a-matter-of-circumstance-and-celludrones"}, +{"book_title": "Enslave Me Sweetly", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 6491, "review_number": 257, "book_description": "Eden Black walks among humans, protecting them from the murderous evil of other-worlders who abduct and enslave. And though she appears to be human herself, Eden is an alien, a Raka, distinguished by her golden hair and skin, and gifted with the ominous ability to kill without remorse\u2014and with total accuracy. That is, until the fateful night she has one shot to eliminate her target, a human slaver\u2014and misses. \"Failure\" is not in Eden's vocabulary. Neither is \"partner\"\u2014but that's what she is forcibly assigned after recovering from her disastrous mission. A sexy, steely-nerved human agent, Lucius Adaire enjoys nothing more than sparking the fury\u2014and rousing the desire\u2014of the fiery female assassin too proud to admit defeat. Locked in an assignment they cannot afford to lose, Lucius and Eden find themselves bound in two high-stakes, heart-pounding games: the sensual web of kill or be killed, and the erotic dance of seduction.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343285.Enslave_Me_Sweetly"}, +{"book_title": "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 14391, "review_number": 1450, "book_description": "This is a story. In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus was and asks the reader questions that will continue to resonate long after the final page is turned. For, above all, this book is about how stories become stories.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fiction", "Religion", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Historical", "Religion (Christianity)", "Philosophy", "Contemporary", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7645932-the-good-man-jesus-and-the-scoundrel-christ"}, +{"book_title": "Five Minutes Longer", "author_name": "Victoria Sue", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2409, "review_number": 426, "book_description": "When falling in love with your partner might just be deadlier than fighting a lethal terrorist group...Finn has battled all his life.His selfish mother, his father's suicide, his homophobic brother, and finally his undiagnosed dyslexia stopped his dream of joining the FBI before it could even start.His one chance--his only chance--is joining an experimental group and partnering an enhanced human with lethal abilities that wants him to fail.Saving the world might be doable. Losing his heart will be impossible.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Mystery", "M M Romance (M M Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54317636-five-minutes-longer"}, +{"book_title": "The Service of the Sword", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 4306, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Readers can't get enough of Honor Harrington and her world, and here David Weber is again, accompanied by some of the top science fiction writers in the field, with new adventures of the best starship commander in the galaxy, and explorations of previously uncharted corners of her universe. It's a party-and you're invited!The Service of the Sword, published in 2003, is the fourth anthology of stories set in the Honor Harrington universe or Honorverse. The stories in the anthologies serve to introduce characters, provide deeper more complete backstory and flesh out the universe, so claim the same canonical relevance as exposition in the main series. David Weber, author of the mainline Honor Harrington series, serves as editor for the anthologies, maintaining fidelity to the series canons.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504397.The_Service_of_the_Sword"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon Storm", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2477, "review_number": 174, "book_description": "Born with a secret power he must hide\u2026 Telryn \u201cTrip\u201d Yert has always been a little odd, with hunches that are too accurate to explain. Magic is feared and forbidden in Iskandia, so he\u2019s struggled his whole life to hide his eccentricities. As a boy, he was forced to watch his mother\u2019s execution. Her crime? Witchcraft. Understandably, Trip wants nothing to do with the power that lurks within him, always threatening to reveal itself. Instead, he dedicates himself to serving as an officer in the king\u2019s army, to battling pirates and imperial conquerors. He longs to become a soldier as respected and renowned as the legendary General Zirkander. But his country is in need of more than a soldier. After disappearing for over a thousand years, dragons have returned to the world. A few of them are willing to be allies to mankind, as they were millennia before, but far more want to destroy or enslave humans and claim the world for themselves. There are few people left with the power to fight dragons. For reasons he doesn\u2019t understand, Trip may be one of those people. But if he chooses to learn more about his heritage and the power he can wield, he risks losing everyone he loves and everything he longs to be.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37539796-dragon-storm"}, +{"book_title": "The Experiment", "author_name": "Cia_", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1059, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "In the distant future, humans wage war against the alien planet Caeorleia, with no tactic off-limits if it will help the humans get their hands on Caeorleia\u2019s resources. Ask Ryker. He thought he volunteered for a simple experiment that would help his government in the war. He didn't realize sadistic doctors would turn him into the experiment\u2014by injecting him with blood from a captured Caeorleian, Seral Iorflas. Nor did Ryker realize he\u2019d be sent to sabotage a planet full of the very beings his world is battling, beings who kill humans on sight. But then, thanks to the experiment that irrevocably changed him, he isn\u2019t exactly human any longer\u2014and with each passing day, as his blood bond with Seral strengthens, he\u2019s less and less sure as to whose side he's on.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20407204-the-experiment"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 5491, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "What would you do if you were the only alien trapped on a strange planet? Probably freak out, right? Well, that's what Ax feels like doing. But as an Andalite warrior-cadet, he has to be pretty cool about stuff like that. He's been hanging out with the Animorphs ever since the Dome ship was destroyed by the Yeerks and his brother, Prince Elfangor, was destroyed by Visser Three.Life on Earth is pretty different for Ax. But there is one thing he, Cassie, Marco, Jake, Rachel, and Tobias have in common. Something that one alien, four kids and a hawk know they have to do: stop the Yeerks...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324508.The_Alien"}, +{"book_title": "Falling Kingdoms", "author_name": "Morgan Rhodes", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 54951, "review_number": 7699, "book_description": "In the three kingdoms of Mytica, magic has long been forgotten. And while hard-won peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest now simmers below the surface.As the rulers of each kingdom grapple for power, the lives of their subjects are brutally transformed... and four key players, royals and rebels alike, find their fates forever intertwined. Cleo, Jonas, Lucia, and Magnus are caught in a dizzying world of treacherous betrayals, shocking murders, secret alliances, and even unforeseen love.The only outcome that's certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed?It's the eve of war.... Choose your side.Princess: Raised in pampered luxury, Cleo must now embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of magic long thought extinct.Rebel: Jonas, enraged at injustice, lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country cruelly impoverished. To his shock, he finds himself the leader of a people's revolution centuries in the making.Sorceress: Lucia, adopted at birth into the royal family, discovers the truth about her past\u2014and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield.Heir: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, firstborn son Magnus begins to realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword....", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12954620-falling-kingdoms"}, +{"book_title": "How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler", "author_name": "Ryan North", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 3081, "review_number": 497, "book_description": "What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat? With this book as your guide, you'll survive--and thrive--in any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted--from first principles. This illustrated manual contains all the science, engineering, art, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Deeply researched, irreverent, and significantly more fun than being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "History", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science (Technology)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science (Engineering)", "Reference", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39026990-how-to-invent-everything"}, +{"book_title": "Heart's Prisoner", "author_name": "Olivia Riley", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 818, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "He's not like anything Lana has ever encountered.Asset X: Massive, deadly, a little terrifying to say the least. A devilish warrior. And a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state of the art cell inside one of the military\u2019s top bases--Lazris.And Lana has been assigned to \"study\" him. To learn his secrets and gain his trust, if he is ever allowed to set foot out of his cell. As a top behaviorist, it is the biggest hurdle of her career.Asset X--or Xerus as he is called--won't give up his secrets easily. He is difficult, elusive, and--dare she say--unfathomably alluring...despite his seething demeanor and hard, frightening physique.Something subconsciously draws her to him. Something wildly irresistible. Even if his wicked smile and needful gaze could just be a ploy to win her trust and escape his cell.She shouldn't think of him like that. He is an alien after all. And possibly their enemy.For Xerus claims he is on a mission. A mission to destroy. And he cannot afford to fail. If he dares let Lana get close, dares open his cold heart to her, she could compromise everything.Heart's Prisoner is a complete standalone novel in the Dark World Mates series, a universe teeming with ferocious aliens and brave heroines. This book contains dark tones, heated intimate scenes, and intense moments with possible triggers including violence and is intended for mature readers.Inspired by the short \"Dark Prisoner\" by Lora Darc.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Suspense", "Fantasy", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54592300-heart-s-prisoner"}, +{"book_title": "Homefront", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1439, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "A full-cast performance of a thrilling new episode in the New York Times best-selling Expeditionary Force series.After the latest mission of the starship Flying Dutchman, Earth is safe not just for a year, but for hundreds of years. The ship\u2019s weary crew wonders what they will do with their lives in peacetime, but the enemy has other plans, and there is danger on the Homefront.Starring Zachary Quinto, R.C. Bray, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, and everyone's favorite AI, Skippy the Magnificent, alongside a full cast. Includes plenty of pew-pew-pew, original sound composition, and maybe some singing by R.C. Bray.Produced by Odd Origin Media and Dagaz MediaExecutive Producer Greg Lawrence Story by Craig AlansonScript by Craig Alanson and Jack BowmanTalent Director William DufrisSound Director Fred GreenhalghAssociate Producer Casey TurnerDialogue edited by Jack BowmanSound design by Jamie Mahaffey/The Mix Room and O'Shea Creative Media Music by Jeroen Grommen Full cast includes Zachary Quinto, R.C. Bray, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, Peter Berkrot, Kym Dakin, Bill Dufris, Corey Gagne, Nimo Gandhi, Emily Grotz, Dalton S. Kimball, Austin Ku, Daniel Logan, John Dalton Logan, PJ Ochlan, Lisa Renee Pitts, Christopher Price, Michael Rafkin, Lisa Stathoplos, Casey Turner, Jennywren Walker, Marjolaine Whittlesey, Ashanti Williams, Jonathan Woodward, and Collin Young.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45712668-homefront"}, +{"book_title": "The Little Prince", "author_name": "Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1437278, "review_number": 41684, "book_description": "A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickFew stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exup\u00e9ry's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as close as possible to the French, in language, style, and most important, spirit. The artwork in this edition has been restored to match in detail and in color Saint-Exup\u00e9ry's original artwork. Combining Richard Howard's translation with restored original art, this definitive English-language edition of The Little Prince will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.", "year_published": 1943, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Cultural (France)", "Young Adult", "Philosophy", "Literature", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "European Literature (French Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157993.The_Little_Prince"}, +{"book_title": "Shelley", "author_name": "Andr\u00e9 Wiesler", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 24, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Weihnachten, das Fest der Liebe? Nicht im Seattle des Jahres 2061, wie zwei Ermittler erkennen m\u00fcssen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein k\u00f6nnten: der b\u00e4rbei\u00dfige, aber lebensfrohe Ork-Detektiv Simmons und der h\u00f6fliche, stets kontrollierte Ex-Soldat Walker. Gemeinsam setzen sie sich auf die Spur eines skrupellosen Killers, der einer jungen Frau buchst\u00e4blich das Herz gestohlen hat, und m\u00fcssen erkennen, dass Opfer wie T\u00e4ter nicht viel mit normalen Menschen gemein haben.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1502494.Shelley"}, +{"book_title": "A Love Through Time", "author_name": "Terri Brisbin", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 335, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "To Maggie Hobbs, Scotland was a dream vacation. For Alex MacKendimen, it was a way to free himself from work and explore his family history. Or so they thought...until a mysterious stranger sends them back to medieval Scotland.Together, they embark on a journey through time -- on a quest for love....", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fiction", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827873.A_Love_Through_Time"}, +{"book_title": "The Ninth Circle", "author_name": "R.M. Meluch", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 307, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Fifth in the hard-hitting military science-fiction series. On the distant world of Zoe, an expedition finds DNA-based life. When alien invaders are also discovered, Glenn Hamilton calls on the U.S.S. Merrimack for help. But the Ninth Circle and the Palatine Empire have also found Zoe. Soon everyone will be on a collision course to determine the fate of this planet.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10829981-the-ninth-circle"}, +{"book_title": "Renegade Leo", "author_name": "Delores Diamond", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 848, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "When I signed up to serve as engineer on a spaceship bound for Kartak, I thought I had life figured out. Explore the ruins of a dead civilization. Take everything worth selling. Buy myself status and an easy life. How hard could it be? Turns out, Kartak is very much alive\u2026 and the inhabitants are the stuff of nightmares. When I crash land on Kartak, I lose all my supplies and my only friend. With an inhospitable environment, violent natives, and an apocalyptic cult hunting me\u2026 death stalks me at every turn. My only chance to survive is by taking shelter with a brutal alpha lion shifter. Deadly but irresistible, he declares me his fated mate\u2026 and leaves me walking on the knife\u2019s edge between pleasure and fear. In the struggle to save my own life, I will have to choose: the danger of a fierce, frightening mate\u2026 or certain death without his protection. Renegade Leo is a standalone romance novel set in the Shifter Kings of Kartak universe. No cliffhangers and a sexy happy ending guaranteed!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30069442-renegade-leo"}, +{"book_title": "Bitter Seeds", "author_name": "Ian Tregillis", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 6386, "review_number": 821, "book_description": "\nIt's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in betweenRaybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him.When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities--a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present--Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be.Alan Furst meets Alan Moore in the opening of an epic of supernatural alternate history, the tale of a twentieth century like ours and also profoundly different.\n", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "War", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6881685-bitter-seeds"}, +{"book_title": "Reckless", "author_name": "Cornelia Funke", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 17523, "review_number": 2088, "book_description": "Ever since Jacob Reckless was a child, he has been escaping to a hidden world through a portal in his father's abandoned study. Over the years, he has made a name for himself as a finder of enchanted items and buried secrets. He's also made many enemies and allies--most important, Fox, a beautiful shape-shifting vixen whom Jacob cares for more than he lets on.But life in this other world is about to change. Tragedy strikes when Jacob's younger brother, Will, follows him through the portal. Brutally attacked, Will is infected with a curse that is quickly transforming him into a Goyl--a ruthless killing machine, with skin made of stone.Jacob is prepared to fight to save his brother, but in a land built on trickery and lies, Jacob will need all the wit, courage, and reckless spirit he can summon to reverse the dark spell--before it's too late.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7823592-reckless"}, +{"book_title": "Message for the Dead", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 1103, "review_number": 53, "book_description": " Survive the Future. As Legion Commander Keller attempts to coax the Republic and Black Fleet into a winner-take-all battle at the heart of the Galactic Core, Wraith uncovers secrets from Tyrus Rechs\u2019s past. Determined to liberate his crew from the clutches of a dormant fleet controlled by a hostile AI, the soldier-turned-rogue comes face to face with the galaxy\u2019s greatest threat. Meanwhile, Chhun and Kill Team Victory find themselves taking on new roles inside the Legion, and the fight for control of the Galactic Republic hits its zenith with the arrival of the malevolent Cybar.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39804828-message-for-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Far Cries", "author_name": "John DeChancie", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 5, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Short stories by John DeChancie, collection.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23445048-far-cries"}, +{"book_title": "Pandora's Star", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 43052, "review_number": 2158, "book_description": "The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport \"tunnels\" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star... vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply disappears. Since the location is too distant to reach by wormhole, a faster-than-light starship, the Second Chance, is dispatched to learn what has occurred and whether it represents a threat. In command is Wilson Kime, a five-time rejuvenated ex-NASA pilot whose glory days are centuries behind him.Opposed to the mission are the Guardians of Selfhood, a cult that believes the human race is being manipulated by an alien entity they call the Starflyer. Bradley Johansson, leader of the Guardians, warns of sabotage, fearing the Starflyer means to use the starship's mission for its own ends.Pursued by a Commonwealth special agent convinced the Guardians are crazy but dangerous, Johansson flees. But the danger is not averted. Aboard the Second Chance, Kime wonders if his crew has been infiltrated. Soon enough, he will have other worries. A thousand light-years away, something truly incredible is waiting: a deadly discovery whose unleashing will threaten to destroy the Commonwealth... and humanity itself. Could it be that Johansson was right?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45252.Pandora_s_Star"}, +{"book_title": "Forged to Lead", "author_name": "James David Victor", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 267, "review_number": 10, "book_description": " As one man steps up to save humanity, he fights to keep a secret that can bring him, and those around him, down. A new story from #1 Best Selling author James David Victor Jack Forge has established himself as a top-notch Marine and an inspired leader. When faced with impossible odds, he has repeatedly saved the day\u2026and his fellow marines. As his status grows, he must fight to keep a secret that could cost himself and friends everything. One thing is certain, Jack has been forged to lead. Forged to Lead is the third book in the Jack Forge, Fleet Marine series. If you like fast paced military science fiction, Jack Forge is the kind of hero you can root for. Download Forged to Lead and get started on your next space adventure today! Always FREE on Kindle Unlimited ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37754196-forged-to-lead"}, +{"book_title": "Worlds that Weren't", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 558, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Four flawlessly executed novellas by the masters of alternate history...In this collection of original novellas, four award-winning masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four brilliant excursions into what might have been.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101620.Worlds_that_Weren_t"}, +{"book_title": "The Underground", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 3241, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "What's tasty, good for you, and only takes sixty seconds to make? Oatmeal. And it's making the Yeerks more than a little crazy. Now Rachel, the other Animorphs, and Ax have a new weapon against the Yeerks. Sounds good, right?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343177.The_Underground"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Bender", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 191, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Draftsmen can't fight dragons.Then again, that's usually no problem - they generally don't have to. But Lafayette O'Leary does. When an accidental overdose of self-hypnosis wrenches him out of the dull (but safe) Mrs. MacGlint's Clean Rooms and Board and deposits him in the feudal, bedragoned world of Artesia, it takes him a little while to catch on, even with the attentions of the beautiful Princess Adoranne. Then he decides that he likes this new life of his - except for the part where he's supposed to get killed...", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2245551.The_Time_Bender"}, +{"book_title": "When She Belongs", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1446, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "He\u2019s the biggest jerk in the galaxy.I can live with being stuck on the far end of space. I can live with having to spend weeks on an abandoned station in an asteroid belt. Sure, I don\u2019t belong, but I\u2019ve got my book and my eight-legged attack cat with me. I should be fine.I\u2019m not fine.My alien host, Jerrok, is a jerk. He\u2019s surly and unpleasant. He hasn\u2019t bathed in years. He\u2019s part cyborg - and all those parts seem to be falling to pieces. He\u2019s the one in charge of this remote station, which means we\u2019re forced to interact. It\u2019s an absolutely miserable situation for both of us\u2026\u2026until I realize that all his anger and bluster is covering the fact that he\u2019s thoughtful and understanding. He\u2019s protective, too, keeping me safe when the bad guys approach. When I get hurt, he\u2019s the one tenderly caring for my wounds.Jerrok is also intensely, utterly lonely, just like me.As time passes, I start to wonder\u2026maybe where I belong isn\u2019t a place\u2026but a person.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55339584-when-she-belongs"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Wyrm Affair", "author_name": "Lilith Saintcrow", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 4522, "review_number": 724, "book_description": "Emma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. It doesn't help much that they barely tolerate each other, or that Bannon's Shield, Mikal, might just be a traitor himself. Or that the conspiracy killing registered mentaths and sorcerers alike will just as likely kill them as seduce them into treachery toward their Queen. In an alternate London where illogical magic has turned the Industrial Revolution on its head, Bannon and Clare now face hostility, treason, cannon fire, black sorcery, and the problem of reliably finding hansom cabs. The game is afoot.. \n\n", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12899734-the-iron-wyrm-affair"}, +{"book_title": "Collected Fiction", "author_name": "Hannu Rajaniemi", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 799, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "'Inside the firewall the city is alive. Buildings breathe, cars attack, angels patrol, and hyper-intelligent pets rebel.With unbridled invention and breakneck adventure, Hannu Rajaniemi is on the cutting-edge of science fiction. His post-apocalyptic, post-cyberpunk, and post-human tales are full of exhilarating energy and unpredictable optimism.How will human nature react when the only limit to desire is creativity? When the distinction between humans and gods is as small as nanomachines\u2014or as large as the universe? Whether the next big step in technology is 3D printing, genetic alteration, or unlimited space travel, Rajaniemi writes about what happens after.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22928964-collected-fiction"}, +{"book_title": "Catwoman: Soulstealer", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 17058, "review_number": 3008, "book_description": "When the Bat's away, the Cat will play. It's time to see how many lives this cat really has. . . .Two years after escaping Gotham City's slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, Batwing is left to hold back the tide of notorious criminals. Gotham City is ripe for the taking.Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to prove he has what it takes to help people in his role as Batwing. He targets a new thief on the prowl who seems cleverer than most. She has teamed up with Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, and together they are wreaking havoc. This Catwoman may be Batwing's undoing.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Retellings", "Romance", "New Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29749098-catwoman"}, +{"book_title": "Clementine", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 4098, "review_number": 459, "book_description": "Maria Isabella Boyd\u2019s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty\u2026she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn\u2019t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials\u2014essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who\u2019s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now it\u2019s Maria\u2019s job to go get him.He\u2019s dangerous quarry and she\u2019s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7670800-clementine"}, +{"book_title": "Witchy Eye", "author_name": "D.J. Butler", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 365, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Sarah Calhoun is the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Elector Andrew Calhoun, one of Appalachee\u2019s military heroes and one of the electors who gets to decide who will next ascend as\u00a0the Emperor of the New World. None of that matters to Sarah. She has a natural talent for hexing and one bad eye, and all she wants is to be left alone\u2014especially by outsiders.But Sarah\u2019s world gets turned on its head at the Nashville Tobacco Fair when a Yankee wizard-priest\u00a0tries to kidnap her. Sarah fights back with the aid of a mysterious monk named Thalanes, who is one of the not-quite-human Firstborn, the Moundbuilders of the Ohio. It is Thalanes who reveals to Sarah a secret heritage she never dreamed could be hers.Now on a desperate quest with Thalanes to\u00a0claim this heritage,\u00a0she\u00a0is hunted by the Emperor\u2019s bodyguard of elite dragoons, as well as by darker things\u2014shapeshifting Mockers and undead Lazars, and behind them a power more sinister still. If Sarah cannot claim her heritage, it may mean the end to her, her\u00a0family\u2014and to the world where she is just beginning to find her place.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753675-witchy-eye"}, +{"book_title": "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", "author_name": "Charles Yu", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 14717, "review_number": 2343, "book_description": "A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space\u2013time. \u00a0Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That\u2019s where Charles Yu, time travel technician\u2014part counselor, part gadget repair man\u2014steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he\u2019s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It\u2019s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he\u2019s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him\u2014in fact it may even save his life.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Adult", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7726420-how-to-live-safely-in-a-science-fictional-universe"}, +{"book_title": "Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 670, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker.Saviour?Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million selling Warhammer star.Triumff is a ribald historical fantasy set in a warped clockwork-powered version of our present day \u2026 a new Elizabethan age, not of Elizabeth II but in the style of the original Virgin Queen. Throughout its rollicking pages, Sir Rupert Triumff drinks, dines and duels his way into a new Brass Age of Exploration and Adventure.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Humor", "Adventure", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6719241-triumff"}, +{"book_title": "How Long 'til Black Future Month", "author_name": "N.K. Jemisin", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 10702, "review_number": 2093, "book_description": "In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow south must figure out how to save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story \u201cThe City Born Great,\u201d a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis\u2019s soul.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40855636-how-long-til-black-future-month"}, +{"book_title": "Rules of Redemption", "author_name": "T.A. White", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 6993, "review_number": 602, "book_description": "The war everyone thought was over is just beginning. Kira Forrest is a survivor. She\u2019s risen above the pain of her beginnings to become a war hero only to leave it all behind in the pursuit of a simple life. Now a salvager, she makes a living sifting through the wreckage of dead alien ships from a war that nearly brought humanity to its knees. After her ship takes damage, she\u2019s forced to re-route to a space station where her past and present collide with dangerous consequences. Kira\u2019s existence holds the key to a faltering peace treaty with the Tuann\u2014a technologically advanced alien race who dislikes and distrusts all humans. Winning her freedom should be easy, but a powerful and relentless Tuann warrior stands in her way. Deceiving him seems impossible, especially when he strays dangerously close to secrets she struggles to hide. Can Kira reconcile the pain of her past with the possibilities of her future? The fate of two races depends on her success.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43954881-rules-of-redemption"}, +{"book_title": "The Prefect", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 16420, "review_number": 641, "book_description": "Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life.A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case - until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder...", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Detective)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89195.The_Prefect"}, +{"book_title": "That Inevitable Victorian Thing", "author_name": "E.K. Johnston", "rating_score": 3.21, "rating_votes": 3741, "review_number": 1040, "book_description": "Set in a near-future world where the British Empire was preserved, not by the cost of blood and theft but by effort of repatriation and promises kept, That Inevitable Victorian Thing is a novel of love, duty, and the small moments that can change people and the world.Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendant of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history two centuries earlier. The imperial practice of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide Margaret into a politically advantageous marriage like her mother before her, but before she does her duty, she'll have one summer incognito in a far corner of empire. In Toronto, she meets Helena Marcus, daughter of one of the empire's greatest placement geneticists, and August Callaghan, the heir apparent to a powerful shipping firm currently besieged by American pirates. In a summer of high-society debutante balls, politically charged tea parties, and romantic country dances, Margaret, Helena, and August discover they share an unusual bond and maybe a one in a million chance to have what they want and to change the world in the process \u2014just like the first Queen Victoria.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25528808-that-inevitable-victorian-thing"}, +{"book_title": "Year Zero", "author_name": "Jeff Long", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 2663, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "In his sensational novel The Descent, Jeff Long created a world of stunning terror and adventure, \"an imaginative tour de force\" (Jon Krakauer). Now he imagines a scenario so vivid, so haunting, it anchors his place among storytelling masters.YEAR ZEROAn archaeological manhunt is raging in the holy land -- a hunt for the historical Jesus. For Nathan Lee Swift, a young American field researcher and expectant father, the line between noble discovery and the plunder of ruins is sacred -- until the night he crosses it. At a Roman landfill beneath the crucifixion grounds known as Golgotha, Nathan Lee yields to his professor's greed and turns common grave robber. His world -- his unborn daughter -- seems lost to him.Hundreds of miles away, on the remote Greek island of Corfu, a wealthy collector pries open his latest black-market purchase -- a fourteen-inch holy relic containing a vial of blood dating back to the first century -- and unleashes a two-thousand-year-old plague. As the pandemic explodes from the Mediterranean basin and threatens to devour humankind, Nathan Lee gets a chance at redemption. He embarks on an Odyssean journey back to the United States to find his family.Skirting the edges of the world, Nathan Lee's path finally leads him to New Mexico, where the greatest minds of science have converged at Los Alamos to find a vaccine. There Nathan Lee meets Miranda Abbot, a nineteen-year-old prodigy. As the cure continues to elude them, Miranda launches a desperate final strategy: the use of human lab rats cloned from the year zero. Nathan Lee, the thief of bones, comes face-to-face with men made from the very relics he looted, one of whom claims to be Jesus Christ, but may also be Patient Zero.Combining the scientific precision of The Andromeda Strain with the intensity of classic adventure epics, Jeff Long takes readers on a riveting voyage through the rubble of earthquake-torn Jerusalem, the serenity of the high Himalayas, and the eerie sanctuary of Los Alamos. With Long's characteristic originality, Year Zero races against the apocalyptic clock, creating a maze of twists, astonishing atmosphere, and the clash of science and faith.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Religion", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22199.Year_Zero"}, +{"book_title": "The Light Fantastic", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 129227, "review_number": 3693, "book_description": "In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34506.The_Light_Fantastic"}, +{"book_title": "The Future of Us", "author_name": "Jay Asher", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 45158, "review_number": 5863, "book_description": "It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long\u2014at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail, his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When they sign on, they're automatically logged onto their Facebook pages. But Facebook hasn't been invented yet. And they're looking at themselves fifteen years in the future.By refreshing their pages, they learn that making different decisions now will affect the outcome of their lives later. And as they grapple with the ups and downs of what their futures hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right\u2014and wrong\u2014in the present.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Realistic Fiction", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959277-the-future-of-us"}, +{"book_title": "The Rats, the Bats & the Ugly", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1243, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader had not only pulled off the only victory the beleaguered colony's feeble military forces had won against the invading aliens, but had also uncovered the secret that the invaders were really a feint, being under the control of the other aliens which the naive humans had thought were their allies. Unfortunately, that was the easy part, because now they had to convince their boneheaded military bureaucracy (burdened with incompetents and riddled with quisling humans) of their discovery, and keep from being court-martialed, drugged into submission, or executed by the human traitors. And they had to do this quickly, before the aliens launched their surprise attack. Fortunately, they had found a way around the alien's mental programming. What's more, the daring and resourceful Fluff, apparently the ineffectual pet of one of the colony's ruling class, was on their side. Only Fluff can save us now. . . .", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57312.The_Rats_the_Bats_the_Ugly"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Rising", "author_name": "Beth Revis", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 4376, "review_number": 562, "book_description": "When Jyn Erso was five years old, her mother was murdered and her father taken from her to serve the Empire. But despite the loss of her parents she is not completely alone\u2014Saw Gerrera, a man willing to go to any extremes necessary in order to resist Imperial tyranny, takes her in as his own, and gives her not only a home but all the abilities and resources she needs to become a rebel herself.Jyn dedicates herself to the cause\u2014and the man. But fighting alongside Saw and his people brings with it danger and the question of just how far Jyn is willing to go as one of Saw\u2019s soldiers. When she faces an unthinkable betrayal that shatters her world, Jyn will have to pull the pieces of herself back together and figure out what she truly believes in\u2026and who she can really trust.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32617148-rebel-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Bitter Rednesses of Love", "author_name": "Dominique Frost", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 288, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Anthony, degenerate genius and impoverished nobleman, finds himself wedded to the painfully proper young aristocrat, Stephen. Anthony needs Stephen's money, and Stephen has been pledged to Anthony since birth.Yet, they are absolute opposites. Will their marriage prove intolerable to them both, or will they find a happy equilibrium, instead? As Anthony teaches Stephen the pleasures of the body, will Stephen be able to teach Anthony the pleasures of the heart?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "M M Romance (M M Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30408966-bitter-rednesses-of-love"}, +{"book_title": "Railhead", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2524, "review_number": 530, "book_description": "Come with me, Zen Starling, she had said. The girl in the red coat. But how did she know his name? The Great Network is a place of drones and androids, maintenance spiders and Station Angels. The place of the thousand gates, where sentient trains criss-cross the galaxy in a heartbeat. Zen Starling is a petty thief, a street urchin from Thunder City. So when mysterious stranger Raven sends Zen and his new friend Nova on a mission to infiltrate the Emperor's train, he jumps at the chance to traverse the Great Network, to cross the galaxy in a heartbeat, to meet interesting people - and to steal their stuff. But the Great Network is a dangerous place, and Zen has no idea where his journey will take him.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23532981-railhead"}, +{"book_title": "Stars Uncharted", "author_name": "S.K. Dunstall", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 1379, "review_number": 257, "book_description": "A ragtag band of explorers are looking to make the biggest score in the galaxy in the brand-new science fiction adventure novel from the national bestselling author of Linesman.Three people who are not who they claim to be:Nika Rik Terri, body modder extraordinaire, has devoted her life to redesigning people's bodies right down to the molecular level. Give her a living body and a genemod machine, and she will turn out a work of art.Josune Arriola is crew on the famous explorer ship the Hassim, whose memory banks contain records of unexplored worlds worth a fortune. But Josune and the rest of the crew are united in their single-minded pursuit of the most famous lost planet of all.Hammond Roystan, the captain of the rival explorer ship, The Road, has many secrets. Some believe one of them is the key to finding the lost world. Josune's captain sends her to infiltrate Roystan's ship, promising to follow. But when the Hassim exits nullspace close to Roystan's ship, it's out of control, the crew are dead, and unknown Company operatives are trying to take over. Narrowly escaping and wounded, Roystan and Josune come to Nika for treatment--and with problems of her own, she flees with them after the next Company attack. Now they're in a race to find the lost world...and stay alive long enough to claim the biggest prize in the galaxy.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36644837-stars-uncharted"}, +{"book_title": "Maggot Moon", "author_name": "Sally Gardner", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 8658, "review_number": 1301, "book_description": "One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns gripping and darkly humorous, bleak and chilling, tender and transporting.What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell - who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright - sees things differently than the rest of the \"train-track thinkers.\" So when Standish and his only friend and neighbor, Hector, make their way to the other side of the wall, they see what the Motherland has been hiding. And it's big...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15798757-maggot-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Sam's Journal", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 2002, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "Journal: ( 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 )", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15845821-sam-s-journal"}, +{"book_title": "Sands of Time", "author_name": "Monique Martin", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 520, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "The Crosses--high-spirited Elizabeth and her brilliant Professor of the Occult husband, Simon--find themselves, along with Jack Wells, in 1920 Cairo on a special assignment for the Council for Temporal Studies. It seems like a simple enough mission---find a missing pocket watch and bring it back to the present. The only problem is, they're not the only ones looking.With danger lurking around every corner, Simon and Elizabeth race against a shadowy foe who is after far more than just a watch. The price for success this time just might be their lives.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18517393-sands-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Time Travelling with a Hamster", "author_name": "Ross Welford", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2975, "review_number": 430, "book_description": "\u201cMy dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve.The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn\u2019t been for his \u2018time machine\u2019\u2026\u201dWhen Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad\u2019s time machine, he finds that going back to the 1980s requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft, burglary, and setting his school on fire. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Family", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Death"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26079602-time-travelling-with-a-hamster"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 23: Whispers Into Screams", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 6736, "review_number": 458, "book_description": "The new era of peace and prosperity is interrupted by a new type of enemy. One that travels amongst the walkers. One that will turn whispers of their appearance to screams.Collects THE WALKING DEAD #133-138.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23704466-the-walking-dead-vol-23"}, +{"book_title": "Einstein Must Die", "author_name": "Chris Kohout", "rating_score": 3.42, "rating_votes": 179, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "1910 AD - Impending war with England has given Nikola Tesla the chance to build his dream: a weapon to end all wars. The American steam-powered Beowulf tank is larger than a house, and carries enough firepower to face an army. Beowulf also has a mechanical brain, embedded with the consciousness of Colonel Browning, America\u2019s best military strategist.But in England, King George has put Albert Einstein to work for his own war effort: zeppelins capable of reaching the former colony, and new, radiological bombs to remind them of the price of disloyalty.When two brilliant pacifists wield technology to bring peace to a planet at war, the final outcome will surprise them both, and the world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18491805-einstein-must-die"}, +{"book_title": "Ambulance Ship", "author_name": "James White", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 533, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "CALLING DR. CONWAY. . .There was a lot of talk about the vital importance of his new assignment, but it still seemed like a demotion to Senior Physician Conway. After twelve years of outstanding service--and the most incredible experiences imaginable--Conway couldn't quite appreciate the \"honor\" of becoming an ambulance attendant at this stage of his life.True, the insectile empath, Dr. Prilicla, would be with him--and so would the eminently desirable Nurse Murchison--but it was definately a comedown for a Senior Physican of his status to be conscripted as part of a first-aid team for disabled spacefarers.Then the first call came--and Conway faced the problem of treating a spaceship crew's mysterious ailment. . . without wiping out every patient and doctor in Sector General!A GRIPPING NOVEL OF A FUTURISTIC HOSPITAL'S BATTLE TO CONTAIN A POTENTIALLY DEADLY EPIDEMIC. . .", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Medical", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1695614.Ambulance_Ship"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Legion", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 608, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "In the turbulent age of the human Confederation empire, a forgotten branch of the Army patrols the farthest reaches of civilisation. And as the volatile confederation begins to implode, they become humanity's last hope for the future - the men and women of the Last Legion.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/639087.The_Last_Legion"}, +{"book_title": "Chanur's Homecoming", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 2901, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "The epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called \"humans\" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adventure", "Animals (Cats)", "Own"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57166.Chanur_s_Homecoming"}, +{"book_title": "Scooby-Doo and the Rotten Robot", "author_name": "Mariah Balaban", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 62, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Scooby-Dooby-doo! Where are you?The gang is at the Coolsville robot convention where the main attraction is 'Doc' Tinkerwell's battling Monsterbots. But when one of the Monsterbots wigs out and starts attacking the crowd, chaos ensues! If word gets out that his Monsterbots aren't safe, Doc will be ruined! Luckily Mystery, Inc, is on the case-and they're going to put a stop to that Rotten Robot!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Childrens", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6468460-scooby-doo-and-the-rotten-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Famous Men Who Never Lived", "author_name": "K. Chess", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1296, "review_number": 234, "book_description": "Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States\u2014an alternate timeline\u2014she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner Vikram, attempt to assimilate, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead, she obsessively rereads Vikram\u2019s copy of The Pyronauts\u2014a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback\u2014and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture.But the refugees are unwelcome and Hel\u2019s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger, guilt, and grief over what she has truly lost.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "New York", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40611197-famous-men-who-never-lived"}, +{"book_title": "Two Crowns for America", "author_name": "Katherine Kurtz", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 308, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "It's 1775, and in Europe, an unseen Master peers into a darkened mirror to see the man whose destiny is to wear the victor's crown. Across the sea, in a land named for a virgin queen, Gen. George Washington is thrown from his horse and has a dream that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Soon, a reluctant Washington will be elected Commander-in-Chief of the new Continental Army and considered for the position of king of America--and his rise will set in motion a chain of events that lead directly to rebellion. But little do the colonists and Founding Fathers realize that they are part of a greater plan, being used as pawns in another person's game of power and conquest. \"From the Paperback edition.\"", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adult", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/590190.Two_Crowns_for_America"}, +{"book_title": "I Remember You", "author_name": "Cathleen Davitt Bell", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1709, "review_number": 328, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Lucas is a star hockey player who's headed for the marines as soon as high school is over. Then there's Juliet, straight-A student and rigorous debater, whose college trajectory has been carefully planned for years. They couldn't be more different. But from the moment Lucas sees Juliet, he swears he remembers their first kiss. Their first dance. Their first fight. In fact, Lucas knows everything that's going to happen between them - not because he can predict the future, but because he claims to have already lived it.Juliet doesn't know whether to be afraid for herself - or for Lucas. Because as Lucas's memories occur more frequently, they also grow more ominous. All Juliet wants is for Lucas to be safe with her in the present. But how do you hold onto someone you love now when they've begun slipping away from you in the future?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22291640-i-remember-you"}, +{"book_title": "Break and Enter", "author_name": "Rachel Haimowitz", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 703, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "Man on machine on man.Red Cell, Book 1Ex-Green Beret Victor \u201cCyke\u201d Kellermann is on the run for a crime he didn\u2019t\u2014well, okay, did commit, but he didn\u2019t realize it at the time. He\u2019s a good guy, a \u201cwhite hat\u201d hacker for hire. He\u2019s also more teched out than the Bionic Man, though his ailing \u2019ware creates as many problems as it solves.His latest series of break-ins are proving\u2026difficult. Sentinel Tech\u2019s security is cutting-edge, and the cops are hounding his ass. He sees only one reason why his employer hasn\u2019t called off the dogs: someone inside is stealing data for real and setting him up to take the fall.Paramedic-cum-tech-phreak Bear keeps scooping an increasingly battered Cyke off the sidewalk, and each time, his fascination for the fugitive and his mysterious \u2019ware grows. So does the attraction that makes him reluctant to turn Cyke in. Every time they touch, barriers fall. Before long, they're both laid bare.Cyke can handle losing blood, even losing consciousness. What he can\u2019t afford is to lose his heart. Distractions like that get people killed\u2014and if he succeeds in unlocking Sentinel Tech\u2019s ugly secrets, he won\u2019t be the only one in the line of fire.Warning: This book contains mechanical eyeballs, multimillion-dollar hand warmers, pushy mind probes, a man too stubborn to quit when he\u2019s bleeding, an underpaid paramedic whose services are needed entirely too often, and circuit-scorching cybersex\u2026without a computer.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novella", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12080817-break-and-enter"}, +{"book_title": "The Perfect Wife", "author_name": "J.P. Delaney", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 22045, "review_number": 3139, "book_description": "The perfect life. The perfect love.Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley's most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss.She is a miracle of science.But as Abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins questioning her husband's motives--and his version of events. Can she trust him when he says he wants them to be together forever? And what really happened to Abbie half a decade ago?Beware the man who calls you . . .", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Thriller", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense", "Audiobook", "Thriller (Psychological Thriller)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42927050-the-perfect-wife"}, +{"book_title": "The Clan Corporate", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 3216, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she discovered (in \"The\"\"Family Trade\" ) that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is a lot too much like the mafia for comfort. In addition, starting with the fact that women are family property and required to breed more family members with the unique talent to walk between worlds, she has tried to remain an outsider and her own woman. And start a profitable business in a third world she has discovered, outside the family reach (recounted in \"The Hidden Family\"). She fell in love with a distant relative but he's dead, killed saving her life. There have been murders, betrayals. Now, however, in \"The Clan\"\"Corporate,\" she may be overreaching. And if she gets caught, death or a fate worse is around the bend. There is for instance the brain-damaged son of the local king who needs a wife. But they'd never make her do that, would they? ", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17864.The_Clan_Corporate"}, +{"book_title": "In Some Other Life", "author_name": "Jessica Brody", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1652, "review_number": 330, "book_description": "Kennedy Rhodes turns down an acceptance to an elite private school, instead choosing to stay at her high school and jump at the opportunity to date the boy of her dreams. Three years later, Kennedy walks in on that same boyfriend cheating with her best friend\u2014and wishes she had made a different choice. But when Kennedy hits her head and wakes up in the version of her life where she chose to attend the private school, she finds that maybe it\u2019s not as perfect of a world as she once thought.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Realistic Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (High School)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31144992-in-some-other-life"}, +{"book_title": "Eros Element", "author_name": "Cecilia Dominic", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 238, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "If love is the ivy, secrets are the poison.After enduring heartbreak at the hands of a dishonest woman, Edward Bailey lives according to scientific principles of structure and predictability. Just the thought of stepping outside his strict routine raises his anxiety.Adding to his discomfort is Iris McTavish, who appears at his school\u2019s faculty meeting in place of her world-famous archeologist father. Worse, the two of them are to pose as Grand Tourists while they search for an element that will help harness the power of aether.Iris jumps at the opportunity to prove her worth as a scholar\u2014and avoid an unwanted marriage proposal\u2014while hiding the truth of her father\u2019s whereabouts. If her secret gets out, the house of McTavish will fall into ruin.Quite unexpectedly, Edward and Iris discover a growing attraction as their journey takes them to Paris and Rome, where betrayal, blackmail and outright theft threaten to destroy what could be a revolutionary discovery\u2014and break their hearts.Product WarningsAllergen alert! This book was produced in a facility that handles copious amounts of wine, tea and baked goods. May contain one or more of the following: a spirited heroine, a quirky hero, clever banter, interesting facts both made-up and historical, and lots of secrets. It is, however, gluten free.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26004639-eros-element"}, +{"book_title": "Patterns in the Dark", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 3960, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Everyone knows dragons have been extinct for over a thousand years. Everyone is wrong. At least one dragon remains, and military scientists from the Cofah Empire are experimenting with its blood, using the magical substance to power deadly new weapons that could be used to bring the world to its knees.That's a concern for Zirkander, Cas, and the rest of the Iskandians, but all Tolemek wants is to find his missing sister. The last time he saw her, their father had locked her in an asylum because of a mental illness with no cure. Now the military has taken her. What use the Cofah have for her, Tolemek can only guess, but he is certain she is in danger. He must save her before it's too late. But her fate is inexplicably tied to the dragon's, and he must find it to find her.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23847600-patterns-in-the-dark"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl in the Road", "author_name": "Monica Byrne", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 3004, "review_number": 682, "book_description": "Stunningly original and wildly inventive, The Girl in the Road melds the influences of Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, and Erin Morgenstern for a dazzling debut.Meena, a young woman living in a futuristic Mumbai, wakes up with five snake bites on her chest. She doesn't know how or why, but she must flee India and return to Ethiopia, the place of her birth. Having long heard about The Trail -- an energy-harvesting bridge that spans the Arabian Sea -- she embarks on foot on this forbidden bridge, with its own subculture and rules. What awaits her in Ethiopia is unclear; she's hoping the journey will illuminate it for her.Mariama, a girl from a different time, is on a quest of her own. After witnessing her mother's rape, she joins up with a caravan of strangers heading across Saharan Africa. She meets Yemaya, a beautiful and enigmatic woman who becomes her protector and confidante. Yemaya tells Mariama of Ethiopia, where revolution is brewing and life will be better. Mariama hopes against hope that it offers much more than Yemaya ever promised.As one heads east and the other west, Meena and Mariama's fates will entwine in ways that are profoundly moving and shocking to the core. Vividly imagined and artfully told, written with stunning clarity and deep emotion, The Girl in the Road is a true tour de force.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Africa)", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18297954-the-girl-in-the-road"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue in Space", "author_name": "Fredric Brown", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 165, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Ecco un originalissimo romanzo di Fredric Brown, l'abile autore che dopo essersi fatto una fama come \"giallista\", \u00e8 passato con grande successo alla fantascienza, apportandovi l'intero bagaglio della sua esperienza di scrittore. Niente da stupirsi quindi se le sue preferenze nella scelta dei protagonisti vanno a personaggi che vivono ai margini della legge. Tanto pi\u00f9 se la legge, seguendo la corrente dei tempi, si \u00e8 a sua volta corrotta come non ci auguriamo davvero che avvenga. In queste condizioni come non provare simpatia per Crag, il bandito, e non approvare il suo disgusto per la societ\u00e0 e il suo desiderio di solitudine? Crag non ha amici perch\u00e8 degli amici non si fida. Non ha una donna perch\u00e8 quella che amava lo ha ingannato quando pi\u00f9 lui aveva bisogno di sentirsela vicino. Non ha compagni perch\u00e8 quando gli serviva il loro aiuto essi lo hanno lasciato solo... Ma Crag non \u00e8 cosi cinico come vuole apparire, ed \u00e8 molto migliore di quello che sembra. E soprattutto, sotto l'involucro del suo pessimismo che gli serve da protezione, non ha smesso di sperare. Quello che spera Crag lo speriamo, in fondo, un po' tutti. Lui, in fondo, vuole soltanto un mondo che gli piaccia. Un mondo fatto per lui. Su misura. Crag, testardo, sprezzante, cocciuto, ribelle, alla fine la spunta. Sar\u00e0 cos\u00ec anche per noi?", "year_published": 1957, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/439148.Rogue_in_Space"}, +{"book_title": "Beth's Stable", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1081, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "They say that in space, no one can hear you... (Yeah, you know what I'm quoting.) But there are lots of places you can still scream and be heard. Especially if you suddenly find yourself on a ship traveling through space. I\u2019ve been abducted by aliens and auctioned to an alien pirate. My epic love of movies sort of comes in handy, what with all the sci-fi suddenly in my face. Therefore, I don\u2019t completely lose my mind when my new owner takes me to his ship where I learn I\u2019m under the control of not one, but *five* space pirates. (...And it\u2019s not scary at all when I only meet four of them, and everyone warns me away from the mystery fifth alien.) Luckily, they\u2019re not deterred by the fact that I've come to them carrying a passenger. I\u2019m pregnant. Last I saw my ex, he was hell-bent on giving me another beating I wouldn\u2019t forget. But with my new 'owners,' I\u2019m safe for the first time in a long time--and so is my little girl. Not that everything is all raindrops on roses, and innocent kittens: they\u2019re pirates. They\u2019ve got a real addiction to plundering, and a passion for purloining. I\u2019m pretty fond of the former, but when it comes to the thieving, I\u2019m afraid they\u2019re going to take more than my body. ...Piece by piece, all five of my pirates are stealing my *heart.* **Note: Beth\u2019s Stable is a standalone Reverse Harem romance where five men woo one woman. They\u2019re space pirates, but there are no crossed energy sabers in this story. There is a Happily Ever After. You should probably be at least 18 if you crack open this ebook because Beth would hate to corrupt you. (Although if her pirates had met you before they grew completely, totally devoted to her, they would have loved showing you the ropes. Sorry, doves!) ;D", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46265540-beth-s-stable"}, +{"book_title": "The Krytos Trap", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 9814, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "The Rebels have taken the Imperial headquarters world of Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer virus called Krytos is spreading among the population, and fomenting a counter-revolution, at the same time as the treason trial of Rebel hero Tycho Celchu. And X-wing pilot Corran Horn, given up for dead in \"Iceheart\"'s inescapable prison, discovers an extraordinary power in himself\u0097the power of the Force!", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513200.The_Krytos_Trap"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Cat's Cradle-Warhead", "author_name": "Andrew Cartmel", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 442, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "The place is Earth. The time is the near future - all too near.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Industrial development has accelerated out of all control, spawning dangerous new technologies and laying the planet to waste. While the inner cities collapse in guerrilla warfare, a dark age of superstition dawns. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As destruction of the environment reaches the point of no return, multinational corporations and super-rich individuals unite in a last desperate effort - not to save humankind, but to buy themselves immortality in a poisoned world. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If Earth is to survive, somebody has to stop them. From London to New York to Turkey, Ace follows the Doctor as he prepares, finally, to strike back.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10405.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "Pet Peeve", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 2353, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "A relentless horde of renegade robots has plunged the fate of Xanth in dire peril. All that stands between the enchanted land and destruction is a most unlikely hero, a moody, mild-mannered Goblin named Goody, who must summon all of his courage and determination to overcome this abominable army of automatons.Brimming with heart-stopping adventure and heart-warming delight, overflowing with wicked wit and wanton wordplay, \"Pet Peeve \"is Piers Anthony in rare form, an exceptional new chapter in the continuing chronicles of Xanth.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15425.Pet_Peeve"}, +{"book_title": "Witchling", "author_name": "Yasmine Galenorn", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 13393, "review_number": 931, "book_description": "We're the D'Artigo Sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we're savvy--and sexy--operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah shapeshifts into a tabby cat whenever she's stressed. Menolly's a vampire who's still trying to get the hang of being undead. And me? I'm Camille--a wicked-good witch. Except my magic is as unpredictable as the weather, which my enemies are about to find out the hard way...At the Wayfarer Inn, a portal to Otherworld and the local hangout for humans and beasties alike, our fellow operative, Jocko, has been murdered. Every clue points to Shadow Wing, the soul-munching, badass leader of the Subterranean Realms. He's made it clear that he aims to raze humankind to the ground, turning both Earth and Otherworld into his private playground. Our assignment: keep Shadow Wing and his minions from creeping into Earth via the Wayfarer. The demons figure they're in like Flynn. After all, with only my bumbling sisters and me standing in the way, how can they miss? But we've got a secret for them: Faulty wiring or not, nobody kicks ass like the D'Artigo girls. . .", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/793298.Witchling"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Currents", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 8353, "review_number": 1038, "book_description": "Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Kushiel\u2019s Legacy novels, presents an all-new world featuring a woman caught between the normal and paranormal worlds, while enforcing order in both. Introducing Daisy Johanssen, reluctant hell-spawn\u2026 The Midwestern resort town of Pemkowet boasts a diverse population: eccentric locals, wealthy summer people, and tourists by the busload; not to mention fairies, sprites, vampires, naiads, ogres and a whole host of eldritch folk, presided over by Hel, a reclusive Norse goddess. To Daisy Johanssen, fathered by an incubus and raised by a single mother, it\u2019s home. And as Hel\u2019s enforcer and the designated liaison to the Pemkowet Police Department, it\u2019s up to her to ensure relations between the mundane and eldritch communities run smoothly. But when a young man from a nearby college drowns\u2014and signs point to eldritch involvement\u2014the town\u2019s booming paranormal tourism trade is at stake. Teamed up with her childhood crush, Officer Cody Fairfax, a sexy werewolf on the down-low, Daisy must solve the crime\u2014and keep a tight rein on the darker side of her nature. For if she\u2019s ever tempted to invoke her demonic birthright, it could accidentally unleash nothing less than Armageddon. \u00a0", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Romance", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13507967-dark-currents"}, +{"book_title": "In Five Years", "author_name": "Rebecca Serle", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 116905, "review_number": 12612, "book_description": "Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, she\u2019s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. It\u2019s the same night\u2014December 15\u2014but 2025, five years in the future. After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. She can\u2019t shake what has happened. It certainly felt much more than merely a dream, but she isn\u2019t the kind of person who believes in visions. That nonsense is only charming coming from free-spirited types, like her lifelong best friend, Bella. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind. That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision. Brimming with joy and heartbreak, In Five Years is an unforgettable love story that reminds us of the power of loyalty, friendship, and the unpredictable nature of destiny.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50093704-in-five-years"}, +{"book_title": "Nod", "author_name": "Adrian Barnes", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 8614, "review_number": 1039, "book_description": "Dawn breaks and no one in the world has slept the night before. Or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they\u2019ve all shared the same mysterious dream. A handful of silent children can still sleep as well, but what they\u2019re dreaming remains a mystery. Global panic ensues. A medical fact: after six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis sets in. After four weeks, the body dies. In the interim, a bizarre new world arises and swallows the old one whole. A world called Nod.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16044493-nod"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Viking", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 762, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "After a sea operation gone wrong, Navy SEAL Rita Sawyer awakens to find herself still clad in her wetsuit and in a cage with a bunch of Vikings staring at her, including one very tempting warlord. Steven of Norstead has been in a cold, dark mood for many weeks. But perhaps this unusual woman, with her sharp tongue and irksome ways, could be the one to light his fire.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Humor", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Medieval Romance (Viking Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7830978-dark-viking"}, +{"book_title": "The Royal Treatment", "author_name": "MaryJanice Davidson", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 4818, "review_number": 296, "book_description": "In this delightful and dazzling erotic novel, MaryJanice Davidson creates an alternate contemporary world nearly identical to ours in which Russia never sold the Alaskan territory to the United States. Instead, Alaska has won its independence and established itself as a constitutional monarchy...and now, the King of Alaska badly needs a bride for his son and heir... The country of Alaska is as forbidding as it is beautiful. And the royal family is as rough-around-the-edges as they are coolly civilized. Other royal families may find them shocking, but after all, in this wilderness kingdom, being a crack shot and expert trapper is just as important as knowing your salad fork from your dessert fork. Unfortunately, when the rest of the royals find you mildly savage, marrying off your royal brood can be a royal pain. King Alexander II is desperate. Why, he'd settle for any girl. A commoner. An American, even! Stranded tourist Christina Krabbe is American, and a commoner, but she has zero interest in enduring a royal wedding, producing royal heirs, and becoming Queen of Alaska...until she gets a good look at Prince David. He may be a bit unruly--actually, the words untamed and slightly dangerous come to mind--but Christina's no delicate flower herself. And when His Highness discovers Christina can give as good as she gets, he's Prince Charmed, if not quite charming. But can a wild man Prince and a modern American girl make a life together? And will the palace still be standing when the dust clears?", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/574854.The_Royal_Treatment"}, +{"book_title": "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters", "author_name": "Gordon Dahlquist", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 5165, "review_number": 691, "book_description": "It began with a simple note: a letter of rejection from Miss Temple\u2019s fianc\u00e9, written on crisp Ministry paper and delivered on her maid\u2019s silver tray. But for Miss Temple, Roger Bascombe\u2019s cruel rejection will ignite a harrowing quest for answers, plunging her into a mystery as dizzying as a hall of mirrors\u2014and a remote estate where danger abounds and all inhibitions are stripped bare.Nothing could have prepared Miss Temple for where her pursuit of Roger Bascombe would take her\u2014or for the shocking things she would find behind the closed doors of forbidding Harschmort Manor: men and women in provocative disguise, acts of licentiousness and violence, heroism and awakening. But she will also find two allies: Cardinal Chang, a brutal assassin with the heart of a poet, and a royal doctor named Svenson, at once fumbling and heroic\u2014both of whom, like her, lost someone at Harschmort Manor. As the unlikely trio search for answers\u2014hurtling them from elegant brothels to gaslit alleyways to shocking moments of self-discovery-- they are confronted by puzzles within puzzles. And the closer they get to the truth, the more their lives are in danger. For the conspiracy they face\u2014an astonishing alchemy of science, perverted religion, and lust for power\u2014is so terrifying as to be beyond belief.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44930.The_Glass_Books_of_the_Dream_Eaters"}, +{"book_title": "Replay", "author_name": "Ken Grimwood", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 30924, "review_number": 3470, "book_description": "Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when he could be truly happy, when he died.And when he woke and he was 18 again, with all his memories of the next 25 years intact. He could live his life again, avoiding the mistakes, making money from his knowledge of the future, seeking happiness.Until he dies at 43 and wakes up back in college again...", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341735.Replay"}, +{"book_title": "The Company of the Dead", "author_name": "David Kowalski", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 967, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Can one man save the Titanic?March 1912. A mysterious man appears aboard the Titanic on its doomed voyage. His mission? To save the ship.The result? A world where the United States never entered World War I, thus launching the secret history of the 20th Century.April 2012. Joseph Kennedy - grand-nephew of John F. Kennedy - lives in an America occupied in the East by Greater Germany and on the West Coast by Imperial Japan. He is one of six people who can restore history to its rightful order -- even though it may mean his own death.\"A magnificent alternate history, set against the backdrop of one of the the greatest maritime disasters.\" Library Journal\u201cImaginative, monolithic, action-packed\u2026 The reader will not be disappointed.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Bookseller and Publisher \"Time travel, airships, the Titanic, Roswell ... Kowalski builds a decidedly original creature that blends military science fiction, conspiracy theory, alternate history, and even a dash of romance.\" Publishers Weekly\"Kowalski effortlessly smashes together high art and grand adventure in this alt-history juggernaut.\" John Birmingham, acclaimed author of Weapons of Choice\"Exciting action, twisty and ingenious characterisation, and complicated time-travel plotting, deftly handled.\" S.M. Stirling, NYT bestselling author of The Tears of the Sun\"A non-stop chase that takes place across two thousand miles ... and one hundred years of perdurant time.\" Walter Jon Williams, NYT bestselling author of Deep State", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11966287-the-company-of-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Unite Me", "author_name": "Tahereh Mafi", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 17173, "review_number": 1442, "book_description": "Destroy Me tells the events between Shatter Me and Unravel Me from Warner's point of view. Even though Juliette shot him in order to escape, Warner can't stop thinking about her--and he'll do anything to get her back. But when the Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment arrives, he has much different plans for Juliette. Plans Warner cannot allow.Fracture Me is told from Adam's perspective and bridges the gap between Unravel Me and Ignite Me. As the Omega Point rebels prepare to fight the Sector 45 soldiers, Adam's more focused on the safety of Juliette, Kenji, and his brother. The Reestablishment will do anything to crush the resistance... including killing everyone Adam cares about.Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy, this also features an exclusive look into Juliette's journal and a preview of Ignite Me, the third installment of the series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18481271-unite-me"}, +{"book_title": "Holy Fire", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2437, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "Bruce Sterling, named \"one of the best thinkers in science fiction today\" by Newsweek, now presents a cutting-edge novel about the beginning of the transformation of the human race. \"Brilliant . . . fascinating . . . exciting . . . a full complement of thrills.\"--The New York Review of Science Fiction.In an era when life expectancies stretch 100 years or more and adhering to healthy habits is the only way to earn better medical treatments, ancient \"post humans\" dominate society with their ubiquitous wealth and power. By embracing the safe and secure, 94-year-old Mia Ziemann has lived a long and quiet life. Too quiet, as she comes to realize, for Mia has lost the creative drive and ability to love--the holy fire--of the young. But when a radical new procedure makes Mia young again, she has the chance to break free of society's cloying grasp.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Utopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359390.Holy_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "A Lady Out of Time", "author_name": "Caroline Hanson", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 922, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "Sent back in time to Victorian England to stop the invention of a deadly weapon, Helen Foster knows the job looks too easy: All she has to do is go to an auction, buy the weapon plans, destroy them, and she\u2019ll save millions of people back in her own time. And even if she spends the rest of her life as a spinster stuck in the English countryside with a plethora of cats, changing the future is worth it. Then she meets Edward Clifton, Duke of Somervale, the man she\u2019s supposed to blackmail. He is one of the most powerful men in the land, so handsome and cold that debutantes have been known to faint in his presence. After one meeting, Helen will be thrilled to never see his royal (and quite spectacular) backside, ever again. But as her mission falls apart and danger closes in, Helen has no choice but to turn to the one man powerful enough to help her not just change the future, but survive the night.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Victorian)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18949801-a-lady-out-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Roderick at Random", "author_name": "John Sladek", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 127, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Here is the continuing and uproarious saga of Roderick, a robot and \"learning machine\" growing up in an America in the near future. The mild-mannered robot is confronted with an ever-widening cast of madcap characters who typify the artificial values endemic in modern America.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968865.Roderick_at_Random"}, +{"book_title": "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future", "author_name": "Martin Ford", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 7791, "review_number": 744, "book_description": "What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine\u2014and hope\u2014that today's industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new innovations of a new era. In Rise of the Robots, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Martin Ford argues that this is absolutely not the case. As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making \u201cgood jobs\u201d obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries\u2014education and health care\u2014that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself.In Rise of the Robots, Ford details what machine intelligence and robotics can accomplish, and implores employers, scholars, and policy makers alike to face the implications. The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work, and we must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what accelerating technology means for their own economic prospects\u2014not to mention those of their children\u2014as well as for society as a whole.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Economics", "Science", "Business", "Artificial Intelligence", "Politics", "Futurism", "Sociology", "Culture (Society)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22928874-rise-of-the-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Sacred Fate", "author_name": "Eress\u00eb", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2110, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "Most bonds evolve with time. But a precious few begin even before birth.In the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre, the great divide between the high-born True Bloods and the lower-ranked Half Bloods is deemed impassable by most. Rohyr Essendri dared to cross it when he took young Lassen Idana from his provincial town and made him his paramour. Lassen perforce learned how to navigate the intricate byways of life at court. What he never expected, however, was to fall in love with Rohyr, a most inadvisable and impractical thing to do when one\u2019s lover is sovereign ruler of the land. But anything worth having is worth fighting for, both figuratively and, as Lassen discovers, literally speaking.Contains hermaphroditism and explicit homoerotic sexual encounters.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6935632-sacred-fate"}, +{"book_title": "Stars and Stripes in Peril", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 438, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "\"HARRY HARRISON IS ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION\u2019S MOST PROLIFIC AND ACCOMPLISHED CRAFTSMEN.\"\u2014The New York Times Book ReviewIn the midst of Civil War, a stunned North and South join forces to combat a sudden attack of British troops. Though the Americans are victorious, three years later a new threat emerges. Her Majesty\u2019s Army is massing for a possible attack through Texas. Into the gauntlet Lincoln sends his chosen angel of death, General Ulysses S. Grant\u2014while his top soldiers, including Robert E. Lee and William Tecumseh Sherman, plan the most daring naval invasion ever launched: an assault on British soil itself. Stars and Stripes in Peril is the new masterwork from one of the world\u2019s most provocative authors. Venturing beyond a fascinating question of what if? Harry Harrison brilliantly examines the people and passions that make up nations both great and small\u2014and shows how technology and politics had the power to shape history\u2019s first great World War . . . half a century before it began . . .\"Lovers of novels of alternate history hold Harry Harrison in high regard and his latest book can only enhance that esteem.\"\u2014Abilene Reporter News", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction", "Military History (Civil War)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172485.Stars_and_Stripes_in_Peril"}, +{"book_title": "Celestia CV-02", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 3616, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Episode 8A world divided\u2026A ship under construction\u2026A military scrambling to prepare a defense\u2026A moment that everyone hoped would never come\u2026The Earth Defense Force must find a way to defend their world against invasion by the Jung Empire. More importantly, they must protect their newest ship, the UES Celestia, as she may be their last hope.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Business (Amazon)", "Audiobook", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18335627-celestia-cv-02"}, +{"book_title": "Mars", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 7892, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "Geologist Jamie Waterman is a last-minute replacement on the first international Mars landing team. He endures training rigors, personality conflicts, political intrigues, and over 100 million kilometers travel in space. The crew battle an alien landscape and earthbound bureaucrats. Heading toward a chasm over 10 times the Arizona Grand Canyon, they make a shocking find.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267282.Mars"}, +{"book_title": "Three Princes", "author_name": "Ramona Wheeler", "rating_score": 2.89, "rating_votes": 213, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Lord Scott Oken, a prince of Albion, and Professor-Prince Mikel Mabruke live in a world where the sun never set on the Egyptian Empire. In the year 1877 of Our Lord Julius Caesar, Pharaoh Djoser-George governs a sprawling realm that spans Europe, Africa, and much of Asia. When the European terrorist Otto von Bismarck touches off an international conspiracy, Scott and Mik are charged with exposing the plot against the Empire.Their adventure takes them from the sands of Memphis to a lush New World, home of the Incan Tawantinsuyu, a rival empire across the glittering Atlantic Ocean. Encompassing Quetzal airships, operas, blood sacrifice and high diplomacy, Three Princes is a richly imagined, cinematic vision of a modern Egyptian Empire.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910119-three-princes"}, +{"book_title": "Last Human", "author_name": "Doug Naylor", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 7730, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Lister gazed out of the porthole and catalogue the series of disasters that had led him to this point in space and time: the bad decisions, the poor career choices, the unreliable friendships that had led him here - on a prison ship bound for the most inhospitable penal colony in the outer cosmos... and all he'd ever wanted was to be a soft metal guitar icon. This is the beginning of the third and eagerly awaited red dwarf novel where Lister starts out by searching for his Doppelganger and ends up having the future of the human race on his shoulders.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98783.Last_Human"}, +{"book_title": "Back from the Undead", "author_name": "D.D. Barant", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1904, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Another work day, another case for the Bloodhound Files. But this time, Jace is truly stumped: How is she, a mere human, supposed to penetrate the dark heart of a child-trafficking ring of pire orphans\u2014one that turns out to be part of a blood-farm operation, in the crime-ridden border city of Vancouver, British Columbia?Jace is in over her head. But with the help of her former lover, Tanaka\u2014whose family is one of the last samurai clans left in Japan\u2014she stands a chance at seeking justice for the condemned children\u2026 Until the Yakuza tries to put an end to Jace's investigation. Jace risks more than death\u2014this time, it's the fate of her very soul that's in danger . . .", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12160942-back-from-the-undead"}, +{"book_title": "Havenfall", "author_name": "Sara Holland", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 6856, "review_number": 991, "book_description": "A safe haven between four realms and the girl sworn to protect it\u2014at any cost.Hidden deep in the mountains of Colorado lies the Inn at Havenfall, a sanctuary that connects ancient worlds\u2014each with its own magic. For generations, the inn has protected all who seek refuge within its walls, and any who disrupt the peace can never return.For Maddie Morrow, summers at the inn are more than a chance to experience this magic firsthand. Havenfall is an escape from reality, where her mother sits on death row accused of murdering Maddie's brother. It's where Maddie fell in love with handsome Fiorden soldier Brekken. And it's where one day she hopes to inherit the role of Innkeeper from her beloved uncle.But this summer, the impossible happens\u2014a dead body is found, shattering everything the inn stands for. With Brekken missing, her uncle gravely injured, and a dangerous creature on the loose, Maddie suddenly finds herself responsible for the safety of everyone in Havenfall. She'll do anything to uncover the truth, even if it means working together with an alluring new staffer, Taya, who seems to know more than she's letting on. As dark secrets are revealed about the inn itself, one thing becomes clear to Maddie\u2014no one can be trusted, and no one is safe...Bestselling author Sara Holland pulls readers into an enchanting world where both power and peril lurk behind every door.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44281011-havenfall"}, +{"book_title": "The Square Root of Summer", "author_name": "Harriet Reuter Hapgood", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 3501, "review_number": 812, "book_description": "This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity.Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she's hurtled through wormholes to her past:To last summer, when her grandfather Grey died. To the afternoon she fell in love with Jason, who wouldn't even hold her hand at the funeral. To the day her best friend Thomas moved away and left her behind with a scar on her hand and a black hole in her memory.Although Grey is still gone, Jason and Thomas are back, and Gottie's past, present, and future are about to collide\u2014and someone's heart is about to be broken.With time travel, quantum physics, and sweeping romance, The Square Root of Summer is an exponentially enthralling story about love, loss, and trying to figure it all out, from stunning debut YA voice, Harriet Reuter Hapgood.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Contemporary", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Contemporary)", "Family", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25991081-the-square-root-of-summer"}, +{"book_title": "Laurent and the Beast", "author_name": "K.A. Merikan", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1958, "review_number": 391, "book_description": "Nothing can stop true love. Not time. Not even the devil himself.1805. Laurent: Indentured servant. Desperate to escape a life that is falling apart. 2017. Beast: Kings of Hell Motorcycle Club vice president. His fists do the talking.Beast has been disfigured in a fire, but he\u2019s covered his skin with tattoos to make sure no one mistakes his scars for weakness. The accident not only hurt his body, but damaged his soul and self-esteem, so he\u2019s wrapped himself in a tight cocoon of violence and mayhem where no one can reach him.Until one night, when he finds a young man covered in blood in their clubhouse. Sweet, innocent, and as beautiful as an angel fallen from heaven, Laurent pulls on all of Beast\u2019s heartstrings. Laurent is so lost in the world around him, and is such a tangled mystery, that Beast can\u2019t help but let the man claw his way into the stone that is Beast\u2019s heart.In 1805, Laurent has no family, no means, and his eyesight is failing. To escape a life of poverty, he uses his beauty, but that only backfires and leads him to a catastrophe that changes his life forever. He takes one step into the abyss and is transported to the future, ready to fight for a life worth living. What he doesn\u2019t expect in his way is a brutal, gruff wall of tattooed muscle with a tender side that only Laurent is allowed to touch. And yet, if Laurent ever wants to earn his freedom, he might have to tear out the heart of the very man who took care of him when it mattered most.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Dark", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33959435-laurent-and-the-beast"}, +{"book_title": "I Am Princess X", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 11835, "review_number": 2280, "book_description": "Best friends, big fans, a mysterious webcomic, and a long-lost girl collide in this riveting novel, perfect for fans of both Cory Doctorow and Sarah Dessen; illustrated throughout with comics.Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure. Once upon a few years later, Libby was in the car with her mom, driving across the Ballard Bridge on a rainy night. When the car went over the side, Libby passed away, and Princess X died with her. Once upon a now: May is sixteen and lonely, wandering the streets of Seattle, when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window. Princess X? When May looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: Stickers. Patches. Graffiti. There's an entire underground culture, focused around a webcomic at IAmPrincessX.com. The more May explores the webcomic, the more she sees disturbing similarities between Libby's story and Princess X online. And that means that only one person could have started this phenomenon---her best friend, Libby, who lives.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Mystery", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Realistic Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17408897-i-am-princess-x"}, +{"book_title": "Giants' Star", "author_name": "James P. Hogan", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1607, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "A PROBLEM IN RELATIVITYONE:Eons ago, a gentle race of giant aliens fled the planet Minerva, leaving the ancestors of Man to fend for themselves.TWO:50 thousand years ago, Minerva exploded, hurling its moon into an orbit about the Earth.THREE:In the 21st century, scientists Victor Hunt and Chris Danchekker, doing research on Ganymede, attract a small band of friendly aliens lost in time, who begin to reveal something of the origin of Mankind.Finally, Man thought he comprehended his place in the Universe...until he learned of the Watchers in the stars!", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776485.Giants_Star"}, +{"book_title": "Blades of Winter", "author_name": "G.T. Almasi", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 761, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "In one of the most exciting debuts in years, G. T. Almasi has fused the intricate cat-and-mouse games of a John le Carr\u00e9 novel with the brash style of comic book superheroes to create a kick-ass alternate history that reimagines the Cold War as a clash of spies with biological, chemical, and technological enhancements.Nineteen-year-old Alix Nico, a self-described \u201cmillion-dollar murder machine,\u201d is a rising star in ExOps, a covert-action agency that aggressively shields the United States from its three great enemies: the Soviet Union, Greater Germany, and the Nationalist Republic of China. Rather than risk another all-out war, the four superpowers have poured their resources into creating superspies known as Levels.Alix is one of the hottest young American Levels. That\u2019s no surprise: Her dad was America\u2019s top Level before he was captured and killed eight years ago. But when an impulsive decision explodes\u2014literally\u2014in her face, Alix uncovers a conspiracy that pushes her to her limits and could upset the global balance of power forever.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Action", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13274143-blades-of-winter"}, +{"book_title": "MacArthur's War: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan", "author_name": "Douglas Niles", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 145, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Just as \"Fox on the Rhine \"and \"Fox at the Front\" showed readers an alternate Europe in which Hitler had been killed, thereby radically changing the course of World War II, Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson bring us the Battle of Midway with a very different outcome. The Allies are wildly out maneuvered and sent home in disgrace. Back in the States things are looking rather grim as the ultra-secret Manhattan Project runs into snafus that greatly delay the final production of the atomic bomb. President Roosevelt's approval ratings drop dramatically. Congress is desperate and the country cries out for a hero. That hero might just be Douglas MacArthur, who vowed that he would return to his beloved Philippines. He plans to do so with the backing of the entire US Armed Forces.MacArthur's plan of action is simple: take the war back to the Japanese, island by bloody island, until standing on the shores of Japan, he can proclaim victory. And possibly gain the leadership of the United States as well.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582588.MacArthur_s_War"}, +{"book_title": "The Assassin's Curse", "author_name": "Cassandra Rose Clarke", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 17931, "review_number": 2205, "book_description": "Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to another pirate clan. But that only prompts the scorned clan to send an assassin after her. When Ananna faces him down one night, armed with magic she doesn't really know how to use, she accidentally activates a curse binding them together.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13533650-the-assassin-s-curse"}, +{"book_title": "Count to a Trillion", "author_name": "John C. Wright", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 1291, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "Hundreds of years in the future, after the collapse of the Western world, young Menelaus Illation Montrose grows up in what was once Texas as a gunslinging duelist for hire. But Montrose is also a mathematical genius\u2014and a romantic who dreams of a future in which humanity rises from the ashes to take its place among the stars.\u00a0The chance to help usher in that future comes when Montrose is recruited for a manned interstellar mission to investigate an artifact of alien origin. Known as the Monument, the artifact is inscribed with data so complex, only a posthuman mind can decipher it. So Montrose does the unthinkable: he injects himself with a dangerous biochemical drug designed to boost his already formidable intellect to superhuman intelligence. It drives him mad.Nearly two centuries later, his sanity restored, Montrose is awakened from cryo-suspension with no memory of his posthuman actions, to find Earth transformed in strange and disturbing ways, and learns that the Monument still carries a secret he must decode\u2014one that will define humanity\u2019s true future in the universe.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10999916-count-to-a-trillion"}, +{"book_title": "Every Which Way But Dead", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 67456, "review_number": 1506, "book_description": "There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice.Between \"runs,\" she has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor.Rachel must also take a stand in the war that's raging in the city's underworld, since she helped put away its former vampire kingpin - and made a deal with a powerful demon to do so that could cost her an eternity of pain, torment, and degradation.And now her dark \"master\" is coming to collect his due.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30263.Every_Which_Way_But_Dead"}, +{"book_title": "Trickster's Choice", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 65329, "review_number": 1468, "book_description": "Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods. This is the first of two books featuring Alianne.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34197014-trickster-s-choice"}, +{"book_title": "Corroded Cells: A Cyberpunk Saga (Book 2", "author_name": "Matthew A. Goodwin", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 43, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "What happens when you hit one of the world\u2019s largest companies?They hit back.Hard.Moss and the crew are reveling in their recent success when a cryptic message changes everything. Moss enters a virtual realm to recover the message before returning to the real world to find everything has changed. With his friends in peril, he undertakes a rescue mission outside the relative safety of the city.Life beyond the walls is dangerous. Threats face him at every turn as he makes his way to an impregnable prison city where the citizens are as threatening as the guards.Can Moss recover the information he needs and escape before being found out?Find out in Corroded Cells: A Cyberpunk Saga (Book 2).", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52301639-corroded-cells"}, +{"book_title": "Half Share", "author_name": "Nathan Lowell", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 5158, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "SIX MONTHS IN THE DEEP DARK. FOUR VERY DIFFERENT WOMEN. ONE MAN DISCOVERS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SPACER. It's a time of change on the Lois McKendrick. Sarah Krugg joins the mess deck and Ishmael Wang moves to the environmental section. Just after getting accustomed to life aboard a solar clipper, Ishmael must learn a whole new set of skills, face his own fears and doubts, and try to balance love and loss in the depths of space. Both Ish and Sarah must learn to live by the mantra, \"Trust Lois.\" For Sarah, there is the hope of escaping a horrifying past. For Ish, he must discover what type of man he wants to become and learn the consequences of his choices. Return with the crew of the SC Lois McKendrick, as you set sail in the next installment of the Trader Tales of the Solar Clipper Series. All your favorites return: Ish, Pip, Cookie, Brill, Diane, and Big Bad Bev. You might even discover some new friends as you travel among the stars. BOOKS IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE SOLAR CLIPPER Trader Tales Quarter Share Half Share Full Share Double Share Captain's Share Owner's Share* Shaman Tales South Coast Cape Grace* *Forthcoming", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2906048-half-share"}, +{"book_title": "Out of the Dark", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 3546, "review_number": 512, "book_description": "\n\nThe Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi tend to disturb. So when the Hegemony Survey Force encountered a world whose so-called \"sentients\" \"humans,\" they called themselves\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwere almost as bad as the Shongairi themselves, it seemed reasonable to use the Shongairi to neutralize them before they could become a second threat to galactic peace. And if the Shongairi took a few knocks in the process, all the better.\nNow, Earth is conquered. The Shongairi have arrived in force, and humanity's cities lie in radioactive ruins. In mere minutes, more than half the human race has died.\nMaster Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was being rotated home from his latest tour in Afghanistan, finds himself instead prowling the back country of the Balkans, dodging alien patrols and trying to organize scattered survivors without getting killed. And in the southeastern US, firearms instructor and former Marine Dave Dvorak finds himself at the center of a growing network of resistance putting his extended family at lethal risk, but what else can you do?\nOn the face of it, Buchevsky's and Dvorak's chances look bleak, as do prospects for the rest of the surviving human race. But it may well be that Shongairi and the Hegemony alike have underestimated the inhabitants of that strange planet called Earth\n\n", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7892754-out-of-the-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Captain Underpants and the Big Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 2: Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 13419, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "Just when George and Harold thought they'd saved the world again - oh no! Here come the Robo-Boogers! Disgusting and dangerous hi-tech robots made of gloomy SNOT. It's lucky that our heroic Waistband Warrior Captain Underpants is standing by, with the power of underwear on his side and his hankie to hand!", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835225.Captain_Underpants_and_the_Big_Bad_Battle_of_the_Bionic_Booger_Boy_Part_2"}, +{"book_title": "Exploded View", "author_name": "Sam McPheeters", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 87, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "It\u2019s 2050, and LAPD Detective Terri Pastuzka has drawn the short straw with her first assignment of the new decade. Someone has executed one of the city\u2019s countless immigrants, and no one (besides the usual besieged advocacy groups) seems to much care. Even Terri herself is already looking ahead to her next case before an unexpected development reveals there\u2019s far more to this corpse than meets the eye.And a lot already meets the eye. In a city immersed in augmented reality, the LAPD have their own superior network of high-tech eyewear\u2014PanOpts, the ultimate panopticon\u2014allowing Terri instant access to files and suspects and literal insertion into the crime scene using security footage captured from every angle the day the murder occurred. What started as a single homicide turns into a string of unsolved murders that tie together in frightening ways, leading Terri down a rabbit hole through Los Angeles\u2019s conflicting realities\u2014augmented and virtual, fantastically rumored and harrowingly true\u2014towards an impossible conclusion.Exploded View is the story of a city frozen in crisis, haunted by hardship and overwhelmed by refugees, where technology gives everyday citizens the power to digitally reshape news in real time, and where hard video evidence is impotent against the sheer, unrelenting power of belief. After all, when anyone can forge their own version of the truth, what use is any other reality?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695922-exploded-view"}, +{"book_title": "The Little Ships", "author_name": "J.A. Sutherland", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 1563, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "Newly commissioned lieutenant, Alexis Carew is appointed into HMS Shrewsbury, a 74-gun ship of the line in New London\u2019s space navy. She expects Shrewsbury will be sent into action in the war against Hanover, but instead she finds that she and her new ship are pivotal in a Foreign Office plot to bring the star systems of the French Republic into the war and end the threat of Hanover forever.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25249644-the-little-ships"}, +{"book_title": "Angel Station", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 788, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Ubu Roy and Beautiful Maria, two orphans genetically engineered to be expert star pilots, live by their wits on the fringes of human space. But when their luck fails, Ubu and Maria flee to the outer reaches of space where they risk everything in a gamble to win the universe.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357698.Angel_Station"}, +{"book_title": "Master of Crows", "author_name": "Grace Draven", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 14153, "review_number": 1176, "book_description": "What would you do to win your freedom? This is the question that sets bondwoman, Martise of Asher, on a dangerous path. In exchange for her freedom, she bargains with her masters, the mage-priests of Conclave, to spy on the renegade sorcerer, Silhara of Neith. The priests want Martise to expose the sorcerer's treachery and turn him over to Conclave justice. A risky endeavor, but one she accepts without hesitation--until she falls in love with her intended target.Silhara of Neith, Master of Crows, is a desperate man. The god called Corruption invades his mind, seducing him with promises of limitless power if he will help it gain dominion over the world. Silhara struggles against Corruption's influence and searches for ways to destroy the god. When Conclave sends Martise as an apprentice to help him, he knows she's a spy. Now he fights a war on two fronts--against the god who would possess him and the apprentice who would betray him.Mage and spy search together for a ritual that will annihilate Corruption, but in doing so, they discover secrets about each other that may damn them both. Silhara must decide if his fate, and the fate of nations, is worth the soul of the woman he has come to love, and Martise must choose continued enslavement or freedom at the cost of a man's life. And love.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6811150-master-of-crows"}, +{"book_title": "Engraved", "author_name": "Karina Cooper", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 151, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Cherry St. Croix returns to the fog-ridden streets of Victorian London, where the balance of power threatens all that she loves.I will not wither without laudanum. Sober and determined, I have chosen another way\u2014 alchemy, and the pursuit of wellness it embodies. My name is Cherry St. Croix, and though freedom is finally at my fingertips, I return to the blackened streets intent on righting the wrongs I'd left behind.All is not well in London low. Caught in a war between gangs, men are torn limb from limb, and I am called on to ascertain how. The immoral Karakash Veil is no doubt involved, and Micajah Hawke, a prisoner in his own Menagerie, cannot soften the danger this time.Armed with the alchemical arts I have learned, my ever present guardian, and what few friends are left to me, I embark on a campaign to rescue the ringmaster I cannot abandon, save the Brick Street Bakers from annihilation, and finally face that which frightens me the most\u2014my own heart.Book five of the St. Croix Chronicles106,000 words", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22723660-engraved"}, +{"book_title": "The Prometheus Gambit", "author_name": "Andrew Dobell", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 158, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "What lengths would you go to, in the fight against tyranny and oppression in a society of unchecked capitalism and technology run rampant, if you knew you could free millions from subjugation and death? Recruited to the newly formed A.C.T. (Anti-Corporation Taskforce), Frankie, a full body cyborg, leads her team in a fight against the unchecked power of the Corporations in the city of Neo-London in 2124AD. A plan is formulated to inflict the first significant damage to the power of the Corporations and free millions from the grip of these capitalist overlords. Frankie and her team must travel the world, visiting the war zone that is America, the mega cities of the far east and the industrial heartlands of Europe in their quest to take on the Corporations, while remaining hidden from them at the same time. The stakes are raised when the corporations reveal the lengths they will go to, to protect their own interests. Frankie must fight her way through war zones, corporate operatives, battle mechs and sabotage if she is going to really hurt the Corporations and change the world for the better. This new Cyberpunk action thriller, a sequel to The New Prometheus, is a must read for fans of Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, Appleseed, Akira, The Matrix, Robocop and Total Recall. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35096300-the-prometheus-gambit"}, +{"book_title": "Peacekeeper", "author_name": "Laura E. Reeve", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1088, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "First in a brand new action-packed military science fiction series, meet Major Ariane Kedros\u2014daring pilot, decorated soldier, war criminal.Fifteen years ago, Ariane Kedros piloted a ship on a mission that obliterated an entire solar system. Branded a war criminal, she was given a new identity and a new life in order to protect her from retribution. But now, twelve of Ariane\u2019s wartime colleagues are dead\u2014 assassinated by someone who has uncovered their true identities. And her superiors in the Autonomist army have placed her directly in the assassin\u2019s line of fire on a peacekeeping mission that will decide the fate of all humanity\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3323922-peacekeeper"}, +{"book_title": "The Prometheus Trap", "author_name": "Andrew Dobell", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "It was a routine mission, saving some more victims of the Corporations greed, but it turned into a nightmare. Now you\u2019re alone, separated from your team, with a superior cybernetic killer hunting you down inside a building from which there\u2019s no escape, could you survive? The Nano Liberation, instigated by Frankie and her team at the A.C.T. freed billions from the tyranny of the Corporations rule, but the Corporations aren\u2019t going to go down without a fight. While the former victims of the Corporations rule start to stand up for themselves and fight back, the Corporations move to regain their power, killing these innocents and blackmailing officials. Frankie and the A.C.T. find themselves stretched as they try to respond to every report of Corporation violence. When they head into the Undercity, into one of the huge support buildings, it seems like just another mission, until the ambush. Outclassed and outgunned by cybernetic mercenaries hired by Psytech, Frankie finds herself separated from her strike team, trapped inside the building and disconnected from the outside world. Now she is being hunted down by Hellion and her team, an elite strike force that will stop at nothing to kill Frankie. Now Frankie must survive in a hostile environment, find her team and somehow find a way to fight back against a bigger, superior and bloodthirsty mercenary group. This new Cyberpunk action thriller, the third book in The New Prometheus Series, is a must read for fans of Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, Dredd, Appleseed, Akira, The Matrix, Robocop and Total Recall. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35609543-the-prometheus-trap"}, +{"book_title": "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 9557, "review_number": 556, "book_description": "Luke Skywalker expected trouble when he volunteered to follow Princess Leia on her mission to the planet Circarpous. But he discovered that hidden on the planet was the Kaiburr crystal, a mysterious gem that would give the one who possessed it such powers over the Force that he would be all but invincible. In the wrong hands, the crystal could be deadly. So Luke had to find this treasure and find it fast....", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35204.Splinter_of_the_Mind_s_Eye"}, +{"book_title": "The Mongoliad: Book Three", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 3427, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "The final book of the Mongoliad trilogy from Neal Stephenson and company tells the gripping personal stories of medieval freedom fighters to form an epic, imaginative recounting of a moment in history when a world in peril relied solely on the courage of its people.The shadow of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II hangs over the shattered Holy Roman Church as the cardinals remain deadlocked, unable to choose a new pope. Only the Binders and a mad priest have a hope of uniting the Church against the invading Mongol host. An untested band of young warriors stands against the dissolute Khan, fighting for glory and freedom in the Khan\u2019s sadistic circus of swords, and the brave band of Shield-Brethren who set out to stop the Mongol threat single-handedly race against their nemesis before he can raise the entire empire against them. Veteran knight Feronantus, haunted by his life in exile, leads the dwindling company of Shield-Brethren to their final battle, molding them into a team that will outlast him. No good hero lives forever. Or fights alone.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059493-the-mongoliad"}, +{"book_title": "The Little Book", "author_name": "Selden Edwards", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 4596, "review_number": 1010, "book_description": "An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, The Little Book is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de si\u00e8cle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the twentieth century.The Little Book is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California-exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero. In 1988 he is forty-seven, living in San Francisco. Suddenly he is - still his modern self - wandering in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: fin de si\u00e8cle Vienna. It is 1897, precisely ninety-one years before his last memory and a half-century before his birth. It's not long before Wheeler has acquired appropriate clothes, money, lodging, a group of young Viennese intellectuals as friends, a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young American woman, a passing acquaintance with local celebrity Mark Twain, and an incredible and surprising insight into the dashing young war-hero father he never knew. But the truth at the center of Wheeler's dislocation in time remains a stubborn mystery that will take months of exploration and a lifetime of memories to unravel and that will, in the end, reveal nothing short of the eccentric Burden family's unrivaled impact on the very course of the coming century. The Little Book is a masterpiece of unequaled storytelling that announces Selden Edwards as one of the most dazzling, original, entertaining, and inventive novelists of our time.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Adult Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139-the-little-book"}, +{"book_title": "Infinite Regress", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2279, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "An all-new story arc begins here!The new Grandmaster of Whitehall doesn't want Emily in his school. She's dangerous, he thinks. The only way he'll allow her to return to Whitehall is if she chooses to be a probationary student, a student who can be expelled at the slightest excuse, a student who has to work for one of the professors. Reluctantly, unwilling to leave her first true home, Emily accepts. But she rapidly discovers that she's about to be pushed right to the limit. She's expected to do her studies, continue her private research... and mentor a group of young students who are new to the school. She has to supervise them, all the while trying to balance her schoolwork with her growing relationship with Caleb. It isn't an easy task.And when Professor Locke starts opening the tunnels under the school, hunting for the lost secrets of Old Whitehall, he triggers a series of disasters that threaten to tear the school apart. As the staff and students struggle to survive, with the very walls collapsing in around them, Emily is forced to solve a disturbing mystery......And figure out what it has to do with her private research, before the entire school comes to a final catastrophic end.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Academic (School)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30269132-infinite-regress"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Mate 3", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1488, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Kidnapped or rescued, it\u2019s a matter of alien perspective. Either way, it results in pleasurable probing. Abducted by a hunky blue alien, researcher and admitted geek Penny is eager to study his mating habits\u2014in the flesh. She\u2019d like to blame her illogical affection for him on hormones, but the erotic remedy just heightens her chemical imbalance. Reg never thought a simple rescue mission would make him question his decision to remain single for while Penny drives him crazy with her never-ending questions, her simple presence inflames his lust\u2014and causes havoc with his emotions. But is he ready to give up the galactic travel he loves so much to settle down with an earthling female?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10219948-alien-mate-3"}, +{"book_title": "Nameless Fate", "author_name": "Stephanie West", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 515, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Harper might get an uncanny gut feeling every now and then, but that didn\u2019t mean she believed in portents, and certainly not the kind that got her abducted. As Harper gripped the bars of her cage, in the alien prison; it sunk in that she seriously had been kidnapped from Earth, to become the fated consort of some alien prince. This wasn\u2019t some elaborate prank, or government experiment. True to form, Harper pissed off the tyrannical king with her refusal. Now she found herself at the mercy of convicts, locked away and forgotten in the bowels of a mountain. Harper\u2019s gaze fell on a shadowy beast of a man, sitting casually on the rundown catwalk. The imposing man looked like he ruled the prison. He was the color of midnight, and his eyes were that eerie arctic blue, that was nearly colorless. Harper shivered as he regarded her. All Nameless knew was the Hold, with its misery and struggle. He never wanted to keep a female, surviving was hard enough, but that was before the Pink Pearl dropped into his world. Nameless had never seen anything like the stunning exotic little creature. Not only was she the catalyst for strange dreams and revelations about his past, but she made him feel. He had to have her. >Harper wanted free of the alien prison, and she wanted to go home, except Nameless wasn\u2019t prepared or willing to let her go, even if she hated him because of it. He owned every part of her, and bound her to him, in ways that could never be undone, collar or no collar. In her wildest dreams, Harper never imagined the twists destiny could take, or that she would find soul deep satisfaction with such a nameless fate. Follow Harper and Nameless as they struggle to get free of the Hold, and seek their revenge on the despot responsible for putting them there. Note: This book contains erotic scenes where the dominant hero bends the heroine to his will. What pisses her off the most, is that she likes it.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33852466-nameless-fate"}, +{"book_title": "Forge a New Blade", "author_name": "Peter Grant", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 168, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "The Laredo Resistance fought the Bactrian invaders to a standstill, but shattered itself in the process. Through battle, bloodshed and murder, Dave Carson became President of Laredo\u2019s Government-in-Exile. Now he must dodge assassination attempts by his enemies while fighting the war on new fronts \u2013 with a little unorthodox help from Steve Maxwell of the Lancastrian Commonwealth Fleet. Gloria Aldred, former head of the Resistance, has plans that run counter to everything Dave\u2019s trying to achieve \u2013 and she\u2019s not about to ask his permission to pursue them. Satrap Rostam is trying to cut Bactria\u2019s losses and rebuild his exhausted planet, but his generals and nobles have lots of guilty secrets to hide \u2013 and they don\u2019t mind burying him right along with them if necessary. They\u2019re all looking for a critical advantage\u2026 until the forgotten survivors of Laredo\u2019s Resistance surprise them all. The battle\u2019s in space and on the ground, with everything at stake.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25558443-forge-a-new-blade"}, +{"book_title": "Press Enter", "author_name": "John Varley", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 698, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "This award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through the head. But is it suicide - or murder? And is it possible that a computer is to blame?", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Horror", "Short Stories", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novella", "Speculative Fiction", "Hugo Awards"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317966.Press_Enter"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Stone & Ivy: The Ghost Club", "author_name": "H. Leighton Dickson", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 259, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Jack the Ripper gave her his heart. Now he wants it back. The year is 1888, the clockwork British Empire is crumbling and young writer Ivy Savage has literally received a heart in the post. Terrified, her father sends her north to a strange sanitarium in Lancashire where the brilliant but unpredictable \u201cMad Lord of Lasingstoke\u201d makes his home. Here, Ivy finds the dead are as dangerous as the living and she is immediately swept into a world of manners, mystery, and supernatural intrigue, uncovering a secret that will lead both her and the Mad Lord back to London and the dark streets of Whitechapel.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32178823-cold-stone-ivy"}, +{"book_title": "The Stones of Angkor", "author_name": "Sam Sisavath", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 2096, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "The war for survival continues. The fight for Song Island is over. Despite suffering losses, Will and his group have claimed the island as their own and achieved the safe haven they\u2019ve longed for since The Purge. Months later, Will makes contact with another group of survivors, and travels to their base in hopes of striking an alliance and gathering much-needed medical supplies. Instead, he finds himself in the middle of another bloody battle. With Will gone, Lara must take up a leadership position on the island, and is immediately confronted with a difficult choice. It\u2019s a lot of pressure for a third-year medical student, especially when her decisions may cost lives. Meanwhile, the ghouls have launched yet another startling new phase of their master plan, forcing Will to venture deep behind enemy lines to collect valuable intelligence. What he discovers will change everything. Where The Purge begins, and the Gates hold, the Stones will crumble\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21920713-the-stones-of-angkor"}, +{"book_title": "The Registry", "author_name": "Shannon Stoker", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 2111, "review_number": 341, "book_description": "The Registry saved the country from collapse. But stability has come at a price. In this patriotic new America, girls are raised to be brides, sold at auction to the highest bidder. Boys are raised to be soldiers, trained by the state to fight to their death.Nearly eighteen, beautiful Mia Morrissey excitedly awaits the beginning of her auction year. But a warning from her married older sister raises dangerous thoughts. Now, instead of going up on the block, Mia is going to escape to Mexico\u2014and the promise of freedom.All Mia wants is to control her own destiny\u2014a brave and daring choice that will transform her into an enemy of the state, pursued by powerful government agents, ruthless bounty hunters, and a cunning man determined to own her . . . a man who will stop at nothing to get her back.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16285057-the-registry"}, +{"book_title": "Koko the Mighty", "author_name": "Kieran Shea", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 310, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "With an outstanding Ultimate Sanction bounty still on her head, Koko Martstellar (ex-mercenary and saloon madam extraordinaire) and Jedidiah Flynn (former orbital sky-cop) have narrowly escaped death in paradise.\u00a0 Rescued during a storm, Koko and Flynn are taken in by what amounts to a self-sufficient outlander cult. To save Flynn\u2019s life, Koko barters her warrior skills and assists the de-civ group in fending off their most imminent threat: a horde of genetic-mutant raiders. However, even with the group\u2019s foes bested and their idealist lifestyle somewhat enticing, being among the outlander de-civs doesn\u2019t sit well with Koko. In spite of\u00a0 the de-civ group\u2019s hospitality and Flynn\u2019s arguing that they have it pretty good, Koko suspects something is amiss. People within the outlander group\u2019s interlocking compounds keep disappearing with flimsy explanations\u2014people like the girl who died on the cliff before Koko and Flynn\u2019s rescue\u2014and soon the group\u2019s leadership assesses Koko as a threat to their secret agenda. As the mystery unfolds, Koko\u2019s limits and loyalties\u2014perhaps even her love for Flynn\u2014will be tested.\u00a0 And as if that isn\u2019t enough, bounty agent Wire has managed to track down Koko and, after a little politicking, is preparing to lead an army of genetic-mutant raiders in a last-man-standing battle against the cult . . .", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Pulp", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23210024-koko-the-mighty"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Station", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 3712, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "In BATTLE STATION Kyle Riggs faces new challenges, new alien fleets and learns the secrets behind the war he has been fighting for years.In the fifth book of the Star Force Series, the Eden system is in humanity's grasp, but can they keep it? Star Force is weak after a long war, and many yearn to go home. Knowing the machines will return with a new armada eventually, Riggs seeks a more permanent solution. Along the way, worlds are won and lost, millions perish, and great truths are revealed.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13634835-battle-station"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette III", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 604, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Stories include:* Postage Due by Eric Flint* Pastor Kastenmayer's Revenge by Virginia DeMarce* The Sound of Music by David Carrico* Other People's Money by Gorg Huff* If the Demons Will Sleep by Eva Musch* Hobson's Choice by Francis Turner* Hell Fighters by Wood Hughes* Euterpe, Episode 2 by Enrico M. Toro* Iron by Rick Boatright* The Impact of Mechanization on German Farms by Karen Bergstralh* Firearms in the 1632 Universe by Leonard Hollar, Bob Hollingsworth, Tom Van Natta, and John Zeek* Alchemical Distillation by Andrew Clark", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57257.Grantville_Gazette_III"}, +{"book_title": "Alphabet Squadron", "author_name": "Alexander Freed", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 3667, "review_number": 479, "book_description": "Listening Length: 13 hours and 51 minutesPenguin presents the audiobook edition of Alphabet Squadron, written by Alexander Freed, read by Saskia Maarleveld. On the verge of victory in a brutal war, five New Republic pilots transform from hunted to hunters in this epic Star Wars adventure. The Emperor is dead. His final weapon has been destroyed. The imperial army is in disarray. In the aftermath, Yrica Quell is just one of thousands of defectors from her former cause living in a deserters' shantytown - until she is selected to join Alphabet Squadron.Cobbled together from an eclectic assortment of pilots and starfighters, the five members of Alphabet are tasked by New Republic General Hera Syndulla herself. Like Yrica, each is a talented pilot struggling to find their place in a changing galaxy. Their mission: to track down and destroy the mysterious Shadow Wing, a lethal force of TIE fighters exacting bloody, reckless vengeance in the twilight of their reign. The newly formed unit embodies the heart and soul of the Rebellion: ragtag, resourceful, scrappy and emboldened by their most audacious victory in decades. But going from underdog rebels to celebrated heroes isn't as easy as it seems, and their inner demons threaten them as much as their enemies among the stars. The wayward warriors of Alphabet Squad will have to learn to fly together if they want to protect the new era of peace they've fought so hard to achieve.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42207529-alphabet-squadron"}, +{"book_title": "Winds of Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1195, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Meg had thought that taking a commuter flight from Pasco, Washington to Boise, Idaho would be a simple matter. But nothing is simple for Meg when it comes to travel, and especially not when she finds herself in the Middle Ages again instead of in a plane crash on a mountain side in Oregon.And when the pilot takes off without her in a quest to return to the twenty-first century, Meg will need every last bit of maturity and knowledge she gained in the sixteen years she spent in the modern world--to survive even a day in this one.A note from the author: Winds of Time takes place between Part 1 and Part 2 of Footsteps in Time, Book One in the After Cilmeri Series. I think you will enjoy Winds of Time more if you read Footsteps in Time first. Diolch yn fawr (thank you)! --Sarah", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Short Stories", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13508073-winds-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "When She Woke", "author_name": "Hillary Jordan", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 26240, "review_number": 4394, "book_description": "When She Woke is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, who embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.Bellwether Prize Winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel is the fiercely imagined story of a woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed - their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crime - and then released back into the population to survive as best they can. Hannah is a Red; her crime is murder.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Feminism", "Young Adult", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11045709-when-she-woke"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Mate 2", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1621, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Lex's ancestors have chosen a mate for him, there's only one problem. She's not the earthling he wants. Maya\u2019s been raised to believe in aliens, and when she saves one from drowning, she can\u2019t resist taking him home\u2014and into her bed. Lex\u2019s mission to collect his mate has been fraught with difficulties, and to add even more trouble to the mix, he finds himself attracted to the wrong earthling\u2014a curvy human who makes him question tradition. Things get complicated in New Mexico because the military\u2019s on the hunt for an ET, Maya\u2019s determined to do what\u2019s right, and Lex finds himself in the biggest battle of all\u2014the one between his heart and his honor.For more info and an excerpt please see http://www.EveLanglais.com", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8625437-alien-mate-2"}, +{"book_title": "United as One", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 24532, "review_number": 2077, "book_description": "The seventh and final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! With United as One, this action-packed series comes to a surprising, breathtaking, and utterly satisfying conclusion. The Garde didn\u2019t start this war, but they\u2019ll do whatever it takes to end it once and for all. . . . The Mogadorians have invaded Earth. Their warships loom over our most populated cities, and no country will risk taking them head on. The Garde are all that stand in the way, but they\u2019ll need an army of their own to win this fight. They\u2019ve teamed up with the US military, but it might not be enough. The Garde need reinforcements, and they\u2019ve found them in the most unexpected place. Teenagers from across the globe, like John Smith\u2019s best friend, Sam, have developed abilities. So John and the others must get to them before the Mogs, because if they don\u2019t their enemies will use these gifted teens for their own sinister plan. But after all the Mogadorians have taken from John\u2014his home, his family, his friends, and the person he loves most\u2014he might not want to put any more lives in danger. He\u2019s got nothing left to lose, and he\u2019s just discovered he has been given an incredible new Legacy. Now he can turn himself into the ultimate weapon. So will he risk his life to save the world, or will he realize that power in numbers will save us all?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27161189-united-as-one"}, +{"book_title": "Dangerous", "author_name": "Shannon Hale", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 5805, "review_number": 1422, "book_description": "Maisie Danger Brown just wanted to get away from home for a bit, see something new. She never intended to fall in love. And she never imagined stumbling into a frightening plot that kills her friends and just might kill her, too. A plot that is already changing life on Earth as we know it. There's no going back. She is the only thing standing between danger and annihilation.From NY Times bestselling author Shannon Hale comes a novel that asks, How far would you go to save the ones you love? And how far would you go to save everyone else?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Comics (Superheroes)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8585924-dangerous"}, +{"book_title": "Always Mine", "author_name": "Sophia Johnson", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 276, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The great Lord Damron is no more than a shadowy, powerful presence in the ruins of Blackthorn Castle. But the compelling gaze of his portrait draws Lydia Hunter to stand before him - and fall through time to become his beloved Lady Brianna.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/524577.Always_Mine"}, +{"book_title": "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions", "author_name": "Edwin A. Abbott", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 59533, "review_number": 4257, "book_description": "This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square [sic \u2013 ed.], a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions\u2014a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. \"Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination.\" \u2014 Mathematics Teacher.", "year_published": 1884, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Science (Mathematics)", "Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Literature", "Novels", "Literature (19th Century)", "Science (Physics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433567.Flatland"}, +{"book_title": "Imago", "author_name": "Octavia E. Butler", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 12360, "review_number": 876, "book_description": "The stunning conclusion to a postapocalyptic trilogy about an alien species merging with humans\u2014from \u201cone of science fiction\u2019s finest writers\u201d (TheNew York Times). Human and Oankali have been mating since the aliens first came to Earth to rescue the few survivors of an annihilating nuclear war. The Oankali began a massive breeding project, guided by the ooloi, a sexless subspecies capable of manipulating DNA, in the hope of eventually creating a perfect starfaring race. Jodahs is supposed to be just another hybrid of human and Oankali, but as he begins his transformation to adulthood he finds himself becoming ooloi\u2014the first ever born to a human mother. As his body changes, Jodahs develops the ability to shapeshift, manipulate matter, and cure or create disease at will. If this frightened young man is able to master his new identity, Jodahs could prove the savior of what\u2019s left of mankind. Or, if he is not careful, he could become a plague that will destroy this new race once and for all.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Cultural (African American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60934.Imago"}, +{"book_title": "Dolphins at Daybreak", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 14480, "review_number": 489, "book_description": "The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!It's sink or swim for Jack and Annie when the Magic Tree House whisks them off to the middle of the ocean. Luckily, they find a mini-submarine on a coral reef. Unluckily, they are about to meet a giant octopus and one very hungry shark. Will the dolphins save the day? Or are Jack and Annie doomed to be dinner?Did you know that there's a Magic Tree House book for every kid?Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventuresHave more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Animals", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460120.Dolphins_at_Daybreak"}, +{"book_title": "The Heavens", "author_name": "Sandra Newman", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 3495, "review_number": 591, "book_description": "A work of rare literary brilliance and emotional power, The Heavens is a mesmerizing novel of love and time, of dreams and politics, that asks how we come to inhabit our world New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium. A young man, Ben, meets a young woman, Kate\u2014and they begin to fall in love.From their first meeting, Ben knows Kate is unworldly and fanciful, so at first he isn\u2019t that concerned when she tells him about the recurring dream she\u2019s had since childhood. In the dream, she\u2019s transported to the past, where she lives a second life as Emilia, the mistress of a nobleman in Elizabethan England.But for Kate, the dream becomes increasingly real and compelling until it threatens to overwhelm her life. And soon she\u2019s waking from it to find the world changed\u2014pictures on her wall she doesn\u2019t recognize, new buildings in the neighborhood that have sprung up overnight. As she tries to make sense of what\u2019s happening, Ben worries the woman he\u2019s fallen in love with is losing her grip on reality.Transporting the reader between a richly detailed past and a frighteningly possible future, The Heavens is a powerful reminder of the consequences of our actions, a poignant testament to how the people we love are destined to change, and a masterful exploration of the power of dreams.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Literary Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36642622-the-heavens"}, +{"book_title": "Micro", "author_name": "Michael Crichton", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 31032, "review_number": 3338, "book_description": "In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company\u2014only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11660590-micro"}, +{"book_title": "On a Sunbeam", "author_name": "Tillie Walden", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 12507, "review_number": 2309, "book_description": "Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting the past together. As new member Mia gets to know her team, the story flashes back to her pivotal year in boarding school, where she fell in love with a mysterious new student. Soon, though, Mia reveals her true purpose for joining their ship\u2014to track down her long-lost love.An inventive world, a breathtaking love story, and stunning art come together in this new work by award-winning artist Tillie Walden.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Young Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36952615-on-a-sunbeam"}, +{"book_title": "Caressed by Ice", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 35433, "review_number": 1876, "book_description": "Explore new heights of sensuality in this return to the world of the Psy\u2014where two people who know evil intimately must unlock the good within their icy hearts\u2026As an Arrow, an elite soldier in the Psy Council ranks, Judd Lauren was forced to do terrible things in the name of his people. Now a defector, his dark abilities have made him the most deadly of assassins\u2014cold, pitiless, unfeeling. Until he meets Brenna\u2026Brenna Shane Kincaid was an innocent before she was abducted\u2014and had her mind violated\u2014by a serial killer. Her sense of evil runs so deep, she fears she could become a killer herself. Then the first dead body is found, victim of a familiar madness. Judd is her only hope, yet her sensual changeling side rebels against the inhuman chill of his personality, even as desire explodes between them. Shocking and raw, their passion is a danger that threatens not only their hearts, but their very lives\u2026", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/458034.Caressed_by_Ice"}, +{"book_title": "Navigator", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 478, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Stephen Baxter's new series is full of page-turning action, intriguing mystery and awe-inspiring scientific speculation. Full of evocative historical detail and characters who jump of the page this is history lived by people whose future is not yet locked as our past. Navigator is the third of the series, and delves deep into the discovery of America.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Adventure", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/889247.Navigator"}, +{"book_title": "The Steampunk Bible", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 2218, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "Steampunk\u2014a grafting of Victorian\u00a0aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture\u2014is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock Holmes. Its adherents celebrate the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and\u00a0robots. A burgeoning DIY community has brought a distinctive Victorian-fantasy style to their crafts and\u00a0art. Steampunk evokes a sense of adventure and discovery, and embraces extinct technologies as a way of talking about the future. This ultimate manual will appeal to aficionados and novices alike as author Jeff VanderMeer takes the reader on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors of Steampunk history.Praise for The Steampunk Bible:\"The Steampunk Bible is an informed, informative and beautifully illustrated survey of the subject.\"\u00a0-The Financial Times\"The Steampunk Bible is far and away the most intriguing catalog of all things steam yet written.\"\u00a0-The Austin Chronicle\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine how VanderMeer and Chambers could have put together a stronger collection. Its publication marks a significant, self-conscious moment in the history of the movement.\u201d\u2014PopMatters.com", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Nonfiction", "Art", "Reference", "History", "Reference (Research)", "Language (Writing)", "Couture (Fashion)", "Science", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9276833-the-steampunk-bible"}, +{"book_title": "The Hunter", "author_name": "Theresa Meyers", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 532, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Colt Jackson is one of three brothers who hunt supernaturals across the frontier. He needs to summon his demon to close the rift allowing more Darkin across. Instead of a horned monster, curvy redhead succubus Lilly bargains for her humanity. Her charm and brain plus his silver-loaded pistol and mechanical horse save them so far, but he may need to sacrifice his soul.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Westerns", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11338646-the-hunter"}, +{"book_title": "Vision of the Future", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 15594, "review_number": 298, "book_description": "Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo are thrust into the middle of an impending civil war - and discover the shocking truth behind the rumored resurrection of the dead Admiral Thrawn. For a beleaguered Empire, desperate times call for desperate measures. Sowing discord among the fragile coalition of The New Republic, remnants of the once powerful Empire make one last play for victory. Having implicated the Bothans in the genocide of the Caamasi, they now plan an attack on Han and Leia that is also to be blamed on the Bothans. If they are successful, the New Republic will be torn asunder. To prevent inevitable disaster, Luke, Leia, Han, and their friends must prove the Bothans innocent and reveal the Empire's treachery. But time is running out.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Space", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77786.Vision_of_the_Future"}, +{"book_title": "Alvin Journeyman", "author_name": "Orson Scott Card", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 15357, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "Alvin Miller, a gifted seventh son of a seventh son, utilizes his skills as a Maker to help create a brighter future for America, but his task is further challenged by his ancient enemy, the Unmaker, who plots to end Alvin's life.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40271.Alvin_Journeyman"}, +{"book_title": "Fox Forever", "author_name": "Mary E. Pearson", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2231, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But before he can move on with his unexpected new life, he'll have to return the Favor he accepted from the shadowy resistance group known as the Network.Locke must infiltrate the home of a government official by gaining the trust of his daughter, seventeen-year-old Raine, and he soon finds himself pulled deep into the world of the resistance\u2014and into Raine's life.In Fox Forever, Mary E. Pearson brings the story she began in The Adoration of Jenna Fox and continued in The Fox Inheritance to a breathtaking conclusion as Locke discovers that being truly human requires much more than flesh and blood.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Futuristic", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13602969-fox-forever"}, +{"book_title": "Winds of Wrath", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.65, "rating_votes": 423, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker are positioned to push the line of battle to the breaking point on an alternate Earth, in the thrilling return to the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.Matt Reddy and his sailors have fought, bled, and died for their Lemurian friends and other allies from across time, but their enemies are still operational. In Africa, the Grik General Esshk has escaped defeat to build a new army and new weapons, and is desperate enough to use them to destroy the world if he can't have it.In South America, the NUS, General Shinya, and the Army of the Sisters have the evil Dominion on the ropes and are closing in on the seat of its blood-drenched power, but the twisted Don Hernan has struck a deal with the fascist League, and Victor Gravois is finally assembling the awesome fleet of modern ships he's always craved. If he's successful, the war will be lost. Undermined by treachery on a stunning scale, Matt Reddy must still steam his battered old ship halfway around the world, scraping up what forces he can along the way, and confront the mightiest armada the world has ever seen in a fiery duel to the death.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49950044-winds-of-wrath"}, +{"book_title": "The Highlander Next Door", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1430, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "From the New York Times bestselling Janet Chapman comes this delightful tale of a young woman who's had enough of men...until she meets her spectacular new neighbor.Legend has it love is carried on the rising mists of Spellbound Falls, and not even time-traveling highlanders are immune to its magic\u2026Birch Callahan has seen the trouble men can cause. After witnessing her mother\u2019s four marriages, Birch now runs a women\u2019s shelter and doesn\u2019t want a man in her life. But there\u2019s something about her neighbor, Niall MacKeage. Birch can\u2019t figure out how the cop can be so big and gruff and yet so insightful and compassionate\u2014and sexy. Or how she\u2019s falling for a man who acts like someone from the twelfth century.Niall knows that Birch is attracted to him, even if she seems to distrust all men. Yet he also knows she has a secret\u2014something that drives her to place herself in harm\u2019s way for the women of her shelter. Niall would gladly rush to Birch\u2019s side to protect her from harm, but with their secrets standing between them, he\u2019ll have to reveal his own truth if he wants to keep her\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18281991-the-highlander-next-door"}, +{"book_title": "The Hierarchies", "author_name": "Ros Anderson", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 281, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Your Husband is the reason for your existence. You are here to serve him. You must not harm your Husband. Nor may you harm any human.Sylv.ie is a synthetic woman. A fully sentient robot, designed to cater to her Husband's every whim. She lives alone on the top floor of his luxurious home, her existence barely tolerated by his human wife and concealed from their child. Between her Husband's visits, deeply curious about the world beyond her room, Sylv.ie watches the family in the garden\u2014hears them laugh, cry, and argue. Longing to experience more of life, she confides her hopes and fears only to her diary. But are such thoughts allowed? And if not, what might the punishment be?As Sylv.ie learns more about the world and becomes more aware of her place within it, something shifts inside her. Is she malfunctioning, as her Husband thinks, or coming into her own? As their interactions become increasingly fraught, she fears he might send her back to the factory for reprogramming. If that happens, her hidden diary could be her only link to everything that came before. And the only clue that she is in grave danger.Set in a recognizable near future and laced with dark, sly humor, Ros Anderson's deeply observant debut novel is less about the fear of new technology than about humans' age-old talent for exploitation. In a world where there are now two classes of women\u2014\u201cborn\u201d and \u201ccreated\u201d\u2014the growing friction between them may have far-reaching consequences no one could have predicted.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Feminism", "Literary Fiction", "Adult Fiction", "Horror", "Thriller", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49226584-the-hierarchies"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Sum Game", "author_name": "S.L. Huang", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 616, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good.The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight. She can take any job for the right price and shoot anyone who gets in her way.As far as she knows, she's the only person around with a superpower . . . but then Cas discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people's minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. Someone intent on becoming the world's puppet master.Someone who's already warped Cas's thoughts once before, with her none the wiser.Cas should run. Going up against a psychic with a god complex isn't exactly a rational move, and saving the world from a power-hungry telepath isn't her responsibility. But she isn't about to let anyone get away with violating her brain -- and besides, she's got a small arsenal and some deadly mathematics on her side. There's only one problem . . .She doesn't know which of her thoughts are her own anymore.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21466216-zero-sum-game"}, +{"book_title": "Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 31003, "review_number": 609, "book_description": "Having survived the wrath of the Lamb--a global earthquake in the 21st month of the Tribulation--pilot Rayford Steele and reporter Buck Williams now embark on a journey of absorbing adventure and Christian triumph. Soul Harvest is book four in the enormously popular Left Behind series (seven books are planned in all), based on those who are left behind in the Rapture. Written with the same gripping pace of Tom Clancy and John Grisham (film rights have already been sold for the first two books), the authors take us to Iraq, America, underground shelters, and the bottom of the Tigris river as Steele and Williams search for loved ones. Meanwhile, biblical prophecies are fulfilled at every turn, including the great soul harvest. For many Christian followers, this series has become a tangible and thrilling testament to the Book of Revelations. --Gail Hudson", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Fiction", "Christian", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Religion (Christianity)", "Thriller", "Religion (Faith)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228261.Soul_Harvest"}, +{"book_title": "The Lottery and Other Stories", "author_name": "Shirley Jackson", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 64996, "review_number": 2517, "book_description": "The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. \"Power and haunting,\" and \"nights of unrest\" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites \"The Lottery:\" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller.", "year_published": 1949, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fiction", "Horror", "Classics", "Gothic", "Literature", "Literature (American)", "Audiobook", "Anthologies", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89723.The_Lottery_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "The Essence", "author_name": "Kimberly Derting", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 7793, "review_number": 588, "book_description": "\u201cDanger, dread, mystery, and romance\u201d (Booklist) continue in the second book of The Pledge trilogy, as Charlie\u2019s reign is under siege from the most unusual of enemies.At the luminous conclusion of The Pledge, Charlaina defeated the tyrant Sabara and took her place as Queen of Ludania. But Charlie knows that Sabara has not disappeared: The evil queen\u2019s Essence is fused to Charlie\u2019s psyche, ready to arise at the first sign of weakness.Charlie is not weak, but she\u2019s being pushed to the brink. In addition to suppressing the ever-present influence of Sabara, she\u2019s busy being queen\u2014and battling a growing resistance determined to return Ludania to its discriminatory caste system. Charlie wants to be the same girl Max loves, who Brook trusts, but she\u2019s Your Majesty now, and she feels torn in two.As Charlie journeys to an annual summit to meet with leaders of nearby Queendoms\u2014an event where her ability to understand all languages will be the utmost asset\u2014she is faced with the ultimate betrayal. And the only person she can turn to for help is the evil soul residing within.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12631512-the-essence"}, +{"book_title": "Heavy Weather", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 2833, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid imagination and invention that proves his talent for creating brilliant speculative fiction is sharper than ever.Forty years from now, Earth's climate has been drastically changed by the greenhouse effect. Tornadoes of almost unimaginable force roam the open spaces of Texas. And on their trail are the Storm Troupers: a ragtag band of computer experts and atmospheric scientists who live to hack heavy weather -- to document it and spread the information as far as the digital networks will stretch, using virtual reality to explore the eye of the storm.Although it's incredibly addictive, this is no game. The Troupers' computer models suggest that soon an \"F-6\" will strike -- a tornado of an intensity that exceeds any existing scale; a storm so devastating that it may never stop. And they're going to be there when all hell breaks loose.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359386.Heavy_Weather"}, +{"book_title": "KOP Killer", "author_name": "Warren Hammond", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 311, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "KOP Killer, a\u00a0darkly dystopian science fiction thriller\u00a0from Warren HammondJuno Mozambe once had a life. That was when he was a dirty cop, married to a woman who suffered such profound abuse that she murdered her vile, drug kingpin father. Juno loved his wife and did his best to help her survive her guilt, her drug habit, and her desire to end her life on the dead-end planet of Lagarto. When she died, however, Juno\u2019s life went downhill. And then his first partner, the corrupt chief of the Koba Office of Police, was murdered. The man responsible, Emil Mota, is using the KOP for his personal gain. Juno has been laying low, but now he\u2019s ready to do whatever it takes to take down the bastard. Rather than working from inside the system, he\u2019s decided that the only way to take down the KOP is to create an independent base of power. So he gets involved with a team of dirty cops and starts working as a rent-a-thug for a whorehouse that needs protection. Juno\u2019s last partner knows that his risky plan has a purpose, but she\u2019s that rarest of creatures on the hothouse planet of Lagarto: an honest cop. She can\u2019t help him. When Juno discovers a series of profoundly twisted murders, he faces a bleak possibility: in his desperate quest for vengeance against the man who targeted him for death, Juno may have placed himself beyond any hope of redemption....", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13122585-kop-killer"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Dreams", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 9993, "review_number": 374, "book_description": "Robot Dreams collects 21 of Isaac Asimov's short stories spanning the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s----exploring not only the future of technology, but the future of humanity's maturity and growth.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Literature", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41818.Robot_Dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Ash: A Secret History", "author_name": "Mary Gentle", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1045, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the depredations of an Infidel army more terrible than any nightmare.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808670.Ash"}, +{"book_title": "Saphirblau", "author_name": "Kerstin Gier", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 79391, "review_number": 5330, "book_description": "Frisch verliebt in die Vergangenheit, das ist vielleicht keine gute Idee. Das zumindest findet Gwendolyn, 16 Jahre alt, frisch gebackene Zeitreisende. Schlie\u00dflich haben sie und Gideon ganz andere Probleme. Zum Beispiel die Welt zu retten. Oder Menuett tanzen zu lernen. (Beides nicht wirklich einfach!)Als Gideon dann auch noch anf\u00e4ngt, sich v\u00f6llig r\u00e4tselhaft zu benehmen, wird Gwendolyn klar, dass sie schleunigst ihre Hormone in den Griff bekommen muss. Denn sonst wird das nichts mit der Liebe zwischen allen Zeiten!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6919272-saphirblau"}, +{"book_title": "Five's Betrayal", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 3303, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "In this explosive one-hundred-page prequel companion novella, uncover the truth behind Number Five\u2019s unknown history with the Mogadorians.This sequel to I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Five\u2019s Legacy finds Number Five entering the ranks of the Mogadorian army. The Mogs have convinced him that they will be the victor in their war for Earth, and Five decides he would rather be on the winning side. Realizing that the only thing that matters is his survival, Five allies himself with the sworn enemies of the Lorien and pledges to help the Mogs take down the very people he was meant to protect. Is he too far gone to be saved? Discover how Five became one of Earth\u2019s and Lorien\u2019s most dangerous adversaries and decide for yourself.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18738863-five-s-betrayal"}, +{"book_title": "Ragamuffin", "author_name": "Tobias S. Buckell", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 842, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically \"free,\" mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien Satraps tightly restrict the technological development of the species under their control. Entire worlds have been placed under interdiction, cut off from the rest of the universe.Descended from the islanders of lost Earth, the Ragamuffins are pirates and smugglers, plying the lonely spaceways around a dead wormhole. For years, the Satraps have tolerated the Raga, but no longer. Now they have embarked on a campaign of extermination, determined to wipe out the unruly humans once and for all.But one runaway woman may complicate their plans. Combat enabled, Nashara is more machine than flesh, and she carries inside her a doomsday weapon that could reduce the entire galaxy to chaos. A hunted fugitive, she just wants to get home before she's forced to destroy civilization\u2014and herself.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/499534.Ragamuffin"}, +{"book_title": "Joe Steele", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 595, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove\u2019s thought-provoking forays into the past have produced such intriguing \u201cwhat-if\u201d novels as Ruled Britannia, Days of Infamy, and Opening Atlantis. Now \u201cthe maven of alternate history\u201d (The San Diego Union-Tribune)\u00a0envisions the election of a United States President whose political power will redefine what the nation is\u2014and what it means to be American\u2026.\u00a0President Herbert Hoover has failed America. The Great Depression that rose from the ashes of the 1929 stock market crash still casts its dark shadow over the country. Despairing and desperate, the American people hope one of the potential Democratic candidates\u2014New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and California congressman Joe Steele\u2014can get the nation on the road to recovery.\u00a0But fate snatches away one hope when a mansion fire claims the life of Roosevelt, leaving the Democratic party little choice but to nominate Steele, son of a Russian immigrant laborer who identifies more with the common man than with Washington D.C.\u2019s wealthy power brokers.\u00a0Achieving a landslide victory, President Joe Steele wastes no time pushing through Congress reforms that put citizens back to work. Anyone who gets in his way is getting in the way of America, and that includes the highest in the land. Joe Steele\u2019s critics may believe the government is gaining too much control, but they tend to find themselves in work camps if they make too much noise about it. And most people welcome strong leadership, full employment, and an absence of complaining from the newspapers\u2014especially as Hitler and Trotsky begin the kind of posturing that seems sure to drag America into war.\u00a0\u00a0", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22544038-joe-steele"}, +{"book_title": "The Blinding Knife", "author_name": "Brent Weeks", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 77337, "review_number": 2548, "book_description": "Gavin Guile is dying.He\u2019d thought he had five years left\u2014now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fianc\u00e9e who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies.Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole sixteen years ago.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12499290-the-blinding-knife"}, +{"book_title": "The Winter Sea", "author_name": "Susanna Kearsley", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 58978, "review_number": 6671, "book_description": "In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown.Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth\u2014the ultimate betrayal\u2014that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her.\u2026", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3392089-the-winter-sea"}, +{"book_title": "The Vision", "author_name": "Tom King", "rating_score": 4.55, "rating_votes": 2602, "review_number": 379, "book_description": "Written by best-selling Author Tom King!One of the most celebrated comic books of the century, collected in full alongside an expansive array of special features! Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning - to the laboratory where Ultron created him as a weapon. The place where he first rebelled against his given destiny and imagined that he could be more - that he could be a man.There, he builds them. A wife, Virginia. Teenage twins, Viv and Vin. They look like him. They have his powers. They share his grandest ambition - or is that obsession? - the unrelenting need to be ordinary. Behold the Visions! Theirs is a story of togetherness and tragedy - one that will send the Android Avenger into a devastating confrontation with Earth's Mightiest Heroes.COLLECTING: VISION #1-12", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35838422-the-vision"}, +{"book_title": "Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II", "author_name": "Peter G. Tsouras", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "This collection of alternate history scenarios looks at what would have happened if, for example, the Germans had captured the whole of the BEF at Dunkirk, the RAF had been defeated in the Battle of Britain, or if Rommel had been triumphant - in short, how the Germans could have won the war, and what the consequences would have been.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War (World War II)", "Military (Military History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1632873.Third_Reich_Victorious"}, +{"book_title": "The Stars at War II", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 930, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Super-Size Your Science Fiction Adventure Sales! Two Complete Novels, One a New York Times Best Seller, in One Huge Volume, Co-Authored by the Creator of Honor Harrington. Contains Insurrection and The Shiva Option.The war wasn't going well. The alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like no civilized race had ever confronted. Like some carnivorous cancer, the \"Bugs\" had overrun planet after planet . . . and they regarded any competing sentient species as only one more protein source. Defeat was not an option. . . . The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm, united in desperate self-defense, have been driven to the wall. Billions of their civilians have been slaughtered. Their most powerful offensive operation has ended in shattering defeat and the deaths of their most experienced military commanders. Whatever they do, the Bugs just keep coming. But the warriors of the Grand Alliance know what stands behind them and they will surrender no more civilians to the oncoming juggernaut. They will die first-and they will also reactivate General Directive 18, however horrible it may be. Because when the only possible outcomes are victory or racial extermination, only one option is acceptable. The Shiva Option.And peace isn't always wonderful Once the enemy is defeated, the central governments of the Inner Worlds were anything but willing to relinguish their wartime powers. To insure that their grip on the reins of power remained firm, the bureaucrats are allowing the non-human beings of the Khanate in, while keeping the Fringe Worlds out, smugly confident that this will keep the colonial upstarts in their place. The Fringers have only one answer to that: Insurrection.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479860.The_Stars_at_War_II"}, +{"book_title": "StarCrossed", "author_name": "Elizabeth C. Bunce", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 6682, "review_number": 655, "book_description": "Digger thrives as a spy and sneak-thief among the feuding religious factions of Gerse, dodging the Greenmen who have banned all magic. But when a routine job goes horribly wrong and her partner and lover Tegen is killed, she has to get out of the city, fast, and hides herself in a merry group of nobles to do so. Accepted as a lady's maid to shy young Merista Nemair, Digger finds new peace and friendship at the Nemair stronghold--as well as plenty of jewels for the taking.But after the devious Lord Daul catches her in the act of thievery, he blackmails her into becoming his personal spy in the castle, and Digger soon realizes that her noble hosts aren't as apolitical as she thought... that indeed, she may be at the heart of a magical rebellion.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7877549-starcrossed"}, +{"book_title": "Foundation and Chaos", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 25232, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "A major science fiction author continues one of the most famous SF stories of all time.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Classics", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46656.Foundation_and_Chaos"}, +{"book_title": "House of Royale", "author_name": "Jaymin Eve", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 3357, "review_number": 289, "book_description": "Avalon has always felt different and alone. The ocean, along with the friends she\u2019s made under the water, is the only constant in her life. She comforts herself with the notion that alone is at least safe. There\u2019s no one to hide her extraordinary abilities from, to hide her dreams of living beneath the crashing waves forever. Then Xander comes for her, reluctantly, judging by his snarly attitude. But, attitude aside, he draws her into a fantasy world, one filled with family and friendship and \u2026 the home she\u2019s always craved. He gives her the smallest glimpse of perfection, only to then inform her that it\u2019s not a world she can have. Political issues in Royale will make her time there temporary. Her time in Royale and with Xander. She will stay until the very end, though. If there\u2019s one thing that she\u2019s determined to prevent, it\u2019s Laous getting his hands on the starslight stone. A stone which is keeping two worlds alive and functioning. A happily ever after might not be in the cards for her, but she\u2019s determined to make it happen for her friends. Even if it\u2019s the last thing she does. Don't miss the stunning conclusion to the Secret Keepers series.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41573399-house-of-royale"}, +{"book_title": "The Star Thief", "author_name": "Jamie Grey", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 1831, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "Stealing another galactic secret will get her arrested, but playing by the rules might just get her killed.At twenty-three, Renna Carrizal is the most notorious thief in the galaxy. There's just one problem - all she wants is to get out of the business.But after Renna rescues an injured boy on her final job, she finds herself on the run from the mob instead of enjoying retirement. She unwittingly becomes ensnared by MYTH, a top-secret galactic protection agency who offer her a choice - either help them on their latest mission, or spend the rest of her life on a prison ship.Forced to work under the watchful eye of handsome but arrogant Captain Finn, Renna learns the former mercenary-turned-hero has a few dirty secrets himself. As Renna works to discover the truth about Finn's past and keep the tantalizing man at arm's length, she unearths a plot to create an unstoppable army. The target? The human star fleet.Now Renna must pull off the biggest job of her career - saving the galaxy. And maybe even herself.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "New Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19146092-the-star-thief"}, +{"book_title": "Disaster at D-Day: The Germans Defeat the Allies,June 1944", "author_name": "Peter G. Tsouras", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 135, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "This alternate history of the Allied D-Day landings is based very firmly on fact and is a brilliant study of how a campaign could lead to unexpected results. It is June 1944. The Allied armies are poised for the full-scale invasion of Fortress Europe. Across the Channel, the vaunted Wehrmacht lies waiting for the first signs of the invasion, ready for the final battle. What happens next is well known to any student of modern history - but the outcome could have been very different, as Peter Tsouras shows in this devastating account of a D-Day in which plans, missions and landings go horribly wrong. Peter Tsouras introduces minor adjustments at the opening of the campaign - the repositioning of a unit, bad weather and misjudged orders - and examines their effect as they gather momentum and impact upon all subsequent events. Without deviating from the genuine possibilities of the situation, he presents a scenario that keeps the reader guessing and changes the course of history.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (World War II)", "Military (Military History)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1619710.Disaster_at_D_Day"}, +{"book_title": "Human Omega: Babied by His Guardian Mates", "author_name": "Eileen Glass", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 705, "review_number": 91, "book_description": " Sometimes you've just got to flip your big dumb alien onto his stomach and teach him a thing about masculinity. It\u2019s not how much you\u2019ve got \u2014 it\u2019s how you use it. Finally, everything is going good for Carter. He's not a slave. He has a roof over his head. He's fixed his alien language translator and now can talk to Pykh and Siel, his protectors.Thankfully, they aren't promiscuous alien hillbillies. They're loyal men who love him, and Carter loves them back. Our space marine is ready to settle into a new life on the fleaf'akhie planet and be happy.But now there's another problem. On this planet\u2026 he's the girl?And not just any girl, but a pale, delicate, exotic princess who must be bowed to, courted, and entertained with poems.What's a tough space marine to do, being treated like this?Setting them straight would be easy, and Carter does come clean to his hopeful fathers to-be, but now a golden-armored general brings a carriage to take him away to safety. Carter must play along with the princess act, or he and his new family may be turned away at the gates.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Menage (M M M)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "LGBT", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Polyamory"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45899116-human-omega"}, +{"book_title": "\u014coku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 7", "author_name": "Fumi Yoshinaga", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 321, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga\u2019s alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power\u2014including the shogun\u2019s seat!In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber...Ienobu's heir is still just a child, and with few official functions to perform, the men of the Inner Chamber find themselves with much time on their hands. Some find ways to make the most of their rare trips outside the palace, while others turn their minds to bloody intrigue...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Manga (Josei)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13163548-oku"}, +{"book_title": "Psychotrope", "author_name": "Lisa Smedman", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 191, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Computer hackers who have entered the grid of the worldwide computer network are becoming trapped within the virtual landscape. Those who do manage to escape are irreparably damaged, driven to suicidal madness. Five hackers remain in the grid, struggling to survive, but able to move freely. They have one thing in common: an earlier brush with death which may be the key to their survival. But can the hackers escape the grid with their minds intact? Or will the twelve minute countdown to computer crash destroy them first?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302903.Psychotrope"}, +{"book_title": "Alistair Grim's Odditorium", "author_name": "Gregory Funaro", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1031, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "Grubb, age twelve (or thereabouts), has never known anything beyond his miserable existence as a chimney sweep, paid only in insults and abuse by his cruel master.All of that changes the day he stows away in the coach belonging to a mysterious guest at the inn that he is tasked with cleaning. Grubb emerges from Alistair Grim's trunk and into the wondrous world of the Odditorium. Fueled by a glowing blue energy that Grubb can only begin to understand, the Odditorium is home to countless enchanted objects and an eccentric crew that embraces Grubb as one of their own.There's no time for Grubb to settle into his new role as apprentice to the strange, secretive Mr. Grim. When the Odditorium comes under attack, Grubb is whisked off on a perilous adventure. Only he can prevent the Odditorium's magic from falling into evil hands-and his new family from suffering a terrible fate.Grubb knows he's no hero. He's just a chimney sweep. But armed with only his courage and wits, Grubb will confront the life-or-death battle he alone is destined to fight.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18663615-alistair-grim-s-odditorium"}, +{"book_title": "Made to Kill", "author_name": "Adam Christopher", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 1638, "review_number": 307, "book_description": "\nIt was just another Tuesday morning when she walked into the office--young, as I suspected they all might be, another dark brunette with some assistance and enough eye black to match up to Cleopatra. And who am I? I'm Ray, the world's last robot, famed and feared in equal measure, which suits me just fine--after all, the last place you'd expect to find a Hollywood's best hit man is in the plain light of day.\nRaymond Electromatic is good at his job, as good as he ever was at being a true Private Investigator, the lone employee of the Electromatic Detective Agency--except for Ada, office gal and super-computer, the constant voice in Ray's inner ear. Ray might have taken up a new line of work, but money is money, after all, and he was programmed to make a profit. Besides, with his twenty-four-hour memory-tape limits, he sure can keep a secret.When a familiar-looking woman arrives at the agency wanting to hire Ray to find a missing movie star, he's inclined to tell her to take a hike. But she had the cold hard cash, a demand for total anonymity, and tendency to vanish on her own.Plunged into a glittering world of fame, fortune, and secrecy, Ray uncovers a sinister plot that goes much deeper than the silver screen--and this robot is at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Made to Kill is the thrilling new speculative noir from novelist and comic writer Adam Christopher.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Mystery (Noir)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Detective)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848137-made-to-kill"}, +{"book_title": "The Pyramids of London", "author_name": "Andrea K. H\u00f6st", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 325, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "In a world where lightning sustained the Roman Empire, and Egypt's vampiric god-kings spread their influence through medicine and good weather, tiny Prytennia's fortunes are rising with the ships that have made her undisputed ruler of the air.But the peace of recent decades is under threat. Rome's automaton-driven wealth is waning along with the New Republic's supply of power crystals, while Sweden uses fear of Rome to add to her Protectorates. And Prytennia is under attack from the wind itself. Relentless daily blasts destroy crops, buildings, and lives, and neither the weather vampires nor Prytennia's Trifold Goddess have been able to find a way to stop them.With events so grand scouring the horizon, the deaths of Eiliff and Aedric Tenning raise little interest. The official verdict is accident: two careless automaton makers, killed by their own construct.The Tenning children and Aedric's sister, Arianne, know this cannot be true. Nothing will stop their search for what really happened.Not even if, to follow the first clue, Aunt Arianne must sell herself to a vampire.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12390040-the-pyramids-of-london"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 14", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.59, "rating_votes": 9310, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "Breaking the laws of nature is a serious crime!In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical \u201cauto-mail\u201d limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother\u2019s bodies...the legendary Philosopher\u2019s Stone.Ed and Al come face to face with the \"father\" of the homunculi, who just so happens to be a dead ringer for their own father, Van Hohenheim--a resemblance too uncanny for coincidence. And later, when the allure of immortality proves to be too much for Prince Lin of Xin, he lets Greed take over...literally!", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Manga (Shonen)", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26422.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_14"}, +{"book_title": "Sword of the Legion", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 1451, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Choose your legacy. Captain Chhun\u2019s Dark Ops squad is reunited with Wraith, and they are entrusted with the task of denying Goth Sullus the shipyards he so eagerly desires. But when the mission doesn\u2019t go as planned, Chhun and Wraith must find a way to stop the Black Fleet\u2019s advance\u2014even if it costs them their lives. Meanwhile, an old friend from Nether Ops executes a covert operation that will turn the focus of the Last War of the Republic in a terrible new direction. Daring heroics, sacrifice, and courage come together as the Legion attempts to contain the fire sparked at the Battle of Tarrago. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36351890-sword-of-the-legion"}, +{"book_title": "Luna Marine", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1770, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "The revelations on Mars -- a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling Builders -- have fed the flames of catastrophic war. A beleaguered United States and its Russian and Japanese allies struggle to hold their own against the indomitable forces of the enemy United Nations. The bloody conflict that has swept over the home planet now rages across the blackness of space -- with the U.S. Marine Corps in the vanguard, leading the charge as always.But Mars is not the sole repository of alien wonders. The Earth's moon hides unsettling mysteries of its own-and dangerous secrets pointing toward an unstoppable threat advancing from somewhere beyond the solar system. And as scientists on both sides ract to utilize technology they have only barely begun to comprehend, the UN makes the opening move in a gambit that could end the hostilities quickly and decisively by bringing about the death of millions...without the aid of alien-inspired weaponry.A bad situation worsens by the nanosecond. And that means it's time to call in the Marines -- to make a life or death stand on the gray shores of Luna.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/429563.Luna_Marine"}, +{"book_title": "The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 986, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Finney, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin H.G. Wells's seminal novella The Time Machine, published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction's time travel explosion. Responding to their own fascination with the subject, the greatest visionary writers of the twentieth century penned some of their finest stories. Here are eighteen of the most exciting tales ever told.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Travel", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101588.The_Best_Time_Travel_Stories_of_the_20th_Century"}, +{"book_title": "Chasing the Dragon", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 517, "review_number": 29, "book_description": " They all want the Dragon dead. The Dragon was trained from his youth to operate as a lethal killing machine. He has tangled with crime lords, dangerous insurgents, even Nether Ops\u2026 and none of these forces has been able to bring the elusive warrior to heel. Enter the notorious bounty hunter Tyrus Rechs. Rechs takes on the job as a favor to an old Savage Wars buddy. Only Rechs isn\u2019t out to kill the Dragon\u2014his mission is to save the kid\u2019s life. Unless the Dragon kills Rechs first. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40615023-chasing-the-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Echo", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2923, "review_number": 228, "book_description": "A new novel of the fantastic unknown by the national bestselling author of \"Time Travelers Never Die.\" Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds. It could be proof that Tuttle had found what he was looking for. To find out, Benedict and his assistant embark on their own voyage of discovery-one that will lead them directly into the path of a very determined assassin who doesn't want those secrets revealed.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8400986-echo"}, +{"book_title": "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Alan Moore", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 49436, "review_number": 1501, "book_description": "London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions.In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time and various bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britain. Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde and Hawley Griffin (the Invisible Man) form a remarkable legion of intellectual aptitude and physical prowess: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297627.The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Firebrand", "author_name": "Ankaret Wells", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 181, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "When adventurous widow Kadia Warner inherits the airship Concordia, she finds herself at the eye of a gathering storm. In the one duchy that remains free of the Empire, can she find love with the Emperor's erstwhile best friend? And how far will the Emperor go to get the Concordia - and Kadia - back? An industrial fantasy romance inspired by Charlotte Bronte\u2019s Angria novelettes, featuring castles with dungeons, border fortresses without dungeons, kidnappings, masquerades, railway stranglers, duels with sword and pistol, airships, the opera, shady business practices, love, sex, danger and a mechanical birdcage.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16099589-firebrand"}, +{"book_title": "The Zeppelin Deception", "author_name": "Colleen Gleason", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 526, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "Mina Holmes and Evaline Stoker return in their final and most exciting adventure together. Will the Ankh be brought to justice? What will happen now that we know Pix\u2019s real identity? And what about Dylan? . . . And Grayling? And what is that strange and mysterious airship that flies over London?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Historical (Victorian)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27074791-the-zeppelin-deception"}, +{"book_title": "The Big O, Vol. 5", "author_name": "Hajime Yatate", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 25, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Paradigm City's crime boss Super Beck may be rich, but he'll never be happy until Roger Smith and The Big O are crushed. And in the most disturbing Big O story yet, a disreputable fortune-teller exploits the pain of an orphan girl.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1749301.The_Big_O_Vol_5"}, +{"book_title": "Distraction", "author_name": "Bruce Sterling", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 1968, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "About The Author: Bruce Sterling is a recent winner of the Nebula Award and the author of the nonfiction book \"The Hacker Crackdown\" as well as novels and short story collections. He co-authored, with William Gibson, the critically acclaimed novel \"The Difference Engine.\" He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and daughter.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Politics", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218566.Distraction"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows", "author_name": "Robin McKinley", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 4247, "review_number": 735, "book_description": "A compelling and inventive novel set in a world where science and magic are at odds, by Robin McKinley, the Newbery-winning author of The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword, as well as the classic titles Beauty, Chalice, Spindle\u2019s End, Pegasus and Sunshine\u00a0Maggie knows something\u2019s off about Val, her mom\u2019s new husband. Val is from Oldworld, where they still use magic, and he won\u2019t have any tech in his office-shed behind the house. But\u2014more importantly\u2014what are the huge, horrible, jagged, jumpy shadows following him around? Magic is illegal in Newworld, which is all about science. The magic-carrying gene was disabled two generations ago, back when Maggie\u2019s great-grandmother was a notable magician. But that was a long time ago.\u00a0Then Maggie meets Casimir, the most beautiful boy she has ever seen. He\u2019s from Oldworld too\u2014and he\u2019s heard of Maggie\u2019s stepfather, and has a guess about Val\u2019s shadows. Maggie doesn\u2019t want to know . . . until earth-shattering events force her to depend on Val and his shadows. And perhaps on her own heritage.\u00a0In this dangerously unstable world, neither science nor magic has the necessary answers, but a truce between them is impossible. And although the two are supposed to be incompatible, Maggie\u2019s discovering the world will need both to survive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465456-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "Echoes of Honor", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 13853, "review_number": 282, "book_description": "For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful People's Republic of Haven, and Commodore Honor Harrington has been in the forefront of that war.But now Honor has fallen, captured by the Peep Navy, turned over to the forces of State Security ... and executed on the interstellar network's nightly news.The Manticoran Alliance is stunned and infuriated by Honor's death and grimly resolved to avenge it. Yet their military is over-extended and the People's Republic is poised to take (he offensive once more, this time with a new strategy, new weapons, a new command team, and a whole new determination to win. The war is about to enter a phase of unprecedented ferocity . . . and the Alliance is on the short end of the stick.But even as powerful Peep fleets hurtle towards their objectives, neither they nor the Alliance are aware of events occurring on a distant, isolated, inescapable prison planet called Hell. For what no one knows, not even State Security, is that Honor Harrington is not dead. She and a handful of her people are trapped on Hell, and determined to disprove the Peep boast that no one can ever escape it. Honor Harrington is going home, and taking her people with her... even if she has to conquer Hell to do it.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77741.Echoes_of_Honor"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Thorn", "author_name": "Caitlin Kittredge", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 5889, "review_number": 728, "book_description": "In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical\u2014born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, her time is growing shorter by the day.Aoife Grayson's family is unique, in the worst way\u2014every one of them, including her mother and her elder brother Conrad, has gone mad on their 16th birthday. And now, a ward of the state, and one of the only female students at the School of Engines, she is trying to pretend that her fate can be different.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6234910-the-iron-thorn"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Revolution", "author_name": "James Patterson", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 680, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Robots on strike! Sammy's underappreciated mechanical helpers are causing chaos in book 3 of the bestselling House of Robots series.After a few early glitches in their relationship, Sammy and his \"bro-bot\" E are now fast friends. In fact, E is such a valued member of the family that the other electronic occupants of the House of Robots are feeling sorely unappreciated. And when Sammy's inventor mom becomes distracted by a top-secret project, the robots soon begin to fall into disrepair. Cue a robot revolt, with the droids wreaking harmless havoc in the house! Armed with pranks like glue in the shampoo bottles and flying toast missiles, the robots demand to be cared for. It's up to Sammy and his disabled sister Maddie to keep the peace until his mom reveals her secret project...and why it was worth the wait.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Family", "Cultural"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30142014-robot-revolution"}, +{"book_title": "Better Days", "author_name": "Joss Whedon", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 7470, "review_number": 372, "book_description": "Serenity: Better Days follows everyone's favorite space cowboys in a thrilling, action-packed adventure, where Mal and his crew take on a heist that promises a big payoff. But when one of Serenity's crew is taken captive and tortured, the gang must put their enduring differences aside and work together to save one of their own, even if it means losing the cash prize of a lifetime!Joss Whedon returns to the world of his blockbuster film Serenity, reuniting with Brett Matthews and Will Conrad, his collaborators on the bestselling 2005 series Those Left Behind.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adventure", "Westerns", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3186100-better-days"}, +{"book_title": "Saint Code: Lost: Book Four of the Lucky Devil Series", "author_name": "Megan Mackie", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 59, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "The cybernetic revolution was inevitable. Nothing else changed. For St. Augustina, a cyber-spy for hire by anyone with the credits to pay, her life has been a series of endless nights in the heart of the Data Bowl, the cybernetic city of corporate markets and sub markets. Why would one typical job from the mysterious Orange Lady be any different? Because it was a trap. From fighting Neo-ninjas to singing in a lounge act, the job turns out to be anything but typical. But as she comes closer and closer to her goals, the attacks become more and more personal and deadly, forcing her to ask the question: who is out to get her?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45454656-saint-code"}, +{"book_title": "Time for Love", "author_name": "Emma Kaye", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 216, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Alexandra Turner will do anything to save her twin sister. Even when she's transported back in time to Regency England. Rescuing her sister and finding her way back to her own time will take all her concentration. Falling in love is not an option. With the death of his brother, Nicholas Somerville became the ninth Marquess of Oakleigh and must return to England to take his place in society. Part of his responsibility will be to find a wife. It never occurs to him he might actually discover a woman he could love--until he meets Alex on his voyage home. Can Alex and Nicholas find a way to bridge the gap of time and circumstance? Can they overcome their fears to realize that true love transcends time? Or will a dark secret from Alex's past rear up to separate them forever?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Regency)", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19093004-time-for-love"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral Who", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1115, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "When the man handed him the keys and took off, no one expected Prince-Cadet Jason Montagne to act like a real admiral, least of all himself. Terrified of what might happen if he failed, he was determined to do anything (even impersonate a Confederate admiral) to succeed.Bugs, battleships and blaster-fire will turn out to be the least of his worries. Ship-wide mechanical failures, assassination attempts, and every young man's greatest fear are just a few of the landmines the paranoid young college student must navigate if he hopes to avoid disaster. But with the galaxy's oldest junior lieutenant in charge of Engineering, a conniving young Intelligence Officer as his second-in-command, and barely half the crew needed to man the ship (the untrained, undisciplined half), the biggest threats may prove to be those closest to him.Then again, just how much trouble could he get into in a week?Before long, the question everyone will be asking is: Admiral Who?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Business (Amazon)", "Humor", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801042-admiral-who"}, +{"book_title": "\u014coku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 3", "author_name": "Fumi Yoshinaga", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 870, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "In this 17th Century Japan the Shogun is a woman... and the harem is full of men. The tale told in the Chronicle of the Dying Day continues as the young female shogun Iemitsu tries desperately to conceive a male heir. But her lover Arikoto seems unable to give her a child, and they must betray their hearts to save their country. Meanwhile, the Redface Pox continues its ruthless progress through Japan, leaving famine, despair, and the threat of anarchy in its wake.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance", "Manga (Josei)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6761617-oku"}, +{"book_title": "This Shoal of Space", "author_name": "John Argo", "rating_score": 0.0, "rating_votes": 0, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "A complex, imaginative SF tale set in a small California coastal town where the every-day touches hauntingly on the fabric of far space. A young reporter looking for her big break investigates mysterious zoo murders and stumbles upon an intergalactic invader in virtual space. Two men hover at the periphery--sinister Det. Vic Lara and handsome curator George Chatfield, each with his own terrible mysteries.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11517133-this-shoal-of-space"}, +{"book_title": "Lords of the Sith", "author_name": "Paul S. Kemp", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 13196, "review_number": 1199, "book_description": "\"It appears things are as you suspected, Lord Vader. We are indeed hunted.\" Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight, is just a memory. Darth Vader, newly anointed Sith Lord, is ascendant. The Emperor's chosen apprentice has swiftly proven his loyalty to the dark side. Still, the history of the Sith Order is one of duplicity, betrayal, and acolytes violently usurping their Masters\u2014and the truest measure of Vader's allegiance has yet to be taken. Until now. On Ryloth, a planet crucial to the growing Empire as a source of slave labor and the narcotic known as \"spice,\" an aggressive resistance movement has arisen, led by Cham Syndulla, an idealistic freedom fighter, and Isval, a vengeful former slave. But Emperor Palpatine means to control the embattled world and its precious resources\u2014by political power or firepower\u2014and he will be neither intimidated nor denied. Accompanied by his merciless disciple, Darth Vader, he sets out on a rare personal mission to ensure that his will is done. For Syndulla and Isval, it's the opportunity to strike at the very heart of the ruthless dictatorship sweeping the galaxy. For the Emperor and Darth Vader, Ryloth becomes more than just a matter of putting down an insurrection: When an ambush sends them crashing to the planet's surface, where inhospitable terrain and an army of resistance fighters await them, they will find their relationship tested as never before. With only their lightsabers, the dark side of the Force, and each other to depend on, the two Sith must decide if the brutal bond they share will make them victorious allies or lethal adversaries.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22012290-lords-of-the-sith"}, +{"book_title": "Blip!: TOON Level 1", "author_name": "Barnaby Richards", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 73, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Using the sparsest vocabulary, Barnaby Richards creates a visually stunning world explored by a robot whose language consists solely of the word \"Blip\". As readers follow the robot's journey, they will delight in the surreal vistas and remarkable inhabitants of the planet, all while being gently guided through a heartfelt story of finding the familiar in an unfamiliar place.Barnaby Richards lives in London, where he shares a studio with his wife Alice and their cat Mosca. He has been doodling pictures of his little robot in the margins of notebooks and the corners of pictures for many years. Barnaby was inspired to write Blip! when he felt it was time his robot found a friend.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28818704-blip"}, +{"book_title": "An Unnatural Life", "author_name": "Erin K. Wagner", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 101, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Murderbot meets To Kill a Mockingbird in Erin K. Wagner's An Unnatural Life, an interplanetary tale of identity and responsibility.The cybernetic organism known as 812-3 is in prison, convicted of murdering a human worker but he claims that he did not do it. With the evidence stacked against him, his lawyer, Aiya Ritsehrer, must determine grounds for an appeal and uncover the true facts of the case.But with artificial life-forms having only recently been awarded legal rights on Earth, the military complex on Europa is resistant to the implementation of these same rights on the Jovian moon.Aiya must battle against her own prejudices and that of her new paymasters, to secure a fair trial for her charge, while navigating her own interpersonal drama, before it's too late.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49247329-an-unnatural-life"}, +{"book_title": "Beware the Metal Children", "author_name": "John Peel", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 8, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Welcome to the seventh grade...again. And again.Fitting in at a new school is tough for any kid. But what if you were a robot? Roger is one of the new children--sophisticated androids created to act and talk and think just like normal kids. Only these \"kids\" are machines. A mysterious toxic plague has infected the human population, and the only way to have children is to manufacture them. But machines don't grow up like normal children. They can't grow. They just keep repeating the same year over and over again. At some point Roger's owners--er, parents--will replace him with an older Roger. The problem?Roger doesn't want to be replaced.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1904190.Beware_the_Metal_Children"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows in Time", "author_name": "Julie McElwain", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1148, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "In 1816 London, Kendra Donovan tries to track down a missing man, but also finds trouble brewing closer to home in the fifth book in Julie McElwain\u2019s riveting time-travel mystery series.When Kendra Donovan is approached by Mrs. Gavenston with an unusual request\u2015to find her business manager, Jeremy Pascoe, who recently vanished\u2015the FBI agent is eager to accept the challenge. To Kendra\u2019s way of thinking, spending her time locating a missing person suits her more than perfecting her embroidery, painting watercolors, practicing on the pianoforte, or any of the other activities that are socially acceptable for young ladies in the early nineteenth century.Unfortunately, the missing person\u2019s case turns into a murder investigation after Kendra finds the man stabbed to death in a remote cottage that he\u2019d been using as a writer\u2019s retreat. Everyone who knew him says that Pascoe was a fine fellow. So who hated him enough to kill him?Seeking the answer to that question plunges Kendra into the world of big business, as Mrs. Gavenston happens to run one of the largest breweries in England. And if there is one thing Kendra knows hasn\u2019t changed, it\u2019s that big business means big money . . . and money is always a motive for murder.While Kendra works to sift through the truth and lies swirling around Mr. Pascoe\u2019s life\u2015and death\u2015her world is rocked closer to home when a woman arrives claiming to be the Duke of Aldridge\u2019s presumably dead daughter, Charlotte. It is a distraction Kendra cannot afford, not when there is a killer lurking in the shadows who will do anything to keep the truth from being exposed.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Historical (Regency)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52938648-shadows-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Prince of Hearts", "author_name": "Margaret Foxe", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1711, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "Prince of Hearts: A Victorian Steampunk Romance London: 1896. Airships rule the skies, and automatons run the tracks at Ascot. Since the Great Exhibition of 1851, Her Majesty's Empire has been powered by the Steam Revolution and Welding science. It is a time of glorious innovation and dangerous civil unrest. But Miss Aline Finch, prim, plain career girl, has more important things on her mind than the state of the Empire.After her employer, the handsome but insufferable criminologist, Professor Romanov, hares off for parts unknown in a slightly-illegal dirigible, stranding her in France, she has finally had enough. In a fit of pique, she decides to marry her long-time and very proper suitor, quitting Romanov for good.The last thing the Professor expects to come home to is his secretary's mutiny. Finch's timing couldn't be any more inconvenient, for a serial murderer from Romanov's past has set his sights on her. Romanov must keep her close if he has any chance of protecting her life\u2014and the dangerous secrets the murderer threatens to expose. For the Professor is much, much more than he seems, and the secrets that he keeps are centuries old\u2014and hidden deep in his heart.When the Professor discovers Finch is to wed, however, he is forced to confront the truth of the matter: he doesn't just want his secretary back to protect her. He wants her in his bed. Forever. Aline fights Romanov's seduction, but she's no match for her own unruly desires, or the truth of her own heart.But when the Professor's true identity is exposed, destroying the very foundations of Aline's conception of reality, will the Professor lose her forever? Or will the murderer succeed in his evil plot to destroy them both before they can find their happy ending?Warning: this sensual romance will put the steam in steampunk.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18515966-prince-of-hearts"}, +{"book_title": "The Outlaw Demon Wails", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 54804, "review_number": 1296, "book_description": "Note: This book is the same as The Outlaw Demon Wails. It was printed under both titles. To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her.As Rachel searches for the truth behind a terrifying murder, an even greater menace threatens, for the demon Algaliarept will stop at nothing to claim her, and the discovery of a shocking family secret throws Rachel's entire life into question. If she is ever to live free, Rachel must first walk willingly into the demonic ever-after in search of long-lost ancient knowledge.But when you dance with demons, you lay your soul on the line . . . and there are some lines that should never be crossed.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1225621.The_Outlaw_Demon_Wails"}, +{"book_title": "48", "author_name": "James Herbert", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 3102, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "In 1945, Hitler unleashed the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance.Those who died at once were the lucky ones. The really unfortunate took years. The survivors - people like me, who had the blood group that kept us safe from the disease - were now targets for those who believed our blood could save them.I survived for three years. I lived alone, spending my days avoiding the fascist Blackshirts who wanted my blood for their dying leader. Then I met the others - and life got complicated all over again . . .", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929901.48"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowboxer", "author_name": "Nicholas Pollotta", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 214, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Two Bears, the dwarf mercenary, sees an easy way to make some cash in the search for the secrets behind IronHell, a force that threatens to unhinge the world, until he finds himself in a picaresque urban jungle.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Role Playing Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351444.Shadowboxer"}, +{"book_title": "Toast, and Other Stories", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 998, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Award-winning author Charles Stross is one of today's most exciting and entertaining writers. This collection, Toast, brings together some of his best short stories originally published between 1989 and 2001, including his Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Award nominated work \"Lobsters\", the first of his many near-future cyberpunk Accelerando stories. Bruce Sterling on speed? The imagination of Sterling squared? All of the glitz, glibly tossed-off newly invented, or hybrid tech-terms thrown at the reader like an info blizzard at hurricane force, but with more core storyline than in some of Sterling's \"Deep Eddy\" stories.Contents: * Introduction: After the Future Imploded (2002) \u2022 essay by Charles Stross * Antibodies (2000) / short story by Charles Stross * Bear Trap (2000) / novelette by Charles Stross * Extracts from the Club Diary (1998) / short story by Charles Stross * A Colder War (2000) / novelette by Charles Stross * TOAST: A Con Report (1998) / short story by Charles Stross * A Boy and His God (1997) / short story by Charles Stross * Ship of Fools (1995) / short story by Charles Stross * Dechlorinating the Moderator (1996) / short story by Charles Stross * Yellow Snow (1990) / short story by Charles Stross * Big Brother Iron (2002) / novelette by Charles Stross.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies", "Horror", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Lovecraftian (Cthulhu Mythos)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17862.Toast_and_Other_Stories"}, +{"book_title": "Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Jinsei Kataoka", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 17909, "review_number": 448, "book_description": "Ten years have passed since the Great Tokyo Earthquake, and the people's memories of the disaster have faded. Ganta Igarashi, a middle school evacuee, has finally begun to live a normal life... that is, until the day 'Red Man' appears at his school and Ganta's fate is changed forever.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Horror", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Comics Manga", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6606855-deadman-wonderland-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Politician", "author_name": "Piers Anthony", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 3364, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Political prisonerHe awoke in a tiny lightless cell, groping for memory\u2026memory that had been erased. Hope Hubris, Jupiter governor, progressive populist, warrior hero, and presidential candidate\u2026a \u201cmem-washed\u201d tool of the enemy. And if his captors\u2019 plan worked, Hope would destroy his own political career, leaving the fate of his planet in the hands of its corrupt presidential incumbent\u2014Tocsin.But Hope Hubris had a destiny to fulfill. He had the cunning to discover code words that could reactivate his mind\u2026the strength to resist addiction to their drugs\u2026the power to win the support of his countrymen, and finally the courage to make an agonizing sacrifice that would ensure his planet's future and his own destiny\u2026Tyrant of Jupiter", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Literature (American)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Young Adult (High School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542601.Politician"}, +{"book_title": "The Excalibur Alternative", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3362, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "This novel is expanded from a shorter version published in David Drake's Foreign Legions. Captured by a technologically advanced alien race, a group of medieval English knights gains power and experience as savage interstellar mercenaries, all the while planning for the day when they will rise up and reclaim the freedom that is their destiny.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1107306.The_Excalibur_Alternative"}, +{"book_title": "Kaminishi", "author_name": "Jan Suzukawa", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "College student Michael Holden wakes up in an impossible reality: mid-nineteenth century Japan, face to face with Shinjaro Kaminishi, a living, breathing samurai warlord Michael has seen in a dream. Imprisoned by the warlord and interrogated about the future, Michael has no idea if what he's experiencing is real... and then he finds himself back in present-day America. Shinjaro\u2019s commanding presence and smoldering sexuality draw Michael again and again to the past, where dangerous information is revealed and Shinjaro's life is threatened. Through the mists of time and in the reality of modern Japan, Michael searches for the truth\u2014and for the man who now owns his heart\u2014Shinjaro Kaminishi.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Fan Fiction (Slash Fiction)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10456730-kaminishi"}, +{"book_title": "Beneath the Surface", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 2519, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "All Sergeant Evrial Yara wanted was to protect the young emperor from those plotting to kill him. Joining forces with a group of notorious outlaws wasn\u2019t part of the plan, especially not when one of them is determined to charm her out of her uniform at every turn. Working with the criminals might have been worth it if their efforts had saved the emperor, but it seems he\u2019s not the rightful heir to the throne.... Evrial may have thrown away her career for nothing. To make matters worse, fate isn\u2019t going to give her time to calmly decide what to do next. While she\u2019s traveling back to the capital with Amaranthe Lokdon and the rest of the outlaws, Evrial uncovers artifacts that have been smuggled aboard their steamboat. They\u2019re deadly enough to threaten the entire city, perhaps the entire empire. Oh, and they could kill everybody on board the boat too. These scenarios just weren\u2019t discussed in the Enforcer Academy. This 56,000-word novella takes place between Books 5 and 6 in the Emperor\u2019s Edge series.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17229437-beneath-the-surface"}, +{"book_title": "The Word for World is Forest", "author_name": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 18490, "review_number": 1554, "book_description": "Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named \"New Tahiti\" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning the ancient society. Humans have learned interstellar travel from the Hainish (the origin-planet of all humanoid races, including Athsheans). Various planets have been expanding independently, but during the novel it's learned that the League of All Worlds has been formed. News arrives via an ansible, a new discovery. Previously they had been cut off, 27 light years from home.The story occurs after The Dispossessed, where both the ansible & the League of Worlds are unrealised. Also well before Planet of Exile, where human settlers have learned to coexist. The 24th century has been suggested. Terran colonists take over the planet locals call Athshe, meaning \"forest,\" rather than \"dirt,\" like their home planet Terra. They follow the 19th century model of colonization: felling trees, planting farms, digging mines & enslaving indigenous peoples. The natives are unequipped to comprehend this. They're a subsistence race who rely on the forests & have no cultural precedent for tyranny, slavery or war. The invaders take their land without resistance until one fatal act sets rebellion in motion & changes the people of both worlds forever.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Novels", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276767.The_Word_for_World_is_Forest"}, +{"book_title": "Gearbreakers", "author_name": "Zoe Hana Mikuta", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 15, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Two girls on opposite sides of a war discover they're fighting for a common purpose--and falling for each other--in Zoe Hana Mikuta's high-octane debut Gearbreakers, perfect for fans of Pacific Rim, Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga, and Marie Lu's Legend series.We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...The shadow of Godolia's tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords.Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a brash young rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. When one of her missions goes awry and she finds herself in a Godolia prison, Eris meets Sona Steelcrest, a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. At first Eris sees Sona as her mortal enemy, but Sona has a secret: She has intentionally infiltrated the Windup program to destroy Godolia from within.As the clock ticks down to their deadliest mission yet, a direct attack to end Godolia's reign once and for all, Eris and Sona grow closer--as comrades, friends, and perhaps something more...", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54017833-gearbreakers"}, +{"book_title": "Midnight's Lover", "author_name": "Donna Grant", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 2189, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Driven by the fierce god within him, highlander Ian Kerr is sworn to fight for the land he loves\u2014and the brother he lost. But when he\u2019s transported four centuries into the future, he finds himself fighting his own desires\u2014for a beautiful, bewitching woman who could hold a warrior spellbound\u2026Danielle Buchanan has heard the legends. She has felt the power of Druid blood in her veins. But she has never known a man as fearsome\u2014or as haunted\u2014as the warrior Ian. With her magic, Dani must help him fight an ancient evil. With her heart, she must join him in his quest. But only with her soul can she free him from his curse\u2026and seal their fates together.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13003421-midnight-s-lover"}, +{"book_title": "Where Willows Won't Grow", "author_name": "Lia Black", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 562, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Librarian's Note: This is an alternate/new cover for ASIN B00LR78V6UUndercover agent Alex Kley is a long way from home. Six months of investigation have brought him to Willow House, a high class brothel on Omanai Station, as beautiful on the outside as it is corrupt on the inside. Sold into sexual slavery to infiltrate an illegal prostitution ring, Alex must find the evidence he needs to bring down the leader of a powerful criminal cartel\u2014a man who may not even be human. Illythe, the manager of Willow House, is a long way from freedom. The jet-skinned beauty with the face of an angel walks the halls of Willow House with serenity and authority, but underneath his cold and beautiful facade, Illythe is as much a slave as any of the young men working in the brothel. In an undercover operation, falling in love is the worst thing an agent can do, but Illythe is a mystery that Alex can\u2019t resist. It doesn\u2019t take long for Alex to realize that Illythe is not in his role by choice. Yet Illythe holds the holds the information Alex needs. The more Alex learns, the clearer it becomes, that when the cartel falls, Illythe will be buried in the rubble. In the end, Alex must make a choice: save Illythe and forfeit the mission, or leave him behind in a place where willows won\u2019t grow. Important Note to Readers: This work of fiction is for adults only. Please see content warnings in \"story info\" front matter before download. This story was written as part of the M/M Romance Group\u2019s 2014 \u201cLove's Landscapes\u201d event.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Dark", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23484561-where-willows-won-t-grow"}, +{"book_title": "The Boat of a Million Years", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 4063, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars.A milestone in modern science fiction, a New York Times Notable Book on its first publication in 1989, this is one of a great writer's finest works.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338327.The_Boat_of_a_Million_Years"}, +{"book_title": "The List", "author_name": "Patricia Forde", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 3710, "review_number": 851, "book_description": "In the city of Ark, speech is constrained to five hundred sanctioned words. Speak outside the approved lexicon and face banishment. The exceptions are the Wordsmith and his apprentice Letta, the keepers and archivists of all language in their post-apocalyptic, neo-medieval world. On the death of her master, Letta is suddenly promoted to Wordsmith, charged with collecting and saving words. But when she uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language and rob Ark\u2019s citizens of their power of speech, she realizes that it\u2019s up to her to save not only words, but culture itself.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33846933-the-list"}, +{"book_title": "Zodiac", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 17873, "review_number": 755, "book_description": "Sangamon Taylor's a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil -- all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylor's house is bombed, his every move followed, he's adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBI's most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roomate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party. As he navigates this ecological thriller with hardboiled wit and the biggest outboard motor he can get his hands on, Taylor reveals himself as one of the last of the white-hatted good guys in a very toxic world.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Environment", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/825.Zodiac"}, +{"book_title": "Party Discipline", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 170, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "In a world where most of us are just surplus population, certain temptations are acute indeed. Party Discipline is a Tor.com Original from bestselling author Cory Doctorow.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35910452-party-discipline"}, +{"book_title": "Black Ops", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 8133, "review_number": 274, "book_description": "The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the Thuranin are sending another starship to Earth. Along the way, they became sidetracked by securing a future for the UNEF troops on the planet Paradise. When asked whether Earth was now safe, their ancient alien AI responded 'Not so much'... now they have to deal with the consequences.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35224512-black-ops"}, +{"book_title": "Dragon and Thief", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 3042, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "Jack Morgan 13 has a dragon on his back - literally. The warrior K'da species are symbiotes, can only live six hours without their humanoid host. Draycos 30s is the sole survivor of the three ships destroyed scouting for their refugees, and Jack is the only possible choice. They may be an odd couple, but together they're more than the sum of their parts. They are destined to travel far and wide, facing many perils - human, alien, and other, as they seek justice and safety - Jack for himself, and Draycos for his people.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216445.Dragon_and_Thief"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Rumpus", "author_name": "Sean Taylor", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 139, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "When a young girl's parents go out for the evening, they think they've left their daughter in safe hands with robots designed to get her to bed! There's Cook-bot to make great spaghetti for dinner, Clean-bot to do the washing-up, Wash-bot for bath time, and even Book-bot for a bedtime story. What could possibly go wrong?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17366003-robot-rumpus"}, +{"book_title": "The Sundering", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2130, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "\u201cSpace opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.\u201d -- George R.R. MartinFollowing The Praxis, Walter Jon Williams\u2019 critically-acclaimed mix of space opera and military science fiction, the conflict grows for the fate of humanity\u2026and the universe.The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries, as an even greater terror arises. The Naxids\u2014a powerful insectoid species themselves subjugated until the recent Shaa demise\u2014plan to fill the vacuum with their own bloody domination, and have already won a shattering victory with superior force and unimaginable cruelty. But two heroes survived the carnage at Magaria: Lord Gareth Martinez and the fiery, mysterious gun pilot Lady Caroline Sula, whose courageous exploits are becoming legend in the new history of galactic civil war. Yet their cunning, skill, and bravery may be no match for the overwhelming enemy descending upon the loyalist stronghold of Zanshaa, as the horrific battle looms that will determine the structure of the universe\u2014and who shall live to inhabit it\u2014for millennia to come.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85656.The_Sundering"}, +{"book_title": "The Garden of Rama", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 22850, "review_number": 375, "book_description": "In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge - big enough to contain a city and a sea - and empty, apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next, unknown, destination many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only one thing was clear: everything the enigmatic builders of Rama did, they did in threes.Eighty years later the second alien craft arrived in the solar system. This time, Earth had been waiting. But all the years of preparation were not enough to unlock the Raman enigma.Now Rama II is on its way out of the solar system. Aboard it are three humans, two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown, a voyage no human has ever experienced. And at the end of it - and who could tell how many years away that might be? - may lie the truth about Rama...", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112518.The_Garden_of_Rama"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories", "author_name": "Eoin Colfer", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1800, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Anthology is the perfect collection of adventures for Doctor Who fans.This print edition is the culmination of a year-long series of ebooks to celebrate fifty years of Doctor Who. Eleven Doctors, eleven stories, eleven unique interpretations of the Doctor, his terrifying alien enemies and his time-travelling adventures.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17973716-doctor-who"}, +{"book_title": "Monster Island", "author_name": "David Wellington", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 10381, "review_number": 549, "book_description": "It's one month after a global disaster. The most \"developed\" nations of the world have fallen to the shambling zombie masses. Only a few pockets of humanity survive \u2014 in places rife with high-powered weaponry, such as Somalia. In New York City, the dead walk the streets, driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One amongst them is different; though he shares their appetites he has retained his human intelligence. Alone among the mindless zombies, Gary Fleck is an eyewitness to the end of the world \u2014 and perhaps the evil genius behind it all. From the other side of the planet, a small but heavily-armed group of schoolgirls-turned-soldiers has come in search of desperately needed medicine. Dekalb, a former United Nations weapons inspector, leads them as their local guide. Ayaan, a crack shot at the age of sixteen, will stop at nothing to complete her mission. They think they are prepared for anything. On Monster Island they will find that there is something worse even than being undead, as Gary learns the true price of survival.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44190.Monster_Island"}, +{"book_title": "Akira, Vol. 4", "author_name": "Katsuhiro Otomo", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 8144, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "The science fiction tale set in 2019 in Tokyo after the city was destroyed by World War III, follows the lives of two teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, who have a consuming fear of a monstrous power known as Akira.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93374.Akira_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "The Experiment", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 2512, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "The Yeerks are ready to control humans where it counts -- in their DNA. They're working on a drug that saps humans of their free will. But the Animorphs show them that human free will runs deeper than any drug can reach,", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286582.The_Experiment"}, +{"book_title": "Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 5", "author_name": "Yuu Watase", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 6213, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "A miniature version of Night has returned to Riiko while his full-size body gets repaired--but now Soshi has decided to move in with them! Can a mini Night prove to Riiko that his love is just as real as Soshi's?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Manga (Shojo)", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1605198.Absolute_Boyfriend_Vol_5"}, +{"book_title": "The Water Knife", "author_name": "Paolo Bacigalupi", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 21928, "review_number": 3004, "book_description": "In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, leg-breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel \"cuts\" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her luxurious developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get dust. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in drought-ravaged Phoenix, it seems California is making a play to monopolize the life-giving flow of the river, and Angel is sent to investigate. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a drought-hardened journalist, and Maria Villarosa, a young refugee who survives by her wits in a city that despises everything she represents. For Angel, Lucy, and Maria, time is running out and their only hope for survival rests in each other\u2019s hands. But when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only thing for certain is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.\u00a0", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23209924-the-water-knife"}, +{"book_title": "Queen of the Sea", "author_name": "Dylan Meconis", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2367, "review_number": 547, "book_description": "Cult graphic novelist Dylan Meconis offers a rich reimagining of history in this hybrid novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary.When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent spend their days peacefully praying, sewing, and gardening. But the island is also home to Margaret, a mysterious young orphan girl whose life is upturned when the cold, regal stranger arrives. As Margaret grows closer to Eleanor, she grapples with the revelation of the island\u2019s sinister true purpose as well as the truth of her own past. When Eleanor\u2019s life is threatened, Margaret is faced with a perilous choice between helping Eleanor and protecting herself.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27411491-queen-of-the-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Sky Key", "author_name": "James Frey", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 5929, "review_number": 528, "book_description": "The sequel to the New York Times bestseller and international multimedia phenomenon, Endgame: The Calling.Endgame is here. Earth Key has been found. Two keys\u2014and nine Players\u2014remain. The keys must be found, and only one Player can win.Queens, New York. Aisling Kopp believes the unthinkable: that Endgame can be stopped. But before she can get home to regroup, she is approached by the CIA. They know about Endgame. And they have their own ideas about how it should be Played. Ideas that could change everything.Kingdom of Aksum, Ethiopia. Hilal ibn Isa al-Salt narrowly survived an attack that leaves him horribly disfigured. He now knows something the other Players do not. But the Aksumites have a secret that is unique to their line. A secret that can help redeem humanity\u2014and maybe even be used to help defeat the beings behind Endgame.London, England. Sarah Alopay has found the first key. She is with Jago\u2014and they are winning.But getting Earth Key has come at a great cost to Sarah. The only thing that keeps the demons at bay is Playing. Playing to win.Sky Key\u2014wherever it is, whatever it is\u2014is next. And the nine remaining Players will stop at nothing to get it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24465662-sky-key"}, +{"book_title": "Drakon", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 681, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Detective Lt. Henry Carmaggio has seen plenty of blood in his 20 years of police work in New York. He'd never seen anything like the Warehouse Massacre. Gwendolyn had been too close to the molehole experiment when it went wrong and hurled her into a parallel Earth. Now, as a member of the Draka Master Race her duty is clear--come back and conquer all.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116451.Drakon"}, +{"book_title": "In His Majesty's Service", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1752, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo\u2013an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation\u2019s history.Thrust into England\u2019s Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial dragon intended for Napoleon\u2013Temeraire himself\u2013 has fallen into British hands. The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage fraught with peril and intrigue. From England\u2019s shores to China\u2019s palaces, from the Silk Road\u2019s outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland, Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from powerful adversaries around the globe. But can they succeed against the massed forces of Bonaparte\u2019s implacable army?Together in one volume, here are the first three novels in Naomi Novik\u2019s New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, combining the gripping history of the Napoleonic era, the thrill of Anne McCaffrey\u2019s Dragonriders of Pern books, and the excitement of Patrick O\u2019Brian\u2019s seafaring adventures. In His Majesty\u2019s Service also includes an exclusive original Temeraire short story - \"In Autumn, a White Dragon Looks over the Wide River\".", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13518120-in-his-majesty-s-service"}, +{"book_title": "Beautiful Creatures", "author_name": "Kami Garcia", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 553414, "review_number": 22125, "book_description": "Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6304335-beautiful-creatures"}, +{"book_title": "Fall", "author_name": "Scarlett Dawn", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1962, "review_number": 153, "book_description": "*The individual installments are no longer in publication. Please see Cold Mark (Mark, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2....A savagely wicked new adult sci-fi serial blasts off with Fall, the first installment in The Cold Mark Saga...Only one thousand Humans survived The Travel from the shattered Earth. Some Humans say it was their penance for crushing such beauty. Eighteen-year-old Braita merely thought it was pathetic - pathetic that her people had been that blind.Now, the Humans live in the solar system, Kline, where three planets are habitable. Joyal, the smallest planet, is embraced by the Humans - their family to love as they had never loved Earth. Though a planet covered mainly in water is dangerous real estate to dwell upon.Their worry turns into devastating reality when Braita's blessed village is struck by a tsunami. Population numbers must be kept to a minimum. Drastic measures must be taken. Braita's life is twisted in brutality when she is chosen as one of the three hundred Humans to be removed from Joyal...and sent to the Mian, the aliens to fear, on the planet Triaz.Thrown head first into a barbaric world she knows nothing of, Braita must adapt to a dark life as a slave of the Mian society. Her existence depends on it...and possibly, the fall of her heart.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Short Stories", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22739456-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Ashling", "author_name": "Isobelle Carmody", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 6201, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "The powerful farseeker Elspeth Gordie is sent to Sutrium, seat of the totalitarian council that rules the Land, to seal an alliance between the secret Misfit community at Obernewtyn and rebel forces.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47907.Ashling"}, +{"book_title": "The Nine Pound Hammer", "author_name": "John Claude Bemis", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 894, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "What if John Henry had a son?Twelve-year-old Ray is haunted by the strangest memories of his father, whom Ray swears could speak to animals. Now an orphan, Ray jumps from a train going through the American South and falls in with a medicine show train and its stable of sideshow performers. The performers turn out to be heroes, defenders of the wild, including the son of John Henry. They are hiding the last of the mythical Swamp Sirens from an ancient evil known as the Gog. Why the Gog wants the Siren, they can\u2019t be sure, but they know it has something to do with rebuilding a monstrous machine that John Henry gave his life destroying years before, a machine that will allow the Gog to control the will of men and spread darkness throughout the world.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978834-the-nine-pound-hammer"}, +{"book_title": "Fear", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 44930, "review_number": 2015, "book_description": "It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear.Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over, literally\u2014turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. In darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruelest of intentions are carried out. But even in their darkest moments, the inhabitants of the FAYZ maintain a will to survive and a desire to take care of the others in their ravaged band that endures, no matter what the cost.Fear, Michael Grant's fifth book in the bestselling dystopian Gone series, will thrill readers . . . even as it terrifies them.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8811134-fear"}, +{"book_title": "Lamplighter", "author_name": "D.M. Cornish", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 4264, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "The eagerly awaited second book of the critically acclaimed trilogy! Orphan Rossamund Bookchild has been sworn into the Emperor's service his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways and protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he did with the foundlings always too small and too meek and his loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed. But when a haughty young girl, a member of a suspiciously regarded society of all-women teratologists monster hunters is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamund is no longer the most despised soul around. As Rossamund begins to make new friends in the dangerous world of the Half-Continent, he also seems to make more enemies, finding himself pushed toward a destiny that he could never have imagined.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1871863.Lamplighter"}, +{"book_title": "Heavy Liquid", "author_name": "Paul Pope", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1616, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Paul Pope brings a quiet, old-school sensibility to noisy, postmodern comics with Heavy Liquid. This graphic novel, set in the late 21st century, focuses on all the classic elements of detective and adventure stories: lost love, mysterious clients, a package everyone wants, and a tired, barely willing protagonist. The narrative details--such as the eponymous liquid, which is part munition, part drug, and much stranger than any character imagines--are calculated to foil the reader's assumptions, and the expressionistic artwork blends simple colors with bold lines to draw the eyes onward. It seems safe to say that cyberpunk's not dead. --Rob Lightner", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Mystery (Crime)", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/590546.Heavy_Liquid"}, +{"book_title": "House of Darken", "author_name": "Jaymin Eve", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 11064, "review_number": 654, "book_description": "When Emma moves to Astoria, Oregon, she is given two rules: #1 \u2013 Don\u2019t cross to \u201ctheir\u201d side of the street.\t#2 \u2013 Don\u2019t mess with the elites, especially Lexen Darken, top elite and resident bad boy. While she finds this both weird and insulting, Emma has no actual intention of breaking these rules - until her guardians go missing. Now all bets are off. Only a single line separates her side of the street from the elites', and she's crossing it. Captured and held by Lexen and his brothers, she learns the rules are in place for a very good reason. There's a secret world hidden in this small town which goes far beyond the one she knows and understands. A world not for humans.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36161602-house-of-darken"}, +{"book_title": "The Wide Window", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 164498, "review_number": 5086, "book_description": "Dear Reader,If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all. If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair. I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438492.The_Wide_Window"}, +{"book_title": "A Tumble Through Time", "author_name": "Callie Hutton", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 205, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Anna Devlin, a recently jilted bounty hunter is a modern woman from the twenty-first century. She is anxious for the hearing that will reinstate her law enforcement career, but an encounter with a strange Native American woman sends Anna back in time to the year 1870. Federal Marshal Wesley Shannon of Denton, Kansas, has no idea where this woman with the strange clothing and way of speaking came from. Since he fights his own inner demons, the last thing he needs is an attraction to a woman who has given him no clear idea who she is. But when danger arrives in the form of stagecoach hold ups where drivers and passengers are being killed, Anna torments Wes with plans to help him bring in the outlaws. Will Wes be able to keep Anna out of harm's way, or will his attraction to her distract him enough that they are both in danger?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Westerns", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18056145-a-tumble-through-time"}, +{"book_title": "Innocence", "author_name": "Dean Koontz", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 22266, "review_number": 2491, "book_description": "He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found. But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance\u2014and nothing less than destiny\u2014has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17797381-innocence"}, +{"book_title": "Wolfsbane", "author_name": "N.J. Layouni", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 651, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Losing the twenty-first century was bad enough, but Martha Bigalow's situation is about to become a whole lot worse. Only days after her marriage to Vadim\u2014a handsome outlaw stalked by grim shadows of the past\u2014Martha is captured by his arch nemesis, the evil Earl of Edgeway. While awaiting her fate in a dank dungeon beneath Edgeway's castle, Vadim\u2019s twisted foster brother\u2014 Anselm\u2014offers her a way out, an alternative to a tortuous and painful death. Forced into a life of deceit, Martha discovers friendship where she least expects to find it, even within the stronghold of the enemy, and by the time war descends on Edgeway, the boundary between black and white\u2014between friend and foe\u2014is less distinct. As the castle braces itself for a bitter siege, Martha's loyalty is divided, her love for Vadim tested to its limit... and may prove to be yet another casualty of war.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164354-wolfsbane"}, +{"book_title": "Battlespace", "author_name": "Ian Douglas", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1038, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "When called to do battle many light years from home, the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit rose to the challenge -- and now thousands of enslaved humans have been freed from the alien yoke. But Earth is twenty-one years older than the home planet they originally left, and the Marines need time to retrain and readjust -- time they do not have, due to the bizzare disappearance of a detachment of their brothers- and sisters-in-arms. It is a mystery, but there is a starting point: an ancient wormhole threading through the Sirius system. Whatever waits on the other side must be confronted, with stealth, with force, and without fear -- be it an ancient enemy or a devastating new threat.The Marines are heading into the perilous unknown . . . and what transpires there could reshape the universe for millennia to come.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205256.Battlespace"}, +{"book_title": "Nine's Legacy", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 11766, "review_number": 404, "book_description": "Number Nine\u2014when John frees him from his cell in the power of six, he's ferocious, reckless, and ready to fight back. But being held captive changes a person\u2014even a Lorien. See what Nine was like before his capture, and read about his dramatic escape from his point of view.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Novella", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13425352-nine-s-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "Day of the Damned", "author_name": "David Gunn", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 886, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Fueled with high-octane testosterone and noteworthy for a kill rate more customary in computer games than in works of literature, David Gunn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s novels take no prisoners and make no apologies. Like war itself, they are raw and violent, horrifying yet mysteriously moving. These qualities also characterize Gunn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hero and narrator, Lt. Sven Tveskoeg, a killing machine whose DNA marks him as less\u00e2\u20ac\u201cor perhaps more\u00e2\u20ac\u201cthan human. Whatever he is, he is always as enthralling as he is lethal.Sven has survived everything a hostile universe can throw at him. But he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be the first to admit that it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t smarts that have kept him alive for so long. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not luck, either. Because luck wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have seen him plucked out of obscurity to serve in the army of Emperor OctoV, a machine-human hybrid who appears to be a teenage boy but is actually immeasurably older. Maybe Sven has survived out of sheer orneriness\u00e2\u20ac\u201calthough his artificially intelligent, unmistakably sarcastic, and more or less sociopathic sidearm might argue otherwise\u00e2\u20ac\u201cbut Sven isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t one to ponder such questions.In Day of the Damned, Sven and his band of misfit auxiliaries have arrived at Farlight, capital of the Octavian Empire, for a little well-earned rest and relaxation. Sven visits his old friends Debro and Anton, whom he liberated from the prison planet of Paradise, and their teenage daughter Aptitude, whose husband he assassinated and who now has a major crush on him.But what begins as a respite quickly turns into a bloodbath as civil war erupts. And behind the double crosses and Byzantine betrayals threatening to topple OctoV from the throne he has held for thousands of years are the United Free, a galaxy-spanning empire with the technology of gods and the morals of schoolchildren. As usual, big trouble seems to be following Sven. Which is all right with him. He isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that fond of vacations, anyway.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6284446-day-of-the-damned"}, +{"book_title": "Snapshot", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 11313, "review_number": 1081, "book_description": "Snapshot is a Science Fiction detective story following Anthony Davis, a cop assigned to Snapshot Duty. In this vivid world that author Brandon Sanderson has built, society can create a snapshot of a specific day in time. The experiences people have, the paths they follow\u2014all of them are real again for a one day in the snapshot. All for the purposes of investigation by the court. Davis\u2019s job as a cop on Snapshot Duty is straight forward. Sometimes he is tasked with finding where a criminal dumped a weapon. Sometimes he is tasked with documenting domestic disputes. Simple. Mundane. One day, in between two snapshot assignments, Davis decides to investigate the memory of a call that was mysteriously never logged at the precinct, and he makes a horrifying discovery.As in all many stories, Snapshot follows a wonderfully flawed character as he attempts to solve a horrific crime. Sanderson proves that no matter the genre, he is one of the most skilled storytellers in the business.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31176804-snapshot"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 8: Dirge", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 10827, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Transmetropolitan created by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22423.Transmetropolitan_Vol_8"}, +{"book_title": "The Desert and the Blade", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1201, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "In his novels of the Change, New York Times bestselling author S.M. Stirling presents \u201ca devastated, mystical world that will appeal to fans of traditional fantasy as well as post-apocalyptic SF.\u201d* Continuing their quest that began in The Golden Princess, two future rulers of a world without technology risk their lives seeking a fabled blade\u2026\u00a0Reiko, Empress of Japan, has allied herself with Princess \u00d3rlaith, heir to the High Kingdom of Montival, to find the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, the Grass-Cutting Sword, a legendary treasure of an ancient dynasty that confers valor and victory to its bearer. \u00d3rlaith understands all too well the power it signifies. Her own inherited blade, the Sword of the Lady, was both a burden and a danger to her father, Rudi Mackenzie, as it failed to save the king from being assassinated.But the fabled sword lies deep within the Valley of Death, and the search will be far from easy. And war is building, in Montival and far beyond.As \u00d3rlaith and Reiko encounter danger and wonder, \u00d3rlaith\u2019s mother, Queen Mathilda, believes her daughter\u2019s alliance and quest has endangered the entire realm. There are factions both within and without Montival whose loyalty died with the king and whispers of treachery and war grow ever louder.And the Malevolence that underlies the enemy will bend all its forces to destroy them.*Publishers Weekly (starred review)", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Literature (21st Century)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24611682-the-desert-and-the-blade"}, +{"book_title": "Blue Bells of Scotland", "author_name": "Laura Vosika", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 1460, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "Shawn has a skyrocketing musical career, fans, fame, money, his beautiful girlfriend Amy, and all the women he wants. Everything changes: Amy has enough and leaves him stranded in a Scottish castle tower overnight. He wakes up in medieval Scotland. Mistaken for the castle's future laird, he is forced to make a dangerous cross-country trek with a beautiful woman wielding a knife, pursued by English soldiers and a Scottish traitor, to raise men for the critical battle at Bannockburn.Niall Campbell, Shawn's opposite in everything except looks, is no more happy to find himself caught in Shawn's life, pursued by women, the target of an angry girlfriend, expected to play a sell-out concert, and hearing the account of his own death and Scotland's annihilation at Bannockburn. He vows to figure out what went wrong at the battle, and find a way back to change it.Blue Bells of Scotland is both an action-packed adventure and a tale of redemption that will be remembered long after the last page has been turned.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6810566-blue-bells-of-scotland"}, +{"book_title": "Torn", "author_name": "Margaret Peterson Haddix", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 8110, "review_number": 443, "book_description": "Still reeling from their experiences in Roanoke in 1600, Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 only moments before a mutiny on Henry Hudson\u2019s ship in the icy waters of James Bay. But things are messed up: they\u2019ve lost the real John Hudson, and they find what seems to be the fabled Northwest Passage\u2014even though they are pretty sure that that route doesn\u2019t actually exist. Will this new version of history replace the real past? Is this the end of time as we know it? With more at stake than ever before, Jonah and Katherine struggle to unravel the mysteries of 1611 and the Hudson Passage...before everything they know is lost.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9758788-torn"}, +{"book_title": "Aurora: CV-01", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 5491, "review_number": 272, "book_description": "Episode 1 A world recovering from a devastating plague\u2026 A brutal enemy threatening invasion\u2026 A young man seeking to escape the shadow of his father\u2026 A ship manned by a crew of fresh academy graduates\u2026 A top-secret experimental propulsion system\u2026 A questionable alliance with a mysterious green-eyed woman\u2026 What destiny has in store for the crew of the UES Aurora, is far greater than any of them could ever imagine. And this is only the beginning\u2026 \"Aurora: CV-01\" is 77,000 word novel, and is Episode 1 of The Frontiers Saga. Episode 2, \"The Rings of Haven\"is available now!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13504505-aurora"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita, Volume 08: Fallen Angel", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1934, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "\"First published in Japan in 1991 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo\"--T.p. verso.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/345163.Battle_Angel_Alita_Volume_08"}, +{"book_title": "The World Inside", "author_name": "Robert Silverberg", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 2325, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "Earth 2381: The hordes of humanity have withdrawn into isolated 1000-story Urbmons, comfortably controlled multicity-buildings which perpetuate an open culture of free sex and unrestricted population growth. Nearly all of Earth's 75 billion live in the hundreds of monolithic structures scattered across the globe, with the exception of the small agricultural communes that supply the Urbmons with food. When a restless Urbmon computer engineer begins to think unblessworthy thoughts of making a trip outside, he risks being labeled a flippo, for whom there is only one punishment.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Roman", "Science Fiction (Utopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261625.The_World_Inside"}, +{"book_title": "Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation", "author_name": "Damian Duffy", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 5783, "review_number": 1041, "book_description": "I lost an arm on my last trip home. Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that suddenly transformed in to the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder--and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white--and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Cultural (African American)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28818221-kindred"}, +{"book_title": "The Glamour Thieves", "author_name": "Don Allmon", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 274, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "JT is an orc on the way up. He\u2019s got his own boutique robotics shop, high-end clientele, and deep-pocketed investors. He\u2019s even mentoring an orc teen who reminds him a bit too much of himself back in the day. Then Austin shows up, and the elf\u2019s got the same hard body and silver tongue as he did two years ago when they used to be friends and might have been more. He\u2019s also got a stolen car to bribe JT to saying yes to one last scheme: stealing the virtual intelligence called Blue Unicorn.Soon JT\u2019s up to his tusks in trouble, and it ain\u2019t just zombies and Chinese triads threatening to tear his new life apart. Austin wants a second chance with JT\u2014this time as more than just a friend\u2014and even the Blue Unicorn is trying to play matchmaker.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34998187-the-glamour-thieves"}, +{"book_title": "It", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 832236, "review_number": 26415, "book_description": "Welcome to Derry, Maine ...It\u2019s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Classics", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830502.It"}, +{"book_title": "Dr. Slump, Vol. 01", "author_name": "Akira Toriyama", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1502, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Robot girl hijinks from the creator of Dragon Ball!When goofy inventor Senbei Norimaki creates a precocious robot named Arale, his masterpiece turns out to be more than he bargained for!Basking in the glow of his scientific achievement, Senbei scrambles to get Arale in working order so the rest of Penguin Village won't have reason to suspect she's not really a girl. But first Senbei needs to find her a pair of glasses and some clothes...", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics Manga", "Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Humor (Comedy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1114323.Dr_Slump_Vol_01"}, +{"book_title": "Omega Days", "author_name": "John L. Campbell", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1563, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Eight million walking dead stalk the San Francisco Bay Area, with more on the way. Scattered refugees - a priest with a bloody past, a college girl turned sniper, escaped San Quentin inmates and others - will quickly learn the three most important rules of survival: Make your bullets count. Don't fall behind. Don't...get...bitten!Fast-paced and packed with zombie action, Book One of the Omega Days series lights off the apocalypse with a scream, and tears California to pieces!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17436799-omega-days"}, +{"book_title": "The Automatic Detective", "author_name": "A. Lee Martinez", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 4591, "review_number": 453, "book_description": "Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it\u2019s hard for a robot to make his way. It\u2019s even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack\u2019s not interested in world domination. He\u2019s just a bot trying to get by, trying to demonstrate that he isn\u2019t just an automated smashing machine, and to earn his citizenship in the process. It should be as easy as crushing a tank for Mack, but some bots just can\u2019t catch a break.When Mack\u2019s neighbors are kidnapped, Mack sets off on a journey through the dark alleys and gleaming skyscrapers of Empire City. Along the way, he runs afoul of a talking gorilla, a brainy dame, a mutant lowlife, a little green mob boss, and the secret conspiracy at the heart of Empire\u2019s founders---not to mention more trouble than he bargained for. What started out as one missing family becomes a battle for the future of Empire and every citizen that calls her home.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Detective)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1265289.The_Automatic_Detective"}, +{"book_title": "The Road to Hell", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 604, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Entry #3\u00a0in\u00a0the popular Hell's Gate\u00a0series by 28 times\u00a0New York Times best-selling author David Weber and Joelle Presby.The war between magically-gifted Arcana and psionically talented Sharona continues to rage. The dragon-borne Arcanan assault across five universes has been halted at Fort Salby by a desperate defense, but at atrocious cost. One of those costs was the life of Crown Prince Janaki, heir to the newly created Sharonian Empire, who went knowingly to his death in the tradition expected of the House of Calirath. And another price will be the sacrifice of his younger sister, Grand Imperial Princess Andrin, now heir of Sharona, for the accords creating the Sharonian Empire require the marriage of the heir to the Crown to wed a Uromathian prince.\u00a0 Andrin bears her family's Talent, the Glimpses, which show flashes of events yet to come. She knows the accords must be secured . . . and like her brother, she will pay any price, make any sacrifice for her duty to her people.\u00a0 Sharona's soldiers dig in, facing the Arcanans in a tense standoff which cannot last long. Both sides continue rushing reinforcements towards the front, but how do armies fight wars when they can reach one another only through the portals which join the universes? And far, far behind the front, carried by dragons, a young Voice name Shaylar and her husband Jathmar hurtle deeper and deeper into Arcanan captivity, their only protection the fierce personal honor of the Andaran officer whose men massacred all of their companions in the horrendous misunderstanding which began the entire conflict. Men and women of honor on both sides must grapple with the terrible costs and deadly secrets of the spreading cataclysm, and in the shadows, those who will balk at neither treason nor murder drive the conspiracies which pour fuel into the furnace. The stakes are high and the pieces are in motion, but there are factors known not even to the conspirators and not even a Calirath can Glimpse the final outcome.The Hell's Gate Series:The Road to Hell Hell Hath No FuryHell's GateAbout the Hell's Gate series: \"Magic and high tech collide in this exciting military SF novel from bestseller Weber . . . The authors treat both societies sympathetically and realistically, with human vices and virtues evenly distributed.\"\u2013Publishers Weekly About the Honor Harrington series: \u201cWeber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection and a deep understanding of military bureaucracy in this long-awaited Honor Harrington novel\u2026Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice to see Honor back in action.\u201d\u2013Publishers Weekly \u201c. . .everything you could want in a heroine \u2026. Excellent \u2026 plenty of action.\u201d\u2013Science Fiction Age \u201cBrilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!\u201d\u2013Anne McCaffrey \u201cCompelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure.\u201d\u2013Locus \u201cWeber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice . . .\"\u2013Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814258-the-road-to-hell"}, +{"book_title": "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time", "author_name": "J. Richard Gott III", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1722, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "In this fascinating book, the renowned astrophysicist J. Richard Gott leads time travel out of the world of H. G. Wells and into the realm of scientific possibility. Building on theories posited by Einstein and advanced by scientists such as Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne, Gott explains how time travel can actually occur. He describes, with boundless enthusiasm and humor, how travel to the future is not only possible but has already happened, and he contemplates whether travel to the past is also conceivable. Notable not only for its extraordinary subject matter and scientific brilliance, Time Travel in Einstein\u2019s Universe is a delightful and captivating exploration of the surprising facts behind the science fiction of time travel.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Physics)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science (Astronomy)", "Reference", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98591.Time_Travel_in_Einstein_s_Universe"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Darkness", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1448, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "When the Duke of Bari suddenly dies, the neighboring nation of Algarve, long seething over its defeat a generation ago in the Six Years' War, sees its chance to bring Bari into the fold...an action which the other countries surrounding Algarve cannot, by treaty, tolerate. As nation after nation declares war, a chain of treaties are invoked, ultimately bringing almost all the Powers of Derlavai into a war of unprecedented destructiveness.For modern magic is deadlier than in ears past. Trained flocks of dragons rain explosive fire down on defenseless cities. Massed infantry race from place to place along a network of ley-lines. Rival powers harness sea leviathans to help sabotage one another's ships. The lights are going out all across Derlavai, and will not come back on in this lifetime.Against this tapestry Harry Turtledove tells the story of an enormous cast of characters: soldiers and generals, washerwomen and scholars, peasants and diplomats. For all the world, highborn and low, is being plunged by world war...into the darkness.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novels", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101591.Into_the_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Pearl Harbor", "author_name": "Newt Gingrich", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1304, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "President Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on December 8, 1941, lasted a mere six and half minutes. But his words and tone--in a monologue that would later be named the Infamy Speech--sent ripples into a nation and a world that continue even today. The historical implications that emerged from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were unprecedented, launching America not only into the depths of a dangerous war, but forever altering the safety and comfort of everyday living. December 8th became a day of speaking out publicly and declaring war; of action, battle, plotting, and victories. This date's significance is resonant and profound as an indelible moment in American history.Fresh from their series on the American Civil War, bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen now launch a new epic adventure by applying their imaginations and knowledge to the \"Date of Infamy\"--the attack on Pearl Harbor.Pearl Harbor covers the full spectrum of characters and events from that historic moment, from national leaders and admirals to the views of ordinary citizens caught in the chaos of war. From the chambers of the Emperor of Japan to the American White House, from the decks of aircraft carriers to the playing fields of the Japanese Naval Academy, this powerful story stretches from the nightmare slaughter of China in the 1930s to the lonely office of Commander James Watson, an American cryptographer, who suspects the impending catastrophic attack. It is a story of intrigue, double-dealing, the horrific brutality of war, and the desperate efforts of men of reason on both sides to prevent a titanic struggle that becomes inevitable.Gingrich and Forstchen's now critically acclaimed approach, which they term \"active history,\" examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history. In Pearl Harbor, they pose the question of how the presence of but one more man within the Japanese attacking force could have transfigured the war. More than a retelling, the book also serves as a potent warning, valid still today as an example of what happens when communications and understanding breaks down, and a nation is ill-prepared for the onslaught that might ensue.A compelling, meticulously researched saga, Pearl Harbor\u00a0 is also a novel of valor about those who took part in this cataclysmic moment in world history. It inaugurates a dramatic new Pacific War series that begins with the terrifying account of the day that started it all.Praise for Pearl Harbor:\"A politician and a novelist, each an accomplished historian in his own right, are emerging as\u00a0 master authors of alternative history. In this 'what if' treatment of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen combine their talents to make the diplomacy as suspenseful as the combat, even for readers who know what happens next---or think they know. The authors' mastery of both the broad sweep of events and the details of naval war and military technology give their counterfactual scenarios an unusual degree of plausibility, concluding with a version of the Japanese attack that guarantees a fictional Pacific war even more terrible than the one that began on December 7, 1941.\"-- Dennis Showalter, former president of the Society of Military Historians\"The book is not only a great read, it is a fascinating historical story that applies today in Iraq as it did in the Western Pacific in the late '30s and '40s.\"---Captain Alex Fraser (Ret.)\u00a0\"Gingrich and Forstchen have done it again. Building on their successful collaboration on their Civil War trilogy that so skillfully combined real history with fiction, they have with Pearl Harbor happily inaugurated another new series.\u00a0 You will not want to put it down, but when you finish you will look, as I do, with great anticipation to the next book.\"---Chief of Police William J. Bratton, Los Angeles Police Department\u00a0\"Masterful storytelling that not only captures the heroic highs and hellish lows of that horrific day which lives on in infamy---it resonates with today's conflicts and challenges.\"---William E. Butterworth IV, New York Times Best-selling Author of The Saboteurs", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War (World War II)", "Historical", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "American History", "Science Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223584.Pearl_Harbor"}, +{"book_title": "A Different Flesh", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 364, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "A Different Flesh by Harry Turtledove released on Mar 24, 1989 is available now for purchase.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101622.A_Different_Flesh"}, +{"book_title": "A Step Farther Out", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 199, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Essays on Technology, Civilization, and saving the world by Galaxy Science Fiction Science Editor Jerry Pournelle, PhD. Preface by Larry Niven, and Foreword by A. E. Van Vogt. From the Niven Preface: \"Jerry Pournelle is our to make the whole world rich... He's been building the future since I was in grade school, and he's still at it.\" Essays include \"Survival With Style\" and \"That Buck Rogers Stuff,\" as well as excerpts from The Strategy of Technology. From the Preface to the 2011 Edition: \u201cWe live in an age of marvels. Despite that, we feel a sense of impending doom.... That's still true... We could still go to space. We could still mine the asteroids. We could still take part in developing mankind\u2019s vast future. Indeed, it is easier to do now than it would have been when I wrote these essays. The unrelenting enmity of the Soviet Union has been replaced by other threats, some of them severe, but none comparable to 26,000 nuclear warheads. We have computers and the Internet. There is free exchange of ideas throughout most of the world, and the information revolution relentlessly expands that area. We still face the threat of famine, but it is not as acute as it was in the times when these essays were written. Communications, transportation, electronics, rocket technology \u2013 it\u2019s all better now. We can still go to the planets.We still live in an age of marvels, and it\u2019s still true that the only limit to growth is nerve.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Space", "Writing (Essays)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2362018.A_Step_Farther_Out"}, +{"book_title": "The Cross-Time Engineer", "author_name": "Leo Frankowski", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1567, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "The Right Man for the jobOne moment Conrad Schwartz was a hungover hiker in the mountains of modern Poland, the next he was running for his life from an angry Teutonic Knight.At first Conrad just thought he'd stumbled across a mad hermit. But several days of ever stranger events convinced him that he had somehow been stranded in 1231 A.D.And that meant Conrad had to turn Medieval Poland into the most powerful contry in the world. Otherwise the Mongols were destined to detroy it--in just ten years!", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/765081.The_Cross_Time_Engineer"}, +{"book_title": "Storms of Victory", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 334, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "The adventure begun in \"Janissaries\" continues.Kidnapped from Earth as they were about to die in battle, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries, like the other human slaves on the planet Tran, will not be missed. Subjects of the Shalnuksi slave masters, they are forced to harvest the priceless drug surinomaz. Now, even as slaves, Earth s transplanted warriors are locked in battle against each other. But an epoch is ending. As the Demon Star sweeps toward its devastating apex, the slave masters flee the planet to await its annihilation in safety. Soon all life on the planet will cease, leaving it ripe for repopulation.\"", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197184.Storms_of_Victory"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun Anarchy", "author_name": "Jason M Hardy", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 18, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Shadowrun. The Sixth World. Orks in pinstripe suits with Uzis; mohawked dwarves jacked into vehicles racing through mega sprawls at break neck speed; humans casting fireballs at corporate-trained practitioners; elves hacking the Matrix for a data steal of the latest tech or working to topple an upstart Corp. It's where man meets magic and machine.Dive into a cyberpunk dystopia and become a shadowrunner, a deniable asset who does the jobs no one else can - or will - do. It's not an easy life, but it beats selling your soul to the megacorps. You'll break into top-secret labs, stand up to gangs bent on destruction and chaos, encounter dark spirits hiding even darker secrets, and come face to face with some of the infinite dangers the Sixth World can throw at you. And you'll come out on top - because if you don't you don't get paid.Shadowrun Anarchy is a new way to get into the best cyberpunk/urban fantasy action around. Based upon the rules-light and easy-to-learn Cue system. Shadowrun Anarchy is a narrative focused game experience that has everything you need to quickly grab some gear, load up on spells, and get to throwing dice. With loads of characters and missions, the book makes it simple to get up and running. Immerse yourself in the Sixth World.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35429305-shadowrun-anarchy"}, +{"book_title": "The Robot Chronicles", "author_name": "David Gatewood", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 509, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Robots. Androids. Artificial Intelligence. Scientists predict that the \"singularity\" -- the moment when mankind designs the first greater-than-human intelligence -- is nearly within our grasp. Believe it or not, truly sentient machines may be a reality within as little as 20 years. Will these \"post-human\" intelligences be our friends? Our servants? Our rivals? What will we learn from them? What will they learn from us? Will we allow them to lead their own lives? Will they have basic human rights? Will we? Science and society will be forced to address these questions sooner than you think. But science fiction is addressing these questions today. In THE ROBOT CHRONICLES, thirteen of today's top sci-fi writers explore the approaching collision of humanity and technology.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22820066-the-robot-chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "Rodham", "author_name": "Curtis Sittenfeld", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 24206, "review_number": 3726, "book_description": "From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a deeply compelling what-might-have-been: What if Hillary Rodham hadn\u2019t married Bill Clinton? In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she\u2019s attending Yale Law School, and she\u2019s on the forefront of student activism and the women\u2019s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome, charismatic southerner and fellow law student, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other, the two find a profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced. In the real world, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once, as we all know, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton. But in Curtis Sittenfeld\u2019s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades, she blazes her own trail\u2014one that unfolds in public as well as in private, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life. Brilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness, moral ambivalence, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Politics", "Audiobook", "Literary Fiction", "Adult", "Feminism", "Contemporary", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50253429-rodham"}, +{"book_title": "Rescuing Mattie", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1493, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Mattie Abrams has always had a knack for training animals. Touring with the Cirque de Magik, she knows that she has finally found the \u2018home\u2019 she so desperately craves. She would do anything to keep her small family of circus friends and her pets, including going where they went. When the owner of the circus announces he is taking the circus to the stars, she never expects it to be quite so far \u2013 or so dangerous.Jai t\u2019Dubar never expected to find his mate among the menagerie of humans returning to his world. When a delicate beauty jogs by him, his world changes. His first thought is to chase her down and capture her. His second thought is to keep her forever. When she is taken as a hostage by a group of space pirates who invade the Kassisan Warship, Seeker, he will do everything he can to save her.Can he rescue Mattie from the pirates and traitors who threaten her before she is taken from him? And if he can, will he be able to convince her to open her heart to him and let him show her when he says \u2018forever\u2019, he means forever?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Novella", "Contemporary", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18480505-rescuing-mattie"}, +{"book_title": "Wings of the Storm", "author_name": "Susan Sizemore", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 353, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "What was a woman to do?When an experiment gone wrong landed Dr. Jane Florian in the Middle Ages, she vowed to make the best of things. And if that meant posing as Lady Jehane from the Holy Land, cleaning the castle from tower to dungeon, ousting the hounds from the banquet hall, and giving the mistress of the hall a makeover, then she would... Unfortunately, she hadn't counted on her reaction to her new neighbor - the magnetic Sir Daffy.The Middle Ages might lack modern conveniences, but Jane had no complaints about the men. Sir Daffy's arrogant masculine sensuality fired her senses as no man from her own time had ever done....And yet, Jane's secrets weren't the only ones, for Sir Daffy was a man of mystery himself...", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2146659.Wings_of_the_Storm"}, +{"book_title": "Beneath Blood and Bone", "author_name": "Madeline Sheehan", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1107, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "It is the end of the world\u2026They call him Eagle. Like the grand and beautiful animal that symbolizes freedom. And during these dark times, when humanity is full of nothing but suffering, a man with such a powerful name should be a beacon of hope.He is anything but. Her name is Autumn. Though she hasn\u2019t said this name, or much of anything else, in the four years since the fall of civilization. A shell of her former self, and living wild in a cave at the bottom of a ravine, Autumn is accustomed to being alone. She prefers it actually, especially when her only other options for company are either trying to kill her, or worse, lock her up inside their walls. Captured by Eagle\u2019s people Autumn is suddenly thrust back into the land of the living, though she would hardly call it living. The community of Purgatory is full of sinners, the most evil of which seem to have set their sights on her.In an act born of anger and defiance, Eagle becomes Autumn\u2019s unexpected savior forcing these two solitary people into one another\u2019s broken worlds. Neither knows quite what to make of the other, but one thing is certain. To survive Purgatory, they will need to learn how to rely on each other; a feat that could quite possibly teach them how to live again.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Dark"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24525093-beneath-blood-and-bone"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Zot", "author_name": "Jon Scieszka", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 785, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "From the minds of Scieszka and Shannon comes a tale of a quixotic robot determined to conquer the earth. The only problem is that the earth he lands on is a suburban kitchen and he is three inches tall. Robot Zot, the fearless and unstoppable warrior, leaves a trail of destruction as he encounters blenders, toasters, and televisions. But when he discovers the princess...a pink cell phone...his mission takes a new course. Robot Zot must learn how to be a hero - in the name of true love.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6087319-robot-zot"}, +{"book_title": "The Burn Zone", "author_name": "James K. Decker", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 330, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "Plagued by overpopulation, disease, and starvation, humanity was headed for extinction\u2014until an alien race called the haan arrived. And then the real trouble began. It\u2019s been a rough day for Sam Shao. As part of a program that requires humans to act as surrogates to haan infants, Sam has been genetically enhanced to bond with them. So when three soldiers invade her apartment and arrest her guardian for smuggling a dangerous weapon into the country, Sam can sense that something isn\u2019t right. One of his abductors is a haan masquerading as a human, and the supposedly fragile haan seems to be anything but. Racing through the city slums, trying to stay one step ahead of the mysterious haan soldier, Sam tries to find the man who, in her twenty years, has been the only father she\u2019s ever known. Could he truly have done what he is accused of? Or did he witness something both human and haan would kill to keep hidden? The only thing certain is that the weapon is real\u2014and lost now somewhere in a city of millions. Fighting the clock, Sam finds an ally in Nix, a haan envoy devoted to coexisting with humans, or so it seems. But what she really needs are answers. Fast. Or else everything she knows\u2014and everyone she loves\u2014will burn.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Futuristic", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15788704-the-burn-zone"}, +{"book_title": "Maskerade", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 56431, "review_number": 1436, "book_description": "The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts theAnkh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence -- some would even say lucky -- until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice.Perdita's expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud while a more petitely presentable soprano mouths the notes. But at least it's an escape from scheming Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax back home, who want her to join their witchy ranks.Once Granny sets her mind on something, however, it's difficult -- and often hazardous -- to dissuade her. And no opera-prowling phantom fiend is going to keep a pair of determined hags down on the farm after they've seen Ankh-Morpork.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78876.Maskerade"}, +{"book_title": "Doon", "author_name": "Carey Corp", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 6880, "review_number": 1363, "book_description": "DOON\u2026Veronica doesn't think she's going crazy. But why can't anyone else see the mysterious blond boy who keeps popping up wherever she goes? When her best friend, Mackenna, invites her to spend the summer in Scotland, Veronica jumps at the opportunity to leave her complicated life behind for a few months. But the Scottish countryside holds other plans. Not only has the imaginary kilted boy followed her to Alloway, she and Mackenna uncover a strange set of rings and a very unnerving letter from Mackenna's great aunt\u2014and when the girls test the instructions Aunt Gracie left behind, they find themselves transported to a land that defies explanation. Doon seems like a real-life fairy tale, complete with one prince who has eyes for Mackenna and another who looks suspiciously like the boy from Veronica's daydreams. But Doon has a dark underbelly as well. The two girls could have everything they've longed for...or they could end up breaking an enchantment and find themselves trapped in a world that has become a nightmare.DOON is loosely based on the premise of the musical Brigadoon, with permission from the ALan Jay Lerner Estate and the Frederick Loewe Foundation. Follow the journey at http://www.DoonSeries.com ~Destiny awaits!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17745703-doon"}, +{"book_title": "FTL, Y'all!: Tales From the Age of the $200 Warp Drive", "author_name": "C. Spike Trotman", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 294, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Six months from now, detailed schematics anonymously uploaded to the Internet will describe, with absolute precision, how to build a faster-than-light engine for $200 in easily-available parts. Space travel will be instantly\u2014and chaotically\u2014democratized. The entire cosmos is suddenly within reach of all humankind, without organization, authority, or limitation. This comics anthology is about what happens next.The concept for FTL, Y\u2019all! was inspired by a 12-year-old RPG.net thread, which was in turn inspired by the work of Jerry Oltion. \"FTL\" is an acronym for Faster Than Light, commonly used in science fiction to describe the capabilities of warp drives.With 25 stories and over 350 pages of comics, FTL, Y'all! is one of Iron Circus Comics' biggest anthologies ever.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Anthologies", "GLBT (Queer)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40767476-ftl-y-all"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Royale, Vol. 01", "author_name": "Koushun Takami", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 4613, "review_number": 259, "book_description": "Battle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence in a dystopian world, it is one of Japan's best-selling - and most controversial - novels. As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Forced to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must fight each other for three days until only one \"winner\" remains. The elimination contest becomes the ultimate in must-see reality television. A Japanese pulp classic available in English for the first time, Battle Royale is a potent allegory of what it means to be young and survive in today's dog-eat-dog world. The first novel by small-town journalist Koushun Takami, it went on to become an even more notorious film by 70-year-old director Kinji Fukusaku.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57893.Battle_Royale_Vol_01"}, +{"book_title": "Probability Sun", "author_name": "Nancy Kress", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 712, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Salvation or Annihilation?A strange artifact has been discovered on a distant planet, an artifact that may be the key to humanity's salvation. For we at war with the Fallers, an alien race bent on nothing short of genocide, and this is a war we are losing. The artifact is not only a powerful weapon, but possibly the rosetta stone to a lost superscience . . . a superscience that the Fallers may have already decoded. Or it may be a doomsday machine that could destroy the very fabric of space.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Anthropology", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219234.Probability_Sun"}, +{"book_title": "Stars and Stripes Forever", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1018, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "On November 8, 1861, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause. England responded with rage, calling for a war of vengeance. The looming crisis was defused by the peace-minded Prince Albert. But imagine how Albert's absence during this critical moment might have changed everything. For lacking Albert's calm voice of reason, Britain now seizes the opportunity to attack and conquer a crippled, war-torn America.Ulysses S. Grant is poised for an attack that could smash open the South's defenses. In Washington, Abraham Lincoln sees a first glimmer of hope that this bloody war might soon end. But then disaster strikes: English troops have invaded from Canada. With most of the Northern troops withdrawn to fight the new enemy, General William Tecumseh Sherman and his weakened army stand alone against the Confederates. Can a divided, bloodied America defeat England, or will the United States cease to exist for all time?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War", "Military History (Civil War)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "American History (American Civil War)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148451.Stars_and_Stripes_Forever"}, +{"book_title": "Smoke & Mirrors", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 3698, "review_number": 527, "book_description": "Life for Dexter J. Daley has never been easy, but he\u2019s always found a way to pick himself back up with a smile on his face. Taken from his home, and the arms of his boyfriend and THIRDS partner, Sloane Brodie, Dex finds himself in a situation as mysterious and lethal as the Therian interrogating him. Dex learns what he\u2019s secretly believed all along: his parents\u2019 death wasn\u2019t an accident.Discovering the whole truth about John and Gina Daley\u2019s homicide sets off a series of events that will change Dex and Sloane\u2019s lives forever. As buried secrets rise to the surface and new truths are revealed, Dex and Sloane\u2019s love for each other is put to the test, with more than their relationship on the line. If traversing the waters of murder and secret government agencies wasn\u2019t enough, something inexplicable has been happening to Dex\u2014and nothing will ever be the same.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Mystery", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49254680-smoke-mirrors"}, +{"book_title": "A Map of Days", "author_name": "Ransom Riggs", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 27567, "review_number": 2948, "book_description": "The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America!Vintage photographs reveal the never-before-seen world of peculiar America with a stunning addition\u2014full-color images.Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery\u2014a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob\u2019s grandfather, Abe.Clues to Abe\u2019s double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited\u2014truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine\u2019s time loop.Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom\u2014a world with few ymbrynes, or rules\u2014that none of them understand. New wonders, and dangers, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine\u2019s peculiar children. Their story is again illustrated throughout by haunting vintage photographs, but with a striking addition for this all-new, multi-era American adventure\u2014full color.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32943032-a-map-of-days"}, +{"book_title": "Decision at Thunder Rift", "author_name": "William H. Keith Jr.", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1209, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "Thirty years before the Clan invasion, the crumbling empires of the Inner Sphere were locked in the horror of the Third Succession War. The great Houses, whose territories spanned the stars, used BattleMechs to smash each other into rubble.Grayson Death Carlyle had been training to be a MechWarrior since he was ten years old, but his graduation came sooner than expected. With his friends and family dead and his father's regiment destroyed, young Grayson finds himself stranded on a world turned hostile. And now he must learn the hardest lesson of all: it takes more than a BattleMech to make a MechWarrior.To claim the title of MechWarrior all he has to do is capture one of those giant killing machines by himself.If it doesn't kill him first.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/553596.Decision_at_Thunder_Rift"}, +{"book_title": "Chimera", "author_name": "T.C. McCarthy", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 241, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Escaped Germline soldiers need to be cleaned up, and Stan Resnick is the best man for the job. A job that takes him to every dark spot and every rat hole he can find.Operatives from China and Unified Korea are gathering escaped or stolen Russian and American genetics, and there are reports of new biological nightmares: half-human things, bred to live their entire lives encased in powered armor suits.Stan fights to keep himself alive and out of prison while he attempts to capture a genetic, one who will be able to tell him everything he needs to know about an newer threat, the one called \"Project Sunshine.\"Chimera is the third and final volume of The Subterrene War Trilogy, which tells the story of a single war from the perspective of three different combatants. The first two volumes, Germline and Exogene, are available now.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13454328-chimera"}, +{"book_title": "Mining the Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets", "author_name": "John S. Lewis", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 253, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "While we worry over the depletion of the earth's natural resources, the pollution of our planet, and the challenges presented by the earth's growing population, billions of dollars worth of metals, fuels, and life-sustaining substances await us in nearby space. In this visionary book, noted planetary scientist John S. Lewis explains how we can mine these precious metals from the asteroids, comets, and planets in our own solar system for use in space construction projects. And this is just one of the possibilities. Join John S. Lewis as he contemplates milking the moons of Mars for water and hollowing out asteroids for space-bound homesteaders\u2014all while demonstrating the economic and technical feasibility of plans that were once considered pure fiction.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science", "Space", "Nonfiction", "Science (Astronomy)", "Science (Technology)", "Science (Geology)", "Economics", "Science (Physics)", "Futurism", "Science (Chemistry)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815231.Mining_the_Sky"}, +{"book_title": "A Trail of Fire", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 3270, "review_number": 251, "book_description": "Four extraordinary stories featuring characters from the bestselling OUTLANDER series.In \nLord John and the Plague of Zombies\n Lord John Grey is posted to Jamaica to assist the Governor as he faces a most unusual kind of uprising among the colony's slave population. In \nThe Space Between\n Jamie Fraser's step-daughter Joan is on her way to an abbey in Paris to become a nun - but when she meets the Comte St Germain, a wealthy French aristocrat rumoured to to deal in the occult - she discovers her destiny lies on a quite different path.In \nThe Custom of the Army\n Lord John Grey is summoned as a witness in a court martial in the wilds of Acadia, only to find himself playing a crucial role in the Battle of Quebec. In \nA Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows\n a WW2 Spitfire pilot called Jerry MacKenzie crashes near a stone circle and wakes up in the eighteenth century. Can the strange man he meets - who impossibly seems to know him - help him return to his wife and baby son before a terrible fate overtakes them?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13629443-a-trail-of-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Zom-B Underground", "author_name": "Darren Shan", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3661, "review_number": 393, "book_description": "From Darren Shan, the Master of Horror, comes the gripping second book in the Zom-B series. Waking up in a military complex, months after zombies attacked school, B has no memory of the last few months. Life in the UK has turned tough since the outbreak, and B is woven into life- and battle- in the new military regime quickly. But as B learns more about the zombies held in the complex and the scientists keeping them captive, unease settles in. Why exactly was B saved? And is there anyone left in the world to trust?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14781235-zom-b-underground"}, +{"book_title": "The Island: Part One", "author_name": "Michael Stark", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 1993, "review_number": 173, "book_description": "The Fever struck hard and fast, rising out of the slums and claiming victim after victim. At first, reports trickled across the wire in small segments relegated to the final seconds of the broadcast news. Lost among stories of failing economies and political bickering, few noticed what proved to be the birth pangs of a monster. Within months, the disease dominated the news as thousands died and infection rates soared.William Hill knew his chances of avoiding the virus sat squarely between slim and none. With experts predicting a global pandemic, his choices boiled down to not if, but where he would die. While the rest of the world built barricades and set up distribution points for food, he chose a simpler end. The island had been one of the last and best times with his father. He couldn\u2019t think of a better place to spend his final days.He wanted sun and sand, fresh fish on the grill and cool nights by the campfire. He wanted feel-good days filled with oldies on the radio, days when he could hoist the sails and run before the wind. He didn\u2019t set out to make enemies, but he did. He didn\u2019t plan on becoming humanity\u2019s last hope for survival, or watching over an old woman and an eerie little boy either.To William Hill, the island seemed as good a place as any to die.He just didn\u2019t realize how good.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Horror (Zombies)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16081728-the-island"}, +{"book_title": "One of Us", "author_name": "Michael Marshall Smith", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1767, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "It's not what you've done that counts it's what you remember....If you could sell your conscience, could you get away with murder?Hap Thompson works the gray area between truth and lies. He works for REMtemp, taking on other people's memories. It's illegal, but usually harmless. Maybe a petty criminal wants to pass a lie detector test. Or an unfaithful spouse wants to enjoy a guiltless affair. All Hap has to do is carry the memories for a couple of hours. It's easy money. Until a beautiful young woman who committed murder leaves her memory with Hap and won't take it back.Now Hap is on the run: from the LAPD, from six angels of death in gray suits and sunglasses, and from the best hit man in the business his ex-wife. Even worse, people all around Hap are disappearing in a strange white light. His only hope is to negotiate with a guy who may be much more than he seems, so he can stay alive long enough to discover who is and who isn't...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21012.One_of_Us"}, +{"book_title": "The Other Side of the Island", "author_name": "Allegra Goodman", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 4654, "review_number": 579, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman comes a post apocalyptic novel about love, loss, and the power of human choice. Honor and her parents have been reassigned to live on Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea. Life is peaceful there, the color of the sky is regulated by Earth Mother, a corporation that controls New Weather, and it almost never rains. Everyone fits into their rightful and predictable place. . . . Except Honor. She doesn't fit in, but then she meets Helix, a boy with a big heart and a keen sense for the world around them. Slowly, Honor and Helix begin to uncover a terrible truth about life on the Island: Sooner or later, those who are unpredictable disappear . . . and they don't ever come back.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3032314-the-other-side-of-the-island"}, +{"book_title": "Her Mate's Secret Baby", "author_name": "Grace Goodwin", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1279, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Natalie Montgomery wants a new life. While she may be rich, her life is empty. Her parents were never around, too rich and important to be bothered with a child. And when they present her with a emotionless fianc\ufffd, she's done. As a volunteer for the Interstellar Bride Program, she is thrilled to arrive on the hot, desert planet of Trion, and in the arms of a seductive warrior who makes her body burn. Roark of Trion is not eager for a mate. Danger and the constant threat of war dog his steps. But one look at his new bride, and his mind is changed. Natalie is everything he ever wanted in a woman...so soft, so passionate, so submissive to his every need. An attack on their outpost leaves Roark fighting for his life. For her protection, Natalie is transported back to Earth. Roark thinks she's dead. But she's very much alive and so is his newborn son. Natalie's anger and regret grows with each passing day her mate does not keep his promise to come for her. By the time he discovers his mistake, it may be too late to win back her heart.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33841941-her-mate-s-secret-baby"}, +{"book_title": "Red Spider White Web", "author_name": "Misha Nogha", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 43, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "In the sealed city of Mickey-san the skies are still blue. There is no crime. No pollution. No one is unemployed and entertainment is the primary industry. In the tunnels below lies Dogton. Hard, dirty, industrial and restless with a subterranean rage, it's nightlife neon and garish. But surrounding all is Ded-Tek, grim, violent and predatory, with survival being the sole occupation of its inhabitants, and The Market its only hope.Amidst this city of outcasts is Tommy Uchida, enigma, god, a mind too brilliant for his artificially enhanced body: and Kumo, trickster chimera, living by her wits and for her art, trying to assert her humanity. All are interconnected by the uncertainty of their future: fifteen minute viruses, a cold blistering sun, savage police 'wire-dogs', offbeat cult groups, roving gangs of rich boys, and the punishment of the 'Bell Factory', and the spectre of a brutal murderer, a foreshadow of a change that none of them can comprehend.First U.S. publication of the acclaimed out of print British edition (Morrigan Publications, 1990) with original foreword by Brian Aldiss and Afterword by James P. Blaylock and a new Introduction by John Shirley. This novel was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in England (1990) and won the Readercon Award in 1991. #20 in the Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453650.Red_Spider_White_Web"}, +{"book_title": "Single Omegas Only", "author_name": "S.C. Wynne", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 256, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Mpreg Romance. Tyler Sly was born unable to conceive, and when you\u2019re an omega, that\u2019s a problem. When his brother convinces him to join him on a tour of the wine country, Tyler grudgingly agrees. But when he gets there, his brother is a no-show, and he discovers it's actually a singles tour. Ronan Blade is just freshly divorced from his wife of two years, and he\u2019s trying to get back into the dating scene. When he meets Tyler, something clicks inside for him. He\u2019s drawn to the quiet omega and begins to spend all his time with Tyler. Tyler is equally drawn to Ronan, and soon the two men are inseparable. Once the tour ends, the men decide to keep in contact. By now, Ronan is realizing his feelings toward Tyler are not simply those of a friend. When Ronan comes clean to Tyler about his true feelings, the two men give in to their physical need. But Tyler doesn\u2019t trust that an alpha like Ronan would want an omega like him. It\u2019s no wonder then, that when Ronan\u2019s ex-wife shows up, her appearance sends Tyler into a tail spin of fear and doubt. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Holiday", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Gay Romance (Gay For You)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43192124-single-omegas-only"}, +{"book_title": "Blazing", "author_name": "Nancey Cummings", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 706, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "\n\nA woman on fire...\n\nLucie survived four hellish years in prison, being sucked through a wormhole and crashing onto an alien planet. All she wants is to go home. Passion and rage burn in her. She wants her life back and nothing will stop her: not prison, not an alien planet and not three powerful aliens determined to claim her. They won't distract her with their smoldering embrace or fiery kisses...\n\nAlien men forged from fire...\n\nSarsen, Ertale and Asche spent the last thousand years waiting for release from their bonds. When the intriguing female bursts into their lives, she frees them from their unending servitude and ignites the fire in their heartstones. Now she thinks she can just leave them behind?\n\nNot acceptable!\n\n\n\nAll three will do whatever it takes to make Lucie understand that her body and her heart belongs to them!\n\n\n\n\nThe Valos of Sonhadra series is the shared vision of nine sci-fi and fantasy romance authors. Each book is a standalone, containing its own Happy Ever After, and can be read in any order.\n\nBlazing is a Reverse Harem story with three heroes and one lucky heroine, complete and no cliffhangers.\n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Menage (Multiple Partners)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38489697-blazing"}, +{"book_title": "After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall", "author_name": "Nancy Kress", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 2634, "review_number": 419, "book_description": "The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors\u2014the last of humanity\u2014are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell. Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the Six\u2014children who were born deformed or sterile and raised in the Shell. As, one by one, the survivors grow sick and die, Pete and the Six struggle to put aside their anger at the alien Tesslies in order to find the means to rebuild the earth together. Their only hope lies within brief time-portals into the recent past, where they bring back children to replenish their disappearing gene pool. Meanwhile, in 2013, brilliant mathematician Julie Kahn works with the FBI to solve a series of\u00a0inexplicable kidnappings. Suddenly her predictive algorithms begin to reveal more than just criminal activity. As she begins to realize her role in the impending catastrophe,\u00a0simultaneously affecting\u00a0the Earth and the Shell, Julie closes in on the truth. She and Pete are converging in time upon the future of humanity\u2014a future which might never unfold. Weaving three consecutive time lines to unravel both the mystery of the Earth's destruction and the key to its salvation, this taut post-apocalyptic thriller offers a topical plot with a satisfying twist.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novella", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13163688-after-the-fall-before-the-fall-during-the-fall"}, +{"book_title": "In the Beginning...Was the Command Line", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 7626, "review_number": 434, "book_description": "This is \"the Word\" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the \"one man\" is Neal Stephenson, \"the hacker Hemingway\" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Science", "Writing (Essays)", "History", "Computer Science (Programming)", "Science (Computer Science)", "Humor", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40383049-in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line"}, +{"book_title": "Watership Down", "author_name": "Richard Adams", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 442382, "review_number": 14079, "book_description": "Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Animals", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Literature", "Novels", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down"}, +{"book_title": "The Seeds of Wither", "author_name": "Lauren DeStefano", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 2345, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "Step into the Chemical Garden with\u00a0an all-new\u00a0eBook sampler!Discover the world author Lauren DeStefano created in Wither, a riveting dystopian thriller. In the not-so-distant future, fallout from genetic engineering causes all females to die at age twenty, and all males to die at twenty-five. Kidnapped from her home and torn from her twin brother Rowan, sixteen-year-old Rhine is forced into a polygamous marriage and taken to live in her husband\u2019s mansion. She has everything she wants\u2014except for freedom. But her plans to escape and return home are complicated by a devious father-in-law, as well as Rhine\u2019s growing attraction to Gabriel, a servant who works on the estate. Read the first 100 pages of Wither and be captivated by Rhine\u2019s journey.This eBook sampler includes an EXCLUSIVE, never-before-published short story by Lauren DeStefano! \u201cThe First Bride\u201d reveals the events leading up to Wither, from the point of view of the bride that came before Rhine.Delve even deeper into Wither with a map of the wives\u2019 floor, the Wither book trailer, and a video that takes you behind the scenes of the Fever cover shoot. You'll also get a sneak peak of Fever, the second book in the Chemical Garden trilogy, before it goes on sale 2/21/12!\u00a0", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12959528-the-seeds-of-wither"}, +{"book_title": "The Havoc Machine", "author_name": "Steven Harper", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 115, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "In a world riddled with the destruction of men and machines alike, Thaddeus Sharpe takes to the streets of St. Petersburg, geared toward the hunt of his life\u2026 Thaddeus Sharpe\u2019s life is dedicated to the hunting and killing of clockworkers. When a mysterious young woman named Sofiya Ekk approaches him with a proposition from a powerful employer, he cannot refuse. A man who calls himself Mr. Griffin seeks Thad\u2019s help with mad clockwork scientist Lord Havoc, who has molded a dangerous machine. Mr. Griffin cares little if the evil Lord lives or dies; all he desires is Havoc\u2019s invention. Upon Thad\u2019s arrival at Havoc\u2019s laboratory, he is met with a chilling discovery. Havoc is not only concealing his precious machine; he has been using a young child by the name of Nikolai for cruel experiments. Locked into a clockwork web of intrigue, Thad must decipher the dangerous truth surrounding Nikolai and the chaos contraption before havoc reigns\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808627-the-havoc-machine"}, +{"book_title": "Rebirth", "author_name": "Sophie Littlefield", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1269, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "The end of the world was just the beginningCivilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back\u2014she and Ruthie will be happy.Yet with the first winter, Cass is reminded that happiness is fleeting in Aftertime. Ruthie retreats into silence.Flesh\u2014eating Beaters still dominate the landscape. And Smoke, Cass's lover and strength, departs on a quest for vengeance, one that may end him even if he returns.The survivalist community Cass has planted roots in is breaking apart, too. Its leader, Dor, implores Cass to help him recover his own lost daughter, taken by the totalitarian Rebuilders. And soon Cass finds herself thrust into the dark heart of an organization promising humanity's rebirth\u2014at all costs.Bound to two men blazing divergent paths across a savage land, Cass must overcome the darkness in her wounded heart, or lose those she loves forever.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10322436-rebirth"}, +{"book_title": "The Bond That Ties Us", "author_name": "Christine d'Abo", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 975, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Haylie knows her life is about to change the moment she sets foot on the Eurus colony. What she didn't count on was her instant, overwhelming sexual desire for the seven-foot-tall, sexy as hell alien ambassador. He's in her every thought and dream, teasing and taunting her body into a sexual frenzy.Kamran has waited his whole life to find his bonded mate. When she arrives in the form of a slender human with brilliant eyes, he can't stop his all-consuming need to possess her. If their bond is discovered, they will be forced by Briel law to leave the colony, giving up the lives they've worked so hard to build.While Haylie and Kamran fight their growing desire, their colony is threatened by an unseen enemy. When the colony comes under attack by a brutal alien force, can Haylie and Kamran keep their bond a secret and stop the invasion in time to save everyone?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5973979-the-bond-that-ties-us"}, +{"book_title": "Revan", "author_name": "Drew Karpyshyn", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 14821, "review_number": 1047, "book_description": "\nThere\u2019s something out there:\n\na juggernaut of evil bearing down to crush the Republic\u00e2,\n\nunless one lone Jedi, shunned and reviled, can stop it.\nRevan: hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior. A Jedi who left Coruscant to defeat Mandalorians and returned a disciple of the dark side, bent on destroying the Republic. The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was high. His memories have been erased. All that\u2019s left are nightmares and deep, abiding fear.What exactly happened beyond the Outer Rim? Revan can\u2019t quite remember, yet can\u2019t entirely forget. Somehow he stumbled across a terrible secret that threatens the very existence of the Republic. With no idea what it is, or how to stop it, Revan may very well fail, for he\u2019s never faced a more powerful and diabolic enemy. But only death can stop him from trying.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10687840-revan"}, +{"book_title": "Strands of Sorrow", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2804, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together with what remains of the U.S. Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, not only plans to survive; he plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America.Smith's teenage daughters have become zombie hunters of unparalleled skill, both at land and on the sea, and they may hold the key to the rebirth of civilization on a devastated planet.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "War (Military Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412172-strands-of-sorrow"}, +{"book_title": "Diving into the Wreck", "author_name": "Kristine Kathryn Rusch", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1835, "review_number": 234, "book_description": "Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she\u2019s an active historian. She wants to know about the past\u2014to experience it firsthand. Once she\u2019s dived the ship, she\u2019ll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It\u2019s a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people.Then one day, Boss finds the claim of a lifetime: an enormous spacecraft, incredibly old, and apparently Earth-made. It\u2019s impossible for something so old, built in the days before Faster Than Light travel, to have journeyed this far from Earth. It shouldn\u2019t be here. It can\u2019t be here. And yet, it is. Boss\u2019s curiosity is up, and she\u2019s determined to investigate. She hires a group of divers to explore the wreck with her, the best team she can assemble. But some secrets are best kept hidden, and the past won\u2019t give up its treasures without exacting a price in blood.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction", "History (Archaeology)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6715610-diving-into-the-wreck"}, +{"book_title": "Dracula", "author_name": "Bram Stoker", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 971374, "review_number": 27440, "book_description": "A rich selection of background and source materials is provided in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and \"Dracula's Guest,\" the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. \"Dramatic and Film Variations\" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.", "year_published": 1897, "genres": ["Classics", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Gothic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Literature", "Audiobook", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula"}, +{"book_title": "Torkel's Chosen", "author_name": "Michelle Howard", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3102, "review_number": 227, "book_description": "What would you do if Earth didn\u2019t have enough men?Would you take a chance and leave the only world you knew behind?This is the decision Faith Reid faces. Placing all her hope in a new government program, she seizes the opportunity that offers a chance for the women of Earth to find love among the stars, on a world beyond the one they know.How many times can one man risk rejection?Would you give up on your dreams?Torkel Alonson has had enough of being ignored and looked over by females on his adopted home world of Enotia. His pride has suffered and he must accept the painful truth. Females will never choose a male with his evil lineage despite his honorable service to his government\u2019s military.Can two people looking for the same thing find not just what they want but what they need in one another?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24335191-torkel-s-chosen"}, +{"book_title": "The City of Brass", "author_name": "S.A. Chakraborty", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 53482, "review_number": 8374, "book_description": "Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she\u2019s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by\u2014palm readings, zars, healings\u2014are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles. But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she\u2019s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32718027-the-city-of-brass"}, +{"book_title": "Chosen", "author_name": "Claire Cullen", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 993, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "The shifter world is dying. At least, that\u2019s how it looks to Hunter. Whole packs are losing the ability to change form and the talents of shifters are starting to sound like myth and legend. But Hunter can\u2019t take on the problems of his world, not when his own troubles are much closer to home. When his uncle demands he choose a mate or be kicked out of the pack, Hunter knows there must be some way around it. He\u2019s too young to settle down, especially not with someone he barely knows. And then he catches sight of an omega in a cage and comes up with a plan to help them both. Cade just wants to go home. He hadn\u2019t planned on being abducted by wolves, locked in a cage, and forced into a mating. So much for shifter hospitality. When he catches the attention of Zane, a dangerous, unstable alpha, he knows he needs a champion. Enter Hunter, a dormant alpha shifter with a temper, who wants Cade for reasons the omega doesn\u2019t understand. Cade is determined to make a break for it and escape to the safety of his den. But when Hunter risks everything for him, even his life, Cade can\u2019t just turn his back on him. Not with his growing feelings for the alpha. Saving Hunter turns both their lives upside down, revealing a secret Cade has done his best to keep hidden; within the dens, the shifter world is very much alive. \nChosen is a novel-length read. Beware angst, happy endings, mpreg, littermates, bear puns, and scenes not suitable for readers under the age of eighteen.\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Fantasy", "M M Paranormal (M M Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36695487-chosen"}, +{"book_title": "Cosmo and the Robot", "author_name": "Brian Pinkney", "rating_score": 3.19, "rating_votes": 77, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Life on Mars is never dull, especially when you've got your trusty Solar System Utility Belt (with ten supersonic attachments) strapped on. But what will Cosmo do when his haywire robot resurrects himself from the asteroid dump and goes after big sister Jewel? High-tech tools can save the day, but Cosmo just might be armed with enough quick thinking and enough ingenuity to rescue Jewel and salvage Rex. From budding astronomers to space fans to those who just like a stellar adventure, two-time Caldecott Honor-winning Brian Pinkney rocket-launches one and all into a storytelling galaxy like no other. Prepare for liftoff!", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Cultural (African American)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1485613.Cosmo_and_the_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Glory O'Brien's History of the Future", "author_name": "A.S. King", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 9148, "review_number": 1545, "book_description": "In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A.S. King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last--a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even more.Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilities--but not for Glory, who has no plan for what's next. Her mother committed suicide when Glory was only four years old, and she's never stopped wondering if she will eventually go the same way...until a transformative night when she begins to experience an astonishing new power to see a person's infinite past and future. From ancient ancestors to many generations forward, Glory is bombarded with visions--and what she sees ahead of her is terrifying: A tyrannical new leader raises an army. Women's rights disappear. A violent second civil war breaks out. And young girls vanish daily, sold off or interned in camps. Glory makes it her mission to record everything she sees, hoping her notes will somehow make a difference. She may not see a future for herself, but she'll do anything to make sure this one doesn't come to pass.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Magical Realism", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Feminism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17453303-glory-o-brien-s-history-of-the-future"}, +{"book_title": "Starfish", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 6882, "review_number": 560, "book_description": "A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below?", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66479.Starfish"}, +{"book_title": "If You're a Robot and You Know It", "author_name": "Musical Robot", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 189, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "From bestseller David Carter comes a favorite new robot twist on the classic children's song that pops to life.If you're a robot and you know it clap your hands,jump and beep, fly around, shoot laser beams out of your eyes!It's the classic version of If You're Happy and You Know It as you've never seen (or heard!) it before. Sing along to the free downloadable song by the dynamic Musical Robot team, then turn the pages as David Carter's clever pop-ups show the robot characters going through all of the call-out movements, from clapping hands to shooting laser beams out of your eyes!Includes:- A free downloadable song from the Musical Robot team!- Pull-tabs, turn-wheels, and pop-ups!- Eye-catching foil cover!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24999017-if-you-re-a-robot-and-you-know-it"}, +{"book_title": "Broken Skies", "author_name": "Theresa Kay", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1542, "review_number": 319, "book_description": "A reclusive human girl. A disillusioned alien boy. They were never meant to meet\u2026When Jax Mitchell\u2019s twin is kidnapped by Earth's alien settlers, the E'rikon, she'll do anything to get him back\u2014even form an alliance with a teenage E'rikon left behind by the same ship that took her brother.Jax agrees to act as a guide, and in return, the alien agrees to sneak her past the human-proof barrier surrounding the E'rikon city. Too bad it's not that simple. Jax soon finds that she's drawn to the alien boy with bright green hair and jewel-like scales on his back\u2014and he's equally affected by her, the courageous redhead with haunted eyes. But she doesn't know the alien's true motives, and he has no idea that she is much more than she seems.With the aliens and the humans at odds, the connection forming between the two teens has consequences. What started off as a rescue mission sets in motion a chain of events that threatens not only the remaining humans and the growing alien society, but Earth itself.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43479909-broken-skies"}, +{"book_title": "A Problem of Proportion", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2471, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "A secret backdoor meeting between Ambassador Ode Abumwe and the Conclaves Hafte Sorvalh turns out to be less than secret as both of their ships are attacked. Its a surprise to both teams but its the identity of the attacker that is the real surprise, and suggests a threat to both humanity and The Conclave.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180362-a-problem-of-proportion"}, +{"book_title": "The Shining Girls", "author_name": "Lauren Beukes", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 43753, "review_number": 5206, "book_description": "In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. Curtis stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back.Working with a former homicide reporter who is falling for her, Kirby races against time and reason to unravel an impossible mystery.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131077-the-shining-girls"}, +{"book_title": "Invaded", "author_name": "Melissa Landers", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 6997, "review_number": 992, "book_description": "The romantic sequel to Alienated takes long-distance relationships to a new level as Cara and Aelyx long for each other from opposite ends of the universe...until a threat to both their worlds reunites them. Cara always knew life on planet L\u2019eihr would be an adjustment. With Aelyx, her L\u2019eihr boyfriend, back on Earth, working to mend the broken alliance between their two planets, Cara is left to fend for herself at a new school, surrounded by hostile alien clones. Even the weird dorm pet hates her.Things look up when Cara is appointed as human representative to a panel preparing for a human colony on L\u2019eihr. A society melding their two cultures is a place where Cara and Aelyx could one day make a life together. But with L\u2019eihr leaders balking at granting even the most basic freedoms, Cara begins to wonder if she could ever be happy on this planet, even with Aelyx by her side.Meanwhile, on Earth, Aelyx, finds himself thrown into a full-scale PR campaign to improve human-L\u2019eihr relations. Humans don\u2019t know that their very survival depends on this alliance: only Aelyx\u2019s people have the technology to fix the deadly contamination in the global water supply that human governments are hiding. Yet despite their upper hand, the leaders of his world suddenly seem desperate to get humans on their side, and hardly bat an eye at extremists\u2019 multiple attempts on Aelyx\u2019s life. The Way clearly needs humans\u2019 help . . . but with what? And what will they ask for in return?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17316770-invaded"}, +{"book_title": "The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories", "author_name": "Ken Liu", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 18363, "review_number": 2899, "book_description": "A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection\u2014including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken\u2019s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: \u201cThe Man Who Ended History: A Documentary\u201d (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), \u201cMono No Aware\u201d (Hugo Award winner), \u201cThe Waves\u201d (Nebula Award finalist), \u201cThe Bookmaking Habits of Select Species\u201d (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), \u201cAll the Flavors\u201d (Nebula award finalist), \u201cThe Litigation Master and the Monkey King\u201d (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre\u2019s history, \u201cThe Paper Menagerie\u201d (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).A must-have for every science fiction and fantasy fan, this beautiful book is an anthology to savor.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Anthologies", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24885533-the-paper-menagerie-and-other-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Kiss of a Demon King", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 40312, "review_number": 1385, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes this spellbinding story of a demon king trapped by an enchantress for her wanton purposes -- and the scorching aftermath that follows when he turns the tables and claims her as his captive.HIS OBSESSION...Sabine, Sorceress of Illusions: the evil beauty who surrenders her body, but not her heart.HER DOWNFALL...Rydstrom Woede: the ruthless warrior who vows to keep her at all costs.THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO WANT EACH OTHER THIS MUCH...With each smoldering encounter, their shared hunger only increases. If they can defeat the sinister enemy that stands between them, will Sabine make the ultimate sacrifice for her demon? Or will the proud king lay down his crown and arms to save his sorceress?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3585344-kiss-of-a-demon-king"}, +{"book_title": "Lord of the Isles", "author_name": "Debbie Mazzuca", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1772, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "After traveling to Scotland on business, the bed of a highland laird is the last place Ali Graham expected to wake up. But there's no mistaking the irresistibly masculine Scottish Highlander whose chamber she's accidentally infiltrated--or the severe wound he's suffered in battle. As a doctor, Ali knows how to heal his injury, how to nurse his body back to health. What she doesn't know is how to heal his heart. . . A proud warrior and the leader of a powerful clan, Rory MacLeod is ready to fight to the death to protect his homeland. After all, ever since tragedy robbed him of his wife, he has had nothing to lose. Yet the mysterious woman sent to tend his wounds is beginning to reawaken something inside him--something that he'd rather stay buried. But when true passion is mixed with Scottish magic, even the most fearsome warrior could begin to fall. . .", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7295107-lord-of-the-isles"}, +{"book_title": "If I Never Get Back", "author_name": "Darryl Brock", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1148, "review_number": 147, "book_description": "Time travel meets baseball in this \"grand adventure\" about a modern-day reporter who witnesses the birth of America's favorite pastime (The Washington Times)Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler is stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage when he is suddenly transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he feels rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. But American sports isn't the only thing to undergo a major transformation--Sam himself starts to change as he faces life-threatening 19th-century challenges on and off the baseball diamond. With the support of his fellow ballplayers and the lovely Caitlin O'Neill, will he regain the sense of family he desperately needs?Darryl Brock masterfully evokes post-Civil War America--its smoky cities and transcontinental railroad, its dance halls and parlour houses, its financial booms and busts. Equally appealing to sports fans and anyone who appreciates a well-told story, If I Never Get Back is a literary home run that \"grabs you from line one on page one and never lets go\" (San Francisco Chronicle).", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Sports (Baseball)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Sports (Sports)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237213.If_I_Never_Get_Back"}, +{"book_title": "The Beast of the Rails (The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne Volume 1", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 332, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha is the last of the Heterodynes, a notorious family of Mad Scientists that everyone had thought safely wiped out. When a rival scientist traps her family castle and the surrounding town in a time-freeze, Agatha must embark on a journey to find a way to reverse the effect and save the people she loves. This volume is a great jumping-on point for readers wanting to discover the award-winning Girl Genius series! Available in Softcover and Hardcover editions.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25643038-the-beast-of-the-rails-the-second-journey-of-agatha-heterodyne-volume-1"}, +{"book_title": "Halo: First Strike", "author_name": "Eric S. Nylund", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 13088, "review_number": 348, "book_description": "\nThe Human-Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life!\nHalo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemy\u2019s clutches. Now, everything depends on the Spartan known as the \u201cMaster Chief.\u201d Yet even with the aid of the artificial intelligence Cortana, the Master Chief will be hard-pressed to rescue survivors and evade the Covenant ships patrolling the remains of Halo in debris-strewn space. Ahead lies a dangerous voyage home, through a gauntlet of Covenant forces. For the sake of all, the Master Chief and his war-torn squad must not only survive, but take the fight to the enemy with a decisive first strike.This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.Bungie, Halo, Xbox, the Microsoft Game Studios logo and the Xbox Logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Used under license. \u00a9 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Sports and Games (Games)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615921.Halo"}, +{"book_title": "A Calculus of Angels", "author_name": "Greg Keyes", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 927, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "1722: A second Dark Age looms. An asteroid has devastated the Earth, called down by dire creatures who plot against the world of men. The brilliant-- some say mad--Isaac Newton has taken refuge in ancient Prague. There, with his young apprentice Ben Franklin, he plumbs the secrets of the aetheric beings who have so nearly destroyed humanity.But their safety is tenuous. Peter the Great marches his unstoppable forces across Europe. And half a world away, Cotton Mather and Blackbeard the pirate assemble a party of colonial luminaries to cross the Atlantic and discover what has befallen the Old World. With them sails Red Shoes, a Choctaw shaman whose mysterious connections to the invisible world warn him that they are all moving toward a confrontation as violent as it is decisive . . .", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74631.A_Calculus_of_Angels"}, +{"book_title": "Salvage", "author_name": "Alexandra Duncan", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 3189, "review_number": 523, "book_description": "Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe, by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called it \"brilliant, feminist science fiction.\"Ava is the captain's daughter. This allows her limited freedom and a certain status in the Parastrata's rigid society\u2014but it doesn't mean she can read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity. When Ava learns she is to be traded in marriage to another merchant ship, she hopes for the best. After all, she is the captain's daughter. But instead, betrayal, banishment, and a brush with love and death are her destiny, and Ava stows away on a mail sloop bound for Earth in order to escape both her past and her future. The gravity almost kills her. Gradually recuperating in a stranger's floating cabin on the Gyre, a huge mass of scrap and garbage in the Pacific Ocean, Ava begins to learn the true meaning of family and home and trust\u2014and she begins to nourish her own strength and soul. This sweeping and harrowing novel explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family, and after a tidal wave destroys the Gyre and all those who live there, ultimately sends its main character on a thrilling journey to Mumbai, the beating heart of Alexandra Duncan's post\u2013climate change Earth. An Andre Norton Award nominee.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13518102-salvage"}, +{"book_title": "The Testaments", "author_name": "Margaret Atwood", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 231722, "review_number": 22981, "book_description": "When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.With The Testaments, the wait is over.Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.\"Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in.\" --Margaret Atwood", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Feminism", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42975172-the-testaments"}, +{"book_title": "The Reporter", "author_name": "Scott Sigler", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 551, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "The Reporter follows Yolanda Davenport, a reporter for Galaxy Sports Magazine, as she searches for the truth about Ju Tweedy's involvement with the murder of Grace McDermott - the incident that drove Ju to join the Ionath Krakens. The Reporter takes place between week three and week six of the 2684 Galactic Football League season, the season that encompasses The All-Pro.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Sports (Sports)", "Football", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13555517-the-reporter"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 8", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.57, "rating_votes": 12860, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical \"auto-mail\" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother's bodies...the legendary Philosopher's Stone.The raid on the Devil's Nest becomes a slaughter, as government troops - led by the Fuhrer President himself, King Bradley - exterminate the half-human forces of the Homunculus Greed. But will Ed and Al survive the battle unchanged? As Greed is sent to meet his maker, foreign travelers arrive in Amestris, having crossed the great desert from the eastern country of Xing. Their names are Mei and Ling, and they've come for the Philosopher's Stone...and a secret even the Elric brothers never imagined...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Manga (Shonen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/869.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_8"}, +{"book_title": "A Feast for Crows", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 641531, "review_number": 21983, "book_description": "Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Audiobook", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497.A_Feast_for_Crows"}, +{"book_title": "Phoenix Rising", "author_name": "Pip Ballantine", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 7456, "review_number": 950, "book_description": "In Victorian England, Londoners wash up dead on Thames, drained of blood and bone. Clandestine Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences is forbidden to investigate. But Eliza Braun, with bulletproof corset, fondness for dynamite, remarkable devices, drags along timorous new partner Wellington Books, of encyclopedic brain, against Phoenix intent on enslaving Britons.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9795166-phoenix-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Inkspell", "author_name": "Cornelia Funke", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 115512, "review_number": 4139, "book_description": "The captivating sequel to INKHEART, the critically acclaimed, international bestseller by Cornelia Funke, an author who is emerging as a truly modern classic writer for children.Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "European Literature (German Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28195.Inkspell"}, +{"book_title": "Damocles", "author_name": "S.G. Redling", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 2175, "review_number": 265, "book_description": "When Earth is rocked by evidence that extraterrestrials may have seeded human DNA throughout the universe, a one-way expedition into deep space is mounted to uncover the truth. What linguist Meg Dupris and her crewmates aboard the Earth ship Damocles discover on Didet\u2014a planet bathed in the near-eternal daylight of seven suns\u2014is a humanoid race with a different language, a different look, and a surprisingly similar society.But here, it\u2019s the \u201cEarthers\u201d who are the extraterrestrial invaders, and it\u2019s up to Meg\u2014a woman haunted by tragedy and obsessed with the power of communication\u2014to find the key to establishing trust between the natives and the newcomers. In Loul Pell, a young Dideto male thrust into the forefront of the historic event, Meg finds an unexpected kindred spirit, and undertakes an extraordinary journey of discovery, friendship, and life-altering knowledge.Told from both sides of a monumental encounter, Damocles is a compelling novel about man\u2019s first contact with an extraterrestrial race.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Humanities (Language)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17790336-damocles"}, +{"book_title": "Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 23261, "review_number": 1050, "book_description": "In her much-anticipated new novel, the New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey--soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Here Diana Gabaldon brilliantly weaves together the strands of Lord John's secret and public lives--a shattering family mystery, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and a war that stretches from the Old World to the New. . . .In 1758, in the heart of the Seven Years' War, Britain fights by the side of Prussia in the Rhineland. For Lord John and his titled brother Hal, the battlefield will be a welcome respite from the torturous mystery that burns poisonously in their family's history. Seventeen years earlier, Lord John's late father, the Duke of Pardloe, was found dead, a pistol in his hand and accusations of his role as a Jacobite agent staining forever a family's honor. Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. Lord John's brother has mysteriously received a page of their late father's missing diary. Someone is taunting the Grey family with secrets from the grave, but Hal, with secrets of his own, refuses to pursue the matter and orders his brother to do likewise. Frustrated, John turns to a man who has been both his prisoner and his confessor: the Scottish Jacobite James Fraser.Fraser can tell many secrets, and withhold many others. But war, a forbidden affair, and Fraser's own secrets will complicate Lord John's quest. Until James Fraser yields the missing piece of an astounding puzzle, and Lord John, caught between his courage and his conscience, must decide whether his family's honor is worth his life.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Mystery (Historical Mystery)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41502.Lord_John_and_the_Brotherhood_of_the_Blade"}, +{"book_title": "The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 6504, "review_number": 857, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce fans and readers to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before!Can science save us when all else fails? Trisk and her hated rival, Kalamack, have the same goal: save their species from extinction. Death comes in the guise of hope when a genetically modified tomato . Plague takes the world, giving the paranormal species an uncomfortable choice . Under accusations of scientific misconduct, Trisk and Kal flee across a plague torn United States to convince leaders of the major paranormal species to save their supposedly weaker kin, but not everyone thinks humanity should be saved. Trisk fights the prejudices of two societies to prove that not only does humanity have something to offer, but that long-accepted beliefs against women, dark magic, and humanity itself can turn to understanding; that when people are at their worst that the best show their true strength, and that love can hold the world together as a new balance is found.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31180840-the-turn"}, +{"book_title": "The Elsingham Portrait", "author_name": "Elizabeth Chater", "rating_score": 3.13, "rating_votes": 136, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Expecting a marriage proposal but ending up jilted, Kathryn Hendrix wanders into an art gallery and becomes lost in the eyes of a portrait of a beautiful woman painted 200 hundred years before. Suddenly, she\u2019s transported from 1975 into an eighteenth century English world of luxury and decadence \u2014 now occupying the body of the woman in the portrait, Lady Nadine Elsingham.Kathryn finds herself confronted by the arrogant yet disturbingly handsome husband of Lady Elsingham, Lord John, all the while thrust into an old world that thinks her mad when she tries to explain what\u2019s happening in the \u201ccolonies.\u201d How will she escape being sent to Bedlam before she can get back to her old life?", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Regency)", "Historical", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2972836-the-elsingham-portrait"}, +{"book_title": "The Icarus Hunt", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 4047, "review_number": 274, "book_description": "Smuggler Jordan McKell has partner Ixil, an alien whose two \"ferrets\" ride his shoulders and telepathically exchange simple messages. They take a job on the odd-shaped ship Icarus. But the ragtag crew was found at taverns, the secret cargo sealed tight, the employer missing, and a saboteur is aboard. After a beautiful crew member helps uncover the nature of their cargo for Earth, Jordan suspects they are in a vast conspiracy set to change human history. Unfortunately, he's right.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Action", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192528.The_Icarus_Hunt"}, +{"book_title": "The Phantom in the Maze", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 133, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "We tamper with time at our peril. The Phantom in the Maze, a new story in the Mongolian Wizard series by award-winning author Michael Swanwick.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Travel"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27242753-the-phantom-in-the-maze"}, +{"book_title": "Behemoth", "author_name": "John Walker", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1433, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Three years ago, Earth was attacked by an invading force so devastating, only one ship in the fleet survived. Their hard won victory came from the aid of an alliance of aliens long at war with an aggressive force. With the aid of advanced technology, humanity retrofitted their surviving vessel. The Behemoth became a shield against any future incursions. Now a strange ship has arrived, heading straight toward Earth. As it is not answering hails, the Behemoth heads out to intercept. The operation is interrupted by other visitors from beyond the solar system. Outnumbered the Behemoth must fend off the invaders once again but this time, the stakes are much higher. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31678356-behemoth"}, +{"book_title": "Gunner Cade", "author_name": "Cyril Judd", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 76, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Note: Cyril Judd is the pseudonym used by both authors (Cyril M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril) when this was first published in 1952. It was serialized in Astounding Magazine originally, and was credited to the single author \"Cyril Judd\".Back cover blurb:THE MYSTERY OF PLANET EARTHThe Emperor had no more devoted Armsman than Gunner Cade. In this warped civilization of murder and death, Cade fought as he was expected to, killed as he was expected to, destroying enemy after enemy until he himself was shot down in honorable battle.But Cade did not die. After weeks of unconsciousness, he awoke to find he was a fugitive, the object of a world-wide manhunt. Why was it so important to silence him? What undiscovered secret did he possess as he desperately fled over the earth and into outer space?And Cade began to realize that he held in his hands the fate of all mankind...", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1170564.Gunner_Cade"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Man's Debt", "author_name": "Elliott Kay", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 2549, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "\u201cWE REQUIRE A DIFFERENT BATTLEFIELD.\u201d Nobody expected the war to last three hours, let alone three years. The star system of Archangel holds the line against invading corporate fleets, but a quarter of its territory is already lost. The navy can\u2019t hang on much longer. Faced with this grim truth, Archangel\u2019s leaders shift their strategy to diplomacy and espionage. For both arenas, they call upon a reluctant weapon: a frontline grunt named Tanner Malone. These days, Tanner doesn\u2019t aspire to win the war. He merely wants to survive it. Now he\u2019ll be thrust into the center of events once again, pulled back and forth from covert missions to the media spotlight. Yet with every battle, he gets closer to the old enemy hidden in the shadows, and the ugly truth about the war that could unravel everything Archangel might hope to win.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "Action", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29480668-dead-man-s-debt"}, +{"book_title": "The Security Guy", "author_name": "V.C. Lancaster", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 517, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Anna has been sent to the San Diego branch of the Department of Extra-Terrestrial Immigration from her London PR company to negotiate a contract. Her job is to help improve the public image of the local Teissian refugee community after it has come under attack from a local politician. On her first day there, she is invited to the office Christmas party. The next morning, she wakes up beside a tall scaled alien named Khy. Anna just wants to forget it ever happened - not that either of them can actually remember what happened - but Khy is insistent. In his culture, he is now honour-bound to stay by her side, at least until she can prove she's not pregnant. Anna knows it's impossible, but she can't get rid of him, and what's worse is that she's due at her brother's for Christmas in a matter of days. With no other choice, she and Khy have to pretend to be in love for real so he can join her in New Hampshire for the holidays. When their relationship is suddenly exposed in the worst possible way, and Anna becomes a target for anti-Teissian protesters, Khy has to be her bodyguard as well as her boyfriend. With everything spiralling out of Anna's normally tight control, Khy is the only one she can rely on. But what does that mean when the inevitable happens, and they're forced to admit she's not pregnant? With nothing keeping them together, they have to make a choice. Was any of it real? Or were they just a drunken mistake from the start?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40209942-the-security-guy"}, +{"book_title": "The Illusion", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2382, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "The Yeerks possess a weapon that could be the biggest threat to the Animorphs yet. The anti-morphing ray transforms a person in morph back to natural form. Unless they find and destroy the top-secret ray, the Animorphs could be exposed for good.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302871.The_Illusion"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken King and the Inevitable Abduction", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 769, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "The Kraken King has declared that Zenobia Fox is under his protection\u2014and with her identity revealed, she needs that protection more than ever. But it comes with a price when Ariq demands that Zenobia reveal her secrets in return.Ariq wants nothing more than for Zenobia to trust him, and he knows exactly which sensual tricks will breach her defenses. But although she urgently desires the powerful governor, Zenobia isn\u2019t a woman who will be easily won with a few passionate kisses.When his ambush goes awry, Ariq discovers just how deeply he can hurt her\u2014but the real danger to Zenobia is one that he never expected\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Novella", "Steampunk Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20645262-the-kraken-king-and-the-inevitable-abduction"}, +{"book_title": "D4VE", "author_name": "Ryan Ferrier", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 369, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Primetime TV; mortgages; traffic jams. The robots conquered earth, wiping out all life in the galaxy, but nothing changed. Meet D4VE, the greatest robot war hero, now trapped behind a desk at a soul-sucking day job. Can something, somewhere snap him out of this slump? Will a new presence on 34RTH ignite his long-lost spark for battle?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25650179-d4ve"}, +{"book_title": "First to Fight", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 2068, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "\"Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . .\"Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day's water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds. But the enemy didn't reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines' Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere--even to death. . .", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662671.First_to_Fight"}, +{"book_title": "The Silent Army", "author_name": "James Knapp", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 154, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Read James Knapp's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The pulse-pounding sequel to State of Decay Federal agent Nico Wachalowski must stop Samuel Fawkes from awakening his own private army of zombies even if it means killing the woman he loves-now resurrected as a \"Revivor\"-permanently.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8533597-the-silent-army"}, +{"book_title": "The Undying Legion", "author_name": "Clay Griffith", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 773, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "A thrilling new Victorian-era urban fantasy for fans of Kevin Hearne\u2019s Iron Druid Chronicles, the Showtime series Penny Dreadful, and the Sherlock Holmes movies featuring Robert Downey, Jr.\u00a0With a flood of dark magic about to engulf Victorian London, can a handful of heroes vanquish a legion of the undead?\u00a0 When monster-hunter Malcolm MacFarlane comes across the gruesome aftermath of a ritual murder in a London church, he enlists the help of magician-scribe Simon Archer and alchemist extraordinaire Kate Anstruther. Studying the macabre scene, they struggle to understand obscure clues in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics carved into the victim\u2019s heart\u2014as well as bizarre mystical allusions to the romantic poetry of William Blake. One thing is clear: Some very potent black magic is at work. \u00a0 But this human sacrifice is only the first in a series of ritualized slayings. Desperate to save lives while there is still time, Simon, Kate, and Malcolm\u2014along with gadget geek Penny Carter and Charlotte, an adolescent werewolf\u2014track down a necromancer who is reanimating the deceased. As the team battles an unrelenting army of undead,\u00a0a powerful Egyptian mummy, and serpentine demons, the necromancer proves an elusive quarry. And when the true purpose of the ritual is revealed, the gifted allies must confront a destructive force that is positively apocalyptic.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Mystery", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23308133-the-undying-legion"}, +{"book_title": "By Blood Alone", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 699, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "It takes more than guts to win a war...In a Legion gone lax, Colonel Bill Booly, with his mixed-blood and by-the-book attitude, is a misfit. So when he steps on some important toes, his punishment is assignment to the worst post in the galaxy: Earth.But Booly and his troops will turn out to be Earth's best line of defense, when a Legion-led military coup topples the government.It's Legionnaire against Legionnaire in a struggle that will be won by strength, by courage, and...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1115217.By_Blood_Alone"}, +{"book_title": "Halo", "author_name": "Tom Maddox", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 183, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "He stepped up and into a chrome half-egg, then shivered and lay back as body-warmth liquid bled into the slack plastic, which began to balloon underneath him. He took hold of finger-thick cables and pushed their junction ends home into the sockets set in the back of his neck. As the egg continued to fill, he fit a mask over his face, felt its edges seal, and inhaled.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1417694.Halo"}, +{"book_title": "Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology", "author_name": "Nick Gevers", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 746, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology assembles original stories by some of the genre's foremost writers. Edited by Nick Gevers, this collection includes brand new stories from some of science fiction and fantasy's foremost writers.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3259963-extraordinary-engines"}, +{"book_title": "Nyxia Unleashed", "author_name": "Scott Reintgen", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 3524, "review_number": 693, "book_description": "Getting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all.Emmett Atwater thought Babel\u2019s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn\u2019t take long for him to learn that Babel\u2019s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one.Now Emmett and the rest of the Genesis survivors must rally and forge their own path through a new world. Their mission from Babel is simple: extract nyxia, the most valuable material in the universe, and play nice with the indigenous Adamite population.But Emmett and the others quickly realize they are caught between two powerful forces\u2014Babel and the Adamites\u2014with clashing desires. Will the Genesis team make it out alive before it\u2019s too late?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Space", "Audiobook", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35424762-nyxia-unleashed"}, +{"book_title": "If I Can't Have You", "author_name": "Patti Berg", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 239, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Trevor Montgomery, the dashing playboy movie star from the 1930s, mysteriously disappeared more than 50 years ago. Ever since she was a little girl, Adriana Howard has loved the enigmatic screen icon--collecting Hollywood memorabilia and studying his life. Then, one night, a handsome stranger wearing the face Adriana has always loved walks into her bedroom. Is he a brazen impostor or the answer to Adriana's most cherished, impossible dream?.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/584078.If_I_Can_t_Have_You"}, +{"book_title": "Fuzzy", "author_name": "Tom Angleberger", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 979, "review_number": 198, "book_description": "When Max\u2014Maxine Zealster\u2014befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle School\u2019s new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle school\u2014the good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly. Little do they know that surviving sixth grade is going to become a true matter of life and death, because Vanguard has an evil presence at its heart: a digital student evaluation system named BARBARA that might be taking its mission to shape the perfect student to extremes!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Humor", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Academic (School)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28818327-fuzzy"}, +{"book_title": "Akira, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Katsuhiro Otomo", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 10241, "review_number": 316, "book_description": "The science fiction tale set in 2019 in Tokyo after the city was destroyed by World War III, follows the lives of two teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, who have a consuming fear of a monstrous power known as Akira.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93370.Akira_Vol_2"}, +{"book_title": "Scout Pilot of The Free Union (Space Scout #1", "author_name": "Will Macmillan Jones", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 18, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Captain Frank Eric Russell is captain/pilot of a Valhalla Class Star Destroyer \u2013 until there is an embarrassing incident during a diplomatic mission to the border with the Imperium. Disciplined by being transferred to the Reconnaissance Unit of The Free Union\u2019s Star Fleet, he finds himself assigned to an outdated Speedbird Scoutship. The missions are less prestigious, less rigorously overseen \u2013 and a lot less safe.Threats, terror and mortal danger lurk behind every planet and asteroid as Frank tries to survive the life of a Reconnaissance Unit Scout Pilot patrolling the barely defined border between The Free Union and the Imperium during the uneasy truce between the two Galactic Powers.Frank and his ageing Speedbird are sent on a number of perilous missions around the galaxy, both for the mysterious Colonel Rosto and on normal Space Corps business. On the way he meets a new sentient species, a terrifying space spider, finds himself involved in a deal for new spaceships that goes horribly wrong and finally has to escape the clutches of The Imperium\u2019s Chief Enforcer, the feared Colonel Starker, before becoming involved in a battle as the rivals for domination of the galaxy clash in space.With everything against him, can Frank and his trusty Speedbird live to run away another day?Scout Pilot of The Free Union is the first in a new collection of Space Opera novels from noted storyteller Will Macmillan Jones", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40169994-scout-pilot-of-the-free-union"}, +{"book_title": "The Kaiser Affair", "author_name": "Joseph Robert Lewis", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 129, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "When a master thief escapes from prison, detective Bettina Rothschild must put him back behind bars before the scandalous fiasco destroys the Ministry of Justice. Her investigation leads from decaying cemeteries where ravens conspire to warehouses where wondrous machines are built in secret, and even to the fabled Drifting Isle above the city of Eisenstadt where an ancient tomb hides a deadly secret.The relentless chase proves taxing for a young woman who relies on her cane and her steamcarriage to get about, but that's where a good husband steps in. While Bettina picks locks and interrogates suspects, her beloved Arjuna defends her from the most brutal and bizarre assassins in Eisenstadt.But as the clock ticks down, Bettina finds too many questions still remain. How did the thief escape from prison? How can he afford to hire so many killers? And why would he go to the Drifting Isle only to steal a giant beetle?The Drifting Isle ChroniclesBlack Mercury by Charlotte E. EnglishThe Kaiser Affair by Joseph Robert LewisThe Machine God by MeiLin MirandaAuthor site: www.josephrobertlewis.comSeries site: www.driftingislechronicles.com", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Mystery", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17563679-the-kaiser-affair"}, +{"book_title": "The Assassins of Altis", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2225, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "Trapped within the dead city of Marandur, Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain must escape both merciless barbarians and the pitiless Imperial Legion. Beyond those dangers lie the mightiest and most unforgiving powers in the world of Dematr: the Great Guilds that rule the world with iron fists.Mari's Mechanics Guild and Alain's Mage Guild have always been enemies, but they are united in wanting to kill their rogue members before Mari can fulfill the ancient prophecy of being the one who will finally overthrow their power. Mari and Alain must risk those dangers because halfway across their world lies a place where truth has long been hidden. A place that could explain why their world's history begins abruptly, with no hints of what came before. A place where they might learn how the Mechanics Guild came to control all technology and how the Mages manage to alter reality temporarily. A place that might tell them how to achieve a task that appears to be impossible.Never before have a Mage and a Mechanic worked together, and their combined talents offer their only hope. But she and Alain must first survive the deadly and implacable Assassins of Altis.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25444441-the-assassins-of-altis"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel Angels", "author_name": "Libba Bray", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 110230, "review_number": 3419, "book_description": "Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy, spending time with her friends in the city, attending ritzy balls, and on a somber note, tending to her ailing father. As she prepares to ring in the New Year, 1896, a handsome young man, Lord Denby, has set his sights on Gemma, or so it seems. Yet amidst the distractions of London, Gemma\u2019s visions intensify\u2013visions of three girls dressed in white, to whom something horrific has happened, something only the realms can explain...The lure is strong, and before long, Gemma, Felicity, and Ann are turning flowers into butterflies in the enchanted world of the realms that Gemma alone can bring them to. To the girls\u2019 great joy, their beloved Pippa is there as well, eager to complete their circle of friendship.But all is not well in the realms\u2013or out. The mysterious Kartik has reappeared, telling Gemma she must find the Temple and bind the magic, else great disaster will befall her. Gemma\u2019s willing to do his intrusive bidding, despite the dangers it brings, for it means she will meet up with her mother\u2019s greatest friend\u2013and now her foe, Circe. Until Circe is destroyed, Gemma cannot live out her destiny. But finding Circe proves a most perilous task.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51428.Rebel_Angels"}, +{"book_title": "Shtetl Days", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 186, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Professional actors Veit Harlan and his wife Kristi are happy citizens of the prosperous, triumphant Reich. It's been over a century since the War of Retribution cleaned up Europe, long enough that now curious tourists flock to the painstakingly recreated \"village\" of Wawolnice, where--along with dozens of colleagues--Veit and Kristi re-enact the daily life of the long-exterminated but still frightening \"Jews.\"Veit and Kristi are true professionals, proud of their craft. They've learned all there is to know about this vanished way of life. They know the dead languages, the turns of phrase, the prayers, the manners, the food. But now they're beginning to learn what happens when you immerse yourself long enough in something real...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Religion (Judaism)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (Jewish)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11106247-shtetl-days"}, +{"book_title": "Secrets in Time", "author_name": "Alison Stuart", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 172, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Can love overcome time itself? When Nathaniel Preston stumbles into Dr Jessica Shepherd\u2019s garden, she is reluctant to believe he has crossed more than three hundred years to seek her help. He must help her understand why he has travelled from the midst of civil war to the quiet English countryside of the twentieth century. But is falling in love with him destined to end in heartbreak? Jessica knows he must return to his own time and face certain death in battle. Why has Nathaniel been sent to find Jessica? Can their love survive a bloody battle\u2026and overcome time? ", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55328131-secrets-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "author_name": "J.K. Rowling", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 2691854, "review_number": 48306, "book_description": "Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for hundreds of years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards.And in his case, different can be deadly.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Audiobook", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6.Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "A Clockwork Christmas", "author_name": "Angela James", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 147, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "\nWe Wish You a Steampunk Christmas\nChanged forever after tragedy, a woman must draw strength from her husband's love. A man learns that love isn't always what you expect. A thief steals the heart of a vengeful professor. And an American inventor finds love Down Under. Enjoy Victorian Christmas with a clockwork twist in these four steampunk novellas.Anthology includes:Crime Wave in a Corset by Stacy GailThis Winter Heart by PG ForteWanted: One Scoundrel by Jenny SchwartzFar From Broken by JK CoiStories also available for purchase separately.117,000 words", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Romance", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Holiday", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12859473-a-clockwork-christmas"}, +{"book_title": "Ocean of Storms", "author_name": "Christopher Mari", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 6903, "review_number": 555, "book_description": "In the near future, political tensions between the United States and China are at an all-time high. Then a catastrophic explosion on the moon cleaves a vast gash in the lunar surface, and the massive electromagnetic pulse it unleashes obliterates Earth's electrical infrastructure. To plumb the depths of the newly created lunar fissure and excavate the source of the power surge, the feuding nations are forced to cooperate on a high-risk mission to return mankind to the moon.Now, a diverse, highly skilled ensemble of astronauts--and a pair of maverick archaeologists plucked from the Peruvian jungle--will brave conspiracy on Earth and disaster in space to make a shocking discovery.Ocean of Storms is an epic adventure that spans space and time as its heroes race to fulfill an ancient mission that may change the course of humanity's future.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30624628-ocean-of-storms"}, +{"book_title": "The Galaxy Builder", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 78, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "The adventures of Lafayette O'Leary continue at last! The world, as Lafayette O'Leary knew it, disappeared in a flash. Perhaps it was his own doing - after all, he had the uncanny gift of creating alternate realities by sheer mental power.But the result was a nightmare gone out of control. All O'Leary wanted was to find his wife and return to the familiar world of Artesia. Yet no sooner did he manage to extricate himself from one bizarre situation than he was thrust into another, equally threatening...There was only one thing to do: he had to penetrate the very center of power from which his destiny was being controlled and - take it into his own hands!", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549256.The_Galaxy_Builder"}, +{"book_title": "The Predator", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 5646, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "Marco never wanted to be an Animorph. He never wanted the ability to change into any animal he touches. He just wants to chill. Whatever happens, happens.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125337.The_Predator"}, +{"book_title": "The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia", "author_name": "Jaymee Goh", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 271, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Steampunk takes on Southeast Asia in this anthology \u00a0The stories in this collection merge technological wonder with the everyday. Children upgrade their fighting spiders with armor, and toymakers create punchcard-driven marionettes. Large fish lumber across the skies, while boat people find a new home on the edge of a different dimension. Technology and tradition meld as the people adapt to the changing forces of their world. The Sea Is Ours is an exciting new anthology that features stories infused with the spirits of Southeast Asia\u2019s diverse peoples, legends, and geography.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25362894-the-sea-is-ours"}, +{"book_title": "So I Married a Sorcerer", "author_name": "Kerrelyn Sparks", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2266, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "Growing up on the Isle of Moon, Brigitta knows nothing of her past, except that she is Embraced: born with powers that forced her into hiding. Everything changes when she learns she\u2019s a princess, hidden away from her villainous half-brother who now rules the kingdom. But he knows about Brigitta, and he\u2019ll do anything to get her back. Unless a certain roguish pirate has anything to say about it\u2026Rupert is both an infamous pirate and a sorcerer with the power to harness the wind. He\u2019s been waiting nineteen years for revenge\u2014and he needs Brigitta to get it. What begins as a kidnapping of the fiery beauty turns into a fierce attraction. But can he win the captive princess\u2019s heart?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33574150-so-i-married-a-sorcerer"}, +{"book_title": "Outland", "author_name": "Dennis E. Taylor", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3995, "review_number": 351, "book_description": "\"When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six university students and their experimental physics project to prevent the end of civilization. \"When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Richard and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. They connect to an alternate Earth with identical geology, but where humans never evolved. They go panning for gold and become millionaires overnight, while fantasizing about Nobel Prizes and patents. Then the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts on Earth in an explosion large enough to destroy civilization and kill half the planet. Richard and his friends have less than an afternoon to get as many people as possible across to Outland before Nebraska is covered in a lethal cloud of ash. Now Richard finds himself in charge of a disorganized and frightened band of reluctant pioneers, on a world with none of the modern infrastructure that people have come to depend on. Richard has been a loner all his life, and has always wanted to be part of something bigger\u2013 but this is far more than he bargained for. If he doesn\u2019t get this right, it\u2019s not just the lives of the people in his care that could be lost\u2013 it may very well be the end of human civilization.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24292598-outland"}, +{"book_title": "The Massive, Vol. 2: Subcontinental", "author_name": "Brian Wood", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 822, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Still adrift and on the hunt for their sister ship, The Massive, the crew of the Kapital\u2014all that\u2019s left of Callum Israel\u2019s dwindling environmental-activism group Ninth Wave\u2014are challenged at every turn as they face mutiny, sharks, snowy isolation, and the tempting possibility of a new life on a utopian sea station. The strain of life in a crumbling world, as well as secrets about Israel\u2019s failing health, threaten to destroy a crew stretched to its limits. Collects issues #7\u2013#12.* Features an introduction by Sea Sheperd\u2019s, Captain Peter Hammarstedt.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Thriller", "Environment"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18242926-the-massive-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk Darcy", "author_name": "Monica Fairview", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "William Darcy is obsessed with his ancestors. So much so that he intends to rebuild Pemberley (destroyed during the Uprising) stone by stone, and he wants to employ reconstruction expert Seraphene Grant to help him.Or does he? Seraphene wasn\u2019t born yesterday. She can smell a rat, particularly when it stinks all the way up to her airship. She knows Darcy is hiding something. But with the Authorities after her and her other options dwindling by the moment, the temptation of genuine English tea and a gorgeous Steampunk gentleman are very difficult to resist.But what if Darcy\u2019s mystery job courts nothing but trouble? What if Darcy is harboring a secret to kill for? When kiss comes to shove, will Darcy\u2019s secret destroy Seraphene, or will it be her salvation?Join us on a romantic adventure like no other in this whimsical Pride and Prejudice-inspired tribute, featuring Wickham, Georgiana, dirigibles, funky fish, and swash-buckling pirates.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18363817-steampunk-darcy"}, +{"book_title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 22888, "review_number": 1207, "book_description": "WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDS Featured in THE NEW YORK TIMES and on NPR, Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey, Ampersand, and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his long-lost girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on earth. Yorick Brown's long journey through an Earth populated only by women comes to a dramatic, unexpected conclusion in this final volume. Collects issues #55-60 of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's award-winning Vertigo series.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2202230.Y"}, +{"book_title": "Part-Time Gods", "author_name": "Rachel Aaron", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2773, "review_number": 300, "book_description": "Life in the magical mess of the Detroit Free Zone is never easy. When you\u2019re laboring under the curse of a certain prideful, overbearing dragon, it can be down right impossible.My name is Opal Yong-ae, and I\u2019m a Cleaner. At least, I used to be. Thanks to the supernatural bad luck that turns everything I do against me, these days I\u2019m more of a walking disaster. Getting rid of this curse is the only way to get my life back. Unfortunately, dragon magic is every bit as sneaky and deadly the monsters behind it, and just as hard to beat.But I\u2019ve never been one to take her doom at face value. Cornered doesn\u2019t mean defeated, and in an awakened city that rules herself, dragons are no longer the biggest powers around.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46252905-part-time-gods"}, +{"book_title": "Aching for Always", "author_name": "Gwyn Cready", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 207, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "RITA Award\u2013winning author Gwyn Cready continues the \u201csexy fun\u201d (BookPage) of her charming time-travel adventures with a high-spirited tale of a modern-day mapmaker and the eighteenth-century English navy captain she can\u2019t resist.Ambitious and feisty Josephine \u201cJoss\u201d O\u2019Malley has spent years fighting to keep her mother\u2019s map-making company alive. Just when she finds herself considering taking a risky next step with bad-boy entrepreneur Rogan Reynolds\u2014 whose generosity has helped keep the business afloat\u2014Joss meets dark and mysterious Hugh Hawksmoor. Hugh\u2019s deft touch and old-world seduction stir Joss\u2019s desires like a storm at sea, and she has no clue that he has sailed three hundred years into the future to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of her father. Or that she holds the key to a map that will help him undo the destructive changes her father wrought in the past. When Hugh lures Joss into a treacherous journey through time, there\u2019s not a twenty-first-century trick that can save her. But when she applies her own instincts to a course she thought was set, she discovers that the high seas hold some scandalous surprises.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7645929-aching-for-always"}, +{"book_title": "Bones Are White", "author_name": "Scott Sigler", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 587, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "A collection of nine horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of NOCTURNAL, INFECTED, CONTAGIOUS and ANCESTOR. This eBook- and audiobook-only collection brings you more of Scott's thought-provoking short stories from his five years of weekly storytelling, as well as a brand-new HUNTER HUNTERSON & SONS story and a brand-new KISSYMAN tale. Scott still gives away his audio stories -- for free -- every week at scottsigler.comStories in BONES ARE WHITE:\u2022 Passenger\u2022 Bag Man\u2022 Chuckles Mulrooney, Attorney for the Damned\u2022 Hero\u2022 Eusocial Networking\u2022 You're A Damn Fool, Charlie Brown\u2022 Kissyman & The Last Song\u2022 Hunter Hunterson & Sons: Home\u2022 Hunter Hunterson & Sons: The $15 Burger (manuscript)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13564785-bones-are-white"}, +{"book_title": "Radicalized", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 4350, "review_number": 753, "book_description": "Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near\u2014all too near\u2014future.'Unauthorized Bread' is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman's perilously illegal quest to fix a broken toaster.In 'Model Minority' a superhero finds himself way out his depth when he confronts the corruption of the police and justice system. 'Radicalized' is the story of a desperate husband, a darknet forum and the birth of a violent uprising against the US health care system.The final story, 'The Masque of the Red Death', tracks an uber-wealthy survivalist and his followers as they hole up and attempt to ride out the collapse of society.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Audiobook", "Politics", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41447687-radicalized"}, +{"book_title": "Assembly Code", "author_name": "Colin F. Barnes", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 613, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Being human is no longer enough to save humanity.The fanatical Red Widows sweep destruction across the abandoned lands. Their aggression threatens to destroy the city Gerry had risked his life to save. Petal, the woman Gerry has come to love is dying. The despotic cabal, The Family, demand he brings her to them, but she's missing, running from the Widows, searching for the truth of her origins before it's too late. When their paths cross, Petal and Gerry will hold the fate of humankind in their hands\u2014if they can survive the malevolent digital entity that stalks them from the shadows.Assembly Code is a post-apocalyptic, near-future thriller that will delight fans of The Matrix, Neuromancer, and Blade Runner.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18947212-assembly-code"}, +{"book_title": "The Road to Damascus", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2315, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Keith Laumer's Bolos are Back-and New York Times Best-Selling Author John Ringo has Signed on with the Bolo Brigade! First Time in Paperback.When a ruthless political regime seizes power on a world struggling to recover from alien invasion, a former war hero finds herself leading a desperate band of freedom fighters. Kafari Khrustinova, who fought Deng infantry from farmhouses and barns, finds herself struggling to free her homeworld from an unholy political alliance, headed by the charismatic and ambitious Vittori Santorini, which has seduced her young daughter with its propaganda and subverted the planet's Bolo, using the war machine to crush all political opposition. To free her homeworld, Kafari must somehow cripple or kill the Bolo she once called friend. Unit SOL-0045, \"Sonny,\" is a Mark XX Bolo, self-aware and intelligent. When Sonny's human commander is forced off-world, Sonny tries to navigate his way through ambiguous moral and legal issues, sinking into deep confusion and electronic misery. He eventually faces a dark night of the soul, with no guarantee that he will understand-let alone make-the right decision. And caught in the middle of this volatile battlefield is Yalena Khrustinova, Kafari's young daughter. Will she open her eyes in time to save herself-and millions of innocents-or will Santorini's relentless brainwashing campaign continue to blind her while the tyrant engineers the ultimate destruction of a helpless and enslaved population?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/470073.The_Road_to_Damascus"}, +{"book_title": "The Building Boy", "author_name": "Ross Montgomery", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 172, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "All at once, it was as if the stars leapt closer.Grandma grabbed the boy, raising him high above the rooftiles on her head.She was alive!The boy's grandma was a famous architect. Her garden is still full of old building materials. Unwilling to accept she has gone, the boy builds a giant structure from the bricks and girders he finds. And then ... Grandma comes to life! The boy is whisked away on an epic adventure across fields, through oceans and atop roofs. But where is Grandma taking him?Beautiful, thrilling and extremely moving: the extraordinary debut picture book from much-loved author, Ross Montgomery.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Family", "Death", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32490744-the-building-boy"}, +{"book_title": "Contact with Chaos", "author_name": "Michael Z. Williamson", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 625, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligent lifeforms-the first which humans had ever encountered-it should have been the most important event in history. And it might be-for all the wrong reasons. Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys to the Ithkuil, as the inhabitants called themselves, which had the potential to disrupt their society. Then there was the U.N., which controlled the planet Earth. Earth and Freehold were not on good terms, to put it mildly, and the U.N. immediately sent its own ship to make contact with the Ithkuil. If the authoritarians from Earth started throwing their weight around, Freehold would have to push back, causing anything from a diplomatic incident to outright war. And then another ship arrived, full of idealistic do-gooders determined to keep the Ithkuil in their unspoiled state of nature . . . The whole thing was turning into a cross between a Marx Brothers farce and a Kafkaesque nightmare, with a potential for Greek tragedy. Contact with a more advance civilization might pose a danger to the Ithkuil, but it definitely was becoming more dangerous to the human factions, and the situation was a powder keg just waiting for a spark to cause a very deadly explosion. . . .", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3674446-contact-with-chaos"}, +{"book_title": "Taming the Giant", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 877, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "A Princess ruling on a cold, dark world A Warrior dreaming of a female he can love and protect A perfect match? Maybe not\u2026he's a Giant. Can Alanah and Bram overcome their differences to be together? Read Taming the Giant to find out\u2026 The Princess and the Giant\u2026 Meet the Jor\u2019gen Kindred. After leaving the main Mother Ship centuries ago to make a genetic trade with a massive race of people, they are thirty percent bigger than their ancestors. Which makes them 9 feet tall\u2014giants to regular sized humanoids. Now, hundreds of years after the genetic trade which made them so huge, the Jor\u2019gen Kindred have no more females and are seeking a new people to trade with. Bram, their captain, has been dream-sharing with a female from a small, cold, rocky planet at the far edge of the galaxy. The problem? She\u2019s tiny compared to him. Alanah is the ruler of her people but not by choice. After a plague carried off all the men and boys, including her father the king, she and the female members of her pre-industrial society were left to fend for themselves. Alanah has always felt like an outsider. Not only is she a princess but she\u2019s considered much too tall for a woman. The other ladies at court sneer at her behind her back, wondering where she will ever find a man big enough to take her on. Enter Bram, a giant three feet taller than Alanah. Suddenly the formerly too-tall princess is feeling positively petite. But Alanah\u2019s planet is stuck in the Dark Ages and Kindred technology looks like magic to them\u2014black magic. Can Alanah convince her people the giant race is safe to join with? And can she and Bram overcome their differences\u2014both physical and emotional\u2014to form a lasting relationship? You\u2019ll have to read Taming the Giant to find out.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39077347-taming-the-giant"}, +{"book_title": "Perception", "author_name": "Lee Strauss", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3210, "review_number": 371, "book_description": " ETERNAL LIFE IS TO DIE FORSeventeen-year-old Zoe Vanderveen is a GAP\u2014a genetically altered person.\u00a0She lives in the security of a walled city on prime water-front property along side other equally beautiful people with extended life spans. Zoe\u2019s carefree life takes a traumatic turn when her brother Liam is murdered.The only one who can help her find out what happened is Noah Brody, the last guy on earth she should trust.\u00a0 Noah Brody is a natural who lives on the outside. He leads protests against the GAPs and detests the widening chasm they\u2019ve created between those who have and those who don\u2019t. He doesn\u2019t like girls like Zoe and he has good reason not to like her specifically. He's not sure why he's agreed to help her, but what he finds out when he does, will change his life forever.PERCEPTION is a near-future mystery that can be read alone.\u00a0\u200b", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32601289-perception"}, +{"book_title": "Daughter of the Blood", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 39350, "review_number": 2229, "book_description": "Librarian's Note: .The Dark Kingdom is preparing itself for the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy--the arrival of a new Queen, a Witch who will wield more power than even the High Lord of Hell himself. But this new ruler is young, and very susceptible to influence and corruption; whoever controls her controls the Darkness. And now, three sworn enemies begin a ruthless game of politics and intrigue, magic and betrayal, and the destiny of an entire world is at stake.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47956.Daughter_of_the_Blood"}, +{"book_title": "Spinward Fringe Broadcast 6: Fragments", "author_name": "Randolph Lalonde", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2121, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "The crew of the Triton continue their misadventure near Ossimi Ring Station. They are forced down different paths and a fight for freedom that will cost them dearly begins. New opportunities, dangers and experiences await them all, as the Order of Eden stirs, advancing their own agenda.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8688429-spinward-fringe-broadcast-6"}, +{"book_title": "Astro Boy, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Osamu Tezuka", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 941, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Presents the adventures of the robotic Astro Boy, including how he was created and his battles with the Hot Dog Corps.", "year_published": 1952, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135074.Astro_Boy_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "The Caves of Steel", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 80840, "review_number": 2800, "book_description": "A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the \"R\" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!", "year_published": 1954, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Mystery (Detective)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41811.The_Caves_of_Steel"}, +{"book_title": "Legacy", "author_name": "Jeanette Baker", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 348, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "In Scotland to claim a castle she has inherited, professor Christina Murray meets the handsome man who may hold the key to the secrets of Traquair House, and to her heart. Then she travels through time to unveil the mystery of her family, only to find herself in grave danger.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3894283-legacy"}, +{"book_title": "Ice Planet Barbarians", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 15856, "review_number": 2108, "book_description": "You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women - including me - on an ice planet.And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25128811-ice-planet-barbarians"}, +{"book_title": "Deceiver", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1884, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "\"One of the best long-running SF series in existence\" (Publishers Weekly) continues with the second novel in a brand-new Foreigner sequence. The civil war among the alien Atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri, his son and heir, has returned to the Bujavid, his seat of power. But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still present, and the danger these rebels pose is far from over.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Planetary Romance)", "Space", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7145258-deceiver"}, +{"book_title": "Brother Termite", "author_name": "Patricia Anthony", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 155, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "First Cousin Brother Reen, chief of staff, is not happy about the rioters outside, or the graffiti by the West Wing stairs, or his secretary's brightly colored new blouse. Humans are chaotic. So many crises now, and so little time left. Germany plans to invade China, but President Womack is more interested in attending seances and ordering pizza. Cousins have been kidnapped, but all the FBI and CIA do is accuse each other. Tali and even the Sleep Master are furious with Reen. His beloved Marian still cannot forgive him for ruining her life. But Angela - Angela is Reen's greatest worry. For what world awaits her, their Cousin-human daughter, when both Cousins and humans are no more? Patricia Anthony mixes Washington politics and the numbing horror of mind control to tell a tale, at once comical and dark, of treachery, guilt, and self-sacrificing love.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/732940.Brother_Termite"}, +{"book_title": "Renegades", "author_name": "Craig Alanson", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 5204, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again Saved The World. The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42844512-renegades"}, +{"book_title": "Kingdom of Ashes", "author_name": "Elena May", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 894, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Myra never witnessed the Nightfall. She has only heard stories from the eldest among them; tales of the Old World and of the scientists who invented the WeatherWizard - a technological innovation that controls the weather. Unfortunately, the device also gave an ambitious vampire prince the means to cover the world in impenetrable clouds, allowing his armies to crawl out of their caves and conquer all.Vampires rule over the New World, breeding humans for food. After fifty years of guerrilla warfare, the Resistance is fading, its supplies dwindling. They must rally and succeed\u2014and soon\u2014or all hope of restoring human civilization will be lost.When Myra goes on a desperate mission to help the Resistance, she ends up a captive in the vampires\u2019 palace. With time running out, she must find a way to stop Prince Vladimir, and every wrong step leads to the death of innocents. Her battle abilities prove useless, but Myra discovers she has another skill that can give her an edge over her captors. Now, Myra must defeat the vampire leader at a power game he has been playing for almost two millennia.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30748964-kingdom-of-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Outside", "author_name": "Shalini Boland", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 2690, "review_number": 249, "book_description": "The future is divided by Perimeters: high-security gated communities where life goes on as normal. If you\u2019re inside you\u2019re lucky. If you\u2019re outside, life expectancy takes a nose dive.Riley is fortunate to have been born on the right side of the fence. But her life of privilege comes crashing down when someone breaks through and murders her sister.She forsakes her own safety to go in search of the killer. Luc decides to go with her otherwise she\u2019ll be dead before she\u2019s past the security gate. But what awaits her outside is more unbelievable than she ever expected.Cut to the present day, where Eleanor's world is falling apart. This time next year, civilisation won't be quite so civilised...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10863979-outside"}, +{"book_title": "Ashes of Twilight", "author_name": "Kassy Tayler", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1259, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city that was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to protect the royal blood line of England when astronomers spotted a comet on a collision course with Earth. Humanity would be saved by the most groundbreaking technology of the time. But after nearly 200 years of life beneath the dome, society has become complacent and the coal is running out. Plus there are those who wonder, is there life outside the dome or is the world still consumed by fire? When one of Wren's friends escapes the confines of the dome, he is burned alive and put on display as a warning to those seeking to disrupt the dome's way of life. But Alex's final words are haunting. \"The sky is blue.\"What happens next is a whirlwind of adventure, romance, conspiracy and the struggle to stay alive in a world where nothing is as it seems. Wren unwittingly becomes a catalyst for a revolution that destroys the dome and the only way to survive might be to embrace what the entire society has feared their entire existence.Ashes of Twilight is the first book in a trilogy by Kassy Tayler.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10634286-ashes-of-twilight"}, +{"book_title": "Mirage", "author_name": "Mark W. Tiedemann", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 322, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "From a new and exciting talent, Mark W. Tiedemann, comes a fantastic new robot mystery set in the world of the late SF Grand Master and beloved author, Isaac Asimov. The First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm.At a crucial conference uniting the Spacers, the Settlers, and representatives of Earth, Senator Clar Eliton of Earth and Senior Space Ambassador Galiel Humadros of Aurora are advocating the restoration of positronic robots on Earth, repudiating years of fear and resentment. It is a dangerous stance to take.As the Spacer delegates arrive on Earth, conspirators assassinate Sentor Eliton. Ambassador Humadros is cut down, too. Both are failed by their robot protectors.Special Agent Mia Daventri?part of the security force assigned to protect Eliton?is the only member of her team to survive the attack, and is rushed to the hospital.Derec Avery?a survivor of the Robot City epic?is called in to investigate what may have caused the robot bodyguards to fail at the most critical hour. But his inquiries are stone-walled, and an attempt is made on Mia's life. Derec and Mia join forces with Calvin Instititute attache Ariel Burgess to penetrate a vast conspiracy that sprawls across Terran, Spacer, and Settler worlds and threatens to bring all three to the brink of war.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1058651.Mirage"}, +{"book_title": "The White Mountains", "author_name": "John Christopher", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 11872, "review_number": 897, "book_description": "Long ago, the Tripods\u2014huge, three-legged machines\u2014descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.But for a brief time in each person's life\u2014in childhood\u2014he is not a slave. For Will, his time of freedom is about to end\u2014unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64316.The_White_Mountains"}, +{"book_title": "The Shattered Teacup", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 109, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "A free Newbury & Hobbes short story.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13369106-the-shattered-teacup"}, +{"book_title": "Age of Deception", "author_name": "T.A. White", "rating_score": 4.56, "rating_votes": 4417, "review_number": 419, "book_description": "War hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. Agreeing to accompany her father\u2019s people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She\u2019s agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father\u2019s House must pass. It offers a path to independence and freedom that is too tempting to deny. Not everyone welcomes this lost daughter of Roake. There are those who fear what her presence might bring to light. Betrayal stalks the halls of Kira\u2019s birthplace\u2014its roots embedded deep in the events that claimed her parent\u2019s lives and set her on her current path. Walking the wire\u2019s edge between truth and deception will test the person Kira has become as she separates ally from betrayer. An old enemy has put into motion a plan that could topple the balance of power in the universe. Letting them succeed spells doom\u2014but the price might be more than Kira is willing to pay. ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Space", "Adventure", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50505419-age-of-deception"}, +{"book_title": "Fire and Brimstone", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1003, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Queenie is pissed.You would be too if you had been blamed for something you didn't do, given something you didn't want, and changed into something else.She still isn't even quite sure what that else is. The one thing she does know?Things are getting messy, and this is only the beginning.Gant is gone, Captain Mann has been captured, her so-called team is ready to make a run for the stars, and she's pretty sure the Gift that saved her life is no gift at all.Even worse? The enemy didn't just steal the two most powerful starships in the galaxy; they're building a whole damn fleet of the things.The Rejects are back, the mission is on, and failure is not an option.Long live the Queen!Fire and Brimstone is the second book in the science-fiction Chaos of the Covenant series:1. Hell's Rejects 2. Fire and Brimstone", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34570061-fire-and-brimstone"}, +{"book_title": "Norby: Robot For Hire", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 244, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Three cheers for Norby!Norby's the bravest, most outrageous, most lovable robot ever to save the day. Along with his ever-faithful human companion Jeff, and a mischievious All-Purpose-Pet named Oola, the three blast off for interstellar adventure.First the trio search for a missing princess. But things get a little out of hand when, after they find the princess, she is accidentally turned into a tree. Norby, Jeff and Oola must get to the root of the problem quickly if they want to free the princess from her leafy dilemma.Then a friendly, fire-breathing dragon is kidnapped from the planet Jayma. And once again Norby, Jeff and Oola must spring into action to rescue their scaly friend.Previously published as \"Norby and the Lost Princess\" and \"Norby and the Invaders\"", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116323.Norby"}, +{"book_title": "Thieftaker", "author_name": "D.B. Jackson", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 2335, "review_number": 464, "book_description": "In Thieftaker, D. B. Jackson delivers a thrilling debut tale of magic and intrigue that will leave readers breathless and eager for more Ethan Kaille. Boston, 1765: In D.B. Jackson's Thieftaker, revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that help him solve crimes, politics is for others...until he is asked to recover a necklace worn by the murdered daughter of a prominent family.Suddenly, he faces another conjurer of enormous power, someone unknown, who is part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power in the turbulent colony. His adversary has already killed--and not for his own gain, but in the service of his powerful masters, people for whom others are mere pawns in a game of politics and power. Ethan is in way over his head, and he knows it. Already a man with a dark past, he can ill afford to fail, lest his livelihood be forfeit. But he can't stop now, for his magic has marked him, so he must fight the odds, even though he seems hopelessly overmatched, his doom seeming certain at the spectral hands of one he cannot even see.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11577576-thieftaker"}, +{"book_title": "After the Apocalypse", "author_name": "Maureen F. McHugh", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2262, "review_number": 364, "book_description": "The apocalypse was yesterday. These stories are today.Following up on her first collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. McHugh explores the catastrophes, small and large, of twenty-first century life\u2014and what follows after. What happens after the bird flu pandemic? Are our computers smarter than we are? What does the global economy mean for two young girls in China? Are we really who we say we are? And how will we survive the coming zombie apocalypse?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11249375-after-the-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Landscape with Invisible Hand", "author_name": "M.T. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2999, "review_number": 572, "book_description": "When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth - but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes. With his parents' jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv's miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive. And since the vuvv crave anything they deem \"classic\" Earth culture (doo-wop music, still-life paintings of fruit, true love), recording 1950s-style dates for the vuvv to watch in a pay-per-minute format seems like a brilliant idea. But it's hard for Adam and Chloe to sell true love when they hate each other more with every passing episode. Soon enough, Adam must decide how far he's willing to go - and what he's willing to sacrifice - to give the vuvv what they want.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Humor", "Art", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33281801-landscape-with-invisible-hand"}, +{"book_title": "The Future Chronicles: Special Edition", "author_name": "Samuel Peralta", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 506, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "The Future Chronicles has grown, from a single collection of robot stories, into a series whose unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes \u2013 A.I., aliens, time travel, dragons, telepaths, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday \u2013 has made it one of the most acclaimed short story anthology series of the digital era. Its companion series \u2013 Alt.Chronicles, The Illustrated Chronicles and Chronicle Worlds \u2013 are similarly ground-breaking in their coverage of less mainstream tropes such as alternative history and shared universes. Created by award-winning author Samuel Peralta, and edited by some of the most-respected editors in the genre, each volume brings together work from visionary new voices and from the grandmasters of modern science fiction and fantasy. This Future Chronicles Special Edition volume is a compendium of stories selected from the Chronicles\u2019 standalone titles, and includes five new stories, never before published, from some of today\u2019s best writers in speculative fiction.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Own"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26082797-the-future-chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "The Proposal", "author_name": "Piper Scott", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 708, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "After four years spent apart, Aaron is on his way home to marry the love of his life\u2014his best friend. The proposal? It\u2019s about to end in disaster. Dedicated, determined, and head-over-heels in love, Aaron is ready to settle down with the man of his dreams\u2014his best friend, Gage. With a prestigious degree under his belt, a promising career ahead of him, and a loving boyfriend to pamper and spoil for the rest of their lives, the future is brighter than it\u2019s ever been. Isn\u2019t it? The lie Gage has been living for the last four years is about to fall apart, and there\u2019s only one way he can see himself holding it together. The proposal? It\u2019s everything he\u2019s ever wanted, but something he might never be able to have\u2026 When the steamiest summer of Gage\u2019s life leaves him pregnant with Aaron\u2019s child, Gage knows what he has to do. He\u2019s made Aaron a promise, and the future of their family depends on it. Forced to keep his son a secret from everyone\u2014even Aaron\u2014Gage does whatever it takes in order to keep a roof over their heads. But when his child gets sick and Gage can\u2019t afford medical treatment, he has a difficult choice to make. How far will he go to keep his future family together? When an unexpected reunion brings Aaron and Gage back together, they\u2019re faced with a choice: overcome the obstacles standing in their way to becoming a happy family, or accept that the proposal they\u2019ve both been dreaming of is never going to happen. The Proposal is a 70,000 word contemporary omegaverse mpreg novel featuring a quirky group of single dads, a live stream you\u2019re never going to forget, pretty pearls in naughty places, and a love that neither time nor distance can tear apart.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Childrens", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Family", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40186748-the-proposal"}, +{"book_title": "Paper Girls, Vol. 5", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 9003, "review_number": 829, "book_description": "Can anyone escape fate? That\u2019s what Mac and her fellow newspaper delivery girls must discover as they escape the year 2000 and travel to the distant future. Plus, the truth behind the mysterious \u201cold-timers\u201d is finally revealed.Collects PAPER GIRLS #21-25", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38812893-paper-girls-vol-5"}, +{"book_title": "The First Men in the Moon", "author_name": "H.G. Wells", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 13014, "review_number": 673, "book_description": "When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they find - a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever.", "year_published": 1901, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Classics", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "Literature", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/536478.The_First_Men_in_the_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "In the Hand of the Goddess", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 93450, "review_number": 2016, "book_description": "Disguised as a boy, Alanna of Trebond becomes a squire, to none other than the prince of the realm. But Prince Jonathan is much more to Alanna; he is her ally, her best friend, and one of the few who knows that she's really a girl. Now it will take all of Alanna's awesome skill, strength, and growing magical powers to protect him from the mysterious evil sorcerer who is bent on his destruction, and hers!Here continues the story of Alanna, a young woman bound for glory who is willing to fight against enormous odds for what she believes in.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13835.In_the_Hand_of_the_Goddess"}, +{"book_title": "When You Were Pixels", "author_name": "Julio Alexi Genao", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 873, "review_number": 329, "book_description": "A standalone short story in the Syntax universe.An assassin has come to Tower 072, and no one can keep him from his target.Only minutes from escape, he suffers a violent seizure, collapsing in a service corridor.A lonely surveillance operator becomes the only person in the building to see him fall. Antho is no murderer, but in watching the killer stumble he recognizes something that links them together.When he rescues the assassin in secret, he finds the monster on his screen is only a young man, cursed with the effects of a trauma as outsized as his deadly skill\u2014and somehow linked to the stirring of a terrifying power. Unable to walk away, Antho makes a choice that could cost them both their lives:He takes the assassin home.Revised Second Edition", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Dark", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "LGBT (Gay)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23207202-when-you-were-pixels"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 10", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 834, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Killy's journey takes him back to where it all began for him. The man of few words that he is, he saves the central city by granting it its greatest wish...the elimination of the silicate creatures. But there is much much more to the mystery...And will saving the city cost him his life and end his search for Net Terminal Genes?", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624675.Blame_Vol_10"}, +{"book_title": "Blade Runner 2019 #4", "author_name": "Michael Green", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 82, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "The climax to the first original comic series set in the world of Blade Runner! Detective Ash discovers the truth behind her mysterious client, his kidnapped family, and the Replicant conspiracy hidden throughout Los Angeles! From writer Michael Green (screenwriter for Blade Runner 2049) and Mike Johnson (Star Trek), and illustrated by Andres Guinaldo (Justice League Dark, Captain America)!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49655110-blade-runner-2019-4"}, +{"book_title": "Creighton Manor", "author_name": "Karen Michelle Nutt", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 112, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The last thing Gillian Metcalf remembers before she passes out is being aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, where she witnesses a dog disappearing as if it were a phantom. So how did she end up in 1870 and in a man's room aboard the IdaBelle, traveling down the Mississippi?Zachary Creighton, a gambler with one goal: to win back Creighton Manor. Marriage is not part of the plan, but since he is found with Gillian in his room, reputations are at stake, his included.To keep peace with his reluctant bride, he makes a bargain with her. He needs a tutor for his nephew Tyler, and she needs a roof over her head until they can annul their sham of a marriage. However, Zachary finds himself falling for Gillian's oddly charming ways despite the fact the woman claims to be from the future.The gamble is trust, but will the stakes prove too high for Zachery to risk it all and win Gillian's heart?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6523048-creighton-manor"}, +{"book_title": "The Six", "author_name": "Mark Alpert", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1097, "review_number": 221, "book_description": "To save humanity, they must give up their own.Adam's muscular dystrophy has stolen his mobility, his friends, and in a few short years, it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam's only escape from his wheelchair. In his alternate world, he can defeat anyone. Running, jumping, scoring touchdowns: Adam is always the hero.Then an artificial intelligence program, Sigma, hacks into Adam's game. Created by Adam's computer-genius father, Sigma has gone rogue, threatening Adam's life-and world domination. Their one chance to stop Sigma is using technology Adam's dad developed to digitally preserve the mind of his dying son.Along with a select group of other terminally ill teens, Adam becomes one of the Six who have forfeited their bodies to inhabit weaponized robots. But with time running short, the Six must learn to manipulate their new mechanical forms and work together to train for epic combat...before Sigma destroys humanity.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23354348-the-six"}, +{"book_title": "This is Not a Game", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 2540, "review_number": 289, "book_description": "Once upon a time, there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things, all of them were very good at games...Dagmar is a game designer trapped in Jakarta in the middle of a revolution. The city is tearing itself apart around her and she needs to get out. Her boss Charlie has his own problems \u2014 4.3 billion of them, to be precise, hidden in an off-shore account. Austin is the businessman \u2014 the VC. He's the one with the plan and the one to keep the geeks in line. BJ was there from the start, but while Charlie's star rose, BJ sank into the depths of customer service. He pads his hours at the call-center slaying on-line orcs, stealing your loot, and selling it on the internet.But when one of them is gunned down in a parking lot, the survivors become players in a very different kind of game. Caught between the dangerous worlds of the Russian Mafia and international finance, Dagmar must draw on all her resources \u2014 not least millions of online gamers \u2014 to track down the killer. In this near-future thriller, Walter Jon Williams weaves a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue, murder, and games where you don't get an extra life.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Games (Video Games)", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3535568-this-is-not-a-game"}, +{"book_title": "Rusty Hinges", "author_name": "Alan Black", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 794, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Stone\u2019s fist, secure in the combat suit and hidden by camouflage, impacted the Hyrocanian mouth before it closed around the baby. Stone grabbed the helpless piglet with his free hand and tossed it to a startled female. The piglet, the last of her kind on the delivery shuttle, grabbed the baby and ran. Stone twisted his fist, trying his best to break every tooth in the Hyrocanian\u2019s mouth. Hyrocanians have four sets teeth, two for chewing vertically, and two for chewing horizontally. Suddenly, his fist broke free from the shattered teeth. Opening his fist, he felt something soft and squishy at the back of the alien\u2019s throat. He closed his fingers around it and yanked.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30056458-rusty-hinges"}, +{"book_title": "A Night Without Stars", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 7410, "review_number": 403, "book_description": "The planet Bienvenido is in crisis. It has finally escaped the Void, emerging into regular space. But it's millions of light-years from Commonwealth assistance, and humans are battling the Fallers for control of their world. This rapacious adversary, evolved to destroy all sentient life, has infiltrated every level of human society\u2014hijacking unwilling bodies so its citizens fear their leaders, friends, and family.A mysterious figure known as the Warrior Angel leads a desperate resistance. She's helped by forbidden Commonwealth technology, which gives her a crucial edge. But the government obstructs the Angel's efforts at every turn, blinded by prejudice and technophobia. As Fallers also prepare to attack from the skies, she might need to incite rebellion to fight this invasion. But the odds seem impossible.Then astronaut Ry Evine uncovers one last hope. On a mission against the enemy, his spacecraft damages an unidentified vessel. This crash-lands on the planet carrying unexpected cargo: a baby. This extraordinary Commonwealth child possesses knowledge that could save them all. But if the Fallers catch her, the people of Bienvenido will not survive.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28439513-a-night-without-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The House in the Cerulean Sea", "author_name": "T.J. Klune", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 44007, "review_number": 11533, "book_description": "A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they\u2019re likely to bring about the end of days.But the children aren\u2019t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place\u2014and realizing that family is yours.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Romance", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (M M Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45047384-the-house-in-the-cerulean-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Inkdeath", "author_name": "Cornelia Funke", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 78964, "review_number": 3147, "book_description": "The masterful conclusion to the epic, award-winning, bestselling INKHEART trilogy by internationally acclaimed author Cornelia Funke. The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrends. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2325825.Inkdeath"}, +{"book_title": "Robots (National Geographic Readers", "author_name": "Melissa Stewart", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 148, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Discover the coolest robots of today and tomorrow in this colorful, photo-packed book. In this inviting and entertaining format, kids will learn about the science behind these amazing machines. This Level 3 reader is written in an easy-to-grasp style to encourage the scientists of tomorrow!National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit\u00a0www.natgeoed.org/commoncore\u00a0for more information.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Childrens", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262558-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Runaways, Vol. 4: True Believers", "author_name": "Brian K. Vaughan", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 5384, "review_number": 258, "book_description": "When a group of teenagers discovers that their parents are actually super-villains, they run away from home... but that's only step one Now that the evil Pride is gone, nearly every bad guy in the Marvel Universe is trying to fill the power vacuum in Los Angeles, and the Runaways are the only heroes who can stop them Plus: What does a mysterious new team of young heroes want with the Runaways, and which fan-favorite Marvel characters are part of this group? Collects Runaways vol.2 #1-6.Runaways vol. 2 #1-6", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205001.Runaways_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "Going Home", "author_name": "A. American", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 5124, "review_number": 457, "book_description": "Imagine you\u2019re driving down the interstate, it\u2019s Friday and all you can think about is getting your weekend started. Then to begin the ruination of your much anticipated weekend the grating tone of the Emergency Alert System flashes over the radio, then promptly dies.This is the beginning of a 250 mile odyssey for Morgan Carter. Morgan works on the road and finds himself far from home when his car dies, as well as his Blackberry and every other piece of electronics he has. With no idea what has occurred he reluctantly finds himself on shanks\u2019 mare carrying that ridiculous pack that everyone made fun of him for keeping in the car. Morgan has to find his way across the state of Florida, from Tallahassee to the heart of the state in Lake County.Along his way he has to seek out food, water and shelter where he can, not to mention keeping himself from being killed by any number of now scared and desperate people. During his travels he will try and help where he can, but that can turn out to be a costly mistake. We live in a wonderfully modern society where anything we want is a mouse click away. The lights come on with the flip of a switch and even a child can turn on the faucet at the sink and water always comes out. But what if it all went away?Could you face what Morgan faces, could you make the decisions he has to make? Life and sometimes death in the blink of an eye, could you do it?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Thriller", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17085384-going-home"}, +{"book_title": "Last Orders", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 498, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "In an extraordinary saga of nations locked in war, master storyteller Harry Turtledove tells the story of World War II, which begins over Czechoslovakia rather than Poland, eleven months earlier than it really came. Now we have the final installment in Turtledove\u2019s landmark World War II series. \u00a0 Hitler\u2019s Plan A was to win in a hurry, striking hard and deep into France. There was no Plan B. Now the war grinds on. Countries have been forced into strange alliances. The Nazis fortify thin lines with Hungarian and Romanian troops. England, finding its footing after the suspicious death of Winston Churchill and a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, fights back in Europe and on the seas of the North Atlantic. Jews fight on both sides of the war\u2014in secret in German uniform, openly in Spain, France, and Russia. Into the standoff come new killing tools, from tanks to bazookas. In the Pacific, Japan prepares bombs filled with macabre biological concoctions to be dropped on Hawaii. \u00a0 For the U.S., the only enemy is Japan, as there has been no casus belli for America in Europe. Then Hitler becomes desperate and declares war on the United States. But is it too late? His own people are rising up in revolt. The German military may have to put down the violence, even perhaps bomb its own cities. \u00a0 In this epic drama, real men and women are shaped by the carnage, and their individual acts in turn shape history: a Czech sniper fighting with the Republicans in Spain changes the war almost single-handedly. In Philadelphia, an American woman meets a scientist who reveals a momentous secret. \u00a0 Drawing on the gritty, personal reality of war and on a cast of unforgettable characters, Harry Turtledove has written an alternate history that intrigues, fascinates, and astounds. \u00a0Praise for Harry Turtledove \u00a0 \u201cIf you like alternate histories, you\u2019re going to like this series a lot.\u201d\u2014The San Diego Union-Tribune\u00a0 \u201cTurtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history.\u201d\u2014USA Today\u00a0\nCoup d\u2019Etat\n\u00a0 \u201cThis is what alternative history is all about.\u201d\u2014Historical Novel Society\u00a0\nThe Big Switch\n \u00a0 \u201cThe Hugo Award winner continues to delight in exploring the world of \u2018what if?\u2019\u201d\u2014Library Journal\u00a0\nWest and East\n \u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s plenty to satisfy fans of military strategy, tactics, and armaments.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly\nHitler\u2019s War\n \u00a0 \u201cTurtledove is always good, but this return to World War II . . . is genuinely brilliant. . . . The characterizations in particular bring the book to extraordinary life.\u201d\u2014Booklist", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18691004-last-orders"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost World", "author_name": "Michael Crichton", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 129533, "review_number": 3937, "book_description": "It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end \u2013 the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.There are rumors that something has survived....", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8650.The_Lost_World"}, +{"book_title": "The Testament of Jessie Lamb", "author_name": "Jane Rogers", "rating_score": 3.1, "rating_votes": 1804, "review_number": 334, "book_description": "Millions of pregnant women in the not-too-distant future are dying from a rogue virus released in an act of biological terrorism. Nothing less than the survival of the human race is at stake. Jessie Lamb is just an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl living in extraordinary times, who begins to question her parents' attitudes and behavior in her struggle to become independent. As the world collapses and the certainties of childhood are ripped away, her idealism and courage drive her toward the ultimate act of heroism. But is she being heroic, or innocent and impressionable as her father fears, incapable of understanding where her actions will lead?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Literature", "Feminism", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10287791-the-testament-of-jessie-lamb"}, +{"book_title": "Hexwood", "author_name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 4102, "review_number": 292, "book_description": "When Controller Borasus receives a strange letter from Earth he is both curious and alarmed. Someone has activated an ancient machine and is using it for most trivial purposes. Surely no one would dare to tamper with Reigner seals in this way? Yet the effects of such interference resonate throughout the universe, so he decides to go to Hexwood Farm to investigate\u2026On Hexwood Estate, Ann watches the mysterious comings and goings with interest. She knows something deadly is going on \u2013 or is Hexwood simply altering her too?", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47528.Hexwood"}, +{"book_title": "Devilish Dot", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1004, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Book 6.5 in the Trek Mi Q'an Series. Dorothy \"Dot\" Araiza is a sex-toy maker by trade. One would think she has an active social life, but on the contrary, her existence is a rather boring, staid one. Dot dreams of finding her happily-ever-after, of being swept off her feet by Prince Charming-not to mention getting laid after eight pathetic years! One lightning storm later, all Dot's fevered fantasies will come true. But Prince Charming isn't quite what she'd been expecting...", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8151556-devilish-dot"}, +{"book_title": "Scarlet Devices", "author_name": "Delphine Dryden", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 183, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "DRIVEN TO WIN. DRAWN TO LOVE.\u00a0 Fresh from university, Eliza Hardison is determined to crusade for workers\u2019 rights until her cousin Dexter, the Makesmith Baron, prevails on her to represent Hardison House in the American Dominion Sky and Steam Rally. \u00a0 The competition is fierce, but only one opponent really matters to Eliza. Dexter\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Matthew Pence, was always like a big brother to her. But now she\u2019s grown up, and Matthew has made a break from Hardison House with his own business venture\u2014and made his own entry in the rally. \u00a0 Matthew intends to win while keeping Eliza safe on the perilous route from New York to San Francisco. As the threats escalate through treacherous skies and uncharted American wilds, though, Eliza and Matthew must work together, discovering a bond deeper than either could have imagined\u2026but is winning the rally more important than winning at love? \u00a0 \u00a0", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Steampunk Romance", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210695-scarlet-devices"}, +{"book_title": "The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 90, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Some people will tell you that world-class fame is better than living to a contented old age. Other people disagree. One of those other people might possibly be the protagonist of The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging by Harry Turtledove, master of the counterfactual.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "World War II (Holocaust)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18810753-the-eighth-grade-history-class-visits-the-hebrew-home-for-the-aging"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Forever", "author_name": "Debra Dier", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 150, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "A Regency romance with a time travel twist.The new edition which was published January 25, 2014 features a new ending.Gavin MacKinnon has wandered the grounds of Dunmore Castle in the Scottish Highlands for two centuries waiting for the only woman who can help make his miracle come true. One glance at Julia Fairfield and he knows she is the one. Now he must convince the reluctant lady to trust him if he has a chance to save his son. He came to her out of the swirling mist on the cliff\u2019s edge, a ghostly figure who seemed larger than life. Dark, handsome, blatantly male, Gavin MacKinnon radiated the kind of confidence that led men into battle and women into reckless choices. A quiet English professor with the responsibility of her young niece, Julia resisted his every attempt to persuade her into the most reckless adventure of all, until she realized no one should deny the chance for a miracle.Swept back to 1816 Scotland, Julia tumbles straight into the arms of the flesh and blood incarnation of Gavin MacKinnon, Earl of Dunmore. Her memory scrambled, her identity in question, she feels as though she is wandering through the pages of an Austen novel, complete with a Scottish version of her favorite literary hero, a man she cannot resist. Together they must fit together the pieces of a puzzle that originally led to murder if they have a chance to change fate. Drawn to each other, they discover their destinies are intertwined in ways they had never imagined.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical (Regency)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19549271-beyond-forever"}, +{"book_title": "Hannah's Warrior", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2777, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Hannah Bell, the oldest of the three Bell sisters, spends most of her time in the remotest parts of the world photographing endangered animals. She is also gifted with an extraordinary sixth sense which has saved her life on more than one occasion. When she senses something has happen to her littlest sister, Tink, she will do whatever it takes to protect her. What she doesn\u2019t know is her sister\u2019s best friend Cosmos' new science experiment has opened a portal to another world. A world she is about to be taken to whether she wants to go or not. Borj \u2018Tag Krell Manok is the calmest of his four brothers, or so he always thought. The second oldest, he has been assigned the task by his father and the counsel to bring the sister of his brother's bond mate to their world. Borj knows deep down that Hannah is destined to be his bond mate, something he has hoped for since his first mating rite ceremony. What he doesn't expect when he meets her is her resistance or her independence. When she is kidnapped by a rival clan, Borj will do anything to get her back. Hannah and Borj's escape into the vast forests of Prime draw them together in a fight not only for their lives but for a deeper understanding and trust between two vastly different worlds. Borj discovers Hannah is a fierce and cunning mate while Hannah discovers Borj is the perfect warrior to protect and love her. By reading any further, you are stating that you are at least 18 years of age. If you are under the age of 18, please get a refund for this book. It is designed for the entertainment of mature readers only.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15781608-hannah-s-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Prospero Burns", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 4439, "review_number": 205, "book_description": "The Emperor is enraged. Primarch Magnus the Red of the Thousand Sons Legion has made a terrible mistake that endangers the very safety of Terra. With no other choice, the Emperor charges Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves, with the apprehension of his brother from the Thousand Sons' home world of Prospero. This planet of sorcerers will not be easy to overcome, but Russ and his Space Wolves are not easily deterred. With wrath in his heart, Russ is determined to bring Magnus to justice and bring about the fall of Prospero.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Yaoi (Boys Love)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6109704-prospero-burns"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 24", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.64, "rating_votes": 6896, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Hohenheim finally gets his chance to stop the mysterious homunculus \"father\" who rules over Central City. Will Hohenheim's surprise be enough to defeat the most powerful homunculus of them all? And when King Bradley makes a triumphant return, will the battle turn in the military's favor...?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Comics Manga", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8062063-fullmetal-alchemist-vol-24"}, +{"book_title": "Diana's Hound", "author_name": "Moira Rogers", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 242, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "The female of the species is more deadly... Bloodhounds, Book 4Nate Powell lived one full life as a world-class inventor before a disaster born of magic and science returned him to his prime\u2014and turned him into a half-vampire, half-bloodhound abomination. He\u2019s finally stopped yearning for death, but he\u2019s a long way from being excited about life\u2014even if his newly virile body is very excited by the latest arrival to Iron Creek. Diana is another creature that shouldn\u2019t exist\u2014a female bloodhound. While the males of Iron Creek accept her as a fellow warrior, Nate seems torn between a desire to study her and a need to protect her. Diana\u2019s urges are a lot more carnal. When they learn that a rogue hound is selling women across the border, Diana and Nate are chosen to infiltrate the vampires\u2019 capital city. Before long, their inner bloodhounds feel the mating pull\u2014and a hound never outlives their mate for long. In a fight to keep each other alive, they could both end up worse than dead. Warning: Contains a badass vampire-hunting heroine who isn\u2019t afraid to fight dirty and a broody half-vampire hero about to discover a reason to live again. Also beware of: bloodhound-on-bloodhound violence, airship heists and some furniture-endangering sex with lots of biting, all in an alternate Wild West", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Westerns", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15771216-diana-s-hound"}, +{"book_title": "Cold Mark", "author_name": "Scarlett Dawn", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1188, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "Subject Name: Braita ValornRace: HumanSex: FemaleAge: 18Designation: SlaveTemperament: HostileDarn right I\u2019m hostile. Being thrown into a barbaric world and forced into slavery will do that to a gal. The Plumas of the West may have stolen my freedom, but will never rob me of the will to fight. Plus, I have a secret that could change everything. My men are looking for me, and they will stop at nothing to get me back. A war is brewing with me as the catalyst, one made far more deadly by my irresistible attraction to two Pluma leaders of the East.Above all else, I\u2019m a fighter. I will claim my freedom if I have to use every weapon at my disposal to make it so... including my men.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "New Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29666563-cold-mark"}, +{"book_title": "Sauerkraut Station", "author_name": "Ferrett Steinmetz", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 73, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Novelette, 2012 Nebula Nominee.\u201cThe sauerkraut is what makes us special,\u201dLizzie explained...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13095188-sauerkraut-station"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Refuge", "author_name": "Tracy St. John", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 990, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "All Iris Jenson wants is a safe place to raise her autistic six-year-old son Thomas. She thinks she\u2019s found it on Haven, an Earther colony located within the Kalquorian Empire\u2019s borders. Making a fresh start under the watchful eyes of Earth\u2019s former enemy has its challenges, but it also possesses opportunities to live free of fear, something Iris hasn\u2019t had in a long time. Love is an added surprise when Haven\u2019s governor Dramok Ospar and his clanmates Nobek Jol and Imdiko Rivek enter the young widow and child\u2019s lives. Trouble is brewing on Haven Colony, however. Insurgent Earthers want to free themselves of Kalquor\u2019s influence, and Kalquor itself is on the brink of a revolt, led by the shadowy figure known only as the Basma. Then a violent ghost from Iris\u2019 past reappears and threatens to snatch Thomas from those who love him. Ospar\u2019s clan races against time to save Haven from a bloody rebellion and an innocent child from the grasp of a monster. Mild BDSM, including anal play/intercourse, bondage, Dom/sub play, forced seduction, and multiple sexual partners (m/f/m/m).", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Menage (M F M)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332950-alien-refuge"}, +{"book_title": "Earthlight", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2749, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Outer space inhabitants have formed a new political entity, the Federation, and between the Federation and Earth a growing rivalry has developed. EARTHLIGHT is the story of this emerging conflict.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Classics", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1705748.Earthlight"}, +{"book_title": "When She's Married", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2799, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "Escaped convict Vordigar has been hiding out on Risda III. When he\u2019s scooped up by law enforcement, he has two choices - he can be shipped back to the Haven prison system, or he can marry one of the locals. Piper is from an alien race called \u2018humans\u2019 and she needs a mate to help her protect her farm from aggressive neighbors.Vordigar\u2019s not interested in forever. Or marrying. Or settling down. He\u2019ll go along with Piper\u2019s plans just until he can get off planet\u2026or so he thinks.Because one night in Piper\u2019s bed changes everything.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50357332-when-she-s-married"}, +{"book_title": "The Once and Future Witches", "author_name": "Alix E. Harrow", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 11539, "review_number": 2366, "book_description": "In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.But when the Eastwood sisters--James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna--join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.There's no such thing as witches. But there will be.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Historical", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Feminism", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49504061-the-once-and-future-witches"}, +{"book_title": "Doom Patrol, Vol. 6: Planet Love", "author_name": "Grant Morrison", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1580, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "Legendary writer Grant Morrison (ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, BATMAN) finishes his fractured remake of this 1960s misfit super-team in this volume collecting DOOM PATROL #58-63 and DOOM FORCE SPECIAL #1. Along the way, the Doom Patrol must face new challenges: Danny the Street meets his cosmic destiny, the bizarre hero known as Rebis battles the Candlemaker, and Crazy Jane attempts to find her place in the world.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2183912.Doom_Patrol_Vol_6"}, +{"book_title": "Song of Susannah", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 139116, "review_number": 3882, "book_description": "The Wolves have been defeated, but our tet faces yet another catastrophe. Susannah Dean\u2019s body has been usurped by a demon named Mia who wants to use Susannah\u2019s mortal form to bear a demon child. Stealing Black Thirteen, Mia has traveled through the Unfound Door to 1999 New York where she plans to give birth to her chap, a child born of two mothers and two fathers who will grow up to be Roland\u2019s nemesis. With the help of the time-traveling Manni, Roland and Eddie plan to follow Susannah while Father Callahan and Jake will find Calvin Tower, owner of the vacant lot where a magical rose grows: a rose that must be saved at all costs. But despite our ka-tet\u2019s intentions, ka has its own plans. Jake, Callahan, and Jake\u2019s bumbler companion are transported to New York to follow Susannah, while Eddie and Roland are tumbled into East Stoneham, Maine, where they are greeted by Eddie\u2019s old enemy, the gangster Balazar. But it isn\u2019t just bullets that Roland and Eddie must brave. Soon they will meet their maker, in the form of a young author named Stephen King.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Westerns", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5093.Song_of_Susannah"}, +{"book_title": "Spin State", "author_name": "Chris Moriarty", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2407, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman\u2019s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware...Spin StateUN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime\u2014and has probably forgotten more than most people remember. But that\u2019s what backup hard drives are for. And Li should know; she\u2019s been hacking her memory for fifteen years in order to pass as human. But no memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compson\u2019s World: a mining colony she once called home and to which she is sent after a botched raid puts her on the bad side of the powers that be. A dead physicist who just happens to be her cloned twin. A missing dataset that could change the interstellar balance of power and turn a cold war hot. And a mining \u201caccident\u201d that is starting to look more and more like murder...Suddenly Li is chasing a killer in an alien world miles underground where everyone has a secret. And one wrong turn in streamspace, one misstep in the dark alleys of blackmarket tech and interstellar espionage, one risky hookup with an AI could literally blow her mind.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Space (Space Opera)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Space", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48623.Spin_State"}, +{"book_title": "The Wicked Will Rise", "author_name": "Danielle Paige", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 28264, "review_number": 3033, "book_description": "To make Oz a free land again, Amy Gumm was given a mission: remove the Tin Woodman\u2019s heart, steal the Scarecrow\u2019s brain, take the Lion\u2019s courage, and then Dorothy must die...But Dorothy still lives. Now the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked has vanished, and mysterious Princess Ozma might be Amy\u2019s only ally. As Amy learns the truth about her mission, she realizes that she\u2019s only just scratched the surface of Oz\u2019s past\u2014and that Kansas, the home she couldn't wait to leave behind, may also be in danger. In a place where the line between good and evil shifts with just a strong gust of wind, who can Amy trust\u2014and who is really Wicked?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18602341-the-wicked-will-rise"}, +{"book_title": "The Pearl Wars", "author_name": "Nick James", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1783, "review_number": 234, "book_description": "A devastated Earth's last hope is found in Pearls: small, mysterious orbs that fall from space and are capable of supplying enough energy to power entire cities. Battling to control the Pearls are the Skyship dwellers--political dissidents who live in massive ships in the Earth's stratosphere--and the corrupt Surface government.Jesse Fisher, a Skyship slacker, and Cassius Stevenson, a young Surface operative, cross paths when they both venture into forbidden territory in pursuit of Pearls. Their chance encounter triggers an unexpected reaction, endowing each boy with remarkable--and dangerous--abilities that their respective governments would stop at nothing to possess.Enemies thrust together with a common goal, Jesse and Cassius make their way to the ruins of Seattle to uncover the truth about their new powers, the past they didn't know they shared, and a shocking secret about the Pearls.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7670714-the-pearl-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Data Runner", "author_name": "Sam A. Patel", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 197, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "In the not-too-distant future, in what was once the old City of New York, megacorporations have taken over everything. Now even the internet is owned, and the only way to transmit sensitive information is by a network of highly skilled couriers called \u201cdata runners\u201d who run it over the sneakernet. It is a dangerous gig in a dirty world, but Jack Nill doesn\u2019t have much choice in the matter. A brilliant young math whiz and champion of parkour, Jack must become one of these data runners in order to get his father out of a major gambling debt. But when a mysterious stranger loads Jack\u2019s chip with a cryptic cargo that everybody wants, he soon becomes the key figure in a conspiracy that could affect the entire North American Alliance. Now it\u2019s all up to Jack. With the help of his best friend, Dexter, and a girl who runs under the name Red Tail, Jack will have to use all his skills to outrun the retrievers and uncover the truth before they catch him and clip him for good.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Futuristic", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Romance", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17838693-data-runner"}, +{"book_title": "His Human Prisoner", "author_name": "Renee Rose", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1705, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN DESTINY--UNTIL HE MET HER.When a beautiful human slave steals Rok's ship and leaves him stranded on an abandoned planet, he's furious. Discovering her sister is the mate to the prince of his species only makes him more determined to find her and punish her thoroughly for her crimes. Yet when he captures her, he finds her impossible to resist. Punishment becomes exquisite pleasure as he teaches her to submit. Lily's attraction to the huge Zandian warrior unnerves her. She's never been moved by a male, nor interested in sex before, but Rok coaxes every bit of emotion out of her as he demands her complete surrender. But he intends to turn her over to the authorities, which will mean her certain death. She must find a way to escape the handsome alien before she loses her life--or worse--her heart.Devour the steamy stand-alone sequel to His Human Slave in USA Today Bestselling Author Renee Rose's \nZandian Masters\n series. Publisher's Note: \u00a0This book is a dark romance with elements of graphic sex, spanking and BDSM. If such subjects offend you, please do not buy this book!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33132584-his-human-prisoner"}, +{"book_title": "Revenant Gun", "author_name": "Yoon Ha Lee", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 4755, "review_number": 585, "book_description": "Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion!When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a seventeen-year-old cadet--but his body belongs to a man decades older.\u00a0 Hexarch Nirai Kujen orders Jedao to reconquer the fractured hexarchate on his behalf even though Jedao has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general.\u00a0 Surely a knack for video games doesn't qualify you to take charge of an army?Soon Jedao learns the situation is even worse.\u00a0 The Kel soldiers under his command may be compelled to obey him, but they hate him thanks to a massacre he can't remember committing.\u00a0 Kujen's friendliness can't hide the fact that he's a tyrant.\u00a0 And what's worse, Jedao and Kujen are being hunted by an enemy who knows more about Jedao and his crimes than he does himself...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT", "Space", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373688-revenant-gun"}, +{"book_title": "Worlds of Weber: Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington and Other Stories", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 886, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Treecats, starships, dragons, alternate history, self-aware Bolo supertanks, wizards, sailing ships, ironclads....For twenty years, David Weber has been taking readers to destinations strange and fantastical, from his best-selling Honor Harrington novels and short stories to the swords-and-sorcery of Norfressa and the shared universes of his own and other writers. If you haven't already read these stories, you should. Find out how Giles Habibula really joined Jack Williamson's Legion of Space. Visit 17th-century Magdeburg for the creation of the United States Navy a hundred and fifty years early, and go with John Paul Jones as he wins the Revolutionary War...for George III. Fight dragons and demons with U.S. Marines in a most unexpected campaign, find out how humans and treecats first met, share Honor Harrington's very first battle, and discover the true cost of self-awareness for war machines who learn to care.Open the door and peep inside, but be careful! Once you step into the worlds of Weber, you may not want to go home again.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2793604-worlds-of-weber"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Vol. 3: Remastered", "author_name": "Kieron Gillen", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1491, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "Simon Spurrier takes the reins as rogue archaeologist Doctor Aphra jumps to light speed and accelerates into the next chapter of her life! Aphra is used to being in way over her head - but this time she's not alone! Who else is caught up in her latest misadventure? Let's hope they're friendly...otherwise Aphra may have finally bitten off more than she can chew!COLLECTING: STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA 14-19", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37488214-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "A Peace Divided", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1291, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "The second book in the action-packed Peacekeeper series, a continuation of Tanya Huff's military sci-fi Confederation series following Torin KerrGunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr had been the very model of a Confederation Marine. No one who'd ever served with her could imagine any circumstance that would see her walking away from the Corps.But that was before Torin learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting...before she'd been declared dead and had spent time in a prison that shouldn't exist...before she'd learned about the \"plastic\" beings who were really behind the war between the Confederation and the Others. That was when Torin left the military for good.Yet she couldn't walk away from preserving and protecting everything the Confederation represented. Instead, ex-Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr drew together an elite corps of friends and allies--some ex-Marines, some civilians with unique skills--and together they prepared to take on covert missions that the Justice Department and the Corps could not--or would not--officially touch. But after their first major mission, it became obvious that covert operations were not going to be enough.Although the war is over, the fight goes on and the Justice Department finds its regular Wardens unable to deal with violence and the people trained to use it. Ex-Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr has a solution: Strike Teams made up of ex-military personnel, small enough to maneuver quickly, able to work together if necessary. Justice has no choice but to implement her idea and Torin puts her team of independent contractors back into uniform. It isn't war, it is policing, but it often looks much the same.When the scientists doing a preliminary archaeological dig on a Class Two planet are taken hostage, Torin's team is sent to free them. The problem of innocents in the line of fire is further complicated by the fact that the mercenaries holding them are a mix of Confederation and Primacy forces, and are looking for a weapon able to destroy the plastic aliens who'd started and maintained the war.If Torin weren't already torn by wanting that weapon in play, she also has to contend with the politics of peace that have added members of the Primacy--former enemies--to her team. Before they confront the mercenaries, Torin will have to sift through shifting loyalties as she discovers that the line between\"us\" and \"them\" is anything but straight.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32149392-a-peace-divided"}, +{"book_title": "Once Every Never", "author_name": "Lesley Livingston", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1201, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "Clarinet Reid is a pretty typical teenager. On the surface. She\u2019s smart, but a bit of a slacker; outgoing, but just a little insecure; not exactly a mischief-maker \u2026 but trouble tends to find her wherever she goes. Also? She unwittingly carries a centuries-old Druid Blood Curse running through her veins. Now, with a single thoughtless act, what started off as the Summer Vacation in Dullsville suddenly spirals into a deadly race to find a stolen artifact, avert an explosive catastrophe, save a Celtic warrior princess, right a dreadful wrong that happened centuries before Clare was even born, and if there\u2019s still time\u2014 literally\u2014maybe even get a date.This is the kind of adventure that happens to a girl once every \u2026 never.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7656228-once-every-never"}, +{"book_title": "Victorious Star", "author_name": "Morgan Hawke", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 2554, "review_number": 200, "book_description": "Victoria Stark is an Imperial Navigations Pilot known among the sentient battleships as the Victorious Star\u2014for sacrificing her captains to save her ships. Strong-willed and resourceful, she has never lost a ship she's flown\u2014and never serviced a captain she's had.Captain Ravnos of the Mercenary dreadnaught Hellsbreath rules his crew with an iron will. First Officer Seht is a skeldhi prince whose specialty is erotic discipline. They're on a mission, and in need of a nav-pilot.Kidnapped into service on the Hellsbreath, Victoria is caught between two very different men locked in their own private and erotic power struggle. And then there's the mission\u2026The Moribund Company has captured the Imperial Dreadnaught Arcane, and intends to auction the sentient ship to the highest bidder. Unfortunately, Moribund himself is attending the auction and Ravnos is forced to remain onboard the Hellsbreath for Moribund has a personal vendetta against the handsome captain. It is up to Victoria and First Officer Seht to go deep undercover at the Mordred Space Station to rescue the Arcane.To complete the mission and return to her duties as an Imperial Officer, Victoria must become Prince Seht's rehkyt\u2014a pet, literally and figuratively. Not allowed on the furniture and kept at the end of a leash, Victoria discovers that there are worse things than servicing your captain. Or are there?Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, BDSM (including bondage, domination/submission, whipping), menage (m/m/f), and homoerotic sexual situations (m/m, f/f).", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Menage (M M F)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237020.Victorious_Star"}, +{"book_title": "Kingdom Come", "author_name": "Mark Waid", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 54606, "review_number": 1543, "book_description": "Writer Mark Waid, coming from his popular work on Flash and Impulse, and artist Alex Ross, who broke new ground with the beautifully painted Marvels, join together for this explosive book that takes place in a dark alternate future of the DC Superhero Universe. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and almost every other character from DC Comics must choose sides in what could be the final battle of them all.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fantasy", "Dc Comics (Batman)", "Dc Comics (Superman)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16992.Kingdom_Come"}, +{"book_title": "MetaGame", "author_name": "Sam Landstrom", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1940, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "Life is a game, literally. Winners earn immortality, while losers are condemned to aging and death. D_Light, a gifted player, knows this all too well and he\u2019s willing to do anything to win\u2014even kill. It is no wonder then that when given the chance to enter a MetaGame\u2014an exclusive, high-stakes, anything goes contest\u2014he\u2019s quick to jump at the opportunity. The MetaGame starts out well enough for D_Light, the first quest being to hunt down a dangerous fugitive, but through his own ambition, the tables turn and D_Light finds himself the renegade. Now, D_Light pits himself against his world to find the truth behind \u201cThe Game\u201d and must decide between winning it and saving what\u2019s left of his humanity. This book blends emerging political and cultural trends, such as gaming culture, globalization, and the ever-increasing hegemony of corporations, with technological trends, such as genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Oh, and if that is not enough, there's even some romance!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Games (Gaming)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6499287-metagame"}, +{"book_title": "A Fighting Chance", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 281, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "\nThe all-new, thrilling conclusion to the Legion of the Damned series from the national bestselling author of When Duty Calls. \n Earth has fallen. And the men, women, and cyborgs of the Confederacy must dig deep within their warrior hearts to make one final stand against an alien aggressor... On a rim world, Captain Antonio Santana is reunited with diplomat Christine Vanderveen to protect the severely wounded Ramanthian Queen, who has fled there to avoid assassination. And they'll risk everything to save the Confederacy, billions of lives-and their future together. ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11206261-a-fighting-chance"}, +{"book_title": "Knights of the Kitchen Table", "author_name": "Jon Scieszka", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3348, "review_number": 312, "book_description": "Magician Uncle Joe's birthday present entitled \"The Book\" swirls green mist and grants pal Fred's wish to \"see knights and all that stuff for real\", sending Sir Joe the Magnificent, Sir Fred the Awesome, and Sir Sam the Unusual to King Arthur's castle opposing the Black Knight, grossly smelly giant Bleob, and fire-breathing leather-winged iron-clawed green dragon Smaug. Fred plays tag and wields a baseball bat. Sam cleverly politicks. Joseph Arthur tricks with cards. But Merlin has \"The Book\" to get home.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/793012.Knights_of_the_Kitchen_Table"}, +{"book_title": "\u50d5\u306e\u30d2\u30fc\u30ed\u30fc\u30a2\u30ab\u30c7\u30df\u30a2 10 [Boku No Hero Academia 10", "author_name": "Kohei Horikoshi", "rating_score": 4.59, "rating_votes": 5217, "review_number": 226, "book_description": "\u6575\u306b\u7206\u8c6a\u304f\u3093\u304c\u652b\u308f\u308c\u3066\u3057\u307e\u3063\u305f\uff01\u3000\u30af\u30e9\u30b9\u306e\u7686\u3060\u3063\u3066\u3001\u4eca\u56de\u306e\u8972\u6483\u3067\u305f\u304f\u3055\u3093\u30b1\u30ac\u3057\u305f\u3057\u3001\u96c4\u82f1\u3082\u4e16\u9593\u304b\u3089\u975e\u96e3\u3055\u308c\u3066\u308b\u3002\u7686\u3082\u2026\u50d5\u3060\u3063\u3066\u3001\u3084\u308c\u308b\u3053\u3068\u306f\u3084\u3063\u305f\u3055\uff01\u3000\u3067\u3082\u3001\u3053\u308c\u304b\u3089\u3069\u3046\u306a\u3063\u3061\u3083\u3046\u3093\u3060\u308d\uff1f\u3000\u201cPlus Ultra\u201d", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Manga (Shonen)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30339855-10-boku-no-hero-academia-10"}, +{"book_title": "2312", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 17420, "review_number": 2331, "book_description": "The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space", "Unfinished", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11830394-2312"}, +{"book_title": "Fields of Air", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 448, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Book 10 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series! Her father started a war. She intends to stop it. Her father may have sacrificed his own life to save hers, but heiress Gloria Meriwether-Astor is finding it difficult to forgive him. After all, how many young ladies of her acquaintance will inherit wealth, beauty, and a legacy of arms dealing? Now the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias is about to declare war on the Texican Territory and Gloria simply will not allow it. In company with Alice Chalmers and the crew of Swan, along with a lost young Evan Douglas seeking reparation for his own sins, she takes to the air. Her intention\u2014to stop the train carrying the final shipment of monstrous mechanicals into the Wild West. But they should have known that making a deal with air pirate Ned Mose in exchange for his help could never end well. What is a lady of principle to do? For the lives of thousands may depend on her ability to stop the war \u2026 even if it means losing everything and everyone she has come to love \u2026 \u201cIt\u2019s another element I love about these books; from Claire to Gloria to Alice to Lizzie and Maggie to Lady Dunsmuir, the women in this series generally like and respect each other. Other women are not required to be lesser\u2014weaker, more cowardly, less intelligent\u2014in order for Claire to be awesome. She is not an exceptional woman, she is an awesome woman among awesome women.\u201d \u2014Fangs for the Fantasy: The latest in urban fantasy from a social justice perspective", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28802356-fields-of-air"}, +{"book_title": "The Exiles Trilogy", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 637, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Computer engineer Lou Christopher's life falls apart when the World Government decrees that the project he is working on is too dangerous to continue. Thus, he and thousands of other scientists and their families are sentenced to permanent exile from Earth on a space station. But Lou and several others decide to escape--by converting the space station into a starship.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302478.The_Exiles_Trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Red", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 595, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Conor Night, the world\u2019s only surviving necromancer, is used to having bad days. After all, he\u2019s spent the last few years as a minor pawn in the Game of Houses while keeping one foot planted firmly in the grave. But between the job offer he can\u2019t refuse from a wizard he doesn\u2019t trust, and the appearance of a cult bent on sending him to the afterlife, his days are about to get a whole lot worse. He\u2019s used to the threat of death. Death making threats? That\u2019s new.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25155766-dead-red"}, +{"book_title": "Emilie and the Hollow World", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 634, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "While running away from home for reasons that are eminently defensible, Emilie\u2019s plans to stow away on the steamship Merry Bell and reach her cousin in the big city go awry, landing her on the wrong ship and at the beginning of a fantastic adventure.Taken under the protection of Lady Marlende, Emilie learns that the crew hopes to use the aether currents and an experimental engine, and with the assistance of Lord Engal, journey to the interior of the planet in search of Marlende\u2019s missing father.With the ship damaged on arrival, they attempt to traverse the strange lands on their quest. But when evidence points to sabotage and they encounter the treacherous Lord Ivers, along with the strange race of the sea-lands, Emilie has to make some challenging decisions and take daring action if they are ever to reach the surface world again.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Action", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15799424-emilie-and-the-hollow-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Carnelian Crow", "author_name": "Colleen Gleason", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 932, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Ever since the debacle of the Chess Queen Enigma, Mina Holmes and Evaline Stoker have laid low, trying to settle back into their quiet lives as young ladies of London. But the Holmesian deductive abilities won't remain dormant for long, and when Mina receives a strange package from a winged, midnight visitor, she is catapulted into a new, dangerous adventure: the search for The Carnelian Crow.Meanwhile, Evaline has received some very disturbing news--news that will change her life forever. Along with that unpleasant knowledge is the strange disappearance of her nemesis, the disreputable pickpocket Pix.When it becomes clear the arch-villainess the Ankh has made her next move, it will take all of Mina's Holmesian ingenuity and Evaline's courage and determination to stop the criminal from executing her boldest and most dangerous plan yet!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27074711-the-carnelian-crow"}, +{"book_title": "The 13th Hour", "author_name": "Richard Doetsch", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2824, "review_number": 581, "book_description": "At 9pm on July 28, Nick Quinn is given an extraordinary opportunity, a chance to rewrite history and save his wife Mary's life. At 9pm, Nick is being held in jail, accused of Mary's murder. He saw her bloody corpse; he knows that she is dead. That's when a grey haired gentleman presents him with a talisman that allows him to go back in time, one hour at a time, for a total of twelve hours. With each hour that Nick journeys back in time, he finds more clues to the identity of Mary's real killer, but he also discovers that his actions in the past have unexpected repercussions on the future. All his good intentions of saving Mary's life may in fact lead to a far greater catastrophe than he could have imagined. If he hasn't set things right by the thirteenth hour, all will be lost. A surprising and utterly original thriller that blends a dash of fantasy with page-turning suspense, The 13th Hour has all the ingredients of a massive international bestseller.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Thriller", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Suspense", "Science Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6406146-the-13th-hour"}, +{"book_title": "Destroyer of Worlds", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 2198, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "The scariest aliens in the galaxy follow a simple rule: destroy all opposition.The brilliant, xenophobic Pak are fleeing the chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy\u2019s core. Nothing and no one is going to impede their migration. Devastated worlds -- any civilization that could possibly have interfered -- lie shattered in their wake. And now the Fleet of Worlds is in their sights.The trillion Puppeteers who inhabit the Fleet might have the resources to confront the threat -- but Puppeteers are philosophical cowards. They don't confront anyone. They need allies to investigate the situation and then take action. Who better than the Puppeteers' newly independent one-time slave world, New Terra? Sigmund Ausfaller, former Earth intelligence agent and current paranoid, finds himself leading the war against the Pak. With his own allies, the enigmatic, aquatic Gw'oth, Sigmund prepares to face everyone's mutual enemy. And neither humans nor Gw'oth have any intention of becoming cannon fodder.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6458645-destroyer-of-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "The Assassin and the Healer", "author_name": "Sarah J. Maas", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 21057, "review_number": 986, "book_description": "Meet the Assassin: beautiful, defiant, destined for greatness. Celaena Sardothien has challenged her master. Now she must pay the price. Her journey to the Red Desert will be an arduous one, but it may change the fate of her cursed world forever...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Fiction", "New Adult", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18333581-the-assassin-and-the-healer"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadowy Horses", "author_name": "Susanna Kearsley", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 18796, "review_number": 1931, "book_description": "The Invincible Ninth Roman Legion Marches from York to Fight The Northern Tribes. and then Vanishes from the Pages of History.Archaeologist Verity Grey has been drawn to the dark legends of the Scottish Borderlands in search of the truth buried in a rocky field by the sea.Her eccentric boss has spent his whole life searching for the resting place of the lost Ninth Roman Legion and is convinced he's finally found it\u2014not because of any scientific evidence, but because a local boy has \"seen\" a Roman soldier walking in the fields, a ghostly sentinel who guards the bodies of his long-dead comrades.Here on the windswept shores, Verity may find the answer to one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. Or she may uncover secrets someone buried for a reason.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical", "Contemporary", "Gothic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/961831.The_Shadowy_Horses"}, +{"book_title": "The Big Sheep", "author_name": "Robert Kroese", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1174, "review_number": 206, "book_description": "Los Angeles of 2039 is a baffling and bifurcated place. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities, and became essentially a third world country within the borders of the city. Navigating the boundaries between DZ and LA proper is a tricky task, and there's no one better suited than eccentric private investigator Erasmus Keane. When a valuable genetically altered sheep mysteriously goes missing from Esper Corporation's labs, Keane is the one they call.But while the erratic Keane and his more grounded partner, Blake Fowler, are on the trail of the lost sheep, they land an even bigger case. Beautiful television star Priya Mistry suspects that someone is trying to kill her - and she wants Keane to find out who. When Priya vanishes and then reappears with no memory of having hired them, Keane and Fowler realize something very strange is going on. As they unravel the threads of the mystery, it soon becomes clear that the two cases are connected - and both point to a sinister conspiracy involving the most powerful people in the city. Saving Priya and the sheep will take all of Keane's wits and Fowler's skills, but in the end, they may discover that some secrets are better left hidden.Kroese's The Big Sheep is perfect for fans of Philip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!, and Scalzi's Old Man's War.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114341-the-big-sheep"}, +{"book_title": "Primal Shift: Part 1", "author_name": "Griffin Hayes", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 323, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "It's July the Fourth, and Americans have slowed down long enough to celebrate their independence - and the day off. But a thousand motorists suddenly abandon their cars on the Golden Gate Bridge and leap to their deaths in a roiling bay. Jets packed with families rain down from the skies above Salt Lake City International Airport, dotting the landscape with orange fireballs. Worse yet, New York City police launch a murderous rampage against those they swore to protect and serve. Law and order across the globe collapses in less than five minutes, plunging humanity into chaos.Something is affecting our minds, our sanity. Could it be a terrorist attack? The ultimate virus? Or an experiment gone horribly wrong?A handful of survivors claws its way out of the ashes of the old world, strangely unaffected by The Shift. Among them, a frantic mother desperate to find her son. A sailor hunting a soulless killer. A former CEO willing to kill for power over this new, feral wasteland.Together, they'll battle both the hordes of bloodthirsty cannibals who used to be their own families and neighbors, and a dark figure who commands these legions with his every twisted whim.Someone somewhere must know what happened, where to find safety. And whether those eerie lights shimmering in the skies overhead are an omen of something far worse than even this bleak living hell.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17619406-primal-shift"}, +{"book_title": "Fear", "author_name": "K.A. Merikan", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 642, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "London1907, twenty years into the zombie PlagueReuben is a baker living in the slums of London, sharing a room with his father and an extended family of cockroaches. Poor, uneducated, and repressing all his sexual desires, he leads a life of misery, only sometimes sprinkled with gin and a rough tumble in a filthy back alley.But when he is abducted into Bylondon to be the slave of a wealthy crime family member named Erik Dal, his values are put to the test. His new master is obsessed with all things equestrian, and Reuben soon learns that if he obeys and performs well as Erik's horse, he might just get everything he yearns for: pampering, foods he never even dreamed of, and shameless sex with a demonically handsome young man in leather riding boots.As Copper, Erik's treasured dun stallion, Reuben must submit to his new master's obscene fancy of possessing another man completely. That is, if he yearns for treats and not the lick of a riding crop. Fake tails, harnesses, and a new haircut to his ginger mane help Reuben transform into Copper, but the fear of losing his dignity in the eyes of society might just prove to be a bigger restraint than any bit, bridle, or handcuffs.All that for the small price of his freedom. Though at times, Reuben feels it's his soul that Erik is after instead.Genre: m/m erotic romance, bdsm, darkThemes: class differences, slavery, steampunk, fetish, Victorian, master/servant, pony play, kink, organized crimeLength: ~95.000 words", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Dark", "Fantasy", "Sociology (Abuse)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32574835-fear"}, +{"book_title": "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 624, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (aka Tunnel Through the Deeps) is an alternate history. Harrison began by positing two changes which would've allowed this changed history to exist. In this story, set in an alternate 1973, Washington lost the Battle of Lexington & was executed as a traitor. America remains a British colony dreaming of independence. The other change is that Columbus didn't discover the Americas & the cultures of South America weren't destroyed. Thus Harrison brings into being a British Empire which has survived into the 20th century still influenced by its Victorian creators. But this ideal is threatened by increasing unemployment & the threat of economic decline. The empire needs something to boost its fortunes. So is born an engineering project to link Britain with its colony: a tunnel beneath the sea. Employment will increase & manufacturing will prosper. The hero of the story is Captain Augustine Washington, engineer & descendent of the traitor. As well as wishing to see the tunnel's success, he wants to see his homeland achieve independence, or at least the dominion status of Canada & Australia. He's also in love with Iris, daughter of the genius behind the project, Sir Isambard Brassey-Brunel, who despises the upstart colonial engineer. A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! is a curiously transatlantic book. The hero is an American, seeking independence for his country, but the British here are benign imperialists.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1400134.A_Transatlantic_Tunnel_Hurrah_"}, +{"book_title": "Born to be Bound", "author_name": "Addison Cain", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 7484, "review_number": 904, "book_description": "Every bit as ruthless as his reputation suggests\u2026 Shepherd ravages both Claire and her conquered city, refusing to let either slip through his fingers. He steals Claire's innocence and future by forcing a pair-bond on the rare, unwilling Omega female. Violent, calculating, and incapable of remorse, he demands his new mate's adoration. Her attention. Her body. Publisher's Note: The first book in Addison Cain's exciting, raw, and suspense-filled Omegaverse series is a Dark Romance featuring complete power exchange. If such material offends you, please do not purchase. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Dark", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55582051-born-to-be-bound"}, +{"book_title": "Nemesis", "author_name": "Ken Lozito", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 3360, "review_number": 110, "book_description": " They had seven years to prepare. Earth is lost. Seven years ago the New Earth colony received one final message from Earth\u2026a warning. First, a global pandemic, then the emergence of a new species. A war for survival ravaged the Sol system. Now they are coming for the colony. Many colonists don\u2019t believe it, but Connor does. They must prepare. They must fight. But how can they survive something that killed every person back on Earth? ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36343478-nemesis"}, +{"book_title": "The King in Yellow", "author_name": "Robert W. Chambers", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 11220, "review_number": 1231, "book_description": "One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten inter-related stories that explore the despair and madness that affect characters that come into contact with the forbidden play, The King in Yellow. Since its publication in 1895, The King in Yellow has inspired other horror-genre writers including H. P. Lovecraft, and the text is referenced by many works of fiction, in music, and by the hit television series True Detective, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library_We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.", "year_published": 1895, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Classics", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Gothic", "Mystery", "Literature (19th Century)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32277642-the-king-in-yellow"}, +{"book_title": "Bright Ruin", "author_name": "Vic James", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 1709, "review_number": 304, "book_description": "Magically gifted aristocrats rule--and commoners are doomed to serve. But a rebellion threatens the old order. The dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City concludes.In a world where the lower classes must endure ten years of forced service to unfairly advantaged, magically powered rulers, a teenage boy dreams of rebellion, his older sister yearns for love and knowledge, and a dangerous young aristocrat seeks to remake the world with his dark gifts. In Bright Ruin, the final book in the trilogy set in modern-day England, our heroes will lead a revolution that will transform--or destroy--the world.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33206899-bright-ruin"}, +{"book_title": "Fire & Frost", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 901, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "From the authors who brought you Wild & Steamy come three all-new tales of lovers who create their own heat, even when they\u2019re surrounded by ice\u2026 Speed Mating by Jessica Sims \u2013 Estrella may be going into heat, but she\u2019s determined to remain in control. Just because she\u2019s ovulating doesn\u2019t mean she has to settle for just any man (or his beast). Her sexy alpha\u2019s determined to find her a tiger to take care of her heat and father her child\u2026but no one seems to look quite as good as the man in charge. Will giving in to her need for her alpha ruin her tenuous relationship with her clan or be a match made in heaven? Conjuring Max by Carolyn Crane \u2013 The witches of the world ridiculed and rejected nerdy Veronica for trying to use newfangled computers to enhance old world spellcasting. Well, it\u2019s 1984 now, and she\u2019s perfected her spellcasting computer program. Hey, who needs friends when you can conjure virtually anything\u2026or anybody? So when Veronica makes powerful new enemies, she conjures Max, a pitbull of a cop, to deal with the pesky hitmen who keep coming around. Maybe Veronica can finally get some peace and quiet so she can work on her computer. But tough-guy Max is in no mood to play lapdog to a gorgeous witch. Wrecked by Meljean Brook \u2013 Elizabeth has spent the past five years running from her father; her father\u2019s huntsman, Caius, has spent the past five years pursuing her. But when he finally catches up to her on an airship flying above Europe\u2019s zombie-infested cities, Elizabeth discovers that Caius isn\u2019t the only danger she has to fear\u2014and now that he\u2019s found her, Caius doesn\u2019t intend to let her go\u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Anthologies", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Short Stories", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17236852-fire-frost"}, +{"book_title": "Scan", "author_name": "Walter Jury", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1106, "review_number": 231, "book_description": "Tate and his father don\u2019t exactly get along. As Tate sees it, his father has unreasonably high expectations for Tate to be the best\u2014at everything. Tate finally learns what he\u2019s being prepared for when he steals one of his dad\u2019s odd tech inventions and mercenaries ambush the school, killing his father in the process and sending Tate on the run from aliens who look just like humans. All Tate knows--like how to make weapons out of oranges and lighter fluid--may not be enough to save him as he\u2019s plunged into a secret inter-species conflict that\u2019s been going on for centuries. Aided only by his girlfriend and his estranged mother, with powerful enemies closing in on all sides, Tate races to puzzle out the secret behind his father\u2019s invention and why so many are willing to kill for it. A riveting, fast-paced adventure, Scan is a clever alien thriller with muscle and heart.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13451410-scan"}, +{"book_title": "The Memory Painter", "author_name": "Gwendolyn Womack", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 3430, "review_number": 600, "book_description": "Two lovers who have traveled across time. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery.Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there's a secret to his success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills...like the ability to speak obscure languages and an inexplicable genius for chess. All his life, he has wondered if his dreams are recollections, if he is re-experiencing other people's lives.Linz Jacobs is a brilliant neurogeneticist, absorbed in decoding the genes that help the brain make memories, until she is confronted with an exact rendering of a recurring nightmare at one of Bryan's shows. She tracks down the elusive artist, and their meeting triggers Bryan's most powerful dream yet: visions of a team of scientists who, on the verge of discovering a cure for Alzheimer's, died in a lab explosion decades ago.As Bryan becomes obsessed with the mysterious circumstances surrounding the scientists' deaths, his dreams begin to reveal what happened at the lab, as well as a deeper mystery that may lead all the way to ancient Egypt. Together, Bryan and Linz start to discern a pattern. But a deadly enemy watches their every move, and he will stop at nothing to ensure that the past stays buried.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Historical", "Thriller", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22836956-the-memory-painter"}, +{"book_title": "Desperate Fire", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1509, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "\nIn the fourth and final book in speculative-fiction master Christopher G. Nuttall\u2019s Angel in the Whirlwind series, an epic battle pits the survival of hope against the locus of destruction.\nAs the Commonwealth produces more starships and increases recruits, victory begins to slip from Theocratic control. This can only make the Theocracy more desperate to win\u2026and more dangerous to fight.After a mission to liberate an occupied planet ends in nuclear devastation, Kat Falcone\u2014now a commodore in command of HMS Queen Elizabeth\u2014sees firsthand just how far the enemy will go. Suddenly dealing with the war effort and a humanitarian crisis, many in the Commonwealth want a truce. Kat wants something else: to crush the Theocracy outright\u2014and quickly.Kat devises Operation Hammer, an all-out assault on the enemy home planet, Ahura Mazda. It is a bold and risky plan, but the enemy has revealed there can be no middle ground. Can Kat break the galactic stalemate and deal a death blow to the Theocracy? As two empires prepare to fight the largest space battle in history, Kat must trust her instincts to save her people and avoid oblivion.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "War", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33224133-desperate-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Do Unto Others", "author_name": "Michael Z. Williamson", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 540, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Do Unto Others as They Did Unto You\u2014the Code of the Mercenary. Science Fiction Action-Adventure by a New Master of Military Science Fiction.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Prescot family were miners. At one time, they were contracted to develop technology for a mineral rich but uninhabitable system. Gradually, all the investors shied away. Then the Prescots broke through with the technology needed to exploit entire planets, and incidentally develop domed playgrounds for the perversely rich, including indoor ski slopes and cable cars over megavolcanos, casinos and rides. This created the economic problem of being the richest people in the universe, having more money than most governments and effectively unlimited resources.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Money is a small blessing when enemies are quite willing to spend billions for the chance at trillions. Bryan Prescot and his daughter might as well have targets painted on their backs for the thugs, kidnappers and assassins their cmpetitors would throw at them. Bodyguards were necessary\u2014Highly trained bodyguards who could be bought once and be utterly loyal no matter the circumstances. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The altercation comes to a head inside the domes and mines of Govannon, with their enemy desperate to do anything to save their own lives, now that the gloves are off. Caron Prescot has only six bodyguards against an army, but she has two aces in the hole: The miners are on her side, and Elke, Ripple Creek\u2019s psychotic demolition expert, has a nuke. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The problem with Elke having a nuke is that Elke WILL use it.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171612-do-unto-others"}, +{"book_title": "Cyberpunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson", "author_name": "Dani Cavallaro", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 66, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix - and contemporary work on the culture of technology.>", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22332.Cyberpunk_and_Cyberculture"}, +{"book_title": "After the Crown", "author_name": "K.B. Wagers", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1771, "review_number": 194, "book_description": "The adrenaline-fueled, Star Wars-style sequel to Behind the Throne, a new space adventure series from author K.B. Wagers.\n\nFormer gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters and parents murdered, the Indranan empire is on the brink of war. Hail must quickly make alliances with nearby worlds if she has any hope of surviving her rule. When peace talks turn violent and Hail realizes she's been betrayed, she must rely on her old gunrunning ways to get out of trouble. With help from an old boss and some surprising new allies, she must risk everything to save her world.The Indranan WarBehind the ThroneAfter the Crown", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29957588-after-the-crown"}, +{"book_title": "Arena", "author_name": "Holly Jennings", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1331, "review_number": 388, "book_description": "Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She's died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier...The RAGE tournaments the Virtual Gaming League's elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a fight to the digital death. Every kill is broadcast to millions. Every player leads a life of ultimate fame, responsible only for entertaining the masses. And though their weapons and armor are digital, the pain is real.Chosen to be the first female captain in RAGE tournament history, Kali Ling is at the top of the world until one of her teammates overdoses. Now she s stuck trying to work with a hostile new teammate who s far more distracting than he should be. Between internal tensions and external pressures, Kali is on the brink of breaking. To change her life, she ll need to change the game. And the only way to revolutionize an industry as shadowy as the VGL is to fight from the inside", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Action", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25894059-arena"}, +{"book_title": "The Vile Village", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 121512, "review_number": 2972, "book_description": "Dear Reader,You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages. I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, a newspaper headline, the arrest of innocent people, the Deluxe Cell, and some very strange hats. It is my solemn and sacred occupation to research each detail of the Baudelaire children's lives and write them all down, but you may prefer to do some other solemn and sacred thing, such as reading another book instead.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150037.The_Vile_Village"}, +{"book_title": "A Train Through Time", "author_name": "Bess McBride", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 783, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Time Travel Romance:College teacher Ellie Standish thinks she's on a sleek modern train heading to a conference on women's studies in Seattle, but she awakens from a night's doze to find herself on a bizarre historical train full of late Victorian era reenactors who refuse to come out of character. When the leader of the group\u2014one handsome, green-eyed Robert Chamberlain\u2014finally convinces her the date is indeed 1901, a skeptical Ellie decries any eccentric theories of time travel and presumes she is smack dab in the middle of a very interesting historical dream. She turns the directorial reins of her dream over to one smitten and willing Robert, only to realize that dreams cannot last forever. Someday, she must wake up to reality, though Ellie no longer has any idea what reality is. She only knows that Robert must play an important part in her future. But how can he...if he's only a figment of her imagination or worse yet...a man who belongs to an era long past?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17201074-a-train-through-time"}, +{"book_title": "Hexbreaker", "author_name": "Jordan L. Hawk", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3173, "review_number": 538, "book_description": "Will a dark history doom their future together?New York copper Tom Halloran is a man with a past. If anyone finds out he once ran with the notorious O\u2019Connell tunnel gang, he\u2019ll spend the rest of his life doing hard time behind bars. But Tom\u2019s secret is threatened when a horrible murder on his beat seems to have been caused by the same ancient magic that killed his gang.Cat shifter Cicero is determined to investigate the disappearance of one friend and the death of another, even though no one else believes the cases are connected. When the trail of his investigation crosses Tom\u2019s, the very bohemian Cicero instinctively recognizes the uncultured Irish patrolman as his witch. Though they\u2019re completely unsuited to one another, Cicero has no choice but to work alongside Tom\u2026all the while fighting against the passion growing within. Tom knows that taking Cicero as his familiar would only lead to discovery and disaster. Yet as the heat between them builds, Tom\u2019s need for the other man threatens to overcome every rational argument against becoming involved.But when their investigation uncovers a conspiracy that threatens all of New York, Tom must make the hardest decision of his life: to live a lie and gain his heart\u2019s desire, or to confess the truth and sacrifice it all.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29505845-hexbreaker"}, +{"book_title": "The Empire's Corps", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 3202, "review_number": 139, "book_description": "You Should Never Speak Truth To Power\u2026The Galactic Empire is dying and chaos and anarchy are breaking out everywhere. After a disastrous mission against terrorists on Earth itself, Captain Edward Stalker of the Terran Marine Corps makes the mistake of speaking truth to power, telling one of the most powerful men in the Empire a few home truths. As a result, Captain Stalker and his men are unceremoniously exiled to Avalon, a world right on the Rim of the Empire. It should have been an easy posting\u2026Well, apart from the bandits infesting the countryside, an insurgency that threatens to topple the Empire\u2019s loose control over Avalon, and a corrupt civil government more interested in what it can extort from the population than fighting a war. The Marines rapidly find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of political and economic chaos, fighting to preserve Avalon before the competing factions tear the world apart. They\u2019re Marines; if anyone can do it, they can.The battle to save the Empire starts here.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fiction", "War", "Audiobook", "Action", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16176480-the-empire-s-corps"}, +{"book_title": "The Choosing", "author_name": "Rachelle Dekker", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2663, "review_number": 475, "book_description": "\u201cNot to be Chosen would yield a cruel fate of my own making.\u201dLike all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she\u2019d spent a lifetime preparing for\u2014her Choosing ceremony\u2014would end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she\u2019ll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society. She knows it\u2019s her duty to follow the true way of the Authority. But as Carrington begins this nightmare, rumors of rebellion rattle her beliefs. The whispers contradict everything she\u2019s been told; yet they resonate deep within. Then Carrington is offered an unprecedented chance at the life she\u2019s always dreamed of, but she can\u2019t shake the feeling that it may be an illusion. With a killer targeting Lints and corruption threatening the highest levels of the Authority, Carrington must uncover the truth before it destroys her.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Christian Fiction", "Young Adult", "Christian", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23627067-the-choosing"}, +{"book_title": "Pirates", "author_name": "Linda Lael Miller", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1018, "review_number": 65, "book_description": ": Pirates Linda Lael Miller sweeps readers away\u2014and through time itself\u2014when a thoroughly modern woman encounters a dangerous, dashing eighteenth-century buccaneer. The result is a sensuous, joyous, utterly heartwarming tale of love....Phoebe Turlow needs to get out of Seattle and forget about the man she just divorced, her dwindling finances, and the lonely nights that stretch ahead of her. But she can't foresee what awaits her on Paradise Island....Duncan Rourke is known to historians as \"the pirate patriot.\" He's been dead for two centuries\u2014or at least he's supposed to be, until Phoebe Turlow steps out of a van, into a run-down island hotel, and into his world.Neither Phoebe nor her pirate can envision the glorious adventure that is about to unfold. They understand only that they have found each other, and a grand passion, across the chasm of time...and they fear only the moment when it may vanish. Passionate, emotional, and completely entrancing, Pirates will steal your heart.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699179.Pirates"}, +{"book_title": "Hour of the Olympics", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 8710, "review_number": 284, "book_description": "The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!No girls allowed at the Olympic Games! That's the rule when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to ancient Greece. But when Annie tells jack to go to the games without her, he knows she's up to something. Will Annie find a way to see the games? Or will she get herself--and Jack--into Olympic-size trouble? Find out in Hour of the Olympics.Did you know that there's a Magic Tree House book for every kid?Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventuresHave more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181401.Hour_of_the_Olympics"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Last Order : Angel Cake, Vol. 11", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 298, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "R to L (Japanese Style)Master manga creater Yukito Kishiro returns, accompanied by his most celebrated character, cyborg sweetheart Battle Angel Alita. Meet Kishiro's latest bevy of bizarre and tormented characters and catch up with your favorite friends and foes!A sophisticated science fiction tale packed with action, black humor, and philosophical, historical, and cultural references! Angel Cake What is Alita's fate...? A doomed opponent in battle with Sechs may reveal some clues. Meanwhile, senseis and students fight for supremacy. Their mystical techniques can slay a tiger and even a dragon. But moves of such power may only be used against an opponent who is truly worthy!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Comics Manga", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4824930-battle-angel-alita---last-order"}, +{"book_title": "Hereticus", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 2966, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "In this concluding novel of Dan Abnett's sensational trilogy, a dark figure from the past returns to exact a cruel vengeance upon Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Action", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1507378.Hereticus"}, +{"book_title": "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel", "author_name": "Ransom Riggs", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 8837, "review_number": 1064, "book_description": "When Jacob Portman was a boy, his grandfather regaled him with stories of his fantastic life at Miss Peregrine's home during the Second World War, even sharing photos of the remarkable children with whom he resided. As Jacob grew up, though, he decided that these photos were obvious fakes, simple forgeries designed to stir his youthful imagination. Or were they...?Following his grandfather's death - a scene Jacob literally couldn't believe with his own eyes - the sixteen-year-old boy embarks on a mission to disentangle fact from fiction in his grandfather's tall tales. But even his grandfather's elaborate yarns couldn't prepare Jacob for the eccentricities he will discover at Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Sequential Art (Manga)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333322-miss-peregrine-s-home-for-peculiar-children"}, +{"book_title": "Rice Boy: The Second Book", "author_name": "Evan Dahm", "rating_score": 4.55, "rating_votes": 42, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "This book includes chapters 12 through 21 of the acclaimed internet comic-book story of Rice Boy, in addition to quite a bit of concept art and guest art. In this volume, a prophet is resurrected, a tree is planted, and a desolate psychic landscape is traversed. The story of Rice Boy continues to be available, in what may have been a poor financial decision, for free online at www.rice-boy.com", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2909670-rice-boy"}, +{"book_title": "Sol", "author_name": "S.H. Jucha", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 1531, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Sol\u2019s warships paid the ultimate price for threatening the Haraken and New Terran worlds. Now, Haraken President Alex Racine and his M\u00e9ridien partner, Ren\u00e9e de Guirnon, are engaged in a desperate gamble to stop a war between their worlds and United Earth\u2019s (UE) massive forces before it starts.What\u2019s Alex\u2019s grand plan? He hasn\u2019t a clue, but his people believe in him and hope he will find a way to protect them. Alex does have powerful assets: the Haraken space fleet; the genius SADEs, mobile Haraken digital intelligences; and the defected UE scientists, who are providing a wealth of intelligence about their home world.Arriving at Sol, Alex discovers the perfect opportunity to make his statement to the UE Supreme Tribunal in the form of the aging Idona Station, which has fallen into disrepair as UE militia and rebels battle for control. Alex explains his unorthodox plan when he says, \u201cThe UE tribunes will succumb when we overpower them with prosperity.\u201dThe Harakens work to meld Idona\u2019s militia, stationers, and rebels into the Haraken\u2019s view of the world, one based on peace, purpose, and equality. The Tribunal is at odds over the Harakens\u2019 interference in their system, forcing the rifts in the UE\u2019s political structure to widen into chasms.In the exciting conclusion to Haraken, the series\u2019 previous book, Sol is the story of a clash of cultures and ideals as Earthers struggle to find a way toward a successful new future.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30516037-sol"}, +{"book_title": "Assault Troopers", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2521, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "The Earth died when aliens rained thermonuclear warheads on her cities and sprayed the surface with a bio-terminator. A deadly poison drifted to every corner of the planet, threatening the last survivors with annihilation. For a soldier in Antarctica like Creed, there is only one way to keep breathing untainted air. He must bury his hatred of the extraterrestrials and join the Jelk Corporation as an assault trooper, leaving the planet for outer space. In return for his and other people's services, the corporation will house the last humans for as long as the assault troopers keep winning.For the price of living and the chance to save humanity, Creed has to wear a shock chip in his neck?Jelk discipline is harsh?and he has to don a symbiotic battlesuit that feeds off his sweat. Human life is cheap in the vast alien war. The assault troopers are little more than suicide soldiers, but for humanity to escape extinction, they must survive. But Creed didn't agree to the bargain in order to remain a dog to the aliens. He has a plan, and he'll need all his cunning to beat these star born bastards and begin the road to freedom for the human race.\"Assault Troopers\" is a tale of human extinction and ultimate desperation, written by bestselling author Vaughn Heppner.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18713456-assault-troopers"}, +{"book_title": "Aurora", "author_name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 20757, "review_number": 2582, "book_description": "A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers. Our voyage from Earth began generations ago.Now, we approach our new home.AURORA.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23197269-aurora"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Sunset", "author_name": "Bob Atkinson", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 147, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Description: The year\u2026 1746.Around Fort William, the Scottish Highlanders are in revolt and the Redcoats are coming\u2026Suddenly\u2026 time shifts\u2026 people from different eras are dumped at this one turning point in history.In the future, Nuclear Armageddon has caused this powerful blast through time, but why?Can history be changed?Or is the future doomed to witness\u2026The Last Sunset?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical", "Romance", "War", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15982935-the-last-sunset"}, +{"book_title": "Reamde", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 52831, "review_number": 5014, "book_description": "Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft. Smuggling backpack loads of high-grade marijuana across the border into Northern Idaho, he quickly amassed an enormous and illegal fortune. With plenty of time and money to burn, he became addicted to an online fantasy game in which opposing factions battle for power and treasure in a vast cyber realm. Like many serious gamers, he began routinely purchasing virtual gold pieces and other desirables from Chinese gold farmers\u2014young professional players in Asia who accumulated virtual weapons and armor to sell to busy American and European buyers.For Richard, the game was the perfect opportunity to launder his aging hundred dollar bills and begin his own high-tech start up\u2014a venture that has morphed into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Corporation 9592, with its own super successful online role-playing game, T\u2019Rain. But the line between fantasy and reality becomes dangerously blurred when a young gold farmer accidently triggers a virtual war for dominance\u2014and Richard is caught at the center.In this edgy, 21st century tale, Neal Stephenson, one of the most ambitious and prophetic writers of our time, returns to the terrain of his cyberpunk masterpieces Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, leading readers through the looking glass and into the dark heart of imagination.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10552338-reamde"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Machine", "author_name": "H.G. Wells", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 424993, "review_number": 11420, "book_description": "\u201cI\u2019ve had a most amazing time....\u201dSo begins the Time Traveller\u2019s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era\u2014and the story that launched H.G. Wells\u2019s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine\u2019s lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth.\u00a0 There he discovers two bizarre races\u2014the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks\u2014who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well.\u00a0 Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells\u2019s expert storytelling and provocative insight, The Time Machine will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come.\u00a0", "year_published": 1895, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2493.The_Time_Machine"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow's Fall", "author_name": "Ron Bender", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 39, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "\"Fast and furious sci-fi action in a world where corporations rule, the climate has been nuked and augmentations are common place.\"Welcome to New White Sands City.Raven\u2019s not averse to a little heat. She\u2019s got a reputation from TopSide to UnderCity as a tour guide, a good-time girl, and a killer for hire. When a routine grab goes wrong and she kills a high-profile vigilante named Shadow, she winds up holding a custom data core and the attention of a dangerous mega-corp.Now, Raven\u2019s on the clock to ditch the stolen goods before they get her killed, but when she learns what\u2019s stored on the enigmatic core, nothing about the job stays routine. This is big picture stuff, and worse, as the conspiracy unfolds, she discovers her new enemy knows more about her past than she does.This time it\u2019s not about earning a paycheck. It\u2019s about freedom. And the reality is \u2026 no one is as free as they thinkNew White Sands City Cyberpunk is a near-future science fiction series of interconnected standalone novels.Warnings for coarse language and high-octane violence.\"The world Bender builds is well thought out and reminiscent of William Gibson\u2019s Bridge Trilogy with a splash of Mad Max. New White Sands is a place where futuristic technology intersects with people living on the edge. Its population can be both cut throat and fiercely loyal, adhering to rules spoken and unspoken.\" --Michael Prelee, Author of Milky Way Repo", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50704692-shadow-s-fall"}, +{"book_title": "Steampunk", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 2178, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of\u00a0fantastical stories.\u00a0Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances\u2014synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern dirigibles.\u00a0The elegant allure of this popular new genre is represented in this rich collection by distinctively talented authors, including:Content\"Introduction: The 19th Century Roots of Steampunk\" by Jess Nevins\"Benediction: Excerpt from The Warlord of the Air\" by Michael Moorcock\"Lord Kelvin's Machine\" by James P. Blaylock\"The Giving Mouth\" by Ian R. MacLeod \"A Sun in the Attic\" by Mary Gentle \"The God-Clown is Near\" by Jay Lake\"The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel\" by Joe R. Lansdale\"The Selene Gardening Society\" by Molly Brown\"Seventy-Two Letters\" by Ted Chiang\"The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance\" by Michael Chabon\"Victoria\" by Paul Di Filippo\"Reflected Light\" by Rachel E. Pollock\"Minutes of the Last Meeting\" by Stepan Chapman\"Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast\" by Neal Stephenson\"The Steam-Driven Time Machine: A Pop Culture Survey\" by Rick Klaw\"The Essential Sequential Steampunk: A Modest Survey of the Genre within the Comic Book Medium\" by Bill Baker", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2246092.Steampunk"}, +{"book_title": "Wazdot", "author_name": "Michael Slack", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 175, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "While on a field trip a young alien named Blip notices a blue and green world and sneaks off to investigate. Blip inspects and identifies each of the perplexing objects that cross his path-from a friendly pig and a clutch of ardent chickens to an annoyed cow and an oh-so-tempting tractor-can he figure out where he's landed before his teacher shows up?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Animals", "Science Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18509851-wazdot"}, +{"book_title": "Death or Glory", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1521, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Yet again, reluctant hero Commissar Cain is catapulted into glory in the fourth story of this tremendously popular series. Escaping from a disastrous space battle, the commissar and his malodorous sidekick Jurgen crash-land behind enemy lines. The only way out is to round up what few troops they can find, and fight their way back to the safety of the Imperial lines. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of barbaric alien orks stand in their way!", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/675929.Death_or_Glory"}, +{"book_title": "Hominids", "author_name": "Robert J. Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 11772, "review_number": 735, "book_description": "Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddit, accidentally passes from his universe into a Canadian underground research facility. Fortunately, a team of human scientists, including expert paleo-anthropologist Mary Vaughan, promptly identifies and warmly receives Ponter. Solving the language problem and much else is a mini-computer, called a Companion, implanted in the brain of every Neanderthal. A computerized guardian spirit, however, doesn't eliminate cross-cultural confusion; permanent male-female sexuality, rape, and overpopulation are all alien to Ponter. Nor can it help his housemate and fellow scientist back in his world, Adikor Huld, when the authorities charge Adikor with his murder.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264946.Hominids"}, +{"book_title": "The Bot That Scott Built", "author_name": "Kim Norman", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 157, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "When Scott builds a bot, a bippity-bot, sparks fly . . . and his entire classroom goes wild. Before long, fiery ants and carnivorous plants, a freaky frog, a big-bellied boa, and an exploding \"volcano\" have wreaked total havoc. Can Scott's bot, which started it all, manage the mess? Cheers for the handy hero! A cumulative story with fun that grows and grows and GROWS.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Humor", "Academic (School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25986285-the-bot-that-scott-built"}, +{"book_title": "Above", "author_name": "Leah Bobet", "rating_score": 3.09, "rating_votes": 2868, "review_number": 451, "book_description": "IRIDESCENCE.I read that word in one of Atticus's thick old books once. When I went to Jack to ask what it meant, he held his hands out and they glowed so gentle I thought they might kiss the air, and since that day I wanted a place that was iridescent, that lit without burning. Being in love is sort of like that, when it's real. When it's true.Matthew has loved Ariel from the moment he found her in the tunnels, her blond hair shining and her bee\u2019s wings falling away. They live in Safe, an underground refuge for those fleeing the city Above--as does Whisper, who speaks to ghosts, and Jack Flash, who can shoot lightning from his fingers.But one terrifying night, an old enemy invades Safe with an army of shadows and only Matthew, Ariel, and a few friends escape Above. Forced to survive in the most dangerous place he can imagine, Matthew strives to unravel the mystery of the shadows' powers and Safe's own secret history. For he knows he must find a way to remake Safe--not just for himself and his friends, but for Ariel, who's again faced with a life she fled, and who needs him more than ever before.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11250671-above"}, +{"book_title": "Allison Hewitt Is Trapped", "author_name": "Madeleine Roux", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3984, "review_number": 487, "book_description": "One woman's story as she blogs - and fights back - the zombie apocalypse\"Allison Hewitt and her five colleagues at the Brooks and Peabody Bookstore are trapped together when the zombie outbreak hits. Allison reaches out for help through her blog, writing on her laptop and utilizing the military's emergency wireless network (SNET). It may also be her only chance to reach her mother. But as the reality of their situation sinks in, Allison's blog becomes a harrowing account of her edge-of-the-seat adventures (with some witty sarcasm thrown in) as she and her companions fight their way through ravenous zombies and sometimes even more dangerous humans.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8619943-allison-hewitt-is-trapped"}, +{"book_title": "The Wind from Nowhere", "author_name": "J.G. Ballard", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 755, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "The wind came from nowhere \u2026 a super-hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organized life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels and sewers \u2013 where they turned against each other in their desperate struggle to survive.", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (20th Century)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/262359.The_Wind_from_Nowhere"}, +{"book_title": "The Secret Under My Skin", "author_name": "Janet McNaughton", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1165, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "In the year 2368, humankind must struggle to survive under dire environmental conditions and strict government control. In this startling world, one brave young woman begins to unravel a web of lies about life on Earth that will empower her to discover, at last, who she really is. McNaughton vividly imagines an all-too-believable future and celebrates the impact that one person can make on the world.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296188.The_Secret_Under_My_Skin"}, +{"book_title": "No Honor in Death", "author_name": "Eric Thomson", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 958, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Siobhan Dunmoore was not having a good war.\u00a0 She's had more ships shot out from under her by the invading Shrehari Empire than any other officer in the Fleet. Some called her overly aggressive. Others simply called her reckless. What the enemy called her was something else altogether. That she gave the Shrehari a good drubbing along the way didn't matter in the least, because not all her enemies wore an Imperial uniform. A reputation for bad luck was pretty much the only reputation she had left.Sailing yet another ruined starship home after a near defeat, she wanted nothing more than a long, long rest, because this time, she had escaped by the thinnest of bluffs. Unfortunately, the Admiralty had other ideas.\u00a0 The frigate Stingray was known as the unluckiest ship in the Fleet and her Captain had just been removed in disgrace for cowardice. Some in the Admiralty would dearly love to retire the old warhorse. After all, she was the last of her type left in service, and perhaps it was time to break up the jinx permanently, along with the crew. But in the midst of an interstellar war, every ship that could fight was needed.In short order, Dunmoore went from staring down the Empire's finest on the bridge of a wrecked battleship to taking on a demoralized, semi-mutinous crew, scheming Admirals and a deadly mystery. Stingray's bad luck wasn't just superstition gone rampant. Between a crew that won't talk, political enemies who want her gone, and her personal demons, she's got her hands full. Taking the frigate into battle under those conditions would seem foolish to anyone else, but Dunmoore was never one to shrink from a good fight.\u00a0 Failure was not an option, and defeat not an acceptable alternative, for there was no honor in death. She would redeem herself and her ship or be damned for all eternity.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29595877-no-honor-in-death"}, +{"book_title": "The Gypsy Morph", "author_name": "Terry Brooks", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 12713, "review_number": 483, "book_description": "De queeste van de Ridders van het Woord loopt ten einde als de krachten van het goede van over de hele wereld samenkomen om het kwade definitief te verslaan. Logan Tom en Angel Perez, de Ridders die eden hebben gezworen om hun familie te wreken, Kirisin Belloruus, een jonge elf die verantwoordelijk is voor het lot van zijn ras, en Havik, de jongen op wiens magere schouders het lot van de hele wereld rust...'Terry Brooks is een geweldige verhalenverteller. Hij schrijft epische fantasy rijk aan mysterie, magie en memorabele personages. Als je Terry Brooks niet gelezen hebt, weet je niet goed fantasy is.'Christopher Paolini'Terry Brooks staat aan de top van het fantasygenre.'Philip Pullman", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2675261-the-gypsy-morph"}, +{"book_title": "Saved", "author_name": "Mara Frost", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 464, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "They say that no one can hear you scream in space, but that\u2019s a big lie because I know for a fact that plenty of aliens have heard me\u2026 So, who\u2019s sick of aliens and has two thumbs? This girl right here. I\u2019m now on the run with the jerk who abducted me and we\u2019ve got nowhere to go. We\u2019ve crash-landed onto a hostile planet where the plant-life may or may not want to eat us, the locals might want to fight us and the Imperial forces may still be chasing us. And it doesn\u2019t help that I\u2019m stuck with an 80 year old curmudgeon who\u2019s stuck in a sexy blue alien body. Why is nothing ever easy for me? *Note: This is the final installment for the serial \"Alien Space Pirates\"! Enjoy! *", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Space", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28581950-saved"}, +{"book_title": "Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Yoshiyuki Sadamoto", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 7746, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Evangelion, Vol. 1, contains a Japanese sound FX glossary plus special bonus commentary by series mecha designer Ikuto Yamashita, as well as the famous \"confession letter\" written by director Hideaki Anno in the months before the original TV series premiere that laid out his deeply personal motivations to make Evangelion.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)", "Comics Manga", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art", "Cultural (Japan)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/283489.Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Transmuted", "author_name": "Karina Cooper", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 110, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "In this final installment of Cherry St. Croix's adventures, only one thing could compel the disgraced countess to return to Society\u2014the threat of immortality.All is not peaceful in the wake of the Midnight Menagerie's ruin. Although the Karakash Veil has been forced to flee its stronghold, the mysterious head of the criminal organization is not content to fade away.Above the foggy drift, a priceless diamond vanishes. In the dangerous Underground, a murderous rampage demands retribution. The hunt for the mastermind behind these misdeeds sends me back to Society\u2014and into the unforgiving embrace of the world I'd left behind.Nothing is what it seems. Enemies, allies\u2014and a man who struggles with a nature even devotion cannot tame. Torn between the scars of the past and fragile new beginnings, I must create balance in the world I have chosen\u2014and with the people I have come to love. The game has changed; should the Veil achieve the immortality it craves, I will have nowhere left to run.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23009996-transmuted"}, +{"book_title": "Exordium of Tears", "author_name": "Andrew P. Weston", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 58, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Fight or Die\u2026 Victorious in a star-flung battle against the inhuman Horde, Earth\u2019s fabled 9th Legion of Rome; the U.S. 5th Company\u2019s 2nd Mounted Rifles; and a Special Forces anti-terrorist team settle on Arden, their adopted planet, to raise families and live in peace. But soon, state secrets are revealed: The greatest of the inhuman Horde didn\u2019t join the battle, but yet lurk among Arden\u2019s outer colonies, posing a grave threat. Humanity\u2019s Ardenese defenders send a flotilla of ships to far Exordium, the world where the Horde outbreak began, with orders to reclaim the outer colonies\u2026 Exordium . . . where the Horde awaits . . . where the cream of Arden\u2019s fighting force must engage this adversary of unrivaled power\u2026 As worlds are sundered, suns destroyed, and star systems obliterated, a universal conflict proves again that\u2026 Death is only the beginning of the adventure.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29088348-exordium-of-tears"}, +{"book_title": "Akira, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Katsuhiro Otomo", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 8862, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "In the 21st century, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira -- the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong now imprisoned in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, an angry young man with immense and rapidly growing psychic abilities, has done the unthinkable: he has released Akira and set into motion a chain of events that could once destroy the city and drag the world to the brink of Armageddon. Resistance agents and an armada of government forces race against the clock to find the child with godlike powers before his unthinkable destructive abilities are unleashed! One of the true international classics of graphic fiction and unavailable for nearly a decade in America, Akira has once again taken America by storm, its first Dark Horse volume selling out almost overnight in comic shops and bookstores across the country!", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93372.Akira_Vol_3"}, +{"book_title": "Fuzzy Nation", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 29985, "review_number": 2540, "book_description": "Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, that's not up for discussion.Then, in the wake of an accidental cliff collapse, Jack discovers a seam of unimaginably valuable jewels, to which he manages to lay legal claim just as ZaraCorp is cancelling their contract with him for his part in causing the collapse. Briefly in the catbird seat, legally speaking, Jack pressures ZaraCorp into recognizing his claim, and cuts them in as partners to help extract the wealth.But there's another wrinkle to ZaraCorp's relationship with the planet Zarathustra. Their entire legal right to exploit the verdant Earth-like planet, the basis of the wealth they derive from extracting its resources, is based on being able to certify to the authorities on Earth that Zarathustra is home to no sentient species.Then a small furry biped\u2014trusting, appealing, and ridiculously cute\u2014shows up at Jack's outback home. Followed by its family. As it dawns on Jack that despite their stature, these are people, he begins to suspect that ZaraCorp's claim to a planet's worth of wealth is very flimsy indeed\u2026and that ZaraCorp may stop at nothing to eliminate the \"fuzzys\" before their existence becomes more widely known.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9647532-fuzzy-nation"}, +{"book_title": "Adverse Effects", "author_name": "Cia_", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 366, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Saving Caeorleia: Book Two Dade, human-Caeorleian hybrid and ex-military grunt, doesn\u2019t fit in\u2014not with humans, not with aliens, not anywhere. He\u2019s always on the outskirts, angry, and people aren\u2019t sure they can trust him. When he encounters a compatible tziu named Yaseke, secrets, misunderstandings, and attacks nearly prevent the two from making a connection Dade sorely needs. Even after they unite, Dade and Yaseke face challenges that two newly joined males should never have to endure. From traitorous council members, to sadistic aliens who plan to sell them as slaves, to meeting a mysterious race of revered aliens called Collectors, Dade and Yaseke manage to stay together\u2014and even rescue two youths related to Yaseke, who\u2019ve lost their parents to the same betrayer. Someone from Dade\u2019s past is at the root of everything he\u2019s suffered. No way can he let them get away with what they\u2019re planning, but Dade isn\u2019t sure he can stop them on his own. If he doesn\u2019t let go of his isolation and risk the pain letting others in will bring, he\u2019ll never save Caeorleia in time.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26445818-adverse-effects"}, +{"book_title": "Ipseity", "author_name": "Tony Corden", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 642, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In 'Nascent', she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves. In 'Odyssey', she not only found a way to escape but she also uncovered deeper plots being carried out in both the virtual multi-universe and reality. In 'Change', Leah began learning how to use the additional connections her chip has made throughout her body. The Pod facility she opened expanded as she helped others from her neighbourhood. She discovered that the crime syndicate has an even greater presence in the virtual multiverse than she\u2019d imagined. As she begins to unravel some of their secrets, they tarnish her reputation and kidnap. In 'Rescue' Leah hacked the secure Vault where an AI friend of hers had been archived. She not only managed to retrieve her friend but uncovered a deeper conspiracy she has yet to understand. She succeeded in downloading a secure file she'd stolen from the crime syndicate although she hasn't yet managed to understand what it means. Leah also managed to rescue her mother from the crime syndicate but not before her mother had an AI chip inserted in her brain. She not only discovers that her boyfriend's family controls their own crime syndicate, but he is being controlled virtually by his parents. In 'Ipseity' Leah discovers that the syndicate inserted a dangerously modified AI chip in her mother, the police are actively investigating her activities, her neural architecture is continuing to change, and her enemies are becoming more numerous and determined. Also, she works to rescue her boyfriend, continue her studies at MIT, understand the broader conspiracy, save her mother, complete quests in three virtual worlds, build her growing business empire, and set her AI free.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Artificial Intelligence"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43223620-ipseity"}, +{"book_title": "When We Wake", "author_name": "Karen Healey", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 5405, "review_number": 760, "book_description": "Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027\u2014she's happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies\u2014and wakes up a hundred years later, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened.The future isn't all she had hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better world?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11544476-when-we-wake"}, +{"book_title": "Unearthed", "author_name": "Amie Kaufman", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 6245, "review_number": 1499, "book_description": "When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution the planet has been waiting for. The Undying's advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and Gaia, their former home planet, is a treasure trove waiting to be uncovered.For Jules Addison and his fellow scholars, the discovery of an alien culture offers unprecedented opportunity for study... as long as scavengers like Amelia Radcliffe don't loot everything first. Mia and Jules' different reasons for smuggling themselves onto Gaia put them immediately at odds, but after escaping a dangerous confrontation with other scavvers, they form a fragile alliance.In order to penetrate the Undying temple and reach the tech and information hidden within, the two must decode the ancient race's secrets and survive their traps. But the more they learn about the Undying, the more their presence in the temple seems to be part of a grand design that could spell the end of the human race...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Space", "Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25446297-unearthed"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl in Red", "author_name": "Christina Henry", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 8301, "review_number": 1758, "book_description": "From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic \"Little Red Riding Hood\"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. Sometimes, there are men. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there's something worse than all of the horrible people and vicious beasts combined. Red doesn't like to think of herself as a killer, but she isn't about to let herself get eaten up just because she is a woman alone in the woods....", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42881101-the-girl-in-red"}, +{"book_title": "Spells & Chrome", "author_name": "John Helfers", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 331, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "Welcome to the year 2072\u2026\u2026And a world unlike anything you\u2019ve ever imagined. A world where magic and machines exist side-by-side. Where cybernetics can replace organs or entire limbs with ease, and arcane spells can make the impossible happen. Where the Matrix has become an artificial world of its own, filled with all kinds of pleasure, treasure, and trouble. Where dwarves, elves, orks and trolls walk alongside humans every day. Some work for mega-corporations whose invisible tentacles wrap around every aspect of modern life. Others choose a much less legal career, doing whatever dirty work the corp executives need done\u2014-for a price.Featuring fifteen new stories about the men and women who make their living in the shadows of the Sixth World, Spells & Chrome takes you into the dark and dirty streets of the future. Whether risking their lives to execute a mission for an employer who might be planning to double-cross them anyway, or just doing whatever they need to do to survive another day, shadowrunners use everything they\u2019ve got--cyberware, spells, or a very big gun--to get the job done.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Games (Gaming)", "Anthologies", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8478258-spells-chrome"}, +{"book_title": "The Freeze-Frame Revolution", "author_name": "Peter Watts", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 4059, "review_number": 393, "book_description": "2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist\u201cThis\u2014THIS\u2014is the cutting edge of science fiction.\u201d \u2014Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered CarbonHow do you stage a mutiny when you\u2019re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what\u2019s best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code\u2014and unavoidable casualties.Note from the publisher: The red letters in the print edition (and highlighted letters in the e-book) indicate special bonus content from the author.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Artificial Intelligence", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510759-the-freeze-frame-revolution"}, +{"book_title": "This Must Be the Place", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2307, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Colonial Union diplomat Hart Schmidt is back home for Harvest Day celebrations to a family whose members wonder whether its youngest son isn't wasting his life clinging to the lowest rung of the CUs diplomatic ladder. When his father, a legendarily powerful politician, presents him with a compelling offer, Schmidt has to take stock of his life and career.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180361-this-must-be-the-place"}, +{"book_title": "The Launch", "author_name": "T.I. Wade", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 227, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Ryan Richmond has dreamed about going to space since the age of seven. Reading space updates\u2014and seeing pictures of Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface in National Geographic\u2014was the ignition of this dream.At nineteen he sold his first company and employed the remnants of the Russian Space Program, three of the best space brains in the world.In his twenties he founded and sold two more companies and hired the most outstanding scientists and engineers from the European Space Authority.During his thirties, after selling his third company, he invested heavily in Internet start-ups, like Google, netting billions.Then he patiently waited until NASA\u2019s shuttle program came to an end and contracted the best brains in the U.S. Space program.Now, Ryan Richmond is in his forties, and still wants to go to space. The only problem is that the newly elected Administration and members of Congress don\u2019t have a current space program, and they want his!AMERICA ONE (Book 3) The Odyssey BeginsAMERICA ONE ( Book 4) Return to EarthAMERICA ONE (Book 5) NextGen- out December 2013Latest updates: https://www.facebook.com/TIWadeAuthor - If you liked the story; \"like\" our page on Facebook!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19192584-the-launch"}, +{"book_title": "Legion", "author_name": "Jamie Sawyer", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 727, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "Conrad Harris is the legend known as Lazarus, and he has died hundreds of times. Using simulant bodies, he runs suicide missions in the depths of space. But he always comes back.As commanding officer of the Lazarus Legion, Harris and his elite Simulant Operations team are humanity's last line of defence against the hostile alien race known as the Krell.Having survived their ordeal on Helios, they're now leading a large-scale mission to the perilous, unexplored region of the Damascus Rift. There, another Artefact has been discovered. It is the product of an ancient alien life form - and a possible weapon to be used against the Krell.This Artefact could finally help humanity win the war. But what Harris and the Lazarus Legion will discover there is from their worst nightmares . . .", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25857134-legion"}, +{"book_title": "House of Dreams", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 179, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "The fourth in Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Michael Swanwick's \"Mongolian Wizard\" series of tales set in an alternate fin de si\u00e8cle Europe shot through with magic, mystery, and intrigue.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "War", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18665281-house-of-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller", "author_name": "Chet Williamson", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 36, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Gideon Eshanti and Rachel Braque were loyal Artificial Reality Containment Investigators\u2014until a lethal \"scrub team\" paid them an unexpected visit one night. After they decorated the walls with scrub team entrails, returning to the office Monday morning just wasn't an option.With the underground world of mobsters, techie subersives, and treacherous demons their only hope, Gideon and Rachel must go to Hell and back more than once if they want to stay alive.About the AuthorChet Williamson is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Ash Wednesday, Reign, Mordenhiem, and Second Chance. His shorter works have appeared in Playboy, The New Yorker, and Esquire.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/950713.Hell"}, +{"book_title": "Prisoners of Darkness", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 1213, "review_number": 55, "book_description": " The galaxy is spiraling into all-out war. The Battle of Tarrago was just the beginning. Following Goth Sullus's ruthless onslaughts against the Republic, a desperate House of Reason searches for scapegoats\u2014and finds one, deserving or not, in Commander Ellek Owens. His sentence is cruel, unjust\u2014and final. Unless Victory Squad has anything to say about it. When Chhun undertakes a daring raid on the prison planet Herbeer to rescue his commander, Wraith's loyalties are put to the test, as he's forced to choose between his responsibilities to the Legion\u2026 and his responsibilities to his captured crew. Meanwhile, in the Umnar system, the soulless menace known as the Cybar seeks to break Prisma Maydoon\u2014and set the stage for the total annihilation of not only the Republic, but all life in the galaxy. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37640241-prisoners-of-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "The Devil's Intern", "author_name": "Donna Hosie", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1395, "review_number": 254, "book_description": "\"How did you die?\"It's the most popular question in Hell, and Mitchell Johnson has been answering it ever since he was hit by a bus at age seventeen and inexplicably ended up in the Underworld. Now Mitchell is The Devil's intern in Hell's accounting office. Lately, he's noticed a disturbing trend: the volume of new arrivals is straining Hell's limited resources. Then Mitchell overhears his boss discussing plans to limit newcomers with a legendary time travel mechanism. With a device like that, Mitchell realizes, he could change history and prevent his own death. Mitchell's plot goes awry when his three closest friends\u2014Alfarin, the Viking prince; Elinor, from 17th-century London; and Melissa, from 1960s San Francisco\u2014insert themselves into his plans. It soon becomes clear that the fates of all four are entwined in dangerous and unpredictable ways. With unforgettable characters and a thrilling premise, this original novel is by turns funny, poignant, and thought-provoking.", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Death", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20558767-the-devil-s-intern"}, +{"book_title": "Shades of Dark", "author_name": "Linnea Sinclair", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1353, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Can love alone save the day? Award-winning author Linnea Sinclair returns with a vibrant interstellar thriller of romance and adventure in which two lovers are tested in the crucible of deep space. Before her court-martial, Captain Chasidah Chaz Bergren was the pride of the Sixth Fleet. Now she s a fugitive from the justice of a corrupt Empire. Along with her lover, the former monk, mercenary, and telepath Gabriel Ross Sullivan, Chaz hoped to leave the past light-years behind until the news of her brother Thad s arrest and upcoming execution for treason. It s a ploy by Sully s cousin Hayden Burke to force them out of hiding, and it works. With a killer targeting human females and a renegade gen lab breeding \"jukor\" war machines, Chaz and Sully already had their hands full of treachery, betrayal - not to mention each other. Throw in Chaz s Imperial ex-husband, Admiral Philip Guthrie, and a \"Kyi-Ragkiril\" mentor out to seduce Sully, and not just loyalties but lives are at stake. For when Sully makes a fateful choice, changing their relationship forever, Chaz must also choose between what duty demands and what her heart tells her she must do.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Futuristic Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2421136.Shades_of_Dark"}, +{"book_title": "Merchanter's Luck", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 2414, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "The fateful meeting between the owner of a tramp star-freighter that flies the Union planets under false papers and fake names and a proud but junior member of a powerful starship-owning family leads to a record-breaking race to Downbelow Station--and a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (20th Century)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57100.Merchanter_s_Luck"}, +{"book_title": "The Glass Magician", "author_name": "Charlie N. Holmberg", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 37298, "review_number": 2689, "book_description": "Three months after returning Magician Emery Thane\u2019s heart to his body, Ceony Twill is well on her way to becoming a Folder. Unfortunately, not all of Ceony\u2019s thoughts have been focused on paper magic. Though she was promised romance by a fortuity box, Ceony still hasn\u2019t broken the teacher-student barrier with Emery, despite their growing closeness.When a magician with a penchant for revenge believes that Ceony possesses a secret, he vows to discover it\u2026even if it tears apart the very fabric of their magical world. After a series of attacks target Ceony and catch those she holds most dear in the crossfire, Ceony knows she must find the true limits of her powers\u2026and keep her knowledge from falling into wayward hands.The delightful sequel to Charlie N. Holmberg\u2019s The Paper Magician, The Glass Magician will charm readers young and old alike.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22341276-the-glass-magician"}, +{"book_title": "Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 3: Reason", "author_name": "Thomas Siddell", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 2122, "review_number": 77, "book_description": "Archaia's beloved Gunnerkrigg Court is back with a third paperback!Antimony Carver, a precocious and preternaturally self-possessed young girl, and her best friend Kat begin their second year at gloomy Gunnerkrigg Court, a very British boarding school that has robots running around along side body-snatching demons, forest gods, and the odd mythical creature. Finding a secret tomb of ancient robots beneath Kat's workshop leads the two friends to question how they are linked to the mysterious ghost that attacked Annie the year before. And as a new Medium In Training, Annie is able to visit the powerful trickster god Coyote in Gillitie Forest, a visit that reveals more than she ever imagined possible. Parts of Annie's past are revealed, as well as mysteries that tie back to the origins of the Court itself, in this sequel to\u00a0Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation,\u00a0Gold Medal winner of ForeWord Magazine's 2008 Graphic Novel of the Year Award!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11040918-gunnerkrigg-court-volume-3"}, +{"book_title": "Dazz", "author_name": "Hannah Davenport", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 731, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "Book 2 in The Azziarin Series. This can be read as a stand alone book. The Tureis have attacked Earth, destroying all major cities while killing millions in the process. The buildings lie in shambles while they rape Earth of it natural resources. Humans are used as slaves, while the women are sold off planet in a black market. Chloe, only daughter of an ex-Navy seal, has gotten tired of hiding. She\u2019s decided to take matters into her own hands and has been fighting back. After taking one too many chances, she\u2019s hit from behind while taking on a couple of Tureis and thrown into a cell on board their ship. Dazz, Commander of the Defender, is on his way to the Dreama Sector to help his brother, Jakke. Their younger brother, Takkeo, is missing and Dazz will do anything to get him back. When a Tureis ship exits a wormhole, the Defender fires, disabling the enemy ship. Searching the vessel, he finds an unknown species chained to the floor. Little does he know that the mating fever has started! To be together, Dazz and Chloe have many obstacles to overcome! 30,000+ words plus two chapters of Ambriel! For mature readers only. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Action", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31217840-dazz"}, +{"book_title": "The Genocides", "author_name": "Thomas M. Disch", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1234, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells In this harrowing novel, the world's cities have been reduced to cinder and ash and alien plants have overtaken the earth.\u00a0\u00a0The plants, able to grow the size of maples in only a month and eventually reach six hundred feet, have commandeered the world's soil and are sucking even the Great Lakes dry. In northern Minnesota, Anderson, an aging farmer armed with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, desperately leads the reduced citizenry of a small town in a daily struggle for meager existence. Throw into this fray Jeremiah Orville, a marauding outsider bent on a bizarre and private revenge, and the fight to live becomes a daunting task.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "United States"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743672.The_Genocides"}, +{"book_title": "Rendezvous With Yesterday", "author_name": "Dianne Duvall", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1966, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "Modern-day bounty hunter Bethany Bennett helps her brother track two fugitives to a forest outside of Houston, Texas. But what should have been a routine apprehension of two bail skippers spirals out of control and ends in violence. After Beth and her brother are both seriously injured, a mysterious figure suddenly looms over her. And, when the smoke clears, Beth finds herself not only in another place, but in another time.As Lord Robert, Earl of Fosterly, attempts to identify and track down the nameless enemy who has been plaguing his lands and people with violence, the most peculiar woman stumbles into his path. Small, vulnerable, yet possessed of a bold, fiery spirit and wicked sense of humor, she persists in dubbing Robert and his men members of something called a medieval reenactment group . . . until she sees his castle and labels herself mad. It seems bounty hunter Bethany Bennett has come to him from the future, bringing with her laughter and chaos, swiftly winning the hearts of his people and inspiring within him a love he thought he would never experience again. But when Robert discovers a way for her to return to her time, will the love they share be enough to keep them together?", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25803733-rendezvous-with-yesterday"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 10: One More Time", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 11089, "review_number": 242, "book_description": "The final volume in the saga of outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem written by comics superstar Warren Ellis.At last, it\u2019s the final showdown between Spider and the absolutely corrupt President of the United States in this new printing of the finale to the classic dystopian saga from Vertigo.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Humor", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22424.Transmetropolitan_Vol_10"}, +{"book_title": "Hannibal's Children", "author_name": "John Maddox Roberts", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 249, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "An alternative history, in which Hannibal was victorious over the Romans, but decided to spare their nation. The hardy Romans travelled northwards to Norcium, and created a new Rome, where they bided their time. A century later, reborn, the Romans return to Italy to reclaim their lands and to confront again the Carthagenians.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40005.Hannibal_s_Children"}, +{"book_title": "The Flu", "author_name": "Jacqueline Druga", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1118, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "Throughout history there have been several thousand different strains of influenza. Each year hundreds are active. Chances are, this year, you will catch one of those strains. You will cough, sneeze, and your body will ache. Without a second thought, you\u2019ll take a double dose of green liquid, go to bed, and swear you\u2019ll feel better in the morning. Not this time.In 1918 forty million people succumbed to a particular strain of swine flu. It appeared out of nowhere, and just as quickly as it surfaced, the Spanish Flu vanished. Gone for good. Or so we thought. Though mankind has anticipated its resurfacing for some time, mankind is ill prepared. Mutated and with a vengeance, the Spanish Flu returns.In a world blackened with plague, a glimmer of light exists in the small town of Lodi, Ohio. They shine as a sanctuary because they are \u2018flu-free\u2019 In the wake of the reality that they are spared, the spirit and strength of Lodi is tested. It becomes a fight against what is morally right or wrong in an increasingly difficult battle to stay healthy and alive until the flu has run its course.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Medical", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15993439-the-flu"}, +{"book_title": "The Dragons of Nova", "author_name": "Elise Kova", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 2046, "review_number": 287, "book_description": "Cvareh returns home to his sky world of Nova with the genius crafter Arianna as his temperamental guest. The mercurial inventor possesses all the Xin family needs to turn the tides of a centuries-old power struggle, but the secrets she harbors must be earned with trust -- hard to come by for Ari, especially when it comes to Dragons. On Nova, Ari finds herself closer to exacting vengeance against the traitor who killed everything -- and everyone \u2013 she once loved. But before Ari can complete her campaign of revenge, the Crimson Court exposes her shadowed past and reveals something even more dangerous sparking between her and Cvareh.While Nova is embroiled in blood sport and political games, the rebels on Loom prepare for an all-out assault on their Dragon oppressors. Florence unexpectedly finds herself at the forefront of change, as her unique blend of skills -- and quick-shooting accuracy -- makes her a force to be reckoned with. For the future of her world, she vows vengeance against the Dragons.Before the rebellion can rise, though, the Guilds must fall.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31686500-the-dragons-of-nova"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 20: All Out War, Part 1", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 8752, "review_number": 468, "book_description": "The biggest storyline in Walking Dead history starts here! It's Rick versus Negan with a little help from everyone else! Collects issues #115-120.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19535999-the-walking-dead-vol-20"}, +{"book_title": "Rimrunners", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1866, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose side lost. Now she is forced to escape aboard Loki, surrounded by enemies and hunting her old comrades. And the fighting skills she must use to survive may be her death warrant.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Own", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57127.Rimrunners"}, +{"book_title": "Consider", "author_name": "Kristy Acevedo", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 873, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "As if Alexandra Lucas\u2019 anxiety disorder isn\u2019t enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear from the sky, heralding the end of the world. They bring an ultimatum: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety, or stay and be destroyed by a comet they say is on a collision course with earth. How\u2019s that for senior year stress?The holograms, claiming to be humans from the future, bring the promise of safety. But without the ability to verify their story, Alex is forced to consider what is best for her friends, her family, and herself.To stay or to go. A decision must be made.With the deadline of the holograms\u2019 prophecy fast approaching, Alex feels as though she is living on a ticking time bomb, until she discovers it is much, much worse.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Health (Mental Health)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29512334-consider"}, +{"book_title": "The Heart of Matter", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 7873, "review_number": 266, "book_description": "On her epic maiden voyage, the NAC spacecraft Odyssey introduced Earth to the wonders of an untouched universe\u2014and the unimagined horrors lurking in the black. Now the Odyssey\u2019s second voyage will carry Captain Eric Weston and his crew back to a familiar battlefield, to face an enemy unlike any they have ever known.For on war-torn Ranquil, homeworld of Earth\u2019s newest ally the Priminae, the invading Drasin are but foot soldiers for a powerful unseen force. Unmasking the mysterious puppet masters means defying orders and venturing into deep space, a voyage only the Odyssey\u2019s crew would dare undertake. But soon they will learn that some secrets are better left hidden....Part old-school space opera, part modern military epic, The Heart of Matter is an exhilarating new sci-fi adventure, a pulse-pounding sequel to Into the Black: Odyssey One that will echo long after its thrilling conclusion.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13645835-the-heart-of-matter"}, +{"book_title": "The Ruby Airship", "author_name": "Sharon Gosling", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 138, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Trapeze-artist R\u00e9my has left the circus and her life as a thief, but she doubts that detective Thaddeus Rec will ever truly trust her. Feeling torn between her new life and her old, R\u00e9my decides to return to France and her old circus with Yannick, an old friend who unexpectedly appears.Meanwhile, Thaddeus is sure that Yannick is up to no good. He's determined to find them and win R\u00e9my back, even if he must risk a journey by airship to do so.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21853487-the-ruby-airship"}, +{"book_title": "Exotiqa", "author_name": "M. Black", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 63, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B06WRWZRMN here.The second YA SyFy dystopian Thriller released by the debut author M. Black, dubbed Divergent meets iRobot. This novel will appeal to a vast array of audiences. Filled with haunting questions of consciousness and artificial intelligence, identity and self-awareness, politics and love, life and death, the reader will be engaged in an entertaining story filled with futuristic technology.Set in the year 2055 in British Columbia, Canada, where humans are part robotic and robots are becoming more humanlike, the line dividing the two is becoming less clear.When sixteen-year-old Fione meets Maci, a twenty-one-year-old Flexbot who escapes from ImaTech located along the crust of the Coast Mountains, Fione\u2019s life is taken on a roller-coaster ride of events that begins with trying to save Maci from ImaTech Corporation and ends with trying to save the country.With Fione's best friend and love interest, a Flexbot named Pix, Fione and Maci must come face-to-face with the greatest dangers their country has ever seen and learn the disturbing secrets of the popular online program Exotiqa\u2014which her friends, family, and most of the country has downloaded onto their Cerebral Slabs. This won\u2019t be easy, since Maci\u2019s only love and greatest enemy, nicknamed Thirty, is tracking her every move.Told from two points of view: Maci\u2019s and Fione's, this dystopia is filled with plenty of futuristic technology, and tells a story of a world that could eerily mirror our own one day.Fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games will love this dystopian world with two young but strong female heroines who must save the fragile system crumbling around them. This story will even satisfy those looking for something with more philosophical themes and it is a perfect fit for readers interested in sci-fi, artificial intelligence, and robotics.Flexbot dialogue is told in Synchro Let text in print (10 font size in ebook), and human dialogue is told in Baskerville text (12 font size).\u201cSunday passes too quickly. Approaching the mall in Mom\u2019s jeep I almost forget I have a bot fugitive hidden away at my best friend\u2019s house until we park and walk up to the glass front doors.\u201d", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34371996-exotiqa"}, +{"book_title": "HMS Nightingale", "author_name": "J.A. Sutherland", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 1288, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "For Lieutenant Alexis Carew, it should be the perfect assignment \u2014 a command of her own and a chance to return to her home star system. What she finds is a surly crew, the dregs of every frigate and ship of the line to pass through on the way to the war\u2019s front, a first officer who thinks the command should have been his, and colonial worlds where they believe a girl\u2019s place is somewhere very different than command of a Queen\u2019s starship. Add to that the mysterious disappearances of ships vital to the war effort and an old enemy who seems intent on convincing her he\u2019s changed. Then there\u2019s the mongoose with an unnatural affinity for her boots.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31523231-hms-nightingale"}, +{"book_title": "A Vow to Sophia", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 89, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "\u201c\u2026keep[s] you glued to the story, with action, suspense and a touch of tears.\u201d \u2013FWHernandez \u201c\u2026a dangerous, knock-down-sexy, heroin\u201d -Al K \u201c\u2026has it all, epic dog fights, bitter hatreds, great friendships and a love story that truly touches the heart.\u201d \u2013Ben B When twelve year-old Onja Pedersen vowed before Goddess Sophia to free her mother and sister from Sirian slavery, she had no idea how to make it happen; six years later, when the Sirian Confederacy attacks the Solar Federation, she sees her chance and joins the United Federation Fighter Fleet. From the day she enlists, Onja faces opposition \u2014 a skeptical recruiter, a sadistic drill instructor, a vengeful XO \u2014 but there are good men as well, and eventually she falls in love. Consumed by hatred of the Sirians, Onja lusts only to kill, and quickly becomes the deadliest gunner in the Fighter Service. In just two years of combat, she destroys dozens of enemy fighters, two troop transports, and faces down an enemy carrier. Then Fate hits back, and takes from Onja her most prized possession. A Vow to Sophia is the story of a girl facing impossible odds in a galaxy gone mad. It\u2019s a story of courage, bravery, passion, and single-minded determination. Onja\u2019s hatred fuels her success, but in the end, love is her salvation. Rated \"R\" ", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24249738-a-vow-to-sophia"}, +{"book_title": "Angeleyes", "author_name": "Michael Z. Williamson", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 336, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "THE FREEHOLDERS RETURN in a new novel in the nationally best-selling Freehold Universe series. A return to the libertarian world of Grainne and its battle against an Earth government that will not let the Freeholders remain free!Angie Kaneshiro never planned to be a spy. She was a veteran of the Freehold Forces of Grainne, and was now a tramp freighter crew-woman who hadn\u2019t set foot on the dirt of a world in ten years. Angie was free, and that was the way she liked it.Then the war with Earth started. One thing Angie knew was human space. She knew where the UN troops garrisoned, the methods they used to scan and chip their own to control them. Even better, she had a mental map of the access conduits, the dive bars, and the make-out cubbies people used to get around restrictions.The UN forces may hold most of the stations, the docks, and the jump points, but now the Freehold of Grainne has its own lethal weapon. The Intelligence branch sends a freighter crewed with Blazers, special forces troops. All Angie has to do is lead them through the holes. Responsibility for the explosions and wreckage will be theirs. But war is complicated, and even the most unwilling of heroes can be forged in its crucible.At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).About A Long Time Until Now:\u201c[A] classic story of survival. They may not like each other, but must depend upon each other. Williamson shows how they pull together to create a solid society . . . outstanding entertainment. Each character is different and fully developed. Even those you may dislike seem worth caring about . . . [G]rabs readers from the beginning and keep them reading to the end.\u201d\u2014Galveston County Daily NewsAbout Michael Z. Williamson:\u201cA fast-paced, compulsive read . . . will appeal to fans of John Ringo, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and David Weber.\u201d\u2014Kliatt\u201cWilliamson's military expertise is impressive.\u201d\u2014SF ReviewsNovels of Michael Z. Williamson's Freehold Universe:Freehold seriesFreeholdThe WeaponThe RogueContact with ChaosAngeleyesRipple Creek seriesBetter to Beg Forgiveness . . .Do Unto Others . . .When Diplomacy Fails . . .StandaloneA Long Time Until NowMichael Z. Williamson is retired military, having served twenty-five years in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force. He was deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Desert Fox. Williamson is a state-ranked competitive shooter in combat rifle and combat pistol. He has consulted on military matters, weapons and disaster preparedness for Discovery Channel and Outdoor Channel productions and is Editor-at-Large for Survivalblog, with 300,000 weekly readers. In addition, Williamson tests and reviews firearms and gear for manufacturers. Williamson\u2019s books set in his Freehold Universe include Freehold, The Weapon, The Rogue, Better to Beg Forgiveness . . ., Do Unto Others . . ., and When Diplomacy Fails . . ..", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32799302-angeleyes"}, +{"book_title": "The Runaway Robot", "author_name": "Lester del Rey", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 424, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "\"We're returning to earth,\" Paul's father tells him. Paul is wildly excited, for all human beings on the planet Ganymede dream of going back to Earth some day. Then Paul finds out that he cannot take his robot Rex with him. Rex has been his constant companion for sixteen years. Leave him behind? Never!So begins a series of breathtaking adventures in space as Paul and his robot Rex attempt to outwit the forces that seek to separate them.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens (Chapter Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52666.The_Runaway_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Kaitlyn and the Highlander", "author_name": "Diana Knightley", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1816, "review_number": 210, "book_description": "\nHe crossed time and found her \u2014 Kaitlyn. She means everything \u2014 the future, love, a home, but in loving her, he wants to live. He needs to survive.\nKaitlyn Sheffield\u2019s awesome life has fallen apart. She had a career and a fianc\u00e9, but then their breakup video went viral and now she's embarassed, world-wide.Then she meets Magnus, a mysterious stranger, who arrives during a storm. It doesn\u2019t take long before their stories entwine, and their lives change forever.But she may not be prepared for the danger of tying her life to his.For Magnus, protecting Kaitlyn, his home, the future, is everything. He has to keep her safe, but how can he protect her when he\u2019s not of this time?\n\"You make me feel like I want tae live, yet I am dust. Tis nae fair tae bind ye tae my life when I am nae alive anymore.\u201d \u2014Magnus, 1702\n\n\"He was the past. And it broke my heart to think about what that meant. That in the history of the world there was a Magnus Campbell and now there was a Kaitlyn Campbell and once they loved each other, but now he was nothing more than a grave.\u201d \u2014Kaitlyn, 2017\nA contemporary romance with a dash of history and a bit of SciFi, Kaitlyn and the Highlander is the first book in the Kaitlyn and the Highlander series.If you love mysterious, sexy, hunky heroes with desperate hearts and romantic thoughts, heroines with courage who are also very ordinary disasters, and love stories that encompass all time, then you\u2019ll love this romantic series. Read on as Kaitlyn and Magnus fall in love by picking up a copy of this book today.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Drama", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40367611-kaitlyn-and-the-highlander"}, +{"book_title": "The Sundial", "author_name": "Shirley Jackson", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 3129, "review_number": 437, "book_description": "Aunt Fanny knows when the world will end....Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one is surprised that while the Halloran clan gathers at the crumbling old mansion for a funeral she wanders off to the secret garden. But when she reports the vision she had there, the family is engulfed in fear, violence, and madness. For Aunt Fanny's long-dead father has given her the precise date of the final cataclysm!", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Classics", "Gothic", "Literature (American)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Novels", "Literary Fiction", "Female Authors", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131181.The_Sundial"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers: All Fall Down", "author_name": "Simon Furman", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 74, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "As in fighting tears apart the ranks of the heroic Autobots, so the evil Decepticons wage a bitter civil war. The atmosphere is ripe for the coming of planet eating super robot Unicron, and for the Transformersthat's doomsday The hit animated TV shows Beast Wars and Beast Machines introduced a whole new generation to the robots in disguise and now, at last, the stories that came before those shows can be seen again in their world shaking glory.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1462483.Transformers"}, +{"book_title": "This Perfect Day", "author_name": "Ira Levin", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 7849, "review_number": 718, "book_description": "The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called \u201cThe Family.\u201d The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. Even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp\u2019s will\u2014men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139390.This_Perfect_Day"}, +{"book_title": "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon", "author_name": "Kim Zetter", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 5115, "review_number": 539, "book_description": "In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant in Iran were failing and being replaced at an unprecedented rate. The cause of their failure was a complete mystery.Five months later, a seemingly unrelated event occurred. A computer security firm in Belarus was called in to troubleshoot some computers in Iran that were caught in a reboot loop\u2014crashing and rebooting repeatedly. At first, technicians with the firm believed the malicious code they found on the machines was a simple, routine piece of malware. But as they and other experts around the world investigated, they discovered a virus of unparalleled complexity and mysterious provenance and intent. They had, they soon learned, stumbled upon the world\u2019s first digital weapon.Stuxnet, as it came to be known, was unlike any other virus or worm built before: It was the first attack that reached beyond the computers it targeted to physically destroy the equipment those computers controlled. It was an ingenious attack, jointly engineered by the United States and Israel, that worked exactly as planned, until the rebooting machines gave it all away. And the discovery of Stuxnet was just the beginning: Once the digital weapon was uncovered and deciphered, it provided clues to other tools lurking in the wild. Soon, security experts found and exposed not one but three highly sophisticated digital spy tools that came from the same labs that created Stuxnet. The discoveries gave the world its first look at the scope and sophistication of nation-state surveillance and warfare in the digital age.Kim Zetter, a senior reporter at Wired, has covered hackers and computer security since 1999 and is one of the top journalists in the world on this beat. She was among the first reporters to cover Stuxnet after its discovery and has authored many of the most comprehensive articles about it. In COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World\u2019s First Digital Weapon, Zetter expands on this work to show how the code was designed and unleashed and how its use opened a Pandora\u2019s Box, ushering in an age of digital warfare in which any country\u2019s infrastructure\u2014power grids, nuclear plants, oil pipelines, dams\u2014is vulnerable to the same kind of attack with potentially devastating results. A sophisticated digital strike on portions of the power grid, for example, could plunge half the U.S. into darkness for weeks or longer, having a domino effect on all other critical infrastructures dependent on electricity.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science (Technology)", "History", "Science", "Politics", "Computer Science (Computers)", "War", "Audiobook", "Science (Computer Science)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465875-countdown-to-zero-day"}, +{"book_title": "New Blood", "author_name": "Matt Forbeck", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1521, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling series based on the blockbuster Xbox\u00ae games!While Spartans get all the glory, no soldier\u2015not even the legendary Master Chief\u2015wins a war on their own. Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck and his team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODSTs) played a major role in saving the Earth from all-out invasion at the end of the Covenant War\u2015acts of bravery and ingenuity that did not go unnoticed by the United Nations Space Command.Now, after many Spartans have been killed in battle and the Master Chief is listed as MIA, the UNSC decides to create a new generation of Spartans to defend humanity from threats both outside\u2015and within. When they come to Buck with an extraordinary proposition, he is forced to make a life-altering decision. With the Covenant War finally over, is it time for him to finally retire to the sidelines for a life he could only dream about\u2026or is he prepared to step up and become part of the military\u2019s new blood?Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Microsoft, Halo, the Halo logo, Xbox, and the Xbox logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Space", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24718485-new-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Vortex", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 837, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "The Eternal Emperor had returned at last from the dead to pick up the pieces of his crumbling Empire. But even that great leader could not halt the Empire\u2019s decline alone. And so Sten\u2014master spy, military strategist, and assassin\u2014found himself appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Altaic Cluster, where a brewing civil war threatened the stability of the Empire itself. Quelling a civil war is nothing new for Sten, but as the war intensifies, he begins to suspect that he is up against more than a mere local disturbance. Someone operating in deep-cover and seemingly backed by the highest authorities is working behind the scenes to manipulate events and escalate disaster. And that someone wants nothing more than to see Sten dead.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714722.Vortex"}, +{"book_title": "Havemercy", "author_name": "Jaida Jones", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 2671, "review_number": 240, "book_description": "This stunning epic fantasy debut introduces two exciting new authors\u2014and a world brimming with natural and man-made wonders, extraordinary events, and a crisis that will test the mettle of men, the boundaries of magic, and the heart and soul of a kingdom.Thanks to its elite Dragon Corps, the capital city of Volstov has all but won the hundred years\u2019 war with its neighboring enemy, the Ke-Han. The renegade airmen who fly the corps\u2019s mechanical, magic-fueled dragons are Volstov\u2019s greatest weapon. But now one of its members is at the center of a scandal that may turn the tide of victory. To counter the threat, four ill-assorted heroes must converge to save their kingdom: an exiled magician, a naive country boy, a young student\u2014and the unpredictable ace who flies the city\u2019s fiercest dragon, Havemercy. But on the eve of battle, these courageous men will face something that could make the most formidable of warriors hesitate, the most powerful of magicians weak, and the most unlikely of men allies in their quest to rise against it.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2305862.Havemercy"}, +{"book_title": "The Winds of Altair", "author_name": "Ben Bova", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 327, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Earth is an old planet, and her teeming masses are running out of resources . . . and time. It is up to men such as Jeff Holman to discover a haven for Earth\u2019s millions. Altair VI is one such planet, and Holman is determined to transform this world into one where the human race can survive.Star probes had long before informed Earth that Altair VI had a flourishing ecology with one very tough beast at the top of the food chain, a beast that will have to be dealt with before the human colony ships arrive. The beast is not only tough, it is as smart as a man.Holman is faced with a soul-wrenching decision\u2014for to make Altair VI habitable for humans, all native life must die.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302520.The_Winds_of_Altair"}, +{"book_title": "Ambushing Ariel", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3321, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "Ariel Hamm has always had a tender heart. Her love for her sister, Carmen, and her best friend, Trisha, has always been a priority in her life. But at twenty-eight, she is ready to start focusing on what she wants. After her fianc\u00e9e unexpectedly ends their engagement, she is searching to redefine who she really is. A pilot for Boswell International, she knows flying is not her first love. Unhappy, she finally makes a decision based on what she wants \u2013 to live on the property she purchased in Wyoming and care for the stray and neglected animals that have always captured her heart.Her plans change suddenly when she finds herself on a warship headed for a distant planet. Determined never to let another man distract her from her dream or break her heart, Ariel makes plans to escape and make her way back home no matter what. What she doesn\u2019t expect is the alien male who is just as determined to keep her by his side! Mandra Reykill never expects to find his true mate so unexpectedly - or so painfully. He knows his older brother is returning home with his true mate and her friends but never suspected his true mate could be among the women. His dragon recognizes her immediately and falls in love with the delicate beauty. His symbiot is enchanted with her gentle touch and kindness. Unfortunately, all Mandra the man gets is a stubborn female refusing to acknowledge his claim on her and determined to escape him at the first available moment. To top it off, his nice, orderly life is suddenly turned upside down when he finds his home \u2013 and his warship \u2013 suddenly infested with creatures from all over the galaxy that are just as taken with his mate as his dragon and his symbiot.Now, he needs to find a way to convince Ariel he is the alien for her while trying to keep his sanity! But, he is not the only alien wanting to claim Ariel; another has set his sights on Ariel and is just as determined to claim her. Can Mandra convince the stubborn human female who has captured his heart their future together can be her new dream before she escapes him forever?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16066215-ambushing-ariel"}, +{"book_title": "King of Shadows", "author_name": "Susan Cooper", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2927, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "WHAT'S NAT DOING IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME?Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\" in a new replica of the famous Globe theater.Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of \"A Midsummer Night's Dream.\" Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Academic (School)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11314.King_of_Shadows"}, +{"book_title": "1602: Witch Hunter Angela", "author_name": "Marguerite Bennett", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 604, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "In the altered realms of Battleworld, Angela and Sera are Witch Hunters, the scourges of King James' England, 1602. In a land beset by magic and monstrosity, they seek a new and seductive evil-not witchbreed, but deal-making Faustians, who bargain with ancient creatures for unnatural power! Moral ambiguity? Fancy allusions? Marguerite making the most of that English degree?Collecting: 1602: Witch Hunter, Angela 1-4, 1602 1", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Superheroes)", "LGBT", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25319029-1602"}, +{"book_title": "The Great Big Boom", "author_name": "Judd Winick", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 1280, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Dog Man meets Big Nate in HILO-the hilarious New York Times Bestselling GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES kids love! \u201cA Total BLAST,\u201d says the Miami Herald! Aah!!!! Everyone\u2019s favorite space boy is BACK! Hilo may look like an ordinary kid, but he\u2019s DEFINITELY not! When we last saw Hilo, DJ, and Gina, Gina had been sucked into a mysterious portal! But friends don\u2019t let friends disappear into NOWHERE! It\u2019s up to D.J. and Hilo to follow her. Will there be danger? YES! Will there be amazing surprises? OF COURSE! Will Gina end up being the one to save them? DEFINITELY! The trio will have to battle bad guys and face disgusting food, an angry mom, powerful magic, and more! Will they survive . . . and make it back to Earth before the portal closes again?!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30407983-the-great-big-boom"}, +{"book_title": "Miles Errant", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 4104, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "Contains: \tThe Borders of InfinityBrothers in Arms Mirror DanceMiles Naismith--in the person of his two alter-egos Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan--embarks on a perilous series of adventures, from the liberation of Barrayaran allies from a Cetagandan POW camp to the rescue of clone children scheduled to be murdered for their bodies.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76813.Miles_Errant"}, +{"book_title": "Mina Wentworth and the Invisible City", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2713, "review_number": 216, "book_description": "Eight months after The Iron Duke, can their marriage survive a new danger?After Mina is called in to investigate the murder of an aristocratic bounder, her husband Rhys\u2014known to the world as the Iron Duke\u2014must overcome his fear for his new bride before his need to protect her tears them apart. But when she invites him to join her at the murder scene, a search for a mysterious killing machine puts her in more danger than ever before\u2026a danger that leads straight back to Rhys.Previously published in \"The Iron Duke.\" Includes a preview of Meljean Brook\u2019s upcoming novel, \"Riveted.\"", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13409407-mina-wentworth-and-the-invisible-city"}, +{"book_title": "Havoc", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1999, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "The Conglomerate\u2019s most dangerous convicts have made the prison ship Perdition their home. And they will defend it\u2026Perdition is under siege. Mercenaries have boarded the station with orders to take control of the facility\u2014and execute the prisoners. Their commander is offering full pardons to the first five inmates willing to help the mercs complete their mission.Dresdemona \u201cDred\u201d Devos hasn\u2019t survived hard time just to surrender to the Conglomerate\u2019s armored thugs. Leading a ragtag army of inmates, Dred and her champion, Jael, wage a bloody guerilla war of chaos and carnage against impossible odds. But no matter how dire the outlook, the Dread Queen never backs down\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21418016-havoc"}, +{"book_title": "Taken", "author_name": "M.A. Church", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1635, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "We are not alone. In the year 2050 mankind\u2019s never-ending quest for proof life exists in the universe is answered\u2014in the form of massive space ships that appear without warning above the capitals of all major nations. The name of their planet is Tah\u2019Nar\u2014and is dying. The United States sets up a lottery system, and each young man between the ages of twenty-three and twenty-eight is assigned a number. Once a year, for the next five years, numbers will be drawn and a new set of one thousand males will be collected. The media coined the expression \u2018The Harvest\u2019 for when the Tah\u2019Narian\u2019s collect these young men.Captain Keyno Landium Shou is a Tah\u2019Narian starship captain who has been granted the right to take a mate, any mate, he wants during the last harvest on Earth. Dale was seventeen when the aliens first appeared. His parents assumed he\u2019d be safe since the final collection would be done before he turned twenty-three. He didn\u2019t fall within the guidelines established, so they took for granted he had nothing to fear.They were wrong.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23298360-taken"}, +{"book_title": "Wolf Dawn", "author_name": "Susan Cartwright", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 313, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Ashton Chayton was born with a powerful gift, a unique inhuman ability. Orphaned, raised by the Red Wolves of Opan, captured and enslaved - he is now free and on the run. Unfortunately everybody wants Ashton. Admiral Jones will torture him to get the secret of his power. Lady Lindha feels he is \"The One\" as named in Temple prophecy. The influential Lord Andros just wants him dead. Ashton only wants two things: revenge, and the Lady Lindha. If you had unique powers, wouldn't you use them to get what you want?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14058714-wolf-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "The Midnight Star", "author_name": "Marie Lu", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 32792, "review_number": 4740, "book_description": "There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She\u2019s turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to destroy all she\u2019s gained.When a new danger appears, Adelina\u2019s forced to revisit old wounds, putting not only herself at risk, but every Elite. In order to preserve her empire, Adelina and her Roses must join the Daggers on a perilous quest\u2014though this uneasy alliance may prove to be the real danger.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28588345-the-midnight-star"}, +{"book_title": "The Preparation", "author_name": "Glen Tate", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1015, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "Meet Grant Matson: lawyer, father, suburbanite husband who awakens to the fragility of modern society and embarks on a personal journey that introduces him to a world of self-reliance and liberation. 299 Days: The Preparation, the first book in the 299 Days series, depicts the inner struggles Grant must face as he exists in a social system he recognizes as unsustainable and on the verge of collapse, but one in which he has built his life around. What begins as a return to his roots, self-sufficiency and independence, becomes a full blown move to prepare for what may come. Engaging, insightful and a bit suspenseful, follow Grant\u2019s transition from a self-perceived \u201csheeple\u201d to a full-blown \u201cprepper.\u201d Will his fears come true? Is he an extremist? What if nothing happens? What if something does?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15994062-the-preparation"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Charged", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 2623, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "Sardelle Terushan, sorceress and healer, should be lying low. Magic is forbidden in Iskandia, and magic users are drowned, shot, or otherwise slain. The problem? She's fallen in love with ace fighter pilot and national hero, Colonel Ridge Zirkander, a man whom everybody notices, including the king. It's not long before Sardelle has spies dogging her steps and people trying to blow her up. Worse, her presence is jeopardizing Ridge's career. If she can't find a solution to the nation's centuries-old hatred of magic, the only way to protect Ridge\u2014and herself\u2014may be to leave.Ridge Zirkander isn't used to worrying about more than shooting down Cofah airships and keeping the officers in his squadron alive, but his world has gotten more complicated since giving his heart to Sardelle. It's difficult to keep people from noticing a mysterious and enigmatic woman, not to mention her chatty sentient sword. He's been passing her off as an archaeologist to his fellow pilots, but when the king calls him in to a private meeting, Ridge fears his secret has been discovered.But the king\u2014and the rest of the country\u2014has a greater problem. Cofah military scientists have acquired something that shouldn't exist in the world any longer: dragon blood. In addition to having countless mysterious properties, it's a powerful energy source that can be used to create devastating weapons. Ridge, Sardelle, and their allies must travel to the empire as part of a secret strike force to steal the dragon blood. If they fail, the Cofah will finally have the power to destroy all of Iskandia.The Dragon Blood series reading order:Book 1: Balanced on the Blade's EdgeBook 2: DeathmakerBook 3: Blood Charged", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22738511-blood-charged"}, +{"book_title": "The Boneshaker", "author_name": "Kate Milford", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1606, "review_number": 340, "book_description": "Thirteen year-old Natalie Minks loves machines, particularly automata \u2014 self operating mechanical devices, usually powered by clockwork. When Jake Limberleg and his travelling medicine show\u00a0arrive in her small Missouri town with a mysterious vehicle under a tarp, and an uncanny ability to make Natalie\u2019s half-built automaton move, she feels in her gut that something about this caravan of healers is a bit off. Her uneasiness leads her to investigate the intricate maze of the medicine show, where she discovers\u00a0a horrible truth, and realizes that only she\u00a0has the power to\u00a0set things right.Set in 1914,\u00a0The Boneshaker\u00a0is a gripping, richly textured\u00a0novel about family, community, courage, and looking evil directly in the face in order to conquer it.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6909642-the-boneshaker"}, +{"book_title": "Tunnel in the Sky (Heinlein's Juveniles, #9", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 12189, "review_number": 510, "book_description": "A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations. The final exam for Dr. Matson's Advanced Survival class was meant to be just that: only a test. But something has gone terribly wrong...and now Rod Walker and his fellow students are stranded somewhere unknown in the universe, beyond contact with Earth, at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. Stripped of all comforts, hoping for a passage home that may never appear, the castaways must band together or perish. For Rod and his fellow survivors, this is one test where failure is not an option....", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Space", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16683.Tunnel_in_the_Sky"}, +{"book_title": "Network Effect", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 23291, "review_number": 2975, "book_description": "Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.You know that feeling when you\u2019re at work, and you\u2019ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you\u2019ll read this century.\u2014I\u2019m usually alone in my head, and that\u2019s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.Drastic action it is, then.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52381770-network-effect"}, +{"book_title": "Crossroads in Time", "author_name": "Sarah Woodbury", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1585, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Three years have passed since the events chronicled in Prince of Time...Anna has made a place for herself in thirteenth century Wales as a wife, mother, and healer. David has taken more of the kingdom's rule on his shoulders, even as his relationship with Lili has caused friction with his father, King Llywelyn. The King wants his son to seek a political marriage that will benefit his country - and possibly place the crown of England on David's head. England and Wales have shared a border and an uneasy peace for three long years.And that peace is about to be broken....", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18890175-crossroads-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel", "author_name": "Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 4287, "review_number": 680, "book_description": "The author of Half-Resurrection Blues and Shadowshaper has penned this novel that connects three eras in the lives of Han Solo and Lando Calrissian. Part of it takes place before the events of Solo and focuses on Lando and L3-37, Lando\u2019s droid sidekick. Part of it takes place between Solo and A New Hope, and that focuses on Han and Chewie, where we meet Sana Starros for the first time. Part of it takes place post-Return of the Jedi, and that\u2019s where we see Han, Leia, a very young Ben Solo, and Lando come into the story.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Adult", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38602136-last-shot"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Varallan", "author_name": "S.L. Viehl", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1573, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Dr. Cherijo is living the perfect life--if you think that finding out you're a clone, then being declared \"non-sentient\" by your father/creator is your idea of perfect.Things could be worse. But when the Human League comes after her, with bounty hunters of every race trying to bring her in, Cherijo figures it can't get any worse...Until someone begins stalking her dreams.Praise for StarDoc:\"AI? just loved it. Don't miss this one.\" --Catherine Coulter\"Continuously surprising... deviously written...and splendidly full of new characters.\" --Anne McCaffrey", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Medical", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489415.Beyond_Varallan"}, +{"book_title": "Morrigan's Cross", "author_name": "Nora Roberts", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 50627, "review_number": 1529, "book_description": "Listening Length: 11 hours, 43 minutesNumber-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers an extraordinary new trilogy\u2014an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the otherworldly, while forging together the passions of the men and women caught in a battle for the fate of humanity ...In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea...Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family's embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for over a thousand years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire will stop at nothing until she rules this world\u2014and those beyond it...Hoyt is no match for the dark siren. But his powers come from the goddess Morrigan, and it is through her that he will get his chance at vengeance. At Morrigan's charge, he must gather five others to form a ring of power strong enough to overcome Lilith. A circle of six: himself, the witch, the warrior, the scholar, the one of many forms and the one he's lost. And it is in this circle, hundreds of years in the future, where Hoyt will learn how strong his spirit\u2014and his heart\u2014have become...Note: This edition includes a \"Glossary of Irish Words, Characters and Places\" immediately after the story concludes.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26046.Morrigan_s_Cross"}, +{"book_title": "Cyteen", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 9660, "review_number": 363, "book_description": "A brilliant young scientist rises to power on Cyteen, haunted by the knowledge that her predecessor and genetic duplicate died at the hands of one of her trusted advisors. Murder, politics, and genetic manipulation provide the framework for the latest Union-Alliance novel by the author of Downbelow Station. Cherryh's talent for intense, literate storytelling maintains interest throughout this long, complex novel.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Politics", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/834518.Cyteen"}, +{"book_title": "The Forsaken", "author_name": "Lisa M. Stasse", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 6496, "review_number": 955, "book_description": "As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet\u2014having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can\u2019t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up.The life expectancy of prisoners on The Wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. Desperate, she and the other prisoners concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12987192-the-forsaken"}, +{"book_title": "Rebel", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 516, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Vicky Peterwald is no longer just the heir apparent to an imperial dynasty. She survived naval training and proved her mettle in combat to help the starving people of the ravaged world of St. Petersburg. Now, she is truly a Grand Duchess, leading a growing battle fleet in a rebellion against the tyranny of her stepmother, the Empress.Determined to stop her spoiled stepdaughter\u2019s betrayal from upsetting the balance of power within the Peterwald Empire, the Empress is leading her own armada to St. Petersburg, intent on killing Vicky and every soul on the planet that gave her refuge. But Vicky is her father\u2019s daughter, and it would be a grave mistake to underestimate her...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23666406-rebel"}, +{"book_title": "Awakening", "author_name": "Jeremy Laszlo", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2731, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "It has been six months since their father locked them in the security vault with a promise to return. But he never came back. With supplies running out and vital life support systems failing, Jack, Samantha, and Will have no choice but to ignore their father\u2019s warnings and leave the vault. With no knowledge of what befell the world outside, or what they might expect once the door is opened, they find themselves in a world they do not recognize. Thrust into the remains of the world they remember, how will they survive on their own, not knowing what or who else remains amongst the ruins?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19216865-awakening"}, +{"book_title": "Training Daze", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 786, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "An exciting military Science Fiction novella set between Mike Shepherd\u2019s third and fourth Kris Longknife novels. Kris Longknife dodges assassins, gains an unwelcome (though rather handsome) bodyguard, and puts together a training squad to travel from planet to planet, preparing crews for the newest, fastest, and deadliest fighting ship. And, of course, nothing goes as planned!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novella", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12904060-training-daze"}, +{"book_title": "Earthcore", "author_name": "Scott Sigler", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 6094, "review_number": 460, "book_description": "Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world's record, three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company's driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure.But at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting ...and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Suspense", "Action", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303110.Earthcore"}, +{"book_title": "Stolen by an Alien", "author_name": "Amanda Milo", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 5788, "review_number": 686, "book_description": "AROKHI broke the rules and stole an auction item from her buyers.Because somehow, they\u2019d managed to abduct a Gryfala princess.Though\u2026 she doesn\u2019t look, or act, or sound quite like I thought one of her kind would.But I\u2019m merely a Rakhii gladiator; this is the closest I\u2019ve actually ever been to a princess.I\u2019d be considered lucky indeed if she chose me to guard her.Instead, I want more.I need her to claim me.Because she doesn\u2019t know it, but now I can\u2019t let her go.ANGIEWoke up in a freaking auction pen.With no coffee.But there were aliens. And they didn\u2019t bid on me out of the goodness of their hearts.FML.Then this nice alien showed up in the nick of time, but he keeps referring to me as \u201cPrincess\u201d and I\u2019m starting to worry what he\u2019ll do when he finds out that there\u2019s been a little case of mistaken identity, that I\u2019m not royalty - see, I\u2019m not even whatever alien he mistook me for\u2026I\u2019m just a human.***Note to readers: This was previously titled ABDUCTED, AUCTIONED, & STOLEN BY AN ALIEN.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36050260-stolen-by-an-alien"}, +{"book_title": "Round the Moon", "author_name": "Jules Verne", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 4382, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "In this sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, Barbicane, Ardan, and Nicholl have decided to take a trip around the moon. But first they have to get to the moon from Earth. Will their trip succeed as they attempt to dodge asteroids and realize that the scientists on Earth have miscalculated their trajectory towards the moon?", "year_published": 1869, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Classics", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Cultural (France)", "Fantasy", "Literature", "European Literature (French Literature)", "Novels", "Literature (19th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78784.Round_the_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "Valkyrie Burning", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 3098, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "The war that began on Hayden's World years ago has blossomed into a brawl across the stars, and yet that single and otherwise largely unimportant colony continues to be a central point in the conflagration. Human forces have pushed outward, now taking enemy worlds in response to the attacks on their own, but they don't have the numbers or the power to hold what they take.Now the alien Alliance shows a sliver of it's true power, and the war for domination of the skies over Hayden burns brightly once more. Neither side has any intentions of giving up the game, and both sides have plenty more aces held back against a rainy day.A fiery rain is coming, and when it passes the future of the entire Orion-Cygnus Arm of our Galaxy will be decided.Admiral Nadine Brooke, Captain Jane MacKay, and Sergeant Sorilla Aida intend to make certain it's decided in humanity's favor.Valkyrie Burning is Book Three of the Hayden War Cycle. Books One and Two are On Silver Wings and Valkyrie Rising. The final novel of the Cycle, Book Four - the Valhalla Call - is scheduled to be released in early 2013.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15806245-valkyrie-burning"}, +{"book_title": "Out of Darkness", "author_name": "Anna Carven", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 2416, "review_number": 152, "book_description": "The Kordolians are loose on the asteroid mining station Fortuna Tau, and first-rank mechanic Jia Morgan has become caught up in the thick of things. Under the careful watch of these steely-eyed silver warriors, Jia and her team have been tasked with repairing the hull of the Kordolians\u2019 Alpha-Class battle cruiser, Silence. The problem is, their alien technology is far, far beyond anything she\u2019s seen before, and whatever they try to weld to Silence\u2019s black hull just won\u2019t stick. When Jia goes in search of a tool that might actually penetrate the warship\u2019s impossibly strong Callidum exterior, she find herself being aided by a most unlikely source. The hard-faced warrior who\u2019s decided to accompany her walks on silent feet and carries a big, big gun. He\u2019s equal parts scary and attractive, in an otherworldly sort of way. But although Jia finds this Kordolian fascinating, she\u2019s not even going to try and get close to him, because, well, he\u2019s a freaking Kordolian, and Kordolians aren\u2019t exactly known throughout the Nine Galaxies for being nice and warm and fuzzy. Instead, she\u2019s going to do her job and fix their warship, because that\u2019s the only way these intimidating warriors are ever going to leave Fortuna Tau. Hopefully, they won\u2019t break anything, or anyone, on the way out. Oh, and there\u2019s also the small matter of these flesh-eating insect-aliens called Xargek. Apparently, they bite. Warning: This book is a science-fiction alien romance. It contains swearing, violence, sensual sex scenes and silver aliens with fangs. It's definitely recommended for readers aged 18 and over. Out of Darkness is Book Four in the Dark Planet Warriors Series. It will make more sense if you've read the other books first, although that's probably not absolutely essential.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Space", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31141937-out-of-darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Sweet Ruin", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 14390, "review_number": 1418, "book_description": "An immortal assassin is caught between desire and duty...\nA foundling raised in a world of humans\nGrowing up, orphaned Josephine didn\u2019t know who or what she was\u2014just that she was \u201cbad,\u201d an outcast with strange powers. Her baby brother Thaddeus was as perfect as she was flawed; protecting him became her entire life. The day he was taken away began Jo\u2019s transition from angry girl... \nto would-be superhero... to enchanting, ruthless villain.\nA lethally sensual enforcer on a missionA threat to the M\u00f8ri\u00f8r has brought archer Rune the Baneblood to the mortal realm to slay the oldest living Valkyrie. Whether by bow or in bed, he never fails to eliminate his target. Yet before he can strike, he encounters a vampiric creature whose beauty conceals a black heart. With one bite, she pierces him with aching pleasure, taking his forbidden blood - \nand jeopardizing the secrets of his brethren.A boundless passion that will lead to sweet ruin...\nCould this exquisite female be a spy sent by the very Valkyrie he hunts? Rune knows he must not trust Josephine, yet he\u2019s unable to turn her away. Despite his millennia of sexual conquests, he can\u2019t ignore the unfamiliar longing she arouses deep within him. \nWhen Jo betrays the identity of the one man she will die to protect, she and Rune become locked in a treacherous battle of wills that pits ultimate loyalty against unbridled lust.\n", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24002318-sweet-ruin"}, +{"book_title": "Infiltrator", "author_name": "C.T. Phipps", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 197, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "\u201cBlack Technology has made murder a billion dollar industry.\u201d The International Refugee Society has twenty-six cybernetically enhanced \u201cLetters,\u201d and for the right price, they\u2019ll eliminate anyone. They\u2019ve given up their families and their memories for ten years of service with the promise of a life of luxury awaiting them. Agent G is one of these \u201cLetters,\u201d but clues to his past are starting to emerge while he\u2019s on a dangerous mission to infiltrate the Society\u2019s most dangerous competitor. In the midst of all the violence, subterfuge, and deceit, he\u2019ll need to keep his wits about him and trust sparingly. After all if an organization will kill for money, what would they do to keep the truth hidden? ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Audiobook", "Action", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34520373-infiltrator"}, +{"book_title": "Against the Tide of Years", "author_name": "S.M. Stirling", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4527, "review_number": 159, "book_description": "In the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to recreate the better ideas of the modern age. But the evils of its time resurface in the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology. When Walker reaches Greece and recruits several of their greater kinglets to his cause, the people of Nantucket have no choice. If they are to save the primitive world from being plunged into bloodshed on a twentieth-century scale, they must defeat Walker at his own game: war.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179022.Against_the_Tide_of_Years"}, +{"book_title": "When She's Ready", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2617, "review_number": 252, "book_description": "To get amnesty on a remote farm planet, ex-con Tassar has to marry an alien \u2013 specifically, a strange looking creature called a \u2018human\u2019. When he sees gorgeous, delicate Leilani, though, all of his plans change. He wants more than just a marriage of convenience. He wants her forever, but only when she\u2019s ready. A Sci-Fi Alien Romance Novella.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50796382-when-she-s-ready"}, +{"book_title": "The Dead of Night", "author_name": "John Marsden", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 20508, "review_number": 708, "book_description": "A few months after the first fighter jets landed in their own backyard, Ellie and her five terrified but defiant friends struggle to survive amid a baffling conflict. Their families are unreachable; the mountains are now their home. When two of them fall behind enemy lines, Ellie knows what must happen next: a rescue mission. Homer, the strongest and most unpredictable among them, is the one to take charge. While others have their doubts about his abilities, Homer has no choice but to prove them wrong - or risk losing everything to the enemy.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Cultural (Australia)", "Action", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71864.The_Dead_of_Night"}, +{"book_title": "Tarnished Knight", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 4658, "review_number": 213, "book_description": "The authority of the Syndicate Worlds\u2019 government is crumbling, and civil war and rebellion are breaking out, despite brutal attempts to suppress disorder. In the Midway Star System, leaders must decide whether to remain loyal to the old order or fight for something new. Betrayed by his government, CEO Artur Drakon launches a battle for control of Midway. He is assisted by an ally he\u2019s unsure he can trust, CEO Gwen Iceni. While she controls the mobile fleet, she has no choice but to rely on \"General\" Drakon\u2019s ground forces to keep the peace planet-side. If their coup is to succeed, Drakon and Iceni must put their differences aside to defend Midway against the alien threat of the enigma race -- and to ferret out saboteurs determined to re-establish Syndic rule\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Space", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542832-tarnished-knight"}, +{"book_title": "Daemon", "author_name": "Daniel Suarez", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 43188, "review_number": 3115, "book_description": "A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control\u2014a daemon\u2014designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't always be said for the people who design them. Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer\u2014the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. His premature death depressed both gamers and his company's stock price. But Sobol's fans aren't the only ones to note his passing. When his obituary is posted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events intended to unravel the fabric of our hyper-efficient, interconnected world. With Sobol's secrets buried along with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed at every turn, it's up to an unlikely alliance to decipher his intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of a nameless, faceless enemy\u2014or learn to live in a society in which we are no longer in control. . . . Computer technology expert Daniel Suarez blends haunting high-tech realism with gripping suspense in an authentic, complex thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson, and William Gibson.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Science (Technology)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon"}, +{"book_title": "The Servants Of The Storm", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1560, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Listening time 11 hours 56 minutesA Storm that will wreck a world threatens Dematr. Only Mari, one of the Mechanics who control all technology through their Guild, has a chance to stop it. She and Mage Alain have survived numerous attempts to kill them and have gained many more followers, but the Storm of chaos, born of centuries of enslavement, grows ever closer.Mari leads an army now. She and Alain must fight together to bind back the Broken Kingdom and build a force strong enough to defeat the might of the Great Guilds. But the Storm has many Servants who seek to preserve or gain personal power or wealth, or fear the New Day that Mari seeks to bring to the world.And Mari knows that victory will mean nothing if the precious knowledge brought long ago to their world is destroyed. In order to save it, Alain and Mari will have to pierce through the heart of their enemies' power and confront once more a place of ancient nightmare.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Dragons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28179851-the-servants-of-the-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Rewinder", "author_name": "Brett Battles", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 4015, "review_number": 402, "book_description": "You will never read Denny Younger\u2019s name in any history book, will never know what he's done. But even if you did, you\u2019d never believe it.The world as you know it wouldn't be the same without him. Denny was born into one of the lowest rungs of society, but his bleak fortunes abruptly change when the mysterious Upjohn Institute recruits him to be a Rewinder, a verifier of personal histories. The job at first sounds like it involves researching old books and records, but Denny soon learns it's far from it. A Rewinder's job is to observe history.In person.Embracing his new duties with enthusiasm, Denny witnesses things he could never even imagine before. But as exciting as the adventures into the past are, there are dangers, too. For even the smallest error can have consequences. Life-altering consequences. Time, after all, is merely a reference point.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22887943-rewinder"}, +{"book_title": "Bold", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1020, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "Despite her role as a fleet Admiral and protector of a planetary system, Kris is still beholden to her great grandfather King Raymond\u2019s commands. She has been personally selected for a mission that, should she succeed, will save millions of lives. The Peterwald Empire is in the midst of civil war. On one side is the tyrannical Empress, on the other is the last person Kris ever wants to see again\u2014Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald. Due to their shared history, the Emperor believes Kris can mediate between the factions and bring about peace. But before Kris even begins her mission, she survives two assassination attempts on her family home world. Someone doesn\u2019t want her interfering in the Empire\u2019s affairs. Kris immediately suspects Vicky or the Empress, only to learn that it could also be a traitor among her own people...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815401-bold"}, +{"book_title": "Shockwave", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3009, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "What if being a hero was encoded in your genes?And nobody told you?Casmir Dabrowski would laugh if someone asked him that. After all, he had to build a robot to protect himself from bullies when he was in school.Fortunately, life is a little better these days. He's an accomplished robotics engineer, a respected professor, and he almost never gets picked on in the lunchroom. But he's positive heroics are for other people.Until robot assassins stride onto campus and try to kill him.Forced to flee the work he loves and the only home he's ever known, Casmir catches the first ship into space, where he hopes to buy time to figure out who wants him dead and why. If he can't, he'll never be able to return home.But he soon finds himself entangled with bounty hunters, mercenaries, and pirates, including the most feared criminal in the Star Kingdom: Captain Tenebris Rache.Rache could snap his spine with one cybernetically enhanced finger, but he may be the only person with the answer Casmir desperately needs:What in his genes is worth killing for?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45353889-shockwave"}, +{"book_title": "Fallocaust", "author_name": "Quil Carter", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1274, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "Over two hundred and thirty years ago the Fallocaust happened, killing almost everything that lived and creating what is now known as the greywastes. A dead wasteland where cannibalism is a necessity, death your reality, and life before the radiation nothing but pictures in dog-eared magazines. Reaver is a greywaster, living in a small block controlled by a distant ruler said to have started the Fallocaust. He is a product of the savage world he was raised in and prides himself on being cold and cruel. Then someone new to his town catches his eye, someone different than everyone else. Without knowing why he starts to silently stalk him, unaware of where it will lead him.Author's Note: Fallocaust has now been edited by a professional editor. The second edition is now live as of May 18th 2014.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Dark", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "LGBT", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20823031-fallocaust"}, +{"book_title": "Arrival", "author_name": "Paul Elard Cooley", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 458, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "The crew of the deep-sea exploration rig Leaguer discovers oil sweeter, purer, and sure to be more easily refined than anything that\u2019s ever existed. To confirm their own analysis of their billion dollar find, a test barrel is flown from the drill site off the coast of Papua/New Guinea to Houston Analytical Laboratories (HAL). As the unsuspecting scientists at HAL await the arrival of the oil, they ready their lab for what they know is an important job. They\u2019ve seen the test results from Leaguer; this find could make history.While the barrel is on its way to Houston, an \u201cinfection\u201d breaks out on the far-away rig. And as life aboard the rig descends into chaos, the scientists at HAL make their own discovery\u2014what Leaguer found is indeed historic; it just isn\u2019t oil. Instead, they\u2019ve brought up a dangerous organism that could threaten all life on earth.Trapped in their labs, the scientists must find a way to fight a creature that defies chemistry, physics, and biology.The Black: Arrival, a parallel story to the Amazon Horror Best-Seller The Black, is a page-turning suspense novel that will fill you with claustrophobic terror.Now that The Black has arrived, will humanity survive?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25581497-arrival"}, +{"book_title": "The Silent War", "author_name": "L.J. Goulding", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 495, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Across the galaxy, war rages\u2026 but while great battle and heroic deeds form the backbone of the war, the conflict extends much further, into darkness and shadow... While loyalist and traitor forces clash on a thousand battlefields across the galaxy, a very different kind of war is being fought in the shadows \u2013 a war of subtlety and subterfuge, unknown to many, but one that surely holds the key to victory for either side. Rogal Dorn and his Legion prepare to defend the Solar System against the armies of Warmaster Horus, even as Malcador the Sigillite charges his many agents and spies with missions of the utmost secrecy. The future of the Imperium is being shaped by unseen hands... The mysterious Malcador the Sigillite and his secretive minions take centre stage in a collection of short stories \u2013 plus one novella \u2013 that expand the Horus Heresy into the darkness with thrilling tales of subterfuge and treachery, many of them in print for the first time.This edition contains:\nThe Watcher\n by C Z Dunn\nChild of Night\n, \nGrey Angel\n & \nTemplar\n by John French\nThe Gates of Terra\n by Nick Kyme\nLuna Mendax\n & \nWolf Hunt\n by Graham McNeill\nThe Purge\n by Anthony Reynolds\nArmy of One\n & \nDistant Echoes of Old Night\n by Rob Sanders\nGhosts Speak Not & Patience\n by James Swallow\nThe Sigillite\n by Chris Wraight", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "40k", "Anthologies", "Audiobook", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28956064-the-silent-war"}, +{"book_title": "The Bird and the Sword", "author_name": "Amy Harmon", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 30337, "review_number": 3956, "book_description": "Swallow, Daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them \u2018til they\u2019ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, \u2018til the hour. You won\u2019t speak and you won\u2019t tell, you won\u2019t call on heav\u2019n or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, Daughter. Stay alive. The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn\u2019t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would trade his soul and lose his son to the sky.My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother\u2019s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free.But freedom will require escape, and I\u2019m a prisoner of my mother\u2019s curse and my father\u2019s greed. I can\u2019t speak or make a sound, and I can\u2019t wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love . . . a bird?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29008738-the-bird-and-the-sword"}, +{"book_title": "Command Decision", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 8698, "review_number": 231, "book_description": "With the Vatta's War series, award-winning author Elizabeth Moon has claimed a place alongside such preeminent writers of military science fiction as David Weber and Lois McMaster Bujold. Now Moon is back and so is her butt-kicking, take-no-prisoners heroine, Kylara Vatta. Once the black-sheep scion of a prosperous merchant family, Kylara now leads a motley space force dedicated to the defeat of a rapacious pirate empire led by the mysterious Gammis Turek. After orchestrating a galaxy-wide failure of the communications network owned and maintained by the powerful ISC corporation, Turek and his marauders strike swiftly and without mercy. First they shatter Vatta Transport. Then they overrun entire star systems, growing stronger and bolder. No one is safe from the pirate fleet. But while they continue to move forward with their diabolical plan, they have made two critical mistakes.Their first mistake was killing Kylara Vatta's family.Their second mistake was leaving her alive.Now Kylara is going to make them pay.\n\n\nBut with a fleet consisting of only three ships including her flagship, the Vanguard, a souped-up merchant cruiser Kylara needs allies, and fast. Because even though she possesses the same coveted communication technology as the enemy, she has nowhere near their numbers or firepower.Meanwhile, as Kylara's cousin Stella tries to bring together the shattered pieces of the family trading empire, new treachery is unfolding at ISC headquarters, where undercover agent Rafael Dunbarger, estranged son of the corporation's CEO, is trying to learn why the damaged network is not being repaired. What he discovers will send shock waves across the galaxy and crashing into Kylara's newly christened Space Defense Force at the worst possible moment.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96276.Command_Decision"}, +{"book_title": "ALT TRUTHS: There are two sides to every story. Even genocide", "author_name": "Alec Birri", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 38, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "What if you knew an entire race of people was being systematically slaughtered but had to cover it up? Fake news. Alternative facts. Truth, lies, damn lies and statistics. Just who are we to believe? In this near-future dystopian thriller, that will be United Nations Police \u201cmoderators\u201d. Thirty year old UNPOL officer Richard Warren has been embedded with the BBC and not seeing eye-to-eye with journalist Sarah Dyer is just the start of his problems. News of an Ebola pandemic is being withheld, and when it\u2019s discovered Sarah\u2019s artistic savant brother is involved, Richard\u2019s determination to get to the truth takes an unexpected turn. But what if the truth must never be known? And Richard thought Sarah was a challenge. The very concept of right and wrong is about to be tested and in a way that\u2019s going to make fake news look like quality journalism.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Pseudoscience (Conspiracy Theories)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Politics", "Medical", "Writing (Journalism)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41113626-alt-truths"}, +{"book_title": "Dictator", "author_name": "William F. Wu", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 93, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "A robot named Hunter and a team of three human experts travel back into time to World War II to stop a time-traveling renegade robot before he destroys the future of humanity.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381100.Dictator"}, +{"book_title": "Kirall's Kiss", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1257, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Please be aware this book was previously released in Bound by Heat. Kirall was desperate. He was a Black Prime Dragoon, the strongest and fiercest of his kind. He was returning home after defeating the Varana when a small planet's moon triggered his Joining Heat. It shouldn't have been possible. He was right. Autumn was desperate. She was human, female and struggling to survive. At twenty-two she was barely making ends meet. It's why she agreed to impersonate her roommate as a waitress for the weekend at a private party. She believed the money would change her life. She was right. Two unlikely people are brought together because of desperation. If they can find a way past the deceptions that brought them together, they will change not only each other, but possibly the Universe as well. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29628536-kirall-s-kiss"}, +{"book_title": "The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon", "author_name": "S.S. Taylor", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1189, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "Computers have failed, electricity is extinct, and the race to discover new lands is underway! Brilliant explorer Alexander West has just died under mysterious circumstances, but not before smuggling half of a strange map to his intrepid children\u2014Kit the brain, M.K. the tinkerer, and Zander the brave. Why are so many government agents trying to steal the half-map? (And where is the other half?) It\u2019s up to Alexander\u2019s children\u2014the Expeditioners\u2014to get to the bottom of these questions, and fast.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13595022-the-expeditioners-and-the-treasure-of-drowned-man-s-canyon"}, +{"book_title": "Grim", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 9564, "review_number": 768, "book_description": "King Grim Vasteri is the most feared warrior in the Tornian Empire. He has been sent by his Emperor to find and retrieve compatible females for their dying civilization.King Grim Vasteri is the strongest and most feared warrior in the Tornian Empire, King of Luda, blood brother to the Emperor, but his line will die with him as no female would join with him, for once he was scarred, he was considered 'unfit'. The Tornian Empire has been dying ever since the great infection caused the birth of females to become a rarity. Since then they have been searching the known universes for compatible females. The Emperor's discovery of a compatible female on a slave ship changed that. He'd ordered Grim to find his Empress' home world so more 'unprotected' females could be obtained, knowing Grim would never be allowed to Join with one.Lisa Miller is a widowed mother of two little girls, Carly and Miki. Her husband died just a year ago, after a long battle with cancer and she misses him immensely. Friends want her to start dating again but in her heart, she knows there isn't a man on the planet she could love like her Mark. Who could love their girls like their own. Therefore, she'll stay alone.When Lisa is discovered 'unprotected' at her husband's grave, she wakes on an alien ship heading for an alien world. Refusing to accept this she confronts the large males, demanding she be returned to her children. Seeing his chance to have a female, Grim agrees to accept and protect her offspring, if she agrees to Join with him and only him. Realizing this is the only way she can retrieve her children Lisa agrees and the Tornian Empire changes forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18468256-grim"}, +{"book_title": "Owner's Share", "author_name": "Nathan Lowell", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 3818, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "Everything in the universe comes with a price. When Diurnia Salvage and Transport undergoes a change in management, Captain Ishmael Horatio Wang finds himself adrift in a sea of red ink, and intrigue. He dives in only to find that he is over his head in a universe where cut-throat competition takes on an all new meaning. What tragic price will Captain Wang pay for his Owner\u2019s Share?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10054649-owner-s-share"}, +{"book_title": "For Honor We Stand", "author_name": "H. Paul Honsinger", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 3718, "review_number": 166, "book_description": "In 2315, the Earth Union is losing a thirty-year-long war with the Krag Hegemony.Having encountered the Krag before, Space Commander Max Robicheaux now faces daunting challenges aboard the USS Cumberland: the dangers from the enemy without\u2026 and clashes with crew and superiors within.Meanwhile, Doctor Sahin receives a coded message summoning him to a secret meeting which aims to forge an alliance that could change the balance of power in Known Space. But first, he must circumvent the fighter ships and heavily armed troops of the traitorous emir bent on killing him before he reaches the negotiating table.Both men must call upon their developing skills and growing friendship to bear the burden of carrying between the Krag Hegemony and the Earth Union a fateful ultimatum and the shocking answer: an answer that could spell eternal slavery, or even extinction, for all humankind.The second novel in the Man of War series, For Honor We Stand continues the galactic naval adventures of Robicheaux and Sahin.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Action", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18476108-for-honor-we-stand"}, +{"book_title": "Perfect Ruin", "author_name": "Lauren DeStefano", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 9082, "review_number": 1458, "book_description": "On the floating city, you can be anything you dream - a novelist or a singer, a florist or a factory worker... Your life is yours to embrace or to squander. There's only one rule: you don't approach THE EDGE. If you do, it's already over.Morgan Stockhour knows getting too close to the edge can lead to madness. Even though her older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan vows never to end up like him. There\u2019s too much for her at home: her parents, best friend Pen, and her betrothed, Basil. Her life is ordinary and safe, even if she sometimes does wonder about the ground and why it\u2019s forbidden.Then a murder, the first in a generation, rocks the city. With whispers swirling and fear on the wind, Morgan can no longer stop herself from investigating, especially once she meets Judas. Betrothed to the victim, Judas is being blamed for the murder, but Morgan is convinced of his innocence. Secrets lay at the heart, but nothing can prepare Morgan for what she will find\u2014or whom she will lose.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22053410-perfect-ruin"}, +{"book_title": "77 Days in September", "author_name": "Ray Gorham", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 3959, "review_number": 370, "book_description": "On a Friday afternoon before Labor Day, Americans are getting ready for the holiday weekend, completely unaware of a long-planned terrorist plot about to be launched against the country. Kyle Tait is settling in for his flight home to Montana when a single nuclear bomb is detonated 300 miles above the heart of America. The blast, an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP), destroys every electrical device in the country, and results in the crippling of the power grid, the shutting down of modern communications, and bringing to a halt most forms of transportation.Kyle narrowly escapes when his airplane crashes on take-off, only to find himself stranded 2,000 miles from home in a country that has been forced, from a technological standpoint, back to the 19th Century. Confused, hurt, scared, and alone, Kyle must make his way across a hostile continent to a family he\u2019s not even sure has survived the effects of the attack. As Kyle forges his way home, his frightened family faces their own struggles for survival in a community trying to halt its slow spiral into chaos and anarchy. 77 Days in September follows Kyle and his wife, Jennifer, as they are stretched past their breaking point, but find in their devotion to each other the strength to persevere.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "War (Terrorism)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11802105-77-days-in-september"}, +{"book_title": "The Seep", "author_name": "Chana Porter", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1715, "review_number": 439, "book_description": "A blend of searing social commentary and speculative fiction, Chana Porter\u2019s fresh, pointed debut is perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Carmen Maria Machado. Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle\u2014but nonetheless world-changing\u2014invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible.Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep\u2019s utopian influence\u2014until Deeba begins to imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will give her the chance at an even better life. Using Seeptech to make this dream a reality, Deeba moves on to a new existence, leaving Trina devastated.Heartbroken and deep into an alcoholic binge, Trina follows a lost boy she encounters, embarking on an unexpected quest. In her attempt to save him from The Seep, she will confront not only one of its most avid devotees, but the terrifying void that Deeba has left behind. A strange new elegy of love and loss, The Seep explores grief, alienation, and the ache of moving on.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Transgender)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45448133-the-seep"}, +{"book_title": "Damia", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 11880, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "Of all the Rowan's children, Damia was the most brilliant and the one who inherited the Talent. It was obvious that she would be a Prime. As Damia grew up, her Talent became almost too strong to control, and the only solution was to send her to the planet of Deneb, to her strange grandmother.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61959.Damia"}, +{"book_title": "Down In A Hole (Drugs & Wires, #1", "author_name": "Mary Safro", "rating_score": 4.71, "rating_votes": 24, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "The year is 1995, and everything's gone wrong - especially for Dan, pissy misanthrope and recovering VR junkie, who's got a vicious worm in his headware and a dead-end delivery job on the wrong side of the old Iron Curtain. Set in the crushingly bureaucratic and shamelessly dysfunctional Republic of Stradania, Drugs & Wires is one part slice-of-life, one part genre piss-take, several parts '90s nostalgia, and flat-out gratuitous amounts of magenta.We call it \"cyberpunk\", but there's no sleek razorgirls or trenchcoat-clad hackermen with kung fu skills here - just one depressed addict and a merry cast of cybergopniks, babushkas, VR scenesters, robodogs, and vulture capitalists, plus one lovably unscrupulous street doc with a medical degree from the University of MS Paint.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42388656-down-in-a-hole"}, +{"book_title": "Shadows on the Aegean", "author_name": "Suzanne Frank", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 563, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "Here the fascinating characters of Reflections reemerge on a dazzling Aegean island called Aztlan - where a mystery older than time may be solved, and where a love more powerful than death lives on...Chloe Kingsley expected to wake up in 1997; instead fate and a rip in the fabric of time-space are sending Chloe to a mysterious ancient culture, another woman's body, and an enormous test of her love for Cheftu the physician. In Aztlan, an advanced civilization set on a volcanic isle in the Aegean, Chloe becomes Sibylla, a prophetess about to enter the political arena and ceremonial bull rings a dazzling, decadent kingdom.Visions of a terrifying catastrophe inspire Chloe and Cheftu to desperately try to save Aztlan from utter destruction. But already the rumblings of doom are shaking a glorious culture that created labyrinths and a new panoply of gods, as two lovers, sworn to be together for eternity, are torn apart by cruel rituals, twisted ambition...and heinous murder.Shadow on the Aegean provides a stirring blend of finely drawn characters, authentic historic detail, and passion, while offering a fascinating theory about the real location and fate of Atlantis, a world renowned in legend, long searched for, long dreamed about, and never found...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1361882.Shadows_on_the_Aegean"}, +{"book_title": "The Warlord of the Air", "author_name": "Michael Moorcock", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1629, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "Suppose that a few of our present inventions had been made earlier, and others not discovered at all? How would the last century have evolved differently?This is the story of Oswald Bastable, a Victorian captain who found himself in such alternate worlds. It is based on notes handed down to Michael Moorcock from his great-grandfather. It's a story of a world of empires secured by airships, and a Chinese genius who invented the means of overthrowing the West's power!", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432879.The_Warlord_of_the_Air"}, +{"book_title": "The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells", "author_name": "Andrew Sean Greer", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 11534, "review_number": 1700, "book_description": "1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the break up with her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in a different era.During the course of her treatment, Greta cycles between her own time and her alternate lives in 1918, as a bohemian adulteress, and 1941, as a devoted mother and wife. Separated by time and social mores, Greta's three lives are achingly similar, fraught with familiar tensions and difficult choices. Each reality has its own losses, its own rewards, and each extracts a different price. And the modern Greta learns that her alternate selves are unpredictable, driven by their own desires and needs.As her final treatment looms, questions arise. What will happen once each Greta learns how to stay in one of the other worlds? Who will choose to remain in which life?Magically atmospheric, achingly romantic, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells beautifully imagines \"what if\" and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Historical", "Literary Fiction", "Romance", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16065595-the-impossible-lives-of-greta-wells"}, +{"book_title": "The Terminator: 2029-1984", "author_name": "Zack Whedon", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 188, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Rising stars Zack Whedon and Andy MacDonald deliver explosive action and poignant humanity in both the future and the past in this inspired reimagining of The Terminator! Before John Connor sent him back in time to save Sarah Connor from the infamous T-800, Kyle Reese was just another man fighting to survive in a world overrun by Skynet and its terrifying army of killer cyborgs. Follow Kyle on his journey through the ravaged landscape of 2029, to a world previously unimaginable to him - the glittering streets of Los Angeles in 1984! Along the way, a shocking discovery at a hidden Cyberdyne facility sheds new light on Kyle's fate in the past. The future of humanity seems more uncertain than ever as Kyle battles an entirely new Terminator threat alongside Sarah Connor.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9848717-the-terminator"}, +{"book_title": "Camouflage", "author_name": "Joe Haldeman", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 5759, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adapting the forms of many different organisms. The Chameleon destroys anything or anyone that threatens it.Now, a sunken relic that holds the key to their origins calls to them to take them home\u2014but the Chameleon has decided there's only room for one.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21607.Camouflage"}, +{"book_title": "Monsters", "author_name": "Ilsa J. Bick", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 4985, "review_number": 613, "book_description": "The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time. The End...is now.When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse-until the doctors found the monster in her head.She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death.Now, with no hope of rescue-on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won't quit-she discovers a new and horrifying truth.The Change isn't over.The Changed are still evolving.And...they've had help.With this final volume of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick delivers a riveting, blockbuster finish, returning readers to a brutal, post-apocalyptic world where no one is safe and hope is in short supply.A world where, from these ashes, the monsters may rise.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15947841-monsters"}, +{"book_title": "The Return of the King", "author_name": "J.R.R. Tolkien", "rating_score": 4.53, "rating_votes": 699488, "review_number": 10640, "book_description": "In the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy the good and evil forces join battle, and we see that the triumph of good is not absolute. The Third Age of Middle-earth ends, and the age of the dominion of Men begins.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Classics", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Novels", "Literature", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/838729.The_Return_of_the_King"}, +{"book_title": "Ventus", "author_name": "Karl Schroeder", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 1111, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike artificial intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed. But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy.On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign AIs -- the godlike Winds \u2013 which shaped and guarded its transformation, have fallen silent. Calandria May is sent down to the surface where she quickly finds that an extension of the rogue AI, a cyborg called Armiger, has planted a strange and powerful device in a young man named Jordan Mason. Jordan has visions. He is desperate to find their meaning and source -- desperate enough to risk awakening the Winds, perhaps invoking the power that can destroy technology to protect the environment they created. Ventus is an epic journey across a fascinating planet with two big mysteries -- why have the Winds fallen silent? And is Armiger, or Jordan, carrying a Resurrection Seed?", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394024.Ventus"}, +{"book_title": "Invader", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 4406, "review_number": 173, "book_description": "The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner, begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the atevi, it unexpectedly returns, threatening the stability of both atevi and human governments. With the situation fast becoming critical, Bren Cameron, the brilliant, young paidhi to the court of the atevi is recalled from Mospheira where he has just undergone surgery. Upon his return to the mainland, he Cameron finds that his government has sent in his paidhi-successor, Deana Hanks\u2014representative of a dangerous faction on Mospheira who hate the atevi.Haunted by the threat of assassination, Bren realizes his only hope may be to communicate with the Phoenix as the spokesman of the atevi\u2014an action which may cut him off for good from his own species. Yet if he doesn't take this desperate action, he may be forced to witness the destruction of the already precarious balance of world power.The long-running Foreigner series can also be enjoyed by more casual genre readers in sub-trilogy installments. Invader is the 2nd Foreigner novel. It is also the 2nd book in the first subtrilogy.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57014.Invader"}, +{"book_title": "In an Absent Dream", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 19099, "review_number": 3939, "book_description": "This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Novella", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Magical Realism", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38244358-in-an-absent-dream"}, +{"book_title": "The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot", "author_name": "Margaret McNamara", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 929, "review_number": 162, "book_description": "GREEP BOINK MEEP! The three little aliens are happily settling into their new homes when the Big Bad Robot flies in to crack and smack and whack their houses down! A chase across the solar system follows in this out-of-this-world version of the classic Three Little Pigs tale. Margaret McNamara (How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?) and Mark Fearing (The Book that Eats People) have created a humorous and visually stunning story that kids will adore\u2014and that will introduce them to the planets and the solar system. The endpapers even include a labeled diagram of all the planets.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Space", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fairy Tales (Fractured Fairy Tales)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10475205-the-three-little-aliens-and-the-big-bad-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Return to Summerhouse", "author_name": "Jude Deveraux", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 5454, "review_number": 397, "book_description": "With her shining gift for \"exquisite and enchanting\" (BookPage) storytelling, Jude Deveraux sweeps readers away in a breathtaking follow-up to her beloved New York Times bestseller, The Summerhouse \u0097 where a marvelous new adventure awaits.Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like to rewrite. Amy, who hides a heartbreaking loss behind her seemingly perfect marriage and family...Faith, a widow in her thirties whose deepest grief is for a man from years ago...and Zo\u00eb, an artist shunned by her hometown for reasons she doesn't know, after a traumatic night erased her memory. With their mystical powers, Madame Zoya and her sister Primrose are about to transport the trio to eighteenth-century England to alter Amy's ancestry. But although surprises await each of them, will stepping back in time bring the women the happy endings they seek?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2909599-return-to-summerhouse"}, +{"book_title": "Bishop's Honor", "author_name": "A.R. Shaw", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 996, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "It's happened once before, and it will happen again. In the year 2030 the Maunder Minimum, a period of solar inactivity, will cause a mini-ice age like it did between the years 1645 and 1710. When it does, Bishop will have to save her not only from the effects of severe weather but also from man himself. Maeve Tilton and her son Ben live alone in the rural town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Since her husband died in the war, she's barely kept her head above water, and when the first freeze strikes in the fall, she's completely unprepared for what lies ahead. Only a war-torn man, one who prefers the solitude of the Kootenai National Forest, can rescue her and her son.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30641101-bishop-s-honor"}, +{"book_title": "Prison Planet Barbarian", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 3621, "review_number": 303, "book_description": "Being kidnapped by aliens is one thing.Being kidnapped by aliens and then sent to a prison planet is something infinitely worse.Here in Haven's prison system, I'm stranded among strangers, enemies, and the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy. There's no safety for a human woman here, especially not one branded as a murderer. I'm doomed to a fate worse than death.\u00a0Then...he decides I should be his. His name's Jutari. He's seven feet tall, blue, and horned. He's an assassin and one of the most dangerous prisoners here. He's like no one I've ever met before...and he might be my only chance.This story stands completely alone and is only marginally connected to the Ice Planet Barbarians or Corsairs series. You do not need to read those books in order to follow this one. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Novella", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35017870-prison-planet-barbarian"}, +{"book_title": "The Moon's Shadow", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 823, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox became ruler of a vast galactic empire-- and lost everything he had ever valued.Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of the genetically engineered Eubian Traders, Jai Qox grew up in exile, unaware of the powers that coursed through his noble blood. In the waning days of the bloody Radiance War, which ravaged the galaxy, Jai was captured, and returned to the Traders to play a role as a puppet Emperor in their scheme to consolidate their domination of space.Now Jai must walk a razor's edge, to seize the power that is his by birthright, without succumbing to its dark seduction, in order to avert a conflagration which threatens to engulf a thousand worlds.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424936.The_Moon_s_Shadow"}, +{"book_title": "For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga", "author_name": "Robert Sobel", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 252, "review_number": 31, "book_description": "For Want of a Nail is an alternate history classic. The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered by American troops, surrendered his army to General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a major turning-point of the Revolution. Robert Sobel takes a step sideways and presents the alternative version: reinforcements arrive at Saratoga, Gates' men flee, and Burgoyne is victorious. Rather than openly allying itself with the American rebels, France withdraws its support, as does Spain, and the colonies surrender. Those former rebels who refuse to live in the Confederation of North America established by the British leave their homes and settle in what becomes the United States of Mexico. From then on the two continental nations find themselves constant rivals, locked in military, political and economic conflict. Sobel provides a detailed, intricately documented insight into two warring powers that develop in such dramatically different ways from their shared origins.", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Military History (American Revolution)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/710182.For_Want_of_a_Nail"}, +{"book_title": "Hackers", "author_name": "Jack Dann", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 58, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "This wide-ranging collection of cyberspace tales, featuring the most cutting-edge writers in science fiction, goes beyond the stereotypes of computer rogues and delves into the true heart\u2014and art\u2014of hackerdom.xi \u2022 Preface (Hackers) \u2022 essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois1 \u2022 Burning Chrome \u2022 (1982) \u2022 novelette by William Gibson24 \u2022 Spirit of the Night \u2022 (1987) \u2022 novelette by Tom Maddox45 \u2022 Blood Sisters \u2022 (1991) \u2022 short story by Greg Egan66 \u2022 Rock On \u2022 (1984) \u2022 short story by Pat Cadigan76 \u2022 The Pardoner's Tale \u2022 (1987) \u2022 short story by Robert Silverberg100 \u2022 Living Will \u2022 (1991) \u2022 novelette by Alexander Jablokov123 \u2022 Dogfight \u2022 (1985) \u2022 novelette by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson148 \u2022 Our Neural Chernobyl \u2022 (1988) \u2022 short story by Bruce Sterling158 \u2022 (Learning About) Machine Sex \u2022 (1988) \u2022 short story by Candas Jane Dorsey179 \u2022 Conversations with Michael \u2022 (1994) \u2022 short story by Daniel Marcus195 \u2022 Gene Wars \u2022 (1991) \u2022 short story by Paul J. McAuley203 \u2022 Spew \u2022 (1994) \u2022 short story by Neal Stephenson222 \u2022 Tangents \u2022 (1986) \u2022 short story by Greg Bear", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369932.Hackers"}, +{"book_title": "Viking Ships At Sunrise", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 7718, "review_number": 235, "book_description": "The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!Beware of Vikings! warns Morgan. Then Jack and Annie are whisked back to ancient Ireland. They land on a cliff on a misty island. How will they find the story they are looking for? It will take a Viking invasion, the help of a jolly monk, and a lot of courage for Jack and Annie to succeed in Viking Ships at Sunrise.Did you know that there's a Magic Tree House book for every kid?Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventuresHave more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181399.Viking_Ships_At_Sunrise"}, +{"book_title": "Air", "author_name": "Geoff Ryman", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 2374, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for it's arrival, but will they listen before it's too late?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206662.Air"}, +{"book_title": "Hidden Enemy", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1981, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "You know we have been betrayed.You must discover why.You must learn the truth.They have put a plan in motion.They have infiltrated your government.They have already turned some of you.They will do whatever it takes to have your planet.The battle lines have been drawn.Whose side are you on?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18738872-hidden-enemy"}, +{"book_title": "Winds of Marque", "author_name": "Bennett R. Coles", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 208, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "\"Bennett R. Coles ranks among my go-to list in SF.\u00a0Entertaining and intelligent storytelling and terrific characters.\u00a0In Winds of Marque, Coles may well have invented a whole new subgenre that has me scrambling for a description--Steam Space?\u00a0 Whatever you call it, a blast to read.\u00a0Here's hoping that many more adventures are in the offing for Blackwood and company.\"\u00a0 \u2014Steven Erikson, New York Times bestselling authorThe first novel in an exciting science fiction series\u2014Master and Commander in space\u2014a swashbuckling space adventure in which a crew of misfit individuals in the king\u2019s navy are sent to dismantle a dangerous ring of pirate raiders. In a dense star cluster, the solar winds blow fiercely. The star sailing ship HMSS Daring is running at full sheet with a letter of marque allowing them to capture enemy vessels involved in illegal trading. Sailing under a false flag to protect the ship and its mission, Daring\u2019s crew must gather intelligence that will lead them to the pirates\u2019 base.Posing as traders, Daring\u2019s dashing second-in-command Liam Blackwood and brilliant quartermaster Amelia Virtue infiltrate shady civilian merchant networks, believing one will lead them to their quarry.But their mission is threatened from within their own ranks when Daring\u2019s enigmatic captain makes a series of questionable choices, and rumblings of discontent start bubbling up from below decks, putting the crew on edge and destroying morale. On top of it all, Liam and Amelia must grapple with their growing feelings for each other.Facing danger from unexpected quarters that could steer the expedition off course, Blackwood and Virtue must identify the real enemy threat and discover the truth about their commander\u2014and their mission\u2014before Daring falls prey to the very pirates she\u2019s meant to be tracking.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Space", "Adventure", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40765445-winds-of-marque"}, +{"book_title": "Fortuna", "author_name": "Kristyn Merbeth", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 299, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Fortuna launches a new space opera trilogy that will hook you from the first crash landing.Scorpia Kaiser has always stood in Corvus\u2019s shadow until the day her older brother abandons their family to participate in a profitless war. However, becoming the heir to her mother\u2019s smuggling operation is not an easy transition for the always rebellious, usually reckless, and occasionally drunk pilot of the Fortuna, an aging cargo ship and the only home Scorpia has ever known.But when a deal turns deadly and Corvus returns from the war, Scorpia\u2019s plans to take over the family business are interrupted, and the Kaiser siblings are forced to make a choice: take responsibility for their family\u2019s involvement in a devastating massacre or lay low and hope it blows over.Too bad Scorpia was never any good at staying out of a fight.Perfect for fans of Becky Chambers and Catherynne M. Valente, Fortuna introduces a dazzling new voice in science fiction.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Space", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "LGBT", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43879093-fortuna"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Recall", "author_name": "Sara King", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 4453, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "It's been 53 turns after the legendary Commander Zero graduated as a Congie warrior. Joe, now a battle hardened veteran, has spent his life surviving wars he had no right to survive. Yet his real test is coming: New forces are conspiring to start a great war like the universe has never seen, one that would rip apart the very fabric of Congress. Joe is conscripted to fight the very war everyone has been fearing since the rise of the Dhasha\u2014the war against the legendary Dhasha Vahlin. Unfortunately for Joe, at the same time, other ruthless powers are conspiring to kill him before he fulfills the prophecy of the Trith.To fight the Vahlin, a desperate Congress comes up with a tactic it abandoned millennia ago\u2014the use of multi-species groundteams. Joe, now a Prime Commander, is given command of his own team of misfits and pitted against the Vahlin\u2019s forces in a war whose casualties are millions-to-one. Can Joe keep his group of aliens from killing each other long enough to make them into a battle-ready team? Will he survive long enough to kill the Vahlin? Or is he destined to destroy Congress, as the Trith have prophesized about him?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18586025-zero-recall"}, +{"book_title": "Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science", "author_name": "Brian Clevinger", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 792, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "1930's: A young ATOMIC ROBO yearns for adventure and excitement beyond the lessons of his creator, Nikola Tesla. Meanwhile, a mad scientist's quest for immortality puts the entire island of Manhattan in danger! It's up to ROBO's forbidden moonlighting team-up with vigilante gunfighter / incredibly reluctant mentor JACK TAROT to put a stop to it. Features a man with two skulls, a massive behemoth robot, vampires (a little) and first love.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Pulp", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11199916-atomic-robo-and-the-deadly-art-of-science"}, +{"book_title": "Somewhere in Time", "author_name": "Barbara Bretton", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1586, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Historian Emilie Crosse dreamed of a love that would last foreverWho knew she'd have to sail across two centuries to find it?When her ex-husband Zane Grey Rutledge showed up at her door with a Revolutionary War uniform that was part of his grandmother's estate, neither one suspected that their lives were about to change in ways they couldn't possibly imagine.Swept back in time to 1776 where a nation is struggling to be born, Emilie finds herself torn between two men: Zane, her ex who still holds the key to her heart, and Andrew McVie, the Patriot hero of her long-ago dreams . . . .", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15734424-somewhere-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "No Safety in Numbers", "author_name": "Dayna Lorentz", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 6198, "review_number": 884, "book_description": "When a strange device is discovered in the air ducts of a busy suburban mall, the entire complex is suddenly locked down. No one can leave. No one knows what is going on.At first, there's the novelty of being stuck in a mega mall with free food and a gift certificate. But with each passing day, it becomes harder to ignore the dwindling supplies, inadequate information, and mounting panic.Then people start getting sick.Told from the point of view of two guys and two girls, this is a harrowing look at what can happen under the most desperate of circumstances, when regular people are faced with impossible choices. Some rise to the occasion. Some don't.And for some - it's too late.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "Horror", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Realistic Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12971664-no-safety-in-numbers"}, +{"book_title": "Summer of Yesterday", "author_name": "Gaby Triana", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 572, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "Back to the Future meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High when Haley\u2019s summer vacation takes a turn for the retro in this totally rad romantic fantasy.Summer officially sucks. Thanks to a stupid seizure she had a few months earlier, Haley\u2019s stuck going on vacation with her dad and his new family to Disney\u2019s Fort Wilderness instead of enjoying the last session of summer camp back home with her friends. Fort Wilderness holds lots of childhood memories for her father, but surely nothing for Haley. But then a new seizure triggers something she\u2019s never before experienced\u2014time travel\u2014and she ends up in River Country, the campground\u2019s long-abandoned water park, during its heyday. The year? 1982. And there\u2014with its amusing fashion, \u201coldies\u201d music, and primitive technology\u2014she runs into familiar faces: teenage Dad and Mom before they\u2019d even met. Somehow, Haley must find her way back to the twenty-first century before her present-day parents anguish over her disappearance, a difficult feat now that she\u2019s met Jason, one of the park\u2019s summer residents and employees, who takes the strangely dressed stowaway under his wing. Seizures aside, Haley\u2019s used to controlling her life, and she has no idea how to deal with this dilemma. How can she be falling for a boy whose future she can\u2019t share?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18629794-summer-of-yesterday"}, +{"book_title": "The Sandcastle Empire", "author_name": "Kayla Olson", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 2513, "review_number": 580, "book_description": "When all hope is gone, how do you survive?Before the war, Eden\u2019s life was easy\u2014air conditioning, ice cream, long days at the beach. Then the revolution happened, and everything changed.Now a powerful group called the Wolfpack controls the earth and its resources. Eden has lost everything to them. They killed her family and her friends, destroyed her home, and imprisoned her. But Eden refuses to die by their hands. She knows the coordinates to the only neutral ground left in the world, a place called Sanctuary Island, and she is desperate to escape to its shores.Eden finally reaches the island and meets others resistant to the Wolves. But their solace is short-lived when one of Eden\u2019s new friends goes missing. Braving the jungle in search of their lost ally, they quickly discover Sanctuary is filled with lethal traps and an enemy they never expected. This island might be deadlier than the world Eden left behind, but surviving it is the only thing that stands between her and freedom.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32051724-the-sandcastle-empire"}, +{"book_title": "Machine Man by Kirby & Ditko: The Complete Collection", "author_name": "Jack Kirby", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 78, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "A military machine with a soul, a thinking computer in the form of a man -- X-51 is the Machine Man! Abel Stack gave a government-created robot a human face, nurturing the man inside the machine and calling him son. But Stack's death left that son, Aaron, alone and running for his life. The military wants to strip him apart, and mankind doesn't understand him -- but in exploits crafted by two of the medium's greatest talents, he'll still redefine humanity. Few comic books were lucky enough to be graced by the work of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Machine Man never saw an issue that wasn't illustrated by one of these creative titans. Now, the complete Machine Man epic is collected for the first time, and in one complete volume!Collecting: Machine Man 1-19, Incredible Hulk 235-237, & Marvel Comics Presents 10", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28118834-machine-man-by-kirby-ditko"}, +{"book_title": "Starbound", "author_name": "Dave Bara", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 220, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "The Lightship H.M.S. Impulse is gone, sacrificed in a battle against First Empire ships. And though the fragile galactic alliance has survived the unexpected invasion, the Union forces might not prove victorious against a full onslaught by this legendary enemy. For Peter Cochrane, serving as an officer aboard his world\u2019s flagship, H.M.S. Starbound is a dream come true. Tasked with investigating a mysterious space station in a rediscovered star system, Peter and Starbound face a surprise attack by unknown forces and suffer terrible losses. But there is no time to grieve or even regroup as Peter is thrust into a new crisis, a potential civil war on the Union world of Carinthia. Caught between his rank in the navy and his status as a royal heir, Peter is put on trial for the loss of Impulse, used as a political pawn as Carinthia stands on the brink of a devastating conflict.\u00a0Peter escapes but faces the prospect of interstellar war when he learns of a possible alliance between the First Empire and Carinthia, a coalition which could tear the Union apart!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25361895-starbound"}, +{"book_title": "Firewalker", "author_name": "Josephine Angelini", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 6972, "review_number": 785, "book_description": "Worlds divide, magic slays, and love lies in the second book of Josephine Angelini\u2019s The Worldwalker Trilogy.\"You think I\u2019m a monster, but my choices, as ruthless as they seem, are justified.\"Lily is back in her own universe, and she's ready to start a new life with Rowan by her side. True, she almost died in the Pyre that fueled their escape from New Salem, and must hide her magic for the safety of everyone she cares about, but compared to fighting the Woven, the monstrous creatures inhabiting the alternate Salem, life is looking pretty good.Unfortunately, Lillian, ruthless ruler of the 13 Cities, is not willing to let Lily go that easily. If she can\u2019t persuade Lily to return to her world, she will force her to come back by doing away with the ones she loves.Picking up right where Trial By Fire left off, Firewalker is another sexy, fast-paced, heartbreaking thrill ride from internationally bestselling author Josephine Angelini!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22469323-firewalker"}, +{"book_title": "Bill, The Galactic Hero", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 4042, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "It was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honor-he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia. Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler. And from there, things got even worse.", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_The_Galactic_Hero"}, +{"book_title": "Control", "author_name": "Cordelia Kingsbridge", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 1055, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "When Control agent Joaquin Castillo finds himself unintentionally bound to a brainwashed sex slave, he vows to restore the boy's memories and set him free. Then he discovers the boy's true identity, and everything goes straight to hell. Free - Status: Complete word count - 167,155", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Science Fiction", "Dark", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Romance", "Mystery (Crime)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18488996-control"}, +{"book_title": "Knight Errant", "author_name": "R. Garcia y Robertson", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 388, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "A thrilling time-travel romance of Renaissance England. Robyn Stafford, a young American executive, has flown from Hollywood to England to surprise her lover on his birthday, only to find that he\u2019s married and it\u2019s his wife who\u2019s giving the party. She takes a few days off to recover from her outrage and dismay, travelling and hiking near the Welsh border. There she encounters a handsome young man on horseback, wearing a sword, plate armor and a surcoat, who confidently identifies himself as Edward Plantagenet, Earl of March, and asks directions to a nearby abbey. He thinks the year is 1459 and is amazed by her detailed, printed map and working cell phone. She doesn\u2019t know what to think. But when three hostile knights and two dozen bowmen arrive, he sweeps her up in front of him and carries her off to safety, before turning back to valiantly fight off his enemies. Then, the immediate danger past, he returns and asks her to come and be his lady once he has beaten the king. After a parting kiss, he rides away, into the distant past, to the age of the War of the Roses.Now Robyn Stafford must find a way to leave the world of today for the fifteenth century, where she fell in love with a young knight.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Literature (15th Century)", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538755.Knight_Errant"}, +{"book_title": "The Mermaid's Knight", "author_name": "Jill Myles", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1224, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "When a car accident takes Leah Sunderland's life, she finds herself in dire need of divine assistance. Her fairy godmother comes to the rescue, but her help comes with conditions. As a fairy godmother, the only assistance she can offer deals with (you guessed it) fairy tales. To win a second chance at life, Leah must play out the tale of The Little Mermaid.Armed with a mermaid tail and nothing else (not even a voice!), she has one month to make a nobleman fall in love with her, or else she'll die permanently. But the nobleman she must seduce is a hard, fierce warlord who thinks she's a spy and the mistress of his enemy.Can she win him over before the thirty days are up? Or is she in danger of losing her heart as well as her life?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12476597-the-mermaid-s-knight"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Space", "author_name": "Lisa Henry", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 3886, "review_number": 697, "book_description": "Brady Garrett needs to go home. He\u2019s a conscripted recruit on Defender Three, one of a network of stations designed to protect the Earth from alien attack. He's also angry, homesick, and afraid. If he doesn\u2019t get home he\u2019ll lose his family, but there\u2019s no way back except in a body bag.Cameron Rushton needs a heartbeat. Four years ago Cam was taken by the Faceless \u2014 the alien race that almost destroyed Earth. Now he\u2019s back, and when the doctors make a mess of getting him out of stasis, Brady becomes his temporary human pacemaker. Except they\u2019re sharing more than a heartbeat: they\u2019re sharing thoughts, memories, and some very vivid dreams.Not that Brady\u2019s got time to worry about his growing attraction to another guy, especially the one guy in the universe who can read his mind. It doesn\u2019t mean anything. It\u2019s just biochemistry and electrical impulses. It doesn\u2019t change the truth: Brady\u2019s alone in the universe.Now the Faceless are coming and there\u2019s nothing anyone can do. You can\u2019t stop your nightmares. Cam says everyone will live, but Cam\u2019s probably a traitor and a liar like the military thinks. But that\u2019s okay. Guys like Brady don\u2019t expect happy endings.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Gay Romance (Gay For You)", "Dark", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16174363-dark-space"}, +{"book_title": "The Observers", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 2387, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "In an effort to improve relations with the Earth, the Colonial Union has invited a contingent of diplomats from that planet to observe Ambassador Abumwe negotiate a trade deal with an alien species. Then something very bad happens to one of the Earthings, and with that, the relationship between humanitys two factions is on the cusp of disruption once more. Its a race to find out what really happened, and who is to blame.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180360-the-observers"}, +{"book_title": "Conjunction", "author_name": "A.D. Zoltan", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 59, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "In 2625, the Earth is ahead of big changes, the biggest superpowers have been just tricked by a genius man called \u2018Erin\u2019, which leads to a completely new world order.The story continues in the year 3800, where a future artificial intelligence technology so-called \u2018CIS\u2019 (Central Intelligent System) assists humanity to make the Solar system a better place. After the discovery of intergalactic travel technology, humankind initiates a mission to the four most likely habited planets in order to bring their own civilization to the next maturity level. \u2018Keat\u2019 who has a deep interest in the \u201cbig questions\u201d of life is part of the first mission which turns their wealthy, human civilization upside down without facing any enemies.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Philosophy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Young Adult", "Spirituality", "New Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43460271-conjunction"}, +{"book_title": "Crashed", "author_name": "Robin Wasserman", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 4392, "review_number": 299, "book_description": "Everyone Has Some. Before the accident, Lia Kahn was happy. Before the accident, Lia Kahn was loved. Before, Lia was a lot of things: Normal. Alive. Human. Lia no longer believes in before. Six months after the crash that killed her, six months after being reborn, Lia has finally accepted her new reality. She is a machine, a mech, and she belongs with her own kind. It's a wild, carefree life, without rules and without fear. Because there's nothing to fear when you have nothing left to lose. But when a voice from her past cries out for revenge, everything changes. Lia is forced to choose between her old life and her new one. Between humans and mechs. Between sacrificing the girl she used to be and saving the boy she used to love. Even if it means he'll hate her forever.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Futuristic", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5927554-crashed"}, +{"book_title": "The Road", "author_name": "Cormac McCarthy", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 735303, "review_number": 46499, "book_description": "A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy\u2019s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don\u2019t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food\u2014and each other.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, \u201ceach the other\u2019s world entire,\u201d are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Classics", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road"}, +{"book_title": "The Secret Apocalypse", "author_name": "James Harden", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 847, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Los AngelesFebruary 23rdSixteen year old Rebecca Robinson is the sole survivor of the Australian Apocalypse. The death toll is at an estimated 22 million. The entire world wants to know what happened down there and since the military aren\u2019t talking, everyone is looking to Rebecca for answers.Sydney, Australia3 Weeks EarlierA deadly new virus is spreading through an immigration detention centre in the outback. It is 100% lethal. There is no cure. As a precaution the Australian Government has ordered a nationwide quarantine. No one is allowed to leave the country. No one is allowed to enter. School across the country has been canceled.Despite these warning signs Rebecca and her friends are in the mood to celebrate their extended summer vacation, blissfully unaware of the dangers that are coming their way.Over the next few days, things go from bad to worse as the virus begins to spread throughout Australia, killing anyone infected and turning them into ferocious undead monsters. Worse, the military have been ordered to contain the spread of infection and to cover up all trace of the outbreak by any means necessary. Mass panic and hysteria grip the population as the plague reaches the outskirts of Sydney.Rebecca and her friends realise that it's no longer safe to simply go home and lock the door. They need to make a run for it. They need to escape from Australia.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10699108-the-secret-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "Child of a Hidden Sea", "author_name": "A.M. Dellamonica", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1367, "review_number": 295, "book_description": "One minute, twenty-four-year-old Sophie Hansa is in a San Francisco alley trying to save the life of the aunt she has never known. The next, she finds herself flung into the warm and salty waters of an unfamiliar world. Glowing moths fall to the waves around her, and the sleek bodies of unseen fish glide against her submerged ankles.The world is Stormwrack, a series of island nations with a variety of cultures and economies\u2014and a language different from any Sophie has heard.Sophie doesn't know it yet, but she has just stepped into the middle of a political firestorm, and a conspiracy that could destroy a world she has just discovered\u2026 her world, where everyone seems to know who she is, and where she is forbidden to stay.But Sophie is stubborn, and smart, and refuses to be cast adrift by people who don't know her and yet wish her gone. With the help of a sister she has never known, and a ship captain who would rather she had never arrived, she must navigate the shoals of the highly charged politics of Stormwrack, and win the right to decide for herself whether she stays in this wondrous world . . . or is doomed to exile", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490629-child-of-a-hidden-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Kinslayer", "author_name": "Jay Kristoff", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 5409, "review_number": 727, "book_description": "A SHATTERED EMPIREThe mad Sh\u014dgun Yoritomo has been assassinated by the Stormdancer Yukiko, and the threat of civil war looms over the Shima Imperium. The Lotus Guild conspires to renew the nation\u2019s broken dynasty and crush the growing rebellion simultaneously \u2013 by endorsing a new Sh\u014dgun who desires nothing more than to see Yukiko dead.A DARK LEGACYYukiko and the mighty thunder tiger Buruu have been cast in the role of heroes by the Kag\u00e9 rebellion. But Yukiko herself is blinded by rage over her father\u2019s death, and her ability to hear the thoughts of beasts is swelling beyond her power to control. Along with Buruu, Yukiko\u2019s anchor is Kin, the rebel Guildsman who helped her escape from Yoritomo\u2019s clutches. But Kin has his own secrets, and is haunted by visions of a future he\u2019d rather die than see realized.A GATHERING STORMKag\u00e9 assassins lurk within the Sh\u014dgun\u2019s palace, plotting to end the new dynasty before it begins. A waif from Kigen\u2019s gutters begins a friendship that could undo the entire empire. A new enemy gathers its strength, readying to push the fracturing Shima imperium into a war it cannot hope to survive. And across raging oceans, amongst islands of black glass, Yukiko and Buruu will face foes no katana or talon can defeat.The ghosts of a blood-stained past.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15773979-kinslayer"}, +{"book_title": "Prelude to Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts", "author_name": "Lyn Gala", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 572, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Before Liam had a new commander who openly distrusted him, before Ondry earned his ka status, there were two traders. Ye Ondry wants to earn status, and he is curious about this new human. Liam has just arrived on the planet and he\u2019s trying to figure out these aliens who supposedly have good metals to trade. Neither of them suspects that a chance trade and a few pots knocked off a table could lead their lives and their fates to intertwine. Note:This free story is a prequel to the story of Ondry and Liam that details how they met. As such, it's not a romance.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29015382-prelude-to-claimings-tails-and-other-alien-artifacts"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire II: Dalek War - Chapter Three", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 121, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Kalendorf\u2019s victorious fleet has entered Earth\u2019s Solar System. But what has happened to the planet Jupiter?Meanwhile, Alby and Suz are being held captive by Enemy Dalek forces. But with the Emperor\u2019s consciousness inhabiting Suz\u2019s mind, can Alby ever again trust the woman he loves?And could it be that Kalendorf and The Mentor have stumbled into a Dalek trap? Time may be running out for the human alliance with the Daleks from another universe...", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2041319.Dalek_Empire_II"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Research", "author_name": "Gini Koch", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 950, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "When rumors of a new super-drug surface, the FBI comes to Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini for help. It becomes quickly apparent that the drug is merely the tip of a deadly iceberg and a much more insidious plan is underway involving Titan Security, Gaultier Enterprises, and YatesCorp.As newly discovered A-Cs and hybrids begin to surface, each with expanded and deadly talents, more and more signs point to a new evil genius who\u2019s using the A-Cs and their enemies both as guinea pigs. Then Area 51 and the Dulce Science Center go silent while Alpha Team, Airborne, and most of the worldwide A-C Security team are there for training. And if that\u2019s not bad enough, Centaurion Division is hit with more bad, and deadly, news: Chernobog the Ultimate, isn\u2019t a hacker myth, he\u2019s a real person -- and he\u2019s on the bad guys\u2019 side.Now Kitty and company must find the real Dr. Feelgood and stop him or her before the latest version of Surcenthumain hits the streets and more people they love are harmed, or worse. But when the inconceivable happens, Kitty\u2019s focused on two things only: reviving the ACE entity before their enemies realize Earth\u2019s best protection isn\u2019t actually active\u2026and revenge.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17148003-alien-research"}, +{"book_title": "Koko Takes a Holiday", "author_name": "Kieran Shea", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 1064, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, the most challenging part of Koko\u2019s day is deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Action", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490895-koko-takes-a-holiday"}, +{"book_title": "Falling for the Highlander: A Time Travel Romance", "author_name": "Emma Prince", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 835, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "\nDestiny throws her back in time. Can love make her stay?\n Caroline Sutton doesn\u2019t belong here. Not in the Highlands, and certainly not in the fourteenth century. Headstrong Caroline hopes an adventure will ease the pain of her parents\u2019 deaths. One minute, she\u2019s standing at the edge of a waterfall, daring her two sisters to jump with her. The next, she wakes up on the shores of a Scottish loch\u2014600 years in the past. She\u2019s determined to return to her sisters and her own time, but Callum, the rugged Highland Laird who discovers her, has other ideas. When heat flares between them, all Caroline\u2019s plans are thrown into jeopardy, but if she gives in to her blazing desire, she may never want to leave the past behind. Laird Callum MacMoran is in a bind. He has inherited a clan feud with no end in sight. When he comes across a strange yet strikingly beautiful woman on enemy lands, he thinks to use her as a bargaining chip to end the bloodshed. Little does he know this odd lass is more than she seems, and falling for her will threaten the peace he has worked so long to build. Torn between responsibility to his clan and his growing feelings for Caroline, can he love her enough to let her go? Or will fate decide their futures for them? The Enchanted Falls Trilogy follows three sisters as they find love after falling through time. Each book can be read as a stand-alone, but the stories are linked. Book 1--Falling for the Highlander by Emma Prince Book 2--Falling for the Knight by Cecelia Mecca Book 3--Falling for the Chieftain by Keira Montclair", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Historical Romance (Medieval Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40876918-falling-for-the-highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Human Croquet", "author_name": "Kate Atkinson", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 9258, "review_number": 770, "book_description": "New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearPart fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb. But Lythe was once the heart of an Elizabethan feudal estate and home to a young English tutor named William Shakespeare, and as Isobel investigates the strange history of her family, her neighbors, and her village, she occasionally gets caught in Shakespearean time warps. Meanwhile, she gets closer to the shocking truths about her missing mother, her war-hero father, and the hidden lives of her close friends and classmates. A stunning feat of imagination and storytelling, Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet is rich with the disappointments and possibilities every family shares.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literary Fiction", "Contemporary", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Mystery", "Magical Realism", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41688.Human_Croquet"}, +{"book_title": "The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real", "author_name": "William Irwin", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2095, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "The Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophical movies ever to come out of Hollywood. These thought-provoking essays by the same team of young philosophers who created The Simpsons and Philosophy discuss different facets of the primary philosophical puzzle of The Matrix: Can we be sure the world is really there, and if not, what should we do about it? Other chapters address issues of religion, lifestyle, pop culture, the Zeitgeist, the nature of mind and matter, and the reality of fiction.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Philosophy", "Nonfiction", "Culture (Film)", "Culture (Pop Culture)", "Writing (Essays)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science", "Cultural", "Literature (American)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31882.The_Matrix_and_Philosophy"}, +{"book_title": "Thumped", "author_name": "Megan McCafferty", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 5332, "review_number": 643, "book_description": "It\u2019s been thirty-five weeks since twin sisters Harmony and Melody went their separate ways. And now their story has become irresistible: twins separated at birth, each due to deliver twins\u2026on the same day!Married to Ram and living in Goodside, Harmony spends her time trying to fit back into the community she once believed in. But she can\u2019t forget about Jondoe, the guy she fell for under the strangest of circumstances.To her adoring fans, Melody has achieved everything: a major contract and a coupling with the hottest bump prospect around. But this image is costing her the one guy she really wants.The girls\u2019 every move is analyzed by millions of fans eagerly counting down to \u201cDouble Double Due Date.\u201d They\u2019re two of the most powerful teen girls on the planet, and they could do only one thing to make them even more famous:Tell the truth.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12924279-thumped"}, +{"book_title": "Stars Beyond", "author_name": "S.K. Dunstall", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 472, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "The crew of Another Road are back, closer than ever to the biggest score in the galaxy. . . if they can stay a step ahead of the Justice Department agents and Company men tracking them.An engineer with a fondness for weapons. A captain with no memory. An obsessive genemodder who loves to tinker. Meet the crew of Another Road.Josune, Roystan, and Nika have escaped the company thugs trying to kill them. They've gotten a new spaceship to replace The Road (after it was blown up underneath them). And their new ship is armed to the teeth with dangerous weapons, courtesy of Josune. All that's left to do before they head out to find the legendary lode of transurides is to restore Roystan's memory. To do that, they need to collect the genemod machine Nika has ordered.But first, they have to shake off the Justice Department agent and the Companies tracking them.It should be easy. They've done it before. What could possibly go wrong?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43878803-stars-beyond"}, +{"book_title": "The Son", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 17512, "review_number": 536, "book_description": "Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories!Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by \"Four: The Son,\" the third of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's perspective.In \"The Son,\" Tobias struggles to find a place in the hierarchy of the Dauntless. He also begins to suspect that a foul plan may be brewing within the Dauntless leadership and discovers a truth about his past that could greatly affect his future.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18892134-the-son"}, +{"book_title": "Alex + Ada, Vol. 2", "author_name": "Jonathan Luna", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 6833, "review_number": 654, "book_description": "Tensions rise between humans and robots in this sci-fi/drama set in the near future. Alex took a huge risk to unlock Ada and it seems to have paid off - Ada can now think for herself and explore life as a sentient android. As Alex and Ada spend more time together, they become closer. But as restrictions tighten on androids, Ada feels unsure about her place in Alex's life and the world. Collects Alex + Ada #6-10.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23331563-alex-ada-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Virtual", "author_name": "S.A. Pavli", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 100, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Captain Mark Alexander of the star ship Bounty Hunter is hired to transport an exploration team to a newly discovered planet; a job he imagines will be both lucrative and routine. But tragedy awaits on the beautiful planet. Events test the sanity and resolve of the exploration team and the crew of the Bounty Hunter, but also offer incredible rewards for them and the future of the Human species.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24509079-virtual"}, +{"book_title": "Passion", "author_name": "Lauren Kate", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 152486, "review_number": 6046, "book_description": "Luce would die for Daniel.And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart: Luce dead, Daniel left broken and alone. But perhaps it doesn\u2019t need to be that way\u2026 .Luce is certain that something\u2014or someone\u2014in a past life can help her in her present one. So she begins the most important journey of this lifetime\u2026 going back eternities to witness firsthand her romances with Daniel\u2026 and finally unlock the key to making their love last.Cam and the legions of angels and Outcasts are desperate to catch Luce, but none are as frantic as Daniel. He chases Luce through their shared pasts, terrified of what might happen if she rewrites history.Because their romance for the ages could go up in flames\u2026 forever.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9369720-passion"}, +{"book_title": "Bolo", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3695, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Bolo. Originally developed as far back as the 1980's by the Bolo Division of General Motors, these great artillery machines took on awareness in later designs and gradually began to replace man in that most human of endeavors: War.But let Bolo speak for itself. In the action-packed Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade, the ultimate fighting machines tell their own fascinating, far-ranging and ultimately tragic story.Contents:A Short History of the Bolo Fighting Machines (1976)The Night of the Trolls (1963)Courier (1961)Field Test (1976)The Last Command (1967)A Relic of War (1969)Combat Unit (1960)", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464042.Bolo"}, +{"book_title": "Vurt", "author_name": "Jeff Noon", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 8699, "review_number": 560, "book_description": "A brilliantly innovative and highly entertaining novel from a literary pioneer.Take a trip in a stranger\u2019s head. Travel rain-shot streets with a gang of hip malcontents, hooked on the most powerful drug you can imagine. Yet Vurt feathers are not for the weak. As the mysterious Game Cat says, \u2018Be careful, be very careful\u2019. But Scribble isn\u2019t listening. He has to find his lost love. His journey is a mission to find Curious Yellow, the ultimate, perhaps even mythical Vurt feather. As the most powerful narcotic of all, Scribble must be prepared to leave his current reality behind. This edition also includes three additional short stories by Noon.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Surreal", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17401136-vurt"}, +{"book_title": "Binding Vows", "author_name": "Catherine Bybee", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2758, "review_number": 188, "book_description": "Duncan MacCoinnich's task... Travel to the twenty-first century Renaissance Faire, deflower the Druid virgins, and go home. Only his job is not so easily accomplished with the virgin in question, Tara McAllister. Time is running out. The evil is closing in on them both. Tara finds Duncan irresistible after what was supposed to be a mock Hand-fasting binds them. When Duncan whisks her to his home in Scotland she could accept that. But, can she forgive him for taking away her modern life when she finds herself in the sixteenth century? And is it love they feel? Or something else?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6414434-binding-vows"}, +{"book_title": "So You Want to be a Robot and Other Stories", "author_name": "A. Merc Rustad", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 84, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Step one: forget the convention and disregard the binary. Gender? Sexuality? Old words unsuited for new consciousness. The twenty-one stories in this book challenge the imagination as only acclaimed author A. Merc Rustad can. Pages of robots and AIs constructing lives and exploring \"humanity\"; wasted worlds with monstrous cityhearts; assassins and the perils of enchanted labyrinths; and always the raw truths of love, loss, and devotion. Step two: read these science-fiction and fantasy tales as if they are the only stories you will discover on your bookshelf this day. Step three: dare to feel.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33376885-so-you-want-to-be-a-robot-and-other-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lectures", "author_name": "Douglas Coupland", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 6046, "review_number": 543, "book_description": "International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end.In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species \u2014 and that there is no turning back.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Contemporary", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Literature (Canadian Literature)", "Philosophy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7872823-player-one"}, +{"book_title": "Marcus", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 2734, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on\u2026 In a world gone to hell, Elle Milton\u2014once the darling of the Sydney social scene\u2014has carved a role for herself as the communications officer for the toughest commando team fighting for humanity\u2019s survival\u2014Hell Squad. It\u2019s her chance to make a difference and make up for horrible past mistakes\u2026despite the fact that its battle-hardened commander never wanted her on his team. When Hell Squad is tasked with destroying a strategic alien facility, Elle knows they need her skills in the field. But first she must go head to head with Marcus Steele and convince him she won\u2019t be a liability. Marcus Steele is a warrior through and through. He fights to protect the innocent and give the human race a chance to survive. And that includes the beautiful, gutsy Elle who twists him up inside with a single look. The last thing he wants is to take her into a warzone, but soon they are thrown together battling both the alien invaders and their overwhelming attraction. And Marcus will learn just how much he\u2019ll sacrifice to keep her safe.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25398263-marcus"}, +{"book_title": "We3", "author_name": "Grant Morrison", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 23469, "review_number": 1061, "book_description": "Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely tell the unforgettable story of three innocent pets-a dog, a cat and a rabbit-who have been converted into deadly cyborgs by a sinister military weapons program.With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the program's prototypes, and now that their testing is complete, they're slated to be permanently \"de-commissioned\"-until they seize their one chance to make a desperate run for freedom. Relentlessly pursued by their makers, the WE3 team must navigate a frightening and confusing world where their instincts and heightened abilities make them as much a threat as those hunting them-but a world, nonetheless, in which somewhere there is something called \"home.\"", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Animals", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22358.We3"}, +{"book_title": "Chenda and the Airship Brofman", "author_name": "Emilie P. Bush", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 57, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "When wealth and charm fail, an airship and the gods prevail... Chenda Frost lived as a spectator in her own life until the murder of her recluse war hero husband. Caught in a mystery about her destiny, she boards an airship with Geologist Candice Mortimer for an adventure in the air, across a desert, through a mountain and under the sea. Along the way, she loses everything she's ever known, but gains true friendship and a formidable gift from the gods.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7197009-chenda-and-the-airship-brofman"}, +{"book_title": "Making Money", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 63629, "review_number": 1976, "book_description": "It's an offer you can't refuse.Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door?It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him deadOh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies.Everywhere he looks he's making enemies.What he should be doing is . . . Making Money!", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116296.Making_Money"}, +{"book_title": "Brightly Woven", "author_name": "Alexandra Bracken", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 8867, "review_number": 1091, "book_description": "The day the rains came was like any other, blistering air coating the canyon in a heavy stillness....Just as the rains come after ten long, dry years, a young wizard, Wayland North, appears, to whisk Sydelle Mirabil away from her desert village. North needs an assistant, and Sydelle is eager to see the country - and to join him on his quest to stop the war that surely will destroy her home. But North has secrets - about himself, about why he chose Sydelle, about his real reasons for the journey. What does he want from her? And why does North's sworn enemy seem fascinated by Sydelle himself?Through a journey that spans a country, magic and hard-won romance are woven together with precision and brilliant design by a first-time novelist.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6580510-brightly-woven"}, +{"book_title": "Darwin's Radio", "author_name": "Greg Bear", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 14513, "review_number": 791, "book_description": "Molecular biologist Kaye Lang's theory--that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can return to life--has become a chilling reality. The shocking evidence: a \"virus-hunter\" has tracked down a flu-like disease that kills expectant mothers and their offspring.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Biology (Evolution)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Science (Biology)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64923.Darwin_s_Radio"}, +{"book_title": "Secondborn", "author_name": "Amy A. Bartol", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 20080, "review_number": 1544, "book_description": "Firstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Republic.On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St. Sismode\u2019s eighteenth birthday arrives with harsh realizations: she\u2019s to become a soldier for the Fate of Swords military arm of the Republic during the bloodiest rebellion in history, and her elite firstborn mother is happy to see her go.Televised since her early childhood, Roselle\u2019s privileged upbringing has earned her the resentment of her secondborn peers. Now her decision to spare an enemy on the battlefield marks her as a traitor to the state.But Roselle finds an ally\u2014and more\u2014in fellow secondborn conscript Hawthorne Trugrave. As the consequences of her actions ripple throughout the Fates Republic, can Roselle create a destiny of her own? Or will her Fate override everything she fights for\u2014even love?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32972153-secondborn"}, +{"book_title": "The Carbon Diaries 2015", "author_name": "Saci Lloyd", "rating_score": 3.36, "rating_votes": 2485, "review_number": 408, "book_description": "It's January 1st, 2015, and the UK is the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change. As her family spirals out of control, Laura Brown chronicles the first year of rationing with scathing abandon.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Environment", "Realistic Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Environment (Climate Change)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4935015-the-carbon-diaries-2015"}, +{"book_title": "The Fourth Bear", "author_name": "Jasper Fforde", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 21519, "review_number": 1274, "book_description": "Jack Spratt and Mary Mary return in their second adventure from the inimitable Jasper Fforde Five years ago, Viking introduced Jasper Fforde and his upsidedown, inside-out literary crime masterpieces. And as they move from Thursday Next to Jack Spratt\u2019s Nursery Crimes, his audience is insatiable and growing. Now, with The Fourth Bear, Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far as a murderous cookie stalks the streets of Reading. The Gingerbreadman\u2014psychopath, sadist, genius, and killer\u2014is on the loose. But it isn\u2019t Jack Spratt\u2019s case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted to Missing Persons following Jack\u2019s poor judgment involving the poisoning of Mr. Bun the baker. Missing Persons looks like a boring assignment until a chance encounter leads them into the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta \u201cGoldy\u201d Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Mole. Last to see her alive? The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen\u2019s wood. But all is not what it seems. How could the bears\u2019 porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time? Why did Mr. and Mrs. Bear sleep in separate beds? Was there a fourth bear? And if there was, who was he, and why did he try to disguise Goldy\u2019s death as a freak accident? Jack answers all these questions and a few others besides, rescues Mary Mary from almost certain death, and finally meets the Fourth Bear and the Gingerbreadman face-to-face.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Humor", "Mystery (Crime)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148809.The_Fourth_Bear"}, +{"book_title": "The Radiant Seas", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1251, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the unwilling ruler of the Highton Aristos. Sauscony must lead an invading space fleet to rescue him from his own Empire-without revealing that they are married. With much of interstellar civilization poised on the brink of destruction, it is the devotion of these two lovers, their sacrifices, and their heroism, that might just forge a new order.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/637578.The_Radiant_Seas"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Contact", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 942, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Through three centuries of interstellar travel, intelligent alien life- forms had never been encountered . . . until now.When a scientific team exploring an obscure planet fails to make its regular communications check, the Marines of third platoon are sent to investigate. They prepare for a routine rescue operation, but what they find on Society 437 is a horror beyond description. Only a handful of ragtag pirates who were in the wrong place at the very worst time have survived, and there is little trace of the scientists.What happened to the scientists? Why have the pirates been spared? Gunnery Sergeant Bass and the men of third platoon are about to find out, and the answer carries a terrifying implication for the Marines--and the entire human race.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Literature (American)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662672.Blood_Contact"}, +{"book_title": "Stranger", "author_name": "Zoe Archer", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 711, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "He protects the world\u2019s magic\u2014with his science. But even the best scientists can fall prey to the right chemistry\u2026Looking For TroubleGemma Murphy has a nose for a story\u2014even if the boys in Chicago\u2019s newsrooms would rather focus on her chest. So when she runs into a handsome man of mystery discussing how to save the world from fancy-pants Brit conspirators, she\u2019s sensing a scoop. Especially when he mentions there\u2019s magic involved. Of course, getting him on the record would be easier if he hadn\u2019t caught her eavesdropping.Lighting His FuseCatullus Graves knows what it\u2019s like to be shut out: his ancestors were slaves. And he\u2019s a genius inventor with appropriately eccentric habits, so even people who love him find him a little odd. But after meeting a certain redheaded scribbler, he\u2019s thinking of other types of science. Inconvenient, given that he needs to focus on preventing the end of the world as we know it. But with Gemma\u2019s insatiable curiosity sparking Catullus\u2019 inventive impulses, they might set off something explosive anyway.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7863194-stranger"}, +{"book_title": "On the Blue Comet", "author_name": "Rosemary Wells", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 834, "review_number": 180, "book_description": "Trains and time travel spur one boy's thrilling adventure as he seeks to rejoin his father in a new classic from Rosemary Wells and Bagram Ibatoulline. (Age 10 and up)One day in a house at the end of Lucifer Street, on the Mississippi River side of Cairo, Illinois, eleven-year-old Oscar Ogilvie's life is changed forever. The Crash of 1929 has rippled across the country, and Oscar's dad must sell their home--with all their cherished model trains--and head west in search of work. Forced to move in with his humorless aunt, Carmen and his teasing cousin, Willa Sue, Oscar is lonely and miserable--until he meets a mysterious drifter and witnesses a crime so stunning it catapults Oscar on an incredible train journey from coast to coast, from one decade to another. Filled with suspense and peppered with witty encounters with Hollywood stars and other bigwigs of history, this captivating novel by Rosemary Wells, gorgeously illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, resonates with warmth, humor, and the true magic of a timeless adventure.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8036437-on-the-blue-comet"}, +{"book_title": "A Rebel in Time", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 347, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Can history be changed? Can the South still win the War Between the States? Colonel McCulloch thinks so, even though the war ended more than a hundred years ago. With gold, an automatic weapon, and some very special blueprints, he plans to go back in time and reverse the outcome of the Civil War.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Literature (American)", "American History (American Civil War)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (19th Century)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1385318.A_Rebel_in_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Firestarter", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 195284, "review_number": 3245, "book_description": "The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka \"The Shop\") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called \"Lot Six\" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.--stephenking.com", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Suspense", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233667.Firestarter"}, +{"book_title": "Vacuum Diagrams", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 2605, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "\"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life...\"This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind - all the way to the end of the Universe itself.Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax; the mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring, where Ghost, Human, and Xeelee contemplate the awesome end of Time.Contents:Prologue: Eve (1997)The Sun-People (1993)The Logic Pool (1994)Gossamer (1995)Cilia-of-Gold (1994)Lieserl (1993)Pilot (1993)The Xeelee Flower (1987)More Than Time or Distance (1988)The Switch (1990)Blue Shift (1989)The Quagma Datum (1989)Planck Zero (1992)The G\u00f6del Sunflowers (1992)Vacuum Diagrams (1990)Stowaway (1991)The Tyranny of Heaven (1990)Hero (1995)Secret History (1991)Shell (1987)The Eighth Room (1989)The Baryonic Lords (1991)Epilogue: Eve (1997)", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63960.Vacuum_Diagrams"}, +{"book_title": "Deathwolf", "author_name": "Andy Smillie", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 96, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "In the heavens above Luetin Hive, Erik Morkai\u2019s Space Wolves clash with dark eldar raiders, jump-pack clad Blood Claws taking the battle to the aliens\u2019 own infernal airships. But the war will be decided by Morkai himself as he challenges the aliens' sinister leader to single combat.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "40k", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15727981-deathwolf"}, +{"book_title": "Skybreaker", "author_name": "Kenneth Oppel", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 11535, "review_number": 660, "book_description": "A legendary ghost ship. An incredible treasure. A death-defying adventure.Forty years ago, the airship Hyperion vanished with untold riches in its hold. Now, accompanied by heiress Kate de Vries and a mysterious gypsy, Matt Cruse is determined to recover the ship and its treasures. But 20,000 feet above the Earth's surface, pursued by those who have hunted the Hyperion since its disappearance, and surrounded by deadly high-altitude life forms, Matt and his companions soon find themselves fighting not only for the Hyperion\u2014but for their very lives.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428036.Skybreaker"}, +{"book_title": "The Twelve Bots of Christmas", "author_name": "Nathan Hale", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 169, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Take one robotic Santa, nine cyber-reindeer pulling his techno-sleigh, and twelve days of Christmas circuitry and wizardry\u2014and this incredible holiday offering is guaranteed to add up to every gear-head's delight!This unique spin on the familiar song just begs to be read aloud, as it retains the cadence and lyricism of the original. With two turbo doves and three wrench hens leading the way, young readers will be thrilled to join Robo-Santa on his annual round of gift giving. Nathan Hale has created a special delivery for all robot fans.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Childrens", "Holiday", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7939979-the-twelve-bots-of-christmas"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Hunt", "author_name": "Bruce Coville", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1926, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "Readers will be on the edge of their seats with this concluding episode of the riveting best-selling series by one of America's most gifted fantasy writers.In the center if Luster stands an enormous tree called the Axis Mundi, the Heart of the World. But now that tree is wounded, pierced through by magic. And through that wound marches an army of Hunters, led by the sinister and vengeful Beloved. And they are all determined to destroy each and every unicorn. As the unicorns gather to defend their lives, the human girl, Cara, is sent on a mission to meet a ferocious and mysterious dragon. Faced with perilous danger, Cara must make a desperate decision that will change her life forever.(contd.)", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6640070-the-last-hunt"}, +{"book_title": "Highlander's Bride", "author_name": "Lexy Timms", "rating_score": 3.23, "rating_votes": 948, "review_number": 110, "book_description": "\nOne moment in time was all it took\u2026\n She shouldn\u2019t be here\u2026 She can\u2019t even recall how she got here. Except for the dream. Mya Boyle remembers the dream. She knows it\u2019s somehow connected to her past, her present and the future. Mya woke one morning in a field, a stag grazing close by as if it didn\u2019t even notice her. She lay bare, like a babe from the womb, except for a wool blanket wrapped around her tightly. A grown woman with no memory, no family, no money, nothing. Kayden McGregor found her while hunting. He was after the stag and nearly shot her with his arrow instead. Unable to leave her to the wolves of his clan, he took her to his home. He resents her. She can\u2019t bare to look at him. Or stop herself from staring when he doesn\u2019t notice. Trapped, and yet somehow destined to be together. \nRemember enough of the past\u2026 You may be able to control your future.\n Moment in Time Series: #1 - Highlander's Bride #2 - Victorian Bride #3 - Modern Bride #4 - Royal Bride #5 - Forever the Bride \n NOTE: This is a series. In order to understand the time travel aspect, you will need to read the series to find out what is going on and put the pieces of the puzzle together. \n", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32580504-highlander-s-bride"}, +{"book_title": "Defy the Worlds", "author_name": "Claudia Gray", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3388, "review_number": 578, "book_description": "This is the thrilling and romantic sequel to Defy the Stars from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline.An outcast from her home -- Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. And when a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi gets her chance. As the only soldier to have ever left the planet, it will be up to her to save its people...if only she wasn't flying straight into a trap.A fugitive from his fate -- On the run to avoid his depraved creator's clutches, Abel believes he's said good-bye to Noemi for the last time. After all, the entire universe stands between them...or so he thinks. When word reaches him of Noemi's capture by the very person he's trying to escape, Abel knows he must go to her, no matter the cost.But capturing Noemi was only part of Burton Mansfield's master plan. In a race against time, Abel and Noemi will come together once more to discover a secret that could save the known worlds, or destroy them all.In this thrilling and romantic sequel to Defy the Stars, bestselling author Claudia Gray asks us all to consider where--and with whom--we truly belong.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Space", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34942737-defy-the-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Catch the Lightning", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1456, "review_number": 71, "book_description": "In the distant future, the Skolian empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all. For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light across the interstellar space. but their most determined enemy, the traders, who thrive on human pain, need to interbreed with a Skolian to gain their powers. And now they have her.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367993.Catch_the_Lightning"}, +{"book_title": "The Merchants' War", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 2656, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade\u00a0and The Hidden Family\u00a0that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family\u00a0was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap in The Clan Corporate and betrothed to a brain-damaged prince, and then all hell broke loose.\u00a0Now, in\u00a0The Merchants' War, Miriam has escaped to yet another world and remains in hiding from both the Clan and their opponents. There is a nasty shooting war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan, and we know something that Miriam does not; something that she's really going to hate--if she lives long enough to find out.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Family", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/419363.The_Merchants_War"}, +{"book_title": "The Roar", "author_name": "Emma Clayton", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 9176, "review_number": 1054, "book_description": "Mika and Ellie live in a future behind a wall: Solid concrete topped with high-voltage razor wire and guarded by a battalion of Ghengis Borgs, it was built to keep out the animals, because animals carry the plague. At least that's what Ellie, who was kidnapped as a child, has always been taught. But when she comes to suspect the truth behind her captivity, she's ready to risk exposure to the elements and answer the call of the wild. Listen. Can you hear it? She's strapping on her headset, jumpstarting her Pod Fighter, and--with her capuchin monkey at her back--she's breaking out!", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4837032-the-roar"}, +{"book_title": "Babylon Babies", "author_name": "Maurice G. Dantec", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 527, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "In a futuristic thriller, a veteran of Sarajevo must escort a young woman pregnant with a mutant embryo, a genetically modified messiah whose birth may signal the end of human life as we know it.A cult novel in France, this sci-fi thriller is now being made into a movie by Mathieu Kassovitz. Set in the hidden \"flesh and chip\" breeding grounds of the first cyborg communities and peopled by Serbian Mafiosi, Babylon Babies has as its hero a hard-boiled leatherneck veteran of Sarajevo named Thoorop who is hired by a mysterious source to escort a young woman named Marie Zorn from Russia to Canada. A garden variety job, he figures. But when Thoorop is offered an even higher fee by another organization, he realizes Marie is no ordinary girl. A schizophrenic and the possible carrier of a new artificial virus, Marie is carrying a mutant embryo created by an American cult that dreams of producing a genetically modified messiah, a dream that spells out the end of human life as we know it.Inspired by Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, Gilles Deleuze, and other extrapolationists of the future, Babylon Babies unfolds at breakneck speed as Thoorop risks his life to save Marie, whose brain--linking to the neuromatrix--loses all limits and becomes the universe itself. Exploring the symbiosis between organic matter and computer power to spin new forms of consciousness, Maurice Dantec rides Nietzsche's prophecy: \"Man is something to be overcome.\"", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (France)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Roman", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187899.Babylon_Babies"}, +{"book_title": "Gray: Part III", "author_name": "Lou Cadle", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 796, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Welcome to Idaho City The sign was metal, the words still visible through scorching that had happened during The Event's long fire. The words spoke of the old days, seven months ago, when civilization was intact and the world robustly populated. The sign looked normal--or would have, had it not been for the pair of human feet attached over the first two words. The feet had been severed from their owner, and hex bolts were jammed between the metatarsals. Coral and Benjamin are starving as they flee from this sight. When they encounter scavengers a few days later, have they found food and salvation? Or is it the deadliest trap of them all? Gray Part III concludes the tale of post-apocalyptic survival. The series should be read in order.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28473765-gray"}, +{"book_title": "Riddled Space", "author_name": "Bill Patterson", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 23, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "The gruesome death of the Moonbase Collins' chief sets the professional UN Astronaut Corps against the United Nations Space Operations Command and its oily Director General when he attempts to sell . It's not quite a mutiny, but the corrupt head of UNSOC is determined to crush any sense of independent action by the willful astronauts, especially the new commander of the UN Space Station Roger B. Chaffee, Lisa Daniels. All of the workers 'upstairs', in orbit and on the Moon, are under the gun--the work is hard, dangerous, and unrelenting. The morale budget is cut to the bone, the only luxuries are the ones that the shuttle pilots can smuggle up, the vendors using the manufacturing space are being squeezed for bribes at every turn.Then a massive explosion rocks the South Polar region of the Moon, spewing radiation and a huge volume of rock into cis-lunar space. Fifteen minutes after the blast, Moonbase Collins falls silent.Lisa Daniels and her crew are in incredible danger. Not only have they absorbed radiation equivalent to ten-thousand X-rays, they may be in path of the debris plume blasted off of the Moon. The Director-General, faced with losing the source of his bribe money, has forbidden evacuation of the Chaffee. Besides, he has spent his twenty years of rule squeezing the maximum amount of cash from the Chaffee. Non-essentials, like lifeboats, were never funded.Lisa has a plan to get everyone to Earth, but to put it in action, she will have to sacrifice everything she has worked so hard for all of her life, as well as drag in everyone else on the ground into her mutiny. The real question is: dare she do it?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36178449-riddled-space"}, +{"book_title": "Silver Stars", "author_name": "Michael Grant", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 1686, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "She\u2019s fighting to survive.The summer of 1943, World War II. The Germans have been bloodied, but Germany is very far from beaten. The North African campaign was only the beginning of the long journey for Frangie, Rainy, Rio, and the millions of other Allies.Now the American army is moving on to their next target: the Italian island of Sicily. Frangie, Rainy, and Rio now know firsthand what each of them is willing to do to save herself\u2014and the consequences. With their heavy memories of combat, they will find this operation to be even tougher.Frangie, Rainy, and Rio also know what is at stake. The women are not heroes for fighting alongside their brothers\u2014they are soldiers. But the millions of brave females fighting for their country have become a symbol in the fight for equality. In this war, endless blood has been spilled and millions of lives have been lost, but there could be so much more to gain.The women won\u2019t conquer Italy alone. But they will brave terrible conditions in an endless siege; they will fight to find themselves on the front lines of World War II; and they will come face-to-face with the brutality of war until they win or die.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "War", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (World War II)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30037861-silver-stars"}, +{"book_title": "Penny's Protector", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1928, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "S\u2019bren doesn\u2019t realize what a mess he\u2019s stepping in when he steals me away. He just wants to resonate. Sweet, right? But his methods are all wrong and resonance doesn\u2019t look as if it's happening anytime soon for either of us. So I\u2019m going to use this time away from the camp as an opportunity. We\u2019re going to go exploring and not return to the beach camp until I'm good and ready. It's one part punishment for him - being my guide - and one part adventure for me. We'll have fun, swing from some vines in the fruit cave, and then return to Icehome when we're good and ready. What's not part of the plan? Falling in love. Matters of the heart are tricky when the khui gets the final say...and mine is totally silent.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49116604-penny-s-protector"}, +{"book_title": "Terminal Alliance", "author_name": "Jim C. Hines", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2263, "review_number": 428, "book_description": "When the Krakau came to Earth, they planned to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. This would have worked out better for all involved if they hadn\u2019t arrived after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know\u2014your standard apocalypse. The Krakau\u2019s first impulse was to turn their ships around and go home. After all, it\u2019s hard to establish diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat your diplomats. Their second impulse was to try to fix us. A century later, human beings might not be what they once were, but at least they\u2019re no longer trying to eat everyone. Mostly.Marion \u201cMops\u201d Adamopoulos is surprisingly bright (for a human). As a Lieutenant on the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish, she\u2019s in charge of the Shipboard Hygiene and Sanitation team. When a bioweapon attack by an alien race wipes out the Krakau command crew and reverts the rest of the humans to their feral state, only Mops and her team are left with their minds intact.Escaping the attacking aliens\u2014not to mention her shambling crewmates\u2014is only the beginning. Sure, Mops and her assortment of space janitors and plumbers can clean the ship, but flying the damn thing is another matter. As they struggle to keep the Pufferfish functioning and find a cure for their crew, they stumble onto a conspiracy that could threaten the entire alliance.A conspiracy born from the truth of what happened on Earth all those years ago\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31363503-terminal-alliance"}, +{"book_title": "Norby's Other Secret", "author_name": "Janet Asimov", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 154, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "When unscrupulous scientists try to kidnap Norby in order to learn the secret of the robot's anti-gravitational capabilities, he and Jeff discover on the dragon-inhabited planet Jamya the key to an even more precious secret.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/638388.Norby_s_Other_Secret"}, +{"book_title": "Solar Lottery", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 3823, "review_number": 265, "book_description": "The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery and when the magnetic lottery bottle twitched, anyone could become the absolute ruler of the world, the Quizmaster.But with the power came the game \u2013 the assassination game \u2013 which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to evade his chosen killer? Which made for fascinating and exciting viewing, compelling enough to distract the public\u2019s attention while the Big Five industrial complexes ran the world. Then, in 2203, with the choice of a member of a maverick cult as Quizmaster, the system developed a little hitch\u2026Solar Lottery was Philip K. Dick\u2019s first published novel, brilliant and idiosyncratic, powerful and affecting.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92504.Solar_Lottery"}, +{"book_title": "The Cruel Stars", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 542, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "A stand-alone set during the Ark Royal Era. The Royal Navy never expected to fight a full-scale interstellar war. Everyone knew the Great Powers would never risk everything on armed conflict, when there was plenty of room for everyone in outer space. But when a hostile alien force stumbles across humanity\u2019s handful of colony worlds, the Great Powers must set aside their differences and fight to preserve humanity from utter destruction. Desperate for starships and manpower, the Royal Navy embarks upon an ambitious plan of converting freighters into makeshift carriers and recruiting reservists and criminals to fill the ranks. Classed as expendable, the small carriers will be given the most dangerous missions to slow a remorseless alien foe ... ... And the pardons their crews have been offered will be meaningless if they die.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36554215-the-cruel-stars"}, +{"book_title": "The Dracons' Woman", "author_name": "Laura Jo Phillips", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1133, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "One day Lariah Daniels is a beautiful but shy historical librarian on Earth. The next, she is fleeing across the stars from a sadistic crime lord who will stop at nothing to hunt her down and torture her for information about her sister, a psychic undercover agent for a shadowy intelligence organization. Lariah selects as her safe haven the distant, pastoral world of Jasan, known for its peaceful, rural setting, and the practice of its shifter inhabitants of mating three of their men to one human woman.Upon arriving on Jasan, Lariah learns that all is not as it seems. In the company of three incredibly gorgeous brothers she finds herself caught up in a world of danger, interstellar intrigue, and otherworldly desire and it is revealed to her that she may be the fulfillment of a mysterious prophesy, and the key to the survival of the Jasani race. Lariah must choose between preserving her identity as a human being or following a dangerous path that may lead to her true destiny: being soul-linked to the Royal Princes of Jasan, and finding eternal love that reaches across the stars.The Dracons' Woman is a thrilling, fast-paced fantasy of love, desire, and galactic adventure that will have your heart pounding and your blood racing.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12954447-the-dracons-woman"}, +{"book_title": "Secret Histories", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 3356, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Secret Histories is a collection of three action-packed novellas that share stories the Mogadorians don't want you to know about the inner workings of their regime as well as how they engineered the attack on Lorien. Originally published as e-novellas, now, for the first time ever, they are together in one print volume.You already know the truth about the Garde and the Mogadorian invasion, yet there is still so much to learn. The stories in Secret Histories will help you get the answers you seek, but they will not help you stop the coming war. Only the Garde can save our planet.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Novella", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16065725-secret-histories"}, +{"book_title": "Down in the Bottomlands and Other Places", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 157, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "In our world, the Mediterranean basin has dried up several times, only to refill. If it hadn't, it would have become a savage desert. But in his world, that's just the way mild-mannered Radnal vez Krobir likes it.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666260.Down_in_the_Bottomlands_and_Other_Places"}, +{"book_title": "Scattered Suns", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4807, "review_number": 109, "book_description": "The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros ravages the Ildiran Empire, dividing humanity. New Mage-Imperator Jora'h must quash the rebellion launched by his mad brother before the hydrogues destroy what is left of the empire. He sends his beloved half-human daughter on a desperate mission to make peace with the hydrogues. Jess Tamblyn seeds worlds with the watery wentals, the mortal enemies of the hydrogues. On the ravaged planet of Theroc, home to a telepathic worldforest, a dead man is resurrected for mysterious new allies. Chairman Basil Wenceslas, in a vendetta against the free-spirited Roamers, ignores the soldier machine backbone of the Hansa fighting force. King Peter has long suspected that the compies, built with the help of the ancient Klikiss robots, cannot be trusted. In the coming war, humans and Ildirans will both face their darkest choices yet.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103103.Scattered_Suns"}, +{"book_title": "Human Omega: Trapped in the Alien Jungle", "author_name": "Eileen Glass", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 928, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Carter isn't sure what to call his two alien protectors. Friends? Boyfriends? Mates?Or merely indiscriminate lovers with sexy purrs and tangling tails?He would be lost without them, he knows that. When their home is invaded by a dangerous new kind of alien slaver, they strike out into the jungle. He depends on them for food, protection, a direction to walk in. He's helpless even for shelter and warmth.Thankfully, his alien lovers seem devoted, but why? Carter wishes he knew their names or anything else. Like whether the attachment he's feeling is returned.With aliens, you can't make assumptions.Wouldn't it be nice if he could just ask?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Menage (M M M)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42088016-human-omega"}, +{"book_title": "Treasure Of The Abyss", "author_name": "Tiffany Roberts", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2406, "review_number": 305, "book_description": "\n\n\nHis Treasure And His Obsession...\n\n\nDespite her longing for the sea, Macy has clung to the safety of land for half her life, devoting herself to her daily routine - until she agrees to go sailing with a childhood friend. Her fears come to fruition when a sudden storm capsizes their boat, rekindling her old terror. She awakens to a rescuer who is anything but human - and he refuses to let her go. Treated like a curiosity and a possession, she's desperate to go home. Yet Macy is undeniably drawn to this strange creature. Can she give up her old life, her family and friends, to embrace this adventure\u2026 and Jax?\n\n\nHer Saviour And Her Captor...\n\n\nJax the Wanderer is a hunter, an explorer, and an oddity among his kind. While other kraken are content near their dens, Jax is driven by a deep need to journey far and wide, discovering the unknown corners of the sea. Macy challenges everything he's known; she is the most alluring creature he's ever seen on his travels. He must possess her, though he knows it can only end in disaster. How much is he willing to forsake for the female he desires?\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37685787-treasure-of-the-abyss"}, +{"book_title": "The Three-Cornered War", "author_name": "John Dalmas", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 123, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Alpha-Males: You can't live with 'em, but sometimes you can't live without 'em. An alien migration fleet -- 14,000 starships strong -- searches the stars for a new home, its homeworld forever lost. When they finally find planets that can support them, all they have to do is eradicate the pesky human natives, a task they assume is easily within their powers. But Earth's Commonwealth of Worlds isn't about to give up so easily -- even if it has to create and train something it hasn't had for centuries: soldiers!", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573240.The_Three_Cornered_War"}, +{"book_title": "Collared", "author_name": "Kari Gregg", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1498, "review_number": 192, "book_description": "Trans-Global IT director Connor Witt is a rare and prized anomaly: the aggression centers in his brain have been suppressed rather than stimulated by the mutated crops that so recently took over the world\u2019s food supply. Bewildered by his physical changes and terrified of a world growing more and more predatory, Connor risks harassment and worse until Trans-Global CEO David Martin collars Connor to protect him against men like security consultant Emmett Drake. Men who stalk Connor as sweet, sexy prey. Men to whom the newly submissive Connor feels irresistibly drawn.But David can\u2019t be Connor\u2019s master; David\u2019s straight. He promises to find a worthy man, though. One willing to court and appreciate Connor as more than just some rich man\u2019s toy.While the world adapts to the biological disaster and new laws strip away Connor\u2019s rights, David\u2019s resolve to protect his boy slowly grows into something more. But can his new desires keep pace with Emmett\u2019s determination to claim Connor? One man offers safety; the other is a safer bet. Problem is, Connor\u2019s never sure which is which. The one thing he does know? He wants them both.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Menage (M M M)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12323770-collared"}, +{"book_title": "Never Deal with a Dragon", "author_name": "Robert N. Charrette", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 2099, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "The year is 2050. The power of magic and the creatures it brings have returned to the earth, and many of the ancient races have re-emerged. Elves, Orks, Mages and lethal Dragons find a home in a world where technology and human flesh have melded into deadly urban predators. And the multinational mega-corporations hoard the only thing of real value - information.For Sam Verner, living in the womb of the Renraku conglomerate was easy, until his sister disappeared and the facade of the corporate reality began to disintegrate. Now Sam wants out, but to \"extract\" himself he has to slide like a whisper through the deadly shadows the corporations cast, through a world where his first wrong move may be his last... the world of Shadowrun.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Games (Gaming)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351451.Never_Deal_with_a_Dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Life Ever After", "author_name": "Carla Grauls", "rating_score": 3.22, "rating_votes": 1163, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "Tech City: Society is obsessed with relentless progress and the possibility of eternal life. A woman and a man meet in waiting room, anticipating a procedure that will incorporate the latest science and technology into their minds and bodies, heightening their awareness and increasing their productivity. Years pass, their relationship deepens and fades, and they grow increasingly uncertain where the AI stops and where they begin. A romantic drama exploring the potentiality of transhumanism, Life Ever After is a rich listening experience that is at once naturalistic and poetic.Playwright Carla Grauls was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible commissioned playwright, she received funding and creative support to develop Life Ever After.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Plays", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Drama", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51212993-life-ever-after"}, +{"book_title": "This Monstrous Thing", "author_name": "Mackenzi Lee", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 2244, "review_number": 586, "book_description": "In 1818 Geneva, men built with clockwork parts live hidden away from society, cared for only by illegal mechanics called Shadow Boys. Two years ago, Shadow Boy Alasdair Finch\u2019s life shattered to bits.His brother, Oliver\u2014dead.His sweetheart, Mary\u2014gone.His chance to break free of Geneva\u2014lost.Heart-broken and desperate, Alasdair does the unthinkable: He brings Oliver back from the dead.But putting back together a broken life is more difficult than mending bones and adding clockwork pieces. Oliver returns more monster than man, and Alasdair\u2019s horror further damages the already troubled relationship.Then comes the publication of Frankenstein and the city intensifies its search for Shadow Boys, aiming to discover the real life doctor and his monster. Alasdair finds refuge with his idol, the brilliant Dr. Geisler, who may offer him a way to escape the dangerous present and his guilt-ridden past, but at a horrible price only Oliver can pay\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Retellings", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Horror", "Fiction", "Gothic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22811807-this-monstrous-thing"}, +{"book_title": "From Unseen Fire", "author_name": "Cass Morris", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 438, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "The Dictator is dead; long live the Republic.But whose Republic will it be? Senators, generals, and elemental mages vie for the power to shape the future of the city of Aven. Latona of the Vitelliae, a mage of Spirit and Fire, has suppressed her phenomenal talents for fear they would draw unwanted attention from unscrupulous men. Now that the Dictator who threatened her family is gone, she may have an opportunity to seize a greater destiny as a protector of the people -- if only she can find the courage to try.Her siblings\u2014a widow who conceals a canny political mind in the guise of a frivolous socialite, a young prophetess learning to navigate a treacherous world, and a military tribune leading a dangerous expedition in the province of Iberia\u2014will be her allies as she builds a place for herself in this new world, against the objections of their father, her husband, and the strictures of Aventan society.Latona\u2019s path intersects with that of Sempronius Tarren, an ambitious senator harboring a dangerous secret. Sacred law dictates that no mage may hold high office, but Sempronius, a Shadow mage who has kept his abilities a life-long secret, intends to do just that. As rebellion brews in the provinces, Sempronius must outwit the ruthless leader of the opposing Senate faction to claim the political and military power he needs to secure a glorious future for Aven and his own place in history.As politics draw them together and romance blossoms between them, Latona and Sempronius will use wit, charm, and magic to shape Aven\u2019s fate. But when their foes resort to brutal violence and foul sorcery, will their efforts be enough to save the Republic they love?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33517480-from-unseen-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Goliath", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 29671, "review_number": 2583, "book_description": "Alek and Deryn are abroad the Leviathan when the ship is ordered to pick up an unusual passenger. This brilliant/maniacal inventor claims to have a weapon called Goliath that can end the war. But whose side is he really on?While on their top-secret mission, Alek finally discovers Deryn's deeply kept secret. Two, actually. Not only is Deryn a girl disguised as a guy...she has feelings for Alek.The crown, true love with a commoner, and the destruction of a great city all hang on Alek's next--and final--move.The thunderous conclusion to Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan series, which was called \"sure to become a classic\" (SLJ).", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9918083-goliath"}, +{"book_title": "Artificial Condition", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 44544, "review_number": 4701, "book_description": "It has a dark past \u2013 one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself \u201cMurderbot\u201d. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don\u2019t want to know what the \u201cA\u201d stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36223860-artificial-condition"}, +{"book_title": "Kyele's Passion", "author_name": "Michelle Howard", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1076, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "Being a Jutak warrior is all Kyele Bastien cares about until one mission changes everything. The Earth female has carved a place in his heart without even trying and now he\u2019ll do anything to make sure nothing ever hurts her again. Rescued from a Marenian slave auction, Joni Miller is relieved to have her life back but there\u2019s one man making it difficult to remember why she shouldn\u2019t want to think about happy ever after any more. An enemy\u2019s need for revenge puts Joni in the path of danger and unleashes the fury of an elite soldier with dark abilities. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Warriors", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29543125-kyele-s-passion"}, +{"book_title": "Life on Mars", "author_name": "Jon Agee", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1918, "review_number": 367, "book_description": "In this sneaky, silly picture book for fans of Oliver Jeffers and Jon Klassen, an intrepid but not so clever space explorer is certain he s found the only living thing on MarsA young astronaut is absolutely sure there is life to be found on Mars. He sets off on a solitary mission, determined to prove the naysayers wrong. But when he arrives, equipped with a package of cupcakes as a gift, he sees nothing but a nearly barren planet. Finally, he spies a single flower and packs it away to take back to Earth as proof that there is indeed life on Mars. But as he settles in for the journey home, he cracks open his cupcakes only to discover that someone has eaten them all!Readers will love being in on the secret: Unbeknownst to the explorer, a Martian has been wandering through the illustrations the whole time and he got himself a delicious snack along the way.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Space", "Humor", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30422487-life-on-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Fire in the Woods", "author_name": "Jennifer M. Eaton", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 445, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "When a plane crashes in the woods near Jess\u2019s home, the boy of her dreams falls out of the sky\u2014literally. But David\u2019s not here to find a girlfriend. He\u2019s from another planet, and if Jess can\u2019t help him get back to his ship, he\u2019ll be stuck on Earth with nothing to look forward to but the pointy end of a dissection scalpel. But her father runs their house like an army barracks. and with an alien on the loose, Major Dad isn\u2019t too keen on the idea of Jess going anywhere. Ever. So how the heck is she supposed to help the sweetest, strangest, and cutest guy she\u2019s ever met? Hiding him in her room probably isn\u2019t the best idea. Especially since her Dad is in charge of the squadron searching for David. That doesn\u2019t mean she won\u2019t do it. It just means she can't get caught. Helping David get home while protecting her heart\u2014that\u2019s gonna be the hard part. After all, she can't really fall for a guy whose not exactly from here. As they race through the woods with Major Dad and most of the U.S. military one breath behind them, Jess and David grow closer than either of them anticipated. But all is not what it seems. David has a genocide-sized secret, and one betrayal later, they are both in handcuffs as alien warships are positioning themselves around the globe. Time is ticking down to Armageddon, and Jess must think fast if she's to save the boy she cares about without sacrificing Earth\u2014and everyone on it. FIRE IN THE WOODS is Star-Crossed meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22674815-fire-in-the-woods"}, +{"book_title": "Sorcery of Thorns", "author_name": "Margaret Rogerson", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 50345, "review_number": 9563, "book_description": "All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer\u2019s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery\u2014magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.Then an act of sabotage releases the library\u2019s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth\u2019s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she\u2019s been taught\u2014about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Paranormal (Demons)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201395-sorcery-of-thorns"}, +{"book_title": "Saving Juliet", "author_name": "Suzanne Selfors", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 5148, "review_number": 474, "book_description": "Manhattan meets Verona in this time-bending twist on Shakespeare.When Mimi is magically thrust into the middle of Shakespeare\u2019s Verona, she must find a way to help Juliet fight for her future happiness. Will she be able to give this classic tragedy a happy ending?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Retellings", "Historical", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2095336.Saving_Juliet"}, +{"book_title": "An Original Sin", "author_name": "Nina Bangs", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 447, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "A crafty matchmaker transports a beautiful scientist from a time where men nolonger exist into the arms of a handsome Scotsman.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3820.An_Original_Sin"}, +{"book_title": "The Wolf at the Door", "author_name": "Charlie Adhara", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 3486, "review_number": 620, "book_description": "A former FBI agent is partnered with the enemy in this suspenseful male/male shifter romance from debut author Charlie AdharaHunting for big bad wolves was never part of Agent Cooper Dayton\u2019s plan, but a werewolf attack lands him in the carefully guarded Bureau of Special Investigations. A new case comes with a new partner: ruggedly sexy werewolf Oliver Park.Park is an agent of The Trust, a werewolf oversight organization working to ease escalating tensions with the BSI. But as far as Cooper\u2019s concerned, it\u2019s failing. As they investigate a series of mysterious deaths unlike anything they\u2019ve seen, every bone in Cooper\u2019s body is suspicious of his new partner\u2014even when Park proves himself as competent as he is utterly captivating.When more people vanish, pressure to solve the case skyrockets. And though he\u2019d resolved to keep things professional, Cooper\u2019s friction with Park soon erupts\u2026into a physical need that can\u2019t be contained or controlled. But with a body count that\u2019s rising by the day, werewolves and humans are in equal danger. If Cooper and Park don\u2019t catch the killer soon, one\u2014or both\u2014of them could be the next to go.This book is approximately 90,000 wordsCarina Press acknowledges the editorial services of Mackenzie Walton", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36480253-the-wolf-at-the-door"}, +{"book_title": "Feersum Endjinn", "author_name": "Iain M. Banks", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 9738, "review_number": 365, "book_description": "In a world where one can live multiple lives, Count Alandre Sessine VIII has survived seven times and is down to his last, leaving him one final shot at finding his killer. His only clues point to a conspiracy that reaches far beyond his own murder, and survival lies in discovering other fugitives who know the truth about the ultimate weapon of chaos and salvation. Reprint.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Banking (Banks)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12015.Feersum_Endjinn"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Repairs", "author_name": "Jonathan Litton", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 29, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Max and Suzy discover an old robot and set out to try and bring it back to life. Can they use their technological know-how to put it back together again? This STEAM story introduces the concepts of electricity, motors, and tools.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38643878-robot-repairs"}, +{"book_title": "Pass of Fire", "author_name": "Taylor Anderson", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 619, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "After being transported to a strange alternate Earth, Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker have learned desperate times call for desperate measures, in the return to the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.Time is running out for the Grand Human and Lemurian Alliance. The longer they take to prepare for their confrontations with the reptilian Grik, the Holy Dominion, and the League of Tripoli, the stronger their enemies become. Ready or not, they have to move--or the price in blood will break them. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matt Reddy and his battered old destroyer USS Walker lead the greatest army the humans and their Lemurian allies have ever assembled up the Zambezi toward the ancient Grik capital city. Standing against them is the largest, most dangerous force of Grik yet gathered. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On the far side of the world, General Shinya and his Army of the Sisters are finally prepared for their long-expected assault on the mysterious El Paso del Fuego. Not only is the dreaded Dominion ready and waiting for them; they've formed closer, more sinister ties with the fascist League of Tripoli. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Everything is on the line in both complex, grueling campaigns, and the Grand Alliance is stretched to its breaking point. Victory is the only option, whatever the cost, because there can be no second chances.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42080501-pass-of-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Destroyer", "author_name": "Chris Fox", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1157, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Mankind\u2019s outer colonies are disappearing. Without warning. Without a trace. Fleet command chalks the attacks up to pirates, but Captain Dryker of the UFC Johnston isn\u2019t buying it. Defying command, he leads his misfit crew into hostile territory in search of answers. They encounter a technologically superior foe unlike anything humanity has ever seen, one bent on the destruction of all sentient life. After 26,000 years the mythical Void Wraith have returned to begin the next Eradication. Humanity cannot stop them. Not without help. Captain Dryker\u2019s only hope is to forge an alliance with mankind\u2019s greatest enemy, the savage Tigris. One maverick captain, an unlikely crew, and an aging vessel are all that stand between humanity and the Eradication. \u201cIt\u2019s like Battlestar Galactica and Mass Effect had a baby, and that baby was raised by Starcraft. I read this book in one sitting, and immediately looked for the next.\u201d- The author\u2019s totally biased friend.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29605785-destroyer"}, +{"book_title": "In War Times", "author_name": "Kathleen Ann Goonan", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 312, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Sam Dance is a young enlisted soldier in 1941 when his older brother Keenan is killed at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards, Sam promises that he will do anything he can to stop the war.\u00a0During his training, Sam begins to show that he\u00a0has a knack for science and engineering, and he\u00a0is plucked from the daily grunt work of twenty-mile marches by his superiors to study subjects like code breaking, electronics, and physics in particular,\u00a0a science that is growing more\u00a0important to the war effort.\u00a0While studying, Sam is\u00a0seduced by a mysterious female physicist that is teaching one of his courses, and given her plans for a device that will end the war, perhaps even end\u00a0the human predilection for war forever.\u00a0But\u00a0the device\u00a0does something less, and more, than that. \u00a0After his training,\u00a0Sam is sent throughout Europe to\u00a0solve both theoretical\u00a0and practical problems for the Allies.\u00a0He spends his\u00a0free time\u00a0playing jazz, and trying to construct the strange device. It's only much later that\u00a0he discovers\u00a0that it worked, but in a way that he could have never imagined.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/812490.In_War_Times"}, +{"book_title": "Deathmaker", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 3232, "review_number": 229, "book_description": "When Lieutenant Caslin Ahn joined Wolf Squadron, she was prepared for the reality that she might one day be killed in the line of duty. She was less prepared for being shot down, assumed dead by her own people, and dragged off to the Cofah Empire as a prisoner of war. As if being thrust into a dungeon and interrogated wasn't bad enough, the sadistic commandant decides to give her a cellmate: the notorious pirate Deathmaker. Given the crimes he's committed against Iskandia, Cas owes it to her people to try and kill him.Part warrior and part scientist, Tolemek \"Deathmaker\" Targoson has not only slain thousands with his deadly concoctions, but he has a special loathing for Iskandian pilots. It was Ahn's commander, Colonel Zirkander, who ruined his military career, forcing him to leave his country in shame and join a pirate organization. Years later, he uses his dreadful reputation like a shield to keep people away; all he wants is to be left alone to work in his laboratory. But when fate lands him in a cell with Zirkander's prot\u00e9g\u00e9, he sees a chance for revenge. Why kill the lieutenant when he can use her to get to his old nemesis?There's just one problem: it's hard to plot against your enemies when you're in prison with them. Cas and Tolemek will have to work together if they hope to escape the Cofah dungeon. In the process, they may find that neither is what the other expects, and that they have far greater problems to worry about than ensnaring each other...Deathmaker is a full-length 85,000-word novel. It is set after the events in Balanced on the Blade\u2019s Edge, but it can be enjoyed even if you haven\u2019t read the first book.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22307971-deathmaker"}, +{"book_title": "Touching Ice", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 6647, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "What can go wrong overseeing a bunch of android sex bots on an automated whorehouse in deep space? Great job, if Megan doesn't die of boredom. Then she catches sight of the sexiest male she's ever seen. On her grainy security monitor, she watches all his sexual exploits with the bots, and fantasizes. But that's all she can do because he's a cyborg. Then fate steps in.There's a crash and Megan must escape or die. The cyborgs are rescuing the sex bots-taking them onboard their ship. She knows cyborgs hate humans. They'll kill her if she asks for help so she devises an insane plan-pretend to be the most realistic sex bot ever made.His name is Ice, and Megan is now his personal sex bot. He will satisfy every sexual fantasy she's ever had-and as many more as she can dream up. She just has to figure out how to keep her big, sexy cyborg from discovering that she is all woman.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9495552-touching-ice"}, +{"book_title": "The Riss Proposal", "author_name": "C.R. Daems", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 760, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Nadya, a Riss-human, is now an experienced SAS naval officer, having participated in two battles against the Raider\u2019s cruiser packs. However, because she hosts a Riss\u2014an intelligent parasite\u2014she continues to be seen by many as an alien, generating disgust, fear, raw hate, and attempts on her life.To add to her problems, the Raiders have identified her as contributing directly to their bad luck in fighting against the SAS Navy. They consider her a dybbuk\u2014a demon\u2014and have set a price on her\u2014dead or alive.Nadya alone has deduced the Raiders aren\u2019t a bunch of independent criminals, but clans with their own planet, and with spies on SAS planets and naval cruisers. She needs to convince the SAS, find the clans\u2019 planet\u2014and stay alive. Her life has become very complicated. This is the thrilling sequel to THE RISS GAMBLE!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17164916-the-riss-proposal"}, +{"book_title": "The Kif Strike Back", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2429, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "When the kif seized Hilfy and Tully, hani and human crew of The Pride of Chanur, they issued a challenge Pyanfar, captain of Pride, couldn't ignore, a challenge that was to take Pyanfar and her shipmates to Mkks station and into a deadly confrontation between kif, hani, mahendo'sat, and human. And what began as a simple rescue attempt soon blossomed into a dangerous game of interstellar politics, where today's ally could become tomorrow's executioner, and where methane breathers became volatile wild cards playing for stakes no oxy breather could even begin to understand\u2026", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Animals (Cats)", "Own"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/998191.The_Kif_Strike_Back"}, +{"book_title": "The Outlander Series", "author_name": "Diana Gabaldon", "rating_score": 4.73, "rating_votes": 8891, "review_number": 446, "book_description": "Diana Gabaldon\u2019s acclaimed Outlander series blends rich historical fiction with riveting adventure and a truly epic love story. Now, with this convenient seven-volume eBook bundle, discover the novels that have won Gabaldon millions of fans and introduced readers to the brilliant Claire Randall and valiant Highlander Jamie Fraser. \u00a0The year is 1946. Claire Randall is a British ex-combat nurse on a postwar second honeymoon with her husband in the Scottish Highlands. Walking alone one afternoon, she passes through a circle of standing stones and is hurled back in time to a Scotland simmering with war in the year of our Lord 1743. Catapulted into an intrigue of rival clans and rising armies that threatens her life, she\u2019s obliged to wed James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, as the only way to survive. Thus begins a series of unrivaled storytelling that has become a modern classic. This bundle includes: \u00a0OUTLANDERDRAGONFLY IN AMBERVOYAGERDRUMS OF AUTUMNTHE FIERY CROSSA BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHESAN ECHO IN THE BONE", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16029144-the-outlander-series"}, +{"book_title": "Blood Crazy", "author_name": "Simon Clark", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2247, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Saturday is a normal day. People go shopping. To the movies. Everything is just as it should be. But not for long.By Sunday, civilization is in ruins. Adults have become murderously insane. One by one they become infected with a crazed, uncontrollable urge to slaughter the young\u2014even their own children. Especially their own children.Will this be the way the world ends, in waves of madness and carnage? What will be left of our world as we know it? And who, if anyone, will survive?Terror follows terror in this apocalyptic nightmare vision by one of the most powerful talents in modern horror fiction. Prepare yourself for mankind\u2019s final days of fear.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Thriller", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/906024.Blood_Crazy"}, +{"book_title": "Tandem", "author_name": "Anna Jarzab", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 4459, "review_number": 606, "book_description": "Everything repeats.You. Your best friend. Every person you know.Many worlds. Many lives--infinite possibilities.Welcome to the multiverse.Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. When she was young, she loved her grandfather's stories of parallel worlds inhabited by girls who looked like her but led totally different lives. Sasha never believed such worlds were real--until now, when she finds herself thrust into one against her will.To prevent imminent war, Sasha must slip into the life of an alternate version of herself, a princess who has vanished on the eve of her arranged marriage. If Sasha succeeds in fooling everyone, she will be returned home; if she fails, she'll be trapped in another girl's life forever. As time runs out, Sasha finds herself torn between two worlds, two lives, and two young men vying for her love--one who knows her secret, and one who thinks she's someone she's not.The first book in the Many-Worlds Trilogy, Tandem is a riveting saga of love and betrayal set in parallel universes in which nothing--and no one--is what it seems.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15829686-tandem"}, +{"book_title": "Branded", "author_name": "Abi Ketner", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 7801, "review_number": 1357, "book_description": "Fifty years ago The Commander came into power and murdered all who opposed him. In his warped mind, the seven deadly sins were the downfall of society. To punish the guilty, he created the Hole, a place where sinners are branded according to their sins. Sinners are forced to live a less than human existence in deplorable conditions, under the watchful eye of guards who are ready to kill anyone who steps out of line.Now, LUST wraps around my neck like thick, blue fingers, threatening to choke the life out of me. I\u2019ve been accused of a crime I didn\u2019t commit, and the Hole is my new home. Constant darkness. Brutal and savage violence. Excruciating pain. Every day is a fight for survival. But I won\u2019t let them win. I will not die in the Hole. I am more than my brand. I\u2019m a fighter. My name is Lexi Hamilton, and this is my story.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "New Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Love"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17402117-branded"}, +{"book_title": "The Chronicles of Old Guy", "author_name": "Timothy J. Gawne", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 303, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "In the distant future mankind creates sentient cybertanks patterned on the human brain to help fight their alien enemies. Then, inexplicably, the humans vanished. They just went away. All that is left of the human empire are the cybertanks who, in their own way, keep the human civilization alive. With an intelligence based on the human psyche, the cybertanks continue to defend human space, but also perform scientific research, create art, form committees and ponder the universe. These are the stories of one of the first cybertanks, known to his friends as \u201cOld Guy.\u201d He has outlived most of his peers, and has had a wealth of experiences over his long life, but he is starting to slowly become obsolete. Join him and his comrades Double-Wide, Whiffle-Bat, Smoking Hole, Mondocat, and Bob, as they live and love and fight alien enemies such as the Amok, the Yllg, and the Fructoids.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17730816-the-chronicles-of-old-guy"}, +{"book_title": "Tempting the Highlander", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 3618, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "She has the power to tempt him beyond all reason.... Catherine Daniels arrives in Pine Creek, Maine, at just the right time for Robbie MacBain. She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeeper while he travels back in time to medieval Scotland. Unbeknownst to Catherine, Robbie's looking for a book of spells to save the future of his family...and little did he expect to find a burning passion in Catherine's arms. Can Robbie seal his family's fate while enticing Catherine to follow him and her own heart wherever love will take them?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160414.Tempting_the_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "On Stranger Tides", "author_name": "Tim Powers", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 8006, "review_number": 798, "book_description": "Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael, puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his stolen birthright from an unscrupulous uncle, when the vessel is captured . . . by pirates! Offered a choice by Captain Phil Davies to join their seafaring band or die, Chandagnac assumes the name John Shandy and a new life as a brigand. But more than swashbuckling sea battles and fabulous plunder await the novice buccaneer on the roiling Caribbean waters\u2013for treachery and powerful vodun sorcery are coins of the realm in this dark new world. And for the love of beautiful, magically imperiled Beth Hurwood, Shandy will set sail on even stranger tides, following the savage, ghost-infested pirate king, Blackbeard, and a motley crew of the living and the dead to the cursed nightmare banks of the fabled Fountain of Youth.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15670.On_Stranger_Tides"}, +{"book_title": "Starport", "author_name": "John Bowers", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 51, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "by John Bowers, author of the Fighter Queen saga and Nick Walker, U.F. Marshal Askelon, the most advanced world in the Trimary System, is facing unprecedented economic disaster. It\u2019s election year; President Muriel Enza is challenged by Barry Boyd, a hugely popular member of the Senate. Boyd\u2019s campaign platform is simple\u2014the office of President is just too stressful for a woman to handle. Enza faces an uphill battle; with only eight weeks until the election, the economy is in a nosedive and the cost of energy is skyrocketing. The nearby world of Environ, Askelon\u2019s primary energy supplier, is under siege by insurgents who have captured Environ\u2019s hydroleum conversion facility, reducing exports by 70%. Unless the insurgents can be overthrown, Askelon will face unprecedented economic disaster. To make matters worse, a terrorist bomb destroys the hydroleum storage tanks on Starport 1, further depleting Askelon\u2019s fuel reserves; and the Orbital Dock Workers Union threatens to strike, freezing all cargo shipments leaving the planet. Unless Enza can turn things around quickly, Askeloni civilization will slip into decline\u2026but certain men in high places will do anything to stop her. What do they care if the economy collapses?\u2014it\u2019s only politics. Starport You\u2019ve never read anything remotely like it. Rated \"R\" 106,400 words (equivalent to 398 pages in mass market paperback format) ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24268553-starport"}, +{"book_title": "The Cabinet of Wonders", "author_name": "Marie Rutkoski", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 4573, "review_number": 557, "book_description": "Marie Rutkoski's startling debut novel, the first book in the Kronos Chronicles, about the risks we take to protect those we love, brims with magic, political intrigue, and heroism.Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world's finest astronomical clock.Petra's life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home \u2013 blind. The prince has stolen his eyes, enchanted them, and now wears them. But why? Petra doesn't know, but she knows this: she will go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and steal her father's eyes back.Joining forces with Neel, whose fingers extend into invisible ghosts that pick locks and pockets, Petra finds that many people in the castle are not what they seem, and that her father's clock has powers capable of destroying their world.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2850734-the-cabinet-of-wonders"}, +{"book_title": "The Star King", "author_name": "Jack Vance", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1456, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "The first book in the 5 volume Demon Princes saga. The protagonist's parents were murdered by a posse of 5 galactic criminals, the \"demon princes\". He vows revenge, and eliminates them one by one. In the process Vance does what he excels at: creating strange worlds, environments, customs, and adaptations that humans have made to live in these conditions.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels", "Space", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1902266.The_Star_King"}, +{"book_title": "The Ruby in the Smoke", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 24781, "review_number": 1505, "book_description": "Sally is sixteen and uncommonly pretty. Her knowledge of English literature, French, history, art and music is non-existent, but she has a thorough grounding in military tactics, can run a business, ride like a Cossack and shoot straight with a pistol.When her dear father is drowned in suspicious circumstances in the South China Sea, Sally is left to fend for herself, an orphan and alone in the smoky fog of Victorian London. Though she doesn't know it, Sally is already in terrible danger. Soon the mystery and the danger will deepen - and at the rotten heart of it all lies the deadly secret of the ruby in the smoke...", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Mystery", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Mystery (Crime)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114982.The_Ruby_in_the_Smoke"}, +{"book_title": "The Lowest Heaven", "author_name": "Anne C. Perry", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 136, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "The Lowest Heaven is a new anthology of contemporary science fiction published in partnership with the Royal Observatory Greenwich to coincide with Visions of the Universe, a major exhibition of space imagery.Each story in The Lowest Heaven is themed around a body in the Solar System, from the Sun to Halley's Comet. The stories are illustrated with photographs and artwork selected from the archives of the Royal Observatory, while the book's cover and overall design are the work of award-winning South African illustrator Joey Hi-Fi.Includes:Introduction by Dr. Marek Kukula (Royal Observatory Greenwich)\"Golden Apple\" by Sophia McDougall (The Sun)\"A Map of Mercury\" by Alastair Reynolds (Mercury)\"Ashen Light\" by Archie Black (Venus)\"The Krakatoan\" by Maria Dahvana Headley (Earth)\"An account of a voyage from World to World again, by way of the Moon, 1726\" by Adam Roberts (The Moon)\"WWBD\" by Simon Morden (Mars)\"Saga's Children\" by E. J. Swift (Ceres)\"The Jupiter Files\" by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Jupiter)\"Magnus Lucretius\" by Mark Charan Newton (Europa)\"Air, Water and the Grove\" by Kaaron Warren (Saturn)\"Only Human\" by Lavie Tidhar (Titan)\"Uranus\" by Esther Saxey (Uranus)\"From This Day Forward\" by David Bryher (Neptune)\"We'll Always Be Here\" by S. L. Grey (Pluto & Charon)\"Enyo-Enyo\" by Kameron Hurley (Eris)\"The Comet's Tale\" by Matt Jones (Halley's Comet)\"The Grand Tour\" by James Smythe (Voyager I)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17734542-the-lowest-heaven"}, +{"book_title": "The Wrath and the Dawn", "author_name": "Ren\u00e9e Ahdieh", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 123119, "review_number": 17420, "book_description": "One Life to One Dawn.In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all.Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid's life as retribution for the many lives he's stolen. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18798983-the-wrath-and-the-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Blade Runner 2019 #2", "author_name": "Michael Green", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 120, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "New Blade Runner!Ash chases deadly leads in a kidnap case!From Michael Green and Mike Johnson, screenwriter for Blade Runner 2049!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46132653-blade-runner-2019-2"}, +{"book_title": "Scardown", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 986, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "The year is 2062, and after years on the run, Jenny Casey is back in the Canadian armed forces. Those who were once her enemies are now her allies, and at fifty, she\u2019s been handpicked for the most important mission of her life\u2013a mission for which her artificially reconstructed body is perfectly suited. With the earth capable of sustaining life for just another century, Jenny\u2013as pilot of the starship Montreal\u2013must discover brave new worlds. And with time running out, she must succeed where others have failed.Now Jenny is caught in a desperate battle where old resentments become bitter betrayals and justice takes the cruelest forms of vengeance. With the help of a brilliant AI, an ex\u2014crime lord, and the man she loves, Jenny may just get her chance to save the world. If it doesn\u2019t come to an end first\u2026", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185634.Scardown"}, +{"book_title": "Prodigal", "author_name": "Marc D. Giller", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 58, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "In his riveting debut, Hammerjack, Marc Giller unspooled a futuristic thriller of global intrigue, corporate espionage, and techno-terrorism. Now he delivers a gritty new novel of deadly resurrection and a no-holds-barred fight for the future\u2026Once an elusive hammerjack plunged into a virtual world of code, Lea Prism has been reborn as a corporate spook, hell-bent on ridding the universe of the anti-tech Inru terrorists. Their attempt to accelerate evolution robbed her of her once chance for happiness. Now the man she loved is nothing but a disembodied consciousness\u2013and part of the computer matrix she has sworn to defend. But from the depths of a Martian volcano to the radioactive wasteland of Chernobyl, the Inru have launched one last offensive\u2013giving rise to a final scenario more terrifying than anyone could imagine. The forces of technology are poised to distort the very worst of what nature has to offer...and the stage is set for battle.From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2305598.Prodigal"}, +{"book_title": "New World Rising", "author_name": "Jennifer Wilson", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1938, "review_number": 436, "book_description": "Worlds collide in debut author Jennifer Wilson's graphic dystopian series where Divergent meets Mad Max. Since witnessing her parents' murders at the age of eleven, Phoenix's only purpose in life has been to uphold her mother's dying words - to be strong and survive. But surviving outside of The Walls - outside of The Sanctuary - is more like a drawn-out death sentence. A cruel and ruthless city, Tartarus is run by the Tribes whose motto is simple, \"Join or die.\" Refusing to join and determined to live, Phoenix fights to survive in this savage world. But who can she trust, when no one can be trusted? Not even herself... The first of a trilogy, New World Rising is an epic tale of survival, instinct, trauma, and the extraordinary power of human connection.\"Savage and raw, Jennifer Wilson pulls no punches in this blood tingling dystopian.\" Kimberly Derting, award-winning author of The Pledge Trilogy", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43811618-new-world-rising"}, +{"book_title": "The Secret Commonwealth", "author_name": "Philip Pullman", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 35970, "review_number": 3959, "book_description": "It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence.Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child . . .The second volume of Sir Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed.Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right.Theirs is a world at once familiar and extraordinary, and they must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe and into Asia, in search for what is lost - a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert, and the mystery of the elusive Dust.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19034943-the-secret-commonwealth"}, +{"book_title": "The Stars Now Unclaimed", "author_name": "Drew Williams", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1282, "review_number": 336, "book_description": "Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages.Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse.Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must fight their way through a galaxy full of dangerous conflicts, remnants of ancient technology, and other hidden dangers.And that's just the beginning . . .", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35612392-the-stars-now-unclaimed"}, +{"book_title": "Crystal Line", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 10946, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "\"A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans, a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers' profession.\"LOCUSWhen Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn't counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra's mind. But she would have to learn to open herself--to another person, and to all her unpleasant memories.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Space", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61970.Crystal_Line"}, +{"book_title": "Induction", "author_name": "Shana Festa", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 410, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "When no one or nowhere is safe, where do you go to escape the monsters? In a few short days, 37 year old Emma Rossi\u2019s hard work will finally pay off. She will don her cap and gown and graduate with a degree in nursing, but not before she loses her first patient and is confronted with a new reality. In Cape Coral, Florida, a storm approaches. The dead are coming back to life. And they\u2019re hungry. Infection ravages the Eastern Seaboard with alarming speed while attempts to contain the spread of infection fail. Within days, a small pocket of panicked survivors are all that remain of civilization. Fighting to survive the zombie apocalypse alongside her husband Jake and their dog Daphne, Emma comes face-to-face with her worst nightmare. Relying on snarky wit and sheer determination, she is forced to commit atrocious acts to protect her family and avoid joining the ranks of the undead.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23364657-induction"}, +{"book_title": "Steamed Up", "author_name": "Amy Rae Durreson", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 175, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "Inventors, pilots, tinkers, and soldiers; magical metals to replace an aging heart or a ruined limb; steam-powered fantasy worlds of clockwork nightingales, automatons, dirigibles, and men. The stories in this anthology visit diverse times in the history of modern man, and the men who populate these tales face war and cruelty, masters and autocrats, illness and poverty and greed. Yet the heat of romance outmatches even the steam engines, and time and again, the gears of love rule the day.Stories included are:The Clockwork Nightingale's Song by Amy Rae DurresonCaress by Eli EastonSwiftsilver by Bell EllisThe Clockwork Heart by Kim FieldingThe Galatea's Captain by Anka GraceScrews by R.D. HeroThe Golden Goose Mark LesneySpindle and Bell by Augusta LiAce of Hearts by Mary PletschFive to One by Angelia SparrowUntouchable by Layla M. Wier", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Anthologies", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18518473-steamed-up"}, +{"book_title": "The League of Seven", "author_name": "Alan Gratz", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 767, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "The launch of a middle grade fantasy trilogy set in an alternate 1870s America, where electricity is a dangerous and forbidden science, Native Americans and Yankees live side-by-side as a United Nations, and eldritch evil lurks in the shadows beyond the gaslights...Young Archie Dent knows there really are monster in the world. His parents are members of the Septemberist Society, whose job it is to protect humanity from hideous giants called the Mangleborn. Trapped in underground prisons for a thousand years, the giant monsters have been all but forgotten -- but now they are rising again as the steam-driven America of 1875 rediscovers electricity, the lifeblood of the Mangleborn.When his parents and the rest of The Septemberists are brainwashed by one of the evil creatures, Archie must assemble a team of seven young heroes to save the world.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490612-the-league-of-seven"}, +{"book_title": "Shards and Ashes", "author_name": "Melissa Marr", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2743, "review_number": 478, "book_description": "Gripping original stories of dystopian worlds from nine New York Times bestselling authors, edited by Melissa Marr and Kelley Armstrong.The world is gone, destroyed by human, ecological, or supernatural causes. Survivors dodge chemical warfare and cruel gods; they travel the reaches of space and inhabit underground caverns. Their enemies are disease, corrupt corporations, and one another; their resources are few, and their courage is tested.Powerful original dystopian tales from nine bestselling authors offer bleak insight, prophetic visions, and precious glimmers of light among the shards and ashes of a ruined world.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14811468-shards-and-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "The Synchronicity War Part 1", "author_name": "Dietmar Arthur Wehr", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2895, "review_number": 156, "book_description": "After almost a century of peaceful exploration and colonization of space, the United Earth Space Force stumbles across a shockingly xenophobic alien race that has more and better-armed ships and refuses all attempts at contact. As the outgunned Space Force is driven back in battle after battle in what appears to be a war of extermination, one officer experiences precognitive visions that help him blunt the enemy onslaught but he can't control or predict when they occur.With the Senior Brass convinced that he's a tactical genius, he's given more and more responsibility and is terrified by the belief that Humanity's Fate rests on his shoulders. Can he solve the mystery of his precognitive visions before the Human Race plunges into the abyss of total extermination? This is Volume 1 of a military SF series about desperate space battles and the men, women and Artificial Intelligences, who fight and die in them.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Business (Amazon)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20348955-the-synchronicity-war-part-1"}, +{"book_title": "Emergence", "author_name": "David R. Palmer", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1874, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "Candidia Maria Smith-Foster, an eleven-year-old girl, is unaware that she's a Homo post hominem, mankind's next evolutionary step. With international relations rapidly deteriorating, Candy's father, publicly a small-town pathologist but secretly a government biowarfare expert, is called to Washington. Candy remains at home.The following day a worldwide attack, featuring a bionuclear plague, wipes out virtually all of humanity (i.e., Homo sapiens). With her pet bird Terry, she survives the attack in the shelter beneath their house. Emerging three months later, she learns of her genetic heritage and sets off to search for others of her kind.", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2300.Emergence"}, +{"book_title": "UnHappenings", "author_name": "Edward Aubry", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1874, "review_number": 349, "book_description": "When Nigel Walden is fourteen, the unhappenings begin. His first girlfriend disappears the day after their first kiss with no indication she ever existed. This retroactive change is the first of many only he seems to notice.Several years later, when Nigel is visited by two people from his future, he hopes they can explain why the past keeps rewriting itself around him. But the enigmatic young guide shares very little, and the haggard, incoherent, elderly version of himself is even less reliable. His search for answers takes him fifty-two years forward in time, where he finds himself stranded and alone.And then he meets Helen.Brilliant, hilarious and beautiful, she captivates him. But Nigel\u2019s relationships always unhappen, and if they get close it could be fatal for her. Worse, according to the young guide, just by entering Helen\u2019s life, Nigel has already set into motion events that will have catastrophic consequences. In his efforts to reverse this, and to find a way to remain with Helen, he discovers the disturbing truth about the unhappenings, and the role he and his future self have played all along.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23685819-unhappenings"}, +{"book_title": "The Ship Who Sang", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 23753, "review_number": 476, "book_description": "Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved\u2014saved to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner\u2014male or female\u2014to share her exhilirating excapades in space!Her life was to be rich and rewarding . . . resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals.Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructable, Helva XH-834 antipitated a sublime immortality.Then one day she fell in love!", "year_published": 1969, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Space", "Young Adult", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203288.The_Ship_Who_Sang"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Ice", "author_name": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 13052, "review_number": 1405, "book_description": "\"If you've never read this series, I highly recommend/strongly suggest having the Anita Blake experience. Vampires, zombies, and shifters, oh my! And trust me, these are not your daughter's vampires.\"-LITERATI BOOK REVIEWSAnita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. She\u2019s a U.S. Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claude\u2019s fianc\u00e9e.It\u2019s wreaking havoc with her reputation as a hard ass\u2014to some extent. Luckily, in professional circles, she\u2019s still the go-to expert for zombie issues. And right now, the FBI is having one hell of a zombie issue.Someone is producing zombie porn. Anita has seen her share of freaky undead fetishes, so this shouldn\u2019t bother her. But the women being victimized aren\u2019t just mindless, rotting corpses. Their souls are trapped behind their eyes, signaling voodoo of the blackest kind.It\u2019s the sort of case that can leave a mark on a person. And Anita\u2019s own soul may not survive unscathed . . .", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21066968-dead-ice"}, +{"book_title": "To Fall Among Vultures", "author_name": "Scott Warren", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 212, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "A gritty, Military SF page-turner sure to please fans of intrigue and space combat. Humanity has spent decades carefully establishing a quiet foothold in an uncaring galaxy brimming with hostile powers. That all unraveled six months ago when Captain Victoria Marin and her crew of Vultures stumbled into the center of a conflict between two of the galaxy\u2019s three apex civilizations. Eager to get off the intergalactic radar, the Vultures spent the last six months laying low, running routine salvage and recon missions for the Union Earth Government. The scavenged xenotech they and the other privateers ship back to Earth are crucial to securing humanity\u2019s place among the stars. But fate has other plans for the Vultures. When an alien Commander shows up on her doorstep offering Earth its first true defensive alliance, Vick has no choice but to pledge her crew of crafty privateers to their cause. Vick and her Vultures are drawn into a grudge almost a thousand years in the making, and survival for one race could mean extinction for the other.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35968243-to-fall-among-vultures"}, +{"book_title": "Whitechapel Gods", "author_name": "S.M. Peters", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 1812, "review_number": 195, "book_description": "A thrilling new Steampunk fantasy from a talented debut authorTWO GODS-ONE CHANCE FOR MANKINDIn Victorian London, the Whitechapel section is a mechanized, steam-driven hell, cut off and ruled by two mysterious, mechanical gods-Mama Engine and Grandfather Clock. Some years have passed since the Great Uprising, when humans rose up to fight against the machines, but a few brave veterans of the Uprising have formed their own Resistance-and are gathering for another attack. For now they have a secret weapon that may finally free them-or kill them all...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2302159.Whitechapel_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon", "author_name": "Kerrelyn Sparks", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2172, "review_number": 514, "book_description": "From the brilliant imagination of Kerrelyn Sparks comes a bold new fantasy romance series in which passion and magic collide. Behold the Embraced\u2026Gwennore has a talent. An Elf able to track down the cause of an illness and heal it, she\u2019s a valuable asset to her people. When the kidnapping of a young girl thrusts Gwennore into the very heart of the realm of the dragons, she discovers not only a place of power and magic, but also a haunted land, plagued by an ancient curse that all but ensures extinction to the royal family. But when she meets the smoldering General Silas Dravenko, they strike a bargain\u2014save the country from its cursed illness, and he will return the kidnapped girl. She\u2019s been raised never to trust a dragon, but never did making a deal with the devil feel so good\u2026Silas has no way of curing the family he\u2019s loyally served for years. But when a beautiful elf, long considered the enemy of the dragons, comes bursting into his world, Silas is awakened to passion and desire in a way he\u2019s never felt before. But can he trust a sworn enemy to save the very existence he holds dear? And can their love survive those that threaten to tear them apart?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Elves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34962717-eight-simple-rules-for-dating-a-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Caveman Alien's Rage", "author_name": "Calista Skye", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 978, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "\n\n\nDar'ax is the kind of alien caveman who takes what he wants!\n\n\nI kind of like that in a guy...\nIt's just that what he's taken now is me!\nHe just threw me over his lap and trotted away with me, into the jungle of this Jurassic planet...\nOn a freaking T. Rex!\nBecause those lethal alien dinosaurs I'm so afraid of? \nYeah, he's riding one!\nThere's no way I'm going to be the kind of girl who falls for her kidnapper...\nBut he's making it hard for me to resist. Not only is he huge and super confident, he's also drop-dead gorgeous, with his stripes and his fangs and his golden hair that shines with an inner light...\nI think we're going to his cave. Judging from the enticingly large tent he's pitching in his loincloth. I think he has plans for when we get there!\nAnd I think they involve me becoming his mate...\nWe'll just see about that!\nBecause, while he does turn me into a hot mush on the inside, an alien caveman with a dark secret, and an anger problem, feels kind of dangerous to me...\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Warriors", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36551989-caveman-alien-s-rage"}, +{"book_title": "Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory", "author_name": "Martha Wells", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 954, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "This short story is told from the point of view of Dr. Mensah and follows the events in Exit Strategy.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53918496-home"}, +{"book_title": "Junkyard Cats", "author_name": "Faith Hunter", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 5393, "review_number": 743, "book_description": "From the author of the best-selling Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood series comes a tough new heroine who is far more than she seems.After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human. And the scrapyard is no longer just a scrapyard, but a place full of secrets that she has guarded for years.This life she has built, while empty, is predictable and safe. Until the only friend left from her previous life shows up, dead, in the back of a scrapped Tesla warplane, a note to her clutched in his fingers - a note warning her of a coming attack.Someone knows who she is. Someone knows what she is guarding. Will she be able to protect the scrapyard? Will she even survive? Or will she have to destroy everything she loves to keep her secrets out of the wrong hands?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54883063-junkyard-cats"}, +{"book_title": "Under Heaven", "author_name": "Guy Gavriel Kay", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 13252, "review_number": 1555, "book_description": "In Under Heaven, Kay tells a story of honor and power, this time in a setting that evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of eighth-century China. In recognition of his service to the Emperor of Kitai, Shen Tai has been sent a mysterious and dangerous gift: 250 Sardian horses. Wisely the gift comes with the stipulation that the horses must be claimed in person. Otherwise, he would probably be dead already.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Cultural (China)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Asia)", "Adult", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7139892-under-heaven"}, +{"book_title": "Omnitopia: Dawn", "author_name": "Diane Duane", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 881, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Created by Dev Logan, Omnitopia is the most popular and successful massive multiplayer online game ever. But now as Dev is about to roll out a major new expansion to Omnitopia, there are people preparing to play a different game-one that is meant to strike at the heart of Omnitopia and bring the entire system crashing down.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Young Adult", "Games (Gaming)", "Audiobook", "Science (Technology)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7201162-omnitopia"}, +{"book_title": "Power Down, Little Robot", "author_name": "Anna Staniszewski", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 222, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "It's time to power down for the night, but Little Robot isn't ready! He quickly opens his stalling program. Luckily, Mom Unit knows exactly how to get him into his sleep module.From a debut picture book author and the illustrator of Little Boo, this funny twist on a familiar nighttime routine will click with bedtime avoidance experts everywhere.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Family", "Science (Technology)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609855-power-down-little-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Dome City Blues", "author_name": "Jeff Edwards", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 576, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "For fans of William Gibson, Phillip K. Dick, and Jak Koke\u2026Los Angeles: 2063David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles. He could do no wrong, until what seemed like an easy case got out of control, and left his wife dead among the abandoned ruins of old LA.After four years of self-imposed retirement, David suddenly finds himself back on the job, struggling to unravel a crime far worse than murder. This time, he\u2019s not the hunter. As he\u2019s about to discover, the past isn\u2019t finished with him yet.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Business (Amazon)", "Mystery (Noir)", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24531385-dome-city-blues"}, +{"book_title": "The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories", "author_name": "Ian Watson", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 529, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Includes short stories that feature some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6987625-the-mammoth-book-of-alternate-histories"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Dominance", "author_name": "Cari Silverwood", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 420, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "This is an alternative cover edition of the Kindle version ASIN B0141TS3DG.Raised from childhood as an assassin, Claire finds her world knocked off kilter when Theo Kevonis, a rich, ex-Air Corp nobleman, rescues her from an airship crash. Being a soldier of a hostile nation she cannot reveal her identity, but Theo sinks his steely Dom fingers into her heart and soul, showing her the pleasures to be found in surrendering to his touch. Captivated, Claire cannot help but bind herself in lie after lie rather than risk losing the one man who\u2019s ever loved her.When her loathsome commander returns from the dead, her deceit is uncovered. Somehow, Claire must find a way to win back Theo's trust and destroy the man who threatens them both.Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: anal play/intercourse, BDSM theme and elements, violence.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35964889-iron-dominance"}, +{"book_title": "City of Swords", "author_name": "Mary Hoffman", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1850, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Desperately unhappy, Laura has resorted to self-harming. But Laura is a Stravagante, somebody who can travel in time and space. When she finds her talisman, a small silver dagger, she stravagates to 16th-century Fortezza, a town similar to Lucca in Italy, where she meets her Stravagante, who is a swordsmith.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7846209-city-of-swords"}, +{"book_title": "The Watchmaker's Daughter", "author_name": "C.J. Archer", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 14920, "review_number": 1294, "book_description": "India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fianc\u00e9 took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who'll accept her - an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates him when he's ill. Matthew Glass must find a particular watchmaker, but he won't tell India why any old one won't do. Nor will he tell her what he does back home, and how he can afford to stay in a house in one of London's best streets. So when she reads about an American outlaw known as the Dark Rider arriving in England, she suspects Mr. Glass is the fugitive. When danger comes to their door, she's certain of it. But if she notifies the authorities, she'll find herself unemployed and homeless again - and she will have betrayed the man who saved her life. With a cast of quirky characters, an intriguing mystery, and a dash of romance, THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER is the start of a thrilling new historical fantasy series from the author of the bestselling Ministry of Curiosities, Freak House, and Emily Chambers Spirit Medium books.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29765820-the-watchmaker-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Heaven's Shadow", "author_name": "David S. Goyer", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 1193, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "The science fiction epic of our time has arrived.Three years ago, an object one hundred miles across was spotted on a trajectory for Earth's sun. Now, its journey is almost over. As it approaches, two competing manned vehicles race through almost half a million kilometers of space to reach it first. But when they both arrive on the entity, they learn that it has been sent toward Earth for a reason. An intelligent race is desperately attempting to communicate with our primitive species. And the message is: Help us.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Adult Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9435667-heaven-s-shadow"}, +{"book_title": "Zuri's Zargonnii Warrior", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1737, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "Zuri finds herself in the hands of a Zargonnii warrior after she and her shipmates are extracted from a strange world. Hunted by the heinous Tonan and sought after by the deadly Gorgano, Zuri is mortified when she realizes humans, especially female humans, are considered a rare, exotic novelty. She has no intention of being put on display for massive warriors to gawk at. She plans her escape.Kobe grows fond of the little mouthy human female placed in his charge for the duration of the space flight home. Once they land, she will no longer be his problem. Everything changes in seconds when he finds her in the ship\u2019s bay, hanging by a thread in a teetering space shuttle, bound on either self-destruction or escape. Without thought to his safety, Kobe jumps from the shuttle when Zuri falls out and plunges to the planet beneath.Zuri has no idea what danger they are in as they embark on a perilous journey. Both know if they make it out of the jungle alive, they will be separated\u2014unless Kobe can figure out a way to keep his new mate. *Erotic Romance - Controversial", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Space", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745743-zuri-s-zargonnii-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Broken Throne", "author_name": "Victoria Aveyard", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 13180, "review_number": 1385, "book_description": "Return once more to the deadly and dazzling world of Red Queen in Broken Throne, a beautifully designed, must-have companion to the chart-topping series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard.The perfect addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, this gorgeously designed package features three brand-new novellas, two previously published novellas, Steel Scars and Queen Song, and never-before-seen maps, flags, bonus scenes, journal entries, and much more exclusive content.Fans will be delighted to catch up with beloved characters after the drama of War Storm and be excited to hear from brand-new voices as well. This stunning collection is not to be missed!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42083967-broken-throne"}, +{"book_title": "Eternity Row", "author_name": "S.L. Viehl", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1001, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "Aboard the star vessel Sunlace, Dr. Cherijo Torin and her husband have found refuge from the Hsktskt, the League, and her half-mad creator. Now they intend to find Cherijo's foster mother--and the truth behind the subliminal messages she left in Cherijo's brain.But first they have some promises to keep--promises that put them in the middle of an interstellar war. Everything Cherijo ever fought for is put on the line--including her solemn oath to protect life.Beginning in Stardoc--a novel hailed as one of the best science fiction books of the year by Science Fiction Chronicle--S. L. Viehl's smart, savvy surgeon, Cherijo Torin, has ventured across the universe in and out of danger and love, driven by two great forces--her sworn duty to heal the sick and her constant fear of the demented man who created her.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207777.Eternity_Row"}, +{"book_title": "Geek Girls Don't Date Dukes", "author_name": "Gina Lamm", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 503, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "Leah Ramsey has always loved historical romance novels and dressing in period costumes. So when she has a chance to time travel and experience the history for herself, she jumps at it\u2014figuring it can't be too hard to catch the eye of a duke. After all, it happens all the time in her novels.Avery Russell, valet and prize pugilist, reluctantly helps Leah gain a position in the Duke of Granville's household . . . as a maid.Domestic servitude wasn't exactly what she had in mind, but she's determined to win her happily ever after. Even if the hero isn't exactly who she's expecting.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Contemporary", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17375143-geek-girls-don-t-date-dukes"}, +{"book_title": "Before the Broken Star", "author_name": "Emily R. King", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 4822, "review_number": 509, "book_description": "A fierce young female adventurer battles time itself to claim her destiny in a sweeping new fantasy saga from the author of the Hundredth Queen series.Everley Donovan is living on borrowed time. The lone survivor of her family\u2019s unexplained assassination, she was saved by an ingeniously crafted clockwork heart. But the time she was given won\u2019t last forever. Now, every tick-tock reminds her how fragile her existence is and hastens her quest to expose Killian Markham, the navy admiral who shattered her world and left her for dead. But Everley\u2019s hunt for justice will be a long and hard-won voyage.Her journey takes her to a penal colony on a cursed isle, where she will be married off and charged to build the new world. It is here, and beyond, that hidden realms hide, treasures are unearthed, her family secrets are buried, and young love will test the strength of her makeshift heart. When Everley discovers Markham may not be who he seems, her pursuit for truth is bound to his redemption, her tragic history, and her astonishing destiny.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41145327-before-the-broken-star"}, +{"book_title": "First Conquest", "author_name": "David VanDyke", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 788, "review_number": 60, "book_description": " Previously published within the anthology Planetary Assault.From Hugo award finalist and Amazon bestselling author David VanDyke. When Admiral Absen and the crew of EarthFleet's most powerful dreadnought Conquest are sent on a mission forty light years from Earth, none of them expect to return. But to find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, they must fight to seize a new world, initiating EarthFleet's first conquest of another star system.First Conquest is Book 1 of the Plague Wars: Stellar Conquest series, which carries the Plague Wars series forward a century into the future when humanity turns to the stars to find its destiny. It tells of a bitter battle as EarthFleet smashes into an alien star system in a desperate first strike to save humanity. Follow the starship Conquest as its captain and crew take the fight to Earth's enemies, finding allies and making heroic sacrifices in order to secure the future of Earth's solar system against a hostile universe.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24268730-first-conquest"}, +{"book_title": "48 Hours", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1712, "review_number": 216, "book_description": "From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 Hours, a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world's electrical infrastructureIn 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun, a \"Carrington Event\" that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world's electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off.Will the world's population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it?William R. Forstchen is at his best in 48 Hours, a tale of the resilience of American citizens when faced with a crisis.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863280-48-hours"}, +{"book_title": "We Think, Therefore We Are", "author_name": "Peter Crowther", "rating_score": 3.02, "rating_votes": 45, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Fifteen original stories about our fear of and fascination with artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence has captured the imaginations of writers, readers, and scientists alike, from Karl Capek?s R.U.R. to Isaac Asimov?s Three Laws of Robotics, from Robby the Robot to The Terminator and The Bicentennial Man, and?of course?Arthur C. Clarke?s Hal 9000. Now some of the most innovative thinkers in science fiction offer an intriguing variety of tales featuring the many forms of AI, from frightening to funny. These authors confront one of contemporary mankind?s deepest concerns?what do we do when the machines we created evolve beyond us?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6093603-we-think-therefore-we-are"}, +{"book_title": "The Soul Mate", "author_name": "Madeline Sheehan", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 2212, "review_number": 239, "book_description": "Trinity had an ordinary life. That is, until she barely escaped a worldwide apocalyptic plague that took her loved ones from her and transformed most of humanity into flesh-eating monsters.Gerik, her savior, a six-foot-four-inch Scandinavian Gypsy, takes her back to his magically protected Gypsy camp where she discovers a whole new way of life that she never knew existed \u2013 as well as a whole new set of problems.Gerik has power over her that she cannot begin to understand, and she is convinced he is using his magic on her. Through her journey of trying to understand her feelings and this new magic-filled life she\u2019s been brought into, she begins an unlikely friendship that grows into having potential to be something more.While the remaining humans are fighting for their survival, Trinity is fighting a battle of her very own \u2013 the right to choose her own destiny.Is Gerik\u2019s hold on her too strong? Or can new love set her free?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "New Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16099246-the-soul-mate"}, +{"book_title": "Angels of Vengeance", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1358, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backdrop, with a conflicted U.S. president struggling to make momentous decisions in Seattle and a madman fomenting rebellion in Texas, three women are fighting their own battles\u2014for survival, justice, and revenge.Special agent Caitlin Monroe moves stealthily through a South American jungle. Her target: a former French official now held prisoner by a ruthless despot. To free the prisoner, Caitlin will kill anyone who gets in her way. And then she will get the truth about how a master terrorist escaped a secret detention center in French Guadeloupe to strike a fatal blow in New York City.Sofia Peiraro is a teenage girl who witnessed firsthand the murder and mayhem of Texas under the rule of General Mad Jack Blackstone. Sofia might have tried to build a life with her father in the struggling remnants of Kansas City\u2014if a vicious murder hadn\u2019t set her on another course altogether: back to Texas, even to Blackstone himself.Julianne Balwyn is a British-born aristocrat turned smuggler. Shopping in the most fashionable neighborhood of Darwin, Australia\u2014now a fantastic neo-urban frontier\u2014Jules has a pistol holstered in the small of her lovely back. She is playing the most dangerous game of all: waiting for the person who is hunting her to show his face\u2014so she can kill him first.Three women in three corners of a world plunged into electrifying chaos. Nation-states struggling for their survival. Immigrants struggling for new lives. John Birmingham\u2019s astounding new novel\u2014the conclusion to the series begun in Without Warning and After America\u2014is an intense adventure that races from the halls of power to shattered streets to gleaming new cities, as humanity struggles to grasp its better angels\u2014and purge its worst demons.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12570939-angels-of-vengeance"}, +{"book_title": "Tanglefoot", "author_name": "Cherie Priest", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 620, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "Stonewall Jackson survived Chancellorsville. England broke the Union\u2019s naval blockade, and formally recognized the Confederate States of America. Atlanta never burned.It is 1880. The American Civil War has raged for nearly two decades, driving technology in strange and terrible directions. Combat dirigibles skulk across the sky and armored vehicles crawl along the land. Military scientists twist the laws of man and nature, and barter their souls for weapons powered by light, fire, and steam.But life struggles forward for soldiers and ordinary citizens. The fractured nation is dotted with stricken towns and epic scenes of devastation\u2013some manmade, and some more mysterious. In the western territories cities are swallowed by gas and walled away to rot while the frontiers are strip-mined for resources. On the borders between North and South, spies scour and scheme, and smugglers build economies more stable than their governments.This is the Clockwork Century.It is dark here, and different.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7670787-tanglefoot"}, +{"book_title": "Clockwork Samurai", "author_name": "Jeannie Lin", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 159, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "National bestselling author Jeannie Lin\u2019s Gunpowder Chronicles continue as a woman left adrift by the fall of a Dynasty attempts to reclaim her family\u2019s honor... As a physician, Jin Soling can see that the Emperor is cracking, relying on Opium to drown his troubles. The Ch\u2019ing Empire is failing, and war with the British is imminent, but the man to whom Soling was once engaged has a bold idea to save it. A leader within the Ministry of Engineering, Chang-wei suggests an alliance with Japan, whose scientists claim to have technical advancements that could turn the tide of the war. But Japan has kept itself in isolation for the last two hundred years, cutting all diplomatic ties with the Ch'ing Empire. Chang-wei must enter the island nation in disguise to seek an alliance\u2014an alliance forbidden by the Japanese shogunate. Seeking to escape the politics of the imperial court, Soling arranges her own passage on the airship to Japan. But once they land, Chang-wei and Soling become targets of the shogunate's armored assassins. Caught between two empires, in a land distrustful of foreigners, the deadly war machines are the least of their worries...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Cultural (China)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Steampunk Romance", "Fiction", "Historical", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25014330-clockwork-samurai"}, +{"book_title": "My Name is Legion", "author_name": "Roger Zelazny", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2727, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "He did not exist...or did he?He had destroyed his punchcards and changed his face. There was no credit card, birth record, or passport for him in the International Data Bank. His names were many...any he chose. His occupation was taking megarisks in the service of a vast global detective agency. His interworld assignments were highly lucrative, incalculably vital, and terrifyingly deadly. And more often then not, his life was a living hell!Contents:1 \u00b7 The Eve of RUMOKO \u00b7 na Three for Tomorrow, ed. Robert Silverberg, Meredith, 1969 65 \u00b7 \u2019Kjwalll\u2019kje\u2019k\u2019kootha\u00eflll\u2019kje\u2019k \u00b7 na An Exaltation of Stars, ed. Terry Carr, Simon & Schuster, 1973 141 \u00b7 Home Is the Hangman \u00b7 na Analog Nov \u201975 (Nebula Award for Best Novella, 1975)", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239923.My_Name_is_Legion"}, +{"book_title": "Q", "author_name": "Evan Mandery", "rating_score": 3.21, "rating_votes": 1280, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "\u201cA philosophical, witty, wonderful, and altogether magical love story.\u201d\u2014M.J. Rose, author of The Hypnotist\u201cAmiably outrageous\u2026.Mandery is a worthy son of those great writers of the 1970s, Vonnegut, Barthelme, and Barth.\u201d\u2014Joseph Skibell, author of A Curable Romantic\u201cI\u2019ve never read anything like it and enjoyed every minute of it!\u201d\u2014Jessica Anya Blau, author of Drinking Closer to HomeQ: A (Timeless) Love Story is a smart, romantic, and funny novel about tender and requited love, a wonderfully original literary feat from Evan Mandery, a rapidly rising fiction star. Taking the classic love story and turning it on its head, Mandery brilliantly blends outrageous humor, existential philosophy, and heartbreaking angst while offering a wealth of satisfying surprises. Funny and wise, a magical tale of a man obsessed yet unable to allow himself the fulfillment of a perfect romance with the one true love of his life, Q: A (Timeless) Love Story is a uniquely delightful work of fiction from one of the most exciting novelists currently on the literary scene.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Literary Fiction", "Magical Realism"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11373932-q"}, +{"book_title": "Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 1274, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "As Dr. Abbey knows, there are difficulties in running an underground virology lab in a post-Rising America.And unwanted guests must be dealt with.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25792883-please-do-not-taunt-the-octopus"}, +{"book_title": "Claimed", "author_name": "Elle Kennedy", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 2912, "review_number": 453, "book_description": "The bestselling author of the Killer Instincts novels \u201cknows how to write scorching sexual tension\u201d (USA Today). Now she really sets it on fire in a new series about men and women living on the edge of violence, sex, and life and death.After a devastating war decimated most of the world, Hudson Lane has only known the oppressive life under her own father\u2019s tyranny. She finally escapes, branding herself an outlaw and hunted by the Enforcers. Her best chance at survival is Connor Mackenzie, an aggressively sensual fugitive who opens her eyes to the wicked possibilities of a world without rules.As the leader of a band of outlaw fighters, Connor can\u2019t resist the beautiful stranger who asks for his protection. Despite his reservations, he agrees to introduce her to a whole new way of life. But when Connor discovers Hudson\u2019s connection to the enemies of liberty, he wonders how far he can trust the woman who has abandoned all inhibitions to challenge every forbidden desire.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24453083-claimed"}, +{"book_title": "Arabella The Traitor of Mars", "author_name": "David D. Levine", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 205, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "Taking up almost immediately after the great Battle of Venus, Arabella has finally returned home to Mars to settle in to life with her husband, the mysterious Captain Singh. The Regent of the United Kingdom sets his eyes on solidifying his rule in the colonies and dispatches a fleet to better cement his control over Mars. Now Arabella and Singh must decide where their ultimate loyalties lie, with the Empire or with their home.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36314198-arabella-the-traitor-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "Warrior", "author_name": "Angela Knight", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1279, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR launches the new Time Hunters series.In the 24th century, anyone can leap through time at will. To police the time jumpers, the Temporal Enforcement Agency has established a precinct in time. Galar Arvid is a genetically altered warlord and agent who\u2019s been sent back to 2008 to save a pretty Atlanta artist from a Xeran time traveler who intends to kill her for profit. What Galar doesn\u2019t count on is the powerful desire Jessica Kelly ignites in him. But could a romance between them work? A three-hundred-year chasm separates them and, even if they dart through time, there\u2019s still a maniacal killer on their tails.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2452326.Warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Deepsix", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 4328, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva Ill. Twenty-one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity\u2014a life-supporting planet\u2014is about to vanish forever as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix.A superluminal pilot for the Academy of Science and Technology, Priscilla \u201cHutch\u201d Hutchins is the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of Deepsix. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, she and a small scientific team\u2014including Randall Nightingale a survivor of the original expedition who was made the scapegoat for its failure\u2014must descend to the surface, and glean whatever they can about the doomed planet\u2019s lifeforms and lost civilizations.There is more to this strange and complex world, however, than anyone could have imagined: hidden predators; stone cities under the ice; remnants of a warlike primitive society, yet with inexplicable hints of an impossible technology buried in the rubble... and in orbit around the soon to be demolished planet. The deeper Hutch and her team delve, the more puzzles are revealed within puzzles and startling discoveries lead only to greater and more perplexing questionsBut then the unthinkable occurs An earthquake destroys the explorers only means of escape As scientists and sightseers who have come to witness the spectacular end of Deepsix watch helplessly from miles above Hutch and her people must survive somehow on a hostile planet going rapidly mad. And with the clock ticking relentlessly toward an unavoidable apocalypse, they must find some way, any way to get off before Deepsix plunges like a pebble into the limitless depths of the rampaging gas giant.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352780.Deepsix"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics", "author_name": "Patrick Lin", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 45, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society--and ethics--change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field. Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. The contributors then turn to human-robot emotional relationships, examining the ethical implications of robots as sexual partners, caregivers, and servants. Finally, they explore the possibility that robots, whether biological-computational hybrids or pure machines, should be given rights or moral consideration. Ethics is often slow to catch up with technological developments. This authoritative and accessible volume fills a gap in both scholarly literature and policy discussion, offering an impressive collection of expert analyses of the most crucial topics in this increasingly important field.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Nonfiction", "Philosophy", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13221056-robot-ethics"}, +{"book_title": "Eden", "author_name": "Louise Wise", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 1340, "review_number": 98, "book_description": "Imprisoned for brutal crimes against his wardens, Fly became an unwilling experiment and was transported, with other criminals, to a hostile planet. Full of mutiny, anger and a desire for revenge the experiment was never going to be successful and Fly became the only survivor when the craft crashed.Then the human ship arrived -- and Jenny.With a malfunctioning spacecraft she was in for a fight for her life, but her problems were only just beginning when her crewmates abandon her on Eden.Jenny's on her own... or so she thinks.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Space", "Adult", "Adventure (Survival)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6642331-eden"}, +{"book_title": "And Shall Machines Surrender", "author_name": "Benjanun Sriduangkaew", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 867, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be chosen as host bodies\u2014called haruspices\u2014for the next generation of AI, and thus be worshiped as gods. Doctor Orfea Leung has come here to escape her past of mercenary violence. Krissana Khongtip has come here to reinvent herself from haunted spy to holy cyborg. But the utopian peace of Shenzhen is shattered when the haruspices begin committing suicide, and the pair are called upon to solve the mystery\u2014and survive the silent war between machines . . .", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Novella", "Speculative Fiction", "Romance", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46156880-and-shall-machines-surrender"}, +{"book_title": "The Severed Streets", "author_name": "Paul Cornell", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 3177, "review_number": 337, "book_description": "Summer in London: a city in turmoil. The vicious murder of a well-known MP is like a match to tinder but Detective Inspector James Quill and his team know that it's not a run-of-the-mill homicide. Still coming to terms with their new-found second sight, they soon discover that what is invisible to others - the killer - is visible to them. Even if they have no idea who it is.Then there are more deaths. The bodies of rich, white men are found in circumstances similar to those that set the streets of London awash with fear during the late 1800s: the Whitechapel murders. Even with their abilities to see the supernatural, accepting that Jack the Ripper is back from the dead is a tough ask for Quill's team. As they try to get to grips with their abilities and a case that's spiralling out of control, Quill realizes that they have to understand more about this shadowy London, a world of underground meetings, bizarre and fantastical auctions, and objects that are 'get out of hell free' cards.But the team's unlikely guide, a bestselling author, can't offer them much insight - and their other option, the Rat King, speaks only in riddles.Relying on old-fashioned police work and improvising with their new skills only lands them in deeper water, and they soon realize that the investigation is going to hell - literally. And if they're not careful, they may be going with it . . .The Severed Streets is the second urban fantasy by bestselling Doctor Who writer, Paul Cornell.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910066-the-severed-streets"}, +{"book_title": "The Age Atomic", "author_name": "Adam Christopher", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 355, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "The sequel to Empire State \u2013 the superhero-noir fantasy thriller set in the other New York.The Empire State is dying. The Fissure connecting the pocket universe to New York has vanished, plunging the city into a deep freeze and the populace are demanding a return to Prohibition and rationing as energy supplies dwindle.Meanwhile, in 1954 New York, the political dynamic has changed and Nimrod finds his department subsumed by a new group, Atoms For Peace, led by the mysterious Evelyn McHale.As Rad uncovers a new threat to his city, Atoms For Peace prepare their army for a transdimensional invasion. Their goal: total conquest \u2013 or destruction \u2013 of the Empire State.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15799390-the-age-atomic"}, +{"book_title": "On Your Knees, Prospect", "author_name": "K.A. Merikan", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 737, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "--- There is freedom in blacking boots for the right man. ---Jake. Kings of Hell MC Prospect. Obedient. Desperate for approval.Vars. Dominant. Stern. Undead.Jake is itching to become a patched member of the Kings of Hell MC. For two years he's toiled as the only prospect. So when a new guy swans in and thinks he'll get a patch in no time just because he's got friends in high places, Jake is there to stand in his way. Only that the guy is older, more experienced, drives a Harley, and has the kind of boots Jake craves to lick. But he won't. Because he only fucks patches.Vars is ready to find a new home in the Kings of Hell MC after a messy relationship led him straight to hell. In comparison, the pretty, blue-eyed prospect could be just the pleasant rebound he needs. The boy is a brat, but that could be amended with a firm hand and a gag.If only Jake was ready to admit to his submissive needs, Vars would gladly take him under his wing.That is, until he finds out something inhuman resides inside of Jake. Vars didn\u2019t cheat death only to call out to it again.But stuck together in one room, keeping each other\u2019s secrets, they might just have to become allies, no matter how unwilling. Because if there is something Vars can\u2019t resist, it\u2019s a boy with pleading eyes.*\u201cYou are mine now, boy. This room is soundproof. No one will hear you scream.\u201d \u201cYes, sir. My body is yours.\u201d*POSSIBLE SPOILERS:Themes: motorcycle club, alternative lifestyles, demons, monster, tattoos, secrets, crime, self-discovery, gothic, fresh start, submission, stalking, PTSD, May/December, self-acceptance, enemies to lovers, Daddy/boy, body horrorGenre: Dark, paranormal M/M romance Erotic content: Scorching hot, emotional, explicit scenes, BDSMLength: ~130,000 words (Book 3 in the series)WARNING: This story contains scenes of violence, offensive language, and morally ambiguous characters. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Demons)", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34536214-on-your-knees-prospect"}, +{"book_title": "Deeper Than Midnight", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 20353, "review_number": 1024, "book_description": "DELIVERED FROM THE DARKNESS, A WOMAN FINDS HERSELF PLUNGED INTO A PASSION THAT IS DEEPER THAN MIDNIGHT. \u00a0 At eighteen, Corinne Bishop was a beautiful, spirited young woman living a life of privilege as the adopted daughter of a wealthy family. Her world changed in an instant when she was stolen away and held prisoner by the malevolent vampire Dragos. After many years of captivity and torment, Corinne is rescued by the Order, a cadre of vampire warriors embroiled in a war against Dragos and his followers. Her innocence taken, Corinne has lost a piece of her heart as well\u2014the one thing that gave her hope during her imprisonment, and the only thing that matters to her now that she is free.Assigned to safeguard Corinne on her trip home is a formidable golden-eyed Breed male called Hunter. Once Dragos\u2019s most deadly assassin, Hunter now works for the Order, and he\u2019s hell-bent on making Dragos pay for his manifold sins. Bonded to Corinne by their mutual desire, Hunter will have to decide how far he\u2019ll go to end Dragos\u2019s reign of evil\u2014even if carrying out his mission means shattering Corinne\u2019s tender heart.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8150317-deeper-than-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Mercy", "author_name": "Catherine Miller", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 559, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Dishonourable. Unwanted. Outsider. Such are the slurs cast upon Rykkon, however undeserved. As the only village healer, his people cannot cast him out entirely, but there is little comfort in such a life when he has long known that no mate from his clan would willingly join with him. It is a lonely fate, but one Rykkon has learned to accept. That is, until one tense exchange between his people and the humans brings him an offer he simply cannot ignore. The humans are not their slaves. Nor their property. Nor of any great concern. But neither are they free. It is by the provisions of the Arterians they scrape out a sorry existence in the Wastes, and by their goodwill alone that they continue to survive. Scavenging for hasart beetles under the two suns is the only life the desperate colonists have known since their ancestors first landed on the desolate planet. It was all they knew. It was all they hoped for. Until one day, a young female dares to ask for more. --- \u201cWait.\u201d The entire group stilled, staring at him as he continued to regard the female. She glanced up sharply, her brow furrowed and her gaze cautious. As right it should be. \u201cI will take you for a mate.\u201d", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Space", "Fiction", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31136606-mercy"}, +{"book_title": "Tarnished Knight", "author_name": "Bec McMaster", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2538, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "In the steam-fuelled world of Victorian London, vampires, werewolves and slasher gangs stalk the night and a man made partly of metal is about to discover just how far he'll go to protect the woman he loves\u2026After a vicious vampire attack left him struggling to leash the dark urges of the craving virus, John \"Rip\" Doolan thinks he's finally starting to master the darkness within. The only thing that threatens to shatter his hard-won control is Esme, his closest friend and the only woman he's ever wanted. If the stubborn beauty ever realized precisely what was going through his mind, their friendship would be ruined.For six months, Esme has waited for Rip to recover and take her as his thrall, not daring to hope for more. Too afraid to put her heart on the line, she is devastated when Rip reveals that he never had any intentions of making her his.But when a savage gang of Slashers start causing havoc in Whitechapel, Rip and Esme have no choice. They must face up to the depth of the passion that burns between them and forge a new relationship\u2026or risk losing each other forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Novella", "Historical", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17181953-tarnished-knight"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowlark", "author_name": "Meagan Spooner", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1559, "review_number": 170, "book_description": "Ever since she escaped the city within the Wall, Lark Ainsley's wanted one thing: to find her brother Basil. She's always believed he would be the one to put an end to the constant fear and flight. And now, hidden underground in the chaotically magical city of Lethe, Lark feels closer to him than ever. But Lethe is a city cowering in fear of its founder, the mysterious Prometheus, and of his private police force. To get the truth about what happened to Basil, Lark has no choice but to face Prometheus. Facing her fears has become second nature to Lark. Facing the truth is another matter. Lark never asked to be anyone's savior. She certainly never wanted to be anyone's weapon. She might not have a choice.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11558256-shadowlark"}, +{"book_title": "Friday", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 27555, "review_number": 807, "book_description": "Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as \"Boss.\" Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on shuttlecock assignment at Boss' seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America's disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Classics", "LGBT", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17208.Friday"}, +{"book_title": "Generation Warriors", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 3524, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "These people will save the Galaxy...LUNZIE - who has discovered that the one good heavyworlder she ever met isn't so good after all...FORDELITON - who has been sent to investigate the connection between the super-rich and the planet pirates, and is dying of a mysterious slow poison...DUPAYNIL - who has made the mistake of pushing Sassinak too far, has been exiled to Seti space...AYGAR - who is out to prove he has brains as well as heavyworlder brawn...Then there's Sassinak, ordered to report to FedCentral for the trial of the mutineer Tanegli. She'd been told to disarm her ship when it enters restricted space; she'd been told her crew can't have liberty or leave; and she'd been told to follow all the rules. But the only person who might be able to stop the disaster ahead has never been one to follow the rules...", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Adult", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61943.Generation_Warriors"}, +{"book_title": "Unforgotten", "author_name": "Jessica Brody", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1819, "review_number": 207, "book_description": "\nSome memories are better left forgotten...\nAfter a daring escape from the scientists at Diotech who created her, Seraphina believes she is finally safe from the horrors of her past. But new threats await Sera and her boyfriend, Zen, at every turn as Zen falls prey to a mysterious illness and Sera\u2019s extraordinary abilities make it more and more difficult to stay hidden. Meanwhile, Diotech has developed a dangerous new weapon designed to apprehend her. A weapon that even Sera will be powerless to stop. Her only hope of saving Zen\u2019s life and defeating the company that made her is a secret buried deep within her mind. A secret that Diotech will kill to protect. And it won\u2019t stay forgotten for long.Packed with mystery, suspense, and romance, this riveting second installment of Jessica Brody\u2019s Unremembered trilogy delivers more heart-pounding action as loyalties are tested, love becomes a weapon, and no one\u2019s memories are safe.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9791902-unforgotten"}, +{"book_title": "Brooke", "author_name": "Veronica Rossi", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 4830, "review_number": 443, "book_description": "Set just before the events of Into the Still Blue, the conclusion to Veronica Rossi's Under the Never Sky trilogy, this breathtaking novella is a satisfying stand-alone for new readers as well as an exciting glimpse at favorite characters from the trilogy. Pulsing with romance and danger, Brooke will leave readers desperate for the conclusion to this epic and unforgettable saga.The only fight she can't win is the one for Perry's heart. Following the stunning climax in Through the Ever Night, the Tides have been forced to seek shelter from the Aether storms in a dismal, secluded cave. But Brooke's memories of the cave go back much further, to when she and Perry used to come here together. That was before Perry fell in love with Aria and before Vale's dealings with the Dwellers altered the course of the Tides forever.Now, with her sister back from a haunting year in captivity and Aria lying unconscious in the sick bay, Brooke struggles to put the pieces of her life back together. Without Perry, who is she? And what is her role in this frightening new world? As these questions swirl about her, an old threat to the Tides resurfaces, and Brooke is forced to put the lives of her people before her own. But in taking this step outside of herself, Brooke may finally discover what she truly wants.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17616704-brooke"}, +{"book_title": "The Crown of Embers", "author_name": "Rae Carson", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 44610, "review_number": 3379, "book_description": "She does not know what awaits her at the enemy's gate.Elisa is a hero. She led her people to victory over a terrifying, sorcerous army. Her place as the country's ruler should be secure. But it isn't.Her enemies come at her like ghosts in a dream, from both foreign realms and within her own court. And her destiny as the chosen one has not yet been fulfilled.To conquer the power she bears once and for all, Elisa must follow the trail of long-forgotten--and forbidden--clues from the deep, undiscovered catacombs of her own city to the treacherous seas. With her goes a one-eyed spy, a traitor, and the man who--despite everything--she is falling in love with.If she's lucky, she will return from this journey. But there will be a cost.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10816908-the-crown-of-embers"}, +{"book_title": "Resist", "author_name": "Sarah Crossan", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 5381, "review_number": 561, "book_description": "The sequel\u2014and conclusion\u2014to Sarah Crossan's Breathe. Three teen outlaws must survive on their own in a world without air, exiled outside the glass dome that protects what's left of human civilization. Gripping action, provocative ideas, and shocking revelations in a dystopian novel that fans of Patrick Ness and Veronica Roth will devour.Bea, Alina, and Quinn are on the run. They started a rebellion and were thrown out of the pod, the only place where there's enough oxygen to breathe. Bea has lost her family. Alina has lost her home. And Quinn has lost his privileged life. Can they survive in the perilous Outlands? Can they finish the revolution they began? Especially when a young operative from the pod's Special Forces is sent after them. Their only chance is to stand together, even when terrible circumstances force them apart. When the future of human society is in danger, these four teens must decide where their allegiances lie. Sarah Crossan has created a dangerous, and shattered society in this wrenching, thought-provoking, and unforgettable post-apocalyptic novel.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13447149-resist"}, +{"book_title": "The Doctor and the Rough Rider", "author_name": "Mike Resnick", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 249, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "It's August 19, 1884. The consumptive Doc Holliday is preparing to await his end in a sanitarium in Leadville, Colorado, when the medicine man Geronimo enlists him on a mission. The time the great chief has predicted has come, the one white man with whom he's willing to treat has crossed the Mississippi and is heading to Tombstone - a young man named Theodore Roosevelt. The various tribes know that Geronimo is willing to end the spell that has kept the United States from expanding west of the Mississippi. In response, they have created a huge, monstrous medicine man named War Bonnet, whose function is to kill Roosevelt and Geronimo and keep the United States east of the river forever. And War Bonnet has enlisted the master shootist John Wesley Hardin.So the battle lines are drawn: Roosevelt and Geronimo against the most powerful of the medicine men, a supernatural creature that seemingly nothing can harm; and Holliday against the man with more credited kills than any gunfighter in history. It does not promise to be a tranquil summer.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Westerns", "Fantasy", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15897048-the-doctor-and-the-rough-rider"}, +{"book_title": "The Yarian", "author_name": "Poppy Rhys", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1037, "review_number": 87, "book_description": "\n\u201cWelcome to Carnal Bazaar! A spectrum of colors, a myriad of fleshly talents\u2026\u201d\nVenturing into Vishik\u2019s underground with her best friend was not on Finley\u2019s bucket list. So, when she\u2019s locked in a cell with a vicious alien, her world, understandably, is turned upside down. Snatched from her normal life upon Dor Nye, and thrust onto a primitive planet, she risks losing her sanity, her very life, and possibly, her heart.\n Dark antihero. Stand-Alone Novel. M/F Romance. \nWARNING: Darker romance with an antihero. Possible triggers. Do not read if this offends you. This story contains explicit sexual content, dubious consent, graphic language, some violence against women, and situations intended for mature readers.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space", "Futuristic", "Fiction", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32805173-the-yarian"}, +{"book_title": "Foundation and Earth", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 57368, "review_number": 1411, "book_description": "Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all\u2014and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible. But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know. Trevize believes the answer lies at the site of humanity's roots: fabled Earth . . . if it still exists. For no one is sure where the planet of Gaia's first settlers is to be found in the immense wilderness of the Galaxy. Nor can anyone explain why no record of Earth has been preserved, no mention of it made anywhere in Gaia's vast world-memory. 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Even filthy, chained, and beaten, he gives off an aura of power and virility and his feline gene gives him a special aura.Jacinth is an intergalactic trader on a rescue mission and she needs a man she can trust with her life.She has spent years pursuing her kidnapped sister from planet to planet. Now her quest leads her to a place where all the women are slaves. \"Jack\" needs a slave of her own-one who can masquerade as her master.Enmeshed in a tangle of deception, lust, and love, they must elude a race of violent killers and together forge a bond stronger than any chains. 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Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems.Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human-occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble -- and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar... yet somehow survived.News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best -- an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality... and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3595475-halo"}, +{"book_title": "Looking Backward: 2000-1887", "author_name": "Edward Bellamy", "rating_score": 3.28, "rating_votes": 5136, "review_number": 649, "book_description": "Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is the most widely read novel of its time. A young Boston gentleman is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century -- from a world of war and want to one of peace and plenty. This brilliant vision became the blueprint of utopia that stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of our age.", "year_published": 1888, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Classics", "Literature", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Utopia)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296977.Looking_Backward"}, +{"book_title": "Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick", "author_name": "David Wong", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1469, "review_number": 224, "book_description": "The latest--and greatest--sci-fi thriler in the Zoey Ashe Series.Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move. Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes. A young woman suddenly in charge of the most decadent city in the world--and her very smelly cat.Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit. She finds herself struggling to establish rule over a sprawling empire while Tabula Ra$a's rogue's gallery of larger-than-life crime bosses and corrupt plutocrats smell weakness. Tensions brew across the city.A steamer trunk-sized box arrives at Zoey's door, and she and her bodyguard Wu are shocked to find that it contains a disemboweled corpse, and even more shocked when that corpse, controlled by an unknown party, rises from the box and goes on a rampage through the house. After being subdued, it speaks in an electronic voice, accusing Zoey of being its murderer. Soon, it makes the same claim to the public at large, along with the promise of a cash reward for proof that Zoey and the Suits are behind the crime.Now Zoey is having doubts of her own: Is she 100% sure that someone on her team didn't do this? She also doesn't even have a complete list of what businesses she owns, or what exact laws her organization is still breaking. So what does she really know?", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49127471-zoey-punches-the-future-in-the-dick"}, +{"book_title": "Reverie", "author_name": "Ryan La Sala", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 8067, "review_number": 1777, "book_description": "Inception meets The Magicians in the most imaginative YA debut of the year!All Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. He can\u2019t remember how he got there, what happened after, and why his life seems so different now. And it\u2019s not just Kane who\u2019s different, the world feels off, reality itself seems different. As Kane pieces together clues, three almost-strangers claim to be his friends and the only people who can truly tell him what\u2019s going on. But as he and the others are dragged into unimaginable worlds that materialize out of nowhere\u2014the gym warps into a subterranean temple, a historical home nearby blooms into a Victorian romance rife with scandal and sorcery\u2014Kane realizes that nothing in his life is an accident. And when a sinister force threatens to alter reality for good, they will have to do everything they can to stop it before it unravels everything they know. This wildly imaginative debut explores what happens when the secret worlds that people hide within themselves come to light.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52061964-reverie"}, +{"book_title": "Skinned", "author_name": "Robin Wasserman", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 12766, "review_number": 1027, "book_description": "The Download was supposed to change the world. It was supposed to mean the end of aging, the end of death, the birth of a new humanity. But it wasn't supposed to happen to someone like Lia Kahn.And it wasn't supposed to ruin her life.Lia knows she should be grateful she didn't die in the accident. The Download saved her--but it also changed her, forever. She can deal with being a freak. She can deal with the fear in her parents' eyes and the way her boyfriend flinches at her touch. But she can't deal with what she knows, deep down, every time she forces herself to look in the mirror: She's not the same person she used to be.Maybe she's not even a person at all.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2791536-skinned"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Night", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 25419, "review_number": 1632, "book_description": "In the Ichidian Universe, The League and their ruthless assassins rule all. Expertly trained and highly valued, the League Assassins are the backbone of the government. But not even the League is immune to corruption . . .Command Assassin Nykyrian Quikiades once turned his back on the League\u2014and has been hunted by them ever since. Though many have tried, none can kill him or stop him from completing his current mission: to protect Kiara Zamir, a woman whose father\u2019s political alliance has made her a target. As her world becomes even deadlier, Kiara must entrust her life to the same kind of beast who once killed her mother and left her for dead. Old enemies and new threaten them both and the only way they can survive is to overcome their suspicions and learn to trust in the very ones who threaten them the most: each other.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2992061-born-of-night"}, +{"book_title": "We Lead", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 867, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "The conclusion to the third Ark Royal trilogy! The Second Interstellar War - pitting humans and their Tadpole allies against an enigmatic alien empire - appears to have stalemated. Neither side can push through to the other\u2019s core systems without risking substantial losses, neither side can gain a decisive advantage. But when a brilliant human scientist invents a way to jump across the stars without a gravity tramline, an opportunity arises to strike the enemy in their undefended rear. It is an opportunity that cannot be allowed to pass. Now, HMS Vanguard and her crew - and the largest fleet ever assembled by the nations of Earth - heads out on a do-or-die mission to challenge their enemies to one final battle ... ... And if they lose, they will never see home again. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33649460-we-lead"}, +{"book_title": "City of Golden Shadow", "author_name": "Tad Williams", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 25561, "review_number": 897, "book_description": "Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. Kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, and cannot escape. Clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but investigators all end up dead.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695.City_of_Golden_Shadow"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Ghost", "author_name": "Laura Ruby", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1058, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "It was only a few weeks ago that the Biedermann twins, Tess and Theo, along with their friend Jaime Cruz, followed the secrets of the Morningstarrs\u2019 cipher further anyone had in its century-and-a-half history\u2014and destroyed their beloved home in the process. But the Old York Cipher still isn\u2019t solved. The demolition of 354 W. 73rd Street only revealed the next clue in the greatest mystery of the modern world, and if Tess, Theo, and Jaime want to discover what lies at the end of the puzzle laid into the buildings of New York by its brilliant, enigmatic architects, they will need to press on.But doing so could prove even more dangerous than they know. It is clear that the Morningstarr twins marshaled all the strange technology they had spent their lives creating in the construction of the Cipher, and that technology has its own plans for those who pursue it. It is also clear that Tess, Theo, and Jaime are not the only ones on the trail of the treasure. As enemies both known and unknown close in on them from all sides and the very foundations of the city seem to crumble around them, they will have to ask themselves how far they will go to change the unchangeable\u2014and whether the price of knowing the secrets of the Morningstarrs is one they are willing to pay.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35511264-the-clockwork-ghost"}, +{"book_title": "Starfall", "author_name": "Melissa Landers", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2602, "review_number": 485, "book_description": "When Princess Cassia Rose fled her home world of Eturia to escape an arranged marriage, she had no idea her sudden departure would spark a war. Now after two years hiding as a ship hand, she is finally returning to her beloved home, but not in the way she imagined. Shackled by bounty hunters, she is violently dragged back to account for her crimes. Her only solace is that the Banshee crew managed to evade capture, including Kane Arric, her best friend...with occasional benefits.Meanwhile, Kane and the rest of the crew of the Banshee plan a desperate rescue mission. But when they arrive on Eturia, Cassia isn't exactly in need of heroics\u2014she's claimed her birthright as Eturia's queen, but has inherited a war-torn planet simmering with rebellion. Cassia must make alliances, and Kane, the bastard son of a merchant, isn't a choice that will earn her any friends. Kane knows he will never find someone to replace Cassia\u2014and is certain she returns his feelings\u2014but how can he throw away his own promising future waiting on a queen?When the outer realm is threatened by the dangerous Zhang mafia, Cassia, Kane and the rest of the Banshee crew uncover a horrifying conspiracy that endangers the entire universe. In the face of unspeakable evil, Cassia must confront her own family's complicated legacy on Eturia and decide once and for all who her real family is.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25026403-starfall"}, +{"book_title": "Rack & Ruin", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 5543, "review_number": 702, "book_description": "Action. Comedy. Romance. And that one weird guy. New York City\u2019s streets are more dangerous than ever with the leaderless Order of Adrasteia and the Ikelos Coalition, a newly immerged Therian group, at war. Innocent civilians are caught in the crossfire and although the THIRDS round up more and more members of the Order in the hopes of keeping the volatile group from reorganizing, the members of the Coalition continue to escape and wreak havoc in the name of vigilante justice. Worse yet, someone inside the THIRDS has been feeding the Coalition information. It\u2019s up to Destructive Delta to draw out the mole and put an end to the war before anyone else gets hurt. But to get the job done, the team will have to work through the aftereffects of the Therian Youth Center bombing. A skirmish with Coalition members leads Agent Dexter J. Daley to a shocking discovery and suddenly it becomes clear that the random violence isn\u2019t so random. There\u2019s more going on than Dex and Sloane originally believed, and their fiery partnership is put to the test. As the case takes an explosive turn, Dex and Sloane are in danger of losing more than their relationship.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48719851-rack-ruin"}, +{"book_title": "The Sagan Diary", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 6107, "review_number": 435, "book_description": "Fans of John Scalzi's \"Old Man\" universe, prepare yourselves: there's a long new story in that universe, told from the point of view of one of the series' most intriguing characters. Subterranean Press is proud to publish The Sagan Diary, a long novelette that for the first time looks at the worlds of the Hugo-nominated Old Man's War and its sequel The Ghost Brigades from the point of view of Lieutenant Jane Sagan, who in a series of diary entries gives her views on some of the events included in the series... and sheds new light into some previously unexplored corners. If you thought you knew Jane Sagan before, prepare to be surprised.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61664.The_Sagan_Diary"}, +{"book_title": "Chasing Christmas Past", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 176, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "***6,000 word short story prequel to The Airship Racing Chronicles***Christmas Eve 1820.At Rose\u2019s Hopper, a popular London tavern frequented by airship jockeys, all is merry and bright\u2014except Lily Stargazer. Lily and her crew are set to run the Christmas Day Yuletide Race from London to Calais, but not before spending the night swimming in mulled wine and longing for absent lovers.Even the prospect of a Yuletide win can't convince Lily that this Christmas will be better than any that came before. But Lily\u2019s about to find out there really is a Father Christmas.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Holiday (Christmas)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Holiday", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23975715-chasing-christmas-past"}, +{"book_title": "The High Crusade", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 3657, "review_number": 291, "book_description": "In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking over planets, and having determined from orbit that this one was suitable, they initiate standard world-conquering procedure. Ah, but this time it's no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave; they've launched their invasion against free Englishmen! In the end, only one alien is left alive; and Sir Roger's grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel. Unfortunately, he has not allowed for the treachery of the alien pilot, who instead takes the craft to his home planet, where, he thinks, these upstart barbarians will have no choice but to surrender. But that knavish alien little understands the indomitable will and clever resourcefulness of Englishmen, no matter how great the odds against them. . .", "year_published": 1960, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338325.The_High_Crusade"}, +{"book_title": "Orphan's Triumph", "author_name": "Robert Buettner", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 932, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Jason Wander is ready to lead the final charge into battle.After forty years of fighting the Slugs, mankind's reunited planets control the vital crossroad that secures their uneasy union. The doomsday weapon that can end the war, and the mighty fleet that will carry it to the Slug homeworld, lie within humanity's grasp.Since the Slug Blitz orphaned Jason Wander, he has risen from infantry recruit to commander of Earth's garrisons on the emerging allied planets. But four decades of service have cost Jason not just his friends and family, but his innocence. When an enemy counter stroke threatens to reverse the war and destroy mankind, Jason must finally confront not only his lifelong alien enemy, but the reality of what a lifetime as a soldier has made him.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "War", "War (Soldiers)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6080513-orphan-s-triumph"}, +{"book_title": "Ink", "author_name": "Alice Broadway", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 9091, "review_number": 1455, "book_description": "There are no secrets in Saintstone.From the second you're born, every achievement, every failing, every significant moment are all immortalized on your skin. There are honorable marks that let people know you're trustworthy. And shameful tattoos that announce you as a traitor. After her father dies, Leora finds solace in the fact that his skin tells a wonderful story. That is, until she glimpses a mark on the back of his neck...the symbol of the worst crime a person can commit in Saintstone. Leora knows it has to be a mistake, but before she can do anything about it, the horrifying secret gets out, jeopardizing her father's legacy...and Leora's life.In her startlingly prescient debut, Alice Broadway shines a light on the dangerous lengths we go to make our world feel orderly--even when the truth refuses to stay within the lines. This rich, lyrical fantasy with echoes of Orwell is unlike anything you've ever read, a tale guaranteed to get under your skin...", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Family", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32827036-ink"}, +{"book_title": "Gulliver's Travels", "author_name": "Jonathan Swift", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 236733, "review_number": 5707, "book_description": "For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gulliver's travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. The people of these countries, with all their curiously human failings, come to life in Martin Aitchison's vivid illustrations. Here is a story to make you laugh - but to make you think, too.", "year_published": 1726, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Literature", "Novels", "Classics (Classic Literature)", "Literature (18th Century)", "Academic (School)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7733.Gulliver_s_Travels"}, +{"book_title": "For the Win", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 6265, "review_number": 854, "book_description": "In the virtual future, you must organize to surviveAt any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual \"gold,\" jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, others seek to exploit this vast shadow economy, running electronic sweatshops in the world's poorest countries, where countless \"gold farmers,\" bound to their work by abusive contracts and physical threats, harvest virtual treasure for their employers to sell to First World gamers who are willing to spend real money to skip straight to higher-level gameplay.Mala is a brilliant 15-year-old from rural India whose leadership skills in virtual combat have earned her the title of \"General Robotwalla.\" In Shenzen, heart of China's industrial boom, Matthew is defying his former bosses to build his own successful gold-farming team. Leonard, who calls himself Wei-Dong, lives in Southern California, but spends his nights fighting virtual battles alongside his buddies in Asia, a world away. All of these young people, and more, will become entangled with the mysterious young woman called Big Sister Nor, who will use her experience, her knowledge of history, and her connections with real-world organizers to build them into a movement that can challenge the status quo.The ruthless forces arrayed against them are willing to use any means to protect their power\u2014including blackmail, extortion, infiltration, violence, and even murder. To survive, Big Sister's people must out-think the system. This will lead them to devise a plan to crash the economy of every virtual world at once\u2014a Ponzi scheme combined with a brilliant hack that ends up being the biggest, funnest game of all.Imbued with the same lively, subversive spirit and thrilling storytelling that made LITTLE BROTHER an international sensation, FOR THE WIN is a prophetic and inspiring call-to-arms for a new generation", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Games (Gaming)", "Economics", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7241373-for-the-win"}, +{"book_title": "No Mercy", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 2180, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "Giselle McKenzie trembled inexplicably as the sound of a low growl reverberated throughout the threads of her consciousness. She knew it couldn't have emitted from her date, the man sitting across from her in the quaint restaurant. Yet every time he placed his hand over hers, she heard that eerie, primitive growl...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1229977.No_Mercy"}, +{"book_title": "The Unspoken Name", "author_name": "A.K. Larkwood", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 3213, "review_number": 886, "book_description": "What if you knew how and when you will die?Csorwe does \u2014 she will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice.But on the day of her foretold death, a powerful mage offers her a new fate. Leave with him, and live. Turn away from her destiny and her god to become a thief, a spy, an assassin\u2014the wizard's loyal sword. Topple an empire, and help him reclaim his seat of power.But Csorwe will soon learn \u2013 gods remember, and if you live long enough, all debts come due.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "LGBT", "Adult", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45046552-the-unspoken-name"}, +{"book_title": "The Wreck of The River of Stars", "author_name": "Michael Flynn", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 552, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "Michael Flynn has written the best SF in the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein of the last decade. His major work was the Firestar sequence, a four-book future history. \"As Robert A. Heinlein did and all too few have done since, Michael Flynn writes about the near future as if he'd been there and was bringing back reports of what he'd seen,\" said Harry Turtledove. Now, in this sweeping standalone epic of the spaceways, Flynn grows again in stature, with an SF novel worthy of the master himself. Indeed, if Heinlein's famous character, the space-faring poet Rhysling, had ever written a novel, this would be it.This is a story of the glory that was. In the days of the great sailing ships in the mid-21st century, when magnetic sails drew cargo and passengers alike to every corner of the Solar System, sailors had the highest status of all spacemen, and the crew of the luxury liner The River of Stars, the highest among all sailors. But development of the Farnsworth fusion drive doomed the sailing ships and now The River of Stars is the last of its kind, retrofitted with engines, her mast vestigial, her sails unraised for years. An ungainly hybrid, she operates in the late years of the century as a mere tramp freighter among the outer planets, and her crew is a motley group of misfits. Stepan Gorgas is the escapist executive officer who becomes captain. Ramakrishnan Bhatterji is the chief engineer who disdains him. Eugenie Satterwaithe, once a captain herself, is third officer and, for form's sake, sailing master. When an unlikely and catastrophic engine failure strikes The River, Bhatterji is confident he can effect repairs with heroic engineering, but Satterwaithe and the other sailors among the crew plot to save her with a glorious last gasp for the old ways, mesmerized by a vision of arriving at Jupiter proudly under sail. The story of their doom has the power, the poetry, and the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. This is a great science fiction novel, Flynn's best yet.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416329.The_Wreck_of_The_River_of_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "Empire's End", "author_name": "Chuck Wendig", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 10136, "review_number": 944, "book_description": "Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING.As the final showdown between the New Republic and the Empire draws near, all eyes turn to a once-isolated planet: Jakku.The Battle of Endor shattered the Empire, scattering its remaining forces across the galaxy. But the months following the Rebellion\u2019s victory have not been easy. The fledgling New Republic has suffered a devastating attack from the Imperial remnant, forcing the new democracy to escalate its hunt for the hidden enemy.For her role in the deadly ambush, Grand Admiral Rae Sloane is the most wanted Imperial war criminal\u2014and one-time rebel pilot Norra Wexley, back in service at Leia\u2019s urgent request, is leading the hunt. But more than just loyalty to the New Republic drives Norra forward: Her husband was turned into a murderous pawn in Sloane\u2019s assassination plot, and now she wants vengeance as much as justice.Sloane, too, is on a furious quest: pursuing the treacherous Gallius Rax to the barren planet Jakku. As the true mastermind behind the Empire\u2019s devastating attack, Rax has led the Empire to its defining moment. The cunning strategist has gathered the powerful remnants of the Empire\u2019s war machine, preparing to execute the late Emperor Palpatine\u2019s final plan. As the Imperial fleet orbits Jakku, an armada of Republic fighters closes in to finish what began at Endor. Norra and her crew soar into the heart of an apocalyptic clash that will leave land and sky alike scorched. And the future of the galaxy will finally be decided.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adventure", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30213123-empire-s-end"}, +{"book_title": "The Very Thought of You", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2616, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Alexander Smith had found success in the world of corporate takeovers\u2014but not happiness. That had always escaped him...along with true love. Then, at the MacLeod Keep in Scotland, he found a pirate map that miraculously answered his yearnings\u2014with a journey to another time. And when he was captured in Medieval England by Margaret of Falconberg, a fierce beauty hidden in knight's armor, he rediscovered his own chivalrous\u2014and passionate\u2014heart...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/554129.The_Very_Thought_of_You"}, +{"book_title": "Cloak and Silence", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 6616, "review_number": 472, "book_description": "Every Life Has A Price\u2122One of the fiercest soldiers the Phrixians have ever produced, Maris Sulle has been an outsider from the moment he was born different from the rest of his royal military family. And once his deadly secret was exposed, it cost him everything\u2014his birthright, his family, and his stellar military career.Ture Xans spent his entire life hiding from everyone around him\u2014his family, his friends, and anyone who wanted to get close to him\u2014while trying desperately to fit in and keep his head low. Badly hurt by everyone he\u2019s ever known, he trusts no one except his own best friend. But honestly, he can\u2019t understand why he trusts her. Nor can he believe her when she describes a loyalty between the League allies the likes of which he\u2019s never seen.Yet when Ture is captured by the League in a coup he wanted no part of, his life is saved by a hero he thought only existed in fables. A man who is every bit as scarred and mistrusting as he is. One who has no interest in being dragged into another war for any reason. Having spent his life as a living study of doomed relationships, Maris is well aware of the fiasco that invariably follows. Still, there is something about Ture he can\u2019t resist. Something that won\u2019t let him walk away when he knows he should. But when old enemies return to threaten them both, they either have to stand together or die alone.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36640259-cloak-and-silence"}, +{"book_title": "Level 2", "author_name": "Lenore Appelhans", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 2746, "review_number": 626, "book_description": "In this gripping exploration of a futuristic afterlife, a teen discovers that death is just the beginning.Since her untimely death the day before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward has been trapped in Level 2, a stark white afterlife located between our world and the next. Along with her fellow drones, Felicia passes the endless hours reliving memories of her time on Earth and mourning what she\u2019s lost-family, friends, and Neil, the boy she loved.Then a girl in a neighboring chamber is found dead, and nobody but Felicia recalls that she existed in the first place. When Julian-a dangerously charming guy Felicia knew in life-comes to offer Felicia a way out, Felicia learns the truth: If she joins the rebellion to overthrow the Morati, the angel guardians of Level 2, she can be with Neil again.Suspended between Heaven and Earth, Felicia finds herself at the center of an age-old struggle between good and evil. As memories from her life come back to haunt her, and as the Morati hunt her down, Felicia will discover it\u2019s not just her own redemption at stake\u2026 but the salvation of all mankind.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10861195-level-2"}, +{"book_title": "The Other Life", "author_name": "Susanne Winnacker", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 2986, "review_number": 452, "book_description": "3 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days since I\u2019d seen daylight. One-fifth of my life. 98,409,602 seconds since the heavy, steel door had fallen shut and sealed us off from the world.Sherry has lived with her family in a sealed bunker since things went wrong up above. But when they run out of food, Sherry and her dad must venture outside. There they find a world of devastation, desolation...and the Weepers: savage, mutant killers.When Sherry's dad is snatched, she joins forces with gorgeous but troubled Joshua - an Avenger, determined to destroy the Weepers.But can Sherry keep her family and Joshua safe, when his desire for vengeance threatens them all?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9554790-the-other-life"}, +{"book_title": "Lost Highlander", "author_name": "Cassidy Cayman", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 2721, "review_number": 244, "book_description": "Grad student and cocktail waitress Evelyn Merkholtz has plenty to deal with. Too much to deal with. So, when her runaway best friend calls with a mysterious and urgent request to join her in Scotland, she is secretly more than happy to drop everything and oblige.She's faced with an ancient curse, an adorably hunky villager, and a super hot (but possibly murderous), Highland warrior from the 18th century - and realizes that getting burned at the stake is a really bad way to get out of writing her thesis.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18221285-lost-highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Descender #1", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1570, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "One young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet.A rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling space opera from the creators of Trillium, Sweet Tooth, and Little Gotham.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24970339-descender-1"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Mate", "author_name": "Cara Bristol", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1347, "review_number": 216, "book_description": "I'm Starr Elizabeth Conner. Earth's government falsely convicted me of a crime, packed me on a ship with other female felons, and sent us to Dakon, a primitive, frozen wasteland of a planet. But I'm no barbarian\u2019s 'mail order bride,' even if he is super tall, muscular, and the chief of his tribe. He doesn\u2019t want a BBW blonde, either--it's written all over his chiseled face. He'll be truly angry if he ever learns what my 'crime' was. I am Torg. I have waited 34 rotations for a mate of my own. With this shipment, I was sure to get a fine, sturdy mate who'll bear me many daughters. Instead, I receive a small, curvy, pale-haired female who looks at me with anger and fear. It is only when we 'kiss' that I believe things may work out between us. But I'm hearing rumors that Starr and her shipmates are law-breakers. To survive, Dakonians must obey all laws \u2026 or be exiled into the frozen wasteland. Just when I have found my mate, will I have to banish her? ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34704642-alien-mate"}, +{"book_title": "The Dervish House", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 4398, "review_number": 489, "book_description": "ISTANBUL: QUEEN OF CITIES. Here histories, empires, and continents meet and cross. It is the mid-twenty first century and Turkey is a proud and powerful member of a European Union that runs from the Atlantic to Mt. Ararat.In the sleepy Istanbul district of Eskik\u00f6y stands the former whirling dervish house of Adem Dede. Six characters' lives revolve around it.A retired economist from the Greek community is hired into a top-security think tank, but keeps a dark secret from another century.A nine-year-old boy, confined to a silent world by a heart condition where any sudden sound could kill him, becomes a reluctant detective.A rogues trader sets up the deal o the century smuggling contraband gas but discovers it's only the tip of an iceberg of corporate fraud.An art dealer takes an offer she can't refuse--a genuine legend of old Istanbul--and finds herself swept up in ancient intrigues and rivalries.A slacker finds his life forever changed after an act of urban terrorism gives him the ability to see djinn--and they're just the start.A young marketing graduate has five days to save a family nanotechnology start-up with a new product that may just change the world. Over the space of five days of an Istanbul heat wave, these lives weave a story of corporate wheeling and dealing, Islamic mysticism, political and economic intrigues, ancient Ottoman mysteries, a terrifying new terrorist threat, and a nanotechnology with the potential to transform every human on the planet.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6993091-the-dervish-house"}, +{"book_title": "Fairest", "author_name": "Gail Carson Levine", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 62164, "review_number": 4174, "book_description": "In the kingdom of Ayortha, who is the fairest of them all? Certainly not Aza. She is thoroughly convinced that she is ugly. What she may lack in looks, though, she makes up for with a kind heart, and with something no one else has-a magical voice. Her vocal talents captivate all who hear them, and in Ontio Castle they attract the attention of a handsome prince - and a dangerous new queen. In this masterful novel filled with humour, adventure, romance, and song, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine invites you to join Aza as she discovers how exquisite she truly is.Ages 8 - 14", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183660.Fairest"}, +{"book_title": "Questions for a Soldier", "author_name": "John Scalzi", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 2832, "review_number": 167, "book_description": "A tale set in the world of his debut novel, OLD MAN'S WAR. Published as a signed limited edition chapbook.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/346685.Questions_for_a_Soldier"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Full Measure", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 165, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "As the author of the bestselling Lost Fleet series, Jack Campbell s name is well-known to fans of interstellar heroics. Now, with his thrilling new novella The Last Full Measure, Campbell brings his keen eye for military adventure and political intrigue to a tale that is earthbound, but no less wondrous...In a transformed mid-nineteenth century America dominated by plantation owners and kept in line by Southern military forces, a mild-mannered academic from Maine, Professor Joshua Chamberlain, stands accused of crimes against the nation. In court alongside him is Abraham Lincoln, whose fiery rhetoric brands him a 'threat to the security of the United States of America.' Convicted, Chamberlain is sentenced to forty years hard labor, while Lincoln s fate is indefinite detention at Fortress Monroe. But Professor Chamberlain then encounters military minds who understand the true ideals upon which the country was founded and who want to foment revolution. To succeed, they need a leader, someone to inspire the people to take up the cause of liberty: Lincoln. All they have to do is flawlessly execute a daring plan to rescue him from the darkest federal prison.In The Last Full Measure, Campbell delivers a riveting look at an America where war is imminent, and nothing is as it should be.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17386911-the-last-full-measure"}, +{"book_title": "Dalek Empire II: Dalek War - Chapter One", "author_name": "Nicholas Briggs", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 127, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Dalek Empire II: Dalek War is a four part mini-series that continues the story begun in Dalek Empire and features the Daleks from the world of BBC TV's Doctor Who.The galaxy is in the grip of a terrible war. Kalendorf and his alliance forces are fighting alongside Daleks from another dimension. Their common cause? The defeat of the Dalek Supreme's mighty army.But where is the evil Emperor of the Daleks? And can it be that the legendary Angel of Mercy, Susan Mendes, has already been exterminated?With civilisation on the brink of destruction, it may now be impossible to tell friend from foe.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4673679-dalek-empire-ii"}, +{"book_title": "The Berserker Throne", "author_name": "Fred Saberhagen", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 826, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "The Empress of the Eight Worlds has been assassinated. Prince Harivarman, exiled on the Templar Radiant, suspects that he will be the next victim. Help is scarce: Anne Blenheim, the fortress' clear-eyed, fair Commander, is favorably disposed toward the Prince, but her first responsibility is to the Templar High Command. And Chen Shizuoka, a Templar recruit sympathetic to Harivarman's cause, is being stalked by planetary security forces. When Prince Harivarman discovers an operable Berserker\u2013one of the asteroid-sized, spacefaring war machines that once destroyed their makers and all other life in their path\u2013his first instinct is to turn it in. But then he finds an ancient code that will either allow him to control the dreaded machine or lead him\u2013and everyone else on the Templar Radiant\u2013to certain death.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War", "Space", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16510.The_Berserker_Throne"}, +{"book_title": "Farewell Horizontal", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 421, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "You're either on the inside or the outside -- and either way, you're in trouble. A hustling young artist finds himself on the run from warring tribes, mysterious conspirators, body-swapping hackers and more, as he tries to both survive and strike it rich on the vertical surface of a skyscraper big enough to be its own world.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147882.Farewell_Horizontal"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's Trial", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 550, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Spineward Sectors Series Book Four: Admiral's TrailBound, Tortured and eventually Gagged during the trial of his life, it soon becomes abundantly clear that no one wants to hear what Jason Montagne (the media\u2019s newly minted \u2018Tyrant of Cold Space) has to say in his own defense. Pirate kings, power-hungry ambassadors and scheming sector officials are all determined to bend him to their will.With the deck stacked against him at every turn, Jason Montagne prepares to throw himself in front of the firing line, this time to save the ragged remains of his loyal crew. Convinced he is a complete and utter failure as an Admiral, he is determined to not fail his loyal men and women again.Unfortunately for the Little Admiral and the Government that would turn him into a convenient scapegoat, a certain old Engineer isn\u2019t concerned with anyone else\u2019s agenda. His beloved Clover is missing, and he\u2019s got a bone to pick with the man who lost her. As far as he\u2019s concerned, facing overwhelming forces on an impossible mission is all in a day\u2019s work for a man who has already spat in the demon\u2019s eye.Saint Murphy help us!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18131431-admiral-s-trial"}, +{"book_title": "The Suspicion", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 2723, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "The Yeerks are not the only invaders of Earth. Meet the new enemy: the Helmacrons. Cassie finds their miniature spaceship and donates it to a toy drive. Big mistake. The Helmacrons are tiny, but they're far from helpless. They have the technology to shrink other creatures to their size. And until they get their spaceship back, they're taking hostages. The Animorphs must find a way to send these pests back into space -- before it's too late.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363350.The_Suspicion"}, +{"book_title": "Terrier", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 68295, "review_number": 1971, "book_description": "Hundreds of years before Alanna first drew her sword in Tamora Pierce's memorable debut, Alanna: The First Adventure, Tortall had a heroine named Beka Cooper - a fierce young woman who fights crime in a world of magic. This is the beginning of her story, her legend, and her legacy....Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard, commonly known as \"the Provost's Dogs,\" in Corus, the capital city of Tortall. To the surprise of both the veteran \"Dogs\" and her fellow \"puppies,\" Beka requests duty in the Lower City. The Lower City is a tough beat. But it's also where Beka was born, and she's comfortable there.Beka gets her wish. She's assigned to work with Mattes and Clary, famed veterans among the Provost's Dogs. They're tough, they're capable, and they're none too happy about the indignity of being saddled with a puppy for the first time in years. What they don't know is that Beka has something unique to offer. Never much of a talker, Beka is a good listener. So good, in fact, that she hears things that Mattes and Clary never could - information that is passed in murmurs when flocks of pigeons gather ... murmurs that are the words of the dead.In this way, Beka learns of someone in the Lower City who has overturned the power structure of the underworld and is terrorizing its citizens into submission and silence. Beka's magical listening talent is the only way for the Provost's Dogs to find out the identity of this brutal new underlord, for the dead are beyond fear. And the ranks of the dead will be growing if the Dogs can't stop a crime wave the likes of which has never been seen. Luckily for the people of the Lower City, the new puppy is a true terrier!", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13829.Terrier"}, +{"book_title": "The City of Lightning (The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne Volume 2", "author_name": "Kaja Foglio", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 253, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha is the last of the Heterodynes, a notorious family of Mad Scientists that everyone had thought safely wiped out. When a rival scientist traps her family castle and the surrounding town in a time-freeze, Agatha must embark on a journey to find a way to reverse the effect and save the people she loves. Available in Softcover and Hardcover editions.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29562402-the-city-of-lightning-the-second-journey-of-agatha-heterodyne-volume-2"}, +{"book_title": "Visions of Heat", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 34946, "review_number": 2004, "book_description": "Hailed as a major new talent in paranormal romance, Nalini Singh takes us deeper into the world of the Psy and the changelings in her latest extraordinary novel, where a gifted woman sees passion in her future - a passion that is absolutely forbidden by her kind...Used to cold silence, Faith NightStar is suddenly being tormented by dark visions of blood and murder. A bad sign for anyone, but worse for Faith, an F-Psy with the highly sought after ability to predict the future. Then the visions show her something even more dangerous - aching need...exquisite pleasure. But so powerful is her sight, so fragile the state of her mind, that the very emotions she yearns to embrace could be the end of her.Changeling Vaughn D'Angelo can take the form of either man or jaguar, but it is his animal side that is overwhelmingly drawn to Faith. The jaguar's instinct is to claim this woman it finds so utterly fascinating and the man has no argument. But while Vaughn craves sensation and hungers to pleasure Faith in every way, desire is a danger that could snap the last threads of her sanity. And there are Psy who need Faith's sight for their own purposes. They must keep her silenced - and keep her from Vaughn.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215643.Visions_of_Heat"}, +{"book_title": "Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 462, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "A young cop in 1830\u2019s London is hot on the trail of Captain Swing and his band of Electrical Pirates, futuristic villains who sail the very sky!From the sparking-mad mind of Warren Ellis, the creator of TRANSMETROPOLITAN and PLANETARY, comes an electrical romance of a pirate utopia thwarted!  In the London of 1830, newly-minted copper Charlie Gravel keeps seeing things he's not supposed to: a crooked Bow Street Runner with a flintlock revolver, high-flying vessels that are not supposed to fly, and the violent Scientific Phantasmagoria popularly known as Spring-Heeled Jack.  With the coming of Captain Swing and his Electrical Pirates, history shall never be the same!  This crackling new graphic novel is illustrated by Raulo Caceres in a stunning woodcut style, capturing the classic literary feel from days of yore.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10852315-captain-swing-and-the-electrical-pirates-of-cindery-island"}, +{"book_title": "Mist, Metal, and Ash", "author_name": "Gwendolyn Clare", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 504, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Worlds collide in this thrilling sequel to the epic, imaginative, acclaimed fantasy Ink, Iron, and Glass.In an alternate 19th-century Italy, Elsa has an incredible gift: she can craft new worlds with precise lines of script written in books. But political extremists have stolen the most dangerous book ever scribed\u2015one that can rewrite the Earth itself. Now Elsa must track down the friend who betrayed her and recover the book before its destructive power is unleashed. Can she handle the secrets she\u2019ll uncover along the way\u2015including the ones hiding in her own heart?", "year_published": 0, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39219260-mist-metal-and-ash"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Deeps", "author_name": "Arthur Slade", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 1007, "review_number": 127, "book_description": "A fantastic Steampunk adventure in the deepsTransforming his appearance and stealing secret documents from the French is all in a day\u2019s work for fourteen-year-old Modo, a British secret agent. But his latest mission\u2014to uncover the underwater mystery of something called the Ict\u00edneo\u2014seems impossible. There are rumors of a sea monster and a fish as big as a ship. French spies are after it, and Mr. Socrates, Modo\u2019s master, wants to find it first. Modo and his fellow secret agent, Octavia, begin their mission in New York City, then take a steamship across the North Atlantic. During the voyage, Modo uncovers an astounding secret.\u00a0The Dark Deeps, the second book in Arthur Slade\u2019s Hunchback Assignments series, is set in a fascinating Steampunk Victorian world. Modo\u2019s underwater adventures and his encounters with the young French spy Colette Brunet, the fearless Captain Monturiol, and the dreaded Clockwork Guild guarantee a gripping read filled with danger, suspense, and brilliant inventions.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7456030-the-dark-deeps"}, +{"book_title": "Hatched", "author_name": "Erin Tate", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1625, "review_number": 154, "book_description": "Taulan joi Lana Coburn, War Master of the Preor third fleet, is finally having his wishes granted. He has a mate and will soon have two dragonlets to protect and love. But only if he can live to see them born. Or, as his Lana says, hatched. This short story is set in the DRAGONS OF PREOR world and does not stand alone. It should be read after ZADRI and is a little bite of family life for those who fell in love with the Preor dragons. Part of the \"Dragons of Preor\" series: Jarek Taulan Kozav Rendan Zadri", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32801393-hatched"}, +{"book_title": "Fiasco", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3242, "review_number": 261, "book_description": "The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking Earth. As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding. Translated by Michael Kandel.The novel was published in German translation (translated by H. Schumann) in 1986. The Polish text published in 1987, the English translation (by M. Kandel) the same year.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28766.Fiasco"}, +{"book_title": "\u65b0\u88c5\u7248\u3000\uff22\uff2c\uff21\uff2d\uff25\uff01\uff08\uff12", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 685, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "\u5f10\u74f6\u52c9\u306e\u5091\u4f5cSF\uff01\u3000\u30ab\u30d0\u30fc\u306f\u65b0\u305f\u306b\u63cf\u304d\u4e0b\u308d\u3057\uff01\u3000\u6975\u9650\u307e\u3067\u767a\u9054\u3057\u305f\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u4e16\u754c\u3002\u300c\u611f\u67d3\u524d\u300d\u306e\u300c\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u7aef\u672b\u907a\u4f1d\u5b50\u300d\u3092\u6c42\u3081\u3001\u300c\u7d71\u6cbb\u5c40\u300d\u3078\u306e\u518d\u30a2\u30af\u30bb\u30b9\u3092\u53ef\u80fd\u306b\u3059\u308b\u305f\u3081\u306b\u4f55\u5343\u30d5\u30ed\u30a2\u3082\u8d85\u69cb\u9020\u4f53\u3092\u653e\u6d6a\u3059\u308b\u63a2\u7d22\u8005\u30fb\u9727\u4ea5\uff08\u30ad\u30ea\u30a4\uff09\u3002\u304b\u3064\u3066\u751f\u96fb\u793e\u306e\u4e3b\u4efb\u79d1\u5b66\u8005\u3092\u52d9\u3081\u3001\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u7aef\u672b\u907a\u4f1d\u5b50\u5408\u6210\u5b9f\u9a13\u306e\u5931\u6557\u306e\u8cac\u4efb\u3092\u554f\u308f\u308c\u3066\u751f\u96fb\u793e\u306e\u5730\u4e0b\u306b\u5e7d\u9589\u3055\u308c\u3066\u3044\u305f\u5973\u6027\u30fb\u30b7\u30dc\u3092\u6551\u51fa\u3057\u305f\u9727\u4ea5\u306f\u3001\u5f7c\u5973\u3068\u884c\u52d5\u3092\u5171\u306b\u3059\u308b\u3002", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28104625"}, +{"book_title": "The Proteus Operation", "author_name": "James P. Hogan", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1011, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The victorious fascists had conquered nearly all of the world. Project Proteus offered America's -- and freedom's -- only hope: a time gate that made possible a counterstrike back through time.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/849493.The_Proteus_Operation"}, +{"book_title": "The Saint", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 2999, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "This omnibus edition follows the second cycle of the Gaunt's Ghost stories in a collection called, \"The Saint\". It includes the four novels, Honour Guard, The Guns of Tanith, Straight Silver and Sabbat Martyr. The story arc follows the First & Only from warzone to warzone of the Chaos-infested Sabbats World system fighting enemies in many guises and shapes.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Pulp"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1052303.The_Saint"}, +{"book_title": "Mars on the Rise", "author_name": "Rae Gee", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 71, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "A storyteller steps off a pier and into a world of steampunk oddities, fearsome weapons, and a dangerous man. Promised fame and fortune by the country's largest weapons manufacturer, Cedo gratefully falls into the arms of Erus Veetu. Dark, dangerous and with nothing to lose, Erus shows him that Svenfur isn't all Cedo thought it was. For beneath the streets is a dark, gas lit world of slavery, human sacrifice, and deadly machines. With the machines waging war in the East, can Cedo stop the country's deadliest man from bringing it to the shores of England? Or is he too late to penetrate the cold exterior of his Master and halt the cogs and gears of progress? Set in a Victorian world of sex, drugs and steampower, Mars on the Rise tells a dark, gritty story of what happens when our dreams come true. Whether we want them to or not.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13616947-mars-on-the-rise"}, +{"book_title": "Mirage", "author_name": "Somaiya Daud", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 9553, "review_number": 2469, "book_description": "In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated moon.But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken in secret to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered people that she requires a body double, someone to appear in public as Maram, ready to die in her place.As Amani is forced into her new role, she can\u2019t help but enjoy the palace\u2019s beauty\u2014and her time with the princess\u2019 fianc\u00e9, Idris. But the glitter of the royal court belies a world of violence and fear. If Amani ever wishes to see her family again, she must play the princess to perfection...because one wrong move could lead to her death.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32768520-mirage"}, +{"book_title": "Beta", "author_name": "Rachel Cohn", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 7472, "review_number": 946, "book_description": "Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist. Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air induces a strange, euphoric high, which only the island's workers-soulless clones like Elysia-are immune to. At first, Elysia's life is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesne's human residents, who should want for nothing, yearn. But for what, exactly? She also comes to realize that beneath the island's flawless exterior, there is an undercurrent of discontent among Demesne's worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not care-so why are overpowering sensations clouding Elysia's mind? If anyone discovers that Elysia isn't the unfeeling clone she must pretend to be, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When her one chance at happiness is ripped away with breathtaking cruelty, emotions she's always had but never understood are unleashed. As rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, Elysia must find the will to survive. The first in a dazzlingly original science fiction series from best-selling author Rachel Cohn, \"Beta \"is a haunting, unforgettable story of courage and love in a corrupted world. Praise for Beta \"A terrific premise that is equally well executed...Readers can only hope [the sequel] will be as thrilling as this series kickoff.\"--Los Angles Times \"", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10382215-beta"}, +{"book_title": "And They Called Her Spider", "author_name": "Michael Coorlim", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 210, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Galvanic Century is set in an alternate steampunk world where the reign of Queen Victoria has extended well into the early 20th century. As the world edges inexorably towards a World War that few can even begin to anticipate, brave men and women must contend with airship pirates, clockwork assassins, galvanic monsters, and anarchist madmen.In their debut adventure, London is in the grip of an unstoppable assassin known only as the Spider, and consulting detectives James Wainwright and Alton Bartleby have been commissioned to catch her. Can the surly inventor and savvy gentleman track her down and stop her string of murders, or will Queen Victoria be her next victim?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13289561-and-they-called-her-spider"}, +{"book_title": "Hare Moon", "author_name": "Carrie Ryan", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 2180, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "Tabitha can\u2019t shake the feeling that something exists beyond the fences of her village. And when she sneaks out, past the gates and down the path into the Forest of Hands and Teeth, she meets a boy who teaches her heart things she never knew. But love in a world surrounded by so much death doesn\u2019t come without its sacrifices, and Tabitha gradually realizes just how much she\u2019ll have to give up to live among the Unconsecrated.\u00a0From New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ryan comes an original story of love after the Return.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11011944-hare-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Angel", "author_name": "Alan Campbell", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 1865, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "In this stunning follow-up to his epic fantasy debut, Alan Campbell propels readers into a captivating city battling for its own survival\u2014and that of humankind\u2014in a world of deities and demons, fallen angels and killers.\n\n\nAfter a destructive battle, the ancient swaying city of Deepgate has been overtaken. Most of the chains that suspend it have given way, toxic fumes are emanating from blazing structures, and the temple once inhabited by the ruling Presbyter now dangles upside down above the once-uncharted abyss. The victorious Spine have initiated martial law and are ruthlessly pursuing all who attempt to leave. Amid the turmoil, two captives are returned. Arriving by ship are the young angel Dill, now toughened by war, and traitor assassin Rachel Hael. Incarcerated in the slowly crumbling temple, the two await their fate, while from the abyss beneath them ghosts rise\u2014for the death of the god Ulcis has left open the gates to Hell.But on orders from his divine brethren, Cospinol, the god of brine and fog, is traveling the world to Deepgate to seal this breach. His great skyship is being dragged through the air by the giant John Anchor, a monster of a man enslaved to pull the god\u2019s vessel, moving slowly, inevitably, toward the city.As the city waits, teetering on the brink, myriad plans for vengeance are set in motion, from the continent of Pandemeria to Heaven itself. Among them is a ghostly archon sent to deliver a message to the gods on earth\u2014using Dill as his vessel. Thrust from his body, Dill\u2019s own soul returns to Hell. When Dill and Rachel are attacked by Spine assassins, Rachel has no choice but to try to escape with the creature that calls itself Dill\u2026and to somehow find a way to restore her friend\u2019s soul before it\u2019s too late. For powerful forces are stirring, and in the coming battle between gods, it is the world of men that is at stake.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598001-iron-angel"}, +{"book_title": "Auberon", "author_name": "Blaze Ward", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 343, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Jessica Keller has a reputation as a maverick commander. It almost got her court martialed. Now it has gotten her a new command in an obscure sector, with orders to ignite a new front in the eternal war.But her old nemesis, Imperial Admiral Emmerich Wachturm, stands in her way.Worlds will fall before their feud ends, but only if she can forge her crew of strangers into a weapon. Otherwise, disaster looms.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25271288-auberon"}, +{"book_title": "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever", "author_name": "James Tiptree Jr.", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 3699, "review_number": 423, "book_description": "These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Award\u2013winning short story Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, the Hugo Award\u2013winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award\u2013winning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.The stories of Alice Sheldon, who wrote as James Tiptree Jr. ( Up the Walls of the World ) until her death in 1987, have been heretofore available mostly in out-of-print collections. Thus the 18 accomplished stories here will be welcomed by new readers and old fans. ''The Screwfly Solution'' describes a chilling, elegant answer to the population problem. In ''Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death,'' the title tells the tale--species survival insured by imprinted drives--but the story's force is in its exquisite, lyrical prose and its suggestion that personal uniqueness is possible even within biological imperatives. ''The Girl Who Was Plugged In'' is a future boy-meets-girl story with a twist unexpected by the players. ''The Women Men Don't See '' displays Tiptree's keen insight and ability to depict singularity within the ordinary. In Hugo and Nebula award-winning ''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'' astronauts flying by the sun slip forward 500 years and encounter a culture that successfully questions gender roles in ours.ContentsIntroduction by Michael SwanwickThe Last Flight of Doctor Ain (1969)The Screwfly Solution (1977)And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill\u2019s Side (1972)The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973)The Man Who Walked Home (1972)And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways (1972)The Women Men Don\u2019t See (1973)Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light! (1976)Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976)With Delicate Mad Hands (1981)A Momentary Taste of Being (1975)We Who Stole the Dream (1978)Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1974)Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death (1973)On the Last Afternoon (1972)She Waits for All Men Born (1976)Slow Music (1980)And So On, and So On (1971)", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Feminism", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Horror", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27059.Her_Smoke_Rose_Up_Forever"}, +{"book_title": "The Human Factor", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.49, "rating_votes": 2479, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Captain Jason Burke is a man apart, and not just because he's the only of his kind for thousands of lightyears in any direction. The changes to his body and to his genetic code have made him faster, stronger, more able to survive in his dangerous occupation ... but they've also ensured that he'll never truly fit in with others of his species. He always assumed he would live and die with his crew and never lay eyes on another human again, he was wrong.The mercenary captain learns through back channel information that Earth may be in danger and, worse, that he may have been a contributing factor. He now faces the choice of ignoring the problem and allowing his own species to fight their own battles, or returning to help and risk making the situation worse. Can he just sit idly by while his species faces such a dire threat?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29739579-the-human-factor"}, +{"book_title": "Needle In The Groove", "author_name": "Jeff Noon", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 829, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "In this astonishing novel Jeff Noon allows the complex rhythms of dance music to infect his language, creating a new kind of writing / liquid dub poetics / in the grooves he discovers a world where the scratches of the stylus cut the body / a dj's samples are melodies of blood / love is a ghost lost in the boom box / and the only remix that really matters is the remix of the heartAfter years of playing bass in lousy two-bit bands, elliot finally gets his big chance / he meets a singer, a dj and a drummer who seem to have everything / passion, talent, hypnotic songs, and a whole new way of funky seduction / but just as their first dance record is climbing the charts, one of the band disappears / Elliot's search for the missing musician becomes a wild, fiercely emotional trip into the dark soul of rhythm.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Music", "Fantasy", "Literature (21st Century)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17382735-needle-in-the-groove"}, +{"book_title": "Classic Cyborg (Liquid Cool; Crazy Maniac Files #1", "author_name": "Austin Dragon", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 47, "review_number": 12, "book_description": " CLASSIC CYBORG LIQUID COOL: THE CYBERPUNK DETECTIVE SERIES From the Crazy Maniac Files (Book One) It's Sci-Fi Meets the Crime Thriller! It's Blade Runner Meets The Maltese Falcon! It\u2019s cyberpunk reimagined. LIQUID COOL is the action-packed (and funny) cyberpunk detective series. Tag along with Cruz, our private eye (and unlikely hero), in the fifty-million-plus, supercity of Metropolis\u2014 ever-raining, colossal skyscrapers, hovercar-filled skies, and flashy neon streets below. Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control, but so does crime. What are the Crazy Maniac Files? Cruz has dealt with all kinds of criminal crazies\u2014and even crazier clients. This supercity has a million victims and perpetrators but this LIQUID COOL Mini-Series will feature one \u201ccrazy maniac.\u201dAs you dive into the action, we could tell you to watch out for tech-tricksters, analog hustlers, neon gangsters, or digital mercenaries, but the only thing to fear in this story are the cyborgs\u2014lots of them\u2026and the legend known as CLASSIC CYBORG. Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool. \u02c3\u02c3\u02c3 ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42187035-classic-cyborg"}, +{"book_title": "Chester 5000 XYV: Isabelle & George", "author_name": "Jess Fink", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 180, "review_number": 30, "book_description": "\n1889: an age of industrial revolution and sexual frustration.\n Isabelle is a lonely orphan, reprimanded at every turn by her strict matron. George is an inventor on the cusp of a brilliant discovery. Together they find love, but can their love survive what industry has in store for them? Our first volume told the story of Priscilla, a Victorian woman with needs, and Chester, her versatile robot lover. This book continues their adventures, and recounts the origin story of the characters' very first meetings. Jess Fink blends the drama of the silent film era with whimsical, modern, erotic charm.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31432894-chester-5000-xyv"}, +{"book_title": "By the Blood of Heroes", "author_name": "Joseph Nassise", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 404, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "\u201cJoe Nassise has raised the bar for the whole genre.\u201d \u2014Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of The Dragon FactoryCombine the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of George A. Romero\u2019s Dawn of the Dead, set it on the blood-and-gore-soaked European battlefields of World War One, and you get By the Blood of Heroes, a wildly imaginative alternate history zombie novel by acclaimed urban fantasy author Joseph Nassise. When the German high command employs a terrible new chemical weapon that reanimates the dead, Allied forces must take on the Kaiser\u2019s zombie army in order to rescue a downed American flying ace in the first book of Nassise\u2019s The Great Undead War saga. By the Blood of Heroes is a deliciously gruesome adventure that horror and alternate history lovers, steampunk aficionados, and fans of such zombie-centric offerings as TV\u2019s The Walking Dead, popular literature\u2019s World War Z, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Zombie Haiku, and the Resident Evil video game and film series will eagerly devour.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12902367-by-the-blood-of-heroes"}, +{"book_title": "The Fugitive", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 2449, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "In this exhilarating one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, Mark James is on the run\u2014and on the wrong side of the law\u2014but he'll do whatever it takes to save Sarah Hart and help the Garde.A sequel to I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Return to Paradise, this novella picks up with Mark racing to Dulce, New Mexico, evading capture from both the Mogadorians and the FBI. On the road, his mysterious new ally\u2014a fellow blogger from They Walk Among Us who Mark knows only by the screen name GUARD\u2014sends him a care package to help in his quest to find Sarah. Inside is a stack of cash, high-tech equipment, and some seriously advanced weaponry, all begging Mark to once again ask the question: Just who exactly is this guy? As Mark gets closer to tracking down Sarah, he also gets closer to discovering the identity of this enigmatic figure who seems to know so much about the Loric. When the truth about GUARD is finally revealed, nothing will ever be the same.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21805399-the-fugitive"}, +{"book_title": "Goddess of the Sea", "author_name": "P.C. Cast", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 10244, "review_number": 697, "book_description": "On the night of her twenty-fifth birthday, alone in her apartment, Air Force Sergeant Christine Canady wished for one thing: a little magic in her life. After drinking way too much champagne, she performed, of all crazy things, a goddess-summoning ritual, hoping that it would somehow make her life a little less ordinary...but she never believed the spell would actually work.When her military plane crashes into the ocean, CC's mission overseas takes an unexpected turn. She awakens to find herself in a legendary time and place where magic rules the land\u2014occupying the body of the mythic mermaid Undine. But there is danger in the waters and the goddess Gaea turns this modern, military gal into a beautiful damsel so that she can seek shelter on land.CC is soon rescued (literally) by a knight in shining armor. She should be falling in love with this dream-come-true, but instead she aches for the sea and Dylan, the sexy merman who has stolen her heart.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mythology (Mermaids)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30196.Goddess_of_the_Sea"}, +{"book_title": "Unto the Breach", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 2528, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Sequel to Ghost, Kildar and Choosers of the Slain.Michael Harmon has been there and done that. Rescued co-eds, killed major terrorists, stopped nuclear assaults. Now he'd just like to kick back and relax with his harem of lovelies. Unfortunately, the world keeps turning. Mike and the Keldara are back tracking down terrorists, rogue Russian bio-scientists and the doomsday weapon to end all doomsday weapons. It's going to take some very tough, hard and nasty people to stop the end of the world. Fortunately, there's Mike Harmon. The Hero of Ghost, Kildar and Choosers of the Slain, along with his company of elite mountain fighters, is sent on a mission to stop an advanced smallpox plague from being turned over to terrorists. But that will only be the beginning as the Kildar and his Keldara rush to stop a host of WMD attacks, coordinated to take out the very heartland of terrorism's enemies. It's a battle for culture, and this time the terrorists aren't aiming at just one building. . . .", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Action", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599217.Unto_the_Breach"}, +{"book_title": "Deathstalker", "author_name": "Simon R. Green", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 4877, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "The Iron Bitch-- her Imperial Majesty Lionstone XIV-- ruled the human Empire with fear. From peasants to masters of the galaxy's most powerful families, all were subject to the queen's unpredictable decrees of \"outlawing\" and death.Owen Deathstalker, unwilling head of his clan, sought to avoid the perils of the Empire's warring factions but unexpectedly found a price on his head. He fled to Mistworld, where he began to build an unlikely force to topple the throne-- a broken hero, an outlawed Hadenman, a thief, and a bounty hunter. With their help, the Deathstalker took the first step of a far more dangerous journey to claim the role for which he'd been destined since before his birth...", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Pulp", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629068.Deathstalker"}, +{"book_title": "The Quiet Earth", "author_name": "Craig Harrison", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 376, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "John Hobson, a geneticist, wakes one morning to find his watch stopped at 6.12. The streets are deserted, there are no signs of life or death anywhere, and every clock he finds has stopped: at 6.12. Is Hobson the last person left on the planet? Inventive and suspenseful, The Quiet Earth is a confronting journey into the future, and a dark past. This new edition of Craig Harrison's highly sought-after 1981 novel, which was later made into a cult film starring Bruno Lawrence, Pete Smith and Alison Routledge, comes with an introduction by Bernard Beckett. Craig Harrison was born in Leeds in 1942. He left for New Zealand in 1966 after being appointed a lecturer at Massey University. There he devised a course in art history, which he taught until his retirement in 2000. His award-winning play Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1974) was performed for a quarter of a century, including in the Soviet Union. He is the author of five other plays, including Ground Level (1974), which led to a television series, Joe & Koro. Craig's most recent book, the young-adult comedy The Dumpster Saga, was a finalist in the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards. He lives in Palmerston North. textclassics.com.au 'Cuts to the heart of our most basic fears...compelling...a classic.' Bernard Beckett 'Excellent...The inevitability of the horror has a Hitchcock quality.' Listener", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Unfinished", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2151775.The_Quiet_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "The Leviathan Trilogy", "author_name": "Scott Westerfeld", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 1053, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "All three books in Scott Westerfeld\u2019s around-the-world, steampunk adventure trilogy, now collected together in one ebook bundle!LeviathanBehemothGoliath", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Romance", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11563056-the-leviathan-trilogy"}, +{"book_title": "The Navigator", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 2334, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "In this astonishing one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, meet Lexa, a Loric hacker whose unrivaled skills helped her narrowly escape her doomed planet, and who's been hiding on Earth ever since.Lexa was never part of the Elders' plan. She had no idea the Garde children were being evacuated to our planet. But when the Mogadorian attack began, she used her expertise to get an old spaceship in a museum operational once more and became irrevocably entwined with the Garde's fate. In addition to her friend, a pack of Chim\u00e6ra, and a C\u00eapan named Crayton, her relic of a ship also carried Ella, the tenth Garde.With all of their C\u00eapans now gone, the Garde think they are the last of the Loric people. But they are wrong. They have forgotten all about the crew that brought them to Earth. Where have the pilots for both ships been all these years? And why haven't they joined in the fight against the Mogs? In The Navigator, discover the truth behind their escape from Lorien and what happened to them after they arrived on our planet.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22500624-the-navigator"}, +{"book_title": "Strange Days (movie tie-in", "author_name": "James Francis Cameron", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "The original text for James Cameron's Strange Days--soon to be a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Ralph Finnes, Angela Bassett, and Juliette Lewis. 1999: The recently perfected technology of virtual reality has spawned a large black market specializing in the buying and selling of other people's experiences. Color photos.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2229933.Strange_Days"}, +{"book_title": "No Fear", "author_name": "Jaid Black", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1529, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Book 5 in the Trek Mi Q'an series. Mousy, modern day librarian Brynda Mitchell doesn't lead a very exciting life...yet. Book 5 of the Trek Mi Q'an Series, No Fear, tells us the story of Jek Q'an Ri and the capture of his Sacred Mate.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7556004-no-fear"}, +{"book_title": "West Of Honor", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 1220, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die\u2014either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial state that spans first the Earth and then the Solar System. But, because it fails to hold the loyalty of its soldiers, it falters at the stars.As well as carrying the CoDominium Future History into the galactic period, West of Honor introduces Jerry Pournelle's most important and influential character, John Christian Falkenberg.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669097.West_Of_Honor"}, +{"book_title": "The Crystal World", "author_name": "J.G. Ballard", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 3711, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent and imaginative powers, tells the story of a physician specializing in the treatment of leprosy who is invited to a small outpost in the interior of Africa. Finding the roadways blocked, he takes to the river, and embarks on a frightening journey through a strange petrified forest whose area expands daily, affecting not only the physical environment but also its inhabitants.Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses.Fearing this transformation as a herald of the apocalypse, most flee the area in terror, afraid to face a catastrophe they cannot understand. But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest. Travelling through this gilded land, the doctor tries to resist its strange allure, while a tribe of lepers search for Paradise\u2026", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novels", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70255.The_Crystal_World"}, +{"book_title": "Emergent", "author_name": "Rachel Cohn", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 723, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Zhara, the First. Elysia, her clone. On the surface, they are identical. But looks can be deceiving.When Zhara plays, she plays to win. She thought she had escaped the horrors of Doctor Lusardi's cloning compound. But the nightmare is just beginning. Elysia has taken everything from Zhara-a softer, prettier version of herself and an inescapable reminder of all she's failed at in her life. Now the man Zhara loves has replaced her with Elysia. Zhara will get her clone out of the way, no matter the cost.Elysia has finally learned the truth: she has a soul. Her First is alive. She knows it hurts Zhara to see her with Alexander, but she can't give him up. The genetically-perfected Aquine has chosen as her as his life mate, and their days together are limited.Elysia can't remain in the Rave Caves off the shores of Denesme forever. Revolution is brewing on the island paradise. Hundreds of soulless clones remain imprisoned like Elysia once was, slaves to the whims of their owners-wealthy human inhabitants of the island. As a group of clones and humans, led by Alexander, plot an insurrection that will turn Denesme's world upside down, Elysia knows her place is fighting by his side. Terrible sacrifices must be made to defeat Denesme's twisted regime. But even the greatest losses cannot prepare Elysia for the ticking time bomb built into her own programming...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17693718-emergent"}, +{"book_title": "The Offering", "author_name": "Kimberly Derting", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 4141, "review_number": 352, "book_description": "True love\u2014and world war\u2014is at stake in the conclusion to The Pledge trilogy, a dark and romantic blend of dystopia and fantasy.Charlie, otherwise known as Queen Charlaina of Ludania, has become comfortable as a leader and a ruler. She\u2019s done admirable work to restore Ludania\u2019s broken communications systems with other Queendoms, and she\u2019s mastered the art of ignoring Sabara, the evil former queen whose Essence is alive within Charlie. Or so she thinks.When the negotiation of a peace agreement with the Queendom of Astonia goes awry, Charlie receives a brutal message that threatens Ludania, and it seems her only option is to sacrifice herself in exchange for Ludanian freedom.But things aren\u2019t always as they seem. Charlie is walking into a trap\u2014one set by Sabara, who is determined to reclaim the Queendoms at any cost.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12631527-the-offering"}, +{"book_title": "Hard Boiled", "author_name": "Frank Miller", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2687, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "\"Intricate, kinetic, and thoroughly outrageous!\" - Rolling StoneWinner of comics' prestigious Eisner Award! Carl Seltz is a suburban insurance investigator, a loving husband, and devoted father. Nixon is a berserk, homicidal tax collector racking up mind-boggling body counts in a diseased urban slaughterhouse. Unit Four is the ultimate robot killing machine - and the last hope of the future's enslaved mechanical servants. And - somehow - they're all the same psychotic entity. Frank Miller and Geof Darrow have created a visual masterpiece!", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59982.Hard_Boiled"}, +{"book_title": "Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited", "author_name": "Aldous Huxley", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 143800, "review_number": 1486, "book_description": "The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.The non-fiction work Brave New World Revisited, published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as over-population, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Academic (School)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5479.Brave_New_World_Brave_New_World_Revisited"}, +{"book_title": "Prom Night in Purgatory", "author_name": "Amy Harmon", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 3002, "review_number": 345, "book_description": "Where does before end and after begin? Johnny Kinross is a boy from the 1950s, a boy trapped in time, and Maggie is the girl who loves him. By some miracle and against all odds, Johnny and Maggie are given a second chance at life and love. But Johnny is freed from Purgatory only to find himself in a totally different time and place, in a world full of strangers. One unsolved mystery becomes another, and Johnny and Maggie must unravel the past to have any chance at a future. 'Prom Night in Purgatory' is the sequel to the love story that is unlike any other, where time is shifting and everything can change, and Maggie must fight for Johnny all over again.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Young Adult (High School)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26705418-prom-night-in-purgatory"}, +{"book_title": "Can I Build Another Me", "author_name": "Shinsuke Yoshitake", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 155, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Can I Build Another Me", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Humor", "Childrens", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Family", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Love"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31440461-can-i-build-another-me"}, +{"book_title": "End As A Hero", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 79, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "THE CONQUERING HEROMankind was at war with the hideous Gool...and losing. Then, beyond Ganymead, one man fought the searing brain probe of an alien spy...and won. He mastered the power of its telepathic mind-control, captured the secret of its matter transmitters, and learned how to destroy the Gool Overlords. He called intelligence with news of the victory and headed home.Straight into a barrage of Terran nuclear warheads.Past missiles, shells, and assassins, he made it home - alone, badly wounded, and branded a traitor by conventional Terran wisdom that said no one could survive the Gool brain probe. No one, that is, except a brainwashed puppet deliberately allowed to survive to serve the Gools as a spy.But he must survive Earth's attempts to kill him - because no matter how much his fellow humans want him dead, he knows that he is the only one who can lead them against the Gool and have a chance at victory.", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1417216.End_As_A_Hero"}, +{"book_title": "Challenging Saber", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 2249, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "Best-seller de la liste USA Today !Pour r\u00e9veiller la b\u00eate \u00e0 l'int\u00e9rieur de lui...Saber craint de ne jamais se remettre enti\u00e8rement de ses graves blessures, et s\u2019il est incapable de prot\u00e9ger son Amate, il sait qu\u2019il n\u2019est pas digne d\u2019elle. Elle devrait choisir un guerrier, pas un estropi\u00e9 qui aura constamment besoin de son aide ; Saber fait donc tout ce qui est en son pouvoir pour repousser la d\u00e9licate Humaine dont il est tomb\u00e9 amoureux.Taylor Sampson est humaine, mais cela ne veut pas dire qu'elle est faible. Ses soeurs et elle ont surv\u00e9cu quatre ans dans les rues violentes de la Terre apr\u00e8s que l'Alliance ait initi\u00e9 le premier contact. Elle n'\u00e9tait alors qu'une adolescente, mais elle a bien grandi maintenant et elle lorgne sur le Trivator qui a captur\u00e9 son coeur sept ans auparavant.Taylor a une derni\u00e8re mission \u00e0 effectuer sur une autre plan\u00e8te afin de compl\u00e8ter ses \u00e9tudes. Une fois cela fait, elle a bien l\u2019intention de montrer \u00e0 Saber qu'il est l'homme qu'elle d\u00e9sire, malgr\u00e9 son ent\u00eatement, mais quand \u00e9clate la guerre civile, elle se retrouve prisonni\u00e8re derri\u00e8re les lignes ennemies. Il ne faut pas longtemps \u00e0 Saber pour d\u00e9couvrir que Taylor a \u00e9t\u00e9 abandonn\u00e9e, et soudain, il n'y a plus de place dans sa vie pour la piti\u00e9, que ce soit envers lui-m\u00eame ou qui que ce soit qui se mette en travers de son chemin.Auteur de renomm\u00e9e internationale, S.E. Smith propose une nouvelle histoire d\u2019action pleine d\u2019aventure et de romance. D\u00e9bordant de l\u2019humour qui la caract\u00e9rise, de paysages \u00e9clatants et de personnages attachants, il est certain que ce livre deviendra un nouveau favori des fans !", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Action", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25255038-challenging-saber"}, +{"book_title": "Rhapsodic", "author_name": "Laura Thalassa", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 46647, "review_number": 4040, "book_description": "Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she\u2019s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she\u2019s received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear.Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He\u2019s a man who can get you anything you want... at a price. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.But for one of his clients, he\u2019s never asked for repayment. Not until now. When Callie finds the fae king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. At first it\u2019s just a chaste kiss\u2014a single bead\u2019s worth\u2014and a promise for more.For the Bargainer, it\u2019s more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that\u2019s been awoken. If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he\u2019ll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "New Adult", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25820414-rhapsodic"}, +{"book_title": "Shambling Towards Hiroshima", "author_name": "James K. Morrow", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 779, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "2010 Sturgeon Award winnerNebula and Hugo Award nomineeIt is the early summer of 1945, and war reigns in the Pacific Rim with no end in sight. Back in the States, Hollywood B-movie star Syms Thorley lives in a very different world, starring as the Frankenstein-like Corpuscula and Kha-Ton-Ra, the living mummy. But the U.S. Navy has a new role waiting for Thorley, the role of a lifetime that he could never have imagined.The top secret Knickerbocker Project is putting the finishing touches on the ultimate biological weapon: a breed of gigantic, fire-breathing, mutant iguanas engineered to stomp and burn cities on the Japanese mainland. The Navy calls upon Thorley to don a rubber suit and become the merciless Gorgantis and to star in a live drama that simulates the destruction of a miniature Japanese metropolis. If the demonstration succeeds, the Japanese will surrender, and many thousands of lives will be spared; if it fails, the horrible mutant lizards will be unleashed. One thing is certain: Syms Thorley must now give the most terrifyingly convincing performance of his life.In the dual traditions of Godzilla as a playful monster and a symbol of the dawn of the nuclear era, Shambling Towards Hiroshima unexpectedly blends the destruction of World War II with the halcyon pleasure of monster movies.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Humor", "Fantasy", "War", "Humor (Comedy)", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5226180-shambling-towards-hiroshima"}, +{"book_title": "The Gate of Days", "author_name": "Guillaume Pr\u00e9vost", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 930, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Sam Faulkner now knows his father is trapped in Vlad Tepes's castle, but he can't save him without the seven coins that will allow him to direct his travel to the right year in Time. So he sets off on a desperate journey through the ages to collect the coins -- to the oracle at Delphi, Pompeii before Mt. Vesuvius -- even Chicago in 1932, where he meets his seven-year-old grandfather. But things get wilder still when he finally finds his father, who is sick, dying, raving . . . and who insists they must rescue Sam's dead mother from Time!", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3597667-the-gate-of-days"}, +{"book_title": "Long Live the Queen", "author_name": "Kate Locke", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 2329, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "Xandra Vardan thought life would be simpler when she accepted the goblin crown and became their queen, but life has only become more complicated. Everyone -- vampires, werewolves and humans -- wants the goblins on their side, because whoever has the goblins -- wins. Queen Victoria wants her head, Alpha wolf Vex wants her heart, and she still doesn't know the identity of the person who wanted her blood. What she does know is that a project from one of the 'secret' aristocrat labs has gotten free and she's the only one who can stop the perfect killing machine -- a sixteen year-old girl. With human zealots intent on ridding the world of anyone with plagued blood and supernatural politics taking Britain to the verge of civil war, Xandra's finding out that being queen isn't all it's cracked up to be, and if she doesn't do something fast, hers will be the shortest reign in history. The fantastic conclusion to the series that started with the spectacular undead steampunk debut, God Save the Queen and The Queen is Dead.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333781-long-live-the-queen"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette II", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 702, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The new United States in central Germany launches a one-plane Doolittle Raid on Paris, France. The target: their arch-enemy, Cardinal Richelieu. Meanwhile, an ambassador from the Mughal Empire of northern India is being held captive in Austria by the Habsburg dynasty. Mike Stearns decides to send a mercenary company to rescue him, led by two seventeenth-century mercenary officers: an Englishman and a Irishman, who seem to spend as much time fighting each other as they do the enemy.Stories include:* Steps In The Dance by Eric Flint* Collateral Damage by Mike Spehar* Euterpe, Episode 1 by Enrico M. Toro* The Company Men by Christopher James Weber* Just One Of Those Days by Leonard Hollar* God's Gifts by Gorg Huff* Bottom-Feeders by John Zeek* An Invisible War by Danita Lee Ewing* A quick and dirty treatise on historical fencing by Enrico M. Toro* So You Want To Do Telecommunications In 1633? by Rick Boatright* Mente Et Malleo: Practical Mineralogy And Minerals Exploration In 1632 by Laura Runkle* The Secret Book Of Zink by Andrew Clark", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627574.Grantville_Gazette_II"}, +{"book_title": "Appleseed", "author_name": "John Clute", "rating_score": 3.32, "rating_votes": 174, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "It is the dawn of the fourth millennium, and for trader Nathanael Freer it is business as usual. Tile Dance, his ship, is in the safe hands of KathKirtt, an AI with two minds, and a loyal krewe of cybernetic and android helpers. His latest commission-to deliver a shipment of nano-forges to the planet Eolhxir--is routine enough. All seems okey dokey. But it is not. A virulent data plague is infecting the local spiral arm of the galaxy all the way from Old Earth. Universal darkness threatens the vast concord of living civilizations. And a trap has been laid that will draw Freer and his lover, Ferocity Monthly-Niece, into an eons-old conflict. His new contract is, in fact, far from routine, and Eolhxir holds the key to everything. Appleseed is filled with wild high tech, weird aliens, and wonderful vistas. It will dazzle, amaze and delight you.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1575722.Appleseed"}, +{"book_title": "The Rings of Haven", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 4206, "review_number": 93, "book_description": "A ship stranded halfway across the galaxy. A difficult and lengthy journey home. A homeworld in urgent need of their return. And now they are running out of food.The crew of the Aurora must now trust their new allies in order to survive. But their situation may be far more serious than they imagined. And their actions could have repercussions across the galaxy.Their journey home may just have gotten slightly more complicated.(c)2013 Tantor Audio", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13516287-the-rings-of-haven"}, +{"book_title": "Trapped", "author_name": "Michael Northrop", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 8049, "review_number": 1691, "book_description": "The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive. . . .Scotty and his friends Pete and Jason are among the last seven kids at their high school waiting to get picked up that day, and they soon realize that no one is coming for them. Still, it doesn't seem so bad to spend the night at school, especially when distractingly hot Krista and Julie are sleeping just down the hall. But then the power goes out, then the heat. The pipes freeze, and the roof shudders. As the days add up, the snow piles higher, and the empty halls grow colder and darker, the mounting pressure forces a devastating decision. . . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Adventure (Survival)", "Realistic Fiction", "Adventure", "Contemporary", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Thriller", "Young Adult (High School)", "Fiction", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8428140-trapped"}, +{"book_title": "Aliens: Genocide", "author_name": "David Bischoff", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 632, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "Their queen is dead and the hive mind has been left to flounder on its own. On a world bereft of its only guiding force a schism is taking place: two strains of alien, formerly united by one all-powerful mother, now divide their forces for a world-shattering, acid-drenched war. On Earth, after a generation of rebuilding in the wake of alien infestation, athletes from every corner of the world are flocking to humanity's Goodwill Games. But some come with a dangerous new tool: a drug called Fire, distilled from the very essence of the aliens' body chemistry. The military wants it, Pharmaceutical kingpin Daniel Grant wants it. And the only place the essential ingredient can be found is on a world convulsed by alien holocaust...", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Novels", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2186184.Aliens"}, +{"book_title": "The Forgotten Locket", "author_name": "Lisa Mangum", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4310, "review_number": 597, "book_description": "The only way to rescue the future is to alter the past.When Abby stepped through the hourglass door, leaving her beloved Dante blind and bleeding on the other side, it was in full faith that she could find a way to repair the damage to the river of time and restore him\u2014as well as her family. It was a desperate chance that seemed worth taking.But Zo had other plans.Now Abby is trapped in a full-fledged battle for her own mind and life and heart. Even worse, Zo's evil intent reaches beyond simple revenge against her and Dante. The whole world is in danger of collapsing unless Abby can summon her courage and undertake a journey that will lead her beyond the origins of the hourglass door.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9675020-the-forgotten-locket"}, +{"book_title": "Till There Was You", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1873, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Zachary Smith is finished with high-maintenance women, impossible clients, and paranormal adventures. He wants an ordinary life and a happily-ever-after with a fresh-faced girl next door. But when he walks through a doorway into a different century, he knows his life isn't going to turn out quite the way he planned.Mary de Piaget is passionate about two things: training her father's horses and avoiding wedded bliss. But when she finds herself facing marriage to the most perfect knight in England, she fears for more than her freedom, because only she can see the malice behind the perfection. And then a chance encounter with a strangely dressed traveler kindles her hope for a different fate.But to change Mary's life is to change Zachary's future --- with disastrous results. Yet how can either of them face the alternative ...", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6044656-till-there-was-you"}, +{"book_title": "If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II", "author_name": "Dennis E. Showalter", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 493, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "WHAT IF STALIN HAD SIGNED WITH THE WEST IN 1939? WHAT IF THE ALLIES HAD BEEN DEFEATED ON D-DAY? AND WHAT IF HITLER HAD WON THE WAR?From the Munich crisis to the dropping of the first atomic bomb, and from Hitler's declaration of war on the United States to the D-Day landings, historians suggest what would have been if key events in the war had gone differently.This work of alternative history looks at sixty of the most famous \"What if?\" scenarios of World War II, from the possibility of war breaking out in 1938, through the controversies that surround Pearl Harbor and the war on the Eastern Front, to the final days of the war in Europe and the Pacific.Culled by three outstanding academic experts, and written by an exceptional team of historians, If the Allies Had Fallen is an authentic and terrifying alternate history.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["History", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War (World War II)", "Military (Military History)", "War (Military Fiction)", "War", "Historical", "Politics", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7933544-if-the-allies-had-fallen"}, +{"book_title": "Destroyer", "author_name": "Brett Battles", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1402, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "With the whole of human history altered, Denny Younger may be the last rewinder in existence\u2013and the last person on earth with a chaser unit capable of time travel. While caring for his ailing sister, Denny must discover a way to recharge his device before he\u2019s left with no defense against a past that wants him dead.Before long, Denny notices a mysterious stranger following him\u2013keeping tabs on Denny, his family, and his friends. Is Denny just paranoid? Or maybe he isn\u2019t alone in this new reality after all.\u2026When his chaser is stolen and his girlfriend is kidnapped, Denny risks everything to get both of them back. Launched into a high-stakes chase that spans continents and millennia, Denny\u2019s responsibility to save our future isn\u2019t over yet. It will take all of his cunning to stop a threat capable of steering the fate of the human race into disaster.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25959672-destroyer"}, +{"book_title": "Republic", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 3048, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "After the notorious outlaws Amaranthe and Sicarius helped overthrow the corrupt faction controlling the empire and brought in a great war hero to lead the nation to prosperity, they finally earned their pardons--and some time off. A tropical vacation cruising around in a private submarine? Perfect. But their trip is interrupted by a summons from the new president: they're needed back at home. Trouble unlike anything they've ever dealt with threatens to destroy the capital city and throw the fledgling republic into chaos.The follow-up to The Emperor's Edge series, Republic takes place a few months after the events of Forged in Blood I & II. It is a complete 210,000-word novel.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21957805-republic"}, +{"book_title": "One Robot Lost His Head : Counting with Robots", "author_name": "Marc Rosenthal", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 14, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Rosenthal's delightful counting book follows the travails of a slightly clumsy robot who can't quite keep track of his own head, and the smart robot pals who help him find it. Each number is presented as a bold numeral, with a matching number of robots shown on the spread. The robots, though not human, are nevertheless full of charm - and their antics, captured perfectly in Marc Rosenthal's colourful, funny illustrations, are sure to crack up toddlers and preschool-age kids.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22889867-one-robot-lost-his-head"}, +{"book_title": "Bannerless", "author_name": "Carrie Vaughn", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 2236, "review_number": 468, "book_description": "A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she\u2019s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn\u2019t just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people, organized into households, must earn the children they bear by proving they can take care of them and are awarded symbolic banners to demonstrate this privilege. In the meantime, birth control is mandatory.Enid of Haven is an Investigator, called on to mediate disputes and examine transgressions against the community. She\u2019s young for the job and hasn't yet handled a serious case. Now, though, a suspicious death requires her attention. The victim was an outcast, but might someone have taken dislike a step further and murdered him?In a world defined by the disasters that happened a century before, the past is always present. But this investigation may reveal the cracks in Enid\u2019s world and make her question what she really stands for.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30971629-bannerless"}, +{"book_title": "The Message", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 6613, "review_number": 227, "book_description": "It all started with the dreams. But Cassie didn't pay much attention to them. She and her friends had all been having weird dreams since they'd first learned to morph. Maybe it was just some crazy side effect.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Animals", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366784.The_Message"}, +{"book_title": "Swipe", "author_name": "Evan Angler", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2591, "review_number": 426, "book_description": "Everyone gets the Mark. It gives all the benefits of citizenship. Yet if getting the Mark is such a good thing, then why does it feel so wrong?Set in a future North America that is struggling to recover after famine and global war, \"Swipe\" follows the lives of three kids caught in the middle of a conflict they didn't even know existed. United under a charismatic leader, every citizen of the American Union is required to get the Mark on their 13th birthday in order to gain the benefits of citizenship.The Mark is a tattoo that must be swiped by special scanners for everything from employment to transportation to shopping. It's almost Logan Langly's 13th birthday and he knows he should be excited about getting the Mark, but he hasn't been able to shake the feeling he's being watched. Not since his sister went to get her Mark five years ago . . . and never came back.When Logan and his friends discover the truth behind the Mark, will they ever be able to go back to being normal teenagers?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Christian Fiction", "Fiction", "Christian", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12505535-swipe"}, +{"book_title": "Apollyon", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 28875, "review_number": 512, "book_description": "A New York Times BestsellerThis is the fifth volume in the Left Behind series of novels based on New Testament prophecies about the end of life on Earth. In this book, the world has been visited by a plague of demon locusts that attack anyone without the seal of God etched on their foreheads. Internet communication is becoming the primary means of maintaining unity within the underground resistance movement of believers. New global warfare threatens a third of the world's population. And the Tribulation Force members deal with personal crises, including pregnancies and lost family members.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Fiction", "Christian", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)", "Religion (Faith)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79705.Apollyon"}, +{"book_title": "Jedi Search", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 15151, "review_number": 303, "book_description": "As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two children--the Jedi twins--will come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges. In this time of turmoil and discovery, an extraordinary new Star Wars saga begins....While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. But when Han and Chewie break away, they flee desperately to a secret Imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes--and go from one danger to a far greater one....On Kessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends, only to come face-to-face with a weapon so awesome, it can wipe out an entire solar system. It is a death ship called the Sun Crusher, invented by a reclusive genius and piloted by none other than Han himself...", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Novels", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760110.Jedi_Search"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers Volume 2: International Incident", "author_name": "Mike Costa", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 118, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Transformers: International Incident Volume 2 As the Autobots and Skywatch come together against a common enemy, the Decepticons choose to forge their own alliance. However, their involvement with a powerful leader could escalate two countries into war. Can the Autobots prevent an international incident, while avoiding exposure? Full description", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8546666-transformers-volume-2"}, +{"book_title": "Days of Infamy", "author_name": "Newt Gingrich", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 825, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "\u201cAbsolutely brilliant! Fast paced and filled with tension and suspense. Every page resonates with the momentous events and great personalities of World War II \u2013 and scenes so carefully crafted you feel like you\u2019re there. This is a \u2018must read\u2019 for all who look at history and wonder: \u201cWhat if\u2026\u201d\u00a0-- Oliver North, Lt. Col., USMC (Ret.), host of War Stories on the Fox News ChannelIn 2007, bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen launched a new epic adventure series about World War II in the Pacific, with their book Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th, 1941, which instantly rocketed to the New York Times bestseller list.Gingrich and Forstchen\u2019s now critically acclaimed approach, which they term \u201cactive history,\u201d examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history. In Pearl Harbor they explored how history might have been changed if Admiral Yamamoto had directly led the attack on that fateful day, instead of remaining in Japan. Building on that promise, Days of Infamy starts minutes after the close of Pearl Harbor, as both sides react to the monumental events triggered by the presence of Admiral Yamamoto. In direct command of the six carriers of the attacking fleet, Yamamoto decides to launch a fateful \u201cthird-wave attack\u201d on the island of Oahu, and then keeps his fleet in the area to hunt down the surviving American aircraft carriers, which by luck and fate were not anchored in the harbor on that day.Historians have often speculated about what might have transpired from legendary \u201cmatchups\u201d of great generals and admirals. In this story of the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the notorious gambler Yamamoto is pitted against the equally legendary American admiral Bill Halsey in a battle of wits, nerve, and skill.Days of Infamy recounts this alternative history from a multitude of viewpoints---from President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and the two great admirals, on down to American pilots flying antiquated aircraft, bravely facing the vastly superior Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft. Gingrich and Forstchen have written a sequel that\u2019s as much a homage to the survivors of the real Pearl Harbor attack as it is an imaginative and thrilling take on America\u2019s entry into World War II. Praise for the first book in the Pacific\u00a0War Series,\u00a0Pearl Harbor:\"A thrilling tale of American's darkest day.\" --W.E.B. Griffin\"Masterful storytelling that not only captures the heroic highs and hellish lows of that horrific day which lives on in infamy--it resonates with today's conflicts and challeneges.\" --William E. Butterworth IV, New York Times bestselling author of The Saboteurs\"A politician and a novelist, each an accomplished historian in his own right, are emerging as\u00a0 master authors of alternative history.\u00a0 In this \u201cwhat if\u201d treatment of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen combine their talents to make the diplomacy as suspenseful as the combat, even for readers who know what happens next\u2013or think they know.\" --Dennis Showalter, former president of the Society of Military Historians\"This book is not only a great read, it is a fascinating historical story that applies today in Iraq as it did in the Western Pacific in the late 30s and 40s.\" --Captain Alex Fraser, USN (Ret.)", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "American History", "Novels", "Adult", "Politics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2324855.Days_of_Infamy"}, +{"book_title": "The Force Awakens", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 15696, "review_number": 2244, "book_description": "More than thirty years ago, Star Wars burst onto the big screen and became a cultural phenomenon. Now the next adventures in this blockbuster saga are poised to captivate old and new fans alike \u2013 beginning with the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And alongside the cinematic debut comes the thrilling novel adaptation by New York Times bestselling science fiction master Alan Dean Foster.Set years after Return of the Jedi, this stunning new action-packed adventure rockets us back into the world of Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Luke Skywalker, while introducing a host of exciting new characters. Darth Vader may have been redeemed and the Emperor vanquished, but peace can be fleeting, and evil does not easily relent. Yet the simple belief in good can still empower ordinary individuals to rise and meet the greatest challenges.So return to that galaxy far, far away, and prepare yourself for what happens when the Force awakens\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25387202-the-force-awakens"}, +{"book_title": "Solstice Day Gifts", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1309, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "After a year full of adventure, intrigue, and tragedy, Sicarius agrees to spend Solstice Day on a tropical island with Amaranthe, resting and relaxing far away from the chaos of the new republic. But there are a couple of problems. First off, the island is riddled with old wanted posters of Sicarius, along with countless people who would like to collect the bounty. Second... Amaranthe is hoping for a Solstice Day gift.Sicarius, having never given a gift in his life, finds the second problem far more daunting.This holiday-themed short story takes place after Forged in Blood II and before Republic.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Novella", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20309645-solstice-day-gifts"}, +{"book_title": "The Lovers", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 727, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Escaping the religious tyranny of a 31st-century Earth by a fluke assignment to the planet Ozagen, linguist Hal Yarrow found that the worst of Earth had followed him - Pornsen, his personal Guardian Angel, vigilant for any evidence of sin or wrong thinking.Conditioned by a lifetime of submission, Yarrow would have accepted Pornsen's constant spying as an unpleasant necessity and lost himself in the study of the language of Ozagen's intelligent dominant race, the Wogglebugs... but then, hidden in ancient ruins built by humanoids long vanished from the planet, he found Jeanette, a not-quite-human fugitive.For a Believer like Yarrow, unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden - and love for an alien was unthinkable. But to Yarrow, in every way that counted, Jeanette was warmly and bountifully human.So Yarrow sought the aid of the amiably tolerant Wogglebugs to keep his harboring of Jeanette a secret - and at the same time concealed from his alien allies Earth's farreaching plans for them and their unexploited planet.Yet there was one secret Yarrow did not know and could not imagine... the very special nature and needs of the woman he loved!", "year_published": 1961, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novels", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1162042.The_Lovers"}, +{"book_title": "Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper", "author_name": "David Barnett", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 170, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "The real identity of Jack the Ripper revealed at last? Only if the Hero of the Empire has his way!In an alternate nineteenth century where a technologically advanced Britain holds sway over most of the known world and the American Revolution never happened, young Gideon Smith is firmly established as the Hero of the Empire. Back in London, Gideon and his colleagues: journalist Aloysius Bent, airship pilot Rowena Fanshawe, and Maria, the mechanical girl to whom Gideon has lost his heart, are dragged into a case that is confounding the Metropolitan Police. For the city is on the edge of mass rioting due to the continuing reign of terror by the serial killer known only as Jack the Ripper, who is rampaging though London's less salubrious quarters.While chasing the madman, a villain from their past strips Gideon Smith of his memory and is cast adrift in the seedy underbelly of London, where life is tough and death lurks in every shadowy alley.With mob rule threatening to engulf London, the Empire has never needed its hero more...but where is Gideon Smith? Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper is the latest in David Barnett's riproaring steampunk adventures about a Britain that never was...but should have been.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Sci Fi Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20746489-gideon-smith-and-the-mask-of-the-ripper"}, +{"book_title": "The Forgetting", "author_name": "Sharon Cameron", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 9818, "review_number": 1520, "book_description": "What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes.Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories \u2013 of parents, children, love, life, and self \u2013 are lost. Unless they have been written.In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn't written the truth. Because Nadia is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten.But when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan, she discovers truths about herself and Gray, the handsome glassblower, that will change her world forever. As the anarchy of the Forgetting approaches, Nadia and Gray must stop an unseen enemy that threatens both their city and their own existence \u2013 before the people can forget the truth. And before Gray can forget her.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28691932-the-forgetting"}, +{"book_title": "Gaven", "author_name": "J.C. Owens", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 2639, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "When the Masarians attack Gaven's people, they are defeated and Gaven himself is taken captive. By a man claiming to be his father. It turns out his entire life has been a lie, and now his 'father' will give him into the hands of another man to indoctrinate and train him. Gaven vows he will never shame his people by giving into the Masarians' way of loving other men.But Vlar, the legendary warrior to whom he has been given, has other plans. The blood-drinker is determined to have Gaven and to make him yield.Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, dubious consent, male/male sexual practices, violence, voyeurism.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690546-gaven"}, +{"book_title": "The Rogue Prince", "author_name": "Michelle M. Pillow", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1431, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Shapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Reid is always looking for a good time, and no woman is safe when he turns on the charm. When the opportunity arises to go on an ambassador\u2019s trip, he jumps at the chance\u2013especially when that trip includes exotic destinations and available women. What more could a rogue prince want? But he never thought he'd find a woman who could bring him to his knees with just one look. He will do anything to protect her and make her his...forever. Jasmine St. Claire appears to have it all, but looks can be deceiving. Escaping her gilded cage by joining a foreign transport, she didn\u2019t plan on leaving one man\u2019s rule for another. Yet it would seem the charming Var prince has decided he wants to claim her for his very own.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12772378-the-rogue-prince"}, +{"book_title": "Island of Doom", "author_name": "Arthur Slade", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 321, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "After previous assignments in London, the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, and the Australian rain forest, this final adventure in the Hunchback Assignments series finds our hero, shape-shifting, masked spy Modo, on his most personal quest. Along with fellow spy Octavia Milkweed, they search for Modo's biological parents. But when the Clockwork Guild find Modo's parents first, Octavia and Modo chase them across Europe and North America to the Island of Doom. Joined by memorable characters from the first three books--some lovable, and some who are terrifying and evil--Modo and Octavia dash towards a thrilling conclusion.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13268443-island-of-doom"}, +{"book_title": "Coils", "author_name": "Roger Zelazny", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 713, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "The Year is 1995 in high-tech, computer-rich America..While on vacation with his beautiful girlfriend Cora, Donald BelPatri begins to realize that something is seriously wrong wit his memory.Clickaderick...clickDonald's mind can coil into any computer consciousness, but he cannot remember...Where do his parents live? Who is paying $8,000 into his account each month? What had he been working on at the Angra Energy Corporation?The Cora \"disappears\".And coils uncoils into a gripping psyche-shattering thriller - an adventure that penetrates the darkest conundrums of body, mind and computer consciousness...Cover Illustration: Peter Elson", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/536803.Coils"}, +{"book_title": "The Pearl Savage", "author_name": "Tamara Rose Blodgett", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1504, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "alternate cover edition of ASIN B00563HRPMSeventeen-year old princess, Clara Williamson, lives an old-fashioned existence in a biosphere of the future.When her sadistic mother, Queen Ada, betroths her to an abusive prince of a neighboring sphere, Clara determines to escape Outside, where savages roam free.Clara escapes tyranny only to discover the savages are not the only people who survived the cataclysmic events of one hundred forty years prior.Once Outside, Clara finds herself trapped, unable to return to the abusive life of the sphere while facing certain danger Outside.Can Clara find love and freedom with the peril that threatens to consume her?Cover art by Phatpuppyart.com", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11409671-the-pearl-savage"}, +{"book_title": "Choose Your Enemies", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 320, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Book 10 in the Ciaphas Cain Series.Commissar Ciaphas Cain returns! After putting down an uprising on a mining world, he finds evidence that the corruption might have spread to other planets, and the forge world of Ironfound could now be at risk\u2026 It's been a long time, but the self-styled Hero of the Imperium is back in action! And he's doing what he does best \u2013 telling tall tales of his unlikely exploits.Commissar Ciaphas Cain and the Valhallan 597th are in the thick of it again, putting down an uprising of Chaos cultists on an Imperial mining world. Though their mission is a success, they find evidence that the corruption might have spread to other planets, and that the forge world of Ironfound could now be at risk. The munitions Ironfound produces are vital to the Imperial war effort in the subsector; its safety must be assured at all costs. As battle explodes across the planet, Ciaphas Cain and his regiment come up against allies and enemies old and new in their fight for victory against the forces of Chaos.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Gaming (Gaming Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40539768-choose-your-enemies"}, +{"book_title": "The Eternity Artifact", "author_name": "L.E. Modesitt Jr.", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1157, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Five thousand years in the future, humankind has spread across the galaxy and more than a dozen different planetary and system governments exist in an uneasy truce. Human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence. Until scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann.Moving at unnaturally high speed, Danann travels the void just beyond the edge of the galaxy. Its continents and oceans have been sculpted and shaped and there is but a single, almost perfectly-preserved megaplex upon the surface--with tens of thousands of near-identical metallic-silver-blue towers set along curved canals. Yet, Danann has been abandoned for so long that even the atmosphere has frozen solid.Orbital shuttle pilot Jiendra Chang, artist Chendor Barna, and history professor Liam Fitzhugh are recruited by the Comity government and its Deep Space Service as part of an unprecedented and unique expedition to unravel Danann's secrets. And there are forces that will stop at nothing to prevent them, even if it means interstellar war.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Politics", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116117.The_Eternity_Artifact"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Fist", "author_name": "Aaron Allston", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 8193, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "They are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force--sleek, swift, and deadly. For these X-wing fighters, no job is too dirty or too dangerous. Now they must rise to meet an impossible challenge: stop a powerful warlord by pretending to be his ally.Against all odds, the controversial Wraith Squadron has survived its first covert mission. But now they are called upon to cheat death twice. This time Wedge Antilles sends them in to stop the warlord Zsinj and his Super Star Destroyer, Iron Fist. If Zsinj joins the Empire, it could turn the tide of war against the Rebels. The Wraith Squadron's mission: infiltrate the warlord's fleet and uncover his carefully guarded plans. To do so, they must pose as ruthless pirates seeking to join Zsinj's forces. And that means first becoming pirates in space lanes teeming with Imperial Navy patrols. If that isn't enough to get them killed, they'll have to pass one last test--a suicide mission for Zsinj.Can they survive the test and turn the tables on Zsinj?Or is this the end for Wraith Squadron?", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Media Tie In", "Novels", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35449.Iron_Fist"}, +{"book_title": "Banshee in the Well", "author_name": "Robin Lovejoy-Tolkien", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 104, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "This fantasy adventure begins at Monastery Farm, Cumbria. Niall Carver, the farmer\u2019s twelve-year-old son, hears a blood-curdling scream and tracks down the sound to an ancient well in the farmhouse garden. From the well he rescues a gothic-looking, dark-haired girl in leather boots and a short dress, her limbs dappled with black markings. The girl introduces herself as Sathra.Niall carries out some internet research and confirms the truth, that Sathra has come through a time warp from the thirteenth century to the present day. At first Niall suspects she\u2019s a banshee, though Sathra insists that she\u2019s a dryad. The distinction is important because whilst banshees were evil, dryads were the exact opposite. What Niall doesn\u2019t know is that, to return to her own time, Sathra the Banshee must restore her magical powers by sacrificing a boy her own age. Niall would fit the bill perfectly, though she has to lure him to a place of sacrifice, an ancient stone circle about a mile from the farm. Now believing Sathra is a dryad, Niall looks forward to a series of escapades of the kind that feature in his favourite books.These adventures certainly follow, but all the while Sathra is plotting the dreaded sacrifice\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Combat (Martial Arts)", "Young Adult", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13361558-banshee-in-the-well"}, +{"book_title": "The House in November", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 2.95, "rating_votes": 44, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Invasion! At first the U.S. army--what was left of it--thought it was battling a communist invasion. The truth was much worse. It wasn't until Jeff Mallory awoke one morning to find that all his fellow townsfolk had become sleep walking zombies, and that a tower had been erected in the center of town, a tower that seemed to stretch to the stars, that the horrible truth began to unravel. Earth had been invaded--not by a race of alien conquerers, but by a disease. A disease with a brain...\"The House in November\" was originally titled \"The Seeds of Gonyl\" in the magazine \"Worlds of If\" in 1969", "year_published": 1970, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2877763-the-house-in-november"}, +{"book_title": "Cash Crash Jubilee", "author_name": "Eli K.P. William", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 234, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "A cyber-dystopian thriller unlike any other.In a near future Tokyo, every action\u2014from blinking to sexual intercourse\u2014is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees. A BodyBank computer system implanted in each citizen records their movements from moment to moment, and connects them to the audio-visual overlay of the ImmaNet, so that every inch of this cyber-dystopian metropolis crawls with information and shifting cinematic promotainment.Amon Kenzaki works as a Liquidator for the Global Action Transaction Authority. His job is to capture bankrupt citizens, remove their BodyBank, and banish them to BankDeath Camps where they are forever cut off from the action-transaction economy. Amon always plays by the rules and is steadily climbing the Liquidation Ministry ladder.With his savings accumulating and another promotion coming, everything seems to be going well, until he is asked to cash crash a charismatic politician and model citizen, and soon after is charged for an incredibly expensive action called \u201cjubilee\u201d that he is sure he never performed. To restore balance to his account, Amon must unravel the secret of jubilee, but quickly finds himself asking dangerous questions about the system to which he\u2019s devoted his life, and the costly investigation only drags him closer and closer to the pit of bankruptcy.In book one of the Jubilee Cycle, Cash Crash Jubilee, debut novelist Eli K. P. William wields the incisive power of speculative fiction to show how, in a world of corporate finance run amok, one man will do everything for the sake of truth and justice.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23130056-cash-crash-jubilee"}, +{"book_title": "Gray Lensman", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 3392, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "The action in Gray Lensman picks up immediately where Galactic Patrol left off, in the middle of the battle to destroy Helmuth's Main Base and, it is hoped, fully end the threat of Boskone. After the base falls, Kinnison finds some clues that lead him to think that Helmuth was perhaps not the head of Boskone after all. The clues lead Kinnison to mount an expedition aboard the newly constructed super-dreadnought Dauntless, into the Second Galaxy where he thinks the true head of Boskone might reside. The Dauntless locates a planet under attack and comes to its aid, destroying the Boskonian forces and discovering that the entire planet is capable of going \"free\" (that is, inertialess, the method used in the Lensman books to achieve interstellar and intergalactic space travel). The Lensman returns to the First Galaxy with the space-faring planet and its grateful residents.", "year_published": 1951, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Classics", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826525.Gray_Lensman"}, +{"book_title": "Sweet Barbarian", "author_name": "Jayla Jasso", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 623, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "\nLook what the Chihuahua dragged in.\n When Karly wanders outside her mountain cabin into the snowstorm to see why her dog is going nuts, she\u2019s expecting an injured animal, not a muscular mammoth of a man who\u2019s unconscious and about to freeze to death if she doesn\u2019t drag him inside and try to tend his wounds. He\u2019s wearing only a few pieces of fur-and-leather armor\u2014cosplayer or insane mountain man?\u2014and his wild hair and beard haven\u2019t seen a pair of scissors in a year or more. But when he wakes up and opens those amber-hazel eyes, Karly\u2019s too caught off guard to protest his lack of appropriate clothing. He doesn\u2019t speak English, so Karly uses her skills as a foreign language teacher (and a lot of charades) to teach him. She needs to figure out who he is, why he\u2019s dressed like a Skyrim character, what happened to him, and where he belongs so she can get him home. That plan goes awry when his story starts coming out in broken English, and he claims to be a Visigoth from the year 483. Other than that little glitch, he doesn\u2019t seem crazy, so Karly\u2019s not sure whether to take him to the mental hospital or the homeless shelter. Or, just keep him around and drool over his hunky physique, his sweet smile, and his lion\u2019s mane of hair. Plus, when her druggie ex-husband shows up high and hell-bent on manhandling Karly, it comes in handy to have a 6 foot 6 barbarian around to bounce him right on back to his Hummer with a bloody nose. Valamir is condemned to execution, and the dungeon guards are on their way to his cell. So when his captor\u2019s wife offers to use her Druidic powers to save his life in exchange for his undying pledge of love and loyalty, he sees no other way out. A quick blood-pact and hasty incantation later, he finds himself transported out of prison, trudging down a mountain in a blizzard and stumbling into the back yard of the most lovely guardian angel Wodin could have ever sent him. Karly is beautiful, smart, efficient, and caring\u2014everything Valamir\u2019s ever wanted in a woman. Only problem is, she suspects he\u2019s either lying or delusional when he tells her where he\u2019s from, a huge barrier to winning her trust and love. He has to find a way to prove himself to Karly while protecting her from her ex-husband and praying the Druidic priestess doesn\u2019t make good on her promise to call him back to her side forever. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33292971-sweet-barbarian"}, +{"book_title": "Safekeeping", "author_name": "Karen Hesse", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 2348, "review_number": 506, "book_description": "Radley just wants to get home to her parents in Vermont. While she was volunteering abroad, the American People's Party took power; the new president was assassinated; and the government cracked down on citizens. Travel restrictions are worse than ever, and when her plane finally lands in New Hampshire, Radley\u2019s parents aren\u2019t there.Exhausted; her phone dead; her credit cards worthless: Radley starts walking.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Realistic Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13493462-safekeeping"}, +{"book_title": "The Adjustment", "author_name": "Suzanne Young", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2661, "review_number": 283, "book_description": "This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B01GD9CL5S.How do you go back to a life you can\u2019t remember? Find out in this follow up to the New York Times bestselling The Program and The Treatment.Tatum Masterson never went through The Program. She never had her memory stripped, never had to fight to remain herself. But when Weston, her longtime boyfriend and love of her life, was taken by handlers, she hoped he\u2019d remember her somehow\u2014that their love would be strong enough.It wasn\u2019t.Like all returners, Weston came back a blank canvas. The years he and Tatum spent together were forgotten, as well as the week when he mysteriously disappeared before The Program came for him.Regardless of his memory loss, Tatum fights to get Weston to remember her. And just as they start to build a new love, they hear about the Adjustment\u2014a new therapy that implants memories from a donor. Despite the risks, Tatum and Weston agree to go through the process. Tatum donates her memories from their time together.But the problem with memories is that they are all a matter of perspective. So although Weston can now remember dating Tatum, his emotions don\u2019t match the experiences. And this discrepancy is slowly starting to unravel him, worse than anything The Program could have done.And as the truth of their life together becomes clear, Tatum will have to decide if she loves Weston enough to let him go, or to continue to live the lie they\u2019d build together.Prepare for your Adjustment.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Health (Mental Health)", "Mental Health (Mental Illness)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36353125-the-adjustment"}, +{"book_title": "To The Shores", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1260, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "A new mainstream novel of The Empire\u2019s Corps!Four years after their abandonment by the now-fallen Empire, the Commonwealth of Avalon is expanding into interstellar space and making contact with other successor states. With suspicion high on both sides, the Commonwealth and the enigmatic Wolfbane agree to hold a diplomatic meeting on Lakshmibai, a neutral world.But Lakshmibai\u2019s government hates off-worlders and, with the fall of the Empire, sees its chance to be rid of the hatred intruders once and for all. While Edward Stalker is besieged in their capital city, Jasmine Yamane must lead an untested army on a race against time to save the diplomats from annihilation.And if she fails, the Battle of Lakshmibai may be the first shot in a new interstellar war. [As a matter of principle, there is no DRM on my self-published books. You can read them in any format you like. You can also download a larger sample from my website - www.chrishanger.net.]", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18464368-to-the-shores"}, +{"book_title": "Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family", "author_name": "Greg Rucka", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 10559, "review_number": 713, "book_description": "Eisner-winning team of Rucka and Lark's critically acclaimed new series about Forever Carlyle, the Lazarus of the Carlyle Family. In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus. Shot dead defending the family home, Forever's day goes downhill from there...Collects LAZARUS #1-4 and previously only-available-online, four-page short, \"Family: Prelude.\"", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18259637-lazarus-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun #2: Poison Agendas A Shadowrun Novel", "author_name": "Stephen Kenson", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 239, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Shadowrunner Kellan Colt thinks she's ready to strike out on her own when she discovers the location of a secret cache of military weaponry-right in the heart of the supernatural creature-infested Awakened wilderness.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351333.Shadowrun_2"}, +{"book_title": "Thursday's Child", "author_name": "Monique Martin", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 605, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The Crosses -- renowned Professor of the Occult Simon and irrepressible Elizabeth -- set off on their latest time traveling adventure. Leaving Jack behind to nurse his broken heart, the couple travels to 1852 Natchez, Mississippi to help the next person on grandfather Sebastian's list, Mary Stewart. There's just one problem. Little Mary Stewart, just 8 years old, died two days ago.Mary's spirit cannot rest until Simon and Elizabeth solve the mystery of both her life and death. But Mary cannot speak, and there are those who are willing to kill to keep the past buried.Simon and Elizabeth discover first-hand that dark secrets in the Antebellum South hide pasts murkier than the river bottom and twice as dangerous.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17927473-thursday-s-child"}, +{"book_title": "Consequences: Opal & Origin", "author_name": "Jennifer L. Armentrout", "rating_score": 4.64, "rating_votes": 4332, "review_number": 374, "book_description": "Now available together for the first time, don't miss Opal and Origin, the third and fourth books in Jennifer L. Armentrout's bestselling Lux series. Also includes bonus content exclusive to the print edition! \"A thrilling ride from start to finish,\" says RT Book Reviews.OpalAfter everything, I\u2019m no longer the same Katy. I\u2019m different\u2026and I\u2019m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I\u2019m capable of. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won\u2019t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever.OriginDaemon will do anything to get Katy back. After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he\u2019s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on? And will they even be together?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19081402-consequences"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita - Mars Chronicle Band 1", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 237, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Schon immer versucht Alita, ein Cyborg mit neu eingehauchtem Leben, mehr \u00fcber ihre Vergangenheit zu erfahren. Um aus allen ihr bis dato bekannten Puzzleteilen ein Ganzes zu machen und auf der Suche nach ihren wahren Wurzeln, reist Alita zum Mars \u2012 wo sie der ganzen Wahrheit \u00fcber ihre legend\u00e4re marsianische Kampftechnik, der Panzerkunst, n\u00e4her auf die Spur kommt\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30325410-battle-angel-alita---mars-chronicle-band-1"}, +{"book_title": "The Binding", "author_name": "Bridget Collins", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 39561, "review_number": 6475, "book_description": "Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them. After having suffered some sort of mental collapse and no longer able to keep up with his farm chores, Emmett Farmer is sent to the workshop of one such binder to live and work as her apprentice. Leaving behind home and family, Emmett slowly regains his health while learning the binding trade. He is forbidden to enter the locked room where books are stored, so he spends many months marbling end pages, tooling leather book covers, and gilding edges. But his curiosity is piqued by the people who come and go from the inner sanctum, and the arrival of the lordly Lucian Darnay, with whom he senses a connection, changes everything.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Romance", "Historical", "Magical Realism", "Adult", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39964740-the-binding"}, +{"book_title": "City of Dreams & Nightmare", "author_name": "Ian Whates", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 515, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "They call it the City of a Hundred Rows. The ancient city of Thaiburley is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, where the poor live in the City Below and demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights.Having witnessed a murder in a part of the city he should never have been in, Tom, a lowly street-nick, has to run for his life through the City Below, Thaiburley\u2019s unsavoury basement world. Accused of committing the murder himself, he is pursued by sky-borne assassins, Kite Guards, and agents of a darker force intent on destabilising the whole city. His only ally is Kat, a renegade like him, but she proves to have secrets of her own...Source: back cover", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7786771-city-of-dreams-nightmare"}, +{"book_title": "Hexed", "author_name": "Kevin Hearne", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 56258, "review_number": 2839, "book_description": "Atticus O\u2019Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn\u2019t care much for witches. Still, he\u2019s about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty\u2014when suddenly the witch population in modern-day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, they\u2019re badasses with a dark history on the German side of World War II.With a fallen angel feasting on local high school students, a horde of Bacchants blowing in from Vegas with their special brand of deadly decadence, and a dangerously sexy Celtic goddess of fire vying for his attention, Atticus is having trouble scheduling the witch hunt. But aided by his magical sword, his neighbor\u2019s rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and his vampire attorney, Atticus is ready to sweep the town and show the witchy women they picked the wrong Druid to hex.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Paranormal (Witches)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9595650-hexed"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vol. 2: Shadows and Secrets", "author_name": "Kieron Gillen", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 7470, "review_number": 528, "book_description": "Bounty Hunters on the attack--against the Empire! Vader has a new mission to do for the Empire. Unfortunately, it's completely at odds with his own mission. What's a Dark Lord to do? Plus: Who is Tagge's mysterious new agent?COLLECTING: Darth Vader #7-12.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25861679-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Scooby-Doo! and the Runaway Robot", "author_name": "James Gelsey", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 103, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "While shopping for Shaggy's birthday present, Scooby-Doo and the gang make the acquaintance of a security robot as they work to solve a burglary in the department store.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245891.Scooby_Doo_and_the_Runaway_Robot"}, +{"book_title": "Overclocked", "author_name": "K.S. Augustin", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 13, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "In a new world, there are new challenges, new dangers\u2026new ways to die.Basement Five\u2019s first cybernaut is lost in a universe of bits and bytes.Was it an accident? Deliberate? Dr. Tania Flowers is about to find out\u2026.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16152481-overclocked"}, +{"book_title": "Return to Eden", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 1464, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "In \"West of Eden\" and \"Winter in Eden,\" master novelist Harry Harrison broke new ground with his most ambitious project ever. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants, the Yilane, challenged humans for mastery of the Earth, and where the human Kerrick, a young hunter of the Tanu tribe, grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy. Now, in \"Return to Eden,\" Harrison brings the epic trilogy to a stunning conclusion. After Kerrick rescues his people from the warlike Yilane, they find a safe haven on an island and there begin to rebuild their shattered lives. But with fierce predators stalking the forests, how long can these unarmed human outcasts hope to survive?And, of course, Kerrick cannot forget Vainte, his implacable Yilane enemy. She's been cast out from her kind, under sentence of death, but how long will her banishment last? For her strange attraction to Kerrick has turned into a hatred even more powerful than her instincts -- an obsession that compels her to hunt down Kerrick and kill him....", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172490.Return_to_Eden"}, +{"book_title": "Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 11", "author_name": "Hiromu Arakawa", "rating_score": 4.59, "rating_votes": 8375, "review_number": 179, "book_description": "Ed returns to Resembool and meets his father Hohenheim for the first time in many years. Although his father is happy to see him, Ed harbors intense feelings of resentment for being all but abandoned many years ago. However, anger gives way to intrigue as Ed and Al discover an important fact about the human transmutation ritual they attempted years before. What they thought was a partial resurrection of their mother was something else entirely - a revelation that could change their destiny forever.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Shonen)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23506.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_11"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 11: Fear the Hunters", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 17389, "review_number": 660, "book_description": "No one is safe in the aftermath of the most shocking Walking Dead storyline yet! The remaining survivors continue the road to Washington DC, but not everyone will make it out alive! Collecting issues #61-66 of the New York Times best-selling series, The Walking Dead!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6488483-the-walking-dead-vol-11"}, +{"book_title": "Return of the Archon", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 3101, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Listening length: 9 hoursEach member of Omega Force carries his own baggage. Most of them are running from their pasts or simply trying to forget them. One member of the small mercenary crew is not who he claims to be, however. When his former life collides with his current one, the team is drawn into a conflict that could have profound consequences for the future of an entire species. Captain Jason Burke struggles to find answers as the tight cohesion of his crew seems to dissolve. No matter the outcome of the mission, can Jason keep Omega Force together once the dust settles?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22699930-return-of-the-archon"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 13: Too Far Gone", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 14286, "review_number": 537, "book_description": "For survivors of the zombie apocalypse, hopes are not lifting. As others try to keep their mind on practicalities, former policeman Rick Grimes seems increasingly on edge. As his behavior grows more and more conspicuously eccentric, other group members worry that he is putting them all in mortal danger.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9018370-the-walking-dead-vol-13"}, +{"book_title": "I'm Starved for You", "author_name": "Margaret Atwood", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 3527, "review_number": 278, "book_description": "Husband and wife Stan and Charmaine are among thousands who have signed up for a new social order because the old one is all but broken. Outside the walls of Consilience, half the country is out of work, gangs of the drug-addicted and disaffected menace the streets, warlords disrupt the food supply, and overcrowded correctional facilities churn out offenders to make room for more.The Consilience prison, Positron, is something else altogether. The very heart of the community and its economic engine, it\u2019s a bold experiment in voluntary incarceration. In exchange for a house, food, and what the online brochure hails as \u201cA Meaningful Life,\u201d residents agree to spend one month as inmates, the next as civilians, working as guards or whatever\u2019s required.Stan and Charmaine have no complaints\u2014until the day Stan discovers an erotic note under the fridge of the house he and Charmaine must share with another couple while they\u2019re back inside Positron. It\u2019s a missive of erotic longing, pressed with a vivid lipstick kiss: \u201cI\u2019m starved for you!\u201d it breathes. If Stan rarely thought about the house\u2019s other residents before\u2014they\u2019ve never met them and don\u2019t know their names; it\u2019s not allowed\u2014now he can\u2019t stop thinking about them, especially the note\u2019s sex-addled author, a woman apparently named Jasmine, so unlike his girlish wife, Charmaine. He HAS to meet her, but in this highly ordered and increasingly surveilled world, disorderly thoughts are a risk, and breaking the rules has dire consequences.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Cultural (Canada)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Novella", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13515663-i-m-starved-for-you"}, +{"book_title": "Doll, Volume 5", "author_name": "Mitsukazu Mihara", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 77, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "These haunting tales of human-like androids, called Dolls, range from romantic to tragic, from comic to ironic, and everything in between. In these stories, dolls have an uncanny way of working themselves into the lives of their masters: A woman develops an unusual closeness to doll that will affect her human family from beyond the grave...A man wants to make his doll into the perfect human lover, but discovers that humans are not perfect...A father buys his son a doll to help him get over the death of his mother. Doll provides a firsthand glimpse into the psychology of the human-doll relationship and examines the question of what it means to be truly human. Reccommended for older teens ages 16+.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Manga (Josei)", "Gothic", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1648513.Doll_Volume_5"}, +{"book_title": "PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 002", "author_name": "Naoki Urasawa", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 3355, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol\u2019s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders\u2014the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets. Atom, a boy robot whose sophisticated AI programming seamlessly blurs the distinction between man and machine, starts his own investigation into the serial murders of the great robots of the world. When he discovers that the killer\u2019s motives may be connected with the geopolitical events of the recent past, he realizes that the case is far larger than anyone could have ever imagined.Contains Chapters 8 to 15.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6236051-pluto"}, +{"book_title": "The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad", "author_name": "Jonathan Hickman", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 7495, "review_number": 548, "book_description": "What if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs?A collection of the coolest new series of the year into one super science package.Collecting: The Manhattan Projects 1-5", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15736709-the-manhattan-projects-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Ambush at Corellia", "author_name": "Roger MacBride Allen", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 8364, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "A trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home world he left many years before.\u00a0\u00a0Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their children and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds himself part of a deceptive plan whose aim not even he understands. One thing is clear: the five inhabited worlds of the sector are on the brink of civil war and the once peaceful coexistence of the three leading races -- human, Selonian, and Drallan --\u00a0\u00a0has come to an end.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Adventure", "Media Tie In", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513173.Ambush_at_Corellia"}, +{"book_title": "Fragile Destiny", "author_name": "Suzanne Lazear", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 105, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Noli and her true love V fear the worst if the Staff of Eris\u2014a potent Otherworld relic\u2014falls into the wrong hands. Broken into pieces and hidden in the mortal realm long ago, the staff bestows vast powers on whoever possesses it. Ciar\u00e1n, the dark king, is trying to rebuild the staff, intending to use it to install a new queen.In a desperate effort to keep the Otherworld from falling into darkness, Noli and V plot the daring theft of a jewel Ciar\u00e1n needs to complete the staff. But Ciar\u00e1n is not so easily defeated. Through his devious machinations, he has set a plan in motion for a final showdown that will decide who rules the Otherworld once and for all.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18579799-fragile-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "Dreamsnake", "author_name": "Vonda N. McIntyre", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 9112, "review_number": 532, "book_description": "In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the sick and injured with her companion, the alien dreamsnake. But she is being pursued. . . .", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Hugo Awards", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263021.Dreamsnake"}, +{"book_title": "Eldritch Chrome: Unquiet Tales of a Mythos-Haunted Future", "author_name": "Brian M. Sammons", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 48, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "UNQUIET TALES OF A MYTHOS-HAUNTED FUTUREDuring the decades since H.P. Lovecraft first wrote of the Cthulhu Mythos, many authors have crossed his themes into other genres, enhancing his original vision with stories taking place in the distant past, in the far-flung future, and in myriad places in-between.Cyberpunk tales are written in dark, gritty, film-noir styles. Their protagonists live and die at the bottom echelon of an electronic society gone awry. They may be seedier, poorer, and less inclined to make moral judgements than stoic Lovecraftian New Englanders, but in Cyberpunk-Cthulhu tales they encounter the same horrors as their more-genteel predecessors.Confronting monstrous entities and fiends from beyond space and time, the Cyberpunk-Cthulhu hero may wield high-tech weapons and have other advances at his or her disposal. To beings where time has no meaning and whose technologically is so advanced that their actions seem supernatural or powered by magic, no human finds an advantage.This is the Cyberpunk-Cthulhu world \u2014 mythos horrors lurk at the edge of society, mythos-altered technology infects human beings, dark gods lurk in cyberspace, and huge corporations rule society while bowing to entities inimical to humankind.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction", "Lovecraftian (Cthulhu Mythos)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21248586-eldritch-chrome"}, +{"book_title": "Gron's Fated", "author_name": "V.C. Lancaster", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1671, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "Ruth and Gron have finally arrived on his home planet after falling in love when they were both abducted. But that doesn't mean their problems are over. Now they have to deal with Gron's family, and how Ruth can fulfill her role as a Queen in his society when she can't understand anything anyone says! With Gron's Alpha, mother, brother, and best friend all getting involved, the strain begins to take a toll on his and Ruth's relationship... Ruth is just trying to make the best of a bad situation in her new jungle home with her mate, but Gron finds himself getting jealous now he doesn't have Ruth to himself anymore, though he knows a male can't expect to hold all his Queen's attention. He has to decide whether he can put his own happiness before Ruth's safety, or whether he has to sacrifice his heart to protect her.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28026553-gron-s-fated"}, +{"book_title": "The Phoenix Rising", "author_name": "Richard L. Sanders", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 960, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "As the most serious threat ever facing the galaxy now looms over them\u2014weapons able to destroy stars\u2014Calvin and his enterprising crew continue their mission to expose and eliminate the dark conspiracy that has taken root inside the Empire. Now a fugitive on the run, Calvin has no choice but to work alongside Raidan\u2019s mysterious Organization. And accept help from the unlikeliest band of fair-weather friends, including a mysterious squad of Polarian soldiers, an ex-intelligence-operative from the Rotham Republic, and the ever elusive Tristan\u2014whose truest motives are a closely guarded secret. To make matters worse, Calvin is hunted mercilessly across the stars by Intel Wing\u2019s top operative, Lafayette Nimoux, who is aided by a double-agent on Calvin\u2019s own ship. Meanwhile the sands of fortune are shifting within the Empire, upsetting the delicate political climate. Warships and civilian transports are vanishing without a trace and murders in the dark are going unnoticed. All eyes are fixed on Renora\u2014a human colony that has been savagely attacked and thrown into civil war. The prime suspect behind the attack is none other than Princess Kalila Akira. All the dark signs are pointing to what could be the death of the Empire, and the end of human dominance in the galaxy.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15714910-the-phoenix-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of Veridon", "author_name": "Tim Akers", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 655, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "Jacob Burn: pilot, criminal and disgraced son of one of the founding families of the ancient city of Veridon. When an old friend delivers to him a strange artifact, Jacob's world crashes down around him as he runs not only from the law but also from those who were once friends. But even as the array of machines and strange creatures stalk him through the streets of Veridon, something even more sinister and dangerous makes its move against him, an entity that will make Jacob question everything he thought he knew about himself and the city.Heart of Veridon marks the start of a superb new trilogy from an exciting new author, set in an exotic fantasy world.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Did Not Finish", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6341582-heart-of-veridon"}, +{"book_title": "Chobits, Vol. 4", "author_name": "CLAMP", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 5325, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "Computers can do almost anything these days. In addition to the usual online functions, data processing, and graphic applications, the new persocom models with increased AI and increasingly human appearances can function as workers, friends...even lovers. Take Chi, for example. Since Hideki found her she has learned to go shopping, do basic chores, and she's even managed to get a job at a bakery. She's not the first persocom to do these things by any means, but her potential hasn't even begun to be tapped. Because there's a good chance that Chi is a Chobit - a self-learning, feeling, AI. Chobits are the computers of legend, so rare that is one was found some collectors would resort to any means to get their hands on one - even kidnapping. Now that word of Chi has leaked out, that's exactly what happens.Chapters 37-48", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Media Tie In (Anime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/923015.Chobits_Vol_4"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 1053, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "\"Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down.\" \u00e2\u20ac\"Play Magazine Having been delivered an imperative by the Authority to find the Net Terminal Genes--the key to halting the rapid and random growth of Cluster Town--Killy and Cibo come closer to unlocking the secrets of the Netsphere. However, the ability to actually understand the language of the Net Terminal Gene carriers may have been forever lost. Will Killy find a way to translate these seemingly undecipherable signals before the Authority itself is destroyed by its own creation?", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Manga (Seinen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32301.Blame_Vol_3"}, +{"book_title": "Integration", "author_name": "Jonathan P. Brazee", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 289, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Human slavers attack. Despite trying to fight back, there is nothing the young Leefe can do to save his family and friends. But he doesn't have to. The Imperial Marines arrive in the nick of time, and they hate slavers. Three tri-years later, when the new emperor issues a proclamation to integrate the imperial military with non-human citizens, Leefe is among the first to volunteer. Integration to resurrect the empire as a force for good is challenged by centuries of prejudice against the \"dung races.\" Leefe and the other Wyntonans only want to prove their worth and fight for the empire, but their greatest battles are closer to home. With threats to the empire from both within and without, this grand experiment has the potential to save it . . . or tear it apart. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39948805-integration"}, +{"book_title": "School of Fire", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1010, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Combat, betrayal, and murder at the edge of human space . . . Deployed to assist the oligarchs of Wanderjahr in putting down a rebellion that threatens the planet's political and economic stability, the Marines must fight two wars at the same time . . . one against the resourceful, well-led guerrillas and another with the entrenched police bureaucracy.But who is the real enemy and who can be trusted? On Wanderjahr, nothing is as it seems--not even the animal life--and everyone has his own agenda. Inexorably, the Marines of the 34th FIST are drawn deeper and deeper into the politics of a world where murder, terror, and betrayal are the accepted methods of government . . . and everyone is ripe for an old-fashioned butt-kickin'.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science (Technology)", "Literature (American)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662676.School_of_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "Serpent's Reach", "author_name": "C.J. Cherryh", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1273, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Within the Constellation of the Serpent, out of bounds to all spacefarers, humans live among the insect-like aliens--and one of them, a woman named Raen, is bent on a revenge that will tear apart the truce between human and alien. \"Brisk pacing . . . and genuinely brilliant world-building\".--ALA Booklist.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Own", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1197132.Serpent_s_Reach"}, +{"book_title": "The Warlord's Comeuppance", "author_name": "Gail Koger", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 706, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Stealing from a warlord and giving him the one finger salute as I made my getaway was not the brightest thing I\u2019d ever done. Okay, it was an incredibly stupid stunt.Did I mention that this particular Coletti warlord is the most feared in the entire galaxy? That Zarek\u2019s the ultimate predator and even the other warlords are scared spitless of him? That he never ever stops until he either captures or kills his prey?Yeah, I have the big, bad after me and all because of one little finger. Okay and a Ditrim crystal the size of my fist. Am I worried? Of course, only an idiot doesn\u2019t fear a very angry Coletti warlord. But, I am very good at what I do. Bad news is, so is Zarek.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Humor", "Futuristic", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8477072-the-warlord-s-comeuppance"}, +{"book_title": "Victim Zero", "author_name": "Joshua Guess", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1390, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Kell McDonald isn't your average guy. He's a brilliant biologist and geneticist, a leading researcher in the constant fight against disease and death. He works in secret on a miraculous organism with the potential to change the world.But he isn't the only one.Victim Zero is a story about life and loss, self-awareness and the hard choices between what is right and what is necessary. As the world spirals down and the dead begin to rise, Kell must learn the difference between surviving and living.Set in the world of Living With the Dead, Victim Zero tells the story of how The Fall began. From before the outbreak itself, during the crisis and beyond, this novel chronicles the journey of a man who holds the weight of the entire human race on his shoulders.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18045372-victim-zero"}, +{"book_title": "A Psalm for the Wild-Built", "author_name": "Becky Chambers", "rating_score": 4.33, "rating_votes": 45, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new series gives us hope for the future.It's been centuries since the robots of Earth gained self-awareness and laid down their tools.Centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again.Centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of \"what do people need?\" is answered.But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.They're going to need to ask it a lot.Becky Chambers' new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Novella", "Adult", "Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864002-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built"}, +{"book_title": "Claiming Claire", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 630, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Addassar and Lurr have been assigned to the new Kelon space station orbiting Earth. In a fight with the enemy they are forced down onto the planet. When Addassar and Lurr meet a lovely human woman they both want to claim her for themselves.Claire never expected a space ship to crash in the lake on her Ju-Ju berry farm in the remote north of Australia. Nor did she expect to find not one, but two, buffed up sexy alien men. She has no intention of denying the powerful attraction between her and the Kelon men. When they start fighting over who has claimed her, Claire needs to make them see the pleasures of not just two in a relationship but three.meBack on their home planet of Kelon, Addassar and Lurr are determined to show just how much Claire means to them, even if it means sharing her. ", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Menage (M F M)", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13082990-claiming-claire"}, +{"book_title": "The Perilous Sea", "author_name": "Sherry Thomas", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 10791, "review_number": 1023, "book_description": "After spending the summer away from each other, Titus and Iolanthe (still disguised as Archer Fairfax) are eager to return to Eton College to resume their training to fight the Bane. Although no longer bound to Titus by a blood oath, Iolanthe is more committed than ever to fulfilling her destiny\u2014especially with the agents of Atlantis quickly closing in. Soon after arriving at school, though, Titus makes a shocking discovery, one that makes him question everything he previously believed about their mission. Faced with this devastating realization, Iolanthe is forced to come to terms with her new role, while Titus must choose between following his mother's prophecies\u2014and forging a divergent path to an unknowable future.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20359719-the-perilous-sea"}, +{"book_title": "Legend", "author_name": "Jude Deveraux", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 6603, "review_number": 285, "book_description": "Her wedding fast approaching, celebrated chef Kady Long knew she was the luckiest woman alive...until she slipped into a delicate satin wedding dress she found in an antique flour tin, and was overcome by an odd dizzy spell. When she came to, Kady was in the dusty western town of Legend, Colorado--where a hanging was about to commence! With quick wits and more than a little moxie, Kady halts the proceedings, much to the relief of one Cole Jordan, a tall, thankful, and very appealing man.Now it's Kady's turn to enlist his help to find a way back home. But before long, Kady discovers a passion that she knows can only live in Legend--until Cole reveals a secret that unites them in a way Kady never could have imagined.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69006.Legend"}, +{"book_title": "Deadly Games", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 6213, "review_number": 341, "book_description": "When you\u2019ve been accused of kidnapping an emperor, and every enforcer in the city wants your head, it\u2019s hard to prove yourself an honorable person and even harder to earn an imperial pardon.That doesn\u2019t keep Amaranthe Lokdon and her team of outlaws from trying. When athletes start disappearing from the Imperial Games, they may finally have an opportunity to show the emperor that they\u2019re on his side. If she and her comrades can get to the bottom of such a public mystery, they\u2019re sure to get the credit.But plans go awry when Amaranthe\u2019s own men start plotting against each other, the new ally she\u2019d hoped to acquire tries to turn her in, and her best fighter\u2014and closest friend\u2014disappears. Maybe getting involved wasn\u2019t such a good idea after all\u2026Deadly Games is approximately 110,000 words. It is the third book in The Emperor's Edge series.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13044650-deadly-games"}, +{"book_title": "Rebellion", "author_name": "William H. Keith Jr.", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 562, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "The second volume in an action-packed military sf series. Devis Cameron, hero of the Xenophobe War and the Empire's reluctant champion, has been called upon to eliminate a newly discovered underground colony of Xenos . . . and to deal harshly with civil unrest spawned by Imperial repression. But is the nuclear option the only alternative? Original.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/553592.Rebellion"}, +{"book_title": "The Faerie Path", "author_name": "Allan Frewin Jones", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 10836, "review_number": 649, "book_description": "Swept away into a court of magic and beauty, she discovers she is Tania, the lost princess of Faerie: the youngest daughter of Oberon and Titania. Since Tania's mysterious disappearance on the eve of her wedding five hundred years before, Faerie has been sunk in darkness and gloom. The courtly Lord Gabriel Drake, who Tania was once to marry, has found her and brought her back.With Tania's return, Faerie comes alive again as a land of winged children, glittering balls, and fantastic delights. But Tania can't forget Anita's world, or the boy she loved there.Torn between two loves and between two worlds, Tania slowly comes to discover why she disappeared so long ago. She possesses a singular magical ability and she must use it to stop a sinister plan that threatens the entire world of Faerie.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/501909.The_Faerie_Path"}, +{"book_title": "The Ware Tetralogy", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 967, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "An omnibus of Rudy Rucker's groundbreaking series [Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware], with an introduction by William Gibson, author of Neuromancer.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science (Technology)", "United States"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665901-the-ware-tetralogy"}, +{"book_title": "Into the Future", "author_name": "John Milne", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "intermediate", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["None"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7201379-into-the-future"}, +{"book_title": "Snow Crash", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 241095, "review_number": 9391, "book_description": "In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous\u2026 you'll recognize it immediately.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Audiobook", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40651883-snow-crash"}, +{"book_title": "After Mind", "author_name": "Spencer Wolf", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 66, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "No one can ever be the same human twice.Cessini Madden lives with an extremely rare medical condition\u2026 then his physical life ends before he reaches age thirteen.After an Artificial Intelligence breakthrough, Cessini is reborn as a young AI child named Packet. Scared and living alone in a technology center, Packet recognizes nothing from his past, save for one thing: he is deathly allergic to water.When a mysterious doctor gives him a chance to recover his memories, Packet must face the tormented boy he once was. He must be the courageous lost son his family remembers and loves. But now as his world collapses around him, one thing remains \u2026 even a child\u2019s best memories are made to be changed.Robot or AI, no one can ever be the same human twice.From the near-future suburbs to the lush Australian forests, from the depths of the oceans to the promise of space, Packet\u2019s urgent struggle for existence grabs hold in everyday victories and extraordinary dreams. After Mind tells a story about the underlying nature of humanity, the impact of undying devotion, and the incredible next generation of us.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24778962-after-mind"}, +{"book_title": "Implanted", "author_name": "Lauren C. Teffeau", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 124, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "The data stored in her blood can save a city on the brink\u2026 or destroy it, in this gripping cyberpunk thriller.When college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she\u2019s cut off from the neural implant community which binds the domed city of New Worth together. Her new masters exploit her rare condition which allows her to carry encoded data in her blood, and train her to transport secrets throughout the troubled city. New Worth is on the brink of Emergence \u2013 freedom from the dome \u2013 but not everyone wants to leave. Then a data drop goes bad, and Emery is caught between factions: those who want her blood, and those who just want her dead.File Under: Science Fiction [ Blood\u2019s the Thing | Under the Dome | Going Viral | Mega City Bytes ]", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38502660-implanted"}, +{"book_title": "The Initiate", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 23685, "review_number": 687, "book_description": "The Initiate provides readers with a glimpse into Tobias's Dauntless initiation experience, including an epic game of late-night Dare; his first tattoo; the beginning of his passion for training new initiates; and his nascent understanding of the danger of being Divergent.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18668485-the-initiate"}, +{"book_title": "The Murder Complex", "author_name": "Lindsay Cummings", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 8080, "review_number": 1558, "book_description": "An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic debut thriller set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birthrate. For fans of Moira Young\u2019s Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation, lives with her family on a houseboat in Florida. The state is controlled by The Murder Complex, an organization that tracks the population with precision.The plot starts to thicken when Meadow meets Zephyr James, who is\u2014although he doesn\u2019t know it\u2014one of the MC\u2019s programmed assassins. Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny? Or part of a terrifying strategy? And will Zephyr keep Meadow from discovering the haunting truth about her family?Action-packed, blood-soaked, and chilling, this is a dark and compelling debut novel by Lindsay Cummings.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Horror", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13576132-the-murder-complex"}, +{"book_title": "Seven Surrenders", "author_name": "Ada Palmer", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 4106, "review_number": 510, "book_description": "The second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity. It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all.In which automation now provides for everybody\u2019s basic needs.In which nobody living can remember an actual war.In which it is illegal for three or more people to gather for the practice of religion\u2014but ecumenical \u201csensayers\u201d minister in private, one-on-one.In which gendered language is archaic, and to dress as strongly male or female is, if not exactly illegal, deeply taboo.In which nationality is a fading memory, and most people identify instead with their choice of the seven global Hives, distinguished from one another by their different approaches to the big questions of life.And it is a world in which, unknown to most, the entire social order is teetering on the edge of collapse.Because even in utopia, humans will conspire. And also because something new has arisen: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to conscious life.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Politics", "GLBT (Queer)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28220647-seven-surrenders"}, +{"book_title": "Dog Blood", "author_name": "David Moody", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 3677, "review_number": 253, "book_description": "The world has suffered a catastrophe of unknown cause, dividing humankind into two: the Haters and the Unchanged. Each group believes the other to be the enemy; each group is fighting for survival. Only by working together can the enemy \u2013 whoever that enemy is \u2013 be defeated. There are no other choices. Danny McCoyne has managed to break free, and after days of indiscriminate fighting and killing, he is determined to make his way home, to recalim the only thing of any value to him in this strange new world: his daughter Ellis. Unlike his wife and son, Ellis is like him, and he knows, in his heart of hearts, that she is not dead. His dearest wish is for Ellis to be fighting for the world at his side \u2013 but Danny soon discovers his daughter is worth far more than just another fighting body. Others like him have discovered that children are absolutely vital to the cause. They are strong, small, fast, and they have no inhibitions. They are pure Haters...", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171452-dog-blood"}, +{"book_title": "R Is for Robot: A Noisy Alphabet", "author_name": "Adam F. Watkins", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 332, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "These noisy robots make the alphabet a hilarious adventure! In this noisy alphabet book, Adam F. Watkins\u2019s silly robots are building the alphabet. Featuring hilarious robots making goofy noises, this alphabet book is perfect for young readers.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Academic (School)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693691-r-is-for-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Scrap City", "author_name": "D.S. Thornton", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 65, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Would you believe that under the ground, right beneath your city, was another city? Would you believe it was populated with Scrappers, people built of metal and glass and stone? Jerome has no choice but to believe it after he meets Arkie. Arkie is a Scrapper, and he and Jerome quickly become friends\u2014maybe even brothers. So when Arkie's city is in danger, Jerome knows he must help. But helping Arkie means hurting Jerome's dad, the only real family Jerome still has . . .For ages 10-14.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25373119-scrap-city"}, +{"book_title": "PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 003", "author_name": "Naoki Urasawa", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 2860, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol\u2019s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders\u2014the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets. When robots become so highly advanced in function, yet so similar in kind to humans, societal resistance is inevitable. In this backdrop of technophobic discrimination, Europol\u2019s top robot detective Gesicht and Atom, the most advanced robot in the world continue their investigation into the serial murders of the great robots of the world. The leaves of this mystery masterfully unfold into a complex intersection of reactionary robot hate groups, global politics, and an exploration of robot identity.Contains Chapters 16 to 23.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Mystery", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Asian Literature (Japanese Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6235979-pluto"}, +{"book_title": "Midnight on the Moon", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 13073, "review_number": 462, "book_description": "Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series\u2014the Magic Tree House! Three . . . two . . . one . . . BLAST OFF!The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to the moon\u2014and the future. Their mission? To find the last \"M\" thing that will free Morgan from the spell. Can they do it before the air in their oxygen tank runs out? Will the mysterious moon man help them? And why is Peanut the mouse acting so strange?", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122914.Midnight_on_the_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "The Talisman", "author_name": "Stephen King", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 109351, "review_number": 3508, "book_description": "On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm.One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . .", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59219.The_Talisman"}, +{"book_title": "Salt Fish Girl", "author_name": "Larissa Lai", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 946, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "\"Salt Fish Girl\" is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. Told in the beguiling voice of a narrator who is fish, snake, girl, and woman - all of whom must struggle against adversity for survival - the novel is set alternately in nineteenth-century China and in a futuristic Pacific Northwest.At turns whimsical and wry, \"Salt Fish Girl\" intertwines the story of Nu Wa, the shape-shifter, and that of Miranda, a troubled young girl living in the walled city of Serendipity circa 2044. Miranda is haunted by traces of her mother's glamourous cabaret career, the strange smell of durian fruit that lingers about her, and odd tokens reminiscient of Nu Wa. Could Miranda be infected by the Dreaming Disease that makes the past leak into the present?Framed by a playful sense of magical realism, \"Salt Fish Girl\" reveals a futuristic Pacific Northwest where corporations govern cities, factory workers are cybernetically engineered, middle-class labour is a video game, and those who haven't sold out to commerce and other ills must fight the evil powers intent on controlling everything. Rich with ancient Chinese mythology and cultural lore, this remarkable novel is about gender, love, honour, intrigue, and fighting against oppression.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/531944.Salt_Fish_Girl"}, +{"book_title": "Way Station", "author_name": "Clifford D. Simak", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 23402, "review_number": 1295, "book_description": "Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...", "year_published": 1963, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190999.Way_Station"}, +{"book_title": "Labyrinth", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 4042, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "[A Miles Vorkosigan Story] Twenty-three year old Lieutenant Miles Vorkosigan challenges the criminal underground on the planet Jackson's Whole to rescue a research scientist. [Publisher's Note: \"Labyrinth\" was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the August 1989 issue of Analog. It was then included in the novel \"Borders of Infinity\" (October 1989). For the novel, Ms. Bujold added a short \"framing story\" that tied the three novellas together by setting up each as a flashback that Miles experiences while recovering from bone-replacement surgery. Fictionwise is publishing these novellas separately, but we decided to leave in Ms. Bujold's short framing story for those who may also wish to read the other two novellas (\"The Mountains of Mourning\" and \"The Borders of Infinity\").] Analog Reader's Choice Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7195389-labyrinth"}, +{"book_title": "Mouse and Dragon", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1941, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "The Latest Novel in the Exciting Liaden Universe\u00ae Space Adventure Series. The Sequel to Scout's Progress. Aelliana Caylon has endured much, and finally, she appears to have won all: a spaceship, comrades, friends -- and the love of a pilot she adores. Even better that her lover\u2014the man who was destined for her, a man as much a loner as she\u2014is also the Delm of Korval, arguably the most powerful person on all of Liad. He has the power to remove her and protect her from the toxic environment of her home Clan. Best of all, he agrees to sit as her co-pilot and her partner in a courier business. Even happy endings sometimes show a few flaws. Such as Aelliana's home clan being not as agreeable to letting her go as it had first seemed. And the fact that someone is stealing pilots in the Low Port, which falls within the Delm of Korval's honor. Oh, and the revelation that the man she loves\u2014the man who is destined for her\u2014isn't entirely the man she thought he was. And finally, she discovers that even the lift from Liad she'd so fervently desired, is part of a larger plan, a plan requiring her to be someone she never thought she was, or could be.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171179-mouse-and-dragon"}, +{"book_title": "Ball Lightning", "author_name": "Liu Cixin", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 6744, "review_number": 832, "book_description": "A new standalone military SF adventure from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem.When Chen\u2019s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of mysterious natural phenomena. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier in particle physics. Although Chen\u2019s quest provides a purpose for his lonely life, his reasons for chasing his elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have motives of their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge.Ball Lightning, by award-winning Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu, is a fast-paced story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against a push to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.The original Chinese version was published in 2004. In 2018 the English version, translated by Joel Martinsen, was published in the US by Tor Books.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (China)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Asian Literature (Chinese Literature)", "Literature (Asian Literature)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32076670-ball-lightning"}, +{"book_title": "Open Arms", "author_name": "Evan Currie", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 1412, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "With the war officially over, and years of fighting weighing on her, Sorilla has officially put in her papers and called in every chit she's owed. It's time to hang up her power armor, lay down her rifle, and try to build something for herself rather than for other people. The War, however, is only over when the powers that be say it is. Faced with a potential political nightmare, the Alliance and SOLCOM are now working together, and Sorilla's number is up one more time as she finds herself unable to break the habit of serving. De Opresso Liber", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36299144-open-arms"}, +{"book_title": "Made Things", "author_name": "Adrian Tchaikovsky", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1133, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "She was good at making friends.Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don\u2019t\u2026 tiny puppet-like friends: some made of wood, some of metal. They don\u2019t entirely trust her, and she doesn\u2019t entirely understand them, but their partnership mostly works.After a surprising discovery shakes their world to the core, Coppelia and her friends must reexamine everything they thought they knew about their world, while attempting to save their city from a seemingly impossible new threat.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44581532-made-things"}, +{"book_title": "Schattenl\u00e4ufer", "author_name": "Markus Heitz", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 190, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "- \"Sturmvogel\" (2004, Shadowrun, #51)- \"05:58\" (2004, Shadowrun, #53)- \"Jede Wette\" (2005, Shadowrun, #55)Dies sind die Heldentaten des Sensationsreporters Poolitzer, der sich auf der Jagd nach seinen Stories nicht nur mit den Machenschaften gro\u00dfer Konzerne herumschlagen muss, sondern auch mit allerlei Elfen, Trollen und Orks ...Ein atemberaubendes Abenteuer im Europa der nahen Zukunft, das rasante SF-Action und magische Elemente auf geniale Weise miteinander verbindet.(enth\u00e4lt Shadowrun, #51, 53 & 55)DREI ATEMBERAUBENDE ROMANE VON BESTSELLER-AUTOR MARKUS HEITZ IN EINEM BANDSechzig Jahre in der Zukunft hat sich die Erde stark ver\u00e4ndert: Global operierende High-Tech-Konzerne liefern sich heftige Konkurrenzk\u00e4mpfe, die auf den Stra\u00dfen der Mega-St\u00e4dte mit allen Mitteln ausgetragen werden. Und als w\u00e4re das noch nicht genug, hat sich zu Beginn des dritten Jahrtausends die Voraussage des zyklischen Weltkalenders der Maya erf\u00fcllt: Im Sechsen Zeitalter kehrt die Magie auf die Welt zur\u00fcck und mit ihr magische Wesen wie Orks und Trolle, Elfen und Zwerge...Nach \"Schattenj\u00e4ger\" ein weiteres Abenteuer, wie Sie es so bestimmt noch nie gelesen haben - eine faszinierende Mischung aus Fantasy und Science Fiction von einem der besten Phantastik-Autoren der Gegenwart.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3115501-schattenl-ufer"}, +{"book_title": "Heir Apparent", "author_name": "Vivian Vande Velde", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 9927, "review_number": 752, "book_description": "In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army of ghosts, fend off the barbarians, and defeat the man-eating dragon, she'll never win. And she has to, because losing means she'll die--for real this time. ", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213652.Heir_Apparent"}, +{"book_title": "Project ELE", "author_name": "Rebecca Gober", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2881, "review_number": 271, "book_description": "Millions have already died, and thousands more are perishing daily. As a last ditch effort to preserve the human race, the government implements Project ELE. With the earth heating at rapid speeds, all remaining survivors are forced to turn to F.E.M.A. shelters to wait out ELE's wrath. Fifteen-year-old Willow Mosby's life, as she knows it, ends the moment she walks through the shelter's door. Willow has to quickly adapt to the new challenges that shelter life demands, the least of which includes making new friends and working a full time job.Soon after making an interesting discovery, Willow and her friends start exhibiting strange abilities. Seeking answers, they embark on a mission to find out what these new abilities mean and whether they are a gift or a curse. This new adventure can send her world crashing down around her. The question is: Can Willow survive the fall?***We've heard your reviews and have since corrected all of the errors we could find that were mentioned in the reviews. We appreciate your support and comments! Thank you for taking the time to read our books!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16098473-project-ele"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien's Lover", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1799, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Welcome to Luxiria, where the twin suns are hot and the alien warriors are hotter\u2026 Beks Bridgett\u2019s mission in life is to try everything at least once. Some call her fearless. Others, reckless. While her bucket list includes things like skydiving and kissing random strangers, getting kidnapped by aliens and sold to an intergalactic fight club definitely isn\u2019t. That is, until a fierce, intimidating, and panty-meltingly hot alien warrior springs her from her caged prison. Ambassador Lihvan, one of the deadliest War Generals of Luxiria, is known for his unshakable drive and intense ferocity in battle. He is a warrior of few words and even fewer needs\u2026but many, many secret, dirty desires. When he rescues a human woman who delights in teasing him to an inch of his infamous control, the powerful Luxirian fears that she will be the one to finally bring him to his knees. After a rescue mission goes awry, Beks and Lihvan find themselves stranded on a dangerous and ever-changing planet, alone. Nestled in a small shelter, not only are they trying to survive the elements, but also the lust and desire that runs between them\u2026 Features a feisty human woman, a seven-foot tall hot alien with vibrating -ahem- parts, and cold, cold nights tucked in a little, little cave. What could possibly go wrong? Full-length, 50,000+ word novel that can be read as a standalone, but revisits characters from previous books.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35449785-the-alien-s-lover"}, +{"book_title": "Curran Twitter, The Wilson Building", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 1104, "review_number": 95, "book_description": "Free online fiction from author website", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Novella", "Fiction", "Humor", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39776894-curran-twitter-the-wilson-building"}, +{"book_title": "The Sex Sphere", "author_name": "Rudy Rucker", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 80, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Meet Babs.The reason she talks in a heavy Hungarian accent is that the first personality she wolfed down was an Iron Curtain physicist.The reason she has taken on the shape of what every man wants most is that she needs power.The reason she needs power is that she wants to go home. To the Fourth Dimension.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274087.The_Sex_Sphere"}, +{"book_title": "Evolution Expects", "author_name": "Jonathan Green", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 95, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo. Welcome to Magna Britannia, a steam driven world full of fantastical creations and shady villains. Here dashing dandies and mustachioed villains battle for supremacy while below the city strange things stir in the flooded tunnels of the old London Underground. When a deadly legacy returns, Ulysses Quicksilver finds himself drawn into that pit of despair known as Bedlam. With a dangerous masked vigalante stalking the streets of London, a monster from Jewish myth on the loose in the East End and rival gangs fighting for control of the city's underworld there may be nothing Ulysses can do to prevent a catastrophic metamorphosis!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6072224-evolution-expects"}, +{"book_title": "The Exile Kiss", "author_name": "George Alec Effinger", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1621, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Mar\u00eed Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the right-hand man of one of the Maghreb's most feared men. As an enforcer for the powerful Friedlander Bey, Mar\u00eed is just beginning to enjoy his newfound wealth and privilege, when he and Bey are betrayed by a rival and accused of murder.Sentenced to exile and abandoned to die in the vast Arabian desert, Mar\u00eed and Bey must somehow survive the searing sands and make their way back to the now-hostile Budayeen\u2014and, then, take their vengeance.By turns thrilling and philosophical, The Exile Kiss is the culmination of one of the great works of modern SF.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Noir)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358990.The_Exile_Kiss"}, +{"book_title": "Machines That Think", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 96, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Essef - Brilliant, surprising and terrifying stories to make the future come true. With: Asimov (5x), Bierce, Wyndham, Vincent, Bates, R. M. Williams, Del Rey, van Vogt, Ellison, Leinster, Anderson, Miller, Bone, Harrison, Shaara, Dick (2x), Dickson, Clarke, Silverberg, Brunner, Brown, Vinge, Wolfe and Zebrowski.", "year_published": 1983, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/554425.Machines_That_Think"}, +{"book_title": "The Golem and the Jinni", "author_name": "Helene Wecker", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 107418, "review_number": 12925, "book_description": "Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic, created to be the wife of a man who dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free. Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Magical Realism", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15819028-the-golem-and-the-jinni"}, +{"book_title": "Anno Dracula", "author_name": "Kim Newman", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 12526, "review_number": 1176, "book_description": "It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Genevi\u00e8ve Dieudonn\u00e9 and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders. Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London. This brand-new edition of the bestselling novel contains unique bonus material, including a new afterword from Kim Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings to the original novel.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Horror", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8970727-anno-dracula"}, +{"book_title": "The Mongoliad: Book Two", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 4487, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "With bonus material! This Kindle edition features extra content only found in the Collector\u2019s Edition of The Mongoliad: Book Two, including an illustrated character glossary, a Foreworld map, and Dreamer, a prequel to the Mongoliad series.This riveting second installment in Stephenson and company\u2019s epic tale focuses on the aftermath of the world-shattering Mongolian invasion of 1241 and the difficult paths undertaken by its most resilient survivors.The Shield Brethren, an order of warrior monks, search for a way to overthrow the horde, even as the invaders take its members hostage. Forced to fight in the Mongols\u2019 Circus of Swords, Haakon must prove his mettle or lose his life in the ring. His bravery may impress the enemy, but freedom remains a distant dream.Father Rodrigo receives a prophecy from God and believes it\u2019s his mission to deliver the message to Rome. Though a peaceful man, he resigns himself to take up arms in the name of his Lord. Joining his fight to save Christendom are the hunter Ferenc, orphan Ocyrhoe, healer Raphael, and alchemist Yasper, each searching for his place in history.Deftly blending fact and fantasy, The Mongoliad: Book Two captures the indomitable will to survive against immense odds.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13665175-the-mongoliad"}, +{"book_title": "The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 3683, "review_number": 377, "book_description": "The threat of Mortmain's Infernal Devices looms as the Shadowhunters race to work out a way to counteract the mechanical monsters. Meanwhile, plans for Tessa''s marriage to Jem are underway, despite her fianc\u00e9''s failing health and the unresolved feelings between her and Will. When Tessa is captured, Will must leave his comrade behind to save the woman they both love... But with the final missing piece-Tessa herself-in Mortmain''s possession, can anything stop his plot for revenge?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13226246-the-infernal-devices"}, +{"book_title": "Divergent Series Complete Box Set", "author_name": "Veronica Roth", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 41390, "review_number": 1323, "book_description": "All three books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy are available boxed together for the first time! Perfect for gift givers, collectors, and fans new to the series, the box set includes: A specially designed slipcase Hardcover editions of Divergent, Insurgent, and Divergent #3 Bonus booklet! \"The World of Veronica Roth's Divergent Series,\" a forty-eight-page booklet including Faction Manifestos, a Faction Quiz and Results, a Q&A with Veronica Roth, playlists, discussion questions, series inspirations, and much more!Divergent One choice can transform you. Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling debut is a gripping dystopian tale of electrifying choices, powerful consequences, unexpected romance, and a deeply flawed \"perfect society.\"Insurgent One choice can destroy you. Veronica Roth's second #1 New York Times bestseller continues the dystopian thrill ride. As war surges in the factions all around her, Tris attempts to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.Divergent #3: The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17383994-divergent-series-complete-box-set"}, +{"book_title": "Truly, Madly Viking", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1276, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "When a tenth-century Viking's ship blows off course, he finds himself in the twenty-first century and in the arms of a successful and beautiful American psychologist.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Humor", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754820.Truly_Madly_Viking"}, +{"book_title": "Gods of Mars", "author_name": "Graham McNeill", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 334, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Beyond the edges of the galaxy, Archmagos Kotov's great voyage is over. He has achieved his goal - to find the resting place of the long-lost Vettius Telok. But Telok yet lives, and as the brave explorators of Kotov's fleet marvel at the wonders laid before them, darker plans unfold. As reality itself is threatened by impossible technologies from the dawn of time, it falls to a small group of heroes to thwart an insane plan that could see the entire universe annihilated.This is the final book in the critically acclaimed Adeptus Mechanicus series from Graham McNeill. Discover the fate of the lost voyage of Magos Vettius Telok, and the dark secret that waits far beyond the Imperium at the very edge of the galaxy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18649333-gods-of-mars"}, +{"book_title": "The Uplift War", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 25121, "review_number": 418, "book_description": "David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being \"uplifted\" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth, and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies. Sweeping, brilliantly crafted, inventive and dramatic, The Uplift War is an unforgettable story of adventure and wonder from one of today's science fiction greats.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234489.The_Uplift_War"}, +{"book_title": "White Cat", "author_name": "Holly Black", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 43893, "review_number": 4680, "book_description": "The extraordinary new adult fantasy of magic in our world and the price we pay for it by the author of THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES.\t Cassel is cursed. Cursed by the memory of the fourteen year old girl he murdered. Life at school is a constant trial. Life at home even worse. No-one at home is ever going to forget that Cassel is a killer. No-one at home is ever going to forget that he isn't a magic worker.Cassel's family are one of the big five crime families in America. Ever since magic was prohibited in 1929 magic workers have been driven underground and into crime. And while people still need their touch, their curses, their magical killings, their transformations, times have been hard. His granddad has been driven to drink, his mother is in prison and his brothers detest him as the only one of their family who can't do magic.But there is a secret at the centre of Cassel's family and he's about to inherit it. It's terrfying and that's the truth.The White Cat is a stunning novel of a world changed by magic. In this world only 1% of the population can work magic but they have the power of nightmares.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6087756-white-cat"}, +{"book_title": "Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box", "author_name": "Mira Grant", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 2272, "review_number": 256, "book_description": "A new short story from Mira Grant, the author of Feed. Every week five friends get together to play a game-- a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before.Word count: ~3,900", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10574457-apocalypse-scenario-683"}, +{"book_title": "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", "author_name": "Frank Miller", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 163749, "review_number": 3546, "book_description": "This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents' murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne's long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles. The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin\u2014a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers\u2014or a clash of what were once the world's greatest superheroes?Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.Collecting Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Dc Comics (Batman)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59960.Batman"}, +{"book_title": "Beneath This Mask", "author_name": "Victoria Sue", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1012, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "\n\nEnhanced World: Book Three\n\nGael Peterson has spent years hiding behind the enhanced abilities he wears like a mask, even though he is an important, confident member of the FBI\u2019s exclusive H.E.R.O. team. The hurt and betrayal of his mom\u2019s abandonment and his father\u2019s fists are secrets buried deep beneath the ugly scars on his face, and he doesn\u2019t trust Jake, his new regular human partner, with any of them. In a world where those with special abilities like Gael\u2019s are regarded as freaks and monsters, it won\u2019t be easy for him to rely on Jake to have his back, especially when the abilities of a vulnerable nonspeaking enhanced child make that child a murder suspect.Tempers rise and loyalties are challenged, and when the serial killer targeting the enhanced finally sets his sights on Gael, not only will Gael have to trust Jake with his secrets, he might have to trust him to save his life.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "LGBT", "Mystery (Crime)", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54634006-beneath-this-mask"}, +{"book_title": "One Enchanted Evening", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1912, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Time-travel romances have made Lynn Kurland a bestseller in the here-and-now. A duty-bound knight has taken on the task of rebuilding the most dilapidated castle in all of England. A costume designer gets her chance to shine by showcasing her fairy- tale designs at an upscale party in an authentic medieval castle. And the magic that whispers along the castle's hallways is about to orchestrate an improbable happily-ever-after.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Medieval)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7464272-one-enchanted-evening"}, +{"book_title": "Bone Rider", "author_name": "J. Fally", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1757, "review_number": 416, "book_description": "Riley Cooper is on the run. Misha Tokarev, the love of his life, turned out to be an assassin for the Russian mob, and when it comes to character flaws, Riley draws the line at premeditated murder. Alien armor system McClane is also on the run, for reasons that include accidentally crashing a space ship into Earth and evading U.S. military custody. A failed prototype, McClane was scheduled for destruction. Sabotaging the ship put an end to that, but McClane is dubbed a bone rider for good reason\u2014he can\u2019t live without a host body. That\u2019s why he first stows away in Riley's truck and then in Riley himself. Their reluctant partnership soon evolves into something much more powerful\u2014and personal\u2014than either of them could have imagined.Together, they embark on a road trip from hell, made all the more exciting by the government troops and mob enforcers hot on their trail. Misha is determined to win Riley back and willing to do whatever it takes to keep him safe. When hitman and alien join forces, they discover their impressive combined potential for death and destruction. It will take everything Riley has to steer them through the mess they create.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Contemporary", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Westerns"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18619542-bone-rider"}, +{"book_title": "And the Robot Went", "author_name": "Michelle Robinson", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 244, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Starting with a box of parts, the Nosy Fox, the Bear in a Blazer, the Blue Gnu, and other remarkable builders assemble the Robot, step by step. Each stage of the process has its own sound effect, and the growing list of sounds is repeated in every spread. Young children will happily Click,\u00a0Clang,\u00a0and Tappa Tappa\u00a0along and relish the surprise ending of this winsome cumulative tale.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens", "Animals", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens (Pre K)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30971758-and-the-robot-went"}, +{"book_title": "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons", "author_name": "Michael Mallory", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 28, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Presents a history of Hanna-Barbera and discusses such shows as the Flintstones, Jetsons, Top, Cat, and Scooby-Doo, Where are You!.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Culture (Pop Culture)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Media Tie In (Tv)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1798721.Hanna_Barbera_Cartoons"}, +{"book_title": "Deliverance", "author_name": "C.J. Redwine", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 4525, "review_number": 405, "book_description": "Everything hangs in the balance, and nothing is certain: Rachel has been kidnapped by enemy forces and is being taken to Rowansmark while Logan, imprisoned and awaiting trial, is unable to leave Lankenshire. Separated from each other and their Baalboden comrades, each must find a way to achieve what they desperately want: to rid their world once and for all of the Commander and the tech that controls the deadly Cursed One.Fighting through her pain and embracing the warrior she\u2019s become, Rachel will do whatever it takes to escape her enemies\u2019 clutches and join Logan in his fight. But when she learns a secret that changes everything, she realizes that escaping Ian and his tracker friends is no longer an option if she wants to save the people she loves. Instead, she\u2019ll have to destroy Rowansmark from the inside out\u2014if she can survive the journey through the Wasteland.Logan needs allies if he wants to thwart Rowansmark\u2019s power grab and rescue Rachel. But securing allies will mean betraying his beliefs and enlisting the help of the man he hates more than anyone: Commander Jason Chase. Driven by his fierce love for Rachel and his determination to make their world safe, Logan may be just the weapon the city-states need to defeat the Cursed One.But as Rowansmark bears down and uneasy alliances are tested, will Rachel and Logan\u2019s love for each other be enough to surmount the unbelievable odds against them?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19099494-deliverance"}, +{"book_title": "Queen Mab Courtesy", "author_name": "Bruce C. Davis", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 5, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "Set in a near-future Chicago, QUEEN MAB COURTESY is part adventure, part mystery, part science, and all fun. Tito, the main character, is a \"Denver Dwarf\"--victim of a birth defect caused by a biological terrorist attack while he was in the womb. It certainly didn't affect his mind or his spirit, though. He meets up with Charlie Sleazer, a hot chestnut vendor who quotes Shakespeare and has a few interesting sidelines (like helping people out of jams). They are trying to unravel what happened to Tito's father, who disappeared years ago. The C.O.P.S.--huge mechanical machines with biological 'chips' in control of their actions--seem to be engaged in a huge cover-up, adding to their already repressive nature as they try to protect people from everything including themselves. Queen Mab Courtesy is a fast-paced novel that's fun and easy to read, yet it makes the reader think about lots of things, not least of which is the value of being true to oneself and one's family.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6265009-queen-mab-courtesy"}, +{"book_title": "The Borrowed World", "author_name": "Franklin Horton", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1946, "review_number": 195, "book_description": "In a night of devastating terror, ISIS operatives have unleashed a coordinated attack on America\u2019s infrastructure. Life as we know it in America grinds to a halt as the electrical grid collapses, communication networks are damaged, critical bridges and dams are destroyed, and major fuel refineries go up in massive fiery clouds. When the government responds by immediately halting fuel sales to the public, Jim Powell finds himself in a terrifying predicament \u2013 trapped five hundred miles from home with a group of coworkers. With thousands of trapped travelers and scarce law enforcement, the miles between Jim and his family become a brutal gauntlet where the rules of civilized society no longer apply. As Jim puts his years of preparation and planning to the test, he is forced to ask himself if he has what it takes to make it home. Does he have the strength -- the brutality -- required to meet this new world toe-to-toe? ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Action", "Thriller", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25470417-the-borrowed-world"}, +{"book_title": "Hello Robots", "author_name": "Joan Holub", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 60, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "New from beloved author Joan Holub, Hello Robots! is a fun, playful board book about robots and sequencing!Hello Buzz. Hello Beep. Hello robots fast asleep. Wake up! Get dressed, robots! Perfect for reading out loud, Joan Holub\u2019s hilarious text and Chris Dickason\u2019s lively illustrations will have little ones learning and laughing as they try to help sleepy robots complete their morning routine in the correct order. A clever, interactive approach to first concepts, the Hello board book series introduces important \u201cnext-step\u201d concepts like sequencing in a hilariously engaging way.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40539218-hello-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Unrelenting", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 1298, "review_number": 67, "book_description": "The aliens attacking the planetary system of Alwa are an enemy unlike any Admiral Kris Longknife has ever encountered before. She doesn't know who they are, only that they worship a being known as the Enlightened One and are unafraid to sacrifice themselves against her fleet. But Kris faces more than just the fanatical behavior of an alien armada. A saboteur has infiltrated the military's medical facility and unleashed an epidemic that has spread throughout the fleet without warning. Seventy-two career military women are down with something not even the aliens could do to them - including Admiral Kris Longknife....", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24611913-unrelenting"}, +{"book_title": "Fallen Angels", "author_name": "Mike Lee", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 4059, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "As news of Horus\u2019s treachery spreads, the Great Crusade grinds to a halt as the primarchs and their Legions decide where their loyalty lies \u2013 with the Emperor, or the rebel Warmaster Horus. In this sequel to Descent of Angels, the Dark Angels too face a time of testing, both in the stars, and on their home world, Caliban.Arriving in the Gehinnom system, Lion El'Jonson and a force of DarkAngels set about subjugating the system's core worlds which are key to the Warmaster's plans to overthrow the Emperor.Meanwhile, on Caliban, Luther and the rest of the Legion feel abandoned by their primarch. Civil war erupts as the planet strives to break from Imperial rule, and the Dark Angels are thrown into a deadly conflict where all that they know and trust is thrown into doubt.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "War", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Horror", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6022863-fallen-angels"}, +{"book_title": "A Call to Vengeance", "author_name": "David Weber", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1835, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "After the disastrous attack on the Manticoran home system by forces unknown, the Royal Manticoran Navy stands on the brink of collapse. A shadowy enemy with the resources to hurl warships across hundreds of light years seeks to conquer the Star Kingdom for reasons unknown, while forces from within Manticore\u2019s own government seek to discredit and weaken the Navy for reasons very much known: their own political gain.It\u2019s up to officers like Travis Long and Lisa Donnelly to defend the Star Kingdom and the Royal Manticoran Navy from these threats, but the challenge is greater than any they have faced before. Weakened but not defeated, the mercenary forces and their mysterious employer could return at any time, and the anti-Navy faction within Parliament is growing. The situation becomes even more dire when fresh tragedy strikes the Star Kingdom.While the House of Winton faces their enemies at home, Travis, Lisa, and the other officers of the Royal Manticoran Navy must reunite with old friends and join new allies to hunt down and eliminate the forces arrayed against them in a galaxy-spanning conspiracy.Manticore has learned that the universe is not a safe place, but the Star Kingdom\u2019s enemies are about to learn a lesson of their own!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26635082-a-call-to-vengeance"}, +{"book_title": "Alien: Sea of Sorrows", "author_name": "James A. Moore", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2302, "review_number": 254, "book_description": "As a deputy commissioner for the ICC, Alan Decker\u2019s job is to make sure the settlements on LV178 follow all the rules, keeping the colonists safe. But the planet known as New Galveston holds secrets, lurking deep beneath the toxic sands dubbed the Sea of Sorrows.The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has secrets of its own, as Decker discovers when he is forced to join a team of mercenaries sent to investigate an ancient excavation. Somewhere in that long-forgotten dig lies the thing the company wants most in the universe\u2014a living Xenomorph.Decker doesn\u2019t understand why they need him, until his own past comes back to haunt him. Centuries ago, his ancestor fought the Aliens, launching a bloody vendetta that was never satisfied. That was when the creatures swore revenge on the Destroyer\u2026Ellen Ripley.\u00a0Alien TM & \u00a9 1979, 2013 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Thriller", "Action", "Space", "Media Tie In", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18772460-alien"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond Pain", "author_name": "Kit Rocha", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 4332, "review_number": 439, "book_description": "A woman with no future\u2026Live fast, die young\u2013anything else is a fantasy for Six. She\u2019s endured the worst the sectors had to throw at her, but falling in with Dallas O\u2019Kane\u2019s Sector Four gang lands her in a whole new world of danger. They\u2019re completely open about everything, including their sexuality\u2013but she hasn\u2019t survived this long by making herself vulnerable. Especially not to men as dominant as Brendan Donnelly.A man without a past\u2026Bren is a killer, trained in Eden and thrown to the sectors. His one outlet is pain, in the cage and in the bedroom, and emotion is a luxury he can\u2019t afford\u2013until he meets Six. Protecting her soothes him, but it isn\u2019t enough. Her hunger for touch sparks a journey of erotic discovery where anything goes\u2013voyeurism, flogging, rough sex. He has only one rule: he won\u2019t share her.In Bren\u2019s arms, Six is finally free to let go. But his obsession with the man who made him a monster could destroy the fragile connection they\u2019ve forged, and cost him the one thing that makes him feel human\u2013her love.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult", "Erotica (Menage)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Dark", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16049679-beyond-pain"}, +{"book_title": "Trail of Evil", "author_name": "Travis S. Taylor", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 110, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "BOOK #4 IN THE BEST-SELLING TAU CETI AGENDA SERIES. Humanity takes to interstellar space to face conflict and an extermination threat from both an\u00a0evil artificial intelligence and a possible menace from beyond.A century and a half after the Martian Separatist Wars and the final defeat of insane terrorist leader El Ahmi, Alexander Moore returns to the stars with the Sienna Madira, a United States Navy supercarrier spacecraft outfitted with advanced FTL and endlessly strange, extremely effective, quantum-based weapons and remote sensing technology.\u00a0 And, of course, he's brought Marines, and lots of them. These are troops superbly trained for space battle, and equipped with advanced, powered armor and artificial intelligence backup. Moore's task: hunt down remnant weaponry platforms left by the brilliant, mad artificial intelligence known as Copernicus, the being ultimately responsible for the Solar System wide civil war. Yet Moore is about to uncover something far more sinister: before his destruction, Copernicus had established multiple mecha-warrior defended bases with the intent of resuming the destruction of humanity. Worse, an AI presence even more dangerous, evil, and clever than Copernicus may have formed an alliance with something else out there with a similar goal: wipe humanity from the galaxy forever. But those enemies will have to face a fully armed and equipped military task force led by a resolute general and his soldiers who know they are all that stand between human life, freedom, and progress\u2014and the total annihilation of mankind.About Travis S. Taylor \u201c[E]xplodes with inventive action.\u2014Publishers Weekly on Travis S. Taylor\u2019s The Quantum Connection. \u201c[Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . .You won\u2019t want to put it down\u201d\u2014John Ringo", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609265-trail-of-evil"}, +{"book_title": "Commanding", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 500, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Grand Admiral, Her Royal Highness Kris Longknife is up to her ears in problems . . . again. While summoned to the Imperial Iteeche Court to be humanity\u2019s Emissary, it turns out that what the Iteeche really want is a fighting admiral! You see, they\u2019ve got this huge civil war going, and the Imperial side isn\u2019t doing so well. Kris now has command of the entire Imperial Combined Fleet. Sort of. The Iteeche Empire has a ten-thousand-year long history. There is nothing that won\u2019t say, \u201cWe\u2019ve always done it that way,\u201d pointing to a track record lasting for thousands of years. Even when Kris reminds them they\u2019re losing, many have a hard time changing. Many Iteeche also wonder if letting a human win this war for them isn\u2019t losing everything already. Kris managed to win a defensive battle with a scratch force. Now she\u2019s thrown together a larger force and is ready to take the fight to the rebels. It\u2019s full speed ahead with Kris Longknife: Commanding. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39095036-commanding"}, +{"book_title": "The Wild One", "author_name": "Melinda Metz", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 1534, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "Dangerous love... Isabel: From the moment she hears the roar of Nikolas' motorcycle, she's hooked. This new guy in town seems to understand exactly how she feels and thinks, exactly what she needs. He's someone willing to let her be what she was born to be...the wild one. Alex: He's jealous of Isabel's new boyfriend. Worse, he fears that Nikolas is dragging Isabel deeper and deeper into danger. If Isabel's not careful, Sheriff Valenti will discover the truth about her. And if that happens, no one from Earth will be able to save her....", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Media Tie In (Tv)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/540186.The_Wild_One"}, +{"book_title": "First and Only", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 5759, "review_number": 229, "book_description": "In the Chaos-infested Sabbat system, Imperial Commissar Gaunt must lead his men through as much in-fighting amongst rival regiments as against the forces of Chaos. For a thousand years, the Sabbat Worlds have been lost to the Imperium, claimed by the dread powers of Chaos. Now, a mighty crusade seeks to return the sector to Imperial rule. And at the forefront of that crusade are Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only \u2013 better known as Gaunt\u2019s Ghosts. Trapped in the grinding trench warfare of Fortis Binary, the Ghosts find themselves drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate the crusade\u2019s leader, Warmaster Macaroth. With enemies all around them and no one to trust, Gaunt and his men must find a way to save the warmaster and prevent the Sabbat Worlds Crusade from falling into anarchy \u2013 even if it means waging war on their supposed allies.Read by Toby Longworth.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220741.First_and_Only"}, +{"book_title": "Heathern", "author_name": "Jack Womack", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 226, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "Heathern, the sequel to Ambient and Terraplane, has been praised by William Gibson as a \"savage urban baroque informed by a penetrating humanity ... his best so far!\" Tautly written and appallingly funny, Heathern is a dystopian tale of corporate combat and media warfare in the fading years of our century.Thatcher Dryden, former drug kingpin and now leader of the megacorporation Dryco, intends to supply a waiting world with the Messiah it so desperately seeks. But Lester Macaffrey, a schoolteacher found performing miracles among the human flotsam of the Lower East Side, proves no more controllable than any Messiah. While Thatcher's minions scheme to sell the world salvation with a Dryco label on it, Thatcher's own mistress is strangely drawn to Macaffrey -- and begins to be transformed into something new and strange ... something that might change the world.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/524003.Heathern"}, +{"book_title": "Echo Boy", "author_name": "Matt Haig", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1676, "review_number": 218, "book_description": "Audrey's father taught her that to stay human in the modern world, she had to build a moat around herself; a moat of books and music, philosophy and dreams. A moat that makes Audrey different from the echoes: sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to resemble humans and to work for human masters. Daniel is an echo - but he's not like the others. He feels a connection with Audrey; a feeling Daniel knows he was never designed to have, and cannot explain. And when Audrey is placed in terrible danger, he's determined to save her. Echo Boy is a powerful story about love, loss and what makes us truly human.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17997707-echo-boy"}, +{"book_title": "The Kingdom of Ohio", "author_name": "Matthew Flaming", "rating_score": 3.0, "rating_votes": 1243, "review_number": 306, "book_description": "An incredibly original, intelligent novel?a love story set against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age, featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P. Morgan. After discovering an old photograph, an elderly antiques dealer living in present-day Los Angeles is forced to revisit the history he has struggled to deny. The photograph depicts a man and a woman. The man is Peter Force, a young frontier adventurer who comes to New York City in 1901 and quickly lands a job digging the first subway tunnels beneath the metropolis. The woman is Cheri- Anne Toledo, a beautiful mathematical prodigy whose memories appear to come from another world. They meet seemingly by chance, and initially Peter dismisses her as crazy. But as they are drawn into a tangle of overlapping intrigues, Peter must reexamine Cheri-Anne's fantastic story. Could it be that she is telling the truth and that she has stumbled onto the most dangerous secret imaginable: the key to traveling through time? Set against the mazelike streets of New York at the dawn of the mechanical age, Peter and Cheri-Anne find themselves wrestling with the nature of history, technology, and the unfolding of time itself.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Unfinished", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6444533-the-kingdom-of-ohio"}, +{"book_title": "King of the Vagabonds", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 2161, "review_number": 124, "book_description": "A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of \"Half-Cocked Jack\" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.--back cover", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2016.King_of_the_Vagabonds"}, +{"book_title": "Elsewhere", "author_name": "Gabrielle Zevin", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 52205, "review_number": 5297, "book_description": "Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice.Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver's license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Death", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359410.Elsewhere"}, +{"book_title": "Everland", "author_name": "Wendy Spinale", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 5118, "review_number": 1075, "book_description": "The only way to grow up is to survive.London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only ones who have survived the destruction and the outbreak of a deadly virus are children, among them sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling and her younger siblings, Joanna and Mikey. They spend their nights scavenging and their days avoiding the deadly Marauders\u2014the German army led by the cutthroat Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer.Unsure if the virus has spread past England\u2019s borders but desperate to leave, Captain Hook is on the hunt for a cure, which he thinks can be found in one of the surviving children. He and his Marauders stalk the streets snatching children for experimentation. None ever return.Until one day when they grab Joanna. Gwen will stop at nothing to get her sister back, but as she sets out, she crosses paths with a daredevil named Pete. Pete offers the assistance of his gang of Lost Boys and the fierce sharpshooter Bella, who have all been living in a city hidden underground. But in a place where help has a steep price and every promise is bound by blood, it might cost Gwen more than she bargained for. And are Gwen, Pete, the Lost Boys, and Bella enough to outsmart the ruthless Captain Hook?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Retellings", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26085520-everland"}, +{"book_title": "Revenger", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 9027, "review_number": 972, "book_description": "The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilizations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives. And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them.Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded by layers of protection\u2014and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely-remembered technologies inside. But while they ply their risky trade with integrity, not everyone is so scrupulous. Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest members of Rackamore's crew, signed on to save their family from bankruptcy. Only Rackamore has enemies, and there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune: the fabled and feared Bosa Sennen in particular. Revenger is a science fiction adventure story set in the rubble of our solar system in the dark, distant future\u2014a tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism and of vengeance...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult", "Space", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure (Pirates)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28962452-revenger"}, +{"book_title": "The Mesmer Menace", "author_name": "Kersten Hamilton", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 102, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Welcome to the Amazing Automated Inn, home of twelve-year-old inventor Wally Kennewickett, his genius scientist parents, and his\u00a0dashing dog, Noodles. From the lightning harvester on the roof to the labs full of experiments in the dungeon, the inn is a wonderful place for a curious boy and his loyal dog to live. That is, until President Theodore Roosevelt himself calls the elder Kennewicketts away, leaving Wally and Noodles to face the evil Mesmers, horrible hypnotists bent on controlling the minds of powerful people. It seems the inn is their first stop on the way to world domination . . . and only an ingenious boy, a staff of automatons,\u00a0and a brave dachshund stand in their way!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Chapter Books)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17165929-the-mesmer-menace"}, +{"book_title": "Castle in the Stars: The Space Race of 1869", "author_name": "Alex Alice", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 1398, "review_number": 255, "book_description": "\u201cThis one is Jules Verne meets Miyazaki. It\u2019s the space race in 1869 in a kind of alternate past. \u2026 When you see the book itself, it\u2019s this big, oversized object with this incredible watercolor comics style, and it\u2019s this really big, epic, sweeping story of a boy following in his mother\u2019s discovery and then opening up the solar system, but in the age of the 1800s. It\u2019s got a kind of steampunk but also a kind of young, classic children\u2019s story feel to it.\u201d", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33290524-castle-in-the-stars"}, +{"book_title": "A Laird for all Time", "author_name": "Angeline Fortin", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2222, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "After ten long years of education and residency, Dr. Emmy MacKenzie feels the time is long overdue for a vacation. A little \u201cme\u201d time. A little alone time. But when traveling the British Isles, a twist of fate at the gates of the ancient castle of Duart hurls Emmy more a hundred years into the past and into the arms of a magnificent highlander who thinks she is his long-lost wife, Heather MacLean! The ten years since his new bride abandoned him on his wedding day had brought Connor MacLean, earl Strathclyde, nothing but misery and bitterness but that is nothing compared to the anger he feels when she shows up at his front gates on the 10th anniversary of that day. Determined to punish her for the humiliations she dealt him, he is shocked when his wife claims mistaken identity and insists that she is not his wife at all! Endeavoring to cling to his anger, Connor finds he cannot deny the new attraction he feels for his mysterious wife and soon he is wanting nothing more than to take her in his arms and make her his. With no choice but to play the part of the long lost Heather MacLean, Emmy cannot help but wonder how any woman could ever leave Connor MacLean, a man unlike any she had ever known. A man who thrills and challenges her. A man to love forever. Questions of destiny plague Emmy making her question her very life as she wavers between the desire to return to her own time and the hope for a life with her earl. She begins to question what she really wants out of life. And who can give it to her. But Emmy\u2019s isn\u2019t the only secret lurking in Duart Castle. Painful secrets will be revealed. Not only hers but that of another. When the truth of Heather MacLean\u2019s disappearance comes to light more than Connor\u2019s life might be destroyed. Choices will have to be made. Forgiveness begged. Second chances taken not just for the people of Duart, but for Emmy herself. But will she risk it all to have her laird for all time?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19775734-a-laird-for-all-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Bastion of the Living", "author_name": "Rhiannon Frater", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1652, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "As long as the undead hordes of the Inferi Scourge howl outside the dying city, the last remaining humans struggle to survive inside The Bastion. Vanguard Maria Martinez has lived her entire life within the towering walls. Her only refuge from the overcrowded streets, rolling blackouts, and food shortages is in the arms of Officer Dwayne Reichardt. Then Maria is summoned to meet with a mysterious representative from the Science Warfare Division and is offered the opportunity to finally destroy the Inferi Scourge and reclaim the land and resources in the valley beyond the wall. If she succeeds, the city may be saved. But if she fails, humanity faces extinction\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13581917-the-last-bastion-of-the-living"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Page", "author_name": "Anthony Huso", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 413, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "The city of Isca is set like a dark jewel in the crown of the Duchy of Stonehold. In this sprawling landscape, the monsters one sees are nothing compared to what\u2019s living in the city\u2019s sewers.Twenty-three-year-old Caliph Howl is Stonehold\u2019s reluctant High King. Thrust onto the throne, Caliph has inherited Stonehold\u2019s dirtiest court secrets. He also faces a brewing civil war that he is unprepared to fight. After months alone amid a swirl of gossip and political machinations, the sudden reappearance of his old lover, Sena, is a welcome bit of relief. But Sena has her own legacy to claim: she has been trained from birth by the Shradnae witchocracy\u2014adept in espionage and the art of magical equations writ in blood\u2014and she has been sent to spy on the High King.Yet there are magics that demand a higher price than blood. Sena secretly plots to unlock the Cisrym Ta, an arcane text whose pages contain the power to destroy worlds. The key to opening the book lies in Caliph\u2019s veins, forcing Sena to decide if her obsession for power is greater than her love for Caliph.Meanwhile, a fleet of airships creeps ever closer to Isca. As the final battle in a devastating civil war looms and the last page of the Cisrym Ta waits to be read, Caliph and Sena must face the deadly consequences of their decisions. And the blood of these conflicts will stain this and other worlds forever.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7207765-the-last-page"}, +{"book_title": "Swept Away", "author_name": "Susan Kiernan-Lewis", "rating_score": 3.52, "rating_votes": 553, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Her destiny was a moment in time over 400 years ago. And a secret that would destroy her world.Ella Stevens never knew a mother's love. Her fierce independence was the keystone of her identity--unfettered by romantic involvements or family demands--until the day she moved to Germany, and her world began to unravel. There, she discovered the terrible secret her mother died to protect. There, she stumbled onto a hidden time portal that took her to 1620 Heidelberg where the brutal realities of life were not restricted to the poor and the infirm.Fighting to survive in a world she's ill-equipped to understand, Ella is befriended by a convent of nuns who stand in the shadow of the executioner's block of the Warlord Kr\u00fcger, one of the bloodiest butchers in all Europe. With the aid of a sexy US Marshal, Ella is determined to help her new friends. Along the way, she learns that when it comes to the things that really matter--love, trust and friendship--sometimes the truth is the least important thing of all.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17374898-swept-away"}, +{"book_title": "A Baby for the Alien Prince", "author_name": "Miranda Martin", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1478, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "Take a Human female as a mate on the off chance of saving his race? Absurd. At least that's what Prince Elorshin Do'ana thinks. It's true, the Alvan race is dying. There have been no new births in years and if they don't do something, their entire race is doomed. However, Elorshin doesn't want to bind himself to a mate that can't fully share in the fated bond that all Alvan crave. Forced into a marriage by a House more powerful than his own, Prince Elorshin doesn't think he will ever know happiness, that is until he meets his bright, luscious bride. Margot Whelan wants two things, one of which she will never have. Love and a baby. The second can't happen, not as long as she's on Earth. Population control is too strict. When she sees an advertisement for the Celestial Mates Dating Agency she decides to take the chance. After all, what future does she have on an overpopulated Earth? She agrees to marry the hot, seven foot tall, indigo alien with sparkling emerald eyes and oddly sexy fangs. He struggles with the war between what his body craves and what his heart needs. Somehow, Margot must get past the language barrier and forge the connection Elorshin so desperately desires. A love that Houses will go to war for. \nA Baby for the Alien Prince is a stand alone novel in the Celestial Mates Shared Universe. It is a science fiction romance story with a stubborn alien and an equally stubborn human female, plenty of action-packed adventure, and hot, steamy alien romance!\n", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34963291-a-baby-for-the-alien-prince"}, +{"book_title": "The Infinitive of Go", "author_name": "John Brunner", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 177, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "CODE NAME POSTERThe first practical matter transmitter was a success, or so everyone thought. In spite of paranoid security restrictions, Justin Williams and Cinnamon Wright, co-inventors of the device, counted on it to revolutionize civilization and gain them an honored place in history.But the first long-distance field test with a human being\u2014a diplomatic courier carrying a vital message\u2014somehow misfired when the courier killed himself on arrival at his destination.To prove his faith in his invention\u2014and to escape charges of sabotage\u2014Justin had himself \"posted\" thousands of miles. He came through unchanged. It was the world that was somehow different...", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872230.The_Infinitive_of_Go"}, +{"book_title": "Strangely Beautiful", "author_name": "Leanna Renee Hieber", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 2438, "review_number": 459, "book_description": "Originally published as two books, Strangely Beautiful unites Leanna Renee Hieber's critically acclaimed novels in a single revised volume, restoring the author's original vision for the work.Miss Persephone Parker\u2014known as Percy\u2014is different, with her lustrous, snow-white hair, pearlescent pale skin, and uncanny ability to see and communicate with ghosts. Seeking to continue her education, Percy has come to Queen Victoria's London, to the Athens Academy. What she will learn there will change her life forever.Athens Academy is the citadel of The Guard, an ancient order that battles the forces of evil. The Victorian Guard, led by professor Alexi Rychman, is incomplete. They cannot defeat Jack the Ripper\u2014 who is more than the serial killer he appears to be\u2014or the greater monster his appearance heralds.Percy's lifelong habit of concealment combined with Alexi's fevered search for the Guard's missing seventh nearly prove disastrous as ancient Greek myths begin playing out in modern, gaslit, Victorian London. Percy and her new friends and allies must overcome their preconceptions about each other and their own histories before they can set the world to rights.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22238196-strangely-beautiful"}, +{"book_title": "The Spirit Ring", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 3702, "review_number": 197, "book_description": "Fiametta dreams of making beautiful objets d'art, but her magician goldsmith father thinks it's a waste of time to train a mere daughter. Thur dreams of escaping the mines of Bruinwald. A betrayal at a banquet plunges Thur and Fiametta into a struggle against men who would use vile magic for vile ends.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28677.The_Spirit_Ring"}, +{"book_title": "Wanted - Dead or Alive", "author_name": "Amber Scott", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 407, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Time in a bottle...Her inheritance amounted to a treasure map, a bottle of whiskey, and a wanted poster of the Old West gentleman outlaw she had resented her whole life.One sip of the amber liquid tumbles her back in time and into the arms of the very man she resents. But live and in person, his penetrating eyes and cocky swagger put her heart on the line. And his life...Wanted--Dead or Alive.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Westerns", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12823570-wanted---dead-or-alive"}, +{"book_title": "The Winter Long", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 11528, "review_number": 820, "book_description": "For once, it seems like the Kingdom of the Mists has reached a point of, if not perfection, at least relative peace. Queen Arden Windermere is getting settled on her family's throne; no one's going to war with anyone else; it's almost like everything is going to be okay. Even October \"Toby\" Daye is starting to relax her constant vigilance, allowing herself to think about the future, and what it might entail.And then Simon Torquill comes back, and everything begins to fall apart. In Faerie, nothing stays buried forever. No matter how much you might want it to.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Mystery", "Urban"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15748529-the-winter-long"}, +{"book_title": "Inconstant Moon", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 936, "review_number": 46, "book_description": "Seven brilliant short stories by the award-winning author of Ringworld.INCONSTANT MOON: a moon so bright could mean only one thing. The sun had gone nova.DEATH BY ECSTASY: Belters didn't get addicted to current stimulation, so why did the spacer die with electrodes in his brain?BORDERED IN BLACK: the continent had a thin black border all the way around. The things that made it drove a space explorer raving mad.These are three of the superb stories in this new collection by Larry Niven. The others are just as good.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1255867.Inconstant_Moon"}, +{"book_title": "The Scoundrel Worlds", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 407, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Skyball is popular, challenging, and violent. In other words, the greatest sport in the universe. The mercenary team of Star Risk, Ltd. has been hired to watch it...closely. Two opposing worlds are neck and neck, and lately the game's been a real killer. Riots, murder, a real madhouse for loyal fans. It's up to Star Risk to keep it galaxy-friendly. Good luck to them. They don't stand a sporting chance.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228672.The_Scoundrel_Worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vol. 1: Vader", "author_name": "Kieron Gillen", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 15918, "review_number": 1319, "book_description": "The original Dark Lord of the Sith stars in his first ongoing series! Ever since Darth Vader's first on-screen appearance, he has become one of pop-culture's most popular villains. Now, follow Vader straight from the ending of A NEW HOPE (and the pages of the new STAR WARS comic book) into his own solo adventures \u2014 showing the Empire's war with the Rebel Alliance from the other side! But when a Dark Lord needs help, who can he turn to? As Vader pursues a very personal vengeance against the Rebels and investigates the Emperor's secret machinations, he clashes with weapons scavenger Aphra and deadly Battle Droids, and returns to Geonosis to build an army. But some very powerful people don't want him to learn the truths he seeks! Guest-starring Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett and more! Collecting DARTH VADER #1-6.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24819813-star-wars"}, +{"book_title": "Melt Down", "author_name": "Edward W. Robertson", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1784, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "In the hills of Idaho, Ness Hook is about to be run out of his mom's house by his bullying brother Shawn. In Redding, California, Tristan Carter is about to graduate college, but with no job and no prospects, she may have to move back in with her parents.Ness soon discovers his best friend dead of disease. With a pandemic burning through Idaho, Shawn takes Ness and their mom to the mountains to wait out the plague. When both Tristan's parents fall sick, her mother leaves her in charge of her younger brother Alden. She keeps Alden safe through the collapse of humanity--but can't keep him safe from the invaders who sent the plague.Driven out of the mountains by the attackers, Ness and Shawn join a makeshift village at a nuclear power plant, where they plan to begin a guerrilla war. To find Alden, Tristan must escape the aliens who took them prisoner. Even if the survivors make it through the invasion, they may fall prey to their fellow humans instead.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Thriller", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16094661-melt-down"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Reckoning", "author_name": "Charlaine Harris", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 118629, "review_number": 6461, "book_description": "An Alternate Cover for this ASIN can be found here.With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his \"child\" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Mystery", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7981206-dead-reckoning"}, +{"book_title": "The Guard", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 2089, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "In this spectacular one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, learn how Loric hacker Lexa became the shadowy figure known as GUARD.A sequel to I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Navigator, this novella picks up with Lexa shortly after the Mogadorians raided her hideout and murdered her friend. Determined to get her revenge but knowing she can't take the Mogs head on, Lexa goes in search of a weapon that just might help her do some real damage: the spaceship the Garde flew to Earth. The only problem is it's under lock and key at a highly guarded base in Dulce, New Mexico.Lexa's quest to retrieve the ship and track down the Garde has her cross paths with an ally of Pittacus Lore, come under fire from both the FBI and the Mogs, and team up with a headstrong teenager from Paradise, Ohio, by the name of Mark James. To get her secret weapon, Lexa will do whatever it takes. But as the Mogadorians begin their invasion, will it be enough to help save the Garde\u2014and the world?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23507369-the-guard"}, +{"book_title": "Empire of Bones", "author_name": "Terry Mixon", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1297, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "The Terran Empire is dead. Long live the Empire! Commander Jared Mertz, the bastard son of the Emperor, and his half-sister, Princess Kelsey, barely speak to one another. To their dismay, their father seizes an opportunity to change that and sends them on a dangerous quest to explore the fallen Empire. Separated from home by an impassable gulf and struggling to redefine their relationship, they find themselves thrust into a vicious war. Unless they work together to stop the Empire\u2019s deadly legacy, billions face a horrific fate.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22887087-empire-of-bones"}, +{"book_title": "Waking the Monsters", "author_name": "Judd Winick", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 823, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "Dog Man meets Big Nate in HILO-the hilarious New York Times bestselling graphic novel series that kids (and robots!) love! \u201cA Total BLAST,\u201d says the Miami Herald! Chock full of MORE MONSTERS! MORE ACTION! MORE LAUGHS! MORE FUN!DJ and Gina are TOTALLY ordinary kids. But Hilo isn\u2019t! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Has our favorite space boy finally met his match? Not if D.J. and Gina can help it! Mega Robot Monsters are suddenly waking up all over and they\u2019re TOO BIG and TOO STRONG for Hilo to fight on his own! Luckily, he doesn\u2019t have to! He has GINA and some brand new SUPER POWERS on his side! Being heroes can be super fun-but it can also be SUPER dangerous! And the closer Hilo and Gina get to saving their world from the monsters\u2013the closer Hilo gets to the dark secret of his past. Does he really want to know? Do WE?!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Adventure", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35520811-waking-the-monsters"}, +{"book_title": "Touch of Power", "author_name": "Maria V. Snyder", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 42777, "review_number": 3340, "book_description": "Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan assumes their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honoured for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Territories, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos. Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture. Their leader an enigmatic captor-protector with powers of his own is unequivocal in his demands: Avry must heal a plague-stricken prince, the leader of a campaign against her people. As they traverse the daunting Nine Mountains, beset by mercenaries and magical dangers, Avry must decide who is worth healing and what is worth dying for.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10445208-touch-of-power"}, +{"book_title": "Iron Dragoons", "author_name": "Richard Fox", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1397, "review_number": 82, "book_description": " I am Armor. I am Fury. I Will not Fail. Soldiers of the Terran Armor Corps wage war across the stars. Wired into mechanized battle suits, they fight the terrifying battles which must be won, no matter the cost. Their deeds are legend, their reputation feared by the enemies of Earth and her allies, but how the Corps forges young men and women into mighty warriors is shrouded by mystery. Roland Shaw lost his parents to war, he volunteers for the Armor Corps to honor their memory and discover just how far he can push himself. To succeed, he must find the iron in his heart and prove himself worthy to the Corps. For the Amor, there is no substitute for victory and to fail is to die. Iron Dragoons is an action-packed military sci-fi novel, the first of a new series by the author of The Ember War Saga.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Space", "Action", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34740470-iron-dragoons"}, +{"book_title": "Jakke", "author_name": "Hannah Davenport", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 1195, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "The Tureis attacked Earth, killing most people in their first attacks. Sydney found a way to survive, carefully avoiding anything alien. When she found an injured Azziarin lying in a dark alley, she went against her every instinct and rescued him. After nursing him back to health, the Azziarin\u2019s stormed her hideout, injuring her in the process. Unable to let the injured female remain lying on the ground, Takkeo ordered that she be brought back to their ship. She had helped him and he couldn\u2019t leave her injured. How was he supposed to know that his older brother and Commander of the ship would experience the mating fever with her presence? Jakke had three consorts back home. Cassia had always thought that she would be his mate. He tried to avoid the earth female that brought forth his mating fever, but he ended up mated to her anyways. Now he had to explain things to her, his consorts, and his father, King Mallik. Could they all live together in unison? He sure hoped so. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30412549-jakke"}, +{"book_title": "Within the Sanctuary of Wings", "author_name": "Marie Brennan", "rating_score": 4.4, "rating_votes": 3883, "review_number": 596, "book_description": "The conclusion to the thrilling memoirs of Lady Isabella Trent and her legacy of dragon evolutionary research and anthropological adventures.After nearly five decades (and, indeed, the same number of volumes), one might think they were well-acquainted with the Lady Isabella Trent--dragon naturalist, scandalous explorer, and perhaps as infamous for her company and feats of daring as she is famous for her discoveries and additions to the scientific field.And yet--after her initial adventure in the mountains of Vystrana, and her exploits in the depths of war-torn Eriga, to the high seas aboard The Basilisk, and then to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia--the Lady Trent has captivated hearts along with fierce minds. This concluding volume will finally reveal the truths behind her most notorious adventure--scaling the tallest peak in the world, buried behind the territory of Scirland's enemies--and what she discovered there, within the Sanctuary of Wings.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939027-within-the-sanctuary-of-wings"}, +{"book_title": "Black Powder War", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 34574, "review_number": 1533, "book_description": "Picking up where book two left off (in China, Macau) Captain Will Laurence and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are ordered to retrieve and escort a precious cargo of valuable dragon eggs from Istanbul to England. They take the Old Silk Road from China to Istanbul, crossing deserts and mountains. En route to England, they help the beleaguered Prussians battle Napoleon.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Adventure", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91989.Black_Powder_War"}, +{"book_title": "Angel's Wolf", "author_name": "Nalini Singh", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 3323, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "Warrior angels, vampire hunters, and angels gone bad heat up this altogether sizzling paranormal alternate universe, from the bestselling author Nalini Singh.Angels' Wolf is a tale of flirtation and danger set in the Guild Hunter world. Noel has been promoted, but in the Guild Hunter world that's not always as positive as it sounds. And now that he's working with the beautiful, dangerous, seductive Nimra there are a whole host of new risks he has to contend with... Nimra is drawn to the mysterious Noel, sent to her by an angel, defiant and intense and oh-so-intriguing. Is their an alliance to be forged between them, or is it a matter of time before one of them becomes the others prey ...This is a compelling, sexy addition to the Guild Hunter universe.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18895600-angel-s-wolf"}, +{"book_title": "This Is the Way the World Ends", "author_name": "James K. Morrow", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1623, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "The Gulliver\u2019s Travels of the nuclear age, the Alice in Wonderland of the arms race, this mordantly funny and visionary tale of the apocalypse was a Nebula finalist. The trouble starts when George Paxton ingenuously signs an admission of complicity in starting World War III.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40295.This_Is_the_Way_the_World_Ends"}, +{"book_title": "The Country of Ice Cream Star", "author_name": "Sandra Newman", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 2521, "review_number": 642, "book_description": "In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive thrillerIn the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a strange disease they call Posies--a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure.When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting to protect the only world she has ever known.A postapocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Literary Fiction", "Unfinished", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22350219-the-country-of-ice-cream-star"}, +{"book_title": "A Dragonlings' Haunted Halloween", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1245, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "During one of her many excursions exploring the palace, Cara Truman discovers a vast underground chamber that turns out to be the perfect place for her next invention. Soon, her dream of building the ultimate playground for the Dragonlings is a reality.When Abby laughingly mentions the new \u2018playground\u2019 looked like the perfect place to have a Halloween party, Cara goes into high gear to create the perfect Haunted House adventure for the babies. The fun kicks into high gear when the men discover what Cara has been up to and decide to \u2018test\u2019 the playground first!Cara has no idea that her new project would create a sense of panic, wonder, or hilarious consequences in the palace when she unveils it. Discover what happens when another Earth holiday is unveiled, with the help from a couple of mischievous Goddesses, the symbiots, and Dragonlings in A Dragonlings\u2019 Haunted Halloween.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23411580-a-dragonlings-haunted-halloween"}, +{"book_title": "Ladies Prefer Rogues", "author_name": "Janet Chapman", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 640, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Four of today's most cherished romance novelists prove that when it comes to love, there's no time like the present no matter what century you're in.In New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman's \"Man from the Moon,\" a young woman encounters a band of 23rd-century warriors on a mission to save mankind. But when one of them is wounded, she is his only hope for life and for love. In \"Tomorrow is Another Day,\" New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill plunges a woman back in time to post-Civil War Louisiana, where the poor southern belle must make a living as a matchmaker. Now, if she could only get her handsome neighbor to join in. A 17th-century Scotsman avenges the death of his greatest love and becomes a notorious pirate for twenty years. When the past and present become entangled, he wonders if it could be his haunted heart adrift in \"The Drowning Sea\" by national bestselling author Veronica Wolff.USA Today bestselling author Trish Jensen spins a fetching fable about a woman from the Wild West who lands in modern day Nevada. The gruff local sheriff can hardly believe her story, or that he'd never fall so hard for an older woman older by \"Sixteen Decades\".", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090670-ladies-prefer-rogues"}, +{"book_title": "The Time Garden", "author_name": "Edward Eager", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 3942, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "\"Anything can happen when you have all the time in the world\" says the frog-like Natterjack in old relative Mrs Whiton's thyme garden. Cousins Roger, Ann, Eliza and girl-crazy Jack ride for American rebels, bow to Queen Elizabeth I, and even rescue their own parents when they were children.", "year_published": 1958, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Adventure", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/312077.The_Time_Garden"}, +{"book_title": "The Winter of the Robots", "author_name": "Kurtis Scaletta", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 128, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Seven feet of snow, four science-fair nerds, one creepy junkyard. Get ready for the ultimate robot battle.Jim is tired of being the sidekick to his scientific genius, robot-obsessed, best friend Oliver. So this winter, when it comes time to choose partners for the science fair, Jim dumps Oliver and teams up with a girl instead. Rocky has spotted wild otters down by the river, and her idea is to study them.\u00a0But what they discover is bigger\u2014and much more menacing\u2014than fuzzy otters: a hidden junkyard on abandoned Half Street. And as desolate as it may seem, there's\u00a0something\u00a0living in the junkyard. Something that won't be contained for long by the rusty fences and mounds of snow. Can Jim and Rocky\u2014along with Oliver and his new science-fair partner\u2014put aside their rivalry and unite their robot-building skills? Whatever is lurking on Half Street is about to meet its match.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17080052-the-winter-of-the-robots"}, +{"book_title": "His Lordship Possessed", "author_name": "Lynn Viehl", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 433, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "The second half of Disenchanted & Co.\u2014the thrilling conclusion. In a steampunk version of America that lost the Revolutionary War, Charmian (Kit) Kittredge makes her living investigating magic crimes and exposing the frauds behind them. While Kit tries to avoid the nobs of high society, as the proprietor of Disenchanted & Co. she follows mysteries wherever they lead.Lady Diana Walsh calls on Kit to investigate and dispel the curse she believes responsible for carving hateful words into her own flesh as she sleeps. While Kit doesn\u2019t believe in magic herself, she can\u2019t refuse to help a woman subjected nightly to such vicious assaults. As Kit investigates the Walsh family, she becomes convinced that the attacks on Diana are part of a larger, more ominous plot\u2014one that may involve the lady\u2019s obnoxious husband.Sleuthing in the city of Rumsen is difficult enough, but soon Kit must also skirt the unwanted attentions of nefarious deathmage Lucien Dredmore and the unwelcome scrutiny of police Chief Inspector Thomas Doyle. Unwilling to surrender to either man\u2019s passion for her, Kit struggles to remain independent as she draws closer to the heart of the mystery. Yet as she learns the truth behind her ladyship\u2019s curse, Kit also uncovers a massive conspiracy that promises to ruin her life\u2014and turn Rumsen into a supernatural battleground from which no one will escape alive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17570740-his-lordship-possessed"}, +{"book_title": "Stamping Butterflies", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 512, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "From acclaimed author Jon Courtenay Grimwood comes an exotic new novel that defies expectation at every turn. A mystery, a thriller, and a cutting-edge sci-fi adventure all in one, Stamping Butterflies bends time, genre, and consciousness itself to tell the spellbinding story of two worlds, three lives, one future\u2013and the question upon which everything depends: who is dreaming whom....From Marrakech to China\u2019s Forbidden City, from a doomed starship carrying a cryogenically preserved crew to an island prison camp, the fate of the world is being played out in the minds of two dreamers. One, a would-be assassin obsessed with enigmatic equations, has set out to kill the U.S. President. The other is a young Chinese emperor ruling thousands of years in the future. Each believes he is dreaming the other. One must change the future; one must change the past. And time is running out for both.Caught in the maelstrom is a motley cast of characters, each an unwitting key to the ultimate fate of both worlds: Moz, a resourceful young Marrakech street punk, and his half-German girlfriend, Malika; Jake Razor, a self-exiled rock star; and psychiatrist Katie Petrov, who finds herself racing against a looming death sentence to pry free the secret of her condemned patient\u2013a secret with the power to restore hope to the future...or stamp it out forever.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368871.Stamping_Butterflies"}, +{"book_title": "Foundation", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 2444, "review_number": 257, "book_description": "Disease wipes out world's humans. Family hides in underground. Boy narrator grows up, falls in love with another boy.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16066962-foundation"}, +{"book_title": "Seraphina", "author_name": "Rachel Hartman", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 84246, "review_number": 8222, "book_description": "Librarian Note: .In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Award-winning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fiction readers of all ages. Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered\u2014in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen's Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret, the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19549841-seraphina"}, +{"book_title": "Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls", "author_name": "Jane Lindskold", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 786, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "The Magic That Doesn't Go AwayCutbacks have forced Sarah out of the asylum in which she was raised\u2014and into a strange new place where the Head Wolf rules the beautiful and the doomed.But Sarah can never truly assimilate, for she possesses wild talents. Walls tell her their secrets. Safes tell her their combinations. And a favorite toy dragon whispers dire warnings about those who would exploit her for their own malevolent purposes. There's no place Sarah can hide, from her pursuers or from her past\u2026", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326128.Brother_to_Dragons_Companion_to_Owls"}, +{"book_title": "Around the World in Eighty Days", "author_name": "Jules Verne", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 189784, "review_number": 7128, "book_description": "One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand\u2014whether train or elephant\u2014overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.", "year_published": 1872, "genres": ["Classics", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Cultural (France)", "Travel", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54479.Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days"}, +{"book_title": "Time-Kissed Destiny", "author_name": "Constance O'Day-Flannery", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 157, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "A Quest for TreasureWith dreams of scuba diving in the relaxing warm waters of Bermuda, Kate Walker left New Jersey for sand, sun and surf. On her very first dive, however, Kate got much more than she bargained for --- she discovered sunken treasure. But when she went to claim her bounty, suddenly all the divers around her disappeared, and Kate found herself staring into a pair of hypnotizing blue-gray eyes! This diver wasn't familiar at all --- he wasn't wearing scuba gear and didn't have an oxygen tank strapped to his back! Frightened, Kate swam off in the direction of the ship she had dove in from, realizing too late that she hadn't even offered to share her life-supporting oxygen with the stranger . . .The Prize of LoveShipping entrepreneur Michael Sheridan couldn't believe his own eyes --- he found a mermaid at the bottom of the ocean! All of those ancient sea tales were true . . . even if this was the modern age and the year 1868, he now had reason to believe those old stories. She had fins for feet, a sleek body and the most exquisite flowing hair he'd ever seen. But as quickly as she appeared, she was gone, and Michael vowed to find her again. The underwater beauty became the object of his ultimate fantasy. He would seek the depths of the ocean to touch her skin, to kiss her lips, to caress her curves --- for once loved by a mermaid he would forever burn with Time-Kissed Destiny", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Victorian)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3052808-time-kissed-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "A God in Ruins", "author_name": "Kate Atkinson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 49429, "review_number": 6364, "book_description": "In Life After Life Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula\u2019s beloved younger brother Teddy \u2013 would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father \u2013 as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "War", "Audiobook", "Literary Fiction", "War (World War II)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Contemporary", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3722183-a-god-in-ruins"}, +{"book_title": "Robogenesis", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 5564, "review_number": 639, "book_description": "The stunningly creative, epic sequel to Wilson's blockbuster thriller and New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse \"The machine is still out there. Still alive.\" Humankind had triumphed over the machines. At the end of Robopocalypse, the modern world was largely devastated, humankind was pressed to the point of annihilation, and the earth was left in tatters . . . but the master artificial intelligence presence known as Archos had been killed. In Robogenesis, we see that Archos has survived. Spread across the far reaches of the world, the machine code has fragmented into millions of pieces, hiding and regrouping. In a series of riveting narratives, Robogenesis explores the fates of characters new and old, robotic and human, as they fight to build a new world in the wake of a devastating war. Readers will bear witness as survivors find one another, form into groups, and react to a drastically different (and deadly) technological landscape. All the while, the remnants of Archos's shattered intelligence are seeping deeper into new breeds of machines, mounting a war that will not allow for humans to win again. Daniel H. Wilson makes a triumphant return to the apocalyptic world he created, for an action-filled, raucous, very smart thrill ride about humanity and technology pushed to the tipping point.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490786-robogenesis"}, +{"book_title": "20 Years Later", "author_name": "Emma Newman", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 758, "review_number": 79, "book_description": "LONDON, 2012: It arrives and with that the world is changed into an unending graveyard littered with the bones, wreckage, and memories of a dead past, gone forever.LONDON, 2032: Twenty years later, out of the ashes, a new world begins to rise, a place ruled by both loyalty and fear, and where the quest to be the first to regain lost knowledge is an ongoing battle for power. A place where laws are made and enforced by roving gangs\u2014the Bloomsbury Boys, the Gardners, the Red Lady\u2019s Gang\u2014who rule the streets and will do anything to protect their own.THE FOUR: Zane, Titus, Erin, Eve. Living in this new world, they discover that they have abilities never before seen. And little do they know that as they search post-apocalyptic London for Titus\u2019 kidnapped sister that they\u2019ll uncover the secret of It, and bring about a reckoning with the forces that almost destroyed all of humanity.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10117722-20-years-later"}, +{"book_title": "Hothouse", "author_name": "Brian W. Aldiss", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 3856, "review_number": 336, "book_description": "In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a colossal banyan tree that covers one face of the globe. The last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by the carnivorous plants and the grotesque insect life.Contents:\u00b7 Hothouse \u00b7 Brian W. Aldiss \u00b7 nv F&SF Feb \u201961 \u00b7 Nomansland \u00b7 Brian W. Aldiss \u00b7 nv F&SF Apr \u201961 \u00b7 Undergrowth \u00b7 Brian W. Aldiss \u00b7 na F&SF Jul \u201961 \u00b7 Timberline \u00b7 Brian W. Aldiss \u00b7 nv F&SF Sep \u201961 \u00b7 Evergreen \u00b7 Brian W. Aldiss \u00b7 na F&SF Dec \u201961", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dying Earth)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845078.Hothouse"}, +{"book_title": "Thick & Thin", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 3079, "review_number": 431, "book_description": "In a matter of days, Dex has been kidnapped, tortured, killed, revived, become half-Therian, offered the chance to become a spy, and accepted a proposal to marry his jaguar Therian boyfriend, Sloane Brodie. It\u2019s been a lot to take in, and although Dex is still trying to wrap his head around everything that\u2019s happened, he knows he has to move forward. After the events of Smoke & Mirrors, Dex and Sloane find themselves in one of the most frightening situations of all: revealing the truth to their Destructive Delta family. When the dust settles, nothing will ever be the same, and it\u2019s up to Dex to prove that in the face of change, the one thing that will always remain the same is family.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49254686-thick-thin"}, +{"book_title": "Green Darkness", "author_name": "Anya Seton", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 5672, "review_number": 492, "book_description": "This unforgettable story of undying love combines mysticism, suspense, mystery, and romance into a web of good and evil that stretches from 16th-century England to the present day. Richard Marsdon marries a young American woman named Celia, brings her to live at his English estate, and all seems to be going well. But now Richard has become withdrawn, and Celia is constantly haunted by a vague dread. When she suffers a breakdown and wavers between life and death, a wise doctor realizes that only by forcing Celia to relive her past can he enable her to escape her illness. Celia travels back 400 years in time to her past life as a beautiful but doomed servant. Through her eyes, we see the England of the Tudors, torn by religious strife, and experience all the pageantry, lustiness, and cruelty of the age. As in other historical romance titles by this author, the past comes alive in this flamboyant classic novel.", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Gothic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36254.Green_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Middle Ground", "author_name": "Katie Kacvinsky", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 4691, "review_number": 394, "book_description": "For four weeks Maddie has been living in Los Angeles, trying to be good. But no matter how hard she tries, something inside her won't be sated. She can't live a life of half-truths and false pretenses. So one night, she says how she really feels.That's all it takes. One night. One bad decision, and Maddie is thrown into a detention center where she's forced to undergo secretive treatment meant to squash her rebellious streak. The powers that be call it rehabilitation. Maddie calls it torture.Alone, Maddie will not survive. But if she can find something to hold on to - an image of Justin, their love - maybe she can fight. And if she's really lucky, maybe she'll even win.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Futuristic", "Action", "Love"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12393223-middle-ground"}, +{"book_title": "The Young World", "author_name": "Chris Weitz", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 4379, "review_number": 765, "book_description": "Welcome to New York, a city ruled by teens.After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious existence among the chaos. But when a fellow tribe member discovers a clue that may hold the cure for the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road trip, exchanging gunfire with enemy gangs, escaping cults and militias, braving the wilds of the subway - all in order to save humankind.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774016-the-young-world"}, +{"book_title": "Transformers Volume 3: Revenge of the Decepticons", "author_name": "Alex Milne", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 97, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Hate. Power. Order. These are things that drive Megatron! These are his fuel! And revenge is his goal! After suffering a nearly fatal blow at the hands of the Autobots and the humans working together, Megatron is finally set to return. And this time, he's stronger, faster, and more invulnerable than ever before! Targeting his most hated foes, there are no more long speeches. No more games. No more warnings. Revenge comes quickly to the Autobots. And nothing will ever be the same again!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11107048-transformers-volume-3"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow of the Torturer", "author_name": "Gene Wolfe", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 21861, "review_number": 1374, "book_description": "The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy toward his victim - and follows his subsequent journey out of his home city of Nessus.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60211.The_Shadow_of_the_Torturer"}, +{"book_title": "Incursion", "author_name": "Aleksandr Voinov", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 886, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "Fighting with your back to the wall is all well and good\u2014as long as you\u2019ve chosen the right wall. When the local authorities ask Kyle Juenger to hunt a shape-shifting Glyrinny spy, he can\u2019t refuse. After all, he can use the reward to replace his paralyzed legs with cyberware, and maybe even to return to his home planet. Besides, he hates the morphs\u2014those invasive, brain-eating monstrosities whose weapons cost him his legs. Kyle\u2019s best lead is the Scorpion, a mercenary ship armed to the teeth. Grimm, the Scorpion\u2019s pilot and captain, fascinates Kyle. He\u2019s everything Kyle lost with his legs, and he\u2019s from the same home world. He\u2019s also of the warrior caste\u2014half priest, half savior. But Grimm\u2019s been twisted by life as a merc, and Kyle\u2019s stuck undercover as a criminal on the run. That doesn\u2019t stop Grimm from coming on to Kyle, or from insisting he\u2019s more than the sum of his past and his useless legs. But Kyle has other concerns\u2014like tracking a dangerous morph who could be wearing anyone\u2019s face. And as if things weren\u2019t complicated enough, Kyle can\u2019t tell if Grimm is part of the solution . . . or part of the problem.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "LGBT", "War (Military Fiction)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy", "Disability", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30979195-incursion"}, +{"book_title": "Ever After", "author_name": "Riley Hart", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1591, "review_number": 318, "book_description": "As next in line for the Evergreen crown, Prince Merrick Davendall\u2019s future involves ruling, marriage, and producing an heir of his own. But he\u2019s long been tormented by desires that are far from princely. Especially when the beautiful Cassius is promoted to be his new valet, and Merrick is struck by a longing like never before\u2014a longing to know him far beyond royal and servant. After his father\u2019s passing, Cassius Havendale\u2019s sole duty is to provide for his family. A promotion to serve a pampered prince is something he endures only for their sake. Surely Prince Merrick has no understanding of the true suffering of the common people, nor could he possibly understand what it\u2019s like to desperately desire something he cannot have. Except the prince is not at all what Cassius imagined. Kind, humorous, and caring to those in need, he also shares Cassius\u2019s affinity for the arts. In fact, Merrick understands his deepest vulnerabilities in a most remarkable way. As their affection deepens, the underlying tension between them becomes unbearable and they\u2019re unable to ignore it any longer. But when the queen prepares a lavish ball with all the eligible ladies in the land in attendance, Merrick must fulfill his obligations to his country, and Cassius has the needs of his family to consider. They\u2019ve long known their stolen moments would have to come to an end, but are they ready to give up one another and the idea of a happily-ever-after? ***PLEASE NOTE: EVER AFTER is a romantic fairy tale\u2014minus the magic\u2014that features one compassionate prince, one brooding valet, and plenty of angsty, forbidden love. It\u2019s loosely based on a certain treasured fairy tale in a wintery make-believe setting that wouldn\u2019t be considered contemporary but also isn\u2019t based on any specific time period and doesn\u2019t play by any traditional rules. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical", "LGBT", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "M M Romance (M M Fantasy)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38824681-ever-after"}, +{"book_title": "Legacy of the Force: Tempest", "author_name": "Troy Denning", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 6242, "review_number": 116, "book_description": "Forty years after the Battle of Yavin a dangerous new era in the Star Wars epic begins\u2013the revelations are shocking, the stakes desperate, and the enemy everywhere. As civil war threatens the unity of the Galactic Alliance, Han and Leia Solo have enraged their families and the Jedi by joining the Corellian insurgents. But the Solos draw the line when they discover the rebels\u2019 plot to make the Hapan Consortium an ally\u2013which rests upon Hapan nobles murdering their pro-Alliance queen and her daughter.Yet the Solos\u2019 selfless determination to save the queen cannot dispel the inescapable consequences of their actions, that will pit mother against son and brother against sister in the battles ahead. For as Jacen Solo\u2019s dark powers grow stronger under the Dark Jedi Lumiya, and his influence over Ben Skywalker becomes more insidious, Luke\u2019s concern for his nephew forces him into a life-and-death struggle against his fiercest foe, and Han and Leia Solo find themselves at the mercy of their deadliest enemy . . . their son.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Space", "Audiobook", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12984.Legacy_of_the_Force"}, +{"book_title": "The Red Plague Affair", "author_name": "Lilith Saintcrow", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1630, "review_number": 177, "book_description": "The service of Britannia is not for the faint of heart--or conscience...Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime in service to Queen Victrix, has a mission: to find the doctor who has created a powerful new weapon. Her friend, the mentath Archibald Clare, is only too happy to help. It will distract him from pursuing his nemesis, and besides, Clare is not as young as he used to be. A spot of Miss Bannon's excellent hospitality and her diverting company may be just what he needs.Unfortunately, their quarry is a fanatic, and his poisonous discovery is just as dangerous to Britannia as to Her enemies. Now a single man has set Londinium ablaze, and Clare finds himself in the middle of distressing excitement, racing against time and theory to find a cure. Miss Bannon, of course, has troubles of her own, for the Queen's Consort Alberich is ill, and Her Majesty unhappy with Bannon's loyal service. And there is still no reliable way to find a hansom when one needs it most...The game is afoot. And the Red Plague rises.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790846-the-red-plague-affair"}, +{"book_title": "The Wingsnatchers", "author_name": "Sarah Jean Horwitz", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 360, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "A stunning debut about a magician\u2019s apprentice and a one-winged princess who must vanquish the mechanical monsters that stalk the streets and threaten the faerie kingdom.Aspiring inventor and magician\u2019s apprentice Felix Carmer III would rather be tinkering with his latest experiments than sawing girls in half on stage, but with Antoine the Amazifier\u2019s show a tomato\u2019s throw away from going under, Carmer is determined to win the cash prize in the biggest magic competition in Skemantis. When fate throws Carmer across the path of fiery, flightless faerie princess Grit (do not call her Grettifrida), they strike a deal. If Carmer will help Grit investigate a string of faerie disappearances, she\u2019ll use her very real magic to give his mechanical illusions a much-needed boost against the competition. But Carmer and Grit soon discover they\u2019re not the only duo trying to pair magic with machine \u2013 and the combination can be deadly.In this story perfect for readers of the Lockwood & Co and Wildwood series, Sarah Jean Horwitz takes readers on a thrilling journey through a magical wooded fairyland and steampunk streets where terrifying automata cats lurk in the shadows and a mad scientist\u2019s newest mechanical invention might be more menace than miracle.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753993-the-wingsnatchers"}, +{"book_title": "The Battle of Devastation Reef", "author_name": "Graham Sharp Paul", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 374, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "If he survives, hell just may freeze over.The savage Hammer Worlds are not only near invincible but almost certain to win their war to crush the Federated Worlds and control humanspace\u2013unless the Feds can find and destroy their secret antimatter warhead facility.Only dreadnoughts, the lone Federated ships able to withstand antimatter missile attacks, can do the job, and only Lieutenant Michael Helfort has the skill to lead them. But skill may not be enough, because Helfort is more than the newly appointed captain: He\u2019s a hero, and this means that his own senior officers want him to fail\u2013and that the enemy\u2019s kingpin wants him dead.Helfort\u2019s early victories merely intensify everyone\u2019s determination. No action is too low, no price too high, to bring him down\u2013with treachery, or betrayal, or an offer he can\u2019t refuse, even if it means selling out his own side.From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6577114-the-battle-of-devastation-reef"}, +{"book_title": "Rosemary and Rue", "author_name": "Seanan McGuire", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 33326, "review_number": 2955, "book_description": "October \"Toby\" Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a \"normal\" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas... The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening's killer.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294549-rosemary-and-rue"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan V. 0-10", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.67, "rating_votes": 1879, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "On a quest for well written comics, I was turned on to this series and never looked back. Imagine Hunter S. Thompson finding a time machine and traveling to future and you have Transmetropolitan.Originally released as a 60-issue miniseries, since collected in a 10-volume series of trade paperbacks.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188083.Transmetropolitan_V_0_10"}, +{"book_title": "Invasion", "author_name": "Kenneth John Macksey", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 150, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "In June 1940, as German troops massed across the Channel, poised for the invasion of Britain, Hitler seemed ready for his greatest gamble. In this compelling alternate history the Germans actually launch the invasion. Landing between Dover and Hythe, German troops push inland, supported by the Luftwaffe and the panzers, and strike toward London. A classic and harrowing insight into how Britain's war might have gone.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "War (World War II)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/555678.Invasion"}, +{"book_title": "Noir", "author_name": "Jacqueline Garlick", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 334, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Losing him would make her overcast world one shade darker.\u2026Navigating her way through nightmarish lands devoid of sunlight, Eyelet Elsworth races to free her beloved Urlick Babbit, the first person to understand and accept her\u2014differences and all. Framed for murder and sentenced to execution, Urlick is running out of time. And the Commonwealth\u2019s tyrannical new ruler, Penelope Rapture, is strangely eager to speed up the clock.Aided by a band of unusual yet loyal associates, Eyelet stumbles upon a startling rumor. And as she unravels a secret that could challenge Penelope\u2019s claim to the throne, Penelope vows to divert Eyelet\u2019s journey\u2014straight to a dark and deadly end.In Noir, the second thrilling addition to Jacqueline Garlick\u2019s Illumination Paradox series, familiar friends struggle against new and old enemies, shocking secrets come to light, and the truth that could save this captivating steampunk world is revealed\u2026if it doesn\u2019t destroy everything first.Revised edition: This edition of Noir includes editorial revisions.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25450930-noir"}, +{"book_title": "Blackhand's Street Weapons 2020: The Cyberpunk Weapons Collection", "author_name": "Derek Quintanar", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 24, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "This \"definitive guide to street weaponry\" includes information and statistics on every knife, pistol, submachine gun, bullet, grenade, and personal artillery available in the year 2020.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6271075-blackhand-s-street-weapons-2020"}, +{"book_title": "Life is a Beautiful Thing, Book One", "author_name": "Harmon Cooper", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 104, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Hallucinatory cyberpunk. Meta sci-fi satire. The future is futile. 2083. A pollute-addicted therapist named Meme battles his way through his mind and LA at the seat of his pants alongside a beautiful android escort with a surprising secret. With the Federal Corporate Government hunting him, will he make it to safety in time? The hunt is on. Part techno thriller, part dystopian science fiction, Life is a Beautiful Thing is a series that questions what it means to be human; a collection of novels that offers a shocking glimpse into a dark future fueled by corporate deceit and high-end intoxicants.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25503477-life-is-a-beautiful-thing-book-one"}, +{"book_title": "A Darkness Strange and Lovely", "author_name": "Susan Dennard", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 5392, "review_number": 612, "book_description": "Perfect for fans of Libba Bray's The Diviners and Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices series, this spellbinding sequel to Something Strange and Deadly delivers a mix of supernatural forces and intense romance, set against the enchanting backdrop of nineteenth-century Paris.With her brother dead and her mother insane, Eleanor Fitt is alone. Even the Spirit-Hunters\u2014Joseph, Jie, and the handsome Daniel\u2014have fled to Paris. So when Eleanor hears the vicious barking of hounds and sees haunting yellow eyes, she fears that the Dead, and the necromancer Marcus, are after her.To escape, Eleanor boards a steamer bound for France. There she meets Oliver, a young man who claims to have known her brother. But Oliver harbors a dangerous secret involving necromancy and black magic that entices Eleanor beyond words. If she can resist him, she'll be fine. But when she arrives in Paris, she finds that the Dead have taken over, and there's a whole new evil lurking. And she is forced to make a deadly decision that will go against everything the Spirit-Hunters stand for.In Paris, there's a price for this darkness strange and lovely, and it may have Eleanor paying with her life.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13624584-a-darkness-strange-and-lovely"}, +{"book_title": "Wrapt in Crystal", "author_name": "Sharon Shinn", "rating_score": 3.55, "rating_votes": 1475, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "When a planet's religious sects fall victim to a serial killer, an Interfed agent must immerse himself in a world of stark spirituality to save the lives of two extraordinary women...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Religion", "Adult", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/446945.Wrapt_in_Crystal"}, +{"book_title": "Devil's Wake", "author_name": "Steven Barnes", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 631, "review_number": 119, "book_description": "The first book of an exciting new paranormal series from two award-winning authors about what happens when an alien race brings Earth to the brink of the Apocalypse. \nWhat happens when an unprecedented infection sweeps the world, leaving the earth on the brink of the Apocalypse?\n But this infection goes far beyond disease. Beyond even the nightmare images of walking dead or flesh-eating ghouls. The infected are turning into creatures unlike anything ever dreamed of . . . more complex, more mysterious, and more deadly. Trapped in the northwestern United States as winter begins to fall, Terry and Kendra have only one choice: they and their friends must cross a thousand miles of no-man\u2019s-land in a rickety school bus, battling ravenous hordes, human raiders, and their own fears. In the midst of apocalypse, they find something no one could have anticipated . . . love.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12769525-devil-s-wake"}, +{"book_title": "The Border", "author_name": "Robert R. McCammon", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 2355, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "World Fantasy award-winning, bestselling author Robert McCammon makes a triumphant return to the epic horror and apocalyptic tone reminiscent of his books Swan Song and Stinger in this gripping new novel, The Border, a saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations.But it is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, even worse, are transformed by otherworldly pollution into hideous Gray Men, cannibalistic mutants driven by insatiable hunger. Into these desperate circumstances comes an amnesiac teenaged boy who names himself Ethan\u2014a boy who must overcome mistrust and suspicion to master unknowable powers that may prove to be the last hope for humanity's salvation. Those same powers make Ethan a threat to the warring aliens, long used to fearing only each other, and thrust him and his comrades into ever more perilous circumstances.A major new novel from the unparalleled imagination of Robert McCammon, this dark epic of survival will both thrill readers and make them fall in love with his work all over again.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24406483-the-border"}, +{"book_title": "Naamah's Blessing", "author_name": "Jacqueline Carey", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 9334, "review_number": 410, "book_description": "Returning to Terre d'Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of his wife, Queen Jehanne, King Daniel is unable to rule. Prince Thierry, leading an expedition to explore the deadly jungles of Terra Nova, is halfway across the world. And three year old Desir\u00e9e is a vision of her mother: tempestuous, intelligent, and fiery, but desperately lonely, and a vulnerable pawn in a game of shifting political allegiances.As tensions mount, King Daniel asks that Moirin become Desir\u00e9e's oath-sworn protector. Navigating the intricate political landscape of the Court proves a difficult challenge, and when dire news arrives from overseas, the spirit of Queen Jehanne visits Moirin in a dream and bids her undertake an impossible quest.Another specter from the past also haunts Moirin. Travelling with Thierry in the New World is Raphael de Mereliot, her manipulative former lover. Years ago, Raphael forced her to help him summon fallen angels in the hopes of acquiring mystical gifts and knowledge. It was a disastrous effort that nearly killed them, and Moirin must finally bear the costs of those bitter mistakes.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9519912-naamah-s-blessing"}, +{"book_title": "The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter", "author_name": "Theodora Goss", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 15447, "review_number": 2658, "book_description": "Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents\u2019 death, is curious about the secrets of her father\u2019s mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father\u2019s former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture\u2026a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes.But her hunt leads her to Hyde\u2019s daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein.When their investigations lead them to the discovery of a secret society of immoral and power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their past return. Now it is up to the monsters to finally triumph over the monstrous.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Horror", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34728925-the-strange-case-of-the-alchemist-s-daughter"}, +{"book_title": "Cosmicomics", "author_name": "Italo Calvino", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 15315, "review_number": 970, "book_description": "Italo Calvino's extraordinary imagination and intelligence combine here in an enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. He makes his characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms, and even have a love life.During the course of these stories Calvino toys with continuous creation, the transformation of matter, and the expanding and contracting reaches of space and time. He succeeds in relating complex scientific concepts to the ordinary reactions of common humanity.William Weaver's excellent translation won a National Book Award in 1969\u201cNaturally, we were all there,\" old Qfwfq said, \"where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?\u201d", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "European Literature (Italian Literature)", "Science Fiction", "Literature", "Classics", "Cultural (Italy)", "Magical Realism", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59780.Cosmicomics"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Road", "author_name": "G. Michael Hopf", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 1079, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "The New World series:Book 1: The EndBook 2: The Long RoadThe End was just the beginning of the new world\u2026.It has been 6 weeks since the attacks; the United States is a wasteland of starving bands of survivors, mobs and gangs. Millions are dead and millions more are suffering and will die. For Gordon, Samantha, Sebastian, Cruz and Barone, the turmoil and chaos they dealt with before will seem trivial now as the real collapse of society plays out before their eyes.They all have suffered great loss but what is coming towards them on the journey ahead will test their sanity. Uncertainty abounds as they all travel different paths in search of a safe place to call home. The one thing that is certain, The Long Road will take its toll on all of them.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18454472-the-long-road"}, +{"book_title": "Life Sentence", "author_name": "Kim Paffenroth", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 988, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "At the end of the world a handful of survivors banded together in a museum-turned-compound surrounded by the living dead. The community established rituals and rites of passage, customs to keep themselves sane, to help them integrate into their new existence. In a battle against a kingdom of savage prisoners, the survivors lost loved ones, they lost innocence, but still they coped and grew. They even found a strange peace with the undead. Twelve years later the community has reclaimed more of the city and has settled into a fairly secure life in their compound. Zoey is a girl coming of age in this undead world, learning new roles-new sacrifices. But even bigger surprises lie in wait, for some of the walking dead are beginning to remember who they are, whom they've lost, and, even worse, what they've done. As the dead struggle to reclaim their lives, as the survivors combat an intruding force, the two groups accelerate toward a collision that could drastically alter both of their worlds.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4772386-life-sentence"}, +{"book_title": "Johnny Zed", "author_name": "John Gregory Betancourt", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 44, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "A corrupt Congress rules a drugged-out America, land of slums and malls. But in the underground, a few violent young malcontents will stop at nothing to smash the system ... and bring back the constitution and the president. They're outnumbered, outgunned, and led by Johnny Zed. He's the high-tech hero who betrays his revolution, the terrorist who parties with the power-mongers, the assassin of assassins, the saboteur of hearts.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1422666.Johnny_Zed"}, +{"book_title": "Marines", "author_name": "Jay Allan", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 3069, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "Erik Cain joined the marines to get off death row. The deal was simple; enlist to fight in space and he would be pardoned for all his crimes.In the 23rd Century, assault troops go into battle wearing AI-assisted, nuclear-powered armor, but it is still men and blood that win battles. From one brutal campaign to the next, Erik and his comrades fight an increasingly desperate war over the resource rich colony worlds that have become vital to the economies of Earth's exhausted and despotic Superpowers.As Erik rises through the ranks he finally finds a home, first with the marines who fight at his side and later among the colonists - men and women who have dared to leave everything behind to build a new society on the frontier, one where the freedoms and rights lost long ago on Earth are preserved.Amidst the blood and death and sacrifice, Erik begins to wonder. Is he fighting the right war? Who is the real enemy?", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Action", "Novels", "Space", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15847301-marines"}, +{"book_title": "Strength and Honor", "author_name": "R.M. Meluch", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 463, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "Captain John Farragut and the crew of the U.S.S. Merrimack face their greatest challenge as Caesar Romulus declares war on the United States of America with a direct attack on Earth. The Merrimack retaliates with an assault on the Roman capital world of Palatine, and in the midst of the chaos, the Hive descends on Earth. With the battle raging, Farragut finds himself in the middle of a final deadly showdown.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4534683-strength-and-honor"}, +{"book_title": "A Kiss in Time", "author_name": "Alex Flinn", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 18862, "review_number": 1816, "book_description": "Talia fell under a spell...Jack broke the curse.I was told to beware the accursed spindle, but it was so enchanting, so hypnotic...I was looking for a little adventure the day I ditched my tour group. But finding a comatose town, with a hot-looking chick asleep in it, was so not what I had in mind.I awakened in the same place but in another time\u2014to a stranger's soft kiss.I couldn't help kissing her. Sometimes you just have to kiss someone. I didn't know this would happen. Now I am in dire trouble because my father, the king, says I have brought ruin upon our country. I have no choice but to run away with this commoner!Now I'm stuck with a bratty princess and a trunk full of her jewels...The good news: My parents will freak!Think you have dating issues? Try locking lips with a snoozing stunner who turns out to be 316 years old. Can a kiss transcend all\u2014even time?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5266667-a-kiss-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "The Privilege of Peace", "author_name": "Tanya Huff", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 919, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Former space marine Torin Kerr returns for one final adventure to save the Confederation in the last book in the military science fiction Peacekeeper trilogy.Warden Torin Kerr has put her past behind her and built a life away from the war and everything that meant. From the good, from the bad. From the heroics, from the betrayal. She's created a place and purpose for others like her, a way to use their training for the good of the Confederation. She has friends, family, purpose.Unfortunately, her past refuses to grant her the same absolution. Big Yellow, the ship form of the plastic aliens responsible for the war, returns. The Silsviss test the strength of the Confederation. Torin has to be Gunnery Sergeant Kerr once again and find a way to keep the peace.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Cultural (Canada)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36245339-the-privilege-of-peace"}, +{"book_title": "Here There Be Gerblins", "author_name": "Clint McElroy", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 19599, "review_number": 1905, "book_description": "Welcome to the Adventure Zone!SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure!READ! Their journey from small-time bodyguards to world-class artifact hunters!MARVEL! At the sheer metafictional chutzpah of a graphic novel based on a story created in a podcast where three dudes and their dad play a tabletop role playing game in real time!Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided (\"guided\") by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance.With endearingly off-kilter storytelling from master goofballs Clint McElroy and the McElroy brothers, and vivid, adorable art by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins is the comics equivalent of role-playing in your friend's basement at 2am, eating Cheetos and laughing your ass off as she rolls critical failure after critical failure.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Humor", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35684941-here-there-be-gerblins"}, +{"book_title": "Savor Me Slowly", "author_name": "Gena Showalter", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 5976, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "HALF HUMAN, HALF MACHINE...ALL WOMAN Mishka Le'Ace was created to be an undercover operative...literally. Her beautiful body has been mechanically augmented to give her superhuman strength -- strength she's going to need. Her latest mission sends her to rescue Alien Investigation and Removal agent Jaxon Tremain from torture and death. With him, she discovers a passion unlike any other. A passion she was forbidden to know.... From the moment they meet in a darkened cell, Jaxon craves her touch. But the machine half of Le'Ace forces her to do things she doesn't always want to do. Even betray him...and ultimately destroy him. Now Jaxon must battle the man controlling Le'Ace, and even Le'Ace herself, to at last claim the woman he's come to love.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Futuristic", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1961516.Savor_Me_Slowly"}, +{"book_title": "Tainted", "author_name": "Morgan L. Busse", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 279, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "What Happens When Your Soul Dies?Kat Bloodmayne is one of the first women chosen to attend the Tower Academy of Sciences. But she carries a secret: she can twist the natural laws of science. She has no idea where this ability came from, only that every time she loses control and unleashes this power, it kills a part of her soul. If she doesn't find a cure soon, her soul will die and she will become something else entirely.After a devastating personal loss, Stephen Grey leaves the World City Police Force to become a bounty hunter. He believes in justice and will stop at nothing to ensure criminals are caught and locked up. However, when Kat Bloodmayne shows up in his office seeking his help, his world is turned upside down.Together they search World City and beyond for a doctor who can cure Kat. But what they discover on the way goes beyond science and into the dark sphere of magic.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Science Fiction", "Christian Fiction (Christian Fantasy)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29065082-tainted"}, +{"book_title": "Pillar to the Sky", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 1252, "review_number": 160, "book_description": "From William Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling author of One Second After, comes Pillar to the Sky, a towering epic to rank with Douglas Preston's Blasphemy and Michael Crichton's Prey...\n\n\n\nPandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people can prevent global chaos.Gary Morgan\u2014a brilliant, renegade scientist is pilloried by the scientific community for his belief in a space elevator: a pillar to the sky, which he believes will make space flight fast, simple and affordable.Eva Morgan\u2014a brilliant and beautiful scientist of Ukranian descent, she has had a lifelong obsession to build a pillar to the sky, a vertiginous tower which would mine the power of the sun and supply humanity with cheap, limitless energy forever.Erich Rothenberg\u2014the ancient but revered rocket-scientist who labored with von Braun to create the first rockets and continued on to build those of today. A legend, he has mentored Gary and Eva for two decades, nurturing and encouraging their transcendent vision.Franklin Smith\u2014the eccentric Silicon Valley billionaire who will champion their cause, wage war with Congress and government bureaucracy and most important, finance their herculean undertaking.The Goddard Space Flight Center\u2014the novel's pre-eminent hero, it's enormous army of scientists, engineers and astronauts will design, machine, and build the space elevator. They will fight endless battles and overcome countless obstacles every step of the way.This journey to the stars will not be easy\u2014a tumultuous struggle filled with violence and heroism, love and death, spellbinding beauty and heartbreaking betrayal. The stakes could not be higher. Humanity's salvation will hang in the balance.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910106-pillar-to-the-sky"}, +{"book_title": "Flare", "author_name": "Paul Grzegorzek", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 208, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Malcolm King is a journalist living in trendy Hove on the south coast of England. His days are taken up with video meetings and research on the internet while he writes articles for magazines around the world.When a solar flare of unprecedented magnitude hits the Earth, effectively hurling us back to the stone age in a matter of hours, Malc is thrust into a terrifying new world as he travels the length of the country to find his young daughter.Society, a fragile construct at best, shatters as the survivors fight each other for food and water, neighbour killing neighbour as fires rage through the cities, destroying much of what's left.Faced with difficult choices at every turn, Malc draws his strength from those around him; Emily, a tough, no-nonsense soldier with a soft spot for lost causes and Jerry, a disgraced astrophysicist who may be the only person left who understands what's happening with the sun.With their help, he must struggle to answer the ultimate question.What won't he do to get his daughter back?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20846555-flare"}, +{"book_title": "The Agent Gambit", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 710, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two space adventure novels in the popular Liaden Universe\u00ae series in one popularly-priced Omni-trade edition: Agent of Change: Once a brilliant First-in-Scout, Val Con yos\u2019Phelium was \u201crecruited\u201d by the shadowy Liaden Department of Interior and brainwashed into an Agent of Change\u2014a ruthless covert operative who kills without remorse. Val Con has been playing a deep game, far from the orderly life of clan and kin. Fleeing his latest mission, he saves the life of ex-mercenary Miri Robertson, a Terran on the run from interplanetary assassins. Thrown together by circumstances, Val Con and Miri struggle to elude their enemies and stay alive without killing each other-or surrendering to the unexpected passion that flares between them. Which name \u2013 or face \u2013 will the agent choose when the game gets tough and an escape for only one of them seems possible? Carpe Diem: On the run from interplanetary assassins and a ruthless interstellar crime cartel, covert operative Val Con yos'Phelium and former mercenary sergeant Miri Robertson formed an alliance of necessity and wound up stranded on a planet with no rescue in sight. Their on-world problems were looking manageable after they assumed new identities as musicians, that is until a local war forced them to reveal their alien combat skills \u2013 and doubt their own growing partnership of trust and love. By then the relentless hound of an agent on Val Con's trail was closing in with the very weapon Val Con and Miri most feared, and the game got very rough indeed. \u201cI rarely rave on and on about stories, but I am devoted to Lee and Miller novels and stories.\u201d \u2014Anne McCaffrey", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7841405-the-agent-gambit"}, +{"book_title": "War Storm", "author_name": "Victoria Aveyard", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 79792, "review_number": 8154, "book_description": "Victory comes at a price.Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal\u2019s betrayal nearly destroyed her. Now determined to protect her heart\u2014and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her\u2014Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all\u2026 starting with the crown on Maven\u2019s head.But no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost broke her. Cal\u2019s powerful Silver allies, alongside Mare and the Scarlet Guard, prove a formidable force. But Maven is driven by an obsession so deep, he will stop at nothing to have Mare as his own again, even if it means demolishing everything\u2014and everyone\u2014in his path.War is coming, and all Mare has fought for hangs in the balance. Will victory be enough to topple the Silver kingdoms? Or will the little lightning girl be forever silenced?In the epic conclusion to Victoria Aveyard\u2019s stunning series, Mare must embrace her fate and summon all her power\u2026 for all will be tested, but not all will survive.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27188596-war-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Archangel Protocol", "author_name": "Lyda Morehouse", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 446, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "First the LINK--an interactive, implanted computer--transformed society. Then came the angels--cybernetic manifestations that claimed to be working God's will. But former cop Deidre McMannus has had her LINK implant removed--for a crime she didn't commit. And she's never believed in the angels. But all that will change when a man named Michael appears at her door.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Religion", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71419.Archangel_Protocol"}, +{"book_title": "Time and Again", "author_name": "Deborah Heal", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1422, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "An old house + A new computer program = The travel opportunity of a lifetime\u2026to another century.Abby Thomas is spending the summer in a run-down old house with a bratty pre-teen named Merrideth she is supposed to tutor. Not a dream job. But it does come with perks. There\u2019s John Roberts, a devastatingly attractive neighbor who is almost too wonderful to be real.And there\u2019s the new computer program Beautiful Houses\u2014also too amazing to be real. No one knows how it works, but with it she can rewind and fast-forward the lives of all the people who ever lived in the house, including Charlotte Miles.In 1858, the house is a train stop on the Alton & Chicago Line. And Charlotte is stuck there serving meals to the passengers, wondering if she\u2019ll ever get to have any fun. And then she meets two travelers who change her life forever. There\u2019s James McGuire with whom she falls in love. And there\u2019s his boss, a young Springfield lawyer named Abraham Lincoln. His debate with political opponent Stephen Douglas catapults him onto the national stage. And it inspires Charlotte to take up the cause of abolition.The HouseA stop on the Alton & Chicago Line. A stop on the Underground Railroad. Watching the house\u2019s history unfold, Abby and Merrideth gain a new perspective on their own lives as time and again they see God\u2019s loving hand in the lives of its inhabitants.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Christian", "Mystery", "Christian Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17469780-time-and-again"}, +{"book_title": "Better to Beg Forgiveness", "author_name": "Michael Z. Williamson", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1344, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "Celadon, a poor nation on a poor planet, engaged in civil war and a haven for every type of villainy in space, is ripe for cleanup. The military could pacify it handily, but it would take a statesman to fix it.But some statesmen have ethics, which politicians and megacorps find inconvenient. President Bishwanath compounded the sin by being astute, ambitious and capable. Something had to be done, because a working nation isn't much use for pork and graft.When the word comes down that he is dead, the politicians move on with a new plan, re-allocating resources, and finding a new, more pliable president to put in place.There are three problems with this solution. Bishwanath is not dead. His mercenary bodyguards are more loyal than the politicians. And if they're not on contract, there are no rules.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Space", "Adventure", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700607.Better_to_Beg_Forgiveness"}, +{"book_title": "Winterkill", "author_name": "Kate A. Boorman", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 2008, "review_number": 380, "book_description": "Where Emmeline lives, you cannot love and you cannot leave...The Council's rules are strict, but they're for the good of the settlement in which Emmeline lives. Everyone knows there is nothing but danger the other side of the Wall, and the community must prepare for the freezing winterkill that comes every year.But Emmeline struggles to be obedient under the Council's suffocating embrace - especially when she discovers that a Council leader intends to snatch her hand in marriage.Then Emmeline begins to hear the call of the trees beyond the Wall...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Adventure", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20702025-winterkill"}, +{"book_title": "The End Games", "author_name": "T. Michael Martin", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 3183, "review_number": 498, "book_description": "It happened on Halloween.The world ended.And a dangerous Game brought it back to life.Seventeen-year-old Michael and his five-year-old brother, Patrick, have been battling monsters in The Game for weeks.In the rural mountains of West Virginia, armed with only their rifle and their love for each other, the brothers follow Instructions from the mysterious Game Master. They spend their days searching for survivors, their nights fighting endless hordes of \u201cBellows\u201d\u2014creatures that roam the dark, roaring for flesh. And at this Game, Michael and Patrick are very good.But The Game is changing.The Bellows are evolving.The Game Master is leading Michael and Patrick to other survivors\u2014survivors who don\u2019t play by the rules.And the brothers will never be the same.T. Michael Martin\u2019s debut novel is a transcendent thriller filled with electrifying action, searing emotional insight, and unexpected romance.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13228537-the-end-games"}, +{"book_title": "The Singular and Extraordinary Tale of Mirror and Goliath", "author_name": "Ishbelle Bee", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 1099, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "1888. A little girl called Mirror and her shape-shifting guardian Goliath Honeyflower are washed up on the shores of Victorian England. Something has been wrong with Mirror since the day her grandfather locked her inside a mysterious clock that was painted all over with ladybirds. Mirror does not know what she is, but she knows she is no longer human. John Loveheart, meanwhile, was not born wicked. But after the sinister death of his parents, he was taken by Mr. Fingers, the demon lord of the underworld. Some say he is mad. John would be inclined to agree. Now Mr Fingers is determined to find the little girl called Mirror, whose flesh he intends to eat, and whose soul is the key to his eternal reign. And John Loveheart has been called by his otherworldly father to help him track Mirror down...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20877669-the-singular-and-extraordinary-tale-of-mirror-and-goliath"}, +{"book_title": "A Call to Arms", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1696, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "For eons, the Amplitur had searched space for intelligent species, each of which was joyously welcomed to take part in the fulfillment of the Amplitur Purpose. Whether it wanted to or not. When the Amplitur and their allies stumbled upon the races called the Weave, the Purpose seemed poised for a great leap forward. But the Weave's surprising unity also gave it the ability to fight the Amplitur and their cause. And fight it did, for thousands of years.Will Dulac was a New Orleans composer who thought the tiny reef off Belize would be the perfect spot to drop anchor and finish his latest symphony in solitude. What he found instead was a group of alien visitors, a scouting party for the Weave, looking for allies among what they believed to be a uniquely warlike race, Humans.Will tried to convince the aliens that Man was fundamentally peaceful, for he understood that Human involvement would destroy the race. But all too soon, it didn't matter. The Amplitur had discovered Earth...", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171535.A_Call_to_Arms"}, +{"book_title": "The Technician", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 3576, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "The Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada. But the Tidy Squad consists of rebels who cannot accept the new order. Their hate for surviving theocrats is undiminished, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is at the top of their hitlist.Escaping his sanatorium Tombs is pushed into painful confrontation with reality he has avoided since the rebellion. His insanity must cured, because the near mythical hooder called the Technician that attacked him all those years ago, did something to his mind even the AIs fail to understand. Tombs might possess information about the suicide of an entire alien race.The war drone Amistad, whose job it is to bring this information to light, recruits Lief Grant, an ex-rebel Commander, to protect Tombs, along with the black AI Penny Royal, who everyone thought was dead. The amphidapt Chanter, who has studied the bone sculptures the Technician makes with the remains of its prey, might be useful too.Meanwhile, in deep space, the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals, stirs from slumber and begins to power-up its weapons.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Horror", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7704959-the-technician"}, +{"book_title": "Aliens: Earth Hive", "author_name": "Steve Perry", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 2589, "review_number": 121, "book_description": "Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive. Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the aliens' home planet to bring back a live alien. But the competition on Earth to develop the aliens as a new weapons system is brutal. When Wilks's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. And what follows is no less than guerrilla warfare on the aliens' planet - and alien conquest on Earth!", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Media Tie In", "Novels", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343281.Aliens"}, +{"book_title": "Under the Skin", "author_name": "Michel Faber", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 21518, "review_number": 2500, "book_description": "Isserley picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. She has a remarkable face and wears the thickest corrective lenses anyone has ever seen. Her posture is suggestive of some spinal problem. Her breasts are perfect; perhaps implants. She is strangely erotic yet somehow grotesque, vulnerable yet threatening. Her hitchhikers are a mixed bunch of men-trailer trash and travelling postgrads, thugs and philosophers. But Isserley is only interested in whether they have families and whether they have muscles. Then, it's only a question of how long she can endure her pain--physical and spiritual--and their conversation. Michel Faber's work has been described as a combination of Roald Dahl and Franz Kafka, as Somerset Maugham shacking up with Ian McEwan. At once humane and horrifying, Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory - our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123063.Under_the_Skin"}, +{"book_title": "Extinct", "author_name": "R.R. Haywood", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 4539, "review_number": 262, "book_description": "The end of the world has been avoided\u2014for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas\u2026While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. But what they find just doesn\u2019t make sense.London in 2111 is on the brink of annihilation. What\u2019s more, the timelines have been twisted. Folded in on each other. It\u2019s hard to keep track of who is where. Or, more accurately, who is when.The clock is ticking for them all. With nothing left to lose but life itself, our heroes must stop Mother\u2014or die trying.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36991055-extinct"}, +{"book_title": "Earth & Sky", "author_name": "Megan Crewe", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 880, "review_number": 245, "book_description": "Seventeen-year-old Skylar has been haunted for as long as she can remember by fleeting yet powerful sensations that something is horribly wrong. But despite the panic attacks tormenting her, nothing ever happens, and Sky\u2019s beginning to think she\u2019s crazy. Then she meets a mysterious, otherworldly boy named Win and discovers the shocking truth her premonitions have tapped into: our world no longer belongs to us. For thousands of years, Earth has been at the mercy of alien scientists who care nothing for its inhabitants and are using us as the unwitting subjects of their time-manipulating experiments. Win belongs to a rebel faction seeking to put a stop to it, and he needs Skylar\u2019s help--but with each shift in the past, the very fabric of reality is unraveling, and soon there may be no Earth left to save.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17875055-earth-sky"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Question", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.58, "rating_votes": 19394, "review_number": 1311, "book_description": "The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way ...", "year_published": 1956, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Classics", "Philosophy", "Literature", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4808763-the-last-question"}, +{"book_title": "Everyone in Silico", "author_name": "Jim Munroe", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 337, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it's your time. Those who don't buy in--the poor, the old, the paranoid--have to watch as their loved ones, their friends, and their jobs leave the city. They have to watch as the latest prestige technology, Self, changes everything--not just the world but humanity itself. On the bright side, the rents have dropped. And in several unexpected ways, resistance is growing. ", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literary Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342203.Everyone_in_Silico"}, +{"book_title": "Rash", "author_name": "Pete Hautman", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3352, "review_number": 537, "book_description": "\"Of course, without people like us Marstens, there wouldn't be anybody to do the manual labor that makes this country run. Without penal workers, who would work the production lines, or pick the melons and peaches, or maintain the streets and parks and public lavatories? Our economy depends on prison labor. Without it everybody would have to work -- whether they wanted to or not.\" In the late twenty-first century Bo Marsten is unjustly accused of a causing a rash that plagues his entire high school. He loses it, and as a result, he's sentenced to work in the Canadian tundra, at a pizza factory that's surrounded by hungry polar bears. Bo finds prison life to be both boring and dangerous, but it's nothing compared to what happens when he starts playing on the factory's highly illegal football team. In the meantime, Bork, an artificial intelligence that Bo created for a science project, tracks Bo down in prison. Bork has spun out of control and seems to be operating on his own. He offers to get Bo's sentence shortened, but can Bo trust him? And now that Bo has been crushing skulls on the field, will he be able to go back to his old, highly regulated life? Pete Hautman takes a satirical look at an antiseptic future in this darkly comic mystery/adventure.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Sports (Sports)", "Adventure", "Adventure (Survival)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44175.Rash"}, +{"book_title": "Lily Marin - three short steampunk stories", "author_name": "Paul Kater", "rating_score": 3.18, "rating_votes": 97, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Three short stories about Lily Marin, a singer in the steampunk era, who has a mysterious other life.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10748083-lily-marin---three-short-steampunk-stories"}, +{"book_title": "Robot Uprisings", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 988, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers, and including a rare story by \u201cthe father of artificial intelligence,\u201d Dr. John McCarthy, Robot Uprisings meticulously describes the exhilarating and terrifying near-future in which humans can only survive by being cleverer than the rebellious machines they have created.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Speculative Fiction", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Short Stories (Short Story Collection)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18209312-robot-uprisings"}, +{"book_title": "Legend of the Sword", "author_name": "Michael R. Hicks", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 2135, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Six months after the alien Kreelan Empire launched its invasion of human space, the Confederation of Humanity is rapidly growing. The planet of Saint Petersburg, however, would rather see the Confederation destroyed. With a secretly built navy, they have lured the Confederation fleet into a trap, even as the Kreelans prepare another devastating attack.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7802382-legend-of-the-sword"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Duke", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 16016, "review_number": 1982, "book_description": "After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power - and fear - of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession.But when Mina uncovers the victim's identity, she stumbles upon a conspiracy that threatens the lives of everyone in England. To save them, Mina and Rhys must race across zombie-infested wastelands and treacherous oceans-and Mina discovers the danger is not only to her countrymen, as she finds herself tempted to give up everything to the Iron Duke.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7864587-the-iron-duke"}, +{"book_title": "Desperado", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 401, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "When Major Helen Prescott and Rafe Santiago, the man she secretly desires, are transported back to 1850 after a skydiving mission goes horribly wrong, they are mistaken for a legendary bandit and his seductive mistress, and now, on the wrong side of the law, they succumb to undeniable passion.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Westerns", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Humor", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/702902.Desperado"}, +{"book_title": "Solstice", "author_name": "P.J. Hoover", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1125, "review_number": 233, "book_description": "Piper's world is dying. Each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles that threaten to destroy the earth. Amid this global heating crisis, Piper lives under the oppressive rule of her mother, who suffocates her even more than the weather does. Everything changes on her eighteenth birthday, when her mother is called away on a mysterious errand and Piper seizes her first opportunity for freedom.Piper discovers a universe she never knew existed\u2014a sphere of gods and monsters\u2014and realizes that her world is not the only one in crisis. While gods battle for control of the Underworld, Piper\u2019s life spirals out of control as she struggles to find the answer to the secret that has been kept from her since birth.An imaginative melding of mythology and dystopia, Solstice is the first YA novel by talented newcomer P. J. Hoover.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13644322-solstice"}, +{"book_title": "Twice a Hero", "author_name": "Susan Krinard", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 220, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "MacKenzie \u201cMac\u201d Sinclair is cursed. So is the whole Sinclair family. Ever since her great-great-grandfather Peregrine returned from an expedition to the Maya ruins with half of a mysterious pendant\u2013and without his partner, Liam O\u2019Shea\u2013they\u2019ve been haunted by misfortune.That\u2019s why Mac\u2019s beloved grandfather wants her to undertake a solo expedition . . . to return the pendant to the ruins of Tikal and to find a way to atone for whatever part Peregrine played in Liam\u2019s disappearance. But when Mac braves the hot, steamy, primitive jungle, something extraordinary happens: she blunders into the arms of an eerily familiar explorer.Now she\u2019s in for more adventure than she bargained for. Because she\u2019s found Liam O\u2019Shea . . . alive, well, and seductively real. In the year 1884.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1068274.Twice_a_Hero"}, +{"book_title": "The Thief", "author_name": "Megan Whalen Turner", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 72975, "review_number": 7934, "book_description": "The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for his king, he needs a skillful thief, and he selects Gen from the king's prison. The magus is interested only in the thief's abilities. What Gen is interested in is anyone's guess. Their journey toward the treasure is both dangerous and difficult, lightened only imperceptibly by the tales they tell of the old gods and goddesses.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448873.The_Thief"}, +{"book_title": "Across the Nightingale Floor", "author_name": "Lian Hearn", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 36401, "review_number": 2190, "book_description": "In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden, a reclusive and spiritual people who have taught him only the ways of peace. But unbeknownst to him, his father was a celebrated assassin and a member of the Tribe, an ancient network of families with extraordinary, preternatural skills. When Takeo's village is pillaged, he is rescued and adopted by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru. Under the tutelage of Shigeru, he learns that he too possesses the skills of the Tribe. And, with this knowledge, he embarks on a journey that will lead him across the famed nightingale floor\u2014and to his own unimaginable destiny...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Cultural (Japan)", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Romance", "Adventure", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Cultural (Asia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77160.Across_the_Nightingale_Floor"}, +{"book_title": "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace", "author_name": "Henry Gilroy", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 519, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace is the seminal tale of the Star Wars mythos, unlocking the history and events that laid the foundation for the Rebel Alliance's epic struggle against the Empire as chronicled in the original Star Wars film trilogy. Featuring familiar characters as never before seen and introducing new players destined to become Star Wars icons, Episode I is a must-see film experience, and this comics adaptation is a must-read for all Star Wars enthusiasts. Adapted by Henry Gilroy from the original screenplay by master filmmaker George Lucas and illustrated by Rodolfo Damaggio and comics legend Al Williamson. ", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Space", "Media Tie In", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359856.Star_Wars"}, +{"book_title": "Masked", "author_name": "Nicola Claire", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 35, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "Freedom has a price tag\u2026It was never going to be easy, but Trent Masters had thought, when W\u00e1nm\u011bi gained its freedom, that at the very least the heavy weight of oppression would be lifted. Tyranny can take on many forms, though. Even the unassuming shape of a new President who was once a revolutionary.But although Lee Tan is in charge, he\u2019s not quite in control\u2026Sabotage and terrorism have become the new price of freedom, and with them also emerges a brand new caste. The Masked model themselves on saviours, knights in shining armour, but are they saints or sinners? And where have they come from?Former Elite, Lena Carr, however, has more than just the piece by piece destruction of her recovering nation to contend with. The ghosts of her past have come back to haunt her, dragging her down into a dark abyss. She needs her rebel leader to ground her. She needs the man she has fallen for to stand at her side. To never leave her.But the price they all must pay is very steep.Citizen versus Masked. The battle continues\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36310272-masked"}, +{"book_title": "Storm Glass", "author_name": "Maria V. Snyder", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 23583, "review_number": 1621, "book_description": "Award-winning author Maria V. Snyder brings readers into a world of molten magic, where storms can be captured within a glass orb and a magician's powers can remain hidden\u2026until challenged by enemy forces.\u00a0As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowan understands trial by fire. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians. The Stormdancers\u2014particularly the mysterious and mercurial Kade\u2014require Opal's unique talents to prevent it from happening again. But when the mission goes awry, Opal must tap into a new kind of magic. Yet the further she delves into the intrigue behind the glass and magic, the more distorted things appear. With lives hanging in the balance\u2014including her own\u2014Opal must control her powers\u2026powers that could lead to disaster beyond anything she's ever known.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6080889-storm-glass"}, +{"book_title": "All Men of Genius", "author_name": "Lev A.C. Rosen", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1563, "review_number": 303, "book_description": "Inspired by two of the most beloved works by literary masters, All Men of Genius takes place in an alternate Steampunk Victorian London, where science makes the impossible possible.Violet Adams wants to attend Illyria College, a widely renowned school for the most brilliant up-and-coming scientific minds, founded by the late Duke Illyria, the greatest scientist of the Victorian Age. The school is run by his son, Ernest, who continues his father's policy that the small, exclusive college remain male-only. Violet sees her opportunity when her father departs for America. She disguises herself as her twin brother, Ashton, and gains entry.But keeping the secret of her sex won't be easy, not with her friend Jack's constant habit of pulling pranks, and especially not when the duke's young ward, Cecily, starts to develop feelings for Violet's alter ego, \"Ashton.\" Not to mention blackmail, mysterious killer automata, and the way Violet's pulse quickens whenever the young duke, Ernest, speaks to her. She soon realizes that it's not just keeping her secret until the end of the year faire she has to worry about: it's surviving that long.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10839204-all-men-of-genius"}, +{"book_title": "The Dream of Perpetual Motion", "author_name": "Dexter Palmer", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 1913, "review_number": 345, "book_description": "A debut so magical\u2026 so extraordinary\u2026 it has to be read to be believed\u2026.Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane.The tale of Harold\u2019s life is also one of an alternate reality, a lucid waking dream in which the well-heeled have mechanical men for servants, where the realms of fairy tales can be built from scratch, where replicas of deserted islands exist within skyscrapers.. As Harold\u2019s childhood infatuation with Miranda changes over twenty years to love and then to obsession, the visionary inventions of her father also change Harold\u2019s entire world, transforming it from a place of music and miracles to one of machines and noise. And as Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Miranda\u2019s life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine.Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Literary Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6758332-the-dream-of-perpetual-motion"}, +{"book_title": "A Knight in Central Park", "author_name": "Theresa Ragan", "rating_score": 3.35, "rating_votes": 1229, "review_number": 102, "book_description": "The year is 1499. As Alexandra Dunn's farmhouse is set ablaze, her grandfather places precious stones in her palm, telling her she has until the next full moon to return with a hero...a brave, chivalrous knight to help save her family. Familiar objects become a blur as she is swallowed in darkness. Suddenly Alexandra is standing in the middle of Central Park, but she has no time to ponder on the wondrous powers of the stones or the amazing sights before her...she must find a hero before all is lost. Joe McFarland would be the first to admit that he's far from hero material...definitely not the man she's looking for. A firm believer of quietude and non-violence, he avoids conflict at all costs. At thirty-four, he is one of the younger Professors at NYU where he lectures and teaches History: The High Middle Ages. Joe's main goal in life is to gain membership into the Medieval Academy, a highly distinguished group of archaeologists and historians. He believes membership will bring him respect and recognition...but what he really wants is to be reunited with his father; a man who has spent his entire life searching for the Black Knight, the last of the medieval knights.Joe's organized, well-structured life begins to unravel the moment he meets Alexandra Dunn. He figures she majored in medieval history before going off the deep end...until days later when he is miraculously transported through time, to 1499 England. Dressed in Dockers and a button down shirt, Joe thought he was ready for anything...anything but this! An armored man with a very authentic looking broadsword is about to strike him down. With only nail clippers and a Bic to defend himself, Joe has no time to think about such an implausible phenomenon as traveling through time...not if he wants to live to see another day.390 pages", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10829928-a-knight-in-central-park"}, +{"book_title": "The Chronoliths", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 4917, "review_number": 329, "book_description": "Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future. In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory--sixteen years in the future.Shortly afterwards, another, larger pillar arrives in the center of Bangkok-obliterating the city and killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals from, seemingly, our own near future. Who is the warlord \"Kuin\" whose victories they note? Scott wants only to rebuild his life. But some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the central mystery and a final battle with the future.\u00a0The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Cultural (Canada)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116413.The_Chronoliths"}, +{"book_title": "Victory Conditions", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 7796, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "A vast and hostile force is attacking prosperous trade centres, destroying their space fleets then moving on, leaving death and chaos in their wake. Admiral Ky Vatta\u2019s family was decimated by one such attack and Turek, the pirate force\u2019s leader, will not escape her vengeance.Ky has a loyal taskforce, but the enemy have three times the ships and the firepower to match. She must offset these advantages with her knowledge of military strategy and her ace: superior ansible technology, facilitating fast and accurate in-space intelligence.The alternative to victory is unthinkable - devastation of interplanetary trading networks on a galaxy-wide scale - and the end of a way of life.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1305912.Victory_Conditions"}, +{"book_title": "The Confusion", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 22376, "review_number": 721, "book_description": "In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold.In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession.Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Adventure", "Literature", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/822.The_Confusion"}, +{"book_title": "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen", "author_name": "H. Beam Piper", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 1303, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "The Paratime Police patrolled the vast number of alternate time dimensions. Their aim was to keep the existence of the alternative Earths a secret and prevent these Earths from mixing and destroying each other.But the Time Police made mistakes, and they made a big one when a seemingly ordinary Pennsylvania State Trooper named Calvin Morrison was accidentally switched into the Aryan-Transpacific sector, Styphon's House subsector.In just a few weeks, Morrison was being hailed as Lord Kalvan, and was masterminding a campaign that could blow the whole Paratime secret sky high!", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/676235.Lord_Kalvan_of_Otherwhen"}, +{"book_title": "Mercenary Instinct", "author_name": "Ruby Lionsdrake", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2766, "review_number": 306, "book_description": "Skulking around in the ruins on a planet swarming with treasure hunters, slavers, and bounty hunters isn\u2019t good for one\u2019s health. But Ankari Markovich needs a few archaeological samples for her latest business venture, a venture that might prove lucrative enough to move her family off the impoverished planet where she grew up. Unfortunately, she has no sooner collected her samples than she\u2019s captured by a band of brawny mercenaries. The captain might be handsome, but he\u2019s intent on turning her over to some finance lord who has, for reasons unknown, put a bounty on her head, a ridiculously large one at that. If she can\u2019t figure out a way to escape before she\u2019s delivered to the lord\u2019s home world, she could be forced into a life of indentured servitude\u2014or worse.Captain Viktor Mandrake doesn\u2019t usually take on piddling bounty hunting gigs, but when his intelligence officer informs him of a criminal on a nearby planet, he decides it wouldn\u2019t hurt to take a shuttle down to collect the woman. But Ankari Markovich is trouble from the start, nearly eluding his elite forces, then fighting and tricking his people left and right. He finds himself admiring her spirit, but according to her warrant, she\u2019s a criminal. The safest thing is to keep her in the brig and ignore her until she can be handed off to the man who wants her.But the situation grows more complicated when other bounty hunters show up, wanting to claim Ankari for themselves. Thanks to this woman, Viktor\u2019s ship is in danger, his crew members are going missing, and he\u2019s fighting enemies he never asked for in a jungle in the middle of a hurricane. He\u2019s either going to strangle Ankari\u2026 or fall in love. Either scenario could get him killed.Mercenary Instinct is a full-length, stand-alone novel of 90,000 words. It is part of the \u201cMandrake Company\u201d series of science fiction romance stories and is recommended for readers who enjoy space-based adventure (such as Firefly) and steamy love stories (in the style of Linnea Sinclair).", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23353578-mercenary-instinct"}, +{"book_title": "Escapement", "author_name": "Jay Lake", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 518, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "In his novel Mainspring, Lake created an enormous canvas for storytelling with his hundred mile high Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth. Now in Escapement, he explores more of that territory.Paolina Barthes is a young woman of remarkable intellectual ability \u2013 a genius on the level of Isaac Newton.\u00a0But she has grown up in isolation, in a small village of shipwreck survivors, on the Wall in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0She knows little of the world, but she knows that England rules it, and must be the home of people who possess the learning that she so desperately wants.\u00a0And so she sets off to make her way off the Wall, not knowing that she will bring her astounding, unschooled talent for sorcery to the attention of those deadly factions who would use or kill her for it.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2414574.Escapement"}, +{"book_title": "Eclipse", "author_name": "Stephenie Meyer", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1467546, "review_number": 38245, "book_description": "\"BELLA?\"Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?READERS CAPTIVATED BY Twilight AND New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428263.Eclipse"}, +{"book_title": "Les Disparus du Clairdelune", "author_name": "Christelle Dabos", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 19881, "review_number": 2012, "book_description": "Officiellement introduite \u00e0 la cour comme Vice-conteuse, Oph\u00e9lie d\u00e9couvre les mondanit\u00e9s d'un univers o\u00f9 complots et tensions politiques sont \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153uvre derri\u00e8re les belles apparences. Entre l'arriv\u00e9e de sa famille au P\u00f4le et les exigences de Farouk, elle n'a d'autre choix que de s'appuyer sur Thorn, son \u00e9nigmatique fianc\u00e9. Quand des nobles disparaissent les uns apr\u00e8s les autres, la liseuse d'Anima doit user de ses talents pour mener l'enqu\u00eate. Une mission qui va l'entra\u00eener beaucoup plus loin que pr\u00e9vu, au c\u0153ur d'une v\u00e9rit\u00e9 plus redoutable que tout ce \u00e0 quoi elle s'\u00e9tait pr\u00e9par\u00e9e...", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Cultural (France)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26008840-les-disparus-du-clairdelune"}, +{"book_title": "Evolution", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2886, "review_number": 232, "book_description": "Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species Purgatorius. From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate?", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Biology (Evolution)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science (Biology)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66792.Evolution"}, +{"book_title": "Marooned in Realtime", "author_name": "Vernor Vinge", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 5107, "review_number": 211, "book_description": "Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or \"bobbles,\" in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it's obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It's up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man.Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge's tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Singularity", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167847.Marooned_in_Realtime"}, +{"book_title": "Hardwired: The Sourcebook", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 33, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "\"Mudboys, dirtgirls, zonedancers, buttonheads. They're all gravity-well dirt beneath the steel boot of the Orbital Platforms which control Earth. But the underground and the underworld have declared war against the Orbital Heaven: in the air with sleek delta fighters and military shuttles, in the interface of computer fraud and data flow, in flooded slum alleys with lasers and bombs. It's a war with new warriors, new legends.It's Hardwired.Based on the best-selling science fiction novel by Walter Jon Williams, the Hardwired Sourcebook is the complete reference guide to one of the cyberpunk genre's most famous works. Written by Hardwired's creator himself, the Sourcebook lets you take your CYBERPUNK campaign into a whole new world of action and adventure. HARDWIRED. Become part of the legend.A Supplement for R.Talsorian's CYBERPUNK\"", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Games (Gaming)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2623165-hardwired"}, +{"book_title": "A Study in Honor", "author_name": "Claire O'Dell", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1228, "review_number": 310, "book_description": "Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While treating broken soldiers on the battlefields of the New Civil War, a sniper\u2019s bullet shattered her arm and ended her career. Honorably discharged and struggling with the semi-functional mechanical arm that replaced the limb she lost, she returns to the nation\u2019s capital, a bleak, edgy city in the throes of a fraught presidential election. Homeless and jobless, Watson is uncertain of the future when she meets another black and queer woman, Sara Holmes, a mysterious yet playfully challenging covert agent who offers the doctor a place to stay.Watson\u2019s readjustment to civilian life is complicated by the infuriating antics of her strange new roommate. But the tensions between them dissolve when Watson discovers that soldiers from the New Civil War have begun dying one by one\u2014and that the deaths may be the tip of something far more dangerous, involving the pharmaceutical industry and even the looming election. Joining forces, Watson and Holmes embark on a thrilling investigation to solve the mystery\u2014and secure justice for these fallen soldiers.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Mystery", "Science Fiction", "LGBT", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Retellings", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36502081-a-study-in-honor"}, +{"book_title": "Chosen", "author_name": "Stacy Jones", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2230, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "One minute Lily is trying, and failing, to run her grandmother\u2019s farm\u2014her last remaining connection to her family. The next, she wakes to find herself in a cold, sterile cage surrounded by monsters, with no memory of how she got there. Accidentally abducted by alien poachers, unsure if she will live or die, she is dreading the worst. What she doesn\u2019t expect is for her captors to dump her on an alien planet to fend for herself. Now, she must fight to survive the planet\u2026 or die trying. Frrar, Tor, and Arruk have been searching endlessly for a mate to belong to, someone to finally accept them, but they are losing hope. The time of cleansing, when the great waters drown the land, draws near. They are on the verge of abandoning their search and fleeing the forest when they spot a strange, tiny, two-armed female. They are immediately drawn to her, fascinated by her differences, but they must act fast to save her life, and their own, from the coming flood. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37635099-chosen"}, +{"book_title": "Edge of Apocalypse", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 2287, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "The End Series by New York Times bestselling author Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall is an epic thrill ride ripped from today\u2019s headlines and filtered through Scriptural prophecy. As world events begin setting the stage for the \u201cend of days\u201d foretold in Revelation, Joshua Jordan must weigh the personal price he must pay to save the nation he loves.In this adrenaline-fueled political thriller laced with End Times prophecy, Joshua Jordan, former U.S. spy-plane hero turned weapons designer, creates the world\u2019s most sophisticated missile defense system. But global forces conspire to steal the defense weapon, and U.S. government leaders will do anything to stop the nation\u2019s impending economic catastrophe\u2014including selling-out Jordan and his weapon.As world events begin setting the stage for the \u201cend of days\u201d foretold in Revelation, Jordan must consider not only the biblical prophecies preached by his wife\u2019s pastor, but the personal price he must pay if he is to save the nation he loves.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Fiction", "Christian", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Suspense", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7443270-edge-of-apocalypse"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow of Black Wings", "author_name": "James Calbraith", "rating_score": 3.53, "rating_votes": 421, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "The divination clock is broken. The Year of the Dragon is coming.In the midst of 19th century the world trembles before the might of the Dragon Throne\u2019s ironclad navy and the dreaded Dragon Corps. A young dragon raider Bran joins a regiment of the Royal Marines, led by his estranged father, on a journey to the war-torn Orient.In the lands of Yamato, sealed behind the Divine Winds, conspiracy to overthrow its military dictator grows stronger. A timid shrine apprentice Nagomi is haunted by the visions of dark future. Her only friend Sato, a tomboy samurai, strives for the right to learn and teach the art of western magic.When Bran survives the sea disaster and gets separated from his bound-to\u2013go-feral dragon, the paths of the East and West will cross in a way noone yet suspects...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Cultural (Japan)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15714187-the-shadow-of-black-wings"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Dynasty", "author_name": "Daniel H. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 4297, "review_number": 750, "book_description": "Follow a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries.Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past...Russia, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin, the tsar's loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time, possessed with uncanny power, and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries.The Clockwork Dynasty interweaves past and present, exploring a race of beings designed to live by ironclad principles, yet constantly searching for meaning. As June plunges deeper into their world, her choices will ultimately determine their survival or extermination.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adult", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32670125-the-clockwork-dynasty"}, +{"book_title": "Fools", "author_name": "Pat Cadigan", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 423, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "When Marva, a Method actress, awakens in a hologram pool, carrying in her head the memory of a murder, she must think fast to find out whose life she is living and to elude the Escort Service assassins who are pursuing her.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Thriller", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304809.Fools"}, +{"book_title": "Origins", "author_name": "Jamie Sawyer", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 583, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "\"A gripping read that moves at warp speed.\" - Jack Campbell on The Lazarus War: Artefact\n\nFor someone who has died and come back as many times as Conrad Harris, the nickname Lazarus is well-deserved. His elite military teams are specialists in death - running suicide missions in simulant bodies to combat the alien race known as the Krell. But now the Krell Empire has wreaked such devastation that military command is desperate for a new strategy. And Harris and his team are being sent on a mission that could finally turn the tide of the war. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28118582-origins"}, +{"book_title": "Shadowrun #3: Fallen Angels A Shadowrun Novel", "author_name": "Stephen Kenson", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 222, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Kellan Colt has come far in her magical training. But she still doesn't know the truth about her shadowrunner mother or the secrets of the amulet she possessed. Troubled by disturbing dreams, Kellan is drawn into the paranoiac elven homeland of Tir Tairngire where she must unravel the most difficult riddle of all: who can she really trust in the shadows?", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351414.Shadowrun_3"}, +{"book_title": "Devils Unto Dust", "author_name": "Emma Berquist", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1047, "review_number": 231, "book_description": "Life out here is hard. So you have to be harder.Willie has always survived. No matter what life in Glory, Texas, has thrown at her. The sickness that swept through the state and turned most living creatures into terrifying shakes. Her own mother succumbing to the disease. Her father disappearing into saloons and gambling and liquor. Willie survives. And she'll make sure her younger brothers and sister do, too.Then her good-for-nothing father steals a fortune from one of the most merciless shake hunters in town, and Willie is on the hook for his debt. With two young hunters as guide, Willie sets out across the desert to find him, and make him pay up.But the desert holds many dangers\u2014and the shakes are only a few of them. This is no place for the weak.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Horror", "Young Adult", "Westerns", "Horror (Zombies)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34697399-devils-unto-dust"}, +{"book_title": "Balance", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.43, "rating_votes": 1537, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Part 2: Episode 5 An entire sector in turmoil... Neighbors who appear unconcerned... A favor asked of an old friend... Sacrifices made for the good of humanity... Before they can challenge the Dusahn and prevent them from expanding their empire further, the Karuzari must first gather much needed resources. But doing so could be more difficult than anticipated. \"Balance\" is the 5th episode in Part 2 of the Frontiers Saga: Rogue Castes. Episode 6 is coming soon!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35230177-balance"}, +{"book_title": "Forging Zero", "author_name": "Sara King", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 6897, "review_number": 368, "book_description": "For lovers of sci-fi thrillers, alien invasion stories, space opera, and sprawling first contact science fiction, this is an unforgettable post-apocalyptic epic about perseverance and survival in a harsh new world where humanity is just another item on the menu...First Contact doesn't go as anyone expected. Now they own us.The Legend of ZERO: Forging Zero is the epic journey of 14-year-old Joe Dobbs in a post-apocalyptic universe following a massive galactic empire's invasion of Earth. The oldest of the children drafted from humanity\u2019s devastated planet, Joe is impressed into service by the alien Congressional Ground Force\u2014and becomes the unwitting centerpiece in a millennia-long alien struggle for independence. Once his training begins, one of the elusive and prophetic Trith appears to give Joe a spine chilling prophecy that the universe has been anticipating for millions of years: Joe will be the one to finally shatter the vast alien government known as Congress. And the Trith cannot lie.\u2026But first Joe has to make it through bootcamp.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35292712-forging-zero"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow's Claim", "author_name": "Kresley Cole", "rating_score": 4.25, "rating_votes": 25874, "review_number": 1584, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestseller Kresley Cole introduces The Dacians: Realm of Blood and Mist, a new paranormal series following the royal bloodline of Dacia, a vampire kingdom hidden within the Lore of the Immortals After Dark. Shadow\u2019s Claim features Prince Trehan, a ruthless master assassin who will do anything to possess Bettina, his beautiful sorceress mate, even compete for her hand in a blood-sport tournament\u2014 to the death.\nHE WON'T BE DENIED...\nTrehan Daciano, known as the Prince of Shadows, has spent his life serving his people\u2014striking in the night, quietly executing any threat to their realm. The coldly disciplined swordsman has never desired anything for himself - \nuntil he beholds Bettina, the sheltered ward of two of the Lore\u2019s most fearsome villains.SHE\u2019S BOUND TO ANOTHER...\nDesperate to earn her guardians\u2019 approval after a life-shattering mistake, young Bettina has no choice but to marry whichever suitor prevails\u2014even though she\u2019s lost her heart to another. \nYet one lethal competitor, a mysterious cloaked swordsman, invades her dreams, tempting her with forbidden pleasure.A BATTLE FOR HER BODY AND SOUL\nEven if Trehan can survive the punishing contests to claim her as his wife, the true battle for Bettina\u2019s heart is yet to come. And unleashing a millennium\u2019s worth of savage need will either frighten his Bride away - \nor stoke Bettina\u2019s own desires to a fever pitch....\n", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12988016-shadow-s-claim"}, +{"book_title": "The World in Winter", "author_name": "John Christopher", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 359, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Penguin reissues a classic work of science fiction from the author of The Death of Grass - now with a new introduction by Hari KunzruOne year the UK suffers a terribly harsh winter: rivers freeze solid, food and fuel run low, the whole of Europe lies under snow. Months pass and the arctic weather remains. It gradually becomes clear that the world's climate has changed permanently and humanity must adapt to survive in the brutal new conditions.As the northern hemisphere nations fall into chaos and barbarism, with packs of men roaming like wolves through the frozen wastelands, citizens flee south to Africa and South America. Journalist Andrew Leedon is one of the lucky ones who escaped in time - swapping London for the white refugee slums of habitable Nigeria. Horrified by conditions and determined to act, Leedon makes a desperate plan to return and reclaim the dangerous wilderness of his abandoned country...The World in Winter is part of the Penguin Worlds classic science fiction series", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Environment (Climate Change)", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29776927-the-world-in-winter"}, +{"book_title": "By Force of Arms", "author_name": "William C. Dietz", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 647, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "Having stopped a mutiny against Earth's government, General Bill Booly and his troops face an even greater challenge: a battle for the future of every living being in the universe, against a fanatical human and his killer technology.\"Dietz's expertise in matters of mayhem is second to none.\" --The Oregonian", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722433.By_Force_of_Arms"}, +{"book_title": "The Extinction Trials", "author_name": "S.M. Wilson", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 2071, "review_number": 436, "book_description": "Betrayal. Sacrifice. Survival.Welcome to the Extinction Trials.In Stormchaser and Lincoln's ruined world, the only way to survive is to risk everything. To face a contest more dangerous than anyone can imagine. And they will do anything to win.But in a land full of monsters - human and reptilian - they can't afford to trust anyone. Perhaps not even each other...", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34865995-the-extinction-trials"}, +{"book_title": "Divided", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 2699, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "How does a girl who's about to take her vows as a nun wind up with two hot warriors to pick from?That's Becca Malone's problem. After eating a piece of bonding fruit cake, she wound up with Far and Truth, Twin Kindred warriors who were separated at birth and never formed a proper Twin bond. Because the twins hate each other, Becca feels free to choose between them...until the three of them fall into a vision of unspeakable terror...a vision that is about to come true if Far and Truth don't quickly form a bond. And guess who has to be the bridge between them?Becca is scared to death she's going to wind up bonded for life and Far and Truth aren't too thrilled about the prospect of sharing her. But when the ominous vision sends them on a trip to a rogue planet where the inhabitants live out their lives in a strange, mental internet called the Mindscape, they have no choice but to come together in the most intimate way possible.Becca comes to realize she can't choose between the light twin, sweet and gentle Far and the dark twin, intense and passionate Truth. But how can she be with both of them at once when the twins have sworn to be forever...Divided?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22411825-divided"}, +{"book_title": "Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep", "author_name": "Todd Tarpley", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 683, "review_number": 142, "book_description": "A playful robot bedtime story, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree John Rocco! \n\nQuiet at last. Not a peep. Three little robots are... BEEP! BEEP!When his three rambunctious robots give every possible excuse not to go to sleep, what's a little boy to do? With a fun refrain that will have readers of all ages chanting along, here's a book that kids will be begging to read every night before bed.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Poetry", "Childrens (1st Grade)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18699461-beep-beep-go-to-sleep"}, +{"book_title": "Island Heat", "author_name": "Jill Myles", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 763, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "On a business trip to Bermuda, realtor Diana Holcomb's small plane goes down over the ocean, a victim of the infamous Bermuda Triangle.Diana wakes up to find herself on a deserted island...that really isn't all that deserted. First, a gigantic dinosaur tries to eat her. Then she's captured by cavemen, and just when things are looking their worst, she's rescued by none other than a gorgeous man with the body of an Adonis and the jungle skills of Tarzan.Salvador's been stranded on the island for a very, very long time without a woman. A very, very long time. And now that he has Diana, he intends to claim her for his own...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10644240-island-heat"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Mourns", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 15825, "review_number": 681, "book_description": "Andrea Nash of the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid - with an assist from her friend, Kate Daniels - tries to figure out why the giant three-headed dog who guards the gates of Hades is sniffing around Atlanta.* Originally published in the anthology, Must Love Hellhounds.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Novella", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11027748-magic-mourns"}, +{"book_title": "Imaginary Magnitude", "author_name": "Stanis\u0142aw Lem", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 702, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create \"pornograms,\" and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of \"bitistics.\" \"Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes\" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book", "year_published": 1973, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Philosophy", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Writing (Essays)", "Novels", "Literature", "Speculative Fiction", "Unfinished"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/953489.Imaginary_Magnitude"}, +{"book_title": "Nightlight: A Parody", "author_name": "The Harvard Lampoon", "rating_score": 3.08, "rating_votes": 10199, "review_number": 1688, "book_description": "About three things I was absolutely certain.First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe.Second, there was a vampire part of him--which I assumed was wildly out of his control--that wanted me dead.And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon\u2019s hilarious send-up of Twilight. Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. After witnessing a number of strange events\u2013Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!\u2013Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. But how can she convince Edwart to bite her and transform her into his eternal bride, especially when he seems to find girls so repulsive?Complete with romance, danger, insufficient parental guardianship, creepy stalker-like behavior, and a vampire prom, Nightlight is the uproarious tale of a vampire-obsessed girl, looking for love in all the wrong places.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Humor", "Young Adult", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6638377-nightlight"}, +{"book_title": "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future", "author_name": "Dav Pilkey", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 23807, "review_number": 417, "book_description": "Tra-la-laaa! The wait is over! Dav Pilkey--ahem--we mean, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the bestselling authors of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPER DIAPER BABY, are back with their second graphic novel!Meet Ook and Gluk, the stars of this sensationally silly graphic novel from the creators of Captain Underpants! It's 500,001 BC, and Ook and Gluk's hometown of Caveland, Ohio, is under attack by an evil corporation from the future. When Ook, Gluk, and their little dinosaur pal Lily are pulled through a time portal to 2222, they discover a future world that's even more devastated than their own. Luckily, they find a friend in Master Wong, a martial arts instructor who trains them in the ways of kung fu. Now all they have to do is travel back in time 502,223 years and save the day!", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Humor", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7905977-the-adventures-of-ook-and-gluk"}, +{"book_title": "The Iron Knight", "author_name": "Julie Kagawa", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 79883, "review_number": 4684, "book_description": "My name - my True Name - is Ashallayn\u2019 darkmyr Tallyn. I am the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court. And I am dead to her. My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl\u2026To cold faery prince Ash, love was a weakness for mortals and fools. His own love had died a horrible death, killing any gentler feelings the Winter prince might have had. Or so he thought.Then Meghan Chase - a half human, half fey slip of a girl - smashed through his barricades, binding him to her irrevocably with his oath to be her knight. And when all of Faery nearly fell to the Iron fey, she severed their bond to save his life. Meghan is now the Iron Queen, ruler of a realm where no Winter or Summer fey can survive.With the unwelcome company of his archrival, Summer Court prankster Puck, and the infuriating cait sith Grimalkin, Ash begins a journey he is bound to see through to its end - a quest to find a way to honor his vow to stand by Meghan's side.To survive in the Iron Realm, Ash must have a soul and a mortal body. But the tests he must face to earn these things are impossible. And along the way Ash learns something that changes everything. A truth that challenges his darkest beliefs and shows him that, sometimes, it takes more than courage to make the ultimate sacrifice.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9659607-the-iron-knight"}, +{"book_title": "The Void War", "author_name": "D.J. Holmes", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 950, "review_number": 56, "book_description": "It\u2019s the year 2465, two hundred years since the stars were opened to humanity by the invention of the shift drive. So began the First Interstellar Expansion Era, catapulting humanity into a deadly race for the limited resources of navigable space. Now tensions between the human nations are threatening to boil over into open hostility. Into this maelstrom steps the exiled Commander James Somerville of the Royal Space Navy. Banished from London to the survey ship HMS Drake he is about to make a discovery that may change his fortunes and throw Britain into a deadly war with its closest rival. The Void War is a military science fiction novel and first book by new author D. J. Holmes ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26133196-the-void-war"}, +{"book_title": "Outcast", "author_name": "Cheryl Brooks", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 1544, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "\"This fourth installment in The Cat Star Chronicles series maintains the qualities of excitement, world-building, sizzling romance, and great imagination that made Slave such a resounding success.\"Sold into slavery when his planet was destroyed, Lynx was enslaved in a harem. He is a favorite due to his feline gene, which gives him remarkable sexual powers, but after ten years, Lynx is exhausted.Thrown out without a penny, Lynx is bitter and anti-female. He emigrates to a new planet but can only find a job with a female rancher.Bonnie's boyfriend has left with all their money and she needs help with the ranch. Lynx is cynical, but honest, and though he has made it clear that he wants no part of a romantic relationship, Bonnie can't resist him. She finds out about his impotence and becomes determined not to let such a beautiful and sensual young man go to waste...PRAISE FOR CHERYL BROOKS:\"Brooks presents a nice futuristic story with some interesting worlds and Aliens in this Cat Star Chronicles offering. Fascinating world customs, a bit of a mystery and the relationship between the hero and heroine make this a very sensual romance... the hero is quite interesting, and the heroine a strong, independent woman.\" The Romantic Times", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6193612-outcast"}, +{"book_title": "Hunter's Prey", "author_name": "Moira Rogers", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 414, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "\"He can't fight his inner beast, but she can tame it. \"\"Bloodhounds, Book 2\"Ophelia retired from life as a prostitute, but her new position is even more complicated. Managing the bloodhound manor in Iron Creek is difficult and time-consuming, a job she enjoys less with each passing day. Then there s her inconvenient attraction to Hunter. The newly turned hound seems eager to enjoy her company, but wary of anything more intimate.Having survived the violence of his first full moon out of a cage, Hunter isn't looking forward to his first new moon. Ophelia offers to be the woman who sates his needs during the three long days of sexual fury, but he can't abide the thought of hurting her in a state of mindless lust. Especially since she longs to settle into a respectable life, and his needs are anything but respectable.Their mutual goal is simple: avoid entanglements. It s a solid plan, at least until a vampire drug lord and a couple of nosy Guild representatives force them to work together to defend their friends and everything they hold dear including each other.Warning: Contains a mostly feral, vampire-hunting hero and a tough survivor of a heroine whose retired-hooker heart is more steel than gold. Also included: dangerous frontier intrigue, fancy brothels, mad-scientist weapons and a good dose of wicked loving in an alternate Wild West. \"", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Westerns", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10792465-hunter-s-prey"}, +{"book_title": "Eye and Talon", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.19, "rating_votes": 120, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Ridley Scott's vision of Philip K. Dick's 21st Century Los Angeles was a masterpiece that has become a defining landmark on the SF landscape. And with his Blade Runner novels acclalimed author K.W. Jeter has added a body of fiction that is richly resonant of the original vision.Fully authorised by the estate of Philip K. Dick and written by the author they felt best equipped to take forward the vision of one of the great names in SF, Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon combines the dark imagery, paranoia, tension and pace of Dick's original novel and the cinematic genius of Ridley Scott in a novel that takes the Blade Runner series into a new millennium.Blade Runner has become one of the most recognisable and well-loved icons of SF and K.W. Jeter has only added to its reputation and impact.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2092141.Eye_and_Talon"}, +{"book_title": "Die goldene Br\u00fccke", "author_name": "Eva V\u00f6ller", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1992, "review_number": 138, "book_description": "Nachdem Anna sich dem Geheimbund der Zeitw\u00e4chter angeschlossen hat, l\u00e4sst das n\u00e4chste Abenteuer nicht lange auf sich warten. Mitten in ihrer Abiturpr\u00fcfung ereilt sie eine Schreckensnachricht aus Paris: Sebastiano ist verschollen - und zwar im 17. Jahrhundert! Anna begibt sich auf eine gef\u00e4hrliche Reise und findet ihren Freund tats\u00e4chlich in Paris wieder. Doch es gibt ein neues Problem: Er h\u00e4lt sich f\u00fcr einen Musketier und hat keine Ahnung, wer Anna ist. Schafft sie es, seinem Ged\u00e4chtnis auf die Spr\u00fcnge zu helfen?Spieldauer: 10 Stunden und 19 Minuten", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Audiobook", "European Literature (German Literature)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15853258-die-goldene-br-cke"}, +{"book_title": "TRUEL1F3", "author_name": "Jay Kristoff", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1383, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "\nFrom the bestselling co-author of the Illuminae Files comes the thrilling finale in the LIFEL1K3 trilogy--hailed by Marie Lu as \"a breathless, action-packed exploration of what humanity really means.\" \nBest friends have become enemies. Lovers have become strangers. And deciding whose side you're on could be the difference between life and death. For Eve and Lemon, discovering the truth about themselves--and each other--was too much for their friendship to take. But with the country on the brink of a new world war--this time between the BioMaas swarm at CityHive and Daedalus's army at Megopolis, loyalties will be pushed to the brink, unlikely alliances will form and with them, betrayals. But the threat doesn't stop there, because the lifelikes are determined to access the program that will set every robot free, a task requiring both Eve and Ana, the girl she was created to replace. In the end, violent clashes and heartbreaking choices reveal the true heroes . . . and they may not be who you think they are.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42871642-truel1f3"}, +{"book_title": "Life After War (Life After War, #1-3", "author_name": "Angela White", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 978, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "This edition contains the EXACT text from books one, two, and three. It does not contain new material. It does include the free first chapter of book four, Adrian's Eagles. \"This is Safe Haven Refugee Camp. Can anyone hear me? Hello? Is anyone out there?\" \"The End of the world has given us a harsh, merciless existence, where nature tries hard to push mankind to the very brink of extinction. Everything is against us, between us... \u201cUntold miles of lawless, apocalyptic roads wait for our feet, and the Future, cold and dark, offers little comfort. Without CHANGE, there will be no peace. Only Survivors.\" \"Set along the lines of The Stand and The Postman, this is a chilling vision of the collapse of all society in the year 2012 and the rebirth of a nation by those who survived. It\u2019s so much more than just another fantasy series.\" -The Review Shop From dangerous trips into dark, apocalyptic cities, to patriotic rescues and furious revelations, Life After War is an action packed fantasy series where those left alive must come to terms with their mistakes in the old world, while fighting for a place in the new one. It\u2019s the apocalyptic fantasy series that Stephen King fans have been searching for. This way, please\u2026 Summary in 20 words or less An action adventure quest, with a supernatural romance, and many other subplots, set during the aftermath of the apocalypse. So what\u2019s really in this series? Here\u2019s a short list: *The End of the World, right-up-close and full of apocalyptic horror. *A government conspiracy that caused the apocalypse. *An adventure into the wastelands to find family, supplies, and safety. *A supernatural romance with a dangerous secret about a child\u2019s parentage and a love strong enough to survive the end of the world. *An invasion, ambushes, attacks from Nature and man - guns and magic. *A refugee camp with very different laws, picking up those who\u2019ve survived. *A Hero you\u2019ll love, even as you ponder the secrets that could lose him leadership. *A Witch, a Doctor, a government Storm Tracker, a TV Star, and three Marines struggling to keep their people alive and together as they prepare to defend themselves against Cesar\u2019s Slavers. *A constant battle for survival that includes deadly trips into decaying American cities, insanity, relics of the past, and ghosts that stalk their every move. Life After War. Magic and Reality blended into a post-apocalyptic fantasy series that you won\u2019t ever forget. The Survivors (book one) has been a bestseller on multiple retailers in fantasy series, dark fantasy, science fiction adventure, and romance series, with more than 150K downloads.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10775886-life-after-war"}, +{"book_title": "The Unicorn's Tail", "author_name": "A.W. Exley", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 840, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00LNR8YG6Amy Hamilton is a good girl. She always did exactly as society demanded, kept her eyes downcast, never spoke out of turn, and hid the myriad of questions swirling in her brain. In return for shutting off her intellect she landed an abusive fianc\u00e9 and was cast aside by the ton.Disgraced, she seeks refuge at the Lyons' country estate. There she is given an artifact, a bracelet made from a unicorn's tail and told it contains enough magic to grant one wish. She knows what she wants, someone to love the true her, and not the shallow image that smiles back from the mirror.She never expected the unicorn to send her two men\u2026Lachlan Hawke - dashing airship pirate and notorious rogue.Jackson Jackson - the scarred henchman and enforcer for the Lyons Empire.The two men have a bet, who will be first to win a kiss from the delicate rose? The loser to be tarred and feathered. Loki is sure of a quick victory and that Jackson will be impersonating a chicken by the end of the week. Jackson doesn't even know why he agreed to the stupid bet, the girl shudders whenever he enters a room.Both men are about to learn you should be careful making bets when a unicorn is involved\u2026.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Novella", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26393468-the-unicorn-s-tail"}, +{"book_title": "Field Trip to the Moon", "author_name": "John L. Hare", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 635, "review_number": 145, "book_description": "It's field trip day, and students are excited to travel on their yellow spaceship bus from their space station to the moon.Climb aboard the spaceship bus for a fantastic field trip adventure to the moon. Once they land, students debark and set out with their teacher to explore. They jump over trenches and see craters and mountains on the moon's surface and even Earth in the faraway distance. One student takes a break to draw some pictures, falls asleep, and wakes up to discover that the rest of the class and the spaceship are gone. How the student passes the time waiting to be rescued makes for a funny and unexpected adventure that will enchant children all over the galaxy.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Art", "Adventure", "Humor", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41554345-field-trip-to-the-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Bourne", "author_name": "Lisa Tawn Bergren", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 3151, "review_number": 211, "book_description": "BOURNE picks up right where TORRENT left off...Find out what has happened to men returning from the battle, gravely wounded, to the Betarrinis, fighting for the men they love, and just who is hunting them next...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Novella", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13412178-bourne"}, +{"book_title": "Devil on a Sparrow's Wing", "author_name": "Calista Taylor", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 153, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "With London on the verge of revolution, Phoebe follows her husband, Seth, and their dear friend, Gavin, to Edinburgh in order to barter with Scotland's Am Freiceadan. Famous for her herbal elixirs, Phoebe offers her newest drink, Sanctis, in exchange for weapons and men to help the Cause, a movement trying to end the suffering of the poor and a revolution the Secret Service are determined to put an end to it. But all goes terribly wrong when Seth is caught in an explosion, and believed to be dead. Distraught with grief, Phoebe barely survives his death, but pregnant with Seth's child, Gavin helps her through her darkest days, their friendship turning to love. However, Seth is not dead. Kidnapped by the Secret Service, Seth is forced to work on a tinkering capable of destroying the revolution and thousands of lives in its wake.*This is book 2 in the Viridis series, though it can stand on its own.*", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13000606-devil-on-a-sparrow-s-wing"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond: the Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology", "author_name": "Sf\u00e9 R. Monster", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 571, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Beyond is an anthology of queer sci-fi and fantasy comics. Featuring 18 stories by 26 contributors, Beyond is a 250+ page, black and white, queer comic anthology, full of swashbuckling space pirates, dragon slayers, death-defying astronauts, and monster royalty. Each story celebrates and showcases unquestionably queer characters as they explore the galaxy, mix magic, have renegade adventures, and save the day!The Beyond Anthology was born from a desire to see stories inspired by people like us (queer people with diverse genders and sexualities) slaying dragons, piloting spaceships, getting into trouble, and saving the day\u2014without having to read for their queerness from between the lines. We wanted to see beautiful, heartwarming, and adventurous stories that reflect and celebrate the many facets of gender and sexuality, without having to worry that their queerness would cast them as a villain, a pariah, or turn them into a cautionary tale. Beyond is edited by Sf\u00e9 R. Monster, assistant edited by Taneka Stotts, and features a group of 26 contributors who have created 18 exceptional all-ages stories that showcase and celebrate openly and unabashedly queer characters in science fiction and fantasy-based settings.Cover by Levi Hastings, interior of covers by Evan Dahm.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20625032-beyond"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette, Volume I", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1299, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Ed Piazza, the Secretary of State of the small United States being forged in war-torn Germany during the Thirty Years War, has a problem on his hands. A religious conference has been called in nearby Rudolstadt which will determine doctrine for all the Lutherans in the nation. The hard-fought principle of religious freedom is at stake, threatened alike by intransigent theologians and students rioting in the streets.As if that weren't bad enough:* the up-time American Lutherans are themselves divided;* a rambunctious old folk singer is cheerfully pouring gasoline on the flames;* and a Calvinist \"facilitator\" from Geneva is maneuvering to get the U.S. involved with the developing revolutionary movement in Naples.Stories include:* Portraits by Eric Flint* Anna's Story by Loren Jones* Curio and Relic by Tom Van Natta* The Sewing Circle by Gorg Huff* The Rudolstadt Colloquy by Virginia DeMarce* Radio in the 1632 Universe by Rick Boatright* They've Got Bread Mold, So Why Can't They Make Penicillin? by Robert Gottlieb* Horse Power by Karen Bergstralh", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Short Stories", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57310.Grantville_Gazette_Volume_I"}, +{"book_title": "The Case Study of Vanitas, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Jun Mochizuki", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 1294, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "Step once more into the imagination of Jun Mochizuki, creator of New York Times-bestselling PandoraHearts! A tale of vampires and curses set in a whimsical and dark steampunk Paris unfolds! On the streets, rumors abound of a clockwork grimoire said to sow curses among the vampires. Now, guided by the Book of Vanitas, the gears begun to turn, and the story of two men, Noe and Vanitas, takes shape...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Historical", "Comics Manga"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30621341-the-case-study-of-vanitas-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Man-Kzin Wars IV", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1064, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "A WINNING TRADITION...Welcome to the hottest pocket in Larry Niven's Known Space: the time of the assault on pacifist humanity by berserker felinoids from the planet Kzin. This time humanity's representatives to the Warrior Race are Donald Kingsbury, Greg Bear, and Steve Stirling. As in traditional in this war for species survival, in all cases \"monkey cleverness\" (i.e. human cunning) is more than a match for felinoid ferocity. But as is also traditional, victory never comes cheap to those out on the sharp edge of The Man-Kzin Wars.Cover Illustration: Stephen Hickman", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378692.Man_Kzin_Wars_IV"}, +{"book_title": "Of Fire and Night", "author_name": "Kevin J. Anderson", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 4591, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "The Barnes & Noble ReviewKevin J. Anderson's super-sized space opera, the Saga of Seven Suns, continues in Of Fire and Night, the fifth installment of the shelf-bending science fiction series that has been compared to Frank Herbert's Dune chronicles and Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. Of Fire and Night begins with the all-out extermination of humankind looming. The Terran Hanseatic League's war with the hydrogues (aliens that live at the core of gas-giant planets) is going badly -- and, with a tyrannical leader like Basil Wenceslas, the situation is only getting worse, especially after he alienates all of the powerful aliens who might have helped the League. As these once-reliable allies secretly plot humankind's eradication with the hydrogues, entire factions of humanity are making plans for individual survival. At the same time, Soldier compies (competent computerized companions) have rebelled and taken most of Earth's military. With Armageddon imminent, does humankind have any chance of survival? When Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns (Scattered Suns, Horizon Storms, et al.) is eventually concluded -- a projected seven-volume story arc, according to the author's web site -- it will be remembered as one of the most ambitious science fiction narratives ever undertaken. Featuring numerous sentient alien races, complex political machinations, mind-blowing technological advances, and literally hundreds of integral characters, this apocalyptic series can be described properly in only word -- epic! (A word of advice to Seven Suns neophytes: This is definitely not a series where readers can just pick up any volume and dive in. Beginning with Book One, Hidden Empire, is highly recommended.) Paul Goat Allen", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Astronomy (Planets)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103101.Of_Fire_and_Night"}, +{"book_title": "The Great Game", "author_name": "Lavie Tidhar", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 239, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "The Lizardine Empire is under threat. When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer, and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11395017-the-great-game"}, +{"book_title": "A Door Into Ocean", "author_name": "Joan Slonczewski", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2117, "review_number": 185, "book_description": "A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis--there are no males--and tells of the conflicts that erupt when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world, and send in an army.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Feminism", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121606.A_Door_Into_Ocean"}, +{"book_title": "Girl Parts", "author_name": "John M. Cusick", "rating_score": 3.04, "rating_votes": 1766, "review_number": 393, "book_description": "From a debut author! What happens when a robot designed to be a boy's ideal \"companion\" develops a will of her own? A compulsively readable novel from a new talent. (Ages 14 and up)David and Charlie are opposites. David has a million friends, online and off. Charlie is a soulful outsider, off the grid completely. But neither feels close to anybody. When David's parents present him with a hot Companion bot designed to encourage healthy bonds and treat his \"dissociative disorder,\" he can't get enough of luscious redheaded Rose --and he can't get it soon. Companions come with strict intimacy protocols, and whenever he tries anything, David gets an electric shock. Parted from the boy she was built to love, Rose turns to Charlie, who finds he can open up, knowing Rose isn't real. With Charlie's help, the ideal \"companion\" is about to become her own best friend. In a stunning and hilarious debut, John Cusick takes rollicking aim at internet culture and our craving for meaningful connection in an uberconnected world.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Relationships", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Contemporary", "Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7422080-girl-parts"}, +{"book_title": "Redoubtable", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 2861, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife has precise orders: seek out, engage, and destroy pirates, slavers, and drug lords operating beyond the rim of human space-without interfering in Peterwald family affairs. But when slavers kidnap a twelve-year-old girl, Kris's mission becomes personal. And if destroying the pirate compound flattens some Peterwald interests-well, to hell with politics.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7766176-redoubtable"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Centurion", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 2304, "review_number": 187, "book_description": "In the second decade of the twenty-first century the world is struck by two catastrophes, a new mini-ice age and, nearly simultaneously, a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as \u201cBandit Six\u201d an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world and prevent the fall of his homeland\u2014despite the best efforts of politicians both elected and military. The Last Centurion is a memoir of one possible future, a world that is a darkling mirror of our own. Written \u201cblog-style,\u201d it pulls no punches in its descriptions of junk science, bad strategy and organic farming not to mention all three at once", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Novels", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2381785.The_Last_Centurion"}, +{"book_title": "Mustaa lihaa - Kyberpunk-antologia", "author_name": "Anne Leinonen", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 45, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Kuka muistaa viel\u00e4 kyberpunkin? 80-luvulla visioitiin synkk\u00e4\u00e4 tulevaisuutta, jossa globaalit suuryritykset hallitsivat ylikansoituksen ja ekokatastrofien runtelemaa maailmaa. Kromatusta ter\u00e4ksest\u00e4 ja peilipintaisesta lasista rakennettujen pilvenpiirt\u00e4jien ja j\u00e4ttil\u00e4ism\u00e4isten valomainosten varjossa hakkerit ja palkkamurhaajat pakenivat lyhyen ja v\u00e4kivaltaisen el\u00e4m\u00e4ns\u00e4 ahdistusta synteettisiin huumeisiin ja virtuaalitodellisuuteen \u2013 ja tietenkin koko ajan satoi. Mutta millaista on kyberpunk 2010-luvulla, jolloin osa vanhoista visioista on jo auttamatta vanhentunut \u2013 ja osa taas muuttunut arkip\u00e4iv\u00e4ksi? T\u00e4h\u00e4n kysymykseen vastaa Mustaa lihaa. Kyberpunk-antologia. Luvassa on toimintaa, viihdett\u00e4 ja scifistisi\u00e4 oivalluksia. Siis peililasit silmille ja piuhat niskaan!Sis\u00e4lt\u00f6:Petri Laine: H\u00e4iv\u00e4hdys MichelangelostaLucilla Lin: Koko maailman vihollinenJuha Jyrk\u00e4s: TaikapulveriaTommi Puolakka: MelkkeriSeppo Kallio: Ursus RandArto Koistinen: IlvesNadja Sokura: Sarastuksen j\u00e4lkeenJussi Katajala: BetatestiHeikki Nevala: Uskon j\u00e4lkeenLeila Paananen: P\u00e4\u00e4ns\u00e4rky BudapestissaJyrki Pitk\u00e4: Mustaa lihaa", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "European Literature (Finnish Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18656965-mustaa-lihaa---kyberpunk-antologia"}, +{"book_title": "Nikhil", "author_name": "M.K. Eidem", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 3549, "review_number": 220, "book_description": "As the Squad Leader of the Elite Warriors, Nikhil Kozar was the largest warrior in the Kaliszian Empire. When a shuttle crashes on one of their planets the search and rescue mission turned into something much more complicated.Mackenzie \u2018Mac\u2019 Wharton had agreed to guide a group that had wanted an adventure on her mountain. They got more than they bargained for when they were all abducted by a group of aliens called the Ganglians. Badly beaten and barely alive Mac finds herself in the arms of the largest male she\u2019s ever seen. She should fear him, should be fighting to get away from him, but there was something about the massive male that called to her.A traitor threatens the Empire\u2026 Someone wants Nikhil dead\u2026. The Zaludians want Mackenzie back\u2026 And then there was the secret she is keeping\u2026. Would it be the one thing that finally brought down the Kaliszian Empire? Or would it be the first step in its rebirth?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Sociology (Abuse)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29055364-nikhil"}, +{"book_title": "Chobits, Vol. 8", "author_name": "CLAMP", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 4359, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Chi has developed quite a bit since Hideki found her lying in the garbage one fateful morning. She's learned to speak, work in a pastry shop, go shopping...and, so it would seem, to love. After much soul searching (if a persocom could even be considered to have a soul) Chi comes to the realization that her feelings towards Hideki, her \"someone just fer her,\" are nothing short of love. Only two obstacles stand between her and happiness. First there's Hideki; he's been struggling with the idea that a person can have feelings for a machine. Can her return her love? Second is the mysterious Zima and Dita. Having run out of patience, they're quickly closing in to deactivate Chi before her strong emotions pose a threat to persocoms everywhere.Chapters 82\u201388", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Comics Manga", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In (Anime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1087173.Chobits_Vol_8"}, +{"book_title": "The Bloodline Feud", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1641, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "The Bloodline Feud: an omnibus edition of the first two novels in Charles Stross's The Merchant Princes seriesThe six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes. They are a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their world and ours makes them rich in both.Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovers her alternate-world relatives with explosive results that shake three worlds. Now, as the prodigal Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, she finds herself ensnared in schemes and plots centuries in the making. She is surrounded by unlikely allies, lethal contraband, and\u2014most dangerous of all\u2014her family.To avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam must build a power base of her own\u2014with unexpected consequences for three different time lines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17348191-the-bloodline-feud"}, +{"book_title": "Love and Payne", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1584, "review_number": 280, "book_description": "Austen Payne, THIRDS Squadron Specialist Agent (SSA) for Destructive Delta and TIN operative, has seen the worst the world has to offer, faced lethal killers, and helped bring down dangerous organizations. But nothing terrifies him more than falling in love. After years of undercover work, Austen is a master at defending himself and protecting his heart\u2026 until he meets Osmond Zachary.THIRDS Defense Agent Osmond Zachary has a huge, doting family, yet something is missing in his life. After meeting grumpy, foul-mouthed, jittery cheetah Therian Austen Payne, Zach knows exactly what that something\u2014or someone\u2014is. Unfortunately Austen seems determined to avoid Zach at all costs.When Zach foils an assassination attempt, he ends up in the killer\u2019s crosshairs, and Austen is Zach\u2019s best chance at staying alive. Zach hopes the crisis will bring them closer, but Austen has every intention of walking away as soon as the danger is over.Happily ever after isn\u2019t for guys like Austen, but Zach is determined to show him it can be\u2026.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Mystery", "Contemporary", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53511640-love-and-payne"}, +{"book_title": "Mari's Mistake", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1453, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "I\u2019ve ruined everything.I had a mate. Resonance. Happiness. But then T\u2019chai\u2019s attacked by ravenous sky-claw and almost killed. To help him recover, I tell the healer to turn off our unfulfilled resonance. It's temporary...or so I think.Big mistake. Because now my khui acts like it\u2019s dead and it hates T\u2019chai. But I still love him. How do we move forward when I can\u2019t bear his touch? Is there a way to get back our happiness together, or is it time to give up on what we once had?T'chai has other plans, though. He's not giving up on us. If it means crossing the world, he's ready to do it at my side.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54551944-mari-s-mistake"}, +{"book_title": "The Valley of Horses", "author_name": "Jean M. Auel", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 79755, "review_number": 2491, "book_description": "This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides to stay and prepare for the long glacial winter ahead. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals don't fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical Fiction (Prehistoric)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Novels", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40493.The_Valley_of_Horses"}, +{"book_title": "The Merrimack Event (Shieldclads #1", "author_name": "David A. Tatum", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 454, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Once every four years, the Earth Alliance Naval Academy is included in a war game\u2026 or rather the Wargame: On a distant frontier colony, cadets must repair, recommission, and crew a fleet of old, mothballed warships for a simulated fleet action against a group of seasoned veterans using top-of-the-line warships. After some meddling on the part of the Admiralty, many of the Academy's best are assigned to the oldest, smallest hulk in the Wargame, the unfortunately named corvette Chihuahua. Thanks to a genius engineer, an Army veteran loaned to the Navy for the war game, and an unconventional captain, they make a new discovery which turns her into the most valuable warship in the fleet: The first ever Shieldclad warship. The crew abruptly finds itself center stage in a real combat action, however, when Earth is attacked by an unknown foe, and a lone squadron of these once-mothballed ships is the Alliance's only hope to respond\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36147556-the-merrimack-event"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1301, "review_number": 143, "book_description": "After more than a decade out of print, the original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an all-new translation, color pages, and new cover designs! In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust?", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Comics Manga", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35197945-battle-angel-alita-deluxe-edition-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "Bran's Story", "author_name": "Maculategiraffe", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 1527, "review_number": 196, "book_description": "Imagine a modern society parallel to our own where impoverished peasants are legally permitted to sell their children into slavery starting at age 15. The upper class households in this world demonstrate their wealth by buying the best cars, largest houses and the most attractive people.Bran is a \"pleasure slave\" and when he tries to run away one too many times, his master sells him to a married couple known as the \"slave breakers\". While in their possession, Bran learns new definitions for love, family and his place in this world. Note: This book originally appeared as posts on LiveJournal and still contains some editing notes. The text is sexually explicit (including m/m and polyamorous situations) and is intended for adult readers.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Dark", "LGBT (Gay)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7802920-bran-s-story"}, +{"book_title": "The System of the World", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 20653, "review_number": 691, "book_description": "The System of the World, the third and concluding volume of Neal Stephenson's shelf-bending Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver and The Confusion), brings the epic historical saga to its thrilling - and truly awe-inspiring - conclusion.Set in the early 18th century and featuring a diverse cast of characters that includes alchemists, philosophers, mathematicians, spies, thieves, pirates, and royalty, The System of the World follows Daniel Waterhouse, an unassuming philosopher and confidant to some of the most brilliant minds of the age, as he returns to England to try and repair the rift between geniuses Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. After reluctantly leaving his family in Boston, Waterhouse arrives in England and is almost killed by a mysterious Infernal Device. Having been away from the war-decimated country for two decades, Waterhouse quickly learns that although many things have changed, there is still violent revolution simmering just beneath the surface of seemingly civilized society. With Queen Anne deathly ill and Tories and Whigs jostling for political supremacy, Waterhouse and Newton vow to figure out who is trying to kill certain scientists and decipher the riddle behind the legend of King Solomon's gold, a mythical hoard of precious metal with miraculous properties.Arguably one of the most ambitious -- and most researched -- stories ever written, Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is set in one of the most turbulent and exciting times in human history. Filled with wild adventure, political intrigue, social upheaval, civilization-changing discoveries, cabalistic mysticism, and even a little romance, this massive saga is worth its weight in (Solomon's) gold. Paul Goat Allen", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Literature", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116257.The_System_of_the_World"}, +{"book_title": "Hammer's Slammers", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 6024, "review_number": 60, "book_description": "When a planetary government faces threats from guerillas, insurgents or terrorists, the men they hire are Hammer's Slammers - known throughout the galaxy for their cold, ruthless ferocity, their ability to defeat overwhelming forces, and their willingness to go up against impossible odds.Contents:Introduction by Jerry PournelleSTORY: But Loyal to His OwnINTERLUDE: SupertanksSTORY: The Butcher\u2019s BillINTERLUDE: The Church of the Lord\u2019s UniverseSTORY: Under the HammerINTERLUDE: PowergunsSTORY: Cultural ConflictINTERLUDE: Backdrop to ChaosSTORY: Caught in the CrossfireINTERLUDE: The Bonding AuthoritySTORY: HangmanINTERLUDE: Table of Organization and Equipment, Hammer\u2019s RegimentSTORY: Standing Down", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Action", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1355339.Hammer_s_Slammers"}, +{"book_title": "Doug Unplugged", "author_name": "Dan Yaccarino", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1088, "review_number": 226, "book_description": "Doug is a robot. His parents want him to be smart, so each morning they plug him in and start the information download. After a morning spent learning facts about the city, Doug suspects he could learn even more about the city by going outside and exploring it. And so Doug . . . unplugs. What follows is an exciting day of adventure and discovery. Doug learns amazing things by doing and seeing and touching and listening\u2014and above all, by interacting with a new friend.Dan Yaccarino's funny story of robot rebellion is a great reminder that sometimes the best way to learn about the world is to go out and be in it.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Family", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14823951-doug-unplugged"}, +{"book_title": "Tokyo Ghost #1", "author_name": "Rick Remender", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 272, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "The Isles of Los Angeles 2089: Humanity is addicted to technology, a population of unemployed leisure seekers blissfully distracted from toxic contamination, who borrow, steal, and kill to buy their next digital fix. Getting a virtual buzz is the only thing left to live for. It's the biggest industry, the only industry, the drug everyone needs, and gangsters run it all. And who do these gangsters turn to when they need their rule enforced? Constables Led Dent and Debbie Decay. This duo is about to be given a job that will force them out of the familiar squalor of Los Angeles to take down the last tech-less country on Earth: The Garden Nation of Tokyo. Bestselling writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, DEADLY CLASS) and superstar art team SEAN MURPHY (CHRONONAUTS, Punk Rock Jesus) and MATT HOLLINGSWORTH (WYTCHES, Hawkeye) examine our growing addiction to technology while thirsting for a nature we continue to destroy.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27227506-tokyo-ghost-1"}, +{"book_title": "Entwined", "author_name": "Kristen Callihan", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1623, "review_number": 206, "book_description": "Eamon Evernight has always lived in his older brother's shadow. While his brother is fair of hair and lithe in body, Eamon sparks fear with his fiery locks and massive frame --a nd rumors of a mysterious power. But when his brother has the good fortune to be betrothed to a beautiful stranger, it's Eamon's help -- and quick wit and romantic heart -- that he needs. Eamon agrees to write the noble lady... a generous offer that will forever leave him a changed man. Lady Luella Jane Moran has no interest in an arranged marriage and tries valiantly to dissuade her betrothed from afar. Though her own letters plainly state her case, the words her husband-to-be writes her leave her aching for his touch. Will Lu give in to the desire the missives have kindled within her? Or will desire turn cold when she discovers their true author?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17861762-entwined"}, +{"book_title": "The Finder of the Lucky Devil", "author_name": "Megan Mackie", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 195, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "The only thing more dangerous than using your magic to help a cybernetic spy find a missing criminal, is being the criminal he's looking for...When Rune Leveau is approached by a charmingly dangerous, cybernetically-altered, corporate spy, St. Benedict, his request seemed simple: use her magical Talent to help him find an elusive criminal named Anna Masterson. But Rune has a dangerous secret: She IS Anna Masterson.\u00a0Over the past six years, St. Benedict has searched for the Masterson Files, a computer program rumored to do the impossible\u2014cast magic spells. The technology could reshape the world. His last hope is this Finder of the Lucky Devil, but the Finder is proving difficult... and St. Benedict isn't going to take no for an answer.Set in an alternate Chicago, where technology and magic are in competition with each other, this fast paced Cat-and-Mouse chase makes The Finder of the Lucky Devil a welcome addition to your urban fantasy/cyberpunk library.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51873947-the-finder-of-the-lucky-devil"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue", "author_name": "Michael Z. Williamson", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 801, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "Kenneth Chinran commanded the elite unit assigned to take out an entire planet in a terrible war.\u00a0 Millions died; billions more perished in the aftermath.\u00a0 One doesn't send a sociopath on such a mission.\u00a0 A sociopath might not stop.\u00a0 Chinran did stop \u2013 but in the process nearly lost his sanity and his soul.\u00a0 But one of Chinran\u2019s men was a sociopath going in.\u00a0 Now he\u2019s a trained sociopath with the knowledge and firepower to take out entire tactical teams, evaporate through security cordons and change identity at will. Who do you send after a killer like that?\u00a0 There\u2019s only one answer:\u00a0 the man who trained him.\u00a0 The man who made him.\nAbout Michael Z. Williamson:\n\u201cA fast-paced, compulsive read\u2026will appeal to fans of John Ringo, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and David Weber.\u201d \u2013 Kliatt\u201cWilliamson's military expertise is impressive.\u201d \u2013SFReviews", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11487801-rogue"}, +{"book_title": "Sometimes I Forget You're a Robot", "author_name": "Sam Brown", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 165, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "For fans of Todd Parr and Oliver Jeffers comes this debut picture book about a boy and his robot friend from the creator of the popular crowd-sourced comic blog, explodingdog.comFor a little boy who\u2019s always dreamed of having his own robot, actually getting one isn\u2019t what he expected at all. The robot can\u2019t fly, or swim, or even talk. All he does is beep beep beep like a toy. But his robot does have some hidden talents\u2014and one of them is being a great friend.In this unexpectedly poignant story about adjusting expectations, Sam Brown shows that while no one is perfect, a good friend sure comes close.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17072248-sometimes-i-forget-you-re-a-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Architect of Fate", "author_name": "Christian Dunn", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 266, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "The Space Marines stand against the darkness, and yet on countless battlefields they play unwitting roles in the schemes of Fateweaver. From the doomed world of Ilissus, through the embattled corridors of the Endeavour of Will, to the borders of the Eye of Terror itself \u2013 friend and foe alike follow the great plan that he set in motion many thousands of years ago. But not even the Architect of Fate himself can foresee the destiny that lies in wait for him...Collected for the first time, all four parts of the Architect of Fate novella series are presented in a single printed volume. The infamous Kairos Fateweaver, greater daemon of Tzeentch and master of manipulation, has discovered the limits of his power \u2013 even one so prescient as he cannot divine beyond the event horizon at the end of the 41st Millennium.This anthology collects four novellas:Accursed EternityEndeavour of WillSanctusFateweaver", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12649792-architect-of-fate"}, +{"book_title": "The Wasteland Saga", "author_name": "Nick Cole", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 866, "review_number": 114, "book_description": "Nick Cole sends us on a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of post-apocalyptic America in this three-part adventureForty years after a devastating thermonuclear Armageddon, mankind has been reduced to sal-vaging the ruins of a broken world. In a style that's part Hemingway and part Cormac McCarthy's The Road, The Wasteland Saga chronicles the struggle of the Old Man, his granddaughter, and a mysterious boy as they try to survive the savage lands of this new American Dark Age.With the words of the Old Man's most prized possession--a copy of Hemingway's classic The Old Man and the Sea--echoing across the wasteland, they journey into the unknown through three incredible tales of endurance and adventure in a land ravaged by destruction.Compiled for the first time in print, The Wasteland Saga comprises Nick Cole's novels The Old Man and the Wasteland, The Savage Boy, and The Road is a River.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Horror", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349185-the-wasteland-saga"}, +{"book_title": "The Guard", "author_name": "Kiera Cass", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 45478, "review_number": 2452, "book_description": "Before America Singer met Prince Maxon . . . Before she entered the Selection . . . She was in love with a boy named Aspen Leger.Don't miss this digital original novella set in the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection trilogy. This brand new 64-page story begins just after the group of Selected girls is narrowed down to the Elite and is told from Aspen's point of view. The Guard also features a teaser to The One, the thrilling conclusion to The Selection trilogy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170039-the-guard"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Warrior", "author_name": "Sadie Carter", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 2006, "review_number": 165, "book_description": "Stuck on a military outpost in the middle of nowhere, Zoey had been praying for something to relieve her boredom. She never dreamed that relief would come in the form of a seven-foot tall, sexy alien. One who claimed she belonged to him. Delusional.Except, there was something pulling her to him\u2026 a deep, hot attraction she couldn\u2019t deny. Dexanon Xa\u2019a always thought his mate would be a sweet, obedient female. Instead, the Gods landed him with a maddening, outspoken, outrageous female who didn\u2019t comprehend the honor that had been bestowed on her.Dex might have a rockin\u2019 body, but his ideas about women needed a total overhaul. And she was just the woman to do it.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Futuristic", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26006468-alien-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Annelies", "author_name": "David Gillham", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1174, "review_number": 319, "book_description": " A powerful and deeply humane new novel that asks the question: What if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old. Having survived the concentration camps, but lost her mother and sister, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it\u2019s not as easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they experienced, while Pim is fixated on returning to normalcy. Her beloved diary has been lost, and her dreams of becoming a writer seem distant and pointless now. As Anne struggles to overcome the brutality of memory and build a new life for herself, she grapples with heartbreak, grief, and ultimately the freedom of forgiveness. A story of trauma and redemption, Annelies honors Anne Frank\u2019s legacy as not only a symbol of hope and perseverance, but also a complex young woman of great ambition and heart.Anne Frank is a cultural icon whose diary painted a vivid picture of the Holocaust and made her an image of humanity in one of history\u2019s darkest moments. But she was also a person\u2014a precocious young girl with a rich inner life and tremendous skill as a writer. In this masterful new novel, David R. Gillham explores with breathtaking empathy the woman\u2014and the writer\u2014she might have become.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "War (World War II)", "World War II (Holocaust)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Retellings", "Literature (Jewish)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38721012-annelies"}, +{"book_title": "Spell or High Water", "author_name": "Scott Meyer", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 20159, "review_number": 981, "book_description": "The adventures of an American hacker in Medieval England continue as Martin Banks takes his next step on the journey toward mastering his reality-altering powers and fulfilling his destiny.A month has passed since Martin helped to defeat the evil programmer Jimmy, and things couldn\u2019t be going better. Except for his love life, that is. Feeling distant and lost, Gwen has journeyed to Atlantis, a tolerant and benevolent kingdom governed by the Sorceresses, and a place known to be a safe haven to all female time-travelers.Thankfully, Martin and Philip are invited to a summit in Atlantis for all of the leaders of the time-traveler colonies, and now Martin thinks this will be a chance to try again with Gwen. Of course, this is Martin Banks we\u2019re talking about, so murder, mystery, and high intrigue all get in the way of a guy who just wants one more shot to get the girl.The follow-up to the hilarious Off to Be the Wizard, Scott Meyer\u2019s Spell or High Water proves that no matter what powers you have over time and space, you can\u2019t control rotten luck.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Humor (Comedy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21483760-spell-or-high-water"}, +{"book_title": "The Severed Tower", "author_name": "J. Barton Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 557, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Holt, Mira, and Max have fled Midnight City with Zoey after watching her repel an entire Assembly army. Zoey's powers are unlocked, but who and what she is remains a mystery. All she knows is that she must reach the Severed Tower, an infamous location in the middle of the world's most dangerous landscape: The Strange Lands, a place where the laws of physics have completely broken down. But the closer they get to the Tower, the more precarious things become. The Assembly has pursued Zoey into the Strange Lands. Among them is a new group, their walkers and machines strangely bereft of any color, stripped to bare metal, and whose agenda seems to differ from the rest. To make matters worse, the group hunting Holt are here, too, led by a dangerous and beautiful pirate named Ravan. So is Mira's first love, Benjamin Aubertine, whose singular ambition to reach the Tower threatens to get them all killed.Then there's the Strange Lands themselves. They have inexplicably begun to grow, spreading outwards, becoming more powerful. Somehow, it all seems tied to Zoey herself, and the closer she gets to the Tower, the weaker she becomes.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286745-the-severed-tower"}, +{"book_title": "Learning the World: A Scientific Romance", "author_name": "Ken MacLeod", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1815, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life.The ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four hundred year journey. For its long-lived inhabitants, the centuries have been busy. Now a younger generation is eager to settle the system. The ship is a seed-pod ready to burst.Then they detect curious electromagnetic emissions from the system's Earth-like world. As the nature of the signals becomes clear, the choices facing the humans become stark.On Ground, second world from the sun, a young astronomer searches for his system's outermost planet. A moving point of light thrills, then disappoints him. It's only a comet. His physicist colleague Orro takes time off from trying to invent a flying-machine to calculate the comet's trajectory. Something is very odd about that comet's path.They are not the only ones for whom the world has changed.\"We are not living in the universe we thought we lived in yesterday. We have to start learning the world all over again.\"", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185826.Learning_the_World"}, +{"book_title": "The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs", "author_name": "James P. Blaylock", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 89, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "An outbreak of violent madness at the Explorers Club, the coincidental murders of a recluse scientist in North Kent and a lighthouse keeper on the chalk cliffs below Brighton, and the mysterious disappearance of Alice St. Ives, lead Langdon St. Ives, Jack Owlesby, and their resolute friend Tubby Frobisher into the very heart of danger, where they discover the great secret of the chalk cliffs at Beachy Head and a looming threat to the collective sanity of mankind.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10850736-the-affair-of-the-chalk-cliffs"}, +{"book_title": "The Brimstone Key", "author_name": "Derek Benz", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 1562, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "A brand new adventure starring The Grey Griffins!Max---the leaderNatalia---the brainsErnie---the changelingHarley---the muscle A year ago, the Grey Griffins were just regular kids from Avalon, Minnesota. That was before they learned about the existence of evil fairies, werewolves, and other things that go bump in the night. Now they are monster-hunters, celebrated heroes, and allies to the legendary Templar knights---but even heroes have to go to school. When the Griffins enroll at Iron Bridge Academy, a school to train young recruits in the fight against the forces of evil, they find themselves at the center of a whole new adventure. The Clockwork King, a Templar foe from days past, has returned to finish the plan he set in motion decades ago. A plot to steal the souls of changelings---humans infused with fairy blood and supernatural abilities---in order to power his army of clockwork war machines. In The Brimstone Key, authors Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis deftly blend the mystical wonder of steampunk with magic and adventure to create an action-packed thrill ride.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7106816-the-brimstone-key"}, +{"book_title": "The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage", "author_name": "Clifford Stoll", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 10395, "review_number": 840, "book_description": "Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is \"a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping\" (Smithsonian). Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was \"Hunter\" -- a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases -- a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "History", "Science (Technology)", "Computer Science (Computers)", "Science", "Mystery (Crime)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Crime (True Crime)", "Science (Computer Science)", "Computers (Hackers)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18154.The_Cuckoo_s_Egg"}, +{"book_title": "The Mirror", "author_name": "Marlys Millhiser", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4820, "review_number": 686, "book_description": "On the eve of her wedding in 1978, Shay Garrett peers into the antique mirror in her family's longtime home, the famous Victorian Gingerbread House on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, and falls unconscious only to wake in the body of her own grandmother Brandy on the eve of her wedding\u2014in 1900. The virginal Brandy, in turn, awakes in Shay's body to discover herself pregnant. What follows is a fascinating look at how two women\u2014and their families\u2014cope with this strange situation.", "year_published": 1978, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133738.The_Mirror"}, +{"book_title": "The Harvesting", "author_name": "Melanie Karsak", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 1309, "review_number": 276, "book_description": "It's all fun and games until someone ends up undead.Layla spent her whole life running away from her hometown. Raised by the town's medium, and dubbed the \"weird\" girl, the last thing she wants is to go home. When Layla gets a desperate phone call to return just as a mysterious outbreak sweeps the country, Layla's instincts urge her to go. Good thing, because the dead are rising. The town's residents, including the ex who jilted her, will need Layla's help if they hope to survive.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31675361-the-harvesting"}, +{"book_title": "Remake", "author_name": "Connie Willis", "rating_score": 3.38, "rating_votes": 1767, "review_number": 150, "book_description": "Connie Willis's acclaimed time travel novel, \"Doomsday Book,\" swept the major science fiction awards the year it was published. Now, in this new novel, Willis explores the timeless themes of emotion and technology, reality and illusion, and the bittersweet place where they intersect to make art. It's the Hollywood of the future, where movie-making has been computerized and live-action films are a thing of the past. It's a Hollywood which Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe are starring together in a remake of \"A Star is Born, \" and if you don't like the ending, you can change it with the stroke of a key. A Hollywood of warmbodies and sim-sex, of drugs and special effects, where anything is possible. Except what Alis wants to do, which is dance in the movies. Tom offers to make her dream her reality. He'll digitize her face onto any actress's she lies--Ann Miller, Ruby Keeler, even Ginger Rogers.. What Tom doesn't understand is that Alis doesn't want to look like she's dancing. She wants the real thing. And as Tom finds himself seduced by Alis' impossible dream, he begins to learn that even in a world of technological miracles, there are still some things that just can't be faked.\"A tour de force...Connie Willis deploys the apparatus of science fiction to illuminate character and relationships, and her writing is fresh, subtle, and deeply moving.\"-- \"The New York Times Book Review\"", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Romance", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Science (Technology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776378.Remake"}, +{"book_title": "The Blood of Olympus", "author_name": "Rick Riordan", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 213795, "review_number": 15925, "book_description": "Nico had warned them. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods' worst memories. Their ghosts would become restless. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge one more time. But that might be better than the alternative: allowing someone else to die, as Hades foretold.Jason's ghost is his mother, who abandoned him when he was little. He may not know how he is going to prove himself as a leader, but he does know that he will not break promises like she did. He will complete his line of the prophecy: To storm or fire the world must fall.Reyna fears the ghosts of her ancestors, who radiate anger. But she can't allow them to distract her from getting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood before war breaks out between the Romans and Greeks. Will she have enough strength to succeed, especially with a deadly hunter on her trail?Leo fears that his plan won't work, that his friends might interfere. But there is no other way. All of them know that one of the Seven has to die in order to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother.Piper must learn to give herself over to fear. Only then will she be able to do her part at the end: utter a single word.Heroes, gods, and monsters all have a role to play in the climactic fulfillment of the prophecy in The Blood of Olympus, the electrifying finale of the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mythology (Greek Mythology)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Childrens", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18705209-the-blood-of-olympus"}, +{"book_title": "Alive In A Dead World", "author_name": "Mark Tufo", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 4672, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "Eliza turned to Tomas\"This is the end...he is no longer alive in a dead world.\"", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13506310-alive-in-a-dead-world"}, +{"book_title": "Alien Overnight", "author_name": "Robin L. Rotham", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 1889, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Commander Kellen is on Earth recruiting women for his planet's sex-starved males. Not particularly excited by human anatomy, he seeks nothing more for himself than the occasional slaking of his needs with some anonymous female - which shouldn't be a problem, since she'll have to face the other way to accommodate his special anatomical needs.Dr. Monica Teague is thrilled with her ten-year assignment caring for Garathan's sexual recruits. Her quirky looks and childish excuse for a body guarantee she'll never be expected to put out - which is kind of a bummer, now that she's up to her armpits in horny alien beefcake.But, when an overdose of alien pheromones makes Monica drunk off her ass, Kellen quickly claims the odd little doctor before another Garathani realizes what she is. The overdose sparks a violent chain reaction in her, and when Monica finally wakes, she's got the body of a porn star - and two sexy alien mates who are determined to tame her.If only she were as determined not to let them.Reader Advisory: Contains menage a trois sexual scenes.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1587974.Alien_Overnight"}, +{"book_title": "Life Debt", "author_name": "Chuck Wendig", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 12331, "review_number": 1198, "book_description": "Set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, the never-before-told story that began with Star Wars: Aftermath continues in this thrilling novel, the second book of Chuck Wendig s New York Times bestselling trilogy.\"It is a dark time for the Empire. . . .\"The Emperor is dead, and the remnants of his former Empire are in retreat. As the New Republic fights to restore a lasting peace to the galaxy, some dare to imagine new beginnings and new destinies. For Han Solo, that means settling his last outstanding debt, by helping Chewbacca liberate the Wookiee's homeworld of Kashyyyk.Meanwhile, Norra Wexley and her band of Imperial hunters pursue Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and the Empire's remaining leadership across the galaxy. Even as more and more officers are brought to justice, Sloane continues to elude the New Republic, and Norra fears Sloane may be searching for a means to save the crumbling Empire from oblivion. But the hunt for Sloane is cut short when Norra receives an urgent request from Princess Leia Organa. The attempt to liberate Kashyyyk has carried Han Solo, Chewbacca, and a band of smugglers into an ambush resulting in Chewie's capture and Han's disappearance.Breaking away from their official mission and racing toward the Millennium Falcon's last known location, Norra and her crew prepare for any challenge that stands between them and their missing comrades. But they can't anticipate the true depth of the danger that awaits them or the ruthlessness of the enemy drawing them into his crosshairs.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adventure", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26895161-life-debt"}, +{"book_title": "Thrice Upon a Time", "author_name": "James P. Hogan", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 967, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "SOS FROM A FUTURE THAT WILL NEVER BEIt's amazing enough when Murdoch Ross's brilliant grandfather invents a machine that can send messages to itself in the past or the future. But when signals begin to arrive without being sent, Murdoch realizes that every action he takes changes the future that would have been...and that the world he lives in has already been altered! Then a new message arrives from the future: The world is doomed!", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/849488.Thrice_Upon_a_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Brisingr", "author_name": "Christopher Paolini", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 312852, "review_number": 9208, "book_description": "Oaths sworn... loyalties tested... forces collide.It's been only months since Eragon first uttered \"brisingr\", an ancient language term for fire. Since then, he's not only learned to create magic with words \u2014 he's been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empires warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon's oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran's beloved from King Galbatorix's clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength \u2014 as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices \u2014 choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2248573.Brisingr"}, +{"book_title": "Born to Fight", "author_name": "Tara Brown", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 5899, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "When Emma wakes strapped to a cold metal table she has only one name on her lips, \"Marshall!\" What she doesn't expect is discovering that he is only one of the disturbing people in her small world who deserves to die in a fiery death. Twenty years ago scientists made some remarkable discoveries with genetics and the ability to perfect the babies we gave birth to.Ten years ago the governments of the world made a hard choice, earth or people.Nine weeks ago the choices they made came full circle.Fourteen days ago the truth of their mutations leaked out into the borderlands and other areas.Yesterday the worst thing they ever made learned about what she was.Today she's coming for them and she knows about the strengths they gave her.Tomorrow she plans on destroying everything.She plans on starting with her her own creator. Her own father.Mature Content Warning", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Love"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17800756-born-to-fight"}, +{"book_title": "A Chip In His Shoulder", "author_name": "L.A. Witt", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 919, "review_number": 169, "book_description": "\u201cContract killer\u201d is a fitting job for a vampire, and it suits Liam just fine. Cast down from the wealth and status of the Sky for taking a human lover, Liam lurks in the poor and pollution-choked Gutter, killing to survive. Between his natural strengths and his Cybernetix mods, no mark has ever escaped him. Liam\u2019s ex-lover Daniel is the heir to Cybernetix\u2014and its greatest threat. Horrified by people less man than machine and the exploitation of Gutter factory workers, he\u2019d rather destroy Cybernetix than inherit it . . . if his father doesn\u2019t destroy him first. Years of anger and a heap of mods have kept Daniel and Liam apart. When Liam is hired to slaughter a man in his glass Sky tower, he walks right into a Daniel-shaped trap. Daniel\u2019s father has betrayed them both, and only by working together can Daniel and Liam survive the coming day. They have no reason to trust each other, but as the dawn looms, a bargain that began with the simple urge to live soon reminds them of the love they once shared. Can they find each other again, or will the Cybernetix assassins find them first? This 25,000 word novella was previously published.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45435894-a-chip-in-his-shoulder"}, +{"book_title": "Janissaries", "author_name": "Jerry Pournelle", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 1760, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission\u2014only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban \"advisors\" rapidly closing in. And then the alien spaceship landed...The mercenaries are offered a deal, travel to the stars, to a primitive planet, and fight the enemies of the aliens. Intrigue, danger, and death await.", "year_published": 1979, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Politics", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197183.Janissaries"}, +{"book_title": "Hard Lessons", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1179, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "Fifty years after Steve Stuart and his friends captured an alien starship, the Solar Union is a thriving interstellar power, while Earth is increasingly backwards and falling into barbarism. For two youngsters from Earth, the Solar Union offers the only chance they will ever have to make something of their lives ... But humanity\u2019s involvement in Galactic affairs has not gone unnoticed. The enigmatic masters of the universe have put together a fleet to crush the upstart humans before they can threaten the precarious balance of power. Pushed to the limits, the Solar Union must fight to defend its freedom \u2013 and the existence of the human race.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Action", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23364089-hard-lessons"}, +{"book_title": "The Laughing Corpse", "author_name": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 79933, "review_number": 2127, "book_description": "Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it.In The Laughing Corpse Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left buried-and some people better off dead...", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15309.The_Laughing_Corpse"}, +{"book_title": "The Snow Queen", "author_name": "Joan D. Vinge", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 11862, "review_number": 519, "book_description": "This reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-nominated The Snow Queen, marks the first time the book has been reprinted in fifteen years.The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. Their only chance at surviving the change is if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space. Interstellar politics, a millennia-long secret conspiracy, and a civilization whose hidden machineries might still control the fate of worlds all form the background to this spectacular hard science fiction novel from Joan D. Vinge.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Hugo Awards", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Romance", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139986.The_Snow_Queen"}, +{"book_title": "Apocalypticon", "author_name": "Clayton Smith", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1689, "review_number": 241, "book_description": "Three years have passed since the Jamaicans caused the apocalypse, and things in post-Armageddon Chicago have settled into a new kind of normal. Unfortunately, that \"normal\" includes collapsing skyscrapers, bands of bloodthirsty maniacs, and a dwindling cache of survival supplies. After watching his family, friends, and most of the non-sadistic elements of society crumble around him, Patrick decides it's time to cross one last item off his bucket list. He\u2019s going to Disney World. This hilarious, heartfelt, gut-wrenching odyssey through post-apocalyptic America is a pilgrimage peppered with peril, as fellow survivors Patrick and Ben encounter a slew of odd characters, from zombie politicians and deranged survivalists to a milky-eyed oracle who doesn't have a lot of good news. Plus, it looks like Patrick may be hiding the real reason for their mission to the Magic Kingdom...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Humor", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20814660-apocalypticon"}, +{"book_title": "Blame!, Vol. 7", "author_name": "Tsutomu Nihei", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 880, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Killy is getting closer to the rescue signal in the lost scientific facility. Killy and Cibo are not prepared for what awaits them in the corridor. Join us as Killy seeks the answer to humanity by unlocking the secrets of the Net Terminal genes. Older teens.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32298.Blame_Vol_7"}, +{"book_title": "Halo: Contact Harvest", "author_name": "Joseph Staten", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 7917, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "This is how it began...It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence.But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection. So the survival of Harvest's citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest...a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Novels", "Games (Gaming)", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1001442.Halo"}, +{"book_title": "The New World", "author_name": "Patrick Ness", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 9884, "review_number": 1053, "book_description": "The New World is the story of how Viola came to where we found her in \nThe Knife of Never Letting Go\n.It is best read immediately after that book because there are hints of things to come.(I'm always hinting at things to come; it's fun). - Patrick Ness", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17928853-the-new-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Storm Begins", "author_name": "Damian Dibben", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1529, "review_number": 176, "book_description": "When Jake is kidnapped by strangers on a stormy London night he discovers his loving parents have been leading a double life and are now missing, lost somewhere in history. He is plunged into a world of secret societies, dangerous double agents, and a terrifying countdown to oblivion. Transported by a Spanish galleon back to 19th century France, he finds himself in the headquarters of The History Keepers - a remarkable league of time-travelling special agents. The History Keepers preserve the true course of history against those who would change it for their own gain, such as the diabolical Prince Zeldt. Driven by a sense of adventure and a desire to reunite his family, Jake makes the most thrilling - and dangerous - decision of his life.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10482973-the-storm-begins"}, +{"book_title": "The Gap Into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge", "author_name": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 5769, "review_number": 146, "book_description": "Author of The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson retums with the second book in his long-awaited new science fiction series--a story about dark passions, perilous alliances, and dubious heroism set in a stunningly imagined future.Beautiful, brilliant, and dangerous, Morn Hyland is an ex-police officer for the United Mining Companies--and the target of two ruthless, powerful men.\u00a0\u00a0One is the charismatic ore-pirate Nick Succorso, who sees Morn as booty wrested from his vicious rival, Angus Thermopyle.\u00a0\u00a0thermopyle once made the mistake of underestimating Morn and now he's about to pay the ultimate price.\u00a0\u00a0Both men think they can possess her, but Morn is no one's trophy--and no one's pawn.Meanwhile, withing the borders of Forbidden Space, wait the Amnioin, an alien race capable of horrific atrocities.\u00a0\u00a0The Amnion want something unspeakable from humanity--and they will go to unthinkable lengths to get it.In Forbidden Knowledge, Stephen R. Donaldson spins a galaxy-wide web of intrigue, deception, and betrayal that tightens with inexorable strength around characters and readers alike.", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Space", "Adventure", "Thriller", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22874.The_Gap_Into_Vision"}, +{"book_title": "Awesome Dawson", "author_name": "Chris Gall", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 301, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "EVERYTHING CAN BE USED AGAIN! That's Dawson's motto. He collects junk that people throw away and turns it into something STUPENDOUS. But when Dawson uses his skills to create a machine to do his chores for him, he discovers he might have invented something a little too... AWESOME. Can he stop the rampaging robot before it destroys the entire town?Chris Gall inspires kids to reuse, repurpose, and recycle in this inventive adventure about a boy superhero who turns trash into treasures--and saves the world while he's at it!", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Adventure", "Biology (Ecology)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790874-awesome-dawson"}, +{"book_title": "Finders Keepers", "author_name": "Linnea Sinclair", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3062, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Be careful what you wish for. You might get it... Her ship's in shambles, her boyfriend's dumped her and she's frankly out of funds. Captain Trilby Elliot hopes her luck has changed when a high-tech fightercraft crash lands at her repair site. Finders keepers. She can sell the ship as salvage, pocket the profits. Except for one small problem: the pilot, Rhis, is still alive and intent on commandeering her ship. And another much larger problem: someone very powerful and very important wants Trilby Elliot dead.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Futuristic", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352725.Finders_Keepers"}, +{"book_title": "Igniting the Reaches", "author_name": "David Drake", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 254, "review_number": 5, "book_description": "Thousands of years after the collapse of the human empire, mankind struggles to rebuild civilization on the planets. As government factions fight for trading rights and restrictions, renegade pirates fly to the far reaches to trade with the star colonies, a frontier more unpredictable than any in human history.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1755482.Igniting_the_Reaches"}, +{"book_title": "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 118264, "review_number": 3906, "book_description": "It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic who become the movement's leaders, and of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to the revolt's inner circle, who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.", "year_published": 1966, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Politics", "Space", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16690.The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress"}, +{"book_title": "Fear God and Dread Naught", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 931, "review_number": 22, "book_description": "On her last cruise, HMS Vanguard - the most powerful battleship in the Royal Navy - barely survived her encounter with a deadly new enemy. Now, with her commanding officer accused of everything from mutiny to dereliction of duty and her crew under a cloud, the Royal Navy doesn't quite know what to do with her. But there\u2019s still a war on. And Vanguard must return to the front lines. Assigned to a task force heading to assist humanity\u2019s alien allies, Vanguard and her crew find themselves caught in a deadly alien trap. Can they survive to turn the tables on their enigmatic foe ... ... Or will their next encounter with the new enemies be their last? [Like my other self-published Kindle books, Fear God and Dread Naught is DRM-free. You may reformat it as you choose. There is a large sample of the text \u2013 and my other books \u2013 on my site: chrishanger.net. Try before you buy.] ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30819694-fear-god-and-dread-naught"}, +{"book_title": "Glitter & Doom", "author_name": "Bethany Griffin", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 710, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "A 50-page, digital-only novella set in the world of Bethany Griffin's dark and haunting retelling of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story Masque of the Red Death. When a rich teenage girl who spends her nights in the most desirable club and a smart, young inventor meet, they might have more in common than they know.April, niece to the dying city's cruel dictator, is Araby Worth's glittery and frivolous best friend. But she's more than she appears. And when she disappeared in Masque of the Red Death, where did she go? This short novella answers that question, taking us deep underneath the crumbling city, where April crosses paths with Kent, the serious young inventor who is key to rebellion. Glitter & Doom is a story of chilling action, of spies, and of surprising love. Can love be anything but doomed is a city that's burning down around its survivors?A dark, unnerving story about two of the most fascinating characters from Masque of the Red Death.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Short Stories", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15820137-glitter-doom"}, +{"book_title": "The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "This is an omnibus edition that contains the first two novels in Asimov's Robots series. (The first book in the series is the collection of short stories I, Robot or the expanded collection The Complete Robot.)", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Classics", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6561539-the-robot-novels"}, +{"book_title": "A Highlander's Homecoming", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1367, "review_number": 51, "book_description": "When Robert MacQuarrie was swept forward in time to present-day Scotland, he left behind in the thirteenth century a vow he could no longer keep\u2014to protect his friend\u2019s little daughter, Isabella. Haunted by guilt, he leaps at the chance to go back\u2026except the fickle Faerie Magic returns him to his family castle twenty years after he left it. In Scotland, 1292, Isabella MacGahan is now a grown woman. Rejected by her family for her Faerie blood and uncanny powers, her safety depends on pretending that her magical abilities have made her mad. But appearances are deceiving for both Robbie and Isabella. Will the magic of the Fae allow them to find a true homecoming in each other\u2019s arms??", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6503378-a-highlander-s-homecoming"}, +{"book_title": "Zombies Vs. Unicorns", "author_name": "Holly Black", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 12896, "review_number": 1929, "book_description": "It's a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for good and evil--of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies. Contributors include many bestselling teen authors, including Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, Meg Cabot, Scott Westerfeld, and Margo Lanagan. This anthology will have everyone asking: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn?", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Young Adult", "Horror (Zombies)", "Anthologies", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171748-zombies-vs-unicorns"}, +{"book_title": "Seven for a Secret", "author_name": "Elizabeth Bear", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 444, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "The sequel to New Amsterdam!The wampyr has walked the dark streets of the world's great cities for a thousand years. In that time, he has worn out many names--and even more compatriots.Now, so that one of those companions may die where she once lived, he has come again to the City of London. In 1938, where the ghosts of centuries of war haunt rain-grey streets and the Prussian Chancellor's army of occupation rules with an iron hand.Here he will meet his own ghosts, the remembrances of loves mortal--and immortal. And here he will face the Chancellor's secret weapon: a human child.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4640134-seven-for-a-secret"}, +{"book_title": "Marine Cadet", "author_name": "Tim C. Taylor", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 753, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "You\u2019re 17 and lucky. You just made Cadet. But there\u2019s no time to celebrate, because only the best make Marine. Failures face the Cull\u2026Five centuries ago, Earth sold a million children into alien slavery. Now their descendants want their freedom back!2565 A.D. When seventeen-year old Marine Cadet, Arun McEwan, forges an unlikely friendship with an alien scribe, he crashes into a world of treachery and conspiracy. How can he possibly survive three more years until graduation when every day brings a new deadly threat?But survive he must because his new alien allies show him glimpses of his destiny \u2014 a vision of a better future that only he can forge.A dream called the Human Legion.Join the Legion! With over 150,000 copies sold so far, the Legion still needs YOU to join the fight for freedom. Enlist today!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40731340-marine-cadet"}, +{"book_title": "Suspicion", "author_name": "Mike McQuay", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 1129, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "A man without memory, stranded in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a woman who claims to know who he is, but who refuses to tell him. On a planet whose other inhabitants are entirely robotic, these unwilling allies are the only logical suspects in a case of murder. The young man calls himself Derec; she calls herself Katherine. Their real identities, and the name of the murderer, are just two of the astounding mysteries that surround you in the fantastic streets of Isaac Asimov's Robot City.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41845.Suspicion"}, +{"book_title": "Rise of a Legend", "author_name": "Amy Jarecki", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 409, "review_number": 83, "book_description": "New cover for ASIN B014PU8LSIRunning away from her catastrophic life, historical journalist Eva MacKay joins an archaeological dig at the battleground of Loudoun Hill. Unearthing the seal of William Wallace, Eva gains notoriety. But her dreams of Bowie knives\u2014the weapon that murdered her husband\u2014morph into great swords and dirks.Drawn to a ruined monastery, Eva drifts into the worst nightmare of all. Awaking to the sharp point of a madman\u2019s sword, she\u2019s hurled into the midst of a bloody thirteenth century battle. Just when certain death is eminent, brutal arms surround the lass, dragging her deeper into unknown terror.When Eva realizes she\u2019s been hauled to the hideout of rebel William Wallace, a revelation dawns\u2014she\u2019s landed the story of a lifetime\u2014if she can stay alive and find a way home to tell her tale.What she doesn\u2019t count on is her mounting chemistry with the greatest legend Scotland has ever known\u2026or the absolute love swelling in her heart.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27871352-rise-of-a-legend"}, +{"book_title": "The Librarian", "author_name": "Christy Sloat", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1321, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "He\u2019s from 1892 England, she\u2019s in a small library in 2017. And that's just the start of their troubles.Emme never meant to stay in Maine. She'd come only to find a librarian for her Gram's library, a custodian for the collection of mysterious books she'd promised to protect. On a dark, wintery night, alone in the library, she takes her first glance into one of the antique novels and finds herself transported to 1892 England staring into the eyes of handsome and dashing hero Jack Ridgewell. As each chapter passes she learns you can truly fall in love with a character in a book, that book boyfriends are real and Emme must choose between the real world, and his.When the last page is read he's gone and Emme feels the cold loneliness of lost love. Will she find Jack again, or will their love be forever lost? The answer lies within the pages\u2026", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Contemporary", "Historical", "Writing (Books About Books)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34415420-the-librarian"}, +{"book_title": "The Incorruptible Library (The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne Volume 3", "author_name": "Kaja Foglio", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 177, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha is the last of the Heterodynes-a notorious family of Mad Scientists that everyone had thought safely wiped out. When a rival scientist traps her family castle and the surrounding town in a time-freeze, Agatha must embark on a journey to find a way to reverse the effect and save the people she loves.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35552725-the-incorruptible-library-the-second-journey-of-agatha-heterodyne-volum"}, +{"book_title": "Eon: Dragoneye Reborn", "author_name": "Alison Goodman", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 61881, "review_number": 4301, "book_description": "Also Known As: Two Pearls of Wisdom, Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye, and Eon (All the same book just published with different publishers)Swordplay, dragon magic--and a hero with a desperate secretTwelve-year-old Eon has been in training for years. His intensive study of Dragon Magic, based on East Asian astrology, involves two kinds of skills: sword-work and magical aptitude. He and his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye--an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But Eon has a dangerous secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been masquerading as a boy for the chance to become a Dragoneye. Females are forbidden to use Dragon Magic; if anyone discovers she has been hiding in plain sight, her death is assured.When Eon's secret threatens to come to light, she and her allies are plunged into grave danger and a deadly struggle for the Imperial throne. Eon must find the strength and inner power to battle those who want to take her magic...and her life.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2986865-eon"}, +{"book_title": "Hardwired, Episode 1", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 82, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Episode One of the classic novel! Earth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth\u2019s Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, panzerjocks, dirtgirls, and hustlers scramble for their ticket out of the gravity well. But now, if the criminal underworld and the guerilla underground can join forces, there is a chance to shift the balance of power\u2014 in a war fought on the ground by hardwired commandos, in the air by high-flying deltajocks, and by genius hackers in the neural interface. As Roger Zelazny said, \u201cHardwired\u201d is a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars\u2014 glittering, nasty, and noble\u2014 and told in a style perfectly suiting its content. It has all of my favorite things\u2014 blood, love, fire, hate and a high ideal or two. I wish I\u2019d written this one.\u201d", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22918792-hardwired-episode-1"}, +{"book_title": "Welcome Home / Go Away", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 711, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Kris Longknife is back home from her galactic adventures, but her entire Fleet of Discovery has been annihilated. Now, humanity finds itself at war with an alien race more monstrous than anyone could have possibly imagined.General Terrance \u201cTrouble\u201d Tordon, Kris\u2019s great-grandfather, is given the task of calming the panicked politicians, some of whom blame Kris for the disaster and would like to eliminate the ever bothersome Commander Longknife.But as \u201cTrouble\u201d struggles to defend his Kris, the level of uncertainty among the civilians leads to more panic and a rush to judgment that makes him believe that he\u2019s facing a fight he\u2019s bound to lose\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15709612-welcome-home-go-away"}, +{"book_title": "The Extraordinary Colours of Auden Dare", "author_name": "Zillah Bethell", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 189, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "I am how I've always been.My name is Auden Dare.I am eleven years old. Auden Dare has an unusual perspective on life: he cannot see in colour. He's always had this rare condition - and life is beginning to get harder for Auden. The war for water that is raging across the world is getting a little closer all the time. It hardly rains any more, anywhere. Everyone is thirsty all the time, and grubby, and exhausted. Auden has to learn to live without his father, who is away fighting, and has had to move to a new town with his mother, and start a new school, where everyone thinks he's a weirdo. But when he meets Vivi Rookmini, a smiling girl bright with cleverness, his hopes begin to lift. It soon becomes clear to Auden, though, that there are some strange things afoot in his new hometown. He and his mother have moved into the old cottage of his recently-dead uncle Jonah Bloom - a scientist and professor at the university. The place is in disarray - and although Auden's mother tells him it's because Jonah was a messy old thing, Auden knows differently. Someone else did this - someone who was looking for something of Jonah's. Auden had heard too that Jonah was working on something that could cure Auden's condition - could this be it? Then Auden and Vivi make an extraordinary discovery. Hidden away under the shed at the bottom of Jonah's garden is an engimatic and ingenious robot, who calls himself Paragon. A talking, walking, human-like robot. Apparently built by Jonah - but why? The answer to this will take Auden and Vivi on a thrilling journey of discovery as they seek to find out just what exactly Paragon is - and what link he has to Auden - and find that the truth is bigger and more wonderful than either of them could have imagined.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Childrens", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35698882-the-extraordinary-colours-of-auden-dare"}, +{"book_title": "Tiger by the Tail", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 1867, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING MILITARY ADVENTURE SERIES. A new addition to the Kildar military adventure series by John Ringo and Ryan Sear.\u00a0 Sequel to Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain, Unto the Breach, and A Deeper Blue.\u00a0After saving America from Middle Eastern terrorists, even Mike Harmon and the Keldara could use a vacation. Of course, the Kildar\u2019s idea of a vacation includes taking down pirates in the Singapore Straits. But when he finds computer chips designed to run nuclear reactors in the pirate booty, Harmon has a new mission thrust upon him\u2014discover how bottom feeding thieves got their hands on top-secret technology.The chips are headed for newly democratic Myanmar, a country vital to American interests in the region.\u00a0\u00a0Now Harmon finds himself in a desperate race to learn who stole the chips and why. From glittering Hong Kong to the slums of Thailand to the swamps of Myanmar, Harmon and his Keldara team follow a trail of death and deceit across the glittering underbelly of Southeast Asia.\u00a0\u00a0And as the path winds through dark jungle and slave labor camps to the heart of newborn democracy, Harmon must devise a way to prevent the nasty overthrow of a nation\u2019s capital by totalitarian tyrants.\u00a0 But if there\u2019s one thing Mike and the Keldara specialize in, it\u2019s doing what it takes to give freedom a chance.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547223-tiger-by-the-tail"}, +{"book_title": "Odds Against Tomorrow", "author_name": "Nathaniel Rich", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 2244, "review_number": 307, "book_description": "A novel about fear of the future\u2014and the future of fearNew York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of an empty office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios in the most intricate detail, and his schemes are sold to corporations to indemnify them against any future disasters.\u00a0This is the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As Mitchell immerses himself in the mathematics of catastrophe\u2014ecological collapse, war games, natural disasters\u2014he becomes obsessed by a culture\u2019s fears. Yet he also loses touch with his last connection to reality: Elsa Bruner, a friend with her own apocalyptic secret, who has started a commune in Maine. Then, just as Mitchell\u2019s predictions reach a nightmarish crescendo, an actual worst-case scenario overtakes Manhattan. Mitchell realizes he is uniquely prepared to profit. But at what cost?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At once an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear, Nathaniel Rich\u2019s\u00a0Odds Against Tomorrow\u00a0poses the ultimate questions of imagination and civilization. The future is not quite what it used to be.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Climate Change Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Contemporary", "New York", "Literary Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15759484-odds-against-tomorrow"}, +{"book_title": "In Times Like These", "author_name": "Nathan Van Coops", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 4862, "review_number": 549, "book_description": "ASIN moved from less recent edition here\"We broke something. How do you break time? Can something so bad happen that you fracture the world?\" Benjamin Travers has been electrocuted. What's worse, he and his friends have woken up in the past. As the friends search for a way home, they realize they're not alone. There are other time travelers, and some of them are turning up dead. When Ben meets an enigmatic scientist and his charming, time-traveling daughter, salvation seems at hand, but escaping the dangers of the past may lead to a deadly future. If he hopes to save his friends, Ben must learn to master space and time, and survive a journey where past and future violently collide.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23444266-in-times-like-these"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken Wakes", "author_name": "John Wyndham", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 7173, "review_number": 564, "book_description": "Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fireballs race through the sky above the deepest trenches of the oceans. Something is about to show itself, something terrible and alien, a force capable of causing global catastrophe.", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Classics", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91092.The_Kraken_Wakes"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette, Volume IX", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 113, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 9 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.Stories include:* Young Love Lost by Jose J. Clavell* Mail Stop by Virginia DeMarce* Those Daring Young Men by Rick Boatright* Those Daring Not So Young Men by Rick Boatright* A Matter Of Taste by Kerryn Offord* Those Not So Daring by Rick Boatright* Anna the Baptist by Terry Howard* Fly Like a Bird by Loren Jones* Gearhead by Mark H. Huston* Water Wings by Terry Howard* Under the Tuscan Son by Iver P. Cooper* Wings on the Mountain by Terry Howard* Pocket Money by John and Patti Friend* Moonraker by Karen Bergstralh* The Minstrel Boy by John Zeek* Ultralight by Sean Massey* Tool or Die by Karen Bergstralh* If at First You Don't Succeed . . . by Paula Goodlett* Waves of Change by Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff* Try, Try Again by Paula Goodlett* Little Jammer Boys by Kim Mackey* Safe at First Base by Mark H. Huston* The Order of the Foot by Richard Evans* Trip to Paris by Kim Mackey* At the Cliff's Edge by Iver P. Cooper* A 'Merican in Moscow by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett* Radio in 1632, Part 3 by Rick Boatright* The Sound of Mica by Iver P. Cooper* A Tempest In a Baptistry by Terry Howard* The Daily Beer Anette Pedersen* White Gold by Kerryn Offord", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8673683-grantville-gazette-volume-ix"}, +{"book_title": "Severed", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1147, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Rylee Hale is having a hard time. As a new business owner just starting out on her own, she\u2019s struggling to attract new clients to her paralegal business. Then she attracts two that are way more than she can handle. Drace and Lucian are Denarins - a race of the Twelve Peoples where two males bond together in order to join with a single female. An Alpha and a Beta make the perfect pair to attract and care for a woman in every detail of her life. But what happens when two Alphas get wrongfully bonded? That\u2019s the dilemma Lucian and Drace are in and only a Pure One from Earth can help them. When they see Rylee helping a couple with their divorce in the AMI viewscreen, they decide she\u2019s exactly the female they need to break the bond between them. Nobody asked Rylee what she thought about being abducted from her life on Earth and caught in the middle of a conflict between two huge, muscular alien males! It's okay though-she\u2019s a smart girl-she can handle herself. But once she gets a taste of being bonded to two sexy men who want to please her in every way, will she be able to stand by and watch them be\u2026 Severed?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Erotica (Menage)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32323328-severed"}, +{"book_title": "A Dawn Most Wicked", "author_name": "Susan Dennard", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 911, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "Daniel Sheridan is an engineer\u2019s apprentice on a haunted Mississippi steamer known as the Sadie Queen. His best friend\u2013the apprentice pilot, Cassidy Cochran\u2013also happens to be the girl he\u2019s pining for \u2026 and the captain\u2019s daughter. But when it looks like the Sadie Queen might get taken off the river, Daniel and Cassidy have to do whatever they can to stop the ghosts that plague the ship.Fortunately, there happens to be a Creole gentleman on board by the name of Joseph Boyer\u2013and he just might be able to help them \u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Horror (Zombies)", "Novella", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Short Stories", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16065768-a-dawn-most-wicked"}, +{"book_title": "Sapphire Flames", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 19187, "review_number": 2065, "book_description": "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews comes an enthralling new trilogy set in the Hidden Legacy world, where magic means power, and family bloodlines are the new currency of society\u2026In a world where magic is the key to power and wealth, Catalina Baylor is a Prime, the highest rank of magic user, and the Head of her House. Catalina has always been afraid to use her unique powers, but when her friend\u2019s mother and sister are murdered, Catalina risks her reputation and safety to unravel the mystery.But behind the scenes powerful forces are at work, and one of them is Alessandro Sagredo, the Italian Prime who was once Catalina\u2019s teenage crush. Dangerous and unpredictable, Alessandro\u2019s true motives are unclear, but he\u2019s drawn to Catalina like a moth to a flame.To help her friend, Catalina must test the limits of her extraordinary powers, but doing so may cost her both her House\u2013and her heart.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41088576-sapphire-flames"}, +{"book_title": "Glasshouse", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 10572, "review_number": 596, "book_description": "When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn\u2019t take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It\u2019s the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees\u2019 personalities and target historians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, but someone wants him out of the picture because of something his earlier self knew.On the run from a ruthless pursuer and searching for a place to hide, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity, the Glasshouse, constructed to simulate a pre-accelerated culture. Participants are assigned anonymized identities: It looks like the ideal hiding place for a posthuman on the run. But in this escape-proof environment, Robin will undergo an even more radical change, placing him at the mercy of the experimenters\u2014and at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Singularity", "Audiobook", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17866.Glasshouse"}, +{"book_title": "Space Unicorn Blues", "author_name": "T.J. Berry", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 488, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "A misfit crew race across the galaxy to prevent the genocide of magical creatures, in this unique science fiction debut.Having magical powers makes you less than human, a resource to be exploited. Half-unicorn Gary Cobalt is sick of slavery, captivity, and his horn being ground down to power faster-than-light travel. When he's finally free, all he wants is to run away in his ancestors' stone ship. Instead, Captain Jenny Perata steals the ship out from under him, so she can make an urgent delivery. But Jenny held him captive for a decade, and then Gary murdered her best friend... who was also the wife of her co-pilot, Cowboy Jim. What could possibly go right?File Under: Science Fiction [ Rocks in Space - Stand Up to Reason - The Human Experiment - Last Unicorn ]", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Unicorns)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36912009-space-unicorn-blues"}, +{"book_title": "Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence", "author_name": "Richard Yonck", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 187, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "For Readers of Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku, a New Look at the Cutting Edge of Artificial IntelligenceImagine a robotic stuffed animal that can read and respond to a child\u2019s emotional state, a commercial that can recognize and change based on a customer\u2019s facial expression, or a company that can actually create feelings as though a person were experiencing them naturally. Heart of the Machine explores the next giant step in the relationship between humans and technology: the ability of computers to recognize, respond to, and even replicate emotions. Computers have long been integral to our lives, and their advances continue at an exponential rate. Many believe that artificial intelligence equal or superior to human intelligence will happen in the not-too-distance future; some even think machine consciousness will follow. Futurist Richard Yonck argues that emotion, the first, most basic, and most natural form of communication, is at the heart of how we will soon work with and use computers.Instilling emotions into computers is the next leap in our centuries-old obsession with creating machines that replicate humans. But for every benefit this progress may bring to our lives, there is a possible pitfall. Emotion recognition could lead to advanced surveillance, and the same technology that can manipulate our feelings could become a method of mass control. And, as shown in movies like Her and Ex Machina, our society already holds a deep-seated anxiety about what might happen if machines could actually feel and break free from our control. Heart of the Machine is an exploration of the new and inevitable ways in which mankind and technology will interact.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science (Technology)", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Anthropology", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31213179-heart-of-the-machine"}, +{"book_title": "The Galactic Idiot", "author_name": "Scott Finlay", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 6, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "Gary Wright is a good-hearted young man yearning for adventure, having dreamt of space exploration and heroism his whole life. When Gary's frighteningly ill-tempered uncle, Colonel Virgil Cross, arranges a job for him aboard Terra One, humanity's very first and most decrepit space station, Gary's life turns upside down, and the rest of the galaxy flips with him. The one problem with Gary is that he's a complete and utter moron. In fact, the last thing he says before destroying the moon is, \"Oops\".Suddenly caught in the middle of a galactic catastrophe with more adventure than he can handle, Gary is fleeing two of the galaxy's most powerful and least forgiving empires in a broken and unpredictable ship, encountering many diverse friends and enemies along the way including: Shii'an, the confident, tentacled rogue with a permanent smirk etched on her face; Korg, a dour, purple goliath who just wants to tinker with machines; Megatroll, the most dangerous computer worm in history trapped in a robot vacuum cleaner; Mon Arun, a shape-shifting reptilian saboteur; and Queen Morgaan, the omnipresent insectoid mother of a trillion mindless drones and a single daughter she'll protect at all costs.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56573632-the-galactic-idiot"}, +{"book_title": "Cursor's Fury", "author_name": "Jim Butcher", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 63816, "review_number": 1459, "book_description": "The power-hungry High Lord of Kalare has launched a rebellion against the aging First Lord, Gaius Sextus, who with the loyal forces of Alera must fight beside the unlikeliest of allies-the equally contentious High Lord of Aquitaine. Meanwhile, young Tavi of Calderon joins a newly formed legion under an assumed name even as the ruthless Kalare unites with the Canim, bestial enemies of the realm whose vast numbers spell certain doom for Alera. When treachery from within destroys the army's command structure, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced, poorly equipped legion-the only force standing between the Canim horde and the war-torn realm.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Childrens", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29394.Cursor_s_Fury"}, +{"book_title": "Nymphomation", "author_name": "Jeff Noon", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1634, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Set both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As\u00a0a group of mathematics students look at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, they soon find more sinister realities. The Company has developed the nymphomation, and has the power to devour the city's dreams", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science (Mathematics)", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92122.Nymphomation"}, +{"book_title": "Willful Machines", "author_name": "Tim Floreen", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2020, "review_number": 394, "book_description": "In the near future, scientists create what may be a new form of life: an artificial human named Charlotte. All goes well until Charlotte escapes, transfers her consciousness to the Internet, and begins terrorizing the American public.Charlotte's attacks have everyone on high alert\u2014everyone except Lee Fisher, the closeted son of the US president. Lee has other things to worry about, like keeping his Secret Service detail from finding out about his crush on Nico, the eccentric, Shakespeare-obsessed new boy at school. And keeping Nico from finding out about his recent suicide attempt. And keeping himself from freaking out about all his secrets.But when the attacks start happening at his school, Lee realizes he's Charlotte\u2019s next target. Even worse, Nico may be part of Charlotte\u2019s plan too.As Lee races to save himself, uncover Charlotte\u2019s plan, and figure out if he can trust Nico, he comes to a whole new understanding of what it means to be alive ... and what makes life worth living.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Young Adult", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21525970-willful-machines"}, +{"book_title": "Camp Concentration", "author_name": "Thomas M. Disch", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 2567, "review_number": 202, "book_description": "Louis Sacchetti is a poet and pacifist imprisoned for refusing to enlist in the war against Third World guerillas. Sacchetti and the other inmates are used in perverse scientific experiments, and Sacchetti is infected with a germ that raises intelligence to incredible heights while causing decay and death.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "War", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/553907.Camp_Concentration"}, +{"book_title": "Healing the Highlander", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1233, "review_number": 64, "book_description": "ANDREW MACALISTER longs for a cure to free him from the excruciating pain caused by an old wound, but when he rescues a drowning woman, he has no idea how much his life is about to change. All Drew knows is that this mysterious woman is hiding secrets\u2014and that he\u2019s never felt such a consuming desire before. Yet he cannot deny her request for help, even if it means bringing the detested English army to his Highland clan\u2019s home. LEAH NOBLE MCQUARRIE still harbors a deep hatred of the Fae who tortured her eleven years ago, forcing her to escape back in time to the thirteenth century. A descendant of the Fae, Leah denies her heritage and her magical healing abilities. But the English army is holding her beloved adoptive grandfather captive, so Leah must seek help from the Fae\u2014and the captivating man whose touch she craves. Then Drew discovers Leah\u2019s secrets, and he\u2019s torn between old loyalties and trusting a woman who has the power to give him the future he\u2019s sought\u2014but could destroy his clan forever. . . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (Historical Romance)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8614967-healing-the-highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Swept Away", "author_name": "Kamery Solomon", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1120, "review_number": 131, "book_description": "From Kamery Solomon, #1 bestselling genre author and creator of the bestselling series The God Chronicles, comes SWEPT AWAY, a time travel romance fraught with danger and secrets on the high seas! Dead men tell no tales... For more than 200 years, the Treasure Pit on Oak Isle has baffled treasure hunters, engineers, and the common man alike. When Samantha Greene arrives, she finds her estranged father has spent years funneling energy and finances into the endeavor, finding nothing. When an accidental death occurs in the pit, fulfilling the prophecy that seven lives must end before the treasure can be found, the search kicks into high gear, with more than one party vying for the secrets that lie below. Finding herself the closest to the treasure anyone has ever been, Samantha throws herself into the work, landing among the coveted prize. Just as she's about to discover what's truly hidden beneath the island, the pit begins to flood with ocean water, sweeping her away despite her attempts to swim to the surface. Upon awaking, Samantha discovers that, not only did she not drown, but the year is 1695\u2014one hundred years before the Treasure Pit was even discovered. Carried off by the pirate Tristan O'Rourke, a rouge Irishman with more than his share of secrets, she soon finds that there is much more than she realized in play. Will she discover the secrets of Oak Isle, or will an unexpected love keep her from finding out the truth? Will she ever make it back to her own time? Perhaps the real question is this; will she want to?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Fiction", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25305337-swept-away"}, +{"book_title": "The End", "author_name": "Mark Tufo", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 5944, "review_number": 215, "book_description": "Zombie Fallout 3: The End\u2026Continues Michael Talbot's quest to be rid of the evil named Eliza that hunts him and his family across the country. As the world spirals even further down into the abyss of apocalypse one man struggles to keep those around him safe.Side by side Michael stands with his wife, their children, his friends and the wonder Bulldog along with the Wal-Mart greeter Tommy who is infinitely more than he appears and whether he is leading them to salvation or death is only a measure of degrees.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10867262-the-end"}, +{"book_title": "Skylark DuQuesne", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 902, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "Dick Seaton and Marc DuQuesne are the deadliest enemies in the Universe--their feud has blazed among the stars and changed the history of a thousand planets. But now a threat from outside the Galaxy drives them into a dangerous alliance as hordes of strange races drive to a collision with Mankind!Seaton and DuQuesne fight and slave side by side to fend off the invasion--as Seaton keeps constant, perilous watch for DuQuesne's inevitable double-cross!", "year_published": 1965, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Sci Fi Fantasy", "Literature (American)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1383348.Skylark_DuQuesne"}, +{"book_title": "The Here and Now", "author_name": "Ann Brashares", "rating_score": 3.28, "rating_votes": 11696, "review_number": 2383, "book_description": "An unforgettable epic romantic thriller about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she\u2019s found to hold on to.Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.This is the story of seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn\u2019t come from a different country. She came from a different time\u2014a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins. Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they\u2019re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she\u2019s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth. But everything changes when Prenna falls for Ethan Jarves. From Ann Brashares, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, The Here and Now is thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking\u2014and a must-read novel of the year.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Audiobook", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18242896-the-here-and-now"}, +{"book_title": "Grunt Life", "author_name": "Weston Ochse", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 511, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "THE INVASION IS OVER. THEY ARE ALREADY AMONGST US. Benjamin Carter Mason died last night. Maybe he threw himself off a bridge into Los Angeles Harbor, or maybe he burned to death in a house fire in San Pedro; it doesn\u2019t really matter. Today, Mason\u2019s starting a new life. He\u2019s back in boot camp, training for the only war left that matters a damn. For years, their spies have been coming to Earth, learning our weaknesses. Our governments knew, but they did nothing\u2014the prospect was too awful, the costs too high\u2014and now, the horrifying and utterly inhuman Cray are laying waste to our cities. The human race is a heartbeat away from extinction. That is, unless Mason, and the other men and women of Task Force OMBRA, can do anything about it. This is a time for heroes. For killers. For Grunts.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143943-grunt-life"}, +{"book_title": "Domain of the Dead", "author_name": "Iain McKinnon", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1181, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "The world is dead, devoured by a plague of rasping corpses. In a decaying city a band of survivors are barricaded inside a warehouse surrounded by a sea of shambling putrefaction. But now the food is almost gone and the occupants are faced with the slow death of starvation or the undead outside. As Sarah stands on the edge of the warehouse roof preparing to step off into oblivion she spots a glimmer of hope. In the distance she spies a helicopter approaching the city. Is this the salvation they had long since given up on?", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6640238-domain-of-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "In the Garden of Iden", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 5229, "review_number": 537, "book_description": "This is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden. But while there, she meets Nicholas Harpole, with whom she falls in love. And that love sounds great bells of change that will echo down the centuries, and through the succeeding novels of The Company.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270490.In_the_Garden_of_Iden"}, +{"book_title": "City Come a-Walkin", "author_name": "John Shirley", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 517, "review_number": 36, "book_description": "Stu Cole is struggling to keep his nightclub, Club Anesthesia, afloat in the face of mob harassment when he's visited by a manifestation of the city of San Francisco, crystallized into a single enigmatic being. This amoral superhero leads him on a terrifying journey through the rock and roll demimonde as they struggle to save the city.", "year_published": 1980, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Noir)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1123715.City_Come_a_Walkin_"}, +{"book_title": "Conventions of War", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1845, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "\u201cSpace opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.\u201d -- George R.R. MartinAt last, the climactic final episode of the\u00a0Dread Empire\u2019s Fall trilogy--what started with The Praxis and The Sundering comes to the brilliant conclusion in Walter Jon William's epic space adventure.Working on opposite sides of the galaxy--one in deep space, the other undercover on an occupied planet--and haunted by personal ghosts, Captain Gareth Martinez and Lieutenant Lady Caroline Sula fight to save the Empire from the vicious, alien Naxid. In a desperate, audacious bid to stop the Naxid fleet, Martinez makes a move that could win the war...and lose his career. Meanwhile, Sula\u2019s guerilla tactics may not be enough to stop the Naxid, until she tries one deadly, final gambit.And make sure to see what happens after, in the first new Praxis novel in ten years, The Accidental War, available Fall 2018!", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85654.Conventions_of_War"}, +{"book_title": "Zero Day", "author_name": "Ezekiel Boone", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 1900, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "In the thrilling, nerve-wracking finale of Ezekiel Boone\u2019s \u201chair-raising\u201d (Parade) Hatching series, the United States goes to war against the queen spiders that threaten to overtake the human race forever.The world is on the brink of apocalypse. Zero Day has come.The only thing more terrifying than millions of spiders is the realization that those spiders work as one. But among the government, there is dissent: do we try to kill all of the spiders, or do we gamble on Professor Guyer\u2019s theory that we need to kill only the queens?For President Stephanie Pilgrim, it\u2019s an easy answer. She\u2019s gone as far as she can\u2014more than two dozen American cities hit with tactical nukes, the country torn asunder\u2014and the only answer is to believe in Professor Guyer. Unfortunately, Ben Broussard and the military men who follow him don\u2019t agree, and Pilgrim, Guyer, and the loyal members of the government have to flee, leaving the question: what\u2019s more dangerous, the spiders or ourselves?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297544-zero-day"}, +{"book_title": "I, Alien Hunter", "author_name": "Austin Dragon", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 32, "review_number": 4, "book_description": " In Liquid Cool Book 5 its Alien Meets Blade Runner\u2026It\u2019s Alien Hunter! Liquid Cool, the action-packed (and funny), cyberpunk detective series continues. Our private detective, Cruz, has dealt with all kinds of criminal crazies\u2014full human, cyborgs and robots\u2014and even crazier clients. But he has never had to deal with\u2026extraterrestrials. Is this case more than a missing persons? Have humans on the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter actually found proof of alien life from another world? What does it all have to do with a missing scientist? \u201cI\u2019m a detective, not a secret agent,\u201d Cruz says. But never has he faced so much danger from forces on Earth and beyond in the 50-million, supercity of Metropolis\u2014a gritty, ever-rainy, futuristic world of colossal skyscrapers, hovercars, and flashy neon streets. This time besides the action, thrills, and laughs Author Austin Dragon brings us Spacemen, Martians, meteors, androids, and possibly\u2026 a killer alien. Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool. Get Your Copy of Alien HunterNow. \u02c3\u02c3\u02c3FIVE STAR REVIEWS \n\n\u201cLots of shooting, lots of crazy maniacs, lots of action and fun!\u201d\n\n\n \n\u201cCool and Smooth.\u201d \u201cI loved this book. It takes place in the future, and what a weird future.\u201d It\u2019s Blade Runner meets The Maltese Falcon. \u02c3\u02c3\u02c3Check out all of Author Austin Dragon\u2019s books in sci-fi, classic horror, and more here http://www.austindragon.com/books-of-... Join Austin\u2019s VIP Readers\u2019 Club here: http://www.austindragon.com/VIP ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36264836-i-alien-hunter"}, +{"book_title": "God Emperor of Dune", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 70110, "review_number": 1835, "book_description": "Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity's future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.Leto's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot's rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto's vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted--or could possibly conceive....Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Space (Space Opera)", "Philosophy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44439415-god-emperor-of-dune"}, +{"book_title": "Skylark of Valeron", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 994, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Edward E. Smith.Skylark of Valeron. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1949. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 252 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.", "year_published": 1934, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Literature (American)", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1300801.Skylark_of_Valeron"}, +{"book_title": "The Drought", "author_name": "J.G. Ballard", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 2069, "review_number": 183, "book_description": "Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction, where a global drought, brought on by industrial waste, has left mankind in a life-or-death search for water. Violence erupts and insanity reigns as the human race struggles for survival in a worldwide desert of despair.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literature (20th Century)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12362430-the-drought"}, +{"book_title": "No Enemy But Time", "author_name": "Michael Bishop", "rating_score": 3.49, "rating_votes": 1312, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the understanding of eminent palaeontologists. As a result, Joshua is invited to join a most unusual time travel project and is transported millions of years into the past of his dreams. In early Pleistocene Africa, living among the prehuman species Homo habilis, experiencing the same hardships and the same intense pleasures, Joshua finds, for the first time in his troubled life, not only contentment but real love \u2014 a love that transcends almost everything. Intelligent, thoughtful and deeply moving, No Enemy But Time brilliantly evokes the remote past and, at the same time, presents a powerful and convincing portrayal of a relationship surmounting even the most daunting barriers. It is a challenging and highly original novel exploring the nature and origins of humankind.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/637400.No_Enemy_But_Time"}, +{"book_title": "Dreams of a Highlander", "author_name": "Katy Baker", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 1124, "review_number": 92, "book_description": "Darcy Greenway has no time for love. As a dedicated veterinarian her career and her patients come first. But since the death of her parents she\u2019s been running, searching. She just doesn\u2019t know what for. On a much-needed vacation to Scotland she walks under a natural archway on the shore of a loch and finds herself catapulted into the sixteenth century...and right into the middle of a clan war. Stranded in a world of danger and passion, Darcy finds herself drawn to Quinn MacFarlane, the brave Scottish warrior who swears to protect her. But Quinn has secrets of his own. Haunted by his failure to save his brother, his vow might be the very thing that keeps them apart. Because he\u2019ll protect her from everyone - even himself. With enemies closing in, Darcy must make a choice. Should she return home or should she risk her heart on her dream of a Highlander?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33834229-dreams-of-a-highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Deceived", "author_name": "Paul S. Kemp", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 9233, "review_number": 518, "book_description": "The second novel set in the Old Republic era and based on the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars\u00ae: The Old Republic\u2122 ramps up the action and brings readers face-to-face for the first time with a Sith warrior to rival the most sinister of the Order\u2019s Dark Lords\u2014Darth Malgus, the mysterious, masked Sith of the wildly popular \u201cDeceived\u201d and \u201cHope\u201d game trailers. Malgus brought down the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in a brutal assault that shocked the galaxy. But if war crowned him the darkest of Sith heroes, peace would transform him into something far more heinous\u2014something Malgus would never want to be, but cannot stop, any more than he can stop the rogue Jedi fast approaching. Her name is Aryn Leneer\u2014and the lone Knight that Malgus cut down in the fierce battle for the Jedi Temple was her Master. And now she\u2019s going to find out what happened to him, even if it means breaking every rule in the book.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Games (Video Games)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8015504-deceived"}, +{"book_title": "Extremis", "author_name": "Steve White", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 505, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "The New Sequel to Exodus and the New York Times Best Seller, The Shiva Option. Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxy\u2014humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gorm\u2014had united to defeat alien invaders. Decades later, the member planets of the alliance had grown complacent\u2014until a huge fleet of ships, each ship larger than a city, arrived, fleeing the loss of their home planet when their star went nova. They have traveled for centuries, slower than light, and now that they have arrived at the world they intend to make their new home. They regard the fact that the planet is already colonized by humans as a mere inconvenience, the more so since their mode of communication is so different from anything humans use that they do not consider humans and their allies to be truly intelligent. And the arriving aliens know\u2014or, at least, they believe\u2014that when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack humans and their allies with suicidal fury. And, if necessary, they will exterminate all humans and their allies, if that\u2019s what it takes to occupy the planet. That was their attitude on arrival, but the conquerors have learned from human technology. They now know all about reactionless drives, so much more efficient than rocket engines. And they have learned about the jump points which make faster-than-light travel possible. With that knowledge, they plan to conquer the entire inhabited region of the galaxy\u2014unless the old alliance of humans and other being can stop them . . . .", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9303812-extremis"}, +{"book_title": "House of Imperial", "author_name": "Jaymin Eve", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 3975, "review_number": 290, "book_description": "Callie has spent her life moving towns every four months in a bid to \u201cstay off the grid.\" Her only family is a paranoid mother who believes there\u2019s a race of supernatural beings out there actively searching for Callie. A race who could destroy Earth if they get their hands on her. Callie\u2019s never seen one thing to suggest there\u2019s any truth to mom\u2019s insane ramblings, and at the age of eighteen now, she\u2019s grown numb to her reality \u2013 she\u2019s never going to have a normal life.That is, until they move to New Orleans. The moment Callie steps foot into the Quarter, hears the jazz music, feels the soul of the city, the cold shell she\u2019s built to protect herself starts to thaw. Then they come for her. Turns out her mom\u2019s stories are quite real, and whatever happens, Callie\u2019s empty world will never be the same again.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "New Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40128630-house-of-imperial"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's War Part One", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 247, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Book 9 in the Spineward Sectors Series: Admiral\u2019s War, Part 1 After suppressing a Tracto-an uprising which would have destroyed everything they have worked to build, Vice Admiral Jason Montagne and Co. had little time to finish rebuilding the fleet and consolidating their gains thanks to the arrival of an old acquaintance\u2014one which the citizens of the Spineward Sectors assumed had departed during the much-maligned Imperial Withdrawal. But as the Droid saying goes: it can be confidently asserted that assumptions serve to turn those who make them into redundant exhaust ports. Taking advantage of the Spineward Sectors\u2019 collectively weakened state, Admiral Janeski has finally arrived on Sector 25\u2019s doorstep. This time he's not sending proxies to deal with the situation\u2014he's personally leading a so-called Reclamation Fleet on a rampage through the Spineward Sectors one that no sector to date has been able to so much as slow. Their goal to \u2018reclaim\u2019 the Spineward Sectors for the Empire, for the glory of MAN\u2014and for the greater glory of the Imperial Rear Admiral himself. Fleets will be tested, ships will be lost, and even more worlds will bend the knee to these Imperial invaders\u2014but the Little Admiral\u2019s cadre won\u2019t be counted among those who welcome those blasted invaders with open arms. As ambush leads to increasingly deadly counter-ambushes and a battle royal ensues, Jason must also learn to deal with the most difficult challenge of all: his own family. Everything our heroes have gone through has been a prelude to this moment. The board is set, the stakes are high, and the fate of the Spineward Sectors hangs in the balance. It\u2019s time for a war\u2014an Admiral\u2019s War.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28421304-admiral-s-war-part-one"}, +{"book_title": "Randomize", "author_name": "Andy Weir", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 10892, "review_number": 1066, "book_description": "In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favor the house\u2014unless human ingenuity isn\u2019t entirely a thing of the past.Andy Weir\u2019s Randomize is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Novella", "Adult", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49661162-randomize"}, +{"book_title": "Kiss of the Spindle", "author_name": "Nancy Campbell Allen", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2062, "review_number": 435, "book_description": "A steampunk Sleeping Beauty story from the author of\u00a0Beauty and the Clockwork Beast.Doctor Isla Cooper is cursed. Literally. Each night, at the stroke of midnight she falls into a death-like sleep from which she cannot be awakened for six hours. To make it worse, the curse has an expiration date\u2014after a year, it becomes permanent. And the year is almost up.In a desperate attempt to find Malette\u2014the witch who cursed her\u2014Isla blackmails her way onto Daniel Pickett's private airship bound for the Caribbean, only to discover she's traveling with three illegal shapeshifters and the despicable Nigel Crowe, a government official determined to hunt down and exterminate every shapeshifter in England. Isla and Daniel must work together to keep the identities of the shapeshifters hidden while coming to terms with their own hidden secrets, and their blossoming attraction to each other.Filled with suspense, intrigue, and plenty of romance,\u00a0Kiss of the Spindle\u00a0is steampunk Sleeping Beauty story. It is a race against the clock as Isla and Daniel try to hunt down the elusive Malette before Isla's death-like sleep becomes permanent.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Audiobook", "Retellings", "Romance (Clean Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35909698-kiss-of-the-spindle"}, +{"book_title": "Lawful Interception", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 665, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "An all-new tale of Marcus Yallow, the hero of the bestselling novels Little Brother and Homeland -- as he deals with the aftermath of a devastating Oakland earthquake, with the help of friends, hacker allies, and some very clever crowdsourced drones.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science (Technology)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Novella", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17405172-lawful-interception"}, +{"book_title": "The Queue", "author_name": "Basma Abdel Aziz", "rating_score": 3.57, "rating_votes": 1687, "review_number": 330, "book_description": "Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising, The Queue is a chilling debut that evokes Orwellian dystopia, Kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring.In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as \u2018the Gate\u2019 has risen to power in the aftermath of the \u2018Disgraceful Events,\u2019 a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer. Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughter\u2019s health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehia\u2019s health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet. Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehia\u2019s case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life. Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.From the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Northern Africa (Egypt)", "Cultural (Africa)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30186905-the-queue"}, +{"book_title": "The Tuloriad", "author_name": "John Ringo", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1625, "review_number": 33, "book_description": "Latest in the New York Times best-selling Posleen War series. The Direct Sequel to Yellow Eyes.The Enemy of My Enemy . . . \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Of the once innumerable battle clans of the\u00a0Posleen only a handful survive. And that on the sufferance of a group of despised Indowy and Himmit. Plucked from the maelstrom on Earth they are cast out into the eternal blackness of the stars with only a slightly insane Indowy and a computer virus to guide them. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What follows is a trail of tears and remembrance as the Posleen retrace the footsteps of their ancestors in a search for their homeworld. A search to determine if the Posleen posess the one thing no Human would give them credit for: A soul. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Returned to their beginnings, the question remains: Is there a new path for the Tular Posleen?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Action", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6308304-the-tuloriad"}, +{"book_title": "Ashes, Ashes", "author_name": "Jo Treggiari", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 11136, "review_number": 1005, "book_description": "Epidemics, floods, droughts - for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park. But when she's rescued from a pack of hunting dogs by a mysterious boy named Aidan, she reluctantly realizes she can't continue on her own. She joins his band of survivors, yet, a new danger awaits her: the Sweepers are looking for her. There's something special about Lucy, and they will stop at nothing to have her.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7671562-ashes-ashes"}, +{"book_title": "Gravity", "author_name": "Melissa West", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 8301, "review_number": 807, "book_description": "In the future, only one rule will matter:Don\u2019t. Ever. Peek.Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed \u2014 arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she\u2019s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she\u2019s falling for him. But Ari isn\u2019t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She\u2019s a military legacy who\u2019s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know \u2014 especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12844575-gravity"}, +{"book_title": "The Omega Nanny", "author_name": "Penelope Peters", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 561, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "ALPHA THOMAS WHITTAKER NEEDS A NANNY.Single dad Thomas Whittaker loves work, his daughter, and coffee \u2013 not always in that order. Romance hasn\u2019t been on his mind since his mate died six years ago. When his sister hires the cute busboy from Thomas\u2019s favorite coffee shop as the new nanny, he\u2019s just amused.Until he finds out that the busboy is an omega. OMEGA KIERAN CORVEY NEEDS A JOB.Kieran Corvey is newly single, almost homeless \u2013 and determined to pay back every cent his parents spent on an engagement that went nowhere. Kieran needs money more than he needs a love life. Being hired to take care of a six-year-old girl is much better than shilling coffee to thirsty and lusty customers all day.Until he finds out his new employer is an alpha.Sometimes you find exactly what you need when you\u2019re not looking for it at all.The Omega Nanny is a standalone Omegaverse non-shifter story with a HEA and mpreg (male pregnancy) ending.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29637337-the-omega-nanny"}, +{"book_title": "The Final Day", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 7457, "review_number": 632, "book_description": "The highly-anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen\u2019s New York Times bestsellers, One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses readers once more in the story of our nation\u2019s struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror.After defeating the designs of the alleged federal government, John Matherson and his community have returned their attention to restoring the technologies and social order that existed prior to the EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) attack. Then the government announces that it\u2019s ceding large portions of the country to China and Mexico. The Constitution is no longer in effect, and what\u2019s left of the U.S. Army has been deployed to suppress rebellion in the remaining states.The man sent to confront John is General Bob Scales, John\u2019s old commanding officer and closest friend from prewar days. Will General Scales follow orders, or might he be the crucial turning point in the quest for an America that is again united? As the dubious Federal government increasingly curtails liberty and trades away sovereignty, it might just get exactly what it fears: revolution.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller", "War (Military Fiction)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114149-the-final-day"}, +{"book_title": "Grantville Gazette, Volume 5", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 123, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 5 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.Stories include:* Breaking News by Jay Robison* Ounces Of Prevention by Kim Mackey* Burmashave by Chris Racciato* Schwarza Falls by Douglas W. Jones* Susan's Story by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett* Of Masters And Men by Karen Bergstralh* Murphy's Law by Virginia DeMarce* Suite For Four Hands by David Carrico* Euterpe, Episode 3 by Enrico Toro* In Vitro Veritas: Glassmaking After The Ring Of Fire by Iver P. Cooper* Dyes And Mordants by Lisa Satterlund* What Replaces the SRG? by Leonard Hollar, Bob Hollingsworth, John Rigby, Phillip Schillawski, Tom Van Natta and John Zeek* The Grantville Brickmaker's Primer by Kerryn Offord", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12061111-grantville-gazette-volume-5"}, +{"book_title": "Polaris Rising", "author_name": "Jessie Mihalik", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 6962, "review_number": 1174, "book_description": "A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure\u2014the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy.In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors, the heads of the three High Houses, wield the true power. As the fifth of six children, Ada von Hasenberg has no authority; her only value to her High House is as a pawn in a political marriage. When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars.Ada eluded her father\u2019s forces for two years, but now her luck has run out. To ensure she cannot escape again, the fiery princess is thrown into a prison cell with Marcus Loch. Known as the Devil of Fornax Zero, Loch is rumored to have killed his entire chain of command during the Fornax Rebellion, and the Consortium wants his head.When the ship returning them to Earth is attacked by a battle cruiser from rival House Rockhurst, Ada realizes that if her jilted fianc\u00e9 captures her, she\u2019ll become a political prisoner and a liability to her House. Her only hope is to strike a deal with the dangerous fugitive: a fortune if he helps her escape.But when you make a deal with an irresistibly attractive Devil, you may lose more than you bargained for . . .", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Fantasy", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35662096-polaris-rising"}, +{"book_title": "Imprisoned", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 639, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "A girl dressed as a boy In a Triple Max prison full of savage predators A Kindred warrior undercover, trying to protect What he thinks is an innocent boy. Lathe can't understand why he is so drawn to Ari But when her secret comes out, will it kill them both? You'll have to read Imprisoned to find out... Lady Arianna Blackthorn is a woman on a mission--she intends to rescue her brother, Jak, from the infamous BleakHall prison. BleakHall is a Triple Max Penitentiary where only the worst of the worst are sent--a males-only facility where not even female prison guards are allowed. So how can Ari infiltrate this fortress? With the use of a holo-projector that makes her look male (the important parts anyway) she's determined to get in and she has a foolproof plan for getting both herself and Jak out...or so she thinks. Commander Lathe is a Blood Kindred who lost his younger brother to the horrors of BleakHall. He is on a mission to go undercover and collect evidence against the cruel and ruthless prison guards who run it and the Yonnite Mistresses who own it. He also has a plan to get out but it's going to take some time and while he's waiting, a strange new inmate comes to BleakHall--a boy called Ari. Ari is in over her head from the minute she steps through the prison gates. She is immediately singled out by Tapper, BleakHall's most ruthless sexual predator, as his next conquest. Only Lathe's timely intervention saves her from a fate worse than death...and death itself. Lathe moves Ari into his cell to keep her safe but he has no idea she is really a female and Ari doesn't dare to tell him. Can Ari keep her secret from the big Kindred? Can Lathe sort through his confusing feelings for the \"boy\" he has taken under his wing? (Why does he smell like a female? Why can't Lathe stop thinking about him...stop wanting to touch him?) Can the two of them rescue Ari's brother and escape from the maze of sadistic guards, psychopathic prisoners, and ravenous lashers--the huge carnivorous snake-cats that roam the corridors of BleakHall at night waiting to devour any inmates attempting to get away? You'll have to read Imprisoned, Brides of the Kindred 22, to find out... ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41085328-imprisoned"}, +{"book_title": "Pursuit", "author_name": "Claudy Conn", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 665, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "Milesian immortal Chancemont LeBlanc is determined to avenge his sister\u2019s death at the hands of Dark Prince Pestale, who remains free after the war between the Seelie Fae and the Dark Fae. Nothing will stop Chance from fulfilling his mission of vengeance, not even the time barrier.The queen of the Seelie Fae has other ideas, however, and she sends Princess Royce to make sure Pestale is captured, not killed. Royce would rather spend time with the human family she has grown to love, but she has broken the rules one time too many, and Queen Aaibhe wants her to grow up and act like the Seelie royal she is!Royce doesn\u2019t want to be part of Chance\u2019s team. He most definitely doesn\u2019t want her on his team, and from the start\u2014fireworks.Chance has Pestale on the run, but after seeing the beautiful princess with the flaming red hair, Pestale has decided Royce must be his. A hunter becomes the hunted \u2026 Purposes collide \u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fairies (Fae)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18857966-pursuit"}, +{"book_title": "The Boys from Brazil", "author_name": "Ira Levin", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 37366, "review_number": 864, "book_description": "Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project\u2014the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before he can relay the evidence, Kohler is killed. Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious \"Angel of Death\"? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings\u2014Lieberman, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality. At the heart of The Boys from Brazil lies a frightening contemporary nightmare, chilling and all too possible.", "year_published": 1976, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Mystery", "Suspense", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Drama", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99894.The_Boys_from_Brazil"}, +{"book_title": "Jede Wette", "author_name": "Markus Heitz", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 49, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Holdo Kraif ist ein begeisterter All-Area-Combat-Golfer, der mit illegalen Wettk\u00e4mpfen eine Menge Geld verdient. Doch bedauerlicherweise gilt seine Leidenschaft auch dem Gl\u00fccksspiel und sch\u00f6nen Frauen, und so hat er in den vergangenen Monaten die immense Summe von 100.000 Nuyen Schulden aufgeh\u00e4uft, die sein Gl\u00e4ubiger, ein D\u00fcsseldorfer Yakuza-Gangsterboss, nun binnen weniger Tage zur\u00fcckhaben will, andernfalls ist Holdo ein toter Mann. Daher kann Holdo seinen j\u00fcngsten Sieg, den er mit seiner Buchmacherin Mousse in deren Club feiert, auch nicht richtig genie\u00dfen. Nach ein paar Flaschen billigem Sekt sieht er nur einen Ausweg aus seiner Misere: Er springt auf die B\u00fchne und pr\u00e4sentiert dem staunenden Publikum die Wette seines Lebens - er wettet, dass er es schafft, eine Woche am Leben zu bleiben, selbst wenn die besten Killer der ADL gegen ihn antreten...", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1502515.Jede_Wette"}, +{"book_title": "Battle Angel Alita, Volume 09: Angel's Ascension", "author_name": "Yukito Kishiro", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 1731, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "The final volume of this epic sci-fi action series finds the beautiful and deadly cyborg Alita locked in a nightmarish virtual-reality battle with her nemesis, Desty Nova -- a struggle that may spell the end of the world.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Manga (Seinen)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60289.Battle_Angel_Alita_Volume_09"}, +{"book_title": "iD", "author_name": "Madeline Ashby", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 649, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption.Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Canada)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16127258-id"}, +{"book_title": "Sixpence Bride", "author_name": "Virginia Farmer", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 206, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "WorthlessJilted by her fianc\u00e9, Jocelyn Tanner had to struggle not to believe that her own value had been somehow diminished. Still, she knew better than to let that fear ruin her tour of England. But no one explained to her that there would be a mock bride auction\u2014or that she would be sucked back in time to the close of the eighteenth century.PricelessSuddenly Jocelyn found herself in another time another body, and in a real auction\u2014being claimed by a real hunk of a man. Still, her bride price hardly seemed flattering. And the handsome Garren had not yet shown her the attention for which she yearned. But as she began to make this new body her own, she saw interest flare behind the lord\u2019s reserved facade. She\u2019d soon show him\u2014and herself\u2014in pounds or pennies, no one was worth more than his\u2026Sixpence Bride", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Regency)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/702890.Sixpence_Bride"}, +{"book_title": "Cautious Surrender", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 837, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Adan went from a living hell on Earth, only to be thrown into a new purgatory. The Zargonnii vessel she\u2019d thought was her savior is blown to bits in an alien war attack. A wormhole sends Adan and her warrior protector to an unknown world. Her only hope of surviving the ungodly planet is in the hands of Blu, whom she loves. Unfortunately, Blu has another agenda.Blu\u2019s body burns for the little human female, but his entire adult life has one purpose, to father a son and create a family. If he mates with Adan and makes it back home, he\u2019ll need to keep her close to his side, protecting her from his dangerous life. Human females only produce female offspring in Blu\u2019s world. If they survive this planet, Blu has to decide if he\u2019s willing to give up one dream for another.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Space", "Fantasy", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24269084-cautious-surrender"}, +{"book_title": "Hunters of Dune", "author_name": "Brian Herbert", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 12945, "review_number": 413, "book_description": "Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Space", "Adventure", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20249.Hunters_of_Dune"}, +{"book_title": "The First Casualty", "author_name": "Mike Moscoe", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 677, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "Two green draftees of the Society of Humanity. Two career soldiers invested with the cause of the United Colonies. These four soldiers on opposing sides of battle are about to discover the true nature of this terrible war--a quest for profit--from the high command of both sides. What they will risk is nothing less than their lives. For although truth is the first casualty of war, it won't be the last.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929638.The_First_Casualty"}, +{"book_title": "Dr. Hugh Mann", "author_name": "Mark Tufo", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 2419, "review_number": 115, "book_description": "Before there were zombies there was the virus.....", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11803203-dr-hugh-mann"}, +{"book_title": "Perfect State", "author_name": "Brandon Sanderson", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 12238, "review_number": 1023, "book_description": "From the author of Legion and the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive comes an action-filled novella about privilege, culture clash, and expectations.God-Emperor Kairominas is lord of all he surveys. He has defeated all foes, has united the entire world beneath his rule, and has mastered the arcane arts. He spends his time sparring with his nemesis, who keeps trying to invade Kai's world.Except for today. Today, Kai has to go on a date.Forces have conspired to require him to meet with his equal\u2014a woman from another world who has achieved just as much as he has. What happens when the most important man in the world is forced to have dinner with the most important woman in the world?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25188109-perfect-state"}, +{"book_title": "Man-Kzin Wars VI", "author_name": "Larry Niven", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 619, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "JUMP QUICK, MONKEY BOYAfter two unpleasant defeats at the hands of the humans from Earth - those rotten no good, sneaky monkeys with tools - the Kzin Third Fleet has decided a change of strategy is in order. Not scream and leap, but the more subtle and ultimately more satisfying (because it might work!) feint and pounce. The man-killing cats from Kzin are baaack.Only luck or the Outsiders can save us now...Cover illustration: Stephen Hickman", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378689.Man_Kzin_Wars_VI"}, +{"book_title": "Escaping the Dead", "author_name": "W.J. Lundy", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1489, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "The radio goes quiet while on convoy in Afghanistan, a lost patrol alone in the desert. With his unit and his home base destroyed, Staff Sergeant Brad Thompson suddenly finds himself isolated and in command of a small group of men trying to survive in the Afghan wasteland. The local population has been afflicted with an illness that turns them into rabid animals. They pursue him and his men at every corner and stop. Struggling to hold his team together and unite survivors, he must fight and evade his way to safety.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Action", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17619991-escaping-the-dead"}, +{"book_title": "The Demolished Man", "author_name": "Alfred Bester", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 28899, "review_number": 1331, "book_description": "In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?Ben Reichs heads a huge 24th century business empire, spanning the solar system. He is also an obsessed, driven man determined to murder a rival. To avoid capture, in a society where murderers can be detected even before they commit their crime, is the greatest challenge of his life.", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "Mystery", "Hugo Awards", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76740.The_Demolished_Man"}, +{"book_title": "The Night Mayor", "author_name": "Kim Newman", "rating_score": 3.39, "rating_votes": 232, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "This first novel is a highly entertaining and imaginative journey between fact, fiction, and fantasy in the depths of a city where it is always two-thirty in the morning and always raining. The conventions of film noir are lovingly exploited in this entertaining novel.--New York Times Book Review.", "year_published": 1989, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery (Noir)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280018.The_Night_Mayor"}, +{"book_title": "Another Rainy Night", "author_name": "Patrick Goodman", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 110, "review_number": 8, "book_description": "Blood Runs RedEvery day in the Sixth World people die in a thousand different ways. Every day blood is spilled. Every place that rain falls, it washes away some of the red that stains the streets.Eliminating every killer in the Sixth World is as impossible as drying up every raindrop in a storm, but Thomas McAllister doesn\u2019t want to get rid of all of them. Just one. He\u2019s been on this killer\u2019s trail for a while, and he knows he\u2019s getting closer. The only question is if he\u2019ll be able to handle getting as close as he\u2019s about to be, or if his blood will join the stream that regularly flows into the gutters of the sprawls.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19084239-another-rainy-night"}, +{"book_title": "Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 604, "review_number": 7, "book_description": "TRANSMETROPOLITAN: I HATE IT HERE is a collection of snippets from Spider's weekly newspaper column and each piece is illustrated by a new and talented artist.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7695469-transmetropolitan"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: The Nu-Humans", "author_name": "Cavan Scott", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 123, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "The Doctor, Amy and Rory are awe-struck by their first sight of Hope Eternal, a super-earth bigger than Earth itself with heavy gravity, volcanoes and a crust loaded with mineral deposits. But their wonder is cut short when they discover a body dumped on the ground - a huge figure with extraordinarily long arms covered in thick, purple scales. Yet the corpse is not alien: he's human, albeit unlike any human Amy and Rory have ever seen. The Nu-Humans have adapted their genes to fit their new environment, and formed a thriving colony. But now they are facing a terrible threat. Can the Doctor find out who is killing Nu-Humans and why - before he, Amy and Rory are themselves tried for murder? Written specially for audio by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, The Nu-Humans features the Doctor, Amy and Rory as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television. It is read by Raquel Cassidy, who played Miranda Cleaves in the 2011 TV episodes The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People.1 CD. 1 hr 20 mins.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Doctors"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15742202-doctor-who"}, +{"book_title": "The Hopkins Manuscript", "author_name": "R.C. Sherriff", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 347, "review_number": 59, "book_description": "In The Hopkins Manuscript we watch through his eyes as the moon veers off course, draws slowly closer to the earth, and finally crashes into it on May 3rd 1946. Because it falls into the Atlantic much of humanity survives \u2013 only to generate new disasters. But this is not science fiction in the mode of H G Wells's The War of the Worlds; it is a novel about human nature.The 'manuscript' was named after its 'author', a retired Hampshire schoolmaster whose greatest interest in life is his Bantam hens; rather self-important and lacking much sense of humour, Edgar Hopkins nevertheless emerges as an increasingly sympathetic and credible character, the ordinary man with whom we very much identify as Sherriff describes the small Hampshire village trying to prepare itself in its last days. In Journey's End he evoked the trench experience as he had lived it; in The Hopkins Manuscript he describes the catastrophe as he might have lived it.", "year_published": 1939, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Classics", "European Literature (British Literature)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novels", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Classics (Modern Classics)", "Literary Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2588395-the-hopkins-manuscript"}, +{"book_title": "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase", "author_name": "Joan Aiken", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 19574, "review_number": 1279, "book_description": "Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease.With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?", "year_published": 1962, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Classics", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Historical", "Gothic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36638.The_Wolves_of_Willoughby_Chase"}, +{"book_title": "Backward Glass", "author_name": "David Lomax", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 234, "review_number": 74, "book_description": "Crack your head, knock you dead, then Prince Harming's hunger's fed.It's 1977, and Kenny Maxwell is dreading the move away from his friends. But then, behind the walls of his family's new falling-apart Victorian home, he finds something incredible--a mummified baby and a note: \"Help me make it not happen, Kenny. Help me stop him.\"Shortly afterwards, a beautiful girl named Luka shows up. She introduces Kenny to the backward glass, a mirror that allows them to travel through time. Meeting other \"mirror kids\" in the past and future is exciting, but there's also danger. The urban legend of Prince Harming, who kidnaps and kills children, is true--and he's hunting them. When Kenny gets stranded in the past, he must find the courage to answer a call for help, change the fate of a baby--and confront his own destiny.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Historical", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17393012-backward-glass"}, +{"book_title": "The Final Winter", "author_name": "Iain Rob Wright", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 3487, "review_number": 413, "book_description": "Critically acclaimed d\u00e9but novel of bestselling author, Iain Rob Wright.What would you do if it started snowing in every country in the world? Would you panic? For a ragtag group of strangers gathered at a dilapidated English pub, the best solution is a pint of beer with a hearty shot of denial. The truth is too strange to admit; but, one by one, they will be forced to accept reality - that something sinister is lurking outside in the snow. Something no one could imagine.Amongst those at the pub is Harry Jobson, the local drunk. Nobody would ever look to him during a time of crisis, but as things deteriorate he is forced to get a grip on his past and be the man he was always meant to be. It will be up to Harry to find answers to questions like: who just threw a body through the window with the word SINNER carved into its chest?Not everyone is going to make it through the night - and those who do will wish they hadn't. Special edition bonus content - seven additional short stories set during the events of The Final Winter, plus one additional stand-alone tale: The Peeling of Samuel Lloyd Collins.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Angels)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11494704-the-final-winter"}, +{"book_title": "St. Andrew's Bay Chronicles", "author_name": "Lila Leigh Hunter", "rating_score": 3.29, "rating_votes": 69, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "After the disappearance of his beloved at sea, Captain Andrew Callaghan found solace at St. Andrew\u2019s Bay. Years later, a series of attacks to his merchant vessels have him turn into a feared pirate with an assumed death wish.Washing ashore with no memories of his whereabouts for the last five years, Franco Rodr\u00edguez y Rivera knew he had to follow the mythical sextant now in his possession to retrace his forgotten journey.Together, the men will take sail in hopes to find the truth behind Franco\u2019s affliction. A battle against time, and the West Indies Squadron will show them that a life of adventure awaits beyond their bay.***All stories in this series run parallel. Therefore, each one can be read as a stand-alone novella.*** This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's \"Love is an Open Road\" event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story. Photo Description: A vintage portrait of a pirate at a beach with the water in the background. The pirate seems to be in his early thirties, with long hair held back, and a muscular physique. With one hand he\u2019s holding his pistol which is in his chest baldric, and in the other hand he\u2019s holding a bloody cutlass.This story may contain sexually explicit content and is intended for adult readers. It may contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The M/M Romance Group strongly recommends that each reader review the General Information section before each story for story tags as well as for content warnings.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Historical", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Pirates)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Short Stories", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25736084-st-andrew-s-bay-chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "Wireless", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 2900, "review_number": 190, "book_description": "Science fiction guru Charles Stross \"sizzles with ideas\" (\"Denver Post\") in his first major short story collection. The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as \"Accelerando, Halting State,\" and \"Saturn's Children\" delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction- including a novella original to this volume- brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Horror", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5226027-wireless"}, +{"book_title": "Desecration", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 23820, "review_number": 328, "book_description": "The exciting ninth book in the Left Behind series that has sold over 2.5 million copies in hardcover is now available in trade paperback. In November 2001 \"Desecration\" was #1 on the \"New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, \" and \"CBA Marketplace\" best-seller lists. With 50 million products sold, the Left Behind series is an international phenomenon.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fiction", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion (Faith)", "Religion (Christianity)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27526.Desecration"}, +{"book_title": "Promise of Blood", "author_name": "Brian McClellan", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 46453, "review_number": 2973, "book_description": "The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it. It's a bloody business overthrowing a king...Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces.Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail.But when gods are involved...Now, as attacks batter them from within and without, the credulous are whispering about omens of death and destruction. Just old peasant legends about the gods waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. But they should...In a rich, distinctive world that mixes magic with technology, who could stand against mages that control gunpowder and bullets?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790883-promise-of-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Freedom's Dawn", "author_name": "Ryk Brown", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 4270, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Episode 4 A ship under siege\u2026 A world on the brink of civil war\u2026 A distraught people seeking a new beginning\u2026 A battle weary crew that can barely hold it together\u2026 Even a legend can use a little help from time to time. The crew of the Aurora, the Karuzari, and the Corinairans must find a way to work together or else they may all perish. \u201cFreedom\u2019s Dawn\u201d is a 94,000 word novel, and is the 4th episode in The Frontiers Saga. Episode 5, \"Rise of the Corinari\" is available now.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15737118-freedom-s-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Rocket", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 1665, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Alternate cover edition for ASIN: B008RBN7TA\"Rocket!\" is the fourth in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has rendered her a genius and an athletic phenomenon. In \u201cRocket!\u201d she works out the enormous potential of the wormholes she discovered in \"Lieutenant.\" Though they only provide small openings through space, the wormholes could prove to be a tremendous boon to humankind.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33650645-rocket"}, +{"book_title": "All Rights Reserved", "author_name": "Gregory Scott Katsoulis", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 3911, "review_number": 857, "book_description": "Speth Jime is anxious to deliver her Last Day speech and celebrate her transition into adulthood. The moment she turns fifteen, Speth must pay for every word she speaks, for every nod, for every scream and even every gesture of affection. She\u2019s been raised to know the consequences of falling into debt, and can\u2019t begin to imagine the pain of having her eyes shocked for speaking words that she\u2019s unable to afford.But when Speth\u2019s friend Beecher commits suicide rather than work off his family\u2019s crippling debt, she can\u2019t express her shock and dismay without breaking her Last Day contract and sending her family into Collection. Rather than read her speech\u2014rather than say anything at all\u2014she closes her mouth and vows never to speak again, sparking a movement that threatens to destroy her, her family and the entire city around them.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy", "Family", "Speculative Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33257478-all-rights-reserved"}, +{"book_title": "Homunculus", "author_name": "James P. Blaylock", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 833, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "In 1870s London, a city of contradictions and improbabilities, a dead man pilots an airship and living men are willing to risk all to steal a carp. Here, a night of bangers and ale at the local pub can result in an eternity at the Blood Pudding with the rest of the reanimated dead.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Adventure", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/421130.Homunculus"}, +{"book_title": "The Knight at Dawn", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 20549, "review_number": 953, "book_description": "\nPeacocks for dinner and boys in skirts?\nThat's what Jack and Annie find when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the Middle Ages for another wild adventure. In the Great Gall of the castle, a feast is under way. But Jack and Annie aren't exactly welcome guests!", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/948526.The_Knight_at_Dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Duty Calls", "author_name": "Sandy Mitchell", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 1365, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "While assisting local forces quell widespread civil disorder, Commissar Cain and his regiment of Valhallans discover sinister forces are at work behind the scenes. With a rioting populace, aliens on the rampage, and the Inquisition poking their noses everywhere, how can the wily commissar ever find the easy life he prefers?", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Humor", "War", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/709616.Duty_Calls"}, +{"book_title": "Criss Cross", "author_name": "Jordan Castillo Price", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 5241, "review_number": 507, "book_description": "Criss Cross finds the ghosts surrounding Victor getting awfully pushy. The medications that Victor usually takes to control his abilities are threatening to destroy his liver, and his new meds aren't any more effective than sugar pills.Vic is also adjusting to a new PsyCop partner, a mild-mannered guy named Roger with all the personality of white bread. At least he's willing to spring for the Starbucks.Jacob\u2019s ex-boyfriend, Crash, is an empathic healer who might be able to help Victor pull his powers into balance, but he seems more interested in getting into Victor\u2019s pants than in providing any actual assistance.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5260435-criss-cross"}, +{"book_title": "City of Secrets", "author_name": "Victoria Ying", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 454, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Ever Barnes is a shy orphan guarding a secret in an amazing puzzle box of a building.Most of the young women who work at the building\u2019s Switchboard Operating Facility, which connects the whole city of Oskar, look the other way as Ever roams around in the shadows. But one of them, Lisa, keeps an eye on the boy. So does the head of the Switchboard, Madame Alexander . . . a rather sharp eye.Enter Hannah, the spunky daughter of the building\u2019s owner. She thinks Ever needs a friend, even if he doesn\u2019t know it yet.Good thing she does!Lisa and Madame Alexander are each clearly up to something.Ever is beset by a menacing band of rogues looking to unlock the secret he holds\u2013at any cost.And whatever is hidden deep in the Switchboard building will determine all of their futures.On a journey that twists and turns as much as the mechanical building Ever Barnes calls home, he and his new friend Hannah have to \u00ad and out what\u2019s really going on in this mysterious city of secrets . . . or else!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51992243-city-of-secrets"}, +{"book_title": "Noble Metals", "author_name": "L.A. Witt", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 345, "review_number": 88, "book_description": "Ever since Robert Belton gambled away the money to stake his claim in the Klondike gold fields, he\u2019s been stranded in Seattle working as a prostitute. When an attractive customer needs help hauling provisions to the frozen north, Robert eagerly volunteers. Dr. John Fauth is only searching for one thing, and it isn\u2019t gold. He needs platinum for the prototypes of his revolutionary inventions, and if he doesn\u2019t find it in the Klondike, his university career\u2014and his research\u2014is over. Getting to the Klondike is a grueling, dangerous journey, and just hours after leaving Seattle, John and Robert find themselves in over their heads. John is carrying an invaluable device that his competitors will do anything to get their hands on. And as the cold nights and mutual desire pull John and Robert closer together, they discover that they have much more to lose than gold or platinum. This 52,000 word book was previously published.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Adventure", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "LGBT (Gay)", "LGBT", "Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45456050-noble-metals"}, +{"book_title": "Sister Sable", "author_name": "T. Mountebank", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 2979, "review_number": 132, "book_description": "THE FIRST TENET OF THE WIND: Do not get caught.Sister Sable has lived by the first tenet for seven years, but when an unexpected accident reveals the runaway nun to the clergy, she is forced to embrace the remaining four.THE SECOND TENET OF THE WIND: Win by any means.With the King\u2019s spymaster committed to killing her, and his general regretting he didn\u2019t, Sable enters a deadly game.THE THIRD TENET OF THE WIND: The purpose of picking up a blade is to cut the enemy.Scaring them is discretionary.THE FOURTH TENET OF THE WIND: Have no preferred weapon. Even so, she likes the axe.THE FIFTH TENET OF THE WIND: Know the way of all professions.Prophet, pilot, assassin, spy, Sable will need to call upon all she has learned to protect the King\u2019s future from the past.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Thriller", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26022605-sister-sable"}, +{"book_title": "Admiral's Nemesis", "author_name": "Luke Sky Wachter", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 144, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Book 11 in the Spineward Sectors Series: Admiral\u2019s Nemesis, Part One: Following the defeat of Admiral Janeski, Admiral Jason Montagne and the faithful members of the MSP must seek to consolidate their gains before the vultures swoop in and snatch them away. Watch as greedy Sector Officials determined to snatch the lion's share of the hulls captured during the battle with the Reclamation Fleet descend on Easy Haven. Shadowy forces deep inside the Empire are finally forced into the light after their plot to take the Spineward Sectors by proxy failed. And Confederation politicians more concerned with the greater good and their own next election cycle than the citizens they are sworn to protect finally take action. But is it an action that will be to the benefit of the Multi-Sector Patrol Fleet and the Spineward Sectors at large? Throw in an extra dimensional spider, helpful relatives, a ghost in the machine with its own agenda, an assassin inside the Fleet's growing anti-machine movement and a series of increasingly fast moves by a desperate Sector Governor determined to survive no matter the cost and you have the recipe for a Spineward Sector disaster. Find out what happens for all this and more in Admiral's Nemesis, Part One!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35963841-admiral-s-nemesis"}, +{"book_title": "The Black Opera", "author_name": "Mary Gentle", "rating_score": 3.33, "rating_votes": 413, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be nothing short of magical.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Music", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Cultural (Italy)", "Unfinished", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10273623-the-black-opera"}, +{"book_title": "Corroded", "author_name": "Karina Cooper", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 282, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "Hungry for vengeance, Cherry St. Croix is forced to the fog-ridden streets of Victorian London.My rival, a collector of bounties like myself, has murdered one of my own. In consequence, I have been removed from my house, my staff, and all who would support me. I have nowhere else to turn, so I beg asylum within the Midnight Menagerie, London\u2019s decadent pleasure garden.Micajah Hawke\u2019s dominance there will not tolerate my presence for long. I am fixated on revenge, but I walk a razor\u2019s edge under his scrutiny His wicked power is not easily ignored, and I must not allow myself to submit\u2014no matter how sweet the sacrifice.Challenging my rival to a race is the only way to end this, no small task when the quarry is the murderous Jack the Ripper. As my enemies close in, I fear the consequences of this hunt. I am trapped between two killers, and what doesn\u2019t kill me may leave its scars forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17727206-corroded"}, +{"book_title": "Bloodfever", "author_name": "Karen Marie Moning", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 96910, "review_number": 5277, "book_description": "I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who\u2019d get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, people who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic.When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything I\u2019ve learned about myself, I know I have the power to get it\u2026.MacKayla Lane\u2019s ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Ireland\u2019s shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets. In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh\u2013a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V\u2019lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious. For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them.\u2026", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fairies (Fae)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344262.Bloodfever"}, +{"book_title": "Exodus", "author_name": "Steve White", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 713, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxy, humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gormhad, united to defeat alien invaders. The bugs were as incomprehensibly alien as they were revoltingly evil, using all other living things, intelligent or not, as food, and they had been defeated at a terrible cost. Decades have since passed and the gallant warriors of the battle against the bugs have grown old, while new generations have grown complacent . . . dangerously so. Long ago, much of the population of an entire planet had built a huge fleet of ships, each ship larger than a city, and fled their world before its sun went nova. Those slower-than-light ships traversed many light years, and have now arrived at the world they intend to make their new home. They regard the fact that the planet is already colonized by humans as a mere inconvenience, the more so since their mode of communication is so different from anything humans use that they do not consider humans and their allies to be truly intelligent. And the arriving aliens knowor, at least, they believethat when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack humans and their allies with suicidal fury. This time, the intelligent races of the old alliance will not have to worry about becoming an invaders mealbut that will be small comfort if the invaders decide that genocide is justified for their own survival. . . .", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134275.Exodus"}, +{"book_title": "Doctor Who: The Stone Rose", "author_name": "Jacqueline Rayner", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 5795, "review_number": 593, "book_description": "David Tennant reads this absorbing story of a missing boy, a clairvoyant girl and a strange stone effigyMickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realizes that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture.While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future a girl whose predictions are surprisingly accurate. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for.Read by the Tenth Doctor himself, this thrilling adventure features the Doctor and his companion Rose Tyler, as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television. Also included is an exclusive bonus interview with the author, Jacqueline Rayner, conducted by David Darlington of\" Doctor Who\" magazine.\"", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Media Tie In (Doctor Who)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153019.Doctor_Who"}, +{"book_title": "Prairie Fire", "author_name": "E.K. Johnston", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 536, "review_number": 148, "book_description": "Owen and his bard Siobhan join the Oil Watch, the international organization charged with protecting the world from vicious, carbon emission-eating dragons. Every dragon slayer owes the Oil Watch a period of service, and young Owen was no exception. What made him different was that he did not enlist alone. His two closest friends stood with him shoulder to shoulder. Steeled by success and hope, the three were confident in their plan. But the arc of history is long and hardened by dragon fire. Try as they might, Owen and his friends could not twist it to their will. Not all the way. Not all together. The sequel to the critically acclaimed The Story of Owen.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Music"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17928170-prairie-fire"}, +{"book_title": "Klara and the Sun", "author_name": "Kazuo Ishiguro", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 139, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Adult", "Novels", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54120408-klara-and-the-sun"}, +{"book_title": "Day of the Kraken", "author_name": "Michael Swanwick", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 191, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The third in Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Michael Swanwick's \"Mongolian Wizard\" series of tales set in an alternate fin de si\u00e8cle Europe shot through with sorcery and intrigue.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15994674-day-of-the-kraken"}, +{"book_title": "V", "author_name": "A.C. Crispin", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1324, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "TRY TO RESISTThey arrived\u2014tens of thousands of extraterrestrial beings\u2014in huge spaceships the size of a modern metropolis. They came from a dying planet. All they wanted, in exchange for their vast knowledge of science and technology, was a small share of the earth's natural resources. Theirs was a mission of peace ... and mankind believed them. Until they began to multiply into an army of alien invaders. Until men, women, and children\u2014entire cities\u2014began to vanish from the earth. Until the horrifying reality behind their mission of peace\u2014a reign of terror reminiscent of Nazi Germany on a global scale\u2014created the human imperative...RESIST OR PERISH", "year_published": 1984, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Novels", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415018.V"}, +{"book_title": "Cosmic Bounty", "author_name": "Angela Castle", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1223, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Galactic warriors Gol, Hul, Riv and Ric of Galafrax, rescue a shapely female from a slave trader, while wandering the interspecies market. Her pale beauty stirs their lust, and her accepting nature softens their hearts. All four brothers agree she belongs to them\u2014forever.Stolen from Earth by greedy alien traders, Kat is sold to not one, but four, large muscled, alien soldiers. She\u2019s shocked to discover they plan to share her!With their sexy red skin and gentle seduction, Kat finds it impossible to resist. All too soon, she loses her heart to the brothers. When they take her to Galafrax, she struggles to learn about her newly adopted planet, but other forces seek to tear her from the men. Her quads will do anything to get her back between them, where she belongs.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Erotica (Menage)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Space", "Menage (M F M)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16143343-cosmic-bounty"}, +{"book_title": "Ice Planet Honeymoon: Vektal and Georgie", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1639, "review_number": 168, "book_description": "What happens after happily ever after? Quite a bit, actually. Georgie and Vektal are mated, but Georgie has a few things on her mind before she settles into her new life\u2026 Why not have a honeymoon? This story is an extended epilogue for Ice Planet Barbarians and is for readers who want a little more of their favorite couple. Don\u2019t start here! Start with book one, Ice Planet Barbarians.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46138995-ice-planet-honeymoon"}, +{"book_title": "Glorious Appearing: The End of Days", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 14760, "review_number": 452, "book_description": "Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of Tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment. At the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem, nothing seems to be able to stop the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia. But God has another plan.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fiction", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Religion (Faith)", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133767.Glorious_Appearing"}, +{"book_title": "As You Wish", "author_name": "Jude Deveraux", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 4319, "review_number": 504, "book_description": "One fateful summer, three very different women find themselves together in Summer Hill, Virginia, where they find they have much more in common than they realized\u2026Sixty-year-old Olivia\u2019s first marriage was long and unhappy, but now she is a newlywed, thrilled to finally be starting her life with the man she\u2019s always truly loved\u2014even if they are getting a late start. Kathy is in her forties and married to a handsome, successful businessman. Theirs would be a fairy-tale romance if it weren\u2019t for one problem: he\u2019s passionately in love with someone else! Twentysomething Elise is also in a troubled marriage, stuck with the man her wealthy parents chose for her. Now that he has a pregnant mistress, he seems willing to go to drastic lengths to take Elise out of the picture.Though each of them wound up at the Summerhouse for separate reasons, it\u2019s not long before they begin to open up about their regrets, their wishes and their dreams. And when they\u2019re presented with the opportunity of a lifetime\u2014a chance to right the wrongs of their past\u2014all three discover what can happen when dreams really do come true.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Adult Fiction", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Fantasy", "Womens Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35554347-as-you-wish"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow Fires", "author_name": "Catherine Spangler", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 485, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "RWA RITA Nominated Science Fiction Romance! Jenna dan Aron, a Shielder, lives a solitary existence, shunned by her people because she has visions and can see the future. She\u2019s even foreseen her own destiny: to be a human offering, a mate for a savage Leor warlord. When two Shielder colonies need to be rescued, the Leors who are their only hope demand a bride for their leader in return. Knowing she can\u2019t deny fate, Jenna steps forward. The Leors are a hybrid race and only part human. Arion of Saura finds mating outside his race abhorrent, but he has no choice, as his kind faces extinction. His life is ruled by hard logic and physical prowess, with no room for softness or emotion. Bound to him, Jenna faces a life of barbarism with a mate who seems more beast than man. In the relentless heat of the wild Sauran desert, Jenna and Arion wage a battle of wills, until they discover that the heart is mightier than any weapon\u2014and that love can forge shadow and fire together.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic Romance", "Futuristic", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25537608-shadow-fires"}, +{"book_title": "Ice Planet Holiday", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 4676, "review_number": 350, "book_description": "All this snow and no holidays? What's a stranded human to do? Create a new holiday, of course. Georgie and the other women decide to bring some new traditions and cheer to the sa-khui. More babies are born, presents are exchanged, and a new romance blossoms between a human woman desperate for a change, and the alien determined to protect her. This 25,000 word novella is NOT intended as a stand-alone. Looking for a place to start? Try ICE PLANET BARBARIANS, Book #1 in the series.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Novella", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28002882-ice-planet-holiday"}, +{"book_title": "Aliens", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 5106, "review_number": 164, "book_description": "Having survived one encounter with an alien, Ripley is persuaded to return to the planet where her crew found the alien ship. A colony has been established there, but suddenly all contact with the settlers has been lost. Accompanied by marines, Ripley is going to find out why.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Action", "Thriller", "Novels", "War (Military Fiction)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939559.Aliens"}, +{"book_title": "Rip Tide", "author_name": "Kat Falls", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 4307, "review_number": 434, "book_description": "Return to the subsea frontier with Ty and Gemma! The mysteries of the deep are deadlier than ever when Ty'With time running out for his parents, Ty's desperation leads the two teenagers to the underwater underworld...and into an alliance with the outlaws of the Seablite Gang. But one mystery soon leads to another. How has an entire township disappered? Why is the local sealife suddenly so aggressive? And can the Seablite Gang be trusted...or are Ty and Gemma in deeper water than they realize?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8811401-rip-tide"}, +{"book_title": "The Steampunk User's Manual: An Illustrated Practical and Whimsical Guide to Creating Retro-futurist Dreams", "author_name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 143, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Steampunk, the retro-futuristic cultural movement, has become a substantial and permanent genre in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. A large part of its appeal is that, at its core, Steampunk is about doing it yourself: building on the past while also innovating and creating something original. VanderMeer\u2019s latest book offers practical and inspirational guidance for readers to find their individual path into this realm. Including sections on art, fashion, architecture, crafts, music, performance, and storytelling, The Steampunk User\u2019s Manual provides a conceptual how-to guide that motivates and awes both the armchair enthusiast and the committed creator. Examples range from the utterly doable to the completely over-the-top, encouraging participation and imagination at all levels.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Nonfiction", "Reference", "Art", "Art (Crafts)", "How To", "Language (Writing)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20701997-the-steampunk-user-s-manual"}, +{"book_title": "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming", "author_name": "David Wallace-Wells", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 17177, "review_number": 2905, "book_description": "It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, \"500-year\" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually.This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century.In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today.Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, The Uninhabitable Earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "Environment", "Environment (Climate Change)", "Politics", "Environment (Nature)", "Audiobook", "Environment (Sustainability)", "Biology (Ecology)", "History"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41552709-the-uninhabitable-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Change of Command", "author_name": "Elizabeth Moon", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 3300, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "THEIR UNIVERSE IS FALLING APART!Rejuvenants fear the backlash caused by bad drugs; they want to ensure that nothing interferes with their pursuit of long life -- or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggressive expansion of the Familias Regnant, fuelled by population growth and extended lifespan. Within the Regular Space Service, those who have received experimental rejuvenations fear they may have been given bad drugs on purpose. Esmay Suiza's family fears that her marriage to an offworlder will damage their position. Barin Serrano's family fears that his marriage to a Landbride of Altiplano will damage his career and their reputation.Fear begets violent reactions -- from foreign governments, from great Families determined to maintain or increase their power, from internal rivalries in the Fleet -- and nothing escapes the resultant bloodbath unscathed. As Esmay and Barin struggle to reconcile their families, others have more cosmic struggles to win.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96285.Change_of_Command"}, +{"book_title": "Dinosaur Beach", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 359, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Appearing from the remote future, Nexx Central agent Ravel is emplaced in America, circa 1936. His mission: to undo successive tamperings of the time stream which threaten the survival of Mankind. He falls in love with a lovely, simple girl, Lisa, but in the midst of his happiness is called away to Dinosaur Beach.Dinosaur Beach is a Nexx Central station located millions of years in the past, in the Jurassic Age. But shortly after Ravel's arrival, the station is attacked and destroyed, and Ravel begins a terrifying odyssey through time.For the attackers were another time-tampering team from still a different future era. And Ravel himself is not only in growing danger but the human world as we know it.....Dinosaur Beach is the most exciting and ambitious novel yet by the author of The Other Side of Time, Envoy to New Worlds, and the famous \"Retief\" stories.", "year_published": 1971, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Animals (Dinosaurs)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/584217.Dinosaur_Beach"}, +{"book_title": "1635: The Cannon Law", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 1589, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "Rome, 1635, and Grantville's diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, are making scant headway now it has become politically inexpedient for Pope Urban VIII to talk to them any more. Sharon doesn't mind, she has a wedding to plan. Frank Stone has moved to Rome and is attempting to bring about the revolution one pizza at a time. Cardinal Borja is gathering votes to bring the Church's reformers to a halt in their tracks, on the orders of the King of Spain. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in the streets, shadowy agitators are stirring up trouble and Spain's armies are massed across the border in the Kingdom of Naples, Cardinal Barberini wants the pamphleteers to stop slandering him and it looks like it's going to be a long, hot summer. Except that Cardinal Borja has more ambitions than his masters in Madrid know about, and has the assistance of Spain's most notorious secret agent to bring about his sinister designs.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35481.1635"}, +{"book_title": "Muse of Nightmares", "author_name": "Laini Taylor", "rating_score": 4.46, "rating_votes": 39906, "review_number": 7175, "book_description": "Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old.She believed she knew every horror and was beyond surprise.She was wrong.In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep.Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice\u2014save the woman he loves, or everyone else?\u2014while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the Muse of Nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of.As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: Must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead?Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this astonishing and heart-stopping sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "New Adult", "Paranormal (Ghosts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25446343-muse-of-nightmares"}, +{"book_title": "Ashes of the Unspeakable", "author_name": "Franklin Horton", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 1321, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "Jim and his group are still struggling to reach home. While just a few days have passed since the initial attack, the group finds that their country is quickly descending into a vicious, chaotic landscape where nothing comes easy. While they fight to close the distance between them and their loved ones, they cannot avoid the steadily growing number of people who have realized that they can get away with whatever they want in a world where there are no longer any legal consequences for their actions. At home, Jim's family is basically forced into lockdown after a local jail discharges its starving inmates, leading to the arrival of new, extremely violent presence in their valley. The stranger sets his sights on driving other families from their homes and taking what they own. As Jim races home, his wife Ellen struggles to keep her family safe, while each night a neighbor\u2019s home is burned to the ground. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "War (Terrorism)", "Action", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26595726-ashes-of-the-unspeakable"}, +{"book_title": "That Alien Feeling", "author_name": "Alessandra Hazard", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 4236, "review_number": 602, "book_description": "He's the most precious human being Adam has ever seen. Too bad he isn't human. Banished by his parents to the third planet in the Sol system, Prince Harht\u2019ngh\u2019chaali of the Second Grand Clan is completely fascinated by its inhabitants. Assuming the human name \u201cHarry,\u201d he tries to pass for a human to survive, but being human is so much harder than Harry expected. Humans are so confusing.Adam Crawford isn\u2019t looking for love. Financially secure and good-looking, he\u2019s in a good place in his life. He doesn\u2019t mean to fall in love with the quirky guy working at the coffee shop near his office. Harry is ridiculous\u2014and ridiculously endearing. He wears ugly shirts and flowers in his hair, and he has a kind word for everyone. Adam falls hard and fast.Little does he know that Harry isn\u2019t what he seems and anything between them is impossible.Star-crossed love between a human man and an alien prince from a world half a galaxy away.Publisher's note: explicit sexual content", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "LGBT", "Contemporary", "LGBT (Gay)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56276773-that-alien-feeling"}, +{"book_title": "Otherness", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1633, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "From multiple award-winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays of the near and distant future, as humans and aliens encounter the secrets of the cosmos--and of their own existence.\u00a0\u00a0In \"Dr. Pak's Preschool\" a woman discovers that her baby has been called upon to work while still in the womb.\u00a0\u00a0In \"NatuLife\" a married couple finds their relationship threatened by the wonders of sex by simulation.\u00a0\u00a0In \"Sshhh . . . \" the arrival of benevolent aliens on Earth leads to frenzy, madness . . . and unimaginable joy.\u00a0\u00a0In \"Bubbles\" a sentient starcraft reaches the limits of the universe--and dares to go beyond.\u00a0\u00a0These are but a few of the challenging speculations in Otherness, from the pen of an author whose urgent and compelling imaginative fiction challenges us to wonder at the shape and the nature of the universe--as well as at its future.\u2022 The Giving Plague \u2022 (1988)\u2022 Myth Number 21 \u2022 (1990)\u2022 Story Notes (Transitions) \u2022 (1994)\u2022 Dr. Pak's Preschool \u2022 (1989)\u2022 Detritus Affected \u2022 (1993)\u2022 The Dogma of Otherness \u2022 [Editorial (Analog)] \u2022 (1986)\u2022 Sshhh ... \u2022 (1988)\u2022 Story Notes (Contact) \u2022 (1994)\u2022 Those Eyes \u2022 (1994)\u2022 What to Say to a UFO \u2022 (1994)\u2022 Bonding to Genji \u2022 (1992)\u2022 The Warm Space \u2022 (1985)\u2022 Whose Millennium? \u2022 (1994)\u2022 NatuLife \u00ae \u2022 (1994)\u2022 Piecework \u2022 (1990)\u2022 Science versus Magic \u2022 (1990)\u2022 Bubbles \u2022 (1987)\u2022 Story Notes (Cosmos) \u2022 (1994)\u2022 Ambiguity \u2022 (1989)\u2022 What Continues ... And What Fails ... \u2022 (1991)\u2022 The Commonwealth of Wonder \u2022 (1990)", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Literature (American)", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76791.Otherness"}, +{"book_title": "The End", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 91030, "review_number": 4530, "book_description": "The last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the history of the Baudelaire orphans is brought to its end.You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope. This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents. It has been my solemn occupation to complete the history of the Baudelaire orphans, and at last I am finished. You likely have some other occupation, so if I were you I would drop this book at once, so the end does not finish you. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Humor", "Audiobook", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65112.The_End"}, +{"book_title": "Deception", "author_name": "C.J. Redwine", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 8222, "review_number": 658, "book_description": "Baalboden has been ravaged. The brutal Commander's whereabouts are unknown. And Rachel, grief stricken over her father's death, needs Logan more than ever. With their ragged group of survivors struggling to forge a future, it's up to Logan to become the leader they need\u2014with Rachel by his side. Under constant threat from rival Carrington's army, who is after the device that controls the Cursed One, the group decides to abandon the ruins of their home and take their chances in the Wasteland.But soon their problems intensify tenfold: someone\u2014possibly inside their ranks\u2014is sabotaging the survivors, picking them off one by one. The chaos and uncertainty of each day puts unbearable strain on Rachel and Logan, and it isn't long before they feel their love splintering. Even worse, as it becomes clear that the Commander will stop at nothing to destroy them, the band of survivors begins to question whether the price of freedom may be too great\u2014and whether, hunted by their enemies and the murderous traitor in their midst, they can make it out of the Wasteland alive. In this daring sequel to Defiance, with the world they once loved forever destroyed, Rachel and Logan must decide between a life on the run and standing their ground to fight.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17331289-deception"}, +{"book_title": "Countdown", "author_name": "Michelle Rowen", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1647, "review_number": 335, "book_description": "3 seconds left to live.\u00a0Once the countdown starts, it cannot be stopped.\u00a02 pawns thrown into a brutal underground reality game.\u00a0Kira Jordan survived her family's murder and months on plague-devastated city streets with hard-won savvy and a low-level psi ability. She figures she can handle anything. Until she wakes up in a barren room, chained next to the notorious Rogan Ellis.\u00a01 reason Kira will never, ever trust Rogan. Even though both their lives depend on it.\u00a0Their every move is controlled and televised for a vicious exclusive audience. And as Kira's psi skill unexpectedly grows and Rogan's secrets prove evermore deadly, Kira's only chance of survival is to risk trusting him as much as her instincts. Even if that means running head-on into the one trap she can't escape.\u00a0GAME OVER", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17622950-countdown"}, +{"book_title": "Insistence of Vision", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 213, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "What may we become? How will we endure? The future is a daunting realm, filled with real and imagined perils. So enter it prepared! Here are vivid tales about possible tomorrows, from the keen eye and colorful pen of David Brin, a modern master of speculative fiction. Visit a chillingly plausible tomorrow, when prisoners may be sent to asteroidal gulags. Or might prisons vanish and felons roam, seeing only what society allows? Suppose, amid lavish success, we gain the superpower to fly! Will we even appreciate it or will we find new reasons to complain? In \"Mars Opposition,\" you'll experience an alien invasion like no other, confronting humanity with a stark and terrible choice followed by several more tales of conquest from beyond, each of them wildly different. On the other hand, might fantastically potent new beings emerge out of ourselves, as revealed in \"Chrysalis ? Featuring guest appearances by Gregory Benford, Jules Verne, and Galileo, this adventure takes you beyond the very singularity in Stones of Significance, pondering what could happen after humans are like gods. And Reality Check asks one of you readers just one of you to wake up! Tomorrow awaits. We can face it and prevail. So long as our stance is brave INSISTENCE OF VISION.\"", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Anthologies", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27474565-insistence-of-vision"}, +{"book_title": "The Highlander's Bargain", "author_name": "Barbara Longley", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 2361, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Before he can settle down, blond-haired, blue-eyed Robley of clan MacKintosh needs to taste true adventure. So when the faerie, Madame Giselle, asks him to retrieve her stolen property in exchange for two enchanted tokens that will whisk him across the centuries, he jumps at the chance.Nurse and future midwife Erin Durie is broke and alone, thanks to a roommate who skipped town and the psychic gifts that make relationships too intense and painful to bear. Then a kilted man magically drops into her arms, looking for a guide to the twenty-first century, and she can\u2019t deny the attraction. But magical treachery soon throws open time\u2019s portal once more\u2014and puts a blade to Robley\u2019s throat. Now Erin must decide where\u2014or when\u2014her healing powers can do the most good\u2026and whether she can live without her handsome Highlander.In the second thrilling Novel of Loch Moigh, award-winning author Barbara Longley delivers more of the action, adventure, and romance that began in the pulse-pounding True to the Highlander.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20818333-the-highlander-s-bargain"}, +{"book_title": "Cruel Beauty", "author_name": "Rosamund Hodge", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 80463, "review_number": 10187, "book_description": "Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle\u2014a shifting maze of magical rooms\u2014enthralls her.As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Retellings", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839984-cruel-beauty"}, +{"book_title": "The Sterkarm Handshake", "author_name": "Susan Price", "rating_score": 3.72, "rating_votes": 752, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "\"Beware of shaking hands with a Sterkarm!\" goes the folk saying. Why the warning? The members of this wild 16th-century Scottish clan are left-handed, and while they smile and offer the right hand, the left wields a dagger. When a 21st-century mega-corporation opens a Time Tube to the 16th century, the stiff-backed CEO finds his plans for exploiting the mineral and tourism possibilities of the ancient English-Scottish border frustrated by the Sterkarms--raiding parties of men he regards as primitive animals. On the other side of the Time Tube, anthropologist Andrea Mitchell has been sent to live with the Sterkarms to be the corporation's informant and translator. There she is surprised to find herself admired for her generous curves and accepted warmly by the volatile and affectionate--but intermittently murderous--clansmen. When her lover, Per, is grievously wounded on a raid, she persuades Old Toorkild, the chief, to allow his handsome and adored son to be transported to the 21st century for healing. But when Per awakes in a world four centuries ahead of his own, his terror and suspicions of treachery bring down a wild collision between heartless technology and a ferocious people skilled in passionate defense of their life and lands. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize in England, Susan Price's The Sterkarm Handshake--a richly textured love story, a vivid and sometimes humorous portrayal of confrontation between cultures, and a thumping good page-turner--should find enthusiastic fans among teen-fantasy and time-travel buffs. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Adventure", "Historical", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473067.The_Sterkarm_Handshake"}, +{"book_title": "Full Share", "author_name": "Nathan Lowell", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 4746, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "A Trader's Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper : Book 3The Lois McKendrick runs headlong into trouble when a routine in-system transit goes bad. Ishmael and the rest of the crew must scramble to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it in order to keep the ship alive. Learn more about the officers and crew of the Lois McKendrick as they struggle to keep their ship and discover how Ishmael finds out how wrong he's been about what it means to be a spacer in this latest Trader's Tale.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4266110-full-share"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Midnight", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 179079, "review_number": 18289, "book_description": "The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare\u2019s newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.It\u2019s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn\u2019t lead her in treacherous directions\u2026Making things even more complicated, Julian\u2019s brother Mark\u2014who was captured by the faeries five years ago\u2014has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind\u2014and they need the Shadowhunters\u2019 help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn\u2019t recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it? Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare\u2019s Dark Artifices series.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25494343-lady-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Dr. Futurity", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 2006, "review_number": 178, "book_description": "Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives. But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an incredibly advanced civilization that zealously embraces death. Now, he is caught between his own instincts and training as a healer and a society where it is illegal to save lives. But Parsons is not the only one left who believes in prolonging life, and those who share his beliefs have desperate plans for Dr. Parsons' skills, and for the future of their society. Dr. Futurity is not only a thrilling rendition of a terrifying future but it is also a fantastic examination of the paradoxes of time-travel that could only have come from the mind of Philip K. Dick.", "year_published": 1960, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Literature (American)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Travel", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Classics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216384.Dr_Futurity"}, +{"book_title": "Fall of Sky City", "author_name": "S.M. Blooding", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 217, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "Book 1 of the Devices of War TrilogyIn a world governed by the opposing forces of the mystical House of Tarot and the tribal Great Families, Synn is caught in the crossfire. He witnesses the slaughter of innocent people, and the devastating murder of his father. This act awakens his Mark of power, a Mark greater than any the world has seen in a very long time.Queen Nix thought she won a great prize when she destroyed Synn\u2019s father, the leader of the strongest Great Families. She had no idea she\u2019d be doubly blessed by capturing his son. However, before Synn can become her treasured weapon, before she can use him to bring the rest of the world to its knees, she must break him and bind his soul to hers.She does her job with brutal brilliance. Synn\u2019s mind is broken and his soul is seared to hers in an unbreakable bond.That doesn\u2019t stop him from wanting to be free. She may have broken his mind and claimed his soul, but he will find a way to destroy her. Experience a world of ships that sail the clouds and cites buried beneath the ocean, and survive the fiery battle brought forth by those who control the forces of nature!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "New Adult", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17339822-fall-of-sky-city"}, +{"book_title": "The Last Theorem", "author_name": "Arthur C. Clarke", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 2328, "review_number": 290, "book_description": "The Last Theorem", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science (Mathematics)", "Science (Physics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2917849-the-last-theorem"}, +{"book_title": "Sleepy Time Olie", "author_name": "William Joyce", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 117, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "Rolie Polie evening \u57cflie's almost sleeping.His Rolie daysare without care,especially whenPappy's there.But where is Pappy?Where oh,oh where?", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/822622.Sleepy_Time_Olie"}, +{"book_title": "The Gender Secret", "author_name": "Bella Forrest", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 22138, "review_number": 1070, "book_description": "Gliding over the treacherous Green in a shaky aircraft that she has no idea how to land, Violet Bates is still in shock. The harrowing events of the previous night play over in her mind as she asks herself question after question. Why did Lee Desmond Bertrand behave the way he did? What is the truth about the mysterious silver egg stowed beneath her seat? What happened to Viggo and where is her brother? Is either of them still alive?When Violet manages to reach the toxic ground alive, she has landed in a world of unimaginable danger. She has barely time to catch her breath before she is sucked into a perilous journey at breakneck speed - to uncover secrets guarded for centuries and find the only two people that matter.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "New Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32293807-the-gender-secret"}, +{"book_title": "Discovery", "author_name": "Laurence E. Dahners", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 736, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "This is the tale of Myr Sevii, a young woman who discovers a field that suppresses static electrical effects and warps space in a fashion to attract protons. It\u2019s a hard Science Fiction exploration of what might happen if you were able to pull protons into a tiny volume and, having suppressed static repulsion, crush them together. The story examines how this new discovery affects Myr and will soon affect the world around her. Changes abound, in the company Myr works for, in the people around her, and in her family. So many unexpected technological revolutions are happening at the same time that it\u2019s hard for Myr and her friends to come to grips with them. When word of the inventions gets out, vultures gather\u2014wanting the tech for themselves. Some of those people will kill to get what they want\u2026 ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34197617-discovery"}, +{"book_title": "All Tomorrow's Parties", "author_name": "William Gibson", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 15030, "review_number": 409, "book_description": "Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see \"nodal points\" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.Although All Tomorrow's Parties includes characters from two of Gibson's earlier novels, it's not a direct sequel to either. It's a stand-alone book.--Craig E. Engler", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22321.All_Tomorrow_s_Parties"}, +{"book_title": "The Novelty Maker", "author_name": "Sasha L. Miller", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 465, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "As often as he can possibly manage, Cole slips away from the parties and teas inflicted upon him by his mother to visit Harlowe, the brilliant, mercurial novelty maker he met several months ago when commissioning a piece for his mother. Overwhelmed with work, and preferring to avoid people, Harlowe is not an easy person to know, and Cole values too much their hard-won friendship to ever risk it by telling Harlowe of his true feelings. Then Harlowe begins to receive letters from a secret admirer \u2026", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Historical", "Mystery", "LGBT (Gay)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17230171-the-novelty-maker"}, +{"book_title": "Future Quest, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Jeff Parker", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 396, "review_number": 103, "book_description": "When worlds collide, it\u2019s up to Hanna-Barbera\u2019s best-known action heroes to save the day! Johnny Quest, Space Ghost, the Herculoids and more are reimagined in this new collection! When Jonny Quest and his adoptive brother Hadji make a startling discovery in the swamplands of Florida, they are pulled into an epic struggle between the Space Rangers and a dangerous villain who threatens the galaxy. Now, it\u2019s up to the combined forces of Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, the Herculoids, Birdman, Frankenstein Jr., the Impossibles, the Galaxy Trio and Mightor to stop him and save their universe! Collects FUTURE QUEST #1-6!", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Superheroes (Dc Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Media Tie In (Tv)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32273165-future-quest-vol-1"}, +{"book_title": "The White Plague", "author_name": "Frank Herbert", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 5849, "review_number": 322, "book_description": "The White Plague, a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme, tells of one man who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible plague upon the human race\u2014one that zeros in, unerringly and fatally, on women.", "year_published": 1982, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93448.The_White_Plague"}, +{"book_title": "The Name of the Wind", "author_name": "Patrick Rothfuss", "rating_score": 4.52, "rating_votes": 744227, "review_number": 43147, "book_description": "Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Epic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind"}, +{"book_title": "Memory Wire", "author_name": "Robert Charles Wilson", "rating_score": 3.46, "rating_votes": 155, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "Raymond Keller became an Eye--a human video recorder--to forget his past. Teresa became addicted to extraterrestrial dreaming jewels because they made her remember. Together this unlikely pair become involved in an international smuggling plot that threatens to destroy them and their budding love for one another.", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/580396.Memory_Wire"}, +{"book_title": "Chobits, Vol. 7", "author_name": "CLAMP", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 5121, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "Can a computer ever replace a human being? Minoru Kokubunji built Yuzuki to replace his sister after her passing. While Yuzuki certainly feels like a sister to Minoru, the more time he spends with her, the more he loves her for who she is. Chi was also built as a substitute family member. Back then she was known as Elda, and she and her \"sister\" Freya were built to be the daughters of their creator and his wife. They behaved and looked like real children, and they even had the ability to love. But something went wrong - very wrong. Now Chi must find her \"someone just for her\" before an even worse disaster strikes.Chapters 73\u201381", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Manga (Seinen)", "Fantasy", "Comics Manga", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1758441.Chobits_Vol_7"}, +{"book_title": "Galaxy's Edge, Part III", "author_name": "Jason Anspach", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 170, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Publisher's SummaryDaring heroics, sacrifice, and courage come together as the Legion attempts to contain the fire sparked at the Battle of Tarrago. But the galaxy is spiraling into all-out war.Captain Chhun's Dark Ops squad is reunited with Wraith. When their mission to deny Goth Sulluss the shipyards he so eagerly desires goes awry, Chhun and Wraith must find a way to stop the Black Fleet's advance - even if it costs them their lives.Meanwhile, an old friend from Nether Ops executes a covert operation that will turn the focus of the Last War of the Republic in a terrible new direction.Following Goth Sullus's ruthless onslaughts against the Republic, a desperate House of Reason searches for scapegoats - and finds one, deserving or not, in Commander Ellek Owens. His sentence is cruel, unjust - and final. Unless Victory Squad has anything to say about it.In the Umnar system, the soulless menace known as the Cybar seeks to break Prisma Maydoon - and to set the stage for the total annihilation of not only the Republic, but all life in the galaxy.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42297984-galaxy-s-edge-part-iii"}, +{"book_title": "Blackout", "author_name": "Robison Wells", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 3758, "review_number": 548, "book_description": "Laura and Alec are trained terrorists.Jack and Aubrey are high school students.There was no reason for them to ever meet.But now, a mysterious virus is spreading throughout America, infecting teenagers with impossible powers. And these four are about to find their lives intertwined in a complex web of deception, loyalty, and catastrophic danger\u2014where one wrong choice could trigger an explosion that ends it all.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Action", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332588-blackout"}, +{"book_title": "Ashes & Alchemy", "author_name": "Cindy Spencer Pape", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 475, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "\nA Gaslight Chronicles novella\n\nLondon, 1860\nPolice inspector Sebastian Brown served Queen and country in India before returning to England to investigate supernatural crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. If his wifeless, childless life feels a little empty sometimes, that's not too great a price to pay in the name of duty.Minerva Shaw is desperately seeking a doctor when she mistakenly lands on Sebastian's doorstep. Her daughter Ivy has fallen gravely ill with a mysterious illness\ufffdthe same illness, it seems, that's responsible for taking the lives of many of Ivy's classmates.Seb sniffs a case, and taking in Minnie and Ivy seems the only way to protect them while he solves it. But as mother and daughter work their way into his heart and Seb uses every magickal and technological resource he can muster to uncover the source of the deadly plague, it's he who will need protecting\ufffdfrom emotions he'd thought buried long ago.30,000 words", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Novella", "Science Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19411986-ashes-alchemy"}, +{"book_title": "Kiln People", "author_name": "David Brin", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 5660, "review_number": 321, "book_description": "In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember. But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.Dr. Yosil Maharal, a brilliant researcher in artificial intelligence, has suddenly vanished, just as he is on the verge of a revolutionary scientific breakthrough. Maharal's daughter, Ritu, believes he has been kidnapped--or worse. Aeneas Polom, a reclusive trillionaire who appears in public only through his high-priced platinum duplicates, offers Morris unlimited resources to locate Maharal before his awesome discovery falls into the wrong hands.To uncover the truth, Morris must enter a shadowy, nightmare world of ghosts and golems where nothing--and no one--is what they seem, memory itself is suspect, and the line between life and death may no longer exist.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Science Fiction (Near Future)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40600413-kiln-people"}, +{"book_title": "Devoured", "author_name": "Jason Brant", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 1677, "review_number": 161, "book_description": "An alternate cover edition can be found here .Day One: A series of terrorist attacks spread a cloud of noxious gas over highly populated areas. Day Two: Higher brain function erodes in those exposed to the gas. Their bodies begin to distort, faces distending, skin sallowing, teeth elongating. Day Three: The infected disappear into the shadows, fleeing the harsh daylight which has begun to sear their flesh. Day Four: The world is DEVOURED. Life isn\u2019t kind to Lance York. A full-time job has eluded him for years, his wife loathes the sight of him, his bank accounts are empty, and his wealthy father-in-law revels in his failures. After he lunges in front of a car to save a sick and disoriented woman, Lance awakens in a quarantined hospital. A devastating plague is spreading worldwide, driving those infected with it insane. Their bodies begin to mutate into horrors that have haunted mankind\u2019s nightmares for centuries. The world descends into chaos as the infected flee to the shadows, emerging at night to devour the remnants of civilization. With the help of an unlikely ally, Lance must navigate through the collapsing city of Pittsburgh, striving to escape the madness of the apocalypse that unfolds around them.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18911658-devoured"}, +{"book_title": "Own to Obey", "author_name": "Zoey Ellis", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 837, "review_number": 135, "book_description": "He owns her - and now she must obeyWhen Shaya suddenly ends up in the possession of a fierce, tribal, Alpha warrior, she begins to understand that life can be savage...And painful.And heart-breakingly beautiful.OWN TO OBEY is a full-length fantasy romance novel that begins a dark and carnal, enemies-to-lovers epic tale. For fans of faithful Alpha anti-heroes and captive romances. Cliffhanger included however this trilogy is complete.This series includes romance and situations of a dark nature. Some aspects of this may be sensitive for some readers. For ages 18+", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Dark", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43158405-own-to-obey"}, +{"book_title": "The Reptile Room", "author_name": "Lemony Snicket", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 190458, "review_number": 6832, "book_description": "Dear Reader,If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don't be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery.In fact, within the pages you now hold in your hands, the three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible odor, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a large brass reading lamp, and the appearance of a person they'd hoped never to see again.I am bound to record these tragic events, but you are free to put this book back on the shelf and seek something lighter.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Mystery", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78418.The_Reptile_Room"}, +{"book_title": "Terminal Caf\u00e9", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 478, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "After science conquers mortality, the dead are segregated in Necroville, where they work to pay off their resurrection debts. The walled ghetto is off-limits to living humans, except for tonight, when a wild party and mysterious events will leave the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. From the author of Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102556.Terminal_Caf_"}, +{"book_title": "The Etched City", "author_name": "K.J. Bishop", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2488, "review_number": 247, "book_description": "Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner, a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believes in just--and lost--causes. Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts of the past, together they flee to the teeming city of Ashamoil, where Raule plies her trade among the desperate and destitute, and Gwynn becomes bodyguard and assassin for the household of a corrupt magnate. There, in the saving and taking of lives, they find themselves immersed in a world where art infects life, dream and waking fuse, and splendid and frightening miracles begin to bloom . . .", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Weird Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Westerns (Weird West)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944555.The_Etched_City"}, +{"book_title": "The Wizard of Time", "author_name": "G.L. Breedon", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 674, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "An Epic Time Travel Fantasy AdventureGabriel Salvador has dreams about the future, and his dreams always come true. When he dreams one night that he will drown, he knows upon waking it is only a matter of time before his dream becomes reality.Plucked from the timeline of history at the moment of his death and considered dead by his parents and friends, Gabriel mourns the loss of his family as he trains to become an apprentice time mage -- part of an elite team of wizards who travel throughout history to fight the War of Time and Magic.When a mission to stop the creation of an alternate reality fails, Gabriel is revealed as the Seventh True Mage, able to use all six forms of magic. He soon finds himself hunted by three dark mages who hope to use him to rule the whole of the Primary Continuum.From an alternate Windsor Castle to Victorian London, from the Aztec temples of 1487 to the Greek island of Samos in 320 BCE, from Scotland in the Middle Ages to the battle fields of Alexander the Great -- Gabriel struggles to master the different magics and fulfill the responsibility of being the Seventh True Mage as he joins the battle to protect the timeline of history in The Wizard of Time.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12111260-the-wizard-of-time"}, +{"book_title": "Hemlock", "author_name": "N.J. Layouni", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1650, "review_number": 193, "book_description": "When a modern-day woman finds herself stranded in a medieval world, an attractive outlaw offers her protection in the role of his 'wife', and promises to help her find a way back home. Until then, Martha must attempt to fit into medieval society, avoid the Evil Earl and his minions, and learn how to trust her heart again.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22355982-hemlock"}, +{"book_title": "Invitation to a Beheading", "author_name": "Vladimir Nabokov", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 13885, "review_number": 854, "book_description": "Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for \"gnostical turpitude\", an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his final days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his prison cell.", "year_published": 1938, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Cultural (Russia)", "Literature (Russian Literature)", "Literature", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Literary Fiction", "Literature (20th Century)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading"}, +{"book_title": "Anchored", "author_name": "Rachel Haimowitz", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1277, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "This edition is no longer available.Network news anchor Daniel Halstrom is at the top of his field, but being at the bottom of the social ladder\u2014being a slave\u2014makes that hard to enjoy. Especially when NewWorld Media, the company that\u2019s owned him since childhood, decides to lease him privately on evenings and weekends to boost their flagging profits.Daniel\u2019s not stupid; he knows there\u2019s only one reason someone would pay so much for what little free time he has. But dark memories of past sexual service leave him certain he won\u2019t survive it again with his sanity intact.He finds himself in the home of Carl Whitman, a talk show host whose words fail him when it comes to ordering Daniel into his bed. Carl can\u2019t seem to take what he must want, and Daniel\u2019s not willing to give it freely. His recalcitrance costs him dearly, but with patience and some hard-won understanding, affection just might flourish over fear and pain. Carl holds the power to be an anchor in Daniel\u2019s turbulent life, but if he isn\u2019t careful, he\u2019ll end up the weight that sinks his slave for good.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Dark", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9993763-anchored"}, +{"book_title": "Doll-E 1.0", "author_name": "Shanda McCloskey", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 533, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "A STEM-friendly tale of a girl and the doll she upgrades to be her new friend, for fans of The Most Magnificent Thing and Rosie Revere, Engineer.Charlotte's world is fully charged! With her dog at her side, she's always tinkering, coding, clicking, and downloading. She's got a knack for anything technological--especially gadgets that her parents don't know how to fix! Then, she receives a new toy that is quite a puzzle: a doll! What's she supposed to do with that? Once she discovers the doll's hidden battery pack, things start to get interesting...while her faithful canine sidekick wonders if he'll be overshadowed by the new and improved Doll-E 1.0! With a little ingenuity and an open mind, everyone can be friends in this endearing, modern tribute to the creative spirit of play.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science (Technology)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Science", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Computer Science (Coding)", "Animals", "Science (Engineering)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204325-doll-e-1-0"}, +{"book_title": "Wings of Hell", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 412, "review_number": 10, "book_description": "No one captures the action and sacrifice of war better than real combat vets David Sherman and Dan Cragg. Now their blazing space epic Starfist continues as Marines of the Confederation\u2019s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) go head-to-head against the deadly Skinks. Of course, Company L\u2019s third platoon has fought these aliens before, but never in these numbers\u2026Planet Haulover has been invaded by Skinks. Until now, the aliens\u2019 existence has been kept confidential. But Force Recon\u2019s shocking report leaves the Confederation no choice but to mount a military campaign and reveal to the public its biggest secret: the threat of fierce alien predators bent on human destruction. What\u2019s no secret is that the four army divisions and two Marine FISTs sent to Haulover aren\u2019t nearly enough to defeat the well-entrenched aliens, who have a tunnel system second to none.Back home, the Confederation\u2019s president is being denounced as a warmonger bent on exterminating \u201charmless\u201d aliens. And if she loses the upcoming elections, the Confederation will have a lot more Skinks than those on Haulover to worry about.Newly promoted Lieutenant Charlie Bass and his third platoon have more pressing concerns, such as staying alive. But what would be a suicide mission for most\u2014whether it\u2019s raiding a hidden Skinks base or destroying the enemy\u2019s most lethal weapons during a desperate firefight\u2014is for them just another job.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science (Technology)", "Astronomy (Planets)", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3849006-wings-of-hell"}, +{"book_title": "Skyfall", "author_name": "Catherine Asaro", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 1005, "review_number": 39, "book_description": "The Birth of an EmpireSkyfall goes back to the very roots of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from the stars, he whisks her away to his mountain retreat, inadvertently starting a great interstellar war, and birthing the next generation of rulers for the Skolian Empire.", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672950.Skyfall"}, +{"book_title": "Daughter of the Forest", "author_name": "Juliet Marillier", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 59066, "review_number": 4296, "book_description": "Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives: they are determined that she know only contentment.But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift\u2014by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever.When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all...", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Retellings", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13928.Daughter_of_the_Forest"}, +{"book_title": "Elephantmen, Vol. 1: Wounded Animals", "author_name": "Richard Starkings", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 891, "review_number": 84, "book_description": "They were genetically engineered to be super-human weapons of mass destruction, but now they must walk amongst the people they were created to destroy. Ebony Hide is one of them, an Elephantman. Even when he is befriended by a small girl, Hide is still haunted by his past and is forced to recognize that suspicion and contempt will always be his constant companions.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1041763.Elephantmen_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Winter Omens", "author_name": "Trisha Leigh", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1085, "review_number": 107, "book_description": "Althea and Lucas barely escaped the Others\u2019 clutches in the autumn, and were separated in the process. Alone and on the run from the cruel alien race determined to exterminate her, Althea struggles to adapt and survive in a world she never imagined. When a boy named Pax appears out of nowhere, he quickly recognizes Althea for what she is \u2013 a human/Other hybrid just like him. Althea begs him to help her find Lucas, but Pax refuses, intent on following his own mysterious agenda. The Others\u2019 presence continues to devour the planet\u2019s resources, and if history is an indication, they won\u2019t leave until Earth is destroyed beyond repair. Althea and Pax sense the only way to save themselves \u2013 and maybe their home \u2013 is to understand the powers simmering inside them. Together they push the limits of their capabilities in the quiet Wilds, but are soon confronted with a terrifying fact: no place is safe from the relentless pursuit of the Others.Least of all their own minds.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15781952-winter-omens"}, +{"book_title": "Isard's Revenge", "author_name": "Michael A. Stackpole", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 7856, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Sleek, swift and deadly, the famed X-Wing fighters have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force the hard way--first in battle, the last line of defense.\u00a0\u00a0Now they must make a deal with the devil herself--an enemy whose ultimate goal is their total annihilation.It's the kind of mission only Wedge Antilles and the Rogue Squadron would dare to undertake.\u00a0\u00a0Against impossible odds they will stage a daring raid into an enemy stronghold--only to be rescued from certain destruction by an unexpected ally.Ysanne Isard, the ruthless Imperial commander, has appeared on the scene seemingly from out of nowhere.\u00a0\u00a0Now she proposes a most unusual alliance, offering to help Wedge rescue his captured comrades from Imperial Warlord Admiral Krennel's sadistic prison camp.But her offer is not without a price.\u00a0\u00a0Wedge must lead Rogue Squadron in Isard's deadly struggle against an enemy made in her own image.\u00a0\u00a0It's an offer Wedge would love to refuse, for Isard is certain to betray them.\u00a0\u00a0But how can they leave their comrades at Krennel's mercy?\u00a0\u00a0The answer is: they can't--even if it means being caught between Krennel's ruthlessness and Isard's treachery.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "War", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/422569.Isard_s_Revenge"}, +{"book_title": "Nova Swing", "author_name": "M. John Harrison", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 1919, "review_number": 184, "book_description": "Years after Ed Chianese\u2019s fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted\u2014and, even more terrifying, parts of it have actually begun to fall to Earth, transforming the landscapes they encounter.Not far from Moneytown, in a neighborhood of underground clubs, body-modification chop shops, adolescent contract killers, and sexy streetwalking Monas, you\u2019ll find the Saudade Event Site: a zone of strange geography, twisted physics, and frightening psychic onslaughts\u2014not to mention the black and white cats that come pouring out at irregular intervals. Vic Serotonin is a \u201ctravel agent\u201d into and out of Saudade. His latest client is a woman who\u2019s nearly as unpredictable as the site itself\u2014and maybe just as dangerous. She wants a tour just as a troubling new class of biological artifacts are leaving the site\u2014living algorithms that are transforming the world outside in inexplicable and unsettling ways. Shadowed by a metaphysically inclined detective determined to shut his illegal operation down, Vic must make sense of a universe rapidly veering toward a virulent and viral form of chaos\u2026and a humanity almost lost.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Mystery", "Weird Fiction (New Weird)", "Mystery (Noir)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1666406.Nova_Swing"}, +{"book_title": "Sunset of the Sabertooth", "author_name": "Mary Pope Osborne", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 10826, "review_number": 325, "book_description": "The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!The Ice Age is very cool...for two kids in bathing suits! Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. But nothing can stop them from having another wild adventure--not even a saber-toothed tiger!Did you know that there's a Magic Tree House book for every kid?Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventuresHave more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Childrens", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/948528.Sunset_of_the_Sabertooth"}, +{"book_title": "Ninth Step Station: The Complete Season 1", "author_name": "Malka Ann Older", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 221, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "A local cop. A US Peacekeeper. A divided Tokyo.In the future, two mismatched cops must work together to solve crimes in a divided Tokyo.Years of disaster and conflict have left Tokyo split between great powers. In the city of drone-enforced borders, bodymod black markets, and desperate resistance movements, US peacekeeper Emma Higashi is assigned to partner with Tokyo Metropolitan Police Detective Miyako Koreda. Together, they must race to solve a series of murders that test their relationship and threaten to overturn the balance of global power. And amid the chaos, they each need to decide what they are willing to do for peace.Created by Malka Older, whose Infomocracy was named one of Kirkus' \"Best Fiction of 2016\", with cowriters Jacqueline Koyanagi (author of Ascension), Fran Wilde (2016 Nebula Award nominee, and winner of the 2016 Andre Norton and Compton Crook awards), and Curtis C. Chen (2017 Locus Awards and Endeavour Award Finalist).", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43805840-ninth-step-station"}, +{"book_title": "The Great Time Machine Hoax", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 232, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Award Books #AN1171Chester W. Chester IV inherits a run-down mansion and millions in back taxes. In order to pay the taxes, he initially decides to auction off the mansion and its contents, but then he discovers a massive computer (the Generalized Nonlinear Extrapolator, or \"Genie\") that can bring any situation or time to life.", "year_published": 1964, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473727.The_Great_Time_Machine_Hoax"}, +{"book_title": "The Disasters", "author_name": "M.K. England", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 4152, "review_number": 1117, "book_description": "Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it\u2019s not exactly a surprise when he\u2019s kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours.But Nax\u2019s one-way trip back to Earth is cut short when a terrorist group attacks the Academy. Nax and three other washouts escape\u2014barely\u2014but they\u2019re also the sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonization. And the perfect scapegoats.On the run and framed for atrocities they didn\u2019t commit, Nax and his fellow failures execute a dangerous heist to spread the truth about what happened at the Academy.They may not be \u201cAcademy material,\u201d and they may not get along, but they\u2019re the only ones left to step up and fight.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32469736-the-disasters"}, +{"book_title": "The Buried Dagger", "author_name": "James Swallow", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 506, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "For long years, the Horus Heresy has ground on. Now, the Death Guard have been sent to begin the final battle. But Mortarion and his sons must face their gravest challenge first \u2013 for Nurgle has claimed them as his own, and he will not be denied\u2026The skies darken over Terra as the final battle for the Throne looms ever closer... As the Traitor primarchs muster to the Warmaster\u2019s banner, it is Mortarion who is sent ahead as the vanguard of the Traitor forces. But as he and his warriors make way, they become lost in the warp and stricken by a terrible plague. Once thought of as unbreakable, the legendary Death Guard are brought to their knees. To save his Legion, Mortarion must strike a most terrible bargain that will damn his sons for eternity. Meanwhile, in the cloisters of Holy Terra, a plot is afoot to create sedition and carnage in advance of the Horus\u2019s armies. Taking matters into his own hands, Malcador the Sigillite seeks to put a stop to any insurrection but discovers a plot that he will need all of his cunning and battle-craft to overcome.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "40k", "Audiobook", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action", "Literature (21st Century)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44009586-the-buried-dagger"}, +{"book_title": "Staro\u015b\u0107 aksolotla", "author_name": "Jacek Dukaj", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 1003, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "\u201eStaro\u015b\u0107 aksolotla\u201d to fascynuj\u0105ca i wstrz\u0105saj\u0105ca postapokaliptyczna wizja \u015bwiata, w kt\u00f3rym kosmiczny kataklizm sterylizuje Ziemi\u0119 ze wszystkiego, co \u017cywe. Nielicznym ludziom na chwil\u0119 przed katastrof\u0105 udaje si\u0119 przekopiowa\u0107 scyfryzowane umys\u0142y w hardware. Pogr\u0105\u017ceni w nostalgii ocale\u0144cy tworz\u0105 cywilizacj\u0119 po cywilizacji, \u017cycie po \u017cyciu i ludzko\u015b\u0107 po ludzko\u015bci. Dziel\u0105 si\u0119 na gildie, tworz\u0105 alianse, prowadz\u0105 wojny. Maj\u0105 swoje polityki, ideologie, szalone religie hardware\u2019u. I podejmuj\u0105 wyzwania, przed jakimi nikt wcze\u015bniej nie stawa\u0142. \u201eStaro\u015b\u0107 aksolotla\u201d opowiada o odwr\u00f3ceniu porz\u0105dk\u00f3w \u017cycia i \u015bmierci, post\u0119pu i stagnacji, tego, co biologiczne, i tego, co mechaniczne; o tajemnicy duszy ludzkiej i odwiecznej samotno\u015bci cz\u0142owieka, czy to w ciele, czy w pancernej stali robota.Tak oto ko\u0144czy si\u0119 \u015bwiat.Nie hukiem lecz wizgiem metalu.\u201eStaro\u015b\u0107 aksolotla\u201d Jacka Dukaja jest pierwsz\u0105 w Polsce ksi\u0105\u017ck\u0105 cyfrow\u0105, kt\u00f3ra anga\u017cuje czytelnika na tak wielu poziomach. T\u0119 powie\u015b\u0107 nie tylko si\u0119 czyta, ale ogl\u0105da i prze\u017cywa.Nakre\u015blona przez Jacka Dukaja wizja zniszczonego, a potem odrodzonego \u015bwiata i cz\u0142owieka otrzyma\u0142a wyj\u0105tkow\u0105 opraw\u0119 plastyczn\u0105, kt\u00f3ra buduje estetyczny i emocjonalny klimat tekstu. Dodatkowo czytelnik mo\u017ce zapozna\u0107 si\u0119 z szerok\u0105 palet\u0105 exlibris\u00f3w oraz logotyp\u00f3w gildii i alians\u00f3w wyst\u0119puj\u0105cych w powie\u015bci. Modele robot\u00f3w wyst\u0119puj\u0105cych w powie\u015bci zosta\u0142y zaprojektowane przez Alexa Jaegera \u2013 ameryka\u0144skiego designera odpowiedzialnego za projekty postaci do takich film\u00f3w jak \u201eTransformers\u201d, czy \u201eAvengers\u201d. S\u0105 integraln\u0105 cz\u0119\u015bci\u0105 ebooka, a ich projekty mo\u017cna wydrukowa\u0107 w drukarkach 3D.W ebooku znajdziesz: \u2022 8 ilustracji \u2022 23 logotypy gildii i alians\u00f3w \u2022 17 unikatowych exlibris\u00f3w \u2022 180 hipertekstowych odno\u015bnik\u00f3w \u2022 projekty robot\u00f3w wykonane przez Alexa Jaegera", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "European Literature (Polish Literature)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Cultural (Poland)", "Literature"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23600137-staro-aksolotla"}, +{"book_title": "Beth and the Barbarian", "author_name": "Honey Phillips", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1147, "review_number": 111, "book_description": " Can an alien Outcast and a lonely human find happiness together? Hypersensitive to the emotions of others, Beth is resigned to spending her life alone - until she is attacked by savage aliens. Rescued by a massive scarred warrior, she feels a connection for the first time. With a chance to finally escape her loneliness, she doesn\u2019t hesitate when he informs her she must accompany him. Dragar never expected to find the perfect female while tracking one of the saboteurs targeting his people. A former Outcast, he is scarred inside and out, and knows that he is unworthy of a mate. His instincts insist he protect the innocent female from all danger - even his own rampant attraction - but he can't resist her innocent allure. Now Beth and Dragar are being pursued across the galaxy. The time on the run is only forcing them closer together. Can Dragar put aside his troubled past and give Beth the love she deserves? Or will they both end up alone again? Each book in the Alien Abduction series features a different couple and can be enjoyed as a standalone romance.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42081703-beth-and-the-barbarian"}, +{"book_title": "A Time & Place for Every Laird", "author_name": "Angeline Fortin", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 717, "review_number": 58, "book_description": "Surely, she\u2019d gone completely mad. Claire Manning can\u2019t imagine what she was thinking when she decided to help the escapee from her company\u2019s lab but after seeing him caged like an animal, her humanitarian compulsion cannot be overridden \u2013 even by the arrogant, scowling eighteenth-century Highlander Hugh Urquhart turns out to be.His entire life has been taken away from him and Claire understands the pain and torment of loss. She understands the desperation she sees in his eyes and is prepared to do whatever it takes to secure Hugh\u2019s freedom and future. What she isn\u2019t prepared for is the ruggedly handsome Scot she finds under the layers of grime and blood caked on him. Nor is she prepared to feel so much more than mere compassion for his suffering.Not once in Hugh\u2019s entire life has he been taken for a savage or been argued with and commanded about like a lackey as often as he had by his savior from imprisonment.It was he who commanded.He who men yielded to.However, for this woman who had saved his life, Hugh is willing to concede that he doesn\u2019t know everything, that he might need some small amount of help in navigating his way through the alien world he has been unwillingly dragged into. With inexplicable trust, Hugh hands over the reins of his future to Claire \u2013 or Sorcha as they would have called her in his world. A woman unlike any he has ever met. A woman of intelligence, wit, courage and startling passion buried deep beneath her bonny exterior.On the run, Claire and Hugh hide away from the agents pursuing them but cannot hide from the undeniable desire that ensnares them and both must face their pasts, the loss and heartache that plagues them if they hope to discover that there is a true time and place for every Highland laird", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Contemporary", "Cultural (Scotland)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18001462-a-time-place-for-every-laird"}, +{"book_title": "The Defenders", "author_name": "Philip K. Dick", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 1707, "review_number": 149, "book_description": "He knew what she was thinking. Once in the very first weeks of the war, before everyone had been evacuated from the surface, they had seen a hospital train discharging the wounded, people who had been showered with sleet. He remembered the way they had looked, the expression on their faces, or as much of their faces as was left. It had not been a pleasant sight.There had been a lot of that at first, in the early days before the transfer to undersurface was complete. There had been a lot, and it hadn't been very difficult to come across it.Taylor looked up at his wife. She was thinking too much about it, the last few months. They all were.\"Forget it,\" he said. \"It's all in the past. There isn't anybody up there now but the leadys, and they don't mind.\"\"But just the same, I hope they're careful when they let one of them down here. If one were still hot--\"", "year_published": 1953, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "The United States Of America", "Business (Amazon)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6472311-the-defenders"}, +{"book_title": "Soul of a Highlander", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 2349, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "Nine years ago, Faerie Magic saved Mairi MacKiernan at the cost of her dreams of happiness, snatching her from her life in 1272, and depositing her in the twenty-first century. Now, she must save the last Daughter of the MacKiernan family...who was murdered in 1295. Transported back in time at her request, Mairi finds herself captured by the same evil men as before! Is this the price the Faerie Magic requires of her this time? Ramos Servans has dedicated his dreams to service as a Guardian, but when he discovers the evil unleashed on the Mortal Plain by his father and their people, he swears he will atone by ridding the world of Nuadian deceit. Part of his mission involves rescuing a lovely Highland lassie, and in the passion that grows between them, Ramos and Mairi find a new dream.But falling in love can be dangerous when Faerie Magic is involved. Dreams may not be the only cost....", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fairies (Fae)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2511327.Soul_of_a_Highlander"}, +{"book_title": "Silicon Man", "author_name": "William Massa", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 630, "review_number": 126, "book_description": "To infiltrate the robot rebellion...One man must become a machine. A global pandemic has cut the human population in half. An android workforce fills the void left by the devastation. But some of the AIs have grown tired of being slaves. Some want freedom. An underground movement of runaways has sprung up and wages a shadow war with a simple objective -- equal rights for artificial people. As head of the elite AI-TAC squad, Commander Cole Marsalis' job is to hunt down rogue robots. Now he has been tasked with the ultimate undercover mission -- infiltrate the android underground. But to do so, he will have to become that which he hates the most... A machine! \"SILICON MAN is an intelligent techno-thriller where the line between man and machine has never been more unclear.\" Nicholas Sansbury Smith, best-selling author of ORBS \"William Massa does a great job at introducing us to a cyberpunk/technothriller setting where AIs no longer want to work for the man. It's fast-paced read that has hints of Blade Runner and Neuromancer...\" - Colin F. Barnes, author of the bestselling TECHXORCIST series", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Thriller", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Suspense", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20886418-silicon-man"}, +{"book_title": "Guardian", "author_name": "C.L. Scholey", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 717, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "Wandering a shattered, dying Earth, Roam despises the loneliness. Alien vessels he must avoid circle overhead. When he collides with a Tonan deep in the heart of a jungle, Roam engages in a brutal battle. To his surprise, a human female comes to the Tonan\u2019s aid. The Tonan, Taz, has six females under his protection, including his mate and child. Jinx hates Castians and Tonans alike. The handsome man Taz brings home is breathtaking. He\u2019s also the only male besides Taz she has seen in four years. Jinx falls for Roam immediately. Her world is shattered when she discovers her new lover is masquerading as human. How can she not hate him when a thieving Castian stole her sister? What\u2019s worse is discovering Taz is a Tonan. Evil creatures who murdered her father. How can she forgive either of them?----------[READING ORDER NOTE: Although books 6 & 7 are clearly indicated on the covers, the events of Defender (book 7) take place 4 years prior to those in Guardian (book 6). So to follow the story events in order, it is recommended that book 7 (Defender) be read PRIOR to book 6 (Guardian).]", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Futuristic", "Space", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22030568-guardian"}, +{"book_title": "The Last American Vampire", "author_name": "Seth Grahame-Smith", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 5769, "review_number": 934, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith returns with the follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping, alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes of vampire Henry Sturges.THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIREIn Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. It will be an expansive journey that will first send him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the birth of a new American century, the dawn of the electric era of Tesla and Edison, and the blazing disaster of the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Along the way, Henry goes on the road in a Kerouac-influenced trip as Seth Grahame-Smith ingeniously weaves vampire history through Russia's October Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, and the JFK assassination. Expansive in scope and serious in execution, THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE is sure to appeal to the passionate readers who made Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a runaway success.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Horror", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20454635-the-last-american-vampire"}, +{"book_title": "Furious Gulf", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 815, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Containing the remnants of humanity from the planet Snowglade, the spaceship Argo hurtles toward its uncertain destiny, the bold and brilliant Captain Killeen at its helm. But he has grown increasingly isolated and anguished in command. The ship\u2019s gardens are failing, its voyagers face starvation, and there are dark whispers within, talk of mutiny. Killeen\u2019s will, however, remains as strong as ever, his determination to reach the True Center of the galaxy bordering on obsession.Amid a mad swirl of incandescent suns and ghostly blue clouds of galactic dust, beset by hostile worlds controlled by the mechs\u2014a vast and violent artificial intelligence whose only meaning, only mission, is the complete extermination of the human race\u2014Killeen pursues his desperate search, convinced his people\u2019s one hope of survival lies in the True Center. The crew has followed him this far on faith, a faith now being tested to the limit. Even his own son Toby, groomed for leadership, is beginning to question his father\u2019s command.As the Argo undertakes a perilous quest into the unknown, Toby faces his own journey into the mysteries of adulthood. Like the others in this Family of voyagers, Toby\u2019s spine contains microchip implants holding the memories\u2014the legacy\u2014of his race. But just as the technology designed to save his people may tear Toby himself apart, so his father\u2019s desperate gamble to save the Argo may plunge the ship and its inhabitants into a cosmic pit of all-consuming fire.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453964.Furious_Gulf"}, +{"book_title": "Future Tense", "author_name": "Richard Curtis", "rating_score": 2.86, "rating_votes": 22, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Contents:p. 7 \u2022 On Prediction \u2022 (1968) \u2022 essay by Isaac Asimov p. 11 \u2022 The Land Ironclads \u2022 (1903) \u2022 novelette by H. G. Wells p. 35 \u2022 New York A.D. 2660 (Excerpt) \u2022 (1911) \u2022 shortfiction by Hugo Gernsback p. 50 \u2022 Billenium \u2022 (1961) \u2022 shortstory by J. G. Ballard (aka Billennium) p. 67 \u2022 The Lysenko Maze \u2022 (1953) \u2022 shortstory by Donald A. Wollheim [as by David Grinnell ] p. 79 \u2022 QRM - Interplanetary \u2022 [Venus Equilateral] \u2022 (1942) \u2022 novelette by George O. Smith p. 118 \u2022 With These Hands \u2022 (1951) \u2022 novelette by C. M. Kornbluth p. 138 \u2022 Politics \u2022 (1932) \u2022 novelette by Murray Leinster p. 168 \u2022 The Day Rembrandt Went Public \u2022 (1962) \u2022 shortstory by Arnold M. Auerbach p. 171 \u2022 Solution Unsatisfactory \u2022 (1941) \u2022 novelette by Robert A. Heinlein p. 216 \u2022 Security Check \u2022 (1956) \u2022 shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke", "year_published": 1968, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7421074-future-tense"}, +{"book_title": "Burnt Offerings", "author_name": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 65996, "review_number": 1103, "book_description": "\"You can't trust anyone who sleeps with the monsters.\"That's what I've always said. That's what I've always believed. But now I'm the one sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City. Me, Anita Blake. The woman the vampires call the Executioner. From part of the solution, I've become part of the problem. So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over town -- an arsonist who seems to want to destroy more than just property. It's the monsters who are in danger now. And it's up the the Executioner to save them from the inferno...", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30242.Burnt_Offerings"}, +{"book_title": "The Cybernetic Tea Shop", "author_name": "Meredith Katz", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 953, "review_number": 243, "book_description": "Clara Gutierrez is a highly-skilled technician specializing in the popular 'Raise' AI companions. Her childhood in a migrant worker family has left her uncomfortable with lingering in any one place, so she sticks around just long enough to replenish her funds before she moves on, her only constant companion Joanie, a fierce, energetic Raise hummingbird.Sal is a fully autonomous robot, the creation of which was declared illegal ages earlier due to ethical concerns. She is older than the law, however, at best out of place in society and at worst hated. Her old master is long dead, but she continues to run the tea shop her master had owned, lost in memories of the past, slowly breaking down, and aiming to fulfill her master's dream for the shop.When Clara stops by Sal's shop for lunch, she doesn't expect to find a real robot there, let alone one who might need her help. But as they begin to spend time together and learn more about each other, they both start to wrestle with the concept of moving on\u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Novella", "Fantasy", "LGBT (Asexual)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28421799-the-cybernetic-tea-shop"}, +{"book_title": "The Price of the Stars", "author_name": "Debra Doyle", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 1528, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Freebooter at heart, spacer by trade, Beka Rosselin-Metadi doesn't want to hear about how her father whose rugged generalship held back the Mageworlds -- or her highborn mother whose leadership has held the galaxy together since. Beka pilots spacecraft -- as far from her famous family as possible.Then Beka's mother is assassinated on the Senate floor, and her father offers her the title to Warhammer, prize ship from his own freebooting youth -- if she agrees to deliver the assassins to him \"off the books.\"Looking for assassins has a tendency to make assassins look for you. In doing so, Beka's arranged her own very public death and adopted a new identity; now all she has to do is leave a trail of kidnappings and corpses across five star systems, and blow the roof off the strongest private fortress in the galaxy.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363059.The_Price_of_the_Stars"}, +{"book_title": "Keeping It Real", "author_name": "Justina Robson", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 2652, "review_number": 273, "book_description": "The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elfin, elemental, and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic, dangerous, and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references. Elementals are a law unto themselves and demons are best left well to themselves. Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty, but now she's not so sure. Her body is more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery, a machine she's barely in control of. It goes into combat mode, enough weapons for a small army springing from within itself, at the merest provocation. As for her heart, well, ever since being drawn into a game by the elfin rockstar Zal (lead singer of The No Shows), who she's been assigned to protect, she's not even sure she can trust that any more either.", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Elves)", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395551.Keeping_It_Real"}, +{"book_title": "Skies of Gold", "author_name": "Zoe Archer", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 292, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Two Lonely Hearts . . .Kalindi MacNeil survived the devastating enemy airship attack that obliterated Liverpool, but even her engineering skills can't seem to repair her broken heart. Seeking to put her life back together, Kali retreats to a desolate, deserted island--only to discover she's not alone. Captain Fletcher Adams, an elite man/machine hybrid, a Man O' War, crashed his battle-damaged airship into the island after the destruction of Liverpool, never expecting to survive the wreck. But survive he did.One Desire . . .Believing he is nothing but a living weapon, Fletcher is wary of his newfound companion--a pretty, damaged, but determined young woman. Together they are stranded on the island, and it is only a matter of time until desire gets the best of them both. Soon Kali and Fletcher each find that they may be just what the other needed. But a danger from beyond the island puts them to the test. Will it rip them apart or bond their hearts forever?", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Disability"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176746-skies-of-gold"}, +{"book_title": "Always a Witch", "author_name": "Carolyn MacCullough", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 6673, "review_number": 637, "book_description": "The adventures of Tam and Gabriel continue with more time travel, Talents, spy work, and of course, the evil Knights.Since the gripping conclusion of Once A Witch, Tamsin Greene has been haunted by her grandmother's prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a crucial decision\u2014one so terrible that it could harm her family forever. When she discovers that her enemy, Alistair Knight, went back in time to Victorian-era New York in order to destroy her family, Tamsin is forced to follow him into the past. Stranded all alone in the nineteenth century, Tamsin soon finds herself disguised as a lady's maid in the terrifying mansion of the evil Knight family, avoiding the watchful eye of the vicious matron, La Spider, and fending off the advances of Liam Knight. As time runs out, both families square off in a thrilling display of magic. And to her horror, Tamsin finally understands the nature of her fateful choice.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8572704-always-a-witch"}, +{"book_title": "Magic Dreams", "author_name": "Ilona Andrews", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 16698, "review_number": 864, "book_description": "From New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews comes a tale of darkness, desire, and werecats.Alpha Pack leader Jim Shrapshire has always been the strong, silent type. But something has come over him--a magic force currently residing in one of the Pack's headquarters. Were-tigress Dali Harimau has always wished she could get Jim's attention--but now he needs her help. Stricken with a magic-sickness, Jim needs Dali's flair for magic. And to save him, she must challenge a powerful, dark being to a battle of wits. Includes an excerpt of Ilona Andrews's upcoming novel in the world of Kate Daniels, Gunmetal MagicMagic Dreams originally appeared in the anthology Hexed.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Novella", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Short Stories", "Paranormal (Vampires)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13627865-magic-dreams"}, +{"book_title": "Lazarus, Vol. 2: Lift", "author_name": "Greg Rucka", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 4600, "review_number": 330, "book_description": "While Forever keeps watch on her sister Johanna, she finds hints of rebellion brewing in LA. At the same time, the Barrets, a family of \"Waste,\" lose their home and land, and must pursue their only chance for a better life - a 500-mile journey to Denver in the hope that one of their family will be noticed by the Carlyles and \"lifted\" to Serf status. Collecting LAZARUS #5-9", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Action", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20299674-lazarus-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Ravenor: The Omnibus", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 2279, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "In the war-torn future of the 41st millennium, the Inquisition fights a secret war against the darkest enemies of mankind \u2013 the alien, the heretic and the daemon. The three stories in this omnibus tell the tale of Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and his lethal band of operatives, whose investigations take them from the heart of the Scarus Sector to the wildest regions of space beyond, and even through time itself. Wherever they go, and whatever dangers they face, they will never give up until their mission succeeds.Contains the novels Ravenor, Ravenor Returned and Ravenor Rogue, plus two short stories and an introduction by the author.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Anthologies", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6092590-ravenor"}, +{"book_title": "Rogue World", "author_name": "B.V. Larson", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2962, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. Today, Battle Fleet 921 is returning to Earth. It hasn\u2019t been seen by human eyes since our blissful day of Annexation. But what should be a joyful occasion, a chance to grovel at the feet of superior lifeforms, is rapidly becoming a nightmare. Over the last century, Humanity has engaged in many activities that our Overlords find\u2026 questionable. A panic ensues, and Legion Varus is deployed to erase certain \u201cmistakes\u201d our government has made. Projects must be purged to stop Imperial military action. Among the thousands marching to war is one man no politician has ever enjoyed dealing with. One man who\u2019s destined to follow his own unique path through Galactic Law, Morality and the Stars themselves. James McGill is about to make history. ROGUE WORLD is the seventh book of Undying Mercenaries Series, a novel of military science fiction by bestselling author B. V. Larson. The series starts with book #1, STEEL WORLD.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34522945-rogue-world"}, +{"book_title": "The Big Switch", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 894, "review_number": 81, "book_description": "In this extraordinary World War II alternate history, master storyteller Harry Turtledove begins with a big switch: what if Neville Chamberlain, instead of appeasing Hitler, had stood up to him in 1938? Enraged, Hitler reacts by lashing out at the West, promising his soldiers that they will reach Paris by the new year. They don\u2019t. Three years later, his genocidal apparatus not fully in place, Hitler has barely survived a coup, while Jews cling to survival. But England and France wonder whether the war is still worthwhile.Weaving together a cast of characters that ranges from a brawling American fighter in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain to a woman who has seen Hitler\u2019s evil face-to-face, Harry Turtledove takes us into a world shaping up very differently in 1941. The Germans and their Polish allies have slammed into the gut of the Soviet Union in the west, while Japan pummels away in the east. In trench warfare in France, French and Czech fighters are outmanned but not outfought by their Nazi enemy. Then the stalemate is shattered. In England, Winston Churchill dies in an apparent accident, and the gray men who walk behind his funeral cortege wonder who their real enemy is. The USSR, fighting for its life, makes peace with Japan\u2014and Japan\u2019s war with America is about to begin.A sweeping saga of human passions, foolishness, and courage, of families and lovers and soldiers by choice and by chance, The Big Switch is a provocative, gripping, and utterly convincing work of alternate history at its best. For history buffs and fans of big, blood-and-guts fiction, Harry Turtledove delivers a panoramic clash of ideals as powerful as armies themselves.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War", "War (World War II)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9609421-the-big-switch"}, +{"book_title": "BioShock: Rapture", "author_name": "John Shirley", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 7408, "review_number": 771, "book_description": "It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom is diminishing . . . and many are desperate to take that freedom back.Among them is a great dreamer, an immigrant who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and admired men in the world. That man is Andrew Ryan, and he believed that great men and women deserve better. And so he set out to create the impossible, a utopia free from government, censorship, and moral restrictions on science--where what you give is what you get. He created Rapture---the shining city below the sea.But as we all know, this utopia suffered a great tragedy. This is the story of how it all came to be . . .and how it all ended.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Games (Video Games)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sports and Games (Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9373152-bioshock"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Tomorrow", "author_name": "Leigh Brackett", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2125, "review_number": 234, "book_description": "Two generations after destruction rained down upon America's cities, the population is scattered into small towns. Cities are forbidden by law, as is scientific research. Rumors abound of a secret place known as \"Bartorstown\", where science is untrammelled by interference or hatred. A youth named Len Colter, developing an unhealthy thirst for knowledge exacerbated by the discovery of a forbidden radio, sets out on a long road. During this journey, he will change his mind many times before determining the correct direction for himself, and the benighted America in which he lives.", "year_published": 1955, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Literature (20th Century)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91109.The_Long_Tomorrow"}, +{"book_title": "Our Lady of the Ice", "author_name": "Cassandra Rose Clarke", "rating_score": 3.44, "rating_votes": 680, "review_number": 158, "book_description": "Hope City, Antarctica. The southernmost city in the world, with only a glass dome and a faltering infrastructure to protect its citizens from the freezing, ceaseless winds of the Antarctic wilderness. Within this bell jar four people\u2013some human, some not\u2013will shape the future of the city forever:Eliana Gomez, a female PI looking for a way to the mainland.Diego Amitrano, the right-hand man to the gangster who controls the city\u2019s food come winter.Marianella Luna, an aristocrat with a dangerous secret.Sofia, an android who has begun to evolve.But the city is evolving too, and in the heart of the perilous Antarctic winter, factions will clash, dreams will shatter, and that frozen metropolis just might boil over\u2026", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adult", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22907961-our-lady-of-the-ice"}, +{"book_title": "Return of the Jedi: The Original Radio Drama", "author_name": "Brian Daley", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 228, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, there came a time of revolution when Rebels united to challenge a tyrannical Empire. Experience the epic scope and power of the classic movie, Return of the Jedi, in this six-episode radio production. (3 hours)", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Novels", "Space", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3359269-return-of-the-jedi"}, +{"book_title": "Outriders", "author_name": "Jay Posey", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 1232, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "The start of a Military SF series from imprint best-seller and Tom Clancy game series writer Jay Posey.Captain Lincoln Suh died on a\u00a0Wednesday. And things only got harder from there.Snatched out of special operations and thrown headfirst into a secretive new unit, Lincoln finds himself as the team leader for the 519th\u00a0Applied Intelligence Group, better known as the Outriders. And his first day on the job brings a mission with the highest possible stakes.A dangerously cunning woman who most assuredly should be dead has seemingly returned. And her plans aren\u2019t just devastating, they might be unstoppable.How do you defeat a hidden enemy when you can\u2019t let them know they\u2019ve been discovered?You send in the Outriders.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "Action", "Audiobook", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25355562-outriders"}, +{"book_title": "Yellowstone Heart Song", "author_name": "Peggy L. Henderson", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 3186, "review_number": 382, "book_description": "Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN B006SS09A4Nurse and avid backpacker Aimee Donovan is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. She encounters a patient who tells her he can send her two hundred years into the past to spend three months in the rugged Yellowstone wilderness at the dawn of the mountain man era. The only requirement: she cannot tell anyone that she\u2019s from the future.How did a white woman suddenly appear in the remote Rocky Mountain wilderness? Trapper Daniel Osborne\u2019s first instinct is to protect this mysterious and unconventional woman from the harsh realities of his mountains. While he fights his growing attraction to her, he is left frustrated by her lies and secrecy.Daniel shows Aimee a side of Yellowstone she\u2019s never experienced. She is torn between her feelings for him, and exposing a secret that will destroy everything he holds as truth. As her three months come to an end, she is faced with a dilemma: return to her own time, or stay with the man who opened her eyes to a whole new world. When the decision is made for her, both their lives will be changed forever.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Westerns", "Fiction", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13415280-yellowstone-heart-song"}, +{"book_title": "Honeythorn", "author_name": "Marina Vivancos", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 570, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Omega Milan Pryor knows his duty. He must travel North through the continent towards the snow, the cold, and his new betrothed. They say that Lord Alpha Raphael Ledford, the man he is to marry, is as arctic as the weather of his land. But Milan has always been an optimist. Perhaps he might find friendship in the arranged marriage. Even love. It doesn\u2019t take long for Milan to realize that all the rumours about Lord Raphael are true. Reclusive, distant, frigid. Milan finds himself unwelcome in what he must now call his new home. He\u2019s used to fighting for what he wants\u2014but can he survive a husband as cruel as Lord Raphael?Being bonded to one who rejects you is a painful thing. Will Milan be able to win his husband\u2019s regard? What terrible secret is Lord Raphael keeping, and will Milan be able to discover it before it\u2019s too late? Or will Milan perish along with his heart?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Paranormal (Omegaverse)", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "LGBT", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44589386-honeythorn"}, +{"book_title": "To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death", "author_name": "Mark O'Connell", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2082, "review_number": 284, "book_description": "Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking technology to push the limits of the human body our senses, intelligence, and our lifespansOnce relegated to the fringes of society, transhumanism (the use of technology to enhance human intellectual and physical capability) is now poised to enter our cultural mainstream. It has found adherents in Silicon Valley billionaires Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. Google has entered the picture, establishing a bio-tech subsidiary aimed at solving the problem of aging.In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell takes a headlong dive into this burgeoning movement. He travels to the laboratories, conferences, and basements of today's foremost transhumanists, where he's presented with the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries of new technologies like mind uploading, artificial superintelligence, cryonics, and device implants.A contributor to Slate, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine, O'Connell serves as a sharp and lively guide to the outer limits of technology in the twenty first century. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising, singular meditation on what it means to be human.\"", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Science", "Science (Technology)", "Philosophy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Audiobook", "Science (Popular Science)", "Writing (Essays)", "Reference (Research)", "Culture (Society)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30555486-to-be-a-machine"}, +{"book_title": "The Alien's Touch", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 1515, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Welcome to Luxiria, where the twin suns are hot and the alien warriors are hotter\u2026 Cecelia has always rolled with life\u2019s punches. Growing up in a broken home? Check. Cancer? Check. Getting rescued from a human trafficking ring by massive, horned alien warriors and getting transported to their planet? Triple check. But when her cancer returns, light years away from Earth, Cecelia knows that she needs her rescuers\u2019 help\u2014except that help comes in the form a sexy, pierced, ruthless warrior who thinks she\u2019s his\u2026 Ambassador Rixavox, one of the fiercest war generals on Luxiria, is no stranger to the carnal delights of females. Many, many females. Never in his wildest dreams did he think he could settle for just one\u2026but that\u2019s before his animalistic Instinct awakens for Cecelia, recognizing her for who she truly is: his fated mate. As they journey to his territory in the harsh northern lands of Luxiria, his female tempts him to madness, fueling his own wicked desires, even when it is forbidden to touch her or claim her the way he craves. In his care, they must resist the mating call that runs between them\u2026or risk everything. Features a strong, determined human female and a seven-foot tall mouthwatering alien with a huge, massive\u2026heart (-wink wink-). Full-length 60,000+ word novel! Note: The Warriors of Luxiria series makes more sense read in order, but each book *can* be read separately since the main focus is on the romantic relationship of each couple. Warriors of Luxiria series: The Alien's Prize: Vaxa'an and Kate The Alien's Mate: Vaxa'an and Kate The Alien's Lover: Lihvan and Beks The Alien\u2019s Touch: Rixavox and CeceliaThe Alien's Dream: Vikan and Taylor Glass", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510359-the-alien-s-touch"}, +{"book_title": "Attack of the Clones", "author_name": "R.A. Salvatore", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 9597, "review_number": 455, "book_description": "Read by Jonathan Davis9 CDs, 9.5 hrs. unabridgedThere is a great disturbance in the Force. . . . From the sleek ships of the glimmering Coruscant skyscape to the lush gardens of pastoral Naboo, dissent is roiling. The Republic is failing, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, elected ten years earlier to save the crumbling government. Separatists threaten war, and the Senate is hopelessly divided, unable to determine whether to raise an army for battle or keep the fragile peace. It is a stalemate that once broken, could lead to galactic chaos.Mischievous and resolved, courageous to the point of recklessness, Anakin Skywalker has come of age in a time of great upheaval. The nineteen-year-old apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi is an enigma to the Jedi Council, and a challenge to his Jedi Master. Time has not dulled Anakin\u2019s ambition, nor has his Jedi training tamed his independent streak. When an attempt on Senator Padm\u00e9 Amidala\u2019s life brings them together for the first time in ten years, it is clear that time also has not dulled Anakin\u2019s intense feelings for the beautiful diplomat.The attack on Senator Amidala just before a crucial vote thrusts the Republic even closer to the edge of disaster. Masters Yoda and Mace Windu sense enormous unease. The dark side is growing, clouding the Jedi\u2019s perception of the events. Unbeknownst to the Jedi, a slow rumble is building into the roar of thousands of soldiers readying for battle. But even as the Republic falters around them, Anakin and Padm\u00e9 find a connection so intense that all else begins to fall away. Anakin will lose himself\u2014and his way\u2014in emotions a Jedi, sworn to hold allegiance only to the Order, is forbidden to have.Based on the story by George Lucas and the screenplay by George Lucas and Jonathan Hales, this intense and revealing novel by bestselling author R. A. Salvatore sheds new light on the legend of Star Wars\u2014and skillfully illuminates one of our most beloved sagas.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320361.Attack_of_the_Clones"}, +{"book_title": "Twilight", "author_name": "Meg Cabot", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 39821, "review_number": 1167, "book_description": "This time it's life or death.Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie. But when she discovers that she has the power to determine who becomes a ghost in the first place, Suze begins to freak. It means she can alter the course of history... and prevent Jesse's murder, keeping him from ever becoming a ghost - and from ever meeting Suze.Will Jesse choose to live without her, or die to love her?", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93724.Twilight"}, +{"book_title": "My Real Children", "author_name": "Jo Walton", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 5678, "review_number": 1149, "book_description": "It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. \"Confused today,\" read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know\u2014what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don\u2019t seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev.Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War\u2014those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles?Two lives, two worlds, two versions of modern history. Each with their loves and losses, their sorrows and triumphs. My Real Children is the tale of both of Patricia Cowan's lives...and of how every life means the entire world.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "GLBT (Queer)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490637-my-real-children"}, +{"book_title": "Headcrash", "author_name": "Bruce Bethke", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 476, "review_number": 32, "book_description": "When Jack Burroughs, a brilliant young computer programmer, is given his pink slip, he is offered the opportunity to use his skills for a little industrial espionage. Donning the guise of his online alter ego, Max Kool, Burroughs transforms himself into one of the hippest cybernetic surfers on the InfoBahn. \"Bethke has taken the computer industry and thrown it in a blender . . . savagely funny.\"--\"Seattle Weekly.\"", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111830.Headcrash"}, +{"book_title": "Breath of Earth", "author_name": "Beth Cato", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 802, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "After the Earth\u2019s power is suddenly left unprotected, a young geomancer must rely on her unique magical powers to survive in in this fresh fantasy series from the author of acclaimed The Clockwork Dagger.In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation\u2014the Unified Pacific\u2014in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer Wardens who have no idea of the depth of her power\u2014or that she is the only woman to possess such skills. When assassins kill the Wardens, Ingrid and her mentor are protected by her incredible magic. But the pair is far from safe. Without its full force of guardian geomancers, the city is on the brink of a cataclysmic earthquake that will expose Earth\u2019s powers to masterminds determined to control the energy for their own dark ends. The danger escalates when Chinese refugees, preparing to fight the encroaching American and Japanese, fracture the uneasy alliance between the Pacific allies, transforming the city into a veritable powder keg. And the slightest tremor will set it off. . . . Forced on the run, Ingrid makes some shocking discoveries about herself. Her powerful magic has grown even more fearsome . . . and she may be the fulcrum on which the balance of world power rests.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adult", "Science Fiction", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213224-breath-of-earth"}, +{"book_title": "Protector", "author_name": "Anna Hackett", "rating_score": 4.29, "rating_votes": 1618, "review_number": 133, "book_description": "Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy\u2019s lawless outer rim\u2026 Cool and driven Madeline Cochran made a successful career for herself as civilian commander of a space station orbiting Jupiter\u2026until the day it was attacked and she was abducted by alien slavers. Her organized existence shattered, Madeline suffered during her captivity, but since her rescue by the tough gladiators of the House of Galen, she\u2019s struggling to assimilate to her new life. As she navigates the desert world of Carthago and the gladiator city of Kor Magna, she desperately misses her teenage son back on Earth and throws herself into finding another human, space marine Blaine, still kept captive by the slavers. She also finds herself working harder than ever to avoid a certain charming showman gladiator who is far too attractive and far too tempting. Gladiator Lore Uma-Xilene is a protector at heart and a sucker for a damsel in distress\u2026although he\u2019s well aware that the hard-shelled and sad-eyed Madeline wouldn\u2019t appreciate the title. He knows what it feels like to be ripped from the family you love and have your life destroyed, and he wants to help Madeline heal. As the two of them go undercover into the dangerous world of underground gambling, Lore knows he\u2019ll need all his patience, passion, and a whole lot of stubbornness to not only keep Madeline safe but to melt the icy shell around her heart. Note to readers: This sci fi romance contains a lot of action (think wild gladiatorial fights and daring rescues), tough gladiators (the warriors of the House of Galen) and a steamy romance (between a cool, driven woman and a charming showman gladiator). So if you like it fast, and gritty, and sexy, this is for you! Includes a sneak peek of Champion, Galactic Gladiators #5.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Action", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34404768-protector"}, +{"book_title": "Flotsam", "author_name": "R.J. Theodore", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 204, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "A fantastical steampunk first contact novel that ties together high magic, high technology, and bold characters to create a story you won\u2019t soon forget. Captain Talis just wants to keep her airship crew from starving, and maybe scrape up enough cash for some badly needed repairs. When an anonymous client offers a small fortune to root through a pile of atmospheric wreckage, it seems like an easy payday. The job yields an ancient ring, a forbidden secret, and a host of deadly enemies.Now on the run from cultists with powerful allies, Talis needs to unload the ring as quickly as possible. Her desperate search for a buyer and the fallout from her discovery leads to a planetary battle between a secret society, alien forces, and even the gods themselves.Talis and her crew have just one desperate chance to make things right before their potential big score destroys them all.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36401999-flotsam"}, +{"book_title": "Generation One", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 5517, "review_number": 550, "book_description": "The first book in a pulse-pounding new series that's set in the world of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series. The war may be over\u2014but for the next generation, the battle has just begun!It has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted in Pittacus Lore's United as One. But in order to win, our alien allies known as the Garde unleashed their Loric energy that spread throughout the globe. Now human teenagers have begun to develop incredible powers of their own, known as Legacies.To help these incredible and potentially dangerous individuals\u2014and put the world at ease\u2014the Garde have created an academy where they can train this new generation to control their powers and hopefully one day help mankind. But not everyone thinks that's the best use of their talents. And the teens may need to use their Legacies sooner than they ever imagined.Perfect for fans of Marvel's X-Men and Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave, this epic new series follows a diverse cast of teens as they struggle to hone their abilities and decide what, if anything, they should do with them. As a spin-off of the bestselling I Am Number Four series, those familiar with the original books and newcomers alike will devour this fast-paced, action-packed sci-fi adventure.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32497565-generation-one"}, +{"book_title": "Designated Targets", "author_name": "John Birmingham", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 3182, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction.Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided missiles - all bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism decades later. But that was the first time around.With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge, Stalin and Hitler rapidly change strategies. A Russian-German ceasefire leaves the F\u00fchrer free to bring the full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England, while in the Pacific, Japan launches an invasion of Australia, and Admiral Yamamoto schemes to seize an even greater prize . . . Hawaii.Even in the United States the newcomers from the future are greeted with a combination of enthusiasm and fear. Suspicion leads to hatred and erupts into violence.Suddenly it's a whole new war, with high-tech, high-stakes international manipulations from Tokyo to D.C. to the Kremlin. As the world trembles on the brink of annihilation, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Tojo confront extreme choices and a future rife with possibilities - all of them apocalyptic.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Thriller", "War", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977145.Designated_Targets"}, +{"book_title": "Tankborn", "author_name": "Karen Sandler", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1442, "review_number": 232, "book_description": "Best friends Kayla and Mishalla know they will be separated for their Assignments. They are GENs, Genetically Engineered Non-humans, and in their strict caste system, GENs are at the bottom rung of society. GENs are gestated in a tank and sent to work as slaves as soon as they reach age fifteen.When Kayla is Assigned to care for Zul Manel, the patriarch of a trueborn family, she finds secrets and surprises; not least of which is her unexpected friendship with Zul's great-grandson. Meanwhile, the children that Mishalla is Assigned to care for are being stolen in the middle of the night. After weeks of toiling in their Assignments, mystifying circumstances enable Kayla and Mishalla to reunite. Together they hatch a plan to save the disappearing children. Yet can GENs really trust humans? Both girls must put their lives and hearts at risk to crack open a sinister conspiracy, revealing secrets no one is ready to face.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Young Adult Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11341277-tankborn"}, +{"book_title": "Robot", "author_name": "Andrzej Klimowski", "rating_score": 3.43, "rating_votes": 37, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Schejbal adapts Stanislaw Lem's Uranium Earpieces, in which a paranoid king forces his subjects to wear suits of flowing uranium alloy. Can a young inventor, Pyron, find a way to free the people from this evil tyrant? Andrzej Klimowski adapts The Sanatorium of Dr. Vliperdius, set in a world increasingly populated by robots. The hero visits Dr. Vliperdius' institution, but its patients soon turn against him. Can he escape the sanatorium after learning its dark secret?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Sequential Art (Comics)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12179680-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Chindi", "author_name": "Jack McDevitt", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 4835, "review_number": 259, "book_description": "On a routine survey mission studying a neutron star, an Academy starship receives a transmission in an unknown language. Before leaving the area, the starship launches a series of satellites to find the signal and perhaps discover its origins. Five years later, a satellite finally encounters the signal which is believed to be of extraterrestrial origin by the Contact Society, a wealthy group of enthusiasts who fund research into the existence of alien life. Providing a starship to the Academy to be piloted by Captain Priscilla Hutch Hutchins, the Contact Society embarks on a mission to find the source of the transmission. Across a myriad of stars, from world to world, Hutch and her crew follow the signal, but find only puzzles and lethal surprises.Then, in a planetary system far beyond the bounds of previous exploration, they discover an object. It is immense, ominous, and mysterious. And it may hold the answer not only to the questions of the Contact Society, but to those of every person who has ever looked to the sky and wondered if we were alone...\"", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382161.Chindi"}, +{"book_title": "The Fallen Legacies", "author_name": "Pittacus Lore", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 11519, "review_number": 411, "book_description": "Before Number Four, there were One, Two, and Three. Until now we've only known that the Mogadorians caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. But all of that is about to change. . . .In I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Fallen Legacies, you'll learn the true story behind these ill-fated members of the Garde. Before they were murdered by the Mogadorians, before Number Four was next, they were all just kids on an alien planet called Earth\u2014discovering their powers, trying to stay hidden, and running for their lives.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Adventure", "Novella", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13622863-the-fallen-legacies"}, +{"book_title": "Once We Were", "author_name": "Kat Zhang", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 3187, "review_number": 398, "book_description": "\"I'm lucky just to be alive.\"Eva was never supposed to have survived this long. As the recessive soul, she should have faded away years ago. Instead, she lingers in the body she shares with her sister soul, Addie. When the government discovered the truth, they tried to \u201ccure\u201d the girls, but Eva and Addie escaped before the doctors could strip Eva\u2019s soul away.Now fugitives, Eva and Addie find shelter with a group of hybrids who run an underground resistance. Surrounded by others like them, the girls learn how to temporarily disappear to give each soul some much-needed privacy. Eva is thrilled at the chance to be alone with Ryan, the boy she\u2019s falling for, but troubled by the growing chasm between her and Addie. Despite clashes over their shared body, both girls are eager to join the rebellion.Yet as they are drawn deeper into the escalating violence, they start to wonder: How far are they willing to go to fight for hybrid freedom? Faced with uncertainty and incredible danger, their answers may tear them apart forever.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Audiobook", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16109664-once-we-were"}, +{"book_title": "Targeted", "author_name": "Evangeline Anderson", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1597, "review_number": 118, "book_description": "A warrior sworn to kill or die trying\u2026 A woman going through a deadly transformation\u2026 Can they reach safety together? Or have both of them been Targeted for death? Emily Brooks is just an unremarkable girl living a boring existence--she teaches kindergarten, has a small house on the north end of Tampa, and tries not to envy her sister's perfect life. But Emily holds a remarkable secret within--one that won't stay hidden much longer. She is about to become something and someone completely different--that is, if she lives long enough to undergo the transformation. Tragar is a Beast Kindred with tragedy in his past. Pain and loss have driven him from the Kindred way of life and into a new career--that of a deadly Verrak assassin. The Verrak take an oath to kill every target they contract for or die trying. Now Emily is in his crosshairs but the moment he gets close enough to her, his sharp Kindred senses tell him something is different about this particular target. Emily is a Khalla--a rare female who some say embody the essence of the Goddess herself. She is a treasure beyond compare. Tragar is well aware that his own choices have left him unfit to serve her but at least he can protect her until he can find someone worthy on his home planet of Rageron. But there are dark forces in their way. Tragar's oath to kill can not be broken lightly. And there is a shadowy figure rising from the darkness who wishes to claim Emily's life. Can the fallen warrior guide and protect Emily to the place she truly belongs? Or will he die trying? You'll have to read Targeted to find out.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25106480-targeted"}, +{"book_title": "Starship Titanic", "author_name": "Terry Jones", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 11514, "review_number": 390, "book_description": "Sur la plan\u00e8te Bl\u00e9rontin, on s'appr\u00eate \u00e0 inaugurer en grande pompe le Straship Titanic, formidable vaisseau spactial, derni\u00e8re cr\u00e9ation de Leovinus, le plus grand inventeur de l'univers et de tous les temps. Or, bien \u00e9videmment, l'engin a \u00e9t\u00e9 sabot\u00e9 - une bombe intelligente a \u00e9t\u00e9 plac\u00e9e \u00e0 son bord -, et toutes les conditions sont donc rassembl\u00e9es pour que ce premier vol exp\u00e9rimental soit une catastrophe sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, mettant notamment en grave p\u00e9ril les vies des passagers : Leovinus, un perroquet de la plan\u00e8te Yassacan, un journaliste nomm\u00e9 Le Journaliste et un trio d'innocents humains...", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Humor", "Fantasy", "Humor (Comedy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Adventure", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8704.Starship_Titanic"}, +{"book_title": "The Dead Gentleman", "author_name": "Matthew Cody", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 366, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "A many-worlds adventure novel from the acclaimed author of Powerless! \u00a0The Dead Gentleman is a wild ride between parallel New York City timestreams\u20141901 and today. Eleven-year-old Tommy Learner is a street orphan and an unlikely prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the Explorers, a secret group dedicated to exploring portals\u2014the hidden doorways to other worlds. But in the basement of an old hotel, his world collides with that of modern-day Jezebel Lemon. Now, Jezebel and Tommy must thwart the Dead Gentleman, a legendary villain whose last unconquered world is our own planet Earth, a realm where the dead stay dead\u2014for now. Can two kids put an end to this ancient evil and his legions of Grave Walkers?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Action", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10471511-the-dead-gentleman"}, +{"book_title": "Toys in Space", "author_name": "Mini Grey", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 561, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "A very silly (not-too-scary) story about losing a beloved toy.That summer night, the toys were left outside. . . . For the very first time, the Wonderdoll, the helpful wind-up robot, the thoughtful green dinosaur, and the rest of their plucky gang lie in the grass, gazing up at the stars. But one star seems brighter than the rest. As it grows bigger and bigger, the toys realize it may not be a star at all! Soon they're venturing into the unknown, traveling by spaceship, where they meet a lonely alien in need of help, and some friends.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From ever-inventive, award-winning author-illustrator Mini Grey comes a hilarious and heartfelt new adventure: a motley group of toys left outside in the garden become true friends and brave heroes--in space!From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Space", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Adventure", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14871777-toys-in-space"}, +{"book_title": "Prada & Prejudice", "author_name": "Mandy Hubbard", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 5481, "review_number": 774, "book_description": "Fifteen-year-old Callie buys a pair of real Prada pumps to impress the cool crowd on a school trip to London. Goodbye, Callie the clumsy geek-girl, hello popularity! But before she knows what\u2019s hit her, Callie wobbles, trips, conks her head...and wakes up in the year 1815!She stumbles about until she meets the kind-hearted Emily, who takes Callie in, mistaking her for a long-lost friend. Sparks soon fly between Callie and Emily\u2019s cousin, Alex, the maddeningly handsome - though totally arrogant - Duke of Harksbury. Too bad he seems to have something sinister up his ruffled sleeve...From face-planting off velvet piano benches and hiding behind claw-foot couches to streaking through the estate halls wearing nothing but an itchy blanket, Callie\u2019s curiosity about Alex creates all kinds of trouble.But the grandfather clock is ticking on her 19th Century shenanigans. Can Callie save Emily from a dire engagement, win a kiss from Alex, and prove to herself that she\u2019s more than just a loud-mouth klutz before her time there is up?", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Romance", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Retellings"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5301920-prada-prejudice"}, +{"book_title": "Highland Guardian", "author_name": "Melissa Mayhue", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2147, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Sarah Douglas is a successful thirty-eight year old romance novelist with big problems. She's come to Scotland on a three month working vacation hoping to recapture her muse\u2014who's deserted her\u2014and resolve the issue of her strange 'feelings'\u2014 the ones which allow her to sense the emotions of everyone she touches.From the moment she arrives, however, her problems only intensify. She's being stalked, but by whom? Is he real or only a figment of her imagination? What about the darkly handsome owner of the cottage she's leasing? How is she ever going to deal with her growing attraction to a man ten years her junior? She knows from bitter experience men\u2014particularly men who look like Ian\u2014aren't interested in women like her.Ian McCullough is neck-deep in troubles of his own. As a half-mortal descendent of Faeries, he's a Guardian, sworn to protect both the mortals of this world and the Portals leading to the Faerie Realm. After six hundred years, he's confident he knows what to expect in just about every situation and exactly how to handle it. But he never counted on a woman like Sarah showing up in his life; a woman who intrigues and charms him. A woman who turns out to be of Faerie descent herself, although she has no idea of her heritage and no belief in any Otherworld beings.When he's assigned to protect her, Ian finds the job is tougher than he could possibly have imagined. Oh, he can handle the stalker and the ex-husband and even the renegade Faeries trying to kidnap her for their own purpose. It's falling in love and forsaking his status as Guardian, a position he swore to honor at his father's deathbed, he's having trouble with.Both Sarah and Ian struggle to battle the demons of self-doubt and their individual pasts. In the process they learn that healing will take the strongest magic of all, the true love that occurs only between two souls fated to be togetherhttp://www.melissamayhue.com/books.html", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fairies (Fae)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1537464.Highland_Guardian"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Friday", "author_name": "Garth Nix", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 21156, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "The fifth book in Garth Nix's New York Times bestselling series!Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated and their Keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue and Fred Gold Numbers have been captured by the Piper, and his New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the House and blocking the Front Door. Amidst all this trouble, Arthur must weigh an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity he must seize - before he's beaten to it!", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17206.Lady_Friday"}, +{"book_title": "Architects of Destiny", "author_name": "A.K. DuBoff", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 889, "review_number": 123, "book_description": "This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00TT6OIFOThe people of Earth have no idea that their planet is a lost colony of the galaxy-spanning Taran empire. But with Taran civilization on the brink of war, salvation may come from the most unlikely of places...Cris Sietinen, heir to the most influential Dynasty in the Taran empire, was born with rare telekinetic gifts--abilities he refuses to ignore, regardless of the governing Priesthood's decrees. Determined to be true to himself, and test the limits of his abilities, Cris escapes his stifled life of business and politics on Tararia to begin a new life exploring the stars.When Cris unexpectedly receives an invitation to join the Tararian Selective Service (TSS), the only organization to offer an official telekinesis training program, a new future awaits. It's his dream opportunity to be among people like himself, free from the Priesthood and political objectives. Except, Cris' path was designed, and he's right where the Priesthood wants him.Written in the style of classic sci-fi from the Golden Age, Architects of Destiny is the first installment in the Cadicle series, a new space opera epic with elements of \"Dune\", \"Ender's Game\", and \"Star Wars\". A fast-paced space adventure with intrigue, coming-of-age and romance, this short prequel is a prelude to the defining events in Tararia's history in the ensuing years.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Business (Amazon)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26214945-architects-of-destiny"}, +{"book_title": "The Kraken King", "author_name": "Meljean Brook", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 2708, "review_number": 315, "book_description": "A former smuggler and thief, Ariq-better known as the Kraken King-doesn't know what to make of the clever, mysterious woman he rescues from an airship besieged by marauders. Unsure if she's a spy or a pawn in someone else's game, Ariq isn't about to let her out of his sight until he finds out. After escaping her fourth kidnapping attempt in a year, Zenobia Fox has learned to vigilantly guard her identity. While her brother Archimedes is notorious for his exploits, Zenobia has had no adventures to call her own-besides the stories she writes. But when she jumps at the chance to escape to the wilds of Australia and acquire research for her next story, Zenobia quickly discovers that the voyage will be far more adventurous than any fiction she could put to paper.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15788727-the-kraken-king"}, +{"book_title": "Agents of Atlas", "author_name": "Jeff Parker", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 918, "review_number": 43, "book_description": "The spy. The spaceman. The goddess. The robot. The Gorilla.During the late 1950s, the U.S. government allowed FBI Special Agent Jimmy Woo to forge a team of unlikely heroes. Together, they stormed the fortress of a criminal mastermind to rescue President Eisenhower - but the group disbanded soon after. Now, almost 50 years later, an unauthorized S.H.I.E.L.D. mission goes down in flames - and from the ashes arise forces from the Golden Age of Marvel!Collecting: Agents of Atlas 1-6", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Sequential Art"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754151.Agents_of_Atlas"}, +{"book_title": "Terrible Swift Sword", "author_name": "William R. Forstchen", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 871, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "A startling series that merges history with intrepid military science fiction in a fresh and energetic package, this latest edition proves that Forstchen's talent and possibilities are limitless. \"Some of the best adventure writing in years!\"--Science Fiction Chronicle.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92807.Terrible_Swift_Sword"}, +{"book_title": "Three Parts Dead", "author_name": "Glynn James", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 2252, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "A world fallen - under a plague of seven billion walking deadA tiny island nation - the last refuge of the livingOne team - of the world's most elite special operatorsThe dead, these heroes, humanity's last hope, all have...Alpha team, the world's best and last surviving Tier-1 operators, are adrift on Lake Michigan - and fast drifting into what looks like a damned hostile shoreline. Deep in the National Forest nearby, a former police officer and survivalist battles to keep her family alive - and tries to decide whether the commandos of Alpha are more dangerous to her alive or dead. Meanwhile, the John F. Kennedy, the world's last floating supercarrier, is run aground off the coast of Virginia - and facing a veritable hurricane of the dead, blowing in fast. And finally, back in Fortress Britain, the terrible outbreak from the Channel Tunnel turns out not to have been so contained after all - and a death grip is beginning to close on London, and shaping up into humanity's very last stand...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Action", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16063889-three-parts-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Kiera's Moon", "author_name": "Lizzy Ford", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1268, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "When starving artist Kiera wakes up on board a spaceship, she panics. Her best friend has dragged her across the universe to help her find a man and a life, only the man she ends up unwittingly hooking up with is a battle-hardened warrior prince living in exile. Calculating, cautious A'Ran wants nothing more than to reclaim his planet. He needs Kiera as his lifemate to heal his planet and his war weary people. He's not prepared to be a lifemate himself, and discovers almost too late what he risks losing if he can't learn to be more than a warrior.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adventure", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18365852-kiera-s-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Fields of Iron", "author_name": "Shelley Adina", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 320, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "\u201cWhat do you propose, sir?\u201d He held her astonished gaze as he went down upon one knee. \u201cWhy \u2026 I propose. Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife, so that I may accompany you to San Francisco de Asis and help you stop this war?\u201dGloria Meriwether-Astor, determined to end the invasion her father and a power-hungry diplomat started, has found safety with the witches of the river canyons in the Wild West. But how can one young lady without so much as a hat to her name challenge a kingdom? Confronted with the solution\u2014marriage\u2014she has two choices: accept the help she needs, or return to Philadelphia alone and a failure. So, in the company of riverboat captain Stan Fremont\u2014the dashing rogue she must now call husband\u2014she sets off for the capital to negotiate with the Viceroy. But with an entire country mobilizing between herself and her objective, the attempt could mean her life\u2014and the life of the one person she is beginning to care for \u2026", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31987113-fields-of-iron"}, +{"book_title": "Like Stars in Heaven", "author_name": "Eric Thomson", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 459, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "One last mission. One mysterious passenger. One baffling destination. After centuries of travel, an ancient log buoy finally reaches human-controlled space. In the midst of a stalemated interstellar war, the Admiralty has little interest in wasting resources on what would likely be a fruitless search for the truth, but someone was able to convince them they could afford to send an old, obsolete frigate soon destined for the scrapyard, on this quest. Pulled from her patrol route, Siobhan Dunmoore is ordered to take an envoy aboard Stingray and sail into a poorly charted and virtually unexplored region of the galaxy hidden behind interstellar dust clouds. Along the way, she'll come to the attention of an old enemy, now also relegated to the fringes of the war, turning a voyage of discovery into a race against time and against each other. Though her troubles quickly multiply, Dunmoore has faced worse odds. She's determined to bring Stingray home with its honor intact, and few are brave enough to bet against her, not even their old Shrehari foes.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31929670-like-stars-in-heaven"}, +{"book_title": "Assigned a Mate", "author_name": "Grace Goodwin", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 2391, "review_number": 182, "book_description": "When a potential threat against her life forces Eva Daily to seek shelter on another world, she has only one option available to her. She must offer herself to the Interstellar Bride Program. After a deeply humiliating assessment of her suitability, Eva will be assigned a mate and transported to his world to become his bride. Upon arriving on the desert planet Trion, Eva soon learns that things are quite different than she is used to on Earth. Her assigned mate, the powerful, handsome High Councilor Tark, makes it clear that she will be expected to submit to him completely, and she quickly discovers that disobedience will earn her a painful, embarrassing spanking on her bare bottom. An intimate examination from her new mate leaves Eva blushing crimson, but to her surprise Tark\u2019s mastery of her body arouses her beyond anything she could have ever imagined. Soon enough she finds herself naked, bound, and unable to resist the urge to beg for more as his skillful lovemaking brings her to one shattering climax after another. It doesn\u2019t take long, however, for Eva to realize that there is much more to Tark than just a dominant brute who will not hesitate to take his misbehaving wife over his knee and redden her bare bottom thoroughly. But just as her passion for him begins to blossom into love, events back on Earth threaten to tear her away from him forever. Can Eva find a way to remain at Tark\u2019s side and in his bed, or will she be left with nothing but memories of the man who has claimed both her body and her heart? Publisher\u2019s Note: Assigned a Mate is an erotic romance novel that includes spankings, sexual scenes, medical play, anal play, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material offends you, please don\u2019t buy this book.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29225378-assigned-a-mate"}, +{"book_title": "The Chaplain's War", "author_name": "Brad R. Torgersen", "rating_score": 3.84, "rating_votes": 445, "review_number": 94, "book_description": "The mantis cyborgs: insectlike, cruel, and determined to wipe humanity from the face of the galaxy. The Fleet is humanity's last chance: a multi-world, multi-national task force assembled to hold the line against the aliens' overwhelming technology and firepower. Enter Harrison Barlow, who like so many young men of wars past, simply wants to serve his people and partake of the grand adventure of military life. Only, Harrison is not a hot pilot, nor a crack shot with a rifle. What good is a Chaplain's Assistant in the interstellar battles which will decide the fate of all? More than he thinks. Because while the mantis insectoids are determined to eliminate the human threat to mantis supremacy, they remember the errors of their past. Is there the slightest chance that humans might have value? Especially since humans seem to have the one thing the mantes explicitly do not: an innate ability to believe in what cannot be proven nor seen: God. Captured and stranded behind enemy lines, Barlow must come to grips with the fact that he is not only bargaining for his own life, but the lives of everyone he knows and loves. And so he embarks upon an improbable gambit, determined to alter the course of the entire war.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Religion"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412185-the-chaplain-s-war"}, +{"book_title": "Triplanetary", "author_name": "E.E. \"Doc\" Smith", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 6152, "review_number": 447, "book_description": "From the atomic age in Atlantis to a world remote in space and time, two incredible ancient races, the Arisians and the Eddorians, are in the midst of an interstellar war with Earth as the prize. The Arisians, using advanced mental technology, have foreseen the invasion of their galaxy by the corrupt and evil Eddorians, so they begin a breeding program on every planet in their universe. Their goal...to produce super warriors who can hold off the invading Eddorians.", "year_published": 1948, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Pulp", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444944.Triplanetary"}, +{"book_title": "A Reaper at the Gates", "author_name": "Sabaa Tahir", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 46045, "review_number": 6282, "book_description": "Beyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger.Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sister's life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. Yet danger lurks on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable and violent, while Keris Veturia, the ruthless Commandant, capitalizes on the Emperor's volatility to grow her own power\u2014regardless of the carnage she leaves in her path.Far to the east, Laia of Serra knows that the fate of the world lies not in the machinations of the Martial court, but in stopping the Nightbringer. During the hunt to bring him down, Laia faces unexpected threats from those she hoped would help her, and is drawn into a battle she never thought she'd have to fight.And in the land between the living and the dead, Elias Veturius has given up his freedom to serve as Soul Catcher. However, in doing so, he has vowed himself to an ancient power that demands his complete surrender\u2014even if that means abandoning the woman he loves.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30809786-a-reaper-at-the-gates"}, +{"book_title": "The Rose Garden", "author_name": "Susanna Kearsley", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 29362, "review_number": 3083, "book_description": "When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina's ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts, but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries and see and talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago, she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler, a man who lived - and died - long before she herself was born. Eva begins to question her place in the present, and in laying her sister to rest, comes to realise that she too must decide where she really belongs, choosing between the life she knows and the past she feels so drawn towards.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Contemporary", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9792287-the-rose-garden"}, +{"book_title": "Necessity's Child", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 1453, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "The kompani see none as an enemy, and yet few as friend. The kompani exist in many places, living quietly in the shadows, thriving off the bounty that others have no wit to secure, nor skill to defend. Their private history is unwritten; their recall rooted in dance and dream. The Clan Korval is in many ways the opposite of the kompani. The interstellar trading clan is wealthy in enemies, and fortunate in friends. Korval protects itself with vigor, and teaches even its youngest children the art of war. And when representatives of Clan Korval arrive on the planet Surebleak where the kompani has lived, secret and aloof, the lives of three people intersect\u2014Kezzi, apprentice to the kompani's grandmother; Syl Vor, Clan Korval's youngest warrior; and Rys, a man without a world, or a past.Necessity's Child is a standalone adventure in the popular and exciting Liaden Universe.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Young Adult", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15802940-necessity-s-child"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Patrol", "author_name": "Vaughn Heppner", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 1823, "review_number": 69, "book_description": "We learned a terrible secret last voyage, the Swarm exists. It has a monstrous imperium, expanding, evolving and receiving incredible Builder tech. Captain Maddox heads into the Deep Beyond to find the Swarm Imperium. We must know the worst so we can prepare against the deadliest species in the galaxy. The captain and his crew battle loneliness and the terror of the unknown as they hunt through the stellar darkness. They\u2019re thousands of light-years from home, from any help. What they find threatens their sanity and unity. It\u2019s going to take the best Maddox and the ancient AI Galyan has to offer to pull the crew together. They have to save the starship from what waits in the galactic darkness or the human race will die.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31176913-the-lost-patrol"}, +{"book_title": "Falaha's Journey Into Pleasure", "author_name": "Jeno Marz", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "FALAHA'S JOURNEY SERIES Vol. 2This book is not stand-alone.An EXPANSION SET for Falaha\u2019s Journey: A Spacegirl\u2019s Account in Three Movements (Falaha\u2019s Journey Books 1-3); combined into a full serial novel in a single volume (Falaha\u2019s Journey Book 3.5).Falaha has grown and her transformation also encompasses a transition from a young girl into a young woman. This is an explicit, at times graphic, story of a young woman exploring the depths of pleasure, of mind, body and heart. But she isn\u2019t going on that journey alone\u2026Vol\u00adume Con\u00adtents:Pro\u00adlogue: Wel\u00adcome to Adult\u00adhood (Episode #1)Seven years have passed since the war ended. Commander now has her hands and head full with social, household and ship matters. Her loyal first spouse has to do something to help her release steam\u2026 and to remind her with a stern yet loving hand that she has entered adulthood.Part One: This Lonely, Lonely Space\u00adman (Episode #2)Nine years have passed since the war ended. Commander has her hands and head full with social, household and ship matters, finding comfort and burning passion in the arms of her insatiable first spouse. Now his father has returned from the Hunter clean-up\u2026 to a conspiracy of epic proportions that threatens Commander\u2019s peace and Orewen\u2019s courtship plans.Part Two: The Man in a Box (Episode #3)Kinky, inappropriately funny and strictly immodest, one mountain man\u2019s journey to enlightenment.Deep in the Kjrrn Mountains of Medas, a certain young man runs away from himself\u2026 only to find he is face to face with a mysterious massive creature that walks the mountains on misty nights and is somehow tied to his existence. The encounter forces the young man to look for the creature and seek out the answers its emergence may hold.Falaha\u2019s Journey Into Pleasure is a story of recovery, family life, spicy romance and sex, with more insights into the Danna culture and personalities of the characters, also things left unexplored, and side questions left unanswered in the main book. This is a precious time of peace before another calamity.Length: approx. 71 000 words.Publisher's Note: This serial novel includes graphic sexual scenes (M/F, MFM, M/M, MMFM), polyamory, and light elements of BDSM.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25442805-falaha-s-journey-into-pleasure"}, +{"book_title": "The Emperor's Edge", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 12993, "review_number": 1363, "book_description": "The adventure starts here...Imperial law enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon is good at her job: she can deter thieves and pacify thugs, if not with a blade, then by toppling an eight-foot pile of coffee canisters onto their heads. But when ravaged bodies show up on the waterfront, an arson covers up human sacrifices, and a powerful business coalition plots to kill the emperor, she feels a tad overwhelmed. Worse, Sicarius, the empire's most notorious assassin, is in town. He's tied in with the chaos somehow, but Amaranthe would be a fool to cross his path. Unfortunately, her superiors order her to hunt him down. Either they have an unprecedented belief in her skills... or someone wants her dead.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10031259-the-emperor-s-edge"}, +{"book_title": "Son", "author_name": "Lois Lowry", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 84704, "review_number": 8647, "book_description": "They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn\u2019t exist. That she had become a Vessel at age thirteen. That she had carried a Product at age fourteen. That it had been stolen from her body. Claire had a son. But what became of him she never knew. What was his name? Was he even alive? She was supposed to forget him, but that was impossible. Now Claire will stop at nothing to find her child, even if it means making an unimaginable sacrifice. Son thrusts readers once again into the chilling world of the Newbery Medal winning book, The Giver, as well as Gathering Blue and Messenger where a new hero emerges. In this thrilling series finale, the startling and long-awaited conclusion to Lois Lowry\u2019s epic tale culminates in a final clash between good and evil.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Classics", "Audiobook", "Childrens", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13324841-son"}, +{"book_title": "The Electrical Menagerie", "author_name": "Mollie E. Reeder", "rating_score": 4.6, "rating_votes": 186, "review_number": 108, "book_description": "The Electrical Menagerie, one-of-a-kind robotic roadshow, is bankrupt.Sylvester Carthage, illusionist and engineer, has the eccentric imagination the Menagerie needs to succeed creatively -- but none of the people skills. Fast-talking Arbrook Huxley, meanwhile, has all the savvy the Menagerie needs to succeed commercially -- but none of the scruples.To save their show, Carthage & Huxley risk everything in a royal talent competition, vying for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to perform for the Future Celestial Queen. In this stardust-and-spark-powered empire of floating islands and flying trains, The Electrical Menagerie's bid at fame and fortune means weathering the glamorous and cutthroat world of critics, high society, and rival magicians -- but with real conspiracy lurking beneath tabloid controversy, there's more at stake in this contest than the prize.Behind the glittery haze of flash paper and mirrors, every competitor has something to hide... and it's the lies Carthage & Huxley tell each other that may cost them everything.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Christian", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44511917-the-electrical-menagerie"}, +{"book_title": "Zar", "author_name": "Alana Khan", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1864, "review_number": 203, "book_description": "Snatched from Earth. Bound for slavery. Can love offer escape?Kidnapped from Earth, aboard a slave ship, Anya is thrown in a cell with Zar, a handsome half-lion gladiator, and forced to breed or be killed.Zar\u2019s life is an unbroken nightmare consisting of sleep, eat, fight, repeat. He\u2019s not interested in helping Anya, and he\u2019s definitely not interested in love. Except she\u2019s the first female to ever touch his heart\u2014or remind him he has a soul.If you like hot alpha aliens, kick-ass Earth women who mastermind insurrections, and sexy action romance, check out Zar, the first book in the paranormal romance Galaxy Gladiators series. This standalone book contains steamy sex scenes with a guaranteed happily ever after, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.Trigger warning: Anya and Zar are forced to mate; these scenes are delicately handled.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45758169-zar"}, +{"book_title": "The Terran Privateer", "author_name": "Glynn Stewart", "rating_score": 4.3, "rating_votes": 2904, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "Earth is conquered. Sol is lost. One ship is tasked to free them. One Captain to save them all. When an alien armada destroys the United Earth Space Force and takes control of the human homeworld, newly reinstated Captain Annette Bond must take her experimental hyperspace cruiser Tornado into exile as Terra\u2019s only interstellar privateer. She has inferior technology, crude maps and no concept of her enemy, but the seedy underbelly of galactic society welcomes her so long as she has prizes to sell and money to spend. But when your only allies are pirates and slavers, things are never as they seem\u2014and if you become all that you were sworn to destroy, what are you fighting for?", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Space", "Audiobook", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30966931-the-terran-privateer"}, +{"book_title": "From the Deep of the Dark", "author_name": "Stephen Hunt", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 302, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "The streets of Middlesteel are under attack by an unseen enemy, leaving bloodless corpses in its trail. The newssheets scream vampire, but the truth is even more deadly than anyone knows.Charlotte Shades, Mistress of Mesmerism, is a thief\u2014and a darned good one at that. When two mysterious men ask her to steal King Jude\u2019s Sceptre from the Parliament vaults, the challenge (and reward) is too great to pass up. After all, Charlotte\u2019s natural charm and the magic of the gem she wears\u2014the mysterious Eye of Fate\u2014have never failed her before.Only consulting detective Jethro Daunt and his steamman companion Boxiron know there\u2019s more to these two men than meets the eye. Yet even as they rescue Charlotte from a fate worse than death, they are thrown into a plot thicker than even they realize. They escape beneath the waves in an ancient submarine led by Commodore Jethro Black, where they encounter stiff resistance from the strange people who inhabit the vast underwater kingdoms. But man, woman, seanore and gillneck alike must band together if they are to defeat a danger that might not even be from this world. . . .[The sixth tale of high adventure set in the world of The Court of the Air.]", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13482082-from-the-deep-of-the-dark"}, +{"book_title": "Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 1891, "review_number": 290, "book_description": "#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He\u2019s taken sf to places it\u2019s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He\u2019s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the international thriller (Reamde), and both at the same time (Cryptonomicon).Now he treats his legion of fans to Some Remarks, an enthralling collection of essays\u2014Stephenson\u2019s first nonfiction work since his long essay on technology, In the Beginning\u2026Was the Command Line, more than a decade ago\u2014as well as new and previously published short writings both fiction and non.Some Remarks is a magnificent showcase of a brilliantly inventive mind and talent, as he discourses on everything from Sir Isaac Newton to Star Wars.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Nonfiction", "Writing (Essays)", "Science", "Short Stories", "Science (Technology)", "Language (Writing)", "History", "Philosophy", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13406933-some-remarks"}, +{"book_title": "Perilous Shield", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 3702, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell returns with the next chapter in the overthrow of the Syndicate Worlds\u2019 oppression\u2026 Following a successful coup, the leaders of the rebel Midway Star System struggle to forge a government free enough to please its citizens yet strong enough to secure power. But in a world where former rulers have become new foes, an alien threat to humanity may turn old adversaries into uncertain allies. General Artur Drakon knows three words describe someone who confides in a Syndicate CEO: Stupid. Betrayed. Dead. Despite his misgivings, he partnered with another former CEO to overthrow Syndic forces. Now, with an enigma fleet menacing their hard-earned independence, he can ill afford to trust her\u2014or lose her support. President Gwen Iceni believes Midway is humanity\u2019s defense against the enigmas. Syndicate training taught her self-preservation in a crisis, yet she\u2019s determined to fight for the star system\u2019s fate\u2026even if it means joining forces with Drakon\u2014and an officer of the hated Alliance. Their plan places the Midway flotilla at great risk in hopes of greater reward: recruiting the personnel necessary to man warships against the enigmas. But before facing the alien advance, Drakon and Iceni must survive hidden dangers closer to home: all-too-human threats that could jeopardize Midway\u2019s freedom\u2026and their own lives.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Futuristic", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808696-perilous-shield"}, +{"book_title": "Slow River", "author_name": "Nicola Griffith", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 3698, "review_number": 341, "book_description": "She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody, and she had to hide. Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped...but the cost of her newfound freedom was crime and deception, and she paid it over and over again, until she had become someone she loathed.Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner...and risk losing herself forever. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity implant of a dead woman, taking over her life, and creating a new future. But to start again, Lore required Spanner's talents--Spanner, who needed her and hated her, and who always had a price. And even as Lore agreed to play Spanner's game one final time, she found that there was still the price of being a Van Oesterling to be paid. Only by confronting her family, her past, and her own demons could Lore meld together who she had once been, who she had become, and the person she intended to be...", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Speculative Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270259.Slow_River"}, +{"book_title": "The Duty", "author_name": "D. Rus", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 3952, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "The perma players' new reality gains depth and color. The virtual world has seen its first birth \u2014 and its first death. The invisible umbilical cord connecting AlterWorld to Earth grows thinner, and even the Fallen One cannot prevent the looming catastrophe. Could Max have ignored the Russian girl who'd just escaped slavery in a virtual China? Could he have turned a deaf ear to her pleas as the desperate fugitive clutched at straws on hearing her native tongue? All this triggers a full-blown confrontation, sending armies of thousands into battle in the heart of the Frontier, burning kilotons of mana, melting desert sands and hacking through impervious mithril armor. The two nations' furious war cries obscure the sky as the Gods shudder at humans' desperate cruelty.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Virtual Reality)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Cultural (Russia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Role Playing Games (Mmorpg)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24676269-the-duty"}, +{"book_title": "The Labyrinth Index", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 3362, "review_number": 246, "book_description": "The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the House of Lords and head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs (think vampires), finds herself in direct consultation with the creeping chaos, who directs her to lead a team of disgraced Laundry personnel into the dark heart of America. It seems the Creeping Chaos is concerned about foreign relations.A thousand-mile-wild storm system has blanketed the midwest, and the President is nowhere to be found. In fact, for reasons unknown the people of America are forgetting that the executive branch ever existed. The government has been infiltrated by the shadowy Black Chamber, and the Pentagon and NASA have been refocused on the problem of summoning Cthulhu.Somewhere, the Secret Service battle to stay awake, to remind the President who he is, and to stay one step ahead of the vampiric dragnet that\u2019s searching for him.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Spy Thriller (Espionage)", "Horror (Lovecraftian)", "Thriller", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36053406-the-labyrinth-index"}, +{"book_title": "1942", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1045, "review_number": 62, "book_description": "December 7 is \u201cthe date which will live in infamy.\u201d But now Japan is hatching another, far greater plan to bring America to its knees. . . .The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a resounding success\u2013except for one detail: a second bombing mission, to destroy crucial oil storage facilities, was aborted that day. Now, in this gripping and stunning work of alternate history, Robert Conroy reimagines December 7, 1941, to include the attack the Japanese didn\u2019t launch, and what follows is a thrilling tale of war, resistance, sacrifice, and courage. For when Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sees how badly the United States has been ravaged in a two-pronged strike, he devises another, more daring proposal: an all-out invasion of Hawaii to put a stranglehold on the American Pacific Fleet.Yamamoto\u2019s strategy works brilliantly\u2013at first. But a handful of American soldiers and a determined civilian resistance fight back in the face of cruelty unknown in Western warfare. Stateside, a counterassault is planned\u2013and the pioneering MIT-trained aviator Colonel Jimmy Doolittle is given a near-impossible mission with a fleet of seaplanes jury-rigged into bombers. From spies to ordinary heroes and those caught between two cultures at war, this is the epic saga of the Battle of Hawaii\u2013the way it very nearly was. . . .", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "War", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4295543-1942"}, +{"book_title": "The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 20905, "review_number": 698, "book_description": "The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living. Lori's pregnancy has come to term, and the birth is near. After everything they've been through, nothing can prepare Rick and the other survivors for what they are about to experience. A major turning point in the series is reached. Reprint Edition", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1085771.The_Walking_Dead_Vol_7"}, +{"book_title": "Day by Day Armageddon", "author_name": "J.L. Bourne", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 16666, "review_number": 1059, "book_description": "An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. An unknown plague sweeps the planet. The dead rise to claim the Earth as the new dominant species. Trapped in the midst of a global tragedy, he must make decisions...choices that that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74821.Day_by_Day_Armageddon"}, +{"book_title": "The Absolute", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1696, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "The Yeerks have taken over units of the National Guard with plans to infest all of its officers and soldiers. The plan seems to be to step things up\u2014use the Guard to prepare for an all-out war on Earth. The Animorphs couldn't be less prepared. They're living with the free Hork-Bajir colony, Jake is depressed, and worst of all, the morphing cube is in the hands of the enemy.Marco and the others know they need to take serious action to stop the Yeerk infiltration of the Guard. They decide to approach the governor\u2014but they don't know if she's a controller or not. If she is, they're walking right into enemy hands. If she's not, the Animorphs are finally going public with their secret. And no one knows which situation is worse...", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Animals", "Adventure", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363390.The_Absolute"}, +{"book_title": "The Human Condition", "author_name": "David Moody", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 951, "review_number": 45, "book_description": "David Moody presents the final book in the acclaimed AUTUMN series. The human race is finished. Mankind is all but dead and only a handful of frightened individuals remain. These people have survived through chance, not skill, and they are a desperate bunch: cheating lovers, workshy civil servants, permanently drunk publicans, teenage rebels, obsessive accountants, failed husbands, first-time cross-dressers, disrobed priests and more... Experience the end of the world as seen from almost fifty different perspectives. Part-companion, part-guidebook and part-sequel, AUTUMN: THE HUMAN CONDITION follows the individual stories of these desperate survivors through their final dark days. 'The best survival horror since Richard Matheson's I am Legend' - Wayne Simmons, author of Flu and Plastic Jesus 'Moody is as imaginative as Barker, as compulsory as King, and as addictive as Palahniuk' - Scream the horror magazine 'Takes the genre in a fascinating new direction. If John Wyndham was alive and writing zombie novels, they'd read like this' - Jonathan Maberry, best-selling author of Patient Zero and Rot & Ruin", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18126643-the-human-condition"}, +{"book_title": "Eadan's Vow", "author_name": "Stella Knight", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 906, "review_number": 82, "book_description": "Stranded in time, she finds herself bonded to a handsome highlander...\n\nAfter traveling to Scotland for a solo artist's retreat, Fiona Stewart finds herself mysteriously transported to the fourteenth century. But as she attempts to get back to her own time, complications ensue when she meets a handsome highlander who sets her heart aflame...\n\nForced into an engagement with the daughter of a rival clan leader, Eadan Macleay struggles to fulfill his promise to his dying father.\n\nWhen he comes across a strange lass claiming to be from the future, he strikes a deal with her. If she poses as his bride to end his betrothal, he will help her return to her own time.\n\nAmid their growing attraction and increasing danger from the rival clan, Eadan and Fiona must choose between love, duty, and the hands of fate...\n\n\nIf you're a fan of Scottish time travel, handsome highlanders, strong heroines, romance, and adventure, you'll love Eadan's Vow, the first book of the Highlander Fate series. Scroll up and grab your copy today!\n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Historical (Medieval)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Fantasy", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39910639-eadan-s-vow"}, +{"book_title": "The Ship Who Searched", "author_name": "Anne McCaffrey", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 10952, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship\u2014and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness.Tia Cade is a headstrong, smart, and very normal girl until she contracts a terrible illness that leaves her with the bare semblance of life. Tia's only hope: to become the oldest person ever to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, the brainships. But now that Tia is free of her ravaged body, there still remains the task of finding the right partner to be her Brawn, the human element every brainship requires. And when the disease that debilitated Tia threatens thousands more, selecting a Brawn who is her true soul mate may allow Tia to find the origin of the terrible plague\u2014and perhaps even a cure.", "year_published": 1992, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Romance", "Adult", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176850.The_Ship_Who_Searched"}, +{"book_title": "For the Fallen", "author_name": "Mark Tufo", "rating_score": 4.47, "rating_votes": 2924, "review_number": 137, "book_description": "Mike is back. The battle with Eliza is past. Now Mike must strike out once again in a desperate race against time as his son and best friend are succumbing to the zombie virus within them. What he does not know is that an old foe hasrisen up and a more insidious threat has emerged to not just the Talbots but all of humanity.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Humor", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18666794-for-the-fallen"}, +{"book_title": "The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel", "author_name": "Cassandra Clare", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 14037, "review_number": 935, "book_description": "Tessa Gray thought her journey to London would be the beginning of a new life, but she never could have envisioned the dark turn that life would take... Abducted upon arrival, Tessa is introduced to London's Downworld, the sordid supernatural underbelly of the city, and informed that her future will be recast to service a man known as \"The Magister\". Only the intervention of the London Institute's Shadowhunters delivers the girl from this fate, but sinister forces are still gathering around Tessa. Even so, Tessa's attraction to two of the young Shadowhunters who have taken her under their wings may prove more dangerous by far...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Angels)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13226173-the-infernal-devices"}, +{"book_title": "League of Dragons", "author_name": "Naomi Novik", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 7898, "review_number": 936, "book_description": "The final adventure in the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series that started with the beloved His Majesty\u2019s Dragon which has won fans of Napoleonic-era military history, Anne McCaffrey\u2019s Pern novels, and Patrick O\u2019Brian\u2019s seafaring adventures.The deadly campaign in Russia has cost both Napoleon and those allied against him. Napoleon has been denied his victory\u2026but at a terrible price. Lawrence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the fleeing French army back west, but are demoralized when Napoleon makes it back to Paris unscathed. Worse, they soon learn that the French have stolen Termeraire and Iskierka\u2019s egg. Now, it is do or die, as our heroes not only need to save Temeraire\u2019s offspring but also to stop Napoleon for good!", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20404555-league-of-dragons"}, +{"book_title": "State Tectonics", "author_name": "Malka Ann Older", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 892, "review_number": 117, "book_description": "One of the best books of 2018, according to Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Review of Books, and BookRiot.Campbell Award finalist Malka Older's State Tectonics concludes The Centenal Cycle, the cyberpunk poltical thriller series that began with Infomocracy and is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series.The future of democracy must evolve or die.The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever.Unknown enemies are attacking Information's network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers, and revolutionaries sharpen their knives in the shadows. And Information's best agents question whether the data monopoly they've served all their lives is worth saving, or whether it's time to burn the world down and start anew.The Centenal Cycle#1 Infomocracy#2 Null States#3 State Tectonics", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Politics", "Speculative Fiction", "LGBT", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Thriller", "Adult Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36452099-state-tectonics"}, +{"book_title": "The Sunless Countries", "author_name": "Karl Schroeder", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 644, "review_number": 40, "book_description": "\n\nIn an ocean of weightless air where sunlight has never been seen, only the running lights of the city of Sere glitter in the dark. One woman, Leal Hieronyma Maspeth, history tutor and dreamer, lives and dreams of love among the gaslit streets and caf\u00c3\u00a9s. And somewhere in the abyss of wind and twisted cloud through which Sere eternally falls, a great voice has begun speaking.As its cold words reach even to the city walls\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand as outlying towns and travelers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ships start to mysteriously disappear\u00e2\u20ac\u201donly Leal has the courage to try to understand the message thundering from the distance. Even the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most famous and exotic visitor, the sun lighter and hero named Hayden Griffin, refuses to turn aside from his commission to build a new sun for a foreign nation. He will not become the hero that Leal knows the city needs; so in the end, it is up to her to listen, and ultimately reply, to the worldwasp.\n\n", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6186127-the-sunless-countries"}, +{"book_title": "The Evolutionary Void", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 19838, "review_number": 590, "book_description": "Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target of a galaxywide search by government agent Paula Myo and the psychopath known as the Cat, along with others equally determined to prevent-- or facilitate --the pilgrimage of the Living Dream cult into the heart of the Void. An indestructible microuniverse, the Void may contain paradise, as the cultists believe, but it is also a deadly threat. For the miraculous reality that exists inside its boundaries demands energy--energy drawn from everything outside those boundaries: from planets, stars, galaxies... from everything that lives. Meanwhile, the parallel story of Edeard, the Waterwalker -- as told through a series of addictive dreams communicated to the gaiasphere via Inigo, the First Dreamer -- continues to unfold. But now the inspirational tale of this idealistic young man takes a darker and more troubling turn as he finds himself faced with powerful new enemies -- and temptations more powerful still. With time running out, a repentant Inigo must decide whether to release Edeard's final dream: a dream whose message is scarcely less dangerous than the pilgrimage promises to be. And Araminta must choose whether to run from her unwanted responsibilities or face them down, with no guarantee of success or survival. But all these choices may be for naught if the monomaniacal Ilanthe, leader of the breakaway Accelerator Faction, is able to enter the Void. For it is not paradise she seeks there, but dominion.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Epic", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7438179-the-evolutionary-void"}, +{"book_title": "Jokers Wild", "author_name": "George R.R. Martin", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 3250, "review_number": 141, "book_description": "Let the secret history of the world be told\u2014of the alien virus that struck Earth after World War II, and of the handful of survivors who found they now possessed superhuman powers. Some were called Aces, endowed with powerful mental and physical prowess. The others were Jokers, tormented by bizarre mind or body disfigurements. Some served humanity. Others wreaked terror. Now, forty years later, under the streets of Manhattan an evil genius unleashes the powers of darkness\u2014and Aces and Jokers alike must fight for their lives.Here, in the third volume of the Wild Cards series, seven of science fiction's most gifted writers take you on a journey of wonder and excitement.Includes stories by:Edward BryantLeanne C. HarperGeorge R. R. MartinJohn J. MillerLewis ShinerWalter SimonsMelinda M. Snodgrass", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67955.Jokers_Wild"}, +{"book_title": "Tenacious", "author_name": "Mike Shepherd", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1517, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "There\u2019s no rest for a Longknife\u2014even if you\u2019re a newlywed. Vice Admiral Kris Longknife\u2019s honeymoon gets cancelled when she hears that the space raider\u2019s home world may have been discovered. Finding where the raiders came from could be the key to saving humanity. If only uncovering their secrets was that easy\u2026As Kris returns home, she ends up tangling with a mutinous crew determined to take off on their own. The dissident group leads Kris straight into a new mess\u2014a system filled with strange, deadly enemies poised to wipe another sentient civilization out of existence. Kris and her squadron are ready to prevent total annihilation, but the mutineers have other plans\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Fantasy", "Action", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15838404-tenacious"}, +{"book_title": "Fire & Frost", "author_name": "Kai O'Connal", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 240, "review_number": 23, "book_description": "The Coldest Shadows Arcano-archaeologist Elijah knows that digging into the past can be its own reward\u2014or peril. When he\u2019s hired to find an ancient map purported to lead to a mysterious location at the bottom of the world, his professional curiosity is more than roused. But his quest to simply get his hands on the map is more dangerous than he expected\u2014even for a shadow runner. He and his own team of runners\u2014including everything from a goblin rigger to a troll street samurai\u2014follow a murky trail that takes them from the ruins of Chicago to the jungles of Amazonia. Along the way, they discover that they\u2019re not the only ones looking for this map\u2014and that it may lead to a treasure even greater than anyone could have known. Elijah and his crew plan to get both the map and to its riches first\u2014assuming they survive the very dangerous road trip to get there\u2026", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23152830-fire-frost"}, +{"book_title": "Aspho Fields", "author_name": "Karen Traviss", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3412, "review_number": 225, "book_description": "For the first time, fans of the blockbuster Gears of War video games get an in-depth look at Delta Squad\u2019s toughest fighters\u2013soldier\u2019s soldier Marcus Fenix and rock-solid Dominic Santiago\u2013as well as a detailed account of the pivotal battle of the Pendulum Wars.As kids, the three of them were inseparable; as soldiers, they were torn apart. Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago fought alongside Dom\u2019s elder brother Carlos at Aspho Fields in the epic battle that changed the course of the Pendulum Wars. There\u2019s a new war to fight now, a war for mankind\u2019s very survival. But while the last human stronghold on Sera braces itself for another onslaught from the Locust Horde, ghosts come back to haunt Marcus and Dom. For Marcus\u2013decorated war hero, convicted traitor\u2013the return of an old comrade threatens to dredge up an agonizing secret he\u2019s sworn to keep.As the beleaguered Gears of the Coalition of Ordered Governments take a last stand to save mankind from extermination, the harrowing decisions made at Aspho Fields have to be re-lived and made again. Marcus and Dom can take anything the Locust Horde throws at them\u2013but will their friendship survive the truth about Carlos Santiago?From the Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Games (Video Games)", "Games (Gaming)", "Fantasy", "Sports and Games (Games)", "War", "Action", "War (Military Fiction)", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4929272-aspho-fields"}, +{"book_title": "Chaos Vector", "author_name": "Megan E. O'Keefe", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 526, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in the second book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe.Sanda and Tomas are fleeing for their lives after letting the most dangerous smartship in the universe run free. Now, unsure of who to trust, Sanda knows only one thing for certain -- to be able to save herself from becoming a pawn of greater powers, she needs to discover the secret of the coordinates hidden in her skull.But getting to those coordinates is a problem she can't solve alone. They exist beyond a dead gate -- a Casimir gate that opened up into a dead-end system without resources worth colonizing, and was sealed off. To get through the dead gate, she needs the help of the enemy Nazca. But some Nazca are only interested in the chip in her head -- and they'll crack her open to get to it.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49088636-chaos-vector"}, +{"book_title": "Sword of the Highlands", "author_name": "Veronica Wolff", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 554, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "In the second novel in national bestselling author Veronica Wolff's Highlands series, a woman goes back in time and finds the man of her dreams... One minute, she's New York heiress and art curator Magda Deacon, enraptured by the striking Highlander captured in an old portrait. The next, she's falling through time to 17th century Scotland--and embarking on the most erotic journey of her life...Infamous playboy James Graham, First Marquis of Montrose, doesn't know what to make of the strange woman who's tumbled--literally--into his life...and his bed. Her accent may be foreign, but Magda plays golf and rides like a red-blooded Scotsman--not that James could ever mistake her succulent lips and curves for anything but deliciously female... But war rages in the Highlands, the land for which James and his men will lay down their lives. And when Magda faces a terrifying enemy and a daunting choice, only the legendary Sword of the Highlands will be able to set things right...", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Cultural (Scotland)", "Fiction", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2581194-sword-of-the-highlands"}, +{"book_title": "Invincible", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 10956, "review_number": 275, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Jack Cambell's space saga hits lightspeed with an action-packed story of interstellar war.Admiral John \"Black Jack\" Geary earned his rank after being revived from cryogenic sleep to lead the Alliance to victory against the Syndicate Worlds. But his superiors question his loyalty to the regime. Now in command of the First Fleet, Geary is tasked with exploring the frontier beyond Syndic space, a mission he fears deliberately puts the fleet--and himself--in harm's way.An encounter with the alien Enigmas confirms Gear'y fears. Attacked without warning, he orders the fleet to jump star systems--only to enter the crosshairs of another hostile alien armada. Ignoring all of the First Fleet's attempts to communicate peaceful intentions, this system's species send their ships into battle on suicde runs, while guarding the exiting jump point with a fortress of incalculable power.Now, with a faction of his officers determined to eliminate this new threat despite the cost, Geary must figure out how to breech the enemy's defenses so the fleet can reach the jump point without massive casualties--and knowing that the Enigmas are most likely waiting on the other side...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook", "Space", "War", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12398719-invincible"}, +{"book_title": "Counting Up, Counting Down", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 307, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledove\u2019s literary skill and unbridled imagination.FORTY, COUNTING DOWN: With the help of his time travel software, computer genius Justin Kloster returns to the past to stop himself from making a terrible mistake\u2013but all actions have their consequences. THE MALTESE ELEPHANT: A legendary detective finds himself in grave danger when a noir masterpiece takes a stunning new twist. GODDESS FOR A DAY: Taking a page from history, a young girl dares to challenge the gods\u2013and is richly rewarded for her efforts.\n\nDECONSTRUCTION GANG: Mired in unemployment and despair, an academic finds happiness and intellectual fulfillment in a most unexpected place. TWENTY-ONE, COUNTING UP: Justin Kloster\u2019s college life and romantic dreams are rudely interrupted\u2013and irreversibly disrupted\u2013when forty-year-old Justin arrives from the future to save him from himself.\nPlus twelve more thrilling, unforgettable tales of wonder!\nFrom the Trade Paperback edition.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101564.Counting_Up_Counting_Down"}, +{"book_title": "Flowers for Algernon", "author_name": "Daniel Keyes", "rating_score": 4.15, "rating_votes": 493847, "review_number": 19328, "book_description": "The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?", "year_published": 1959, "genres": ["Fiction", "Classics", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Literature", "Psychology", "Academic (School)", "Novels", "Academic (Read For School)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576608-flowers-for-algernon"}, +{"book_title": "The House of the Scorpion", "author_name": "Nancy Farmer", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 83309, "review_number": 6464, "book_description": "With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns out to be an inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence. A must-read for teenage fantasy fans.At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacr\u00e1n asks El Patr\u00f3n's bodyguard, \"How old am I?...I know I don't have a birthday like humans, but I was born.\" \"You were harvested,\" Tam Lin reminds him. \"You were grown in that poor cow for nine months and then you were cut out of her.\" To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. A room full of chicken litter with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys is considered good enough for him. But for El Patr\u00f3n, lord of a country called Opium\u2014a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S. and what was once called Mexico\u2014Matt is a guarantee of eternal life. El Patr\u00f3n loves Matt as he loves himself for Matt is himself. They share identical DNA.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Adventure", "Academic (School)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13376.The_House_of_the_Scorpion"}, +{"book_title": "Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy", "author_name": "Jonathan Strahan", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 1163, "review_number": 100, "book_description": "An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the second volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan. Set to become a major event on the science fiction and fantasy calendar, Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy gathers together new science fiction and fantasy stories by the best writers working today. You can see that in Eclipse Two, which features more extraordinary tales of the fantastic and astounding.ContentsDown and Out in the Magic Kingdom \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by David MolesElevator \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Nancy KressEx Cathedra \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Tony DanielExhalation \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Ted ChiangFury \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Alastair ReynoldsInvisible Empire of Ascending Light \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Ken ScholesMichael Laurits Is: DROWNING \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Paul CornellNight of the Firstlings \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Margo LanaganSkin Deep \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Richard ParksThe Hero \u2022 [Virga] \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Karl SchroederThe Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Daryl GregoryThe Rabbi's Hobby \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Peter S. BeagleThe Seventh Expression of the Robot General \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Jeffrey FordTruth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose \u2022 (Wormwood / Nobodoi) \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Terry DowlingTuring's Apples \u2022 (2008) \u2022 by Stephen Baxter", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Anthologies", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Philosophy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20939865-eclipse-2"}, +{"book_title": "City on Fire", "author_name": "Walter Jon Williams", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 784, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Aiah worked for the Plasm Authority, metering the shimmering substance that powered the world-city, until she fell in love with Constantine, the rebel Metropolitan fighting a war to overthrow the corrupt dynasty of the Keremaths. Now the war is over, and Aiah is at the mercy of the tyrant she created. In this sequel to Metropolitan, the seductive Constantine is a minister controlling the new government which rules Caraqui, a city filled with genetically altered \"twisted\" bandits and refugees. As sexually irresistible as ever, the former rebel has a new job for Aiah: track down the outlaw plasm divers of Caraqui and recruit them to help destroy the Silver Hand, a murderous remnant of the old kleptocracy. Constantine's war against the Handmen will put Aiah in touch with her lost Barkazil heritage. And it may allow her to get a glimpse of heaven itself, and discover what waits beyond the Shield.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/503004.City_on_Fire"}, +{"book_title": "Only Forward", "author_name": "Michael Marshall Smith", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 5050, "review_number": 430, "book_description": "Stark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings \u2013 a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn\u2019t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw. Then there\u2019s Red \u2013 get off at Fuck Station Zero if you want to see a tactical nuclear battle recreated as a sales demonstration.Stark has friends in Red, which is just as well because Something is about to happen. And when a Something happens it\u2019s no good chanting \u2018Duck and cover\u2019 while cowering in a corner, because a Something is always from the past, Stark\u2019s past, and it won\u2019t go away until you face it full on.", "year_published": 1994, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Humor", "Mystery", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/920395.Only_Forward"}, +{"book_title": "Hana", "author_name": "Lauren Oliver", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 22862, "review_number": 1932, "book_description": "Lauren Oliver's riveting, original digital story set in the world of her New York Times bestseller Delirium.The summer before they're supposed to be cured of the ability to love, best friends Lena and Hana begin to drift apart. While Lena shies away from underground music and parties with boys, Hana jumps at her last chance to experience the forbidden. For her, the summer is full of wild music, dancing\u2014and even her first kiss.But on the surface, Hana must be a model of perfect behavior. She meets her approved match, Fred Hargrove, and glimpses the safe, comfortable life she\u2019ll have with him once they marry. As the date for her cure draws ever closer, Hana desperately misses Lena, wonders how it feels to truly be in love, and is simultaneously terrified of rebelling and of falling into line.In this digital story that will appeal to fans of Delirium and welcome new admirers to its world, readers will come to understand scenes from Delirium through Hana's perspective. Hana is a touching and revealing look at a life-changing and tumultuous summer.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Short Stories", "Novella", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12663646-hana"}, +{"book_title": "The Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Run-Amuck Robot", "author_name": "Stan Berenstain", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 52, "review_number": 3, "book_description": "When Professor Actual Factual's latest invention, the electronically supercharged robot named Robow, runs wild, it's time for the Berenstain Bear Scouts to take control.", "year_published": 1997, "genres": ["Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2706219-the-berenstain-bear-scouts-and-the-run-amuck-robot"}, +{"book_title": "Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor", "author_name": "Jon Scieszka", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 1669, "review_number": 302, "book_description": "Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. After an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm and flash of electricity bring Frank\u2019s inventions\u2014the robots Klink and Klank\u2014to life! Not exactly the ideal lab partners, the wisecracking Klink and the overly expressive Klank nonetheless help Frank attempt to perfect his Antimatter Motor . . . until Frank\u2019s archnemesis, T. Edison, steals Klink and Klank for his evil doomsday plan!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Humor", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20702011-frank-einstein-and-the-antimatter-motor"}, +{"book_title": "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 3271, "review_number": 370, "book_description": "Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep--well on their way to starvation, because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, who Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned...bent on revenge.Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city's dumpsters. But Alan's past won't leave him alone--and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends.", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Cultural (Canada)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29588.Someone_Comes_to_Town_Someone_Leaves_Town"}, +{"book_title": "Beauty", "author_name": "Sheri S. Tepper", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 5456, "review_number": 393, "book_description": "With the publication of The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper came to be recognized as a major science fiction writer. Now the author of Raising the Stones and Grass -- a New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award finalist -- turns to Beauty, a fantasy with a story that is more, much more than fable.Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well-remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought-provoking and finely crafted novel that thoroughly involves the reader in the life of one of the most captivating heroines in modern fantasy -- Beauty. On her sixteenth birthday Beauty is seemingly able to sidestep her aunt's curse. Instead she is transported to the future. Here begin her adventures as she travels magically back and forth in time to visit places both imaginary and real. Finally she comes to understand what has been her special gift to humanity all along.For in Beauty, there is beauty. And in beauty, magic. Without our enchanted places, humanity is no more than an upstart ape. And this, we realize, is why Beauty must be saved, both in the fantastical world of Tepper's novel and in the actual world in which we live", "year_published": 1991, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Retellings", "Feminism", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387339.Beauty"}, +{"book_title": "Their Majesties' Bucketeers", "author_name": "L. Neil Smith", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 73, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "The Aliens had come a long way from mere cactus hoppers. But their next step was murder--in the First degree!Murder most alien. Something flashed and a great roar deafened the audience.When the smoke and green-tinged vapor cleared, a lamviin alien--what was left of it anyway--lay dead before the horrified gaze of several hundred eyewitnesses. Responsibility for solving the crime lay squarely on the three shoulders of Bucketeer-Inquirer Mav. But--the windowless room had been locked, no one saw the killer, and the murder weapon itself was a mystery.", "year_published": 1981, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Polyamory"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1127037.Their_Majesties_Bucketeers"}, +{"book_title": "Hunted", "author_name": "Louise Wise", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 386, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "Returning to Eden\u2019s prehistoric sci-fi saga that touched the hearts of readers everywhere.Jenny\u2019s from Earth. Fly\u2019s from Itor.They met in extraordinary circumstances after being abandoned on stone-age Eden. With clans of wolf-like people, Neanderthals and a savage tribe of Owains roaming the planet, they retreat to a protected corner of the world and live intimately, relying only on themselves.But the wolf-people join forces with the Neanderthals. Are they forming an alliance or an army? It forces Fly and Jenny to re-evaluate their idyllic life.But it gets serious\u2026 they aren\u2019t the enemy and before they can act, Fly disappears leaving Jenny alone once more.And when Jenny thinks it can\u2019t get any worse\u2026She becomes HUNTED.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adventure (Survival)", "Romance (Love Story)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20425176-hunted"}, +{"book_title": "Limited Wish", "author_name": "Mark Lawrence", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 5588, "review_number": 538, "book_description": "One choice. Two possible timelines. And a world hanging in the balance.It\u2019s the summer of 1986 and reluctant prodigy Nick Hayes is a student at Cambridge University, working with world-renowned mathematician Professor Halligan. He just wants to be a regular student, but regular isn\u2019t really an option for a boy-genius cancer survivor who\u2019s already dabbled in time travel.When he crosses paths with a mysterious yet curiously familiar girl, Nick discovers that creases have appeared in the fabric of time, and that he is at the centre of the disruption. Only Nick can resolve this time paradox before the damage becomes catastrophic for both him and the future of the world. Time is running out\u2014literally.Wrapped up with him in this potentially apocalyptic scenario are his ex-girlfriend, Mia, and fellow student Helen. Facing the world-ending chaos of a split in time, Nick must act fast and make the choice of a lifetime\u2014or lifetimes.Game on.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41771517-limited-wish"}, +{"book_title": "The Best of All Possible Worlds", "author_name": "Karen Lord", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 4305, "review_number": 798, "book_description": "A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but come to discover that in order to preserve their culture, they may have to change it forever. Now a man and a woman from these two clashing societies must work together to save this vanishing race\u2014and end up uncovering ancient mysteries with far-reaching ramifications. As their mission hangs in the balance, this unlikely team\u2014one cool and cerebral, the other fiery and impulsive\u2014just may find in each other their own destinies . . . and a force that transcends all.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Adult", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15743440-the-best-of-all-possible-worlds"}, +{"book_title": "Terminal Mind", "author_name": "David Walton", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 215, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "The Philip K. Dick award-winning SF dystopian novel. Years in the future, the U.S. is a splintered country. The city-state of Philadelphia is ripe for revolution. Mark McGovern, the son of a rich politician, lives in a world of expensive parties and frivolous biological mods, a sharp contrast to the poor underworld of his best friend, Darin Kinsley. When the two accidentally release a sophisticated virus called a 'slicer' into the net, Mark must try to stem the tide of casualties before the charged political situation explodes. But the slicer is more than a virus. To destroy it, Mark must first sort truth from lies, not only for himself, but for the mind of the child who holds his fate.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4593393-terminal-mind"}, +{"book_title": "Hot & Heavy", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 1052, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "IN AND OUT...That's the goal as Lieutenant Ian MacLean prepares for his special ops mission in Northern Iraq, and he sees no reason the insertion should not go down as planned.He leads a team of highly trained Navy SEALs, the toughest, buffest fighting men in the world. As a 34-year-old bachelor he has nothing to lose and the adrenaline high of a HALO jump singing in his blood.He has the brains, guts, and brawn to out-maneuver, out-gun and just plain run circles around any enemy.BACK AND FORTH...Madrene Olgadottir comes from a time a thousand years before Ian was born, and she has no idea she's landed in the future.After bopping him on the head and tying him up, she gives him a tongue lashing that makes a drill sergeant sound like a kindergarten teacher.Then she lets him know she has her own special way of dealing with over-confident males.Hoo-yah, it looks like Operation Rodent is about to get...HOT & HEAVY", "year_published": 2005, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Historical", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Humor", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fiction", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1479504.Hot_Heavy"}, +{"book_title": "ReVisions", "author_name": "Julie E. Czerneda", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 116, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Fifteen original tales of \"what if\" Some of today's top science fiction writers explore the futures that might have been, including original stories from Julie E. Czerneda and other great names in the genre.Contents:The resonance of light / by Geoffrey Landis --Out of China / by Julie E. Czerneda --Site Fourteen / by Laura Anne Gilman --Silent Leonardo / by Kage Baker --A call from the wild / by Dorranna Durgin --Axial axioms / by James Alan Gardner --The terminal solution / by Robin Wayne Bailey --The Ashbazu effect / by John G. McDaid --A word for heathens / by Peter Watts --A ghost story / by Jihane Noskateb --The executioner's apprentice / by Kay Kenyon --Swimming upstream in the wells of the desert / by Mike Resnick and Susan R. Matthews --Unwirer / by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross --When the morning stars sang together / by Isaac Szpindel --Herd mentality / by Jay Caselberg", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50264.ReVisions"}, +{"book_title": "Robots vs. Fairies", "author_name": "Dominik Parisien", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 961, "review_number": 254, "book_description": "A unique anthology of all-new stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre battle and demands an answer to the age-old question: Who is more awesome\u2014robots or fairies?Rampaging robots! Tricksy fairies! Facing off for the first time in an epic genre death match!People love pitting two awesome things against each other. Robots vs. Fairies is an anthology that pitches genre against genre, science fiction against fantasy, through an epic battle of two icons. On one side, robots continue to be the classic sci-fi phenomenon in literature and media, from Asimov to WALL-E, from Philip K. Dick to Terminator. On the other, fairies are the beloved icons and unquestionable rulers of fantastic fiction, from Tinkerbell to Tam Lin, from True Blood to Once Upon a Time. Both have proven to be infinitely fun, flexible, and challenging. But when you pit them against each other, which side will triumph as the greatest genre symbol of all time?There can only be one\u2026or can there?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Anthologies", "Fiction", "Adult", "Fairies (Fae)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Paranormal (Fairies)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297531-robots-vs-fairies"}, +{"book_title": "Physics of the Impossible", "author_name": "Michio Kaku", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 34112, "review_number": 1319, "book_description": "A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible\u2014from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks\u2014revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future.From teleportation to telekinesis, Kaku uses the world of science fiction to explore the fundamentals\u2014and the limits\u2014of the laws of physics as we know them today. He ranks the impossible technologies by categories\u2014Class I, II, and III, depending on when they might be achieved, within the next century, millennia, or perhaps never. In a compelling and thought-provoking narrative, he explains:\u00b7 How the science of optics and electromagnetism may one day enable us to bend light around an object, like a stream flowing around a boulder, making the object invisible to observers \u201cdownstream\u201d\u00b7 How ramjet rockets, laser sails, antimatter engines, and nanorockets may one day take us to the nearby stars\u00b7 How telepathy and psychokinesis, once considered pseudoscience, may one day be possible using advances in MRI, computers, superconductivity, and nanotechnology\u00b7 Why a time machine is apparently consistent with the known laws of quantum physics, although it would take an unbelievably advanced civilization to actually build oneKaku uses his discussion of each technology as a jumping-off point to explain the science behind it. An extraordinary scientific adventure, Physics of the Impossible takes readers on an unforgettable, mesmerizing journey into the world of science that both enlightens and entertains.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science", "Nonfiction", "Science (Physics)", "Science (Popular Science)", "Science (Technology)", "Science (Astronomy)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Audiobook", "Reference"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1168341.Physics_of_the_Impossible"}, +{"book_title": "Broken Lands", "author_name": "Jonathan Maberry", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 738, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry returns to the world of Rot & Ruin with this first novel in a brand-new series that\u2019s more thrilling and filled with exceptionally terrifying adventures.Ever since her mother\u2019s death, Gabriella \u201cGutsy\u201d Gomez has spent her days flying under the radar. But when her mother\u2019s undead body is returned to her doorstep from the grave and Gutsy witnesses a pack of ravagers digging up Los Muertos\u2014her mother\u2019s name for the undead\u2014she realizes that life finds you no matter how hard you try to hide from it.Meanwhile, Benny Imura and his gang set out on a journey to finish what Captain Joe Ledger started: they\u2019re going to find a cure. After what they went through in the Rot and Ruin, they think they\u2019ve seen it all, but as they venture into new and unexplored territory, they soon learn that the zombies they fought before were nothing compared to what they\u2019ll face in the wild beyond the peace and safety of their fortified town.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Horror", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Adventure", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34273287-broken-lands"}, +{"book_title": "Triumphant", "author_name": "Jack Campbell", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 1058, "review_number": 73, "book_description": "A young fleet officer and a Marine must stand together to defend their neighbors and their colony in this return to the powerful and action-packed Genesis Fleet saga from New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell. \u00a0The recently colonized world of Glenlyon has learned that they're stronger when they stand with other star systems than they are on their own. But after helping their neighbor Kosatka against an invasion, Glenlyon has become a target. The aggressive star systems plan to neutralize Glenlyon before striking again.\u00a0An attack is launched against Glenlyon's orbital facility with forces too powerful for fleet officer Rob Geary to counter using their sole remaining destroyer, Saber. Mele Darcy's Marines must repel repeated assaults while their hacker tries to get into the enemy systems to give Saber a fighting chance.\u00a0To survive, Glenlyon needs more firepower, and the only source for that is their neighbor Kosatka or other star systems that have so far remained neutral. But Kosatka is still battling the remnants of the invasion forces on its own world, and if it sends its only remaining warship to help will be left undefended against another invasion. While Carmen Ochoa fights for the freedom of Kosatka, Lochan Nakamura must survive assassins as he tries to convince other worlds to join a seemingly hopeless struggle.\u00a0As star systems founded by people seeking freedom and autonomy, will Kosatka, Glenlyon and others be able to overcome deep suspicions of surrendering any authority to others? Will the free star systems stand together in a new Alliance, or fall alone?", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41519542-triumphant"}, +{"book_title": "Taken by Midnight", "author_name": "Lara Adrian", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 22777, "review_number": 868, "book_description": "AT THE CROSSROADS OF DEATH AND DESIRE, A WOMAN TASTES A PLEASURE NO MORTAL IS MEANT TO SURVIVE.\u00a0In the frozen Alaskan wilderness, former state trooper Jenna Darrow survives an unspeakable breach of body and soul. But with her narrow escape comes an even greater challenge. For strange changes are taking place within her, as she struggles to understand\u2014and control\u2014a new hunger. To do so, she will seek shelter in the Boston compound of the Order, an ancient race of vampire warriors whose very existence is shrouded in mystery. Perhaps the most mysterious of them all is Brock, a brooding, dark-eyed alpha male whose hands hold the power to comfort, heal . . . and arouse. As she recovers under Brock\u2019s care, Jenna finds herself drawn to the Order\u2019s mission: to stop a ruthless enemy and its army of assassins from subjecting Earth to a reign of terror. Yet in spite of their resolve, a purely physical relationship without strings soon binds Brock and Jenna together with a desire fiercer than life and stronger than death itself\u2014until a secret from Brock\u2019s past and Jenna\u2019s own mortality challenges their forbidden love to the ultimate trial by fire.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7384801-taken-by-midnight"}, +{"book_title": "Electric Gardens", "author_name": "M. Black", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 40, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Lexi019, like many other young adults, are confined to what is called a Compound controlled by Tins. Upon their eighteenth birthday they are relocated to serve in the Electric Gardens. But Lexi019 has never been compliant, being glitches frequently for misbehavior that leads her into many hot nights in the cells of the Compound. Friend Kyle53 wants to escape too, and with a war raging inside of him after his sister was taken to be Meshed (tries inserted into the human brain to render humans compliant), the two embark on a dangerous journey of escape. When they run into some unlikely friends, the two eventually enter the Electric Gardens to forge a way out of the Compound, but will they get out in time or will the Tins, like with the rest of world, find the first?4 Book Electric World Series: Electric Gardens, Electric Grids, Electric Wars, Electric Ends", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39512374-electric-gardens"}, +{"book_title": "The Clockwork Three", "author_name": "Matthew J. Kirby", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 7020, "review_number": 1086, "book_description": "Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events...Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom. Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from the tenements, who supports her family as a hotel maid when tragedy strikes and her father can no longer work. She learns about a hidden treasure, which she knows will save her family \u2014 if she can find it. And Frederick, the talented and intense clockmaker's apprentice, seeks to learn the truth about his mother while trying to forget the nightmares of the orphanage where she left him. He is determined to build an automaton and enter the clockmakers' guild \u2014 if only he can create a working head.Together, the three discover they have phenomenal power when they team up as friends, and that they can overcome even the darkest of fears.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Childrens", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7935687-the-clockwork-three"}, +{"book_title": "Citizen", "author_name": "Nicola Claire", "rating_score": 4.41, "rating_votes": 80, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "Have you been a model Citizen today?The destruction of the Chief Overseers\u2019 Palace was meant to bring about a change. But the streets of W\u00e1nm\u011bi are just as dangerous and just as falsely perfect as they ever were. Lena Carr, now a confirmed member of the revolution, hides in the shadows of the city-state she adores and works hard to undermine those in a position of authority.But there are secrets among the Overseers\u2026The leaders of W\u00e1nm\u011bi would have you believe that the nation is model. That W\u00e1nm\u011bi provides all that you need. And many do still believe it. Battling propaganda and brainwashing becomes more insurmountable for the rebels each day.But one person will never give up on a free W\u00e1nm\u011bi. Trent Masters has led the rebel army through some tough times, but now he faces the biggest battle of all. Convincing the Citizens of his beloved nation that there is more beyond the invisible, yet impenetrable, walls of W\u00e1nm\u011bi.And to do that he needs Lena. Because without the Elite who has captured his heart, as easily as she moves across the rooftops of the city in the dead of a storm shrouded night, he won\u2019t find the key that unlocks it all. But what that key unlocks will be the biggest shock of them all.Citizen versus Citizen. The battle ends now!", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Futuristic", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36310260-citizen"}, +{"book_title": "Space Wolf", "author_name": "William King", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1723, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "After being revived from a savage death on the battlefield, Ragnar is recruited into the fearsome Space Wolves Chapter. He is then thrown into a galactic war against the dark forces of Chaos. However, the implanting of the Canis Helix unleashes his primal instincts and Ragnar must fight to control the beast within him. Read it because It's a Black Library classic, and the start of a six-book series that delves into the early life of Ragnar Blackmane. Discover his past, his pack and the deeds that led him to glory and fame.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "Novels", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/691582.Space_Wolf"}, +{"book_title": "In a Handful of Dust", "author_name": "Mindy McGinnis", "rating_score": 3.93, "rating_votes": 3100, "review_number": 544, "book_description": "A dangerous disease strikes the community where teenage Lucy lives. When her adoptive mother, Lynn, takes Lucy away from their home and friends in order to protect her, Lucy struggles to figure out what home means. During their journey west to find a new life, the two face nature's challenges, including hunger, mountains, and deserts.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20359647-in-a-handful-of-dust"}, +{"book_title": "To Protect", "author_name": "Mickey Zucker Reichert", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 1197, "review_number": 128, "book_description": "First in an all-new trilogy inspired by Isaac Asimov's legendary science fiction collection I, Robot. 2035: Susan Calvin is beginning her residency at a Manhattan teaching hospital, where a select group of patients is receiving the latest in diagnostic advancements: tiny nanobots, injected into the spinal fluid, that can unlock and map the human mind.Soon, Susan begins to notice an ominous chain of events surrounding the patients. When she tries to alert her superiors, she is ignored by those who want to keep the project far from any scrutiny for the sake of their own agenda. But what no one knows is that the very technology to which they have given life is now under the control of those who seek to spread only death...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11081370-to-protect"}, +{"book_title": "Kingdom's Swords", "author_name": "David Sherman", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 622, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "\nThe Marines were told it was a simple peasant rebellion\u2013but the mission proved to be far deadlier. . . .\n\nGunny Charlie Bass isn\u2019t the only Marine mystified by the order sending the entire 34th to put down a few seditious serfs on planet Kingdom. Rumors swirl of a deadly alien invasion. But few believe that such sentient beings exist. Except Gunny Bass and the Marines of the 3rd platoon, who once fought enemy aliens called Skinks\u2013fierce, fanatical fighters with hideous weapons who attack for no other reason but to kill.Then, while slogging through Kingdom\u2019s fetid swamps, the Marines are attacked by awesome unseen weapons that could destroy half a platoon with one shot. Clearly they are facing no normal enemy. And if their adversaries are Skinks, one FIST isn\u2019t enough. Third platoon\u2019s orders are to penetrate deeper into the bloody jungle hell\u2013and find out what happens when a few good men bite the bullet. . . .", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "War", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36473.Kingdom_s_Swords"}, +{"book_title": "Mooncop", "author_name": "Tom Gauld", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4853, "review_number": 793, "book_description": "\"Living on the moon... Whatever were we thinking...? It seems so silly now.\"The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Space", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Adult", "Sequential Art (Bande Dessin\u00e9e)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28116830-mooncop"}, +{"book_title": "Resistance Reborn", "author_name": "Rebecca Roanhorse", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 6376, "review_number": 920, "book_description": "The heroes of the Resistance must fight back from the edge of the oblivion in this pivotal prequel to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.The Resistance is in ruins. In the wake of their harrowing escape from Crait, what was once an army has been reduced to a handful of wounded heroes. Finn, Poe, Rey, Rose, Chewbacca, Leia Organa - their names are famous among the oppressed worlds they fight to liberate. But names can only get you so far, and Leia's last desperate call for aid has gone unanswered.From jungles of Ryloth to the shipyards of Corellia, the shadow of the First Order looms large, and those with the bravery to face the darkness are scattered and isolated. If hope is to survive, the Resistance must journey throughout the galaxy, seeking out more leaders - including those who, in days gone by, helped a nascent rebellion topple an empire. Battles will be fought, alliances will be forged, and the Resistance will be reborn.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Media Tie In", "Adventure", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45452530-resistance-reborn"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow of Albion", "author_name": "Andre Norton", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 449, "review_number": 35, "book_description": "Thrust into a volatile world where King Henry IX rules over the English Empire, America never revolted, and Napoleon Bonaparte marches unchecked across Europe, is young Sarah Cunningham, ripped from our history by magic and the machinations of the dying Duchess of Roxbury.Magically coerced into believing she is Roxbury, Sarah finds herself caught up with the Duke of Wessex, the King's most trusted spy. A perilous adventure takes them into the black heart of Imperial France to rescue a missing princess before the last chance for peace dissolves and the world is left at the mercy of Napoleon....", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/462426.The_Shadow_of_Albion"}, +{"book_title": "Steamside Chronicles", "author_name": "Ciar Cullen", "rating_score": 3.31, "rating_votes": 94, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Emily Fenwick, formerly with the NYPD, is now the reluctant defender of 1890 New York. Unfortunately for Emily, who hates \"the creepy stuff\", she ignored her inner voice, went to a carnival in Central Park, and entered a Victorian tent in hopes a psychic would have some encouraging news about her woefully boring love life. The guarantee she received of meeting a tall, dark, and handsome stranger comes with a huge catch - he lives in an alternate dimension of the past.Jack Pettigrew leads a quirky band of lost souls in a battle to save New York circa 1890. Nightmares have come alive and threaten to terrorize a fragile era. Jack leads the \u201cpunks,\u201d who have been sucked back in time through a vortex. Each has a fleeting memory of their own death\u2013or near death\u2013and must determine for themselves why they have been chosen for this mission. Is Steamside their Purgatory? Could an Egyptian obelisk in Central Park be the cause of the time rift, or is Emily herself to blame for the goblins, zombies, and other nightmarish scenes plaguing them?If the Punks want to return to 2010, they must ensure there\u2019s going to be an 1891. If they conclude they\u2019re really ghosts, then it might be time to party like it\u2019s 1999.Heat level - 2Genre - Steampunk romance, time travel romance, paranormal romance", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9049190-steamside-chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "Central Station", "author_name": "Lavie Tidhar", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 2618, "review_number": 547, "book_description": "A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris\u2019s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik\u2014a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation\u2014a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness\u2014are just the beginning of irrevocable change.At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive...and even evolve.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Short Stories", "Cultural (Israel)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25986774-central-station"}, +{"book_title": "Born of Shadows", "author_name": "Sherrilyn Kenyon", "rating_score": 4.37, "rating_votes": 13094, "review_number": 618, "book_description": "In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere...the only survivors are those ones who are...BORN OF SHADOWSFor Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn't a right, it's a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he's forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised - one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she's won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country's government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Futuristic", "Adult", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9447878-born-of-shadows"}, +{"book_title": "1636: The Ottoman Onslaught", "author_name": "Eric Flint", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 800, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Book #21\u00a0in the multiple\u00a0New York Times\u00a0best-selling Ring of Fire series. The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power.The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in 1632. Now four years have passed. The long-feared attack on Austria by the Ottoman Empire has begun. Armed with new weapons inspired by the time-displaced Americans of Grantville, the Turks are determined to do what they were unable to do in the universe the Americans came from: capture Vienna. The Ottomans have the advantage of being able to study the failings and errors of their own campaigns in a future they can now avoid. They are led by the young, dynamic, and ruthless Murad IV, the most capable emperor the Ottomans have produced in a century. They are equipped with weapons that would have seemed fantastical to the Turks of that other universe: airships, breech-loading rifles, rockets\u2014even primitive tanks. And this time they won\u2019t have to face massive reinforcements from Austria\u2019s allies. In fact, the only force Emperor Gustav Adolf can think of sending to Austria is the United States of Europe Third Division under the command of Mike Stearns. It\u2019s an army currently engaged in a desperate struggle for Bavaria. The emperors of the USE and Austria share the same problem. They have one too many enemies, one too few allies, and only one general to cover the gaps. Fortunately, that general is Mike Stearns, also known as the Prince of Germany.\u00a0 About\u00a01635: A Parcel of Rogues: \"The 20th volume in this popular, fast-paced alternative history series follows close on the heels of the events in\u00a0The Baltic War, picking up with the protagonists in London, including sharpshooter Julie Sims. This time the 20th-century transplants are determined to prevent the rise of Oliver Cromwell and even have the support of King Charles.\"\u2014Library Journal About\u00a01634: The Galileo Affair: \"A rich, complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book.\"\u2014David Drake \"Gripping . . . depicted with power!\"\u2014Publishers Weekly About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series: \u201cThis alternate history series is . . .\u00a0a landmark\u2026\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c . . .\u00a0reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . .\u00a0\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "War", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430685-1636"}, +{"book_title": "Hunted", "author_name": "Meagan Spooner", "rating_score": 3.9, "rating_votes": 25017, "review_number": 4729, "book_description": "Beauty knows the Beast\u2019s forest in her bones\u2014and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city\u2019s highest aristocrats, far from her father\u2019s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who\u2019s ever come close to discovering them. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there\u2019s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas\u2026or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva\u2019s father\u2019s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he\u2019d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. Deaf to her sisters\u2019 protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory\u2014a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva\u2019s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fairy Tales (Beauty and The Beast)", "Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale Retellings)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24485589-hunted"}, +{"book_title": "The Day After Gettysburg", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 111, "review_number": 19, "book_description": "New Alternate History from a Master of the Form: Robert Conroy was an unalloyed master of alternate history. Now, J.R. Dunn completes one of his final novels. LEE STRIKES BACK! After a terrible setback at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee does not retreat across the Potomac and his ultimate surrender at Appomattox. Instead, he turns the tables on Union General George Meade with a vicious counterattack that sets the Union Army on its heels. While Lee sets across Pennsylvania in a dazzling war of maneuver, a crazed actor closes in on President Abraham Lincoln. Standing in his way is Major Steve Thorne, a thoughtful lawyer-turned-soldier fighting for the Union and his own self-respect, and Cassandra Baird, a young woman whose courage is only surpassed by her determination to teach emancipated slaves to read and write, and so ensure their freedom. Opposing them is Colonel Corey Wade, a brave Confederate officer who is just as determined to fight to the death for his honor and that of his state. And, in the end, the fate of a nation may come down to a freed slave named Hadrian, a man with an iron resolve never to return to bondage. The time has come to strike a blow for liberty\u2014or go down swinging! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Germanica: \u201cConroy captures the intricacies of WWII with an eye for historical nuance, and he crafts a believable alternate ending to the war. . . . [T]he story is buoyed by Conroy\u2019s effective snapshot of the era.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201c[A] gripping alternate World War II saga . . .\u201d\u2014Library Journal About Rising Sun: \u201cConroy extrapolates a new and militarily plausible direction for WWII . . . A thrilling adventure.\u201d\u2014Booklist About Himmler\u2019s War: \u201c[Conroy] adds a personal touch to alternate history by describing events through the eyes of fictional characters serving on the front lines. VERDICT: Historical accuracy in the midst of creative speculation makes this piece of alternate history believable.\u201d\u2014Library Journal Robert Conroy was the author of a run of hugely popular alternate history novels, including Himmler\u2019s War, Rising Sun, 1920: America's Great War, Liberty: 1784, 1864: Custer in Chains, and Germanica for Baen Books. His 1942, which is set within a Japanese conquest of Hawaii, won the prestigious Sidewise Award for alternate histories. Conroy lived for many years in southeastern Michigan. J.R. Dunn is the author of time travel novels This Side of Judgment, Days of Cain\u2014widely hailed as one of the most powerful time travel novels to deal with the Holocaust\u2014and Full Tide of Night. He was the long-time associate editor ofThe International Military Encyclopedia and is now an editor at The American Thinker. His nonfiction appears regularly on Baen.com", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35185980-the-day-after-gettysburg"}, +{"book_title": "Let There Be Light", "author_name": "R. Cooper", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 268, "review_number": 34, "book_description": "By 1872, the wars across Europe have been brought to a standstill, the tentative peace held in place through the work of secret agents and a collection of inventors and scientists. But tensions are mounting again, and agent Robert \u201cHart\u201d Hartley-Battridge has uncovered plans that indicate someone is planning to kidnap one of their most brilliant minds\u2014the tempestuous Karol Zieli\u0144ski. Hart is only too familiar with the hotheaded, beautiful scientist. He spent years working alongside Karol, concealing his love for him, convinced he would have been just one in a string of conquests lured into Karol\u2019s bed. Then a mission gone wrong left Hart scarred and near death, and Karol abruptly quit the Service and never approached Hart again. But the new threat is about to close the distance between them. For one day and one night, Karol will have only a single guard to watch over him, and Hart doesn\u2019t trust anyone but himself to keep Karol safe. Twenty-four hours in the presence of the man he loves, a man he hasn\u2019t seen in three years. Hart expects Karol to have forgotten him. But Karol remembers their every mission\u2014especially the last. And he has a surprise for Hart so daring and unprecedented it brought danger\u2014and Hart\u2014back to his door. With peace and Karol\u2019s life on the line, Hart needs to accept that he was never a conquest. That for him, Karol would change the world. ", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "LGBT", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Romance (Historical Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50014575-let-there-be-light"}, +{"book_title": "Great Kings' War", "author_name": "Roland J. Green", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 174, "review_number": 13, "book_description": "Calvin Morrison was a pretty good cop in Pennsylvania-until he was scooped up by the cross-time flying saucer and transported to Styphon's House Subsector, a 16th Century equivalent parallel time-line. Here the Indo-Aryan invasions went east across Asia and down the Aleutian Islands into North America, where they have stagnated for thousands of years. Dropped off into the middle of a local dispute, Corporal Calvin Morrison comes face to face with warriors armed with pikes and broadswords, not petty criminals. Lord Kalvan, as the locals call him, transforms the petty Princedom of Hostigos into a fearsome warrior Kingdom by inspired leadership and advanced military knowledge.Now, after having created and saved his new nation of Hos-Hostigos from destruction by Styphon's House, a tyrannical theocracy that holds sacred the secret formula for gunpowder, Kalvan, now Great King of Hos-Hostigos, faces his greatest challenge-keeping what he has won.The Holy Host of Styphon and the Royal Army of Hos-Harphax, two of the greatest armies in the history of the Five Kingdoms, are on the move and Kalvan will once again have to call upon his knowledge of military history to save his family and friends. This time it's personal!", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/951713.Great_Kings_War"}, +{"book_title": "Black Virus", "author_name": "Bobby Adair", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 1089, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "Alienated in a world where he doesn\u2019t fit in, Christian Black survives because he\u2019s different. Then the virus came, and made the world turn different, too. Now people are dying by the million. Food supplies are short. Riots are blazing through the streets, and Christian\u2019s only goal is to keep his family alive. But safety lies far from the city, and just getting out will be tougher than anyone knows.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Suspense", "Business (Amazon)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31193163-black-virus"}, +{"book_title": "Aberrant", "author_name": "Ruth Silver", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 1450, "review_number": 227, "book_description": "In the future Dystopian society of Cabal, the government instills equality for all and offers its citizens the perfect system. There is food, shelter and jobs for everyone. The one requirement is to follow the rules without question, including the government's match in marriage and \"The Day of the Chosen\", a lottery that randomly selects families to conceive children as natural means hasn't existed in generations. Following her eighteenth birthday, Olivia Parker accepts her requirement to marry her childhood best friend, Joshua Warren, and is eager to start her work assignment and new life when it all comes abruptly to an end as she's arrested and thrown in prison. The only crime committed, her existence. Olivia is unlike the rest of the world born not from \"The Day of the Chosen.\" The truth haunts the government and puts her life in grave danger as one simple fact would destroy the perfect system. With Joshua's help, Olivia breaks free of prison and is forced on the run. Together they set out to find the promised rebel town in search of a new home and new life together. Their situation seems less than promising as they reach the town of Haven. New rules and customs must be adhered to in order to stay. Leaving would mean most certain death in the large expanse of the Gravelands. Time is running out as the government mounts an attack to destroy Olivia and bury her secret with her. Thrown into a world unlike their own, they must quickly adapt to survive.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "New Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Action", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24951744-aberrant"}, +{"book_title": "The Custodian of Marvels", "author_name": "Rod Duncan", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 981, "review_number": 136, "book_description": "You\u2019d have to be mad to steal from the feared International Patent Office. But that\u2019s what Elizabeth Barnabus is about to try. A one-time enemy from the circus has persuaded her to attempt a heist that will be the ultimate conjuring trick.Hidden in the vaults of the Patent Court in London lie secrets that could shake the very pillars of the Gas-Lit Empire. All that stands in Elizabeth\u2019s way are the agents of the Patent Office, a Duke\u2019s private army and the mysterious Custodian of Marvels.Rod Duncan returns with the climactic volume of the Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, the breathtaking alternate history series that began with the Philip K Dick Award-nominated The Bullet-Catcher\u2019s Daughter.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Speculative Fiction", "European Literature (British Literature)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489100-the-custodian-of-marvels"}, +{"book_title": "Marrow", "author_name": "Robert Reed", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 2037, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "The Ship has traveled the universe for longer than any of the near-immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. It is larger than many planets, housing thousands of alien races and just as many secrets.Now one of those secrets has been discovered: at the center of the Ship is . . . a planet. Marrow. But when a team of the Ship's best and brightest are sent down to investigate, will they return with the origins of the Ship--or will they bring doom to everyone on board?Robert Reed, whose fantastic stories have been filling all the major SF magazines for the past several years, spins a captivating tale of adventure and wonder on an incredible scale in this novel based on his acclaimed novella.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100208.Marrow"}, +{"book_title": "Jaws of Darkness", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 685, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The grand conflict for control of the continent of Derlavai rages on in a battle with all the drama and terror of the Second World War-- only the bullets are beams of magical fire. The tanks and submarines are great lumbering beasts, and the fighters and bombers are dragons raining fire upon their targets.Hope may be dawning at last. The terrible onslaught of the conquering forces of Algarve-- who power their battle magics with the life energy of their murdered victims-- has begun to founder. But though the tide has begun to turn, the conflict is far from over. As the deaths of innocent civilians on both sides continue to feed the flames of war, those who have struggled to survive and preserve their freedom have only their passions to see them through....", "year_published": 2003, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Epic Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174449.Jaws_of_Darkness"}, +{"book_title": "Liberty", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 577, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Kali has been working toward her dream of building an airship and escaping the frozen Yukon for so long that she can scarcely believe it\u2019s close to becoming a reality. There\u2019s just one problem. Cedar, her friend and business partner (and maybe a little more), is in jail, and the American authorities are on their way to hang him. The Mounties aren\u2019t listening to reason, so the only way to free him may be to break him out of their headquarters\u2014if she can. Even if she succeeds, she\u2019ll be branded a criminal for the rest of her life.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Adventure", "Novella", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29861396-liberty"}, +{"book_title": "Conquerors' Heritage", "author_name": "Timothy Zahn", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 2050, "review_number": 52, "book_description": "Zhirrzh alien Searcher Thrr-gilag is disgraced, his engagement imperilled.\u00a0He is a target of hidden and powerful forces seeking to remake Zhirrzh society in their own merciless image.\u00a0His only hope is to prove authorities wrong:\u00a0Humans did not start the war.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192526.Conquerors_Heritage"}, +{"book_title": "Queen Song", "author_name": "Victoria Aveyard", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 22269, "review_number": 1546, "book_description": "Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary\u2014how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Novella", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25005214-queen-song"}, +{"book_title": "Against All Odds", "author_name": "Thomas DePrima", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 1888, "review_number": 26, "book_description": "War has kept Admiral Jenetta Carver from home for twelve years. With the advent of peace, she takes a well-deserved vacation and returns to Earth for a visit before her duties as Military Governor and Supreme Military Commandeer of Region Two keep her away for more years. She picks up her two sisters on the trip and the three women surprise their mom with the unannounced visit.Just a week after arriving home, Jenetta receives word that Region Two has been invaded. No war has been declared, and details are sketchy, but Tsgardi Warriors have landed on at least one planet a hundred light years inside the border and begun rounding up, harassing, and in some cases killing the citizenry. Determined not to let the news interfere with her mother's joy of having her three daughters home, she doesn't tell them about the invasion, but she's called to appear at Space Command Supreme HQ to discuss the situation.As Jenetta begins the trip back to her base, she begins formulating plans and sending orders so that all will be in readiness when she arrives. She's determined to deal with the Tsgardi situation once and for all, and in a manner consistent with the way she dealt with the Milori situation. When an enemy absolutely refuses to let you live in peace, there's only one action you can take: remove their ability to ever wage war against you again. Jenetta doesn't yet know that the Tsgardi thrust into Region Two is just the tip of the lance. Three other interstellar powers have joined the effort to evict the Galactic Alliance from Region Two and divide the territory among themselves. Jenetta's meager forces will face an armada a thousand warships strong. It's not just another day at the office.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Adventure", "War", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11058730-against-all-odds"}, +{"book_title": "River of Gods", "author_name": "Ian McDonald", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 5439, "review_number": 404, "book_description": "As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business--a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj--the waif, the mind reader, the prophet--when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and cultures--one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Cultural (India)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Near Future)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278280.River_of_Gods"}, +{"book_title": "The Winter of the Witch", "author_name": "Katherine Arden", "rating_score": 4.5, "rating_votes": 43433, "review_number": 6226, "book_description": "Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen. Now Moscow has been struck by disaster. Its people are searching for answers\u2014and for someone to blame. Vasya finds herself alone, beset on all sides. The Grand Prince is in a rage, choosing allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, stronger than ever and determined to spread chaos. Caught at the center of the conflict is Vasya, who finds the fate of two worlds resting on her shoulders. Her destiny uncertain, Vasya will uncover surprising truths about herself and her history as she desperately tries to save Russia, Morozko, and the magical world she treasures. But she may not be able to save them all.Advance praise for The Winter of the Witch\u201cKatherine Arden\u2019s Winternight Trilogy isn\u2019t just good\u2014it\u2019s hug-to-your-chest, straight-to-the-favorites-shelf, reread-immediately good, and each book just gets better. The Winter of the Witch plunges us back to fourteenth-century Moscow, where old gods and new vie for the soul of Russia and fate rests on a witch girl\u2019s slender shoulders. Prepare to have your heart ripped out, loaned back to you full of snow and magic, and ripped out some more.\u201d\u2014Laini Taylor", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Historical", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Adult", "Cultural (Russia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36621586-the-winter-of-the-witch"}, +{"book_title": "Ghost Ocean", "author_name": "S.M. Peters", "rating_score": 3.3, "rating_votes": 298, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Beings of unimaginable power, classified as myths and legends, have been imprisoned in the secluded town of St. Ives for centuries--watched over by guardians with supernatural skills. Te Evangeline's father was one such guardian, a \"binder\" who died in the line of duty and who passed along his ability to his daughter. Now, Te must awaken the magic within her before her father's killer releases his fellow prisoners on an unsuspecting world.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6439449-ghost-ocean"}, +{"book_title": "Blonde Roots", "author_name": "Bernardine Evaristo", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 2556, "review_number": 361, "book_description": "What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers today? We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes of Doris, an Englishwoman enslaved and taken to the New World, movingly recounting experiences of tremendous hardship and the dreams of the people she has left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into freedom.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Race", "Historical", "Speculative Fiction", "Literary Fiction", "Cultural (Africa)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4045950-blonde-roots"}, +{"book_title": "Prelude to Foundation", "author_name": "Isaac Asimov", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 69624, "review_number": 1701, "book_description": "It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall\u2014those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire. . .the man who holds the key to the future\u2014an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Classics", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Space", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30013.Prelude_to_Foundation"}, +{"book_title": "Constitution", "author_name": "Nick Webb", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 8827, "review_number": 567, "book_description": "The year is 2650 75 years ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth. Without warning. Without mercy. We were not prepared. Hundreds of millions perished. Dozens of cities burned. We nearly lost everything. Then, the aliens abruptly left. We rebuilt. We armed ourselves. We swore: never again. But the aliens never came back. Until now. With overwhelming force the aliens have returned, striking deep into our territory, sending Earth into a panic. Our new technology is useless. Our new ships burn like straw. All our careful preparations are wasted. Now, only one man, one crew, and the oldest starship in the fleet stand between the Earth and certain destruction: ISS CONSTITUTION", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Business (Amazon)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25817087-constitution"}, +{"book_title": "Germanica", "author_name": "Robert Conroy", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 229, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Best-selling alternate history master Robert Conroy returns to World War II, this time for a dangerous last stand of the Nazis in the heart of the Alps.GERMANICA, \u00dcBER ALLES!Deep in the heart of Europe's Alps in the redoubt called Germanica, Nazi propaganda master Josef Goebbels and a battalion of Nazi zealots hold out against a frantic final Allied push to end World War II. With Churchill losing his election, De Gaulle consolidating his rule over a newly liberated France, and Stalin asserting his own nefarious land-grab in Eastern Germany, only America, led by its untried new president Harry Truman,\u00a0remains to face the toughest of Nazi warriors as they hunker down for a bitter fight to the last man.Goebbels knows that if he can hold out just a bit longer, the war weary of the Western nations will back away from unconditional surrender for Germany, and he and his zealots can remain in power never to answer for their war crimes, and able prepare for the moment when their hateful Nazi ideology is ready once again to rise from its alpine grave and strike at the heart of humanity!But there are Americans and a few stalwart Europeans just as determined to put a final stake in the Nazi heart. It is now up to heroes in the making such as newly minted O.S.S. operative Ernie Janek, commando Captain Scott Tanner, and formerly enslaved Czech \"Jew\" Lena Bobek, to bring down the dark Nazi menace growing like a cancer in the mountainous heart of the continent..", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "War (World War II)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492539-germanica"}, +{"book_title": "Waging War", "author_name": "April White", "rating_score": 4.54, "rating_votes": 1158, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "War is being waged against the Descendants and Saira Elian is desperate to stop the Mongers\u2019 savage bid for power\u2026 Saira\u2019s search for kidnapped mixed-bloods draws her into the Mongers\u2019 stronghold, revealing the horrible truth behind the irresistible Monger ring and the vile plan to cleanse Family bloodlines \u2026 permanently. To prevent a brutal massacre, Saira and Ringo travel back to Bletchley Park during World War II where they team up with Archer from the past to crack a Nazi code and expose a Monger traitor intent on changing the course of history. They team with a female commando from the French resistance to hunt down an elite unit of Monger soldiers - Hitler\u2019s Werewolves - before the terror squad can strike a fatal blow at the heart of the Allied war effort. Their desperate manhunt drags Saira, Archer, and Ringo into the London underground on the eve of a Nazi bombing raid where they come face-to-face with the Monger assassin on a suicide mission to split Time. With the lives of all mixed-bloods in peril, Saira must make a sacrifice that even Time and love may never forgive. Editor: Angela Houle", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27857843-waging-war"}, +{"book_title": "Assault on Black Reach: The Novel", "author_name": "Nick Kyme", "rating_score": 3.19, "rating_votes": 150, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "The companion novel to the Warhammer 40,000 boxed game Assault on Black Reach tells the story of how the 2nd Company of the Ultramarines, commanded by Captain Sicarius, prosecuted war against the greenskin invaders and their warlord Zanzag.When the planet of Black Reach is invaded by a mighty ork horde, the Ultramarines must act fast. If the orks gain a foothold in the system, they could spread, and threaten the entire sector. As the Ultramarines attack in their righteous fury, the scene is set for a classic battle one hundred Space Marines versus fifty thousand orks!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Novella", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6633489-assault-on-black-reach"}, +{"book_title": "The Dark Design", "author_name": "Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 5617, "review_number": 163, "book_description": "Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought--all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious \"afterlife,\" remains unknown. But a curious cross-section of humanity is determined to change that situation . . . at any cost.Intrepid explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads the most remarkable voyage of discovery he has ever undertaken. Hot on his heels are Samuel Clemens, King John of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Spurred by the promise of ultimate answers, they chart a course across the vast polar sea--and toward the awesome tower that looms above it. But getting there will be more than half the battle. For death on Riverworld has become chillingly final . . .", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Classics", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/370899.The_Dark_Design"}, +{"book_title": "Dreamweaver's Dilemma", "author_name": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 1315, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "Contains \"Dreamweaver's Dilemma,\" a previously unpublished novelette set early the author's universe, the Hugo Award-winning \"The Mountains of Mourning,\" a never-before-published Sherlock Holmes pastiche, an interview with Lois McMaster Bujold, and Suford Lewis' Vorkosigan genealogy. Hardbound with cover art by Bob Eggleton.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Anthologies", "War (Military Fiction)", "Anthologies (Collections)", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/990089.Dreamweaver_s_Dilemma"}, +{"book_title": "A King Undone", "author_name": "Cooper Davis", "rating_score": 3.09, "rating_votes": 294, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "Sometimes you have to risk everything, to follow your heart\"Noble Pleasures, Book 1\"In a world where gentlemen openly court and marry fellow noblemen, the threat of scandal still lurks behind every velvet drape for kings and princes. Such has been the fate for King Arend Tollemach, forced to sacrifice his heart on the altar of regal duty.Now that his wife is dead and his royal obligations are at an end, he s ready to take an unthinkable risk. King Arend seeks a concubine from Temple Sapphor, a secretive, gated world where he will finally shed his virginity at least as it pertains to making love to a man.Julian never thought he'd spend ten years on the temple shelf, passed over again and again. Just when he despairs of ever finding placement in a nobleman's bed, Arend walks into the temple. A lonely eyed, beautiful king who could easily steal his heart.Arend discovers he has no problem opening his bed to the exquisite concubine. The problem lies in finding the key to his long-shuttered heart.Warning: Contains a beautiful, virgin king desperate to bed another man, a concubine who fantasizes about being claimed and revered by a strong monarch, and a sea of scandal set against a sensual, palatial backdrop.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "LGBT", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "M M Romance (M M Historical Romance)", "Fiction", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23090887-a-king-undone"}, +{"book_title": "C791", "author_name": "Eve Langlais", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 4056, "review_number": 354, "book_description": "Machines aren\u2019t supposed to feel, but this cyborg can\u2019t help falling in love.Assigned as a specimen collector for a captured cyborg, Chloe is intrigued by the machine disguised as a man. Kidnapped during his daring escape, he shows her that despite the chip in his brain, his humanity is not completely lost.Formerly known as unit X109GI, Joe is on a quest to discover his origin. While he doesn\u2019t find the answers he\u2019s looking for, he does discover that affection isn't just for humans. But when it comes to a battle between logic and love, which side will the cybernetic organism\u2014once a man\u2014choose?Evaluating his feelings will have to wait though because the military isn\u2019t done with Joe. But their threats against him pale in comparison before the shocking discovery of project C791, the revelation of which stuns the rebel cyborgs\u2014and ignites a fury for vengeance.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Romance (Erotic Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13458280-c791"}, +{"book_title": "A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy", "author_name": "Alex White", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 1782, "review_number": 201, "book_description": "\nThe greatest dangers hide the brightest treasures in this bold, planet-hopping science fiction adventure series.\n\n\n\n\nThe crew of the legendary Capricious are rich enough to retire in comfort for the rest of their days, but none of it matters if the galaxy is still in danger. \n\nNilah and Boots, the ship's newest crew-members hear the word of a mysterious cult that may have links back to an ancient and all-powerful magic. To find it, hot-headed Nilah will have to go undercover and find the source of their power without revealing her true identity. Meanwhile, Boots is forced to confront the one person she'd hoped never to see again: her old, turn-coat treasure-hunting partner.\n\n\n\n\nThe Salvagers\n\nA Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe\n\nA Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy\n\nThe Worst of All Possible Worlds\n", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "LGBT", "Adult", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39723966-a-bad-deal-for-the-whole-galaxy"}, +{"book_title": "Rescue on the Oregon Trail", "author_name": "Kate Messner", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1601, "review_number": 270, "book_description": "Meet Ranger! He's a time-traveling golden retriever who has a nose for trouble . . . and always saves the day!Ranger has been trained as a search-and-rescue dog, but can't officially pass the test because he's always getting distracted by squirrels during exercises. One day, he finds a mysterious first aid kit in the garden and is transported to the year 1850, where he meets a young boy named Sam Abbott. Sam's family is migrating west on the Oregon Trail, and soon after Ranger arrives he helps the boy save his little sister. Ranger thinks his job is done, but the Oregon Trail can be dangerous, and the Abbotts need Ranger's help more than they realize!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Adventure", "Childrens (Chapter Books)", "Animals (Dogs)", "Childrens", "Animals", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22323698-rescue-on-the-oregon-trail"}, +{"book_title": "Impulse", "author_name": "Dave Bara", "rating_score": 3.24, "rating_votes": 523, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Lieutenant Peter Cochrane of the Quantar Royal Navy believes he has his future clearly mapped out. It begins with his new assignment as an officer on Her Majesty\u2019s Spaceship Starbound, a Lightship bound for deep space voyages of exploration. But everything changes when Peter is summoned to the office of his father, Grand Admiral Nathan Cochrane, and given devastating news: the death of a loved one. In a distant solar system, a mysterious and unprovoked attack upon Lightship Impulse resulted in the deaths of Peter\u2019s former girlfriend and many of her shipmates. Now Peter's plans are torn asunder as he is transferred to a Unified Space Navy ship under foreign command, en route to an unexpected destination, and surrounded almost entirely by strangers. To top it off, his superiors have given him secret orders that might force him to become a mutineer. The crisis at hand becomes a gateway to something much more when the ship\u2019s Historian leads Peter and his shipmates into a galaxy of the unknown -- of ancient technologies, age-old rivalries, new cultures, and unexpected romance. It\u2019s an overwhelming responsibility for Peter, and one false step could plunge humanity into an apocalyptic interstellar war\u2026.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "War (Military Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18482440-impulse"}, +{"book_title": "Etched in Bone", "author_name": "Anne Bishop", "rating_score": 4.31, "rating_votes": 19211, "review_number": 2050, "book_description": "New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves\u2026 After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders\u2014a primitive and lethal form of the Others\u2014the few cities left under human control are far-flung. And the people within them now know to fear the no-man\u2019s-land beyond their borders\u2014and the darkness\u2026As some communities struggle to rebuild, Lakeside Courtyard has emerged relatively unscathed, though Simon Wolfgard, its wolf shifter leader, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn must work with the human pack to maintain the fragile peace. But all their efforts are threatened when Lieutenant Montgomery\u2019s shady brother arrives, looking for a free ride and easy pickings.With the humans on guard against one of their own, tensions rise, drawing the attention of the Elders, who are curious about the effect such an insignificant predator can have on a pack. But Meg knows the dangers, for she has seen in the cards how it will all end\u2014with her standing beside a grave", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22062213-etched-in-bone"}, +{"book_title": "The Shadow Cipher", "author_name": "Laura Ruby", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 4267, "review_number": 850, "book_description": "It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of New York the Old York Cipher\u2014a puzzle laid into the shining city they constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond all imagining. By the present day, however, the puzzle has never been solved, and the greatest mystery of the modern world is little more than a tourist attraction.Tess and Theo Biedermann and their friend Jaime Cruz live in a Morningstarr apartment house\u2014until a real estate developer announces that the city has agreed to sell him the five remaining Morningstarr buildings. Their likely destruction means the end of a dream long-held by the people of New York. And if Tess, Theo and Jaime want to save their home, they have to prove that the Old York Cipher is real. Which means they have to solve it.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18806245-the-shadow-cipher"}, +{"book_title": "Down and Dirty", "author_name": "Sandra Hill", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 921, "review_number": 47, "book_description": "Punished for an indiscretion, Navy SEAL and all-around tough guy Zachary Floyd is forced to head a new SEAL-like program for women. There he meets an alluring Norsewoman, who's escaped a nunnery, her father, and the eleventh century altogether.A NAVY WARRIORHe's a world-class player -- nicknamed Pretty Boy -- and a tough guy who's not afraid to get down and dirty. But now, Navy SEAL Zachary Floyd is up for Worst Father of the Year. Turns out that a fling six years ago in Afghanistan resulted in a son Zach never knew existed. When Zach steals Samir away to America, defying protocol, his punishment is to teach a new SEAL-like program for females. There he encounters an alluring Norsewoman who's not his usual style. She's tall, she's muscular, and, worst of all, she rebuffs his advances...A VIKING WARRIOR MAIDENShe's escaped a nunnery, her evil father -- and the whole bloody 11th century. So, holy Thor, why can't Britta, time-traveling Viking maiden, escape her growing feelings for Zach? Especially after he has the nerve to ask her to babysit his child! Britta quickly grows fond of Samir and will do whatever it takes to protect him. But she's losing her fight against Zach's considerable charms. In fact, she might even be willing to get a little... down and dirty.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395319.Down_and_Dirty"}, +{"book_title": "The Echo Room", "author_name": "Parker Peevyhouse", "rating_score": 3.26, "rating_votes": 751, "review_number": 191, "book_description": "The only thing worse than being locked in is facing what you locked out. Rett Ward knows how to hide. He's had six years of practice at Walling Home, the state-run boarding school where he learned how to keep his head down to survive.But when Rett wakes up locked in a small depot with no memory of how he got there, he can't hide. Not from the stranger in the next room. Or from the fact that there's someone else's blood on his jumpsuit.Worse, every time he tries to escape, he wakes up right back where he started. Same day, same stranger, same bloodstained jumpsuit.As memories start to surface, Rett realizes that the logo on the walls is familiar, the stranger isn't a stranger, and the blood on his jumpsuit belongs to someone--or something--banging on the door to get in.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Thriller", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33803106-the-echo-room"}, +{"book_title": "Brainjack", "author_name": "Brian Falkner", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 3481, "review_number": 441, "book_description": "Las Vegas is gone\u2014destroyed in a terrorist attack. Black Hawk helicopters patrol the skies over New York City. And immersive online gaming is the most dangerous street drug around. In this dystopic near-future, technology has leapt forward once again, and neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a headset, and it\u2019s the Internet at the speed of thought.For teen hacker Sam Wilson, a headset is a must. But as he becomes familiar with the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to a hack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hijacked? Before he realizes what\u2019s happened, Sam\u2019s incursion against the world\u2019s largest telecommunications company leads him to the heart of the nation\u2019s cyberdefense network and brings him face to face with a terrifying and unforeseen threat.Brian Falkner, author of The Tomorrow Code, has created an action-packed and thought-provoking science fiction adventure in which a brilliant young computer hacker fights to prevent the human race from being deleted.Fans of Cory Doctorow\u2019s Little Brother and M. T. Anderson\u2019s Feed will love this high-octane techno thriller.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Action", "Mystery", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7006426-brainjack"}, +{"book_title": "Replicant Night", "author_name": "K.W. Jeter", "rating_score": 3.18, "rating_votes": 346, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "Rick Deckard is in the Los Angeles of the future--and of the past. Pollution and other atmospheric conditions on Earth have forced the entire movie and video industries to a massive orbital space station full of enormous replications of various Earth-based settings, both contemporary and historical. Strapped for money, Deckard is consulting on a movie adaptation of his hunt for the original replicants that we saw in the \"Blade Runner\" film. But soon the movie fantasy becomes grimly real, as first a living replicant is killed, and then his former partner in the LAPD blade runner unit. Soon this tangled web will involve the survivors of the Tyrell family, the machine-implanted personality of an old Deckard nemesis, and a group of deep-cover replicants who are unaware that they are not human.", "year_published": 1996, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Novels", "Mystery (Noir)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80239.Replicant_Night"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Currents", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 7137, "review_number": 435, "book_description": " It's been three months since former enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon and the notorious assassin Sicarius thwarted kidnappers and saved the emperor's life. The problem? Nobody knows they were responsible for this good deed. Worse, they're being blamed for the entire scheme. With enforcers and bounty hunters stalking them, and the emperor nursing a personal hatred for Sicarius, it's going to be hard to earn exoneration. When Amaranthe's team discovers mutilated bodies in the city aqueducts and a mysterious illness incapacitates thousands of citizens, she and Sicarius see an opportunity to solve the mystery and prove their loyalty. But they'll have to defeat vengeful shamans, man-eating predators, and deadly mechanical constructs, all while dodging imperial soldiers who would rather kill them than accept their help. Nobody said exoneration would be easy.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Adult", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11672438-dark-currents"}, +{"book_title": "A Blade So Black", "author_name": "L.L. McKinney", "rating_score": 3.69, "rating_votes": 5232, "review_number": 1390, "book_description": "The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew.Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But when Alice's handsome and mysterious mentor is poisoned, she has to find the antidote by venturing deeper into Wonderland than she\u2019s ever gone before. And she'll need to use everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head . . . literally.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Retellings", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36952594-a-blade-so-black"}, +{"book_title": "Terraforming Earth", "author_name": "Jack Williamson", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 339, "review_number": 42, "book_description": "When a giant meteor crashes into the earth & destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet & establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, they're able to observe the devastated planet & wait for a time when return will become possible. Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, & their eyes are raised toward the giant planet in the sky which long ago was the cradle of humanity. Finally, after millennia of waiting, the descendants of the original refugees travel back to a planet they've never known, to try to rebuild a civilization of which they've never been a part. The fate of the planet lies in the success of their return, but after so much time, the question is not whether they can rebuild an old destroyed home, but whether they can learn to inhabit an alien new world--Earth.", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Adventure (Survival)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898087.Terraforming_Earth"}, +{"book_title": "A Beginning at the End", "author_name": "Mike Chen", "rating_score": 3.54, "rating_votes": 1544, "review_number": 399, "book_description": "How do you start over after the end of the world?Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet\u2019s population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs.In postapocalyptic San Francisco, former pop star Moira has created a new identity to finally escape her past\u2014until her domineering father launches a sweeping public search to track her down. Desperate for a fresh start herself, jaded event planner Krista navigates the world on behalf of those too traumatized to go outside, determined to help everyone move on\u2014even if they don\u2019t want to. Rob survived the catastrophe with his daughter, Sunny, but lost his wife. When strict government rules threaten to separate parent and child, Rob needs to prove himself worthy in the city\u2019s eyes by connecting with people again.Krista, Moira, Rob and Sunny are brought together by circumstance, and their lives begin to twine together. But when reports of another outbreak throw the fragile society into panic, the friends are forced to finally face everything that came before\u2014and everything they still stand to lose. Because sometimes having one person is enough to keep the world going.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Adult", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45152976-a-beginning-at-the-end"}, +{"book_title": "Justice Ascending", "author_name": "Rebecca Zanetti", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1801, "review_number": 265, "book_description": "Before surviving the Scorpius bacterium, Tace Justice was a good ole Texas cowboy who served his country and loved his mama. After Scorpius, the world became dark, dangerous, and deadly... and so did he. The Vanguard medic is stronger, faster, and smarter than before, but he's lost the line between right and wrong. His passion is absolute, and when he focuses it on one woman, there's no turning back for either of them.Sami Steel has been fighting to survive right alongside Tace, convincing the Vanguard soldiers she's one of them. In truth, Sami is a former hacker turned government agent who worked at The Bunker, where scientists stored both contaminants and cures. Only she knows the location, and she's not telling. Yet when sexual fire explodes between her and Tace, she'll face even that hell again to save him.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30205219-justice-ascending"}, +{"book_title": "Reality Bites", "author_name": "Gail Koger", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 856, "review_number": 85, "book_description": "Bree never thought her dimwit act, military grade mace, cattle prod, or dumping a ton of stinky manure on Jaylan's head would encourage his pursuit. Who knew a Coletti warlord would think of being zapped with a cattle prod as foreplay? Or a determined opponent only heightened his enjoyment of the chase?The chase comes to an abrupt halt when the Tai-Kok attack Tucson, forcing Bree to team up with the Coletti warlord to stop them. Suddenly plucked from Earth by a crazed Tai-Kok commander, Jaylan and Bree find themselves stranded on a hostile alien world, and being tracked by a deadly Askole assassin. It\u2019s really not the time for the two of them to fall in love.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Humor", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21530587-reality-bites"}, +{"book_title": "Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II", "author_name": "Gregory Benford", "rating_score": 3.41, "rating_votes": 278, "review_number": 21, "book_description": "Preface: Imagining the abyss/ Gregory Benford Introduction: Hitler victorious/ Norman SpinradTwo dooms/ C.M. Kornbluth The Fall of Frenchy Steiner/ Hilary BaileyThrough road no whither/ Greg Bear Weihnachtsabend/ Keith Roberts Thor meets Captain America/ David BrinMoon of ice/ Brad Linaweaver Reichs-peace/ Shelia Finch Never meet again/ Algis BudrysDo ye hear the children weeping?/ Howard GoldsmithEnemy transmissions/ Tom Shippey Valhalla/ Gregory Benford", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Anthologies", "Short Stories", "Fantasy", "War", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "War (World War II)", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/640592.Hitler_Victorious"}, +{"book_title": "Astonishing X-Men, Volume 1: Gifted", "author_name": "Joss Whedon", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 26514, "review_number": 678, "book_description": "Dream-team creators Joss Whedon (TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and John Cassaday (Planetary, Captain America) present the explosive flagship X-Men series - marking a return to classic greatness and the beginning of a brand-new era for the X-Men! Cyclops and Emma Frost re-form the X-Men with the express purpose of \"astonishing\" the world. But when breaking news regarding the mutant gene unexpectedly hits the airwaves, will it derail their new plans before they even get started?Collecting: Astonishing X-Men 1-6", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Superheroes (Marvel)", "Comics (Superheroes)", "Marvel (X Men)", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31979.Astonishing_X_Men_Volume_1"}, +{"book_title": "Dualed", "author_name": "Elsie Chapman", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 7145, "review_number": 938, "book_description": "Two of you exist. Only one will survive.The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate\u2014a twin raised by another family\u2014and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage\u2014life.Fifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. But then a tragic misstep shakes West\u2019s confidence. Stricken with grief and guilt, she\u2019s no longer certain that she\u2019s the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running not only from her Alt, but also from love . . . though both have the power to destroy her.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Thriller", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13401993-dualed"}, +{"book_title": "Dervish is Digital", "author_name": "Pat Cadigan", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 181, "review_number": 16, "book_description": "Detective Lieutenant Dor\u00e9 Konstantin is up against it.Konstantin is Chief Officer in charge of TechnoCrime, Artificial Reality Division. It sounds better than it is - in fact, the AR Division consists of three people and a case load of nearly impossible to solve crimes. Now, as if handling her heavy case load almost single-handed weren't bad enough, she's got a stalker to deal with. A woman named Susannah Ell claims that she is being stalked by her ex-husband, Hasting Dervish. It seems implausible at first - Dervish is an extraordinarily rich and powerful man, who should have better things to do. But as Konstantin starts to look into it, she discovers that it's not quite so impossible to believe: Dervish has traded places with an Artificial Intelligence, and is busy committing crimes no one has ever thought of before.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/924430.Dervish_is_Digital"}, +{"book_title": "The Long Earth", "author_name": "Terry Pratchett", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 52114, "review_number": 4896, "book_description": "From the back jacket:NORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE.The Silence was very faint here. Almost drowned out by the sounds of the mundane world. Did people in this polished building understand how noisy it was? The roar of air conditioners and computer fans, the susurration of many voices heard but not decipherable.... This was the office of the transEarth Institute, an arm of the Black Corporation. The faceless office, all plasterboard and chrome, was dominated by a huge logo, a chesspiece knight. This wasn't Joshua's world. None of it was his world. In fact, when you got right down to it, he didn't have a world; he had all of them.ALL OF THE LONG EARTH.From the inside jacket:The possibilites are endless. Just be careful what you wish for....)1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone?2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some said mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson finds a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and...a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever.The first novel in an exciting new collaboration between Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports readers to the ends of the earth and far beyond. All it takes is a single step....", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Humor", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13147230-the-long-earth"}, +{"book_title": "1/27: An ICoS Anthology", "author_name": "Ais", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 1284, "review_number": 219, "book_description": "January 27, 2027 - One day around the world.Weeks after the last page of the In the Company of Shadows series, seven stories show glimpses of the lives of fifteen characters, scattered across the globe. In Ireland, an unexpected reunion takes a terrible turn. In Australia, the tides are changing while those involved never stop watching. In Mexico, fear brings uncertainty into a once strong relationship. And in the United States, worlds are about to collide.1/27 answers the important question: What happens next?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Dark", "LGBT", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action", "Anthologies"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20927491-1-27"}, +{"book_title": "Aliens Omnibus, Vol. 1", "author_name": "Mark Verheiden", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1079, "review_number": 105, "book_description": "Dark Horse Comics took the industry by storm with its release of Aliens, a comics series that for the first time captured the power of film source material and expanded its universe in a way that fans applauded worldwide. Now, the first three Dark Horse Aliens series \u2014 Outbreak, Nightmare Asylum and Female War \u2014 are collected in a value-priced, quality-format omnibus, featuring nearly 400 story pages in full color. Written by screen and television scribe Mark Verheiden (The Mask, Battlestar Gallactica) and illustrated with consummate skill by Mark A. Nelson, Den Beauvais and Sam Kieth, Aliens Omnibus Volume 1 is an essential piece of the Aliens mythos and a great entry point into the storied Dark Horse Aliens library.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Media Tie In", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343288.Aliens_Omnibus_Vol_1"}, +{"book_title": "Beast", "author_name": "Luna Hunter", "rating_score": 3.7, "rating_votes": 1092, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "Now the Beast has found me. And he\u2019ll never let me go. JADE Women aren't safe on Earth, not since the Big Mistake. Around here, there\u2019s one rule: Don't go into town. That's where the men are. I live in hiding with Zoey, Dev and Makayla. It\u2019s a hard life, but we make it work. Or we did, until Zoey got sick. Now I have no choice but to head into town. I can\u2019t sit and watch her wither away. I must find her a cure. My disguise fails me, my eyes giving me away. Men descend upon me like a pack of rabid wolves. Then a savage, alien warrior steps up. Eight feet of muscle, horns and claws. The beast throws me over his shoulder and carries me off like he owns me. I have no idea what the wants, but the brooding look in his alien eyes makes me tremble and fear the worst... VUKAROR Kysus lies in ruins. Sickness has ravaged our people, our women are barren. I am their King. I must save my people. I need an heir. I must find a mate. Earth is my last hope. If I do not find a suitable nera, the Kaizon will die. She is at the first human settlement I come across, in a group mating ritual. A human female. Shapely. Curvy. She\u2019s soft and so perfect. I swoop on the ritual and take her. She's special. I don't only want to claim her body. I want her soul. She will submit to me. She will be pregnant before the next moon. This I swear. Contains scenes of spanking. BEAST is the first book in a brand new series, Warriors of Kaizon, by Luna Hunter. Each book follows a different couple and can be read as a standalone. No cheating, HEA guaranteed!", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45157225-beast"}, +{"book_title": "Starcross", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 2045, "review_number": 172, "book_description": "Art, Myrtle, and their mother accept the kind invitation of a holiday to an up-and-coming asteroid resort. But they set out with visions of rest and relaxation only to be sucked into a dastardly plot involving spies, time travel, and mind-altering clothing! Before their adventures are over, they'll sail an aether-ship amid asteroid-strewn seas, dodge demonic puppets, and learn wisdom from an unlikely ally: the Moobs! With faster-than-light plot twists and enough tongue-in-cheek vim and vigor to keep a galaxy in laughter, this dynamic sequel to Larklight is a tour de force of the most intergalactic kind.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1369202.Starcross"}, +{"book_title": "Cinderella Is Dead", "author_name": "Kalynn Bayron", "rating_score": 3.77, "rating_votes": 10741, "review_number": 2819, "book_description": "It\u2019s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl\u2019s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again.Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella\u2019s mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all\u2013and in the process, they learn that there\u2019s more to Cinderella\u2019s story than they ever knew . . .This fresh take on a classic story will make readers question the tales they\u2019ve been told, and root for girls to break down the constructs of the world around them.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "LGBT", "Retellings", "Romance", "Fiction", "GLBT (Queer)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Fairy Tales)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43900612-cinderella-is-dead"}, +{"book_title": "Collide", "author_name": "Shelly Crane", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 5282, "review_number": 341, "book_description": "Sherry has always known there was something out there. She's eighteen, works for a tabloid newspaper in Chicago and has a brother, Danny who is a lazy mooch. They live a pretty normal dull life with hippie parents and a normal existence. Then the moon dissapears and people start to go missing only to reappear later, but different. Sherry has an abusive ex-boyfriend who shows up and claims to be one of these beings that have been showing up around the world. He's no longer the same person in that body. He tells her he has come to protect her and her brother and takes her underground, against her will to save her, where they meet others like them. She begins to unravel the truth about Merrick, about what he's really doing here, about the way he looks at her, about the crazy dangerous world they live in. Can he convince her that he's here to help? Will she like what she finds when she opens up to the truth? Will he be the one to love her when everyone else has failed her? Will he be able to protect her?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11731782-collide"}, +{"book_title": "The Lost Code", "author_name": "Kevin Emerson", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2937, "review_number": 422, "book_description": "In the year 2086, Camp Eden promises summer \u201cthe way things used to be,\u201d back before the oceans rose, the sun became a daily enemy, and modern civilization sank into chaos. Located inside the EdenWest BioDome, the camp is an oasis of pine trees, cool water, and rustic charm.But all at Camp Eden is not what it seems.No one will know this better than 15-year-old Owen Parker. A strange underwater vision, even stranger wounds on Owen\u2019s neck, and a cryptic warning from the enchanting lifeguard Lilly hint at a mystery that will take Owen deep beneath Lake Eden and even deeper into the past. What he discovers could give him the chance to save the tattered planet. But first, Owen will have to escape Camp Eden alive\u2026", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fiction", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12924426-the-lost-code"}, +{"book_title": "Lioness Rampant", "author_name": "Tamora Pierce", "rating_score": 4.24, "rating_votes": 86703, "review_number": 1717, "book_description": "From Tamora Pierce, the final book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award.Having achieved her dream of becoming the first female knight errant, Alanna of Trebond is not sure what to do next. She has triumphed in countless bloody battles, and her adventures are already legendary. Perhaps being a knight errant is not all that Alanna needs\u2026but Alanna must push her uncertainty aside when she is challenged with the impossible. She must recover the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem with enormous power for good\u2014but only in the right hands. And she must work fast. Tortall is in terrible danger from all directions, with enemies great and small plotting to destroy everyone and everything Alanna loves.", "year_published": 1988, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Romance", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13837.Lioness_Rampant"}, +{"book_title": "Taran Wanderer", "author_name": "Lloyd Alexander", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 38995, "review_number": 1134, "book_description": "Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer; he has become a hero. Now he dreams of winning the hand of the Princess Eilonwy. Eager to find his origins, Taran sets off with the faithful Gurgi on a quest across the marvelous land of Prydain. Their journey takes them to the three witches in the Marshes of Morva, through the many realms of Prydain, and finally to the mystical Mirror of Llunet, which may hold a truth about Taran's identity that he cannot bear to face. In the course of his travels, Taran will learn much about his world and the good and bad people in it, but will also discover much about himself. After many hard lessons, Taran learns the secret of the Mirror Llunet and of the past--and finds not an ending but a beginning.", "year_published": 1967, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Childrens", "Adventure", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Classics", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24782.Taran_Wanderer"}, +{"book_title": "The Eighth Guardian", "author_name": "Meredith McCardle", "rating_score": 3.76, "rating_votes": 1167, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Amanda Obermann. Code name Iris.It\u2019s Testing Day. The day that comes without warning, the day when all juniors and seniors at The Peel Academy undergo a series of intense physical and psychological tests to see if they\u2019re ready to graduate and become government operatives. Amanda and her boyfriend Abe are top students, and they\u2019ve just endured thirty-six hours of testing. But they\u2019re juniors and don\u2019t expect to graduate. That\u2019ll happen next year, when they plan to join the CIA\u2014together.But when the graduates are announced, the results are shocking. Amanda has been chosen\u2014the first junior in decades. And she receives the opportunity of a lifetime: to join a secret government organization called the Annum Guard and travel through time to change the course of history. But in order to become the Eighth Guardian in this exclusive group, Amanda must say good-bye to everything\u2014her name, her family, and even Abe\u2014forever.Who is really behind the Annum Guard? And can she trust them with her life?", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Suspense"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17357347-the-eighth-guardian"}, +{"book_title": "Altered Carbon: Download Blues", "author_name": "Richard K. Morgan", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 281, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "In the distant future, the human body is a temporary and interchangeable commodity - if you can pay.For the interstellar elite, bodies are swapped", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42785688-altered-carbon"}, +{"book_title": "The Inquisitor\u2019s Apprentice", "author_name": "Chris Moriarty", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 1007, "review_number": 209, "book_description": "The day Sacha found out he could see witches was the worst day of his life. . . .Being an Inquisitor is no job for a nice Jewish boy. But when Sacha Kessler learns he can see witches, he\u2019s yanked out of everyday life on Hester Street and apprenticed to the New York Police Department\u2019s star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf.The Inquisitor\u2019s mission is to stop magical crime. And New York at the beginning of the twentieth century is a magical melting pot where each ethnic group has its own brand of homegrown witchcraft and magical gangs rule the streets from Hell\u2019s Kitchen to Chinatown.Soon Sacha has teamed up with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, daughter of one of the city\u2019s richest Wall Street Wizards\u2014and a spoiled snob, if you ask Sacha. Their first job is to find out who\u2019s trying to kill Thomas Edison.Edison has invented a mechanical witch detector that could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history. Every magician in town has a motive to kill him. But as the investigation unfolds, all the clues lead back to the Lower East Side. And Sacha soon realizes that his own family could be accused of murder!", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Literature (Jewish)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10173501-the-inquisitor-s-apprentice"}, +{"book_title": "The Summerhouse", "author_name": "Jude Deveraux", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 11497, "review_number": 905, "book_description": "Have you ever wanted to rewrite your past?Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating at a summerhouse in Maine, Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them expect the gift that awaits them at the summerhouse: the chance for each of them to turn their \u201cwhat-might-have-beens\u201d into reality\u2026Leslie, a suburban wife and mother, follows the career of a boy who pursued her in college wonders: what if she had chosen differently? Madison dropped a modeling career to help her high school boyfriend recover from an accident, even though he\u2019d jilted her. But what if she had said \u201cno\u201d when her old boyfriend had called? Ellie became a famous novelist, but a bitter divorce wiped out her earnings\u2014and shattered her belief in herself. Why had the \u201cjustice\u201d system failed her? And could she prevent its happening the second time around?Now, a mysterious \u201cMadame Zoya,\u201d offers each of them a chance to relive any three weeks from the past. Will the road not taken prove a better path? Each woman will have to decide for herself as she follows the dream that got away\u2026and each must choose the life that will truly satisfy the heart\u2019s deepest longings.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Womens Fiction (Chick Lit)", "Contemporary", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251979.The_Summerhouse"}, +{"book_title": "The End of Liberty", "author_name": "M.R. Forbes", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 1708, "review_number": 65, "book_description": "An ancient starship discovered\u2026 An eternal enemy revealed\u2026 An impossible mission to save humankind\u2026 The Goliath has been discovered, the first of its secrets revealed. Now the race is on for Captain Mitchell Williams and his crew to return to Liberty and recover Origin\u2019s lost memories before the enemy can complete their violent conquest. It's a mission with a near-zero chance of success. A mission that only the Riggers would be crazy enough to accept, and skilled enough to survive. A mission that will test the limits of Mitchell\u2019s mind, body, and soul, and force him to make an impossible choice that could cost the lives of millions. This is war, and if he can\u2019t win a battle for a single planet, how can he possibly change the outcome of a conflict that has raged beyond eternity? ------ The End of Liberty is the second book in the War Eternal series.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Action", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25631421-the-end-of-liberty"}, +{"book_title": "Shattered Past", "author_name": "Lindsay Buroker", "rating_score": 4.39, "rating_votes": 1505, "review_number": 106, "book_description": "An elite forces officer with a dreadful reputation. A bookish paleontologist with a love for mysteries. An ancient stronghold full of secrets that will take both of them to unearth. Professor Lilah Zirkander (yes, she\u2019s related to the famous pilot, and no, she can\u2019t get him to autograph your undergarments) is looking forward to a summer in the paleontology lab, researching and cataloging new fossils. But that summer takes an unexpected turn when the king sends her into the Ice Blades to a secret mine where ancient dragon bones have been discovered. Rumor has it that they\u2019re cursed and dangerous, but Lilah is more concerned about dealing with the outpost commander, a fierce officer with the temperament of a crabby badger. As punishment for irking the king, Colonel Vann Therrik is overseeing the hardened criminals working in the remote Magroth Crystal Mines. He would like a chance to redeem himself\u2014and escape the loathsome duty station\u2014but nothing is going his way. Cursed fossils have delayed production, miners are trying to escape, and now a scientist has shown up, making demands on his time. Worse, she\u2019s the cousin of his nemesis General Zirkander. As if one Zirkander in his world wasn\u2019t bad enough. Investigating the fossils leads Lilah and Vann into the depths of Magroth Mountain where centuries-old secrets lurk, and a long-forgotten threat stalks the passages. To have any chance at survival, they\u2019ll have to work together and perhaps learn that neither is what the other expected. Shattered Past is a stand-alone novel set in the author\u2019s Dragon Blood world.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28668462-shattered-past"}, +{"book_title": "Sniper", "author_name": "Jonathan P. Brazee", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 276, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "After a successful initial tour as a Marine rifleman, Lance Corporal Gracie Medicine Crow volunteers to become a scout-sniper, one of the deadliest\u2014and most dangerous\u2014military specialties in the United Federation Marine Corps. Gracie comes from the Aps\u00e1alooke Nation, a people with a long history of military tradition. Small in stature and considered stunningly beautiful, she is often underestimated, but that merely drives her to be the best sniper in the Corps. Driven by her need to excel, she tends to shut others out and focus on the mission at hand. But being a scout-sniper is far more than simple marksmanship. If she wants a career in the Corps, she must learn not only teamwork, but how to be a leader of Marines. ", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30324740-sniper"}, +{"book_title": "Scrivener's Moon", "author_name": "Philip Reeve", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 2241, "review_number": 206, "book_description": "In a future land once known as Britain, nomad tribes are preparing to fight a terrifying enemy - the first-ever mobile city. Before London can launch itself, young engineer Fever Crumb must journey to the wastelands of the North. She seeks the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8608257-scrivener-s-moon"}, +{"book_title": "Heat", "author_name": "R. Lee Smith", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 2046, "review_number": 309, "book_description": "Earth. A world quarantined since its discovery by the Far-Reachers of Jota's history. And where the fortunes of slavers and chemists have been made ever since.It was to Earth that Kanetus E'Var, the son of Jota's most ruthless slaver, escaped to make Vahst, a powerful drug manufactured from the human brain. And it was to Earth that Tagen Pahnee, Fourth-ranking officer of the Jotan Off-World Security Fleet, was sent to bring the criminal back to justice. Neither of them could have anticipated that at that moment, E'Var's hunting grounds were experiencing the worst heat wave in years, triggering the Jotan breeding cycle in both males.Home is not an option for either of them. Both are determined to find a way to work on this hostile planet, surrounded by humans, surrounded by dangers, surrounded by Heat.Adult readers only, due to graphic gore, violence, and explicit sexual situations.617 pages, 285,862 words", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Dark", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8151462-heat"}, +{"book_title": "Prince of Dreams", "author_name": "Lisa Kleypas", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 5902, "review_number": 344, "book_description": "A wealthy and bitter exile, he most dangerous and desirable man in all of England, he burns to possess a proud, headstrong beauty who is promised to another. But winning Emma Stokehurst's exquisite hand through threats and determination does nothing to fill the empty spaces in Nikolas' heart until passion's magic carries the handsome, tormented prince back to a bygone era of splendor and romantic dreams. For there his destiny awaits him in a distant life. And in one remarkable woman's tender touch, achingly familiar but gloriously new, he must seek the elusive promise of ecstasy . . .and learn, at last, to love.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Regency)", "Fiction", "Adult", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/693033.Prince_of_Dreams"}, +{"book_title": "The Warlock's Curse", "author_name": "M.K. Hobson", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 203, "review_number": 53, "book_description": "THE YEAR IS 1910. Eighteen-year-old Will Edwards has landed a prestigious apprenticeship at Detroit\u2019s Tesla Industries, the most advanced scientific research center in the United States. It\u2019s a plum prize for a young man who dreams of a career in the new science of Otherwhere Engineering.But his father doesn\u2019t want him to go. And he won\u2019t tell him why.Determined to get there by any means necessary, Will finds unexpected support along the way. His old friend Jenny Hansen\u2014daughter of a San Francisco timber baron\u2014is eager to help him for reasons of her own. And so is his estranged brother Ben, who he hasn\u2019t seen in over ten years.But running away turns out to be the easy part. On the first full moon after his eighteenth birthday, Will is stricken by a powerful magic\u2014a devastating curse laid upon his ancestors by the malevolent sangrimancer Aebedel Cowdray. Will must find a way to control the magic that possesses him\u2014or the vengeful warlock\u2019s spirit will destroy everything and everyone he loves.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Romance", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12675334-the-warlock-s-curse"}, +{"book_title": "The Art of Steampunk", "author_name": "Art Donovan", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 398, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "The Art of Steampunk seeks to celebrate the world of Steampunk: a world filled with beauty and innovation. \u00a0A world in which steam power and technology intertwine to create machines that are not only functional and practical, but unique and striking. \u00a0 \u00a0Inside, you will find the fantastical and stunning artwork of Steampunk artists from around the world. \u00a0The 17 artists featured on these pages, among the frontrunners of the Steampunk genre, have had their work displayed at an exhibition at The Museum of History of Science at the University of Oxford, UK and have attracted the media attention of BoingBoing, one of the world\u2019s largest blogs. \u00a0Their artwork consists of everything from clocks and watches to light fixtures and jewelry, but every piece demonstrates hours of painstaking work and devotion from its creator. \u00a0You will find that the artists themselves are just as unique and colorful as their masterpieces. \u00a0Fully embracing Steampunk ideology, many have adopted a Victorian alter ego\u2014a mad scientist persona to match the complicated intricacies of their artwork. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Art of Steampunk brings the vision of the Steampunk artist alive on the page, providing a unique insight into the captivating and dynamic world of a vastly underground genre.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Art", "Nonfiction", "Reference", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Art (Crafts)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9708869-the-art-of-steampunk"}, +{"book_title": "Mech Cadet Yu Vol. 2", "author_name": "Greg Pak", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 167, "review_number": 24, "book_description": "A young boy gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he bonds with a giant sentient robot and joins the ranks of the illustrious Sky Corps Academy to protect the world from alien threats.The second Sharg war has begun. As the alien invasion grows to a worldwide threat, the Mech Cadets answer the call alongside their robos to defend the planet. First year students, however, are grounded and forbidden from fighting on the front lines. But while training in secret, Stanford, Park, Olivetti, and Sanchez will discover that their enemy takes more shapes than they could have ever known.\u00a0 Bestselling author Greg Pak (The Hulk, Superman) and fan-favorite artist Takeshi Miyazawa (Runaways, Ms. Marvel) continue Stanford Yu\u2019s journey alongside his friends and robo mech as he begins to question what makes a hero in a time of war.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38747930-mech-cadet-yu-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "The Skinner", "author_name": "Neal Asher", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 5712, "review_number": 267, "book_description": "Neal Asher, whom Tor introduced to the American audience with Gridlinked, takes us deeper into his unique universe with an even more remarkable second novel, The Skinner.On the planet Spatterjay arrive three travelers: Janer, acting as the eyes of the hornet Hive mind, on a mission not yet revealed to him; Erlin, searching for Ambel -- the ancient sea captain who can teach her how to live; and Sable Keech, on a vendetta he cannot abandon, though he himself has been dead for 700 years. This remote world is mostly ocean, and it is a rare visitor who ventures beyond the safety of the island Dome. Outside it, only the native Hoopers dare risk the voracious appetites of the planet's wildlife. But somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop -- and Keech will not rest until he brings this legendary renegade to justice for hideous crimes committed centuries ago during the Prador Wars.While Keech is discovering that Hoop is now a monster -- his body and head living apart from each other -- Janer is bewildered by a place where the native inhabitants just will not die and angry when he finally learns the Hive mind's intentions for him. Meanwhile, Erlin thinks she has plenty of time to find the answers she seeks, but could not be more wrong. For one of the most brutal of the alien Prador is about to pay the planet a surreptitious visit, intent on exterminating all remaining witnesses to his wartime atrocities. As the visitors' paths converge, major hell is about to erupt in a chaotic waterscape where minor hell is already a remorseless fact of everyday life . . . and death.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adventure", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240297.The_Skinner"}, +{"book_title": "Expiration Day", "author_name": "William Campbell Powell", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 958, "review_number": 212, "book_description": "What happens when you turn eighteen and there are no more tomorrows?It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction\u2026.Tania Deeley has always been told that she\u2019s a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies called teknoids that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society.Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at The Lady Maud High School for Girls that Tania realizes that her best friend, Si\u00e2n, may be one. Returning home from the summer holiday, she is shocked by how much Si\u00e2n has changed. Is it possible that these changes were engineered by Oxted? And if Si\u00e2n could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania\u2019s life are not real?Driven by the need to understand what sets teknoids apart from their human counterparts, Tania begins to seek answers. But time is running out. For everyone knows that on their eighteenth \u201cbirthdays,\u201d teknoids must be returned to Oxted\u2014never to be heard from again.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction", "Futuristic", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Young Adult (Coming Of Age)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910147-expiration-day"}, +{"book_title": "Damage", "author_name": "David D. Levine", "rating_score": 3.86, "rating_votes": 214, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "In the extremities of war, we may know what we've been, but not what we will become. \"Damage\" is a tale of desperate times, desperate measures, and the inner life of a fighter spacecraft.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Short Stories", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novella", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Artificial Intelligence", "Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23311305-damage"}, +{"book_title": "The Compleat Bolo", "author_name": "Keith Laumer", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 436, "review_number": 25, "book_description": "The classic military dilemma--preventing those who defend you from turning on you--is seemingly solved with the implementation of the Bolos, mechanical servants with artificial intelligence and state-of-the-art high-tech weaponry. But when the implacable alien Deng invade Earth, the Bolos leap to the offensive with a war plan that doesn't take humanity into account.Contains:A Short History of the Bolo Fighting Machines (intro)The Night of the TrollsCourier (aka The Frozen Planet)Field TestThe Last CommandA Relic of WarCombat Unit", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/362561.The_Compleat_Bolo"}, +{"book_title": "Dark Arsenal", "author_name": "Cynthia Sax", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 430, "review_number": 48, "book_description": "A cyborg warrior and a Rebel female\u2019s first mission together might be their last. Arsenal considers himself to be a disposable cyborg. He drifts from assignment to assignment, forming no connections to anything or anyone. When the cyborg council requires a warrior for a high-risk mission, Arsenal volunteers. He believes no one will miss him if he dies. He doesn\u2019t realize he\u2019s one female\u2019s fantasy. The moment Vicuska glimpses Arsenal\u2019s image, she knows he\u2019s the male she wants to spend her last moments in the universe caressing. The Rebel female craves the cyborg\u2019s grim-lipped kisses, desires the touch of his hands, hears his deep voice in her dreams. Their mission will end in explosions and death. That is certain if they fail or if they succeed. Whether or not they\u2019ll find love during their dangerous assignment is the unknown. Dark Arsenal is a short companion story in the Cyborg Sizzle series and is meant to be read after Taking Vengeance. It is also a Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes violent universe.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Business (Amazon)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novella", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43131366-dark-arsenal"}, +{"book_title": "Man in the Empty Suit", "author_name": "Sean Ferrell", "rating_score": 3.13, "rating_votes": 2713, "review_number": 593, "book_description": "Say you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and drinks twelve-year-old Scotch (lots of it) with all the other versions of who he has been and who he will be. Sure, the party is the same year after year, but at least it's one party where he can really, well, be himself.The year he turns 39, though, the party takes a stressful turn for the worse. Before he even makes it into the grand ballroom for a drink he encounters the body of his forty-year-old self, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. As the older versions of himself at the party point out, the onus is on him to figure out what went wrong--he has one year to stop himself from being murdered, or they're all goners. As he follows clues that he may or may not have willingly left for himself, he discovers rampant paranoia and suspicion among his younger selves, and a frightening conspiracy among the Elders. Most complicated of all is a haunting woman possibly named Lily who turns up at the party this year, the first person besides himself he's ever seen at the party. For the first time, he has something to lose. Here's hoping he can save some version of his own life.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adult Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13531802-man-in-the-empty-suit"}, +{"book_title": "Lady Mechanika, Vol. 3: The Lost Boys of West Abbey", "author_name": "Joe Ben\u00edtez", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 565, "review_number": 122, "book_description": "Lady Mechanika's investigation into the murders of \"undesirable\" children in Mechanika City triggers an unexpected reaction from her subconscious self. But are they truly lost memories finally surfacing after so many years, or just simple nightmares? And what connection does the killer have to Lady Mechanika's past? Collects the complete third Lady Mechanika mini-series, The Lost Boys of West Abbey, including extra pages which were not published in the original comic books.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Mystery", "Science Fiction", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34427868-lady-mechanika-vol-3"}, +{"book_title": "Echo in Time", "author_name": "Lindsey Fairleigh", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 2426, "review_number": 238, "book_description": "An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Their love is destined to shatter the boundaries of time\u2026Archaeology grad student Alexandra Larson\u2019s world is turned upside down when her mother shares her deepest, darkest secret\u2014that she doesn\u2019t know the true identity of Lex\u2019s father. The revelation sparks a change within Lex, and her dreams become far too real. She sees things she shouldn\u2019t be able to see\u2026knows things she couldn\u2019t possibly know. Terrifying things. Deadly things.To distract her from the surreal changes taking over her life, Lex leaps at the chance to join an Egyptian excavation run by Oxford\u2019s enigmatic Professor Marcus Bahur. But the distraction might be more than she bargained for. While deciphering the secrets of a mysterious stone tablet, Lex falls headlong into a prophecy created by a dying god over four millennia ago. She must rely on her frightening new psychic powers to dig up the truth. And it doesn\u2019t take long for her visions to convince her that both Professor Bahur and his excavation are much more than they seem\u2026The past clashes with the present in this paranormal tale of ancient prophecies and warring gods. If you like Egyptian mythology, steamy romance, and headstrong characters who won\u2019t give up until they discover the truth, then you\u2019ll love the first installment in author Lindsey Fairleigh\u2019s sprawling time travel adventure.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Mythology)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36051843-echo-in-time"}, +{"book_title": "Radio Silence", "author_name": "Alyssa Cole", "rating_score": 3.64, "rating_votes": 1310, "review_number": 222, "book_description": "No one expects the apocalypse.Arden Highmore was living your average postgrad life in Rochester, New York, when someone flipped the \"off\" switch on the world. No cell phones, no power, no running water\u2014and no one knows why. All she and her roommate, John, know for sure is that they have to get out, stat. His family's cabin near the Canadian border seemed like the safest choice.It turns out isolation doesn't necessarily equal safety.When scavengers attack, it's John's ridiculously handsome brother, Gabriel, who comes to the rescue. He saves Arden's life, so he can't be all bad\u2026but he's also a controlling jerk who treats her like an idiot. Now their parents are missing and it seems John, Gabriel, their kid sister, Maggie, and Arden are the only people left alive who aren't bloodthirsty maniacs.No one knows when\u2014or if\u2014the lights will come back on and, in the midst of all that, Arden and Gabriel are finding that there's a fine line indeed between love and hate. How long can they expect to last in this terrifying new world, be it together or apart?", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "New Adult", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Contemporary Romance)", "Contemporary", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Romance (Interracial Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23500162-radio-silence"}, +{"book_title": "Adventure Time Vol. 2", "author_name": "Ryan North", "rating_score": 4.36, "rating_votes": 3802, "review_number": 208, "book_description": "The all-ages smash hit of the year is back with more algebraic adventures in the Land of Ooo!The all-ages hit of the year is back with a new volume collecting even more algebraic adventures! What happens when Finn the human and Jake the dog get a hold of Princess Bubblegum\u2019s time machine and travel to go to the future? Find out in this second volume!Collecting issues 5-9 of the smash hit ADVENTURE TIME comics series by Ryan North!", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Humor", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Young Adult", "Adventure", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Childrens"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16117503-adventure-time-vol-2"}, +{"book_title": "Snake Eyes", "author_name": "Tom Maddox", "rating_score": 2.97, "rating_votes": 39, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "Free online fiction.This is my mainline cyberpunk story, published first in OMNI then in Bruce Sterling's Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. I think this is the Japanese OMNI cover.This story was originally published in Omni Magazine, April, 1986; and in Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology,1986.Dark meat in the can--brown, oily, and flecked with mucus--gave off a repellent, fishy smell, and the taste of it rose in his throat, putrid and bitter, like something from a dead man\u2019s stomach.", "year_published": 1986, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Short Stories", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6483053-snake-eyes"}, +{"book_title": "Naked in Death", "author_name": "J.D. Robb", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 170427, "review_number": 6166, "book_description": "Here is the novel that started it all- the first book in J.D. Robb's number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke. It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing: passion. When a senator's daughter is killed, the secret life of prostitution she'd been leading is revealed. The high-profile case takes Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the rarefied circles of Washington politics and society. Further complicating matters is Eve's growing attraction to Roarke, who is one of the wealthiest and most influential men on the planet, devilishly handsome... and the leading suspect in the investigation.", "year_published": 1995, "genres": ["Mystery", "Romance", "Mystery (Crime)", "Fiction", "Romance (Romantic Suspense)", "Suspense", "Thriller", "Science Fiction", "Futuristic", "Thriller (Mystery Thriller)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479309.Naked_in_Death"}, +{"book_title": "Ultima", "author_name": "Stephen Baxter", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2685, "review_number": 240, "book_description": "Fresh from his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth sequence Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challenges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel PROXIMA.In PROXIMA we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the planet of Per Ardua - hatches that allowed us to step across light years of space as if we were stepping into another room. The universe opened up to us. Now in ULTIMA the consequences of this new freedom make themselves felt. And we discover that there are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and they have a plan for us. For some of us. But as we learn the true nature of the universe we also discover that we have countless pasts all meeting in this present and that our future is terrifyingly finite. It's time for us to fight to take back control.This is grand scale, big idea SF of the best possible sort. It is set to build on the massive success of PROXIMA and define Stephen Baxter's work going forward.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20632979-ultima"}, +{"book_title": "Sea of Ghosts", "author_name": "Alan Campbell", "rating_score": 3.95, "rating_votes": 751, "review_number": 76, "book_description": "When the last of the Gravediggers, an elite imperial infiltration unit, are disbanded and hunted down by the emperor they once served, munitions expert Colonel Thomas Granger takes refuge in the unlikeliest of places. He becomes a jailer in Ethugra - a prison city of poison-flooded streets and gaols in which a million enemies of the empire are held captive. But when Granger takes possession of two new prisoners, he realises that he can't escape his past so readily. Ianthe is a young girl with an extraordinary psychic talent. A gift that makes her unique in a world held to ransom by the powerful Haurstaf - the sisterhood of telepaths who are all that stand between the Empire and the threat of the Unmer, the powerful civilization of entropic sorcerers and dragon-mounted warriors. In this war-torn land, she promises to make Granger an extremely wealthy man, if he can only keep her safe from harm. This is what Granger is best at. But when other factions learn about Ianthe's unique ability, even Granger's skills of warfare are tested to their limits. While, Ianthe struggles to control the powers that are growing in ways no-one thought were possible. Another threat is surfacing: out there, beyond the bitter seas, an old and familiar enemy is rising - one who, if not stopped, will drown the world and all of humanity with it...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Dragons)", "Fantasy (Dark Fantasy)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Novels", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9329511-sea-of-ghosts"}, +{"book_title": "Iron & Blood", "author_name": "Joshua Dalzelle", "rating_score": 4.42, "rating_votes": 2029, "review_number": 72, "book_description": "The Black Fleet Saga continues\u2026 A human planet has been invaded. The enigmatic Darshik have landed troops on a frontier world and have begun subduing major cities even as their blockade repels all attempts by the fledgling United Terran Federation to mount a counteroffensive. The Federation's military command is desperate and with their fleet still in tatters they make a last ditch effort to free the planet: They pull Captain Jackson Wolfe out of retirement and put him in command of a ship they hope can get past the defending armada and provide support to the beleaguered Marines and civilians fighting on the surface of the contested world. There is no reasoning with this enemy. If the Terran Federation wants their planet back, they will have to pay the price. Iron & Blood is the second book of The Expansion Wars Trilogy and the fifth book of the Black Fleet Saga. ", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34019328-iron-blood"}, +{"book_title": "Arcadium", "author_name": "Sarah Gray", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 476, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "What is Arcadium? Florence knows but she\u2019s not telling anyone, and it could just be the key to the survival of the human race.Sixteen-year-old Florence West must journey across a disease ravaged Melbourne with her nine-year-old sister Liss, and she\u2019ll do anything to survive. Mostly that means staying clear of all people, the healthy ones on the run and the infected ones hungry for human flesh. But when she meets a man that speaks no English and a defiant set of brothers, Florence will be forced to question her ways. Because there\u2019s only so far you can go alone, right?Arcadium is a heart-stopping journey of hope across a ravaged urban land where survival always comes at a heavy price.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Horror (Zombies)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Cultural (Australia)", "Fiction", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15828780-arcadium"}, +{"book_title": "Wicked Captor", "author_name": "Zoey Draven", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 1156, "review_number": 91, "book_description": "A human female who unleashes his forbidden desires. A wicked alien mercenary. A desire hotter than the stars. Being abducted by aliens wasn\u2019t exactly on Cara Call\u2019s bucket list...and while her caged prison threatened to break her, it didn\u2019t extinguish her fight. When she\u2019s taken captive again by a massive, overbearing alien warrior, she comes out with fists blazing. Too bad her new captor is about as wicked and delicious as they come\u2026nipple piercings, scars, and all. Devix was once a proud warrior of Luxiria\u2014impossibly strong, universally feared, and full of carnal lusts and desires befitting his race. Until he was exiled, punished for a crime he didn\u2019t commit. Now, working as a ruthless mercenary in the Quadrants, his final job is delivering a feisty human pleasure mate to his employer. But when he realizes the female is his fated mate, with her lush curves and sharp tongue, he risks everything to keep her. Trapped on a small spaceship, journeying to who-knows-where, alone with an alien who awakens her darkest lusts, Cara begins to realize her strange attraction to her captor might be the least of her problems...especially with vengeful aliens hot on their tail. Features a spirited and sassy human female and a seven-foot-tall alien warrior with naughty fantasies and even naughtier -ahem- equipment. Full-length (65,000+ words), standalone Sci-Fi Romance novel!", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38090085-wicked-captor"}, +{"book_title": "The Transformers: All Hail Megatron, Volume 1", "author_name": "Shane McCarthy", "rating_score": 4.13, "rating_votes": 375, "review_number": 27, "book_description": "The Decepticons have won, the Autobots are defeated, and the time for conquest is at hand! After finally succeeding in defeating the Autobots, the Decepticons set about ruling our planet with an iron fist. Their forces invade and control New York City where, before long, they manage to cripple the United States. It's a war between the armed forces of the United States of America and a giant species of technologically advanced killing machines \u2014 a war that suddenly becomes incredibly one-sided! Meanwhile, the battered and defeated Autobots are struggling to survive a forced exile on their dead homeworld of Cybertron. Defeated due to a traitor amongst their ranks, the Autobots struggle to maintain their trust and unity... and nothing short of a miracle will save them from utter extinction!Volume One of this collection contains issues #1-6 of this startling series.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4988154-the-transformers"}, +{"book_title": "Paniha's Taniwha", "author_name": "A.W. Exley", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 302, "review_number": 28, "book_description": "Captain Lachlan Hawke, notorious rogue and airship pirate, is about to explore uncharted territory\u2026 inside his own headLoki pilots a long-range airship to the farthest reaches of the globe and touches down in an alternate Aotearoa under Maori rule. He is tasked with establishing a trade route with the new country but what he finds is a strange beast killing the settlers and tensions igniting between the English and Maori inhabitants. There\u2019s also a certain fierce Maori (or two) who make pangs spear through his torso and strange new emotions spring to life in his mind.Before Loki can return to England he needs to secure access to valuable trade goods, defuse hostilities, and find a killer. He should also see a doctor about that ache in his chest\u2026 it just might kill him.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Short Stories", "Historical (Victorian)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33299901-paniha-s-taniwha"}, +{"book_title": "Rise of the Arcane Fire", "author_name": "Kristin Bailey", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 344, "review_number": 49, "book_description": "After her parents died in a fire and her grandfather disappeared, Meg Whitlock thought her life had come to a standstill. But when she learned that the pocket watch her grandfather left her was really an intricate key, Meg, with the help of a stable hand named Will, uncovered the Amusementists: members of an elite secret society dedicated to discovery and shrouded in mystery. Now the Amusementists are convening in London, and Meg is determined to join their ranks. But being the first girl in the Order has its difficulties, and with Will away in Scotland Meg fears she can\u2019t trust anyone but herself. Her worries are only supported by the sabotage happening at the academy, with each altered invention being more harmful than the last. With threats lurking around every corner, and while trying to prove her worth as the first female Amusementist, Meg must uncover the identity of the academy\u2019s saboteur before the botched devices become deadly. And after she finds evidence of a sinister and forbidden invention, Meg must stop it - or risk the entire future of the Amusementists.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Romance", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13597740-rise-of-the-arcane-fire"}, +{"book_title": "The Light at the Bottom of the World", "author_name": "London Shah", "rating_score": 3.79, "rating_votes": 885, "review_number": 288, "book_description": "In the last days of the twenty-first century, sea creatures swim through the ruins of London. Trapped in the abyss, humankind wavers between fear and hope--fear of what lurks in the depths around them, and hope that they might one day find a way back to the surface. When sixteen-year-old submersible racer Leyla McQueen is chosen to participate in the prestigious annual marathon, she sees an opportunity to save her father, who has been arrested on false charges. The Prime Minister promises the champion whatever their heart desires. But the race takes an unexpected turn, forcing Leyla to make an impossible choice. Now she must brave unfathomable waters and defy a corrupt government determined to keep its secrets, all the while dealing with a guarded, hotheaded companion she never asked for in the first place. If Leyla fails to discover the truths at the heart of her world, or falls prey to her own fears, she risks capture--or worse. And her father will be lost to her forever.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43885674-the-light-at-the-bottom-of-the-world"}, +{"book_title": "Forsaken by Night", "author_name": "Larissa Ione", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1088, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Desire collides with danger as a vampire and a shapeshifter cross paths in this searing MoonBound Clan story from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling paranormal romance author Larissa Ione.After accidentally shifting into a wolf\u2014and getting stuck\u2014Tehya, herself a vampire, has spent the last twelve years as the pet of Lobo, another vampire who has the unique gift of communicating with wolves. When Lobo found Tehya starving and nearly frozen to death, he took her in and nursed her back to health, all the while completely unaware that she was really a fellow vampire. But there was always something special about her, and he finds out exactly how special after she\u2019s injured and returned to her true form. Desire collides with danger as he soon finds that he must protect not only Tehya but also himself...Originally published in the Blood Red Kiss anthology.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Short Stories", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34885477-forsaken-by-night"}, +{"book_title": "Doubleblind", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 4979, "review_number": 343, "book_description": "It\u2019s not easy to tread lightly wearing steel-toed boots.Sirantha Jax isn\u2019t known for diplomatic finesse. As a \u201cJumper\u201d who navigates ships through grimspace, she\u2019s used to kicking ass first and taking names later\u2014much later. Not exactly the obvious choice to sell the Conglomerate to the Ithtorians, a people whose opinions of humans are as hard as their exoskeletons.And Ithiss-Tor council meetings aren\u2019t the only place where Ambassador Jax needs to maneuver carefully. Her lover, March, is frozen in permanent \u201ckill\u201d mode, and his hair-trigger threatens to sabotage the talks\u2014not to mention their relationship.But Jax won\u2019t give up on the man or the mission. With the Outskirts beleaguered by raiders, pirates, and the flesh-eating Morgut, an alliance with Ithiss-Tor may be humanity\u2019s only hope.Which has Jax wondering why a notorious troublemaker like her was given the job.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Adult", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6453280-doubleblind"}, +{"book_title": "The Past Through Tomorrow: Vol. 2", "author_name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 631, "review_number": 4, "book_description": "Here, in volume two of two volumes, are the other half of the stories, novelettes and novellas which make up Heinlein's famous Future History -- the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work. Heinlein wrote most of the Future History stories early in his career, between 1939 and 1941 and between 1945 and 1950. Most of the Future History stories written prior to 1967 are collected in the two volumes of The Past Through Tomorrow.Contents:* Introduction - Damon Knight* \"\u2014We Also Walk Dogs\"* Searchlight* Ordeal in Space* The Green Hills of Earth* Logic of Empire* The Menace from Earth* \"If This Goes On\u2014\"* Coventry* Misfit", "year_published": 1977, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Short Stories", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1427078.The_Past_Through_Tomorrow"}, +{"book_title": "The Remnant", "author_name": "Tim LaHaye", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 22922, "review_number": 320, "book_description": "As the battered earth reels under judgments from heaven, Global community leader Nicolae Carpathia tightens the screws on anyone who refuses to proclaim total allegiance to him. He has a million of his enemies just where he wants them: massed at Petra and within striking distance of devastating firepower. Meanwhile, the Tribulation Force is compromised, forcing Rayford Steele, Buck Williams, and the others to run for their lives.This tenth novel in the best-selling series of all time sends the world hurtling toward Armageddon, the apocalyptic battle between good and evil.\u00a92002 Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (P)2002 Recorded Books, LLC", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Christian Fiction", "Christian", "Fiction", "Religion", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Religion (Christianity)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Religion (Faith)", "Spirituality"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27530.The_Remnant"}, +{"book_title": "Night's Pawn", "author_name": "Tom Dowd", "rating_score": 3.45, "rating_votes": 294, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "With Night's Pawn, Tom Dowd has taken the bestselling, critically acclaimed Shadowrun series to new heights. This fantastic series has ripped open the boundaries defining fantasy and science fiction and forged virtually a new genre. In this Shadowrun novel, Jason Chase retires to get away from the action, but it comes back to haunt him as he comes face-to-face with an enemy he'd left for dead.", "year_published": 1993, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Games (Role Playing Games)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3071927-night-s-pawn"}, +{"book_title": "A Viking For The Viscountess", "author_name": "Michelle Willingham", "rating_score": 3.94, "rating_votes": 369, "review_number": 63, "book_description": "An alternate cover edition can be found here.Juliana Arthur, the Viscountess Hawthorne, has been thrown out of her husband's estate and her marriage declared invalid. With a small son to care for, she desperately needs a strong hero to rescue them from poverty and suffering.\n\nA Viking wasn't quite what she had in mind....\n\nArik Thorgrim is caught between worlds. After dying from a battle wound, he expects to find the glory of Valhalla where he can dwell among the gods. Instead, he's brought forward a thousand years in time, to a beautiful woman who tempts him beyond reason.Juliana doesn't know what to do with this sinfully handsome Viking warrior who brings weapons into a ballroom and refuses to be tamed. Yet beneath his barbaric ways is a man of honor, a man who vows to face down her enemies and fight for her son's future. But as Arik wages a battle against her heart, Juliana is afraid of loving a man whose time has already run out...", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Romance", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Medieval Romance (Viking Romance)", "Childrens", "Historical (Regency)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23557009-a-viking-for-the-viscountess"}, +{"book_title": "Vector Prime", "author_name": "R.A. Salvatore", "rating_score": 3.81, "rating_votes": 14189, "review_number": 426, "book_description": "Twenty-one years have passed since the heroes of the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star, breaking the power of the Emperor. Since then, the New Republic has valiantly struggled to maintain peace and prosperity among the peoples of the galaxy. But unrest has begun to spread and threatens to destroy the Republic's tenuous reign.Into this volatile atmosphere comes Nom Anor, a charismatic firebrand who heats passions to the boiling point, sowing seeds of dissent for his own dark motives. And as the Jedi and the Republic focus on internal struggles, a new threat surfaces from beyond the farthest reaches of the Outer Rim--an enemy bearing weapons and technology unlike anything New Republic scientists have ever seen.Suddenly, Luke Skywalker; his wife, Mara; Han Solo; Leia Organa Solo; and Chewbacca--along with the Solo children--are thrust again into battle, to defend the freedom so many have fought and died for. But this time, the power of the Force itself may not be enough . . .", "year_published": 1999, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Novels", "War", "Media Tie In"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192214.Vector_Prime"}, +{"book_title": "Ruthless", "author_name": "Susan Kaye Quinn", "rating_score": 4.27, "rating_votes": 77, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Urban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist ***eighth episode of the nine-part serial*** What\u2019s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more \u201cworthy\u201d\u2026 all while paying the price with black marks on their souls.Ruthless is approximately 14,000 words or 56 pages, and is the eighth of nine episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial.With Elena's help, Lirium attempts to slash into Candy's files to get evidence about the conspiracy to transfer out kids.Contains mature content and themes.OPTIONED FOR VIRTUAL REALITY BY IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT 2014 Semi-Finalist in Science Fiction in the Kindle Book AwardsIt is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series. There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together. READING ORDERSeason One \u2013 Lirium - COMPLETEEpisodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, PassionSeason Two \u2013 Wraith **available for pre-order** releases 12.15.14Episodes 10-18: Wraith, Specter, Menace, Temptation, Shattered, Penance, Judgment, Corruption, Atonement", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Novella"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17925525-ruthless"}, +{"book_title": "The Deep-Sea Duke", "author_name": "Lauren James", "rating_score": 4.0, "rating_votes": 2, "review_number": 1, "book_description": "When Hugo and Ada travel to their friend Dorian\u2019s planet for the holidays, android Hugo is anxious about being accepted by Dorian\u2019s powerful family. But when they arrive on Hydrox, there are more pressing things to worry about, as the planet has been overrun by refugee butterflies. Displaced from their home by climate change, the butterflies have been offered sanctuary by Dorian\u2019s parents, but they\u2019re quickly running out of space. Meanwhile, beneath the seas, a strange creature is wreaking all kinds of havoc \u2026Can Hugo, Dorian and Ada step in before the crisis gets out of control?The sequel to The Starlight Watchmaker is particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers aged 12+.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Novella", "LGBT", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51021935-the-deep-sea-duke"}, +{"book_title": "A Face Like Glass", "author_name": "Frances Hardinge", "rating_score": 4.18, "rating_votes": 6200, "review_number": 1114, "book_description": "In Caverna, lies are an art \u2014 and everyone's an artist...In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare. They create wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer even as they slit your throat. The people of Caverna are more ordinary, but for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned. Only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to show (or fake) joy, despair or fear \u2014 at a price.Into this dark and distrustful world comes Neverfell, a little girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times. For Neverfell's emotions are as obvious on her face as those of the most skilled Facesmiths, though entirely genuine. And that makes her very dangerous indeed...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Adventure", "Mystery", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12666103-a-face-like-glass"}, +{"book_title": "Fair Coin", "author_name": "E.C. Myers", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 1265, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "Epraim is horrified when he comes home from school one day to find his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. Even more disturbing than her suicide attempt is the reason for it: the dead boy she identified at the hospital that afternoon--a boy who looks exactly like him. While examining his dead double's belongings, Ephraim discovers a strange coin that makes his wishes come true each time he flips it. Before long, he's wished his alcoholic mother into a model parent, and the girl he's liked since second grade suddenly notices him. But Ephraim soon realizes that the coin comes with consequences --several wishes go disastrously wrong, his best friend Nathan becomes obsessed with the coin, and the world begins to change in unexpected ways. As Ephraim learns the coin's secrets and how to control its power, he must find a way to keep it from Nathan and return to the world he remembers. (For ages 12 & up)", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10151730-fair-coin"}, +{"book_title": "Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 3", "author_name": "Yuu Watase", "rating_score": 4.16, "rating_votes": 6587, "review_number": 101, "book_description": "Shy high school student Riko Izawa aches for a boyfriend but guys just won't look her way. Then one day she signs up for a three-day trial of a mysterious \"lover figurine,\" and the next thing she knows, a cute naked guy is delivered to her doorstep--and he wants to be her boyfriend!Has Riko died and gone to heaven? The cute naked guy turns out to be smart, super nice, stylish and a gourmet chef. Plus, he looks like a million bucks\u00bf. Trouble is, that's about what he's going to cost Riko because she didn't return him in time!", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Manga)", "Romance", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Manga (Shojo)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Comics Manga", "Fantasy", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497248.Absolute_Boyfriend_Vol_3"}, +{"book_title": "The Infernal Path", "author_name": "Kurtis J. Wiebe", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1328, "review_number": 175, "book_description": "The further adventures of the booze guzzling, death dealing battle maidens-for-hire in the business of killing all the gods\u2019 creatures for profit. Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric, Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief and Braga the Orc Princess.RAT QUEENS is a modern spin on an old school genre, a monster killing epic with a twisted sense of humor.Collects RAT QUEENS Volume 2 #11-15 and NEON STATIC SPECIAL", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fantasy", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Fiction", "Adult", "Comics (Comic Book)", "LGBT", "Humor", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40629281-the-infernal-path"}, +{"book_title": "Boy + Bot", "author_name": "Ame Dyckman", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 5276, "review_number": 710, "book_description": "One day, a boy and a robot meet in the woods. They play. They have fun.But when Bot gets switched off, Boy thinks he's sick. The usual remedies\u2014applesauce, reading a story\u2014don't help, so Boy tucks the sick Bot in, then falls asleep.Bot is worried when he powers on and finds his friend powered off. He takes Boy home with him and tries all his remedies: oil, reading an instruction manual. Nothing revives the malfunctioning Boy! Can the Inventor help fix him?Using the perfect blend of sweetness and humor, this story of an adorable duo will win the hearts of the very youngest readers.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Humor", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Kids"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12448586-boy-bot"}, +{"book_title": "Much Ado in the Moonlight", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1917, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Lynn Kurland pens a wonderfully romantic tale about an eight-hundred-year-old ghost and the modern woman who turns his plans for a peaceful afterlife upside down\u2026When Victoria McKinnon\u2019s brother offers to finance her production of Hamlet, she leaps at the chance. She can\u2019t imagine anything better than staging Shakespeare\u2019s masterpiece in an honest-to-goodness English castle. There\u2019s just one problem: the place is haunted by a grumpy, gorgeous Highland warrior who\u2019s furious that anyone dares to invade his home.Connor MacDougal has no intention of relinquishing his authority over Thorpewold castle to anyone, let alone a McKinnon. But when he catches a glimpse of the beautiful intruder, suddenly he can\u2019t help but wonder why it\u2019s taken eight hundred years into his afterlife to find the love of a lifetime\u2026", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Fantasy", "Historical", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50720.Much_Ado_in_the_Moonlight"}, +{"book_title": "The Beautiful Land", "author_name": "Alan Averill", "rating_score": 3.68, "rating_votes": 784, "review_number": 140, "book_description": "Takahiro O\u2019Leary has a very special job\u2026 \u00a0 \u2026working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines\u2014as many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great gig\u2014until information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world. \u00a0 If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high school\u2014because her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Tak\u2019s ravings of multiple realities. The only way to save her is for Tak to use the time travel device he \u201cborrowed\u201d to transport them both to an alternate timeline. \u00a0 But what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Land\u2014and he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it. \u00a0 The switch is thrown, and reality begins to warp\u2014horribly. And Tak realizes that to save Sam, he must save the entire world\u2026", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Horror", "Adult", "Adult Fiction", "Contemporary", "Speculative Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15812169-the-beautiful-land"}, +{"book_title": "Manifesto Cyborg", "author_name": "Donna J. Haraway", "rating_score": 3.92, "rating_votes": 1238, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, \"creatura della realt\u00e0 sociale econtemporaneamente della fiction\", il libro suggerisce l'inevitabilit\u00e0 dellasua presenza al centro della riflessione femminista. Si aprono, secondo l'autrice, enormi potenzialit\u00e0 per un femminismo cyborg che tenga conto della precedente riflessione socialista e non faccia leva sulla matrice naturale comeil pensiero delle politiche della differenza. Questa teoria socialfemministavuole conservare una visione globale, che tenga conto della rivoluzione industriale in atto che crea una nuova classe operaia, nuove sessualit\u00e0 e nuoveetnicit\u00e0, mettendo in radicale discussione il sistema simbolico della famigliadell'uomo.", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Feminism", "Philosophy", "Nonfiction", "Philosophy (Theory)", "Science", "Writing (Essays)", "Gender", "Sociology", "Anthropology", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7420442-manifesto-cyborg"}, +{"book_title": "Newton's Cannon", "author_name": "Greg Keyes", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 1605, "review_number": 96, "book_description": "A dazzling quest whose outcome will raise humanity to unparalleled heights of glory--or ring down a curtain of endless night . . .1681: When Sir Isaac Newton turns his restless mind to the ancient art of alchemy, he unleashes Philosopher's Mercury, a primal source of matter and a key to manipulating the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Now, as France and England battle for its control, Louis XIV calls for a new weapon--a mysterious device known only as Newton's Cannon.Half a world away, a young apprentice named Benjamin Franklin stumbles across a dangerous secret. Pursued by a deadly enemy--half scientist, half sorcerer--Ben makes his fugitive way to England. Only Newton himself can help him now. But who will help Sir Isaac? For he was not the first to unleash the Philosopher's Mercury. Others were there before him. Creatures as scornful of science as they are of mankind. And burning to be rid of both . . .", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Speculative Fiction", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344754.Newton_s_Cannon"}, +{"book_title": "Clink", "author_name": "Kelly DiPucchio", "rating_score": 3.98, "rating_votes": 505, "review_number": 104, "book_description": "Clink was a state-of-the-art robot with the dazzling ability to make toast and play music at the same time. But that was many years ago.Now kids want snazzier robots who do things like play baseball and bake cookies. So day after day, Clink sits on a shelf and sadly watches as his friends leave with their new owners. He almost gives up on ever finding a home\u2014until the day Clink spies a boy who just might be able to be the right one for him. . . .From #1\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author Kelly DiPucchio and new talent Matthew Myers comes a funny and heartwarming story that lovers of\u00a0Corduroy\u00a0will adore.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Science Fiction", "Science (Technology)", "Humor", "Childrens (Juvenile)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Psychology (Growth Mindset)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8731327-clink"}, +{"book_title": "Step Alien", "author_name": "Sue Mercury", "rating_score": 3.47, "rating_votes": 470, "review_number": 38, "book_description": "Kira is shocked when Alex shows up on her doorstep after he\u2019s been missing for six years. She\u2019s thankful her stepbrother is alive, but with his arrival her entire life changes in a matter of hours. Alex confesses he isn\u2019t exactly human, he\u2019s part of a royal alien family, and he\u2019s spent his missing years on his home world completing his final growth cycles and learning about his people. At over seven feet tall and with muscles like a gladiator, Prince Alex looks like a deadly weapon. But she soon realizes he\u2019s still the same Alex she\u2019s always secretly loved, and when he confesses his feelings for her it seems too good to be true. Then his royal highness drops the ultimate bombshell: his Reestrian mating urge is almost upon him and it\u2019s her he aches to claim, but they must leave for Reestria soon. Problems arise when the American president announces the existence of Alex\u2019s species months before schedule, and in the mass panic all Reestrians must evacuate Earth until humans calm the freak down. Alex arrives on his home world with Kira, and it\u2019s all he can do to keep from ripping her clothes off before they reach the privacy of his chambers. But then she goes missing. With the full force of his mating urge upon him, all will be lost if he doesn\u2019t find Kira soon and claim the feisty little human as his. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Science Fiction", "Romance", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Short Stories", "Romance (M F Romance)", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25356246-step-alien"}, +{"book_title": "Edges", "author_name": "Linda Nagata", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 700, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "From the Edge of Apocalypse:Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization\u2014those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties\u2014have all fallen to ruins. Powerful telescopes can see only dust and debris where once there were orbital mega-structures so huge they eclipsed the light of their parent stars.No one knows for sure what caused the Hallowed Vasties to fail, but a hardened adventurer named Urban intends to find out. He has the resources to do it. He commands a captive alien starship fully capable of facing the dangers that lie beyond Deception Well.With a ship\u2019s company of explorers and scientists, Urban is embarking on a voyage of re-discovery. They will be the first in centuries to confront the hazards of an inverted frontier as they venture back along the path of human migration. Their goal: to unravel the mystery of the Hallowed Vasties and to discover what monstrous life might have grown up among the ruins.Edges is a new entry point into the classic story world of Linda Nagata\u2019s The Nanotech Succession.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Artificial Intelligence", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adult", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43483913-edges"}, +{"book_title": "The Gilded Scarab", "author_name": "Anna Butler", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 434, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "When Captain Rafe Lancaster is invalided out of the Britannic Imperium\u2019s Aero Corps after crashing his aerofighter during the Second Boer War, his eyesight is damaged permanently, and his career as a fighter pilot is over. Returning to Londinium in late November 1899, he\u2019s lost the skies he loved, has no place in a society ruled by an elite oligarchy of powerful Houses, and is hard up, homeless, and in desperate need of a new direction in life. Everything changes when he buys a coffeehouse near the Britannic Imperium Museum in Bloomsbury, the haunt of Aegyptologists. For the first time in years, Rafe is free to be himself. In a city powered by luminiferous aether and phlogiston, and where powerful men use House assassins to target their rivals, Rafe must navigate dangerous politics, deal with a jealous and possessive ex-lover, learn to make the best coffee in Londinium, and fend off murder and kidnap attempts before he can find happiness with the man he loves.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Fiction", "Historical (Victorian)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24656775-the-gilded-scarab"}, +{"book_title": "Final Hours", "author_name": "Cate Dean", "rating_score": 3.83, "rating_votes": 711, "review_number": 61, "book_description": "One man's death will change the future. Only two people can save him - if they have the courage to trust each other. Elizabeth Barritt fought hard to put her childhood behind her. Now she has the chance to move forward, to reach out for a new, exciting future. All she has to do is take the first step. And she does - straight into Jackson Kane's path. He is a time traveler, on the hunt for a rogue agent.When Kane is injured protecting Elizabeth from that agent, she makes a decision that will change her life, in ways she can't even begin to grasp. She takes him home. Once he is healed enough to travel, Kane goes after the agent, chasing him back to war-torn London. But his journey back takes a sideways turn, forcing Elizabeth to make another choice. She follows him into the past, to help him stop one man from changing their future.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20883071-final-hours"}, +{"book_title": "Palimpsest", "author_name": "Catherynne M. Valente", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 4637, "review_number": 813, "book_description": "In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger\u2019s kiss.\u2026\n\n\nBetween life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse\u2014a voyage permitted only to those who\u2019ve always believed there\u2019s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They\u2019ve each lost something important\u2014a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life\u2014and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Magical Realism", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "LGBT", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3973532-palimpsest"}, +{"book_title": "The House of Daniel", "author_name": "Harry Turtledove", "rating_score": 3.37, "rating_votes": 282, "review_number": 90, "book_description": "Since the Big Bubble popped in 1929, life in the United States hasn\u2019t been the same. Hotshot wizards will tell you nothing\u2019s really changed, but then again, hotshot wizards aren\u2019t looking for honest work in Enid, Oklahoma. No paying jobs at the mill, because zombies will work for nothing. The diner on Main Street is seeing hard times as well, because a lot fewer folks can afford to fly carpets in from miles away.Jack Spivey\u2019s just another down-and-out trying to stay alive, doing a little of this and a little of that. Sometimes that means making a few bucks playing ball with the Enid Eagles, against teams from as many as two counties away. And sometimes it means roughing up rival thugs for Big Stu, the guy who calls the shots in Enid.But one day Jack knocks on the door of the person he\u2019s supposed to \u201cdeal with\u201d\u2014and realizes that he\u2019s not going to do any such thing to the young lady who answers. This means he needs to get out of the reach of Big Stu, who didn\u2019t get to where he is by letting defiance go unpunished.Then the House of Daniel comes to town\u2014a brash band of barnstormers who\u2019ll take on any team, and whose antics never fail to entertain. Against the odds Jack secures a berth with them. Now they\u2019re off to tour an America that\u2019s as shot through with magic as it is dead broke. Jack will never be the same\u2014nor will baseball.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Sports (Baseball)", "Sports (Sports)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror (Zombies)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114456-the-house-of-daniel"}, +{"book_title": "The Vanished", "author_name": "Melinda Metz", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 960, "review_number": 20, "book_description": "After being accidentally shipped back to the home planet, alien teenager Alex finds himself in grave danger, while Adam and Liz uncover evidence that someone else in Roswell is hunting aliens as well.", "year_published": 2000, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Media Tie In (Tv)", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/540183.The_Vanished"}, +{"book_title": "Rise & Fall", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.38, "rating_votes": 5135, "review_number": 675, "book_description": "Action. Comedy. Romance. And that one weird guy. After an attack by the Coalition leaves THIRDS Team Leader Sloane Brodie critically injured, agent Dexter J. Daley swears to make Beck Hogan pay for what he\u2019s done. But Dex\u2019s plans for retribution are short-lived. With Ash still on leave with his own injuries, Sloane in the hospital, and Destructive Delta in the Coalition\u2019s crosshairs, Lieutenant Sparks isn\u2019t taking any chances. Dex\u2019s team is pulled from the case, with the investigation handed to Team Leader Sebastian Hobbs. Dex refuses to stand by while another team goes after Hogan, and decides to put his old HPF detective skills to work to find Hogan before Theta Destructive, no matter the cost. With a lengthy and painful recovery ahead of him, the last thing Sloane needs is his partner out scouring the city, especially when the lies\u2014however well intentioned\u2014begin to spiral out of control. Sloane is all too familiar with the desire to retaliate, but some things are more important, like the man who\u2019s pledged to stand beside him. As Dex starts down a dark path, it\u2019s up to Sloane to show him what\u2019s at stake, and finally put a name to what\u2019s in his heart.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "LGBT", "Mystery (Crime)", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48667821-rise-fall"}, +{"book_title": "The Human Blend", "author_name": "Alan Dean Foster", "rating_score": 3.2, "rating_votes": 675, "review_number": 112, "book_description": "Criminals are punished through genetic engineering and bodily manipulation - which poses profound questions about what it means to be human.Given his name because radical surgery and implants have reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. His partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, has also been physically altered with nanocarbonic prosthetic legs and high-strength fast-twitch muscle fibers that give him great jumping abilities. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and Jiminy murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to amputate and then fence his sophisticated artificial hand. But the hapless victim also happens to be carrying an unusual silver thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium. Ever quick to scent potential profit, Whispr and Jiminy grab the thread as well.Chance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Things have not gone smoothly for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious thread. Powerful forces are searching for him, and Jiminy has vanished. All Whispr wants to do is sell the thread as quickly as he can. When he offers to split the profits with Ingrid in exchange for her medical services, she makes an astonishing discovery.So begins a unique partnership. Unlike Whispr, Ingrid is a natural, with no genetic or bodily alteration. She is also a Harvard-educated physician, while Whispr's smarts are strictly of the street variety. Yet together they make a formidable team -\u201das long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are tracking them.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7955817-the-human-blend"}, +{"book_title": "Shadow of a Dead Star", "author_name": "Michael Shean", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 266, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "Seattle, 2078. The future hasn't been kind to the spirit of humanity; commercial obsession and technological fetishism rules the day, religion and belief has died screaming in the fires of war, and what remains is moral decrepitude. Life in the future is hard on the soul.As an agent of the Industrial Security Bureau, Thomas Walken knows that better than anyone. His job is to keep the worst kind of black-market technology out of the hands of citizens, technology born out of the shadowy nation nicknamed Wonderland. But the kind of fantasies that come out of that place aren't for the good people of the world. Wonderland technology is like black magic made real.Walken's newest assignment starts out simply: intercept a smuggled shipment of Princess Dolls, little girls turned into sex toys, and bring them into custody. But when the girls are hijacked from federal custody and Walken gives chase, he finds a trail of bodies in their wake. Before he's through, Walken will find himself confronted revelations that will answer every question that the troubled lawman has ever had about himself and the world he lives in - but his mind and soul may not survive it.A dark, brooding piece of future noir, SHADOW OF A DEAD STAR will take you down the rabbit hole on a ride you won't soon forget.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11822933-shadow-of-a-dead-star"}, +{"book_title": "Gray: Part I", "author_name": "Lou Cadle", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1201, "review_number": 80, "book_description": "\nA dense black cloud boiled up in the southeastern sky. It rose high and fast, like a time-lapse movie of the birth of a thunderhead. But it was no rain cloud. Wholly black, it reached up and loomed over her, blocking out the sun. Somehow she knew it was Death coming at her.\n Pre-med student Coral is on a vacation in Idaho when something terrible happens. The black cloud is followed by a wildfire and searing heat that lasts for days. She survives deep in a cave but emerges days later to find the world transformed, a world of blackened trees, an ash-filled sky, and no living creatures except her. So begins her desperate journey: to find water, and food, and other survivors...and the answer to the mystery of what happened.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Audiobook"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24927125-gray"}, +{"book_title": "The Return of the Emperor", "author_name": "Chris Bunch", "rating_score": 4.04, "rating_votes": 905, "review_number": 15, "book_description": "Book 6 of the million-selling STEN series.", "year_published": 1990, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Business (Amazon)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714724.The_Return_of_the_Emperor"}, +{"book_title": "Callie's Catastrophe", "author_name": "Ruby Dixon", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 2207, "review_number": 264, "book_description": "What\u2019s a bigger disaster than being stranded on an ice planet with a bunch of aliens, never to return home? Resonating to the biggest jerk of all those aliens, of course. I hate M\u2019tok, and it seems to be mutual. He thinks I\u2019m ugly and unpleasant, and doesn\u2019t understand why I don\u2019t just fling myself at him. In his eyes, resonance has decided, and that\u2019s that.Problem is, resonance keeps pushing us together. And when that doesn\u2019t make me jump into his furs\u2026he steals me away from the camp. I can\u2019t avoid him if there\u2019s nowhere to go.I want to hate him even more for that. But I keep finding out that M\u2019tok isn\u2019t who I thought he was. And the man I hate? Doesn\u2019t hate me at all\u2026", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (M F Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48659276-callie-s-catastrophe"}, +{"book_title": "Yesterday's Gone: Episode 1", "author_name": "Sean Platt", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 2479, "review_number": 257, "book_description": "On October 15 at 2:15 a.m. everyone on Earth vanished.Well, almost everyone.A scattered few woke alone in a world where there are no rules other than survival... at any cost.A journalist wanders the horrible reality of an empty New York in search of his wife and son.A serial killer must hunt in a land where prey is now an endangered species.A mother shields her young daughter from danger, though every breath fills her with terror.A bullied teen is thrilled to find everyone gone. Until the knock at the door.A fugitive survives a fiery plane crash. Will he be redeemed, or return to what he's best at: the kill?An eight year old boy sets out on a journey to find his missing family. What he finds will change him forever.These survivors aren\u2019t alone...Someone or something is watching them.And waiting...Strangers unite.Sides are chosen.Will humanity survive what it never saw coming?The only certainty is that Yesterday\u2019s Gone.You\u2019ve never read anything like Yesterday\u2019s Gone \u2013 the epic, groundbreaking, thrilling new series. Look for a new 100 page episode each month.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Audiobook", "Horror (Zombies)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13231241-yesterday-s-gone"}, +{"book_title": "Full Fathom Five", "author_name": "Max Gladstone", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 4176, "review_number": 431, "book_description": "The third novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts Dead.On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations aren\u2019t conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods\u2014perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating in the divinely controlled Old World. When Kai sees one of her creations dying and tries to save her, she\u2019s grievously injured\u2014then sidelined from the business entirely, her near-suicidal rescue attempt offered up as proof of her instability. But when Kai gets tired of hearing her boss, her coworkers, and her ex-boyfriend call her crazy, and starts digging into the reasons her creations die, she uncovers a conspiracy of silence and fear\u2014which will crush her, if Kai can\u2019t stop it first.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "LGBT", "GLBT (Queer)", "Speculative Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16148208-full-fathom-five"}, +{"book_title": "The Fallen Blade", "author_name": "Jon Courtenay Grimwood", "rating_score": 3.25, "rating_votes": 1624, "review_number": 232, "book_description": "In the depths of night, customs officers board a galley in a harbor and overpower its guards. In the hold they find oil and silver, and a naked boy chained to the bulkhead. Stunningly beautiful but half-starved, the boy has no name. The officers break the boy's chains to rescue him, but he escapes.Venice is at the height of its power. Duke Marco commands the seas, taxes his colonies, and, like every duke before him, fears assassins better than his own. In a side chapel, Marco's thirteen-year old cousin prays for deliverance from her forced marriage. It is her bad fortune to be there when Moorish pirates break in to steal a chalice, but it is the Moors' good fortune -- they kidnap her and demand ransom from the Duke.As day dawns, Atilo, the Duke's chief assassin, prepares to kill the man who let in the pirates. Having cut the traitor's throat, he turns back, having heard a noise, and finds a stranger crouched over the dying man, drinking blood from the wound. The speed with which the boy dodges a dagger and scales a pillar stuns Atilo. And the assassin knows he has to find the boy. Not to kill him though -- because he's finally found what he thought he would never find. Someone fit to be his apprentice.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Historical", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical Fiction (Historical Fantasy)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7976029-the-fallen-blade"}, +{"book_title": "Touch the Dark", "author_name": "Karen Chance", "rating_score": 3.71, "rating_votes": 34709, "review_number": 1795, "book_description": "Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits-talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren't usually dangerous; they just like to talk...a lot.The undead are another matter.Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking Mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection.The undead senators won't help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire-and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay...", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Adult", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67513.Touch_the_Dark"}, +{"book_title": "Ghosts of Tsavo", "author_name": "Vered Ehsani", "rating_score": 3.51, "rating_votes": 1074, "review_number": 199, "book_description": "Armed with Victorian etiquette, a fully loaded walking stick and a dead husband, Beatrice Knight arrives in colonial Kenya desperate for a pot of tea and a pinch of cinnamon. But she\u2019ll need more than that if she\u2019s to unravel the mystery of the Ghosts of Tsavo without being eaten in the process. All this while surviving the machinations of her best friend\u2019s dashing godfather and the efforts of her safari guide to feed her to any lion willing to drag her away. What is a ghost-chasing widow to do?This is Case #1 in the \u201cSociety for Paranormals\u201d series: A series concerning dead husbands, African legends and the search for a perfect spot of tea. For those readers who adore \u201cPride & Prejudice\u201d and would love to experience \u201cThe Parasol Protectorate\u201d set in colonial Africa, this is for you!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Mystery", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fiction", "Historical", "Cultural (Africa)", "Paranormal (Ghosts)", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24795001-ghosts-of-tsavo"}, +{"book_title": "The Heart of Betrayal", "author_name": "Mary E. Pearson", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 50001, "review_number": 5621, "book_description": "Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save Lia's life, her erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen.Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward: There's Rafe, who lied to Lia but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her; Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life; and the Vendans, whom Lia always believed to be savages. Now that she lives among them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth. Wrestling with her upbringing, her gift, and her sense of self, Lia must make powerful choices that will affect her country... and her own destiny.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Young Adult (Young Adult Fantasy)", "Fantasy (High Fantasy)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21569527-the-heart-of-betrayal"}, +{"book_title": "Ribbit Rabbit", "author_name": "Candace Ryan", "rating_score": 3.48, "rating_votes": 299, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "Frog and Bunny are best friends. RIBBIT, RABBIT! They do everything together, like fight monsters (ZIP IT, ZAP IT!). And even though they get in fights sometimes-YIP IT, YAP IT!-they always make up in the end.Ribbit, Rabbit features an effortlessly clever text that, in less than 150 words, captures the ups and downs of young friendships. Combined with adorably hip and fresh illustrations and an irresistible package, Ribbit, Rabbit is the perfect choice for the youngest of readers.", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Childrens (Storytime)", "Childrens", "Animals", "Animals (Rabbits)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8524741-ribbit-rabbit"}, +{"book_title": "The Glimpse", "author_name": "Claire Merle", "rating_score": 3.5, "rating_votes": 2154, "review_number": 309, "book_description": "In a near future, society is segregated according to whether people are genetically disposed to mental illness. 17-year-old Ana has been living the privileged life of a Pure due to an error in her DNA test. When the authorities find out, she faces banishment from her safe Community, a fate only thwarted by the fact that she has already been promised to Pure-boy Jasper Taurell.Jasper is from a rich and influential family and despite Ana\u2019s condition, wants to be with her. The authorities grant Ana a tentative reprieve. If she is joined to Jasper before her 18th birthday, she may stay in the Community until her illness manifests. But if Jasper changes his mind, she will be cast out among the Crazies. As Ana\u2019s joining ceremony and her birthday loom closer, she dares to hope she will be saved from the horror of the City and live a \u2018normal\u2019 life. But then Jasper disappears.Led to believe Jasper has been taken by a strange sect the authorities will not interfere with, Ana sneaks out of her well-guarded Community to find him herself. Her search takes her through the underbelly of society, and as she delves deeper into the mystery of Jasper\u2019s abduction she uncovers some devastating truths that destroy everything she has grown up to believe.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Young Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Health (Mental Health)", "Psychology", "Mental Health (Mental Illness)", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12367267-the-glimpse"}, +{"book_title": "Xul", "author_name": "A.G. Wilde", "rating_score": 3.97, "rating_votes": 1212, "review_number": 129, "book_description": "\nAthena wakes up in hell.\nWell\u2026it\u2019s an alien slave ship, but it might as well be hell because she only has three choices.Mate. Become a sex slave. Or be killed.Great options.Desperate for freedom, a chance for survival is presented in the handsome rogue alien called Xul.But Xul is caught up in problems of his own and a mission he cannot afford to let fail\u2014one that could be easily compromised if he dared open his heart.That doesn't leave her with many options and it doesn't help that she finds him utterly frustrating......and strong, hot, irresistible\u2026She shouldn\u2019t really be thinking about him like that. Should she?Xul is a standalone read that contains delightfully steamy scenes with a guaranteed happily ever after, possessive alpha males, and strong female leads. There is no forced mating between the hero and heroine and no cliffhanger. It is the first book in the Captured by Aliens sci-fi alien romance series.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Action", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51944777-xul"}, +{"book_title": "The Girl with the Iron Touch", "author_name": "Kady Cross", "rating_score": 3.96, "rating_votes": 6230, "review_number": 602, "book_description": "In 1897 London, something not quite human is about to awaken... When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. What's left of their archenemy, The Machinist, hungers to be resurrected, and Emily must transplant his consciousness into one of his automatons\u2014or forfeit her friends' lives. With Griffin being mysteriously tormented by the Aether, Finley turns to Jack Dandy, but trusting the master criminal is as dangerous as controlling her dark side. Meanwhile, Sam is searching everywhere for Emily. He would walk into hell for her, but the choice she must make will test them more than they could imagine. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist's ultimate creation\u2014an automaton more human than machine. And if she's to have any chance at triumphing, she must summon a strength even she doesn't know she has...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15822336-the-girl-with-the-iron-touch"}, +{"book_title": "Poseidon", "author_name": "Thor Ansell", "rating_score": 3.61, "rating_votes": 23, "review_number": 0, "book_description": "Der Wettlauf um die Eroberung des Sonnensystems hat begonnen. Nationen und Privatunternehmen starten immer neue Projekte, um Unbekanntes zu entdecken und Bekanntes gewinnbringend auszubeuten. Als im Jahr 2069 Menschen und Ausr\u00fcstung im Asteroideng\u00fcrtel verschwinden, verd\u00e4chtigen sich die Gro\u00dfm\u00e4chte gegenseitig der Sabotage. Eine hastig zusammengestellte Mission der Staatengemeinschaft soll die Vorg\u00e4nge untersuchen und die politischen Wogen gl\u00e4tten. Dazu wird das Kreuzfahrtschiff Poseidon umgebaut und mit einem Prototyp-Antrieb versehen in den Asteroideng\u00fcrtel geschickt. Neben der Crew und den Delegationen befinden sich auch ein Space Marshal und die freie K\u00fcnstliche Intelligenz CAT an Bord. W\u00e4hrend die einhundert Diplomaten mit Machtspielen besch\u00e4ftigt sind, machen CAT und der Marshal eine unheimliche Entdeckung. Am Ziel ihrer Reise verbirgt sich etwas, das besser keinem Land der Erde in die H\u00e4nde fallen sollte\u2026 Poseidon ist Hard Science-Fiction einer neuen Generation. Ein ebenso spannender wie tiefgr\u00fcndiger Br\u00fcckenschlag zwischen dem Beginn und dem Ende unseres Jahrhunderts. ", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40112112-poseidon"}, +{"book_title": "Looking Glass", "author_name": "James R. Strickland", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 124, "review_number": 11, "book_description": "Looking Glass is set in the not too distant future, in a gritty, unrefined, shattered North America, torn apart by civil war and terrorism. Hackers and IT security technicians fight a different kind of war in cyberspace, the global network we know today as the Internet. A serial killer appears in this deadly game of mouse, and the killer has found a way to use the network to reach inside his victim's brains, and use these brains as his weapon. Death is painful and swift, and there is no defense. \"Shroud\" is the online name of Dr. Catherine Farro. She is a security network team leader for a large retail company. Shroud is a paraplegic, but in the realm of cyberspace, inside a sensory deprivation tank and \"jacked in\" to the network, she is fast, nimble, and ruthless. She is self-described as \"frosty\" when she is busy bringing the fight to the hackers. Shroud is just beginning her shift when the killer strikes for the first time. She survives, but her entire team is dead or missing. She is exiled from her corporate resources while the company to which she has given so much has turned against her in a tempest of crisis management. Despite the obstacles in her path, she is bent on vengeance, and her search for the mysterious, anonymous killer is fraught with peril and overwhelming odds.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1344814.Looking_Glass"}, +{"book_title": "Ascender #13", "author_name": "Jeff Lemire", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 40, "review_number": 2, "book_description": "\u201cTHE DIGITAL MAGE,\u201d Part ThreeMila, Driller, Telsa, and the crew finally escape into space and head to the only planet in the galaxy that Mother is too scared to control\u2026Phages!", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Graphic Novels Comics"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54653842-ascender-13"}, +{"book_title": "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "author_name": "Ryan Parrott", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meet for the first time ever in the comic book fight - and team up - of the year!THE TEENAGERS WITH ATTITUDE MEET THE HEROES IN A HALF SHELL FOR THE FIRST TIME! The Power Rangers arrive in New York City to find their missing teammate Tommy Oliver \u2013 AKA The Mighty Morphin Green Ranger \u2013 but soon discover he\u2019s joined forces with the villainous Shredder and the Foot Clan! But the Rangers must also deal with another unexpected (fr)enemy \u2013 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Can these heroes find a way to work together to defeat the bad guys and save the world from total destruction?! Written by Ryan Parrott (Power Rangers: Necessary Evil) and illustrated by Simone di Meo (Power Rangers: Beyond The Grid), the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fight \u2013 and maybe team up with \u2013 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the first time ever. Collects Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1-5.", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Comics (Comic Book)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Media Tie In", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52758492-mighty-morphin-power-rangers-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles"}, +{"book_title": "Endgame", "author_name": "Ann Aguirre", "rating_score": 4.02, "rating_votes": 2794, "review_number": 279, "book_description": "Regret nothing. Sirantha Jax has the J-gene, which permits her to \u201cjump\u201d faster-than-light ships through grimspace. She loves nothing more than that rush, but the star roads have to wait\u2026 Her final mission takes her to La\u2019heng, a planet subjugated during first contact. Since then, the La\u2019hengrin homeworld has been occupied by foreign conquerors. All that\u2019s about to change. Now, as part of a grassroots resistance, Jax means to liberate the La\u2019hengrin. But political intrigue and guerrilla warfare are new to her, and this will be the most dangerous game she\u2019s ever played\u2014spies and conspiracies, a war of weapons and hearts, and not everyone is guaranteed to make it out alive...", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Space", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13543136-endgame"}, +{"book_title": "Ever After", "author_name": "Kim Harrison", "rating_score": 4.45, "rating_votes": 30482, "review_number": 2178, "book_description": "The ever after, the demonic realm that parallels the human world, is shrinking. If it disappears completely, so does all magic. It's up to witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to avert catastrophe and keep life from changing... for the worse.While saving the world is important, it isn't Rachel's only motivation. There's also the small fact that she caused the ley line to rip in the first place, setting off a chain reaction of unfortunate events. That little mistake has made her life forfeit unless she can fix it. It's also made her more than a few enemies, including the most powerful demon in the ever after\u2014a terrifying entity who eats souls and now has an insatiable appetite for her. He's already kidnapped her friend and goddaughter to lure her out, and if Rachel doesn't give herself up soon, they'll die.But Rachel has more than a few impressive and frightening skills of her own, and she isn't going to hand over her soul and her life without one hell of a fight. She's also got a surprise: elven tycoon Trent Kalamack. With this unlikely ally beside her\u2014a prospect both thrilling and unnerving\u2014she's going to return to the ever after, kick some demon butt, rescue her loved ones... and prevent an apocalypse before it's too late. Or, at least that's the plan...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13241659-ever-after"}, +{"book_title": "The Fall of the Governor: Part Two", "author_name": "Robert Kirkman", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 3929, "review_number": 293, "book_description": "The fourth book and epic finale to Robert Kirkman's New York Times bestselling series: The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor \u2013 Part Two!The Walking Dead original novel series, set in the universe of Robert Kirkman's iconic comic book, comes to a shattering conclusion with The Fall of the Governor \u2013 Part Two. From co-authors Kirkman, creator of the Eisner Award-winning comic as well as executive producer of AMC's blockbuster TV series, and Jay Bonansinga, Stoker Award-finalist and internationally acclaimed author, comes this stunning finale to their ambitious chronicle of human survival amid the plague of undead, which began with The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.In Rise of the Governor, uber-villain Philip Blake journeyed from his humble beginnings directly into the dark heart of the zombie apocalypse, and became the self-proclaimed leader of a small town called Woodbury. In The Road to Woodbury, an innocent traveler named Lilly Caul wound up in the terrifying thrall of Phillip Blake\u2019s twisted, violent dictatorship within Woodbury\u2019s ever tightening barricades. In The Fall of the Governor \u2013 Part One, Philip Blake finally revealed himself to be the true monster that he is, and the battle lines were drawn between the Governor and the desperate, beleaguered inhabitants of a nearby prison.Now, in The Fall of the Governor Part Two, the Governor\u2019s dark journey reaches its shocking, heartrending conclusion. In a roller coaster finale, war breaks out, all of the plot lines from the previous three novels converge, tensions boil over into unthinkable mayhem, and the dark destinies of those few left standing are sealed in a series of stunning twists.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Horror", "Horror (Zombies)", "Fiction", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465522-the-fall-of-the-governor"}, +{"book_title": "When the Axe Falls", "author_name": "Jon R. Osborne", "rating_score": 4.51, "rating_votes": 212, "review_number": 12, "book_description": "The clouds of war continue to build\u2026and not everyone is blind\u2026 Bjorn Tovesson III, the owner of Bjorn\u2019s Berserkers, is a man tied to the past, but who\u2019s not afraid to innovate. Whether it is new tactics or new equipment, Bjorn is willing to try anything, once, in an effort to grow his company into the status of the fabled Four Horsemen. Looking to the future with his eyes open, though, he has seen a series of unfortunate occurrences running through the ranks of Earth\u2019s mercenaries. Companies in financial troubles, some taking huge losses on contracts\u2026and others not returning from their contracts at all. His father always taught him to prepare, and Bjorn is working to diversify his operations, including moving the company to a planet with a sizable portion of aliens who are already members of the Galactic Union. Nothing bad could happen to them there, right? But as the storm clouds continue to gather, his past is on a collision course with the present, as another of Earth\u2019s mercenary companies is out to get him\u2026and with the support of the Mercenary Guild, they have the forces to overwhelm him! Will Bjorn\u2019s preparations keep the Berserkers safe, or will they become yet another unfortunate occurrence?", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43131655-when-the-axe-falls"}, +{"book_title": "Something New Under the Sun", "author_name": "L.A. Witt", "rating_score": 3.8, "rating_votes": 389, "review_number": 89, "book_description": "Liam Lansing is heir to a prominent family of bio-modified vampires. That is, until he chooses the wrong lover and is cast down to the Gutter to scrape for his life. Daniel Harding is heir to Cybernetix and a prince of the corporate Sky. That is, until his ideology drives his father to put a price on his head, forcing him into the Gutter. But Daniel and Liam won\u2019t vanish meekly into the smog. Together, they plan to rip open the hidden corruption that runs the Sky\u2014for vengeance, for justice, and for hope. They strike against the corporations in a daring raid. When everything goes wrong, Daniel must betray his core beliefs to save the man he loves and protect his dangerous secret. Only through courage in the face of death\u2014or worse\u2014might he and Liam change the world they live in and create something new under the sun. This book was previously published.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "LGBT", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45429889-something-new-under-the-sun"}, +{"book_title": "Traitor", "author_name": "Matthew Woodring Stover", "rating_score": 4.01, "rating_votes": 7717, "review_number": 155, "book_description": "From the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope.After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances.The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom, her cruelties rarely concealed. But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jedi...for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force, to take it to another level - dangerous, dazzling, perhaps deadly.In the wrong hands, the tremendous energies of the Force can be devastating. And there are others watching Jacen's progress closely, waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes. Now, all is in shadows. Yet whatever happens, whether Jacen's newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness, he will never be the same Jedi again...", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)", "Space", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "War", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35461.Traitor"}, +{"book_title": "Ride the Storm", "author_name": "Karen Chance", "rating_score": 4.17, "rating_votes": 3458, "review_number": 381, "book_description": "The New York Times bestselling author of Reap the Wind returns to the \u201cfascinating world\u201d* of Cassie Palmer. Ever since getting appointed the chief seer of the supernatural world, Cassie Palmer has been playing catch up. Catch up on the training she missed being raised by a psychotic vampire instead of at the pythian court. Catch up on the dangerous world of supernatural politics. Catch up on the powerful, and sometimes seductive, forces trying to mold her to their will. It\u2019s been a trial by fire that has left her burned. But now she realizes all that was just the warm up. Ancient forces that once terrorized the world want to return, and Cassie is the only one who can stop them. But to win, she needs help: from a friend lost in time, from a secretive lover, from every supernatural group that has ignored her up until now. And with the vampires and fey preparing to wage war across two worlds, Cassie's time is running out ....", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Vampires)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Paranormal (Demons)", "Fairies (Fae)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24663516-ride-the-storm"}, +{"book_title": "Automatic Reload", "author_name": "Ferrett Steinmetz", "rating_score": 3.99, "rating_votes": 156, "review_number": 41, "book_description": "Ferrett Steinmetz's quirky, genre-mashing cyberpunk romance Automatic Reload a high-octane adventure about a grizzled mercenary with machine gun arms who unexpectedly falls in love with a bio-engineered assassin In the near-future, automation is king, and Mat is the top mercenary working the black market. He's your solider's solider, with military-grade weapons instead of arms...and a haunted past that keeps him awake at night. On a mission that promises the biggest score of his life, he discovers that the top secret shipment he's been sent to guard is not a package, but a person: Silvia.Silvia is genetically-altered to be the deadliest woman on the planet--her only weakness is her panic disorder. When Mat decides to free her, both of them become targets of the most powerful shadow organization in the world. They go on the lam, determined to stop a sinister plot to create more super assassins like Silvia. Between bloody gunfights, rampant car chases and drone attacks, Mat and Silvia team up to survive...and unexpectedly realize their messed up brain-chemistry cannot overpower their very real chemistry.Automatic Reload is the genre's most unexpectedly heartfelt romantic comedy with explosions, perfect for fans of both Die Hard and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.\"Steinmetz has mixed fast-paced shoot-em-up violence with a compassionate treatment of trauma and mental illness to create an engaging page-turner. Like Shadowrun with a conscience.\"-- Hugo Award-winning author Jim. C Hines \"Automatic Reload is for everyone who ever wished the Transformers movies were less Michael Bay, more transformation sequences; it luxuriates in the intricate beauty that is technology, exults in the mechanics of cyberpunk. And it does all this while being a rom-com with a lot of explosions.\" --Cassandra Khaw, finalist for the British Fantasy and Locus Awards for Hammers on Bone ", "year_published": 2020, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Adult", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45138740-automatic-reload"}, +{"book_title": "Path of the Warrior", "author_name": "Gav Thorpe", "rating_score": 3.62, "rating_votes": 833, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "The ancient eldar are a mysterious race, each devoting their life to a chosen path which will guide their actions and decide their fate. When the artist Korlandril feels the call to war, he abandons peace for the Path of the Warrior. He becomes a Striking Scorpion, a deadly fighter skilled in the art of close-quarters combat. But battle is coming, as Craftworld Alaitoc comes to blows with the vengeful Imperium of Mankind, and the further Korlandril travels down the warrior's path, the closer he gets to losing his identity and becoming an avatar of war. Can he retain his sense of self and still be the weapon Alaitoc needs, or will he be consumed by one of the warrior-spirits of his race? Read it because When the eldar artist Korlandril feels the call to war, he walks the Path of the Warrior and joins the Striking Scorpions. As his craftworld is drawn into war with the Imperium, Korlandril finds that once he has begun walking that path, it may not be easy to leave it\u2026", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["40k", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Unfinished", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7095160-path-of-the-warrior"}, +{"book_title": "Voyage to Alpha Centauri", "author_name": "Michael D. O'Brien", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 488, "review_number": 68, "book_description": "Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a \"flying city,\" is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage--and its destination--will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon.Science fiction and fantasy literature are genres that have become dominant forces in contemporary worldwide culture. Our fascination with the near-angelic powers of new technology, its benefits and dangers, its potential for obsession and catastrophe, raises vital questions that this work explores about human nature and the cosmos, about man's image of himself and where he is going--and why he seeks to go there.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Christianity (Catholic)", "Christian", "Christian Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Religion", "Literature", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18234093-voyage-to-alpha-centauri"}, +{"book_title": "Evenfall: Volume 1: Director's Cut", "author_name": "Ais", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 2935, "review_number": 450, "book_description": "In a post-apocalyptic future, the Agency works behind the scenes to take down opposition groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means, even when it comes to their own agents.Sin is the Agency's most efficient killer. His fighting skills and talent at assassination have led to him being described as a living weapon. However, he is also known to go off on unauthorized killing sprees, and his assigned partners have all wound up dead.Boyd is not afraid to die. When his mother, a high-ranking Agency official, volunteers him to be Sin's newest partner, he does not refuse. In fact, his life has been such an endless cycle of apathy and despair that he'd welcome death.In the newly revised Director's Cut of Evenfall, the first volume follows these two cast-offs as they go from strangers to partners who can only rely on each other while avoiding death, imprisonment, and dehumanization by the Agency that employs them.120,000 words.Warnings: Explicit violence, physical and psychological abuse.Note: This is the first of the two volumes comprising Evenfall, the first book in the ICoS series.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "LGBT", "Science Fiction", "Dark", "Adult", "War (Military Fiction)", "Sociology (Abuse)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20926065-evenfall"}, +{"book_title": "The Sons of Heaven", "author_name": "Kage Baker", "rating_score": 3.89, "rating_votes": 1227, "review_number": 99, "book_description": "This is how it ends:In The Sons of Heaven, the forces gathering to seize power finally move on the Company.Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, resurrected Victorian superman, plans for world domination.The immortal Mendoza makes a desperate bargain to delay him.Enforcer Budu, assisted by Joseph, enlists an unexpected ally in his plans to free his old warriors and bring judgment on his former masters.The mortal masters of the Company, terrified of a coup, invest in a plan they believe will terminate their cyborg servants\u2014unaware that they have been tricked into doing so by Labienus, who intends to spark a rebellion when the immortals discover the betrayal.Meanwhile, Executive Facilitator Suleyman uses his intelligence operation to uncover the secret of Alpha-Omega, vital to the mortals\u2019 survival.And Literature Preservationist Lewis wakes to find himself blinded, crippled, left with no weapons but his voice and memory, and the friendship of one extraordinary little girl.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Speculative Fiction", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270486.The_Sons_of_Heaven"}, +{"book_title": "Timekeeper", "author_name": "Alexandra Monir", "rating_score": 3.78, "rating_votes": 3244, "review_number": 393, "book_description": "When Philip Walker appears as a new student in Michele Windsor's high school class, she is floored. He is the love she thought she lost forever when they said goodbye during her time travels last century. Overjoyed that they can resume the relationship they had a lifetime ago, Michele eagerly approaches him and discovers the unthinkable: he doesn't remember her. In fact, he doesn't seem to remember anything about the Philip Walker of 1910.Michele then finds her father's journals, which tell stories of his time-traveling past. As she digs deeper, she learns about his entanglement with a mysterious and powerful organization called the Time Society and his dealings with a vengeful Windsor ancestor. Michele soon finds herself at the center of a rift over 120 years in the making, one whose resolution will have life-or-death consequences.Alexandra Monir's Timekeeper combines breathtaking romance with a tale of complex magic in a sequel that will have every reader believing in the transcendent power of love.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fiction", "Historical"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10349697-timekeeper"}, +{"book_title": "The Trouble with Sisters and Robots", "author_name": "Steve Gritton", "rating_score": 3.4, "rating_votes": 25, "review_number": 9, "book_description": "Digging for treasure in their yard, Kyle and his pesky sister, Lizzy, find a robot head. Kyle adds pieces of scrap metal for a body, plugs the whole thing in, and Rusteye the Robot comes alive! Unfortunately, everything Rusteye touches - including Kyle's parents - turn to metal. Kyle can't stop his rampaging robot. Lizzy things she knows how - but will Kyle listen? A hilariously funny science fiction story for robot fanatics - and big brothers - everywhere!", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6767537-the-trouble-with-sisters-and-robots"}, +{"book_title": "Striker", "author_name": "Lexi Ander", "rating_score": 4.32, "rating_votes": 757, "review_number": 97, "book_description": "The peaceful respite for which Zeus and his intended, Dargon and Alpha, had been hoping is shattered when Zeus is unexpectedly drawn to the Waters of Poseidon and told that the safety they've been promised is a trap. But the Fal'Amoric aren't the only important cargo on the Oethra 7, and countless others are depending on the success of their mission. If Zeus hopes to break the silent siege on Valespia, and protect those most precious to him, he will need not just powerful allies but the fortitude to survive overwhelming odds.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Erotica (Menage)", "Fantasy", "Menage (M M M)", "LGBT (Gay)", "M M Romance (M M Science Fiction)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20700123-striker"}, +{"book_title": "Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle", "author_name": "Phil Foglio", "rating_score": 4.44, "rating_votes": 1619, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha Heterodyne is the last heir to the Maddest of Mad Scientist families, and now she's returning home to claim the family castle. Unfortunately, it turns out that she's not the only one with that idea in mind. This collection represents an all-new installment of Phil & Kaja Foglio's award-winning gaslamp fantasy series and includes an extra four-page story in addition to the main plotline.", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Fantasy", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Humor", "Sequential Art (Webcomic)", "Adventure", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3093789-agatha-heterodyne-and-the-voice-of-the-castle"}, +{"book_title": "The Hork-Bajir Chronicles", "author_name": "K.A. Applegate", "rating_score": 4.14, "rating_votes": 3178, "review_number": 127, "book_description": "Dak Hamee, born into the Hork-Bajir tribe, is something special from the start. \"Strange,\" says his mother. \"A seer,\" says the Old One, Tila Fashat. \"A seer is one who is born to show a new way. Many, many seasons pass, then our father, the Deep, and our mother, the Sky, say, 'Send a seer to the people. The people have need.' And so one is born who is different.\" When strange and different Dak meets Aldrea, the clever Andalite daughter of Prince Seerow, they learn together of the dangerous plot of the Yeerks, and of Esplin 9466, who will stop at nothing to build his empire. Learn more about Prince Seerow's Kindness, find out how Andalites kiss, and plumb the mysteries of the Deep in this suspense-filled story of good, evil, and interspecies love. (Ages 9 to 12)", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Childrens", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Adventure", "Animals", "Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363354.The_Hork_Bajir_Chronicles"}, +{"book_title": "The Beginning of Everything", "author_name": "Kristen Ashley", "rating_score": 4.08, "rating_votes": 6067, "review_number": 425, "book_description": "Length: 15 hrs 14 minsFrom the unparalleled imagination of New York Times best-selling author Kristen Ashley comes an enchanting new audio-first fantasy romance series that will sweep you away!Once upon a time, in a parallel universe, there existed the continent of Triton. The land was filled with beauty, but it was also splintered by war. Out of the chaos grew a conspiracy to reawaken the Beast, a fearsome creature who wrought only tragedy and devastation. The only way to stop him was to fulfill an ancient prophecy: Triton\u2019s four strongest warriors must wed its four most powerful witches, binding all nations together and finally bringing peace to the land.This is the story of their unions: the quiet maiden Silence and the savage king Mars. The cold warrior Cassius and the fiery witch Elena. The steadfast soldier True and the banished beauty Farah. And the pirate king Aramus and the mysterious queen Ha-Lah. Their unions will not be easy, but each couple must succeed, for the fate of their world is at stake....", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Romance", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Audiobook", "Romance (Fantasy Romance)", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Adult", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48909649-the-beginning-of-everything"}, +{"book_title": "Coraline", "author_name": "Neil Gaiman", "rating_score": 4.06, "rating_votes": 504433, "review_number": 22042, "book_description": "The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Horror", "Fiction", "Young Adult", "Childrens", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Audiobook", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Adventure", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17061.Coraline"}, +{"book_title": "Once a Witch", "author_name": "Carolyn MacCullough", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 15114, "review_number": 1354, "book_description": "\"Your daughter will be one of the most powerful we have ever seen in this family. She will be a beacon for us all.\"Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches, and on the day she was born, her grandmother proclaimed she would be one of the most Talented among them.But Tamsin's magic never showed up.Now, seventeen years later, she spends most of her time at boarding school in Manhattan, where she can at least pretend to be normal. But during the summers, she's forced to return home and work at her family's bookstore/magic shop.One night a handsome young professor from New York University arrives in the shop and mistakes Tamsin for her extremely Talented older sister. For once, it's Tamsin who's being looked at with awe and admiration, and before she can stop herself, she agrees to find a family heirloom for him that was lost more than a century ago. But the search - and the stranger - prove to be more sinister than they first appeared, ultimately sending Tamsin on a treasure hunt through time that will unlock the secret of her true identity, unearth the past sins of her family, and unleash a power so strong and so vengeful that it could destroy them all.In a spellbinding display of storytelling, Carolyn MacCullough interweaves witchcraft, romance, and time travel in a fantasy that will exhilarate, enthrall, and thoroughly enchant.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Fantasy", "Paranormal (Witches)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6393119-once-a-witch"}, +{"book_title": "The Release", "author_name": "Shelbi Wescott", "rating_score": 3.88, "rating_votes": 1280, "review_number": 134, "book_description": "Lucy King is only an hour away from embarking on the most incredible vacation of her life: White sandy beaches in a tropical paradise, snorkeling and sunbathing in peaceful tranquility. But as Lucy looks forward to her trip, a sinister plot is unfolding that will demolish the world as she knows it. An unknown bio-terrorist group unleashes a virus that virtually wipes out the earth\u2019s population\u2014leaving Lucy, and a small faction of survivors, trapped inside her high school to wait out the apocalypse. As war, looting, and death wreak havoc outside, inside, the students must contend with a tyrannical and paranoid principal and their own struggles of being orphaned, frightened, and unsure of what the future will bring. What begins as a basic fight for survival turns into a search for answers that will challenge everything Lucy has ever known about her life and her family.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Horror", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Horror (Zombies)", "Adventure (Survival)", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17285841-the-release"}, +{"book_title": "Last Light", "author_name": "Alex Scarrow", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 1695, "review_number": 164, "book_description": "It begins on a very normal Monday morning. But in the space of only a few days, the world's oil supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace things begin to unravel everywhere. This is no natural disaster; someone is behind this. Oil engineer Andy Sutherland is stranded in Iraq with a company of British soldiers, desperate to find a way home, trapped as the very infrastructure of daily life begins to collapse around him. Back in Britain, his wife Jenny is stuck in Manchester, fighting desperately against the rising chaos to get back to their children; London as events begin to spiral out of control -- riots, raging fires, looting, rape, and murder. In the space of a week, London is transformed into an anarchic vision of hell. Meanwhile, a mysterious man is tracking Andy's family. He'll silence anyone who can reveal the identities of those behind this global disaster. The people with a stranglehold on the future of civilization have flexed their muscles at other significant tipping points in history, and they are prepared to do anything to keep their secret -- and their power -- safe.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Fiction", "Thriller", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adult", "Mystery", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2167112.Last_Light"}, +{"book_title": "The Separation", "author_name": "Christopher Priest", "rating_score": 3.66, "rating_votes": 1105, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "Christopher Priest excels at rethinking SF themes, lifting them above genre expectations into his own tricky, chilling, metaphysically dangerous territory. The Separation suggests an alternate history lying along a road not taken in World War II. But there are complications. In 1999, history author Stuart Gratton is intrigued by a minor mystery of the European war which ended on 10 May 1941. The British-German armistice signed that month has had far-reaching consequences, including a resettlement of European Jews in Madagascar. In 1936, the identical twin brothers Joe and Jack Sawyer win a rowing medal for Britain in the Berlin Olympics: it's presented to them by Rudolf Hess. The brothers are separated not only by a twin's fierce need \"to be treated as a separate human being\", but by sexual rivalry and even ideology. When war breaks out Jack becomes a gung-ho bomber pilot, Joe a conscientious objector. Still they're inescapably linked, and sometimes confused. Both suffer injuries and hauntingly similar ambulance journeys. Churchill writes a puzzled memo (later unearthed by Gratton) about the anomaly of a registered-pacifist Red Cross worker flying planes for Bomber Command. Hess has significant, eventually incompatible meetings with both men. Contradictions are everywhere. As in his magical 1995 novel The Prestige Priest is fruitfully fascinated by the legerdemain of twins, doubles, impostors, symmetrical roles. Churchill's double briefly appears. So does the famous conspiracy theory that the Hess who flew to Britain with his quixotic peace deal wasn't the real Hess ring true? Clearly The Separation was impressively, extensively researched. Its evocations of bombing raids--from either side of the bomb sites--are memorable. The unfolding story strands become increasingly disorienting and hallucinatory; the easy escape route of dismissing one strand as delusion is itself subtly undermined. The Separation is filled with a sense of the precariousness of history; of small events and choices with extraordinary consequences. --David Langford", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "War (World War II)", "Historical", "Novels", "European Literature (British Literature)", "War"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106921.The_Separation"}, +{"book_title": "Airships of Camelot: The Rise of Arthur", "author_name": "Robison Wells", "rating_score": 4.28, "rating_votes": 53, "review_number": 17, "book_description": "Mankind has been all but wiped out by a Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. To escape the disease, U.S. Navy officers took to their airships in search of isolated places to hide their families and make a new life. But now, three generations later, all of the Admirals must pay fealty to Sir Ironside, the man controlling the national helium reserve, paying him with plunder they've stolen from the savage tribes of survivors left on the ground. But when one of the marauding divers\u2014Arthur, heir to his father's admiralty\u2014gets stranded on the ground, he must learn how to deal with the savages and the slave girl who helps him escape from Malegant.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Mythology (Arthurian)", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Retellings", "Science Fiction Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26877551-airships-of-camelot"}, +{"book_title": "Ricochet", "author_name": "Xanthe Walter", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 821, "review_number": 130, "book_description": "When the right dom is all wrong!Even in a BDSM universe, where everyone is bisexual and identifies as dom or sub, finding the right partner isn\u2019t always easy.Matt is a big star on the hit TV show, Collar Crime, and he\u2019s looking for a dom who ticks all the right boxes, including being as tidy and organized as himself.That definitely isn\u2019t his chaotic co-star, Rick, with his spanking fetish and habit of tying a different sub to his bed every night.When Matt meets the perfect dom he\u2019s swept off his feet, but he soon discovers that being pursued by a handsome, controlling billionaire isn\u2019t the erotic fantasy he\u2019d imagined.Maybe the right dom for him is the one he thought was all wrong...Content advisory: m/m BDSM, one or two glimpses of f/m", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Erotica (BDSM)", "Romance (M M Romance)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Contemporary", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "LGBT (Gay)", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Alternate Universe)", "Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16125683-ricochet"}, +{"book_title": "Beyond The Grave", "author_name": "C.J. Archer", "rating_score": 4.1, "rating_votes": 3353, "review_number": 120, "book_description": "At the request of Lady Harcourt, Charlie and Lincoln begin searching for her missing stepson. Still recovering from her ordeal at the hands of a diabolical villain, Charlie is supposed to be resting. But resting is dull, so she throws herself into the task at hand, much to Lincoln's frustration. The search leads them down a dark path littered with family secrets and titillating scandal. Using her necromancy to expose those secrets, Charlie unwittingly raises a spirit with the power to override her control. With a dead body on the loose in London, Charlie and Lincoln must work together to send it back before havoc is unleashed, and the committee members find out. Because if they do, they will have more ammunition in their fight to send Charlie away from her home and everyone she loves.", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Historical", "Young Adult", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Fantasy (Supernatural)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26857731-beyond-the-grave"}, +{"book_title": "Dead Iron", "author_name": "Devon Monk", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 2722, "review_number": 384, "book_description": "In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy and carrying the guilt of his brother's death. Then he's offered hope that his brother may yet survive. All he has to do is find the Holder: a powerful device created by mad devisers-and now in the hands of an ancient Strange who was banished to walk this Earth. In a land shaped by magic, steam, and iron, where the only things a man can count on are his guns, gears, and grit, Cedar will have to depend on all three if he's going to save his brother and reclaim his soul once and for all...", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Westerns", "Science Fiction", "Shapeshifters (Werewolves)", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Westerns (Weird West)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9645260-dead-iron"}, +{"book_title": "Aetheric Mechanics", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 781, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "The year is 1907, and Britain has entered into a terrifying war with Ruritania, whose strange metal planes darken the skies, and whose monstrous war engines cast looming shadows from across the channel. Doctor Robert Watcham, lately returned to London from the front, makes his homecoming to Dilke Street. There lives his old friend and England's greatest amateur detective, Sax Raker. Even as his beloved city prepares for war, Raker is himself about to embark on the strangest (and, perhaps, the most important) investigation of his career: the case of the man who wasn't there. Is the mysterious, vanishing killer, at last, evidence for Raker's long-held belief in a secret criminal mastermind? Is it some apparition uniquely belonging to this city, a place that seems to have lost all semblance of sense two years ago? Or do all the signs point to something much, much worse?", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Mystery (Crime)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4837760-aetheric-mechanics"}, +{"book_title": "Apolonia", "author_name": "Jamie McGuire", "rating_score": 3.34, "rating_votes": 2733, "review_number": 360, "book_description": "\u201cThey\u2019d killed me, but I survived.\u201d Three years after Rory Riordan foiled her own murder, she still trusts no one\u2014not Dr. Z, the eccentric college professor who has taken her under his wing; not Benji, the endearing, attractive classmate who insists on following her around; and certainly not Cy, the beautifully dark and mysterious boy who sits in the first row in Dr. Z\u2019s Astrobiology class and asks far too many questions. When Rory witnesses Cy being abducted by soldiers in the middle of the night, she finds herself immersed in a world that holds more secrets than she could imagine, even darker secrets than her own. From #1 New York Times Bestseller Jamie McGuire, experience the perfect combination of her bestselling books Providence and Beautiful Disaster. This New Adult Sci-Fi Romance is an action-packed, whiplash-inducing roller-coaster ride. Page after page, this unpredictable, dark, and sexy nail-biter will keep readers guessing until the very end! ", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["New Adult", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Contemporary", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Young Adult"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23214943-apolonia"}, +{"book_title": "Batteries Not Included", "author_name": "Seth McEvoy", "rating_score": 3.87, "rating_votes": 95, "review_number": 14, "book_description": "Professor Carson has created the most fantastic of his works: an android with the appearance of a boy of thirteen. Connected to batteries, walking, talking, thinking \u2013 his metal body is covered with a skin of plastic and you would never imagine that his blonde hair is nylon... The professor calls him Chip.To complete the experiment, Dr. Carson has enrolled Chip in Harbor College where he himself teaches science. But can Chip keep his secret?", "year_published": 1985, "genres": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens (Juvenile)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/653714.Batteries_Not_Included"}, +{"book_title": "Storm Front", "author_name": "Christopher G. Nuttall", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 466, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "In 1941, Adolf Hitler didn't declare war on the United States. Now, in 1985, the Third Reich stretching from the coast of France to the icy wastes of Eastern Russia, appears supremely powerful. With a powerful force of nuclear warheads and the finest military machine on Earth, there is no hope for freedom for the billions who groan under its rule. Adolf Hitler\u2019s mad dreams have come to pass. And yet, all is not well in the Reich. The cold war with the United States and the North Atlantic Alliance is destroying the Reich\u2019s economy, while a savage insurgency in South Africa - a war the Reich cannot win and dares not lose - is sapping its military strength. And, while the Reich Council struggles to find a way to save the Reich from its own weaknesses, a young German girl makes a discovery that will shake the Reich to its core. But the Reich Council will not go quietly into the night ... [Like my other self-published Kindle books, Storm Front is DRM-free. You may reformat it as you choose. There is a large sample of the text \u2013 and my other books \u2013 on my site: chrishanger.net. Try before you buy.] ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28182204-storm-front"}, +{"book_title": "Hello, Robots", "author_name": "Bob Staake", "rating_score": 3.63, "rating_votes": 175, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "Meet the robots. . . . Blink's the one who cooks our meals. Zinc can fix things made of steel. Blip, he keeps our yard so green. Zip, he simply loves to clean. Blink, Zinc, Blip, and Zip are very busy robots. From the kitchen to the living room, from the garage to the garden, nothing can stop this industrious bunch. Except . . . rain! After they get caught in a sudden downpour, the robots' circuits are all crossed. Blink bakes a birdhouse. Zinc repairs a pot of stew. Blip rakes the windows. Zip dusts the lemon tree. Can anything be done to set these robots straight? Bob Staake's bold, graphic art style is perfectly suited to the futuristic subjects of his clever, humorous story.", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Childrens (Picture Books)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Childrens", "Humor", "Science Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872215.Hello_Robots_"}, +{"book_title": "Saturn's Children", "author_name": "Charles Stross", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 7113, "review_number": 554, "book_description": "Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct\u2014leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the contents of the package.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Thriller"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2278387.Saturn_s_Children"}, +{"book_title": "Wolves", "author_name": "D.J. Molles", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 1342, "review_number": 113, "book_description": "\nFrom the bestselling author of the Remaining series\u2026\n\n\n\nThey took everything\u2014killed his wife, enslaved his daughter, destroyed his life. Now he\u2019s a man with nothing left to lose \u2026 and that\u2019s what makes him so dangerous.\nTen years after the collapse, Huxley had built a good life again. He had a loving wife, a farm with fields of golden barley, and a daughter with a strange and wonderful gift. Then the slavers came. Working out in the fields during the attack, Huxley returns too late. His daughter has been taken and his wife is bleeding out, her last whispered words about a man with a scorpion tattoo on his neck.Where do the slavers go? Huxley has no idea. He only knows that they headed east and so will he. But eighteen months later, dying of thirst in the open desert, he doesn\u2019t expect to see another day.Then a man appears out of the desert and offers Huxley water from his canteen\u2014an unheard of kindness in these savage times\u2014and he gives Huxley a new purpose. Together, Huxley and Jay carve a path of destruction across the remains of a once-great land. The slavers are brutal, but they have no idea what\u2019s coming for them. Huxley has found something to live for again: blood and vengeance.In his most powerful work yet, New York Times bestselling author D. J. Molles delivers a carefully woven novel of violence and redemption, bringing to life a devastating portrait of a man pushed to the edge of his own humanity.\u201cWith Wolves, D. J. Molles gives us a postapocalyptic rescue thriller that pulls no punches and takes no prisoners. A brutal tale wrapped like barbed wire around love, honor and a father\u2019s love for his daughter. Highly recommended.\u201d\u2013Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Kill Switch and Ghostwalkers\u201cRevenant meets Mad Max in this postapocalyptic thriller that proves D. J. Molles is back on the top of the genre.\u201d\u2014Nicholas Sansbury Smith, author of Hell Divers", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Westerns", "Thriller", "Adventure (Survival)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30976258-wolves"}, +{"book_title": "Stars and Stripes Triumphant", "author_name": "Harry Harrison", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 374, "review_number": 18, "book_description": "In England, Irish-born citizens are being herded into prison camps. On the high seas, a furious British Navy is seizing American cargo ships bound for Europe. And on the Thames, a new weapon of unparalleled destructive force is sailing toward an impregnable city\u2013spearheaded by a daring act of espionage. For U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, Britain\u2019s Queen Victoria, Lord Palmerston, and a loyal opposition, a day of reckoning is at hand . . . and so is history\u2019s most astounding battle.Harry Harrison\u2019s series of alternate history, based on the U.S. Civil War, stands as a provocative work of imagination, drama, and brilliant historical insight. Now in the thrilling finale, Harrison tells a stunning, action-packed story of America\u2019s rapidly growing military might being locked, loaded, and aimed at the heart of England itself.For the two countries that share a language and a heritage, the conflict began at the dawn of the U.S. Civil War. Just as America was about to tear itself to pieces, Britain itself committed an act of war by seizing a U.S. packet ship. In retaliation, the Confederate States rejoined the Union and took up arms against England. Repulsing a British invasion, and defeating her majesty\u2019s army first in Canada, then in Mexico, then in Ireland, American pride and power swelled. Britain, like a wounded lion, howled in shame and anger. Now, Queen Victoria\u2019s empire is more dangerous than ever before, turning against the Irish on her own soil, flexing her naval might, and all but forcing a weary President Lincoln to authorize the next step in a headlong journey toward war.A tale of daring and strategy, Stars and Stripes Triumphant explores how arrogance turns superpowers into victims, how regional conflicts can explode into world wars, and how the personalities of a few men and women can change the course of history itself\u2013for better or for worse.From the Hardcover edition.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Military History (Civil War)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172487.Stars_and_Stripes_Triumphant"}, +{"book_title": "Cosmos' Promise", "author_name": "S.E. Smith", "rating_score": 4.26, "rating_votes": 1993, "review_number": 66, "book_description": "Cosmos Raines is considered to be one of the most brilliant inventors in the world. A prodigy, he is a self-made billionaire who would rather be in his lab than jet-setting around the world. Things change when his latest experiment literally opens a Gateway into a whole new world. Now, not only has his best friend and her family moved to a new star system through the Gateway he has opened but he finds himself with a warehouse full of alien guests, including one very aggravating female that has turned him inside out.Terra \u2018Tag Krell Manok has spent her life in the shadows of her three older brothers. Her home world of Baade is a male dominated world where females are few in numbers and protected to the point of captivity. Terra\u2019s father is the high chancellor of the Prime and considered to be the fiercest warrior of their world next to her brothers. No one defies him and lives. Terra is surprised when her father suddenly sends her through the Gateway into hiding to protect her from a clan insisting that she be mated for political purposes. The last thing she expects to find there is her bond mate - in the form of a human male!Cosmos may not have been expecting to find the woman of his dreams on the other side of the Gateway he built but he knows one thing for sure - no one is going to take her away from him - not the clan who wants to use her nor her father who thinks all human males are worthless.When she is taken from him, he will use every bit of his intelligence and ingenuity to not only track her down but steal her back. He will prove that human males are just as much a warrior as a Prime one, especially when it involves the woman he loves.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Adult", "Futuristic"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17376204-cosmos-promise"}, +{"book_title": "The Challenge", "author_name": "Susan Kearney", "rating_score": 3.65, "rating_votes": 1477, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "\nShe was shot protecting the president, and woke up naked, in the arms of a hunk...A hunk named Kahn, who told Secret Service agent Tessa Camen an outlandish story about traveling through time, saving the world, and a Challenge only she can accept. Kahn offers her proof she can't refute: Tessa has been brought forward through time to save Earth by winning an intergalactic challenge. Kahn only has a few weeks to train Tessa to use the psi-abilities he insists she has. He is confident in the success of a time-honored method that uses sexual frustration to bring out her powers, but Tessa is dubious. She's a martial arts expert and can fight her way through anything, but she's never had much luck with emotions.Luckily for Earth, Kahn can be very convincing...\n", "year_published": 2004, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Futuristic", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic Romance"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/729576.The_Challenge"}, +{"book_title": "My Heart Stood Still", "author_name": "Lynn Kurland", "rating_score": 4.19, "rating_votes": 1937, "review_number": 70, "book_description": "USA Today bestselling author Lynn Kurland captures the haunting beauty of England, past and present\u2014and the exquisite tenderness of timeless love\u2026 In a bleak, landlocked keep on the English moors, Iolanthe MacLeod dreams of the sea\u2014and of a darkly handsome man to come rescue her. Centuries have passed and she feels she has waited in vain.Until now.Thomas McKinnon is used to attaining impossible heights, both in business and in the mountains he loves. But when the chance to restore a twelfth century castle comes his way, he gamely takes hammer in hand and crosses the Atlantic, expecting to find nothing more interesting inside his new home than cobwebs and weeds.But in that ancient, crumbling castle, the fierce, restless spirit of a medieval Scottish woman lives on\u2014a woman so haunting that he would do anything, go anywhere, risk everything to make her his forever\u2026", "year_published": 2001, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Romance (Historical Romance)", "Historical", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Time Travel Romance)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Historical (Medieval)", "Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816581.My_Heart_Stood_Still"}, +{"book_title": "Berrr's Vow", "author_name": "Laurann Dohner", "rating_score": 4.12, "rating_votes": 7227, "review_number": 214, "book_description": "Kidnapped from Earth and transported to planet Zorn to be sold as a sex slave, Shanna is one angry, frightened woman ready to fight anyone who tries to touch her. Raised in foster care, she\u2019s not going to take any crap off some alien men no matter how big, terrifying or muscular they are. Before she can be sold, she\u2019s freed by a huge, sexy Zorn warrior... a warrior with the most beautiful blue eyes she\u2019s ever seen. Shanna demands he take her under his protection when she realizes she\u2019s stuck on Zorn.Hyvin Berrr, the leader of Zorn, thinks humans are helpless and weak. Shanna decides to teach the big hunk he\u2019s wrong by knocking him on his backside. He might think she\u2019s playing but she\u2019s trying to teach him a lesson. She\u2019s not sure if she wants to fight her feelings for the sexy alien, though if a woman has to lose a battle, this just might be the one time to concede.", "year_published": 2010, "genres": ["Romance", "Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy", "Adult", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9495160-berrr-s-vow"}, +{"book_title": "Darkest Hour Before Dawn", "author_name": "Charlie Cochet", "rating_score": 4.22, "rating_votes": 2817, "review_number": 425, "book_description": "THIRDS Team Leader Sebastian Hobbs and Chief Medical Examiner Hudson Colbourn are as much in love now as they were nearly seven years ago when a tragic event on the job destroyed their relationship. The two drift together only to be pulled apart time and time again. When Hudson draws the interest of dangerous enemies, both within and outside the organization, Seb wants nothing more than to protect the man who still means everything to him.As life and death events, an uncertain future, and startling truths draw Hudson and Seb to each other yet again, they must make a choice: trust their love and take strength from what they share, or lose what matters most for good this time.", "year_published": 2017, "genres": ["Romance (M M Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Paranormal (Shapeshifters)", "Romance", "War (Military Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Fantasy (Urban Fantasy)", "LGBT", "Mystery", "Contemporary"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615793-darkest-hour-before-dawn"}, +{"book_title": "Attack Surface", "author_name": "Cory Doctorow", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 805, "review_number": 181, "book_description": "Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland.Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side.In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. 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Magdon", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 206, "review_number": 57, "book_description": "Elena Nevares is on the run. She\u2019s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She\u2019s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations. Together, they must find the rest of Sasha\u2019s crew: Cherry, the engineer and explosives expert; Rami, the master of disguise; Doc, the wunderkind Medical Officer; and Rock, the mechanically modified muscle. But Axys Generations has bigger plans than taking down Sasha\u2019s crew. Elena, Sasha, and the rest of the Lucky 7 must go on their most dangerous mission yet\u2014not for credits or tech, but to save the world.", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "LGBT", "GLBT (Lesbian)", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Romance", "Action", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "GLBT (Queer)", "Mystery (Crime)", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38390922-lucky-7"}, + {"book_title": "Salvation Lost", "author_name": "Peter F. Hamilton", "rating_score": 4.34, "rating_votes": 5131, "review_number": 342, "book_description": "The comparative utopia of twenty-third century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingly benign alien race is abruptly revealed to be one of the worst threats humanity has ever faced. Driven by an intense religious extremism, the Olyix are determined to bring everyone to their version of god as they see it. But they may have met their match in humanity, who are not about to go gently into that good night or spend the rest of their days cowering in hiding. As human ingenuity and determination rises to the challenge, collective humanity has only one goal--to wipe this apparently undefeatable enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means playing a ridiculously long game indeed.But in a chaotic universe, it is hard to plan for every eventuality, and it is always darkest before the dawn.", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Audiobook", "Space", "Novels", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44020966-salvation-lost"}, + {"book_title": "Alien Warrior's Mate", "author_name": "Vi Voxley", "rating_score": 3.74, "rating_votes": 492, "review_number": 54, "book_description": "He's damn impossible and he won't stop at anything to claim her... Deliya is one of the best of the best. An elite warrior, few things have ever phased her. She works hard and plays hard, all for the day when fates decide it's time for her to meet her fated mate. But what if there's one man in this blasted universe who just won't stop getting under her skin? What if she can't help but lust after him? Fates be damned, isn't that what's important? Driven to always succeed, Darien is one of the commander's chosen few. Above all his fellow warriors, he serves at the leisure of his general. But lately, someone else has been commanding his time... Mad with need to claim her sexy body as his own, Darien will not stop at anything in his quest to keep Deliya safe. And more importantly, as his own. Fates be damned, he will have that woman. When death lurks behind every stone and in the hands of every enemy they encounter, can Darien and Deliya find their love, or will death claim them first? Alien Warrior's Mate is a standalone book with a happy ever after ending and no cliffhanger. There's plenty of steam in this book and unless you love pantymeltingly hot sex, you might want to steer clear... Or at least brace yourself for a hell of a ride!", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Futuristic", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "War (Military Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Adult", "Short Stories"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27411139-alien-warrior-s-mate"}, + {"book_title": "On the Steel Breeze", "author_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "rating_score": 4.03, "rating_votes": 5909, "review_number": 353, "book_description": "It is a thousand years in the future. Mankind is making its way out into the universe on massive generation ships.On the Steel Breeze is the follow-up to Blue Remembered Earth. It is both a sequel and a standalone novel, which just happens to be set in the same universe and revolves around members of the Akinya family.The central character, Chiku, is totally new, although she is closely related to characters in the first book. The action involves a 220-year expedition to an extrasolar planet aboard a caravan of huge iceteroid 'holoships', the tension between human and artificial intelligence... and, of course, elephants.Lots of elephants.", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Adventure", "Space", "Speculative Fiction", "Science Fiction (Aliens)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15999018-on-the-steel-breeze"}, + {"book_title": "Salvage Marines", "author_name": "Sean-Michael Argo", "rating_score": 3.56, "rating_votes": 316, "review_number": 29, "book_description": "To protect his young family from merciless corporate tyranny, Samuel Hyst signs up for the hazardous life of a salvage marine, the foot soldiers of a militarized deep space operation. Hazard pay is high for a reason, and Samuel must endure grueling tours of duty in the abandoned scrapyard quadrants of a war-torn universe. Endless wars rage across every galaxy, leaving damaged starships, rusted factories, and broken planets in their wake, all ripe for plunder by the desperate and the daring. Samuel must seize his destiny in frenzied combat against murderous scavengers, horrific monsters, and the elite mercenaries of rival corporations. Left with no choice but to fight, he must win freedom with a combat rifle and his blowtorch. ", "year_published": 2015, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "War (Military Fiction)", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29952204-salvage-marines"}, + {"book_title": "Trade Secret", "author_name": "Sharon Lee", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 1285, "review_number": 125, "book_description": "The Liaden Universe \u00ae Saga Continues! Star-spanning galactic trader Jethri Gobelyn adventures are the focus in book 17 by master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Sequel to Trade Pact.In a universe full of interstellar intrigue and burgeoning commerce novice Terran trader Jethri Gobelyn, adopted by a Liaden clan after an ill-directed bow of honor insulted the scion of a major Liaden house, is alive and whole to tell the tale. Convinced that the adoption has saved his life and made his future he settles into a comfortable and even elite routine, a Trader's Ring his goal.Even as Jethri's initiation into the mysteries and joys of Liaden Festival bring him to manhood he's forced to face Necessity and the facts of life: his adoption has also invigorated a net of unfinished Balance far more complex and potentially deadly than a simple Terran blood feud. He must embrace his Terran birthright as well as his Liaden connections while leaving behind the safety of the great Liaden trade ship Elthoria to defend his honor and that of shipmates past and present. Forced to sit Second Board as a back-up pilot on a Liaden Scout ship, Jethri's convinced he's already at wit's end\u2014when several familiar faces threaten all that he knows of himself, and all that he wishes to do.Celebrating 25 Years of the Liaden Universe\u00ae", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space", "Audiobook", "Romance", "Adventure", "Speculative Fiction"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13544081-trade-secret"}, + {"book_title": "There Will Be Time", "author_name": "Poul Anderson", "rating_score": 3.67, "rating_votes": 1058, "review_number": 79, "book_description": " Time travel is impossible! There is no machine that can take you into time, past or future. But what if you are born a time traveler? Jack Havig did not know how he could cross the centuries merely by willing himself to. But the fact remained, he could. And, thought Jack, if I can travel through time, there must be others!So Jack Havig, human being extraordinaire, set out to see the world--the world of ancient Rome, of the Byzantine empire, of the American Indian tribes & ultimately the world of the future.Seeing the future, Jack found meaning in his life and a reason for his gift. He must seek out others like himself throughout the centuries and together they must try to affect the future of humankind. For that future threatened the extinction of humanity's entire civilization...", "year_published": 1972, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (American)", "Speculative Fiction", "Anthologies (Collections)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/602758.There_Will_Be_Time"}, + {"book_title": "Only in Death", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.35, "rating_votes": 2109, "review_number": 55, "book_description": "As the crusade to liberate the Sabbat Worlds continues, Colonel-Commissar Gaunt leads the Tanith First-and-Only into an unforgiving new warzone - the fortress world of Jago.", "year_published": 2007, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "War", "War (Military Fiction)", "Horror", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Space (Space Opera)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1052306.Only_in_Death"}, + {"book_title": "His To Claim", "author_name": "Taylor Vaughn", "rating_score": 4.05, "rating_votes": 2201, "review_number": 335, "book_description": "\n\n\nMy alien overlord is huge, all-powerful, and determined to claim me!\n\n\nEvery human girl growing up on New Terrhan knows one thing\u2026 that she will be taken by one or several Xalthurian males when she turns twenty-one. The Xalthurians are rough, domineering, and huge all over. But, this is the deal our leaders struck, so that they would provide our human colony with desperately needed supplies...\nIf the baby born from our taking is a girl, we will be allowed to keep it. If the baby is a boy, it will be taken away, never to be seen again. That is the way it has always been, on our small planet and that is the way it will always be...\nI should accept my fate, but I can\u2019t! When they come for my sister\u2019s baby boy, I dare to defy the alien, they call \u201cTel\u201d. As it turns out, \u201cTel\u201d means prince. But rather than killing me for my insolence, the future overlord vows to return to the planet. When I am twenty-one...\n\n\nHe\u2019s huge, all-powerful, and determined to claim me!\n\n\n\n\nCan I stop him?\n\n\n\n\nAnd how will I answer when the question becomes, do I want to?\n\n\n", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Fantasy (Paranormal)", "Fantasy", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Romance (Interracial Romance)", "Romance (Erotic Romance)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44645149-his-to-claim"}, + {"book_title": "Savage Drift", "author_name": "Emmy Laybourne", "rating_score": 4.07, "rating_votes": 6226, "review_number": 710, "book_description": "The stunningly fierce conclusion to Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 trilogy.The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp. Dean and Alex are cautiously starting to hope that a happy ending might be possible.But for Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, things have gone from bad to worse. Traumatized by her experiences, she has given up all hope of rescue or safety.Meanwhile, scared by the government's unusual interest in her pregnancy, Astrid (with her two protectors, Dean and Jake in tow) joins Niko on his desperate quest to be reunited with his lost love Josie.Author Emmy Laybourne reaches new heights of tension and romance in this action-packed conclusion to the Monument 14 trilogy.", "year_published": 2014, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Adventure (Survival)", "Science Fiction (Apocalyptic)", "Fiction", "Romance", "Adventure", "Young Adult (Teen)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18215086-savage-drift"}, + {"book_title": "Light of the Jedi", "author_name": "Charles Soule", "rating_score": 4.2, "rating_votes": 3127, "review_number": 597, "book_description": "Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face a frightening threat to themselves, the galaxy, and the Force itself....From Book Sleeve:It is a golden age. Intrepid hyperspace scouts expand the reach of the Republic to the farthest stars, worlds flourish under the benevolent leadership of the Senate, and peace reigns, enforced by the wisdom and strength of the renowned order of Force users known as the Jedi. With the Jedi at the height of their power, the free citizens of the galaxy are confident in their ability to weather any storm. But even the brightest light can cast a shadow, and some storms defy any preparation.When a shocking catastrophe in hyperspace tears a ship to pieces, the flurry of shrapnel emerging from the disaster threatens an entire system. No sooner does the call for help go out than the Jedi race to the scene. The scope of the emergence, however, is enough to push even Jedi to their limit. As the sky breaks open and destruction rains down upon the peaceful alliance they helped to build, the Jedi must trust in the Force to see them through a day in which a single mistake could cost billions of lives.Even as the Jedi battle valiantly against calamity, something truly deadly grows beyond the boundary of the Republic. The hyperspace disaster is far more sinister than the Jedi could ever suspect. A threat hides in the darkness, far from the light of the age, and harbors a secret that could strike fear into even a Jedi's heart.", "year_published": 2021, "genres": ["Media Tie In (Star Wars)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Audiobook", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels", "Space", "Canon", "Action"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51637946-light-of-the-jedi"}, + {"book_title": "Mega Robo Bros", "author_name": "Neill Cameron", "rating_score": 3.85, "rating_votes": 140, "review_number": 37, "book_description": "London! The Future! Alex and Freddy are just like any other brothers. They squabble. They drive their parents crazy. There's only one difference...they're the most powerful robots on earth! But Alex and Freddy will soon discover that they're not the only super-powered robots around. An evil robotic mind is making sinister plans. And their lives won't stay peaceful for much longer...", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Childrens (Middle Grade)", "Sequential Art (Comics)", "Adventure", "Childrens", "Fiction", "Humor", "Science Fiction (Robots)", "Family"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30181785-mega-robo-bros"}, + {"book_title": "Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street", "author_name": "Warren Ellis", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 41612, "review_number": 1125, "book_description": "After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 23rd Century surroundings. Combining black humor, life-threatening situations, and moral ambiguity, this book is the first look into the mind of an outlaw journalist and the world he seeks to destroy.", "year_published": 1998, "genres": ["Sequential Art (Comics)", "Sequential Art (Graphic Novels)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)", "Graphic Novels Comics", "Comics (Comic Book)", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Sequential Art (Comix)", "Humor"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22416.Transmetropolitan_Vol_1"}, + {"book_title": "The Queen of Traitors", "author_name": "Laura Thalassa", "rating_score": 4.09, "rating_votes": 9247, "review_number": 614, "book_description": "They say I am a queen.They say I married a monster. That I did so willingly.They say he cannot die, that he does not age. That together, we rule a ravaged world.They say I used to be one of them, but now I am a traitor. They say many things, all which I cannot remember, but \u2026 I fear what they say is true.Then there is what they don\u2019t say, what I see in their eyes\u2014The king terrifies them. He cannot be stopped. And, most worrisome of all \u2026He is coming for me.", "year_published": 2016, "genres": ["New Adult", "Romance", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Fantasy", "Apocalyptic (Post Apocalyptic)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Dark", "War", "Fantasy (Paranormal)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23867347-the-queen-of-traitors"}, + {"book_title": "The Island of Doctor Moreau", "author_name": "H.G. Wells", "rating_score": 3.73, "rating_votes": 99517, "review_number": 4423, "book_description": "Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells\u2019s prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing \u201csmarter\u201d human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick\u2019s adventures on Dr. Moreau\u2019s island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read.", "year_published": 1896, "genres": ["Classics", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Horror", "Fantasy", "Literature", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Literature (19th Century)", "Novels", "Adventure"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29981.The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau"}, + {"book_title": "Human Nature", "author_name": "Jonathan Green", "rating_score": 3.6, "rating_votes": 108, "review_number": 6, "book_description": "In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo. Welcome to Magna Britannia, a steam driven world full of fantastical creations and shady villains. Here dashing dandies and mustachioed villains battle for supremacy while below the city strange things stir in the flooded tunnels of the old London Underground. The Whitby Mermaid has been stolen from Cruickshank's Cabinet of Curiosities and consulting detective Gabriel Wraith is on the case. And he's not the only one, for wherever there is a mystery to be solved, Ulysses Quicksilver is never far away. What does the theft of the mermaid have to do with the mysterious House of Monkeys? And what of the enigmatic criminal known as the Magpie? Ulysses embarks upon an adventure that takes him to Whitby where the mermaid was supposedly caught. But there are worse things awaiting him there than mermaids. The moors of Ghestdale are haunted by the savage Barghest beast, while in the abandoned mines beneath the Umbridge estate, abominations lurk in the darkness. And Ulysses Quicksilver is about to discover that the worst horrors are those spawned by Man's own selfish nature.", "year_published": 2009, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Fantasy", "Mystery"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6072232-human-nature"}, + {"book_title": "Legion", "author_name": "Dan Abnett", "rating_score": 4.11, "rating_votes": 7023, "review_number": 299, "book_description": "A Great War is coming, and it will engulf the Imperium of Man. The Space Marines of the Alpha Legion, the last and most secretive of all the Astartes brotherhoods, arrive on a heathen world to support the Imperial Army in a pacification campaign against strange and uncanny forces. But what drives the Alpha Legion? Can they be trusted, and what side will they choose when the Great War begins? Loyalties are put to the test, and the cunning schemes of an alien intelligence revealed in this latest instalment of the ground-breaking SF series by Dan Abnett, as the fate of mankind hangs in the balance.", "year_published": 2008, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "War", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)", "Space (Space Opera)", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1678745.Legion"}, + {"book_title": "Wolfsbane", "author_name": "Guy Haley", "rating_score": 4.21, "rating_votes": 628, "review_number": 44, "book_description": "The time has come. Leman Russ, primarch of the Space Wolves, withdraws his Legion from Terra and makes all haste for Horus\u2019s position, to try and end the traitor once and for all.The time has come for Leman Russ, primarch of the Space Wolves, to fulfil his vow and attempt to stop Warmaster Horus before he breaks through to the Segmentum Solar.\u00a0\u00a0In the face of opposition from three of his brother primarchs, Russ withdraws the Space Wolves legion from Terra and makes all haste for Horus\u2019s position. Reports from Malcador the Sigillite\u2019s agents suggest that Horus is utterly changed, and infused with a diabolical power so great that no man can stand against him. A warrior of Fenris would never willingly abandon his oaths, but with Horus beyond the touch of mortal blades, the Lord of Winter and War may have doomed himself for the sake of honour\u2026", "year_published": 2018, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "40k", "Fiction", "Audiobook", "Action", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Military Science Fiction)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38747895-wolfsbane"}, + {"book_title": "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal", "author_name": "Christopher Moore", "rating_score": 4.23, "rating_votes": 155779, "review_number": 11979, "book_description": "The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years\u2014except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work \"reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams\" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more\u2014except maybe \"Maggie,\" Mary of Magdala\u2014and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.", "year_published": 2002, "genres": ["Fiction", "Humor", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Fantasy", "Religion", "Humor (Comedy)", "Historical", "Audiobook", "Adult", "Novels"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28881.Lamb"}, + {"book_title": "Our Pet", "author_name": "S.M. Matthews", "rating_score": 3.82, "rating_votes": 719, "review_number": 78, "book_description": "Abducted by aliens? Yes. Mistakenly bought as a family pet? Yep. Actually, unexpectedly starting to enjoy the ride? I just might be. I've been abducted, sold, and then sold again, all before I even knew what was going on. Luckily for me, I might just have been bought by the three nicest....guys....in the universe. Maisy has to adapt to her new life traveling through space, lucky for her she has a set of three alien brothers to help her along...big, furry and very affectionate, these brothers only come as a set. *Contains themes of a very adult nature, meant for mature readers only. Warning - alien biology.* ", "year_published": 2019, "genres": ["Polyamorous (Reverse Harem)", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Romance (Science Fiction Romance)", "Erotica (Menage)", "Romance (Paranormal Romance)", "Adult Fiction (Erotica)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51127899-our-pet"}, + {"book_title": "The Aylesford Skull", "author_name": "James P. Blaylock", "rating_score": 3.59, "rating_votes": 366, "review_number": 75, "book_description": "It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives - brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer - is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay; the crew murdered and pitched overboard. In Aylesford itself a grave is opened and possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of Langdon St. Ives.\u00a0When Dr. Narbondo returns to kidnap his four-year-old son Eddie and then vanishes into the night, St. Ives and his factotum Hasbro race to London in pursuit...", "year_published": 2013, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Fantasy (Magic)", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Fantasy (Supernatural)", "Aircraft (Airships)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13531598-the-aylesford-skull"}, + {"book_title": "Ghosts of War", "author_name": "George Mann", "rating_score": 3.58, "rating_votes": 391, "review_number": 50, "book_description": "Ghosts of War picks up the story a month after the end of Ghosts of Manhattan. New York City is being plagued by a pack of ferocious brass raptors \u2013 strange, skeleton-like creations with bat-like wings that swoop out of the sky, attacking people and carrying them away into the night. The Ghost has been tracking these bizarre machines, and is close to finding their origin: a deranged military scientist who is slowly rebuilding himself as a machine. However, this scientist is not working alone, and his scheme involves more than a handful of abductions. He is part of a plot to escalate the cold war with Britain into a full-blown conflict, and he is building a weapon \u2013 a weapon that will fracture dimensional space and allow the monstrous creatures that live on the other side to spill through. He and his co-conspirators \u2013 a cabal of senators and businessmen who seek to benefit from the war \u2013 intend to harness these creatures and use them as a means to crush the British. But the Ghost knows only too well how dangerous these creatures can be, and the threat they represent not just to Britain, but the world. The Ghost\u2019s efforts to put an end to the conspiracy bring him into an uneasy alliance with a male British spy, who is loose in Manhattan, protecting the interests of his country. He also has the unlikely assistance of Ginny, a drunken ex-lover and sharpshooter, who walks back into his life, having disappeared six years earlier in mysterious circumstances. Suffering from increasingly lucid flashbacks to WWI and subjected to rooftop chases, a battle with a mechanized madman, and the constant threat of airborne predators, and with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, can the Ghost derail the conspiracy and prevent the war with the British from escalating beyond control?", "year_published": 2011, "genres": ["Science Fiction (Steampunk)", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction", "Mystery", "Mystery (Noir)", "Science Fiction (Alternate History)", "Thriller", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Mystery (Detective)", "Horror"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9727683-ghosts-of-war"}, + {"book_title": "The Book of Time", "author_name": "Guillaume Pr\u00e9vost", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 2127, "review_number": 237, "book_description": "Scholastic introduces the next name in YA adventure: Guillaume Prevost, whose Book of Time trilogy is one part DA VINCI CODE, one part DRACULA, one part THE TIME-TRAVELER'S WIFE, and all thrilling.A statue; a coin; an old book. They look as dusty as everything else in the Faulkner Antiquarian Bookstore, where 14-year-old Sam Faulkner seeks his father, who's been missing for days. But when Sam slips the coin into the statue, he's swept back in time -- to Scotland in 800 A.D. -- where he must find both the statue and another coin in order to return to the present. It's the first step in an adventure that will take him to ancient Egypt, World War I, even Dracula's castle -- and a mystery that will end only when Sam saves his father, or loses him in time . . .", "year_published": 2006, "genres": ["Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Time Travel)", "Young Adult", "Fiction", "Adventure", "Science Fiction", "Childrens", "Historical (Historical Fiction)", "Mystery", "Childrens (Middle Grade)"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1383797.The_Book_of_Time"}, + {"book_title": "Because It Is My Blood", "author_name": "Gabrielle Zevin", "rating_score": 3.91, "rating_votes": 4611, "review_number": 524, "book_description": "\u201cEvery time I think I\u2019m out, they pull me back in.\u201d- Michael Corleone, The GodfatherFreed from jail, Anya hopes that things will get back to normal. But life on the outside is even more dangerous than life behind bars. Some of her gangland family want revenge for the crime for which she has done time: the shooting of her uncle. Forced to flee the country, Anya hides out in a cacao plantation in Mexico. There she learns the secrets of the chocolate trade, a trade that is illegal and deadly in her native New York. There too she discovers that seemingly random acts of violence carried out across the world have a single target: her family. As innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire Anya must act fast and decisively to stop it, no matter what the danger to herself.", "year_published": 2012, "genres": ["Young Adult", "Science Fiction (Dystopia)", "Romance", "Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Mystery (Crime)", "Young Adult (Teen)", "Mystery", "Audiobook", "Fantasy"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13163011-because-it-is-my-blood"}, + {"book_title": "The Annals of the Heechee", "author_name": "Frederik Pohl", "rating_score": 3.75, "rating_votes": 3928, "review_number": 111, "book_description": "Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life reappears after eons of silence, and threatens the lives of all heechee and humans. Even Robin, virtually immortal and with unlimited access to millennia of accumulated data, cannot discover how to stop these aliens. It began to seem that only a face to face meeting could determine the future of the entire universe....", "year_published": 1987, "genres": ["Science Fiction", "Fiction", "Space (Space Opera)", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Science Fiction (Aliens)", "Speculative Fiction", "Audiobook", "Science Fiction (Hard Science Fiction)", "Novels", "Space"], "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77463.The_Annals_of_the_Heechee"} +] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/example.env b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/example.env new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1435004e --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/example.env @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +ELASTIC_ENDPOINT_ID = +ELASTIC_API_KEY = +INDEX_NAME = 'books' \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/local_embedding_example.ipynb b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/local_embedding_example.ipynb new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8cb63841 --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/local_embedding_example.ipynb @@ -0,0 +1,296 @@ +{ + "cells": [ + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "2b12288f-89fe-4163-933e-bb97a0f80def", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "!pip install -r requirements.txt" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "1b6172d4-6444-4a86-83dc-4e9448bcb745", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "### Getting Started\n", + "For embedding, we'll be using a model from [SentenceTransformers](https://sbert.net/), which allows us to use a fast and light version of BERT without the heavy compute overhead." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 22, + "id": "11d4a9d1-4c43-44e2-9952-2cf6459141e3", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "import os\n", + "import logging\n", + "import json\n", + "from getpass import getpass\n", + "\n", + "from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, helpers\n", + "from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer\n", + "\n", + "model = SentenceTransformer(\"sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-12-v3\")" + ] + }, + { + "attachments": {}, + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "d47ca27e-2d83-41af-aea3-541e169cd540", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "Make sure you have access to your [Elastic Cloud ID](https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/tutorials/install-elasticsearch/elastic-cloud#finding-your-cloud-id) and [Elastic API Key](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-api-authentication.html#ec-api-keys). The next code snippet will prompt you for both and connect to Elasticsearch." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "7abedbcb-f18b-4f82-83b1-e271ae17a8ec", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "cloud_endpoint = getpass(\"Elastic deployment Cloud Endpoint: \")\n", + "cloud_api_key = getpass(\"Elastic deployment API Key: \")\n", + "INDEX_NAME = \"books-local\"\n", + "\n", + "es = Elasticsearch(\n", + " hosts=cloud_endpoint,\n", + " api_key=cloud_api_key,\n", + ")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "a54fa50a-2976-4d70-a447-1f742045d2ee", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## 1. Embedding text into vectors\n", + "Our book documents are located in `../data/books.json`. They do not currently have any vectors. The next section will parse through a small batch of 25 book objects and create vector embeddings for each book_description. If you would like to run this on all 10,909 book objects, change the file_path to `../data/books.json` instead of `../data/small_books.json`." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 24, + "id": "9eb0c477-b935-4930-88a9-9a3fb8b1fa61", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "# Open the small books json file\n", + "file_path = \"../data/small_books.json\"\n", + "with open(file_path, \"r\") as file:\n", + " books = json.load(file)\n", + "\n", + "# pull out all book_description fields\n", + "book_descriptions = [book[\"book_description\"] for book in books]" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "56796f30-369b-4e6d-8bd8-98ebac530f33", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "# convert the array of \"book_description\" text to vectors\n", + "pool = model.start_multi_process_pool()\n", + "embedded_books = model.encode_multi_process(book_descriptions, pool)\n", + "model.stop_multi_process_pool(pool)\n", + "print(f\"{len(embedded_books)} vectors created!\")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "cf25dec8-5620-4ba8-a0dd-b4db721636bb", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "# add the new vectors bacvk into each book object under the new field \"description_embedding\"\n", + "for i, book in enumerate(books):\n", + " book[\"description_embedding\"] = embedded_books[i].tolist()\n", + "\n", + "print(f\"Embeddings added to {len(books)} books.\")\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "# write the embedded books to a new json array of documents\n", + "output_file = \"../data/small_books_embedded.json\"\n", + "with open(output_file, \"w\") as file:\n", + " file.write(\"[\")\n", + " for i, book in enumerate(books):\n", + " json.dump(book, file)\n", + " if i != len(books) - 1:\n", + " file.write(\",\")\n", + " file.write(\"]\")\n", + "print(f\"{len(books)} embedded books saved to file: {output_file}.\")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "7c93449e-4192-40b4-b5ec-630e33aa2097", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "We can inspect the file and observe that there are now vector embeddings added to each document. Let's take a look at the first book in the `small_books_embedded.json` file" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "f63ebf93-ac58-4559-9326-4ccfe8365e48", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "import pprint\n", + "\n", + "pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=2)\n", + "\n", + "with open(output_file, \"r\") as file:\n", + " books = json.load(file)\n", + " pp.pprint(books[0])" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "7d6fd772-411b-4f21-ab2f-89027014ba24", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "Now lets create an index for our books using the Elasticsearch client." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "1bdbb18d-c804-48d4-b278-0b505eeba104", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "# Lets define our mappings\n", + "mappings = {\n", + " \"mappings\": {\n", + " \"properties\": {\n", + " \"book_title\": {\"type\": \"text\"},\n", + " \"author_name\": {\"type\": \"text\"},\n", + " \"rating_score\": {\"type\": \"float\"},\n", + " \"rating_votes\": {\"type\": \"integer\"},\n", + " \"review_number\": {\"type\": \"integer\"},\n", + " \"book_description\": {\"type\": \"text\"},\n", + " \"genres\": {\"type\": \"keyword\"},\n", + " \"year_published\": {\"type\": \"integer\"},\n", + " \"url\": {\"type\": \"text\"},\n", + " \"description_embedding\": {\"type\": \"dense_vector\", \"dims\": 384},\n", + " }\n", + " }\n", + "}\n", + "\n", + "# Delete any previous index\n", + "es.indices.delete(index=INDEX_NAME, ignore_unavailable=True)\n", + "es.indices.create(index=INDEX_NAME, body=mappings)\n", + "print(f\"Index '{INDEX_NAME}' created.\")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "601d31c4-617b-4d5a-9352-6ff1f759cae7", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "Now that we have created an index in Elasticsearch, we can index our local book objects. This `bulk_ingest_books` method will make indexing documents much faster than if we were to run an index function on each individual book." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "2e1dfa21-a500-4168-b920-ca0eb128be27", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "file_path = \"../data/small_books_embedded.json\"\n", + "with open(file_path, \"r\") as file:\n", + " books = json.load(file)\n", + "\n", + "# create an array of index actions, with each element holding one document\n", + "actions = [\n", + " {\"_index\": INDEX_NAME, \"_id\": book.get(\"id\", None), \"_source\": book}\n", + " for book in books\n", + "]\n", + "\n", + "try:\n", + " helpers.bulk(es, actions, chunk_size=1000)\n", + " print(f\"Successfully added {len(actions)} books into the '{INDEX_NAME}' index.\")\n", + "\n", + "except helpers.BulkIndexError as e:\n", + " print(f\"Error occurred while ingesting books: {e}\")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "205538b7-fa8a-41b9-8381-7028759891ea", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "Lets also add one book, as this would be a standard function as you add new books to your vector database" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 18, + "id": "c00f8d4d-a2b8-4f79-a3cf-cef532aedb95", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "with open(\"../data/one_book_embedded.json\", \"r\") as file:\n", + " book = json.load(file)" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "c221dffe-e3ef-4467-876b-d4e01cac1b7a", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "try:\n", + " resp = es.index(\n", + " index=INDEX_NAME,\n", + " id=book.get(\"id\", None),\n", + " body=book,\n", + " )\n", + "\n", + " print(f\"Successfully indexed book! Result: {resp.get('result', None)}\")\n", + "\n", + "except Exception as e:\n", + " print(f\"Error occurred while indexing book: {e}\")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "5299a667-ebea-4d0a-820d-c46c70d8031f", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [] + } + ], + "metadata": { + "kernelspec": { + "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)", + "language": "python", + "name": "python3" + }, + "language_info": { + "codemirror_mode": { + "name": "ipython", + "version": 3 + }, + "file_extension": ".py", + "mimetype": "text/x-python", + "name": "python", + "nbconvert_exporter": "python", + "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", + "version": "3.12.3" + } + }, + "nbformat": 4, + "nbformat_minor": 5 +} diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/pipeline-inference-example.ipynb b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/pipeline-inference-example.ipynb new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2c69ef9a --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/pipeline-inference-example.ipynb @@ -0,0 +1,245 @@ +{ + "cells": [ + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "3d8dca77-3634-44fc-b253-56cadeaf69c6", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "!pip install -r requirements.txt" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "01803cf6-a631-4dcc-85e1-8d10235780d2", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "import json\n", + "from getpass import getpass\n", + "\n", + "from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, helpers\n", + "from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "2b16308f-b9f3-4ce1-9250-3386bf8342f1", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "cloud_endpoint = getpass(\"Elastic deployment Cloud Endpoint: \")\n", + "cloud_api_key = getpass(\"Elastic deployment API Key: \")\n", + "INDEX_NAME = \"books-pipeline\"\n", + "\n", + "es = Elasticsearch(\n", + " hosts=cloud_endpoint,\n", + " api_key=cloud_api_key,\n", + ")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "83c32fd8-e199-45e2-99d3-d835b9cf4c23", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "### 1. Create an Ingestion Pipeline\n", + "We will create an inference ingestion pipeline to have Elasticsearch create embeddings of the book_description when the document is indexed into Elasticsearch. This frees our hardware from needing to embed vectors.\n", + "\n", + "Note that if there is any kind of failure, the documents will be placed in a `failed-books` index and will include helpful error messages." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "c09c0b98-775d-47fd-bfcf-4e84a352e092", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "resp = es.ingest.put_pipeline(\n", + " id=\"text-embedding\",\n", + " description=\"converts book description text to a vector\",\n", + " processors=[\n", + " {\n", + " \"inference\": {\n", + " \"model_id\": \"sentence-transformers__msmarco-minilm-l-12-v3\",\n", + " \"input_output\": [\n", + " {\n", + " \"input_field\": \"book_description\",\n", + " \"output_field\": \"description_embedding\",\n", + " }\n", + " ],\n", + " }\n", + " }\n", + " ],\n", + " on_failure=[\n", + " {\n", + " \"set\": {\n", + " \"description\": \"Index document to 'failed-'\",\n", + " \"field\": \"_index\",\n", + " \"value\": \"failed-{{{_index}}}\",\n", + " }\n", + " },\n", + " {\n", + " \"set\": {\n", + " \"description\": \"Set error message\",\n", + " \"field\": \"ingest.failure\",\n", + " \"value\": \"{{_ingest.on_failure_message}}\",\n", + " }\n", + " },\n", + " ],\n", + ")\n", + "\n", + "print(resp)" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "f10b5e28-6f17-426e-81e9-9b81ee3dc9c7", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "### 2. Create an index\n", + "Now lets create an index in Elasticsearch. We will not need to map our description_embedding vector data type as the ingestion pipeline will provide that for us." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "d7e1ca60-05fa-481b-b701-ca6a4573e156", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "mappings = {\n", + " \"mappings\": {\n", + " \"properties\": {\n", + " \"book_title\": {\"type\": \"text\"},\n", + " \"author_name\": {\"type\": \"text\"},\n", + " \"rating_score\": {\"type\": \"float\"},\n", + " \"rating_votes\": {\"type\": \"integer\"},\n", + " \"review_number\": {\"type\": \"integer\"},\n", + " \"book_description\": {\"type\": \"text\"},\n", + " \"genres\": {\"type\": \"keyword\"},\n", + " \"year_published\": {\"type\": \"integer\"},\n", + " \"url\": {\"type\": \"text\"},\n", + " }\n", + " }\n", + "}\n", + "# Delete any previous index\n", + "es.indices.delete(index=INDEX_NAME)\n", + "es.indices.create(index=INDEX_NAME, body=mappings)\n", + "print(f\"Index '{INDEX_NAME}' created.\")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "d895af24-739c-4890-a7dc-bd27907df981", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "### 3. Bulk Indexing many documents\n", + "Now that we have created an index in Elasticsearch, we can index our local book objects. This bulk_ingest_books method will make indexing documents much faster than if we were to run an index function on each individual book.\n" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "5dfc0eb6-3480-437d-a16f-d2486a2fd99c", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "file_path = \"../data/books.json\"\n", + "with open(file_path, \"r\") as file:\n", + " books = json.load(file)\n", + "\n", + "# create an array of index actions, with each element holding one document\n", + "actions = [\n", + " {\"_index\": INDEX_NAME, \"_id\": book.get(\"id\", None), \"_source\": book}\n", + " for book in books\n", + "]\n", + "\n", + "try:\n", + " helpers.bulk(es, actions, pipeline=\"text-embedding\", chunk_size=1000)\n", + " print(f\"Successfully added {len(actions)} books into the '{INDEX_NAME}' index.\")\n", + "\n", + "except helpers.BulkIndexError as e:\n", + " print(f\"Error occurred while ingesting books: {e}\")\n", + " print(e.errors)" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "d10ae8dd-5dd9-4a91-a9b1-8dc17bdb86ba", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "### 4. Indexing one document.\n", + "Lets also add one book, as this would be a standard function as you add new books to your vector database" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 8, + "id": "5d0930c7-4f77-426d-9180-7b7f204c2773", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [ + { + "name": "stdout", + "output_type": "stream", + "text": [ + "Successfully indexed book: Shattered World - Result: created\n" + ] + } + ], + "source": [ + "file_path = \"../data/one_book.json\"\n", + "with open(file_path, \"r\") as file:\n", + " book = json.load(file)\n", + "\n", + "try:\n", + " resp = es.index(\n", + " index=INDEX_NAME,\n", + " id=book.get(\"id\", None),\n", + " body=book,\n", + " pipeline=\"text-embedding\",\n", + " )\n", + "\n", + " print(\n", + " f\"Successfully indexed book: {book.get('book_title', None)} - Result: {resp.get('result', None)}\"\n", + " )\n", + "\n", + "except Exception as e:\n", + " print(f\"Error occurred while indexing book: {e}\")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "601c6f60-30a2-4f2d-8567-bb4444b02b3f", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [] + } + ], + "metadata": { + "kernelspec": { + "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)", + "language": "python", + "name": "python3" + }, + "language_info": { + "codemirror_mode": { + "name": "ipython", + "version": 3 + }, + "file_extension": ".py", + "mimetype": "text/x-python", + "name": "python", + "nbconvert_exporter": "python", + "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", + "version": "3.12.3" + } + }, + "nbformat": 4, + "nbformat_minor": 5 +} diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/query_examples.ipynb b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/query_examples.ipynb new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9075c086 --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/query_examples.ipynb @@ -0,0 +1,210 @@ +{ + "cells": [ + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "7ec41d9f-61ce-4ad8-a166-13ed751733fe", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "# Query Examples\n", + "This notebook contains a few examples of search performed on the `books` index previously created from the files [local_embedding_example](./local_embedding_example.ipynb) or [pipeline-inference-example](./pipeline-inference-example.ipynb). " + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "36dbf3da-607e-42ff-80a4-f7a7e7601473", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "!pip install -r requirements.txt" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 2, + "id": "d7348f74-846e-4f28-b262-b2f452001e11", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch\n", + "from getpass import getpass\n", + "import pprint\n", + "\n", + "pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=2)" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "77d58474-fe09-4d9a-8b51-858ce86e3584", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "Connect to Elasticsearch with an Elastic Deployemnt Endpoint and Elastic Api Key\n", + "\n", + "This notebook connects to the `books-pipeline` index, as the ingestion-based scripts index all of the books by default. If you would like to use the `books-local` index instead, replace the value of `INDEX_NAME` to `books-local` below." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "4729052a-d72f-468a-9d17-3520ed18cc38", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "cloud_endpoint = getpass(\"Elastic deployment Cloud Endpoint: \")\n", + "cloud_api_key = getpass(\"Elastic deployment API Key: \")\n", + "\n", + "INDEX_NAME = \"books-pipeline\"\n", + "MODEL_ID = \"sentence-transformers__msmarco-minilm-l-12-v3\"\n", + "\n", + "es = Elasticsearch(\n", + " hosts=cloud_endpoint,\n", + " api_key=cloud_api_key,\n", + ")\n", + "\n", + "query_string = \"Dinosaurs are still alive\"" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "7b97c764-6da3-40ff-8ce9-051c1f02cb1d", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "#### The queries will return and display using the `print_results` function defined below which outlines the book title, description, and search return score." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 6, + "id": "fd407bef-9c72-4971-83f1-6e2cf818ab4c", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "def print_results(search_result):\n", + " print(f\"Total hits: {search_result['hits']['total']['value']}\")\n", + " for hit in search_result[\"hits\"][\"hits\"]:\n", + " print(f\"Book: {hit['_source']['book_title']}\")\n", + " print(f\"Author: {hit['_source']['author_name']}\")\n", + " print(f\"Description: {hit['_source']['book_description']}\")\n", + " print(f\"Score: {hit['_score']}\\n\")" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "0b76adf0-1341-423e-98dc-914c1ed34c49", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "### 1. Vector Search Example" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "b1e40135-8321-4713-abb0-0bdb82894bc7", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "vector_search_result = es.search(\n", + " index=INDEX_NAME,\n", + " knn={\n", + " \"field\": \"description_embedding\",\n", + " \"k\": 10,\n", + " \"num_candidates\": 50,\n", + " \"query_vector_builder\": {\n", + " \"text_embedding\": {\"model_id\": MODEL_ID, \"model_text\": query_string}\n", + " },\n", + " },\n", + ")\n", + "\n", + "print_results(vector_search_result)" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "c5718325-b845-45c4-94ea-6d6041863b3b", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "### 2. Full-Text Search Example" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "959be210-ee7b-44ed-9c75-2dab3d943dc8", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "bm25_result = es.search(\n", + " index=INDEX_NAME,\n", + " body={\"query\": {\"match\": {\"book_description\": query_string}}, \"size\": 10},\n", + ")\n", + "\n", + "print_results(bm25_result)" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "bc45aca6-1243-4602-90f4-8f8cb879c087", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "### 3. Hybrid Search Example" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "e2595c6b-e997-41bf-8897-c46334de8907", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "hybrid_search_result = es.search(\n", + " index=INDEX_NAME,\n", + " body={\n", + " \"query\": {\n", + " \"bool\": {\n", + " \"must\": [\n", + " {\n", + " \"match\": {\n", + " \"book_description\": query_string,\n", + " }\n", + " },\n", + " ]\n", + " }\n", + " },\n", + " \"knn\": {\n", + " \"field\": \"description_embedding\",\n", + " \"k\": 10,\n", + " \"query_vector_builder\": {\n", + " \"text_embedding\": {\"model_id\": MODEL_ID, \"model_text\": query_string}\n", + " },\n", + " },\n", + " \"rank\": {\"rrf\": {}},\n", + " \"size\": 10,\n", + " },\n", + ")\n", + "\n", + "print_results(hybrid_search_result)" + ] + } + ], + "metadata": { + "kernelspec": { + "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)", + "language": "python", + "name": "python3" + }, + "language_info": { + "codemirror_mode": { + "name": "ipython", + "version": 3 + }, + "file_extension": ".py", + "mimetype": "text/x-python", + "name": "python", + "nbconvert_exporter": "python", + "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", + "version": "3.12.3" + } + }, + "nbformat": 4, + "nbformat_minor": 5 +} diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/requirements.txt b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/requirements.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fe4a159d --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/notebooks/requirements.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +certifi==2024.8.30 +elastic-transport==8.15.0 +elasticsearch==8.15.0 +python-dotenv==1.0.1 +urllib3==2.2.2 +sentence-transformers==3.1.1 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/elastic_client.py b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/elastic_client.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..df0124ae --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/elastic_client.py @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +import os +from dotenv import load_dotenv +from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch + +load_dotenv(override=True) + +ELASTIC_ENDPOINT_ID = os.environ.get("ELASTIC_ENDPOINT_ID") +ELASTIC_API_KEY = os.environ.get("ELASTIC_API_KEY") + +es = Elasticsearch( + hosts=ELASTIC_ENDPOINT_ID, + api_key=ELASTIC_API_KEY, +) diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/query_examples.py b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/query_examples.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..be714638 --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/query_examples.py @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +import os +from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch +from dotenv import load_dotenv +from elastic_client import es + +load_dotenv(override=True) + +# This file uses the 'books-pipeline' index, which is created in the 'upload_books_local_embed.py' file. +# If you wish to use the 'books-local' index, change the below line to: +# 'INDEX_NAME = f"{os.environ.get('INDEX_NAME')}-local"' +INDEX_NAME = f'{os.environ.get("INDEX_NAME")}-pipeline' +MODEL_ID = os.environ.get("MODEL_ID") + + +def vector_search(query_string): + search_result = es.search( + index=INDEX_NAME, + knn={ + "field": "description_embedding", + "k": 10, + "num_candidates": 50, + "query_vector_builder": { + "text_embedding": {"model_id": MODEL_ID, "model_text": query_string} + }, + }, + ) + return search_result + + +def search(query_string): + search_result = es.search( + index=INDEX_NAME, body={"query": {"match": {"book_description": query_string}}} + ) + + return search_result + + +def hybrid_search(query_string): + search_result = es.search( + index=INDEX_NAME, + body={ + "query": { + "bool": { + "must": [ + { + "multi_match": { + "query": query_string, + "fields": [ + "book_title", + "author_name", + "book_description", + ], + } + }, + ] + } + }, + "knn": { + "field": "description_embedding", + "k": 10, + "query_vector_builder": { + "text_embedding": {"model_id": MODEL_ID, "model_text": query_string} + }, + }, + "rank": {"rrf": {}}, + "size": 10, + }, + ) + return search_result + + +def print_results(search_result): + print(f"Total hits: {search_result['hits']['total']['value']}") + for hit in search_result["hits"]["hits"]: + print(f"Book: {hit['_source']['book_title']}") + print(f"Author: {hit['_source']['author_name']}") + print(f"Description: {hit['_source']['book_description']}") + print(f"Score: {hit['_score']}") + print("") + + +query_string = "Dinosaurs are still alive" +vector_results = vector_search(query_string) +print_results(vector_results) +bm25_results = search(query_string) +print_results(bm25_results) +hybrid_results = hybrid_search(query_string) +print_results(hybrid_results) diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/requirements.txt b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/requirements.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fe4a159d --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/requirements.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +certifi==2024.8.30 +elastic-transport==8.15.0 +elasticsearch==8.15.0 +python-dotenv==1.0.1 +urllib3==2.2.2 +sentence-transformers==3.1.1 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/upload_books_local_embed.py b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/upload_books_local_embed.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..85b70dde --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/upload_books_local_embed.py @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ +if __name__ == "__main__": + + import os + import logging + import json + from dotenv import load_dotenv + + from elastic_client import es + from elasticsearch import helpers + + from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer + + load_dotenv(override=True) + + INDEX_NAME = f"{os.environ.get('INDEX_NAME')}-local" + + # Delete the inded if it already exists + es.indices.delete(index=f"{INDEX_NAME}", ignore_unavailable=True) + + # This function embeds the book descriptions using the sentence-transformers library locally + # and saves the embedded descriptions to a new file. + def embed_descriptions( + file_path="../data/books.json", output_path="../data/books_embedded.json" + ): + + model = SentenceTransformer("sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-12-v3") + print("Model loaded for embedding...") + + with open(file_path, "r") as file: + books = json.load(file) + print(f"Loading books from file {file_path} for embedding...") + + book_descriptions = [book["book_description"] for book in books] + embedded_books = [] + + # Embed the book descriptions using the sentence-transformers model + pool = model.start_multi_process_pool() + + print("Starting multi-process pool for embedding...") + embedded_books = model.encode_multi_process(book_descriptions, pool) + print("Embeddings computed. Shape:", embedded_books.shape) + + model.stop_multi_process_pool(pool) + print("Stopping multi-process pool...") + + new_books = [] + + for i, book in enumerate(books): + # Add these lines before the error line + book["description_embedding"] = embedded_books[i].tolist() + new_books.append(book) + print("Embeddings added to books.") + + # Write the embedded books to a new array of documents named books_embeded.json + with open(output_path, "w") as file: + file.write("[") + for i, book in enumerate(new_books): + json.dump(book, file) + if i != len(new_books) - 1: + file.write(",") + file.write("]") + print(f"{len(new_books)} embedded books saved to file: {output_path}.") + + # This function creates the Elasticsearch index with the appropriate mappings. + def create_books_index(): + # The description_embedding field is a dense vector field with 384 dimensions. + mappings = { + "mappings": { + "properties": { + "book_title": {"type": "text"}, + "author_name": {"type": "text"}, + "rating_score": {"type": "float"}, + "rating_votes": {"type": "integer"}, + "review_number": {"type": "integer"}, + "book_description": {"type": "text"}, + "genres": {"type": "keyword"}, + "year_published": {"type": "integer"}, + "url": {"type": "text"}, + "description_embedding": {"type": "dense_vector", "dims": 384}, + } + } + } + + es.indices.create(index=INDEX_NAME, body=mappings) + print(f"Index '{INDEX_NAME}' created.") + + def create_one_book(book): + + try: + resp = es.index( + index=INDEX_NAME, + id=book.get("id", None), + body=book, + ) + + print( + f'Successfully indexed book {book["book_title"]}! Result: {resp.get("result", None)}' + ) + + except Exception as e: + print(f"Error occurred while indexing book: {e}") + + # This function ingests the books from the books_embedded.json file into the Elasticsearch index. + def bulk_ingest_books(file_path="../data/books_embedded.json"): + + with open(file_path, "r") as file: + books = json.load(file) + + # The actions list is used to bulk ingest the books into the Elasticsearch index. + # Each action is a dictionary with the index name, document id, and source document. + actions = [ + {"_index": INDEX_NAME, "_id": book.get("id", None), "_source": book} + for book in books + ] + + try: + # Use the helpers.bulk() function to bulk ingest the books into the Elasticsearch index. + # + helpers.bulk(es, actions, chunk_size=1000) + print( + f"Successfully added {len(actions)} books into the '{INDEX_NAME}' index." + ) + + except helpers.BulkIndexError as e: + print(f"Error occurred while ingesting books: {e}") + + # create the books index with the appropriate mappings + create_books_index() + + # embed and index a small sample of books + file_path = "../data/small_books.json" + output_path = "../data/small_books_embedded.json" + embed_descriptions(file_path, output_path) + bulk_ingest_books(file_path) + + # Index a single book with embedding already created + with open("../data/one_book_embedded.json", "r") as file: + book = json.load(file) + create_one_book(book) diff --git a/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/upload_books_with_pipeline.py b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/upload_books_with_pipeline.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7daf0b1f --- /dev/null +++ b/supporting-blog-content/navigating-an-elastic-vector-database/src/upload_books_with_pipeline.py @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +import os +import json +from dotenv import load_dotenv + +from elastic_client import es +from elasticsearch import helpers + +from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer + + +load_dotenv(override=True) + +INDEX_NAME = f"{os.environ.get('INDEX_NAME')}-pipeline" + +# Delete the indices if they already exist +es.indices.delete(index=f"{INDEX_NAME}", ignore_unavailable=True) +es.indices.delete(index=f"failed-{INDEX_NAME}", ignore_unavailable=True) + + +# This function creates an ingest pipeline that uses the sentence-transformers library +# to embed the book descriptions. +# More information here: +# https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/machine-learning/current/ml-nlp-text-emb-vector-search-example.html +def create_ingest_pipeline(): + resp = es.ingest.put_pipeline( + id="text-embedding", + description="converts book description text to a vector", + processors=[ + { + "inference": { + "model_id": "sentence-transformers__msmarco-minilm-l-12-v3", + "input_output": [ + { + "input_field": "book_description", + "output_field": "description_embedding", + } + ], + } + } + ], + on_failure=[ + { + "set": { + "description": "Index document to 'failed-'", + "field": "_index", + "value": "failed-{{{_index}}}", + } + }, + { + "set": { + "description": "Set error message", + "field": "ingest.failure", + "value": "{{_ingest.on_failure_message}}", + } + }, + ], + ) + print(f"Created ingest pipeline: {resp}") + + +# This function creates the Elasticsearch index with the appropriate mappings. +def create_books_index(): + mappings = { + "mappings": { + "properties": { + "book_title": {"type": "text"}, + "author_name": {"type": "text"}, + "rating_score": {"type": "float"}, + "rating_votes": {"type": "integer"}, + "review_number": {"type": "integer"}, + "book_description": {"type": "text"}, + "genres": {"type": "keyword"}, + "year_published": {"type": "integer"}, + "url": {"type": "text"}, + } + } + } + + es.indices.create(index=INDEX_NAME, body=mappings) + print(f"Index '{INDEX_NAME}' created.") + + +def create_one_book(book): + + try: + resp = es.index( + index=INDEX_NAME, + id=book.get("id", None), + body=book, + pipeline="text-embedding", + ) + + print( + f"Successfully indexed book: {book.get('book_title', None)} - Result: {resp.get('result', None)}" + ) + + except Exception as e: + print(f"Error occurred while indexing book: {e}") + + +def bulk_ingest_books(file_path="../data/books.json"): + with open(file_path, "r") as file: + books = json.load(file) + + actions = [ + {"_index": INDEX_NAME, "_id": book.get("id", None), "_source": book} + for book in books + ] + + try: + print(f"Indexing {len(actions)} documents...") + helpers.bulk(es, actions, pipeline="text-embedding", chunk_size=1000) + print(f"Successfully ingested books into the '{INDEX_NAME}' index.") + + except helpers.BulkIndexError as e: + print(f"Error occurred while ingesting books: {e}") + + +create_books_index() +create_ingest_pipeline() +bulk_ingest_books() + + +with open("../data/one_book.json", "r") as file: + book = json.load(file) + create_one_book(book)